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Restart links should not be shown unless Lifecycle.get().canRestart() returns true. Otherwise, a message like "Restart required for changes to take effect" should be displayed.
Restart links should not be shown unless Lifecycle.get().canRestart() returns true. Otherwise, a message like "Restart required for changes to take effect" should be displayed.
A restart link should show the single word Restart and should call Hudson.
A restart link should show the single word Restart and should call Hudson..
===Plugin Manager===
===Plugin Manager===
The Plugin Manager will show a restart link if a) a plugin is updated or a plugin is loaded that requires restart, and b) if Lifecycle.get().canRestart() returns true.
The Plugin Manager will show a restart link if a) a plugin is updated or a plugin is loaded that requires restart, and b) if Lifecycle.get().canRestart() returns true.
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Restart Within Hudson
Configuration changes that require Hudson restart to take effect should provide a
Restart link or button.
Unfortunately, the CLI restart or soft-restart methods, which call
Hudson.restart and
Hudson.safeRestart, respectively, don't handle many of the necessary use cases by default. A Hudson restart link based on these methods would too often fail. It is one thing to leave an opening for plugins to implement, but quite another to depend on the kindness of plugins for basic Hudson operations. The default Lifecycle implementation needs to be in some sense universal, even if it requires the cooperation of system administrators.
In the following, "correct restart" means restart specifically tailored to the environment in which the Hudson instance is running. "System administrator" is a person who provisions and deploys the Hudson instance. "Hudson admin" is a person with admin privileges in Hudson. Sometimes these are the same people; sometimes not.
- The current Lifecycle API must be preserved, for compatibility with existing plugin extensions. The new default mechanism will only be invoked if the
hudson.lifecyclesystem property is not specified.
- It must be possible for a system administrator to preconfigure Hudson for correct restart. This is particularly important for "no-admin" uses of Hudson.
- Restart must require Hudson admin privileges (ACL.SYSTEM).
Design Approach
The Restart Command, allows a system administrator to specify a command or provide a script during Hudson startup. This is most suited to Hudson running in containers like Tomcat, etc. which provide easy application restart from the command line, but as the example shows, can be adapted to almost any scenario.
Restart Command
Correct restart is a multi-dimensional problem, different for each OS, service implementation and container (Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish, etc.). The Lifecycle extension point is not well suited for multi-dimensional invocation, e.g., the OS is X AND the container is Y and (the container does not support single application restart OR the application name/war file location in the container is Z). While certain tricks, like replacing the Hudson WAR file, work to restart the application in many containers, to cover all the possibilites, Lifecycle would need an extension for every possible combination.
Yet, every system administrator already knows or can easily discover a command or script to restart any running Hudson instance. The best and most likely to be correct restart mechanism would leverage those commands/scripts and not try to replace it with Java code. The feature described below provides a generic Lifecycle that does.
Two new ways are provided for the system administrator to configure correct restart:
- by providing a
hudson-restartfile in the $HUDSON_HOME provisioned for the Hudson instance and
- by specifying a restart command on the command line when Hudson is invoked.
In a nutshell, restart within Hudson will invoke a system administrator--supplied command.
Since the command is presumed to restart Hudson, it may not return at all. If it does return, it is expected to return successfully. If the restart command fails, restart will fail.
If the restart command is not specified, the existing default Lifecycle mechanism will be invoked.
If the
hudson.lifecycle system property is specified, the restart command, if any, will not be used.
Default Restart Script
To allow system administrators to pre-configure Hudson for correct restart, if a restart script is present in HUDSON_HOME the initial value of the restart command will be set to invoke the script. The script must be named
The script or program may have an extension, e.g.,
.bat on Windows or
.py, etc. on Unix, but it doesn't matter what it is; in all cases, it will be invoked as a program.
The script must be executable.
The script should be specific to the environment in which the HUDSON_HOME is used.
Restart System Property
Even if a restart script is present in HUDSON_HOME, a system administrator may change the restart command to do something else, effectively ignoring the script, using the command line option:
The value of the
hudson.restart system property will be used to initialize the restart command. The correct order of initialization is:
- If
-Dhudson.restartis specified, use that.
- Otherwise, if a restart script is present, use a command that invokes the script.
- Otherwise, the restart command is not specified.
A new lifecycle,
hudson.lifecycle.RestartCommandLifecycle, will be added to Hudson.
hudson.lifecycle.Lifecycle will be modified to use the
RestartCommandLifecycle for restart if:
- a restart script or command has been specified, and
- the
hudson.lifecyclesystem property is not defined.
The implementation will log a warning message if
hudson.lifecycle has been specified and a restart script or command have been provided.
This simple example shows how one might use the restart command to reliably restart Hudson no matter how it is started, with the added virtue that if Hudson exits for any reason, it will automatically restart. It involves two scripts,
run-hudson and
stop-hudson. If you put a
hudson-restart script in
HUDSON_HOME, it should call
stop-hudson. Here, we will use the
hudson.restart system property.
File ~/run-hudson.bash
#!/bin/bash while : do # start Hudson asynchronously, e.g., from war - note the kill.key and hudson.restart java -Dkill.key=secret -Dhudson.restart=/Users/bobfoster/stop-hudson.bash -jar ~/committer/org.eclipse.hudson.core/hudson-war/target/hudson-war-3.1.0-SNAPSHOT.war & trap "break" SIGINT SIGTERM # receiving trapped signal makes wait return, then trap executes wait ${!} sleep 1 echo "Restarting Hudson" done echo "Killing child process" pkill -P "$$" exit
If the Java process running Hudson is stopped for any reason,
run-hudson will restart it. So to restart Hudson, all we need is a script to kill the Java process. This is where the "secret key" comes in.
File ~/stop-hudson.bash
#!/bin/bash HUDSON_PID="`ps -axu bobfoster | grep "kill.key=secret" | grep -v grep | awk -F, 'BEGIN { FS = "[ \t]+" } { print $3}'`" if [ "$HUDSON_PID" != "" ] then echo "killing $HUDSON_PID" kill $HUDSON_PID fi
- This technique of having another process restart Hudson is more reliable than having a child process of Hudson (the
hudson-restartscript) kill Hudson and relaunch it.
- While some servers allow you to restart a single application in the same JVM, it is risky to do so. Unless all instances and classes of the previously running Hudson are garbage-collected, several restarts will exhaust
permgen. It is more reliable to relaunch the entire server. Therefore it is a good practice to run only one application per server, so other applications aren't affected.
- If the
run-hudsonscript always restarts Hudson, how do you stop Hudson gracefully? Easy, just kill
run-hudson. The trap will break out of the loop, kill the child (Java) process and exit.
Restart Links or Buttons
Restart links should not be shown unless
Lifecycle.get().canRestart() returns
true. Otherwise, a message like "Restart required for changes to take effect" should be displayed.
A restart link should show the single word Restart and should call
Plugin Manager
The Plugin Manager will show a restart link if a) a plugin is updated or a plugin is loaded that requires restart, and b) if
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LOS ANGELES – Winds gusting at as much as 84 miles per hour lashed the Southland today amid single-digit humidity and unseasonably high temperatures, creating what forecasters called "extreme fire danger."
A red flag warning signifying a high risk of wildfire went into effect yesterday in much of Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties and was scheduled to expire at 8 tonight.
The Los Angeles Fire Department Wednesday imposed "red flag parking restrictions," with signs barring parking on streets that fire trucks otherwise might have difficulty navigating, but those restrictions will be lifted at 8 a.m. today.
The National Weather Service reported that the Santa Ana winds were generating gusts of between 45 and 60 miles per hour across coastal and valley areas and, generally, between 60 and 70 mph in the mountains, though some gusts were even more powerful.
After 1 a.m. today, the NWS recorded gusts of 84 mph in Chilao, 72 in Warm Springs and 71 at Camp Nine — all three in the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County — and 74 mph in Topanga Hills, 61 mph in Whittier Hills, 60 mph in the Newhall Pass and 46 mph at Palmdale Lake.
Along with the high winds, the humidity level was expected to remain below 10 percent today, according to the NWS. Humidity levels of only between 3 percent and 8 percent were forecast for the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys, and of between 3 and 7 percent in metropolitan Los Angeles, along the coast and in the Hollywood Hills.
No specific humidity level was forecast for the mountains, although the NWS said it would remain in the single digits.
"The combination of moderate to strong Santa Ana winds, widespread single-digit humidities, and hot temperatures will bring an extended period of extreme fire danger to much of Los Angeles and Ventura counties" through this evening, according to an NWS advisory.
"If fire ignition occurs there could be rapid spread of wildfire that would lead to a threat to life and property."
Temperatures were forecast to remain high today but begin a gradual descent Friday. Downtown L.A, for example, was forecast to hit a high of 98 degrees Fahrenheit today, 93 Friday, 83 Saturday, 74 Sunday and 70 Monday. For Pasadena, the forecast called for a high of 100 today, 98 Friday, 90 Saturday, 79 Sunday and 72 Monday.
In Los Angeles County, the red flag warning applied virtually everywhere, but not the Antelope Valley. Specifically cited as red flag areas were the Santa Monica and San Gabriel mountains; the Angeles National Forest; the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and San Gabriel valleys; and the so-called Los Angeles coastal zone, which runs from Malibu to the Hollywood Hills and includes beach cities, downtown L.A. and the rest of metropolitan Los Angeles.
Wednesday's winds knocked down power lines. Riverside County and San Fernando Valley customers remained the hardest hit of Southern California's power consumers early today, as high winds slowed down line repairs.
At least 3,000 Southern California Edison customers remained without power, according to the company's outage map, including 1,800 in Riverside County, and around 800 in Los Angeles County.
Most of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers who remained in the dark were in the Valley, where Chatsworth and Reseda took the brunt of the outages. An LADWP tweet said an estimated 900 customers were without power.


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Advanced statistics are in their infancy compared to baseball, but in the great tradition of Baseball Prospectus a talented group of writers will once again bring you Hockey Prospectus this season.
The book will hit shelves in time for the season openers and is also available on Amazon.com.
I can attest that this is a handy tool for anyone interested in projecting how well a player will perform — for personal or fantasy hockey purposes — or to just nail down exactly why some guys seem to thrive or struggle in certain situations or on certain teams.
Hockey Prospectus breaks down all 30 teams and just about every player in the NHL. This year's Bruins section includes an explanation of what makes Zdeno Chara great, what the Bruins' great goaltending from last season means for the future and also breaks down which way the power-play will go after a lackluster 2010-11 season.
Slowly but surely GMs and scouts are starting to let analytics seep into their assessments of players. So this is your chance to get a jump on some guys in those position who haven't gotten on the bandwagon yet. Hockey Prospectus is a great way to prepare for the 2011-12 season and an excellent companion to keep next to you as you watch the games all season long.


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Valentine E. Gastello
May 15, 1923 - December 2, 2012
Valentine E. Gastello, age 89, of Stockton, CA passed away on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2012 in Stockton,
CA. He was born on May 15, 1923 in Brawley, CA.
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ARISS Contact Schedule and Successful school list updated 2005-08-11 21:30 UTC Well done STS-114! Welcome back! Due to the STS-114 operation and planned ISS EVAs, ARISS school contacts were canceled or postponed. We are back; the next contact is set for 2005-08-17. There was also a rumor that the ISS was having contacts on the 40 meter band. There is no HF equipment available yet. Expedition 11 crew is now on the ISS. John Phillips KE5DRY Sergei Krikalev U5MIR Expedition 12 crew is expected to dock 2005-10-03. This means that there will probably not be any ARISS contacts from the week before docking until the week of 2005-10-24. Expedition 12 William McArthur KC5ACR up on 11S Soyuz, scheduled launch 2005-10-01 Valery Tokarev up on 11S Soyuz, scheduled launch 2005-10-01 Thomas Reiter DF4TR up on STS-121, scheduled launch 2005-09-09. The schedule page has been updated as of 2005-08-11 21:30 UTC. Look for the updated and enhanced frequency chart for packet, voice, and crossband repeater modes showing Doppler correction. http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ISS_frequencies_and_Doppler_correction.r tf Several schools will be live simulcasted via the world wide web. Check out the instructions for each school on the schedule page to get to the audio streaming. Additional instructions have been added on how to listen in when the streaming audio is provided by MCI. Also, please monitor the IRLP and Echolink webpages for possible upcoming contacts that will be simulcast. IRLP website at: http://www.discoveryreflector.ca This new site will have the links for simulcast contacts that have IRLP and Echolink. The successful school list has been updated as of 2005-07-21 04:00 UTC. Check out the link on the schedule page to download a video that Mike Fincke KE5AIT and Gennady Padalka RN3DT have produced of life on the ISS. The latest ARISS application, announcement and successful school list is now available on the ARISS web site. There are several ARISS web sites: English: http://www.rac.ca/ariss/ French: http://c.avmdti.free.fr/ariss/index.htm ARISS Europe: http://www.ariss-eu.org/ ARISS Japan: http://www.jarl.or.jp/ariss/ Other locations include: Latest ARISS announcements and news http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/arissnews.txt Successful school list http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/Successful_ARISS_schools.rtf The ISS Fan Club website is: http://www.issfanclub.com K1ELA has a website at: http://members.aol.com/k1ela/index.html ON6SAT has a website at: http://on6sat.com/links/ A listing of ARISS related magazine articles: http://www.amsat.org/amsat/ariss/news/ARISS_magazine_articles.rtf Currently the list includes articles from CQ, CQ VHF, QST, and The AMSAT Journal. Please contact me directly if you have additional suggestions. 73, Charlie Sufana AJ9N One of the ARISS operation team mentors ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to email@example.com
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The New Franklin Lady Bulldogs softball team didn't count on Harrisburg junior Kimberly Roberts beating them with both her arm and bat last night in the championship game in the Class 1 District 7 Tournament at Pilot Grove.
But that's exactly what happened as Roberts held New Franklin to just one run on two hits through seven innings of play while going 3-for-4 at the plate with a single, double, home run and three RBIs in a 7-1 victory.
While the Lady Bulldogs closed out the season at 15-11 overall, head coach Ross Dowell said Roberts did a great job working her pitches in and out and changing speeds. "We never got comfortable in the box," Dowell said. "She worked the outside corner and the umpire was giving it to her. We just had trouble putting it in play. Overall, I thought we had a pretty good season. We were in a lot of games this year, which was better than last year. However, we really need to work in the off-season on getting stronger physically and mentally."
Despite the six-point loss, the Lady Bulldogs were actually in the game until the top-half of the fifth when Harrisburg erupted for three runs on one walk and two hits, which included the two-run home run to left by Roberts to make it 4-1.
Harrisburg also opened the game with one run in the top-half of the first when Bobbi Mathews reached on an error and later scored on the RBI-single to center by Kassi Blakemore.
Meanwhile, after failing to score for the first-three innings, New Franklin finally got on the board in the bottom-half of the fourth when Kallie Monteer led off with a walk, advanced to second on a dropped fly ball to center off the bat of Emily Hendrix and then scored on a fly out to center by Abby Prewitt.
Unfortunately for New Franklin, they had nothing to show for the next-three innings while Harrisburg plated three in the fifth on the home run by Roberts and three again in the seventh on an infield single by Mathews and back-to-back doubles by Kassi Blakemore and Roberts to go up 7-1.
In addition to giving up just one run on two hits, Roberts also struck out 16 batters and walked one.
For New Franklin, Kalani Pihana took the loss by giving up seven runs, five earned, on eight hits and three walks while striking out three.
Blakemore and Mathews each had two hits in the game for Harrisburg, who will move on to face Silex (20-1) in the state playoffs on Wednesday, Oct. 10 in Silex starting at 5 p.m. Silex defeated Sturgeon 6-5 in the championship in the Class 1 District 8 Tournament.
As for the hitting in the game for New Franklin, Sara Montgomery and Abby Prewitt each had one single.
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The New Franklin Lady Bulldogs softball team didn't count on Harrisburg junior Kimberly Roberts beating them with both her arm and bat last night in the championship game in the Class 1 District 7 Tournament at Pilot Grove.


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YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — President Barack Obama's historic visit to Myanmar on Monday was meant to show America's support for the country's transition to democracy.
The White House has cautioned that Obama's trip to the former pariah state should not be viewed as a "victory celebration" but as an opportunity to press for urgent action still needed there — notably, freeing political prisoners and ending ethnic tension in remote areas.
Myanmar was under military rule for a half century until last year, when a nominally civilian government took office and stunned the world with a rapid rush toward reforms.
One of its early moves was to release Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest and allow her to campaign for parliament. She now leads a small minority in a chamber filled with former military men.
Suu Kyi's enormous popularity stems in part from her father, independence hero Gen. Aung San, who was assassinated in 1948.
Obama's roughly six-hour visit was confined to Yangon, the main city where the military brutally crushed pro-democracy uprisings in the past, including a 2007 rally led by Buddhist monks and protests in 1988 led by student activists.
During his trip, Obama met separately with reformist President Thein Sein and Suu Kyi.
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Clarkson University Trustee Emeritus Jack Welch Passes Away
Former Chair of the Clarkson University Board of Trustees John S. "Jack" Welch Jr. '54 passed away today in North Carolina. Welch was a summer resident of Little Round Island in Clayton, N.Y.
"We shall miss the advice and consul of our very dear friend and fellow trustee Jack Welch," said Rett Foster, chair of the Clarkson board of trustees. "He dedicated more than a decade of his time and efforts toward the governance and growth of the University. During his term as chair, the Campaign for Clarkson was brought to a successful close, providing for consolidation of our academic programs on the hill campus and financial resources critical to the University."
A Clarkson trustee from 1992 to 2006, Welch served as chair from 2002-2005. He chaired several key committees, including academic affairs and budget and finance, and served on a number of other subcommittees and committees, including the executive committee. From 1994-1995, he chaired the presidential search committee.
"The entire Clarkson Community is saddened by the passing of John S. Welch and wishes to express its sympathies to Jack's entire family," said Clarkson President Tony Collins. "Jack Welch exemplified the Clarkson experience, rising through the corporate ranks to lead a major global corporation, serving his fellow alumni with honor and foresight, and dedicating himself to his family and community. He and his wife, Norma, who preceded him in death, were respected and loved by all whose lives they touched. His presence and counsel in the affairs of the University will be sorely missed."
He was active in the Clarkson Alumni Association as a member of the board of governors, served as president of the Alumni Association in 1978-79, and received the Golden Knight Award, the University's highest alumni honor, in recognition of his service and achievements.
After joining Ingersoll-Rand Company in 1957 as an engineer, he subsequently rose to become chief engineer, manager of Marketing and Operations, and general manager of the Process Compressor Division at Painted Post, N.Y. In 1980 he was named vice president. With the formation of Dresser Rand Company in 1987, he was named division president, a position he held until his retirement. During his career he was responsible for the operation of several manufacturing plants in the United States, South America, and Europe.
He earned a master of business administration degree from Syracuse University and in 1978 at Clarkson was inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society. In 2001, Welch was honored by Clarkson with an honorary doctor of science degree.
Known for his commitment to community service, Welch served as a trustee and mayor of the Village of Painted Post. For many years he served on the board of directors of Corning Hospital, and on the board of directors and as chairman of the board of the College Center of the Finger Lakes. He also served on the local Boy Scout Council and its executive committee, and on the board of the Greater Corning Area Chamber of Commerce. He was honored in 1989 as Citizen of the Year by the Painted Post Board of Trade.


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Like most system development, the journey determines the destination. In developing this system, we first collected data with our basic random entry system and used that data to optimize our initial rules ("Guide to system development," September 2012). Next, we discovered that by revising our entry time, to 4 a.m. from 8 a.m., we could induce the system to be profitable. (Perhaps not coincidentally, 4 a.m. is the end of the first hour of the London forex session.) This change yielded a profitable system with a positive expectancy. We then could proceed with optimizing our initial stop loss and profit target parameters ("How to set up profit targets and control losses," December 2012).
Optimizing the stop loss resulted in a reduction of the net profit by nearly 50%, but in return we gained the ability to limit and quantify our risk for each trade. As we shall see, the ability to quantify our risk plays an important role when we address possibly the most important step of system development: Money management.
Unfortunately, we didn't fare as well with optimizing the profit target, which resulted in wiping out nearly all of the already reduced profit. This was unacceptable, and thus a predetermined profit target was removed from consideration. The original time-stop exit — that is, exiting the trade at the end of the trading session, or 5 p.m. — will be used in the money management phase (see "Time and trailing stops," last page).
In the money management phase, a trade-size algorithm will be added to the random entry system with an initial stop loss. After that phase is complete, we'll apply a simplified form of Monte Carlo simulation to determine if our profitable results (if any) truly are because of the system having an edge — that is, the ability to identify and exploit a repeating pattern of market behavior.


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I wonder if someone would summarise for us the changes in RC4 so that we know where to direct testing.
I have already noticed that a directory called quark has disappeared and there is a new one called control.
I notice that the makefile still included references to quark as a source of headers to include, which is presumably redundant.


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OpenACC *and* OpenMP
DOA? I don't think so.
OpenACC was formed three+ years ago because customers with accelerator hardware wanted a *standard* set of directives -- as a high level alternative to OpenCL/CUDA/etc. -- for programming GPU, many-core, and other types of accelerators, immediately! (PGI and CAPS had already developed and were shipping with non-standard directives, Cray was on the verge.) (Note: OpenMP was formed in 1997 for similar reasons. I was at SGI then and involved in the creation of OpenMP.)
The PGI accelerator model was the basis for OpenACC because it was *designed* to be portable across a wide range of accelerator/coprocessor architectures.
The core members of OpenACC are also members of the OpenMP accelerator subcommittee. They contribute what they learn -- while accelerating dozens of large applications around the world using OpenACC -- to the OpenMP accelerator committee, while testing new approaches in new versions of OpenACC.
Many customers want to be able to use more than one compiler while programming large technical applications. There are three commercial OpenACC compilers shipping today, versions of which have been shipping for eighteen months or longer. Open-source versions are coming, which should speed compiler development and adoption. As far as I know, the first implementation of OpenMP 4.0 is still in beta. Will it run on GPUs or only on Intel Xeon Phi? (Many members of OpenMP are interested in SMP systems not accelerators.) Implementations of OpenACC run on AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel Xeon Phi today.
If you look at applications that have been ported using both OpenACC and OpenMP 4.0, where directives are placed and what they do are similar in both (at the subset of functionality that OpenMP has attained). So programming in OpenACC now parallelizes code now, that can easily be ported to OpenMP later.
OpenMP releases are typically at least two years apart. OpenACC 1.0 contains important features that are not in OpenMP 4.0; OpenACC 2.0 adds other features the OpenMP accelerator team will consider. OpenACC is thus arguably the "quality test bed", the "well flying prototype", or even the "lead ship of the OpenMP accelerator class
If -- as I believe -- OpenACC is more functional, more portable, and has greater performance now -- and it takes two or three releases for OpenMP to capture the essence of OpenACC, the OpenACC standard has a lot of life in it!
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The National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) will present Gunta Liders, associate vice president for research administration, with its Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Administration, the organization's highest honor.
"I have known Gunta for many years," said Patricia Hawk, NCURA President. "Not only is she an expert in the field of research administration, she is a tireless volunteer for this organization. Giving this award to Gunta will go down on my "list of best things" in my service as NCURA's President."
During her 26 years as a member of NCURA, Liders has held several leadership positionsincluding secretary of the board of directors and regional treasurerpresented at national and regional conferences, served on the organization's traveling faculty, and received two Distinguished Service Awards from both the national and regional chapters. Liders is also a contributing editor for the monthly Managing Federal Grants newsletter and chapter author for Managing Federal Grants: A Guide to Colleges and Universities, as well as for Sponsored Research Administration: A Guide to Effective Strategies and Recommended Practices. Liders has also served as chair of the Research Compliance and Administration Committee, board member of the Council of Governmental Relations, and member of the Executive Committee of the Federal Demonstration Partnership.
"While research administrators need to become experts in rules and regulations, we ultimately help our faculty to succeed in their research," said Liders. "To be a small part of their success is very rewarding."
Liders will be presented with the Award for Outstanding Achievement this Monday morning at NCURA's 55th annual meeting, being held in Washington, DC.
Liders holds a bachelor's degree in art history from the University of Rochester and a master's degree in art history/arts administration from George Washington University. In her position at the University of Rochester, Liders is responsible for numerous compliance issues associated with research administration, as well as for administering grants and contracts for research.
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When you get your exams back, do you hear yourself say, "Why did I mark that answer?" You might want to rethink how you take multiple-choice exams. Aside from studying to master the content being tested, here's a step-by-step process to ensure that your test-taking skills are at their best when multiple choice gets tricky.
Step 1: Take a blank 3×5-inch index card to the exam to cover answers as you go through the test. Show it to the professor before the test, and get permission to use it. If the professor tells you not to use the card, use your hand — but make absolutely certain you have nothing written on your hand! Also ask your professor if you may mark on the exam or if you may use scratch paper (see Step 4).
Step 2: Scan the exam to see how many questions there are.
Step 3: Before you read the first question, cover up the answers with the index card or your hand; then carefully read the question.
Step 4: Re-read the first question and underline all key words and phrases if your professor agreed that this was okay in Step 1. Do this to make sure you know what the question is asking and to narrow down possible answers. Key words can range from "not," "never," "always," and "rarely," to phrases like "the primary purpose," "one recommended technique," or "the researchers' conclusion."
Step 5: Before you look at the answer options, quickly jot down any possible answers that come to mind in the margin of the test or on a piece of blank scratch paper — again, if the professor allows you to mark on the test or to use scratch paper.
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Step 7: Repeat this step for each of the remaining options.
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UPDATED: Sixers president/general manager just spoke with Bob Cooney about the trade deadline:
"It's a frustrating time. You make a ton of phone calls, ton of discussion, think you're close but then salaries not matching, something in the cba and third teams and trying to work it out that way. All 30 teams keep churning and churning. It just didn't come through that we'd get equal value or value to get better on the court right now."
On being satisfied with the status quo: "We started off poorly and I'm not happy. We're playing better no question it. Our defense is the key to fueling us, playing better defense and rebounding the ball. We need to keep getting better and working at this every game, whatever it takes, keep looking to make some moves to get better."
Earlier: In a move that might not shake up the team but almost surely will shake up the fans, Sixers general manager Ed Stefanski has traded guard Royal Ivey and center Primoz Brezec to Milwaukee. The Bucks also get a second-round pick from the Sixers.
Brezec confirmed after practice to the Daily News that he and Ivey had been dealt.
The Sixers will receive Jodie Meeks and Francisco Elson.
The 6-4 Meeks was the No. 41 pick in the second round of the June draft. He has appeared in 41 games, averaging 4.1 points in 11.9 minutes. He is best known for scoring 54 points for Kentucky against Tennessee, including 10 threes.
The Sixers tried hard to get an extra pick in the draft in order to select Meeks, who was among the players the team brought in for workouts. Meeks is scheduled to make $650,000 this year in the first of a 3-year deal.
Elson, a 7-footer in his sixth season out of Cal, played in just 11 games this year and averaged under a point per. He had hernia surgery on Jan. 29 and is expected to be out until at least mid-March. He can be a free agent after the season.
He won a chamnpionship with the San Antonio Spurs in 2007; he began his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets and also logged time with the then-Seattle SuperSonics.
He has appeared in 404 career games over 6 seasons, averaging 3.9 points and 3.8 rebounds. He has also played in 30 playoff games, 10 with the Nuggets, 20 with the Spurs.
He averaged 3.4 points and 3.9 rebounds in 59 games with the Bucks last season, making 23 starts. He shot a career best 84.6 percent from the foul line.
His family is from Suriname, and he is fluent in five languages. He is believed to be the seventh Dutch player in league history.
Brezec has appeared in only seven games and averaged fewer than a point and two rebounds per game in those appearances. The 7-1 center signed a 1-year, $1.1 million deal with the Sixers in the offseason.
Ivey has appeared in 26 games, averaging 2.7 per game. He was in his second season with the Sixers. He opted out of the final year of his contract at the end of last season in hopes of finding a contract worth more than the veterans' minimum elsewhere. He returned to the Sixers on a 1-year deal worth slightly more than the minimum.
Via Twitter, Andre Igoudala said about Ivey, "1 of best t'mates i ever had. didnt get to show what he could do this yr but will show and prove GOOD LUCK!"
Ivey and Brezec will join another new Buck with Philly ties. The team also acquired former Sixer John Salmons, from Plymouth Whitemarsh, in a deal with Chicago. Former Friends Central star Hakim Warrick was also in the deal going to Chicago from Milwaukee.
And does it seem like more than the nine years that have passed since the Sixers made a trade that was done to vastly improve the club – to help them boost their chances for a, gulp, chance to win a championship?
It was February 22, 2001. The Sixers, at 41-14, were among the elite in the Eastern Conference, among the upper echelon in the NBA when they traded injured center Theo Ratliff, among others, to the Atlanta Hawks for reigning defensive player of the year Dikembe Mutombo.
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Since 1947, the Shadowbrook Restaurant in Capitola, California has provided fine dining to the residents of Santa Cruz County. The restaurant was constructed from the ruins of an upgraded log cabin built on the sloping banks of the Soquel Creek. The food, service, and atmosphere is superb for both romantic and casual dining.
Surrounding the restaurant is a lush green garden built into the hillside. A series of concrete and rock steps and paths take you down through the peaceful vegetation and past a series of small waterfalls.
One of the paths leads to an herb garden for the exclusive use of the chef.
For those who do not wish to walk down through the garden, an inclined elevator brings guests down from the parking lots to the restaurant. The inclined elevator (or hillavator) is an interesting piece of history. It was installed 1958 and is believed to be the only inclined elevator servicing a restaurant in the United States. Even if you don't take the hillavator down, you'll probably take it up after indulging in the delicious food.
The interior of the restaurant is just as nice as its exterior. Most of the tables have a view of either the gardens or the Soquel Creek. This table overlooks the outside sitting area by the creek.
Many restaurants are described as cozy, which is an adjective that I take to mean: small and cramped. The Shadowbrook is neither small nor cramped, but it definitely has a cozy feel. Perhaps, comfortable and relaxing is a better description of how the place makes me feel.
The seafood entrees at the Shadowbrook are excellent and the prices are reasonable, ranging from $20 to $25. We dined on a Thursday evening when (for a limited time), the Shadowbrook offers any of their seafood entrees for $13. At $13, you'd be hard pressed to find a restaurant that could serve up a better tasting dinner.
Dinner began with fresh baked bread and butter. We ordered a glass of the Shadowbrook Chardonnay to accompany our seafood order: Scampi and Fresh Eastern Scallops. Our waiter was knowledgeable and easy to talk to (without the airs and pretentiousness of some knowledgeable waiters). The food arrived quickly and hot. The sauces for both dishes were very flavorful and the spinach was fresh and wilted just enough. I felt that my shrimp (which were very large) was a bit tougher than I prefer, but the sauce it was served with more than make up for it. I can't properly comment of if my rice pilaf was good or not because I couldn't resist mixing it with a little bit of my sauce. I have to say that the texture was fine, and it was a good excuse to eat the rest of my sauce. I did ask about my sauce, which was made by flavoring butter with shrimp shells and blending with a bit of lemon juice, white wine, garlic, and parsley. Simple and yet so good.
Tina's favorite part of her Scallops dish was the mashed potatoes. The potatoes, made of Yukon Golds, were rich and creamy while still having a strong potato flavor and texture in the mouth. The oyster mushrooms which accompanied Tina's scallops were the perfect combination for her dish.
We definitely recommend anyone visiting the San Francisco Bay Area to look into visiting the Shadowbrook Restaurant. As of January 2006, they are running specials on Sunday (three entrees are priced at $13), Monday (Prime Rib at $13), and Thursdays (all Seafood at $13).
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The Shadowbrook also has a great Artichoke Soup. They use fresh artichokes from nearby Castroville - the source of most artichokes in the Western Hemisphere.
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We, my daughter and I, just came back to the Central Coast from the Capitola area. We too had the privilage of dining at the Shadowbrook restaurant. It was in one word fantastic! I am so glad somebody referred us to this special place. And, yes... the food was delicious too, loved the artichoke soup! Best part though was the ambiance, very cozy, the coziness I miss from having left behind Europe so I'm sure we will be back! Thanks to all who make this special place a great destination! Next day we went back to have cheesecake in the Rock room!
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My family and I also enjoy the Shadowbrook for its good food and beautiful setting. I have to disagree about the wait-staff being non-pretentious though. The last time we were there, our wait-person disagreed with my choice of wine and served me a glass of another wine instead, without asking me first. I'm in no way a wine expert but would prefer to be "educated" in a less presumptuous manner. We have had other similar experiences there, but even so we will visit the restaurant again.
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Years (and years) ago Ihad the pleasure of dining at Shadowbrook. What I remember most were the huge fireplaces, and (it used to be) that while guests waited, they were brought crocks of cheese spread and thin slices of San Francisco sourdouh
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This is an excellent restaurant for special occasions. I have been going here for 30 years, and have never been disappointed!
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One person is believed to have been injured in a fire that severely damaged a fourth-floor apartment in the Wakefield Place Apartments this afternoon.
Firefighters were called at 2:22 p.m. to fight the fire in the large apartment building at 194 Central St., formerly part of the former Heywood-Wakefield factory complex. The fire was on the west side of the south end of the building.
Fire Chief Ronald P. Therrien said fire was showing from the windows of the apartment.
Second and third alarms were struck and firefighters entered the building from an adjacent apartment, bringing hoses through the hallway and into the apartment that was on fire.
"We don't know yet what caused it," Chief Therrien said.
"There was a report of one person injured, possibly a burn victim. A couple of firefighters were also checked out by EMS (emergency medical services) due to exhaustion."
Chief Therrien said the building, one of the city's largest apartment buildings, is of concern to the Fire Department because it has no sprinklers.
The company renovating the building about 20 years ago was allowed to remove them because it was believed the way the apartments were built would contain any fire to the apartment it was in.
In this case, he said, it did, but only because the fire was on the top floor.
"It was a flawed concept at the time," he said. "If the fire were on the first, second or third floor, it would have been substantially worse."


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East-West Shrine Game® fans are familiar with the event's logo. The image of a football player walking with a young girl appears on game posters, billboards, T-shirts, as well as on the website. Although the logo is famous, the story and the people involved are less well-known. Here is what happened:
In 1974, Nicole Worley-Urteaga was a 2-year-old patient at Shriners Hospitals for Children® – San Francisco (Now Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California). She was born with Holt-Oram syndrome, a genetic condition that affects bones in the arms and hands. In Worley-Urteaga's case, her thumbs were not fully developed. To provide more functionality, surgeons removed her thumbs and repositioned her index fingers in their place. The surgery allowed Worley-Urteaga to comb her own hair, button a shirt, hold a cup and be independent.
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One of the football players, Mike Esposito, especially noticed Worley-Urteaga because she appeared scared and was crying. Esposito took her hand to calm her down and they walked down the hallway together. A photographer from a local newspaper noticed the scene and snapped a photo of the two new friends. The image perfectly captured the spirit of the game and became the inspiration for the official logo of the East-West Shrine Game.
In 1988, at the 63rd East-West Shrine Game in Stanford, Calif., Worley-Urteaga and Esposito were reunited. At halftime, in front of an emotional crowd, they walked across the field hand-in-hand. "It was definitely an exciting and nerve-wracking moment walking on the field in front of so many people," said Worley-Urteaga. "I remember Mike being extremely calm and comforting, just like he was when I first met him."
Today, Worley-Urteaga has three children of her own and works with children with disabilities. Her son, Collin, 14, was born with Holt-Oram syndrome and is a patient at Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California. So far, Collin has had four surgeries on his hands. "After I found out about my son's condition, a part of me was obviously concerned, but another part felt secure because I knew this was best place for him to be treated," said Worley-Urteaga.
When she returned to Shriners Hospitals for Children – Northern California with her son, Worley-Urteaga was stunned when she noticed familiar faces. Collin had the same surgeon, anesthesiologist and nurse who helped her as a child. "I was surprised that most of the staff was still there and remembered who I was," said Worley-Urteaga. "I think that's what separates Shriners Hospitals for Children from everybody else; instead of treating you as a patient, they treat you as part of their family."
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Juniper Networks were up sharply Friday on news of another activist shareholder pushing for changes at the networking-gear maker, but the tech sector joined a broad market retreat that saw the Nasdaq Composite Index turn negative for the year.
Juniper JNPR, +0.25% rallied 6.6% to close at $27.72 on reports that hedge fund Jana Partners has acquired a huge stake in the company and wants the company to reduce costs. The news reported by The Wall Street Journal follows the announcement that another Juniper shareholder, Elliott Management, had pushed for similar changes at the company.
Juniper had also reported solid results that Wedbush analyst Rohit Chopra said has been overshadowed by an expected restructuring at the company. Chopra reiterated a neutral rating on the stock, telling clients in a note that "despite a good finish to the year and some stabilization in the business challenges remain as evidenced by a mixed guide and some degradation in margins."
Chopra said Juniper's management will likely respond to the activist shareholder proposals with a restructuring plan that he speculated could include "some form of cost rationalization and a capital return strategy which could include a dividend."
Shares of Microsoft MSFT, +0.89% were also up 2% to close at $36.81 after the software giant reported strong quarterly results, highlighted by robust Surface tablet sales.
But the techs sector was in the red, as the broader market also retreated and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.50% shed 318 points.
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, +0.26% fell 2.2% to close at 4,128. The benchmark ended the week down 1.7%. The Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index US:MSH and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.67% were each down more than 2%.
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EAST LANSING (WILX)- What kinds of things do colleges have in place to keep their students safe? We ask that question after a student at Central Michigan University was kidnapped, raped and almost killed after leaving a basketball game this week.
Students were shocked to hear about what happened at CMU, but feel pretty safe while on MSU's campus. Many of them rely on the university's "text message alert system" to notify them of any danger in addition to other resources.
Freshman Jacob Moore says he hasn't been getting any text message alerts so he relies on another form of communication when there's danger on campus, his mother.
"Usually my parents are texting me or telling me whats happening," said Moore.
MSU officer Steve Beard says everyone registered for classes should be on the text alert list., but during a situation they will use multiple ways of communication to ensure all students are notified.
"Once there is an incident we send out a text messages, phone calls, and email notifications, to all faculty staff and students alerting them," said Beard.
"I do get the alerts when anything goes on, right away." said MSU student Nicole Holton.
MSU like Central, also has a speaker system in place to notify students out walking on campus.
"We do have a speaker system set up all along our footpaths and across campus. Also in residence halls," said Beard.
But when it comes to walking home at night students say the buddy system is the way to go, no matter how safe they feel the university is.
"I would not walk home alone at night anywhere. I feel this day and age any woman or man should have someone if they walk at night," said Holton.
And if worst comes to worst there are more than 140 of "Green Light Emergency Phones" scattered across campus for students to use if they need police assistance right away,
"It puts us at ease to know that we can get the message quickly," said Beard.
Police patrol of the Breslin Center for home games will go on as usual. Officer Beard did say that they will have officers watching the parking lot after the game to make sure everyone get to their vehicle safe.
Police in Isabella County believe Wednesday night's incident was random. The student told police that the suspect, Eric Ramsey said he took her because she was alone and there was no one around.


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By David Lynch
As always seems to be the case with Liverpool, the latest look at where the club wishes to head heavily referenced what had gone before.
Ahead of Thursday night's Europa League clash with Zenit St Petersburg, supporters were urged by manager Brendan Rodgers and captain Steven Gerrard to recapture the atmosphere seen on the many famous European nights at Anfield in order to aid progression to the next round.
Thankfully for Rodgers, the Kop seemed ignorant of the fact that this was the last 32 stage of a tournament which is largely viewed as the Champions League's ugly sister, as fans dived into every 50/50, headed every ball and relentlessly chased the opposition alongside their heroes in the opening minutes.
Incredibly, this commitment did not even threaten a wobble as Hulk slipped the ball under Pepe Reina just 19 minutes in to ensure that the Reds would need four goals to progress. The Kop simply continued as normal in orchestrating an atmosphere which would facilitate victory, and they were soon rewarded.
Their collective hope was turned into outright belief at the possibility of qualification as Luis Suarez and then Joe Allen scored to take the hosts in at half-time with a 2-1 lead and needing two goals in the second period. Put simply, the famous Anfield of old was back, and so this was an entirely attainable target.
It has often been said that, on its best days, the sheer weight of desire on the Kop can suck the ball into the net and with an hour on the clock this truly appeared to be the case. A Suarez free kick met the back of the net having taken a laws-of-physics-defying journey around the wall and into the top corner. Success was now assured, surely?
With just one goal needed and half an hour left to get it, another memorable comeback appeared to be on the cards, but, despite having shown a level of desire which merited more, the required goal just eluded the hosts. It is a disappointment that will certainly hurt a group of supporters and players who gave so much on the night, but the importance of taking on the wider point should not be underestimated.
In no uncertain terms, Liverpool Football Club needs and deserves nights like this.
|Liverpool are 14/1 to finish in the top four with Bet365
"We really needed them tonight and they were right behind us all the way and I'm just disappointed that we couldn't do it for them but hopefully there'll be many more that we can do it for them."
The Northern Irishman rightly hinted that the club's eventual aim is to reach the Champions League but, with that target firmly out of reach this season, another attempt at winning its lesser counterpart would, on the evidence presented against Zenit, be more welcome than initially perhaps expected.
If next season is stage two of a three-part plan to reach Europe's premier cup competition, then the not insignificant reward of a Europa League run is the least the club's supporters deserve.
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Accused Hampton drug dealer tied to fatal crash challenges evidenceBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
December 02. 2013 3:42PM
BRENTWOOD – An alleged drug dealer tied to the fatal car crash that killed two Massachusetts cyclists during a charity event in Hampton is asking a judge to throw out all evidence seized from her home.
Cindy Sheppard, 48, of Hampton is claiming in Rockingham County Superior Court that the two search warrants used by Hampton police to raid her Ocean Boulevard apartment in May lacked any evidence demonstrating that she was dealing drugs.
Her lawyer, Neil Reardon, argued in court papers that one of the search warrants used by Hampton police did not even mention his client by name.
A second warrant relies entirely from an anonymous source at the Rockingham County jail, and text messages that, "the police are assuming were sent by Cindy Sheppard," according to Reardon.
"The affidavit contains a drug deal that never materialized and reports of two known drug users who were spotted at Cindy Sheppard's address," Reardon said in court papers.
The search warrants have remained under seal by a judge. Prosecutors have yet to respond to Sheppard's claims.
Reardon is only challenging evidence tied to the Sheppard's initial arrest in Hampton on seven counts of possession of a controlled drug.
A decision would likely have no bearing on additional charges Sheppard faces in connection with allegedly providing a dose of Fentanyl to 19-year-old Darriean Hess.
Hess is facing charges of negligent homicide and second-degree assault for veering a 2002 Honda into a group of bicyclists on Sept. 21 hours after she was stopped by Hampton police for speeding and driving without a license.
Pamela Wells, 60, and Elise Bouchard, 52, both of Massachusetts, were killed after being stuck by Hess.
The women were participating in the Granite State Wheelmen Seacoast Century Ride. Two other cyclists, Uwe Uhmeyer, 60, and Margo Heigh, 54, also of Massachusetts, also were injured.
Sheppard was charged with providing the painkiller to Hess roughly three weeks after being indicted on drug distribution charges.
Prosecutors said at a bail hearing in September that Sheppard operated a "drug enterprise" from her home.
Hampton police said Sheppard had 7.3 grams of heroin in her home, along with four ounces of cocaine and small quantities of crack cocaine, oxycodone, diazepam, methylone and marijuana.
Police learned about her alleged drug business after monitoring phone records of another person, according to prosecutors.
Sheppard remains held on bail in both cases. Reardon argued previously that his client, who is a double amputee from the knee down, suffers from a variety of health issues and poses no flight risk.


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Arboleda is an unprecedented project distributed on 107,000 sq m in the municipality of San Pedro Garza Garcia, in the metropolitan area of Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. Pelli Clarke Pelli is responsible for the architectural design and master plan of Arboleda, as for several iconic buildings around the world, while the Offices of James Burnett designed the landscape. Arboleda's location will help revitalise and balance the 'Valle del Campestre' area, contributing to the local community with new green areas, offices, retail spaces, restaurants and residential areas.
Arboleda will be an integral urban village that will strengthen the bonds of coexistence, combining architectural design with nature to develop a local identity with global strength. It complies with the highest standards for construction processes such as LEED and LEED for Neighbourhood Development. Grouped residences, parks, shops, services, cuisine and culture, create a small world consisting of a 'Residential Resort', an 'Office Campus' and a 'Restaurants and Retail Zone' open to the entire community.
In Arboleda people will enjoy more than 20,000 sq m of gardens and public spaces. At the centre of the development a large central park of 6,000 sq m, will visually connect all three areas. It provides amenities designed for specific lifestyles. The iconic master plan, will be home to almost 1,000 native trees. A total of 350 trees have been rescued, nursed and cautiously replanted on Arboleda's landscape to preserve a balance with nature.
Arboleda is a ONE Development Group project, a Mexican company whose goal is to develop real estate projects that improve the quality of life for its residents, visitors and community.
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summertime saturdays.3Saturday, July 05, 2008
There has been knitting happening over here, I promise. Making progress on my seed-stitch throw. Little by little. Stitch by stitch. Row by row. A little boring, but totally mindless. Perfect, actually.
I can't believe it is Saturday, again. A run to the bagel store (by my husband) and we were all set. So, no recipes to share. Yet an ideal summer morning.
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You really are making progress on that throw, you are so right that it is a row-by-row affair!ReplyDelete
Great photos, love the colors in your throw and I really like the look of seed stitch. I spent my Saturday morning buying yarn at my local LYS at their 40% off sale.ReplyDelete
your throw is so cute, leslie! and someday, i'm coming for saturday morning breakfast. everything looks wonderful.ReplyDelete
where will the throw live? is it for the family room, or one of the boys'? the colors are great.ReplyDelete
and again with your fabulous saturday morning spreads... i made coconut bread today (this is the fourth time i've made it now) and it finally worked!!! amazing what a bunch of eggs will do, huh? :P
raspberries and blueberries...who needs anything else:-)seed stitch,ugh...looks wonderful but a bit of a pain...ReplyDelete
Your knitting is so nice. I like this colors!ReplyDelete
The colours in your throw are great together, I am not sure if I could do it all in seed stich though!ReplyDelete
your seed stitch throw is amazing. I love the color combination and the stripes.
Mmmmmmm those bagels look quite tasty. I admire your perseverance to stick through the endless rows of seed stitch. You possess more patience than I do.ReplyDelete
How perfectly delightful! I just received a package of cotton yarn that is destined for life as a colorful throw.ReplyDelete
Seed stitch is beautiful, especially when different colors are used. I am so jealous! :)ReplyDelete
Love the throw -- great colors! :) Your summer breakfasts are wonderful. :)ReplyDelete
Every day should be Saturday. Hope it didn't get too noisyReplyDelete
So, if I showed up unexpectantly some Saturday morning, would there be enough breakfast?ReplyDelete
I need to get some grocery shopping done today- I should have a list for a week's worth of meals to shop for and all I can think of is some yummy and simple breakfast-y goodness... need some more fresh berries, now that our strawberry patch is pretty much done, sigh... and some melon...
Happy knitting-


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Morristown-based Schindler Elevator Corp. announced Tuesday it has won a contract to provide elevators and escalators at the South Tower of the Hudson Yards project, in Manhattan. Financial terms were not disclosed.
According to the announcement, Schindler will provide and install 32 elevators and four escalators at the 52-story, 1.7 million-square-foot commercial office tower to reside at the 26-acre site planned for a new business district in Manhattan.
Upon completion in 2015, the building is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.


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Dayton Valley Youth Activities Council (DVYAC): Welcome
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"Professional coaches measure success in rings. College coaches measure success in championships. High School coaches measure success to titles. Youth coaches measure success in smiles."Paul McAllister, Youth Coach
DVYAC is an non-affiliated organization that supports recreational, competitive, tournament, and scholastic youth activities in the Dayton Valley area. Dayton is located on the Nevada high desert about 15 miles east of Carson City. Dubbed the DaytonNation by local media for the rabid support of our youth teams, we are actively seeking to build a world class youth support environment on our little piece of the planet. Most importantly we are building a foundation for our young boys and girls so they can grow into upstanding men and women.
There is an old saying that 20% of the people do 80% of the work. This is also true when it comes to funding youth programs worldwide. Please visit and patronize our sponsors.
Silverada Try outs scheduled for this Saturday 17 March
Silverada Little League will be conducting tryouts Saturday March 17th at the baseball complex next to Dayton Elementary school. The weather is suppose to be great, but this is Nevada Baseball... Players trying out should wear baseball pants, tops should be worn in layers to adjust for the weather, wear a baseball hat, if they have them they should wear spikes and bring their glove. A favorite bat is also welcomed. Don't forget the sunscreen. Water is turned on in the snack shack, so they will be serving and the bathrooms will be open.
Times are:
Majors (11-12) 9:00am-10:00am
Minors (9-10) 10:00am-11:00am
Farm (7,8,9) 11:00am-1:00pm
Your son or daughter may be asked to tryout in two divisions ie. tryout for majors and then stay over for the minor division.
There are no tryouts for Coach Pitch or Tee ball. Immediately following the Farm Tryouts coaches of all divisions will meet and draft their teams. Practices start Monday.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. — If every day this spring is like Friday, Charlie Manuel will have no worries about his outfield.
Darin Ruf doubled in each of his first two at-bats during the intrasquad game. Domonic Brown singled and doubled his two times up.
"Ruf and Brown had a good day, didn't they?" Manuel said. "They had two good at-bats. We'll see. They'll play [Saturday]."
And so begins the ferentic competition for outfield jobs. With Delmon Young (ankle) sidelined, both Ruf and Brown will play often. Ruf will bat fifth in Saturday's Grapefruit League opener with Brown hitting sixth.
EXTRA BASES. Chase Utley struck out swinging and walked in his two plate appearances Friday. He also helped turn two double plays at second base. He will bat third for Manuel on Saturday. ... The only regular not starting Saturday is Jimmy Rollins. Ryan Howard will play both Saturday and Sunday, Manuel said. ... The Phillies released infielder Andres Blanco, who suffered a shoulder injury during winter ball. They then re-signed him to a minor-league deal but without an invitation to major-league camp.


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'Outside money:' Shaheen takes plenty of it
April 07. 2014 5:27PM
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen sure talks a lot about "outside" money. She raises campaign funds by claiming to protect the state from outside "special interests" who might help Scott Brown. Those poor donors probably have no idea how much money Shaheen raises from out-of-state special interests.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks campaign donations, Shaheen has raised 75 percent of her 2014 campaign cash from out of state. For her career, Shaheen's top 10 metropolitan areas for campaign donations are, in order: Boston; New York City; Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles; Lowell, Mass; San Francisco; Manchester; Chicago; Portsmouth; Philadelphia. She sure does hate "outside" money.
Donors to Shaheen's 2014 Senate campaign include New York City writer Anna Quindlen, Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Hollywood directors Stephen Bochco and Raja Gosnell, and Hollywood writer Norman Lear.
Shaheen has unleashed a relentless stream of attacks on Brown in an attempt to tie him to "Wall Street," "Big Oil," and "the Koch brothers." But Wall Street is Shaheen's No. 5 industry donor. She has no problem with billionaire super donors, happily taking money from the New York City-based daughter-in-law of left-wing billionaire George Soros. As for Big Oil, heiress Annie Earhart, who inherited her wealth from oil tycoon John Paul Getty, is a Shaheen donor from California.
For the 2014 election, Shaheen's No. 1 industry donor is "lawyers/law firms," No. 6 is "lobbyists," No. 7 is "securities & investment," and No. 8 is "TV, Movies, Music." By contrast, lobbyists are nowhere to be seen on Scott Brown's career list of top 20 industry donors, and the bogeyman "oil and gas" is down at No. 15.
Candidates for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire always raise money out of state, and Shaheen is no exception. They also tend to take a lot of special interest money, and Shaheen is no exception. But she is exceptional in portraying a potential opponent as a tool of out-of-state special interests while taking millions from out-of-state special interests herself.


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Hemophilia and Inherited Bleeding Disorders
Platelet Function/Von Willebrand`s/ITP?
My three year old son has had problems with severe nosebleeds, and seemingly spontaneous severe bruising with no known trauma or injury. These problems have been going on for well over a year, with little or no success of a viable diagnosis. I also recently found out that my biological father had Hemachromotosis. I am worried that something is seriously wrong with my son, as blood disorders and leukemia run in my family. Someone PLEASE help me out with this. What are the most likely causes, and where is the BEST specialist to see for this problem? Thanks so much!
I would encourage you not to give up. Diagnosing a platelet function disorder or mild von Willebrand's in a young child can be very challenging. Many factors will affect test results. For example, stress can cause clotting factors to increase. So if a child has levels that are only mildly decreased it is very difficult to diagnose because the stress of drawing the blood can cause the clotting factors to rise temporarily and thus it is difficult to get accurate results.
There is a "Hemostasis and Thrombosis Center" at Akron Children's Hospital and a "Hemophilia Treatment Center" at Toledo Children's Hospital. These centers have physicians and nurses on staff who have extensive experience in evaluating symptoms such as those you describe. I would suggest that you contact someone at one of these treatment centers for advise regarding your concerns.
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The City of Beaumont hosted the second of three "Lunch at the Lake" events at the Beaumont Event Centre Plaza on Monday, Nov. 26. "We'll provide the music, seating, and scenery," the city said in a press release. "You purchase lunch from one of our onsite mobile food vendors, or bring a menu item from your favorite local eatery." Participating vendors included Big Bo's Barbeque, Charles Brewer for Barbecue, Katherine & Co., Rao's for pizza & gelato, Terrell's Ice Cream, Wise Guy's Burgers and Fries and Zummo's for sausage & boudain. The next Lunch at the Lake is scheduled for Monday, Dec. 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Event Centre Plaza, 700 Crockett St. in Beaumont
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The new school year is imminent, and reports are that all systems are go!
The school board got updates on those systems — particularly technology, transportation and facilities — at its regular meeting Aug. 22.
Director of Technology Tod Hilstad told the board that his team had been working on getting Windows 7 upgrades in as many machines as met the minimum standards to run them.
"Only 50 percent of the equipment base met the minimum standards to begin work," Hilstad said. "We went to Columbia Gorge (Education Service District) and brought in $100,000 worth of recycled equipment and were able to refresh about 280 computers.
"We also added 50 new computers and some iPads," he said. "We've received some grants, from Insitu, Google and others."
Hilstad also said that the district website has been upgraded, and will now have improved social media, simple sign-on, apps for smartphones, calendar subscriptions and improved browser capability.
Future challenges for the technology department include the aging telephone system and improving systems for data management, he said.
Transportation director Cindy Sim told the board that the 36 bus drivers had completed a two-day driver in-service training session, including time behind the wheel of a "skid car" (as reported in the Aug. 22 Hood River News).
"They also completed Operation Lifesaver training," she said, "so we're all caught up in training."
Sim also said that the fleet is "polished and ready to go" and that the transportation department now boasts a lift for mechanics and has installed diagnostic software.
"We've had a busy summer," she said. "We reconfigured the routes and by doing so were able to better accommodate the bell schedule at Wy'east; we've cleaned up the routes and given them more consistency, which saves money."
Supt. Charlie Beck added that the savings she found "would be the equivalent of half of a teacher."
See the new bus routes on pages A6-7.
Facilities Director Randall Johnston described the summer's projects at each of the schools, saying "The schools look fabulous!"
(Look for details on school improvements in an upcoming edition of the News.)
Johnston said that his department is in the process of putting together an integrated pest management policy for the schools.
"It's two to four weeks out," he said. "We've already done training with the custodial and kitchen staff."
He also said that Parkdale Elementary is being looked at as a possible site for a biomass boiler, at the request of Hood River County Administrator David Meriwether.
"It's a long-range project," Johnston said. "It's at least four years out. Mount Adams Resource Stewards are doing a feasibility study — it's not a fast-track project."
Johnston said that the Oregon Energy Trust has provided a $6,000 grant to recalibrate the model used in the Hood River Middle School building, to study how it's doing.
"The dashboard is now working," he said, referring to the central dashboard that tracks resource system information such as onsite rainwater harvesting, wastewater treatment and solar power generation, so that students can monitor the buildings' resource flows.
When asked about energy savings resulting from energy-efficient upgrades made to facilities during the latest construction bond projects, Johnston answered that energy savings are meeting what they're supposed to meet, but there's still room for improvement.
"From now, the biggest improvement will be from behavior modification," he said.
In other district news, Food Services Director Christi Harris sent out a news bulletin regarding new school meal requirements, most of which will begin implementation this year.
According to the bulletin, the school district's food service department has already been gradually making many of these changes, but a few new ones might be confusing for the students.
Among the biggest changes:
n Students will now be required to have ½ cup of fruit or vegetables or a combination of the two on their tray for it to count as a full meal. A variety of fruits and vegetables is offered daily to give the students the opportunity to select what they will eat.
n There will be three different age groups; K-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Before, there were only two age groups which left some of the younger students with way too much food. Portion sizes and recipes will be designed to meet the specific age groups.
n The department is now limited as to how much meat/meat alternate (cheese, yogurt, etc.) and grains it can offer. This means main entrees may not be as large as they have been; fruits and vegetables will not be limited, however.
New requirements that have already been in place in the district include offering whole-grain-rich foods for at least half of the grains offered; offering legumes and dark green and orange/red vegetables weekly; and reducing sodium levels.
For more information on the new school year visit the school district website: www.hoodriver.k12.or.us.
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VIENNA (AP) — A top European Union official says he's worried by a widening gap between the continent's financially troubled countries — mostly in the south — and the more prosperous ones to the north as a result of the debt crisis.
Jose Manuel Barroso, the Portuguese head of the EU's executive Commission, said during a visit to Austria on Thursday that countries that are doing well "should show solidarity to the others."
Bailing out the 17-nation eurozone's strugglers hasn't been popular in richer countries such as Austria. Meanwhile, many in southern Europe resent the tough conditions imposed in exchange for aid.
Barroso said that "there is a widening gap between what we usually call the north and the south because of the crisis."
He called it "a serious matter of concern."