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iCanRead targets reading improvement among children who need targeted reading support to motivate them to engage with reading. We have worked closely with a number of schools to measure children's progress while using iCanRead.
Below are four pupil categories and the impact iCanRead had on each one.
Please click on the images to view the full case studies.
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BBC News – Social division stays in online learning Click Above Link! This article makes interesting reading, both from an education point of view but also from a technology company…
You will be hard pushed to find anyone that works in a school, or a child that has attended school over the last 3 decades, who has not read or…
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"My daughter in year 3 is crazy for anything iPad. The fab iCanRead app has really renewed her enthusiasm for reading aloud at bedtime. She thinks the reading log stickers are funny and cool and gaining these and the medals is giving her a real sense of progression and achievement. Highly recommended!"− Catherine Gruenberg, Guildford-based parent
"iCanLearn offers simple and cost-effective ways for schools to engage parents in their child's learning; what's not to like?"− Allyson Ingall, Educational Consultant, London, United Kingdom
"iCanRead is a brilliant idea! My son loves his iPad and this App will change his whole perspective on reading!"− Natalie Roswell, London, United Kingdom
"I love the different sections of the iCanRead app– it makes it really clear for me. The book review part allows me to tell all my friends how good my book is."− Scarlett - Age 11
"The stickers in iCanRead are cool and I am trying to collect them all."− Joshua - Age 11
"I like that I can make my teacher proud!"− Georgie - Age 10
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Religious Education Certificate
Curriculum Planning Worksheet for Certificate in Religious Education
This graduate certificate program prepares individuals for administrating religious education programs or teaching religion in schools and parishes. A bachelor's degree is required for entry into this five course program.
- Two courses in Religious Education
- Three courses from the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies core
All of the courses can be completed online. The Religious Education certificate can be applied to the Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies degree.

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Imagine that (in a temporary lapse from sanity) you have written a paper called "The Shoelace in History," and you
have made use of the following sources. Compile your list of works cited, and, paying close attention to proper MLA format,
copy this exercise into Word and prepare a Works Cited page. (Warning: Some listings contain irrelevant information that you
will not use in your works-cited list.) Remember, this system does not allow for underlining--so watch for the _underline
mark_ to indicate information that should appear underlined.
Link to MLA site
1. The book _Sandals in Greece and Rome_ was written by Sally Parish and published in 1987 by Wapiti Press in Omaha.
2. You found Walter Kelly's article "Shoelaces" on page 36 of volume 12 of the 1984 edition of _Encyclopedia
of Haberdashery_, published in New York by the Buster Green Company. 3. During World War II, Fiona Quinn wrote
_Knit Your Own Shoelaces_ as part of the Self-Reliance Series printed in Modesto, California, in 1942 by Victory Press.
4. On page 36 of its July 23, 1977 edition, _Time_ magazine published "Earth Shoes Unearthed in Inca Ruins."
No author is given. 5. Two days ago, using the Internet, you downloaded a book by lmelda Markoz, _Never Too Many
Shoes_, from the University of Manila library. Two years ago, it had appeared in print, published by Converse Press in Wichita.
You downloaded the book by a process called FTP at the address "shoebooks.uT#nilaedu" 6. Constance
Jowett translated a book by Max Philador and Elisaveta Krutsch, _Shoelaces in Africa and the Far East 1800-1914_. It was
published in 1994 by Vanitas Publishers, Inc. Cities listed on the title page for Vanitas are Fort Worth, Texas; Chicago;
Amsterdam; and Sydney, Australia. 7. On January 5 of this year Louise K. Frobisher wrote you a letter about her
father's shoelace research. 8. You found volume 3 of Fiona Quinn's six-volume work of 1950: _The Shoe in the
English-Speaking World_, published by S. T. Bruin & Sons of Boston. 9. On pages 711 and 712 of volume 17
of the _Indiana Journal of Podiatry_ (November 1974) appears an essay, "Solving the Loose Shoe Problem" by Earl
Q. Butz. 10. Leon Frobisher, Werner Festschrift, Ella Fitsky, and Ian McCrimmer published the twelfth edition
of _Shoemaking with a Purpose_ in 1996. The publisher, Hooton-Muffin of Boston, has published editions of the book since 1939.
11. The Society of Legwear Manufacturers wrote a book, _Laces, Gaiters, and Spats_, in 1901. Provolone-Liederkranz
Publishers, Ltd. of Toronto reprinted it in 1955. 12. Mr. 0. Fecteau and Ms. Mary Facenda edited a 1993 anthology,
_An Ethnography of Footwear_, published in New Orleans by Big Muddy Publications. You found an article on pages 70-81, "Footloose
and Sandal-Free," by J. R. R. Frodobaggins. 13. Norman Zimmer thoroughly explores "The Shoelace Motif
in Finno-Latvian Sonnet Sequences" in the Fall 1993 edition (volume 43), pages 202 through 295, of a scholarly journal
called _PMLA_. 14. Theodore and Louisa Mae Quinn edited a book written by their mother, Fiona Quinn, shortly before
her death. The book, _Old Laces and Arsenic_, is published by Capra Press of Los Angeles. Copyright dates given are 1947,
1952, and 1953. 15. In the February 4,1968 _Hibbing Herald_ newspaper an article, "Lace, Lady, Lace,"
appears under Robert Dylan's byline. You found the article through a NewsBank index listing: "Minnesota: Hibbing--1968,
SOC 54:Gl3-15." SOC stands for the Social Relations category. 16. You draw on information from a television
expose, "The Shoelace Coverup," which appeared last Sunday on the CBS show _60 Minutes_. Leslie Stahl is the narrator.
17. _Dog's Life_ is a monthly magazine published in Atlanta. In volume 16, number 3, of that publication (whose
date is August 1996), Walter Kelly's article "Little Laces for Little People" appeared. It began on pages 32 to
37 and continued on pages 188 and 189. You found it using the lnfoTrac General Periodical ASAP database on CD-ROM , and you
downloaded the full text of the article onto a floppy disk to read later on your home computer. The Information Access Company,
which distributes the database, updated it last month. 18. You used the World Wide Web to read an article, "Tasteless
Laces," by M. R. Blackwell. It appeared this year in the January issue of _Cyberlace_, which calls itself "the e-zine
for the well shod." Its address is http://www.knotco.edu/cyberlace/home.html
Congratulations. Having completed this exercise, you are now prepared for almost any situation that may face you as you prepare
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Hometown: All but the guitarist are from Toronto, but now they all live in West London, in an area they call 'She-Bu' (Shepherd's Bush).
The lineup: Canadians Martina "Bang" Sorbara (vocals), Dan Kurtz (bass, guitar, keyboards) and Joel Stouffer (drums), plus Londoner Will Stapleton (guitar).
The background: Dan and Martina are husband and wife: all hail the electro-pop Meg and Jack. Only they don't wear red and white. And they use modern technology, not leftover gear from 1963. And they're not just a duo; they've got a band. And Meg and Jack weren't actually married. But apart from that, the comparison's good.
Martina used to be a solo performer specialising in winsome-female acoustic soul baring - "tamponic" is the rather unpleasant neologism she coined for it. Dan, meanwhile, was in an experimental drum & bass trio called The New Deal. Ms Bang should be familiar to you - those were her sassy vocals on the Basement Jaxx single Take Me Back To Your House (and that was her in the video, Cossack-dancing in front of a tank driven by Stalin).
They've had some lucky breaks: their second-ever show was supporting New Order, followed by a US tour with Duran Duran where they got savaged by quasi-Mormon bloggers. "A terrible band fronted by a slut wearing panties and singing songs about sex and Jesus," wrote one. At least it wasn't songs about sex with Jesus. They got their deal after Martina shouted at a crowd, "Who do I have to fuck to get you to dance?"
Live, she power-dresses, all big shoulders, patent-dominatrix belt and high heels, though she still manages to dance - a series of synchronised robo-jerks. The boys are low rent in their skinny jeans and shirts. Dan is tall and dark, Will is the blond cutie, and Joel is the floppy-fringed one who gets the girls rushing to the front.
At first, they were influenced by bubblegum-pop metal and 80s synth-rockers The Cars. Now they say, "We're an electronic-rock band who write pop songs." Think Peaches-lite meets Pat Benatar. I Get Around has a ravey keyboard sound - proper ravey like Bizarre Inc, not nu-ravey like the indie wannabes currently doing the rounds. I Get Around and Competition are ace shagtronic pop, depicting a world of guilt-free promiscuity and sexual predators, although some of their material is a bit pseudo-slinky and Kylie circa Body Language. A bit, you know, 2003.
The buzz: "Dragonette are brilliant at making bright, interesting and very danceable modern electronic pop music." - PopJustice.
The truth: With Goldfrapp AWOL and Gwen's star in the descendant, they could clean up. In a dirty way.
Most likely to: Be championed by Madonna.
Least likely to: Be championed by Maradona - because he's, like, a good Catholic boy and the sexual nature of the lyrics would offend him.
File next to: Goldfrapp, Kylie, Husky, Gwen Stefani.
What to buy: I Get Around is released by Mercury on April 30, with the album Galore to follow in July.
Links: Official site MySpace
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Matt Neal and Shaun Hollamby headline BTCC Press Day at Donington Race Circuit
On Wednesday 8th September, Donington played host to the latest British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) Press Day. The event was organised to publicise the reopening of the newly refurbished circuit in time for the penultimate round of the 2010 BTCC season on the 18th and 19th September.
BTCC racing drivers Matt Neal and AmD Milltek Racing's Shaun Hollamby were on hand to treat members of the local press to hot laps around the track in the Milltek Sport VW Golf R and 430bhp Audi TT RS as well as Matt Neal's Honda Civic Type R.
The on-board lap with Shaun in Milltek's Audi TT RS (video below) clearly shows the circuit changes at the final chicane. "The new chicane layout is slower on the way in but quicker on the exit. You will be appoaching Redgate probably 5-10mph quicker which will catch a few people out!", said AmD Milltek Racing's Shaun Hollamby.
Milltek Sport is the main technical sponsor of the BTCC's AmD Milltek Racing team and provided two of their own fast-fleet cars for use on track for the day. Donington is also Milltek's home race track as their HQ is situated only a few miles away.
The next race is, of course, at Donington, on the 18th and 19th September. You can see full coverage of the race in the UK on ITV4 or, better still, come along and watch the event live from the track side - it's a truly worthwhile experience for anyone looking for an action-packed day out.


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Zojirushi 480ml One-Touch Mug SM-SC48 GREY
The Stainless Mug features a lightweight design for added portability. The tight fitted flip-open lid with a safety lock makes drinking from the mug easy and prevents beverages from spilling.
Stainless steel vacuum insulation keeps beverages hot or cold for hours
One-touch open
Lightweight design for added portability
1-1/2" opening
Stopper disassembles for thorough cleaning
Made of BPA-free plastic and stainless steel
Heat retention: 73°C@ 6 hrs.
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Capacity: 0.48 liter
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Product Dimension: (L x W x H): 06 cm x 06 cm x 25cm
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Essential Lingerie Item Part I
I'm sure every woman would love to have a lingerie drawer (or a lingerie walk-in wardrobe!) stuffed to the brim with luxurious swathes of tulle and lace, but the reality is that most of us can't afford to splash out on designer lingerie more than once or twice a year.
So if you can only afford to buy a few nice pieces of lingerie, which ones do you go for? Well, I propose a 'capsule lingerie drawer' – like a capsule wardrobe, these are the top 10 essential lingerie items that can be mixed and matched to create all sorts of gorgeous lingerie sets!
1. Black Lace Bra
The Little Black Dress of the lingerie world, a quality black lace bra is a must-have for lingerie drawers around the world! Personally I think sheer lace is the sexiest option, but if you prefer your bras padded then one with a lace overlay is just a beautiful.
Wear With: black lace knickers for casual but sexy daywear, or team with an under bust corset and stockings for special occasions.
2. Black Cotton or Satin Bra
A practical but pretty option for daywear, the smooth cotton or satin fabric won't show through tight-fitting clothing like lace can do, but the black colour keeps it just as sexy. Plain doesn't have to mean boring!
Wear With: black lace knickers for cute and casual everyday lingerie.
3. Black Lace Knickers
Just as every woman needs a black lace bra, so too should you invest in a pair of high-quality black lace knickers (or thong, if that's what you prefer).
Wear With: anything and everything! Black lace knickers can look ultra sexy, or simply fun and cute, depending on what you team them with.
4. Nude Cotton or Satin Bra
Of course, it's not always practical to wear black! If you're wearing white or a light colour, the best lingerie shade is not in fact white; nude or 'flesh tone' is far less likely to be visible through the fabric. This is an essential lingerie item to wear under those crisp white shirts and semi-sheer blouses, so be sure to invest in a good quality one that matches your skin tone as perfectly as possible.
Wear With: Black lace knickers for cute and comfy daywear, or team with a black suspender belt and nude stockings for a contrasting finish.
5. Black Lace Suspender Belt
Adding stockings instantly turns any lingerie set super sexy, so for that you'll need a high quality suspender belt. Opt for black which is classic and matches any black lingerie – even if the lace pattern is different, or you wear it with plain cotton, silk or satin, it'll still look like a matching set!
There are all sorts of suspender belts out there, from wide, stomach-flattening ones to super-simple elastic strip belts. Simply pick out your favourite one, they're all gorgeous!
Wear With: black lace bra and knickers for sexy occasion wear, or for an even more glamorous and unique touch wear on top of a black under bust corset with a black lace bra.
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Battle Force is not just a shooting on anything that moves. It is also about collecting money, power and other advanteges. How far do you get ? How many missions are You capable to accomplish ? Controls: a,d,s,w, mouse,
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twenty sixteen
In February, there were pyramid admirations by way of camel rides in the desert, a sunset cruise down the Nile, and canon balls into the Red Sea in Egypt. In March, I documented the sugar cane fields and rum making magic of Caña Brava in Panama. In November, I attended my second Colombian wedding surrounded by delicious coffee berries near Manizales and walked amongst the tallest palms in the world in Salento!
I celebrated two of my dearest friends before they married the loves of their lives in Santa Fe and Palm Springs. Ventured into the land of Joshua Trees on an epic solo trip. Photographed the creativity and talents of several bartenders in Austin, SF, Brooklyn and Chicago mixing their Modelo cocktail concoctions with my old crew at Legacy Marketing Partners. Paddled a lake in Indiana, backpacked on an island in the middle of Lake Michigan and rang in this new 2017 year on the mountains of Vermont with my most inspired adventure advocate.
Between all these travels, I was fortunate enough to continue to do what I am most passionate about. I witnessed and captured all the schmoopy moments at a dozen weddings, each one as beautiful and special as the last....a plethora of families (some new, some who's lives I've documented for years)....as well as a mix of other incredible subjects. I feel such intense gratitude towards, not only, my amazing clients, but my friends, my family, my cheerleaders, my ciritics, and everyone who has ever sang their praises. Without your support, I am certain I would not be afforded such an adventure and beauty filled life. I also wouldn't have the opportunity to witness and immortalize the most important moments in your lives. Thank you forever.


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So, today we are going to do exactly that. We are going to take an image of a lovely Gothic model I have known for quite a while now named Jen. We have a great location in a building with several wrecked rooms and lots of texture.
Posing Our Gothic Model
Poses with models can be fun and yet frustrating. A solid knowledge of anatomy is a great plus here, and can really help you position the body so the most flattering things fall into place. We want a sexy pose, but not one that is over the top.
I am a big fan of "un-lady-like" poses on my models, but they must be positioned in a way as to not really make the position super revealing. We want sexy, not an anatomy lesson. Use of shadow as well as props and "cookies" are your tools to turn a photo from nearly pornographic to highly suggestive. The term "cookie" is short for cookaloris, and it is basically something that you put between the light and the model to add some variation or mottling to the light falling on the subject. Those fake Ficus trees make great cookies :-) In our example today Jen is sitting in a very sexy way, backwards on this chair. We want to be sure we have some shadow fall between her thighs to really frustrate your typical male viewer. The other aspect of this pose is making sure we pop the muscle in the upper inner thigh (Abductor Longus), otherwise the flat of the leg will rest on the chair seat like a balloon full of water (not good). There easy way to do this is to have the model lift her leg slightly as well as push forwards on the knee. To compound this, we want a nice calf, so she will have to push her toe into the floor. They say if a pose is difficult it will look spectacular on film. In this case I am very pleased with the left leg and the effort that was put into it.
Creative Portrait Lighting
Post Production
Alrighty, now for the part where using a gothic model pays off. We can mess with this image in the harshest of ways and the model will probably love it (turned out to be true in this case anyway).
I loved the textures of this room, so we want to really compound them into the realm of the surreal. Most of the retouching for this image will be in camera RAW, and then into photoshop for some masking and any other little goodies that remain. As to not wreck your chance to expirament I will not be giving you my exact camera RAW settings for this image, but I will give you some hints so you can discover your own look. First load the image into Photoshop as a smart object, and use "Create New Layer via Smart Object Copy". You must use this otherwise your other smart object layers will follow suit. We will then double click on the smart object icon on the layers palette on the upper layer.
- Clairity: PUSH it to the right. Don't look back, take it to 100%
- Fill Light: Push it all the way to 100%
- Recovery: Flattens the light, but also adds some bizarre effects
- Vibrance: Amplifies the effects of Saturation
- Saturation: What if this isn't normal? what would vibrance do then? Hmm? Play with the combination.
- Curve: Always add a slight curve to digital images, they are always a bit flat for me.
The rest of the work is basically retouching anything on the model. I did add a bit of the above gritty layer to show through on her necklace as well as the top of her thigh (both at a lower opacity on the mask).


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Dell Latitude E6420 Premium 14.1-Inch Business High Performance Laptop $335.00
Dell Latitude E6420 Premium 14.1-Inch Business High Performance Laptop (Intel Core i5 2.5GHz with 3.2G Turbo Frequency, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit) (Certified Refurbished)
This Certified Refurbished product is tested and certified to look and work like new. The refurbishing process includes functionality testing, basic cleaning, inspection, and repackaging. The product ships with all relevant accessories, a minimum 90-day warranty, and may arrive in a generic box. Only select sellers who maintain a high performance bar may offer Certified Refurbished products on warehouse-sale.net
14 Inch HD Anti-Glare LED-backlit Display, DVDROM, Intel HD Graphics 3000, 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Intel Core i5-2520M 3MB Cache, 2.5GHz, Max Turbo Frequency 3.2GHz, 8GB DDR3, 240GB Solid State Hard Drive;
Network connector (RJ-45), Optional Modem connector (RJ-11), USB 2.0 (4), Microphone jack, Headphone/speaker out, Docking Connector, VGA, DisplayPort, SmartCard Reader and optional Contactless SmartCard Reader
MIL-STD 810G tested, spill-resistant keyboard, protective LCD seal.6-in-1 card reader; PCMCIA or ExpressCard 54; Recovery partition only, no recovery disc.
Processor: Intel Dual-Core i5-2520M 2.50GHz (Turbo up to 3.20GHz) 3MB Smart Cache
Display Type: 14 Inch HD Anti-Glare LED-backlit (16:9, 1366 x 768)
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000
Memory: 8GB DDR3
Hard Drive: 240GB Solid State Drive
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On Sunday, September 11, PlayGround-LA will hold non-Equity auditions at the The Lounge Theatre for Los Angeles-based actors interested in participating in PlayGround-LA's public programs, including the Monday Night PlayGround staged reading series and season-ending Best of PlayGround. Auditions will be by appointment only, from 12:30pm to 4:30pm, and scheduled on a first-come first-served basis. To sign up, actors should send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with digital resume and headshot attached and availability for the 12:30pm-4:30pm period. PlayGround-LA will respond to all inquiries and confirm appointments, as available. Actors should prepare 1 or 2 monologues - your choosing - no longer than 3 minutes TOTAL. Actors may get asked to do some cold-reading if there is time. Women and actors of color are encouraged to apply. For more information on PlayGround-LA and the Monday Night PlayGround series, visit http://playground-la.org.
PlayGround-LA Open House
Want to learn more about PlayGround-LA, plans for the upcoming Monday Night PlayGround season, and how you can get involved? Want to meet the thirty-six playwrights of the recently-selected 2016-17 Writers Pool? Just want to hang out with PlayGround-LA friends? Please join PlayGround-LA Artistic Director Jim Kleinmann at The Lounge Theatre for a one-hour Open House and Q&A on Sunday, September 11 at 6pm.
PlayGround-LA Open House
Sunday, September 11, 6pm
The Lounge Theatre (NOTE: This has been updated as of 5:00pm 9/8/16)
6201 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
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Movie description: Mom mrs. Holloway is getting willing to hit the bar when her dissolute neighbour joey drops by. The excited boy pulls at his ramrod during the time that mrs. Holloway is getting ready. This babe receives angry and has no time to spare. Mrs. Holloway gives in, and reluctantly finishes him off.
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As I sat in Washington DC traffic this morning, I contemplated what life would be like if I got to stretch out in my car watching a movie or catching up on email vs. what I was doing, which sucked. The purist in me wants to row my own gears, find that perfect back road and just enjoy driving. The commuter in me is, at times, starting to hate being in a car period. Which brought me to contemplating the autonomous car.
The technology is here, and for the most part, it works, and is being lobbied for expanded use. Jalop has started to covered it, still waiting on that follow up Torchinsky! So that brings me to the question of "what now"? In theory, there could be an infrastructure built for something like this, I envision passing a sensor on the road where the autonomous aspect would take over on major thoroughfares, highways, or just generally heavily congested roads. Do I want it to be a mandatory feature that will mean I can never control a car again for enjoyment (outside of a track)? Most certainly, no. So what is the happy medium?
Some will be OK with never driving again, which I assume is why Google used the Prius as a testbed. They don't care about cars, the see their vehicle in the same light as their washing machine, and appliance for getting to and from places they want to go. This explains the overall success of Toyota Motor Company, but I digress (#corollafication). For these people, if their autonomous car takes them to the store up the street, or on a cross country road trip, they will relinquish the reins willingly.
Others will worry that "the man" is in control and won't want "no fancy 'puters" in control of their safety. "Dang thing is gonna blue screen, I know it". These people already don't like how much tech is in their 98 Taurus and will not embrace the autonomous car when it arrives officially.
At this point I find myself in the middle. As an auto enthusiast who enjoys cars, has spent many years racing, I don't want to fully give up control to the car. But maybe part of that hour commute (each way) I would be willing to let the car do the work.


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Webinar: Integrative Play Therapy: Creating a pathway for working as an integrative play therapist
Earn 3 hours Continuing Education Credits.
This webinar addresses fundamental questions practitioners have concerning an integrative approach to Play Therapy. It is designed for the beginning play therapist, as well as the seasoned play therapist and play therapy supervisor. The webinar covers both theoretical issues, such as pathways toward integrating multiple models or theories, as well as implications for decision-making, monitoring therapist use of self, and supervision from an integrative perspective. Both the play therapy supervisee and supervisor will benefit from this material, as it provides a foundation for understanding and monitoring the therapeutic process.


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Wall Street rises to record highs
A spike in oil prices drove the main indexes to new closing highs for a second straight day. Fred Katayama reports.
Wall Street rose to record highs for a second straight day. Driving stocks higher: a rise in oil prices and optimism over President Trump's economic agenda. Add to that strong earnings, says Merdian Equity Partner's Jonathan Corpina. SOUNDBITE: JONATHAN CORPINA, SENIOR MANAGING PARTNER, MERIDIAN EQUITY PARTNERS, (ENGLISH) SAYING: "It's more of a follow-through from yesterday. It's the same overall theme. Earnings season has helped our market. Economic data has helped our market. And there hans't been any real negative headline that would derail this rally that we've seen over quite a period of time. I think investors are getting a little more comfortable with where the market is and where we should be going." Sears shares soaring after the struggling retailer announced a new plan to slash more than $1 billion in costs. It said it'll shrink overhead and improve the merchandise sold at its stores. Shares of Mead Johnson Nutrition rose after Reckitt Benckiser agreed to buy the American baby formula maker for nearly $17 billion. The purchase will nearly double the British company's consumer health business and boost its presence in developing markets. Sweeeet: "Candy Crush" maker Activision Blizzard's shares rallied a day after its revenue wowed Wall Street. The videogame publisher also hiked its payout and announced a $1 billion stock buyback plan. In Europe, a rally in basic materials and energy stocks drove shares to their highest level in two weeks.


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Douglas, GA – After work this morning, I had some breakfast in Brunswick then made my way to Douglas, GA via GA 32. It was the first time I've used GA 32 and really the first time I've spent any time at all in Bacon or Coffee County. Of course I had the scanners in the mobile station going and I'll report on what I heard below.
The object of today's part of the road trip was visiting the World War II Flight Training Museum at the Douglas airport. It doesn't open until 1100, so I stopped by the Heritage Station Museum which opens at 0800. I'll have posts on these two museums up in a few days, so I won't go into detail here. Inbetween the Heritage Station Museum and the Flight Training Museum, I stopped by the Flyin' Cowboy restaurant for lunch; it's right next to the Douglas Airport and it has a rather interesting attention getter out front (see below). For supper, I stopped at Danny's Pizza thanks to a suggestion on Facebook. Danny's reminded me of a pizzeria from the 70's and had excellent thin crust pizza.
I've never listened to Bacon and Coffee County before, so a few days ago I created a favorites list for the HP-1 for Coffee County and surrounding counties, switching to it when I crossed into Pierce County on GA 32. Here's what I heard public safety-wise:
153.995 (DCS 031) – Bacon County EMS Dispatch
154.220 (PL 114.8) – Coffee County Fire Dispatch
154.310 (PL 114.8) – Coffee County EMS Dispatch
154.445 (PL 118.8) – Ware County Fire Dispatch
151.370 (PL 141.3) – Georgia Forestry District 8 Admin
159.120 (PL 107.2) – Georgia Forestry District 8 Rptr
159.225 (PL 100.0) – Georgia Forestry District 10 Rptr
159.390 (PL 156.7) – Georgia Forestry Mobile-to-Mobile
164.575 (PL 206.5) – Okeefenokee NWR
I also had the BC780XLT going on aviation and milair frequencies. All of the below were heard west of Patterson (Pierce County) on GA 32. I was very pleased with airband reception out this way, I could VHF airband traffic up to the Charleston area on the High and Ultra High frequencies; the next time I come this way, I'll have a better idea of what to have programmed in. Unfortunately, I thought I had the Moody MOA frequencies programmed in but it turned out that I didn't and I didn't realize it until it was too late in the afternoon on a Friday to catch anything on them. I did, however, have some Moody A-10 air-to-air frequencies programmed in and heard some activity on them.
122.800 – Douglas Airport
124.075 – Jax Center Summerville High
126.125 – Jax Center Statesboro High
285.650 – Jax Center Statesboro High
126.750 – Jax Center Brunswick Low
127.575 – Jax Center Waycross Low
127.875 – Jax Center Aiken High
132.425 – Jax Center Hunter Ultra High
132.925 – Jax Center Millen/Savannah Low
133.625 – Jax Center Georgetown High
135.975 – Jax Center Alma High
128.100 – Atlanta Center Augusta Low
322.400 – Jacksonville Approach/Departure
228.400 – Townsend Range
339.500 – VMFA-115 Tac 1
139.700 – 23rd FG air-to-air
140.200 – 23rd FG air-to-air
143.150 – 23rd FG air-to-air
Tomorrow, the plan is to visit General Coffee State Park in the morning then head back to Savannah after lunch. Tomorrow evening I should have another scanning report up then sometime over the weekend posts on the museums and park will be up.


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The city is served by 44 sworn police officers, who provide patrol, traffic control, K-9 and bike patrol, educational programs, and criminal and narcotic investigations. Our Communications Division and support staff is made up of 13 non-sworn members and is dedicated to outstanding public service.
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Demand Dwindles For Luxury Condos In Coral Gables
As I reported earlier this year, the luxury condo market in Coral Gables is struggling. Although there is plenty of inventory in this segment of the market, there has only been 1 closed condo sale over $1,000,000 in 2013.
With all of the high-end condos that have gone up on Brickell (and the rest of Miami), it makes you wonder whether buyers are being lured away from Coral Gables to the newer buildings that have all the bells and whistles.
What's the difference between the two markets? A $1,500,000 unit in The Gables Club (Coral Gables' premiere luxury condo building) buys you 3 bedrooms, 3 baths with 2,950 square feet of living space and water views. Whereas a $1,500,000 condo in The Jade or Icon Brickell buys you just 1,900 square feet of living space with water views.
Although Gables condos offer larger square footage for the price, the newer condos on Brickell tend to offer more amenities that some buyers may be drawn to.
If you are interested in working with a Realtor who specializes in the Coral Gables real estate market, please contact me at 305-342-1623 or send me a message here.
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'Downton Abbey' Season 4 Trailer Debuts (Video)
The drama returns to television screens in the U.S. in January.
After a 10-second promo debuted last week, the first full trailer for season four of Downton Abbey arrived Saturday.
"You have a straightforward choice," says Maggie Smith's Violet Crawley. "You must choose either death or life."
The PBS Masterpiece Classic drama received 12 Emmy nominations in July, including acting nods for Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Jim Carter and Smith. It also was nominated for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Since the beginning of the 21st century there has been an explosion of interest in a new class of materials, commonly known as Organic Semiconductors. The enormous progress in this field has been driven by the expectation to realize new applications, such as large area, flexible light sources and displays, low-cost printed integrated circuits or plastic solar cells from these materials. Owing to the large efforts of both academic and industrial research laboratories, organic semiconductor devices have progressed rapidly and meanwhile lead to first commercial products incorporating organic semiconductors. Our group focuses on the fundamental physics behind this rapidly developing field of organic electronics.
Photophysics and light extraction in organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)
Like in their inorganic counterparts, the working principle of organic light-emitting diodes relies on the radiative recombination of injected electron–hole pairs in a solid, a process termed electroluminescence. In detail, however, the nature of electronic excitations and the structural peculiarities of organic molecular materials lead to marked differences concerning their opto-electronic properties. This holds true particularly for emitter materials in OLEDs, where spin-selection rules and molecular orientation are important parameters in determining their efficiency of converting electrical current into visible light. Our group is developing methods to analyse and improve OLED efficiency by combining experimental studies with numerical simulation. Recent research highlights have been the discovery of non-isotropic emitter orientation in molecular guest-host systems and its implementation in phosphorescent OLEDs as well as devices based on thermally activated delayed fluorescence.
Molecular donor/acceptor solar cells
Owing to the excitonic nature of photoexcitations in organic semiconductors, the working mechanism of organic solar cells relies on the donor-acceptor (D/A) concept enabling photoinduced charge transfer at the interface between two organic materials with suitable energy-level alignment. However, the introduction of such a heterojunction is accompanied by additional energy losses compared to an inorganic homojunction cell due to the presence of a charge-transfer (CT) state at the D/A interface. We are investigating the interrelation of film structure and morphology, electronic structure at interfaces as well as charge and exciton transport properties of a number of prototypical molecular D/A pairs and their performance in organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). In particular, we develop quantitative methods to extract information on the mechanisms of charge generation and recombination in OPVs as well as their energy losses determining the overall power conversion efficiency.
Charge transport in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs)
Due to the intrinsically very low charge carrier density in organic semiconductors electrical conduction can be enabled by field-effect doping at the interface to a dielectric material. Such field-effect transistors are on the one hand the building blocks for logic circuits but on the other hand also serve as an important tool to study transport properties in a variety of materials. Traditionally, organic semiconductors have been classified as either p- or n-type, depending on the nature of mobile excess carriers detectable in thin film devices. In our work, we focus on the growth behaviour of organic semiconductors on surfaces terminated with highly ordered monolayers of insulating molecules and their electrical characteristics in OFETs. We find that many organic semiconductor materials show ambipolar transport with comparable charge carrier mobilities for electrons and holes, provided that surface traps are sufficiently well passivated and that proper contact materials with low injection barrier are chosen.
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Articles about current archaeology and research into the remains of Roman and Byzantine civilizations.
Friday, January 08, 2010
Roman era tombs unearthed in southern Syria
[Image: Roman ruins north of the citadel in present-day Basra. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.]
Four more Byzantine-era tombs were found in Jedia. They, too, contained bracelets, coins and bronze shards. Skeletal remains of a 20-year-old man were found in yet another Roman tomb unearthed in Selmine.
In a continuing excavation of the Nabataean Cathedral in Bosra, a French team has unearthed remains of a private bath in Trajan's Palace.
I'm afraid the article in DNA did not include any images of the artifacts recovered.
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Following the season he was drafted by the Washington Capitals 57th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. Still with the Royals, he raised his goal total to 39 the following season, and combined with his 46 assists, registered 85 points in 59 games.
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
2003-04 Chicago Wolves Steve Maltais Jersey
Proving once again that not every successful career in hockey revolves around time spent in the NHL, Steve Maltais, born in this date in 1969, began his career in hockey with the Cornwall Royals of the Ontario Hockey League in 1986-87. Showing his offensive talent right off the bat, the 17-year-old scored 32 goals as a rookie in junior hockey.
Following the season he was drafted by the Washington Capitals 57th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. Still with the Royals, he raised his goal total to 39 the following season, and combined with his 46 assists, registered 85 points in 59 games.
Following the season he was drafted by the Washington Capitals 57th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. Still with the Royals, he raised his goal total to 39 the following season, and combined with his 46 assists, registered 85 points in 59 games.
Cornwall Royal Maltais
His final season with Cornwall saw another quantum leap forward for Maltais, as he led the Royals in scoring with 53 goals and 70 assists for a 123 point campaign, good for fourth overall in OHL scoring. He then led the club in playoff scoring with a dominant 14 goals and 16 assists for 30 points in 18 games. Following the conclusion of the Royals season, Maltais began is professional career with 4 playoff games with the Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League.
For the 1989-90 season, he was assigned to the Baltimore Skipjacks of the American Hockey League, where the AHL rookie was third in team scoring with 66 points in 67 games as well as 16 more in 12 playoff games. During the season he also made his NHL debut with the Capitals, appearing in 8 regular season games and 1 playoff game, yet failing to register a point.
Back with Baltimore for the 1990-91 season, he proved he had not forgotten how to score, 36 goals and 79 points came in 73 games, yet when called up by the Capitals for 7 games, he once again was snake-bit, failing to score even a point once again.
During the offseason, his rights were dealt to the Minnesota North Stars and as a result he spent 48 games with the North Stars IHL affiliate, the Kalamazoo Wings, where in 48 games he scored 25 goals and 56 assists. He was also called up to play with Minnesota in the NHL, where the thankfully scored not only his first NHL point, but goals as well with a pair of goals and an assist in 12 games. However, he was traded in early March of 1992 to the Quebec Nordiques organization, who assigned him to the Halifax Citadels in the AHL for 10 games to finish out the season.
During the offseason his rights were claimed by the expansion Tampa Bay Lightning, with whom he played 63 games, more than half his eventual NHL total, scoring 20 points. He exceeded that mark with 24 points in 16 games with the Atlanta Knights of the IHL that same season.
On the move once again, Maltais was then traded by Tampa Bay to the Detroit Red Wings for the 1993-94 season. Detroit called him up for 4 games that season, but the vast majority of his time was spent playing for the Adirondack Red Wings in the AHL, netting 35 goals and 84 points in 73 games. He also led the club in playoff scoring with 16 points in 12 games.
Now without a contract, his life and career changed in September of 1994 when he signed a free agent contract with the brand-new Chicago Wolves to be their team captain for their first season of play in the IHL. He immediately led the team (and all of Chicago for that matter) in scoring with 57 goals and 41 assists for 98 points as well as a 145 penalty minutes, his first career season over 100 penalty minutes. His 57 goals also led the IHL in that category for the season.
Back with the Wolves for the 1995-96 season, he nearly equaled his goal total with 56, but raised his assist total to 66, giving him a career high 122 points, which only placed him second on the club! He also found the time to spend 161 minutes in the penalty box.
Maltais next set a career high with 60 goals in 1996-97 during a 114 point season, reclaiming the IHL goal scoring title in the process. The following season he reached 46 goals and 103 points, to lead the Wolves in scoring for the second time in their four years to date. His 46 goals also tied him for the league lead in that category. The Wolves then went onto the postseason, defeating the Manitoba Moose in 3 straight, ousting the Milwaukee Admirals and then the Long Beach Ice Dogs in 6 games each to advance to the finals against the Detroit Vipers in what would turn out to be a hard fought 7 game series, where the Wolves came back from a 3-2 to win Games 6 and 7 to earn their first Turner Cup championship.
Maltais' fourth consecutive 100 point season came in 1998-99 as part of a 56 goal performance, his fourth season of 55 goals or more in his five seasons with the Wolves. His 56 goals were 10 more than his next closest pursuer, and his fourth time leading the league.
He once again repeated as the leading goal scorer in the IHL, with 44 in 1999-00 on his way to a 90 point season, ending his 100 point streak at four, but oddly, despite seeing his streak of 100 point seasons ending and putting up his lowest point total in six seasons, Maltais actually led the entire IHL in scoring for the only time, earning the Lamoureux Trophy in the process!
During the playoffs, Maltais was second in team scoring with 13 points in 16 games as Chicago swept Long Beach in 4, outlasted Houston in 5 and defeated Grand Rapids 4 games to 2 to won their second Turner Cup.
2000-01 was a season of change, and with the NHL expanding yet again, the upstart Columbus Blue Jackets came calling, signing Maltais as a free agent for their inaugural 2000-01 season, but in 26 games, his NHL scoring jinx was still in effect and he was released after registering just 3 assists and no goals.
Change was also the order of the day in the minors, as the IHL had ceased operations at the end of the previous season, but the Chicago Wolves were one of six teams admitted to the AHL, and Maltais returned home to the Wolves, scoring 31 goals and 63 points in 67 games. Chicago again went on a postseason run, defeating the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks 2 games to 1 in a close fought three game series, with each game ending with the same 3-2 score, one in overtime. They then won Game 5 of a five game series on the road against Grand Rapids before winning Game 7 of a seven game series on the road against Syracuse. Fellow IHL refugees the Houston Aeros fell in five games after Houston had won Game 1 followed by four straight by the Wolves. Chicago then split the opening two games on the road before returning home to win three straight to defeat the Bridgeport Sound Tigers 4 games to 1 to capture the Calder Cup in their first season as members of the AHL despite entering the playoffs with the 16th best record in the league!
The 2002-03 season saw another 30 goals and 86 points, which earned him the Sollenberger Trophy as the AHL's leading scorer. That was followed by 31 goals and 64 points in 2003-04 to lead the Wolves in scoring for the sixth time in the Wolves ten seasons.
In his final season, Maltais scored 60 points in 80 games, plust 12 more in 18 games as the Wolves made it all the way to the Calder Cup finals to close out his career. In his 11 seasons as a member of the Wolves, captaining the team for nine of them, the club never had a losing record.
While is NHL career totals are an unremarkable 9 goals and 27 points in 120 games, his combined IHL and AHL totals are an impressive 596 goals and 669 assists for 1,265 points in 1,126 games, two scoring championships (one in each league) as well as two Turner Cups and a Calder Cup championship. He still holds the record as the franchise's all-time leading scorer and his 596 goals ranks 8th in minor league history. His #11 was retired by the Wolves on April 15, 2006, one of only two numbers ever retired by the club.
Today's featured jersey is a 2003-04 Chicago Wolves Steve Maltais jersey. The Wolves wore this style for every one of their seasons in the IHL with only minor patching variations to report, including the IHL 50th Anniversary patch during their inaugural 1994-95 season, Turner Cup Finals patches in 1998, 2000 and 2001, as well as several sponsor patches throughout their history. Today's featured jersey is decorated with the Wolves 10th Anniversary patch.
While the top minor league affiliate of the Atlanta Thrashers, the Wolves did adopt a striking alternate jersey heavily influenced by the Thrashers original template, only with enough unique additions, especially on the torso of the jersey to make it their own.
Even with the change to the new Reebok template and it's curved lower hem, the Wolves have remained true to their original home and away jerseys, worn now for 18 seasons.
Photo courtesy of Classic Auctions
Bonus Jersey: Today's bonus jersey is a 1995-96 IHL All-Star Game Steve Maltais jersey. Eerily similar to the "waving flag" style Nike jerseys used in the 1996 World Cup of hockey, this IHL All-Star jersey frankly isn't the most attractive jersey we've ever seen, but it does speak to the unquestioned success Maltais had in the IHL and later the AHL, with his multiple championships, scoring titles and all-star game appearances.
In today's video section, take a look at the goal scoring prowess of Maltais.
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Coalition needs 'answers not excuses' says Ed Miliband
The government has run out of "excuses" for the "failure" of its economic policy, Ed Miliband has said.
The Labour leader told party activists in Essex that coalition policies had "blunted aspiration" and ministers were "standing up for the wrong people".
He called for action in Wednesday's Queen's Speech to cap energy and rail fare rises and reverse tax changes.
David Cameron and Nick Clegg are set to restate their commitment to economic stability at a joint event later.
The three party leaders are all visiting Essex to set out their stall in the wake of last week's local elections - which saw Labour gain hundreds of seats at the expense of the two coalition parties - and ahead of the launch of the government's future legislative programme on Wednesday.
Jobs priority
Speaking in Harlow, where Labour regained control of the council last week, Mr Miliband said the public had given the coalition of the benefit of the doubt since 2010 but had now lost patience with it.
While long-term youth unemployment had trebled in the last year in places like Harlow, Mr Miliband said, the coalition's focus was on cutting taxes for the wealthiest in society instead of helping ordinary families.
"The first priority is to get our young people back to work," he said. "Tax bankers' bonuses and create jobs for our young people. Then let's get on with tackling the problem with people's living standards."
Comparing the current economic situation with the 1980s, a period when he said the Conservatives claimed they "stood up" for aspiration, he said people trying to find a job or to buy a home now were finding their ambitions "being blunted by what is happening in our economy".
'Crisis of politics'
"What people want from the prime minister and deputy prime minister are answers not excuses," he said. "Not excuses blaming somebody else, blaming the eurozone, but answers about why they promised change and things have got worse not better. That is the reality.
"If they really want to learn the lessons of those local elections, they have got to learn that... economic failure with unfairness piled on top is not the answer. Whatever the excuses, whatever the explanations, they are not going to wash with people."
But Mr Miliband said he was dismayed that turnout at the local elections in Harlow was less than 29% and Labour and other parties had "a lot of work" to do to regain public trust.
"I want to reach out and understand why you do not trust any politicians and don't believe any of us can answer the questions you are facing in your lives," he said.
"I think there is a crisis of politics in this country, of people thinking that I am not going to engage with politics and 'you are all the same and you all break your promises."
The BBC News Channel's chief political correspondent Norman Smith said it was no surprise the Labour leader was trying to pin the UK's economic woes directly on No 10 as all the leaders sought to gain the initiative ahead of what is being seen as a crucial week in setting the political agenda.


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Energy Use in Cars 3: Rolling Resistance
Why does Natural Resources Canada recommend keeping your tires inflated to conserve gasoline?
- Rolling resistance affects the motion of a car.
- Underinflated tires affect the fuel consumption of a car.
Natural Resources Canada recommends keeping your tires inflated to their maximum pressure to conserve gasoline. Why does this matter? A rough calculation of rolling resistance in cars explores the impact of having underinflated tires.
First, a quick review: When you are driving a car, the energy from the fuel goes into four main places:
- Accelerating the car up to its cruising speed. A moving car has kinetic energy, and it needs to get this energy from the engine. Once we are at a constant speed, this doesn't take any more energy, but we still need our foot on the gas because of the next two issues.
- Air resistance. Driving a car makes the air around it swirl around, and this takes energy. Driving faster makes the air swirl much more.
- Rolling resistance. This accounts for all of the small bits of friction within the car, as well as resistance due to the tires on the road.
- Heat. Burning fuel doesn't make the car move directly. It creates a lot of heat, and then the engine has to convert that heat into motion. However, there is still a lot of heat in the exhaust gases that gets pumped out the back of the car, so not ALL of it gets converted into motion.
So if we are traveling at a constant speed, we don't need to worry about #1 on the list. We have already accelerated up to speed, so that part is taken care of. However, we need to figure out how to understand the other ways that energy is used.
Item number 4 is taken care of by the notion of the efficiency of the car's engine. For a typical gasoline engine, only around 25% of the heat energy from the fuel gets converted into mechanical energy which gets used for the first three items on this list1. The energy content of gasoline is about 32 x 106 J/litre, but because of the engine efficiency only 25% of that gets converted to mechanical energy2.
So what about Rolling Resistance?
In cars rolling resistance comes from the fact that the tires are soft, and get deformed as we drive forward, costing the car some energy. The effect of this depends on the inflation of the tire, what kind of tire you have, and how fast you are going, BUT a common approximation which is reasonably accurate is just that the rolling resistance is a constant frictional force that depends on the weight of the car (similar to any other kind of friction).
Force due to Rolling Resistance (FRR)= (Coefficient of Rolling Resistance (μRR)) (Mass of vehicle) (Acceleration of gravity (g))
The Coefficient of Rolling Resistance is usually written as μRR, and it has different values for different types of vehicles. Some example values of rolling resistance are given in the table below3.
So what does this tell us? In order to figure out how this force impacts our fuel economy we need to figure out how much energy is required to overcome it. For this we use the Work-Energy principle, which tells us how much energy a force will add to a system.
Because the rolling friction opposes the motion of the car, it actually subtracts energy from the car. This energy needs to be made up by burning more fuel.
A typical sedan has a mass of around 1200 kg. For this car, plus a single driver (70 kg) the force of rolling resistance will be:
Over the course of driving one kilometre, this will require extra energy given by:
We can figure out how much fuel is required to drive one kilometre by using the efficiency formula:
And to provide this amount of energy we need to use
So, 0.023 L of fuel is required to drive 1 km.
Remember, this result is just to overcome the rolling friction. If we add this to the 0.064 L/km highway mileage we calculated in Constant Speed Cruising (taking air drag into acount) this comes out to a total of 0.087 L/km. This is a little bit higher than the reported average of 0.076 L/km4, which seems reasonable as the highway mileage was calculated at a speed of 100 km/h which is perhaps a bit fast.
So, now what would be the impact of having low air pressure in our tires? Let's imagine that having your air pressure reduced by 5% would result in a 5% increase in the coefficient of rolling resistance. A typical car's tires are inflated to around 40 psi, so this would correspond to being 2 psi lower than average. A 5% increase in the Coefficient of Rolling Resistance would bring it up to 0.01575, and the associated fuel consumption would increase to 0.024 L/km. This is an extra 0.01 L/km, or approximately an extra 1% of fuel mileage. This corresponds closely with the guidelines published by Natural Resources Canada1.
This extra drag starts to add up when your tires are really low on air. If they are 10 psi low, that would correspond to an extra 5% fuel mileage!
- 1. a. b. MacKay DJC. Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air (Online). UIT Cambridge. p.262. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/ps/253.326.pdf [25 August 2009].
- 2. Wikimedia Foundation Inc. Gasoline (Online). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline [25 August 2009].
- 3. A Discovery Company. How Tires Work (online). http://auto.howstuffworks.com/tire4.htm [25 August 2009].
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for including me in your North Atlanta Author Series on Saturday. It was a pleasure to sit in that beautiful room and talk books and life with such a welcoming and interested crowd.
And of course, a giant thanks to my friend Lisa Shore, a fellow writer and the Captain to my Tennille. Her thoughtful questions always guide me gracefully to a better conversation, and I remain profoundly grateful for her time and support.
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Hello Atlanta friends. I'm speaking at The Milton Library this Saturday from 2-3:30 PM with my incomparable wing-woman extraordinaire Lisa Shore leading a Q&A about Inheriting Edith and beyond.
Would love to see you. xx
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Excited to announce that I've been named Executive Director of the wonderful Decatur Writers Studio, where I've been teaching for a few years now.
The official announcement follows below. Please like the Decatur Writers Studio on Facebook and visit the website for updates on teaching schedules. Fall lineup coming soon. Speaking of, any writers out there looking to teach a class, seminar or workshop, please message me here, through Facebook or email me directly.
The Decatur Writers Studio is pleased to welcome Zoe Fishman Shacham as Executive Director.
Fishman brings expertise as a writer, a teacher, and a publishing industry professional. She is the critically acclaimed author of the bestselling Inheriting Edith, Driving Lessons, Saving Ruth, and Balancing Acts. Her work is acclaimed as an IndieNext Pick, Target's Breakout and Emerging Author Picks, a NY Post Pick, a Mom's Choice Award, and a Barnes & Noble Hot Read.
Fishman worked in the editorial department of Random House, the rights department of Simon & Schuster, and as a literary agent for two boutique firms before moving to Atlanta in August of 2011 with her family. She teaches at The Decatur Writers Studio and in the Emory Continuing Education program and was Visiting Writer at SCAD Atlanta in Spring 2017. She is currently working on her next novel with Morrow.
Fishman can be reached through the Decatur Writers Studio Facebook page, and on firstname.lastname@example.com. The Decatur Writers Studio's shared work space is located at 708 Church Street, just one block from Decatur Square and convenient to MARTA. A project of the Decatur Book Festival, DWS features a wide assortment of classes taught by acclaimed writers.
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Today was the last full day of Ronen's life, one year ago.
On June 1, 2017, Ronen was healthy. He picked up a new pair of glasses after work. He texted me to come meet him out, my parents had just come into town for Lev and my mother's birthdays on the fourth and could have watched the kids, but I was too tired. I will always wish for the rest of my life that I had not been too tired. That we could have had one last night of just us, because they were so few and far between.
He came home, we ate dinner, we went to sleep, we woke up, he left for work and that was it. The last time I saw him alive, the last time the boys saw him ever.
I was granted the opportunity to write about Ronen in The Atlanta Journal Constitution in March. It was a gift, really, a cathartic gift even as hard as it was to be so publicly vulnerable.
Today, I wasn't really sure that I had anything else to say. May and now June, and the waves of grief are pulling me, and everyone else who loved him under again. The sadness feels like a mac truck idling on my chest.
I sat with the boys at lunch this afternoon, a makeshift picnic on the floor, and we talked about all of the things we miss about Ronen, about Aba.
"I just miss everything", said Lev solemnly. He will be three on Monday.
"Do you remember how he used to snap?" asked Ari.
"The best snaps," I said.
"And clap!" said Lev, brightening. "The loudest claps!"
"The loudest," Ari agreed. "Ema, how were they so loud?"
"He had the biggest, most beautiful hands," I said. "Like yours."
"And remember, he would take the biggest bites?" asked Lev.
"He loved apples and bananas," Ari told Lev. "He always had a banana."
We went back and forth like this for a while, their memories bittersweet for me. Because of course, they are just memories now. Ronen is gone. He has been gone a year. He has missed so much. And he will continue to miss and be missed for the rest of our lives.
This has happened. This is us.
When I think about Ari and Lev becoming young men, about telling friends and partners: My Aba died when I was five, and My Aba died right after I turned two, my heart implodes.
How unfair. And how completely and utterly unexpected, like a freight train barreling over you in the middle of a meadow.
But I also know, through the kindness and empathy others have shown, by the strength and resilience Ari and Lev have been able to personally summon, that the horror of this tragedy will not define them.
And that is something to be grateful for today, even as the mac truck refuses to budge. So I will be.
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This Spring's Essentials of Creative Writing group was a delight to teach. Six weeks in the blink of an eye.
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For hosting me this afternoon. Grateful for the support and really enjoyed discussing Inheriting Edith with all of you.
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NASA postpones Mars 'flying saucer' test on Earth
There won't be any little green men. But there really will be a flying saucer hurtling through the skies above Hawaii soon, just not today.
The test has been postponed several times since June 2 because of winds. The next opportunity for a launch will be June 14.
It may seem straight out of a B-movie, but the space agency says the launch has a serious purpose: to test technology that will help land spacecraft and someday humans on Mars.
NASA still relies on some of the basic designs developed more than 40 years ago to land the Viking spacecraft on Mars, principal investigator Ian Clark of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said earlier this month.
"We've been using the same parachutes for several decades now," he said. "If we want to eventually land a human on the surface of Mars, we realized we need to develop new technologies."
The low-density supersonic decelerator, as it's officially known, will ascend into the skies dangling from a gargantuan balloon filled with helium. At 34 million cubic feet, the balloon would fill the Rose Bowl, encasing the helium in a skin made of a high-tech film as thin as sandwich wrap. It will be launched from the Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
After the balloon and its load soar to roughly 23 miles high, the balloon will break away from the vehicle and drop to Earth, the cue for a rocket attached to the saucer to fire. The rocket will propel the saucer to four times the speed of sound, duplicating the rapid clip of a spacecraft bound for Mars.
If all goes according to plan, the saucer's inflatable ring, made of the same material as bulletproof vests, will pop up, expanding to some 3 feet high in a fraction of a second. The ring is designed to brake the vehicle as it speeds through the atmosphere. Finally a parachute much bigger than anything of its kind will cushion the saucer as it drifts down to an ocean landing.
NASA's latest rover on Mars, the Mars Science Laboratory, weighed about a ton. The new technology being tested would allow the landing of a load twice as heavy, and the use of multiple parachutes could mean even spacecraft of 20 to 30 tons could make a soft landing, Clark said.
At the test location high above the Earth, the air will be as thin as the wispy atmosphere around Mars, but it will be a lot easier to recover the saucer if things go wrong. The balloon could fail or the vehicle itself may prove balky, Clark said.
"We want to test them here — where it's a lot cheaper — before we we send them to Mars," said project manager Mark Adler, also of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Breaking the Porsche out, Chinx and Jada hit the front stoop with the homies and stunt hard for the cameras in this early preview. The record's been gaining momentum in the streets lately, so hopefully the upcoming video gives it that added promo to make it a certified hit on the charts, which it deserves.
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A quote taken from one of the bravest US middle distance runners ever, Steve Prefontaine! A man who was never scared to take lead in any race, and in fact was quoted on saying what is the point of winning if I'm not out there giving it my all every single time! How do you "win" a race if you're second the entire race and then at the last second sprint out in front and take it?!
It's been over a year now since I've written a post, but these past 8 months have been the most physical and emotional in the 8 years I've been running half and full marathons, and figured it was time to write again!! A quick thank you to Pritam who is my inspiration for writing this post, who told me I was his inspiration to get into running, so thank you Pritam for pushing me to write once again!!:):):):) It has been too long!!!!
Listen to this while reading, it makes it way more powerful!!!:):)
8 months ago last March I suffered my most fierce and scariest running injury: patellofemoral femoral pain syndrome (commonly known as runner's knee)!! It was devastating to my running confidence!! Every time I tried to push through the pain while running it shot up through me like someone was driving a nail through my knee!! Walking down the stairs was agonizing during the 2 most intense weeks!! I decided to quit running for the first time in 7 years, and quit I did for 2 solid months!!! It was the most important 2 months of my entire running career!! I've heard WAY too many stories about runners who get runner's knee and can never be without pain again while running, BECAUSE they didn't heal properly!! So I hit the bicycle and rowing machine hard, along with light, rehabilitating strength training with resistance bands, focusing mainly on the hip flexors, IT band, quads, and hamstrings (with of course full body exercises as well)!!
By the end of May I decided it was time to try running once again, and fingers were crossed!!! I started my running again inside on the treadmill, instead of the hills of Mussoorie!! Ran a solid 2 miles at a nice easy pace and was fretting "that pain" coming back every second!! That run went as good as it could have for coming off runner's knee!! There was pain but nothing that I knew I couldn't push through (nothing close to the pain I felt back in March)!! My confidence was shaken still, but this one run boosted it ever so slightly!! Slightly enough to set a new goal, run a 1:24:00 at the New Delhi Half Marathon in November!! They say if you can run a half in 1:24 you can run a sub-3:00, and that is EXACTLY what I need for Boston!!:):):)
The next couple of months were physically and emotionally draining!! Every run I would do my confidence boosted a little bit more, but in the back of my head there was still doubt and fear building up that once again there will be extreme pain!! I didn't even touch Mussoorie outside with my running shoes until end of July!! My first outside run was completely pain free minus running downhill, those parts freaked me out the most!!! It wasn't until mid-August that I was running pain free on the treadmill finally!! Confidence was even higher now and I could feel things were finally going in the right direction!!! My 1 run outside still had some pain going downhills but it was noticeably less than it was in July!!
September came along and I am running faster and stronger now than I have ever before!! Adding 2 days a week strength training this go around made the WORLD of difference!! Not only were my legs stronger, but my entire body!! Confidence and determination to dominate the New Delhi Half Marathon were at an all-time high!!! I was feeling like this goal could actually be doable in 2 months!!!! By the end of September I added my 2nd run outside and found it completely pain free!!! Now I was feeling confident and ready for the Mussoorie Half Marathon 1st November in the hills!! Not even touching the hills until mid-September, I felt I was ready to push it while running through the rolling hills!!!
Mussoorie Half Marathon came and it felt PERFECT!!!! Absolutely no pain what-so-ever, enjoyed every minute of the run!!!!! Having a hundred plus other runners, running along side of you definitely helps as well, and keeps your mind off the run!!!! Finishing the Mussoorie Half 5 minutes faster than what I was expecting was the FINAL confidence boost I needed to prepare for New Delhi Half!!! The final couple of weeks were my tapering to give my legs the final rest they needed to be 100% ready for 23rd November!!!
The week leading up to NDHM 2014 was a scary one!! Developed a little bit of a head cold on Tuesday and it carried all the way up through the weekend!!! I was certain the cold would take me out of the race on Sunday!!! However, with my confidence being at an all time high and knowing I needed to run this race, I kept thinking the cold will have to wait until Sunday after the race is done!!!
After only 3-4 hours of sleep (normal before a major race) I woke up with a sharp headache, which later went away after moving around, getting ready, and having a light breakfast!! Even though the congestion was still there, I knew I just had to be mentally tough for this one and literally pushed the cold out of my thoughts!!! Got to the race starting point (Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium) around 6:15am and had about 45 minutest to get ready!! Was so thankful Aleksia and Shubhra were with me the entire time!!! That also took my mind off the cold!!
7am came and we're 5 minutes away now from starting the race!! Met some familiar faces, had some laughs, but it was game time!! Got into the "zone" and blocked everything else out!! It was now or never, no pain, no cold, nothing but my shoes and the cement of Delhi!!! Starting gate opened and we were off!! The first 3km went beautifully!! My goal average per km was 4:00 (6:26 mi) in the first 10km, and didn't want to start off TOO fast and ruin my pace like I did 3 years ago in Delhi!! Finished the first 3km in 11:57, a little faster than planned but still felt strong!! The next couple of km I knew would be a piece of cake, but it was the 10km-16km points of the race that would test me!! I got half way and still feeling magical, everything was going to plan, my body was in beautiful harmony with each other, I thought I was dreaming!!! No knee pain what-so-ever, cold was non-existent, holy crap this was the perfect running feeling!!!:):):) Once I finished 17km and was almost EXACTLY on the pace I needed to be at I KNEW I had this race!! Any long distance runner knows once you get within a couple of miles of the finish it's all heart and determination from there, any training you've done goes out the window, for it is your heart and the finish line that is battling now!!! Your muscles stay quiet, brain goes into coast mode, for it's your heart that you listen to will guide you the rest of the way!! Finished 17-20km as fast as I could have hoped!! It was the last kilometer now and I KNEW MY LEGS WERE READY TO PUSH IT TO THE MAX!!! I KICKED UP MY PACE, MY ADRENALINE WAS FLYING, I WAS GOING TO DO IT!!!!! I SAW THE 500M SIGN!! I WAS WITHIN 2 MINUTES OF THE FINISH LINE!! 400M SIGN CAME AND GONE!!! 300M SIGN FLEW BY!!!! 200M SIGN (saw Shubhra and Aleksia and knew I couldn't fail now)!!!! TEARS WERE COMING OUT OF MY FACE!!! 100M TO GO!!! TURNED THE FINAL CORNER AND SAW THE FINISH LINE!!!! I FELT LIKE I WAS FLOATING TO IT AS I WAS SPRINTING MY GUTS OUT!!!! I CAME TO THE FINISH LINE.........CROSSED IT......STOPPED MY WATCH...........
1 HOUR 24 MINUTES AND 7 SECONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):) I felt freakin ECSTATIC!!!!!!!!!! Those 7 seconds were like a cherry on top, yes it would have been nice to finish just under 1 hour 24 minutes, but right now I was so incredibly pumped to finish with this time!!!! My previous PB was 1 hour 26 minutes and 40 seconds, so this alone kicked the crap out of that time!!! I just bent over in complete exhaustion and was thinking did I really just go from nothing to a personal best in 8 months?!?! Tears were continuing and I just couldn't do anything except live in this single moment of joy!!!! I dried myself up, walked through the medal distribution, and saw a familiar face!!!!:):):):) Pritam, who was also running, was extremely pumped with his "effort" as well, can't say time at this point since his watch stopped half way through!! But we were two extremely pleased men right now!!! We had some laughs, met some other runners, than said our goodbyes!!! I walked out of JLN Stadium to meet Shubhra and Aleksia!! On the walk I was still in disbelief of what just happened and couldn't wait to tell Shubhra!!!:):):) I found her and of course Aleksia was fast asleep!! Can't blame her for waking up at 5am!!! I hugged the life out of Shubhra and we walked back to the metro, and from there back to Mussoorie!!!!!!!!!
I finally had some time these past couple of days to reflect on everything that has happened the last 8 months!!! There is no greater ability in life than to come back from failure or an injury!! It is what makes us human and great humans at that!!! To learn from our failures and eventually succeed has no better feeling!!! Yes it would be easy to give up, try something else, and move on, but what are you telling yourself?!? To never try?! To never go for it?! To never feel that over sensational feeling of accomplishment, that you actually did something hard in your life and you FEEL AMAZING!!!! There is not a day I would trade to eliminate that knee injury back in March!!! For if it wasn't for that injury I don't know if I could have ran a 1:24 like I did on Sunday!! My whole outlook on running wouldn't have changed that day for the positive!!! I am truly blessed for having these moments of adversity, and I only hope all of you at one time in your life can face such adversity and find the courage and strength to fight through!!! I know this is nothing compared to some of the adverse situations others face on a daily basis, but I can only deal with what is dealt to me!!! Find your passion in life, don't let fear over take you from accomplishing your dreams, and my God if you fail don't sulk and feel sorry for yourself, you STAND UP!! YOU LEARN FROM THAT FAILURE!! AND YOU GO OUT AND YOU DOMINATE!!!! Always try and eventually you will succeed!!!!!!!
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift" - Steve Prefontaine (1951-1975)


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Despite vigorous protests, city council votes in favour of ban on pit bulls. Legal groups have already promised the law will be contested in court in a matter of weeks
Montreal city council votes in favour of ban on pit bulls
Adopting or buying a pit-bull type dog in Montreal will be illegal as of Monday.
Despite numerous protests and hours of impassioned debate in council, councillors on Tuesday voted in favour of the contentious bylaw created by Mayor Denis Coderre's administration that will outlaw the acquisition of any pit-bull type dogs starting next week, and impose strict and costly regulations on current owners of roughly 7,000 dogs.
While the bylaw passed by a vote of 37-23 based on Coderre's insistence it is needed to protect citizens from the type of attack that took the life of 55-year-old Christiane Vadnais in June, it faces numerous obstacles. Montreal lawyers have promised to contest it in court, including by filing an injunction within weeks. Animal rights advocates are pledging ongoing protests and have already collected online signatures from 115,000 individuals promising to boycott the city. The SPCA has said it may cancel services to 10 of the city's 19 boroughs rather than euthanize healthy animals. And opposition councillors are characterizing the law as hastily improvised to garner headlines, unenforceable and doomed to fail.
"We are very disappointed by what has happened," said Luc Ferrandez, leader of opposition party Projet Montréal. "There is strong proof it won't work," evidenced by the fact numerous municipalities and countries have already repealed their bans. Toronto is rethinking its ban and Ottawa is no longer following the one adopted by the province of Ontario in 2005.
The city should target dangerous dogs and irresponsible owners, as opposed to breeds, Ferrandez said. Banning a breed will only spur bad owners to get a different type of intimidating animal.
Coderre said his administration had no choice but to adopt the bylaw in the face of police statistics showing pit bulls are responsible for an inordinate percentage of attacks in the city: pit bulls were reported as responsible in 38 per cent of dog bites over the last 21 months. If other dogs prove dangerous they could be added to the ban, he said.
"I have a responsibility as the mayor of Montreal to protect all Montrealers and to ensure they feel secure," he said. "The vast majority of them want me to take concrete measures."
Anie Samson, the city executive committee member responsible for public safety, had the same message: "I think as an elected official the responsibility that we have, above all, is to choose the human ahead of the animal. And with this bylaw, that is what we are doing."
Under the new bylaw, all dog and cat owners will have to obtain a licence for their cat or dog or face a minimum fine of $300. To date, only about 20 per cent of the city's estimated 150,000 dogs are licenced. The fee is $10 for cats and $25 for dogs. Owners of pit-bull type dogs (American Staffordshire terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers and American pit bull terriers), pit-bull mixes or any dog with similar physical characteristics have until Dec. 31 to apply for a special permit with the city, or risk having their dog euthanized. (A calendar with the dates and locations where pit-bull type dogs can get the permit is at www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/animaux)
The dogs must be sterilized, micro-chipped and vaccinated for rabies by March 1, 2017. (All dogs regardless of breed must be sterilized and microchipped by Dec. 31, 2019.) Pit-bull type dogs will have to wear a muzzle while out on the streets, and their owners will have to provide proof they don't have a criminal record involving violence. Licences for the dogs will cost $150 a year. Animal advocates complained the total costs could reach $650, too much for many low-income owners. Coderre responded that those who want dogs must assume the responsibilities that come with ownership.
To determine if a dog is of a pit-bull type, city officials said owners could call the city information line 311 and a city inspector could inform them. But Alanna Devine of the Montreal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) said the classification of dog breeds was so complex her organizations vets could not do it. The organization has been inundated with calls from worried pet owners. Nearly one-third of the 2,000 dogs it takes in every year could fall under "pit-bull type" category, she said. Because the organization refuses to euthanize behaviourally sound animals, and it can't afford to ship hundreds of animals to other districts, it may have to stop taking in strays, she said.
Councillor Marvin Rotrand said the costs and difficulties in identifying breeds are among the reasons 21 states in the U.S. have barred municipalities from breed bans and cities like Edmonton and Vancouver have repealed their bans. Rather than rush the bylaw, the city should have put the issue before a standing committee for an in-depth study and debate.
"The consequences of this will be the euthanization of animals not based on their behaviour, but on their appearances," he said. LaSalle borough Mayor Manon Barbe voted against the bylaw because she said boroughs would never have the money to enforce it. Anjou Mayor Luis Miranda said the bylaw favoured repression over prevention, and voted no.
Constitutional lawyer Julius Grey said there are a number of Montreal attorneys working together to fight the bylaw, who will file a motion to stop the bylaw within weeks "on the basis that it is discretionary and is not consistent with city policy. It's a terrible law."
Coderre said similar bans have been successfully defended in Superior court and the Supreme Court, and he was confident Montreal's would be as well.


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Isabel Lewis (1981, Santo Domingo) was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Venice, Florida. She studied Dance/Choreography and Literary Criticism at Hollins University (USA) before forming the Labor Union, with Erika Hand, in New York in 2004. In 2009 she moved to Berlin and began working on a collection of notes that would become her solo exhibition, entitled STRANGE ACTION. Important to Lewis's oeuvre are the multiple modalities that comprise her art practice, such as critical and theoretical writing, teaching, and performance.
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"Acts of piracy and armed robberies pose a serious threat to the lives of seafarers, the security of the shipping industry and the safety and security of coastal states. I call on all the stakeholders to engage actively in fighting this phenomenon and seek lasting solutions to this scourge that is affecting the whole international community."
Our focus is not only on the worldwide increase in pirate attacks; the risk of terror attacks against facilities of the maritime economy will also be studied and analysed.
The German economy is particularly affected by these risks, as Germany imports and exports most of its goods over sea routes. Furthermore German shipowners operate the world's largest container fleet, and suffer the highest number of attacks by pirates.
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Piraterie und maritimer Terrorismus als Herausforderungen für die Seehandelssicherheit Deutschlands
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