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The modern pencil was once a controversial addition to the classroom. Some American schoolteachers said the 1858 invention of pencils with attached erasers would encourage student carelessness. But the pencil prevailed and is now among the world's most popular tools for writing and drawing.
The pencil's origin lies in the late sixteenth century, when shepherds in Borrowdale, England, discovered deposits of pure graphite and used it to mark their sheep. (The Greek graphein means "to write.") One of the oldest pencils was made with Borrowdale graphite wrapped with string. Scribes would unwind the string as the graphite wore away to avoid covering their hands with carbon. The earliest eraser was a loaf of bread.
European and American manufacturers perfected wood-cased pencils by the nineteenth century, but these regions now mostly import their pencils from the world's largest pencil manufacturers in China, Indonesia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and Thailand. The U.S. domestic industry is worth $1 billion per year, but the country still imports more than 18 million pencils annually.


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Already designated "definitive political biography" on its back cover, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by Brooklyn College political science professor Jeanne Theoharis will reside in my personal reading history as the most difficult book I've ever reviewed. Never before – and hopefully never again – have I faced such a vast divide between significant content and frustrating execution. As the most exhaustively researched biography thus far on Rosa Parks, Theoharis' new title is inarguably an essential addition to any library or classroom, and yet readers will need serious patience to sift through tedious repetition, fragmented chronology, and countless "might have/could have" assumptions to reach the final page.
Fable, myth, caricature are not words historically linked to Rosa Parks, who is publicly remembered as the quiet, tired seamstress whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus sparked the US civil rights movement. When she died at 92 in 2005, Parks became the first woman and second African American to have her body lie in state in the US Capitol Rotunda; 40,000 – including President and Mrs. George W. Bush – bore witness, with additional mourners paying tribute at overflowing memorials held in Montgomery, and Detroit, where Parks spent more than half of her life.
"[T]he woman who emerged in the public tribute bore only a fuzzy resemblance to Rosa Louise Parks," Theoharis proves. "[R]epeatedly defined by one solitary act on the bus," Theoharis insists Parks was "stripped of her lifelong history of activism and anger at American injustice." Instead, "the public spectacle provided an opportunity for the nation to lay rest a national heroine and its own history of racism." In other words: 50 years earlier, this tired woman couldn't sit on a bus, but look where she's lying now.
Theoharis "was captivated and then horrified by the national spectacle made of her death." She gave a talk about "its caricature of [Parks] and, by extension, its misrepresentation of the civil rights movement," which she was asked to turn into an article: "It became clear how little we actually knew about Rosa Parks." Even "Rosa Parks: A Life," the biography by lauded historian Douglas Brinkley, "is "pocket-sized, un-footnoted," while the autobiography Parks wrote with Jim Haskins, "Rosa Parks: My Story," is targeted for young adult readers. "[T]he lack of scholarly monograph on Parks," Theoharis observes, "is notable."
More than a personal biography, "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks" (Theoharis uses the honorific Mrs. to add "a degree of dignity, distance, and formality to mark that she is not fully ours as a nation to appropriate") is a political reclamation of Parks' almost-70 years of activism. As the grandchild of slaves, Parks knew "[f]rom an early age, ... 'we were not free.'" Pushed by her mother, a teacher, towards an education, "her discovery of black history in high school was transformative." Family responsibilities kept Parks from finishing 11th grade; she wanted to be nurse or social worker, never a teacher after the "'humiliation and intimidation'" she watched her mother endure. Her husband Raymond Parks was "'the first real activist I ever met.'"
Her acts of resistance began small and early – she refused to drink from segregated water fountains – then public and even life-threatening – she registered to vote and assisted others "despite enormous poll taxes and the unfair registration tests." She was Montgomery's NAACP secretary, long aligned with controversial activist E.D. Nixon; she experienced interracial leadership training and race equality at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee.
This was the seasoned, knowledgeable Parks who boarded an evening bus on December 1, 1955, and refused to give up her seat – she was the third, not first, African American woman who refused to get up, but unlike the previous two who were teenagers, Parks was "middle-aged, religious, of good character … respected." Her arrest sparked a year-long bus boycott that catapulted young Martin Luther King, Jr. into the spotlight, and changed history forever.
Her courage had severe personal consequences, conveniently elided by history. She lost that seamstress job – she was actually a skilled "assistant tailor," another detail overshadowed by her humbling myth. Raymond lost his. Her mother fell ill, Parks herself was riddled with ulcers, Raymond drank heavily. The family was constantly harassed. Parks reluctantly traveled without pay across the country at the behest of fellow male activist leaders; as "the proper kind of symbol," Parks was regularly seen but rarely heard.
Unable to find work in Montgomery, the Parkses moved to Detroit to join family, and spent a decade suffering dire financial straits; the hate mail and death threats continued. The "Northern Promised Land" had all the same civil rights challenges as the South, yet Parks never lost hope, continuing her activism for almost another half-century. She found inspiration in the Black Power movement, protested wars, fought to educate and empower the youth, even after she was mugged in her own home. Financial stability finally came with her "first ... paid political position" in the office of US Congressman John Conyers which would last over 20 years.
With Parks' death, her literal history became mired in legal disputes. Although the "'first' installment" of her papers were donated to Wayne State University in 1976, "a vast trove ... sits in a storage facility in Manhattan, of use to no one, priced at $6 million to $10 million." The "celebrity auction house," Guernsey's, has been trying to sell the Rosa Parks Archive for five years, "steadfastly unwilling to let any scholar make even a cursory examination."
February 4 marks Parks' 100th birthday: the Archives' release could be a most significant public gift. Until that happens, Theoharis' "Rebellious Mrs. Parks," in spite of frustrating flaws, provides the most illuminating, necessary insight into a needs-to-be-retired legacy that deserves heightened attention and renewed respect.
Terry Hong writes BookDragon, a book review blog for the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Program.


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There's no doubt about it, gambling means big business. Casinos in the U.S. raked in $62.8 billion in 2011, according to Spectrum Gaming Group, a research and professional services firm.
But with the good comes the bad for the gaming industry — cheating is also a big money maker for those who find ways to deceive the house. Thanks to technology, it's getting harder to pull off. Casinos have cameras trained on every table and are always on the lookout for anything suspicious. But some people still manage to do it. Casino cheating expert George Joseph of Worldwide Casino Consultingestimates the industry loses tens of millions of dollars a year in scams.
The scams can be pulled off with age-old sleight-of-hand tricks or with the aid of high-tech devices. Either way, they are illegal and could mean time behind bars for those who are caught. However, penalties vary from state to state. In Nevada, for example, someone convicted of cheating faces one to six years in prison, or a fine of up to $10,000, or both.
So what are some of the ways people cheat in casinos? CNBC.com spoke with Joseph, who is author of "The 101 Most Asked Questions About Texas Hold'em and Poker Cheating," to compile a list. Some are common cheating methods; others are employed less frequently but can result in a big payday.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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No Holidays For You
Easter is another good time to witness first hand the bombardment of Christian culture on Australian society. It is inescapable and pervasive.
As a non-believer, I have been challenged by theists to justify why I take part in Easter celebrations. Typically this involves the particularly banal and pathetic statement that I should be working on the public holidays dedicated to Easter celebrations.
Straight up I will admit that I don't want to take part in Easter celebrations. Especially in the religious sense. I feel that the whole Jesus story is bogus, disgusting and not worthy of any celebration.
The idea that an innocent person was punished for the crimes of humanity is disgusting. I say it again, an innocent person, tortured and murdered, for the crimes of others. I've said it publicly, it makes no sense. Imagine a modern justice system that decrees the allocation of punishment to the innocent on behalf of the guilty.
Never mind the related story of a the same guy rising from the dead, leaving his tomb empty and visiting people in a zombie like fashion. At this point, the kitchen sink of impossibilities can be thrown into the equation and as with most religious stories, evidence and common sense are the last things that cross your mind. A supernatural being is obviously the only explanation for what occurred. Obviously.
God could have invoked flood version 2 and savagely and heartlessly drowned the vast majority of plants and animals, including us, to death. Maybe life rafts and food reserves would appear for the believers and the sin free. Another option is to smite the ungodly masses using a Godly lightning bolt to the head. Instead, God chose a bizarre and brutal crucifixion ceremony with a twist at the end.
So why do I take part in Easter celebrations? In my mind, I don't. In body, it is the social, family and cultural pressure. People react poorly when their baseless beliefs are questioned (I will post more on this later). Basically, I could be doing something more productive than spoiling their day of mythical worship, which means I will miss out on that glorious opportunity to be lambasted by those loving, compassionate, tolerant Christian types. All of the pressure aside, people know how I feel, I just don't bring it up.
Actually, most of what we do on Easter these days isn't even of Christian origin but has been co-opted by Christians to boost the popularity. Rabbits and chocolate eggs? What have they got to do with Jesus?
Now, right back to the start to address the public holiday question. Do Liberal voters get to take the Labour Day holiday (See: Australian Labour Movement). Do non-citizens deserve to take the Australia Day holiday? Can republican thinkers take the Queens Birthday public holiday?
All of these holidays can discriminate by means of their meaning or origin, but the state, who determines public holidays, does not discriminate. Good luck to the religious if they attempt to oppress and exclude participation in Easter based on religious affiliation. It would be relevance suicide on a grand scale.
To be true to the holiday, I do make an effort to at least think about the meaning and origin of Easter. Unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to read the Bible, which I usually do on religious days. I also didn't get the opportunity to read anti-religion publications such as God Is Not Great. Instead, I was lucky enough to watch Richard Dawkins and George Pell on Q & A. The entire hour simply acted to re-enforce the worming and weaving that religion and in particular the institutions of religion have to do to justify themselves.
One dimensional arguments from cultural non-practicing Christians are pathetic. The biggest objection you have against my Atheism around Easter is that I shouldn't be able to take the day off?
Take a good look at yourselves and your beliefs. Grown adults, believing a story that is thousands of years old, disgusting at it's core. Unproven, improbable, poorly represented by those who hold the highest chairs and most importantly, absurd.
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I think the pressure to take part in 'presents under tree' and 'rabbit chocolate egg' day is too great. I love that it brings families and friends together, but I resent that I feel bullied to only do that on certain day's of the year. People look at me weird when I throw a party on 9 November (birth date of Carl Sagan). "I am sorry…but what is so unusual with me celebrating the birth of a TRUE saviour of science, reason and human rights when you are celebrating the birth of a fictional freak of nature who has superpowers, whose father is a psychotic murderer with a child torture fetish and who is now a zombie…MIND YOUR OWN BUSIENSS!!"
Flood version 2? What about the meteorite/comet impact that wiped out thousands of animal species, and mostly large mammals. Perhaps it can be argued that God, sorry, I mean god, didn't have a sufficiently intelligent species to delegate the blueprints of bunkers or orbital spacecraft to save a pair of each animal from the annihilation of most of the lower atmosphere.


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Are Your Cooking Spices Too Old?
In the grand scheme of things to watch out for—heavy metals, date rape drugs, foreclosure—a jar of less-than-potent nutmeg might not seem like such a big deal. But most ground spices lose their potency after only six months, which means households all across the country are about to enter the most spice-centric time of the year with expired spices. Spice seller McCormick now offers a handy spice-dating service via its website, which is how one highly excitable reader discovered that her local supermarket was selling stuff that was 5 years old.
I bought a bottle of McCormick curry powder a few days ago at the Superfresh (NOT) at the Hillcrest Shopping Center, Lansdale PA. I checked the site and it indicated it had no record of that number. OMG! Counterfeit spice! From China! With lead and anti-freeze in it!
So I called McCormick and gave a nice woman named Jenny the number. She said it was from 2002!!!!!!!!! No lead or anti-freeze.
We think the McCormick spice-dating service is great, but we also think it's an easy way for McCormick to push greater sales of its spices, so we looked online for some independent info about how long spices really last. Turns out, six months is about the limit for ground spices, and whole spices can last one to two years. Peppercorns are the exception, lasting 5 years or more.
Spices aren't dangerous when they're too old, just less potent. One website says that "greatly increased quantities will be needed to get the same strength of flavour" and that "some of the more delicate elements of the flavour may be lost entirely."
Patty didn't have a lot of luck convincing the Superfresh manager that he was selling old merchandise, but we greatly admire the way she got so obsessive about something the manager would obviously prefer to just ignore:
SOOOO, I go to the "Superfresh" and explain to the guy at the 'service' counter about the dating system and how I called McCormick and how they said the curry I bought two days ago was manufactured in 2002.
He replied "we've only been here year so I don't see how that could happen"
Leaving aside the IQ question I asked if he'd like to go with me to check to see if any more were out of date. He said no.
So I checked and the majority that I looked at were out of date, like one was made after 2004.
I went back and relayed this to him and he repeated they had only been there a year. I told him I would pass this information and what it implied about the freshness of their merchandise on and that I had written to The Consumerist about it. He gave me a refund card.
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Team India practising to make it perfect at Colombo
Having been humiliated in the opening Test at Galle - one that will always be remembered as Muttiah Muralitharan's farewell Test, and one where he became the first bowler ever to reach the 800 wickets milestone - Team India are keen to ensure the mistakes aren't repeated in the second Test at Colombo beginning on Monday.
The team practised hard on Saturday.
And they had some good news coming their way as well.
Besides the fact that Muralithran won't be there at Colombo to torment them - the offie took eight wickets at Galle -paceman Lasith Malinga has also been ruled out due to a stiff knee.
Malinga's absence from the line-up - the bowler took seven wickets, five in the second innings - will give India a huge relief as they seek to level the series.
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Sehwag needs to focus on his shot selection
Virender Sehwag was particularly focussed during a practice session.
Sehwag scored 109 and 31 in the Galle Test.
However, what will concern India is the manner in which Sehwag gifted his wicket away in both the innings.
In the first innings, he squandered his wicket soon after posting his 20th Test hundred by chasing a wide delivery off paceman Chanaka Welegedara and fell to the same bowler in the second essay when he played one away from his body.
Sehwag, however, defended his selection of shots after the match.
"I don't think (it was a mistake) to play a cut shot. Out of the 7000 odd runs 3000 runs of mine, have been in cut shots," he reasoned.
The facts may be true but the reasoning certainly is not convincing.
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Harbhajan needs to be among the wickets
Harbhajan Singh was another player who was quite focussed during the practise session.
Harbhajan, despite not being hundred per cent fit, was included in the side.
It showed up when he struggled to bowl on the opening day. A lacklustre showing by him and Pragyan Ojha enabled Sri Lanka steal the momentum and post a mammoth 520 for eight declared in their first innings.
Harbhajan went wicketless in the 30 overs he bowled in the first innings, while Ojha went for 115 runs in 28 overs and never really threatened with the ball.
Harbhajan's fitness remains a worry ahead of Colombo.
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Dhoni has to take more responsibility
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Indian captain, admitted that lack of experience in the pace attack and failure to build partnerships proved costly for his team in the opening Test in Galle.
Looking at the conditions here, I think we lacked experience in bowling. It was a learning experience for the seamers, who did a decent job after the first day," Dhoni said after India succumbed to a 10-wicket defeat.
"There are plenty of areas to work on. Hopefully we will learn from mistakes and come good in the next match," he added.
Maybe the captain was right.
India were without pace duo of Zaheer Khan and S Sreesanth and the inexperienced seamers -- Ishant Sharma and debutant Abhimanyu Mithun lacked of experience.
The fact that both the spinners - Harbhajan Singh and Pragyan Ojha - also failed added to Team India's cup of woes.
However, there will be no scope for explanation should India lose at Colombo.
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Dhoni, the captain has to take more responsibility and ensure his side makes optimum use of the available resources.
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Self-portraits show Holmes grinning, holding weapons
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Self-portraits taken with a cellphone less than seven hours before the mass shooting at an Aurora theater show suspect James Holmes eerily grinning, sticking his tongue out and wearing black contact lenses while he holds a handgun, assault rifle and homemade bomb, prosecutors said Wednesday.
The cellphone photos were introduced on the third and final day of what was to be a five-day preliminary hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to try Holmes on more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder.
Holmes is charged with killing 12 people and wounding nearly 60 during the July 20 massacre in suburban Denver.
Prosecutors wrapped up their case, saying there was ample evidence to warrant a trial. Arapahoe County prosecutor Karen Pearson said the photos, along with video placing Holmes at the theater, records of weapons and ammunition purchases in the weeks of the shooting and other evidence "go to identity, deliberation and extreme indifference'' under the charges. "He knew what he was doing,'' Pearson said.
"He picked a perfect venue for his crime, where people were packed in and where there would be great difficulty for escape,'' she said. "Had his (assault rifle) not jammed, he would have shot a lot more people. He had ample ammunition to do so."
Holmes' defense team has said that the 25-year-old University of Colorado doctoral program dropout suffers from mental illness and suggested they will use an insanity defense.
Lead defense attorney Dan King had planned to call witnesses who would have testified to Holmes' mental state. But King told Judge William Sylvester on Wednesday that given the evidence, it was pointless to call witnesses.
"This is neither the proper venue nor time to put on a show or a truncated defense," King said.
Sylvester continued the hearing until Friday morning. Court officials said Sylvester could rule on the evidence before Friday, and then set an arraignment date for him.
The last of the chilling self portraits — showing Holmes holding an improvised explosive device — was taken at 6:31 p.m. July 19. Aurora police received the first of more than 40 911 calls from the theater around 12:38 a.m on July 20. Investigators later found 76 bullet casings and shotgun shells: 65 rounds from an AR-15 assault rifle, six from a semi-automatic shotgun and five from a Glock .40-caliber pistol.
Prosecutors say another series of cellphone photos taken earlier by Holmes show that he had checked out the theater on at least three separate occasions in the weeks before the shootings. Two of interior photos were taken on June 29. Aurora police Detective Matthew Fyles said Holmes took an additional photo of the rear of the building at 11:30 p.m. July 5 and another photo of the complex's outer doors at 12:28 a.m. July 11.
Police said earlier in the hearing that Holmes purchased a ticket online July 8 for the July 20 midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. On Tuesday, prosecutors played theater surveillance video that showed Holmes entering the theater shortly past midnight. Police say he later exited an emergency door, propped it open and went to his car in the rear parking lot, where he dressed in tactical gear and armed himself. He then returned to the building and opened fire on the crowded theater.
Survivors of the shooting who attended the hearing said they were startled by Holmes' demeanor in the cellphone photos, which alternately showed him smiling or mugging for the camera.
"It shows he had planned this all along, that he knew what he was doing,'' said Yousef Gharbi, who was shot in the right temple. He recalls wiping away blood before passing out. He later awoke in the hospital.
The 17-year-old high school senior came to court hoping to learn Holmes' motive. He didn't come away from the hearings with any answers, but says he hopes Holmes doesn't escape prison or a death sentence by pleading insanity.
"Those pictures he took of himself? He thought it was a joke,'' said Gharbi, who says he still suffers from anxiety attacks. "He knew what he was doing."
Tom Teves, whose son Alex was among those killed, said Holmes' odd behavior following the shootings is a ruse.
"He's playing everyone,'' said Teves, who attended the hearing with his wife, Caren.
Caren Teves said the evidence presented in the hearing was disturbing, but it gave the victims' families more of a sense of the case than they'd previously had.
"It was completely planned out, well-thought out, deliberate and calculating,'' she said.
The hearing started Monday with dramatic testimony from police officers who arrived on the scene of the shooting and found Holmes standing by his car at the rear of the theater "completely compliant," wearing soft body armor, a gas mask and a helmet.
Police officer Justin Grizzle described in emotional detail driving six shooting victims to the hospital on four separate trips.
"There was so much blood," he recalled. "I could hear it sloshing around in the back of my car."
On Tuesday, an FBI technician testified about how Holmes rigged his apartment with homemade bombs that would destroy his building when accidentally tripped from the outside, creating a diversion from the shootings at the movie theater.
Throughout the hearing, survivors and families of those who died in the shooting watched proceedings either in the courtroom or an adjacent hearing room.
"She doesn't want to see him," said Sam Soudari, the father of Farrah Soudari, 23, who lost a kidney and spleen from an exploding grenade. "Part of me wants to rip his head off — but you see him sitting there and (he) just seems lifeless," Sam Soudari said.


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During Black History Month, we pause and reflect on the contributions of great African Americans. The theme of this post is "Black Women in American Culture and History." In this space, we provide resources to help you teach about women who have made significant contributions to African-American literature. American Passages features several writers who have contributed to and commented on American culture and history.
Read the remarkable stories of educated enslaved woman such as Phillis Wheatley and Harriet Jacobs. Phillis Wheatley became a published poet writing about Christianity and liberty. Unit 4, "Spirit of Nationalism," tells how Wheatley's mistress recognized her intelligence and oversaw her education. Harriet Jacobs, another enslaved woman who was taught to read, escaped from the plantation and eventually fled to the North. She wrote about her own experiences of exploitation and escape in order to bring awareness to the mistreatment of enslaved women. Read about her in unit 7, "Slavery and Freedom."
Provide your students with different perspectives of the black experience in America by introducing them to writer Zora Neale Hurston. Much to the dismay of her peers such as Langston Hughes and Richard Wright, who wrote about the oppression and degradation of black people, Hurston wrote to promote a vision of "racial health – a sense of black people as complete, complex, undiminished human beings." See unit 13, "Southern Renaissance."
Develop your students' critical thinking skills using the Author Questions for Gwendolyn Brooks. You can find questions such as "What do Brooks's poems suggest about the special challenges of being an African-American poet in a time when many other genres and media compete for attention?" and additional activities for this author in unit 14, "Becoming Visible."
Alice Walker meaningfully uses images of quilts in several of her works, including "The Color Purple" and "Everyday Use." After examining the literary purposes of this household object in Walker's work, guide students in their own search for identity using activities that discuss family heirlooms. For information on Walker, read American Passages, unit 16, "Search for Identity." Click on Author Activities to find activities for teaching about Walker and her story "Everyday Use."
Hear a reading and discussion of her poem "Revolutionary Petunias" in Conversations in Literature, workshop 6, "Objectifying the Text" (35:08 minutes in).
In 1993, Toni Morrison became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize. Read about Morrison's work in American Passages, unit 16, "Search for Identity." Use activities and discussion questions provided to teach her short story, Recitatif, which challenges the human urge to categorize people.
The program In Search of the Novel, "Ten Novelists," provides links to biographical information about Morrison.


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Racers are notorious for stretching the truth, but the fibbing isn't always intentional. After getting The Purp NHRA legal for 8-second-passes by installing the appropriate safety gear last month, we proclaimed that we'd be waking the car's 451ci LS small-block up from its long slumber right about now. That still hasn't happened just yet, and as we've learned the hard way, just when you think you're reaching the finish line over the course of building a race car, the loose ends keep popping up. Fortunately, Dustin Rush at the School of Automotive Machinists (www.samracing.com) stepped in to tie them all up. A perfectionist to the core, Dustin isn't cool with merely building a fast car. He's worked tirelessly to ensure The Purp looks as good as it did when it rolled off the dealer's lot – maybe even better. The big difference this time around is that it now packs a monstrous 720hp V-8 instead of a wheezy 3.4L V-6, and it's poised to run with the big boys in the NMCA LSX Real Street class.
Although cars that run in Real Street are often more "race" than "street," many of them still resemble street cars on the surface. As such, we didn't want to show up at the track with a fully gutted interior. Likewise, while race cars need lots of gauges to keep on eye on the engine vitals, we wanted to mount them as discreetly as possible. Transforming our wishes into a reality required quite a bit of custom fabrication from SAM technician Dustin Rush, but he was more than up to the challenge. In addition to installing some fresh carpet, Dustin fabricated a custom instrument panel, whipped up some slick custom A/C and stereo delete plates, and modified the door panels to wrap tightly around the rollcage. He also treated the dash to a flocking procedure for a suede-like finish that's much more pleasing that the stock hard plastic. At the risk of repeating ourselves again, tying up these loose ends means that the buildup phase of the The Purp really is finished. The next step: dyno tuning and track testing!


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Many times, our favorite moments in life are best remembered by more than just a photograph. The mementos, souvenirs and physical reminders we keep of our dearest memories are often what keep those moments fresh in our minds. To ensure your memories stay front-and-center, why not display those mementos in your home? A personalized shadow box is an excellent way to do just that.
Make it Yours
A personalized shadow box is the perfect way to display photos and souvenirs of your favorite moments in life while doubling as a beautiful, one-of-a-kind piece of wall art. Whether you want to memorialize a lost loved one, remember your child's first moments, preserve the keepsakes from your wedding day or display a timeline of your favorite memories together, it's easy to create a custom-made shadow box for the occasion.
Start by choosing a shadow box template from a variety of rustic, modern and whimsical options, or upload your own design for an ultra-customized shadow box backing. Keep it simple with an elegant monogram, or incorporate favorite photos as a backdrop to your keepsakes. Then, personalize the layout down to every detail, including fonts, colors, text sizes and more. Each shadow box features a glass front, removable backing and wall-hanging hardware for your convenience.
Bring it to Life
The options are endless for creating a custom shadow box display that you'll cherish forever. Once you've personalized the outside, you can fill your shadow box with memories by pinning a variety of small keepsakes and items inside. Add movie tickets, postcards, photos, letters, baby items, name tags, dried flowers, collectible items, house keys, souvenir coins and more to create a theme or commemorate a specific day in your life.
Bring back the lovely memories of your wedding day by using your shadow box to display reminders of every little detail—such as flowers from your bouquet, your wedding invitation, and stationery, your garter, your "something blue," the cake topper or a wedding favor.
Preserve those early memories of life with your bundle of joy by putting together a one-of-a-kind baby shadow box. Personalize your box with your little one's name, and fill it with precious keepsakes of his or her first day in the world. Ideas include the "coming home" outfit, newborn hat, hospital wristband, ink footprints, first photos, a measuring tape to indicate birth length and a card to display other details like weight and time of birth.
A custom shadow box is also a fun place to keep souvenirs and tickets from your life's adventures. Tickets from the movies, zoos, amusement parks, plays, concerts and other events can be displayed in a stylish way to ensure those memories stay fresh for years to come.
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The UK electricity system is in need of new 'peaking' generation capacity to both replace ageing plants and to cover the intermittency of generation provided by the new large renewable projects. In fact for every 8MW of wind installed, around 1 MW of new peaking plant is required – so an increasing amount of peaking plant is essential to enable the significant growth in renewable energy that is planned over the next few years.
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Hospedaje, Bed & Breakfasts
In a prestigious location between Mission Hill & Quail's Gate Wineries on the Okanagan Valley Winery & Tourist Route is A Lakeview Heights B&B – a Canada Select 4-star property. Enjoy panoramic lake, vineyard & mountain views from the deck, lounge and most guest rooms. Luxury guest rooms with private ensuite bathrooms have been carefully designed for relaxation, comfort & convenience. We offer a professionally prepared gourmet breakfast with an international flair and interesting conversation. We look forward to meeting you & helping make your trip truly memorable.
West Kelowna
Parques y Áreas Silvestres, Cabañas y Casas de Campo
Take advantage of the exclusive right to stay overnight in Canada's best preserved west coast artillery fort! Experience camping in the new way, with a comfy bed. Each furnished oTENTik sleeps six and includes a BBQ, campfire pit and firewood. It's only a short walk to the spectacular Fisgard Lighthouse National Historic Site. Available Mid May through September long weekend.
Ciclismo, Turismo
Whistler Biking Tours, Rentals & Adventure Travel. Experience the beauty of Whistler with our premium rentals and professional guides. We offer a variety of guided bike tours; from scenic rides around the lakes through to challenging singletrack experiences. Our bike shop in Whistler's upper village specializes in premium bike rentals, service, retail and tours. Arbutus Routes also offers Adventure Travel trips throughout Southwest British Columbia.
Parques y Áreas Silvestres, Zona de Acampar y Parques para Casas Rodantes
Strathcona Provincial Park, designated in 1911, is the oldest provincial park in British Columbia. Located almost in the centre of Vancouver Island, Strathcona park is a rugged mountain wilderness comprising more than 250,000 hectares. Mountain peaks â some perpetually mantled with snow â dominate the park. Lakes and alpine tarns dot a landscape laced with rivers, creeks and streams. To see and enjoy much of the scenic splendour means lacing up your hiking boots to backpack through the dense forests, stunning sub-alpine and alpine regions. While the high mountain peaks and deep shaded valleys of Strathcona Park are dramatic, it is easy to forget that beneath your feet lays a history stretching back 380 million years. Two areas â Buttle Lake and vicinity and Forbidden Plateau â offer a variety of visitor-oriented developments. The rest of the park is largely undeveloped and appeals primarily to people seeking wilderness surroundings.
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Cultus Lake Adventure Park is BC's Best Theme Park. This is the most animated amusement park you will ever see, with award-winning craftsmanship and one-of-a-kind rides and attractions. This park is loaded with surprises at every turn and will leave you amazed. The park features 18 rides and attractions for all ages, including Giggle Ridge Adventure Golf. There is no cost to enter the park – you can buy all day unlimited ride wristbands, individual ride tokens, mini golf, gem bags and more inside the park. About a one hour drive from Vancouver, this is a destination you will not want to miss out on during the summer! Check out our website to see the full list of rides, prices, and dates.
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We are a lakeside Aveda Spa located within The Cove Lakeside Resort in beautiful West Kelowna, BC. Our philosophy is simple-soothe the spirit and beauty will follow. Let us be your refuge in a world full of stressful demands on your body and time. Our team is committed to providing you with exceptional service in an atmosphere that is peaceful, elegant and calming.
Paseo a caballo y Ranchos, Pesca, Senderismo, Remo, Resorts y hospedaje en la naturaleza
Escape to this 5-star, all-inclusive wilderness resort and luxury guest ranch in the rugged heartland of British Columbia. Siwash is an intimate and ultra private hideaway for adventurous families and couples who seek meaningful, impactful travel and the finer things in life. This National Geographic Lodge of the World is renowned for its extraordinary eco adventures in an enchanting setting amid Nature. Horseback ride to your heart's desire, fly fish for trout in wild lakes and streams, sleep under the softest linens and dine on exquisite home-grown organic cuisine. Other wilderness adventures include 3D all terrain archery, luxury star gazing, hiking, biking, glamping, sport clay shooting, kayaking, SUPing and so much more. Siwash Lake is Canada's top eco-friendly luxury destination according to the Globe & Mail, a proud member of the Magnificent 7 Luxury Wilderness Lodges of Canada, featured in Forbes, and ranked among the ten best guest ranches in North America by USA Today.
70 Mile House
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Okanagan Spirits is Western Canada's oldest craft distillery spanning over a decade in the production of award-winning B.C. spirits. Internationally acclaimed as North America's only designated World Class Distillery (World Spirits Awards), our portfolio includes a range of spirits from Vodka, Whisky and Gin, to Liqueurs and Brandies (Eau de Vie) as well as Canada's first genuine Absinthe.
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Garry Oaks Estate is a boutique winery. In 1999, Originally a sheep farm, the was converted to a vineyard and planted with Pinot Gris, Pinot Noir, Gewurztraminer and Zweigelt. The first vintage was in 2002. THe wines have garnered much interest and acclaim and has won many international and national awards. Sustainability and philanthropy are the hallmarks of the current owner.
Salt Spring Island
Aguas Termales, Cultura Indígena, Hoteles
The Ainsworth Hot Springs Resort is a four season destination featuring 39 contemporary Guest Rooms, the Ktunaxa Grill, Nasookin Room, and a well-stocked Retail/Gift Shop. This property offers a unique cave experience where soothing, hot mineral water surfaces from the earth creating a natural steam bath. Stalactites form in abundance inside the caves. The hot water flows into our main pool and is cooled to a comfortable body temperature, suitable for your whole family. Spring, Fall, Summer and Winter bring guests from around the world to enjoy the pleasures of the crisp, clean air and the calming mineral waters of the Ainsworth Hot Springs.
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Paseo a caballo y Ranchos
Nestled in the beauty of the Cowichan Valley, this impeccable facility is a first class, family run business. It is our pleasure to offer everyone a unique equine riding experience. Escape the crowds and indulge in a memorable experience. Enjoy sweeping ocean and valley views. A great opportunity to experience a West Coast Rainforest. Our trails are expertly guided and the horses are suitable for all levels of riders.
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Spas y Bienestar, Hoteles
Water's Edge is the only property with access to both the serene Ucluelet Harbour & bordering Marina from every suite! The peaceful harbour suites are located on a private island joined by a causeway and just minutes from Vancouver Island's #1 rated tourist attraction; The Wild Pacific Trail. Waters Edge is truly the ideal location for discovering the Real West Coast of Ucluelet, Tofino and The Pacific Rim National Park (all major attractions within 15 – 30 mins from Waters Edge!). Guests enjoy spacious private suites featuring west coast decor and full kitchens; the perfect home base to explore the areas miles of sandy West Coast beaches, ancient rainforests, fantastic kayaking, awesome fishing charters and spectacular panoramic views. Guaranteed to leave you breathless! Peaceful ambiance on our private island joined by a causeway within the harbour. Bonus Tip 1: Bring your kayak and you can launch right on site because were the only property located on an island within the harbour! Bonus Tip 2: Boaters rejoice! Were the only property located almost right next door to the new public boat launch so bring your boat up and catch yourself some of the best Halibut on the Coast.
Come enjoy the ultimate Victoria Kayaking Experience with Ocean River Adventures. Located in Victoria's Inner Harbour, kayaking is a great way to explore our historic city. Join us on one of our Harbour Kayak tours or Sunset Tours. We also offer an Oak Bay Shoreline Kayaking Tour as well as our unique Discovery Island Kayak Tour, recognised as one of the top tours in Victoria. Offering expeditions, tours and courses throughout the Vancouver Island region, our guests will experience all the wild West Coast has to offer. Hands-on education about water and marine conservation is a key theme and we only employ certified guides that respect sensitive ecosystems and species while teaching about the importance of ocean sustainability, preservation and conservation. Victoria's premier paddling and outdoor adventure company. Want to try something different? We are also a premium stand up paddle tour operator in the southern Vancouver Island and Victoria region.
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An offensive output among the best in the program's history led to a comfortable win for the North Central College football team on Saturday, as the Cardinals overpowered North Park University with their running attack and put a damper on the Vikings' Homecoming with a 58-17 win at the Holmgren Athletic Complex.
North Central (5-1, 3-0 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin) piled up 474 rushing yards, the third-highest single-game total in school history and the most since the 1991 team turned in 503 yards, also in a win over North Park. The Cardinals' 590 total yards on Saturday is their ninth-most ever and is the team's second outing of 500 yards or more in the past three games.
The Cardinals' first drive resulted in their only turnover of the day, as a fumble halted the visitors' progress at the North Park 25-yard line. North Central's defense, however, forced a punt and retrieved the ball for the offense near midfield. On the next play from scrimmage, running back Nick Kukuc broke free for a 35-yard run, and Ryan Kent wound up capping off the drive with a one-yard touchdown run. With 6:25 still on the first-quarter clock, the Cardinals owned a 7-0 lead.
The Vikings (1-5, 0-3 CCIW) dropped back to punt on their second possession as well, but an errant snap went into the North Park end zone and resulted in a safety, tacking two points onto the Cardinals' lead. North Central took over on its own 43, and Spencer Stanek completed a pair of passes, totaling 48 yards, to tight endRyan Szudarski to leave the Cardinals nine yards from the goal line. Kukuc ran for the score on the next play, boosting the lead to 16-0.
North Park's next drive resulted in a turnover on downs at the 50-yard line. The Cardinals ran six plays, including five running plays, and extended their advantage to 23-0 on Jordan Tassio's 12-yard TD run with 12:40 on the clock in the second period. The Vikings got on the board with a 29-yard field goal by Tony Kebede, but North Central covered 81 yards in two plays to respond with its fourth touchdown of the half. Kukuc covered 25 yards on the Cardinals' next play, and Tassio followed by running for a 56-yard score.
North Central cornerback Connor Douglas forced and recovered a fumble at the Cardinals' 31 to halt the Vikings' next drive. Stanek drove the visitors down the field for the final score of the half, a 20-yard touchdown pass to tight end A.J. Thomaswith 1:34 left in the first half, and sent the Cardinals into the break with a 37-3 lead.
North Central's starters played just one series after halftime. After forcing a Viking punt, Kent opened the ensuing drive with a 37-yard run and wound up completing a 62-yard, six-play drive with a seven-yard TD run. North Park quarterback Jon Williams scored the hosts' first touchdown on a nine-yard run with 7:35 left in the third quarter, leaving the score at 44-10. Williams also had a 35-yard run earlier in the drive.
The Cardinals' special-teams unit contributed the team's next score. Halaiano Fuentes fielded a North Park punt at his own 35 and outran the Vikings' coverage for a 65-yard touchdown in his first punt-return attempt of the season. Williams completed a nine-yard TD pass to wide receiver Bryan Lorman for the Vikings' final score, which was answered on the following possession. The Cardinals ran more than nine minutes off the clock in a 13-play, 71-yard trek which culminated with a four-yard touchdown run by Denzel Thompson. North Central cornerback Matt Souvannasing ended the Vikings' final drive with an interception.
Tassio gained 112 yards on just six carries, while Kent picked up a season-high 103 yards on 10 attempts and Kukuc ran eight times for 97 yards. Stanek completed 9 of 14 passes for 116 yards and Szudarski was the Cardinals' top receiver with 54 yards on three catches. Stanek moved into fourth place in school history with 2,655 passing yards and Tassio tied Tyke Spencer '06 for fourth in touchdowns scored (29). Defensive end Dorian Hryniewicki and safety Shane Dierking shared the team lead in tackles with six each, and Hryniewicki also collected 2.5 of the Cardinals' nine tackles for loss.
Slotback Chris Broadway was North Park's top rusher with 53 yards on seven carries, while Williams gained 52 yards on 10 attempts. Williams also completed 10 of 14 passes for 141 yards. Cornerback Jordan Bevilacqua and safety Taylor Simental each finished with eight tackles.
Now owners of 19 straight CCIW wins and a record 18 straight conference wins by 20 points or more, the Cardinals complete a three-week stretch of road games next Saturday at Carthage College (3-3, 1-2) beginning at 6 p.m. The Red Men are coming off a 45-7 loss at Illinois Wesleyan University.
North Central's Running Game Paves Way for Big Win
|No. 14 North Central (Ill.) (5-1)
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An offensive output among the best in the program's history led to a comfortable win for the North Central College football team on Saturday, as the Cardinals overpowered North Park University with their running attack and put a damper on the Vikings' Homecoming with a 58-17 win at the Holmgren Athletic Complex.


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After the Rain - a new documentary about the ways women farmers are coping with climate change
"It isn't the strongest species that survives, nor even the most intelligent, but the species most adaptable to change." Charles Darwin
So begins After the Rain, the first ever documentary film made by a Macedonian director about climate change, will be screened in Skopje on 20 November as part of the European Film Festival Cinedays. The film was produced with the technical and financial support of UNDP, the Global Environment Facility, and the Ministry of Environment and Physical Planning.
The documentary portrays four women, aged between forty and eighty, who work as farmers in the country. The women are from diverse backgrounds—Macedonian, Turkish and Albanian—and each has a very different attitude towards their work on the land.
At seventy-two years old, Gjurgja Rizova sees the fields as her 'medicine' and she farms the land with love. "We can barely feed ourselves these days," she says, many of her crops are dying, and the hybrid seeds she now has to buy are causing unprecedented problems with weeds. "We've been through everything," she says, but never has she known it rain so much nor seen so many crops fail. The only solution, she feels, is to switch to farming only corn and keeping bees.
For Sacie Aliova, meanwhile, farming seems like a prison sentence and she dreams of escape and going to school. Asie Pairi has been working the tobacco fields since she was only ten years old. "We didn't have schools back then" she says, "Now I'd prefer not to work in the fields – I'd go to school instead." But while more frequent hailstorms of late have ruined her tobacco crops and left her family destitute, she still experiments with different crops in a desperate attempt to adapt to the changing conditions.
Biology teacher, Biljana Ilieva, refuses to be defeated by climate change. "I'm interested in all plants," she tells us, "It's beautiful to watch them grow from seedlings to the moment they bear fruit." She is highly aware of climate change and strives to use alternative sources of energy and water to help the environment. And in the face of hailstorms, she has invested in effective ways of protecting her crops. But her 'hobby', as she calls it, is trying out different breeds of tomato. "We hope we're on our way to success with this hobby of ours" she says.
Despite their many differences in attitude, the four women all share the same sky and all of them are experiencing the same fears and challenges that come with climate change. Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change. The future will bring warmer summers and ever less rain and sudden storms and hail will be more frequent. Traditional ideas about the kinds of weather typical of each season will need to be revised.
Rain is a key motif throughout the film and creates a particular dramatic tension as we witness for ourselves the problems these farmers face on a daily basis—destroyed roots, sick leaves and plants, dried-up fruits.
The overriding message of this innovative documentary, however, comes through from the determination of these women to overcome the challenges they face. And that message, from the mouths of those who know the issues of climate change from the very root, is that those who survive climate change are those who are capable of adaptation. The time to adapt is now!
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Biljana Garvanlieva is a freelance director of documentary films who lives and works in Skopje and Berlin. Born in Skopje in 1973, she studied dramaturgy in her hometown before receiving a grant in 1999 from the German Academic Exchange Service to study theatre and film at the Free University of Berlin (Freien Universität Berlin). In 2006 she directed her first documentary for the TV network 3sat, entitled Macedonian Dream. A Girl and her Accordion, which has won several awards, including the Golden Lola German Short Film Award. In 2009 she followed up her first success with Tobacco Girl, which has received numerous awards for its direction, including nominations for the Golden Lola and the Juliane Bartel German Media Award. In 2010, Garvanlieva was awarded the Heart of Sarajevo prize for Best Documentary at the 16th Sarajevo Film Festival for her documentary film The Seamstresses.


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The AAFP and the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) are joining forces in calling on Congress to spare graduate medical education (GME) funding from reductions that could result from the ongoing deficit-reduction negotiations.
In a Nov. 28 letter to House and Senate leaders, both the AAFP and CAFM urge Congress to not cut GME funding. However, if Congress decides it has to reduce funding for GME, it should target reductions to programs that lead to second certification and protect residency programs that lead to initial certification.
"This would fund the basic training of all physicians," says the letter, signed by the AAFP and the members of CAFM, which include the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors, the North American Primary Care Research Group and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine. "It would continue to meet the needs of the public good that GME has supported -- the production of physicians to care for the nation's elderly and the nation as a whole."
- The AAFP and the Council of Academic Family Medicine (CAFM) have urged Congress to protect graduate medical education (GME) funding during their current budget negotiations.
- In a Nov. 28 letter to House and Senate leaders, the AAFP and CAFM say that if any reductions in Medicare GME are necessary, they should be selected based on protecting primary care.
- In the letter, the AAFP and CAFM also cite various studies showing that primary care restrains health care costs and improves quality, making primary care GME funding a sound investment.
At the same time, the letter stresses that any reductions in Medicare GME "should be tailored in a manner that would allow for the advancement of primary care training."
In a report(www.hrsa.gov) released two years ago, the Council on Graduate Medical Education said, "there is compelling evidence that health care outcomes and costs in the United States are strongly linked to the availability of primary care physicians. For each incremental primary care physician, there are 1.44 fewer deaths per 10,000 persons. Patients with a regular primary care physician have lower overall health care costs than those without one."
The current Medicare GME system is "outmoded," says the letter from the AAFP and CAFM. And any changes should support the health care system. This means producing more primary care physicians who are well trained in new and emerging models of care and who are able to work in teams and support practices grounded in evidence-based medicine.
The AAFP and the other organizations also a cite a letter the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) sent to its member organizations that warns about the effect of abrupt and severe cuts on GME primary care physician training.
"Sponsorship of residency and fellowship programs accredited by the ACGME is concentrated in 681 health-care-related institutions across the United States," the ACGME letter says. "Well over 300 of these institutions sponsor only one residency program, predominantly primary care programs in small, often rural, locations. … While GME complements this primary care mission, many of these single-program institutions would be forced to sacrifice their GME programs if they lose financial viability. Such reductions in the training pipeline would further threaten the already inadequate long-term supply of primary care physicians in rural America and other medically underserved locations."
The AAFP and the other organizations also urge lawmakers to appropriate funding for the National Health Care Workforce Commission, a body established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to advise policymakers on a broad range of workforce-related topics, including the ongoing shortage of primary care physicians.
"Without an explicit appropriation, the commission has not been able to do the necessary work of eliminating obstacles that may create and exacerbate workforce shortages and promoting improved coordination on the federal, state and local levels," the letter states.
As a result, lawmakers may enact policies that greatly affect the nation's workforce capacity without the benefit of the commission's expertise.
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Date: March 15, 2013
For more information contact
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Voter Registration Sites for March 18th – March 21st
LINCOLN -- The Lancaster County Election Commissioner will conduct voter registration at several sites from Monday, March 18th through Thursday, March 21st. Any Nebraska resident who will be 18 on or before November 5, 2013, has moved, changed his or her name, or would like to change their political party affiliation, may register to vote at the following times and locations:
Monday, March 18th - 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, March 20th - 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Individuals may also register to vote through the mail. Mail-in registration forms are available at most post offices, banks, and libraries. A voter registration form is also available on the Election Commissioner's web site which may be downloaded, printed and mailed to the Election Commissioner's office. Mail-in voter registration applications must be postmarked no later than Friday, March 22nd in order to be effective for the April 9th Primary Election.
Citizens may also register to vote at the Election Commissioner's Office, 601 North 46th Street, through Friday, March 29th. The office is open weekdays from 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Individuals who have questions regarding voter registration should contact the Election Commissioner's Office at (402) 441-7311.


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Shameless plug alert: I'll be appearing on TV this weekend, on the weekly current events show Issues on WPBT-Ch. 2, the local PBS affiliate.
The show will air tonight (Friday) at 7:30 p.m., and again on Sunday afternoon at 12:30.
I'll be joining guest host Sean Foreman, political science professor at Barry University, for a roundtable discussion on the recent scandals in the sports world, including Lance Armstrong, Manti Te'O, the tainted NCAA investigation of UM, and the broader topics of cheating, lying, doping and ethics in sports.
Other panelists include: Edward DeMott, M.S., Adjunct Professor in Sport Ethics at Barry University and Fred Blevens, Ph.D., Professor at Florida International University.
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River tourism in Castile-León: the sights and sounds of the river
Discover Castile-León through its paths and trails. The Way of Saint James and the Silver Route pass through this region, and it also has several World Heritage cities. A visit offers the chance to enjoy art, culture and nature.
Vista parcial del lago de la Sierra de Gredos
Spectacularly beautiful landscapes await you in Castile-León, in the heart of Spain. Taking a trip on a boat is an enjoyable and different way of exploring these beauty spots. Experience the joys of river tourism for yourself and find out just how easy it is to reach even the most inaccessible of places.
The rivers of Castile-León provide an attractive and alternative way of enjoying the local countryside: river tourism. Take a relaxing boat trip and marvel at spectacularly steep gorges, hundreds of metres high, and birds of prey circling majestically in the sky. Although these river routes can be done all year round, spring and autumn and perhaps the best seasons to enjoy them as the temperatures are milder and the colours of the countryside are at their most brilliant. You will also be able to find out more about the many attractions and points of interest along the route thanks to the guides who usually accompany visitors on each boat trip.
A natural spectacle
One of the areas you can explore by boat is the Arribes del Duero Nature Reserve in the south west of the Castile-León Region, in the provinces of Salamanca and Zamora. The reserve is home to some of Spain's deepest, longest canyons, with sheer walls rising over 200 metres high. There are several boat routes to enjoy on the Salamanca side, starting from the villages of Vilvestre and Corporario (both about 100 kilometres from Ciudad Rodrigo). The most popular routes lead to the Pereña Shrine or the dam at Aldeadavila. These take about two hours, although there are longer routes available too.
In the province of Ávila you can discover the Iruelas Valley by boat, home to one of the largest black vulture colonies in Europe. This nature reserve lies 76 kilometres from Arenas de San Pedro and extends all the way to Burguillo Reservoir. Other bird species such as the imperial eagle and the Griffon vulture can also be found there. As well as being the perfect location for a great day outdoors, you can also enjoy a one-hour boat trip around the reservoir.
Rivers with a history of their own
The province of Valladolid also has much to offer in terms of river tourism, including many places of historical interest such as the Castile Canal at Medina del Rioseco, built to transport grain and goods between this region and the north of Spain. You can also travel along the river to the city of Valladolid and explore the surrounding area from the river: a relaxing boat trip that takes in some delightful riverside scenery and the city's seven bridges.
We recommend you book in advance. The local tourist offices will give you all the information you need on the routes, the companies organising the trips, timetables and embarkation points, as well as advice on what to wear and take with you (comfortable clothing, sun cream, etc).
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my php web site already connects to a database so how do i link this one within the code and also can i link this to any page on the site and it will run the cron tab for all the web site??
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ok there is the database set up and I am testing if this works but still need explaining about the fatal error message as I dont undstand what that means
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Strengthen the support needs of European Nationals starting out as ministry partners to their own culture, where small churches and lack of donors makes it challenging to send more workers to the harvest fields.
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Addison's disease (the common name for hypoadrenocorticism) is caused by a decreased production of two hormones from the adrenal gland. These hormones are cortisol, a stress hormone, and aldosterone, a mineralocorticoid hormone that regulates the body's water balance through its effects on sodium and potassium.
Antibodies are specialized proteins, also called immunoglobulins that are primarily found in the bloodstream. They are produced by specialized white blood cells called plasma cells, a form of lymphocyte.
The bile acid test is a very useful test that helps to determine if the liver is working properly.
Bone marrow is the soft material found in the central core of many bones. Bone marrow is vitally important for the production of blood cells, specifically red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. Although many bones contain marrow, samples are collected from three main sites in cats and dogs: hip bone, top of thigh bone, or the forearm below the shoulder.
The first step in processing a blood sample is centrifugation. The blood is placed in a centrifuge, where it is spun in a small circle at high speed (much like a spinning ride at an amusement park).
Cerebrospinal fluid (or CSF) is formed within the brain, primarily at specialized sites called the choroid plexuses. CSF is found within the brain and in the space that surrounds both the brain and the spinal cord (this space is called the subarachnoid space).
Chronic degenerative valve disease (CVD) is a consequence of degeneration of the valves between the atrium and ventricle on both the right and left side of the heart. The changes in the valves stops them from forming a tight seal between the atrium and ventricle when the heart is squeezing or pumping. This causes the valves to leak blood backwards into the upper chambers, and an abnormal sound called a heart murmur.
Coagulation is the series of events that result in the formation of a clot. In the body, coagulation occurs after any injury to a blood vessel or tissue, in order to stop bleeding.
A Coombs' (or direct antiglobulin) test detects the presence of immunoglobulins (antibodies) on the surface of red blood cells. Immunoglobulins are proteins made by white blood cells (specifically plasma cells).
Cushing's disease is a condition caused by an increased production of the stress hormone cortisol by the adrenal glands. There are various reasons for an increase in cortisol production. The clinical signs of Cushing's disease are similar, regardless of the underlying cause of disease. However, it is important to try to identify the type of Cushing's disease as the treatment and prognosis (outcome) differ slightly depending upon the form of the disease.


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Naoya wrote:Indeed good work, looking forward to see it.
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Tagwyn: these are game-related. Find some other place to be all cranky, please.
Answers.com wrote:Grognard is French for "grumbler". It is not necessarily pejorative and is sometimes used as a compliment. Historically it meant a soldier in Napoleon's army, particularly a member of the Old Guard.
"Grognard" came to mean a veteran wargamer in the early 1970s. It was first used by John Young, at that time an employee of SPI, and subsequently popularised by Strategy & Tactics magazine.
Answers.com wrote:1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp. in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the Principia Discordia from?"
enf91 wrote:Could someone explain "fnord" and "grognard" to those of us who don't speak AGEod?
Bruit Bleu wrote:AFAIK, it's a good post Rafiki, I didn't knew some of them !
But OTOH and TBH, I prefer full writings rather than acronyms... With a computer, we have the time to spell the words and can correct any error !
BTW, what does the FYI in the title mean ?
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I suggest adding the AAR in your list !
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The Nine is an interview series with creative folks that began on my blog, Be Present, Be Here, in the Spring of 2009; the interviewees are asked to respond to nine questions in photographs (or video). All the interviews can be found here.
Today, I am welcoming Hannah Marcotti to my corner. Hannah's Instagram photos are so often favorites of mine (I heart Instagram) and if you aren't already signed up for her newsletter, you are missing out on beautiful words delivered to your inbox each week. She deeply inspires me with the way she looks at the world, the honest ways she shares her truth, and how she invites others to be themselves through her bravery and her stories.
Enjoy these slices of Hannah's world as she answers the Nine questions.
Question 1: Who are you?
Question 2: In this moment, where are you?
Question 3: What are the textures of your corner of the world?
Question 4: If you had an hour alone to just play, what would you do?
Question 5: How do you seek joy?
Question 6: What nourishes you?
Question 7: When you need to simply take a breath and ground yourself, what do you do?
Question 8: How do you nurture your creative dreams?
Question 9: Does your heart have a secret wish you want to share?
Hannah Marcotti is a quietly impassioned motivator who serves as guide to your gorgeous life and business of the heart.
She is a highly sensitive mama who wishes to help you dream and seek out the truth of your purpose and help you celebrate life. She is often found tattooing joy on the spirits of those in her community.
Connect with her at her website.
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NEW YORK — Losing her grip again in a Grand Slam final in the U.S. Open on Sunday, Serena Williams raised her arms and stared pleadingly at her support team in the stands.
Her angst was understandable. The top seed and defending U.S. Open champion had made everything look so easy, dropping 16 games to reach the final without losing a set.
But after blowing a two-break lead in the second set against No. 2 seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, Williams gave the telltale signs of an internal meltdown — sticky feet, fingers splayed, balls landing near the bottom of the net.
"I think I got a little uptight, which probably wasn't the best thing at that moment," Williams said.
It might have ended badly. But Williams simply rebooted.
She steadied herself, started serving bigger and regained control in the third set, finally putting away No. 2 Azarenka 7-5, 6-7 (6-8), 6-1 in a blustery final.
"I obviously would have preferred to close it out in straight sets," Williams said. "But going against a great opponent like Victoria, you have to be able to realize that that can happen, and you have to keep fighting for everything.""There's one word," said reigning Australian Open winner Azarenka, who also lost to Williams in three tough sets a year ago. "She's a champion, and she knows how to repeat that."
The two-hour, 45-minute match gave Williams her fifth U.S. Open title and 17th major overall, including five Australian Opens, five Wimbledons and two French Opens.
"Victoria, you played unbelievable," Williams said on court after hopping in the air multiple times when Azarenka's backhand sailed long on match point. "What a great match and what a great person. It's an honor to play against you."
Who would have thought when Williams won her maiden major at the U.S. Open in 1999 at age 17 that she would enjoy such sustained excellence?
With her latest major title, she extended her record for the longest span of winning Grand Slam titles — 14 years and counting.
And less than three weeks shy of 32, Williams might be playing the best tennis of her illustrious career. She has won four majors past her 30th birthday, more than any other player in the Open era.
"She's playing definitely her best tennis right now," Azarenka said. "It really shows how focused and how composed and how much she can raise the level."
Who would have thought that at her most nerve-racking tournament, the place where she had imploded so memorably in recent years, Williams would be so composed?
Sunday, she fought off the wind. She fought off two foot faults (the same call that unleashed a menacing tirade in 2009). And she fought off Azarenka, the one player who seems to feel she belongs on a tennis court with Williams.
"She's maturing," said her mother, Oracene Price. "She calmed down in the match, stopped being mad with the wind and got herself together."
Patrick Mouratoglou, who joined Williams' team as a coaching adviser, said the strategy to build more consistency from the baseline and add variety to her power game had been validated by what is by some measures her best season ever.
"She became even a better player, a more intense player, a tougher opponent," he said.
The French Open winner, Williams will exit 2013 with one fewer major title than 2002, her only three-Slam season. But tape to tape, she has played her most complete season, with more titles (9) and more wins (67-4) and several fall events still to come.
While it may be hard to call Williams-Azarenka a bona fide rivalry — the American leaves New York a perfect 8-0 in Grand Slam meetings and 13-3 overall — Azarenka has split two of their last four meetings on hard courts and has pushed her to three for the second time in a Grand Slam final.
Williams also handled No. 3 Maria Sharapova every time they played this year and took down her new challenger, Sloane Stephens, in the fourth round at New York.
In terms of big trophies, Williams and Azarenka are starting to create some distance from the rest of the field.
They have now won six of the last eight Grand Slam titles.
Azarenka's coach, Sam Sumyk, wasn't ready use such labels though he said there was "good meaning" behind their last few matches.
"The girls are putting out a pretty good fight recently," he said. "If we can have 24 like that, it can be a rivalry."
One thing is for sure: Williams leaves the Grand Slam season with a lock on the No. 1 ranking and another step in her climb of history's leaderboard. She stands even with Roger Federer in major titles and is one shy of 18-time Grand Slam champions Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova.
Asked to compare the feeling when she was a winning majors as a young upstart with beads in her flowing hair, Williams said the victories have grown in importance.
"You know, it has more meaning into history as opposed to just winning a few," she said. "It definitely has a different feeling."
Mouratoglou said he saw no reason for her not to add more in the next few years but was most impressed by her ability to play poised tennis all season with so many expectations. That was different than last year, when she was not No. 1.
"Believe me, every time she steps on the court with that pressure on her shoulders, it's an achievement also to be a winner at the end," Mouratoglou said.
If Williams found her calm in the third set Sunday, she said she was already restlessly sifting through what she could have done better.
"I think I'm a little crazy in that part, like something must be not right because I don't even relish the moment enough," she said. "I just automatically think, What's next?"
What's next? At this age-defying rate, the future for now is on Williams' racket and nobody else's.


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You can't win the fight if you don't put on the gloves.
A punch-drunk, old heavyweight boxer knows that's a truism, but not the churches of America.
The Supreme Court heard arguments this week on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state by a 52 to 47 margin in 2008 but has since been declared unconstitutional by federal courts.
Fox TV, Rush Limbaugh and other talk-show pundits have weighed in, arguing the conservative -- and moral -- position that sanctifying gay marriage with the grace of the U.S. Constitution is not only wrong but a serious threat to the culture of this country.
But those media outlets often speak to those who are already in the choir. That leaves a lot of other Americans who aren't hearing anyone preaching the conservative argument on gay marriage.
I don't expect the GOP to provide any leadership. Republicans are too busy cat-fighting with each other and making sure their presidential choice will be whooped by Hillary Clinton in 2016.
And where in the heck are the churches on the issue of legalizing gay marriage?
Where are the Protestants, Jews and Catholics? Have they lost their tongues? Their hearts and wills? Their institutional you-know-whats?
Where's the moral outrage? Why aren't thousands of our pastors, priests and rabbis shouting from their pulpits? Why aren't they leading their congregations through the streets in mass protest?
Why aren't their bishops appearing on the tube with David Gregory and Piers Morgan to defend the institution of marriage as a union of one man and one woman?
Like the bank executives that are too chicken to stand up to the federal bullies in Washington, and like the energy company bosses in California who won't stand up to the Green Socialists in Sacramento, the churches cower in fear.
Are they afraid to lose their 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status by engaging in political activity? Are they afraid to be derided as religious nuts and cultural Cro-Magnons by the liberal media?
Or are our churches and their comfortable leaders simply no longer willing to fight for what is right?
This fight over Proposition 8 isn't just about saying it should be legal in the eyes of government for two people of the same sex to get married in California.
It's ultimately about changing the culture of the entire country; it inevitably will lead to teaching our public school kids that gay marriage is a perfectly fine alternative and no different than traditional marriage. There is also a very slippery slope leading to other alternative relationships and the unconstitutionality of any law based on morality. Think about polygamy, bestiality, and perhaps even murder.
Churches should be in the vanguard of the fight to defend the culture against legalized gay marriage, not hiding in their pews.
Sure, the mainstream liberal media will be against them and will ignore them as much as they can. But if the churches show up en masse -- and make sure millions of their members' voices are heard -- the media will be forced to cover them, and even the Supreme Court will feel the political wind.
Meanwhile, as the High Court decides our fate, it's time for the churches to get engaged and start fighting for America, instead of wimping out. If it takes them giving up their 501(c)(3) status to start fighting for righteousness, then I'm all for it.
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