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MrSinclair wrote:fbenario wrote:As a general philosophy, no one on this board cares about anyone's feelings, including his own. They have no place in any post.
This is what makes this site so informative and refreshing. There is a great integrity to the discourse here as a result. Some newcomers have a problem with this but I'd say its only due to participating prior to actually reading what's here.
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Tokyo Neighborhoods • Futako Tamagawa
Futako Tamagawa Pictures
One of the top residential district in Tokyo(pics), Futako Tamagawa has it all from a river to a traditional farmhouse, not mentioning excellent housing, urbanism, and shopping (including a large Takashimaya department store).
How to get to Futako Tamagawa Neighborhood
Futako-Tamagawa Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line and the Tokyu Oimachi Line.
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Neighborhoods Nearby Futako Tamagawa - Pictures by Parent
Yoga Neighborhood by Parent. A rather popular upperscale residential district of Tokyo, Yoga is home to Sun's Microsystems Japan headquarters. It is located in the ward Setagaya on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line nearby another upperscale residential district,.. Distance from Futako Tamagawa: 1.9km NNE, 18 pictures.
Jiyugaoka Neighborhood by Parent. A famous neighborhood for young people, Jiyugaoka abounds with bars, restaurants, izakayas. Many interesting clothing and accessories stores for the youth can be found here. It's a bit similar to Shimokitazawa but with an older.. Distance from Futako Tamagawa: 3.7km E, 14 pictures.
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Shoebox Drive
What is the Shoebox Drive?
"We love because He first loved us." (I John 4:19)
Share God's love this Christmas.
Each year we collect shoeboxes filled with gifts for our students in Haiti. School supplies, hygiene items, toys and other small gifts make a big difference in the lives of Haitian children and their families. You can share God's love this Christmas by packing a shoebox.
Collection Dates:
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Please look over the packing list carefully (see below) and place your items in a shoebox. Remember, every child is in need and your gift will help make their lives easier. You can pack a shoebox for your sponsored child or for a child waiting to be sponsored. Also, you can bless a teacher, pastor, or nurse with a shoebox tailored to their specific needs.
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You are able to order a prepackaged shoebox for your sponsored child, or for a child who does not have a sponsor. Our team carefully selects each item we put in our shoeboxes with gifts related to their particular age and gender.
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Please include your $8 donation to help cover overseas shipping the shipping. Simply enclose a check payable to New Missions. Please do not send cash. If you send multiple boxes, you are welcome to make one collective donation for the quantities you are sending. On the memo of your check, please write:
For ___# of shoeboxes.
You may also give online for overseas shipping.
Kindly send or Deliver to:
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View our list of drop-off locations.
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REMEMBER: The Shoebox Drive runs October 1 through December 31.
Visit the resource page to download posters, shoebox labels or packing ideas. For printed materials email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 407-240-4058.
Host the Shoebox Drive
You can host a Christmas Shoebox Drive at your church, school or office. Thank you for partnering with us, as we open the hearts of children in Haiti discover the love of Jesus.


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With Obama embracing social media the way he has with Twitter town halls, and Google Plus hangouts (not to mention his Reddit appearance last week)...
Several high-profile races are still too close to call.
We are getting the first statewide numbers about just how many of us voted Tuesday.
Meet Anne Gust Brown, the "yin" to Jerry Brown's "yang."
California Republicans may be slow to concede victory but the party's candidate for attorney general...
Prop 19 was ahead of its time -- but may have set the movement back.
Once again, voters make it more difficult to balance the state budget.


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Toyota Axle Swap - Won Ton Axle
Swap Toyota's Toughest Axle Into Anything
Toyota mini truck axles find their way under a lot of projects due to their light weight, excellent ground clearance, and strong aftermarket support. That said, they still have their limitations. Mini truck front axles are narrow (55 inches WMS to WMS), the factory Birfields are weak, and they use a low-pinion third member. The aftermarket has solutions for all of these issues, but what if we told you that there was a factory Toyota axle that was wider, had larger Birfields, and came with a high-pinion third member? Add in drive flanges for optimal trail abuse strength and an available locker as an option from the factory, and you have a winner. Such an axle exists, and it came under the front of '91-'97 80 Series Land Cruisers.
While this seems like the perfect axle, swapping an entire 80 Series axle was a more daunting task … until now. The issue was that the factory suspension and steering arrangement on the 80 did not lend itself to swaps. The stock suspension uses coil springs and radius arms that run under the axle, with the tie rod behind the axle running under the high-pinion third member. This puts the tie rod in the way for most link or leaf-spring suspensions.
Billy Weiss from Hellfire Fabworks was not deterred though; instead of a roadblock he saw an opportunity. Hellfire makes complete replacement knuckles for the 80 Series axle that are stronger than stock and include high steer arms with Dana 60–sized studs. We couldn't wait to get our hands on a set and put them to the test.
To complement the knuckles, we called JT Parts to order a 5.29 Nitro Gear & Axle ring-and-pinion, new Birfields, and a complete rebuild kit to make our 80 Series axle better than new. Read on to learn more about why you could consider using an 80 Series axle in the front of your next project.
The stock 80 Series suspension uses coil springs and radius arms under the axle. The steering arms are mounted on the bottom of the knuckle with the tie rod in back and the draglink in front.
The first thing we did was cut off all of the factory bracketry with our Miller Spectrum 375 plasma cutter. The stamped housing makes it easy to add custom brackets for your suspension, once you address the factory tie rod location.
Bayshore Truck made these clever mounts for Toyota and Ford 9-inches which allow them to bolt the third members into a vise to perform diff work. If you set up a lot of differentials it is worth making something similar.
80 Series axles use drive flanges that attach to the hubs with studs and cone washers. A brass drift is the easiest way to get the cone washers to unseat and remove the flange. Manual locking hubs can be swapped in place of the flanges, but the Birfields needs to be machined to accept the proper snap ring location.
Nitro Gear & Axle uses high-quality Koyo bearings in its master install kits, ensuring that your differential runs cool and quiet. These are the same bearings that Toyota uses from the factory.
Starting with '02 models, Toyota replaced the 27-spline pinion in its 8-inch axles with a 29-spline pinion. Most aftermarket manufacturers require you to retrofit the weaker 27-spline design, but not Nitro.
Ninja star? No, this is the oil slinger found on the pinion of the Toyota high-pinion third member. It is crucial to ensure that the bearings stay lubricated at sustained speeds.
To match the 29-spline pinion, we ordered a new pinion flange from Nitro (left). The new flange is drilled with multiple patterns to accept most Toyota drivelines.
The 80 Series Birfield (left) is significantly larger than the standard mini truck Birfield. In addition, the axleshaft does not neck down on an 80 Series where it enters the Birfield.
Nitro offers chromoly Birfields and axleshaft for 80 Series, but we used the company's stock replacement Birfs to save some money. The factory Birfields had excessive play since the axle seals had worn out and allowed gear oil to mix with the grease in the knuckle. This is a common problem on 80 Series.
Here is the Hellfire knuckle next to a stock FJ40 knuckle. The Hellfire parts make stock components look like toys. The biggest addition is the real estate on top of the knuckle that allows the addition of high steer arms.
In order to keep costs down the Hellfire knuckles reuse the stock lower trunion caps. Bayshore cut the steering arms off the caps using a horizontal band saw and then cleaned them up with a belt sander.
The Hellfire Fabworks knuckles accept the factory steering stops, brakes, and lower trunion caps but have added material for greater strength when compared to the factory knuckles. They also use a set screw to set the preload of the trunion bearing, making this process much easier than the stock knuckles.
Your Dana 60 arms mount with five studs? How cute! The Hellfire steering arms use six Dana 60–sized studs and tapered nuts similar to lug nuts to keep them from loosening on the trail.
The Hellfire Fabworks steering arms come with inserts that allow the user to customize the steering to place the tie rod above or below the arm depending on the application. We will weld the inserts into place after the axle is under our project vehicle.
The completed axle is ready to swap under our next project, so look for it to make an encore appearance in the magazine soon. The weight, width, and strength make the Hellfire- and Nitro-equipped 80 Series axle a great choice for a lightweight trail rig. At 285 pounds this axle is comparable in weight to a Dana 30 but with strength approaching a Dana 60.


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Senior mechanical engineer
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They are looking for a Senior Mechanical Engineer (on a contract basis) to join their busy team in Cambridgeshire for a minimum of three months.
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- Attending principal meetings and making client presentations on selected projects.
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- Working on a variety of interesting projects across varied sectors.
- Client facing work.
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- Producing drawings and specifications.
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In order to be considered for this role you will have:
- A degree qualification - Mechanical or building services (Chartered or working towards). An HNC or HND with suitable design experience will also be considered.
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- Knowledge of British standards, building regulations documents, etc.
- Knowledge of HTMs would also be of benefit.
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He seemed destined to be the one who threw open the Hall of Fame's doors for the influx of baseball's neo-knights, the closers. That did not happen, but now that Bruce Sutter and Goose Gossage have done the honors, Lee Smith would be more than thrilled to follow his peers across the doorsill.
If a new trail has indeed been blazed, few belong in those footsteps more than the 6-foot-6, 240-pound jovial giant who held the career saves record for 14 years, until Trevor Hoffman went beyond 478 in September 2006. Smith was relegated to No. 3 in 2008 by Mariano Rivera, who now has 526.
That saves record had been viewed as the leading plank of Smith's heretofore unsuccessful Hall campaigns, so it would be ironic for him to gain entry after having lost that distinction. Yet, there is no denying the encouraging precedent set in the recent elections of Sutter and Gossage who, incidentally, between them had only 132 more saves than did Smith during his 18 seasons.
Both Sutter, elected in his 13th year on the Baseball Writers' Association of America Hall of Fame ballot, and Gossage, affirmed in his ninth year, began their candidacies with lower support than Smith, who earned 42.3 percent of the votes in his first year of eligibility, in 2003. Smith, in an up-and-down mode the past few years, polled 240 votes for 44.5 percent in the last election.
A candidate must get 75 percent of the vote to gain election, with Andre Dawson (67 percent), former Twins ace Bert Blyleven (62.7 percent), and Smith (44.5 percent) standing as the top three returning vote-getters.
Smith and other closers have been dealt a unique hand by the modern proliferation of their specialty. While perspective tends to raise appreciation for past players' performances, in the case of closers, each season appears to dilute their accomplishments.
Putting up 30 saves just isn't as big of a deal as it was in 1984, when Smith broke that barrier for the first of 10 times. In 1984, six other big league closers notched 30-plus saves; in a typical season in this era, that number triples (an average of 17 the last four seasons).
"They claim it's an easy job," Smith once remarked, "talking about how guys now are only pitching one inning. I wish you could get all the guys that vote one opportunity to pitch the ninth inning and let 'em see how tough a job it was."
And few have done that job as consistently as did the hard-looking, soft-spoken Louisiana native who went 12 seasons between his first 30-save season and his last (1995) -- noteworthy in a Rivera context, since the Yankees' ice-blooded closer, perceived as durable, has been in the Majors for only three years longer than that.
That extended success is also part of Smith's handicap. He isn't recalled as an impact reliever. Thus, contemporaries Sutter and Gossage, whose heydays were more concentrated, were widely regarded as more deserving of enshrinement.
Smith's have-hammer-will-travel career keeps him from being identified with any particular team, creating another image problem. He logged saves for eight different teams.
Yet, until recently, he held the career saves record for two of those teams, among the most storied franchises in the game. He still holds the Cubs' record of 180, and also had the Cardinals' mark until Jason Isringhausen notched his 161st save for St. Louis on June 13, 2006. This is noteworthy also because those were Sutter's primary teams, too.
For someone who supposedly lacked impact, Smith certainly had his dominant years. During one six-year stretch (1985-90), he averaged more than one strikeout per inning each season, with 580 total punchouts in 509 frames during that span. Gossage, reputed to be the fire-breathing flamethrower of his era, did that in only four of his 23 seasons.
Smith supporters love to point out that when he notched his first save, in 1981, the career record was 272, a number he would surpass by more than 200. And that old lifetime mark was held by Rollie Fingers, who was recognized for it by being inducted into the Hall of Fame on his second time on the ballot (after a near-miss as a rookie candidate).
But Smith presented a compelling argument that lasted 18 seasons, during which he appeared in 1,022 games, which usually ended with him throwing the last pitch, good or bad. He holds another Major League record for most games finished -- 802, still 70 more than Hoffman's career total.
Considering that he either saved or won more than half of them (549, to be exact), the good comfortably outweighed the bad. Does he have one more good finish in him?
"You always wonder if you don't make it in the first five or six years," Smith said. "Hopefully, people remember you and you don't fall out of favor."
That hope was realized by Sutter and Gossage, so one of these years, Lee could be living large, too.


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This Training on Demand can be delivered online via Zoom or in-person as a 1 hour demonstration session.
This session focuses on the features available in Microsoft Access 2016, a relational database program. You will learn the location of commonly used tools and be introduced to how context-specific tools aer used to manage a database. You will also explore features for creating and managing data in a table, query, form, and report.
This hands-on training session will focus on creating and modifying queries using related tables within Microsoft Access, a relational database program. Various types of queries will be introduced. This workshop will also cover advanced query functions, such as aggregate totals and calculated expressions. A professional manual will be provided in this workshop.
This hands-on training session will focus on the basic skills necessary to begin using Microsoft Access, a relational database program that allows for efficient storage and management of large collections of information. This course will cover basic features and functions, such as building a table, defining properties, and creating queries, forms, and reports within Access. It will also introduce database concepts. A professional manual will be provided in this workshop.
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Xavier Doherty and Brett Lee took four wickets apiece as Australia defeated Sri Lanka by five wickets in the fourth one-day international on Saturday to gain an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
Left-arm spinner Doherty, who was named man of the match, finished with a career-best 4-28 and paceman Lee with 4-15 as Australia dismissed Sri Lanka for 132, before achieving the modest target with 22 overs to spare.
Opener Shaun Marsh (70) was Australia's batting star as he put on 97 for the third wicket with skipper Michael Clarke (38 not out) after paceman Lasith Malinga removed Shane Watson and Ricky Ponting in the same over.
Debutant leg-spinner Seekkuge Prasanna dismissed Marsh and the Hussey brothers, Michael and David, in the space of four deliveries, but Australia needed just 10 runs to win with five wickets in hand at that stage.
Marsh hit one six and 11 fours in his impressive 80-ball knock.
Sri Lanka were earlier 95-3 following a 71-run stand for the third wicket between Mahela Jayawardene (53) and Kumar Sangakkara (31), but lost their last seven wickets for 37 runs.
Skipper Tillakaratne Dilshan (12) was the other batsman to reach double figures in Sri Lanka's dismal performance on a slow wicket.
Jayawardene, dropped on 34 by wicketkeeper Brad Haddin off paceman Mitchell Johnson, hit just four boundaries in his patient 102-ball knock, before falling to Lee in the 39th over.
Lee and Doug Bollinger did not allow Sri Lanka to make a solid start after the hosts elected to bat as they struck in their opening spells, removing Dilshan and Upul Tharanga (8). Sangakkara, hit on the helmet by a Bollinger bouncer off the first ball he faced, steadied the innings with Jayawardene, before Doherty bagged three wickets in two overs.
The Australia spinner broke the partnership when he dismissed Sangakkara, caught by Lee at long-on. He then trapped Chamara Silva leg before wicket in the same over.
Doherty got his third wicket when he had Angelo Mathews stumped for 6 in his next over, before accounting for Prasanna.


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You may have noticed that we hit our goal. The response so far has been tremendous, we're extremely grateful, and it's true that $38,000 will pay for the songs we absolutely need to clear! However, to clear all the songs we'd like to clear, pay our music supervisor, and deliver a finished, legal film to a distributor like the great ones we're in talks with, we need significantly more money. While it's possible to self-distribute a cleared film for less money, we want to pursue the opportunity to work with a distributor who can get it to as WIDE an audience as possible. A few theaters across the country are already itching to play it! Any contribution beyond our goal brings us closer to getting Tchoupitoulas to be seen far and wide.
The film has received some great press since its premiere at SXSW -- check some of it out: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, the Indiewire review, a full spread in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and a Filmmaker Magazine article about the connection between "Beasts of the Southern Wild" & "Tchoupitoulas"
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT: Our new film is about 3 kids, New Orleans at night, and MUSIC -- but we need to raise money to clear the music in order to release the film! Besides some other work by us, we've chosen rewards that commemorate New Orleans, music, and our personal commitment to you if you help us out (e.g., we'll make a movie for you!). If we don't raise at least $38,000, the music in Tchoupitoulas will remain uncleared, the film unreleaseable, and we'll never be able to show it to everyone. The bottom line: WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO SHOW YOU THIS MOVIE!
WHO WE ARE: BILL and TURNER ROSS (directors/editors) - We made a documentary called 45365 about our hometown of Sidney, Ohio, that had a successful festival run in 2009 -- it won the Best Documentary Prize at South by Southwest, was one of Metacritic's best reviewed documentaries of 2010, and got shown on PBS' "Independent Lens." Roger Ebert said a lot of nice things about us. Three years later, we premiered again at South by Southwest with a film about our second hometown: New Orleans.
MICHAEL GOTTWALD, DAN JANVEY, JOSH PENN (producers) - Founding fathers of the New Orleans based Court 13 film collective, our film Beasts of the Southern Wild just won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January and will be released by Fox Searchlight this summer.
JOE RUDGE is our music supervisor. Some films he's worked on: Margin Call, Blue Valentine, Brick, and more.
WHAT'S THIS FILM ABOUT: Tchoupitoulas (pronounced "chop-ih-TOOL-us") follows three young brothers from the West Bank of New Orleans as they cross the river on the ferry and spend one night in the shining, peculiar pleasure island that is the French Quarter. Music propels them down the streets as we witness the bewildering sights through their eyes, spending time with everyone from burlesque dancers to oyster shuckers to street musicians. Our hero, 11 year-old William, a budding novice at the flute, is particularly drawn to the sounds that emanate from the bars, the clubs, and the sidewalks -- all places we roam in Tchoupitoulas. In short, it's a movie about the feel and sound of New Orleans at night -- all night -- through the eyes and ears of a kid.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Although our film is finished, we can't release it or show it beyond festivals, because the music rights must be cleared. Being able to pay for the songs in our film is crucial to Tchoupitoulas -- it simply would not be the movie that we envision without the music in it, just as life in New Orleans would not be the same without the music we hear here. We've determined that we could pay for the songs that are absolutely necessary to clear with $38,000. Though our last film 45365 received much praise at festivals and great press, ultimately it was very hard for people to see it -- largely because some of the music rights were never cleared. If we don't raise enough money to make it release-able, Tchoupitoulas will go the way of 45365: it will be near impossible to see. So, we have learned from our mistakes. Your generosity will enable us to show you and a wider audience our story in the way that it needs to be told. We'll be able to share accurately the musical culture of New Orleans as seen through the eyes of our young heroes, a perspective that we believe is important and that makes our film what it is.
GIFTS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!: We've come up with some prizes that reflect the focus on music and New Orleans in our film, some that involve the other stuff we've made over the years, and some that are just plain goofy, but we hope you like them.
That's all. We've spent the last 2 and a half years completing this film. Please help us bring finally bring it to the world! We don't want to keep it for ourselves -- we want as many people to see it as possible. And this is the only way to make that happen!
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Reference and Instruction
The art librarian offers reference service both in person or virtually and provides orientation tours and bibliographic instruction sessions upon request.
Reference works such as art dictionaries and encyclopedias, biographical directories of artists, museum directories, indexes to reproductions, and art history bibliographies are shelved in the reference section.
The UW Libraries provides access to a number of indexes in subjects related to the study of art, including Art Abstracts, Bibliography of the History of Art, Design and Applied Arts Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Dissertation Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, and Index to Christian Art. Most are restricted to UW users.
Don't know where to start your research? See the Art Subject Guide.
Locating Materials
The UW Libraries Search provides information on the holdings of the UW Libraries system, and includes the holdings of the Art Library. Art Library shelving locations are also indicated in the online catalog.
- Books are shelved by call number in the general stacks according to the Library of Congress classification system.
- Bound volumes of periodicals are arranged alphabetically by call number as well. Current unbound issues of selected periodicals are kept behind the circulation desk or on the current periodicals display shelves. Unbound issues of other periodicals are kept with the bound volumes.
See Course Reserves for information on reserves.
Printing and Copying
A self-service copier for black/white copies is located in the alcove that houses the over-sized books. The copier also accepts print jobs from library workstations and from patron laptops if you've downloaded the print drivers for the Art Library. For payment, the copier accepts University of Washington Husky cards, as well as Dawg-Prints cards; cash is not accepted. The Art Library has a Dawg-Prints card dispenser that accepts $5 in cash.
Book Return
A book return for the return of materials when the library is closed is located in the hall, west of the Art Library entrance. Materials (except reserve materials and some fragile materials) may be returned to any UW Library. Locations of outside book returns are shown on the map of libraries on the Seattle campus.
The staff provides assistance to patrons with disabilities in the retrieval of books or in the use of library tools and resources. Check the ADA Access Guide for specific information about the Art Building. More information
Art Library Staff
Erin Conor
Head, Music, Art, and Drama Libraries
Reference help is available in person and by phone. See hours and a map to the Art Library.
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Finding Legal Help
You are not required to hire an attorney, but legal matters can be complicated. Consider talking to an attorney to go over your options. See the Finding Legal Help page for information about free and low cost ways to get legal help.
Como encontrar ayuda legal
Usted no está obligado a contratar un abogado, pero los asuntos legales pueden ser complicados. Considere la posibilidad de hablar con un abogado para hablar de sus opciones. Para información sobre cómo obtener ayuda legal vea nuestra página Como encontrar ayuda legal.
Child Support
Parents have a legal duty to support their minor children. Unless a minor is emancipated, child support continues until the child is 18 or has completed high school, whichever is later. In some cases, the court may order child support to continue after age 18 for a disabled child who remains a dependent. Establishing child support may be part of divorce, separate maintenance, temporary separation, annulment, parentage or child welfare. Depending on the type of case, a support order may be entered by a district court or a juvenile court. The Utah Office of Recovery Services (ORS) may issue administrative orders concerning child support.
Calculating child support
Utah law establishes Child Support Guidelines to calculate a parent's child support obligation. The guidelines have three components:
- Base child support
- Medical care
- Child care expenses
A table determines the total support obligation for the children, which is shared by the parents according to their incomes. The non-custodial parent pays child support to the custodial parent. Child support is calculated by a formula established by Utah Code Section 78B-12-301.
The courts have fill-in-the-blank Child Support Worksheets to help you calculate child support and an interactive web Child Support Calculator that will make the calculations and prepare the worksheets for you. The calculations are different depending on the custody arrangements; make sure you use the correct forms. For more information about the different types of child custody, see our page on Child Custody and Parent Time.
Medical expenses and child care expenses
If a health insurance policy is reasonably available, the cost of the minor children's portion of the premium is shared equally by the parents, as is the cost of any non-insured medical expenses, including deductibles and co-payments.
Parents are also required to share work-related child-care expenses equally.
Award of tax exemption for dependent children
A child support order can establish which parent can claim the child as a dependent for federal and state income tax purposes. Unless the parties agree who can claim the tax exemption, the court will award the exemption. The court will consider as the primary factor the relative contribution of each parent to the cost of raising the child, and among other factors, the relative tax benefit to each parent. The court may not award an exemption to a parent unless the award will result in a tax benefit to that parent. The court may not award an exemption to the non-custodial parent if that parent is not current in their child support payments.
If both parents try to claim the child as a dependent in the same tax year, the Internal Revenue Service will ask the parents for an explanation and may impose penalties.
Deviating from the child support guidelines
Generally, child support is set according to the guidelines. The court can order a different amount if one (or both) of the parties asks for a different amount and shows good reasons for the amount requested. If there are good reasons not to follow the guidelines, the court's worksheets and calculator will not apply. See Utah Code Section 78B-12-202 and Section 78B-12-210.
Paying and collecting child support
Court orders govern how and when the child support payments are made. For example, the court may enter an order requiring a non-custodial parent to make arrangements with their employer to withhold the child support amount from the parent's earnings, unless the parties agree to another method of payment. Child support payments may be made between the parties or through the Office of Recovery Services (ORS). ORS also helps establish and enforce financial and medical support for children. More information is available at Office of Recovery Services - Child Support
Enforcing a child support order
All parties must obey court orders. Custodial parents may not withhold parent time, even if child support is not being paid. A parent may not withhold child support even if parent time is being denied. If a party does not obey a court order, the other party may file a motion asking the court to enforce the order. The enforcement order can include a judgment for money owed. The court may also find a party in contempt of court and order the party to pay a fine or serve time in jail. For information and forms, see our page on Motion to Enforce Domestic Order (Order to Show Cause).
Modifying a child support order
Either parent can ask the court to increase or decrease the child support obligation, if there have been significant changes in income or in other circumstances since the support order was entered. For information and forms, see our page on Modifying Child Support.
Registering a foreign order
Before an order from another state can be enforced or modified it first must be registered in Utah. For information and forms, see our page on Registering a Foreign Order.
Child Support Worksheets
- Use the Online Court Assistance Program (OCAP) to create the documents to ask for an initial child support order in divorce and parentage cases.
- Use the Child Support Calculator to prepare child support worksheets suitable for filing.
- Non-public Information: Parent Identification and Location -
(Required for parentage or child support)
- Non-public Information: Minors -
(Required if necessary to identify a minor)
- Split Custody Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Sole Custody Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Joint Physical Custody Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Children in the Father's Home Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Children in the Mother's Home Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Insurance Premium and Child Care Adjustment Worksheet and Instructions - PDF
- Base combined child support obligation table and low income table Utah Code Section 78B-12-301
Related information
- Alimony
- Annulment
- Answering a Complaint or Petition
- Appeals
- Child Custody and Parent Time
- Child Support
- Debt Division
- Default Judgments
- Divorce Mediation
- Fee Waiver
- Fees
- Filing Procedures
- Finding Legal Help
- Going to Court
- How to get a Temporary Order
- Informal Trial of Support, Custody and Parent-Time
- Initial Disclosures
- Judicial Recognition of a Relationship as a Marriage
- Mandatory Education in Divorce and Temporary Separation
- Modifying Child Custody
- Modifying Child Support
- Modifying Parent-time
- Motion to Enforce Domestic Order (Order to Show Cause)
- Motion to Waive Divorce Waiting Period
- Online Court Assistance Program (OCAP)
- Parentage
- Parenting Plans
- Property Division
- Public and Non-public Records
- Relocation of a parent in divorce and custody cases
- Separate Maintenance
- Serving Papers
- Temporary Separation
- Utah Statutes, Title 30, Husband and Wife
- Utah Statutes, Title 78B, Chapter 12, Utah Child Support Act
- Utah Statutes, Title 78B, Chapter 13, Utah Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
- Utah Statutes, Title 78B, Chapter 14, Uniform Interstate Family Support Act
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Dogged daycare II: The pressure's on for the pups
When the City of Charlottesville forced a doggie daycare center to close its outdoor play yard last month for failure to receive a special use permit, the center's owners and customers howled foul. Now, fur is flying over the recent discovery that a nearby grooming facility that's been in operation for at least five years also lacks a special use permit for its outdoor run.
"We just want the city to treat us fairly," says Karen Quillen, owner of All Things Pawssible on Albemarle Street off Rose Hill Drive in an M-1 industrial-zoned area. While she wants equal treatment, Quillen is quick to stress that she doesn't want to see the same thing happen to Pampered Pets, a grooming and boarding facility on Allied Street with which All Things Pawssible has a close working relationship.
"We would give the whole thing up if it was going to negatively affect Pampered Pets," she says.
She's hoping it never comes to that, but the situation is tricky.
Quillen and her business partner, Sean Julian, say they were told by a zoning administrator who is no longer working for the city that an outdoor run with their kennel is a by-right use in the M-1 zoned area.
The duo spent several thousand dollars cleaning the yard, putting down mulch, and erecting a six-foot fence at the back of the property. They also rented a house that backs onto the same yard, hired additional help, and accepted new patrons based on the expanded space.
Then came the rain. In one torrential downpour, much of the mulch washed under the fence and clogged the culverts in the neighboring residential property, owned by Sarah and Ernest Terrell, causing their basement to fill with water.
Though Julian did clean out the mulch immediately, Sarah Terrell said no one ever approached her about the issue, and she feared escalating problems. The idea of having dozens of dogs running in a yard mere feet from their brand new porch was upsetting to the Terrells, and after they attended city council and planning board meetings, Mayor Maurice Cox paid the Terrells a visit.
"A nightmare," is how he described the view from the Terrells' property. It seemed no negotiation would be possible. Now, however, relations have improved between the neighbors after a meeting among the Terrells, Julian, and Quillen.
"It's much less tense," says Sarah Terrell, who now believes a happy resolution is possible for both parties. Julian and Quillen agree.
Working things out with the city may not be as simple.
There's the whole issue of the special use permit and of Pampered Pets.
Though Susan Hadley, owner of Pampered Pets, declined comment for the article, Jim Tolbert, director of neighborhood development, acknowledges that Pampered Pets has operated for years without a special use permit.
"That was probably an oversight," he says. The city attorney is looking into the matter of special use permits, but Tolbert says he can't foresee Pampered Pets' business being affected.
In the meantime, one of Quillen and Julian's customers, Margaret Marsh, has investigated the matter and says she believes that the city code supports All Things' position; she outlines her case in an early August letter to the city's Tolbert.
According to section 34-4 of the code, explains Marsh, All Things Pawssible fits the definition of a kennel. No restrictions are placed on "kennels" in M-1 districts, though the difference between indoor and outdoor runs for "animal shelters, boarding, or breeding facilities" and "animal hospitals" is clearly delineated in other sections of the code. Marsh believes inconsistencies in the code should not be grounds for damaging a business that had followed the code as it is written.
But the city's not buying Marsh's argument. Tolbert says nothing he's seen or heard has changed his mind about the situation, and if Quillen and Julian want to apply for a special use permit, they will have to come before the planning commission which next meets on September 9.
Quillen says a recent letter from the planning department announced that in addition to grading of the lot and planting of Leyland Cyprus trees, water runoff from her business would have to enter the public sanitary sewer system, not the storm water drains.
Barbara Venerus in the city's zoning department says that all animal shelters and animal hospitals operate under the same requirement, laid out in section 34-883 of the city code, which states that "Drainage from the building interior and exterior runs and pens shall go to a sanitary sewer system." The purpose, Venerus says, is to control the spread of fecal matter into water supplies. For Quillen and Julian, it's just one more expense they say they didn't know about.
Quillen says she doesn't know how far she's willing to fight and how much money she's willing to spend.
"The whole situation," she says, "is bordering on ludicrous."


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Going into 2014, I have received many questions about "what to expect in 2014 in the Network Marketing Community?" Well it's always tough to determine exactly what will happen in a new year, but if we review the past, we can usually trend some of what will happen moving forward.
2. Mobile solutions including sales and marketing apps, mobile ad networks, mobile video presentations and the ability to sign-up new recruits and consumers through mobile devices will continue to rise.
3. PaaS & SaaS Membership Based Platforms will continue to be developed with compensation structures to draw in the masses who do not want to use traditional direct selling companies to build a home base business.
In 2013, we saw Wake Up Now come on strong with their PaaS/SaaS platform, and how they even started to add tangible products in the 4th Quater to attract a more traditional network marketer and the younger Millennials who are now becoming a driving force in the network marketing community.
Although several PaaS companies launched using Mobile Apps as the driving force to attract early signups, none were able to execute at the level needed to dominate or even be seen as the leader in the niche.
In 2014, we will continue to see this Mobile App aka Mobile PaaS business model mature. However, it is way too early to determine how this type of business model will playout using any form of a multi-level compensation structure.
4. Health & Wellness will continue to dominate the direct selling news, and the network marketing community as a whole. VEMMA as an example saw their sales almost double in 2013 to over $200 million in revenues. And Bk Boreyko predicts his company will hit $400 million by the end of 2014.
In order to accomplish these bodacious prediction, VEMMA is lanching new healthy energy drinks to their Verve line, and bringing out a Chris Powell "ready made protein (weight management) shake, along with additional products during the 2014 sales year.
I personally believe 2014, will become known as the year of "Health Plans" since the consumer as a whole are tired of "challenges and diet fads." The consumer base worldwide have become tired of the same old crap, and are now engaging faster with social media to determine what works and what doesn't.
One small direct selling company that is coming on strong is Plexus Worldwide. Their pink drink has caught on with consumers because it seems to work, and because there has not been many, if any Network Marketing HYPE surrounding the product. It seems the company really has gone back to the basics… develop or market a product that works, create a fair compensation around selling the product and get it in the hands of people who really use the product – BAM!
5. Utilities aka Essential Life Services will continue to grow in 2014 as companies like Viridian Energy (Power With a Purpose) and North American Power (Mission to Millions) hold true to their corporate message.
We will also continue to see companies like ACN and 5Linx, who were once know for their video and VoIP platforms continue to transform into full-fledged Essential Life Service companies.
This is not at all everything we will see in 2014, but it does give us a start.


text: BarrelHouse Brewing Co. (map) 3055 Limestone Way Paso Robles, CA, 93446 United States ✚ gCal ✚ iCal Gypsy Flame offers artisan pizzas from a wood-fired pit grill. Our toppings are fresh, unique, revolutionary. Now available at BarrelHouse Brewing Co. every Sunday throughout Summer. In the winter, with the El Nino season, the BBQ pizza is weather permitting and when the pit is rained out, gypsy flame will come with homemade soups. Either way, get ready for some delicious, hand-crafted food!


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"Smoker Jim" Ruddell has been perfecting his uniquely delicious smoked foods since 1980.The fish is straight from local docks – literally right off the boat, and he uses only the freshest meats and poultry.
Ruddell's Smokehouse combines the finest herbs and spices with the most aromatic woods to create a special blend of flavors for which his Smokehouse has now become famous.
Cayucos is a lovely scenic beach town on the Central Coast of California, and we are right on the beach. A beautiful location, combined with Smoker Jim's tried and true recipes keep locals and tourists alike coming back for more.
The critics have praised our food, but you'll need to see for yourself why they love us. We look forward to seeing you.


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After nearly a decade of rumors about its existence, the world finally got to see a car that Alfa Romeo really should have built: the cabriolet version of the GT coupe.
Italian design house Bertone created the fascinating four-seat softtop concept for Fiat's sporty subsidiary in 2003 but kept it hidden from the public until April 6.
The car, which was revealed this week as part of Bertone's first media event since the company was reorganized in late 2009, is a bitter reminder of what could have been for both Bertone and Alfa.
Bertone designed and engineered the Alfa GT coupe, a brilliant mix of the Alfa 147's the front end, the 156's central portion and front seats and the 159 wagon's rear end and reclining rear seats.
The company desperately wanted its carmaking arm, Carrozzeria Bertone, to produce the GT coupe, but Fiat decided to build it at its plant in Pomigliano, Italy, alongside the 147 and 159.
Bertone then tried to convince Fiat to let it make the GT cabriolet.
"[Former Alfa CEO] Daniele Bandiera told us they loved the car and that we were going to build it," Lilli Bertone, who is the company's chairman and widow of longtime company boss Nuccio Bertone, told me this week.
But that never happened as Alfa decided instead to build the Alfa Spider, which was based on the Brera coupe.
The loss was devastating to Carrozzeria Bertone, which would soon seek bankruptcy protection and in late 2009 sold to Fiat, which renamed it Officine Automobilistiche Grugliasco.
Bertone's design business still exists.
Perhaps it is poetic justice that the Alfa Spider was a flop. A mere 12,488 units of the car, which design legend Giorgetto Giugiaro penned and Bertone rival Pinifarinia got to make, were built from 2006 to 2010.
The Brera also was a disappointment with 21,786 units made from 2005 to 2010.
Meanwhile the Bertone-designed GT coupe won 80,832 customers during its seven-year life cycle (2003- 2010).
Would the GT cabrio have saved Carrozzeria Bertone? Probably not, given the troubles plaguing the entire contract manufacturing sector in Europe.
Would that car have outsold the Alfa Spider? Absolutely.
Luca Ciferri is chief correspondent for Automotive News Europe.


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Molecule Found that Inhibits Estrogen, Key Risk Factor For Endometrial and Breast Cancers
Einstein Researchers to Lead Three Symposia at Major Cancer Research Meeting
Einstein Scientists Find Crucial Molecule Involved in Spread of Breast Cancer
Professor, Department of Developmental & Molecular Biology
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health (Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility)
Louis Goldstein Swan Chair in Women's Cancer Research Emeritus
My laboratory has two overlapping but distinct areas of research:
1. The Tumor Microenvironment
2. Mechanisms of action of estrogen and progesterone in controlling cell division in vivo.
We take a broad approached to studying these problems but with a central focus on using mouse genetics to dissect the molecular mechanisms in vivo. We also use high throughput methods such as DNA microarray based approaches and novel in vivo imaging methods to define cellular interactions and the novel signaling pathways involved in these interactions. Furthermore, we concentrate on translating our fundamental observations to clinical practice. To cover these areas we have a well funded laboratory staffed by senior fellows, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, clinical fellows and technicians that allows us to cover many different areas of expertise. In the last year and a half five students graduated from the laboratory including two MD/PhD students. We are also well represented both by publications with over a dozen front covers of journals representing our research as well as coverage in major text books of cell biology and cancer. Furthermore in the last year Dr. Pollard gave invited talks at fifteen different conferences ranging in topics from cancer to implantation.
A brief synopsis of the Pollard's labs research interests is given below:
(1) Tumor Associated Macrophages Promote Tumor Progression and Metastasis
Many hematopoietic cells, particularly those of the innate immune system, populate the tumor microenvironment. Of these both clinical observations and our genetic experiments in mouse models of beast cancer have indicated that macrophages play a pivotal role in enhancing tumor progression and metastatic potential (Joyce and Pollard, 2009). Our mechanistic studies indicate that these tumor-associated macrophages regulate the angiogenic switch required for the malignant transition and also promote tumor cell invasion, migration and intravasation through reciprocal EGF and CSF-1 signaling (Condeelis and Pollard, 2006; Lin and Pollard, 2007; Pollard, 2004, 2008, 2009). Furthermore, we have recently identified a sub-population on macrophages that are required for metastatic seeding and persistent growth at distant sites (Qian et al., 2009).
The lab is focused upon defining unique sub-sets of macrophages that promote different aspects of tumor progression and metastasis and in elucidating the fundamental mechanisms behind these actions. We are using novel mouse genetic and virus based tools developed in our lab to interfere with signaling pathways in vivo to define the function of these pathways in the metastatic progression of tumors. Further we are studying the evolution of the immune system during tumor development to determine how the tumors escape from being rejected and focus on the role of macrophages in these processes. The identification of these mechanisms of tumor promotion by macrophages will allow us to novel therapeutic approaches to inhibit tumor progression and malignancy.
(2) Regulation of cell proliferation by female sex steroid hormones.
Exposure to estrogen is the major risk factor for endometrial and breast cancer. This carcinogenic effect is thought to be due to the induction by this hormone of continuous cycles of epithelial cell proliferation that allows the fixation of spontaneously occurring oncogenic mutations. In contrast progesterone exposure reduces the risk of these cancers. In the uterus of mice and humans estrogen stimulates epithelial cell proliferation while progesterone completely blocks this estrogen-induced proliferation. We have used biochemical and genetic approaches in mice to identify the mechanisms of action of these sex steroid hormones. We have identified two pathways stimulated by estrogen and inhibited by progesterone that are required for the estrogen-induced mitogenic effect. The first of these is through IGF-1 signaling activating cyclin D1 mobilization into the nucleus while the second involves licensing of DNA replication through the regulation of the function of Minichromosome Maintenance proteins (MCMs) (Pan et al., 2006; Zhu and Pollard, 2007). To extend these studies to humans we have developed a program to obtain endometrial biopsies and have used laser capture microdissection of epithelial tissue to confirm similarities in hormone control of gene transcription between the two species. Further we have been able to xenograft human endometrial tissue into mice where it forms functional endometrial structures that responds to humans and which allows for biochemical analysis (Polotsky et al., 2009). Using all these techniques, we have identified novel hormone regulated signaling pathways that are deregulated in human endometrial proliferative diseases such as endometriosis and cancer and that may therefore act as therapeutic targets.
Current studies are to further elucidate the downstream cascade of transcriptional regulatory proteins that are induced by estrogen and progesterone that are involved in the regulation of cell proliferation. We also have a significant set of studies in understanding the roles of Micro RNAs in the regulation of hormone action. These are pursued at the biochemical and genetic levels and we are currently developing novel genetic tools in which to study sex steroid hormone action.
Macrophages and Cancer:
Qian, B., Deng, Y., Im J-H., Muschel, R., Zou, Y., Lang, R., Pollard, J.W., (2009) A distinct macrophage population mediates metastic breast cancer cell extravavasation, establishment and growth. PLoS ONE. Volume 4, Issue 8; 1-6.
Joyce, J.A., Pollard, J.W. (2009) Microenvironmental Regulation of Metastasis. Nature Reviews: Cancer. 9, 239-252.
Pollard, J. W. (2009) Trophic Macrophages in Development and Disease. Nature Reviews: Immunology. 9, 259-270.
Ojalvo, L., King, W., Cox, D., Pollard, J.W., (2009) High Density Gene Expression Analysis of Tumor Associated Macrophages from Mouse Mammary Tumors. American Journal of Pathology. 174, 1048-1064,
Pollard, J.W., (2008) Macrophages define the Invasive Microenvironment in Breast Cancer. Journal of Leukocyte Biology 84: 623-630 (Cover Article)
Wyckoff, J.B., Wang, Y., Lin, E.Y., Li, J., Goswami. S., Stanley, E.R., Segall, J.E., Pollard, J.W., and Condeelis, J. (2007) Direct visualization of macrophage assisted tumor cell motility and intravasation in mammary tumors.Cancer Research: 67, 2649-2656 (Cover article).
Lin, E.Y. Li, J., Bricard, G., Wang, W., Deng, Y, Sellers, R., Porcelli, S.A., Pollard, J.W. (2007) VEGF restores delayed tumor progression in tumors depleted of macrophages. Molecular Oncology 1: 288-302 (Cover Article)
Lin, E.Y., Li, J., Gnatovskiy, L., Deng, Y., Zhu, L., Grzesik, D.A., Qian, H., Xue, X., and Pollard, J.W. (2006) Macrophages Regulate the Angiogenic Switch in a Mouse Model of Breast Cancer. Cancer Research: 66: 11238 - 111246 (Cover Article).
Condeelis, J., Pollard, J.W. (2006) Macrophages: obligate partners for tumor cell migration, invasion and metastasis. Cell. 124:263-266.
Lewis, C.E., Pollard, J.W., (2006) Distinct Role of Macrophages in Different Tumor Microenvironments. Cancer Research 66: 605-612.
Pollard, J.W. (2004) Tumor-Educated Macrophages promote tumor progression and metastasis. Nature Reviews Cancer. 4: 71-78
Placental Immunity
Qiu, X., Zhu, L., Pollard, J.W., (2009) Colony Stimulating Factor-1 Dependent Macrophage Functions Regulate the Maternal Decidual Immune Responses Against Listeria Monocytogenes Infections during Early Gestation in Mice. Infection and Immunity. 77, 85- 97
Barber, E.M., Fazzari, M. and Pollard, J.W. (2005) Th1 Cytokines are Essential for Placental Immunity to Listerial Monocytogenes. Infection and Immunity. 73: 6322 - 6331
Barber, E. and Pollard, J.W. (2003) The Uterine NK Cell Population Requires IL-15 but These Cells Are Not Required for Pregnancy nor the Resolution of a Listeria monocytogenes Infection. Journal of Immunology. 171: 37-46
Guleria, I., and Pollard, J.W. (2000) Trophoblast is a component of the innate immune system during pregnancy. Nature Medicine 6:589-593.
Sex Steroid Hormonal Regulation of the Cell Cycle
Polotsky, A.J., Zhu, L., Santoro, N., Pollard, J.W., (2009) Lithium Chloride Treatment Induces Epithelial Cell Proliferation in Xenografted Human Endometrium. Human Reproduction 2009. 24, 1960 - 1967.
Zhu, L., Pollard, J.W. (2007) Estradiol-17b Regulates Mouse Uterine Epithelial Cell Proliferation through Insulin like Growth Factor-1 signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy. 104: 15847-15851 (Winner of the Einstein Zondek award in Endocrinology)
Pan, H., Zhu, L., Deng, Y., Pollard, J.W., (2006) Microarray analysis of uterine epithelial gene expression during the implantation window in the mouse. Endocrinology: 147: 4904-4916.
Pan, H., Deng,Y., Pollard, J.W., (2006) Progesterone blocks Estrogen-induced DNA Synthesis through the Inhibition of Replication Licensing. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 103: 14021-14026.
Chen, B., Pan, H., Zhu, L., Deng, Y and Pollard, J.W. (2005) Progesterone Inhibits the Estrogen-Induced Phosphoinositide 3-Kinase -> AKT -> GSK-3b -> Cyclin D1 -> pRB Pathway to block Uterine Epithelial Cell Proliferation. Molecular Endocrinology 19: 1978 -1990
More Information About Dr. Jeffrey Pollard
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jack and Pearl Resnick Campus
1300 Morris Park Avenue
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Nature.com interviews Dr. Jeffery Pollard about a new study that links a common gut bacterium, e. coli, to cancer in mice.
WABC-TV interviews Dr. Jeffrey Pollard about his research on how macrophages, immune system cells that normally protect against disease, actually help the spread of breast cancer.


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What's a girl to do with homemade Kahlua and homemade Baileys Irish Cream? Mudslides, of course! For my friend who, after reading the Baileys post, emailed, "That's not a cupcake. I feel so betrayed," don't worry: a mudslide cupcake is coming soon!
Frozen Mudslide Drink Recipe
Jonathan and I just happened to have a bartender friend visiting town when we wanted to make the frozen mudslides. This is how he made them, and I wouldn't change a thing!
Frozen Mudslide Drink – The Adult Milkshake
- 4 oz vodka
- 4 oz Kahlua
- 4 oz Bailey's Irish Cream
- 2 pints 32 oz vanilla ice cream
- Chocolate shavings for garnish optional
- Whipped cream for garnish optional and not shown in the above photo
- Chocolate syrup for garnish optional and not shown in the above photo
- Blend all ingredients.
- Garnish with some combination of chocolate shavings, whipped cream, and chocolate syrup (or anything else you want to throw on there).
- Drink immediately.


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Reagonomics guru Arthur Laffer touts Brownback tax plan at Capitol
Enjoying almost Republican rock star status, the man who designed supply-side economic policies for Ronald Reagan toured the capitol Thursday touting Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to cut taxes.
Art Laffer visited with tax committees in the House and the Senate as he lobbied for the Brownback plan that will slash tax rates and eliminate income taxes for thousands of small businesses.
During an hour-long hearing he occasionally dropped names of politicians (California Gov. Jerry Brown, for one) and country music star Larry Gatlin, while plugging his new book due out next month.
After the hearing, one senator snapped a photo of Laffer.
Engaging and affable, Laffer defended the governor's plan to lower tax rates, while eliminating many tax credits and deductions that benefit the neediest Kansans.
Even when confronted by the state coordinator of the National Organization for Women, Laffer said he was sympathetic to the plight of single women who might rely on a tax credit that Brownback wants to elimate.
But Laffer insisted that reducing or eliminating income taxes are the best way to put more money back into taxpayers' hands and spur growth that will create jobs for everyone from all walks of life.
"If you look at their performance over the last decade, those states without an income tax compared to the states with the highest income tax …the differences are huge. Those states without income taxes have grown much, much faster," said Laffer, who's being paid $75,000 as a consultant on the state tax plan.
But Laffer's toughest moments came later during a hearing in the Senate, where he was challenged by Kari Ann Rinker of NOW.
Rinker asked Laffer how he could justify Brownback's attempt to eliminate the earned income tax credit, which benefits the working poor.
Quoting Democratic icon John F. Kennedy, Laffer told Rinker the best form of welfare is a high-paying job.
"You just can't create prosperity through hand outs and programs like that," Laffer said. "You really have to get economic growth."
The earned income tax credit, which benefits about 255,000 people in Kansas, generally goes to low-income workers to help them keep more of what they earn. About two-thirds of those who file for it get a refund even if they don't owe taxes, according to state officials.
Laffer endorsed Brownback's plan to take some of the proceeds gained from killing the tax credit and instead using them for other social programs or matching federal aid for the poor and disabled.
"I would argue that the earned income tax credit is not the efficient way of really helping that single mom. There are better ways of using those monies to help her," Laffer said.
Rinker, who has been a single mother said she think it's questionable whether Brownback's plan will create jobs. Eliminating the tax credit, she argued, would hurt single moms trying to get by.
Laffer said he understood their struggle since he had been a single father with four children.
"It's a heck of a situation to be caught in," he acknowledged.
Rinker told Laffer she didn't think he could understand since he's getting paid to help with the governor's tax plan. But Laffer noted there is an entire company working on behalf of the state for the money.
"It's not an easy project," he said.


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I've been learning about the Circle Method (at the level of the book "An Invitation to Modern Number Theory," by Miller and Takloo-Bighash). The arguments in the book show how the Circle method can be applied successfully to the ternary Goldbach problem, but fails for the binary problem (since the minor arc contribution can't be bounded sufficiently well). Is this the final word on the Circle method's application to this problem? Is there any hope that more sophisticated arguments/estimates might make it work?
I have seen some numerical experiments that seem to indicate that the minor arc contribution is small - for example, see the undergraduate project at http://web.williams.edu/go/math/sjmiller/public_html/mathlab/public_html/jr02spring/goldbach/goldbach5.pdf .
Also, what book and/or set of notes would be good for me to continue studying the Circle Method? I have looked at Vaughn's book, it is too dense for me, without enough motivating material. Is the book by Nathanson ("Additive Number Theory: The Classical Bases") a good place to continue?
Thanks, Tom


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Fireworks aplenty for the Fourth
Hearts ... to the annual show in the sky.
The Fourth of July is one of our most patriotic holidays and being on a Wednesday this year makes it more interesting.
There are several places to watch the fireworks this year in the region. And on various nights. Most fireworks will be on the actual holiday, Wednesday, but at least one is Tuesday.
Consult our roundup of places to go see the fireworks in today's newspaper or check it out online at blufftontoday.com.
You also may enter our fireworks photo contest and earn the chance to win a gift card to Hugo's. For more information, go to our website.
More dangerous intersections, roads
Darts ... to traffic engineers with the S.C. Department of Transportation who apparently won't at least listen to Bluffton residents and town officials about the area around the intersection of U.S. 278 and Buckwalter Parkway.
Between that intersection and the turn into St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church off U.S. 278, wrecks are taking a toll on motorists and residents who go in and out of the driveway.
At least on Sunday there are police officers there to help manage the traffic flow to ensure people can get in and out of the church parking lot without incident.
Holiday week is here
Hearts ... to the break in the work week we get this week with the Fourth of July falling on a Wednesday.
While we like the idea of having a three-day weekend, we'll take a day off in the middle of the week to celebrate Independence Day.
We know a lot of people are down here vacationing and will enjoy the holiday. The greater Bluffton area has a lot to offer visitors.
Heat wave hits nation
Darts ... to the incredible heat wave that has hit the nation. It literally has spared nobody as even states like Minnesota and Wisconsin are sweltering and some of those unlucky residents do not even have air conditioning.
At least the Lowcountry is used to hot temperatures in July and August. But use common sense and don't go out in the heat for long periods of time unless you have to.
Check on friends and relatives and be smart. If people are not used to the heat and what happens, help them become knowledgeable.
Stocks end week on high note
Hearts ... to U.S. investors as stocks surged Friday on news that leaders in Europe agreed to a plan to help stablize the region's banks.
Markets had become unstable with the uncertainty and vulnerability.
With the news, the Dow Jones industrial average added 278 points and had its best day since June 6.
There are signs that the economy locally and nationally is working its way out of a deep recession. But between now and November a lot can happen.
Stay tuned.


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Game #111: Yanks at Jays pregame
New York (61-50) at Toronto (56-54)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
Johnny Damon, LF
Derek Jeter, SS
Bobby Abreu, RF
Alex Rodriguez, 3B
Hideki Matsui, DH
Jorge Posada, C
Robinson Cano, 2B
Andy Phillips, 1B
Melky Cabrera, RF
PITCHING: LHP Andy Pettitte (7-7, 3.97 ERA)
Reed Johnson, LF
Alex Rios, RF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Aaron Hill, 2B
Curtis Thigpen, C
Lyle Overbay, 1B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch (4-4, 3.47 ERA)
NOTES: Overbay was dropped as low as eighth in the lineup for the first time this season. He's hitting just .232 since coming off the DL on June 12. He said today that his right hand is still sore, and it's been affecting him some at the plate. Overbay added that it's been frustrating, because he's seeing the ball fine, which he struggled with earlier in the year. … RHP A.J. Burnett (right shoulder) is making a rehab start for Triple-A Syracuse on Monday in Ottawa — also an afternoon game. Manager John Gibbons said today that Burnett will likely rejoin Toronto's rotation on Sunday in Kansas City. If the rotation is simply moved up one day after the off-day, Sunday would be the scheduled turn for Litsch. Gibbons added, though, that the Jays hadn't decided if ace Roy Halladay would start on Monday or Tuesday, which could play a role in who gets bumped for Burnett. … Where's Posh? Soccer star David Beckham was at Rogers Centre on Monday, and L.A. Galaxy head coach Frank Yallop — a native of Vancouver — threw out the ceremonial first pitch. … Toronto is looking to extend its home winning streak to nine games, which has only been done three times in team history. .. With a win, the Jays can also match a season high by moving three games above .500. Of course, they haven't been there since they were 8-5. … Yankees have averaged more than 10 runs per game over their last seven contests. Ouch.
entering Monday
1. Boston 68-43 (–)
2. New York 61-50 (7)
3. Toronto 56-54 (11.5)
4. Baltimore 52-58 (15.5)
5. Tampa Bay 42-68 (25.5)
entering Monday
1. Detroit 61-49 (–)
2. Seattle 60-49 (0.5)
3. New York 61-50 (0.5)
4. Minnesota 57-53 (4)
5. Toronto 56-54 (5)
HE SAID IT: "That's the thing about this game. You never know what's going to happen. You write teams off, you crown teams, and next thing you know, a few weeks later, it could be just the opposite. That's why you play 162 games. I think what's brought some teams back into it is the struggles Detroit and Cleveland have had lately, but that's not going to last. The Yanks, what they're doing now is just playing how everybody expected them to play. It shouldn't surprise anybody." –Gibbons, on the Wild Card race
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Burnett has now gone 4 innings in Ottawa-53 pitches and only 1 hit-no runs.
Looks like he's ready
Double Steal!
Now THAT'S great to see.
Went to the game for the first time this season yesterday, great to see Thomas is starting to come through. The Troy Glaus figurine dissappointed me (it looked better on tv)
As for the game today, i've said it before and i'll probably say it again, Vernon shouldn't be hitting 3rd for the rest of this season. Put him back into the lead off spot if that's what gets him going again but not in 3rd.
By the way Jordan I ended up watching Bourne Ultimatum and I thought it was a good movie. Coming from a guy who hadn't seen the first 2, though I do plan on it now, the way it ended though left me feeling a little cheated.
A baseball game is all about momentum-we lost it-the Yanks picked up and we ended up getting hammered.
So the stuation was at the bottom of the 5th, we got the first two guys on-nothing out.
The two runners did a double steal which meant we had runners at 2nd and 3rd-no outs. Great play by the Jays.
Rios strikes out
Wells hits an infield single-brings in 1 run
Thomas strikes out
Glaus stikes out.
If either of these guys had gotten a hit, it would have been Jays 5-Yanks 1.
Momentum shifts and the Yanks score 4 in the top of the 6th.
Pathetic performance from Thomas and Glaus. This was our game to win-and we simply blew it.
Great start from Jessie-regardless of what you see in the line score-the kid pitched a phenomenal game and deserved the win.


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September 2010 Journal of Geoscience Education
Volume 58, Number 4Editorial: The Geosciences Gap in K-12 Education
Karen S. McNeal, Mississippi State University
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URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p197
Commentary: The [Geo]Scientific Method; hypthesis testing and geoscience proposal writing for students
Michelle J. Markley, Mount Holyoke College
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Most undergraduate-level geoscience texts offer a paltry introduction to the nuanced approach to hypothesis testing that geoscientists use when conducting research and writing proposals. Fortunately, there are a handful of excellent papers that are accessible to geoscience undergraduates. Two historical papers by the eminent American geologists G. K. Gilbert and T. C. Chamberlin (Gilbert, 1886; Chamberlin, 1897) were the first to fully articulate and explore the method of multiple working hypotheses. Both papers still make for inspirational reading. A long essay on the scientific method by Johnson (1933) presents both a recipe for rigorous scientific thinking and a traditional but detailed articulation of linear hypothesis testing using geologic examples. More recently, papers by Frodeman (1995) about the fundamentally non-linear nature of interpretation and reasoning in the geosciences and Cleland (2001) about a "smoking gun" approach to validating hypotheses are helpful articulations of the geoscientific method, i.e. a shared understanding of how geoscientists articulate, frame, and tackle research questions.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p198
Laboratory Earth: A Model of Online K-12 Teacher Coursework
David C. Gosselin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Julie Thomas, Oklahoma State University
Adrienne Redmond, Oklahoma State University
Cindy Larson-Miller, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Sara Yendra, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Ronald J. Bonnstetter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Timothy F. Slater, University of Wyoming
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Laboratory Earth, a series of three NASA-Sponsored, on-line graduate courses for K-8 teachers, was designed to meet a variety of learning styles and appeal to teachers" motivation to learn the content and improve their teaching. This is especially important to teachers as they seek to demonstrate "highly qualified" status to meet No Child Left Behind standards. These graduate-level courses consist of four modules of two to four lessons each. Pre- and post-course surveys indicated significant increases in teachers" (n=51) content knowledge, science teaching efficacy beliefs (STEBIA), sense of community within the course (LEO) and science teaching enjoyment (STES). Qualitative data indicated teachers valued the cohort system, content aligned to teaching needs, and the instructor"s response to requested feedback. Results indicated that online courses can provide valuable professional development opportunities for K-12 science teachers to deepen their knowledge, sharpen their skills, and maintain their knowledge of science developments. Because teachers play an important role in the development of their student"s attitudes towards science, it is extremely important that science and education communities collaborate to create courses that use contemporary pedagogy to address the content-knowledge needs of teachers required by National Science Standards criteria.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p203
Incorporating a Watershed-Based Summary Field Exercise into an Introductory Hydrogeology Course
Alan E. Fryar, University of Kentucky
Karen E. Thompson, Smith Management Group, Inc.
Susan P. Hendricks, Murray State University
David S. White, Murray State University
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We have developed and implemented a summary field exercise for an introductory hydrogeology course without a laboratory section. This exercise builds on lectures and problem sets that use pre-existing field data. During one day in April, students measure hydraulic heads, stream and spring flow, and stream-bed seepage within the rural watershed of a third-order perennial stream in western Kentucky. Students calculate net specific discharge at various scales, map groundwater flow in the watershed, and calculate vertical hydraulic gradients at the mouth of the watershed, where the stream enters a reservoir (Kentucky Lake). Distinctive features of the exercise include hydraulic head measurements in large-diameter domestic wells and in piezometers installed in the reservoir embayment. Kentucky Lake is raised ~ 2 m shortly before the field trip, thus providing an analog of bank storage. Former students who responded to a questionnaire indicated that the exercise was worthwhile. The exercise was based at a biological field station but could be completed at any field site where long-term hydrologic monitoring is in place or could be initiated.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p214
Application of Tablet PCs to Lecture Demonstrations on Optical Mineralogy
Thomas D. Hoisch, Northern Arizona University
Barbara A. Austin, Northern Arizona University
Shawn L. Newell, Northern Arizona University
Mark F. Manone, Northern Arizona University
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Learning optical mineralogy requires students to integrate a complex theory with microscope manipulations and image interpretation. To assist student learning, we performed lecture demonstrations during which digital photomicrographs were taken and delivered to students using Tablet PCs, whereupon they were imported into note-taking software and annotated with digital ink by both instructor and students. We tested two different methods for delivering images: (1) images were delivered via an ad hoc wireless network using the file transfer capability of NetSupport School, using the instructor's computer as the hub, and (2) images were saved to a shared folder that could be accessed by students via the regular campus wireless network. Students loaded the images into either Microsoft OneNote or PowerPoint, and then annotated them with digital ink using the stylus pen as the instructor lectured. Use of the campus wireless network resolved issues of slow image delivery encountered with the ad hoc wireless network. Summative assessment revealed that most students thought the Tablet PCs helped them to understand the complex visualizations. The degree of acceptance among students of using Tablet PCs for note-taking during lectures improved considerably when the issue of slow image delivery was resolved. In addition, students commented that it was helpful to have the images close up and that the colors were highly accurate.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p221
GPS: Geoscience Partnership Study
Dwight Schuster, Indiana University School of Education, IUPUI Department of Earth Sciences
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To promote and expand geoscience literacy in the United States, meaningful partnerships between research scientists and educators must be developed and sustained. For two years, science and education faculty from an urban research university and secondary science teachers from a large urban school district have prepared 11th and 12th grade students to mentor 7th grade students on the topic of climate science. This partnership was based on the premise that high school students, when trained and supported by teachers and scientists, have the capacity to extend middle school students" efforts to engage in and understand the geosciences. This paper a) describes mentors" and mentees" understandings of climate science as a function of their participation in the second year of this program, b) identifies the characteristics of effective mentoring relationships, and c) explores the scalable and sustainable aspects of this partnership.
URL for this article: http://www.nagt.org/nagt/jge/abstracts/sep10.html#v58p232
Technology, Accuracy and Scientific Thought in Field Camp: An Ethnographic Study
Anthony D. Feig, Central Michigan University
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An ethnographic study was conducted on an undergraduate field course to observe and document lived experiences of students. This paper evaluates one of several emergent themes: that of technology dependence, and how it informs students' understanding of scientific reality. In the field, students tried to arm themselves with as high a degree of precision as possible. They assumed that technology was equated with precision, and in turn, precision with scientific reality; i.e., accuracy. Students rejected the notion that in some situations, low levels of precision may be "good enough" to be accurate. This theme of technology dependence suggests five broad implications. First, students are rarely taught, and rarely understand, the difference between precision and accuracy. Second, students should be taught to appraise a situation to apply an appropriate level of precision, rather than to assume that more is better. Third, students should be taught to value the process of doing things "by hand," such as locating oneself on a topographic map. Fourth, students should have ample opportunity to explore the complexities of physical and scientific reality. Finally, field camp is a late opportunity for shaping the professional growth of future geoscientists, and thus deserves a prominent place in geoscience curricula.
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Optimism rules on the world's largest economy.
Last week's slew of reports underpinned the cautiously upbeat outlook for the US, even though one showed an unexpected contraction in American GDP in the fourth quarter.
On Friday, data showed that US payrolls rose 157,000 in January, with a substantially revised 196,000 gain in the prior month and a 247,000 climb in November. The jobless rate rose to 7.9 percent from 7.8 percent. Separate reports provided evidence of better-than-expected strength in manufacturing and a surprise gain in confidence of the US consumer.
"All the data seems to keep pointing to a slowly, steadily improving economy," Eric Kuby, chief investment officer at North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago, told Reuters.
Indeed, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he expects growth will accelerate enough to let the central bank reduce its asset purchases as early as the middle of the year.
"We should think about tapering or adjusting the program," Bullard told Bloomberg in an interview on Friday. "If you get some good data for a couple of months, maybe you'd say, 'Okay, we go back to US$75 billion per month instead of US$85 billion or something like that.'"
Fresh economic clues over the coming days will come in the form of reports on factory orders, due Monday, the ISM non-manufacturing index, due Tuesday, productivity and costs, due Thursday, as well as international and wholesale trade, both due Friday.
Overall, US corporate earnings have also provided investors enough reason to pile more funds into stocks, helping the Standard & Poor's 500 Index to its best January since 1997.
The S&P 500 climbed 5 percent last month.
The index may rise to 1,543 by year-end, compared with its October 2007 record of 1,565.15, according to the average of 15 strategists surveyed by Bloomberg on January 22. On Friday, the S&P 500 closed at 1,513.17.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average also continued its ascent to another five-year high, closing at 14,009.79 on Friday.
"There's a lot of momentum for stocks even after such a good start to the year," Paul Zemsky, the New York-based head of asset allocation for ING Investment Management, told Bloomberg. "Earnings are strong, the economies around the world are bottoming and valuations are attractive."
About 73 percent of the 254 S&P 500 companies that have released results so far this earnings season have beaten profit projections, and 65 percent have beaten sales estimates, according to Bloomberg.
Overall, S&P 500 fourth-quarter earnings are estimated to have increased 4.4 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data, up from a 1.9 percent forecast at the start of the earnings season but falling short of the 9.9 percent profit growth forecast on October 1.
Walt Disney, Coca-Cola Enterprises and Visa are among the companies reporting their latest earnings this week.
The spotlight will also be on Dell. A buyout consortium led by founder and CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake is negotiating to take Dell private at US$13 to US$14 per share, Reuters reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could top $US24 billion. On Friday, the stock closed at US$13.63.
In Europe, the benchmark Stoxx 600 Index slid 0.5 percent last week.
Investors will eye a meeting by the European Central Bank on February 7. The ECB is widely expected to hold its benchmark interest rate at 0.75 percent.
Bank of England policy makers, meeting the same day, are also seen keeping the key rate at 0.50 percent.
Late this week European Union leaders also return to the table in a renewed effort to seek an agreement on the region's budget for 2014-2020 after failing to reach agreement in November.
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Screen goddess, Elizabeth Taylor, is now resting in the great presidential penthouse in the sky. One thing that Dame Elizabeth knew how to do was travel in style, so, pack your jewels, eyebrow pencils and a Cleopatra DVD for a trip to some of the gorgeous one's favourite romantic getaways.
Hotel Splendido
It was in Portofino, probably during a stay at the Hotel Splendido that Richard Burton proposed to Elizabeth Taylor for the first time, on a break from filming Cleopatra in Rome. The romantic proposal is thought to have taken place on the wisteria-covered terrace of the hotel's bellissima first floor junior suite.
Inspired by this event, Fred Buscaglione, a famous Italian singer of that period, wrote the song 'I found my love in Portofino'. To this date, this is the song that celebrates the love between Burton and Taylor and represents the 'soundtrack' to the Hotel Splendido and Portofino. For instance, if you are ever put on hold whenever you call the Splendido, that's the song you will listen to – how gorgeous is that! The hotel boasts a myriad of photographs of its celebrity guests on its walls, and amongst them are pictures of Elizabeth Taylor with husband number four, Eddie Fisher.
The legend amongst the hotel's personnel though is that the image had to be very promptly and discreetly replaced when news broke of Taylor's relationship with soon-to-be husband number five, Richard Burton.
The Beverly Hills Hotel
Elizabeth Taylor stayed here so often during her lifetime that you could probably still catch a whiff of White Diamonds in her favourite room in the house, Bungalow Five. It was in this luxurious private bungalow that Taylor consoled Burton on his Oscar near-miss in 1969.
This iconic Hollywood hotel was much loved by the violet-eyed star. Early in her MGM career she would often stop by to visit her father, who kept a gallery onsite, and later in life the Beverly Hills Hotel was the scene for many of Dame Elizabeth's romances – in fact, the perpetual bride spent six of her eight honeymoons at the hotel.
The Dorchester
Elizabeth Taylor first stayed at The Dorchester as a child star and carried a lifelong affection for the London hotel, eventually commandeering the largest of the hotel's rooftop suites to create The Harlequin Suite. The space is apparently sublime, with a large master bedroom, dressing room, living room, dining room, bar, a huge outside veranda with views over Hyde Park and a divine pink marble bathroom that was specially installed for Taylor – rumour has it that the bathroom wall is carved with celebrity graffiti that reads "RB XXX ET".
It was in the Harlequin Suite that Elizabeth Taylor signed her multi-million dollar deal to star in Cleopatra and so played out one of history, and Hollywood's, greatest love affairs.


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|WCC Overview
FIDE World Championship Knockout, 2004
Tripoli, Libya
FIDE's knockout format, which relied so heavily on speed chess and blitz chess, was certain to be the source of much criticism. Also under attack was FIDE's position to allow Garry Kasparov to play the winner of this event in a reunification match, even though Kasparov did not participate in the qualifying rounds. However, even these important complaints had to take a backseat to the highly controversial choice of venue. Libya, under the leadership of Muammar Gaddafi, enforced policies which were denounced by many as shamelessly anti-semitic; for example, their refusal to recognise Israeli passports, and their barring of Israeli chess coaches from entering the country. Gaddafi was quoted by several Hewbrew news outlets as saying "We didn't invite nor will we invite the Zionist enemy to the competition." Gaddafi's son added fuel to the fire, adding: "We know the Zionists will seize such occasions to enter the Arab society ... but we will not give up our principles."[1]
FIDE president Kirsan Ilymzhinov was unapologetic, responding: "I am somewhat surprised that you don't see the importance of having the World Chess Championship in Libya, during the time when the country is opening up to the international community."[2] The damage to the championship's integrity was irreparable, and in the end, only two of top-10 players (Adams and Topalov) agreed to participate.
The unexpected winner of the tournament was the Uzbekistani 24 year old grandmaster, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who defeated Ramirez, Ghaem-Maghami,
Ivanchuk, Almasi, Grischuk, Topalov, and in the final round, Michael Adams. In the final match against Adams, both
players won two games, thereby necessitating the use of the speed-chess tiebreaks.
Kasimdzhanov, whose previous accomplishments included winning the Asian championship in 1998
and finishing second in the World Junior Championship in 1999, won the first speed tiebreak in
spite of being in danger for most of the game. During the second tiebreak game he needed only
to secure a draw with the white pieces, which he did easily, thereby winning the tournament
and becoming the new FIDE World Chess Champion.
FINAL SCORE: Kasimdzhanov 4½; Adams 3½
Reference: game collection Kasimdzhanov - Adams, WCC 2004
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