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This is our latest RIB design, the so-called QRV (Quick Response Vessel) for Coastguard North Shore at Brown's Bay, Auckland. She is a development of our highly successful 9.0m (30') QRV currently in service with the Pauanui-Tairua Coastguard.
This new boat will be driven by twin 250 Hp outboard engines and features a bow cockpit which will further extend the capabilities of the earlier design. The overall beam is slightly increased allowing for a touch more elbow room all round. The hull deadrise has increased marginally to around 20°. Essentially, however the basic philosophy and features of the 9.0m (30') QRV will be retained so as not to stray too far from that proven concept.
As is typical on such a rescue vessel there's a lot happening in a relatively small space. The raised forward end of the engine well houses the towrope in a dedicated compartment. The towpost is well built in here and immediately forward of the engine well bulkhead is the fire pump housing as well as bettery compartments and a fuel locker for the fire pump. There is additional stowge under the angled engine well base.
The engine well bulkhead has been angled aft outboard of the fire pump housing to increase access along the tubes for recovering persons in the water etc. Unlike an inboard powered craft the cockpit is bigger due to the absence of a large engine housing. As with her predecessor four crew can be accommodated in the raised cabin area, all provided with foam padded backrests and adequate handholds. Additionally there are twin fold out seats below the arch just aft of the second row of crew backrests. With these out of the way it will be possible to lay out a stretcher both longitudinally or transversely in the aft cockpit (the internal beam between the tubes is over 2m). As on our 9.0m QRV the helmsman is to Starboard and the navigator/comm's operator is to port. The electronics package on this boat will again be most impressive.
The forward cabin is laid out a little differently to our earlier design in that the seats are not intended for laying down on full length. Four persons can be seated comfortably, though, along with stowage for a vast array of safety, rescue and medical equipment as well as crew gear. There is a large door leading to the forward cockpit, wide enough to accommodate a stretcher if necessary which could be laid on the floor between the seating.
In summary it has been well worthwhile working closely with the highly skilled crew at Coastguard Northshore. They were most adamant about their needs which is surely a result of considered and well-drilled methods and rescue procedures. We are sure this boat will effectively satisfy their tough criteria and have a long and successful service life.
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Principal Characteristics:
LOA - 9.50m (31' 2.0")
Length Alloy – 8.48m (27' 9.5")
DWL – 7.65m (25' 10")
Beam – 3.10m ( 10 ' 20")
Beam Alloy – 2.45m ( 8' 1")
Draft (hull only) - 0.500m ( 1' 8")
Draft (engines) – 0.83m ( 2' 8.5")
Deadrise - 20°
Power - Twin YAMAHA 250 Hp Outboards
Fuel Capacity - 590 litres (156 gallons)
Displacement - 3500 Kg (7716 lbs)
Hull Material - Marine Grade Aluminium Alloy
Fender - Hypalon


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I don't know a lot about handsome Caleb Thetard, but he seems to be from South Africa, and he clearly spends a lot of time surfing. I love his face, and everything else about him, but at 5'10' he's going to need a growth spurt if he wants to be a successful model.
Monday, August 29, 2016
Here's Caleb
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Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Mr. Mateus Ward
Do you know 17-year-old American actor Mateus Ward? If not, allow me to introduce him. To date he has appeared almost exclusively on American TV, specializing in "troubled teen" roles. He recently completed a starring role in an independent film called The Meanest Man In Texas, a 1930s prison drama, written and directed by his father. From the looks of things, Mateus may be setting himself up for more adult roles now. He looks less like a 17-year-old and more like the kind of 25-year-old who usually plays 17-year-olds on TV.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
This picture of model Max Masters showing off his collarbone makes me think of the late, lamented Loco Luke blog. I miss it so.
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Friday, August 12, 2016
Summer Fun 6
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Summer Fun 5
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Summer Fun 4
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016
Brooklyn Is My Favorite Beckham
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Well, we're not sure it's a full mile, but it could be the world's longest xylophone. In this video (which is actually an ad for a cellphone), we see and hear a ball roll down a really long row of wooden steps. The steps are actually bars of all different lengths, so as the ball hits each one, it makes a cute plinking musical note, just like a mallet hitting a xylophone. So the ball plays a whole song, a famous grown-up piece called "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring". Think of all the work to cut hundreds of pieces of wood the right length, line them up in order, and then nail them to the ramp. It takes homemade musical instruments to a whole new level.
Wee ones: Shorter bars play higher notes than longer bars. Which one plays a higher note, a 6-inch bar or an 8-inch bar?
Little kids: The ball knocks other balls down tunnels of smaller bars to play faster notes. If a tunnel has 2 sets of 10 wooden bars, how many bars is that? Bonus: If all the tunnels have 20 bars and 3 balls each do this trick, how many notes do those 3 balls play altogether?
Big kids: The ball plays about 3 notes each second. How many does it play in 1 minute? (Reminder: A minute has 60 seconds.) Bonus: How many notes does it play over the 2 minutes and 2 seconds, assuming all the same quick notes?
The sky's the limit: If each regular step brings the ball 6 inches forward and takes 1/3 of a second, how far does the ball travel in a 2-minute song?
Wee ones: The 6-inch bar is shorter, so it plays the higher note.
Little kids: 20 bars. Bonus: 60 notes.
Big kids: 180 notes. Bonus: 366 notes, since it's 360 plus 2 more sets of 3 notes.
The sky's the limit: 180 feet. The ball travels 1 1/2 feet each second (3 x 1/2), and 2 minutes have 120 seconds (2 x 60). 1/2 of 120 is 60, so 1 1/2 of 120 is 120+60=180.
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A recent study done by Concur (an expense management company) found nearly 90% of business travelers use apps on their trips. They also showed 62% of travelers use apps every single time. Not a surprise to me!
Some interesting specifics:
- Airline apps (44 percent), map apps (41 percent) and hotel apps (30 percent) top the list of the most-used travel-related apps.
- Expense reporting apps are used by 43 percent of business travelers, despite more than 80 percent of travelers who cited expense reporting as a major pain point of business travel.
- Nearly a quarter (22 percent) of business travelers use five or more business travel-related apps during their trips.
- Thirty-two percent of travelers who are on the road at least three times per month were found to use five or more apps, compared to just 13 percent of those who travel less than two times per month.
On every single trip, no matter how short, I use TripIt, the app for whatever airline I'm flying, the maps app, Facebook (because I use it every day!), multiple news apps, and often The Weather Channel. I do not currently use an expense reporting app.
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ID of WW II Airman Sends Important Message to Today's Troops
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2006 - The military's persistence in determining the identity of an airman missing in action since World War II sends an important message to families of all missing servicemembers and all men and women serving in uniform today, the commander of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command told American Forces Press Service.
The command announced today that its forensic lab at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, recently identified the so-called "glacier airman," who was discovered frozen in a California glacier in October, as Aviation Cadet Leo Mustonen. His remains will soon be returned to his family for burial, officials said.
The identification, made 64 years after Mustonen's AT-7 navigation plane crashed into Darwin Glacier in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, demonstrates the Defense Department's commitment to ensuring the fullest possible accounting of all missing servicemembers, Army Brig. Gen. Michael C. Flowers said by phone from his Hickam Air Force Base headquarters.
It exemplifies the command's motto, "Until they are home," and helps bring closure to families wondering about their loves ones' fates, he said. "We brought him home," Flowers said of Mustonen. "And his family can now rest assured that he rests in peace, knowing what his fate was."
For more than six decades, the 22-year-old Brainerd, Minn., airmen's fate had been unclear. He was among four airmen reported missing after takeoff from Mather Field in Sacramento, Calif., in November 1942. Also onboard the flight were 2nd Lt. William Gamber of Fayette, Ohio, the pilot; and two other aviation cadets, Ernest Munn of St. Clairsville, Ohio, and John Mortenson of Moscow, Idaho.
An exhaustive month-long search failed to locate the aircraft. Hikers crossing the glacier five years later stumbled upon the wreckage. U.S. Army soldiers were dispatched to the site, where they retrieved artifacts linked to Gamber's missing aircraft, officials said. They also found three sets of human remains, which were buried as a group with full military honors in Golden Gate National Cemetery, in San Bruno, Calif., in 1945.
The story of the missing airmen reopened 60 years later, in October 2005, when hikers crossing the site found more human remains preserved in ice on the Mendel Glacier. The glacier is next to Darwin Glacier in the Sierra Nevadas. Park rangers from Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and a forensic anthropologist from JPAC's Central Identification Laboratory recovered the remains, which were later shipped to the JPAC lab.
The remains arrived wearing a World War II-era Army-issued parachute stenciled with the words, "U.S. Army," JPAC officials said. The unidentified airman also arrived with a comb, various coins and other personal items in his pockets.
Investigators at the command began searching the records of men lost during World War II and found that 25 to 30 military planes crashed on training missions in California during the World War II years. They narrowed their search based on locations of wrecks already found and bodies previously identified. Experts at the JPAC lab used the airman's clothing, teeth and mitochondrial DNA to determine his identity. All four families whose loved ones were involved in the 1942 crash were notified of the identification.
Flowers said the resolve demonstrated in identifying Mustonen's remains sends a strong message to America's men and women in uniform. "They can rest assured that as they go out to fight our nation's conflicts, that no matter what happens to them, if they were to fall in battle and not be recovered by their comrades, that someone will continue to look for them and not rest until we can bring them home," he said.
JPAC's members work year-round to repatriate and identify the remains of about 88,000 U.S. servicemembers missing from past wars. Those missing include one from the Gulf War, more than 1,800 from the Vietnam War, 120 from the Cold War, more than 8,100 from the Korean War, and more than 78,000 from World War II.
Flowers said the command is committed to a mission that dates back to World War II and is now embodied in the U.S. military Code of Conduct. While most countries around the world bury their war dead where they fall, the United States promises its servicemembers that it will do everything in its power to bring them home.
Working to fulfill that promise sends joint-service teams from JPAC to potential crash and burial sites around the world. "We go out worldwide to recover those who are missing or to find those who are missing so that families can have closure and so we can keep our promise to our soldiers and airmen and Marines and sailors that they will come home," Flowers said.
Once teams recover remains and repatriate them to the United States, the command's Central Identification Laboratory uses state-of-the-art scientific techniques to determine their identity. JPAC is currently working to identify more than 1,000 sets of remains in its lab.
Flowers urged families of missing servicemembers to ensure they have provided DNA samples to help the identification process. "We would ask that for those out there who have missing relatives and have not given a family reference DNA sample to contact us or their service casualty representative so we can get that sample," he said.
DNA sampling and other state-of-the-art advances are helping JPAC experts make positive identifications that once weren't possible. Flowers said that process is only expected to improve with time.
There's tremendous gratification in the JPAC mission and the service the command provides, the general said. "If you get just one letter, one phone call or one visit from some of these family members, it speaks volumes," he said. "They are very, very appreciative, and that's what we work for-to come to that closure and bring their loved ones home."


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TORONTO: Canada's Shaw Communications Inc announced a voice-controlled television product on Wednesday that it hopes will help it stem years of market share losses to western Canadian telecom rival Telus Corp.
The product, named BlueSky TV, is available in Calgary and will expand to other markets in coming months, Shaw said in a statement.
The product is powered by Comcast Corp's X1 technology, which is making its first foray outside of the United States.
Fellow cable company Rogers Communications Inc, a major television provider in eastern Canada, said in December that it had scrapped development of its own internet-based television platform in favor of X1, which it does not expect to introduce until 2018.
Cable companies have struggled to respond to telecom rivals' internet-based TV services, which have eroded their market dominance.
Shaw began offering aggressively priced high-speed internet in mid-July and recently added wireless to its product mix through its purchase of Wind Mobile, which it has renamed Freedom Mobile.
The Calgary-based company said BlueSky would be available for as low as C$99.90 ($75.85) a month for 12 months when coupled with its high-end internet on a two-year plan.
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So Sunday I meant to call dad and outline (Title Withheld) some more. But Woman's Best Friend still wasn't finished, and the last three scenes took me pretty much all weekend to write.
The best laid plans of mice and men, right?
(Sorry dad. We'll catch up soon, promise.)
I've already performed a significant edit on Woman's Best Friend, and overall I was pretty satisfied. I've incorporated most of your feedback in some form or another; even those things I was unsure how to fix, I modified slightly, hopefully making the text even clearer than before.
But I was pleasantly surprised, usually my first full readthrough of a finished draft nets me hundreds of corrections. This time there simply weren't that many things I wanted to change, even including all the fixes already emailed to me. I'm sure more will come after you've read the full story.
Right now I feel kinda like after achieving a major goal at work or in an online game. I was so focused on this one thing, all of a sudden I have the same level of energy, but don't know where to direct it. I think tonight I will take a stab at outlining (Title Withheld) so that I can bring dad something more concrete when I do call him.
Finishing a short story is so satisfying, though (especially compared to plugging away on a novel), I'd like to put another under my belt in the next few weeks.
Of all the story ideas I mentioned previously, the one that's most appealing to me at the moment is the one about the dragon thief. I'm picturing Gone in 60 Seconds meets … well, if there had ever been any good movies with dragons, I'd name one here, but there really haven't been. Really. Not one.
Another idea I had awhile back was a colony planet thousands of years in the future is isolated. There's no galactic empire or anything, or if there is, these guys aren't included. Anyway, sometime before the current residents lived, there was a war out in space, and this planet was targeted for destruction. Only the war is over now, and the evil people who were in power on the planet have been defeated by internal coup, their regime toppled. Problem is, there's still a giant "blow up a planet" missile headed for this planet at nearly the speed of light. Although it's still billions of miles away, it's obviously still a concern as it will arrive in a couple of months and destroy the (now innocent) inhabitants.
Another idea I had way back was for the kind of alien invasion nobody ever does: Tiny aliens, the size of gnats or smaller. They don't attack us physically (obviously) but instead work on ways to control our brains. But they don't just target world leaders to wipe out the planet…for some reason, the people they target were people who 1. nobody liked (jerks) or 2. nobody really knew (loners). This behavior, while not exactly friendly, is difficult to be construed as outright hostility, since there seems to be some rhyme and reason to the choice of targets, but what?
Well, I did give a pretty serious edit to Woman's Best Friend and it's late. Think I'll call it a night and mull over what to work on next tomorrow at work.
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April 7, 2004: Letters
Letter Box Online
PAW welcomes letters. We may edit them for length,
accuracy, clarity, and civility.
Two articles in your February 25 business and economics issue, "An Old Friendship, New Again" (feature), and "Financial Success Possible: Just Hold On" (Notebook), left me with nagging thoughts. I could not help but detect some obvious links between the two stories, and the heartwarming story of mentor (Philip Bell '46 *56) and student (John Bogle '51) surely deserves a more climactic ending.
The lost-and-found story certainly cries out for a creative generalization of Prof. Malkiel *64's efficient-market thesis to life outside the sanitized world of financial economics. To wit: You throw a towel over the map pages covering the equivalent of 30 miles, let your nimble fingers do the walking until you stumble on the location of your friends, and then hold! This approach is obviously as efficient and much less expensive than a professional people finder.
What transpired at the reunion of Prof. Bell and Mr. Bogle, I humbly submit, also lends itself to a superb application of a principle enhanced by another Princeton luminary, Prof. Alan Blinder '67: Combine the values of hard-headed analysis and soft-hearted application of economics, happily cherished by the two illustrious Princetonians, in the cause of better economic policy in Africa.
In this scheme, Mr. Bogle would create a small endowment, to be invested in Vanguard 500, and Prof. Bell would use the proceeds to re-engage in his lifelong mission of advocacy of better policy. This is the kind of random act of kindness worthy of being dubbed "Princeton economics in the world's service."
Berhanu Abegaz '77
Your cover story, "When the Ax Falls," in the business issue smacks of political hogwash. Has there ever been a time when there have not been Princeton graduates unemployed? As John Stossel '69 would say: "Give me a break!"
George Aubrey '45
"When the Ax Falls," by Mark Bernstein '83, carries an important message to everyone. Learn to network; you will need it.
Your denial skills might have convinced you that you will never hit a bump in the road. Or you may have just never gotten around to thinking about needing to reach beyond your own closed circle of friends and contacts. Either way, it is time to take note of the fact that the world has been changing.
Prospects, customers, and clients are ever more demanding, and business partners find greener pastures and disconnect. What's a person to do?
Competency and skills are not enough to protect you. In a world where entire job categories uproot and move around the planet, every niche is vulnerable.
In your own career, think about how specific the knowledge and skills are. When you want to hire someone, you are careful to find a candidate who has all the requisite capabilities and looks like a sure bet: No need to take a risk on someone who is untried in the position, let alone untried in your industry. Now, switch sides and be that person whose industry has just melted down. How are you going to take those years of skill-building and dedication and sell yourself as the answer to a hiring problem? How will you be just the right person, at just the right time, with the right skills, background, and ability? How will you move past the 10 tried-and-true candidates whose résumés are festooning the manager's inbox with proof-positive that they have "been there, done that?"
Don't wait to cross that bridge when you come to it; you will be trampled by others running across the bridge because they are prepared, and you are not.
Networking is a way around the problem. Networking is no longer a process of pounding the pavement and talking to reluctant would-be hiring managers. Today's networking is building a trained workforce of counselors, intelligence gatherers, and supporters who are prepared to slingshot you to the front of the line when your opportunity surfaces. You would never be able to find it on your own, given the chaos and traffic in the pipeline. But, with a competently constructed network, you enhance your ability to be the right person at the right time.
Start yesterday; you will need the skill tomorrow.
Shepherd G. Pryor IV '68
Thank you for the quite wonderful Valentine edition of February 11. The delightful letters from the archives (cover story), especially the lovelorn and witty one from our own "Woodrow" 1879, the story of courage and love of John O'Brien '65 (feature), and the deserved kudo for our devoted Katrina vanden Heuvel '81 (A Moment With).
Wonderful stories of Caritas!
Gene McNulty '49
I appreciated your January 28 article on Maj. Gen. David Petraeus *87 (feature). I worry, though, that such a good man — well-educated, compassionate, disciplined — will come to regret his actions if he's operating under a bad paradigm.
Demonization of the other seems to be an inevitable prelude to war. How else can one justify taking the life of an individual one knows nothing about? I wonder if Dr. Petraeus's thesis on the lessons of Vietnam dealt with the difficulty of discerning friend from foe in an alien culture, and the urgent need to roll back suspicion after a war ends.
Sources other than PAW suggest that crackdowns on people who are merely suspects are arousing more than "some ill will." Trigger-happy searches might be the main reason resistance to the U.S. occupation is turning from a fringe activity into a mainstream sentiment. If there is unrest and crime in a city, is it not understandable that an Iraqi will go to his door with a gun in hand when unannounced visitors come in the middle of the night? Many Americans would do the same.
Martin Schell '74
Your January 28 cover story on the basketball rivalry with Penn didn't go back far enough. Who could forget the great Ernie Beck, Penn '53; a great jump shot, smooth in the high post, Penn's all-time scoring leader with 1,827 points, first pick in the 1953 N.B.A. draft? He also had a hairstyle worthy of Elvis, something rarely seen in Dillon Gym in those days.
J. D. Coughlan '55
My family knew Mr. Hershey well (feature, February 11). Nothing would please him more than to know that Mr. O'Brien is trying to restore the Hershey School with the ideas and ideals which Mr. Hershey had for it.
Eleanor Wear Rose s'61
John O'Brien was admitted as a student-athlete in the Class of 1965. His remarkable and uplifting life blows away Bill Bowen *58's argument against such admissions (December 17). Can Princeton afford to reject people of his caliber?
Robert C. Wheeler '42
I am getting very cross about the bad-mouthing of athlete admissions at Princeton. A study of the Ivy League, conducted by a former president of Princeton, says that athletes are taking up space better occupied by more sedentary students.
Let's look at my very small department, architecture, from which I graduated. Billy Kleinsasser '51 *56, a gifted halfback on football's undefeated and nationally ranked team, seldom had time to enjoy the camaraderie of the drafting room, but his designs always scored in the top three or four. Did he amount to anything in the nation's service in later life? Only serving with distinction for 33 years as a member of the University of Oregon's School of Architecture and Allied Arts faculty, helping the next generation. I would fault today's admission efforts, rather than the athlete, if they cannot accomplish the same results.
Lansing Holden '51
President Bowen and the many alumni who responded to his comments raise a number of pros and cons about the admission, contributions, and value of athletes at Princeton, as well as the value of the athletic program to the experience of these athletes at and after university. Here's another view to consider.
After 30 years in corporate America, I have observed that a great deal of structure in that environment derives from athletic models and metaphors. Teamwork, passion, playing by the rules, thinking outside the box, integrity, leadership, practice, not to mention competitiveness, while also values learned in other activities, usually are applied in an athletic context. Those who understand and navigate aptly through this model typically do well in their business careers. That is why many corporate employers seek athletic experience and success in candidates.
It is also why, I believe, women have frequently struggled in the corporate environment — they were not afforded the experiences of their male counterparts, at least women of my age. Fortunately, Title IX was enacted, which has not only reshaped the structure of collegiate athletics, but also the experiences and education of hundreds of thousands of women. Today, women entering the workforce from college can indeed be on a level playing field with their male colleagues. The opportunity and recognition for female athletes has cascaded down to high schools, so that being a woman athlete is today seen as an achievement, not an aberration, for millions of women.
I realize that the focus of this debate is intercollegiate athletics. But that is only part of the story of athletics at Princeton.
I am extremely proud when I see Princeton ranked first among universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report annual survey. I was beside myself with glee when Sports Illustrated ranked Princeton among the nation's best sports schools. Why? Because while Princeton doesn't win many national championships, the ranking was based on our high participation rates of both men and women, across a wide range of varsity, club, and intramural sports. It was terrific recognition that the University's commitment to making an athletic experience accessible to as many undergraduates as possible does matter. This broad commitment to athletic opportunity also ensures that in some measure the value and love of physical activity is woven into personal experience, leading to healthier lives for thousands of Princeton alumni.
Sure, I lament the recent poor performance of our football team, and know that when we do make the N.C.A.A. basketball tourney, at best we will be an upset special. But I wouldn't trade greater success in those venues for the rich athletic experience available in addition to the obvious outstanding academic experience. The availability of both ensures that Princeton students can craft a balanced education on the dimensions that, for better or worse, are major determinants for success in business after graduation.
Larry Kurtz '72
I write to counter the negative image conveyed by one of your correspondents (Letters, February 11). In my experience as a preceptor in the politics department, athletes are indistinguishable from the other students. Some are talkative and write brilliantly; others are quiet and express themselves less intelligently than most. But whether male or female, big sport or minor sport, the academic performance of athletes has been comparable to that of other students in their precepts. The admission office has chosen wisely. Princeton's athletes deserve applause for their performance in the classroom as well as on the playing field.
Stephen T. Whelan '68
During our junior and senior years, I shared a Firestone carrel with Dick Kazmaier '52. I know he studied and worked, more after the football season. He made the choice to give up basketball, and probably would have been a starter in baseball; for academic reasons he quit.
I have a theory that high school principals, ministers, and university presidents should be seen and not heard once they leave their position.
Why Bowen wants to meddle in the affairs of Princeton is a mystery. He should leave the running of Princeton to the president, the administration, the faculty, the Board of Trustees, and the alumni.
H. Pharr Brightman '52
The juxtaposition of the letters "Football woes" and "Seeking physicists" shone a light on the direction of the University (January 28). As your December 17 article on the new Bill Bowen book presages, the recruitment of athletes at Princeton, and most likely throughout the Ivies, has now been targeted to be minimized, if not proscribed, and quickly. When the yield curve for the matriculation of recruited 17-year-olds who profess a passion for relativity theory crosses that of recruited athletes, the results won't be special, neither on the gridiron nor on the campus. The days of well-rounded Princetonians, student-athletes once revered and reminiscent of Hobey Baker '14 and Bill Bradley '65, are sadly numbered.
Gregory J. Winsky '71
Two letters in the January 28 issue dealt with science and religion. Stuart Hibben '48 wrote, "One can attach all kinds of pejorative terms to Hume's conclusions on religion, but that doesn't lessen their validity." It is true that name-calling does not affect the validity of Hume's conclusions, but neither does sympathy with them. Professor John Earman of the University of Pittsburgh attests in Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles (2000) both Hume's conclusions and Earman's conviction that Hume failed signally to demonstrate them with the arguments Hume provided in his section of the Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding, devoted to miracles. Depending on Hume's own arguments is not a safe way of attesting to the truth of the conclusions, since they can hold even when the arguments are invalid.
There was also a letter from Gerrit L. Wright '70, speaking out on behalf of creation science. He indicates that he is looking forward to "open and constructive debate on this topic," and there is plenty of occasion for discussion of the interplay of religious and scientific attitudes concerning evolution. The discouraging feature is the tendency of some of those endorsing a certain interpretive view of their scripture to confuse that method of procedure with how science works. They may feel that science has a stranglehold on certain subjects in the curriculum that it does not deserve. Their cause is not helped by trying to claim for their style of argument the title of "science" when it is not the method of practice of the biological community. Continued discussion of matters of science and religion can best be advanced by analyzing arguments instead of conclusions, and by recognizing the differences in approach that can help to explain differences in outcome.
Thomas Drucker '75
The brief summary in the February 11 Book Shorts of my book with Ambassador James Goodby (The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons), by singling out the role of "preventive military action" to "reduce the danger of nuclear weapons," suggests a different conclusion from the one we presented. Speci-fically, in the battle against nuclear proliferation, we urge the U.S. and its allies "to call on all the tools of diplomacy balanced with credible military strength and exercised with patience and determination," and we emphasize that military force "cannot do the job, or even a large part of it."
Sidney D. Drell '47


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How does the Entry Level course fit into the C21 suite?
The Entry Level specification is on the OCR website at OCR Entry Level Science [1].
You will see from the specification that the content matches some of the content in Twenty First Century Science and Gateway Science. You may wish to bear this in mind when selecting which 'Items' to cover.
The controlled assessment allows straightforward double entry of students for Entry level plus GCSE Science if you wish. The case study activity which students carry out during the Entry Level course can be submitted for GCSE Science, although you must read the guidance in the specification carefully before seting the task. Note also that the work would need to be remarked against the GCSE Science criteria.
Teachers at schools which offer Entry Level have reported that that Entry Level + GCSE Additional Applied Science is a popular combination for some students.
Does Entry Level allow access to a GCSE for some students?
Yes. Students can go on into GCSE Science or GCSE Additional Applied Science. Alternatively they could be double-entered for Entry level and GCSE Science, and then do GCSE Additional Applied Science afterwards.


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After building one of the state's top small-school football programs, Bill Powers is ready to step down.
Powers will resign from his position as Jupiter Christian's head football coach following the 2014 season. He informed his team on Friday afternoon.
"I just thought it was time to move on," said Powers, who has been the Eagles' head coach for the past nine seasons. "There's no good way to leave. I thought putting one more year in and letting everybody know what was going on would be best."
Jupiter Christian has already decided on its next head football coach, as assistant head coach Jim Davis will step in for Powers in 2015. Davis has been on Jupiter Christian's coaching staff since Powers was hired nine seasons ago.
"We work great together," Powers said of Davis. "He's on campus during the day and I'm not anymore, so I thought that would be a good transition."
This is one of the biggest reasons for Powers' decision. He lost his position as a discipline coordinator at Jupiter Christian in May, forcing him to be apart from his players and the school for most of the day.
The Eagles won state titles in 2007 and 2008 under Powers. But Jupiter Christian has not achieved the same success in recent years, missing the playoffs with a 5-4 record last year and finishing with a 2-7 record in 2012.
"Over the years, we were playing every big school around," Powers said. "We're not relevant right now as much, but our kids still work hard. We overachieved last year at 5-4 and I think we will overachieve next year. But I don't know if we will ever have a run like that again."
Although Powers won't be Jupiter Christian's head football coach in 2015, he has not ruled out helping the team in a different role.
"I'm not sure what I'm going to do," he said. I may continue to help out there. I may look for another head coaching job locally and I may even try college. I'm not really sure."


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Gift: Fear of the Lord (Wonder and Awe) – With the gift of wonder and awe (fear of the lord), we are aware of the glory and majesty of God. A person with wonder and awe knows that God is the perfection of all we desire: perfect knowledge, perfect goodness, perfect power, and perfect love.
Reading: Ask for a sign from the LORD, your God; let it be deep as Sheol, or high as the sky!* (Isaiah 7:11)
Observation: Before I started reading this morning, my Twitter friend, Father Mabura
, tweeted that we should ask for a sign. It was a reference to this chapter and verse that I have quoted above. However, I ignored it because I received a Twitter post of the daily readings right after that said to "Let the Lord enter; he is the king of glory." It was in reference to the response from the responsorial psalm for the today's readings. The reason I should not have ignored it, because when I looked out the window, I saw a beautiful sunrise, similar to one I saw just the other day that almost made me get in an accident driving or at least a reckless driving ticket. Fortunately, I didn't get either, but the memory of that sunrise that morning and again this morning, I believe is a sign of something that is coming. It could be that it is the coming celebration of Christmas that God is reminding me of, as if we need any reminders of that. It could be that I need to remember that the second coming of Jesus is going to come like a thief in the night, and I need to make sure that I am prepared, as well as those people that I can have an effect on to call them to conversion.
Personification: Joy It is sometimes difficult to remember to display real joy during this time of year. There seems to be so much counterfeit joy that is supported by consumerism in our society, that the real joy of the incarnation of God's Son in our world is lost. I want to remember this week, as we prepare for Christmas, that the real celebration is about God's coming into our reality to show us the way to really love each other.
Prayer: Lord, let me be an instrument of joy in your world today and everyday that I have left here to share your joy with everyone I come in contact with. I ask this, as always, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit. Amen.


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Published January 05 2017
By Amber Lucas
One way the human body protects itself against invading bacteria is by generating reactive oxygen species that harm the bacteria. Helicobacter pylori, a pathogen present in the stomachs of almost half of the world's human population, has developed mechanisms to resist the damage induced by ROS. For more than 100 years, scientists have known that catalase helps protect the H. pylori against ROS by breaking down harmful hydrogen peroxide. But in a recent Paper of the Week in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Stéphane Benoit and Robert Maier at the University of Georgia showed that catalase is no one-trick pony: In addition to its enzymatic activity, catalase has another mechanism for protection against harmful ROS that is independent from what was originally thought to be catalase's only enterprise.
Part two of catalase's story began 20 years ago with the observation that methionine residues in proteins undergo oxidation in the presence of ROS to form methionine sulfoxide. Scientists hypothesized that these methionine residues were acting as antioxidants to save other sites, such as DNA bases. However, evidence to support this hypothesis was lacking.
A few years ago, researchers from the Maier lab showed that methionine residues in catalase undergo oxidation in the presence of hypochlorous acid, an ROS produced by many white blood cells in response to an infection. This oxidation is reversible. Methionine sulfoxide reductase physically interacts with catalase to reduce methionine sulfoxide back to methionine.
Taken together, this led Benoit and Maier to hypothesize that the methionine residues in catalase serve as recyclable antioxidants to protect the bacteria from the host-generated ROS, something that never had been observed in an organism before. In order to show that catalase's methionine antioxidant role is independent from its enzymatic function, Benoit and Maier engineered enzymatically inactive catalase, known as apo-catalase. They treated media containing hypochlorous acid, an oxidant that is normally lethal to H. pylori, with apo-catalase before exposing H. pylori to the media. The survival of H. pylori indicated that the apo-catalase protected the bacterium from oxidative stress in vitro. The investigators were able to show that this was also true in vivo by growing H. pylori expressing the apo-catalase on agar media containing hypochlorous acid. The H. pylori expressing the apo-catalase grew just as well as H. pylori expressing enzymatically active catalase, while H. pylori lacking catalase were more sensitive to hypochlorous acid.
Benoit and Maier showed that this process is dependent on methionine oxidation by knocking out the Msr enzyme that recycles methionine sulfoxide back to methionine after oxidation. The apo-catalase/Msr knockout showed pronounced sensitivity to hypochlorous acid when compared to the apo-catalase alone, signifying that the methionines must be recycled for apo-catalase to act effectively as an antioxidant.
Next, Benoit and Maier explored whether H. pylori expressing apo-catalase could colonize the stomachs of laboratory mice. The authors showed that H. pylori expressing apo-catalase was able to colonize the stomachs as efficiently as H. pylori expressing wild-type catalase and was several orders of magnitude better than H. pylori catalase knockouts. This revealed that catalase is conferring a fitness advantage for H. pylori that is completely independent of its enzymatic activity by protecting the bacterium from host-generated ROS in the mice.
The results of this study revealed that catalase is multifaceted, protecting invading H. pylori from host-generated ROS through its ability to break down hydrogen peroxide enzymatically as well as quenching ROS via methionine oxidation. H. pylori infections have been linked to higher rates of stomach ulcers and cancers, and, with the serious threat that antibiotic resistance poses to human health, understanding these protective mechanisms can lead to the design of new drugs.
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|Digital Journal...can we trust them?
Citing the book Beyond Batman: The Unauthorized True Story of Christian Bale and His Dark Knight Dilemma, the site reports that Bale may just not be able to turn down the 50 mil pay day that would come with his return as Bruce Wayne. Things get a little sketchy when they say it is in the upcoming Justice League movie as that is still two steps away with the Superman/Batman team-up of 2015 on-deck.
As usual with these things we can't really trust the actors nor their representatives so the only way we'll know is when it is announced or someone else is announced as Wayne. However, if we're looking at a slightly older Batman in this movie, I certainly prefer to go with the one that has been in the suit and done a fine job.
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Trump Names Son-In-Law As A Senior Adviser
WASHINGTON (CN) – President-elect Donald Trump on Monday named his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, as a senior adviser in the White House.
Kushner's appointment has been long rumored, but was bogged down by concerns that Trump would violate anti-nepotism laws if he appointed his daughter Ivanka's husband to a government job. This remains an open question, as some ethicists read a 1967 anti-nepotism law as preventing agency heads from appointing relatives but remaining silent on the president.
In announcing the decision, Trump said, "Jared has been a tremendous asset and trusted adviser throughout the campaign and transition and I am proud to have him in a key leadership role in my administration.
"He has been incredibly successful, in both business and now politics. He will be an invaluable member of my team as I set and execute an ambitious agenda, putting the American people first," the president-elect continued.
Reince Priebus, the incoming White House chief of staff is quoted in a Trump transition team statement describing Kushner as "a visionary with a rare ability to communicate with and assemble broad coalitions of support."
"His entrepreneurial mindset will be a great asset to the team as well as his open mind, adaptability and keen intellect," Priebus said.
Kushner also brings to the White House a tangle of potential conflicts of interest, as the real estate company he runs has cut deals with a number of foreign governments, including a budding one with China reported recently by the New York Times.
The 35 year old has worked closely with Trump's campaign and made waves last month when he admitted the campaign worked out a deal with Sinclair Broadcast Group, which owns television stations in 81 markets around the country, for the company to give Trump more favorable coverage in exchange for access.
Kushner said in a statement that his appointment is an honor. "I am energized by the shared passion of the President-elect and the American people and I am humbled by the opportunity to join this very talented team," he said.


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Swallow Hill Music has organized and hosted mostly acoustic acts and music classes for decades, but never a concert like the one they're planning for Sunday, Nov. 6.
It will be Swallow Hill's first sensory friendly concert, specifically designed for individuals with sensory sensitivities and developmental disabilities.
The intended audience includes people diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, who can be easily over-stimulated, especially in unfamiliar settings.
Erica deDufour, the Programs Manager at the Autism Society of Colorado, spent more than an hour today helping Swallow Hill Music plan their upcoming show.
"Before we do these events I always go in and do an Autism 101," said deDufour. "And at the end of the presentation, everyone's like 'wow, that really wasn't anything new, that wasn't anything crazy I have to change to accommodate individuals with autism,' just having understanding and empathy and being open to trying new things in a different way."
Individuals of all ages and abilities are invited to the performance.
The performance will be at Daniels Hall, at 71 East Yale Avenue in Denver on Sunday, Nov. 6.
The show starts at noon. Doors open at 11:30 a.m.
It's free for those 18 and younger, and $5 for adults.
Find ticket information here: http://bit.ly/2fe0639.


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ICLS Dermatology & Plastic Surgery has been serving Oakville and the surrounding area for over 20 years and has grown into a world renowned facility that is recognized for its integrity, professionalism and safety. It has preserved a culture that is distinctive and highly sought after in the industry. Both patients and staff are thoroughly engaged in their experience when visiting ICLS as it is an environment of unwavering loyalty and support, compassion and respect. This allows ICLS to expand its reach by the 'ICLS experience' encouraging individuals to share and advocate through word of mouth.
Serving Toronto, Oakville, Burlington, Mississauga, Hamilton, the GTA and surrounding areas.
As one of Canada's leading cosmetic Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Julie Khanna looks beyond the surgical procedure to the patient as a whole, from inner self to outer beauty.
Dr. Sheetal Sapra is not only a leader in the field of Dermatology, but he is also a pioneer of new technologies aimed at improving the lives and looks of his patients.


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Mid-Week Already?!
What, Wednesday already?! Yikes! A mere week from now so many will be preparing for the yearly turkey madness!! I'm not cooking again this year (yay!), but I always host a massive Christmas event, so the turkey gets me eventually!
What I wore yesterday:
Cardigan: Kate Spade
Skirt: Marc Jacobs
Shoes: Multi-Colour Strass Manolos
And today:
Cardigan: Kate Spade
Blouse: Banana Republic
Belt: Kate Spade
Skirt: Sandee Royalty
Shoes: Jimmy Choo
And that's all for now!
Until next time,
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I love that turquoise sweater!! The perfect fall shade!!! I'm not so much on Thanksgiving (or turkey)… but it's going to be here sooooon.
November 20, 2014 at 02:57
Did you strass those Manolos yourself? Amazing!
November 20, 2014 at 03:19


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HighlightsAddis Ababa | Harar | Awash National Park | Sheikh Hussein | Wabe Shebelle Valley | Bale Goba | Bale National Park | Awassa | Konso | Turmi | Omorate | Karo | Mursi | Jinka | Arba Minch | Lake Chamo | Lake Langano |
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Your vacation will help support local people and conservation. We must also reduce CO2. Learn about the CO2 emissions of this vacation and how to reduce them.
We have a strict environmental policy to make sure that the environments we visit in Ethiopia are not damaged or spoilt in any way. Our Leave No Trace ethic is applied to this trip and as tour operators, it is something we are careful to promote. Your tour leader on this trip will have been trained to uphold this policy and all clients are fully briefed on appropriate and responsible behaviour whilst in wilderness areas. It is for this reason that we keep the group size to a maximum of 12 people so we can minimise the human impact on the fragile sites we visit like Awash National Park on days 4 and 5 - a region rich in wildlife and bird species.
On this tour there is a great opportunity to see the endemic Mountain Nyala and Menekils Bushbuck along with other fascinating animals like warthogs and baboons whilst exploring the local woodland of Dinsho in Bale National Park. Your visit to protected areas such as these will benefit local communitys efforts to protect and conserve these delicate ecosystems.
We aim to choose eco-friendly accommodation where possible on our trip. Not only is this an opportunity to harmonise with the natural surrounding environment but it shows support for the local communitys efforts in environment conservation and sustainability. For example on day 12 in Jinka our travelers will find themselves in the eco-friendly permanent safari tents at the Eco-Omo lodge on the banks of the Neri River.
As part of our responsibility to support the communities we visit in Ethiopia on this trip we consider it extremely important to make a significant contribution to the local economy where possible. We do this by using local ground handlers, local drivers and incorporating locally owned hotels, guesthouses and local restaurants into this itinerary. In this way not only do the operational costs go directly into the local economy but we are supporting the demand for employment opportunities in remote regions.
We promote opportunities for travelers to engage directly with the local communities. After all it is extremely important to us that all local communities can benefit from our tourism. In a region as ethnically and culturally diverse as the Omo Valley we seek every opportunity to pay respectful visits to a variety of different tribes and peoples. Days 9-15 of the tour are devoted to traveling through this extraordinary region so that you can get a real insight into the unique lifestyles, traditions and customs of its inhabitants. For example on day 10 we will explore the villages of the Konso on foot so our travelers can observe closely how these hardworking agriculturalists farm on ancient terraced lands.
We consider visiting local markets a less intrusive way of interacting with local people as they go about their day to day lives. The daily fish market in Awassa on day 9 and the famous qat market in the village of Awedae in Awash National Park are great opportunities to learn more about local produce and local culture.
There is also a lot we can do behind the scenes in order to facilitate an enduring support structure for the communities we visit. To show a commitment to these values, in January 2009, we set up a charitable foundation through which we can directly channel funds to both existing NGOs and our own development projects. In addition to organising ethically sensitive tours, having our own charitable foundation allows us to raise money through the cost of our tours, charity trips and fund raising events which can then be used to fund various projects in education, sanitation, reforestations and a number of other important issues facing developing communities. We also support several other Aid agencies and NGOs around the world which are all carefully selected to improve the standard of living for the communities we visit. In Ethiopia we are proud supporters of TESFA an excellent community based tourist project in Ethiopia, set up by one of our former guides.
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A Family Getaway In Auckland
Introducing the solution to the 'Are we there yet's?' and 'I'm hungry's' that can fill your holiday.
Our new Family Getaway Package is fun for everyone and includes a $100 voucher for rental at Fergs Kayaks and a full buffet breakfast to refuel the next morning. Explore the water at your own pace with your choice of kayak or paddle board, or for those who don't want to get their feet wet, pedal along the beautiful waterfront on a relaxing cruiser bike or go old school with some smooth roller blades. What's more, if your children are under 12 they eat for free at the hotels dine-in restaurant Aria Bar and Restaurant.*
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Fergs Kayaks is one of Auckland's most iconic kayaking centres, and provides a fun, safe experience for the first time paddler and the more experienced. Located in the beautiful Okahu bay, Fergs Kayaks is a short 10 minute drive from Crowne Plaza Auckland hotel. Check out the full range of rental gear on their website. It is recommended that guests call or email Fergs Kayaks at least one day prior to secure equipment hire.
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This package is for two adults and two children (under 18 years old). Minimum of two night stay. Bookings are subject to availability. May not be combined with any other offers and blackout dates may apply. $100 Fergs Kayaks voucher can be used toward guest choice of Kayak, Paddle board, Bike or Roller blade hire. Guests must contact Fergs Kayaks prior to arrival to secure rental equipment. Voucher is to be used for rental only and cannot be used for Kayak tours. Voucher is not redeemable or exchangeable for cash. Limit to one voucher per room, per stay. Children under 12 dine free when ordering lunch or dinner in the hotel's dine-in restaurant from the Kids' Menu, and when accompanied by at least one adult who is registered as a hotel guest and who orders at least one main course from the full priced menu. If two rooms are booked for the stay, the hotel will endeavour to provide interconnecting rooms.
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Along the overpass-turned-park Seoullo 7017 are large pots of flowers that have unfamiliar foreign names but are commonly spotted on the streets of South Korea.
Among them are pink flowers with the Russian nomenclature Schlippenbach, also known as chuljjuk in Korean, one of the most widespread spring flowers here. Abies Koreana Wilson, better known in Korea as the Christmas tree, also stand on the bridge.
According to the Seoul Metropolitan Government, all the flowers being displayed at Seoullo as part of the exhibition "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" have Korean origins, but they are deemed foreign plants as they were "stolen" by imperial forces during the 19th century.
|Trees and flowers at Seoullo 7017 by Park Hyun-koo. The Korea Herald
|By Park Hyun-koo
"During the colonial rule of imperialist Japan, even flowers and plants had to serve their time in prison," said Seo Hye-sung, who organized the exhibition. "As people's nationality was changed forcefully, the same thing happened to the flowers. It's a sad history."
For example, Abies Koreana Wilson originally came from South Korea. While South Korea imports the plant from other countries, prominent British botanist Earnest Henry Wilson has said its place of origin is Hallasan on Jeju Island.
The exhibition began May 3 and lasts through June 30, free of charge. For more information, visit http://seoullo7017.seoul.go.kr.
Photographed by Park Hyun-koo
Written by Yeo Jun-suk


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S: Our Year 2011
FC: Our Year 2011
1: A Year in Review
2: Baby sweet | Baby fine
3: January 2011 | Want my baby all the time
5: Happy Birthdays! Liam is 7, and Parker is 5! (The Pea is 6mos..)
6: breezing my way
7: Laugh into the wind
8: Spring Walks
9: Go Carolina Crocs!
11: Happy times with all of us
12: . . .you can taste it
13: Watch me do it myself!
15: New House, New Inspirations
17: 1st Birthday at the Beach
19: discoveries in wet sand
20: These are a few of my favorite things
21: New Experiences. . . | growing into more of who I will be
22: The Cardinals Bull City Little League Rookie Team
23: I trust in God I love my country And will respect its laws I will play fair And strive to win But win or lose I will always do my best | Little League Pledge | Peter J. McGovern
24: don't back down give your best | YDA U8 Birmingham
25: work hard | play hard
26: Jonathan, Diego, Liam, Carlo Charlie, Ian, Jack, Nick | Under Armour Cup Tournament Charlotte, NC
27: Coach Connor | U8 Gold: TUSA Newcastle | U8 Silver: TUSA Birmingham
28: My daddy is a rock
30: Little girl, blue eyes, pretty shoes, sweet baby
31: Trick or Treat, Mat Man!
33: Playing in the leaves! | A nip in the air, a new world at my fingertips... Life is fresh and intriguing
34: Did St. Nick ever come see you in a fire truck?
35: Christmas 2011
36: Family Christmas
37: wonderland | Wonderful to be together
39: See you next year!


text: Interview with Remains of the Tyrant! August 25, 2014Micah No Comment Facebook Genre(s): Death Metal Location: Modesto, CA PSAB: Where does the band name "Remains of the Tyrant" come from? ROTT: The name kind of just came to us, we had an idea of what kind of lyrical content we wanted to portray and worked around it. We had a big political charge to our earlier work and our newer stufd is an outlook of the world is being torn down by man and that deserves punishment. The name can be taken a couple different ways, the dead remains of a tyrant who has been killed or the bleak remains of the land and people the tyrant has had control over. PSAB: You released a single, Bathing in Pestilence, earlier this month. How has the feedback been? ROTT: It's gotten some good feedback, of course we wanted the Internet to explode when it came out but we are realistic and having only 200 something followers at the time, we had realistic expectations of the buzz we would get. But our goal as a band is to play what we love and share it with anyone that will listen. We've had some big name artists that we really look up to give it a listen and let us know what we think and it was a lot of positive stuff coming back which is an honor to hear from some of our idols that not only took the time to listen but also gave us input on what was good or caught their ears and what they would tweak, we also got a bunch of good responses frim metal blogs such as yourselves and the fans have dug it a lot, its a little more on our death metal side which we really like and its killer to play live. We actually are having a lyric video done up for it that should be hitting youtube sometime soon. PSAB: If you had the choice to have a musician featured on one of your tracks. Which musician would that be and why? ROTT: It would be soo gnarly to get a guest solo and guest vocal spot from John Gallagher of Dying Fetus, he shreds and he has those unmistakable lows, so you could get two awesome spots from him in one song. PSAB: What is the metal scene like in Modesto, CA? ROTT: The scene around here was killer when we first started but venues couldn't stay afloat, we used to have a couple destinations for national acts but now its dwindled down pretty low which is a big bummer. PSAB: What are three bands that play the most influence on your music? ROTT: That is really tough because I feel we have aspects in our music from varying genres that will please a wide spectrum of metal heads, we have tech, we have melodic sections, we have heavy/groove, we have solos and we have breakdowns, but if I have to pick 3 The Black Dahlia Murder( tech, melody and solo aspects), Carnifex(blackened deathcore, breakdown aspects), and Thy Art is Murder (Heavy/Groove) PSAB: Do you have any shout outs to give to your fans, and the readers out there? ROTT: First, we would like to thank everybody who has ever given our music a listen, shared it with someone, or done anything to help us push our fanbase at all. The main goal of this band isn't fame or publicity or any of that b.s. We want to play the music that we love and share it with anyone who will listen and we can't thank you people enough for listening. We have to thank Bob at Mayhemeness Studios for working with us and helping us get the sound we wanted for these new songs that we are doing. Brian Shields for posting up our music time and time again to try and help us out, any of the blogs that have put us up on their facebook, helped us our with single artwork or put us up on their website to try and spread our music and we for sure want to thank you guys at Pig Squeals and Breakdowns, you have posted about us since our first EP and we're stoked that we can keep making music that you all enjoy. Thank you. Interview, NewsDeath Metal, interview, remains of the tyrantShare : Tweet ‹ Interview with Promethean! Interview with Descending The Heavens! ›


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Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
A Chapter 7 bankruptcy case is sometimes referred to as liquidation because the trustee takes the debtor's nonexempt assets and liquidates them to pay his debts. Frequently, there are few assets to sell after the exempt assets are removed from the bankruptcy estate, but if any exist, it is the trustee's responsibility to seize and sell them. Once the available assets are sold, a debtor's remaining unpaid debts are eligible for discharge.
Trustee's Role in Chapter 7
A trustee's role in Chapter 7 is to administer the sale of assets and distribution of proceeds, but he also watches for preferential treatment given by the debtor toward specific creditors. A trustee may also notice fraudulent transfers where a debtor has sold or transferred an asset to a third party -- usually a family member or close friend -- for far less than fair market value in an attempt to save it from being sold in the bankruptcy. If the trustee notices a fraudulent transfer, he can try to recover that property and sell it to pay creditors. The trustee may also bring a motion in bankruptcy court to dismiss a case or deny the debtor's discharge if the debtor is abusing the bankruptcy system through fraud, perjury or ineligibility.
Chapter 13 Repayment Plan
Chapter 13 bankruptcy creates a repayment plan under which the debtor will make payments on his debts over three or five years. The trustee investigates the actions, assets, liabilities and financial condition of the debtor, including how the debtor's business operates and whether it should continue. The trustee can look at any matter relevant to the debtor's case or repayment plan to determine whether the plan is appropriate. Generally, the trustee recommends approval of the repayment plan if it appears the debtor has made honest disclosures and all objections to the plan have been resolved.
Trustee's Role in Chapter 13
The trustee has a duty to make recommendations to the court about the debtor's case, including whether the repayment plan should be approved or whether the case should be dismissed. The court can accept or reject a trustee's recommendations. During the repayment plan period, the trustee may request dismissal of the debtor's case if the debtor stops making payments as required and does not ask for a suspension of the plan. This type of dismissal would block the debtor's ability to receive a discharge.


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Homestar Courses
There are two qualifications available within Homestar: Homestar Assessor or Homestar Practitioner.
Homestar Assessors – use the Homestar tool for design purposes or to assess and certify homes with a Homestar rating.
Homestar Practitioners – may undertake or assist in the design or building of a Homestar project, but will not compile a formal rating submission themselves.
Homestar Assessor Training
The course focuses on teaching an in-depth understanding of the theory and application of the Homestar rating tool; mastery of conducting an environmental assessment of residential stand-alone and attached homes; the processes involved in acquiring and collating appropriate documentation, and managing and producing a Homestar Appraisal, Design Rating and Built Rating. It is a two-day course:
- 1 day of classroom tuition
- 1 day practical application of the tool
After the course participants are required to complete a practical written examination plus one supervised assessment.
Recommended pre-requisites
We recommend Homestar Assessor trainees have a good understanding of sustainability, and/or experience in audit, survey work or building practice. One of the following professional qualifications is recommended:
- Licensed Building Practitioner Level 2 and 3
- Registered valuer, engineer, architect, building scientist/technologist, quantity surveyor
- HERS Assessor
Upcoming Assessor training
Homestar Practitioner Training
The Homestar Practitioner course is for people who are interested in undertaking or assisting in the design or building of a Homestar project, but will not be compiling a formal rating submission. The qualification is aimed at anyone with an interest in residential sustainability, and will suit those in advisory, commissioning or consulting roles who wish to have a comprehensive knowledge of the Homestar rating tool. It is a one-day course comprising classroom tuition.
After the course participants will be asked to complete a final assessment.
Upcoming Practitioner training
Benefits of a Homestar qualification
- A Homestar Assessor logo and registration number, or a Homestar Practitioner logo
- An online certificate that you can link to or embed in, online media
- Details listed in the Homestar Assessor or Homestar Practitioner directory, which is accessed by consumers and industry.
- Ongoing technical updates, news and access to events and training
Please note, Homestar Practitioners are not able to submit projects for Design or Built Ratings. A Homestar Assessor is required for any Rating.
Homestar Practitioners may upgrade their qualification to Homestar Assessor by attending day two of the Homestar Assessor training programme.
The Homecoach qualification, available prior to 2014, is no longer offered.


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Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is an independent writer and researcher in Indigenous studies, having earned a bachelor's degree in Native American Studies and a master's degree in American Studies from the University of New Mexico, and also holds the position of research associate and associate scholar at the Center for World Indigenous Studies. Her work focuses on issues related to Indigenous nationalism, self-determination, and environmental justice. She is a co-author (with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz) of the forthcoming book from Beacon Press titled 'All the Real Indians Died Off' and 20 Other Myths about Native Americans. An award-winning journalist, she is a frequent contributor to Indian Country Today Media Network and Native Peoples Magazine.
An "urban Indian," Dina grew up in Southern California bodysurfing the waves at Santa Monica and other beaches since childhood. After moving to the North Shore of Oahu in 1980 she learned how to board surf which was central to her life for several years. There she was one of the very few women who regularly surfed Pipeline. Eventually moving back to California, she migrated to Northern California far enough away from the ocean to have dropped out of surf culture. 25 years would pass before she would pick up surfing again.
Dina's reentry into surfing happened ironically when she was in graduate school at the University of New Mexico. Having reconnected with a lost love from her North Shore days, she returned to Southern California, got married and settled in San Clemente. She wrote her master's thesis (titled Panhe at the Crossroads: Toward an Indigenized Environmental Justice Discourse) on the Save Trestles campaign and toll road controversy which examined the role of Native American efforts to protect a sacred site, ultimately a major contributing factor to the defeat of the road-building project and saving the famous surf spot from potential destruction.
Since then Dina has written numerous articles on indigeneity in surf culture, focusing on the ways mainstream surf culture narratives have elided Native peoples in Hawaii and on the mainland and beyond, building on the work of Isaiah Helekunihi Walker and others. She has since collaborated with Krista Comer and Cori Schumacher on their Institute for Women Surfers project as a featured presenter in the second annual IWS conference in November, 2015.
Dina continues to stand-up paddle surf regularly at San Onofre.


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Qari Najib, the Taliban military chief was killed along with another militant in an Afghan forces ambush in the western Herat province, said the local officials.
According to Herat police authorities, many weapons and munitions have also been seized from the Taliban commander who was also involved in making and placing bombs for the militant group.
"The incident took place on Saturday's mid-night in which another Taliban militant was also shot dead along with the insurgents' commander," said Sayed Ahmad Mohammadi, the acting spokesperson of Herat Police Chief.
The western Herat province has recently witnessed a surge of attacks by the Taliban in which dozens mostly civilians have lost their lives.


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Not necessarily — when analyzing your blood glucose readings, it helps to recognize the difference between an isolated reading and a pattern of readings; one isolated reading is far less noteworthy than a pattern.
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PLC programmes lead to positive outcomes for students but could do more to respond to changing labour market needs.
Approximately 32,000 learners are currently enrolled in Post-Leaving Certificate (PLC) courses, the largest component of full-time further education and training in Ireland. New research from the ESRI shows that PLC courses enhance employment chances and progression to higher education for learners but could be made more responsive to a changing labour market. The study is based on new surveys of PLC principals and PLC and Leaving Certificate leavers.
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Writer Tries Wen by Chaz for Seven Days
In an article appearing on Bustle.com writer Emily McClure tried Wen By Chaz Cleansing Conditioner for seven days and posted pictures and comments about the results. Wen By Chaz is a holistic hair care line made with natural ingredients. The line's founder, Chaz Dean, is described by Wikipedia as a celebrity stylist who has warned clients about the damage detergents can do their hair since 1993. He developed WEN hair Cleansing Conditioner as an alternative to shampoo that could keep his clients hair clean while maintaining the overall health of their hair. Wen offers a variety of hair and skin products with formulas tailored for all kinds of hair and skin types. Wen Cleansing Conditioner comes in several fragrances on Sephora including Fig, Fall Apple Spice, and Spring Orange Blossom. Wen also offers Cleansing Conditioner in an unscented variety.
According to the Bustle.com article the biggest difference between using Wen Cleansing Conditioner and a typical shampoo is the amount of product required to clean your hair. Emily posted a photo on Facebook of the amount of product she generally uses to wash her hair followed by a photo of the amount of product Wen recommends (ten to sixteen pumps of product as opposed to just one or two). The difference in quantity was startling, but Emily opted to trust the instructions on the bottle. Her actual hair washing experience was fantastic, her hair felt thicker and healthier before she'd even exited the shower. After drying and styling, Emily's hair was shiny, bouncy and lustrous. After seven days of use, Wen Cleansing Conditioner seemed to improve the overall texture and shine of Emily's hair. After each wash her hair looked better and Emily's final verdict on Wen Cleansing Conditioner was that it is a great product for daily use. Check out the original article on Bustle.
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Hi, I'm Dr. Doug Kenney, a veterinarian in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm dedicated to helping pet owners and veterinarians understand how pet insurance works and the strategic role it can play in helping pay for a pet's healthcare expenses.
You'll find unbiased coverage of pet insurance from a veterinarian's perspective with a focus on companies that offer policies that cover pets in the United States. In fact, you'll likely find information that you won't find anywhere else.
More than likely, you are trying to decide if you need pet health insurance, and if so, which company and policy is the best one for your pet. A veterinarian's perspective is critical in making both of these decisions and I'll explain why.
I see things every day that most of you don't see. I know what is needed to diagnose and treat a seriously ill pet and how much it can cost to have the best possible outcome. I also see pets with chronic conditions like diabetes or allergies that require years of monitoring and treatment to provide them with a good quality of life. It is my experience that most people don't realize that the cost of treating a seriously ill pet with an acute condition or the cumulative cost of treating chronic conditions can easily cost thousands of dollars.
Listen as Dr. Jason Nicholas, a colleague and friend of mine, describes his experience when working in an emergency hospital setting.
The video below tells the story of a couple with two dogs, one that required years of treatment for chronic conditions and one that required emergency surgery for an acute illness. Fortunately, they had pet insurance to help pay for the expenses. (this video is provided for informational purposes only and not meant to be an endorsement of the company that produced the video):
If you decide you'd like to investigate pet insurance further, a veterinarian's perspective is also important because we diagnose and treat the conditions for which you'll be filing claims. Therefore, we can offer advice on the most important things that should be covered when choosing a policy to insure your pet. An excellent resource (recently updated) to help you better understand how pet insurance works is my book, "Pet Health Insurance:A Veterinarian's Perspective". You can download either a PDF version or EPUB version (for non-kindle readers) here. You can also get the print version or kindle version here.
I also host the Pet Insurance Guide Podcast, the first and only podcast dedicated to all things pet insurance. Some episodes include an interview with a representative of one of the pet insurance companies - sometimes the founder and CEO as they explain their vision for the company and gives specific details about their policy. If you are a veterinarian or veterinary staff member, you'll find these episodes particularly helpful.
Please leave a comment after articles that are of special interest to you. Your comments will help other readers of the blog as they will learn from your experiences. And please subscribe to the blog so you won't miss any future articles.
Feel free to email me if you have any questions about pet insurance in general or a specific topic or company and I'll do my best to help you.
Please consider recommending this website to your friends and family who have pets and even your veterinarian. :-)