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One could say that the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center (GEHC) takes sustainability to a higher level. Literally.
The $16.6 million center, in Gwinnett County, GA, is growing a green roof that reduces and improves the quality of storm water runoff, mitigates the heat island effect, and provides a natural habitat for insects and other wildlife.
The design of the two-story, 59,000-square-foot facility uses locally and regionally harvested materials and features an array of water- and energy-saving strategies and products. Projected to use 75-percent-less potable water and 35- percent-less energy than a conventional building of the same size, the building is targeted for LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
Opened to the public last October, the center is located on a 233-acre site featuring a creek, constructed wetlands, a forest amphitheater, council rings for small groups, two covered pavilions, granite rock outcroppings, diverse native plant communities, and green space with 10 miles of trails.
"We chose a site with a dry ravine, and the building took its form in part from this site," says John Starr, AIA, project principal-incharge at architect Lord, Aeck & Sargent. "The building spans the ravine, but more important, the ravine became a cascading water feature that draws nonpotable reuse water from the nearby Gwinnett County wastewater treatment facility and uses it to provide air-conditioning. Nonpotable reuse water is also used for irrigation and flushing toilets."
Starr notes that the GEHC architecture is a working study of resource management, incorporating native materials and linking the building into the landscape.
From the outside, Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center may look like a simple, natural facility. Looks can be deceiving. It's packed with technology both outside and in. For example, broadcast cabling allows media trucks to pull up and connect to a box at the service entry, and crews can plug in camera and audio feeds into built-in outlets throughout the building.
The design itself consists of:
Inside, the GEHC blends indoor and outdoor classroom space, exterior landscapes and exhibits, a museum-like collection of permanent and rotating displays, and interactive learning opportunities. The GEHC teaches about the importance of water, and its programs and interactive exhibits - designed for K-12 and adult audiences - explore the impact that water has had on history and everyday lives as well as the water management challenges of the future.
Outside, the native landscaped area features walkways and parking lots that use pervious paving, allowing water to seep into the ground instead of running off into storm drains. Excess storm water flows into vegetated bioswales and constructed miniwetlands to help contain on-site surface runoff.
The facility's green roof reduces and improves the quality of storm water runoff, mitigates the heat island effect, and provides a natural habitat for insects and other wildlife.
Water-saving Strategies
The 40,000-square-foot green roof - one of the largest in the Southeast and the largest sloped green roof installation in the United States - reduces and improves the quality of storm water runoff. The roof is planted with six species of drought-resistant flowering sedum, one of them native to Georgia. The sedum requires minimal maintenance and is watered only during the first year of plant establishment and during extended periods of drought.
Bathrooms use water-conserving, automatically controlled faucets, and toilets flush with clean, nonpotable reuse water from the county's nearby wastewater treatment facility. Men's rooms have waterless urinals. Combined, these sewage conveyance water-saving strategies are projected to save 316,000 gallons of potable water annually.
The nonpotable reuse water also is used for the native landscape's water-efficient drip irrigation system. The reuse water also was used to fill the cascading water feature.
Walkways and parking lots use pervious paving that allows water to seep into the ground instead of running off into storm drains. Excess storm water flows into vegetated bioswales and constructed miniwetlands to help contain on-site surface runoff. These strategies allow water from heavy rainfall to replenish underground aquifers instead of flooding overburdened streams.
Energy-saving Strategies
The building spans a dry ravine that Lord, Aeck & Sargent's design turned into a cascading cooling shoals water feature. The water feature draws clean, nonpotable "reuse water" from the county's nearby wastewater treatment facility. The recirculating water is then used in the building's air-conditioning.
In addition, the building was sited to maintain existing shade from the tree canopy. Roof overhangs shade the south windows in summer, minimizing heat gain inside the building. Tall vertical exterior shade fins on the east and west sides and glass with aluminum horizontal and vertical shading reduce heat buildup and glare. The center's building envelope is well insulated and tightly constructed to prevent heating and cooling loss.
Building ambient lighting is controlled by sensors that measure harvested daylight to maintain an even lighting level. As natural light increases, artificial light decreases.
Clerestory windows provide natural light and relief air for the center's mechanically assisted natural ventilation system, which efficiently conditions the facility during the temperate "shoulder seasons."
The GEHC was developed through a collaboration of the Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners, the Gwinnett County Public School System, the University of Georgia, and the Gwinnett Environmental & Heritage Center Foundation.
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i wish people would quit denying sakura=kushina. kushina and hinata are nothing alike, get over it! besides long hair...oops forgot that one tiny detail, besides that sakura and kushina resemble each other whole heartedly. i mean, they are so similar ****in kishi has kushina's outfit green, like sakura's eyes, and sakura's outfit is partly red, just like kushina's hair and they have the same personalities and attitudes. all we know about kushina is that she saved naruto's life and beat the hell out of some boys (including her own son within seconds) for making fun of her (sounds like sakura there, beating up naruto for making fun of her...which he does constantly in a flirty manner) and i dont even want to fill out all the details on why they are alike
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18.1. The World Was Ready (p. 286)
A. Darwin's Voyage
1. In 1831, at the age of 22, Charles Darwin accepted naturalist position aboard the British naval ship HMS Beagle.
2. HMS Beagle began a five-year voyage around the world; it provided Darwin with many observations. (Fig. 18.1)
3. In general, the pre-Darwinian worldview was different from the post-Darwinian worldview.
(Table 18.1)
a. The pre-Darwinian worldview was determined by deep-seated beliefs held to be intractable truths.
1) The earth is young.
2) Each species was specially created and did not change over time.
3) Variations are imperfections varying from a perfectly adapted creation.
4) Observations are to substantiate the prevailing view.
b. However, Darwin lived during a time of great change in scientific and social realms.
c. As a result, the scientific community was ready for Darwin's hypotheses, which received widespread acceptance.
d. Darwin's ideas contributed greatly to development of a post-Darwinian worldview.
B. Mid-Eighteenth-Century Contributions
1. Carolus Linnaeus and Taxonomy (Fig. 18.2)
a. Taxonomy is the science of classifying organisms; a century before Darwin's trip, taxonomy had been a main concern of biology.
b. Carolus Linnaeus (1707-78) was a Swedish naturalist preeminent in the field of taxonomy:
1) Linnaeus developed the binomial system of nomenclature (a two-part name for each species [e.g., Homo sapiens]).
2) He also developed a system of classification for all known plants.
3) Like other taxonomists of his time, Linnaeus believed in the ideas of
a) special creation---each species had an "ideal" structure and function; and
b) fixity of species---each species had a place in the scala naturae, a sequential ladder of life.
c. Linnaeus thought that classification should describe the fixed features of species and reveal God's divine plan.
d. His later work with hybridization suggested species might change with time.
2. Georges-Louis Leclerc
a. Georges-Louis Leclerc, better known by his title, Count Buffon (1707-88), was a French naturalist.
b. He wrote a 44-volume natural history of all known plants and animals.
c. He also provided evidence of descent with modification, and also speculated on various causative mechanisms.
d. Throughout his writings, he mentioned that the following factors could influence evolutionary change: direct influences of the environment, migration, geographical isolation, overcrowding, and the struggle for existence.
e. Buffon vacillated as to whether or not he believed in evolutionary descent, and professed to believe in special creation and the fixity of species.
3. Erasmus Darwin
a. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was Charles Darwin's grandfather.
b. He was a physician and a naturalist whose writings on both botany and zoology contained many comments that suggested the possibility of common descent.
c. He based his conclusions on
1) changes undergone by animals during development,
2) artificial selection by humans, and
3) the presence of vestigial organs (organs that are believed to have been functional in an ancestor but are reduced and nonfunctional in a descendant).
d. However, Erasmus Darwin offered no mechanism by which evolutionary descent might occur.
C. Late-Eighteenth-Century Contributions
1. Cuvier and Catastrophism
a. George Cuvier (1769-1832), a distinguished French vertebrate zoologist, was the first to use comparative anatomy to develop a system of classifying animals.
b. He founded the science of paleontology, the study of fossils, and suggested that a single fossil bone was all he needed to deduce the entire anatomy of an animal. (Fig. 18.3)
c. To explain the fossil record, Cuvier proposed that a whole series of catastrophes (extinctions) and repopulations from other regions had occurred.
d. However, Cuvier was a also a staunch advocate of special creation and fixity of species, which presented him with a serious problem when geological evidence of a particular region showed a succession of life forms in the earth's strata.
e. Catastrophism is the term applied to Cuvier's explanation of fossil history, the belief held by Cuvier that catastrophic extinctions occurred, after which repopulation of surviving species took place, giving an appearance of change through time.
2. Lamarck's Theory of Evolution
a. Lamarck (1744-1829) was the first biologist to clearly state that descent with modification does occur and that organisms do become adapted to their environments.
b. Lamarck was an invertebrate zoologist and held ideas different from Cuvier.
c. Unfortunately, he relied on commonly held but erroneous beliefs (scala naturae and inheritance of acquired characteristics) to substantiate his beliefs and provide a mechanism for evolutionary change.
1) Inheritance of acquired characteristics was the Lamarckian belief that organisms become adapted to their environment during their lifetime and pass on these adaptations to their offspring. (Fig. 18.4)
2) He believed the increasing complexity of life forms in strata is the result of a natural tendency toward perfection inherent in all living things.
d. Experiments have failed to uphold Lamarck's inheritance of acquired characters; the molecular mechanism of inheritance explains why.
18.2. Darwin Develops a Theory (p. 289)
A. Darwin's Background
1. Darwin was a student of nature and collected insects.
2. His nature was too sensitive to pursue medicine; he attended divinity school at Cambridge.
3. He attended biology and geology lectures and was tutored by the Reverend John Henslow, who also arranged his trip on the HMS Beagle.
B. Geology and Fossils Help Darwin Decide
1. His study of geology and fossils caused him to concur with Lyell that the observed massive geological changes were caused by slow, continuous processes. (Fig. 18.5)
a. In his book Principles of Geology, Charles Lyell presented arguments to support a theory of geological change proposed by James Hutton.
b. In contrast to catastrophists, Hutton proposed that the earth was subject to slow but continuous geological processes (e.g., erosion and uplifting; Fig. 18.5) that occur at a uniform rate.
c. Darwin took Lyell's book on the voyage of the HMS Beagle.
2. Fossil Evidence
a. The coast of Argentina presented many raised beaches.
b. Marine shells occur far inland and at great heights in the Andes.
c. Fossils of huge sloths and armadillolike animals suggested modern forms were descended from extinct forms with change over time.
C. Biogeography Also Helps
1. Biogeography is the study of the geographic distribution of life forms on earth.
2. Darwin's comparison of the animals of South America (Fig. 18.7) and the Galápagos Islands (Figs. 18.8 and 18.9) caused him to conclude that adaptation to the environment can cause diversification, including origin of new species.
3. Patagonian hares replaced rabbits in the South American grasslands.
4. The greater rhea found in the north was replaced by the lesser rhea in the south.
5. The Galápagos Islands
a. These volcanic islands off the coast of South America had fewer types of organisms.
b. The island species varied from the mainland species, and from island-to-island.
c. Each island had a variation of tortoise that correlated with different vegetation.
d. Darwin observes finches
1) Finches on the Galápagos Islands resembled a mainland finch but there were more types.
2) Galápagos finch species varied by nesting site, beak size, and eating habits.
3) One unusual finch used a twig or thorn to pry out insects, a job normally done by a woodpecker.
4) The finches posed questions to Darwin: did they descend from one mainland ancestor, did islands allow isolated populations to evolve independently, and could present-day species have resulted from changes occurring in each isolated population?
D. Natural Selection Provides a Mechanism
1. Once Darwin decided that adaptations develop over time, rather than instantaneously, he began to think about a mechanism by which adaptations might arise.
2. Natural selection was proposed by both Alfred Russel Wallace and Darwin as a driving mechanism of evolution caused by environmental selection of organisms most fit to reproduce, resulting in adaptation.
3. Because the environment is always changing, there is no perfectly adapted organism.
4. Preconditions for natural selection
a. The members of a population have random but heritable variations. (Fig. 18.10)
b. In a population, many more individuals are produced each generation than can survive to reproduce.
c. Some individuals have adaptive characteristics that enable them to survive and reproduce better.
5. Consequences of natural selection
a. An increasing proportion of individuals in succeeding generations have the adaptive characteristics.
b. The result of natural selection is a population adapted to its local environment.
E. Organisms Have Variations
1. In contrast to the previous worldview (Table 18.1), variations are highly significant.
2. Darwin suspected, but did not have today's evidence, that variation is completely random.
3. New variations are as likely to be harmful as helpful.
4. Variations that make adaptation possible are those that are passed on generation to generation.
5. Darwin could not state the cause of variations because genetics was not yet established.
F. Organisms Struggle to Exist
1. Darwin and Wallace both read an essay by Thomas Malthus, a clergyman and socioeconomist.
2. Malthus proposed that human populations outgrow resources and members must compete.
3. Darwin applied this to all organisms; resources were not sufficient for all members to survive.
4. Therefore, there is a constant struggle for existence; only certain members survive and reproduce.
G. Organisms Differ in Fitness
1. Reflecting on all the populations he had observed during his voyage and on how individual members of those populations had varied in size, shape, coloring, and other traits, it occurred to Darwin that some traits could lead to differences in the ability to secure resources.
2. Organisms whose traits enable them to reproduce to a greater degree have a greater fitness.
a. Fitness is a measure of an organism's ability to survive and reproduce.
b. Black rattlesnakes are more likely to survive on lava flows; lighter-colored rattlesnakes are more likely to survive on desert soil.
c. Darwin noted that humans carry out artificial selection with animals (Fig. 18.11) and plants (Fig. 18.12), selecting organisms to reproduce; consequently, desirable traits increase in frequency in subsequent generations.
d. In nature, interactions with the environment determine which members reproduce more.
e. Differential reproduction occurs when more fit organisms reproduce and leave more offspring than the less fit.
H. Organisms Become Adapted
1. An adaptation is a trait that helps an organism be more suited to its environment.
2. Unrelated organisms living in the same environment often display similar characteristics.
3. Because of differential reproduction, adaptive traits increase in each succeeding generation.
I. Darwin Writes a Book
1. After the HMS Beagle returned to England in 1836, Darwin waited over 20 years to publish.
2. During that time, he used the scientific process to test his hypothesis that life forms arose by descent from a common ancestor and that natural selection is a mechanism by which species can change and new species arise.
3. Darwin was forced to publish Origin of Species after reading a similar concept by Alfred Wallace.
18.3. Evidence Accumulates (p. 296)
A. Common Descent
1. The hypothesis of common descent is supported by many lines of evidence.
2. The more varied the evidence, the more certain it becomes.
B. Fossils Tell a Story
1. The fossil record is the history of life recorded by remains from the past.
2. Fossils include skeletons, shells, seeds, insects trapped in amber, imprints of leaves, and tracks of organisms that lived in the distant past; fossils are at least 10,000 years old.
3. The fossil record traces history of life and allows us to study history of particular organisms.
4. Fossil evidence supports the common descent hypothesis; fossils can be linked over time because they reveal a similarity in form, despite observed changes.
5. Transitional forms reveal links between groups: Archaeopteryx is between reptiles and birds (Fig. 18.13); Eustheopteron is an amphibious fish; Seymouria is a reptilelike amphibian; therapsids were mammal-like reptiles.
6. The fossil record allows us to trace the history of the modern-day horse Equus.
a. Earliest fossils show an ancestral Hyracotherium the size of a dog, with cusped low-crowned molars, four toes on each front foot, three on each hind foot--all adaptations for forest living.
b. When forests were replaced by grasslands, the intermediates were selected for durable grinding teeth, speed, etc. with an increase in size and decrease in toes.
c. Living organisms resemble most recent fossils in the line of descent; underlying similarities allow us to trace a line of descent over time.
C. Biogeographical Separations
1. Biogeography is the study of the distribution of plants and animals throughout the world.
2. Distribution of organisms is explained by related forms evolving in one locale and spreading to other accessible areas. (Fig. 18.14)
a. Darwin observed South America had no rabbits; he concluded rabbits originated elsewhere.
b. Biogeography explains why many finch species are on the Galápagos Islands but not mainland.
3. Physical factors, such as the location of continents, determine where a population can spread.
a. Cacti are restricted to North American deserts and euphorbia grow in African deserts.
b. Marsupials arose when South America, Antarctica, and Australia were all joined; Australia separated before placental mammals arose, so only marsupials diversified in Australia.
D. Anatomical Similarities
1. Organisms have anatomical similarities when they are closely related because of common descent, as substantiated by comparative anatomy.
a. Homologous structures in different organisms are inherited from a common ancestor.
b. Vertebrate forelimbs contain the same sets of bones organized in similar ways, despite their dissimilar functions. (Fig. 18.15) [transp. 113]
2. Vestigial structures are remains of a structure that was functional in some ancestor but is no longer functional in the organism in question.
a. Most birds have well-developed wings; some bird species have reduced wings and do not fly.
b. Humans have a tail bone but no tail.
c. Presence of vestigial structures is explained by the common descent hypothesis.
3. Embryological development reveals a unity of plan. (Fig. 18.16)
a. During development, all vertebrates have a notochord and paired pharyngeal pouches.
1) In fishes and amphibian larvae, the pouches become gills.
2) In humans, first pair of pouches becomes a cavity of middle ear and auditory tube; second pair becomes tonsils, while third and fourth pairs become thymus and parathyroid glands.
3) Points 1) and 2) are explained if fishes are ancestral to other vertebrate groups.
E. Biochemical Differences
1. Almost all living organisms use the same basic biochemical molecules, including DNA, ATP, and many identical or nearly identical enzymes.
2. Organisms utilize the same DNA triplet code and the same 20 amino acids in their proteins.
3. Many organisms share same introns and types of repeats, which is remarkable since there is no obvious functional reason why these components need to be so similar.
4. These similarities can be explained by descent from a common ancestor.
5. This is substantiated by analysis of degree of similarity in amino acids for cytochrome c among organisms. (Fig. 18.17) [transp. 114]
F. Because it is supported by so many lines of evidence, evolution is no longer considered a hypothesis.
1. Evolution is one of the great unifying theories of biology.
2. In science, theory is reserved for those conceptual schemes that are supported by a large number of observations or a large amount of experimental evidence and have not been found lacking.


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France Telecom May Sell Sports Channel to ESPN, CEO Says
France Telecom SA may sell its Orange Sport channel to U.S. television network operator ESPN Inc., Chief Executive Officer Stephane Richard said.
ESPN is among possible candidates to buy the channel, along with Societe Television France 1 SA and the Ligue de Football Professionel, the top French soccer league, Richard told reporters on the sidelines of the LeWeb conference in Paris.
"They have shown an interest in entering in discussions with us," Richard said of ESPN. "There's no offer that's been made, but they have expressed an interest."
Richard, who took over as CEO from Didier Lombard in March, has signalled a break with his predecessor's focus on developing branded content at the largest French phone company. France Telecom is currently reviewing options for its Orange Cinema Series TV channel that could lead to its merger with Vivendi SA's Canal Plus unit.
The CEO also said the company is in discussions that could lead to a minority investment in Iraq's Korek Telecom, which he said operates in France Telecom's "zone of interest."
France Telecom's board will discuss the deal in an "informative, not decisive" manner in a meeting today, and no final decision to proceed has been made.
To contact the reporter on this story: Matthew Campbell in Paris at firstname.lastname@example.com.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Vidya Root at email@example.com.


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Israelis to sue Swiss banks for refusing to return money deposited during Holocaust (HA´ARETZ NEWS) By Ofer Aderet 04/27/12)
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Two Israelis are preparing to file a NIS 1 billion lawsuit against the Swiss government and two Swiss banks for allegedly refusing to return money and valuables deposited by their parents shortly before World War II.
The plaintiffs say they intend to file the lawsuit next week in U.S. court, under a U.S. law enabling them to sue foreign states in matters pertaining to the Holocaust.
"We tried to negotiate with the banks and with Switzerland, but they lied to us and cheated us," says M. Katz, one of the plaintiffs. "We now understand they never intended to return the property deposited with them by the Holocaust victims."
Katz - a 59-year-old resident of Modi´in - says he intends to sue the Union Bank of Switzerland, Credit Suisse and the Swiss government for $185 million. He claims the banks have systematically concealed documents related to his mother´s accounts in order to prevent him from getting his money.
Katz´s co-plaintiff, S. (alias), is claiming $130 million, which he says was stolen from him under similar circumstances.
The two claims amount to a total of NIS 1.183 billion.
The lawsuit will be filed by attorney Roland Roth, who specializes in international law and who deals with Holocaust survivors´ property restitution suits.
Katz says his late mother Paulina Grunfeld of Romania deposited $1 million in a branch of the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich in 1938. She then deposited $450,000 in the nearby Credit Suisse branch, where she also deposited gold, Judaica, diamond jewelry and two paintings by Picasso and Monet, which she placed in a safety deposit box, according to Katz. (Katz´s suit does not include the paintings or other valuables in the deposit box. )
In 1948, Grunfeld returned to Zurich and asked to withdraw the money and valuables she had deposited in the two banks, according to her son.
"To her surprise, those crooks threw her out. Told her they don´t know who she is and demanded she prove the money is hers," says Katz.
After immigrating to Israel in 1950, Grunfeld continued trying to get her money and property, but the banks refused to cooperate with her, Katz asserts.
At the end of 1984, while on her deathbed, Grunfeld reportedly told Katz the full story of her lost bank accounts. She gave him a 34-page handwritten booklet in which she had entered, in code, the account numbers, the amounts of money in each account, and the dates and places the accounts were created.
Katz attempted to reclaim the money at the end of the 1990s, when under the famous Swiss Banks Settlement (see box on Page 2 ) the banks allocated $1.25 billion for Holocaust victims who had bank accounts with them. But the banks rejected Katz´s suit. Katz appealed to a higher court and was denied.
One of the judge´s reasons for denying the suit was that the bank accounts could not be traced, partly because the records of many accounts were destroyed by the Swiss banks after World War II.
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The second plaintiff, a 79-year-old Haifa resident who was born to a wealthy Hungarian family, says his family deposited $2.9 million in UBS in Zurich in 1938.
Shortly before his parents were captured and killed by Hungarian fascists, the plaintiff says his mother hung a note around his neck with the handwritten details of the family´s accounts in the Swiss bank.
The plaintiff, who survived the war and immigrated to Israel in 1949, told Haaretz he "kept the note on me until the end of my military service, rolled in a tiny Psalms book."
In 1955 the plaintiff says he went to Zurich with the note. But since he did not have a bank account "they paid me no attention, told me details were missing and they were not willing to deal with it at all," he said.
Twenty years later he tried again. This time the bank agreed to look into the matter, but two days later it reportedly notified the plaintiff that it could not locate the accounts. After the Swiss Banks Settlement was signed, the plaintiff renewed his suit. Again it was rejected after the documents he presented were deemed insufficient.
Credit Suisse responded that the Independent Committee of Eminent Persons - established in 1996 by the World Jewish Restitution Organization, the World Jewish Congress and the Swiss Bankers Association - "conducted a most thorough independent investigation of Swiss banks, including Credit Suisse, to identify Swiss bank accounts that possibly belonged to victims of Nazi persecution."
"ICEP´s investigation has not identified any information at Credit Suisse in relation to the accounts and safe deposit boxes claimed by [S.]," the bank said. "Nonetheless, the U.S. Court ... has extensively reviewed the claims made by him three times, and rejected them each time as unfounded."
UBS also noted that "ICEP´s investigation has not identified any information at UBS in relation to the accounts and safe deposit boxes claimed by the persons representing the claimants."
"UBS has met all its obligations," it says. (© Copyright 2012 Ha´aretz 04/27/12)
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text: Posted by Rafael at Tuesday, July 23, 2013 The day in full pads was a half-a-loaf day for the offense and the defense. The offense, which had an erratic two days in shorts and shirts, continued to work off a basic script which contained several screens and several zone runs. The best news for this group was that the pass protection, which had looked spotty during the 11-on-11 sessions Sunday and Monday, tightened up considerably today. Cowboys QBs had more time to scan the field and work from the pocket. The screen game, which the unit had worked on extensively the first two days, showed improved execution and started to click a bit more. While the team has worked in running back, tight end and flanker screens, the running back screens showed the most promise against a defense which is trying to establish its rush credentials. On the defensive side of the ball, Monte Kiffin's zone philosophy is starting to show promise. A scheme based on denying the deep pass and the big play denied Cowboys quarterbacks deep options all day. The two and three-deep zone coverages work to force check-downs and the back seven did this superbly today. It did not matter whether Tony Romo, Kyle Orton or the other back-ups were at the controls. Passes in the deep zones were eschewed in favor of check downs into the short and intermediate zones. Read the rest: http://www.cowboysnation.com/2013/07/cowboys-camp-day-3-sea-change.html


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Main Street improvement projects popping up all over Allegheny
Communities across the region are taking steps from planting flowers to reshaping their streets with the intent of attracting people and businesses.
The Forest Hills Community Development Corp. has been working for more than a decade to improve the borough's two-block business district along Route 30 by renovating facades, installing new lamp posts and signs, planting new trees and redoing the sidewalks.
Mike Roman said that commitment is one reason he decided to open Roman Bistro 33 on Ardmore Boulevard.
"They're really trying to rejuvenate this area, and that was really instrumental in us deciding to lease this space," he said.
Since 2008, the state Department of Community and Economic Development has approved $4.5 million for Main Street projects, which improve business districts, and for Elm Street projects, which improve residential areas, in Allegheny County.
Forest Hills has its own arborist to advise residents on tree and shrub maintenance and is a designated a Tree City USA. Steve Morus, Forest Hills' manager, said the borough's efforts help everyone.
"I think it shows that we care — that we're interested in encouraging business," he said. "I think it also makes it more attractive to residents."
That comprehensive approach is an important factor in whether a streetscape or other rejuvenation project can work, said Rich Beynon, president of Beynon & Co., a commercial real estate broker based Downtown.
Communities often approach such projects piecemeal because it's hard to find money to implement a more comprehensive renovation of a business district, he said.
"It works best if there is an overall development program in place," Beynon said. "With that said, it is important that something is done rather than nothing."
Ray Vargo, director of the University of Pittsburgh's Small Business Development Center, said the projects are similar to an applicant "dressing for success" before a job interview.
Business owners want to locate in areas where customers feel comfortable, he said.
"They're targeting a certain customer and (asking) would that customer be willing to go to this community," he said.
Raymond Puskar, a commissioner in Stowe, said that's the idea behind the township's revamping of Broadway Street. Phase one of the project installed new lights. As part of phase two, the township is putting out bids to redo the sidewalks and possibly add some landscaping.
"It's going to make things a little bit more visually pleasant," he said.
The township made similar improvements in 1980 that helped boost business, and five new businesses have moved in since it put in the new lighting, he said.
Allegheny County Economic Development is working with Stowe and 10 other communities through its Main Street program to help revitalize their business district, said Bob Hurley, the agency's deputy director.
For the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012, those 11 business districts saw a net gain of 21 businesses, bringing their total number to 914 businesses, he said.
Heidelberg Mayor Ken Lasota said the communities of Heidelberg, Carnegie and Scott hope to see similar results from the Route 50 streetscape project that started construction this year after about eight years of rounding up $2.4 million in federal money and $600,000 in local money.
Each community will use about $1 million to revamp the Route 50 corridor. Heidelberg plans to put an urban rain garden with trees and park benches on the west side of the highway between Second and Fourth streets to make the commercial area look more like a town square, Lasota said.
"It will look like we're more of an urban network rather than a four-lane highway," he said.
Through a TreeVitalize grant from the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Carnegie also planted 40 trees in the business district to both help its appearance and reduce storm runoff, said Bridget VanDorn, a member of the Carnegie Shade Tree Commission.
Beautification projects often serve more than one purpose said Eddie Figas, Millvale's community and economic development director.
With a state grant of about $703,000, the borough is planting more than 800 trees and building two swales to slow down storm water runoff into Girty's Run. Millvale flooded in 2004 and 2007, and reducing the chances of more floods helps businesses and residents, he said.
At the same time, the trees are improving the borough's appearance.
"We look at it also as a boost to our business district, but primarily we've done it for two reasons: beautifying and to relieve any way we can, flooding issues," he said.
Brian Bowling is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-325-4301 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Friesen to receive national award
ALBERT Friesen, a Winnipeg bio-entrepreneur who has arguably done more to create a life-sciences industry in Manitoba than any other individual, is to receive a prestigious national award today at the BIO International Convention in Chicago.
The Industry Leadership Gold Leaf Award is given annually to honour individuals demonstrating exemplary vision and leadership in Canadian biotechnology by BIOTECanada, Canada's national biotechnology industry association.
Friesen serves as president of Genesys Venture Inc. and CEO of Medicure Inc. He is responsible for raising more than $140 million to develop a drug treatment for acute ischemia and ischemic-reperfusion injury. His leadership in the biotech industry has been instrumental in finding and developing several Canadian health-industry companies, including ABI Biotechnology, Novopharm Biotech Inc., Genesys Pharma Inc. and KAM Scientific Inc. and was also the driving force behind several others including Miraculins and Kane Biotech.
Friesen is the recipient of a number of awards, including Distinguished Alumni of the University of Manitoba and the Order of Manitoba.
Boeing to unveil expansion plans
BOEING Canada Winnipeg is unveiling plans for a 150,000-square-foot expansion today.
The Winnipeg plant is the largest composites-manufacturing facility in the country and makes about 1,000 different composite parts and assemblies for a range of Boeing commercial jets, including the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 airplane models.
The company employs more than 1,600 people in more than 730,000 square feet of space in three sites in the city.
The expansion at its Murray Industrial Park plant will consolidate all the aerospace company's Saskatchewan Avenue and Redwood Avenue facilities into one location.
The Winnipeg expansion will also create space for new parts work for Boeing's new 737 MAX, the fourth generation of the 737 that is in development with the first delivery scheduled for 2017.
Upgrades help Rogers' profits improve
TORONTO -- Rogers Communications Inc. says its first-quarter profits grew 15 per cent, helped partly by more subscribers upgrading their smartphones.
The telecommunications and media company reported Monday it earned $414 million for the quarter, up from $360 million a year ago.
On an adjusted basis, earnings were 80 cents per share, beating analyst expectations of 77 cents per share based on a poll by Thomson Reuters. Revenue increased to $3.03 billion from $2.94 billion. Analysts had estimated revenue of $3.06 billion for the period.
Ralph Lauren settles bribes allegations
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Ralph Lauren Corp. settled U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission allegations bribes were paid to Argentine import officials, agreeing to give up more than $700,000 of illicit profits and pay an $882,000 penalty, federal authorities said Monday.
The New York-based apparel company promptly reported the violations from 2005 to 2009 after discovering them in 2010, terminated culpable employees and a third-party agent, and shut down its offices and stores in Argentina, officials said. Lauren won't be prosecuted under agreements for maintaining worldwide risk assessment and training employees about the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which it was accused of violating.
"The NPA in this matter makes clear that we will confer substantial and tangible benefits on companies that respond appropriately to violations and co-operate fully with the SEC," said George Canellos, acting director of its enforcement division. The SEC said bribes of $593,000 were paid over four years through its customs broker to get its products into Argentina without necessary paperwork and avoid inspection of prohibited products. The violations were found when the company adopted measures to improve its worldwide internal controls.
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Description: A visually exciting show that makes the stage rock. These musicians always put on a great performance. Be prepared for lights, lazers, fantastic live music and an ambience that truly brings the holidays home.


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We received several samples from the High West Distillery in Utah and our most recent foray into Beehive State spirits was the Son of Bourye whiskey. What is bourye? May as well ask what is a jackalope, which is an appropriate question because jackalopes are on the label of the bottle.
Bourye, as it turns out, is a blend between a bourbon and a rye whiskey. The original Bourye was a blend of their Double Rye whiskey (a blend of a 2yr old and 16yr old rye rye whiskeys) with a 10yr aged bourbon. The Son of Bourye is a younger and friskier version: a blend of a 5yr bourbon and a 3yr rye. It's a brand new edition where the distiller was trying to improve on the original.
How did the Son of Bourye stack up? To find out we put it through the paces of tasting straight, a dry cocktail, and a sweet-creamy cocktail.
Tasting neat, we were expecting fruity tones because of the youth and got none of it. Dry, dry, dry as the back of a rattlesnake in the desert. Drinking blind, we would've declared this a rye whiskey straight up and probably missed the trace of char on the finish (presumably from the bourbon). Very short finish—swallow it and it's gone. Our tasting was split with some whiskey enthusiasts insisting it should be taken with a dash of water to bring out the brilliance and to others a skilled whiskey but probably one that wants to be mixed. One notable comment rang out: "It's youthful, inexperienced, and immature; it's the teenager fumbling in the backseat—and in retrospect that might get the job done but it's not your best experience."
Well, rye is particular spirit and you can't please everyone.
Some insisted neat and some suggested mixed… so let's mix it. We start with a Sazerac cocktail. This is the greatest of all cocktails and we're very traditional about it: Peychaud's and only Peychaud's, a decent rinse of (and only a rinse) of absinthe in the glass, a fresh lemon twist, a touch of sugar. And, of course, a full two ounces of the Son of Bourye whiskey. Here we thought to really show off that rye and we were not disappointed. On the nose the lemon and anise are gorgeous accented by the dry whiskey. Tasting, the Son of Bourye shines—the rye whiskey, like any rye whiskey should, finishes off the sweet beautifully like the final low chord when the singing violins trail off. Or, less pretentiously, one of us commented, "It reminds me of Mardis Gras: somewhat fun and licentious." The Sazerac is built to show off rye and it does. For the Son of Bourye, it's like Macbeth finding his Lady and making the play—it needed mixing and having found it's mate, it's a beautiful thing.
What about another style? We taste it on the other end of the spectrum with a sweet, creamy drink: the Huntress cocktail. This classic mix calls for bourbon whiskey, cherry liqueur (we used Heering), a little half-and-half with a dash of triple-sec. It has a whiff of cherry/chocolate… the finish of the rye is very subdued (almost subsumed). Here, we thought the bourbon would better serve the drink. But wait, is there whiskey in there? In a lesson to all folks out there: do not slavishly follow direction but follow your palate: we poured in more whiskey since we couldn't find it in the existing cream and cherry stew. That helped a lot. It allowed the cherry and the cream to amplify rather than subdue the whiskey. So we're back to our original position: this is a great mixing whiskey but the whiskey should still be the star rather than the sidekick. It would be an absolute waste to put Son of Bourye in a cocktail designed to hide whiskey… use it where the whiskey is to showcased.
Verdict: we can give an unqualified recommendation as mixing whiskey; sipping on its own will appeal greatly to a group of committed whiskey drinkers but it becomes the life of the party in almost any cocktail. Just like a good singer becomes a great singer with a chorus line, so this whiskey shines in the mixed drink.


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Faculty Art Exhibition features a variety of works
Current McDaniel Art and Art History faculty members display a variety of works in the sixth Biennial Faculty Art Exhibition, Oct. 23-Nov. 9, in the Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall.
For more information and gallery hours, call 410-857-2595. The exhibition is free and open to the public. An opening reception will be held 7-9 p.m. Oct. 23 with an artists' talk starting at 7:30 p.m.
The exhibition is a rare opportunity to see the range and depth of works by select McDaniel faculty members. About the importance of this particular exhibition, associate professor and department chair Gretchen McKay said, "All of the faculty in Art and Art History create art. It's important that the students know this – whether we are art historians or artists – the practice of making art is important to understanding art, from either disciplinary perspective. We also emphasize the importance of work ethic to our Studio Art majors. It is important that we model consistent work in our fields, as our studio artists do on a consistent basis all around the country. This biennial show at McDaniel helps our students see work that our professors have in some cases exhibited all across the country."
Faculty exhibiting include Susan Ruddick Bloom of Westminster, Md.; Walter P. Calahan of Westminster, Md.; Steven Pearson of Westminster, Md.; Susan Scott of Hanover, Pa.; Katya Dovgan Mychajlyshyn of Manchester, Md.; Ken Hankins of Hampstead, Md., and Linda Van Hart of Union Bridge, Md.
Professor Susan Ruddick Bloom and adjunct lecturer Walter P. Calahan are exhibiting photographs in the exhibition. Bloom's photos (Camellia, below) are digitally manipulated.
"I often employ many layers of complexity," she said. "I've been really going to town, so-to-speak, with images I'm manipulating on my iPhone and iPad."
About his work in the exhibition, associate professor Steven Pearson said, "I will be exhibiting some new paintings that explore the way we receive, store and utilize information. These paintings derive from one original source that has been traced and retraced, reorganized and reconfigured through a series of about seven paintings so far."
Associate professor Susan Scott focuses on Asian style watercolors and will showcase hanging scrolls while senior lecturer Katya Dovgan Mychajlyshyn displays portraits and sculpture (Cheryl, below).
Works exhibited by adjunct lecturer Ken Hankins are comprised of methods learned at a clay workshop that he attended over the summer (below). He has begun experimenting with various glazing techniques with his functional high fire stoneware. He said, "I am throwing with more movement in the sides of pots or, as potters say, 'gesture.' I am getting the shapes to have some variety in the surfaces, which also affects the breaking of the glazes. I am trying some new glazes to change my color palette to some more matte colors and, on some of these pots, I am trying a new idea in decorating the handles."
Showcasing several unique pieces of jewelry and sculpture, lecturer Linda Van Hart has been influenced by a variety of sources. "As a botanical portrait artist, Spanish Moss hanging from a Harry Lauder Walking Stick bush in Old Town Savannah inspired experimentation with reticulation in combination with random granulation and forging and a new series of body adornment was born," she remarked. "Each work is one of a kind and includes a variety of Akoya and other pearls in natural tones."
She added, "Another piece, 'Heart Shields,' is a 'cousin' of my 'Heart Armor' series. I filled two milkweed pod silver shapes as a friend told how the love of his life walked out of it and 'Heart Armor' was born. 'Heart Shields,' like any shield used in battle, is a talisman for those overcoming or avoiding tragedy."


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First Pictures of Jessica Alba Since Giving Birth (PHOTOS)
Jessica Alba stepped out with daughter Honor on Friday in Santa Monica to head to a doctor's appointment.
Wearing a long, flowing dress with a blue button up over the top, the new mom looks great for giving birth to daughter Haven less than two weeks ago!
"Flood -sick toddler -newborn -too many ppl n animals living in 3 bedroom =another day in the Warren household #funfun" Jess tweeted earlier Friday.
You can check out Alba in Spy Kids 4, in theaters now!


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How-To: Nicole Richie's Golden Glow
How-To: Nicole Richie's Golden Glow
At the 30th Annual Carousel of Hope Ball last week, Nicole Richie punctuated a flawless, radiant complexion with a shot of black liquid liner. Her look has a rocker edge but still looks pretty and elegant, perfect for holiday cocktails (and as you can see, strategically-placed shimmer looks amazing in pictures).
- Start with a clean, exfoliated, and moisturized face. Apply your favorite foundation with a brush for even coverage, or try an airbrush foundation like Dior DiorSkin AirFlash Spray Foundation.
- Apply a highlighter with a small brush on your cupid's bow, the tops of your cheeks, the inner corners of your eyes, and on your brow bones. Try YSL's new Touche D'Or Golden Touch for the face.
For the rest of the look,
- Apply a rosy blush with a hint of shimmer, like NARS Super Orgasm Blush.
- Line the water line of the eye with a gold pencil (like Revlon Luxurious Color Eyeliner in Antiqued Gold) and the top with a black liquid liner, creating a wing. Follow with lots of black mascara.
- Use an ultra-shiny lip gloss in a pale shade, like Maybelline Shiny-licious Lip Gloss in Coconut Cream, which has a pearly finish.
- With a big, bushy brush, conservatively apply a luminizing face powder like LORAC Perfectly Lit Oil-Free Luminizing Powder on places where the sunlight would hit your face, like the highest point on your chin, cheekbones, nose, and forehead. Test on your arm and be sure to tap the brush to make sure you don't use too much.


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Asset managers who run investments in a wide range of asset classes run the risk of being jack of all trades, master of none, according to Katherine Garrett-Cox, chief executive of Alliance Trust. Multi-assset management is "a tall order", she says.
"With multi-asset, no sooner is one asset class flying than another is falling off a cliff. It is a challenge to do well."
Her recommendation is to find what you are good at and stick to that. "When you have something relatively straightforward, you can really shine and people know what you stand for."
Her comments were in response to a question posed to the panel of which she was a part at the recent Fund Forum conference in Monaco about whether asset managers should launch asset allocation products.
Ms Garrett-Cox suggests the asset allocation part is something distributors should do. "If you add too much as a fund manager, you are not adding to value, you are detracting." She does, however, think managers can make market timing decisions. The Alliance Trust, Britain's biggest investment trust, raised 22.5 per cent cash at its peak last year before the market meltdown, and started to invest again in December, she says. By March, cash was down to 2 per cent.
Investment trusts can provide the sort of money management people want, Ms Garrett-Coc reckons, pointing to a 42-year record of rising dividends.
The question of who should make asset allocation decisions for investors is one that is rarely answered satisfactorily. Fund managers often claim they have to stick to their mandate and can't even make market timing decisions to save investors from losses. Distibutors put packages together, but often stick to manager selection rather than asset class selection. Financial advisers mostly sell products, and it is only wealth managers looking after rich people who add the asset allocation view.
Which part of the industry is best placed to provide this all-important service for investors?


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New Faces Contest Wild Card
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New Faces Contest Wild Card
The Wild Card Round is the round where the runner ups from Round 1 compete for the final two spots in the semi finals.
The New Faces Contest is our annual search for the best undiscovered talent in Colorado. Watch as we start with 100+ comedians and work our way to one grand prize winner in September. The stars of tomorrow get their starts here, competing for cash & prizes in our sizzling summer showcase. Catch a star on the rise, this summer at Comedy Works.


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Cookie Monster Learns To Deal With His Addiction Issues In This Icona Pop Parody
I never really thought about what a straight up cookie addict Cookie Monster is, but I should have seen all the signs. The lack of self control, the binge cookie-eating, the crazy eyes he'd get whenever cookies were in the vicinity. But this parody video of Icona Pop's hit "I Love It" makes it perfectly obvious just how deep into cookie hell Cookie Monster has wandered. It's good that he's learning coping techniques so that can lead a successful and productive life, and we wish Mr. Monster the very best. [YouTube]


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Ooohh look, there's Steven Spielberg...
A red carpet led them into the Savoy. Here's Spielberg and Field. And there's Daniel Day-Lewis
If you had one question to ask actor Daniel Day-Lewis, what would it be? The man who has won two Oscars, who is tipped for his third, and who rarely gives interviews, would take one question from The Irish Times yesterday at the premiere of Lincoln. This is what the slightly scary people from Fox movies told the assembled press in a briefing yesterday afternoon, as we squashed up at the end of the red carpet that ran from the Gresham Hotel through the sleet of O'Connell Street into the Savoy Cinema.
Forty-five minutes, which is how long it took the trio of Hollywood superstars – Day-Lewis, director Steven Spielberg and actor Sally Field – to arrive in the cinema foyer, is a very long time to fret about asking one question.
Premiere and props
"Mr Day-Lewis, how did you persuade Steven Spielberg to come to freezing-cold Dublin in January for the premiere, and to give you props from the movie to auction?"
"Daniel, how much are you hoping the charity auction at the Burlington Hotel later tonight will raise for the Wicklow Hospice?"
"Dan, um, could I have your number, please?"
Some 900 members of the public paid €160 a head to attend the premiere of Lincoln, which also covered a free spin in a double-decker bus to the Burlington Hotel, dinner in the same ballroom as very famous people indeed, and the chance to bid on auction items that included key props from the movie. From 2.30pm onwards, they gathered in their ballgowns and black ties in the bar of the Gresham Hotel, for the 4pm start to the movie. Meanwhile, back at the red carpet, well-known Irish people were starting their walk into the cinema.
Minister for Health James Reilly was laughing quite hard at something. Bono arrived with his wife, Ali Hewson, on his arm. He wasn't laughing. The Edge was wearing his trademark beanie. Chris de Burgh said that he'd be singing later. Rosanna Davison was wearing black lace. Norah Casey arrived with chef Richard Corrigan.
John McColgan, Noel Pearson, Paul McGuinness, Neil Jordan and Ray D'Arcy were among others who strode along the carpet.
When Sally Field, who plays Lincoln's wife, arrived, she was temporarily upstaged when posing for pictures by Shane MacGowan. MacGowan must have got lost while walking from the Gresham, as the filmstars were scheduled to arrive last. He gestured to photographers, doing interesting things with the fingers of his right hand.
President Michael D Higgins, who was there with his wife, Sabina, paused to say that he'd had a chat with Spielberg earlier about the film industry. "He's told me he's recommended Ireland again and again as a location."
Spielberg and Ireland
The absurdly famous Spielberg, when not good-naturedly signing DVDs of Jaws or random pieces of paper thrust at him by starstruck reporters, said he needed "no persuasion" to come to Ireland for the premiere. As for filming in Ireland, "well, it worked out for me", he quipped, referring to winning an Oscar as director of Saving Private Ryan, part of which was shot in Co Wexford.
Finally, Daniel Day-Lewis himself arrived, edging his way towards the very end of the carpet. He was asked what he thought his chances of a third Oscar were. "It doesn't seem important," he said modestly. His shoes were very, very shiny.
It was my turn. His eyes were very, very piercing: "Where do you keep your Oscars?" "I'm afraid I'll have to skirt around that one," was the answer.


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La Roche women's basketball again aiming for NCAA tournament
Six months into her tenure as a first-time head coach, Clairton native Kamela Gissendanner has some advice.
"You're never ready to be a head coach," she said, "until you've been a head coach."
Apparently, Gissendanner was born ready. At least if early success is any indication.
The La Roche College women's team completed its regular season 22-2 and won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference regular-season title with a 17-1 record. The Redhawks will be the No. 1 seed in the AMCC tournament, which begins Tuesday.
All this despite not accepting the position until mid-August. And being only 27 years old. And having a significantly short-handed roster compared to her team's rivals.
"Most teams that are successful, they have a 12- to 15-man roster. We've been doing this with seven or eight girls game in and game out, which is pretty unheard of," Gissendanner said. "So that's why it's been a little difficult for us.
"I'm happy but not satisfied yet. That's how I feel right now. We have a lot to look forward to still."
La Roche's roster size — because of recruiting — was affected by the late coaching change. The Redhawks also have lost players since preseason practice began for a variety of reasons.
But being undermanned hasn't meant being uncompetitive.
"We're very happy with the way this season's gone," said guard/forward Amanda Garland, a Woodland Hills graduate. "It's a lot different from years past when we'd have almost 20 girls, but that's meant in practice we're moving the whole time. And so when it comes to the game, nobody gets tired."
Gissendanner took over the Redhawks program after serving as an assistant at St. Francis (Pa.) from 2009-11. That followed a playing career that included professional stops with the Los Angeles Sparks of the WNBA and pro teams in Norway and Slovakia.
She also was a decorated player in high school and in college at Penn State.
That depth and breadth of experience doesn't always translate into head coaching success. But, in the case of Gissendanner, the early returns suggest otherwise.
"She's a lot of fun," Garland said. "There's a lot of bonding on the team that goes on because of her, and we relate to her well.
"She doesn't accept failure. As the coach, she wants everybody to know she's not going to let up on us. She always expects the best from us."
Gissendanner expects the best out of herself and her program. Take her philosophy on recruiting at the NCAA Division III school: "We want to have good players who are recognized not only regionally but nationally. And that is honestly my goal for the program, year in and year out."
"We're trying to recruit heavily," she said. "We'll have a couple surprise guests on our roster next year whom people will enjoy watching them play."
The Redhawks have that kind of talent already this year, including three players from the Mon Valley. A junior guard/forward, Garland is tied for third in scoring (11.7 points per game) and is second in rebounds (4.8).
Junior forward Jessica Pitts, a West Mifflin graduate and Duquesne native, is second in points (15.2) and the team leader in rebounds (11.0) and assists (5.6). Steel Valley alumnus Leslie McPherson, a junior guard, is second on the team in assists (4.0) and averages 7.7 points per contest.
Add in talents such as junior Casie Cygan and sophomore LaShauna Brothers, and Gissendanner is thinking big in how she wants to cap her inaugural season.
"At La Roche, they're used to being good," Gissendanner said. "So this isn't anything new for them. Obviously the past two years they've gotten to the NCAA tournament.
"Our goal is to make a lot more noise this year once we actually get into the tournament."
Chris Adamski is a freelance writer.


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Shanghai (AFP) Nov 21, 2012
China said Wednesday it would allocate special funds to its rare earths sector to support producers hit by weak prices, but did not give the total amount.
China produces more than 95 percent of the world's rare earths, 17 elements crucial for making a range of hi-tech products.
The country's control over the sought-after resources -- through production caps and export quotas -- has sparked a dispute with major trading partners.
Rare earth miners would receive a subsidy of 1,000 yuan ($160) for every tonne of rare earth oxides they produced, while smelters would get 1,500 yuan ($240) per tonne, China's finance ministry said in a statement.
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Norquist's power high, profile low
By Susan Page, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON President Bush's tax cut finally has
passed, but there's no time for the true believers in this downtown conference
room to celebrate.
Grover Norquist calls on a White House official, who rises
to thank more than 100 conservative activists for their help in passing the
sort of sweeping tax relief this group has been pursuing for years at weekly
strategy sessions known as "the Wednesday Meeting."
But the agenda is full with other issues as well: confirming
conservative judges. Battling curbs on guns. Boosting Republican congressional
hopefuls. And, of course, cutting more taxes.
This nondescript room in an L Street office building is
the incubator for Bush's political strategy, one that puts his conservative
base first and foremost. That strategy has succeeded in winning a tax cut much
bigger than experts once thought possible, but it also helped tip control of
the Senate to the Democrats by pushing moderate Sen. Jim Jeffords from the GOP
And it has put Norquist, 44, at the center of action. Short
and owlish, a master networker and ebullient believer in the therapeutic value
of cutting taxes, Norquist launched the Wednesday Meeting eight years ago to
wage guerrilla warfare against the Clinton administration.
Marshall Wittmann, now with the conservative Hudson Institute,
recalls attending the first meeting as legislative director of the Christian
Coalition. "We were sort of like the Mensheviks after the Russian Revolution,
meeting in Paris cafes," he says.
These days, with Bush in the White House, Norquist just
may be the most influential Washingtonian most people have never heard of.
"Winston Churchill said when Allied troops landed in North
Africa, 'This isn't the end and this isn't the beginning of the end, but it
is the end of the beginning,' " Norquist began the meeting last Wednesday, one
of three invitation-only sessions USA TODAY attended. With the tax cut, Norquist
told his troops, "This is the end of the beginning of the Bush administration,
and I think we've set ourselves up for specific wins in the future."
And Jeffords?
Many analysts say the Vermont senator's defection is a
warning that the administration has paid too much attention to conservatives.
But Norquist argues that White House aides should count their blessings, not
change their strategy. Jeffords was never a reliable vote for Republicans, he
says, yet his party affiliation helped create the "pretense" that the GOP could
be held accountable for actions by a 50-50 Senate.
Now, Norquist vows to step up efforts to dismantle an "immoral"
and "wasteful" government subsidy program: the New England Dairy Compact, which
happens to be a priority for Jeffords' bovine-dependent constituents.
One-stop shopping
Bush has been sending a representative to the Wednesday
Meeting for two years, since before he formally announced his presidential candidacy.
Now a White House aide attends each week. Vice President Cheney sends his own
representative. So do GOP congressional leaders, right-leaning think tanks,
conservative advocacy groups and some like-minded K Street lobbyists.
The meeting has been valuable to the White House because
it is the political equivalent of one-stop shopping. By making a single pitch,
the administration can generate pressure on members of Congress, calls to radio
talk shows and political buzz from dozens of grassroots organizations. It also
enables the White House to hear conservatives vent in private and to
respond before complaints fester.
"It really provides a forum where a lot of people with
ideas and concepts can talk and have an exchange of views and get organized
on various issues," Cheney said in an interview. "It's a very positive influence."
Through the Wednesday Meeting, senior White House officials
got their first heads-up about a brewing conservative revolt over a little-noticed
comment Bush had made during the campaign endorsing mandatory caps on carbon
dioxide emissions. Weeks later, the president drew environmentalists' ire by
reversing himself and rejecting the idea of such limits.
The Wednesday Meeting and Americans for Tax Reform, an
advocacy group Norquist heads, also pushed the tax cut. ATR encouraged state
legislatures to pass resolutions urging members of Congress to back the bill.
The targets were Democratic senators in Republican-leaning states. Among them:
Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, the ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee, who
ended up cutting a deal with Republicans on the tax package, to the dismay of
Democratic leaders.
Every Wednesday morning, Norquist also hammered home a
simple message that helped hold the tax cut coalition together: Support this
year's bill without complaining about its shortcomings and you're more likely
to be accommodated in the tax bills the administration promises to pursue every
year. "If a plane is leaving Casablanca every hour, people are very polite,"
he says. "If there's one more flight before the war starts, the elbows come
out and little old ladies get pushed aside." (With the GOP's loss of the Senate,
however, it may be harder for future tax bills to get off the ground.)
What's more, conservatives generally have held their fire
when the administration has taken steps many would like to blast telling
China it was "very, very sorry" for the U.S. spy plane incident, for instance,
and negotiating an education reform bill with nemesis Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
"It is enormously helpful to have a united Republican Party
and a united center-right coalition behind the president as he moves forward
on his agenda," says Karl Rove, Bush's top strategist, who has known Norquist
since both were active in College Republicans.
Norquist, Rove adds, is "one eclectic and able dude."
Taking The Pledge
First, there was The Pledge.
When he was 14 years old, Norquist says, he thought about
the value of branding the Republican Party with a simple message: No new taxes.
Sixteen years later, as head of a new group called Americans for Tax Reform,
Norquist created the Taxpayer Protection Pledge: "I pledge to the taxpayers
... that I will oppose and vote against any and all efforts to increase taxes."
Now, 210 House members, 37 senators, 1,200 state legislators
and seven governors have signed The Pledge, which is seen by some as powerful
politics and by others as a campaign stunt that ties lawmakers' hands.
Norquist's goals don't stop with taxes.
Tucked under the blotter on his desk is a slender gray
sheet of paper with a dozen or so timelines plotted in his cramped penmanship.
The chart starts with 1980 and extends to 2050.
Norquist starts a timeline when a party or president endorses
a proposal and ends it when the goal is enacted. Welfare reform, for instance,
started in 1980 with Ronald Reagan's endorsement and was completed in 1996 with
Clinton's signature. National missile defense and a free-trade zone through
the Americas are now underway.
What's ahead?
"The idea of moving to a color-blind society, a non-racial
society where you don't ask people what their race is on a Census form
that starts in 2010," Norquist says. Other goals include converting Social Security
and public pension programs into systems of investment accounts under individual
"The purpose is to remind ourselves you can't do 20 things
at once," Norquist says of his timeline chart. "You always overestimate what
you can do by Friday, and you always underestimate what you can do in five years."
His office features a poster of Janis Joplin and a huge
inflatable red ball. He labels a photograph of him holding an AK-47 in Afghanistan
as "Armed Nerd," pointing out the pens neatly lined up in the pocket of his
buttoned-down shirt. His enthusiasms overflow: Over lunch, his eyes well with
tears and he can't continue speaking when he talks about the spread of democracy
to Eastern Europe and elsewhere.
Some conservatives find him, frankly, a little hard to
take although it's a sign of his clout that none will say so on the record.
Others say his willingness to argue Bush's case has drawn him closer to the
center of power but also made it more difficult for him to assess the administration
"A fair question to ask now is: Is this a meeting at which
the conservative movement thinks about how to advance conservative goals, or
is it a meeting at which the Bush administration tells people what to do?" says
Bill Kristol, former chief of staff to Vice President Quayle and now editor
of the conservative Weekly Standard. "The Bush people have done a very
good job of co-opting conservatives."
Even so, Norquist's exuberance has helped bridge divisions
and suspicions within the movement. His session is bigger and broader than a
longstanding Wednesday lunch for conservatives hosted by activist Paul Weyrich.
A leader of a group of gay Republicans regularly attends the Wednesday Meeting,
as does the head of a group of Republicans that supports abortion rights.
Norquist calls it a "leave us alone" coalition, divided
on some individual issues but united by a desire to limit the size and power
of government.
"As long as the Christians don't steal anyone's guns, the
anti-tax activists don't violate anyone's property rights, the property owners
don't interfere with the home-schoolers, the home-schoolers don't want to regulate
the small businessmen and the gun owners agree not to throw condoms at the Christians'
kids, then we can all work together," he says.
And if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, consider
this: At the urging of House Democratic leader Richard Gephardt, a group of
labor leaders, environmentalists, abortion-rights activists and others this
spring began a weekly session chaired by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn. She says
the group was formed to provide "an open exchange of information about a shared
When do they usually meet?
On Wednesdays.


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Naturopathy uses nutrition, herbal medicine, lifestyle coaching and pathology testing to find long lasting solutions to improve your health. Our Naturopaths will discuss your diet, lifestyle, physical and emotional health, giving you practical advice and natural medicines to help you function at your very best. You may find yourself saying "I just don't feel quite right" and need help getting your health back on track. Naturopathy uses testing to not just look for disease, but to measure how well your body is functioning.
Our Naturopaths specialise in energy boosting, stress management, anxiety and depression, digestive health, fertility, allergy and hormone testing, detoxification, weight management, babies and children's health, women's and men's health and healthy eating.Osteopaths
Our Osteopathic doctors are specialists in musculoskeletal medicine. Osteopathy combines techniques similar to physio, chiro and massage, to ensure that your body moves well and remains free from injury. Osteopaths don't just treat the site of pain, but take a holistic approach to assess the cause of pain and restricted movement, giving you long term solutions for a healthy body.
Osteopaths use a broad range of gentle hands-on techniques including soft tissue stretching, deep tactile pressure, and mobilisation or manipulation of joints.
Our acupuncturists are gentle, experienced and effective. Acupuncture stimulates the release natural chemicals that trigger the body's natural healing response. Chinese herbal medicine, dietary therapy, cupping and other treatments may be used alone or in addition to acupuncture. Acupuncture is effective in treating and managing musculoskeletal, neurological, cardiovascular, digestive, immune, respiratory and gynaecological disorders such as period problems, menopause, fertility and pregnancy care.
Our Chiropractor Jodi has 17 years experience working as a Chiropractor in north Brisbane. She works with people of all ages to assist with musculoskeletal pain and enjoys working as a family Chiropractor assisting with pregnancy and post natal care, newborn babies and children as well as elderly patients. Jodi is also trained in Applied Kinesiology, using muscle testing to discover how the nervous system is integrating with dysfunction within the body.
Seeing a Nutritionist will help you to learn which foods best suit your body, busting the myths and fad diets. There are many simple things you can incorporate into your diet to help boost your energy and wellbeing. Food is an enjoyable part of our daily lives and choosing to eat well is the single best health insurance you could ever take out. We'll give you yummy recipes, food plans and easy to follow dietary advice to help good nutrition become part of your daily life. All suggestions are quick and easy to fit in with lifestyle.
After a thorough assessment, our holistic nutritionists will devise an individualised program and treatment plan specifically for you and your needs…that will work.
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The Regex Coach is a graphical application for Linux and Windows which can be used to experiment with (Perl-compatible) regular expressions interactively. It shows whether a regular expression matches a particular target string, and can also show which parts of the target string correspond to captured register groups or to arbitrary parts of the regular expression. It can "walk" through the target string one match at a time and simulate Perl's split and s/// (substitution) operators. It tries to describe the regular expression in plain English. It can show a graphical representation of the regular expression's parse tree. It can single-step through the matching process as performed by the regex engine. Everything happens in "real time" (i.e., as soon as you make a change somewhere in the application all other parts are instantly updated).
tk10 is open source, multi-platform software for configuring the ICOM IC-R10 portable receiver. It lets you read a memory image from the receiver or a file, view and change settings using a graphical interface, and sort memory channels by frequency or by label. Users can import and export memory channel data from CSV files. tk10 can then write the image from the computer back to the radio.
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Codelock is a full PHP/HTML code encryptor. It can protect PHP source for distribution. It encrypts the entire PHP page, and supports PHP combined with HTML and JavaScript. It uses unconventional encryption algorithms, and encrypts each page with a unique key, so no two decryptors are the same.


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It is the goal of the National First Ladies' Library to prompt local and regional residents to search for, discover, loan, locate or donate any items that were or might have been used by either the Saxton or Barber families, Ida Saxton or William McKinley.
The Library is looking for any old family papers, letters, or oral history related to/or from the Saxton family and Ida Saxton McKinley that would help us with our mission of preparing a biography of her life. Most of her adult and all of her public life Mrs. McKinley lived with a disability that has been largely diagnosed as epilepsy consequently she did not often write letters. Other than her signature, any examples of her handwriting – particularly in later years - are rare. There is evidence, however, that she did write some letters, although these were usually short and personal - usually to Canton or regional Ohio friends.
Ultimately, the information gathered will be used for the publication of the first biography of Ida McKinley by Carl Sferrazza Anthony, a historian and board member of the NFLL, and the author of some ten books on First Ladies. His works include biographies of two other Ohio First Ladies, Nellie Taft, and Florence Harding. The book will be published next May, on the centennial of Mrs. McKinley's death.
Research Begins and Intriguing Facts Come to Light!
"We view this project as a puzzle; we'll discover clues of Ida's life and put them together one piece at a time", Mary Regula, NFLL president and Founding Chair.
Recent research has already uncovered several interesting pieces of information. On the former First Lady's record of death, for example, the cause is listed as "brain tumor." This would dovetail with what was the common and scarce medical research on epilepsy that had been done at the time of her death in 1907.
Another discovery recently made is that the current Saxton-McKinley House was NOT the home where the future First Lady was born, on June 8, 1847. According to Mary "Pina" Barber's obituary, Mary was born in a house that sat on a lot adjoining the Saxton-McKinley house, which would place it either next to the house in what is now Rotary Park, or behind the house in what is currently the parking lot. It is very possible that Ida and her sister were born in the same house. However, one of Ida's obituaries from 1907 indicates that Ida was born at 226 Market Avenue South, which according to today's street numbering, puts her place of birth in the block where the Huntington Bank Building is now located.
*If you have any information which you are willing to share please contact either Carl Anthony at email@example.com.


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Who's to say that Alexander Wang won't be right for Balenciaga? Looking again at some Wang items from our 2012 Fall and Winter merchandise, I see Wang's sensibility as austere, warrior-inspired (albeit of the urban street) with clasps and fixtures as prominent design features.
Alexander Wang Tai Doop Kit briefcase, Fall 2012
Balenciaga also relies on buttons, straps, and epaulettes as the ornamental signature on otherwise structured and minimal pieces of clothing.
Putty two-button Balenciaga men's suit and navy, red-striped wool Balenciaga men's sweater, both currently available at INA Men
One stripe, one tuck, one cut-out, one overly strappy, chunky heel – these are the futuristic touches of a Balenciaga number; and Alexander Wang often operates on a similar premise – a single drape, maximized pocket, or a heel too thick – these are the marks of his functional, though casual, uniform.
Patent ankle strap Balenciaga platform, currently available in INA Nolita, and Alexander Wang black men's jacket, INA Chelsea
Though Wang might reinvent an army jacket as a long, olive green drawstring fastened liner-coat, Nicolas Ghesquiere has also been known to have taken a military jacket as a starting point – only finishing as a tailored, high-necked, waist-cinching silver buttoned blazer.
Black wool & crepe Balenciaga coat, currently available in INA Soho, and navy, wool blazer, currently available in INA Nolita
Insofar as I have experienced these labels, neither puts forward the lady-like without a toughened, masculine take. Whether she be made androgynous through Wang's camouflage color palette, hooded and leather accented pieces, or through Ghesquiere's helmets, insect-shelled dresses, and outer-space graphics, the woman is seen as invincible through a hardened edge.
And if you are not a Wang enthusiast, come to INA for the remaining collectable pieces from Ghesquiere's most recent Balenciaga collections, including motorcycle bags in an array of models and colors.


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Over the past two weeks, leaders of the National Rifle Association have embarked on a campaign of extremist rhetoric and wild conspiracies. They have called federal law enforcement agents "jack-booted thugs," referred to President Obama as "Communist-trained," and described a "massive Obama conspiracy" in which the administration plans to push for the repeal of the Second Amendment. The organization has also pushed a radical legislative agenda during that period, calling for a national concealed carry reciprocity bill that law enforcement groups call "dangerous" and pushing for concealed firearms on college campuses.
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Map internationalization
Map internationalization is all about showing maps with place names written in a particular language.
We have translated name tags in the database to support this kind of rendering. See Translation#OpenStreetMap map data and Multilingual names.
Existing maps and current work
- Serving worldwide alternate tile layers requires a lot of resources, but there are some providers:
- openstreetmap.de displays names in German where available.
- Multilingual maps Wikipedia project was project kicking off in 2012 to set up rendering infrastructure for Wikipedia (Demo website: http://mlm.jochentopf.com). Uses tiles hosted on tile.openstreetmap.de:8002.
- mapcreator by skobbler.de is able to display names of places and streets in many different lingual combinations (English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Turkish).
- There are some maps for special languages in specific areas:
- Bilingual map of Thailand (and some parts of neighboring countries)
- openstreetmap.in multilingual map of india + diary describing it
- tile.osm.be shows the names in French, Dutch and German for Belgium map
- defunct projects/maps
OpenIrishMap showing the same areawhich doesn't seem to be working.
Early work
The Frisian language map was probably the first example of OpenStreetMap Map Internationalization (2008) but seems to be broken now. See User:Lambertus#Frisian language map (Fryske kaart)
For his GSoC project Arindam Ghosh mainly worked on Website Internationalization Ideas 2008, but had some other thoughts on map Internationalization. See Talk:GSoC Applications 2008#I18n of OSM pages and map tiles
User:Mikel experimented with rendering place names in arabic
Before it shut down, WMF-DE's toolserver.org used to have a tile server with a separate layer for each Wikipedia language edition. The replacement tileserver on the WMF Tools Labs only supports English and German.
See also
- other Internationalization challenges
- Nomino is an online OSM editor for multilingual place names
Multilingual Country-List
- Offline due to toolserver.org shutdown.


text: Auto Summit Video: GM's big comeback Add to ... The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Mar. 27, 2012 1:07PM EDT Last updated Thursday, Mar. 29, 2012 1:48PM EDT Kevin Williams, the president of General Motors of Canada, details the reasons behind his company's big comeback and explains why the new Cadillac line-up proves they can compete with the best of the best. Watch More Video: Video: Toyota's plans to crack the cheaper hybrid market Video: Mazda, a small company with big ambition Video: Does Hyundai need its own luxury channel? Video: Volkswagen goes fishing in a bigger pond Video: Land Rover's home-run hit Video: Chrysler's hot selling streak First look at the show's best rides Comments Share via email Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on LinkedIn Print More Related to this Story Auto Summit Video: Chrysler's hot selling streak


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Setting Global Standards for Sustainable Biofuels Development
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Environmental standards are vital if the international trade in biofuels was to be allowed to begin on a massive scale. Large-scale production of biofuels in Asia — such as palm oil plantations in Papua New Guinea — could cause serious environmental challenges for the entire planet, starting with the clearance of forested land for plantations. Development should focus on second-hand generation biofuels are produced from the by-products of food crops, such as sugarcane, rather than crops grown purely for bio-fuel production.


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games for nintendo
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Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
Browse all nintendo games in Wii, Wii-U, DS and 3DS. Search is extremely fast and browsing is very seamless. Look for games and check out details about them including game art and game play images.
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Reflexology and Cancer Care Practitioner Diploma Course
Posted by: Lynn Vereenooghe
MSCM Certificate
Type: Part-time
Duration: 4 days
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There is growing evidence to support the use of reflexology in cancer and palliative care especially for relaxation, wellbeing and stress relief. However, the language of reflexology is not easily understood by people with conventional western medical training and this can lead to confusion for all concerned. It is important to understand how reflexology can be adapted and integrated with orthodox medical care to meet the needs of people living with cancer and other life threatening illnesses, especially those receiving palliative care. This course will give you the opportunity to learn and experience adapted reflexology techniques and sets out to provide you with the relevant and appropriate background to providing a safe and effective treatment. It will also dispel the myths that surround the use of Complementary Therapies and Cancer Care.
As a Complementary Practitioner, it is vital to be fully educated and trained before working on anyone who has cancer, particularly with the impending changes in standards and regulations within the industry.
Course fees - £345.00 +vat (includes £50 exam fee)
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I have Backtrack 5 R3 KDE64 and it keeps crashing at the same spot and puts lines across the screen. I have never had problems running backtrack on this machine before so I thought maybe the disk that it is on was scratched up so I re-downloaded it and burned it onto another disk and it is still doing the same thing.
This is what it is doing: (will post vimeo link when it finally finishes uploading -.-)
I tried safe mode too and it shows a bunch of lines of code and then it freezes.
Could it be a driver acting up? The only thing that is different on my computer from when I last used it is the new video card I put in.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
Phenom II x4 B55 3.5GHz
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