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Apartment upgrades in Windom, Harmony, and Buffalo offer savings for residents
From the 1960s to the 1980s many affordable housing projects were developed. As these units have begun to age, they require frequent repair and upgrades to address health, safety and energy efficiency concerns. The Southwest Minnesota Housing Partnership (SWMHP) found that incorporating energy efficiency measures into its housing accommodations was a win-win plan.
SWMHP is a non-profit community development corporation serving thirty counties in rural Minnesota. The organization's goal is to build strong and healthy places to live so that communities in southern Minnesota can thrive.
A new addition to this overarching goal is a commitment to sustainable housing practices. The SWMHP was working on a portfolio of projects called Zedakah, which included seven properties in their service area. At first the SWMHP was looking at HOME (Home Investment Partnerships Program) funding, but found that this grant did not fit all its needs and researched additional funding sources.
When they heard about the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) program, they were pleased to find that it supported their plans for energy efficiency rehabilitation of several Zedakah properties. SWMHP also determined that money saved in the long term would outweigh the cost of the project for both parties involved (the SWMHP and the residents), allowing the housing partnership to invest the savings into future repairs and upgrades and allowing residents to put the savings toward other basic needs.
This project encompassed energy upgrades to apartment complexes in Windom (Windom Apartments), Harmony (Harmony Manor Apartments) and Buffalo (Woodmere Apartments). The Windom Economic Development Authority (EDA) was a conduit for communication on the project, with Windom serving as the lead city throughout the project.
Several different funding sources came together to help with various aspects of the rehabilitation and energy efficiency upgrades. The total cost of the project was $1,528,870 of which $166,000 was EECBG-funded. The EECBG money was used at all three properties, and covered projects from window replacement to HVAC renovation. Other sources of funding came from HOME, Community Action Agencies, and Neighborworks America.
SWMHP Chief Operating Officer, Lisa Graphenteen, noted that there were some logistical challenges to implementing such a wide-scale project. "The funding sources did not always line up in regards to commencement and completion date requirements, so a contractor who could have completed all the work [earlier] needed to come back when a funding source became available," she said. Graphenteen also noted that having three different communities at which to simultaneously coordinate projects was difficult at times.
When asked what worked well, Graphenteen reported, "Minnesota Department of Commerce staff was flexible. When all the dollars were not needed on the original properties (Windom and Harmony), they helped figure out how to utilize the funds with the property in Buffalo."
Projects completed at the three apartment complexes addressed a variety of energy efficiency shortcomings. At the Windom apartment complex, old boilers were replaced with 94% efficient ones and controls were installed to better distribute heating. Furthermore, attic bypasses were sealed and the attic was reinsulated. Windows and doors were also weather-stripped to prevent drafts.
The Harmony building saw the replacement of 20 T12 lamps with magnetic ballasts with T8 25W lamps and electronic ballasts, 20 incandescent lamps with CFL bulbs, and new LED exit signs were installed. At least 25 windows in the complex were replaced and the attic was reinsulated to diminish draftiness. Changes took place on a smaller-scale level as well: ENERGY STAR rated refrigerators replaced old units and temperature controls were installed in each of the apartments throughout the building.
The Buffalo apartments went through major window renovations as 140 windows were replaced with U-0.35 new windows.
While final energy savings data won't be available until the end of 2012, SWMHP has set a new precedent in the area of energy efficiency for affordable housing units. With the help of EECBG funding, SWMHP has begun to hold itself to a high standard in providing healthy, affordable, and efficient living at its properties.
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- $166,000 used at three sites.
- $171,126 for weatherization in Windom and Harmony.
- $69,684 was used on two properties: Harmony and Buffalo. The funds for the Buffalo property (Woodmere Apartments) were used for doors, insulation, A/C covers, CO2 and smoke detectors, boilers, and water heaters.
- $1,122,060 covered rehabilitation and energy efficiency of the parking lot, cabinets, roof, carpet, paint, appliances, elevator, mechanical, smoke detectors, siding, plumbing, and windows in Buffalo and Harmony.
Other Local Government Energy Action Weatherization Stories:
- Local Government Weatherization: Saving Big with 50+ Projects Statewide
- Weatherization at Westbrook-Walnut Grove High School conserves heat in winter
- Curiosity and continuous improvement pay off: Weatherization fixes cut waste in Itasca County
- Bringing a building back to life: Clear Waters Life Center in Gonvick, MN
- Rushford-Peterson School Locks in Savings with Programmable Thermostats & Behavior Change
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1 month in Japan, advice on itinerary please
I hope I have come to the right website for help. I will be travelling in Japan for one month, starting from this October, and I just wanted some advice. I want to make sure it is possible to get to and from each place, or if I need to move things around a bit.
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Hi there,
Here are some answers for you:
JR Coverage
The vast majority of your locations are accessible with a JR Pass. The following 2 areas will need an extra fare to be paid as the route is not 100% operated by JR:
Basic savings with a 21 day pass
A 21 day pass form the 7th to the 27th looks like it'll give you good savings:
JR ticket cost: ¥89500 for 15 legs
Green car
It's always hard to advise on the Green car as so much depends on the type of traveller. Standard carriages is very comforable, however Green Car offers larger and more comforatble seating, quieter carriages and exclusivity :). Here's a post on the Green Car. If it was me, I'd save the money on the green car for a nice meal, hotel or onsen experience, but it is totally up to the individual :).
If the pass expires but I still have a few days of travel to do?
The JR Pass is non-extendible, so if the pass runs out you will need to purchase standard individual tickets as needed.
Final words!
It all looks like an awesome trip :). Please ask if you need any more help. You can look up precise train timetables and costs at the Hyperdia travel planning website and learn how to use Hyperdia for JR Pass holders through our video blog.
Happy planning!
Wow, thank you mari, your response is so insightful and helpful! I truly appreciate it.
I think I will go for the ordinary japan rail pass now, and use that money for a nice ryokan or something ;) thanks for that handy tip! I probably would have gone for the green pass, but I have since been reading a few forum posts on the comparisons, and by the sounds of it, the ordinary pass sounds just as nice!
I think you have covered everything I need to know. If I have any more questions I will definitely come back. I'm going to bookmark this page because your info has been so useful. Thank you again, you're the best! :)
Not a problem :)
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For all of the members of the ICU team at Olean General Hospital, critical care begins at the moment of illness or injury and continues throughout the patient's hospitalization, treatment and recovery. In most cases, severely ill or traumatized patients are admitted directly to the Hospital's emergency room or medical or surgical area for assessment, treatment and stabilization and then admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
The Intensive Care Unit has some of the most highly-trained nursing staff available today. Critical care nurses (CCRNs) provide a high level of skilled nursing for continuous and total patient care. Their expertise, training and continuous observation of patients permits them to recognize subtle but significant changes in patient conditions thereby preventing worsening conditions and minimizing complications that arise from critical illness.
The Intensive Care Unit at Olean General Hospital utilizes a vast array of high tech and electronic instruments and machines to assist and monitor patients through their life threatening experience.
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"Shrek the Musical" is set to trek.
Producer Bill Damaschke (Dah-mash-key) says the show based on the hit DreamWorks animated film will launch its national tour in June 2010 at the Ford Center for the Performing Arts, Oriental Theatre in Chicago. No casting was announced.
The musical features book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire and music by Jeanine Tesori. The Broadway production stars Brian d'Arcy James as the cantankerous green ogre. It currently is on view at the Broadway Theatre.


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The Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) - the congregational arm of the Reform Movement in North America - helps to create and sustain vibrant Reform Jewish congregations wherever Reform Jews live. The synagogue is at the very center of Jewish life, transforming individual members into caring, committed Jews, inspiring them to live Jewish lives. The synagogue is the door through which our members encounter a larger entity, K'lal Yisrael, the people of Israel.
The Union provides leadership and vision to Reform Jews on spiritual, ethical and political issues. It offers opportunities for individual growth and identity that congregations and individuals cannot provide by themselves, such as camps and Israel programs, study kallot, and national and regional biennials.
As a member of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, the Union connects Reform Jews in North America with Liberal/Progressive/Reform congregations on every continent. The Union represents Reform member congregations and their members in communal organizations such as the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.
The mission of the Union for Reform Judaism is to provide vision, leadership and programmatic support to Reform Jewish congregations and to perpetuate and advance Reform Judaism.
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An Apology For Accidentally Breaking The Internet
I'm sorry.
To the millions of people whose precious minutes were wasted on the third of March, 2012, between the approximate time of 5:57pm and 6:03pm, I apologise. All I ask is for your forgiveness, and that you understand the reasoning behind my mistake.
It started like any normal Saturday evening; I was working on a new article for my site (by which I mean I was watching kittens try to fit into cardboard boxes, obviously), when I noticed a drastic reduction in both network and computer speed: something was slowing my computer down, but I didn't know what. So, I did some diagnostics to check. The CPU usage was average, the router was routin' all good, and the monitor wasn't on fire, but the hard drive space was suspiciously low. I think it was that point when it all began to make sense. I was the host.
As I'm sure you all know, the Internet is powered by a mind-boggling amount of interconnected servers, computers and wires, all in the "cloud" what you may not know is that the "cloud" is actually stored on a select few groups of computers, in the forms of specific files. The files are stored in the My Documents folder, are called http.internet, and are given to any computer who requests them.
The easiest way to check if you're a host is simply to check your My Documents folder for a large file called http.internet. If it's there, you're hosting the Internet; if you find it on your computer, don't worry — it's only for a maximum of 24 hours (or until the Internet Consortium can locate another computer).
Anyway, I'm digressing. The reason the internet went down for six minutes was because I accidentally deleted the HTTP file. I wanted to check out what part of the Internet was on my computer (for those wondering, it was FarmVille, so nothing important), and instead of pressing Enter to open it, I hit backspace, which deleted the file, and caused an emergency "rehosting" — finding a new computer to move the files on to.
It was a rookie mistake, and for that, I'm sorry. There's obviously lessons to be learnt here; the most important of which, I think, is to be more deliberate in my actions, and to ensure that anything in futu—
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The Washington State University Cougar football team was unable to make the score close at the end as they had done in their previous three games and the Arizona State Sun Devils obliterated the Cougars, 42-0 in Tempe, sending the Cougars to their seventh straight loss. With the loss, the Cougars drop to 1-8 overall and remain winless at 0-6 in conference play.
Once again, the game began poorly for the Cougars as they went three-and out on their first offensive possession and Arizona State had no trouble marching in for a 7-0 lead on a seven-yard rushing touchdown by sophomore Cameron Marshall. The sun Devils added another touchdown on a Steven Threet nine yard touchdown pass to receiver Jamal Miles to make it 14-0 in the first quarter. Wazzu sophomore quarterback Jeff Tuel then tossed his 10th interception of the year on the ensuing Cougars' possession and ASU took little time in converting the turnover into points at Deantre Lewis ran it in from three yards out for a 21-0 lead. ASU finished out the first half with another Threet-to-Miles touchdown pass for a 28-0 margin.
The Sun Devils added another touchdown in the third quarter for a 35-0 lead before sending in the reserves later in the quarter. ASU then added another touchdown for a 42-0 lead as backup quarterback Brock Osweiler tossed a touchdown pass for the Sun Devils.
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It was the first shutout suffered by the Cougars since last year's season-ending Apple Cup loss to Washington, 30-0.
- The Cougars' first three offensive possessions of the game had a pair of three-and-outs followed by an interception thrown by Tuel.
- After only giving up three sacks last week, the Cougar offensive line gave up five this week to remain as the nation's worst team in sacks allowed.
- The Cougars have now lost by double digit margins to the last 17 consecutive Division I opponents they have played.
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Magic Tears
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After Michael Wozich, the literary author, suffered the tragic loss of his wife, he discovered there were few books available for those needing support with grief, especially for his grandchildren.
Thus began a collaboration between Michael and myself as illustrator to create the book "Magic Tears".
"Magic Tears" is an illustrated story book for children and any one who has been affected by loss in their immediate or extended family circle.
"Magic Tears" tells the story of a grieving bear who loses his beloved best friend. Big Bear lives on Turtle Island with his mate Smiling Angel, but one sad day Big Bear comes home to his den to find that smiling Angel is gone.Big Bear cries so much that Turtle Island is about to flood with his rainbow tears. He is taken on a soulful journey with the advice of a little fox to find Smiling Angel in his heart, and save Turtle Island from sinking.
This book is important now, because Michael and I believe that more support for bereaved children, teens, and adults is critical.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau one out of every 20 children will suffer the loss of one or both parents. We would like "Magic Tears" to spread solace and awareness in response to this need.
Laurie Baumer, president and CEO of Ele's Place is quoted saying, "Children who do not resolve the difficult issues around grief and loss are at risk to themselves and to society, now or as adults. Unresolved childhood loss is often linked with depression, violence, truancy, school failure, substance abuse and suicidal tendencies."
The good news is that the book is nearly complete. We need additional funds for the final touches. Michael and I need professional scans of the art work, story editing, and layout to complete the very expensive cost of publishing this book.
We wish to create not only a hard cover copy, but also a soft cover, and an e-book that can be printed on demand. We would like to reach a diversity of incomes and wider audiences around the world.
Children's picture books are very expensive to print and any over funding will go towards the traditional printing costs of high quality, hard cover books. Our minimum funding goal will only enable us to cover e-book costs and print on demand books.
The premium hard cover books will feature more brilliant color and detail from the original paintings so that children can touch, love and cherish them for a lifetime.
With additional funding we will expand our marketing with story time events bringing awareness to this cause through workshops, lectures, and art classes in schools, libraries and communities.We will reach more grieving centers and support groups nationally and locally.
Thank you so very much for your time, interest and support of this worthy cause! This project is close to our heart, and you have the power to positively affect and inspire the lives of children.
Together we can influence and make a difference.
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Chris Charla - Director of Independent Developers @ Xbox (ID@Xbox)
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- was a VP and Executive Producer at Foundation 9 Entertainment
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- Microsoft waited until Gamescom to discuss ID@Xbox because they had a lot to talk about
- Developers wanted an additional way to get on to Xbox in addition to having a publisher or publishing through Microsoft Studios so it just seemed like the right thing to do
- The process works very similar to how it does now. Developers set whole sale price, Microsoft sets retail price.
- Retail Xbox One units will eventually be able to be used as development kits. The vision is to make Xbox One a great place to create games in addition to playing them. ID@Xbox have received tons of applications and Microsoft has begun sending out devkits to developers who have signed up. Microsoft is starting out with experienced developers at the moment to work out the kinks in the system but they want to open it up as broadly as possible as quickly as possible.
- Trending and Game DVR will be used in tandem with a traditional marketplace set up to promote discoverability
- They are not looking to be censors but will make sure that really objectionable content doesn't get on the platform. Games will have to go through certification because gamers want to know that those games will perform as expected.
- When asked about a comparison between their program and Sony's, Charla says that they want to do what's right for developers
- They want to make a sustainable ecosystem for developers; it's not just a flash in a pan or a fad. They want to have a platform that independent developers can be successful on for years and years to come.


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(AP) -- Despite a widening net loss, Sprint Nextel Corp. finally got some good news in its long recovery Monday, as a big surge in "prepaid" customers offset another nightmarish drop in valuable subscribers who sign annual contracts.
Investors responded by sending shares of the nation's third-largest wireless provider up sharply. Sprint shares gained 53 cents, or 11.4 percent, to $5.20 in afternoon trading after reaching as high as $5.48 earlier in the session.
The Overland Park, Kan.-based company lost $594 million, or 21 cents per share, during the three months ending March 31, versus a loss of $505 million, or 18 cents per share, a year ago.
Not including one-time charges, Sprint said it would have earned 3 cents per share, compared with the 4-cent loss analysts surveyed by Thomson Reuters had predicted.
The company said it recorded a $327 million charge for severance and other costs connected with its announcement in January that it planned to cut 8,000 more jobs - 14 percent of its work force. Sprint cut 4,000 jobs last year.
Revenue declined 12 percent to $8.21 billion, below analysts' expectation of $8.28 billion.
The Wall Street Journal, citing unnamed sources, reported Monday that Sprint was in final discussions to outsource management of its cellular network - and transfer between 5,000 and 7,000 U.S. jobs - to Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson. Stifel Nicolaus analyst Christopher King wrote in a research note that shifting the network management to another company could cut Sprint's annual expenses by $1 billion.
In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Chief Executive Officer Dan Hesse said Sprint was looking at several cost-cutting ideas, including "the possibility of outsourcing certain parts of the management of our network assets, but no decisions have been made and we don't comment on speculation."
Sprint said its number of subscribers fell 182,000, a marked improvement from the company's fourth quarter, when it lost 1.3 million. However, the company said it lost 1.25 million valuable "postpaid" customers who sign contracts, an increase from the loss of 1.1 million contract subscribers in the fourth quarter.
By comparison, AT&T Inc. posted a net increase of 1.2 million subscribers during the quarter while Verizon Wireless reported adding 1.3 million.
Making up most of the difference for Sprint were net gains of 764,000 prepaid customers on its iDEN network and 394,000 wholesale and affiliate subscribers.
Most of the iDEN increase came from Sprint's Boost Mobile prepaid subsidiary, which in the first quarter began offering unlimited calling, texting and data services for $50 a month. Unlike postpaid customers, prepaid subscribers don't sign contracts and generally generate less revenue.
Hesse said he expected an increasing number of consumers will favor cheaper prepaid service over the rest of the year because of the economy. But the company said it still believed annual subscriber losses would be smaller in 2009 than the 4.6 million lost in 2008.
Total postpaid churn, which measures the percentage of customers dropping service, was 2.25 percent during the quarter, down from 2.45 percent a year ago but up from 2.16 percent in the fourth quarter. The company said most of the increase from the fourth quarter was due to deactivations among business customers, while the year-over-year improvement came from efforts to attract customers more capable of paying their bills.
Revenue from the company's remaining wireline operations, which largely are used for Internet connections, fell 10 percent to $1.47 billion.
Analysts' opinions on the results were mixed. Most said that while the jump in prepaid customers was commendable, the continued hemorrhaging of postpaid customers showed Sprint's core business is still vulnerable.
"We worry about the company becoming nothing more than a marketing company over time, in an increasingly mature industry," King wrote.
Barclays Capital analyst Thomas Seitz said he will be interested to see how many of the new Boost customers stick with the company. Without a contract, they can leave for a competitor any time. Sprint's iDEN network signal sometimes has trouble penetrating buildings, causing problems for the many prepaid customers who use their cell phones instead of landline home phones.
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I keep muttering "Jeese - people put up with this crap - and celebrate it???"
A certain (large) part of my frustration is familiarity.
With windows it is NOT necessary to edit files with magic commands with unknown implications.
maybe i leap to the cli to quickly. But I am not that convinced that limiting yourself to JUST what is in the repositories is a Good Thing. Apt (etc) doesn't have everything.
make && make install && sudo ./configure
perhaps my glasses are simply less tinted than yours.
Every software vendor out therespends money to make d**n sure that its software works smoothly withWindows.
So, yes, Ubuntu is inferior when it comes to installing randomproprietary software, but that's just something Ubuntu users will haveto live with it.
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Rated 5 / 5 stars
Lol. I missed robot day with out realizing it as well. Anyway, great work. I can imagine him having lots of bombs in his backpack and arms.
The look with the sun glasses and stylelin clothes make it even better.
haha thanks mate!
Bomber is actually slang for someone who does graffiti. should have probably mentioned that in the author comment. this is also the reason of the clothing style, and since bombers climb a lot i made its proportions money like^^
Rated 5 / 5 stars
beautiful rendering sir. I COMMEND THEE
You are too kind, good sir!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
Your stuff just keeps getting better and better! great joob man, but I don't know how easy it would be to tag with those huge hands...doesn't mean I didn't love it dude
Haha thanks man!
Rated 5 / 5 stars
this is....INCREDIBLY realistic, and with excellent shading/lighting effects.
was this done in 3-D?
if not, its even more amazing.
the robot slightly reminds me of the madness characters, but this is not a bad thing. it adds to the epicness of the drawing....
and i noticed the tattoo-looking sig, on the bot, and the single oil drop from his hand, cool details!
wonderful. i fully support thee. (like previous guy said)
good work.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars
I really love the way you draw attention to the robot's head. I know you've been working with zbrush lately, and I initially thought it was a 3d rendered image. The way you focus in on it while leaving the surrounding areas blurred really gives the image a sense of depth. Excellent work.
My only crit I suppose would be to tighten up some of the edges just a little bit, for instance, the band that goes around its waist. The width of the band is inconsistent--making that symmetrical is just an example of a tiny little touch up that I think would go a long way.
Thanks for your kind works! I've actually just began working on hard and soft edges, I have always been oblivious to them. Hard to make a balance:P


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Just one more doodle before bedtime. So, I'm calling this One Last Rose :-)
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This picture is full of emotion, I luv it ^^ five of heartzzzzz for you ^^
wow,amazing:X:X...i like it-5h;)!
Very beautiful flower! 5 hearts!
very beautiful!! :)
so delicate and lovely ^-^ ♡♡♡♡♡
awe so pretty but its floating away. :) wonderful draw
one awesome doodle 5/5 so sad and lonely...(the rose)
so pretty!! love it =) great idea for a picture 5/5!
you've managed to make a flower express feeling ... that's skill! 5 ♥s
i wonder how you do such a beautiful doodle,! its so beautiful and creative..brilliant 5/5


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China on the right road – Standard
From an editorial by the Standard:
Volkswagen announced last week that it would develop its first gasoline- electric hybrid vehicle – a minivan. More intriguing was the announcement that it is being developed in China for the Chinese market.
It is significant, surely, that VW would want to develop this new technology in and for China, that it believes it can develop the technology in China, and that, implicitly but perhaps most importantly, that China will undoubtedly serve as a worldwide launchpad.
This of course says something about the increasing sophistication of the Chinese market, and given that VW is cooperating with such Chinese institutions as Shanghai's Tongji University in the development of fuel cells as well as electrical and mechanical systems for the new vehicle, this also indicates something about the state of engineering expertise in China.
But even more significant is that this underlines how the size of the Chinese market has begun to change the way the world prioritizes product development and business strategy.


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Analyzing the Best Contracts in Today's NFLMay 6, 2013
Bitter contract disputes, calculated leveraging tactics and teams forcing players to renegotiate deals in order to squeeze under the salary cap are ubiquitous business practices in the NFL.
With all that in mind, which guys are playing under the best contracts today? Not necessarily the most team-friendly or player-friendly deals. Contracts that are essentially "perfect" for both the team and the player.
(Rookie deals have been deliberately omitted, and no specific formula was used.)
Darrelle Revis, CB Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Contract: Six years, $96 million, no guaranteed money
When healthy, Revis has proven to be the most effective man-to-man, drop-your-completion-percentage cornerback in the NFL. No defensive black boasts his blend of press-coverage prowess, mirroring abilities and ball skills.
He'll only be 28 when the 2013 regular season begins, and Cam Newton, Matt Ryan and Drew Brees attempted a total of 1,770 passes last year—the highest divisional three-quarterback total in all of football.
On their way to a 7-9 record, the Buccaneers allowed 297 yards through the air per game and were one of five teams in the league to surrender an average completion percentage over 65.
In short, Tampa Bay desperately needed Revis in its secondary.
What really makes his current contract so great is the absence of guaranteed money. Essentially, Revis is on a pay-as-you-go deal, which should serve as ideal motivation for him to return to preeminent defender status.
If he plays to his potential in 2013 and doesn't get injured, Tampa Bay will likely be at the negotiating table to restructure his contract.
But right now, this is one of the best contracts in football.
Revis is getting the money he deserves this season, and the Buccaneers absolved themselves of the peril that comes with throwing major guaranteed dollars at a premier player coming off an injury.
Ahmad Brooks, OLB San Francisco 49ers
Contract: Six years, $37 million, $8.25 million guaranteed
Brooks isn't as impactful as his linebacker-mates Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman, but at his spot on the outside, he's a vital force to the 49ers' vaunted defense.
He exhibited vast improvement in 2012 from a down year in 2011, as ProFootballFocus rated him as the No. 5 3-4 outside linebacker behind Anthony Spencer, Clay Matthews, Aldon Smith and Justin Houston.
The 29-year-old University of Virginia product had 47 total tackles, 6.5 sacks, one pick-six, two forced fumbles and six passes defended last year.
Brooks is a 6'3'', 260-pound downhill thumper with deceptive pass-rushing skills and surprising range. Though he hasn't proven to be another double-digit-sack guy in San Francisco, he has found a niche along the front seven and is a fine Aldon Smith complement.
With only $8.25 million guaranteed and a base salary that never reaches $7 million per season, the 49ers were able to lock up inside linebacker studs Patrick Willis and NaVorro Bowman to long-term deals.
For such a complete player, Brooks' deal is among the best in the NFL.
Kyle Williams, DT, Buffalo Bills
Contract: Six years, $33.555 million, $17 million guaranteed
Williams has been labeled as underrated for the last two or three years, so it's debatable whether or not he deserves that distinction anymore.
Regardless of reputation, Williams is one of the most disruptive pass-rushing interior defensive linemen in the NFL. Despite being only 6'1'' and around 300 pounds, he's a stout run-stopper as well.
ProFootballFocus rated only Geno Atkins and Gerald McCoy as better defensive tackles than Williams in 2012, and in 2010, he was given top honors at his position.
As a team, the Bills have struggled against the run during Williams' tenure in Buffalo, but imagine how bad they would have been had Williams not been on the roster.
He has played through multiple injuries and has been the one defender the opposition has had to game-plan around when facing the Bills over the last three seasons.
Williams is aptly paid for a player of his caliber, but his deal doesn't restrict the Bills from allocating money elsewhere to sign others.
He'll make less than $4.5 million base salary for the next three years.
Jordy Nelson, WR, Green Bay Packers
Contract: Four years, $13.989 million, $5 million guaranteed
The Packers made an exceptionally shrewd and, frankly, rather lucky move when they inked Nelson during the 2011 campaign—a season in which the Kansas State product accumulated 68 receptions for 1,263 yards and 15 touchdowns.
Nelson is under contract through 2014, and he won't make $4 million per year this season or next.
For a 6'3'', 215-pound receiver who does just about everything well and has caught 22 touchdowns over the last two years, it's easy to argue that his contract is the most team-friendly in the NFL. He has been a consummate No. 3 wideout in Green Bay, but with his size and overall skill set, he could be a true No. 1 wideout elsewhere.
Nelson hasn't proven to be a volume chain-mover, however, as he had 45 catches in 2012, which lends credence to the idea that his current contract isn't necessarily unfair.


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American Life in Poetry: Bankruptcy
By Ted Kooser
These days are brim full of bad news about our economy--businesses closing, people losing their houses, their jobs. If there's any comfort in a situation like this, it's in the fact that there's a big community of sufferers. Here's a poem by Dana Bisignani, who lives in Indiana, that describes what it feels like to sit through a bankruptcy hearing.
Bankruptcy Hearing
They have us corralled
in the basement of the courthouse.
One desk and a row of folding chairs--
just like first grade, our desks facing Teacher
in neat little rows.
wooden benches like pews and red
carpet reserved for those who've held out
the longest. No creditors have come to claim us
today. We're small-time.
This guy from the graveyard shift
stares at his steel-toed boots, nervous hands
in his lap. None of us look each other
in the eye. We steal quick looks--how did you
get here . . .
chemo bills, a gambling addiction,
a summer spent unemployed and too many
cash advances to pay the rent.
We examine the pipes that hang
from the ceiling, the scratched tiles on the floor,
the red glow of the exit sign at the end of the hall
so like our other failed escapes:
light of the TV at night,
glass of cheap Merlot beside a lamp,
a stop light on the way out of town.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation--www.poetryfoundation.org--publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Introduction copyright 2009 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.


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JUST hours before he died Del Singh was doing what he always did – helping others.
A friend has revealed that the popular Southampton politician and humanitarian had e-mailed her about his plans to take part in a charity event that aimed to help Palestinian refugees.
But less than 24 hours later Satvir Kaur heard that Mr Singh had been killed in a terrorist attack.
He was one of 21 people, including another Briton, who died in Afghanistan last Friday when the Taliban targeted a restaurant in the capital, Kabul.
Witnesses said customers tried to hide under tables as one attacker detonated a suicide vest at the reinforced entrance to the restaurant, allowing two accomplices to enter and open fire with AK- 47s. The Taliban claimed it was in revenge for an American airstrike that killed a woman and seven children.
Middle East experts said it was the deadliest violence against foreign civilians in Afghanistan since the war started nearly 13 years ago.
Mr Singh's Malayan advisor Gnana Nagarajah was also among those killed in the attack which has been condemned by world leaders.
Southampton councillor Ms Kaur and Mr Singh exchanged a series of e-mails on the day of the explosion.
The two politicians had been good friends for five years.
They were both members of the Labour Party and attended the same Sikh temple, the Gurdwara Tegh Bahadur in St Marks Road, Southampton Mr Singh was arranging a group of friends to join him in this year's Bethlehem Marathon, having supported a similar event in Gaza in 2012, when he died.
He offered to be Ms Kaur's running partner in a bid to persuade her to take part.
She told the Daily Echo: "He was just the usual Del – very chirpy, a man on a mission.
"If there was one person to save the planet it would be Del Singh."
Describing her friend's passion for the Middle East she said: "He was totally committed and dedicated his life to social justice and human rights. That's all he wanted for that region, for people to live with opportunity and not be suppressed," she said.
Mr Singh was also known his work with the homeless, the unemployed and other under-privileged members of the community.
Ms Saur added: "He was really good at bringing people together and a real champion of the working classes.
"A lot of communities in Southampton knew of Del and really respected him – he was a pioneer for change."
Mr Singh is thought to have been one week into a month-long visit to Afghanistan when he was killed.
Ms Kaur said he had visited the country before as part of his campaign to ensure that aid got to the right place.
She added: "It's sad to lose anyone like this but he was doing what he did best, trying to defend human rights, trying to fight for social justice, trying to get people aid."
The other Briton who died in the atrocity was Simon Chase, a father-of- two who had been living with his fiancée in Northern Ireland.
The former soldier is believed to have been working as a bodyguard for a Danish policewoman.
Senior UN officials, Afghan dignitaries and restaurant staff were also killed in the blast.
Del was a good guy, who wanted to make a difference
"HE was the good guy that wanted to make a difference."
That was how Del Singh's partner described him as family and friends struggle to come to terms with his loss.
His younger sister Dishi Phangurha said she believed that life would never be the same again.
Dishi, 34, spoke of Del's love for his family and support for his three sisters Dishi, Ruby, 26, and Bally, 39, and the fun times they had as siblings.
Despite all his achievements, she said her brother remained modest and shy.
Management consultant Dishi and Del, who lived with mother Kulvir, 62, and sister Ruby at the family home in Northumberland Road, St Mary's, had planned to move the family to Bugle Street in a few weeks' time.
The family, who attend the Singh Sabha Gurdwara, in Cranbury Avenue, have been receiving tributes from across the world.
Speaking from the family home, Del's partner of four years Komal Adris, 35, said: "He was such a friendly and happy person. One of those people that would light up a room – he had this real infectious humour.
"He was just such a humble guy."
Komal said Del never forgot his roots, despite travelling all over the world.
She added: "He spent time in these far-flung places, but he loved Southampton.
"He used to love coming home because of his family."
Komal said Del had worked in conflict areas like Kosovo, Libya and Sudan, and had been going to Afghanistan for around six years.
"He genuinely was one of those idealists that wanted to make the world a better place," she said.
The family also told how he had been slightly injured from an explosion in the weeks before the attack and had even celebrated his 39th birthday in the same Kabul restaurant only a few weeks before.
"I think we're still coming to terms with it," said Komal.
"I still think we might get that phone call that they have made a mistake and he's going to turn up. It's inconceivable that somebody who's done so much for everybody throughout his life should end so quickly and in that manner as well.
"We have always been worried about where he goes for work because they are always volatile regions, but at the same time we're so proud of him.
"You just imagine that he's got so much positive energy it should counteract anything negative and the universe will take care of him."


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First published on ZNet, February 22, 2013. It appears that Superstorm Sandy did not direct enough of its global warming-fueled fury at the headquarters of The New York Times last October. Last Sunday, an historic mass demonstration on behalf of a more sane environmental policy took place in Washington D.C. Forty thousand environmentalist activists and citizens gathered in the nation's capital to urge President Obama not to approve the Keystone XL pipeline – a project that, if completed, will carry more than 700,000 barrels of dirty Canadian tar sands oil a day from Alberta to the southern U.S. Gulf Coast. As numerous environmental scientists including the leading climate expert James Hansen (director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies) have warned, Alberta's giant stash of tar sands oil is an epic "carbon bomb" whose release promises to push Earth's climate past the tipping point of irreversible runaway warming.
A presidential thumbs-down on the pipeline will do significant damage to the corporate carbon-industrial complex's capacity to set-off this terrible eco-cidal incendiary. That would buy humanity some time to properly address anthropogenic global warming (AGW), which increasingly poses the issue of human extinction. This is the leading issue of or our any time, something that is understood by the tens of thousands who hit the streets on a cold day in Washington this weekend – the largest gathering the country has even seen on the climate issue. A flicker of, well, Hope, resides in the oval office, whose current resident originally campaigned for the White House on a promise to address that problem and who said in his Second Inaugural Address that America must reduce the "dangerous carbon pollution that threatens our planet" and honor "the overwhelming judgment of science….for the sake of our children and our future."
Remarkably enough, the nation's "newspaper of record," the New York Times, did not see Sunday's historic rally as part of "All the News That's Fit to print" in the first section of its Monday edition. It was a chilling deletion. Here are some of the news topics the Times did see as fit for inclusion – as more relevant than a mass demonstration against increasingly imminent Ecocide – in that section:
* The tech industry's growing interest in the gambling industry (page 1).
* A car, van, truck and motorbike police pound (humorously called "the car Guantanamo") in Kabul, Afghanistan (page 1).
* Irish assistance to an Irish-American neighborhood in Queens (Breezy Point) that was particularly devastated by Hurricane Sandy (page 1).
* The fraud prosecution of a former Israel Foreign Minister.
* Catholics' confusion about "what to call a retired Pope."
"In a rational world," the leading liberal New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argued in the fall of 2009, "the looming climate disaster would be our dominant political and policy concern" (emphasid added, NYT, September 27, 2009).
Krugman's Monday Times reflection focused on the case for a higher minimum wage. He made a smart and admirable argument. Still, his essay could have been marked for later in the week. Monday would have been a very good time for Krugman to publish a column on the issue that would top our list of worries "in a rational world."
The Monday Times did mention Sunday's historic climate demonstration. The reference came in the paper's business section, in a story titled "Obama Faces Risks in Pipeline Decision" (NYT, February 18, 2013, B1). The story was placed alongside an article on the Facebook marketing strategies of Universal Studio's "Fast and Furious" car-racing film series and a report on the rising use of cheaper parts in the manufacture of virtual reality game sets. It under-reported the Sunday protest's turnout, saying only that "thousands rallied." Its opening premise held that Obama faces "a choice between environmental advocates…or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada" – as if: (1) the Keystone and climate issues are mainly about green activists, not the harsh material threat posed by AGW and (2) "Canada" is a monolithic entity that unanimously supports tar sands oil extraction and does not contain millions of citizens who are more concerned with the preservation of a livable earth than with the expansion of gross Canadian national petroleum exports and the increase of multinational oil corporations' super-profits.
Environmentalists were rendered invisible in the article's definition of "Canada," whose spokespersons were presented as the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Lorraine Mitchelmore, president of Shell Canada.
The story's related concern that "Canada" might "retaliate" against the U.S. if Obama says no to Keystone XL was deceptive and almost amusing given the Canadian government and corporate sector's deepening incorporation into the economic and imperial orbit of the North American Superpower.
The Times said nothing about another risk Obama faces: soiling his legacy with a decision that will significantly accelerate the climate catastrophe and help further mark him as a monumental environmental hypocrite.
By placing their reportage on Sunday's climate rally in the business section, the Times' editors suggest that the Keystone pipeline is mainly a corporate and marketing matter, not an issue of central public and political concern for the fate of the species and other living things.
After this horrid coverage on Monday, it was fitting that Tuesday's Times published a personal assault on Hansen and the leading environmental activist and Keystone opponent Bill McKibben by the thuggish Times columnist Joe Nocera.
"Like it or not," Nocera proclaims, " fossil fuels are going to remain the world's dominant energy source for the foreseeable future, and we are far better off getting our oil from Canada than say, Venezuela." (NYT, Feb. 19, 2013, A23).
Left-led Venezuela, after all, uses oil proceeds to attack poverty and to foster Latin American resistance to U.S. imperial control, whereas conservative-run Canada is a reliable subordinate partner in trade, investment, neoliberal ideology, and imperial violence.
Who exactly are "we?" I am aware of more than a few (United States of) Americans – myself included – who prefer to fill up our beaten-up old Japanese cars with Venezuelan petroleum.
Meanwhile "the foreseeable future" is looking (with all due respect for smart Marxist critics of "catastrophism") more dystopian than ever, thanks in no small part to the profits system's inextricably linked addictions to fossil fuels, epic waste, accumulation and growth.
Paul Street (firstname.lastname@example.com and www.paulstreet.org) is an author and activist in Iowa City, IA.
Selected Endnotes
[1]For a deeply informed reflection that does not feel compelled to choose between (i) Marxist understandings and commitments and (ii) telling harsh truths on ever the more imminent ecological catastrophe (and I might add on the need for materially appropriate localism in the democratically planned production and distribution of goods), see John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark, "The Planetary Emergency," Monthly Review (December 2012).


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Padres left-hander Clayton Richard underwent surgery on his left shoulder Friday afternoon as the Padres prepared to open a three-game series against the Colorado Rockies at Petco Park (7:05 p.m.; TV: 4 San Diego).
Padres head team physicians Drs. Heinz Hoenecke and Jan Fronek performed a debridement procedure to clean and smooth the glenoid labrum, biceps tendon and rotator cuff.
The surgery was performed at Scripps Green Hospital in La Jolla.
Richard, who will miss the remainder of the season, had been on the disabled list since July 5 with a left shoulder strain.
At the time, the Padres felt Richard might miss only one start and debated putting him on the disabled list with an injury that they felt would heal over the All-Star break.
But the pain in his shoulder persisted and returned late last week as Richard attempted to twice play catch on flat ground. The pitcher went to Los Angeles Thursday morning to be evaluated by famed orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lewis Yocum.
Richard, 28, was 5-9 this season with a 3.88 ERA in 18 starts. The Padres were 6-12 when he started. Richard was 14-9 with a 3.75 ERA in 33 starts last season.
Richard came to the Padres on July 31, 2009, in the trade that sent pitcher Jake Peavy to the White Sox. Richard and pitchers Aaron Poreda, Adam Russell and Dexter Carter all came to the Padres.
In other news Friday, right fielder (Will Venable) and shortstop Jason Bartlett (tight right hamstring) were both late lineup scratches as the Padres prepared to meet the Rockies. Both were in the original starting lineup.
Chris Denorfia replaced Venable in right and Alberto Gonzalez replaced Bartlett at short.
The Rockies are 5-4 against the Padres thus far and 2-1 at Petco Park.
Since leading the National League West on May 17, the Rockies have gone 27-38. Although they play their home games in hitter-friendly Coors Field, the Rockies are hitting .255 as a team this season.
The Rockies have lost five of their last six and are 5-8 since the All-Star break. The Padres have lost five of the last seven and are 6-8 since the All-Star break.
ROCKIES (49-56) at PADRES (46-60)
Time: 7:05 p.m. / Game 1 of 3
TV: None.
Radio: 1090-AM, 1700-AM, 860-AM (Spanish)
Rockies Jason Hammel (5-10, 4.75 ERA in 20 starts).
Hammel vs. Padres: 3-2 career, 5.25 ERA in 11 games, 10 starts. (0-1 this season, 8.53 ERA)
Hammel at Petco Park: 2-0 career, 2.95 ERA in three starts (first appearance this season).
Hammel, 28, was 3-1 against the Padres last season. In his only start against the Padres this year, Hammel allowed six runs on six hits in 6 1/3 innings while suffering the loss on May 15 at Coors Field. He is facing the Padres for the seventh time since the start of the 2010 season. Hammel is riding a two-game losing streak and gave up eight runs on 12 hits over 5 2/3 innings at Arizona last Saturday night.
Padres vs. Hammel
Jason Bartlett: .200 (1-for-5)
Kyle Blanks: .000 (0-for-3, BB, 2 HBP, 2 SO)
Chris Denorfia: .000 (0-for-5, BB)
Alberto Gonzalez: .000 (0-for-3)
Chase Headley: .286 (6-for-21, 3B, BB, 6 SO)
Orlando Hudson: .143 (1-for-7, 2 SO)
Rob Johnson: .333 (1-for-3, SO)
Ryan Ludwick: .500 (4-for-8, HR, SO)
Cameron Maybin: .000 (0-for-3, 2 SO)
Will Venable: .067 (1-for-15, 3B, BB, 3 SO)
Padres RHP Tim Stauffer (6-7, 3.05 ERA in 21 starts)
Stauffer vs. the Rockies: 3-2 career, 2.18 ERA in eight games, four starts (1-0 this season, 0.00 ERA in one start).
Stauffer at Petco Park: 8-13 career, 3.22 ERA in 39 games, 27 starts (3-3 this season, 2.77 ERA in 10 starts).
Stauffer is coming off his second-worst outing of the season. In Philadelphia last Sunday, Stauffer allowed five runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. He walked four and struck out five. Stauffer has issued 11 walks in his three previous games, which is four more than he issued in his seven previous starts. Stauffer is 3-0 with a 0.93 ERA in his last four starts at Petco Park. The Padres have an 11-10 record in Stauffer's 21 starts.
Rockies vs. Stauffer
Dexter Fowler: .000 (0-for-6, HBP, 4 SO)
Carlos Gonzalez: .200 (2-for-10, 2B, BB, 3 SO)
Todd Helton: .182 (2-for-11, 2B, 3 BB, 3 SO)
Jonathan Herrera: .000 (0-for-1, SO)
Chris Iannetta: .000 (0-for-1, SO)
Chris Nelson: .000 (0-for-4, SO)
Seth Smith: .375 (3-for-8, 2B, 2 BB, SO)
Ryan Spliborghs: .000 (0-for-2, SO)
Ian Stewart: .400 (2-for-5, HR, 2 BB)
Troy Tulowitzki: .273 (3-for-11, HR, 2 BB, 2 SO)
Ty Wigginton: .000 (0-for-5, SO)
Eric Young Jr.: .000 (0-for-1)
Starting Lineups
Colorado Rockies
1.Eric Young Jr. (S), LF -- .232-0-3
2.Dexter Fowler (S), CF --.264-0-26
3.Todd Helton (L), 1B -- .315-11-54
4.Troy Tulowitzki, SS -- .281-19-69
5.Seth Smith (L), RF -- .291-8-42
6.Mark Ellis, 2B -- .286-2-11
7.Ian Stewart (L), 3B -- .137-0-2
8.Chris Iannetta, C -- .220-10-36
9.Jason Hammel, RHP -- .156-1-4
San Diego Padres
1.Cameron Maybin, CF -- .279-6-27
2.Orlando Hudson (S), 2B -- .243-2-23
3.Chase Headley (S), 3B -- .294-3-35
4.Ryan Ludwick, LF -- .238-11-62
5.Jesus Guzman, 1B -- .329-4-17
6.Chris Denorfia, RF -- .271-5-18
7.Alberto Gonzalez, SS -- .210-1-21
8.Luis Martinez, C -- .273-1-2
9.Tim Stauffer, RHP -- .158-0-5
Looking Ahead
Home: 5:35 p.m. TV: 4 San Diego.
Rockies RHP Ubaldo Jimenez (6-9, 4.20 ERA) at Padres RHP Aaron Harang (9-2, 3.45 ERA).
Home: 1:05 p.m. TV: 4 San Diego.
Rockies RHP Juan Nicasio (4-3, 4.24 ERA) vs. Padres RHP Dustin Moseley (3-10, 3.30 ERA).
Home: 7:05 p.m. TV: 4 San Diego.
Dodgers LHP Clayton Kershaw (12-4, 2.72 ERA) at Padres LHP Cory Luebke (3-5, 2.92 ERA).
Home: 7:05 p.m. TV: 4 San Diego.
Dodgers RHP Hiroki Kuroda (6-13, 3.11 ERA) at Padres RHP Mat Latos (5-10, 4.10 ERA).


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'Brilliant' students engage in BEST robotics event
They were loud, energetic, quick to break out in a dance move, intense and young, but also, as John Martini noted, "brilliant."
They were the 35 teams of students who gathered Friday and Saturday in Fort Smith to compete in the Frontier Trails BEST Robotics Championship. The event, held at the Fort Smith Convention Center and sponsored by the city of Fort Smith and the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, brought several hundred – if not more than a thousand – students, teachers, family members and coordinators to the area.
Teams were from Northwest Arkansas, the Fort Smith area central Arkansas and as far away as Colorado.
BEST is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization whose mission is to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering, science and technology through participation in sports-like, science and engineering-based competitions.
BEST competitions have been held nationwide, beginning in Texas in 1994. UAFS has been participating since 2003, according to Martini, who is the director of the Frontier Trails competition and an associate professor at UAFS. Student teams design and build a robot which operates on a wireless network and is capable of completing a specific task. The teams are given kits and have six weeks to prepare for the first competition.
The 2012 game theme was to mimic the operation of a space elevator to deliver cargo and materials to a space station. According to the Frontier Trails literature, the U.S. government "needs unmanned robotic lifting vehicles for routine cargo delivery, as well as additional Space Station expansion and construction."
To "apply" for the federal contract, the BEST teams had to build a machine that would perform several tasks, including moving waste cargo, transporting light cargo balls from the cargo ship to a cargo bin on Earth, installing solar panels on the space station and installing a habitation station.
Teams were judged on the ability of their robotic machine, on the quality of a notebook that documented their process to build the robot and perform the tasks, and spirit and sportsmanship.
Sometimes the spirit was hard to maintain.
"Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong," said Brandon Malone, an advanced manufacturing professor at Arkansas Northeast College, who was the instructor for a robotics team from the Blytheville, Ark., area.
"But, we had a good time. … It's a good experience," he quickly added.
Some teams brought more than just a robot. The Sedalia Smith-Cotton team from Sedalia, Mo., showed off an impressive mobile and robotic t-shirt shooter with a Gatling-gun style barrel.
"We take it to football games, baseball games, pretty much everywhere," said Nick Wagenknesht, a member of the Sedalia team.
Before the Sunday afternoon final matches began, Martini said the event was going well.
"It's been very, very exciting. We've had some high-scoring teams, much higher than in past years," Martini explained. "I've also seen great team cooperation and sportsmanship among the teams. … They are just a brilliant group of kids."
Winner of the overall BEST award with the Wichita Homeschool team from Wichita, Kan. Metro Homeschool from the Kansas City area took second place and Circle High School from Towanda, Kan., received third place.
In the robotics competition, first place went to Wichita Homeschool, second place to Metro Homeschool, and third place to Bentonville-based Ambassadors for Christ Academy.
Other event sponsors included Baldor Electric Co., Weldon Williams & Lick, Gerdau, The U.S. Air Force and Peterson Chemical Technology.


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If you are considering a new mortgage or any additional borrowing against your home I'd advise to do it now, or at least before 28/04/2014 as that is when new regulations will come into affect.
1. First of all, all secured loan providers will be required to run affordability checks on all applicants. Many banks and building societies have been doing this for a while in preperation anyway. This will mean that applicants will not be able to borrow as much as they traditionally have been able to, under income multiples previously. When you ring up for a loan you will be asked about all your income and outgoings, fixed and fluctuating.
2. All applicants will be pushed towards an advised service for mortgage product and term. Previously the secured lending market worked under non advice and advised. Very few people went down the advised route and opted to select their own mortgage product and mortgage term. All the lenders have been training their staff over the last few months to get them qualified and competent to give mortgage advice for april. What this means to the ordinary person is that the process will take much longer and will more complex. The non advised process over the phone normally lasts about 30 minutes but under the advised process it is more likely to be an hour and a half to 2 hours even before you get the figures.
3. The regulation means there will much more stringent checks. Generally all applicants will be asked for 1 months bank statement, some lenders are asking for 3 months bank statements. This is to show that you have the surplus available to cover the increase in the mortgage, so if you have an overdraft and use it regularly expect to be declined. They will also be checking for any unpaid direct debits and all your outgoings that you declared at quote stage will be checked. So, if you want to increase your mortgage get in credit and stay there, at least until your mortgage is complete.
If you have an Interest only loan or part loan expect some very rigorous questioning, if you have a payment plan (endowment for eg) then you will have to provide evidence of it and that it will be suffcient to cover the loan it's meant for. The number of things that can be used to repay an interest only loan has been reduced for lots of lenders, downsizing for example is mostly no longer acceptable. Although realistic these sort of things cannot be quantified until it happens and so have been scrapped.
If you are seen to have an appetite for credit you are more likely to be declined. If you are the sort of person with several credit cards with debts on, car finance, personal loans for this and that, lenders don't like you and will tell you do to do one, espicially if your total debt is more than your gross basic salary.
4. Settled and stable is good. If you're thinking of moving employment and a new mortgage, make the mortgage app first. If you're thinking about a new car loan make the mortgage app first.
5. Changes in lending policy. A lot of secured lenders will be scrapping debt consolidation. Given the nature of advice debt consolidation is very complex and most lenders will be choosing not to offer debt consol in the early days of advice, although this is likely to return.
Thats it. If you want to read up on it online further serach for MMR (mortgage market review)


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"Misleading Perspectives," a premier exhibition featuring an emerging artist and photographer Julie Boserup will run through November 26, 2016, at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York.
The show features a new collection of works commissioned by the gallery. This is also the first-ever artist commission by the gallery.
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My issue is, now that I do feel truly happy both with my own life and my marriage, I'm a little afraid. I feel as though if anything if remotely close to this happened again I would be devastated. I would leave and never return, but would be destroyed. Is this why I still think of her? I know she is nothing, I know my FWH would never open that door again. Recently he was having a drink at a local restaurant, she came in with a friend, sat an ordered a drink and then said "Oh, you're still alive" (he never returned her called after a pregnancy claim). He just responded "yup," and left. Yes he told me right away. He truly wishes she would disappear so we would never have to deal with her again, and knows it is all his fault.
This all being true WHY do I still think of her?
Since the day she let him go, it was so much easier, but the thought of him does come to my mind. I want to drive by where they used to work and just look at his car. I don't know why?
Your WH has made it clear that she's out, but we always think...hmmmm, what if she/he is still thinking about her/him?
I'm a fighter, not a quitter and I do not give up easily.
This is me too!
what if she/he is still thinking about her/him?
This is what is always on my mind too, because if MOW is always on WH's mind I want to know so I can give him to her.
She consumed my thoughts for about a year. I finally had to make a conscious decision that I wasn't going to give her any more of my head space. I actually went so far as to wear a rubber band on my wrist and snap myself when she popped into my brain.
Thinking of her constantly was hurting me and keeping me in a very dark place. The only person I was hurting with my obsession was me.
I'm a fighter, not a quitter and I do not give up easily.
You are strong, you can figure out how to kick this B*h out of your head.
Please review the guidelines of the Recon forum and post accordingly.
A wonderful place to share your struggles, success stories and triggers while trying to reconcile.It's a long road, but you can do it! There is to be no venting about or name calling the OP in this forum.
Thank you.
I'm a bit over 2 years out and happy to say that I spend much LESS time thinking about her than I once did - but I've been going through an angry and obsessive phase so she is circling around in my thoughts way more than I'd like her to be. It doesn't help that she works where fWH and I both work, and that every day there is a chance I might see her. So, daily trigger...
Sorry you are going through this. My IC had suggested just acknowledging the thought, and then moving on. Sometimes that works for me...
The grief within me has its own heartbeat. It has its own life, its own song. Part of me wants to resist the rhythms of my grief, yet as I surrender to the song, I learn to listen deep within myself-Alan Wolfelt
OW in my case writes a blog, and has kids in the same school as my kids. She is still very much on my mind and it terrifies me.
I have tried rubber bands, stop signs etc and nothing is working :( I'm beginning to think I won't ever get over this.


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Dunne and Kelly are the masters
Up and Running
John Dunne of Donore Harriers was a clear winner of the men's race at the Dublin Masters Cross-Country Championships in St Anne's Park, Raheny, on Sunday and had the added satisfaction of leading his club to team victory, writes Frank Greally.
Paul Fleming of Rathfarnham/ WSAF AC finished second and Brian Leahy of the promoting club, Raheny Shamrock AC, placed third.
There was local cheer too for Eilish Kelly of Raheny Shamrock AC, who coasted to victory in the women's race ahead of teammate Annette Kealy. Jean Wilson of Sports World Running Club finished third and Raheny Shamrock AC won the team title.
Big entry at Indoor Championships
There was a big entry in the Woodie's DIY Combined Events Indoor Track & Field Championships last Saturday which took place at Athlone Institute of Technology, writes Frank Greally.
Michael Bowler of Kilkenny City Harriers won the senior men's title with a score of 3,528 points. Kourosh Foroughi (Star of the Sea AC) produced a consistent set of results to finish second with 3,390. Eoin Kelly (St Abban's AC) finished third on 3,263.
Laura Frey (Lagan Valley AC) and Karen Dunne (Bohermeen AC) battled it out for the senior women's title. It all came down to the 800m. Frey produced a gutsy performance to secure the victory with a tally of 2,869 points. Dunne finished second on 2,821 and Sarah Mesloh finished third on 2,548.
In the junior women's category there was a stirring contest between Sarah McCarthy (Mid-Sutton AC) and Grace McKenzie (Belgooly AC). McCarthy took victory with a score of 3,572 with McKenzie finishing second on 3,372. Amy McTeggart (Boyne AC) finished third with 2,749.
Mark Rogers (St Peter's AC) won the junior men's title with a score of 3,175. Donal Kearns of Cushinstown AC finished second with 2,601 and Killian O'Donnell (Roscommon AC) placed third on 1,833 points.
At youth level, pre-event favourite Elizabeth Morland (Cushinstown AC) lived up to her billing, delivering a commanding victory in the youth women's pentathlon. Morland's clubmate, Keith Marks, made it a Cushinstown double as he won the youth men's category.
Patrick Curran (Tallaght AC) won the master men's over 35 category and Joe Gough (West Waterford AC) won the M50 category. Lucy Moore-Fox (Dundrum South Dublin AC) won the master women's title.
Arlene Crossan (Finn Valley AC) produced an impressive set of results to win the U-16 girls' title. It was a great day for the Ryan family, with Daniel Ryan winning the boys' U-16 title and his younger brother David winning the U-15 title.
Vicki Cusack (Liscarroll AC) won the U-15 girls' title. The U-14 boys' title was won by Tariq Adegoke (St Laurence O'Toole AC) and Sophie Meredith (St Mary's AC, Limerick ) won the U-14 girls' title.
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Disney Bridal Shower Invitations – disney is one of favourite character especially for childern all of time. It is mouse with cute colour and cute attitude, make people especially babies are really like watching it and love it. disney is cute character and all babies loved it, why don't we try to make disney as main character of your sweetheart's wedding party? They will love it! Also that disney can be applied to boy or girl, you will have no worry about the joyful and happiness atmosphere in the party. You gotta prepare your disney wedding cake, disney dresses, disney decorations and disney bridal shower invitations. What is disney wedding invitations?
disney bridal shower invitations is a part of bridal shower invitations for wedding party that contains two elements; templates and wording. Templates is a design of card, and words is description about your wedding party. In case you are going to hold disney wedding party, then you must make a template and words that colerate with disney things, such as red and yellow colour collaborate with disney disney memorable quotes especially for childern and soon. Or you also can make a minni mouse version if you want something different; it is basically for girl but now let us focus on disney. There are several tips on how to make disney wedding cards, bellow are the explanation.
You gotta know what colour will dominate your party. Is it red or black or combination of red and black? It would be great if it is a combination of red and black with little yellow join at it. Then don't forget the disney itself; you have to make the party alive with the character that alive too. Go get a disney mascot. Colerate with your dress code. Make our disney bridal shower invitations interesting.
If you choose red and black combination for domination color, then don't use red or black dress. You can use white dress with disney decoration on it, etcera. Also, don't forget the guests dress. Corelate it with your party's colour. Don't make red faces red and black faces black. And don't forget the words; put one memorable quotes from disney to beautify it. Your disney bridal shower invitations is ready.
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Brett Eldredge Has Been Sharing New Music in Concert [WATCH]
Brett Eldredge isn't making fans wait for his next album to hear new music; rather, the country star has been sharing some new songs during recent concerts.
While opening up for Luke Bryan on Bryan's Kill the Lights Tour, Eldredge has given fans a taste of at least three new tunes: "Superhero," "Long Way Around" and "Sure Feels Good to Love Someone." Readers can press play above to hear "Superhero," as Eldredge performed it in Fayetteville, N.C. On YouTube, there's also footage of Eldredge singing the tune during a stop in Columbia, S.C.; according to Setlist.fm, he opened shows in Richmond, Va., and New York City with the song as well.
The song "Long Way Around" has also appeared in Eldredge's recent sets. During his Greenville tour stop, the singer told the crowd that for his forthcoming album, he "wanted to write a song that, it kind of got deeper into love."
"You know, the kind of love that I'm looking for: the kind of love that, you want to know everything about that person," Eldredge explains. "I wrote this song about that."
"Sure Feels Good to Love Someone," meanwhile, is a peppy, upbeat tune; readers can press play below to hear it.
"When I wake up in the middle of the night / You're holding me so tight … Sure feels good to love someone," Eldredge sings in the chorus of "Sure Feels Good to Love Someone." "You laugh at the way I dance / You smile when you hold my hand / I look at you and I understand / It sure feels good to love someone."
In late February, Eldredge released the first single from his next studio album, "Somethin' I'm Good At." Written by Eldredge and Tom Douglas, the song is about embracing your own quirks and gives Eldredge a chance to show off his goofy, fun side through rapid-fire lyrics and cute asides.
"It's exciting to write and record a song that captures this side of me," Eldredge says, adding, "This song captures my personality 100 percent, word for word, more than any song I've ever done."
Watch Brett Eldredge Perform "Sure Feels Good to Love Someone"
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Hollywood Now: Chris Pine, Rachel Weisz & Ari Graynor, Plus So Many Babies!By Gerri Miller
New flicks with celebs in interfaith relationships and from interfaith backgrounds, plus their baby news!Go To Pop Culture
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Does the huge conversation about Rachel Dolezal, who resigned as president of the Spokane, WA, chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People after it was revealed that she identified as African-American while her parents are White, have any relevance to efforts to engage interfaith families in Jewish life and community?
I'm not commenting on Dolezal's conduct or its implications on race and race relations; Samuel Freedman addresses those issues and describes her as "clearly disturbed" in the Forward's "How Rachel Dolezal Crossed the Line from Solidarity to Slumming." Dolezal's claim to be transracial has also been criticized as demeaning to people who are transgender, which I certainly don't mean to be.
In "What My Black Jewish Son Teaches Me About Rachel Dolezal," (also in the Forward) Alina Adams, a Jewish woman married to an African-American man, who has written six wonderful articles for us over the years, says that her three children "are being raised Jewish, and they identify as 100 percent Jewish, not 'half'," while her husband "didn't convert, and he doesn't self-identify as Jewish. But he does identify with the Jewish people via his children."
Adams writes:
Then, about her husband, she says:
So Alina Adams doesn't "self-identify as black" but she "sort of" "feels black" while her husband sometimes includes himself when talking about Jews, and his wife and their children's Jewishness has become a part of him.
It sounds like Alina would not describe herself as "transracial." Does it make any sense or serve any purpose to describe Alina's husband as "transJewish?"
I don't think so. I don't think coming up with categories or labels for people like Alina's husband is helpful. Over the years, some people have suggested calling a supportive partner from another faith tradition a "ger toshav," a Biblical category that literally means "stranger in the camp." But the motivation is usually to allow people who fall into the category to participate in more Jewish ritual than those who don't, and I think that's a bad idea.
I know that some people would say that it doesn't make sense to talk about "transJewish" because a person who comes to identify as Jewish can convert. But as of now there's no civil or cultural conversion, only religious conversion, and in any event there are many people who feel sort of or partly Jewish who for many reasons aren't interested in converting.
But the notion of a person who is born with and/or raised with one identity, who feels an affinity with and eventually adopts in some fashion a different identity—that's what strikes close to home. There are many people who were not born or raised Jewish, who are married or partnered with Jews, who feel an affinity with Jews and Jewish traditions and who in some fashion adopt a Jewish identity, the way Alina Adams' husband has. The increasing understanding that that kind of identity shifting happens is the positive implication of the Dolezal incident for those interested in engaging interfaith families Jewishly.
I agree with Alina's conclusion:
Postscript June 23, 2015
In the Sunday New York Times on June 21, 2015, there is a letter to the editor from Ron Brown of Brooklyn, who describes himself as a Christian married to Jewish woman for 30 years, with adult children who identify as Jewish.
He writes, "Over time, I have grown to 'feel' Jewish myself. I even feel a bit insulted and left out when I am singled out as the only one in the family who is Christian. I can understand feeling so identified with a certain group that you wish you were born into that group, so identified that even a reminder that you are separate from that group hurts. I can understand Rachel Dolezal. But I would never consider lying about it. I wish Ms. Dolezal hadn't either. There's no doubt in my mind that she would have been welcomed into the African-American community just the way she was."


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