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|25th October 2003, 06:18 PM
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highly unusual problem
I have this highly unusual problem. I am trying to build a simple lm3886 amp no GC or anything just the standard no inverting mode. My power supply is made from 25-0-25 torid feeding two rectifiers one per rail and four 68000uf 50V caps two per rail. I am having this strange problem with the supply. I am getting the expected 35v DC per rail but I am also getting 77VAC per rail this is with no load. This is measured accorss the capacitor terminals. When I disconnect the mains I am still getting the ac voltage! I have an only basic understanding of electronics but I dont think that it is possible to have 77VAC coming out of a power supply that is connected to no mains or loaded. This problem comes and goes. I experienced this problem some weeks ago with the ac and shelved the amp cause it was wrecking my head. The picture is here http://www.pundip.com/amp/powersupply.jpg I couldnt get it to attach to this post. The grey block in the picture is a AC filter for the mains. I have bypassed it with no effect. I dont think that this is an instrument error as the ac steadily declines as the caps discharge on their own. This picture was taken with the mains unplugged. The only way I can explain this is alien intervention. Anybody have a better idea?
PS When the supply seemed to work ok I was getting 35V dc on the output. The chip was getting both rails. There was 100MV dc on the input pin.
Thanks in advance
|25th October 2003, 08:02 PM
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More likely is measurement error: finger trouble or meter battery.
We've all been there
|25th October 2003, 08:20 PM
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Ask me a hard one...
Hmm. If you connect a resistor of a few k across the caps, does the level drop? Assuming it does, the following may be happening:
(Edit: I see you write it DOES drop. So there we are).
This meter measures AC by single-polarity rectification; the lowest AC scale being 600V gives it away. It will also assume it sees a sine wave (actually, it will be calibrated to a sine wave RMS factor, it's a cheapo meter, sorry).
What I suspect happens is that on the AC scale, there is a rectifier that rectifies one peak voltage and scales that to what it thinks was the original AC voltage level. But you put DC on it. No matter, the rectifier dutifully lets it through and the meter is confused in thinking this DC has been produced by an AC level of 150V. I would expect half of this, but then again I don't know how the internal scaling works.
Try reversing the leads on the cap, there's no danger, on AC scale the meter can handle either polarity right? I bet you get zero or close to it. Or maybe you get the same, that would indicate dual-polarity rectification. But I doubt it.
dhaen: a 150VAC stray field from mains across a supply cap??? tsk, tsk.
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|25th October 2003, 09:24 PM
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Yep you were right
Thanks it worked I changed polarity and the ac was zero. That also explains why some times I got no ac. You have no idea how many times I banged my head over this. Perhaps you can help me with another problem. I am getting 35V DC on the output of the amp. I am using that standard nsc schematic the only difference is that the 10k pot is not connected and I have put an input cap. The chip is getting both rails. I put a 1k resistor input and ground the dc goes and nothing comes out the output. This could be a muting problem but the DC come on as soon as I plug the amp in. Does this mean the delayed turn on is not working? Well any advice on the DC on the output would be greatly appreciated.
|25th October 2003, 11:59 PM
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tsk tsk indeed..
Who said 150v? Actually I've seen about 50v, but of course that was on a higher voltage secondary than Pundip was using...
My mistake to assume that he was measuring the AC on the transformer: hence my comment about finger trouble
Pundip, I don't know the circuit of your amp, but you probably do need a resistor from the input to ground (=0v on power supply), but 1k is far too low. Maybe 100k is better.
Does nsc mean National Semiconductors, and this is a chip amp?
|26th October 2003, 01:26 AM
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Try 47K...
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|26th October 2003, 01:26 AM
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so far so good
dhaen ,
did a bit more research and turns out that you are right the input needs to be grounded. I have put a 4k7k to ground straight from the input pin that is after the 1k input resistor and the input cap. The amp is working fine, no dc on the output no distortion it all seems pretty good its just that I cant get the volume very high just using a old discman(wont miss it of it got fried) headphone socket. I am using lm3886t from National Semiconductor. Its a standard cuircuit on the first page of the datasheet. 1k input 20k feedback non inverting mode. in is grounded via 1k resistor and 22uf cap in series. Does it matter if put the 47k on my +in before or after my input resistor. Here what the thing looks like at the moment http://www.pundip.com/amp/amp1.jpg maybe i need a preamp? My 15-0-15 secondary supply is almost ready.
Thanks for all the help so far.
THis is sort of my first amp project. Last time I picked up a soldering iron was 6 years ago and even then there was smoke fire explosions and once I was even resposible for blowing the main fuses for my entire dorm.
|26th October 2003, 01:43 AM
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looking good...maybe you should do without the messy wires...and try to route everything systematically...so no mess-ups...and I think 4.7k is a bit too low for an input to ground resistor...
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|26th October 2003, 01:44 AM
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sorry I meant to say 47k like you suggested. Do I need a preamp of some sort to drive this amp? I did a quick test and my amp does not go very loud. A friend of mine make a lm3886 and drove it with a laptop sound card and eveybody in the building knew when he was playing duke nukem 3d. I am using a 330va trany so that cant be it.
|26th October 2003, 05:05 AM
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I think you need more gain...pals...he needs more GAIN~!!!...you friend probably has plugged his amp into the headphones output...there's already an amp for the headphone...so another amp there...gainclone plus the headphone amp (internal)...adds to more gain and louder volume...it's not really recommended though...
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Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM
This is getting OLD!!
As @#2Barbie says...its time for a DOLLHOUSE-MEETING...
*roman comes out a door and sits at the big table*
*roman looks at all the barbz in the room*
I know that you all are growing very tired of these krimlins...
TRUST ME! I know how you feel...Its as if they AREN'T repping lil kim, but making mockeries of themselves making BURN pages!
I am their sole target for some reason? They ALL seem to find ME...I smell that the person behind these pages are linked to one person...THEY ALL know me...weird isn't it?
And in the past we had a HORRIBLE krimlin on here by the name of "LIL KIMMY"...This tells me that all these people i meant KRIMLINS are linked somehow to lil kimmy...I think its HER no I KNOW ITS HER!!! It has to be!
She is OBVIOUSLY mad her first page was EXECUTED and she made a bunch to back it up...barbz the evidence is obvious to me -__-"
they type the same, they ALL hate ME!
Hmmmm *bitchy look*
The problem is barbz they are what i call HARD-HEADED and they fail to realize when I DONT GIVE A FUCK!
It's a shame because ONCE we delete them...they come back...Do they know how lame that is? That makes ME lose interest in them -__-"
which has been lost ever since kimmy got deleted...ANYHOO!
Barbz...Nod your heads if this is getting old *I KNOD MY HEAD FAST AS FXCK* If so...I feel that its time for us to leave them alone and IGNORE THEM! barbz...Roman feels that starting the movement wont work anymore...but instead here is a stronger force...HELP a barb out if you see that a krimlin is bothering them...AND BY HELP I MEAN help her or him STOP talking to them -__-" why?
Because IM SORRY but they are BOTH lame for fighting...ME TOO BARBZ I KNOW...but still on some real shit...Its boring going back and forth with them...all they do is TYPE and say BITCH or PUNTA or some STUPID word at the end to try and intimidate us...well its not working...THIS IS WHAT I DO BARBZ! A kim fan by the name of DOLLFACEBARBIE if you heard of him...he said this...haters who approach you have something missing in their lives that YOU have and that THEY desire...and WE barbz know what they are missing...the TRUE love and spirit of POSITIVITY that LIL KIM cannot provide to THEM! Thats what i figured out...they DESIRE the love...and MISERY LOVES COMPANY! so therefore they cant be miserable ALONE and must spread hate/envy to the barbz...however...they FAIL to realize that JEALOUSY is a disease, and these bitches looking REAL SICK! ya know wha i meen??? lol
This is what I DO if ya'll wanna know...Give them the LOOK and HEAVO HO...basically...I see you doing your job bitches...ya'll stay below me giving low jabs...cause HATE equals SUCCESS!!! and they are making me VERY successful...Barbz...we all have something in common now...they dont like us...and we dot like them STANK BITCHES EITHER!!!
forget it though...we through with them...oh well...anyways...ignore them...
im done! :/
LOVE YOU BARBZ mwah!
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Nine Lashes Let the Music Guide Them on 'Anthem for the Lonely'
Thousand Foot Krutch's Trevor McNevan co-produced Nine Lashes' full-length album, due out this Fall via Tooth & Nail Records, but we've got a first taste of 'Anthem For the Lonely,' a chunky, full-on aggro rock jam that's not dissimilar from Thousand Foot Krutch or Papa Roach. 'Anthem For the Lonely' is radio-ready and something tells us you'll be hearing a lot of Nine Lashes on the airwaves in the coming months.
For Nine Lashes, the songwriting process follows a distinct and clear pattern. The band comes up with melodies and riffs, and then vocalist Jeremy Dunn crafts lyrics that are steered by the way the music itself "speaks" to him. It's certainly an unorthodox method of writing, to say the least.
"Our songwriting process evolves over time, generated around the sound and the feel of the music, not necessarily the lyrics," vocalist Dunn told Noisecreep, opening up about how their songs unfold and develop. "I will have a vocal melody before we even have the lyrics. Then we'll go and listen and have the melody as a guideline and fill in the words with how the song makes me feel and think about."
'Anthem For the Lonely' was no exception to that rule for Nine Lashes. Dunn continued, "We had a riff that we liked, and took off with it. We had a song before we had any lyrics. I sat down in my room listening to the music and it sounded like this giant struggle. I saw this story play out in my head — of a person going through a change, a struggle. Their life was being transformed, but they were still struggling. It is a process. This was the picture that the music painted for me when I heard it."
Dunn also revealed a funny little tidbit about 'Anthem For the Lonely,' which surrounded by the sounds of real life when being formulated. Dunn said, "There was some food crackling on a stove top in the background, a dishwasher yelling at the top of it's lungs. And somehow, amidst all that, we found something we felt was special with this song."


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April 15, 2004
Rick Giancola is the highly successful football coach at Montclair State University in New Jersey. When I was hired there back in 1984 Coach G was the assistant baseball coach as well. One of the many things I learned from him was a term for when a player comes in to talk with the head coach about his playing time. More precisely, his lack of playing time is the topic of discussion.
Rick would refer to those conversations as "knocks". You would be in the office or locker room and hear a tentative or loud knock at the door. The assistant coaches would leave and the head coach would meet with the inquisitive player. Rick always said he liked baseball season because, as an assistant, he didn't have to deal with "knocks" or be friendly toward the other team's coach.
The other day senior Evan Brannon came knocking.
Evan's a great kid and has had some tough luck this season. He reinjured his back and lost his starting position at third base. But a few weeks ago he was healthy enough to DH and he did a good job against Jacksonville. Then he didn't see the field against Stetson, so he was curious as to his standing.
I had expected this "knock" and actually regretted not being proactive and explain my plans to Evan. I think it's better to tell kids what's going on rather than having them guess, but for some reason I hadn't done this with Evan.
After our amicable talk, Evan got his chance when Alex Fonseca had to leave Saturday's UCF game with an injury. Brannon played the last three innings of the first game and started and had a great game in the nightcap.
Yesterday Evan was the player of the game for us. In the third inning with Bethune Cookman leading 2-1, Evan launched his first home run with the bases loaded to give us a lead we would never relinquish. He also added an RBI single in the fourth and scored on Rob Horst's titanic shot into the woods in left.
"Knock, and it shall be opened unto you." But when that door opens, make the most of it.
Lipscomb Weekend...
We start our march through the South by hosting A-Sun foe Lipscomb University. The Nashville based school is a new conference member and the first of two Tennessee teams we face over the next two weeks. Then we go to South Carolina and play Winthrop, Alabama and face Troy State, followed by Georgia State and Mercer representing the Peach State. The A-Sun schedule maker has a very linear view of geography.
I don't know much about Lipscomb. What I do know is that we have to play our best baseball and win every game possible. This weekend will shed some light on our chances to catch UCF and Stetson. Belmont visits UCF with a good senior laden club that is capable of causing trouble for the Knights. Stetson has to travel to play at Gardner-Webb and we all know what can happen in Boiling Springs. If FAU can take care of business and get some help, who knows? That's why we play the games.
Environment or Genetics...
I don't mind bragging about my youngest kids Maggie and Luke because they are adopted. Anytime someone remarks how pretty Maggie is, or how blue Luke's eyes are, I readily agree. They're not my genes.
I drive four-year old Luke to his pre school every morning. It's right on campus and I really enjoy that short private time with him. He is a big music fan and always has a request for the ride. Usually he wants to hear Springsteen's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", or Alan Jackson's "Five O'Clock Somewhere" which Luke calls "Tall and Strong". Great Dad, the kid is singing a drinking song.
Anyway, Luke has great eye hand coordination for a four-year old. He can throw a ball in the air and hit just like we do hitting fungoes. I had an assistant once who had trouble doing that.
This morning a song by Kenny Rogers came on the radio. It's about a little boy with a ball and bat. As soon as it started Luke said "This is about me." The little boy throws the ball up while singing "I am the greatest hitter of them all." But after three missed tosses the little boy's Mom calls him home to dinner. As he heads home he sings that he "didn't know I could pitch like that." I hope Luke always has that kid's optimism. KC


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The pump relay aids in the operation of submersible water pumps with higher-horsepower electric motors. Contained inside the gray metal box is an electrical relay, a motor start capacitor and in some instances a motor running capacitor. The electrical schematic diagram is generally fixed to the inside of the removable cover.
The electrical relay controls the operation of the pump motor and engages the motor start capacitor. The motor start capacitor gives the electric motor an energized boost of power when starting under a load condition. Most submersible pumps, when below a 100 foot depth, require a motor start capacitor because of the large column of water above the pump's outlet fitting. Indication of a bad start capacitor is hearing a humming noise come from the relay box and no water pressure is being built in the pressure tank.
The run capacitor aids the pump motor during its running operation. Many times, pumps greater than 250 feet require a motor run capacitor to balance the voltage load due to the long wire length. Indication of a bad motor run capacitor is a lost of performance in the submersible pumps capacity in recovering the pressure tank. In other words, if the pressure tank usually took 20 seconds to re-fill after being drawn, a bad run capacitor will cause a longer run-time of the pump motor. Increased recover times that exceeds 30 to 45 seconds may be a cause for electrical capacitor testing.
Testing the capacitor whether it is the start or run unit is a straightforward process that can be done with a volt-ohmmeter, needle nose pliers and an insulated handle screwdriver. Shut off the electrical power to the pump. Open the cover of the pump relay box. Pull the wire connections to the capacitor terminals with the jaws of the needle nose pliers. Make a note as to which color wires connect to which capacitor terminals.
If the capacitor is bulging or leaking fluid it is bad, and needs to be properly disposed. Do not get the fluid on your hands as the oil may be toxic.
Remove the capacitor from the relay box and set it on a flat surface. Touch the metal end of the insulated screwdriver to the two electrical terminals on the capacitor to remove any built up electrical charge. This is called shorting the capacitor.
Insert the red lead of the meter into the front connector marked "ohms." Place the black meter lead into the front connector identified as "com." Turn the meter dial to "RX1 or X1 ohm." Touch the metal ends of the meter leads together. The meter display must read "0 ohms." The meter is ready to test the capacitor.
Touch one of the meter leads to one of the capacitor terminals. Touch the second lead from the meter to the other capacitor terminal. If the dial on the meter slowly moves to the right and back down again, the capacitor is good. If the display needle immediately goes to the right and stays there, the capacitor has an internal short and is bad. If the display needle does not move at all, there is an internal break in the capacitor and it is bad.
Testing the capacitor with a digital multimeter is even easier. Insert the meter leads as described above. Note on the switch of the meter there should be an icon that looks like
-|(- this is the symbol for a capacitor. Touch the leads to the terminals. The meter will display "good" or "bad."
Testing the relay is a basic hearing test. If you hear an audible click when the pressure tank is calling for water and the system builds pressure the relay is good. If no audible click is heard, the relay is bad. There are various types of pump relays on the market with different internal configurations. Due to this variety it can be difficult to troubleshoot the relay. The basic hearing test will work in most cases. The relay is weatherproof sealed and no internal parts are serviceable. The operation of the relay is controlled by the pressure switch closing -- turning on and opening -- turning off.


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July 14, 2010 - You've seen this kind of game millions of times before on Wii -- a tossed-together collection of various sporting activities reimagined to work with the motion controls of the Wii Remote, but the controls are rough, the graphics are worse and the presentation is just painful to try to trudge through. Yep, this is just one more. Arcade Sports is instantly forgettable.
Arcade Sports is Out Now on Nintendo WiiWare
June 21, 2010 - Icon Games Entertainment is proud to share Arcade Sports, available right now on Nintendo® WiiWare for 800 Wii Points. Experience exotic sports right from your living room, play Air Hockey, Bowling, Pool, and Snooker. Don't just stand there! Use your Wii remote and wave it like you just don't care. Arcade Sports consists of endless possibilities, so what are you waiting for? Arcade Sports is available now!
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We'll never cease to wonder how Blake Lively looks so darn good at every turn, and while we're hoping we might learn a thing or two via her new lifestyle site, Preserve, in the mean time she's opened up to Vogue.
"He's a beautiful writer - he's written a lot of stuff for us. And he's got a great barometer and he knows me, so he will tell me if it's not as good as it can be."
And she also revealed that while the pair seem picture-perfect, even their wedding day suffered a few hitches, including a few burns to her dress, during a dancing session to pal Florence Welch's performance. She explained: "They brought out these sparklers, and I'm watching her sing. I look down and my wedding dress has a big burn mark from one of the sparklers. Right on the front! And it was just so heartbreaking to me."
Though of course, Ryan was on hand to provide a silver lining, telling her: "'You'll always remember that moment with Florence [Welch] singing and the sparklers. You have that forever, right there, preserved.' Now that's my favourite part of the dress."
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My 3 year old daughter received this indoor playhouse for her birthday. The house comes in a very big box. Most of the components are wraped in their own individual packages. The instructions are very clear and easy to follow. It took me about 30 minutes to build the house. The most difficult part was to slide the fabric over the frame. I still think that the fabric is a bit small for the frame which unfortunately caused damage to one of the plastic connectors.
The house is composed of 2 parts so my daughter can use it as one closed house or she can open it and it looks like two rooms. In my opinion it would have been better for the house to have a system that attaches and locks the 2 halfs. Sometimes when my daughter plays in it they can come apart. The house has a very cute door and few windows. The door has a dog flap which is very cute and the windows have curtains. I think it would be useful if sometimes the door could be kept open but unfortunately the door does not have this option.
The house has a kennel that could be placed outside the house. The kennel is lovely designed. There is also a white fluffy toy dog, a food bowl and a brush for the dog.
The house has a lovely pattern on it which makes our play room look lovely. My daughter loves this house. She moved her toy kitchen which is not part of the set inside the house. She has taken the cushions from our sofa and built a bed for the dollies in the house. She has a lovely time playig with it and I am very happy with the present.
I will start this review by saying that this is definately not an outdoor toy - it would get absolutely ruined outside. It is not one of those play tents which you can easily replace as it is just far too expensive so I would advise to keeping it indoors and never suggest outdoor use!
We purchased the Puppy Lane Cottage for our daughter at Christmas. She had wanted one for a while but it always seemed very pricey for what it was. We came across it on a well known website with a pricing error - it should have been £69.99 but it was advertised at £44.99 so we snapped it up and luckily for us the website honoured the price.
The tent comes in a surprisingly large but thin yellow and purple box with a picture much the same as the one pictured above. Once our daughter got it on Christmas Day it was Mummy and Daddy;s mission to build it before Christmas dinner. Inside the box you find that the cottage has two halves - it is like one play tent split into two so you have the illusion of two rooms.
It was pretty easy to put together and took about 20 minutes in all. It comes with an array of white plastic poles and connectors to build the framework of each side of the cottage. The most fiddly bit was slipping the fabric covers which are the cottage on to the frame work.
It looks lovely when it is altogether. It is highly detailed and brightly coloured. It has ivy growing on "walls", a little picket fence, a thatched roof, "floorboards", windows with curtains which you can open and close and realy working doors. It also comes with a very cute Dulux looking dog by the name of Candy Floss with her own kennel (which matches the interior of course!) which has to be put together using velcro. Candy Floss also comes with a collar, lead, bowl and fabric bone.
The down side to this really beautiful tent which I play with regularly with my daughter is that the above is all it comes with. You have to buy the kitchen set, the garden set and the lounge set all seperately which makes this an absolute fortune. The set is so expensive especially for what it is.
My duaghter absolutely loves the cottage but it does need the additional items to make it what it should be. My daughter spends hours playing in it, hosting tea parties, cooking and just being very girly (which makes a change as usually she is outside playing football!). It is great fun for imaginative play but the price of it and the extras does make you wonder if it is worth it.
This play-tent was something advertised in error as costing £40 in a recent edition of the 'Tesco Direct' catalogue, but the actual catalogue price turned out to be £60, which I would say is a bit expensive for what it is. Still, despite the higher price, using Tesco's recent 'double your clubcard points' offer it was something we decided to get for our five year old daughter's main Christmas present, mainly because she had been spending a lot of time trying to improvize play houses of her own out of an old coat thrown over the winter shoe bucket, which might have been worthy and inventive and all that, but was getting a bit pathetic really, as the poorly-secured structure was dark and a bit dingy and extremely prone to collapse.
The Puppy Lane cottage is essentially a two-part play tent: it's structured like a sweet little cottage that's been split right down the middle, from the floor to the roof. The two halves each stand separately but can be pushed together to make one big room. It seems to be intended - from the picture on the front of the box - to be used with the two halves standing some what 'ajar' however. The supporting structure is made out a series of hollow tubular poles in lilac plastic that slot together using various three-pronged (separate) 'connector' joints. The poles and connectors all come lettered / numbered either with stick-on labels, or with small, raised plastic figures, which is handy as it means the tent can be taken down and re-erected later without too much trouble. There was more assembly required than I was expecting, but once we got the hang of putting the tent together (the instructions looked more complex than they actually were in practice) this was fairly straightforward.
A thin, printed polyester outer skin gets pulled over the inner lilac frame, and this is very prettily styled. It's a tight fit to get in place initially, but once it's on the frame, the tension keeps it secure quite effectively. The fabric is printed on the outside with a mainly straw yellow thatched cottage design, complete with (printed) flowery trellis, windowbox, picket fence, and even garden tools . There is a window covered with lilac fabric mesh, and a two-part stable door, again made out of fabric slightly stiffened at the edges, that opens outwards. This has a little opening dog-flap cut into it too. The outside printing shows through the thin fabric on the inside of the tent, which isn't printed apart from the floor. The tent set has nicely executed detailing - including the aforementioned doors - and also includes little sewn-on curtains at the windows that can be tied open with little tabs, a rounded dormer window in the root, and a broiderie Anglasise white polycotton trim that covers over the tent frame in the roof gable at the opening side, and makes things much prettier as a result.
There is also Candyfloss, which is a foot-long, long-haired, grey and white furred Old English sheepdog type toy, included with the set (hence this being called the 'Puppy Lane' cottage). Candyfloss also comes with her own little fold-out kennel complete with carry handle - this is made in a similar style to the tent - out of fabric, with a covered cardboard stiffener, and her own dog bowl, fabric bone, and grooming set, which is a nice extra touch. The dog itself and the accessories are all quite nicely made and not bad at all for 'extra accessories' type toys.
The tent is about five feet high at the highest point (though the roof slopes so it's much lower at the edges) and maybe four feet across. Each half is about a foot and a half deep - giving a total of three feet in the other direction across the floor, but this is roomy enough really so that the two halves of the playhouse are each about big enough to be used as separate play-houses, individually: so as we don't live in a particularly roomy 'real' house, we've ended up having one half of Puppy Lane downstairs and the other section up in my daughter's room at the moment.
Apart from an inflatable toy armchair we bought as a standalone bit last year, we don't have the various accessories that go with this series of toys, but the kids (the other is at the fast-crawling baby stage) like playing in the outer shell of the playhouse on its own, tumbling in and out of the doorway and filling it with their own bits of stuff. Something to consider, however, when kids are charging in and out of the cottage is that while the structure holds together very well, it's so lightweight that it can overturn very easily when someone runs into it - and actually my daughter managed to clonk herself on the forehead on a piece of furniture 'through' the wall of the tent when it spilled over onto its side, so it's potentially better to have it propped up against a flat wall that the kids will 'remember' is there.
The only slight reservation I have about the playhouse (apart from the price - I don't like to pay £60 for anything) is the potential fire-risk it poses, as the fabric is so thin and flimsy, potentially combustible, and stretched to cover such a large area that if it were to be exposed to a naked flame or spark, I reckon the whole thing would be on fire in about two seconds flat. And the structure is so large that indoors, that is a very scary thing to contemplate.


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Scientific Name: Eleutherodactylus coqui
Description: The Puerto Rican coquí (pronounced ko-kee) is a small tree frog that is brown, yellow, or green in color. Their scientific genus name Eleutherodactylus means "free toes," because unlike many frogs, they don't have webbed feet. They have special disks, or toe pads, on their feet that allow them climb up vertical structures and cling to trees and leaves.
Size: Puerto Rican coquís are 1 to 2 inches long and weigh 2 to 4 ounces. They are one of the largest frogs found in Puerto Rico.
Diet: Mostly arthropods, but they have been observed eating small frogs and lizards.
Predation: Unprotected eggs are eaten by flies. Juvenile and adult coquís are targeted by giant crab spiders, snakes, and birds.
Typical Lifespan: Over 90 percent of adults don't live longer than a year, although some 6 year old wild coquís have been found.
Habitat: Puerto Rican coquís utilize a variety of habitats, including forests, gardens, greenhouses, and under rocks and logs. Most spend their nights in the forest canopy and retreat to shelter on the ground at dawn.
Range: As their name suggests, the Puerto Rican coquí is native to the forests of Puerto Rico, but they've also been introduced to the U.S. Virgin Islands, where they exist relatively peacefully. They've been introduced to Hawaii where they are considered a pest species, because they consume native insects and their deafening choruses are irritating to people who aren't used to them. Small numbers of Puerto Rican coquís are found in Florida greenhouses. At one point, they were considered an exotic species in Louisiana and Massachusetts, but these occurrences were based only on a few individuals living in greenhouses.
Life History and Reproduction: The term coquí refers to the sound of the call produced by male coquís to attract females and repel other males during mating season. Breeding occurs throughout the year, but especially during the wet season (April to October). Unlike most frogs, the Puerto Rican coquí does not have a tadpole stage. Instead, tiny frogs with short tails emerge from the eggs. Males stay with the eggs until several days after they hatch to protect them from predators and prevent desiccation. The eggs become unviable if they dry out, so the father frog diligently provides them with water via contact with his moist skin.
Fun Fact: Choruses of male coquís, which are beloved throughout Puerto Rico, can be heard from dusk until dawn all over the island.
Conservation Status: Lowland populations are stable, but coquí numbers may be declining in the Palo Colorado Forest of Puerto Rico due to fungal disease.
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Phillies fans feel like they've already won today, what with Cole Hamels sitting in front of cameras and reporters and telling them how much the Citizens Bank Park faithful meant in the ace returning to Philadelphia.
Phillies fans love nothing if not being told how awesome we are.
But Cole will swap the suit for the red pinstripes and head out to the dugout with the rest of his teammates as the Fightins' look for a sweep of the Brewers.
Chooch gets the day off, and that dude deserves it. What a clutch hit from Carlos last night with the bases loaded in the eighth. He looked gimpy attempting to leg out an infield hit earlier in the game, but Chooch battles through it all. M.V.P.
Last night's other hero, Erik Kratz gets the start in his place. All that guy does is hit home runs.
Vance Worley is on the hill and will take on Marco Estrada. We'd tell you more about him but we were busy basking in the glow of Cole Hamels.
Let's aim for not having to pull of another late-inning comeback and instead get ahead early today. What'dya say?
1:05 first pitch. Broom.


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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC)—By a unanimous 5-0 vote, the Henrico County School Board has named Acting Superintendent Patrick Kinlaw as its new superintendent.
Kinlaw has been acting superintendent since August 2013, when then-Superintendent Patrick Russo was put on paid administrative leave. The school board reached a settlement with Russo in November 2013, buying out the remaining 18 months of his contract for more than $186,000.
"Dr. Kinlaw has proven to be the right person at the right time to lead
us to the next level of greatness," said new School Board Chair Lisa A.
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Kinlaw is a longtime Henrico County Public Schools administrator who has been a teacher, principal and magnet school director in his nearly four decades as an educator.
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Second solo outing from Faint bassist Joel Petersen offers a pleasantly icy listen, but doesn't quite live up to either portion of its title.
A comparative glance at the cover art for Faint bassist Joel Petersen's self-titled Broken Spindles debut and his new follow-up, Fulfilled/Complete, suggests two thematically linked works, a sequence telling a developing story. This is entirely apt, as Fulfilled/Complete feels incredibly like a sequel to its predecessor, and true to the conventions of a sequel, this one makes the core character of its antecedent bigger, flashier and more extravagant.
The first Broken Spindles album grew out of would-be soundtrack work that Petersen was doing for a friend, but developed into a full-blown side project when that friend didn't use the music he'd made, and Omaha superproducer Mike Mogis joined him in the studio to help flesh out the material to album length. What followed was a casually constructed instrumental record that flirted with industrial textures, much like The Faint themselves, and also branched into more atmospheric piano and vibraphone explorations. On Fulfilled/Complete, Petersen adds vocals and a string quartet to that basic formula, and comes out with an album that splits its time rather awkwardly between buzzing, Faint-ish new-wave darkness and drifting navel contemplation for the 4AD set.
Petersen's vocals here generally operate in a staid robowhisper, and he leaves the real melodic heavy lifting to the piano and strings. The most startling success among the vocal tracks is the first of them, "Fall In and Down On", a skittering beast of a song with vocals that glide by almost unnoticed amidst the cloud of frantically arranged pizzicato strings and bass buzz that surround them, slapping the chintzy, jungly drum programming around like a spoiled child. This song and much of the rest of the album are infected with a gothic flair for ornate decoration and dark sentiment.
Piano/string interludes like "Practice, Practice, Preach" and "To Die, For Death", have a chilly, distant sadness to them that, while often compelling, makes them feel misplaced next to driving, heavily programmed songs like "Move Away" and "Italian Wardrobe" (think This Mortal Coil meets Public Image Ltd). "Events and Affairs" is even more jarringly removed from the elegance that those instrumentals impart to the album, its cracked skin guitar and live drums forming a chassis that's about as quintessentially post-punk as you can get: Petersen's lyrics have him subscribing to the newspaper and buying a television to become more informed, and ultimately feeling let down by the narrow, misguided coverage they provide. As media indictments go, it's not exactly brimming with subtlety.
Then again, I'm not sure subtlety is even in the vocabulary of The Faint, so maybe nuance is beside the point. Either way, Fulfilled/Complete succeeds on a number of levels-- Mogis' recording is clear as a bell, there are several fine songs, and the string arrangements are impressively detailed-- but doesn't quite live up to either portion of its title, its sequencing too disjointed to make for a truly cohesive statement. Still, at its best, the album is a pleasantly icy listen and a clearly above-average sequel.


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Ennis, Clare, Ireland, 2007/03/14 - Ennis Town Council confirmed that it had received notification from the Drumbiggle Residents Association of the latter groups decision not to engage in the Department of Rural, Community and Gaeltacht Affairs and Pobal co-ordinated RAPID Programme - Enn.
Ennis Town Council, which is one of a number of State Agencies involved in the Programme, expressed disappointment at the position adopted by the Residents Association but remains confident that a solution could be found through dialogue to address issues raised by the group. The Council added that any change in the status of the designated RAPID areas was a matter for central Government and the Department of Rural, Community and Gaeltacht Affairs.
Ennis RAPID area comprises six residential areas. The areas include Drumbiggle, Dalcassian/Turnpike, Old Military Barracks, Hermitage, Clancy Park and Cloughleigh. RAPID Projects rely on an inter-agency (HSE Midwest, Ennis Town Council, Clare VEC, Dept of Social & Family Affairs, FÁS, etc) and are based on a strong partnership with the community and voluntary sector. Many RAPID project investments build upon the existing investment of resources by agencies from within their own internal budgets.
The spokesperson stated, Drumbiggle, like many other communities in Ennis, has benefited greatly under the Governments RAPID Programme. RAPID project investments have resulted in significant and noticeable improvements in the lives of the residents in all RAPID areas. Recreation and amenity projects such as playgrounds and the successful all weather pitch have been provided through the RAPID programme. In addition improvement works have included landscaping, improvement of open spaces, provision of white lighting and traffic calming measures. Further works are planned for 2007.
The spokesperson continued, The Council wants to see the continued participation of the Drumbiggle Residents Association in the RAPID Programme considering the enormous benefits that the Government initiative has brought to the local community.
The spokesperson indicated that Ennis Town Council would be supportive of any measures aimed at securing the continued involvement of the Drumbiggle Residents Association in the RAPID Programme.
The Council would always respond to a request for a meeting from any Residents Association that requested same. The Council, like all other participating State Agencies, would like to see a continuation of the Associations involvement in the RAPID Programme in the interests of all members of the local community, the Ennis Town Council spokesperson concluded.
The RAPID Programme is a focussed Government initiative targeting 45 urban centres in the country. The Programme aims to ensure that priority attention is given to tackling the spatial concentration of poverty and social exclusion within the 45 designated areas through targeting state resources, available under the National Development Plan. The Programme also calls on Government Departments and State Agencies to bring about better co-ordination and closer integration in the delivery of services. There are two Strands of the Programme - Strand I targets 25 urban areas, while Strand II targets 20 provincial towns around the country including Ennis.
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Inside his spacious, secluded office on the Barry University campus, vice president Timothy Czerniec plots the future. Literally. Standing over a map on a large conference table in the middle of the room, Czerniec guides a visitor through an aerial view of the roughly 120-acre tract Barry owns in North Miami-Dade. "Here are the east 40 [acres], the west 40, and here," he says, pointing at the westernmost expanse on the map, "is the old Biscayne Kennel Club property, which we bought a couple of years ago."
Czerniec is excited. Prominently displayed behind him is a white hardhat emblazoned with the red-and-black Barry University crest, which the VP in charge of business and finance dons for promotional photos of new projects at the rapidly growing institution. The 60-year-old, onetime girls-only college in Miami Shores has more than tripled in size since Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin was named president in 1981. A campus that once was contained on 40 acres between 111th and 115th streets, from NE Second to Miami Avenue, may soon extend all the way to Interstate 95, six city avenues beyond its previous boundary.
Right now, Czerniec points out, the only building on the open land across Miami Avenue that he calls the west 40 is the Barry Health and Sports Center. But not for long. On the way are a state-of-the-art, 78,000-square-foot student center, a new residence hall, and more parking lots. The VP is most proud of the $11.9-million student center. "This," he beams, "may be the biggest project Miami Shores has ever had come down the path at one time."
And, adds Czerniec, there's more where that came from. "Everything is possible," he says, flipping through the master-plan book prepared by the university's architectural firm, a kind of fantasy blueprint for the future. "A new intercultural community center, a 1200-car parking garage, a conference hotel, everything."
Barry has money to build as well as what Czerniec describes as "positive political relationships" with the Village of Miami Shores. When the school expressed interest in the old kennel club, for example, the village agreed to rezone the property for educational use, forgoing tax revenue in exchange for an annual lump-sum payment from Barry. "I think [Miami Shores] looked at the situation," explains Czerniec, "and said, It's better to have Barry there.'"
But there is already a there there. Barry may be the fastest-growing institution in South Florida with the least bit of wiggle room. The school's existing campus and its adjacent properties -- all roughly four blocks wide -- are virtually wedged into the surrounding suburban landscape.
And portions of that landscape are not exactly the ideal backdrop for a college brochure. "The issue north of here is a concern to us," Czerniec admits, staring down at the invisible line on the map that runs from the tidy, nicely painted homes south of 111th Street in Miami Shores, through the existing Barry campus, north to a four-block stretch of NE Second Avenue populated by strip malls, gas stations, and storefront churches in various stages of upkeep.
Sandwiched between Miami Shores and the City of North Miami, this predominantly Haitian and Latino working-class neighborhood in unincorporated Miami-Dade has suffered from years of county neglect: insufficient street lighting; lack of sidewalks (only in the past few months has the county begun to install sidewalks in the 50-year-old neighborhood); little, if any, code enforcement; and almost no police presence. Single-family dwellings have been illegally subdivided to accommodate multiple renters. Disabled cars and loose litter dot overgrown front lawns. Dogs wander the streets. A few years ago, when the Village of Miami Shores, citing security concerns, barricaded every street from NE 104th to NE 111th, preventing cars from traveling between NE Second and Miami avenues and funneling a disproportionate amount of high-speed traffic north onto the once-quiet neighborhood's residential streets, nobody at the county objected.
Spilling over into this neighborhood from its original home in Miami Shores, Barry is promoting what it believes to be a revitalization of the area. The school's increased role in the community may indeed benefit residents.
If Sister Jeanne's incredible, ever-expanding Catholic university doesn't gobble them up first.
When Barry College opened in the fall of 1940 (the school wasn't designated a university until 1981), room to grow was the least of the founders' worries. The college, initially five buildings in Miami Shores, was little more than a family affair, a fledgling school for women founded by a sibling trio of Irish-Catholic clergy: Mother Gerald Barry of the Dominican Sisters of Adrian, Michigan; Monsignor William Barry of St. Patrick's Church in Miami Beach; and Bishop Patrick Barry of St. Augustine.
The Barrys acquired their land for the very reasonable sum of $40,000 through purchasing agent John Thompson, a Miami lawyer and eventual law partner of Florida Sen. George Smathers. Four years later, when the school added the adjoining parcel to the west, doubling the size of its property holdings, Thompson was the mayor of Miami Shores.
With its quiet residential neighborhoods, manicured lawns, and elegant homes, the Shores gave Barry a picture-postcard setting. Barry College provided the tiny village with a claim to one of the few colleges in South Florida and a hedge against whatever development might one day spring up to the north of the exclusive community.
Barry's enrollment grew slowly but steadily, from 45 students in 1940, to 290 in 1950, to almost 800 in 1960. The early curriculum was precisely what one would expect of a women's college in which all the dorms were named after the Virgin Mary: courses in religion, philosophy, English, secretarial science, and home economics, all designed to produce young ladies less equipped for employment than for marriage. Indeed photos from the Fifties and early Sixties, showing young, mostly white women in pleated skirts (never pants) walking the palm-tree-lined campus, suggest the college more closely approximated a finishing school than an institution of higher learning.
The school changed slower than the times. Barry went coed in 1975, but men didn't make up a significant portion of the student population until the mid-Eighties. The sexual revolution of the late Sixties and the equal-rights fights of the early Seventies produced nontraditional career options for women, but Barry still primarily trained its students to become teachers, nurses, and social workers. At the beginning of its fifth decade, in 1980, the school remained what it had always been: a small, conservative, Catholic college in a quiet, middle-class suburb of Miami. Like most of the students it had produced up until that time, Barry knew its place.
Then Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin arrived. Named Barry's fifth president in 1981, O'Laughlin had big ideas for the school. "I didn't see why we couldn't be like Loyola, like St. Louis University, like Notre Dame," she remembers, naming three of the nation's largest and most successful Catholic-affiliated universities. O'Laughlin herself came to Barry from St. Louis, where she had been executive assistant to the school's president. "I was the first woman the Jesuits ever let into that office," she says, with lingering satisfaction.
Sitting behind her desk, wearing a black suit and white silk top, O'Laughlin, who has been a nun since the age of seventeen, looks every bit the corporate CEO. Only the emerald-crusted gold cross around her neck and the photo just over her shoulder of her with Pope John Paul in Rome give Sister Jeanne away.
For twenty years O'Laughlin has beat the pavement looking for financial support for Barry from the South Florida civic and business community. "Honey," O'Laughlin confides, sounding less the nun and more the girl she once was from Depression-era Detroit, "I went to Rotary Clubs, Kiwanis Clubs, you name it. I was so desperate for money, people said, Sister Jeanne, you'd go to the opening of an envelope.' And they were right."
O'Laughlin's fundraising forays became the stuff of campus and local legend. "Some guy told Sister Jeanne if she dressed up in a white gown with a feather boa and sang Don't Cry for Me, Argentina,'" relates Barry vice president of institutional advancement William Fenton, "he'd give her a million dollars. She did it." A few years later, another potential benefactor dared the nun, who had never danced, to kick up her heels at the United States Ballroom Championships for two million dollars. No problem.
Sister Jeanne cultivated lucrative personal relations with South Florida's power elite. She became the first female member of both the Orange Bowl Committee and the Non-Group, a collection of business people and civic leaders that, depending on whom you talk to, is either a superoctane version of the chamber of commerce or Miami-Dade County's shadow government.
Her prominence was most evident during the Elian Gonzalez custody struggle, when the nun's house served as the site for the reunion between the child rafter and his Cuban grandmothers. After initially supporting the grandmothers' right to return to the island with Elian, O'Laughlin mysteriously reversed her position, arguing he should be allowed to remain in the United States. The flip-flop made her a central figure in the ongoing controversy (see "The Flighty Nun," February 24, 2000).
It did not, however, hamper her ability to fundraise. The $120 million capital campaign Barry completed in 2000 exceeded the school's goal by $20 million. Most of that will go toward expansion.
"I've been a builder," O'Laughlin boasts. Indeed. Barry has more than tripled in size since O'Laughlin was named president. Enrollment, more diverse than ever (47 percent of Barry students are identified as either black or Latino), has risen from approximately 1700 to more than 8000 students, with 6000 of those attending classes on the Miami Shores campus (the rest are registered at 22 Barry satellite campuses and extension centers throughout the state). Subsequently the number of campus buildings has mushroomed from 16 to 54. And O'Laughlin is not done yet. "If we can sell the house I'm living in, we can build a graduate medical building," says the 72-year-old wistfully. "I want to build one more building before God says, That's enough.'"
People will not send their kids to school in an urban setting they perceive as depressed, dilapidated, and unsafe, no matter the number of new buildings on campus or the quality of education. That's why God invented college towns. This point was driven home to Sister Jeanne in 1992, when she had her purse snatched during a lunchtime trip to a convenience store a block north of the Barry campus. Following the attack, which left the nun shaken and slightly bruised, she bemoaned what the world, and in particular her little part of it, had become. "Twelve-thirty in the afternoon," she observed. "And you can't go to the corner store anymore."
In truth the area had become more unseemly than unsafe: noisier, busier, and more rundown. White middle-class families, empty-nesters, and retirees had been replaced by Haitian and Latino working families with school-age children. The new residents had less time and money than their predecessors to sink into their homes. Many rented from absentee landlords who rarely visited their properties and did even less maintenance. Paint faded. Grass grew. And after the Shores installed barricades, traffic increased.
In 1994, fewer than two years after her mugging, O'Laughlin instituted her "Pockets of Pride" program, a combination cleanup and crime watch she hoped would improve the area around the campus. The program generated more criticism than positive change, mostly from Miami Shores residents and civic leaders who did not want Barry officials linking, even rhetorically, their tidy village to "troubled" unincorporated Miami-Dade County. It eventually was discontinued.
Undeterred, Sister Jeanne in 1995 formalized Barry's commitment to changing the area by launching the Academy for Better Communities (ABC), a neighborhood outreach initiative. ABC, which partners with local organizations, banks, schools, and clinics to enhance welfare services and counseling programs for local residents, in 2000 received a three-year, $400,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The organization is investing the money in the general vicinity of the campus.
Programs like those sponsored by ABC -- ranging from health services to housing fairs -- constitute a more progressive approach to town-gown relations than that usually adopted by elite institutions of higher learning, says executive director Jacqueline Mondros. "The attitude of places like Stanford, Yale, and Columbia was always, Let's buy up the area,'" cites Mondros, a former assistant dean at Columbia University's School of Social Work. "Now there's a full-fledged movement on the part of universities to reach out to surrounding neighborhoods in more meaningful ways. Barry is part of a national trend toward much more fluid boundaries."
Urban universities, many catering primarily to white, middle-class students, historically have had tense relationships with the multiethnic, multiracial communities in which they are located. For instance Columbia University has always engendered a great deal of resentment among the residents of neighboring Harlem. The same is true of Yale University, a school with the second-largest endowment of any American university, located in a city -- New Haven, Connecticut -- that for decades has ranked consistently among the poorest in the United States. The source of the conflict often is the perception that these privileged institutions grow richer at the expense of poor, minority populations, either by exploiting them as a source of cheap labor or displacing them to make way for expansion. Sometimes both. The charge typically has carried a great deal of truth.
So, as Mondros points out, universities have become more enlightened, providing an expanded range of services to their host communities and generally trying to forge reputations as good neighbors. They have not necessarily curbed their acquisitive tendencies, however, and the consequences can be disastrous for people who, in every sense of the term, "don't fit."
The University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), for example, has all but completed a wholesale demolition of that city's historic Maxwell Street neighborhood -- an African-American and Mexican-American enclave that is the birthplace of electric blues -- to make room for a $500-million luxury condominium development dubbed University Village. "The school's main justification for destroying the neighborhood [which bordered the campus] was that it wanted to build parking lots, two dormitories, and a business school," says Steve Balkin, a professor of economics at Chicago's Roosevelt University and a leading opponent of the UIC project. "The real purpose was what in the Sixties [politicians] referred to as urban renewal' and we more accurately called Negro removal.'"
Balkin remembers being initially optimistic about the school's stated commitment to the neighborhood, which included luring new businesses to the area. "We said, Okay, Maxwell Street is a retail district with some empty storefronts. Bring in other kinds of businesses, create a mix of local and national stores.'" UIC, though, had other ideas. "Almost all of the buildings in the neighborhood were torn down," says Balkin, audibly upset as he talks on the phone from his home in Illinois. "There is a sliver of a remnant left: a few people who refused to move, a tailor shop, and a black Baptist church that's scheduled to come down." On the way, corporate retailers like Starbucks, McDonald's, and the Gap.
While UIC is a public institution with state backing and more resources than Barry currently possesses, there are similarities. UIC, like Barry, serves a diverse student population, a fact that didn't keep the school from razing the Maxwell Street neighborhood. (Minority students, according to Balkin, didn't particularly rally around minority residents.) And UIC, like Barry, houses a neighborhood outreach agency: the Great Cities Institute, which, according to its Website, "brings together resources from the community and the university to help strengthen the quality of life for the benefit of current residents, businesses, the university, and other institutions." The agency, says Balkin, undoubtedly does some good, but it chiefly functions as fig leaf to what would otherwise be seen, accurately, as the university's naked self-interest. "When people say [to UIC], You shouldn't be doing what you're doing on Maxwell Street,'" explains Balkin, "[having the institute] allows the university to say, No, no, we've done research. We have urban-policy experts.'"
"The biggest obstacle is how distrustful people and local institutions are of collaboration," laments ABC's Mondros. Behind her, taped to the sliding-glass door to her office, is a post-9/11 souvenir, a full-page ad from the New York Daily News declaring, "I Love New York More Than Ever."
"[In Miami-Dade County]," she sighs, "there are little fiefdoms. People are afraid of throwing in with you." Mondros cites a recent example. "We tried to start a health-access program in this neighborhood, but we couldn't get the public schools [we had targeted] and the neighborhood clinic on the same page, so we ended up changing [community] partners, moving to different schools."
If ABC's good intentions have been met in some quarters with undue skepticism, it is also true that Barry's continuing expansion is a legitimate source of worry for area residents, particularly local merchants who find themselves on the frontlines of the university's northern offensive.
In early 2001 Barry informed the commercial tenants of a two-story strip mall the school owns two blocks from campus, at the intersection of NE Second Avenue and 117th Street, that it planned to convert the building into office space for, among other things, the growing ABC. The school gave the six Haitian-owned businesses, including a restaurant, a small grocery store, and a sewing-machine repair shop, a two-month deadline for vacating the property.
"Barry came and said they wanted to improve things, make changes," remembers Bevens Durandis, owner of Best Deal Sewing-Machine Repair, a ten-year tenant. "We tried to find alternate spaces for them," explains Rolando Barrios, ABC's director of neighborhood revitalization, "but none of the proprietors really wanted to look."
Instead, they went to Leroy Jones for help. Jones, director of the Neighbors and Neighbors Association, an activist support group for black merchants, was struck by the irony of the situation. "Barry was going to put six businesses out of business to help businesses [through ABC's programs]," smirks Jones. "It didn't make sense."
Jones, who relishes his status as a known firebrand, approached the university on behalf of the business owners. "I asked Barry if they were going to give these people some financial assistance," he remembers. "They said, No, we're giving them two months.'" (Barry University maintains it waived rent for the tenants after notifying them in February 2001 they would have to move.) Jones, however, says there was more at stake than simply the well-being of the merchants. "The [chain] convenience store across the street," he notes, "doesn't sell Haitian products like Green Variety [one of the businesses that faced eviction]. Where were people from the neighborhood going to buy those things?"
Jones initiated a grassroots campaign, handing out flyers and urging area residents to complain directly to the school. "One day," he says, flashing a gold-tooth-capped grin, "I knew Barry couldn't take incoming calls, the phones were so tied up."
He also contacted O'Laughlin directly. "When I wrote Sister Jeanne," recounts Jones, "I told her that was a good thing she had done for Elian, who's not even a citizen of this country. But what about these six businesses, their nineteen employees, and their kids?"
Jones hit a nerve. O'Laughlin made a personal visit to the property. "She came and said she wanted to know if the business owners were real,'" recalls Jones, still miffed by the protracted negotiation. "What the fuck does that mean?"
Eventually Barry agreed to grant the existing tenants three-year leases, with two additional one-year options. Jones credits his campaign. "I whupped Barry's ass," he crows, before adding the episode is probably the beginning of a long fight. "They're not buying up the neighborhood as quickly as other schools [around the nation]," says Jones of Barry, "but they're buying."
It would be hard to argue with Jones. The two-block stretch of NE Second Avenue north of the campus already includes, besides the strip mall, the ABC offices, Barry's School of Podiatry, and the Barry University Villa, a motel that years ago was converted into university housing. In addition the school owns eleven houses around the immediate perimeter of its campus, on NE 111th and 115th streets.
And administrators do not appear averse to buying more. "The owner of that [other] strip mall [on NE Second Avenue] has let it go to the dogs," observes Tim Czerniec, referring to the scene of O'Laughlin's 1992 mugging. "We don't own it," he sighs, "but I wish we did."
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If Barry appears to some to be talking out of both sides of its mouth -- or perhaps, with two separate voices, one emanating from the school's business offices, the other from its do-good agency, ABC -- officials at ABC maintain that ultimately what's good for the school, including campus expansion, will be good for the community. "The Upper Eastside," says Mondros, referring to the newly rediscovered and already prohibitively expensive neighborhoods of Belle Meade and Morningside to the south, "is a gentrification movement. We're doing something different here." Rolando Barrios agrees. "We're encouraging businesses that can support the needs of both residents and students."
Which doesn't mean businesses like Bevens Durandis's sewing-machine repair shop. Sewing machines may be fairly common in immigrant, working-class homes, where women often do alteration work to earn a little extra money or to save their families the expense of a tailor, but college students and administrators have no use for them. On the other hand, it wouldn't be hard to imagine a computer store in the space where Durandis's business currently resides.
Sitting in his shop, a little more than a block from the ABC offices, surrounded by the metal carcasses of sewing machines he scavenges for spare parts, Durandis ponders the future. He is a heavyset man with a gray-streaked goatee and soft, brown eyes. His attire on this December day -- black leather jacket, blue jeans, and work boots -- hints at the unseasonably cold weather outside. "When I know that I'm eventually going to lose this place, what can I do?" he asks. "Barry has a plan -- for themselves." Durandis, though, doesn't begrudge the school its success. If anything he'd like to share in it. Or, as he puts it, his palms facing up: "Hey, I'd like to send my kids to Barry University, too."


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Lost in all the New Year's Eve excitement , DJ Burn One and Dibiase snuck in one more installment of everyone's favorite weekly dose of country rap tunes, their Presidential podcast. They switched roles for week seven with Burn One handling the chopped and screwed mix alongside doses of new and classic Southern tracks. Dibiase set his portion off with a dope New Orleans bounce tribute mix featuring many of the songs based on the Showboys' classic "Drag Rap." The 1986 track forms a big part of the foundation of New Orleans' Hip-Hop history, featuring a number of melodies and samples that will be quite familiar to anyone familiar with the Cash Money catalog or bounce music in general.
While I was listening to Dibiase mix a series of records that sampled "Drag Rap," it struck me that I had originally heard the track on Profile Records' Diggin in the Crates compilation, which also featured classics from Run-DMC, Dana Dane and Pebblee-Poo. When I checked that CD out of the public library as a thirteen-year-old, I knew it was going to hip me to some old school Hip-Hop tracks I wasn't up on, but had no idea that I would be hearing a record that would grow to have such an influence on a music scene 1300 miles away (as well as in Memphis, which seems to have also embraced that record to the fullest). The Showboys are nowhere to be found these days but "Drag Rap" lives on through the samples of Mannie Fresh, DJ Paul and an incalculable number of other producers in the New Orleans and Memphis.
All personal bias aside, Presidential is a dope series featuring a balanced mix of classics you should know and new music you should get up on if you're not already familiar. The two DJs also caved to public demand and have started providing the tracklist to the latest installment of their weekly adventures.
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Appropriate clothes for 10 year old girl
Just wondering if, because I have boys and not a lot of experience with little girls ans their clothing, if I am just reading too much into this. Bm can buy and let her wear whatever and am fine with that. Not my house, not my problem. But we have had problems with SD walking around naked, leaving the bathroom door open while bathing and dressing, pulling her pants down so that you can see crack in the back and underwear in the front. So,ladies with girls, what is appropriate for a 10 & a half year old girl?
When I was 10 I wore regular pants and baggy shirts. But so did my mom
The clothing for girls today...little or teens...seem more like costumes than appropriate clothing. The clothing seems more appropriate for clubbing than playing in and going to school. I do not dress my sd that way. She's a little girl, not a hooker :)
I agree that the sd's clothes are inappropriate at any age. I don't have any desire to see anyone's butt crack! I think she should learn how to dress modestly and with a little class.
On the walking around naked...totally inappropriate even if you didn't have any boys around! Running naked when you are a toddler is one thing. Your sd's behavior is totally different. Her body is changing and she needs to learn lady-like behavior. I think that your DH needs to make it clear that she must dress and behave appropriately when she is with you guys. Make her change immediately upon arrival or better yet, send with a "coming home" outfit for her next visit. If she wears something else, I'd probably toss it. But that's just me...I like to nip sh*t like this in the bud :)
Whatever her parents deem to be appropriate.
I don't think there is anything wrong with skinny jeans an like the other mom said a lot of kids clothes are costume looking these days. I wonder if BM or SD are picking out the clothes? Is she in jr sizes or still kids sizes? You really have to watch the jr size clothes since they are made for women up to their young 20s.
I have seen 13 year old girls that look 20. It is what it is.
I agree that the clothes they make for kids- teens these days are way too revealing! That being said I watch what our teen wears when she heads off to school each morning. If I think something is too tight or too low its gone! What she wears at her moms however is out of my control. I have had talks with her about modesty and she does follow that for the most part in our home.. just needs some reminders sometimes.
However the walking around naked.. so not appropriate. You need to work on that now.
What you are describing is almost exactly what my 7 year old was wearing when i left the house today today. Neon green skinny jeans and a turquoise top with neon green polka dots that is sheer/knitted i guess you could say with a solid turquoiselayer underneath and a neon green tank top underneath that. She look pretty cute (for a 7 year old never catch me in all that neon lol).
As far as the walking around naked. She sounds like my 12 year old she has no shame like her dad. I'm ALWAYS shutting the door for her or telling her PUT SOME DANG PANTS ON. She is not prude in anyway. YDD is much more shy in that aspect she won't even change her shirt in front of me she is extremely shy. They both grew up in the same house, same parents, yet are completely different in that aspect.
DD is wearing a white tank with a loose, short wide armed shirt that is sheer knit, black and white stripes, skinny jeans and sparkly Tom's. Kind of similar to what you are talking about. She dresses like this fairly commonly. Skinny jeans and a cute top is standard apparel is the norm for a lot of girls. Your SD clothing sounds fine.
The naked thing, not cool. BUT, is it just her and BM at BM home. That may explain it. Maybe they leave doors open and since she is with mom so much maybe she doesn't have to worry about modesty with no "boys" there normally?
sounds like the stuff sd11 wears-she's super skinny too
each child is different-both dd and sd prefer to keep covered where as growing up-my sisters didnt mind to show more skin


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I'm in Fiji!!!
I would have told you earlier but as some of you may have noticed there was some website messiness where my site appeared to go down. Thanks to the rapid response of united hosting it's all sorted (I just mailed their support and said help and they did the rest!)
So I'm in Fiji, there is a lot more rain that I expected, as it's still the wet season at the moment. This is actually quite a relief as when it's not raining it's crazy hot and I tend to break into a sweat from such heavy actives as sitting and lying.
Tomorrow I'll be doing my first dive session in the ocean having done three pool dives to learn the basics.
It's all pretty good although when I have to clear my mask by blowing through my nose (getting rid of any water)… yeah I can't do that.
But the instructor is very good and has given myself and Mimi some exercises to do to help us. He is confident that we'll have our open water certification by the end of Sunday along with the rest of the group.
I'm staying in a genuine Fijian village at the moment which is certainly quite an experience. I wouldn't say that it's all been good (not getting enough sleep mainly) but with a few more days to go who knows how things will pan out.
I'm in Fiji!!!
Last Friday I was at a loose end. I didn't really want to spend any money but I also didn't want to mooch around the hostel doing nothing or reading or something like that.
So I went for a walk, and ended up sitting on a bench by the marina watching the world go by. After a while of sitting a woman sat on the same bench. We got to talking about this and that. After an hour of increasingly involved chat she suggested that we get out of the wind and get some food. It was cold so I was all for that although I have a few second thoughts about getting food – it would involve spending money. I went anyway.
So there was lots of talking, a few drinks and a damn good main followed by an equally good dessert.
I've always been a bit unsure about modern etiquette at the best of times so I had no idea how to handle the whole money thing. Especially since she'd be getting the drinks and although she said she got them for free because her brother worked behind the bar I did see here with a card out and in a reader.
When she went to the toilet I got the bill and put my card down – seemed like a gentlemanly thing to do. However she got back before the bill + card was collected. This was when I realized that this is definitely the 21st century.
'I'll get this – I'm not on a budget and you are' She breezed.
'Are you sure' – I had no idea how strongly I should argue this point.
And that was that, free dinner!
As we say here in NZ – Sweet as.
I put my van up for sale yesterday morning. And still today afternoon no-one has bought it!
I arrived back in Auckland on Monday (yes this means that my blog is now actually up-to date!), and it was not a good day.
Let me recount:
Firstly I had to look for a post office as my van was actually no-long road legal (something like road tax and some other thing which I don't quite understand – miles for diesel). While looking for a post office I dropped in at a travel agent to get a plane ticket to Melbourne. This was all going fine, but it turns out that you have to get some fancy visa thing if you get a one-way ticket, so I got my return ticket from Sydney to Auckland for Saturday 25th April – yes this means that hopefully I'll be back in the UK on Monday or Tuesday of that week… Haven't sorted that trip back yet so we'll have to see.
Anyway that was a lot of faff as there were refunds and re-payments as these details became clear.
Then my card got cancelled, because I was using it in NZ. Yes despite the fact that I've been using my card in New Zealand for the past three months didn't seem to matter one jot.
On the plus side the bank sorted it very quickly, so it's not all bad.
Then I had to go to the post office and queue up three times throughout the morning. Once to find I couldn't pay by card, once to find that I hadn't filled in one of the forms fully and needed to get an address from one of my documents and lastly to actually get the damn things.
Back at the hostel I met with my new room-mates and we went out for a drink together. Things are looking up!
But because I hadn't eaten all day while sorting out all this junk I got far far too drunk and was sick in the room, promply alienating two of the three other guys.
Tuesday I did nothing other than watch films, I was feeling quite sorry for myself.
I hope this doesn't come across as too much of a massive winge, things are good now, but this travelling lark isn't always sweetness and light 🙂
I generally disagree with being labelled a lucky guy but this is an exception for sure!
When I was in Rai Valley, WWOOF'ing, my hosts let me know that they were booked up for the next month or so. Despite this obvious warning that things were getting busy (which would reduce my chance of getting a host) I didn't get around to e-mailing some farms until the last minute. I didn't hold out much hope so I mailed 4 people at the same time. The next day I had four replies, two were happy to take me. One was a B&B by the coast and the other was a home in the countryside. The B&B could take me immediately and the house was busy until Monday (this was all discovered on a Thursday). For no reason other than 'gut feeling' I went with the house and milled around the area for the weekend. I spent some time at the beach.
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I took the 'other' ferry company back to the North Island. For no other reason than they are cheaper. This time the trip was boring. THey had a proper on board cineam but it had two problems. One – you had to pay for it, two – they were showing films I'd already seen.
After getting bored of taking photos of the landscape (or more acurately cold from the wind) I spent the rest of the voyage listening to music on my iPod.
It feels good to be back on the North Island. No idea why. Perhaps it's just because I spent another few days in Wellington – I like the city quite a lot. This time however I didn't stay in a hostel in the city, I just drove out and found a place to parkup and sleep – then drove back in again. Parking is expensive enough without adding somewhere to sleep on top of it!
I emailed some places about WWOOF'ing and then drove upto Hawkes bay.
First place I visited was Hastings – I didn't like that at all, literally I stopped, got out of my van, got about as far as sniffing the air nad got back in my van and drove off.
Then I visited Napier and I liked this town much much more. Very nice, I spent the day there and watched Revloutionary Road (I try and stay out of the sun between 11 and 3 as I don't like the idea of skin cancer). Good film. Quite sad.
I then broke alll tradition and stayed in campsites for two consecutive days!
Working in Rai Valley for about ten days my main 'WWOOFer' task was clearing out a warehouse full of random bits of junk. Well I thought it was junk but a lot of it was useful (apparently). Anyway it was quite a task but I learned something interesting about myself. There were lots of motor driven items in the mess, and most of them were to be thrown out – but the motor winding had to be removed to be sold at the scrap yard. Craig had a very pragmatic way of getting the windings from their housings. Simply smashing them with a sledge hammer.
Despite the generally held belief that destruction is fun I just didn't get into it, taking to a mouting in a more intelectual manner with a spanner and a slower disassembly was something that I enjoyed much more. Thinking back to my life as a person I realised that I have always enjoyed building or creating something – even if it was mess or something that never got finished. Does this mean I've got more of a creative or constuctive soul? Well I'd like to think so, there is a sense of satisfaction when you have built something (real or virtual) and it works that you just don't get my breaking something. Even the momentary elation at smashing something seems to be a feeling that I just don't get. Probably it's related to my gentle demeanor.


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By Brian Frank
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rating: V3-4 6A+
How does the standard route end, if your going from left to right?
It looks like (by the chalk) that numerous people go up and out before the crimpy overhung section on the far right. Great traverse, I just can't find much said about this one, unlike Monkey & Cloud.
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rating: V4 6B
|The rating on this route is tricky because, if going left to right, it is V1/V2 up to the last few moves. Those last few moves, however, are pretty solid V4 I think, especially when you are worn out from the rest of the problem. The last few moves involve a couple moves down to a jug-match, then a push up to a sloper-match, then three icky right-facing crimps. Don't barn-door!
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|Bouldering at Flag is all about contrived hard moves, "don't grab that jug in front of yer face, use the half pad crimp, then it's truly V4 not V0 with the jug" or "the V2 rating only appplies if you climb it one handed". Bouldering is game of contrivances: how hard can I pull two inches off the ground and what amazing holds will I avoid to create my 2 move V10 lowball masterpiece, and then when someone repeats it, I can inform them how all the good holds are off if you use the good holds it's only V1 not V10. Sorry for the rant, but bouldering grades piss me off and I needed to some were to complain, so there ya go, mtn proj.


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Police said the victim was transported to a hospital around 11:13 p.m. after he was found lying in an alley that runs parallel to the 300 block of South Ann Street.
He had suffered two gunshot wounds, one to the upper torso and one to the head, and was listed in critical but stable condition.
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A man exposed himself to two girls in a Lynn alleyway.
The 11-year-old girls were walking home from Reffley Play Park when the incident happened at 12.10pm on New Year's Eve.
The girls decided to leave the park after spotting the man acting suspiciously, but he left at the same time and walked ahead of them towards the Reffley Lane shops.
He then turned down the alley way towards Springwood and, as the girls walked by, he indecently exposed himself. The girls immediately ran to raise the alarm.
The man is described as in his 30s or 40s, 6ft tall and of a medium build. He was wearing a grey Nike hooded top with a baseball cap blue jeans and grey/black trainers. He was also wearing thin framed glasses.
Investigating officer PC Ryan Kerr said: "This is an unusual and concerning incident and the girls did exactly the right thing by raising the alarm straight away.
"We're keen to hear from anyone with information which could help our investigation."


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