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Location: central portion of Microsoft East (Main) Campus
Project phase: complete
Timeline: City Council adoption occurred February 3, 2015
Contact: Jeff Churchill, Senior Planner, 425-556-2492, email@example.com
The City Council has adopted a proposal to create a height overlay in the central portion of the Microsoft East Campus that allows up to 9-story buildings, with the option to go to 10 stories using transferable development rights. Building heights are generally limited to 5 stories elsewhere in the Overlake Business and Advanced Technology zone.
Microsoft and the City executed a Development Agreement in 2005 for future growth on the campus. This height overlay does not authorize any additional development beyond what is allowed under that agreement. No specific building plans were submitted as part of creating the height overlay and no specific buildings were part of the proposal.
The visualizations below show how taller buildings would look from various points around the proposed height overlay area. The height overlay area is shaded in yellow with a dashed yellow outline.
The Planning Commission recommended approval of this proposal on September 24, 2014. Read the Commission's report here. The City Council approved the proposal on February 3, 2015.


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Nestle SA (OTC:NSRGY) is the world's largest food and beverage company.[1] Nestle owns several major consumer brands such as Stouffers, Nescafe, Kit-Kat, Carnation, Nestle Water, and many others.[2] All in all, 30 of Nestle's products earned 1 billion CHF or more during 2010, making Nestle a major force in the global food and beverage industry.[3] Nestle competes with companies such as Unilever NV (UN), Hershey Foods (HSY), Kraft Foods (KFT), Cadbury Schweppes (CSG), and GROUPE DANONE (DA) in the packaged food market. With only 42% of its food and beverage sales coming from North America, Nestle is one of the most geographically diverse of the major food and beverage companies.[4] In FY 2010, Nestle generated revenues of CHF 104.6B ($121.1B USD) and net earnings of CHF 9.05B ($10.5B USD).[5]
Although it already occupies the top spot in terms of sales, Nestle is attempting to continue sales and margin growth by increasing the nutritional value of its products and expanding into new areas of therapeutic foods for people with various illnesses.[6] The company's stated goal is to transform itself from a food manufacturer to the world's leading nutrition, health, and wellness company.[3] In 2010, Nestle created a subsidiary that will create food-based products meant to help prevent and treat various medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes.
As retailers push private label products, the ability to earn and maintain shelf space at groceries, convenience stores, and other retail outlets plays a large role in the profitability of packaged food companies. Nestle's large portfolio of prominent consumer brands helps it maintain and increase its shelf space presence despite the growing private label trends, giving it an advantage over competing firms that lack such a strong brand portfolio.[7] These advantages don't, however, insulate Nestle from the impact of rising raw food prices; as grains and dairy prices rise, so do Nestle's costs of production, which can pressure profits.[8].
Nestle is divided into eight units, of which at least four contributed more than 10% to annual sales. This speaks to not only the company's diverse interests, but also its strength in each of the respective markets. In FY 2010, Nestle generated revenues of CHF 104.6B ($121.1B USD) and net earnings of CHF 9.05B ($10.5B USD).[9]
Beverages is the second-largest segment after Milk Products, Nutritional and Ice Cream. Nestle owns several international beverage brands including Nescafe, Nesquick, Nestea, and Nestle Waters, each of which generated more than 1 billion CHF in 2007.[10] [11] With more than 400 factories around the world, Nestle is able to formulate each product to local tastes; "Nescafe" in Switzerland has a different recipe to the same product sold in the USA.[3] Nestle's strong brand recognition helps them compete with other brands such as Maxwell House, Lipton, and Evian as well as various store brands.[12]
The combination of the recession and upper class consumers' increased environmental consciousness[13] has lead many customers to cut back on bottled water in favor of tap water and reusable containers. Industry experts don't expect bottled water to bounce back anytime soon, and the trend may expand beyond the US.
Milk Products, Nutritional, and Ice Cream was Nestle's largest segment. It includes the Carnation, Coffee Mate, Dreyer's, and Edy's brands among many others. Nestle's milk and ice cream brands compete with products such as Breyer Ice cream and store brands. Their nutritional products include Gerber Brand baby food and Nestle brand yogurts. Nestle's nutritional products compete against brands such as Dannon Yogurt and store brands. The company's Nutrition segment became part of Nestle HealthCare Nutrition in early 2011 and will report under this wholly owned subsidiary in the future.
Nestle's Prepared Dishes and Cooking Aides segment consists mostly of products that are designed to be ready to eat very quickly, such as microwave lasagna.[14] Nestle owns brands such as Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, Hot Pockets, and Maggi. Nestle has increased the nutritional value of its prepared dishes in order to compete with products such as DiGiorno, Bertoli, and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.[15] In 2010, Nestle bought Kraft's frozen pizza business for $3.7 billion.[16] The purchase added the DiGiorno, Tombstone, Jack's and Delissio brands to Nestle's stable of products, as well as the license to sell California Pizza Kitchen frozen pizza. With this acquisition added to Nestle's existing product line, the company increased its market share to 33% from 17% of North American frozen foods.[17]
Nestle's Confectionery segment includes confectionery brands include Kit-Kat and Nestle Chocolate. The Nestle Chocolate brand produces famous products such as Baby Ruth and Nestle Crunch.[18] Nestle's confectionery products compete with chocolates and candies from Hershey Foods (HSY) and Cadbury Schweppes (CSG) (recently purchased by Kraft Foods (KFT) and snacks from manufacturers such as Kraft Foods (KFT), as well as various store brands. With Kraft Foods (KFT)' purchase of Cadbury in January 2010, Nestle dropped to the third largest chocolatier.
This group consists of "Nespresso", "Nestlé Professional", and "Cereal Partners Worldwide". Nestlé Professional, previously Nestlé Food Services, provides food supplies to the food service industry. Cereal Partners Worldwide has ongoing operations in more than 130 countries and account for nearly 25% of all cereal sales outside of the United States and Canada.[19]
Nestle's Pet Care group contributed 12% of the company's total 2009 Sales.[20] Nestle owns several pet care brands that produced more than 1 billion CHF in 2007 such as Purina, Dog Chow, and Friskies. Nestle's pet care products compete against brands such as Iam's and store brands. In 2009, Pet Care generated revenues of 12.9 billion CHF with organic growth of 7.9% from 2008. In particular, Purina outperformed the other brands in its market with mid-to-high single digit growth around the globe.[21]
Nestle's Pharmaceutical Products division segment consists of pharmaceutical and cosmetics brands. Nestle owns 30% of L'oreal (LRLCY) and recently sold its controlling stake in Alcon Inc. (ACL), an eye care product manufacturer, to Novartis AG (NVS).[22] Nestle also participates in two joint ventures with L'oreal (LRLCY): Galderma and Laboratoires innéov. Galderma produces the topical acne medication Differin and Laboratoires innéov produces several cosmetics-related nutritional supplements.[23]
Using funds from its sale of eye-care company Alcon to Novartis AG (NVS) in 2010, Nestle created the Nestle Health Science company.[24] This wholly-owned subsidiary will create food-based products meant to help prevent and treat various medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. The company will also oversee the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences which will undertake research aimed at bridging the gap between pharmaceuticals and food and unraveling the web of connections between food, drugs, and disease. Nestle's existing Healthcare Nutrition segment will now become part of the new subsidiary.[25] The majority of the company's brands were acquired from Novartis AG (NVS) in 2007.[26]
Nearly all of Nestle's revenues come from sales of food and beverage items. Thus, changing consumer demand for different types of food and beverage items can have an impact on Nestle's sales. These changes can be seasonal; for example, consumers tend to demand more hot beverages such as coffee during the colder winter months.[29] Long term trends also affect consumer demand. For example, the National Restaurant Association says that consumers have been demanding healthier food options when dining out, which reflects the larger trend of growing public concern for health and wellness in general.[30] Nestle is attempting to take advantage of trends such as these by putting the "Nutritional Compass", which prominently displays nutritional information, on over 90% of its products' packaging, and repositioning itself as a nutrition and health company.[31]
Nestle's creation of the Nestle Health Science company illustrates their commitment to nutrition, health, and pharmaceutical foods.[32] This wholly-owned subsidiary will create food-based products meant to help prevent and treat various medical conditions. The company will also oversee the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences which will undertake research aimed at bridging the gap between pharmaceuticals and food and unraveling the web of connections between food, drugs, and disease. Nestle's existing Healthcare Nutrition segment will now become part of the new subsidiary.[33]
Recognizing the important of emerging markets, Nestle is investing heavily in production capacity in new markets, such as South Africa, Brazil, Russia, and India. Nestle's expects emerging markets to account for 60% of future growth.[36] Additionally, company has introduced its "Popularly Positioned Products." These products are lower cost and are priced at a level where poor consumers in the developing world can purchase them every day. With the explicit goal of having emerging market sales account for 45% of revenues by 2020, Nestle is heavily investing in Brazil, Russia, and India from 2010-2012, and encouraging local acquisitions by their geographic subsidiaries.[37] The company has also expanded its manufacturing facilities in Africa with new/expanded factories in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Angola, Mozambique, and other countries. The company plans to increase sales of locally made products in Africa to 52% in 2012 and 76% by 2016.[38]
Nestle competes with other packaged foods companies as well as store brands from retailers such as Safeway (SWY), Wal-Mart Stores (WMT), Walgreen Company (WAG). Nestle's major competitors are:

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Glass Houses
Stephen Glass still doesn't believe in the world around him.
Maybe the character of "Lindsey Ditmar" in Stephen Glass' new novel The Fabulist is based on me and maybe she isn't. I was his closest female friend at the New Republic during the time he was making up all those stories, and he spent half his days in my office. On the other hand, my husband does not work at the New York Times and my parents are not reporters. Whatever. Between the upcoming movie about Glass, Shattered Glass, and this book, I've come to accept my humble role as composite sassy sidekick to my old friend Steve—Elaine to his Jerry, Janet to his Jack.
Early in the novel, the fictional "Stephen" mentions how in his desperate last days of cover-up he let the clueless Lindsey defend him and how badly he feels about that. But pretty soon he comes to realize that it was Lin, in fact, who had betrayed him. He hears from someone that she has "taken back their friendship retroactively—whatever that means." When she calls, he's sure she must be working on an article about him, so he doesn't call back. By the end of the book he has decided that Lin and company were lame anyway, compared to his new crew of doting misfit friends from the video store (where he now works).
Well. I am obviously too involved to be objective but allow me a quick reality check. Here is what actually happened in that spring of 1998: After several desperate messages from Steve about how he was about to get fired I cut short a trip to New York to see what I could do. He told me that then-editor Chuck Lane was screwing him, so I marched into Chuck's office and all but called him an asshole for daring to call our sweet Stephen a liar. When I learned Steve had been fired I tried to call and e-mail. Not because I was writing a story—but because what normal friend wouldn't? But five years have passed, and I still have not heard a word from Steve, not a phone call, not a letter, not an e-mail, never mind an apology. And I'm the betrayer?
So it goes in The Fabulist. Scores are settled, debts are paid. Our hero feels bad that he lied to his friends—but then he re-imagines them as people not really worth feeling too bad about. Brian (presumably a version of his close friend Jon Chait, who still works at TNR) is right to be angry; but ultimately, we learn, Brian doesn't appreciate Steve's friendship. Robert Underwood, the editor who fires him (a very thinly disguised Chuck Lane, now my colleague at the Washington Post), is either bullying or delivering portentous speeches about journalistic ethics. ("There's a reason journalists have these strict rules about truth. Journalism is fragile. Our only asset is credibility. ... ") Underwood then writes a book about his role in the affair called Defender of Truth, which Stephen catches him flacking on television. (The irony of this plot twist seems totally lost on Steve, who just appeared on 60 Minutes for that very same reason.) Lurking behind every suburban post-office box are venal reporters whose only motives for writing about Steve are to advance their own careers. One sleeps with him and then writes a story about how he doesn't seem contrite. A journalist friend turns obsessive, stalking Steve for the good part of a year just to get an "exclusive."
Our hero, meanwhile, is a soul repentant. He is humble, contrite. He is sad and afraid. He sweats, he shakes, he is haunted by night terrors. And he's also a few shades hipper than the original: Rather than going to law school, as Glass did in real life, he works in a video store, goes to strip clubs and Vietnamese massage parlors—and always gets his girl after the first date.
In a way we are lucky Steve wrote this book as fiction. With a memoir, he might have strived for a coherent mea culpa. Here we have his imagination unfettered, his true fantasy of how things might have been. "An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned," wrote V.S. Naipaul in an essay about the fictional Michael X. [Correction, May 22, 2003: Michael X is not a fictional character.] "But fiction never lies; it reveals the writer totally."
I read the novel hoping for some insight into why Steve did what he did. I learned some weird things—for instance, when Steve invented someone for one of his stories he dressed up to get into character, putting on rouge and lipstick the color of "cherry Tootsie Pop." But otherwise, the insights were shallow. "Here's the answer," he writes at one throat-clearing moment. "What I truly wanted was to be well regarded by the people around me—actually, to be loved by them." This is no doubt true but also somewhat too tremulous an explanation, and a little generic. (I believe "Curing the Disease to Please" is actually a regular feature in O magazine.)
After reading the novel, I have a few guesses of my own about why Steve so easily turned into "the fabulist." 1) Steve doesn't really understand journalism. The reporters in the book are either dullards or jerks. The fictional editors at his magazine talk in wire-service zombie-speak about "nut grafs" and "time pegs"; their headlines are failed attempts at being clever. All the other journalists are scumbags who'll do anything for a story. He must think the profession is base—and that it corrupted him rather than the other way around. He doesn't seem to get that truth is essential to journalism, or that journalism done the honest way serves a critical role in society.
2) Steve could so easily fabricate people because at some level he doesn't see them as real, only as superficial extensions of himself. The characters in the book have no existence except in relation to Steve; they are classified by their level of loyalty to him. In real life, his friends at the magazine did not spend all day thinking about how they didn't love him anymore after he was fired. We had other thoughts: about what in ourselves allowed us to believe all his stories, about our own writing, about the fragility of friendships—but that would require a level of empathy he can't seem to muster, not even in fiction. And then there are all the munchkins who populate the novel: the fat woman in the "I Love Purple" sweater, and the schlumps who play bingo, and the pushy old Jewish ladies (who of course play mah-jongg and sing Fiddler on the Roof songs)—all types that will be familiar to close readers of the Steve Glass oeuvre, and all cardboard testimonies to Steve's failure to see flesh and blood.
From the very first page of the book Stephen Glass anticipates reviews such as this one. His fellow journalists will never believe he's sorry or been punished enough, will wish him to remain forever ashamed, he writes. But this too is just another form of narcissistic fantasy. Most of us don't think about him all that much unless he publishes a novel and goes on 60 Minutes to hawk it. I, for one, am sure Steve is sorry. How could he not be? He was always sorry for even minor infractions; how much more so for this extravagant, ongoing lie. I'm sure too he's been punished enough, having lost his career and all his old friends. I don't wish him ill. But I'm not convinced he's changed all that much.
Correction, May 22, 2003: Michael X is not a fictional character.


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Single-use carrier bags
The carrier bag charge was introduced to dramatically reduce the number of carrier bags used in Wales. This charge affects all retailers in Wales, not just those who sell groceries.
The Welsh Government brought in a 5p minimum charge on all bags (including paper bags).
The 5p charge should be enough to influence consumer behaviour and reduce the number of bags given out without putting an unnecessary burden on shoppers, or preventing impulse shopping.
It's important to remember that no one has to pay the charge. It can simply be avoided by customers reusing their bags.
Voluntary code
The Welsh Government expects that the money raised from the charge should be passed on to charities or good causes in Wales, especially environmental projects.
They have developed a voluntary code. Retailers can sign up to the code and confirm that they are passing the money raised onto good causes.
For more information and to sign up, visit the Carrier Bag Charge Wales website.
Visit: Sign up to the Voluntary code: Carrier bag charge Wales website (external link)
For more information on Welsh Government policies on single-use carrier bags, please visit the Carrier bag charge Wales website.


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* After $150 YAESU MAIL IN REBATE
Yaesu FTDX-1200 provides sophisticated operation on 160 to 6 meters with up to 100 Watts on SSB, CW, and FM (25 Watts AM carrier) and a rugged state-of-the-art highly balanced receiver circuit configuration for top performance on todays crowded bands. It uses 32-bit high speed floating point DSP. Yaesus acclaimed superior DSP algorithm is highly effective in weak signal processing and enhancement. The 1st IF frequency is protected by selectable 3 kHz, 6 kHz and 15 kHz roofing filters that effectively attenuate interfering signals. The triple conversion circuit structure allows highly flexible gain distribution at each stage. This enables elimination of unwanted signals through filters at each stage as well as optimized gain distribution. A built-in 4.3-in TFT wide full color High Resolution Display with loads of information provides superior operability and visibility for the FTDX1200 owner. A High Speed Spectrum Scope located just below the LCD, displays the information needed to place them at the right place on the band with the right receiver set-up.
Sophisticated optional accessories offer additional features that make the FTDX-1200 a true high performance platform for all hams no matter what mode they chose to operate. The FFT-1 supports advanced functionality, including the AF-FFT Scope, RTTY/PSK31 Encode/Decode, CW Decode and CW Auto Zero-in. The SCU-17 USB Interface supports CAT, USB Audio in/out, TX control (PTT, Key, Shift) and firmware update functions.
The FTDX-1200 is supplied with MH-31B8 hand mic, DC cord, spare fuses and manual.
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Drybulk shipping comprises roughly 36% of seaborne trade.[1]
Capesize - Large vessels that cannot pass through canals and thus must travel around capes. Typically about 175,000 deadweight tons (dwt).
Panamax - Vessels designed to pass through the Panama Canal. Typically about 75,000 dwt.
Supramax - Smaller vessel, roughly 40,000-60,000 dwt.
Handysize - Smaller vessel, roughly 10,000-40,000 dwt.


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As one of the leaders in today's automotive and motorcycle advancements, BMW is again pushing the envelope of technology and blurring the lines between science fiction and reality.
The German manufacturer prides itself on state of the art safety features on both cars and motorcycles, most notably the introduction of ABS for motorcycles in 1988 and their semi-active chassis which was released in 2012.
More notably are BMW's recent updates in motorcycle lighting technology which include BMW's adaptive headlight technology for the 2010 BMW K1600GT and GTL models, which uses ride height and pitch sensors to automatically level the headlight.
Also, the 2012 BMW R1200GS which was the first motorcycle to feature an LED main headlight with integrated daytime running light.
For 2014, BMW has announced the introduction of Organic LEDs (OLED) which are claimed to be a vast improvement over the inorganic LED lighting that is currently being used.


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Building Smart Robots
Speech language pathologist Yu-kyong Choe (Communication Disorders) is working on a two-year grant funded by the American Heart Association to investigate the effect of stroke rehabilitation delivered by a humanoid robot, a child-sized unit with arms and a screen where therapists, doctors and others can interact with a client. Choe is collaborating with Rod Grupen, director of the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics, on ways to bring more and longer-term, home-based therapy and social contact to people recovering from stroke.
It's estimated that 3 million Americans daily experience the debilitating effects of stroke. But even after years, they can recover significant function with intensive rehabilitation, says Choe. The bad news is that this is rarely available or accessible due to a shortage of therapists and lack of coverage for long-term treatment. Many people are left with chronic low function, which can lead to social isolation and depression.
The researchers acknowledge that some may object to robots delivering therapy, but they say the need is great and definitely not being met now, especially in rural areas. The goal is to aid human-to-human interaction, so a robot can temporarily take the therapist's place and even help with routine tasks. Grupen says, "In addition to improving quality of life, if we can support a client in the home so they can delay institutionalization, we can improve outcomes and make a huge impact on the cost of elder care. There are 70 million baby boomers beginning to retire now."
Choe adds, "In this study, we want to find out whether the physical presence of a robot that looks like a human can make a person more motivated to complete her therapy tasks. Also, whether she'll engage and show progress with the robot, because intensity really matters. The more you practice, the better function will be. Anything that keeps her from being bored or quitting is valuable."
"Thirty years ago when computers were massive and bulky, no one thought they would be in our homes," she points out. "If the same is true for robots, now is the time to start developing home robots that effectively lead language and physical therapy routines for people recovering from stroke. We want to support this with sound research."
The study will enroll five stroke patients per year to attend three sessions per week for five weeks at the UMass Amherst lab. Three treatments will be compared: computer-mediated, robot-mediated and robot-assisted telepractice by a remote therapist.
In the robot-mediated condition, patients complete word-retrieval tasks and games, plus arm exercises, delivered by the robot alone based on therapy routines it has observed. In the computer-mediated condition, the same tasks and exercises will be presented on a laptop computer.
In the robot-assisted telepractice condition, the client performs word- and arm-movement tasks designed and directed by a therapist in a remote location being observed and mimicked by the robot via 3-D range camera. The robot exactly copies the therapist's movements. Choe predicts that the two robot-mediated conditions will yield better outcomes in both speech and physical function because of the patient-robot interactions. The research team will also analyze how the telepractice and robot-mediated therapy sessions are received by client and therapist.
Therapists Jennifer Baird and Tammie Foster, with computer science doctoral students Takeshi Takahashi and Hee-tae Jung, are working with patients three days per week and developing software for uBot5, an adaptive humanoid robot, to act as the liaison between a remote therapist and the client at home.
Jung, who evaluates how well the robot is learning therapy routines and goals, says early robots tended to be too task-specific, but now scientists are designing more flexible, adaptable robots. "I want the robot to pick up some specific skills and to facilitate interaction with flexible behavior. I also want to know whether the therapist feels it's a valuable tool and whether patients like it," he says.
Grupen explains, "We hope to advance artificial intelligence by creating robots that learn from human beings while interacting with them. It will also allow doctors, therapists and family to come into the home via telepractice. We want to explore embedding robots into human culture in a way that improves quality of life and increases human-to-human social interaction in a circumstance when age and disability can isolate people."
"Stroke rehabilitation is such a monumental financial problem everywhere in the world, that's where it can pay for itself," he adds. "A personal robot could save billions of dollars in elder care while letting people stay in their own homes and communities. We're hoping for a win-win where our elders live better, more independent and productive lives and our overtaxed healthcare resources are used more effectively."
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"A personal robot could save billions of dollars in elder care while letting people stay in their own homes and communities."
- Rod Grupen


text: If you are searching for a new sneaker for the summer holiday, then check out the latest Converse Chuck Taylor All Star Colorful-Leopard Hi. These kicks are decorated with a Leopard print in black, beige or a saxe/pink. See more pictures after the jump to get more details. 5,900 Yen ($64).


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Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Bowlacre Lane & Farm
5 comments:
- Hydonian said...
Love these photos, Paul !
Bowlacre or "Bowl Acre" as it says on the tithe maps has always been a desirable spot by the looks of things!
- Tuesday, 07 February, 2012
- Tom said...
Excellent post and pictures Paul... it is a long time since I've walked around here..
- Tuesday, 07 February, 2012
Strangely enough I walked around there last Sunday. Take the path on the left between the fences as you approach the farm (just past Ricky Hatton's new house) then head up the field towards the lone tree in the centre of the hedge facing you. Having passed through the (very muddy) gap in the hedge, take a diagonal route across the next field to the style in the top right hand corner. Now follow the hedge on your right to the next style and you're on Lord Derby Road opposite the path through the farms leading up to up to Werneth Low Road.
Now stop, turn round and take in the view while you recover your breath!
- Tuesday, 07 February, 2012
- Tom said...
Hi Bill.. it must be over 30 years since I did that walk... and thank you for bringing it back to mind...
- Tuesday, 07 February, 2012
I found your page when searching for mention of Whitegates, where my grandparents lived when I was a child (late '60s, early '70s). Would you know where I could find old photos of the house?
Lovely site. Many thanks
- Saturday, 14 May, 2016


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Just wondering how much milk does my 12.5 MO need? I am a working mother and having a hard time pumping enough this past month.
On the weekends LO nurses frequently, but only really takes all my milk in the am, before her naps and before bedtime and then is still nursing basically all nite long.
During the week my nanny has a very hard time getting her to sleep for naps and insinsists on 4.5 ounces bottles for the naps. I have instructed her to ensure she switches sides halfway through the bottle to slow LO down and we use NB flow Dr. Browns bottles. LO is cutting her molars, so she is especially hard to get to sleep these past few months- nursing or the bottle seems to be the only way. With 2-3 ounces before lunch and dinner I am really struggling to keep up as pumping 3-4 times a day I get only 8-10 ounces. My supply has really dropped this past month, I have started with fenugreek now.
Her schedule is something like this:
6:30-7 am - wake and nurse
7:30 - I try to nurse her before I leave (I was pumping as well at 7:30 but am really having a hard time these days)
10 am - 4.5 ounces, nap time (I pump)
12:30 − 2 ounces with lunch (I pump)
3 − 4.5 ounces (I pump) and nap
5 − 2 ounces with dinner
6:30-7:30 - nurse to sleep
9 - dream feed or she wakes and I nurse her again
AND THEN nursing all night long pretty much from 2-5 am
I tried cutting out her bottle before dinner, but then as soon as I got home she would nurse, take all my milk and I wouldn't have enough to put her to sleep at 6:30 − 7.
I am getting really tired of pumping, but really want to continue until LO self weans. Any advice? This lack of sleep and pumping is killing me!


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About the Eames Desk and Storage Units
Long before "modularity" and "high tech" entered the design lexicon, Charles and Ray Eames were using industrial production techniques to extend the boundaries of design and create a modern aesthetic. These desk and storage units complement each other, and each can stand alone. They provide ample storage, work, and display space. And at home or in the office, they look as striking now as they did when first introduced in 1950.


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By Barbara Goldberg
(Reuters) - A storm encased the U.S. Midwest in glistening ice on Sunday, forcing officials to cancel flights and closing roadways and threatening to tangle the start of the work week as freezing rains headed east.
Hundreds of churches across Iowa called off Sunday services as sidewalks were turned to sheets of ice by the storm that meteorologists said had covered the Midwest in about a half-inch (13mm) of ice by midday.
Flights in and out of Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Louis were grounded on icy runways.
The National Weather Service issued a freezing rain advisory for Chicago and the surrounding area for Sunday until 9 p.m. CST (0300 GMT Monday), when temperatures were expected to warm up enough to make it just rain. Until then, the NWS warned of dangerous conditions for driving and even walking.
"Pockets of sleet, freezing rain and freezing drizzle are possible farther east late tonight into Monday morning from Buffalo, New York, to New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Roanoke, Virginia," meteorologist Brian Edwards said on Accuweather.com.
Slick roadways were reported from South Sioux City, Nebraska, to Iowa, where numerous crashes were reported, according to the Iowa Department of Transportation. In Franklin County, Iowa, Interstate 35 was blocked by tractor trailers struggling to get a grip on treacherous surfaces.
"Instant icing of windshields and roadway surfaces (as well as driveways, sidewalks and parking lots) can be expected in the areas with freezing temperatures," the Iowa DOT said.
In Missouri, ramps to connecting Interstate 270, which circles the St. Louis area, to Interstate 70 were closed early Sunday morning because of ice, but were later reopened, said Marie Elliott, a spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Transportation.
(Additional reporting by Tim Bross in Missouri, Kay Henderson in Iowa and David Hendee in Nebraska; Editing by Edith Honan and Bill Trott)


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Hierarchy I assume you have the catamaran? Will the owner be along on the trip? What are thr ages of the people currently planning to go, or the ages of the people you would prefer to go? Does the boat have broadband internet? Which route were you planning to go on? Specifically, what expenses is an individual expected to cover? Is this trip meant to go to out of the way places, port hopping, both, other? How much planning has already taken place ( routes, provisioning, refitting etc. )? Have you done a trip like this before? How knowledgable are the sailors involved? Thanks, in advance, for answering my many questions.
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Martapura : A Sparkling City in South Kalimantan
Situated some 45 Kilometers east of Banjarmasin, capital of South Kalimantan Province, Martapura is a sparkling little city literally filled with diamonds and all the precious rocks delved from inside Borneo's earth. Administratively, Martapura is the capital of the Banjar Regency. The city is well-known as the center of the diamond industry as well as the main diamond cutting and polishing venue in Kalimantan, in addition to being producers of top quality jewelry.
The city has played an important role in history since it was the last seat of the Banjar Sultanate during the reign of Sultan Adam from 1825-1857. The name "Martapura" itself is said to have been given by the 4th Sultan of Banjar, Sultan Mustain Billah in 1630.
For those who fancy jewelry and accessories such as necklaces, bracelets, rings, brooches, and various others made from pure diamond, gold, zircon, silver, various other gemstones, and even plastic or glass imitation, then Martapura is the place to be. The quality of Martapura's jewelry is globally recognized as one of the best in the world. These sparkling treasures of Martapura are best found at the city's iconic landmark in the diamond and jewelry market of Cahaya Bumi Selamat.
This market could well be one of the most unique diamond markets the world, since instead of featuring exquisite and elegant stores, Cahaya Bumi Selamat Diamond and Jewels Market is merely a conglomeration of simple stores and a few hawkers. It is even not uncommon to sometimes see millions of rupiahs worth of transaction conducted between two men passing in the street, instead of in an established store. The choice of uncut gems, silver and gold jewelry and threading beads -both strung and unstrung- are excellent here.
Aside from being the showcase of Borneo's most sparkling rocks, Martapura is also where diamonds and other gemstones are mined and processed. While the nearby diamond fields of Cempaka in Banjarbaru may have prided itself with the 166.75 Carat "Trisakti" diamond in 1965, the Pengaron diamond fields in Martapura startled the world in January 2008 with the discovery of a 200 carat diamond aptly named "Putri Malu" or the shy Princess.
At the heart of Martapura, one can find a lot of diamond polishing houses which use both traditional and modern techniques. The most notable of these is the Kayu Tangi Diamond Polishing Center just behind the Cahaya Bumi Selamat Diamond Market. Here diamonds are brought to be polished and processed into various shapes and sizes using traditional techniques.
The other face of Martapura is its highly religious ambience that radiates throughout the city and has given the city a similar name to that of Aceh: "the veranda of Mecca". Therefore it is not uncommon to see Arabic characters alongside regular Latin lettering in road or building signs. Probably the most iconic landmark and symbol of Martapura as an Islamic city is the Al Karomah Grand Mosque (previously Masjid Jami' Martapura) which is the oldest and largest mosque in Martapura. With touches of European architecture, the mosque features a huge and colorful onion shaped dome that radiates an exquisite ambience.
Martapura being merely one hour away from Banjarmasin, if you want broader options of accommodations you can choose in Banjarmasin. However, there are a number of hotels and inns available within Martapura itself if you wish to spend the night in the 'Diamond' City.
To get to Martapura one has to fly in through Banjarmasin, capital of South Kalimantan province. There are many domestic airlines flying to Banjarmasin.
Martapura is approximately 45 Km east from Banjarmasin. From here the city can be reached by public transportation or rented car for about an hours drive. From the town of Banjarbaru, the trip will take roughly 15 minutes. From Banjarmasin's Syamsudin Noor Airport, the drive will take approximately 20 minutes.
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If you take a look through our coverage of World Superbike's stop in Assen this weekend, you'll notice a trend in the standings on how riders finished in relation to what type of equipment they ran in the race. The trend seems to suggest an advantage for the inline-four cylinder bikes, and didn't go unnoticed by Carlos Checa, who found himself struggling to compete with the four cylindered machines this weekend on his twin cylindered Ducati.
As one of the privateer Ducati's on the grid, Checa and the Althea Ducati team believe the current WSBK rules hinder the twins in being competitive with the focus in both acceleration and top speed. You make the call after the jump.


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By Roberta Rampton and Thomas Ferraro
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday the United States would explore Russia's potential "breakthrough" plan to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control but would keep the pressure on Damascus by asking Congress to authorize U.S. military strikes.
In a series of television interviews designed to persuade Congress and the American public of the need for intervention, Obama said he would pause any military action if Syria would relinquish control of its chemical weapons arsenal.
Congress sought to buy more time to explore Russia's offer. Democratic Senate leader Harry Reid pushed back a Wednesday test vote on authorizing military strikes to possibly later in the week.
"I don't think we need to see how fast we can do this. We have to see how well we can do this," Reid told his colleagues.
The surprise diplomatic course opened up after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry made an unscripted comment earlier on Monday. Kerry suggested in London, in response to a reporter's question, that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could avoid a military strike by surrendering his chemical arsenal.
Russia pounced on the comment, and Syria also said it was open to a proposal to put the weapons under international control.
Obama said he prefers a diplomatic solution in Syria, but is still skeptical.
"This could potentially be a significant breakthrough," Obama told NBC News in an interview. "But we have to be skeptical because this is not how we've seen them operate over the last couple of years."
Administration officials also said the proposal would not derail efforts to get congressional authorization for strikes, saying it was the threat of strikes that motivated Russia's offer.
Obama faces an uphill struggle to win approval on military intervention from Congress, where a majority of lawmakers are still undecided on whether to use military force to punish Syria for an August 21 chemical weapons attack on civilians.
"I wouldn't say I'm confident" of winning approval, Obama told NBC, but he plans an intensified lobbying blitz for support over the next few days.
In addition to the television interviews, Obama was due to visit the Capitol on Tuesday to make his case to lawmakers from both parties before making a televised address to the nation from the White House in the evening.
Some lawmakers reacted positively to the Russian plan. Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham, leading supporters of the strikes, said the Russian proposal should make it easier to win support in Congress.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democratic chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Russia could be "most effective" in encouraging Assad to place his chemical arsenal under U.N. control.
"I do think that the Russians are serious. I met with the Russian ambassador earlier today and believe that they are serious in putting this together and that it is a plan that could solve the problem," she said.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a potential presidential candidate in 2016, waded into the debate, endorsing Obama's drive for Congress to approve military action and saying Syria's surrender of chemical weapons would be an "important step."
Hundreds of House members attended a Syria briefing late on Monday by Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Many members expressed interest in the Russia proposal, along with a dose of skepticism.
"We should very quickly and clearly find out if this thing is real," said Representative Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "I'm dubious, because Russia's been a very bad player on this, blocking everything we've tried to do in the United Nations."
The Russian proposal could make it harder for the administration to build political momentum for military strikes by giving an excuse to some lawmakers to say they prefer to let the diplomatic process play out.
"It basically throws a bit of a wrench into the administration's approach," said Robert Danin, a Middle East expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. "But it may be a welcome wrench."
Some members of Congress said Obama has lost support for a strike over the last week and polls indicated Americans, weary after wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, strongly opposed military action.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday showed opposition to a U.S. military strike was increasing. The poll, taken Thursday through Monday, indicated 63 percent of Americans oppose intervention, up from 53 percent in a survey ending August 30.
Mike Rogers, Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a supporter of strikes, said on Monday that Obama had "fumbled" the message on Syria and faced a critical moment.
"Mr. President, lay out the case. It's an important case for the future national security of this country. You're right on your decision, now show Americans why you believe it's right," Rogers said on MSNBC. "And when he does that, I think we're going to get votes."
Assad, in an interview with CBS television, denied there was any evidence linking his government to the attack and warned that if there were strikes against Syria, the United States should expect reprisals.
Susan Rice, making her first major speech since taking over as Obama's national security adviser, said the United States cannot allow countries such as North Korea and Iran to think Washington would not react to a chemical weapons attack.
"We cannot allow terrorists bent on destruction, or a nuclear North Korea, or an aspiring nuclear Iran, to believe for one minute that we are shying away from our determination to back up our longstanding warnings," she said at the New America Foundation think tank.
(Additional reporting by Arshad Mohammed, Susan Heavey, Caren Bohan, Richard Cowan, Patricia Zengerle and Deborah Charles; Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Karey Van Hall, David Storey and Jim Loney)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says it is going forward with plans for its 135-year tradition of the Easter egg roll, while dashing the hopes of some Iowa children who hoped to visit the president's home.
Sixth graders at St. Paul's Lutheran School in Waverly, Iowa, had their upcoming visit canceled as the White House suspended all tours under across-the-board government spending cuts in a partisan budget battle. The disappointed class put a video on Facebook asking for the tour to be reinstated. "The White House is our house, please let us visit," the children say in unison.
The tours have become a political flashpoint along with the rest of the budget battle, with Republicans arguing the suspension is a stunt and questioning how much it will really save.
Presidential press secretary Jay Carney said Thursday that the Secret Service needs to make unfortunate trade-offs like all federal agencies, and its options included canceling tours, furloughing staff or cutting overtime. "In order to allow the Secret Service to best fulfill its core mission, the White House made the decision that we would unfortunately have to temporarily suspend these tours," Carney said after being asked to respond to the students at St. Paul's.
"I'm not suggesting it's a happy choice, but it is one that we had to make," Carney said.
He had better news for the families who won tickets to the Easter egg roll planned for April 1 on the South Lawn. The White House is expecting more than 35,000 people for the annual celebration, which began in 1878 under President Rutherford B. Hayes. An email sent in recent days notifying those who won the free ticket lottery warned that this year's event could be called off because of the budget battle.
"By reserving these tickets, you are acknowledging that this event is subject to cancellation due to funding uncertainty surrounding the Executive Office of the President and other federal agencies," the email said. But Carney said the White House currently is moving ahead with Easter egg roll plans, even though White House officials would not rule out the possibility of a potential cancellation.
The Secret Service would not comment on how many agents or how much money it budgets to handle security at the Easter egg roll, the largest annual event at the White House. But the agency did break down its math on canceling the tours, during which its officers stand in each of the rooms that are open to ticketholders and help answer questions. It says roughly 37 officers are assigned to the task at a cost of $50 an hour including benefits, for a savings of $74,000 for a 40-hour week. Those officers are being reassigned to other duties help reduce overtime costs, the Secret Service says.
Fourteen Republican senators sent the president a letter Thursday asking for the impact on White House staffing and what other cost-saving measures are being implemented. "To arbitrarily shut off access to a taxpayer funded historical building such as the White House is disappointing," the senators wrote.
As for the students at St. Paul's, their viral video is providing a valuable lesson in civics and public engagement. Parent and school board member Karen Thalacker, a chaperone for the trip to Washington next week, said they have been overwhelmed with their messages of support and the impact they've had on the national debate.
"We are not choosing sides. Our children are not Democrats, are not Republicans. Our children are Americans who want to visit the White House," Thalacker said. The children also had their congressman, Democratic Rep. Bruce Braley, deliver a letter to the White House Thursday that they wrote in pencil on lined notebook paper, asking Obama to do what he can to open the White House. "P.S. Our class would like to play basketball with you," they wrote with a smiley face.
Thalacker said the students don't want special treatment and only want to come if the tours are reinstated for all. They still have plans to visit the Smithsonian museums and Arlington Cemetery, and Thalacker said House Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation for a visit to the Capitol.
"We'd love to have the American people come and visit their Capitol," Boehner told reporters at a news conference Thursday. "I think it's disappointing that the Obama administration didn't follow our lead and find savings in other parts of their budget. I think it's silly that they've insisted on locking down the White House, which the American people actually own."


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Accreditation Criteria
Five Major Headings
The Criteria for Accreditation are organized under five major headings.
Each Criterion has three elements: Criterion Statement, Core Components, and Examples of Evidence. The Criteria Statements define necessary attributes of an organization accredited by the Commission. An organization must be judged to have met each of the Criteria to merit accreditation. An organization addresses each Core Component as it presents reasonable and representative evidence of meeting a Criterion. The Examples of Evidence illustrate the types of evidence an organization might present in addressing a Core Component.
The Criteria are intentionally general so that accreditation decisions focus on the particulars of each organization, rather than on trying to make it fit a preestablished mold. The widely different purposes and scopes of colleges and universities demand criteria that are broad enough to encompass diversity and support innovation, but clear enough to ensure acceptable quality.
Criterion One:
Mission and Integrity
The organization operates with integrity to ensure the fulfillment of its mission through structures and processes that involve the board, administration, faculty, staff, and students.
- The organization's mission documents are clear and articulate publicly the organization's commitments.
- In its mission documents, the organization recognizes the diversity of its learners, other constituencies, and the greater society it serves.
- Understanding of and support for the mission pervade the organization.
- The organization's governance and administrative structures promote effective leadership and support collaborative processes that enable the organization to fulfill its mission.
- The organization upholds and protects its integrity.
Criterion Two:
Preparing for the Future
The organization's allocation of resources and its processes for evaluation and planning demonstrate its capacity to fulfill its mission, improve the quality of its education, and respond to future challenges and opportunities.
- The organization realistically prepares for a future shaped by multiple societal and economic trends.
- The organization's resource base supports its educational programs and its plans for maintaining and strengthening their quality in the future.
- The organization's ongoing evaluation and assessment processes provide reliable evidence of institutional effectiveness that clearly informs strategies for continuous improvement.
- All levels of planning align with the organization's mission, thereby enhancing its capacity to fulfill that mission.
Criterion Three:
Student Learning and Effective Teaching
The organization provides evidence of student learning and teaching effectiveness that demonstrates it is fulfilling its educational mission.
- The organization's goals for student learning outcomes are clearly stated for each educational program and make effective assessment possible.
- The organization values and supports effective teaching.
- The organization creates effective learning environments.
- The organization's learning resources support student learning and effective teaching.
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Criterion Four: Acquisition, Discovery, and Application of Knowledge
The organization promotes a life of learning for its faculty, administration, staff, and students by fostering and supporting inquiry, creativity, practice, and social responsibility in ways consistent with its mission.
- The organization demonstrates, through the actions of its board, administrators, students, faculty, and staff, that it values a life of learning.
- The organization demonstrates that acquisition of a breadth of knowledge and skills and the exercise of intellectual inquiry are integral to its educational programs.
- The organization assesses the usefulness of its curricula to students who will live and work in a global, diverse, and technological society.
- The organization provides support to ensure that faculty, students, and staff acquire, discover, and apply knowledge responsibly.
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Engagement and Service
As called for by its mission, the organization identifies its constituencies and serves them in ways both value.
- The organization learns from the constituencies it serves and analyzes its capacity to serve their needs and expectations.
- The organization has the capacity and the commitment to engage with its identified constituencies and communities.
- The organization demonstrates its responsiveness to those constituencies that depend on it for service.
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Which is greater, infinity or 2infinity?
I like to think of infinity not as an infinitly large number but as a number that increases continuously. If you think of the two infinity terms as two trains traveling on a number line really fast, starting from the same point, their distance from the origin would always remain equal. But no matter how far the trains go, twice the distance of one train will be greater then the distance of the other train.
If you were to write the fraction:
would infinity cancel out? Creepy!
Does infinity = infinity?
If so, then the additive and multiplicitve property of equality should apply and we can multiply or divide an equation by infinity. Add or subtract infinity from both sides. Also we should be able to multiply or divide any fraction by infinity over infinity without changing its value.
And how about division by zero? Is it infintiy? As a denominater gets smaller, the value of the fraction gets larger, but does zero work the same way?
In grade school arithmatic, we divide by placing the dividend in a box and the diviser to the right of it, for instace 5/2 the first step is to think, "how many times will 2 fit into 5? 2.5 times. If we use the same method for division by zero, 3/0, whats the most amount of times 0 can fit into 3? An infinite number of times! By this method infinity seems like the answer.
If we think in terms of fractions, 1/2, 1/3, 5. 1/2 is one half of the whole, 1/3 is one third of the whole, 5 is 5 wholes, 1/0 is one zeroith of the whole, or one NONE of the whole. One none of the whole should be zero!
If we use algebra 5 * 0 = 0. Then does we could say, 0 = 0/5. So division by zero could equal zero.
We could also rearrange it to find, 0/0 = 5. We could also use 7, 9 or any number in place of 5 and find that 0/0 equals any number and every number!
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
If so, then the additive and multiplicitve property of equality should apply and we can multiply or divide an equation by infinity. Add or subtract infinity from both sides. Also we should be able to multiply or divide any fraction by infinity over infinity without changing its value.
I tried that once, and the grader docked me points.
El que pega primero pega dos veces.
What if we were to use a completely gigantic but fixed number. We could treat it as any real number, we could use any of the laws of equality, (multiplicitive, additive) but it wouldn't have the infinite property where it can't really be measured. Might be usefull.
For instance, if we were to think of a number in groups of 999's, 100 times. The number would be:
If we were to call this number "w00t", then we could say "w00t^w00t" which are both factorials of the above. Note, not only is the base a factorial of the above number, but the exponent is also a factorial of the above number. Now thats a tyranasaurus number! Especially if you realize that 10!^10! is too big to fit on a 10 digit calculator. :-O We could now define "Uber" to mean "w00t^w00t"
Now "uber" is so big that 1/uber might as well be called zero.
Might be good to use for some experimenting. It doesn't posess certain qualities of infinity, for instance, you could not even theoretically say, the expression 1/x has a limit of Uber as x aproaches zero. Thats wrong for obvious reasons. But Uber has a fixed value, and it can have coefficiants, and you can multiply or add this number to both sides.
I just thought it was a cool thought. :-)
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A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
How about (100!)!, that's pretty big, and easy to express.
So w00t could be (100!)! , and Uber could be w00t^w00t
And t00t could be 1/w00t, and Unter could be 1/Uber.
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
being the reciprocal, shouldn't it be rebu? Thats the inverse of uber. (or is it just uber in a mirror?)
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
Using that reasoning, half should actually be owt.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
half of w00t?
Well if half of w00t is owt, twice w00t should be "in".
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
oh your talking about two! Stupid me! I gets it. Hey I like it! One owt!
A logarithm is just a misspelled algorithm.
And 10% = net
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
I like to think about...
which is greater?...
the infinite number of real numbers between 1 and 2, or
the infinite number of positive integers?
can we really make a distinction between countably and uncountably infinite sets?
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
-Bertrand Russell
So, is there more "expandable" space between 1 and 2, than in all the counting numbers?
Interesting ... it would seem that the Reals offer an extra dimension, but ... infinity is infinity.
That sparked me to think: (let's ignore negatives) are there twice as many whole numbers as even numbers?
It would seem so, but if you then ask is the infinite set of whole numbers twice as big as the infinte set of even numbers, then ...
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
For every counting number, you can pair it off with an even number by multiplying by 2.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10...
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20...
So there are equal amounts of counting and even numbers.
But, some numbers, like 1, 3, 5, 7 etc. are counting numbers but are not even numbers
and all even numbers are counting numbers, so there must be more counting numbers
than even numbers.
Let's just all agree that it's a paradox and leave it there before our brains start hurting.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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Road crews close Fortification Street intersection
Traffic to be rerouted for 1 month
Road crews close Fortification Street intersection
Traffic to be rerouted for 1 month
JACKSON, Miss. —
The city of Jackson has a major traffic alert for drivers who travel Fortification Street.
Road crews have shut down the intersection of Fortification and Jefferson Streets as part of the street improvement project which began last summer. During the closure, crews will connect a new water line to an existing water line, officials said. Crews will also remove Yazoo clay and replace it with new soil.
The intersection will be closed down for about a month. Traffic will be rerouted through the Belhaven Heights neighborhood.
Officials said the $10.7 million improvement project still has several months to go before it's wrapped up. Once the project is complete, drivers will have a much smoother ride on what was one of the city's bumpiest roads.


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The Bowling Green Steakhouse Restaurant and Hotel has an ever-increasing reputation for the finest steaks in the area.
From succulent Rump, Sirloin and Fillet Steaks to our tasty T-Bones, our locally reared beef has a taste second to none.
With a menu boasting the very best of traditional fayre, and some international favourites, our dishes are homemade in our kitchen, and we also offer fish and vegetarian options as well as a childrens menu.
The Bowling Green has recently been extended to create an additional hotel wing consisting of six purpose built en suite rooms offering a whole host of facilities.
Traditional Sunday Lunch
Served At The Bowling Green Every Sunday
Our traditional Sunday roast lunch is extremely popular, extremely tasty and extremely good value for money to say the least, all homemade and served with all the trimmings.
Main Couse £9.00*
Two Course £13.95*
Three Course £18.00*
* half price for chidren under 12 years of age
Sunday lunchtimes can usually be very busy, so we advise booking your table in advance by calling 01295 263 465


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NAME: Paul Morton Jr.
BORN: March 29, 1981
HOMETOWN: New Orleans, Louisiana
CLAIM TO FAME: Maroon 5 keyboardist; "Only One," Feat. Stevie Wonder; New Orleans
LOCAL MUST-HAVE CUISINE: Home-cooked gumbo and banyets
DESERTED-ISLAND LPS: Michael Jackson's Off The Wall, Beatles' Abbey Road and Stevie Wonder's Inner Visions
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SLOCOMB, AL (WSFA) - The following is the obituary from Sorrell's Funeral Home in Slocomb, AL. Poland's visitation has been planned for Saturday, February 2 from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. at Sorrell's Funeral Home in Slocomb, Alabama. His funeral will be Sunday, February 3 at 2 p.m. at the Ozark Civic Center. Flowers are being accepted or donations can be made to the Autism Society of Alabama.
Mr. Charles "Chuck" Albert Poland, Jr. of Newton went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 performing a heroic deed while driving a school bus. He was 66.
Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, February 3, in the Ozark Civic Center with Rev. Ray Layton and Rev. Charles Littlefield officiating and with Dale County Superintendent of Education, Donny Bynum, delivering the eulogy. Burial will follow in Newton City Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home of Slocomb directing. Flowers will be accepted or contributions may be made to Autism Speaks, 1060 State Road 2nd Fl, Princeton, NJ 08540.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 5:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Mr. Poland was born on July 16, 1946 in Payette, ID to Mildred Poland and the late Charles "Bert" Poland, Sr. He was a beloved husband, father and "Paw-Paw"! A selfless man whose life exemplified the Lord he served, made the ultimate sacrifice by saving the lives of the children he loved. They, like so many others, will always remember him as a brave hero who did not flinch in the face of adversity.
Survivors include his loving wife of 43 years: Mary Janice Poland of Newton; one daughter and son-in-law: Lydia and Eddie Hancock of Cottonwood; one son and daughter-in-law: Aaron and Ashley Poland of Hickory, NC; grandsons: Timothy and Ryan Hancock, Blake Poland; mother: Mildred Poland of Athol, ID; two sisters: Vicki Upchurch of Athol, ID and Patti Hook of Deer Park, WA; brothers-in-law: Calvin and Stacy Skipper of Wicksburg, Marvin and Donna Skipper of Ozark, Melvin and Lavern Skipper of Newton; sister-in-law: Karen Skipper of Cullman; several nieces and nephews; and other extended family and friends.


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Sunday, January 16, 2011 Results
No. 17 Huskies Breeze Past Cal, 92-71
(Courtesy of gohuskies.com)
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Isaiah Thomas told his team there would not be another second-half letdown.
Washington spent more than two days in the Bay Area waiting to play again, eager to hit the court after a deflating last-minute defeat at Stanford.
The Huskies went to a couple of movies and had team meals. They attended study sessions and practiced.
"We were just ready to take it out on somebody else," Thomas said.
He did that, all right.
Thomas scored 18 of his season-high 27 points in the first half and No. 17 Washington bounced back from the Stanford loss to beat California 92-71 on Sunday night and salvage a split on its tough Bay Area trip.
Thomas also dished out a career-high 13 assists, including two in a row on 3-pointers by Justin Holiday to start the second half as Washington quickly pulled away. Holiday scored 23 points and Matthew Bryan-Amaning added 22 and 11 rebounds for the Huskies (13-4, 5-1 Pac-10), who shot much better than their cold performance against the Cardinal three days earlier.
"That was probably the best performance I've seen him have as a Husky," Washington coach Lorenzo Romar said of Thomas. "He was just like a band conductor, orchestrating that game for all of the 35 minutes he was in there."
Harper Kamp scored 20 points and freshman Allen Crabbe followed up his season-best 30-point, 10-for-15 performance against Washington State with 16 points for the Golden Bears (9-8, 2-3). Cal couldn't keep the momentum from its thrilling 88-81 overtime victory against the Cougars on Thursday night.
Washington shot 52.3 percent, going 13 for 29 from long range, to pull off a rare win at Haas Pavilion. The Huskies had won just twice in their previous 10 visits to Cal's home floor, the last time an 87-84 victory on March 1, 2008.
This nationally televised game was a rematch of last season's Pac-10 tournament final won 79-75 by Washington.
Holiday shot 9 for 14 with five 3-pointers after going 0 for 5 in the first half of the Stanford game and missing a shot at the end of that one. Bryan-Amaning went 10 for 15 from the floor and Thomas was 8 of 16 and made all eight of his free-throw tries.
Thomas has 103 assists already this season after getting 202 in his previous two years. He broke into Washington's top 10 on the career assists list with Sunday's outing. Thomas has seven or more assists in his last five games and eight or more in four of those.
"Fact of the matter, Isaiah Thomas pretty much had his way," Cal coach Mike Montgomery said. "Washington was very good. They made shots, they played extremely hard. I didn't think we were at our best. That's a bad combination for us. I think they got woken up on Thursday, kind of got caught off guard. They came here full of it."
Thomas is determined to show his critics he can get people involved and make things happen as a point guard. He has had to take on a bigger playmaking role since Washington recently lost point guard Abdul Gaddy to a season-ending knee injury that required surgery Friday.
The Huskies looked inspired and ready against the defending Pac-10 regular-season champions. Washington has had quite a two-week stretch losing Gaddy, finding out one of its players is being investigated by police for an allegation last weekend, then having its 11-game winning streak against Pac-10 opponents snapped in a 58-56 loss at Stanford on Thursday night. The loss also ended its school-record six-game road winning streak against the conference.
Thomas called it "real big" how he and his teammates have been able to block out everything and just play.
The Huskies couldn't hold an 11-point lead with 8:55 left against the Cardinal. They were held to their lowest scoring total of the season and shot 36.2 percent from the field to have their six-game winning streak stopped. Romar made a lineup change by moving Scott Suggs into the starting five in place of Venoy Overton, the Pac-10's active career leader in assists and steals.
"The last 10 minutes of this game were a lot different than the last 10 minutes of the Stanford game," Holiday said.
Montgomery was honored before tipoff for his 600th career win Dec. 28 over Hartford. Athletic director Sandy Barbour presented Montgomery with a commemorative basketball and bottle of wine, then a video tribute showed on the main baseline scoreboards.
Richard Solomon added 14 points for Cal, making all five of his shots. But the Bears were outrebounded 43-27 and gave up 17 fast break points.
After Cal pulled to 23-22 on Emerson Murray's basket with 8:10 left in the first half, Washington responded with a 13-2 burst to build a 36-24 lead. Bryan-Amaning scored five straight during the run and the Huskies led 48-33 at halftime after shooting 53.1 percent and making 7 of 14 from 3-point range in the first half.
Washington made eight of its first 12 shots to build a 19-11 lead.
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Biology Practice Test 7
Question: 1
A defective segment of DNA that resembles a gene but cannot produce functional protein is called
- Exon
- Pseudogenes
- Regulatory sequence
- Homeotic gene
- Lethal gene
Correct Answer: B. Pseudogenes
Pseudogenes are genomic DNA sequence that resemble a gene but are non-functional. They cannot produce functional protein. Exon is the coding region of the gene. Regulatory sequence is the sequence of DNA that regulates the expression of genes. Homeotic genes are the genes that are involved in early development that control the pattern of body formation. Lethal gene is a gene whose effect causes death of organism.
Question: 2
The process by which immature cells develop into matured cells of a specific lineage is
- Organogenesis
- Differentiation
- Growth
- Pattern formation
- Morphogenesis
Correct Answer: B. Differentiation
Differentiation is the process by which an immature cell develops into a mature cell type. Example: Formation of RBC from an erythroblast. A fully differentiated cell is generally not capable of undergoing division.
Question: 3
In humans, the part of the large intestine that opens into rectum is called
- Caecum
- Colon
- Ileum
- Anus
- Jejunum
Correct Answer: B. Colon
The large intestine is composed of caecum, colon and rectum. Caecum is a small sac containing some microbes into which the ileum of small intestine opens. Following caecum is the colon that has an ascending, a transverse and a descending portion. The descending part of the colon opens into the rectum which opens out through anus. Jejunum is a part of small intestine.
Question: 4
Which of the following occurs as a result of accumulation of fertilizers in a pond?
- Biodegradation
- Biomagnification
- Bioaccumulation
- Eutrophication
- Spontaneous combustion
Correct Answer: D. Eutrophication
Eutrophication is the ecosystem change that occurs in a water body as a result of accumulation of fertilizers or nutrients or other natural products in an aquatic environment. Example: Algal bloom in ponds occurs as a result of increased nutrient availability.
Question: 5
In humans, an extra X chromosome causes
- Klinefelter syndrome
- Down syndrome
- Hemophilia
- Porphyria
- Autism
Correct Answer: A. Klinefelter syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) occurs in men as a result of an extra X chromosome. Infertility is the main symptom of this disease.
Question: 6
The rumen of cattle contains _________
- Methanobacterium
- Acetobacterium
- Corynebacterium
- Halobacterium
- Mycobacterium
Correct Answer: A. Methanobacterium
The rumen, a part of stomach in cattle is found to contain Methanobacterium, methane-producing bacteria. The cellulose in the feed of the cattle is broken down by these bacteria and methane is produced as one of the products. These bacteria are also found in ruminants other than cattle.
Question: 7
Altruism is
- A behaviour by an animal that benefits other members of its species
- A behaviour by an animal that troubles other members of its species
- A behaviour by an animal that troubles members of other species
- A behaviour by an animal that hides food from its fellow beings
- None of the above
Correct Answer: A. A behaviour by an animal that benefits other members of its species
Altruism is a behaviour exhibited by an organism for the welfare of its fellow members. The behaviour might be a disadvantage to it but it benefits the others of its kind, for instance a warning that reveals the location of caller to predator.
Question: 8
The state in which viral genome gets integrated with the host genome is
- Provirus
- Absorption
- Prophase
- Lytic cycle
- None of these
Correct Answer: A. Provirus
A virus, after infecting the target cell, either enters the lytic cycle (involving multiplication of virus and breakage of cell) or gets its genome integrated with the host genome. The integrated state is called a provirus.
Question: 9
Breakdown of fat into fatty acid and glycerol is
- Anabolism
- Catabolism
- ß- oxidation
- a- oxidation
- Both A and C
Correct Answer: B. Catabolism
Catabolism refers to the metabolic breakdown of complex molecules into simpler molecules whereas anabolism refers to synthesize of complex molecules from simpler molecules. Breakdown of fats, proteins and carbohydrates into their simpler forms are catabolic processes. ß-oxidation and a-oxidation are the types of fatty acid breakdown reactions.
Question: 10
Duplication of chromosomes takes place in
- S phase
- G1 phase
- G2 phase
- Prophase
- Anaphase
Correct Answer: A. S phase
In S phase, duplication but not separation of chromosomes takes place. Protein and RNA synthesis occurs in G1 and G2 phases. Condensation of chromosomes and disappearance of nuclear membrane takes place in prophase. Separation of chromosomes to the opposite poles occurs in anaphase.
Question: 11
The enzyme involved in the synthesis of mRNA is
- RNA polymerase I
- RNA polymerase II
- RNA polymerase III
- Ribonuclease
- Hexokinase
Correct Answer: B. RNA polymerase II
RNA polymerase II is involved in the synthesis of mRNA. RNA polymerase I and III are involved in synthesis of rRNA and tRNA respectively. Ribonuclease cleaves the RNA molecule. Hexokinase phosphorylates a hexose sugar.
Question: 12
Cleptobiosis is an ecological relationship that can be seen in
- Ants
- Cockroaches
- Tiger
- Deer
- None of the above
Correct Answer: A. Ants
Cleptobiosis is an association in which a species forages the food stores or nesting materials of other species. This can be seen commonly among ants and some other social insects.
Question: 13
Which cell organelle has a role in transporting materials to other parts of a cell?
- Golgi complex
- Lysosome
- Chloroplast
- Mitochondria
- Nucleus
Correct Answer: A. Golgi complex
Golgi complex is a stack of flattened membrane bound sacs that are called as cisternae. Golgi complex acts as a transport system in a cell. They transport materials like proteins to other part of the cell or to the cell surface membrane for secretion.
Question: 14
In an ecosystem, keystone species are those
- Contributing to ecosystem properties
- That are most frequent
- Present in minimum number
- Attaining large biomass
- Having high competency
Correct Answer: A. Contributing to ecosystem properties
A keystone species is one which has a large effect on the environment and is necessary to maintain the structure of an ecosystem. They affect the growth of other species.
Question: 15
The role of cardinal genes in Drosophila is
- Pattern formation
- Sex determination
- Metamorphosis
- Cephalic furrow formation
- Germ band extension
Correct Answer: A. Pattern formation
The cardinal genes in drosophila are responsible for coordinating the segmentation process. They are the pattern forming genes that give signal for anterior- posterior and dorsal- ventral segmentation during the development. Cephalic furrow formation and germ band extension are the processes that take place before segmentation.


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Wine Essentials carries cork cages crafted from metal, in a variety of styles and finishes. For holiday entertainment, customers will enjoy a cork cage from our Christmas-themed collection.
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Drinkers of wine generally have plenty of corks to spare. Why not take the opportunity to save the earth by capturing them in fun cages and making sure they get recycled? If you enjoy wine on occasion but dont go through enough corks to take frequent trips to the recycling center, simply add to the charm of a cage by keeping the corks in them on display. What better way could there be to remember happy times with family and friends?


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We woke up this morning to see the forums, twitter, and blog comments ablaze on Al Ludington and Johnny Rock Page's discourse from Mid-Ohio. Out of these comments we see a clear divide on where people stand on the issue of backmarkers, the rules of AMA Pro Superbike, the managing of AMA roadracing, and the comments made by our two protagonists.
So, we thought we'd post some of the more interesting, and to the point comments made by people from both sides. Read'm after the jump.


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When two lovers engage in anal sex and when the guy is done he gently places a stick of butter in between her buttcheeks and squishes them together.
"BY JOVE! You've got a stick of butter in your bum! (The next day) Dude, you don't have to be a british man to enjoy a nice 'n tasty California Crumpet."
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Masha Arms was invited to the Maryland home of author and journalist Marquis Childs and his wife, Lue Prentiss Childs, to photograph the family. Their daughter, Malissa Childs Elliot (1929-1979), later wrote novels under the pseudonym Malissa Redfield. Originally from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Masha Arms arrived in Washington, DC, during the Great Depression. After buying a Model G Leica camera in 1934 and teaching herself about the technical aspects of photography, she landed a job teaching photography at the King-Smith Studio School in 1936. Masha Arms' work was published in a 1936 Washington Post review of the Junior League Gallery exhibition alongside photographs by Ansel Adams and Margaret Bourke-White. In 1941, when the United States entered World War II, Masha left Washington, married William Tyler Arms of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and moved back to New England.
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Passwords: Wayne Koestenbaum on James Schuyler
Date and Time:
February 8, 2001 - 7:00PM
Event Location:
Poets House, Spring Street
The work of James Schuyler (1923-1991) is ever in danger of slipping from notice because of its frankly casual and whimsical nature. Yet his long poems are arguably among the greatest of the last fifty years. Wayne Koestenbaum commemorates the tenth anniversary of Schuyler's death by reminding a New York audience of the indispensability and secret monumentality of the work of this legendary member of the New York School of Poets.
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AMT catalog # 490B-97, Bronze High Head Centrifugal Pump and Electric Motor assembly, factory assembled with a 3 Horsepower, Three Phase, TEFC (Totally Enclosed Fan Cooled) AC Electric Motor. 1-1/2 inch x 1-1/4 inch NPT Ports.
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text: It's often the physical craving for a cigarette that causes people to start smoking again. There's a range of different treatments available to help you cope with the symptoms of physical withdrawal. Using medicines to help reduce cravings can double your chances of success. And if you combine a stop smoking medicine with an NHS support service, you're up to four times more likely to become a non-smoker.


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I have a building we take care of. The building is equipped with series vav boxes w/ electric reheat on the exterior and cool only boxes on the interior. They just fitted out a new space. They installed cooling only boxes with electric reheat. We were not involved with it, due to cost.
So finally get the call, the new space is having temperature issues and their electric bill is through the roof. So I find the one thermostat was installed with a Celsius knob. That was a little funny and the temperature issue.
The problem I see it the electric bill.......I think it would cost alot more to satisfy your heat load with a cooling only box w/ reheat, then it would be with a series box w/ reheat. The main ahu's run cooling all day(no daytime warmup), due to it being a medical office facility. We only reset the discharge air 8 degrees and it based on OA.
So I explain everything to the company's operations manager. He calls me back and tells me he needs something in writing, about the differences in vav boxes. The construction manager says a vav is a vav, there is no difference.
I'm not the best with typing out explanations......so I'm looking for a link or something to refer them too.


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By the Numbers, Part 7
Slate, the Industry Standard, and washingtonpost.com join forces to examine the effect of the Internet on Campaign 2000.
The Internet was supposed to play a major role at this year's Republican and Democratic National Conventions. But has the online medium found a successful partner in politics? As always, a look at the numbers offers an insight on the real story.
1. Number of press credentials granted for the Democratic National Convention: 15,000
2. Number of online media companies at the convention: 42
3. Number of print, TV, and radio companies at the convention: 125
4. Total price tag for the Democratic National Convention: $35.3 million
5. Amount of corporate new economy contributions to the Democratic convention: $3,250,000
6. TV company that dedicated the most time to the Democratic National Convention, and time dedicated: C-SPAN; 30 hours, 39 minutes
7. TV company that dedicated the least time to the Democratic National Convention, and time dedicated: NBC; 3 hours, 15 minutes
8. Most heavily visited nonpartisan political site from Aug. 14-17: vote.com
9. Total unique visitors to vote.com during those four days: 52,905
10. Number of nonpartisan political Web sites that made Nielsen NetRatings' traffic count cutoff of 51,000 daily unique visitors: 1
11. Number of major newspaper stories about online media's coverage of the two party conventions: 60
12. Number of Internet media stories about print coverage of the Democratic National Convention: 0
13. Percentage of Internet users in a sample of approximately 100 who logged on to find convention coverage on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention, and the average time they spent watching online: just more than 1 percent; 10 minutes
14. Number of people in the sample of 100 who went to a convention chat room on Day 1 of the Democratic National Convention: 0
15. Number of speakers at the Democratic National Convention who said the word "Internet" in their speeches: 11
16. Number of speakers at the Democratic National Convention who said "new economy" in their speeches: 3
17. Length of Vice President Al Gore's speech: 44 minutes, 5,740 words
18. Length of President Clinton's speech: 42 minutes, 4,201 words
19. Length of Tipper Gore's speech: 13 minutes (including video), 322 words (excluding video)
20. Length of first lady Hillary Clinton's speech: 18 minutes, 1,714 words
1. Washington Post
2. National Journal Convention Daily
3. National Journal Convention Daily
4. Washington Post
5. Center for Responsive Politics
8. Nielsen NetRatings
9. Nielsen NetRatings
10. Nielsen NetRatings
11. Lexis-Nexis search
12. Google search
13. Vanishing Voter Project
14. Vanishing Voter Project
17. SpeakOut.com, Associated Press (transcription by eMediaMillWorks)
18. SpeakOut.com, www.dems2000.com
19. SpeakOut.com, www.dems2000.com
20. SpeakOut.com, Associated Press (transcription by eMediaMillWorks)


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The dates are set for the 2013 ProKids event in Bonaire, check out the press release below and the cool video preview.
From May 31st to June 2nd, visit the beautiful island of Bonaire for the upcoming 9th edition of the ProKids event. The crystal blue waters of Sorobon lagoon await, where the best of the best youngsters in freestyle and slalom will pave their way to future windsurfing domination from the Caribbean. Countless riders like Sarah-Quita Offringa, Kiri Thode, Taty Frans and many others have risen through the ProKids ranks, right on to the world stage of the PWA World Tour. You could be next!
This year, the 2013 ProKids Bonaire schedule is as follows:
• Friday, May 31th
10:00 AM: Registration at event site
19:00 PM: Opening Ceremony
• Saturday, June 1st
10:00 AM: Start of the Slalom & Freestyle Competitions
• Sunday, June 2nd
10:00 AM: Finals of the Slalom & Freestyle
18:00 PM: Awards Ceremony
Last year, the 8th ProKids Bonaire Freestyle & Slalom Championship was a success with many competitors from the Caribbean representing the islands of Aruba, Curaçao and Bonaire. The Netherlands and the USA were also represented in numbers. Kiri Thode ended up taking 1st place in the Men's Freestyle, followed closely by Taty and Choko Frans. In the U-17 Freestyle category, Amado Vrieswijk came away with the victory while Jürgen Saragoza won it in the U-15.
As for slalom, Ethan Westera ranked 1st with Amado Vrieswijk arriving in 3rd place. Taty Frans, who had not participated in the first heats managed to grab a couple of 1st places but it wasn't enough to catch up with the other guys.
With last year's 60+ participants, ProKids Bonaire 2013 promises to be even bigger with more attention for what's happening on land as well. Expect great accommodations, celebrations and a windsurfing spectacle in true Caribbean fashion!
To find out more about the 2013 ProKids Bonaire, visit the official website here or the Facebook page here!
And if you're already convinced, sign up using the form here! See you all in Bonaire!


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I'm struggling with something and I'm wondering if anyone can help.
In Orberg's Exercitia Latina Ch XII Exercitum 14. No.11 There is the exercise (fill in the blanks)
11. Cornelius equum formos___________ habet quam Iulius; Cornelius dominus equi formos_______ est.
Now I put in here the following:
11. Cornelius equum formosiorem habet quam Iulius; Cornelius dominus equi formosiores est.
Isn't 'Equi' here Nom. Pl. and wouldnt' it take formosiores.
Orberg gives the correct answer as formosioris - which I can't figure out.... can anyone advise?