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This weekend, Keller High School defeated Arlington Martin 9-3 in the Texas State Championship. The game was a blow-out, and it didn't really get interesting until it ended in three separate fights on the ice, one of which resulted in a broken jaw and a grade three concussion.
I grew up in Dallas, and to generalize for you, yes, this is exactly how the parents of North Texan high school athletes act. They are loving every second of this. Really, all they want to see is their kid win a post-game fight. After each hit, the stadium erupts in cheers. One woman yells "game over!" and another suggests "get 'em!" It's only a few minutes after the first attempted ice murder that it even registers that somebody's child is passed out on the ice and maybe the adults should, you know, stop this. At that point (:25) a parent goes out on the ice to help and immediately falls on his ass — much to the delight of this supportive crowd.
Police were called to the scene, a kid is getting his jaw wired shot on Thursday, and — since all players involved were seniors — the team coaches may receive suspensions after an April hearing. All for a 9-3 decision.
[H/T Tom]
Video: High-school hockey brawl tarnishes Texas title game [Puck Daddy]
Hockey state championship game ends in fight [WFAA]


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Yesterday was a very busy day, thus I am only now able to submit a post here!
I got back from a two-week holiday to Western Australia on Thursday. My Dad and I went to visit his brother who moved to Perth from the Isle of Man 40 years ago, and his family. We had an awesome time, saw lots of places and wildlife: Roos, Quokkas, Koalas, the lot 🙂
My family out there is lovely! I am still rather tired and recovering from a long journey back, which commenced on Wednesday afternoon: 5h flight from Perth to Singapore, then 13h Singapore to London-Heathrow. Then another 3h back to Liverpool by train. My poor Dad had to fly back to Hanover, which is close to Peine, Germany, where I am originally from!
The thing that struck me, whilst visiting Australia, however, is the general attitude towards archaeology. Whenever I mentioned my interest in visiting a particular museum, or seeing anything related to archaeology, I was told that "Australia doesn't have very much history at all", and that "surely, there is not very much archaeology around"… I was rather shocked and saddened by this, given the huge amount of aboriginal culture in Australia. I did point this out, and obtained some understanding, but the attitude of Australians towards Aborigines is a very problematic topic in general. When visiting the Western Australian Museum in Perth, however, I saw a very well-displayed and super-informative exhibition on aboriginal culture in Western Australia. Shame it didn't seem to be too-well visited! 🙁
Back to work!
I had to get up extra-early yesterday (29th July), as I had to get straight back to work: I work as a Supervisor in Geomatics for Oxford Archaeology North, specialising in open source GIS. I totally love it and really do think it's the way forward, especially given that proprietary software can "lock in" archaeological data, which can lead to data loss – something that should be avoided, I guess we all agree! Over the past couple of years we have been using open source GIS software, such as gvSIG (both the "original gvSIG" and the OADigital Edition), Quantum GIS, GRASS, in addition to some 3D GIS visualisation tools, such as Paraview. Furthermore, we have been testing and using database software, such as PGAdmin (PostgreSQL and PostGIS), and illustration software, such as Inkscape successfully. I must say that all of the software we used has come a long, long way in those past two years, and at OA North, we use open source tools more or less as a standard and I can confidentially say that it is replacing the proprietary software previously used, such as AutoCAD and ArcGIS.
My friend and colleague Christina Robinson and I were given some time to document our combined knowledge in order to make it accessible to both colleagues within the company, and also the wider archaeological community – what is better than a free guide to open source GIS, which allows you learn to use free, powerful GIS software, and edit and analyse your own survey data! 🙂 We have produced guides and manuals during the past couple of years – they are available for free download on the OA library website and released under the creative commons license. Here are the manuals we released so far:
Hodgkinson, Anna (2010) Open Source Survey & GIS Manual. Documentation. Oxford Archaeology North. (Unpublished)
Hodgkinson, Anna (2011) Using the Helmert (two-point) transformation in Quantum GIS. Documentation. Oxford Archaeological Unit Ltd.. (Unpublished)
Robinson, Christina and Campbell, Dana and Hodgkinson, Anna (2011) Archaeological maps from qGIS and Inkscape: A brief guide. Third edition. Documentation. Oxford Archaeology North. (Unpublished) – this is the third edition, re-released today!
And here are two brand new guides, produced on the Day of Archaeology and made available today:
Robinson, Christina (2011) QGIS Handy Hints. Documentation. Oxford Archaeological Unit Ltd. (Unpublished)
Hodgkinson, Anna (2011) Download of the Leica 700 and 800 series Total Station. Documentation. Oxford Archaeological Unit Ltd. (Unpublished)
Please download and use these and extend your skills; please burn them and let us know, we are grateful for your feedback! Some more guides/manuals are currently in production and will be added to the library, so please watch this space!
Lunch Break – (not really) time for some Egyptology
I briefly escaped work at lunchtime in order to go to the bank – I had to make an international transfer, the only way (annoyingly) to pay for my speaker's fees for the upcoming 16th International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna, November 2011. My paper on "Modeling Urban Industries in New Kingdom Egypt" was accepted for presentation, my abstract an be found here. I will be presenting my current research on the distribution of (mainly) artefactual evidence from Amarna, ancient Akhetaten, in Middle Egypt. Using open source GIS (naturally), I am studying the distribution and density of artefacts relating to high-status industries, such as glass, faience, metal, sculpture and textiles within the settled areas of Amarna, in order to establish how products and raw materials were controlled and distributed.
This paper presents part of my PhD research on high-status industries within the capital and royal cities in New Kingdom Egypt, Memphis, Malkata, Gurob, Amarna and Pi-Ramesse. I have now completed my third year of part-time research and am hoping to finish the whole thing within the next two or three years. We will see, thought I'd better get on with it!! 🙂
I am a member of the fieldwork team at Gurob, and I am very much looking forward to our next fieldwork season in September this year! Check out the project website for reports of past fieldwork seasons and my work in the industrial area, which I also presented at The Third British Egyptology Congress (BEC 3) in London, 2010.
After-work seminar and more open source GIS
We had an in-house, after-work seminar at 5pm, at which Christina and I gave our paper on "Open Source GIS for archaeological data visualisation and analysis" to colleagues, which we presented at OSGIS 2011 in Nottingham. You can watch the webcast of the original talk online (scroll down until you find it), unfortunately it only works for Windows, though. :'( The paper, which was presented on June 22nd 2011, is about our successful case study, moving Geomatics at OA North to open source GIS and away from proprietary software. We even won the prize for the second-best presentation! It went down well with colleagues, and after a discussion we moved on outside for a barbecue, which was very nice, as it stayed warm all day (unusual for Lancaster). I had to eave rather early unfortunately, as the commute back to Liverpool takes about 1.5 hours. At least I was able to relax and read George Martin's "A Dance with Dragons"on my Kindle!

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// A public art project that gives back to the community //
Tom Henry stopped people in their tracks on the Washington Avenue bridge earlier this year when he started tilling up land in Bohemian Flats Park to grow wheat for his latest art installation, "Amber Waves."
The payoff from his three rows of wheat, 850-feet each or a combined total of about a half mile, will be the 250 or so loaves of bread that will go to local food shelves after the wheat is milled to flour.
Henry has lined up six bakeries to bake the bread after Great River Milling processes it to flour.
Turtle Bread, Sun Street Breads, Patisserie 46, Rustica Bakery, Butter Bakery Café and Three Tiers Café have agreed to do the baking.
"Amber Waves" is Henry's second landscape art installation. Last year, Henry planted 365 sunflowers at the airport, marking his first landscape installation, "Sunflowers of Summer." The airport project spanned 600 feet along
Highway 62.
"Things went really smoothly," Henry said. "I just kind of threw the idea out there and the airport picked up on it right away. This year was a little tougher."
Henry has been fighting a series of small battles since starting the wheat project. This is his first time ever dealing with wheat and only his second agricultural venture.
"I can push a lawnmower," Henry said of his agricultural background. "I can push a garden tiller."
After planting the wheat seed, a gang of geese saw the uncovered seed as convenient source of food. Goslings were born and foraged the seed.
When the first week of July hit with temperatures in the 100s, plant growth slowed. Henry said the weather had likely stressed his crops, which are now ready to harvest and around 3 feet high.
And weeds. Henry has been fighting back encroaching weeds since the heat wave in early July.
"We were hand pulling weeds up until about two weeks ago [and] it was still manageable," Henry said. "Now they have just gotten too plentiful."
Despite his constant battles, Henry has had some luck in the way of getting others interested — specifically, his project's four sponsors: the General Mills Foundation, the Grains For Health Foundation, People For Parks, and the
Bread Bakers Guild of America (BBGA).
General Mills Foundation spokeswoman Mary Jane Melendez said that the foundation wants to share with the community and raise awareness of the growing number of hungry Minnesotans.
Melendez said her organization gave $4,000 to Grains For Health in support of Henry's project. President of Grains For Health Len Marquart said his organization gave Henry $2,000.
Marquart said he became intrigued after hearing about the sunflowers.
"We thought, why couldn't he do the same thing with wheat?" he said. "[Artists] have some creative ways to get people interested. That connection is huge."
Solveig Tofte has supported both of Henry's projects. Tofte owns Sun Street Bakery and is on the board of directors for BBGA. Sun Street roasted the sunflower seeds last year, and will bake around 30 loaves of bread this year.
"Tom's work is showing the beauty of wheat, and the final result is feeding people," Tofte said. "That cycle nicely sums up our lives as artisan bakers and millers."
Tofte said BBGA's sponsorship of this project was a new direction for the guild, as it is primarily focused on education through classes, conferences and festivals.
"We were happy to help because in one light, this is all about wheat, milling and bread, which is precisely what the guild is about," Tofte said.
Marquart sees Henry's project as an illustration of a concept he calls "from field to fork"— a process by which the public can see the planning, farming, milling and manufacturing of the end product: bread.
"From about 1880 to about 1930, Minneapolis was the milling capital of the world," Marquart said. "Allowing kids and adults to see wheat as it is grown is an unusual occurrence most anywhere because most people don't pay
"They have seen it as they pass by in a vehicle, but don't know what it looks like as it grows in a field."
Henry cultivates the wheat by himself by weeding, watering and eventually harvesting. The exception was a little help he got with seeding, and his daughter — who is home from college — helped dad out a few times.
"In one glance it's an art project, but it's also about farmers, millers, bakers and nourishing hungry people," Tofte said. "A field of wheat requires lots of work, lots of hands, and this is a very tangible effort showing what it takes to
feed a community."
Henry plans to do another wheat installation next year. He is in the process of pitching his project to the Minneapolis Park Board, a new location and different theme.


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Today in History
Today is Wednesday, May 1, the 121st day of 2013. There are 244 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On May 1, 1963, James W. Whittaker became the first American to conquer Mount Everest as he and Sherpa guide Nawang Gombu reached the summit.
On this date:
In 1707, the Kingdom of Great Britain was created as a treaty merging England and Scotland took effect.
In 1786, Mozart's opera "The Marriage of Figaro" premiered in Vienna.
In 1898, Commodore George Dewey gave the command, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," as an American naval force destroyed a Spanish squadron in Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War.
In 1911, the song "I Want a Girl (Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad)," by Harry Von Tilzer and Will Dillon, was first published.
In 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated. Singer Kate Smith made her debut on CBS Radio on her 24th birthday.
In 1941, the Orson Welles motion picture "Citizen Kane" premiered in New York.
In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
In 1961, the first U.S. airline hijacking took place as Antulio Ramirez Ortiz, a Miami electrician, commandeered a National Airlines plane that was en route to Key West, Fla., and forced the pilot to fly to Cuba.
In 1963, the Coca-Cola Co. began marketing TaB, its first low-calorie beverage.
In 1971, the intercity passenger rail service Amtrak went into operation.
In 1982, the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., was opened by President Ronald Reagan.
In 1992, on the third day of the Los Angeles riots, a visibly shaken Rodney King appeared in public to appeal for calm, pleading, "Can we all get along?"
Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, co-piloting an S-3B Viking, landed on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the Southern California coast; standing below a banner strung across the ship's bridge proclaiming "Mission Accomplished," Bush declared that major combat in Iraq was over, but also said "difficult work" remained ahead. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake killed 177 people in Turkey.
Five years ago: Three dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing during a wedding procession in Balad Ruz, Iraq. A military jury at Fort Hood, Texas, acquitted Army Sgt. Leonard Trevino of premeditated murder in the death of an unarmed Iraqi insurgent. A U.S. missile strike in central Somalia killed the reputed leader of al-Qaida in Somalia. President George W. Bush imposed new sanctions against property owned or controlled by the military junta in Myanmar. Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, the so-called "D.C. Madam" convicted of running a prostitution ring, hanged herself in Tarpon Springs, Fla. Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, died in Altenahr, Germany, at age 90.
One year ago: In a swift and secretive trip to the Afghan war zone, President Barack Obama signed an agreement vowing long-term ties with Afghanistan after America's combat forces returned home. Hundreds of activists across the U.S. joined worldwide May Day protests, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police.
Today's Birthdays: Former astronaut Scott Carpenter is 88. Country singer Sonny James is 84. Singer Judy Collins is 74. Actor Stephen Macht is 71. Singer Rita Coolidge is 68. Pop singer Nick Fortuna (The Buckinghams) is 67. Actor-director Douglas Barr is 64.
Actor Dann Florek is 62. Singer-songwriter Ray Parker Jr. is 59. Hall of Fame jockey Steve Cauthen is 53. Actress Maia Morgenstern is 51. Country singer Wayne Hancock is 48. Actor Charlie Schlatter is 47. Country singer Tim McGraw is 46. Rock musician Johnny Colt is 45. Rock musician D'Arcy is 45. Movie director Wes Anderson is 44. Actress Julie Benz is 41. Actor Bailey Chase is 41. Country singer Cory Morrow is 41. Gospel/rhythm-and-blues singer Tina Campbell (Mary Mary) is 39. Actor Darius McCrary is 37. Actress Kerry Bishe (Film: "Argo") is 29.
Thought for Today: "He who is swift to believe is swift to forget." -- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish-born scholar (1907-1972).


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French Bulldogs: Adorable Pets
French bulldog is a compact and quite muscular breed of dog. It is a French version of English bulldogs and was bred by the English lace workers in France. They have cute appearance and look like pugs with solid bones and flat nose. The size of these dogs is much smaller than the English bulldogs. This breed has become very popular due to their clown face and cute appearance.
French bulldogs have many physical attributes like terriers and bull dogs. They have smooth coating of the skin and un-cropped tail. The shape of head and nose is flat and the eyes are round and set widely. The ears of frenchies are like bat and the upper section is smaller; which grows wider at the base area. The facial characters of these dogs reveal alert minds and intelligent brains. They are curious and learn things very soon. They are about 12-14 inches in height with 19-28 pounds of weight. Fawn, black, brown and brindle are the common shades of these animals. Fawn and black are the common colors liked by majority of people for French bulldogs.
French bulldogs have mastiffs and the English bulldogs as ancestors and this makes them strong and interesting dogs. They have comical characters and the facial expressions of the dogs are like clowns. You will find them affectionate, playful, alert and possessive dogs. They can spend their time alone with toys or TV, but when the owner is around, they will demand for personal attention and love from them. French bulldogs can get strong bonding with family members and one member will become especially close to them. They have good bonding with kids and can help you as caretakers for kids for a few minutes.
Frenchies are ideal pets for home as an enjoyable company. You can look for a right breeder or adoption center to bring these dogs home. It is always better to know in detail about the pet before bringing them home. Read on web about them and know them better to enjoy being with them.


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text: Karl Rominger and Lawyerin' Joe Amendola might be basing their appeal of Jerry Sandusky's conviction on their own ineffective lawyerin', but that doesn't mean Rominger is above shouting "Scoreboard!" when it comes to his expertise on other sorts of lawyerin'. Oh, and news organizations: He's available to comment on the SCOTUS ruling. Just FYI.


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Lion Rock (495 m) is one of the most recognisable natural landmarks in Hong Kong and has become a symbol of the hardworking spirit of Hongkongers. The rock overlooks the major residential areas of the city and has stood as a witness to Hong Kong's remarkable transformation from a rustic outpost of China to a dynamic world city. Beneath Lion Rock has been the name of a song and a TV series about the lives of ordinary Hong Kong people.
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- Australia | English
- Canada | English
- 內地 | 简体中文
- France | Français
- Deutschland | Deutsch
- India | English
- Indonesia | Bahasa Indonesia
- 日本 | 日本語
- 대한민국 | 한국어
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- Nederland | Dutch
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Sha Tin Pass Road to Kowloon Reservoir
Perched on the northern vista of Victoria Harbour, this trail runs high above the skyline of the Kowloon Peninsula with sweeping views of the most densely populated areas of Hong Kong. Walking along Lion Rock, Beacon Hill and Eagle's Nest, glance north for views of the New Territories and south for a panorama of Kowloon. On a clear day, the view stretches to Victoria Harbour and the iconic skyline of Hong Kong Island, making it feel like the whole of Hong Kong is under your feet!
From Wong Tai Sin or Diamond Hill MTR Station, take a taxi to Sha Tin Pass Road and stop at the Lion Pavilion (starting point of MacLehose Trail Section 5).
Before the era of motorised transportation and highways, Sha Tin Pass on the east of Lion Rock was an important route for villagers to commute between Sha Tin in the New Territories and Tsz Wan Shan in Kowloon. It is now called the Sha Tin Ancient Trail and attracts a lot of hikers and morning walkers.
This rain shelter on the Lion Rock was renamed as such in 1997 to commemorate the handover of Hong Kong to China. Stop for an open view of east Kowloon, the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal (formerly the runway of the Kai Tak Airport) and farther to Victoria Harbour and Hong Kong Island East.
At 458 m, this hill was an ancient military beacon. When the Kowloon–Canton Railway began operation in 1910, the Beacon Hill Tunnel was the first to break through the natural barrier of mountain ridges separating Kowloon and the New Territories. Beacon Hill's foothill on the Kowloon side is now a luxury residential area. The Beacon Hill Compass commands a view of the whole Kowloon Peninsula.
The hilltop of Eagle's Nest (305 m) is inhabited by a number of black kites. The Eagle's Nest Nature Trail and MacLehose Trail Section 5 pass through here. Along here, you can enjoy views of West Kowloon.
Completed in 1906, Hong Kong's fourth reservoir now has five heritage-listed structures nearby, including the distinct arch dam.
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- Wong Tai Sin and Sha Tin districts
- Starting point:
- Sha Tin Pass Road
- End point:
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- Average hiking time:
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- Distance:
- Approximately 8 km
- Replenishing stations:
- There is an eatery at the starting point at Sha Tin Pass Road where drinks and simple cooked food are available.
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As the Allied armies advanced into Belgium and Holland in September 1944, the resupply organisation was stretched to the limit, and it became crucial to make use of the great inland port of Antwerp some 40 miles up the river Scheldt. Although the port had been in Allied hands since September 4, it was of little use while German forces held the island of Walcheren, which dominated approaches from the sea.
Hitting the gun batteries had proved difficult and, with much of the land below sea-level, it was decided to destroy the massive sea walls to flood some of the batteries .
On October 3 O'Donovan was the main marker for a force of 252 Lancasters entrusted with the task . The main bomber force was composed of eight waves of 30 aircraft each. O'Donovan marked the target for the first wave, but the bombing was poor. He re-marked the target, and the accuracy improved, but this did not stop him making a third run to drop fresh markers – this despite heavy opposition.
With each run accuracy improved and, after a wide orbit, O'Donovan made yet another run to drop more markers. This time the walls were breached, and the island suffered severe flooding. A force of No 617 Squadron Lancasters with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs was waiting as the backup force, but the main attack had been so accurate that these precious bombs were not required.
O'Donovan was awarded an immediate DSO .
Gerard Wilfrid O'Donovan was born at Ferndale, Glamorgan, on March 24 1921 and educated at Port Talbot Grammar School, where he was head boy. He joined the RAF in June 1940 and later trained as a pilot in the United States.
In late 1943, at the height of the Battle of Berlin, he joined No 12 Squadron before transferring to the Pathfinder Force. On the formation of No 582 Squadron he was appointed flight commander. This heralded an almost unprecedented period of service with the Pathfinders for O'Donovan, during which he served continuously on bombing operations for more than a year.
After numerous attacks against Berlin and industrial targets in Germany, Bomber Command switched its attention to France in preparation for the D-Day landings. O'Donovan marked many of these targets, often under fire, and his Lancaster was damaged on a number of occasions. By August 1944 he was frequently acting as the master bomber controlling and directing the main bomber force.
The raid on Walcheren was his 45th with the Pathfinders, and he was due for a rest. His crew dispersed, but O'Donovan volunteered to continue and, with a new crew, marked targets deep into Germany. On February 13/14 1945 he attacked Dresden. It was his 60th operation with No 582 and his 90th bombing sortie. With the war drawing to a close, he was grounded and awarded a DFC.
O'Donovan remained in the RAF as a bomber pilot and flew the B29 Washington with No 138 Squadron before serving in Singapore on the staff of the Far East Air Force. After a period at the Air Ministry he retired at his own request in 1961.
He worked in the motor trade, on the finance side, before becoming the training officer with United Dominions Trust. In 1975 he moved to HP Information, which had been established by four of the major finance houses, dealing with hire purchase agreements. He retired in 1986 .
O'Donovan loved the Highlands of Scotland, and amassed a notable collection of rocks and minerals. He was a keen gardener with a particular interest in trees, and a garden bonfire enthusiast.
A devout Roman Catholic, he was appointed a Papal Knight of St Gregory.
Gerry O'Donovan married, in 1946, Margaret Stewart, who survives him with their two sons.
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Utah DWR Offers Hunters $10,000 Contracts for Coyotes
OutdoorHub Reporters 04.03.14
The growing number of coyotes in Utah and the threat they present to mule deer led to the creation of the state's Predator Control Program in 2012. By the time wildlife officials ended the program's first year last June, more than $380,000 was paid out to 1,055 participating hunters and trappers. What many may not know, however, is that the state also awarded 13 contracts to high-performing hunters for work between December 2013 and June 2014.
According to the Utah Department of Natural Resources (DNR), the Division of Wildlife (DWR) began forming the contracts last November. To be eligible, hunters had to have turned in at least 25 coyotes through the Predator Control Program. This narrowed the pool of potential hunters to just 60. According to a report released by the DWR, more than 7,100 coyotes were taken as a result of the program, but most hunters only turned in one animal.
"The program is very successful in terms of participation," DWR mammals coordinator John Shivik told KSL.com's Grant Olsen.
Shivik explained that the contracts work by matching up experienced hunters and trappers with areas where fawn-to-doe ratios are low. The contracts require about 200 hours of work and may reach up to $10,000. The 13 contracts in effect now will end in June, and the DWR is considering agreeing to a similar number later this year after evaluating the program.
"This is a new program, however, that hasn't been tried at this scale before," Shivik said. "That is why it is so important for us to collect data on deer populations and coyote removal. In a few years, we will have enough data to be able to make a good assessment of the effectiveness of the program for helping deer herds."
The Predator Control Program is funded by the Mule Deer Protection Act. Although coyotes can be dangerous to other animals, wildlife officials are primarily concerned about the effect the predators have on mule deer fawns. The combination of harsh winters, scarce food, and pressure from coyotes can strain deer herds to their limit, and biologists hope that the program will lead to a resurgence in the mule deer population.
"If the weather is mild and the habitat is good, then removing predators could increase the number of fawns that survive. More fawns could help to stimulate an increase in mule deer numbers," the DWR states on its website.
Other factors make it hard to gauge whether the Predator Control Program is having an effect on deer numbers, such as available forage and the severity of weather. Animal rights groups were quick to criticize the program, while some biologists say that coyote culls have historically done little to reduce their population.
DWR officials hope otherwise, although it may be a few years until the department has enough data to make a conclusive analysis. Coyotes can produce up to six pups a year and can be difficult to hunt. Currently, the Predator Control Program reimburses hunters and trappers $50 for every confirmed coyote taken.


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"C. Cooperative Object Manipulation in Collaborative Virtual Environments.", Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society, vol. vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 54-67, 2009.,
"Wayfinding Techniques for MultiScale Virtual Environments", in IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces, Lafayette, Louisiana, 2009, pp. 67-74.,
"Design and Evaluation of Navigation Techniques for Multiscale Virtual Environments", in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality, 2006, pp. 175-182.,
"Cooperative Object Manipulation in Immersive Virtual Environments: Framework and Techniques", in Proceedings of ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2003, pp. 171-178.,
"Virtual-SAP: An Immersive Tool for Visualizing the Response of Building Structures to Environmental Conditions", in Proceedings of IEEE Virtual Reality, 2003, pp. 243-250.,
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PhotoPlus Expo 2011: After the Capture
We've covered some of the latest camera technology on the show floor. Today, we're looking at some of the tools available to help photographers out once the image has been captured. Photos need to be processed, stored, printed and shared. Check out a few of the PPE exhibitors who want to make all of that happen.
A plug-in for Photoshop and Lightroom, Athentech's Perfectly Clear software is designed to make otherwise complicated photo editing ridiculously simple. It applies a default processing algorithm to any photo, boosting contrast, removing red eye among other things. Once the default processing has been applied, parameters like exposure, color vibrancy and skin tone correction can be adjusted for an even more dramatic effect.
Noise reduction can be applied at various strengths. Perfectly Clear didn't develop this noise reduction formula – it's produced by a company in Europe called Stoik. Despite these levels of control, Perfectly Clear isn't a plug-in for the absolute control freak. Instead, it can be customized to your liking and used to batch edit a massive number of photos to give them a uniform look in a short amount of time without ever creating a layer. Perfectly Clear is available from Athentech starting at $199.
Western Digital
Western Digital continues to offer storage devices of all shapes and sizes for photographers. Basic WD Passports for the Mac have been given a slight redesign and continue to offer 1TB of storage space for around $100. The whole array of Western Digital products conform to a sleek design aesthetic.
For an added layer of security, WD now offers a rugged Nomad case for its Passport storage devices. The case is sealed to protect your data from dust and weather elements with a latch that offers access to your devices ports. You can read up on it at Western Digital's site, and you can find a review of the Western Digital My Book Studio at our sister site, DesktopReview.com.
Looking for something to do with those photos packed onto your hard drive? Blurb can help you turn a hard drive full of images into a high-quality book. They've just added new ProLine professional paper options to the roster. Download the free software, pick a template and add your photos and text where you want them. Blurb books allow for plenty of customization from paper type to layout. Pocket-sized books start at $3.95 and hardcover books start at $28.95.
Canon Pixma Pro-1
Canon launched the Pixma Pro-1 just prior to the start of the show. It's the mystery printer we first got a glimpse of at Canon Expo last year. It's a sizable inkjet printer targeting advanced enthusiasts and pro photographers. It uses a new FINE printhead to deliver high quality prints up to 13 x 9 inches.
We got a preview of the Pro-1 in action Wednesday night. For more details and specs, read the launch coverage on our sister site, PrinterComparison.com.
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Snapshots from the 2011 Grilled Cheese Invitational in Los Angeles
It's a simple motto: Bread-cheese-butter-victory. Over 200 amateur cooks and professional chefs answered this call to arms at the Grilled Cheese Invitational on April 25, last weekend in Los Angeles. Cheeseaholics mobbed Center Studios downtown to gorge on thousands of sandwiches involving everything from Krispy Kremes to duck foie gras.
Contestants could compete in four categories:
- Love, American Style: White bread, butter, orange cheese (American or Cheddar). NOTHING ELSE.
- The Missionary Position: Any type of bread, butter and cheese. No additional ingredients.
- The Kama Sutra: A sandwich of the savory nature, with any type of bread, butter and cheese PLUS additional ingredients, and the interior ingredients must be at least 60% cheese.
- The Honey Pot: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter, and any kind of cheese, and the interior ingredients of the sammich must be at least 60% cheese, PLUS additional ingredients, and with an overall flavor that is sweet and would best be served as dessert.
Some Highlights
Crispy waffles fried in maple butter, sandwiching a fried egg, ham, bacon, cheddar, and American cheese. It's everything you want for breakfast in one bite.
Anything that begins with a Krispy Kreme doughnut is probably going to end well. Fried in homemade butter, the doubly crispy doughnut is slathered in strawberry cream cheese with slices of queso fresco and fresh strawberries.
The liveliest table at the event was bursting with sugary flames. This unusual "sandwich" begins with a Twinkie stuffed with mascarpone, ricotta, bacon, cheddar, chives and banana. Fried in sugar and coconut, the caramelized ball is thrown into an ice bath, solidifying the hot gooey interior inside a hard candy shell.
For an additional $5, attendees could purchase a judge's pass entitling them to at least two competitive grilled cheeses and voting rights. Hungry crowds braved long lines at vendor tents and food trucks, while drinkers took their cheesy booty into the beer garden. Others beat the heat on the lawn with free Izze sodas and bottles of water. The event's main sponsor, Tillamook, offered complimentary cubes of cheese and bite-sized grilled cheese, ensuring that nobody went hungry.
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List of theological terms
ABROGATE –– to abolish or nullify a law by authoritative action
ABSOLUTE –– unconditioned by qualifications or limitations
AD HOC –– only for the particular case at hand, not systematically taking into account other relevant issues or wider application
A FORTIORI –– drawing an inference with even greater force or conviction than in a lesser case
ALTRUISM –– the ethical view that one ought to act out of regard for the interests of others
AMILLENNIALISM –– the eschatological view that on earth before the return of Christ there will be no age of military rule by Christ (contrary to premillennialism) nor an age of great blessing and success for the gospel (contrary to postmillennialism); at Christ's return the general resurrection of the righteous and unrighteous will take place, followed immediately by the final judgment
ANTINOMIANISM –– a view which is in some fashion against the law
APOLTICAL –– without interest in or consequences for civil government
ASCETICISM –– the ethical view that holiness or purity is achieved by mandatory abstinence from bodily comforts and material pleasures (e.g., food, alcohol, sleep, sex, money)
AUTONOMY –– the state of being a "law unto oneself," independent of outside authority
AXIOMATIC –– characterized as a primary conviction from which all other conclusions are drawn or proven
CEREMONIAL LAW –– those Old Covenant commandments which regulated rituals and symbolic actions pertaining to the redemption of God's people and their separation from the unbelieving world, rather than prescriptions about matters which were intrinsically moral
CONSEQUENTIAL PERSPECTIVE –– a distinctive approach to ethics which emphasizes and makes decisions in terms of the consequences, goals, or situational factors of one's conduct
CONTINUITY –– the relation between two things of essential identity similarity, coherence or harmony; the lack of change from one principle or regime to another
COVENANT –– a mutually binding compact between God and His people, sovereignly transacted by the Lord, wherein a promise is made by God which calls for trust on the part of His people and entails obligations of submission which are sanctioned by blessings and curses
COVENANT THEOLOGY –– the position that all of the post-fall covenants made by God are essentially one, centering on God's gracious promise in Jesus Christ, with each successive covenant expanding on previous ones, rather than disgarding them or running parallel to the others; the covenants prior to Christ were marked by anticipation and administered by foreshadows, while the fulfillment or substance was found in Christ's person and redemptive work, establishing the New Covenant today
CULTIC –– (as used here) pertaining to special religious ritual
CULTURAL MANDATE –– God's authoritative order for man to replenish and subdue the earth, developing and governing the created order under God's dominion, and thus working to make every area of life serve the glory of God
DISCONTINUITY –– the relation between two things of difference, dissimilarity, incoherence or disharmony; the change from one principle or regime to another
DISPENSATION –– a distinct administration of God's covenantal relation with man or the age characterized by such
EGOISM –– the ethical view that one ought to act out of regard for his own benefit or welfare
EGOTISM –– the sinful, personal trait of behaving as though one's own interests were of supreme or sole importance
ESCHATOLOGY –– the doctrine of the "last things" pertaining to the individual (death, afterlife) or to redemption (the coming, course, and consummation of Christ's kingdom, the millennium) or to the world (Christ's return, the resurrection, final judgment, the eternal state)
EVANGELICAL MANDATE –– God's authoritative order for His people to preach the gospel to lost sinners, seek their conversion, bring them into the sacramental fellowship of the church, nurture them in the Christian life, and thus make the nations to be disciples of Christ; the "Great Commission"
EXEGETICAL –– pertaining to the detailed analysis and linguistic meaning of specific texts of Scripture
EX POST FACTO –– applied "after the fact," .thereby disregarding the previous circumstances, status, or legal character of an event
GENERAL EQUITY –– (expression used by Reformed or Puritan theologians to denote:) the underlying substance, principle, or point of a law-over against the specific case or cultural setting mentioned by it
GENERAL REVELATION –– God's revelation of His person, glory, and attributes to all men in all ages through nature, conscience, and history, so that they are without excuse for not worshipping Him correctly and leading righteous lives; unlike special revelation, it is not verbal in character or redemptive in content
HERMENEUTIC –– a method of interpreting Scripture or the principles for doing so
INDUCTIVE –– characterized by studying particular cases (factors, evidences) one by one in order to arrive at a generalization
JUDAIZERS –– a Jewish heretical party in the early church which held that, in addition to faith in Christ, one must conform to Jewish customs (e.g., the ceremonial law of circumcision, the Old Covenant festivals) in order, through such self-effort and law-works, to be justified and sanctified
JUDICIAL LAW –– (tradition theological expression for:) those commandments in the Mosaic law which deliver judgments on cases pertaining to socio-political relations, policy, or rule (e.g., Exodus 21-22)
JUSTIFICATION –– God's gracious act of forgiving sinners and treating them as if they had never sinned, based on the imputation of Christ's righteousness, and appropriated by living faith
LEGALISM –– the view that one is saved by the merit of his own efforts to performs works of the law
LEGAL POSITIVISM –– the imperative theory of law which claims that all laws are merely commands of a human sovereign, so that there is no conceptual or necessary connection between law and justice; in this case those within a legal system are unconditionally obligated to obey its laws, however immoral they may be
MOTIVATIONAL PERSPECTIVE –– a distinctive approach to ethics which emphasizes and makes decisions in terms of personal motivation and character traits
NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVE –– a distinctive approach to ethics which emphasizes and makes decisions in terms of duty, rules, or moral standards
OBJECTIVE –– the quality of having a public nature, independent of our thoughts or feelings
PEDAGOGIC –– pertaining to teaching, instruction, or education
PENAL SANCTION –– a coercive, civil punishment which honors and enforces a law by being imposed on those who violate it
PENOLOGY –– the study or theory of punishment, especially the punishment of criminals by the state
PHARISEES –– a separatist and self-righteous sect in Judaism which prided itself in strict adherence to the Mosaic law, but which attended only to external and trifling details and actually nullified the law by adding to it human traditions
PLURALISM –– the view that civil policy should balance the rights of various social spheres (e.g., family, school, church, business) and protect the rights of all conflicting viewpoints within the society, thereby not being based upon or favoring any one distinctive religion, philosophy, party, or sphere of life
POSTMILLENNIALISM –– the eschatological view that Christ will return "after the millennium"; Christ has established His Messianic kingdom on earth, it is growing in numbers, area, and influence by means of the preaching of the gospel and Christian nurture, and it will have visible, worldwide, and blessed success before Christ returns at the general resurrection for final judgment
PREMILLENNIALISM –– the eschatological view that Christ will return "before the millennium" in order to resurrect the saints (the "first resurrection"), establish a military rule from Jerusalem over the rebellious nations (the battle of Armageddon), and usher in a thousand year period of material peace and prosperity; at the end of this period the nations (still in natural bodies) will rebel and make war against Christ and the resurrected saints (the battle of Gog and Magog), who will be saved by fire from heaven, followed by the second resurrection––now of unbelievers––and the final judgment
PRIMA FACIA –– on first appearance
PRO-NOMIAN –– characterized by favoring, supporting, or defending the law
PURITY PRINCIPLES –– those truths taught or symbolized by ceremonial laws of outward cleanliness, such as the pollution of sin and its repugnance to a holy God, so that only one untainted by defilement may approach Him (e.g., laws dealing with purification for priests, issues of blood, disfigurement, leprosy)
REDEMPTIVE HISTORY –– the special, unified course of historical events by which God prepared, accomplished, and applies redemption for His people and thereby advances His saving kingdom
REDEMPTIVE LAW –– ceremonial laws which taught or symbolized the way of atonement or God's saving presence among His people (e.g., laws dealing with sacrifice, the priesthood, the temple)
REFORMED –– (as used in theology:) characterized by agreement with or adherence to the doctrine, worship, ethic or polity of the Protestant Reformation, more particularly the Swiss or Calvinist branch there-of (in distinction from Lutheranism, Anabaptism)
RELATIVISM, CULTURAL –– the view that what is morally right or wrong is not absolute, but internally adapted to a specific culture, being determined by that particular society's attitudes, folkways or tribal values; thus "justice," for instance, actually changes from culture to culture (not simply beliefs about justice) and cannot be defined transculturally
RESTORATIVE LAW –– those Old Covenant commandments which regulated rituals and symbolic actions pertaining to the restoration of sinners to God's favor and their separation as God's redeemed people from those still under His wrath (see "ceremonial law")
RETRIBUTIVE –– pertaining to recompense to a guilty party according to what the offense deserves
SACRIFICIAL PRINCIPLES –– regulations on sacrifices, offerings, and priests or the underlying general truths taught or symbolized by them (e.g., there is no atonement for sin without shed blood)
SANCTIFICATION –– God's gracious and powerful work of making sinners holy in heart and conduct through the internal ministry of the Holy Spirit, applying the death and resurrection of Christ to them, so that they increasingly die to sin and live unto righteousness in the whole man
SEPARATION PRINCIPLES –– those truths about the separation of God's people from sin and the unbelieving world which were symbolized or taught by certain ceremonial laws of the Old Covenant (e.g., the distinction between clean and unclean meats, the prohibition of mixing seeds or types of cloth)
SITUATIONISM –– the ethical view that right and wrong cannot be defined in advance for general types of circumstances and actions, so that moral decisions should not be based upon laws; the "loving" . thing to do must be determined by the situation itself, using a utilitarian approach (seeking the greatest pleasure or happiness for the greatest number of people)
SOJOURNERS –– those who are alien to the people of a land but reside with them
SOLA SCRIPTURA –– (Latin expression meaning:) Scripture alone
SPECIAL REVELATION –– God's verbal and (usual) redemptive revelation of Himself to specific people at specific times; special revelation is communicated to us today through its inscripturation in the Bible
STANDING LAW –– policy directives applicable over time to classes of individuals (e.g., do not kill; children, obey your parents; merchants, have equal measures; magistrates, execute rapists), in contrast to particular directions for an individual (e.g., the order for Samuel to anoint David at a particular time and place) or positive commands for distinct incidents (e.g., God's order for Israel to exterminate certain Canaanite tribes at a certain point in history)
SUBJECTIVISM –– the view that truth or morality is a matter of the individual's personal feelings or attitudes and do not have an objective nature
SYMBOLIC LAW –– pedagogic laws which communicated certain truths by symbolic means, rather than (or not primarily) in explicit fashion (e.g., sacrificial laws, purity laws, separation laws)
TELEOLOGICAL –– pertaining to a goal, aim, or purpose; teleological ethics emphasizes and makes decisions in terms of the proper goal of man or the kingdom of God as man's highest good, etc. (cf. "consequential perspective")
THEOCRACY –– literally "the rule of God," however this is thought to be expressed (e.g., by His revealed principles, by His chosen leaders, by Himself in the person of the Son, etc.); the word is variously used by writers for different intended conceptions, some using it as a code word for uniqueness of Old Testament Israel, others using it for any social system where the church rules the state (or is not separated from it), and still others for a civil government which strives to submit to the socio-political standing laws revealed by God (in Old or New Testaments)
THEONOMY –– literally "God's law," but recently applied to a particular view of its normativity for today
TRANSCENDENT –– pertaining to what "goes beyond" man, the creation, or ordinary experience (thus used in theology to stress the mysterious, sovereign, or unique character of God)
TYPOLOGICAL –– pertaining to a "type," something intended to foreshadow a later historical reality
UNREGENERATE –– not born again or spiritually renewed by the power of the Holy Spirit; pertaining to the "natural man" who is lost in sin, unable to do God's will or to understand the things of the Spirit
WESTMINSTER STANDARDS –– the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms (Longer and Shorter) which were composed 1643-1647 at the request of the English Parliament and which, since that time, have served as subordinate doctrinal standards in Presbyterian churches; deemed a model of "Reformed" doctrine
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About the NYAA Field Hockey Program
We work with the high school team to put together a strong instructional curriculum that will serve as the basis for each practice. The curriculum will be based on a program the United States Field Hockey Association recommends for younger players. The high school players are very excited about the opportunity to instruct your child and are developing additional fun activities to make this a memorable experience for all involved.
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2020 Registration Fee:
Youth $50
Junior and Seniors $75
Each registered paid player will receive a uniform that needs to be turned in at the end of the season. Be sure to fill out your daughter's t-shirt size when you register her on the website. This way we can be ready for the season!
NYAA Field Hockey Game Location
We will be practicing at the Weisenberg Fields. Our games and play days are located in Lehigh and Berks counties.
The entire program will offer three levels of training for the upcoming season.
Divisions Based on Grade:
Note: Girls entering 7th grade for the 2020-2021 school year can try out for the Northwestern Lehigh Middle School Field Hockey Team.
The following information is designed to make sure that your child is ready for the upcoming field hockey season. NYAA field hockey will provide most of the items your child will need for the upcoming season. The remaining items you will either need to purchase or borrow from someone.
Each player must have the following items before they can practice:
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Rails Rumble is an annual 48-hour web developer challenge. This site is a showcase of some of the many applications that were developed during contests past and present. Only the apps that are still online are listed.
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PeepNote allows the user to import their twitter contacts and keep notes on them, including why they followed them, why they stopped following them, and other notes to help remember the important things about the people you meet online.
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PricePounce lets you bookmark items on Amazon with a price you'd like to pay. When someone sells it at that cost, we notify you so you can pounce on it!
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Spotify Privacy Policy
Effective as of 25 May 2018
1 Introduction
2 About this Policy
3 Your rights and your preferences: Giving you choice and control
4 How do we collect your personal data?
5 What personal data do we collect from you?
6 What do we use your personal data for?
7 Sharing your personal data
8 Data retention and deletion
9 Transfer to other countries
10 Links
11 Keeping your data safe
12 Children
13 Changes to this Privacy Policy
14 How to contact us
1. Introduction
Thanks for choosing Spotify!
At Spotify, we want to give you the best possible experience to ensure that you enjoy our service today, tomorrow, and in the future. To do this we need to understand your listening habits so we can deliver an exceptional and personalized service specifically for you. That said, your privacy and the security of your personal data is, and will always be, enormously important to us. So, we want to transparently explain how and why we gather, store, share and use your personal data - as well as outline the controls and choices you have around when and how you choose to share your personal data.
That is our objective, and this Privacy Policy ("Policy") will explain exactly what we mean in further detail below.
2. About this Policy
This Policy sets out the essential details relating to your personal data relationship with Spotify AB. The Policy applies to all Spotify services and any associated services (referred to as the 'Spotify Service'). The terms governing your use of the Spotify Service are defined in our Terms and Conditions of Use (the "Terms and Conditions of Use").
From time to time, we may develop new or offer additional services. If the introduction of these new or additional services results in any change to the way we collect or process your personal data we will provide you with more information and additional terms or policies. Unless stated otherwise when we introduce these new or additional services, they will be subject to this Policy.
The aim of this Policy is to:
- Ensure that you understand what personal data we collect about you, the reasons why we collect and use it, and who we share it with;
- Explain the way we use the personal data that you share with us in order to give you a great experience when you are using the Spotify Service; and
- Explain your rights and choices in relation to the personal data we collect and process about you and how we will protect your privacy.
We hope this helps you to understand our privacy commitments to you. For further clarification of the terms used in this Policy please visit our Privacy Center on spotify.com. For information on how to contact us if you ever have any questions or concerns, then please see the 'How to Contact Us' section 14 below. Alternatively, if you do not agree with the content of this Policy, then please remember it is your choice whether you want to use the Spotify Service.
3. Your rights and your preferences: Giving you choice and control
You may be aware that a new European Union law, called the General Data Protection Regulation or "GDPR" gives certain rights to individuals in relation to their personal data. Accordingly, we have implemented additional transparency and access controls in our Privacy Center and Privacy Settings to help users take advantage of those rights. As available and except as limited under applicable law, the rights afforded to individuals are:
- Right of Access - the right to be informed of and request access to the personal data we process about you;
- Right to Rectification - the right to request that we amend or update your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Right to Erasure - the right to request that we delete your personal data;
- Right to Restrict - the right to request that we temporarily or permanently stop processing all or some of your personal data;
- Right to Object -
- the right, at any time, to object to us processing your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation;
- the right to object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes;
- Right to Data Portability - the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party's service; and
- Right not to be subject to Automated Decision-making - the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making, including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect.
In order to enable you to exercise these rights with ease and to record your preferences in relation to how Spotify uses your personal data, we provide you with access to the following settings via your Account Settings page:
- Privacy Settings - allows you to control some of the categories of personal data we process about you, enables you to access your personal data via a 'Download my Data' button, and includes a link to the Privacy Center on spotify.com where you can find out more information about how Spotify uses your personal data and what your rights are; and,
- Notification Settings - allows you to choose which communications you receive from Spotify, manage your publicly available personal data, and set your sharing preferences.
The Privacy Center puts you in control of how Spotify processes your personal data. It provides you with information about what happens if you adjust your settings on your Account Settings page and how to opt out of receiving certain messages from Spotify. If we send you electronic marketing messages based on your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law, you may, at any time, respectively withdraw such consent or declare your objection ("opt-out") at no cost. The electronic marketing messages you receive from Spotify (e.g. those sent via email) also will also include an opt-out mechanism within the message itself (e.g. an unsubscribe link in the emails we send to you).
You can find out more about the GDPR rights described above and the controls we provide to all Spotify users with respect to these rights in the 'Your Rights' section contained in the Privacy Center. If you have any questions about your privacy, your rights, or how to exercise them, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the 'Contact Us' form on the Privacy Center. We will respond to your request within a reasonable period of time upon verification of your identity. If you are unhappy with the way we are using your personal data you can also contact and are free to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Data Protection Authority (Datainspektionen) or your local Data Protection Authority.
4. How do we collect your personal data?
We collect your personal data in the following ways:
- When you sign up for the Spotify Service - when you sign up to the Spotify Service, we collect certain personal data so you can use the Spotify Service such as your email address, birth date, gender, and country.
- Through your use of the Spotify Service - when you use the Spotify Service, we collect personal data about your use of the Spotify Service, such as what songs you have played and what playlists you have created.
- Personal data collected that enables us to provide you with additional features/functionality - from time to time, you also may also provide us with additional personal data or give us your permission to collect additional personal data e.g. to provide you with more features or functionality. As described further below (see Voluntary Music Data), we will not collect photos, precise mobile device location, voice data, or contacts from your device without your prior consent. You always will have the option to change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time.
- From third parties - we will receive personal data about you and your activity from third parties, including advertisers and partners we work with in order to provide you with the Spotify Service (please see 'Sharing your personal data' Section 7 below). We will use this personal data either where you have provided your consent to the third party or to Spotify to that data sharing taking place or where Spotify has a legitimate interest to use the personal data in order to provide you with the Spotify Service.
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Friday, July 13, 2007
Labels: Tevez
Reports: West Ham to let Tevez go.
UK newspaper Daily Express has reported that West Ham and Kia Joorabchian are working on a behind-the-scenes compromise that will allow Carlos Tevez to complete his dream move to Manchester United.
Both parties do not want to be dragged in the court and so are working on settlement.Carlos Tevez is very keen to complete his multi million pound move to the premier league champions.If the move is successful Manchester United's summer spending spree will cross the 70 million pound mark.
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This is my first purchase of a Susan's Garden Die Set and I must say I really like it! I am a big Sizzix fan, anyway, I would die without my Big Shot machines, and this die reflects the wonderful Sizzix quality. The dies are in a great plastic pouch that makes it easy to store and the insert has detailed instructions.
It was so easy to put the insert inside the pouch, use my label maker to put the name of the die set on the outside, and I was ready to file it with my other dies. I will definitely buy more Susan's Garden items.
This will be my 1st try at making a delicate flower 's I"v ,only made punch one's before looks like a lot of work but I'm sure the finished products will be out of this world.
Thanks Susan
I just received these dies and have not had time to play with them yet, but they look like good quality dies, and I have had others from her collection and they work up beautifully.
This is soooo cute! They come out great and don't take long because you can make everything at once. They are very realistic... adorable.
These are so pretty and fun to do. I just love them. Great to do on rainy or snowy days.
Really nice and the on-line video instructions are very helpful. Love it!
Makes a cute tiny daist
Great Product!
Execelent on cards
Very misleading description. "2 dies" but you have to glue each individual petal on. Waste of time and money.
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Psytechnics: Tracking the Voice Experience
Experience Manager is designed to monitor the operation of a VoIP solution in a way that traditional IP QoS tools simply can't.
Psytechnics is the result of ten years of research on monitoring voice and video quality at British Telecom in the '90s. The company itself was founded in 2000 as a spin-off from BT, and now has venture capital backing from 3i, GIMV, NIF Ventures and NVP Brightstar.
Mike Hollier, Psytechnics' CTO, says the company differentiates itself by integrating a wide range of measurement capabilities into a single monitoring platform, the Psytechnics Experience Manager, which is designed to look beyond the basic metrics that an IP QoS tool would check.
When a hosted service provider deploys a huge IP telephony system and performance problems start cropping up, Hollier says, they're likely to turn to their IP QoS tools for the answer. "And they're in a world of pain, because they've got a green light from their service assurance or performance management systemand unhappy end users," he says.
Performance vs. experience
The point is that an IP QoS tool like HP OpenView or Computer Associates' eHealth, Hollier says, is designed to view performance specifically from a data perspectiveand when you're trying to measure the quality of the voice experience, that's not enough. "You need to know a different set of things about the IP network to know if the IP network is service-affecting," he says.
That means being able to look at aspects of the voice application itself"things like echo, noise level, speech level, speech distortion," Hollier says. "If any of those things are impaired, then quality of experience is impaired."
And according to Hollier, that's where Psytechnics is unique. "Even the people who are claiming to do voice quality measurement, they're looking at IP QoS quantities, packet loss, jitter, this kind of stuff," he says. "They're not measuring the voice application piece: whether there was echo, whether the speech levels were too cold or too hot and so on. It's not that they're doing a bad job of itthey're not doing it at all."
A deployment of Experience Manager (see image, below) consists of Linux appliances called IP Engines, which are placed at concentration points as monitoring probes. "You have a multiple number of those, which then get aggregated into an Experience Serverand that's where we do our analytics and diagnostics," Hollier says.
Subjective measures
The resulting data, Hollier says, can be viewed through Experience Manager's own user interface, and can also be integrated upwards into an IP QoS solution like HP OpenView. Within Experience Manager, he adds, "you can get summary views of all the call traffic that's going through your network, you can look at it on a per-site and per-end-user group basisor you can divide the traffic up into performance categories."
Hollier says Psytechnics' solution has been validated through thousands of subjective tests. "We've brought hundreds and hundreds of real people through our laboratory, put them in soundproof rooms, and under properly controlled conditions we expose them to all kinds of voice distortions and network distortions and coding errors . . . so things like mean opinion score [MOS], voice quality type measurements, they are validated against hundreds of thousands of real, subjective judgments," Hollier says.
Putting it to work
As an example of the way that Experience Manager can resolve a problem, Hollier says one bank client had ongoing problems with speech distortion, but their network provider showed no issues with IP QoS. Using Experience Manager, he says, "we discovered that the third party WAN provider was actually transcoding the speech. He was having G.711 speech coming into his WAN and there was G.711 speech coming out of his WAN, but the speech quality was being ruined in the processand when we inquired more closely, it turned out that he was transcoding to G.729 to save some money on the expensive international legs. And of course your IP QoS tool can never find that, whereas we spotted the distorted speech payload quickly."
The point, Hollier says, is that "the worst case scenario for any sort of service provider, or even an enterprise internally, is that you've got a problem and you can't find it . . . if you're going to have a real-time voice application, you have to know if the end user quality of experience is satisfactory within the business criteria you've setand if it isn't, you have to be able to find that problem."
And so the value proposition for Experience Manager, Hollier says, is simple. "If you said, 'I want to know the performance of the voice application,' there are six things I've got to know, and something that's only measuring IP QoS is only measuring one of those six things," he says.


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This, from Mexico's Raúl Jiménez, came in the 85th minute, four minutes after Panama had just equalized and bummed all of Mexico out. Jimenez brought them all back to life with a bicycle kick laser that left Panama goalkeeper Jaime Penedo rooted to his spot. Look at him. Either it's going wide or, aw crap it's good.
Jimenez gave Mexico a 2-1 victory and continued life in World Cup qualifying. The top three CONCACAF teams automatically qualify and the fourth must win an intercontinental playoff against New Zealand. The U.S. and Costa Rica have secured two of the three automatic bids and Honduras needs only a draw against Jamaica (eliminated) to sew up the third. Mexico, currently fourth, play their final qualifier on Tuesday against Costa Rica. A win, and they play New Zealand in a home-and-home. A loss, and Panama could possibly snatch that playoff spot away.


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My Baking Diary: "White-Haired Mr Choco"
>> Friday, September 14, 2012
"Can eat, can d lah..." *sigh* if it tastes good, it's a bonus...I'm on the verge of giving up on baking...
This recipe was actually called "Black Bottom" from The Joy of Baking, but my so-called "Black Bottom" didn't turn out to be just like the recipe's photo. Instead, it looked like a chocolate man with hair-hair! Thus its name ;)
I was disappointed that the cream cheese couldn't stay in the centre, so I took a toothpick & swirled it with the chocolate cupcake batter...
The original - how it's supposed to look like
Ah, what a far cry...bummer...
Photo taken from The Joy of Baking
I had 2 bad Mr Chocos as well, which took AGES to set...I had to bake those 2 rascals for almost an hour to get the cake to set! *ergh* I've no idea what went wrong with those 2, but the rest turned out fine as a batch. I sure hope it'll taste as good as it looks! :)
Cream Cheese Filling
8 ounces (227 grams) cream cheese, room temperature
1/3 cup (65 grams) granulated white sugar
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Chocolate Cupcakes
1 1/2 cups (195 grams) all purpose flour
1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar
1/3 cup (30 grams) natural unsweetened cocoa powder (not Dutch processed)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup (240 ml) water (I used coffee instead since coffee enhances the taste of chocolate)
1/3 cup (80 ml) vegetable,corn or canola oil (or other flavorless oil)
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (177 degrees C) and line 10-12 muffin cups with paper liners.
Directions (Cream Cheese Filling)
1. In your electric mixer, or with a hand mixer, beat the cream cheese until smooth.
2. Add the sugar, egg, and vanilla extract and beat until creamy and smooth. (I forgot this step!! *sigh*)
Ain't I "clever"?
I mixed EVERYTHING together...gah!
Slightly lumpy instead of creamy & smooth
Not sure if it's because I mixed EVERYTHING together...
Directions (Chocolate Cupcake)
1. In a large bowl sift together the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
Tip: Use a large, round container with a lid
As everything is dry, to get all ingredients to mix well, close the lid of the container & shake it all up! It's really awesome! ;)
2. In a separate bowl mix the water, oil, vinegar, and vanilla extract. (I forgot this step as well!! *sigh*)
3. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and stir in the wet ingredients until nice and smooth.
I made a well & started to put all the wet ingredients one by one into the bowl...ergh....
4. Evenly divide the batter among the 10-12 muffin cups.
5. Then spoon a few tablespoons of the cream cheese filling into the center of each cupcake.
It's not "heavy" enough to sink into the centre...I wonder how it's really supposed to be done...wergh...
1. Bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes, or until the cream cheese filling has set and the cupcakes feel springy to the touch (a toothpick inserted into the chocolate part of the cupcake will come out clean).
2. Remove from oven and place on a wire rack to cool.
* The cupcakes can be covered and stored in the refrigerator for about 3 - 4 days.
Updated on 14th September 2012
Actually tastes good!
Rich & chocolatey with a creamy cheese top. The chocolate cake is also very moist! :) *love* Best eaten chilled.
Still a newbie in baking,


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Singaporean Food Hits Downtown with Bugis Street Brasserie at Millennium Biltmore Hotel
Despite LA's diversity, Singaporean food is still few and far between, but the new Bugis Street Brasserie at The Millennium Biltmore Hotel is filling in a bit of the gap.
The space that was Sai Sai Noodle Bar recently turned into Bugis Street Brasserie following its success at the Biltmore in London. Serving "Singaporean Chinese" cuisine and named after a famous street in Singapore, Bugis Street is still mainly Chinese but they do serve the two famous Singaporean dishes: laksa and Hainanese chicken rice.
Start with a tempura fried salt and pepper squid with chili and green onions ($9)
What you should order here is the laksa. The $13 bowl is pretty large and can be shared with two people. This spicy coconut broth is filled with vermicelli, shrimp, tofu, egg, chicken, fish cakes, and thai basil.
Katong serves. Oh, and there's usually no chicken.
Start with a tempura fried salt and pepper squid with chili and green onions ($9)
A nice appetizer since it's light and not too greasy.
Katong serves. Oh, and there's usually no chicken.


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DWTS Season 19 Rumor And Watchout: Andi Dorfman And Her Mr. Right To Dance? (Bachelorette Spoiler)
According to Hollywood Life, The Bachelorette's Andi Dorfman might dance in Dancing With The Stars Season 19. Not only that, whoever she chooses to marry on The Bachelorette might dance as well. More below and note that this isn't the first time we've had a Bachelorette rumor this season. We're keeping a small eye on Courtney Robertson as well.
Things are heating up as Andi Dorfman, 27, continues to search for love each week on The Bachelorette. We've already revealed who will win the reality show, and now a source tells us Andi and the winner will appear on another reality show, competing against each other — the next season of Dancing With The Stars!
Andi Dorfman & Josh Murray On 'Dancing With The Stars': Will Compete In Season 19
Andi and Josh's journey has gone from making out in Paris to falling in love super fast to shaking it on the dance floor! "She's been asked and is also preparing to do the next season of the show," a source tells HollywoodLife.com EXCLUSIVELY about Andi appearing on Dancing With The Stars.
"And there has been talk that she is going to do it with her man. They will compete against each other along with the other stars," our source reveals. How exciting! After Josh steals Andi's heart and ultimately proposes at the end of the season, it'll be amazing to see the couple competing on such a fun show!
While Andi's season airs, the star's secretly prepping herself to win the mirror ball trophy! Could the upcoming competition be another reason she quit her job as Assistant D.A. at the Fulton County District Attorney's office.
So, what do you think if true? I'm not sure what to think, but, I don't think I really want anymore people from The Bachelor or the Bachelorette shows.
Heidi: Andi seems like an okay chick and so does her betrothed…but no thanks. Seriously, the producers got the perfect mix of people last season and nary a reality person to be seen. The ratings showed it. In any case, if Andi does show up it will be because they couldn't get someone else they wanted. Kinda like Courtney said she could have been an alternate.


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Rewind 1.2.1
Rewind provides the means to maintain important files, get out of sticky glitches and protect everything on your Mac.
It gives continuous protection for everything all the time. Backups only let you recover whatever you backed up last.
Rewind's patent-pending technology remembers all the information modified on your disks, allowing you to return to previous versions of documents, applications, systems, even entire disks. And Rewind's Emergency Startup Mode allows you to reboot from your hard disk, even if you throw away the entire System Folder.
Rewinds's funtions include:
- Restores overwritten or trashed files
- Restores files damaged when your computer crashes -- even system files
- Uninstalls applications or even new systems
- Recovers previous versions of any file
- Removes a virus as soon as the warning hits, instead of after the virus definitions become available
- And more
For more detailed information, including updates, please read the documentation or visit the homepage.
Rewind is $89.95 for the download version on the home site. System requirements: Mac OS 8.1 thru 9.04; PowerPC processor; HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) formatted disk; volumes that are 200 MB or larger; five percent free space available (Rewind uses ten percent of your hard disk space by default, 20 percent or more is recommended). Rewind and OS X: Rewind was designed to be a terrific product for current Macs and an even better one for OS X. Rewind is currently available for Macs running OS 8.1 through. A Mac OS X version of Rewind will be available after Apple ships the OS X.
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Advanced Net Tools (ANT) 2.7
This program can scan an IP network for a list of servers and their shared drives.
Traceroute tells you how many routers are between your PC and another destination. It will also show you the slowest connection point.
The ping utility allows you to change the size of the packets, the time-out, and the number of packets to ping. It shows all of the connections on your PC and their current states. The DNS utility shows you extended information on a given hostname or IP address. You can also look up the mail exchange servers or domain name servers for a specific domain.
The ARP configuration allows you to add and remove ARP entries and view the ARP table from a Windows GUI, and the route configuration allows you to add and remove routing entries and view the route table from a Windows GUI. The adapter configuration allows you to view all adapters and add or remove IP addresses of individual adapters using a Windows GUI.


text: The 1995 Academy award-winning film Babe was Australian-made and featured the latest in talking animal anima-tronics. It told the heart-warming story of a sheepherding pig named Babe and his rise to community fame. The film was a tremendous hit, both financially and critically. Babe: Pig in the City is the higher budgeted American-made sequel that picks up where the original left off. It was directed by George Miller (Mad Max trilogy) who produced the original Babe film, and received a lot of criticism for being much darker than the original. The story owes more to George Orwell's Animal Farm or Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist than the original film. Having triumphed at the National Sheepdog trials, Babe returns home a hero. But after farmer Hoggett (James Cromwell) suffers from a farming accident, Mrs. Hoggett, a naive portly woman, is left to work the ranch alone. It's not long before the bank comes knocking. Desperate to save her farm from foreclosure, she accepts an offer for Babe to perform his sheepherding abilities at an overseas state fair. Babe, Mrs. Hoggett, Ferdinand the duck, and the singing mice travel across the ocean to a surreal metropolis, where they suddenly become stranded and separated. Soon Babe is performing with circus apes, being chased by wild strays (sounding a lot like Marlon Brando in The Godfather), and making a new wheelchair-bound canine friend (voiced by Adam Goldberg). He also is anointed leader of the animal community. What Babe lacks in street smarts he makes up for in honest goodness as he teaches audiences yet again that "an unprejudiced heart can mend a broken world."


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California clean energy rules may impede imports from rest of West
When a group of Pacific Northwestern utilities teamed up to build a $580 million pair of wind farms in the Columbia Gorge a few years ago, they planned to help pay for the projects by selling excess generation and renewable energy credits to a California utility. Selling some or all of a project's power to California has been a common strategy among Western developers, given the state's enormous appetite for renewable energy. But tapping that market recently became much harder -- just as demand slumps elsewhere in the region.
In 2010, the utilities' plan seemed to be working. Pacific Gas and Electric signed a contract with the 205-megawatt White Creek and the adjacent 99-megawatt Harvest wind farms, located in Klickitat County, Wash. But a year later, California upped its renewable portfolio standard (RPS) -- which requires utilities to draw a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources -- from 20 percent to 33 percent by 2020, and also enacted tougher rules for importing power. The state approved hundreds of wind and solar deals inside California, but never reviewed the Northwest utilities' contract, and PG&E backed out.
Without the contract, Public Utility District No. 1 of Cowlitz County, one of the wind developers, had to raise its customers' rates 10 percent to help cover its $150 million share of the projects. In January, Cowlitz put California on notice that it intends to file a $10 million claim against the state's Public Utilities Commission for not reviewing the deal. It also charges that the RPS unfairly discriminates against out-of-state generation, a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Developers and utilities are closely watching the case, because California is now the market for renewable energy in the West. Demand elsewhere has slackened; most Western utilities have already satisfied their states' RPS needs and won't be in the market again until near the end of the decade. Meanwhile, the West's overall demand for electricity has sagged along with the economy.
In California, however, utilities have to acquire more than 20,000 megawatts of renewable energy to meet the state's new goals. By 2020, the state will make up 70 percent of the West's renewable energy market, but out-of-state developers fear they face an uphill battle to access it.
The problem lies with what's known as Category 1 contracts, the main "bucket" of power that will be used to meet 75 percent of California's renewable needs. To qualify, projects have to either connect directly to the state's grid or use what's called "dynamic transfer," a complicated process for moving renewable energy between grids. Because most Western grid managers are reluctant to use the process, though, energy development in most of the region is essentially cut off from the California market. Meanwhile, the state's rules for qualifying for Category 1 have not been set, another major obstacle for out-of-state projects.
"You can have access to the California market, if you can also fly a rocket to the moon," gripes Eric Christensen, an attorney representing Cowlitz and a group of Northwest utilities that are also considering challenging California's RPS. "Cowlitz is typical of a lot of people in the West outside of California that invested millions of dollars in renewable projects, only to see the market choked off by California's rearrangement of the regulatory landscape."
Over the past decade, Iberdrola Renewables, based in Portland, Ore., has developed 2,159 megawatts of wind and solar projects around the West -- much of it under contract with California utilities. But because of the state's import rules, the company has now narrowed its focus to building new projects inside California, according to Kevin Lynch, vice president of external affairs.
The state's rules aren't that unusual, says Carl Zichella, director of Western transmission at the Natural Resources Defense Council. "All state renewable portfolio standards place some restrictions on imported power," he says; California was simply trying to capitalize on its own high-quality solar and wind resources to help get through the recession.
Besides, he argues, California's rules for importing power are less of a burden on Western development than the lack of coordination between grids, which would allow for easier transfer of renewable energy across longer distances without as much need for new power lines. Another problem is the lack of a structured Western renewable energy market, where grid operators could purchase power to ensure a constant steam of energy –– something that's necessary because renewable generation in isolation provides only intermittent power.
But such region-wide coordination efforts are a long way off, if they ever happen. In the meantime, many Western developers are banking that California's import rules will eventually prove a serious obstacle to meeting its RPS, given how difficult it can be to build projects within the state. Then, they believe, California will have to ease the rules and again lean more heavily on its Western neighbors for help.
"California has long been a leading policy thinker and it is a very big market," Lynch says. "But I would be kidding you if I didn't say it was a very difficult market to develop in and to sell into -- there's no question."


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Would anyone like to chat with me on SKYPE? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Would anyone like to chat with me on SKYPE? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> English Schools View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message cheetahJoined: 09 Jan 2006Posts: 5 Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:55 pm Post subject: Would anyone like to chat with me on SKYPE? Hello everybody! I am from China. I feel it's really afflictive that I don't have the circumstance of English. And I think having a phonic chat with somebody will help a lot. My Skype ID is goldenstraw. Looking forward to meet you! Back to top vernongstammJoined: 05 Nov 2009Posts: 25Location: Philippines Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:18 am Post subject: Skype I offer English lessons using Skype. Contact me and let's chat. Vernon Stamm_________________Learn English from the comfort of your own home with my online teaching methods. Online English classes are as low as $7 USD per class. Inquire now by using the inquiry form on my website. Back to top DMJYJoined: 21 Mar 2011Posts: 8 Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 5:09 am Post subject: hi,I am dmjy,510 has a special meaning so I add to my username,you also can all me dm.I am new here,nice to meet you all .we will be frineds.can we?_________________Tera ItemsEden GoldTera Gold Back to top monchichiJoined: 01 Nov 2013Posts: 7 Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2013 12:51 pm Post subject: Hi Cheetah: I am a tutor with InstaEDU and have 3 years of ESL teaching experience. If you need practice speaking in English or need help with improving your English in general, I can be of service. Here is my profile if you are interested. http://instaedu.com/online-tutors/Denise-94192/ . Just send me a chat message. Cheers! Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> English Schools All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group