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Keighley residents face a massive inflation-busting rise in town council charges to prop up its loss-making civic centre.
Councillors have partly blamed its unprecedented 72.6 per cent precept hike on the centrepiece building being £74,000 in the red, less than a year after the former police station was launched in its new guise.
Keighley Town Council will tonight vote on a recommendation to increase its annual charge on Band B properties – the rating for most local homes – from £18.90 to £32.62 for the 2013/14 financial year.
Councillors argue the increase is only equivalent to an extra 26 pence per week per household, and claim it has also been forced on them by Government policy.
But the proposal has been condemned by Keighley MP Kris Hopkins, who attacked the move as "foolhardy and unjustified".
"I'm afraid the town council's misguided attempt to blame the Government for its own ineptitude can be interpreted as nothing other than an act of gross desperation," he added.
Keighley mayor, Coun George Metcalf, and town council finance committee chairman, Coun John Phillip, blamed the deficit at the civic centre – launched last spring – on the national economy.
And they warned debts could grow for the Grade II listed building, which houses council offices, a Police Museum, cafe, shop and debt management advice centre.
Coun Metcalf said: "It was hoped the civic centre would break even as soon as possible. Any new business takes two to three years to become established and, due to the economic downturn, this is proving a problem."
He emphasised Keighley had not raised its precept for several years, but acknowledged the move has come in anticipation of the Government potentially capping the amount by which town and parish councils can increase future charges.
Coun Phillip said Government restructuring had slashed the local authority's finances by taking away its income from council tax benefit relief.
He added: "We've lost 26 per cent of our income. That is being plugged with a £107,000 grant, but there's no guarantee we'll get the grant next year."
But Mr Hopkins said: "I've received a number of representations from Keighley residents who are understandably concerned about the financial direction the town council is taking.
"I've written to Communities Secretary Eric Pickles outlining these concerns, and I'm due to meet him to discuss them."
The town council precept will be included in the overall council tax bill, together with sums levied by Bradford Council, West Yorkshire Police and West Yorkshire Fire Authority.
Bradford Council and the fire authority have still to set their figures, but West Yorkshire Police will increase its charge by 3.8 per cent. This equates to a penny a day for the two-thirds of homes in West Yorkshire that fall into bands A and B.
l Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council has this week agreed a 'record' precept rise of 51.5 per cent.
Speaking at the council's latest full meeting, chairman Coun John Huxley said: "We've never put our precept up by this amount before."
Coun Barry Thorne said he and his colleagues might as well "pack up and go home" if they were not willing to support the increase.


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Clarke bats in nets at MCG
Australia captain Michael Clarke has continued his battle to prove his fitness for the Boxing Day Test against Sri Lanka by batting in the nets for 15 minutes at the MCG on Monday.
The skipper faced throw-downs from assistant coach Stuart Law under the watchful eye of coach and selector Mickey Arthur.
Clarke, who suffered a hamstring injury during last week's first Test in Hobart, says he's confident of being able to take his place in the side.
Vice-captain Shane Watson, who has led the side in eight games at one-day international level, is set to take over as Test skipper if Clarke is ruled out.
Former Test No.3 Usman Khawja, dropped from the team a year ago, is in the 13-man squad and is on standby for Clarke.
The 31-year-old Clarke is the leading Test runscorer for 2012 and is only 55 runs shy of Ricky Ponting's national calendar-year record of 1544 runs in 2005.
However the fact that the Melbourne (December 26-30) and Sydney (January 3-7) Tests are virtually back-to-back will be a factor in Cricket Australia's decision on Clarke's fitness for the Melbourne clash.
Australia lead the three-match series 1-0.
Chairman of selectors John Inverarity said on Sunday he would prefer to take a conservative approach to Clarke's fitness.
"He is 50-50," Inverarity said.
"He is working hard on his recovery."
Clarke emerged again later to have a bat for about 20 minutes against the spinners and pace bowlers including left-arm quick Mitchell Johnson.
Former Test batsman Dean Jones, who has been invited by Arthur to act a mentor to the side for the Melbourne clash, said Clarke was showing good form.
"He flushed it in the nets. He was absolutely superb," Jones said.
"Batting-wise, he was fine.
"I couldn't fault him at all."
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The MD/PhD Program has specific courses that bridge research and medical academics. During the first two years of Medical School, MDP740A & MDP740B Developing Solutions to Research Problems, exposes MD-PhD students to predominant areas of basic and translational research, and to the knowledge skills necessary to conduct research in these areas. These discussions are held both in a group format and one-on-one with faculty. During the PhD years, MDP741 stresses clinical skills by placing the graduate students in a clinical setting for hands-on experience.
The Graduate School Core Curriculum, a one year program, is waived for MD/PhD students as they have already completed the pre-clinical course work in the Medical School. In addition, MD/PhD students are required to have bi-annual research committee meetings to help keep them on track with their research.
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The average MD/PhD class size is ~10. Enrollment for the past three years has been between 8 and 12.
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Yes, if a student withdraws from the Program, there is a Special Program Fee which requires a student to pay back a set amount for each semester (Fall and Spring) if they withdraw from the Program.
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences is an umbrella program which encompasses many different Programs. All PhD degrees are earned in Biomedical Sciences regardless of faculty thesis mentor or affiliated Program. Learn more: http://umassmed.edu/gsbs/prospective-students/programs-of-study/
You are not required to take the Core Curriculum and must take any advanced courses recommended by your thesis advisor. All of the other requirements for the PhD Degree are the same.
There are 76 students enrolled for academic year 2017/18.
The overall length of time in the MD/PhD Program is 7-10 years. Most students complete in 7-8 years.
The typical program structure is 2 1/3 / 3-5 / 1 2/3 where the students begins by completing the pre-clinical medical education, plus one thematic section in the clerkships, shifting to the graduate school for the PhD studies and returning to finish up to two clinical years of Medical School. However, the Program is flexible enough to accommodate changes based on a reasonable request.
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No, every student must complete both their MD and PhD at UMass Medical School.
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No, the integration of the two programs is what makes it unique. Completing one degree after another simply provides you with two degrees, but no any interaction between the clinical and research components.
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Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc. is recalling Dole's Italian Blend salad in Canada due to possible listeria contamination. No illnesses had been reported as of the morning of March 13.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency test results led to the voluntary recall.
The salad was distributed in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and possibly other provinces, according to the agency.
The 10-ounce product has a best-before date of March 14 and a universal product code of 071430008195.
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Municipal operations to turn kitchen scraps and garden waste into compost for large-scale farming would require the ultimate in recycling programs. Are we approaching that situation in the U.S.? A report out of New Zealand sees such recycling as feasible.
Research has been done in the Canterbury area of New Zealand where municipal composting schemes use around 50,000 tonnes of "green waste" to make 25,000 tonnes of compost each year.
"Plants need nitrogen and other nutrients to grow," said Plant & Food Research organization scientist Abie Horrocks. "These nutrients and high levels of carbon are present in compost and adding it to soil boosts production. Because it can also supply the plants with nitrogen, a reduction in nitrogen fertilizer application is also possible without compromising yields."
She went on to talk scale and economics. "Around 726,000 tonnes of garden and kitchen waste is buried in New Zealand landfills each year. The proximity of farms to the source of municipal compost will strongly influence the profitability of utilizing compost in agriculture. This research suggests that agricultural sectors close to populated areas, where municipal composting facilities could be developed, would benefit most from using compost and could result in redirecting most, if not all, green waste for profitable use."
By adding compost and reducing nitrogen fertilizer by one-third the recommended rate, crops were show to yield 10 percent greater than standard practice field crops. Applying compost without reducing nitrogen fertilizer resulted in productivity increases of 14 percent over a three-year cropping rotation. When used in the production of forage crops, a yield increase of close to 50 percent was achieved compared to where no compost was applied.


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- Cartoon Characters: Johnny Miller, Trey Jordan, Maggie Strong, Zak Kim, Captain Strong, General Raven, Fly Girl, Crusher, Viper, Aunt Louise, First Officer, Captain Curtis, Reporters.
- Voice Actors: Jamie Haydon-Devlin, Scott McCord, Katie Griffin, Mpho Koaho, Steve Cumyn, Ivan Sherry, Athena Karkanis, David Berni, Jonathan Koensgen; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Paul Hunt, Yong-Ho Kim.
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- First Aired on August 04, 2010.
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A decade ago, Chonette Taylor was given a life expectancy of ten years.
That was before she became one of the first people in the UK to beat leukaemia lymphoma with a stem cell transplant.
Now she has been given the all clear and is baking nearly 500 cakes to help raise the £1,400 needed to kit out Swindon's Great Western Hospital with 500 thermometers to help monitor patients undergoing chemotherapy.
Mrs Taylor, 67, who has a grown-up son and daughter, ran the arts and crafts shop Quetzal Global Gallery in New Road, Chippenham, for 16 years until 2003.
She gave it up months after she was diagnosed with leukaemia, but still lives above the shop.
After her diagnosis she flew out to her native Brazil to do voluntary permaculture work for three months.
"At the time I was still healthy and I knew if I didn't do it then, I never would be able to," she said.
Six years later Mrs Taylor spent several weeks in hospital in London after having the transplant in 2008.
Ever productive, she knitted 35 outfits for premature babies from her hospital bed.
It had only been in 2001 that New Scientist magazine reported the discovery that a particular type of stem cell that could be accepted when transplanted into humans.
After the groundbreaking treatment, the effects of Mrs Taylor's transplant are carefully monitored with regular six-monthly checks of her blood counts.
She knows that monitoring temperature can be lifesaving for people with compromised immune systems.
Last year, the Haematol-ogy and Oncology United Group (HUG), of which she is a member, provided the Great Western Hospital with 500 thermometers. But the supply has nearly run out.
"The nurses in the oncology and haematology wards were so lovely," she said.
"When you see how dedicated they are, you really want to support them.
"A small fever on a healthy person can be ignored but, when people with cancers are having treatment, it can become a serious problem in a few hours. That's why thermometers are important."
"Normally people do things like a sponsored run or skydive. I cannot do these things," she said.
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Mrs Taylor arrived from Mexico in the UK at the age of 22, 45 years ago.
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DeWine said fewer than 1 percent of Ohioans commit the majority of violent crimes in the state.
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A critically burned homeless man ran down a Pittsburgh street covered in flames.
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Aphrodisiacs have come a long way since love doctors ground up beetles and called that insect powder "Spanish fly." Now we turn to restaurants and sexy price-fixed meals to awaken romantic desire.
All menus are served on Valentine's Day, unless indicated. All prices are per person, unless indicated. Menus may change.
Roppongi Restaurant & Sushi Bar
875 Prospect St., La Jolla. (858) 551-5252; roppongiusa.com
Let swank booths, soft lighting and an "Aphrodisiac Prix Fixe" liven up your libido. The three-course meal can begin with Ocean Ecstacy: sea urchin and oysters in a shooter glass with a cherry Pop Rocks rim. Then you can leave teeth marks all over the Succulent Salmon Carpaccio, before cooling your jets with chocolate mousse cake.
Price: $48
1503 30th St., South Park. (619) 255-0616; (619) 255-0616; alchemysandiego.com
Whimsy on a plate is how you can describe chef Ricardo Heredia's three-course menu, which follows a Sky (southern fried quail), Earth (braised beef brisket), and Ocean (pan-roasted local halibut) theme. Have a "cloud full of chocolate, marshmallow and whipped cream bliss" for dessert.
Price: $38
Sky Room
La Valencia Hotel, 1132 Prospect St., La Jolla. (858) 551-3744; lavalencia.com/dining
Reach romantic heights with this 10th floor restaurant and chef Lance Repp's five-course dinner. Highlights include wild mushroom ravioli, Maine lobster, braised veal cheeks, Greg Norman petit filet, and a 180-degree view of the ocean. Seatings at 5 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
Price: $125
Morton's the Steakhouse
285 J St., San Diego; downtown. (619) 696-3369; mortons.com
Morton's Valentine's menu, available Feb. 11-14, might inspire a new pet name for your beloved: "Jumbo Lump Crab Cake." It joins two single-cut filet mignons, broiled sea scallops, Key lime pie and more on this three-course menu.
Price: $54.50
Bo-beau Kitchen + Bar
4996 West Point Loma Blvd., Ocean Beach. (619) 224-2884; dinecrg.com
Earn your red devil horns with this French-inspired bistro's naughty three-course Valentine's menu. Chef Katherine Humphus' starters – like vanilla butter diver scallops and a half dozen oysters on the half shell – are called "foreplay." A chocolate dessert trio is scandalously named (by co-owner David Cohn, we hear) "Menage et Trois."
Price: $49.95
Blue Point Coastal Cuisine
565 Fifth Ave., Gaslamp. (619) 233-6623; dinecrg.com
A classy joint with booths – they give a sense of privacy (better than some apartments). The classy chef - Daniel Barron, a James Beard nominee - makes dishes like Pacific sea bass stuffed with braised pork belly, and Angus rib-eye steak for this three-course meal.
Price: $69.95
Bice Ristorante
425 Island Ave., Gaslamp. (619) 239-2423; bicesandiego.com
This understated-luxurious spot is the Gaslamp's Italian go-to. Highlights on the Valentine's three-course menu include Chilean sea bass, rigatoni Norma-style, Chicken breast tagliata-style, and pepper-crusted beef tenderloin.
Price: $45
Cosmopolitan Hotel & Restaurant
2660 Calhoun St., Old Town. (619) 297-1874; oldtowncosmopolitan.com
Your armchair historian will like poking about the old Juan Bandini house and the three-course prix fixe menu. It's got pork cheeks, salmon and a surprise Valentine's dessert involving chocolate.
Price: $29.95
Loews Coronado Bay Resort, 4000 Coronado Bay Road, Coronado. (619) 424-4000; dineatmistral.com
You'll sound as smooth as a violin when ordering from French chef Patrick Ponsaty's four-course menu, featuring foie gras torchon, loup de mer and a gateau Basque for dessert.
Price: $75
Flavor del Mar
1555 Camino Del Mar, Del Mar. (858) 755-3663; flavordelmar.com
Fight for a cozy spot near the fireplace and sprinkle chef Jason Maitland's flavored salts over his three-course dinner, with items like the tamarind-glazed crispy pork belly and macadamia nut-dusted petrale sole. Hold the salt on the Tahitian vanilla bean parfait. Menu available Feb. 11 through 18.
Price: $55
Grant Grill
326 Broadway, downtown. (619) 744-2077; grantgrill.com
This tony, historic restaurant has all the hits on its five-course prix fixe, including muscovy duck, roasted scallops, California white sea bass, lamb loin, dry aged rib-eye and more. The menu's available Feb. 11 through 14. But Valentine's Day diners get treated to a custom heart pendant gift and concert pianist Chris Cerna.
Price: $95
Grand Del Mar, 5200 Grand Del Mar Way, Del Mar. (858) 314-1900; addisondelmar.com
You're an exclusive couple. Spend the night with an exclusive six-course tasting menu. Award-winning chef William Bradley does signature dishes like baby sea scallops with wild sorrel, uni and toasted sesame.
Price: $135
Red Marlin
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay Spa & Marina, 441 Quivira Road., Mission Bay. (619) 221-4868; hyatt.com/gallery/redmarlin
Go bayside with your baby and a special four-course menu – including a "Perfect Pair" dry-rubbed New York steak and pan-seared scallops - available Feb. 11 through 14.
Price: $45
Quarter Kitchen
Andaz San Diego, 600 F St., downtown. (619) 814-2000; quarterkitchen.com
Michael Liotta's "Chef's Sweetheart Tasting Menu," available Feb. 11 through 14, can be enjoyed in that intimate restaurant dining area called the "chef's bed." Try not to spill the braised short ribs, seared ahi tuna or wild mushroom ravioli on the blankets!
Price: $65
Eclipse Chocolat
2121 El Cajon Blvd., North Park. (619) 578-2984; eclipsechocolat.blogspot.com
The artisan chocolate shop's doing a five-course meal, where every dish includes vanilla bean, caramel, or chocolate-infused ingredients (French onion soup with white chocolate lemon-thyme croute). The Eclipse Chocolat Small Plate Valentine's Dinner will be on Feb. 12 and 13 only. RSVPs requested.
Price: $95 per couple
Extraordinary Desserts
1430 Union St., Little Italy. (619) 294-7001 xt. 103; extraordinarydesserts.com
Spend Valentine's Eve swimming in a glass of sparkling wine and noshing on a buffet of smoked salmon, artisan bread, house chutneys, house-made granola, and the gourmet pastries chef Karen Krasne's business is known for. Feb. 13 only.
Price: $22.95; $14.95 per child
7612 Fay Ave., La Jolla. (858) 551 7500; tapenaderestaurant.com
The battle of the sexes plays out on Chef Jean Michel Diot's gender-based, five-course, French menu. For Madame: Guinea hen in a black truffle sauce. For Monsieur: prime beef tenderloin in a black truffle sauce.
Price: $78
Bertrand at Mister A's
2550 Fifth Avenue, 12th Floor, Bankers Hill. (619) 239-1377; bertrandatmisteras.com
The three-course prix fixe featuring Crystal Point oysters two ways and grilled prime Angus Beef tenderloin "Rossini" gets you into the restaurant. The perky San Diego skyline will keep you there.
Price: $85
910 Prospect St., La Jolla. (858) 964-5400; nine-ten.com
Let the flavor tag-team (chef Jason Knibb and pastry chef Jack Fisher) set you up with four courses, featuring goodies like a slow roasted rack of lamb (with beet, farro, fennel, orange) and a Meyer lemon parfait (huckleberry sorbet, almond crisp, yogurt).
Price: $80
Mille Fleurs
6009 Paseo Delicias, Rancho Santa Fe. (858) 756-3085; millefleurs.com
This restaurant retreat appeals to the most exquisite epicure, and chef Martin Woesle still covers his Valentine bases with aphrodisiacs like Northern Pacific oysters "au gratin" and chocolate chili pepper "pot de crème." Main dishes on three-course dinner menu include breast of Maple Leaf Farms duck; Loch Duart salmon and trout "en croute."
Price: $85
Bistro at St. Germaine Café, 1010 S. Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas. (858) 367-3709; relaterestaurant.com
Perfect for a short-term fling: This Cali-French restaurant is temporarily occupying a cafe and creating ingredient-driven five course meals. The chef, Dan Moody, trained in Los Angeles with the king of the temporary restaurants a.k.a. pop-up restaurants, Ludo Lefebvre. Moody is also known as the love-life expert, the RelationChef.
Price: $55
Harrah's Rincon, Valley Center. (760) 751-7780; harrahsrincon.com
This steak-and-seafood restaurant builds the tension, from an amuse-bouche of compressed cucumber with crab and dill to a final course with dark chocolate crunch marquise a.k.a. the "Unforgettable Chocolate Finale."
Price: $59
The Marine Room
2000 Spindrift Drive, La Jolla. 858-459-7222; marineroom.com
Let Master Chef of France-elect Bernard Guillas woo your date with his four-course dinner. Wild prawns, Black Angus filet mignon, hibiscus passion fruit tart, and a romantic sea-level view all work to his advantage. There's also a $50 month-long prix fixe, featuring three courses at one set price every day in February but Valentine's.
Price: $125
The Hilton San Diego Resort & Spa, 1775 E. Mission Bay Dr., Mission Bay. 619-275-7920; sandiegohilton.com
Love blooms over an expertly wilted bed of spinach and baby artichoke underneath soy-glazed seared rare tuna. Just one of chef Hermann Schaefer's four-course components, available Feb. 12 through 14.
Price: $40
140 W. Broadway, downtown. (619) 702-6309; currantrestaurant.com
The VIP treatment at this American brasserie includes Chef Walter Manikowski's three-course meal with dishes like Duroc pork chop with Julian apples, sticky toffee pudding, grilled wild salmon with fiery Brussels sprouts. Comes with glasses of champagne, and a rose for the lady.
Price: $39.95
Kitchen 1540
L'Auberge Del Mar, 1540 Camino Del Mar Del Mar, Del Mar. (858) 793-6460; laubergedelmar.com/kitchen1540
Get a three-course demonstration of chef Paul McCabe's sweet technique. See his duck confit, which comes with sweet potato and an egg cooked at 62 degrees for an hour. Or Colorado lamb loin with farro and Brussels sprouts. Finish with a chocolate sundae for two.
Price: $69
Savory Deli & Market
4661 Park Blvd., University Heights. (619) 683-3772; savorydelimarket.com
This lil Euro-deli is doing four courses and exploring Old World flavors (ossobuco, boeuf bourguignon, Polpette di Lenticchie and that delicious hazelnut spread Nutella, in a torta).
Price: $30
West Coast Tavern
2895 University Ave., North Park. (619) 295-1688; westcoasttavern.com
Lip-smacking leads to lip-locking, a theory you can test out at this neighborhood spot. Try dishes like a pan-seared New Zealand baby lamb rack with savory fig bread pudding or a lavender-and-honey mille-feuille with strawberries. This four-course meal includes wine pairings in the fixed price!
Price: $50
Tango Restaurant & Lounge
417 West Grand Ave., Escondido. (760) 747-5000; TangoOnGrand.com
Emphasizing coupledom, this restaurant has two different fixed-price menus, two different seatings. Common dishes on both: duck prosciutto carbonara and ahi Napoleon (a dish consisting of seared yellowfin tuna layered with wasabi Dungeness crab, a ginger lemongrass butter emulsion, pineapple sticky rice and asparagus). Save room for Meyer lemon pudding.
Price: $55 three-course menu; $69 four-course menu
Rancho Valencia
5921 Valencia Circle, Rancho Santa Fe. (858) 759-6216; ranchovalencia.com/dining
Dine with the well-heeled at this upscale hideaway. The three-course meal has choices like roasted butternut and lobster veloute, poached Dungeness crab and pan-roasted Dover sole. The chocolate mille feuille with almond sherbet and an orange coffee bean infusion also sounds like pleasant company.
Price: $85
Top of the Market
750 N. Harbor Dr., downtown. (619) 232-3474; thefishmarket.com
Seafood lovers, try out this more-upscale, more-upstairs Fish Market affiliate. You will leave stuffed, because their Valentine's offer has more courses than most. Everyone starts with an amuse-bouche of potato leek soup, then it's on to butter-poached Maine lobster, crisp pork belly, seared yellowfin tuna, petit filet mignon and, wrap the whole gorging deal up with a chocolate mousse and peanut butter crisp. The whole gorging deal goes in that order!
Price: $125 for two people; $175 with wine pairings
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I'm OK with that.
Yeah, the guy couldn't defend before the knee injuries so he should fit in just perfect there.
I'd like to see a pure shooter on this roster, but I don't think Redd was that guy. Wish him well, I always have liked him.
It's a new day for Pacers Basketball.
I was worried that he would give up a lot more points than he'd put on the board. I'm just not a big fan even though I do respect his shooting skills.
I'd rather have someone who can play on both sides of the court even if he's not a lights out shooter. Do we really want to put someone on the floor that cannot defend a wing position? Think about some of the scorers on opposing teams that play at that spot.
We'll see how he does there. Then we can judge if it was a missed oppt or not.
Me, I don't think we are missing much.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
The Suns are now offering AARP benefits and Hover-a-round mobile chairs.
Good spot for him. The Suns' medical staff/athletic trainers have done wonders in resuscitating Grant Hill's career and in keeping Steve Nash ticking. If anyone can bring Redd back, it would be them I suppose.
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Good call by him. If any training staff can fix his knee, it is theirs.
This is the joke going around twitter right now.Steve Nash, Grant Hill, and Michael Redd....looks the Suns are gearing up to win the 2005 NBA Championship.
I wish him well.
I don't know how much he'll bring, but the Suns don't have much to lose.
I would have liked him if he could shoot and play enough D to net the Pacers points, but I don't think he can. I think we'll look back and realize it was a good choice to pass.
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Customize Your Own Drum Set!
AbstractWhat kind of music do you enjoy listening to? Hip hop, rap, classical, techno, or electronic? Do you know what most of them have in common? They rely on a drumbeat to provide tempo and depth to the sound. You might think of a drum as simply a large round vessel with a membrane covering that musicians strike with a drumstick, but musicians can create a synthesized drumbeat with an electronic keyboard or with electronic drums. In this science project, you will design and make your own electronic drum.
ObjectiveTo build a drum set using household materials, a computer, Scratch, and a PicoBoard.
Michelle Maranowski, PhD, Science Buddies
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Note: This Science Buddies project idea was written using Scratch version 1.4. A new version, Scratch 2, is now available. You can use an online version of Scratch 2 in your web browser at scratch.mit.edu, or you can download an offline version.
While Scratch 2 offers improvements over Scratch 1.4, the layout and some features have changed slightly. This means that the procedure below will not exactly match the new features of Scratch 2. If you need help using Scratch 2, you should go to the official Scratch help page. If you would like to follow our directions exactly, you can still download Scratch 1.4 here.
People can dance to any kind of music—from hip hop and techno to rock, and even jazz. Most music has some kind of drumbeat, not only to help keep time, but also to give the music feeling. Drums are percussion instruments and they are far from just the round membrane-covered instruments you might think of; for instance, they include bongos, snare drums, and congas. Sometimes, musicians can add a drumbeat to a piece of music without using actual drums at all! Instead, they use an electronic keyboard or electronic drums.
In this science project, you will build electronic drums using household materials, your computer, a simple and free program called Scratch, and a device called a PicoBoard.
You can see an example of the electronic drums in this short video.
You will use the resistance sensors on the PicoBoard to make the computerized sounds for the fours drums. You can also change the appearance of the drum on the screen when you tap it, so make your drums as true to life or as crazy as you want!
Terms and Concepts
- Scratch
- PicoBoard
- Resistance
- Sensor
- What is a drum and how does it work?
- What kinds of drums are used in your favorite types of music? How are they played?
- How do you create a simple program in Scratch? Hint: Check out the Science Buddies' Scratch User Guide!
- What does the electrical term resistance mean? What does it signify when you have a resistance of zero?
- Scratch Team, MIT. (n.d.). Scratch Support. Retrieved April 19, 2010, from http://scratch.mit.edu/help/
- LearnScratch.org. (2009). Learn Scratch. Retrieved April 19, 2010, from http://learnscratch.org/index.php
- Ford Jr., Jerry Lee. Scratch Programming for Teens. Boston: Course Technology, 2009.
- Sabee4b. (2009, October 5). Scratch Picoboard Drum 1. Retrieved November 9, 2010, from www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEDE53K8Hlk
- World Musical Instruments.com. (n.d.). World Drums. Retrieved September 13, 2010, from http://www.worldmusicalinstruments.com/c-9-world-drums.aspx
- Wikipedia Contributors. (2010, September 10). Drum. Wikipedia: The Online Encyclopedia. Retrieved September 14, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drum
- California Energy Commission. (2006). Energy Story: Chapter 3 Resistance and Static Electricity. Retrieved September 22, 2010, from www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter03.html
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Materials and Equipment
- Computer with an Internet connection
- PicoBoard (1), including alligator clip cables (4); available from SparkFun Electronics at www.sparkfun.com/products/10311
- Mini-USB cable (1); available from SparkFun Electronics at www.sparkfun.com/products/11301
- Aluminum foil (1 roll)
- Paper plates (1 package)
- Electrical tape
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Note: This Science Buddies project idea was written using Scratch version 1.4. A new version, Scratch 2, is now available. You can use an online version of Scratch 2 in your web browser at scratch.mit.edu, or you can download an offline version.
While Scratch 2 offers improvements over Scratch 1.4, the layout and some features have changed slightly. This means that the procedure below will not exactly match the new features of Scratch 2. If you need help using Scratch 2, you should go to the official Scratch help page. If you would like to follow our directions exactly, you can still download Scratch 1.4 here.
Designing Your Electronic Drum Set
- Define a need. In this project, you'll create electronic drums using household materials. But you should first think about things like who is going to play them and what colors they might like. What kind of features would that person (or people) like in a drum set? What kind of music are they going to play? The kind of music may change the type of sounds you want from your drum. For instance, drums for Caribbean calypso sound different than drums for a rock band. You might need to do some background reading about drums to help you define the needs.
Establish design criteria. Now you need to get down to the business of developing the specific details.
These details are called the design criteria. Having a good set of design criteria will
help you focus your efforts. The following is a set of questions to help you think about your design criteria.
Note that it is not a complete list. You can either use this list of questions to develop your design requirements, or you can develop your own.
- How many drums will there be in the drum set? Note: The maximum number should be four, because each drum will need to be hooked up to a resistance sensor, and the PicoBoard only has four resistance sensors.
- What will they look like?
- How will you play them: with your hands, with a drumstick, or some other way?
- What kinds of drum sounds do you want to include in your drum set?
- You'll need instructions to appear on the computer screen telling users how to play the drums. What should those instructions say?
- What kind(s) of pictures do you want to show on the screen? Will each drum show up as a circle, as another shape, or do you want to add real pictures of a drum?
- Create and analyze designs. Keeping your design criteria in mind, make a rough sketch, flow chart, or plan of what your electronic drums will look like and what the sprites do and/or say. A flow chart is a diagram of boxes where each box represents a step in the Scratch program to make the drums make sound.
Creating Your Electronic Drum Set
Build and test a sample program. Once you have created a set of design criteria, it is time to create
your first drum and the basic program that will allow it to make sound.
- First, make your drum. Take a paper plate and completely cover one side of the plate with a piece of aluminum foil. The aluminum foil must be large enough to overlap the edge of the plate. The side of the plate covered with foil will be the part of the drum that you hit. To avoid tearing in the aluminum foil while you're drumming, make sure the aluminum foil is pressed securely against the plate.
For the final product, when you hit the aluminum plate a drum noise will be created by the computer. In order to
make this happen, you need to write a simple program in the free online program, Scratch. To get ready to do this:
- Be sure you have the computer owner's permission to install Scratch on the computer.
- Download the Scratch program from scratch.mit.edu.
- Scratch is very easy to use! But if this is your first time using Scratch, read the Science Buddies Installing & Getting Started with Scratch page. This short guide will familiarize you with Scratch and make the rest of this project easier.
- Now that you have downloaded Scratch, you need to get your computer set up to work with the PicoBoard. Follow the instructions on the Connecting & Using a PicoBoard with Scratch page to get your PicoBoard working and to learn more about the sensors on the PicoBoard.
Now that the PicoBoard is connected to your computer, connect the aluminum plate drum to the PicoBoard using the
alligator clip cables that came with the Picoboard. This will allow the signal (in this case the change in resistance
across the alligator clip cable when you hit the drum with the drumstick) to travel from the PicoBoard to your computer.
Connect the PicoBoard and your aluminum plate drum as follows:
- Plug one of the cables into one of the resistance sensors on the PicoBoard.
- Clip one of the alligator clips to the foil-covered plate. Make sure that the alligator clip is attached securely to the aluminum foil.
- Clip the other alligator clip to the drumstick.
- Through the process of installing Scratch and the PicoBoard, you've probably learned a lot about both of them. Now look back at the design sketches you made. Based on your new understanding of Scratch and the PicoBoard, are there any changes you want to make, or details you should add to your design?
Now you're ready to use Scratch to create a simple program that makes a drum noise when you hit your aluminum drum.
Below are some general instructions. If you get stuck, refer back to the Science Buddies
Installing & Getting Started with Scratch.
- First you'll need a way to tell Scratch when the program is started. Pick a yellow Control Block to help you do that.
- Hitting the aluminum foil drum will cause a change in the resistance value detected by the PicoBoard. Look for blocks that will allow you to tell the computer that if it detects a certain resistance value, it should play the drum. Hint: You'll need control, sensor, sound, and operator blocks.
Once you've assembled your blocks, decide what resistance values should trigger a drum sound.
- You can see the resistance that the PicoBoard is sensing on the computer screen by choosing the appropriate resistance sensor from the block's drop-down menu and clicking on the checkbox in front the sensor block you chose to use. Hit the drum with the drumstick and see if the value of the resistance on the computer screen changes.
Program your electronic drum set. Once you have your sample drum up and working, you're ready to build the
rest of your drum set and add the fun, fancy details to your program!
Build the rest of your drums and connect them to the PicoBoard using the other alligator cables. Feel free to
decorate your drums if that is part of your design criteria.
- Connecting all four alligator clip cables to four drums might not be a straightforward task right away, but keep working on it! It is doable and you will arrive at the correct setup soon!
- Use a piece of electrical tape to strengthen the connections to the paper plates.
- Add more blocks to your program so that it can sense when each aluminum drum is hit and make a different type of drum sound (or sounds if you want) for each drum.
Add details to your program to make it more user-friendly and fun. Here are a few examples of fun things you could do:
- Add sprites (pictures or photos of drums) for each aluminum drum. You could even make the sprites move or react in some way when the real-world aluminum drum is hit.
- Add on-screen instructions telling the user what to do.
- Use the slider sensor on the PicoBoard. For example, see if you can use the slider sensor to increase the volume.
- It is a good idea to test along the way so that you can iron out small issues as they crop up. You don't want to have a long program at the end that doesn't work and you don't know why.
- If you don't like what you see, rearrange the instruction blocks into a configuration that you believe will work better.
- Once you have finished building your electronic drum set, make sure that all of the requirements that you set at the beginning of the project are satisfied.
- Build the rest of your drums and connect them to the PicoBoard using the other alligator cables. Feel free to decorate your drums if that is part of your design criteria.
- Test and redesign. Test your drums on your friends and family and sit back and watch the fun! How did they like it? Use their feedback to improve your drum set.
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- Once you have finished the final version of your drums and you are happy with them, it is time to show them to your friends and family again.
- When presenting your project at your science fair, try to bring in a computer. If you are not able to do so, then take many screenshots of your work, print them out, mount them on a poster board, and display the drum set.
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- An explanation of what you learned from your research and by building the electronic drum set.
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09-07-2012 #3731andochan Guest
I need Atelier Meruru USA patch thank you.
09-07-2012 #3732babyjoe00069 Guest
theres like 4 of those games which one do you want the apprentice, the adventures, or the alchemist ???
09-07-2012 #3733andochan Guest
the apprentice
09-07-2012 #3734kooltilldend Guest
actually you are wrong mate - there's only one Atelier Meruru game -> "Atelier Meruru: The Apprentice of Arland"
The others are Atelier Totori and Atelier Rorona... I know it can be a bit complicated hence why I'm stating per se ^^
09-07-2012 #3735babyjoe00069 Guest
yes it works fine going from 1.03 to 1.06 for skyrim
09-07-2012 #3736andochan Guest
is that Atelier Meruru -The Apprentice of Arland- Patch? is it JAP,USA, or EUR? sorry if my english is bad and ask you too many question... babyjoe00069
09-07-2012 #3737pixilicous Guest
hey man, i meant what version you have, the ps3.. and which did you use.. i just noticed there is another link for eboot.bin there for blus, tried it but it doesnt even start the game now.. i applied the patch and than the secondary eboot.bin which is twice the size of the eboot in the n0drm patch rar..
I'm driving home soon so i'll try.. Did you manage toget it working on 3.55? I never should have copied eboot or any other file to the folder u mentioned but to thw actual game dir, overwriting the files.
Its also not just me stuck you know, nobody manged to get past intro screen..
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how do we put eboot.elf in for LA Noire (BLES-00933) 1.02 PS3 Patch Update? thanks
09-07-2012 #3739azoreseuropa Guest
Thanks but can you repack Ninja Gaiden 3 BlUS and STREET FIGHTER X TEKKEN BLUS version too ? If you dont have Street Fighter X Tekken.. Can I send you my original eboot or eboot fixed ? Just let me know what you need.
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can anyone post original params.sfo and eboot.bin of ssx? i dont have the original files, don't feel like downloading the whole 70gb for this
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For the 10th anniversary of the National Organics Program officials are reviewing the U.S. Department of Agriculture's oversight role with an eye on reducing paperwork while maintaining standards.
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"The national Organic Program began our 'Sound and Sensible' certification initiative as a way to streamline the organic certification process while maintaining high standards and ensuring compliance," said Sam Jones-Ellard, USDA public affairs specialist.
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The Bulls (9-6, 3-2 MAC) were picked to finish second in the MAC East Division and entered the week tied atop the standings.
Ball State senior wing Chris Bond logged his fifth career double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds to go along with four steals, while freshman forward Franko House finished with a career-high 12 points and senior post Majok Majok also added 12.
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