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The program is open to all Native American educators or educators serving predominantly Native American students who have completed at least one year of teaching or service as a school counselor or psychologist and are interested in assuming roles as school leaders.
- Participants must enroll in a minimum of 3 credit hours per semester to remain in the program.
- Complete all course assignments in a timely manner.
- Participants must complete a minimum of 360 clock hours of internship experiences to earn a Colorado principal license. While several states have a reciprocal agreement in recognizing licensure in Colorado, NAIL program staff will also work with participants to ensure that the internship and coursework completed at UNC meets the requirements for licensure in the participants' home state, as well.
- Participants must earn a passing grade on a Comprehensive Exam in the final semester of their program of study. The take-home exam will be in essay format and ask participants to apply the knowledge they have gained in their coursework to practical leadership situations.
- A maximum of 9 hours of coursework completed outside of the NAIL program may be accepted for transfer credit upon review of syllabi from courses proposed for transfer credit by program faculty.
- Based on University requirements, participants must maintain a 3.00 GPA throughout the program.
- Participants who drop or receive a grade of incomplete for a total of 6 or more credits will be dropped from the program.
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The fact that one of our elected officials, Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, is a leader in the move to bring the Republican Party around to the need for immigration reform that is not only comprehensive, but humane, brings honor on the entire state of Utah
Shurtleff was the most prominent member of a Utah delegation to this week's meeting of the National Immigration Forum in Washington. The attorney general, who is particularly free to speak his mind because he is no longer seeking elective office, brought with him the principles of the Utah Compact. That is the philosophy that seeks reform of the nation's broken immigration laws, reform that respects the humanity of those who move from country to county in search of a better life even as it seeks to uphold the rule of law.
As a soon-to-be former elected official, Shurtleff is able to speak truth to the still powerful. He rightly decried the enforcement-only tactics of elected officials in Arizona and elsewhere as not only unproductive, but as clearly pandering to the lesser demons of our political nature.
And, as a Republican who has his eyes on a new career as a lobbyist, Shurtleff is also among those who note that Republicans, by sucking up to the anti-immigrant paranoid fringe of their party, have alienated a much larger swath of voters across the country that includes, but is not limited to, the growing number of Hispanic citizens.
Shurtleff is also about to take a seat on the board of the National Immigration Forum. There he will join in the efforts of many others to build a new immigration regime that includes a pathway to legal residence, and citizenship, for those already in the country illegally. While angrily dismissed as "amnesty" by its many vocal opponents, that is the only sane, humane and, in the end, practical approach.
Millions of people live, work, go to school, pay taxes and otherwise fully participate in the life of their communities across America, even though, in the eyes of the law, they aren't supposed to be here. To round them all up and deport them would be as cruel as it would be impossible. It would deprive our economy of millions of hard-working employees, cash-paying customers and dedicated students.
It is particularly heartless, and brainless, to seek to deport, or to ban from work and school, the millions of people who were brought here as children and know no other home but America.
So far, the elected officials who represent Utah in Congress are only poking around the edges of reform, and unwilling to acknowledge the need for a path to legal status for immigrants. They should listen to Shurtleff.

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Parks and Recreation, SBS2, 7.05pm
Initially considered something of a spinoff from The Office and starring that series' Rashida Jones, Parks and Recreation follows the local government goings-on of the fictional city of Pawnee and quickly became a vehicle for the genius deadpan comedy of star Amy Poehler, who plays Leslie Knope, a relentlessly optimistic, goofy bureaucrat. The series opens with Leslie embracing a project that she predicts will be ''her Hoover Dam'' - turning Lot 48, a giant hole in the ground dug out for an abandoned building development, into a park. She coerces local Anne Perkins (Jones), her reluctant assistant Tom (Aziz Ansari), and colleague and crush Mark Brendanawicz (Paul Schneider) into her project team. Essentially a swipe at low-level bureaucracy and corruption, Parks and Rec's characters make the series a success and while the mockumentary-style format can wear thin, it works beautifully when the subtle lines and comic delivery are as tightly scripted as they are here.
Confessions of a Nurse, ABC2, 8.30pm
This four-part series follows three different nurses working in Britain National Health Service (NHS) in each episode, over the course of a year, at Birmingham City Hospital. The title of this opening episode, ''How The F--k Do You Spell Haemorrhoids?'', gives some indication of the no-holds-barred approach. Especially when it comes to healthcare assistant Latoyah, who spends her day emptying bedpans and other bags of bodily fluids. It's confronting viewing but even harder for Latoyah, who performs such duties for just £14,000 a year. Tonight also focuses on Debbie, who deals with a patient throwing his own faeces, and Sarah, on trial for a management role. Despite the often depressing nature of their jobs the nurses here are warm and funny, and the series provides real insight into their often undervalued jobs.
Q&A, ABC1, 9.35pm
The ABC's ''adventure in democracy'', as it was once billed, has become an adventure in ''multiscreening'', with Twitter now a big part of the viewing experience. As we head into the final pre-election stretch, Tony Jones' panel show is arguably more relevant than usual and questions to our politicians more pertinent than ever.
City Girl Diaries, Style, 9.30pm
It says something about the state of reality TV that another series about another group of self-absorbed young women who have no apparent interests outside fashion and gossip can come as a breath of fresh air. OK, ''fresh air'' might pushing it. But at least City Girl Diaries doesn't feature drunken screaming matches, ostentatious displays of wealth and privileged indolence. All of which are generally to the fore in Princesses: Long Island, Mob Wives, Big Rich Texas and anything involving the words ''Jersey'', ''Real Housewives'' or ''Kardashian''. All the New York women in City Girl Diaries are employed (in the glamorous worlds of fashion, publicity and the media), none of them are rich, and they resolve their interpersonal dramas at a low-decibel level. Tonight, struggling fashion designer Leila goes back to her former publicity agent, new mum Leigh is struggling with her work-home balance, and entertainment reporter and single mum Raina is stressed out, feeling that she's not meeting everybody else's expectations.
The Sum of All Fears (2002), One, 8.30pm
The opening shot of Phil Alden Robinson's The Sum of All Fears is of an Israeli fusion bomb being wheeled out of storage to be put on a fighter plane and later used to kill someone - all to the stirring sounds of If We Could Remember by composer Jerry Goldsmith. The framing of the shot makes the protruding weapon look like - well, there's no other way of putting it - an erect penis. But, then, Hollywood has been confusing the use of deadly weapons with sexual potency for a century and The Sum of All Fears seems to be just another example. However, the next scene challenges that assumption: the pilot, reaching for a toppled photo of wife and child, crashes his plane into the Syrian desert. Perhaps this is a satire, after all. But no, 29 years later, US heavies gather to hear that General Bulgakov has staged a coup in Moscow. ''Who the hell is Bulgakov?'' Reply: ''The arsehole who wanted to use nukes in Chechnya.'' But aren't Americans the only people to have ever used nuclear weapons? This pot is calling the kettle black. On one level, this is an American supremacist fantasy from writer Tom Clancy about CIA superhero Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) saving the world, albeit in a post-glasnost era. On another, if you put the thinking side of your brain to sleep, it is slick, well-crafted and gripping big-screen entertainment.
The Walker (2007), M Drama/Romance (pay TV), 6.40pm
''Walker'' is the name given to a man who escorts wealthy women to social occasions. Impeccably dressed, Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) sails through life by maintaining the politeness of society and demonstrating a Truman Capote-like wit and fondness for gossip. But in the right-wing town of Washington, he finds himself framed for murder. A loose remake of American Gigolo, this is Paul Schrader's most stylish film in almost 20 years.


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graduatestudents from the
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Artsgave attendees at the 29th Annual Central California Research Symposium in Fresno last week something to remember: valuable research in the fields of
cognitive scienceand
The students - Liz Duran,
Rodolfo Galindo, Kandice Soraya Grote, Kristi Imberi-Olivares,
Justin Matthews, Michael Romano and Corinne Townsend - are all part of SSHA's
Social and Cognitive Sciences Graduate Group, which offers students individualized training and the opportunity to help build a unique, interdisciplinary research community.
Romano won first place for his poster, Perceptual Similarity, Difference and Identity. Duran won an honorable mention for her poster, Parental Mental State Talk and the Development of Theory of Mind. Romano works with
Professor Evan Heit, and Duran works with
Professor Michelle M. Chouinard.
This is the second year in a row that UC Merced has taken the top prize in the poster category. Last year's winner, Matthews, submitted an oral presentation this year, which he delivered during the plenary session. Matthews, a research assistant for
Professor Teenie Matlock, discussed how facial prominence affects predicted job performance.
Matthews is more than pleased by how well his UC Merced colleagues fared at the Fresno event.
Last year, I was the only UC Merced student to participate, and I pledged to return with more students from Social and Cognitive Sciences, he said. I'm glad to see that not only did we succeed in increasing our campus' participation in the event, but that our research was valued by the judges as well.
Matthews' positive experience at last year's symposium was the reason for at least one of his fellow researchers to join him this year.
Grote jumped at the chance to present her research on bilingualism in preschool-age children in the Central Valley during the symposium's poster session. A second-year doctoral student focused on
developmental psychology, she said the most rewarding aspect of the event for her was explaining the significance of her research to those not familiar with the field.
There are a lot of misconceptions about the effectiveness of bilingual education and informing others of its benefits can be challenging, she said.
Aside from giving participants the experience of presenting research in a regional setting, the symposium allowed for UC Merced students to network with other faculty in the field, something Imberi-Olivares valued greatly. She discussed her research on how parent-child conversation affects learning with the chair of the psychology department at California State University, Fresno.
Olivares, a second-year doctoral student, believes her studies into whether children accept linguistic feedback from people other than their parents will have a direct effect on the nature-vs.-nurture debate in field of language learning.
The more we understand how linguistic transmission works, the better we can structure teaching environments and give parenting advice, she said.
UC Merced students will have plenty of opportunities to make their mark on the research community as part of the Central California Research Symposium in the future - at least, that's if Matthews has any say in the matter.
I hope we can make UC Merced students - undergraduates and graduates - a fixture there for years to come, he said.


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World Diagnostic Imaging Market Outlook and Leading Supplier Business Strategies and Marketing Tactics
This new report from VPGMarketResearch.com contains 125 pages and provides world diagnostic imaging market outlook, as well as leading suppliers' business strategies and marketing tactics. The report presents a worldwide strategic overview of the diagnostic imaging market, including:
The companies analyzed in the report include Analogic, Esaote, GE, Hitachi, Hologic, Philips, Shimadzu, Siemens, and Toshiba. The company profiles include:
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On the captive Portal Page, idle timeout is left blank, Hard timeout is set to 60 minutes. On the
dhcp Server Page, the Fields for min and max lease Time are left blank as well, just to use the
defaults (7200 and 86400 seconds)...
Ralf Petry, von irgend so einem mobilen Endgerät gesendet...
Am 03.04.2012 um 00:14 schrieb Lee Sharp <leesharp at hal dash pc dot org>:
> On 04/02/2012 04:27 PM, Ralf Petry wrote:
>> Hy,
>> I'm running m0n0wall in its latest stable version and I experience, that users sometimes can use
the captive portal without having to enter either a voucher id or a user / password pair. I've built
a web page, that would allow for both: either entering user name and password or voucher id. Leaving
the fields blank and clicking on "continue" gives users access to the internet... what more
information would you need to help me?
>> also there are two linux based internet terminals, which provide the same strange and not-wanted
>> thanks in advance.
> If your DHCP timeout is shorter than your CP idle timeout, they may be getting out on an IP used
by someone else...
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text: [JURIST] FBI Director Robert Mueller told the US Senate Committee on Intelligence [official website] Wednesday that the FBI remains concerned about attacks by al-Qaida and related terrorist groups, particularly the threat of attack from covert operatives already inside the US, al-Qaida's intention to use chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-energy explosives in an attack, and the potential for al-Qaida' to leverage extremist groups with connections to the terror network and to exploit radical American converts and other indigenous extremists. Mueller also testified that a variety of domestic terrorists, including animal rights and environmental extremists, US-based black separatist groups, the right-wing Patriot movement, and anti-abortion extremists also pose a threat. Read Mueller's prepared testimony [text] in full. Additional testimony [statement list] from Wednesday's hearing on current and projected national terrorist threats to the US is also available. AP has more.


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So simple and yet so cool! And at great prices. I own the bouchle jacket and it is perfect with any color.
Great for the office. Business casual I'd say.
With leather pants you can never go wrong!
love/adore/amore...comfy, chic, casual, relaxed. bigger-wider is better (butter) Betty - buy these it'll make it better!
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I've recently gone off the traditional bootcut work trousers and these work really well as a more modern replacement. They give a leaner silhouette than bootcut and aren't so horribly tight as skinnies.
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Lightweight, warm fleece mens pants by North Face. Zipper close back pocket, drawstring waist and side pockets keep you prepared for just about anything, even if its just sitting on your couch.
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solutions for large data, where errors may occur in the disks (or some disks may just crush). In such an application, it is often desirable to recover only small portions of the data (have random access). Thus, in such applications, using LDC provides enormous efficiency gains over standard error correcting codes (ECCs), that need to read the entire encoded message to learn even a single bit of information.
Typically, LDC\'s, as well as standard ECC\'s decode
the encoded messaged if upto some bounded fraction of the symbols had been modified. This corresponds to decoding strings of bounded Hamming distance from a valid codeword. An often more realistic metric is the edit distance, measuring the shortest sequence of insertions and deletions (indel.) of symbols leading from one word to another.
For example, (few) indel. modifications is a more realistic model for mutations occurring in a genome. Even more commonly, communication over the web may sustain deletions (lost packets) and insertions (noise).\\footnote{Edit distance is indeed \"more expressive\" then Hamming distance in the sense that $dist_E(x,y)\\leq 2dist_H(x,y)$ always holds, while edit distance 2 may translate to Hamming distance $n$. For instance, consider $x=1010\\ldots 10,y=0101\\ldots 1$.
Standard ECC\'s for edit distance have been previously considered~\\cite{SZ97}. Furthermore,~\\cite{SZ97} devised codes with
rate and distance (error tolerance) optimal upto constants.
LDC\'s, originally considered in the setting of PCP\'s~\\cite{BFLS91}, have found many additional applications, and generated a lot of fascinating work (see~\\cite{Yek11} and references within).
However, combining these two useful settings of LDC, and robustness
against indel. errors has never been considered.
In this work, we study the question of constructing LDC\'s for edit distance. We demonstrate a strong positive result - LDC\'s for edit distance can be achieved, with similar parameters to LDC\'s for Hamming distance. More precisely, we devise a generic transformation from LDC
for Hamming distance to LDC for edit distance with related parameters.
MICKEY family of stream ciphers, one of the winners of eStream
project. The current attacks are of the best performance among
all the attacks against MICKEY ciphers reported till date. The
number of faults required with respect to state size is about
1.5 times the state size. We obtain linear equations to determine
state bits. The fault model required is reasonable. The fault model
is further relaxed without reproducing the faults and allowing
multiple bit faults. In this scenario, more faults are required
when reproduction is not allowed whereas, it has been shown
that the number of faults remains same for multiple bit faults.
feature, are included in most modern-day ICs. But, it
opens a side channel for attacking cryptographic chips.
We propose a methodology by which we can recover
internal states of any stream cipher using scan chains
without knowledge of its design. We consider conven-
tional scan-chain design which is normally not scram-
bled or protected in any other way. In this scenario
the challenge of the adversary is to obtain the corre-
spondence of output of the scan chain and the internal
state registers of the stream cipher. We present a math-
ematical model of the attack and the correspondence
between the scan chain-outputs and the internal state
bits have been proved under this model. We propose an
algorithm that through o-line and on-line simulation
forms bijection between the above mentioned sets and
thus nds the required correspondence. We also give an
estimate of the number of o-line simulations necessary
for nding the correspondence.
The proposed strategy is successfully applied to eS-
tream hardware based nalists MICKEY-128 2.0, Triv-
ium and Grain-128. To the best of our knowledge, this is
the rst scan based attack against full round Grain-128
and only the fourth reported cryptanalysis. This attack
on Trivium is better than that of the published scan-
attack on Trivium. This scan-based attack is also the
rst reported scan based cryptanalysis against MICKEY-
128 2.0.
- We show how to derive compact HIBE by instantiating the dual system framework in Waters (Crypto \'09) and Lewko and Waters (TCC \'10) with dual system groups. Our construction provides a unified treatment of the prior compact HIBE schemes from static assumptions.
- We show how to instantiate dual system groups under the decisional subgroup assumption in composite-order groups and the decisional linear assumption ($d$-LIN) in prime-order groups. Along the way, we provide new tools for simulating properties of composite-order bilinear groups in prime-order groups. In particular, we present new randomization and parameter-hiding techniques in prime-order groups.
Combining the two, we obtain a number of new encryption schemes, notably
- a new construction of IBE in prime-order groups with shorter parameters;
- a new construction of compact HIBE in prime-order
groups whose structure closely mirrors the selectively secure HIBE
scheme of Boneh, Boyen and Goh (Eurocrypt \'05);
- a new construction of compact spatial encryption in prime-order groups.
In this work, we present a novel T-PAKE protocol which solves the above fault management problem by employing a batched and offline phase of distributed key generation (DKG). Our protocol is secure against any malicious behavior from up to any t < n servers under the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption in the random oracle model, and it ensures protocol completion for t < n/2. Moreover, it is efficient (16n + 7 exponentiations per client, 20n + 14 per server), performs explicit authentication in three communication rounds, and requires a significantly lesser number of broadcast rounds compared to previous secure T-PAKE constructions. We have implemented our protocol, and have verified its efficiency using micro-benchmark experiments. Our experimental results show that the protocol only introduces a computation overhead of few milliseconds at both the client and the server ends, and it is practical for use in real-life authentication scenarios.


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Rockaway Ferry Service Extended Through Labor Day
City officials announced Tuesday that Rockaway ferry service will continue through Labor Day. The ferry to Manhattan began in November after Hurricane Sandy knocked out A-train service. Rockaway residents worried the service would be stopped once the A-train got back up and running, but it looks like riders will continue to have another option in getting to Manhattan through at least the summer.
AM New York reports that the ferry costs passengers $2 each way, easing the commute to and from the Rockaways during the morning and evening rush. The Rockaway ferry service was previously extended in May after the A-train was up and running again.
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By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY
LOS ANGELES In the past 34 years, writer/director Steven Lisberger has recalled the story, literally, thousands of times.
Yet every time he does, Lisberger says, he can't help but revisit the reactions he received when he first told colleagues his idea for TRON.
"Everything we talked about was new," Lisberger says. "We were talking animation — with computers. And people were scared."
Now those skeptics lead the charge. TRON: Legacy— an update on 1982's sci-fi cult favorite about a game designer, Kevin Flynn (Jeff Bridges), who gets sucked into cyberspace and is forced to compete in gladiatorial games — arrives Friday with all the hopes (and special-effects dough) the first film never inspired.
But for a guy rejected hundreds of times for his far-off concept of a virtual reality ruled by computers, Lisberger isn't in an I-told-you-so mood.
"Back then, we were just flying blind," says Lisberger, whose inspiration for TRON came after watching a demo reel of a Pong video game in 1976. "Everything was so experimental, people didn't know what we were trying to do. Now they come up and tell me they got into special effects because of TRON."
Well, maybe TRON's legacy. The original isn't going to be confused with Avatar. Filmmakers had one computer, with 2MB of memory, a pittance for most cellphones today. Actors performed on sets covered in black felt, and most of the effects were hand drawn in the traditional animation style (although the Academy Awards ruled TRON ineligible for an animation Oscar because computers were considered cheating).
A brave new electronic world
At the time, Lisberger had no idea he was on the cusp of a breakthrough. He had an animation studio in the 1970s and was looking for a high-tech Mickey Mouse to represent his company. (TRON is short for "electronic.")
While the digital hero never became a pitchman for anything more than video games and toys, he was compelling enough to persuade Disney to spot Lisberger $17 million.
The intent was to make an animated film superimposed with Bridges' live-action scenes. But the technology wasn't there for a seamless blend, Lisberger says. So crews draped the sets in black cloth while animators drew an electronic glow around the stars, props and vehicles.
The $17 million film would earn $33 million, though it would split critics. "Here's a technological sound-and-light show that is sensational," wrote Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times. But The New York Times' Janet Maslin called the visual effects "numbing after a while."
But for sci-fi die-hards, the new world had been discovered. Flynn Arcades, named after Bridges' character, cropped up nationwide. Video games out-sold the movie.
"TRON is a film that emerged on the cusp of the personal computer revolution, crystallizing the hopes and anxieties of this unknown technological force for a whole generation," says Ben Chang, an associate professor in the Games and Simulation Arts and Sciences Program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
"Today, we're so immersed in computing that we barely give it a second thought — the exotic future is now ordinary," he says. "TRON recaptures that wonder, while still speaking to the continued meshing of the human and the digital."
It's still all about the story
TRON's themes of sentient computer beings — with little need for humans — would become a template for modern sci-fi franchises like The Terminator and The Matrix.
But even with a reported $170 million budget, Legacy director Joseph Kosinski says he didn't want to get too wrapped up in technology. Set a quarter-century after Flynn disappears, Legacy follows son Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) as he enters the gaming world looking for his dad.
"I think people admire TRON because it was the first CGI movie, but you don't want to get wrapped up in just making a digital version of that world," he says. "It's still a tool to tell a good story."
In fact, fans and academics say it's the narrative that has helped TRON survive over the decades — in a medium obsessed with the newfangled.
"It's not a stretch to say that TRON opened the doors of CGI wide," says Chris Carle, editor of the gaming site IGN Entertainment. "It was innovative and before its time, but ultimately (it) harked back to stories told for centuries. It's a true hero's quest told with, at the time, new tools in the brave new world of computer technology. It persists today because the story was classic and the design iconic. Plus, the effects still look crazy cool. No movie before or since has looked or felt quite like TRON."
Indeed, TRON remains iconic for the Twitter and YouTube generation, says blogger Jenna Busch of the column Girl Meets Lightsaber.
Busch, 38, also a film critic for the JoBlo Movie Network, negotiated her way on set to cover the new film.
"Most sets look like sets," she says. "This one really looked like being inside a computer, and I think it's because all of the crew had such wonderful memories of the first movie. They all talked about where they were when they first saw TRON."
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RG3204.AM: First Christian Church (York, Neb.)
Scrapbook: 1876-1969
York, York County, Neb.: Christian church
Size: 1 reel of microfilm
The First Christian Church of York, Nebraska, traces its origins to early religious meetings held in Lockridge Pct., beginning in 1876. However, it was not until 1883 that the Church was legally registered, and the first building was constructed the following year. In 1898, the building was moved to its present location at 8th and Platte Streets in York, and extensive remodeling was undertaken. Dedication ceremonies for the newly remodeled structure were held in October of 1901. Physical improvements to the church facilities continued throughout the years. Preliminary plans for a new educational building were initiated in 1952, and ground for the structure was broken on May 5 of that year. The building was completed and dedicated in March of 1958.
This collection consists one reel of microfilm containing a scrapbook relating to the history of the First Christian Church of York, Nebraska, 1876-1969. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, lists of pastors, programs of special services, and general histories of church activities, 1883-1967. This scrapbook was loaned for microfilming by Mrs. F.M. Cummings of York, Nebraska, in August of 1969.
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- Scrapbook, 1876-1969
Christian Church in Nebraska
Disciples of Christ in Nebraska
First Christian Church (York, Neb.)
York (Neb.) -- Churches
York County (Neb.) -- Churches
JEP/pp 09-08-1969
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This unique event was started in 1990 by a group of concerned Guilford County residents just as the full impact of the AIDS epidemic was being felt in the area. Since that time, Dining for Friends has been duplicated by numerous organizations and nonprofits around the country, evolving into one of the most effective fundraising tools available in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In Guilford County alone, the event has raised more than 2 million dollars since its inception.
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POLAND-ROOTS-L ArchivesArchiver > POLAND-ROOTS > 1999-09 > 0936460957
From: Carla <>
Subject: RE: [POLAND] Churches in Sroda
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 09:02:37 -0700
On Saturday, September 04, 1999 9:30 AM, James P. Harlos
[SMTP:] wrote:
> I took advantage of the free maps from the LOC and received an excellent
> map of the area surrounding Sroda. An enlargement of the area showed two
> churches in Sroda, which agrees with the information in Sl~ownik
> Geograficzny where Sroda is given as having two churches, one Catholic
> one Protestant. I am trying to determine the name of the Catholic church
> the period from 1850-1880. I have looked at the web site for the
> Archdiocese of Poznan and it does list the church currently in Sroda.
> However, it does not give the dates for the churches. I have sent e-mail
> to the Archdiocese requesting the information with no response after many
> months. Does anybody have any idea concerning this.
Dear Jim and Poland-Roots List Friends,
My copy of Lidia Mullerowa's guidebook, "Roman Catholic Parishes in the
Polish People's Republic in 1984" shows TWO Catholic churches now in Sroda
Wielkopolska, city. (This is the designation for the Sroda nearest Poznan,
not the one nearer to Wroclaw). The are named as follows (forgive me for
omitting the Polish diacritical marks):
NMP Wniebowzietej
[NMP is an abbreviation referring to 'the most holy Virgin Mary')
This name is roughly equivalent to 'Our Lady Assumed into Heaven'
Najsw. Serca Pana Jezusa
(This name is roughly equivalent to 'The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus')
The translation of the names is, I believe, supplied by Ms. Mullerowa's
editors, one of who is the wonderfully expert William F. (Fred) Hoffman.
I cannot take any credit for the interpretation, as I am astoundingly
lousy in the Polish language. :-)
It has been my experience in writing to Polish churches that, if there is
more than one Catholic church in the locality, and you happen to direct
your letter to the inappropriate one for the time frame you are seeking,
the priest there will usually forward your letter to the proper church.
(This usually only works if you are writing to a place which has a LIMITED
number of churches---obviously, it would not be too promising if you were
writing to, say, a place like Krakow, which is a large metropolitan city
with scores of churches!)
In your personal situation, Jim, I would either send a copy of your letter
to BOTH parishes, or use my "Eenie-Meanie-Minie-Moe" technique of picking
one, and hoping for the cooperation of the priest in having it forwarded.
In small towns and villages (as opposed to cities and larger towns), one
need usually not even worry about the specific *name* of the Catholic
church if sending a letter, as there is often only ONE in the location to
start with. The local Polish postal service will deliver your letter if it
is addressed in Polish to "Parafia Rzymsko-Katolickie" (Roman Catholic
Parish) for that place--they know its location well.
It is also fairly common, in my experience, to find that the same church in
a small place that was there in the ancestor's day is STILL there. .
.though of course, the buildings have been replaced/restored over time. In
my ancestral village of Wielowies, Kozmin (now Krotoszyn), Poznan, the
parish church at Wielowies has been there since at least the 1600's, and
the parish is still functioning there.
Hope this is helpful!
Best wishes,
Carla HELLER
Los Angeles
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One Big Party: Carnival Miracle Cruise Review by cindlbergen
Overall Member Rating
One Big Party
Destination: Panama Canal & Central America
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
The port was like a scene from a zombie movie. There were passengers from 7 cruises (approx. 15,000) in the streets beating on cars and vans trying to catch rides. They looked so miserable with their sunburns and tiny knotted braids. I was impressed to see the Queen Mary II in port. That is one fantastic looking vessel. Most of our fellow cruisers were confused about which door to use because they kept switching from upstairs to downstairs. I just stayed keenly alert and got in the right door at the right time. We were on the ship quickly More enough but being stopped every few feet for ID's was a bit annoying. We were all taken to Lido deck to await departure. The servers kept the fruity drinks coming and there was food galore. We were allowed in our cabins at 1:30. By the time it was muster call I was admittedly drunk and tried to hide in the closet but my daughter made me go.
The cabin was much larger than I expected. It was inside and I do believe I did not get my upgrades because I did not book directly through Carnival. It was my 3rd cruise with them yet they would not even answer the question, "Is there a Scrabble game onboard?" on the 1-800 line because they said I had to ask my agent. I will book with them directly from now on.
The ship is gorgeous!! I had always considered carnival ships to be a tad tacky but this one was beautiful. The glass elevators are a surprising treat of art viewing. The art deco lounge, Jeeves, is comfortable and cozy. Do not miss Tea Time there! It will make you feel so civilized. I do not like sports but Maguires Sports Bar is not loud at all. I wanted to bring Mr. "B" the bartender home to work for me! It became my favorite place to chill and have a cocktail or ten.
Our two days at sea were turbulent to put it mildly but sitting in Maguires helped calm my nerves. Everyone was swerving in the halls and giggling so I fit right in. Every elevator ride became an opportunity to make new friends. We were all from different regions, countries, income levels and religions but on this cruise we were all best friends.
Some areas I would like to comment on for your benefit are as follows: 1. The soda card is a bad financial investment. ($50) You cannot have a soda until the bars open at 9am and some of us need our Diet Coke at sunrise. Plus, I could never drink fifty bucks worth. 2. If you have an inside cabin take an indiglo travel clock. The first day I awoke and thought it to be 4pm. I quickly dressed, woke up my daughter and was ready to have a day. It was 4am but we didn't find out until we reached Lido deck. It will be the best sleep you ever get. 3. The digital TV's have a channel that shows the back of the ship that plays classical music. Keep it on all night and then if you wake up you can glance at the TV to see if it's still dark. 4. Do not be afraid of the water slide. I did not even slide. I had to scoot my way down. It is not steep enough. 5. Take a deck of cards, carnival no longer provides them.
The casino is an iffy subject with me. My daughter, being a first-time gambler, got into a bit of a pinch there and I had to have a sit-down with the manager, Jakob. He is a fair and reasonable man but I do question the workings of their system. Don't miss the Beatles show. It will make you cry and laugh. On Lido deck look for Rowena and order the beer by the bucket, it will save you money and stay cold. I met my cabin steward the second day but told him to leave my room to us. I am not the spoiled or pampered type and do not mind cleaning up after myself. I saw where this upset him so I gave him his tip right then. Later, in the elevator, a guests says that if you pay the tip on your sail and sign the help only get a small portion of it. So many of them took it off ($44 per person) and gave it to the workers in cash. It was reported that they only get $28 if you pay with your card.
We went to the dining room the first night, I never went back. It looks like a casino with herpes. The rest of the ship is so classy but this was nauseating. We had informed our agent that we are vegan but nothing was relayed to the dining room. We had white rice and vegetables and then hit the buffet at Horatios. That place is awesome. It is a vegan/vegetarian's dream. One day I did accidently bite into a lamb meatball because it looked like a mushroom. That was pretty gross. I do wish it was all labeled more clearly. This had an Indian name so I thought it would not have meat.
While we were in port at Costa Rica a ship pulled up beside us at lunchtime and the staff quickly closed all of the shades. My daughter said that ship must be better and they don't want us to feel bad. We decided to go out on deck for a look-see. It was a nude ship from Germany and being the immature girls we are we giggled and took pictures.
Now about the ports of call. Panama..Not being able to get a Diet Coke on board in the morning just about cost me my life. I could see the Golden Arches far from where we were advised to go. I asked a cab driver to take me there. He said since he is a Christian he could not take my money for such a short trip. He obviously did not want to bother. So me and my beautiful young daughter (also a Diet Coke addict) set to walking. No one smiles and everyone is in a hurry. There are bullet holes in most buildings and everybody drives like crazy people. We made it to the TropiMac and was served a CocaCola Light. We began to stroll downtown enjoying our sodas and admiring the beautiful school children. Before long we were running for our lives. Some were trying to kill us and others were trying to save us. We were chased through a slaughterhouse which was a scene from a horror movie and the smell made us both sick immediately. Finally, an armed policeman assigned us a bodyguard to escort us back to the mall,a walk of shame, we gave him $10. We met up with a guy there who said he would take us around town. He took us around alright, he wrecked three times and then we found out the car was stolen. Enough Panama to last me awhile. Do shop at the Super99 for sodas to take on board.
Costa Rica...Pouring rain. There is a park across from where you get away from the flea market that awaits you. It has a beautiful pagoda styled gazebo that made for some nice photography. There is an appliance store on every corner and they have magical washing machines. My next one will definitely come from Costa Rica. Belize...oh,Belize. I will go back there very soon because it is there that I left my heart. Being free spirited adventurists we set out walking. After making it through all of the hustlers trying to show you pictures of where they will take you we made our way downtown. There is a Mennonite settlement there and they were oddly placed among the villagers. We bought some weird groceries like D-Fense soap and more CocaCola Light among other things. Then we met up with a young gentlemen who invited us into an old Crown Vic. He showed us the city that he knew and loved. We met his mom, dad and baby girl. We visited people he knew and saw all of the sights. He explained everything about the area down to the altitude (2'ft below sea level). We took such beautiful pictures that are now hanging in my office. We went to the mangroves, the city, the ghetto, everywhere. Our charge for the whole day? $25 even though gas there is $6 a gallon. There were many stray animals roaming about and we were told there is no animal control. Yet as soon as you get off ship a woman tries to get you to contribute to the Humane Society. Our guide's friend laughs and says it is so she can live in Belize. How I wish I could. That night we danced and drank until the wee hours with our shipmates. We sang Karaoke and made up the words. We had a hard time getting the DJ to get off the eighties music. We needed some jam! That whole ship was 80's themed running the same tracks on Lido everyday. Where was Lil Wayne? The morning we were to get off the boat I walked down to A deck and there was a door open, the sun was bright, I walked out. Just like that. No good-byes, no searches, nothing. A taxi immediately pulled up and we were out of there. That airport still smelled gross and one of the male employees was throwing a screaming cursing tantrum in front of DunkinDonuts as security stood by doing nothing. After an agonizing wait for our flight we were finally back home and quickly realized our taxis are rude and expensive. I miss Belize! Less
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Class Full WAITLIST ONLY!
Dates: Monday - Friday, July 17 - 21, 2017
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Dates: Monday - Friday, July 24 - 28, 2017
Work with one motif/idea and discover a multitude of possibilities. Pare down images and reveal their bones. Simplify and think out of the box. Focus on personal expression and mark making; be loose, playful, serious, tight, neat, messy, simple, complex, monochromatic or colorful. Expect to come away with personal rather than technique-based forms of expression. Media will include (but is not limited to) charcoal, fiber reactive dyes, water-soluble media, pastel pencil and textile paint. Techniques covered will include basic screen printing using various removable and permanent stencils, deconstructed screen printing, monoprinting, stitching, fusing, collage and more.
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Dates: Monday - Friday, July 24 - 28, 2017
Students will first make several "striped" panels from different solid color fabrics, then slice and reassemble them to make a quilt. Learn the proper sewing and pressing techniques for perfectly flat pieced quilts and refine your color sense by choosing harmonious new fabrics to add to the ones you've brought. Student will practice improvisational composition and design—working with no sketches or patterns.
Dates: Monday-Tuesday, July 24 - 25, 2017
Come explore different kinds of very thin lines (straight, curved, swoopy, etc.) and learn how to sew them. Experiment with using lines to "draw" shapes and designs, using lines to fracture the surface, and juxtaposing different densities of lines. After you find your favorite style of line work, you'll make an original composition. Studio sessions will also involve group discussion and critiques.
Dates: Wednesday - Friday, July 26 - 28, 2017
Capture your loved ones or favorite subjects in life like imagery using Wen's innovative digital fiber technique with Thermal Fax screen-printing highlights! Easy and so exciting! Create your own painted fabrics for the frame and highlight with your personal thermal fax silk screens. We will create a 5"x7" picture on 12"x14" bars and learn how to mount your new work of art. Some pre-workshop image preparation is required.
Dates: Monday - Tuesday, July 24 - 25, 2017
Expand your vision of a digital print with inkjet printing on fiber and mixed media substrates. The types of substrates that can be created are nearly limitless. Explore the possibilities! This workshop is based on Wen's new book which due out in early 2017 from CT Publishing. A general knowledge of Adobe Photoshop or a similar editing program is advantageous but not necessary. Bringing a printer may be helpful. This workshop focuses on experimentation and construction.
Dates: Wednesday - Friday, July 26 - 28, 2017
A shared classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Tables, design walls, ironing boards and irons are provided. Not suitable for dyeing.Dates: Monday - Tuesday, July 24 - 25, 2017
A shared classroom space is provided for the independent studio. Participants work on individual quilting projects. Tables, design walls, ironing boards and irons are provided. Not suitable for dyeing.
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I found the model #32HL67
I don't see anything like the picture on my set.
If the invert is the problem, is it worth replacing?
It is behind alot of other electronic boards. If I try and get to it, I am going to break something else. I may as well cut my losses.


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You know what, nevermind, someone just talk a mod in to banning me.
There are only 10 or so people left on this site that are worth the air they breath, let alone the paint that they may use.
battle me fuck boy.
You know what, nevermind, someone just talk a mod in to banning me.
There are only 10 or so people left on this site that are worth the air they breath, let alone the paint that they may use.
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hey flawless victory, your entry's coming up as a link like that when someone quotes you is because it's an attachment on here. you gotta upload the flick on another site like facebook or something and then use the link from THAT to post it here
and here's another sketch with a better s for wordsmyth and gyse... that's the way it was supposed to be in the first place, but by the time I posted the black one I had been playing aroud with the letters for a while and was starting to get bored with it so I just went with that one and paid no attention to the S hehe
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Yes, FV brings heat. He consistently pushes out clean, practical handstyles. That's what I look for, something that is clean and can be done on the street. Big ups to Gyse and Stigma, for sure.
I would count FTF's entry. He only missed the poll by a small number of hours.
Fair enough Nouveau... =/
Stigma's S is fuckin' clean...
And Plank,
Lol, wtf!?star halo questionmark underline arrow spermtube.
NP gmv... Nig ups to Gyse and FV
that was a shot at fv´s handie...consistent addons for suuureeee..
Haha. I'll agree with that. He has way too many of those. I was just looking at the letters.
1. Bombing = consistency. even if you didn't have time to read my shit you'd still know it was mine because of how it looked. I could give a fuck less if you liked it.
2. It's been 2 days since I've been on here and haters still have my name in their mouths. Y'all are fuckin' dandruff. Boo hoo, I said Plankton's last hand looked like shit, and it did. This ***** is sitting there butthurt as fuck like a week later still trying to hurt my feelings.
Lol, no worries Flawless, I don't hate your shit, it just sucks.
And that's all good you dissin' Plank's entry. I'm sure Plank was thinkin' the same thing, 'Haters gon hate...'
Wish I'd of kept my mouth shut, really.
After all, you can't fix stupid. =)
what the ^Lol, no worries Flawless, I don't hate your shit, it just sucks.
how about you guys stfu already with this bullshit? beauty is motherfucking subjective!
You're right, you really can't fix stupidity.
I'm glad you're being the bigger man and admitting your flaws.
I really think it's funny that you drop the "lol ur shyt sux" line on me, after I clearly said I don't give a fuck.
I don't make my shit to be pretty, I just want to get up.
I can understand that someone hip hop enough to replace I's with Y's and C's with K's wouldn't understand that.
"Graffiti is and art, yo!"
Today I'm just a lonely man tomorrow I'll be king.
^ lol, del4sel can read
Yeah, we should at least keep this to PMs and/or settle your differences in the Beef thread. Let's either keep voting or change the word.
Nouveau, Phat, my bad. I agree with both of you.
And Flawless, my only flaw has been to run my mouth about your shit. And yah, I own up to it.
But you've got to at least admit the same for dissin' Plank's shit.
Anyways, nuff said. Flawless, I'ma send you a PM.
Otherwise, who won TWEAKS?
I think Phat won with three votes. Pick the word.


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Tuesday, 22 October, 2002, 08:53 GMT 09:53 UK
Kirtley keen for more
Sussex have secured the services of James Kirtley until 2006 after he signed a new four-year deal to stay at Hove.
But he returned to take 50 first-class wickets for the fourth successive season, despite missing six matches due to international calls and a hand injury.
"I definitely think Sussex cricket is heading in the right direction, which is why I am prepared to commit myself to the county for the next four years," said Kirtley.
"Our squad is improving all the time and there's no reason why we should not challenge regularly for honours.
Sussex finished sixth in their first season in County Championship Division One last term.
Pakistani spinner Mushtaq Ahmed was their most recent high-profile signing when he agreed to become the club's second overseas player for 2003.
"Signing Mushtaq Ahmed gives an attack capable of competing with any opponent on any surface," Kirtley added.
"And the strength in depth of our squad has steadily got better."
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Date published: 16 July 2014
A MUM who colluded with two men to tell "a pack of lies" about the death of her seven-week-old son has been jailed for 20 months.
Baby Tomas Gacek died from severe head injuries as medical experts concluded the most probable cause was non-accidental, Preston Crown Court heard.
The youngster was admitted to the Royal Oldham Hospital from his home on Hillside Avenue, Clarksfield, on the late evening of January 25 with multiple bruises all over his body, severe retinal bleeding in both eyes and was said to be pale, unresponsive and having a seizure. He was transferred to Manchester Children's Hospital but was pronounced dead two days later.
Prosecutor Raymond Wigglesworth QC said a consultant paediatrician found the number of bruises — 25 different sites — on Tomas's body were "suggestive of inflicted injuries and were not consistent with accidental injuries to a non-mobile baby."
The post-mortem also showed that Tomas had four fractured ribs said to have been caused in the days before he suffered the fatal head injury.
The court heard that Tomas's mother, Katarzyna Gacek, had been out shopping on January 25 when she returned at lunch to find a cut and bruising around her son's lip.
She was told by live-in landlord Dawid Mokrzanowski that he had fallen asleep and that Tomas must have banged his mouth on the frame of his rocking cradle, the court was told.
Her boyfriend Darren Butterfield, of Ross Avenue, Chadderton, arrived at the house just after 2pm but the jury heard that the baby was not taken to hospital until after 11pm.
Gacek (24), fellow Polish national Mokrzanowski (26) and Butterfield (35) were cleared of causing or allowing the death of a child. Mokrzanowski was also cleared of manslaughter.
All three defendants initially told medics and police that Gacek was alone in the house all day and she accidentally tripped on the stairs, dropped her son and then fell on him.
Each later changed their accounts but the prosecutor in opening the case said the jury was entitled to ask whey they had told "a pack of lies".
Mr Wigglesworth added: "Why did the three defendants agree to lie about what happened to Tomas? Was it because they feared social services coming in asking questions or was there some other motive for shielding the truth from the hospital staff and police?"
Gacek, Mokrzanowski and Butterfield were all jailed for 20 months after they were convicted of perverting the course of justice, said police.
To read the full version of this story see the Chronicle's e-chron digital edition or buy the newspaper.
20 months for the death of a child. Ludicrous. As she now has no family and is not married then, surely, she can be deported at the end of her paltry sentence.
They were all jailed for 20 months for " perverting the course of justice"....but were given nothing for killing the baby......Utterly disgusting verdict!....the world's gone mad, it really has.
Going off what I've read here in the Chron, life in prison would be too good for them. I felt ill reading this story.
dreadful needs locking up for life.
Its hard to read this story. Knowing what happened to that baby is heart breaking.
But what is infuriating is the people who caused that baby boys death got 20 months. They must be thinking phew! The justice system in this country is a joke!
20 months for a baby's life absolute disgrace.
Baby Thomas must have shook and broken his ribs himself, clever little boy.
The justice system stinks!
God bless the little fellow.
Disgraceful drop a piece of paper or a fag in the town centre the full force if the law comes down on you the loss of a young life gets you out before Xmas total disgrace they will serve 5 months each at max included the time in custody be home soon that laws an ass
Why no joint enterprise in this case then they would have all been guilty og murder and justice would have been done
Going off another story in the Chronicle tonight it makes me wonder if some people think that a baby is a ticket to the system that can be thrown away at a later date--20 months sentence is a disgrace considering what the judge said in his summing up and what he actually did.
just to put this story straight...... these 3 people did not get a 20 month prison sentence for the death of a child,they were found guilty of 'perverting the course of justice'.
They were all cleared of all other charges!
Unbelievable there seems to be no justice in this world anymore, its gonna have a knock on effect if things like this continue to happen then i am afraid people will vent their own form of punishment which could lead to catastrophic consequences.
Quite right Stevie b. Joint enterprise why was this not done in this case? A life means nothing. I felt sick reading this. Rob letters from royal mail get 5 years. Really? Joke.
So they all lied and got away with it. 20momths they will be out in 10months hopefully they don't step foot in oldham again.
Errrrrrm, guys.....Genuinely I need help here.... I've read this piece 10 times, over and over. So, did this baby die and was found to have multiple injuries which are NOT from any accident whatsoever?AND the people charged etc lied, which surely means they've something to hide,AS OBVIOUS AS THEIR GUILT IS!Gotta be a page missing ere coz pervert conviction doesn't mek sense AT ALL.What the hell is going on please?seriously,please explain this??
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I have the <spoofmac> tag AFTER the <if> tag... I will switch it around
and see if that works. There are no other tags for those interfaces as I
haven't assigned them any function yet. As of now, all three interfaces
are OPT interfaces. I did notice that the mac you assigned does not have
two characters for each section of the MAC. It is my understanding that
the MAC is 12 characters separated by colons every two.
> Here's a snip from my configuration file for my IP330, which works fine.
> - <opt1>
> <spoofmac>0:a0:8e:a:4c:70</spoofmac>
> <if>fxp2</if>
> <descr>DMZ</descr>
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> Does yours look like that?
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> Subject: [m0n0wall] Nokia Spoofed Mac Addresses
>> Once again, my IP330 is misbehaving. I booted up FreeSBIE and mounted my
>> monowall drive to edit the config.xml for the spoofed MAC addresses
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>> booted up and voila!!!... the MACs are still at FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF I
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>> similar for each of the other two. Why will the changes not 'stick'? I
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LEICESTER defender Sean St Ledger reckons Fernando Torres could learn
something from pal Jermaine Beckford . . . how to score goals.
Chelsea striker Torres has not scored for 26 matches — and more than 24 HOURS
game time.
He hopes to break his duck against City in tomorrow's FA Cup quarter-final.
But Leicester ace Beckford is a man in form, destroying Birmingham on Tuesday
with a stunning double in a 3-1 win.
That took his season tally to 11 and St Ledger reckons Torres should pair up
with Beckford.
The Republic of Ireland star said: "Torres and Beckford would be a great
partnership. I'm sure they'd learn from each other.
"Becks is capable of scoring hat-tricks and his record in the FA Cup is second
to none.
"Torres is not in the best of form at the moment. I did once mark Torres in
the FA Cup when he was at Liverpool and I was at Preston. His movement was
second to none.
"You probably don't see that as a fan watching the football.
"As a defender, you see he is always moving. I'm sure the goals will come,
hopefully not Sunday."
St Ledger hopes to make it double agony for Torres by marking him out of
tomorrow's tie as well as getting the upper hand when the Republic of
Ireland face Spain at Euro 2012 — if Torres is picked.
He said: "That's the thing with strikers, it can become mental. David Nugent
struggled at Portsmouth but since coming here, it's kick-started him.
"It can suddenly click. Torres is still world-class. Maybe he needs a move."
St Ledger is back in favour after a row with boss Nigel Pearson.
He said: "I was set to be loaned out to Ipswich but then we had an injury
crisis. I've played every match since. We get on well now."
St Ledger warmed up for Chelsea in a kickabout with kids at an A-Star event at
the Capital City Academy in north-west London. It was organised by pal and
QPR defender Fitz Hall and Ken Bonsu, with the FA Cup taken along.
Hall was joined by Portsmouth ace Greg Halford, his team-mate Rowan Vine,
Reading star Mikele Leigertwood and Charlton's Bradley Wright-Phillips.
Also there mingling with the kids were Southampton ace Jason Puncheon, QPR's
on-loan Stevenage striker Patrick Agyemang and York City's Andre Bouchard.
Bonsu, who is co-founder of A-Star with Hall, said: "We get hundreds of
children at our monthly events and the players spend their entire afternoon
with them.
"There are a number of teams that are managed by a pro and we hold a
league held over the season. Let me tell you the boys are very competitive
and want to win.
"Also we have dancers and singers – who break up the matches. It's a real
community thing."
St Ledger said: "This is a brilliant event. I've never seen anything like
it – so many children enjoying themselves, either playing football or
danacing and singing. I think Fitzy and the boys who organise this deserve a
lot of credit.
"They put a lot of time into this and to see the children all smiling and
happy is smashing.
"Bringing the FA Cup here today was a big highlight. I've never seen it
myself so was thrilled to hold aloft the trophy – I'd like to do that for
real one day. Who knows, maybe this season.
"But it's all about the kids getting a chance to see it for real – and
the level of excitment as it came into the hall was there for all to see.
The FA Cup is still a magical tournament."
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the community with a serious street ball league for young people. For full
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The average time spent driving a vehicle varies by urbanized area as well. The greater the urban area size, the greater time spent driving. An urban-ized area with a population of less than 200,000 spends an average of 53.0 minutes, whereas an urbanized area of 1 million or more, with rail and subway, the average is 62.4 minutes per automobile. For more information, contact Bryant Gross at (202) 366-5026.
Nonresponse: increasing non-response using telephone interviewing, response bias, identifying non-respondent charac-teristics, and imputation and weighting of responses.
Stated response: methods for using stated response to improve travel demand models, and techniques for deciding when stated response is appropriate for use in transportation surveys.
Survey methods: evaluation of different techniques such as telephone, in-home, and mail-back methods; trip, activity, or time-use recording; length of survey period; and longitudinal versus cross-sectional studies.
Data collection instruments: pretests and pilot tests of instruments, customized instruments for hard-to-reach populations, controlled experiments of instrument design.
New technologies: improvements and modifications to CATI/CAPI, GIS, GPS and multimedia for conducting household travel surveys.
The conference resulted in 24 proposed re-search projects. The proposals will be available in draft copy by June, and conference proceedings are anticipated by December 1995.
New traffic monitoring data formats were needed because of the change in weight and length measurements to metric units. This was also an op-portunity to make other changes at the same time. Accordingly, Transportation Research Board Com-mittee A2B08 on Traffic Monitoring was asked to query State traffic monitoring contacts for their ideas on what should be changed. Based on the results, a draft of new data formats was sent to the States for comment. The draft was revised, and a memorandum was distributed in February, 1994, with the new data formats. Those formats are incor-porated in this edition of the Traffic Monitoring Guide in a new Section 6, which pulls together the traffic data formats into one place.
Other changes include expanding the Station Identification field from three to six characters to conform to the format used by the #1 and #3 Records for ATR data. This allows a State to iden-tify all traffic monitoring stations in a common format. In addition, some terminology changes were also needed because the terms included units of measure. These were replaced by generic terms which don't specify the units. For example, "vehi-cle miles traveled" was replaced by "vehicle distance traveled" and "mileage" as a measure of the length of highways was replaced by "roadway extent." Unless specified otherwise, these quanti-ties are expressed in terms of vehicle kilometers and kilometers, respectively.
For more information contact Ralph Gillmann at (202) 366-5042.
The multi-state pooled fund study S-94-3, enti-tled, National Test Center for Traffic Data Collec-tion and Monitoring Devices, was put on hold pending the completion of this study. It has recently been decided to combine this pooled-fund study with S-95-5, entitled, National Vehicle Detector Test Center. The purpose of the combined pooled-fund project is to establish and operate a user-supported national test center which would provide independent testing of commercially-available devices for traffic monitoring, surveil-lance, and control which detect vehicle presence, speed, classification, or weight.
Based on a meeting of the participating States held May 2-3, 1995, it is hoped that this pooled-fund study will become an AASHTO activity.
For more information, contact Ralph Gillmann at (202) 366-5042.
There were two primary assessment measures used for the pretest evaluation, trips per household figures and response rates. The NPTS data series has usually produced trip per household that are lower than those from regional household travel surveys conducted by MPOs (metropolitan plan-ning organizations). This was the case even after the NPTS data were adjusted to be comparable to the MPO surveys by limiting the sample to urban-ized area residents, and by using only weekday trips. The diary method was included in the pretest for the 1995 NPTS to determine if trip rates would be higher through use of a diary. The pretest results demonstrates that trip rates were higher through using the travel diary. The response rates for the pretest were fairly comparable among all three methods of data collection. Thus the diary method was chosen for the main NPTS survey, which started May 1.
The pretest for the 1995 NPTS was conducted from November 1994 through January 1995. Approximately 2,500 households were interviewed nationwide. The pretest results have proved so informative that the dataset will be cleaned, edited, weighted, documented, and used for further analy-sis. At least three reports are contemplated: an analysis of the customer service questions, a brief overview of travel trends, and a full comparison of the three methods used. The last report is envi-sioned as a tool for others who are conducting household travel surveys.
For more information on the NPTS pretest, contact Carol Harbaugh at (202) 366-0076 or Susan Liss at (202) 366-5060.
The 1995 survey promises to be the most com-prehensive NPTS in the data series, with the inclu-sion of odometer readings on household vehicles, greater detail on household and workplace loca-tion, information on the incidence of working at home and the incidence of occasional transit use. For more information on the 1995 NPTS, contact Carol Harbaugh (202) 366-0076 or Susan Liss, (202) 366-5060.
These three reports can be obtained from the Federal Highway Administration, R&T Report Center, HRD-11, Room A-200, 6300 Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101-2296, or FAX (703) 285-2919. Please include the report title and publication number, the quantity desired, your name, phone number, and mailing address. The reports are as follows:
In Phase I of a recently completed project, an expert system which runs under Windows was pro-duced that assessed anomalies in traffic volume data from both permanent and portable equipment. The expertise of two veteran traffic analysts and data from 12 sites in Colorado were used in design-ing the system. This system was tested against the human experts and found to match their expertise. Overall results confirmed the expected benefits and showed a 35 percent cost savings over pre-vious methods.
Phase II of this project involved expanding the system by bringing in traffic analysts and data from two other States (Kansas and Minnesota). The set of rules that the expert system follows (called the knowledge base) was refined, and the system was modified to allow data input in stand-ard formats (FHWA card 3 format). It was also enhanced with new features including interactive editing and graphics capabilities. Copies of the software are being distributed to the State highway agencies.
For more information, contact Ralph Gillmann at (202) 366-5042.
This update improves on previous editions by including more trend data, more comparisons of international data, new sections on air quality, and information on the proposed National Highway System. To obtain a copy, and/or have your name placed on the mailing list, call (202) 366-0160. If you have any questions regarding the content, please call Mary K. Teets at (202) 366-9211.
The report "Summary of Highway Statistics Customer Services Questionnaire" (PL-95-035) is available by calling the Office of Highway Infor-mation Management at (202) 366-0160. If you have any questions regarding the report, please call Mary K. Teets at (202) 366-9211.