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Saturday Night Drinking Thread
I have a six pack of Bells Porter and I may very well down it all. If that isn't enough I have a 12 year old Glenlivet to keep me company.
OP, I'm curious what you think about Snow Day. I was disappointed, personally. It is the first New Belgium I've had that I didn't like that much.
It is kind of like it wants to be an ipa but they didn't have enough hops on hand.
Still rockin the Dirty Bastard via Founders. Gotta love it.
I'm drinking a tall bottle of bleach.
I'm completely sober. I might as well feel the pain now and get over it.
Short's soft parade right now, Founders Centennial in the fridge for later
If I still feel the bitterness, I have some New Holland Beer Barrel Bourbon that I got yesterday that is fantastic.
We just came home from the Toledo Zoo Lights so the kids could be fascinated by the lights and I could distract myself from thinking about this afternoon's game, but for now, a bottle of Alamos Malbec...possibly to be followed by a bottle of Mouton Cadet if this malbec fails to soothe.
...I'm coming off a bad sinus infection and I can barely run my own life, so I'm open to suggestions for tonight/tomorrow morning.
Bath salts.
Just vodka. Time to black out.
After spending some time on the west coast; I discovered Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in cans. Brought 5 twelve packs home to Montana with me only to discover that my grocery store now has them. No glass recycling in Montana so it's always nice to have cans.
Currently on the Rye IPA.
Rogue's Santa Private Reserve
And a box of tissues
found a gift set of Canadian Club with two glasses for twelve bucks. That with Coke and a drop or two of grenadine will be the story of the night here. At least there will be good music to be had, since I can't even watch M v. Cornell hockey.
I mean, why the hell not.
Here pissed off, can't get the game out of my mind, I'm drinking New Belgium Fat Tire 22 oz'ers. Fuck Ohio.
Everything, I'm drinking every damn thing coming my way...
I like this thread... much more tasteful, complete sentences and no one talking about firing anyone. Couple of Strongbows should do the trick while hoping USC will put away the Domers.
Rocks. Lots of it.
What kind?
currently, however, knob creek single barrel because it has that extra kick for sad times.
Jameson and caramel pecan apple pie, great combination
We need a FIRE SAvoodoo!!!!! thread. Not because you're incompetent or anything, but because everyone should be jealous.
I bought a 12 of Shiners variety pack plus a bottle of Stoli and a bottle of Sobieski Vodka. I'm mixing the Sobieski with cranberry and OJ. I'm trying to maintain control but after the "Call me Tenorman" thread I'm mixing another tall one and gonna get fucked up.
... in the vodka and cranberry. You'll get the orange flavor and replace that relatively healthy orange juice with possibly more helpful alcohol.
This comes as close as I can figure
Apparently Michigan Hockey is giving me another reason to drink tonight
Captain and Vernors. Honey Jack and Coke are ready when I finish the handle of Capt.
Got a growler of Laughing Dog Citra IPA that they apparently brewed special for the 10th anniversary of Capital Ale House (VA bar/restaurant with a handful of locations). Figured it was a good night to drink the whole thing.
Hamms beer. Cheap, terrible beer. It's one of those nights.
How is Snow Day? I'm having homemade apple pie shots mixed with The Knot, a 100 proof Irish whiskey. Soon it will be straight whiskey.
I consider snow day a light ipa. Good not great but you can have 3 or 4 of them
A Martini and a bigass bottle of Fat Tire. And Die Hard on the tube.
Highland Park 12 year. Cuts the pain quickly. All the Domers here in the Chicago area are going to be insufferable for the next month.
Buffalo Trace to be exact. Sorry honey, short of Kate Upton sitting on my lap, I'm not getting it up tonight.
BT is my favorite of the standard bourbons. Cheers


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In other news, Brian's password is not "davidharris". Not long enough.
You'll notice that the search box has migrated down from the header to the right sidebar, where it slightly displaces the diaries and board. I've moved the site over to a Google-powered search that is a thousand times more useful than Drupal's defaults.
You'll also note a "Refine" section right under your results. Right now there's just one option that will provide you only message board posts. If anyone has suggestions for other potentially useful refinements, let me know and I'll try to implement them.
In other news, Brian's password is not "davidharris". Not long enough.
This new feature is going to make my rabid zealotry much more efficient.
Brian, I like the change -- thank you. Is now/here the place to ask for extending the MGoBoard quicklinks in the right sidebar to the past 15 or 20 recent posts? With only 10 posts, it seems that many discussions get 'lost' too quickly for those users who don't go to the main MGoBoard. Given that the left sidebar is longer than the right sidebar, it seems like there's enough room...
Disagree greatly. There's a page to flip on the quick links. It's long enough as it is. No need to stretch the page out.
In other news: Brian's password is 13 characters long.
the drupal search was cutting edge in clinton's first administration. much thanks for the new tool.
*Immediately searches the phrase "How many wins does Rich Rod need to keep his job?" because he can't seem to find the answer anywhere!*
Another useful refinement would be to search only stuff that has been "front paged." Normally this would refer to Brian and Tim content. Sometimes I'm searching for specific posts by Brian - it took me hours to find that eleven swans post - and I don't want to weed through the other content to get to it.
You could search for "Brian eleven swans"...
It took you hours to find Eleven Swans?
I guess that there are probably plenty of people that don't know the ins and outs of google. You can limit your search to a specific site in a google search.
For example, google: "site:mgoblog.com eleven swans"
If I had known the title of the post, sure it would have been easy, but you try typing Bo Schembechler and Ohio State into Google site search for mgoblog. Anyway, questions was answered by ShockFX; thanks to him.
this may not be possible, but it would be nice if we could sort the results (like youtube) in certain ways. some off of the top of my head:
- by relevance
- by date
- by # of comments (how popular the article is)
- by # of hits for the string in the article
again, this may not be possible, but it would make it easier to check for double posts before you post a new forum topic
anybody else have other ideas?
EDIT: i like the idea of being able to search for "front page content", and maybe even to get more specific, refine by the most popular authors (Brian, Tim, TomVH, etc.)
Sorting by date would be great, I second that motion.
This isn't related to the new search but it's still discussing meta. What ever happened to the idea that you had here to try and "wiki-fy" the depth chart? I would be very interested in an MGoBlog run wiki on recruiting, not just the depth chart.
That could be a boon to you and Tim as it would be many minds and eyes scouring the internet for the latest news. But, it could be hard to run, keep the quality up (although I have faith in the MGoBlog community doing that naturally), and just plain hard to create and integrate into MGoBlog. But think of the history that we could compile, not just on recruits but Michigan sports in general. We could have sections for games for people to give their individual impressions and memories and videos (I guess we could actually do the same thing for recruits). It could be huge. Plus, it would generate a lot of clicks.
Anyway, it'd be nice if we started to move in that direction a little bit. Even if that means just doing your original idea of wikifying the depth chart.
Sounds like a Troll Paradise
You might be right on that. Perhaps only those with 100+ point for 1+ weeks would be allowed to edit any of the wiki pages.
I can see where that could derail the whole idea though.
Thought I must have missed something that explained the new feature, but I was wrong. Awesome addition. The old search was pretty ineffective for most things.
I like the psychadelic yellow diaries and Board now.......groovy....
I'm blinded by yellow on white text. It gives me headache to look at. Where is Ibuprofen.
It might be worthwhile to allow a comments only search. I know there are times that I want to find a specific person's comment, so narrowing searches to comments alone might be useful.
Maybe this is the wrong place to bring this up, but while you're working on site improvements during the long off season, is mobile support in the cards? Loading this site on my phone is painfully slow, so having access to a lighter-weight version would increase my visits here significantly.
Mobile has been a goal for the off season. I have no status update, but it was one of Brian's announced intentions.
How about installing the bittorrent module and give mgopoints for seeding? That way I can stop neglecting my family, catch Magnus in points and you'll get sued by the BTN instead of me. Awesome plan?
Also, maybe a PM system?
I'd like to be able to search exclusively through content from the site authors. 99% of the times that I run a search, I have absolutely no interest in finding message board threads and diaries...I'm looking for a specific article from Brian or Tim. A filter that allowed us to search that way would be greatly appreciated.
can you search by date like you can at your old e-blogspot site?
I'll answer that
If people want to search just the front page stuff, put this in your search string "site:mgoblog.com/content/ [search term goes here]"
so if i wanted the eleven swans post i'd do "site:mgoblog.com/content/ eleven swans"
pondering what Brian's 13 character password might be?

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Kontakion (also kondakion and kontak; plural kontakia) is a type of thematic hymn in the Orthodox Church and other Eastern Christian churches. Originally, the kontakion was an extended homily in verse. In current practice, only the first stanza and the ikos are sung, when they are appointed. It is not sung at vespers, but it is sung at most of the other services of the day. According to tradition, Saint Roman the Melodist wrote the first kontakion, the Kontakion for the Birth of Our Lord, by divine inspiration. Legend aside, Roman established the kontakion in the form it retained for centuries, and he is the most famous composer of kontakia.
- Today the Virgin gives birth to the Transcendent One,
- And the earth offers a cave to the Unapproachable One!
- Angels with shepherds glorify Him!
- The wise men journey with a star!
- Since for our sake the Eternal God was born as a Little Child!
- Kontakion for Christmas, Roman the Melodist
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Integrating Quotations
February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Integrating Quotations
Integrate quotations smoothly in your paper by:
- Proper set-up and introduction before the quotation, and by
- Skillful analysis or further pertinent discussion after the quotation
Examples from Middlebury College first-year students:
Repelled by the ostentation of the performances of Mary, the Bingleys and Lady Catherine, Darcy seeks an alternative to artificiality in a haughty, distant air. Austen introduces us to him as "the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world"(12) who spends an entire ball, not dancing but rather "walking about the room"(12). In the film, Darcy's glowering expression and deliberate movements contrast perfectly with the happy looks and lively actions of f the dancers. Yet despite his bad manners, Darcy has no really serious characters flaws.
The different eras in which the novel was written and the films were produced causes a significant alteration in the destiny of the relationship between Harriet and Emma. In the novel, Austen allows the friendship between Harriet and Emma to wither away, as "the intimacy between [them] must sink; their friendship must change into a calmer sort of goodwill" (312). Harriet and Emma come from such different backgrounds that neither Austen nor her contemporaries would doubt the wisdom in returning from friends to friendly. This kind of snobbery would appall modern day audiences, and therefore both the A&E (although less enthusiastically) and the Miramax films uphold the friendship between the two girls by including reconciliation scenes.
Both physical and mental survival for children of poverty becomes an issue of great concern. Frank McCourt loses three siblings to illnesses that could have been easily cured. However, with lack of money, comes lack of medical care, and with that comes illnesses and even death. In an article from the London Times discussing the death toll of children in Russia, Anna Blundy relates a story of a 30 year old woman and the condition of her children at childbirth as a result of not getting medical assistance:"I can't get into hospital to give birth. . . The babies were small because I hadn't been eating properly and they died"(Blundy 2). It is simple to blame the malnourishment for the death of her children, but one must not forget the fact that this lady could not get to a hospital either. Doctors are expensive, and if one cannot pay with cash, then the only other choice left is to pay with one's own life. The images McCourt provides his readers of the waiting process to see a doctor free of charge is unforgettable. Not only is the waiting room small, but everyone in need of free medical attention wait in the same small room. It would not be surprising if someone who entered the waiting room with a common cold would leave it with the consumption or an illness passed on in the waiting room.


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ROCKFORD — A new survey published by a Rockford-based manufacturing association shows that most job shops are operating well under maximum capacity.
ROCKFORD — A new survey published by a Rockford-based manufacturing association shows that most job shops are operating well under maximum capacity.
This is mixed news for the industry. It means that prices are unlikely to rise, but there is unlikely to be much new hiring in the coming months.
Fabricators & Manufacturers Association surveyed 17,000 business owners or executives across the country hoping to get more accurate information on the small to midsize companies that make up much of the manufacturing industry.
FMA, which has about 2,500 members, works to improve the metal processing, forming and fabricating industry.
About 280 companies responded to this survey, which will be compiled and released quarterly, and on average the companies were operating at 63.7 percent capacity. The national average in other surveys with results from large manufacturers was 79 percent. Experts consider normal manufacturing capacity to be 85 percent.
"Capacity is a difficult thing to figure out," said Harold Hackworth, owner of Rockford Broach Inc. on 27th Avenue, which does surface broaching, a manufacturing process used to machine metal. "I don't run a second shift here. Does that mean we're operating at 50 percent?"
On the positive side, most respondents said new orders in the second quarter were increasing rather than decreasing. The one exception: companies with 19 or fewer employees. In that case, 24 percent said new orders increased versus 34 percent saying they declined.
At Rockford Broach, which employs 12, new orders were down in the second quarter.
"We had a product line at one of our larger customers that went flat," Hackworth said. "We expect things to pick up in the next few weeks."
At LSP Industries Inc., "the second quarter was slow for us," Brad LaMantia said, but leaders were confident enough to move into a larger building on 20th Street. The company makes lubrication equipment for companies in the fabricating industry.
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At Polyonics Rubber Co. Inc. in Poplar Grove, the second quarter was better than the first, and the third is turning out to be better than the second.
"We've had mostly the same customers for the past 40 years, and we really can't figure out why the year has been so good," owner Doug Stima said. Polyonics' seven employees make custom-molded rubber products for companies in the materials handling industry. "This has been an unusual year."
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Pit bull classification threatens pet's life
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August 12, 2008 12:00am
RUSTY the dog has an identity crisis. The Willis family mutt looks like something he's not and in the field of canine pedigree that can be dangerous.
At issue is the classification of american pit bull terriers, a "dangerous breed" banned by councils all over Queensland.
In 2005, animal controllers from Redcliffe City Council applied their dangerous dog criteria to Rusty, and put him on death row.
But Rusty's owners, convinced he was an overgrown mastiff with a pink nose, took the battle all the way to the Supreme Court.
The council backed down. Rusty avoided the needle. But that was not the end of it.
Late last year, the Willises swapped bayside Redcliffe for the rolling hills of Gympie and a new cast of animal controllers came up with the same decision: Rusty was an american pit bull terrier.
Daryn Willis was astounded.
"They've got to stop this, it's crap," he said. "This is about my little girl and her beloved dog. He's a family dog."
The Willises' problem traces back to the fact the court was not required to decide what breed Rusty was.
A similar case a year later - Dino Da Fre v Logan City Council - reached Beenleigh Magistrates Court. Mr Da Fre, the owner of a dog also called Rusty and on death row, was fighting against the 22-point breed identification test.
The council could not prove Rusty was a pit bull but again, the court was not required to rule on the validity of the test.
So as Gympie animal control officers circled in on Rusty, even using police to approach the dog on one occasion, Mr Willis was concerned they were using the same 22-point test relied on by the Redcliffe and Logan councils.
Mr Willis said his family was suffering "terribly" but was prepared to return to the Supreme Court if the council tried to destroy Rusty.
"We want it in writing that Rusty will never ever be accused of being an american pit bull again, otherwise it won't matter where we go, this is going to happen all over again," Mr Willis said.
Gympie Regional Council chief executive Ken Mason said he would meet with council officers to finalise the issue, which has dragged on for most of the year.
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Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Reforms: The Children and Families Act 2014
Change is coming...
Special educational needs legislation is being reformed by the Government with new approaches coming in to place from 1 September 2014. This is to improve outcomes for children and young people with complex needs and the experience of parents and carers.
The changes form Part 3 of the Children and Families Act 2014 which received Royal Assent on 13 March 2014.
The three key changes are as follows:
- Production of a 'Hampshire Local Offer': Placing a duty on local authorities to set out clear and searchable information on services available to parents and carers, children and young people
- Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) for children and young people with special educational needs from birth to age 25: Replacing Statements of Special Educational Needs, and Section 139a Learning Difficulty Assessments for post 16 education
- Personal Budgets: For some families and young people with an EHCP to give greater independence, choice and control over their support.
The Act also includes:
- The need to involve children and young people and parents and carers at the heart of the process in a more person centred way
- Places a requirement on local authorities and health services to jointly commission services for young people and families
- Provides statutory protection for young people who are in education or training up to the age of 25
- That SEND duties will apply equally to all schools including Academies and Free Schools.
Hampshire have been working closely with the Hampshire Parent/Carer Network, the voluntary sector and schools, colleges and early years services to develop these requirements. You can find more information on the following pages.
Background to SE7 SEND Pathfinder programme
Hampshire has worked for the past two and a half years with the South East 7 Pathfinder testing the proposals set out within the Green Paper published March 2011.
Who were the SE7 Local Authorities?
Hampshire was chosen, as part of a successful regional bid with six other south east areas (called the South East 7 or SE7), to develop and trial these new approaches.
The SE7 authorities were:
- Brighton and Hove City Council
- East Sussex County Council
- Hampshire County Council
- Kent County Council
- Medway Council
- Surrey County Council
- West Sussex County Council
The SE7 also included 4 PCT Clusters:
- NHS Kent and Medway
- NHS Sussex – covering Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex
- Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCT Cluster
- NHS Surrey
April 2014 onwards
The Pathfinder work concluded on 31 March 2014. Hampshire County Council is continuing to work with all of their key partners, parent/carers, education providers, health etc, as the work now focusses on the implementation programme for the SEND Reforms go-live from 1 September 2014.
SEND Reforms in Hampshire - what are we doing?
The Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Implementation programme will run from April 2014 to March 2015 in line with the one off grant from the Department for Education. The initial focus is on readiness for go-live from 1 September 2014.
There are three key workstreams that are being co-produced and developed with a whole range of people involved in the process across education, health and social care, including parent carers and the voluntary sector. The overall structure of the Implementation programme is is shown in the SEND Reforms Implementation structure chart diagram 51 kB. The workstreams are:
The final Code of Practice, which sets out in plain English the requirements, is due to be published Spring 2014 by the Government.
Transitioning from statements and s139a Move-On plans in to EHCPs
The Code of Practice will also include the 'Transition' arrangements setting out how, who and over what time frame Hampshire County Council have to move existing statements of special educational needs and section 139a Move-On plans (learning difficulty assessments) in to the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) format.
Parents, carers, children and young people will continue to be at the heart of these changes through the Hampshire Parent Carer Network (HPCN). We are also working with a range of people, including schools, colleges, children's and adult's social care, the NHS, and the voluntary and community sector.
SEND Reforms Implementation Board
The multi-disciplinary advisory group has a changed purpose as the focus of activity moves to implementation of the SEND Reforms from 1 September 2014. This Board is now called the SEND Reforms Implementation Board.
The terms of reference have been revised to reflect the change of focus.
The SEND Pathfinder Change Board is an influential multi-agency mechanism to drive activity in a local area as part of the national Special Educational Needs and Disability Pathfinder programme.
The Local Change Board meets bi-monthly and reports, via the Hampshire Lead Officer (Fliss Dickinson, County Service Manager (SEN and Specialist Teacher Advisory Service), to the SE7 Pathfinder Regional Steering Group which also meets bi-monthly. This Steering Group is responsible for reporting the progress and outcomes of the Pathfinder programme regionally to the SE7 Directors of Children's Services and Leaders and to the Department of Education and Department of Health.
Delegated accountability for the programme of work within the Hampshire Pathfinder areas rests with the Deputy Director of Children's Services (Children and Families), Steve Crocker, who is also the Chair of the Hampshire Change Board. The Vice Chair is Sharon Smith, Chair of the Hampshire Parent/Carer Network. Accountability for local decisions within the programme rests with the Pathfinder Change Board. The Terms of Reference set out the remit and membership of the group.Change Board Meeting Papers
How are parents and carers involved in influencing the Special Educational Needs (SEN) reforms and shaping implementation?
The Hampshire Parent/Carer Network (HPCN)
Parents are involved in all aspects of the Special Educational Needs (SEN) reform program in Hampshire, in a variety of capacities. Parent carer engagement has been co-ordinated and managed through the Hampshire Parent Carer Network (HPCN), who are part of the National Network of Parent Carer Forums (NNPCF). HPCN is an independent organisation made up of volunteer parent carers who are keen to improve outcomes for children with additional needs and disabilities in Hampshire (0-25 years).
"The Hampshire Parent/Carer Network welcomes the opportunity to work in partnership with Hampshire County Council and the Health Authority on this important agenda. By working together, we believe there is a real opportunity to shape services which will effectively meet the needs of disabled children and young people, and their future" - [Parent Voice and the Hampshire Parent/Carer Network]
HPCN has been involved with the SEN reforms since we first submitted a response on behalf of Hampshire parent carers to the Green Paper in 2011. We have had parent representatives involved with both Hampshire 'pathfinder' trials and SE7 Pathfinder regional work (see www.se7pathfinder.co.uk for more information). As we now enter into the implementation phase we continue to be involved and hope to shape the implementation of the Children & Families Act to ensure it meets the needs of families locally.
Parent representatives have been involved with all boards, groups and workstreams related to the SEN reforms in Hampshire, and continue to be involved as the date for implementation draws closer. HPCN supports parents by providing information, training, mentoring and central co-ordination of participation activities. We want to ensure that our representatives are fully informed and supported when attending meetings. A remuneration policy is also in place to ensure that parent carer contributions are recognised and all expenses are paid.
We try to ensure that our representatives do represent a wider view than their own, and will often seek views from a wider audience before attending meetings. We use surveys, emails out to members, and on occasion focus groups too. In addition to this, we also have a monthly open 'parent participation' meeting where we discuss the Pathfinder from a parental point of view and again, this allows us the opportunity to share information and ideas.
In April 2012, Hampshire Parent Carer Network (HPCN) and Parent Voice undertook a parental confidence survey to help inform the work taking place in Hampshire on the 'pathfinder' trials. 470 parents/carers responded. The results of the survey have been shared widely and are being used to inform current work and projects taking place.
In November, 2012 HPCN and Parent Voice submitted a joint response to the Education Select Committee who were scrutinising the draft Legislation. As a result of this, two parent reps were invited to the Select Committee hearing on 6 November to give verbal evidence on behalf of parents and carers. Our response is available online through the HPCN website.
HPCN have also responded to all consultations relating to the Draft Children & Families Bill and both the indicative and draft SEN Code of Practice. We attend meetings with the DfE and the Government's appointed delivery partners (Mott Macdonald, Council for Disabled Children etc) to ensure that Hampshire parent carers' concerns are fed directly into the decision makers.
We post updates on our Facebook page page about national developments and local activities taking place. 'Like' our page to be kept informed.
For further information, or to get involved with the Hampshire Parent/Carer Network:
Telephone: 01962 832580
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: www.hpcn.org.uk
All SE7 Pathfinder work has been co-produced with parents, the voluntary and community sector and a range of other people involved in the process like schools, Adult Services for Transition, Colleges, Health. This booklet 524 kB is from parent carer representatives on what co-production means and has meant during the SE7 Pathfinder work.
What do we mean by co-production? 524 kB
Parent Voice: Parent Journeys Research Findings
As part of the development of the Hampshire Local Offer, research has been undertaken following a suggestion by HPCN, and led by Parent Voice (with HPCN involvement), to understand how parents have been able to find information at different stages of their child's development (eg diagnosis, starting school and transition), what works well and what information is particularly hard to find. The research also aims to understand the emotional impact information can have on a family and whether good quality, timely and accurate information can help. The findings can be found in a full report, or four page summary document.
- Parent Voice Local Offer Parental Journeys Research - Full Report October 2013 663 kB
- Parent Voice Local Offer Parental Journeys Research - Summary Report 409 kB
Children and Families Bill
The Children and Families Act received Royal Assent 13 March 2014. There are seven key principles within the SEND Act:
- Involvement of children and young people and parents/carers at the heart of the legislation
- More co-ordinated assessment process: new 0-25 Education, Health and Care Plan
- Education, Health and Care services to commission services jointly regarding SEN and disability (SEND)
- Local Authorities to publish a clear, transparent Local Offer of services
- New statutory protections for young people aged 16-25 years; stronger focus on preparing for adulthood
- Offer of a personal budget for families and young people with a Plan and extending choice and control over their support
- All SEND duties to apply equally to all schools including Academies and Free Schools.
The final Regulations and Code of Practice are due to be published 'Spring 2014'. These will provide the final details of what 'must' (statutory requirement) and 'should' (guidance, but not a statutory requirement) be provided with the local authority, schools and health services.
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The directors of South Fork libraries that hosted and served thousands of residents rendered bereft of electricity, heat, and Internet access after Hurricane Sandy were surprised and delighted by news received last week.
Last Thursday, Alec Baldwin, the actor and Amagansett resident, announced that the foundation that bears his name would redirect funding from its usual recipients — artists and the arts — to local libraries.
Taking to Twitter, Mr. Baldwin sent a series of messages. "My foundation is diverting arts-related funding 2 Sandy relief. The first recipients are libraries in East Hampton, Montauk, Amagansett, and Sag Harbor" was transmitted over two "tweets," such messages being limited to 140 characters. In all, "we will send $250,000 to these institutions."
The move, Mr. Baldwin told The East Hampton Star, was inspired by a letter he received from Catherine Creedon, director of the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor. Ms. Creedon, said Mr. Baldwin, "contacted me with a lovely letter in which she said, 'Nearly everyone in the town passed through the doors of the library in the ensuing week after the storm.' That was the beginning of examining, for me, these community hubs — libraries, in this case — that were in areas hit."
"I wanted to thank Mr. Baldwin for his support for libraries, for what he and donors like him do," Ms. Creedon said of her letter. "It's an awesome, awesome gift, particularly because by donating across East Hampton Town he's really strengthened the library system for the whole community."
Mr. Baldwin, who reported that the storm felled just one tree on his property, appears in television commercials for Capital One Bank and funnels the proceeds through his foundation. "My whole thing with Capital One was to give all the money to arts, but in the wake of the storm decided to give it to her," he said of Ms. Creedon. "One concern was food, fuel, housing, medicine, health care, transportation, and I knew many agencies would take care of that. So I gave the donation to Amagansett, Montauk, and Sag Harbor, and then a large donation to East Hampton — I work with them during the year."
Mr. Baldwin has been a supporter of the East Hampton Library for several years, Dennis Fabiszak, the library's director, said, "both in his time and financially. We are really happy that he has decided to use the Capital One money to recognize the important roles that libraries played in response to the hurricane."
Capital One, said Mr. Fabiszak, donates money in conjunction with and in addition to what it pays Mr. Baldwin for appearing in the ads. "The last time he talked to me about it, something like $9 million has been donated. It's wonderful that he is able to do that."
"We are absolutely thrilled," Cynthia Young, director of the Amagansett Library, said of the donation. "It could not come at a better time."
Karen Rade, director of the Montauk Library, had been unaware of the Alec Baldwin Foundation. "It was really wonderful to find out how proactive he is," she said. "This donation is something we're very excited about, and we're very pleased to be included. It's a wonderful thing he's done for us."
Mr. Baldwin's donation will be appropriated to the restoration and expansion project at John Jermain, said Ms. Creedon. The library, which is in a temporary location on West Water Street, was without electricity for a few days after the storm, she said, but held children's story events and had games available, "and we hand-checked-out books and DVDs until it was literally too dark to see in the building."
Ms. Creedon said library officials are also interested in adding technology that would enable hearing-impaired and visually impaired people to take fuller advantage of the library's offerings, and for those using the library to search for jobs.
The East Hampton Library, which is also undergoing an expansion, will appropriate the donation to its capital campaign, said Mr. Fabiszak. The expansion, he said, "is really going to expand on the services we provided the week after the storm, and what we provide all year round."
On Oct. 31, day the library reopened, 1,400 people visited, Mr. Fabiszak said. Residents with no electricity, telephone, or Internet service packed the library and took the opportunity to get online and charge digital devices such as cellphones and tablets.
Observations made in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and, in 2011, Hurricane Irene have generated many ideas with regard to future extreme-weather events, he said. "We reached out to the public and got some great feedback. Part of this money will go to putting things in place that will help meet those needs."
These ideas, said Mr. Fabiszak, include adding a television on which local news and the Weather Channel could provide information and updates. Another, he said, was to establish a location at the library where residents who are less affected by a storm could take items they are willing to share with others, "so that, the day the building is open, that's available for people to take things and for people to drop things off."
Yet another idea was for the Red Cross and other relief organizations to provide food and essential services at the library. "A lot of people were here because they had no electric. The Red Cross was feeding people at the high school, so they were leaving their phones here to charge while running over there to get a sandwich." A better course, he suggested, might be to shift some of the supplies to where people are congregating — the library — rather than concentrating them in one place.
The Montauk Library's board members had not yet met to consider use of the donation, Ms. Rade said. "But when I was talking with Mr. Baldwin, he was talking about the services we provided when we got our power back — everyone was plugging in their iPads and phones and getting in touch with relatives and friends. That's something I will be looking into."
Though Ms. Young had not yet met with the Amagansett Library's board, her hope is that some of the donation would go toward new digital devices such as tablets and e-readers, "so the staff is ready to help our patrons use all of these new devices after the holidays. And, of course, the library will purchase additional charging stations to be ready for the next big power outage. The library wants to help the community keep in touch with families and friends."
Mr. Baldwin's foundation also made a $250,000 contribution to the Mill Creek Community Center in Stafford Township, N.J., and the actor told The Star that he would donate to a similar facility in his hometown, Massapequa, which also experienced extensive damage. The center in Stafford Township was damaged to the point that it will have to be torn down and rebuilt.
"We were looking for a New Jersey-based group that fit into that mold," Mr. Baldwin said. "Governor [Chris] Christie's office helped point us to that one."


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We Have the Technology to Changeby Michelle Levesque
Michelle Levesque is a software engineer at Google where she writes and directs internal educational videos, coordinates the massive postering of Google restroom stalls with weekly flyers that promote testing, and interviews potential chefs and masseuses.
It was when I was in high school and I saw someone magically vanish into thin air that I considered getting into programming.
We were gathered at a virtual cafe, sitting at a virtual table, drinking virtual coffee. The topic of conversation varied from movies and TV shows to complaints about the day's classes, with a healthy dose of gossip about our friends. But we'd never before encountered someone who said that they could perform real magic; that's what made this day unique. He claimed that he had created a magic teleportation device that could move someone against her will to any point of his choosing in this world.
We were gathered on a world called a MOO, an online social environment that predated today's MMORPGs and programs such as Second Life. You could build your own houses and furniture, dress your avatar in clothing, create your own televisions, dungeons, spaceships, and dragons. But you couldn't circumvent the constraints of that world any more than you could break the laws of physics in real life. You couldn't just magically teleport other people. It was impossible. But when he demonstrated his device, it did exactly what he had claimed it could do: he had the power to rip people from where they stood and move them to anywhere he chose. I was fascinated.
It turned out that he'd found a security hole in the programming of the world's constraints and had written code that exploited this vulnerability to create the device. I immediately decided that I wanted to learn this craft, and set out to learn how to program. Because there were no books on the MOO programming language, I used to print out pages and pages of others' code and would annotate it with a pencil and draw little diagrams on the side to try to figure out what it did. It took me a year before I'd learned how to program well enough to find my first major security vulnerability in the world's code, and it took several more years before I'd finally understood all of the subtleties of the language.
No one explained to me that my new hobby was much more common among men than women, but I probably wouldn't have cared if they had. Growing up, I had always spent a lot more time with the boys in my class than with other girls, preferring the adventure games that the boys played to the girls' games of house and dolls. And although the lack of diversity in technology eventually became something that bothered me greatly, it was because I felt that the lack of women in the field was a symptom of other problems. If the "boys club" atmosphere was keeping out women, it was probably keeping out a lot of other important personalities, ideas, and philosophies. It was an indication that something was wrong and unhealthy and needed to be fixed in the field. But it was never something that stopped me personally—if nothing else, because I loved rising to meet a challenge.
When I finally reached university, I had to select a major to apply for and I was met with a difficult decision. I'd always loved and done well in the humanities, but finally there was the opportunity to pursue my passion for programming in an academic setting. I decided to enroll in Computer Science, but picked up as many non-Computer Science classes as my department would allow. I found that there was an amazing overlap between them, and that the material I learned in my political science and philosophy classes were just as applicable to a software engineering career as the programming classes were.
It was through this overlap that I discovered an amazing career opportunity and began work at the Citizen Lab. The Citizen Lab was a research institution at my university that hired both political science and computer science students to study the unexplored areas where the two fields intersected. One of our core projects was the study of internet censorship around the world, and that soon became the focus of my job there.
At the time, internet censorship was a largely unstudied field, and most of the evidence that it even existed was based on anecdotes and legends sprinkled with mythic exaggerations. Over the next few years, we performed many extensive case studies on countries such as Iran, China, and Saudi Arabia, but we also explored similar practices that take place in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We tried to discover what topics they were blocking, how sophisticated their censorship was, what mechanisms they were using, and how transparent they were about their practices.
We wrote tools to give to volunteers who traveled to (or who lived in) these countries, and we partnered with the Berkmen Center at Harvard who were able to wrap our technical findings in the legal and political climate of the area at that time. Not only did our research help shed light onto this increasingly prevalent practice, but in a few cases we actually helped to get content unblocked and restore access to parts of the Web. They were small steps, but important ones.
One summer, a few of us at the Citizen Lab were given the opportunity to travel to Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico to learn how technology was being used there to fight for human rights, to teach them what we could, and to bring back our experiences to share with others. The entire trip was filmed and produced into a documentary called Hacktivista. The experience was nothing short of life changing.
We visited a worker at an exhumation site where they dug up the bodies in mass graves from the Guatemalan massacres, and they tried to identify and collect facts about them. The man who worked there told us about his fears that his computer data might be stolen from him by people and organizations who didn't want the truth to be revealed. We met with a group of elderly men who had all lost their families to the massacres and they explained to us how valuable this information was to them and how important it was that it be made public so that those responsible could be held accountable.
We also visited one of the poorest neighborhoods in Guatemala City, where computers had been donated to set up a lab for children to use. I watched a young boy, growing up in a world so unlike the one I knew, playing videogames as I had. We had kids tell us about their friends they had met online in other countries and how they shared stories about their lives and got to hear about life elsewhere. It was one of the most genuinely beautiful uses of technology that I had ever seen. And no one seemed worried that the computers would be stolen from the lab and sold for money, because it was such a precious part of their community.
Through this work, I obtained a new outlook on the relationship between software developers and their users. Software can do so much more than just provide entertainment or make a manual task easier; it can fundamentally change people's lives for better, or for worse, in very real and significant ways. It can be the greatest champion for freedom of speech and expression, or the very thing that stifles it. I realized then that I have the potential in my career to make a long-lasting impact on the world, and this is the sort of realization that makes the long, slow nights of debugging completely worthwhile. Though technology isn't the solution to every problem, it's an area wherein I feel that I can make a difference. The fact that I have so much fun doing it is just a welcome bonus.
Series creator and editor Tatiana Apandi Recommends: Reading about how blogging has changed the lives of these Cambodian women: http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2007/09/bloghers-gender.html and using your skills to better the world: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatvol.it.
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NEW YORK (AP) – Three good Samaritans in New York City jumped onto subway tracks after a stranger fell, hoisting the man to safety before a train rolled into the station.
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Seeing his struggle, Dennis Codrington jumped in, too. So did Matt Foley. The three worked quickly as the train approached.
Riders waiting on the platform helped lift the man. The three men got up just in time.
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LOS ANGELES — On June 22, Echoes Of Hope, the charitable organization found by Luc and Stacia Robitaille, held a poker tournament fundraiser at the J.W. Marriott Los Angeles at L.A. Live in Downtown Los Angeles.
Echoes Of Hope grew out of Luc and Stacia Robitaille's Shelter For Serenity, which provided assistance victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005. Echoes Of Hope "…strives to awaken the spirit of hope in the lives of at-risk and emancipated foster youth by providing the resources, knowledge, skills, love, and support they need to reach their full potential," according to the organization's web site.
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In a little over a year, it has become Jordan's fourth largest city. Except it is not a city. It is the world's second-largest refugee camp.
Located in northern Jordan near the border with Syria, the Zaatari refugee camp opened in July 2012 and now houses roughly 129,000 people, according to United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on NASA's Terra satellite captured these false-color images of the area around the camp on May 30, 2009 (top), September 27, 2012 (middle), and July 19, 2013 (bottom). The camp appears brighter than its surroundings due to the white roofs of the thousands of temporary housing units.
According to UNHCR, setting up and expanding the camp has been the equivalent of building a city the size of Cambridge, England, or Fargo, North Dakota, in a single year. There are more than 1.6 million registered Syrian refugees in Jordan and neighboring nations.
Further Reading
- NASA (2013) Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER). Accessed August 9, 2013.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2013, July 15) Damascus, Syria.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2012, September 26) Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2011, May 15) Amman, Jordan.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2011, April 3) Wadi Rum, Jordan.
- NASA Earth Observatory (2005, May 2) Jericho, West Bank.
- UN High Commission for Refugees Accessed August 9, 2013.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using data from NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Caption by Mike Carlowicz.
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MAYVILLE - Community leaders from across Chautauqua County met recently to start transforming local communities for the healthier. The group met as part of the start-up of the Chautauqua County Health Department's Community Transformation Grant: Small Communities (CTG) initiative.
Those who attended the kickoff meeting are members of a new multi-sector leadership team that will be working in partnership with the Chautauqua Health Action Team to assist and provide guidance to the Health Department and CTG program staff. These groups will be helping to implement a comprehensive plan to prevent chronic disease in early child care, school, and community settings within the geographic areas of the Jamestown, Dunkirk and Silver Creek central school districts.
"We are very excited to have school districts, municipalities, health and human service agencies, medical professionals, private-sector businesses, and elected officials as partners in this project," says Christine Schuyler,?director of health and human services for Chautauqua County. "We recognize the need to work across sectors in our communities to successfully address causes of obesity and other chronic disease and we are fortunate to have these resources to coordinate this effort. Together we can effect real positive change."
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Pictured, from left, are Breeanne Agett, Toni DeAngelo, Theresa Schrantz, Linda Finn, Kristen Kathman, Paula Troutman, Kurt Lindstrom, Virginia Carlberg, Vince Horrigan, Jennifer Irwin, Don McCord, Ann Abdella, Ben Drake, Gregory Szewczyk, Lindsay Ball, Kate Huber, Samantha Vanstrom, Katie Pawlak, David Reinhardt, Lisa Schmidtfrerick-Miller, Angela Swartzman and Christine Schuyler.
Chautauqua County is one of just three counties in New York state selected to receive the Community Transformation Grant: Small Communities funding. The New York State Department of Health was awarded the two-year grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to address risk factors including tobacco use, physical inactivity, and poor nutrition in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Broome counties.
"This initiative is about creating or strengthening opportunities for children and adults who live, work, and attend school in the selected communities to live more active lifestyles, to eat better, and to avoid exposure to tobacco. It's really about making the healthier choices the easier choices," explains Breeanne Agett, Junior Planner for the Chautauqua County Health Department.
Mayor Kurt Lindstrom of Silver Creek is excited about being one of the communities involved. "I am thrilled to be a part of this terrific group. This is a proactive approach that will lead to healthier children in our communities resulting in healthier families. This project addresses genuine quality of life issues with the village government, school district and county health professionals taking an active role in the health of our residents," he said.


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Around and around and around we go! Around the world, that is! Do you like learning about other countries? Do you like fairy tales? Then these programs for you! Join us for tales, music, activities and crafts all about Ireland and France. For grades 2nd to 5th. No registration required.
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The "Florida Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act" (the "Act") takes effect July 1, 2016, but is retroactive and applies to existing estate planning documents. It facilitates access to certain types of digital assets of an individual to the personal representative of an estate, trustee of a trust, attorney-in-fact designated under a power of attorney and court-appointed guardian. Existing federal laws outside of the estate planning context had previously made it difficult for anyone other than the account holder to access digital assets.
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Star L. Boyce Joins Fowler White's Miami Office
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Fowler White Burnett Continues Growth With Addition Of 5 New Attorneys As They Celebrate Their 75th Anniversary Year
We are pleased to announce that we have welcomed 5 new attorneys to the firm's Miami and Fort Lauderdale offices.
Joseph R. Englander has joined the firm's Intellectual Property Group as a Shareholder in the Miami office. Englander handles a broad range of intellectual property matters, including the prosecution of U.S. and international patents, trademarks and copyrights, the negotiation and enforcement of intellectual property transactions and licensing agreements and the representation of corporations and individuals in intellectual property disputes and related corporate matters. He is experienced in trials before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Kristine DeSoiza has joined the Fort Lauderdale office as an Associate in the Insurance Practice Group where she focuses her practice on insurance coverage disputes, construction defect claims, professional liability claims, commercial general liability, and commercial litigation. DeSoiza defends insurers in bad faith litigation and counsels insurers with respect to first-party and third-party bad faith claims. She earned her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law, and her Bachelor of Science degree in Advertising with a concentration in Business Administration from the University of Florida.
Simon T. Garcia has joined the Miami office as an Associate in the Maritime and Insurance Practice Groups. His practice includes the defense of a variety of claims, with a particular emphasis on premises liability and personal injury matters. Garcia regularly defends companies and major insurance carriers against claims that occur on commercial property. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami School of Law and his Bachelor of Science degree in Sports Management from Florida State University.
Lindsay M. West has joined the Fort Lauderdale office as an Associate in the Insurance Practice Group. She focuses her practice on all aspects of Insurance Law and has experience in a wide range of insurance-related matters, including: general liability, premises liability, professional liability, vehicular liability, personal injury, wrongful death, and insurance coverage issues. Lindsay received her Juris Doctor degree from Florida Coastal School of Law and she additionally obtained her Bachelor of Science d
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Firm Featured in Law360 for the Addition of Maritime and Tax Shareholders
Florida law firm Fowler White Burnett, PA, has added a new shareholder who specializes in Maritime Law, as well as another shareholder who focuses on international tax planning and transfer pricing.
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Twelve Fowler White Attorneys Recognized In The 2018 South Florida Legal Guide
Fowler White Burnett is pleased to announce that the firm has been recognized as a "Top Law Firm" in the 2018 Edition of the South Florida Legal Guide, 10 of its attorneys have been selected as "Top Lawyers" and 2 have been recognized as "Top Up and Comers."
The South Florida Legal Guide (SFLG) is published annually, and is a widely respected source of top legal firms and lawyers, by practice group, in the South Florida region. Candidates are nominated and voted on by their peers, which SFLG takes into consideration when making selections for inclusion as a "Top Lawyer."
The following Fowler White attorneys were recognized as "Top Lawyers:"
* Brian D. Elias - Securities - Litigation & Arbitration, Corporate & Business Litigation
* Timothy J. Ferguson - Product Liability - Defense, Torts - Defense
* Erin Gaskin - Medical Malpractice - Defense
* June G. Hoffman - Appellate
* Allan R. Kelley - Admiralty and Maritime, Litigation
* Christopher E. Knight - Product Liability - Defense, Medical Malpractice - Defense
* Fred K. Lickstein - Corporate and Business, Finance
* Richard J. Razook – Tax, International Tax
* Alice K. Sum - Corporate and Business Litigation
* Juan Carlos Zorrilla - Commercial and Business Litigation
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* Gil O. Acevedo - Real Estate
* Avery A. Dial - Commercial Litigation
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SALIDA, Colo. (AP) — Authorities have released the name of a kayaker whose body was pulled from the Arkansas River north of Buena Vista.
Chaffee County Coroner Randy Amettis identified the victim Tuesday as 54-year-old William A. Forshey, of Austin. His death has been ruled a drowning.
The sheriff's office says Forshey became high-centered on a large rock in the Miracle Mile section of the river at about noon Monday. He stepped out of the boat, and witnesses say they saw him standing on the shoreline.
Forshey was spotted a short time later floating downriver.
Undersheriff John Spezze says the man was pronounced dead at the scene. He did not say how he ended up back in the water after making it to shore.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Dickey-Stephens, A Ballpark In Progress
Whilst stationed in Arkansas for the holidays, I thought I'd go over and take a gander at the in-progress Dickey-Stephens ballpark, new home of the Angels' Texas League affiliate Travelers. Bill Valentine was nice enough to let me come by with my camera and show how things are going; so far, it looks like they're on schedule for opening day. You can see the slide show here. It's going to be a great park.
Incidentally, you can see the satellite view of the new park's location at Google Maps; the main entrance is on the southwest corner of N. Broadway St. and W. Broadway Ave. The Broadway Bridge to the west crosses the Arkansas River, to the south of the park.
I spent many evenings in my youth at Ray Winder Field (60s) watching the Travelers play (they were the Cards Texas League team then). My grandparents lived in Little Rock and were huge fans. Winder was old then, they would have loved going to the new ballpark.
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There's nothing like feel of the open road. The wind whipping through your Corvette's cockpit. The view of passing scenery as you accelerate down your favorite stretch of highway. The pinging of the check-engine alert as your coolant temperature reaches dangerous levels. Wait…what?
It's a problem many of us will face during the life of our favorite ride: an aging cooling system putting a crimp in our Corvette-driving enjoyment. And whether it's the hoses, the water pump, or the radiator, a failure in this part of the drivetrain always seems to happen overnight. One day it's fine; the next day it's not.
Thankfully, the ability to diagnose a leak is one we all innately possess. Just look for a pool of colored water that doesn't belong under your car. In the case of our '02 C5, we traced it from the passenger's side to the radiator surge/overflow tank. After 150,000 miles of constant heat, the plastic had become sufficiently brittle that one of the hose ports developed a crack large enough to leave a telltale sign of impending doom.
Fortunately, replacement can be performed in a matter of minutes using a new part from Corvette Central (PN 245238, $84.95). But we didn't stop there. To help keep our nearly 10-year-old C5's cooling system top-notch, we also opted to install a set of fresh silicone hoses. (We used CC's Red Silicone Hose and Clamp Kit, PN 245115, $339.) While there might not seem to be a big cooling benefit to this step, silicone hoses are much more durable than rubber ones, and are therefore less prone to collapse, warping, and age-related wear. The ability to color-code our accessories to the engine bay was a big plus, too. But as always, the devil is in the details--in this case, the installation. Read on to see what we did, and how.


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Submission + - Earth Avoids Collisions with Pair of Asteroids
Hugh Pickens writes writes: "Science Recorder reports that according to NASA a pair of asteroids — one just over three mile wide — passed Earth Tuesday and early Wednesday avoiding a potentially cataclysmic impact with our home planet. 2012 XE5, estimated at between 50-165 feet across, was discovered just days earlier, missing our planet by only 139,500 miles or slightly more than half the distance to the moon. 4179 Toutatis, just over three miles wide, put on an amazing show for astronomers early Wednesday missing Earth by 18 lunar lengths, while allowing scientists to observe the massive asteroid in detail. Asteroid Toutatis is well known to astronomers. It passes by Earth's orbit every four years and astronomers say its unique orbit means it is unlikely to impact Earth for at least 600 years. It is one of the largest known potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs), and its orbit is inclined less than half-a-degree from Earth's. "We already know that Toutatis will not hit Earth for hundreds of years," says Lance Benner of NASA's Near Earth Object Program. "These new observations will allow us to predict the asteroid's trajectory even farther into the future." Toutatis would inflict devastating damage if it slammed into Earth, perhaps extinguishing human civilization. The asteroid thought to have killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago was about 6 miles wide, researchers say.The fact that 2012 XE5 was discovered only a few days before the encounter prompted Minnesota Public Radio to poll its listeners with the following question: If an asteroid were to strike Earth within an hour, would you want to know?"


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BATON ROUGE — During the regular legislative session that adjourned last week, lawmakers from the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation created a foundation for future issues by introducing several resolutions that do not have the force of law.
BATON ROUGE — During the regular legislative session that adjourned last week, lawmakers from the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation created a foundation for future issues by introducing several resolutions that do not have the force of law.
Resolutions are used to express the sentiment of the Legislature, urge Congress to take certain actions or advise state departments on what they should be doing or studying throughout the year.
They can also be used to congratulate people and groups as well as change internal House and Senate rules.
Rep. Dee Richard, a Thibodaux independent, had a pair of resolutions that fell under the latter category, beginning with House Resolution 121, which would have changed the House rules pertaining to how lawmakers vote.
Richard wanted a new rule that allowed voting machines to stay open for only 10 seconds in the House before being closed.
He argued that politics are sometimes played on the House floor and lawmakers are occasionally given more time to vote on issues important to the leadership.
After hearing complaints about the proposal from fellow lawmakers, Richard shelved his resolution before the House and Governmental Affairs Committee could vote on it this session.
He did the same with House Resolution 122, which would have prohibited lawmakers from changing their votes at the end of the day on bills that had been heard and voted on in the same calendar day, which has become routine practice.
Before canning the resolutions, Richard confided in the committee that he has always wanted to pass the proposed rule changes. He also wants approval for banning the legislative scholarships individual lawmakers are allowed to award and prohibiting seat mates on the House floor from voting with each others' machines.
"How bad do you want to make this job?" responded House and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tim Burns, R-Mandeville, with a laugh.
Several other resolutions from local lawmakers, however, were adopted this year.
Senate Resolution 84 by Sen. Bret Allain, R-Franklin, makes a request of the Louisiana State Law Institute, a research arm of the Legislature, to study the feasibility and constitutionality of alternative dispute resolutions as a means of resolving so-called legacy issues.
Legacy lawsuits involved litigation filed by a landowner claiming that oil and gas operations caused their property to become polluted and contaminated.
How and when such lands should be cleaned and property owners compensated have been the source of highly controversial bills the Legislature debated and adopted in recent years.
While some may have thought the issue was resolved, Allain said the institute could come back with recommendations before the 2014 regular session to help resurrect the topic.
"We'll see what they say, but I like the idea of having an independent body look at the issue," he said.
Alternative dispute resolutions refer to legal procedures for settling claims that do not involve lawsuits, such as arbitration, mediation or a mini-trial.
Turning attention to a topic where a ball gets kicked around, rather than ideas, Sen. Norby Chabert, R-Houma, passed Senate Resolution 202 requesting that the Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer Protection and International Affairs study the possibility of attracting an existing Major League Soccer franchise or expansion team to Louisiana.
Chabert said soccer is growing in popularity in the region, and MLS does not yet have a presence in the southeastern United States.
He added that a "franchise or expansion team in Louisiana would create jobs and attract soccer enthusiasts from across the nation to Louisiana."
With House Concurrent Resolution 169, Rep. Joe Harrison, R-Napoleonville, convinced the Legislature to ask the governing authorities of public secondary schools to offer a new credit for an elective course that would teach the curriculum of the Future Leaders of America's Gulf, or FLAG.
It's a nonprofit organization that was formed by high school students to focus on educating and informing youth about the "plight of the Louisiana Gulf Coast region."
FLAG members investigate and report on environmental, economic and community issues, Harrison said, and they develop leadership, journalism and project-management skills.
Meanwhile, three other resolutions were passed that should pique the interest of business and industry.
Chabert had Senate Resolution 197 asking the Senate Committee on Revenue and Fiscal Affairs to study the potential benefit of an economic tax incentive that would benefit vessel owners who purchase boats and barges built in the state.
Such a tax incentive could also be used by those who domicile their vessel operations and home bases within the state, Chabert said.
Sen. Troy Brown, D-Napoleonville, introduced the other two, including Senate Resolution 92, which directs the state's economic development secretary and executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission to make public contractual and employment information relative to businesses involved with the Gulf Opportunity Zone and Quality Jobs programs.
Brown said it's an accountability measure and could help the public determine whether the incentive programs are being wisely used.
He also authored Senate Resolution 97 to create the Southeast Louisiana Task Force for Growth and Opportunity, which would serve Ascension, Iberville, St. Charles, St. James, and St. John the Baptist parishes.
The charge of the task force would be to "assess the required development and enhancement of human resources, transportation, health care, law enforcement, housing, education and infrastructure."
Other resolutions passed by members of the Terrebonne-Lafourche delegation this session included:
— Senate Resolution 94 by Allain to designate the week of June 17 as "Louisiana Entrepreneurship Week."
— Senate Resolution 185 by Allain that commends Heather Gros on being named the "Teacher of the Year" by the St. Mary Parish School Board and Bayou Vista Elementary School.
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 34 by Brown that designates April 30 as "Alpha Phi Alpha Day at the Louisiana Legislature" and commends Alpha Phi Alpha for "107 years of exemplary leadership."
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 38 by Brown that commends Robert Lee Jackson for "his years of dedicated service to his community."
— Senate Resolution 11 by Brown that congratulates Southern University Law Center on its 65th anniversary.
— Senate Resolution 12 by Brown that recognizes April 22 as "Marathon Petroleum Corporation Day."
— House Concurrent Resolution 92 by Rep. Gordon Dove, R-Houma, that expresses condolences on the death of Mike Voisin of Houma.
— House Concurrent Resolution 138 by Dove that recognized May 22 as the "Louisiana Society of Professional Surveyors Day at the State Capitol."
— House Concurrent Resolution 162 by Dove that commends Staff Sgt. Christopher G. Simms for his honorable service with the Louisiana Army National Guard and the state of Louisiana.
— House Concurrent Resolution 163 by Dove that commends Sgt. First Class Russell S. Clark for his honorable service with the Louisiana Army National Guard and state of Louisiana.
— House Concurrent Resolution 186 by Harrison that commends Jesse Dugas on his "50 years of service to his community and the state of Louisiana."
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 31 by Sen. Gary Smith, D-Norco, that commends Hahnville High School head football coach Lou Valdin on being awarded the "All-District Coach of the Year" award.
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 74 by Smith that commends Rodney Roy Lafon for his 18 years of service as superintendent of the St. Charles Parish public school system on the occasion of his retirement.
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 83 by Smith that commends the L'Observateur for earning top honors at the 133rd annual convention of the Louisiana Press Association.
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 84 by Smith that commends the St. Charles Herald-Guide for being named "Newspaper of the Year" in Division 4 by the Louisiana Press Association at its annual convention.
— Senate Concurrent Resolution 118 by Smith that commends the River Region Caucus and its member parishes for their "cooperative efforts toward improving the quality of life in the region" and designated June 4 as "River Region Caucus Day at the Louisiana Legislature."
Jeremy Alford can be reached at email@example.com.


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The 3A state qualifiers in track and field were released yesterday, and here are the Washington Demons who are going.
For the girls, in the 100 Macy Marek, in the 400 Mariah Reighard, in the 400 hurdles Kaitlin Buchholz and Sammy Ellingson, in Long Jump Stephanie Fishback and in the high jump Sammy Ellingson and Lauren Kimball.
Washington also has six relays going with the shuttle hurdle and the team of Emma Wood, Ellingson, Kimball and Buhholz, the 4×100 with the team of Marek, Natalee Enfield, Dema Giardino and Grace Redlinger.
The 4×200 with Marek, Amber Salow, Redlinger and Fishback, the 4×400 with Reighard, Morgan Kimball, Lauren Kimball and Fishback, the Sprint Medley with Marek, Enfield, Salow and Fishback, and the distance medley with Kelly Wheeler, Enfield, and Morgan and Lauren Kimball.
Head girl's coach Stefanie Tschantz said she is so excited to have this many events going to state.
"Seeing the outcome we had, it was great. Most of the events that we were hoping would go, did make it, and a couple of the, I don't, we're going to try it, and see what happens, they made it and made it pretty easily," Tschantz said. "It's just a great thing for our program to get so many kids up to state."
On the boy's side of things, Jacob Hennigan is going in the 110 meter high hurdles, Gage Redlinger in the 400 hurdles, and Tommy Peterson will go in the shot put.
In the relays, the shuttle hurdle with Hennigan, Redlinger, Jack Giardino and Alex Gonzalez, the 4×200 with Carl Sivels, Redlinger, Kyle Roder and Alex Coker, and the 4×400 with Redlinger, Hennigan, Noah Lebsack and Coker.
Head boy's coach Steve Roth said it was just a good meet that they ran, and the kids ran their best when they needed to.
"I didn't want to put much pressure on the kids because they know what they had to do, but we talked about it and talked about it on what we had to do, and I'm so pleased that we had six or seven personal bests, and out of those six or seven personal bests, five of those got into the state track meet, so that's all we can do," Roth said.
State track starts on Thursday at Drake Stadium in Des Moines. Listen in on Friday, as KCII has live updates throughout the day from the State Track and Field meet.


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Wow, what a gorgeous home! When I bring the husband home to meet the family, we'll have to try to visit it.
Wow! I've ALWAYS wanted to go to see this house! It looks great in your photos. Thanks for posting this.
Thank you both with your "Wows." I've always wanted to see the house too, and at long last, did.
I add my "wow" - that house takes my breath away. Must get up to New England before too long....
I love the Mark Twain house. I grew up not too far from there.
Absolutely beautiful! I think photos of this home were on a recent TV bio/documentary I watched on Mr. Clemens. I still think of him being from Missouri and forget that he lived in many different places. The show I watched talked about how he was on the lecture circuit well into his senior years because the family's financial situation had bottomed out. It was really quite sad, I thought..... Thanks for sharing these photos!


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|Home >> Ask Olympus: Post-processing color controls in OLYMPUS Master
What are the purposes of the post-processing color controls in the OLYMPUS Master Edit Palette?
The Edit Palette in the Image Edit window of OLYMPUS Master has a number of options for modifying color in an image in post-processing. Digital images are made up of red, green and blue image data—think of them as channels. When software is used to modify the color in an image, it changes the relationship of these channels in terms of hue, brightness and saturation. The Image Edit window will display the original image and an image showing the results of the editing tools. Below are brief explanations of the color editing options.
- Color Balance allows control over the red, green and blue color channels. The positive side of the slider controls the red, green and blue values and the negative side of the slider controls their complimentary colors, cyan, magenta and yellow, respectively. This can be useful if you want to control specific colors in an image without affecting other colors, such as correction for shooting under mixed artificial lighting.
- Tone Curve allows control of the brightness and contrast of the red/green/blue (RGB) color gamut or the individual red, green and blue channels. The display shows a color histogram at the top of the window which displays the distribution of the color in terms of tones and contrast. There is also a gray histogram behind the tone curve display. The tone curve can be changed by placing the cursor on the red line and dragging it up or down from the red line. The lower left of the line is the shadow end and the upper right is the highlight end. The middle of the line represents the mid-tones. The line can be dragged at multiple points along the line for varying results.
- Gamma allows control of the overall contrast of the image. On the slider, negative values create low contrast and positive values create high contrast.
- Auto Tone Correction automatically sets the darkest value and the highest value and then uses a slider to adjust the brightness scale of the mid-tones between the two points. This can be useful to give a little more punch to a flat or under-exposed image.
- Hue & Saturation is used to adjust the overall color cast of an image. The Hue slider is used to select the color cast to apply to the image. The Saturation slider is used to control the intensity or depth of the color cast. The Lightness slider is used to adjust the brightness or darkness of the applied hue. This editing option can be used to correct for overall color balance or to change the mood of an image.
- Monochrome & Sepia enables removing the color from a color image. The Monochrome option converts an image to black and white and allows control of the contrast of the image. The Sepia option converts a color image to a sepia tone image and allows control over the warmth or coldness of the sepia tone.
Archive - E-System:
- Advantages of digital lenses
- Transferring your photos to a CD
- Printing the date on your photos
- Best image sizes for emailing
- Lens connections and F-stop
- Indoor sports photos
- AF illuminator and camera flashes
- Camera locks up while shooting closeups
- Taking photos of the Northern Lights
- Shooting in cold weather
- Pixel Mapping
- Waterfall and Stream Effects
- Camera unable to secure autofocus
- Night sports photos
- Can I use a teleconverter with my kit lens?
- What is MY MODE?
- Saving Your Camera Settings
- What does the Fn button do?
- Tips for shooting holiday lights outdoors
- Tips about memory card usage
- The purpose of IMAGE ASPECT when shooting?
- Tips for digitizing 35mm color slides
- Double exposures and xD card questions
- Taking better indoor photos
- Shooting in RAW
- Battery charging guidelines
- E-System Compatibility
- Cleaning your mirror box
- Studio Lighting
- Tricks for manually focusing
- Focusing E-System cameras in low light
- P, A, S and M modes
- Keeping a zoom lens steady
- What lenses can I use with my DSLR?
- High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography
- Post-processing color controls in OLYMPUS Master
- How do I use bracketing modes?
- Save a zoomed playback image
- How can CONTRAST, SHARPNESS and
SATURATION be applied creatively?
- Shooting indoors in the winter
- What does the GRADATION feature in the menu do?
- Using OM-System lenses and accessories


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USNH hopeful after Hassan's call for restored funding
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) � Officials at the University New Hampshire say the debate over state support for higher education has affected enrollment, but they hope Gov. Maggie Hassan's budget proposal will help turn things around.
Hassan on Thursday called for spending $165 million on the state university system over two years, nearly restoring the funding level in place before the Legislature slashed it in 2011. Since then, UNH has seen in-state enrollment drop, and officials believe that reflects uncertainty caused by the funding debate.
If they get the money Hassan requested, the leaders of the four university system institutions say they will freeze in-state tuition for two years.


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Submission + - China's Attempt at Creating a Master Race? (vice.com)
Titan1080 writes: It's not exactly news that China is setting itself up as a new global superpower, is it? While Western civilization chokes on its own gluttony like a latter-day Marlon Brando, China continues to buy up American debt and lock away the world's natural resources. But now, not content to simply laugh and make jerk-off signs as they pass us on the geopolitical highway, they've also developed a state-endorsed genetic-engineering project.