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Annual to subshrub
Leaves generally basal and cauline, alternate, generally simple; stipules 0
Inflorescence: generally raceme
Flower bisexual; sepals 4, free; petals (0)4, free, generally white or yellow, often clawed; stamens generally (2,4)6, generally 4 long, 2 short; ovary 1, superior, chambers generally 2, septum membranous, connecting 2 parietal placentas, style 1, stigma simple or 2-lobed
Fruit: generally capsule ("silique") with 2 deciduous valves, sometimes breaking transversely or indehiscent
Seeds 1many per chamber
Genera in family: 300+ genera, 3000+ species: worldwide, especially cool regions; some cultivated for food (especially Brassica, Raphanus ) and ornamental
Recent taxonomic note: Recently treated to include Capparaceae [Rodman et al. 1993 Ann Missouri Bot Gard 80:686699; Rollins 1993 Cruciferae of Continental North America. Stanford Univ Press]
Family description, key to genera by Robert A. Price.
YELLOW or WATER CRESSAnnual, biennial, perennial herb; hairs simple, rarely sac-like
Stems 1many, prostrate to erect, branched or not, often from center of basal rosette, rooting at nodes or not
Leaves: basal, lower cauline sessile or short-petioled, entire to pinnately compound; cauline reduced upward
Inflorescence terminal and lateral
Flower generally small; petals 0 or obovate to narrowly spoon-shaped, pale to bright yellow or white
Fruit linear to round, plump; valves 2 or 4(6); pedicel ascending to recurved, slender, generally with 2 minute glands at base; style 0 or prominent, persistent
Seeds 10200, (1)2 rows per chamber, dense, generally plump; wing 0; embryonic root at edges of both cotyledons
Species in genus: ± 75 species: worldwide
Etymology: (Old Saxon: for these, perhaps other crucifers)
Reference: [Stuckey 1972 Sida 4:277340]
R. subumbellata Rollins
TAHOE WATER CRESSPerennialSee the CNPS Inventory for information about endangerment and rarity.
Stems several, decumbent, 515(20) cm, branched; hairs generally crinkled
Leaf sessile to short-petioled, clasping stem or not, 13 cm, oblong to widely oblanceolate, wavy-margined to deeply pinnately lobed; hairs 0 or sparse
Inflorescence ± umbel-like to ± elongate
Flower: sepals 23 mm, yellowish, glabrous, persistent in fruit; petals 2.53.5 mm, oblong-oblanceolate to spoon-shaped, yellow
Fruit 35 mm, widely oblong to ± round, ± glabrous; pedicel erect to ascending, 36 mm, straight; style 11.5 mm, glabrous, stigma ± unexpanded
Seed ± 1 mm, plump, ± angled
Ecology: Sandy lake margins
Elevation: 18002500 m.
Bioregional distribution: n High Sierra Nevada (Lake Tahoe Basin)
Distribution outside California: w Nevada
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October 2006
Climate change has already affected our wilderness. Photo: Olena Sullivan.
What have we learned so far about how climate change is affecting our global environment? Studies show that it adversely affects human and natural systems by
- reducing biodiversity
- altering hydrological systems
- impairing biological and chemical cycles
- making it more difficult to restore degraded ecosystems
Climate is not the only factor in the deterioration of natural systems. We are making big changes to the landscape, altering land use and land cover in major ways. These changes combined present a challenge to environmental management. Adaptive management is a scientific approach to managing the adverse impacts of climate and landscape change.
Nature and impacts of climate change
Every week it seems there is an article about global warming in the news media. It may be difficult for some to grasp the big picture of the issue, but in general, climate change has already or is expected to
increase temperatures, particularly in the interior of continents, toward the poles and in winter
boost precipitation in wetter areas and suppress precipitation in drier areas
increase rain and decrease snow
lessen peak spring runoff and cause more even year-round flows of water, thereby reducing water availability during summer irrigation and navigation seasons
increase evaporation of water during the summer
enhance the likelihood of lower mean lake levels, drier wetlands, and water shortages, particularly in mountain regions
raise the frequency and magnitude of extreme weather events, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods
raise global sea levels causing some populated coastal areas to become inundated
reduce the extent and duration of Arctic sea ice with adverse consequences for marine mammals
increase permafrost melting, thereby altering soil stability and limiting modes of transportation
increase the loss of glaciers in middle and equatorial latitudes, including premier mountain ecosystems such as Glacier National Park in Montana
Global average temperature has increased by about 0.6°C over the past 100 years, with a major warming upswing in the 1970s. Warming is the result, in part, of rapid increases in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), which is a byproduct of the combustion of fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and natural gas, used for power generation and transportation.
When global temperatures rise and precipitation patterns change, it is expected there will be consequences on ecosystems, such as an increase in the spread of exotic species; redistribution of plants, animals, energy, water, and nutrients; alteration of natural processes and the structure and function of ecosystems.
Northerly latitudes are particularly vulnerable to climate change. The Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum for Arctic nations and indigenous people, reported that the northern ice cap is warming at twice the global rate and the Arctic region is expected to warm at two to three times the rate for the rest of the world. Arctic warming will have serious human and ecological consequences.
Nature and impacts of landscape change
Landscape change results from natural disturbances and human activities. Natural disturbances include fire, windstorms, avalanches, landslides, tree fall, floods, and insect epidemics. Human activities causing landscape change include urban sprawl, conversion of forestland to agriculture, drainage of wetlands, and forest fragmentation from road construction and timber harvesting.
Human activities often have a more significant effect on landscapes than natural disturbances because they alter the availability of energy, water, and nutrients to ecosystems; increase the spread of exotic species; accelerate natural processes of ecosystem change; and adversely affect the structure and functioning of ecosystems. Human-induced landscape change has accelerated during the past several decades because of rapid population and economic growth, particularly in countries such as China, India, and Brazil.
- Landscape change has contributed to a dramatic 1,000-fold increase in species extinction over the past 400 years.
- On a global basis, nearly 1.2 million km2 of forest and woodland and 5.6 million km2 of grassland and pastureland have been converted to other uses.
- During the last three centuries, 12 million km2 of cropland were lost. Between 1982 and 1997, 121,000 km2 of non-federal land were urbanized in the United States.
- More than 90 percent of the land in the lower 48 states has been logged, plowed, mined, grazed, paved, or otherwise modified from presettlement conditions.
Human-induced landscape change significantly affects wildlife. For example, between 1970 and 2000, rural residential development in the Montana and Wyoming portions of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem increased 400 percent. Consequently, current and potential grizzly bear habitat on private lands in the ecosystem has been degraded and fragmented. Double-digit growth in residential subdivisions adjacent to the National Elk Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming, has diminished winter range for the 10,000 elk that use the refuge and displaced corridors that elk use to reach summer range in Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
Another example of significant impacts from landscape change is the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem. This ecosystem straddles the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, and western Montana, United States. Here are some specifics:
Most old growth forests that once existed outside of protected park and wilderness areas have been harvested.
Many rivers in the region have been altered by hydroelectric power development.
Significant farm, ranch, and forest acreage has been converted to homes and commercial developments.
Lakes and streams have been polluted by agricultural and urban runoff.
Fish and wildlife habitats have been degraded.
Active and proposed energy developments threaten protected areas.
Large areas have been invaded by nonnative species.
The desire to preserve the outstanding wildlife (especially large carnivores) and environmental amenities from the negative effects of rapid economic growth and development in the northern Rocky Mountain region prompted creation of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. The initiative involves 300 conservation organizations and covers an area larger than the states of California and Texas combined, including the Greater Yellowstone and Crown of the Continent Ecosystems.
Coping with climate and landscape change
Although climate and landscape change has positive effects on human and natural systems, it is expected to have many adverse impacts that deserve attention. Ecosystems have an inherent capacity to resist climate and landscape change, known as ecological resilience. When this capacity is exceeded, the ecosystem can change in ways that may not be socially and ecologically acceptable.
So what can be done? Mitigation strategies can reduce ecosystem vulnerability, and adaptation strategies can increase ecological resilience to climate and landscape change. Mitigation strategies are actions to prevent, reduce, or slow climate and/or landscape change. Adaptation strategies are actions to counteract the adverse consequences of climate and landscape change. Natural resource managers can use both strategies to reduce adverse ecosystem effects of climate and landscape change.
The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which took effect in February 2005, is a prime example of a climate change mitigation strategy. The protocol commits 36 industrialized countries to curb GHG emissions, especially CO2. Limiting increases in global temperature by 2°C would require keeping atmospheric concentrations of CO2 below 400 parts per million (ppm). Current concentrations are about 375 ppm. Benefits of the Kyoto Protocol may be limited because it does not include some developed countries, which emit substantial GHGs, and developing countries where rapid population and economic growth is expected to dramatically increase GHG emissions.
Other mitigation strategies include increasing the use of alternative energy sources and technologies (clean coal, renewable energy, ethanol, hybrid vehicles, and nuclear power). Although the United States did not sign the Kyoto Protocol, 28 states have programs to curb CO2 emissions, and at least 166 US cities have agreed to apply the Kyoto emission reduction standards to their communities. Other initiatives, like the Apollo Alliance, bring together labor unions, environmental and business groups, and activist organizations with the mission of sharply reducing US dependence on fossil fuels. The alliance is seeking ways to do the following:
- increase the use of solar and wind energy
- power the economy with hydrogen produced from renewable energy resources
- implement green construction codes
- revitalize urban centers to reduce urban sprawl
- determine how industry can store rather than emit carbon into the atmosphere
The Apollo Alliance expects to invest $300 billion in new energy technologies and energy conservation over 10 years as a way to eliminate US dependence on foreign oil and create millions of good-paying jobs. These funds would be raised using tax incentives, public bonds, capital strategies, and other mechanisms.
Communities, too, can adapt. The Inuvialuit people of Sachs Harbor in the Canadian Arctic illustrate an example of social adaptation to climate change. They adapted by changing both the species they hunted and the timing and methods of hunting. Other adaptation strategies for climate change include:
moving people out of low-lying coastal areas bound to be inundated by rising sea levels
switching to more drought tolerant agricultural crops
increasing use of irrigation in crop production in areas expected to become more arid
installing snowmaking machines at ski resorts
conserving biodiversity
maintaining landscape connectivity to aid vegetation and wildlife migration
reducing habitat fragmentation
actively managing species that can adapt to climate change
Some adaptation strategies are likely to involve tradeoffs. For example, greater use of irrigation in crop production could reduce the amount of water available for other human uses and natural systems.
Several strategies are suitable for mitigating adverse effects of natural landscape change. Consider wildfire. It is a dominant natural driver of landscape change and is likely to increase with global warming. Wildfire can be mitigated by reducing fuel loads in the urban-wildland interface and extinguishing wildfires that threaten human life and property. Because wildfire has positive ecological benefits, extinguishing all wildfires is not appropriate.
As it is unacceptable to some (at least in democratic societies) to control population and economic growth—the primary drivers of landscape change—options for mitigating human-induced landscape change are limited. However, we can take these steps:
- enact zoning regulations to limit residential and commercial development in environmentally sensitive areas, such as wildlife migration corridors, riparian areas, wetlands, river corridors, groundwater recharge areas, and critical habitat for threatened and endangered species
- purchase conservation easements to prevent development of agricultural and ranch properties
- purchase environmentally sensitive private land and manage it for conservation uses (as with, for example, lands purchased by The Nature Conservancy)
- restore degraded ecosystems (the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan is an example)
When considering adaptation strategies to reduce adverse consequences of human-induced landscape change on natural resources, especially vulnerable species, we may choose to do the following:
restrict development in buffer zones for protected areas (as is done in Biosphere Reserves)
improve connectivity by creating wildlife corridors between protected areas (for example, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative)
move species at risk to zoological parks and more favorable habitats
decommission roads in national forests that contain critical habitat for species adversely affected by roads, such as grizzly bear (the policy adopted by Flathead National Forest in Montana is an example)
restrict the form of angling to catch and release only, and lower bag limits and shorten seasons for game species
support natural migration of species to more favorable habitats
Many adaptation strategies, just like mitigation strategies, involve tradeoffs in terms of the benefits and costs to both human (economic) and natural systems. For example, restricting development in buffer zones for protected areas would reduce the amount of land available for development, but it would increase conservation of protected areas and maintain open spaces.
The adaptive management approach
The writing is on the wall: Resource managers must implement effective mitigation and adaptation strategies well in advance of expected impacts of climate and landscape change. This task is challenging for two reasons: First, most natural resource managers do not have the personnel and budget to manage their areas for potentially adverse impacts of climate and landscape change. Second, there is considerable uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of future climate and landscape change, and how natural and human systems are likely to respond to those changes, with or without mitigation and adaptation strategies.
The capacity of managers to make more informed and sound policy and management decisions related to climate and landscape change can be enhanced by (1) increasing managers' access to and understanding of the causes and consequences of climate and landscape change, and (2) providing managers with tools that allow them to identify and compare mitigation and adaptation strategies.
Adaptive management (AM) is a science- and information-based approach that is well suited for managing natural resources for climate and landscape change. It does the following:
- embraces the uncertainties inherent in climate and landscape change
- employs scientific methods (modeling, experiments, and hypothesis testing)
- adjusts mitigation and adaptation strategies based on new knowledge and information
- fosters ecosystem stability and institutional flexibility
- facilitates collaborative decision-making
AM has been used in a variety of natural resource management settings, including these:
site-specific management of the state of Washington's timber, fish, and wildlife resources
implementation of a human use management strategy for Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada
management of ungulates and snow machine use in Yellowstone National Park
management of the Missouri River System
salmon recovery in the Columbia River Basin and British Columbia
restoration of the Florida Everglades ecosystem
improved understanding of how water releases from Glen Canyon Dam influence human and environmental values in the lower Colorado River
There are two forms of AM, passive and active. Passive AM formulates predictive models of ecosystem responses to management actions, makes management decisions based on those models, and revises the models using monitoring data. Passive AM is relatively simple and inexpensive, but it does not yield reliable information about ecosystem responses to management actions due to statistical deficiencies. Active AM overcomes these deficiencies by employing experimental data to test hypotheses about the effects of management actions, such as mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, AM is challenging to apply because it
may not be possible to satisfy prerequisites for successful application
is more time consuming, complex, and costly than other forms of management, such as passive AM, trial-and-error, and deferred action
can give faulty results when relevant variables are either ignored or not held constant
has certain application pitfalls (i.e., using linear systems models, discounting nonscientific forms of knowledge, and giving inadequate attention to policy processes that promote the development of shared understandings among diverse stakeholders)
runs the risk of implementing management actions that fail to achieve desired outcomes
Several of these limitations can be alleviated by incorporating knowledge from multiple sources, using several systems models, implementing new forms of cooperative decision-making, and educating politicians and managers about the benefits and risks of AM.
Decision support tool
Natural resource managers are unlikely to use the AM approach to manage adverse impacts of climate and landscape change unless the approach is made understandable and accessible. This can be achieved by incorporating the approach in an Internet-based decision support tool that integrates the following elements for specific management areas:
- geospatial datasets such as GIS (geographic information system), GPS (global positioning system), and remote sensing
- models that simulate the impacts of climate and landscape change on selected indicators (e.g., using the Environmental Policy Integrated Climate model to simulate agricultural impacts, or using the FIRE-BGC model to simulate long-term changes in fuels, fire hazard, and fire behavior for different climate and landscape change scenarios)
- concepts and methods of AM
- alternative decision criteria for evaluating mitigation and adaptation strategies (e.g., minimax regret criteria, precautionary principle, safe minimum standard, and limits of acceptable change)
The decision support tool would allow managers to identify best mitigation and adaptation strategies for alternative climate and landscape change scenarios.
A pilot program to evaluate the pros and cons of the proposed AM approach to managing adverse impacts of climate and landscape change would provide valuable information. It would develop and evaluate the AM approach and decision support tool for a sample of managed ecosystems that encompasses a range of natural resource and environmental conditions, human uses and values, and availabilities of scientific information and technical expertise. Results of the pilot program could be used to identify conditions under which the approach is most likely to be feasible (that is, when expected benefits exceed expected costs).
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Saturday 2nd December 2017
Buildbase F.A. Vase 3rd Round
Highgate United 1 v 2 Coleshill Town
Gate: Josh Hawker.
Colemen: Dean Rathbone 2.
Attendance: 117.
Opposition Player of the Match: Dean Rathbone (Coleshill)
Highgate: Bradley Catlow, Dwayne Courtney (George Curry), Nathan Puliciano, Trevor Edwards, Scott Turner, Aaron Brown, James Wilcox (Scott Rickards), Josh Hawker, Marco Addagio, Connor Mooney (Danico Johnson), Lei Brown. Subs not used Richard Bryan, Brad Hayward.
Coleshill: Paul Hathaway, Jorna Moulton, Joe Cole, Rob Evans, Tom Fishwick, Danny Tymon, Ryan Edmunds, Joe Halsall, Reece Leek (Luke Edwards), Dean Rathbone, Gio Dainty. Subs not used Chris Gibson GK, James Medford, Anton Astley.
Dean Is At The Double For Colemen
Dean Rathbone's double proved enough for last season's semi finalists Coleshill in a muck-and-bullets derby at league rivals Highgate. A muddy, fragile pitch allied with well-matched sides made for an attritional but engaging contest that seemed destined to end in stalemate for most of the afternoon. The match gradually opened up as it went along, but chances were few and far between and when they did arrive, both sets of players squandered good positions or picked the wrong option. Rathbone finally broke the deadlock with 13 minutes remaining, latching on to a Ryan Edmunds ball into the left side of the box before stepping inside his marker and coolly slotting under advancing keeper Brad Catlow. Highgate, who had arguably held the edge during what had proceeded, piled on the pressure and when lei Brown was felled by Joe Halsall during a scramble at a corner, Josh Hawker stroked low to Paul Hathaway's right from the penalty spot. Extra-Time would have been a fair outcome but the Colemen had other ideas with Jorna Moulton spreading to Edmunds on the right to cut in and draw out Catlow before centring for Rathbone who could not miss the open net with a minute to go. Five minutes were added with Rob Evans sliding in to deny Marco Addagio, the Midlands League Premier Division's top goal scorer, a free hit to level from six yards. And in what proved to be the last push, ex Kidderminster Harriers striker Scott Rickards pulled the trigger only for his shot in a packed penalty area to cannon off Catlow who had joined the last-ditch pursuit of a second equaliser. In the end, the most controversial incident of the afternoon paled into insignificance. The assistant referee flagged for a foul in the box when Edmunds got tangled with Highgate left back Nathan Pulisciano after five minutes. Man in the middle David Hunt pointed to the spot before correctly changing his mind after lengthy consultation with his colleague.
STAR MAN: Josh Hawker (Highgate United)
Attendance: 117.
Entertainment: ***
Nothing in the Sunday Mercury
A little known fact was kept quite before the game but Coleshill had never beaten Highgate in a cup match, until now! Another broken record that joins the long list that the club has achieved over the last few seasons!
United are our oldest rivals, we have played them 85 times since the first meeting back in 1975, and yes there have only ever been Five other cup matches in that time but Town had never managed to get through the "Gate".
The tie was expected to be tough, a battle, and it was. Not much football played on a mud-bath of a pitch, Coleshill took a battering but stood up to the task magnificently. A flag from the Linesman and a point to the spot from the Referee in the first half was unbelievably changed to a corner, that being the highlight of the first half.
The onslaught continued in the second half but on 77 minutes Dean Rathbone broke away with a Ryan Edmunds through ball and bent the ball round the keeper for the opening goal. It was backs to the wall stuff and with five minutes to go Highgate were awarded a penalty when Ryan Edmunds, in an attempt to clear from a corner, felled Lei Brown and Josh Hawker converted.
Extra time and a possible replay was looming when Jorna Moulton released Ryan Edmunds who made strides to the bye line and crossed to Dean Rathbone who calmly slotted home the winner. Brilliant!
You know you're doing well when you are still in the Vase at the turn of the year, 4th round January 6th. Prior to 2013 Town had never reached this stage of the competition before but have now progressed to the 4th round four times in five years.
A Match Report taken from the Highgate web site
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/highgateu ... /0-3918453
By Neville Sawyer
A last minute goal saw Highgate dumped out of the Vase after Josh Hawker's late penalty looked to be sending the game into extra time.
A highly entertaining Vase clash ended with Coleshill in the hat for the Fifth Round draw, the only pity being that there had to be a loser at the end of an evenly fought local derby encounter decided late on by a clinical Dean Rathbone brace, the winner coming just minutes from the final whistle and sixty seconds after a Josh Hawker penalty had put the teams back on level terms. The three goals had all been scored in the final twelve minutes of an exciting contest which despite being end to end had up to that point failed to produce many clear cut chances, defences on top throughout with very little given away and neither keeper having been seriously tested. Gate's defeat was the third in different cup competitions in the space of just ten days, Ashley Puilsciano's team left to solely concentrate on the league, and on the evidence of this display and those recently against Bromsgrove Sporting and Worcester City having a big say as to which sides make what might this season be two promotion spots. With a full squad available joint bosses Puilisciano and Craig Woodley had selection decisions to make ahead of Gate's first ever Vase Fourth Round match, Lei and Aaron Brown returning to the starting eleven, James Wilcock given preference over Scott Rickards with the latter struggling to get over recent knocks. A strong bench included Richard Bryan, recent signing Danico Johnson and George Curry. Table topping Coleshill, one of last season's semi-finalists, provided the toughest of opposition for a Highgate side whose recent form overall has been erratic to say the least, a heavy rain soaked pitch not helping either, the visitors starting brightly with Trevor Edwards twice making headed clearances in the middle of the park and Aaron Brown getting across to sweep up from Joe Halsall down the right hand side. Wilcock was seeing a lot of the ball on Highgate's right but unable to deliver a purposeful cross beyond the first man on the edge of the box, the first moment both of note and mystery coming after just five minutes. Ryan Edmunds had run in towards the box, Nathan Pulisciano behind his man got in what might at best be described as a rash challenge, the referee's assistant raising his flag for a penalty, his boss pointing to the spot, but with Coleshill players consulting each other as to who would take the kick so a quick discussion and catch up between the two men in black resulted in the decision being overturned and a corner awarded! A let off for a Highgate side which immediately went on the offensive, Marco Adaggio sneaking the ball off former Coppice favourite Joe Cole, directing a cross over the face of goal with the stretching Lei Brown unable to get a final touch, Hawker then setting up Wilcock for a shot deflected low into keeper Paul Hathaway's hands. Rathbone tested Brad Catlow with a thirty yard free kick, albeit harmlessly, but what little attacking play there was coming at the other end, Aaron Brown well wide with a header off a Hawker free kick and Edwards' optimistic thirty yard volley more of a threat to the corner flag than Hathaway's goal. Not much to choose between the sides during the opening twenty minutes, plenty of promise but so far nothing delivered, Aaron Brown close with a thirty yard free kick just inches the wrong side of the upright, Lei Brown then curling a Wilcock' pass into Hathaway's hands. A good spell from the hosts, Hathaway punching out Duane Courtney's long throw but only out to the full back whose return volley failed to trouble the custodian. Scott Turner headed out a Rathbone free kick but so far Town had not been a threat and when Rathbone was given space on the end of a Rob Evans' free kick the resulting shot was carelessly high. Evans was then back in his own half with a firm tackle to deny Adaggio a clear break on goal having been set up by Lei Brown, Cole then in ahead of Wilcock to intercept Aaron Brown's cross field pass which if missed could so easily have seen the wide midfield man through on goal. The half finished with Gate enjoying a good spell and Hathaway tipping Hawker's in-swinging corner on to the roof of the net, but neither side having so far created enough to break the deadlock.
H-T Highgate United 0 v 0 Coleshill Town
Coleshill began the second half in a far more determined fashion, keeping possession for longer periods than throughout the first half, Rathbone's elusive cross sent flashing over the face of goal but with no white and blue shirt tempted by the opportunity. Aaron Brown defended well to halt an Edmunds' run into the box, Gate gradually getting back into the game, Hawker's effort blocked, Evans defending his post to clear Mooney's low cross, Lei Brown then getting a touch on an Adaggio attempt only to turn the ball behind. It was Coleshill's turn to enjoy the better of play for a short while but still with little threat, and if anything Gate were proving the more creative but failing to make the most of a series of half chances. Adaggio did have the ball in the roof of the net but the whistle had already blown for a Lei Brown foul on the keeper, Brown himself then despatching an angled drive into Hathaway's body. Catlow's first meaningful save kept out an effort from Halsall held at the second attempt, Edwards getting his body in the way of Evans' ten yard volley. Play continued end to end, Hawker curling a twenty yarder over the bar and when Hathaway fumbled a Rickards' corner Curry struck the loose ball into the grateful keeper's hands. Then in 78th minute and totally out of the blue the visitors were to forge ahead, a quickly taken throw leading to Rathbone breaking down his left hand side cutting in and beating Catlow with a low angled drive. Gate responded with Adaggio having the ball in the net only for the whistle to have blown for an offside and with five minutes remaining Gate were to be thrown a lifeline, Lei Brown going down in the box under a head high boot, Hawker calmly tucking away the resulting penalty. Just four minutes later came what was to prove the winner, Gate caught out by Edmunds' strong run down the right flank a perfectly delivered cross fired in by Rathbone at close range. Late Gate pressure in search of a second equaliser was to prove unsuccessful, the advancing Catlow nearest to a goal with a deft flick off the left boot wide of the right hand upright, Gate perhaps unlucky not to have taken the game to a replay and Coleshill left knowing they are unlikely to face a tougher encounter however far their Vase journey takes them.
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[Editor's Note: This week, the PurseBlog staff is out of the office to enjoy the last little bit of summer. We'll return after Labor Day, but in the meantime, we'll be running both new posts and a few of our favorites from the past few months to get you ready for fall.]
As we continue to inch our way through summer, the advancing date means just one thing in the fashion world: fall collections are starting to pop up all over the Internet. Céline's Winter 2014 Handbag Lookbook just popped up online, and we've got all the bags below.
The only new line debuting for Winter 2014 is the weird Orb Bag that graced the season's runway, which comes in both an east-west satchel and a petite French purse. Other than that, you'll find a lot of standby Céline favorites, including the Luggage Tote, Phantom Luggage and Trapeze in new color combinations. The Belt Bag, which debuted for Fall 2014, is a particular standout in sedate tan with subtle neon pink edging. Check out the full lookbook below.


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Last year, 3-year-old Athena Angeles of Willimantic was brought to Windham Hospital with a serious head injury. She was treated and released to her mother's care and died several hours later after being beaten by the mother's boyfriend, authorities said.
In response to this and similar tragedies — 10 to 12 children die of abuse in Connecticut and 1,400 are taken into state care each year for abuse or neglect — hospitals are adopting stricter abuse screening protocols for preschool children.
Under the new guidelines, proposed by state Department of Children and Families Commissioner Joette Katz and unanimously adopted by the state's Committee on Trauma, when a child under 6 comes to a medical facility with a significant traumatic injury, the physician must disrobe the child and examine him or her, and check the child's medical records for previous suspicious or unexplained injuries.
If the situation needs further attention, the physician must call the DCF Care Line to pursue the matter. The idea here is not to harass parents whose kids fall off their bikes. It is to look for those appalling cases — cigarette burns on the bottom of a child's feet, to cite an actual example — that could not have happened by falling off a bike. If such cases can be caught early, it is possible to prevent further injury or death.
Ms. Katz said in a meeting with The Courant's editorial board this week that she hopes the screening guidelines become standard operating procedure, uniformly applied, one that parents expect and accept. She said the physical exam should take no more than five minutes, so should not be a burden.
Well, some parents may object, but the prevalence of abuse of defenseless children merits the trauma screening. It won't stop every death or injury, but it is a positive and potentially life-saving response to a heinous problem.


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This is going to be one of those history columns where I tell you my history instead of New Bern�s. It happens once in a while; get used to it.
This is going to be one of those history columns where I tell you my history instead of New Bern�s. It happens once in a while; get used to it.
It�s also going to be one of those columns where I tell you what I did, and then insist you never, ever be stupid enough to do it yourself. That�s irritating, I know. My father used to constantly regale me with the wild tales of his misspent youth, and then threaten me with murder if I followed his path. So any mean ladies with barrels of rancid, algae-splotched rainwater by their house, your carpets are safe with me!
It was while watching the fireworks last Thursday that this little reminiscence entered my mind.
I spent my elementary years in a little Pennsylvania village named Townville, population today, 306. My father, a Methodist preacher, had a double-charge (that is, two churches) at Townville and Troy Center. I have only one memory of the Troy Center congregation � an unpleasant one involving grown men hurling baby mice I had discovered at women. I�m not going to go into this particular story, but I�ll bet it�s already left you thinking differently of Methodist men.
I remember Townville as the first place where I dialed a phone. I was probably in fourth grade, a ridiculously old age for a kid to be dialing a phone for the first time in his life, and I had been sent to the little grocery to buy something. I couldn�t remember what it was, so I asked if I could use the phone. The grocer pushed the phone my way, and I dialed, then picked up the receiver. The line was dead. Confused, I set the receiver back in its cradle, dialed, then picked up the receiver again and wondered why the line was still dead. The grocer probably wondered what planet I was from. And a lot of young people reading this right now are thinking, �Phone cradles? Phone receivers? What is this walking antiquity talking about?�
After only a couple of years, I moved out of Townville. Methodist preachers were shipped around every couple of years in those days, or maybe my father requested a move because he was freaked out by flying mice.
But I made a couple of my closest lifelong friends in those days � Kevin and Vance. So I went back when I could to visit.
Zoom ahead � I can�t remember to just when, but we had graduated and were young adults. We thought it would be a hoot to do a midnight walk to the local high school, just outside of town, where Kevin had played football and shoot the breeze. Once there, we found the football field�s broadcast booth wasn�t as secure as it might be, so we broke in, opened a window and looked over the field.
It was a narrow building, about six or eight feet deep and maybe 16 or 20 feet long.
It must have been around July because Vance pulled out a huge string of powerful firecrackers. We started lighting them, one at a time, and throwing them out the windows. We got a kick out of watching them bounce around the iron bleachers down below and hearing the echoey booms.
I don�t remember who did it, but we hadn�t thrown many when one missed the window, bounced back into the room and landed� right on top of this crazy-long string of firecrackers.
There was nowhere to go; we were trapped in this tiny space with a monster string of explosives about to go off.
Strings of exploding firecrackers are living things, by the way. They writhe about like snakes and this one seemed to follow us everywhere as it banged and boomed. We three guys did a breakdance, a river dance and maybe even the Funky Chicken just trying to stay alive.
When it was over, we still had our fingers and skin, but the floor and lower walls had plenty of charred spots and we were almost deaf from the sound of the explosions bouncing off those close walls.
We pushed open the door and staggered out through the cloud of blue, acrid smoke that floated into the night. Because we were pretty young, because we were stupid and because we were guys, we laughed about it all the way back to Kevin�s home.
And children take note: We were lucky we didn�t burn down Pennsylvania and that we escaped with our lives.
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On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Soonbo Han <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Although I already told this to Koji in person, I'm sending this email for > KIG members to encourage further discussion or comments. > > In my understanding, the codes for CHOSEONG, JUNGSEONG, and JONGSEONG are > for conjoining to form a letter so that they are not used to display by > themselves. Each Jamo (Korean alphabets - each consonant or vowel) can be > displayed by using other code categorized as LETTER. For example, there is a > LETTER A for displaying JUNGSEONG A. > > 1161; N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG A > 314F;W # HANGUL LETTER A > > Since LETTERs are W(ide), I think this issue is not a problem anymore to > display JUNGSEONG(vowel) itself in vertical mode. However, I'm not an expert > in this area, any comment from KIG members will be welcomed. > Well, the number of medial vowels in the Korean conjoining letter block (U+1161 .. U+11A7 and U+D7B0 .. U+D7C6) is much larger than the number of vowels in the Korean compatibility letter block (U+31xx). So, I'm afraid what you wrote does not hold well. Anyway, I can't think of any good reason to rotate some Korean conjoining letters while not rotating others when they stand by themselves in a vertical layout. I've just had a close look at EastAsianWidth.txt and I found something more interesting / inconsistent. U+1100..U+115F (leading consonants and leading consonant fillers) : W U+A960..U+A97C (leading consonants) : W U+1160..U+11A2 (medial vowel filler and medial vowels) : N U+11A3..U+11A7 (medial vowels) : W : Unicode 5.2 U+D7B0 .. U+D7C6 (medial vowels): : W : Unicode 5.2 U+11A8.. U+11F5 (final consonants) : N U+11F6..U+11F9 (final consonants): W : Unicode 1.1 U+11FA..U+11FF (final consonants): W : Unicode 5.2 U+D7CB..U+D7FB (final consonants) : W As summarized above, some medial vowels are N while other medial vowels are W. The same can be said of final consonants. Initially, I thought the inconsistency was introduced when a new set of consonants and vowels were added in Unicode 5.2. However, that does not seem to be the case, either because U+11F6 .. U+11F9 (encoded in 1.1) have 'W' while U+11A8 .. U+11F5 (also encoded in 1.1) have 'N'. If all the leading consonants are 'W' while all the medial vowels and final consonants are 'N', it's at least consistent. However, as shown above, that's not the case, either. So, I'm even more confused as to why they're different. Is this a conscious decision (based on the shape of each character) or just an oversight? Hmm, the file is automatically generated out of the Unicode character database. Now, I'm getting more curious as to what character properties are different between U+11A2 and U+11A3 (both medial vowels, the former with N and the latter with W). I'll raise this issue (inconsistency) using the feedback form at unicode.orgso that it can be taken a look at by the UTC. (well, Asmus is right here in the thread :-)) Having written the above, I went onto read UAX #11 (East Asian Width) and realized that 'N' in EastAsianWidth.txt does not mean 'Narrow' but means "Neutral". That means that the recommendation in UAX #11 about the rotation in a vertical layout does not apply to Korean medial vowels and final consonants with 'N' (neutral). That is, even if we follow the recommendation in UAX #11, there's no reason to rotate them (vowels and final consonants when they stand by themselves in a vertical layout). Jungshik > > Regards, > Soonbo Han > > -----Original Message----- > From: > Sent: 없음 > To: Koji Ishii > Cc: firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: HANGUL JONGSEONG, vertical text flow, and Unicode East Asian > Width > > On 3/9/2011 3:09 PM, Koji Ishii wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Will you mind to help me to resolve a question in CSS3 Writing Modes > spec? > > > > I'm trying to figure out which characters are displayed upright and which > are rotated sideways in vertical text flow. I understand vertical text flow > isn't very important for Hangul, but I hope you understand I want to write > the correct spec in case you need it. > > > > Current idea is written in the spec[1], paragraphs after Figure 10. The > basic idea is to use a combination of font information, Unicode Script > Property[2], and Unicode East Asian Width[3]. > > > > EAW (Unicode East Asian Width) defines character orientation like this in > its Recommendation section[4]: > > * Wide characters ... are not rotated (and therefore rendered upright) > when appearing in vertical text runs. > > * Narrow characters ... are rotated sideways, when appearing in vertical > text. > > > > If I look into the data file[5], most Hangul characters are W(ide), so > they are rendered upright in vertical text flow according to the Unicode > definitions. I suppose this is what you expect. > > > > However, many of HANGUL JONGSEONG are marked as N and therefore they must > be rotated sideways in vertical text flow if we follow this rule. > > > > 115F;W # HANGUL CHOSEONG FILLER > > 1160;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG FILLER > > 1161;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG A > > 1162;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG AE > > 1163;N # HANGUL JUNGSEONG YA > > ... > > > > I'm guessing this is NOT what you expect. Can anyone in this ML help me > to resolve this situation? Possible answers I'm guessing are: > > > > > The characters in question are conjoining Jamos. They are supposed to > form into syllables, which themselves are rendered upright in vertical > writing. > > The question is whether anyone ever renders these things as themselves, > that is when not combined into syllables and whether in that case they > are upright when (if ever) they are vertical. > > Whatever the outcome, option 2 seems least desirable, because of the way > EAW is defined. > > > > 1. Unicode EAW is correct; these code points should be rotated sideways > in vertical text flow. > > 2. Unicode EAW is incorrect; these code points should be "W", not "N". > > 3. There are reasons to make these code points as "N", so EAW is correct, > but "Narrow are rotated sideways" is incorrect. > > > > Which one is it, or anything else? I asked this to Soonbo Han from LG at > CSSWG, he thinks the answer is not 1, but he wasn't sure if it's 2 or 3 or > else. > > > > Your support is greatly appreciated. > > > > > > Regards, > > Koji > > > > [1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-writing-modes/#text-orientation > > [2] http://unicode.org/reports/tr24/ > > [3] http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/ > > [4] http://unicode.org/reports/tr11/#Recommendations > > [5] http://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/EastAsianWidth.txt > > > > > > > > >Received on Thursday, 10 March 2011 06:45:33 UTC
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Oliver Fisher finished the back nine with a hattrick of birdies to take control of the Czech Open at Prosper Golf Report.
The 22 year old Englishman, seeking his maiden European Tour title, started the day level with Scotland's Steven O'Hara on ten under par, but surged ahead as he turned in a three under 33.
Playing in bright sunshine, the last pair out never looked in troubled but produced few fireworks as both parred the first six holes.
That allowed Fisher's compatriot Gary Boyd to briefly join them in a share of the lead, last year's runner-up birdieing the second and fifth, the latter from 20 feet.
But Fisher, having made his first gain of the day at the seventh, struck approaches within five feet at the next two to reach 13 under par.
Boyd scrambled an unlikely birdie from the rough at the ninth by running a nine iron to 15 feet to also turn in 33 and be two behind on 11 under.
O'Hara never deviated from par in an outward 36 to be third with Swede Mikael Lundberg, the halfway leader carding birdies at the seventh and tenth.
Boyd was in trouble at the par five tenth from the moment his drive found a bunker and his bogey six left Fisher three in front.
O'Hara and Fisher didn't play the tenth much better – Fisher's ball bouncing off a telegraph pole at one point – but he was the only one to walk off with a par as O'Hara fell four back.
Boyd also bogeyed the 11th, and so it was Lundberg – who lost his card last year and has been struggling to make an impact on The Challenge Tour for much of 2011 - who was second on his own at 11 under after a birdie at the same hole.
Fisher's approach to the 11th came up short of the green and the former amateur star failed to get up-and-down, reducing his lead to one.
Lundberg sunk a ten foot putt for birdie after a fine tee shot at the short 15th – his fourth gain in eight holes – and the two-time European Tour winner suddenly had a share of the lead.
And when Fisher came up short again at the 13th – this time in the bunker – then failed once more to scramble par, Lundberg was on his own atop the leaderboard.
Fisher responded with a brilliant approach at the 14th to a couple of feet and with the resulting birdie tied once more with Lundberg on 12 under, with O'Hara two behind after his first gain of the day on the 13th.
Paraguay's Fabrizio Zanotti, 120th on The Race to Dubai coming into the event, secured his card for next year and set the clubhouse target on nine under with a round of 66.
The leaders dropped shots on par threes at almost exactly the same time – Lundberg at the 17th as Fisher three-putted the 15th.
But Fisher responded with a birdie at the par five 16th from 30 feet.
O'Hara's challenge was effectively over when he four-putted the same green, as Lundberg parred the last for a 69 to set the clubhouse target at 11 under.
Fisher sunk a 25 footer at the 17th to hold a two shot advantage as he approached the final tee.
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It took a furious rally in the final two minutes of regulation and two overtimes, but the Pratt High boys' basketball team joined their female counterparts in earning a trip to the State Tournament. Saturday night at Russell, the Greenbacks pulled off a 70-69 squeaker over the Larned Indians to punch their ticket for Wichita.
It took a furious rally in the final two minutes of regulation and two overtimes, but the Pratt High boys' basketball team joined their female counterparts in earning a trip to the State Tournament.
Saturday night at Russell, the Greenbacks pulled off a 70-69 squeaker over the Larned Indians to punch their ticket for Wichita.
"It was a wonderful moment for our team to experience a come-from-behind win in the sub-state championship," head coach David Swank expressed. "It was a total team effort. All nine of our players contributed."
The game set up like a dogfight, as favored Larned had taken a fairly close game from Pratt earlier in the season, but certainly hadn't dominated the Greenbacks. You had to figure PHS had a puncher's chance.
The first quarter bore out the prediction of a tight match-up, as Pratt was up 16-15 following 8 minutes of play. Spencer Sullivan hit a couple of treys to pace the Frogs.
Larned hit some shots to start Q2 that they had been missing, and by the 5:00 mark the Indians had gone ahead 27-22. Samson Kohman converted an "and-1" to get PHS back to within 27-25 with 4:00 to play.
"Samson made some really nice moves on his way to 21 points," Coach Swank observed.
Both sides' offenses then came up empty for the next several minutes, but Larned hit two free throws late in the period to go up 29-25 at halftime.
After intermission, Christian Kurz hit back-to-back buckets and later in the period, Josh Shumway hit a lay-up that put Pratt back in front, 37-36, heading into the 4th quarter.
Between the 5:10 and 2:10 marks, the Frogs had 3 consecutive turnovers which allowed Larned to establish a 48-41 cushion. Things may not have looked great for PHS at that point—down 7 with 2:08 left to play— but the Frogs had the Indians right where they wanted them.
When play resumed following a time-out, Kohman hit two FT and Kurz hit a hoop. Spencer Sullivan then scored the next ten Greenback points. He hit two treys and one basket on an assist from Shawn Ramos after a steal. Then Sullivan hit a basket for points 9 and 10 in the sequence which knotted the score at 55 with 15 seconds left. Each side had their final shot of regulation rim out and the game went to overtime.
Samson Kohman converted two "and-1s" in the first OT and Brandon Ruckle made one from the charity stripe. That matched the 7 points scored by Larned in the period and the game went to OT #2 tied at 62.
In OT#2, Ruckle hit another couple of freebies and Ramos scored a Windex bucket, but Larned countered with 7 points and led by 3, 69-66, with a minute to play. Kohman got a basket to draw Pratt within one, but Larned had the ball with time running out. The Frog defense applied pressure in the half-court and jarred the ball loose. Spencer Sullivan came up with it and drove coast-to-coast to put Pratt up 70-69 with only a few ticks remaining. Larned's hurried shot at the buzzer was off the mark and Pratt had the double- overtime victory, 70-69.
"Spencer Sullivan hit several big shots during the fourth quarter comeback that were huge," Coach Swank mentioned. "He then had the presence of mind to attack the rim at the conclusion of the game."
"Rebounding was a big stat for us tonight," Swank continued. "Samson had 15 boards and Adam Bartel, Brandon Ruckle and Liam Kahmeyer combined for 17."
"Christian Kurz had several nice moves and finished with 8 points and a season-high 7 assists," Swank added. "Shawn Ramos gave our team a huge lift tonight with his defense and ball-handling."
PHS will play Scott City at 6:30 in the first round of State, Thursday at Hartman Arena in Wichita.
Pratt boys 16 9 12 18 (7) (8) 70
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Rosie Shaw
Rosie Mable Shaw, 81, died Sunday at Peabody Care Center. She was a retired beautician and longtime resident of Florence.
She was born June 21, 1932, in Eads, Colo., to Dean F. and Letha Cunningham Morgan. She had lived in Florence since 1960.
She is survived by two sons, Raymond and Charles Shaw; three daughters, Alice Johnson of Florence, Julie Shaw of Herington, and Wanda Morgan; and eight grandchildren.
No services are scheduled. A memorial fund has been established with the Florence library.


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Memphis, Tennessee
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Memphis, TN, splits two graticules at latitude 35, longitude -89 and latitude 35, longitude -90.
The first includes the areas on the eastern part of the Memphis Metropolitan Area and covers a large area of undeveloped land in the north eastern section, however the southwestern area of this graticule covers some of the metro area of Memphis (starting at midtown), Germantown, Bartlett, and Collierville.
The second includes all of Downtown, South Memphis, Graceland, and the airport, as well as West Memphis, Arkansas. This graticule also encompasses Jonesboro, Arkansas.
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Who else is coming to New York Comic-Con? Ubisoft, that's who. The French publisher's bringing Ezio's last hurrah, the latest Just Dance game and more to the Jacob Javits Convention centre this weekend.
The full line-up of games at the show includes:
• The Adventures of Tintin: The Game • Assassin's Creed Revelations • The Black Eyed Peas Experience • Just Dance 3 • Might & Magic Heroes VI • Rayman Origins • Shoot Many Robots
All of the titles will be playable, with AssCreedRev will be available for multiplayer play at 2pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. What about the swag, you ask? Well, pre-ordering Assassin's Creed Revelations or The Black Eyed Peas Experience will get you a t-shirt or signed BEP poster. Doesn't seem like Ubi's holding any panels this year, but if expect an update if word of anything drops.


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GOP files elections complaint over Charlie Crist's NASCAR sponsorship
Charlie Crist's latest left turn has drawn the critical eye of the Republican Party of Florida.
Crist's campaign gift of a NASCAR sponsorship for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway — which was held Sunday after being rained out Saturday — triggered a formal complaint from the RPOF, claiming the sponsorship's market value far exceeds the $3,000 limit for in-kind contributions to a statewide candidate.
Driver Josh Wise's No. 98 Ford was covered with Crist for governor artwork during the nationally televised race Sunday. Wise's car is owned by Mike Curb, a musician and record company executive and former lieutenant governor of California. (One of Crist's friends, Mitch Bainwol, is a former Washington lobbyist for the Recording Industry Association of America.)
The complaint, filed by RPOF executive director Juston Johnson with the Florida Elections Commission, says a previous corporate sponsorship of a Josh Wise car cost $55,000. Johnson also quotes an online post by Wise in which the driver said, "We try to get 55-60K per race."
"Nice try," said Crist campaign spokesman Brendan Gilfillan, who said the GOP got its facts wrong. The sponsorship was an in-kind contribution to Crist's political committee, Charlie Crist for Florida, which is not subject to the $3,000 limit.
"We appreciate them drawing more attention to the car, though," he said.
Gov. Rick Scott's campaign noted that the official car-by-car entry list on NASCAR's website lists the sponsor as "Charlie Crist for governor." The name of Crist's political committee is Charlie Crist for Florida — but the actual lettering on the car itself says "Charlie Crist for Florida 2014."
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Adjectives of Democracy. Citizenship and Political Attitudes under Socialist and Liberal Democracy in the Czech Republic
Authors: Lyons, Pat
The central empirical puzzle addressed in this book is why are Czech citizens' attitudes towards key facets of democracy so similar under socialist democracy in 1968 and liberal democracy in 2008? Examining unique survey datasets from the late 1960s and 2008 this book revea...
Enlargement, Gender and Governance: The Civic and Political Participation and Representation of Women in Central and Eastern Europe
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The presented study deals with the political consequences of the suburbanization process in the four largest metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic after 1989. The aggregate socio-economic data on the level of municipalities are used first for the creation of typology of suburb...
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Modify The Scrolling Message Located On The Front Of A Dell Poweredge 2650
Earlier I was doing some work on a Dell Poweredge 2650 with CentOS Linux installed on it which we use for a development server at the shop. The message on the screen had been set awhile back with a joke message but I forgot how it was set so while I was poking around in the BIOS for some floppy disk settings I stumbled across how to modify the message that scrolls across the tiny screen on the front of the Dell PE2650 and wanted to share. Below is more information regarding how to modify the message and what it looks like once it has been modified.


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Diversion….City, The Road and a Trip.
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Alentejo small pot - brown
Handmade wheelthrown pot made with a mix of stoneware in natural earth colors.
Slightly glazed with a fine layer of transparent. Natural portuguese unprocessed cork lid with brass handle.
Inspired by the landscapes of Alentejo the homeland region of João, this pots have a rustic but delicate feeling in a combination of natural materials and design.
- ≅ 11cm tall
- one of a kind
- handmade
- foot powered wheel
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland State Board of Elections is investigating what caused a missing page in some absentee ballots in Prince George's and Montgomery counties.
Gov. Martin O'Malley said in a statement on Wednesday that the board has confirmed that less than 20 absentee voters are missing a second page.
The governor says residents who have requested an absentee ballot should check to make sure they have a complete ballot with a second page that includes questions 4 through 7 as well as any of the local county-related questions.
The questions on the second page include several issues. They include whether to allow same-sex marriage, gambling expansion, the state's congressional redistricting map and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants under certain circumstances.
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Computer, laptop and tablet owners are being warned by police to protect their computers from being taken over by cybercriminals.
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In some cases, the pop-up may accuse the user of illegal activity or change the locked screen to a pornographic image.
This makes it more difficult for some victims to seek help from anybody else and simply resort to paying the ransom fee.
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The TLC Lessons books were created for kindergartners to teach the kindergarten curriculum. However, they have been successfully used in classes from preschool to 3rd grade as well as in ESL and special education classes.
The TLC directed art lessons are designed to help the children develop their self confidence and creative ability. The children are given only squares and rectangles to create pictures. The children learn to cut circles, ovals and triangles from squares and rectangles. They learn how things fit together, can be transformed, and can be taken apart. Once they have an understanding of how shapes work they become creative. All of the children begin with the same materials and follow the same directions, but the results are individual and no two creations look alike.
The TLC directed art lessons help children:
- Learn to Follow Oral and Visual Directions
- Acquire an Understanding of How Shapes Work
- Develop Fine-Motor Skills
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- Learn Color and Shape Recognition
- Develop an Awareness of Spatial Relationships
- Learn to Work Individually and Independently
Step-by-step illustrations show simply and clearly how each cut and paste lesson is done. The lessons can be directed step-by-step to the whole group or modeled for independent use."TLC teaches across the curriculum, math, literature, science and social studies. The lessons are not just fun, but meaningful and cover many of your benchmarks". —California
Theme Books consist of a collection of stand alone cut and paste lessons that may be used to enhance a particular season or theme. The lessons can be used to create an attractive classroom environment or to illustrate Big Books for the classroom. The lessons can be directed step-by-step to the whole group or modeled for independent use in a center. Some Theme Book lessons can be saved and assembled into a child's own book.
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|Le moulinsur la Couleuvre à Pontoise(1881) by Paul Cézanne
Like artists, homeowners often experience the terror of the blank canvas. What furniture is appropriate? What wallpaper should we hang? What tile should we install? There are so many choices—sometimes even the best of us freeze up. Instead of moving forward, we stop, as if waiting for divine revelation.
Or inspiration.
While it may not solve every design dilemma, I've always believed that having the right color palette in hand is the best first step. Once you've chosen your primary, secondary and tertiary colors, the rest of the battle (and yes, sometimes renovation feels like winning a war) is just so much easier. Surprisingly, these colors often coexist in one item—like they were best friends all along—and this item can provide inspiration throughout the rest of the project. Whether it's a rug, a vase or a swatch of wallpaper, this one piece acts as a trustworthy guide, a la Lewis and Clark, as you venture forward through uncharted territory.
Fortunately, I think this is where the Victorian enthusiast draws more comfort than other homeowners. We have an abundance of reference material available, from period-inspired wallpapers to historically accurate paint palettes to professional color experts. There are historical societies and other experienced homeowners. There are a plethora of books and, if you live in the right neighborhood, a bounty of local turn-of-the-century homes that have already been lovingly restored.
And, of course, there is our magazine—Victorian Homes.
For the Victorian homeowner, a blank canvas doesn't have to be feared. It can—and should—be the onset of an exciting adventure. Brushstroke after brushstroke should exhilarate and stimulate and motivate you on to the next.
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In this final workshop, cutting-edge technologies are presented
in which chemistry interfaces with other disciplines:
tissue engineering, deciphering of the human genome and
agricultural resources for new materials. Teachers try to
incorporate the latest technology into their classes, motivating
students with exciting real-world applications. The workshop
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"Young people are very idealistic. They
want to think that the things that they do in the future
are positive, and God bless them for it... . If we cant
relate what we do in chemistry for the good of the people
on the planet and the other species on the planet, I think
that we have got a problem that we are going to attract
less and less of the greatly talented young people to the
field of chemistry. Thats a vicious cycle effect that
doesnt happen because we really need outstanding chemists
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NITZANA, ISRAEL -- The Jewish Agency's Educational Eco-Village in the Negev Desert is also home to 50 refugee teenagers from Eritrea. The Nitzana school and boarding facility, Tikkun Olam, operates with its own educational team, in partnership with the Ministry of Education. Recently, some of the teens, as part of an arts group, completed a moving project – a mural at the eco-village.
"The idea of this wall is to help the boarding school students create and care for the environment in which they live," said Bar Rappaport, the art group teacher.
"We wanted the boys to add anything they felt like – that's why there is a wide array of ideas from a flower and a soccer ball to a flying donkey," according to Rappaport, who added that many of the refugee teens at Nitzana enjoy arts as a therapy, with an array of creative outlets - from painting this wall, to sculpting.
"We started meeting once a week after school hours, and at first, only a couple of boys joined while none of them came regularly," said Noa Karchi, a supplementary group instructor.
"Slowly it became something special and touching," Karchi added. Originally from the village of Amikam in Northern Israel, Karchi is currently completing a year of service at Nitzana before heading to the army. "The art group was a place for the boys to meet, to laugh and joke and to enjoy their pastime outside of school," she pointed out.
While Karchi will soon be wearing her IDF uniform, she will be leaving Nitzana with a kit full of new social assistance tools and techniques, and marveled over her experiences at Nitzana. "People here are idealistic and exceptional, but what surprised me most was that I had the freedom and encouragement to found my own social activism projects and pursue what interested me," Karchi said, and added that, "One can really do great things here like teaching, and making real changes on ground."
The art group is extremely important to Yair Amir, Director of the Nitzana boarding school and Tikkun Olam for Unsupervised Teenagers Seeking Refuge: "This is the way to reach out to the boys who have suffered immensely. We provide for them on the humanitarian level, emphasizing tolerance, mutual understanding, and respect regardless of religion, nationality or background. In addition, providing informal educational activities like soccer games, bike rides, trips to Eilat – are experiences that help them reclaim their childhood and be boys again.
"Projects like this mural aid in tending to the deep wounds in their souls, which is just as important as the scholastic programs they are provided here," Amir said.


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Fox News "Democratic strategists" tell Obama not to seek re-election
Earlier this week, we reported that Doug Schoen and Pat Caddell -- who regularly appear on Fox News as "Democratic strategists" -- are attending this year's Restoration Weekend, the conservative retreat founded by activist David Horowitz.
But before they join various Republican members of Congress and conservative commentators for a few days in South Florida, they're firing off this salvo in Sunday's Washington Post:
This is a critical moment for the country. From the faltering economy to the burdensome deficit to our foreign policy struggles, America is suffering a widespread sense of crisis and anxiety about the future. Under these circumstances, Obama has the opportunity to seize the high ground and the imagination of the nation once again, and to galvanize the public for the hard decisions that must be made. The only way he can do so, though, is by putting national interests ahead of personal or political ones.
To that end, we believe Obama should announce immediately that he will not be a candidate for reelection in 2012.
If the president goes down the reelection road, we are guaranteed two years of political gridlock, at a time when we can ill afford it. But by explicitly saying he will be a one-term president, Obama can deliver on his central campaign promise of 2008, draining the poison from our culture of polarization and ending the resentment and division that have eroded our national identity and common purpose.
So Schoen and Caddell show up at a conference for Republican politicians and pundits. They regularly trash Democrats for being too liberal. Schoen, at least, supported Republican congressional campaigns this cycle. And -- in their second Obama-trashing appearance on the Post's op-ed pages in the past month -- they say President Obama shouldn't seek re-election because the recent elections were "a vote of no confidence in Obama and his party" and he "has almost no credibility left with Republicans and little with independents."
And these are Fox News' Democrats.
Question: Do you think Karl Rove is defending their Democratic credentials because they're good for Democrats, or because they're good for Republicans? And what does one have to do to no longer be considered a "Democratic strategist" ?


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Eric Dane and wife Rebecca Gayheart – who was photographed sporting what seemed to be a baby bump just weeks ago – haven't yet confirmed they have a child on the way, but one of Dr. McSteamy's "Grey's Anatomy" co-stars can't wait for his new bundle of joy.
"Yes! I think he's going to be great," Sara Ramirez told Access Hollywood of Eric's pending fatherhood at the 5th Annual GLSEN Respect Awards at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Los Angeles on Friday night. "I think think he's going to be really fun and really tender – just a different side of him.
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"The parent's side of you is unlike anything else – that's what I hear," she joked.
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"I've seen pictures, I heard about them before they came along – it's exciting, it's thrilling." Sara said. "Ellen's coming back to the set soon, we're all really excited for her."
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This time it feels different, doesn't it? The Heat in the Big 3 Era always has found a way to keep things fresh and keep us fascinated, and now that means trying on a role unlike any the team has played in the previous three seasons. This time, for the first time since LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined Dwyane Wade, Miami enters a postseason seeming a bit vulnerable – something close to the unlikeliest of underdogs.
I don't mean right away, of course. The Heat should advance comfortably through the playoffs' first round starting here at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, and a spot back in the Eastern Conference finals seems safe to assume.
Overall, though, would you bet on a third consecutive NBA championship? Doesn't a three-peat and another parade along Biscayne Boulevard feel this season like a luxury you hope for but don't expect?
That alone is different.
In Year 1 of this grand experiment, the nationally vilified and envied Heat was the quintessential favorite from the moment the Big 3 rose from the earth that night at the arena when this era was christened. Miami was expected to maraud unimpeded through the playoffs, straight to the championship that seemed its destiny.
In Year 2, the Heat was no less a favorite because the first season fell just short – the team was the favorite even more because of that. Entering the playoffs, the Heat was LeBron with something to prove, a team on a mission
In Year 3 at this time, one year ago, Miami was the reigning champion in full bloom, preening over a recent 27-game winning streak. All the dynasty talk seemed justified. Earned. They were big favorites once again.
Now? Miami is coming off its worst regular-season record of this magical four-year run, and the power has shifted to the Western Conference, where mighty San Antonio, Kevin Durant's Oklahoma City and the Los Angeles Clippers all would enjoy home-court advantage over the Heat in an NBA Finals.
"We love to be challenged," James said. "We love to be doubted."
Then congratulations, Miami. You got both. If a challenge and doubt are the fuel you crave, then your tank should be overflowing with high octane this postseason.
The Heat's likeliest Eastern finals opponent would be Indiana (which would enjoy home-court advantage); Brooklyn (which was 4-0 against Miami this season); or Chicago (a Joakim Noah-led nuisance and nemesis for the Heat).
Survive that and you get, most likely, a Spurs team that looks like the best in the league without much question.
Odds at most Las Vegas sports books still have Miami as the title favorite, generally at 2-1 odds to 3-1 for San Antonio. But those lines purely reflect public opinion, which naturally would skew to the double defending champion with the sport's greatest player. The betting lines also factor that Miami faces what seems an easier path to the Finals from the least-East than does San Antonio in the best-West.
The perception of the Heat as an underdog is otherwise pretty evident.
ESPN has a constantly updated, computerized playoff forecaster, and the latest one puts Miami's championship odds at 7.2 percent. That's a 1-in-14 chance of a three-peat. And that ranks only fourth-best in the NBA, after three Western powers led by San Antonio at 38.6 percent.
Doesn't mean that computer model is accurate, but it's another indicator that what has not been the case entering any of the three previous postseasons is true now:
Miami is hardly a consensus favorite outside of its own fans' view.
And even many Heat fans seem unsure. For a small, anecdotal example, in a poll in my blog Wednesday, I asked if this year's Heat team was better, about the same or not as good as the past two seasons, and "not as good" was leading at 60.6 percent, "comparable" at 37.0 percent, and "better" at only 2.4 percent.
Again, doesn't mean those results are flawless, but they are another indicator of a different feel in the approach of this postseason. That feeling is doubt, in a place where cockiness used to thrive.
The reasons should start with how dominant San Antonio seems, but the reasons also are internal.
This is a gut feeling, but team chemistry does not seem quite as tight as it did last season. Remember, it was only three weeks ago, after a skid of seven loses in 11 games, that disharmony arose in a way it hadn't been since the first year of the Big 3.
"We suck," Bosh said last month. "There is no passion. There's nothing." Added LeBron James: "Too many excuses. Everything is an excuse. It's very frustrating." Coach Erik Spoelstra described his locker room as "angry."
Part of the concern is Wade's health, too, of course, after he missed 29 games – more than a third of the schedule – with various ailments or knee maintenance.
Can he be counted on for a full playoff run?
Health is an issue in general for Miami, an older team, more so than for most.
As Wade said: "When you want a veteran team, you better pack more ice."
Only partly because of Wade, there also has been lineup shuffling that leaves a sense of ongoing tinkering in terms of both the starting five and the depth/rotation.
Miami used 20 different starting lineups this season. The fivesome that opened the season – the Big 3 plus Mario Chalmers and Udonis Halsem – wound up starting only five games together, total. When that five started again April 12, it was their first time on the floor for an opening tip since Nov. 7.
Depth also seems less reliable than in the past. Of the team's two biggest additions, Greg Oden has been of limited use because of health, and Michael Beasley has fallen out of the regular rotation. Two key players off the bench, Ray Allen and Shane Battier, mostly just seem older. And the departed Mike Miller is greatly missed.
All of this together means another Miami title would, for the first time in the Big 3 era, feel like a bit of a surprise, which in and of itself gives this postseason an intrigue and unpredictability that feels welcome and fresh.
It seems strange to say of a two-time defending champion, but this year's Heat is challenged to prove it is still good enough.


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