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Save the dates! Sign your child up to make new friends, discover new interests, build confidence, and have lots of fun. Campers will playfully explore opera as both creators and performers. Additional details about this enriching performing arts experience to come.
Registration is currently closed. Click here to sign up for a registration reminder e-mail.
Questions? Contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
Date: July 10 to 14, 2017 (five days) Time: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with drop-off beginning at 8:45 a.m. Fee: $310 Extended Care: Monday to Thursday, 3:30 to 5 p.m. $40/week. If you have already signed up, register for extended care here. To register: Little Company is now full! Click here to add your child's name to the waitlist.
Date: July 17 to 21, 2017 (five days) Time: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with drop-off beginning at 8:45 a.m. Fee: $310 Extended Care: Monday to Thursday, 3:30 to 5 p.m. $40/week. If you have already signed up, register for extended care here. To register: Junior Company is now full! Click here to add your child's name to the waitlist.
Date: July 24 to 29, 2017 (six days) Time: Monday to Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fee: $360 Extended Care: Extended care is not available for this age group. To register: Register here! Click here to sign up for a reminder e-mail.
Additional details to come!
What happens if I need to cancel my child's registration? Is there a refund?We realize that plans may change, and therefore we believe we've developed a fair refund policy to provide you some flexibility. If you cancel your child's registration on or before April 30, 2017, you are entitled to a full refund. Any registrations cancelled between May 1, 2017 and June 25, 2017 will be partially refunded (less a 25% administration fee). No refunds will be given after the program registration deadline date of June 26, 2017. Last minute withdrawals supported by a medical note must be made by the business day prior to the program start date for a refund less a 25% administrative fee. No refunds, partial or full, will be accorded to participants who decide to withdraw after the start of the program.
Where does the camp take place? Camp takes place at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, which is located at 145 Queen Street West. The program room entrance is east of the Box Office located on the South East corner of Queen Street West and University Avenue.
For more information on how to get to the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts visit the map and directions page on our website.
When can I drop my child off and pick my child up? On Mondays, campers can be dropped off beginning at 8:30 a.m. For the remainder of the week (Thursday to Friday), campers can be dropped off beginning at 8:45 a.m. The program begins at 9 a.m.
Extended care allows Little and Junior Company campers to be picked up later (additional fee of $40/week). Extended care is supervised by staff and lightly programmed. Campers registered for extended care must be picked up by 5 p.m.
There is no extended care for Senior Company campers.
Is financial assistance available? Yes. Visit coc.ca/Bursaries for information on applying for financial assistance. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 21, 2017.
Can applicants participate in a camp for which they fall outside the age/grade level indicated? All camps are specifically designed to provide the best possible experience for the age groups indicated. No exceptions will be made for applicants who are not available for their age group's camp. This applies to all ages. However, for the Senior Company, youth who are graduating from grade 12 may sign up (in addition to youth entering grades 9 to 12).
Is lunch included? No. Lunch is not provided. Please send your child to camp with a nut-free lunch, snacks, and a refillable water bottle. Though the COC cannot guarantee a nut-free environment, we request that participants refrain from bringing food items that contain nut ingredients (eg. peanut butter sandwiches, peanut oil, etc.) to the program.
What should my child wear to camp? Clothing must be appropriate for active fun! Campers will be involved in drama and movement sessions which require them to have a wide range of movement. Campers will also participate in arts and craft activities. Spills are inevitable and may not wash out completely. Clothing should be chosen accordingly. Please refrain from sending your child to camp in sandals for safety reasons.
My child has an allergy. Who should I inform? A link to a mandatory online health and medical safety form will be sent to the e-mail provided in your registration.
Who teaches at camp? Camp is led by an artistic team including a composer, a drama and movement specialist, a designer, and one or more assistants and volunteers. The Junior Company staff also includes a vocal specialist. The Senior Company staff also includes a vocal specialist and an accompanist. Stay tuned for biographies of the artistic team.
What will my child do in camp? Your child will explore composing, singing, story creation, acting, movement, and the visual arts, while having fun meeting new friends with similar interests. Working with an existing story as a starting point, Little and Junior Company participants will write and compose their own opera with help from professional artist-educators. Senior Company participants will create a story for their opera from scratch. Next they'll choose a role and begin staging and rehearsing their opera, as well as designing and creating costumes, props, and/or a set for their opera. Campers will present a special rehearsal of their creation to family and friends on the last day of camp. Activities are always adjusted according to the abilities and interests of the age group.
My son was so excited to go to camp every day. - Little Company Parent 2015
He asked for an art, music or drama camp and got three-in-one with this camp and a lot more.- Little Company Parent 2016
From our daughter's comments she had tremendous respect for the instructors. She made great friends and loved playing in the park across the street. It was an excellent experience for her to build her appreciation for opera, culture, and coming together with others and working to create a masterpiece.- Junior Company Parent 2015
I loved how the children were encouraged to be creative, and the building of confidence. Children were given an opportunity to learn through play. - Junior Company Parent 2015
The performance was exceptional! I am so impressed by the quality of the production, by the kids' wonderful performance, set design, costumes, music etc. So professional!- Junior Company Parent 2016
My daughter had so much fun!- Junior Company Parent 2016
It inspired my daughter to sing and be creative. - Intermediate Company Parent 2015
It was a terrifically valuable experience for my daughter.- Intermediate Company Parent 2016
The staff provided fabulous support and encouragement for creativity.- Intermediate Company Parent 2016
The opera they created and performed was original, beautiful. - Senior Company Parent 2015
When the participants sang as a group it was breathtaking. - Senior Company Parent 2016
The whole thing was great: level of skill and performance, happy kids, the appreciation by all was really lovely.- Senior Company Parent 2016
It was beautiful and creative. Everyone had a chance to shine.- Senior Company Parent 2016
I had fun singing. - Little Company Participant 2016
You get to make your costume and meet new friends!- Junior Company Participant 2016
It was super fun, exciting, interesting, and educational (about music and putting on an opera).- Junior Company Participant 2016
I like how welcoming it is. I loved writing our own script and learning new skills. - Intermediate Company Participant 2015
I enjoy opera and made many memories and friends.- Intermediate Company Participant 2016
It was so much fun and had so much of what I like to do (sing, act, design and compose songs).- Intermediate Company Participant 2016
I loved meeting like-minded individuals, and composing and performing an aria. It was a really unforgettable experience! - Senior Company Participant 2015
I learned that it's possible to find people of my age who have the same interests as me.- Senior Company Participant 2016
My favourite part was working alongside such great people with such knowledgeable specialists.- Senior Company Participant 2016
I loved singing together and learning new songs! I loved learning techniques to become a better singer.- Senior Company Participant 2016
The camp fostered an amazing positive atmosphere for creating and collaborating.- Senior Company Participant 2016
This camp helped me gain the confidence to move around on stage properly.- Senior Company Participant 2016
I enjoyed the composition most of all because it was really a free canvas where we could use any musical form to express a concept or create an idea. We had total artistic freedom. I also enjoyed the social aspect—talking with other young people who shared my interests. It was nice to have conversations about music theory, or different opera singers. - Senior Company Participant 2016
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Leafs forward Clarke MacArthur expects to be back in the lineup Tuesday against the Tampa Bay Lightning as the team hopes it's spate of bad-luck injuries has come to an end.
"Tuesday's what I'm hoping for," said MacArthur. "You never want guys getting hurt, especially in bunches like this."
MacArthur has missed three games with an undisclosed upper body injury on an injury list that includes Mikhail Grabovski (lower body), Mike Komisarek (broken arm), Matthew Lombardi (arm), James Reimer (head), Colby Armstrong (high ankle sprain) and Mike Brown (undisclosed).
"It was an innocent play where I fell off a faceoff and a guy fell on me," said MacArthur. "It was tough luck. It wasn't even a hard play or a hard hit."
The play happened in the first period against Phoenix last week and started a spate of injuries that continued the next period and the next game.
"Grabovski went out after me. And we're sitting at home watching the Nashville game (on Thursday) and we see Lombardi, and Komisarek (get hurt) and it's like, holy man," said MacArthur. "Guys were going down like crazy."
The Leafs were down seven regulars.
MacArthur will be the first of that bunch to make it back. MacArthur has seen this before.
"My second year pro, I got called up (to Buffalo) in February and I swear, the first game I got called up we had a guy go down for five, six straight games," said MacArthur. "We had like half the American league team up. That's when the Sabres were in first place, and we kept winning.
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DNS. The Domain Name System is a wonderful thing. Most of the brains out there are just not made for numbers. Now, with IPv6 the whole stuff gets even more important. But there is a dark side, as always. The dark side of DNS is DNS-tunneling. With this technique one is able to bypass a firewall completely, ignore proxy servers and give a shit on all your fancy and expensive network security devices.
There are definitely some servers or computers that don't need to be able to lookup every existing domain name in the world. Think about your DMZ for example. Restricting the domains your servers can lookup makes it almost or – depending on your final config – absolutely impossible to build up a DNS tunnel. So I made an example config on how to lock down a BIND server to only allow certain domains to be looked up for some computers, but still let the others lookup all the domains. Of course, this is a minimalistic config you should for sure tune it up a bit to fit your needs, but it may give you an idea on how to configure BIND for your most secured servers.
// The clients in
can only lookup domains known by
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// Of course, must not allow forwarding...
// Instead of forwarding, you can also define your zones directly
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view "limiteddnslookup" {
match-clients { ; };
allow-recursion { ; };
recursion yes;
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forward only;
forwarders { ; };
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zone "exception.org" {
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forwarders { ; };
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view "allothers" {
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Management at Microsoft are hoping to turn hackers into cyber security for the Digital Media giant. The company is offering hackers $250K to develop new security defenses for the organization.
After Google has stated time and time again how secure its Chrome operating system was, we've just got wind that the operating system has been hacked. Now, before you start freakin' out, don't worry, it wasn't some 14 year old.
Suing rival tech companies has now become child's play for big IT companies. Consequently every company is trying to decorate its portfolio with as many patents as it can by buying patents from different companies.
Google, which had recently been sued by Oracle for Java patent infringement in development of Android has also decided to take some precautionary measures.
CA, an IT company which provides software support and solutions to businesses has now moved a step further in providing website monitoring and security services. CA has recently acquired Watchmouse.
Watchmouse is an online service which provides sites, servers and application monitoring services to businesses. However, CA has not disclosed the amount paid for Watchmouse's acquisition. Watchmouse has a large monitoring network of 60 monitoring stations working in more than 40 countries. These monitoring stations are used to conduct regular activities on demand of the consumer.
It doesn't take very long before we hear about a new hack that has occurred and it looks like LulzSec isn't the only one causing mayhem on the Interwebz. According to siliconfilter, Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT was the victim of a "deliberate, premeditated, and targeted attack" on its services.


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Melamine Bowls For Mixing Coloured Buttercream
Decorating By punkinpie Updated 25 Apr 2008 , 3:19pm by punkinpie
Hi Everyone,
I bought a set of melamine bowls at Costco yesterday. They have plastic lids
and I thought they would be great for mixing buttercream and storing it.
The inside of the bowls are white. Do you think that Wilton gel colour will stain them?
I'm considering taking them back and just getting more stainless steel bowls as I don't want a bunch of stained bowls.
A CC expert opinion would greatly help
Maybe they'll get stained with strong colors like red or black
I usually prefer white bowls because I can judge the color most accurately -- I have melamine bowls, but I tend to avoid them for the darker colors, just in case. White ceramic has been my stand-by for all icing coloring.
Here's info. from doityourself.com:
"Melamine is a thermosetting plastic. It is strong, lightweight and hard, but can be scratched or broken or cracked. It resists acids and alkalis, and most food stains but can be stained. It also stands fairly warm temperatures, but absorbs heat and softens if it gets too hot so cannot be used in microwave ovens. It's used for dinnerware, mixing bowls, laminated counter tops, and other items.
Avoid exposure to hot objects, and prolonged exposure to boiling water. Stains may be removed with commercial cleaners made for melamine. Never use scouring powder or any other abrasive.
Plastic (Melamine) Dinnerware Much plastic dinnerware is made of Melamine plastic. This is hard and smooth and keeps its shape well. It could be broken by hard blows. Do NOT use in microwave oven as it absorbs heat and can get hot enough to soften, blister, and crack.
Wash by hand or in dishwasher. Do NOT use scouring powder as it will scratch surface. Remove stains with commercial cleaner made for cleaning Melamine."
Thanks for the replies. I think I'll keep them I love the bright colours on the outside of them. I can always use my stainless ones for the deep coloured icings.


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For those of you trying to make the upload work with IIS on windows XP/2000/XP Media and alike here is a quick todo.
1) Once you have created subdirectories "uploads/" in the same directory wher you code is running use the code from oportocala above and to make absolutely sure sure that the file you are trying to right is written under that folder. ( I recomend printing it using echo $uploadfile; )
2) In windows explorer browse to the upload directory created above and share it. To do that execute the following substeps.
a) Right click the folder click "sharing and security..."
b) Check 'Share this folder on the network'
c) Check 'Allow network users to change my files' ( THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT )
d) click 'ok' or 'apply'
3) you can then go in the IIS to set read and write permissions for it. To do that execute the followin substeps.
a) Open IIS (Start/Controp Panel (classic View)/ Admistrative tools/Internet Information Service
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e) For the security freaks out there, You should also make sure that 'execute permissions:' are set to Script only or lower (DO NOT SET IT TO 'script and executable)'( that is because someone could upload a script to your directory and run it. And, boy, you do not want that to happen).
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Whats an Indians attitude towards America' Its where the devil lives, but please take me there.
Whats a Calcuttans attitude towards Calcutta' Its a great place, but please get me out of here.
Some politicians and proud Calcuttans erupted in anger at Lal Krishna Advanis swipe: Im impressed by the Metro, but not so much by the city.
But one man summed up the average Calcuttans feeling about the Advani-attacked city we know a lot of things are wrong, but dont dare tell us.
Somen Mitra, Congress MLA, said: The city has lost its lustre, aristocracy and national status, but any adverse comment about it does not fail to hurt me.
Usually, its more than just hurt Calcuttans or, at times, the residents of Bengal.
Rajiv Gandhis Its a dying city brought all of Calcutta and most of Bengal so much alive that the then Prime Minister had a mini-mutiny on his hands.
Some people had taken Rajivs words very seriously if unwittingly though. On Calcuttas 300th birthday, the chambers of commerce thought of making the city a gift. And what did they hit upon' A crematorium. That idea was buried when it was pointed out that the dying city had just had a bypass (EM) and all it now needed was a funeral.
The bypass may or may not have been there when Advani had a taste of the traffic not that again! getting stuck in one of the blocked arteries. He had to spend hours while on his way to a party meeting at Chitpur when he was not the red-light-flashing deputy Prime Minister.
If that provoked Tuesdays comment, some Calcuttans are in agreement with him. Painter Paritosh Sen said: Lets face it, the traffic in the city is completely chaotic.
Transport minister Subhas Chakraborty, at least, wasnt about to take Advani on about what is up his street: traffic. He was reminding the deputy PM about the citys distinct sense of culture. Chakraborty is known for his association with Mithun Chakraborty.
Paritosh Sen does not expect Advani to soak in the glory of this culture while driving through cowdung-filled (consult Nobel-winning writer Gunter Grass) Chitpur. How can you expect him to look beyond the squalor and see the citys soul we are all supposedly so proud of'
Calcutta may not wear its soul on its soiled sleeve, what it does wear, though, is Nehrus that, incidentally, was the first calumny city of processions. Dont be surprised if a procession is out on the roads on Thursday and you are stuck, where else but, in the traffic burning Advanis effigy.
To his political opponents, the deputy PM has offered an opportunity. Anil Biswas, CPM state secretary, said: If Advani does not like Calcutta, people here have every right to reject him.
True. When actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently threw British men in the rejects box as bad dates, British men rejected her as unattractive.
Neither was looking at the humorous side. Here, too, its all very serious. As it has always been: when writer Khushwant Singh called the city a heap of something or the other, Grass a pile of something very specific and Singh again made some not very flattering remarks about Tagore that one actually had the entire Bengali diaspora baying for his blood.
It was not funny. And its still not funny, insists actor Victor Banerjee. Calcuttans can never have a sense of humour as long as Advani professes to be a follower of Shyama Prasad Mukerjee, while he sports a terrible version of an Ashutosh Mukherjee moustache.
In short, if you are like that, we are like this only.
Ask chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee. He said: I like Calcutta.


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Dictate the fashion of the day to millions of people – their gaze is riveted only upon you.Your task is to remain being the dictator as long as possible!Determine your approach to each of the 6 factions!Make 1,000 critical decisions!Weave plots and unravel conspiracies!Prevent revolution!
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"Caranna found that a grant from the left-wing Joyce Foundation which is managed by Bloombergs office was insufficient to cover Vaughns salary..."
The Joyce Foundation - see: Undue Influance
Definitely a communist operation with close ties to the Obama administration, and if this indeed has ties to Bloomberg, that is shocking information.
Democrats? Check. State capitol? Check. Murdered body of a blackmailed fellow Democrat Senator's mistress found in a car trunk? Check. Was she shot to death? Nope, strangled; nothing to see here, folks. Move along...
This is what is happening on many levels of local gov't throughout the country. These are the tactics of the left to infiltrate and subvert. It is being subsidized by our own tax dollars.
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Pew turned his fastest lap of the weekend in qualifying
Watkins Glen, NY (30 June 2012) – Leading the North American Endurance Championship presented by VISITFLORIDA.COM and fresh from a strong podium finish of third at Road America last weekend, Michael Shank Racing with Curb/Agajanian will open the Sahlen's 6 Hours of The Glen from the fourth row after John Pew qualified the No. 60 LiveOn.com Ford-Riley eighth on the grid during Saturday's 15-minute GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series qualifying session.
Throughout the weekend's practice sessions, Pew continually improved around the 3.4-mile New York road course and posted a quick time of 1:42.753-seconds during qualifying, his fastest lap of the weekend.
"I hoped for a little higher spot on the grid, but everybody else is really fast too," said Pew, who will start ahead of his main PRO-AM Championship rival as he pursues his third title. "We made progress with the car and with myself as well. That was the fastest lap I've turned this weekend so far. I think we'll have a really good car at the end of the race, and that's what counts."
Both Pew and his Michael Shank Racing co-driver Ozz Negri have been relishing the strong pace that the team as seen so far this year with three podium results already this season. Having stood on the podium on the Glen's "short course," the team will target its first podium in the prestigious event's long Grand Prix layout.
"I'm really happy - this is so much work that John (Pew) puts in and even though it's P8, a lot of the top drivers are in the cars and he still did really, really well," offered team owner Mike Shank. "I'm just really happy for his progression and what he's doing. He deserves it. His qualifying time was almost two seconds faster than his best time in practice. The car is really good, and I think we potentially have a pretty good opportunity here this weekend."
Currently leading the North American Endurance Championship, the Shank team has extra incentive to score a solid result in the historic race as the team looks to extend their lead in NAE Championship, which is a new championship-within-the-championship that features the Rolex 24 At Daytona, Sahlen's Six Hours of the Glen, and Kroger SuperWeekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
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Today, synthetic motor oils are most commonly used to protect advanced vehicle engines, which depend on the superior chemical and shear stability properties of synthetic oil to increase engine longevity. The vast majority of commercial vehicle fleet operators depend on synthetic motor oils in their vehicles because scientific studies have documented that precisely-engineered synthetic oils can improve fuel economy up to 5% or more.
Breakthroughs in additive technology mean that today's synthetic motor oils can offer unparalleled thermal and viscosity stability under even extreme heat, speed and load conditions. Whether used to provide critical protection of sensitive engine parts in extremely cold weather starts, or to allow high-performance engines to safely operate at extreme engine load conditions, today's synthetic motor oils allow vehicle owners to safely drive all-year round via a well lubricated engine.
Compare: The 10 Top Rated Synthetic Motor Oils of 2017
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- 0.1 What is Synthetic Motor Oil?
- 0.2 What are the different types of Synthetic Oil?
- 0.3 Advantages of Using Synthetic Motor Oil
- 0.4 Which Brands are Contenders for the Best Synthetic Oil?
- 0.5 Considerations for Choosing the Right Oil For Your Vehicle
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Taking care of an automobile is a trying task. There are a number of products which must be used to do it adequately, from brake fluid to car vacuums, and more. Perhaps the most important product needed to take care of your car is motor oil. Although there are several different manufacturing processes used for synthesizing synthetic motor oils, all of them begin by using raw ingredients extracted from underground resources. While conventional oils are transported and then refined, synthetic oils are distilled and "cracked" into their component molecules. This process allows impurities to be removed from the crude oil, and today's advanced cutting-edge chemical technologies allow engineers to re-engineer the basic molecules into precision formulas perfectly tailored to modern vehicle engines. Most major manufacturers of synthetic motor oils then carefully work to blend special additives to create the perfect oil to meet the demand of today's high-powered engines.
Top-quality synthetic motor oils are better able to resist more demanding atmospheric conditions, and provide much better protection in cold-weather starts than conventional motor oils. By absorbing heavy metal contaminants and sludge particles, synthetic motor oils prevent and dissolve toxic build-ups in critical engine components.
During and immediately after the global conflict known as World War 2, the exigent needs of the combatant pushed humanity's scientists to new heights. Breakthroughs in chemical science led to the creation of synthetic, and partially synthetic, oils. Offering a bevy of advantages over traditional refined petroleum or natural mineral oils, including greater resistance to extreme temperatures, enhanced protection against ash deposit formations in engine hot spots, and dramatic improvements in horsepower and greater torque on the engine.
By removing heat, heavy metal components and other contaminants from critical engine parts, today's advanced synthetic motor oils protect high-performance vehicle engines from toxic build-ups of sludge and other corrosive elements. By using custom molecular formulas with enhanced high-lubrication esters, synthetic motor oils work to reduce exhaust filter blocking and can dramatically reduce wear and tear on high-performance automobile engines.
What are the different types of Synthetic Oil?
Every major manufacturer of synthetic motor oils use carefully guarded corporate trade secret processes to distill, refine and carefully blend their proprietary formulas. That being said, all synthetic motor oils consist of synthesized petroleum products, including chemically-modified petroleum components, instead of whole crude oil. Generally speaking, synthetic motor oil is composed of far more esters, by weight, than traditional motor oils, dramatically increasing the lubricating power of the oil.
Just as with traditional motor oils, synthetic motor oils are rated by viscosity, an industry metric that describes the oil's change of viscosity with variations in temperature. The Society of Automotive Engineers has established the most commonly-used scale for grading motor oils according to viscosity, using traditional gradings (from low to high viscosity) of: 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 40 and 50. The first four viscosity gradings (0, 5, 10, 15 and 25) are usually suffixed with the letter W to indicate that they are designed to be used in winter and cold climate atmospheric conditions.
Synthetic oils graded at viscosity 20 are divided into blends designed for summer or warm weather use and W20 grade oils that are better suited to cold-start conditions.
Advantages of Using Synthetic Motor Oil
Certainly not every vehicle owner is a certified mechanic and automotive repair expert, but many drivers feel comfortable regularly changing and maintaining the motor oil in their personal vehicle. Commercial garages and oil change businesses often charge expensive fees to drain and replace motor oil in vehicles, and savvy vehicle owners know that they can save money by doing the work themselves at home. As geopolitical events around the globe affect petroleum prices, many vehicle owners know that it is a good idea to have plenty of synthetic motor oil on hand at home to insulate against dramatic price swings or instabilities in planetary demand.
Synthetic motor oil can also be used for a wide variety of other lubrication needs, and is designed to withstand extreme temperature fluctuations with ease.
Which Brands are Contenders for the Best Synthetic Oil?
Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil – The advanced formula of this fully synthetic motor oil from one of the leading makers of engine lubricants is custom engineered to prevent deposits and sludge build-up in automotive engines. Featuring both oxidation and thermal stability, the Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic is a fully synthetic oil that performs excellently even in extremely low temperature winter weather.
Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30 – Using recent breakthroughs in distillation technologies, the Valvoline MaxLife is custom-engineered for high-mileage vehicles, affording older motors unparalleled protection against wear on critical engine parts. Designed especially for high-performance vehicles, Valvoline MaxLife greatly reduces friction and corrosive deposits while working to prevent oil leaks.
Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil – Created with PurePlus Technology, this Pennzoil synthetic motor oil is designed to have low viscosity at lower temperatures, allowing for engines to run as smoothly as possible regardless of weather conditions. Because it protects engines from a loss of power, it is capable of adding an additional 550 miles to your car every year.
Considerations for Choosing the Right Oil For Your Vehicle
- Viscosity – The far most important metric used for choosing the right synthetic motor oil is the viscosity. Lower viscosities are better adapted to cold weather use, while higher viscosities can help improve engine performance in warmer ambient conditions.
- Fuel Economy – The less friction that synthetic motor oils put on the internal pathways of the motor, the greater the performance in fuel economy as the engine has to work less hard to circulate the oil. A good blend of quality synthetic motor oil will lead to significant improvements in fuel economy in today's advanced automotive engines.
- Lubrication & Frictional Properties – The most important role of any synthetic motor oil is to lubricate and reduce friction of the moving parts of an automotive engine. Today's advanced formulas are designed to dramatically reduce friction and provide long-lasting lubrication to critical engine components.
- Special Additives – Many of today's major manufacturers of synthetic motor oils carefully blend proprietary additives to help prevent oil leaks, deposits and sludge build-up in the engine.
Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil – The Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic is rated at 5W-30, meaning it is graded to protect engines at air temperatures as low as -25 Fahrenheit but will achieve a viscosity rating of 30 once the engine has heated up to normal operating temperatures.
Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30 – This fully synthetic motor oil from Valvoline is rated by the Society of Automotive Engineers at 5W-30, giving high-mileage performance vehicles fully lubrication protection all year-round in every atmospheric condition.
Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil – Specially created to thrive in low temperatures, this Pennzoil synthetic motor oil is capable of running smoothly in temperatures as low as -40 degrees. However, it also does a great job of protecting your engine in extreme heat.
Fuel Economy
Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil – This advanced fully synthetic motor oil has been engineered to greatly improve fuel economy by improving the lubrication using a custom formula.
Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30 – While the engineers at Valvoline carefully synthesized and blended the Maxlife 5W-30 to improve engine longevity, that same feature also helps reduce the load on the vehicle's motor, thus helping to improve fuel economy.
Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil – Because of its ability to protect engines from the loss of power, this Pennzoil synthetic motor oil is capable of providing your automobile with as many as 550 additional miles each year.
Lubrication & Frictional Properties
Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil – The engineers at Mobile designed the 5W-30 Synthetic to protect engines against wear performance for many driving styles. Breakthroughs in chemical technology allow Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic to deliver maximum protection during the life cycle of the manufacturer's oil change interval.
Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30 – Using an advanced technological process, Valvoline MaxLife is carefully synthesized to provide maximum protection to high-performance automotive engines. The fully synthetic formula of Valvoline MaxLife protects car engines against oil burn-off and the build-up of sludge and corrosive deposits.
Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil – Extremely sophisticated distillation and engineering of petroleum products blended with advanced formulas gives Pennzoil Ultra Platinum outstanding viscosity during even extreme operating temperature conditions.
Special Additives
Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil – Every drop of Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic has been custom blended with advanced proprietary additives to provide ultra-fast protection to sensitive motor parts during cold weather starts and greatly reduce engine sludge and deposit build-up.
Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30 – This technically superior synthetic motor oil is carefully blended with special additives to reduce engine deposits while preventing oil leaks and burn-off in high-mileage vehicles.
Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil – Pennzoil Ultra Platinum includes a proprietary blend of advanced additives that bond to dangerous contaminants and absorb them safely before they can wreak deadly damage on critical engine components. It has been carefully formulated to provide maximum lubrication protection under low temperatures, high temperatures, high speed and intense load conditions.
Conclusion: Our Synthetic Motor Oil Reviews Are In
Best Low-Cost Option: Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic Motor Oil
This outstanding all-weather fully synthetic oil from one of the renowned names in engine lubrication manufacturing, the Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic delivers outstanding performance at all temperatures and is custom designed to improve engine durability and fuel economy. Carefully distilled and synthesized, the Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic features unparalleled thermal and oxidation stability, allowing the oil to deliver maximum lubrication throughout the entire oil change interval of the vehicle.
- The Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic provides great protection when used in super cold conditions
- It provides the same performance on the first and last day of your vehicle's recommended oil change interval period, meaning you never have to worry about it breaking down and damaging sensitive engine parts
- It also works excellently in cold weather
- The Mobil 1 5W-30 Synthetic is designed for most personal automobiles on the market today, however it is not adequate to meet the demands of high-performance racing motors or aviation engines
Best for the Money: Valvoline MaxLife SAE 5W-30
The advanced formula of Valvoline MaxLife truly earns its name, as it provides unparalleled protection against friction damage to critical engine components on high-mileage vehicles. Using a proprietary blend of special additives, Valvoline MaxLife is designed to prevent and remove corrosive build-ups that can lead to dangerous oil burn-off or leaks. Savvy owners of high-performance vehicles depend on Valvoline MaxLife to greatly extend the longevity and enhance performance while providing full protection against low-temperature atmospheric conditions and cold-weather starts.
- Truly a superior synthetic motor oil for vehicles with more miles on the odometer, it works great to prevent burn-off and leaks, and never quits even on cold starts in winter
- Reduces fuel consumption and improves fuel economy on high-performance automotive motors thanks to its unique proprietary blend of additives and carefully-synthesized esters and emollients
- Some vehicle owners may see reduced performance and lubrication protection if they fail to remove and replace Valvoline MaxLife at the recommended vehicle manufacturer's oil change interval
Best Overall: Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil
Mechanics and automotive experts recognize Pennzoil Ultra Platinum for its unmatched ability to provide critical lubrication to advanced motors under even the most demanding operating conditions and temperatures. By taking advantages of distillation and synthesis technologies, it delivers outstanding oil stability and endurance while protecting high-performance engines from corrosive build-ups of sludge and contaminants.
- Due to its ability to protect high-performing engines in all weather conditions, this synthetic motor oil is capable of providing you with an additional 550 miles of operation every year
- This is a benefit that separates it from every other motor oil on the market
- This oil has no major cons to speak of
In Conclusion
Every vehicle owner knows the important role that a high-quality synthetic motor oil can play in improving the performance and increasing the longevity of today's advanced engines. By carefully synthesizing custom-engineered petroleum molecules and blending them with advanced additives, today's fully synthetic motor oils can provide outstanding protection against corrosive build-ups of sludge and other toxic deposits inside critical engine parts. Today's major manufacturers of synthetic oils use scientific breakthroughs to create custom formulas capable of providing unparalleled lubrication protection under even the most extreme engine operating conditions.
While many motor oils are suitable for higher-mileage vehicles or older-model engines, only Pennzoil 550038331-3PK Ultra Platinum 10W-30 Full Synthetic Motor Oil has been specially synthesized and blended to protect critical engine parts in all weather conditions to the extent at which it does. Designed to remove and absorb damaging contaminants before they can form toxic build-ups in high-performance motors, this synthetic oil will perform flawlessly under even the most extreme speed, load, heat, and cold conditions.
Proven to provide long-lasting protection for critical engine components, Pennzoil's product works to improve fuel economy by using a specially-designed formula to prevent viscosity and thermal breakdown. Without a doubt, this offering from Pennzoil is the finest completely synthetic motor oil on the market today.


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We have a number of current and ongoing projects, ranging from game design for learning to critical projects regarding the role of play and leisure in education. Here are just a few:
Affinity Spaces and STEM
We recently held a 2-day meeting in Madison, WI, funded by the National Science Foundation, to bring together researchers of online spaces and informal STEM learning to develop a research agenda for the future. Given the commitment to institutional, "informal" learning in the STEM space (museums, libraries, science centers, aquaria), how can we connect these with informal, interest-driven, and ad hoc communities that form online around interests? We are in the process of developing a white paper on this, and seeking additional funding for future projects in this vein. Students Joey Huang and Lucas Cook were involved in the two-day meeting.
Tinkering With Games
We were funded under a School of Education grant to utilize the Make, Innovate, Learning Lab (MILL) space toward understanding how learners play and tinker with games. We are focused in this project on physical, tangible games (so, board games, role-playing games, card games), albeit using digital tools to help facilitate the design of them. We are aiming to run a one-day game jam in the MILL in March of 2016. Students Joey Huang, Chris Georgen, and Lucas Cook are all involved with this project.
Narrative, Play, and Activity
We recently wrapped up a one-year study of "story games," or rules-light role-playing games, funded by a School of Education Proffitt grant. This was exploratory study of how pre-service teachers (among others) engage with the rules of these games, which involve identity play, collaboration, and narrative construction. Preliminary findings indicated that pre-service teachers engaged fully in the games, but when asked to reflect on the designing instructional environments with these games, found themselves reducing the games to "bait" for traditional instructional methods. This unexpected gap between play activity and instructional design is intriguing, and we are exploring this result further. Students Chris Georgen and Lucas Cook have been involved with this project.
Competition, Games, and Learning
We are in the process of exploring how competition plays a role within gaming communities, looking at both tabletop games (e.g., competitive card games), digital games (e.g., massively online battle area games such as Dota 2), and critical play communities (e.g., "speedrunning" communities). We are interested in the ways that players negotiate both the designed elements of the games as well as the social communities around them when learning to play, as well as how instructional scaffolds are developed by community members. Student Lucas Cook has been involved with this project.
Beyond Simplistic Gamification
In previous work, we explored digital badges in online affinity spaces (Reddit, StackOverflow, and gaming forums). Currently, we're exploring this from a design perspective — rethinking an online course on games and learning to include digital "badges" that have consequence within a game-like instructional environment. Sensitive to the problems with "gamification," we are seeking to make game-like spaces within non-gaming instructional environments, not to increase motivation or engagement necessarily, but to provide students with meaningful choices and opportunities for students to craft their own individual paths for learning. Student Chris Georgen has been involved in the design.


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James C. Pribyl provides state and federal public policy management, government relations and political strategy consulting services, specializing in communications, technology and natural resource policy.
Pribyl was the top government affairs executive at Level 3 Communications which operates the world's largest internet backbone network, connecting 60 countries around the world. Previously, he worked in state and federal public policy management in the communications industry for more than 35 years. Pribyl also served in staff positions for two U. S. Senators and a Governor. He has served on the Colorado State Parks Board, and as Colorado Parks and Wildlife representative to GOCO, the Greater Outdoor Trust Fund Board.
Pribyl is an avid skier, hiker and, as time and talent allows, angler and camper.
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John V. Howard, Jr., is an avid hunter of big game, small game, and waterfowl as well as a fisherman in Colorado's streams and lakes. He and his family frequently visit parks and open space hiking, climbing, and skiing throughout Colorado and the West. Howard has a keen interest in engaging youth in the outdoors and conservation with a particular emphasis on youth populations not traditionally part of the conservation community.
Howard currently serves on two boards in addition to the Commission: the Advisory Board for the Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington & Lee University and the Advisory Board to Look Cinemas, LLC. He began his efforts in conservation volunteering with the National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Resources Defense Council while at the University of Colorado School of Law and continued with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Student Conservation Association, and the Nature Conservancy.
During his professional life Howard has served as the Chief Legal Officer of two public multinational manufacturers, as well as the general manager of subsidiaries in Boulder, the United Kingdom, and France. In recent years Howard has focused on recapitalizing and revitalizing organizations suffering from crisis, the effects of economic turmoil, and market change.
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Michelle Zimmerman is active in natural resource conservation, renewable energy (solar PV) expansion, and business planning and development. She works specifically on the sustainability of open spaces and trails, conservation of public lands and wildlife, and applications for balancing the use of and demands on our lands in the West with the need for their protection.
Michelle is currently a Program Manager for Social Innovation projects with Hitachi Insight Group. Michelle's career has focused on responsible solar energy development for nine years and she spent eight years in land conservation as the executive director of both the Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project and the Rincon Institute as well as served on the Colorado Division of Wildlife Habitat Stamp Committee.
She has served on a number of conservation-focused non profit boards and is the Commission liaison for the Colorado Natural Areas Program. Michelle loves spending time in wild and open spaces, mountain bike racing, snow skiing, backpacking, hunting, and participating in community events and activities.
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Robert William Bray is the owner and operator of Bray Ranches, a 20,000-acre working cattle and sheep ranch in the San Juan mountains that is managed for wildlife habitat and hunting for deer, elk and black bear. He is also a former director of CoBank, a national cooperative bank that provides financial services to agribusiness and rural power and water providers. He also served on the Farm Credit Board of Directors for 25 years.
A Colorado native, Bray graduated from Colorado State University and worked as a banker before returning to run the family ranch in 1979.
Bray is also a member of the Colorado Cattlemens' Association, the Colorado Farm Bureau, Colorado Woolgrowers, the Colorado Outfitters Association and the San Miguel Sage Grouse Working Group. He previously served on several Division of Wildlife committees and was a Wildlife Commissioner from 2005 to 2009.
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Jeanne Horne is the owner and manager of J Bar H Outfitters LLC in Meeker, a family-owned big game and fishing outfitting business which she started in 1998. Her outfit is an authorized permittee in the Routt and White River national forests. Prior to starting her outfitting career, Horne worked in the real estate development field for 18 years, primarily in the Vail Valley.
Horne is a past Board member of the Colorado Outfitters Association and the 2012 honoree as Colorado's Outfitter of the Year. She maintains memberships in the Colorado Outfitter's Association, Colorado Bowhunter's Association, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Safari Club International and Big Game Forever.
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Dale Pizel brings a strong background in recreation, tourism, water, land use, agriculture and real estate to the Commission. Dale is the owner/agent of Broken Arrow Land Co. and the manager of the Rio Oxbow Ranch near Creede, CO. He has won awards for his grazing practices on the ranch, helped implement two conservation easements with the Rio Grande Head Waters Land Trust and supervised the installation of many river projects along 6 miles of the Rio Grande. Dale was the founder and a former board member of the 1st National Bank of Creede, former board member of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District and Mineral County Planning and Zoning.
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James "Jim" Vigil is a Colorado native and former Las Animas County Commissioner who runs his family's farm on the Purgatoire River. Vigil served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the late 1960s before obtaining a Bachelors degree from Metropolitan State College in Denver and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Denver.
Vigil pursued a career as a financial analyst in the mineral development and banking industries. He has also served on the faculty and in the administration of Trinidad State Junior College.
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Dean Wingfield is active in a cow-calf and dry land farming operation along the eastern border of Colorado. Dean lives on and manages the land his Grandfather originally homesteaded in 1886. He has served as Yuma County Commissioner since 1997. Prior to that time he served as a director of the local Soil Conservation District, Water Management District and Cattlemen's Assn.
Dean currently serves as a director of Eastern Colorado Services for Developmentally Disabled and Northeast Transit Authority. Current memberships include Farmer's Union, Colorado Cattlemen's, Elks, R-Calf, and Progressive 15.
Wingfield plants annual food plots and establishes wildlife habitats on his property. He allows free access to the several thousand acres he manages for deer, antelope, and deer hunting.
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An avid outdoor enthusiast, Alexander "Alex" Zipp is the owner and manager of The Drift Fly Shop in Pueblo, CO. Alex traces his strong appreciation for the outdoors to his childhood when his grandfather taught him to fish and his uncles taught him to hunt. This passion for the outdoors is an important part of Alex's personal and professional life. Ensuring outdoor recreation remains vital for future generations is evidenced by his interactions with local and visiting sportsman and membership in Trout Unlimited, the Pueblo nature and raptor Center and the Sierra Club. Zipp attended the University of Colorado where he earned a degree in Business Administration.
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Don Brown, a third-generation farmer in Yuma County, has run several successful businesses while spending most of his career managing and growing his family's extensive farm operations. He has also been active in water conservation, energy development and technology innovation issues within the industry.
Don and his wife, Peggy, have three children who continue to call Colorado home. The Brown family farm was homesteaded in 1911 and has been designated as a Centennial Farm. Don's parents, Cleo and Jennie, were pioneers in pivot irrigation in Yuma County. Don continues that pioneering spirit today through his study of the Ogallala Aquifer and holds two U.S. patents for his fence post systems.
As commissioner, Brown will lead the department's daily operations, direct its 300 employees, and oversee the agency's seven divisions: Animal Health; Brand Inspection; Colorado State Fair; Conservation Services; Inspection and Consumer Services; Markets; and Plant Industry.
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As Executive Director, Bob Randall leads the development and execution of the Department's initiatives for balanced management of the state's natural resources. Bob previously served the Department as Deputy Director, as Assistant Director for Energy and Minerals and, prior to that, as Federal Lands Coordinator.
Prior to joining DNR, Bob was a staff attorney for Western Resource Advocates, a Colorado-based law and policy organization. Before moving to Colorado in 2004, Bob spent seven years as a staff attorney for Trustees for Alaska, a public interest environmental law firm in Anchorage, Alaska. Bob's work in both of these posts focused on natural resources, particularly with regard to energy development, public lands management, and mining.
Bob has lectured on energy issues at conferences and symposia, and he has published papers on federal lands management, oil and gas law, and oil shale policy. Bob holds a law degree from Lewis and Clark College's Northwestern School of Law in Portland, Oregon, and a journalism degree from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
Ex-Officio/Non-Voting Member Denver, CO
Bob Broscheid is an avid outdoorsman who loves Colorado and its abundant natural and recreational resources. Broscheid took the helm at Colorado Parks and Wildlife in December 2013.
He holds a bachelor's degree in Wildlife Management from Arizona State University and is a graduate of the National Conservation Leadership Institute. Prior to becoming Director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Broscheid was a biologist, Habitat Branch Chief and Deputy Director of the Arizona Game and Fish Department.
He enjoys hunting, fishing, backpacking, mountain biking and golf. Most weekends, Bob and his wife Dana are having fun discovering all of Colorado's outdoor opportunities.
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Born in Valencia in the summer of 1991. This young dj Valencia began his career in late 2010 coming in as head of the seal Valencia CHOLA RECORDS (Canary Islands) and also entering into the collective membership Sinestesia (March 2011). Victor decided to opt out of the collective to start a new project with Dani Bosco (ITALY) called THE SMILERS, which currently is running. Currently the club are residents of central Mogambo (Valencia). Victor begins in 2012 initiated a major project of his life. The desire and effort every day to meet the professionalism of a world class dj as Carlos Moreno. WIRELESS MARIONETTES seal is created With the support of DJs and producers on the international scene.


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1 - So if a guy is having a hard time finding someone, or maybe they are just lonely at that moment. Will they be desperate enough to reach out to girls and tell them how they love them and miss them and haven't been able to stop thinking about them?
2 - Will certain guys just pursue a girl who tells them they aren't interested in them just to try to conquer a challenge or because they really care and miss them?


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The players that use steroids, knew that they would have to face hard truths, that there ability was eroding and that they would no longer be able to play the game of baseball with the ability that they once had. So they turned to steroids, in hopes that it would resurrect the ability that they once had when they wore a younger mans clothes. Perhaps some of them never really had the talent to play so they turned to the only thing they could find to help them achieve the ability to play at the major league level.
Kenesaw Mountain landess said "Every boy builds a shrine to some baseball hero and before that shrine a candle always burns." Maybe this is why players chose drugs because they were afraid they would no longer have hero status and the shrine would crumble and the candle would burn out.
Few are willing to brave the disapproval of the fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the raft of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity then bravery in battle. For the fortunate among us there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so lavishly spread among us.
All of us will ultimately be judged and, as the years pass they will surely judge themselves on the effort they have made and contributed. So it is them that have to sleep with themselves knowing that they have cheated themselves and the fan.
I was fortunate enough to have visited the hall of fame and it was to me the single greatest place I have ever visited. In the hall there are the plaques of those who played the game with honesty and integrity, many of who didn't sign million dollar contracts. Men who had jobs in the off-season. Those who played the game because they loved it.
It is a child's game and for those that are fortunate enough to play it beyond their childhood years should realize when the time has come to put away your cleats and mitt. They should go with their heads held high for they were able to do what very few are ever given the opportunity to do and that is to play a child's game and get paid for it. It is sad when something comes to an end and it is something that we all must face in one way or another.
I just hope that the use of steroids in professional sports of any kind is behind us and that professional athletes realize that there are boys and girls building shrines and lighting candles for them. I hope they realize that they are role models (like it or not) so when the children see their heroes using performance enhancing drugs it gives them the idea that it is right. I guess we will always be left with that haunting error in professional baseball and professional sports of all kinds. I just hope that it will be corrected and those who make it to the hall of fame will be like those that paved the way before them where they played the game with the ability that God gave them and play it with only that. Baseball will survive after all it is the great American pass time and this fan will continue to watch and continue to have my heroes and build my shrines and occasionally light a candle.


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Data-Admin is two separate components. The first being Data-Lib, the underlying encapsulated database library. This library wraps PHPs native database functions to provide a unified method for connecting to a database. The second component is Data-Admin which will be a PHP based front-end for basic database administration.
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Release Notes: Support for Interbase, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Sybase was added. The Update, AddNew and Remove methods have been removed to keep the code simple. Navigation has been enhanced and streamlined along with a new method for fetching rows in the PHP-style that most PHP coders are used to. This is just Datalib; Data Admin has not begun development yet.
Release Notes: Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle8, Sybase, and ODBC.
Release Notes: MySQL support in Data-Lib (the only thing that is not functional in MySQL or ODBC is updating, inserting, or deleting across 2 or more tables), a wrapper function for the recordset object, and users only have to include one file, which in turn includes all needed files.
Release Notes: Recordset Navigation in ODBC is now fully functional. Add/update is also functional. The delete method is yet to come.
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ALDI deals 4/17: Green peppers, mini peppers, red onions, corn & more!
Posted April 17, 2013
Aldi deals this week include green and mini sweet peppers, baking potatoes, red onions, corn, asparagus, turkey bacon and more!
These deals are valid 4/17 - 4/23.
** Favor to ask: If anyone is shopping at Aldi on Wednesday, would you please check the price of a dozen eggs and a loaf of whole wheat bread. I need the information for the Share the Deals section for Thursday and I will not be near an Aldi. Thanks!
Weekly deals
Green peppers, 3 pack, .99
Baking potatoes, 5 lb bag, $1.19
Mini sweet peppers, 1 lb bag, $1.29
Red onions, 2 lb bag, $1.29
Corn, 4-pack, $1.79
Asparagus, 1 lb, $1.79
Parkview hot dogs, 12 oz., .75
Turkey bacon, 12 oz., $2.19
Hot dog or hamburger buns, .89
Light salad dressing, 16 oz., $1.39
Ketchup, 40 oz., $1.49
Mayonnaise, 30 oz., $1.99
Wednesday meat deal: NY strip steak, $7.99/lb
Aldi coupon, payment and store policies:
* ALDI does not accept manufacturer coupons
* You will need to bring your own bags to bag your groceries. They do not provide any.
* If you wish to use a grocery cart, you will need to deposit a quarter into the cart machine and you will get it back when you return the cart.
* They accept cash, debit and EBT cards as forms of payment. They do not accept credit cards or checks.
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Dr. Stelios Papadopoulos is a co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Exelixis, Inc., and a member of the Board of Directors of Biogen Idec, Inc., BG Medicine, Inc., Regulus Therapeutics, Inc. and Joule Unlimited, Inc. He is also a co-founder and was member of the Board of both, Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (acquired by Hoffman – La Roche in 2011) and Cellzome, Inc. (acquired by GlaxoSmithKline in 2012). In the not-for-profit sector, Dr. Papadopoulos is a co-founder and Chairman of Fondation Santé and a member of the Board of Visitors of Duke Medicine.
Dr. Papadopoulos retired as Vice Chairman of Cowen & Co., LLC in August 2006 after six years with the firm where as an investment banker he focused on the biotech and pharma sectors. Prior to joining Cowen, he spent 13 years as an investment banker at PaineWebber, Incorporated where he was most recently Chairman of PaineWebber Development Corp., a PaineWebber subsidiary focusing on biotechnology. He joined PaineWebber in April 1987 from Drexel Burnham Lambert where he was a Vice President in the Equity Research Department covering the biotechnology industry. Prior to Drexel, he was a biotechnology analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.
Before coming to Wall Street, Dr. Papadopoulos was on the faculty of the Department of Cell Biology at New York University Medical Center. He continues his affiliation with NYU Medical Center as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Cell Biology. Dr. Papadopoulos holds an M.S. in physics, a Ph.D. in biophysics and an M.B.A. in finance, all from New York University.
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Partner, Dechert LLP
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Kevin led both the development of CAT's platform technologies, and also their application to the discovery of a number of human antibodies currently in clinical development. Two of these are now marketed, Humira (Abbott Pharmaceutical) and Benlysta (HGS, GSK). He was also part of the management team that floated CAT on the London Stock Exchange (main market).
Kevin graduated in Molecular Biology from Edinburgh University and has a PhD in Pathology from Cambridge University.
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In September 2010, Colin left Deloitte in order to establish Confluence Tax as a firm specialising in providing high quality and cost effective tax advice to SME technology and life science companies.
Colin has worked on tax initiatives with HM Treasury, HMRC and the Office for Life Sciences on R&D tax credits, the patent box and academic spin-outs.
Colin is also a member of the Finance and Tax Advisory Committee of the BioIndustry Association and is a regular speaker on current and future issues relevant to the SME life science sector
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Karen has been writing and publishing on biotechnology since 1987. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and a B.A. in politics and history from Brandeis University, where she now is a member of the Brandeis University Science Advisory Council. She also is on the board of trustees of the Keck Graduate Institute of the Applied Life Sciences. In 2005, the annual gathering of biotechnology chief executive officers at The Biotech Meeting in Laguna Niguel, Calif., inducted Karen into their Hall of Fame, citing her lifetime contribution to the biotech community.
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Hollywood director Russo goes in-depth for first time on the astounding admissions of Nick Rockefeller, including his prediction of 9/11 and the war on terror hoax, the Rockefeller's creation of women's lib, and the elite's ultimate plan for world population reduction and a microchipped society Aaron Russo joins Alex Jones for a fascinating sit-down in depth video interview on a plethora of important subjects. Aaron begins by describing how the draconian and mafia tactics of Chicago police woke him up to the fact that America wasn't free after his nightclub was routinely raided and he was forced to pay protection money. ARRESTING AMERICANS REFUSING MICROCHIP YR — 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
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Rodney Smith (photographer)
|Rodney Smith
December 24, 1947
Long Island, New York
|December 5, 2016
(aged 68)
New York City, New York
|Alma mater
|University of Virginia
Yale University
|Leslie Smolan
Rodney Lewis Smith (December 24, 1947 – December 5, 2016) was a New York based fashion and portrait photographer.
Smith primarily photographed with a 35mm Leica M4 before he transitioned to a 120mm (medium format) Hasselblad with a 80mm lens. He prefers natural light to illuminate his subjects, but occasionally will use continuous lighting. Smith shot predominantly in black and white, until 2002, when he first began to experiment with color film. His work is commonly referred to as classic, minimalistic, and whimsical.[1]
Early life[edit]
Rodney Smith was born December 24, 1947 in Manhattan, New York. His father, Sanford Smith, was president of fashion industry giant Anne Klein. Smith recalls, "A sense of style, a sense of proportion and a sense of beauty and a sense of grace — all of those things were very important in my upbringing."[2]
After he studied English Literature and Religious Studies at University of Virginia in 1970, Smith went for his graduate degree in Theology at Yale University in 1973.[3] Smith said in an interview with Kodak, "I absolutely knew I wanted to be a photographer, but I didn't feel that studying in an art school or a photography department full time was the way to address the issues that were interesting to me - so I sort of entwined the two." While at Yale, he also studied under photographer, Walker Evans [4]
In 1976 Mr. Smith spent 100 days photographing the people of the Holy Land, in Jerusalem. From the 88 Rolls of film shot, Smith ended up compiling two portfolios, which later became his first book: "In the Land of the Light: Israel, a Portrait of Its People (1983). Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, published in Israel.[5][6]
After returning from Jerusalem, Smith spent a short time as an adjunct professor of photography at Yale University.[7] As Smith continued his career into the nineties he slowly shifted from corporate executives to fashion photography. "My feelings about photography are exactly the same today as when I was 20. That is, I have a love/hate relationship with making pictures." Looking at pictures is one thing, he qualifies, "But making pictures — making pictures for me is hard, hard work."[8] Rodney Smith's work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal to Martha Stewart, from Time to Bloomingdales.[9]
In addition to his work as a photographer, Smith lectured and gave workshops.
Personal life[edit]
Rodney Smith lived and worked in New York, New York, with his wife, Leslie Smolan, and daughter, Savannah. His wife, Leslie, is co-founder of graphic design and branding firm, Carbone Smolan Agency.
He is currently represented by a number of galleries both in the US and internationally; acte2galerie of Paris, France, The PhotoGallery AB of Halmstad, Sweden, FOST Gallery of Singapore, Fahey Klein Gallery of Los Angeles, California, Galerie Greenwich of Greenwich, Connecticut, Galerie Sono of Norwalk, Connecticut, and Gilman Contemporary of Ketchum, Idaho.
In the past 25 years, Smith received 50+ awards including First Prize for his book "The End" from International Photography Awards (IPA). He has also received several Communication Arts and Photo District News (PDN) awards.[10]
Rodney Smith died in sleep on December 5, 2016 at the age of 68.[11]
Photographic books[edit]
- 1980. "Portfolio I". (Rodney Smith, Publisher)
- 1980. "Portfolio II". (Rodney Smith, Publisher)
- 1983. "In the Land of Light: Israel, a Portrait of its People". ISBN 0-395-34425-5.
- 1993. "The Hat Book". ISBN 0-385-47228-5.
- 2005. "The Book of Books". ISBN 0-615-12815-7.
- 2009. "The End". ISBN 978-0-9817485-0-4.
- 2009. "The End: Special Edition". ISBN 978-0-9817485-0-4.
- ^ Fiedler,Kerstin (January 2002). "January-Rodney Smith.". Hasselblad. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Fiedler,Kerstin (January 2002). "January-Rodney Smith.". Hasselblad. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Artnet (2014). "Rodney Smith". Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Photo District News (1999). "Rodney Smith: Image of Grace". Kodak. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Daily Art Fixx (January 24, 2013). "Rodney Smith: Photography". The Ground Magazine. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Artnet (2014). "Rodney Smith". Artnet Worldwide Corporation. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Pinar (March 9, 2012). "More Charming Photography by Rodney Smith". My Modern Met. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Photo District News (1999). "Rodney Smith: Image of Grace". Kodak. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Parson, Rebecca (June 2, 2013). "Rodney Smith - Legendary American Photographer". Vintage Allies. Retrieved June 18, 2014.
- ^ Fost Gallery (August 13, 2013). "Rodney Smith". Fost Gallery. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
- ^ "Rodney Smith on Instagram". Retrieved December 8, 2016.


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Retinal neurons use sustained and transient light responses to encode visual stimuli of different frequency ranges, but the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. In particular, although earlier studies in retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) proposed seven potential mechanisms, all seven have since been disputed, and it remains unknown whether different RGC types use different mechanisms or how many mechanisms are used by each type. Here, we conduct a comprehensive survey in mice and rats of 12 candidate mechanisms that could conceivably produce tonic rod/cone-driven ON responses in intrinsically photosensitive RGCs (ipRGCs) and transient ON responses in three types of direction-selective RGCs (TRHR+, Hoxd10+ ON, and Hoxd10+ ON-OFF cells). We find that the tonic kinetics of ipRGCs arises from their substantially above-threshold resting potentials, input from sustained ON bipolar cells, absence of amacrine cell inhibition of presynaptic ON bipolar cells, and mGluR7-mediated maintenance of light-evoked glutamatergic input. All three types of direction-selective RGCs receive input from transient ON bipolar cells, and each type uses additional strategies to promote photoresponse transience: presynaptic inhibition and dopaminergic modulation for TRHR+ cells, center/surround antagonism and relatively negative resting potentials for Hoxd10+ ON cells, and presynaptic inhibition for Hoxd10+ ON-OFF cells. We find that the sustained nature of ipRGCs' rod/cone-driven responses depends neither on melanopsin nor on N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, whereas the transience of the direction-selective cells' responses is influenced neither by α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid (AMPA)/kainate receptor desensitization nor by glutamate uptake. For all cells, we further rule out spike frequency adaptation and intracellular Ca2+ as determinants of photoresponse kinetics. In conclusion, different RGC types use diverse mechanisms to produce sustained or transient light responses. Parenthetically, we find evidence in both mice and rats that the kinetics of light-induced mGluR6 deactivation determines whether an ON bipolar cell responds tonically or transiently to light.
- Submitted: 1 November 2016
- Accepted: 30 December 2016
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HEARTLESS thieves have snatched six rabbits sponsored by children after smashing their way into cages at a Birmingham urban farm.
The thugs broke into the Woodgate Valley Farm late at night after volunteers had left the site on Clapgate Lane, next to Woodgate Valley Country Park, in Bartley Green.
The rabbits' cages were wrecked in the break-in and the intruders also vandalised the farm's handwashing facilities for visitors.
Jean Gee, a trustee director at the farm she has run with husband Mike since the late 80s, said: "Whoever did this was heartless and callous and we will have a lot of heartbroken children on our hands.
"These rabbits all had names and were sponsored by families who came to visit them regularly. We've even got sponsors from as far away as Canada who keep in touch with us and we send them photos."
The rabbits include a black and white male called Pongo, who is micro-chipped, and a black rabbit called Dylan, who has recently come out of quarantine.
The burglary is the latest setback for the farm which is embroiled in a bitter wrangle with Birmingham City Council over its future.
It currently has a legal agreement to operate independently as a charitable trust, but Mrs Gee claims the council is trying to take over the operation.
She said: "Instead of bullying us with letters, if the council had installed CCTV cameras on the farm this burglary might never have happened."
But Coun James Hutchings, who chairs the Edgbaston District Constituency Committee, said: "No one is bullying anyone. All we want is for the farm, the trekking centre next door and the park itself to flourish and thrive together."
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Curiosities of Dorset Churches
David Bailey has taken his camera and his eye for the unusual to churches throughout the county
Published in March '09
|It is the whole furnishing of St Mary's at Catherston Leweston which is unusual. Built in 1858, it is one of only two Victorian churches in Dorset (Frampton being the other one) where oak rather than pine was used throughout for the roof and pews.
St Peter's in Toller Porcorum has the rarity of a sundial, gnomon and all, actually incorporated into a stained glass window. There are believed to be no more than thirty or so examples in the whole of England and Wales.
|In the chancel of St Mary Magdalene at Loders is an Easter Sepulchre, believed to date from the 14th century. Few people could make the trip to Jerusalem to see the holy places for themselves, so this recess represented the tomb where Jesus was laid after the Crucifixion and was at the centre of Easter celebrations.
|A notice in St Andrew's, Trent, dates from the 19th century. Pattens were wooden shoes, often with an iron ring set in the sole to raise the wearer above the mud. They were still being worn in Dorset in the early 20th century.
|The restored village stocks at Holwell stand outside the parish church of St Laurence.
|St Mary's, Puddletown, is one of Dorset's best village churches and contains these fire buckets from 1805. They were provided by the insurance company, who were protecting their interests by making sure that if fire did break out, the damage would be as little as possible.
|This bagpipe-playing gargoyle adorns the church of All Saints at Hilton. Although today we mostly associate the bagpipes with Scotland, they used to be common throughout Europe and even the Middle East and are mentioned in The Canterbury Tales. There is a similar gargoyle in Hereford Cathedral.
|Another gargoyle, but this one is evidently not serving as a waterspout, as is usual. He is in fact a chimney, recalling the days when there would be an open fire in the vestry of his church, St Mary's at Cerne Abbas.
|It is said that when George Washington was looking for a suitable flag for the new-born United States of America, he remembered the stars and stripes that appeared on the arms of the Lawrence family, distant connections of the Washingtons. It may be a fanciful story, but this Lawrence coat-of-arms can be seen in the porch of St Michael's, Steeple.
|Chalbury would win many votes in a contest to find the most charming church interior in Dorset. The box pews were allocated according to social status, while the three-decker pulpit (the bottom deck being for the Clerk) emphasises the importance of the preaching of the Word.


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