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How to Customize the Windows 8 Taskbar
Windows 8 brings a whirlwind of options for the lowly taskbar, letting you play with it in more ways than a strand of spaghetti and a fork. And that's especially important in Windows 8: By stocking the taskbar with icons for oft-used programs, you can avoid unnecessary trips to the Start screen.
First, the taskbar comes preloaded with two icons on its far left: Internet Explorer (your full-featured web browser) and File Explorer (your file browser). Like all your taskbar icons, they're movable, so feel free to drag them to any order you want.
If you spot a favored program's icon on your Start screen, right-click the icon and choose Pin to Taskbar from the pop-up menu. You can drag and drop a desktop program's icon directly onto the taskbar, as well.
For even more customization, right-click a blank part of the taskbar and choose Properties. The Taskbar Properties dialog box appears.
The following table explains the dialog box's options. (You need to remove the check mark by Lock the Taskbar before some of these options will work.)
|My Recommendations
|Lock the Taskbar
|Selecting this check box locks the taskbar in place, keeping
you from changing its appearance. Keep it locked to protect from
accidental changes, but lock the taskbar only after you've set it
up to suit your needs.
|Auto-Hide the Taskbar
|Handy mostly for small screens, this option makes the taskbar
automatically hide itself when you're not near it. (Point your
cursor at the screen's bottom edge to bring it back up.) Leave this
option deselected to keep the taskbar always in view.
|Use Small Taskbar Buttons
|Another helper for small screens, this shrinks the taskbar to
half-height, letting you pack in a few extra tiny icons.
|Taskbar Location On Screen
|Your taskbar can live on any edge of your desktop, not just the
bottom. Choose any of the four edges here.
|Taskbar Buttons
|When you open lots of windows and programs, Windows
accommodates the crowd by grouping similar windows under one
button: All open Microsoft Word documents stack atop one Microsoft
Word button, for example. To protect the taskbar from overcrowding,
select the option called Always Combine, Hide Labels.
|Notification Area
|This section's Customize button lets you decide which icons
should appear in the notification area. I choose Always Show All
Icons and Notifications On the Taskbar.
|Use Peek to Preview the Desktop
|When you activate this feature, pointing at the strip on the
taskbar's far-right edge makes the windows transparent, letting you
peek at your underlying desktop. (Clicking it minimizes all open
windows.) Select this check box to activate that strip.
Feel free to experiment with the taskbar until it looks right for you. After you've changed an option, see the changes immediately by clicking the Apply button. Don't like the change? Reverse your decision and click Apply to return to normal.
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Public meetings for Twin Ports Interchange reconstruction project scheduled Monday, July 30 in Duluth
Duluth, Minn. – The Minnesota Department of Transportation has scheduled two public meetings on Monday, July 30, 2018 at Clyde Iron Works, 2920 W. Michigan Street, Duluth MN 55806.
The meetings will give the public an opportunity to provide input, ask questions and get the latest updates about the proposed project to rebuild and modernize the current infrastructure at the Interstate I-35, I-535, Highway 53 interchange.
Two identical sessions will be held:
- 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (presentation at 11:45 a.m.)
- 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (presentation at 6:15 p.m.)
To request an ASL or foreign language interpreter, or other reasonable accommodation, call Janet Miller at 651-366-4720 or 1-800-657-3774 (Greater Minnesota), 711 or 1-800-627-3529 (Minnesota Relay). You also may send an email to email@example.com. Please request at least one week in advance, if possible.
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More people lean toward teaching career in struggling economy
Tammy Garrison worked for Aflac for 16 years, taught herself how to troubleshoot the computer system in benefits and payroll and was soon leading classes and seminars for other employees. Then in April 2006 she quit.
"I was making a pretty nice income," she said. "But I always wanted to teach, since the second grade. Granddaddy would come home and I'd have the chalkboard ready when he came in the door."
She started taking online classes through Troy University to earn a degree in computer science and eventually her teaching certification. She's also taken a job working in the office at Smiths Station High School, where two of her children go to school.
In August, she hopes to be leading classes again, this time teaching high school math. She hopes her experience in the corporate world will be useful in the classroom.
"I feel like one of the advantages I have is I can relate it to the real world," Garrison said. "A lot of algebra, I know why you have to know this to get into the computer field."
For Garrison, choosing teaching as her second career was fulfilling a dream. But with a struggling economy and many companies looking at cutbacks, some are considering teaching because they are looking for a more stable job.
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Our group climbs feature only the best routes on Mount Kilimanjaro: 7 Days Rongai Route, 7 Days Machame Route, 8 Days Lemosho Route, and 9 Days Northern Circuit. These group climbs are scheduled during months that have the best weather and include acclimatization days for increased success rates.
For those who want to climb on different dates or routes than our group depatures, we offer private climbs. Private climbs are also for those who would like to keep the group size small to have a more intimate experience on the mountain. Climbers with children or special needs are required to book private climbs for increased individual attention from our guides,
The arrival dates and departure dates are posted below, with the climb days in between (i.e., arrive in Moshi/Kilimanjaro Airport on January 1, climb from January 2 to January 9, depart on January 10).
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Group Climbs: 8 day Lemosho Route / July 20 to July 29, 2020
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Arrival Date: July 20, 2020
Climbing from: July 21 to July 28, 2020
Departure Date: July 29, 2020
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• Park entry fees,
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• 18% VAT on tour fees & services
• 4 Season mountain tents
• Double layered Sleeping Mats
• Friendly and professional mountain guides, cook and porters
• 3 hot meals daily while on the mountain
• Enough treated & filtered drinking water throughout the trek
• Hot water for washing
• Fair wages for the mountain crew
• Government taxes
• Portable oxygen tanks & ox meter
• Emergency first-aid kit
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– Travel insurance
– Portable flush toilet with a toilet tent is available for extra charges $ 70 for the entire trek.
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Mortdale Automotive Services take great pride in offering you the very best in car servicing and automotive repairs.more
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Located between the Greater Western HWY and Olympic Drive on John Street, the Lidcombe Service Station is your Repco Authorised Car Service Mechanic in Lidcombe, NSW.more
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Franks Automotive is the best tyre shop that has a wide range of branded tyres in Stock.more
2 Mitchell Ave, Jannali, NSW, 2226
Jannali Car Clinic is your local Repco Authorised Service Centre. We offer our clients the best in car servicing and automotive repairs that is certified and fair.more
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Electroworx is renowned for unbeatable mobile auto electrician services across the Sydney Metropolitan area. It has the capability to provide extensive auto electrical services.more
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Established in 1950, Coda Batteries has transitioned into an online battery store for Australia. Its range of batteries offered is truly astonishing, and it claims to have batteries for just about everything. Indeed, car batteries, car alarm batteries, digital camera batteries, smoke alarm batteries and so much more are all offered by the online battery store. The batteries are all offered at reasonable prices, producing a strong value for customers. As a discount battery store, Coda focuses on still providing the most quality for those discounted solutions. In short, there is a battery for almost any need at Coda.more
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For over 25 years in Leichhardt, Cassela Motor Repairs has provided quality service that is professional and competitive in pricing.more
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ABC Mobile Mechanic is your number one source for an affordable, reliable and professional service.more
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We are your one-stop auto shop for trustworthy car servicing and car repairs in Mascot, employing highly skilled technicians who are certified and equipped to handle all major and minor car repairs.more
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Rozelle Pink Slips, Blue Slips and Green Slips NSW Your local Rozelle car service workshop, Rozelle Automotive is a full-service automotive repair and preventive maintenance centre.more
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Sydney Diesel Centre is a team of specialists serving the Smithfield area that is dedicated to servicing any conceivable type of vehicle. Whether you own a car, a truck fleet, a yacht or a host of marine vessels, Sydney Diesel reassures you that they are well suited to meet your needs. Sydney Diesel is both a Bosch Diesel Center and Bosch Car Service, and they proudly claim that they are fuel injection, diagnostics, repair, servicing and spare parts specialists.more
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All mechanical repairs and servicing. Tyres and wheel balancing. Brakes replaced and Air conditioning services, Batteries, minor electrical and pink slips. Instrument Cluster repairs.more
63 Bay Street Botany NSW , Botany, NSW, 2019
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155 Chifley St, Smithfield, NSW, 2164
We are a 22 year old company based in Australia. We have auto car parts for all the brands and it is readily available on our e-commerce platform.more
52A Trelawney St, Eastwood, NSW, 2122
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Car mechanics specialising in European Cars, We do brakes, Pink Slips, Air Conditioning, vehicle diagnostics and all automotive repair.more
By Appointment, Sydney, NSW, 2000
Electro Worx Automotive is the best mobile auto electrician in Sydney that provides comprehensive mobile electrical repair services. Visit our website for more details.more
PO Box 2130, Carlingford, NSW, 2118
MRJ Mobile Injectors with 25 years of experience in injector cleaning and testing. We at MRJ offer mobile petrol and diesel injector cleaning service in Sydney metropolitan area. Contact us.more
45 Perry St, Matraville, NSW, 2036
As your local Mechanic in Matraville, Torrisi Automotive take great pride in offering our clients the very best in car servicing and automotive repairs.more
Unit 1, 76 Hassal St, Wetherill Park, NSW, 2164
R& G Vaccari Mechanical Repairs has served Wetherill Park for over 30 years and takes great pride in offering our clients the very best in car servicing and automotive repairs.more
122 Bungaree Rd, Pendle Hill, NSW, 2145
We pride ourselves on offering the best automotive transmission service in Sydney. Whether it's a scheduled service or something more urgent, BJ Automotive will listen to what you need and use our extensive years of experience to give you the best service possible. Our car mechanic team is professionally accredited and fully trained to dealing with cars from distinguished manufacturers. Our aim to make the experience as pleasant as possible providing a service that not only repairs, service and tunes your vehicle from the convenience of your home but also at a competitive price. We offering a vast range of car services, ranging from air conditioning, automatic transmission service, mechanical repair, logbook service, brake & suspension repair, rego inspection, electrical repairs, scanning diagnostics, radiator repair, tyre service & much more for all makes and models of Cars, Vans, and 4WDs. As we have the clients who have been visiting us for many years, we know the importance of trust and loyalty. All of our servicing is done to manufacturers specifications so you maintain your warranty.more
23 Mcilwraith Street, Wetherill Park, NSW, 2164
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By Appointment, Green Valley, NSW, 2168
Concourse Auto Electrical, as our name states, specialise in auto electrical services of all types of vehicles. Cars, trucks and bikes. Don't go out and risk it getting someone who does it in their spare time. Make sure you use a proper experienced auto electrician for your vehicle! Contact us today for all your auto electrical needs.more
By Appointment, Queens Park, NSW, 2022
Auto electrical and air conditioning contractor working in Queens Park and surrounding suburbs. Services Include: Battery Replacements, Car Steros, Car Air Conditioning, Air Conditioning Repairs, Electric Window Repairs, Electric Brakes.more
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Chatswood Auto Repairs is proudly owner operated, and the business has been providing quality service and auto repairs to the Chatswood area for more than 25 years and counting. Chatswood is capable of servicing the very best European and prestige vehicles with its team of highly skilled technicians and professionals. Additionally, Chatswood Auto is an accredited NRMA vehicle inspector, and they service and repair every make and model. Choosing Chatswood entails choosing a business that keeps prices low and their performance high, ensuring that customers are always satisfied when they use Chatswood Auto.more
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ith years of technical trade experience, here at Pennant Hills car service Epping Motors, our mechanics have the knowledge and skill to tackle any auto repair or maintenance service in a true one-stop-shop.more
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Being your local Mechanic in Minto, Djanko Erickson and his team take great pride in offeringthe very best in car servicing and repairs.more
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Garry's Auto & Batteries is known for providing expert auto repair services including air conditioning repairs. The expert staff of the company quickly detects any auto electrical problem, big or small and they are expert in fixing it. You can also get easy battery configuration and replacement at a very reasonable cost.more
7 Pioneer Ave, Thornleigh, NSW, 2120
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GNS Mechanical is your local expert mechanics for all of your vehicle repair and maintenance needs in Campbelltown. Our qualified mechanics and expert technicians in Perth have got you covered. All of our work is fully guaranteed and you won't risk losing your new car warranty either! We are dedicated looking after our clients and your car as we provide a full range of expert car servicing including mechanical service and repairs to all car makes and models. We are here to help you find the best service and keep your car working during the worst of summers and winters.more
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I can't help it but create a family tree at once!
This is exactly what happened with this new Premier collection called "Poetic Garden"
It immediately inspired me to create this Artsy family tree for one of my boys on a 12x12 page!
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Love will do strange things to a guy. One might write a song or read sweet poetry to his object of affection. Another might climb a mountain or drive across the country in order to show his true feelings. Or perhaps it might take… a little more than that. Follow Matt and Jason on a journey into the blackest depths of amour with their commentary on the 1935 dark suspense tale, Mad Love. It's a wild romance straight out of the asylum with rants and ravings on Peter Lorre, censorship, questionable wooing tactics, marrying rich, snacks, suicide, and enough tasteless stereotypes to keep you in stitches. And when the love finally dies, join your handsome hosts for some chat on their recently watched movies. Are you ready to kill the thing YOU love?
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Wickedly Fast Wi-Fi Network
The City of San José pioneered a public-private partnership with SmartWAVE Technologies and Ruckus Wireless to deploy one of the fastest Wi-Fi networks available in the nation, at minimal cost to the City, using state-of-the-art technology developed in Silicon Valley. The free, outdoor downtown Wi-Fi officially launched on March 14, 2013.
Wickedly Fast Wi-Fi is accessible through the downtown core from East St. John Street to the north, portions of Balbach Street and Viola Avenue to the south, North 6th Street to the east, and Almaden Boulevard to the west. The network delivers Wi-Fi speeds up to three to four times faster than conventional, existing Wi-Fi public networks across the country.
The network benefits the City's downtown parking infrastructure, primarily the pay-to-park meters, by improving the speed by which time-sensitive transactions occur. In addition, it connects City facilities by providing high-speed alternatives to traditional telecommunications circuits.
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OCZ Technology has expanded its memory lineup for AMD enthusiasts and power users with new DDR3 kits specifically for the AM3 platform. The new 1600MHz and 1333MHz low-voltage memory modules are optimized to leverage AMD's DDR3 platform.
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text: Analysts predict that soon, half of all new IT service desk tools will be adopted as cloud-based services. While shifting to an on-demand model can be a complex decision that requires organizations to carefully assess the potential impact on business operations, a growing number of companies are clearly finding the move worthwhile. This paper explores the reasons for the rapid growth of cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) solutions and the benefits they offer for enterprises. Topics include: • The cost savings companies can achieve by deploying ITSM solutions via the cloud, which allows better management and optimization of consumption and costs. • Improved alignment between IT and business, as self-service, a service catalog, collaboration, and mobility help IT expose and provide its services more effectively. • The ability to integrate cloud and on-premise solutions to leverage existing systems while leveraging new innovations via the cloud. • The advantages of cloud-based adoption and upgrades, which makes the latest tools available more simply, quickly, and accurately while minimizing internal IT requirements. • The security provided through a properly built and supported cloud model. • How cloud-based solutions can reduce the risk associated with customary application deployment methods. • Advances in today's cloud infrastructures compared with previous generations of hosted and managed services. • The agility cloud-based solutions enable for adapting to fast-changing business requirements. Download the white paper now to learn more.


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Hendricks: Hamner votes on her 'core values'
It appears that one of our residents isn't familiar with the concept of a representative democracy as we currently have it. Rep. Hamner was elected not to slavishly follow the polls in her district but to listen to the debate and vote her conscience. We elect representatives rather than have direct democracy for many reasons, primary of which is to allow more reasoned debate. Federalist Paper No. 10 warns against factions or "a number of citizens, whether amounting to a minority or majority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community."
That said, the recent firearms regulations passed by the state legislature will meet constitutional challenge (they have before) and have the support of the vast majority of the citizens of the United States and Colorado.
While this particular gent might not like the way Rep. Hamner voted, he shouldn't expect her to sway with the prevailing wind. She has core values and votes them.
I applaud her courage.
Glenn Hendricks, Silverthorne
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London-based Jake Walters is an extraordinary photographer; he moves from fashion shoots to celebrity portraits to commercial work with style and ease. Whether the subject is still, wildly kinetic or deliberately staged, the people in Walters' photographs are always intriguing, always demanding one's attention longer than might be excited. And yes, folks, he is Kanye-approved, just in case you were wondering. [ Continue Reading ]


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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Rent<i> and</i> own: Belmont duplex offers possibilities
Address: 219 Douglas Ave
Neighborhood: North Belmont
Asking: $495,000
Assessment: $354,000
Year Built: 1900
Size: 2,227 fin. sq. ft. / 50 unfin.
Land: 0.22 acres
Agent: David Cooke, 984-7428, Real Estate III
Curb Appeal: 7 out of 10
Seeing a rental property is a whole different experience from touring a traditional owner-occupied house. Visitors have to alter usual expectations and go in with an open mind; it's often hard to shift gears to be able to evaluate a property as an investment.
To start, the openings aren't staged. Tenants don't have an incentive to put out fresh flowers or pick up the laundry. Beer bottles and half-eaten bags of chips aren't tactfully stowed out of sight. Tenants might be hanging out while you visit. Appliances and fixtures aren't selected to finish off a room but reflect cost and function— and they're probably old.
This Douglas Avenue house is just a block away from trendy center-city Belmont speckled with Bel Rio, The Local, Belmont BBQ, Mas, La Taza, and other upscale emporia. Here are mostly older homes– and another duplex across the street. Families and young professionals dominate.
Welcoming covered porches on both levels add to the curb appeal, as do the pale yellow exterior and vintage farmhouse vibe. The long open lot leads back to a shared alley, while a flat, expansive but neglected half lot to one side (rusting stuff abounds) screams for a trim and a volleyball net.
The house is divided into two apartments, the one on the first level with three bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, and bath. A couple of steps end at a plaster wall blocking the rest of the original staircase. Similarly, the living room fireplace has been boarded up. Although the stairs and the fireplace don't work now, whoever converted the place had the foresight to save them in case a new owner wants to return to a single-family house.
The vaulted ceiling in the first floor kitchen makes the space feel open and bright. The size is big enough to accommodate a dining table, which is good, because there's not much counter space. In the single bath just off the kitchen, small, high windows and a skylight make the otherwise enclosed room bright.
The second level apartment has a separate entrance via stairs leading up to the covered porch. A wide hall runs through the center of the apartment, connecting each room and keeping things open. It's mostly carpeted, with linoleum in the kitchen and bath (there are no laundry facilities). Up here, the kitchen is an ample size, but the fridge points out of one corner and the oven sits awkwardly in another with no counters nearby for prep. Despite the funky kitchen, the apartment is light-filled and has surprisingly roomy bedrooms.
Thanks to the minimally destructive conversion to two units, the agent is able to list the house as both residential and multi-family to attract a variety of buyers. With the current price tag, though, it might not make sense for someone to buy the place planning to return it to its original use. It would seem to make more sense financially for a new owner to live in one unit and rent out the other.
Rather than a home, would-be buyers will see this property as an investment. Currently, both apartments are rented through the academic year, the first floor unit for $1,195, the second for $985.
Becoming a landlord is a big responsibility that not suitable for everyone. The owner has to fix things that break. But the bonus of someone else paying a nice chunk of the mortgage might ease the pain of those desperate midnight calls about overflowing toilets.
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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC q SOCIETY . WASHINGTON, D. C. - ' Organized "for the increaseand diffusion of geographicknowledge" \ : / \/ GILBERT HOVEY GROSVENOR , Editor, 1899-1954; President, 1920-1954 A Chairman of the Board, 1954-1966 T HE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY is chartered in Washington, D. C., in accordance with the laws of the United States, as a nonprofit scientific and educational organization for increasing and diffusing geographic knowledge and promoting research and exploration. Since 1890 the Society has supported 816 explorations and research projects, adding immeasurably to man's knowledge of earth, sea, and sky. 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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Questioning is the starting point for any inquiry lesson. Several techniques were detailed in the video program 3, in which the students of Jorge Arredondo and Bo Wu explored the work of Rudolfo Anaya and James Baldwin. When these same teachers present the work of Tomás Rivera and Esmeralda Santiago, however, they employ different methods. Bo Wu's students, for example, engage in a number of reader-response activities to begin an inquiry into Santiago's memoir When I Was Puerto Rican. They start with strategies like reader's theater, journal writing, and peer-group discussions of their writing, and they choose topics for inquiry only after they have immersed themselves in the issues.
In his class on Rivera and Mexican migrant labor, Jorge Arredondo spends less time in the immersion phase than he did with Anaya. He reminds students that they should not come up with inquiry topics to please him; rather, they should find topics that are interesting to them. His students ask a range of questions: What is the history of child labor laws? How did the Mexican government feel about people leaving to go to the United States? How did the U.S. government feel about the immigrants? What jobs were available to Mexican laborers? How have the laws changed?
For teachers accustomed to strict lesson plans, this approach -- simply having students begin questioning without much background -- can be daunting. But Arredondo has built structure into what might seem a completely open-ended process by outlining specific steps for the class to go through together. First, the novel's translator, Evangelina Vigil-Piñón, visits the class, and the students ask her questions about the book. Considering the translator's responses, the students brainstorm more questions together. They then research their questions in a computer lab and begin to interview the laborers in their own community (e.g., the school custodial workers). Arredondo sets aside time for the class to collectively discuss its progress through each of these steps.
Bo Wu says she consciously "structures the lesson in a way that allows students to ask more questions." Ultimately, they will write their own memoir based on the topic they choose. Her students ask provocative questions like "What does it mean to be an American?" that can sustain a rich, multifaceted inquiry.
In a sense, teachers who choose to use this approach may need to be more organized than teachers following a daily lesson plan. In an inquiry, the teacher sets the daily structure within which students will question and explore, and acts as facilitator by having resources at the ready for questions students are likely to ask.
Educators Richard Beach and Jamie Myers, in their book Inquiry-Based English Instruction, speak of the need for teachers to "build problem-solving activities around students' perceptions of their own concerns, issues, or dilemmas." They write: "If teachers assign concerns, issues, or dilemmas, students may simply perceive them as 'school' or 'teacher' issues. Having both teachers and students mutually identify their own concerns, issues, or dilemmas engages them in a 'problem-finding' process of discovering or unearthing matters they perceive as important to their own lives in social worlds." This is perhaps the most important goal of having students begin with their own questions.
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The Petri Dish: Worries about the flu
special to the daily
The arrival of cold weather here in Summit County hails the new influenza season. While many of us equate the flu with sniffles and a runny nose, it is actually a very serious disease that kills thousands of Americans every year. The illness is caused by a particularly crafty virus, the influenza virus, which infects the moist passages of the nose, throat and lungs. While the virus does a considerable amount of damage to these tissues, it is our body's own immune response to the virus that is responsible for many of the symptoms we suffer, especially the fever and aching muscles.
Flu arrives like clockwork every winter but varies in severity. In normal years, "seasonal" flu is primarily a concern for those with weakened immune systems, including the very elderly. Once in a while, new variants of the virus emerge (referred to as "pandemic" flus) which can be associated with severe illness and high levels of mortality, even among healthy individuals with strong immune systems. The classic example is the Spanish flu of 1918 that killed upwards of 700,000 in the U.S. and untold millions worldwide. Shockingly, it seems that more U.S. soldiers in World War I died from the Spanish flu than from battle wounds. The ever-present danger of pandemic flus, which arise several times a century, keeps health authorities constantly vigilant. You may recall that the 2009 H1N1 flu was a new variant that caused a worldwide pandemic. Fortunately, although it killed many people, this new variant was less dangerous than some past pandemics.
Why does the flu exhibit this pattern of yearly seasonal epidemics punctuated by occasional severe pandemics? The question has fascinated scientists for decades. Its answer lies in the structure of the virus, which can simply be thought of as an inner core surrounded by an outer protein coat. The inner core contains the virus's genetic code and proteins essential for reproduction of the virus once it has entered the cells lining the throat, nose and lungs. The outer coat is responsible for mediating entry of the virus into those cells. But fascinatingly, the outer coat is also designed to be highly variable in structure, which allows the virus to essentially disguise itself every year and hide in plain sight from the immune system. This is because one of the immune system's primary mechanisms for attacking the flu virus is the production of antibodies in the blood, molecules that stick to the outer coat of the virus and essentially gum it up, preventing binding to target cells. However, these yearly gradual changes in the "shape" of the viral coat mean that antibodies produced against prior-year infections only poorly recognize the changed virus, resulting in another bout of flu for that individual. It is this constant drift in shape that allows the virus to return year after year and re-infect individuals who should otherwise be immune. It is also why the flu vaccine has to be regularly re-formulated to ensure a match with the current shape of the circulating virus.
But what about pandemic flus? It turns out that occasionally, the flu virus undergoes a seismic shift in the composition of its outer coat (and internal) proteins. Whole protein components can be replaced, presenting the human immune system with a flu virus that looks fundamentally different from any the immune system has seen before. These dramatic changes happen when strains of flu virus circulating in birds or animals mix with the human form of the virus, producing a mosaic with greatly altered shape and infectivity. These "re-assorted" viruses are often associated with much more severe infections, such as the Spanish flu, and can be highly deadly in the year they emerge. And for reasons not entirely clear, the new virus completely replaces the previously circulating version of flu. The end-result after the initial pandemic is over is that the new flu gradually reduces its lethality and becomes a seasonal flu in subsequent years – until a new pandemic strain emerges.
The relationship between humans and influenza is complex. While scientists are able to produce vaccines against both seasonal and pandemic strains of flu, the process is slow, and there is often a rush to make the vaccine available to the population before the flu season starts. Furthermore, vaccines against pandemic strains tend to be less effective for reasons that are not clear (sometimes requiring multiple administrations to achieve effective immunity). Clearly we still have much to learn about the biology of this fascinating virus.
David L. "Woody" Woodland, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer of Silverthorne-based Keystone Symposia on Molecular and Cellular Biology, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating life science discovery by convening internationally renowned research conferences in Summit County and worldwide. Woody can be reached at (970) 262-1230 ext. 131 or email@example.com.
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With all insiders saying the Audi A1 will make an appearance at the Tokyo motor show next month, it's no surprise that various prototypes are making the rounds. A new series of shots from the Nizzurbring show what spies say is a VW Polo Cup edition body over an A1 chassis. Fender flares have been stapled forth to handle the A1's more bulldog-like stance. That's what engineers hope will give it an edge against the Mini Cooper. It's not coming to the states, but the A1 will show up in Europe, snow shoes and caviar lashed to the roof, sometime in 2009. [World Car Fans]
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World Cup: How to Skip Work to Watch U.S. vs. Germany
Step-by-Step Instructions for Fleeing the Office and Taking in the All-Important Match
1. By now you probably know that Thursday, June 26, is a day off throughout the United States to watch the U.S. men's national soccer team play Germany at noon Eastern in a massively important World Cup contest.
2. This emergency bill was signed into law early this morning by U.S. Prime Minister Ryan Seacrest.
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ORCHESTRATION2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in Bb, 2 Bassoons, 4 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in Bb, 3 Trombones, Timpani, Percussion (2 players: Snare drum, Bass Drum, Tambourine), Harp, Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass)The Kaiser-Walzer was originally titled "Hand in Hand" and was intended as a toast made in August 1889 by Austrian emperor Franz Josef on the occasion of his visit to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II where it was symbolic as a "toast of friendship" extended by Austria to Germany. Strauss' publisher, Fritz Simrock, suggested the title Kaiser-Walzer since the title could allude to either monarch, and thus satisfy the vanity of both rulers. The waltz was first performed in Berlin on 21 October 1889.Da Capo & Dal segnos have been written out in full in this edition for ease of use.A PACK comprises an A4 sized full score plus a complete set of parts including strings 4/4/3/4/2.Duration 11 minutes
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TVGN Counts Down Sequels That Were Better Than the Original
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It's rare that a movie sequel matches the quality of the original, and even more rare when it surpasses the first. So what's the greatest movie sequel of all time? Is it The Godfather, Part II? Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King? Aliens? Who a… Read more


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Dec. 13, 2009
LONG BEACH, Calif. - During the first two days of the Finis Collegiate Invitational being held at Belmont Plaza, the UC Santa Barbara men's and women's swim teams posted a combined nine NCAA Championship consideration times, 14 first-place finishes and one school record.
Saturday's highlight was senior Anne Marie May's 50 freestyle win. The senior touched the wall in 22.34 seconds, the best time posted by a woman collegiate swimmer this season and a NCAA "B" qualifying time. Though her time was .38 off of her school record, it is the best time she has posted without the assistance of a technical suit.
Sunday's highlights include Jessica Schwalb's school-record setting performance in the 400 individual medley. Schwalb won the event in 4:17.88, which is a "B" qualifying standard and breaks the school record of 4:20.43 set by her sister, Jen Schwalb in 2004.
Schwalb wasn't the only Gaucho to reach a NCAA consideration time on the second day of the meet, Naomi Javanifard won the 100 butterfly in a NCAA consideration time of 54.43 and followed that up with a first place finish in the 100 backstroke (56.07).
Katie Stover rounded out the women's individual first-place finishes on Sunday, winning the 200 free in 1:49.33, which is just .11 seconds off of the NCAA "B" qualifying standard in the event.
In the relays, the women won both the 200 medley and 800 free. Javanifard, Anne Marie May, Miranda Schneider and Kendall Neely posted a time of 1:43.58 in the 200 medley, a consideration time for NCAA's. In the 800 free relay, Kelsey Lewis, Katie Stover, Courtney Bauer and Katie Tomkinson finished in 7:29.35.
On the men's side, Tim Freeman won the 100 breaststroke in 55.25, a "B" qualifying standard. Kevin Ferguson also achieved a NCAA consideration time with his first-place finish in the 100 backstroke (48.84).
On Saturday, the Gauchos got the meet off to a strong start with back-to-back wins in the 200 freestyle relays. The women's "A" relay team made up of May, Neely, Javanifard and Bauer took first with a time of 1:31.94, which is "B" qualifying standard.
The men followed suit and the team of Chris Peterson, Kevin Kuhn, Ferguson and Ryan Hanni posted a mark of 1:20.98, another NCAA "B" qualifying time.
In the 500 free, Emma Hunt and Meagan Brown qualified for the event's finals. Hunt took fourth with a time of 5:01.88 and Brown finished behind her in fifth (5:03.64). On the men's side, four Gauchos made the 500 free final. Scott Vogelgesang had the top finish, coming in third with a mark of 4:35.93 (he swam the event's preliminary heat in 4:34.60). Joe Plume took fourth (4:37.92), Ryan Garcia took sixth (4:40.12) and Brett Chamberlain was seventh (4:40.27).
The UCSB men had an even better showing in the 200 individual medley with five swimmers making the event's final. The Gauchos swept second through sixth places in the event and Danny McClary led the pack finishing second in 1:51.00. Brandon Schilling took third (1:52.04), Freeman placed fourth (1:52.62) and Mitchell Long (1:53.33) and Evan Simoni (1:53.46) took fifth and sixth, respectively.
Schwalb was the Gauchos' top finisher in the women's 200 IM, placing second in 2:04.42 while Brittany Borowitz took fifth (2:06.11).
In addition to May's win in the 50 free, her teammates Javanifard (23.36) and Neely (23.38) rounded out the top-three finishes and Bauer took sixth after finishing in 23.82.
Peterson followed May's lead and took first in the men's 50 free with a time of 20.34, a "B" qualifying standard. Kuhn and Ferguson placed fifth and sixth with marks of 20.62 and 20.64, respectively.
Saturday's final event was the 400 freestyle relay and the Gauchos once again swept the top finishes. Katie Stover, Emily Adamczyk, Javanifard and May picked up first for the UCSB women, finishing in 3:46.27. The team of Ferguson, Freeman, McClary and Peterson got the job done on the men's side, posting a top finish in 3:17.40.
The Finis Collegiate Invitational will conclude on Monday at Belmont Plaza.


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Cruise Holidays of Upland
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Some first-time cruisers are surprised and pleased to find that their options for shore excursions extend far beyond sightseeing tours of the port cities. While excursions that feature bus tours, museums and shopping are delightful, many ports of call offer more active pursuits, too. For example, choosing a shore excursion that includes some hiking is a great way to stretch your legs and see scenic attractions that may not be accessible by tour bus.
If you visit Ushuaia, Argentina, on a cruise of South America or Antarctica, you can hike through the Alvear Mountains to the Five Cascades waterfalls in the Tierra Mayor Valley Natural Preserve. Regent Seven Seas Cruises offers an excursion that travels a bit further from the port, letting you trek through the Patagonian countryside along the shore of Lake Fagnano.
Some excursions available to cruise passengers calling on Juneau, Alaska, combine the thrill of "flightseeing" – sightseeing from the air – with hiking on frozen glaciers. For your safety and comfort, glacier boots will be provided.
Some of the best hiking can be found in out-of-the-way locations, such as Olden, Norway. The Yachts of Seabourn visit this northern port in the summer months. Hikers can follow a scenic path to the top of a waterfall, gaining a wonderful view of Jostedals Glacier. In addition to the view, hikers get another reward in the form of tea and cakes at the charming Briksdal Inn.
Guests of Norwegian Cruise Line ships that call on Cabo San Lucas can take a ride through the scenic desert to the Fox River Canyon. Here, mountains, greenery and waterfalls provide a terrific contrast to the surrounding desert. After hiking for about an hour, you can relax and refresh yourself under shady trees before returning to the ship.
Be sure to ask your personal cruise expert about the intensity level of any hiking included in shore excursions that interest you. To ensure a good experience, be realistic about your hiking abilities and choose your excursion accordingly. Also, be sure to bring along clothes and shoes appropriate for hiking.


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Leslie Burger's Opening Comments
when she talked to her colleagues and those who use and care about libraries, they would ask what do we stand for?
she thought that it would be wonderful if we as a community if we could think about the idea of having an agenda for transforming the way library service is provided in this country (for all levels and types)
and what if we could agree on a forward-thinking, positive agenda we could share with people on the Hill and if we could all agree that it would be valuable to support it?
so the idea is to begin to craft the first steps of a "national library agenda" that will transform how people think about and use libraries
some examples:
- AARP - we know what they are about; we may not agree with their agenda, but we know they have a strong one
- same thing with the NEA
need to think about what are we - people who work in libraries and provide service every day - about
need to step away from some of our defensive postures about what we "know" will make libraries better
time to say it in a way that makes everyone want to support it
can look at the work that has come before us and shape it into a focused agenda
it needs to articulate some basic values or premises about why we are doing this
doesn't like to have the cost discussion before the ideas, but will have to talk about that at some point
looks forward to going to ALA Legislative Day in May with a positive agenda she can talk with legislators about
question: just legislative agenda?
Leslie: no
Trends & Issues
outside of libraries
- ethnolinguistic isolation
- increased socioeconomic polarity
- technocultural isolation
- tremendous thirst for a connection to local culture, their community
- downtown development, looking at shoring up downtown anchors that won't disappear during corporate buyouts
- breakdown in local communications media (newspapers, radio stations, etc.); leaves a lot of people in the lurch
- a number of communities are using online technologies to stay connected locally (high school students when they go to college)
- people are connecting online in communities around books
- wireless (cities)
- this might be stating the obvious, but many of these things are important because so much is available online now
- people feel increasingly isolated from one another, while also connecting personally more, but seeking civic connections
- increasing percentage of people who live alone, decreasing percentage of traditional households (6%); civic involvement is increasingly independent outside of the community; people act aggressively without knowing how things will affect their neighbors because they don't know their neighbors
- generation of retiring Baby Boomers
- large numbers of immigrants from many different groups
- 35 millions people in this country without health insurance
- tremendous decline in arts programs in schools
- while at the same time attendance at art events is increasing to an all-time high
- decrease in school libraries
- so much egovernment is only available online now and access is only through libraries
- a call for people to be able to talk to each other again; a civil space for dialogue to work together even if we have different perspectives
- discussion of the responsibility of government and what public institutions are and do
- expanding self-service
- more of an acceptance of constraints on personal freedom, not just an erosion
- many communities have a renewed focus on education but a sense of desperation about being able to do anything about it
- severe absence of key skills, especially communication skills (the ability to write clearly)
- changing idea of what privacy is - also the willingness to share personal information more broadly
- more than just growing income gaps, a growing inequality - the consolidation of resources, which has created a lot of job and income inequality; childhood is a disappearing opportunity
- struggle for the soul of the public sector (and for the role of the public sector)
- achievement gap among students of color; much is written about it but not much advancement is being made; gaps are so wide and they are not narrowing
- as we live longer, looking at quality of life, and the role ethics of science and medicine will play in that
- state of education is deplorable for everyone, not just people of color (and we're accepting this)
- there are two distinct audiences for a library message - one still hears an argument for the public good, and one needs to hear a return on investment; hopes we come out of this with three things, one for each side, not weighted on the side of the public good
- expectation of 24/7 access to everything
- the ethical use of information that is out there and the lack of understanding on the part of our young creators about disappearing information in the 2.0 world
- huge population shifts; some parts of the country see growing communities while others are seeing shrinking communities (including by age, ethnicity, etc.); differing picture from one place to the other
- in terms of immigration, the information age allows them to maintain contact and negotiate communities; transformations of identities - will redefine libraries as past waves of immigration did
- sovereign nations that live within our borders (250 nations within the U.S.) and face other challenges = language issues, the need for expanding economies, the need for expanded archives/institutions, changes in demographics, great health challenges
- because of the amount of public debt that has been created, every state is functioning on a deficit, which is creating major issues on a fiscally operating basis - living in a culture of trade-offs
- huge information challenge around global warming; many people see a phenomenon that could wipe us off the map at a time when facts and information are moving at a rapid pace; also an issue of communication of the issue
- intersection of science and religion
- the way gaming culture is changing the nature of "play;" cognition leading impulse
- entrepreneurship becoming one of the most prevalent and permanent forms of employment; the library as "the peoples' university/library"
- need to recognize the threat of anti-intellectualism in American history
- organized labor as it related to the private sector is changing dramatically and many of us work in all kinds of public institutions who are part of the strongest unions around; need to try to create more collaborative relationships with these unions and be more nimble
- sense of people not having a role to play in our democracy anymore; people don't feel empowered anymore; power is concentrated in small groups in the corporate sector
- also a reality that a huge number of public employees will be retiring over the next decade, which will have an enormous impact on public budgets
- in the past, mostly the middle class has supported community interests like the library; getting additional dollars is going to be difficult because they feel so stressed in this area; there are limits to how much the middle class can pay
- people are totally confused about government; they've been led to believe for so long that government is something you get off your back, making the debate about funding libraries more difficult
- per capita purchasing of books has remained essentially the same since 1900, although the way they buy them is changing
- troubling aspect of people having to question civic culture; discussion of civic culture will rest on
- public media
- museums
- public libraries and to some degree schools (not for everyone, though)
- could add community colleges
- could extend this to other nonprofit organizations in the community, fighting for resources and attention; they are often the ones we can count on to work with us to serve immigrants and other populations (especially ones that are prejudiced against government); the library as a government entity vs. a social/community entity
- notion that we are so disconnected and so isolated from each other; our impulse today is that we are consumers of government (claimants); on the one hand, we could try to engage people as consumers, but they wouldn't be part of the community; we have a customer service impulse; can we get beyond the rhetoric of the common good? goes against the grain of what is happening (MySpace, etc.)
- prejudice as socially acceptable (Arabs, immigrants)
- the whole context of gathering/organizing/maintaining the record of this area; rush to digitize and destroy at the same time; intellectual property fight that could lock out future generations
- how people are getting their information and getting inundated by it
- consumer impulse around television is lessening because of the internet/web, user-generated content; still have a step to connect this to community; consumer impulse might not be as overpowering in this new area
- we should be extremely concerned about preservation of intellectual content of the current period
- beleaguered public schools and institutions; they are critical players in democracy and can't be overly critical of them; can't fall into that trap of not understanding the important role that they play
- atomization of mass culture
- no channel of communication ever dies (can listen to oldtime radio online); people consume several of them at once
- we've never had as great an opportunity to work in partnership with other organizations; technology enables us to break down boundaries in a way we've never done before; lines are blurrier
- the good work that libraries do in literacy and early literacy; we still have a real role there that transcends other functions
- many things Baby Boomers think are problems are only problems for them; example - quoted Linda Stone and used the term "continuous partial attention" - means we have to be present in all of those different channels
- the for-profit education sector - home-schooling, preoccupation with assessment, etc.
- connect testing and gaming - possible role of the library to get involved from the teaching/assessment point of view; figure out what are community games versus just shooter games; the skills of gaming and the skills of test-taking are intertwined
- digital natives and digital immigrants and the disparity between them
- change in how the nonprofit community views itself (fundraising, advocacy, etc.); positions us well in some ways but poorly in others
- community colleges will play an important role in the demand for education
- gaming and community - WoW example of her children, building community, changing role of communities that are not confined by geographic boundaries; Second Life, too
- globalization, being dependent on others outside of our boundaries
- ecommerce, and the change in attitude that you can do everything and buy everything from your home
- the "open revolution" - part of our rhetoric now; open government, open source, open access; the expectation that information will be available out there on the web, but there's some disparity there (disease communities are driving a lot of there)
- primacy of oral communication; value-added services are coming from personal services
- do we all (in this room) expect that everyone in this country will be educated? what is our assumption?
- higher education, no? high school, yes; question of economics
- we have now cast a net so big, will it catch any fish?
- this isn't just a legislative agenda we're coming up with, so what else is it? broad or specific?
- Leslie - what is the basic right of every resident in terms of libraries? then define it and that could become the basis for a legislative agenda
- who is the audience for this agenda? how long will they read?
- legislators; our various communities
- what is our civic culture, and what are our aspirations for it - how can libraries help take it there? libraries could occupy space in that community; it's too easy for this to become a marketing exercise
- are we promoting new services with this agenda or existing ones?
- have to do some of both? resonate with what they know already, plus
- hears us all talking about positioning of the institution; we always want the institution to be at the top of the mind of individuals when they're talking about education, development, etc., but to do that, we have to become totally outward facing, which is a culture change for us
- we did this in Ohio, putting the focus on the users and not the institutions, which makes me think the audience here is us
- is this ALA's national agenda?
- Keith - we are accepting organizational responsibility to push this message forward
- she watched "The Librarian" last night and heard Bob Newhart say, "you gotta get out of the library once in a while;" she doesn't want to be a space in her community, she wants to be the heart of her community and to do that, she has to be out there in the community; balance of providing value on your services and marketing them; it's hard when you're at a small library, but you have to get out there into the community; if what you're doing isn't working, try something different
- thrilled that ALA is willing to help on this, but is this an ALA agenda or an agenda for libraries? needs to be both; our strength is the leadership of ALA and local leadership and citizenry
- it's important that librarians believe in what we put out there, but we need a public agenda; we believe we should be something but the rest of the world doesn't know that; how can we get on the public agenda so that the public sees us as part of them and a partner and resource to build communities
- has to be more than just ALA's agenda; that was one of the great things about the White House groups - involved all different types
- this has to be an agenda for library users, not for librarians; we will be effective and successful if we couch our terms in ways that affect the user
- impressed by librarians' willingness to engage the future - what is the moral basis on which libraries can justify themselves in the 21st century; librarians promote two things - a just society so that all citizens can become what they want to become - and a just access and fairness; without those, a vision of a better future will just be a vision of a better library
- need to look at who else is in the downtowns and the civic centers, and those are your partners and they are your audience; libraries are the key public institution still available to everyone; a collaborative agenda
- I really want to pull things more together because the map is getting so broad; two suggestions
- the idea of cataloging the community as an initiative (we're good but not great at it); the unique resources in our communities are the people; identification of social aspects
- answering the community reference question; we do this good but not great, too; it's not "at your library" but identifying the information gaps in the community; we're not asking everybody to admit how good we are, but trying to bring our resources to bear to make our communities better
- what's our problem statement? these are all great issues, but are we trying to come up with a new vision statement, but what are the measurements of success?
- issues of economic development; libraries should position themselves to work with economic development groups to work together
- local environmental scans of the community itself; take your services, philosophy out into the community with you
- OCLC Perceptions Report and recent Urban Libraries Council meeting show people don't have any problems identifying what the library is and does; what they have problems doing is connecting what they know with the language we use
- getting back to the idea of an advocacy agenda; given the resources, we know what to do with them or can figure that out; we're trying to figure out how to get collective voices for support of institutions, policies, and funding; in large part, we're talking about creating the kinds of strategies and structures that build that kind of support; translates into quesitons of infrastructure; if it's not a strong enough voice, we're fooling ourselves
- one of my objectives will be to influence the agenda setting to walk out with ways university libraries can participate and contribute to the national agenda


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Fort Valley, Ga. – Georgia Southwestern softball team traveled to Fort Valley State to play in a doubleheader on Friday afternoon. Between a no hitter by Ashley Cavender and Allison Pastor and the two Homeruns by Chelsea Littlejohn and Nellie Moore the Lady 'Canes were set to sweep Fort Valley.
GAME 1: GSW 9 FVSU 0 (5 inn.)
A top notch performance was seen by Cavender and Pastor who split credit for throwing a no hitter in the first game of the doubleheader. Cavender took the win after pitching in three innings and striking out three. Pastor finished the game by pitching the final two innings, striking out four of the six batters faced.
The game had an eventful start. Erin Steele was the first batter for GSW making it on base after a walk. Steele advanced on a wild pitch, then Rachel McElroy was walked. Jordan Miller then advanced by fielder's choice, getting McElroy out. Miller advanced on two separate wild pitches, the last one allowed Steele to come home. Nellie Moore was the next up and sent the ball into homerun territory. Moore and Miller scored. The first inning ended with three runs, one hit, and no errors, and no one left on base.
During the second inning, the Hurricanes Ashley Clifton was able to score off of a wild pitch. The Lady 'Canes next scoring opportunity was at the top of the fifth. Moore reached base on an error, then advanced on a pass ball. Clifton then came up and was able to reach on fielder's choice allowing Moore to make it home. Chelsea Hodges followed suit by doubling bringing in both Suzanna Stokes and Clifton. Chelsea Littlejohn then came up and hit her first homerun as a Lady 'Cane, also bringing in Hodges.
The Lady 'Canes ended the game up by nine runs.
Fort Valley's Alexis Ricks took the loss for the game after pitching in all five innings. Ricks faced 30 Hurricane batters and allowed four hits and nine runs, two of which were homeruns.
GAME 2: GSW 10 FVSU 2 (5 inn.)
The Lady 'Canes were up to it again in the second game. In the first inning, Allison Pastor singled and was able to reach second on an error, in the process of that happening McElroy and Steele scored. Keri Tompkins stepped up next singling, where Pastor found the opportunity to make it home. The next scoring opportunity came when Clifton singled and Tompkins made it home. Hodges was the next up who made it on base by fielders choice and Miller was able to make it home. This inning finished with five runs, four hits, two errors, and one left on base.
Moore added to her stats sheet in the second inning when she hit another homerun for the day also bringing in Littlejohn. Moore now has three homeruns on the record for this season, leading the Lady 'Canes.
Fort Valley was finally able to find there way all the way around the bases in the third inning when Asia Buckner hit a homerun also bringing in Bia Stearns. This was the only scoring opportunity for Fort Valley.
The Lady 'Canes were at it again in the fifth inning. McCall Faulkner made it home on a passed ball. Next Littlejohn singled, then reached second on an error and Steele was able to find her way home. Littlejohn was the last Hurricane to cross home plate on a pass ball. The game finished with GSW leading by eight.
Lauren Thrasher started the game and pitched the first two innings, giving her the win for the game after only allowing two hits and striking out one. Cavender made an appearance for two innings and Pastor finished off the last inning for the Lady 'Canes.
For Valley's Ricks took the loss after having pitched the full five innings in the second game as well. Ricks allowed 13 hits, ten runs, four walks, and one homerun.
The Lady 'Canes continue on the road to West Georgia on February 25th. The doubleheader on Tuesday is set to start at 2:00 p.m.


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Apple iPhone 4 Manual / User Guide
This is the official Apple iPhone 4 User Guide in English provided from the manufacturer. If you are looking for detailed technical specifications, please see our Specs page.
The iPhone 4 is now boxier, with the rear side now flat, instead of rounded. It will keep the 3.5-inch display diagonal, but will quadruple the pixels to 640x960, making it the highest-resolution screen on a smartphone to date. Apple actually calls the new screen Retina Display, because it shows 326 pixels per inch, while the human eye can only distinguish around 300 ppi. In addition, the screen will utilize the LCD IPS technology (same as in the iPad). The other new stuff includes a front-facing video call camera, 5MP main camera lens with LED flash and 720p HD video recording, Micro-SIM slot, instead of ordinary SIM, a secondary mic for noise-cancellation and a lot of other new features.


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Ocean Inhabitants Could Disappear by the Year 2048
Calling for no-fishing zones to be set up urgently, scientists warned in November that the world's fish and other marine animal populations caught for food may collapse within the next half-century. If current habitat destruction and over-fishing trends continue, their 4-year study showed that these species could be almost gone by 2048. In response to this study, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported its support for increased conservation, but believes that this fate will only result if reckless, irresponsible actions continue at the current rate for the next four decades. The FAO believes that world citizens will not let this happen, and economic forces would discourage a complete loss. In the meantime, there is no question that we should start demanding responsible fishing practices now.
Intelligent Humpbacks Possess Rare Brain Cells
Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientists have reported that humpback whale brains contain spindle neurons, a type of cell shared only by humans, great apes and cetaceans such as dolphins. The cells are present in areas analogous to where they are found in primate species. It may explain the whales' complex communication skills and abilities to form alliances, cooperate, transmit culture and use tools. Scientists believe spindle neurons are involved in the cognitive process.
Washington Orcas Under Threat
Puget Sound orcas have gained protection under the Endangered Species Act, but researchers worry about recent whale deaths, as well as an increase in pollution and a decline in food sources.
Three adult Puget Sound orcas were presumed dead after going missing this summer and fall. Before their disappearance, at least two of the animals had shown signs of starvation. Researchers are worried about this incident, since orca mortality is highest in the oldest and youngest animals and is typically restricted to the winter months. Additionally, one of the whales left behind a still-nursing calf. Losing a female in her early reproductive years is a devastating blow to the Puget Sound orca population of about 90 animals. While their numbers have been building since aquarium captures were banned in 1977, pollution and a decline in salmon are still affecting them. Federal officials responsible for protecting the animals under the Endangered Species Act since they were listed in November 2005 would like to see Puget Sound orca numbers grow to 120.
Meanwhile, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has issued a recovery plan for the whales, including cleaning up contaminated areas of the Puget Sound, improving guidelines for boat traffic around protected areas, preventing oil spills and supporting "salmon restoration." But its designation of critical habitat for the orcas has a major flaw—for national security reasons, the 2,500 square mile area restrictions do not apply to Naval operations, which infamously use deadly sonar in areas such as the large military zone in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, a popular habitat for the orcas.The NMFS should eliminate this exception to the important conservation tool.
Dolphinarium Plans Halted
The island of St. Maarten in the Netherlands Antilles had previously announced plans to allow the Mexican firm Atl ¡ntida to construct a dolphinarium on the island. The facility would have included over a dozen dolphins exported from Mexico, ensuring the cruel confinement of these intelligent animals. Fortunately, a massive grassroots campaign led to the imposition of 13 strict criteria by the St. Maarten government that caused the firm to abandon its plan. Governor F. E. Richards should be applauded for this action. It is hoped that the St. Maarten government will soon pass a provision stating that wild marine mammals will not be permitted to enter, leave or be housed on the island for commercial or entertainment purposes.
Sharks Receive Protection in the Southern Ocean and off the West African Coast
Bags of shark fins cater to the growing market for shark fin soup, an Asian "delicacy" that is contributing to the decline of many shark populations.
In November, the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources decided to halt the targeted fishing of sharks living in the Southern Ocean, at least until their status is assessed. These animals are often hunted for their fins through a brutal practice called "shark finning." Fisherman slice off the animals' fins while they are still alive and conscious. Following this horror, the sharks are tossed back into the water to die from suffocation, blood loss or predation by other animals. Shark species are particularly vulnerable because they grow slowly, mature late and produce small numbers of offspring. In particular, deepwater sharks, who are hunted increasingly for their liver oil, take many years to mature and are declining rapidly. Currently, 106 species of shark are at risk according to the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species.
While some bans on shark finning are in place in other parts of the world, they are generally lenient, and illegal finning goes undetected. However, any move to protect these marine animals is a step in the right direction, including the South East Atlantic Fisheries' immediate ban on shark finning along the coastlines of Namibia, Angola and South Africa. To control and monitor fishing, a record of all fishing vessels will also be established. It is our hope that these and other protections around the world will increase over time. These steps will contribute to a future of responsible, sustainable fishing and protections for sharks in all oceans.
Will the US Ban Destructive Fishing??
In a surprising move this October, the Bush administration promised to push for an international ban on deep-sea bottom trawling and other destructive fishing practices responsible for decimating ocean populations in recent years. United Nations officials met later that week to discuss the issue, but unfortunately, even a compromise ban was rejected—due largely to Iceland's delegation. With the support of almost two dozen of his colleagues in the US Congress, Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) that same week introduced a resolution stating that destructive fishing should be stopped.
Animal advocates and environmentalists have long warned about the dangers of trawling, whereby giant weighted nets are dragged along the floor of the sea to look for fish species such as orange roughy. Meanwhile, they scrape the ocean floor clean of ancient coral reefs and other important species and habitats. To the disadvantage of the ecosystem, technological advances have aided trawling, allowing the nets to reach more than 6,000 feet below the water's surface.


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Resilient Ideas: Rooftop Beekeeping
Beekeeping is still illegal in 89 U.S. cities, but New York City beekeepers no longer have to use civil disobedience to provide shoppers with honey that's produced in the neighborhood.
Bees from urban hives allow city dwellers to generate their own food without land or dirt, and the bees aid local fruit production by pollinating trees. It's also possible that urban bee colonies, exposed to fewer pesticides than their country cousins, may be resilient genetic reservoirs that could help worldwide bee populations recover from parasites and the little-understood colony collapse disorder.
This spring, food activists successfully overturned New York City's anti-beekeeping ordinance. A month later, Eagle Street Rooftop Farm, a rooftop CSA in Brooklyn, installed hives. Above, a beekeeper in Brooklyn's historic Cobble Hill neighborhood tends to his bees on the roof of his brownstone.
Ari LeVaux wrote this article for A Resilient Community, the Fall 2010 issue of YES! Magazine.
More Resilient Ideas
|A Hand-Built Home
|Low-Impact Urban Living
|Bike As You Are
|Return of the Mercantile
|Processing Food Where the Food Is
|Beekeeping on City Rooftops
|Reclaim, Repair, Rebuild
|Making Fruit Public
|Get Off the Grid
|Sunshine on the Menu


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This holiday apartment located in Vuokatti ski centre was completed in 2007. Apartment floor area is 77 m². There is combined living room & kitchen with sofa-bed for 1-2 persons, three bedrooms: 1st with twinbed (180cm) and 2nd with two separate beds (90cm). Sauna (electric heating), washroom/toilet and separate toilet. Balcony with terrace furniture and barbeque (gas) on summer time. Extra details: Wi-Fi Wireless Internet -connection, 46" LED-TV, Blu-Ray -system, air conditioning. Kajaani 35 km, Sotkamo 7 km, Vuokatti slopes 400 m, walking rotes 400m. The house is built into the hillside, when apartment Iida 23 entrance is directly from the parking area. Apartment is located on the second floor, middle in house. Ski maintenance room shared with other apartments. A lockable storage is located in the corridor of the house. Child equipment provided, if necessary (high chair, potty and travel bed). The houses (Iida 11-18) has a playground for children. Check in at 6 pm on arrival day and check out at 2 pm on departure day, also on a weekend stay. Final cleaning and bed linen included in price.
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Sad: Las Vegas Show Girl & Youtube Star's Body Found Dismembered Then Buried In Cement By Her Ex-Boyfriend! (Featured On A Video Called "Sex Games")
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UnNews:Hurricane Beta released
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-minute misinformation.
Sony and Microsoft have unveiled Hurricane Beta on October 29 as the record 13th hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic season.
Implemented with Sony's proprietary Betamax™ technology, Hurricane Beta is still in beta-testing and due to its premature release is expected to be somewhat unstable.
As it is expected to crash in Central America as a Category Two storm, thousands of Nicaraguans are being evacuated ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Beta's Blue Screen of Death. The control, alt and delete keys are being pre-positioned for immediate operation when this latest Microsoft-inspired disaster makes landfall.
In Colombia, Beta's high winds have already ripped the roofs from low-lying wooden homes on the mountainous Caribbean island of Providencia, while Columbia Broadcasting System staff took refuge in brick shelters built on high ground.
Hurricane Beta's path is becoming hard to predict as anxious homeowners attempt to pause and rewind the storm to get back to the point before their houses were destroyed. "Just let me pause the storm for long enough to use the washroom," residents in the Hurricane Beta test-market were prone to remark.
Due to the shortcomings of the Betamax™ platform, total running time of Hurricane Beta is expected to be a mere 4.5 hours, as compared to the eight-hour duration of its VHS counterpart. Nonetheless, Sony insists, Hurricane Beta packs a whallop of damage into this shortened run time.
The DVD consortium was unavailable for comment, but appears to be looking for ways to region-code the storm so that it misses their houses.
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