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No Dream: Western Fantasy Raises $1 Million for VOA
An effort one year in the making has paid off handsomely for Volunteers of America. Western Fantasy 2010, chaired by Ed and Gayle Novak, has netted $1 million. Maybe a half-million more. The counting is not yet complete.
The Novaks — he's a longtime Denver restaurateur and she is midway through her second term as president of the Denver Center Alliance — accepted the challenge of organizing this dress-Western extravaganza within days after the 2009 edition was done. They had a big job ahead of them, thanks to a lackluster economy that continues to have people thinking twice before laying out huge sums of money to attend or help sponsor such grand-scale events as this.
But they're nothing if not tenacious, and between Ed's business connections and Gayle's infectious enthusiasm and social media savvy, excitement not only was generated, it continued to grow as time progressed.
Gayle never left the house without her digital camera and chronicled every last get-together — including committee meetings, the kickoff party, the invitation-addressing session, the patron party and the decorating of the venue — for posting on her Facebook wall. She also shared links to news media coverage garnered along the way, and when it was announced that country superstar Wynonna Judd would be the headliner, Gayle posted regular links that would enable her extensive circle of Facebook friends to watch or read video, TV, newspaper and magazine snippets that featured Wynonna.
Gayle's efforts paid off big time because when the big date (Oct. 23) arrived, Western Fantasy had sold out and extra dinner tables had to be installed to accommodate everyone who wanted to be there. Click here to see pictures.
Ed Novak's primary responsibility was gathering corporate support. Working with Western Fantasy's co-founder, Sharon Magness Blake, he assembled a team that included some of Denver's best-known business leaders: Chris Castillian of Anadarko Petroleum, Pat Cortez (Wells Fargo Bank), David Kikumoto (Denver Management Advisors), Kevin MacCary (United Launch Alliance), Kate Paul (Delta Dental), Patricia Robinson (MediaNews Group), Dan Scherer (CBS Outdoor) and Jean Galloway, also a Western Fantasy co-founder. They were advised to get out there and sell. Which they did.
They also switched things up a bit in terms of a theme. The National Western Events Center became the Golden Garter Saloon, and Bouquets, headed by BJ Dyer and Guenther Vogt, spent months planning and a full week executing a vision that Vogt describes as "One of the more fun decor challenges for BJ and me."
Their team created two grand entries that were draped in red and black lace fabric illuminated by
the light of three crystal chandeliers. From that point, guests could proceed down the stairs leading to the pre-dinner cocktail area on the main arena level. Cocktails were served at a turn-of-the-century style bar built for the event, complete with backbar and ornate mirrors.
The bar also was where the 1,200 guests could "take a shot" at winning one of several dozen items donated by Hyde Park Jewelry. Golden Garter "saloon girls" Frances Owens, Layne Fleishman, Gail Johnson, Stephanie Odak, Michelle Davidson, Kay Burke, Patti Shyne, Denise Snyder and Allison Klein wore yellow boas as they sold numbered shot glasses for $75 each. Even those whose glasses didn't correspond to a jewel didn't walk away empty-handed: the glasses were filled with a shot of whiskey or a margarita.
Feather boas weren't the exclusive accessory of the saloon girls, though. The greeters — including Keri Christiansen, Heather Brecl, Sarah Sena and Kristina Davidson — wore red ones as they circulated on the red carpet reception area where country crooner Pete Martinez entertained as guests surrendered their cars to the parking valets. The Young Professionals support team wore black. Monica Owens, Quinn Washington, Jen Daurio, Dana Berry, Tera Haselden and Vince Abrue were part of this group.
The Epicurean Catering dinner of beef tenderloin and a strawberry-peach cobbler was served in a "grand ballroom" setting that Bouquets decorated with chandeliers and illuminated fabric suspended from the rafters to create a more intimate feel. Tables were set out in quads of four, draped with red and black velvet linens and alternating centerpieces. "Half the tables had centerpieces with orbs filled with two varieties of red and pink roses (over 3,000 in all) decorated with crystal beads and tall white ostrich feathers atop a Victorian gold relief container. The other tables were centered with made-for-the-occasion lamps with ornate shades of beaded fringe atop an illuminated glass cylinder filled with white
rose petals," Vogt said.
In addition to the entertainment, a highlight of the evening came when emcees Angie Austin and Chris Parente from KWGN-Channel 2 announced that VOA's Humanitarian of the Year award for 2010 would be going to Bill and Yvonne McCallum. The McCallums (he's the retired chief executive at Great-West Life Assurance Co.) have chaired two previous Western Fantasy galas (2007 and 2009) and are active in such other philanthropic causes as Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, the Multiple Sclerosis Society, Bonfils Blood Center, Teammates for Kids and Beacon Center's Cherish the Children Guild.
Having a new theme, though, didn't detract from a couple of well-loved Western Fantasy traditions, namely having Sharon Magness Blake open the dinner service by presenting the colors while circling the arena floor on Thunder, mascot of the Denver Broncos, while country music great Lee Greenwood sings his signature piece, "God Bless the USA."
Sharon and her husband, attorney Ernie Blake, then took their seats at a table they shared with Sharon's brothers, Harry and Jimmy Costello; Sharon's sister-in-law, Julie Costello; Ernie's son and daughter-in-law, David and Melissa Blake; Larry Mizel; CBS4 meterologist Ed Greene and his wife, Barbara, the event's graphic designer; and Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper.
Nearby were the chair of the VOA board, Kalleen Malone, and her husband, Bob; VOA-Colorado chief Dianna Kunz; Phyllis Coors with a group that included her son, Scott, and Sculptured House owner Michael Dunahay; Qwest chief Ed Mueller and his wife, Susan; Dick and Marcia Robinson; Steve Brett and Linda Shoemaker; the former speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, Terrance Carroll; John and Wendy Clayton; former Cigna executive Daryl Edmonds and his wife, Tomma; Richard and Nancy Gooding from event sponsor Paragon Ranch; Brian and Deanna Klipp; Zach Wolfel; Ellen Stewart and Donald Vancil, there with her law partner Larry Martinez and his wife, Cheryl; Diane Huttner; Lyn and Dr. Michael Schaffer; Dave and Sue Palmer; Jane McAtee of Southwest Airlines; Steve and Sheila Dreiling; Troy and Allison Eid; Susan Stiff; Nick and Anne Hackstock; Jack and Adrienne Fitzgibbons; Scott and Kirsten Hamling; Don Kelin; Thierry and Sophie Kennel; Wendy Klomp Duncan, whose dance troupe added to the Golden Garter Saloon ambience; and Tom and Dianne Honig, who will chair Western Fantasy 2011.
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Supplies: patterned paper (Jillibean Soup); chipboard speech bubbles (Pebbles); glitter letter stickers (American Crafts); acrylic paint (Martha Stewart Crafts in Gold); gold glass glitter; mistable fabric sun (Studio Calico); wood veneer feather (Studio Calico); gold mist (Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine); wood veneer houses (Studio Calico); gold glitter paper (American Crafts).
On this page, Guard Cat on duty, I combined several types and finishes of gold. By using so many different types of gold, it creates a rich and full finish. If I had only used one type of gold and then added in a second small amount, the page may feel imbalanced and the golds may appear to clash. When in doubt, add more!
- Gold glitter paper by American Crafts, put behind plain white cardstock with cut-outs. This is a great alternative to die cutting or electronic cutting that difficult glitter paper. I love how chunky and thick the glitter finish is on this American Crafts paper.
- Wood veneer house tapped into Tsukineko Encore! Ultimate Metallic Gold ink pad.
- Mistable fabric sun heat embossed with Zing Gold Metallic embossing powder by American Crafts. It is on top of a chipboard speech bubble painted with Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine. The speech bubbles in #4 and #7 were treated the same way.
- Gold foam acorn left over from my Christmas decorations! This was snipped right out of a spray and used as-is. Look for gold around you!
- Wood veneer feather covered with German gold glass glitter. It is layered on top of a speech bubble cut from resist paper misted with Heidi Swapp Gold Lame Color Shine.
- Glittered foam American Crafts Thickers. Extra easy sparkle!
- Punched burnished gold finish metallic paper.
- Cardstock speech bubble painted with Martha Stewart Crafts acrylic paint in Gold. The speech bubble in the lower right corner of the page, with the white bow on top, was painted the same.
Now, if you remember above, I told you when in doubt, add more! But what if more is just too much for you? Well, when more is too much, add less! You could easily replicate the look and style of this page, but only using one or three gold elements. Try to remember to either stick to the same gold (the same tone or the same finish) for a highly matched page or combine completely contrasting golds for a more dynamic page.
I stripped the color out of all of the gold elements from my page, and then chose to add in the gold back in to select areas to demonstrate how you could create an awesome gilded page with just a bit less gold than I used in the first version.
Want to make your title jump and sparkle right off the page? Highlight your title:
Take a look at my Gold Pinterest board for more gold products, gold inspiration, and gold colorways.
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I recently spoke with James Phillips, co-founder and senior vice president of products, at Membase, an emerging NoSQL provider that powers many highly visible Web applications, such as Zynga's Farmville and AOL's ad targeting applications. James helped clarify for me the role of NoSQL in today's big data architectures.
Membase, like many of its NoSQL brethren, is an open source, key-value database. Membase was designed to run on clusters of commodity servers so it could "solve transaction problems at scale," says Philips. Because of its transactional focus, Membase is not technology that I would normally talk about in the business intelligence (BI) sphere.
Same Challenges, Similar Solutions
However, today the transaction community is grappling with many of the same technical challenges as the BI community--namely, accessing and crunching large volumes of data in a fast, affordable way. Not coincidentally, the transactional community is coming up with many of the same solutions--namely, distributing data and processing across multiple nodes of commodity servers linked via high-speed interconnects. In other words, low-cost parallel processing.
Key-Value Pairs. But the NoSQL community differs in one major way from a majority of analytics vendors chasing large-scale parallel processing architectures: it relinquishes the relational framework in favor of key-value pair data structures. For data-intensive, Web-based applications that must dish up data to millions of concurrent online users in the blink of an eye, key-value pairs are a fast, flexible, and inexpensive approach. For example, you just pair a cookie with its ID, slam it into a file with millions of other key-value pairs, and distribute the files across multiple nodes in a cluster. A read works in reverse: the database finds the node with the right key-value pair to fulfill an application request and sends it along.
The beauty of NoSQL, according to Philips, is that you don't have to put data into a table structure or use SQL to manipulate it. "With NoSQL, you put the data in first and then figure out how to manipulate it," Phillips says. "You can continue to change the kinds of data you store without having to change schemas or rebuild indexes and aggregates." Thus, the NoSQL mantra is "store first, design later." This makes NoSQL systems highly flexible but programmatically intensive since you have to build programs to access the data. But since most NoSQL advocates are application developers (i.e. programmers), this model aligns with their strengths.
In contrast, most analytics-oriented database vendors and SQL-oriented BI professionals haven't given up on the relational model, although they are pushing it to new heights to ensure adequate scalability and performance when processing large volumes of data. Relational database vendors are embracing techniques, such as columnar storage, storage-level intelligence, built-in analytics, hardware-software appliances, and, of course, parallel processing across clusters of commodity servers. BI professionals are purchasing these purpose-built analytical platforms to address performance and availability problems first and foremost and data scalability issues secondarily. And that's where Hadoop comes in.
Hadoop. Hadoop is an open source analytics architecture for processing massively large volumes of structured and unstructured data in a cost-effective manner. Like its NoSQL brethren, Hadoop abandons the relational model in favor of a file-based, programmatic approach based on Java. And like Membase, Hadoop uses a scale-out architecture that runs on commodity servers and requires no predefined schema or query language. Many Internet companies today use Hadoop to ingest and pre-process large volumes of clickstream data which are then fed to a data warehouse for reporting and analysis. (However, many companies are also starting to run reports and queries directly against Hadoop.)
Membase has a strong partnership with Cloudera, one of the leading distributors of open source Hadoop software. Membase wants to create bidirectional interfaces with Hadoop to easily move data between the two systems.
Membase Technology
Membase's secret sauce--the thing that differentiates it from its NoSQL competitors, such as Cassandra, MongoDB, CouchDB, and Redis--is that it incorporates Memcache, an open source, caching technology. Memcache is used by many companies to provide reliable, ultra-fast performance for data-intensive Web applications that dish out data to millions of current customers. Today, many customers manually integrate Memcache with a relational database that stores cached data on disk to store transactions or activity for future use.
Membase, on the other hand, does that integration upfront. It ties Memcache to a MySQL database which stores transactions to disk in a secure, reliable, and highly performant way. Membase then keeps the cache populated with working data that it pulls rapidly from disk in response to application requests. Because Membase distributes data across a cluster of commodity servers, it offers blazingly fast and reliable read/write performance required by the largest and most demanding Web applications.
Document Store. Membase will soon transform itself from a pure key-value database to a document store (a la MongoDB.) This will give developers the ability to write functions that manipulate data inside data objects stored in predefined formats (e.g. JSON, Avro, or Protocol Buffers.) Today, Membase can't "look inside" data objects to query, insert, or append information that the objects contain; it largely just dumps object values into an application.
Phillips said the purpose of the new document architecture is support predefined queries within transactional applications. He made it clear that the goal isn't to support ad hoc queries or compete with analytics vendors: "Our customers aren't asking for ad hoc queries or analytics; they just want super-fast performance for pre-defined application queries."
Pricing. Customers can download a free community edition of Membase or purchase an
annual subscription that provides support, packaging, and quality assurance testing. Pricing starts at $999 per node.
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The options for Atlanta apartments are seemingly endless! What else would you expect in a city with top-ranking higher education institutions, a diverse economy that continues to grow, and a cultural arts community that rivals all major cities across the country? Read on to explore this southern city affectionately known as Hotlanta and the ATL.
Higher Education
You can find an apartment for rent near one of Atlanta's premier colleges and universities. Pursue advanced education in engineering at the Georgia Tech and be a part of a community that's literally five minutes north of downtown Atlanta. Or, study business in one of the top-rated programs in the nation at Emory University's Goizueta Business School. Spelman College and Georgia State University offer residents of Atlanta unmatched opportunities for education in a wide variety of disciplines.
Atlanta Industry
If you've completed school and are now entering the workforce, you'll be pleased with the city of Atlanta's business environment. Several Fortune 500 companies call Atlanta home, including Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola Enterprises and The Home Depot.
Fun Things to Do in Atlanta
Are you familiar with Atlanta's Dogwood Festival? Popular local events like these attract long-time residents and visitors alike. In fact, Dogwood Festival artists and exhibitors come from all across the southern region to showcase their work. During the festival, Piedmont Park basically turns into an outdoor open-air art market featuring live music performances and food stands from local restaurants. The Dogwood Festival is one of several highly anticipated annual events. Once you've moved in to your apartment in Atlanta, you can enjoy everything from the 10 K Peachtree Road Race, to the summer outdoor movie series, Screen on the Green.
You Down with OTP?
Living in Atlanta apartments will officially make you an Atlantan. And as a newcomer to the city, here are a few things to remember. When people make references to the "Perimeter," they're talking about Interstate 285 that loops around the city. You either live inside the perimeter or outside the perimeter, "ITP" or "OTP." Also, don't get confused by all of the Peachtree Streets, Avenues, and Circles that you may encounter when traveling the metro area. According to the Atlanta Regional Commission, there are some 71 derivatives of the street name across the city. So, double check your directions before you leave to venture out.


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Time for urgent action on air quality, says RCPCH
10 January 2020
The College warns that air pollution is the single greatest environmental threat to public health in the UK, and that it disproportionately affects children, young people, and more deprived communities. Our calls include the expansion of clean air zones in towns and cities, bringing forward our comm...
You have what it takes to be a mentor
9 January 2020
As a paediatrician, there are many reasons you should become a mentor… Not only is it an essential part of your career development, but the skills and experiences you will acquire along the way will be incredibly valuable to you and your career.
Why good prevention policy means providing the best possible start in life for children and young people
17 October 2019
Our work on prevention is a vital part of our advocacy with policy makers and politicians. In this article Max Davie writes about our response to the green paper on prevention, and why focusing on the early years is so important for children and young people.
RCPCH responds to publication of Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales
17 October 2019
Today the Welsh Government published its long term strategy to prevent and reduce obesity. Our Officer for Wales responds.
RCPCH responds to CMO report on obesity
10 October 2019
The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, has today released an independent report entitled "Time to Change Childhood Obesity". RCPCH President, Professor Russell Viner, responds.
RCPCH Scotland responds to the Scottish Health Survey 2018
25 September 2019
The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) provides a detailed picture of the health of the Scottish population in private households and is designed to make a major contribution to the monitoring of health in Scotland. RCPCH Officer for Scotland, Professor Steve Turner, responds.
RCPCH responds to report on sugar reduction
20 September 2019
We have responded to the publication by Public Health England (PHE) of its second year report on progress by the food industry to reduce sugar in 'everyday' foods.
Tackle obesity with better routes home from school
13 September 2019
RSPH say banning junk food ads, building parks and transforming active travel are key to success. RCPCH's Dr Max Davie responds.
RCPCH responds to new guidance on how to stay fit and healthy
7 September 2019
The RCPCH welcomes the CMO's updated physical activity guidelines and says "the key to longevity and success is embedding healthy habits into life early and making them part of a routine".
Some positive action, but more needs to be done to improve Scotland's child health
4 September 2019
Responding to today's Programme for Government, RCPCH Scotland highlighted the mixed bag offered by Scottish Government for Scotland's children. RCPCH Scotland welcomed the actions being taken on air pollution, child poverty, early year's mental health and disability assistance.


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Want to connect with the expat community of South Africans in Bahrain? Looking for South African compatriots to help you with your questions on expat life? Or are you looking for other South African expats to go on an excursion to the coral reefs of the rocky northern coast with?
InterNations Bahrain offers everything you might need as an expat, no matter whether you already live in Bahrain or are still in South Africa planning your upcoming foreign assignment. InterNations is the leading platform among expatriates and global minds in all countries around the world. Needless to say, our community of South African expats in Bahrain is going very strong, with members having roots all across South Africa - from Durban, over Johannesburg to Cape Town.
Attend our monthly events and activities for South Africans expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
Get trustworthy advice and local insights from fellow South Africans in our Bahrain expat forums.
Obviously, expat life in Bahrain goes well beyond shipping your belongings and taking care of red tape. Socializing with fellow South Africans is an important facet of living abroad and can be a huge stepping stone in getting to know the Bahraini mentality and way of life. South Africans in Bahrain are a part of our community, calling cities such as Hamad Town, Muharraq, Manama, and many others home. You can use InterNations to look for fellow South Africans in Manama, for example.
Wondering where to shop for South African delicatessen, want to discuss your national team's latest match, or simply talk to someone in your native language? Become a member of the Bahraini InterNations Community!
From the coral reefs of the rocky northern coast to the sprawling cityscape, you can meet supportive and friendly South African expats in Bahrain on InterNations.
Additionally, InterNations hosts regular expat events and activities in Bahrain. Our get-togethers are sure to cater to your taste as well: as a member, you can partake in cozy gatherings to enjoy some Bahraini muhammar, join one of our huge expat celebrations with hundreds of participants in Manama's best locations, and much more. Want to discover Bahrain? Go on a weekend trip with your fellow expats to see the Qala'at al-Bahrain and other beautiful landmarks.
Our meet-ups and activities offer many wonderful opportunities to mingle with expatriates hailing from South Africa and dozens of other countries in a casual setting. Just sign up for your InterNations membership and you'll soon hear a cordial Siya namkela nonke, welkom, isibingelelo from our South Africans living in Bahrain!


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BOULDER, CO - October 21, 2008
Webroot, a leading provider of security software for the consumer, enterprise and SMB markets, today announced the introduction of Webroot® Internet Security Essentials, a new security suite which protects consumers against malicious programs, hackers and data loss without slowing the performance of their home computers. In addition to the new suite, the company announced that the latest versions of the award-winning Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware and Webroot Spy Sweeper® products will now include online file backup to protect digital photos and other valuable files.
Webroot Internet Security Essentials delivers award-winning antivirus, antispyware, two-way firewall, disk cleanup and local and online file backup technologies in a streamlined and tightly integrated security suite. Each copy protects up to three PCs, and provides the essential protection consumers need to be safe on the Internet, without slowing down their PC experience.
"Home PC users face increasingly complex threats, both to their computers and their digital files. Many security suites fall short in their protection as they do nothing to secure the consumer's irreplaceable files, and often include extraneous features that confuse users and can significantly slow down their PC's performance," said Webroot Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Desktop Business Unit Paul Lipman. "Webroot Internet Security Essentials delivers the critical components for protecting both a PC and the personal files it contains without slowing it down. And at a price below other major security suites, Webroot Internet Security Essentials delivers tremendous value to consumers in these challenging economic times."
In addition to the introduction of the new security suite, Webroot announced the availability of version 6.0 of the Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware and Webroot Spy Sweeper solutions. The latest release of these popular security products provides enhanced protection against viruses, spyware and other malicious programs and now includes integrated online file backup to protect against virtually any cause of data loss. This expanded functionality is free, and current customers will receive the newest version of their product at no charge.
"Customers have told us they consider their digital photos and other personal files priceless and need to make sure they are protected," added Lipman. "The addition of online backup to both the Webroot AntiVirus with AntiSpyware and Webroot Spy Sweeper solutions makes that protection very convenient, and once again provides a value unlike any other product on the market."
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- Full compatibility with the Windows XP and Vista operating systems, including the advanced 64-bit Windows Vista Service Pack 1 operating system
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Delegates at the provincial general council had cast their votes for the ANC's top six in a secret ballot, and counting began just before 5am on Thursday.
It appears some of the disputes from ANC members – who claimed the selection of delegates was done fraudulently – were still underway.
On Wednesday night, a brief fracas erupted outside the Cape Peninsula University of Technology hall where the council was being held.
A group of members from ANC branches in the Boland region demanded access to the council to settle disputes about the selection of branch delegates.
A woman from the New Rest branch in Wellington, Primrose Mbenene, told the South African Press Association she and some fellow supporters were "robbed" of having a say on who their branch delegate for the council should be.
She insisted she and fellow branch members were being sidelined because they supported Kgalema Motlanthe to replace Jacob Zuma as ANC president at Mangaung.
Mbenene said over the past few weeks several branch meetings were postponed because they didn't have a quorum.
Informal meetings
"They then take out people to a shebeen to have a meeting," she said.
She said they lodged five complaints over the election of their branch delegates to the ANC's provincial office and had yet to get a response.
Another woman, claiming to be the deputy chairperson of the ward seven branch in Wellington, Elsie Magoda, said she was originally meant to be a delegate.
Magoda alleges the chairperson of her branch made members sign for another delegate "in the middle of the night".
"I was a delegate but they stole it from me. It's fraud," she said.
NEC's involvement
Members of the ANC's national executive committee (NEC) task team arrived in Cape Town on Wednesday afternoon to hear and rule on disputes.
NEC members present included Public Service and Administration Minister Lindiwe Sisulu, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi, Communications Minister Dina Pule and Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane.
Struggle stalwart Andrew Mlangeni, of the ANC electoral commission, was also in attendance.
Delegates were expected to conclude their nominations for the 80 member ANC NEC, before announcing the results of the top six vote.
Divisions remained evident at the PGC with some branch delegates singing pro-Zuma songs, while others chanted the word "change" several times.
The latter wanted to see a change in leadership, insisting Motlanthe should replace Zuma at the party's elective conference which is due to start in Mangaung on December 16. – Sapa


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Biblical Allusions In American Literature: The Flood
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The Backseat with the Mirabals
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ASSIGNMENT: Vietnam by Keagle W. Davis and Thomas S. Lacy In April, eighteen Touche, Ross men left for Saigon, South Vietnam, on what is probably one of the most unusual engagements ever undertaken by a public ac-counting firm; it may also be one of the largest single engagements our firm has ever handled. Our client in Saigon is RMK-BRJ, a joint venture which is constructing a massive network of military installations in South Vietnam at a cost which may exceed one billion dollars. Touche, Ross was engaged as a subcontractor to provide a staff of trained ac-countants and auditors to assist the venture in certain accounting areas. The RMK-BRJ consortium is composed of four U.S. construction companies: Raymond International, Inc. of Delaware; Morrison-Knudsen International Company, Inc. (the sponsoring partner) of Boise, Idaho; Brown & Root, Inc. of Houston, Texas; and J. A. Jones Con-struction Company of Charlotte, North Carolina. RMK-BRJ is the outgrowth of the Raymond-Morrison-Knudsen International joint venture which initially started work in Vietnam in 1962 on this cost-plus-fixed-fee job under Navy contract NBy-44105 as part of the Military As-sistance Program to the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces. When the war was escalated in 1965, the scope of the contract increased accordingly, and Brown & Root and J. A. Jones were added to the joint venture to provide additional management capabilities. The Largest Construction Pact in History The contract, which started out as a $16,500,000 four-airfield project, has grown into the largest con-struction pact in history. RMK-BRJ has undertaken ap-proximately 1,500 separate projects in South Vietnam at over 40 construction sites ranging from Quang Tri, Hue, and Da Nang in the north to Bac Lieu and Vinh Chau in the south. Work also has been done on An Thoi and Con Son Islands off the South Vietnamese coast in the South China Sea. With a peak labor force of over 40,000 Vietnamese, 4,200 Americans, and 5,500 Filipinos, Koreans, and other nationalities, RMK-BRJ has put in place as much as $70,000,000 of construction work in a single month 2 THE QUARTERLY


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Bashing Adam
As mentioned yesterday, I don't watch American Idol. So I didn't give a sh-t about Adam Lambert until they started ragging on him for his AMA performance. Good Morning America scratched him yesterday, today it was a performance on The Early Show, and then this article on the MiniVan's favourite People.com:
Is Adam Lambert a role model or a nightmare?
Thanks to Lianne B for the heads up.
They are contending that he's more of a nightmare now because the bible thumpers and Glenn Beck wanky complainers. I linked to this in Tingles earlier but it's worth pointing out again – Towleroad quite rightly notes that CBS this morning decided to blur what Adam did on Sunday night but when playing back the Britney and Madonna kiss from a few years ago, did not bother with a blur for that clip at all.
Said it yesterday, will repeat today:
I don't think the problem is the alleged lewdness. The problem is the factual gayness.
Go read the comments below the article. This is my personal favourite:
"I was disappointed not because he is gay, but because I had to watch him being gay."
We get to watch people being straight every day on tv. And lately I've been watching General Hospital. They get really, really, REALLY straight on General Hospital. They get really, really straight on daytime soaps all the time. In the middle of the afternoon.
While we're on the subject of role models vs nightmares, People.com also posted this article about Lindsay Lohan remaining as artistic director at Ungaro. Funny they don't mention at all whether or not she should be considered a nightmare even though she can barely go an hour without getting cracked up.
Let's however end this post on a more encouraging note.
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Since I'm not big on lugging boxes of décor around for each and every holiday, simply because storage space does not permit it and I just don't have it in me to go all out for every thing, I thought I would share the couple of things we did add to brighten the house over the holiday weekend. Of course I wanted to have a door greeting for our Easter Egg Hunt guests and anyone else that happened by over the next few weeks. So, I dug up this little thrift store find from last year.
It was a cone shaped basket lined with a galvanized container that only cost $1.99. I used a piece of brown grosgrain ribbon with white polka dots that was left over from a sewing project I shared over here to make a hanger. I just slipped it through those holes along the top of the backside and tied the ends into a large bow. A $10.00 bouquet of spring flowers later and wholla!
Happy spring door décor!
Don't you just love purple and yellow together in the spring time? Ahhh, fresh!
Okay, so I have to chuckle a little now because we really did not do a lot of decorating around here at all. Aside from the flowers on the door and the fun treats that I mentioned last week for the egg hunt, the only other thing I managed to do was add some cute cut-outs to the dining room table. I was not sure if our group would end up congregating in the dining area or just in the kitchen at our smaller table, so I wanted to put something slightly festive in there as well. I found these really sweet free downloads over at The Handmade Home. She puts these out monthly and they are meant for framing, or I guess whatever you want to do with them for your own decorating needs. We, yes the Little Guy helped pull them off the printer, printed out the lambs and bunnies along with the latest creation, these chickadees, pictured below.
Photo via The Handmade Home
I carefully cut around each lamb and bunny, then from the area I cut away, I removed a long slightly curved piece keeping only the colored section and discarding the white edge of the paper. I made two slits in the bottom of each animal and two slits along the middle of the strip of paper and slid the two together at those cut lines. (I hope this makes sense!)
Ta-Da! Cute spring animal cut-outs, stand-ups, whatever you want to call them.
I just placed them around our usual candlestick display along the center of the table. I had meant to send each child home with one, but we never really ended up using this space that morning. Oh well, I guess I will have some cute little animals for next spring too!
We had intended to drape a piece of crepe paper along the opening between our family room and the kitchen for fun. Then we were going to add sized down cut-outs of the chickadees along the strip, but our first guests arrived before we could even get the tape out. Wuh-wah! Oh well, like I said things were simple and to the point around here for the holiday. ;o) Hope you guys did something fun to get in the mood for spring and Easter!
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"Staying in POV" by Mary Deal
Staying in POV
Mary Deal
Let's say your story is being told from Sadie's point of view. She's your main character. As the story progresses, you have her friend approach and you write it like this:
Jeremy walked straight toward her. "Great to see you, Sadie." His words couldn't express what he was thinking. She had lost all that weight and bordered on having a model's figure. Now he really wanted to bed her. He decided he'd treat her real sweet this time.
Notice that the above paragraph tells us what Jeremy is thinking. He is not the main character. Sadie is the main character. She cannot possibly know what Jeremy is thinking, so you cannot include it written that way.
You can, however, have Sadie read Jeremy's facial expression and mannerisms and react to it from her point of view. She can show the reader what Jeremy does that will tell the reader what's on Jeremy's mind. What Jeremy may think and feel doesn't have to be spelled out. It can be interpreted by the main character. Like this:
Sadie watched Jeremy walk toward her. His sauntering gait gave him enough time to notice her new figure and to feel his glands working as he eyed her from head to toe and back again. She knew him. He'd always made innuendoes about wanting to hop in bed again and renewing their sorry relationship.
"Great to see you, Sadie," Jeremy said. His eyes had that hungry look. He always looked that way, as if sex was the only thing her image triggered in his mind. Maybe it was, but being used and cast aside was no longer part of her new image of self-respect.
Sadie stepped away when he reached for her. "Don't try to touch me, Jerry. We washed up a long time ago and you're still trying to own me."
Jeremy's expression went hollow. "You got me all wrong," he said. The corner of his mouth twitched. That always happened when he was faced with the truth.
Staying in the POV character's head gives you a chance to create a character with some smarts, at least, enough to intuit other characters' actions and thoughts. It also gives you a greater chance of added detail and some interesting fleshing out of your prose that makes the action come alive. Notice that in the above short paragraphs, Jeremy actually confirms what Sadie has interpreted from him. It's much more interesting.
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Gunmen Kill Seven in Nigeria's Volatile North
[An Nahar] Gunmen suspected of belonging to the
Boko Haram
... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality...
Islamist group have killed seven people in separate attacks in Nigeria's volatile north, the police and army said Saturday.
In the first attack on Friday,
opened fire and threw explosives at several targets including a
cop shoppe
, a prison and government offices in Maiha, a northeastern town along the border with Cameroon, leaving two dead, police said.
"Two people were killed in the attack. We lost a policeman in the attack on the
cop shoppe
and a civilian was also killed at the government lodge," Adamawa state police
front man
Mohammed Ibrahim told AFP.
"The attackers burnt down the police divisional headquarters, a court, a satellite prison, a local education authority building and the government lodge," he said, adding that the palace of the town's traditional chief was also partially torched.
No arrests have been made, he said.
Andrew Barka, head of prisons in the state, said inmates were freed during the attack on the prison.
"The satellite prison in Maiha was broken into and burnt by the attackers. They freed inmates before setting the prison on fire. I can't say how many inmates were freed at the moment because I don't have the actual number of prisoners at the time of the attack," he said.
In a related development also on Friday, Lieutenant Colonel Sagir Musa, the military
front man
in Maiduguri, the epicenter of previous deadly attacks blamed on Boko Haram, said some
killed five people in their homes outside the city.
"Information revealed that some
bully boyz
sneaked into Musari, a village located on the outskirts of Maiduguri and secretly carried out selective killings of five people including a serving Nigerian police traffic warden," he said.
He said troops responded to the attack, arresting three suspects and recovering one AK 47 rifle with 10 rounds of ammunition.
No group so far has
grabbed credit
for the deadly attacks.
Violence linked to the Boko Haram insurgency is believed to have left some 3,000 people dead in Nigeria -- Africa's most populous state and largest oil producer -- since 2009, including killings by the security forces.
Boko Haram is thought to include various factions with differing aims, in addition to imitators and criminal gangs that carry out violence under the guise of the group.
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There have been questions lately about almost equitable partitions in graphs, for example this one which provides the definition.) Every equitable partition is almost equitable. The converse is true for regular graphs but not in general. Equitable partitions are useful for understanding eigenvalues of (the adjacency matrix of) certain graphs. There are many nice examples of equitable partitions coming from distance regular graphs, graphs with a non-trivial automorphism etc. I looked a bit and found papers about graphs with almost equitable partitions which were not equitable, but mainly as examples that it could happen. Hence
What are some interesting examples of graphs with almost equitable partitions which are not equitable? In particular (but not exclusively) infinite familes.
For me interesting would mean revealing some structure not obvious or just attractive in some way( vague I know).
As an experiment I considered a $5 \times 5$ grid with $25$ points of degrees $2,3$ and $4$. There are equitable partitions corresponding to orbits of the automorphism group (quarter rotation,half rotation,flip either of two ways). So all these have at least $6$ classes. The adjacency matrix has $13$ eigenvalues, some double, all in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{3}]$. For the Laplacian there are $14$ eigenvalues including $4$ with multiplicity $4$, all are in $\mathbb{Z}[\sqrt{5}]$. The one only almost equitable partition I saw so far is in 3 classes, top and bottom rows,rows 2 and 4, middle row (and the column version of that.)
Maybe that was the wrong example, but what is a better one?


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Since we were young, we've been taught the importance of saving money. Keep a piggy bank, store a little something for a rainy day, build up that 401(K).
If you're Apple, you have apparently taken that lesson to heart. Big time. As of Thursday morning, Apple reports a stockpile of cash that has reached $76 billion. That's nearly 16 percent more cash than it had three months ago, and, as the Wall Street Journal helpfully points out, is more than the Gross Domestic Product of 126 countries.
Now, Apple has earned all that cash -- it sells wildly popular products at very profitable margins. In what the rest of the country is calling an economic slowdown, Apple is clearly firing on all cylinders. But that much success inevitably leads to questions: What will Apple do with all that money?
U.S. & World
Investors, naturally, would love to see a cash dividend. Apple (AAPL) is a mature company, and other mature companies, from Microsoft to Applied Materials, have been paying cash dividends to their shareholders. If you hold Apple stock, you're probably already very happy and satisfied, but still, $76 billion? That could not only reward current shareholders, but conceivably bring even more stockholders into the fold.
An Apple spokesperson would only say that the company is looking for "strategic opportunities" when it comes to using its cash. That's often code for buying more companies, growing its staff, and even building giant spaceship-like headquarters. All seem to be in Apple's future, along with lots of research to find the next killer products.
All probably good enough for shareholders. But $76 billion? That is one huge piggy bank.
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Coconut-Encrusted Tofu Cutlets
Makes 3 to 4 servings
14 to 16 ounces extra-firm regular tofu, drained
2/3 cup raw unsweetened shredded dried coconut
1/3 cup wheat germ (see note for GLUTEN FREE Option)
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1/3 cup reduced-sodium tamari
Maple-Scallion Dipping Sauce (see below)
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Lay the tofu flat on a cutting board, and slice in half. Stand one half on end, and slice horizontally into three even slices. Stack the slices, and cut into thirds. Repeat with second half of the tofu. Line a rimmed baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper.
Put the coconut, wheat germ, cayenne pepper, and turmeric in a medium bowl and whisk together to combine. Pour the tamari into a small bowl. Dip each tofu cutlet into the tamari to coat all sides, then immediately dip it into the coconut mixture. Coat the tofu generously with the coconut mixture, patting it down to help it adhere. Put the tofu cutlet on the prepared sheet. Repeat with the remaining tofu pieces until they are all coated.
Tent the baking sheet loosely with foil, being careful not to let the foil touch the tops of the cutlets. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes. Remove foil, and bake an additional 5 to 15 minutes, or until the coating is golden brown and crunchy. Serve with Maple-Scallion Dipping Sauce on the side.
NOTE: For a GLUTEN FREE Option, you may use gluten-free oat bran in place of the wheat germ, if desired.
Maple-Scallion Dipping Sauce
Makes 3 servings
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 tablespoon regular or reduced-sodium tamari
1 small scallion, thinly sliced
Put the maple syrup and tamari in a small bowl. Whisk to combine. Divide equally into three dipping bowls. Top each serving with some of the sliced scallion.
Steamed Green Beans and Carrots with Orange Sauce
Makes 4 servings
4 carrots, scrubbed and sliced into sticks
3 cups green beans, cleaned and trimmed
2 tablespoons orange juice (freshly squeezed or store-bought)
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
1 teaspoon maple syrup
2 teaspoons gomasio or toasted sesame seeds
Fit a medium sauce pan with a steamer basket, and bring two inches of water to a boil. Add the carrots, cover, and steam for 5 minutes. Add the green beans, cover, and steam for 6 to 7 minutes more, or until the carrots and beans are crisp-tender.
Meanwhile, put the orange juice, lemon juice, and maple syrup in a small bowl. Whisk to combine.
Transfer the cooked carrots and beans to a medium bowl. Add the sauce and toss to coat. Sprinkle with the gomasio or sesame seeds toss lightly, and serve.
Black Quinoa with Cremini Mushrooms
Makes 4 to 5 servings
3 cups sliced cremini or white button mushrooms
1/2 teaspoon tamari
2 1/2 cups filtered or spring water, plus more as needed
1 cup black quinoa, rinsed and drained
1 vegan bouillon cube, crumbled
Put the mushrooms, tamari, and 2 tablespoons water in a medium saucepot. Cook the mushrooms over medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Add more water, 2 tablespoons at a time as needed, to keep the mushrooms from sticking to the bottom of the pot. The mushroom mixture should be very wet at this point. Add the quinoa, crumbled bouillon cube, and 2 1/4 cups water to the mushrooms. Cover tightly and decrease the heat to medium-low. Bring to a simmer and cook for 18 to 20 minutes, until all of the liquid has been absorbed. If the quinoa is not completely soft at this point, add another 1/4 cup water and continue to cook for an additional 3 to 5 minutes or until all of the liquid has been absorbed. Remove from heat and fluff with a fork. Cover and let stand for 5 to 10 minutes before serving.
Almond "Creamy" Pudding
Makes 4 to 6 servings
14 to 16 ounces soft or firm regular tofu, drained
6 heaping tablespoons almond butter
6 heaping tablespoons maple syrup
4 to 6 almonds, for garnish
Put the tofu, almond butter, and maple syrup in a blender and process until smooth and creamy. Spoon into six espresso cups, four martini glasses, or four small dessert dishes and refrigerate for 3 to 24 hours. Serve chilled, garnished with a whole almond on top, if desired.


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legacyclubs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 29 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Need logo and then web site design in near future. I will also need book covers, CDs, banner ads designed.
Legacy Clubs for Mothers and Daughters TM
Desired Color Scheme:
pink, purple (dominant) can play with other colors
Desired Style:
contemporary to appeal to girls 6 to 18 and antique to appeal to mom
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Name is Legacy Clubs for Mothers and Daugthers, it is an organization similar to Girl Scouts, but conservative. The foundational program is called Twelve Points of Focus -- so you could include 12-point star (or soft flower petals) in the design. I would like pink and purple as dominant colors and you could add lime green and bright blue -- more bold colors. Please find a script fond that is beautiful that works with "legacy" -- antique, heritage feel to it. I also need help in hear future to redesign family magazine I own online called familyvoiceutah.com. Thanks you very much.
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ATLANTA -- CRCT testing for students at Atlanta's Continental Colony Elementary School has been canceled for Wednesday after smoke in a restroom forced a brief evacuation.
Atlanta Public Schools officials said the fire was quickly contained, but due to the disruption, students will be housed in the auditorium for the remainder of the school day. Testing has been rescheduled.
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Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W. Bush and the Republicans' fault, Bill Clinton on Thursday told ABC's Chris Cuomo that Democrats for years have been "resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" (video available here, relevant section at 2:45).
Whether he knew it or not, Clinton was going against virtually all press outlets that have been pointing fingers at Republicans since this crisis began, and likely much to the dismay of such folk actually agreed with a Fox News segment aired on Tuesday's "Special Report" (video embedded right):
BRIT HUME, HOST: In the recent spate of government bailouts, buyouts and rescues, the federal takeovers of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are arguably the biggest of them all. And those two firms are also arguably the biggest reason for the credit crisis in the first place. So the question arises -- how did this come to be? Chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle reports.
JIM ANGLE, CHIEF WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There is one nagging question behind all the debate over how to get out of this mess.
CHRIS DODD (D-CT), SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE CHMN: American taxpayers are angry and they demand to know how we arrived at this moment.
ELIZABETH DOLE (R), NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR: My constituents, and indeed taxpayers across the nation are asking how we arrived at this crisis. It is infuriating.
ANGLE: But Senator Dole and others think they know the answer, and it's something the Senate tried to fix three years ago but was thwarted.
DOLE: To the mismanagement of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which was made possible by weak oversight and little accountability.
MEL MARTINEZ (R), FLORIDA SENATOR: A lot of what we're dealing with today has its origins in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
ANGLE: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, backed by the federal government, buy mortgage loans from the lenders who make them. But four years ago, both were in trouble over shoddy accounting. Fannie Mae Chief Franklin Raines, President Clinton's former budget director, was fired. To placate those in Congress who watched over them, Fannie and Freddie promised to do more to help poor people get mortgages. That led them to buy riskier and riskier home loans from private lenders creating incentives for everyone to make shakier loans.
PETER WALLISON, AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE: The problem is that they encouraged very bad mortgages to be made by banks and other institutions, because Fannie and Freddie would buy them.
ANGLE: Eventually, they bought trillions of dollars worth of mortgages, a substantial portion of them based on poor credit, then resold many of them to financial institutions who thought they were safe because the federal government was behind them.
WALLISON: As a result of this appearance that they were backed by the government, people never paid very much attention to the assets they were acquiring or the risks they were taking.
ANGLE: And so shaky mortgages spread throughout the system. But in 2005, the Senate Banking Committee, then chaired by Republican Richard Shelby, tried to rein in the two organizations bypassing some strong new regulations.
WALLISON: Which would have prevented Fannie and Freddie from acquiring this bad -- these bad mortgages. It actually gave a new regulator for Fannie and Freddie the kinds of powers that a bank regulator had.
ANGLE: All the Republicans voted for it. All the Democrats, including the current chairman, Senator Chris Dodd, voted against it, and that was after Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan had issued a stark warning to senators that Fannie and Freddie were playing with fire. Greenspan said without stronger regulations, "We increase the possibility of insolvency and crisis. Without restrictions on the size of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we put at risk our ability to preserve safe and sound financial markets in the United States."
ANGLE: Which turned out to be exactly right, but because Democrats blocked it, those new regulations never got consideration by the full Senate and died. So that's how we got into this mess, and how we missed a chance to avoid it. Getting out of it now, of course, will be a lot more difficult -- Brit.
Two days later, former President Clinton agreed:
CHRIS CUOMO, ABC NEWS: A little surprising for you to hear the Democrats saying, "This came out of nowhere, this is all about the Republicans. We had nothing to do with this." Nancy Pelosi saying it. She signed the '99 Gramm Bill. She knew what was going on with the SEC. They're all sophisticated people. Is that playing politics in this situation?
BILL CLINTON: Well, maybe everybody does that a little bit. I think the responsibility the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Imagine that!
Kudos to Cuomo for asking the question, and kudos to Clinton for being so honest, especially in an election year.
The only question remains whether other news outlets will follow suit and begin telling the American people just how many proposals Republicans have made in the past decade to impose tighter regulations and oversight on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and how such efforts were routinely thwarted by Democrats.
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It looks like the Northern parts of the US will be seeing snow very soon. Since Christmas is around the corner, I figured I would two great things about winter and combine them into a tutorial. We will be learning "how to draw a Christmas snowman", step by step. As you can see by the name, the drawing is a mix of Christmas and snow. We love presents, and we love when it snows because we can go snow sledding as well as make our first snowmen. I love the way that this snowman came out because it really brings out that holiday feel. This would also make a great snowman to color in for some table top fun. I will return once again with more drawing fun for you all. Peace out and happy holidays.
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We live on Planet Ocean.
Water covers three-quarters of the globe and a staggering 80% of all life on Earth is found hidden beneath its waves. As the sea rolls across the planet it provides over half the oxygen we breathe, sustains billions of people with its resources and drives weather systems and natural flows of energy, which maintain life on Earth.
We need a healthy global ocean to survive. Yet our oceans are in crisis.
A healthy ocean has diverse ecosystems and robust habitats. But a myriad of human pressures – from overfishing to climate change – are causing ecosystems to collapse, the extinction of many marine species and the destruction of ocean habitats. Our own Pacific Ocean, one of the last relatively healthy ocean ecosystems, is being plundered at an alarming rate. Find out more
We need to change the way we fish and the way we protect our oceans. From the high seas to the supermarket shelf, Greenpeace works to replace destructive and illegal fishing practices with sustainable ones. We have a bold vision to end overfishing and establish a global network of marine reserves, which are vital to restore the health of our oceans. Find out more
For over thirty years Greenpeace has taken action to protect the gentle giants of the sea. Our work has helped end whaling in nearly every country and revived decimated whale populations. Yet whales are still not safe. Today we're campaigning to protect whales from the many dangers they face, from 'scientific' whaling to climate change. Find out more
You have the power to end the destruction of our oceans. If more people demand sustainable seafood from their retailers, there's more incentive and pressure for industrial fisheries to provide it. In fact, the tide is already changing. Find out more
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Norman Asbjornson drew post two and is a 30-1 outsider in the 2011 Preakness. Can the 3-year-old son of former Preakness hero Real Quiet upset the applecart? Probably not, but a minor award is not out of the question.
The Christopher Grove charge failed to get involved in a trio of Pennsylvania maiden sprint starts to begin his career but has been a new horse since stretching out in distance.
He graduated at a flat mile at Penn National in December and sailed through the entry level ranks to begin his 3-year-old campaign. A runner-up effort in the Gotham Stakes followed and he was last seen finishing a respectable 4th in the Wood Memorial.
The Preakness is a tough test but he shows two works at Pimlico including a solid one-mile move on May 6. He is not nearly as fast as some of his more fancied rivals but his numbers are slowly improving and he could spice up the exotics in Baltimore on Saturday.


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For Phase I observing proposals, the information presented in this section can be used to estimate the overheads associated with a new science target. This information could be also useful for the Phase II planning of your observing programs. All of the values listed on this page are included in OT calculations of the execution time of an observation. However, only the actual overheads incurred at the time of the observation will be charged to the program.The detailed overhead information is presented below.
- Telescope and GeMS/GSAOI setup time
- Readout overheads
- Filter change overheads
- Dithering overheads
- Overheads associated to a sky sequence
1. Telescope and GeMS/GSAOI setup time
Acquisition overheads associated with setting up on each new science target include the time for slewing the telescope, launching the GeMS lasers, acquiring the GeMS laser and natural guide stars, closing all loops, acquiring the GSAOI On-Detector Guide Window guide star, positioning the target within the GSAOI field-of-view, and configuring the instrument. The table below gives the estimates for acquisition overheads. For more detailed information about the acquisition overheads budget see the GeMS Acquisition and Overheads web page.
|GeMS/GSAOI Acquisition Overheads
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|30 minutes
|Re-acquisition when the offset to the sky is larger than 5 arcmin from the target position
|10 minutes (1)
(1) See Overheads associated to a sky sequence for details.
Applicants for GSAOI time should allow for one acquisition for approximately every 2 hours observed (including overheads).
The acquisition overheads listed above are based on average statistics from the last three GeMS/GSAOI commissioning runs and are included in OT calculations of the execution time of an observation.
2. Readout overheads
The table below lists the overheads associated with taking GSAOI images in the various read modes without telescope offsetting. These values include the time to read out the array Ncoadds times and to write the final FITS image.
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|Faint Objects/Broad-band imaging
|21s + 22.4s * Ncoadds + 6.5s * (Ncoadds - 1)
|Very Faint Objects/Narrow-band images
|21s + 44.8s * Ncoadds + 6.5s * (Ncoadds - 1)
Filter change overhead
The overhead due to filter change without telescope offsetting is in average 15 sec (depend on the position of the filter in the wheel).
3. Dithering overheads
A normal GSAOI science observation sequence can include telescope offsets for image dithering and telescope offsets for sky background images. In both cases, some specific GeMS loops (Laser, NGS, etc) must either be paused or opened, and then resumed after the offsets. Note that the gaps between the four GSAOI arrays cause gaps in the imaging field. If continuous coverage of the field is needed, then multiple exposures have to be obtained at different dithering positions. A minimum dither step of 4 arcsec in the both X-direction and Y-direction (p and q-direction on the OT) is recommended. The overhead per dither step is 15 sec. This overhead is applicable when GeMS is working with 3 Canopus NGS stars and 1 ODGW star.
4. Overheads associated to a sky sequence
The overheads associated to a sky sequence can be different depending on how large is the offset to the selected sky region.
- If the observation requires offsets to the sky shorter than 5 arcminutes from the base position, additional 30 seconds have to be accounted for the offset to the sky position. In this case, all NGS loops and dependencies are paused, and the probes are frozen (do not follow telescope offsets), but the LGS stabilization loop remain closed. Note that when the telescope is offsetting to the desired sky position, the same overhead per dither step on the sky (15 sec) is applicable.
- If the observation requires offsets to the sky larger than 5 arcminutes from the base position, the laser propagation must be stopped due to Laser Clearing House restrictions. Moreover, the laser has to be re-acquired and the NGS acquisition re-checked when the telescope moves back to the base position. In this case, additional 10 minutes have to be accounted for re-acquisition of the field. The sky sequence is observed un-guided and the overhead associated to telescope offsetting is 10 sec. Note that for this case, a separate GSAOI observation sequence will be required.


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The Cameron University chapter of Phi Eta Sigma, the national interdisciplinary honor society, inducted 49 new members during its 28th annual induction ceremony on March 6. Phi Eta Sigma, with chapters on more than 350 college campuses across the nation, encourages and rewards academic excellence achieved by students during their freshman year in institutions of higher learning.
This spring's inductees are (by hometown):
Chattanooga: Jaime Brown, Nikki Kirk
Comanche: Zachary Young
Elgin: Beverly Perou
Fletcher: Heather Bivans
Frederick: Kynzie Pierce
Geismar, La.: Shae James
Guatemala City, Guatemala: Juan Forno
Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos, Nigeria: Agnes Ajose
Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria: Omobolanle Adams, Temilade Adelusi, Oluwatoyin Kayode, Chima Aghaulor
Indiahoma: Casey Curtsinger
Kathmandu, Nepal: Sijalu Paudel, Nisha Wagle
Kenbridge, Va.: Lisa Castor
Lagos, Nigeria: Akinola Akinlawon, Bukonla Aloba, Oluwaseun Ayine, Chidinma Chykugwu, Mary Omoyele, Damilare Thomas
Lawton/Fort Sill: Lauren Barrett, Ashley Brinck, Lacey Daubenspeck, Tathena Griffitts, Brianna Hall, Bambi Hampton, Rachel Patterson, Rebekah Pullicar, Susan Pustejovskey, Nabil Sukar, Zoie Timothy, Angela Williams, Erin Wood, Philip Worthen
Leavenworth, Kan.: Sara Rivera
Marlow: Haleigh Hines
Oklahoma City: Katrina Bradsher, Macy Garcia
Ponca City: Casey Meek
Saint Marys, Pa.: Benjamin Allen
Snyder: Madison Geiger
Sterling: Stacey Davis-Jay, Skyler Hudson, Jacob Quickle
Tipton: Kerry White
Vernon, Texas: Vontrease Willie
The Cameron chapter of Phi Eta Sigma was established in 1985. Students eligible for membership must have completed 24 to 42 hours of course work while attending full-time, be degree seeking, and have at least a 3.75 grade point average.
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This is a first! I'm drawing a Bird! This time. This picture reference is given from a DevientArt member's photographer friend--"Tony Fagan Photography." He gave me permission. In this tutorial we are going to learn "How to Sketch a Bird." If you just want to do the line drawing, that would be great. But those of you who like doing pencil shadings and detail, I have that for you too. I hope you will enjoy it. This is both for Novice, Intermediate, and Advanced. So I chose the middle point of difficulty.
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A roundup of false comments that still burn
There's not much worse for the political class than a trip to the fiery regions courtesy of PolitiFact Georgia and the AJC Truth-O-Meter.
This year PolitiFact Georgia published more than 240 fact checks. Of those, 17 had the distinction of being awarded a Pants On Fire rating. Not only were these statements judged to be untrue, but they were found to be ridiculously so.
Here are summaries of a few of our favorite incendiary ratings of the year.
Today's roundup kicks off a weeklong review of some of the best of PolitiFact Georgia from 2013.
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(WMAs) or by downloading this form: WMA Self Clearing Permit form-July 2012.
A Self-Clearing Permit is required for ALL ACTIVITIES (hunting, fishing, hiking, birdwatching, sightseeing, etc.) on WMAs, unless otherwise specified.
The Self-Clearing Permit consists of two portions: Check In and Check Out.
• On WMAs where Self-Clearing Permits are required, all persons must obtain a WMA Self-Clearing Permit from an Information Station. The Check In portion must be completed and put in a permit box before each day's activity on the day of the activity.
EXCEPT if hunting from a private camp adjacent to the WMA being hunted, or if camping on the WMA, users need only to check in once during any 72-hour period.
Users may check in one day in advance of use.
• The Check Out portion must be carried by each person while on the WMA and must be completed and put in a permit box immediately upon exiting the WMA or within 72 hours after checking in if hunting from a private camp adjacent to the WMA being hunted or if camping on the WMA.
• No permit is required of fishers and boaters who do not travel on a WMA road and/or launch on the WMA as long as they do not get out of the boat and onto the WMA.
• Self-Clearing Permits are not required for persons only traveling through the WMA provided that the most direct route is taken and no activities or stops take place.
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FINAL FANTASY XV is the highly anticipated next instalment in the legendary series that defined storytelling and adventure in video games. Featuring action heavy combat, innovative gameplay, and immersive graphics that push the limits of modern hardware, HDR enhanced for richer, more luminous colours. FINAL FANTASY XV is an awe-inspiring tale that transports audiences into its vivid imagining of a fantasy world based in reality.
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text: A follow-up to the 2009 release G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, which grossed more than $300 million worldwide, Paramount Pictures, MGM and Skydance Productions, in association with Hasbro and di Bonaventura Pictures, presents G.I. Joe: Retaliation. In this sequel, the G.I. Joes are not only fighting their mortal enemy, Cobra, they are forced to contend with threats from within the government that jeopardize their very existence.


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Dear Lego,
I've noticed that the short legs are becoming more common as a way to represent children, elves, hobbits and other short statured characters. Unfortunately the current minifigure arms that are on a standard torso piece are disproportionatly long and look out of place on these figures. There needs to be an arm mold that is approximately 2/3 the length of the current arms to make things look more correct and balanced. Hopefully such a piece is already in the planning stage and will be appearing in sets soon.