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So, who won? and what do I think of them? Klaus Johannis (Partidul National Liberal). He is a highschool teacher of physics turned politician, which can be taken as one more proof that physicists are smart and can do anything! His election should make the country more open and more connected to Western Europe. There are already a lot of investors from Italy, France, Switzerland and Germany, which lead most of the agricultural sector and most businesses in Romania. Mr. Johannis is from the German minority of Romania and speaks Romanian with a slight German accent. I found it a bit funny to be listening to him talk. I could almost envision hearing him speak the German translation of his words.
His opponent had been the current prime minister, Mr. Victor Ponta - Partidul Social Democrat, i.e., the socialists/communists. Even though he is young, he is the typical representative of the current political class. Fortunately, this class no longer has strong roots in part due to the large number of foreign investors. So, I have never thought he would win the elections. He did lie on his resume, and I found it interesting that he was still allowed to candidate. The argument that he did not plagiate because he hired somebody to write his PhD and did not copy himself was particularly funny. Of course, the official version is that he just misused citations for 75% precent of his thesis. Also, he took one course abroad, and then claimed to have a Masters. All this is reprehensible, but then Vladimir Putin also copied his thesis and so did many, many other corrupt leaders. Nobody calls them Dr. Copy-Paste because they are politically too strong to be picked on that way. Furthermore, Ponta is a bit older than me and almost became president and he must have some strength of personality just to be able to stand all the pressure. So, I do believe he does deserves some respect for that and not just media shaming.
Romania is the one country that makes me feel home whether I visit for a few days, a few weeks or a few hours. I still have faith in it. In the long term, I expect progress to continue, the business and agricultural sectors to thrive and property prices to grow. However, just like in the rest of the world, there will be times when things will get worse and times they will get better again. So, I try not to build unreasonable expectations. Had Ponta won, it would have been nothing out of the ordinary - just a continuation of the same corrupt regime, but now people have hope. I pray that they will not be too disappointed too soon.
Disclaimer: I do not own a TV, and I have not been listening to presidential debates. I did hear both Ponta and Johannis speak for about 10 minutes each after I voted. I suppose that means I am not a well informed person, but somehow the trash throwing that the politicians do never seemed worth my time or peace of mind.
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I close by quoting my brother: "Life is beautiful when you wake up in the morning and for a few minutes you do not know what country you are in today, and when you do not yet know what country you will be in tomorrow". He lives this way. For my side, however, I have mostly been feeling uncertain and afraid instead of excited and looking forward to many next adventures.


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The streets of the neighbourhood through which Salim Sheikhlahoon guides me are deserted. The sound of heavy artillery echoes through them, punctuating the staccato cracks of gunfire.
Salim is one of the civilians caught in the cross-fire of the war for Libya's third largest city, Misrata, as rebel fighters try to oust Qaddafi troops from their city.
A couple of blocks away, as Salim sips tea, a pick-up truck mounted with a heavy machine gun opens fire on a building containing some of the Qaddafi forces.
"I will not leave my house" he says, and gathers with the few of his neighbours who have decided to stay. The roof of his family's living room has been punctured by rocket fire, and light streams onto the concrete of another, unfinished room in his house. Luckily, when the rockets rained down on his home, his family were not in the room.
Around the corner, Salim shows me to an unexploded shell lying in his neighbour's garden. Behind it sits a children's bicycle, a remnant of what would have been a bustling residential district just a few weeks previously.


text: Throwback Thursday- Don't Smile until November October 27, 2016 by Scott, posted in back to school, teachers Can you believe it? The first two months of school are already gone! I guess you can finally smile… or maybe you better wait until after Christmas! Share this:TweetEmailShare on TumblrLike this:Like Loading... Related


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Download The Folding Star Study Guide
(Literary Masterpieces, Critical Compilation)
"My life was in a strange way that summer, the last summer of its kind there was ever to be," says William Beckwith, the spoiled and rakish narrator of Alan Hollinghurst's highly acclaimed first novel,The Swimming-Pool Library (1988). "I was riding high on sex and self-esteem—it was my time, mybelle epoque—but all the while with a faint flicker of calamity, like flames around a photograph, something seen out of the corner of the eye." It is not only the coming of AIDS that makes the summer of 1983 a turning point for the twenty-five-year-old Beckwith, guilty of nothing worse than his own "mindless randiness and helpless sentimentality." This is the summer that Beckwith, out cruising Kensington Park, saves the life of eighty-three-year-old Lord Nantwich, who later invites him first to lunch and then to write his biography. The difference in their ages, a variation on a theme from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Grey (1891), proves less significant than their considerable similarities, in education, in clubs, in sexual orientation. The temptation to write the biography of a man who had been friends with gay eminences such as Evelyn Waugh and Ronald Firbank is great but not great enough—not because Beckwith has anything better to do with his time but because of what he discovers in reading Nantwich's journals: that Beckwith's grandfather was "really the driving force" of the 1950's "crusade to eradicate male vice." The crusade failed (a failure paid off with a peerage) but not before Nantwich had been arrested and imprisoned. "The one unspeakable thing that no one had been able to tell me threw light on everything else, and only left obscure the degrees of calculation and coincidence in Charles's offering me his biography to write—a task he must have known I could never, in the end, accept."
The Swimming-Pool Library is a startling, amazingly accomplished, and ambitious first novel, butThe Folding Star, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is an even better book, clearly indebted to the earlier yet in every way its superior in its artful exploration of homosexual desire. Neither polemical nor prurient, Hollinghurst's treatment of gay life has at least as much in common with the postmodern novels of Peter Ackroyd, John Banville, and Julian Barnes as it does with the gay fiction of Edmund White. At once intricate, explicit, and elegiac, The Folding Star succeeds as both an engaging literary tour de force and a sad comedy of unrequited love and unfulfilled promise. Chief among its many strengths—its formal symmetry, verbal precision, attentiveness to the male body, and sheer intelligence—is the manner in which Hollinghurst creates and sustains, occasional humorous touches notwithstanding, a strangely, perhaps perversely inviting atmosphere, at once lucid and "tenebreaux." As Hollinghurst has explained in Granta, "The writers whom I revere are grand and shadowy—Navokov, Proust, James. . . . I like things to reverberate, be suggestive."
The novel is set in two shadow-filled locales, the small English town of Rough Common (as in "rough trade") located southeast of London and, more important, the small and unnamed Belgian city with its bars (the Cassette for gays, the Golden Calf for old men), its Catholic gloom (St. Narcissus, St. Vaast, St. Caspianus), its small museums, its factories and baths, its working-class districts and the faded splendor of its once-grand houses and park, the Hermitage, now a cruising ground. In a world at once specific and spectral, the hero is right to claim, even late in the novel, that he knows "nothing of this country." "To me," he says, "it was a dream-Belgium, it was Allemonde, a kingdom of ruins and vanished pleasures, miracles and martyrdoms, corners where the light never shone. Not many would recognise it, but some would"—more, one suspects, by way of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic stories than by perusing Fodor's and...
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Tracking History
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The most important part of a radar case is a tracking history. The radar unit will display a number, and that's all. It doesn't tell the officer which vehicle it is, or if there's even a vehicle there. The officer has to track the vehicle to make sure that his observations match what the radar is showing him. Otherwise, the officer might stop the wrong vehicle or a common radar error might give an incorrect speed. In some jurisdictions, the officer has to visually estimate the violator's speed within 5 miles per hour. The radar beam is a cone. It doesn't pick out individual vehicles. It can't even pick out individual lanes. The radar shows a speed based on three factors: – Reflectivity, Position and Speed.
This is generally referred to as biggest, closest, fastest. The radar usually picks up target that is the largest in its view. Therefore, it might pick up a motorcycle that was very close to it before a tractor-trailer a mile down the road. Many times the radar will display different speeds of different vehicles that are close together. The officer has to determine if he's getting a good reading, and if so which vehicles' speed is being displayed. This isn't as hard as it might sound. Radars are equipped with a speaker which give a tone reflecting the doppler signal its receiving. If it's a clear high pitched tone, then it's getting a good solid reading from a vehicle. It will give a low raspy tone if it's not getting a clear signal.
This happens when there's something in between the radar and the target or when the vehicle is entering or leaving the beam. Once you have a solid tone, you look at how the traffic is moving. If there is a clump of vehicles that is moving at 65mph then a vehicle overtakes them at a high rate of speed, and the radar shows 85mph, it's easy to figure out who was going that fast. Alternatively, if a group of vehicles is traveling together in a clump, where no one is overtaking or falling behind, all the vehicles in that clump will be at about the same speed. Some radars have a fastest vehicle button that will display the fastest vehicle in its cone. This is very useful for when there are large targets such as tractor-trailers in between the radar and a fast moving small vehicle.
Stationary Radar
Stationary radar is radar at its simplest. The officer sits on the side of the road, and watches traffic. When he observes a vehicle moving at high speed, he activates the radar. The radar goes through its basic decision factors (Reflectivity, Position, and Speed) then it displays that speed. The radar will give a tone. If the tone is clear and the displayed speed matches the officer observations, the officer can make the stop.
Mobile Radar
Moving radar is very similar stationary radar, but it's looking for two different speeds. The radar looks for the largest object in its field, and it assumes that this is the passing background. Then it looks for the second most significant object that it assumes is the target. The radar actually measures the closing speed or separation speed between the target and the patrol vehicle. The radar's counting unit will then use the following formulas. Target Speed (TS) = Closing Speed (CS) – Patrol Speed (PS) or Target Speed (TS) = Separation Speed (CS) – Patrol Speed (PS) The radar unit will then display two speeds. It will show the target speed and the patrol speed. The officer must compare the patrol speed displayed on the radar with that displayed on the car's speedometer. This is an essential element of the radar case. The radar speed will be more accurate, but there are certain errors that this will detect. The speeds must be consistent.


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Mitchell Exhibit on Boxing and Literature Opens Feb. 12
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An exhibit featuring 20th century English literature and the art of boxing will open with a reception at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12 at Texas A&M University's Cushing Memorial Library and Archives. "Hand to Hand: Selections from the J. Lawrence Mitchell Collections," will showcase items related to 20th century English writers, dictionaries, philology, and pugilism from two of Cushing Library's major collections.
Nicholas Basbanes, author of nine works on cultural history and noted authority on book history and culture, will be guest speaker at the reception. His first book, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books, was a finalist in 1995 for the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction, and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His most recent book, On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History, was selected as one of three finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for 2014.
The exhibit which runs through Dec. 11 pays tribute to collector, scholar and bibliophile Dr. J. Lawrence "Larry" Mitchell, retired associate dean and director of Cushing Memorial Library and Archives and former head of the English Department at Texas A&M.
The exhibit is sponsored by The John H. Hinton Library Endowment and The Priscilla Letterman Meserole Endowment. The community is invited to the opening reception.
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The Friends of Seatoun School work closely alongside the staff and BOT to fundraise and organise social events that maintain and build upon the school's close links with its community.
Members are also involved in the strategic planning process. FoSS relies on parent involvement and the old adage that "many hands make light work."
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Chess is the sport of kings. But in the nineteenth century, in the nimble hands of a natural genius, chess was also the sport of former slaves.
Though the name Theophilus Thompson may ring with the wizened tones of ancient scholars, the bearer of the title was raised not in Athenian white robes but in the tattered rags of a slave. Like his parents before him, Thompson was born into slavery in Frederick, Maryland. When his eyes first saw light in 1855, it was a hazy scene, one of shifting histories and crumbling boundaries. Just nine days before his sixth birthday, Civil War wrapped its steely fingers around the heart of the South, and by war's end, Thompson's slavery was a matter of his past.
But the youth was still years, and miles, from the chiseled black and white pieces that would mark his place in American history. In 1868 the teenaged Thompson traveled to Carroll County, Maryland, to uphold the mantle of his forebears, if in a slightly different capacity, as a house servant. He remained for two years before returning to his hometown of Frederick.
It was then, in 1870, that Thompson finally laid eyes on the mathematical symphony that is chess. In a spark of fate, the first game he witnessed included John K. Hanshaw, a local chess legend and publisher of The Maryland Chess Review. Whether inspired by all eager minds or Thompson's alone, Hanshaw decided to pass on the gift of the game and sent his new student home with a chess board and a series of chess problems to solve.
Thompson sunk comfortably into the game, as if dazed and enamored by the kaleidoscope of black and white. He didn't merely solve the assignments from Hanshaw, he created and solved his own ingenious problems. Within months, even weeks, Thompson sat across the board from experience players, shuffled his sixteen pieces, and emerged victorious. Word of the wunderkind spread, and fame came to rest on Thompson's doorstep
Or, more accurately, the doorstep of Orestes Brownson, Jr. Brownson was the publisher of the Dubuque Chess Journal, and also the employer of Thompson, who—despite his logical prodigiousness—worked as a servant. But Thompson's employment in Brownson's home was no coincidence; in 1873, just one year after first witnessing a game of chess, Brownson helped publish Thompson's book, Chess Problems: Either to Play and Mate, or Compel Self-mate in Four Moves.
If Thompson was not hailed as a prodigy before his book, he certainly was after. His name rose through the stuffy circles of chess players, his moves remembered and enacted by white-clipped nails around the world. In the July 1874 issue of City of London Chess Magazine, the review of Thompson's Chess Problems read: "We have been very much pleased indeed with the composition in this book, and consider that they display real genius, both of a conceptive and constructive order. . . . We consider Mr. Thompson a composer of great merit and of rare promise."
But the promise sketched in the book of Thompson was one never kept. Even as his star continued to rise, it fell, from popular notoriety in highfaluting fields to nominal obscurity almost instantly. Precipitated by the closing of Brownson's journal, Thompson was left unemployed, and, almost as if he had died, he disappeared. Thompson's unexpected disappearance from the world he was only just beginning to know inspired the worst speculations: perhaps he had been lynched? How else could such a promising player slip from the grasps of logisticians and masterminds so entirely?
Thankfully, it appears that was not the fate of Thompson after all. Though his history does essentially fade to black after 1874, his name appears in the most bureaucratic of records: the census. First in the 1880 census, at home in Maryland working as an oysterman, and again in 1920, as a married father of two. If not for his unique name, we could chock the census records to chance—but given the signature and his Maryland roots, it's safe to speculate that this was, indeed, the Theophilus Thompson of chess fame.
And although that ending may seem sad—the prodigy who fades quickly into obscurity after his brief brush with fame—it certainly is not. Perhaps it was a simple life that beckoned to Thompson, just as the call of Frederick once called him home from Carroll County. Or maybe he was pleased simply to be the first black man to achieve recognition as a chess master. Regardless of how long his tenure as a chessman lasted, Thompson did indeed grasp the reins of fate as the servant became the master.


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We are design-led but commercially driven; looks matter almost as much as the results. In this respect we are "deeply superficial" and our work needs to be as appealing as it is relevant to the brand, its business, its customers.
Understanding the importance of building brands across all channels and geographies we opened our studio in China. Our comrades over there build the innovative solutions we dream up here, whilst we help brands build their presence in the world's biggest market.
Understanding the peril our planet appears to be in, we run a dedicated environment strategy and design unit, Katana RE. We're saving the world, one pixel at a time!
With globalisation, fragmented channels and social media forever altering familiar landscapes, we develop strategies to take you from the store, off printed page, through the web and onto your phone, with relevance, intelligence and without missing a beat.
We test our ideas, principles and technologies on our own brands, and when it makes sense, we invest in brands and businesses that we help develop. We call it creative equity.
Our cosmopolitan team have lived and travelled all over the world and speak English, French, German, Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese.
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Monday 1st November, is our 1st Birthday!!!
I cannot believe it's exactly one year since we started, it seems no time at all. I was SO nervous when I launched our website, I wanted everyone to love our products as much as we love them.
It's been a great year, I couldn't have asked for better and I so want to say a huge big fat THANK YOU to each and everyone of our customers and supporters cos we just couldn't have done it without you!!!
To celebrate our birthday, we giving a 10% discount on all orders placed through our online store between 12:01 am and 12:00 midnight on Monday 1st November! (The 10% will be refunded to your PayPal account and the discount is not applicable to P+P costs). We'll be keeping the current special offers for a whole range of soaps going for the day too! Two fabulous ways to celebrate our big day with us and a great way to save some money on your Christmas shopping too!
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Cristina Magrina
Cristina Magrina Sanchez, M.A., C.Psych.Assoc. is a Clinical Psychological Associate at Springboard Clinic.
She provides coaching and therapy to children, adolescents, and adults dealing with ADHD challenges as well as emotional and behavioral concerns. Cristina is also passionate about counseling parents to empower them in the journey that is parenthood. She thrives working within multi-disciplinary teams that share a flexible, holistic and strength-based approach, ensuring that each individual tackles their challenges, achieves their goals, and reaches their full potential. Being a native Spanish and Catalan speaker, she currently works on her French which she dares to practice in her holiday trips to France & Québec.


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Fixing India's Prices
Proposed opening to foreign investment in retail could help tame inflation, but New Delhi can do more.
The latest 8.8% economic growth reading for India is again turning attention to fears of overheating and inflation. Yet for all the discussion of central-bank inflation targeting, fuel subsidies and the like, New Delhi still is skirting around an important set of reforms that could help keep retail prices for consumers under control: liberalization in the retail industry.
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OneStop: Reclamation Certificate Tool Updates
Albertans now have unprecedented access to energy-related information using the OneStop Reclamation Certificate Tool. Using the OneStop maps, Albertans can view active reclamation certificate applications, those that have been reviewed, and applications that have been approved, refused or flagged for audit.
Using the maps, zoom in on a specific part of the province and turn on (or off) different layers to see what's happening. In addition to showing specific regions – (like cities, protected areas, indigenous lands, and military bases), the maps in the tool also show all of the industry assets, including facilities, wells, compressor stations, pipelines and access roads across Alberta.
The OneStop maps can be found on aer.ca, under the Systems and Tools section then scroll down to the OneStop public map viewer, or via the reclamation page.


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AUTOMATICA Shows Production of Tomorrow
AUTOMATICA 2014 draws a positive balance: more than 10% more visitors and 7% more exhibitors. Trade Fair Deputy CEO Dr. Reinhard Pfeiffer "The growth rates and the high degree of satisfaction among exhibitors and visitors prove that AUTOMATICA has expanded its leading role." VDMA Robotik + Automation Managing Director Patrick Schwarzkopf added: "AUTOMATICA provides a decisive contribution to a change in production as an innovation platform. Trade visitors from the whole world learn what the future looks like at AUTOMATICA."
Robotics and automation are becoming increasing important globally
A total of 32% of the visitors came from foreign countries, an increase of more than 15%. "The motto of AUTOMATICA - "Optimize Your Production" - is experiencing a boom throughout the whole world," Hans-Dieter Baumtrog explained, Chairman of the Board of VDMA Robotics + Automation.
"It concerns the quality, safety and sustainability of products. Integrated assembly solutions, robotics and industrial machine vision are the key to success in this context! The increasing internationalization of AUTOMATICA is a clear indication of this development." Stefan Kapferer, Permanent State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy: "AUTOMATICA has once again demonstrated the outstanding position of Germany in robotics and automation."
SPARC: 2.8 billion euros for European robotics
The role of the industry is becoming very clear on a European level. Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission, announced the world's largest civil robotics promotion program SPARC at AUTOMATICA 2014.
With a total volume of 2.8 billion euros, Europe's leading position is to be expanded and consequently more than 240,000 jobs created. Ms. Kroes emphasized: "AUTOMATICA is a perfect opportunity to showcase the latest European robotics technology."
Man and machine will work hand in hand in the future
Robotics and automation are reaching a new dimension with man-machine cooperation. Robots are handling work in the place of people that is monotonous, injurious to health and requires no special job skills.
This makes workplaces more productive, flexible and ergonomic. AUTOMATICA also showed the enormous potential for small- and medium-sized firms in numerous examples.
Professional service robotics - a fantastic start
Marketable service robotics created a lot of interest. More than 60 companies, specialized in service robotics with B2B relation, exhibited the outstanding possibilities of intelligent service robots and components from the areas of medicine and nursing, inspection and maintenance as well as logistics.
The Berlin-based company Argo Medical Technologies won the first Service Robotics Masters Start-up Award with its exoskeleton suit, which provides paraplegics with the possibility to walk again.
The fourth industrial revolution on the rise
The fourth industrial revolution has no longer been just a vision for quite some time. Trade fair visitors obtained information about the concrete effects of Industry 4.0 on production in live demonstrations and during talks given by experts.
"The realization of Industry 4.0 will determine our future, because we can only succeed in establishing a networked, resource-efficient and highly flexible form of doing business in this way," Mr. Kapferer explained.
Good mood among visitors and exhibitors
The range of offers at the trade fair ensured full halls and created a good mood among exhibitors and visitors. The independent market research institute tns infratest determined that 97% of the surveyed visitors found the completeness of the offer good to excellent, and 95% praised the good presence of market leaders. The feedback from exhibitors was correspondingly positive. The mood at the trade fair was good to excellent for 95% of the surveyed companies.
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NX is a complete product design, engineering, and manufacturing solution that helps you deliver better products faster and more efficiently in a single environment.
NX for Design is an integrated product design solution that streamlines and accelerates the product development process for engineers who need to deliver innovative products in a collaborative environment. NX offers the highest level of integration between development disciplines in an open, collaborative environment.
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NX delivers a unified environment and consistent processes that can accelerate your cycle times. The seamless integration of NX applications enable you to rapidly propagate information and process changes across all development disciplines, from concept design to manufacturing. NX leverages Teamcenter to establish a single source of product and process knowledge that coordinates all phases of development, standardizes your processes and accelerates decision making.
The depth and breadth of the NX CAD tool set is spectacular. From industrial design, package design and styling through complete mechanical design and simulation in addition to electromechanical design, tooling and fixture design, and machining and quality inspection, NX offers robust and powerful problem solving tools which address extremely complex product development problems.
Success in production depends on the quality and thoroughness of your manufacturing plan. To be truly effective, part manufacturing plans need to be complete, accurate and delivered to production when they are needed. NX supports you with a complete set of manufacturing solutions from CAM and tooling design software to machine tool controllers.
Advanced Programming Capabilities
Programming Automation
NX CAM provides a wide range of functionality, from simple NC programming to multi-axis machining for both prismatic and free form parts, enabling NC programmers to address many tasks using one system. The flexibility of NX CAM means that the most demanding jobs can be completed easily.
Advanced feature-based machining (FMB) provides extra value in programming automation. Users can automatically create optimized machine programs directly from part design models. With feature-based machining programming time can be reduced by as much as 90 percent.
Post Processing
Ease of Use
NX CAM has tightly integrated post-processing system. Users can easily generate the required NC code for almost any type of machine tool and controller configuration. Multiple levels of NX program validation include G-code-driven simulation, which eliminates the need for separate simulation packages.
For maximum productivity, users can work on the system graphically. For example, selecting and moving the 3D model of the tool to adjust a tool path is as fast and intuitive way to drive the system. The dialog boxes use graphics with clear annotation to indicate what values are required for menu input.
NX CAE is a modern, multi-discipline CAE environment for advanced analysts, work groups, and designers who need to deliver high quality performance insights in a timely fashion to drive product decisions. NX CAE integrates best-in-class analysis modeling with simulation solutions for structural (powered by NX Nastran), thermal, flow, motion, engineering optimization, multi-physics and simulation data management.
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Comprehensive Meshing Tools
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NX CAE includes extensive modeling functions for automatic and manual mesh generation of 1D, 2D, and 3D elements and application of loads and boundary conditions. From 1D element and beam meshing, to 2D shell meshing and best-in-class haxahedral and tetrahedral 3D meshing, NX CAE associated modeling and meshing capabilities represent and extremely powerful tool.
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As products become ever more complex, performing simulation at just the component level is not enough. NX CAE has the tools needed to efficiently build and manage complex analysis models and assemblies, perform advanced simulation and co-simulation with control systems, solve large models quickly using the latest in high-performance computing methods and correlate analysis results with physical tests.
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If you went for a walk in Montevideo or any other Uruguayan city after the second-round victory over South Korea on Saturday, you could have been forgiven for thinking Uruguayans were celebrating another World Cup final win. Thousands went to the streets in ecstasy, waving flags, chanting and honking their car horns in long motorcades. Reaching the quarter-finals is, undeniably, reason enough to celebrate, but were they over-reacting?
"We have always lived from memories, hearing time and again about that historic victory against Brazil in Rio in 1950," says 28-year-old Eduardo Mesa, while walking covered with the Uruguayan flag along 18 de Julio, the capital's main street. "Now, I am proud of my squad for the first time in my life."
For those like Mesa, indeed for all Uruguayans under 40, World Cup glory is a story too many times heard but never experienced at first hand. The two World Cup triumphs, first at home against Argentina in the inaugural tournament in 1930, and then in the heroic deed known as Maracanazo when, against all odds, the national team beat Brazil on their own turf in 1950, are feted. In 1970, Uruguay reached the semi-finals in Mexico but the good times ended pretty much then, at least on the world stage, with the national team winning only one match at the World Cup finals in the intervening 40 years.
The performances of Oscar Tabárez's team are giving Uruguayans the chance to leave behind past frustrations. "We are used to suffering and losing," says Daniela Ferreira, a 38-year-old fan. "This time our players gave us a nice surprise. I think we can go further but even if we don't, most Uruguayans will be satisfied to see our country among the best eight teams, something that fans my age have never seen before."
Uruguay's ticket to the quarter-finals of World Cup 2010, where they play Ghana on Friday, will have a positive economic impact. The millions of dollars Fifa transfers to the Uruguayan Footballer Association after each win will help fund domestic teams and reinforce a trend that has seen a nation of 3.4m people supply players to clubs in Europe, Asia and Latin America. "Uruguay's performance will open doors for local players yet to try their luck abroad," says Enrique Saravia, the president of the Union of Uruguayan Professional Football Players.
Missing the 2006 World Cup meant overseas teams were looking elsewhere, and fewer transfers translated into fewer economic resources for Uruguayan clubs. "The great performance in South Africa will be worth many million US dollars," he adds.
Some of the money may go to support academies which start teaching those as young as four. The exploits of their strikers, Luis Suárez and Diego Forlán, will also increase the drive that so many in this middle-income country have – to become professional footballers and succeed in Europe.
The humility displayed by the players and the chemistry between the 23 members of the squad has made it one of the teams most loved by Uruguayans. Twitter and Facebook have also helped to bridge the distance between thousands of fans and their favourite players. More than 150,000 follow Forlán's tweets as he reports every step of the team's odyssey in South Africa.
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by Gen on Jun.18, 2010 @ 1:24 am, under Other
The Mayor of BungoOno, Yusuke Hashimoto, apparently turned down a request to use a baseball field out of fear of the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.
According to a number of published reports, organizers of a baseball tournament for junior high school students contacted the city of BungoOno seeking permission to use their baseball field. Hashimoto caught wind that two teams in the tournament were from Miyazaki and turned down the request, citing concerns about the risk of foot-and-mouth disease spreading into his city (Sponichi also notes that the baseball field is only about 500 meters away from farm land).
Needless to say, the people of Miyazaki and the prefectural mayor of Miyazaki aren't very happy and feel that the city of BungoOno is being too cautious and protective.
Said Miyazaki prefectural mayor, Hideo Higashikokubaru, "There should be no concerns [of the disease spreading if proper precautions] are taken. I hope they turn things down a notch."
During a press conference on Thursday, Hashimoto did say that he would be willing to relax the rules a bit if he were instructed to do so by people from higher up.


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Thoughtful analysis and commentary about The Columbus Crew and Major League Soccer, largely based on an accumulation of data.
ZLATAN made his MLS debut in true ZLATAN fashion: scoring off a volley from, like, 100 yards out in the "El Trafico." The LA media's embrace of ZLATAN has been true to form:
There's just one thing that could (read: will) ruin ZLATAN in MLS and that, of course, is MLS.
10. Legal Wrangling
Despite what you may have heard, everything actually happens on a Friday... at least when it comes to legal battle to Save The Crew. Last week Mayor Andrew Ginther released a gloriously snarky open letter to PSV requesting he and MLS open up the books for prospective buyers here in Columbus. Today PSV "tipped their hand" on their argument that the court dismiss the state and city's joint-lawsuit. Miki Turner's summed it up best.
There's an alternative route MLS and PSV should really consider as well.
9. Timber Joey
We've never really understood the disdain some Crew supporters hold for the Portland Timbers, especially after Don Garber's nasty bout of explosive diarrhea forced the cancellation of the 2015 MLS Cup Final (JUST TRUST US ON THIS ONE). Besides, it's not like the whole Pacific Northwest isn't overdue to be hit by a massive earthquake and accompanying tsunami. Let's give credit where it's due, and Rip City's definitely due some for this incredible promo:
8. DJ Wig-Wam
Failson | fail•son | noun
A man, middle- to upper-class and usually White, who, but for family status and support, would be crushed by poverty.
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Last week we learned MLS Commissioner Don Garber has a failson of his own: David, a freelance EDM blogger, DJ and "party-thrower" based out of Brooklyn. David aka DJ Wig-Wam (tasteful!) even has is own SoundCloud and is part of something called a Goonroom.
Don's blanket support of Anthony Precourt — another noted failson — makes much more sense with that context. It's just those paternal instincts kicking in!
7. #AskPrecourt
Crew Twitter dusted off the ol' #AskPrecourt hashtag this week. It was quite... what's the polar opposite of nostalgic? Boyish Anthony pretty much stuck to answering inane softball questions from sycophantic Corporate Celebrity Fans, but that didn't mean there weren't plenty of folks that saw through his charade.
6. Justice for Tommy Heinemann
While we congratulate FC Cincinnati on reportedly settling on a stadium location -- one phase of #KeepHellReal down! -- we will NOT excuse their "deplorable" mistreatment of Tommy Heineman. The MLS Players Association recently released a letter blasting FC Cincy who tried to force the Massive Legend to take a pay cut before ultimately voiding his contract because of an old injury (USL rival Penn FC has already signed him).
Amen, William. CBA negotiations are gonna be funnnnnnn next year!
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4. Tactics!
What do you get when you mix the in-depth tactical breakdowns of American Soccer Analysis with the artistic vision of the early 00's viral phenom The End of the World?
Looks like some new inspiration for our own Tifo Czar!
3. MLS is Controlling the Narrative
It's good to see that Communications Czar Dan Courtsmunch has current players and coaches staying on-message here in the midst of the MLS season.
Huge shout out to both Massive Legends above, along with the likes of Matt Lampson and Brad Stuver. Hopefully there are many more to follow.
2. An Important Public Service Announcement
Don't feed the trolls. Just look at Rick. He'll find you.
1. #SaveTheCrew
It's been another ho-hum week for the rag-tag #SaveTheCrew movement, which is despite evidence to the contrary is falling apart right in front of our eyes. They released an open letter to Don Garber Monday, which would've probably received more notice if they'd gone with our suggested edits.
They also revamped their Web page highlighting the 300-plus business allies who are hip to the cause.
Sorry, #SaveTheCrew, you can lead Crew Director of Business Operations Andy Luccigang to water, but you can make him do his job!
Guillermo O'Rourke is real-life, award-winning journalist and commentator. His book, Nine Lies: The Search for Crew Cat's Killerstill needs a publisher. Did you see something Good on line that should be featured in the next Starting 11? Tweet @gcgbag96 and let him know using the hashtag #DonGarberPeeTape.


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The Mountain Edge Skating Club of Colorado began in October 2012 with a goal of providing a family-friendly environment for skaters of all ages while promoting friendship, good sportsmanship and building self esteem through skating.
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"Many of us call the rink our home and we wanted our club to be visible and present with board members who have current skaters or students," said club vice president and membership chair Candice Flanders. "Every day of the week at some point in the day you will find one or more of our board members answering questions, reminding skaters to turn in Skater of the Month applications or running for a bag of ice when someone falls."
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"Our coaches are our true rock," Flanders said. "Our coaches each rotate through our board meetings to help provide guidance, give suggestions and be a sounding board."
Board members welcome the coaches' input since most do not have a figure skating background.
"Our coaches each volunteer numerous hours of their time helping with club activities, test sessions, special projects and yet still donate lesson time for prizes toward our top fundraisers, take pictures for posting on our Facebook page and ask how they can help."
The club also promotes many fun activities throughout the year, both on and off ice. Each spring, it holds a technical seminar that is free to members. They also host an annual banquet and skate swap, along with test sessions.
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"We place St Patrick's Day buttons around the rink and whoever finds them posts a picture to Facebook to win a prize," Flanders said.
The club is also excited to promote and feature their many skating programs.
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"We are excited to see what the future brings," Flanders said. "We want to watch our skaters develop and we plan to continue to find more ways to support them and our skating families."
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We help teachers, leaders, parents, and community partners find funding for their great ideas.
frequently asked questions (FAqs)
The application is asking me for...
- ID Numbers/Tax Documents
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- Address and contact information
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- In-kind/Matching Funds
- Letter of Support
ID Numbers/Tax Documents
TPS is not a 501(c)3. School districts are non-profits and tax-exempt, but not a 501(c)3. Most funders will still accept grant applications from a school or school district - be sure to check their website. If a 501(c)3 is the only eligible applicant, your PTO, PTA, or school foundation may apply on your behalf. If you still need another 501(c)3 option, please contact the Foundation for Tulsa Schools to obtain permission to have the foundation act as the official applicant.
Tax ID, FEI, DUNS, NCES
Tax ID, Federal ID Number (FEI/EIN): contact the Grant Development Coordinator
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This information MAY NOT be used for unauthorized tax-exempt purchasing or to establish banking or other financial accounts.
Tax Exempt Documentation
Please contract the Grant Development Coordinator to request copies of the tax-exempt documents.
This information MAY NOT be used for unauthorized tax-exempt purchasing or to establish banking or other financial accounts.
District Reports and Information
- District Mission/Vision statement
- List of Board Members
- Annual Financial Reports/Budgets
- Donor/Partner Lists
- Data and Statistics
- District Priorities and Goals
- Non-Discrimination Policy Statement
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District Mission/Vision statement
List of Board Members
Annual Financial Reports/Budgets
The Finance Team publishes our annual financial report and district budgets.
If the application is asking for your school's budget, please contact the school principal.
Donor/Partner Lists
Data and Statistics
If you need data to support your grant application, begin with the TPS website and/or your school principal. Other resources include District and School Profiles, Oklahoma State Department of Education, Community Service Council, and the US Census Bureau.
If you still need additional data, contact the Grant Development Coordinator or submit a request to TPS Data Strategy and Analytics.
District Priorities and Goals
Non-Discrimination Policy Statement
Congressional District
Fiscal Year
Address and contact information
The official applicant address for TPS is:
Tulsa Public Schools
Federal Programs and Special Projects
3027 S New Haven Ave
Tulsa, OK 74114
If required, you may also use your school address.
Use the Federal Programs and Special Projects' phone number (918-746-6830) and fax number (918-746-6521) when listing the "official applicant." Use the school/program contact information for the Grant Manager.
Official Applicant/Grant Manager Name
The official applicant for all grants is Tulsa Public Schools. If helpful, you may expand this to include your school or department name. For example: Tulsa Public Schools - ABC Elementary School.
The grant manager is the individual responsible for overseeing and/or implementing all aspects of the grant, the primary contact with the grantor and TPS Federal Programs and Special Projects Team, and is responsible for all required reports to the grantor.
In-kind/Matching Funds
In-kind Contributions
In-kind funds are donated goods or services, as opposed to money. If you are asked to show matching funds for a grant, in-kind contributions may be allowed, but you must be able to document the value of each contribution. These are typically things like volunteer time, donated office supplies, use of facilities, and transportation costs.
Matching Funds
Matching funds means cash or in-kind contributions that you must provide through other resources in order to receive a grant. Matching funds may come from a school or district budget or may be raised from outside sources. If a cash match is required, you must get them approved for use for your project and be able to identify the funding source(s) prior to submitting your application.
Letter of Support
If you need a letter of support from the Superintendent to attach to your grant application, please contact the Grant Development Coordinator, no less than 2 weeks prior to your deadline, with the following information:
1) Completed Grant Application Approval Form (if applying as part of TPS)
2) Date you need the letter
3) Full name and address to which the letter should be addressed
4) Draft of the letter
5) Information about the grant and/or a copy of the application
If you are a national or community organization seeking to partner with us in a grant application, please visit our Community Partners page.
Who can approve and sign...
Letters of Support
Letters of support to be submitted with an application and are not legally binding may be signed by the Superintendent.
If you need a letter of support from the Superintendent to attach to your grant application, please contact the Grant Development Coordinator, no less than 2 weeks prior to your deadline, with the following information:
1) Completed Grant Application Approval Form (if applying as part of TPS)
2) Date you need the letter
3) Full name and address to which the letter should be addressed
4) Draft of the letter
5) Information about the grant and/or a copy of the application
If you are a national or community organization seeking to partner with us in a grant application, please visit our Community Partners page.
Contracts, grant agreements, and MOUs
The Board President is the only individual legally authorized to sign contracts, grant agreements, MOUs (memorandum of understanding), or any other legal document on behalf of the district.
Administrators, principals, teachers, staff, volunteers, parents, and community partners are NOT authorized to sign legal documents.
If you receive a contract, grant agreement, or MOU as a part of your grant please take the following steps:
- read it carefully to ensure it reflects your grant proposal and the terms are acceptable,
- submit a copy to the Grant Development Coordinator for review,
- when notified by the Grant Development Coordinator, contact your supervisor to begin the process of submitting the contract, grant agreement, or MOU to the Board agenda for approval. The Board approval process typically takes 6-8 weeks.
Grant Applications
Board Policy 5803 requires all grant applications be reviewed and approved by the Grant Development Coordinator.
Submit a copy of your completed grant application with a Grant Application Approval Form every time you apply for a grant.
Unless specifically noted otherwise, the grant applicant may sign the application.
What About...
- Grant Checks
- Gifts and Donations
- Grant Reports
- Scholarships and Financial Aid
Grant Checks
Please send all grant checks to the Grant Development Coordinator:
Rochelle Klein
Education Service Center, Rm 413
If you have not already done so, please also submit the following documents along with the grant check:
- Copy of the grant application,
- Signed Grant Application Approval Form, and
- Copy of award letters, emails, grant agreements, etc.
Grant recipients MAY NOT open separate bank accounts for grants or deposit grant checks to a student activity or revolving account without prior permission from the Grant Development Coordinator.
Gifts and Donations
All gifts or donations to schools, whether they are from parents, local businesses, community organizations, or other groups must be reported to the district. Large gifts must be formally accepted by the Board of Education.
Contact Gifts and Endowments for reporting procedures.
Grant Reports
Financial and program reports are the responsibility of the Grant Manager. The assigned Budget Analyst from Federal Programs and Special Projects will assist with aspects of the financial reporting.
Contact the Grant Development Coordinator or the Asst. Director of Grants Compliance for questions about your grant report.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
grant writing workshop
- This one-hour workshop introduces teachers, leaders, parents, school partners, and private schools to the process of developing their great idea and applying for a grant to fund it. The workshop helps attendees access the assistance and resources available from the Grant Development Office.
grant writers' circle
- This come-and-go event allows teachers, leaders, parents, school partners, and private schools to work on their grant applications with the Grant Development Coordinator available to help and answer any questions along the way. A list of open grant opportunities and laptops are available, if needed.
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Beijing has announced a 7-percent increase in its military budget amid tensions with the United States and territorial disputes with regional countries over a number of islands in the South China Sea and East China Sea.
The move comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of plans to increase Washington's military spending by 10-percent. This could unleash an arms race between the U.S. and China. More in this report
- Trump to Seek $54 Billion Increase in Military Spending (video) - NY Times
- China Vs. America Who Would Win WW3 (video) - Documentary
- The U.S. Military is The Greatest Force For Peace? (video) - teleSUR


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Nutrition and Behavior
Common food products and opioids
This research says that metabolic-opiate levels are the same within the general population as in the Autistic/ND community, in this double-blind research.
So some of us are more metabolically over-sensitive, though not just Autistics/ND's, as 'Vegan Straight-Edge' research years ago highlighted: our food-chain, especially wheat/dairy products is being used as a social-control mechanism, and is impacting on our health and wellbeing as researchers like Prof. Cade, Prof. Dohan and others warned us, regarding the long-term health consequences to the general population of these 'foods' in the 1930's. They are causing mental ill health and distress.
These wheat products, (with more gluten) were introduced only 200 years ago and some of us have not evolved and adapted genetically well to them. The evolution process takes more than 200 years.
Modern 'dairy' is over-processed and this is the real problem. You can't get 'natural' cows milk anymore. We all have a problem with too much yeast in modern western diets too.
Scientists have discovered how mutations in two key proteins may lead to autism.


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Homecoming Dinner
Boys for the Boys SJI Junior Charity Car Wash
We would like to kick off the year's SMSAA activities with our very own reunion dinner on 10 Feb at
6.30 pm with Lo Hei, Laksa and Longan (LLL). We do hope to connect with as many of you as possible
and do reach out to other old boys and bring your families along as well. Please fill in the registration
form to help us work on the logistics and we hope that you can contribute a love offering to defray
the cost of the event. If you are not yet a member, we would like to encourage you to join the
SMSAA by submitting the online form. We look forward to seeing all of you!
SMSAA Thanksgiving Mass & Makan on 12th Nov (Sat)
The Alumni Association would like to invite YOU, the staff of SJI Junior for the above event. More info can be found in the attached form.If you wish to participate, please print, complete and place the attached form with your cheque into the slot near the "Caught Doing Good" one.
Welcome to SMSAA's first newsletter for 2015! See below for upcoming events and activities, including our Food of our Times heritage cookbook project for our School being jointly organised by the Association and the SJI Junior Parent-Teacher Association (PTA). There is also an invitation to Family Sports Nights (every 1st and 3rd Friday of the month) at which old boys can join with students and their families to play badminton and futsal - Read on!
Family Sports Nights
Family Sports Nights are held at the SJI Junior Sports Hall at 3 Essex Road, S309331 every 1st and 3rd Friday night from 5.30 to 8.30pm. Badminton and futsal are offered at present, and old boys are invited to join in the fun. Help with co-ordinating the event would also be deeply appreciated - Family Sports Nights are organised by two old boys and current PTA committee members Perry Lim and Andrew Lim. To join in the fun, please register by sending an email to email@example.com.
Saturday Futsal
Saturday Futsal: Join our band of old boys in futsal in the SJIJ Indoor Sports Hall (and occasionally games on grass pitches) on Saturday mornings from 10am to 1pm. Our teams, the Angels and the Eagles took part in the Singapore National Games 2014 in November and will be playing in the Lasalle Futsal Tournament on May 16th (see below). Let us know if you are keen to join the Futsal on Saturdays with an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Lasalle Futsal Tournament - 16 May 2015, SJIJ Indoor Sports Hall
Alumni teams from SMSAA, De La Salle School Alumni Association, St Anthony's Primary School Alumni and St Stephens Primary will be playing in the inaugural Lasalle Futsal Tournament on Saturday, May 16th from 10am at the SJIJ Indoor Sports Hall at 3 Essex Road, S309331. Come and cheer your teams on the day!
SMSAA Annual General Meeting
7 March 2015, 2.30pm
A great BIG thanks to all members who turned up for the SMSAA AGM on the 7th March 2015 at SJI Junior. It was good catching up with fellow Michaelians and an even more engaging exchange of ideas and suggestions to grow the alumni along with a better understanding of the school's plans and areas where it needs assistance.
Special thanks to SJI Junior Principal Timothy Goh for his support, Vice-Principal Linda Lau and Mrs Colleen Sheares for arrangements for the AGM, George Kheng for his support and lending a hand and Robert Seng for photos (available at the SMSAA Facebook page).


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Billy Butler needs to hit to stay in Royals lineup, Ned Yost says
For the 105th game of the Royals season, manager Ned Yost crafted a lineup as if the preceding 104 games had essentially not occurred. The batting order was an almost exact replica of the one sketched out for opening day, with little concession given to the subsequent events.
Nori Aoki entered the day with a .661 on-base plus slugging percentage, which ranked eighth among the team's regulars. Omar Infante entered the day with a .666 OPS, which ranked seventh.
So, of course, they batted first and second.
Eric Hosmer had missed four games due to a lack of strength in one of his hands. He needed to test out the injury batting practice. And he, of course, immediately returned to the No. 3 hole.
And so on, and so forth. The lone acknowledge of the previous four months was Billy Butler. He had dropped from fourth, his position on opening day, to sixth. Salvador Perez replaced him at the cleanup spot.
Butler played the hero twice during the previous weekend's series against the Indians. The team had just traded away Danny Valencia, who Yost had said might siphon away some time from Butler at DH. Now, with Valencia gone, Butler's place was secure.
Well, maybe.
"If Billy keeps hitting, Billy's going to DH," Yost said before the game.
It is unclear how short his leash is. Butler appears to be the lone established Royal capable of losing playing time or receiving fewer at-bats. He had a rough night at the plate on Tuesday, making four quick outs. He could not hit a ball out of the infield. He floated a weak pop into the glove of second baseman Brian Dozier for the final out — on the first pitch, a slider over the middle of the plate from Twins closer Glen Perkins.
Jarrod Dyson stood at first base, but Yost did not expect him to attempt to steal. Perkins is a lefty with a quick delivery. But Yost had hoped Butler could plate Dyson perhaps with an extra-base hit.
"I'm looking for Billy to get a pitch that he could drive," Yost said. "Obviously, he got a pitch that he didn't drive. But it's easy to second-guess those situations. It's really easy to sit back and say 'Geez, Billy, why didn't you take a pitch there?'
"I haven't seen the replay. I don't know if it's a good pitch to hit or not. I have to go take a look at it. But I'm looking for a pitch that he can drive in the gap."
The Royals offense produces little power and practices scant patience. "Guys are what they are," Yost said after a 2-1 loss to Minnesota.
Here is a primer on the Royals' targets — and the prospects other teams are interested in — as Thursday's trade deadline approaches.
Vahe Gregorian columnizes Le Situation de Butler, and how that applies to the team at the deadline.
Here is Kathleen Gier with updates on Erik Kratz, Jason Vargas and Joe Saunders.
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"What's The Frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M.
To reach Andy McCullough, call 816-234-4370 or send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @McCulloughStar.


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Pebble Smartwatch Gets FCC Approval
Despite a few setbacks since its summer unveiling, the Pebble Smartwatch this week took a positive step forward with the device's approval by the Federal Communications Commission.
The smartwatch, which displays information from iOS and Android phones via Bluetooth, was expected to ship in September. That, however, was before the smartphone-connected watch hit Kickstarter, earned $10 million, and racked up 85,000 orders. As a result, Pebble said in July that shipments would be delayed. At the time, the company said they would be released "as soon as possible," but it has yet to settle on a final release date.
Now with FCC approval, Pebble has one less hurdle to jump before eventually mailing its product to the thousands who supported the startup's efforts.
Despite missing the September deadline, Pebble said it was still on track to "go from manufacturing zero to 15,000 Pebbles per week."
"Our first timetable was created before we launched on Kickstarter, when we were expecting to manufacture just 1,000 Pebbles," the company explained. The Pebble team had to limit pre-orders to 85,000 by the close of its Kickstarter campaign on May 18.
Pebble isn't alone in its failure to meet its target shipment date, though. This month, CNNMoney found that a whopping 84 percent of the top 50 most funded Kickstarter projects missed their expected delivery dates.
Of those 50 projects, only eight met their original deadlines, 16 hadn't shipped yet, while the remaining 26 managed to get product out but often months late.
Many, CNNMoney reported, did not expect to earn as much money or generate as many orders on Kickstarter as they did, requiring them to produce more and delay shippingthe same predicament in which Pebble finds itself.
Pebble's FCC approval came amidst rumors that Apple plans to build a Bluetooth-equipped smartwatch in 2013. According to Chinese site TGbus.com, Intel is designing a 1.5-inch OLED device that, when connected to an iOS device, can answer calls and follow through on other commands.
For more, get a sneak peek at the Pebble Smartwatch UI in the video below. Also see PCMag's Q&A with Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler.
For more from Stephanie, follow her on Twitter @smlotPCMag.


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An education in visual communication started my design training. A passion for art and product design sparked my career path. I live a dual life as a product designer and an illustrator.
My family named me Yuan(原), meaning "original". They hoped I experience the world with a beginner's mind. This impacts my design process. I believe experience guides the process, not the solution. At my best, I discover context story, define visual language, and translate complex systems to easy-to-use product.


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Secondary Complications
Some patients require special care when they arrive at Shepherd Center due to complications resulting from spinal cord injury, brain injury or a neuromuscular disorder. It is critical that all secondary conditions be fully addressed before a patient begins rigorous rehabilitation.
Shepherd Center's facilities are equipped to treat patients who require medical or surgical interventions due to secondary complications resulting from an injury or degenerative disease. We have an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for patients who require a higher level of care.
Specialty services include the treatment of:
Pressure sores
Urological complications
Gastrointestinal complications
Respiratory disease (i.e., pneumonia)
Deep vein thrombosis
Tendon transfers
Spasticity management
Patients may receive concentrated medical care in one or more of the following programs.
Intensive Care Unit (ICU)
Shepherd Center's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) is available to patients who require an increased level of care. Patients are admitted to the ICU for additional monitoring, advanced medical interventions and frequent assessments.
Skin Program
The skin program is geared to patients who have skin complications or who require reconstructive surgery. The average length of stay for a patient admitted for skin surgery is four weeks.


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|Project Name
|Riverwalk Promenade Pte Ltd
|93,95,97,99 Robertson Quay
|Site Area
|30,068.1 sqm
|No of Units
|545 residential and 4 commercial units
|No of Blocks
|Unit Types
|2 BR 1023sf to 1055sf
|3 BR 1496sf to 1776sf
|4 BR 1894sf to 2110sf
|Penthouse 2992sf to 4187sf
|No of Carpark Lots
|598 lots
|Mar 2009
|Legal Completion Date
|Mar 2012
RiverGate Facilities
- Pool and lap pool
- Basketball court
- BBQ pits
- Function room
- Gym
- Jacuzzi and spa pool
- Mini golf range
- Tennis court
- 24h Security
RiverGate is a freehold development located in Robertson Quay, near to the Singapore River. It has been awarded the landmark status by URA in recognition of unique architectural design with a display of lush sky gardens panning several storeys, and its unique landscaping that integrates seamlessly with the Singapore River. RiverGate has a resort theme, featuring extensive tropical green gardens, and a winding water feature that complements the curve of the river.
RiverGate has 545 residential units and 8 commercial units serving its residents including its in-house grocer and café. The size of its units are generous and layouts are functional. Many units there feature terraces, balconies and either views of the river or the city at up to 43 storeys.
A wide array of facilities await you. Besides the usual lap pool, spa pool, Jacuzzi, gym, function rooms, tennis court, there is even a basketball court and mini golf range.
RiverGate has a great location in the heart of town. At the point of writing, the nearest MRT station, Fort Canning, is a mere 5 minutes' walk away. Somerset MRT right smack in Orchard Road, is 1.02km away. However, a new MRT, Great World City which is being constructed, will only take 2 minutes' walk to reach.
Despite its deceptively tranquil environment, it is situated just minutes away from the Central Business District and is conveniently a short walk away from a bustling food and beverage enclave along the Singapore River promenade. It is surrounded by quaint cafes and popular restaurants that are popular with both locals and the expat community. In its vincinity are Concorde Shopping Centre, Robertson Walk and Great World City. It is a stone's throw to several schools such as River Valley Primary School, Outram Secondary School and Overseas Family School (OFS).
RiverGate is popular with Japanese residents as its toilets are equipped with bathtubs, a luxury rarely found in newer projects. It has a healthy rental yield and strong capital appreciation potential judging by the launch prices of new developments in the neighbourhood such as Martin Modern, and also the land price of a nearby land parcel at Jiak Kim.
RiverGate is truly a good investment given the fundamentals of a freehold and Core Central Region location, its mixed development status and its popularity with tenants. To learn more about RiverGate and its potential, layouts, comparative analysis, do contact our HomeReward consultants.
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The Paul Cox Collection
Paul Cox
Takis Emmanuel
Wendy Hughes
Kostas is a love story in which a Greek and an Australian struggle with the barriers of their cultural differences. Takis Emmanue plays Kostas, an educated, passionate Greek immigrant and former journalist, who now drives a taxi and lives in a seedy rooming-house in Melbourne. He picks up Carol (Wendy Hughes), an upper-class, genteel divorcee, and asks her out. She is simultaneously repulsed and attracted by his odd, earthy ways and his passion.
Australia | English | 1994 | 96 mins


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Abstraction has become the vehicle in which I explore the continual struggle to integrate the dual worlds in which we exist: the external world which is the sum of our sensory experiences, and the inner world of our subconscious and spirit. Working in a state of no mind, I build a bridge between these worlds. In drawing ideas from the "East" I endeavor to quiet the mind and remove thought from the work process, bringing forth surprising and joyous works of play. It becomes a dance of sorts. In this sober state the ego cannot obstruct the fluency of what comes out of the creative process. It's only in the act of surrendering to these mysterious vast energetic fields of consciousness where I experience and make works in the spirit of play. The intuitive gestural brushstrokes represent the visual impulse of these manifested energetic fields, forming orchestral compositions resonating with color and movement.
I combine ancient and modern media to capture the momentary sumptuous nuances and veils of watercolor. These images act as a catalyst for the oil and acrylic paintings.
Capture the Moment
Life has value because it is transient and impermanent. Photographing the watercolor before it dries up opens up a new world of joyous possibilities.
Fernando Rangel
b.1968, Bogota, Colombia
Lives and works in New York City, N.Y.
email@example.com http://www.fernandorangel.com 646-808-5075
1996-2001 Art Students League, NYC
1988-1992 BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC
1989 Chautauqua Institution School of Art, Summer, NY
1983-1986 High School of Art and Design, Painting, NYC
2018 No Sanctuary, Friday Studio Gallery, Bushwick N.Y.
2017 The Dissimulation, A transformation in Abstract, E-Modern Gallerie, PA
Undefined Abstraction, William Whipple Gallery, SMSU, MN
High Line Open Studios Exhibit, Chelsea NYC
2016 High Line Open Studios Exhibit, Chelsea NYC
2012 Paintings and Photographs, SBM Gallery, NYC
2010 Team Work, Allan Nederpelt Fine Arts, NY
Latin Art Experience, Franklin 54 Gallery and Projects, NYC
Spontaneous, Space Womb Gallery, NY
1992-2017 Works held in private collections in The United States, Colombia, and Australia
1993 Neuberger Berman
2002- Present Senior Associate, Jeff Koons LLC., NYC
Production of oil paintings for Jeff Koons
1996-2001 Painting Manager, Jeff Koons LLC., NYC
Responsible for the production of many large scale oil paintings.
Jeff Koons : Series: Celebration, Easy Fun, and Easy-Fun Ethereal.
1992- 2018 Private sales, Paintings and Limited Edition Prints
Freelance Illustration: DH Blair and Co., Neuberger and
Berman, State Mutual Life Assurance, N.Y. Life Insurance,
Miramax, Bon Appetite, Charter Medical Corp., School of Visual Arts,
Dartmouth College, Plum Graphics, Mikaya Press


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Poverty and vulnerability reduction policies require a clear, comprehensive, and sustainable concept. Furthermore, it is necessary to incorporate poverty and vulnerability reduction mainstreaming (PVRM) into all public policy to clearly indicate its alignment with the interests, protection, and fulfillment of the basic rights of the poor and vulnerable groups.
The incorporation of PVRM into all government and non-government policies, both in the socioeconomic and political sectors, is the first step to alleviating poverty and vulnerability in a systematic, integrated, and sustainable manner. PVRM is therefore essential for poverty and vulnerability reduction efforts to work more effectively and efficiently because its incorporation will ensure that these efforts are strongly supported by all policies and their implementation.


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Most business owners can relate to the saying "I know that half of my marketing budget is wasted, but I don't know which half". Today, there is no reason for that to be true of your business.
Today, every business should have confidence in its new business pipeline. And every business should have solid data and a clear understanding of its marketing and sales effectiveness. By effectiveness, we mean clearly attributable data that shows how each marketing activity is delivering leads and how those leads are converting to sales.
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Posted by: Saving Water SA (Cape Town, South Africa) – partnered with Water Rhapsody conservation systems – 18 February 2011
The City of Cape Town is asking residents in and around Plattekloof to keep their windows shut to accommodate a 50 ha area ecological burn on the north-western slopes the Tygerberg Nature Reserve.
While burning takes place flammable items such as gas canisters should be removed from outside areas, and laundry should be taken off washing-lines to prevent odour contamination from smoke. Sprinklers may be used to dampen gardens and lawns as a further precautionary measure.
Tygerberg Nature Reserve conserves one of the largest remaining areas of the critically endangered Swartland shale renosterveld. Controlled burns are crucial for the management of renosterveld, as fire plays a fundamental role in its lifecycle. By removing the dense canopy created by mature vegetation, sunlight is allowed to penetrate at ground level, which helps with seed germination.
Too frequent fires can lead to a decline in slow growing species, whereas fires that are too infrequent lead to the domination of mature plants. Carefully managed burns are therefore necessary to obtain maximum species diversity. Another advantage of burning old vegetation is that it reduces fuel loads, which in turn reduces the risk of future wild fires. Renosterveld should burn somewhere between every 5 to 10 years.
The single biggest threat to renosterveld is the rapid encroachment of development which has led to its depletion and fragmentation. To conserve what we have left, it is necessary to simulate a natural fire pattern.
Renosterveld is renowned for its diversity of plant life, and the 309 ha reserve boasts 562 recorded plant species and new species are continuously discovered. To date, 23 plant species are threatened with extinction, and three are endemic to the reserve.
Tygerberg Nature Reserve will be closed to the public on 1, 2, 7, 8, 14 and 15 March 2011 to accommodate the ecological burn.
[The controlled burn scheduled for Tygerberg Nature Reserve in early March has been rescheduled due to unfavourable wind conditions. Residents and interested members of the public should diarise 14, 15, 22, 23, 28 and 29 March 2011 as the new dates on which the burn will be conducted. As with the first dates, these dates will also subject to favourable weather conditions.]


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The famous furniture label Schöner Wohnen convinces besides home textiles, wall paint and decorating elements also with impressive wallpapers. The Schöner Wohnen collections set modern and style-conscious living trends which adapt to every room concept and provide a decorative style. Traditional and modern ideas are combined together and create a striking arrangement of your own four walls. Get inspired and get suggestions with the wallpapers of the leading German living magazine Schöner Wohnen. You will find wallpapers by wallpaper producer Schöner Wohnen at fair prices in the Orex wallpaper shop.


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Your job specification is broken down as required and reflected on barcode-controlled Route Cards which log each task, and are then used by our staff within the control system so that each stage can be monitored and managed .
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- How much compliance is implemented by the control system can be tailored to your specification, allowing greater flexibility and versatility
- Traceability of product through to source materials if required (at a cost in time and resource)


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Event Information
|Meet & Eat Afterschool & Homework Help
Event Type: Children
Age Group(s): Children, Teen
Date: 9/12/2019
Start Time: 3:30 PM
End Time: 5:30 PM
When school is in session: Join us for Meet & Eat Afterschool and Homework Help. Program is in the Prairie room unless otherwise noted on the room for the day. Free meals are only for youth 18 & under but adults may accompany children Kindergartners and younger must be supervised. Meals must be consumed on-site. Equal opportunity provider. Sponsored by Harvesters Community Food Network, Friends of the Library and Mayor's Christmas Tree Fund.Library: Olathe Downtown


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Pyjamas did not exist until the 19th century. I'm not sure what people wore to bed in the 1700s, but it wasn't pyjamas. Pyjamas by any other name may well have been as snug, but the fact remains: without the English in India, there would be no India in English. The best way to understand this story is to get your hands on a Hobson-Jobson.
~ How We Got Pukka, by Josephine Livingstone in Prospect Magazine, UK
I'd come across the Hobson-Jobson years ago in high school and promptly forgotten all about it. These days, though, etymology, for some reason, is fascinating. The origins of words and the journeys they've traveled to get to the contexts/cultures they're used in today….. quite fascinating. For the full online Hobson-Jobson version, go here.
And, just for fun, try this Flavorwire article about 9 commonly-used words with unsavory histories. Who'd have thunk?
A selection of related books that I have on my shelves and enjoy dipping into from time to time:
1) Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States by Bill Bryson – he's such a funny raconteur and makes this a very enjoyable and educational read at the same time. America, the perennial melting pot, has many countries and languages to thank for American English – not just the Brits. And, how entire new lexicons were created around Hollywood, the cowboy life, etc.
2) Forgotten English by Jeffrey Kacirk – This one is just a rich feast of sounds and visuals – usufruct, gorgayse, hudibras….. (no, I won't give them away here, you'll have to get the book).
3) A Dickens Glossary for American Readers by Fred Levit – I think even the Brits would need this rather than just American readers. Dickens used such delicious words – like Shakespeare, he had an extensive vocabulary and, where a word did not exist to communicate his exact meaning, no doubt, he made one up. His ingenuity, as a writer, of course, was in the fact that you could read his vivid imagery and still "get it" even with the odd word here and there. That said, this glossary is the most complete one ever, I believe.
4) British English A to Zed by Norman W. Schur – While there are many such guides now, Schur's humor is what makes this one stand apart.
5) The First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language by Christine Kenneally – I just ordered this per the excellent recommendation of Maria Popova @ brainpickings.org. If you really start getting into language and want to know what all those who seriously study its origins have discovered, this is THE book du jour.