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I was tagged by one of my most-very-favourite-daddy-bloggers, babberblog, in this meme ages ago. Now sometimes I am just spectacularly dizzy and forget all about doing it, only to suddenly remember the night before I am about to see the tagger for real that I STILL haven't written it. Not the case this time. Oh no.
This is approximately the eleventy-hundredth time I have sat down and started to write this post. And, yet again, I am drawing a blank.
What do I want?
I am pretty sure I don't have everything I want so this should be easy right?
I think perhaps I am over-thinking this as I am secretly concerned that my list will look too frivolous, shallow or selfish. I also worry that perhaps I don't want to over-think this as then I might realise that actually there is so much that I want that I don't have I should really be deeply dissatisfied. Only I'm not so that can't be true can it?
These are the first things that come into my head and I WILL NOT think about this anymore.
1. I want W to be healthy and happy and to grow up surrounded by people who will love and respect him. I want him to find something and someone that he loves in life and go after them with all his heart.
2. I want to grow old with Mr B watching the above happen.
3. I want to be thin and fit again. I am working on it but I wish it would happen faster than it currently is. It would also be nice if it did not mean having to go without wine and chocolate buttons so regularly.
4. I want this dress.
5. And these shoes.
6. And this.
7. I want to feel more confident in social situations. I want to not constantly worry that I will say the wrong thing, or not say the right thing, or not have anything to say at all.
8. I want to stop growing grey hairs.
9. And hair on my legs completely. That would free up huge amounts of time.
10. I want a little holiday flat near Portofino where W can spend his summers learning to speak Italian.
11. I want bits of my house to stop falling off or springing leaks.
12. I want the b****y stereo in our b****y piece of s**t car to start working again. Not only would it make long journeys more tolerable but silent indicators really freak me out.
13. I want to make a quilt.
14. I want to finish this now.
So there you have it. A little insight into the workings of my tiny mind.
I refuse to re-read this or think about altering anything any more so my apologies if it is riddled with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
If I don't publish it now I never will.
It seems a bit mean after struggling so long with this myself to tag anyone else but they are the rules people. I think.
So I duly tag three of my favourite girls…
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…I know they will do a far better job of this than me but should they wish to ignore entirely, I will understand completely!


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Lots of fun with water slides for the big and small. Thermal waters are wonderful for the whole family. Bring a picnic or buy something there and enjoy a few hours of family fun.
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We visited Xote on a sunny Friday afternoon. There were plenty of people there, but it definitely did not feel too crowded. However, I don't think you could have swum laps if you tried...there is really something for everyone here. There's a fast slide using "toboggans" and some tube-type slides that go as fast as you want (depending upon your... More
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Fun pools and slides. Great small kid area too. Lots of space to spread out your blanket and picnic and hang out all day. Food for sale was delicious (we had gorditas) and prices were reasonable. Definitely a kid favorite!
We spent a month in San Miguel this summer, with my children and I taking Spanish classes in the morning, and enjoying family time in the afternoon in the Jardin, Parque Juarez, art classes, etc ... "El Xote" became our weekly activity out for the whole family during our stay! Three families in our school with children from age 5-10... More
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Pitt mathematician tracks origin of hallucinations Monday, August 02, 1999 By Byron Spice, Science Editor, Post-Gazette
Mention the word "mathematics" and many people respond by closing their eyes. It is thus a happy coincidence that this article about mathematics is actually best understood if you close your eyes for awhile.
By closing your eyes and gently pressing your fingers against your eyelids, you will eventually experience a phenomenon called pressure phosphenes -- patterns of light that appear in geometric forms, such as exploding stars, spirals, honeycombs, cobwebs and tunnels.
These personal light shows can also be triggered by flickering lights, by the onset of migraine headaches and, infamously, by hallucinatory drugs such as LSD. And they all can be explained, in part, by mathematics.
"Instability is the key thing here," said G. Bard Ermentrout, a University of Pittsburgh mathematician who specializes in the mathematical modeling of neurologic phenomena. Physiology and the way that images are mapped onto the brain's visual cortex play large roles in hallucinatory patterns, to be sure, but mathematics helps explain how instabilities in the brain arise and contribute to these patterns.
Whether it's by pressure on the retina or by drugs that scramble signals in the brain, the effect is the same: Stimulation to the brain area responsible for vision is cut off. Without the normal flow of signals, instabilities arise, Ermentrout said, and it's possible to devise equations that explain how those instabilities can generate various patterns.
Ermentrout's interest in visual hallucinations dates back 20 years, when he was working on his doctorate degree at the University of Chicago. He had studied number theory as an undergraduate, but in graduate school became interested in what was then a new discipline, mathematical biology.
"I developed a theory of mescaline hallucinations," said Ermentrout, 45, pausing during an interview in his Thackeray Hall office to pull down a 1980 textbook, "Mathematical Biology" by James D. Murray, that includes his findings. "When you've been around this field for more than 10 years," he added with a laugh, "everything you've written suddenly is a classic."
The basic concept of the theory, however, has remained unchanged for two decades. Images that strike the tightly packed nerve cells of the retina, he explained, are mapped by the eye as a series of concentric circles. But, as animal experiments have shown, when these images are transferred to the brain's visual cortex, the geometry changes to lines that form a grid.
The only exception to this mapping scheme, he added, are images from the fovea, the depression at the center of the retina responsible for the eye's sharpest vision.
Pressure on the eyeball inhibits signals from the retina. The lack of signals, however, has the effect of making the brain's cortex more excited. "Neurons really want to fire when they're hooked up," Ermentrout said. To counteract this natural tendency to fire, he explained, inhibitory cells slightly outnumber excitatory cells in the cortex.
But when the retina is no longer sending signals to these excitatory and inhibitory cells, the brain is on its own and the natural tendency of neurons to fire takes over. Rather than responding to stimuli from the eye, neurons in the visual cortex become unstable and begin firing spontaneously.
"That's where the math comes in," Ermentrout said. As a neuron fires randomly, a phenomenon called lateral inhibition kicks in. The stimulated neuron has the effect of stimulating the neurons immediately surrounding it on the grid of the visual cortex and suppressing the neurons just beyond.
When these patterns of alternating stimulation and inhibition in the visual cortex are projected back into the coordinates of the retina, the result is the hallucinatory patterns seen as phosphenes. Adjacent areas of stimulated and inhibited neurons become alternating black and white patterns. The orientation of these stimulated and inhibited areas in the cortex affects the images seen. Areas that follow up and down lines in the cortex translate into bull's-eye or tunnel-shaped retinal images; alternating side to side lines appear as starbursts; a checkerboard pattern appears as a honeycomb.
In addition to pressing on the eyelids, these instabilities can be triggered by sensory deprivation chambers or by the onset of migraine headaches.
"I get migraines without the visual patterns," Ermentrout groused, "which really sucks."
In addition to lack of stimuli, instabilities can be driven by a specific type of stimuli. What are called "flicker phosphenes" are triggered by pulses of light -- a strobe light, for instance, or a contraption once sold under the name of the LSD Flight Simulator. This latter device is a mask that fits over the eyes; blowing into a tube causes a disk in the mask to turn, allowing flickers of light to reach the eye.
The flicker phosphenes appear, Ermentrout said, when light pulses reach about 20 per second -- twice as fast as some common brain processes. Just as sound waves at a resonant frequency can shatter crystal or winds of a certain velocity once caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state to ripple and break apart, light pulses at this critical frequency can cause instabilities.
LSD and mescaline work by yet another mechanism -- interfering with brain chemistry. LSD trails, for instance, are a phenomenon in which an object moving rapidly across the field of vision appears as a continuous image or a series of frozen images. This occurs because LSD slows the reaction of inhibitory cells, Ermentrout suggested last month during an address at Computation Neuroscience '99, a scientific meeting at the Pittsburgh Hilton and Towers.
A slow-moving object doesn't leave LSD trails because the brain has time to turn off one image of the object before it overlaps the next. A fast-moving object, however, overwhelms the impaired brain.
"This is just fun stuff," Ermentrout said, though he has collaborated in the past with psychiatrists on studies of LSD effects. But what was once the fledgling field of mathematical biology has, with the addition of computers, become a major new tool.
As evidenced by the hundreds of researchers attending last month's conference here, computation neuroscience has become a hot field, helping neuroscientists develop models and test ideas about how the brain works.
"Computers can handle lots of data and create models," said Dennis Glanzman, chief of theoretical and computational neuroscience research at the National Institute of Mental Health. "The models are extremely valuable." Researchers, for instance, can see the effects of different sodium ion concentrations in brain cells by using the computer models. The same experiments in humans could be fatal.
Computers also make it easier to translate experimental findings into a mathematically grounded theory, Glanzman and Ermentrout agreed. "Computers make it so easy," said Ermentrout, who is an adjunct faculty member in neurobiology in addition to being a professor of mathematics. "Everybody wants a theory now," he added in mock exasperation.
His own research has included collaborations with Nancy Kopell, a Boston University mathematician and a 1990 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." That work, based in part on studies of lampreys and the intestinal tract, analyzes how the neural system synchronizes rhythmic motor activity, such as walking, swimming and breathing.
"It's biologically interesting," Ermentrout said, "but it also has some interesting math."


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Head, Department of Population Health |
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Universtiy of Georgia Office of the Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine Athens, GA 30602 Website: http:// |
Job Description | Head, Department of Population Health. The College of Veterinary Medicine (www.vet.uga.edu/) at the University of Georgia invites applications and nominations for a fulltime academic position as Head of the Department of Population Health. The Department is comprised of 4 fiscally independent units: the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center, the Food Animal Health Management Program, the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, and the Laboratory Animal Medicine Unit. The Population Health Department is fundamentally \\\"One Health\\\" focused and provides research and service programs in poultry, livestock, wildlife, and laboratory animal health and management; instructional programs in these fields for the professional veterinary curriculum; and post-graduate training programs for veterinarians emphasizing population health, epidemiology, and public health. The Department is seeking individuals with a solid foundation in academic veterinary medicine who are effective leaders and have a passion for fostering continued excellence in instruction, diagnostic service, and research. The department head is expected to contribute to the department\\\'s teaching in and out of the classroom. The successful applicant will join a team of 32 faculty, as well as staff and graduate students with interests including avian diseases, zoonotic diseases, wildlife disease surveillance, production animal medicine, and laboratory animal medicine. Close collaborations with the Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network, the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the College of Public Health and the Odum School of Ecology provide opportunities for interdisciplinary studies. University resources such as the Poultry Diagnostic and Research Center and the Animal Health Research Center and the Paul D. Coverdell Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences provide access to state of the art facilities and research support services. Proximity to and extensive interaction with nearby facilities such as the Centers for Disease Control, Yerkes Primate Research Center, Atlanta Zoo, Georgia Aquarium, USDA laboratories, and academic institutions such as Georgia Tech and Emory University ensure a broad range of collaborative possibilities. The Head is the Department of Population Health\\\'s chief administrative officer with responsibility for the instructional, research and service programs of the Department. Administrative responsibilities include budgetary oversight, promotion and hiring decisions, faculty and staff development, and strong leadership in providing a strategic vision for the Department. The Head is also the departmental representative to the College\\\'s Administrative Council and interacts with other department heads and unit directors to implement decisions affecting the College. The Head reports directly to the Dean. The University of Georgia is located in Athens, a vibrant community of 100,000 located in the wooded Piedmont hills of northeast Georgia. Offering the cultural amenities of an active University city, the surrounding area also offers a wide variety of choices for living environments. Athens is located 1 hour from Atlanta and its international airport, two hours from the Appalachian Trail, and four hours from the Atlantic coast. Requirements for the position include the DVM (or equivalent) degree and/or a doctor of philosophy (PhD or equivalent) in a biomedical science or related field. Desirable qualifications include 2 or more years of previous administrative experience and academic program development in instruction, research and service. Highly qualified applicants will possess a strong record of academic leadership, administrative experience, strong communication and leadership skills, and evidence of active participation in teaching, service, and research. Applications should include a current curriculum vitae as well as a letter that summarizes accomplishments, professional goals, and addresses the administrative challenges of directing academic departments. Please also include the names of 5 individuals who may be contacted as references. The initial evaluation of applications will begin on July 15, 2011 and continue until a suitable candidate is identified. Applications received by August 15,2011 are assured full consideration. Applications should be submitted to the Office of the Dean, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 3 0602. The University of Georgia is an AA/EOE Institution. |
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Here is how to make a delectable Southern Oven-Fried Chicken recipe. It is crispy and delicious and very easy to make!
"I made this last night. It was so easy and delicious. My husband loved it because it was not the least bit dry. "
- rhondahoganmartinCuisine: American-SouthMain Ingredient: Chicken
With kitchen shears, cut off all excess fat, tendons, and gristle from the uncooked chicken and discard. Divide the 2 pounds of chicken into 4 equal-sized pieces. Sprinkle meat tenderizer (which takes the place of salt) on the top and bottom of each piece of chicken. Pour 3 tablespoons of peanut oil into and iron (or similar) skillet, and begin to heat it. (Watch it carefully, so that it doesn't smoke or burn.) Meanwhile, place 1 cup of flour in a zip-lock bag and place each piece of chicken (one-at-a-time), shake to coat the chicken with the flour, and place each piece of chicken into the hot peanut oil. When each piece is brown on the bottom, turn it, until all four pieces are turned. Immediately move the skillet of chicken to an oven that has been preheated to 400 degrees, and place the skillet on the center rack. Cook for about 25 minutes, or until done to your desired crispness. Remove the skillet from the oven and place it back on the cooktop. Immediately remove the 4 cooled chicken pieces to a tray covered with paper toweling to drain any excess grease. Place the 4 pieces of crisp, delicious chicken on a serving platter. Better than any prepared chicken you can buy, and much healthier for you!
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Arushure writes:
> the amount they build in is less than what I would normally pay
A pretty silly statement to make if you don't know what wages are being paid.
One reason you might pay a bigger % in the US is that restaurant owners have managed to change state laws so that wages need only be about $2.50/hr, one-third the minimum wage, on the assumption that customers' whims will make that up.
You may not know that in Europe the tax is also INCLUDED in the bill, and it usually runs 18-20%. It isn't added on at the cash register as it is in the US.
Maybe you want to leave some extra tax money on the table, too, since you prefer paying extra for everything.
The European waiters will also likely be getting health care, paid vacations and other fringe benefits in addition to their wages.
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Tennis – My Better Self video / videos
April 30, 2012
Taken from the band's sophomore full length, "My Better Self," is one of the better songs off Tennis' Young and Old. make it bigger!
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February 18, 2012
Tennis' new album Young & Old is still growing on me… it's not easy to follow up such a good debut album as Cape Dory. Back in November I posted the audio version of "Origins" and now… make it bigger!
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February 9, 2012
Directed by Isaiah Seret (he also did "Go Outside") here's the video for Cults' "You Know What I Mean", which displays the troubled relationship and some carnival stunts. Enjoy make it bigger!
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February 7, 2012
Produced by Black Keys' Patrick Carney and due out February 14 (that's Valentine's day in case you need a reminder) via Fat Possum, Tennis' sophomore album Young & Old is currently available to stream right here.… check it out!
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Tennis have announced the release date of their forthcoming album Young & Old, and along with the news they also made one of its tracks available. Although they maintain the same 60′s pop style, "My Better… i wanna hear it!
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It's such a pleasure to announce this new single by Tennis. The single titled "Origins", will be followed up by their new album Young & Old, which is being produced by Patrick Carney of The Black… i wanna hear it!
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The UVU Student Service Council exists to plan, coordinate, and implement service projects and programs for UVU students. All Service Council programs are led by students for the benefit of the local community. By participating as leaders in the Service Council, students learn to identify community needs and assets, plan meaningful service, and enhance their interpersonal and leadership skills.
The Service Council is an integral part of the UVU Volunteer & Service-Learning Center. One of the main goals of the Center is to plan and participate in activities that build and strengthen the community, and the Service Council is one of the ways that the Center is able to achieve that goal. In the Center, full-time staff, work-study students, service leaders, and volunteers work side by side to provide enriching opportunities for students to become engaged in community life.
Prior to fall 2003, student service on campus was housed in two different offices and led by two different students. The UVUSA Service President worked as part of the Independent Branch of student government and reported to the Student Body President. The Service President worked in the V&SL and reported to the coordinator of that office. Each of these positions worked hard to involve more students in the community, but too often their efforts were duplicated. In March 2003 these two positions were combined into what is now the position of Service President. The Service President still works with the Student Body President and the Independent Branch of UVUSA, acting as a voting member of the Student Council. The Service President works to involve as many people as possible through student government as well as through the Center's resources. This new model works to more effectively involve students in community outreach.
Among other things, the Service Council is responsible for successfully implementing all assigned projects and programs in a given school year. The service president works to support and encourage his/her student coordinators, who in turn help their program directors develop the skills and find the resources they need to plan their service.
The Service Council comprises five core positions: the Service President and five Student Coordinators. The UV Mentor representative serves on the council as a liaison between the Service Council and UV Mentors. The Publicity Coordinator's main purpose is to develop publicity for the Service Council's programs. Each Student Coordinator oversees a number of Program Directors, who in turn plan and run service projects and programs. Program Directors report to their Student Coordinators, and all Student Coordinators report directly to the Service President. The Service President has a dual reporting line to both the Center and the Student Body President. The Service President, Student Coordinators, Program Directors, and Publicity Coordinator all receive a leadership scholarship. For more information on the scholarship amount please review the Service Council position descriptions.
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Headless animal discovery a mystery
by Michelle LaFleche
On March 25th, we received a call from the Webster Police Department advising that a body of an animal was found in a trash bag that was in the river by Applied Roofing.
Jose and I responded to the location and met up with an officer at the scene.
The animal was either a dog or a coyote that had been decapitated, and skinned completely except for the last three or four inches of its tail. All four feet had been cut off and were included in the trash bag along with the body and a pair of latex gloves. The head was not in the trash bag.
The trash bag containing the gruesome contents had been discovered by an employee of Applied Roofing that morning as he was cleaning out the grates that are part of the plant that generates power to the buildings there. The grates are underwater and tend to catch debris that is carried by the river.
The discovery was not only very disturbing but heartbreaking as well.
Was this a dog? Was it a coyote? Without the head, it was hard to tell. The intact fur on the last three or four inches of the tail did seem to indicate that the animal could have been a coyote based on the dark marking at the tip. Still, many dogs have dark markings on the tips of their tails as well. The size was consistent with the average size of a coyote but then again, many dogs are this size as well.
If it was a coyote and was skinned, why would it be placed in a trash bag without the head and thrown in the river? Were the feet cut off so the body would fit in the trash bag? And, where is the head? Most hunters would have just disposed of the body in the woods, intact. Was this the results of an amateur coyote hunter? An experienced hunter would have skinned the coyote including the entire tail, not leave three or four inches of fur on the end.
We know hunters often hunt coyotes for their pelts so the fact that the animal was skinned is not that surprising if it were the act of a hunter (but still disgusting and not justifiable in my world).
However, if this was a dog, then the situation becomes entirely different than if this was an amateur coyote hunter. Why would someone decapitate a dog, cut off the feet, and skin it? Obviously, this would indicate a very disturbed and sick individual.
The next question is whether or not this was the individual's dog or someone else's dog.
Unfortunately, we may never know the answer. Any evidence that could have provided answers was destroyed by being immersed in the river.
I contacted the MSPCA and was advised that if this situation surfaces again, that the MSPCA will come out and assist us in any way they can in our investigation.
Hopefully, this was an isolated incident and we will never see the likes of it again.
I have to say this was the most upsetting call I have had to deal with.
We don't want to start any rumors that this was a dog and there is some wacko at large, but we do want to caution residents to keep close tabs on their pets because we are not sure. If anyone has any information regarding this matter, please contact us at 508-340-5189.
Speaking of rumors, there are a couple going around that I would like to address. Many people seem to think that Jose and I are animal control officers for Webster and Dudley. Please note that we only work for the Town of Webster. Years ago, we worked both towns for a brief period of time and more recently (about a year ago) temporarily covered Dudley's calls for about four months while Dudley was between animal control officers.
Therefore, if you have any issues in Dudley, please contact Dudley's animal control officer. Our jurisdiction is Webster.
The other rumor is that I no longer have my business, Kritter Sitter Pet Care & Grooming because I am too busy as an animal control officer. Please note that I have been in business eleven years - pet sitting, grooming, boarding and training/rehabilitation. I have been an animal control officer for over seven years now. The business is still going strong and I have no intentions of going out of business or resigning as animal control officer/animal inspector for the Town of Webster. My business and being an animal control officer gel perfectly together and I have the world's most loyal and understanding customers that I am extremely grateful for. Yes, my life is busy between the business and being an animal control officer, but I would not have it any other way!
Till next time, appreciate and respect each other and all the critters that share our world and don't believe everything you hear – get the facts.
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Bombardier Aerospace Sponsors Three PCC Aviation Technology Scholarships
June 25, 2012
Tucson, AZ – Bombardier Aerospace has agreed to sponsor three $1,000 scholarships for Pima Community College Aviation Technology students.
"Bombardier is proud to support the next generation of skilled technicians that will provide service to the operators of aircraft worldwide," said Stan Younger, Vice President, Bombardier Aircraft Service Centers. "By sponsoring the scholarships, we are able to develop relationships within the community and foster excellence in our profession which will enable us to attract these individuals to our service centers."
Announcement of the scholarships was welcomed by Ted A. Roush, Vice President of Instruction at PCC's Desert Vista Campus, home campus for the Aviation Technology Program.
"Scholarships from industry partners like Bombardier are crucial to these students and often make the difference between success and failure." Roush said. "We are so thankful to Bombardier for its continuing support of the PCC Aviation Program and our students. It's a great partnership!"
The Bombardier scholarships will be for three students: Two in PCC's Airframe and Powerplant concentration and one in the Avionics concentration. To be eligible, the applicant must have a 3.0 grade point average or higher and demonstrate financial need. The applicant also must submit an essay on either the aviation industry or a person or persons who shaped the industry. A committee of at least three people from the Aviation Technology faculty and staff will select the scholarship recipients. Other application details are being finalized.
PCC's intensive Aviation Technology Program requires some students to take more than two years to complete all their requirements. As a result, students often exhaust their financial aid entitlements before they have completed their entire program of study. In addition, most students cannot work full-time and complete their programs on time.
About PCC's Aviation Technology Program
PCC's Aviation Technology Program is highly regarded in the aerospace industry. A recent story in Inside Tucson Business called "one of the best kept secrets among many in the Tucson region. A number of veterans are among its students, as discussed in a story that appeared in the Arizona Daily Star.
The program offers certificate and degree opportunities in Airframe and Powerplant, Avionics, and Structural Repair concentrations. Most Aviation Technology Program students combine at least two concentrations. Students develop their skills at PCC's Aviation Technology Center at Tucson International Airport. The ATC includes a 26,000 square-foot hangar, where students work on a variety of aircraft models, from single-engine Piper and Cessna airplanes to Boeing 727 jets.
About the PCC Foundation
The PCC Foundation, which was established in 1977, secures and manages private philanthropic support for Pima Community College. Annually, the Foundation awards nearly $1 million in scholarships to more than 1,600 PCC students.
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Bombardier is the world's only manufacturer of both planes and trains. Looking far ahead while delivering today, Bombardier is evolving mobility worldwide by answering the call for more efficient, sustainable and enjoyable transportation everywhere. Bombardier's vehicles, services and, most of all, its employees are what make it a global leader in transportation.
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Photo Gallery | SLIDESHOW: Bayou Classic 2012
The 39th Annual Bayou Classic was held on Nov. 24 as Southern University beat Grambling State University 38-33 at the Mercedes Benz Superdome in New Orleans.
The win ends a four-year losing streak. In addition to the game, there were a host of activities including the Battle of the Bands and Greek Show, a Coaches' luncheon, the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus jazz brunch, and a gospel brunch.
More than 200,000 were expected to visit New Orleans over the weekend.
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I realized recently that on my walks and runs downtown I pass by four addresses numbered 66. I think that's weird.
It got me thinking about the number six. I went to one of those flaky numerology websites and found the following:
Six represents equilibrium; harmony - balance. It is the perfect number within the decad: 1+2+3=6. It is the most productive of all numbers.
It symbolizes union of polarity, being represented by the two interlaced triangles, the upward- pointing as male, fire and the heavens, and the downward-pointing as female, the waters and the earth.
Six is the symbol of luck; love; health; beauty; chance. It is a winning number.
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IKEA: Ransby Duvet Cover Set is $19.99 & 25% Off Hemnes Bedroom Furniture
The IKEA Bedroom Event continues with more time-limited offers. In addition to the 15% back in gift cards on bed-frame purchases, you'll save 25% on select Hemnes bedroom furniture and pay just $19.99 for any size Ransby duvet cover set right now.
The Ransby duvet cover set is available in twin, full/queen, and king sizes. It regularly sells for $34.99-$49.99, but all sizes are being discounted to just $19.99 right now. There is a limit of four sets per customer and they are available at this price only until May 13, while supplies last.
The Hemnes 25% discount applies to these four items from the bedroom furniture collection:
- Hemnes 3-drawer dresser - $119, was $169
- Hemnes nightstand - $59.99, was $79.99
- Hemnes dressing table with mirror - $219, was $299
- Hemnes 2-drawer chest - $69.99, was $99
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- Looking Through The Cloud
- Comparing On Premises and SaaS Total Cost of Ownership
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A Model Was Chained to the Couch at H&M's Dragon Tattoo Pop-Up Store
In celebration of the collection hitting stores today.
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In celebration of the collection hitting stores today.
Plus, Bruce Weber shot Dree Hemingway (and a baby) for the new cover of Spanish Vogue.
The Dragon Tattoo–themed collection kicks off with a pop-up shop.
British people like to wait in line for bright, shiny things.
Many had been waiting since noon the day before.
H&M's creative adviser says Ford is "a very interesting name."
Some even come with one-day shipping options.
Apparently that's day-to-day life in the Versace house.
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Labour's former angling spokesman Martin Salter has welcomed the appointment of Conservative MP Richard Benyon as the new minister for Fisheries and Water in the coalition government that was formed following the recent general election
Angling aims to raise £10,000 in support of victims of the recent Haiti earthquake
The UK Environment Agency is fighting a running battle against Floating Pennywort, the most sinister of aliens ever to reach the rivers Cam and Great Ouse.
In UK seas there are 22 species of wildlife considered to be facing the threat of being wiped out. Once plentiful creatures such as common skate and Atlantic halibut are now listed as endangered and only eight of the 47 fish stocks found around the British Isles remain in a healthy state.
Young people are being encouraged to try fishing Walton teenagers are to be encouraged to take-up fishing as part of a scheme to curb antisocial behaviour.
Reading West MP and Parliamentary spokesman for angling, Martin Salter has written to Fisheries Minister Huw Irranca-Davies regarding the ongoing campaign by the British Canoe Union (BCU) to achieve a statutory right of access regardless of the impact on other river users or on the environment.
Reading West MP and Parliamentary spokesman for angling Martin Salter has secured some significant victories for angling in the Marine Bill which completed its Committee stage in the House of Commons last week. Mr Salter was selected to serve on the Commons committee stage of the Bill and in advance he convened a meeting with representatives of the Angling Trust and the Salmon and Trout Association to ensure that all relevant issues were raised or amendments proposed.
The Wildlife Management Group met recently to exchange information and to seek opportunities to resolve issues regarding otters and freshwater fisheries.
Following a recent strategic meeting between the Angling Trade Association, the Angling Trust and the Environment Agency, it was unanimously decided that the newly-formed Angling Trust would oversee the running of the successful National Fishing Week in 2009 and beyond.
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina military supporters are making sure the state's Korean War veterans know their service is appreciated.
The group Honor Flight South Carolina is hosting dozens of Korean War veterans - as well as some from World War II - on a daylong, all-expenses-paid tour of military memorials in Washington, D.C.
Group spokesman Ron Saxton says recent headlines about tensions on the Korean peninsula bring to mind the sacrifices made during the bloody 1950s conflict. Some call it the forgotten war, but Saxton says veterans know its realities.
In all, Saxton says 70 Korean War and 20 World War II veterans will take Wednesday's flight to D.C. They will visit memorials for those who served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and other sites.
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Tag: Agriculture Fri, December 13, 2013
Young Farmer Movement Saving Local Soil
NewsLocal Sep 05, 2012, by Garrett McAuliffe 2 CommentsCalifornia is losing farmers and farmland at an alarming rate, threatening the supply of local and organic crops even as demand for them increases. But a new generation of young farmers in Santa Cruz County is taking on a risky business to reclaim their home soil.
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Employers have a very high perceived risk when they hire someone. Your job as the candidate is to alleviate that risk as much as possible.
If you were on Oprah talking about what you do in your career, your perceived risk would be very low. Wouldn't you agree?
I'd like to introduce you to a feature in LinkedIn called "Answers."
Answers is your opportunity to become the Obvious Expert without having to travel to Hollywood.
People post questions on a variety of topics, in almost any industry you can think of. Then, LinkedIn users volunteer an answer and strive to be as knowledgeable and resourceful as possible. The asker then rates the answers and chooses "The BEST answer".
The winner of The Best Answer get's something like this on their profile:
Giving you instant credibility.
Your homework: Go find one question that you think you could answer better than anyone else — and answer it. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Let me know how this goes for you? Feel free to share your comments below.
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Monday, May 16, 2011
acquiring preparedness skills - #11 wilderness survival
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This post is part 11 of our series on acquiring preparedness skills. What I did was adapt handouts I had created for our ward (congregation) preparedness fair last year and re-write them into blog posts. I've tried to make the information more general than our local community, but international readers will still find that it's probably localized to the US.
These posts won't be comprehensive as that isn't the intent. I hope, though, that you are able to begin your journeys toward acquiring skills that allow you and your families to be more prepared and self-reliant.
Where to Learn about Wilderness Survival:
1. Tappan on Survival by Mel Tappan
2. SAS Survival Handbook, Revised Edition: For Any Climate, in Any Situation by John Wiseman
3. Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen
4. How to Stay Alive in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Food, Shelter, and Self-Preservation That Makes Starvation in the Wilderness Next to Impossible by Bradford Angier
5. Camping & Wilderness Survival: The Ultimate Outdoors Book by Paul Tawrell
1. Boy Scouts of America
2. National Outdoor Leadership School
2. Work with other experienced individuals
1. Equipped to Survive
2. Wildwood Survival
3. Wilderness Survival
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Hello, I have recently become the Director for the Areopagus campus ministry at Iowa State University. I am new to Iowa State and to the campus ministry world. I am also new to married life. My beautiful wife, Erin, and I were married in July of 2010 and our first year has been very good. I look forward to working with students and learning from you all and sharing my experiences as well. Justin
I have a lot of different interests. I enjoy several different sports including, bowling and golf, and I also enjoy watching baseball and football. I also enjoy spending time outdoors with my wife hiking and walking our dog. We both enjoy camping, and hope to find some time to do that soon. I also enjoy fishing when I find time.
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Haven't various lectionaries helped the church do this for years? Why do we need to reinvent the wheel, when we already have a wonderful tool easily available to us?
King's Cross by Tim Keller is one that we used for a Bible Study recently with group of students and it was well received. It is a relatively easy read,...
Andrew, thanks for the post. The church that I work as campus ministry director at just recently did a remodel and added video recording capabilities. We are still working through some...
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Just because you didn't speak the facts out loud didn't erase their existence. Silence was just a quieter way to lie.
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The Tenth Circle is the only Jodi Picoult novel I've ever read. It was amazing but it had me in an almost depression for a week; I haven't been able to pick up another one of her books since then.
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Whale Watching Photos of Northern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. A60 is a injured killer whale, probably injured by a big boats propeller.
I photographed this photo with the digital SLR camera model Canon EOS D60, aperture of f/6.3, exposure time of 1/800 sec. on ISO 100, as always I used a original Canon Lens, the focus lenght for this picture was 275mm.
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Board a major American carrier such as Delta, United or American Airlines, and you'll see it - the little blue Wi-Fi symbol, inviting you to check your e-mail or log into Facebook at 30,000 feet.
But if you're Canadian, and have the urge to surf the web from the skies, you will have to keep waiting. While inflight wireless services have become commonplace south of the border and on many international carriers, lingering questions about the technology and its costs have so far kept our domestic airlines on the sidelines.
Both Air Canada and Calgary-based WestJet say they are continuing to evaluate
the feasibility of inflight Wi-Fi, but neither can say for sure it's something they want to move on - never mind provide a time frame for installation.
"We are still studying the market as this technology is evolving constantly," said Air Canada spokesperson Angela Mah.
"We're looking at various technologies and vendors and suppliers out there," said Robert Palmer, spokesman for WestJet. "I don't think anybody really wants to be first out of the gate with this, because they don't want to hitch their wagon to the wrong technology."
Currently, there are two ways airline passengers can get Internet connectivity - through a ground-to-air signal beamed upwards by special towers, or via satellite service. In the United States, inflight Internet provider Gogo is the leader in the ground-to-air sector, providing service to Delta's regional jets; all Air-Tran Airways and Virgin America flights; and select flights for Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Frontier Airlines, United and US Airways.
Gogo Wi-Fi service is also available on Air Canada flights from both Montreal and Toronto to Los Angeles, but only while the planes are flying over U.S. airspace. However, that could soon change. Last year, Gogo obtained Industry Canada approval to launch its service in Canada, and the company is now in the process of building a network
of cell towers across the country.
Palmer said WestJet is watching Gogo's progress with great interest. Still, there is uncertainty. Ground to air wireless service doesn't work on flights that travel over water, which WestJet does regularly en route to Caribbean destinations. That's why many international carriers have chosen the satellite option - United Airlines, for example, uses a Panasonic system to offer satellite Internet on some of its longhaul overseas route.
Palmer said at this point, the debate over satellite versus ground-to-air is similar to the great VHS versus Beta debate of the 1980s.
"There is no consensus yet on the part of the industry," he said. "You have to make sure you choose the right technology, and we're just not there yet."
Transport Canada is currently reviewing its prohibition on the use of personal electronic devices during flight, a necessary step before any airline can start offering Wi-Fi in the sky. But beyond the regulatory and infrastructure hurdles, there are other questions.
According to a survey conducted earlier this year by the Airline Passenger Experience Association, 57 per cent of U.S. air travellers say they would be interested in inflight Wi-Fi, but only 32 per cent say they'd be willing to pay for the service on flights less than three hours in duration.
Actual utilization numbers - from U.S. flights that are already Wi-Fi equipped - are even less reassuring. Market research firm In-Stat found that in 2011, inflight Wi-Fi had only a 7per cent pickup rate from airline passengers, though that was an increase from 4 per cent the year before.
Robert Kokonis, an independent aviation analyst and founder of Air-Trav Inc., said many people simply aren't willing to pay extra for the service. On Delta and American Airlines, for example, passengers must pay $14 for a 24-hour unlimited Wi-Fi pass. On its two Gogoequipped routes over the U.S., Air Canada charges $10.
"Airlines are looking for any sources of revenue, and having the ability to monetize Wi-Fi access is a new way to squeeze money out of your passengers," Kokonis said. "But I expect it's going to come down to longer-haul flights were customers can justify the expense."
However, Chris Myden - founder of Calgary-based travel site Ydeals. com - said he thinks demand for the service can only increase.
"As much as we all should be unplugging from the Internet and taking a break from it once in a while, let's face it, the demand to be connected anytime, anywhere, is only growing," Myden said.
For now, WestJet and Air Canada are concentrating instead on their inflight entertainment systems. On its new low-cost carrier Rouge, Air Canada has launched a wireless entertainment system that allows passengers to stream stored movies, TV, and music directly to their personal laptops, iPads, or iPhones.
WestJet, too, has plans to remove its existing seatback live TV system in favour of a stored content streaming service. Passengers without their own personal electronic devices would be able to view the content by renting tablets from the airline.
Palmer said the new system should be in place on some WestJet flights by the end of this year, with more to come in 2014. But as for Wi-Fi, he won't speculate.
"It really depends," he said. "There's a lot of crystal-ball gazing going on in the industry right now."
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Everyone likes to go out to eat once in awhile – not having to worry about prepping, cooking, and cleaning up after a meal, whether you've had a long day at work or you just want to get out of the house. Mr. HoneyB and I indulge sometimes, and we even have some friends who almost never cook for themselves. Convenience can come with a cost, and with restaurants, you lose control over the way the kitchen operates. Wouldn't it be nice to know if your favorite restaurant was trying to run as eco-friendly as possible?
Lucky for you, I ran across a really neat website recently. Dine Green! is an association that restaurants can join if they can meet certain standards, with regard to sustainability, water conservation, energy use, waste and recycling habits, and reduction of pollution. Once a restaurant achieves these standards, it earns a listing on this site and the official use of the seal (pictured below), so that you (the potential diner) can search for a recognized "green" restaurant in your area.
I ran a search for my town, and found one restaurant on the list. I'm not normally a huge Japanese food fan, but my husband (and several of our friends) are; so the next time we plan to go out, I think Rolls'n Bowls is going to be on my list of suggestions!
What's really neat is that this organization offers support to restaurant owners who want to go green, offering a variety of assessment, consulting, certification, and marketing services to assist restaurateurs through the process. If you want to give a local restaurant in your area the heads up that you'd appreciate them being certified, Dine Green! has a suggestion card you can download and print to leave with your tip, and encourages diners to send letters to their favorite restaurants letting them know you'd be interested in seeing them certified as a green restaurant.
If you're a bit of a geek (like I am!), you should be sure you don't miss their education section. Dine Green! has done an excellent job of highlighting the issues they hope to combat by getting more restaurants to go green, and the information they share on their website is an excellent resource if you wanted to know more about environmental hazards to which restaurants contribute (and hopefully will soon minimize!).
Would you be more likely to patronize a restaurant if they had this certification? Would you be really gutsy and suggest that your favorite restaurant look into this?


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