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Architects: Make Architects
Location: London, England
Client: London and Regional Properties Ltd
Collaborators: Arup, Blyth & Blyth, DP9, Expedition Engineering, Hann Tucker, HBG, Indigo Lighting, Jason Bruges Studio, Safe Consulting Ltd, Tweeds Construction Consultancy
Project Area: 75,000 sqm
Project Year: 2008
Photographs: Zander Olsen, Make ArchitectsThis radical renovation of a 1950s office building transforms the site into an important new urban amenity. While providing an exceptional range of flexible and highly efficient office spaces, the scheme enhances activity at street level by offering an enriched mix of uses and introducing a substantial new public space to the streetscape.
Three glass infills or 'masks' span the voids between existing blocks to create a new facade for the building, with the central glazed section enclosing a seven-storey atrium which is open to the public. The ground floor of the building has been entirely re-clad and devoted to retail units, cafes and restaurants. At the rear of the building, a new development of 23 houses offers affordable, key worker and private accommodation.
In addition to the cost savings represented by retaining and refurbishing the existing building, the scheme has been designed to minimise environmental impact and optimise energy efficiency and has achieved a BREEAM rating of 'Excellent'.


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Maca Magic is perfect for smoothies. Maca Magic is a dietary supplement that is naturally malty to taste. Today, Maca Magic is consumed up to three times a day by modern Peruvians from professional athletes to the elderly to give them energy and help recover from depression, addictions, traumas or diseases. Maca Magic is also used for stress reduction, hormonal balance and to promote the growth of healthy hair, bones, teeth, and muscle tone. Herbs America, feel the power of the Inca!
What Is Maca?
Organically grown maca root is considered by top researchers to be a true ADAPTOGEN - and aggressively touted as the "superfood of the Andes" by the natural products industry. Working in tandem with the body's natural rhythms, Maca root helps rebuild weak immune systems, re-mineralize poorly nourished bodies, and increase energy and endurance. Planted and harvested by hand and never irradiated, Maca Magic's goal and promise has remained consistant over the years: assuring Maca Magic customers the purest, freshest, organic bio-active product in the industry.
Why Does Maca make you feel so good?
Each MACA MAGIC hypocotyl root contains over 55 naturally occurring, beneficial phyto-chemicals, that's why! These naturally occurring chemicals include important hormonal precursors and sterols proven time and time again to assist the human body in a number of recognizable ways. Most people feel their mood and energy level lift in an instant. Simply put, maca makes real differences in people's lives!
- Increases energy and endurance
- Increases stamina
- Alleviates chronic exhaustion (fatigue) syndrome
- Improves sexual function in men and women
- Enhances fertility in people and animals
- Reduces hormonal dysfunction during menopause & andropause
- Can regulate hormonal imbalances
- Aids in alleviating depression- gives a sense of well being
- Reduces anxiety and stress
- Has a beneficial action on the circulatory system; Speeds wound healing and reduces anemia
- Enhances memory, learning, and mental ability
- Has a beneficial action on the circulatory system; gives skin a more youthful appearance
- Helps treat anemia, rickets, osteomalacia, and stomach cancer
- Good for healthy teeth and bones
- Acts as a fungistatic and bacteriostatic
- Acts as an anticarcinogen and antioxidant
- Is an alternative to anabolic steroids, helps to build muscle
- Is non addictive
With its many health enhancing properties finally becoming widely publicized, Maca root is a product that can make people feel, look, and perform better. Clinical data continues to verify what the original Peruvians have known for millenia. Maca's place in pre-conquest Peru as a remedy and nutritious super-food precedes written history. The first recorded uses by Spaniards in the 16th century corroborate exactly what indigenous healers of the Andes mountains had developed into their system of medicine.
In the 1930s, Russian scientists studying plant medicine coined the term adaptogen to refer to a plant that promoted non specific benefits to an organism while inducing NO negative side effects. Maca is considered by top researchers to be a true adaptogen.
- An adaptogen is a substance which raises the non-specific resistance in an organism.
- Adaptogens enable the body to enhance its power of resistance and adapt to external conditions.
- Today, new alkaloid fractions identified in Maca are propelling scientific trials by universities around the world.
Maca: The Endocrine Adaptogen!
The endocrine system is a collection of glands that produce chemical "messengers" called hormones essential for normal bodily functions. A wide variety of physiological processes are carried out unconsciously by these "messengers". Once released they flow directly into the bloodstream and are transported to organs and tissues throughout the entire body. Scientists and doctors are now finding maca to be one of the best natural ways to regulate and support endocrine health. This action regulates metabolism, energy levels, growth, sexual development and the sense of well being and attitude. Thankfully, maca does not contain hormones itself. Instead it provides a unique set of nutrients that directly fuel the endocrine system and help the glands to produce vital hormones in precise dosages predetermined by one's own body.In addition, recent studies of maca also show:
- Its fiber as well as glucosinolate content show promise in helping combat some cancers.
- Bio-available calcium, in conjunction with its alkaloids, make it an effective bond builder, thus reducing osteomalacia and rickets.
- Some of its fatty acids function as fungicides and local antiseptics, which may aid in overall immunity enhancement.
- Tannins bind and precipitate proteins, which improves the nutritional value of maca.
- Saponins and terpenoids may aid as a sedative, expectorant, pain reliever, anti-tumoral, and analgesic.
- Effects general and not localized to a specific organ.
- Normalizing action irrespective of the pathological state.
|WARNING: This product can expose you to chemicals including Lead, which is known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. For more information visit: www.P65Warnings.ca.gov

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The Snoozer Cozy Cave nesting dog bed is a one of a kind dog bed that is designed to give your pet a cozy place to stay warm. Often referred to as a Nesting dog bed, it is perfect for pets who enjoy staying under the covers. The Cozy Cave dog bed gives your pet a place to stay completely enclosed in a Sherpa interior fabric, keeping them cozy throughout the year. Construction: Each bed has a poly filled pillow with cedar bits sprinkled in. Cover is made of poly/cotton and Sherpa material. Hood contains a piece of tubing for support. Cover is removable, machine washable and dryable. Hood contains a piece of tubing that must be removed before washing and reinserted after it is dried. Washing cover with tubing may cause the cover to tear. Bed Type: Enclosed Features: Excellent for burrowing pets & Removable machine washable cover Color: Red Environment: Indoor Dimensions: 35L x 35W x 8H Pet Size: Medium Interior Material: Polyester Sherpa Exterior Material Top: Poly Cotton Cleaning Instructions: Remove inner liner and support tube to machine wash and tumble dry Assembly Instructions or Directions: Support tube can be removed and reinserted via a small slit in the sherpa on the hood about 1 up from where the hood meets the bed portion. Cautions: Be sure to remove tubing before washing or cover could tear
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I don't know why salpiglossis isn't more widely used. It's easy to transplant, blooms freely, and comes in a medley of rich colors. In shape it is an embossed trumpet, with the embossing being most noticeable in the yellow and chocolate colors, which are nearly self-color. Red, purple and blue have more veining, and the color variations tend to overwhelm the embossing. I can generally find it at one local greenhouse, and this year they had it in a new color, Kew Blue, but I can't seem to find the more exotic colors.
Of course here in Alaska it tends to be relatively cool in the summer, which is something it likes. Wikipedia says it comes from southern Chile, which can be quite cool. Think Tierra del Fuego!
It's one of the few flowers to have all three primary colors: red, blue and yellow. The flowers are funnel-shaped and fairly large. I use it in boxes and in the holes of my raised beds. I've tried bringing it in for the winter, but it does not do well indoors. Whether it's because the humidity is too low or there's not enough light I'm not sure.
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ATLANTA | Nonprofit organizations backed by the Home Depot Foundation have built or repaired more than 10,000 homes for veterans as part of the retailer's grant program.
The foundation, supported by contributions from the Atlanta company and its vendors, has handed out more than $65 million since 2011 to organizations that renovate or build houses for veterans across the country.
Jake Maguire, a spokesman for the nonprofit group Community Solutions, applauded the Home Depot Foundation's commitment to working with experienced local groups.
"I think they recognized early on they could make the biggest impact by partnering with as many organizations as they could," said Maguire, whose organization works to fight homelessness.
The Home Depot Foundation has pledged to provide $80 million in grants by the spring of 2015. President Kelly Caffarelli said she expects the foundation to continue working on housing issues after that, especially as military cuts take effect and more veterans look for homes.
"As long as there are veterans that need help with their housing, I think we'll continue trying to help," Caffarelli said.
The increasingly expensive housing market could pose problems for people leaving the military in the next few years, especially if they are also looking for jobs, said Christopher Ptomey, the director of federal relations for Habitat for Humanity.
"With the economy still struggling and housing getting to expensive levels again, we need to have a serious policy discussion to ensure we're fulfilling our commitment to (veterans)," he said.
Projects funded in part by the Home Depot Foundation range from a 50-unit permanent housing facility in Green Bay, Wis. to home repairs provided by Meals on Wheels Atlanta volunteers.
Jeff Smythe, executive director of Meals on Wheels Atlanta, said 51 veterans are on the organization's waiting list for home repair services. He said Americans assume veterans' housing needs are met, but that's not always the case. Aging veterans especially need advice on repairs that will keep their houses livable, he said.


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The old timers say that on Groundhog's Day you should still have half your woodpile left. I say you should have ordered your seeds and made plans to attend at least one spring flower show. I'm still working on my seed orders, but would like to share the details of the flower shows with you now so you can make plans, too.
The first each year on the list of shows is the New Hampshire Orchid Society show in early February, this year February 8-10. It is just orchids. Orchids of all kinds, and paraphernalia for orchid growers. Adults are $10, seniors $6, and you can get a $2 off coupon on their web site ((www.nhorchids.org)). It's at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua.
The first big shows are in Providence, RI and Hartford, CT on the weekend of February 21-24. I attended the Rhode Island show these last 2 years, and loved it! It has many of the attractions of the Boston show, but not the crowds and crazy drivers of Boston. It has a good menu of speakers, an excellent variety of vendors and plenty of floral displays. I also love the sand sculptors that create magical sand castles – almost life size.
The Providence show is held in the Rhode Island Convention in downtown Providence. Admission is$19 for adults, but you can save $2 by buying in advance. There is also a food and wine show featuring well-known chefs from 1-5 daily; if you intend to attend that, the price for both is $30. Info: www.flowershow.com.
The Connecticut Flower and Garden Show will be at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, February 21-24. The theme this year is "Love in Bloom" and boasts 300 booths and 80 hours of seminars. I went on a Saturday last year, and it was very busy – almost too busy, for me. But there is a lot to see. Admission is $16 for adults and, please note, they only accept cash for tickets at the door. Info: www.ctflowershow.com.
One of my favorites is the biennial Vermont Flower Show, held this year on March 1-3 at the Champlain Valley Expo Center in Essex Junction, Vermont. I love that the members of the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association all work together to create special exhibits – rather than competing against each other. This year's theme is "The Road Not Taken" after the Frost poem. Parking is free and easy, crowds are reasonable, there is plenty to see, and there will be a nice variety of speakers. I'll be presenting Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Admission is $15, only $3 for kids 3-17 and $12 for seniors over 60.
The Vermont Show is a family-friendly show: There is a nice family activity room where they will have performers as well as art supplies and games. The Vermont Federated Garden Clubs Association encourages children to enter a container-grown plant with interesting foliage or flowers. And, for kids of all ages there is a great display of model trains. This is the smallest of the shows, but full of flowers and flowering shrubs. There will be an excellent show of stonework by Dan Snow, a dry stonewall expert. Info: http://greenworksvermont.org/
The Philadelphia Show is the opposite of the Vermont Show: big, busy, and brassy. It has been in existence since 1829, and hosts over 250,000 visitors each year. It will be held March 2-10 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Tickets are (ouch!) $27 - but worth it. If you're a serious gardener, you must go at least once in your life! Info, http://theflowershow.com/.
The Portland, Maine Flower Show is March 7 -10 at the Portland Company Complex on Fore St, downtown. Tickets cost $13. Info: http://portlandcompany.com.
Boston is another big show with lots to offer. Held each year at the Seaport World Trade Center, it is March 13-17. Lots of displays, lots of speakers. Reading the list of talks, I loved this one: "Jaw-Dropping, Traffic-Stopping, Get-Your-Neighbors-Talking Container Gardens" by Deborah Trickett. That alone is almost enough to get me there! There are lectures by plenty of well known garden experts to choose from. Tickets are $20. Info: http://www.bostonflowershow.com.
After Boston comes The Seacoast Home and Garden Show in Durham, NH on March 23-24. A nice small show. Tickets are only $8. Info: www.NewEnglandExpos.com.
The last show of the season is Bangor, Maine April 5 to 7 in the Bangor Auditorium. Their website www.bangorgardenshow.com has yet to be updated for 2013.
We can't change our weather, but we can change our attitudes about winter – by going to the garden shows. I recommend it. Smell the daffodils, go to a lecture, buy something in bloom. You'll feel better.
You can reach Henry at PO Box 364, Cornish Flat, NH 03746 or firstname.lastname@example.com. His websites are www.gardening-guy.com and www.henryhomeyer.com.


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Beautiful intricate laser cut details to top on all sides and personalised with initials on front panel.
Please email or add a message with your order stating the initials you'd like to be cut. Along with your chosen card stock colour.
For sample orders please add up to six additional card colour swatches.
Each pack will contain flat cone templates of the same card colour.
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Assemble by carefully folding along the lines and securing with glue or double sided tape to the side tab.
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Liberty Bell's twin, a gift from Britain, being removed and stored; its future unknown
PHILADELPHIA – A twin of the Liberty Bell that was a bicentennial gift from Britain has been taken from its tower in Philadelphia and placed in storage.
The so-called Bicentennial Bell was made in the same British foundry as the iconic original. It was presented to the city by Queen Elizabeth II in 1976 and is inscribed with the words, "Let Freedom Ring."
The National Park Service on Thursday removed the six-ton bell from its imposing brick tower. The tower and its accompanying building were made for America's 200th birthday and are being demolished for a new Revolutionary War museum.
The bell will remain in storage until its new home is decided.
The Bicentennial Bell is missing its predecessor's famous crack but it also doesn't work. The clapper is broken.


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CENTRAL ILLINOIS Lack of funding closes Logan County Planned Parenthood LOGAN COUNTY -- Planned Parenthood has left Logan County. The clinic closed Friday after losing the battle to maintain funding. The clinic, which was located at the Logan County Health Department, served about 400 clients a year. "We just found that it was becoming more and more difficult to fund the program with the rising cost in service delivery and decrease in funding," said Robin Beach, regional chief operating officer. "Ultimately, when we sat down with the health department to look at ways we might be able to decrease the cost or increase the funding, we just couldn't come to any sort of conclusion." Planned Parenthood receives government funding through the Federal Title 10 grant. That grant sends revenue to the Illinois Department of Human Services, which then passes it on to agencies like Planned Parenthood. "That funding has stayed flat for many, many years," Beach said. According to figures from Planned Parenthood's nationwide revenue reports in 2006, about a third of the budget comes from government grants and contracts, while a little more than a third comes from the clients who receive service. The agency treats patients regardless of their ability to pay. Logan County clients received letters in January to inform them of the closing. Beach said former Lincoln clients can go to other area Planned Parenthood clinics including those in Bloomington, Clinton, Decatur or Springfield. The letter also informed clients they could have birth control medications mailed to them or that they could obtain a prescription to be filled at any pharmacy. Clients with outstanding fees still owe those costs, and questions about financial obligations should be directed to the clinic in Bloomington. All patient records have been sent to the Bloomington clinic at 318 W. Washington St. Clients can call that office at 309-827-4014 to make appointments or to have their records sent to another office. Patients can also call whichever new office they choose to have their records transferred. Lincoln Courier Overall crime down in Peoria PEORIA -- Peoria saw an overall drop in crime during 2007, though an increase in sexual assault arrests puts a black eye on an otherwise promising trend. In a report released earlier this month, Peoria had a decrease in six of eight crime categories, including murder, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. Criminal sexual assaults increased to 86 last year, from 78 in 2006, as did robberies, up four at 390 for the year. Police Chief Steven Settingsgaard noted Wednesday that, although the sex assault statistic increased, it was still one of the lowest in nine years, second only to 2006, which he said was a "phenomenally low year." Settingsgaard said many reported assaults are spousal incidents, as opposed to random attacks. Even so, he said his department will work to track these crimes and focus on the cases involving strangers. He said in order to gauge whether streets are more violent, one should put more weight in shootings and homicides. The report shows 17 murders in 2007, down one since last year. Shootings, on the other hand, have dropped 29 percent. Even if homicides were down and shootings were up, Settingsgaard said, that doesn't mean crime had improved. Because shootings have declined, he believes Peoria is gaining ground. Journal Star, Peoria Rudy Giuliani apparently cancels Springfield appearance SPRINGFIELD -- Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who dropped out of the race for president Wednesday, has apparently canceled his appearance at the Sangamon County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Luncheon on Saturday. County GOP Chairwoman Rosemarie Long said Thursday afternoon the last she heard he is not coming. The event will still go on. Party leaders are working on getting a replacement keynote speaker. Plans for the event have already changed once this week. The luncheon was scheduled to take place at the Illinois State Fairgrounds' Illinois Building. But a major power outage at the fairgrounds prompted officials to move the event to the University of Illinois at Springfield. State Journal-Register Former Gov. Edgar endorses McCain for president SPRINGFIELD -- Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar today endorsed U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona for president, according to state Rep. Jim Durkin, R-Western Springs, who co-chairs McCain's effort in Illinois. Edgar had been for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who has dropped out of the race. Asked his reaction to Edgar's endorsement of McCain, Durkin said, "It means I feel good about Illinois on Tuesday." Also in the running in Tuesday's GOP primary in Illinois are former Gov. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas. State Journal-Register NORTHERN ILLINOIS Remains of woman identified CHICAGO -- The frozen remains found Jan. 25 on Chicago's southwest side have been identified as those of a missing 41-year-old Justice woman. Carolyn Schranz was reported missing in October, according to media reports. An autopsy performed Saturday by the Cook County medical examiner's officer concluded Schranz died of multiple stab wounds. Her remains were found by a Lyons environmental inspector, according to Lyons officials. The inspector had been in the area searching for clean debris to fill a village-owned quarry at Lawndale and Ogden avenues in Lyons, village manager Roy Witherow said. Witherow said the inspector was checking for soil contamination when he saw a foot and a leg. Initial reports from Lyons officials about a blue container being found at the scene raised suspicions that the remains could have been those of missing suburban mother Stacy Peterson. Volunteers looking for Peterson had been searching for a blue container at the direction of organizers after state police began investigating reports that her husband Drew Peterson removed a large blue container from his house shortly before his wife was reported missing. Police quickly dismissed the possibility and denied the reports of a blue container. Chicago Suburban Woman who lied about cancer to get out of trial gets prison time DUPAGE COUNTY -- A Woodridge woman who attempted to avoid trial for theft by telling a judge she had ovarian cancer was sentenced Monday to six years in state prison. Karen Johnson, 44, was charged in April 2006 with stealing $16,000 from the financial firm where she worked. As her trial approached, she presented DuPage County Circuit Court Judge Mark Dwyer with a forged doctor's note saying she was to undergo surgery to treat the cancer. The assistant state's attorney assigned to the case investigated the note and discovered it was a forgery, said Paul Darrah, a spokesman for the state's attorney's office. Johnson was charged in October with felony forgery. Johnson pleaded guilty to both the theft and the forgery charges, and Dwyer sentenced her to three years in prison for each charge with the sentences to be served consecutively. Because of good-time credit, she will likely be paroled after three years, Darrah said. Chicago Suburban McCain to visit DuPage County DUPAGE COUNTY -- Fresh off a victory in the Florida Republican presidential primary Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., will make two campaign stops Friday in DuPage County. The presidential hopeful and Republican front-runner will appear at a rally at the Odeum Sports & Expo Center in Villa Park. He will also make an appearance at the DuPage County Republican Party's annual Lincoln Day Dinner Friday evening at Drury Lane in Oakbrook Terrace. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at that event. But after a disappointing showing in the Florida primary, he withdrew from the presidential race Wednesday and threw his support behind McCain. McCain will now take over as the main speaker at the dinner, said state Sen. Dan Cronin, R-21st District, of Elmhurst. Giuliani might still attend, he added. Cronin, county GOP chairman, is a McCain supporter and delegate. He is happy to have the leading Republican candidate attend one of the party's biggest events, he said. Other prominent DuPage Republicans were supporters of Giuliani, including former Illinois Attorney Gen. Jim Ryan and State's Attorney Joe Birkett. Ryan said now that Giuliani is out, he has not decide who to endorse in the field of Republican presidential candidates, which also includes former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and U.S. Rep. Ron Paul from Texas. "I have a lot of respect for Mayor Giuliani," Ryan said. "I think he was and is a strong leader." Chicago Suburban 3 charged with running Winnebago County heroin ring ROCKFORD -- Winnebago County sheriff's detectives have arrested three people who they say operated a far-reaching heroin ring that sold up to $10,000 of the drug daily. The heroin was packaged in aluminum foil and sold as "dimes," or $10 packets, officials said today. Users would contact cell-phone numbers and runners would deliver the heroin within a matter of minutes to locations throughout the city. The arrests put to rest a monthslong investigation by the Sheriff's Department. Arrested were: Steve M. Harris, 32, of Machesney Park, charged with calculated criminal drug conspiracy, criminal drug conspiracy and trafficking charges; Jermaine Harris, 28, of Rockford, charged with possession of heroin with intent to deliver, calculated criminal drug conspiracy and criminal drug conspiracy; and Latonia S. Partee, 36, of Machesney Park, charged with unlawful use of a weapon by a felon. Steve and Jermaine Harris, brothers, were in the Winnebago County Jail on $250,000 bond each; bond for Partee, Steve Harris' wife, was set at $50,000. Rockford Register Star SOUTHERN ILLINOIS 2,000th signature supports 'In God We Trust' license plates MARION -- In a striking show of local approval for legislation sponsored by State Rep. John Bradley, D-Marion, that would create an "In God We Trust" license plate available to Illinoisans, the Southern Illinois lawmaker announced he has collected his 2,000th petition signature in support of the measure. "I am thrilled by the response the proposed plate has generated so far," Bradley said. "We have people coming out to help pass petitions and collect signatures and I appreciate the work each and every one of them is doing. Collecting our 2,000th signature in only a few months is a testament to their tireless efforts and the popularity of the bill." The measure, House Bill 4183, would create the "In God We Trust" license plate and be available through the Secretary of State's office for the standard specialty plate fee of $40, plus the standard fee for a regular license plate. Indiana recently instituted a similar program that has seen great success. According to the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles' Communication Department, almost 24 percent of the state's over 6 million registered license plates now bear the motto. Bradley is confident that Illinois' motorists will support the "In God We Trust" plate. Under the legislation, a portion of the issuance fee will be dedicated to the Secretary of State, as is standard with most specialty plates; while the rest of the fee will be allocated to the Illinois Military Family Relief Fund, which provides grants to help minimize the impacts of costs associated with food, housing, utilities, medical services and other expenses for families who have had a family member placed on active military duty Marion Daily Republic Sex offender arrested for allegedly not registering address change BENTON -- A Benton man was arrested on a charge of failure to notify his change of address as a registered sex offender. Benton Police Chief O'Neill said officers concluded their investigation in the case and on Tuesday morning located Christopher L. Davis, 20, of Benton. "He was located in the 300 block of Grand Street," O'Neill said. "He had previously registered when he lived in the 800 block of South Taylor Street but failed to notify the Benton Police Department within five days when he moved to Grand Street." Davis was taken into custody and transported to the Franklin County Jail, where he is awaiting bond, the chief said. Benton Evening News


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We are building a web application that will be the foundation for a marketplace to allow venues, musicians and promoters evaluate, book and promote potential live music performance. Our web applications core capabilities include:
* Musician self-promotion – musicians, bands and their managers will be able to create custom profiles or "sales sheets" to promote their music, presentation and their ability to attract fans to shows.
* Venues will be able to self-promote in a similar way to Bands, though this is less important.
* Venues will be able to manage a calendar for their establishment, which will include widgets that they can embed in their websites.
Desired personality/tone: Engaging. Cool. Music Industry Savvy. Professional.
Single Most Compelling Idea that consumers should take away: That MyHandstamp.com is a marketplace for artists, venues, promoters, etc to better evaluate, book and promote live musical performances.
Handstamp.com has two distinct target audiences:
1. Venues and Promoters – Often trying to manage a busy performance schedule, Venue owners and promoters are quite busy. They are trying to balance the numerous requests from prospective performers/musicians with the other demands of running their business.
2. Musicians and their representatives - (including music labels and band manager) – While a few aren't, most musicians are working hard to gain access to more performance opportunities. Many musicians are not business savvy and often have to spend a good deal of time learning the business side of performing as they grow their fan bases. While most musicians are in it for the Music and the Fun, a few are able to make a living from their performances.
We actually had a logo designed by a free-lancer, but due to some differences in opinion we could not get him to release the rights to the logo and he refused our money. The old logo was a little grungy, which we liked, but we are open to all types of logos.
The new logo should fit in with the planned design and color scheme of the web site, which has already been completed (homepage.png). The new layout is attached, but we removed the logo we had before. Ignore the place holder that is there.
Please try to downplay the emphasis of "My" in MyHandstamp. This is not the most important thing, but in the long term, we may want to become just Handstamp.
More details are available in the attached creative brief.
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QBall brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 101 Designs von 24 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
Blue Flame Enterprises
Blue Flame Enterprises is a holding company for several companies. See other entities listed below. Products and services provided by the Company include: Women's Golf Apparel, Elite/Executive Golf Travel, Tournament Management and Events, Golf Technology and Software, Development and Management of Golf Range Practice Facilities and Golf Courses.
Company Name: Blue Flame Enterprises
Tag Line: Where Passion and Ability Ignite
Other Blue Flame Company Entities Include:
Reality Golf Apparel
Golf Product Partners
Fairway Brands
Golf Logistix
The above companies may be representative of future contests similar to this one.
Pro-shops located at golf resorts, private and public golf courses, corporate and charitable events. Male and female golfers of all ages. Internet presence.
The brand image, logo and corporate identity you design for Blue Flame must translate to use in corporate theme, web-site, literature, embroidery, packaging, print media
1. Distinctive logo, innovative, slick, clean, fresh, up-market feel, no pink, no photos, no cartoons, no clip art, no 3-D Objects. Feel free to be creative.
2. Logo and identity needs to be designed to look great on web-site, clothing, advertisements, banners, business cards and delivered in various formats to support these venues.
3. All colors and fonts must be identified
4. The goal of the contest is to have a complete media and graphic package that can be turned over to printer, easily converted to embroidery file format and other brand collateral. Thus, the requisite print, web and embroidery file formats.
5. Vector format and JPG, GIF, TIFF.
6. Thank you to all the Designers who participate.
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General Dwight Eisenhower, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War, delivered the above message to encourage Allied soldiers taking part in the D-Day invasion. (Image courtesy of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum).
The D-Day operation of June 6, 1944 brought together the land, air and sea forces of the allied armies in what became the largest invasion force in human history.
The operation, given the codename OVERLORD, delivered five naval assault divisions to the beaches of Normandy, France. The beaches were given the code names UTAH, OMAHA, GOLD, JUNO and SWORD. The invasion force included 7,000 ships and landing craft manned by over 195,000 naval personnel from eight allied countries. Almost 133,000 troops from England, Canada and the United States landed on D-Day.
Casualties from the three countries during the landing numbered 10,300.
Had the operation failed, General Eisenhower was also prepared to accept full responsibility. The night before the invasion, he penciled a note on a small pad that he would deliver if the invasion went wrong:
"Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops," Eisenhower wrote. "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
Of course, his note never had to be used. By June 30th, over 850,000 men, 148,000 vehicles, and 570,000 tons of supplies had landed on the Normandy shores. Fighting by the brave soldiers, sailors and airmen of the allied forces western front, and Russian forces on the eastern front, led to the defeat of German Nazi forces.
Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum


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UPDATE: The Citizens Redistricting Commission voted 13-1 in favor of the new maps at a meeting Friday. The process moves to two weeks of public comment before the final vote.
Now that the final maps of new legislative and Congressional districts have been produced by the citizens redistricting commission, critics of the maps are preparing to challenge the drawings politically (via referendum) and in court.
Those critics should save their time and money.
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News from around the country and around the globe
What's most striking about looking at the maps is how similar they look to the maps we have now.
It turns out that mapping can't change reality.
There are few competitive seats because Californians tend to live near people who vote like them.
Racial and ethnic groups have fought, mostly successfully, to retain the so-called "Latino seats" and "black seats" that exist now.
And it's far from clear that a successful referendum and/or legal challenge will change very much at all.
Success in such a challenge means that the courts will end up drawing the districts.
And the courts don't have any magic.
Judges, whoever they are, will face the same geographic, political and racial realities that the commission confronted.
It's a good bet that they'll produce something that looks quite a bit like the maps created by the commission.
So it's best that everyone save their time and energy and money and let these maps take effect.
Because Californians need all the time and energy and money they can muster to make changes that will address the state's political, budget and government problems.
Redistricting reform, it is now obvious, isn't a change that makes much difference at all.


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I was young when you were diagnosed with cancer so I really don't remember so much about the whole time. Maybe I just don't want to remember it because it was such a scary time. I do remember coming home from school and Mom was looking out her bedroom window and crying.
I also remember your quiet faith through that time and how it gave us all the courage to be strong.
I think of all the times you took me to piano lessons. (lucky you!) That 25 minute drive seemed like forever to me, a girl who wanted to be playing football with the boys in the neighborhood rather than going to piano lessons. Unfortunately, I do not play the piano well at all...but I wish I did. Also, I don't think I ever apologized for being such a brat and not speaking to you all the way there! Thank you for taking me and trying to get me to learn something I would have appreciated someday. The same goes for taking me to get my allergy shots. You must have dreaded those days because you knew how much I hated having to go...and I'm sure I wasn't exactly your sweet little girl:-)
I know you worked hard to provide for us at all times. How did you go to work so early in the morning and then work so much overtime all those years??? I don't really remember feeling as if I missed out on having anything growing up and I'm sure that's why. Having said that, I know I was a bit of a snob as a teenager, wanting and expecting the finer things in life. All along, I had the finer things in life and today I would be so happy to ride in your brown truck:-)
You are such a wonderful grandfather. I wonder if you know how much you are loved by all of your grandchildren.
They all recognize what a kind, loving, supportive man you are. My girls think they have the sweetest grandfather in the world and I know the others would all agree.
They know you are always there to listen and say a kind word. I wish all children could be so blessed as to have you for a grandfather.
I wish I had tried harder when you encouraged me to learn golf.
I would be playing today if I had. I think it's amazing how you stay busy and are still learning new things. You always loved to golf and to fix or build things in your workshop. Now you actually can make your own golf clubs and also play shuffleboard and even darts...and can put together even the toughest puzzle!
You could fix anything and I never appreciated having a father who was so handy but believe me, I do now!:-)
I wonder if you realize what an impression you have made on Phil. As you know, he hasn't had a father in his life since he was a young boy, so he thinks of you as the perfect father. He has often said he wonders what his life might have been like had he grown up with a father like you.
When you called to congratulate him on his hole-in-one, he was so surprised and touched. He never once in his life has had the experience of a father telling him "congratulations" or "good job". Thank you for being the father he never had.
Well, I could go on and on but I'll wrap it up with this...you are a man of faith like no other I have personally known.
You are also a man of "quiet" faith and I have a feeling it is that quality that has probably influenced more people in your life than you realize. From co-workers, to neighbors, to golf-buddies, they know there is something special inside of you and I know that someday, many of them will be waiting eagerly to greet you and thank you for being the kind of man who leads not just by words but by love and example.
Dad, This is one of my favorite quotes. I think of you every time I hear it.
"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." Clarence Budington Kelland
Happy Father's Day Dad...I love you!


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The owners of Planet Fitness, Newington, NH, and a franchisee group that co-owns PFNY LLC, which operates Planet Fitness clubs in New York and New Jersey, have filed lawsuits against each other.
Planet Fitness, owned by Mike Grondahl, Marc Grondahl and Chris Rondeau, filed its lawsuit on Dec. 27, 2011, in New Hampshire District Court against franchisees James Innocenti, Jeffery Innocenti and Luigi "Gino" LaVerghetta.
Planet Fitness (PF Holdings LLC) claims the Innocentis and LaVerghetta entered into an agreement without its authorization with two real estate companies that would serve as the exclusive real estate agents in all future negotiations in New York, New Jersey, Dade County, FL, and Puerto Rico. Planet Fitness claims that the franchisees diverted more than $150,000 last December to a general contractor without its consent and knowledge. The five counts in the Planet Fitness complaint are breach of fiduciary duty, misappropriation, unjust enrichment, accounting and constructive trust.
The Innocentis and LaVerghetta filed a counterclaim on Jan. 11, 2012, also in New Hampshire District Court, disputing Planet Fitness' allegations. In the counterclaim, they outline negotiations between the two parties to form a merger and discussion of an initial public offering (IPO). The merger was proposed last May, but negotiations broke down by late November, according to the filing.
The Innocentis and LaVerghetta opened their first club, a Gold's Gym, in 1995 in the Bronx, NY. They owned and operated three Gold's Gyms in New York by 2004 before converting them to Planet Fitness clubs. By 2008, the Innocentis and LaVerghetta opened 11 more Planet Fitness clubs.
In 2008, the Innocentis, LaVerghetta and a fourth party who is no longer part of the group sold their 14 clubs for $4.5 million to Pla-Fit Health, a wholly owned subsidiary of Planet Fitness, and to PFNY LLC, a company that had been newly formed by the Grondahls, Rondeau, the Innocentis and LaVerghetta. Pla-Fit Health would have a 51 percent voting interest and a 33 percent economic interest in PFNY, and the Innocentis and LaVerghetta would have a 49 percent voting interest and a 67 percent economic interest, according to the purchase agreement that closed on April 3, 2008.
In essence, PFNY was created as a holding company that would act as the parent entity of the 14 acquired franchises and could be used by the Innocentis and LaVerghetta to open additional franchises under the Planet Fitness name.
The Innocentis and LaVerghetta followed through on this by opening 22 new clubs, each a wholly owned subsidiary of PFNY. The Grondahls and Rondeau proposed to merge the new entity with PF Holdings LLC in preparation for taking the merged company public in an IPO, according to the counterclaim.
"At no time from 2004 through late November 2011, when the parties' merger discussions broke down, did plaintiffs ever allege that Jeff, James and Gino had defaulted or otherwise failed to comply with any of the various agreements with them and their affiliated entities," according to the counterclaim. "Shortly thereafter, however, plaintiffs began to manufacture illusory defaults, including those asserted in this action, and embarked on a course of questionable conduct in violation of their contractual, fiduciary and other duties to Jeff, James and Gino, all in a transparent attempt to gain unwarranted concessions that plaintiffs had been unable to obtain in the negotiations."
Both parties have filed formal answers denying each other's allegations.
Last week, the Innocentis and LaVerghetta filed a motion for temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in hopes that Planet Fitness will continue to approve the development of clubs and provide equipment for those clubs.
Planet Fitness was No. 7 on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list last year with reported 2010 revenue of $157.1 million. PFNY was No. 20 on last year's Top 100 Clubs list with reported 2010 revenue of $56.3 million. PFNY, which reported 26 clubs in operation at the end of 2010, is the largest franchisee in Planet Fitness in terms of revenue generated and number of clubs, according to Justin Klein, who is representing the Innocentis and LaVerghetta.
"Clearly, the company is making money, and everybody is now fighting over who's entitled to it," Klein says. "[The Innocentis and LaVerghetta] vigorously deny any of the allegations, and they will aggressively pursue their affirmative counterclaims. Ultimately, they want to do what's best for the benefit of the Planet Fitness brand as a whole. They want to see the brand continue to succeed, and this is an unfortunate distraction."
Planet Fitness declined to comment for this story.


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Bats-Throws: R-R
Height/Weight: 6-9/220
Hometown: Greensburg, Ind.
Previously Drafted: Red Sox '08 (20)
Birthdate: Jan. 3, 1990
SCOUTING PROFILE: Scouts have been waiting patiently for two years for the 6-foot-9, 220-pound Meyer to scratch through the surface of his top-of-the-rotation potential. He has largely done that this year, posting an encouraging 4-5, 3.27 record with 36 walks and a Southeastern Conference-leading 81 strikeouts in his first 72 innings as the Wildcats ace. A year ago, Meyer was frustratingly inconsistent and went just 5-3, 7.06. In addition to a fastball that has sat at 94-96 mph and touched 97-98 in every outing this season, he actually reached 100 in a February scrimmage. His slider is a second superior pitch and has been clocked in the mid- to high-80s. While Meyer's overall stuff has improved only marginally from his sophomore to junior year, his turnaround this spring stems mostly from significant improvement in his overall pitchability, notably the command and feel for his slider and changeup. This has been the first season, in fact, that he has been able to throw his change for strikes in a game. In what may have been the best outing of his three-year college career on April 23 against SEC rival Arkansas, Meyer earned conference pitcher-of-the-week honors by slamming the door on the Razorbacks in a complete-game three-hitter with 10 strikeouts. He threw first-pitch strikes to 20 of the first 34 hitters he faced and gave up only one hard hit ball all game while pumping his fastball at a steady 94-98 mph. Most importantly, he threw both his slider and change for strikes. That game was in marked contrast to a typical Meyer outing in his first two years at Kentucky, when he struggled to throw strikes, built up high-pitch counts by the middle innings and won infrequently. Based on his pure raw stuff and intimidating mound presence, Meyer should conceivably go in the top 10 picks overall in June, but he will undoubtedly slide towards the bottom of the first round because he can still be erratic at times, and scouts haven't forgotten that he enjoyed little success as a freshman or sophomore. But there can be no denying his dramatic overall improvement this spring, and remaining untapped potential. Meyer still needs to tweak his overall approach to pitching as hitters still get good looks at his big fastball, and his change remains mostly a work in progress. As a 6-foot-7, 190-pound Indiana high-school senior, Meyer was one of the nation's top prep prospects for the 2008 draft, and might have been drafted in the first round had he been more amenable to signing. He lasted until the 20th round, and ultimately turned down a last-ditch bonus offer of a reported $2 million from the Boston Red Sox to attend college at Kentucky. Meyer has always had front-of-the-rotation quality stuff to go with his extra-large frame, and just needs to harness it to reach his potential.
Projected Draft Position: Late first round.
Perfect Game Events Attended
2006 WWBA World Championship
2007 National Showcase
2007 WWBA 2008 Grads or 17u National Championship
2007 AFLAC All American Classic


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Collection: Yes We Can Read
Yes, you can teach someone to read!
Yes We Can Read is a unique one-to-one reading tool for learners aged from 8 to 80. Yes We Can Read is a phonics-based programme to develop reading for meaning. You, the coach, will be guided through the whole process - from teaching individual phonic sounds, to blending sounds, building words and sentences... and on to reading fluency. This is a fun and engaging way to learn, for anyone who has struggled to read. It builds confidence and self-esteem in both coach and learner.
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ENGLISH 115C: Hamlet and the Critics (ENGLISH 215C, TAPS 151C, TAPS 251C)
Focus is on Shakespeare's Hamlet as a site of rich critical controversy from the eighteenth century to the present. Aim is to read, discuss, and evaluate different approaches to the play, from biographical, theatrical, and psychological to formalist, materialist, feminist, new historicist, and, most recently, quantitative. The ambition is to see whether there can be great literature without (a) great (deal of) criticism. The challenge is to understand the theory of literature through the study of its criticism.
Last offered: Winter 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 122A: Austen and Woolf
Reading of three novels by Jane Austen¿arguably the most influential and gifted of British female novelists-¿and three novels by Virginia Woolf, whose debt to Austen was immense. Topics include the relationship between women writers and the evolution of the English novel; the extraordinary predominance of the marriage plot in Austen¿s fiction (and the various transformations Woolf works on it); each novelist¿s relationship to the cultural and social milieu in which she wrote.
Last offered: Winter 2008 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum
ENGLISH 124: The American West (AMSTUD 124A, ARTHIST 152, HISTORY 151, POLISCI 124A)
The American West is characterized by frontier mythology, vast distances, marked aridity, and unique political and economic characteristics. This course integrates several disciplinary perspectives into a comprehensive examination of Western North America: its history, physical geography, climate, literature, art, film, institutions, politics, demography, economy, and continuing policy challenges. Students examine themes fundamental to understanding the region: time, space, water, peoples, and boom and bust cycles.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI) ; Fishkin, S. (PI) ; Freyberg, D. (PI) ... more instructors for ENGLISH 124 »
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI) ; Fishkin, S. (PI) ; Freyberg, D. (PI) ; Kennedy, D. (PI) ; Nemerov, A. (PI) ; Petrov, P. (TA)
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UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 200-002 with Cain, B. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Freyberg, D. (PI); Kennedy, D. (PI); Nemerov, A. (PI); Petrov, P. (TA)
Instructors: Cain, B. (PI); Fishkin, S. (PI); Freyberg, D. (PI); Kennedy, D. (PI); Nemerov, A. (PI); Petrov, P. (TA)
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-SI |
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ENGLISH 126B: The Nineteenth Century Novel
A set of major works of art produced at the peak of the novel's centrality as a cultural form: Austen's Emma, Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Eliot's Middlemarch, Dickens's Great Expectations, Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. The paradoxes of work, consciousness and the organization of narrative experience, habit and attention. Urban experience, shifting forms of individualism, ways of knowing other persons. Binary and concentric structures, happiness and moral action, arrays of characters.
Last offered: Spring 2019 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 134: The Marriage Plot (FEMGEN 134)
The centrality of the marriage plot in the development of the British novel beginning in the 18th century with Samuel Richardson's Pamela and ending with Woolf's modernist novel Mrs. Dalloway. The relationship between novelistic plotting and the development of female characters into marriageable women. What is the relationship between the novel and feminine subjectivity? What aspects of marriage make it work as a plotting device? What kinds of marriages do marriage plots allow? Is the development of women's political agency related to their prominence in the novel form?
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-SI
ENGLISH 139B: American Women Writers, 1850-1920 (AMSTUD 139B, FEMGEN 139B)
This course traces the ways in which female writers negotiated a series of literary, social, and intellectual movements, from abolitionism and sentimentalism in the nineteenth century to Progressivism and avant-garde modernism in the twentieth. Authors include Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Jacobs, Rebecca Harding Davis, Emily Dickinson, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-Gender, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 143A: American Indian Mythology, Legend, and Lore (AMSTUD 143M, ENGLISH 43A, NATIVEAM 143A)
(English majors and others taking 5 units, register for 143A.) Readings from American Indian literatures, old and new. Stories, songs, and rituals from the 19th century, including the Navajo Night Chant. Tricksters and trickster stories; war, healing, and hunting songs; Aztec songs from the 16th century. Readings from modern poets and novelists including N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko, and the classic autobiography, "Black Elk Speaks."
Last offered: Autumn 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-AmerCul, WAY-A-II, WAY-ED
ENGLISH 144: Major Modernists: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot
What made modernism `new? Is the movement `evergreen? We examine representational change, narrative innovation, and political aesthetics in the poetry, short fiction, and novels of four iconic pioneers: Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Katherine Mansfield, and T.S. Eliot.
Last offered: Spring 2018 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
ENGLISH 144B: Contemporary British Fiction: History, Language, Place
How do contemporary British novelists represent dramatic changes in culture, class, demography, generation, economy, gender, race, and national identity following the allied victory in the Second World War (1939-1945)? Focusing on writers born between 1948 and 1975, we examine the structuring of historical consciousness in novels by Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jeanette Winterson, Hanif Kureishi, Julian Barnes, Ali Smith, and Hilary Mantel.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Staveley, A. (PI)
2019-2020 Spring
3-5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory Exception |
| Students enrolled: 15 / 20
03/30/2020 - 06/03/2020 Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 160-315 with Staveley, A. (PI)
Instructors: Staveley, A. (PI)
ENGLISH 144F: Female Modernism: Women Writers in Paris Between the Wars (FEMGEN 144F)
The course will focus on expatriate women writers - American and British - who lived and wrote in Paris between the wars. Among them: Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, H.D., Djuna Barnes, Margaret Anderson, Janet Flanner, Natalie Barney, Kay Boyle, Mina Loy, Romaine Brooks, Mary Butts, Radclyffe Hall, Colette, and Jean Rhys. A central theme will be Paris as a lure and inspiration for bohemian female modernists, and the various alternative and emancipatory literary communities they created.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II
Instructors: Castle, T. (PI)
2019-2020 Winter
5 units |
UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, WAY-A-II |
Class #
Section 01 |
Grading: Letter or Credit/No Credit |
| Students enrolled: 4
01/06/2020 - 03/13/2020 Tue, Thu 9:00 AM - 10:20 AM at 160-319 with Castle, T. (PI)
Instructors: Castle, T. (PI)
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Street Fighter X Mega Man – Cheats
Guile's Theme
Pause the game in any level, then hold Jump (default L) and press U D D D (default keys W S S S) to have Guile's Theme replace the background music until you put the code in again.
Contributed By: Dark_Resonance.
Hidden Abilities Code
At the title screen.
Effect Code Genin Jinn (Shadow Clone and Turbo MegaMan) Press shoot and (Shift Weapon Right) button at the same time. Warning: cannot be disabled once used Have the ability to use Hadoken manually without any meter or defeating Ryu. Press and hold the jump and fire buttons for about 5-6 seconds.
Contributed By: politan1991 and basch07.
Play as Mega Man without his Helmet
To play as Mega Man without his Helmet, hold shoot on Ryu on the stage select screen and then press Right Right Right Left. If entered correctly, a sound will play and Mega Man will lose his helmet on the stage select screen.
Contributed By: metroid00700.
All Eight Bosses, 4 E-Tanks
At the title screen, select Password, then enter this:
Effect Password All Eight Bosses, 4 E-Tanks A5, B2, B4, C1, C3, C5, D4, D5, E2
Contributed By: m2f_1687.
Start new game with 4 E-Tanks (Version with Password only)
Go into password menu, then enter this code. You will start a new game with 4 E-tanks.
Effect Password Start with 4 E-tanks A5, B1, B3, C4, D2, D3, E1, E4, E5
Contributed By: pichtt.
How to get an easy perfect
Just before killing your stage boss, use your E-tank to refill your health back to maximum. Doing this will trick the game into thinking you've earned a perfect in the round. Once you kill your boss when your health is full, you will earn a Perfect.
Contributed By: basch07.
More E Tanks
If you need more E tanks to beat the game. Just let the timer after you die hit 0, go back into the game and you will have all the tanks you previously collected and you can recollect the E tanks from the levels all over again. I got 10 E tanks at one point.
Contributed By: Sid322.
More E Tanks on Ver. 2.0
Collect the four energy tanks in Chun Li, C. Viper, Ryu, and Dhalsim's stages. After collecting those four, go back to Chun Li's stage and defeat her. After getting the password, write it down and restart the game. When you go back to your game after using the password, go to C. Viper's, Ryu's, and Dhalsim's stages again to get another three energy tanks. You can keep doing this as long as the stage can be played again after entering the password.
Contributed By: ochigawa.
Fight against Akuma
Complete the game with 4 or more Perfects. After the final battle, Akuma will challenge you.
Contributed By: FFandMMfan.
Fight Against Sagat
To fight Sagat, you must obtain 4 perfects in the boss rush before Bison. Sagat will show up before the fight with Bison.
Contributed By: SMuffinMan.
Hadoken without defeating Ryu and Sei'ei Enbu cheat
On de title screen,hold jump and shoot buttons for six seconds. There will be a chime to let you know that it worked. Hadouken: Once you have entered the code, Try a regular Hadouken like you would in Street Fighter with Ryu. You can also charge the Hadouken by holding the shoot button. This does not use the Weapon meter. Sei'ei Enbu: Press the Shoot and Swap 1 buttons at the same time. This will activate the Sei'ei Enbu, which uses the weapon meter. You cannot deactivate this once it is activated.
Contributed By: David3579.
Area/Level Hints
Energy Refills after Boss Rematches
In the room in Seth's Lab where the 8 boss rematches are, there's a computer in the background with two large black and white swirling orbs. Simply shoot these with a charged mega buster shot and you will get a large health tank and a large weapon energy tank. After each boss fight, these same orbs re-spawn, essentially giving you a large health and weapon tank after each boss fight.
Contributed By: OmegamanZX.
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You can submit new cheats for this game and help our users gain an edge.
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You can submit a problem report for any non-working or fake code in the lists above.


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The Blue Devils (1-2-0) will face the Providence Friars (2-2-1) on Sunday at 1 p.m. for their first home contest of the 2012 season. This will be the first game the team has played on the new CCSU Soccer Field.
Central enters the match coming off of a 4-0 win over the New Hampshire Wildcats on Aug. 26 at the University of Vermont tournament. Four Blue Devils scored in the match: sophomores Kerriann Welch and Lauren Varholak, junior captain Jewel Robinson and NEC Rookie of the Week, Taylor O'Leary, who received national recognition on ESPN SportsCenter for her impressive play in the game. Junior Allison Kelley came away with two assists followed by Robinson, sophomore Christina Boucher and senior Cara Cavallari who each posted one.
Central boasted the Most Valuable Player of the tournament, Welch, and came away from Vermont victorious as they earned the tournament Champions title.
Providence comes off of a 4-0 victory over Lehigh on Aug. 31 preceded by a 1-0 loss at Quinnipiac on Aug. 26. The last meeting between Central and the Friars was on Sept. 2, 2011 and yielded a 2-1 win for the Blue Devils.


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Four Ways to Innovate through Analogies
Many of history's most important breakthroughs were made by seeing analogies—for example, how a plane is like a bike
Thomas Edison famously said that genius requires "1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." Edison's third criterion for would-be innovators is less well-known but perhaps even more vital: "a logical mind that sees analogies."
Edison, father of the light bulb, recorded sound and moving pictures, was right. Many of the most important breakthroughs in history—including the printing press, the theory of evolution, the airplane, the assembly line and the computer desktop—were developed through the use of key conceptual analogies.
That's because analogy is much more than a linguistic device; it's a fundamental way of thinking. To make an analogy is to make a comparison that suggests parallels between two distinct things, explicitly or implicitly. And those who are most nimble at seeing parallels and connections, rather than just obvious differences, compete best.
Here are four rules for innovating through analogy.
Question conventional analogies
Always kick the tires on the analogies you encounter or consider. Some analogies ring true at first but fall apart on closer examination. For example, centuries of would-be aviators modeled their machines after birds in an attempt to flap their way aloft. But flapping had nothing to do with the intrinsic aerodynamics of flight; rather, it reflected challenges of propulsion unique to birds.
The Wright Brothers, by contrast, saw an analogy to the machine that they already designed, manufactured and repaired for a living—the bicycle. Both were unstable vehicles requiring nuanced balance and control in three dimensions; both fell if they lost too much forward momentum. The design decisions this analogy inspired enabled them to make history at Kitty Hawk.
Explore multiple analogies
No matter how seductive an analogy may be, be sure to examine several others before deciding which one might be most useful. Usually, more than one analogy can shed light on a given situation.
Charles Darwin, for example, developed his theory of evolution based on two fundamental analogies. The first analogy drew a parallel between geology and biology. Darwin reasoned that if a modest, meandering stream could erode grains of sand one by one to carve a mighty canyon, perhaps small, random changes in a plant or animal could influence its relative survival and reproductive rates over generations, gradually altering both form and function to yield new species.
Darwin's second insight was to draw an analogy between breeding in agriculture and "natural selection" in the wild. Melding both analogies, he offered a revolutionary theory that not only explained biological evolution but also equipped people with a systematic approach for understanding gradual change in virtually any complex system.
Look to diverse sources
The art of analogy flows from creative re-categorization and the information that we extract from surprising sources. Take the invention of the moving assembly line. Credit for this breakthrough typically goes to Henry Ford, but it was actually the brainchild of a young Ford mechanic named Bill Klann. After watching butchers at a meatpacking plant disassemble carcasses moving past them along an overhead trolley, Klann thought that auto workers could assemble cars through a similar process by adding pieces to a chassis moving along rails.
Overcoming significant management skepticism, Klann and his cohorts built a moving assembly line. Within four months, Ford's line had cut the time it took to build a Model T from 12 hours per vehicle to just 90 minutes. In short order, the moving assembly line revolutionized manufacturing and unlocked trillions of dollars in economic potential. And while in retrospect this innovation may seem like a simple, obvious step forward, it wasn't; the underlying analogy between moving disassembly and moving assembly had eluded everyone until Klann grasped its potential.
Similarly, Steve Jobs recognized that the digital "desktop," first developed but unappreciated at Xerox PARC, was an analogy with the potential to make computers accessible to millions of people—an insight he put to work when he launched the first Mac. That breakthrough machine (and the imitators that followed) quickly democratized computing and ushered in today's information age.
Jobs always pushed for simplicity in design because, as he used to say, "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." That's how analogies work, too: They make complicated things easier for people to grasp by stripping them to their essence. The very best analogies make things as simple as possible—but no simpler.
— Mr. Pollack 's latest book is "Shortcut: How Analogies Reveal Connections, Spark Innovation, and Sell Our Greatest Ideas," from which this essay is adapted. He is a former speechwriter for President Bill Clinton.


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February always seems like dead month, right? I mean, everyone's still trying to recover from the sleep deprivation of the Aussie Open, and the tournaments are in the Middle East, where we're forced to watch the best tennis players in the world play in front of near-empty stadiums.
BUT. There was actually a crazy amount of crazy that happened this past February. I KNOW! I FORGOT TOO!
- One last look at the Australian Open.
- This stuff only (always?) happens to JJ.
- As I left for Hobart for Fed Cup, I stopped to reflect on my first credentialed stint at a Slam.
- Cheerleading Masha, self-destructing Sam, and Kim with champagne down her pants? It must be Fed Cup. It must be love.
- Watching the Australia vs. Italy tie in Hobart. So much fun.
- You'll be missed, Stubbsy.
- Grease to the curb.
- ZOMG I FORGOT ABOUT THIS. Hev drills Woz in the face.
- Bepa introduces the slow burn flip out. "You can't see the ball but now you can speak Russian?"
- Milos Raonic won a tournament in the States, so we did what we always do to Canadians: stereotype them HARD.
- Chakky noooooooooooooo! And in all seriousness, noooooooo.
- My annual conniption fit in Dubai.
- I think this kid loves Sasha more than Masha does. UhhhhhhhhDORABLE.
- Milos beat Fernando again and it became pretty clear that TGO ("The Gelled One") reaaaaaaally wanted to beat the crap out of him.
- Oh man. Iskorazzi. ISKORAZZI. That was fun. Until it got real.
- Petko was really dominating Twitter.
- Wet Rafa.
- Caro grabbed on to #1 and didn't let go.
- Kolya. Irina. Bathrobes. GO!
- No really, WHERE IT AT???
- Mario Ancic bid us a sexy adieu.
- Hitler was not pleased to hear Andy Murray lost.
- Is it just me or does Kader look high in this clip?
- HAHAHAHAHA. Pwnd.
- Justine fessed up to some stuff maybe. And yet, once again, Game, Set, Match, Willliams.
- Nole 2.0 came, saw, and conquered.
- I tapped the world #1 to win and then Bepa comes through and flashes her baby blues in Dubai.
- Delpo was stoked to win a title in Delray Beach, and Daveed and Gisela wore hats.
Solid February, February. You did well for yourself. Perfectly respectable.


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Wine man Chan Cox is growing his offerings again.
With nine Wine World locations under his belt, his location in Miramar Beach across from Silver Sands Outlets was the only one of the nine that that was marketed as a wine outlet.
That changed this week, however, as the former Wine World Outlet joins its sister stores as it is transformed into a full-service store, wine bar, and cheese shop.
"The transformation is taking place because this is what our customers wanted," said vice president of sales Michel Thibault. "People kept asking for things we have in the other stores but didn't have at the outlet."
With the former wine outlet completely remodeled, the Wine Bar will now look like its sister stores, offering gift baskets, gifts, wine utensils, high-end glassware, cheeses, wines by the glass, and lunch, as well as their standard selection of wines by the bottle.
Formerly based at the Destin store, Thibault is now be based at the new Wine Bar, where he will oversee the wine, cheese, and restaurant operations.
Coming onboard as chef at the new location is Sandor Zombori, who was formerly with The Vue on 30A, and owned his own fine-dining restaurant in Seagrove � Sandor's.
"Sandor coming onboard will make us better," said Cox. "That's the most interesting part of this transformation, is that I will have two 'Old World' guys there � Sandor and Michel."
The two men will collaborate on pairing dishes and wine, and for cheese plates with wine.
"There will be a good bit of collaboration and it will be a teamwork place," he said. "It will be great."
Unlike the other local Wine World locations, this one will not serve dinner, but only lunch.
"The menu will be similar to the other locations, but with Sandor's special twist," said Thibault.
"We will come up with a menu that is different that he created using his recipes," said Cox. "We want to do something different and exciting. I can't wait. I am so impressed with him (Sandor) � his passion, his dedication, his Old World work ethic. I am proud to have these guys."
The menu will feature weekly specials.
Although the Wine Bar only serves lunch, it will be available at night for special events, and already has two booked.
On Aug. 20 the location hosted Sharron McCarthy, who flew in to lead a wine seminar and a five-course Banfi wine dinner. McCarthy is the former president of the Society of Wine Educators.
As for the outlet wine prices, Cox said his stores already meet anyone's prices, so all that is different is that it is not being merchandised as an outlet.
The Wine Bar opened Monday for lunch. It will be open Monday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. with lunch served until 3 p.m. The familiar cheese shop will be open all day. At the bar, cheese plates will be available to order along with glasses of wine. As at the other Wine World locations, buy a bottle of wine off the shelf and corkage fee is $10.
For more information call 654-8805.


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U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Thursday completed his record ninth 62 county tour of New York State with a visit to Rensselaer County.
U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Thursday completed his record ninth 62 county tour of New York State with a visit to Rensselaer County.
While a candidate for Senate in 1998, Schumer pledged to visit every county in New York during his first year as senator, a task he has completed every subsequent year, making him the first U.S. senator to visit every one of New York's counties every year he has been in office.
"This was the closest to the edge, we nearly missed it this year because the session went five days before Christmas," Schumer, D-NY, said as he visited Rensselaer County to talk about the need for more federal dollars for sewer systems.
He also toured the Port of Oswego later in the day to get a look at how the lack of routine maintenance dredging over the last three years has left the harbor increasingly treacherous for ships to navigate, an issue he and local officials have been pushing in Washington. He said federal legislation this week will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to transfer unused funds from other projects to do emergency dredging at the port.
"I like doing it," Schumer said of the 62 county tour. "The senators who do the least of their job are the ones who stay holed up in Washington, whether you're a Democrat, Republican, liberal or conservative." He counts the annual visits as one of his biggest accomplishments.
This year, Schumer's statewide tour included 15 trips to the Capital District, 15 to Erie County, 15 to Monroe County, 35 to Long Island, 14 to Onondaga County and 14 to the Westchester-Rockland area. He also made multiple trips to Ulster, Putnam, Oswego, Orange, Ontario, Oneida, Jefferson, Dutchess, Cortland, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Broome counties, as well as stops in Herkimer and Montgomery counties.
Schumer made his first-ever visit to the western edge of Montgomery County, and to the village of St. Johnsville, in late May to tour Cellect LLC and see first-hand the company's recovery efforts after it sustained flood damage in June 2006.
In 2006, Schumer helped to secure a $1.5 million Small Business Administration loan to assist the maker of special plastic foam, as waters from the Mohawk River flooded the plant and threatened to shut the company down, jeopardizing ongoing operations and plans for future growth.
Scott Smith, owner, president and chief executive officer, said with Schumer's help, and that of his selfless employees who worked around the clock, his company was able to process backlogged orders and get back on track to complete its expansion plan and add new jobs.
He also helped BeechNut and the United States Department of Agriculture find a solution to allow the company's Canajoharie plant to continue to operate at full capacity. After production at the plant was jeopardized by changes in USDA food inspection procedures, Schumer worked with the USDA and BeechNut to provide temporary relief while negotiations took place. An agreement was reached in August to change the positioning of the inspection stamp on the baby food jars, allowing the inspection process to take place earlier in the production schedule and ensuring BeechNut's ability to preserve its production line and continue to fuel the economy of the Mohawk Valley. Schumer has visited the BeechNut plant three times in the past as part of his annual 62 county tour.
The senator's early July trip to Herkimer County afforded him the opportunity to visit with political and business leaders during a meeting on local issues. It also provided an opportunity to honor Little Falls Mayor Ted Wind, who was presented a citation for his 45 years of public service. Wind was honored to receive the citation, and thanked Schumer for being a friend to Herkimer County.
Despite his growing responsibilities in Washington, including his chairmanships of the Joint Economic Committee and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, as well as his leadership role in the Democratic Conference, Schumer said he continues to advocate on behalf of all New Yorkers. Among his other accomplishments this year, he delivered federal aid to regions hit by the February Nor' Easter, brought more airport screeners and flights to upstate airports, eliminated blackouts of Buffalo Bills games and secured funds for Rochester's Math and Science Center.


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Summertime is here, summertime is great, summertime is fun. And since it's summertime, that means there are plenty of neighborhood classic car shows going on. But if you had to bring one new car to a classic car show, which would you bring?
The idea of bringing a new car to a classic car show came to me as a bit of practicality, really. I was up in the somewhat-tony riverside town of Nyack, New York, last week, and there were posters up everywhere advertising the upcoming classic car show.
It's not a particularly historic or venerated classic car show, as many are, since it's only in its third year. While in the town on a regular Tuesday evening, however, I saw an Alfa Romeo GTV, a BMW M635CSi, and a smattering of every variety of old Beetle you could imagine.
It's also the town where I saw that gorgeous Jaguar Mk. II last year.
So while the pedigree might not be there, all the right ingredients for a wonderful little community automotive gathering were planted already, even if it was just a random Tuesday night.
So when I saw those posters, I figured the only solution to my dilemma of not planning on going to the classic car show was to start planning on going to the classic car show.
There was only one problem. I do not actually own a vehicle befitting a classic car show. Which means I had to get one.
"Easy peasy," you say. "You work for Los Jalops! Surely it's easy for you to just order up any old Duesenberg SJ and have one delivered right into your face."
And sure, a Duesenberg SJ would be a splendid old car to bring to a classic car show. But if only it were so simple.
I'm about to get a little inside baseball here, however, for all those that love the automotive journalism industry. Contrary to popular belief, we can't actually get any car delivered to us, on a whim, just for our sole driving pleasure.
First, the car usually needs to come from a manufacturer's already-established press fleet. Then we usually need to establish some sort of purpose for borrowing it. Then we need to make sure the guys over at Motor Balls haven't reserved every single car in the fleet already for that entire decade.
And then we need to make sure our timing matches up with the manufacturer's timing. If I need to depart from wherever by 5 AM, and the car can't be picked until 10 AM, then no dice.
And there's a bunch of smaller little steps in between, which I won't bore everyone with.
So like I said, it's not a simple proposition. Getting a truly classic car is generally a no-go, since it's not like Chevy is keeping a whole bunch of '57 Bel Airs around just in case any aspiring auto journalist feels like having a nice sunday drive. Or that we would want one, because, let's be honest, everyone and their mom is going to have a '57 Bel Air at this thing.
So it's got to be a current car, and it's got to be plausibly in a press fleet, and it's got to be plausibly available. So that means no '57 Bel Airs, but also no BMW i3s (too new to have made their way into the press fleet), no Morgan Three-Wheelers (Morgan doesn't exactly actually have a press fleet), no Singer Porsches (unless someone wants to give us around $300 grand), and nothing boring.
Because you don't want to bring anything that won't get some sort of response out of a bunch of old, grizzled classic-car people. Sure, the Mazda3 is a great little car, but to a bunch of people to whom the '57 Bel Air is the holy grail, I'm just gonna be another punk with some other hatch made by some other company that nobody cares about.
I already posed this question on Twitter the other day, but I figured this would actually be a question better posed to our audience here and the Kinja Blog System (™), since you lot always seem to have some good ideas.
So which car would you bring to a classic car show? Show us in the comments below!


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Edge Integration is now Reach Systems
There are puns to be had and bad jokes galore here, but I'm going to maintain decorum in telling you that IP access manufacturer Edge Integration Systems is now Reach Systems. The press release tells us: Edge chose to rename the company and flagship product, the Edge Access Control System (Edge ACS), to further differentiate our unique service-based access control solution from other legacy security products using the word "Edge†in their name. Many of these similarly named products belong to our valued partners like respected card reader manufacturer, HID Global. Not to cast aspersions, but I'm guessing HID Global was maybe respectfully involved in getting that name change accomplished. They've been working hard to establish their Edge line of IP access products, and probably weren't too keen on confusion with a start-up. Reach, nee Edge, makes a good product, allowing tons of web-based control of access systems, offering a great solution for multi-site businesses that aren't huge, for example, or for integrators to offer managed access control to SMB customers. I had a good interview with Dennis Raefield about it here.


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March 16, 2008
Complete Release in PDF Format
The Lipscomb Bisons golf team finished sixth in the 11-team Kauai Collegiate Cup played Friday and Saturday at the Wailua Golf Course in Lihue, Hawaii.
The tournament is hosted by Western Kentucky University.
The Bisons shot a three-round score of 908 (303-308-297). They were eight strokes behind fifth place finisher Old Dominion. Vanderbilt won the tournament with a score of 855 (287-289-279). Oklahoma Christian was second with an 883.
Cody Hale was the top finisher for the Bisons. He tied for eighth with a three-over par score of 219 (74-75-70).
Parker Beck finished in the top 25 with a tie for 23rd. He shot a 230 with scores of 75, 81 and 74.
Cory Parkinson was close behind in a tie for 26th place with a score of 231 (74, 77, 80).
Clint Suggs tied for 34th with a 235 score (82, 79, 74). Brandon Mundie was 41st with a 236 (80, 77, 79).
Chad Rush was 53rd with a 252 (85, 82, 85).