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An academy trust is pulling out of one of Doncaster's biggest schools - after it admitted failing to drive forward "rapid enough" progress following damning criticism from education watchdogs.
The CfBT Schools Trust (CST) will relinquish control of Danum Academy two and a half years after it was placed into special measures by Ofsted after inspectors gave it an 'inadequate' rating.
The trust accepted it had not been able to spark enough improvement in recent years and added it is "in the interests of the children and young people" that another trust should "take over responsibility for them."
Danum Academy, based in Armthorpe Road and with nearly 2000 students aged 11-18, will be taken over in September by the Outwood Grange Academies Trust (OGAT).
The move comes as the government revealed plans last week to transform every school in England into an academy, which means taking them out of local authority control. But one angry parent said the situation at Danum showed the academy model is not a guarantee to success.
The mum, whose three children attend Danum, said: "I don't see why it should take another trust to come in and make the necessary improvements - these should have been made already."
Steve Munby, chief executive of CST's principal sponsor Education Development Trust, said: "In its early days the schools trust grew too quickly and took on too many schools all at once – many in areas where CST had no other local presence."
He added at Danum "the progress has not been rapid enough and it is in the interests of the children and young people that another trust – more local to the area – should take over responsibility for them."
Pupils, parents and staff were told about the changes at the end of February.
Chris Tweedale, chief executive of the CST, said the trust will "work closely with the new sponsors to ensure an orderly transfer."
He added: "We have had to recognise that Danum's long distance from the rest of our schools is a real barrier to providing the level of support the school needs and, as we have no future plans to expand in the region, this is unlikely to change. The transfer means Danum will get this much needed support on its doorstep."
OGAT was handed a share of nearly £5 million in government grants last year to take on more schools in poor performing areas. It has 18 academies regionally, including Outwood Academy Adwick, which was rated as 'outstanding' by Ofsted earlier this month.
Sir Michael Wilkins, OGAT chief executive, said: "Our vision for Danum Academy is to now lead it through its journey to becoming outstanding."
In September 2013, Ofsted ruled Danum Academy had dropped in the ratings from 'good' to 'inadequate' and highlighted attainment in maths as a particular problem. A monitoring inspection in January this year said the school is "taking effective action towards the removal of special measures."
Headteacher Rebecca Staples said academy bosses "are confident the school will exit special measures in the summer term" and added: "all of the school's leadership team" will transfer to the new trust in September.


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Although Coleman Rooksby had always been interested in computers, he chose to pursue a degree in history rather than follow the lead of his many friends who went into IT. Coleman began his studies at the University of Alberta in 2003, and eventually joined the military as an infantry officer. During his time with the Canadian Forces, Coleman continued his studies and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2009.
Computers and IT, however, remained "a constant" in Coleman's life, and that interest brought him to Information Services and Technology (IST) last August. As one of the six Computer Operators in IST's Operations Data Centre, Coleman works days and mostly nights keeping an eye on much of the university's IT operations. The Data Centre has " a number of monitoring programs" that keep Coleman and the other operators aware of the temperatures and connectivity of the university's IT infrastructure and "if something goes wrong, we're the first people to know about it and we get in contact with the people who can fix it."
Coleman has only been with IST for six months, but he enjoys being part of its great Data Centre team. When he began his degree in History here at the university, he had not thought that he would be working on campus in such a different field. However, as Coleman has experienced, "life has a way of sending you on paths you never expected."

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THE former mayor of Littlehampton is appealing to kindhearted residents to back a charity which helped her conquer cancer.
Emma Neno is throwing her weight behind Chichester-based cancer support charity, CancerWise, as it prepares to launch its latest fundraising drive in Littlehampton this month.
Emma, of Winter Knoll, Littlehampton, is helping to lead the cause's #CancerwiseLove2 campaign which, after its launch, will be running throughout the month of love – February.
It comes after 37-year-old Emma was appointed as a fundraising manager for the organisation, which gave her 'life-changing support' after she was diagnosed with cervical cancer, in 2011.
She said: "They're a true lifeline and were a real lifeline for me. I went through a really difficult time after being diagnosed with cancer – obviously it came as a complete shock.
"I kept asking my family questions which they just didn't have the answers to.
"CancerWise was just incredible. It was so difficult to find somewhere that didn't have that 'hospital' setting, with people in white coats, to it.
"When I visited the drop-in centre at Chichester, it was totally different. It's hard to explain, it just felt like people understood what I was going through. I was really able to open up and talk about how I was feeling. It was exactly what I needed."
Emma has done her fair bit in drumming up cash and awareness for the charity, which supports families from across Sussex and Hampshire.
During her term as the town's mayor, in 2012-13, she raised an incredible £20,800, which was split between her chosen charities, Home-Start Arun and CancerWise.
The mum-of-two is now appealing for businesses, schools and residents follow her example and join the campaign.
She explained that people can come up with as many weird and wonderful fundraising ideas as possible, from waxing their legs to wearing crazy clothing to work or school.
"I would really like to see this become an annual one," she added. "And what's great about this event is that people can tailor it to whatever they want.
"It's all about being creative and having a bit of fun while raising awareness of CancerWise."
To celebrate the effort, Emma will be hosting a launch party at the Fish Factory, in East Street, on January 25, from 6pm.
For £13.50, revellers will be able to enjoy a scrumptious two-course fish and chip meal, as well as a fun family quiz.
"I'm so excited to be doing this," Emma confessed. "It's just so nice to be able to give something back for all CancerWise did for me."
To book tickets for the fish and chip night, call 01903 715000.
For details on CancerWise, see www.cancerwise.org.uk or call 01243 778516


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The Casual Gardener: Beech has one the most beguiling golden displays of autumn
Gardeners on a quest for a golden hedge need look no further than the autumnal colours of beech
THINK of the historical gold rushes – bands of ragged prospectors pursuing their dreams to the ends of the Earth. Driven on by greed, desperation or just in search of old-fashioned adventure, they penetrated what were at the time the remotest places, suffering great hardship and danger. How many found the 'motherlode' and changed their lives forever? Not many, perhaps, but the mythology lives on and the lure of gold continues to excite some of us even today.
The golden colours of autumn are an altogether more innocent and benign attraction, but nonetheless alluring for those that love them. A display prompted by deciduous shrubs and trees losing the supply of chlorophyll to their leaves, autumn colours are most vivid in years when temperatures decline gently, without sharp dips, and it's not too windy and wet. In the United States, 'leaf peeping' is a game for all the family with televised and on-line reports of where colours are most impressive.
Maine and upstate New York are among the most hallowed locations, to the extent that residents can grow rather weary of 'leafers' blocking up their pavements and generally getting in the way.
Delivering one the most beguiling golden displays in autumn is the beech tree. While still not accepted as a bona fide Irish native tree, beech (Fagus sylvatica) has prospered across the island for centuries, if not thousands of years.
Growing up to 40 high and wide and with the potential to outlive many generations of humans, beech also makes a good hedging plant, providing thick foliage of short-stalked oval leaves. It's also a great choice for creating an avenue – as Co Antrim's Dark Hedges are a testament or the roadway into the Powerscourt estate in Co Wicklow.
In spring its buds initially look like a cigar before opening into a brilliant green leaf that turns a lovely reddy-brown colour once a autumn arrives.
In Britain too there are noted beech displays. Large stands of beechwoods in the Chilterns and Cotswolds put on a fantastic display of colour each autumn. Paul Nash – official artist in both world wars – painted the beech trees on the site of an Iron Age hill fort near Wallingford in Oxfordshire – known as Wittenham Clumps – with a dedication that verged on the obsessive. He certainly caught the trees in their autumn splendour in a number of his works.
In Scotland, the Meikleour beech hedge along the A93 Perth to Blairgowrie road in Perthshire is, at 120 foot high and nearly 600 feet long, renowned as the biggest hedge in the world and looks stunning in late September and October.
Another species worth considering for hedging is Carpinus or hornbeam. This is actually a member of the birch family, but the leaves bear a superficial resemblance to beech (but are more prominently veined) and similarly, it grows into a majestic tree which exhibits fabulous autumn colour as its leaves change colour.
Plant either beech or hornbeam as hedging and you will be rewarded with a smart, dense boundary that can be trimmed into archways and domes. Both are relatively fast growing, with shoots putting on 30-60cm of growth per annum. This means that with trimming you should get a continuous barrier a year after planting and an established formal hedge in five.
Beech especially is super for hedging because it only loses its dead leaves when the new growth pushes them off as they sprout. If you've got enough space, either beech or hornbeam make the most superb specimen trees and, as with hedging, will deliver a glorious golden show every autumn.


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If the line-up for UFC on FOX 9 still wasn't looking promising in your opinion, well, try to make that argument to your MMA pals now. The UFC has announced that the latest addition to the December 14th card is Matt Brown versus Carlos Condit. Now that's a welterweight bout that has "Fight of the Night" written all over it.
The announcement comes not long after Condit relayed that he was interested in fighting the surging Brown, who has now won six straight bouts. Most recently "The Immortal" quickly put away Mike Pyle with strikes at UFC FN 26, to record his fifth stoppage win during that stretch. Some of the other men the rugged vet has defeated as of late include Jordan Mein, Mike Swick and Stephen Thompson. The ridiculously impressive run has moved Brown into the #10 slot in the UFC's welterweight ranks.
Condit (29-7), meanwhile, is coming off a memorable, fourth round stoppage win over Martin Kampmann at UFC 2N7, to avenge his previous split decision loss to the vet. The victory ended a two fight losing streak for the "Natural Born Killer", but those were UD losses to champion Georges St. Pierre and #1 contender Johny Hendricks. So, there's not a lot of shame in that. Prior to those defeats, the #2 ranked Condit worked his way to a decision win over Nick Diaz last February to take the promotion's interim belt.
That's a fight that should be a doozy and is a huge one for both men. So to recap, UFC on FOX 9 is set to feature Pettis-Thomson, Mendes-Lentz, Faber-McDonald, Lauzon-Danzig, Jorgensen-McCall and Condit-Brown…thus far. Not bad for a non-PPV card.
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UC Irvine finished tied for second in the Big West Conference baseball preseason coaches poll released Tuesday.
The Anteaters received 65 points, matching UC Riverside. Defending conference champion Cal State Fullerton topped the poll with 81 points.
UCI, which finished second in the Big West last season, is coming off its fifth straight postseason appearance.
Coach Mike Gillespie's squad finished 39-21, 17-7 in the Big West.
The Anteaters open the season Feb. 18 with the first of a three-game home series against Nevada.
UCI opens conference play April 1 at home against Cal State Northridge.
Senior third baseman Brian Hernandez, a first-team all-conference honoree, tops the returners for UCI, which is also bolstered by veterans Drew Hillman, Sean Madigan, Jordan Leyland and Crosby Slaught.


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Sunday's A Drag
The Greatest Drag Show in San Francisco!
Door Time:
10:30 am
Ticket Price:
Stralight Room may be the best view bar in the City, except on Sundays, when the windows are blacked out and the curtains drawn.
Feathers, sequins, bouffant hairdos... it's all part of our legendary Sunday's A Drag brunch. A San Francisco institution for over a decade, Sundays A Drag- Starring Donna Sachet, features song-and-dance routines by elaborately costumed drag queens and transgender performers during two Sunday Shows at 11:30 am and 2:00 pm.
The Starlight Room at the Kimpton Sir Francis Drake Hotel
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Word: obtuse
Pronunciation: əb-T(Y)OOS / ahb-T(Y)OOS
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand
Source: Oxford Dictionaries
Tails: What luck! This rock would make a perfect focusing lens for my hyper-exo-madifier! All I need is a refracting chamber and an influx reflector! Right, Knuckles?
Knuckles: Do you use big words just to make me feel… um… what's that word that means 'not smart'?
Tails: Obtuse?
Knuckles: Yeah, see? That's what I'm talking about.
– Sonic Boom (Season 1, Episode 31 – Closed Door Policy)
Okay, so maybe I watch Cartoon Network once in a while just to unwind, and maybe I've gotten a little hooked on the newest Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon. But that's not really important. The point to focus on now is this week's vocabulary word in the above dialogue from an episode of Sonic Boom. In this scene, young inventor fox Tails is going on about a complex gadget he plans to build, and the brawny but not-too-bright echidna Knuckles has a hard time keeping up with his friend's "techno babble". When Tails offers an uncommon definition for a slowness to understand things, Knuckles hilariously proves yet again that he's a little too "obtuse" to grasp such big words!
An "obtuse" person is someone who is slow to understand things or is otherwise annoyingly insensitive. The word arose in late Middle English in the sense "blunt" and comes from the Latin adjective obtusus "dull", which in turn derives from the verb obtundere, meaning "to strike". This verb comprises the preposition ob "against" and the verb tundere "to beat".
There are a handful of definitions for the word "obtuse". Aside from the above meaning used for people, it can also refer to something that is difficult to comprehend or an object that is blunt as opposed to sharp-edged. Of course, anyone who paid attention during trigonometry lessons in Math class remembers that "obtuse" also defines an angle between 90º and 180º. So if you ever find yourself writing about dull people and/or objects (or even about math problems), "obtuse" may be a word you'll want to work into your stories!
What are your thoughts on this word? Any suggestions for future "Word of the Week" featured words?


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I made this map:
Showing people in the UK what would happen if... well it was a crazy idea.
See, the Bloc takes 50 or so seats in Quebec. Everyone knows this. The SNP meanwhile only ever takes 6 or so seats. It's been this way for years, and will never change.
And so I made this map. Showing what would happen if the SNP was more like the Bloc - it won lots of seats.
And so here we are in 2016.
With the Bloc taking around 4 or 10 seats at election time
And the SNP taking 50 or so.


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Form factor is the ratio of Irms to Idc and indicates how close the driving voltage is to pure DC. The form factor for a DC battery is 1.0. The higher the form factor is above 1.0, the more it deviates from pure DC.
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Operating IronHorse PMDC motors with DC voltages with form factors higher than 1.35 can result in premature brush failure and excessive motor heating.


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NDI is a fictitious label used in the Uncharted series. NDI probably stands for Naughty Dog Incorporated and can be spotted on various objects, clothing and characters in the Uncharted games.
- Nathan Drake - On the back of Nate's gun holster is an imprinted "NDI" along with a decorative circle around it.
- Harry Flynn - If you look closely at the top right of Flynn's shirt during the first flashback of Chapter 1 - A Rock and a Hard Place, you can notice a design with "NDI" at the bottom.
- Mk-NDI - The "NDI" in the name of the grenades is one of the more prominent uses of this easter egg.
- Parachute - If you look closely at Nathan's parachute from Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, the easter egg can be spotted
- London Restroom - In the one of The Pelicann's stalls, a sticker that says NDI can be seen.
- Storage Container - In Chapter 13 - Rough Seas, one of the storage containers has NDI on it. The same storage container also appears in the Graveyard multiplayer map.


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I'm going to take my post to a different place today, and I want to get a little real with y'all (Allie, that was for you).
If you're offended by what I'm going to rant about today, I'm sorry. This is just how I feel in this exact moment, and I'm going to use my freedom of speech to get this off my chest.
Today I want to express my frustration over three little words that have been said to me on three separate occasions this year. Not 'I love you', not 'Lets order pizza', and definitely not 'Fries with that? '. Yes, I know that two of those were about food.. but that's beside the point. These three little words are not threatening words, and they should flatter me more than annoy me...
This is something that three different guy friends have said to me this year in regards to a girl that they're dating or 'hanging out' with. While it should be flattering, it's really not anymore. Hearing these three little words just rubs me the wrong way. 'She's not you'... um no, homeboy... she's not me, nor will she ever be me.
I had a conversation with a male friend the other day who had just gone out on a date with a girl, who he had previously seen a few times, and I asked how it went... 'she's not you' (actually he said 'she's no Faith', but we'll go with it) was the response I got. No, I'm sorry, but the only person that will ever be Faith, is Faith. It's really that simple. It's sweet that he said something like that, and I'm flattered that a couple other guy friends have said the same thing this year because obviously there's something about me that sticks out to them... but clearly only enough to look for someone 'like me'. Not actually me. This is the part that annoys me.
Does anyone else remember this
I know 100%, without a doubt, that my friend wasn't saying this to bother me. At the time, it didn't even phase me - I laughed it off, told him that I was the only 'me' and no girl would ever fulfill that role... but the next day I thought about the other times this was said to me, and then I realized it
'The conversation didn't flow' was what one guy said, 'She was absolutely boring' was what another guy said, and lastly 'It was like talking to a 2 by 4' (yes, he really said that).
I'm not trying to pretend like I'm on a high horse over here, but no... nobody's personality is going to compare to mine, because they are not me. The same goes for you, whoever you are reading this, nobody will ever be YOU.
This is my point, and this is my frustration.
Since I've apparently got word-vomit today and I just keep rambling, I might as well continue with this thought...
My personality is something that I worked on for 24 years. I did my best to 'master' it, if you will. No, I'm not saying that I am an amazing person or that my personality could win any kind of blue ribbon in a personality contest - if they even existed. I'm just saying that for the first 24 years of my life, I didn't have the ability to make friends, get promotions, or breeze through life on my dashingly good looks.
I was overweight, I truly felt ugly, and I knew the only way to make friends, get promotions, or navigate my way through life was to have a likeable personality. Finding a balance of humor, compassion, sarcasm, kindness, and attempted witty-ness, was something that I worked on. Again, to make it clear, I am NOT saying that I'm amazing, but I will definitely admit that I'm going to win my future husband over with my personality - not my looks.
No two people on this crazy planet of ours will be identical. No two people are going to have the exact same personality and look the exact same way. At the end of the day, while I am annoyed that numerous guys are looking for someone 'like' me, and not actually me - I'll try and take this as a compliment.
Holy rant/word vomit. Phew. Now that I've gotten that off my chest, you can all return to your regularly schedule programming.
To the friend who said this to me the other day, I know you just read this and I'm sorry that you just got used as an example. You know I still love you.


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Next PixelJunk game to be revealed at GDC – UPDATED
MTV Multiplayer have reported on a recent Sony press invite sent to all journalists who will be attending the Game Developers Conference next week that Dylan Cuthbert, the mastermind behind the PixelJunk franchise, will be demonstrating the next game in the popular PSN only series during this year's event.
It's that time of the year again when game developers pull themselves away from their own creations, let their hair down (if they have any left) and marvel at what their fellow peers are creating. It's also a great opportunity for producers of upcoming titles to reveal to a crowd of like minded individuals just what they and their diligent teams have been furtively working on in such secret locations as Kyoto, Japan. This is exactly what Dylan Cuthbert, founder of Q-Games, plans to do.
This year, starting on March 23rd and running until the 27th, the GDC will be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. PS3 Attitude will be reporting on the event and we'll be sure to let you know more about Q-Games' next chapter in the PJ phenomenon as soon Dylan takes to the stage, controller in hand, on the penultimate day of the event (Thursday).
OK, maybe a little bit after he takes to the stage. We're not omnipresent and hence can't write history the second it happens. Though we have tried …
Update: Dylan has noticed the news flying around the web and his updated via Twitter stating:
"Everyone seems to think we are showing PixelJunk 1-4 next week at GDC.. but it ain't true.. Eden Encore will be there in its full glory tho … "
Eden Encore is still great in our books but we're eager to get a look at the next chapter. Maybe he'll surprise us.
(Thanks LCaruana)


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Their house is just less than five minutes from the town of Padre Burgos. They are very cordial, accommodating and kind. In other words, you belong here. It is better to make a reservation prior to your tour/vacation. They have 6 boats.
|Aling Tess and Mang Rody - the boat owner/operator
After staying in the island for 45 minutes, we went to our last stop for the day - Dampalitan Island.
|Mang Rudy's camping area
Puting Buhangin/Kuwebang Lampas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI7iEmWuK_s
Dampalitan Beach - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0GTG7jJZ-E
Borawan Island - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VQZOYAkflo
Bus fare (from Buendia) to Lucena - P209.50
Bus fare to Padre Burgos - P35
Boat hire - P1,800
Entrance fees plus environmental fee - 240
Tent - P300
Food - its up to you


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While engineers and designers feverishly worked overtime on the development of a four-passenger sports car they code-named the F-car, the Chevy public relations, advertising and marketing group prepared the world for the intro of a car they called the Panther.
All through the summertime of 1965 practically every element of the vehicle's design and development, from initial design sketches to clay models, was photographed and carefully recorded. Chevy utilized the possessions to develop a 30 -minute motion picture The Camaro for sale in Creede CO , which was later on shown on TELEVISION and in movie theaters. They likewise introduced ladies's clothing called the Camaro Collection and even a Camaro roadway race video game.
Buy Classic Chevrolet Camaros
In November, Chevy sales executives and innovative people previewed prototype models at the GM Tech Center. Campbell-Ewald, Chevy's venerable ad agency, instantly started deal with catalogs, direct mail and sales promotion materials, together with print, outside and TV/radio marketing. In April 1966, at the New York Car Program Press Conference, Chevrolet sales executives admitted no name had been chosen for the brand-new vehicle, but did announce that rates of 1967 Chevy Camaro for sale in Creede CO model will be in the Corvair-Chevy II range.
Throughout early 1966 Chevy struggled over a name for its Mustang-killer. GM's upper management fidgeted about the aggressive connotations of the Panther name. A similar bout of cold feet would later trigger the Pontiac variation, code named the Banshee, to be relabelled Firebird. Over its short life time, the F-car had been called by lots of names including Wildcat, Chaparral, Leader and Nova. It's likewise rumored that Chevy considered utilizing the letters "GM" in the name, and developed G-Mini, which developed into GeMini and lastly Gemini. However, GM's upper management banned the idea, fearing the vehicle might be a failure.
Automotive legend has it that somebody at Chevrolet finally proposed the name Camaro and upper management rapidly concurred. Although the name has no genuine meaning, GM researchers reportedly discovered the word in a French dictionary as a slang term for "pal" or "buddy." It's reported that Ford Motor Company scientists likewise discovered other definitions, consisting of "a shrimp-like creature" and an arcane term for "loose bowels."
Because a number or pre-launch materials had actually currently been released using the Panther name, Chevy's a lot of pressing challenge was to now rename their brand-new Mustang killer, the Camaro. Camaros are found in Creede CO by looking for classic car dealers.
The sticker price of $2,466 for a Camaro base coupe and $2,704 for a base convertible was totally competitive with Ford's prices of their 1967 Mustang models which was $2,461 for the conventional coupe, $2,692 for a standard fastback and $2,898 for a standard convertible.Taking a page from Mustang's success in earning added benefit from choices and accessories, the Camaro could be purchased with nearly 80 factory alternatives and 40 dealer accessories.
Purchasers might likewise choice approximately a larger 250-inch variation of the conventional straight 6 engine, an option of 327-cubic-inch small-block V8s fed by either a two-barrel or a four-barrel carburetor and two versions of the 396-cubic-inch big-block V8. In order to keep the brand-new Camaro from taking sales far from the Corvette, a corporate order prohibited equipping it with engines larger than 400 cid. Transmission options consisted of a four-speed manual, a two-speed "Powerglide" and in late 1967 the new three-speed "Turbo Hydra-Matic 350".


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Circa 1950 Elegant Pair of Double Level Mirrored End Tables / Side Tables in Solid Brass by Maison Jansen.
Maison Jansen (House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen and continuing in practice until 1989. Jansen is considered the first truly global design firm, serving clients in Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East by 1900.
Maison Jansen provided services to the royal families of Belgium, Iran, and Serbia; Elsie de Wolfe, the German Reichsbank during the period of National Socialism; and Lady Olive Baillie's Leeds Castle in Kent, England.
The firm's most published work was for the U.S. White House during the administration of John F. Kennedy.
The tables are of the highest design and manufacturing quality and feature an incised gallery, fluted legs and finial feet. It is possible to substitute stone or another material for tops, if desired. Sold as a Pair.
Measurements: height: 21 in./depth: 15 in./width/length: 23.5 in. Materials/Techniques: Solid Brass Frames
Photography provided by Thomas Gallery Ltd
Thomas Gallery Ltd
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New York, NY, 10128
Phone: 212-688-6100
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Pair of 18th century stone Cheminees from a Mas (Farm) Outside of the Provencal Village of Rochefort du Gard, close to the Town of Avignon.
Rochefort du Gard is "A charming village clinging to the side of a hill, Rochefort is – like Saze, its immediate neighbour – a very active village which organises a great many sporting and cultural events. From the parvise of Le Castelas, the village's twelfth century Romanesque church. A superb vista is from the site of the Sanctuary of Notre-Dame de Grâce, set on a hill outside the village. Built in the eighth century and extended during the seventeenth century, this sanctuary was inhabited by Benedictine monks until the French Revolution. It is a magical venue for groups or individuals interested in a religious retreat. The parish church of Saint-Bardulphe, the former chapel, now hosts the town hall & the stone wash house."
Excellent condition. Shows markings consistent with material and age. Measurements: height: 10 ft. 2 in./depth: 43 in.width/length: 9 ft. 4 in.
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Chateau Domingue
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Houston, TX, 77027
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A Highly Unusual and Unique Pair of 19th c. Brass and Iron Crowing Rooster ("Coqs Saluaient") Brass and Iron Andirons, also called firedogs, andiers, and chenets.
Most cultures embrace the Rooster as a solar symbol, and a sign of illumination, with the exception of the Nordic and Celtic cultures. Celtic and Norse lore describe the Rooster as a creature of the Underworld. Specifically, the cock served as a messenger of the Underworld, screeching out warnings in danger, and calling out for the souls of the fallen in battle. In Christianity the Rooster is noted for crowing three times after Peter denied Christ. As such, it became a symbol for Christ's passion. Later, the Rooster would signify the repentance of the saint and religious vigilance as well as resurrection. To this day the Rooster seen on a weathervane is steeped in symbolic meanings that deal with watchful vigilance against evil, as weathervanes are commonly seen atop churches.
Height: 26 1/2″; Width: 9″; Depth: 23 1/2 Materials/Techniques: Brass and iron
C. Mariani Antiques, Restoration & Custom
1301 Harrison Street
San Francisco, CA, 94103
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When I went to the shopping centre this morning, I saw many young teenage crowding around the florist buying roses for their Valentine. It is sweet to feel the love in the air! My husband and I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day too much these days as it was just after our wedding anniversary. But I want to make something for him this year. As the weather has been very hot, I got the ideas of making this heart shaped ice-cream. We sit down at the coffee table to share the ice-cream after lunch, and I can feel the romance that is still running in our heart! He has been my love, my friend and my supporter when I needed him most. He is the person that care me most and I just can't imagine a day without him! Happy Valentine's Day and I hope you have found your love!
Heart Shaped Ice Cream with Mixed Berries Sauce
Dark cooking chocolate or chocolate of your choice
Vanilla Ice cream or ice cream of your choice
For the sauce:
70g frozen mixed berries
1 tablespoon water
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 teaspoon cornflour
1/4 teaspoon Kirsch
To make the heart shape mould:
bull clip
- Cut out the cardboard into a long strip about 3 cm wide, fold into half. Use the stapler to staple the middle to form the curve of a heart shape. Leave the end open. Wrap around the cardboard with foil with a smooth interior.
- Line a small baking tray with a piece of foil. Place the heart shaped cardboard in the tray and fill up with ice-cream. Freeze until ready to serve.
- Meanwhile, gently cook the berries with water, sugar and cornflour until it becomes a thick sauce. Leave cool.
- Melt chocolate in microwave under medium heat until the chocolate is ready to use. Fill the chocolate into a zip bag.
- Unclip the mould and gently pull the mould apart. Turn the ice-cream over with the smooth top facing up, trim edges if needed. Cut a tiny bit from the corner of the zip bag. Decorate the ice-cream with chocolate and use the left-over chocolate to decorate the plate.
- Spoon the berries sauce over the plate and share it with you sweet heart!


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Tanning Frequently Asked Questions
- Can anyone tan?
- Why are lotions necessary?
- I don't tan outdoors. Will I be able to tan in a bed?
- Do I have to wear eye protection?
- How often do you change your bulbs?
- How do I know the beds are clean?
Can anyone tan?
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The husband came home from work the other day and asked me how my day had been. Now I know perfectly well that from the tone I was using, and the slightly heavy cupboard-door closing that was going on in the kitchen, that he could assess for himself how my day had been. And maybe that was what had even prompted him to ask.
I proceeded to tell him my day had been rubbish and that I had been a rubbish mum. The husband deals very well with these slight over exaggerations of mine. Firstly he gives me a hug, because it's his love language. Secondly he asks the boys if they can think of any ways they may have caused 'fun mum' to turn into 'slightly crabby mum'. After they have said sorry, he then asks me if there is anything I need to repent of. And lastly he says "Grace". I'm usually slightly annoyed with him by this point. My pride doesn't want me to repent. And my self pity wants me to wallow and write the whole day off.
However the husband is right. And he's right because he understands Grace. He has read up on it and he has listened to Terry Virgo's four talks on it. http://kingschurch.org.nz/?s=virgo So after eating a little chocolate and thinking that might help me. And after wasting some time in front of the TV, thinking that might help me. I asked the husband to pray for me and I listened to the first talk.
Wow! The more I understand what living by grace actually means, the more releasing it is. The more freeing it is. The more wonderful it is. To know that God accepts and loves me completely as I am and that I cannot earn righteousness by being 'Super mum'. Neither can I lose it by being 'Crabby mum'. Righteousness is a free gift. I may have made a few bad decisions throughout the day which I need to repent of, but that doesn't change how my father in heaven views me. It doesn't mean I am a 'rubbish mum'. It means I am a sinner who needs grace. And that grace is available to me. (To be continued...)
"For if, by the sin of the one man, death reigned through that one man,
how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace
and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ."
Romans 5v17


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RNC Chair Race
The 1st ballot just got over with and Michael Steele came just behind Mike Duncan. Maybe someone more informed than I on the process could tell you more about what this means than I but I suspect it is very good news for Steele. He is surging on intrade
There was a survey of the Young Republican National Committee and they felt that the voting process taking place now is ignoring their concerns. The election of Steele would prove them wrong. (They prefer him) I also suspect they don't buy the criticism that Steele's support for moderate GOP groups is a strike against him.
Remember This Apparently Saul Anuzis is channeling Kevin Madden. He put out an attack on Steele for his support of Log Cabin Republicans. The RNC did a good a good thing by ditching gay-bashing Anuzis.
The GOP is set to pass on Duncan, (status quo) Dawson, (It would be a sign that the Republicans are content with merely holding their Southern base) Blackwell (polarizing and his main draw being his strict Conservatism, meaning the Republicans are not concentrating so much on ideology) and gay-bashing, no solutions Saul Anuzis.
The Republicans I think will install Michael Steele who Conservatives like just fine, is the best communicator and the most charismatic. He ran the best GOP Senate campaign in '06. Steele is the most up to the job. Fair to say their voting for change?


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SAN FRANCISCO and LONDON – Dec. 19, 2013 – DataSift, the platform that powers the social economy, announced today the addition of Sina Weibo (NASDAQ: SINA) as a new data source, further enhancing the ability of brands, agencies and social tech companies to curate and extract value from social data. The DataSift platform unlocks the rich data content of Sina Weibo and turns it into a curated data feed that can be used to build custom applications or delivered directly into an enterprise. This allows organizations to analyze audiences, monitor brands and sentiment and gives a real time window into consumer behavior. The DataSift platform fully supports the needs of Chinese languages, enabling users to accurately understand and tag keywords and phrases.
Sina Weibo is the dominant social network in the vibrant Chinese economy with more than 500M registered users and upwards of 100M messages posted per day. Considered to be the best of both Facebook and Twitter for Chinese users, Sina Weibo is growing rapidly, having recently expanded beyond China to Singapore and Indonesia. Access to Sina Weibo data will provide companies with the opportunity to better understand localized consumer preferences, demographics and interests in a market with more than 1.6B consumers.
"China is a high growth and strategic market for many companies, and the ability to better understand Chinese market dynamics, audiences and segments is a strategic priority for many of our customers," said Rob Bailey, CEO of DataSift. "With our leading social data platform, customers can now leverage Sina Weibo data to enable better strategy development, build custom analytics and drive improved operational execution based on real time market data."
The Sina Weibo data source will be available via Socialgist in the DataSift platform in limited release as of today and subscription customers will be able to take full advantage of platform features to better curate the data, including:
Access and filter real time Sina Weibo data
- Analyze sentiment in Chinese language conversations
- Chinese word tokenization and text mining for precise identification of key phases and terms to specifically identify brands and products
- Contextualize posts with structured metadata based on customizable rules for categorization and scoring
- Utilize link augmentation and additional enrichments
"Sina Weibo has proven to be a natural place for Chinese consumers to discuss the companies and brands that are important to them," stated Darren Kelly, President of Socialgist. "Weibo is now a required source for anyone who studies social media in today's global economy. The introduction of Sina Weibo to DataSift's leading social data platform creates new opportunities for global brands looking to invest in better understanding consumers around the world."
For more information about Sina Weibo on DataSift, please visit datasift.com/platform/datasources/sina-weibo/
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DataSift Inc. is the leading enterprise social data platform, enabling companies to aggregate, filter and extract insights from the billions of public social conversations on Twitter, leading social networks and millions of other sources. DataSift provides access to both real-time and historical social data to uncover insights and trends that relate to brands, businesses, financial markets, news and public opinion. Key investors include Insight Venture Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures and IA Ventures. DataSift has offices in San Francisco, New York, Canada, and Reading, U.K. For more information, visit www.datasift.com and follow us on Twitter @datasift.
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iTunes. I'll have more in future blog posts but check it out if you're looking for a guide to these two favorite San Francisco areas, among the top-visited places in the city.
I've included descriptions of more than 80 cafes, restaurants, shops, bakeries, bars, attractions and historic sites. It's an insider's guide: I lived in North Beach for many years and my Italian family has roots there.
I've also covered the waterfront from Ghirardelli Square south to Pier 39 where, amid the souvenir shops catering to millions of tourists, there's still authentic San Francisco in the colorful old fishing boats, the smell of boiling crab pots and oven-fresh sourdough bread.
The app sells for .99 cents and includes dozens of photos, interactive maps, telephone numbers and web site links to help plan a trip, and to use while visiting San Francisco.
It can be used together with my first app, San Francisco's Chinatown, which was released earlier this year and covers the city's Chinese quarter that, in some places, overlaps with North Beach.
Both apps were produced by Sutro Media, a San Francisco company that is creating a collection of worldwide guides of photos and useful travel information, downloadable onto computers and mobile devices. Enjoy.
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The process of research seems simple from the outside: read, experiment, publish, and repeat. Yet, paywalls formed by national or cultural groups is a barrier to scholarly communication. Scholarly Commons and its working group, the Scholarly Commons Working Group, seek to change that. In their effort to advance scholarship dissemination, more work needs to be … Read more


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Do you know how to properly put a dog harness on?
I do not.
I have struggled with dog harnesses for years.
When we would have to take a dog harness off of a dog that came into the vet for a variety of reasons, many of the techs, including me, would struggle for several minutes trying to figure out how the heck to get the harness back on the dog.
Here we would be getting a heart rate, drawing blood, or giving injections to a dog, all procedures that take some skill, but yet we could not get a simple harness to go back on a dog the way that it came off.
Because a dog harness is a foreign object to someone who does not regularly use one.
Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against dog harnesses, I think they're a great product and protect dog's from certain injuries, but they are just foreign to me because I don't currently use one on Sherman and Leroy and I struggle getting them on other people's dogs.
Your leg goes through here and your head goes through here.
No, no. That's wrong.
Your head goes here and your leg goes here.
That's not right either.
Just forget it.
I can't tell you how many times I handed the dog and the harness back to the owner and told them we were done several minutes ago but I couldn't get the harness back on your dog because I'm harness challenged.
Luckily, our friends over at Kurgo came up with two great infographics for people like me.
There is one for overhead dog harnesses:
And one for step-in dog harnesses
Where have these been the last 8 years of my life?
These make it look super easy.
So easy that I might actually be able to do it if I print these off and keep them in my pocket for a few days. 🙂
Now, if only Kurgo could make me a pretty infographic showing me how to put the carting harness on Sherman and Leroy in 3 easy steps.
So how about you? Do you use a harness on your dog? Do you like it? Is it easy to get on?
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Robert Crumb
The legendary underground cartoonistThe Complete Crumb - Oz to Weirdo
These pages are a fan's tribute to Robert Crumb. I probably first saw his drawings in Oz magazine (Wikipedia link) in the '60s. I'm fairly certain the drawings there were photocopied from early American comics, and that Robert received no payment for them.
I've created these pages to promote his work because for decades I had difficulty getting hold of comics and books. Robbie the Pict had a head shop in St Leonard's Street in Edinburgh which sold some of them, and indeed, Robbie was instrumental in getting Mr Crumb to come to Edinburgh's Theatre Workshop. You can read all about that on the page The Complete Crumb Comics volume 16.
Robert Crumb hasn't to my knowledge been fiercly protective of his work but I've exercised care not to display any high resolution scans here; almost all are 72 dots per inch, reasonable for samples on-screen but no good for printing. If you like what you see here then buy the books. I've also shied away from displaying anything that's provocatively pr0n0graphic!
The Official R.Crumb website has up-to-date information, and American visitors can buy books and merchandise.
Samples from my collection
The Complete Crumb shows The Complete Crumb covers. Click on a cover for a page with samples from the book.
R.Crumb Sketchbook part 1 touches on the R.Crumb (hardcover) Sketchbook from November 1974 to January 1978.
R.Crumb Sketchbook part 2 includes more sketches from the Sketchbook from July 1978 to November 1983.
The Apex Treasury includes other artists beside R.Crumb - details on the page.
Carload O' Comics was probably the first book I bought. I only had a few comics up until then. All R.Crumb's work.
The Sweeter Side of R.Crumb incudes 4 samples
The Book of Genesis page has in-depth introductions as well as 8 sample pages.
The Complete Record Cover Collection page shows the front cover and 3 samples.
The Whole Family is Crazy! page shows the front cover and 3 samples.
The R.Crumb Coffee Table ART BOOK page has 4 samples.
Odds & Ends has various samples from this excellent book.
The R.CRUMB HANDBOOK is a chunky book 7½ x 6 inches (19 x 15 cm) with nearly 450 pages.
R.Crumb Draws the Blues has some blues-orientated samples from the book.
The Life and Times of R.Crumb This is a fascinating read. Full of reminiscenses and anecdotes from his peers.
R.Crumb Sketchbook volume 7 The page shows sample sketches from mid 1969 to end of '70.
Waiting for Food Restaurant Placemat Drawings (4 samples from the book).
Still EATIN' IT Dana Crumb's second cookbook. The page lists the recipes and shows 3 sample illustrations.
The Pocket Essential Robert Crumb contains no graphics but the page shows what's in it.
Introducing Kafka An excellent book with evocative drawings on every page.
R.Crumb Checklist contains just that - plus a few sketches.
to conlude this fan page I've sampled a book which doesn't feature R.Crumb:
Warts and All - Drew Friedman & Josh Alan Friedman
Read the PARIS REVIEW - R. Crumb, The Art of Comics No. 1 Interviewed by Ted Widmer


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A scoring system based on peripheral arterial disease, age, kidney function, and ejection fraction can help predict one-year mortality in patients with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) and thus may assist in decisions about who should receive the device, a study has found.
With two points given to renal function and one point to the other three variables, patients with a score of 3 or more were four times more likely to die within a year than those with scores less than 3, reported Daniel B. Kramer, MD, from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and colleagues.
In particular, peripheral arterial disease was a "potent predictor of mortality" in ICD recipients, with an odds ratio of 5.5 for death at one year, according to the study published online in Heart Rhythm.
"Patients with high PACE scores [Peripheral arterial disease, Age, Creatinine, and Ejection fraction] have an 18% chance of dying within one year despite ICD implantation," researchers wrote.
Guidelines do not recommend ICD implantation in patients with a life expectancy less than a year, Kramer and colleagues said.
They also noted that clinical trials often exclude patients with advanced comorbidities, "leaving important questions about patient selection unaddressed."
With that background, they retrospectively reviewed 2,717 consecutive ICD recipients from Beth Israel, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and the Minneapolis Heart Institute in Minneapolis from November 2001 to December 2008.
They randomly divided the patients into a "prediction group" and a "validation group." Both groups were well-matched. The average age of study participants was 64, three-quarters were male, and most were white. Primary prevention was the main indication for an ICD in 74% of patients. One-third of the patients had CRT-D devices.
The mean left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) was 31.3, while the mean creatinine was 1.25. Mean follow-up was slightly more than three years.
Researchers evaluated various ages and chose 70 as the cutoff for its statistical significance in the univariate analysis. It remained significant after adjustment, as did a creatinine of less than 2.0 and a LVEF of less than 20%.
Renal function was given 2 points in the risk scoring system because of the "relative magnitude of its associated odds ratio."
The investigators found that patients with a risk score greater than 3 had a greater than fourfold excess one-year mortality compared with patients with a risk score less than 3 (16.5% versus 3.5%, P<0.0001; c statistic 0.795).
The adjusted odds ratios for the individual variables were:
- 5.5 for peripheral arterial disease (95% CI 2.026 to 14.969)
- 2.9 for age >70 (95% CI 1.078 to 8.244)
- 8.6 for creatinine >2.0 (95% CI 3.295 to 22.580)
- 3.1 for LVEF <20% (95% CI 1.153 to 8.370)
These variables are "readily available and individually associated with poor outcomes in randomized settings, further strengthening the confidence with which the PACE score might be applied in clinical practice," researchers noted.
With the increasing scrutiny of healthcare costs, this "simple scoring system" can help risk-stratify patients to determine the best candidates for ICDs.
Previous researchers have identified atrial fibrillation and NYHA class as part of a risk scoring system. But those two variables did not remain significant in the adjusted analysis in this study.
The study was limited by its observational nature and potential referral bias. In addition, the use of creatinine for renal function might underestimate the impact of renal function on outcomes, researchers noted, but glomerular filtration rate (GFR) was not available.
Larger studies -- both real-world and prospective clinical trials -- are needed, and the PACE risk scoring system might inform these studies, Kramer and colleagues wrote.
"Indeed," they added, "we would not recommend withholding ICD therapy from patients with high PACE scores necessarily based on these data alone."
One coauthor reported financial links with Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical, Bard, and Pfizer, as well as intellectual property rights with Bard EP, Hewlett Packard, Medical Positioning, Aegis Medical, and NeoChord.
- Reviewed by Dori F. Zaleznik, MD Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner


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In my last post, I introduced a question from a correspondent about "achievable alternatives" for traffic congestion relief. The particular question pertained to the congested E. Washington Street in Petaluma and the proposed Rainier Connector that many believe would provide relief, but the question could apply to overloaded arterials everywhere.
In the earlier post, I explained how E. Washington Street became congested. I also presented the Rainier Connector as the apparent solution in the minds of many. Today, I'll try to offer an explanation on why that conventional wisdom is wrong. In my next post, I'll offer the alternative ways of thinking about traffic that are provided by urbanism.
The Problem with the Proposed Solution: The reason that the Rainier Connector likely won't provide significant traffic relief is induced traffic. It's a concept that I've noted before, but today I'll try to provide a deeper and more complete explanation.
Economists have a well-evolved vocabulary for many of the concepts I'll try to explain below. But I'm not an economist and would likely trip over my word choices if I pretended to be one. So I'll write in my own lay words. And if the economists among the readers want to recast my arguments into the economist dictionary, please do so.
The root of traffic congestion, and the resulting problem of induced traffic, is related to how public agencies set, or don't set, prices on scarce resources.
In the private world, the free market system with its rules of supply and demand usually governs. Given tee times to fill at a top-rated golf course, the green fees are set high. If surplus demand still remains, the green fees are bumped even higher until the demand for tee times eventually matches the number of tee times available. Given rooms to fill at a nice hotel, the same rules apply. Diamonds to sell? Same rules. Adjust the price until supply and demand meet.
The supply and demand system is marvelously elegant and intuitive. And for the most part, it works well. Some may not like the answers that pop out, but the market usually tends toward logical and rational.
But we, as represented by our various levels of government, typically have an aversion to the applying the same market rules to public resources. We don't want the best camping places going to millionaires driving tricked out recreational vehicles. And we don't want to dole out hunting permits only to the well-heeled.
So instead, we devise a range of non-price systems to allocate scarce resources. Have a campground that's usually full all summer? Institute a policy that requires advance reservations on a first-come, first-served basis. Managing a trail that has excess demand? Devise a lottery for hiking permits. Afraid that unfettered fishing will exhaust a stream? Implement rules like catch-and-release, closed seasons, and catch limits to reduce pressure on the fishery.
But there are also public resources to which we don't choose to apply significant impediments. At the top of that list is street capacity. Given that most people already have cars and drivers licenses, the only barriers to driving extra miles, whether on open country roads or congested downtown streets, is the incremental vehicle wear-and-tear and the cost of gasoline, neither of which is a significant barrier.
To understand the implications of this absence of obstacles to driving, let's try a thought experiment.
Presumably all are familiar with the scenic wonders of Yosemite National Park. Access to Yosemite is well-regulated by entrance fees, high cost hotel rooms, advance registration campgrounds, and hiking trail lotteries.
But imagine if Yosemite management decided that the barriers to park use were too high. To allow more folks to partake of the park, they clear a meadow on the valley floor, throw a fence around it, and open it to unlimited camping use. No reservations, no fees, no designated camp sites. Just an open gate. People could pitch tents wherever they wished, with no standards about how far they needed to be from other tents. (To be clear, I'm not suggesting this idea. I'm only offering it for thought purposes.)
What would happen? Obviously, the campground would fill quickly and campers would soon be stepping on each other's toes. Some campers would give up and go home, deciding that a vista of Half Dome wasn't worth being unable to warm one's hands at one's campfire without burning one's backside on a neighbor's campfire. But plenty of campers with a high tolerance for crowding would remain.
Now let's say that Yosemite management, looking at the "success" of the new campground, decided that the concept was valid, but that the overcrowding had become too burdensome. To allow more spacing between tents, they decide to open a second campground with the same set of rules, arguing that the density of campsites will thereby be halved.
But that's not what would happen. Remember the campers who went away, turned off by the lack of space between tents? They'd come back, happy to camp with even a little more space. The congestion in the second campground would quickly rise to nearly the same level as the first campground.
Obviously, there would be some number of campgrounds that would satisfy the demand for cheap, no-frills Yosemite experiences, but the entire valley floor might be consumed before that point is reached.
And that's exactly what happens with congested city arterials. Some may argue that traffic congestion would disappear with new road capacity, but the reality is that
campers drivers who had previously deferred trips would return to congest the new roadway.
Nor is this a hypothetical supposition. Study after study shows that a large chunk of new roadway capacity is consumed on the day it opens, with the remainder consumed in next few years, even in the absence of new development.
This finding is why the State of California is implementing new rules to judge environmental impacts based on traffic generation, not congestion. Unwilling to await the new state rules, the City of Pasadena implemented their own rules to the same end.
(Side note: When the Petaluma Planning Commission reviewed the Draft Environment Impact Report for the Rainier Connector, some Commissioners noted the surprisingly small congestion relief benefits projected as a result of the new road. But under the pending revised California rules, which measure traffic generation in place of congestion relief, the balance would make the outlook even worse. Instead of a minor benefit, the traffic impacts of Rainier Connector would be judged a negative.)
So when the correspondent asked about "achievable alternatives", his underlying supposition was flawed. Not only are there no achievable alternatives, but even the preferred solution of the Rainier Connector wouldn't provide the promised benefits. Induced traffic undermines any attempt to reduce traffic congestion by building new roads.
Urbanism can't solve the problem of induced capacity, but it can offer a different land-use paradigm and set of tools that would make traffic congestion less of a daily problem. The paradigm and those tools will be covered in my next post.
As always, your questions or comments will be appreciated. Please comment below or email me. And thanks for reading. – Dave Alden (email@example.com)


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Fighting the Metagame: Infernity
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Fighting the Metagame: Infernity
With slight less than a month to the Singapores Yu-Gi-Oh! World
Championship Qualifier 2010, Duelist Codex will be starting on a new
series of posts: Fighting the Metagame; a new column focused on the
various powerhouse decks in the current metagame. Do note that Singapore
will be utilizing the following Restriction List released by Konami Asia, hence only cards available will be covered in the discussion.
The release of The Shinning Darkness introduced additional cards to
the Infernity theme, turning it into a top-tier deck. By utilizing
Infernity Archfiends effect to fetch Infernity Launcher, Infernity is
able swarm the field with Synchro Monsters, creating a possibility to
end the duel at that moment.
Deck List
Monsters 17
3 Infernity Archfiend
3 Infernity Necromancer
3 Infernity Beetle
2 Infernity Mirage
1 Infernity Avenger
3 Dark Grepher
1 Plaguespreader Zombie
1 Dark Armed Dragon
Spells 12
3 Infernity Launcher
2 Pot of Greederosity
1 Heavy Storm
1 Giant Trunade
1 Mystical Space Typhoon
1 One for One
1 Foolish Burial
1 Allure of Darkness
1 Reinforcement of the Army
Traps 11
3 Infernity Inferno
2 Dust Tornado
2 Bottomless Trap Hole
1 Torrential Tribute
1 Mirror Force
1 Call of the Haunted
1 Solemn Judgment
Extra 15
1 Armory Arm
1 Ally of Justice Catastor
1 Magical Android
1 Stygian Sergeants
1 Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon
1 Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier
1 Goyo Guardian
1 Gaia Knight, the Force of Earth
2 Splendid Rose
1 Black Rose Dragon
1 Stardust Dragon
1 Colossal Fighter
1 Scrap Dragon
1 Infernity Doom Dragon
Playing Infernity
The basics of Infernity is to have Infernity Archfiend, Infernity
Necromancer and either Infernity Beetle or Infernity Avenger in the
graveyard, through the aid of Dark Grepher and Infernity Inferno.
Following would be to go handless in order to have Infernity
Necromancer, Infernity Mirage or Infernity Launcher revive Infernity
Archfiend, which would fetch Infernity Launcher. Tune Infernity
Archfiend with Infernity Beetle for some Synchro Monster. Play and
activate Infernity Launcher, reviving Infernity Archfiend and Infernity
Necromancer or Infernity Beetle, fetching Infernity Launcher. Rinse and
Essentially Infernity is all about setting up the combo, and waiting
for the correct timing, before bursting down the opponent. With the lack
of Mist Worm or Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier, the Asian format
Infernity would have go for level 5-8 monsters that would do the kill
Sea Dragon Lord Gishilnodon is easily ATK 3000.
Using the first Splendid Rose as a synchro material for a level 8
Synchro Monsters would allow the second Splendid Rose to attack for a
total of 3300 damage.
Scrap Dragon is crucial for clearing your opponents monster, as well as to send your own Infernity Archfiend to the graveyard.
Playing against Infernity
As the handless combo requires Infernity monsters in the graveyard,
removing them with D.D. Crow and Crevice Into the Different Dimension is
a good way to stop the combo.
Royal Oppression is also able to stop all the special summoning of Infernity monsters.
Mystical Space Typhoon and Dust Tornado are able to destroy Infernity
Launcher when it is being played, before the Infernity player can even
activate either effect.
Last but not least, after the duel where the Infernity player has
performed his/her handless combo and brought your life point down to
zero, before conceding the match, request to have a look at his/her set
spell/trap cards. Ensure that there is no cheating involved (i.e.
setting a monsters in the spell/trap zone).
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Almost all vines can be planted anytime of year. Most vines prefer full sun but can tolerate up to half a day of shade. Vines do best attached to a trellis or with vine staples on feces or walls. They can also be planted in large containers. Some vines need no support at all and attach themselves with suckers, tendrils or air roots. Flowering vines bloom at different times of year depending on the variety. Most bloom for a period of 2-3 month s with some blooming spring thru fall. Refer to the description s below or ask one of our Nursery Professionals to help select the right vine for you.
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2.) Mix the soil from the hole with an equal amount of Master Nursery Gold Rush Planting Mix. Add the appropriate amount of Master Start Starter Fertilizer to the mix. This helps the plant get rooted & established quicker.
3.) Place root ball in hole and backfill with planting mixture so that the top of the root ball is level with the ground level. Don't disturb the root ball. When planting Bougainvillea, we suggest making 4 vertical cuts down the sides of the can, spreading the can open and gently removing the rootball from the bottom of the container. DO NOT remove by the trunk or the stake.
4.) Water thoroughly with a solution of Master Nursery B-1 Root Master. Repeat in two weeks.
5.) If the vine comes staked, loosen the top 2 ties on the stake. Do not remove stake until the vine has fully attached itself to structure or support. Do not try to "sew " vine shoots into trellis; they will do so naturally on their own.
Most vines cannot support themselves without some help. Woody-branching vines such as climbing roses, bougainvillea and some trumpet vines can be fastened with V-shaped vine staples directly onto a fence, wall, or other structure. Most other vines need a trellis to grow on to. They come in many sizes and shapes. We recommend using a 4×6 or 4×8 ladder trellis fastened lengthwise onto the structure of choice. This will allow the vine you choose to spread over a greater area.
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Most vines can be pruned to shape as needed throughout the year, with the exception of frost tender vines such as Bougainvillea which should not be pruned later than September or before the frost season has passed.
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Do you plan to enter a top performing project for a "Best of the Mountains 2010" award?
Gain a competitive edge on your competition by joining past and current top award winners in a breakfast round table discussion at Buncombe County Government Television offices on Thursday, August 12, from 7:30-9 a.m.
But get your RSVP in early to firstname.lastname@example.com. The training room reserved is currently limited to 24 seats offered on a first come, first served basis. And this year's submission guidelines are scheduled to be released August 10, just prior to this member event.
Public Relations Association of Western North Carolina members will share the experiences and best practices capturing top recognitions in our area's most prestigious communications awards competition. Sharing the perspectives and lessons they've learned are Jill Yarnall with UNC-Asheville; Judy Rhew Davidson and Kathy Hughes with Buncombe County Government; Rick Prudhomme with Pardee Hospital, and Brenda Murphree with Clear Point Marketing.
By special arrangement, Jennifer Perez with Park Ridge Hospital, will speak regarding the finer points of the PRAWNC rules and judging standards. All shareholders in the roundtable discussion will enjoy a loose structure, with a small number of guided questions for the round-table participants. Then, the floor will be opened to member questions and information sharing.
At the breakfast networking event, PRAWNC members and colleagues and newcomers will enjoy City Bakery's fresh-baked bagels with cream cheese, jam, and butter and pastries. Featured are the Biltmore Avenue establishment's famous cheddar scallion biscuits with butter and jam, followed by assorted fresh fruit, juice and coffee.
The Public Relations Association of Western North Carolina hosts "The Best of the Mountains Awards Breakfast" at Buncombe County Government Television in the training room at 199 College Street, downtown Asheville. The cost is $10 for members, $15 for non-members, and includes City Bakery baked goods, fruit, and beverage. Metered parking is available on the street, or attendees may park in the County Parking Garage located between Carolina First Bank and Bank of America for $1 per hour.
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This section of the website was created to introduce you to the fascinating and amazing subject of HISTORY through the discovery of primary sources.
At this site, you will have the opportunity to become a historical detective who will reconstruct the story of a nineteenth-century community based on clues recovered from the past.
In practicing the historians craft by conducting a research project, you will develop the skills needed to collect, analyze, and interpret data so that you can draw your own conclusions about a place and time period in New York Citys history.


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January 20, 2011, 2:21 pm
'Ask not' what Comcast can do for you
Here's what Comcast is doing for digital customers at the moment: a John F. Kennedy retrospective on demand.
"Comcast and the JFK Presidential Library & Museum have partnered in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of JFK's presidency to offer hours of footage of JFK speeches, Presidential Debates, newsreels, campaign commercials and films from the late President."
His inaugural address, campaign speeches, the famous Berlin speech, presidential debates with Richard Nixon and a number of campaign commercials are included.
Comcast claims this is one of the largest public offerings of JFK content outside of the JFK Library.
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3 racks of small pork ribs, approx 500g each
1½ l Dr Pepper
2 star anise
200ml Dr Pepper
6 tbsp soft brown sugar
6 tbsp tomato ketchup
1½ tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp ground allspice
Heat the oven to 160C/fan 140C/gas 3. Put the ribs, fleshy side down, in a single layer in a large roasting tin. Pour over the Dr Pepper and add the spices. Tightly cover with foil and cook for 2 hours.
Put all the glaze ingredients in a pan and simmer until thick and syrupy.
After the initial cooking take the ribs from the oven and turn it up to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6, or light your barbecue. Drain all the liquid from the tin. Turn the ribs flesh side up and baste with the glaze. Roast for 30 minutes or barbecue, adding more glaze halfway through until sticky and shiny. Cut into sections to serve.
Corn salad
Small tin of sweetcorn, drained
Half a cucumber, finely diced
Half a red onion, finely diced
Tablespoon chopped parsley
Teaspoon lime juice
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This month the dandelions are blooming, and I wanted to share some cool dandelion tid-bits I found online. First, some poetry. The poem above is on a poster at Billy Lei Photography (go there to zoom in on it if you can't read the text above). I also stumbled on another pretty poem about dandelions, as well as some interesting history, at Natural Mother's Network, and Squirrel Queen introduced me to my new favorite gardening quote...
Roses are red,
Violets are blue;
But they don't get around
Like the dandelions do.
~Slim Acres
I love having dandelions in my yard, which are both edible and medicinal! The leaves taste good in a salad if you get to them before the flowers grow. I personally think the leaves peppery taste makes a good compliment for tacos. The flowers can be eaten too, and look pretty as a garnish. I also like the taste of boiled dandelion buds with butter and salt (similar to asparagus, but I think dandelion tastes better!).
Here's some other recipes I'm looking forward to trying (well, except the wine...but you all that drink might enjoy that):


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Wild Coast on 50/50
Part 1 of a two part update on the Wild Coast Mining and Troll Road will be broadcast today, 26 Sept on 50:50 on SABC 2 starting at 7.30pm.
Part 2 will go out the following week on 3rd October. This will feature plans for the revival of eco-tourism, and the launch of a fund raising campaign to raise funds for local residents to challenge the N2 Wild Coast Toll road authorisation.
Supporters are now helping to
Campaign closed
The government has failed to respond to objections raised by human rights workers and environmental organizations to protect the Wild Coast from mining. The Legal Resources Centre has also delivered a scathingly incisive and outright repudiation of mining concession rights within the delicate (and legally protected) ecosystem of the Pondoland Centre of Endemism (PCE). We demand a…
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Writers shouldn't really be thinking about word count, instead, they should be focused on producing the best story possible, and many books could benefit from a serious reduction in length. The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of my favourite books, is a novella of 38,000 or so words. James M Cain's first draft was lengthy, over 110,000 words, before he cut the unnecessary. What's left is enthralling. Sharp. Every word counts - and so do the missing ones. It's easy to read, to race through to the end, but you find yourself slowing down, admiring the writing.
If books were invented today, they'd be shorter, surely? Our attention spans and limited leisure time wouldn't entertain something we'd need to invest 12-16 hours of thought in. I'm not suggesting we re-invent the novel, only that there needs to be a good reason to make one 80,000 words when 40,000-50,000 could allow for a better result. When I read a novel by Ian McEwan I often think it runs out of steam too soon. It's like he's said what he wants to say and is killing time. Another fine writer that I would prefer novellas from is Howard Jacobson. I mention him because his recent books, and their protagonists, remind me of Alison Moore's leading middle-aged men. The difference is that Moore's men know when to leave the building.
|Size matters
Her novellas encourage the reader to slow down, breathe the words in, and have fun with the meaning. In real terms, there's not enough plot for a novel. The Jacobsonian themes of identity and self-realisation are all present in the pages of He Wants, a book of 192 pages.
One of Moore's talents is picking small actions and facts that are interesting, in the way a comedian might know what's funny. Under another writer's pen the everyday details would be mere condiments but Moore makes meat out of them. Writing is nothing more than selecting the right words and leaving out the wrong ones. Both are conscious decisions, and Moore is a master decision maker.
In He Wants Lewis Sullivan is approaching retirement. He'd taught RE at the local secondary school he'd attended as a boy, and where his father had also worked. He lives, as always, close to where he grew up. His daughter makes daily visits, bringing soup that he doesn't want. It's a life of routine. It's safe. He Wants is a story of how life's structures and expectations can come to define us. How we can drift through a life we didn't want, consoling ourselves with what might have beens or living vicariously.
The 'plot' concerns the appearance of an old friend that kindles Lewis's thoughts of freedom. Can courage be the route to getting what he wants?
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Lenta.ru: Из жизни: Хроника ужасного дня'2006
Quick note and continuation of a theme: Lenta has a list of April Fool's jokes by Russian news agencies this year. The 3-D glasses that Katja mentioned is repeated here, as well as Putin signing a law to make Ukrainian the 2nd official state language of Russia (apparently VVP has become quite fond of the Ukrainian tongue ...), "Fish Flu" in the Barents Sea has arrived, Canadian hi-tech company will sell high technology toilet hardware to include washstands with network adapters and mirrors with webcams. Many other priceless jokes are listed.
A crude machine translation into English can be found via Promt here.


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#xbox #xbox360 #borderlands #gearbox
#xbox #xbox360 #borderlands #gearbox
@abraham I love bloodborne
The remastered one? I had it but I returned it. I know it has two games but Idk after I beat the game, it just wasn't as fun for a second time. I know it comes with the pre-sequel, but I wasn't crazy about it. If you want to try an amazing game, get Bloodborne. @headphonejoe89
@abraham have you tried the one after two? I want to and just haven't started it yet
Yeah I agree with you
@abraham I agree! And the second one is even better!
Good game 👍🏻
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Logan County 4-H will be hosting day camps in July. Any youth may attend. All camps will be free for all Logan County 4-H members or $5 per day for any non-member who participates.
The theme is Green-N-Clean. Every day of the camp will focus on a different part of the environment and what can be done in the community to help out.
All the crafts will involve using recycled or upcycled materials. A lunch will be provided that the kids will help prepare. The camp will take place on four Mondays in July.
• July 1: Jeral Hampton Meeting Place, Booneville
• July 8: Paris Fairgrounds, Paris
• July 15: Jeral Hampton Meeting Place, Booneville
• July 29: Shoal Creek Methodist Camp
Camp will start at 9 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. but arrangements can be made with the Extension office for early drop-off or late pick-up.
Campers may participate in as few or as many days of the camp as they would like – but preregistration is required. Registrations are due to the office by June 24.


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This giant pair of googly eyes is one of the greatest purchases that I've made. I've had a blast finding different things to take pictures of with them.
"Watching the World"
"Watch the Clock"
"Watch What You Eat"
"Watching You"
This is my favorite picture and this statue is one of the main reasons why I bought the googly eyes. I swear this statue reminds me of the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who, the eyes with and without the googly eyes really follow you as you walk into the building.


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Fishery, Aquaculture, and Marine Mammal Legislation in the 107th Congress
Publication Date: January 2003
Publisher(s): Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
Series: IB10074
Topic: Agriculture, forestry and fishing (Fish industry)
Environment (Ocean and ocean resources)
Fish and marine mammals are important resources in the open ocean and nearshore coastal areas. A diverse body of laws and regulations guides the management of these resources by a multitude of federal agencies.
Reauthorization of major legislation in this issue area — the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSFCMA) and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) — was on the agenda of the 107th Congress, since the authorization of appropriations for both laws expired at the end of FY1999. In the 107th Congress, reauthorization bills were introduced in the House — H.R. 2570 and H.R. 4749 on the MSFCMA, and H.R. 4781 on the MMPA, and oversight hearings were held in both Chambers. H.R. 4749 was reported to the House, while H.R. 4781 was marked up in Subcommittee.
Commercial and sport fishing are jointly managed by the federal government and individual states. Beyond state jurisdiction and out to 200 miles, the federal government manages fisheries under the authority of the MSFCMA through the actions of eight regional fishery management councils. Beyond 200 miles, the United States participates in a multitude of international agreements relating to specific areas or species.
Legislation related to commercial and sport fisheries enacted by the 107th Congress provided funding for capacity reduction programs for New England fisheries; modified terms of the American Fisheries Act; extended state authority to manage West Coast Dungeness crab; required a report on efforts to expand the promotion, marketing, and purchasing of pouched and canned salmon harvested and processed in the United States; authorized a feasibility study of fish passage at Chiloquin Dam, OR; authorized the waiver of state fishing regulations at military facilities; extended the interstate compact relating to Atlantic salmon restoration for 20 years; extended Coast Guard fishing vessel safety programs; and extended priorities for National Sea Grant College Program competitive grant awards.
Aquaculture — the farming of fish, shellfish, and other aquatic animals and plants in a controlled environment — is expanding rapidly, both in the United States and abroad. In the United States, important species cultured include catfish, salmon, crawfish, shellfish, and trout. Legislation related to aquaculture enacted by the 107th Congress extended authorization for aquaculture research facilities, reauthorized the National Aquaculture Act, defined what fish may be labeled and advertized as catfish, and required the labeling of both farm-raised and wild fish as to country of origin and to distinguish between wild and farm-raised fish.
Marine mammals are protected under the MMPA. This Act authorizes restricted use ("take") of marine mammals and addresses specific situations of concern, such as dolphin mortality primarily associated with the eastern tropical Pacific tuna fishery.
Legislation enacted by the 107th Congress related to marine mammals required the National Park Service to prepared an environmental impact statement on vessel entries to Glacier Bay National Park to assess possible impacts on whale populations.


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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To support or establish the certainty or validity of; verify.
- transitive v. To make firmer; strengthen: Working on the campaign confirmed her intention to go into politics.
- transitive v. To make valid or binding by a formal or legal act; ratify.
- transitive v. To administer the religious rite of confirmation to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To strengthen; to make firm or resolute.
- v. To confer the Christian sacrament of confirmation.
- v. To assure the accuracy of previous statements.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To make firm or firmer; to add strength to; to establish.
- transitive v. To strengthen in judgment or purpose.
- transitive v. To give new assurance of the truth of; to render certain; to verify; to corroborate.
- transitive v. To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify.
- transitive v. To administer the rite of confirmation to. See Confirmation, 3.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make firm, or more firm; add strength to; strengthen: as, one's resolution is confirmed by the approval of another.
- To settle or establish; render fixed or secure.
- To make certain or sure; give new assurance of truth or certainty to; put past doubt; verify.
- To certify or give assurance to; inform positively.
- To sanction; ratify; consummate; make valid or binding by some formal or legal act: as, to confirm an agreement, promise, covenant, or title.
- To strengthen in resolution, purpose, or opinion; fortify.
- Eccles., to admit to the full privileges of church-membership by the imposition of hands; administer the rite of confirmation to. See confirmation, 1 .
- Synonyms Corroborate, substantiate.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. support a person for a position
- v. administer the rite of confirmation to
- v. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
- v. strengthen or make more firm
- v. make more firm
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
They were all the lords of fairly small districts (as you can confirm from the map of Gondor in the book), none much bigger than another, except for the large fief of Belfalas and the remote and thinly populated Anfalas, 'the Langstrand far away'; and they all seemed to be tenants in chief of the Steward himself.
The data and the trends once again confirm that venture-backed innovation remains alive and well, at least in select areas.
Robert R. Ackerman, Jr.: IT Security Acquisitions Are Skyrocketing
What this does confirm is two things about the way some banks responded to the flood of foreclosures:
Richard Barrington: Foreclosure Documentation Scandal Speaks Volumes About the Mechanics of the Mortgage Mess
The only one of those I can confirm is that he is very very smart.
The only thing that I can confirm is that it was taken in MAINE and its 400lbs
What I can confirm is it does run and while it looked a bit unwieldy, Frank could be seen riding the bike around the Fairgrounds all weekend.
Then you went a little Harry Potter on us with what I assume but am too lazy to confirm is Latin.
"What the numbers confirm is that there is no double dip coming," said Steve Blitz, economist for Majestic Research.
According to Japan Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda, "We will again confirm at the G-20" that exchange rates should mirror the strength of economies, thought to signal a step away from an interventionist stance.
Well, because my opinion, as you would have previously guessed and can now confirm, is not in line with the rest of you.


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A digital version of our printed programme is available for download [PDF].
You can read the conference as it was live-tweeted at Storify.
"Revolutionizing Early Modern Studies"?
The Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership in 2012
Lincoln EPA Science Centre, University of Oxford
17-18 September 2012
Monday 17 September 2012
09.30 – 10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome
- Richard Ovenden, Associate Director of the Bodleian Libraries
10.10 – 10.15 House-keeping
10.15 – 11.15 Plenary lecture
- John Lavagnino, King's College London
Scholarship in the EEBO-TCP Age
11.15 – 11.30 Refreshments break
11.30 – 13.15 Panel 1 – EEBO-TCP: Practice and Potential
- Rebecca Welzenbach, University of Michigan
Transcribed by hand, owned by libraries, made for everyone: EEBO-TCP in 2012
- Martin Mueller, Northwestern University
Towards a Book of English: A linguistically annotated corpus of the EEBO-TCP
- Marie-Hélène Lay, Université de Poitiers/University of Poitiers
VariaLog : how to locate words in Early Modern Stages of French and English
- Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, University of Leicester and Ben Burton, University of Oxford
Towards a Database of Poetic Form
13.15 – 14.15 Lunch
14.15 – 15.40 Panel 2 – Early Modern Reception and Response
- Peter Auger, University of Oxford
Snapshots of Early Modern English Responses to French Poets
- Mary Erica Zimmer, Boston University
From Aspiration, Through Education: Revisiting Spenser's "Letter of the Authors"
- Simon F Davies, University of Sussex
EEBO-TCP in reception studies: reading demonology in early modern England
15.40 – 16.20 Posters and refreshments break
- James Cummings, University of Oxford
Re-use, enhancement, and exploitation: An investigation of projects using EEBO-TCP materials
- Ian Gadd, Bath Spa University, Giles Bergel, James Cummings and Pip Willcox, University of Oxford
Digitizing the Stationers' Register
- Jayne Henley, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales
Editing Welsh texts for EEBO-TCP
- Jim Kuhn, Sarah Werner and Owen Williams, Folger Shakespeare Library
F21 – Interoperable Digital Editions of Early English Plays
- Judith Siefring, University of Oxford
SECT: Sustaining the EEBO-TCP Corpus in Transition
16.20 – 17.45 Panel 3 – Building EEBO-TCP into Teaching
- Heather Froehlich, Richard J Whitt and Jonathan Hope, University of Strathclyde
TCP-EEBO as a tool for integrating teaching and research
- Mark Hutchings, University of Reading
Editing the Renaissance in the Classroom
- Leah Knight, Brock University
"EEBO-Driven": Ten Years of Test-Driving
19.15 – 22.00 Drinks reception and dinner, Divinity School, Bodleian Library
Tuesday 18 September 2012
09.00 – 09.30 Refreshments
09.30 – 11.15 Panel 4 – Editing: Politics and Practicalities
- Daniel Carey and Anders Ingram, National University of Ireland, Galway
Richard Hakluyt's Principal Navigations: TCP and the Development of a Critical Edition
- Giles Bergel, University of Oxford
The Politics and Poetics of Transcription
- Michelle O'Callaghan and Alice Eardley, University of Reading
Using TCP Files in Digital Editions: Introducing Verse Miscellanies Online
- Sebastian Rahtz and James Cummings, University of Oxford
Kicking and Screaming: Challenges and advantages of bringing TCP texts into line with the Text Encoding Initiative
11.15 – 11.45 Refreshments break
11.45 – 13.10 Panel 5 – Research from CREME (Corpus Research on Early Modern English)
- Alistair Baron and Andrew Hardie, Lancaster University
Prerequisites to a corpus-based analysis of EEBO-TCP
- Stephen Pumfrey and Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
The semantics of liberty in Early Modern English
- Alison Findlay and Liz Oakley-Brown, Lancaster University
Re-Marking Revenge
13.10 – 14.10 Lunch
14.10 – 15.35 Panel 6 – Digital Research Methods
- Jacob J S Halford, University of Warwick
The emergence of "new philosophy" in the discourses of seventeenth-century philosophy
- Helen Sonner, Queen's University Belfast
The "Popular Construction" of Meaning in Early Modern Print (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Full-Text Search)
- Matthew Steggle, Sheffield Hallam University
Lost plays and EEBO-TCP: a case study from Dekker
15.35 – 16.00 Refreshments break
16.00 – 17.00 Summary and plenary discussion
- Moderator: Emma Smith, University of Oxford
17.00 End


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Australia, South Korea draw in East Asian Cup
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Goalkeeper Eugene Galekovic produced a series of key saves Saturday as Australia earned a point in a goalless draw with host South Korea at the East Asian Cup opening match.
Dominating the first half, South Korea came close in the 15th minute when Yun Il-lok fired a low drive that was stopped by Galekovic.
Minutes later, the Adelaide United 'keeper denied Lee Seung-ki, whose long-range effort appeared headed for the top left corner.
Australia rarely got out of its half in the opening 45 minutes with South Korea enjoying a huge amount of space to control the game.
Ryan McGowan had Australia's best chance of the second half, sending a free kick from Dario Vidosic just wide of goal, while substitute Yeom Ki-hun hit the post in the 70th for South Korea.
Australia coach Holger Osieck selected eight uncapped players from the domestic A-League.
Saturday's opener was the first game in charge for South Korea's Hong Myong-bo, who was captain of the South Korean team which reached the 2002 World Cup semifinals.
Australia is contesting the East Asian Cup for the first time with South Korea, Japan and China.
Japan plays defending champion China on Sunday. China won the tournament in 2005 while South Korea claimed the title in 2003 and 2008.