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DETROIT - Motorcities National Heritage Area is a non-profit affiliate of the National Park Service dedicated to the preservation and promotion of our areas rich automotive and labor heritage. This is done with education, preservation, and revitalization of automotive facilities and promotion of automotive events and attractions. One such event you may have heard of is Autopalooza. I had the chance to talk to Brian Yopp, managing director of the Motorcities National Heritage Area.
What is Autopalooza and why was it started?
Brian Yopp: Autopalooza is a collaboration of all of the major automotive events throughout the summer. It began in 2007 as a partnership between MotorCities National Heritage Area and the Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau, realizing that the month of August (at that time) represented a concentration of major activities which included the Concours d'Elegance of America, Woodward Dream Cruise and the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix. In the time since then we have expanded the promotion to include the entire summer and 14 events from across the region. The power of the collaboration is that each event will have certain marketing dollar set aside, but by working together, we are able to share resources, best practices and amplify the marketing efforts ensuring that visitors will look at the region as one cohesive unit working to promote and support each other and provide a world class visitor experience.
How successful has it been so far?
Brian Yopp: The attendance at a number of our events have increase since the inception of Autopalooza. Awareness of emerging events has also been increased by our efforts. Most importantly, event promoters have come together for the common good of the region to work collaboratively, to promote each other and share resources and ideas. This has increased the organizational capacity of the groups and consequentially improved the effectiveness of their events and the visitors experience in the MotorCities region.
Is there any outreach to younger people?
Brian Yopp: One of the key focuses of our programming is to reach that demographic. MotorCities is proud of the Forward Gear Educational Program which, in partnership with the ASBE Foundation, looks to expose young people to the opportunities related to automotive careers in today's climate. We encourage all of our event partners to attempt to cater to families and young people as they are the next generation of enthusiasts. We support programming that allows young high school and college students to get hands on training and mentoring from current and retired auto workers. We also work closely with groups like Hagerty Insuracne to create excitement for a new generation of collectors and enthusiasts who will not have the direct connection to the 1957 Chevy that other generations may have carried. The hobby is truly about the personal connection to the vehicle. Whether is it's "your first…", "My dad's old…", "My favorite…", the love affair with the automobile has to be organic and usually comes from personal experience.
What is your organization doing in the near future & any big goals for the future?
Brian Yopp: This year we are commemorating the 150th Birthday of Henry Ford. There are few figures more synonymous with our industry and more world renown than Mr. Ford. On the weekend before his birthday on July 30, The Henry Ford 150 will have a booth as part of Maker Faire at The Henry Ford, July 27-28. The event embodies the spirit of ingenuity and creativity and our space will feature a project call Fender Benders where Ford fenders become works of art before your very eyes. Not too far from there at Mr. Ford's home, The Henry Ford Fair Lane Estate, there will be a Community Celebration of his birthday, including the official transfer of ownership of the estate. For more information visit www.henryford150.com The spirit of the celebration is ingenuity, sustainability and legacy. We encourage everyone to follow in the footsteps of the tinkerer turned titan and to think about what they could be doing to leave a lasting impression on their community for many years to come.
MotorCities looks forward to continuing to connect to the public at our remaining Autopalooza events throughout July, August and September. Our goal is to continue to make all of our "motor cities" world class destinations based on their unique, rich automotive and labor heritage.
If you'd like to learn more about the MotorCities National Heritage Area, and how you can become a member, visit www.motorcities.org
If you plan on going to any of the remaining Autopalooza events, make sure to use the hashtag #CruiseTheD on Instagram and Twitter to share your pictures and thoughts. Your pictures will show up on our Cruise The D app!
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OUR friend popped in last week for a bit of advice on using his new iPad. He wanted to get his photos from the PC onto the iPad. ''Dropbox,'' we said. And how can he send uncompressed photos to his family and friends so that they can print them? Dropbox. In fact, any large files that need moving and copying from one device to another need Dropbox.
Dropbox is a mysterious thing in the sky where you store files and share them. (We do apologise to those readers for whom this is akin to teaching granny to suck eggs. Our excuse is that we are amazed there are still people who don't know about this free storage and transmission service.)
The first 2GB of space is free. You can get more free space by persuading friends to join up. And we just received another 25GB by buying an HTC One S phone. Once you've joined at dropbox.com you then set up Dropbox on all your other devices - PCs, pads and phones. (It is an app for phadlets.) It is like having a network with its hub in the cloud.
We use Dropbox to shuffle files between our domestic devices, and for sending files that are too large for polite email transmission.
On a PC, Dropbox installs an icon in the tray (bottom-right corner). Double click on that and it opens the Dropbox folder. Sub-folders appear by default. Open any sub-folder and, using the right-side mouse button, drag and drop a file into it, choosing Copy from the options. If you use the left button, it will Move the file, deleting the source.
On a Mac, the Dropbox icon appears in the top-right section of the toolbar. Once the file is in Dropbox, the upload to the cloud starts automatically and it is complete when a white-on-green tick appears under the file icon. Now it is ready for sharing.
Open dropbox.com in a browser and the same folder structure appears as on the computer. Navigate to the file to be shared, right click on it and choose Get Link. A window pops up, into which you enter an email address. Dropbox knows about your address books, so the address will usually be completed automatically.
And here's the killer Dropbox feature - the automatic web photo gallery. The default Photos folder has a special function. Create a sub-folder inside Photos for ''Paris Holiday 2012'' (or whatever) and put all your best pictures into it. When it is finished uploading (white tick), right click on the folder, go down to Dropbox and click on Get Link from the options. Email the link and the recipient will get a gallery of your photos. And all for nothing! However, as with all cloud services, we do not treat Dropbox as 100 per cent secure.


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Christmas is Genia Gilchrist's favorite time of year. The owner of the Nashville store Gilchrist-Gilchrist finds creative ways to incorporate vintage Christmas decorations into the holiday with simple touches, like fresh greenery, sparkly ornaments, and special decorations. One way she accomplishes an effortless, vintage Christmas look is by turning her everyday finds into holiday decor standouts, decorating vintage pieces she's collected throughout the year with unique holiday touches. She's even made a tradition of adding new, yet antique-feeling pieces to her vintage Christmas decorations, picking out a festive Santa to add to her heirloom collection every year with her daughter. She fully commits to her vintage holiday decor with no room left untouched, decorating small spaces in her home with few bottlebrush Christmas trees. Take a tour of Genia's vintage-inspired Christmas home, and you'll be sure to gather vintage Christmas décor inspiration, tips, and tricks along the way.
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This unit of study is for postgraduate students undertaking an authorised exchange with an overseas university. The Faculty may approve international exchange for qualified students in graduate coursework Master degrees.
Exchanges may be for one semester only. Students must apply through the Study Abroad and Exchange unit of the International Office. Each student's program must be approved in consultation with the program coordinator of the degree.
No program will be approved that involves the completion of more than 50% of the core requirements of the degree on exchange. Exchange units should be taken as part of the degree, satisfying the requirements that would normally be covered at this university during the same period. Exchange should not be in addition to the degree requirements.
Exchange students are required to enrol in a full time load at the University of Sydney and will incur the tuition costs associated with that load. No tuition costs will be incurred with the partner university.
Specially designated units of study will be recorded on the transcript. A result of 'SR' for 'Satisfied Requirements' will be recorded by the University against each successfully completed unit. The transcript of the exchange university will be the official detailed record of exactly what was completed during the exchange. Exchange results will not count towards a student's Weighted Average Mark.
For more information please contact the Study Abroad and Exchange Office or the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning Student Administration Centre (SAC).
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If you wish to undertake one or more units of study (subjects) for your own interest but not towards a degree, you may enrol in single units as a non-award student.
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Field Biology
The Department of Biological Sciences offers Field Biology (BIO 430) every year in the May Term (mid to late May). Field Biology is a four hour (senior level) course that is entirely field based. Students meet at William Carey campus and travel to Leroy Percy State Park near Hollandale, MS, and stay in the group cabin for the first week. The second week of the course is spent at cabins at Tishomingo State Park near Tishomingo, MS. Each day students and faculty visit sites in and near the state parks. Plant and animal species are identified, recorded, and the biology and habitat of the organisms are reviewed. Each student works at keying out organisms and compiling a list of all species. Students must apply for permission of the instructor before registering for this course. Applications for the course should be turned in to Dr. Thomas Rauch in Room 114, Green Science Hall.


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Market Watch: Cherry Peppers (and Cheesy Hot Pepper Poppers)by Dana Angelo White in Farmers' Market Finds, August 30, 2011
Green peppers just don't get the love they deserve! This time of year you'll find all different kinds at the farmers' markets including sweet bell, mild frying peppers and these little babies – sweet and fiery cherry peppers.
These tiny peppers just scream "stuff me." They're not as hot as jalapenos, but they still have a bit of heat. Try this grilled appetizer, a take on japaleno poppers made with seafood, cream cheese and salty Manchego. They make deluxe appetizers but only take minutes to make.
Grilled Cherry Pepper Poppers
Makes 14 pieces
14 fresh cherry peppers
4 ounces plain cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro
¼ teaspoon kosher salt
Fresh cracked pepper
6 ounces cooked crab meat (Alaskan King crab recommended)
3 ½ ounces Manchego cheese, cubed
Lime wedges and tortilla chips for serving
Flatten the bottom of each pepper by cutting a thin slice off of the bottom, being careful not to cut all the way through to the inside cavity. Remove top, scoop out and discard seeds (*see tip). Set aside.
In a small bowl combine cream cheese, cilantro and crabmeat. Season with salt and pepper and mix gently with a fork to combine. Stuff each pepper with a heaping teaspoon of cream cheese mixture and top each with a piece of cheese.
Preheat an outdoor grill. Place peppers on the grill, close the cover and cook for 5 minutes until cheese is melted. Cool slightly before serving with tortilla chips and lime wedges.
*Tip: A small melon baller works great for scooping out the peppers.
Nutrition Information (per piece)
Calories: 82 calories
Fat: 5 grams
Saturated Fat: 3 grams
Carbohydrates: 5 grams
Cholesterol: 20 milligrams
Fiber: 1 gram
Protein: 5 grams
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »


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You Cannot Avoid UsRiddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
Our number is two no more no less,
You cannot avoid us we must confess,
We are the only two certainties that will happen to you,
Before you realize it you'll be victimized too,
But there is one factor that you must know,
Only one of us can give you a life-ending blow,
But don't think you are safe and there's time to relax,
The other will reduce your paycheck just like that.
What are we?
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FrameMaker and WORD: Anchored Frames in Outer Margins
FrameMaker 11 has many options for controlling placement of anchored frames. This brief video examines just one popular option: placing graphics in the outer page margin of two sided page layouts. Not only are the steps simple, you can preserve all of your values in a Graphic Object Style and tag other anchored frames to behave the same way. Once you have done this, you can simply update the definition for an anchored frame object style and have all frames of the same name globally update in an identical fashion. This can be a HUGE timesaver, especially in language translation projects.


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Done. Thanks for reminding me.
The version shipped with BT4Pre is 1.1.1 and the new version is 2.0.1. The difference is bkhive is now a part of samdump2 so dumping the users is now a 1 step process instead of 2. It also fixes some endianness problems. You can get the source code for samdump2 2.0.1 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=133599
I thought you might want to know for BT4.
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Done. Thanks for reminding me.
I wrote code for samdump 2.0.1 that will dump cached credentials for XP and 2000. I don't have NT 4 anymore, it should work but I don't know for sure. I haven't found the algorithm for Vista yet. I tried to get the code upstream but the developers didn't get back to me. I didn't help that I was sick at the time so I wasn't following up like normal.
Did you want it?
I like the bleeding edge, but I don't like blood loss
Yes, if its in the form of a patch and I can review the code I would gladly take it. I actually waited so long on this one because previously we were using the samdump2 package from the main repo which we like to do when its possible. Its a pain for us to make a new package with the same name as one in the repo but in many cases we have to, because, frankly ubuntu sucks big time when it comes to updates. Feel free to sendf it to me via email. You can get my address from the about us page on remote-exploits main site if you dont already have it. Thanks.
I sent you the source code for what I made. It is isn't in patch format. I tried to minimize changes to the bkhive, hive, list, and samdump2 files. I added the lsasecret and nklm files.
If you have any questions or problems feel free to email me.
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POLICE have issued CCTV images in a bid to trace three men suspected of being involved in a violent attack near a York nightclub.
The 19-year-old male victim, from York, was assaulted by three men outside Club Salvation, in Tanner Row.
He was repeatedly punched in the face and head, knocked to the ground, then kicked to the head a number of times.
CCTV images recovered from the nightclub show two of the three suspects. The attack took place between 1.30am and 2am on October 19, but the details have just been revealed by police.
PC David Scaife, of York Police, said: "This appears to be an unprovoked attack on a young man who was enjoying a night out with friends.
"Thankfully the victim escaped serious injury, but the level of violence he was subjected to could so easily have had devastating consequences.
"It is vitally important we trace the two men in the CCTV images, and hopefully this will lead to the third suspect being identified who was not captured in the footage."
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Coaches participating in the Extra Program will be some of our most talented and experienced coaches. In order to coach in the Extra program, Coaches and Assistant Coaches must:
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RAT-RUN drivers continue to ignore no entry signs to dodge jams and jump queues despite fines as more roadworks cause gridlock misery in Worcester.
Work at the A38 Upper Tything from the junction of Britannia Road to the junction with Back Walk began on Monday which police believe has tempted some drivers to risk an illegal shortcut.
The work, by Severn Trent Water, is scheduled to end on April 28 and according to the Worcestershire County Council website is 'high impact' with 'delays likely' as workmen repair a collapsed sewer in Upper Tything Road. Traffic will be controlled using temporary traffic lights.
But a police officer today warned drivers not to use a 'dangerous' and illegal shortcut along Britannia Square and through Hebb Street onto the A38 as penalties for going through the no entry signs were being rigorously enforced.
PC Alex Denny said motorists continue to flout the rules despite 100 tickets being handed out in a fortnight in Worcester (up until April 1) at the junction of Britannia Square and Hebb Street, Worcester.
As previously reported in your Worcester News drivers who are caught will get a £90 fine and three penalty points. If a driver already has nine points on his or her licence at the time of this infringement they risk becoming a 'totter' (12 points or more) which could make them subject to a driving ban.
PC Denny said: "Already we are experiencing increased traffic violations. People are still taking no notice of the signs. Within 15 minutes we caught six people yesterday going through those no entry signs. The message is 'don't do it or you're going to get caught'. It is really not worth the risk for the sake of an extra five minutes." Officers are now talking to the county council highways to apply for signage to warn drivers of the penalties. In particular officers are concerned about the risk of a head-on collision between drivers travelling legitimately from Hebb Street into Britannia Square with drivers cutting through illegally in the opposite direction. Britannia Square also has a designated cycle lane which is of particular concern as the corner is blind, even for drivers and cyclists going the correct way.


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It's a lot easier to guarantee a win when you're retired, because, quite frankly, if you're wrong, who really cares?
I don't think I'll be wrong when I say the Bombers will roll tide over the Alouettes this Friday, and it's for one simple reason: When this team loses, they don't make excuses for their performances.
Case in point, when head coach Mike O'Shea was offered a softball of an excuse after the Toronto game, he wouldn't even step into the batter's box, let alone try and make contact with it. It seemed obvious to everyone that after only four days of rest since their last game, and leading at the end of the third quarter, a collapse in the final stanza would indicate fatigue had gotten the best of them -- but he wouldn't bite. The head coach would not excuse their performance due to a shortened schedule, and neither would any of his players. Coaches and players alike shouldered the blame and internalized it, and did not look for anything or anyone to pin their defeat on.
Throughout two of the three losses they have suffered this year, it would also be fair to say the defence has significantly outperformed the other two phases of the football team. Against Edmonton, the offence only contributed a single field goal. In the next loss to Saskatchewan, the defence, once again, held the opposition to only field goals and nine total points. These kinds of efforts by a defensive dozen are rare and spectacular, but they were wasted because they were not complemented by the offence or special teams. Conversely, it could be said special teams outperformed the other two phases in their third loss against Toronto, but you wouldn't know it after speaking with the players. Not only does this team not accept mulligans on their off days, they don't point fingers at one another, when a group of them overachieves.
It is rare for a team this young and inexperienced to have the maturity to not create a division of labour when losing inevitably rears its head. To be sure, we don't know what goes on in that dressing room, and five wins makes three losses that much more palatable, but it is still impressive nobody has even hinted or suggested all of the squadrons are not pulling their weight -- when at times, it has clearly been the case.
Even more surprising though, are the number of players, coaches and even general managers that hold themselves accountable when things don't go the way they had hoped. You almost get the impression if one was to roll a live grenade into this locker-room, there would be no shortage of human shields to smother the blast. Quarterback Drew Willy, who, notwithstanding Kevin Glenn in 2007, has played better football for this franchise than anybody since Khari Jones in his prime, is often publicly critical of his own play, without prompting. The head coach has established himself as the fall guy when there is underachievement, and when they were winning all their early games, their GM was tempered and cautious about their success. All this selfless talk, humility and camaraderie, it almost makes you long for a day or two of bravado, B.S. and boasting. But not quite.
So why should one guarantee a victory when a team just lost a game by more than two touchdowns and has now lost their last two in a row? Football teams that don't make excuses for their performances, that don't point fingers at one another and that take responsibility for their own actions are the ones that do something about losing and respond to adverse scenarios. When players and coaches are not fogged by denial and have the perspective to see that as individuals and members of a team are culpable for both success and failure, they operate in an environment where mistakes get corrected and performances improve as a result. When a football team has this many good traits, you can't help but expect a positive response.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays in the Free Press.
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PETIT PAN Whale
Petit Pan has made a line of ocean themed painted silk and bamboo creatures to liven up a child's room. Each piece can be hung from the ceiling with an invisible string while its center of balance allows it gently sway and turn. This whale is one of my favorites.
This is one of my favorite Petit Pan hand painted, silk and bamboo animals.Tags: home, bamboo, accessories, childrens, style, toddler, french, home decor, silkAdded 9 Years Ago from Petitpan
Check out these amazing hand painted lanterns made out of bamboo and silk. Available in a variety of colors. I can image these grouped together and hanging from the ceiling.Tags: home, bamboo, accessories, childrens, style, toddler, home decor, silk, stringAdded 9 Years Ago from Petitpan


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Cerebral Perfusion During Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
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Neonates with a congenital heart defect are often in need of early cardiac surgery. In complex congenital heart defects, cardiopulmonary bypass is usually employed, with or without deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA). The brain is especially vulnerable to ischemic injury, which puts neonates undergoing complex operations at high risk of neurodevelopmental disorders. Selective antegrade cerebral perfusion (ACP) instead of DHCA during these complex operations may contribute to less cerebral damage, but literature is not conclusive on this issue.
Therefore, the investigators will perform a randomised controlled trial comparing DHCA and ACP in neonatal aortic arch reconstructions, focusing on cerebral damage and neurological outcome.
|Congenital Heart Defects Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome Aortic Coarctation
|Procedure: Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest Procedure: Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Randomized Controlled Trial on Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest Versus Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion During Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
- New or worsened lesions on postoperative MRI-scan (as compared to pre-operative scan). [ Time Frame: Approximately 1 week postoperatively ]
- Mortality within 30 days [ Time Frame: 30 days postoperatively ]
|Study Start Date:
|January 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|June 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|June 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Experimental: Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest
Procedure: Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest
DHCA will be employed for a maximum of 60 minutes. If more time (>60 min) is needed for the arch reconstruction the surgeon will proceed with ACP, which will be continued for the rest of the operation (= DHCA+ACP).
|Experimental: Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion
Procedure: Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion
One cannula will be advanced into the brachiocephalic/ innominate artery via the usual arterial cannulation site in the aorta ascendens. A flow of 20-25% of the maximum CPB-flow will be used, which corresponds to a flow rate of 40-50 ml/ kg/ min.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 4 Months (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Aortic arch reconstruction (diagnosis of hypoplastic left heart syndrome, hypoplastic aortic arch, severe coarctation and/ or interrupted aortic arch)
- Infants <4 months old
Exclusion Criteria:
- Anticipated arch reconstruction time longer than 60 minutes
- Sedation and intubation especially for the pre-operative MRI-scan of this research project
- Participation in another clinical trial
- Failure of data collection
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01032876
|UMC Utrecht
|Utrecht, Netherlands
|Principal Investigator:
|Felix Haas, MD
|UMC Utrecht
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|Prof. F. Haas, UMC Utrecht
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01032876 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 15, 2009
|Last Updated:
|June 28, 2012
Keywords provided by UMC Utrecht:
Congenital Heart disease
Cardiopulmonary bypass
Neonatal brain injury
Deep Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest
Antegrade Cerebral Perfusion
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Defects, Congenital
Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
Aortic Coarctation
Cardiovascular Abnormalities
Cardiovascular Diseases
Heart Diseases
Congenital Abnormalities
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 18, 2017


text: After graduating from the Naval Academy in 1944, Shepard entered naval service the end of WWII. After the war, he went to flight school and became a Navy pilot and eventually a test pilot, logging more than 8,000 flight hours. In 1959, he joined NASA and was chosen to pilot the Freedom 7 for America's first manned space mission. Launching on 5 May 1961, Shepard's suborbital flight lasted 15 minutes and took him 116 miles above the earth. Shepard continued to work for NASA, although health issues kept him from space until 1971, when he commanded the Apollo 14 mission to the moon, where he famously hit two golf balls. Shepard retired from NASA and the Navy as a rear admiral in 1974.


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Advent Garland 23, Hat by Frankie Brown
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Advent Garland 23, Hat
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Babies donned Wild West outfits as they took part in a Western-themed fundraiser.
Baby charity Tommy's and Baby Sensory & Toddler Sense teamed up to host the Sensathon.
Mini cowboys and cowgirls visited Baby Sensory Barnet and Southgate, and Baby Sensory Potters Bar where they took part in a Western adventure song and a story-telling session.
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Joe Ruklick's numbers have stood the test of time at Northwestern University.
He still holds the Wildcats basketball career records for point per game (19.9) for and ranks second in rebounds per game (13.2). Those numbers hold true 54 years upon his departure from the Evanston campus to embark on a brief stint in the NBA.
Now, Ruklick, 74, who first made his name in basketball at Princeton High School, is being featured as one of the 50 Wildcat Greats in the upcoming Alumni magazine published by Northwestern.
The list includes athletes in all sports ranging from basketball, baseball and football to field hockey, soccer and lacrosse. The most notable Wildcats are Ruklick along with Darnell Autry (football), Billy McKenney (basketball), Otto Graham (football, basketball, baseball). The most notable absentee is former Cubs catcher and current New York manager Joe Girardi.
You can vote for Ruklick by visiting www.northwestern.edu/magazine/summer2013/feature/fifty-wildcat-greats/#44. You can even make a case for St. Bede's own J.A. Happ, who graced the pitching mound at NU in the early 2000s as an all-Big Ten pitcher before launching his professional career.
There is a nice feature on Ruklick entitled "Baskets and Bylines," chronicling Ruklick's career in basketball and journalism.
Ruklick said he is grateful for the honor.
"The Northwestern news takes me back to my beginnings in Princeton, where it was a blessing to live and benefit from the kindness of its citizens," he said. "It's a fine and wonderful place. And I was blessed by the good fortune that placed Coach Sheffer there. He, a man of highest principle, epitomized the best of Princeton. Somewhere today he's reminded that he achieved one of his purposes on this earth, that of teaching the town's highest values to young men like me.
Ruklick came to Princeton at age 11 when his mother fell ill with tuberculosis. What was to be a short stay, proved to be life-changing thanks to the late Tiger coach Don Sheffer.
He was cut from the freshmen basketball team, then recruited by Sheffer, who by chance met the tall, but awkward Ruklick in the hallway that day. Sheffer invited Ruklick to varsity practice that year and taught him how to shoot the hook shot. By his varsity years, then 6-foot-9, Ruklick became an unstoppable force, adept at shooting the hook shoot with either hand.
He led the Tigers to the State Tournament in 1953-54 and a return trip in 1954-55 to make good on a fourth-place trophy in the old one-class system. He was named as a prep All-American his senior year, averaging 27.0 ppg his senior year.
The Princeton High School booster club recently honored the Tiger great with a pre-game ceremony at PHS and replicas of his PHS, NU and NBA uniforms hang in the Corridor of Champions.
With offers from many top collegiate coaches, including legendary Adolph Rupp of Kentucky's and Ray Meyer of DePaul, Ruklick chose Northwestern for its recruiting integrity and for being the only school that "noticed I was a good student."
With freshmen being ineligible to play back in his day, Ruklick made the most of just three seasons in the Wildcat uniform from 1956-59. He stands third all-time in rebounding (868) with a high average of 13.9 a game his junior season. He is 13th in scoring with 1,315 points.
From Evanston, Ruklick was drafted by the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors in 1959. There was one problem and it was a big one.
The Warriors also drafted the late Wilt Chamberlain, an athletic 7-foot-1 superstar who rarely came out of games. As Wilt the Stilt's back-up, Ruklick only averaged 8 minutes and 3.5 points per game in three seasons in Philadelphia. When the Warriors moved to San Francisco in 1962, Ruklick opted to retire to move into the business field.
Ruklick and Chamberlain became forever linked in the history books on March 2, 1962 in Hersey, Pa. It was Ruklick who made the assist on Chamberlain's legendary 100th-point basket against the Knicks. Ruklick was put into the game upon the request of Chamberlain because he feared some of other white players on the Warriors were racist and would not pass him the ball.
Despite their various differences, Ruklick, white from rural Midwest and Chamberlain, black from the big city (Philadelphia), they become life-time friends until Chamberlain's untimely death in 1999 at the age of 63. Chamberlain always joked with Ruklick he liked him because he had "dumped" 52 points with 31 rebounds in his college debut playing for Kansas in 1956 against Ruklick and Northwestern.
Shortly before his passing, I got to interview the Big Dipper for a story on his friendship with Ruklick, entitled, "the only color that mattered was the color of the ball." It is one of my favorite pieces I've written in my 26 and a half years here,
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Adnan Oktar: AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES NEED TO BE PAID ATTENTION TO FROM NOW ON. Stock breeding also deserves to be paid attention to. These can be done with cattle or poultry. The state needs to support everyone who works in this way. The state needs to operate in this way as well. The agriculture business needs to be fully supported across Turkey. Not other areas I am talking about, but these two areas especially need to be supported and all the industries need to be supported which even indirectly serve agriculture and stock-breeding. For example, these can be practiced in the agricultural chemistry business or by manufacturing tractors or harvesters. The state needs to support all these industries in the first rank.
MPL TV, November 21st, 2008
Adnan Oktar: This economic crisis may have some risky conclusions. Here is the thing to be done: AGRICULTURE AND STOCK-BREEDING SHOULD BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION IN THE FIRST PLACE. IT IS NECESSARY FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO PROMOTE THESE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THIS RESPECT. AGRICULTURE AND STOCK-BREEDING. This sector should be supported in the strongest way. WE NEED TO TRIPLE OR EVEN QUINTUPLE THE PRESENT ACTIVITIES OF AGRICULTURE AND STOCK-BREEDING. THAT IS A VITAL PRECAUTION. GIVING FULL WEIGHT TO AGRICULTURE AND STOCK-BREEDING IS A SIGNIFICANT METHOD THAT WILL DEFINITELY STOP NEGATIVE DEVELOPMENTS, WHICH INDEED CAN HAVE FATAL RESULTS.
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Mehdi Eker, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock said that the lands should not be divided in order to allow the next generations to practice agriculture and defined that as te biggest revolution. Mr. Eker emphasized that division of agricultural lands by inheritance causes a loss of 8 billion Turkish lira annually. Mr. Eker also has announced that this year around 7 billion Turkish lira in cash will be paid to support agriculture.


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HOUSTON - A woman has been accused of pretending to be a law enforcement officer at a party, and neighbors said it isn't the first time she's made that claim.
Laura Maxwell, 51, has been charged with impersonating a public servant.
Witnesses said Maxwell flashed a badge and tried to force her way into a party at a neighbor's house, claiming someone there had taken a shot at her.
Maxwell was stopped by the homeowner's 23-year-old son, witnesses said. According to witnesses, Maxwell claimed she was a federal agent and that shots were fired from the home.
Harris County sheriff's deputies were called out to the home and arrested Maxwell.
Neighbors said Maxwell has presented herself as a law enforcement officer in the past, and one claimed that she has barged into his home before.
"She knocked on my door and said, 'I'm hungry. Do you have anything to eat?" neighbor Tom Auld said. "I said, 'I don't know … might have some cookies. She ran straight into the pantry, went through the ice box."
Auld said Maxwell takes in boarders at her house, some of whom are panhandlers. When KPRC Local 2 knocked on her door on Tuesday, Jack McKinney answered the door. He said Maxwell is a friend, disabled and living on Social Security. He said Maxwell offers shelter to people who need help.
"Just a lady with a good heart that helps people out," McKinney said. "We help her out however we can, you known, money-wise."
Auld said he hopes Maxwell doesn't come back home.
"Seventeen years of hell is what I've had out of her," Auld said.
Maxwell is being held in the Harris County Jail with bond set at $5,000.
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This article was published 5/3/2013 (1632 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
'CUPCAKES are confectionary metaphors," says Shawna Dempsey. "They're a fabulous canvas on which to inscribe our hopes and dreams."
Dempsey should know. A longtime Winnipeg artist and co-executive director at Mentoring Artists for Women's Art, Dempsey is helping to organize MAWA's ninth-annual Over the Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party. (This year the event will be held on Sunday, March 17, 2 to 5 p.m. Tickets are $10 advance or $12 at the door. MAWA is located at 611 Main St.)
When you combine butter, sugar and a lot of creative people, the results can be magical. Over the years, MAWA's maverick Martha Stewarts have made everything from flower gardens to mythical beasts to a collection of cupcakes that replicates Van Gogh's Starry Night. This potent blend of art and icing seems to get everyone buzzed. Cupcakes really bring in the crowds.
"They are the medium. They are the message," jokes Dempsey. "They're all good."
Besides looking good and tasting good, MAWA's cupcakes also do good. Along with the event's all-you-can-eat cupcake madness, the fundraiser includes a raffle and an art sale. This year, there will be more than 100 offerings, with works by established artists like Wanda Koop, Melanie Rocan, Shaun Morin and Paul Robles hanging next to pieces by kids straight out of art school.
Last year's event brought in more than 10 per cent of MAWA's annual operating budget, which supports programs in which senior artists mentor emerging female artists. The rest of MAWA's programming, Dempsey points out, including lectures, workshops, classes, exhibitions and performances, is open to women and men.
Sara Porter, a veteran cupcake contributor for the party, works at the Grindstone Bakery in Portage la Prairie. Last year, Porter made lemonade cupcakes and peanut butter and chocolate cupcakes. This year, the 24-year-old "baker supreme," as Dempsey calls her, is planning on adding some red velvet cupcakes with classic cream cheese icing, along with vegan offerings that don't use dairy or eggs.
In Porter's experience, people love cupcakes "because they're a guilty pleasure." A cake can be a big commitment, but a single cupcake is a little treat.
"And they have a lot of eye appeal," says Porter.
With the cupcake's huge popularity and high-profile presence on food TV, the cupcake-industrial complex has been busy churning out expensive accessories like cupcake holders, cupcake carriers, cupcake decorating kits and cupcake sprinkling machines. But getting down to cupcake fundamentals doesn't have to be complicated.
Decorating is the sexy part, of course, but you also need to start with a really good recipe. Porter's version of chocolate peanut butter cupcakes combines a deeply rich chocolate cake with a creamy peanut butter filling.
Be sure not to overbake them, Porter warns, because cupcakes are small and can dry out quickly. In butter-based recipes, make sure you really beat the butter well. In this recipe, vegetable oil keeps things moist.
For icing, Porter often starts with Martha Stewart's vanilla buttercream, an all-purpose base that can be tinted for all kinds of colour effects. For this cupcake, you could also go with chocolate or peanut butter icing.
And if you need decorating inspiration, you can always head down to this year's Over the Top Art Auction and Cupcake Party for what Dempsey calls "the endless MAWA potluck" of creativity and food.
Sara Porter's chocolate peanut butter cupcakes
250 ml (1 cup) granulated sugar
250 ml (1 cup) brown sugar (not packed)
425 ml (1 3/4 cups) all-purpose flour
175 ml (3/4 cup) cocoa
7 ml (11/2 tsp) baking soda
7 ml (11/2 tsp) baking powder
2 ml (1/2 tsp) salt
2 eggs
250 ml (1 cup) whole milk
125 ml (1/2 cup) vegetable oil
10 ml (2 tsp) vanilla
250 ml (1 cup) boiling water
Peanut butter filling:
60 ml (1/4 cup or 4 tbsp) unsalted butter, melted
125 ml (1/2 cup) icing sugar, sifted
175 ml (3/4 cup) smooth peanut butter
1 ml (1/4 tsp) salt
2 ml (1/2 tsp) vanilla
Preheat oven to 175 C (350 F). Fill standard muffin pans with 24 cupcake liners. Sift sugar, brown sugar, flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. (A batter bowl with a spout will allow you to easily pour the batter into the cupcake liners.) Add eggs, milk, oil and vanilla. Beat with a mixer for about two minutes, occasionally scraping the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the boiling water, and beat just until blended. (Don't be alarmed -- the batter will appear watery.)
To make the peanut butter filling, in a small bowl, combine butter, icing sugar, peanut butter, salt and vanilla and beat until very smooth. Use immediately.
For each cupcake, pour a layer of chocolate batter, add a spoon of peanut butter filling, then some more batter, and finally a dollop of peanut butter filling. (Overall, the liners should be almost full.) Bake for 20-25 minutes, until the centre of the cupcakes spring back when lightly touched. Cool and frost. Makes 2 dozen.
You can also leave out the peanut butter filling to make plain chocolate cupcakes.
Tester's notes: Wickedly delicious. Don't worry if the peanut butter filling doesn't spread evenly. It is thicker and heavier than the chocolate batter, but it will all work out in the baking.
Peanut butter icing
175 ml (3/4 cup) unsalted butter, softened
175 ml (3/4 cup) creamy peanut butter (not natural peanut butter)
500 ml (2 cups) icing sugar
15-45 ml (1-3 tbsp) whipping cream
In medium bowl, using electric mixer, cream butter and peanut butter. Add icing sugar, 125 ml (1/2 cup) at a time, beating well after each addition, and continue beating until very light and fluffy, about 3-5 minutes in total. Add cream a little at a time, until icing reaches desired consistency.
Tester's notes: This peanut butter icing is light -- not in a caloric sense (obviously!) but in regards to texture -- and not too sweet. Adding the icing sugar gradually means you avoid a cloud of sugar rising up when you turn on the mixer. It also allows you to adjust the sweetness -- you might want to use less or more than the 500-ml amount. Likewise, you can add the cream gradually to reach your desired consistency. (If you're planning to go all out with the decorating, you might need a thicker icing for piping consistency.)


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Just wanted to share an event I'm doing this year for a very worthy cause.
Last April I done the 26 mile marathon walk in my Kilt from Hampden (Scotland Football Stadium) to the bonnie banks o' Loch Lomond in order to make a big difference to the children who are in need of a little support. Well, this April 2013 I'm doing the same, but I'm going the next mile this year...
In October 2013 I'm leaving Heathrow to trek Mount Kilimanjaro (the world's tallest stand alone mountain) wearing my kilt to raise money for Scottish children's charities including: Aberlour, Childrens Hospice (CHAS), CLIC Sargent, TACC & Yorkhill Children's Foundation and I'm hoping to raise a total of £3000.
Why? - Because I believe in the work they do and again in order to make a bigger difference to children in Scotland who are in need of a little support. Ultimately helping to support children in Scotland from disadvantaged backgrounds or who suffer from life-threatening illnesses to get the care and attention they deserve.
I was born with sporadic forms of very rare eye conditions, thus I am permanently impacted and I have very recently been registered blind, thus I am personally fully aware of the difference a little help makes.
So I'm asking for your support in my efforts by contributing absolutely anything you can to my fundraising total PLEASE! It would be a massive help and deeply appreciated.
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. Thank you for your support.
Thank you!!!!!!
Every Little Helps ....
For Example... Imagine what a £1 could do for every view of this topic... (Views: 163)
Its children like this wee girl that I'm raising money for...
For the kiltwalk!
Hi my name is Meghan, i'm 14 years old & this is my story.
Since the age of 4 i was always having severe headaches & vomiting,I couldn't keep my balance very well so i fell over quite alot. My mum was really concerned & took me to the doctors.I then had an assessment done this came back that i was just clumsy & needed occupational therapy this went on until i was 8 yrs old.Mum had had enough demanded an appointment with a pediatric consultant.My head was getting bigger,my headaches were getting worse before i knew it i was in hospital having an MRI then bang I have HYDROCEPHALUS, 1 week later i was in hospital having brain surgery this didnt work first time around so they said i needed another one as it was more difficult than first thought but this surgery had to be delayed as i took an infection in the brain,I was really ill & the doctors had to keep a close eye on me they had to put antibiotics straight into my brain to make me better for surgery,after 6 weeks in hospital i was ready for my surgery where they would put a shunt in to help the fluid away from my brain.Anyway since that time i have had approximately 18 brain operations to try & help me.I have hardly been at school since i was diagnosed all those years ago as i still suffer from headaches,short term memory loss & occipital epilepsy.Believe it or not i am a happy 14 year old who never wants anyone to feel sorry for me all i ask is that you donate lots of money so that other people like myself can get the support from doctors,nurses & support groups that help children with hydrocephalus.
That's a heck of a big challenge - even for somebody fully-sighted. What kind of training do you need to do for it?
I hope your going to wear more than a kilt. When I did it, it was -10 Fahrenheit when summiting.
Last year I done the Walking a Marathon challenge around a week after my posterior capsulotomy operation. Unfortunately, things didn't improve vision ways the way it was expected, so for the first time in my life I was below the baseline of being categorised severely visually impaired. As a result, I was registered blind.
Things haven't changed a lot in the last year, as I've had 23 years since birth to adapt. However, with my blind registration going through I considered how much help I had been given over the years and with a deteriorative condition, I decided to up the anti and go the extra mile for those that need it. It's just my way of giving back.
From what I know and have learned, what battles you is the attitude and cold climate. So it's pretty difficult to train for that, unless I take a leaf out rocky's book and train in freezers. My plan of action though is just to get as physically fit as I can in the time. Climb plenty stairs and walks with the dog and go swimming etc.
I'll wear my kilt on it's on during the first lower days, but as the ascent increases / temperatures drop. I'll use additional layers below. For the only reason that I' won't get away with the kilt alone. Perhaps if summit was during the day, it could work but ascending at night to summit at sun-rise the additional layers below the kilt will be mandatory.
How was your trip? when did you do it and what tips do you have?
All summits are at night. I went in Feb. The warmest time. We took the lemesho rout. Took 8 days. Take the 8 days. Anything less and you risk failure. Bring a big pee bottle
Mines is Machame Route
This guy done it kilted during the day -> http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=kilimanjarokilted
Anyway's any contribution would be very much appreciated.
thats the hardest route I beleive because its the fastest. Yeah you can wear a kilt during the day pretty much until you reach 15000 ft. The first few days were cake. The last day was very hard. If you wear a camel pack it will freeze in 30 minutes. Everyone I hiked with carried a 10 pound block of ice up the summit. But I did not. If you suck the water in and out every 2 minutes it will not freeze. But I had to pee every hour. Peeing in -10 with 6 layers of clothing on is not easy. Wool is your friend. Wear no cotton. Bring a zero degree sleeping bag. You do need it. Its freezing. Buy a sterypen for the water. Kept me from having the *****. I hate hiking in boots. I wore shoes. They were fine as long as you have thick wool socks. You do have cell service at different parts. I brought about 10 pounds of snacks and ate them all. Others did not. Go easy on the caffine the last day. I almost did myself in taking too much. Even though that has never been a problem before.
Here is me summiting. That little sprint I did at the end gave me a migraine headache for about an hour. http://youtu.be/uaBZ_tFJReU
well done for attempting this. its a big challenge, but its a big cause also
Liked your summit approach, Rocky !!!
I may go for the Rocky press-up summit approach haha!!
Wool.. Check.
What was the comfort limit of the sleeping bag you had? and how did you find it?
Snacks... What's the rules for bringing food into the country, I want to be taking snacks !! Preferably if I can, I'd like to take some grounded oats, which I can easily mix with water and drink no problem.
Do you by any chance still have your kit-list check-list document for everything you took with you? That would be a great help. Also, is there anything you didn't take but would take next time if you were to do it again.
Here is the gear list I used. Is complete. http://www.ultimatekilimanjaro.com/Ultimate%20Kilimanjaro%20Gear%20List.pdf
Here is the company I used. Their website has all the info you need http://www.ultimatekilimanjaro.com/
Here is a battery I took that charged my iPhone 9 times. http://www.energizerpowerpacks.com/th/products/xp18000/
I brought everything I needed. Just get everything on that list. Everyone was jealous if my 1 gallon callasable pee bag. At night you dont want to leave the tent. I bought most everything at REI. I had a $350 zero degree bag from REI and I was comfortable in my long underwear. My dad bought a $40 zero degree bag from Costco. He was miserable even wearing all his clothes. So buy a good one.
My parent and I did stairs for 2 years in prep. Working up to 1 1/2 hours of stairs at 100% intensity the entire time. Me wearing 30lbs on my back to keep me on par with them. I needed every bit of cardio I had from 17,000 to 19,300 feet.
Thanks for the list.
I am still considering whether to buy new or second hand or hire. I'm in the UK and there is a handful of places that I could hire from, a sleeping bag for example worth £200-300 for a £50 hire.I'll probarly never use it again anyway. But I still regret paying that money just for a 2-week hire. Hopefully I can find some good gear at a knock down price.
Infact it seems I'm doing the Rongai route, not Machame.
I'm now 46 sleeps away from this adventure and I've only got around below £50 to go to reach my target.
Anything you could contribute would be great !!!


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It was clear enough from David Foster Wallace's fiction that he knew more than most about emotional disturbance, but his suicide in 2008 was a shocking and distressing event for those readers who had come to see him as somehow belonging to them. He was the writer who more than any other could articulate what it was like to live in the atomised, addicted, fragmented now, and did so in a prose style of vast energy and humour and resourcefulness, one that has enlarged our sense of what contemporary (American) English is capable of.
In the 1960s, critic Leslie Fiedler remarked that the American muse seemed to favour the path between the classroom and the madhouse.
D.T. Max's biography details the breakdowns, the dependencies on television and dope and drink and sex, the 20-year reliance on heavy-duty antidepressants, the roller-coaster of vanity and self-laceration.
It also makes clear his strength of will and capacity for hard work and seriousness of intent, and an erudition in philosophy and literary theory which, combined with the depressive's demonic superego, fuelled his almost crushing intellectual conscientiousness about the moral purpose of writing. It is a terrible and moving story, and Max comes to it with sympathy and respect.
Writing about a man who has recently committed suicide and is survived by all his loved ones makes the biographer's problem of tact more exigent than usual. Max gives us enough information to know that Wallace could be difficult, and one of the things that is heroic about his story is the vast and finally successful effort he put into trying to be a better person. But one has the sense sometimes that Max can be a little cagey about Wallace's less-admirable qualities. One of the weaknesses Wallace most disliked in himself, for example, was his need to impress people, and he was prone to fibbing and exaggerations of the self-mythologising kind, but we don't really learn what effect this kind of thing had on his relationships with other people. The callous, manipulative attitude to women Wallace wrote so chillingly about in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men was also something he knew rather too well.
It's possible simultaneously to feel glad the book isn't more intrusive while at the same time noticing what has been left out. Wallace's family is something of a blur. Max refers more than once to Wallace's difficult relationship with his mother, and we learn there was quite a long period when Wallace had no contact with her: at one stage, Wallace came to think his mother had been abused by her father, but, once again, how this belief affected his relationship with her and the rest of his family isn't explored.
Wallace was fond of quoting Faulkner's line about how writing a novel is like building a hen house in a cyclone, but the rest of his life was rather like that. His achievements would have been remarkable even for someone who didn't have to fight what he fought. He almost single-handedly resurrected avant-garde adventurousness in contemporary fiction, and reasserted its value as a vehicle for moral and intellectual inquiry, while he also made us fall off our chairs laughing; he was strong-minded enough to brave being thought naive or sentimental by talking against chic postmodern irony and nihilism; artistically and intellectually, he took nothing for granted. D.T. Max's book makes clear once again what a loss his death was for literature.
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
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Family and Consumer Sciences (F&CS) Standards and Course Frameworks are under review and will be revised in the late spring and summer of 2012. This page presents links to the current standards and to the new, draft standards for F&CS courses that are in Indiana's College & Career Pathways.
Indiana's College & Career Pathways
New/draft standards for F&CS Pathway courses are located on the related Cluster pages. Go to the Pathways home page then scroll down to the blue boxes and click on the Cluster that relates to the course you want to explore.
Family & Consumer Sciences Standards & Course Frameworks
- Indiana Academic Standards for F&CS
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Campaigns I'm falling for…
SAAM planning happens all throughout the year, but for the most part this campaign comes to life each Spring through the participation of communities and advocates. That said, you already know how we feel about endless April, and if you ask this blogger – campaigns supporting social change are always in season. With that in mind, let's explore some October and upcoming campaigns that I'm falling for this fall:
Say No more (or No Mas) during Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Purple is a top-notch color all year long, but in October purple spotlights support for public and prevention education efforts to end domestic violence. DVAM's mission to mourn, celebrate and connect is bolstered this year by the messaging of No More, a campaign to increase national awareness of domestic violence and sexual assault and to unite the efforts of both movements to end gender-based violence.
Honor activism and celebrate LGBTQ History Month
NSVRC and our partners at PCAR are taking advantage of this month to promote our newest information packet: Sexual Violence & Individuals Who Identify as LGBTQ. In addition to this exciting tool, I'm in love with resources from the Backbone Zone! Campaign which challenge sexist and homophobic attitudes. Maine Coalition Against Sexual Violence and Boys to Men have created a series of messages that help students confront gender-bullying, sexual harassment and the violent words that support violence. To be honest, even this preventioneer feels like I can stand taller with a message like this on my side.
Get vocal for Let's Talk About it Month
Yes, we love talking about healthy sexuality in April, and we plan to again this year. Advocates for Youth's national education campaign has tools that encourage parent/child communication around sexuality. Campaign materials highlight how communities can be involved in supporting these conversations, and organizations like Planned Parenthood are spotlighting resources for parents to talk with their teens about sex.
We can't forget that October is also National Hispanic Heritage Month as well as a time for many awareness-based health observances.
It's a pretty busy month with so many great messages to share, and that's why these conversations can't be limited to a 31-day-turnaround. All year long our work is strengthened when we talk about uniting to spread awareness, honor voices from the margins and support open, consistent communication about sex. With the many projects we all balance, keeping up the dialogue can be a challenge, so this fall I hope you'll find some in-season resources to support your efforts at year-round change.
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2. I would think it would be more than just a tingle, but I guess the guard is trained to not react and the numbing agent could work. Doesn't explain the Major though who is depicted as paranoid and would probably react to the "brushing"
3. I am aware of that, but my understanding of binding a wound tightly is that you are trying to smush the edges of the wound together so no blood can escape. So if he were stabbed, then put on the belt, that would make sense as the larger wound is now compressed to a very small one. But he was stabbed while his tight belt was on, so wouldn't the binding do nothing to stop the bleeding? It would definitely make the wound a lot worse when unbound, but I don't understand how it would prevent blood loss while the belt was on.Steam: Gundato
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2. It's clear that, at least on the left-hand side of his body, he had been severely burned. It's not unreasonable to suppose that a lot of his nerves were badly damaged, if not destroyed, on that part of the body and a little bit here and there. Possibly more so than the guard, he may have felt absolutely nothing at all! His paranoia at that point would've been meaningless. Bare in mind that if someone was able to get close enough to put a blade in his belt, they'd have likely found out about any injuries and used that information to their advantage. He may not have needed any sort of anaesthesia. His paranoia also manifest it self as visible threats - he had his gun because he was expecting someone to come at him, to physically hold a knife/implement and kill him with it. If anything, after this his paranoia will probably increase to things he "can't see", making him even more of a recluse than before. Perhaps the less thought about the implications there the better.
3. Essentially correct - it's to stop blood loss or as much as possible. I'm going to assume that it was a slow blood loss, an almost unnoticeable amount and we're given as much proof of this as possible with the guard scenario again. There was obviously some time between him taking off his belt and walking (which would've exacerbated the effect) and beginning to shower, which at some point will have made it difficult to tell if blood was dripping down him. The amount of blood lost to me didn't look like it would be Instant Death, just putting him in a critical condition, which would explain why one of the soldiers mistook him for dead because his heart beat was probably slowing down, especially whilst he was unconscious. Anyhow, the point I'm getting at is that all signs point to a 'slow' blood loss so that by the time you realise, it's too late.
If we go back to the main case then, it's unlikely the wound would've been a super clean, surgical cut, so he was quite possibly bleeding all the time, simply releasing the belt would've let it all 'gush' out. The problem is that there isn't enough technical detail here to know, on either him or the guard in the test case. So whilst the murder would've taken place at the wedding, the death wouldn't have been until much later on (presumably when the festivities ended and he went back to his room to sleep). Anyhow, combine his badly damaged body and the fact he was probably continually losing a very slow amount of blood, it combines quite well to suggesting the belt as was would be fine to prevent immediate concerning blood loss.
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I imagine something like that. The fact it is possible means that in the universe of Sherlock, it's absolutely 'likely'. Remember, it's Arthur Conan Doyle who penned the phrase: "When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
Haven't been watching the series, but the Holmes of the books is really not as logical as he has a reputation for. He's right because he's written to be right, there's no alternative explanations for his convoluted deductions because Conan Doyle didn't write any, not because there aren't any other plausible solutions.
And, more importantly, I believe nothing deserves a perfect score. Err, except for any of my work, ALL of that is perfect and should never be checked for errors or flaws :pSteam: Gundato
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As for me, it's been the eight season of Supernatural. I have actually used the last month watching the whole series from scratch, and as far as I know, ninth season is on-going at the moment so... yeah, I'm gonna start questioning the meaning of life as soon as I get to that point.
Great show though, very addicting. It has its flaws, like characters who seem very important, being completely forgotten but hey, I like the little flaws.
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Re the Sherlock mystery:
I had assumed up until the point you actually heard the blade go in and out, that the blade had stayed in, with the leather belt gripping it at the sides to ensure it didn't come back out, until the belt came off. That I found vaguely plausible, the actual explanation on the show less so (though I doubt either is legit).
The latest episode of Doomsday Preppers by National Geographic (actually I think it's an outsourced production if my information is correct) is somewhat inspiring. Most episodes of the series showed preppers who spent most of their efforts to arm like militias, as if being armed is all that prepping is about. This episode, however, has a prepper clan who, in the fear of a cyberattack would paralyze the IT infrastructure the USA being too dependent on, leading to a collapse of the society they are in. This clan is working on preparing to rebuild the education system in the possible post-cyber era. One task is to build up their own library of printed books for obvious reason, that digitized library resources the society has accumulated all those years might suddenly become inaccessible one day while Americans no longer have control over their hacked IT system.
I think there is absolute no danger printed books would be extinct. It's just that market share of printed books in the whole publishing industry shrink, but the whole book market is expanding rapidly thanks to ebooks. Really, many of my friends who haven't been reading often start reading ebooks because of the convenience. They can scoll through their smartphones' screen to read with ease in condensed area like subways. But then yes, storing printed books would be essential in preserving civilization, as there is still no digital storage being satisfactorily reliable.
National Geographic: Guns, Germs and Steel was engaging and interesting and well presented. I haven't read the book but was familiar with the premise and some of the reactions and controversy.
Call the Midwife was better than I expected. There's some fluff and drama, but it's also moving and serious and heartfelt at times.
The Walking Dead season 3 has major problems with suspension of disbelief.
Downton Abbey season 4's opening episode didn't do much for me. The show really can't live up to it's first season and has been going downhill since then. Season 2 was ok, but 3 was mostly stupid and soapy, and only Bates held it together for me.
Bletchley Circle was not quite good. Telling us the characters are smart does not make them smart.
Attack on Titan is hugely overrated. I just marathoned it but didn't enjoy much. It has clumsy writing, heavy repetition, awful pacing, lazy animation, too many monologues and flashbacks and over-the-top reactions, and seriously needs better editing overall. So little of the setup is resolved that I think I will just skim plot summaries for the spoilers and skip future installments.
Helix: shit characters, lazy writing, boring all-around. The Arctic setting is the only good thing about it.
Banshee: best show on TV right now.
Helix is the new Ron Moore thing, right?
So there's a cinema in London called The Princes Charles and last night (through to this morning) they were doing a marathon of the first season of Veronica Mars and I have to say, I enjoyed about 97% of it (the other 3% being the parts of teen-drama I couldn't really warm up to). It's a fun show with a neat premise that also happens to be incredibly dated, an astonishing feat being only a decade old; the stand-out point about how great wi-fi was had the whole cinema laughing. Anyhow, I hadn't seen it before so other than a rough idea of what to expect, I was definitely impressed. I'll be needing to look into the other seasons now.
Veronica Mars used to be on day time back when I was between college and jobs in one of those weird time slots that wasn't taken up by Jeremy Kyle or his peers. I never actively followed it, but it always seemed interesting enough whenever I did tune in."Halo is designed to make the player think "I look like that, I am macho sitting in my undies with my xbox""
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I recently watched both seasons of Black Mirror. Each episode really needs its own review and I can't be bothered with that, but suffice to say I felt all six episodes were worthwhile, if unsettling, viewing. My summation: "six cautionary tales of the near future."
I think 'Fifteen Million Merits' was originally two episodes cut down. It runs fifteen minutes longer than the others and yet there are a lot of loose ends. I thought it was the most powerful of the six episodes, although it seems to have attracted more negative comments than most on account of its stylistic departure from the first episode, 'The National Anthem'. I felt the fourth episode, 'Be Right Back', was the weakest.
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Ok Well Sherlock was really really good and showed that the other two were really weak in plotting since this was political thriller like mystery with a really intriguing and interesting villian(something which makes me kind of sad that SPOILERS he died at the end and there bringing back Moriarty). Interested to see where they go with it because apart from this episode I do have to say this has been the weakest season and the writers will have to up there game when it comes to plot since they have the characters down really good.
I think 'Fifteen Million Merits' was originally two episodes cut down. It runs fifteen minutes longer than the others and yet there are a lot of loose ends
Hmm I don't think it would of worked with two episodes I feel it was powerful how it was.
This was a really good plot AND was really entertaining. Very good at riding the rollercoaster of Feels.
Also, the Sherlock Scan when Sherlock is shot by Mary was quite possibly my favorite scene in any Sherlock media. It manages to be tense, heartbreaking, heartwarming, and just all shades of awesome at the same time. And the picture it paints of Sherlock's mind is even better.
I saw the headshot coming from a mile away (The very heavy referencing of Mind Palaces the entire season combined with them trying to recover evidence), but definitely did not see the ending. Which still has me squealing. Because while it has every chance of being a "Jumping the shark" moment, I am confident they can make it work (and I am not convinced it isn't Sherlock behind it...)Steam: Gundato
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The last episode, 'Waldo's Moment', about the subversion of a local election by a swearing CGI puppet, doesn't seem to have too many fans. It's definitely not the best episode, but I think the reaction is partly down to its uncomfortable message. The current system and the people in it may be terrible, the episode says (and doesn't pull any punches in that regard), but this -- an extrapolation of the trend towards politics as reality TV, i.e. entertainment -- is worse.
Regarding 'Be Right Back', I felt it jumped the shark when the android entered the scene. It occurs to me that 'BRB' and 'The Entire History of You' (the two episodes you mentioned) focus on the interpersonal consequences of technology whereas the other four episodes operate on a broader societal level.
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Sherlock. I'm not sure how I feel about bringing Moriarty back. That is, if it's actually the case. Overall, while the season did have some great moments (and new characters), I'm afraid the series might be going downhill and not just because of this. We'll have to wait and see, I guess. Just two years...
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Students planning advanced study in engineering may complete a full B.A. course at Grinnell before graduate school, or they can follow a 3-2 program in Engineering. The 3-2 program allows students to spend three years at Grinnell and two years in one of the engineering programs with which Grinnell cooperates: Columbia University, California Institute of Technology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Washington University. (Special arrangements can sometimes be made with other institutions.) Under normal progress the student receives a B.A. degree from Grinnell at the end of the fourth year and a B.E. degree from the cooperating institution at the end of the fifth year.
In either case, the prospective engineer studies the natural sciences as an integral part of a liberal education. Students are required to establish at Grinnell a strong foundation in mathematics, physics, and chemistry. A broad base of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences also is strongly recommended. The required science courses are those taken by any student with a serious interest in science, so a definite commitment to engineering is not necessary until enrollment at the engineering school.
For more information about the 3-2 program, please contact the Physics Adviser, Paul Tjossem.
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Requirements for transfer to Columbia University, Washington University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or California Institute of Technology
Typical Requirements of all four schools (please check affiliate's individual requirements) :
Mathematics through differential equations: Math 220
Two semesters of physics: Physics 131-132
One semesters of chemistry: Chemistry 129 or 210
3.3 GPA - Higher GPA is required for some programs and some schools
Special Requirements: Columbia University ("Combined Plan")
- One course in computing, a knowledge of Java or C is required for some areas
- One course of economics
- 27 non-technical credit hours
Washington University ("Dual Degree")
- One course in computing
- Fifteen hours of humanities and social studies, with six hours in each.
California Institute of Technology ("3-2")
- Two additional courses in physics (Modern Physics, Electromagnetic Theory, Mechanics, and Wave Phenomena). (Cal Tech gives a two-year introductory physics course, and the stipulated Grinnell courses cover more than Cal Tech's courses, but they are necessary to ensure that students transferring will have had at least the background of Cal Tech students.)
- A year of Chemistry
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Medical Examiner has confirmed one set of human remains was found among the animal carcasses discovered Wednesday in a wooded area in Northwest Jacksonville, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office.
The discovery was made by a detective during the course of a missing persons investigation. The detective received a tip that led to the site in the 12600 block of Braddock Road.
The remains have not yet been identified.
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Foreign worker softening offers little local help, MP says
Comments by Jason Kenney spark hope for changes to new policy
Wednesday, Jul 16, 2014 06:00 am
Following recent comments made by Employment Minister Jason Kenney, local MP Brent Rathgeber said he�s �a little more optimistic� regarding the minister�s stance on Canada�s foreign worker policy.
But he did not hear anything that could help his constituents in St. Albert, he said.
On Friday Kenney said he is willing to consider regional exemptions to his recent overhaul of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Kenney said he will consider changes in areas with very low levels of unemployment found within regions of higher unemployment.
�The reason that I am not jumping up and down is the comments were very guarded,� said Rathgeber. �He said he would consider, not that he would do it.�
He added that Kenney was speaking on location in Charlottetown, P.E.I., where the local fishing industry struggles to attract seasonal workers, �although the overall provincial unemployment rate could be in the double digits.�
Rathgeber said Kenney may consider an exemption for regions struggling under similar circumstances.
He could not see how Alberta would fit in with that condition as unemployment in the province is hovering around five per cent.
�I don�t see anything in there that is going to help my constituents in northwest Edmonton and St. Albert who are reliant on temporary foreign workers for restaurants and for higher skilled workers in industrial construction,� he said.
�But I see some cracking in his resolve in that he is getting the message that the announced changes three or four weeks ago now have not been received well.�
In June Kenney announced reforms to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada. Under the new rules, by 2016 companies will not be allowed to have more than 10 per cent of their work force comprised of temporary foreign workers.
In places where the unemployment rate is six per cent or higher, applications to hire temporary foreign workers for food service, accommodation and retail industries will be denied.
The cumulative time workers can stay in Canada will also be reduced. Labour market data will be enhanced.
Local business owners have since expressed concerns that they may not be able to staff their stores properly or operate on a 24/7 basis if these changes remain in effect, said Rathgeber.
They may also have to turn down opportunities for expansion, he said.
Business owners met with the MP at a private roundtable held by the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce in late June.
The chamber is now looking to hold another roundtable, this time inviting local MLAs Stephen Khan and Doug Horner.
The meeting is expected to give local business owners an opportunity to discuss the province�s role in attracting and retaining foreign workers, said Lynda Moffat, CEO and president of the local chamber.
�It�s important that the province gets the chance to hear from our business community and also it�s good for the business community to be able to hear from the province and their direction,� she said.
Moffat said that the federal government regulates immigration policy but there are some immigration programs looked after by the provinces.
The chamber would like to know more about these programs and whether they could prove useful in Alberta, she said.
�I am not an expert on that but I do know that there are different programs in Manitoba that seem to be working well,� she said.
A date for the roundtable meeting has not been set.


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I'm a physics student and am very, very new to python, and I am having problems with the third Euler problem.
Instead of making a program to find the largest prime factor of the huge number in the problem, I tried generalizing it so that my program takes an input and prints the largest prime factor of that input.
I created what I thought would give me a correct answer, but when running, it does not respond when i input a value such as 10 or 14, for example.
Since I'm new, my goal was not to write the code in the most ergonomical way, but to just get the right answer. So I'm sorry if the code is messy and longer than it has to be. Can anyone see the problem?
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#Project Euler Problem 3
#What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143?
#Goal is to find prime factors of a given number.
#I will try to collect the prime factors in a list.
number = int(input("Enter a number to find its largest prime factor: "))
primefactors = []
prime = 2
num = 3
div = 2
while number >= prime:
#Continues dividing with the prime factor until it is not divisible anymore.
#Adds the prime as a prime factor for each succesful division.
while number % prime == 0:
number = int(number / prime)
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Forums: Index > Watercooler > Coming Addition: Martial Disciplines
Turns out there's a lot of these, and our wiki doesn't have a section for them. Soon there will be one. It'll work kind of like spells now do. Surgo 14:06, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
- Questions, questions... Are these all new disciplines, or just new maneuvers within existing disciplines? Do you want a new page for them, or do you want to re-purpose the unused 3.5e Maneuvers page? Main page with all maneuvers, sub pages for new disciplines and homebrew class lists? How soon do you plan on importing these, and can you get the properties set before you start mass-imports? In any event it'll be pretty easy to build a new make-ability-list template off of the spells one and the bases that I have, so long as the properties are set. I could probably have the structure and other bits in place by the end of next week if you wanted. - TarkisFlux 17:57, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
- All-new disciplines. They'll probably get their own page that's sort of like Sorcerer/Wizard spells, Cleric spells, etc. I'll import them sometime in the coming month. Properties will be set from the start. Don't worry about making templates or anything yet. Surgo 18:02, December 10, 2009 (UTC)
- I'll try to get it up today. Surgo 14:13, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Tada! All finished — a complete framework for martial disciplines and maneuvers on this wiki. Surgo 21:51, December 13, 2009 (UTC)
- Yay! Thanks Surgo! - TarkisFlux 00:14, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Hey just a thought here but as long as were adding categories what about organizations?--ThirdEmperor 02:34, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Not sure I follow. What exactly do you want? Surgo 03:00, December 14, 2009 (UTC)
- Back of the PHII has a bunch of organizations that PCs can join, I was thinking it would be cool to have a page for user made ones.--ThirdEmperor 20:48, December 17, 2009 (UTC)
- That makes sense, I'll see about doing that after equipment. Surgo 05:04, December 18, 2009 (UTC)


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MARQUETTE, Mich. - Michigan residents who cheered local athletes at the 2012 Olympic Games can now purchase a new license plate to show their support for Team USA.
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson announced the availability of the plate today with an assist from Olympic gold medalist Jordyn Wieber, who tweeted an image of the new plate to her half million followers on Twitter.
The redesigned plate features bolder USA lettering and the phrase "Go Team USA" along the bottom.
For each sale of the $35 plate, $25 benefits student athletes training at the U.S. Olympic Education Center (USOEC) at Northern Michigan University in Marquette.
When the plates are renewed, the additional $10 goes entirely to the USOEC.
"Michigan has strong connections to the U.S. Olympic program, including world-class training facilities and extraordinary athletes and coaches," Johnson said. "Olympic heroes like Jordyn Wieber, Allison Schmitt, Claressa Shields, Betsey Armstrong and even Michael Phelps have lived and trained in our state on their way to gold medals. I encourage anyone who wants to support Team USA to buy and proudly display one of these license plates."
The new plate replaces Michigan's existing Olympic design that was introduced in 1995.
The old plates had a legal citation and the words "U.S. Olympic Education Center" under the Olympic rings symbol, along with the phrase "Olympic Spirit" at the bottom.
More than 75,000 of the tax-deductible plates have been sold and renewed in the state, generating more than $2 million.
"This new Michigan license plate is a great way to say, go team USA," said Wieber, a DeWitt resident and member of the United States' gold medal-winning U.S. gymnastics team in London.
"As an Olympian, I'm grateful for all of the Americans who lift us up with their support."
Michigan is one of 11 states to currently offer a license plate benefiting the U.S. Olympic program.
An order form for the Olympic plate is available by clicking HERE.
Plates can be purchased by mail, fax or at any Secretary of State office and will be mailed to customers.
Olympic plates may also be personalized using Plate it Your Way. For more information, visit the Secretary of State website.
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