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The season of layering has finally come to Savannah. And this preppy Fashionista is sporting the perfect combination: a printed sweater over a denim shirt. Layering a basic sweater with a pop of denim makes this outfit fall ready for any casual occasion.
Name: Maddie Ivey
Major: Fashion Marketing and Management
Year: Sophomore
CollegeFashionista: How would you describe your personal style?
Maddie Ivey: My personal style is pretty eclectic! I don't have one kind of style I like. My range of shopping destinations and designers I admire and love are vast…anywhere from Cynthia Rowley to Alexander Wang.
CF: Describe your perfect fall outfit!
MI: My perfect fall outfit would have to be an oversized sweater, leather panel leggings and my blacked out Nike frees (maybe even with one of my favorite hats) It's casual, trendy yet still embodies my style.
CF: Does living in the South influence your style? If yes, how so??
MI: I would say living in the South influences my style just in the sense that the weather is so different from home! Being a student at SCAD definitely influences my style though, just because everyone dresses so differently. I love it.
CF: Do you have any advice for Fashionistas on a budget?
MI: For a Fashionista on a budget: get creative! Cut a pair of mom jeans into shorts or make an oversized men's sweater your own by throwing on leggings and boots. I know everyone says to go thrifting and try and sift through Goodwill and Salvation Amy, but you would be surprised- some of my best finds have been from consignment and thrift stores!
How To: This combination is perfect for your morning classes, when leggings and a T-shirt won't cut it. A basic fair isle, layered on top of a denim button-down will always look good this time of year. Adding printed denim will pull the entire outfit together. Accessories including metallic loafers, statement necklaces bracelets and rings will tie the entire ensemble together as well.
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Re: What's the new "Code" Style?
Search the archives of this group (under my login if you wish). This
has been covered a few times.
For example:
On Feb 11, 6:12=A0am, AES <sieg... at stanford.edu> wrote:
> In the transition from earlier versions to 6.0, the Cmd-8 style in the
> Default Format was changed from something like "Small Text" (if I'm
> remembering correctly) to a style called "Code", which appears to
> function like "Input" but is formatted differently.
> What is this style? -- what's its purpose or objective? -- how does it
> differ from Input?
> [And for those of you who've been following my ongoing rants against
> Mathematica 6 documentation -- or lack of same -- a challenge: =A0Don't
> answer the above questions, but instead show me how a novice or ordinary
> user could find the answer to them, using what knowledge they might be
> expected to have, and the Mathematica Help menu item. =A0
> You'll find that looking for "Input" in the Find Selected Function menu
> command brings up an immediate and informative answer. =A0Looking for
> "Code", however, brings up 356 entries -- spread over 36 pages that you
> have to click through in sequence -- and this list is not alphabetized.]

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The Good and Bad Sides of Cloud PrintingJanuary 18, 2011 No Comments
Have you heard about cloud printing? Well, it has already been introduced last year but many believe that it will continue to change the style of printing this year. However, what is so good and so bad about cloud printing?Tags: cloud printing, Epson inkjet cartridge, inkjet cartridge, laser printer, PrintersIndustry News, Laser Toner Cartridges


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How To Drive Targeted Visitors To Websites Without Search Engine
If there's no search engine, or if search engine no longer able to brings up the search result, then what's you're going to do to bring targeted website visitors into your websites?
If that happens, that it's a hard fact indeed. Search engine is an enormous machine to drive potential and profitable website visitors, and it's targeted. Even so, not necessarily that the search engines as the only way to get people to visit a websites. In this post we're going to share the other potential techniques to drive targeted traffic into your site without search engine.
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Paid Advertising
Paid advertising in an effective ways to get targeted visitors to your site. With some budget and cost you'll able to place Ads that linked to your site in the other blog or website those joined in the particular Ad networks. Yes, it requires a budget and expense invested dalamm a paid ad. Therefore you must be careful to determine how your budget will be going to.
Social Media Campaign
No more secret that social media become the 2nd most popular source to get web traffic after search engine optimization. Facebook, Twitter, Google +1, LinkedIn and many other major social media sites is the other place where site owners have their own chance to drive traffic to their sites. Actively interact with targeted audience in social media sites, build the engagement and own networks, are few ways you can apply to build own community in the social media sites that potentially to have them visit your site with several ways. Here you can learn more how to get web traffic from social media campaign.
Guest Blogging
Extremely popular today, especially after the Google Panda Update. To build qualified back links from blogs with content that is also qualified. On the other hand, guest blogging is very effective to drive unexpectedly targeted traffic to your website. aybe you'll be surprised you managed to get a technique to increase targeted traffic, while having only few great articles on the right blogs.
Search for relevant blog to submit your guest post. Make sure you filter it, and distribute your article to the right blogs. That have high traffic, targeted audience, and many more other considerations.
Relevant Online Forums
Forums community online is a great place to get evolve and generate more targeted people visit your web. Just as when you apply other techniques such as social media marketing or blogging, your involvement and interaction with the other members will be very influential in your campaign to drive and keep them in your site for a conversions.
Take a note that the important side when you're building traffic from forums is not only the traffic you'll get, but also better image or reputation if you're use your account to help each other, discuss or sharing other important tips.
Blogging & Commenting
The other very effective wayto capture targeted visitors into your website or blog. Blogging about the niche or topic where you're in. Try to always write an interesting and useful blog post with fresh and quality post. Commenting in other blog is also great to apply when you will start to build specific people coming to your site without search engine. Comment other related blog and use your URL in your name link. Try to have a fun conversation with other reader or author there. Avoid generic comment that will never work. Effective tips to get success with blog commenting is by to be the first commenter and give your long and interesting comment that will lead to an interesting conversation, and most likely other people will be interested to click on your link name.
Paid Review
There are a lot blogger out there allow you to write review for your site or products and be paid. Basically, the concept is the blogger will write a review about your site or your product, and publish it on his blog with some pay and in certain time. This approach is very effective and will boost the targeted people visit your site escpecially when you have review in a famous blog that already have many of readers or audiences.
Video Marketing
Is nothing new, that video marketing has become a major new technique works very effectively to increase site traffic. Youtube, the most famous where millions of audience comes with all of its potential.
More than just producing quality video and post it in video sharing sites, video marketing has a broader sense to develop your site. When you come up with enough capital and investment, then you don't need to worry if you're suck with your SEO efforts that doesn;t give you the result. There are lot of techniques out there are make you able to drive long-terms targeted website visitors, and some are listed above.
Make you're not hesitate to add and share more ideas to complete the pieces above.


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I love it beacuse it is beautiful while practicle. I can wear it anywhere, pool, out on the town, play dates. Very durable
This is really pretty! I wouldnt mind if I had one =DTags: fashion, style, watches, jewelry, diamonds, stainless steel, time pieces, accessories, diamonsAdded 9 Years Ago from Amazon.com
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Test Certificates
When you pass each test, the online certification test site will create a printable certificate that confirms you passed the test, with your name and the date completed. Click the Print Certificate link in the Pass/Fail column on the certification test site to create a PDF of your certificate and print it.
When you achieve the certification(s) and present your signed and dated Form 13615, your Site Coordinator or instructor may provide you with a VITA/TCE programs Form 14509, Volunteer ID Insert. The insert was created to acknowledge the accomplishment of certified volunteers, as well as to assist internal and external stakeholders in identifying certified volunteers, but is not intended to be used as proof of certification. You should bring your Form 13615 (and Form 14509 if you have one) and photo ID to the tax preparation site.
You may take the test for courses online and receive immediate feedback. Your test is scored online. If you pass the VITA/TCE Volunteer Standards of Conduct – Ethics training, you can digitally sign, date and print your Form 13615 and tax law course certificates from Link & Learn Taxes.


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Guido: Colorful origins for school mascots
Well, it's official.
The Armstrong Riverhawks will be born in nearly two years.
That's the school name and mascot for the new Kittanning-Ford City merger, set to get off the ground in September 2015.
The name Armstrong connotes the county and school district that takes up 437 square miles of the county and a little sliver of Indiana County.
Riverhawks is a unique high school name, but the students who entered the name-the-school contest probably didn't realize there's no such bird as a river hawk. Instead, there's a flower known as a river hawk.
Wait until some of the more edgier student sections, particularly in basketball, pick up on that little fact.
My suggestion of Fort Armstrong Admirals didn't make the final cut, but I was pleased when one Armstrong School District board member told me last week that Fort Armstrong was among the finalists.
I liked "Admirals" because of alliterative purposes and the projection of strength and accomplishment. Plus, there are female admirals these days.
Besides that, newspaper headline writers could have had a field day: "Late TD helps Admirals sink Highlands.''
Or, "Admirals torpedo Knoch playoff hopes with late basket."
At any rate, now might be a good time to examine how other schools came up with nicknames.
Many high school nicknames are alliterative, such as the Valley Vikings, Burrell Buccaneers and Knoch Knights.
• Springdale Dynamos. Easily the coolest nickname in the Alle-Kiski Valley, dynamo is a shortened form of dynamometer. That's an instrument to measure mechanical power, related to Springdale's footprint in the electric power generating industry. It also harkens back to when many WPIAL schools adopted a name that described the local industry. Farrell is still the Steelers. The former Homestead High School was also the Steelers, Pitcairn was called the Railroaders and Ford City was called the Glassers for many years. Franklin Township, the forerunner of Franklin Regional High School, was called the Longhorns because Murrysville then had plenty of farms.
• Hampton Talbots. Students from the school noted the shield for England's House of Hampton featured a dog, now extinct, called a Talbot that was known for its loyalty and hunting ability.
• Leechburg Blue Devils. It has nothing to do with Satanic worship. The Blue Devils, or "les Diables bleus," were World War I French soldiers. Known for their unique training regimen, they were sent to the French Alps to try to break a stalemate. The Blue Devils captured the public's imagination with their distinctive blue uniforms, capes and berets. Duke University and other colleges adopted the nickname, and high schools soon followed suit.
• North Catholic Trojans. Located in Pittsburgh's Troy Hill section, Trojans was just a natural.
• New Castle Red Hurricanes. Some older schools got their nicknames by accident. When red-clad New Castle dominated WPIAL football in the 1930s, a radio announcer described an effective drive by saying, "New Castle is marching down the field like a red hurricane." The name stuck.
Some nicknames are naturals such as the Mars Planets, Fox Chapel Foxes and, in yesteryear, the Oakmont Oaks.
Poca (W. Va.) High School is called the Dots.
Some schools take their mascot's name seriously. During the 1970s, Pine-Richland (then known as Richland) had a live ram at its games at old Santacroce Stadium.
George Guido is a Valley News Dispatch scholastic sports correspondent. His column appears Wednesdays.


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TELUS HTC Hero owners weren't the only ones to wake up today smelling something fresh and tasty in the air, but it looks as though customers sporting the more powerful HTC Desire are also in for a tasty snack.
According to the TELEUS HTC Desire web site, it looks like the official Android 2.2 Froyo update is available for download. Of course that's going to be fantastic news for those who managed to stay put with their device in the face of some newer offerings out there showcasing the latest iteration of the mobile platform.
Naturally, it brings forth things like Flash 10.1 support with the web browser, the ability to store apps directly on a microSD card, and mobile hotspot functionality to share data speeds. So what are you waiting for? Be sure to click on the source link so you can get yourself well acquainted with the software update, but be sure to perform a backup before proceeding.
source: HTC & TELUS via MobileSyrup
Last month, we reported that HTC had introduced two Android models overseas, the HTC Desire Z and the HTC Desire HD. But those living Stateside should not be jealous as it appears now that a version of each model will be made available to Verizon customers. As we recently told you, the former will be launched on November 11th as the HTC Merge, an Android 2.2 world phone with a landscape sliding physical QWERTY keyboard.
Now comes speculation that the latter device will also be heading to Big Red, as the HTC Desire HD puts on its CDMA cloak and becomes the HTC Incredible HD. A November 23rd launch is rumored for this phone which is very similar to the EVO 4G model from Sprint with a 4.3 inch display, 8MP camera with dual flash and AF, a kickstand and a front facing camera-the first Android from Verizon with a camera up front.
Those who have seen the phone say that it is very upscale, made of brushed aluminum. A source for BGR called it an EVO in a "larger and more polished Nexus One body." Another insider says that this model makes the DROID 2 look like a child's plaything.
We have no idea about the pricing of this device, but with this model and the T-Mobile myTouch 4G/HD soon to be launched, we could be looking at a new higher price plateau for this next generation of flagship phones.
source: BGR
Even though we saw a slight glimpse of a Windows Phone 7 powered ASUS smartphone not too long ago, it might in fact be one of the few to come to market if words from one of their marketing managers are telling.
Steven Tu, marketing manager at ASUSTeK South Africa, talked about the"mystery" ASUS device shown off not too long ago sporting the Windows Phone 7 flare and said, "As always, Garmin-Asus seeks the best for our consumers either on Android platform or on Windows platform. However, we see the potential of Android platform devices, so we are focusing on Android platform currently."
Although it might come off to be a surprise for some people, it does prove to be telling since ASUS was nowhere in sight for Microsoft's big shindig in New York City for Windows Phone 7 back on October 11th. However, it doesn't completely mean that the manufacturer will not produce any WP7 devices – which is evident since South Africa is in line to see a WP7 device ready for the "December holidays."
via WPCentral
After the news broke out that Microsoft is planning to impose royalty fees on the Taiwan-based and worldwide renowned notebook manufacturers Acer and Asus, one can't help but think that Microsoft sees Android as a too big of a threat not to use every trick in the book to oppose the Google mobile OS.
HTC is the only Taiwanese high-tech vendor to have a license for using Microsoft products, but nevertheless Acer and Asus are also known to use e-mail, multimedia and some other functions patented by Microsoft. That leaves the door wide-open for Microsoft to charge royalty fees. According to the rumour that "pursuit of justice" is primarily driven by Microsoft's desire not to allow the above-mentioned Taiwan-based manufacturers to adopt Android for their netbooks and tablet PCs.
Since Acer and Asus' handsets are not the most-popular on the market, Microsoft won't seek royalty charge based on revenue but rather the Redmond-based giant will concentrate on finding ways to make their market share bigger and increase the popularity of their devices on global scale.
source: DIGITIMES
In a little more than a week, T-Mobile is expected to launch one of its most ambitious handsets, the T-Mobile myTouch 4G/HD. According to a leaked document meant to be read by certain of the carrier's employees only (and then chewed up and swallowed?), the Android flavored device appears set for a November 3rd launch.
HTC and T-Mobile have put everything they could imagine into the phone, including a front facing camera, Android 2.2 which brings Adobe Flash Player with it, a 3.8 inch display with resolution of 480 x 800 pixels, support for a 32GB microSD card, T-Mobile T.V, an optical joystick and the kitchen sink. A 5MP camera is on the rear with AF, flash and HD 720p video capture. Did we mention that the unit is enabled to run over HSPA+? The carrier is even planning on offering the device in white, black, plum or red.
What we still don't know yet is the price for the device. Considering that the magical $199.99 after rebate and 2 year contract price was just used by the nation's fourth largest carrier for the recently released T-Mobile G2, it is possible that we could see the myTouch 4G/HD get a $50 or so premium similar to how Sprint priced the Samsung Epic 4G vs. the HTC EVO 4G.
source: TmoNews
Everyone wants to get a piece of the Dell Venue Pro and if you take a closer look at this monster of a phone, then to say it's understandable would be an understatement. Just to summarize, Dell's new device is coming with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4.1-inch AMOLED Gorilla Glass display and most interestingly of all – a portrait QWERTY. It sounds like an all-around brilliant device and the most loyal Android users can be forgiven for feeling left out of the race to get their hands on this promising device. Not anymore. The rumour is that at some point in the future Dell will release a near identical device to the Dell Venue Pro with Android on board. The sad part is that there is no mention of an eventual release date, carriers or countries where the device will be available, but at least their is hope for the future.
What's certain is that the actual Dell Venue Pro with Windows Phone 7 on board will be released in the Holiday season and its US carrier is T-Mobile, so that stay tuned to PhoneArena for all you need to know about this WP7 device and plenty of others.
For more information on the Dell Venue Pro check out our hands-on preview with the device.
source: Androinica
The T-Mobile G2 has a bug that restores the original ROM of the phone every time you try to update it with something custom, which must be pretty annoying for its users, considering how important root access is for Android devices. T-Mobile claims that it is there to prevent "accidental modifications" to the phone, but people who know their way around creating custom ROMs have just called it a bug.
That's why the owners of the T-Mobile G2 have set a bounty on that pesky permanent root access hack. Over at XDA-Devs the owners' community has pooled around $700 so far for the first person who allows them to fully enjoy their Android device. With that kind of publicity, we are sure that the issue will be resolved pretty soon, and even if you sniff at the cash prize, you can always do it for the glory.
source: XDA-Devs
The smartphone and social networking revolution is taking the world by storm with the recent onslaught of mobile operating systems, applications and devices, pouring out of the Silicon Valley. This time around, the rest of the world knows what happened when Microsoft, and then Google, took over the information needs of mankind in the last twenty years or so, making them some of the richest companies in the process.
Now Apple has become world's second largest firm by market cap, and the biggest Korean telecom is firmly decided to stop the march of the North Americans. That SK Telecom is afraid it will be left out of the mobile game with crumbs is explicable. But to launch a 1 trillion won ($896 million) project to battle the Facebooks, Androids and iPhones of the world seems a bit overboard. The money will be poured into R&D for the next three years, and should result in SK Telecom having its own mobile platform, applications and services such as maps and music to distribute in the US, China and SE Asia. We are all for competition, and if this results in cooler, cheaper phones, we'd be the last ones to call the biggest South Korean carrier a daredevil. At least SK Telecom, unlike Nokia of recent, has realized that the truth is in software and services, not hardware.
The base technologies behind this incredible mobile push will be open for developers to use and modify at will, similar to Android. The big difference is that developers will not just be left there hanging – the project takes one guy with an idea SK Telecom likes, and gives her or him startup capital, office space and all the tax/accounting assistance needed so they can focus on the core task at hand. This is almost the amount of money Microsoft put into the development and marketing of Windows Phone 7, and the same approach to developers, so we'd wager to say we'll be writing more about this project in the coming months and years.
source: SKTelecom via Bloomberg
A leaked employee training document from Verizon shows a summary of the Samsung Galaxy Tab's specs and features. What might surprise you is that the device will launch without Skype, NFL Mobile, and V Cast Video applications.
The lack of NFL Mobile is surprising given their partnership with the NFL, and the hype built around offering coverage over the tablet's larger screen. Skype is particularly disappointing, as many users hoped they could use the tablet for video conferencing, or in lieu of their cell phone. As for the V Cast Video apps, users probably won't shed any tears.
The exclusions are most likely temporary. If Skype isn't made available in the near future, users will surely find a way to utilize it on their Galaxy Tab. However, if these turn out to be permanent licensing-based decisions, they might be discouraging to potential buyers.
source: Engadget via Android Central
Still quite a distance away from the Apple App Store, the Android Market can now claim that it hosts 100,000 applications. That is still only one-third of the number of selections seen in the Apple App Store. While the momentum has slowed a bit since the end of the Summer, the NY Times is reporting that 200,000 Android units are being activated daily. That is a lot of potential customers for a software developer to have.
According to the "father" of Android, Andy Rubin, 270,000 developers are busy writing apps for Google's open source OS. With all of those developers hard at work, can the Android Market catch up to the App Store? Android's momentum is catching on to some developers. Michael Novak is in charge of Android development at Medialets, a mobile advertising software company. Novak says that Android has gone from being a bit of a mystery to becoming a household name. "I used to tell people I wrote software for Android, and they'd look at me like I had three heads," said Novak, "That wasn't even a year ago. Now everyone knows what it is."
source: Twitter via AndroidandMe, NYTimes
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Chelsea Handler, Uganda Be Kidding Me
Uganda Be Kidding Me. That's the new book from E! late night host Chelsea Handler.
Oh, it's also the name of her new tour, which brings her to our area. This Tuesday, March 4th at the 92Y and two shows on March 8th at the Theatre At MSG. The tour promotes her 5th book, which comes out on Tuesday as well. Pick it up everywhere.
Chelsea called us up to talk about her book, the tour, going to Africa, Valentine's Day, and not going back to her high school in NJ. Give it a listen:
Photo Credit: Melissa Holt. Book jacket credit: from the publicist.


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The Best French Onion Soup (...ever!)
READY IN: 5hrs
Recipe by Stephanie Rexs Wife
From: Cook's Illustrated
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 3 pieces
- 6 large yellow onions, halved and cut pole to pole into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt, divided
- 2 cups water, plus extra for deglazing
- 1⁄2 cup dry sherry
- 4 cups low sodium chicken broth
- 2 cups beef broth
- 6 sprigs fresh thyme, tied with kitchen twine
- 1 bay leaf
- ground black pepper
- 1 small baguette, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 8 ounces shredded gruyere cheese
Directions See How It's Made
- For the soup:.
- Adjust the oven rack to the lower-middle position and heat the oven to 400 degrees.
- Generously spray the inside of a heavy-bottomed large (at least 7-quart) Dutch oven with a nonstick cooking spray. Place the butter in the pot and add the onions and 1 teaspoon salt. Cook, covered, for 1 hour. Remove the pot from the oven and stir the onions, scraping the bottom and sides of the pot. Return the pot to the oven with the lid slightly ajar and continue to cook until the onions are very soft and golden brown, 1 1/2 to 1 3/4 hours longer, stirring the onions and scraping bottom and sides of pot after 1 hour.
- Carefully remove pot from oven and place over medium-high heat. Using oven mitts to handle pot, cook onions, stirring frequently and scraping bottom and sides of pot, until the liquid evaporates and the onions brown, 15 to 20 minutes, reducing the heat to medium if the onions are browning too quickly. Continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the pot bottom is coated with a dark crust, roughly 6 to 8 minutes, adjusting the heat as necessary. Scrape any fond that collects on spoon back into onions.
- Stir in 1/4 cup water, scraping the pot bottom to loosen crust, and cook until water evaporates and pot bottom has formed another dark crust, 6 to 8 minutes. Repeat process of deglazing 2 or 3 more times, until onions are very dark brown. Stir in the sherry and cook, stirring frequently, until the sherry evaporates, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the broths, 2 cups of water, thyme, bay leaf, and 1/2 teaspoon salt, scraping up any final bits of browned crust on bottom and sides of pot.
- Increase heat to high and bring to simmer. Reduce the heat to low, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes. Remove and discard herbs, then season with salt and pepper.
- For the croutons:.
- While the soup simmers, arrange the baguette slices in single layer on baking sheet and bake in a 400-degree oven until the bread is dry, crisp, and golden at edges, about 10 minutes. Set aside.
- To serve:.
- Adjust oven rack 6 inches from broiler element and heat broiler. Set individual broiler-safe crocks on baking sheet and fill each with about 1 3/4 cups soup. Top each bowl with 1 or 2 baguette slices (do not overlap slices) and sprinkle evenly with Gruyère. Broil until cheese is melted and bubbly around edges, 3 to 5 minutes. Let cool 5 minutes before serving.


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Escalating their complaints against the University of Southern California administration's handling of rape and sexual-assault cases, some students announced Monday they have filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education to determine if any civil rights had been violated.
Tucker Reed, who founded SCAR (Student Coalition Against Rape), and several other students voiced their complaints against the school for failing to take action against accused attackers, even when presented with recorded confessions.
Reed said she was assaulted in December 2010, but did not report it to authorities until November 2012. "I was in denial on it," said Reed, the daughter of New York Times bestselling authors Dan Reed and Kelly Moore and a published writer herself. "I provided them with recordings of him admitting the assault, but no action was taken. The proceedings dragged on for six months, and I felt like I had been raped a second time."
Reed wrote about her experiences on her blog, "Covered in Band-Aids," and on her Facebook page, which drew responses from other students who had been assaulted and were angry at the university's lack of action. Two of them, Ari Mostov and Alexa Schwartz, lodged similar complaints in how they were treated by administrators after they filed their assault complaints.
Reed said she had the feeling the any school investigations were biased against the victims. "I don't know why. Maybe it's the tuition they get," Reed said, "but I feel like we were being victimized again."
The LAPD has referred her case to the District Attorney's Office to consider filing a felony, Reed said.
LAPD Cmdr. Andrew Smith noted the department takes all sexual assault cases seriously. "When we get a complaint, we refer it to our sexual-crimes unit and investigate it thoroughly," he said. "If it merits a filing, we refer it to the District Attorney's Office, without regard to whatever action the school is taking in terms of discipline." Investigators will determine if any date-rape or other drugs were involved but frequently find that alcohol is a factor in the assaults.
The SCAR complaint, a 110-page document developed by Reed and the others, was sent to the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights in May.
Jane Glickman, press officer for the agency, released a statement that the complaint was filed and "is currently under investigation. OCR cannot comment further regarding the specific allegations."
Reed and others have been working with other groups at universities where similar complaints have been filed. These include Occidental College, UC Berkeley, Dartmouth, Swarthmore and Yale.
Jody Shipper, USC's Title IX coordinator and executive director of the Office of Equity and Diversity, said the university is committed to upholding all aspects of Title IX and that they would work with federal officials on the inquiry. "The OCR states that 'opening the allegations for investigation in no way implies that OCR has made a determination with regard to their merits,' " Shipper said. "We look forward to working with OCR to address any concerns and review our protocols as needed."
Prior to the filing of the complaint, Shipper said the school had begun a review of its policy and procedures regarding sexual-assault response.
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WASHINGTON -- Jonathan Reyes, president and CEO of Catholic Charities and Community Services of the Archdiocese of Denver since 2009, has been appointed to succeed John Carr as executive director of the U.S. bishops' Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development.
Reyes is expected to begin his new job in December.
Carr retired in August after working almost 25 years for the bishops on a wide variety of domestic and international policy issues and took a fellowship at Harvard University's Institute of Politics.
Msgr. Ronny Jenkins, general secretary of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, announced the appointment Monday.
In a statement, he praised Reyes for his "vital experience with on-the-ground charities work and with young adults." He called him "a proven administrator" who "has the ability to inspire people to embrace the church's social teaching and carry it out in their daily lives."
Reyes has served as director of social ministry for the Denver Archdiocese simultaneously with his Catholic Charities position.
He also founded Christ in the City, a national volunteer and formation program for college students. In its third year, it has had more than 200 participants. In a 2010 interview, Reyes said, "I totally expect it to be a nationwide phenomenon and movement. ... It's clearly filling a need in the young who love Christ and want to serve."
He also oversaw the creation of Regina Caeli Catholic Counseling Services and Lighthouse Women's Care Center and completed the Guadalupe Community Assistance Center in Greeley, Colo.
In 2005, Reyes co-founded and was first president of the Augustine Institute -- a Catholic graduate school that combines education in theology, Scripture and history with practical formation in pedagogy and leadership.
Reyes described the institute as a response to situations where there is a lack of a well-defined Catholic identity and to a crisis of orthodoxy in terms of less-than-full fidelity to the magisterium. He added there was a crisis in catechesis in which many Catholics lack a full understanding of their faith and the role it must play in their lives.
Reyes was vice president for campus ministry and leadership formation of the Fellowship of Catholic University Students in Denver, a team-based evangelization program aimed toward students on college campuses.
At a 2004 FOCUS meeting in Denver, Reyes told the students, "Who will you serve? Christ or his enemy? If you give all to your Master, you will reign with him."
Before arriving in Denver, Reyes served on the staff of Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., 1998-2004, first as an assistant professor of history, then as vice president of academic affairs. He has a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in European history from the University of Notre Dame.
He is married and has seven children.
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New reading curriculum spurs teacher creativity
When Superintendent Gregory Thornton arrived to take control of Milwaukee Public Schools after the end of the last school year, he started to work on a number of changes. Certainly the most drastic change came almost right away.
In July, MPS adopted a district-wide literacy curriculum to replace the 17 reading programs and 13 reading assessments previously being used in all 184 schools (only a few schools, like the nine Montessoris in the district, are exempt). Teachers were trained in the new curriculum over the summer and it was put in place when students returned on Sept. 1.
You can read the curriculum -- which runs hundreds of pages long -- to try and determine if it will make a difference. Or you can ask the educators who are implementing and using it every day.
The ones we spoke to said the new program has changed the way they teach. It has encouraged them to be creative and to model good reading behavior for their kids. And they say, they can see a difference already.
Timothy Manley, a K5 teacher at the Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language, an MPS charter on 24th and Wisconsin, says that the new curriculum -- which at his grade level uses a program called "Journeys" -- is a marked improvement over the previous Direct Instruction method of teaching reading. In the past, he, like many teachers, taught reading with a scripted plan that offered little leeway for teachers to make the lessons their own and to adapt to children's needs.
New approaches
"The new reading program has definitely changed my approach to teaching reading," says Manley. "If there's a group of kids that's still struggling with letter names then you can pull them out and work on that, or if there's a group of kids that needs more of a challenge then the program offers more difficult books and tasks to suit their needs as well. With Direct Instruction everything was scripted, so every day I would come in, read from my script, and be done."
Now, instead, Manley says the curriculum not only encourages, but also requires him to think more about teaching reading. In the morning, he says, he sets up work stations, readies his new story for the day, assembles the materials and prepares his song of the day, among other tasks.
"It's a lot more work," he admits. "But I'm also seeing a lot more progress, and the kids are really enjoying it, so to me it's definitely worth all the extra effort."
While spurring teachers to inject life into their lessons, the curriculum makes no bones about how much teaching is expected of them. Most grade levels do 90-minute reading blocks each day. That mandate is also fueling teachers' creativity by leading them to find ways to bring other subjects into the reading and writing blocks, says 95th Street School principal Kristi Cole.
"There is a clear expectation of the time requirement for reading and other subject areas -- 90 minutes for reading, 60 minutes for language arts (writing) and 60 minutes for math," she says. "Science, social studies, health, art, physical education and music get the rest of the time. Teachers have to be creative in their integration of these subject areas; such as integrating social studies content in language arts, like writing a letter to Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War."
At Cole's school, for example, first grade teacher JoyLyn Rehm has learned to make the most of every minute in the school day.
"Ms. Rehm utilizes every moment of instruction time," says Cole. "Instead of having the students wait in the hallway during the bathroom break with nothing to do -- which often takes between 5 and 10 minutes -- she has them read.
"This time is a testament to their devotion to reading, although, we do have high expectations for our staff and students at 95th Street School. Teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn. There is no time to waste."
Making reading contagious
Many teachers are also modeling a love of reading to their kids. Four years ago, long before the new curriculum was in place, Samuel Clemens School, on 36th and Hope, began the D.E.A.R. program. Every Wednesday for 15 minutes, everyone Drop(s) Everything and Read(s), including the adults. Now, more than ever, this has proved valuable, says principal Jacqueline Richardson.
"It is important for students to see that our staff values reading," she says. "For us, the idea is to make reading a natural part of the day, like eating or sharing time with a good friend. We try to incorporate reading in the culture of our school by encouraging students to read every night, on weekends and over long breaks."
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INDIANAPOLIS -- North Alabama's Janoris Jenkins gave new meaning to the term "shutdown'' cornerback when he vowed Sunday at the NFL scouting combine to shut off the bad influences and choices that led to his checkered past.
Jenkins openly answered questions about his two arrests for marijuana possession within three months that led to last year's dismissal from the University of Florida.
He flashed his ball-hawking, press-man coverage talent with an impressive Senior Bowl showing that drew comparisons to Eagles Pro Bowler Asante Samuel. But Jenkins came to the combine with a lot more questions to answer.
He was humbled by going from the bright lights and Saturday home crowds of 95,000 in Gainesville, Fla., to what he estimated as crowds of 3,500 that attended North Alabama games.
Maybe the best thing the 5-10, 191-pounder did today was refuse to backpedal from his well-documented mistakes, which he said included an arrest for a bar fight in May 2009.
"I have to eliminate myself from some of those guys I used to hang with,'' Jenkins said. "I think about my mom all the time and my kids. For them to have a great life, I have to put that stuff behind me.
"My last time smoking was before I got kicked out of Florida.''
If he is as contrite as he sounded, some team could find a first-round gem in arguably the most talented player at his position.
"Jenkins has a lot of momentum because of his Senior Bowl, and the way he played,'' ESPN analyst Todd McShay said. "He has to interview well, explain himself and show teams some of those problems are behind him, and that he's genuinely trying to mature and do the right things and just focus on football.
"He (also) has to run well. You can't be small and slow.''
Jenkins has plenty of incentive to maximize this latest chance for his three sons and daughter, who range in age from 3 years to 3 months old.
"Whenever I go home, they call me, and I'm there. You have to be there (for them),'' Jenkins said. "I'm very grateful after what I've been through early in my career, I'm very grateful for this chance.''
Considering his off-field troubles, the gifted cover corner may be one of the most fortunate players to be invited to the combine.
"Teams see the talent,'' Jenkins said. "They just want to see what kind of kid I am. ... It's (about) coming in and showing them I'm not a bad kid. The things I did, I did.
"I'm just looking to put them in my past and move forward.''
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Heavy/doom metal and Lovecraft's Mythos are birds of a feather, as we've seen through the ages in bands like Manilla Road/Hellwell and many others, so England's Arkham Witch are already in good hands with this choice of theme, and judging by what I'm hearing on this second full-length, they do right by the niche, painting morbid tales of unearthly horror through take-charge, traditional NWOBHM styled construction steeped in a deeper sense of underworld aesthetics. I heard traces of Saxon, Witchfinder General, Pagan Altar, Diamond Head and Blitzkrieg amidst the more funereal, psychedelic overtures, and the commanding vocals are like a hybrid of Biff Byford and Mark Shelton without teetering so far into worship territory that they lack a sense of distinction unto themselves.
I vaguely remember the band's debut On Crom's Mountain through Barbarian Wrath (this time out they've joined the Metal on Metal family), which had more of a sword & sorcery aesthetic mixed with Lovecraft, sort of like The Gates of Slumber, Cirith Ungol or Doomsword, but it didn't leave me much of an impression despite my instant attraction to the Robert E. Howard subject matter. Legions of the Deep seems altogether better managed, more ambitious, and at the same time a fraction cleaner in terms of its production. The record runs the gamut from epic, march-like grandeur (opener "David Lund") to just feel good stoner-infused mid pace rockers infused with airy, understated melodies ("At the Mountains of Madness"), to angrier anthems that even exhibit a mildly doom/thrash territory ("Infernal Machine", "On a Horse Called Vengeance"). Arkham Witch is not going to win an award for having the most eerie, evil vibes to their songwriting, and they're far from the crushingest of British doom exports ala Electric Wizard and company, but then that's not really the point, since the style they've gone for is of a far more archaic nature with an early 80s vibe.
Of particular note here is Simon Iff's? vocal performance, which is stately and regal but fully capable of either slightly picking up its range or applying a bit of necessary gravel to the more peeved cuts throughout the nigh on 60 minutes of content. It immediately drew my imagination towards scenes of bold adventurers in 19th or early 20th century explorer's societies getting ready to tackle the supernatural or the unknown. There are occasionally passages where the vocals are used more to recite poetry or narrative, and this can come across more cheesy and playful than was probably intended, but not to the point that you'll lose sight of the murky, tentacled doom end awaiting you. In fact, the only part where I laughed out loud was the intro to their self-referential "We're from Keighley" where the singer pronounces to the audience 'Eat a bowl of fuck/I came here to parteeee' but after that the song does rock my nethers off. The guitars are well defined tonally without being overpolished: muted, harsher riffs have a good crunch, the flow of chords is swarthy, and the melodies possess a natural, sad lilt to them. The bass is grooving', but doesn't stick it's neck out that often, and the drums rock along at a simplistic clip which is representative of the band's NWOBHM influences more than a psychotic display of musculature.
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Emma Stone Dating Andrew Garfield
February 8, 2012 by staff
Emma Stone Dating Andrew Garfield, The actors, along with their producers, Avi Arad and Matt Tolmach, held a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, and discussed some major plot lines. Garfield admitted that he does feel a large amount of pressure taking on a role that is still so fresh in the public's mind. The last installment of Tobey Maguire's version hit theaters in 2007.
"Not just because of the fact Tobey, Sam [Raimi] and Miss [Kirsten] Dunst did incredible work and honored the vision of Stan Lee, but actually because of the further history of the character," he said, adding, "Of Peter Parker, how he originated and all the original evolutions that he's ever gone through."
But it's not something Garfield feels has gotten out of control. "I think if we didn't feel any pressure, we wouldn't be doing our jobs properly," he said. "It's an important, mythical, fictional figure, that I know is deeply, deeply important to me personally. I think a healthy amount of pressure is probably a positive thing."
Garfield also discussed the highly physical role. "I had about four months of training … where I would exhaust myself every day and get into near-death experiences every hour, on the hour," he said. "It was just fantastic and terribly, terribly challenging." The actor admitted he had not one but three stunt doubles.
As for a worthy follow-up to the "iconic" upside-down kiss shared between Dunst's Mary Jane and Maguire's Peter Parker in the first Spider-Man, Stone, who plays Gwen Stacy, says there will be kissing, but it will be up to the viewers to decide its importance.
"You don't wanna know, you wanna watch the movie and find out," Stone teased, adding, "It would be weird if we were like, 'Yes, there will be something iconic coming up.' You've gotta decide if it's iconic or not. There is a nice first kiss, I will say that, and it's different than the upside-down one."
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Subject: [DNA] Article: Whole-genome sequencing and comprehensive variantanalysis of a Japanese individual using massively parallel sequencing
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 17:55:28 -0500
Nature Genetics 42, 931 - 936 (2010)
Published online: 24 October 2010 | doi:10.1038/ng.691
Whole-genome sequencing and comprehensive variant analysis of a
Japanese individual using massively parallel sequencing
Akihiro Fujimoto1,2, Hidewaki Nakagawa1, Naoya Hosono1, Kaoru Nakano1,
Tetsuo Abe1, Keith A Boroevich1, Masao Nagasaki3, Rui Yamaguchi3,
Tetsuo Shibuya3, Michiaki Kubo1, Satoru Miyano2,3, Yusuke Nakamura1,3
& Tatsuhiko Tsunoda1,2
We report the analysis of a Japanese male using high-throughput
sequencing to ×40 coverage. More than 99% of the sequence reads were
mapped to the reference human genome. Using a Bayesian decision
method, we identified 3,132,608 single nucleotide variations (SNVs).
Comparison with six previously reported genomes revealed an excess of
singleton nonsense and nonsynonymous SNVs, as well as singleton SNVs
in conserved non-coding regions. We also identified 5,319 deletions
smaller than 10 kb with high accuracy, in addition to copy number
variations and rearrangements. De novo assembly of the unmapped
sequence reads generated around 3 Mb of novel sequence, which showed
high similarity to non-reference human genomes and the human
herpesvirus 4 genome.
Our analysis suggests that considerable variation remains undiscovered
in the human genome and that whole-genome sequencing is an invaluable
tool for obtaining a complete understanding of human genetic
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WASHINGTON Accounts from members of President-elect Barack Obama's staff indicate there were no "inappropriate discussions" with embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or his aides about filling Obama's vacant Senate seat, according to a report released Tuesday by the Obama transition team.
Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, were arrested Dec. 9 on corruption charges, including trying to auction off Obama's vacant Senate seat for money, a job or a Cabinet appointment.
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Gregory Craig, Obama's incoming White House counsel, said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., the incoming chief of staff, was the only transition aide to have contact with the pair. "Those contacts were totally appropriate and acceptable," Craig said on a conference call.
The criminal complaint, filed by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as part of a long-running investigation, included wiretapped phone conversations involving the governor and his chief of staff.
Craig said that "we do not have the tape recordings in our possession" and he "never had the transcripts." His four-page report was based on accounts given by Emanuel, Obama, senior advisers David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett, and Obama friend Eric Whitaker to their lawyers.
"All these conversations were completely innocent," Craig said. "No one was approached with any kind of deal."
Craig said the review was ready Dec. 15 but delayed the release at Fitzgerald's request so his office could interview several principals. Obama, Jarrett and Emanuel were interviewed Dec. 18, 19 and 20, respectively, Craig said.
The report was issued while Obama vacationed in Hawaii and on the same day Emanuel left on a family trip to Africa. Among its findings:
• The accounts support Obama's Dec. 11 statement that he had "never spoken to the governor" about who should succeed him. Obama did discuss qualified prospects with Axelrod and Emanuel and "understood" that Emanuel would relay the names to the governor's office.
• Emanuel had "one or two" conversations with Blagojevich between Nov. 6 and Nov. 8. They discussed prospects for his House seat and Obama's Senate seat. Emanuel initially recommended Jarrett for Senate but Obama later told him that he "had ruled out communicating a preference."
Jarrett withdrew from contention Nov. 9 and Emanuel gave Harris a list that included Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Jesse Jackson Jr.; state comptroller Dan Hynes, and state veterans affairs chief Tammy Duckworth. Later Emanuel added Attorney General Lisa Madigan and Cheryle Jackson.
• On Nov. 7, Tom Balanoff, head of the Illinois chapter of the Service Employees International Union, told Jarrett she and Madigan had come up when he talked to Blagojevich about the Senate seat. He also told her the governor raised the idea of becoming Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services. They agreed it would "never happen."
• Axelrod never spoke to anyone outside the immediate Obama circle about Senate successors. He was under the impression Obama would give the list to the governor. "He later learned" that Emanuel conveyed the names to Harris.
• Deputy governor Louanner Peters asked Whitaker "who spoke for the president-elect" regarding the Senate seat. Obama told Whitaker nobody did, that he did not want to influence the outcome. Whitaker relayed the message.
Impeachment hearings are scheduled next week in Illinois. Kent Redfield, a political science professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield, says a Senate trial will likely start next month and be followed eventually by a criminal trial.
"Every time it's in the news it's going to drag the Obama people back into it," he says. "It's just a question of whether it's a footnote or whether it's the lead."
John Jackson, a professor at the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, says the only way the Blagojevich mess could damage Obama is if the accounts in the report conflict with information Fitzgerald reveals later. "That would be a formula for long-term trouble," he says, and "they're much too bright" to do that.
Blagojevich has said he will fight the charges "until I take my last breath." His lawyer, Edward Genson, did not return a call Tuesday for comment.
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PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos slammed his predecessor George Papandreou for failing to support both articles of the omnibus bill in a late vote on Sunday but stopped short of ousting the former prime minister from the party, a move that would have put the coalition's majority at risk.
Papandreou voted against the bill's second article, which seeks to create a new legal framework for banks. The ex-premier had expressed reservations about these reforms, which could see the bank recapitalization fund make losses on some of the shares it purchased, for some time.
Veteran PASOK MP Apostolos Kaklamanis did not support the first article of the bill, which contained a series of liberalization measures.
The government won the vote with 152 MPs supporting the first article and 151 the second. The passing of the bill means that the Eurogroup is likely to approve the release of more than 8 billion euros in bailout loans when it meets in Athens on Tuesday.
Venizelos did not choose to eject the two lawmakers from PASOK's parliamentary group, as Prime Minister Antonis Samaras did with New Democracy deputy Nikitas Kaklamanis, who did not vote for both articles.
Kaklamanis's ouster meant that the government went down to 152 seats in Parliament. If Venizelos took the same action against the two PASOK MPs that failed to provide full support, the coalition would have lost its two-seat support, putting its future in serious doubt.
As a result, Venizelos settled for issuing a strongly-worded statement criticizing Papandreou without naming him specifically.
"Hypocrisy and personal political games are what led this country and the political system to today's situation," said the PASOK leader. "These are the kind of practices that we need to overturn."
Venizelos also accused Papandreou of failing to raise the issue in the days leading up to the vote, when PASOK MPs met to discuss the content of the omnibus bill.
Papandreou responded to his successor by issuing his own somewhat sarcastic statement, which turned Venizelos's words against him. "It is true that hypocrisy and personal political games are what led this country and the political system to today's situation," he said. "These are the kind of practices that we need to overturn."


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Small groups of soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division's 4th Brigade Combat Team began departing Fort Hood earlier this month, but large flights began late last week with the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
The 27th Brigade Support Battalion followed, with the bulk of its soldiers departing Sunday. A majority of the 2nd Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment, left Fort Hood Monday and Tuesday.
The 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment will be the fourth to depart, followed by the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment and 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment.
The brigade is the second from Fort Hood to deploy to Iraq in an advise-and-assist role. The 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment left in August for Kuwait and began arriving in Iraq shortly after the president called an official end to U.S.-led combat operations and Operation Iraqi Freedom became Operation New Dawn.
Pfc. Thomas Duffy departed Saturday - Sept. 11 - for his first deployment. Duffy is a 25-year-old combat engineer in the 4th Brigade Special Troops Battalion.
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Casa de Mi Padre
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Genre: Comedy
Director: Matt Piedmont
Producer: Will Ferrell, Andrew Steele, Adam McKay, Kevin Messick, Scott Lumpkin, Darlene Loquet, Emilio Barroso, Fernando Rovzar, Billy Rovzar, Jessica Elbaum
Cast: Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Will Ferrell, Gael GarcÃÂÂa Bernal, Diego Luna, Nick Offerman, Adrian Martinez, Alejandro Patino, Efren Ramirez, John Lorenz, Genesis Rodriguez, Mariann Gavelo
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Paul White, 45, is the first to come forward with a winning ticket for the Powerball lottery.
White, who is a project engineer at Elliott Contracting in Minneapolis, won $149.4 million, or one third of the Powerball jackpot. He chose to take his winnings in cash, which will award him $86 million ($58.3 million after taxes). White says that the first thing he will do with the money is buy a $30,000 Honda Motor's (HMC) Acura NSX that he has been looking at on Craigslist. He also says that he will buyback the first car his father ever owned. White doesn't plan on working for the rest of his life, but did say that he'll stay with Elliott Contracting a little longer because the company is really busy, reports CBS News.
There were three winning tickets for the Powerball. The other two tickets were sold in New Jersey, one of which is held by a group of 16 co-workers.


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The following technical bulletins were published by AERA.
Valve Guide Seals On 1988-92 3.6L DOHC Jaguar Engines The AERA Technical Committee advises members of the following information concerning valve stem guide seals on 1988-92 3.5L DOHC engines. Originally, the cylinder head of this engine used a valve stem seal only on the twelve intake valves. Now, since engine number 163522 both intake and exhaust valves use valve seals. It is Jaguars recommendation that anytime a cylinder head is remanufactured or serviced, valve stem seals be installed on all 24 valves. Jaguar offers a cylinder head gasket kit Part #JLM11088, which contains twenty-four valve stem seals. AERA is unaware of an aftermarket supplier for the valve stem seals and head gasket. The AERA Technical Committee
Camshaft Identification & Location For 1988-92 Jaguar 3.6L DOHC Engines The AERA Technical Committee offers the following information regarding camshaft identification and location on 1988-92 Jaguar 3.6L DOHC engines. This engine design incorporates 24 valves and uses two unique camshafts to actuate the valve train. Those camshafts may appear to be identical at first glance, as there are many similarities, but their location in the head is specific. Stamped numbers are used to identify each camshaft: the intake cam is #C37583 and the exhaust cam is #C37582. If those numbers are unreadable, an alternative method of identifying may be used for cam installation. Each cam has a timing V notch cut into the cam thrust ring; it should be at the 12 o?clock position during cam timing. When correctly installed in the cylinder head, the first cam lobe after the cam thrust ring of each cam will face each other. Those first lobes will also be pointed toward the spark plug threaded hole. The AERA Technical Committee
New Cylinder Liner O-Ring Seals On Cummins NH/NT 6 Cylinder Engines Cummins Engine Company has released new O-ring seals for the cylinder liners in NH/NT 6 cylinder engines. The new seals are made of an EP material and have a smaller diameter cross-section. The new seal replaces both the old center seal #3008998 and the old lower seal #183049. The new seal carries Cummins part #3032874 and is black in color with one blue dot. The new O-ring seals are not to be intermixed with the former seals on the same liner. Cylinder liner deformation will result. You can use the former seals and new seals in the same engine as long as they are used in the correct combinations on each liner. The illustration below shows the correct combinations. The AERA Technical Committee
Oil in Cooling System on VW 1.5L & 1.6L Diesel Engines AERA members have reported instances of engine oil in the cooling system on VW 1.5L diesel engines. According to AERA sources, the problem is related to a crack in the cylinder head bolt hole located near the oil gallery feeding the cylinder head. The oil feed gallery in the block is located on one side of the center head bolt hole and a coolant jacket is on the opposite side of the bolt hole. Pressurized engine oil is diverted through a slot in the head gasket and is feed up the side of the head bolt to the cylinder head. The oil also follows the bolt back down to the bottom of the bolt hole. Should the crack in the head bolt hole extend to the coolant jacket, oil can mix with engine coolant. This problem is generally found on engines equipped with 11mm head bolt holes. Later design engines utilize 12mm head bolts and do not exhibit this defect. At the time of this writing no successful repair procedure is available. The AERA Technical Committee
Cylinder Head Specifications on Case 207 Diesel Engines The following cylinder head specifications should be considered when remanufacturing Case Model 207 diesel engine cylinder heads. The minimum cylinder head thickness has been established at 3.968 with a new head measuring 4.000 +/- .005. Heads are measured from the deck surface to the rocker cover rail. Valve recession should be checked and adjusted if necessary to a maximum recession of .015, below the deck surface, for both intake and exhaust valves. Valves on new cylinder heads are generally flush with a +/- .005 tolerance. The AERA Technical Committee
Main Bearing Saddle Repair Kits The Cummins Engine Company has made main bearing saddle repair kits available for several engines. These kits can be used to salvage cylinder blocks when a main bearing has spun and the main bearing saddle has been damaged. Each kit contains an 1/8 drill bit, two hold down bolts (one for the lock ring and one for the other side of the saddle), a quantity of rivets and the appropriate number of repair sleeves. Semi-finished or good used main bearing caps are also needed to complete the repair. A main bearing saddle can be successfully repaired by following this procedure. Remove the main bearing cap from the saddle to be repaired. Using the appropriate align bore tooling remove .050 of material out of the saddle. This will enlarge the main bearing bore by .100. Clean the saddle and lock tang area. Install the repair sleeve and align the lock tang slot of the sleeve with the one in the block. From the repair kit, install the washer marked L on the lock tang side of the saddle. Install the second washer on the opposite side. Install the hold down screws and torque to 20 lbs.ft. (Figure 1). Mount the 1/8 drill bit in a right angle drill, so that the drill extends 1/4 beyond the chuck jaws. Using the 4 holes in the repair sleeve as a guide, drill through each of the holes into the saddle. The proper hole depth is achieved when the chuck jaws contact the repair sleeve. Clean the 4 holes and install the supplied rivets (Figure 2). Peen the rivets until they are flush with the repair sleeve. Remove the temporary hold down bolts and trim the ends of the repair sleeve so they are flush with the main bearing saddle. Clean the main bearing bolt holes and install a good used or semi-finished main bearing cap. Torque the main bearing bolts to specifications. Using the appropriate align boring tools, refinish the main bearing housing bore to specifications. Approximately .050 of material should be removed from the repair sleeve. Main bearing bore repair kits or sleeves may also be available from several aftermarket sources. The AERA Technical Committee
Overheating Of Engines With Electric Cooling Fans Ever since gasoline prices have shot up, vehicle manufacturers have downsized cars and their engines. One of the best ways of making a car smaller is to turn the engine sideways under the hood. This has instituted the use of one or more electric cooling fans to move air through the radiator. Diagnosing overheating conditions on engines with electric cooling fans requires a few extra steps to ensure that the electrical control system for the fan is operating properly. o Perform all of the tests associated with normal installations, for example: check antifreeze level, thermostat, water pump and hoses. o Check that the cooling fan is moving air through the radiator. With the fan turned on air should never blow out through the front of the vehicle. If there is more than one fan, be sure to check both. It's possible for the electrical leads to be reversed during installation causing the fan to move air in the opposite direction. o If the vehicle is equipped with two fans, be sure that both of them work. If the vehicle is equipped with air conditioning, one of the fans may only operate when the air conditioning is on. Consult the service manual if you are not sure. o Fans are controlled by a temperature sending unit. Check a suspected faulty sensor by bridging the two connections. If the fan comes on, then the sensor is at fault. o Verify that the fan comes on at the temperature listed in the service manual. Replace the sensor if the proper temperatures are not maintained. For additional information see AERA Technical Bulletins: TB 706, SB 158 & SB 137 The AERA Technical Committee
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Nitsana and her puppets played to a capacity crowd during the first event of the Summer Reading Program at Parker Williams Library Tuesday. Children giggled, clapped, and sang while Nitsana entertained them with her multitude of puppets during Puppet Commotion.
The next Summer Reading Program event will be an appearance by The Snakeman and his snakes at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 15. The event has generated a lot of interest, so be sure to pick up your tickets early the day of the show. No one will be admitted after the show begins.


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TALLAHASSEE and COCONUT CREEK, FL (May 31, 2006) - Tom Gallagher, Florida's chief financial officer, today announced the launch of a Spanish-language version of the Department of Financial Services' (DFS) consumer website to better serve Florida's growing Hispanic population.
"Nearly three million Hispanics call Florida home and need access to information that impacts their financial well-being and future," Gallagher said. "Following the 2004 and 2005 hurricanes, we had the opportunity to help thousands of Spanish-speaking residents, and many asked to get more information on insurance and financial issues in Spanish. My hope is that launching this new technology before the start of the hurricane season will ensure a greater number of Floridians are better protected and prepared if a disaster strikes."
Gallagher said that his department is amongst the first statewide government agencies in Florida to dynamically and comprehensively launch its site in Spanish. The Spanish site can be accessed by clicking on the "En Español" tab on the DFS homepage at www.fldfs.com.
More than 5,000 pages were translated on the department's website, including consumer-focused areas that offer information about disaster assistance, homeowners' insurance, financial matters such as mortgages and investments, unclaimed property, victim rights and more.
The department used MotionPoint Corporation's proprietary TransMotion® technology and service to deploy its Spanish website. MotionPoint's approach is fundamentally different from the traditional approach to website translation, because MotionPoint combines best-of-class professional human translations with proprietary software tools that eliminate the need for any upfront IT development and technical integration.
"The Department of Financial Services is leading the way amongst government agencies that need to serve citizens with information in Spanish," said Will Fleming, CEO of MotionPoint. "Florida has one of the largest Spanish-speaking populations in the country, and CFO Gallagher understands these residents want access to critical information in the language of their choice."
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He was appointed by the parishioners in vestry, and his wages were payable out of the church rate.
The poor rate is no longer made at the Vestry; the church rate is a thing of the past; and what is then left?
Mr. G. Blake had been summoned for refusal, on conscientious grounds, to pay the church rate.
The first church rate book only begins in 1776, but it is curious as showing to whom the land then belonged.
September 25—church rate contest at Dudley, carried on with all the zeal witnessed at a general election.
Some few bold Puritan souls dared to protest against being forced to pay the church rate whether they wished to or not.
It has been a disgrace to all parties concerned, and an injury to every housekeeper, that a church rate has existed.
But in some parishes the organist is, or was, when paid out of the church rate, selected by the vestry.
Then comes the village school subscription; sometimes a church rate (legally voluntary, but morally binding), &c.
Every forty shillings paid in on the church rate counted one degree.


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I don't have the energy, so just go to our Unathletic Facebook Page.
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Proper 23; Pentecost 22
Proper 23 | Ordinary Time 28
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Preaching Mark's Gospel
A Narrative Approach
Richard A. Jensen
Mark 10:17-31
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Today's text begins with the story of the man who ran to Jesus in order to ask him what he must do to inherit eternal life. This request for something to do follows immediately upon Jesus' word that the kingdom of God welcomes children. In other words, we have just heard from the lips of Jesus that the kingdom of God is to be received as a gift, received as children receive. Then comes a man who wishes to achieve the kingdom as a reward. The fundamental meaning of the gospel is at stake in these two postures. The gospel of the kingdom comes as a gift we receive! That's the point. The man who ran and knelt at Jesus' feet did not understand this. He wanted to do! He wanted to achieve! We should expect immediately that he will go away sorrowful.
In chapter 17 we examined this story in light of two similar stories in Mark's Gospel which serve ...
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Eddie Fernandez wrote:
>I recently changed from a standard 486 pc which I was using for m0n0wall
>to a Soekris Net5401 board. It seems that after I have it running and I
>have my machines doing multiple things my throughput comes down to a
>hault. The X86 machine that I was using before was a 133mhz with 64mgs
>of ram and a 32mg flash disk. The Net4501 is pretty much the same thing,
>it has the 133mhz cpu, with 64mg ram, and I have a 32mg CF card on it.
>The slow down was not occurring with the standard x86 pc but for some
>reason it happens with the 4501. Has anyone had similar problems. I have
>the latest Bios on the net4501. Like I mentioned, I booted up the
>net4501, had my machines doing all sorts of web downloads. A couple of
>minutes after being booted the net4501 was getting great throughput but
>after a couple of hours I was down to a 30kb download speed from my
>usual 1.2megabit and like I said, its not happening with the 486 system.
>Could it be that the Net4501 is running out of memory and thus causing
>the problem? I just find that weird because the 486 machine also has the
>same amount of ram. Any ideas? Please help.
Hi Eddie,
I have the Net4501 as well and have a simular problem. My net4501 needs
a reboot every 3/4 days.
Perhaps an idea to post this in the Soekris list ?


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A STAR station smog check is smog check done at a station that is closely monitored by the Bureau of Automotive Repairs. The BAR has a higher standard for vehicle smog checks than other stations.Continue Reading
Vehicles that previously failed a smog check, have a high chance of failing or are one of a random sample of vehicles are chosen to have a smog check by a STAR station. Inspections performed at a STAR station cost more than a regular smog inspection.
There are two types of STAR stations: STAR Test Only Centers only inspect the vehicle, while STAR Test and Repair stations test and repair any problems that are found.Learn more about Pollution


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There was now no victory, no deterrence, and plenty of condemnation.
The El Paso brand of deterrence is just as much directed at smugglers as immigrants, if not more so.
And Americans also know how to do deterrence and practiced it with great success during the Cold War and its aftermath.
Ahmadinejad has a point: the deterrence policy has contributed to the escalation of the nuclear arms race.
We now actually have real strategic choices on Afghanistan in front of us—from victory to withdrawal and deterrence.
For five decades, we have been successful in applying containment and deterrence in the Cold War.
When deterrence or diplomacy failed as in Kuwait, then the use of force was inevitable.
Nature has provided as far as possible for deterrence from over-interest.
Let us assume the legitimate end of all punishment to be deterrence.
What the deterrence in a comparatively short prison term that leaves the prisoner with a firm grip on his bundle of loot?
A military capability sufficiently strong to discourage any would-be aggressor from starting a war because of the fear of retaliation. (See balance of terror.)


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Oh my word! I've just realised Miss L breaks up from school Friday next. So I need some ideas of how to fill the following 8 weeks. So far I've come up with:
Decoupaching a chair like this (as spotted at our local Picture House cinema)
Learning Horse Riding
Trips to the North Norfolk Beaches
Rummaging in the local charity shops for project ideas.
Painting landscapes
Going to see Joss Wheldon's 'Much Ado about Nothing' – yeah that one is for me!!
Despicable Me 2
Maybe a trip to London to see a Gallery or Museum – depending on train fair deals.
Would love to go back to Kentwell Hall and see the Tudors again.
What have you all go planned for the holidays? Have you got any great ideas for us to do? We would love to hear your plans!


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This report includes a final list of recommended core quality measures for use in assessing the quality of home and community-based services (HCBS) Waiver services. The indicators are organized according to the HCBS Quality Framework, a document developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) to provide a common frame of reference for conducting productive dialogue among stakeholders. The report also includes recommendations for implementing the core quality indicators, lessons learned throughout the three-year grant, and a plan for sustaining the work of this grant.
Suggested Citation: Fralich, J., & Bratesman, S. (2004). Quality indicators for home and community-based services. Portland, ME: University of Southern Maine, Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service.


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Nothing brings a school together quite like Friday night football.
Monsignor Donovan plans to join the under-the-lights club when it launches its high school varsity program in time for the 2013 season.
"It's been discussed before, but we've been waiting for the right time," Monsignor Donovan athletic director Will Mayer said. "Our enrollment is higher than it's ever been, but we're still looking to increase it a little bit. We think that football could help with that. Our other athletic programs are really excelling and have improved over the last several years. We think that football will not only help enrollment at the school but help the student morale. Just having that Friday night football feel is something that we think we're missing. We think it will benefit the whole community, not just a couple of boys who want to come out and play football."
Monsignor Donovan is taking applications for a head coach and hopes to make that hire in early January. It's sure to be a big topic of discussion when former Georgia coach Vince Dooley attends the annual Christmas at Donovan celebration today. Dooley has agreed to be an honorary chairman of the search and hiring committee. The Christmas at Donovan celebration will be from 1-4 p.m. at Monsignor Donovan. Dooley will speak and sign autographs from about 2-3 p.m.
"He's going to sign some footballs and talk about how football and athletics have helped him in his life and what they can do for a school," Mayer said. "We're really excited to have him here."
Monsignor Donovan's current high school enrollment is at about 135 students, and two years ago it had maybe its biggest freshman class in school history with about 40 students, Mayer said. The GISA has also moved the boys soccer season from the fall to the spring, which frees up a large pool of athletes for football. Mayer experimented with a flag football league this fall and said he was encouraged by the support and the participation.
"I started an intramural flag football program for the guys and we had about 36 kids play," Mayer said. "We split them into four teams, played an eight-week season and had a super bowl. The kids really enjoyed it. The students came out to watch and had fun. The parents were coming out to watch the games. We played once a week after school, so there was a lot of enthusiasm in the community both here and at St. Joe's (St. Joseph's Catholic School) to get a football program going."
Monsignor Donovan currently competes in GISA Class AA, but the organization allows start-up programs to play either a junior varsity schedule or down a classification in its first two seasons. Monsignor Donovan plans to play a non-region schedule next fall and a full Class A region schedule in 2014 before joining GISA Class AA in earnest for the 2015 season.
"Frederica Academy started football two years ago down in St. Simons Island and they kind of followed that format," Mayer said. "They had some good athletes in there and they were pretty successful the first year. This past year they just won the Class A football championship this past weekend. I'm not saying we're going to do that, but it seems like a pretty good model to follow."


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"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
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"If life is a book we write, it should be a book of dreams. And even if they don't all come true, at least the story will still be amazing."
"There are only good people in this world. Sometimes good people do bad things, but thats ok, we forgive each other. Why? We are good people"