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|PHILADELPHIA, PA - MAY 19: Pat Burrell hugs former teammate Chase Utley #26 of the Philadelphia Phillies after Burrell was honored after retiring before the start of the Phillies game against the Boston Red Sox in a MLB baseball game on May 19, 2012 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
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During pregame ceremonies, Pat Burrell was officially retired as a Phillies player, as he was given a special 1 day contract and threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to last night's game. Burrell threw the pitch to Chase Utley and there were many tears flowing on this emotional night at Citizens Bank Park.
It was not Joe Blanton's night on the mound last night. He had been sailing along just fine for for his last few starts prior to last night. Joe struck out 7 in the games on May 8th against the Mets, and 7 more on May 14th against Houston. Joe's ERA was down to 2.96 prior to the start last night as well, but the Red Sox made him pay for all that recent success.
The Red Sox clubbed 4 HR's last night, and even though the Phillies mounted a comeback, it was enough to overcome the onslaught of HR derby that the Red Sox displayed last night on the Fox Baseball Night in America broadcast. Blanton wasn't happy with home plate umpire,
Despite the Red Sox and Phillies being in last place in their own divisions in each league, the game was billed as 'two of the hottest teams in baseball' by the Fox broadcast just before the game came on.
Yes, these two teams have played better, but I think that opening remark was a bit strong to use with two last place teams. The Phillies no doubt have been playing better, and both teams after last night have 7-3 records in their last 10, but both teams are not a threat to leave the basement without getting some needed wins. The comparisons to both teams is curious as well, the Phils are 10-10 at home now, and the Red Sox are 10-10 on the road.
In the preseason, I picked the Phillies and the Red Sox to go to the World Series. At this time, that prediction seems a little off track. Stranger things have happened, but it's almost June and there is a long road ahead for both of these teams.
Fox Sports tells us more about the Red Sox win last night and how something may have inspired them to do so well.


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There have been a few changes on how Twitter Tools integrates with twitter. As a result, here is a test post.
I will admit that it was a bit tricky to follow the instructions from Twitter Tools and then interpret them to twitter's online form…
What you need to input:
- Application Name – Enter in what your normally publish to twitter. i.e. "shealaughlin.com new blog post"
- Description: "twitter integration will wordpress, twitter, and shealaughlin.com"
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- Callback URL: "http://www.blog.shealaughlin.com"
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It should be noted… Until I publish this, I have no idea if it works or not…


text: My primary area of teaching is focused on Modern Art in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. In addition, I have offered topics such as Modern Art in Paris, Chemistry and Art, Dada and Surrealism, and Interpreting Modern Art. I also teach an introduction to visual culture, and contribute to the department's Practicing Art History course. My general research interests include the relationship of art to science in the Modern era, the city of Paris as a center of Modern Art, and the role of technology in exploring visual knowledge. Some current projects include a study of the image of the night sky in 19th century painting, and a wiki on Modern Art in Paris.


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I was making a wooden clock which required a heavy base. I had come across some cabbage bark wood which had a very distinctive grain pattern. I liked the wood and the shape and size of the base and thought it could be the basis for an attractive box. I butt jointed 2 stock lengths of 70mm x 12mm and used the MDF templates I had made for the clock base to cut out a number of lengths to shape which were then laminated together to form the bottom and top of the box. I used Danish oil to finish.
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#1 posted 01-24-2014 04:06 PM
I've never heard of cabbage bark wood, but I do like this box. Well done.
-- "Everybody makes mistakes. A craftsman always fixes them." (Monty Kennedy, "The Checkering and Carving of Gunstocks", 1952)
#2 posted 01-24-2014 04:13 PM
A most unique box with great wood and super design.
#3 posted 01-24-2014 04:24 PM
Nice choice for the wood. We very seldom get any Cabbage Bark wood even though it grows all over Mexico, Central America and northern South America. Did you notice any unpleasant smell when you cut the wood? That is one reason why it is not more popular with lumber people. A lot of it is turned into flooring as it is hard, dense and has great color and grain. Nice work on the box.
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#4 posted 01-24-2014 04:38 PM
Nice job on the finish of a good lookinnn box.
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#5 posted 01-24-2014 04:40 PM
A+++++ on that trinket box, good lines very nice
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#6 posted 01-24-2014 04:41 PM
Beautiful box. I really like it. Like to try one of those.
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#7 posted 01-24-2014 05:05 PM
Nice box, the reminds me of 1/4 sawn saple
#8 posted 01-24-2014 05:34 PM
Sure has a nice grain to it. Looks great!
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#9 posted 01-24-2014 07:53 PM
Unique, definitely stands alone.
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#10 posted 01-25-2014 12:02 AM
Awesome wood grain and a nicely designed and finished box : )
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#12 posted 01-25-2014 09:35 PM
Very nice design and awesome finish. That wood is beautiful. So is your work!
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#13 posted 01-26-2014 12:02 AM
Great box ,First time I've seen that wool really a great job,
#14 posted 01-28-2014 11:12 PM
Beautiful box and the finish is just awesome .
#15 posted 10-09-2019 04:31 PM
That is a beautiful box, beautiful wood. Very "rich" looking.
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1. Introduction
Clathrates are polyhedral lattice structures in which a group of molecules traps other molecules. They are also known as "host-guest" complexes, inclusion compounds and, in the natural gas industry, gas hydrates. Gas hydrates are crystalline solids that are similar to ice. The temperature at which hydrates form is above the freezing point of water. These structures are characterized by a hydrogen-bonded water cage around a hydrophobic solute. Guest molecules are generally non-polar small molecules (e.g. light hydrocarbon gases, carbon dioxide and nitrogen) or polar molecules with large hydrophobic segments [1].
In natural gas processing facilities, hydrate formation can cause several problems, such as the plugging of pipelines and fittings, which prevents the free flow of gas. The understanding of this phenomenon from a theoretical point of view may help to plan and optimize prevention measures, such as the injection of inhibitors, which can displace the gas-solid equilibrium to a higher temperature or pressure. Another important field where hydrate thermodynamics has a fundamental role is the recovery of methane from the seabed. In recent years, large amounts of gas hydrate have been discovered in the seabed and in permafrost zones. Gas hydrates, in the near future, may be an important energy source.
Depending on the size and composition of the guest molecules, gas hydrates may have three different structures, namely, structures I, II and H. Normally, light gases such as methane, ethane and nitrogen induce sI-type structures, whereas larger molecules like propane, i-butane, and n-butane form sII structures. Examples of sH hydrates are those formed by isopentane and cycloheptane. Hydrate formation is favoured at high pressures and low temperatures.
To predict hydrate formation, there are several empirical correlations and theoretical models. Wilcox et al. [2] introduced the first predictive method. They assumed that hydrates are solid solutions, treating them as an ideal liquid solution, and the equilibrium conditions were obtained from the gas-solid distribution coefficients. Then, after the determination of the crystalline structures in the 1950s, thermo-statistics models were established in order to describe the distribution of gas molecules within the hydrate cavities, such as that proposed by van der Waals and Platteeuw [3] (vdWP). On the other hand, for fluid phases, many equations of state (EoS) have been employed, from cubic EoSs [4] to more sophisticated ones like SAFT [5-7] or CPA [8, 9]. At the present time, the coupling of vdWP with EoS is the most used approach for hydrate-gas-liquid equilibrium modelling.
Recently, Medeiros and Téllez-Arredondo have presented an EoS that can deal with the association of substances, namely, the cubic two-state (CTS) EoS [10]. Its basis is the combination of the Soave-Redlich-Kwong (SRK) EoS, representing the physical part, and the two-state association model for the hydrogen bonding contribution. The CTS EoS has an equivalent polynomial form, which is easily solvable by robust numerical methods. This model successfully describes the phase equilibria of many non-ideal systems, such as alkane-alcohol [10], water-alcohol, alcohol-alcohol [11] and alkanolamine-water-acid gas mixtures [12]. In this last paper, the CTS equation combined with an electrolyte model produced very good predictions of multicomponent systems from binary data only. Its simplicity encouraged us to employ it in modelling fluid phases in hydrate equilibria, coupled to the vdWP model. Accordingly, we organized this paper as follows. First, we present briefly the CTS EoS, the vdWP model and the hydrate-fluid-phase thermodynamics. Then, we describe the correlations between the measured data for pure compounds (water, nitrogen, hydrocarbons and inhibitors), for water-inhibitor vapour-liquid equilibrium (VLE) experimental data and for single-gas hydrate equilibrium data. The third section shows the prediction of multicomponent gas hydrate equilibrium conditions, with or without inhibitors. Finally, conclusions and additional remarks are presented in the last section.
2. The model
When a system reaches thermodynamic equilibrium, the fugacity of each component in all phases is equal. For hydrate(H)-Liquid(L)-Vapour(V) equilibrium this condition is expressed by the following system of equations:
where f is the fugacity, T the temperature, p the pressure, the vectors w, x and y are the molar composition of the phases. As mentioned in the introduction, EoSs produce expressions to calculate the fugacities of the fluid phases, whereas the vdWP model is the common model for the hydrate phase. In this work, we employed the CTS EoS-vdWP combination, which is briefly described below.
2.1 The CTS equation of state
In 2008, Medeiros and Tellez-Arredondo presented the CTS EoS [10]. In this equation, the SRK EoS describes the physical contribution to the Helmholtz energy and the modified two-state association model of Cerdeiriña et al. [13] gives the association part. The complete development of the model can be seen elsewhere [10-12]. For this EoS, the equation for the pressure is given by:
where R is the gas constant, T the temperature, v the molar volume, x is the vector of molar fractions x i , a is the mixture's dispersive parameter and b is the van der Waals mixture co-volume. In the association term, v ij is the characteristic volume of association of a pair of molecules i-j. The parameter f ij is given by:
where E ij is the energy of association between molecules i and j. For pure compounds, the dispersive function a(T) is given by the conventional Soave function:
where T ri is the reduced temperature T ri = T / Tci. This EoS has five parameters for pure compounds: a 0i , b i and c 1i for the physical part and v ii and E ii for the association contribution. These parameters are regressed by fitting the equation to the measured saturation pressures and densities of saturated liquids.
For non-associating compounds, like hydrocarbons, CTS reduces to the SRK EoS. The combining and mixing rules for the physical part are the conventional van der Waals rules:
where k ij is the binary interaction parameter, which corrects the geometric mean rule for a ij . For the cross-association parameters, the combining rules employed here were those suggested by Reynoso-Lopez et al. [11]:
where l ij is the binary interaction parameter for correcting the arithmetic mean rule for the cross-association energy. These binary parameters among associative substances are determined by fitting the EoS to measured VLE experimental data. From direct thermodynamics, the fugacity coefficient of species k(Φ k = f k / x k .p) from the CTS EoS is given by:
In this work, we used Eq.10 for calculating the fugacities in the fluid phases.
2.2 The vdWP model
In the vdWP model, the thermodynamic properties of hydrates are the result of a three-dimensional generalization of the ideal adsorption. In this model, the hydrates are solid solutions. The basic hypotheses of this model are as follows: (i) the contribution of the guest molecules to the free energy is independent of the way they occupy the cavities, i.e. the caged molecules do not distort the host lattice. (ii) Each cavity can cage only one guest molecule, which cannot diffuse out of the cavity. (iii) There are no interactions between solute molecules. (iv) Quantum effects are neglected, so that classical statistics is valid.
The result is an expression for calculating the water fugacity in the hydrate phase:
The vdWP model allows the estimation of the water chemical-potential change in the process of enclathration of the guest molecules:
where µ is the chemical potential, subscript w denotes water, superscripts H and EH refer to hydrate and empty hydrate, respectively, and n m is the number of type m cavities per water molecule. For sI hydrates n1 = 1/23 and n2 = 3/23, and for sII structures n1 = 2/17 and n2 = 1/17. q jm is the occupancy of molecules j in type m cages. The Langmuir adsorption relation gives the occupancy, assuming one guest per cavity:
where f is the fugacity calculated by an EoS, and C mj are the Langmuir constants for the cage type m and guest molecule j. These constants can be determined by evaluating the configurational integral of guest-host and guest-guest intermolecular potentials or, empirically, by the method of Parrish and Prausnitz [14]:
Parrish and Prausnitz adjusted A mj and B mj to fit Eq.15 to the values calculated with the Kihara intermolecular potential [14]. On the other hand, Folas et. al [9] made them adjustable in order to correlate experimental hydrate data with the CPA EoS. They followed the suggestion of Munck et al. [15], which states that adjusting these parameters allows better predictions of dissociation pressures for multicomponent hydrates. We employed the same approach.
Concerning the first hypothesis of the vdWP model, it is important to mention that there are evidences which show that guest affects host-host interactions [16]. Based on these evidences, Lee and Holder [17] devised a model which allows the calculation of the reference chemical potential depending on the guest, which is used to determine the Langmuir constants C mj via the configurational integral. Here, as previously mentioned, we decided to use Eq.15 to estimate the Langmuir constants with adjustable A mj and B mj , following Folas et al. [9] and Munck et al. [15]. Indeed, the effect of cage distortion is implicit in the regressed parameters.
The following relation estimates the fugacity of an empty hydrate:
where is the vapour pressure of a hypothetical empty hydrate, which is assumed to be very low. v EH is the molar volume of the empty hydrate, which depends on temperature and on hydrate structure but not on the guest type. For the empty hydrate vapour pressure, we employed the correlation of Sloan [1]:
We evaluated the empty hydrates' molar volumes with the Avlonitis correlation [18]:
where T 0 is 273.15 K. The parameters of Eqs. and are listed in Table 1 for sI and sII structures.
In the next section, we present and discuss the regressions of the model's parameters.
3. Parameter estimation
According to the previous section, the CTS-vdWP model has the following undetermined parameters: (i) for pure compounds, five CTS parameters (a 0 , b, c 1 , v ii , E ii ); (ii) for each pair, two CTS binary parameters (k ij and l ij ); (iii) for each hydrate guest molecule, two parameters for the Parrish-Prausnitz equation (Eq. ) (A mj and B mj ). We applied the following strategy to calculate them:
Determination of the five parameters (a 0 , b, c 1 , v ii , E ii ) for pure species (water, nitrogen, methane, ethane, propane, n-butane, i-butane, ethylene glycol and triethylene glycol) from their measured saturation pressures and liquid densities at saturation.
Estimation of binary parameters for the pairs of associating species H2O-MEG, H2O-TEG, H2O-metlianol and H2O-ethanol. The required experimental data were binary VLE data.
Regression of Parrish-Prausnitz parameters for solutes in both structures sI and sII, using gas hydrate measured data from the NIST database [19].
Regarding the water-hydrocarbon binary parameters, it is well known that predicting/correlating hydrocarbon aqueous solubility is a challenge for almost all EoSs. Economou and Tsonopoulos [20] have shown that the solubility is normally underestimated in many cases orders of magnitude with quadratic mixing rules. This happens even for more sophisticated EoSs, such as SAFT, APACT and CTS. Despite their poor solubility description, many successful coupling of EoS-vdWP for hydrate equilibrium correlation was obtained. Unconventional mixing rules are required in order to simultaneously correlate hydrate and vapor-liquid equilibrium. In the case of CTS, we are currently working on a new non-quadratic mixing rule, similar to those suggested by: (a) Prausnitz and co-workers for SRK EoS [21] and by (b) ourselves for CPA EoS [22]. In these mixing rules, water-water dispersive parameter is corrected by the presence of a hydrophobic solute. In this paper, we only focused on correlating hydrate dissociation pressures. Then, for the sake of simplicity, no binary interaction parameters were used for hydrocarbons and nitrogen, i.e. k ij for all pairs including these compounds were set to 0.
3.1 Pure compounds
The objective function for parameter regression of the pure compounds was
where Ω is the vector of the parameters [Ω = (a0,b,c 1,vii,Eii)], p s is the saturation pressure, and r s is the liquid density at saturation conditions. Superscripts exp and CTS mean experimental and calculated with the CTS EoS. The summations run over the available measured data. Table 2 shows the parameters and deviations from experimental data. As expected, the CTS data correlated closely with the pure compounds' properties. For water, the parameters were regressed in the temperature range of hydrate formation.
3.2 Binary parameters for water-inhibitors
Thermodynamic inhibitors have the ability to shift the pressure-temperature equilibrium conditions. Common inhibitors in industry are alcohols, glycols and salts. These compounds have the capacity to interact with water and to inhibit cage formation. Methanol is the cheapest one, and the most used. Here, we evaluated how methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol and triethylene glycol affected gas hydrate equilibria. Then, the VLE data of water-inhibitor mixtures were correlated using the CTS EoS. The binary parameters were determined by minimizing the following objective function:
where ϕ is the bubble pressure or temperature, depending on the experimental data set. Table 3 shows the regressed parameters and the deviations produced by the EoS modelling. Figs. 1 and 2 show the phase envelopes for the glycol mixtures studied here. Alcohol-water pairs could be described with only one parameter (see reference 11), whereas for water-glycol pairs both k ij and l ij have nonzero values. The CTS EoS successfully correlated the VLE data.
3.3 Parrish-Prausnitz parameters for calculation of Langmuir constants
The parameters A mj and B mj in Eq. 15, required for the evaluation of the Langmuir constants, were adjusted in order to correlate the single and binary hydrate dissociation pressures. In these calculations, as previously mentioned, binary parameters for liquid water-gas and gas-gas were set to 0. The minimized objective function was:
where p is the hydrate dissociation pressure. Table 4 shows the regressed constants for single and binary gas hydrates. Methane and ethane constants in the sII structures were regressed from the dissociation pressures for the mixtures methane-propane and ethane-propane. For n-butane constants in both structures sI and sII, the regressions ran over the data of the binaries methane-butane and propane-butane. Parameters for nitrogen in sI structures were determined from the methane-nitrogen equilibrium pressures.
Table 5 presents the correlation deviations. For the sake of comparison, this table also shows the deviations from the Bandyopadhyay-Klauda (BK) model [4]. For the BK model, the program kindly provided by Dr. Klauda generated the predictions. Both models produce quite similar results.
Fig. 3 shows graphically the CTS-vdWP correlation for the binary data. Very good agreement between the measured data and the correlation was achieved. The CTS-vdWP model produced average absolute deviations (AADs) from the experimental data not exceeding 8%, except for n-butane with 21%.
The agreement with the measured data was good, considering the large interval of pressures covered (from 0.1 to 220 MPa).
4. Predictions: multicomponent mixtures and inhibitors
The final step in this work was to check whether the proposed model is able to predict uncorrelated dissociation pressures for multicomponent hydrates and the effect of inhibitors in shifting equilibrium conditions. The employed parameters were those determined in the previous steps and with no further regressions. In the following calculations, the binary parameters for gas-gas, gas-liquid water and gas-inhibitors were set to 0. Kontogeorgis et al. [72] employed this same approximation using the CPA EoS.
4.1 Mixed-gas hydrates
Table 6 presents the studied mixtures and the sources of experimental data for comparison. Table 7 shows the predictions' deviations, and they are compared with the BK model. These mixed-gas hydrates form both sI and sII structures.
The average deviation of the predictions from the measured data was 18%, with a regular behaviour among the studied mixtures. We believe that these deviations could have been lowered if the binary parameters fixed to 0 had been adjusted, especially for water-hydrocarbon pairs. The BK model, for instance, estimates hydrocarbons solubilities via excess Gibbs energy mixing rule which better estimates the interaction between water and the non-polar compounds. Compared with other EoS-vdWP combinations, the deviations observed here are similar to those obtained with Peng-Robinson (11-28%) and PC-SAFT EoSs (15-28%), as reported by Economou and co-workers [78]. In this study, they used the quadratic rules with no binary parameters too. In the near future, we are planning to use complex mixing rules, such as those suggested by ourselves [22], in order better describe water-hydrocarbon mutual solubilities. Fig. 4 shows the reasonable agreement with the measured pressures for CH4 + i-C4H10 and for CH4 + C2H6 + C3H8 mixtures.
Depending on the conditions, multiple-guest hydrates can present different structures. Table 8 shows that for the mixture methane-ethane both sI and sII structures can be formed. The most stable structure is the one with the lowest equilibrium pressure. Table 8 also shows that sI is favoured at lower concentrations of methane, as mentioned by Bandyopadhyay et al. [4].
In summary, the correlations/predictions of hydrate equilibrium pressures have a maximum deviation of 23% in a very broad range of pressures that are common in natural gas facilities.
4.2 Gas hydrates in presence of inhibitors
Similarly to the multi-gas hydrate predictions, no regressions were performed when inhibitors were present in the gas mixtures. Furthermore, the inhibitor-gas binary parameters were also set to 0. Table 9 presents the deviations of the predictions for the mixtures studied here. Yet again, the deviations from the measured equilibrium pressures are very acceptable for all inhibitors except for 2-propanol. The overall average AAD was 13%, with a maximum of 33% (2-propanol excluded). As expected, an increase of the inhibitor fraction decreases the predicted equilibrium temperature at a given pressure. Furthermore, at constant temperature, the equilibrium pressure rises. Fig. 5 illustrates this fact. Also from this figure, the model correctly predicts the transition from HLV to HLL equilibrium when 20% wt methanol is present. Both the model prediction and the measured data present a subtle change in the slope at approximately 276 K. Fig. 6 presents the accuracy of the predictions of hydrate equilibrium pressures for methane sI, ethane sI and propane sII in the presence of methanol. Although the deviations presented in Table 9 reach 24% for some cases, the overall predictions are in very good agreement with the experimental data. The model estimations show that the higher the inhibitor concentrations are, the more substantial the predictions' deviations.
The assumption of null binary parameters for inhibitor-gas pairs is probably the cause of the greater deviations under those conditions. For 2-propanol, it is possible that interactions with the gas are more important and the null binary parameter leads to great deviations.
5. Concluding remarks
We employed the combination of van der Waals-Platteeuw with the CTS EoS model for correlating and predicting hydrate formation conditions. The modelling of hydrate dissociation pressure required the adjustment of the following model parameters: (i) CTS constants of the pure components from experimental data within a temperature range relevant for hydrate formation; (ii) water-inhibitors (methanol, ethanol, 2-propanol, ethylene glycol and triethylene glycol) EoS binary parameters from VLE experimental data, and (iii) Parrish-Prausnitz parameters for the calculation of Langmuir constants from single-hydrate measured data. The correlations are in very good agreement with the measured data. The above mentioned parameters were then employed to predict the behaviour of multicomponent hydrates, with and without thermodynamic inhibitors. The resulting predictions are very close to the measured data, except when 2-propanol is the inhibitor. It was found that when increasing the inhibitor concentration, the inhibitor-gas interactions played a greater role; therefore, binary parameters for these interactions should be taken into account. This holds especially for inhibitors capable of interacting with gases, such as 2-propanol.
Future developments will include an electrolytic contribution to the EoS. This is particularly important for studying seafloor hydrates and their dissociation conditions. The CTS-electrolyte approach successfully correlated/predicted acid gas solubilities in alkanolamines [12], and we expect that it will also work for the study of hydrates.


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Speaking on Israel's Channel 10 News, Britain's Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, surprised viewers with an uncharacteristically forthright warning: "Israel is now seen as the Goliath and it's the Palestinians who are seen as the David."
He maintained that the international community's support for Israel is diminishing over the shelved two–state solution, colony expansion on the West Bank and the continuing blockade of Gaza. In 10 years time, he said, Israelis could wake up to find that the world will no longer tolerate the status quo.
If Israelis perceive Gould's words as an attack, they're wrong. A descendent of Polish Jews, he was proud to be Britain's first Jewish ambassador to Israel. He is no anti-Semite or self-hating Jew. He co-launched an appeal to aid Holocaust survivors and, in 1997, he hosted a conference to discuss the return of gold stolen from Jews by the Nazis to its rightful owners. Clearly, Gould is concerned enough about the future of the Jewish state to raise his head above the parapet to speak the truth as he sees it.
His message is backed-up by facts. The results of a British poll, published in the Jewish Chronicle last May, shows "Pro-Israeli sentiment in the UK has dropped from 25 per cent to 17 per cent in a decade." While 64 per cent of those polled believe Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state, only 8 per cent blamed Palestinians for obstructing the peace process.
According to Gould, negative sentiments aren't limited to the British public; he says he's witnessed British MPs becoming more critical of Israel. Most Israelis may have little regard for British attitudes, dismissed as those of bleeding-heart left-wingers. but they deeply care about the trend in the US where Israel is also losing ground.
The April 18 issue of the Tablet, a daily online magazine that bills itself as "a new read on Jewish life," highlights a conference, held in Bethlehem, attended by "leading lights from the evangelical community in North America and Europe."
Evangelicals are traditionally fervent flag wavers for the Jewish state. On this occasion, however, "many of the speeches at the conference" blamed "the entire Middle East conflict on Israel's occupation and the [colonies]." The report does stress that while the "vast majority of evangelicals still maintain" their support for Israel, "there is an increasingly heated debate in the evangelical community that may augur a shift in the political winds."
Surely there is one community within the US that will always be unwaveringly pro-Israel—the American-Jewish community. Not necessarily, argues author and scholar Norman Finkelstein. In his book Knowing too much: Why the American Jewish Romance with Israel is coming to an end, he contends that a new generation of Jews in America can no longer be counted upon to reflexively back Israeli policies and have begun to question whether Israelis are as liberally-minded as they once thought.
Finkelstein, whose mother survived a Nazi concentration camp, is persona non grata in Israel because of his vocal support for the Palestinian cause and, therefore, he may have an axe to grind. But the same cannot be said of former editor of the New Republic Peter Beinart, an orthodox Jew who has recently published a book, titled The crisis of Zionism. President Bill Clinton described it as "a deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel . . ."
Pariah state
Like Finkelstein, Beinart believes young American Jews aren't as connected to Israel or the pro-Israel lobby as their forefathers, opting to champion human rights, including those of Palestinians. Former Israeli prison guard and Jerusalem Post contributor Jeffrey Goldberg, currently with The Atlantic, concurs.
In an article, he condemned the Israeli prime minister for failing to grasp that Israel cannot maintain the occupation of the West Bank without becoming a pariah state and warns him not to be confused by the standing ovations he receives during AIPAC conferences as "AIPAC, at this point, represents the outlook of a minority of Jewish Americans, and certainly a minority of younger Jewish Americans."
The Israeli government is not oblivious to the danger. Last year, the Ministry of Immigrant Absorption sponsored ads in the US asking Israeli expatriates to return home and featured videos on its website rebuking Israelis who raise their children in America. Earlier the government launched a media campaign urging Jews not to marry outside their religion with a warning that doing so constituted "a strategic national threat" as "more than 50 percent of diaspora youth assimilate and are lost to us."
It is of note that Mitt Romney's recent ignorant remarks at an occupied Jerusalem fundraiser lauding Jewish culture as responsible for Israel's economic success as opposed to the Palestinians' poor economic showing, were attacked by Jewish groups in America.—and, surprise, surprise, one of Israel's prime media cheerleaders, The New York Times, gave front page prominence to an op-ed by a Palestinian businessman, headlined "Occupation, not culture, is holding Palestinians back"
For now, Israelis can sleep tight in the knowledge that their superpower protector and benefactor won't let them down. But as Gould and others who hold Israel close to their hearts believe, unless Israel's government changes its hardline tack, a lonely future awaits.
Linda S. Heard is a British specialist writer on Middle East affairs. She welcomes feedback and can be contacted by email at email@example.com.


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Learner's Permit Checklist in New York
Learner's Permit Checklist
How to Get Your New York Learner's Permit
- Be at least 16 years old
- Complete a practice test (optional)**
- Make an appointment with your local NY DMV office
- Bring all documents and payment, and take all required permit tests
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Give yourself the prep you need to make sure you ace your test on the very first try. Use a multimedia online practice test tailored specifically to your NY permit exam, and beat the statistics!
Bring to the NY DMV office:
- Proof of identity and age. *
- Your Social Security card.
- A completed:
- Application for Permit, Driver License or Non-Driver ID Card (Form MV-44).
- Eye Test Report (Form MV-619), if you prefer not to take the vision exam at the DMV.
- Must be completed by your eye doctor.
- Payment for permit fee.
- Varies by age—see the DMV's fee chart.
* See below for a list of acceptable documents.
At the DMV...
- Submit the required documents listed above.
- Pass your written knowledge exam.
- Pass a vision test.
- Waived if you provide the completed Eye Test Report (Form MV-619)—see above.
- Pay the permit fee (see the DMV's list).
List of Acceptable Identity Documents
From the list below, you must provide-
- 1 document proving your date of birth.
- Documents adding up to 4 points proving your name and date of birth.
- This is in addition to providing your Social Security card. If you are ineligible for a Social Security number, you must provide documents that total 6 points, plus a letter from the SSA declaring your ineligibility.
Proof of Name and DOB
- Original birth certificate ( 0 points)
- Valid U.S. passport ( 4 points)
- NYS driver's license or ID card ( 6 points)
- U.S. or Canadian Driver's license ( 2 points)
- Statement of Identity and/or Residence (Form MV-45; 6 points)
- For applicants under 21 years old, must be signed at DMV office by parent/guardian)
- U.S. Consular Report of Birth Abroad ( 0 points)
- U.S. military ID ( 3 points)
- Certificate of Citizenship ( 3 points)
- Certificate of Naturalization ( 3 points)
For a full list of acceptable documents, please reference the NY DMV's proof of identification instructions form.
NOTE to applicants under 21 years old:
Permit applicants younger than 21 years old may not possess some of the eligible documents listed above to prove their identity.
If this is the case, your parent or guardian may complete the Form MV-45 (see above), but you will STILL need to provide proof of your birthdate, as well as your Social Security card (or proof of ineligibility).
- Vision Test Report
- Submit this form in lieu of taking a vision exam at the NY DMV when applying for your driver's license. Must be completed by a medical professional.
- Statement of Identity and/or Residence by Parent/Guardian
- Use this form if your child doesn%u2019t have adequate proof of name or residence. MUST be completed AT the DMV office by a parent/guardian.
- Application for Permit, Driver License or Non-Driver ID Card
- Application for original OR replacement NY learner's permit, identification card, OR driver's license.


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ROME – Measles is spreading across Europe wherever immunisation coverage has dropped, the World Health Organization is warning.
The largest outbreaks are being seen in Italy and Romania.
In the first month of this year, Italy reported more than 200 cases. Romania has reported more than 3,400 cases and 17 deaths since January 2016.
Measles is highly contagious. Travel patterns mean no person or country is beyond its reach, says the WHO.
For good protection, it's recommended that at least 95 per cent of the population is vaccinated against the disease.
But many countries are struggling to achieve that.
Most of the measles cases have been found in countries where immunisation has dipped below this threshold and the infection is endemic – France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Switzerland and Ukraine.
Preliminary information for February suggests that the number of new infections is rising sharply, says the WHO.
WHO regional director for Europe Dr Zsuzsanna Jakab said: "I urge all endemic countries to take urgent measures to stop transmission of measles within their borders, and all countries that have already achieved this to keep up their guard and sustain high immunisation coverage."
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control says that between 1 February 2016 and 31 January 2017 the UK reported 575 cases of measles.
The MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) vaccine is available on the NHS for babies and pre-school children.
Robb Butler, of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, says there are a number of reasons why vaccination coverage has waned in some regions.
"In some countries, like the Ukraine, there have been supply and procurement issues."
Then there's vaccine hesitancy. Some people are fearful of vaccination, while others are complacent or find it an inconvenience, he says.
In France, for example, people need to make an appointment with their doctor to get a prescription, go to the pharmacy to collect the vaccine and then rebook with their doctor to have the jab administered.
"We need to get to the point where we appreciate that people have busy lives and competing priorities."
Dr Mary Ramsay, Head of Immunisation at Public Health England, said: "England's uptake of MMR vaccine by five years of age has reached the WHO's target of 95 per cent.
"In the last year, the measles cases confirmed in England have mainly been in older adolescents and young adults with many linked to music festivals and other large public events. Individuals of any age who have not received two doses of the MMR vaccine, or those who are unsure, should speak to their GP – it's never too late to have the vaccine and measles can still be serious in adults. We are continuing to invest in programmes which encourage uptake of the vaccine to ultimately consign measles to the history books."


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Digital Signage Installation Yorkshire – As part of our Digital Signage Solutions we have just installed a Kramer HDMI distribution system in Fisher Medical Centre Skipton that had the requirement to distribute the content from a digital signage computer to three monitors in three different areas throughout the medical centre.
Due to the distance and the restrictions on sending HDMI over long distances we opted for the Kramer HDMI over CAT 6 pico tools senders and receivers that also carry power to the receiver.
The Kramer HDMI distribution amplifier features 1 in and 4 out all on HDMI connections and with the small size of the pico units we were able to hide these quite well both in the reception area and behind each TV we have installed the receiver, each TV was then able to receive a full high definition signal from one central PC location therefore give them a digital signage installation solution.
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Kinder Scout – Peak District Country Walk – Edale-Kinder Scout-Jacob's Ladder round
The Peak District is made up of two areas The White Peak which is a limestone plateau of green fields with rolling hills and many dales and The Dark Peak (or High Peak) which is a series of higher, wilder and boggier grit stone moorlands. The Peak District is also known as the Derbyshire Peak District and also covers areas of Greater Manchester, Staffordshire, Cheshire, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire. Although there are no prominent boundaries the central and most rural area of the Peaks lie within the Peak District National Park. The Peak District National Park Authority provides public facilities such as car parks, public toilets, visitor centres and also maintains the rural nature of the park although most of the land is still owned by the traditional landlords.
Edale set in a lovely position below Kinder Scout and situated in The Dark Peak area also gives its name to the valley between Mam Tor, Lose Hill and Kinder Scout. The valley is a collection of farming hamlets or booths dotted along the valley which grew around the original shelters or boothies used by shepherds when tending their sheep on the hillsides, such as Nether Booth, Barber Booth, Ollerbrook Booth, Upper Booth and Grindsbrook Booth. Edale car park has public toilets with disabled facilities and just a short walk away is Edale Station, the line was built in 1894 between Manchester and Sheffield. The village built of local grit stone also houses a cafe, two pubs, a post office and general store, an early 19th century school and a late 19th century church. There are two camp sites one at Coopers Farm alongside the post office and the other being Fieldhead which belongs to the Peak National Park and is also an information centre. There are also a few B&Bs, some holiday cottages and the two pubs have accommodation. The Old Naggs Head, once the village blacksmiths, is the official start of the Pennine Way. The Pennine Way often referred to as the back bone of England is 267 miles long and heads north passing through the Yorkshire Dales and the Northumberland National Park ending at Kirk Yetholm just inside the Scottish Border.
Kinder Scout at 631 metres is the highest point in the Peak District and is a high windswept upland grit stone plateau which rises steeply from the surrounding ground and the edges are studded with rocky outcrops, crags, boulders and large stones that are very interesting due to some of their shapes that resemble animals, fish, people and many other objects putting the imagination into over drive. The huge moorland plateau of degraded blanket bog is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a designated National Nature Reserve. The erosion of thousands of walking visitors, over grazing, wildfires and atmospheric pollution has led to areas of bare peat which are in danger of being washed away, forming deep gullies and releasing carbon into the atmosphere. The National Trust, who this year celebrates 30 years of ownership of Kinder Scout, started a programme in 1982 to restore the area and even though it is regaining its former glory the battle for Kinder Scout continues and restoration will continue up to until 2015 costing £2.5m with the help of United Utilities and Natural England. This year is also the 80th anniversary of the famous Mass Trespass when in 1932 nearly 500 working class ramblers, locals and members of the "Right to Ramble" organisation gathered on both sides of Kinder Scout to walk on the private land. After a brief but vigorous battle with landowners and game keepers who tried to stop the trespassing onto the land the walkers marched on to Ashop Head. Some ramblers were later arrested and some of them received jail sentences of several months on charges of incitement and riotous assembly. The ramblers were inspired by the dramatic scenery of Kinder and the Mass Trespass was a campaign for better access to the countryside and its success led to the creation of the National Parks in 1949. In 1951 the Peak District National Park was established and Kinder Scout opened to the public for the first time. To celebrate the anniversary there is to be a week of walks, talks, exhibitions and events starting off with a launch event at the Moorland Discovery Centre in Edale on Tuesday the 24th April.
Crowden Tower is a large rocky outcrop overlooking the spectacular and often iced over falls of Crowden Beck.
Jacob's Ladder is short but very steep situated on an old pack horse route.
The walk
We park in Edale car park then walk out of the car park and turn right and then right again towards Edale Station. The station is on the left but we head straight forward under the railway bridge and walk past the Ramblers Inn on the left. We carry on following the road past Fieldhead, the Peak National Park's camp site and information centre, on the right and then past the church on the left until we reach the main village of Edale. We head forward past the post office and general store on the left and the school on the right and walk to the left of The Old Nags Head. We keep to the road and just round the bend to the left we take the footpath on the right signposted Grinds Brook. We now go downhill on some steps and cross over the bridge over the stream, Grinds Brook, and up the steps on the other side and turn left onto the stone slab footpath. We head forwards past a barn on the left towards the trees. We walk through the small wood, cross over a little bridge and follow the path uphill with Grinds Brook and the valley on the left admiring the waterfalls as we go. We come to a few steps and then the path disappears and we walk up Grinds Brook over the rocks walking and climbing from one side to the other finding the easiest way up. We eventually reach the end of the valley and climb very steeply up the rocks to the top. At the top we head for the cairn and admire the views. We then head forward slightly left on the stone footpath along the top of the ridge with the steep drop on the left and the moor on the right we are now walking towards Crowden Tower. We keep following the path and the rocky out crop of Crowden Tower can be seen in the distance. We then come to a gully, just below the tower, where we drop down and cross over the dry bed of Crowden Brook. We then take the second path uphill to the top of Crowden Tower. After admiring the wonderful views we take the path towards the rocks in the distance. We keep walking along the ridge through the amazing and strange shaped rocks and then through some boulders. At Noe Stool we keep following the path slightly to the left towards Swine's Back, the outcrop in the distance. When we reach Swine's Back we take the path downhill on the left and then the path bears to the left still going downhill we are now on our way to Jacob's Ladder. We come to a sign post saying Public Footpath by Jacob's Ladder to Edale turn left here. We walk down the steep steps of Jacob's Ladder and cross over the little bridge over the stream and turn right through the gate. We follow the path, the Pennine Way, and pass through Lee House, where there is a shelter with some information leaflets, and then follow the tarmac track to the road. At the road we turn right go over a bridge and then turn left into Upper Booth farm opposite the telephone box and then turn right following the sign for the Pennine Way. We walk through the fields rising up a little at Broadlee Bank Tor and then follow the path down to Edale where we turn right and walk back down the road we came up back to Edale car park.
This is a moderate to hard walk with steep inclines and declines especially at the top of Grinds Brook and Jacob's Ladder.
Approx 8 miles using OS map OL1, The Peak District – Dark Area.
Edale is in the Edale Valley of the Peak District.
From Sheffield take the A57 towards Glossop and then turn left at Ladybower Reservoir on to the A6013. On reaching a main T-Junction turn right on to the A6187 towards Hope and Castleton. At Hope turn right along a small road sign posted Edale for approx 5 miles and the Edale car park is on the right.
Toilets and Refreshments
There are public toilets in Edale car park and for refreshments there is the Penny Pot Cafe next to Edale Station and there are two pubs the Ramblers Inn and The Old nags Head and also the combined Edale post office and general store.
We stayed at the Old Nags Head in Castleton for £25 per person including a great breakfast.


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These Professions Don't Make Great Drivers
NEW YORK – Your job can be stressful, and that stress can affect the way you drive. So, it may not be surprising that those working long hours in a high-pressure environment have the highest premiums.
A new report found that those who work in the healthcare industry are also some of those most likely to cause a car accident – and general practitioners are twice as likely to make a claim than other careers.
According to the study, almost 13 percent of GPs have been in a car crash in the past five years, and several other healthcare professions dominated the list of jobs that have oddly high claim rates. The top ten most at-risk careers include:
- District Nurse (10.46%)
- Drug Addiction Counselor (10.49%)
- Optometrist (10.6%)
- Dietician (10.6%)
- Hospital Doctor (10.66%)
- Psychologist (10.73%)
- Surgeon (11.13%)
- Chiropodist (12%)
- Hospital Consultant (12.65%)
- General Practitioner (12.98%)
Experts say those who work in medicine are typically under a high amount of stress, and that kind of pressure has a huge impact on the way they drive – even when they aren't distracted. Unfortunately, these careers are often demanding, and it can be difficult to leave work at the office when a person gets in their car, researchers said.
In contrast, some jobs make very safe drivers, like butchers. Only one-percent of those who work in the meat-packing industry have filed a claim in the last five years. Other relatively safe drivers included:
- Construction Workers (3.49%)
- Couriers (4.70%)
- Athletes (5.44%)
The new findings are not only concerning for those working in the healthcare industry – it should also concern patients and their families.
Occupational health experts say high-stress professions, like those found in a hospital, can dramatically affect a person's cognitive functions and overall health. In many cases, a person can become clumsy or absent minded, and they can often struggle to concentrate on tasks.
Driving a vehicle is just one of those important tasks. In some cases, stress has been linked to medical errors.
Those mistakes are now the third leading cause of death in the United States, claiming over 250,000 lives each year. A New York medical malpractice lawyer at Cellino & Barnes says almost all of these accidents are preventable, but hospitals continue to place high demands on their doctors and support staff.
If you or a loved one has suffered as the result of a medical error, you may be entitled to significant compensation. Some of these errors include:
- Birth Injuries
- Treatment Errors
- Incorrect Diagnosis
- Pharmaceutical Errors
- Infection
- Incorrect Dosage/Prescription
When any of these mistakes happen, you need someone to stand-up for your rights. The New York medical malpractice lawyers at Cellino & Barnes have represented injured victims in the Empire State for over 50 years, and they've helped clients obtain more than $2 billion in settlements and verdicts.
An experienced New York medical malpractice attorney can fully investigate your claim, to help you and your family get the best result possible. For a free consultation, contact Cellino & Barnes today.
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Ingredient of the week: satsuma oranges
It is the season for citrus – and satsuma oranges are among the sweetest varieties. We've put together a collection of sweet, savoury and boozy recipes featuring the fruit, including a Juicy Satsuma Orange Cake, Orange Quinoa Salad with Almonds, Olives and Feta, and a Basil-Satsuma Julep.
Related – more ingredients of the week
Seedless and easy to peel, satsuma oranges belong to the Citrus unshiu species and are closely related to clementines and tangerines in the mandarin orange family. The common English name "satsuma" comes from the Japanese province, which was one of the first exporters.
Nutritionally speaking, satsuma oranges (and other varieties of mandarin oranges) are a very good source of vitamins A and C, and a good source of dietary fibre. There are 103 calories in one cup (195g).
The Sweet
Juicy Satsuma Orange Cake
Amelia Morris of Bon Appetémpt shares a fragrant and flavourful recipe for Juicy Satsuma Orange Cake from Andrea Reusing's Cooking in the Moment.
Satsuma Orange Gelée
This dairy-free Satsuma Orange Gelée recipe from Inspiring the Everyday uses a layer of soft set coconut cream atop the orange gelée. Cream would work well as a substitution if you'd like to use dairy instead.
Satsuma Pistachio Dacquoise and Buttercream
Make dacquioise petits fours or macarons using this recipe from Tartelette. The ingredients are the same: pistachios, pomegranate and satsuma orange zest and juice.
The Savoury
Citrus-Tamari Rosemary Maple Tofu Steaks with Warm Satsuma Wedges
This protein-rich vegan recipe from Healthy. Happy. Life. features sautéed tofu steaks served with warm satsuma orange wedges resulting in a colourful and flavourful main dish.
Seared Sea Scallops with Satsuma, Parsley, and Shallot Salsa
Seared sea scallops are topped with satsuma, parsley and shallot salsa in this main course recipe from Cooking Light.
Orange Quinoa Salad with Almonds, Olives and Feta
Diced satsuma segments as well as the zest flavour this quinoa salad from Food52. Chopped roasted almonds and kalamata olives, and crumbled feta round out the fresh flavours.
The Boozy
Satsuma Mojito
An entire satsuma orange is muddled with rum, mint, lime and simple syrup in CHOW's recipe for a Satsuma Mojito.
Three Satsuma-Cello Cocktails
Satsuma-Cello is Southern Living's version of the Italian classic limoncello cordial. It can be served chilled, on its own, or in the three cocktail recipes included: Satsuma Old-Fashioned, Rosemary-Satsuma Julep, and a Basil-Satsuma Julep.
Franny's Satsuma Cocktail
Gin, Italian vermouth, satsuma mandarin juice and simple syrup combine in this refreshing cocktail recipe developed by mixologist Francine Stephens of Franny's (via New York Magazine).
Source for nutritional information: Self Nutrition Data


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Iam facing the same problem,can you let me know how is it resolved(if it is)
i have an 18 month old sony bravia that has started turning itself off and then back on again automatically . it does this within 5 to 30 seconds of it being switched on . ive changed the remote batteries , checked the cables , moved the plug to a different wall socket but its still doing it . the tv does not stay on long enough for me to check the settings. i have disconnected all the dvd and sky boxes and it still does it ...has anyone got any ideas ?


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What are WATR Working Meetings?
WATR Working Meetings are opportunities for volunteers (and the curious) to gather informally. 🙂 Plan & orgnaize events and identify volunteers (think Greening Up the Mtns) Discuss issues facing the Association. Fix waders by re-attaching felt soles and water boots, or other handy work. Occasionally, share a pizza and a beverage. Most […]Read more
WATR volunteers and partners pickup garbage along creeks and roads
On Saturday April 18, WATR teams split up to attack stream garbage, as our contribution to the Annual WCU Tuck River Cleanup. The Scott Creek team pulled a trailer full of illegally disposed trash. It came from wrongful dumping […]Read more
2015 Starts with Winter Clean-Ups
At the end of 2014, Lisa Muscillo, a passionate foe of roadside litter, started a one-person crusade in Jackson City. WATR joined up with her, and together we scheduled clean-ups working with the Monteith Farm Park team. Lisa is focused mostly on litter and named her project Operation Fed Up. […]Read more


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Technology Update
Meetings on 1-to-1 Computing to Target Top School Leaders
The Bellevue, Wash.-based Anytime Anywhere Learning Foundation will hold five "summits" nationwide in March for K-12 education leaders on what it sees as the importance of one-to-one computer initiatives.
The foundation will lead superintendents, principals, and school board members in hands-on, daylong events. The events are designed to give them the "leadership vision" needed to create an "anytime, anywhere learning environment," said Matthew Hoover, the program manager of the foundation.
The member-based foundation promotes providing one computer for each student to help young people learn analytical, problem-solving, and other skills that it views as increasingly important in the 21st century.
Presenters at the meetings will include superintendents with one-to-one-computer projects in their districts and education technology experts, such as Gary S. Stager, an authority in the field who is based in the Los Angeles area, and Pamela Livingston, the author of the 2006 book 1-to-1 Learning: Laptop Programs That Work and the technology director for the private, K-8 Peck School in Morristown, N.J.
The leadership summits are scheduled to be held in Secaucus, N.J., on March 5; Raleigh, N.C., on March 7; Wichita, Kan., on March 9; Chicago on March 12; and San Francisco on March 14.
For more information, go to www.aalf.org.
Vol. 26, Issue 19, Page 9Published in Print: January 17, 2007, as Meetings on 1-to-1 Computing to Target Top School Leaders


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Here are pics of my "grand Theogonist of Arianka" costume. It's a character I played during my last Warhammer LARP. It's an authority figure with precepts like : order, discipline and unity.
Those of you who know the Warhammer universe know that the Grand Theogonist represents the cult of Sigmar, but we were in a parallel universe where Arianka is the main Goddess in the Empire.
As a base, I used my white medieval style dress to which I added large sleeves, a corset, a train and a headband / tiara… All of this, brace yourself,… In a golden color !
I used McCall's 4491's large lower sleeve pattern. I elasticized the upper edge to be able to change them quickly. To get clean edges, I did a rolled hem with my the serger.
The fabric is a stretch golden knit
Corset with train
No, I did not make the corset! No time! And I don't know how to make one to begin with, do learning as the same time would have taken me even more of a time I did not have!
But a golden corset is tough to find. That's why I bought a white corset that I simply painted with a gold acrylic paint purchased in an art store (regular paint, not fabric paint). Because this corset will always be dry cleaned, the acrylic paint shouldn't be an issue. I painted two layers.
The end result isn't too bad.
I thought, for a moment, about adding embellishments to the corset but I finally opted for simplicity (as I do most of the time in my sewing projects), especially since the character is pretty uptight : frills aren't her thing.
For the train : I made it directly on the dress form. I just hung the golden fabric at the upper edge of the corset back, where I hand-stitched it, and then cut the train until it looked like what I wanted. I used the same stretch fabric as the sleeves and didn't hem it (the fabric doesn't fray).
The headband / tiara
I used a faux leather as the base (but it can't be seen in the end result anymore) in which I cut the shape of the headband.
I then stitched lengths of golden ribbons over it.
Finally I glued the symbol of Arianka. The symbol was cut out of faux leather and painted gold (with fingers oO). At the center of the symbol a big strass is superglued.
To form the headband and for it to fit snugly around the head, I sewed the two ends to a piece of wide elastic (2.5-3cm), also painted gold. The elastic being hidden under the hair once the headband is in place.
Add to that a two-handed sword (thanks Jean !) and I was the leaving image of authority… What do you mean it's all because of the sword ?


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Sorry this is rather short notice, but it will be worth clearing a space in your diary if you possibly can.
Associate of the Inner Magic Circle Wayne Fox is to present an exciting new lecture which will offer a refreshing and revealing insight into the world of professional close-up magic.
This is your chance to learn powerful, original sleights and clever misdirection, visual card tricks, coin magic, and mindreading, all taught in Wayne's relaxed and entertaining manner. He promises you the 'real secrets of the restaurant magic business', including how to turn pro and how to generate more customers, plus strong routines and fresh ideas on presentation.
There'll be something for everyone, whatever their level. And you'll learn 'the only table approach you'll ever need', which alone should be worth the price of admission. (Was time I gave up on the unicycle anyway.)
Where and when? At Sheffield's semi-luxurious Magick Lounge, at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday 18 March 2010. It's a Sheffield Circle of Magicians presentation so it's free for SCM members or £8 for visiting magicians and others who have yet to see the light.


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Baby Walkers & Development
Although the American Academy of Pediatrics discourages the use of baby walkers, they are still commonly used. While they seem to offer some benefits, baby walkers can be dangerous, especially when a child is left in one unsupervised. In addition, they may cause serious developmental side effects. It is a parent's job to consider future consequences of the objects a baby uses to ensure he develops properly.
According to DrGreene.com, children between the ages of 6 and 12 months may desire self-transportation. Baby walkers can aid a child in staying upright and enable her to maneuver around the room unassisted. A child in a walker can be entertained for many hours, allowing a parent time to attend to household tasks or a quick shower. Walkers may also help strengthen the lower legs.
According to the Children, Youth and Women's Health Service, a baby needs to spend time on the ground to learn how to crawl, roll, sit and walk. Because of this physical need, baby walkers may cause delays in a child's ability to walk, crawl and balance. In addition, DynamicChiropractic.com warns that a baby walker may cause spinal development complications, such as asymmetry of the spine or even an imbalance of the muscles.
If parents do decide to let their child use a baby walker, the Children, Youth and Women's Health Service warns that several safety precautions must be taken. Parents should not continue to use a walker when a baby can sit up or walk on his own, and the child should only use the walker for short periods of time. Because baby walkers allow babies to be more mobile, babies must be supervised and kept away from such hazards as electrical cords, cleaning products, stairs and hot beverages.
ConsumerReports.com explains that baby walkers come in a variety of shapes and styles. A traditional walker has a frame molded of plastic or metal with a seat that suspends from the center. Wheels located at the base provide a quick way for the baby to travel. Other styles, sometimes called "mobile activity centers," are commonly rectangular in shape and include toy bars and snack trays. However, they can also come in the shapes of familiar objects, such as cars.
Instead of using a baby walker, Dr. Alan Greene suggests an exersaucer. This device allows a child to be upright while bouncing and spinning, but it does not have wheels for mobility. Exersaucers are considered safe for a child's development. In addition, push toys, such as vacuum cleaners, cars or wagons, help a child strengthen the correct muscles needed to walk. Parents should choose a toy that includes a bar to hold onto and that is sturdy enough to prevent tipping over.


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Something not very logical to me when attempted to log into NetAdmin for the first time. I was told a username by billing and a different username by engineering. I used the one by engineering for the 1st login. But dashboard said automatic login to NetAdmin was failed then I tried updating/change my "stored pwd", it didn't work. I then reckon that it could be the other username and pwd given by billing. At last of course I got through but still couldn't figure out when such design is required. I don't see the need for 2 "gates" while after proper setup I'm not asked again for pwd of the 2nd gate so what is the point having it? Also anyone who got through the first gate can change/edit the stored pwd then one could then get through the 2nd gate, isn't it?
Anway I have a ticket with engineering and I'll see what they'll say.
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Metro Power Construction is a specialized high-voltage infrastructure company as well as a leading member of Electrical Contractors of Canada. We have been fortunate enough to have been contracted to provide infrastructure solutions throughout North America. We rely on a dedicated workforce which allows us to exceed industry standards. With our vast experience and expertise Metro Power is equipped to provide quality solutions to any electrical infrastructure needs.
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Apple, back at its September iPhone event, announced that it is renaming its Genius Bars to 'Town Squares' and there's a good reason for that. One of the key differentiating factors between investing in an Apple product and others is the access to the company's exclusive stores. For the past year, Apple has been trying to push these beyond the usual customer service experience with regular sessions, talks, and more.
Samsung thinks it can do better. And for getting started, it's partnering with co-working space startup WeWork. The idea for these so-called "care centers" is quite straightforward — Samsung customers can visit any of them and while they wait for their gadget to be repaired or for their appointment, they can take complete advantage of the rest of the WeWork space for doing just about anything like make calls or drink coffee or get some work done.
Like most WeWork spaces, care centers will flaunt a modern and premium aesthetic as well with phone booths, video conferencing systems, and more. In the center of all this, you'll find a glass box which is sort of an internet cafe featuring shared tables and Samsung workstations.
For now, however, care centers' will be limited to just "tier 1" support which means customers can get technical help on how to use Samsung's products. Furthermore, if required, the staff can even accept a damaged piece of equipment and mail it away to be fixed. "Tier 2" support which includes replacing a screen or hard drive on site is yet to be implemented.
For starters, Samsung is piloting care centers in three locations — Detroit, Miami, and Williamsburg, New York. It's worth noting that this is, at least right now, just an experiment and the company might even abandon the plan if things don't work out. This also isn't the first time Samsung has partnered with WeWork. A year ago in Austin, Samsung deployed special VR chairs and tablet stations at a WeWork location to showcase its hardware.


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With apologies to Linda Nochlin.
Since taking a seminar in graduate school on forgeries, reproductions, and copy/model issues, I've been fascinated with forgery (and other forms of art crime). I have even presented my own research on what I believe to be an 18th-century forgery of an ancient Roman portrait. (While I've been invited a number of times to present this project as a lecture, journals thus far have been resistant to publish such an article that does not have a black-and-white, slam-dunk answer to the 'Is it fake?' question.)
And since teaching a course on art crime for the adult education program at Rhodes College, I've been reading more about forgery, both fiction and nonfiction. Watching movies too. (I admire the idea around F for Fake, but don't enjoy it as a film, sadly. How to Steal a Million is corny and sweet.) My Amazon wish list is full of art crime books (among the dog treats and bike accessories).
The stories of many (discovered) forgers are strikingly similar: a frustrated artist, his work not appreciated in terms of critical or financial success, starts fudging paintings (more rarely sculpture) in order to exact revenge on what he perceives of as a corrupt and clueless industry. Details vary: some artists recreate existing works, some create pastiches; some forgers turn themselves in, some are discovered by professionals in art or conservation.
See the fairly recent case of Wolfgang Beltracchi:
During the trial, Beltracchi described his early beginnings when he forged a Picasso in two hours as a 14-year-old boy, his faltering career as an artist and the "fun" he experienced in deceiving the art world, finally delivering a scathing attack on the art market: "You have to know where the greed is greatest."
(When it comes to alternative career paths for frustrated artists, I guess forgery is better than world domination and genocide. Ahem.)
I don't choose the masculine pronoun carelessly, as the best-known art forgers have all been men.
The female forger seems to be possible, however, in the world of fiction: Paula in Gaslight fakes jewelry; B. A. Shapiro's Claire both legally reproduces paintings and fakes one. (Aviva Briefel carefully notes the difference between female copyists and female forgers.)
Yet I guess to ask why there have been no famous female forgers can be answered in part by looking at the artists whose works are most frequently forged: Picasso, Matisse, Rodin, Gaugin, Van Gogh… The gender imbalance in forgery is perhaps mirrored in the gender imbalance in art history, explored by Nochlin so famously first in 1971. Can we chalk up the lack of famous female forgers to women's historical lack of access to the institutional and educational systems of the art world?
When considering the trope of 'frustrated artist turns to forgery to exact revenge on the art world,' one would imagine that the gender bias in art institutions would create a perfect laboratory for cultivating female forgers. Yet this seems not to be the case. (The fictional example of Shapiro's Forger is an outlier.)
It seems more fun, however, to propose that there are no great women art forgers because none of their fakes have been detected. Women are simply better at forgery than men. This explanation underscores Nochlin's point regarding the fallacy that women are incapable at genius.
What are your thoughts? Am I missing some great famous case of a female forger?


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By the heaping tablespoon, drop mounds of batter 3 inches apart on cookie sheet; keep remaining batter chilled. Bake 15 minutes or until set and lightly browned around edges. Carefully remove from parchment or foil; cool on wire rack. Repeat with remaining batter, lining cooled cookie sheets each time with new parchment or foil. If desired, place cookies in a covered storage container with waxed paper between layers to prevent sticking. Store cookies at room temperature for 24 hours. Prepare Marshmallow-Spice Filling up to 2 hours before serving. Spread about 2-1/2 tablespoons filling on flat side of one cookie; top with a second cookie. Repeat. Serve immediately or cover and chill up to 2 hours. Makes 15 whoopies.
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Islam is a very respectable religion. Allah blesses, with a lot of blessing to Muslims as world most beautiful names you can only listen in Islam. People are very conscious in the selection of their kids name like,
Boys Meaning: Girls Meaning:
Bergis Jupiter/Small Stars Beriya Creature
Berni Victory/Bringer Bilqees The Queen of Sheba
Beseet Leisure/Wide Bismillah Beginning
Bhsir Eyes Wall Bukhdan Pan Rice Girl
Bilal Moistening Bunita Seeing/Wise Pretty
Bilawel A Saint of Sindh Bushra Happy News/Glad
Bismil A Spreadsheet/Eager
Burhan Proof/Evidence
Bustan Garden/Flower Piled
Bukshi To Calculate The
A full list of pretty titles are given below in Urdu and English with their lovely meanings, and you can read it from here and can choose a most lovely name which suits your children.


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I'm joined today for the second of a two-part podcast series with my friend, mentor and pastor, Rev. Adam Hamilton, who serves as the senior pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, KS. Our first podcast is HERE.
Link on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lift-podcast/id1194719815?mt=2
Link on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lift-2?refid=stpr
Link on Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/the-lift-2?refid=stpr
0:00 Introduction to Pastor Adam Hamilton
0:56 Why are Christians so threatened by other Christians?
2:38 Controversy about his Christianity and World Religions sermons
4:57 The Liberal/Conservative divide and how we're wired
6:14 Becoming better, together (sharing beliefs without trying to change each other)
9:36 The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, and its lessons for today
(Adam's upcoming travels to Germany to help people retrace Luther's steps)
13:22 The beautiful diversity within Christianity
14:32 The exclusive Eucharistic meal: a symbol of our disunity
16:05 What wisdom can we glean from Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, etc.?


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How much home can you afford? Use our finance center to learn about your loan options below. There are several loan programs available, and depending on your credit history, there is bound to be one that is perfect for you. Here are a few examples of the most popular programs offered today:
Coming up with the necessary down payment for a home loan can be a big hurdle for many would-be home buyers. Fortunately, there are options available including loans that require no money down. These loans generally carry a higher interest rate, but even so, these loans can be very affordable when you factor in today's overall rates. One of the more popular versions of this loan is the Rural Development Program and the VA loan program. Ask me about what areas this type of loan is available.
No Income Verification Loans
For self-employed buyers and others who have a difficult time documenting income history, this loan may be for you. Programs exist for up to 90% financing. These loans carry a slightly higher interest rate, but generally speaking, the more information you can document, the lower the interest rate. There are certain liquidity requirements typically associated with this type of program. Even so, it is one of the easiest programs for many buyers today! Note: Due to recent financial market issues, these loans are currently very difficult to obtain. These loan are in general No Longer Being Offered.
USDA Rural Loans
Up to 100% true financing for homes that are eligible through the rural property criteria. This program is for low-to-very low-income homebuyers. The program allows the homebuyer to use part of the funds towards repairs or renovations for the home. Applicants for this loan must have an income that is at, or below the low-income limit for the area that the desired property is located. The USDA offers this program so low-income families living in rural areas are provided the opportunity of affordable home ownership.
FHA and VA Loans
The Federal Housing Administration (FHA), offers loans for low-to-moderate-income home buyers. FHA loans have low down payments, which typically run around 3.5 percent, and have relatively easy requirements. FHA mortgages have no income restrictions and even those with lower credit scores may be considered (620 min). Past bankruptcy does not necessarily disqualify borrowers from using this program! You can get up to 6 percent of your closing costs paid by the seller.
In addition, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) offers a zero-down mortgage program. To take advantage of this program, borrowers need to be among those listed as veterans and service personnel in the U.S. military. One of the biggest benefits of this program is that it eliminates the need for private mortgage insurance!
MSHDA Assistance Loans
Up to $7,500 may be available from MSHDA to help you make your down payment. This program is for low-to-moderate-income homebuyers, depending on the home location and your family size. The program includes a homebuyer education class that will give you valuable information as you take the step towards home ownership.
Adjustable Rate Loans
With a fixed-rate mortgage, the interest rate stays the same for the life of the loan. But with an Adjustable Rate Mortgage (ARM), the interest rate changes periodically, and is typically tied to an index, and payments go up or down accordingly. Generally speaking, lenders charge a lower initial interest rate for the ARM than for the fixed rate mortgage. If you are expecting interest rates to decrease in the future, or if you are trying to maximize your purchase power today knowing your income will rise in the future, then this loan may be right for you. Also used when you only expect to be in the home a short
HomePath Loans
Offered exclusively for Fannie Mae owned properties, HomePath financing is ideal for low-to-moderate-income home buyers.
Offered exclusively for Fannie Mae owned properties, HomePath financing is ideal for low-to-moderate-income home buyers.
The program offers up to 95% loan-to-value financing and no appraisals, property inspections, or mortgage insurance is required. You could also qualify for 3.5% in closing cost assistance through their buyer incentive program.
Make Over Mortgage and 203K
Looking to purchase a fixer upper? This loan product provides you with money to purchase and close on the property and then have money left over to complete your desired, previously approved, improvements. Ask Tom for details
Portfolio Loans
Sometimes you have something happen in you life that affects your credit history/status. Perhaps there is a foreclosure and or a bankruptcy that is an issue that the standard loan market or secondary market will not accept. However you have good credit, or a history of good credit and your credit event was brought on by a rare or one time event, like a medical emergency or divorce etc. There are lenders that will take the loan and hang onto the paper. They do not resell it in the secondary market like most mortgages so can make exceptions. This is also helpful when buying property in a condo complex or subdivision that might now be complete and not FHA or Fannie Mae approved. Talk to us about more details and who we can refer you too to resolve your credit challenge.
Commercial Loans
Looking to purchase a retail or residential income property? If there are units that are commercial, industrial, retail then you will need a commercial loan relationship. If you have more than 4 residential residential units in the building, you will also need a commercial loan. This is generally handled by specialized local lenders or insurance companies (for larger projects)
Talk with Tom for more information and check out names or lender references at www.LendAnnArbor.com as well. These are the areas TOP LENDERS and have a min of 15 years in the business and are either branch managers or Vice Presidents.
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The website lets me make the changes but when I go to publish them, it doesn't publish them. Shows me 100% published but it isn't published at all. I have cleared cookies and I have started from fresh. When I log in I see my changes but they aren't published to the website. Very frustrating.
Did you refresh you browser, F5?
Yes, and I used 3 different browsers.
You're using SB+? Any chance you've exceeded you storage limit?
Um...Storage to our website?
You are attempting to publish 6 pages on a 5 page limit.
Siteerror404 does not count towards your page limit. That one you should leave. You can delete a page or upgrade to an additional 10 pages for $2/month. You are also closing on your 25mb limit. You can delete unused files from the file manager, or add 1gb of space for another $2/month.
Siteerror404 does not count towards your page limit. That one you should leave. You can delete a page or upgrade to an additional 10 pages for $2/month. You are also closing on your 25mb limit. You can delete unused files from the file manager, or add 1gb of space for another $2/month.
When I hit publish I only try to publish one page. Because hitting publish the website never works. I have don't believe I have made any changes to the amount of pages...but the Archives page can go away.
Go into Sitebuilder and click view page. Hover your mouse over Archives. You will see a circle with an x appear to the right of the page name. Click that to delete the page. That will get you under the page limit, but you still may run into a space limit.
I deleted the page, I deleted a bunch of files to cut down on the storage...and still nothing!
The system show 24.96mb in use. That gives you almost no room. Here is what you are trying to publish, a few files of 500kb or higher. 2 of those equal 1mb. You have .04 mb available.
Okay, but I am confused...I am not doing anything I haven't done in the past years. So why am I all of the sudden having troubles?
When you delete a page or an image off a page, it does not delete from the site. You need to do that in file manager, so you may have quite a few pictures or other unused files that tend to build up over time. It is a hard limit, so you are fine until it hits the limit, then it stops publishing immediately. I am guessing that it just got to that limit.
Okay, so I get it...all of the old files I think I have deleted are still there in the file manager! Okay, so I just went in and started to delete many of these...but it won't let me. Says there is an error on the website?
It looks like you are using Internet Explorer 11. Can you try Firefox or Chrome? They have fewer problems. If you still have an issue, please provide the name of a couple of files you are having trouble with, and I'll take a look
I usually use Chrome. But have Firefox too. I was just trying everything I could think of. And since I didn't realize I needed to clean that file out! Wow...so if I delete a file in there that I have on the page already, then that link won't open, right? And I got it to publish finally!! I will keep cleaning though as many of those things we dont need still. Thank you!
You're welcome, and yes, if you delete an image or document that is still on a page, it will no longer work, so be careful. I am glad you are on your way again.
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The Harvest List is the farmer overview of products/items needed for the week. You can select a specific day(s) under the calendar, hit the Refresh button for the modified view.
Boxes are your total share counts, Boxed Harvest Items are what is needed from the field, as per your What's In The Box selected items and the number of CSA shares, and Add-ons are the separately purchased items needed for the week (or for the days selected.)
Several reports are available from the left side menu; a valuable one is the CSA Item Week History. This report displays a grid of items packed in previous boxes. Use this to see variety for the current year, and a history of harvesting for previous years (see the year drop down field at the top of the page.)
Caution: Once your final deadline has passed for the first delivery day of the week, no edits can be made to What's In the Box.


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Questions to Ask Your Tax Professional
Tax Rates & Deductions
- What tax brackets have the biggest reduction in tax rate?
- What does it mean that federal income taxes are "progressive"?
- What is the optimum tax bracket for my operation?
- Should I pay wages to my kids for work performed on the farm?
- Should I make commodity gifts to my kids or grandkids?
Entity Structure
- Should I consider incorporating my farm operation?
- If I incorporate, should I be a C or an S corporation?
- Will a C corporation allow me to deduct my state income taxes if they exceed the $10,000 cap?
- Should I operate as a sole proprietor or set my business up as a manager of a managed LLC to reduce self-employment taxes and maximize the Section 199A deduction?
- Does my strategy change if I am financing the purchase of the assets?
- Does my state allow bonus depreciation or Section 179 on my purchases?
- What happens if I purchase farm assets from a related party?
- Should I consider leasing my equipment under the new tax laws?
Asset Trades (equipment, land, etc.)
- How does my state treat the trade-in of farm equipment?
- What is the tax effect of trading land with or without improvements?
Business Loss Treatment
- Is it better to report some income to maximize the use of the standard deduction and child tax credits?
- How do net operating losses affect my self-employment income?
Fringe Benefits
- Should I incorporate to provide tax-free fringe benefits for housing and meals to me as an owner?
- What are the details needed to provide for these tax-free fringe benefits?
- If the meals deduction is eliminated in 2026, is it worth doing?
Estate Tax
- Should I make major gifts between now and 2025, when the rules are scheduled to change again?
- Does my state have an estate tax and if so, does it exempt farm property?
- Should I transfer my farm assets into an entity to provide for tax reductions?