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Posted: April 15, 2014 -- letizia
Back by popular demand, Washington State University students will have round-the-clock access to Holland and Terrell libraries during the last two weeks of the semester.
The libraries will open at noon Sunday, April 27, and remain open 24/7 through 10 p.m. Friday, May 9.
"We heard from quite a few students who were grateful for the extended hours last time," said Susan Shipman, Access Services manager at WSU Libraries.


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Hilton San Francisco Union Square Opens Cityscape San Francisco Lounge
Hilton San Francisco Union Square opens Cityscape San Francisco Lounge, located on the hotel's 46th floor. Open to the public on September 12, the viewing lounge will welcome guests from 5:00 p.m. to midnight every day of the week.
Featuring breathtaking, 360-degree panoramic views of the entire Bay Area and San Francisco's most iconic landmarks, the Cityscape lounge offers small plates and appetizers, signature cocktails, wines by the glass, a variety of beers on tap, fine spirits and the best, most coveted viewing platform in the city.
Designed as one of the top "must see" attractions in San Francisco, Cityscape is the quintessential destination for those that want to experience the city's most dynamic views and enjoy the "lay of the land" as guests are treated to sights that can only be seen from the vantage point of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square's tower one.
"No two days look the same from Cityscape, where San Francisco weather flows over the ever changing skyline," said Lenny Gumm, general manager, Cityscape. "What doesn't change are the 360-degree views enjoyed through 14-foot floor-to-ceiling windows and the great food and drinks to enjoy with them."
Lenny Gumm is a veteran bar and lounge manager in which he's held positions with several local watering holes, including Hotel Rex, One Market Restaurant, Temple Nightclub, DOSA Restaurant, La Urbana and the Four Seasons. His goal has been to learn as much as possible about spirits and cocktails, and to focus on providing genuine hospitality. While Bar Manager at DOSA, he partnered with Old World Spirits to create a one-of-a-kind signature gin produced solely for the restaurant. Lenny has also participated in local events with CUESA, SF Chefs, 7×7, and San Francisco Magazine.
In addition to general public access for individuals, couples and small parties, Cityscape also offers private corners of the lounge for groups of 20 in the Bay Section with stunning views of the Golden Gate Bridge as well as the entire space for up to 350 guests for a total buy out of the lounge. Special menus will be arranged and groups will enjoy the exclusivity of their own reserved space and VIP service.
Some of the highlights from the locally-inspired menu include:
» Avocado Hummus with farmer's market vegetables, unfiltered olive oil and lavosh
» Spiced Cucumbers with sesame, crushed chile, scallion and burnt peanut
» Ahi-Salmon-Hamachi Poke with sweet onion, inamona jus, micro wasabi and lotus root crisps
» Dungeness Crab with spicy giardineria, natural tobiko and grilled brioche
» Cheese and Charcuterie with beet pickled egg, quince, grain mustard and lavosh
Signature cocktails include:
» Nob Hill Manhattan
» Noe Valley Old Fashioned
» Pacific Heights – Martell Cordon Bleu Cognac, Cointreau and squeeze of lemon
» Presidio – Maestro Dobel Diamond Tequila, St. Germain, ruby red grapefruit and lime
For more information, please visit www.hiltonsanfranciscohotel.com or call (415) 771-1400.

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I have noticed that it is getting cooler already at night, look likes summer is almost over and fall is almost here. Hope you have a good time and enjoy your summer vacation this year. If you are thinking to have vacation still this summer you can still do it while there still warm weather and nice weather in your travel time.
I know some people are not done with their summer vacation yet and not done with their household project outside the house. Time flies and we don't realize because we're so busy this summer so we need think about what else to do and need to get done of our summer project and what is left of this summer time and to finish what is things that needs to be done before summer is over.
We have weird weather this summer time sometimes we have so much heat and right now we have already storms even though summer is not over yet. But remember to put sun screen when you want to expose in the sun and drink a lots of liquid so that you will not get dehydrated.
Just take your time and savor the moment on what is left in your summer time because fall will be here before we know it. What I love during fall is the changing colors of the leaves and trees. But remember when fall is here we have a lot of cleaning to do from the falling leaves again and cooler weather comes in and we have to wear our cooler outfit again which I don't like. But I guess we have to live by it and accept the changing of weather which we don't have control about it. We just enjoy life while we can and cherish every moment of it.


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The other night I was at a friends house playing Scategories and every time I looked up this girl was looking at me. I like this girl but she is dating my friend, my cousin has told me before that she thinks this girl likes me. I went on vacation with my family and the girl text me asking how my vacation was going, I think she likes me but I don't know what I should do...
Does it mean anything that she kept looking at me?


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With our own photographic expeditions (thanks, affordable digital cameras) it's sometimes easy to forget just how creative this medium is, but Angus Rowe MacPherson is here to remind you. With an amazing personal and professional portfolio, the Toronto-based photographer has a clever knack for storytelling through imagery.
Having done work for notable companies such as Hyundai, Wrigley and Scotiabank, Trend Hunter also showcased Angus Rowe MacPherson's Sherway Gardens ad campaign earlier this year. When you go through the gallery, you may notice it.
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Evocative Photographers
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Panoramic Advertising
Space Psychedelia Photography
Angus Rowe Macpherson's Storytelling is a Soaring Feat
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What does the sticker # on the fruit mean?
Maybe you already knew this…
- Conventional produce gets a four-digit number.
- Organic produce gets a five-digit number that starts with 9.
- Genetically modified items also get a five-digit code, but that code starts with 8.
4139: Conventional Granny Smith apple
94139: Organic Granny Smith
84139: Genetically Modified Granny Smith


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Beer Notes: The Return of Pumpkin Ale
Orange County's TAPS Fishhouse & Brewery ushers in autumn by pouring quality pumpkin ale!
It certainly hasn't felt like fall in recent weeks as temperatures have topped 90 degrees in parts of the Southland. Yet regardless of the reading on the thermostat, two Orange County craft breweries are keeping an autumn tradition alive.
Taps Fish House & Brewery and Bootlegger's Brewery, separated only by about five miles, are once again serving a pumpkin ale. The style, often spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, is a regular sighting at supermarket beer sections this time of year, but more rare is a spotting at an area craft brewery…


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Using a quote from Alfred Lord Tennyson for inspiration, and chose this image as the inspiration for the flower border. I meant to take a picture at every step in the process, to see it all coming together, but my painting hand was faster than my picture hand, so the process isn't quite seamless.
This was also my first time using pergamenata and I quite love it. It takes the gouache so much easier than the paper I had been using. I cut down a sheet into roughly A5 size pieces, so they'd make nice frameable pieces, possibly even as gifts if they were good enough.
I drew out the image lightly in pencil then outlined in black calligraphy ink. The gold was applied as gold paint, and is also the reason all of the pictures are taken at a funny angle; I had to get the gold to show up well.
The flowers and leaves are painted in with gouache, and I'm much more pleased with the colour blending on this than on my last example. I think here the parchment I was using and that I was blending while the colours were still properly wet contributed significantly.
One of the best parts of this project was when I stopped for lunch and looked back across at my inked design, and had a moment of not even recognising it. The next moment, it looked perfect, simply perfect. I didn't pounce my perg before I wrote my quote, something I'll remember for next time, as well as the need to practise my letters, but overall I'm very pleased with it. And most importantly, design isn't as scary now!


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Free shipping in the USA (lower 48) when your order is over $89 (excluding gift certificates and sales tax, if applicable).
You need to order a minimum of 3 copies. The price will be $3.90 in the shopping cart if you choose that quantity. In Stock. Easy, dance-like grace permeates this exuberant arrangement by Patrick M. Liebergen, featuring both unison and canonic sections, and incorporating the chorale tune Nun danket alle Gott. Great for choirs of all ages, it very effectively reinforces independent part-singing. A wonderful "September start-up" piece, it is also wonderful for harvest or Thanksgiving. Optional flute included.
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UPDATE #2 - Vote My Fundy.com
UPDATE: Vote here for the Bay of Fundy
Did you know that more water passes through the Bay of Fundy in ONE DAY than goes over Niagara Falls in a year? Niagara Falls powers much of the eastern seaboard & Ontario - can you imagine if the tides could be harnessed (with total respect to habitat)? Natural energy just waiting to be resourced.
Living here in New Brunswick, 3 blocks from a river that is a tidal estuary we see the affect of the tides here two times a day. It's magnificent. 20-30' in 12 hours - two times a day, every day.
I just found out that the Bay of Fundy is in the running (again) to be listed as one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World! You don't have to be from Canada to vote, so show your support and take a look at all of the places you need to add to your travel dreams. You really need to see this place at least once in your life. It's like nothing else in the world.
Here's the update email I got from my friend Jude at Culture Pass:
The Bay of Fundy is back on the international stage in the New7Wonders of Nature contest. In an unprecedented turn of events the Bay of Fundy, which placed 2nd in the first phase of the contest that concluded January 7, 2009 is now representing Canada!
The New7Wonders of Nature organization, based in Brussels, reinstated the Bay of Fundy this week. "We can confirm that Dinosaur Provincial Park did not meet the Phase II participation requirements" said Tia Viering of the New7Wonders. "Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we announce that the Bay of Fundy is now officially Canada's national representative."
"As 2008 came to a close, we knew we were in an extremely close race to represent Canada in this phase of the contest," said Terri McCulloch, Manager Bay of Fundy Tourism. "We were honored by the incredible number of votes the Bay of Fundy received in the first round of the contest. We are very passionate about the Bay of Fundy and believe it is truly a beautiful wonder of nature. We are privileged to represent Canada and we hope everyone will be as enthusiastic again and vote for the Bay of Fundy. We only have until July 7th to get as many votes as we can for this next stage of the contest."
The Bay of Fundy is best known for the highest tides in the world and has been compared, in marine biodiversity, to the Amazon Rainforest. The Bay is the summer feeding area for half the world's population of endangered North Atlantic Right whales and 12 other whale species. It is home to the world's most complete fossil record of the "Coal Age" (300 million years ago) as well as the world's oldest reptiles and Canada's oldest dinosaurs. UNESCO recently recognized the upper Bay of Fundy as a Biosphere Reserve and Joggins Fossil Cliffs as a World Heritage Site.
Go online to vote to place a vote before July 7, 2009, when the top 77 international sites will be short listed. Between July 7 and 21, an independent committee will select the top 21 to continue into the fourth and final stage of the campaign. These top 21 sites will also be part of a 2010 New7Wonders world tour bringing tremendous international attention to the selected sites. Phase four is the last voting component of the New7Wonders of Nature campaign until the final announcement is made on who has been selected the New7Wonders of Nature.
"We only have a few weeks left in this phase of the contest so every vote is important and interested voters can go to Votemyfundy.com. We are really excited to be back in the running and we hope we can succeed in getting Canada's Bay of Fundy into the next international phase of the campaign," said Terri McCulloch. (Sending with thanks to Maureen for forwarding from Terry.)
Vote, vote, vote!!
"She couldn't go back and make the details pretty, she could only move forward and make the whole beautiful." - Terri St. Cloud
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Bay of Fundy - Wonder of the World
Posted by Heidi Renee at 5:55 PM
4 comments:
- Kel said...
oh me oh my
what a quandary
would i be disloyal if i voted fundy instead of aussie?
we have Great Barrier Reef, Ayers Rock, Norfolk Island and Christmas Island on the list . . .
- Terri said...
thanks for posting this to your blog. haha you get to vote for 7 sites each time so you can still vote for fav Aussie sites....
our voting website is www.votemyfundy.com
- Togenberg said...
Not sure if I can support something called Bay of "Fundy"! LOL
- Connie Marie said...
I'd love to visit this place someday.
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Yes, CNN IS Fake News
This week's World's Smallest Violin Award goes to Fake News Network CNN — specifically to be shared between Fake Newsman Jake Tapper and Fake Newsman Chris Cuomo, both of whom took whiny umbrage at being called Fake News while purveying Fake News.
Cuomo, who really needs to eat more brain food, even possibly more brains, said that being called Fake News while purveying Fake News is like being called the N-word. He later apologized, but not enough. He should have added banging his head repeatedly against a wall while saying, "Stupid, stupid, stupid," over and over again.
As for Tapper, he harried and berated a largely conciliatory presidential spokeswoman, Kellyanne Conway, for almost half an hour about how hard it is out there for a Fake Newsman to always be called a Fake Newsman while being Fake. "When it comes to the Trump administration," Tapper whined, "I would much rather be covering immigration, I would much rather be covering trade, and I would much rather be covering draining the swamp, and counter-terrorism, but instead, every day, there are these sprays of attack and sprays of falsehoods, coming from the White House. It would be better if they were not coming from the White House — for me and for you." Anyway, I think that's what he said, though it was tough to hear him over the screeching of the teensy-tiny little itsty-bitty violin playing in the background throughout.
The problem is this: CNN — like the New York Times, like the network news departments at NBC and ABC and CBS — is virtually the definition of Fake News, a phrase made up by the left to attack Trump but which blew up in their faces like a trick cigar when it turned out everyone knows what liars they've been for the past sixteen years at least.
This is not even a question of the almost ceaseless series of mistakes, distortions and obfuscations that our leftist news media, in their hysterical rage against political reality, have committed since the election of Donald Trump to the presidency. These errors and lies — which include cover-ups of Islamic extremism, lies about right-wing websites, and suspiciously incendiary "mistakes" about the White House — are being ably catalogued by the mighty and terrible John Nolte over at the Daily Wire.
No, this is a matter of the laughably slanted Fake News emphasis since at least the George W. Bush administration and through Obama's. This Fake News emphasis made major scandals out of Bush's kerfuffles like the Valerie Plame affair; blamed him for what was never his fault, like intelligence failures in Iraq, gas prices, and the fact that a century of Democrat corruption in New Orleans turned a hurricane into a full-fledged disaster; and skewed stories to play down conservative truths like the danger of Islam, the unfairness of illegal immigrationm and the tragic results of decades of leftist attacks on white males. This is not even to mention the vicious and continual slander of the Tea Party movement as racist and the ennobling of the disgusting, anti-semitic, and violent Occupy movement as an American "Arab Spring."


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Editor's Choice - Dec 03, 2012 Daily Top 3 - Dec 03, 2012
This special cake was chosen by the Bride because she loves orange. Even her fingernails were painted orange and the Wedding was all about colour.
Tags: wedding
Sarah, New Zealand, http://www.facebook.com/#!/TheCakeTin
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it looks great!
I love the color…great job!
Well done, its beautiful – so many fantastic kiwi decorators!
Beautiful!!! LOVE the colour even though it's not usually one of my faves! :) xx
Beautiful!!!! You did a great job!!! Xx
stunning!! love it!
wow, that's stunning!!! I love that deep orange, so rich and warm… fabulous design!
beautiful x
awesome cake Sarah congrats on the Daily top 3
Gosh, thank you all so much. I loved making this with the fun design and bright colours. x
This is a stunning cake and orange is one of my favorite colors! Your cake makes my heart happy!
Oh my Gosh! I made editors choice. Thank you Michal and to everyone who took the time to view my cake :)
Ficou maravilhoso, parabens
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Sometimes you need your privacy, and that is exactly why this cutie loves to masturbate in the shower. Her soapy puss really loves to get fingered!
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The Game of Life, the most famous example of cellular automata and the basis of countless generative music, art and computer programming projects, has its own JavaScript simulator.
The concept, created in 1970 by the mathematician John Conway, relies on very simple rules applied to cells on a board. The cells are either "on/alive" or "off/dead," and their behavior is determined by the states of their neighbors. There are rules — the human draws a pattern of cells on the board, then begins the game. The rules play out automatically and the game progresses without any further human interaction.
Brian Eno is a big fan. Check out his Bloom and Trope iPhone apps for some pleasant examples of generative game music done well.
Here's the Game of Life as described by Wikipedia:
The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, live or dead. Every cell interacts with its eight neighbors, which are the cells that are directly horizontally, vertically, or diagonally adjacent. At each step in time, the following transitions occur:
1. Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbors dies, as if caused by underpopulation.
2. Any live cell with more than three live neighbors dies, as if by overcrowding.
3. Any live cell with two or three live neighbors lives on to the next generation.
4. Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbors becomes a live cell.
The initial pattern constitutes the seed of the system. The first generation is created by applying the above rules simultaneously to every cell in the seed?births and deaths happen simultaneously, and the discrete moment at which this happens is sometimes called a tick (in other words, each generation is a pure function of the one before). The rules continue to be applied repeatedly to create further generations.
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This is the question that I hear all the time as a grade 1 and 2 FI teacher.
It's the hardest one to answer, as we have so little available to us in the classroom, let alone to offer to parents at home.
I've found "weebly" and "shadow puppet" to be the most helpful things for this.
Weebly: I use weebly for my blog/website for parents. It is SO easy, and lets you drag and drop videos and links right into each web page. The embedded videos look great!
Shadow puppet: I use the shadow puppet app to record audio for our songs and poems, so that students can hear pronunciation while at home. We send home French duotangs with new poems each week, but it is hard for parents to know what to do with them if they don't speak French. I've been recording myself reading the poems, leaving time for students to repeat each line after me. I've done the same with different pictures of our word walls. I haven't done it with any songs yet (not sure I'm up for singing on youtube....).
**The app has a really cool feature that let's you touch a spot on your picture and have it light up, however I've experienced some hiccups with this. I have a few videos where the dot has floated away and no longer matches up with the correct words. If anyone knows how to avoid this, I'd love to hear it! It seems to happen somewhere between me making the video on my iphone or ipad, and uploading it to youtube.
Here's an example of a shadow puppet video I made:
This is a book that I read every few days with my class, and have them repeat each page after me. The vocabulary matches the word wall cards and flashcards I use, as well as the words in our Daily 5 centres. My students are immersed in the vocabulary that we are studying.
I'm still new to this, so I haven't had a lot of feedback from parents yet. I know everyone is busy, but hopefully they're able to take a few minutes each day to watch a short video.
What do you have to support parents and students at home? I'm always looking for new ideas!


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About the Categories
Each category is like a different section of a library. Check out the "bookshelves" below so you'll know where to find what. Most of my posts are brief – just the right length for Internet reading.
Doubt Busters
Answering the questions that challenge our faith! Look here to see if any of your perplexing Bible questions have been answered.
Book Reviews
These books cover some aspect of getting ready for Christ's return. I would expect books talking about the end times to include information about the coming judgment and how to get ready for it. I'm disappointed when a fabulous book on the end times fails to warn the reader about getting ready, and excited to find books that link readiness and the end times together.
Jesus on Judgment
These articles were culled from my book, Living with the End in View, Book 1. If you had ever wondered what Jesus said about getting ready for judgment day, you'll find your answers here. After reading these articles, you'll see that judgment day for Christians is a well-grounded fact – based on the words of Christ Himself. These articles are devotional in format, full of Scripture, and easy to read with practical suggestions for implementing the Lord's teaching.
Kingdom Exclusion
Will Christians be completely excluded from the 1,000-year Millennium Kingdom spoken of in Revelation 20? If so, will they come back again or will they be banished forever? Is kingdom exclusion (Gal. 5:21) addressed to Christians or to unbelievers in the church? This dialog addresses the issues.
Main passages on readiness
Were you ever unsure whether Christians will face judgment? This brief section covers several key passages that are central to the doctrine of the coming judgment Christians will face. I have chosen the most clearly worded verses I could find and explained why they should matter to us.
Steve's Books
I've been writing about getting ready for Christ's return for several years. These practical books are a compilation of my findings. Many of my writings first saw the light of day in my YahooGroup, Living with the End in View, before finding a permanent home between the covers of a book. All books were first sent to manuscript editors for polishing prior to publishing. If you like the writings on this web site, you'll find more of the same in my books.
Thoughts on Getting Ready for Christ's Return
While the other categories are articles that fit within defined themes, the thoughts here are more free-flowing and wide-ranging, but still cover the various aspects of readiness.


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Brathwaite, Roach up in rankings ahead of Hamilton Test
LONDON, England (CMC) — Opener Kraigg Brathwaite and seamer Kemar Roach have continued to flourish in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) player rankings, despite West Indies troubles in the recent opening Test against New Zealand.
In the rankings released on Wednesday, Brathwaite jumped two places to 17th in the batting rankings to be the highest ranked Windies player, while Roach rose three spots to 20th position.
West Indies were crushed by an innings and 67 runs inside four days in the opening Test at the Basin Reserve in Wellington last Monday.
However, vice-captain Brathwaite emerged from the contest with his reputation intact, following an accomplished top score of 91 in the second innings of 319.
Roach, meanwhile, was the best Windies bowler with three wickets in the Black Caps massive first innings total of 520 for nine declared. He is now the highest ranked West Indies bowler.
There was also movement for medium pacer Miguel Cummins, who jumped four places to 77th in the bowling rankings, after picking up a brace of wickets in the recent Test.
All three can make even bigger strides in the rankings when they come up against New Zealand again in the second and final Test at Seddon Park in Hamilton starting Saturday.
Shai Hope (28th), Darren Bravo (39th) and Roston Chase (45th) are the other Windies batsmen in the top 50, though Bravo has not represented West Indies in over a year.
Leg-spinner Devendra Bishoo, left out of the first Test, is ranked 21st while Shannon Gabriel (24th) along with seamer and captain Jason Holder (33rd) who will miss the second Test through suspension, are the other West Indies players in the top 50 of the bowling charts.
Australian Steve Smith and England seamer Jimmy Anderson remain on top of the batting and bowling rankings, respectively.
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Press release
Number 10 Press Briefing - Morning From 10 May 2011
From the Prime Minister's spokesperson on: Coalition first anniversary, Fixed Term Parliament Bill, Scotland and Universities.
Coalition First Anniversary
The Prime Minister's Spokesman (PMS) said that there had been a discussion at Cabinet this morning on the implementation of the Programme for Government over the past year. The message from Oliver Letwin and Danny Alexander at Cabinet was that the Government had done a lot of what it had set out to do over the past year. There had been some very significant achievements and we had made good progress on our key priorities, which were to strengthen the economy, modernise public services, raise aspirations and implement political reform.
The PMS went on to say that the Prime Minister had made the point in Cabinet that as a five year Coalition Government we had been able to focus on issues that had held back Britain for generations, due to the fact that many of those issues involved long-term questions about sustainability - from eradicating the budget deficit to reforming welfare, pensions, university fees and so on. The Prime Minister made the point that these were particularly difficult issues, and that having a Coalition Government helped in tackling them.
Asked if the Government would be publishing a document setting out the actions taken over the past year, the PMS said that there were two sets of data that outlined the Government's progess. Firstly there was the Coalition Agreement/Programme for Government, which outlined 355 commitments of which 26% were complete, 64% were in progress and 10% were not yet started. Then there were Business Plans from every department, which reflected the commitments made in the Coalition Agreement. The Business Plans had 1276 actions that departments had to complete by a certain point. By the end of April 2011, 66% had been completed, 31% were still in progress and 3% were overdue.
Asked about those policies which had been abandoned, the PMS said that clearly there were occasions when the policy had changed.
The PMS went on to say that the Programme for Government set out a number of policies and they were in the process of being implemented. Obviously other things would arise and would be dealt with, but last year we put in place some machinery to reflect the fact that we had a Coalition Government. That machinery, including the Coalition Committee, the Quad and so on, would deal with issues in the normal way.
Asked if there was a need for a second Coalition Agreement, the PMS said that there were no plans for a second Coalition Agreement, but there could be a point where the Government wanted to say more about what it would do next, which Governments in the past had done. We had designed the machinery to be robust and operate so that as issues arose they could be dealt with effectively.
The PMS said that it was unprecedented for a Government to set out in so much detail at the start of Parliament precisely what it would be doing for the period that followed. The Business Plans set out in great detail specific actions that would be undertaken. There were events that Governments responded to, and no doubt there would be further policies set out in the coming years but that was not so different to what other Governments had done before.
Fixed Term Parliament Bill
Asked about the timetable for the Fixed Term Parliament Bill, the PMS said that the Bill was currently at the Report Stage in the House of Lords.
Asked if the Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore had spoken at Cabinet about the Scottish referendum, the PMS said that Michael Moore had updated Cabinet on the issues related to Scotland following on from the elections last week.
Asked if the Prime Minister contributed to the conversation, the PMS said yes. The Prime Minister repeated what we had been saying publicly, that this was a matter for the Scottish Parliament and we wouldn't stand in the way of a referendum.
Asked if the Prime Minister accepted that a referendum would be politically binding as opposed to legally binding and that this meant a second referendum would be needed, the PMS said that he would not get into speculating about the process.
Asked if the Prime Minister thought that rich students should be allowed to buy places at university, the PMS said that our universities policy had been designed to do two things; firstly, to deal with the sustainability of university finances, which required us to take some difficult decisions about the way the cost was shared between the taxpayer and the students. Secondly, we were trying to improve access to higher education and universities, particularly for those from more disadvantaged backgrounds.
The PMS went on to say that if the journalist had been referring to comments made by David Willetts this morning then what Mr Willetts actually said was that we were listening to proposals and once we had set out our policies in the White Paper we would ensure that we improved access to higher education.
Put that one of the ways of improving access was to let richer people buy places and use the money to help fund less privileged people, the PMS said that at the moment there was a quota system, which meant that some people who had the required qualifications to get into university were turned away. One thing that could help us improve access and social mobility would be if we could increase the number of university places and therefore enable more people who were currently being turned away to go to university. We were looking at how we could do that effectively, but we had not yet outlined the policies. David Willetts had been talking about the objectives of our policies, not the policies themselves.
The PMS went on to say that we were listening to suggestions for increasing access, whilst recognising that we were starting from a position where there was a problem with the funding of universities, which we had to deal with. For example, one suggestion was that some charities could potentially sponsor people to go to university, which under the current system wasn't possible. We would test any specific proposals against our objectives.


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Thursday, May 6, 2010
A wee plug for Watermellish!
I recently tested some really cute little hearts that can be added as embellishments on knitted garments. Watermellish is the brain child of Tanja Waterman and her designs are beautiful - and so easy to achieve fantastic results, even for a beginner at duplicate stitch like me! Check out her website as Tanja (aka Possum on Ravelry) will be adding new designs regularly, some of which will be free. You can see one of my attempts at a heart in my header - very simple yet very effective.
Keep a lookout on my knitted garments for more of Tanja's creations, as I have a feeling they'll be addictive - and the perfect way to beautify and personalise custom knits.
Labels: duplicate stitch, embellishment, Possum, Ravelry, Tanja Waterman
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PBy Matt Krupnick
Contra Costa Times
© Copyright 2011, Bay Area News Group
Posted: 09/28/2011 04:38:44 PM PDT
Los Medanos College has received a $4.25 million federal grant to help attract students to math, science and engineering fields.The five-year grant from the Department of Education will give the Pittsburg community college the resources to prepare high school students for careers in those fields and to help college students transfer to four-year schools, said Carol Hernandez, who coordinates the college's MESA -- Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement -- program.
"We're hoping to have a larger presence in the high schools," she said. "We've got to make (those disciplines) cool."Of the 231 Los Medanos students who transferred in 2009, only 45 were science, technology, engineering or math -- commonly abbreviated as S.T.E.M. -- majors, Hernandez said. Many students who start college in those programs become discouraged by their lack of math knowledge and drop out of school, she said.
The grant will help Los Medanos prevent dropouts by offering accelerated math courses, Hernandez said."If it takes them two years before they can even start taking S.T.E.M. courses, that can be discouraging," she said. "What we're hoping to do is shorten that process."
Matt Krupnick covers higher education. Contact him at 510-208-6488. Follow him at Twitter.com/MattKrupnick.


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A June 5 Fairfax County Taxpayers Alliance email to the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs asked, "... how much of the meals tax revenues would be used for raises and benefits?" The June 6 reply cited the 70/30 allocation between the schools and county and stated, "More specific uses will be dependent on what is funded in the FY 2018 budget if the referendum passes." Therefore, there is no commitment to spend the county's portion of the meals tax on capital improvements. It could be spent on raises and benefits, which is not mentioned in the pamphlet.
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When asked, the schools' Office of Community Relations replied, "There are no responsive documents for this request. The School Board will discuss the specific uses of potential revenue from the meals tax as part of their regularly scheduled meetings and work sessions." Therefore there is no commitment to use the meals tax to reduce class size. The revenues could be spent on raises and benefits, which was not mentioned in the Senator's email.
Raises and benefits are the drivers of tax increases. In fact, revenues from real estate tax increases since FY2000 have not been enough to pay raises and the increasing cost of pensions and health insurance, which is why services were cut and class sizes increased.
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This will not even pay for one year's compensation increases.
County and school compensation increases (raises and the increased cost of benefits) totaled $112M last year (FY2016), $133M this year (FY2017), and are projected to cost $198M next year (FY2018). Next year's projected school budget does not propose using the meals tax to reduce class size.In the years following the meals tax, annual budget crises, service cuts, and 5.5% real estate tax increases will continue in order to pay for across-the-board 3.5% raises, pensions with retirement at 55, and Cadillac health plans for 34,000+ county and school employees.
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County and school compensation is generous. Between FY2000 and FY2016 the average annual raise for all county and school employees was about 4%. Pensions allow retirement at age 55 with 75% of salary, and employees have Cadillac health insurance. For the 2015-2016 school year, Fairfax County Public Schools reviewed 15,102 applications for 1,477 teacher job openings. In 2015 the county had 139,618 applicants for 2,601 job openings.
It is too expensive to pay all employees the premium required to retain the best employees. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and School Board should use bonuses or merit pay to attract and retain the best employees.
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In FY2000 benefits were 27% of salary; now they are 46% of salary.


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Helen will be reading and signing her brand new book, Frozen Treats, on June 7th from 11-12. All those who RSVP to attend the event will receive a special Imagine Candy goodie-bag complete with a Candy Fairies pencil. RSVP by emailing [email protected] Those customers who purchase Frozen Treats will receive a Candy Fairies bookmark and worksheets that your children will adore.
Candy Fairies is a book series in which Candy Fairies explore the magical and delicious world of Sugar Valley. Frozen Treats, the 13th book is set to release mid-June.
There is no better place than Imagine Candy for a "Sweet-read" and to be able to purchase an advance copy of Frozen Treats.
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See my blog, Father Duquesne, at http://pereduquesne.wordpress.com
This is better than The Existential Poetry of D. H. Rumsfeld.
Roddy is a registered Republican. I don't know, but maybe he registered that way because at one time the Republican primary was all that mattered in Mount Lebanon (not the case anymore).
But I agree that you wouldn't have guessed this political affiliation, based on his writings in the past. And this career move is just sad.
The cops are clearly in a vindictive mood, and it would be a good idea for people to just stop talking to them. Even if you're innocent of the "crime" of satirizing them, or don't know anyone who is "guilty," it doesn't matter; if they question you about this, you could end up caught up in their investigation somehow. Just tell them you have nothing to say.
Bram: Look, it sucks for you that you got burned on this, but reasonable people have already forgiven you, if they ever even cared. The real issue here is as follows:
(1) Three cops beat an unarmed, law-abiding underage citizen to within an inch of his life for no reason whatsoever.
(2) The FOP, like the omerta-compliant gangster clique that it is, has consistently defended these thugs.
(3) Someone made fun of the FOP for doing this. As public figures, the FOP leadership are legally incapable of being libeled or slandered, and are appropriate figures for satire under any reasonable definition of the word in any free society.
(4) There are members of the police force who have been spending their time, paid by the public, to conduct raids on private citizens in the hopes of tracking down the cops' pseudonymous, trickster detractors. They then want to apply any bogus legal charge to these people that they can, regardless of whether it sticks, all with a view to harassing and intimidating critics of their lawless violence against a black teenager.
It is outrageous. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiX7GTelTPM
This is disgusting. Anyone who gets raided needs to sue the city and the FOP.
Not it!
But the fact that someone still knows enough Latin to slag off the cops in this subtle fashion earns whoever did it like, 1000 Internet points.
OK, so speaking of snitches, I have to ask: Is this guy related to Matt Cvetic?
Someone has actually dug up some old-time radio shows based on Matt Cvetic's lurid and ridiculous book, which you can listen to here:


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I'm not ultra organised - I confess to being a tad untidy.... having been a florist for over 25 years, a very good friend & colleague once said to me, that if she was shown a tidy workroom, she would know that the shop wasn't very busy!, and since in our shop we were always rushing around with shedloads of work, our workroom always looked like a pigsty! My cluttered workroom space is testament to the fact that i've always got several projects on the go at once - it is I grant you easier to create when you can actually find the surface of the desk - and although I have every intention of having a clear up at the end of the day [ok, most days - alright sometimes] usually I feel very self righteous when the room is a little tidier and more welcoming and yesterday's mess is gone - amazingly, one can also find things again!
Talking of being tidy...my good friend Nicky invited us to a workshop the other evening, and we made some really lovely cards.... with her Stampin Up 'stuff' - it was such a fun evening! We were using 'bits' of paper to make lollipop flowers........... that was a fun thing I hadn't done for ages, so everybody's getting lollipop flowers on everything now - for a while - well, it helps with the clear up!!


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I am a big lover of Shanghai food. Some of my favorite dishes are probably the (1) spicy pork dumplings drenched in spicy oil and covered in pork floss (hung yau chau say), (2) the spicy noodles in a peanut sauce with a sprinkling of ground pork atop it (dan dan mian) and (3) the soup -filled pork dumplings (siu lung bao).
When walking around Tsim Sha Tsui East looking for food, my husband suggested we try out Shanghai Min. We've both not been there before, but we were looking for some warm foods to comfort us on this chilly evening.
UG2 Tsim Sha Tsui Centre
66 Mody Road
Tsim Sha Tsui
2369 - 8899
Monday - Sundays
11:30 - 3 pm
6 pm - 11 pm
*Reservations available*
We go there around 6pm, which was really lucky because the kitchen opened up at 6pm. There were a handful of people who were there before us and they were waiting until 6pm to get their orders in. So, taking note of the times when the restaurant is open for service is quite valuable!
This place seems like a classy place, but also quite casual. The staff were quite professional…or more so than your usual canteen! I liked how they worked fast, were quite efficient at clearing our table, and also made sure if we were doing all right (somewhere in the middle of our dinner). That was quite thoughtful.
The menu was beautiful! I love menus with pictures of what the dishes are. The pictures were quite true to what the actual dishes looked like, which is always great.
I'm not sure if the first little appetizer was complimentary, but it seems like it was apart of the meal…just like you pay for the tea that comes with your meal at most places. But, the little appetizer that greeted us at our table before we ordered was a pickled radish dish. It was pretty good…but I quite like sour, vinegary things…so, I'm quite bias!
The first dish we ordered was recommended by the restaurant. It sort of reminded me of Beijing Duck because it was a bit of meat that you placed on a bun and ate. This was a cube of pork with a layer of the most delicious tasting fat that I have ever eaten. Who knew that fat could be so darn delicious. But, it also came in the most wonderful sauce that I have ever tasted. The combination of the meat, the sauce and the bun were really nice.
It was also fun to eat. A mini Chinese burger…or sandwich.
The next dish we got was one of our Shanghai staples…the spicy pork dumplings. These were all right. They weren't as spectacular as some that I've had at other places, but they did have a really nice sauce that the dumplings were resting in.
The next dish was the cutest thing that I'd ever seen. We each got a single serving of the recommended soup-filled pork dumpling. It was topped with crab eggs, I believe. It was also quite nice, but nothing spectacular. I did enjoy it…though..and it was almost double the size of a normal siu long bao!
The last dish we got was the dan dan mian. This was pretty good as well. I enjoyed it because it was just the perfect warm dish I needed to satisfy my stomach for the night. It was not as spicy as I had thought it would be, but it did have a really nice soup flavor.
For dessert, we got a red bean cake. This was just the perfect thing to end the meal with. It was lovely and crispy on the outside and warm and sweet on the inside. I love red bean desserts. I would totally recommend this as a way to end a dinner. I'm not sure if this came recommended by the restaurant, but we had this before at several other Shanghai restaurants and this one was comparably quite nice too!
Overall, I really enjoyed the experience of dining at Shanghai Min. The food was pretty good. There were two dishes that I enjoyed more than the others, but, then again, we ordered food we usually order…so, of course, comparisons would be made!
This was a really nice place to eat at. I think, when in the area…and in the mood for Shanghai food again…I would definitely go back. Though, I think I would chance ordering some new dishes and expanding my taste-bud knowledge of Shanghai cuisine!


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This week , in fact two days ago I had just sculptured a three tier macaron birthday cake for a very important client, to celebrate his 55years old birthday!
This time I decided to incoperate macarons with the cake in order to give a macho and successful look as the birthday boy is a very successful and a very cool businessman
It was fun sculpturing this piece something different from what i use to design. . . . . . . . awesome, another cake accomplished, Love Sunny Yaw!


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April: I am Pro Organics for many reasons:
1. Organic food is picked closer to ripening than other foods, creating a more nutritious and better tasting product.
2. Organics are grown with the purpose of aligning with those practices of natural standards and tradition. While we are now discovering that, as soon as Big Corporations get involved with Organics, the standards "change" according to profit margins, we are closer to healthier foods than conventional Big Factory Farming creates.
It's up to independent researchers to enact studies, but when they do, we often get clear and honest information. The following happens to be one that makes me smile: it's from GRIST, a website that challenges conventional thinking and can create some pretty colorful dialogue. Remember, my comments are in red.
New study weighs in on organic vs. conventional debate
Does growing food organically really matter? Supporters of conventional agriculture say that organic farming is little more than a fad — and that organic produce lightens consumers' wallets for no tangible benefits. And unfortunately, since agro-ecosystems are so complex, scientists have had a hard time cutting through the haze of claims and counter-claims. (It costs more because when you don't use chemicals you get higher percentage of waste, and therefore lower yields. Also there is a higher percentage of spoilage in travel).


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Now, these benefits could just as easily apply to your home environment as well. This could well be the case if you are one of the many men and women across the world that are venturing into the entrepreneurial arena by beginning with your first business from home. Of course, this would also depend on the nature of your business. Now, if you are thinking of running a chicken coop from home, providing your good neighbors with a ready and steady supply of free range eggs, you can just as well forget about that.
You are more than likely staying in a peri-urban environment and the keeping of livestock is frowned upon. Of course, this restriction may not apply to you if you are living and operating from a smallholding a way out of town. Then by all means, do roll out the steel wire crimper, because, sure as anything, you are going to need it. Commercial, industrial and rural, no matter what type of business requires an open lot of land; you are going to need steel.
Steel is preferred because of its non-enforceable and sustainable features. It is a good cost controller as well. Steel is long-lasting and can withstand harsh weather conditions. Now, if you have ambitions to start up your own organic garden produce business from home, then by all means. Roll out the crimper. In urban environments, organic gardens are encouraged. It attracts natural elements that are good for the environment.
No matter what, you are still going to need to protect your garden with a surrounding fence. Accidental and willful invasions of your natural landscape can be prevented. You can also utilize the steel for vegetables that can function well in growth if allowed to creep.


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Spanish teacher wanted (Bogotá)
I am looking for a private Spanish teacher. I live in the North of the city, would be great to find someone who could meet me locally (Cedritos area) for 1 lesson a week.
I am also interested in doing a language exchange/ intercambio with anyone who wants to practise their English. Intermediate level Spanish.
Get in touch if you or anyone you know can help me.


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On a cool, but sunny, spring, afternoon, I grabbed a couple of steaming hot beverages and sat along New York's Bryant Park with longtime Cavaliers pulse-feeler, Brian Windhorst. Brian, as most of you know, covers the NBA for ESPN and is one of the more insightful and thoughtful writers covering the NBA today (and has been so for a while). We talked Cavs playoff chances, Kyrie and Dion, extending Tristan Thompson and exactly why people need to write about Cleveland star players wanting out.
CtB: How much of Tuesday's win against the Magic shows how far the team has come and how much of it was how little the Magic have to play for at this particular point in time?
BW: They've owned the Magic all year. Even when they were playing [poorly] they beat them. To me, the season can be defined by the two games in New York. I think it was the Cavs only TNT game and the Knicks were horrible at the time. The effort level that the Cavs put forth in that game was as bad as any I've seen in my 12 years covering the NBA. To play like that when you're on national television – even if you hate your teammates, even it you hate your coach – have some pride not to get ripped by Charles Barkely. Have some pride. The effort they put forth in that game was an absolute abomination. I was in the locker room after the game in disgust. I ended up ripping Kyrie that night because I'm like, "Who are you? Are you a superstar? Start acting like it."
Then when they come and they play New York later, New York is on an eight-game win streak, they'd won eight or nine in a row at home too – hugely important game for the Knicks – the Cavs come in and win playing with ten times more effort. And I'm not generalizing. It was ten times more effort.
And, to me, that's the Cavs season: the one team that didn't [care] and the one team that came back to New York when the game really mattered and they won.
What's so frustrating to me about this season: the table was set beautifully for them this year. There was going to be an Eastern Conference team this year that was going to make an enormous leap, take advantage of [a down Eastern Conference] and the table was set for them to do it. It turned out, the Raptors were the team to do it. The Raptors are going to get the three seed with something like 44 wins. That could have been the Cavs. They have enough talent to win 44 games in the East this year. And to have them end up with 34 or 35 or 36 when they totally [threw away] at least 10 games just because of effort is ridiculous.
Now, the positive is that they're figuring it out at the end and they can use it as a base and get some traction for next year… and that's all good. But act like a professional. They should have been getting traction at the start of the season.
CtB: It's like what the Wizards did last year. They ended strong and they came back for a respectable season this year. Whether the Cavs make the playoffs or not, you have to hope that, at least, is the direction you're headed.
BW: I've long been a Mike Brown defender. I'll say that, obviously, he's not a good offensive coach, but his history is that his teams have always gotten better. Even the year they went to the finals they were above .500 but they weren't very good. They won 50 games, but his teams have always gotten better as the season has gone along. And this team has. He's getting some traction. His Lakers team was the same way. He took them to the second round. They got better as the season went along. To fire Mike Brown five games into the season or to judge him and say "He can't coach anymore" in December… I mean, that's not who he is. He gets better at the end. And if the team had given [more effort] and not played like a bunch of babies for so long, they'd be in the playoffs and I wouldn't be surprised if they scared the hell out of someone.
Wizards are a good comparison but, I think, the Cavs… The Cavs have a lot of talent.
CtB: If they make it, is there still the chance that they scare the hell out of someone?
BW: I'd love to see them play the Heat. I'd love to see LeBron play in a playoff game in Cleveland. They're not going to beat them. The Pacers are a team that can't score, so whenever you have a team that can't play on one end of the floor you have a chance. Yeah. I think they could beat the Pacers once or twice. It'd be great if they could just get in.
I don't think they're going to get in, by the way. They win against Orlando and everyone's like "Oh, they're two games back" and I'm like "Well, they're more like four games back because they're three games back in the loss column." And that's the only thing I care about because, at the end of the day, everybody's going to have the same number of games and they lost the tiebreaker. They need the Hawks to lose four times, so I don't think it's going to happen.
But, if they're able to get in, even if they get blasted out, I think it's huge for them. Remember the year when the Cavs played the Bulls and it was a 1-8 matchup. The Cavs beat them 4-1, but it was a competitive 4-1. The Bulls win 60 games the next year. The next year after that, the Pacers get in as the eighth seed, they lose 4-1, they go six and seven games against the Heat the two years after that. Just getting in is so important for their development.
But, ultimately, I'd like to see Kyrie and Dion realize that their best opportunity to be successful is to play with each other instead of trying to subvert [one another]. That would be nice if they're going to want to maximize their potential.
CtB: That's the thing: are we seeing the start of that now? Or is this Kyrie/Dion honeymoon just in its untested new glow right now?
BW: In my opinion, Kyrie is an immature 21. And Dion is an immature 22. I'm really disappointed at how little growth Kyrie has shown emotionally.
The thing about Kyrie: his talent is amazing, but he's so defeatist. He gets defeated way too easily. You'll see something bad happen to him and his head just goes down. And Dion has this thing where he sees himself in competition with Kyrie. He's like "I'm better than him." Well, here's the thing: what you really want is for the two of you to play together for, like, 10 years and you both get paid a heck of a lot of money. Manu Ginobli and Tony Parker figured out how to play together. Dwyane Wade and LeBron James figured out how to play together and they all benefited from it. So, instead of being so headstrong, you hope they realize, "Hey, maybe I do a little bit of this. He does a little bit of that. He'll get his max contract and I'll get my $50 million contract and we'll win." But it's hard to sell that to a 21 or 22 year old. That's why personalities are so important and obviously the Cavs erred when personality matching these two guys.
But it's dangerous to give up on one of them because I do feel that they're really talented. For a while, people hammered the Cavs on Harrison Barnes versus Dion Waiters… or even Andre Drummond. I think, ideally, Andre Drummond is your third best player on a good team. I think Dion could potentially be your second best player on a good team. So, I think the pick was good. I just think the personality match was bad.
CtB: Do you think the Cavs will extend Tristan Thompson and what do you think his market value is?
BW: I think what could happen there is very dangerous. I almost think they should absolutely not extend him. They should let it play out. I think he is what he is. On a good team, he's not your starter. I think, he's you first big off the bench. Maybe you finish games with him. I kind of feel the same way about Spencer Hawes, to be honest with you. It's really dangerous. What do you do there?
I know Tristan has dreams of getting what Derrick Favors got [four years, $49 million]. I think that's insane money for him. I think Tristan's much better off getting paid $6 or $7 million a year, but he's never going to agree to that. And if you agree to $10 million a year for him, you could really get burned. It's going to be difficult when it comes to that, especially because he's represented by the same people who represent LeBron. Now, if you know you're getting LeBron, you're like "I'll give you $12 million a year. Hey, take $14 million a year. Whatever."
Generally, I'm in favor of extending guys because I think that when guys hit the open market, that's when the big overpays happen. But I think it would be really dangerous to extend Tristan. Really dangerous.
CtB: Do you think Spencer Hawes has a future with the Cavs?
BW: I think Spencer Hawes has a future with the Cavs if he's willing to take a salary about what he has now. $6-$7 million is really good money for a guy like him. But, when it comes to Cleveland and unrestricted free agents, you're going to have to overpay and the Cavs cannot afford to get into a salary cap situation where they're stuck. Luol Deng, Tristan Thompson, Spencer Hawes: dangerous situation.
CtB: How much do you think the team's current play has been influenced by Luol Deng's leadership?
BW: It's hard to say. I don't think Luol Deng's been good, at all. It was a good trade and it helped them. They used creative cap management and, to me, that was excellent general managing. But it hasn't been a terrific home run.
The Bulls offered him $10 million a year and he said no. I think that's about what he should be getting. But I know that to stay in Cleveland he's going to want more than that.
I just think there are better ways to go than that.
CtB: Do you think David Griffin stays on as General Manager?
BW: I'm not feeling really good about it. If the Cavs want to hire a guy who's never been a GM before, they couldn't do better. He's really got a nice resume. It would be a totally different atmosphere. He'd look to get more offense, play a more appealing style of basketball. But Dan Gilbert swings for the moon and I think he may go out and try to make a big time hire.
CtB: Is whatever the Cleveland version of Phil Jackson out there?
BW: Isiah Thomas wants the job really bad. He's pretty much out in New York. His influence is over. He's met with Gilbert a couple of times – they had lunch or dinner together – and he really wants it. I think Gilbert is charmed by him, as everyone else is.
CtB: Pause for us all to light ourselves on fire.
BW: I don't think Dan's going to go that route. Dan is interested in Chauncey Billups, but I don't think you can turn the team over to a guy [with no experience]. GM is job that you have to be groomed for. But I think he'd like a guy who could bring a fresh perspective and has some clout like that. David Griffin doesn't.
CtB: Last question: so there's been a lot written this year about Kyrie being unhappy in Cleveland – that he wants to leave as soon as possible. A lot of people in Cleveland particularly have criticized that line of story for being the equivalent of picking at a scab, at the very best, to just plain not being newsworthy when the team has control over him for as long as they do. What's your response to that criticism?
BW: 2010 taught me a lot of lessons and I'm applying them the way I'm covering the LeBron free agency. I've written a lot of stuff this year that in 2010 I'd have been like, "What's the point of writing that? It's not going to happen." Well…
And, as far as Kyrie, rumblings and stuff, with LeBron I would have let it go. Well I'm not going to let it go [now]. I'm going to talk about it and here's the truth:
The truth is [Kyrie's] camp has been putting out there for years – years – that he doesn't want to be in Cleveland. That they don't want him in Cleveland. He doesn't like Mike Brown. He didn't like Chris Grant. He doesn't like Dion Waiters. He's already gotten a General Manager fired. He might get Mike Brown fired. This is the last time – once he signs he loses all of his leverage – so this is the last time he gets to enact leverage. I know he's said all the right things so, fine, on July 1, when they offer a max contract – which they will – and I don't even know if he's a max player, but you have to sign him – sign a five year, no out. That's what a max contract is. A max contract is five years, no out. If you want out or you want three years, that's not a max contract. You want three years? Okay, we'll give you $12 million a year. We're not giving you the full thing.
I'm just giving you my feel right now and my feel is that he's not crazy about [signing the full max extension] unless he gets everything checked off across the board.
And the other thing is: if the Cavs ever dream of having LeBron, it's not going to be with Kyrie there. LeBron and Kyrie have drifted apart in the last few years, even to the point that if the Cavs wanted to get LeBron they would maybe trade Kyrie for someone who would fit better with LeBron. And I'm not making that up. That line of thinking was not originated by me. That's just the truth.
Now, Kyrie has been very upset by this stuff but, whether he wants to acknowledge it or not, it exists out there and I'm just saying the way it is. I'm sure Cavs fans are upset about it. The Cavs are upset about it. When I've written about it, the Cavs have been like "Why does this stuff have to be written about us?" I say, "It has to be written about you because this could happen."
I think this is very elementary from Dan Gilbert's perspective. If Kyrie wants to play for Team USA, he's going to have to do his deal before mid-July when he goes to play for it and he'll either take the five years or he won't. If the answer is "no" to five years, he goes on the trade block. Period. I think it's pretty simple.
I thought I knew Kyrie, but he's just disappointed me this year with his immaturity. I really do think that if he will lock up for five that you have to do that. But if he starts messing around playing power games, you've got to trade him. Dan Gilbert has said as much. At the end of the day, if Kyrie was really a max player, this Cavs team would not be where they are. He would have carried them to much more than this. I'm not saying he has to be LeBron, but he's only spent one day of his career above .500. I know it's unpopular for some people, but after 2010 I'm not in the business of messing around. It's definitely out there in the NBA that Kyrie is not happy in Cleveland – but if that's not the case, he has a golden opportunity to prove everybody wrong and that opportunity is coming in a few months.
Brian Windhorst was the Cleveland Cavaliers beat writer for the Akron Beacon Journal from 2003 through the summer of 2008, and began to work for The Plain Dealer in October 2008. He moved to ESPN in 2010


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"Every time I'm asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement I see a huge red flag pop out that says Warning!"
Rob Adams has likely listened to as many new business ideas as anyone on the planet, and one of his first tips for entrepreneurs is to never tell a potential investor you've got an original idea.
"Wake up," he says, "Good ideas are not scarce, they are a dime a dozen." If you don't believe so, Adams suggests an online search of key words describing your idea. "You'll find ten companies doing it, or thinking of doing it. You can drive yourself nuts searching for a unique idea, but that is not the point."
The point, as he describes in his book A Good Hard Kick in the Ass, is execution intelligence, the ability to compose a team that can operationally execute a business plan with sustainability, flexibility and resilience, to dominate rather than define a market space.
Why Investors Hate the Nondisclosure
"Every time I'm asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement I see a huge red flag pop out that says Warning!" Adams asserts. "It screams out, 'I'm stuck on my idea,' it means you've spent too much energy obsessing about the idea and probably haven't thought enough about the team, which is what the investor is really interested in. It implies you haven't given much thought to your customers, or to the market."
Getting to market first with a new idea doesn't mean anything in Adams' experience. "Netscape's browser was out long before Microsoft Explorer," he recalls. "Creating a new category does not necessarily spell success, but I can think of plenty of businesses that entered an existing category and proceeded to stomp all those roaches to pieces."
Execution Intelligence is Where Rubber Meets the Road
Adams knows many people don't think of the team as an integral part of a new business concept–but the ability of a particular group of people, in a particular place and time, to make a company thrive is a must have for a winning business. His tips for entrepreneurs include six critical success factors every new business team should strive to achieve:
- Domain knowledge. Are you experienced in the market space where you will compete? Sometimes startup teams want to explore initiatives outside their prior experience, but Adams cautions against leaving your industry knowledge behind, including intimate insight into your customer base.
- Fast-growth scar tissue. Without it, you can't deal with the ups and downs of rapid growth. Just working at a startup doesn't necessarily give you the necessary experience, claims Adams. He asks, were you driving the changes, or riding the waves? If you don't have this experience, add someone on your team who does.
- Experience in hyper-competitive markets. At some point, a large, well-financed competitor will loom up overnight and bellow loudly. Can you deal with that? Entrepreneurial success requires a team to face a competitor who wants to kill you, and be energized by the challenge.
- Risk management skills. Massive shifts in strategy or product lines are inevitable. Are you nimble? Can you cope? Adams believes startup teams must stay connected with prospects and customers every day in order to anticipate market forces and stay aware of what customers really need and are willing to purchase.
- A comprehensive experience profile. Taken together, your team members must have the marketing, technical, sales, and executive expertise it takes to grow and run a company. In addition to the core management team, Adams recommends signing on key advisors with relevant and needed expertise.
- Leadership know-how. Your corps of employees will expand faster than you can imagine. Can you recruit, retain, and effectively manage these people? This includes devoting sufficient attention to matters such as employee culture, values, and how to reward employees when they reach key milestones.
Its doubtful your startup team will possess all six of these attributes, but you must be aware of weaknesses and quickly move to strengthen your core. Not only will it increase your likelihood of wooing financial backers, but the very survival of your startup is at stake.
"Successful businesses don't depend on unique ideas," he affirms. "Instead, they rely on a team's ability to execute–to build, market, and sell a product that's better, faster, or cheaper, and to do so to near superhuman perfection."
Yes, your idea may be genius, but at the top of Rob Adam's tips for entrepreneurs is a simple yet jarring truth. "Get back to the fundamentals, or you're roadkill."
Rob Adams is an active investor, author, consultant and faculty member at McCombs School of Business, where he teaches in the MBA program and is the Director of the Venture Labs Investment Competitions. This week he is welcoming student entrepreneur teams from around the world to compete in the Global Texas Venture Labs Competition held every May on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin.
Other Entrepreneurship Reading:
- Futurist Predicts Reciprocity Will Be Biggest Innovation Opportunity in History
- Venture Labs Competition Proves Entrepreneurship Isn't "Moot" on Campus
- What Questions Will an Investor Ask You?
- Online Entrepreneur Advocates for "One Day Business Plan"
- Angel Investing and All That Money Stuff


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Highview is the perfect property for groups of friends or large family
groups, and is particularly noted for its outstanding outdoor spaces
including a garden, large decked terrace and roof terrace, all of which
offer stunning views of Lee Bay and the surrounding countryside. The
sea is within walking distance, as is the coastal path.
* Size: Sleeps up to 12, 6 bedrooms
* Nearest beach: Less than 1 mile
* Nearest amenities: Less than 1 mile
* Pets: 2 dogs allowed
* Short breaks: Available at this property
* Smoking: Not allowed at this property
* Rooms: 6 bedrooms, bathroom, en-suite shower room, shower room,
cloakroom/WC, living/dining room, kitchen, utility room, games room
* Beds: 5 single beds, 1 double bed, 2 short bunk beds suitable for
children, 2 king size beds
* Luxuries: DVD player, table football, playstation 2 with games
* General: Electric heating, Freeview TV, stereo, various games,
payphone, travel cot and highchair
* Utilities: Electric cooker, microwave, fridge, freezer, additional
fridge/freezer, dishwasher, washing machine, tumble dryer
* Standard: Kettle, toaster, iron.
* Outdoors: Spacious decked terrace, roof terrace, rear garden, patio
furniture and sun loungers and recliners
* Parking: Ample private parking.
You may need to pay an Accidental Damage Deposit or Accidental Damage
Deposit Waiver for this property. Where applicable we will contact you
in good time before your holiday with further details and to take
Pets information: Pets are allowed at this property by prior
arrangement only. Extra charge may be payable (up to £30 per pet per
week). Please contact the holiday cottage agency directly after booking
to arrange.


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I am slowly consolidating about a half-dozen hosting accounts to my provider of choice: Linode. Linode offers root access in a virtual machine, meaning lots of freedom, but also lots of tweaks. I've been able to do everything I've wanted with Linode, except for one: email. Continue reading


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From The Star
As we enter 2010, we ponder over the coming year.
In a period where the expectations of a new constitution feature high, it is of value to consider too our expectations of how elected leaders must rule under our system.
The traditional Kenyan concept was that government represents all society and that all parts of society must see themselves in the face of government. That is how our traditional societies designed the organisation of ruling.
Then we took the Westminster model. We found then that the losers of the prescribed elections were not seen in government. We found too that government did not then see itself as representing all Kenya. It made some regions of the country prosper, and made others decline into depressed economies with dropping education and nutrition levels. We saw that under that system, the winner took all.
The fault was not in the system. We chose to distort it. Our leaders believed that if they won an election they did not need to consult those who had lost. The winners believed that for the next five years they did not need to listen to those who had lost, and certainly did not need to have their consent to anything.
The leaders who had lost the election were shut out of both government and governing. The result was misgovernment.
The reality is different. The reality is that even after an election, the winner must seek out its opponents and rule with the consent of all. The reality is that all government needs consent.
'The consent of the governed' is not of only a part of the country, but of it all. This is what Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1958 to 1964, (over the period of our independence), told a Kenyan politician, who wrote later: "As usual, Macmillan ranged over a wide field .. .
In particular he pointed out that it was impossible to govern Great Britain without the consent of the opposition and it was essential to have their agreement on many large issues.
Whatever happened at the elections there was a broad measure of agreement on many intricate national matters such as the position of the monarchy, the development of the nuclear deterrent and on basic economic issues, which maintained the so-called af-fluent society."
Kenya's 'intricate national matters' are even more pressing. We cannot successfully attack the emergency that we face after 45 years of misrule: 45 per cent of Kenyans below the poverty level. This means every day over 18 million Kenyans are living in poverty.
To move 18 million people out of poverty is a major task for any government. A government that continually and in every way attacks its opponents in Parliament, administration and the media, cannot solve this problem.
This is the type of government we have had from 1966 to 2008. Such an attitude breaks two expectations of good government: it does not solve the country's problems, which become chronic; two, it breeds intolerance in society at large. We have seen exactly both happening.
The process of government works best as a consultative process, rather than as a process of imposing the will of one party or person upon all others. Consultation encourages greater tolerance in society. Both in government and in society at large we need support for the tolerance that Kenyan society has always had, and still has, but which politicians have worked so selfishly and so long to erode for their own personal gain.
The opposition is a check mechanism, not an exclusionary device. It has a formal position called the Leader of the Opposition, performing two functions. From the opposition, it requires loyalty to national processes even when out of office.
From the successful party it requires consultation with those against it, even though the latter are out of office.
The Westminster model works with more than constitutional written laws. It works with unwritten social conventions and values. Our social conventions and values are needed to make our new constitution work.
Thus in 2010, when we change the details of our constitution, we need also to change the way in which we will operate that new constitution, the way we rule. We will need to bring in our values of respect for tolerance and wisdom. Only with these, enabling ruling by broad consent and government, will we bring about the change which we want 2010 to herald in.
-The writer is a well known constitutional lawyer.


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Everyday computing made simple
The Lenovo IdeaCentre 23 All-in-One Desktop: life made simple with one plug and easy set up. This newly designed All-in-One desktop is the practical choice for someone needing just the right amount of technology without going overboard.
Fits your desktop. Fits your life
- Set up your Lenovo IdeaCentre 23" All-in-One with as little as one wire. No clutter. No mess. No stress.
- Stunningly slim with the new design proves the flexibility of an All-in-One desktop.
- Enjoy the view on a 23" Full HD 1920 x 1080 Pixel LED display with tilt capability.
An amusement park for technology
- Play music and videos on your Lenovo IdeaCentre All-in-One from your smartphone or tablet.
- Sync the photos you take on your smartphone or tablet with your PC. it keeps your memories preserved and lets you share them easily. Shoot and sync. It's that simple.
- Get the most out of the tunes you love today and discover more music in a whole new way. Enhance your experience by browsing your locally-saved music, downloads, Internet radio, and streaming services - all together in one place.
- Sometimes only a face-to-face conversation will do. With the Lenovo IdeaCentres Full HD Webcam, you always come off looking your best. Even in low light.
Visit online to learn and Interact with your B540 by using simple, intuitive gestures directly on the 23" screen. The B540 uses 10-point multi-touch technology for greater accuracy and flexibility.
10-Point Multitouch Display:
- Interact with your B540 by using simple, intuitive gestures directly on the 23" screen. The B540 uses 10-point multi-touch technology for greater accuracy and flexibility.
- Parts and labor coverage, including customer-replaceable parts, return of equipment to Lenovo, and authorized service provider options
- toll-free technical and limited software support in English or Spanish
In addition, and at no charge, you get 24x7 access to the Lenovo Support Forum and lifetime use of Lenovo Support Assistant to help you keep your PC up to date and get assistance when you need it.
Integrated DVD Reader/Writer:
- Watch movies, listen to music, and burn discs with the B540's integrated DVD reader/writer.
Comfortable Use:
- The Lenovo Dynamic Brightness System adjusts brightness levels according to ambient light conditions, while the Lenovo Eye Distance System warns you if you're sitting too close to the screen.
Easy Expandability:
- The back cover of the B540 slides open, making it a snap to upgrade memory or the hard drive.
Full HD Display:
- The IdeaCentre B540's 23" Full HD (1920x1080) display with 16:9 widescreen.
Simple MaintenanceSTRONG:
- With OneKey Rescue System, recovering from viruses or other technical difficulties is a snap. The IdeaCentre B540 also makes it easy to back up your system and scan for and kill viruses.
WiFi, Bluetooth:
- With 802.11n WiFi connectivity and Bluetooth, you'll be able to connect seamlessly with your network and other devices.
Stereo Speakers With Dolby Advanced Audio:
- The B540's integrated speaker, with audio enhanced by Dolby Advanced Audio, delivers a rich, immersive audio experience.
Fast Data Transfer:
- Move data between the B540 and other devices quickly with USB 3.0 ? it's up to 10 times faster than previous USB technologies.
Integrated Webcam/STRONG:
- The B540's integrated 720p HD webcam will help you enjoy web conferences or online video chats like you're really there.
Product Description
- Windows 8
- Intel Core i3-3240 3.4 GHz Accelerated Processor
- 3.40GHz
- 3 MB L2 Cache
- 6GB DDR3-1066 SDRAM Memory (expandable to 16GB)
- 1TB 7200RPM Serial ATA hard drive
- Slim Tray SuperMulti DVD Burner
- Write: 8x max DVD?R SL, 6x max DVD?R DL, 8x max DVD+RW, 6x max DVD-RW, 5x max DVD-RAM, 24x max CD-R/RW
- Read: 8x max DVD-ROM/?R (SL/DL), 8x max DVD?RW, 5x max DVD-RAM, 24x max CD-ROM/R/RW
Data transfer rates up to 3,600 KB/s (CD read/write) and 10,800 KB/s (DVD read/write)
- Intel HD integrated Graphics 2500 Card
- Graphics Memory as allocated by Windows 8
- Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n featuring Single-band (2.4GHz) 1x1 technology
- Integrated speaker, with audio enhanced by Dolby Advanced Audio v2, delivers a rich, immersive audio experience.
- 6-in-1 memory card reader (left side): supports Secure Digital (SD, SDHC,SDXC), MultiMedia Card, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro,xD
- Headphone/Mic (left side)
- 6 USB ports (2x 3.0 Ports, 4x 2.0 Ports) (6 available)
- Line-out (rear)
- USB keyboard and optical mouse
- TrueVision HD Webcam: 720p HD and built in microphones
- 23" diagonal widescreen Full HD LED backlit display
- 1920x1080 pixels
- 22.70 in (L/D) x 4.30 in (W) x 16.20 in (H) approx.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To subscribe for (something) in excess of available supply: The opera season was oversubscribed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To subscribe to an extent that is greater than the availability
Sorry, no etymologies found.
On what basis can we conclude that such behavior is irrational, or that consumers "oversubscribe" to such packages?
Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
When you oversubscribe your network to get customer costs down to market, each customers "fair share" is that over subscription fraction … in our case we over subscribe a T1 30: 1 … each share is 50-64kbps … more or less.
Updated: Time Warner Cable Backs Off Metered Broadband Everywhere
And, as we ` ve seen time and time again, doctors are more than happy to oversubscribe addicts medication.
RSS readers encourage you to oversubscribe to news.
Consumers appear to oversubscribe to flat-rate payment plans, for utilities and telephone service and health clubs...
Neuroeconomics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I use Google Reader to oversubscribe to feeds from all over.
Convert iGoogle Feeds To Google Reader Subscriptions | Lifehacker Australia
I see the French Canadians giving their money, without grumbling: they pay the taxes, they oversubscribe the Victory Loans, they give to the various drives, such as the Red Cross and the Russian Fund.
Gates County, which had subscribed only 7 per cent of its allotment in June, and spent two weeks helping the local committee perfect a working organization, put on a follow-up drive, and had the satisfaction of seeing Gates oversubscribe its allotment by 15 per cent.
"The strength of the digital cinema business model attracted lenders to oversubscribe the transaction in a challenging market."
And if you do a 2: 1 oversubscribe ratio, you can lash together 30,720 servers at Gigabit speeds.


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Eduroam (Educational Roaming) is an implementation of an infrastructure which facilitates roaming educational users to gain Internet access at other member sites by authenticating against a server hosted at their own institution.
Basically, Eduroam allows you to use wireless networks at other sites using your home university login details. Once fully configured, you can open your laptop at ANY college (or other participating facility) in the world and be online instantly.
Here You can see information video about Eduroam:
More information on eduroam is available here.
How To Connect
Eduroam on ASU campus currently supports connections via Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 a.o. operating systems. Visitors to ASU need to refer to connection details and Your computer configuration from their home university site. The username and password gained in home university are valid in other universities joined to Eduroam system. The good news is that you should only have to do this setup once, your device will remember the settings for all future sessions in other universities.
Technical specifications (wireless LAN media, SSID, encryption, authentication, protocols) could be different in each home university network. The following details are tailored for ASU staff and students ONLY:
SSID: Eduroam
Authentication: WPA (could be WPA-Auto, WPA2), encryption: TKIP
802.1x setting: authentication type PEAP,
Identity (roaming identity): the same as User name,
Protocol: EAP-MSCHAP v2.
Tick off "validate server certificate", i.e. server server certificate should be not checked.
MSCHAPv2 properties – tick off "use windows user name"
Windows Vista ir Windows 7 users – switch on:
802.1x settings –> specify authentication model = User authentication
If you are ASU student and don't know your user name and password please visit https://tapatybes.asu.lt/en to activate your account.
If you have any questions regarding Eduroam please write to email@example.com


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How does Marjane avoid arrest by the Revolutionary Guard for wearing makeup? What does it suggest about her character at this stage?
Marjane falsely accuses an innocent man of making obscene statements to her, which gets him arrested. It suggests that, despite her intelligence, she still has immaturity of character. Her grandmother tells her exactly this.
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Describe the situation Reza and Marjane face as a couple in Iran. What are the difficulties and what does it say about the status of Iranian government?
Reza and Marjane cannot even hold hands in public, and they face arrest and a hefty fine if they cannot prove that they are related or married. This...
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RE: ["Poultry for the people," Feb. 5, Xpress] I commend the founder of the Asheville Chicken Club for pointing out that chickens are "fragile little birds and they need proper care." I'd also like to share some information with those considering acquiring chickens. Half of the birds born at hatcheries supplying the egg industry (males) are unable to lay eggs. They are also unsuitable for meat production because today's "broilers" have been genetically manipulated to grow big and grow fast, reaching optimum slaughter weight at a mere 6 weeks of age. So male chicks (byproducts) are killed on the day they are born, usually by suffocation in plastic bags or ground up alive.
What is someone to do if they don't want to be complicit in sentencing newborn boys to death by buying female chicks? Well, of course, you can stop eating these cholesterol-laden reproductive secretions. But, if you are determined to raise chickens for eggs, you might consider obtaining birds from a local farm. These places that profess good stewardship actually don't keep chickens very long. Business decisions are based on profit margins, and egg productivity begins to wane after about a year. When the girls stop laying at an optimum pace, they get sent to a slaughterhouse. But they will keep laying if spared this gruesome fate, just at a slightly slower rate. For every one you rescue, a newborn boy will avoid the ugliness at the hatchery. It's a win-win situation.
The picture accompanying the article was heartwarming. Seeing these young children looking upon a chicken with such adoration gives me hope. The more kids get to know these interesting birds, the more likely they will grow up to find it as repugnant to eat a chicken leg as a golden retriever leg. For a fascinating look into the behavior, intelligence, and emotional lives of animals raised for food, visit www.someoneproject.org.
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I don't know who he is, or what he's inventing. I like all the little gauges.
I've been informed by blogist Mike Overall that he is in fact Nikola Tesla, and he's demonstrating the world's first ever radio. Mike says 'In fact, the band Tesla was named after him and their first album was "The Great Radio Controversy" after the patent wars between him and Thomas Edison. He was a man out of time, man out of time...'
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One explosion of runs later, the Hood River Valley baseball team is back in business.
The Eagles scored seven runs in the fourth inning Tuesday to beat Hermiston 10-5 and keep its hopes of a second-place finish in league alive heading into a crucial weekend double header with the Bulldogs.
Hermiston had tied the game at 3-3 in the top of the fourth on a HRV error behind pitcher Lucio Alaniz, who struggled with his command early.
In the bottom of the fourth though, the Eagles offense came alive to help out its pitcher.
After Nick Weekly struck out to lead off the inning, the Eagles reached base 10 consecutive times.
David Gibson, Lucio Alaniz, Kyle Beam, Eric McNerney and Weekly all drove in runs in the ensuing HRV pummeling of Hermiston pitching.
The Hermiston fielding also broke down as the Bulldogs committed several errors in the inning.
After the HRV outburst, Alaniz settled down to keep the Bulldogs from having a chance to get back in it.
"Lucio had a great pitching performance only giving up six hits," HRV coach Erich Harjo said.
He allowed a run in the fifth on a double, but did not allow a hit in the sixth or seventh while striking out three in the final two frames.
"Before our game we had two great practices and we did everything with a lot of purpose," Harjo said.
Parker Sherrell led the Eagles at the plate going two for three with two RBI, McNerney went 2-for-4 with an RBI and Weekly was 1-for-4 with two RBI.
"Almost everybody had a hit," Harjo said. "That's a good sign for our lineup."
Sherrell was glad to see the Eagles get untracked at the plate, and hopes they can carry it over into the weekend.
"We just wanted to win," he said. "It was rough getting swept."
The Eagles are now 1-3 in league play, and in third place. Pendleton is 4-0, Hermiston is 3-1, and The Dalles-Wahtonka is 0-4.
A split against Hermiston over the weekend with a shot to take the series Tuesday or a sweep on Saturday would put the Eagles in prime position to make a run for second place heading into their final series against The Dalles-Wahtonka.
"Winning both would be great," Sherrell said. "As long as we put the ball in play we can beat this team."
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