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ALUMNUS RECOGNIZED FOR WORK IN EXCAVATION
Grace alumnus Ben Thomas (BA 02, MA 05), who is currently a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, was a square supervisor for an Oriental Institute dig in Zincirli, Turkey. They excavated a well-preserved eighth century B.C. funerary stele for an official named Kuttamuwa. Archaeology magazine selected it as one of the top 10 discoveries of 2008. For a picture of the stele and Ben reading it, see. Ben reports that he was called on to read the inscription (it’s in an old western Aramaic dialect in the Phoenician script). His success in translating it received public recognition from Professor Dennis Pardee and the dig director, Professor David Schloen.
Ben has published an article in ZAW 120 (2008) and has two articles awaiting publication (in Hebrew Studies and BASOR). He’s also a contributor to a forthcoming encyclopedia and a volume entitled, Popular Controversies in World History. In addition he’s been presenting papers at SBL and AOS meetings. Ben is ABD and is working on his dissertation proposal: “Prophetic Historiography in the Books of Kings.”
* Note: Thanks to Dr. Brent Sandy for this information.
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In december 2011 I received a call from a tele-caller who introduced himself as calling on behalf of bag-it-today. I was offered a 7 nights/8 days holiday at luxury hotels/Resorts all across the globe. I told him that I would only be interested in resorts in and around delhi. He then went on to give me some website addresses around delhi/Rajasthan and asked me to see for myself the kind of resorts that would be available to me if I bought this package. The sites were some lovely resorts nearby delhi which anyone would like to visit. I said what is the assurance that I would definitely get bookings at these resorts? he told me I would need to book 0-45 days in advance and I would 'definitely get my choice of resort'. He also made me speak to his superior who told me I would definitely get an assured booking, in one of the resorts, if I booked as per the procedure of booking 0-45 days in advance. On these assurances the transaction was completed as per the following details: item code: a1671 - affordable holidays-7 nights 8 days amount: rs.7000 invoice no.Trnpl/DLI/2011-2012/410569 order no. 2078 invoice date: 31/12/2011 order date: 31/12/2011 the points where I have been misled /Cheated are: 1. The resorts / Sites that were shown to me before booking are not there on the list of resorts available for booking. These were the resorts I wanted to visit. How can you show me one thing and then not have it on your list? this is definitely misleading/Cheating. 2. It was said that 0-45 days advance notice would be required and you will 'definitely' get one of the two resorts you opt for. On making inquiries I am told that the resorts availability depends on the resorts being up for promotion at the time when we want to visit. You can only opt for the resorts that are up for promotion at that time. What happens to the resorts you want to visit/Wanted to visit/Or were shown as being on the list when you booked? this means that they can just show few resorts as being up for promotion at any given time and you 'take-it or leave-it'. What I booked for is not on the list, and even if it is on the list it will not be up for promotion, so we are back to square one - take seven nights at a shady resort that they offer or just forget it! this is cheating/Misleading of the highest order. I request a complete refund, immediately, with interest, and an apology from the company for the mental agony and financial loss caused by such wrong/Fraudulent dealings by the company. If the company fails to take action then I request grahak seva to help me file a case in a consumer forum to teach these cheats a lesson. Thanks for the great help to consumers like me by grahak seva. Atul sharma
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'I Love It, In Space there Are No Limits, I Love It.' 2001
Ink on wall
Dimensions variable
A series of six wall drawings using sound as source material. Sound is put through a software program that translates it into image, producing a kind of audio map or territory, this is then projected onto a given wall and traced, the background for these pieces is an oil based blue ink. The sounds used are words spoken by participants in various pornographic films, the brief sentences becoming the title of the work.
Titles for these drawings include:
I Love You, I’ve Dream't of This
This Is heaven, Don''t You Think?
I Wish That You Could be here With Us
I Love It, In Space There Are No Limits, I Love It
© Graham Gussin. 2008
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Faulty parallelism
Can anyone help me understand what is wrong with this sentence and how I can make it any clearer?
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As an Industrial Designer I look forward to not only solving functionality problems but also challenging and stretching the limits of my creativity, and as a poet and writer, I anticipate creating comprehendible beauty in the things I write and fully expressing and sharing the things most important to me.
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I don't think there are any 'faulty parallelism' errors in your sentence. All of your clauses contain gerunds so there are no problems there which relate to 'faulty paralellism'.
However, this sentence is quite long, and, first of all, it would be more effective if it were broken down into two sentences, as follows:
As an Industrial Designer, I look forward to not only solving functionality problems but also challenging and stretching the limits of my creativity. What's more, as a poet and writer, I anticipate creating comprehensible beauty in the things I write and fully expressing and sharing the things that are most important to me.
But there is more for you to think about. 'Functionality' is a horrible word. I am not at all familiar with the 'industrial design' field, but if you are also a poet/writer, you should be able to come up with a less jargony word for that.
Comprehendible is an actual word in the dictionary, I found out, but comprehensible is much more common. Neither word particularly lends much to your sales pitch, or whatever it is. It might be a good idea to get rid of it.
'Anticipate' may not be quite the exact verb you want, either. It simply means 'expect' (which is not the same as 'look forward to'), and I think you need a stronger, more desirous verb to express yourself. How about something like this:
What's more, as a poet and writer, I strive to express the world's beauty, and connect my everyday concerns to the universal.
You seem to be melding two quite different identities into one thought/marketing statement/sales pitch, and if that is your project, more power to you! Without any other context, I can't quite understand how 'industrial design' matches up with 'poetry and writing' so I am not sure what this text is trying to achieve, or who you want to appeal to. And the part where you said you are interested in challenging and stretching the limits of [your] creativity doesn't sound particularly related to industrial design, which your text links it to, but seems more connected to writing, including specifically writing poetry.
I hope my comments are of some help. Good luck!
Shawn
Shawn thank you so much! The sentence is part of a college application supplemental essay for a dual degree program that wants to know how I intend to meld my passion for the two. If you were to see the sentence in context it would probably make more sense. Thank you so much for your feedback! I hope it will be ok using some part of your corrected sentences in my revision :)add comment
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On Wednesday, Dec. 1 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CBS, The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards with the "The GRAMMY Nominations Concert Live!! — Countdown To Music Biggest Night."
Live from Club Nokia in Los Angeles, the one-hour special will once again be hosted by two-time GRAMMY winner LL Cool J and will feature performances by pop star Justin Bieber, rapper B.o.B, country artist Miranda Lambert, singer/songwriter/producer Bruno Mars, singer/songwriter Katy Perry, and GRAMMY winners Train. Selena Gomez, the Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl, Paramore's Hayley Williams, and Stevie Wonder will present awards.
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ONLINE EXTRA: Treumann Lykken's war: Rural Adams, N.D., native's service in 164th launched lifetime of vet involvement (Aug. 12, 2007)From Herald archives, 2007.
"I was on a weekend pass down in Beaumont, Texas" in December of that year, recalled Lykken, 21 then, now 87 and a Grand Forks resident. "Four, five of us got in a car and drove down there, just for the weekend. Just looking the sights over down on the beach there.
"Well, we come to the gas station, we were going to gas up for the trip back home (to Camp Claiborne), and the guy says, `Are you ready? ' And we said, `Ready for what? '
That's when they learned about the Japanese attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
"So, we said, `Well, we better head back to camp.'"
Lykken was among the first troops sent to the Pacific Northwest - the nation's, not the ocean's. His squad was assigned to guard a railroad bridge at American Falls, Idaho. "We slept in a boxcar right outside the bridge and ate uptown at the cafe."
They ultimately were sent by ship to Australia, then New Caledonia, both in the South Pacific, in 1942.
By the time the rural Adams, N.D., native's Pacific Theatre tour of duty was over, it was latter 1945, and World War II had just ended.
Lucky and unlucky
Recuperated from a bout with jaundice that late summer, Lykken was aboard a ship bound for the States that had stopped at Hawaii for repairs when word came that the Japanese had surrendered.
"I was one of the last (discharged)," a chuckling Lykken said. "I guess I wasn't lucky.
"You took it a day at a time. Not much you could do about it. ... I was happy to serve, of course. There were ups and downs, but I come through it hale and hardy."
Not completely. After dodging malaria throughout his island-hopping combat service in the Pacific, Lykken says, he was stricken at home by the infectious tropical and sub-tropical disease around Thanksgiving and Christmas.
But return home, he did.
Not all members of the 164th - which, at the battle of Guadalcanal, became the first U.S. Army unit to take the combat offensive in World War II - were as fortunate, Lykken knows all too well.
The records show that the war killed 325 members of the 164th and wounded nearly 1,200 more.
"We were lucky to get through it alive," said Lykken, assigned to 60-millimeter mortars during the war. "We're grateful."
Active veteran
He's come a long way from the high school kid who went with several friends in the late 1930s to sign up with the National Guard's Grafton, N.D.-based C Company. Then, he was paying little attention to the uneasiness in Europe involving Germany's rising Nazi Party.
"Really, I just wanted to get into the service. Hope I'd pass the physical and so on," he recalled, laughing softly.
Post-war, Lykken quickly left farming when North Dakota dirt and dust gave him frequent nosebleeds. He worked eight years in retail sales for Gamble stores in Grafton, Carrington and Bismarck, and in Webster, S.D. Shortly after moving the family to Grand Forks in 1954, he began a 28-year career at Sears, retiring in 1982.
But he didn't abandon his military ties. Back in '45, Lykken and an older brother, Harvey, an Air Force mechanic in the war's European Theatre, quickly joined the American Legion post in Adams. "I guess most guys were joining veterans organizations at the time," Treumann said.
He became an active, involved member, serving twice as a post commander, at Carrington and Grand Forks; and once as state commander, in 1975-76. He also spent three terms of three years each on the Legion's National Americanism Commission.
A den in his home contains memorabilia from 60-plus years of service in the Legion and other veterans organizations.
He lives alone now.
His wife of 56 years, the former Margaret Lothspeich of Langdon, N.D., died in May 2002. She spent most of the war years in Washington as a secretary for the offices of the War Production Board, which oversaw the wartime rationing of fuel, rubber and other materials. They married in 1946. Three of their five children - Diane Kraemer, Warren Lykken and Debra Muus - live in Grand Forks.
Treumann Lykken's life may be far removed from his first combat experience in 1942. But he hasn't forgotten Guadalcanal.
Restless nights
From Australia, the 164th were sent to join other troops to form the Americal Division at New Caledonia. Then, they were sent by small boats to Guadalcanal to help Marines defend Henderson Field, a vital airstrip to the war effort, from Japanese naval and infantry attacks.
Reaching Guadalcanal in October 1942, Lykken and other 164th soldiers saw beach debris and other evidence of shelling. "We got our first casualty while unloading," he recalled. "He was killed by a sniper."
On Guadalcanal, the soldiers quickly tried to find places to dig a sufficiently deep fox holes amid the shale and rock. The landscape "was infested with roaches and other insects, you know. They'd chirp at night. Pitch black. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. Any movement, you'd think it was (Japanese soldiers)."
For several days, "we were really bombed from land, sea and air. I don't know, but a lot of people said we really could have been pushed back into the ocean very easily. But we held on. ... We almost lost (Henderson Field) many of times. It was bombed and strafed, of course, and we had very few aircraft left at one point."
The 164th's C Company was several miles from the field, and some other companies took higher casualties. In the Battle for Henderson Field, the 164th saw 26 of its own killed and double that number injured.
"I know I spent 30 days in the foxhole without getting a bath or a darned thing," Lykken recalled. "Thirty days on the line, (under fire) anytime, all the time," with only C-rations - prepared canned food - for meals. "I spent a lot of restless nights there."
Deadly individual battles and patrols replaced the fierce fighting of those first weeks. The 164th saw nearly 150 of its soldiers killed by the time it left the island in early 1943.
Closest call
From Guadalcanal, Lykken and others got some rest, relaxation and more training on the Fiji Islands before being sent in late 1943 to Bougainville, part of the Solomon Islands.
The 164th stayed there for most of 1944, going out on patrols, checking for signs of Japanese combatants.
At Bougainville, Lykken says, he came closest to losing his life.
"We were advancing on a ridge. There happened to be a ridge to our right, and it was higher up than we were, actually. The Japanese had a pill box there, and we got strafed by machine gun fire, you know. So, we got off of that hill as fast as we could, of course, on our stomachs.
"That's where my gunner was hurt, and I think the lieutenant up ahead of me there, he was hurt. ... The shells were peppering all right around me, and it took the front sight off my rifle. ... It scared me."
Shock of loss
Combat training helped save his life, but it couldn't prepare him for a different loss that occurred while at Bougainville.
An Army chaplain found Lykken at his position in the Solomon Island hills one day and delivered a letter with news from home.
"I lost my mother when I was in Bougainville," he recalled somberly. Ragna Lykken had not been sick. "Not really," he said. "She died in the Langdon hospital. That's where they went. She had a blood problem of some kind. ... She wasn't very old. 47, 48. Maybe a little older than that.
"Never expecting anything at all, you know, that was wrong with her," Lykken recalled, his voice softening. "So, it was shocking."
That news from home, he says, remains one of his most distinct war memories.
A year later, back in the States, Lykken was discharged at Fort Lewis, Wash., and he took a long bus ride across the Rocky Mountains and Northern Plains to Grafton. His sister Beulah picked him up at Grafton and brought him back to the farm home north of Adams.
Once there, one of the very first things Treumann Lykken did was to visit the gravesite of Ragna Lykken.
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ANN BAILEY: Are we raising a generation of nincompoops.
After reading a story a few weeks ago that questioned whether we are raising a generation of nincompoops, I decided to check out the definition of the word and find out where it originated. I had a general idea of the meaning, but wanted to get the official word on it.
According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, nincompoop means fool or simpleton and synonyms include ding-bat, ding-dong and doofus. The first known use of nincompoop was in 1676, but its origin is unknown, the dictionary said.
In the Sept. 27 news story about nincompoop children, Beth J. Harpaz, an Associated Press writer, talked about second-graders who can’t tie shoes or zip jackets, 4-year-olds in diapers and teens and pre-teens who are befuddled by can openers and ice cube trays.
The story quoted a mom who said that her kids struggle with coat hangers and that her teenager daughter doesn’t know how to use a can opener. Meanwhile, Harpaz noted, a 12-year-old who visited her house didn’t know how to remove ice cubes from a tray.
Whose fault is it, anyway?
The rest of the story quotes a person who condemned the younger generation’s lack of skills and another who defended them. Mark Bauerlein, author of “The Dumbest Generation,” argued that kids are confused when technology isn’t available and that there’s a loss of independence and initiative, according to Harpaz’ story.
Meanwhile, Lenore Skenazy, who wrote a book called “Free Range Kids,” said parents are partly to blame for children’s apparent incompetence. Parents are told kids need to go to Gymboree or their children won’t learn to hum or clap. Meanwhile, she said they’re also pressured to buy some kind of contraption to teach them to walk.
My thinking on who to blame for raising nincompoops falls into Skenazy’s camp.
If kids are nincompoops it’s because their parents are encouraging them to be that way. Kids have no incentive to do things for themselves or get themselves out of a bind if their parents do everything for them.
Consequences
I’m a firm believer that adversity builds character and that if kids never have to solve conflicts, they won’t have any survival skills. So maybe instead of hand-wringing, parents should teach their kids how to use a can opener or put their clothes on a hanger. After the kids are shown how to do it, the parents should step out of the way. If their kids still are perplexed about how to get the contents out of a sealed can or leave their clothes on the floor they can deal with the consequences.
It’s unlikely that the children will starve and it’s their problem if their clothes lay on the floor and they wear wrinkled garments to school. Going a little hungry and being slightly unkempt may be incentive enough to learn the mechanics of can openers and hangers. If it’s not, again, it’s the kids’ problem and as parents, we have to grit our teeth and live with kids who complain they’re hungry and who wear rumpled clothes.
The other point that Harpaz’ story brings up, that kids are nincompoops because society is pressuring parents, from the moment their children are born, to take them to classes and buy gadgets for them also is valid.
It’s true that parents today get a lot of expert advice coming at them from all sides and from a variety of sources. Not only are there parenting magazines, newspapers and books filled with advice on how to raise kids, there also is a plethora of information on the Internet.
Just say no
Still, I don’t think parents can use information overload as an excuse for raising clueless kids. Our job as parents is to sift through the information, retain what’s useful and dismiss the rest. A lot of parenting comes down to using common sense and determining what will be best for the child in the long run.
If that means that a child doesn’t get a cell phone when he or she is 9 years old, then the child — and parents — will learn to deal with it. Some parents may find it hard to believe, but, my sons, who are 13 and 11, do not have their own phones. They use the family home phone if they need to call someone, just like I did when I was their age. Or, if they’re at a friend’s house, they ask to use the phone.
Sometimes, that turns into a learning experience. Recently one of my sons needed to make a phone call from a house that still had a rotary phone. He learned a lesson in dialing the old-fashioned way that day and thought it was pretty “cool.”
Trust
While it makes some parents uneasy that they can’t call their kids to check up on them when they’re not with them, it doesn’t bother me. I figure if they’re at their friends’ houses, their friends’ parents are keeping an eye on them. If the kids decide to go out and explore the woods or ride their bikes around town, then I trust my sons’ good judgment to stay safe.
That philosophy has worked so far and I plan to keep embracing it when my children are older. I hope to resist the temptation to constantly call them to get updates on where they are and who they’re with. I want to raise children who are independent, responsible adults and I think that allowing them some space is the way to do that. If they make mistakes, and they likely will, then they will have to deal with the consequences.
The decision not to give our sons cell phones doesn’t mean that Brian and I eschew all technology. The boys and Ellen have a variety of electronic gadgets, big and small, to keep them entertained. They also have board games, horses to ride, footballs, basketballs and baseballs. They enjoy them all. Life is about balance and as I see it, technology can fit into the balance.
Chores also are an important part of the equation. Our children are expected to help keep the house clean, the yard mowed and the buildings painted. If, as the article says, many kids aren’t doing chores, I feel sorry for them. I think raising children who are helpless is setting them up for a rude awakening when they are adults and have to live on their own.
That is, unless their parents plan to take care of the kids when they’re adults. While some parents seem to be OK with doing that, I’m not..
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When horticulturalist and sustainable gardening expert Jeff Epping daydreams about his field of study, he sees a meadow.
Epping, a featured speaker at this year's March Garden Day in Grand Haven, will challenge gardeners to reimagine their landscapes to include a “fescue meadow that has spring flowering bulbs that would be mowed two or three times a year, and require limited water and chemicals.”
“We like to replace Kentucky bluegrass turf when that’s possible,” Epping said.
The annual March Garden Day, with the theme "A Celebration of Gardening," is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Grand Haven Community Center, 421 Columbus Ave.
Organized by the West Michigan Nursery and Landscape Association, March Garden Day attracts approximately 300 gardeners of all skill levels from across the state. The event offers lively and informative programs, a garden market filled with vendors and greenery, and a welcome peek at the growing season to come.
In his program titled “Sustainable Gardens: Designs and Plants for Greener Gardens,” Epping acknowledges the need for lawn areas for recreation, but suggests many other ways gardeners can “go green” in their home landscape, such as making smart plant choices.
“We’re looking at plants that are as disease-hardy as possible, and matched to the garden we’re putting them in — not just because they look good,” he said.
Smart plant choices minimize the use of water and chemicals, Epping said.
Epping, director of horticulture for Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin, will also discuss “Small Trees with Big Impact.” He’ll be joined by Chuck Martin, curator of woody plants for Dow Gardens in Midland, who will present “Shrub Roses: A New American Love Affair.”
Martin said the shrub rose’s profusion of blooms, disease resistance and general ease of care has allowed it to grasp a huge share of the market once dominated by the comparatively fussy hybrid teas.
“It’s definitely where the rose industry is going,” he said.
Martin will help gardeners sort out the myriad “brand” shrub roses on the market today.
The daylong seminar also includes break-out sessions with plant and garden experts covering topics such as: adding color with bulbs, vertical gardening, deer-resistant plants, rain gardens, bees and other pollinators, and propagating azaleas.
Registration for the seminar is $45 in advance and $50 at the door. A gourmet box lunch, provided by Grand Haven’s Landyacht Bake House, is included in the price of the ticket.
To pre-register and reserve your space at March Garden Day, visit Grand Haven Garden House in Grand Haven or Jonker’s Gardens in Holland. For additional information, visit wmnla.com.
The West Michigan Nursery & Landscape Association is a nonprofit organization of gardening and landscape professionals. Proceeds from March Garden Day, including a silent auction, help support the association’s efforts to aid horticulture education.
— By Lynne Boezaart, Special to the Tribune
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So…there’s a big, big world out there of repurposing vintage furniture, doors, dishes, jewelry anything that needs a face lift. I find it quite fulfulling to take a vintage piece that really can’t be displayed or used in its current condition and discover a way to morph it into it’s next productive life!
I even have a Pinterest Board dedicated to such, called Vintage Repurposed. This board is to collect ideas from everyone who has found a way to repurpose something once loved and regal into a new and exciting product.
For example, a friend gave me a stunning acrylic brooch which must have made a loud statement of fashion during the “Flower Power” era but the pretty green paint had begun peeling and some of the petals were missing. I added a few new touches covering the peeled spots with new gem stones and faux pearls and a vintage goldtone ear bob with a large pearl to cover the missing petals. Finally, I added a florist butterly to the center to nuzzle the original yellow and black acrylic center and there it was…a beautiful repurposed brooch. Still vintage and yet new.
This 1960′s Acrylic Brooch is ready to be added to a bright colored lapel, funky bag purse, colorful scarf or floppy hat to ride the fashion wave…again!
Click here to see my Grandma’s Treasures Online Facebook Photo Album of vintage buttons, watches, and jewelry making a debut into fun repurposed creations!
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Aviva Rubinoff
Adjunct Instructor of Jewish Education
Division: Graduate Studies, Undergraduate Studies
Program: Jewish Education (Graduate), Jewish Education (Undergraduate)
Aviva Rubinoff received her BA degree in special education from Northeastern Illinois University, where she studied under the famed Dr. Janet Lerner. She obtained her Masters Degree in Education from the Institute of Education of the University of London, where she wrote her thesis on teaching Hebrew as a foreign language to dyslexic students.
Aviva has been treating children with learning disabilities for close to thirty years. Today, she is the director of a clinic for learning disabled children in Jerusalem, in which she oversees the diagnosis and remediation of over 100 children on a weekly basis.
Aviva is a senior lecturer in Maalot College for Women in Jerusalem where she also serves as an advisor and supervisor for student teachers in the field of learning disabilities.
Mrs. Rubinoff currently lives in Jerusalem with her husband, Michael and their five children and three grandchildren.
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The basic English translation of Om mani padme hum is "Om Jewel in the Lotus Hum" or "Praise to the Jewel in the Lotus." However, the meaning and significance of the six Tibetan syllables have been interpreted in a variety of ways. One common interpretation is that each syllable corresponds to one of the six realms of existence and purifies the vice associated with that realm:
•Om purifies bliss and pride (realm of the gods)
•Ma purifies jealousy and need for entertainment (realm of the jealous gods)
•Ni purifies passion and desire (human realm)
•Pad purifies ignorance and prejudice (animal realm)
•Me purifies poverty and possessiveness (realm of the hungry ghosts)
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Gosh, we’ve missed you, Luella. It’s great that you’re writing a book and everything, but really, now that it’s summertime, we NEED your girly accessories and super-feminine clothes. Sigh. But what’s a girl to do? After Bartley’s investors pulled out in December, the label folded, and Luella’s boutique on Brook street has since shut down. And now our first Luella-less season is hurtling towards us!
So, imagine our delight to be contacted by the girls at Cocosa (the invitation-only fashion website that offers its members designer clothing and accessories at up to 80% off) who were completely over-excited to tell us that they have a genius competition going live at lunchtime today.
Cocosa are offering their members the chance to win a pair of Michael Lewis for Luella shoes made exclusively for Luella’s final S/S ‘10 show (* sobs *). The shoes are supercute, and available in a size 39 only (sorrreee!).
To enter the competition, and win the last pair of Luella shoes left on the planet (probably) just use the invite code iwantshoes, to become a member.
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Two Birds Artisan Spirits looks for landing
Although craft beer and locally produced wine have taken the lead in a growing Michigan craft beverage industry, artisan spirits are also emerging, such as Two Birds Artisan Spirits.
Eventually, Two Birds will likely find a permanent home in Michigan, but, for now, it provides Michiganders another artisan spirit choice in an unusual way.
Co-founder Nathan Jonjevic said him and his partner, Ryan Bailey, are “gypsy distillers.” The pair currently makes their Greyling Modern Dry Gin at Yahara Bay, a Madison, Wisc.-based distillery.
“Right now, you can buy a still and a building and go through the (licensing) process, which takes six to 18 months,” Jonjevic said. “So we could be operational in a building and not be allowed to produce for a long time.”
Making matters even more confusing, Jonjevic lives in Missouri, while Bailey calls Michigan home.
It might not seem very Michigan based, but the pair has made a point to source almost exclusively from the Mitten State.
They use a hard red winter wheat and lavender from Northern Michigan in the gin. They only ingredients they struggle with are juniper and citrus peels.
“We source everything from Michigan that we can,” Jonjevic said.
For now, Two Birds will only make the gin, potentially expanding the line in 2014.
The focus now is expanding the market, Jonjevic said, which currently is Missouri and Michigan.
They do have plans to begin distribution this year to Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
“Distilling is funny,” Jonjevic said. “People get into it, because they think it’s a beautiful process — and then it’s all marketing. That’s what we’re doing right now.”
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You can go to Guilford County Schools website and go to school locator and type in your address. That will tell you what school your child is assigned... More »
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My kids were in Daniel's run Elementary school, I had to move them because one of my son had a lot of troubles, yes St Leo ipis very strict and there are more rules than other school, my kids are doing great the teachers are so professional and the most important think Religion is the best, I'm very happy that they've been educating by good teachers, they are safe, professionalism I give them 10 stars ;) God Bless you guys
This is a great school my kids are happy, teachers are always there with the answers for all the questions they are great ;)
The middle school teachers at this school are extremely biased, they favor The girls over boys, the front office staff are just blatantly rude when they found out I was transferring out of this school, the vice principal kept questioning us about why we were transferring. The students there were great, However there was alot of hatred and discontent towards many teachers though. There are barely any students, about 400. For pre-K through 8th grade.
Great school, excellent Christian formation, great education, friendly and knowledgeable faculty. We have our two daughters at Saint Leo since Pre-School. We have seen many children of our friends and even though we are aware that most of the Christian foundation is provided at home, we are also aware that reinforcement and dedication will make the difference. We made a great decision and can see the difference with other kids even from other religious schools. Public schools were never an option, as we can see all the problems and exposure the new generations need to live in. I was shocked when I read about the parent who was not even happy with the Principal. On the contrary, the Principal, Mr. DiPippa makes really the difference. We strongly recommend this school, one of the feeders to Paul IV, another excellent Religious school in Fairfax and where my daughters will go after they graduate from 8th grade.
Last year was my last year at St. Leo's. To start, the administration is terrible. The principal doesn't even do their job so they leave it to the vice principal to do everything. They care more about the dress code than student actually achieving good grades. Also, they care more about what the middle schoolers are doing on Facebook than anything else. And I'll probably get tracked down for writing this review. Seeing as I have a limited amount of characters on this review, I can't really write about personal experiences but there is a list of MANY. The middle school teachers favor female students over male students to an EXTREME extent. The science teacher thinks it is her duty to reveal her whole personal life such as telling her students that it is THEIR FAULT that she can't watch Jeopardy and American Idol every night. Also, extremely incompetent considering it is almost June and my 7th sister has made it through only 4 chapters in their text book. They absolutely do NOT put religion as a priority. I enjoy the fact that my religion teacher last year taught about sexism and she is the biggest sexist in the whole school. I'd advise you to take your money elsewhere. 0 stars
I have had two children in St Leos if they had not changed principals my youngest would not be there. With a change in the church and the new staff at the school it is better. But I agree that it is too much run like a public school for my taste. I don't want PC I want a strong base with a Christian basis and St Leos does not do this well, When she gets to middle school will really be the test.
I was shocked to read the review from the parent who said that religion was not a priority or incorporated. We have had the absolute opposite experience. The priests are engaged with the children, my children have weekly assignments in religion - between writing reports on saints to memorizing prayers - all of my children learn a great deal about the faith and religion as a whole. Of course, even being able to mention God, Jesus and the Holy Trinity is leaps and bounds ahead of what the children are allowed to be exposed to in public school. Kudos to Saint Leo s! Keep up the good work!
This is a good but not a great school. My children attended the local public school for two years prior and had better academic programs there. We transferred to this school due to the expectation that religion would be incorporated into the curriculum, but that has been spotty at best. Religion is not a priority for the administration, so if the teacher makes time for it great, but it is not consistent throughout the school. Administration more concerned about finances of the school than quality of the school, has a tendency to act more like a private school than a parochial school.
We have been extremely happy with the school. My son attended two years of preschool here and is now enrolled in their full-day K program. The teachers are exceptional and have shown a great deal of caring towards the students. The preschool emphasizes learning through play and is like a small family with low teacher/student ratios. The school recently upgraded all their equipment and has interactive whiteboards, etc. in all the classrooms (including K, where they project the books being read that day, etc.). The academic standing of the school is excellent. My son enjoys going to school everyday!
We are extremely pleased with the quality of eduaction that our children are receiving at St Leo's. The faculty and staff are professional and nuturing which is the perfect blend. As with any school, there have been issues but they are quickly reviewed and addressed.
A National Blue Ribbion School that has a wonderful community that focuses on the whole student. Religion and Spanish are part of the core curriculum. Parent participation and engagement is the norm.
This school is absolutely wonderful! The teacher's are well educated and well informed. They respect the students' differences and bring out the best in them. Administration is cooperative and the front office staff is always cheerful and helpful. Both my children attended St. Leo's from preschool to grade 8. They were well prepared for high school!
This is the best elementary/middle school in the area! Selected as a 2006 'Blue Ribbon School' by the US Dept. of Education this year, it is known for its consistent high standards of excellence in the spiritual, academic, and technological preparation of children in grades PreK-8. The principal is top-notch as are the teachers. We wouldn't send our children anywhere else!
The staff at St. Leo's is good but not great. he real problem is the administration. The answer to everything is get a tutor. If the teachers are doing their job then they would not need a tutor. The school is poorly run and the teachers reflect that. For the most part this school could turn around quickly if they replaced the administration.
Education is average to good. The main issue with the school is the Principal, Mrs. Drews, and the Administrative staff. They are not friendly, nor working well with parents. They treat parents like children --> one way communications. Enrollment is at the lowest point. Unless the school staff starts showing attention and care to students, the school will not improve. Facilities are old and poor. The Extended Day Care program does not provide enrichment program to students, as everyone congregates at the school gym with basketball hoops and a small climbing wall. The school gym is also used as the cafeteria at lunch time. From former parents.
Teaching,Administration, and Maintenance staff are outstanding. They are thorough and informative. The atmosphere is challenging! I like the way the teachers take control and run the classes. My kids are in 3rd and 6th grades. The learning environment is filled with love and positive feedback. My kids feel very secure and happy here. I wish St. Leos went to 12th grade. The parent support with school activities is also excellent. I have a hard time getting my kids to leave the extended day program because they enjoy it so much. My gratitude goes out to the Principal4 Old Lee Hwy
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: (703) 273!
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This table summarizes the meaning of various strings in different regexp syntaxes. It is intended as a quick reference, rather than a tutorial or specification. Please report any errors.
BRE refers to POSIX "basic regular expressions" and ERE is POSIX "extended regular expressions".
grep is supposed to use BREs, except that grep -E uses EREs. (GNU grep fits some extensions in where POSIX leaves the behaviour unspecified). egrep uses EREs. grep -F doesn't use regexps at all, of course.
ed uses BREs. ex and vi use BREs but additionally support \< and \> as described above, and use ~ to match the replacement part of the previous substitution.
expr uses BREs with all patterns implicitly anchored at the start.
awk is supposed to use EREs, plus the extra C-style escapes \\, \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v with their usual meanings. sed is supposed to use BREs, plus \n with its usual meaning.
lex is also supposed to use EREs with some extensions: "..." quotes everything inside it (backslash escapes are recognized); an initial <state> matches a start condiiton; r/x matches r only when followed by x; and {name} matches the value of a substitution symbol. A variety of escape sequences, including the usual C ones, are recognized. Possibly this deserves a new column.
regcomp uses BREs by default but can also use EREs. It has a variety of other options which modify the syntax slightly.
Boost's regex++ supports a variety of syntaxes.
PCRE is almost the same as Perl, though it doesn't support the embedded Perl feature and the man page lists a number of other differences.
Vim has enough differences and extensions that it perhaps deserves a column (or two) to itself.
Subexpressions or groups are surrounded by ( and ), or sometimes \( and \). They serve two purposes; firstly they override the precedence rules of other operators, and secondly they "capture" part of the text matched by a regexp. This can then be used later on in the regexp via the \digit syntax (this is called a back-reference) or outside the regexp to extract the appropriate part of a string.
"Shy grouping" has the precedence-overriding feature but not the capturing feature.
"Symbolic grouping" allows groups to be identified by name rather than number.
The syntax of this varies a bit; sometimes you used \{ and \}, and sometimes you use { and }. However the idea is the same:
It is worth nothing that the GNU Grep manual says:
Traditional `egrep' did not support the `{' metacharacter, and some `egrep' implementations support `\{' instead, so portable scripts should avoid `{' in `egrep' patterns and should use `[{]' to match a literal `{'.
This refers to expressions in [square brackets], for which POSIX defines a complicated syntax all of their own.
Firstly, if the first character after the [ is a ^ (caret) then the sense of the match is reversed.
The rest of the bracket expression consists of a sequence of elements selected from the following list. The bracket expression as a whole matches any character (or character sequence) that is matched by at least one of them (or is matched by none of them, if an initial ^ was used).
1. Collating symbols. These look like [.element.], where element is a collating element (i.e. a symbolic name for a multi-character string), and match the value of the collating element in the current locale. This doesn't seem to work in GNU grep.
2. Equivalence classes. These look like [=element=], where element is a collating element. They match any collating element (single or multiple characters) which has the same primary weight as element, i.e. if they appear in the same place in the current locale's collation sequence. This doesn't seem to work in GNU grep.
3. Character classes. These look like [:class:], where class is the name of the character class to match. The following character classes exist in all locales:
[:alnum:] [:alpha:] [:blank:] [:cntrl:] [:digit:] [:graph:] [:lower:] [:print:] [:space:] [:upper:]
4. Range expressions. These look like start-end where start and end are either single characters or collating symbols. The behaviour is only specified in the POSIX locale, where they match all the characters between start and end inclusive.
5. Single characters. These match themselves.
To include a ], put it immediately after the opening [ or [^; if it occurs later it will close the bracket expression. The hyphen (-) is not treated as a range separator if it appears first or last, or as the endpoint of a range.
Emacs "character sets" are similar to bracket expressions, except that collating symbols, equivalence classes and character classes aren't supported.
Perl "character classes" are also similar. They support POSIX character class syntax (argh, confusing names!) and recognize, but don't support, collating symbols or equivalence classes.
GNU Grep has slightly strange handling of . and newlines.
Firstly, the manual says that . matches "any single character". Superficially it appears not to match the newline character:
$ echo | grep . $
The outcome is actually in keeping with standard and traditional behaviour for grep, where the newline is not included in the text to be matched. But that doesn't appear to be quite what's going on with the GNU version, as explicitly searching for a newline does produce a match:
$ echo | perl -e 'exec("/usr/bin/grep","\n");' $
So is there a newline to match against or not?
The other case to consider is when the -z or --null-data option is used. In that case, . definitely does match a newline, exactly as the manual says:
$ perl -e 'print "\n\0";' | grep -z . | od -tx1 0000000 0a 00 0000002 $
The /s modifier changes the meaning of . to match any haracter including \n.
The /m modifier causes ^ and $ to match at the start of any line within the subject string rathe than just the start and end of the subject string.
Perl's lookbehind matches, i.e. (?<=p) and (?<!p) only work for fixed-width patterns, not arbitrary regular expressions.
The POSIX regular expression specification can be found at. For the regexp languages used by particular programs, I looked at the documentation for GNU Grep 2.4.2; GNU Emacs 21.2.1; Perl 5.6.1; Python 2.2.1; and Tcl 8.3.3.
All errors are my own!
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Last Monday, Freakonomics had a post called How About Them (Wrapped) Apples? suggesting that packaging on foods is a good thing because "in addition to protecting food from its microbial surroundings, packaging significantly prolongs shelf life, which in turn improves the chances of the food actually being eaten." Later in the article, the author suggests that Americans waste half of all the food they buy.
The same day, Arduous took up the argument with the assertion, "If the waste trade-off is either the plastic bag for a bag of pre-washed lettuce, or an entire head of lettuce that rotted before you got to eating it, I would probably say to go with the bag of lettuce."
I have all sorts of opinions that I could toss into the discussion (none of them on the side of food packaging), but for me, one of the main issues seems to be that Americans don't know how to store produce. Why buy lettuce in a plastic bag when you can keep it crisp for just as long in your fridge without a bag? If you know how...
I bought this head of lettuce last Wednesday. On Monday when I took the picture, it was still in perfect condition. The carrots came in my CSA box last Thursday. By Monday, they were getting floppy, so I chopped them up and put them in a bowl of water. They crisped right back up.
How to Store Specific Vegetables
Cut the tops off of carrots and store in a container of water. Periodically change out the water. We generally buy carrots once a month, and they will last all month if stored this way.
Celery can be stored the same way.
Wrap lettuce in a damp cloth and store in a container with a lid.
Keep kale, collards, cabbage, and other greens wrapped in a damp cloth. The outer leaves will go bad first - simply peel them off and eat the inner leaves.
Potatoes should be kept in a cool, dark place.
Onions should also be stored in a cool, dark place, preferably not touching. One tip I've seen is to store onions in old panty hose, twisting the hose in between onions to keep them from touching.
Cut the greens off of root vegetables. Store the greens separate from the vegetables.
Extra Random Tips
Most vegetables will last longer if you wrap them in a damp cloth.
Plan meals so you eat the most likely to spoil veggies first.
If you get fresh vegetables from a CSA or farmer's market, it's best to hold off on washing them until you're going to use them.
On the other hand, if you're more likely to choose fresh fruits and vegetables as a snack if you can grab and go, take 30 minutes after your shopping trip to peel, cut, and store your veggies. Put carrots and celery sticks in a bowl of water. Wrap cucumber slices and broccoli trees in a damp towel. Wash fruit and put it in an easy to access bowl on the counter.
If That's Not Enough
Fake Plastic Fish recently linked to a huge document about how to store fruits and vegetables without plastic: HowTo: Store Fruits and Vegetables - Tips and tricks to extend the life of your produce without plastic (at the bottom of the post)
What tips do you have for storing fruits and vegetables?
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Just a note: storing cut vegs in water will leach nutrients so water should then be used as stock or baked into bread or other baked goods so vitamins are not thrown out.
Erin, this is priceless! Thank you--this is absolutley info I will use. I'm one of those people who all-too-often loses the produce to rot, and nine times out of ten it used to do its rotting INSIDE the plastic produce bag I bought it in. Oddly (or not!) since switching to mesh bags a lot of problems have gone away, but your suggestions will help us a lot! Thanks--
Jenn
I cannot tell you how helpful this post is! Thank you!
@Olivia - Great point. I often use the carrot or celery water when I'm making broth, but I hadn't thought of using it in bread. Love that idea.
I learned from my mom to also put radishes (cleaned up and ready to eat) in water.
Great tips!
Kathy
Thank you so much for this list! I also wrap my lettuce in a damp towel and it lasts over a week, did not know about the carrots, though. Another tip - store apples away from other fruit and veggies since they emit Ethylen which will cause other fruits and veggies to ripen faster.
Great post Erin!
If we're going to throw something (food or plastic) away anyway, I'd much rather throw a rotten head of lettuce into my compost heap than a plastic bag into the landfill.
We store asparagus standing up in the fridge with the bottoms in a bowl of water. Also, store bananas away from your other produce. Keeping bananas close to all your other fruit will make it go bad much faster.
Putting potatoes in a paper bag helps keep them good. I just use one that my in-laws had, since I don't get any.
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Thanks for the link! My favorite tip of all is immersing carrots and celery in water. We've been doing it for years and they stay crispy for many weeks. Not that it takes us that long to eat them.
Glad you responded to that Freekonomics article. It pissed me off.
@Beth - Me too - I fumed to my husband about it for days. They got so many things wrong in that article.
like Kellie says, asparagus + fresh herbs if you're buying not growing, do well standing up in a cup of water. I freeze a lot of extra herbs as well -- and make veggie broth from peelings and such, so if something is a little past prime but not rotting, I throw it in my freezer bag for the next broth batch. Love this post....
This is great, just a little bit of water on a cloth can make a huge difference in the quality of your produce- you just have to remember to do it right after you get home. We use foil to wrap our celery and have found that it stays really crisp this way for weeks and you don't lose nutrients by soaking them in water. Even better, you can reuse the foil every time you buy celery preventing you from producing more waste.
Great tips, thanks! I'm going to try the carrots/celery in water. Then, to use up all the leftover veg I always make a quick pureed veg soup at the end of the week - just boil the veg in stock, season, whizz with immersion blender (the best kitchen gadget!) and maybe drizzle in some cream if you're feeling naughty. Yum!
Great tips. I've found that the store in water trick also works for olives and fresh mozzarella, as long as you keep remembering to change the water.
@Jenn the Greenmom - I too have discovered that produce seems to keep longer in mesh produce bags. Glad to know it's not all in my head.
Great tip about lettuce! I store onions, potatoes and carrots in our garage because it is cool and dark. They have been lasting forever.
Great tips. Thanks a lot for the advice. They're very helpful.
When you put the carrots or celery in a bowl of water is it one with a top? and do you mean to store them in the fridge that way?
when you said to cut up the carrots/celery, do you put them in a bowl with a top??
and also do you store them in your fridge?
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March 6, 2013 – After years of enterprise security breaches, one would think companies have learned much and are improving their security posture. In reality, the bad guys continue to have the upper hand in this game of cat-and-mouse. Security practitioners are beginning to see the need to conduct behavior profiling to counter security attacks, which is where Big Data comes in.
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When my son entered a new nursery school at the age of 3, I arrived to pick him up on his first day to hear two mothers having a conversation about how well their kids were reading and how they had hoped that this particular nursery school would continue to enhance their children's academic performance.
Curious about how my son had done on his first day, I checked in with his teacher, who reported that he had been particularly "friendly and polite."
I thought to myself, "Well, he might not be reading at the age of 3, but hearing that he's friendly and polite is the kind of feedback I want to hear. That's the person that I want my son to be."
When my daughter was in second grade, she had a teacher that would reward the students for random acts of kindness.
These random acts included times when a student would offer to help another student, when a student would compliment another student or when a student would offer appreciation toward others. There were many times that my daughter would earn this type of reward.
And each time she would come home with one, I would once again shake my head and smile thinking, "I'm so proud of her. She's becoming a good, caring person." As parents it's all too easy for us to get caught up in our children's grades, reading levels, the age they completed their first "chapter book," whether or not they've been chosen for advanced placements, etc. Of course we want to know that our children are reaching appropriate milestones and are performing well. But despite my conscious attempts to not compare my children to others, I have occasionally found myself doing just the opposite and got caught up in academic competition.
Mind you, I've never felt that my children are competing with their friends and classmates. Academic competition seems to be among parents. Granted, I've been blessed with three children who are all good students.
But somehow, I've become overly sensitive to statements like, "My child read his first book at the age of 2," or, "My child could recite the Periodic Table of Elements at the age of 3." When I hear that I just want to scream, "My children have been complimented for becoming good, caring people!" I'm not suggesting that smart children don't have good manners. And of course it's a wonderful accomplishment when a child has a special talent or excels in something. But sometimes I feel like we focus so much of our attention on how advanced our children can be that we often take the risk of missing out on enjoying the people our children are growing up to become.
When we feel like we're becoming trapped in the world of academic competition and questioning ourselves about our children's educational achievements, perhaps we might want to stand back and take a look at who our children have become. How do they interact with their friends? Are they sensitive? Polite? Do they reach out to others? Do they assert themselves appropriately? Do they show empathy? Sympathy?
I'm proud to admit that when I ask myself these questions I am constantly reminded of how proud I am and how much I truly enjoy the people that they have grown to become. And most importantly, they are proud of themselves.
I truly believe that as parents we have quite a bit of influence on our children's education. If we are positive, involved and invested in their education then it only stands to reason that they will have a positive experience. With that said, however, perhaps we can spend less time competing with each other and instead devote that time investing into the development and recognition of our children's character.
Think about it. When the day comes that they are applying to colleges, nowhere on the application will it ask "what reading level were they in first grade," and "how old were they when they first recited Shakespeare." What will matter the most is the person they have grown up to become.
Donna Spellman is Family Centers' director of self-sufficiency and independent living. With offices in Greenwich, Stamford, Darien and New Canaan, Family Centers is a United Way, Darien Community Fund and New Canaan Community Foundation partner agency that offers counseling and support programs for children, adults and families. For information, call 203-869-4848 or visit.
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STAMFORD -- Building and Land Technology's path toward redeveloping the South End waterfront into a hedge fund headquarters suffered a potentially damaging blow this week after a chorus of attacks made during a state public hearing on its proposal to relocate a working boatyard to Shippan.
"This whole thing is a joke," said Charles Weiner, an 88-year-old Stamford resident and longtime boater during a Wednesday public hearing at the Government Center held by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Referring to the South End peninsula where the Harbor Point developer last year dismantled the city's largest working boatyard, he voiced the sentiment that seemed to be widely shared in the audience.
"The boatyard property is sacred, it's designated and mandated," he said. "Why would you want to change it?"
For months, critics have attacked BLT's proposal to erect a boatyard on a 3.5-acre site at 205 Magee Ave. as both an unworkable and blatantly unfair solution.
The project aims to re-establish services to the city's boating community in the aftermath of the developer's decision to raze a 14-acre boatyard in the South End without zoning approval. With the support of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, BLT is seeking to rezone that site from a strictly water-dependent use into a $750 million office headquarters for the Westport hedge fund Bridgewater Associates.
Wednesday's hearing, which came on the heels of a city-commissioned report released Tuesday that identified severe deficiencies with the Shippan plan, was the first public opportunity for opponents to bring their case against to the state. The DEEP has granted BLT a draft permit to perform in-water boating-related construction as well as dredging along the shore of 205 Magee Ave.
More than 100 people, mostly boaters, showed up for the proceedings. About a dozen, several with detailed slideshows, took turns speaking at the podium. Among the repeatedly raised objections was whether BLT's application should have been considered by the DEEP because the property it owns at 205 Magee Ave. does not include a critical 4,200-square-foot parcel bordering the waterfront.
In December, Mayor Michael Pavia signed a letter of intent that gives BLT the right to include the city's property in its development plans as well as the right to negotiate for rights to it in the future. But many, including city board members, have called the validity of the agreement into question, raising questions about the parcel's intended status as part of a park. Representatives from the city's Harbor Management Commission also challenged the DEEP's decision to grant the permit, citing environmental concerns. Last month, the commission ruled the project is not consistent with the city's harbor-management plan, in large part because the dredging involved would affect tidal wetlands.
Safety concerns about the boatyard's proposed location on a narrow and heavily trafficked portion of the eastern channel of Stamford Harbor were voiced by boaters and businesses alike. Among the speakers, a spokesman for O&G, an asphalt manufacturer that uses barges, said that the plan as designed would impede the company's operations and cause accidents.
To date, the agency that is charged with protecting water-dependent uses has not addressed BLT's unauthorized removal of the South End boatyard, which the city has said constitutes a violation of the Coastal Area Management Act.
"The elephant in the room tonight is that what this company is attempting to do is take a 14-acre piece of land and eliminate a water-dependent use," said Peter Alviti, director of programs for the New England Laborers' Health & Safety Fund.
Afterward, John Freeman, an attorney for BLT, refuted some of the environmental and safety allegations. Dredging, he said, would not affect any portion of the tidal wetlands, which he said the DEEP had concurred with. He said the developer would offer a full response to the criticisms on Feb. 20, when the hearing is to continue at the DEEP's offices in Hartford. The public has until Feb. 13 to submit further written comments.
Despite being clearly outnumbered by opponents, Freeman said he was gratified to see growing support for the boatyard plan. He pointed to a petition signed by more than 400 South End residents as well as the three individuals who spoke in favor.
Among them was Stamford boater Paul Norton, who called BLT's ultimate aim of developing the South End for Bridgewater as one that "will bring a lot of high-paying jobs."
Of the Shippan plan, he said, "I'd like to see a ball rolled toward getting a boatyard in Stamford."
He then added, "Personally, I don't think there's ever going to be a 14-acre boatyard in Stamford."
As he wrapped up, he was met with disapproving headshakes and some boos. One person, however, could be heard clapping in the back.
"That's my wife," he confessed, with a smile.
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SPOILER: GA ‘Chaos Ahead (Again)?!
By GreytXcape | February 26, 2013
Hey, folks!
Something’s cooking on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ (as always) and apparently it doesn’t look good. Check out this spoiler below the cut!
Is Grey’s Anatomy planning a ruinous return to ABC next month?
Maybe. This has not been confirmed by the network, but there are rumors that another disaster may strike the hospital – and not of the fiscal variety. We’ll get to that in a second. First, here’s what we do know:
On March 14, the show returns with “Transplant Wasteland.”
For the actual “spoiler”, please visit the source site below!
What say you about this? Hit me with your honest thoughts. I’d love to hear ‘em
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Also called third molars, wisdom teeth usually make their first appearance in young adults between the ages of 17 and 21. Usually, an initial evaluation of the wisdom teeth should be performed between the ages of 16 and 19. Because most mouths are too small for these four additional molars, an extraction (removal) procedure is often necessary.
The following signs and, many dentists will opt to monitor them over time. If the wisdom teeth are causing problems or are likely to cause problems, most oral health specialists will recommend immediate removal of the teeth to help:
Bacteria and plaque buildup
Cyst impacted tooth needs to be removed to allow the tooth to be extracted. Also, the tooth may need to be cut into sections to remove it.
Most wisdom teeth extractions are performed in the dentist's office under local anesthesia. People who are particularly anxious should consult their dentist or oral surgeon about supplements to local anesthesia or alternative forms of anesthesia.
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"Policies" in this report are government policies. They are formulated against the larger background of national and international events and trends, and result from millions of decisions within the existing and only slowly changing cultural, economic, and military balances. Their implementation often poses considerable problems if they represent longer-term interests and insights.
Government policies are among the dynamics that influence population growth, economic and social development, technological change, resource exploitation, and pollution management. While the role of policy has been touched upon occasionally in earlier sections, government policy development can be thought of as a process in itself. The role of policies in SRES needs to be considered, partly because governments are one of the primary audiences for the scenarios and partly because the scenarios are intended to form a reference against which mitigation strategies can be assessed (although, as stated earlier, the SRES terms of reference require the SRES scenarios to not consider any explicit climate policies).
GHG emissions are affected by policies designed for a wide variety of purposes. Perhaps the most obvious are energy policies, but other important policy areas are those of economic development, technology development, education, health, social welfare, transport, industry, agriculture, and forestry. Policies in each of these areas also affect other areas. In each policy area various instruments are used. The choice of instrument may influence both the policy's success in achieving its primary objective and its effect on GHG emissions. Taxes, subsidies, regulations, information-based instruments, and R&D all bring different mechanisms into play and so have different affects.
The remainder of this section is organized around specific policy areas or objectives. It considers major policy issues in each area, and discusses the possible implications for GHG emissions in reference (non-mitigation) scenarios.
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This week, community leaders from two small villages in very different parts of the world will meet on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea (PNG) to discuss a common problem: their need to relocate as a result of climate change. The communities of Newtok, Alaska, and the Carteret Islands, Papua New Guinea, are among the first in the world to choose relocation as the best means of adapting to the effects of a changing climate and ensuring their cultural survival. By Alyssa Johl and John Crump*
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This Week’s Games
Fri., Oct. 26 - Charlotte Checkers at GRIFFINS - 7 p.m. - Fox Sports Detroit / WOOD 106.9 FM/1300 AM / Sirius XM NHL Network Radio / AHLLive.com
Sat., Oct. 27 - Rockford IceHogs at GRIFFINS - 7 p.m. - WBFX 101.3 FM / AHLLive.com
Sun., Oct. 28 - GRIFFINS at Chicago Wolves - 5 p.m. - WOOD 106.9 FM/1300 AM / AHLLive.com
Last Week’s Results
Fri., Oct. 19 - GRIFFINS 3 at Rochester Americans 4 - 0-2-0-1, 1 pt. (T4th, Midwest Division)
Sun., Oct. 21 - GRIFFINS 4 at Toronto Marlies 3 SO - 1-2-0-1, 3 pts. (T3rd)
Three in Three: The Griffins will play the first of this season’s nine three-in-threes this weekend, hosting the Charlotte Checkers on Friday and Rockford IceHogs on Saturday (both games at 7 p.m.) before making their first visit of the season to Chicago to battle the Wolves on Sunday at 5 p.m. EDT. Grand Rapids will play a three-in-three in back-to-back weekends, as it visits San Antonio, Texas and Houston on consecutive days next weekend (Nov. 2-4).
Live by the Sword: A strong penalty kill was the story of the Griffins’ opening weekend, as the unit killed 12 of 13 power plays and scored a league-high two shorthanded goals. Special teams also played a factor in the team’s 4-3 shootout victory over Toronto on Sunday. The penalty kill denied all six Marlies power plays, including two brief 5-on-3 advantages. The Griffins’ power play capitalized on two opportunities in the second period, as Gustav Nyquist scored his first goal of the season to cut a two-goal deficit in half and Tomas Tatar scored late in the second period to bring Grand Rapids within one heading into the third. Nyquist scored again to tie the game in the third period, and was one of three Griffins to score in the shootout to give the team its first win of the season, and Jeff Blashill his first win as the Griffins’ head coach.
Die by the Sword: While special teams drove the Griffins to Sunday’s win, it proved to be the opposite in the team’s 2012-13 road opener at Rochester on Friday. Grand Rapids got out to a two-goal lead but surrendered four unanswered goals to the Americans, including three straight power play goals. The Amerks’ power play was 3-for-5 in their 4-3 victory, while the Griffins’ power play did not capitalize on any of its four opportunities.
Weekend Promotions: Fans attending this Friday’s game versus Charlotte can enjoy $1 hot dogs and $1 domestic drafts from 6-8 p.m., while supplies last. Fans can also ride the Rapid busses to and from any Friday game and enjoy complimentary fare by showing their, which allows fans to have $1 beers and $1 hot dogs served directly to their seats. Call (616) 774-4585 ext. 2 or visit griffinshockey.com/dzone for D-Zone tickets. The first 1,500 fans through the turnstiles before Saturday’s contest versus Rockford will receive a Griffins 2012-13 team calendar, courtesy of Delta Imports. Fans are also encouraged to participate in the team’s Halloween costume contest. Members of the Griffins’ game day staff will patrol the stands and concourse and select the best-dressed fans for a contest that will be held at ice level during the second intermission. The winner will be determined by a round of applause. Finally, for every home game this season is a Military Night. Current members of our military can purchase up to four upper bowl tickets for $13 each (or $11 in advance at The Zone) with a valid military ID. The offer also extends to veterans who present a VA ID or discharge papers.
We Interrupt This Broadcast:. Additionally, the game will be carried on SiriusXM NHL Network Radio (Sirius 207, XM 92), which will air live AHL hockey games nearly every night during the NHL lockout. The current broadcast schedule is available here.
Close Calls: The Griffins are one of just three teams in the AHL, along with Hershey and Milwaukee, to have each of their games decided by one goal. The Griffins lost their season opener to Milwaukee on Oct. 12 (3-2) and picked up a point against Hamilton the following night (3-2 SOL) before splitting decisions last weekend against Rochester (4-3 L) and Toronto (4-3 SOW). Additionally, all four Griffins games this season have featured comebacks after two-goal leads. The Griffins had early 2-0 leads in their losses to Milwaukee and Rochester, and they came back from two-goal deficits in their shootout loss to Hamilton and win against Toronto.
Feels Like the First Time: Griffins forward Tomas Jurco opened the scoring in Friday’s 4-3 loss to Rochester, beating the Amerks’ David Leggio off a centering feed from Trevor Parkes for his first goal and point as a pro. The high-scoring right winger tallied 68 points (30-38—68) in 48 games with the QMJHL’s Saint John Sea Dogs in 2011-12 and added another 29 (13-16—29) in 16 postseason contests. Jurco helped Saint John to three consecutive appearances in the QMJHL finals, earning back-to-back championships and a CHL Memorial Cup title in 2011. The Kosice, Slovakia, native also scored on his first professional shootout attempt to help the Griffins beat the Toronto Marlies 4-3 on Sunday.
Three Cheers: Rookie defenseman and Marysville, Mich., native Chad Billins also picked up his first professional point last weekend, doing so in style with three assists during Sunday’s 4-3 win over Toronto. Billins recorded helpers on the team’s two power play goals by Gustav Nyquist and Tomas Tatar and also helped to set up Nyquist’s second of the game that knotted the game at three and sent it to overtime. Billins’ three-point night was the third by any Griffins defenseman over the last three seasons, joining Logan Pyett (3-0—3 on February 27, 2011) and Doug Janik (1-2—3 on November 11, 2011). He also holds a share of the team scoring lead along with Landon Ferraro, Gustav Nyquist, Tomas Tatar and Nathan Paetsch and is tied for third among AHL rookie blueliners.
Shootout Specialist: Through four games, Jordan Pearce and Tom McCollum have evenly split the Griffins’ goaltending duties, with two starts each. Both of McCollum’s starts have gone into a shootout – a 4-3 shootout loss to Hamilton on Oct. 13 and a 4-3 victory over Toronto on Sunday. The fourth-year pro has stopped six of seven (0.857) opponents in the shootout this season, tying him with Chicago’s Eddie Lack for fourth in the AHL in shootout save percentage. The number also matches McCollum’s shootout save percentage from 2011-12, which was the fourth-highest in the league and second-highest in Griffins franchise history, trailing Drew MacIntyre’s 0.875 mark during the 2005-06 season.
Mr. 300: When he steps on the ice for Friday’s contest versus the Charlotte Checkers, Francis Pare will become the sixth player in franchise history to reach 300 games. Pare, who also ranks second all time in goals (81), sixth in assists (113) and fifth in points (194), has spent his entire five-year professional career with Grand Rapids and finished in the Griffins’ top-five scoring leaders in each of his first four seasons with the team. Pare will join Travis Richards (655), Michel Picard (364), Jamie Tardif (316), Derek Meech (304) and Ryan Oulahen (302) as the only Griffins in the 300 club.
Walleye Watch: Several familiar faces continue to perform well for the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye, who are off to a 2-1 start. Petr Mrazek took his first pro loss on Saturday night when Toledo fell to the Kalamazoo Wings 4-2, despite making 36 saves on 40 shots. Mrazek is 11th in the league with a 0.932 save percentage after his first two professional games. Willie Coetzee is tied for third on Toledo with three points (2-1—3) in three games. Coetzee tallied a goal and a game-high 11 shots on Saturday night. He currently leads the league with 26 shots on goal – twice as many shots as Terry Broadhurst, who is second on Toledo with 13, and 10 shots more than any other player in the ECHL who has played fewer than four games. Andrej Nestrasil also has three points (1-2—3) in three games after recording a three-point night in the Walleye’s season-opener versus Kalamazoo.
Scouting Report
Fri., Oct. 26 vs. Charlotte Checkers (3-1-0-1) – Van Andel Arena – 7 p.m.
TV: Fox Sports Detroit at 7 p.m. Radio: WOOD 106.9 FM/1300 AM at 6:40 p.m. and SiriusXM NHL Network Radio (Siriux 207, XM 92) at 7 p.m. Web Casts: Video web cast at AHLLive.com, free audio available through woodradio.com. All-Time Series: 0-4-0-0 Overall, 0-2-0-0 Home. Season Series: First of four meetings overall, first of two in Grand Rapids. NHL Affiliation: Carolina Hurricanes. Head Coach: Jeff Daniels (3rd season). Notes: Charlotte swept Grand Rapids in the teams’ first-ever season series in 2011-12…The Checkers finished ninth overall in the Western Conference last season with a 38-29-3-6 record…Charlotte has one of the AHL’s top power plays through two weeks, ranking sixth in the league at 28 percent, due in part to forward Drayson Bowman, who has a league-leading three of Charlotte’s seven power play goals…Checkers forward Jerome Samson is tied for the AHL lead with 21 shots…Charlotte’s Justin Faulk leads the team’s defensemen with five points (0-5—5) in four games. Faulk was a member of the NHL All-Rookie Team in 2011-12 as a first-year pro…Eleven Checkers skaters and both goaltenders (Dan Ellis and Justin Peters) saw time in the NHL during the 2011-12 season. Ellis (Anaheim), defenseman Marc-Andre Gragnani (Buffalo/Vancouver) and forward Tim Wallace (NY Islanders/Tampa Bay) played more games in the NHL than the AHL…Zach Boychuk leads Charlotte in scoring with six points (3-3—6) in five games.
Sat., Oct. 27 vs. Rockford IceHogs (1-3-0-1) – Van Andel Arena – 7 p.m.
TV: 23 Weather Now (WIFR-DT 23.2 Rockford). Radio: WBFX 101.3 FM at 6:40 p.m. Web Casts: Video web cast at AHLLive.com, free audio available through 101thefoxrocks.com. All-Time Series: 8-13-2-3 Overall, 6-6-0-1 Home. Season Series: First of eight meetings overall, first of four in Grand Rapids. NHL Affiliation: Chicago Blackhawks. Head Coach: Ted Dent (2nd season). Notes: Grand Rapids was 1-2-0-1 in four meetings against Rockford in 2011-12…The IceHogs finished fifth in the Midwest Division last season with a 35-32-2-7 record…Ten IceHogs saw time in the NHL last season, including six who appeared in playoff games with the parent Blackhawks…Rockford defenseman Nick Leddy and forward Marcus Kruger spent the entire 2011-12 season in the NHL. Kruger is tied for the IceHogs’ lead in scoring with five points (2-3—5) in five games, along with veteran Martin St. Pierre (1-4—5).
Sun., Oct. 28 at Chicago Wolves (4-1-0-0) – Allstate Arena – 5 p.m.
TV: The U Too (WCIU-DT 26.2 Chicago). Radio: WOOD 106.9 FM/1300 AM at 4:40 p.m. Web Casts: Video web cast at AHLLive.com, free audio available through woodradio.com. All-Time Series: 49-39-2-4-2 Overall, 24-23-0-2-0 Road. Season Series: First of eight meetings overall, first of four in Chicago. NHL Affiliation: Vancouver Canucks. Head Coach: Scott Arniel (1st season). Notes: Chicago won the Midwest Division in 2011-12 with a 42-27-4-3 record but lost to San Antonio in the Western Conference Quarterfinals…The Wolves are 3-0 at home this season…Chicago has struggled on special teams this year, with a power play that sits 30th in the AHL at four percent and a penalty kill that ranks 24th at 72.7 percent…Chicago is led in scoring by Zack Kassian with four points (3-1—4) in five games…Former Griffin Darren Haydar is second among active AHL players (behind Toronto’s Keith Aucoin) and 22nd in league history with 731 points (272-459—731) in 709 games. Haydar led the Griffins with 80 points (31-49—80) in 2008-09.
WOOD Radio Highlights: Ferraro Goal Varone Goal
WOOD Radio Highlights: Tatar Goal Nyquist Second Goal Nyquist Shootout Goal
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Lesley Wright has been director of the Faulconer Gallery since May 1999. She oversees the staff, policies and exhibition schedule for both the Faulconer Gallery and the Print and Drawing Study Room. She currently supervises a professional staff of four, and a student staff of gallery desk attendants, docents, program assistants and an intern. She reports to the Vice-President for Institutional Planning. twentieth-century, twenty-first, and in 2009 she curated Below the Surface: a 21st-century Look at the Prairie.
In 2004 she was asked by the Art Department to inaugurate a course on museum studies, taught almost every year, to complement the department’s exhibition seminar. The Gallery offers an internship each semester, in order to more fully bring the gallery and its operations into the curriculum of the college. Other student positions in education, gallery security, administration, and The Collection are available as well.
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His current research is focused on editing an eight-volume History of Continental Philosophy for Acumen Publishing, and serving as General Editor of The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Stanford University Press translation of Nietzsche's Kritische Studienausgabe.
Philosophy
Alan D. Schrift
Campus Phone:3161
F. Wendell Miller Professor of Philosophy, Chair of Philosophy Department
Department Chair?:Yes
Education / Degrees:
M.A., Ph.D., Purdue University
B.A., Brown University
Publications:
Primary Academic Interest:Nietzsche and Contemporary French Philosophy
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St Cloud Library Closed at 3pm Friday Due to Power Outage
Kids' Picture Books
Children's picture books are filled with wonder. Magical things happen on their pages. A picture book can be a place where a child learns right from wrong and learns values such as kindness and honesty. Picture books can make a child laugh out loud (a parent, too) but they can also be educational. Children's picture books can be the foundation of literacy. Reading with a child is one of the great pleasures of parenting, because picture books provide a unique connection between child and adult imagination.
The library has a New Kids' Picture Books list on the New, Best & Fun page tabbed on our catalog. It has a wonderful selection of titles. Some, like Building Our House by Jonathan Bean, help children understand how things work. Others, like The Perfect Hug by Joanna Walsh, are more about how we feel. Browse the list, place holds on books that interest you, and visit the library to see what delightful new books are on the shelves today.
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Obama Names Internet Outreach Transition Team
American President-Elect Barack Obama’s internet outreach during his campaign was second-to-none. He used the internet for communications, information dissemination and fundraising with great success and seemingly great appreciation for the medium’s rapid response qualities.
Now, as he builds his transition team, President-Elect Obama has appointed two experienced Web operatives: Macon Phillips, an Internet campaign official, and Jesse Lee, the Democratic Congresssional Campaign Committee’s (and Rahm Emanuel’s) internet operation guru during the 2006 midterm elections.
Macon Phillips was instrumental in running the election campaign's new media department, especially using social networking for communications and outreach.
Jesse Lee was the first to write the blog for the Speaker of the House and was in charge of Democratic National Committee rapid response during the recently concluded election cycle.
All of Obama’s internet related appointments are, of course, interesting and important to GroundReport, since the site would like to continue to grow in access to and communication with the new Administration.
Other Internet related appointments announced today are Deputy Directors of New Media Dan Siroker and Andrew Bleeker, Online Communications: Cammie Croft, and Content Lead: Kate Albright-Hanna.
It has already been reported that President-Elect Obama intends to use his vast resources in communications from social networking sites and email addresses to support his policies when he takes office. Let us hope that he also desires to communicate with Citizen Journalists such as those with GroundReport.
Tags: Obama , Internet , Transition , Social Networking , Team , Bloggers , Citizen Journalists
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Six Sessions of IPL Hair Removal For Areas Such as Full Leg for £99 at A Touch of Beauty (Up to 91% Off)
- Beauty and modern aesthetic treatments available
- Open until 7pm on Thursdays
- Two salons located in Olbury and in Edgbaston
The Deal
- Six sessions of IPL Ecolite hair removal for two small areas or one large area
- Small areas: bikini, underarm, side of face, and navel hair line
- Large areas: full leg, Brazilian, full face, back, and full arms
- Sessions last up to 45 minutes
Limit 1 per person. May buy multiple as gifts. Booking required. 24 hour cancellation policy. Must book patch test and first session by 1 Aug 2012. Must leave 4-6 weeks between sessions. Valid at Langley High Street (B69 4SL) and Pershore Road, Edgbaston (B5 7NY) salons. Must be 16 or older with valid ID. Patch test required and included. Valid for 2 small areas or 1 large area only. Small areas: upper lip and chin, side of face, underarm, bikini, navel hair line. Large areas: full face, full arms, full leg, back, Brazilian. Sessions last up to 45 minutes. Not suitable for pregnant women, nursing mothers, or those with epilepsy. Original value based on most expensive option.
See the rules that apply to all deals.
Hair, like ice cream, comes in many varieties, has colourful toppings, and can sometimes leave behind messy trails. Let follicular worries melt away with today's Groupon: £99 for six sessions of IPL hair removal for a choice of one large or two small areas including bikini and full legs at A Touch of Beauty.
About IPL Hair Removal
IPL hair removal aims to serve undesirable bodily hair an eviction notice with more controlled authority
The team at A Touch of Beauty turn nimble hands to a range of treatments including hot stone massage, acrylic nails, and microdermabrasion. The salon is elegantly placed on Langley high street, a light walk from the local train station, while a second salon is located on Pershore Road in Edgbaston. Both men and women are invited through its doors, which swing open six days a week including until 7pm on Thursdays.
The Session
Following a patch test to determine suitability, male and female clients can attend six sessions of IPL hair removal which will use Ecolite technology. Each session lasts up to 45 minutes and will focus on either two small areas or one large area, as listed below.
Small areas:
Upper lip and chin
Side of face
Underarm
Bikini
Stomach (navel hair line)
Large areas:
Full face
Full arms
Full leg
Back
Brazilian
Valid at:
22 Langley High Street, Langley B69 4SL
(Mon 10am-5pm; Tue 10am-5pm; Wed 10am-4pm; Thu 9am-7pm; Fri 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-4.30pm)
162 Pershore Road, Edgbaston, B5 7NY
( Mon 10am-5pm; Tue 10am-5pm; Wed 10am-4pm; Thu 9am-7pm; Fri 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-4.30pm)
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A Touch of Beauty22 Langley High Street
Oldbury B69 4SL
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One ($29), Two ($55) or Three ($79) 1-Hour Thai and Organic Oil Combination Massages at Time Therapy, Bondi Beach (Up to $240 Value)
- Soothing east-west blend massage
- Indulge in a full hour for the
entire body
- Curlewis Street location at
Bondi Beach
- Promote tension release, increased circulation and relaxation
- Experienced therapists
The Deal
- $29 for a 1-hour Thai and oil combination massage
($80 value)
- $55 for two 1-hour Thai and oil combination massages
($160 value)
- $79 for three 1-hour Thai and oil combination massages
($240 value)
- 2 vouchers per person
- 1 voucher per person per visit
- Purchase additional as gifts
- 24-hour cancellation policy
- Subject to availability
- Late arrival results in shortened treatment time
- Vouchers are non-transferable
- All massages must be redeemed within the validity period
- Not redeemable for cash or valid with any other offers
- See the rules that apply to
all deals
How to Redeem
- Valid from 8 Jun 2012
- Valid to 8 Sep 2012
- Call to book: 0423 945 913
and leave a message
- Or redeem online:
- Enter name and email address in relevant fields
- Enter phone number and voucher codes in 'Message' field
- Enter desired appointment date and time in 'Message' field
- Present printed voucher on arrival
Attentive service and a celestial blend of eastern Thai stretching and western organic oil techniques create the ultimate indulgence on Bondi shores at Time Therapy. Groupies snap up one, two or three Thai and oil combination massages, with each hour-long treatment relieving tension, stimulating circulation and returning recipients to the outside world cool, calm and rejuvenated.
Opening hours:
Mon-Sun 10am-8pm
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Time Therapy25 Culewis Street
Bondi Beach 2026
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Theme & Amusement Parks in Ballwin
Theme & Amusement Park Deals
Pink Galleon Billiards & Games
- Multiple Locations
Billiards played atop tables with hot-pink tops and surrounded by beach-themed decor, including airbrushed murals of mermaids and pirates
Swing-A-Round Fun Town
- Fenton
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Unlimited all-day access to professionally designed mini-golf courses, bumper boats, and go-karts, as well as sessions in the batting cages
Tee Time Family Fun Center
- Mehlville
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Steer bumper cars, navigate a black-lit 3-D maze, and re-energize with pizza; birthday party includes pizza and arcade tokens
Splash at Wabash
- Ferguson
Water park with two slides, zero-entry pool, toddler area, and lazy river entertains patrons and refuels them with tasty concessions.
Morse Mill Hotel
- Big River
Paranormal experts lead brave souls on nighttime investigations of the hotel's haunted past
Chesterfield Sports Fusion
- Chesterfield
Players traverse 18 indoor mini-golf holes in a family entertainment center with a laser-tag arena, a dodge-ball court, and a 35-game arcade
Gateway Fun Park
- Collinsville
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Two 18-hole mini-golf courses wind amid small-scale buildings and manmade fountains
Eckert's
- Belleville
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Seventh-generation farm serves café & family-style portions of fried chicken, meatloaf & catfish filets alongside soups, sandwiches & salads
Recommended Theme & Amusement Parks by Groupon Customers...
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Theme & Amusement Parks in Bountiful
Theme & Amusement Park Deals
Classic Fun Center
- Multiple Locations
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Pizza and soda refuel revelers during a day spent skating or splashing down water slides
Get Air
Trampoline park with four pit areas, two Aeroball courts, a free-jump zone, a dodge-ball arena, and an area for children
Planet Play
- Draper
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Groups of four enjoy two hours of unfettered access to a pizza-stocked buffet and attractions such as mini bowling and go karts
Jump On It
Trampolines, bounce houses, foam pit, climbing wall & velcro wall welcome leaping kids within indoor facility of more than 12,000 sq. ft.
Get Air Hang Time Orem
- Lakeview
A 40,000-square-foot facility showcases wall-to-wall trampolines, dodge ball, slam-ball courts, and foam pits.
Open Memorial Day through Labor Day, North Shore Aquatic Center features a pool, waterslides, classes for yoga and Zumba, in addition to lifeguard classes, and American Red Cross swimming lessons, which impart the basics of paddling and mermaid sign language..
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Georgia Guide and Deals
Tour Deals
SpeedTech Auto Racing School
- Tara Place Condominium At Atlanta Motor Speedway
Racing instructors show suited-up students how to safely whip around a professional raceway during a half-day stock-car experience
Skin Matters
- North Buckhead
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Noninvasive laser sessions help toenails shake the unsightly shackles of fungal infection
Immix Hair Gallery & Day Spa
- Conyers
Straightening treatment makes hair shinier, combats frizz, and protects strands from UV rays and pollutant damage
GA Aesthetic Med Spa
- Orchards At Hopewell Condo
Noninvasive, high-powered laser helps remove tattoos of all colors, as well as benign pigmented lesions.
Sonora Creek
- Lathemtown
Lessons in the hunter/jumper or dressage disciplines; staff led by a USDF bronze medalist and equestrian expert with 40 years of experience
Steve Schroeder Photography
- Macon
Expert photographer frames subjects at his studio in a Victorian-era home or on location, yielding black-and-white or color images
Serenity Place Massage Solutions
- Atlanta
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Light-to-medium Swedish strokes soothe tension, deep-tissue kneads undo knots, and prenatal massage cossets moms-to-be
Atlanta Permanent Cosmetics
- Alpharetta
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Low doses of laser light work to contour and tone targeted areas such as the abdomen, thighs, or upper arms
Gangwisch Dental Group
- Lilburn
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Board-certified dentist evaluates teeth, takes impressions, and supplies take-home tubes of Opalescence whitening bleach
SMUDGED Prntz Photography
- Lithonia
Husband-and-wife duo style clients then craft edgy portraits and retouch images
The Vanity Center
- Dunwoody
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Diamond-tipped microdermabrasion wand bolsters cellular turnover at dermal and epidermal level, aiming to reduce hyperpigmentation & scars.
Davenport House Museum
- Downtown Savannah
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The award-winning preservation of a Federal-style home built by Isaiah Davenport lets visitors glimpse life in the 1820s
Rainbow Pilates
- Suwanee
Pilates in the dark, yoga, Tai Chi, and Zumba taught by certified instructors
Cumming Med Spa & Chiropractic
- Cumming
Aromatherapy scents relax the senses as staffers massage sore muscles and polish the face and body with exfoliating treatments
Brewmasters Warehouse
- Marietta
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Brewmasters train class attendees in equipment, ingredients, and process of crafting various beers
Spa Medicine
- Northeast Cobb
Massage therapists use gentle Swedish strokes to ease patients into deep relaxation
Anti-Aging Skin Studio
- Corporate Woods
Certified medical aesthetician enfolds clients in infrared-powered body wraps that help release fat and toxins while smoothing cellulite
Sweet Potato Cafe Atlanta
- Stone Mountain
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Passionate chefs prepare rotating seasonal dishes, such as veggie-loaded sweet potatoes, with ingredients from onsite garden and local farms
Natural Medical Solutions Medical Spa
- Roswell
Licensed aestheticians enlist the help of intense pulsed light to evict unsightly spider veins
My Lush Lashes at Skyn Clinic
- Suwanee
Crystal-free microdermabrasion smoothes skin with tiny diamonds that reduce the appearance of age spots, wrinkles, and acne scars
Cosmos Fitness
- Multiple Locations
Memberships include group classes such as Zumba, and SilverSneakers senior workouts, an indoor swimming pool, and sauna rooms
The Funky Paintbrush
- Woodstock
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All materials included; students craft 16"x20" paintings while sipping on brought-from-home beer or wine
Window Genie Atlanta
- Alpharetta
Trained techs clean dirt, grease, and airborne contaminants from windows or remove and bag debris from gutters
Healing Garden Wellness Centre & Spa
- Northeast Cobb
Therapists increase circulatory flow with Swedish strokes or relieve muscular aches with deep-tissue kneads
Alan Cox Automotive
- Marietta
Technicians inspect Honda, Acura, Toyota, Lexus, Kia, Hyundai, and Mazda vehicles and refresh their engines with up to five quarts of oil
Three Angel Farm
- Lizella
Expert instructors lead small groups of up to five riders and tailor each session to individuals' needs and horseback-riding skill levels
Eyetopia Spa
- Atlanta
Soft-drying adhesive gives individually applied mink eyelash extensions a natural finish; a follow-up appointment keeps lashes looking full
Visionary Eyecare
- Fayetteville
Optometrist tests eyes for glaucoma and other eye ailments; patients shop frames from designers such as Prada, Gucci, and Coach
Natural Epiphany Salon
- Tucker
Express mani-pedis treat fingers and toes to a complete trim, shape, and polish in around 45 minutes, and also include an express massage
The Blue Goose
- St. Marys
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Red and white wines from Napa, Italy, Argentina, and New Zealand pair with café dishes ranging from cheese plates to goat-cheese sandwiches
Southern Skincare and Aesthetics
- Avalon/Oglethorpe Mall Area
30-minute microdermabrasion treatments buff away dull, dead skin cells to reveal a smoother, more youthful complexion
LifeSpring Antiaging & Aesthetic Medicine
- Buckhead Forest
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Injections inhibit twitching of subcutaneous muscles to reduce appearance of fine lines for up to six months
Salon Greco The European Day Spa
- Suwanee
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Skilled stylists use INOA color to outfit manes in vibrant hues; treatments add shine and hydrate depleted strands
Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel
- West Whitfield
Visitors learn about local history and explore a 1,477 ft. railroad tunnel that goes through Chetoogeta Mountain
DeWine Water Sports
- Danielsville
A guide supplies guests with their choice of a kayak or canoe and then leads them down the Broad River toward a local winery
Skin Confidence
- Poncey-Highland
Licensed medical aesthetician applies rhythmic pressure to the bottoms of the feet to promote detoxification and relaxation
Recommended Tours.:
Many customers of Oh!La-La Salon.Spa assume the business's name is pronounced ooh la la, the widely known French phrase. It certainly can be pronounced this way, but we recommend pronouncing the first syllable as oh. Oh!La-La Salon has intentionally created this phonetic ambiguity to help its clients avoid cease and desist letters from the nation of France, which owns the rights to ooh la la (see French patent number A75630.1)..)
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Shopping in Guthrie.
Since Phil Clayton became the owner of TSO Optical 25 years ago, he's transitioned away from the traditional discount-eyewear model and toward a premium, boutique system that delivers higher-caliber frames. Since then, he's found that his smiling customers generally need fewer frame adjustments and less warranty work. Instead of opting for cut-rate glasses that have been blessed with a flashy label, his shop opts for quality glasses made by actual eyewear experts, housing a vibrant collection populated by frames from brands such as Oliver Peoples, Ray-Ban, and Tom Ford. A friendly and knowledgeable staff curates this vast selection, and an onsite optometrist provides prescriptions for both glasses and contacts. TSO Optical fills these frames with lenses made in their own laboratory, an onsite facility that cuts back on turnaround time so that clients get their glasses quickly and don’t have to extend the rental on their seeing-eye eagles.
Fashion meets function at Hip & Swanky, a boutique clothier that carries designer threads, jewelry, and accessories. KUT jeans, for example, pair with handcrafted Old Gringo Western boots that can be dressed up or down with a variety of tops and blouses. Dresses pay homage to the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University, and various fun wallets and jewelry accessorize outfits, much like the high heels in a football player's uniform..
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Things to Do in Moorestown-Lenola
Things to Do Deals
tAra Yoga
- Abington
Strengthen body and mind during Vinyasa, Mommy and Me, and beginners' classes
The Ben Franklin Yacht
- Northern Liberties - Fishtown
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Modern, three-deck yacht hosts narrated tours of Philadelphia harbor, departing each Sunday at 1 p.m., from April 7 through September 29
Philadelphia Sightseeing Tours
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Continuously running double-decker buses allow tourists to hop on and off at sites such as the Franklin Institute and Penn’s Landing
Chew Philly Food Tours
- Manayunk
Groups taste cheesesteaks, tomato pie & other Philly specialties at six family-owned establishments & guides offer historical facts
Aqua Tech Scuba
- Maple Shade
Classes and courses prepare divers for underwater exploration with actual diving experiences
Recommended Things to Do by Groupon Customers.
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Restaurants in Sumter
Restaurant Deals
The Hookah Spot
More than 25 shisha flavors, such as gummy bear and hawaiian punch, waft through glass-bodied pipes at a roomy lounge
Wysacky Trading Post
American staples including hot dogs topped in chili, Angus-beef burgers, wings, and specialty pizzas
Rhoten's Country Sausage
- Lexington
Gourmet sausage handcrafted from natural boston butts also can be custom ordered.."
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Private equity firm ECI Partners has purchased a majority stake in Citation to allow the employment law and health and safety advisory firm to target future growth.
Car sharing business Zipcar has been acquired by Avis Budget Group through a deal worth $500 million (£307 million).
The value of the UK's private equity buyouts has risen 23 per cent so far this year to £15.7 billion from £12.7 billion in 2011.
Rescue investor Endless has turned its efforts to the food production market by backing the management buy-out of VION Food.
A management team of six has led a buy-out of the software company they work for, with investment help coming from WestBridge Capital.
A seventh private equity-backed acquisition for CitySprint has seen it snap up Eagle Express Worldwide Couriers.
A bootstrapped London start-up has made its first acquisition since it was founded in 2010.
Palamon Capital Partners has acquired a majority stake in beauty e-commerce business feelunique.com.
Andrew Johnson has landed his second management buy-in by taking on McCambridge Group with help from NBGI Private Equity.
Albion Ventures has exited its investment in six cinema sites including locations in Liverpool, London and Exeter.
Private equity-backed Kitwave has closed its third acquisition since it was backed in April 2011.
Private equity house LDC has completed a £7.3 million buyout of HMV’s live music division, MAMA Group.
UK mid-market buyout house Dunedin has backed the management buyout of alloy components concern Premier Hytemp.
Business Growth Fund portfolio business Workshare has acquired IdeaPlane, a social network built for highly regulated industries.
The management team of Hancocks Group has led a buy-out of the confectionery business alongside H2 Equity Partners.
NVM Private Equity has closed its second deal in a week by exiting its interest in Paladin Group.
Leeds United Football Club has been acquired by a Dubai-based investment bank.
Restructuring investor Rutland Partners has purchased Pizza Hut's UK Dine-In restaurant business.
TileCo has switched private equity backers after being sold by Graphite Capital to Alcuin Capital Partners..
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With the potential new schedule starting April 2nd on GSN, we will be getting back Password Plus and Super Password to GSN.
This is great news to the network as we get some new programs on that haven't been seen in years.
With that being said, what would you like to see on GSN for Match Game. It would seem that the 74/75 episodes will be retired.
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The turnaround began in the run-up to Sydney in 2000 as the first substantial proceeds from the lottery began to flow into sport. There was investment in infrastructure – tracks, swimming pools, velodromes – but crucially also in the structures supporting individual sportsmen and women. There were funds for world-class coaches, such as Jim Saltonstall in sailing and Dave Brailsford in cycling, and for nutritionists and sports psychologists. Also for science and technology where appropriate, ensuring we had the best bikes and boats.
Crucially, the money was not distributed through one statist institution pursuing a centrally determined strategy, but through the varying intermediate bodies, from the Royal Yachting Association to British Cycling. They knew their sport well, could direct the spending where it was most needed, but still had to show – through results – that they deserved the cash. Last but not least was a ruthless approach to picking potential winners and grooming them for success in a world of intensely global competition, all dramatised by the reality that Britain would host the Olympics.
Everything was underpinned not by a raucous jingoism but by a determined pride in what our country now is and to show that we can be the best, a patriotism that allows us to be open to the cream of the world but also to use it for our own purposes. The alchemy is, as we have seen, extraordinarily powerful.
Not only do we need to sustain these principles so they become structurally and culturally embedded for continuing Olympic success, but they should also be applied elsewhere. The problem is that they are born of an ideological hybrid that wrong-foots our political class. They are mostly rooted in liberal social democratic values that understand the importance of public investment, public organisation and institution-building. But they also involve an unashamed recognition that in the end individual application, resolve and will to win are indispensable.
David Cameron and London mayor Boris Johnson are happy to celebrate the element that is rooted in competition, elitism and individual effort. But they flounder the instant the conversation moves to the role of public investment and the necessity of understanding and sustaining our unique sport ecosystem, just as nearly every Labour politician flounders the other way round.
The number of British politicians who understand this hybridity – and will argue for it – is tiny. Michael Heseltine always has and Peter Mandelson finally got there in the dying days of the New Labour government, a government that should have been all about such hybridity but was racked by the desire to show its "business friendliness" and warmth to the City.
In today's government, only Vince Cable consistently argues for it and is thus nicknamed the "anti-business" secretary by many on the right whose understanding of what drives success in modern economies and societies is close to zero. The big point is that success depends on recognising that both elements count.
So what to do economically? The first part of the alchemy is for the state to trigger substantial public investment in everything that supports enterprise – communications, science, knowledge generation and transfer, housing and education. And to do so with purpose and consistency. It should be running at least £30bn a year higher than the Treasury currently spends, financed either by taxation or borrowing, depending on the particular economic conjuncture. Currently, it should be financed by borrowing at the lowest interest rates for 300 years. A plan B should begin immediately with such an ambition.
But that is only the start. The next step is to reproduce sector by sector the kind of ecosystem that sport has developed. There needs to be specialist knowledge, commitment, long-term finance and coaching for business and a new web of intermediate institutions that can do for companies in life sciences, robotics and new materials what the RYA, British Gymnastics and British Cycling have done for sportsmen and women. For example, the fledgling network of "catapults" designed to transfer technology into varying sectors must become centres of open innovation, coaching and support and scaled up quickly so they can reproduce the Olympic effect for business.
But for any of that to work, engaged owners have to be committed to their companies over time and banks need to behave more as business coaches – not sellers of credit and of useless financial products. They need to become organisations that attempt to co-grow the companies in an active partnership, not organisations that opt for money-laundering, Libor manipulation or mis-selling. This will demand a wholesale recasting of Britain's system of business ownership and finance, informed by the same pride and ambition for Britain as our athletes and Olympic crowds have shown.. But such focus is meaningless unless informed by an understanding of what to do and a determination to do it.. But first it has to find politicians who understand the necessity of hybridity. They are not Osborne and Camer
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Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney are to star in a film loosely based on the rise and fall of presidential hopeful Howard Dean. The Warner Bros production will be based on a stage-play written by Beau Willimon, a former assistant on the Dean campaign.
Entitled Farragut North, after a Washington Metro station in the heart of the lobbyist district, the film sounds like darker version of Joe Roth's Primary Colours. It tells the tale of a youthful communications guru working for a principled but unorthodox politician who finds himself undone by a slick and corrupt Washington establishment. Currently in rehearsal, Willimon's stage-play is set to open on Broadway in the run-up to the 2008 presidential election. Mike Nichols is directing..
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Fans of Ryan Gosling have taken to the streets outside the New York offices of People magazine after the publication named Bradley Cooper their 2011 sexiest man alive, ignoring the Drive star.
Tens of protesters waved pro-Gosling placards ("Ryan was robbed", "Not MY people") outside People's offices on Avenue of the Americas. They wore masks for the actor's face and chanted slogans like "One, two, three, four, Bradley Cooper's such a bore. Five, six, seven, eight, Ryan Gosling's super great!". Meanwhile, several blocks south, another group of protesters were yelling about finance or business or something.
People's executive editor, Liz Sporkin, came out swinging for her rag. "We stand by our man!" she said in a statement. "Bradley Cooper is the whole package. He's gorgeous, talented, brainy, loves his mom, can cook up a storm and speaks fluent French! Who can argue with that?"
"We are devastated," said Matt Stopera, a writer for celebrity news website BuzzFeed and part of the movement People has labelled "Occupy Sexy". "[Gosling's] left arm alone makes him the sexiest man alive. Hello, look at his abs!"
It's not the first time the magazine has made a controversial choice in their search for the sexy. Previous winners of the award, now in its 26th year, have included a non-actor (John F Kennedy Jnr in 1988) and a couple (Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford in 1993). Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt and George Clooney have all been honoured twice, while Mel Gibson was the first winner in 1985.
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Domaine de la Romanée Conti-Romanée Conti (France): a legend
The most desirable and exclusive Burgundy. Bottles that come onto the market are sold at prices from 600 to thousands of euros in few days. Best drunk after 15 years in bottle to be able to taste the best vintage on the planet. In 2002 some 1990 magnums were auctioned for 5,800 dollars each. Amongst all the vineyards in the Domaine, Romanée is the most exquisite. Its Pinot Noir grapes give a dense ruby coloured wine, delicate in the mouth and very long.
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Leroy Clos Vougeot (France): organic and audacious
With the good work of Lalou Bize-Leroy, organic agriculture is used to produce this Burgundy with an audacious nose, touches of wild fruit and an exquisite smooth and perfumed flavour. A second-place with the soul of big winner.
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Château Haut Brion (France): a fine blend
A blend of Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot produces this elegant Bordeaux vintage of an inscrutable red. In the nose it is mineral, with notes of wild fruit and coffee beans. Smooth and long-lasting in the mouth.
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4.- Château Margaux (France): the dean
At the beginning of the 19th century, the founder of Margaux was the first to separate white wine from red. Since then, excellent Bordeaux is produced on the property. The vintage from 2008 has a fine nose, pure and deep, and a long and fleshy palate.
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5.- Château Cheval Blanc (France): consistency
The consistency of this Bordeaux shows off its incomparable characteristics, whatever the age of the bottle. Its main variety is Cabernet Franc and the extra shades come from Merlot. Very complex, with aromas of quince, fleshy fruit, coconut, toasted coffee and pepper.
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6.- Quinta Do Vale Meao (Portugal): Douro makes its point
Another quality red wine that is relatively affordable. Number one from the fast improving Douro, it comes from the renewal of a tradition that, at the end of the 1950s, gave birth to a classic, the Barca Velha. Mature, long and with distinctive touches of black fruits in the nose and mouth.
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7.- Penfolds Grange (Australia): integrity
This is a model in its country of origin and one of the Top in the world. With great texture, intense and fruity, the Grange remains firmly anchored to its own tradition, and combines the Syrah variety with the Australian climate.
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zgök ‘trail’’ deployment, while Dr. Brad Rosenheim at Tulane University led sediment and water sampling along select Florida Panhandle beaches aboard the RV Pelican earlier this summer. Data from Rosenheim’s experiment will help scientists confirm the presence or absence of oil and the type of weathering that has occurred to the oil in both the sedimentary and shore-line water environment.
For a few months following the GLAD experiment, the drifters will continue to drift along the GoM currents. All CARTHE data derived during the project will be shared with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) to improve their search and rescue operations.
“This joint research operation between the USCG and CARTHE combines our expertise and resources – it is a partnership that can truly save lives,” said Art Allen, a physical oceanographer with the USCG Office of Search and Rescue in Washington, D.C. Allen worked with CARTHE researcher Bruce Dr. Lipphardt from the University of Delaware to release five drifters by aircraft. The drifters deployed by USCG aircraft in advance of the GLAD experiment helped CARTHE researchers to identify appropriate locations for the larger deployment.
CARTHE’s field work at sea, combined with laboratory experiments and the development of interconnected modeling systems, will produce a comprehensive, four dimensional description of the oil/dispersant fate and transport in the GoM, as well as its impact on other coastal environments across all relevant time and space scales. “Our research goes well beyond the Deepwater Horizon incident,”
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The CARTHE program includes twenty-six principal investigators from twelve research institutions in eight states. Together these scientists are engaged in novel research through the development of a suite of integrated models and state-of-the-art computations that bridge the scale gap between existing models and natural processes. For more information about CARTHE, please visit
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Ascalon Catacombs (AC) is a level 35 dungeon that is the first players can undertake in Guild Wars 2. Like the other dungeons in Tyria, there are 3 paths with several bosses overlapping between them all. In this second guide to AC, we take a look at route two: “Detha’s”. – “Detha's.
Room Of Pits
This encounter might appear difficult at first but it’s incredibly easy and incredibly quick. After defeating Kohler you’ll head down into a long rectangular chamber that has an altar towards the back and a series of pull chains. Interacting with these chains results in a series of spikes erupting from the floor, in the water below. When the encounter begins, Gravelings with rush from the back of the room towards the altar (and thus over the spikes) to attack Detha. All you and your party need to do is keep the Gravelings in the middle of the room (away from the altar) so that the spikes, operated by your party, can kill them.
The best tactic here is to have 3 members of your party operate the spikes (one to the front left lever, one to the middle and one to the front right) while the remaining 2 stand in the water in front of Detha. The two tanking at the front will then distract the Graveling’s long enough for them to be spiked, providing Detha enough time to do what she has to do. You will need to keep this up for 20 seconds before the encounter is considered “complete”, at which point you can loot the chest and exit the room, even if there are Graveling’s left.
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- Place 3 members of your party on the chains (front left, middle and front right).
- Have 2 members of your party stand in the water, in the middle to hold the aggro of the Graveling’s.
- Time the activation of the spikes for when there are large amounts of Graveling’s present as the recharge time is quite long.
- While your chain is recharging, if you have ranged AOE skills it’s a good idea to use them on the Graveling’s before re-using the chain.
- Once you’ve survived the onslaught for 20 seconds, the chest will appear for you to loot.
- You can exit the room and ignore any remaining Graveling’s.
Defending Detha
Easily the most difficult part of the dungeon is the final part before the end boss. As with the previous encounters, you have to defend Detha while she repairs three cannons. When Detha fixes a cannon (roughly 30%) a series of ghosts, of varying professions, will spawn. At this point I’d sincerely suggest you kill the Elementalists and Rangers first followed by monks, mesmers, necromancers and warriors. Personally, I always target the Rangers immediately as their single target attacks really hurt and can kill players in seconds. I then target Elementalists because although they hit hard, their attacks are easier to avoid. When the first wave of Ghosts are killed, Detha will finish the repairs and work her way to the next cannon, where she will once again begin the repairs, with more ghosts appearing for a total of 3 waves. Once all the cannons are repaired, the encounter is finished and the final boss will appear.
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- Detha will always repair the lower left hand cannon first, followed by the lower right and upper middle.
- Target the ghosts in the following order: Ranger, Elementalist, Monk, Mesmer, Necromancer and Warrior.
- The Elementalist and Necromancer ghosts can cause a great deal of AOE effects so ensure you stay out of their fire.
- If Detha dies, you will have to start again so ensure you protect her.
- Using skills such as Feedback are an excellent way of combating the heavy hitting Rangers.
- Don’t forget to loot the chest!
The Ghost Eater
The easiest boss in all of Ascalon Catacombs is very similar to the Howling King in Hodgins path with the exception that he doesn’t have his shout, but retains his burrowing attack. Replacing the shout is a skill which causes oozes to appear that do little or no damage. All you and your party need to do here is tank-and-spank, while killing any oozes that appear. It’s also useful if one of your party members uses the Frost cannon to keep the Graveling chilled.
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- Have one member of your party man the Frost cannon
- Attack the Patriarch
- Kill any spawned Oozes
- Profit????
Another great writeup, thank you. Some more tips:
In the room of pits, the left and right chain spikers have 2 chains each, and they can run back and forth between the 2 chains to cause more dmg. The middle guy just has the one chain, as you say. Also, having the 2 tankers run around in opposite circles seems to help (clockwise & counter-clockwise).
Isn't the room of pits event over when the graveling boss dies? Once that's dead, the spikes no longer do any dmg to the other gravelings, so either ignore them and grab the chest (as mentioned above) or kill them normally and proceed onwards.
Whilst protecting Detha, I always kill the necros first, as their conditions are horrible. The kill order is then the same as yours.
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How Jazz Music Can Make You a Better Guitarist
(by guest blogger Chris Huff at Behind the Mixer)
Jazz music, specifically instrumental jazz, forces the listener to focus on the instruments and the arrangement. You can’t get lost singing along. Jazz brings all the instruments to the forefront and it’s there where you will learn a lot.
Great jazz musicians know how to play off each other, how to play behind the other instruments, how have the right sound for their instrument, and how they sound along with the other instruments.
Electric guitarists (that means YOU), have spent a lot of time and energy finding that perfect tone you love to hear from your guitar. It might even be song-specific. But there are two questions I have to ask you; 1) did you set your tone based off what you heard on the stage or from the house speakers? 2) did you ever check that tone against the other instruments?
There is a lot your sound guy can do for shaping your sound and the sound of the band. HOWEVER, the best modifications are made first at the instrument level. Welcome to some extra time in the church sanctuary.
The five steps to a better sounding electric guitar tone;
1. Arrange time with your sound guy to work in the sanctuary when it’s not in use.
2. Set up your equipment in the middle of the sanctuary. Connect to the audio system with the help of the sound tech.
3. Play and listen to how it sounds from the house speakers.
4. Tweak your settings (guitar, effects, amp).
5. Play and repeat step number 4 until you find the best sound.
You’ll find that great tone you thought you had on the stage sounds different in the sanctuary.
Now that you’ve got that great tone, how does it sound against the other instruments?
I’m not saying you have to drag the whole band to the sanctuary. What I am saying is there are specific instruments you should work with during your practices to create the best complimentary sounds. Specifically, the bass player and the keyboard player. The two instruments can fight for audio frequencies that you share and if there is more fighting and too much sharing, your instruments will sound like mud.
For example, a keyboardist playing pads can really fill out the sound of a band. But if the pad sound sounds so much like the electric guitar effects, then the sounds blur together. The sound guy can tweak the frequencies to a limited extent but when the two instruments are so similar in frequency / sound, then the mix (your sound as a band) will suffer.
Therefore, the next time you are practicing with the band, spend some time with the bassist and the keyboardist one-on-one so that you have all found the best patches and effects that prompt the great sound of your respective instruments while also making room for the other instruments in the mix.
What Type of Tomato Are You?
Odd question, definitely, but follow me on this point. The sound tech is like a cook. I can take all the ingredients and create a pot of chili. The success of the chili, however, is based largely on the quality of ingredients I use. Rotten tomatoes, dried out beans, spoiled meat…are these ingredients you’d want to make a pot of chili? View your sound as an ingredient and you’ll find yourself striving to be vine-ripened. And if you want to know what it sounds like to have instruments that make a great pot of chili, look to jazz.
–Chris Huff.
(Ready to learn and laugh? Chris Huff writes about the world of church audio at Behind The Mixer. He covers everything from audio fundamentals to improving instrument sounds. He can even tell you the signs the sound guy is having a mental breakdown.)
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Typical ost from a “sound guy”. In all seriousness, great post. Us guitarists need to start thinking as part of the band with our tone and not just our playing. It’s all fine to say “let’s create space” or, “use layers” or, “other cliche worship guitarist line”, but if our tone doesn’t work with the other musicians, it’s all useless.
Thanks Samuel. I should have mentioned in the article that I play guitar – used to play on a worship team or two or three. It came down to always being on the stage or in the sound booth on Sunday so I picked one so I could spend the rest of the time worshiping with my family. So I’m not saying anything that I haven’t lived.
good points. but i think choice of notes and dynamics are more important than tone. don’t get me wrong, tone is important … but that should be up to the soundguy to figure out the best way to mix on the board via EQ. of course it helps if the source tones are already EQ’ed properly
I really like some of your suggestions. Our keyboard player just recently started experimenting with pads and I think we need to spend some one on one time figuring out how we interact with each other. Especially with her being new to it.
I usually work with the sound guy to get my tone to a place where it melds well. We keep the amps in a back room which I have found helps me understand how I sound to everyone else. Usually if there is an EQ issue we try to fix it on the amp first and only use the eq on the board for quick fixes during a set.
Don’t forget Piano as well. But I agree choice of notes / chords shapes and dyanmics are more important. A good rhythm session also helps.
Notes and chord shapes are definitely important! I had to draw a line somewhere in the article and that was it.
You don’t want your sound guy yelling out “Try that with a G Dim7th instead!”
fwiw, the article was good and you made your points clear about tone … and soundguy yelling the progression would really be something
Hey thanks for the suggestions, I just might do that middle of the sanctuary thing. Unfortunately guitarists like other fanatics on this planet are a bit irrational at times, and we don’t want to even consider the possibility of our sound being sculpted better at any other source than our amp. Maybe because we spent a pretty dollar on it? Maybe because the house speakers can’t match the perfect ones inside our cabinet? Haha insert any other slightly ridiculous reason here.
But every Sunday, it does travel beyond that point, so it’s good to know what it sounds like further down the line. I’ll say it’s transmitted, not replicated, so as not to injure the source *pats amp*. I’ve listened to CD’s of our worship service but I can’t remember how our sound guy records it–if it records the straight in sound before he mixes it or if it records the mix he lays down. Anyway, I am interested in how it sounds to the audience, with the best way hearing it with other instruments.
And on the jazz, playing with other musicians always helps. I’m always impressed by a musician who can meld well.
Hearing your self form the middle of the sanctuary is a great idea. I recently got myself a wireless unit for my guitar and was actually able to stand out in the seats for a few songs during a Sunday am run-through (we’re a portable church meeting in a school’s caf-a-gym-a-torium so Sunday am is the only time I get to hear the main system) and it was really useful hearing myself in that context.
The other option if you can’t get to the middle of the auditorium is to place a recording souce there. I have a little flash based recorder, the zoom something or other, and it is GREAT about showing flaws and successes in performance.
The other thing to consider as well is that sound changes once you got a bunch of people in there, so all that time you spent perfecting your tone is going to have to change again.. ah well.
Thanks for the great post.
What’s the best option for using an amp to get good tone through the house? Direct out through the speaker out or with a dynamic SM58 offcenter?
@BenG – Between the two options? I tend to go with offcenter. Direct out can work but I like capturing that true “from the speaker” sound.
Hi there Chris! Thanks so much for this post, very helpful. As a guitar player I really struggle with finding good tones. There’s so many variables from cords, pickups and amps to pedals, mics and mic placement that it’s a really hard thing for me to find good tones, especially distorted or overdriven tones. Gonna see if I can really get some time to focus on getting a good tone for all applications within the church. Thanks for the tips, and I really love your site!
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Two new projects will support the development of higher education institutions in a number of regions neighboring the EU
The European University Association (EUA) is behind the initiative of these two projects. The first one, entitled ‘Fostering Sustainable and Autonomous Higher Education Systems in the Eastern Neighboring Area’ (ATHENA), will involve universities in Armenia, Moldova and Ukraine and during three years, EUA will organize a series of national workshops with the aim of increasing awareness of the importance of institutional autonomy for the modernization of universities’ management structures.
The second one, entitled ‘Empowering Universities to fulfill their responsibility for Quality Assurance’ (EUREQA), will involve universities from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo and wants to improve their internal quality assurance (QA) processes and in linking them into a comprehensive, all-encompassing system that leads to the enhancement of quality and the creation of a quality culture.
Both projects are co-funded by the Tempus Programme of the European Commission, which supports the modernization of higher education systems in the EU's surrounding area.
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The system is fully compatible with Guralp Systems’ Scream! software for acquiring, displaying, and recording seismic data on a Windows or Linux PC.
Using Scream, students can identify seismic events and investigate their frequency characteristics using filters and spectrograms.
Data can also be recorded for use in larger projects, or shared with other installations over your network or the Internet.
The CMG-EDU is used by the Princeton Earth Physics Project (now run from Indiana University). Additional usage notes have been developed by Indiana University.
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Computex 2008: Day 1 - the festivities begin
Posted by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/02/2008 01:00 PM [ 0 comment(s) ]
Computex 2008 - Day 1
In the beginning there was .. rain, lot's of it!
Hey everyone and welcome to the the first real article from the show floors at the opening day of Computex here in Taiwan. The Computex started with a bit of a rumble as there was a bit of an Earthquake two days ago. It scaled 6 on the Richter scale, and appearantly here in Taipei it was quite noticeable. Nothing went really wrong and .. well I don't think anyone even cares here, in what is easily one of the most populated cities in the world.
Anyway, as good as things are organized inside the buidlings, outside it's a tad more depressing. The rain season started and it pretty much rains here all day, combined the humidity and temperatures make it a 'special' experience. That does make some very nice photo's though.
None the less, Computex ... today TAITRA officially opened the Computex with a press conference. Guru3D quickly attended as well.
Of course on openings day some dancing girls can't be left out. Before you start emailing us, yes! Loads and loads of nice looking booth-babes. Once I return from Taipei later this week I will finalize such articles as Internet access over here is pretty bad, and we do have loads and loads of photo's to cover and process.
But with that being said, let's enter the exhibition floors, we'll start at the 4th floor of the Nangang facility. Since Point of View sponsors our Computex stay, I figured it would only be fair to start with them. Head on over to the next page please where we will start covering the booths.
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Discussing the issues that impact economic development in Gwinnett and the region.
The Partnership Gwinnett Summit is an annual event that provides a unique opportunity to meet with leaders from both the public and private sectors guiding the economic and community development of Gwinnett. Panel presentations and discussions featuring leading local and state experts will address overall economic viability of Gwinnett County along with special sessions on workforce development, healthcare, education, tourism, and more.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
DULUTH - Three Duluth residents are vying for a vacant seat on the Duluth City Council.Billy Jones, George Rhode and Elise Whitworth are running for Council Post 3, a seat being vacated by retiring Councilman Jim Hall. All three candidates agree the struggling economy is a big challenge the council will have to face. Jones, who served on the Citizens' Budget Committee, said he knows how hard it was for the city to balance the fiscal year 2010 budget. "I know FY '11 will be just as hard, if not harder," he said. The lifelong Duluth resident has been active in the community for years, volunteering for the annual Duluth Fall Festival and serving on the city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. He also filled an unexpired term on the City Council in 1992. "I decided to step it up a notch," he said on why he decided to run for the council. "I have five generations living in the city limits. I have a very vested interest in the city and its future." As the economy recovers, Jones said the council needs to have a prioritized plan to address the city's infrastructure needs and improve the roads and parks. Rhode, who has lived in Duluth for 28 years, has also been active in the community, serving in several civic organizations and as chairman of the Duluth City Alcohol Review Board. "I decided it was time to step forward to the front line," he said. "I feel like I could bring a new perspective and energy to the City Council." If elected, Rhode said he will work with employees to learn as much as possible about city operations. He wants to tackle economic redevelopment projects, such as revitalizing the Buford Highway corridor, and build a senior activity building at W.P. Jones Park. As for redeveloping the old City Hall block, Rhode said some parts of some of the buildings must be torn down. "I'd like to see as much saved as possible because it's part of the character of the city," he said. Whitworth, a longtime Gwinnett County resident who moved to Duluth more than two years ago, said the city's major challenges are aging infrastructure, economic decline and job loss, and overdevelopment of retail space. She said she wants to serve as a catalyst for increased job opportunities, sustainable economic growth, improving infrastructure, crime prevention, increasing sidewalks, walking and biking trails, preserving Duluth's historical heritage and hometown character, and advancing the fine arts. "I am concerned about the direction our country is taking and the impact it has on our local citizens and economy," she said. "I want to be an active part of the solution and serve as an advocate for Duluth families and businesses, preserving and advancing core values of faith, family, and flag." Incumbents Marsha Anderson Bomar and Jim Dugan are running unopposed. SideBar: Post 3 Post 3 · Billy Jones · Age: 50 · Education: Some college · Occupation: Project manager at Cisco · Political experience: Filled an unexpired term on the City Council in 1992 · Family: Divorced; children David, 28, and Dana, 23, granddaughter Madison, 2 · If Elected: With five generations of family living in Duluth, Jones said he'll bring a unique perspective on the history and needs of the city. "No other candidate has that connection," he said. · Elise Whitworth · Age: 61 · Education: Bachelor's in psychology from Medical University of the Americas, master's in adult education from the University of Georgia and master's in divinity from Emory University · Occupation: Online faculty with Axia College of the University of Phoenix · Political Experience: Appointed to Duluth Ethics Board in 2009 · Family: Single · If elected: "I will facilitate increased job opportunities, improved infrastructure, crime prevention, multi-generational planning, sustainable growth and preservation of our historical heritage and hometown character." · George Rhode · Age: 60 · Education: Bachelor's in business administration from Southern Illinois University and graduate work in hospital and rehabilitation administration · Occupation: Retired from U.S. Army · Family: Single · If Elected: "I plan to work closely on the Buford Highway redevelopment (and the) 'Old City Hall' block and secure funding to build a senior activity building."
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Tuesday, July 26, 2011
DORAVILLE -- Firefighters from Gwinnett and DeKalb counties helped contain an ammonia leak at a Doraville refrigeration facility Monday night.
Gwinnett County firefighters and the department's Hazmat team responded to Nordic Cold Storage on the 4300 block of Pleasantdale Road at about 8:15 p.m., finding the business already evacuated, spokesman Capt. Tommy Rutledge said.
Calling in DeKalb County's Hazmat crew as backup at the scene near the Gwinnett-DeKalb line, firefighters donned special suits and carried monitors as they entered the building to find the leak coming from a "pump packing valve," Rutledge said.
Employees at the 24-hour operation were already outside the business when emergency personnel arrived. They worked with a crew from Nordic Cold Storage in order to locate the leak, Rutledge said.
"Firefighters from the Hazmat team said that the safety systems in place seemed to have functioned as designed in isolating the leak," Rutledge said.
Anhydrous ammonia is often used as a refrigerant in large-area cold storage facilities, Rutledge said.
"It is a high irritant to skin and the respiratory system," Rutledge said. "It can be very hazardous if you're exposed to it or breathe it in, but, again, it was isolated to the building itself in a particular area."
The leak was under control by about 10 p.m.
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As of Monday, July 16, 2012
There's nothing like a night out to pick up your spirits. And when it's National Night Out, it also sends the message that everyone in the community is of the same spirit when it comes to fighting crime.. Lilburn was one of them.
This year, under the leadership of SafetySmart Lilburn President Margot Ashley, residents will gather once more to show their support for their community.
"(National Night Out) is designed to send a message to criminals letting them know neighborhoods are organized and fighting back," Vice-President Teresa Czyz said.
And it's not just about a few volunteers putting up posters for a party.
"Gwinnett Police Department offers community building organization to subdivisions that garner 65 percent participation. Three initial meetings are led by Eric Rooks, followed by yearly meetings," Czyz said, noting that NNO provides a good opportunity for people to get out and connect with each another.
But let's get back to this big night out. The organization has gathered more than 50 sponsors so far for the Aug. 7 event at Lilburn City Park. Many local restaurants are donating food and drinks. Entertainment will include music, cookie decorating, police K-9 demonstrations and a chance to see the latest firefighting technology up close.
The activities will take place from 6 to 8:30 p.m. But it doesn't stop there. After the main event, the celebration goes on. And even those who are unable to attend NNO in the park still have the chance to participate by "Lighting Up Lilburn."
"This year, SafetySmart Lilburn wants everyone in the entire Greater Lilburn area to participate. And it's easy. All you have to do is turn on an outside light or porch light from 8 to 10 p.m." Czyz said.
Participation in NNO can be as simple as that. It does not have to be a major event in order to be included in the national statistics. Registration information and ideas are available at
Norcross will be participating in its first NNO from 4 to 9 p.m. in Thrasher Park, tying in with the community spirit of the Whistle Stop Farmers Market which conveniently runs at the same time.
Registration is still open, and I repeat, this does not have to be complicated. With all the online communication we have available it should be easy enough for every community in the county to get the word out. And how cool it would be to support every policeman in the county by following that familiar advertising slogan of "We'll leave the light on for you."
Susan Larson is a writer from Lilburn. Email her at [email protected].
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Susan 10 months ago
Correction:
David Chandley is not available to be master of ceremonies as I had understood him to be.
Teresa Czyz is the main organizer, but is not directly involved with recruiting vendors and sponsors. Margot Ashley, Steve Holevoet and Demetrius Galfas are the primary recruiters.
sarahldavis 10 months ago
Great idea! Neighbors meeting each other is a big part of the solution.
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Don Debats (Flinders University)
Published on H-Pol (May, 1998)
One of the reasons to hope that the effort to re-invigorate American political history succeeds is the flow-on effect such a revival might have for the development of studies of the American state. The changing role of government, especially the central government, and the relationship of the citizenry to that state should be major themes in the study of American history, but this is not the case. Yet the role of the state is at the heart of an essential difference between today's, no less than yesterday's, political parties. Many scholars suspect that the growth of bureaucracy has had important consequences for the downturn in voter participation, just as the lateness of the growth of the state in the United States helps explain some of the most important and enduring differences between the United States and other Western nations. Certainly the comparative theme in American history would be stronger than it presently is if there were a broader history of the American state. And finally, at a time when everywhere in the West the state appears to be shrinking (though hardly withering away), it is interesting to ask about the earlier circumstances which led to the growth of state activity. One of the interesting claims to emerge from Canadian studies of the state is the notion that governmental roles grew in response to increasing levels of international trade in order to provide a new level of protection for the citizenry against the vagaries of the international economic order. If we understood the growth of the state in those terms, we might be even more alarmed by the sudden decline of state activity at the very time that global economic interdependency reaches new heights. The state and the growth of the state are rich historical themes with broad integrative powers. Moreover, a long run historical perspective on the rise and relative decline of state activity is the best means by which we can evaluate the changes of the moment.
Ballard Campbell's book is a helpful step in each of these respects. The focus here is on the growth of U.S. government, and he means essentially the government in Washington, from the late 1880s to more or less the present. Campbell argues that a fundamental shift in the scope of state activity occurred in the late 1880s with the Cleveland Administration effectively separating a past in which the central government performed few functions from the modern era of a vast and activist state. But of course the actual process of change has been more gradual, both in the development of state activity and in the seeming retreat of government in the modern era. Campbell sees the shift as involving four stages of civic expansion.
The first, the longest period, stretched from federation to the 1870s. The "Republican Polity" reflected the traditional view--the Revolutionary fear--of governmental power. Government performed few functions, had limited revenue which it derived largely from indirect rather than direct taxes. Government, certainly at the federal level, was small because a wider range of functions was deemed dangerous to notions of republican virtue. The fact that the national government had access only to indirect taxes constituted a powerful limitation on any wish to expand the governmental role. Locally based property taxes were important, but closely watched and always contested. Citizen involvement was high in the absence of a direct governmental bureaucratic role simply because reliance on temporarily commissioned citizens was the only means by which important public functions, particularly road building and school construction, could happen.
The "Transitional Polity," from the 1880s to the 1920s, saw an increasing level of governmental regulation and higher indirect taxes. The Interstate Commerce Commission serves as the quiescent transitional agency. Campbell sees Cleveland's 1886 "State of the Union" address as a clear departure from so much of the "small government" thought which had preceded it, especially in Cleveland's call for relief for those financially destroyed by the collapse of the Freedman's Bank and in his call for a pension bill for all Civil War veterans in preference to the previous policy of individual claimants. And of course there was the ISCC. Campbell provides telling reminders of this smallness of government against which one must set these innovations--the governor's office in Wisconsin which consisted of five people, including the janitor, and of Cleveland answering the White House telephone and on occasion the front door. But the changes came gradually, reflecting a "great debate," a rehearsal for that conclusively conducted in the New Deal era, about the proper role of government.
The incrementalism of the transition period is captured in the growth of the "on the ground" functions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In due course, the Department began radio broadcasting as well as purchasing of farm surplus. County Agents became features of virtually every county of the United States, and in many counties there was a female agent to address the problems rural women encountered. Government was indeed proving to be a solution to many problems.
No doubt the most controversial part of the book is the treatment of the "Claimant Polity," stretching from the 1930s to the 1970s. It is not difficult to demonstrate that this short period involved a categorical shift in the responsibilities of government, building on the Cleveland departure but involving new levels of activism at all levels of government and demonstrating as well a new capacity to marshal power. In part, this was made easier by Hoover who, in a re-statement of traditional views, Campbell sees as holding firmly to the older understanding of a limited governmental role, regardless of the circumstances. War was of course a more powerful impetus to expansion than even Depression. In the midst of WWII, federal government expenditure was ten times the highest level of the Depression era. This was possible only because direct taxation by the federal government became part of virtually all citizens' lives. Social welfare became a central responsibility of the federal government and direct taxes rose accordingly.
Why did government grow so fast? Campbell advances four explanations--genuine responses to industrialism and its consequent dislocations, pressure from interest groups seeking favors, voters who want and come to expect new levels of governmental programs, and finally government itself in seeking its own growth. Campbell's argument is that all of these are both interrelated and important. This is not the most compelling argument, though one cannot but agree that there is no "magic bullet," as Campbell says, to explain the growth of government. If the enormous expansion of the state for war and welfare are familiar themes, Campbell is very useful in denoting the price which underlay this expansion. Taxes were one issue, excessive levels of regulation was another; adding power to both objections was the perception, increasing since the Kennedy administration, that big government was slowing down positive change.
Enter the "Restrained Polity" perfectly represented by the Reagan and Bush, and Clinton, administrations. Government, Reagan said, was the problem, not the solution. Tax cuts and privitization became central issues of national political debate. Increasingly critics perceived that the state was behaving as some of the republicans of so long ago said it would--for the few at the expense of the many. But Campbell makes clear that while the language of the "Restrained Polity" may resemble that of the old republicans, in fact there has been a sea change. The old fear of central government which animated the republican ideology is gone or at least largely displaced. The state under Reagan, after all, expanded; it did not contract. Taxes were reduced and capped, which meant that government income slowed. But spending rose and debt grew enormously. Perhaps more importantly in terms of Campbell's developmental trajectory, there is no evidence that Reagan or his administration were as afraid or distrustful of government power as the true republicans were. The modern Republicans pushed harder to reduce taxes than they did to reduce spending. Military spending expanded enormously. The republican era is not upon us and will not return. Americans have come to accept large government.
In delivering this message, there are some inevitable problems. The most serious goes to the core of the book's purpose and market. Is this a textbook or a monograph? In one sense, the sheer vastness of the subject constantly pushes the book to high levels of generalization and treatment. Campbell accentuates this sense of a generalized account by providing too many formal definitions and thinly developed models from other areas. There are, for example, echoes of systems theory's feedback loops in the discussion of the explanation for the growth of government in the "Claimant Era." Some parts of the general story are familiar; a closer focus would provide the different perspective necessary to the re-telling. This is always a difficult matter to gauge but a lesser treatment of the familiar would leave more space for the specific. Even the most general sections would be improved with a clearer statement of how this book intersects with the standard works in the field. Campbell does not see his state as particularly "maternalist" in the fashion of Theda Skocpol. Nor does he emphasize the development of administrative capacity to the degree that this dominated the earlier work of Stephen Skowronek, though the ability to marshal power and act directly upon the citizenry are central points in Campbell's argument. This book places greater emphasis on tax and revenue flow than either of the above, and it would be useful to draw out more fully the differences and convergences in at least these three quite different approaches to the history of state development in the United States.
Second, the aspect of the book which most effectively served as a counterpoint to the excessively generalized account of the ebb and flow of federal power is the use of two case studies--Arlington, Massachusetts, and Birmingham, Alabama--introduced here as exemplars of the impact these developments had on ordinary lives. This side by side treatment of the macro and micro levels of state development is a highly imaginative and potentially very successful aspect of the book's methodology. Unhappily, the process is not sustained, and the two case studies become less and less visible as the book proceeds. Now perhaps there is a message to be read into that trajectory, but if so it is not stated and one suspects that there in the end was just not room for the effort to trace national changes in any detail back to the local level. A dramatic alternative would have been alternating national and local chapters with the latter exploring the consequences of changes in the former. The gradual and unexplained weakening of the Arlington and Birmingham case studies reduces the book's effectiveness.
Third, in line with the above, the book would be stronger with a more sustained and systematic focus on governmental activity at the state and local levels. Campbell notes that state and local governments were "the workhorses of the republican polity" (p. 16). These governments were never "small," and certainly they always impacted on the citizenry; indeed state and local governments were for all intents and purposes the most important levels of government activity until the modern period. This in itself, of course, undermines a notion of all government as being "small" before the late nineteenth century. Local government, in the republican era, involved tremendous numbers of citizens, often in the form of independent boards and commissions, both with large and rapidly changing memberships. A philosophy of low taxation ensured that most of the activity of local government was in lieu of a bureaucracy. Functions--especially road building in rural areas--could only happen if it depended on citizen labor. Road districts were created and road taxes levied, but the expectation was that the tax would be acquitted by labor on the roads of each district. Reality and ideology were mutually reinforcing. All of this deserves a greater emphasis, even if only to help sustain the argument of the book positing a clear conceptual break between the traditional and modern worlds. Likewise, the older "commonwealth literature" on the state--largely ignored here--might have been usefully deployed. Our understanding of the earlier periods of state activity would be further enhanced if alongside the notions of republicanism there were also some attention to the legal philosophy prevailing which saw the purpose of government being the release of private energy. The book could have done more with the fact of the growth of bureaucracy and the implications of this growth for traditional republican notions of political engagement.
Fourth, there is little reflection here on the consequences and costs likely to be associated with the disappearance and/or privitization of state services. At one point Campbell notes that government grew "as a mechanism to reduce the risks of an unpredictable and sometimes harsh world" (p. 53). That point could be drawn out more carefully and used as a evaluative ground against which to consider the modernizing trends which seem to leave more and more citizens at the mercy of a newly deregulated world.
Against these complaints should be set the great virtues of this book. First it is a valuable step in the right direction. The state is a tremendously useful focus for political inquiry and one which, while common overseas, seems remarkably muted in the United States. The long term development tables in the book are marvelous; the effort in putting them together must have been enormous. They chart and summarize whole eras of state development, especially of the growth in federal government activity and costs. The Growth of Government certainly fills an important gap in charting exactly that. If the republican polity remains less fully discussed than might be the case, the discussion of the growth of government during the transition and New Deal eras is excellent. Campbell shows convincingly that government responsibilities at all levels, state and local as well as national, expanded enormously. In the aftermath of WWII, management of the economy became a federal government responsibility. Federal outlays were suddenly twice those of the most expansive year of Hoover's administration; federal debt went from 16 percent of GDP in 1929 to 46 percent in 1939. The "great debate" changed from a fixation over the degree of government power to a debate over the uses of governmental power.
Second, the book puts the complaint about government spending in a useful context. The U.S. remains, by European standards, a low tax nation, but taxes have gone up enormously in the period. Campbell notes that in Cleveland's era, most Americans were not paying any direct governmental tax at all; the Civil War experiment with income tax had collapsed under adverse court rulings and the 16th Amendment was yet thirty years in the distance. Only a minority of people directly paid property taxes because only a minority of people owned property.
When the income tax did come in 1913, only one percent of the workforce was eligible and the maximum rate was seven percent. By the end of WWII, however, two thirds of workers were paying income tax. Congress provided for these increasingly large taxes to be withheld, reducing the visibility of the tax bite, if not the pain. The surge in the flow of revenue to Washington was under way and would not slow for forty years; the federal government came to capture three quarters of all tax dollars. And, Campbell insists, revenue flow drove expenditure programs. Chapter Six on income security is outstanding in its own right and as an example of that process. Campbell reminds us that the federal government spends three times the amount on non-means tested insurance programs such as social security than it does on means tested programs. The former are virtually sacrosanct; the later are the red meat of political debate. The elderly universally receive social security; only a third of the poor receive welfare.
Third, the book traces the rise of executive government, beginning with the New Deal's focus on the presidency. Campbell emphasizes, however, that the same trend toward reliance and focus upon executive government is evident at all levels. In the "republican polity," the emphasis was on short political careers and short terms in office while the "Claimant Polity" helped keep bureaucrats and politicians in power for long periods. Congress responded in a telling way by creating its own retirement scheme in 1946. The republican era rested upon a largely passive executive--a "low-key stewardship"--whereas in the modern polity the executive has become the core of government and the presidency, "the dominant institution in the nation's civic life" (p. 209).
Finally Campbell shows how the worm turned, how government increasingly came to be seen as a problem rather than a solution to a problem. The first signs emerged in the Kennedy Administration with the argument that greater growth would be possible through curtailing taxes. A second shot was fired in the early 1970s in the increasingly vocal resistance to the vast regulatory system then in place. Campbell sees a rather Machiavellian aspect to this process. Money, he argues, became the lifeblood of the "Claimant Polity" and the most lucrative taxes were tied to the most popular spending programs. This explains why Reagan's presidency was decisive, but not in the ways we often think it was. No new ideology was put in place; the old republicanism did not re-emerge. Programs (some) grew and debt rose. But the flow of revenue changed dramatically. Reagan reduced taxes by 25 percent, reduced the tax brackets to three and, perhaps even more importantly, indexed the brackets for inflation while simultaneously launching a decisive war on inflation itself. The slowing of inflation and the indexing of bracket thresholds ended "bracket creep" with its painless flow of ever increasing levels of revenue to the central government. The expansionary state stopped expanding. Policy changed because the revenue flow, the lifeline of the "Claimant Polity," slowed. Campbell, it should be clear, is no fan of unrestrained government growth, which, as he notes, confuses responsibility and concentrates power while all the time building the claims for yet more revenue. The "Claimant Society" said that government should respond to needs and perceived needs; the problem was that it became increasingly difficult to obfuscate, to use Campbell's word, the true costs of special benefits.
This is a valuable book, broad in its scope and thus capable of charting over two centuries the expansion and contraction of governmental, especially federal government, activity in the United States. The costs and benefits of that expansion and contraction are judiciously stated. Campbell helps provide a sense of our own time in this large scale pattern. The Reagan presidency was important for the seriousness of its attack on at least some programs; while welfare was the easy target, even Social Security--hitherto sacrosanct--was curtailed in the most substantial changes in the life of the program. Yet the state was not cut back dramatically by Reagan, Bush or Clinton. Only the rate of increase has been slowed. The goals were limited--lower taxes and less welfare.
Far more important is the continuity in the ideas which Campbell sees as rising to ascendancy in the "Claimant Polity" and continuing into the "Restrained Polity." Today government is less feared and more trusted than it was in the past. There is a broad social consensus in favor of governmental programs to support education, to protect the environment, to conduct drug education programs and to protect the health of individual citizens. The powerful state, Campbell argues, is here to stay. Our time is a moment in the continuing great debate over the role of the state; the underlying consensus in favor of governmental action and the faith in the capacity of government to act positively will no doubt loom larger to future historians than the modest restraints on the growth of the state which recent years have seen. Campbell concludes that the present is best understood as continuing the long-standing debate between one set of values emphasizing the necessity of individuals to be free to flourish and another set which emphasizes the need for government to provide the security necessary for the flourishing of freedom. Campbell helps us understand why it is that the consensus of the moment revolves more around the latter proposition.:
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Apr 17, 2013 Nick Vogt Programming
To start logging errors, open up your php.ini file. Scroll down to or search for the line that has the error_log variable. It will probably look like one of these...
Mar 4, 2013 Nick Vogt Programming
In each of these web addresses, replace VIDEOID with the eleven character long YouTube video ID...
- When a video has less than or equal to 300 views, YouTube counts each view normally, with low validity checking. These videos are usually low-impact videos intended for small audiences like family and friends, so making sure views are legitimate isn't super important.
You can enter these commands directly into the Minecraft server program or proceed them with a slash (/) in the chat window in-game (as long as you have operator permission)...
Aug 2, 2012 Nick Vogt Programming
Jul 29, 2012 Nick Vogt Web and Internet
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Mofaz sets his sights high
A mistake or two by Netanyahu, such as his withdrawn ultimatum regarding the referendum over disengagement, is all that separates Shaul Mofaz from a victory in the next battle for the leadership of the Likud and the premiership.
It is possible that the next government, the disengagement government, which people mistakenly insist on calling a "unity government," will be the last government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. On the assumption that the new government is intact when it reaches the elections in November 2006, when the next Knesset completes its term, Sharon will be 82 years old. The prime minister himself generally says that he has taken it upon himself to disengage Israel from the Gaza Strip, and that he is leaving the challenge of the final status agreement to the next generation of leaders. The evacuation of a few thousand settlers from Gush Katif and from the northern part of the West Bank is only a preliminary to the withdrawal from most of the territory of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. After the disengagement plan pushed the Labor Party into the back seat, it is reasonable to assume that this important and difficult task will devolve partly on the next leader of the Likud.
The prevailing opinion in recent years is that anyone who doesn't want Sharon will get Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, according to public opinion polls, a mistake or two by Netanyahu, such as his withdrawn ultimatum regarding the referendum over disengagement, is all that separates Shaul Mofaz from a victory in the next battle for the leadership of the Likud and the premiership. On the eve of the last elections, the High Court of Justice managed to stop the general, who was in a rush to get into the Knesset, and forced him to make do with the cabinet. Now Mofaz is already a full-blown party activist. He has his own "camp," and his own "candle-lighting ceremony," and an emotional "Likud now and forever" speech. If everything goes as planned, next Rosh Hashanah he will already be inviting his friends to drink a toast at the Fair Grounds in Tel Aviv. Just like Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Health Minister Danny Naveh.
When Major General (res.) Ami Ayalon, who became a civilian over four years ago, expressed interest in becoming prime minister, it was claimed that he was rushing from the army into politics. Lieutenant General (res.) Mofaz cooled off for barely one winter out of uniform before entering the Defense Ministry and registering for the Likud, and he is already storming the Prime Minister's Office and galloping ahead in the polls. It is difficult to understand why Mofaz is enjoying special treatment, and not only from the right wing. Why did Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon alone bear the criticism for the epidemic of harming innocent Palestinian citizens, the "confirmed killing," abuse of dead bodies and humiliation at the checkpoints?
Mofaz always remains untouched, as though the concept of "ministerial responsibility" has nothing to do with him. The defense minister is not called to account for the expansion of the outposts located within his area of jurisdiction, nor for the uprooting of thousands of olive trees and theft under the noses of Israel Defense Forces commanders. He didn't find it necessary to apologize for the scandalous planning of the route of the separation fence, which caused Israel a great deal of political and economic damage, and dealt a mortal wound to the fabric of life of thousands of Palestinians. According to his recorded whisper into Sharon's ears, had it been up to Mofaz, instead of force majeure quietly removing late Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat from the area, an IDF would have been sent to the Muqata, and the territories would have been burning.
Until it became clear that Sharon is determined to pass the disengagement plan, and that most of the public stands behind him, Defense Minister Mofaz openly opposed IDF withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Lieutenant General Mofaz did the same on the eve of the withdrawal from Lebanon, and at the height of the negotiations over the Camp David 2 accord, and the Clinton proposal. Regarding Mofaz's contribution to igniting the territories - Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was foreign minister at the time, wrote that then minister Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, who coordinated the effort to achieve a cease-fire at the start of the intifada, expressed fury at the fact that the army under Mofaz's command "was conducting on the ground an entirely different war from the one ordered by the political echelon" ("A Front Without a Rearguard: Voyage to the Boundaries of the Peace Process," published in Hebrew by Yedioth Ahronoth).
Ben-Ami testifies that "the IDF operated in this crisis according to its own ideals ... which in the final analysis led to an expansion of the cycle of violence." The distorted image of a soft-spoken general among belligerent political activists is placing in the front ranks a person who sees the world through the gun sight - just when there is a special need for a statesman with broad horizons.
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A tall, graying pilot in a U.S. Air Force uniform walked through the General Staff Building in Tel Aviv last month with a thoughtful, or maybe worried, expression on his face. This was Lt. Gen. Paul J. Selva, assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon, following his meeting with a pilot in an Israel Air Force uniform, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, head of the army's Plans and Policy Directorate.
Selva is the Pentagon official who accompanies Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her trips abroad. He also has another role left over from the days of former secretary Condoleezza Rice and the Annapolis summit: He is the road map peace plan's kashrut supervisor.
The Obama administration's statement that the Annapolis understandings no longer obligate Israel has no real substance. At bottom, in Jerusalem as well as in Washington, there is continuity between administrations. Selva, like Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, who is building up the Palestinian security forces, was held over from the previous administration to the current administration. If Israel wants former president George W. Bush's vague promise to former prime minister Ariel Sharon - that any Israeli-Palestinian deal will recognize "the new realities on the ground" - to obligate Bush's successor, President Barack Obama, then there must also be continuity from Sharon through former prime minister Ehud Olmert to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Interim agreements have always been considered nonbinding until there is a comprehensive agreement. The talks between Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, or between former foreign minister Tzipi Livni and former Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qurei, would not have obligated Livni, either, had she formed the current government. But practically speaking, national, organizational and personal memory form the basis for continued talks. There is no such thing as a clean slate. There are only slippery leaders.
Nor is Annapolis dead in a more profound sense. American policy has two stages: It starts with ana, which means "please" in Hebrew, and moves on to polis, which means "police" in Turkish. If polite urging does not suffice, we will glimpse the international policeman's baton - that of military, economic and diplomatic aid, and also that of the police force that hightails it out of the neighborhood when war breaks out between gangs who murder each other. A degree of isolationism, expressed in bumping Israel and its neighbors down on the list of international locales to which the White House gives its attention.
Fear of the impact of a failed diplomatic process led by America formed the background to both the talks with Egypt in 1977 and those with the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1993: Both began courtesy of a third party (Morocco, Norway), but were handed over to the Americans as a draft account when the time to close it arrived. Processes that begin with an American initiative - such as the talks with Syria, from the Madrid summit to Shepherdstown - have never succeeded, even if through no fault of the mediators.
The indirect talks between Netanyahu and Abbas, after nearly 17 years of direct talks between former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and his successors on the Israeli side and Yasser Arafat and his successors on the Palestinian side, reflect a regression presented as progress. One must look not only at the talks' exterior casing, but rather at the ridiculous deal that ended with each side getting what it wants - Netanyahu the casing and Abbas what isn't inside it. The former will be able to say he talked, and the latter, that he has proved there is no one to talk to and nothing to discuss.
Israel's real problem is not with the Palestinians or the Syrians; its real problem is with itself: It has no self-definition. Israel has not yet decided what it wants to be when it is no longer so big. It is avoiding actions that accord with what is ostensibly its guiding idea - "to be a free nation in our land" - because it is still not clear on what our land is, who belongs to our nation and how concepts of freedom, independence and sovereignty should be implemented in an impossibly knotty world of dependency and reciprocal relations. Therefore, Israel's representatives conduct empty, conditional talks, on the implicit assumption that toward the end, they will have to go back to those who have sent them to receive the authorization without which the talks had no point to begin with.
Without an overarching idea, a vision from which to derive the moves that together make up a path, Israel is subject to endless turbulence, which is making it seasick. It has only political captains, who fear to lead and whose message is "both this and that." "Situation assessments" and "staff work" are the faded substitutes for statesmanship, leadership and winning the hearts and minds.
Prior to real proximity talks between Israel and itself, any contacts with any Arab party will become proximity fuses - detonators of bombs, landmines, booby traps or missile and rocket warheads, which cause explosions when the intended victim draws near.
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Homecoming Hairstyles
Homecoming is a special occasion. Most prominently hairstyles for homecoming should have a certain charm and a wicked feeling. Wearing the right hairstyle that suits you the most can make you seems more sexy and attractive for this event. The best virtue is that of youth and hence being yourself is imperative. Pick sprinkles in your hair of fluorescent hues that equal with your dress. There are a lot of types of homecoming haircut styles to prefer from. So, ensure pick one that is fashionable, elegant and suits your personality as well.
Homecoming Braid Hair Styles: Braids are admirable picks for a homecoming party. From the elaborately styled ones to the elegant simple ones, they can be enormously stylish and bring a grace to the wearer.
Updo Homecoming Styles: If you would like to go for the ‘classic’ formal style, Updo style will be the best bet. Hair spray or gel might be required to keep the style stay smooth for a long period of time.
Accessorized Homecoming Hair Styles: If you desire a styling that can be done fast, yet makes you seem trendy and elegant, accessorizing is just the answer for you. Add hair pins, jewels and other reflecting stuff to alter a daily style into the one appropriate for homecoming events.
Tips for Homecoming hairstyles
- Apply scrunching gels for the natural glance.
- While hair is wet you utilize a frizz control product. This is very vital.
- Make use of bobby pins on a slack bun for natural wavy hair.
- Apply a little hairspray making the hair smoother and providing some extra dazzling look to it.
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Humans and robots once lived in peace until the robots decided to take over! The Hero stole the Robot Leader's life stone and then sent wave after wave of robot grunt at your tower! Hold them off with robotic turrets until you can recruit enough robots to your side to turn the world back into a peaceful coexistence. In the meantime, collect cash for upgrades, gather an army, and turn those bots into scrap metal!
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Use the mouse to buy and position the gun turrets and call upon the robotic powers.
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Experience the E3 2012 Halo 4 Waypoint Community Event with the pros of Major League Gaming.
MLG: Halo 4 Multiplayer Round 2
MLG pros face off in Halo 4's new Infinity Slayer gametype for the first time at E3 2012.
Neighbor Gameplay on Adrift
See Halo 4's Infinity Slayer gametype on Adrift through the sights of MLG pro, Neighbor.
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Event Calendar
Events for November 11, 2012
New Jersey Ballet presents The Nutcracker with Live Orchestra
When: From 12/14/2012 to 12/24/2012
Celebrate the winter season with the iconic holiday story of The Nutcracker, as performed by the New Jersey Ballet at the Mayo Performing Arts Center. With the story told through the magic of dance, patrons will be enchanted by the dancing, live orchestra, special effects, and holiday magic. Reserve a hotel suite at Hamilton Park Hotel and relax after the performance.
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On Saturday, the Year of the Dragon draws to a close. 新年快乐! In other equally important news, Purdue gets a shot at payback for the blowout loss they suffered in East Lansing last month. In addition to their eccentric chest-thumping techniques and hidden cameras, here are some highlights of the statistical profile the Spartans will be bringing into Mackey:
1 They haven't been quite as awesome as their record suggests.
Although they remain tied for first in the Big Ten, Michigan State has not exactly been dominant. With the exception of their blowout victory against us (yay!), all of their wins have been by fewer than 12 points. Compare this to Michigan, five of whose victories have been by more than 12.
Or look at the Spartans' conference efficiency margin. Good, but not great. More Naomi Watts than Scarlett Johanssen. (I'm talking hotness, not necessarily acting chops.)
This is not to disparage the Spartans. I'd be quite happy to wake up with either their record or their efficiency margin (or Naomi Watts for that matter). But the tempo-free perspective reminds us that Izzo's team is not quite the juggernaut that their conference record would suggest.
What to watch for: Do the Spartans come out looking like their record or their efficiency margin? The preview at The Only Colors included this interesting tidbit: During its last two games, MSU has shot 33% during the first half and 76% in the second. Their last two games have also been at home. If Purdue can hound them into another poor first half, perhaps momentum and the road environment can finally get them to wilt under pressure.
2 They're good at limiting opponents' scoring opportunities.
The Spartans are 3rd in the Big Ten at forcing turnovers. They do so on 19.1% of opponents' possessions. And when their opponents do get shots off, the Spartans collect most of the rebounds--71.3%, good for 2nd in the Big Ten. Now it just so happens that limiting turnovers and getting offensive rebounds are two of the (very small list of) things that Purdue doesn't suck at, so this will be an area where Boilermaker and Spartan strengths are in conflict. Dominating either category would be a big advantage for either team.
What to watch for: As far as rebounding goes, how big is our lineup? All of our bigs grab offensive boards at a decent rate, but they can't grab them if they're sitting on the bench. In the last game against MSU, Purdue's post players got 79 minutes. If that happens again, there's no excuse not to compete on the offensive glass.
As far as turnovers go, does Ronnie continue to value the ball like he has the last two games? Since finishing as co-champion of the impromptu turnover competition that broke out during the Indiana game, Ronnie has only surrendered the ball twice. But Michigan State is much better at forcing turnovers than either Northwestern or Penn State is. A third consecutive good performance today would be some solid evidence that young Ronnie has turned the corner as far as ball security goes.
3 They don't take very many threes.
For the conference season, about 27% of Michigan State's shots have been from distance, fewer than everyone in the Big Ten except for Purude and Ohio State. That may seem surprising since their threes killed us in East Lansing, but even in that game, fewer than 25% of the Spartans' shots were from behind the arc--the problem was that they hit over half of them. That and free throw shooting were the big difference in that first matchup.
What to watch for: Does Purdue tempt the Spartans from three? According to The Only Colors, Travis Trice is questionable for the game, while Gary Harris is likely to play but is not in great shape. Those two shoot over 40% from three, but without them, the team is right around 31%. Why not pack it in and try to keep Nix and Dawson from getting the ball while also keeping our bigs out of foul trouble?
Predictions:
Since I hadn't started doing these write-ups at the time of the first MSU game, I didn't have a good grasp of the Spartan's statistical profile. After looking at it, I felt happy because what I saw was a good but not great team--A team, moreover, who comes in battling injuries and has to play on the road. To me, that screams "toss-up game," whether the game's being held at the Bryce Jordan Mausoleum or the Kohl Center.
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Indiana game Will Sheehey technical foul dress rehearsal, Purdue has been decent at home during conference play. In addition, the appearance of Stephen Toyra last game plus the extended minutes given to Donnie Hale gives me hope that Painter is ready to shake things up to get solid performances from whoever is ready on a given night.
So let's welcome the Year of the Snake with a surprise victory that gets us thinking NIT again and might even start those NCAA sugar plums dancing in dreamier heads. Am I stupid to predict a victory against a Top 10 team? Yes I am. Am I going to do it anyway? You betcha.
Purdue 66, Michigan State 63
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Fast-paced, language-free video 5 minutes in length with 3 modules developed for training the why, when and how of hand washing. An excellent tool for motivating good hand hygiene behavior with existing and new employees. Format: NTSC DVD
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Coulibaly makes temporary move back to Italy (From Haringey Independent)
Tottenham Hotspur striker Souleymane Coulibaly joins US Grosetto on loan
11:25am Friday 25th January 2013 in Sport
Young Spurs striker Souleymane Coulibaly has moved to Serie B outfit US Grosetto until the end of the season.
The forward was previously on the youth books of another Italian side, AC Siena, and was the 2011 Ivory Coast Young Player of the Year after equalling the tournament record of nine goals at the Under-17 World Cup.
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As if you hadn't already been diligently building your collection, word that Nicolas Ghesquière is departing Balenciaga should send devotees on a shopping mission for anything with the designer's chic stamp on it. Perhaps as the perfect accessory for our white Jil Sander coat from Raf Simons's final collection for the brand (it's been a year of major moves) we have our eye on this snakeskin tote that serves as a basic — but that happens to be anything but basic.
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The last of the 1,650 voters in the Falkland Islands have been casting their ballots in a referendum aimed at showing Argentina and the rest of the outside world that they are determined to remain a British overseas territory.
There are just 2,563 residents, but they have been doing all they can to show their sympathies, waving Union flags and dressing up their off-road vehicles.
Election observer Juan Henao said the process has been completely normal, and that more than 70% of the voters had cast their ballots by Monday afternoon. Polls were closing at 6pm local time (9pm GMT), and the results were expected to be announced later.
The ballot asks a simple yes-or-no question: "Do you wish the Falkland Islands to retain their current political status as an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom?" Most islanders interviewed said they expect an overwhelming "Yes" vote. They were not given a choice in this ballot for any alternatives, such as full independence or some sort of political relationship with Argentina. The Falkland Islands Government said that in the hypothetical case of a majority for "no," they could explore alternatives in a second vote later.
The government barred from voting any visiting contractors or personnel from the sizeable British military deployment, as well as anyone who has. The islands' community, which includes families that have worked the land for nine generations, is steeped in British culture. has needed a large military garrison.
Argentina maintains that the islanders have no voice in a dispute that must be settled bilaterally, with Britain alone. The islanders hope the referendum will help them keep any deal off the table - and perhaps even persuade neutral nations such as the United States to come down on their side.
Two Falkland Islands MPs were already on their way to Washington, preparing to hand-deliver the results of an overwhelming "yes" vote to the US Congress. "Self-determination is what the United States was founded on and it is a fundamental right. It's a right that they recognise. So I would hope that they would listen to what's happening here today," said another member of the islands' legislative assembly, Dick Sawle.
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May 25, 1997 Editor, the New York Times
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Dear Editor,
Larry Rohter's assertion that former associates of Mr. Bishop "who was deposed and then killed by a faction within the New Jewel Movement..."merits closer scrutiny.(13 Years After Invasion, Grenada Agonizes Anew 5/21)
There was absolutely no evidence presented at the so called trial and conviction of Bernard Coard and other members of the Central Committee. Witnesses for the defense were prevented from testifying, cross examination was restricted according to U.S. and Jamaican attorneys who went to observe and consult with the defendants. The presiding justice admitted that the normal procedure with appeals to the Eastern Caribbean Judicial bench and thus a higher appeal to the Privy Council in London would be denied.
In a booklet brought back by attorneys entitled The Side You Haven't Heard; Bernard Coard Speaks to the Court in Grenada (August 1986) Coard presents documentation of the close comradely relations between Bishop and himself to the very end. Decisions of the Central Committee provided for separate responsibilities of the two leaders. At a Central Committee meeting just prior to the invasion and Bishop's house arrest, Bishop conceded that he had failed to implement the resolutions that were then adopted by the full Committee.
Given the history of infiltration, destabilisation, military force and cooptation, by the U.S. in the region and the stated policy of preventing "another Cuban model", a scenario of assasination by other members of the New Jewel Movement's leadership should be reexamined.
Sincerely,
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"Don't blame us!" was the theme of a Facebook court filing submitted Friday in response to lawsuits that shareholders filed after the company's disastrous IPO.
More than 40 lawsuits in different state and federal courts have been filed in the weeks since Facebook went public on May 18.
The offering was plagued with problems. On day one, a "technical error" on the Nasdaq exchange led to delays and errors in Facebook trades. Later, allegations surfaced that Facebook disclosed certain financial information in advance to analysts for big banks and not to average investors.
Friday's filing was Facebook's first response to the lawsuits, which the company wants consolidated into one case in a New York court.
Facebook used the filing to preview its defense, blaming Nasdaq for the trading issues that marred its debut day. It also admitted to having private conversations with analysts, but insisted it "followed customary practices" and didn't disclose anything improper.
First, the company tackled the Nasdaq meltdown.
'Shock and awe': Problems with Nasdaq's software systems made a hash of Facebook's first few trading hours, leaving many buyers in the dark about what they had bought and at what price they scored shares.
Those problems "created market uncertainty and caused investor losses," Facebook said in its court filing. It pointed to the the mea culpa Nasdaq issued, and quoted a smattering of press articles spotlighting the role Nasdaq's errors played in Facebook's share-price drop following its IPO.
"The head of NASDAQ's trading operations reportedly responded with 'shock and awe' over a mess out of his control," Facebook wrote, citing a Wall Street Journal article.
A Nasdaq spokesman declined to comment. Facebook's representatives declined to elaborate on the statements made in the company's court filing.
'Selective disclosure': disclose -- in less specific ways -- in a publicly available amendment to its IPO paperwork.
Facebook admitted in its court filing to having "follow-up conversations" with analysts from the banks underwriting its offering. Those analysts, according to the plaintiffs, then "discussed their forward-looking forecasts with certain institutional investors."
Even if they did, nothing illegal happened, according to Facebook.
"[Plaintiffs] ignore that what Facebook and the Underwriter Defendants allegedly did both followed customary practices and did not violate any rules," the company said in its filing.
Similarly, Morgan Stanley has insisted that it followed "the same procedures for the Facebook offering that it follows for all IPOs."
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman elaborated on that theme in a CNBC interview last month.
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Higher order function
From HaskellWiki
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Revision as of 20:47, 9 March 2007
1 Definition
A higher order function is a function that takes other functions as arguments.
2 Discussion
The major use is to abstract common behaviour into one place.
2.1 Examples
2.1.1 In the librariesMany functions in the libraries are higher order. The (probably) most commonly given examples are
and
map
. Two other common ones are
fold
. A possible implementation of the them is:
curry, uncurry
curry :: ((a,b)->c) -> a->b->c curry f a b = f (a,b) uncurry :: (a->b->c) -> ((a,b)->c) uncurry f (a,b)= f a b
's first argument must be a function which accepts a pair. It applies that function to its next two arguments.
curry
is the inverse of
uncurry
. Its first argument must be a function taking two values.
curry
then applies that function to the components of the pair which is the second argument.
uncurry
3 See also
Accumulator recursion where the accumulator is a higher order function is one interesting case of continuation passing style.
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Prime numbers
From HaskellWiki
1 Simple Prime Sieve
The following is an elegant (and highly inefficient) (factorize n) primeFactors 1 = [] primeFactors n = go n primes where go n ps@(p:pt) | p*p > n = [n] | x `rem` p == 0 = p : go (n `quot` p) ps | otherwise = go n pt
2 Simple Prime Sieve II
primes :: [Integer] primes = 2:filter isPrime [3,5..] where isPrime n = all (not . divides n) $ takeWhile (\p -> p*p <= n) primes divides n p = n `mod` p == 0
3 Prime Wheels
Notice in the above Prime Sieve II, only odd numbers are tested, because we know that all the even numbers (greater than 2) are composite. In effect, odd numbers, and not even numbers, are candidates for primality testing.
A prime wheel is a scheme to generate candidate numbers that are "pre-screened" so that they don't have certain predetermined divisors. For example, suppose we want candidates that are neither even nor divisible by 3. In that case, we need numbers of the form 6n + {1,5}.
primes :: [Integer] primes = 2:3:5:filter isPrime wheel where -- these numbers are automatically not divisible by 2 or 3 wheel = 7:11:map (6+) wheel -- don't bother to check for divisibility by 2 or 3 ps = drop 2 primes isPrime n = all (not . divides n) $ takeWhile (\p -> p*p <= n) ps divides n p = n `mod` p == 0
This generator runs slightly faster than Prime Sieve II above because it doesn't bother to perform prime testing on multiples of 2 or 3.
Here is why the scheme is called a prime wheel. Imagine that you had a wheel of circumference 6, and you are rolling that wheel along the number line. The wheel is marked along the edges to automatically tell you which numbers are candidates and which numbers to exclude. Specifically, multiples of 2, 3 or 6 are excluded, while numbers of the form 6n+1 and 6n+5 are candidates.
We can go further and exclude multiples of 5. To exclude multiples of 2, 3, and 5, our wheel has to increase in multiples of 30.
primes :: [Integer] primes = 2:3:5:7:11:13:17:19:23:29:filter isPrime wheel where -- these numbers are automatically not divisible by 2, 3, or 5 wheel = 31:37:41:43:47:49:53:59:map (30+) wheel -- don't bother to check for divisibility by 2, 3, or 5 ps = drop 3 primes isPrime n = all (not . divides n) $ takeWhile (\p -> p*p <= n) ps divides n p = n `mod` p == 0
This generator runs slightly faster than the (2,3) prime wheel because it doesn't bother to check multiples of 2, 3, or 5.
We can go even further and exclude multiples of 7, but this requires a much bigger wheel, and it provides only a very small additional speed-up. This wheel has a length of 210, and at this point we are probably well beyond the point of diminishing returns.
primes :: [Integer] primes = initPrimes ++ filter isPrime wheel where initPrimes = [2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47, 53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83,89,97, 101,103,107,109,113,127,131,137,139,149, 151,157,163,167,173,179,181,191,193,197,199] -- the following numbers are automatically not divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7 wheel = [211,221,223,227,229,233,239,241,247,251,253,257,263,269, 271,277,281,283,289,293,299,307,311,313,317,319,323,331, 337,341,347,349,353,359,361,367,373,377,379,383,389,391, 397,401,403,407,409,419] ++ map (210+) wheel -- don't bother to check for divisibility by 2, 3, 5, or 7 ps = drop 4 primes isPrime n = all (not . divides n) $ takeWhile (\p -> p*p <= n) ps divides n p = n `mod` p ==)
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