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As someone without a a collection of sources for great wallpaper, I'm at a loss. Where can I find something like this?
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Exhaust systems produced by Angelo ZIRRI from Parma belong to the most prized left hand systems and have always been hard to come by.
The "ZIRRI SILENT CORSA" is made for original and tuned small frames. Performance wise, it's comparable to the SIMONINI Down & Forward. They have an orderly performance punch in upper ranges and are not really for city cruisers, rather, they are for Sprint fanatics. On a 133er POLINI, for example, it allows more revs than the PM....
Conclusion: The legendary ZIRRI is the first off when the lights change.
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Bonnaroo 2012 News
Bonnaroo has been making the headlines this week for a variety of reasons. What's true, what's fake, what's really going on about the 2012 Roo? First, the charitable heart of Bonnaroo was the center of attention. After a decade-long success, the music festival has tallied up over $5 million in charitable giving. Not too shabby! According to Nooga.com, a news site covering Chattanooga, TN, the donations go to the East Tennessee Foundation. The foundation then finds organizations in need of funding. Good music and good times translates to doing good for others! Where else did Bonnaroo surface in the media? Well, the Road to Bonnaroo, the now annual band competition begins at the end of this month. Read about dates and places for the Road to Bonnaroo here. And lastly, the 2012 Bonnaroo Line-Up was faux-nounced this week. An imitation floated around the Internet. Someone just couldn't wait any longer. Well, any day now for the real line-up...
Music-lover and blogger "Sarah on the Go" has the right idea: She's hoping to hit up the Jack Daniel's Distillery on her way to Bonnaroo 2012. Just a half hour from the festival site, the distillery is one of the spots outlined in How Do You Roo, along with more places to cool off and hang out with friends after the fest. Tired of too much sun? How about underground hiking?
Road trips are expensive when you factor in fuel costs--but we need to fuel ourselves too. What's the best food to bring to Bonnaroo if you're road tripping? Peanut butter was a top choice for Rooers who were interviewed for How Do You Roo. Take advantage of the heat though - learn about baking cookies on your dashboard:
Bonnaroo Memories
Check out this University at Buffalo student's Bonnaroo festival experience. She decided to put her entire trip on a credit card!
Music lovers who fly into Nashville will be happy to hear that the airport is growing their rental car capacity. With Bonnaroo maxing out Nashville Airport's passenger levels, the international hub will soon be able to store twice as many rental cars as it was previously able to do. Perfect for anyone who wants to fly to the Roo, rent a car and explore the area's music history, distilleries and other fun road trips outlined in How Do You Roo.
Flying to Bonnaroo
Getting to Bonnaroo By Plane
Anyone who flew to Bonnaroo X will be happy to know they were part of a record-breaking event. The Nashville International Airport set a new record with 19,000 passengers flying in or out on June 13, 2011. According to a recent article, this exceeded Thanksgiving Day travel by 120%!
Flying to Bonnaroo sounds good. But what about the fun of driving to the Roo?
You've heard of CouchSurfing and have probably seen the ride sharing section on Craigslist, but there's a handy dandy new app called goCarShare that launched just this month. The app is exclusively for travelers who need a ride to a music festival (only in the UK for now). Although Craigslist and the inforoo message boards get bloated every May with ride offers, once someone makes a US-targeted app, it may be the best thing since sliced gluten-free bread.
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The second Limelight Theatre "Celebrity Cabaret" will be held over three days this year -- the evenings of Nov. 20, 21 and 22.
The fund-raising event, sponsored by the theater's board of directors, features well-known residents of St. Augustine lip-syncing a wide variety of musical numbers in costume, choreographed by local dance instructor Lynette Wadsworth and directed by Limelight Theatre co-producer Jean Rahner.
Sponsored by Lighthouse Toyota of St. Augustine, S.J. Vaccaro Jeweler, Andy's Taylor Rental, St. Johns Printing and Office Supply, The St. Augustine Record and Broudy's Liquors, the evenings will kick off at 7 p.m. with cocktails and hors d'oeuvres.
The curtain will rise at 8 p.m., there will be desserts during intermission, and an opportunity to taste exotic coffees and meet the "stars" after the show.
Tickets are $50 and available at the Limelight Theatre, Joukowsky Family Foundation Center for the Performing Arts, 11 Old Mission Ave., or by calling 825-1164.
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Al-Futtaim Motors, exclusive distributors of Toyota in the UAE has signed an agreement with Atlantis, The Palm in Dubai to be the title sponsor of Sandance's new season.
The award-winning five star music festival by Atlantis, The Palm which will kick off on 12 October 2012, has unveiled their entire list of entertainers with the release of the early-bird tickets. Committed to provide support until the end of the next 2012/2013 season, Toyota will engage the festival goers through interactive activations, high-tech displays, VIP treatment and innovative product launches.
Simon Frith, Managing Director Al-Futtaim Motors said: "Our support for Sandance is in line with Toyota's global support for arts and music and reiterates Al-Futtaim Motors' commitment to reach out for the youth at the places of their choice. With the recent launch of the Toyota 86 which is designed for the young at heart, and the expansion of the Xtreme line-up, Sandance is an ideal platform to connect with those who share the same sentiments."
Atlantis is thrilled with the association with Al-Futtaim Motors Toyota," commented HeikoSchreiner, SVP at Atlantis. "Being the market leader in the UAE, we are very confident that the Toyota brand will bring innovative additions to Sandance that will be enjoyed by our guests for the first time."
Al-Futtaim Motors will be giving away general admission tickets through a series of competitions on Toyota UAE Facebook page as well as in-showroom draws.
Al-Futtaim Motors Toyota started its ventures into music events last year, with the sponsorship of the Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival, and will continue its support for such popular events.
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The Mariinsky Ballet celebrate George Balanchine's work in an exhilarating mixed programme: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Apollo. The great Russian-American choreographer was one of the most significant figures of 20th-century ballet. He was born in St Petersburg and performed with the Mariinsky Ballet from the age of 11, before joining Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1924.
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962) was Balanchine's first original full-length ballet. He drew on his life-long love of Shakespeare and Mendelssohn's incidental to create a joyous narrative ballet full of wit and invention.
Apollo (1928) was Balanchine's first work, and the beginning of his brilliant collaboration with Stravinsky. This youthful work is a landmark in 20th-century ballet, exhibiting Balanchine's distinctive neoclassical aesthetic and unique musical sensitivity.
(3 mins) The Royal Opera House is off Covent Garden piazza, which is visible from the tube station exit. There is a revolving door entrance at the piazza.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — California's seven largest health insurers face nearly $5 million in fines for allegedly failing to pay hospitals and physicians fairly and on time.
California Department of Managed Health Care Director Cindy Ehnes says improper claim payments are burdening health providers as they struggle to stay afloat in a bad economy.
The regulator says audits found seven health plans weren't meeting a legal threshold of paying 95 percent of claims correctly.
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California are being fined $900,000 each, and United/Pacificare is being fined $800,000. HealthNet and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan are being fined $750,000 each; Cigna is being fined $450,000; and Aetna is being fined $300,000.
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. — SarahCare at Johns Creek has a new name.
The company announced that its adult senior day centers will now be known as Skylark Senior Center.
The senior day centers, which first opened in 2006, are located in Marietta and Johns Creek, 4265 Johns Creek Parkway, Suite B.
The programs are offered to support seniors and their families at home or at their day centers, including daily needs like transportation to off-site appointments, plus beauty, bathing, nursing care and therapy services in house.
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TVM Life Science Ventures VII Announces Investment in GLWL Research Inc.
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Montreal, QC, Canada, January 13, 2014 / B3C newswire / – TVM Life Science Ventures VII today announced the fund's third investment – GLWL Research Inc., a company based in Montreal, Quebec. GLWL Research Inc. plans to develop, to proof-of-concept, GLWL-01, an investigational compound originally discovered by Eli Lilly and Company with the potential to treat Type-2 Diabetes.
"The management team of GLWL Research Inc. is delighted to have the opportunity to collaborate with the TVM Capital Life Science team in progressing GLWL-01 to clinical proof-of-concept," said Caroline Fortier, CEO of GLWL Research Inc.
Type-2 Diabetes is a disease in which the pancreas does not produce enough insulin, or the individual's body does not properly use the insulin it makes. Nearly one quarter of a billion people worldwide are living with this disease1, with another 6.3 million developing the disease each year2. Life expectancy for people with Type-2 Diabetes may be shortened by 5 to 10 years1.
"TVM Capital Life Science is proud to have helped play an important role in creating GLWL Research Inc., and in securing the rights to GLWL-01. This transaction is a testament to the benefits of our investment model," said Marc Riviere, M.D., General Partner with TVM Capital Life Science and Board member of GLWL Research Inc. "Furthermore, we are pleased to collaborate with Caroline Fortier and Mark Cipriano, who will act as CEO and CFO respectively for GLWL Research Inc. Caroline has had a fruitful career in the life science industry, including with Montreal-based Biochem Pharma; Mark is a well-known CFO in the industry."
This is the third investment for TVM Life Science Ventures VII, a venture capital fund domiciled in Montreal QC which follows a new, capital-efficient investment approach to developing pharmaceutical assets to human proof-of-concept in single-asset companies. TVM Life Science Ventures VII is a unique collaboration between TVM Capital Life Science and Lilly to finance and access innovation beyond the company's walls and as a way to manage risk and share reward.
GLWL Research Inc. will leverage its extensive product development expertise to potentially bring GLWL‑01 to human proof-of-concept. If and when proof-of-concept is reached, Lilly will have an option to acquire the molecule.
"Lilly's alternative risk-sharing strategy has allowed us, together with other investors, to support the creation of project-focused companies in the Capital Funds portfolio," said Darren Carroll, Lilly's vice president of Corporate Business Development.
"Beyond their investment in the fund, Lilly's relationship with TVM Capital Life Science makes their clinical-development expertise available to the resulting project-focused companies, including GLWL Research Inc., which will support these companies' efficiency and cost-effectiveness in reaching clinical proof-of-concept," said Marc Riviere.
Elaine Sullivan, Lilly's vice president of Global External R&D, added, "Diabetes is a key therapeutic area for Lilly, given our strong legacy and expertise in this area. TVM Life Science Ventures VII is an important part of our strategy as we strive to discover innovative medicines in multiple therapeutic areas of great unmet need, including diabetes."
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This press release contains forward-looking statements about TVM Life Science Ventures VII and Lilly's investment in a pre-clinical stage compound for the indication of T2DM being developed by GLWL Research Inc. It reflects Lilly's and TVM's current beliefs; however, as with any such undertaking, there are substantial risks and uncertainties in the process of drug development. There is no guarantee Lilly will realize the expected benefits of the transaction, that the product will receive regulatory approval, or if approved, would be commercially successful. For further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, please see Lilly's latest Forms 10-Q and 10-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The companies undertake no duty to update forward-looking statements.
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Am I too doting?
I'm a 26-year-old gay man living in Boston. I've been single for the past four years after getting out of a four-year relationship. I told myself that for the first year I just wanted to "find myself." I've always heard that to find true happiness with someone else you first need to be happy being on your own. I thought I had achieved that.
I didn't date anyone for the first two years because I had never actually been single for more than two months. I just had casual relationships that I never intended to pursue, and I made that clear to my partners. It wasn't until the beginning of last year that I truly wanted to get back into the dating scene. I had a brief relationship with one guy for about two months but we just ended up not being right for each other. I accepted that and moved on.
Jumping forward to this year, I was introduced to a guy by one of my good friends who thought we'd be perfect together. Our first date was incredible. We had great conversation, had a lot in common, and just generally clicked very well. No red flags at that point. We went on several dates over the next 3 weeks and I introduced him to my two best friends who I live with and they all hit it off immediately. I was overjoyed as to how well it was going. In retrospect, I should have noticed some red flags early on but I brushed them off.
After the third date he was already saying how he wanted to be with me and that he saw a real future with me, which obviously made me feel special. But in my head I felt it was a little premature, but I didn't express these feelings to him. Once we hit the one-month mark, I had fallen for him and I wanted to pursue a real relationship with him. Only problem was that he began to completely ignore me. I hadn't heard from him in over a week and I come to find out that he was actually seeing someone else. Naturally I was very hurt and confused. I texted him a few times to try and get answers out of him but all of them went unanswered. I'm not a believer in "closure" but I just really wanted him to man up and tell me what happened. It wasn't until three weeks after I'd moved on that he texted me saying, "I'm sorry it just didn't work out. I felt strongly for you at first but then it just didn't feel right." Very vague answer but an answer nonetheless.
I treated him like a king in the time we spent together. Took him out to dinner, movies, events, and whatnot. Nothing but respect, love, and kindness. This problem has occurred before and I guess I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong. Should I just let love come to me instead of seeking it out? Should I not be so "doting" right off the bat? I just don't know what I should do when it comes to dating anymore.
– Lonely Boy, Boston
I have no problem with you doing nice things for someone who treats you well and reciprocates your feelings. In this case, the guy was great until he wasn't, and then he disappeared. It happens.
I don't think you're doing anything wrong. Sometimes things just don't work out. But the "dinner, movies, events" comment does concern me just a little bit. I hope that when you refer to "doting," you don't mean "spoiling" and that you're giving these guys the opportunity to do nice things for you. We all need to prove ourselves in relationships. It's always worth asking yourself, "Is this person working to make me feel nice, too?"
In this specific case, it just sounds like he was all talk. He told you he wanted a future with you when he barely knew you. If that ever happens again with someone after a few weeks, you'll know not to take it very seriously.
Honestly, this is how dating goes. Just know that you really shouldn't be showering someone with affection unless you feel showered in return. And there's plenty of time to work up to showering. It takes a few months to figure out what's real.
Readers? Did he do something wrong? Is he too doting? Was this an isolated incident? Help.
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In the days before this recession, I was asked to locate a pair of 18th-century fauteuil for a client who owned a brownstone in a prestigious part of Manhattan.
I located the right pair in an obscure Venetian collection. The Venetian nobleman's life of debauchery had him living in a moldering palazzo. The family's artwork and furniture were being sold to save something for the next generation.
I went to Venice to see this sumptuous and priceless collection. However, it was immediately obvious that the debauched nobleman had unloaded the good stuff. I toured the palazzo until I found THEM, a pair of Neapolitan armchairs in the attic.
Sitting side by side like maiden aunts, they were decorated with layers of carefully and finely applied paint. Pale greens, now chalky, over earthy red had been burnished with silver leaf.
The scale of the chairs was diminutive, as the 18th-century design dictated, and they were perfection. The silk striped fabric was long gone, but enough shreds remained to suggest what should be used in the reupholstering. It is sentimental to say that at that moment I had fallen in love. My clients, of the "I want it done yesterday" disposition, booked two extra seats on the plane, and we all traveled home together, one chair on either side, giving me time to bond with these new friends.
In New York, I bid farewell to the chairs.
Two years later, the client told me that he and his wife were in the middle of an acrimonious divorce. He asked me to take on the appraisal and disposal of the house's contents. I agreed. The need to rescue the chairs was foremost in my mind. I made sure that they went to a good auction house. The chairs sold for considerably more than I could have afforded, fifteen thousand, and with regret, I said goodbye to them again.
Later I found out that a decorator in Miami bought them.
Eight months later, living in South Carolina, I received a call to appraise a collection of silver in Miami. I was met there by the client, whose personality was abrasive, dismissive and put my teeth on edge. A job's a job.
For the next several hours, I studied the collection and was packing up when the client asked me to look at a painting her decorator, Ramon, had insisted she buy for its investment quality.
The painting was a rather nice landscape, but was certainly not a Watteau, as purported. And then I saw Them. In a child's room were my chairs, flanking a commode of some distant French extraction that we in the business call the Houie Louie period. My gems were now covered in pink upholstery with ballet dancers.
"I know these chairs, they . . ."
"Oh, them," she interrupted, "Ramon insisted I get them, I really don't like Spanish furniture, but he thought they would be fabulous with this gorgeous commode."
Spare me, I thought. But she wasn't going to part with them.
I said goodbye to my chairs-again.
It has been suggested to me that there is a 12-step program for the chronic habitué of junk stores. I feel no desire to be helped, and my old Volvo was well schooled to respond to sharp turns into junk-store parking lots. There was one store, however, that was always closed.
One day, its front door was open. Finally inside, my curator's sense suggested that there was something that needed saving. I walked the length of the cluttered store and literally bumped into the proprietrix, a woman of great girth, who was blocking access to a back room.
"Anything back there?" I asked.
"Oh yeah, baby, this place is an Aladdin's palace of goodies, you just go on back."
In the dim distance, I could see a leg, two legs. Could it be? I thought. In this ignoble place? Sure enough, there was one of my chairs. The pale green finish. The soft tarnished silver-leaf decoration. The pink ballet dancers.
"Excuse me, ma'am," I said trying to sound calm, "but, do you have another one of these chairs?" Stay cool.
"Yes, baby, there's one in the ladies' boudoir." The ladies' boudoir? Is that a euphemism for toilet? "Could I see it?" I asked.
"Well, I don't usually let men in there, but I can't fit in anymore. So you go get it."
I slogged over, flung open the door, and there was the companion.
"I got them from a junk," she pronounced it as jun-kay, "dealer in Florida," whose name was Ramon.
"What you want for these chairs?" I asked.
"Well, I paid a lot of money for them, but I'll let them go for $200 for the pair."
I lapsed into silence, overwhelmed by the thought of ownership after all these years. She mistook my silence for haggling. "Okay, I'm giving them away at $150. That work for you?"
Many years later, as I write this, I can look from my office and see my old friends, flanking a genuine Italian commode, smiling across the room at me.
– Christopher Kent is a member of the WorthPoint board of advisers and director of evaluations for WorthPoint. He is also an antiques and collectibles generalist, fine-arts broker and president of CTK Design.


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Once upon a time, the Independent Republic of Venice made most Europeans blush a hot scarlet, attracting every queer writer, artist, and royal on the continent with its allowances for pleasure and sexuality. Nowadays, while plenty of LGBT folks still live and travel there, clearly defined gay locales are scarce, largely integrated into the Venetian urban geography.
The floating city is also one of few destinations where three days is enough, at least during the mad tourist blitzkrieg innocuously called "high season," which threatens the city from April to June, September, October, and around the major Christian holidays. It easily overwhelms, but is still quite an experience. Queer writer Truman Capote said it best: "Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go."
Catching the palace-like Venezia emptied of foreigners is as magical as it is rare. Three such days stretch to feel like twice that, especially if one spends the time between To-Do List items lost in the labyrinthine, hallway-sized streets that often end, inexplicably T-ing with a canal rather than a bridge. No worries -- there's only so "lost" one can be on an island, after all.
Lay of the Land
At its widest, Venice is just shy of three car-less miles, with most major sights concentrated in three adjacent neighborhoods: San Polo, across the Grand Canal from the train station; Dorsoduro a little further south; and San Marco to Dorsoduro's west, again across the Grand Canal, which winds like a Carnevale ruffle around all three sestiere ("neighborhoods").
Riddled with dead-ends and twisted back ways, it is absolutely impossible to walk from A to B in a straight line. Seemingly for safety, most visitors cluster on the beaten path between attractions, an easily avoided stream of bodies that signals one's proximity to something worth seeing.
It can seem like every room in Venice is for rent, but stellar demand fetches astronomical figures and around holidays, even the worst hovel has a wait list, so book ahead.
Gay-owned bed and breakfasts are particularly popular here, affording a charming experience and neighborly access to current queer events. Converted antique palaces masquerading as top-shelf hotels, on the other hand, can be well worth the bragging rights.
Nestled down a lovely, aged side street in the San Marco area, conveniently just off the Ponte di Rialto bridge, the gay-owned Corte Gherardi (Corte Gherardi, Castello; +39-041-523-7376; 80+ EUR) harbors three stylish rooms with wonderful views. Breakfast in bed comes free of charge, often accompanied by superb dining recommendations and travel advice.
On the shores of the Lido sandbar, which ranks among the world's most coveted island real estate, sits the Grand Hotel des Bains (Lungomare Marconi 17, Lido; +39-041-526-5921; 300+ EUR). One of Venice's most luxurious hotels, it is also one of the oldest, having hosted Thomas Mann -- and his sailor-suited companion, according to rumor -- in 1911. Gustav von Aschenbach, the protagonist of Mann's Death In Venice, also fitfully resided here as he pursued a young Polish boy.
The gay-owned Fujiyama Bed & Breakfast (Calle Lunga San Barnaba 2727A, Dorsoduro; +39-041-724-1042; it; 60+ EUR) gets points not only for it's East Asian design-themed rooms -- "Shanghai" is the best -- but also for the stylishly prepared concoctions available downstairs in the leafy, outdoor tea garden. A short walk across the Grand Canal from the Piazza San Marco, Fujiyama is a few blocks into Dorsoduro, where tourist traffic is lighter and quieter.
More luxe but not explicitly LGBT, the Dorsoduro outpost of the Epoque (Fondamenta Gerardini 724, Dorsoduro; +1-866-376-7831; 200+ EUR) boutique hotel chain is sparingly modernist in design and warmly sumptuous in color and light. Very chic, like avant-garde Swedish architecture.
A neat package of reasonable price, comfort, and cleanliness, the Hotel ai Do Mori (Calle Larga 658, San Marco; +39-041-520-4817; www.hotelaidomori.com; 60+ EUR) beats most nearby high-end hotels for spying from the rooms on the Piazza San Marco, a block away.
Day 1: A Grand Day Out
Start off strong and early with a deceptively tiny Italian caf?, then hop on Vaporetto (water bus) Number 1 at the central train station for a swift sashay down the Grand Canal. This is the best way to meet -- and photograph -- Venice's canal-front Gothic, Renaissance, and Moorish palaces. This route also establishes a mental map of the three bridges that cross the waterway, which is essential.
Like an everyman's gondola ride, the vaporetti are the best way of getting around quickly and cheaply, a few set routes stopping just about anywhere one would want to go. Number 1 drops off at the Piazza San Marco, where many of Venice's prime sights cluster around its astounding, simple grandeur. Don't miss the parents cooing and clicking cameras at their progeny who, terrified and covered in birdseed, are being swarmed by pigeons.
The enormous Byzantine confection at the end of the piazza, the Basilica di San Marco (Piazza San Marco; +39-041-241-3817), was erected around 1000 A.D. to entomb Saint Mark, stolen back from Egypt in a barrel of pork. One section of the Basilica's mosaic-tiled, cavernous innards holds the Pala d'Oro, a gold altarpiece dripping with priceless gems.
Break for lunch at the nearby VinoVino (Campo San Fantin 2007, San Marco; +39-041-522-4121; 12-20 EUR), where an excess of 350 wines await in this faithfully crowded, traditional Venetian eatery.
Back at the Piazza San Marco, swing over to the Palazzo Ducale (Piazza San Marco 1; +39-041-271-5911; closed holidays), or Doge's Palace, for all the gilded splendor that the most powerful man in the Venetian Republic -- the known world's trading juggernaut from the 7th to the 18th centuries -- could buy. It's a monument not only to diplomacy and naval empire, but also to interior design.
From the museums and endless rooms of the Palazzo Ducale, cross the Ponte dei Sospiri into the dungeons' cramped, stone shoeboxes. Condemned prisoners usually went the other way, with the Ponte dei Sospiri, or bridge of sighs, earning its name from those who last saw Venice like this.
From Piazza San Marco, the La Zucca restaurant (San Giacomo dell'Orio 1762, Santa Croce; +39-041-524-1570; 25-35 EUR) is either a short ride on Vaporetto 1 to the Riva di Biasio stop or a long stroll along the length of the Grand Canal. Very vegetarian-friendly, the osteria's small-ish capacity fills up with life-long lovers of their vegetarian lasagna and ginger pumpkin soup, so reservations are recommended. In warmer weather, try to snag a canal-side outdoor table.
If you are up for it, there's a cute bar a few blocks away called I Due Girasole (San Stae 19908, Santa Croce; +39-034-7702-8802), owned by a pair of lesbians. Queer folks tend to leave the island for gay nightlife, making overnights to Mestre, Venice's mainland half, or nearby Padova to party.
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wmbday is a Window Maker dock app for Linux und FreeBSD that will remind you of
birthdays. It can show up to four persons whose birthday is next. On a birthday
it will notify you by blinking the concerning person. Background color, normal
and notification font color can be changed. The data is loaded from a simple
text file.
WWW: http://buzzinhornetz.ath.cx/wmbday/
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/x11-clocks/wmbday/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install wmbday
cd /usr/ports/x11-clocks/wmbday/ && make install clean
pkg install wmbday
PKGNAME: wmbday
SHA256 (wmbday-0.3.1.tar.gz) = 4d89fa03aa3fddfb010f98978f22c88996da17f996fcf7ce0ba50e3cf074ca15
SIZE (wmbday-0.3.1.tar.gz) = 19836
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
Number of commits found: 27
Convert tab after WWW: in pkg-descrs to single space as per PHB
Approved by: portmgr blanket
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, categories v, w, x, y, and z.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Allow staging as a regular user
Fix properties on pkg-plist
Support stagedir.
Submitted by: portmgr (blanket infrastructure)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
- X11BASE is going away. Hack the last few ports that depend on X11BASE to not
rely on it being set globally.
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Get Rid MD5 support
Use MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR instead of rolling my own.
Clue provided by: pav
Fix remaining MASTER_SITE_LOCAL abuses for my ports.
- Update to my @FreeBSD.org address
- Add distfile mirror to single source MASTER_SITES
- Also update no longer working addresses
- Update to Maintianer Mail adress
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <firstname.lastname@example.com>
- Remove unneeded dependency from gtk12/gtk20 [1]
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Remove X11BASE support in favor of LOCALBASE or PREFIX
- Use USE_LDCONFIG instead of INSTALLS_SHLIB
- Remove unneeded USE_GCC 3.4+
Thanks to all Helpers:
Dmitry Marakasov, Chess Griffin, beech@, dinoex, rafan, gahr,
ehaupt, nox, itetcu, flz, pav
Tested on: pointyhat
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
- Remove USE_XLIB/USE_X_PREFIX/USE_XPM in favor of USE_XORG
- Bump PORTREVISION
Approved by: portmgr (xorg cleanup)
- Remove USE_GETOPT_LONG which is a no-op since March 2007
Remove always-false/true conditions based on OSVERSION 500000
- Welcome X.org 7.2 \o/.
- Set X11BASE to ${LOCALBASE} for recent ${OSVERSION}.
- Bump PORTREVISION for ports intalling files in ${X11BASE}.
- Update to 0.3.1
PR: ports/100923
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein(at)gmail.com> (maintainer)
Approved by: krion (mentor)
- Update maintainer's email address
PR: ports/98102
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <email@example.com> (maintainer)
Approved by: krion@
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Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
Notified by: kris
- Update to 0.3
PR: ports/82922
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <email@example.com> (maintainer)
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- Add the X_WINDOW_SYSTEM={xorg,xfree86-4,xfree86-3} variable to bsd.port.mk,
and make XFREE86_VERSION map to it. XFREE86_VERSION is now deprecated.
- Make xorg the default X_WINDOW_SYSTEM on -current.
- Add several new X_*_PORT variables which point to various pieces of X11 based
on the setting of X_WINDOW_SYSTEM, and make ports use them.
- Add information to CHANGES about how to handle the transition.
PR: ports/68763
Approved by: portmgr (marcus)
Approved by: re (scottl)
SIZEify (maintainer timeout)
The MAINTAINER line had an invalid e-mail address, so use a different
one from PR 61735.
Add wmbday 0.2a,
wmbday is a Window Maker dock app for Linux und FreeBSD that
will remind you of birthdays. It can show up to four persons
whose birthday is next. On a birthday it will notify you by
blinking the concerning person. Background color, normal and
notification font color can be changed. The data is loaded from
a simple text file.
Submitted by: Ulrich Spoerlein <email@example.com>
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Land Warrior Needs Work, Soldiers Say
Military.com | By Christian Lowe | February 13, 2008CAMP ABLE X-RAY, Iraq --- It was billed as a revolutionary new tool that promised to give Soldiers an added edge in the fight, with a heads-up displayed map, a see-around-corners rifle sight and speed-of-light communications.
And on its first deployment to combat, the decades-old Land Warrior system did win over many of its detractors. But as the Soldiers carrying Land Warrior's burdensome boxes and wires on their backs labored into their seventh month of deployment, some are beginning to question whether this version of a system the Army worked so hard to get to the field is worth the price.
"It's like a 17-pound GPS unit," said a Soldier assigned to Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, the first Army unit to ever deploy to a war zone using Land Warrior. "We don't use half the things it's supposed to be able to do."
Fielded as an interim solution to the long-term goal of providing the individual combat Soldier with an improved, digital option for greater situational awareness, the current Land Warrior suite has proven its worth in some of 4/9's operations, Soldiers say.
On targeted raids and complex "kinetic" operations, the Land Warrior's capabilities blossom -- with detailed photo-realistic maps displayed on a small screen attached to each helmet, real-time locations of target houses, and friendly personnel at a Soldier's fingertips and short text communications with battle managers in the rear.
And that's just the kind of thing the Land Warrior was designed for: maneuver warfare against a dispersed enemy.
"The one thing that it has done is allow speed to be the primary advantage," said Maj. Ryan Wolfgram, operations officer for 4/9. "Now we can spend less time on the objective. It reduces the confusion of getting to the right spot at the right time."
Problem is, that's not the kind of battle Soldiers at this base in downtown Baqubah are fighting anymore. Instead it's a daily grind of house calls, checking in on the city's residents to see if they've had a full day's worth of electricity, running water and consistent trash removal from the streets.
And if it's not what Land Warrior was designed for these Soldiers have a hard time masking their frustration at its glitches and the additional but not useful weight it adds to their load.
"It would be fine if they could just get it to work right," said Capt. Lupe Maestas, 4th Platoon Leader with Alpha Company, 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, during a soggy daytime patrol through Baqubah.
"Like right now, it says 'no satellites' just because of this little bit of weather," he added, peering into his heads-up display eyepiece.
Unit commanders and Land Warrior program officials insist they're working day and night to improve the system and lighten the Soldiers' load. Designers have already fielded a new version of Land Warrior to some troops in 4/9 that slims down the battery packs and consolidates components enough to fit in a recessed pouch inside the body armor vest.
"You can't even tell the guys that are wearing it except for the heads-up display," said Lt. Col. Ken Sweat, an official from the Army's Training and Doctrine Command, who's helping to evaluate Land Warrior's first deployment.
Army officials hope to field the so-called "next-gen" Land Warrior to a new Stryker unit set to deploy to Iraq when 4/9 leaves. But money to pay for the new system is tight.
The components sent overseas with 4/9 used funding allocated for the fielding back in 2007. Land Warrior funding was axed in 2008, though and officials hope to get some wartime supplemental dollars outside the yearly budget to outfit the 5th Brigade of the 2nd Infantry Division, which is set to deploy, with the "next gen" Land Warrior system.
The new system's improvements will include a "Blackberry" style control unit, rather than the mouse-like toggle switch of today's Land Warrior and designers plan to take the bulky helmet-mounted display components off the actual helmet and put them on the body, helping ease necks already straining with night vision optics.
"If you ask a Soldier what we could do to improve the system they say 'make it lighter and make it smaller.' " Sweat said.
But from the troops in the field, there's clearly a lot more room for improvement.
"It grows on some people, but it sucks because you're carrying 17 pounds of extra stuff you can't use," said 3rd Platoon Leader, 1st Lt. Dan Lowe, who added his units never used functions like the internal messaging capability.
"If Apple was running the Land Warrior show then we'd have a lot of crazy stuff," Lowe joked.
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text: On 10/26/07, Dan Weston <westondan at imageworks.com> wrote: > Thanks for letting me know about the Data.Strict library on Hackage. I > will definitely make use of that! BTW, you left out an import > Data.List(foldl') in your example. > Yes, Data.Strict can be pretty handy for getting the right strictness. Sorry about the missing import. > My timing test is an order of magnitude worse than yours. Do you have an > extra zero in your list endpoint? > > > I fed these functions to ghc with the -O2 and -threaded flags and > > timed them using the list [1..10000000]. The result (best times out of > > several runs): > > avg4: 284 ms > > avgS: 184 ms > > avgP: 248 ms > > Using ghc -threaded -O2 --make Avg.hs for ghc 6.6.1, I ran your tests on > [1..10000000] and got the user times: > > avg4: 12.75 s > avgS: 3.65 s > avgP: 15.56 s > > The funny thing is that avg4/avgS = 3.5 for and only 1.5 for you. I > understand that with only 1 processor my avgP time may be twice yours, > but not the avgS or avg4. > Oooops.. My numbers are totally bogus. I had code that looked like the following: \begin{code} main = do time avg4 [1..10000000] time avg4 [1..10000000] time avg4 [1..10000000] time avgS [1..10000000] time avgS [1..10000000] time avgS [1..10000000] time avgP [1..10000000] time avgP [1..10000000] time avgP [1..10000000] \end{code} Not very elegant I know but I thought it would do the job. Apparently I was wrong. GHC does common subexpression elimination on all the lists so they're all shared between the different calls. Of course, the first function call would always take long time but I ignored it, thinking it was some anomaly. Anyway, I was totally sure that GHC only did cse on constructor expressions and not on arbitrary computations. Guess I was wrong. A little searching revealed the following quote by Simon PJ: > GHC does a very simple form of CSE. If it sees > let x = e in ....e.... > it replaces the inner 'e' by x. But that's all at the moment. Lesson learned. Less bogus timing: avg4: 18.0s avgS: 2.2s avgP: 17.4s OK, so these figures make an even stronger case for my conclusion :-) Single traversal can be much faster than multiple traversals *when done right*. > I have the following machine: > > Main memory size: 2026 Mbytes > Num Processors: 1 > Processor Type: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz x32 > Clock Speed: 2790 MHZ > In case you're still interested my machine looks like this: Memory: 2026 Mbytes Processor: AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 Clock Speed: 1800MHz All the best, /Josef


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AUSTIN (Reuters) - A Texas man who confessed to being the ringleader of a ruthless band of murderers and rapists was executed on Wednesday, hours after Arizona put another man to death for killing his adoptive mother.
George Rivas, 41, was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. at a prison in Huntsville, Texas, state officials said.
Rivas was executed for his role in the "Texas Seven" gang's murder of police officer Aubrey Hawkins outside an Oshman's Superstore on Christmas Eve 2000 in Irving, next to Dallas.
Rivas was the confessed ringleader of the group, a band of convicted robbers, rapists and murderers who broke out of a maximum security prison in Karnes County, southeast of San Antonio on December 13, 2000. At the time, Rivas was serving 17 life sentences for several crimes including aggravated kidnapping, according to the Texas Attorney General's office.
Earlier on Wednesday, Arizona executed 63-year-old convicted murderer Robert Henry Moormann.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American soldiers have again hit the streets of dangerous neighborhoods in western Baghdad that had been handed over to Iraqi forces, trying to keep a lid on sectarian attacks that have raged since the February bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
The U.S. military has refocused its mission to confront death squads that have tortured and killed hundreds, a tacit acknowledgment that Iraqi troops have not been able to control violence between Shiites and Sunnis on their own.
"Iraqi security forces can control large acts, but you can't be everywhere at once," said Capt. Matt Brown.
Fewer attacks now are directed against Americans, soldiers say. At the same time, the number of Iraqis found slain, apparently in tit-for-tat killings by Shiite and Sunni extremists, has sharply increased in western neighborhoods like Shula and Ghazaliyah.
At the same time, Iraqi troops have begun using their own armored Humvees to patrol dangerous downtown areas of Ramadi, about 75 miles west of Baghdad. Previously, Iraqis have mostly traveled less risky zones on foot with better-equipped U.S. troops taking the more hazardous duty.
But that began to change in recent weeks with the Iraqi Defense Ministry distributing armored Humvees.
The return of more U.S. forces to the Baghdad area has tested relationships with Iraqi soldiers, however.
"To be perfectly honest, they were a little (angry) that we came back into their sector," said 1st Lt. John Ford. "It's getting to a point where they don't want or need us. It's unfortunate because we have a lot of assets to bring to the table."
After an initial few days of tension, life appears to have pressed on as normally as possible in these areas, soldiers say. Shops are open and pedestrians crowd market streets - but bodies have also steadily appeared during their patrols.
The shift in U.S. strategy is temporary, a result of sectarian attacks unleashed by the Feb. 22 bombing of a major Shiite shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of the capital.
Eventually, U.S. troops said they expected to return to support missions, leaving Iraqi troops in charge once again.
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Got yield data. Now what?
I may have 16 years of yield data on most of my Oakland, Iowa, fields, but the pretty yield maps were not always particularly useful. Knowledge gained from the yield monitor came mainly from the driver's seat of the combine.
In the early days, the data gathered had two purposes. First, it was used to compare seed varieties. I've done hundreds of side-by-side tests over the years for seed selection, and sometimes the yield maps would reveal placement information for certain varieties. But, generally, the best seed worked well wherever it was placed.
The second purpose of data was to define the wet areas of a field for tiling, which was quite useful.
Yet none of the information was ever used to make decisions on a broader scale. Today, however, yield data is used to define zones for soil testing as well as planting rates.
In the beginning, I used grid soil sampling to understand my fields better. I was frustrated, though. I didn't think the maps modeled fields very well. Then I considered a zone map, because it would provide a better model. But zones are hard to define. In the end, yield maps did give me the high-resolution data I needed to develop the high-resolution zones I wanted.
My zones average 4 acres; some are as small as 1.5 acres. I experimented with multitemporal yield analysis years ago, but it was difficult with the software at the time. The analysis is much easier now, and it's built into the SMS software I use.
Based mostly on yield maps, zones were drawn by hand. RTK elevation data was used to create a three-dimensional map of the yield data to help visualize zones, which are exported to an ATV for sampling. An automatic probe on the ATV makes it easy to collect cores from 10 sample points spread across each zone. Each zone is tested, and results are associated with each sample point. This takes a little extra work, but I've found that soil tests do model the field better.
Overall, I'm happy with the new sampling method.
Variable-rate planting
Zones or yield data also make sense in variable-rate planting because all factors are accounted for – measured or not. I selected a high-yield year for basing my variable rate. A year that shows the yield potential of the field gives better information for a planting-rate prescription.
Yet a prescription requires quality data. One difficulty with yield maps is the noise in the data. Noise (or bad data) comes from sources including poor calibration, variety differences, and wind. Most noise happens at the end of the rows.
An easy way to filter data is to select the low and high yields, and delete them from the map. Other bad data can be selected and deleted from the map. Noise isn't much of an issue, however, when hand-drawing zones. A contour map fills in blank areas for the prescription.
Doug Applegate Applegate Acres
Doug Applegate farms 1,500 acres near Oakland, Iowa, with his wife, Kathy. Their primary crops are corn and soybeans. They began using precision ag technology in their operation more than a decade ago. Learn more at applegateacres.com.
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Rock Cycle
Lesson 5 of 14
Objective: SWBAT define the three types of rocks and differentiate between how they form.
Big Idea: Students diagram the rock cycle and then play a rock cycle game to practice what they have learned.
The Why Behind Teaching This
Unit 5 covers standards relating to Earth's Systems. It covers Standard 5-ESS2-1: Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact. Students will be learning the difference between each of the systems, and ways that each of the systems interact to help make Earth what it is today. The other standard covered is Standard 5-ESS2-2: Describe and graph the amounts and percentages of water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.
Modeling will be an important component of this unit. Students will be modeling layers of Earth, the water cycle, land forms, and more. The unit begins with an overview of all the systems, then each system is taught in isolation. As each new system is covered, how it depends on or interacts with the previous systems will be addressed. In addition to the end of unit assessment, there will also be a culminating activity where groups build a model to demonstrate how 2 of the systems interact. Connections to several previously covered standards will also be made throughout this unit.
This specific lesson covers standard 5-ESS2-1 because it provides information about the geosphere and begins to lay the foundation for how the systems interact. In later lessons, we will be covering weather which plays a big role in the creation of sedimentary rocks.
Lesson Goal:
The goal of this lesson is for students to be able to identify the three types of rock and describe how they change from one type to another.
Success Criteria:
Students will demonstrate success on this lesson goal by correctly answering questions while modeling the rock cycle.
Preparing For The Lesson:
Warm Up:
- Three rock samples for each group: one igneous, one sedimentary, and one metamorphic
- A copy of the Comparing Rocks Information Sheet for each group
Guided Practice:
- A copy of the Rock Cycle Foldable for each student
- A copy of the Rock Cycle Foldable Diagram Inserts for students who need that modification
- A copy of the Rock Cycle Game Directions to place on the overhead and review with the class
- A copy of the Rock Cycle Game for each group along with a dice, several small rocks for game pieces, a set of Igneous Game Cards, Metamorphic Game Cards, and Sedimentary Game Cards for each group
- A bag of mini marshmallows, a bag of chocolate chips, a box of graham crackers, a microwave
Wrap Up:
You do not need any additional materials for this section as this will only be a review.
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Warm Up
Three Types Of Rocks
To begin the lesson today, I provide each group with 3 rocks (one igneous, one metamorphic, and one sedimentary, but I do not tell them this). I also provide them with a copy of the Comparing Rocks Information Sheet and instruct them to draw a picture of each rock and then describe its appearance in words. All groups have the same rocks so I hold up one of the rocks and tell all groups to make that rock number 1 on the sheet, then I hold up another rock and tell them to make that rock 2, and the last rock will be rock 3. It is easier to make sure all groups have the same rocks for each number when it comes time to discuss what they have recorded. While groups share their descriptions for rock one, all other groups can compare what they had for the same rock.
After about 6 minutes of working, I ask groups to share the descriptions they have for each rock. The descriptions for the rocks were all very similar. For the igneous rock, most groups put that it was glassy, black, smooth, sharp edges. For the metamorphic rock groups had gray, smooth, flat, layers. For the sedimentary rock groups had that it was multicolored, bumpy, rough, and some even put that it looked like it was made of a bunch of different rocks.
I then tell them that rocks are formed from two or more different minerals (we just learned about minerals in the previous lesson). Each of the rocks you have were formed in a different way. Does anyone have any ideas on how these rocks were formed? Students learned about rocks in 4th grade so they do have some ideas. They are able to tell me that the black, glassy rock is an igneous rock and that it formed from a volcano. They are also able to tell me that the bumpy, multicolored rock is a sedimentary rock and was formed from a bunch of other rock pieces. They knew the third rock was the other kind but could not remember the name, or how it formed.
Why Begin the Lesson With this Activity
By providing the students with rocks to observe before teaching them about the rock cycle, I am giving them the opportunity to identify some of the differences for themselves. I purposely selected rock samples that demonstrate the common characteristics of each type. For example, I selected a metamorphic rock that has crystals, a sedimentary rock that you can clearly see the different layers, and an igneous rock that is black with holes from where it solidified quickly with gas bubbles still in it. When I begin teaching them about the rock cycle and I mention these characteristics they will be able to relate it to the observations they just made.
Another reason I began with this activity is because the students learned about the rock cycle in fourth grade and I want to see what they remember. I want to see if they are able to name the rocks they are given. Can they recognize them as igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary? By doing the quick review I was able to see that they do remember the terms igneous and sedimentary and how both form but do not remember metamorphic. This helps guide my instruction through the lesson as I know I need to focus more on metamorphic rocks.
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Guided Practice
Rock Cycle Foldable
I collect the three rock samples and give each student a copy of the Rock Cycle Foldable that has been prefolded for them. They glue the foldable into their science notebook as I glue a copy in my science notebook and place it on the overhead as a model for students. Having my notebook on the overhead as a model is helpful to the ESE students who struggle with writing and spelling. Students who are absent also have a resource to copy from when they return to school.
There are pictures of three rocks and arrows on the front cover of the foldable. We begin by labeling each type of rock as I describe how they are formed.
- Sedimentary rocks can contain fossils such as the picture of the rock at the top. These rocks form from other rocks being broken (weathered) into small pieces (sediments) and then combining with plant and animal matter (the reason they can have fossils) to get cemented to form new rock. These rocks can either have layers of different types of sediment, or can be noticeable pieces of sediments stuck together.
- Metamorphic rock is formed from heat and pressure. Heat from inside the Earth and from the movement of plates producing friction. That heat, along with the pressure from layers above, cause rock to change. Metamorphic rock can have crystals from being heated and could have flattened layers from the pressure.
- Igneous rock has been formed from magma melting surrounding rock, cooling, and then hardening into new rock. This type of rock is often black from being burned, can have holes in it from cooling with air bubbles trapped, and can also contain crystals or have a glassy appearance from the melting and cooling.
After labeling each type of rock, I draw a little picture next to each one to help students remember how they form. I draw some small sediments next to sedimentary, layers of the Earth pressing down, as heat from within the Earth presses up next to metamorphic, and a volcano next to igneous.
Next, we fill in information in the arrows on how one type of rock can change into another. I question the students to see what they think will go in the arrow. This helps them see that for any rock to become igneous, it has to melt and cool, it doesn't matter if it is metamorphic or sedimentary. For any rock to become sedimentary, it must be weathered and sediments cemented together to form new rock. And for any rock to become metamorphic, it must go through heat and pressure.
How It Looks in the Real World
On the inside of the foldable, we diagram what the rock cycle looks like in action. We draw a volcano with magma at its center. We draw rain and wind weathering the igneous rock that formed near the volcano. Sediments being carried to a nearby pond where it settles to the bottom and is cemented together to form sedimentary rock. After many years, that sedimentary rock is pressed closer to the center of the Earth and gets heated where it is transformed into metamorphic rock. We are discussing what is happening as we diagram the entire process. I provide the ESE students with a copy of the Rock Cycle Foldable Diagram Inserts that have been precut and placed in Ziplock baggies. Having the written part already printed and cut for them allows them to focus more on the discussion taking place as opposed to copying.
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Playing the Rock Cycle Game
I place a copy of the Rock Cycle Game Directions on the overhead. I go through the directions with the whole class and model on a game board how to move. I leave the directions on the overhead for students to refer to.
I provide each group with a copy of the Rock Cycle Game, small rocks to use as game pieces, a die, the Igneous Game Cards, the Metamorphic Game Cards, and the Sedimentary Game Cards. Groups play the game for the next 15 - 20 minutes. I circulate once in a while to listen to answers and to ensure the game is being played correctly.
Making Rock Cycle S'mores for a Formative Assessment
While groups are playing the game, I call them over one group at a time to make rock cycle s'mores. This is a fun way for me to assess student understanding. I ask them questions as we make the s'mores so that I can see which students know the types of rock and how they change into the other types.
I begin by giving each student several mini marshmallows and several chocolate chips. What part of the rock cycle would these small pieces represent? Sediments
I have the students smash it all together to make a ball (this gets a little messy because the marshmallow gets sticky, have hand wipes available). What type of rock does this model, now that the sediments are stuck, or cemented together? Sedimentary.
What would have to happen to our sedimentary rock to make it change to an igneous rock? It would have to be melted and cooled. What would have to happen to it to make it a metamorphic rock? It would have to go through heat and pressure.
We are going to change our sedimentary rock into metamorphic. I have the students apply pressure to their ball of marshmallow and chocolate chips by smashing it with their hand. We discuss how pressure from their hand also produced heat which has caused the marshmallow and chocolate chips to get even stickier.
Now we have a flattened metamorphic rock. What would have to happen to get it to become an igneous rock? It would have to be melted and cooled. How could it change into a sedimentary rock? The rock would have to be weathered and the sediments cemented together to form a new rock.
We are going to change it to igneous rock. We do not have magma to melt our rock so we will use a microwave. Students place their smashed marshmallow and chocolate chip ball on top of a graham cracker and heat it in the microwave. It melts in less than 20 seconds. I have them take out their treat and place another graham cracker on top before taking it to their seats to enjoy.
You can see in the video of complete rock cycle s'more activity that I shorten this process for some groups, based on what I have heard in small groups during the game. If I have a good idea that some groups understand the process I ask fewer questions. If there is a group that I know may be struggling, I would spend more time and go into more detail with the activity. I would also call on specific students in the group to answer instead of just allowing one person to speak for the whole group. Here is another video of complete rock cycle s'more activity which I ask some different questions with.
Why Model With Food
We completed a diagram of the rock cycle on our foldable so why students model the process again? Having them answer questions while modeling the rock cycle with food allows me to check for understanding on an individual basis. I walked them through completion of the diagram in our foldable, now can they apply what they learned to a model of their own? Although I call a whole group over (3-4 students together), I am asking each student individual questions and if a student answers incorrectly his peers can help. I am able to get a pretty good idea of who has grasped the concepts.
Although the modeling could be done with clay or something else, I use food because students love to work for food. It helps with classroom management during the game because I call groups over to make the s'mores based on who is playing the game quietly and correctly, with no arguing. Everyone wants to come make the s'mores so they are focused on the game trying to be the next group to come over.
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Game Winners and Review
All groups clean up the game and determine who the winners are. I reward the winners with tickets (our classroom incentive). As I collect the game materials, I review today's lesson by asking the questions below. I call on students who struggled with the questions being asked during the rock cycle s'mores activity.
- Which of Earth's systems are rock part of? geosphere
- What are the three types of rocks? Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
- Which type can have fossils in it? sedimentary
- Why is this the only type to have fossils? Sediments are cemented with plant and animal matter that can contain remains
- Which type of rock is found near a volcano? Igneous
- How do metamorphic rocks turn into sedimentary rocks? Weathering breaks the rock into sediments
- What can weather rock into sediments? Wind and Water
- How do metamorphic rocks turn into igneous rock? Magma melts the rock and then in cools and hardens into new rock
- Why can both metamorphic and igneous rock have crystals in them? Because the heat causes crystallization
- What is the difference between rocks and minerals? minerals are naturally occurring substances that are the same throughout and rocks are made up of two or more minerals


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While the Prime Minister and Umno president has averted a tussle for the top posts, a proxy war threatens to tear the party apart.
PETALING JAYA: Last month Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak met up with four MIC top leaders to broker a peace deal in an effort to ensure that the party is not split by a tussle for the party top post.
The intention of Najib, who is also BN chairman, was to avert an internal fight and ensure MIC stayed intact to win back the 1.8 million Malaysian Indian community and to use the party as a vehicle to reach out to Indian voters.
The four – president G Palanivel, deputy president Dr S Subramaniam, vice-presidents M Saravanan and SK Devamany – agreed to the deal, patting each other's backs after the meeting with Najib, close to midnight.
Like a band of brothers, the four then adjourned to a five-star hotel for a "teh-tarik" where they ironed out details of the deal. It was all fine and dandy at this point.
When news broke of deal, supporters of at least three of the leaders were miffed, telling them that they should not have agreed to the deal and that MIC matters should be handled internally and not by the Umno president.
Till today none of the four have gone public on the contents of the deal. MIC CWC member KP Samy broke the silence, asking Palanivel to reveal details of the deal. He was brushed-off by the party chief a few days later.
However, the gist of the deal was that Dr Subramaniam, who is also Health Minister, will not take on Palanivel for the presidency at the presidential election on Sept 22.
Instead, Palanivel would hand over the top post to Dr Subramaniam in 2016. The four leaders also agreed that the No 2 post, held by Dr Subramaniam, would not be challenged. But these are just sketchy details of the deal.
Although Palanivel has ensured that he kept the MIC crown, the same cannot be said of Dr Subramaniam's position.
Palanivel became the party's eighth president on Sept 1 when he won the post uncontested at the presidential election nomination. Dr Subramaniam's position as party No 2 is, however, not safe.
Anyone can mount a challenge for the No 2 post as a contender will only need one nomination to fight for the deputy presidency. And this contender could be a proxy of any leader, including Palanivel.
A real fear
Now the party, which was supposed to have become stronger after the Najib brokered peace deal, is on the brink of a proxy war that threatens to tear MIC apart.
Palanivel's camp is already moving to ensure "the president's men" fill up all important positions in the party. The elections for deputy president, three vice presidents and 23 CWC members – will only be held in November.
The current batch of leaders who fill these positions are all former president S Samy Vellu's men. The party has not held an election since 2009. Party polls was scheduled for 2012 but postponed due to the 13th general election.
Palanivel's supporters argue that since the Natural Resources and Environment Minister would be in charge of the party for the next three years, it is only right that "his people" hold important positions in the party.
Already there is a divide on who should helm the party's Youth chief wing. Both camps have their horses ready for the race.
Palanivel's camp is backing V Mugilan, the deputy Youth chief, while Dr Subramaniam is pushing for C Sivaraajh, a Youth leader who's now the special officer to Perak Menteri Besar Zambry Abdul Kadir.
This is just the start, say party insiders. Both Palanivel and Dr Subramaniam are expected to come to come out with their "preferred list" respectively, closer to the polls.
The main tussle is expected to be in the election of the three vice-presidents and 23 CWC positions. Both camps would put up a list and this would tear the party apart.
Current vice presidents, Saravanan and Devamany, are expected to feature in Dr Subramaniam's list, although the third "preferred" candidate is still a mystery.
Palanivel on the other hand may want to retain Saravanan but bring in two other leaders aligned to the president to contest the post.
Saravanan has become a prized asset for both the camps as the 45-year-old Youth and Sports deputy minister has managed to carve a following in the party due to his down to earth approach.
Saravanan has over the past five years managed to steadily increase his support base and is now a main player in MIC politics.
However, soon after the party announced that elections would be held this year, the deputy minister was quick to drop hints that he would go for the deputy president's post in the polls.
But this was before the peace deal was brokered. He has now scaled down his ambition and is said to be hell-bent on retaining one of the three vice-president seats.
Tight CWC race
On the CWC front, more than 60 candidates are expected to fight it out for the 23 available positions. Both Palanivel and Dr Subramaniam's camps are expected to come-up with a list on this soon.
While these lists are not expected to be announced in the open, they would be circulated internally. Both leaders are also expected to drop hints on who they want as the vice-presidents.
While Najib has averted a tussle for the top post, he cannot do much to stop contenders from taking on the incumbents for other top positions, especially when the No 1 and No 2 have their preferred list of leaders they want as vice-presidents and CWC members.
This threatens to tear the party apart. The peace deal brokered by Najib to ensure MIC is not embroiled in an internal tussle is only a temporary and this bund built by Prime Minister is just waiting to burst its banks.


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Chris Canty will not get the chance to play against his old team Sunday night.
Although the Giants do not have to make any official classification on him until this afternoon's injury report is released, a league source said the defensive tackle will not be able to play against the Cowboys. Canty suffered a strained calf in practice Wednesday and did not practice Thursday.
Canty was spotted in the Giants' training complex walking gingerly with his right calf heavily wrapped. He missed most of training camp with a torn right hamstring but played in the opener against the Redskins.
Tom Coughlin said Canty is "day to day" with his injury. In four years with the Cowboys, Canty did not miss a game.
The source said the injury is "not a big deal" but that Canty could miss two or three weeks. "It's just a strain," the source said. "There's no tear, no operation. It will heal itself with rest."
Nicks moving along
Hakeem Nicks (sprained foot) said he is on track to return in two to three weeks. "It feels good right now," he said. "The way it's feeling right now, we'll just continue to take it one day at a time and I feel like we'll make the right decision on whether or not I'll come back and play."
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S Kenny Phillips (knee) returned to practice and had two interceptions, but Coughlin said his knee injury is one that likely will linger . . . Michael Johnson, the other starting safety, missed a second straight practice with a shoulder burner, but Coughlin said the team is "feeling good" about his chances of playing Sunday . . . Antonio Pierce on the difference in Tony Romo without Terrell Owens: "I know his ears don't hurt as much."


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Mather elated to make Cubs' cut
MESA, Ariz. -- Joe Mather got a huge hug from his father prior to Friday's game. Dad had heard that his son was going to be on the Cubs' Opening Day roster. "If someone would've told me I would have this well of a camp, I'd be jumping up and down," Mather said. "It's been awesome. They gave me quite a bit of an opportunity, and it feels good to take advantage of that." He was batting .418 in 21 games and was tied for third on the team in at-bats entering Friday's matchup with the Dodgers. It's been a nice comeback for the versatile Mather, who had surgery on his left wrist in September 2008 and has needed time to heal. It's an injury similar to what former Cubs infielder Mark DeRosa had.
"It's something they tell you takes six weeks to heal, and when you come back you find out that's not necessarily the case," Mather said. "You lose a lot of the whip in your swing, and everything you taught yourself to do, you have to adjust. It was frustrating, yeah." There were a few teams interested in the right-handed hitter, who has played for the Braves and Cardinals, but he wanted to sign with the Cubs. "I always liked playing in Wrigley, always liked the Cubs' history," he said. "This was definitely a place I wanted to be. It was a nice fit." Cubs manager Dale Sveum likes having Mather as an option at either first, third or the outfield against some tough left-handed pitchers. Sveum also hinted that Mather could push some of the regulars. "That's great to hear coming from the manager that there might be some opportunity there," Mather said. "At this point, being cut down to the final 25 guys, it's about winning. That's what is most important. If I play myself into a role, that would be great, too." The difference this spring? "I think I had a really good offseason, a lot of focus went into my workouts and I think that's probably the main thing and being healthy, secondary," he said. "I had a great core of people around me, my parents, my girlfriend. Everyone's been out here. I think it's a combination of all those things."


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Vallejo police continue to investigate last week's discovery of a body buried in a shallow grave near the waterfront, and are hoping someone will step forward and help with an identification, police said Monday.
The discovery near Lemon and Derr streets is being investigated as a possible homicide or a "highly suspicious" incident, Capt. Jim O'Connell said.
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Universal Robotics, Motoman partner on 3D vision systems
Vision software and industrial robots will be combined to make materials handling more accurate, efficient and cost-effective.
|Universal Robotics technology, which is not dependent on a particular hardware platform, allows moving machines to learn through interaction with the physical world. Feedback to Spatial Vision 3D vision software in real time (called "visual servoing") enables what the company calls Neocortex reactive automation during task completion. Neocortex software reportedly optimizes patterns of similar tasks over time, resulting in long-term adaptive automation.
Universal Robotics, Inc. and Motoman, Inc. today announced a partnership to develop and market a new 3D vision system solution for a variety of robotic applications. The companies will integrate Universal's Spatial Vision self-calibrating 3D vision software in Motoman's industrial robots. The first Spatial Vision-enabled robots will target material handling applications, from 3D bin picking to racking, and will be available in early 2010, according to Roger Christian, vice president of marketing and international groups at Motoman .
Christian said Universal's Spatial Vision software will allow Motoman "to set a new price-performance point in the robotic 3D vision systems market." Current 3D robotic vision systems require extensive programming and laborious setup, and can be very costly to implement and maintain, he said. These factors have limited the wide adoption of the technology.
The Spatial Vision system enables automatic self-calibration, full color and high definition images, and millimeter accuracy within a robot's work envelope. The system can "automatically identify any dynamic point in 3D space and calculate the distance to this point using inexpensive web cams," said Christian, and "delivers accurate, full-frame color results at 960 by 720 pixels four to five times per second."
David Peters, CEO of Universal Robotics , said Spatial Vision software gives robots the real-time high-fidelity input necessary to react to their physical environments. "This is an important step towards Universal's efforts to enable machines to efficiently perform difficult or dangerous tasks," he said. Universal Robotics creates software that enables machines to learn from their experiences, react and adapt to their surroundings, and perform tasks that are costly, dangerous or difficult for humans to undertake. The company's signature technology, Neocortex, which was developed over seven years at NASA and Vanderbilt University, can increase efficiency and worker safety in applications including warehousing, mining, handling hazardous waste and automated vehicles such as forklifts.
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Maria Skarie and Jordan Amundson wish to announce their engagement.
Parents of the couple are Don and Pam Skarie of Detroit Lakes; and Mike and Mandi Amundson of Granstburg, WI.
Maria recently graduated from Minnesota State University Moorhead, where she earned a degree in Elementary Education.
Jordan is employed by UPS and Lakeview Greenhouses of Detroit Lakes.
The wedding is planned for July 12, 2008 at Trinity Lutheran Church of Detroit Lakes.