text:
product description
Related Products:
Arbuckle, Jim, J.S.
Fixed Blade Knives
Artisan Made
Stainless - ATS-34
Stainless Steel
Utility and Fruit Knives
Wood - Sycamore
Kitchen Knives
Maker: Jim Arbuckle, J.S. (click to see more by this maker)
Item num: 89787
*** This is handmade and one-of-a-kind ***Blade length: 4.75 in.Total length: 9.05 in.Blade height (at heel): 1.11 in.Blade thickness (near bolster): 0.09 in.Item weight: 3.12 oz.Blade: ATS-34 stainless steel with a hand rubbed stain finish (Hrc 58-59)Handle: Stabilized sycamore
Description: Handmade by Journeyman Smith Jim Arbuckle, this fine point slicer is a perfect choice for slicing in the kitchen. Fine cuts of fruits and vegetables are a breeze. The slender shape also makes this a great choice when removing silver skin from meat.
The 4-3/4 inch blade is formed from high performing ATS-34 stainless steel. It is hardened and double tempered to 58-59 Hrc. A hand rubbed satin finish lends an heirloom quality. The blade is convex ground to minimize food sticking to the blade. This technique is much more effective than a granton edge!
The contoured grips are formed from presentation grade snakeskin sycamore. By stabilizing the wood, Jim ensures that they will hold up well to the demanding environment of either a home or commercial kitchen. A deep choil provides a comfortable, secure place to rest the 1st finger. The handle allows for several different grips and makes the knife easy to maneuver even with slippery hands. Excellent fit and finish throughout!
Availability: Not currently available


text:
NetWellness is a global, community service providing quality, unbiased health information from our partners. NetWellness is commercial-free and does not accept advertising.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Falling and its resulting injuries are an important public health problem for older adults. The National Safety Council estimates that persons over the age of 65 have the highest mortality rate (death rate) from injuries. Among older adults, injuries cause more deaths than either pneumonia or diabetes. Falls account for about one-half of the deaths due to injury in the elderly.
Several epidemiological studies have looked at the rate of falls in the elderly at home, in outpatient settings and institutions.
The complications of falls are numerous and significant.
Older persons are likely to fall for several reasons. The environment can be particularly dangerous as one gets older. Steps, throw rugs and poor lighting can all lead to increased falling when combined with physical instability.
|Physical instability has many causes in the elderly
A person who has fallen will be asked to give the care provider:
To prevent falls you have to find the underlying cause and treat it. Therapists, nurses and the family can help the elderly person who has fallen regain or maintain his or her mobility. They can also help lessen the risk of falls by creating a safer living environment and improving awareness of environmental dangers. For example:
Many elderly people have repeated falls without harm. The importance of falls as a cause and as a consequence of ill health in the elderly is now recognized. Although little is known about the increased risk of falls with age, studies are being done to improve the care available to older adults at risk for falls and injury.
Last Reviewed: Apr 10, 2006
Director, Office of Geriatric Medicine
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Polk County
mu extension > Polk County > faculty and staff > Renette Wardlow
Renette E. WardlowFIELD SPECIALIST IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENTMU Extension in Greene County2400 S. Scenic AveSpringfield, MO 65807Phone: 417-881-8909Fax: 417-823-4818Email: email@example.com
Counties served: Christian, Dallas, Greene, Laclede, Polk, Webster
Southwest Region
Greene County
Christian County
Laclede County
Webster County
Dallas County
Stone County
Human Development Specialist, University of Missouri Extension since 1/5/1987
B.S. and M.S. Child Development and Family Studies, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Renette Wardlow
Friday, Oct. 19, 2018
Friday, Oct. 26, 2018
Monday, Oct. 29, 2018
Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018
Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018
Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018
Friday, Nov. 2, 2018
Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018
Friday, Nov. 9, 2018
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018
© 1993
to Curators of the University
of Missouri, all rights reserved, DMCA
and other copyright information
University of Missouri Extension is an equal opportunity/access/affirmative action/pro-disabled and veteran employer.
University of Missouri Extension
© 1993
to Curators of the University of Missouri, all rights reserved


text:
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Ryan McKay made 20 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and Miami (Ohio) beat Minnesota State 4-0 on Saturday in the NCAA Midwest Regional semifinals.
The second-seeded RedHawks (25-11-5) will play St. Cloud State on Sunday for a spot in the Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. Fourth-seeded St. Cloud State beat top-seeded Notre Dame 5-1 in the first semifinal.
McKay gave up four goals in his last start, a 6-2 Central Collegiate Hockey Association semifinal loss to Michigan, but got plenty of help Saturday. Miami's defensemen blocked 28 attempts to help the goalie hand the Mavericks their first shutout of the season.
"Their D-men were blocking a lot of shots," Minnesota State forward Eriah Hayes said. "We were getting looks but we couldn't get them through."
Two Minnesota State shots hit posts in the opening period but good scoring chances were hard to come by the rest of the game.
Curtis McKenzie scored midway through the second period and Marc Hagel, Cody Murphy and Max Cook added goals in the third.
"They're very dangerous on the power play and I thought out guys did a great job blocking shots," coach Enrico Blasi said. "And Ryan was there when we needed him."
Miami made it past the first round of the tournament for the first time since 2010, its last trip to the Frozen Four.
Stephon Williams made 22 saves for the Mavericks (24-14-3), who played most of the game with five defensemen after Evan Mosey was assessed major and game misconduct penalties for kneeing Miami's Jimmy Mullin late in the first period.
Coach Mike Hastings said killing the long penalty affected his players.
"There were extended periods of time when we had to be out there defending," he said. "I think that sapped a bit of our energy."
Minnesota State was making the school's second NCAA tournament appearance.
(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


text:
Transportation and logistics are a vast field and we can say that this is the backbone of the business industry in all over the world and in Pakistan also. Transportation and logistics vacancies are available at RightJobs.Pk, if you are skilled person you can drive or you can supervise or manage things or if you are an educated person and you can handle accounts, you have good communication skills and you can interact with people, you know how to build relations, if you are a good administrator. If you are not a skilled person and you also don't have any degree with you even then you can adjust yourself in this vast field, you can work as a loader for that you need to have a healthy body because loading work is very hard. Transportation and logistics career opportunities are of very vast variety one can see that there are educated persons working in this field as well as uneducated but skilled person are doing work in it and at the same time one can find a person who don't have a degree and he is not skillful on the same time but even he gets job in this field.
Below are some openings which are described for you and you can reassess yourself and find a job of your choice or demand.
The driver is the key person in the field of transportation and logistics as in this field you need to move things from one place to another and for that one need a driver who can drive the vehicle to move the things from one place to another. There are thousands of goods transporters stand in each country of Pakistan, so if you are a driver and have a valid driving license, which must be LTV / HTV driving license the you can easily get a job in this transportation field. Normally you are asked to drive trucks/ Dumpers/ multi wheeler trucks to move the goods.
If you are and graduate person and you want to work in transportation or logistics filed you can fit yourself in this filed as logistics officer/ supervisor. You need to manage the procurement and delivery. You have to make effective management of inventory, you need to coordinate with branches/partners throughout Pakistan for supply, demand and delivery of the goods. You need to book the ordrers and coordinate with your internal team to get orders and work efficiently. In some organizations who are doing transportation and logistics work on a larger scale you need to liaison with government office coordination with different courier companies, freight forwarders and clearing agents. You also need to properly monitor the mail movement from one location to another.
One can work in the departments of accounts in this filed. Transportation and logistics business involves many accounting entries and they need a fully devoted person who can handle their accounts as they need to work with different partners/ freight forwarders / they have to manage the payroll of different type of persons at the same time and they have to manage the record of fueling and repair and maintenance of vehicles they owned. They also need a person who can maintain the record of their bookings which customer gave them. For an accountant or accounts officer job you need to have a graduation degree, especially in commerce or accounting field and you should have the skills to manage the accounts of transportation or logistics field. You should have a good communication skills and a strong and strict personality so you can communicate with different persons as per their level and no one can cheat you in accounting.
If you have no bachelor/ graduation degree and you are unable to enhance your education and you want to work in an office environment, it is recommended that you should get a diploma of computer operator or improve your computer using skills then you can get job as computer operator in the transportation and logistics field. A computer operator is mainly required to update the records/ inventory. He needs to issue slips or generate bills for customers who book their goods/ luggage from your company. For this you need basic level training on how to operate the computer.
Transporters who are running a large scale business of transportation and logistics used to hire their own mechanics to keep their vehicle operational and proactively these mechanics check the vehicle after every tour so they can identify and fix a problem even if it is not arrived yet. If you are a good mechanic and have the previous experience, then you can get a job with big transporter as mechanic. For this job you don't need any degree or diploma but you do need past experience. To get this job you do require reference along with your skills as your previous can only be recognized or verified by references.
Transportation and logistics category also provides employment options for uneducated and unskilled persons which is a good service in a country like Pakistan where education / literacy rate is not higher and people are not very skillful. One who doesn't have any skills and education can work as a loader / cleaner in this field. As a leader you need to load the goods in the vehicle or unload the vehicle and place the goods on their designated places this job may not require any travelling and you can find a job in your surroundings and can live with your family at the same time. If you start working as Cleaner you need to travel a lot with the vehicle where you are placed by the owners of the company. As a cleaner you need to assist the driver during the journey from one place to another.
Transportation and logistics filed is required in any country where the economy is dependent on trade/agriculture like Pakistan, because there is required of moving raw material from one place to another and deliver the final goods to customers from manufactures.


text:
Land & Lots for Sale in Gwynedd Looking to buy land & lots? Browse land & lots in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania Real Estate on LehighValleyLive.com.
We're sorry, no listings were found that match your criteria.
Moving Tools
Real Estate Tips & Resources
- Pennsylvania Real Estate Listings
- Browse by Cities in Montgomery County
- Foreclosure Real Estate in PA
- Gwynedd Real Estate Listings
- Home Mortgage Companies in Gwynedd
- Real Estate Appraisers in Gwynedd
- Real Estate Brokers in Gwynedd
- Real Estate Agents in Gwynedd
- Title Companies in Gwynedd
- Escrow Services in Gwynedd
- Home Inspection Services in Gwynedd
- Mortgage Calculators
- PA Real Estate Jobs


text:
August 2017 A single nucleotide polymorphism in the messenger RNA of the µ-opioid receptor gene was associated with patients' responses to methadone treatment for opioid dependence.
February 2015 Trial participants who were addicted to opioid painkillers and did not inject drugs stayed in treatment longer and achieved better outcomes than those who were addicted to heroin or injected drugs.
June 2014 Two recent studies suggest that genotyping may enable clinicians to base therapies on individual patients' potential responsiveness to opioid drugs' therapeutic effects and vulnerability to their harmful effects.
December 2013 Dr. Kharasch is a NIDA-funded researcher known for a broad range of research into how drugs are metabolized in the body.
December 2013 A trial of buprenorphine/naloxone (Bup/Nx) showed no evidence that the medicine was associated with liver damage. The drug gave results similar to those of methadone. The study data indicate that although most patients can be treated safely with either methadone or Bup/Nx without major concern for liver injury, clinicians are advised to continue to monitor the liver health of their patients who are on methadone or Bup/Nx therapy.
September 2013 Dr. Marilyn Huestis of NIDA's Intramural Research Program talks about conducting research on drug effects with human subjects, developing tests to help law enforcement identify drugged drivers, and an assay to help identify children whose prenatal exposure to anti-HIV drugs may put them at risk for adverse developmental outcomes.
April 2013 The chief of NIDA's Services Research Branch talks about drug abuse treatment within the criminal justice system, and assesses the challenges facing drug abuse treatment overall in the United States.
January 2013
Methadone treatment centers are not foci for serious criminal activity, according to a study that used crime reports and global positioning data to compare crime rates at various distances around methadone centers, hospitals, convenience stores, and residential neighborhoods.
July 2012
Sublingual buprenorphine is a safe and effective alternative to methadone for treating opioid dependence during pregnancy, finds the Maternal Opioid Treatment: Human Experimental Research (MOTHER) study, a NIDA-supported clinical trial. Women who received either medication had similar pregnancy and birth outcomes, but infants born to women who received buprenorphine had milder symptoms of neonatal opioid withdrawal.
July 2011 Describes results from a nationwide survey among correctional facilities on the use of opioid replacement therapy for people who are addicted to heroin.


text:
Top Posts & Pages
Subscribe to Blog via Email
Tag Archives: Mary Ann Willis
The Gypsies 'Djelem Djelem' at KUHT 1-22-03
I first met Greg Harbar and Mary Ann Harbar (now Mary Ann Willis) at their overstuffed home on Peden. My best friend was babysitting their son Nick Harbar . They were known as the Gypsies, which as far back as … Continue reading
Posted in Broadcast Audio, Houston Music Tagged Cigani, Djelem Djelem, el Circo Wanderlust, Greg Harbar, Harbar Nick, KUHT, Live to tape, los gitanos, Mary Ann Willis, Nick Harbar, The Gypsies, viven en una cinta, Wanderlust Circus, Wanderlust цирк, živjeti na vrpcu, Грег Harbar, живуть на стрічку, Мері Енн Уїлліс, цигани Leave a comment


text:
Burger King has launched a new integrated campaign, the "Whopper Virgins." It's similar to the "Whopper Freakout" campaign, in that it's drawing on the authenticity of documenting real reactions. In the case of the "Whopper Virgins", Burger King found folks who had never been exposed to hamburgers, and conducted a taste test of the Whopper vs the Big Mac.
The website, www.whoppervirgins.com, is essentially an online documentary of the process.


text:
Vancouver, British Columbia: It seems that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford can't cross the street these days without getting into trouble.
The mayor's spokesman, Amin Massoudi, confirmed Saturday that Ford received a jaywalking ticket on Friday night.
Ford was in a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia, where he's attending the funeral of a friend's mother.
Toronto's embattled mayor last year made international headlines when he admitted to having smoked crack cocaine while in a drunken stupor.
He's drawn attention in recent months for erratic behavior, but he has resisted pressure to step down and plans to run for reelection late this year.
The Toronto Sun quoted Ford as saying he was shocked officers gave him a jaywalking ticket and that "they went out of their way to do this."
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police refused to comment on the reasons Ford received the ticket.
"The RCMP does not routinely disclose or publicly comment on matters that do not involve criminal code or other serious offences including violation tickets. This policy is applied for all individuals regardless of who they are," RCMP Sgt. Rob Vermeulen said in an email.
Council members in the municipality where Ford was ticketed, Coquitlam, dismissed any suggestion that police singled Ford out.
"I would say it's just laziness on his part," said Coquitlam Councillor Brent Asmundsen. "He keeps making the moves, no matter what he does."


text:
HOLLYWOOD, Fla., May 18 (UPI) -- Authorities in Florida said they recovered a pair of pot belly piglets and used a stun gun to subdue the man who allegedly stole them with a truck.
The Broward Sheriff's Office said Charlie Borquin, a sprinkler repair technician who sells pigs from his work truck, told deputies he left the animals in the vehicle with the keys in the ignition while he was working at a Hollywood home Wednesday and someone drove off with the truck and the passenger pigs, The Miami Herald reported Friday.
Deputies said a neighbor found a female piglet wandering the neighborhood Wednesday night and a homeless man found a male piglet a few blocks away Thursday afternoon.
Investigators said the stolen truck was spotted shortly after the male pig was recovered and deputies used a stun gun on suspect Frantz Aboubaker when he attempted to flee.
Borquin said he was happy the pigs were returned to him unharmed and he is still planning to sell them.
"Yeah, I'm gonna get them a home and someone's gonna have a really special pet and maybe a famous one," he said.


text:
Juventus striker Sebastian Giovinco believes he is worthy of a place in the team following his form so far this season.
The Italy international moved back to Turin from Parma in the summer, but has failed to live up to expectation, attracting boos from some of his own fans of late.
"The numbers are on my side," he told La Stampa.
"I can't answer why, for example, there are those who say I'm not good enough for Juve. The season is positive for me and the side.
"We're top of the League with the best defence and the second-best attack, and we are still in Europe."
Giovinco's arrival at the club coincided with icon Alessandro Del Piero's departure, and the 26-year-old feels he suffers from living in the World Cup winner's shadow.
"I'm condemned by the fact that there are always people who talk to me about Del Piero," he continued.
"But I've always instantly said that I am Giovinco. Alex is unique, it would be difficult to match him.
"Will I stay? I'm not a director so I can't answer that question. But I've only just arrived and I can't see myself anywhere else."
Giovinco also insisted that his goal celebration against Siena on Sunday - where he put a finger to his lips - was aimed at his critics as opposed to supporters.
"If you look at the pictures you can see that I didn't turn to the Curva, but to a specific section," he added. "The fans are free to jeer who they want."


text:
Department of Veterans Affairs has refused coverage for Sarasota man's rare disease, which he believes was contracted by drinking contaminated water at Camp Lejeune.
When the long-awaited government study finally arrived in late January, proving that drinking water at Camp Lejeune was brimming with carcinogens when Sarasota veteran Tom Gervasi was stationed there in 1956, he thought maybe — just maybe — it would be enough.
But once again, Gervasi has been denied by the Department of Veterans Affairs in his quest for disability benefits for the rare male breast cancer that is killing him and many others who once lived at the U.S. Marine camp.
Gervasi, who now is constantly fatigued and has trouble breathing, says he is not giving up and plans to try again. He is worried, however, that he will die before he has a chance to see to it that his wife is free of worries about any lingering medical bills.
"We're going to continue to fight it," he says, his breath becoming increasingly labored as he speaks.
Gervasi's difficulties come at a time when the VA is under intense scrutiny in Washington following a scathing report by the Center for Investigative Reporting, a nonprofit newsgathering organization, and a mandated evaluation of the VA's performance by Congress.
The number of veterans waiting more than a year for their disability benefits to be approved grew from 11,000 in 2009, the first year of President Barack Obama's presidency, to 245,000 in December — an increase of more than 2,000 percent, the CIR report says.
It also found that tens of thousands of veterans are approved for disability benefits only after they die.
VA documents show that the number of waiting veterans will hit 1 million this month and continue to rise throughout the year.
Adding to the frustration are cases in which the VA makes mistakes in assessing disability claims. The CIR, in its months-long investigation of VA problems, revealed that this year, VA investigators found mistakes in one out of every three high-profile claims they examined.
Last year, errors were found in 73 percent of all cases ruled upon by the VA, according to department documents leaked to the CIR.
VA criticism
As part of the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act, Congress passed legislation mandating regular training and assessment of VA employees.
The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs held a hearing this month to review the VA's performance, and found it lacking.
Committee Chairman U. S Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida blasted the VA's record and called for the resignation of Under Secretary for Benefits Allison Hickey.
"The fact is, VA's disability benefits backlog problem is getting worse, not better, and veterans are suffering as a result," Miller said. "VA has a history of sugar-coating the problems it faces and overstating its ability to solve those problems."
VA Secretary Eric Shinseki says he is committed to ending the backlog in 2015 by replacing paper with electronic records.
Shinseki told CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday that a decade of war and efforts to make it easier for veterans to collect compensation have driven the backlog higher during his tenure. He said that doing away with paper records will be the key to getting the wait and processing time under control.
"This has been decades in the making, 10 years of war. We're in paper, we need to get out of paper," Shinseki said.
The Defense Department and other agencies still file paper claims, he said.
Congressional committees have held two hearings on the disability claims bottleneck in the past two weeks. Lawmakers voiced growing frustration with the VA.
A long struggle
Gervasi's anger at the VA and the Marine Corps has been ongoing, even as he worries that time is short.
The Herald-Tribune first wrote about the veteran's plight last November, as the breast cancer, diagnosed in 2003, began attacking his bones and lungs. He later appeared on "Rock Center with Brian Williams" and in USA Today and other newspapers across the country.
Gervasi says he received a call this week from an aide for Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, who has taken up the veteran's fight, notifying him of his third denial of benefits.
Rubio could not be reached for comment Thursday.
"Apparently, one doctor was for it and the other one was against it," Gervasi says. "He said he thought it was hereditary."
But Gervasi says he had a DNA blood test called a BRACAnalysis at Sarasota Memorial Hospital that determined his cancer was not inherited.
"I guess he wanted to save the VA some money," Gervasi says of the doctor. "I don't know."
As if the cancer were not enough, Gervasi and Elaine, his wife of 57 years, have endured an emotional thrashing of ups and downs.
First, they watched as the Honoring America's Veterans and Caring for Camp Lejeune Families Act was signed last August granting immediate medical coverage to all veterans and their family members who had lived at the camp — but only after 1956. Gervasi had missed that deadline by six months.
The law was based on a prior study at another part of the camp. Older veterans such as Gervasi had been waiting for about four years for results of an additional study of the area where their barracks had been.
The emotional rollercoaster continued when Gervasi learned he had been denied by the VA for a second time, within days of finding out the second study supported his contention that his living area was also contaminated.
In fact, the study showed, that area was more toxic than any other part of the camp, with volatile organic compounds from fuel runoff and dry-cleaning chemicals.
Although the couple tried to tamp down their hopes, they believed this report would cause the VA to approve Gervasi's claim.
So, they refile and they wait. Again.
Information from the Associated Press was used in this report.


text:
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Gluten-free almond tart crust
9 comments:
Suz- I'm sure you can just substitute more flour mix for the almond flour, I just threw it in there because I like the flavor and because I had a lot at the time. If you make it without the almond flour, let me know how it works out!ReplyDelete
yup! Just cook it until it seems cooked through, another 15 minutes or so, without the foil.
Very tasty! Although I am afraid I took perhaps so many "liberties" with the recipe that it wasn't quite the same. I used ground almonds and a vegan margarine, so it was really soft - I had to spread it with a spatula. But that actually worked out well, as after the freezing and blind baking I topped it with a mixture of lemon curd and red fruit jam (to which I added a spoonful of marmalade and some crème fraiche)(I was emptying my fridge!) Then I baked it again. The bottom crust was a little thicker than a proper pie crust, but it made an almond-y layer which was reminiscent of a frangipane tart, which was delicious. I will be making this again, so thank you.ReplyDelete


text:
Feb. 14, 2009
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - Jenna Green showed no ill effects from missing UC Santa Barbara's last game and hardly let constant double-teams and physical defense dissuade her on Saturday as she led UCSB women's basketball team to a 66-62 win over Cal Poly.
Green had 23 points and 12 rebounds - her third double-double over her past four games - as UCSB improved to 16-7 overall and 11-0 in the Big West. Cal Poly falls to 15-8, 7-4.
The crowd of 1,737 was the top crowd in Cal Poly women's basketball history.
Hounded by Cal Poly's Kristina Santiago all game long, Green may have saved her best for last and when the Gauchos needed it most. With Cal Poly playing from behind and most of Green's damage done down low in the post, the sixth-year senior swished a 15-footer over two Mustangs defenders with 59 seconds left for a 61-54 lead.
That advantage allowed the Gauchos to absorb Lisa McBride's sixth three-pointer of the game moments later and Megan Harrison's old-fashioned three-point play to cut UCSB's lead to 63-62 with 20 seconds left.
Following a free throw from Emilie Johnson, McBride had an open look at a go-ahead three-pointer with seven seconds left, but it fell short and UCSB remained undefeated in conference and extended its conference road winning streak to 19 games, which leads the nation.
Free throws by Jordan Franey gave UCSB its final total as Franey added a career-high five assists.
Over her past five games Green is averaging 18.6 points and 9.6 rebounds per game.
Lauren Pedersen had 17 points, five rebounds, four assists and three steals as the senior nailed 4 of 8 three-pointers and consistently came up big in key spots. However, her school-record 29 consecutive free throws came to an end when she missed her first, but she made her next three to start a new streak.
McBride led Cal Poly with 18 points and 10 rebounds while Harrison had 18 points and nine rebounds and Santiago added 17 points to go with eight boards.
After shooting 50% in the first half from the field - including 4 of 10 from downtown - UCSB shot just 32.1% in the second half, yet went 13 of 16 from the free throw line.
The Gauchos return home on Feb. 24 vs. Oregon State at 7 p.m. for the team's Pink Zone game to raise breast cancer awareness. Tickets are just $1 and pink baseball hats and player-designed pink T-shirts will be available for purchase with a portion of the proceeds going toward breast cancer research.
Tickets are available by calling (805) 893-UCSB, visiting the Ticket Office located on campus in the Intercollegiate Athletics Office or by clicking here.


text:
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie take their sons Maddox, 8, and Pax, 5, to the pet and garden shop Jardinerie du Centre Var in Brignoles, France on Thursday (August 20).
The Jolie-Pitt family drove a rental car without any security. Be sure to check out the mini-cactus that Maddox picked out!
Brad's latest WWII flick Inglourious Basterds opened this past weekend to a glorious $37.6 million at the box office.
30+ pictures inside of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's gerbils galore…


text:
This website uses profiling cookies of third parties to send you ads messages in line with your preferences and services relevant to you. To learn more or opt out of all or some cookies click here. If you continue browsing you give your consent to the use of cookies.
Accept & Close
Login or Create an Account
Enter your e-mail address and password to access My Account.
Create an account to personalize your shopping experience
There are no items in your Shopping Bag.
A refined aesthetic blends with a casual spirit in our selection of sneakers. Pair with jeans or casual pants to create your ideal leisure time look.
Accessories add personality to any look. Experiment with ties and pocket squares to spruce up a work week suit. Bags and belts add elegant finishing touches.
Watch our new short film, dedicated to Impeccabile 2.0, and follow our two heroes, Chase and Patrick, as they embark on an epic, obstacle-filled journey towards an unknown destination. Will they make it on time? Who will win?
The dark brown leather derby shoe is an icon of classic menswear that will prove to be an everlasting part of your wardrobe, year after year. This particular style has been buffed by hand to achieve its nuanced shading while stitching along the toe cap adds a sophisticated finishing touch.
This shoe was made with the renowned "Blake" method: the outer sole is stitched directly to the insole, offering more flexibility and lighter weight for a truly comfortable fit.
- Calfskin leather buffed by hand
- Leather sole with non-slip rubber insert
- Stitching along toe cap
- Calfskin
Fits true to size
Shipping and Returns
SHIPPING - Free standard shipping. You can shop online and collect your order at our boutiques or at an UPS Access Point. Find out more in our Customer Care section.RETURNS - Try this item on at home – if you aren't satisfied for any reason, the return process is easy and free: we will pick the package up at no extra charge.


text:
Customer Reviews
All reviews are from people who have redeemed deals with this merchant.
What You'll Get
Teaching children is extremely important, as they are the ones who must figure out the most efficient way to carry our groceries. Pass knowledge on with this Groupon.
$12 for Family Admission for Two Adults and Two Kids (Up to $24 Value)
At the Great Lakes Zoological Society's World of Discovery Reptile Zoo, two adults and two children aged 11 or younger peruse indoor habitats of more than 70 species, meeting reptiles, amphibians, insects, arachnids, and birds. Children aged 2 or younger are admitted free.
The Fine Print
Promotional value expires 90 days after purchase. Amount paid never expires. Limit 1 per person, may buy 1 additional as a gift. Limit 1 per visit. Must use promotional value in 1 visit. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.
About World of Discovery Reptile Zoo
While visiting the Great Lakes Zoological Society's indoor reptile zoo, guests take in animal sights that tend to deceive at first glance. A rough-barked indoor tree, upon closer inspection, may actually be a snake craftily blending in. Lizards, tortoises, and tarantulas populate similar enclosures, resting atop logs suspended over ponds or within forest-floor greenery. The nonprofit indoor zoo houses more than 100 animals representing over 70 species, including reptiles, amphibians, insects, arachnids, and birds, that help teach visitors about their habitats. Along the way, guides invite visitors to meet colorful residents such as a reticulated python weighing over 150 pounds, two 90-pound Sulcata tortoises, and monitor lizards that extend over 5 feet.
Zoo staff members also lead groups deeper into the study of their creatures during classroom visits, where children learn about ecological conservation, how to identify dangerous animals, and the proper way to give a snake a handshake as they touch and handle some reptiles. On-staff instructors also teach group classes in subjects such as animal medicating, handling, and reptile husbandry. The nonprofit occasionally places its animals up for adoption, and works toward conservation efforts by rehabilitating, breeding, and rereleasing native Michigan species and global endangered species.


text:
OFF THE SHORE OF OAHU, Hawaii - It was only when the sharks had a momentary feeding frenzy 6 feet from me that the wondrous beauty of Hawaiian nature was eclipsed by a "what the hell am I doing here?" moment.
I had surfaced, and so had two big 9-footers, and all that separated us was the top couple bars of the shark cage in which I treaded water.
The sharks thrashed. Saltwater splashed. I looked at the metal bars, rising just a foot or so above the surface, and the question arose: Are sharks good jumpers?
I was about three miles off Oahu's North Shore on a "shark encounter" outing aboard the good ship Kainani. Well, I wasn't exactly "aboard" at the moment - I was with two other tourists from the mainland (call them my encounter group) splashing about inside an open-topped, 8-foot-square cage held up by balloon-shaped floats and tethered about 10 feet from the boat.
We'd motored 20 minutes out of Haleiwa Harbor. In the light of dawn, windblown rollers kept the boat - and our masked, snorkel-spiked heads - bobbing. Beneath us was 800 feet of the most blueberry-colored water I'd seen outside of Crater Lake.
And sharks were everywhere.
Ninety minutes earlier, my travel alarm beeped me awake in darkness. As I listened to North Shore roosters crow and June rain patter outside my rented pool house, my sleep-deprived brain hatched one clear thought: "What kind of idiot am I?"
My wife had found this adventure online and emailed me the link as a joke. She didn't think I was this dumb; I signed right up. The outfitter highly recommended the day's first outing, 6:30 a.m., for the calmest waters, so there I was.
The rain had stopped and the rising sun peeked from behind billowing clouds as we bounced our way seaward in the 25-foot Kainani. Ours wasn't the first shark boat to leave the harbor.
"We saw that other boat pulling out, and we thought it was ours, and my daughter said, 'Maybe we're just not meant to go on this!'" said fellow passenger Carla Creameans, from San Diego, who quickly professed to our skipper, Rich Whyte, that she'd been up late partying and was feeling a little delicate.
"You want slow and bumpy or fast and bumpy?" Whyte grinned. We'd been warned that seasickness was a hazard on this outing.
We'd just signed the most detailed and graphic legal waiver I'd ever seen, acknowledging that messing about in a shark cage can result not only in physical injury or death - the obvious things - but in "serious emotional injury."
That was food for thought during the ride out.
Before signing up, I did a little checking. On its website, my chosen outfitter painted itself as dedicated to environmental education and teaching clients about sharks.
While there are clear advantages to having an informed public with firsthand knowledge of the beauty of nature, as is sometimes the case with "eco-adventures" there was an ethical question. Here, it was whether they drop food overboard - chum the waters - to attract sharks.
Not only did I not wish to swim among bloody fish entrails, such activity can modify the behavior of wild animals and affect their ability to survive on their own. (It's the same reason you see "don't feed the ducks" signs in parks.) For such reasons, state and federal regulations prohibit feeding sharks in Hawaii.
I contacted the company up front. They assured me by email that they don't feed sharks.
So why do sharks come to their boats?
For years, crabbers and fishermen have thrown fish waste off boats out here, "so these sharks are accustomed to being fed off boats," explained Phil Oury, Kainani's young crewman.
"And don't tell the competition, but we have the same engine as the crabber, so the sound is the same," Whyte added. "It's like the ice-cream truck!"
He advised our group to watch for tagged sharks, an indication they have a transmitter in their belly, part of a University of Hawaii study in which his company has taken part.
We soon arrived at the shark cage, which our crew had brought out and tethered to a mooring at first light. After a few instructions, during which she looked almost as green as distant Kaena Point, Creameans was first into the cage. She splashed, ducked under, then quickly surfaced and called out, "They're here!"
Whyte grinned and mimicked her words. "'They're here!' Isn't that like what they said in 'Jaws' or something?"
These typically are sandbar sharks and larger, 8- to 9-foot Galapagos sharks, Oury said. "They're a very bold shark, not afraid to come up to the boat. But in all our experience over the years, they're really docile animals."
For what is billed as an educational experience, there wasn't a lot more educational talk, though the crew was happy to answer questions.
Once in the water, I ducked my mask under and there they were, indeed: battleship gray, six or eight or more at a time, circling the cage and the boat. Big dorsals, like ax heads, and long, dagger-pointed tail fins slicing the sea.
They glided without apparent effort, studies in streamlining, against an endless backdrop of blue water. I couldn't stop looking. I took big gulps of air and dived toward the bottom of the cage, where the water was calm and quiet. Some came nosing up curiously. I felt awed, not threatened.
Oury had loaned me his underwater camera, a soap-bar sized GoPro Hero. In about 20 minutes I shot more than 70 photos, sometimes daring to stick my hand out through the cage. But not for long.
We saw one tagged shark. Another had a fishing hook embedded in its snout.
Back on the boat, a warm shower from a spray nozzle felt great, though I really hadn't gotten cold in the tropical water, even without a wet suit like my cohorts wore.
"That was awesome," said Jessica Creameans, the San Diego daughter.
I asked about the little feeding frenzy. Oury said he had dumped some old tuna. I had noticed some white flecks in the water. It wasn't a lot but it was food the sharks liked.
So maybe as a policy they don't feed the sharks, but this day sharks got a little treat. Draw your own conclusion.
The real "Jaws" moment was when I was catching my breath at the water's surface, looking out from the cage, and saw a high dorsal fin break the water and dart quickly toward me.
The reaction was visceral. It was like looking up railroad tracks at a locomotive's headlight and I was driving the stalled car. Cue the scary music:
"Ba-dum, ba-dum, BA-DUM …"
Two guide services offer shark-cage dives off Oahu's North Shore. Both operate out of Haleiwa Small Boat Harbor, about an hour's drive from Waikiki, and go out several times a day dependent on weather:
-I went with Hawaii Shark Encounters. $105 adult, $75 for kids younger than 12, $90 for military; http://www.hawaiisharkencounters.com or 808-351-9373.
-North Shore Shark Adventures offers a special online rate of $96 for adults, reduced from $120; $60 for kids 3-13; http://www.sharktourshawaii.com or 808-228-5900.
More information: http://www.gohawaii.com/oahu
After making the trip, I learned that diving with sharks is a subject of controversy in Hawaii.
Proponents cite the educational value of enabling visitors to appreciate the beauty of these wild animals while also contributing to the tourism economy.
Others oppose "shark encounters" on these grounds:
-The potential harm of making sharks accustomed to humans, rendering sharks easier prey for fishing boats and less able to survive in the wild.
-The possibility that shark boats will lure sharks closer to beaches to threaten surfers and swimmers.
-Some traditional Hawaiian families worship sharks as their 'aumakua, or family god, and regard shark tourism as exploitive and disrespectful.


text:
Feetfirst shop
40 000 pair of shoes on 2000 square meters
The shoe galleria Feetfirst fits 40 000 pair of shoes on 2000 sq. meters and three floors.
The building in Stockholm created by the renowned architect Gunnar Asplund in 1930, and has now been renovated to regain its original design.
The premises have quite accentuated lighting with several 35 W narrow beam fixtures. This has resulted in a very energy efficient and dynamic lighting design that makes the area comfortable for the visitor and clearly light products so that they appeal to the eye.
Products from the Zone range have been used as well as eight pending Cruzluz fixtures form the Waco range, to light the architecturally well known Asplundstair.
Custom made pending fixture
The activity area at the entrance includes a custom made pending fixture with ZoneBeam that was manufactured to accentuate new arrivals and happenings. The customer is very satisfied with the result and according to the sales figures it is a success.


text:
A tip for clients whose dogs exhibit social status aggression
Feb 05, 2010
Dr. Benjamin Hart discusses fighting between a client's dogs. Dr. Hart considers one potential cause of this problem: the owner inadvertently undermines the pack hierarchy. He describes a method for quick resolution of aggression between two normal dogs whose owner has created instability and aggression by interfering with the social order. His advice: Show the dogs that you reinforce the same social hierarchy they do. There are various causes will require different interventions.


text:
Sept. 27, 2012
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Top-ranked Florida State (10-0-0, 3-0-0 ACC) kept its perfect record intact Thursday night as the Seminoles defeated No. 9 North Carolina (5-3-2, 1-2-1 ACC) 1-0 on Fetzer Field. Dagny Brynjarsdottir scored the lone goal of the contest and Kelsey Wys made a season-high seven saves as the Garnet & Gold registered consecutive victories over the Tar Heels for the first time in school history.
"Carolina is hard to play against; they are so fast and strong," said head coach Mark Krikorian. "It's a credit to our kids that we could come in and win a game that's not really our style, but we stayed, we battled hard, we fought hard and created a heck of a nice goal. We walk away with a good result on the road. I mean any win on the road in the ACC is a good win; this is a real good win."
"Carolina is always a fun team to play against," said Wys. "They have a different style than we are used to playing but during the week we prepared for them and I think we did a pretty good job of sticking to that game plan and making all our pieces fit together at the end of the day to get the victory."
Despite being outshot 14-5 in the match, Florida State broke the scoreless tie in the 61st minute on just its second shot of the second half as Brynjarsdottir found the back of the net for her third goal of the season.
The scoring play came off a North Carolina turnover at midfield when Jamia Fields stole the ball and found a streaking Tiffany McCarty. The Laurel, Md., native beat her defender to the end line before sending a pass back towards the middle of the 18-yard box where Brynjarsdottir made a run into open space and one-timed a shot into the back of the net. McCarty and Fields were credited with assists on the play while the goal for the Icelandic native would go down as her second game-winner this year.
"It was fantastic," said Krikorian on the effort by FSU to score the goal. "Tiff driving down toward the end line; a nice pull back to Dagny running on to it and a quality finish. That's really what you play for. I thought our back line and goalkeeping was outstanding, our collective defending from front to back was quite good. There weren't a whole lot of chance either way in the course of the game but even going up a goal I thought we stood strong and did a pretty good job."
"Jamia stripped them of the ball," said McCarty. "We made eye contact and I made a run behind my defender. She played the ball to me and the defender missed it a little bit. I saw there was space in the 18 and I slipped the ball to Dagny, who ran on and had a good finish."
The one goal would stand up as the Seminoles received another tremendous effort from their backline as Casey Short, Kristin Grubka, Kassey Kallman and Ines Jaurena kept the speedy Tar Heels in check for 90 minutes. Wys was once again solid between the posts saving all seven shots on goal. The junior goalkeeper made two outstanding saves on back-to-back scoring chances by the Tar Heels with less than eight minutes to go in regulation to keep UNC off the scoreboard.
The first scoring chance came after a Florida State foul in UNC's offensive third. Katie Bowen delivered the ball into the box but Kallman was there to clear the ball with a header. Meg Morris tracked down the loose ball and sent a pass back into the box, right to the head of Maria Lubrano but Wys was there for the save.
Seconds later, Crystal Dunn made a long run and was forced to the outside by Short which led to a tough shot from down near the end line. Dunn tried to hook the ball inside the far post but Wys made an outstanding leap, snaring the ball out of the air while maintaining possession as she crashed to the ground for the save.
"It was a great effort by Crystal Dunn," added Krikorian. "She made a nice run and hooked the ball and Kelsey was there to grab it. Again another solid performance by her in goal. Whenever you play against any ACC team and you are ahead by a goal, you know a chance is going to come sooner or later. Everyone is too good for there not to be a couple of chances especially when we are trying to protect the game, but Kelsey has done a great job and she was there when we needed her."
"The back line did a good job of pushing her wide and she had a tough angle to get a shot off," said Wys. "We work on those kinds of shots in practice all the time and work on making the goal look small. I was able to get to the ball and hold on to it."
With the shutout, Florida State ran its consecutive shutout streak to over 528 minutes – the second longest streak in school history. FSU has now allowed just three goals in 10 games this year including one goal in the last nine matches.
"Our back line did a great job of cutting off passes and long balls and just getting up and being hard and physical," added McCarty. "Kelsey made some great saves in the end to keep us in the game. As a defensive block, we did pretty well tonight."
The win Thursday night also set the school record for the longest win streak at 10 in a row eclipsing the previous record of nine straight victories set in 2005.
FSU has now won two straight over North Carolina for the first time in the series, while Thursday night's game was the first time FSU defeated the Tar Heels in regulation. The three previous victories all came in double overtime.
"They have a great tradition, great program and any time you get to beat UNC it's a great accomplishment," said McCarty. "Credit to them, they played well but tonight we were able to finish our chances."
The Seminoles also became just the second team since 1981 to hand the Tar Heels back-to-back losses at home. Notre Dame is the only other school to perform the feat during that span defeating UNC in Chapel Hill on three straight trips in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
It took until the 20th minute for the first real scoring chance to occur as North Carolina's Kealia Ohai ran behind the Seminole defense to get to a loose ball just outside the 18-yard box. Ohai one-timed a shot on goal, but Wys was charging out of the box and made a nice sliding save with her right foot to keep the game scoreless.
Brynjarsdottir recorded the first Florida State shot of the game in the 25th minute as the sophomore midfielder pushed the ball wide of the right post.
Short ripped a left footed shot from the left side from about 22 yards but the ball was grabbed outside the post by Tar Heel keeper Adelaide Gay.
North Carolina went into the locker room with the edge in shots at 6-2, while Florida State registered the only corner in the first half. Wys posted three saves.
The Tar Heels recorded the first shot in the second half as Ohai worked her way through a line of Seminole defenders toward the middle of the field before finding enough room to rip a shot on goal. Wys made a diving save to her right to keep the game scoreless.
North Carolina earned a corner kick in the 74th minute as Ranee Premji sent the ball to the far post. The ball was played to the top of the box to Bianca Gray, who one-timed a shot high over the crossbar.
Brynjarsdottir finished the match with a team-high two shots, while Ohai and Morris each posted a game-high three shots.
The top-ranked Seminoles will remain in the Carolinas to face NC State on Sunday, September 30 at 1:00 p.m. The game will air live on ESPN3. Live stats for the match will be available via gametracker, while fans can always receive in-game updates on Twitter @FSU_Soccer. Also, do not forget to like the Seminole Soccer team on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FSUSoccer.


text:
David Bushell
Thanks for sharing, good to see such a comprehensive implementation.
Personally I'm not a fan of this technique. Its a whole load of effort with a lot of side effects (like the hash issue) and the outcome is not even flawless, visually I've found it rather annoying!
But more importantly you mentioned "don't break the browser's default behaviour", surely this script is doing exactly that?


text:
BOAO, China (AP) — With pressure growing on Beijing to get North Korea to step back from its war-like footing, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that no one country should be allowed to upset world peace and added China would work to reduce tensions over regional hotspots.
In a speech to a regional business forum with political leaders from Australia to Zambia present, Xi did not offer any concrete plans for how to deal with China's neighbor, North Korea, which has elevated regional tensions through war-like rhetoric and missile deployments in recent weeks. Nor did Xi offer concessions to other neighbors locked in fraught disputes with Beijing over outlying islands: Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
It isn't clear whether Xi was taking a swipe at North Korea or at the United States, a frequent target of Chinese criticism, when he criticized unilateral acts that threaten stability.
"The international community should advocate the vision of comprehensive security and cooperative security, so as to turn the global village into a big stage for common development rather than an arena where gladiators fight each other. And no one should be allowed to throw the region, or even the whole world, into chaos for selfish gains," Xi said Sunday at the Boao Forum for Asia, a China-sponsored talk shop for the global elite.
Ambiguity aside, Xi's speech stands in contrast to more strident remarks he has made in recent months and marks an effort to strike an active, cooperative posture to calm regional tensions. This year's Boao meeting — an annual event billed as Asia's version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland — is being watched for signs of whether Xi, installed in power five months ago, is ready to stake out new directions in a foreign policy that has been bullying toward some neighbors and passive on many international security issues.
The new Xi government is being especially challenged over North Korea. Pyongyang's ratcheting up of tensions in recent months — from tests of a long-range missile and a nuclear device to threats of nuclear strikes — have concerned South Korea and the United States, important economic partners for China which have looked to Beijing to rein in its longtime, if estranged communist ally.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard of Australia, whose economy has been booming due to Chinese demand, appealed to Beijing to use its leverage to get Pyongyang to climb down.
"All countries in the region share a deep interest in strategic stability. But the consequences of conflict are even more severe for us all. This is nowhere more clear than on the Korean Peninsula. There, any aggression is a threat to the interest of every country in the region. For this reason, I do welcome the growing cooperation of all regional governments to prevent conflict on the Korean Peninsula and to counter North Korean aggression," Gillard told the forum.
Outside of North Korea, expectations of any change in Chinese policy have been focused on Japan. Months of friction over East China Sea islands led to frosty political ties, tense cat-and-mouse games between their maritime forces and flagging trade between the world's second and third largest economies.
Xi didn't address any dispute by name but he promised a constructive approach to regional tensions.
"China will continue to properly handle differences and frictions with the relevant countries," Xi said in his speech. "On international and regional hotspot issues, China will continue to play a constructive role, adhere to peace and facilitating talks and make unremitting efforts to properly handle relevant issues through dialogue and negotiations."
Still, Xi did not present any compromise. He insisted that China would safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity, language that makes it harder for Beijing to back away from territorial claims.
Xi also reminded countries that China represents a good business opportunity for neighbors and the world, saying over the next five years China's imports will reach $10 trillion while its companies plan to invest $500 billion overseas. "The more China develops, the more opportunities for development it brings the world and Asia," Xi said.


text:
LONDON (AP) — A judge sentenced the father of six British children who died in a house fire to life, with a minimum of 15 years in prison, describing him Thursday as the "driving force" behind setting the blaze.
Judge Kathryn Thirlwall leveled most of the responsibility for the fire on Mick Philpott, describing him as a dangerous man. His wife, Mairead, and family friend Paul Mosley each received 17 years for manslaughter.
Prosecutors say the couple hatched a plan to start a gasoline-fueled fire and then rescue the children, pinning blame on Philpott's mistress so he could gain advantage in their child custody battle.
But the plot quickly went wrong, because the fire was far bigger than expected and the father was unable to smash a window to get in. Five of the children — aged between 5 and 13 — died at the scene, while the sixth died later in a hospital.


text:
Salvation Army responding to tornado zone
Charity says $10 donation feeds one survivor for a day
Salvation Army responding to tornado zone
Charity says $10 donation feeds one survivor for a day
WAUWATOSA, Wis. —
The Salvation Army already has volunteers on the ground at the Oklahoma tornado scene, and is sending more right now. It tells WISN 12 News their national disaster response teams will be on the front lines, and they say any help you can offer will help some of those who've lost everything.
The Salvation Army says monetary donations are the most critical need right now. There are several ways to donate:
- Online at salvationarmyusa.org
- By phone by calling 1-800-SAL-ARMY
- Text "storm" to 80888 to make a $10 donation
Here's how the money will be used.
- $10 will feed one disaster survivor for one day
- $30 provides a food box, or one household cleanup kit with brooms, mops and buckets
- $100 will provide snacks for 125 survivors and emergency personnel at the scene
- $250 will provide 100 people a hot meal
- $500 donation will keep The Salvation Army's mobile feeding unit fully stocked for one day


text:
Deco Lamp. Thursday , February 01st , 2018 - 12:33:51 PM
Another great thing with these lights is that they are available in a large amount in the market these days. Well, the online market is even better in this regard. There are plenty of online stores that have a large collection of the antique lights. However, before you purchase the lighting fixture, it is very important to understand what you exactly want about the antique lights. This is why it is important to consider the following factors. Also, it is important to check out whether the product is truly an antique one or a fake product.
The most important thing is that you choose whatever model and pattern of antique lighting, you will get the models online in different websites. You can visualize the lamps in the galleries and later finalize your choice. Just make sure to go for reputed sites and save good money with massive discounts. Many websites run special offers over the lights and you may get real good deal. Keep visiting these websites again and again to crack great deals. Antique lights are special. Do not fall for all modern lights. You should instead go for vintage looks for the rustic elegance they emit. Your guests are surely going to compliment you on this home decor and it's you who will be elated over the great choice!
What is art-deco lighting? The art-deco lighting came into the market in the early twentieth century and became popular after some years. Basically these lamps were famous for their architectural designs and geometric and angular shapes. Also the material used in it, the chrome, was novel at that time. But even today, this art-deco lighting is one of the most attractive pieces of lamps available in the market. The use of glass was peculiar too. They used sandblasted, etched, and enameled glass to make the lights more serene!
Label :Kids Lighting' Decking Lights' Lighting and Light Fittings' Task Lighting'
About ♦ Contact ♦ Privacy ♦ TOS ♦ Cookie Policy ♦ Copyright
Copyright © 2016. The Deal Sand More. All Rights Reserved.
Any content, trademark/s, or other material that might be found on this site that is not this site property remains the copyright of its respective owner/s. In no way does The Deal Sand More claim ownership or responsibility for such items a and you should seek legal consent for any use of such materials from its owner.


text:
Hot Belize
Property Deals
FREE - Join our email hotline and get the lastest deals in your inbox! No more hunting around, the deals come to you!
Your Name:
Your Email:
Some Financing Available
with 40% Down!
Thank you for your interest in Property ID # SFCZ- 8,
please fill out this form in as much
detail as possible
and we will get back to you within 48 hours!
I am interested in Property ID: SFCZ- 8
Please list any comments or other property you would like information on:


text:
Edittor flash gif online jobs
My adult website landing page needs a gif created and a few text changes
I need an adult related gif file modified. Indi t have the source file. I also need a few changes to my adult websjte landing pages
we work with cryptocurrencies and have a small budget to work with, however, we would need a small video animated as well as a small gif nothing too complicated though
create loading image (GIF) from my logo
Create an animated GIF from a static image. That static image provided is fairly simple. It is a chair with a background of various shapes. The background of various shapes should fly across from left to right to create the appearance of the chair flying at speed. Animated GIF should be exported as 1242 x 2436, 1242 x 2688, 1125 × 2436, and 828
1 - Transform Video to GIF 2 - Resolution 600 x 600 3 - Size approx. 3.5 to 4 MB 4 - Leave all white background 5 - Try to approach the color channel of the gif with the attached photo. Take a test with the attachment and return me.
What is needed is an animated GIF showing a female figure of "Death" in a red cloth. The figure is "moving" (i.e. levitating)and cutting off (male human) heads with a scythe. The overall color theme is red - red cloth, straight red hair. The straight red hair should be covering half of "Death's" face and should reach about 10 centimeters (if real-height...
Please Sign Up or Login to see details.
I need gif image. [login to view URL] Like this gif image. Please bid on when you can do it within 5-6 hours.
Web app built using Python/Flask/Bootstrap needs a loading image after "SUBMIT" button has been pressed.
Hi - I need text added to this and a GIF created with it running in a continous loop. I also need for there to be a fall back stack image embeded. This is going to be used in a 600 by 300 email banner so need the fall back image for Outlook purposes. I will send files after you send me your proposal.
need a gif to showcase new ambassdors for my brand for social media
I want to create a GIF banner for my poster creatively.
I need 2 gif animated image for showing on loading page for car workshop app. 1 for general loading page (for example: mechanic working / engine running etc), 1 for empty cart (for example empty car trunk / empty car engine bay etc ) for order page. main color is blue and transparent background. here i attach sample animated empty cart.
I am looking someone from Nepal who can create 1000's of GIF character for us. We will pay per gif. The more you can make the more you can earn [login to view URL]
i want someone to create a professional gif under 200kb size i want it professional looking, i give details to good bidder who can show me a sample
I would like someone to create an animated image for the purpose of facebook advertising. The image should be taken from view from inside a car looking out to the road in front with a speed camera in front that flashes every 5 – 10 seconds the wording underneath Hill Twine Solicitors – Specialist defence solicitors and then a link to the website. The Facebook specifications can be fo...
Make my stars dance and shimmy from side to side on the attached PSD. Facebook image size should remain the same. The text should remain static. Only the stars should dance. Use this for inspration: [login to view URL] Please find PSD file attached.
[login to view URL] The image needs to be converted to gif to be applied to a websie loader or screen loading icon. Please create one for me quickly.
...hire music artist 2) People who have private parties and looking to hire music artist 3) People who have anniversary and looking to hire music artist Looking for a static/ GIF lead ad for Facebook with concept that helps us get booking for our music artist to perform for the target audience. Please reply with your suggestions on how the ad will be
30 Gif icons
i want creative designer to create some gif and graphic's for my web site
Create a beautifull smooth gif animation showing air entering the inlet slots and leaving through openings between device and cup. See an example (see attachment) For device picture, you will use picture in attachment colled [login to view URL] (see Attachment). I can also send you original tif data (80MB) You will create your own picture of Arrows. (not
IMPORTANT _ PLEASE READ THE DOCUMENT FULLY AND QUOTE FOR ALL OF THE WORK IN ONE COMPLETE QUOTE> _ PLEASE ALSO REPLY WITH 'I HAVE READ THE DOCUMENT FULLY' We require a small amount of graphic design work to create some moving icons and make some fixed icons and dialogue boxes look good for the next stage of our web site. Please review the document carefully and fully and reply as req...
I have three static images with a lady on a swing...and I I want to make her move! FB Ad: 1200 x 628 FB Post: 697 x 543 Email Header: 580 x 358 Please turn the images that say 10%* OFF TRAVEL INSURANCE into three individual animated GIFs. The text 10%* OFF TRAVEL INSURANCE should remain static. Only the lady on the swing should swing! I don't mind if it's just a little mov...
Hi I am doing a kickstarter campaign and I need an GIF image similar to the attached with movable object. You need have the graphic design skills and technical. Features: 1- RFID Blocker (There should a signal hitting with an armour) 2- Up to 6 Credit card (credit card flipping) 3- Bank Notes (Cash flipping) 4- USB 5- Up to 8 Keys (keys should be flipping)
Let me be VERY specific and say. explain here: the cartoon guy above: put a pen in his hand lie he is writing and there will be text coming up in the caption. When he stops writing he looks up and winks...then a pause and repeats. Very very simple will look like this you can just have text come up in words.. does not really need to be handwriting..you can use a clean script font also i can ...
Hello, this animation should be very simple and quick. I need someone to take the attached file "short wave png" and animate it in a seamless loop scrolling hor...used for an example of direction and speed as well. dimensions are width: 750px and Height: 225px both Adobe Premiere and After Effects can be used to get simple scrolling gif animations :)
I need txt files exactly matching gifs. points to take...txt files exactly matching gifs. points to take care: 1)end line should be same in gif as well as txt. 2)if there is spelling mistake in gif then you have to update the text file with same mistake 3) special characters also should be at same place as in gifs In short gif and txt should be same .
I need an animated gif to be used as a splash screen of my android app, which will display for only 5-10 seconds, only and then the app page will open. You just need to make a animated gif, to be used as a splash screen. which will fit resolution according to the android screen.
Would like to have a gif advertisement in a 728x90px Leaderboard format in different versions meaning different backgrounds to the pictures i displayed in there, If you are able to create this type of advertisement with moving images/text to create grand ads for us be sure to message me for more detail on the chronological order including overall details
Would like to have a gif advertisement in a 728x90px Leaderboard format in different versions meaning different backgrounds to the pictures i displayed in there, If you are able to create this type of advertisement with moving images/text to create grand ads for us be sure to message me for more detail on the chronological order including overall details
[login to view URL] This wave must move from left to right simultaneously Each wave line means a vital value need 8 lines and 5 ~ 7 sec length and endless
Very simple job - we'll provide you with the .GIF and the .JPEG. They both need to be converted into forwardable emails that open automatically. Both need to cick through to an RSVP email.
I would like an animated gif designed which will be used as the footer on websites showing our agency as the site designer. This will then link back to our site. This is to replace the standard Website by XXXXX. It needs to be small and simple. The idea is a stick man walking on and writing Designed by, then using a stamp to stamp our name next to
We are building a web based product and need a lazy loader which appear in between switching the pages. We have the required ...facing elephant and its trunk needs to be shown as swinging from left to right (like pendulum) along with some movement of the ears. The output needs to be: 1. GIF file. 2. All frames used for GIF to be exported in AI or SVG.
...I'm looking for someone to create an animated gif file that looks like the example gif attached below. I'd like it to look like the example with a transparent background and be infinitely "looped" with a smooth transition (meaning it goes round in a complete smooth circle) If you know how to create gif animations feel free to place a bid on the project
This is an animated gif logo for a games developer.
Please Sign Up or Login to see details.
We want to integrate a GIF animation onto our website homepage. It needs to be larger and high resolution.
I neeed some to edit my gif now and make one new gif.
I need someone to alter this gif video and make sure it fits the whole dimensions of our website both on mobile and desktop. The task should not take too long. I will give you the video file and all you need to do is make it bigger so it can fit on both the mobile and desktop versions of our website, thank you. Preferably have experience in creating
I want a picture and text put on a GIF. I want the baby to be floating at the bottom of the clouds. Text: Beverly Rae Gordon Born August 15, 2018 8.5 pounds 22 inches
Hi Animators, I need an image to be converted into an animated Gif Image that should move slowly from left to right or right to left with the loop. Animation must be smooth and infinite. Please check the attached image that has to be animated.
I need GIF animated banners. 728X90 and 345X345. - I will provide the Text. I also have a video and image content that you can use to create the gif's. - Looking for someone creative and with experience in animated banners design. - Please provide links to your work specifically with animated GIF images.
i want someone to upload my gif in gifhy website and allow me to see my gif and upload in my instagram story
I have an existing gif i would like to add a new frame to. Please contact me to discuss further.
I would like you to design a gif to insert it as an electronic signature in my emails. It's necessary include : App Cloud logo and Analytics Cloud logo. Attached you can find an example and my electronic signature, where you can include the gif. It's important to send me in an editable format, in case I want to change something in the future
I need some changes to an existing website. I need you to design and build a landing page.
Hi, I am looking for a designer to make 1 K gif animations.


text:
Life in Christian County, Kentucky... History and Old Stuff...
We drove over to Mammoth Cave today and went on one of the tours. It's nice that a great natural wonder -- the world's longest known cave system -- is only a couple hours away.
When the kids were little, we made the drive to Mammoth Cave every year on a hot summer day when we could really appreciate the delicious coolness of the underground. I suppose we've visited the cave half a dozen times in all, and we've gone on a different tour each time.
Today, we took the Violet City Lantern Tour. It was three miles and three hours long. This tour's theme is the cave's history. To simulate the experience of exploring the cave without modern lights, the walk through the cave is illuminated by a dozen lanterns, carried by the tour members.
The tour took us by the calcium nitrate leaching equipment that supplied gunpowder for the war of 1812 and the tuberculosis hospital of 1840. We saw walls scraped by prehistoric Indians for gypsum and read the smoked-on names of numerous 19th-century visitors.
The guide pointed out the place where a huge rock pinned an Indian man in about 300 BC. His body was found by the supervisor of a CCC crew that was building paths through the cave in the 1930's. The body has been buried inside the cave somewhere near where he was found, but only three people know the exact location of his grave.
We sat for a few minutes in total darkness in the room that is called the Star Chamber because of the sparkling crystals embedded in the stone ceiling. After touring the cave, Ralph Waldo Emerson arranged to spend a night in the Star Chamber. Reflecting on his Mammoth Cave experiences later, he wrote "Illusions".
Our guide told us many interesting bits of trivia and encouraged the group to ask questions. He is a retired school administrator who worked as a tour guide when he was a young man attending college and now is back in the cave again.
No camera flashes were allowed on most of the tour, but I didn't care because I've learned from previous visits that picture postcards provide far better images of the cave than my photographs.
The last half of the tour had a lot of steep uphill and downhill climbs and uphill stairsteps. The light provided by the lanterns was barely adequate for the stairs, in my opinion, but I made it safely despite my tricky bifocals. I was thoroughly warmed after puffing up the last climbs in the cave, and when we walked out into the sunshine of a warm June afternoon, it felt like we were walking into an oven.
After seeing just a few miles of Mammoth Cave by lantern while walking with my group on the broad smooth pathways constructed by CCC crews, I marvel at the courage of the Indians who carried a torch of bamboo ("cane") stalks and a bundle of unlit torches on their backs as they climbed over rocks and boulders on the cave floor to go deeper and deeper into the cave.
I also feel very sad for the patients of the tuberculosis hospital who lived for months by lanterns and firelight in the cold darkness of the cave and asked every visitor if the sun was shining outside. As much as I enjoyed the cool air of the cave, I shudder at the thought of spending more than a few hours in its blackness.
So little of the cave could be seen well by lantern light, even after the eyes adjusted. This very thing, this small experience of the tremendous darkness of the cave, is what made this tour memorable. I commented to my husband that I would remember this tour as three hours of trying to see my next step -- and yet, the early explorers had less light and no path to follow. They were brave, daring, curious, stubborn people.
The highway leading to Mammoth Cave
Sloan's Pond at Mammoth Cave National Park
A wild rose in the underbrush near Sloan's Pond
Old hotel chairs in the lobby at the visitor center's restaurant
Starting point of the Violet City Lantern Tour
Last glimpse of daylight at the cave's entrance
More images of the cave


text:
COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Gamecock two-sport star Bruce Ellington has decided to forgo his final year of eligibility and enter the NFL Draft, the university announced Friday.
Ellington joins fellow juniors Jadeveon Clowney, Kelcy Quarles, and Victor Hampton in the decision to leave USC early.
Ellington, a 5-9, 196-pounder from Moncks Corner, led the Gamecocks with 49 receptions for 775 yards and eight touchdowns during the 2013 season. He saved his best performance for his last game, when he registered six catches for 140 yards and two touchdowns and threw a nine-yard TD pass to Connor Shaw in Carolina's 34-24 Capital One Bowl win over Wisconsin. He finished his football career with 106 receptions for 1,586 yards and 16 touchdowns, seventh on the all-time list.
Ellington, who graduated in December, will begin preparing for the draft and will not complete his final season with the men's basketball team.
"I would like to thank Coach Spurrier, Coach Horn and Coach Martin for giving me the opportunity to play both football and basketball at South Carolina," said Ellington. "I also want to thank all the Gamecock fans and my teammates for the past four years in Columbia. It's been a great experience and I've been truly blessed."
Clowney, a 6-6, 274-pounder from Rock Hill, joins Warren Muir and George Rogers as the only Gamecocks to earn first-team All-America honors in two seasons. Clowney finished his Gamecock career with 47.0 tackles for loss, second in Carolina history, and 24.0 sacks, the school's third-best mark. He set the school's single-season records with 13.0 sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss while earning unanimous first-team All-America accolades and the Hendricks Award as the nation's top defensive end during the 2012 season.
Quarles, a 6-4, 298-pounder from Hodges, was the most decorated Gamecock in 2013, earning first-team All-America honors according to Sporting News and second-team All-America accolades by the Associated Press, CBSSports.com and Athlon. Quarles was a unanimous first-team All-SEC selection after leading the team with 9.5 sacks and 13.5 tackles for loss. He finished his career with 13.0 sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss.
Hampton, a 5-10, 202-pounder from Darlington, earned a spot on the Associated Press's All-SEC second team in his final season in the Garnet & Black. The hard-hitting lockdown corner picked off three passes in 2013 while breaking up an additional nine passes. He logged 51 tackles, including 43 solo stops. Hampton collected five career interceptions and 18 pass breakups in his three-year stint.
The Gamecocks finished the 2013 season with an 11-2 record, their third-straight 11-win campaign.
Copyright 2014 WIS. All rights reserved.


text:
There is something about me that is happier when accompanied by a small boy.... Perhaps besides the sexual element, the child in me wants a playmate.
— Father Robert Van Handel
Damian Eckert turned on the computer in his in-laws' home office, a tiny, dim, book-strewn space. He left the door open so he could hear his 5-year-old daughter playing in the next room.
He pulled up a website and scanned it for Father Robert Van Handel, the priest who led the community boys choir he and his younger brother sang in when they were growing up in Santa Barbara. There he was — receding hairline, bulbous nose, gap-toothed smile.
Eckert opened a document: 27 pages that Van Handel wrote for a therapist years ago, his so-called sexual autobiography. It made Eckert's palms sweat and his back knot.
His in-laws poked their heads into the room: Are you OK? Yes, he reassured them.
He continued to read.
For years, Eckert had been part of an effort to pry confidential files from clergy members at the now-closed St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara who'd been accused of molesting children. The battle over releasing thousands of once-secret pages went all the way to the California Supreme Court.
The day the files were made public last May, Eckert, 44, left the news conference and went to his in-laws' house. It was the nearest place to read the words of the priest he says abused him.
I asked my best friend once if he saw anything "special" in pictures of [naked] children. He said, 'No, not at all.' I began to realize that I was different.
The product of an alcoholic, volatile father who served in the military and a scared mother, Van Handel was the third of five children, Eckert read. The priest went to high school in the 1960s at St. Anthony's, a campus of sandstone facades and grand towers near Old Mission Santa Barbara run by the Franciscan religious order.
Years later, while attending graduate school in Berkeley, he started a boys choir at a local parish, despite his self-professed lack of musical skills. There, Van Handel wrote, he met one of his first victims.
He was 7 or 8. Light hair. Blue eyes. His parents were divorcing and grateful for the priest's interest in their son.
Always this was done under the cover of some "legitimate" touching. [The boy] never seemed to mind, and I wasn't about to stop on my own.
Around this time, Van Handel wrote, he implied to a Franciscan counselor that he was sexually attracted to boys. The counselor quickly changed the subject.
In 1975, at age 28, Van Handel returned to St. Anthony's as a teacher and founded the Santa Barbara Boys Choir.
The Eckert boys joined when Damian was about 10 and his brother, Bob, about 8. Choir members, dressed in the blazer-and-shorts style of English schoolboys, mainly sang Catholic hymns. Damian was a soprano, Bob an alto.
They felt at ease around Van Handel, a soft-spoken friar who eschewed his brown robe for striped shirts. He tsk-tsked boys who flubbed notes, but he also allowed them to play the seminary organ and swim at the school pool.
When Damian was about 11, he recalled, his parents told him they were splitting up. The next day at choir practice, he tried to sing. Instead, tears. He ran into the hallway. Van Handel followed. Everything will be OK, the priest promised.
As the weeks went by, he chatted with the boy in his office, strolled with him around the mission. Eventually, Damian said, Van Handel persuaded him to try on "special shorts" — extra-large, the priest wrote, so he could see up them. Other boys had worn them too.
[One boy] said he did not want to. I insisted. He started to cry and that snapped something in my head. For the first time I was seeing signs that he really did not like this.
Ashamed and confused, Damian told no one. But the priest unsettled Damian's father, Tom. One day, Van Handel tried to persuade Tom and the boys' mother to send Damian and Bob on a choir trip to England. Only years later could Tom put into words the way Van Handel eyed his sons: "like a man looking at a woman he wanted to have sex with."
Their mother signed off on the trip. After all, she reasoned, was there a more trustworthy chaperon than a priest?
By the time Damian was in his early 20s, he'd stopped praying daily and was prone to binge drinking and flashes of rage. One day, in response to some rumors, his father took him aside and asked if Van Handel had molested him.
No, Damian said.
You're lying, Tom thought. But he didn't press the issue. Bob denied being sexually abused, as well.
At a loss for what to do, Tom marched over to the seminary, he recalled in a deposition. He confronted Van Handel on the steps outside.
"I want to kill you," Tom said. "How could you wear the cloth and molest my boys?"
The priest didn't flinch. "You need to get divine intervention," he said. Then he walked away.
The Franciscans said they first learned of Van Handel's abuse in 1992 — five years after St. Anthony's closed — when the parents of one boy wrote a letter describing the dart games Van Handel played with their son. If the boy won, he got money. If the priest won, he gave the child what he called a "back rub."
A few months later, the same parents wrote to Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, which includes Santa Barbara: "We challenge you as spiritual leader of this archdiocese, as shepherd of a wounded and wandering flock to address this horror, the destruction of our children's lives by sexual abuse by clergy."
Mahony reassured them in a letter that no priest could serve "unless we are morally certain that he will be able to minister properly."
Van Handel was sent for psychiatric treatment, Damian read. The Franciscans assembled a board of inquiry. The panel's conclusions, in 1993, were well-covered in the local media: St. Anthony's had been a cesspool of abuse, where 11 clergy members had molested at least 34 boys.
Van Handel was suspected of abusing up to 17.
When I realized that my case was becoming public, I decided that I needed to tell my parents about my sexual acting out.... My dad responded immediately that he was sure God would take care of everything and I was not to worry — they would keep me in their prayers. My mother was in stunned silence.
In 1994, Van Handel pleaded guilty to one count of lewd and lascivious behavior with a choirboy, who told authorities he was molested with the frequency of "taking a shower or putting on my shoes." The priest became state inmate No. J30982.
Damian had been contacted during the investigation. He wanted no part of it. Talking about Van Handel unleashed long-buried anguish. One night, he woke up, his face wet with tears, his wife shaken by what he'd been screaming:
"Why did you do this to me?"
I was interviewed and tested in every way possible, including medical examinations and a brain scan.... The psychiatrist emphasized the seriousness of the problem, which he diagnosed as pedophilia, same sex, non-exclusive.
Damian turned to the one person he felt he could confide in: Bob. "I'm remembering things," Damian told his brother.
Damian didn't realize that Bob had a secret too. One night on that long-ago trip to England, when Damian and Bob were bickering, Van Handel made Bob sleep in his room. Father Robert abused me too, Bob said.
Damian felt as if he'd been punched.
In prison, Van Handel made a handwritten plea to the Vatican, asking to be defrocked. Damian has yet to read it.
"I now realize that although I acted in good faith at the time," the letter said, "I did not have a vocation to the priesthood and religious life." His request was granted.
Upon Van Handel's release in 1998, the Franciscans helped him financially, citing his decades of observing a vow of poverty. He eventually moved to a mountain town near Santa Cruz, where for years he rented a garage apartment deep in the redwoods. His longtime landlady, who declined to give her name, recently described him as a model tenant.
By the early 2000s, Damian had two children of his own. He'd tiptoed back to religion. The pastor at a local church prayed with him during his divorce in 2001 and reaffirmed his faith in the goodness of clergy. Even so, during services, Damian struggled to sing.
Damian tried to ignore the major news of 2002: the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. But California lawmakers decided to lift the statute of limitations on child sex abuse claims for one year. That meant alleged victims could sue organizations that they said had failed to protect them from known molesters, even if the abuse had happened long ago.
In 2003, hundreds of people filed claims against Roman Catholic dioceses — including the Eckert brothers. Damian did so reluctantly, and only after speaking to a counselor. She'd asked him: What if someone molested your kids?
In recent years, a key part of clergy abuse cases has involved getting confidential files released. The Catholic Church is a meticulous record-keeper. When a letter accuses a priest of molestation, it's supposed to go into his file. So are reports from therapists — no matter how graphic.
The documents have repeatedly backed up the allegations of victims whom the church initially tarred as liars. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange made public 10,000 pages. The L.A. archdiocese is expected to release its own trove in the coming weeks.
In 2006, the Eckert brothers and 23 other plaintiffs settled with the Franciscans. (The L.A. archdiocese covered a portion of the $28 million.) The battle over releasing the files dragged on. A state Supreme Court decision in 2011 finally forced the order to hand over the papers of nine clergy members, including Van Handel.
The former priest is now 65. He recently moved out of state and could not be reached for comment. His former landlady said his health had deteriorated so rapidly in recent months that he'd made plans to move to a care facility. Already something of a loner, he'd also grown convinced that someone would hunt him down, she said.
His papers showed he once told a social worker that he was guilt-ridden, even suicidal, over what he'd done. He was also terrified that someone would make public those 27 confessional pages, which included his own secret:
One night when I was [a student at St. Anthony's] I was sleeping alone in the school infirmary because I was running a fever.... I woke up in the night to find a priest sitting on my bed and ready to take my temperature, which he did. Then he took off the covers, lifted my pajama tops and lowered the bottoms. I tried to stop this, but he gently moved my hand out of the way.
Damian had rebuilt his life in recent years: getting remarried, having a third child, even singing again in a church play. He credited his renewed faith. So he scoured the priest's papers for one thing in particular: whether he too felt a close connection to God.
An hour passed. Then two.
"God is not here at all," Damian thought — and that was a relief.
He rejoined his wife, Katie.
"You all right?" she asked.
"Yeah. There's some heavy stuff in there."
The couple scooped up their daughter and drove home in silence.
A few days later, Damian spoke to a friend he'd met at a church retreat. He told him about reading the papers, and how they'd changed the way he pictured the former priest.
Damian started to cry.
For more than 30 years, Van Handel had been the monster who haunted his dreams.
Finally, the monster had lost his power.


text:
Click the links to learn and view pictures of the events that the Willamette Economics Department hosts.
Recent Graduate Panel
The Willamette Economics Department hosts four recent graduates for a grad panel. They will discuss what they have been doing since graduation and what effects the current economic climate has had on their plans.
Recent Speakers
Periodically throughout the semester, the Willamette Economics Department hosts speakers from the academic and policy making world.
- Dale Mortensen
- Augusto De La Torre
- Julie Hotchkiss
- Peter Arcidiacono
End of the Semester Student-Faculty Get Together
Celebrating the end of the academic semester with the economic department students and faculty


text:
Frozen in Time (Science World)
Meet an AMNH scientist who manages one of the world's largest frozen tissue collections. Then take a peek inside her cryovats, where animals on the brink of extinction remain frozen in time.
More About This Resource...
This online article is from the Museum'sScience Explorations, a collaboration between AMNH and Scholastic designed to promote science literacy. Written for students in grades 6-10, this article fromScience Worldmagazine has the following content.
- An interview with AMNH scientist Julie Feinstein, in which she discusses her work as the collection manager of one of the world's largest frozen tissue collections.
- An overview of how scientists are analyzing animal DNA and what they hope to accomplish by obtaining this genetic information.
Completion Time
Less than 1 period
Teacher Tip
Supplement a study of biology with an activity drawn from this onlineScience Explorationsarticle.
- Send students to this online article, or print copies of it for them to read.
- As a class, discuss the various reasons scientists would want to preserve tissue samples from all over the globe.
SubtopicTools and Methods


text:
John Williams White, in his first Greek book, at the top of page 2, indicates that:
S4. Vowels are either short or long. There are separate Greek characters (ε, η, ο, ω) for the e and o sounds, but not for a, i, and u sounds. In this book the long vowels are designated by ᾱ, η, ῑ, ω, ῡ; the short vowels are α, ε, ι, ω, υ.
Ok, so η and ω are long . . . .
Then on page 5, section 21 he states that:
S21. The antepenult, if accented, takes the acute, as ἄν-θρω-πος, man; but it can have no accent if the last syllable is long or ends in ξ or ψ, as ἀν-θρώ-που, of a man.
Yet he does not indicate how you are to tell what is short and what is long! Based on this, -που is long, but how are you to know that? I have seen this same issue in other books too . . . no explaination. Does anyone know what the rules are regarding this?


text:
You can't beat a system you can't understand
You can't beat a system you can't understand
When you see babies next to each other in their strollers, do you ever wonder what they mean when things like, "Googly-googly burgle-nyah" come out of their mouths followed by laughing and giggling? Do you think they're telling esoteric baby jokes?
Sometimes they look very earnest, and appear to emphasize phrases in baby talk while they gesticulate wildly. Then the expressions on their little faces change from gleeful to somber as they contemplate the subject matter.
I doubt they are saying things like, "How could our parents do this to us? We're born in a country with a mounting national debt that's already in the trillions. think that's more than all our fingers and toes put together."
No. I'm sure that's not what they're saying. If they aren't old enough to talk in a real language, they haven't been politically tainted, and they would probably be candid enough to say, "I don't know what's wrong with our parents. They really sweat the national debt. This country is so far in debt that nobody will ever call us on it. If we go down, the rest of the world will fall with us because the planet's biggest consumer will be bankrupt. And nobody wants to see that. Everybody will just keep giving us credit and hope we pull ourselves out of our spiraling economic quagmire while we say, 'Wow — Look at the mounting national debt.'" Then the babies would go into giggle mode.
I suspect that if we could really translate what babies are actually talking about, they'd be saying things like "I'm so tired of listening to our bickering parents. Mom's mad at Dad 'cause Archie over there is ridin' around in a Bugaboo Cameleon stroller. That little number set his folks back $900 bucks at Babysaurus.com. And I gotta ride in a Wal-Mart hand-me-down special for $49.95. Now she's all embarrassed. Does she really think I care?"
"Hey! How'd ya like to be Archie? I was talkin' to him the other day and he says he can't take the pressure."
"Get-outta-here. What pressure?"
"What? You think ridin' around in that baby version of a Rolls Royce doesn't come with a price tag? Don't kid yourself. They harass him every day. He's gotta be cuter, bigger, smarter, and better behaved than all the babies in the hood. He's not even six months old and they're freakin' out cause he can't swim. That silver spoon ain't exactly pacifier."
"And look at his clothes. My dad doesn't dress that good."
"All he wants to do is throw food off his highchair and his mom and pop are ready to enroll him in Montessori pre-school."
"Say it isn't so. Poor guy."
"I wish I could. When Archie grows up, he won't have a childhood to remember. If his parents have their way, he'll be in college by the time he's 10."
"Why? Did somebody accuse them of bad breeding? What's their problem?"
"Who knows? They say they want the best for him, but we know they just wanna be able to brag. Archie's gonna be a poster child for baby stress."
"I don't think I'll let my parents know I can talk until I'm around seven. That'll freak 'em out."
"You'll be more than freaked out when they put you in therapy before you're three." "Hmmm . . . ya might have point there."
The truth is: the babies are correct about parental spending and pressure. The baby products industry, catering to humans from infancy to pre-school age is a $20 billion business. That's a lotta dough. That figure makes the smallest segment of our society, literally and figuratively, one of the largest spenders of consumer dollars in the country.
And it doesn't include the money spent on therapy.
If space guys are studying our little planet from another galaxy,
2 they could assume that babies enjoy royal status. If they use our spending habits as a yardstick, logic says that babies are at the top of the economic ladder because they live better than everybody else does.
Unless, of course, the space guys happened to check out the pet-care industry — that $35.9 billion dollar business dwarfs baby spending by a wide margin. As sad as it may be, we spend more on our pets than on our babies.
Anyway, if the space guys are watching, they might conclude that babies are kings and queens, but by economic standards, the real ruler of the world could very well be a poodle. I guess it's just another reason that supports the concept that we live in a system that is impossible to understand.