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Behind a career night from Ashley Sickles, the Wyoming basketball team picked up a 71-58 road win against the Air Force Academy Falcons, on Wednesday night. The Cowgirls are now 10-13 overall and 6-4 in the Mountain West.
"I thought we took our level of play higher in the second half," said head coach Joe Legerski. "The two halves where so different in the first Air Force was the aggressor and we became the aggressor in the second. To have two players, with Ashley and Kayla, recording double-doubles showed how they controlled the second half. Ashley gave us a huge lift offensively and played 38 minutes. It was a tremendous effort."
Two Cowgirls finished their night with double-doubles led by Sickles. She finished with a career high 26 points and 12 rebounds while shooting 9-13 from the field and 6-6 from beyond the arc. Kayla Woodward followed with 19 points and 12 rebounds, while Kaitlyn Mileto added ten points and three rebounds. Wyoming shot 21-46 (.457) from the field, 7-14 (.500) from the free throw line and 22-27 (.815) from free throw line. They also out rebounded the Falcons, 39-34, and recorded 15 assists.
Three Falcons finished the night in double-figures led by Dymond James. She recorded 13 points and ten rebounds. Alecia Leipprandt added 16 points followed by Jamela Satterfield with ten. Air Force shot 24-66 (.364) from the field and 9-15 (.600) from the free throw line.
Air Force got things going scoring six straight points, while it took almost four minutes before Kayla Woodward got Wyoming on the board. Each team combined for eight points as the Falcons held a 10-6 advantage through the first media timeout. Over the next three minutes only two free throws were scored by Air Force making the lead 12-6. They would increase that lead to double figures, 16-6, with a 6-0 run as the Cowgirls were cold. They went seven minutes until a three-point field goal by Woodward cut into the lead, which was followed by a basket by Ashley Sickles closed the gap to five, 16-11. After a basket by Air Force, Wyoming scored eight straight to take their first lead of the game, 19-18. Unfortunately, the Falcons ended the first half on an 9-1 run to take a 27-20 lead going into the lockerroom.
A pair of free throws and a basket out of the break for the Cowgirls brought them to within three, 27-24. Air Force quickly answered with four straight points to extend the lead back to seven, 31-24. Wyoming tried to close the gap scoring four of six to make it 33-28 through the first media timeout. A steal and basket by Kaitlyn Mileto started a 7-0 run for the Cowgirls capped off by a three-point field goal by Ashley Sickles to give them a 35-33 advantage. Air Force ended a five minute drought with a basket by Medina to even it up 35. Each team scored a basket and Wyoming responded with a 10-2 run giving them a 47-39 over the next three minute stretch. Free throws from Dymond James stopped the run but a three-point field goal on the next possession gave UW a nine point lead, 50-41. The Falcons chipped away with a 7-2 run of their own to close it to four, 52-48. The Cowgirls came right back with five unanswered to increase the lead back to nine, 57-48. Air Force pulled to within five, 57-52, but two straight baskets returned the lead back to nine, 61-52. Wyoming hit free throws and a couple of baskets down the stretch as they held on to the 13-point win, 71-58.
Wyoming returns to home in order to host the Colorado State Rams, on Saturday, Feb. 18. The game is set for 2:00 p.m. in the Arena Auditorium.


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A new security tool lets enterprise IT groups set access and share policies for employees, including mobile users, who are working with the online Google Apps suite.
Using the Web-based DomainWatch, from New York City-based startup BetterCloud, an administrator can see an overview of the enterprise's full suite of Google Apps assets -- documents, presentations, calendars, and wikis and Web pages created with Google Sites. The policy editor lets you create and apply sharing and access rules for individuals or groups of users and assets.
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TECH ARGUMENT: Microsoft Office 365 vs. Google Apps for Business
DomainWatch is targeted at a burgeoning array of enterprises, of all sizes, that are adopting Google Apps, sometimes replacing Microsoft's longstanding Microsoft Office suite, according to BetterCloud founder and CEO David Politis. He previously launched the SMB unit for Cloud Sherpas, a Google Apps consultancy and reseller.
Microsoft's rival online offering is Office 365. Both companies stress a range of collaborative scenarios, where multiple users can work on a document at the same time, for example, and up-to-date information can be shared easily via Web access with customers or business partners.
DomainWatch is a Web-based application, built atop the online Google App Engine, a framework that lets developers build and run Web apps on the Google infrastructure. IT or business managers access it via a Web browser. Once configured, DomainWatch uses the Google Apps APIs to launch a scan of all of the documents, calendars and other assets in the enterprise's Google Apps Domain. It collects information about these assets: name, their sharing settings, authors, and so on, and then stores just this information, indexes it, and makes it available administrative dashboard. It takes about an hour to do a full scan for a large enterprise domain, according to the vendor.
The DomainWatch Policy Editor lets you specify who can share what and how. These rules can be applied to individuals, groups, or across an organization. The policies let DomainWatch monitor the assets, and identify violations of sharing policies.
The Dashboard creates a single view for the enterprise domain of all Google Apps Calendars, Docs, and Sites. All of these assets can be searched and filtered based on nine criteria. DomainWatch lets you create or change rules, and apply them at once, such as changing the ownership of a Docs collection, or "unsharing" with a group of contract employees whose contract has expired: Again, it uses the Google Apps API and the attendant access control lists to apply such changes.
DomainWatch has no access to the enterprise documents themselves, according to Politis, and stores only the results of its scan.
The program is intended to give enterprises adopting Google Apps domain wide control over their assets, for hundreds or thousands of end users. "As they roll these out, and their users engage with Google Apps, there are opportunities for user error," Politis says. Users might not realize what "public" means in Google Apps, and expose a sensitive document to people outside the enterprise. DomainWatch can both catch that problem and, through the Policy Editor, prevent it from happening.
BetterCloud began beta testing the application last November. It's now available via the Google Apps Marketplace. The price is $8 per year for each user. Discounts are available for education customers.
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City Administrator Rick Childers said last week's meeting with a representative from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and St. Clair Regional Airport tenants completes the process requested by the Federal Aviation Administration for the city to close the facility.
The two-plus-hour meeting was put together by members of U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer's staff and included Childers, Mayor Ron Blum, AOPA Vice President Bill Dunn, four St. Clair airport tenants and one staff member each representing Luetkemeyer and U.S. Sens. Claire McCaskill and Roy Blunt. Airport consultant Ron Price, retained by the city, participated by cellphone.
"This meeting itself was one of the items requested by the FAA as part of our closure process," Childers told The Missourian. "It was a very cordial meeting. It was somewhat helpful in assisting us with understanding the basis for the objections to close the airport."
During Monday night's St. Clair Board of Aldermen meeting, Blum agreed.
"We started out by saying our intentions were to close the airport," the mayor told the aldermen. "As the meeting went on, I feel we presented our cases to each other and came to a better understanding.
"I stressed to Mr. Dunn that as mayor, my priority is our citizens."
Childers said much of the meeting did not focus on specifics, but on the closing proposal and process itself. The city administrator said that one thing Dunn noted was that a large number of private airports recently have been closing for financial reasons.
"He said people are finding out they can sell the land for a great deal more than they can get by using it as an airport," Childers said. "We told him we're in that same situation here even though ours is a public facility."
The city is trying to close the airport located in the Interstate 44 corridor on the north side of town to pave the way for economic development on the 80-acre site. The FAA must approve the closure since the city used federal grants, the last in 2006, for airport improvements.
City financial records show the airport annually operates in the red. Both Blum and Childers repeatedly have stated St. Clair will not put money into the facility that would deprive residents of essential services the administration needs to provide.
"Without significant revenues to meet the needs of the city, money is not available to put into the airport," Childers said. "We reiterate that we will not sacrifice city services."
Childers also said it was shared with the group at the meeting that if the FAA says no to closure, "we will continue to do the things we are required to do to comply with the (federal) grant assurances."
On Monday night, Blum agreed with that statement.
None of the small handful of tenants who rent hangar space at the airport live in St. Clair. At least one of those tenants, Jim DeVries of Pacific, has accused the city of diverting funds in an effort to show the airport is losing money and that the city is "stealing money from the airport."
DeVries was one of the tenants who attended last week's meeting.
On the St. Clair Airport blog, which appears to be created and operated by DeVries, negative comments about the city and Blum in regards to the airport are common.
"The same old Ron Blum double talk only goes so far, and it has run out of gas," the blog states under an Aug. 1 heading.
An Aug. 5 posting states that "the only thing the city has accomplished is to embarrass itself exponentially, with all the lies about the airport. ... At this point the city does not have an honorable way out of this. The only course left is to make it all go away, quietly and calmly, just forget about it."
Another Aug. 5 posting states there "is overwhelming proof that the city is intentionally destroying the airport against the federal regulations."
When Dunn met with The Missourian before the meeting with the city, he said that even though the AOPA represents what the organization believes is in the best interests of aviation, including pilots, DeVries and other tenants who use the St. Clair facility are "stretching the truth" regarding the local issue.
That was the only "on the record" comment he would make in that regard.
Dunn did say the conversation during the meeting with the city was "lively at times" with the mayor making his points regarding economic growth and job creation.
"I indicated to the mayor that if he was looking for immediate economic development and jobs, a developer could purchase the properties on the west side of Interstate 44 and construct now."
AOPA Stance
The AOPA states it has a membership base of 400,000 pilots and aviation enthusiasts nationwide and that it provides "member services that range from representation at the federal, state and local levels to legal services, advice and other assistance." Dunn has been vice president of the organization for 21 years, and came from Maryland to attend the meeting.
"The airport should stay open," Dunn told The Missourian. "We've expressed that to the FAA. The FAA is not obligated to release the city from its obligations, and we are encouraging it not to."
Childers confirmed Dunn's stance stated during the meeting.
"We know his constituency is opposed to closing airports," the city administrator said. "We respect that.
"But, the mayor pointed out that his constituency, the people he represents here, is opposed to keeping it open."
Blum has been elected to office three times by an overwhelming margin after he ran each time on a platform to increase economic development and retail growth. Closing the airport was part of that platform.
Childers said the city remains "cautiously optimistic" about the closing of the facility.
"We believe we make a very compelling case, and we will continue to make that case to the FAA," he said. "Our position remains the same. We continue to be willing to work with the pilots, the FAA and MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) with this."
Report to FAA
Childers also said now that the meeting has taken place, a report will be sent to FAA officials in Washington, D.C., by the middle of August saying the FAA-required steps have been addressed by the city. The report will include the action taken and conclusions made regarding those steps.
The other FAA-directed steps given to the city were to have a third appraisal of the airport land to determine its highest and best use, provide a more complete explanation of what the net benefit to aviation will be by closing the airport, provide a history of the facility itself and noting why it has been lagging financially compared to other area airports, and show why the city has not had the financial resources to fund the airport.
The third appraisal carried a value of $520,000 and indicated the highest and best use of the land would be commercial.
"We will tell the FAA we anticipate a decision from them within 90 days of receipt," he said of the report.
FAA in No Hurry
Dunn said the federal agency will not act that quickly.
"Our position was that any closure path would not be immediate and take many years to complete — assuming that the FAA agreed," he said.
As far as a time line, Dunn said local officials "should not expect any quick answers."
Dunn also told The Missourian that he stated that revenue generated from the airport cannot be used to fund exploration of its closure.
"When I advised the mayor that airport revenues could not be used for an EIS (environmental impact study), environmental remediation and demolition of existing airport infrastructure in order to provide the land to a developer, he indicated to me that the FAA had told him airport revenue could be used for those purposes," Dunn told The Missourian. "The mayor's point being that the city did not need any 'bridge funding' moving forward.
"So, let's do some math here and assume that the FAA agrees to the closure and sale."
Dunn then outlined the following revenue and expenses as he sees them: •Property sells for $520,000, the appraised value, income.
•Environmental impact study, $1 million estimated minimum, expense.
•Demolition of existing airport, $250,000 estimated expense.
•Repayment of current federal obligations, $751,000, likely expense according to the third airport appraisal.
•Total expenses potentially allowed from airport revenue, $2.1 million.
"So, with an income of $520,000 and an expense of over $2 million, the city will need to front nearly $1.5 million from general fund revenue," he said, adding that an additional $150,000 will be needed to pay for Price's consulting fee.
"With all this in mind, how will the city now fund the proposed developments at surrounding airports to create the benefit to civil aviation? There are no funds left from the sale proceeds to do so."
Childers has said he has heard nothing from the FAA regarding an environmental impact study and that it may be possible to roll at least some of the costs into the sale of the land.


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Panama: Rising Costs of Building Materials
Products like stone No.4, espavé wood, concrete and sand mix became more expensive by 23.2%, 12.9%, 7.1% and 5.9% respectively in the month of July.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
These four materials had the largest increases in their prices according to the National Institute of Statistics and Census of the Controller General of the Republic.
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Panama: Prices of Construction Materials
March 2015
Sand, concrete, wood and cement, are some of the building materials which continue to show an upward trend, of up to 7%, compared to the previous year.
Increase in Construction Costs in Panama
February 2014
Prices for cement, plastic pipes and stone reported the largest increase.
Precast Concrete in Nicaragua
July 2012
The Guatemalan PreCon Group has opened its production plant at km 17.5 on the road to Leon.
Rising Costs of Construction Materials in Panama
January 2012
Some 13 products, including sand, steel rods and the stone became more expensive by up to 18% in December.
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THE improving weather meant that the conditions at this Sunday's Flyers were somewhat easier this week.
During the morning West Kirby Victoria's Bill Atkinson put a series of indifferent performances during the last few weeks behind him and came through in a very close final to just pip a somewhat unfortunate Mark Myles.
To reach the final Atkinson had played well in beating Port Sunlight's Kevin Howgate in the quarter final and then Kendall's Colin Portis in the semis.
Myles, who plays for Kings 2000, had been too good for the Magazine's Fred Arnell in the quarters but he then had a real tussle with Heswall's Ian Moxham, who was making his first visit to Birkenhead Park this year.
Their match could have gone either way but Myles held his nerve at the end.
The final between Atkinson and Myles was another close affair with neither player being able to establish a lead at any time: With the game finely balanced at 20-20 Mark Myles suffered a real misfortune when his almost perfect final wood just touched the jack slightly too firmly and presented the point, and the game, to a very relieved Bill Atkinson.
Quarter Finals: I. Moxham 21, D. Briscoe 18; M. Myles 21, F. Arnell 08; C. Portis 21, P. Roberts 16; W. Atkinson 21, K. Howgate 09. Semi Finals: Myles 21, Moxham 10; Atkinson 21, Portis 11. Final: Atkinson 21, Myles 20.
Though he didn't play, John Hignett Jnr retains a huge lead in the points table.
The AGM of the Birkenhead and District Parks Team will be held on Thursday, February 16, at the Tixall Bowling Club starting at 8pm.
At the meeting all aspects of the running of the Parks Team will be discussed, including fund raising. The Chairman (Mal Andrews) would like as many bowlers as possible to attend this meeting; players not currently involved would be very welcome to come along.


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Zita is a sweet dress for a sweet girl!
With a easy to knit mock cable bodice, a full and twirly ruffled skirt and options of capped or ruffled sleeves, this dress has everything a little girl wants!
Designed to be knit with either a wool or cotton blend yarn, this dress is multi-seasonal and easy to wear, as well as being interesting, but not difficult to knit. The 20stitch gauge makes this perfect for either a DK weight yarn, or a light worsted!
Knit from the top down, and in the round, this dress utilizes classic raglan increases, and a scooped neckline. Mock cables are knit without a cable needle.
Zita is designed to fit with slight positive ease, please choose the size closest to the chest of the child, ease has been added into the pattern.
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The state side put up a big total and the tourists never looked on course to hunt it down, though Mark Vermeulen and Tatenda Taibu did well.
Earlier, Sean Ervine took 5-56 but WA prospered through the batting of Murray Goodwin and Scott Meuleman.
Zimbabwe's Craig Wishart was forced to retire hurt on 13 and did not return.
WA won the toss and scored at a good lick from the off with Zimbabwe captain Heath Streak sitting out the match.
Ryan Campbell, Chris Rogers and Mike Hussey were all out cheaply, but Meuleman scored easily enough and was finally out for 67, bowled by Grant Flower.
At 161-5, they needed something of a recovery, however, and it was provided by Goodwin (77) and Brad Hogg (48), who put on 95 in partnership in less than 15 overs.
Zimbawe's run chase was well served by Vermeulen early on, as he thumped 12 boundaries in a 35-ball 55.
But when he was the fourth man out, with the score on 101, only Taibu (33) threatened to undermine the state team's progress.
Wicket-keeper Campbell collected three catches and a stumping with the wickets shared around.
The match ended in the 45th over when Travis Freind cut Marcus North straisht to point.
Western Australia: MEK Hussey (capt.), SW Meuleman, RJ Campbell, CJL Rogers, MW Goodwin, MJ North, GB Hogg, PC Worthington, JJ Taylor, DJ Wates, P Wilson.
Zimbabwe: T Taibu (capt.), V Sibanda, SV Carlisle, MA Vermeulen, GW Flower, CB Wishart, SM Ervine, AM Blignaut, TJ Friend, DT Hondo, NB Mahwire.


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February 23, 2013 7:30 PM
Morrison HS Auditorium
Morrison, Illinois
Ludwig van Beethoven
Fidelio Overture, Op 72c
Alec Wilder
Suite No 1 'Effie'
Effie Goes Folk Dancing
Effie Sings a Lullaby
Effie Joins the Carnival
Taylor Hicks, tuba
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Petite Suite, Op 77
La Caprice de Nanette
Demande et Reponse
Un Sonnet d'Amour
La Tarantelle Fretillante
Øystein Baadsvik
Fnugg Blue
Benjamin Rogers, tuba
Georges Bizet
Symphony in C major
Allegre vivo
Allegro vivace; Trio
Allegro vivace
Benjamin Rogers is the son of Linda and the late Donald Rogers of Savanna, and the fourth of five children. He has been a student of "firsts" for West Carroll High School.
As a junior he made the Illinois All-State Honors Chorus and became the first student in West Carroll history to also qualify at the state level to be a National Anthem soloist, which he
performed for the girl's state softball tournament in 2012.
Rather than audition again for Choir his senior year, Benjamin set his sights on the All-State Band and earned the section leader chair. Additionally, he became the first West Carroll student to make the District 8 Jazz choir in 2012 and secured a baritone feature for the final performance.
Benjamin has also been an integral part in securing three consecutive IHSA Music Sweepstakes Class B championship titles, playing any one of his secondary instruments: flute, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, electric bass, piano, and, of course, voice and tuba. Ben was the lead last year and is preparing the lead role this spring in the upcoming West Carroll Musical.
On the side, Benjamin has been working on music composition and arranging. He arranged many pieces played by the West Carroll Pep Band in two trips to state in 2010 and 2012 at which he performed as well
In addition to his school music ensembles, Benjamin participates in local area events with the Sauk Valley Community College Band, Highland Community College Band, and the Dixon Municipal Band.
When he isn't busy with music, Benjamin is the president of the National Honor Society and Interact club, a member of Spanish Club and Servant Leadership, and has earned the prestigious title of Illinois State Scholar. In the fall, Benjamin plans to attend Western Illinois University to earn a bachelor's degree in Music Education.
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Alec Wilder - Suite No 1 for Tuba
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor - Petite Suite, Op 77
Georges Bizet - Symphony in C major


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DuPont (DD) and Genencor, a unit of Denmark's Danisco, said Wednesday that they will break ground this fall on a 250,000 gallon cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Tennessee.
Ethanol should be available from the pilot plant by December 2009, with commercial-scale production by 2012, the companies said.
Also Wednesday, Los Angeles County officials approved a commercial ethanol production plant that would make ethanol from wood chips, paper and other biowaste. BlueFire Ethanol plans to begin construction on the $30 million facility in Lancaster this fall.
In Tennesee, DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol is aligning with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, through its Genera Energy, and making use of state funds to construct the pilot-scale biorefinery and a research and development facility for cellulosic ethanol in Vonore, Tennessee.
The moves come amid growing criticism of corn-based ethanol at a time of record prices for corn, and food shortages seen around the globe.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen said Wednesday he thought "the nicest thing you can possibly say" about corn-based ethanol is that it is "transitional" technology.
"It really is much more about political eye wash ... trying to do something about the energy crisis. It has very little to recommend it over the long term," Bredesen said. "I think that cellulosic ethanol in contrast has a great deal to recommend it over the long term. That is where I am trying to emphasize us putting our weight and our money."
The companies said the pilot plant will initially process western Tennessee corn cobs into ethanol but plans to shift to switchgrass for conversion to ethanol, working with Tennessee farmers as dedicated switchgrass suppliers. The university has also invested state research dollars toward the development of switchgrass.
"The high cellulosic content of switchgrass makes it an optimal feedstock for ethanol production," said DuPont Danisco Technology Leader John Pierce in a statement. "Its yields today make it more than competitive with other biomass sources, and it has the potential to produce over 1,000 gallons of ethanol per acre in the future."
There are about 1.5 million acres in Tennessee seen as unsuitable for growing food crops but good for switchgrass, officials said.
The cost of producing cellulosic ethanol is still much higher than making corn-based ethanol, and several U.S. companies are in a race to drive down the costs making the fuel for what is estimated to be a $75 billion global market opportunity.
DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol will link DuPont's cellulosic pre-treatment and fermentation technologies with Genencor's enzymes to develop the ethanol production process.
The project will make use of about $40 million in Tennessee state funding. The companies said they planned an initial three-year investment of $140 million.
Cellulosic ethanol has the same properties as corn-based ethanol but can be derived from the nonedible parts of a corn plant, rather than the corn kernels. Sugar cane bagasse, wood shavings, switchgrass and other such materials can also be harnessed to produce ethanol.
DuPont's Pierce said Wednesday in a news conference that corn ethanol had paved the way for rapid growth of cellulosic ethanol.
"It (corn ethanol) has formed the basis for investment and a whole infrastructure that we are going to move into with cellulosic based ethanol," Pierce said.
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Richard Perle: Pakistan, Iraq, the Economy, and Election '08
In the prologue to the new book Prince of Darkness: Richard Perle; The Kingdom, the Power & the End of Empire in America, author Alan Weisman likens the geopolitical thinker, Washington insider, and sometime-businessman to Woody Allen's Zelig: appearing "in every foreign policy snapshot" for decades. Perhaps because Perle is a man who, Weisman suggests, relishes intellectual confrontation, he elicits passionate feelings from friends and, especially, foes. Critics have pilloried Perle as a leader of the neocons who took America into a disastrous war in Iraq. And as a director and executive of Hollinger International, Perle took a hit to his reputation when a scandal erupted around Hollinger mogul Conrad Black, who starts a 6 1/2-year prison sentence in March. But when I talked with Perle, he was waxing optimistic from his vacation home in Provence.
How big a setback for democracy in the region is the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto?
Anytime a candidate in a democracy is assassinated, it's a blow to the process. But it's too soon to say whether this will be a lasting blow or whether the Pakistanis will get past this and wind up protecting their democratic institutions.
Is there any danger that Pakistan will spin out of control and threaten economic progress and foreign investment in neighboring India, for example?The Indian economy is a great success story, and I would be surprised if it were seriously affected by this assassination.
We're seeing increasingly significant investments in the West, particularly in financial institutions, by oil-rich sovereign wealth funds from the Mideast. Do you find this troubling?You're quite right. They are becoming a formidable factor in international capital flows. It is the most recent version of the recycling of petrodollars, and there are more petrodollars than ever. What it really reflects is the inability of oil-producing countries to develop their own internal economies. Their preference is investing in external economies because they've been so unsuccessful developing their own.
How should the U.S. react to these investments?I think we would have every reason to be concerned if we thought that the underlying motives behind the investment were not simply economic but included political objectives. I don't see any evidence of that so far. However, I think we want to keep a very close watch.
What are the biggest threats to business in 2008?The effect of the subprime crisis on liquidity and the behavior that produces among bankers is potentially the most severe problem. The Fed seems to be doing what it can....but we've seen other cases in which zero interest rates have not been a sufficient remedy. Japan, for example. So one can't have complete confidence in the Fed's ability to mitigate the situation. On the other hand, the very weak dollar will likely continue to stimulate a surge in American exports. And innovation and technology remain as vibrant as ever. I'm very bullish on the American economy. If there is a recession, we will make short work of it.
If you were advising the President, what would you say about destabilization in Pakistan, a Taliban resurgence, improvements in Iraq, and the decreased threat of Iran?The improving situation in Iraq demonstrates how quickly things can change. Now, that may sound strange because it's five years [after the war began], but it's really only a few months since the change in strategy, and it is now clear that a good part of the failure in Iraq was the choice of a poor strategy. With the choice of a better one, we're seeing really quite rapid improvement. We may face some similar questions of strategy in Afghanistan, where there was a period of neglect after the removal of the Taliban that allowed something of a Taliban resurgence. But I don't think it's by any means out of control. It is related to the situation in Pakistan because much of the support that the Taliban relies on comes from Pakistan.
I'm not ready to declare that the Iranian threat is diminished. The CIA National Intelligence Estimate doesn't say what most people think it says because it was predictably badly reported. When you read behind the headlines, it's clear that Iran continues its program to produce nuclear material, enriched uranium. And that is the long pole in the tent of a nuclear weapons program.
Do you find any of the Presidential candidates particularly well-equipped to handle foreign policy challenges?There's no track record for any of them, and...campaigns are probably the worst way to gather information about the likely performance of a President. Everything is said in a political context, and those contexts disappear very quickly after the votes are counted. Bill Clinton ran for the first time on, among other things, a promise to intervene in Bosnia. It took about a nanosecond after he was sworn in for him to abandon that pledge.
What is the most important issue in the election?It's almost always the economy. But there is a much more difficult-to-define issue, and that is leadership.
Do you think people worry there's a leadership vacuum?Yes, I do, and the fact is none of the candidates seems to have really captured the imagination of the national electorate. I'm really struck by the astronomical number of people in polls who say they may change their mind before Election Day.
Do you have thoughts on what this election may look like past March?I don't, but there are some things about 2008 that are fundamentally new. One is the means by which information about candidates is recorded and delivered. Any foolish remark, any misstep is going to be on YouTube within hours and will flow through to the mainstream media a few hours after that. So there's an element of volatility that we didn't have in previous elections.
Should we be worried about the strength and vibrancy we're seeing in other economies, such as China?No. Look, one of our great hopes for the emergence of a moderate China has to do with China's increasing wealth and the idea that when people have a real stake in stability, the world becomes safer.
Time magazine made Vladimir Putin its Person of the Year. Is he a friend or foe of the U.S.?He has certainly not behaved in a friendly manner. In fact, he's barely missed an opportunity to cause us difficulty, and no one should be surprised after his career in the KGB.
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As far as child support that will be determined wherever you file. If you file your motion in SC then the child support will be calculated there however if she moves it will be Utah law that governs. I would definitely have the support set by the court since private agreements are unenforceable.
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Bowlers will be allowed to straighten their arms by up to 15 degrees and the process for analysing suspect actions will be standardised and streamlined, after the International Cricket Council unanimously endorsed a radical overhaul of throwing laws.
ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed said yesterday the move was cricket's "best chance" of solving a problem that had always plagued the game.
But Speed warned bowlers that an extension of the degree to which bowlers could straighten their arms, from five to 15, did not mean cricket would be lenient on chucking.
"I think it will be well received by cricketers that it is a tighter process, it's a safer process," he said. "I think we'll get the right answers and it will also provide the opportunity for bowlers . . . to change their actions and come back and have a very productive career.
"If there are players who can't be cured, as we say, there's no place for throwing in the game."
Under the new system, effective from March 1, a bowler reported by an umpire for a suspect action will be analysed by an ICC-appointed independent body, instead of his own board, within 21 days of the report, instead of the six-week rule now in place.
If found guilty of throwing, he will have to correct his action before being allowed to bowl again.
If, however, he disagrees with the ruling of the independent assessment, he can appeal to a bowling review group. But he can resume playing only if the review group finds him not guilty or if, upon being found guilty, he completes remedial work on his action.
If a bowler is cited within two years of being cleared after the initial report, he is automatically suspended from the game for 12 months.
Tim May, a member of the special committee that proposed the rule changes, said yesterday he believed the new regulations constituted a "fair and equitable" way of dealing with the problem of throwing. "I think it is the way to police the problem," May said. "I think the important thing from the players' perspective is to understand the new rules and, if they understand the rationale behind it, they will accept it in a heartbeat.
"It is fair and equitable for everyone. It doesn't leave individuals hanging in the balance or worse, having to go through their entire career with questions about, 'Does he throw, does he not'."
Speed conceded that the present system had "a number of weaknesses because it was lengthy, out of the ICC's control", and "there wasn't standardisation of the testing protocols". "We've been able to address those issues and I think this is the best chance we've had to get on top of this and to make it work," he said. "In the next 12 months, that will give me the opportunity to see where we go from here.
"But I am very pleased with the work that's been done. I'm very pleased with the process that we've followed. It's been very rigorous. The process has been tested at three stages and we're confident that it has the unanimous support of all of the boards, so we'll move forward on March 1."
ICC cricket general manager David Richardson said he was confident umpires and match referees would be able to work with the new definition of an illegal action.
"It would be a lot easier if we had some sort of way of measuring the extension of the arm in the match condition - but it's impossible at this stage," Richardson said.
"All we say to the umpires and referees is, 'Do as you've always done - just use what you see'. There's a misconception around that umpires are going to be asked to make a judgement as to whether it's 15, 14 or 18 degrees - they don't have to."
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My nephew's wedding is next month and it's a black tie affair. I have to admit I don't know much about tuxedos or other formal attire, so I did a little research at online shops that sell men's suits.
A formal suit requires a shirt with link cuffs, that is, cuffs that use cufflinks rather than buttons. Such shirts come in two styles: single and French cuffs. (French cuffs are also called double cuffs.) French cuffs are twice as long as single cuffs and are worn folded over. They are standard at black tie events. Cufflinks should be gold or sterling silver in a simple, tasteful shape. Double-sided cufflinks show off French cuffs better than one-sided ones. Cufflinks should coordinate with the shirt, tie, belt buckle, and watch.
French cuff shirts are actually quite versatile. In addition to being the standard for formal wear, French cuffs go perfectly with dark denim jeans. A fashionable man might wear French cuffs with bright solid and print shirts. You can dress French cuffs up for formal and down for fun. Just don't ever wear French cuffs open and loose-that looks silly, not in the least bit cool.
The rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding requires less formal attire. A blazer or sports jacket is less formal than a suit, but not entirely casual. Blazers usually have one center vent or two side vents. Single-breasted is more common than double-breasted, which has a distinct nautical look.
Blazers come in different fabrics for different occasions. A pure wool or wool blend blazer has a professional or country club look, perfect for the pre-nuptial club dinner. A traditional cut and soft, classic colors mark wool blend blazers, which wear very well. Pure wool blazers typically come in dark colors, usually variations of navy, brown, and black. Theses classic sports jackets have a luxurious look and feel and will last for years and years. Designer blazers are specialty pure wool blazers with distinctive cuts. Sports jackets also come in velvet, camel, and corduroy.
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Project DescriptionNEW GARDEN FOR THE RECOLLETS COVENT
The Recollets Garden describe almost the great history of Paris, four centuries since the creation of the Covent in XVII to the nowadays configuration that integrate three institutions: the International Artist's Recollets Residence, the France Architects' Association and la Maison de l'Architecture of Île de France. The Convent became a Military Hospital through the XIX century but in 1968 is replaced by the Paris-Villemin Architecture School. In 1990 the old Convent turned in one of the hottest squat in Paris "Le squat des anges" but in 1992 the fire will destroyed all the history of the squat.
Nowadays the site is established by a group of multicultural artists and researches that live and work in the workshops/apartments constituting all the building. In a personal view we must said that our studio is placed just in front of this garden.
In an urban level the context is suffering alterations; the development of the Gare de l'Est train station is the most important. This new variation makes the building sense as a cutting diagonal from the 1926's redraws, may the interior appreciated as a parisian urban plot that is described from the union of the highest fluent points between axis and arcs. As we know Gare de l'Est has been the east door of the city. This Garden is collecting all the flows that proceed from Oriental Europe.
The plan's project integrated vibrations, resonances, movements, imbalances and dances. This energy that we describe is bringing together in the project. The plan is created by the central radiation of an old well from the Military Hospital that shape a complex fibre of movements who makes a new landscape view create by benches, glass curtains, a scenographic space and an organic wood bleachers.
Therefore it's a detail work, a couple of well design unique pieces. The surface facing are designed by tine ceramic pieces fragment by steel profile, the same as historic patios in Paris. The benches are free, they create fluency dance, seams like they fall from the sky like the angels, from the Jardin des Anges. They are made by steel curve pieces and cover by white polyurethane mousse, imperfect and unbalance they constitute an important part of the new landscape proposed. The wood bleachers come like a fluid liquid, like lava, that fall into "the orchestral place" with no direction. The fluidly given is not a random thing because, like we make in our plans, the project is adapting to the place, the big threes that speak about the historic garden of the Military Hospital. Levels are accumulated, each centimetre; the covers are feeling like skin. This skin idea is repeating in all our work avoiding the alterations of floor. Finally the glass curtains resolve all the programmatic issue.
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NHF: Poorest will lose out on fuel poverty fund but will still have to pay for it
Millions of the country's poorest families could end up not benefiting from a flagship government fund aimed at tackling fuel poverty expected to be announced by the Department of Energy and Climate Change tomorrow – even though they will have to pay a surcharge on their energy bills for it.
Social housing landlords fear they may be largely cut out of bidding for subsidy to support Green Deal energy efficiency improvements to homes – despite the fact their tenants, who are disproportionately likely to be on low incomes and living in fuel poverty, will be paying for that subsidy through their energy bills.
Around 1.03 million social homes - the equivalent of 2.5 million people - will be vulnerable to fuel poverty if they miss out on the cash, according to Camco research commissioned by the Federation.
"Housing associations are ready, willing and able to play a key role in delivering the government's Green Deal. But if ministers do exclude social landlords from the ECO fund set up to tackle fuel poverty then millions of the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country will miss out on warmer homes and lower fuel bills", Federation chief executive David Orr said.
"To make this even more difficult to stomach is the fact that these hard up tenants will still have to contribute to the fund even though they will not benefit from it.
"We're not asking for any special treatment. But if low income social tenants have to pay a levy to fund these improvements then they and their landlords should have fair access to the fund."
The decision to exclude social landlords could see fuel poverty rise to unprecedented levels and leave elderly and vulnerable people with little choice but to risk their health or even lives by leaving their homes unheated during the cold winter months, according to the National Housing Federation.
The Government is expected to split the energy company obligation (ECO) – a surcharge levied by energy companies on every customer to fund energy efficiency measures – into two pots. One will be used for 'hard to treat' measures such as solid wall insulation and another called 'affordable warmth', which will be used to tackle fuel poverty.
But social landlords fear the Department of Energy and Climate Change will prevent social tenants from benefiting from the affordable warmth funding pot when it announces its plans on Thursday, and also define eligibility for the hard to treat element so it largely excludes social housing. By doing so it will deny millions of tenants warmer homes and lower fuel bills.
Ministers may justify their approach on the grounds that social homes have - on average - a higher energy efficiency rating than those in the private sector. But new research commissioned by the Federation shows that without subsidy, at least a million homes could not be brought up to the standard which would free tenants from being at risk of fuel poverty.
The government project fuel poverty – defined to encompass households spending more than 10 per cent of their household income on fuel bills - to rise to around 4.1 million households this year (18% of all households).
In 2009, 762,000 social tenants were estimated to be living in fuel poverty (21% of social housing tenants). That number is expected to rise sharply as a result of rising energy prices, especially if social landlords cannot counter it through energy efficiency improvements subsidised by the ECO fund.
Tenants will not only lose out from benefiting from the ECO cash but will also have to fund it through a levy on their energy bills. The regressive surcharge will cost lower income customers a higher proportion of their income further squeezing hard up families.
The Federation, which represents England's housing associations, stressed housing associations – which manage 2.5 million homes - were well placed to deliver large scale programmes of energy efficiency work. Housing associations, in many instances, would be able to carry out the work themselves and benefit from having a high concentration of homes within their local neighbourhoods.
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The National Housing Federation represents 1,200 housing associations in England. Our members manage 2.5 million homes for 5 million tenants.
· Research by Camco for the Federation estimates that 1.03 million social homes could only be brought up to a standard that would free their tenants from fuel poverty if ECO funding is available to subsidise the necessary work. It also shows there are still 1.2 million social homes generating high carbon emissions, which will require £17,000 each to install even the most cost effective energy efficiency measures.
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I came upon this book in a rather unusual way for me I had just dropped off my third child at preschool and decided to go to the base to do a little shopping. On the way in to the Bas Exchange I noticed a fellow setup just outside the entrance selling a book. I didn't have a whole lot of time so I just passed him by on the way inside and didn't give him a second thought. I ended up getting my shopping done rather quickly and was thinking to myself what my boy and I could do with this unexpected free time we had.
It was then that I was stepping back out of the Exchange, not really seeing what was around me since I was wool gathering, when a voice says to me "Hey, do you like good books?" Well that snapped me back to reality and I stopped and turned towards the direction of the voice. Now anyone that knows me knows I love a good book and usually keep a couple on me at all times so to say that I was interested would be an understatement. Once I turned I quickly saw that the voice belonged to an older African-American man that was seated at a table piled up with copies of a single book.
It took a millisecond for my brain to kick in and tell me that this was the same fellow I'd passed by on the way inside. So as not to be rude I answered his question "yeah, I love a good book." He smiled and introduced himself as the author of the book he was holding and proceeded to tell me a bit about it while handing me a copy to look over. I was skeptical that the book would be any good but decided to leaf through it while listening to him talk about some of the events that took place in the book. The more he talked the more I liked him and the more interesting the book sounded. We must have talked for the better part of an hour before I decided to take the book home and give it a good once over.
When I got back home I read up a bit on the author and saw that he was a retired Colonel from the USAF and had been a fighter pilot. I also noticed that it was an inspirational memoir. At that point I almost closed the book for good since I'd spent some time around some fighter pilots in the past that were way to cocky and full of themselves for my taste and I didn't really think I'd want to read the memoir of one. I put the book down and went to pick out another book to read but while looking my thoughts kept coming back to the conversation I'd had with Col. Toliver and I decided to give it 1 chapter. I figured I'd know by then if it was worth reading or not.
Well I started reading and quickly found myself captivated by the story of this young black kid living in Louisiana during the 50's. I was chilled by the account he gave of his family's flight from the Klu Klux Klan and how his father narrowly escaped a lynching by moving the family to California for a couple of years. Further into the story I see a young black man that is working to help put food on the table while he tried to get into college. Then I find him at Tuskegee and later realize that he's a second generation Tuskegee Airman and was instructed by some of the original Airmen. The undercurrent was the racial strife that was playing out in the background especially in Alabama.
This plays a key role as you see time and time again how race and racial stereotypes were an issue that he had to overcome. You can feel the awe the man felt at meeting Jackie Robinson at a talk held at his church. One of the things that stood out the most in this young man's mind was Mr. Robinson's absence of anger. This hit close to home for the young man as he was trying to deal with his own anger and resentment that had been building up over the years. Not long afterwards he had the chance to meet and hear a gifted young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. give a talk at his church and etched into his mind what Dr. King had to say about the use of non-violence in everything they did. You could see the man get bitter over the way he was treated as he tried to forge a military career while being stationed in the Deep South and the pain he felt for his kinsmen during Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama.
Later in the story he talks about his 2 tours in Vietnam as well as the positive effects the steadfast faith of his wife, as well as quite a few good friends have on him and how he was able to overcome his hatred and bitterness. This is the story of a man that overcame great adversary and hardship in his life, starting out as the great grandson of a slave to working alongside such people as Ross Perot. This is a story that I recommend to everyone as I think you will enjoy it as much as I did and even learn a few things as well. I give it a 5 out of 5 stars and say that this really is a must read.


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A Positive Attitude Can Help You Flourish
Would you describe yourself as a positive person? One who finds positive meaning in day to day circumstances more frequently than negativity? If you're sleep deprived and experiencing hot flashes all the time, you probably think this question is a joke. After all, when you feel lousy all the time, your default mode is more like cranky.
But after reading Dr. Barbara Fredrickson's book, Positivity: Top-Notch Research Reveals the 3 to 1 Ratio That Will Change Your Life, I wondered if "positive" minded women have an easier time with the menopause transition (and other challenges) than negative types. Perhaps that would explain why some women sail through this time of great change with minimal discomfort, while others aren't so lucky.
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Barbara Fredrickson, Ph.D., is a leading scholar in the field of social and positive psychology. Her book isn't a shallow, "don't worry, be happy" type of self-help guide. Rather, she has concluded, based on twenty years of research, that maintaining a 3:1 ratio of positive thoughts to negative emotions creates a tipping point between languishing and flourishing. As she explains in her book:
"Most people have a 2:1 positivity ratio, which makes life ordinary. You get by, but you're hardly growing. You're languishing. As you raise your ratio above 3 to 1, a transformation occurs. You feel more alive, creative and resilient. You've stepped up to a whole new level of life."
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If you're wondering what your own positivity score is, begin by taking a two-minute self test that she has created on her website. Then use the available online tools to view your results and record positive milestones if you want to work on improving your score. You can take this test on a daily or weekly basis and compare your ratios to see if you're making progress.
In addition, Dr. Fredrickson offers a toolkit in her book to help readers raise their positivity score by decreasing negativity and increasing positivity. An example of this is "dispute negative thinking," an exercise that's rooted in cognitive behavior therapy that teaches non-negative thinking.
In addition to just feeling better, I can imagine that experiencing life's challenges and occasional disappointments from a foundation of positivity can shift our reactions and improve the quality of our lives and relationships, even during the menopause years.
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You're gonna like the cut of Felicity Palmateer's jib. Not just because of her adorable West Oz accent or incorrigible Nicole Kidman laugh, but because she says stuff like, "When I was in the Galapagos last summer with Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter…" Wait, what? Yes, the Galapagos Islands with Celine Cousteau, saving sharks and promoting sustainable travel. It was on that trip with Celine, an oceanic explorer and conservationist, where Felicity realized that she was really digging this "cause" thing. Where she realized that raising awareness and helping the earth felt just as good as surfing.
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"After working with people like Celine, or the guys at Sea Shepherd and other organizations, I'd actually really love to start an NGO of my own someday," says Felicity. "There are some amazing people out there helping the environment in big ways and making a difference, and I want to be one of them." —Beau Flemister


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Chord Overstreet's Single 'Beautiful Girl' Leaks (LISTEN)
Chord Overstreet may have just made his return to Glee, but the hunky actor already making some sweet music as a solo artist. Chord 's new original track is called "Beautiful Girl" and it already has us swooning! Perhaps it's a sweet tune for his girlfriend Emma Roberts.
After leaving Glee last summer, Overstreet went straight to the studio to start working on his solo album, which is due out in 2012. Do you like Overstreet as a the solo artist? Listen to the song above and sound off in the comments!
Yesterday, the singer-actor stopped by KIIS FM's On Air with Ryan Seacrest to chat all about his upcoming album.
"I buried my head in music," he explained. With song writing tends to come lyrics about love, but has Chord ever had his heart broken? "No, I've kind of always avoided that," he admitted to Ryan.
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Duncan Hardie, founder of Apollo Gas, and his wife Lynley are selling their 1907 former warehouse in inner-city Sydney. The building has been converted into a four-bedroom home with a plunge pool and rooftop vegie garden. Bradfield & Prichard agents Bob Guth and Georgia Cleary will auction it on November 9 and expect more than $8 million.
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A man's body has been found in a shed containing cannabis plants and hydroponic equipment in Sydney's south-west.
The man, 64, is believed to have been electrocuted while handling the equipment that was used to cultivate the plants, police say.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:23 PM
babylonsister (154,354 posts)
An Animated Open Letter to President Obama on the State of Science Education
This is AWESOME!
An Animated Open Letter to President Obama on the State of Science Education
by Maria Popova
Reigniting the spark of physics in an education ethos stuck 150 years in the past.
Many of us living in the United States have recently taken a massive exhale at the triumphant news of four more years of sanity and progress. But it isnt all unicorns and rainbows for President Obama, who will have to address some serious challenges. The fine folks of MinutePhysics who have previously explained why the color pink doesnt exist, why the past is different from the future, and why its dark at night have zoomed in one of them in this animated open letter to the President, addressing an astonishing gap in physics education: Namely, the fact that most high school curricula cover none of the physics breakthroughs that have taken place in the past 150 years, including the topic of every single Nobel Prize in physics since always. MinutePhysics advises the President to take a cue from Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and Neil deGrasse Tyson men committed 100% to the dissemination of the awesomeness of the universe and reignite the educational spark of physics.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:28 PM
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 08:30 PM
EmeraldCityGrl (4,310 posts)
2. Awesome!
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:22 PM
longship (37,593 posts)
3. Very awesome!
The reason I went into physics is because I was taught physics by Roger Parish at Cooley High School in Detroit. He was great and brought the excitement that I was later to learn was what set aside Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and Neil Tyson.
A good little video. Click it!
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:26 PM
babylonsister (154,354 posts)
4. I know nothing about physics, but this video made it sound
worth knowing about!
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:48 PM
longship (37,593 posts)
5. I can recommend a book.
It is not a physics book, but it was written by one of the twentieth centuries greatest physicists, and a truly wonderful teacher. It is autobiographical and truly fun read, even if you know jack shit about physics. It does give a look into the type of person who may like physics.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman is a collection of anecdotes by the very mischievous genius, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman. My mother always loved that book, and she knew bupkiss about physics. (Of course, I turned her on to it just as she turned me onto the importance of reading in my early life.)
Available in paperback, and it's cheap.
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Tue Nov 13, 2012, 11:06 PM
Xyzse (8,216 posts)
6. I Loved Physics.
Not that I was any good at it... But loved it regardless.
In regards to science, the reason it becomes so hard is because it isn't made interesting.
When kids, get taught just the basics, they do not get the relationships between real life, application and in so doing, makes it boring.
It sucks, but the only reason I was able to play with lasers in high school was because I was in AP Physics, which allowed me to play around with optics, how light bends and so forth.
A lot of people did not get to experience playing around with a speedometer either, and how it shows that when a person walks it is not at a constant speed. Although, I kinda did freak out the teacher for being able to do that by doing a shuffling, low center of gravity step.
I enjoyed learning the Millikan experiments, and playing with it using the handy dandy Ti-82 at the time.
I guess, all I'm saying is, unless the way things are taught changes. Where they don't concentrate on just a test, but actually instill the wonder of science instead. It just makes things harder.
The idea is, if something becomes interesting, no matter how hard it is, a student will more likely try to learn more about the topic and improve. Which is why I still think Bush's No Child Left Behind was the single worst thing that could have happened to education in this country.


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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Option A or B
A - go crazy
or B - pull all my hair out.
I am leaning towards option A seeing as I would probably look really bad bald.
This morning, I was feeling ambitious so I got down on my hands and knees and cleaned the kitchen floor(note that this is the first time in the history of the world that this has ever happened), and the dogs promptly ran all over it leaving muddy paw-prints. Oh and they have chewed up a pacifier, two blocks, and a rattle so far today. Plus every time Jayci FINALLY falls asleep (and it doesnt happen often people) they BARK and wake her up. Unfortunately Jayci sleeps more like her mama than her papa, who wouldnt wake up to the dog's barking if his life depended on it. No one told me these things barked. . . . I demand a refund.
Jayci is also pushing me to the brink today. Even with all the crying and not sleeping, she has never actually annoyed me until today. All of a sudden she has turned into this little creature who arches her back and spits her food at me (she hates bananas . . .clearly she is NOT related to me - I love everything banana), as soon as I get a cloth or wipe out to clean her face (which is covered in food as a result of her head movements and my poor hand-eye coordination), she shakes her head vigorously and arches her back again. Oh and when I try to put her down for a nap? She arches her back so far that she rolls onto her tummy, and cries loudly. So far today she has slept a grand total of twenty minutes. Again, I would like to report some false advertising. I heard that babies slept. Oh and can I add that I am not looking forward to her being two?
And Adam has been SO busy lately that I feel sort of like a single mom. And can I just say that I have NO IDEA how they do it?
In other news, Adam and I sent our first batch of support letters out! I feel strangely nervous about it. I mean, what if no one sends money? We dont have a Plan B right now. God's definitely teaching me about trusting Him for provision right now. I also think that maybe some of the bad mood/stress/frustration/doubt in my abilities might be some spiritual warfare. I mean, Satan does NOT want God's people stepping out in faith and doing big things for Him does he? I think not.
At least I slept for a solid 6 hours straight last night. I literally begged God for Jayci to sleep. And I am so glad we serve a God who cares about all the details of our lives, because I'm not sure I would have made it through this day without those 6 hours. Well, that and a whole bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs and 5 Diet Cokes. I don't eat my feelings or anything.
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Just a thought, but she MIGHT have an ear infection. It can hurt to swallow (screaming in the chair) and it can hurt to have her head down (screaming when put down for a nap) if the pressure's building up behind her eardrum. My kids did that even if they didn't run a fever and I spent many a miserable day until we figured it out.ReplyDelete
This has been your unsolicited advice for the day from another mom. Feel free to disregard.
I have also eaten a bag of mini eggs... love the new blog look!ReplyDelete
oooo... i remember those days well. my (now 9 yr old) daughter would not take a nap during the day... 15-30 min was a big deal! now she can go to sleep on her own like a big girl at night... they grow too quickly.ReplyDelete
Keep going girl - even if it involves LOTS of cadbury eggs & diet coke... you're going to make it through...ReplyDelete
I am sorry that I cannot give you any advice in the getting your kids to sleep -- BUT, just so you know... it is not two you have to worry about. Two is easy! You really have to worry about four! YES FOUR! No one ever warns us about four but the fours are far worse than the twos I promise you that :) So you still have three more years to go. Keep smiling and save the haor pulling out for then!ReplyDelete
Aren't mini eggs the greatest? I would have them and about 5 Diet Pepsis instead of Coke.
Hang in there and God bless.
Oh wow, that sounds rough! I totally understand though. I so remember those days. And just wait because really, they should call it the Terrible Three's. The Two's were a breeze! lol The cadburry eggs sound delish, I am jealous!ReplyDelete
I have SOOOOOOOO prayed to God a bizillion times for my kids to sleep. They are finally good sleepers. But, I hear ya girl.ReplyDelete
I have one word: Ferber.
He is a genious, if you stick to it. Boy, does mothering take guts!!
Love your new header. I have got to ask, did you see about this scrap freebie on my blog? wondering!
anyway, it looks awesome!
Check for an ear infection. My daughter just gets mean and cranky and doesn't sleep when she gets one.ReplyDelete
If it helps I got through the day on swiss cake rolls and Dt Pepsi, so some days are just like that.
Oh yeah, and I love your header--so cool!
I have days where I'm totally annoyed with my two year old and wonder how we are going to make it through the day. My daughter arches her back along with rolling her shoulders so we can't pick her up when she's having a "mood". I suppose that's why I see a chiro now. Hang in there, the Lord will see you through the ups and downs.ReplyDelete
Yeah, for chocolate eggs. I haven't had one of those in years. Isn't it funny how those small things can help your day seem better?
Raw honesty-I love it! Hang in there girl! You are an insperation to so many!!ReplyDelete
Wow! As I read your post, I found myself saying Me too! Me too! I think we had the same days and days! My baby is two and still doesn't sleep. I went to bed last night at midnight only to get up at 4 to the precious calling (AKA screaming) of a littly guy! Who didn't want to go back to sleep... and the dogs, well, i only have one but I have mopped my floor and vacuumed a total of THREE (and that's not an exagerration) just so far today. I HATE DOG HAIR and DOG PRINTS. I don't hate my dog, but I consider it sometimes! My husband is also working way too much... in the last two weeks I think he has been home a total of one evening. Other than that, he's home to sleep for 5 hours and back out the door! So, yes, I totally relate and feel for you! But, I'm right there with you that God has to be in control, because i am sure not most days! I always try to think of it this way and thought it might help you today..... God will NEVER EVER give us something that we can't handle... He has provided us with all the skills necessary to handle this and more than anything he gave us JESUS! Praise God because I need him!ReplyDelete
Oh hon...they all have bad days. I'm with the first commenter too...it could possibly be her ears. Try giving her alittle tylenol and see if that works..if she pops a fever it could be her ears.ReplyDelete
I hope you are able to get some rest tonight and have a better day tomorrow :)
If you want to talk or need to vent you know where I'm at.
I hear you! I have felt this way a few times over the past year, with our first child! It's the best thing and the hardest thing to have a baby. You love them so much, but yes, some days you wonder if you can give them back, at least for a few hours! At 5 months I finally told my husband he better not go into our son's room at night when he fusses. He finally started sleeping through the night. I will pray for you! I know how rough the "no sleep" thing is! Chocolate and Diet DP are my saving grace!ReplyDelete
Hey...Just wanted to say that I feel ya with the mothering frustration! My daughter is going through a stage, a phase, a something - and it's so hard for me to be patient. She's only 18 months old, but I feel some days like we're already in the terrible twos. And then, of course, she smiles or giggles and all is forgiven. But it doesn't mean that it's not hard.ReplyDelete
Hang in there...will pray for you both to get some rest this weekend!


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Wesley Whipple, Junior Chemical and Materials Engineering student at the Paducah Extended Campus was awarded the Undergraduate Research Poster Award in Chemistry at the 2011 Math, Engineering and Science Conference (MESCON) held on the campus of the University of Evansville for his contribution titled, "Production of Biodiesel and Analysis of Related Interfacial Phenomena". Wesley is mentored by Dr. Jeffrey Seay, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at the Paducah Extended Campus.
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