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Jean Lythcott, Ph.D.
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Jeannie spent 26 years as a science teacher in four countries and four states, 8 years as professor of science education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York, and 10 years as a science educator with Stanford University's Teacher Education Program. At Columbia and Stanford, Jeannie taught courses about educating young children into seeing and understanding the world the way science does. Jeannie is a grandmother and an active member of the GaGa Sisterhood, an organization of grandmothers inspiring each other with creative ways to stay connected with their grandchildren.
My mission as teacher, as researcher, as professor has always been to help young, old, and in-betweens to see the world through the spectacles of science newly, to help children uncover the world they see through science, to help people find confidence and joy in explorations via science and so to escape the stifling dogma that is so often science as encountered in schools.
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Ira is an Associate Professor in the Stanford University School of Education, where he also serves as the Director of Stanford's Elementary Teacher Education Program. Prior to joining the faculty at Stanford, Ira served as the Executive Director of the Teachers for a New Era initiative at Bank Street College of Education in New York. Ira's research and practice focuses on teacher education, elementary education, educational equity, and the forms and aims of education and schooling. Ira worked previously as an elementary public school teacher in Northern California. He also co-founded, Jefunira Camp, a successful Bay Area summer day camp for preschool and elementary-aged children. Ira's wife is also an elementary school teacher. They have two children, ages 9 and 7.
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Rachelle is an arts educator with fifteen years of experience ranging from overseeing school programs at the San Jose Museum of Art to lecturing on Visual Thinking at Stanford. She is inspired by her creative muses, her two daughters, and writes about their creative experiments and art explorations at TinkerLab.com. As Interim Director of Education at SJMA she trained gallery teachers to lead engaging tours and designed interactive gallery experiences for museum visitors, young and old. Prior to her work as an arts educator, she was a costumer with Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures. Rachelle holds a BA in Theater from UCLA and a Masters in Arts Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Children are naturally curious and creative, and we can support their creative journey by encouraging the free exploration of materials, asking open-ended questions about their discoveries, and exposing them to new ideas that feed their interests. When I facilitate a project with children, I focus on the process rather than the product because generally, this is what children are most passionate about. They care about how art materials interact with one another or making connections between a new discovery and prior knowledge. Kiwi Crate is exciting to me because it also embraces the goals of process-based art making while empowering grown-ups to be great facilitators.
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My mission as a psychologist includes helping families re-discover the joy in spending leisure time together, which builds a strong foundation of mutual trust, as well as teaches children creative approaches to problem-solving and promotes development of a sense of humor, all of which are important aspects of life-long resilience. I am proud to be a part of Kiwi Crate, which shares the same philosophy.
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Susan Rodgers is a children's librarian at the Palo Alto City Library. She graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with an M.S. in Library and Information Science, a certificate in Community Informatics, and a B.A. in English and Rhetoric. Susan's work is focused on getting youth to love reading and celebrate the world of literature. Pairing art and reading is a favorite method of Susan's who frequently includes interactive elements in her storytimes at the library. Her favorite children's authors include Jane Yolen, Mo Willems, Dr. Seuss, Madeleine L'Engle, Beverly Cleary, and Cynthia Rylant.


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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, The Accident (edition 1987)
by Elie Wiesel, Stella Rodway (Translator), Francois Mauriac (Foreword)
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The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, and Day by Elie Wiesel
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The first book made me cry; the second book made me think; the third book had me soul-searching. Each is so different yet communicates a range of emotions, thoughts and insights that are incredibly different. (I thought) I was prepared for Night - but was caught unawares at the depth of the human pain; I was drawn into the inner turmoil of Dawn and the deep religious and moral implications; The Accident was less compelling to me at first, but the final - so unexpected to me - scene helped completely reframe the story.
These are truly classics. Wiesel is a talented writer, but this is definitely his most raw and intense work.
This trilogy includes: Night, Dawn and The Accident.
The Night Trilogy by Elie Wiesel. Epiphany-OviedoELCA library section 7 B: The Church in the World, Politics/War/Peace. This book encompasses three works by Holocaust survivor Wiesel: Night, first published in 1960, his memoir of life in three concentration camps; Dawn, a fictional work about a young Holocaust survivor who is recruited as a terrorist against the British occupation of Palestine before the creation of the nation of Israel; and The Accident, a novella that asks the question whether Holocaust survivors can forge a new life without the memories of the old.
In Night, Wiesel says, it is the "I" that speaks. In the other two narratives, it is the "I" who listens and questions. I found Night to be frightening, but very necessary to read. Only by reading memoirs of Holocaust survivors can we identify similar persecution in today's world and call it by its real name without euphemism, without turning away. This is why film director Steven Spielberg began recording and documenting the memories of concentration camp survivors. Such memories are extremely painful. For example, my brother-in-law's mother was a Holocaust survivor. At the end of her life, in need of pain medication, she could not take some of them because they caused her to hallucinate that she was back in the concentration camp. How difficult to carry such a psychic burden throughout one's life!
Perhaps by writing this memoir, Wiesel was able to put some of his painful memories to rest. Or perhaps, though painful to relate, it was a way to help new generations grapple with the horrors and inhumanity of those events. Or perhaps writing it was a way to honor his immediate family and the millions whose lives and possessions were stolen.
In Dawn, the survivor becomes executioner; his job is to execute a British citizen as revenge for the hanging of a Jewish freedom fighter. Can a survivor, in turn, become executioner?
Of course, in each of these narratives, the author is dealing with deep questions: how could God allow the Holocaust to happen? Where was God then? Why were the survivors chosen to live? How does one deal with survivor guilt? Would it have been better to die? How can one live the rest of one's life having seen the horrors of the camps? What are the limits of the spirit? What are the limits of the self? If you wish to grapple with such questions and find some answers, give this volume a read. If nothing else, read Night, the first in the trilogy, a masterpiece of Holocaust literature.
Heartbreaking but true, Night is a book that touches your very soul. The author is right when he explains that mere words do not carry enough weight to describe the events which occurred during WWII. Words take on new meaning when heard in this story. It is truly a time that we should never forget--for so many reasons!
Just finished Dawn. Not as good as Night but I loved the idea behind the book. An interesting look into the question of what does it take to turn a victim into a killer? At what point does being committed to a religious cause become terrorism? When do the good guys turn into bad guys?
I found that I totally agree with the fact that a killer with a heart/conscience would not want his victim to become real to him...killing would only be doable if the victim had no personality, no face, no words....
Dawn was a lot slower and more repetitive than Night. I liked Night better--it captured and held my attention. Hoping that Day will be better than Dawn.
Day--I am struck by the fact that the protagonist is indifferent to whether he is alive or dead, but is brought to tears with emotion when he discovers that he still has a voice. Is that not a powerful statement about a person who has lived through the Holocaust? They got to the point where death no longer scared them, but what they really longed for was a voice/an identity. Man longs to be HEARD.
Wow! What else can I say? The trilogy is truly moving, but really sad.
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Night is one of the masterpieces of Holocaust literature. First published in 1960, it is the autobiographical account of an adolescent boy and his father in Auschwitz. Wiesel writes of their battle for survival, and of his battle with God for a way to understand the wanton cruelty he witnesses each day.
In the short novel Dawn (1961), a young man who has survived the Second World War and settled in Palestine is apprenticed to a Jewish terrorist gang. Command to execute a British officer who has been taken hostage, the former victim becomes an executioner.
In The Accident, (1962), Wiesel again turns to fiction to question the limits of the spirit and the self: Can Holocaust survivors forge a new life without the memories of the old? As the author writes in his introduction, "In Night it is the 'I' who speaks; in the other two [narratives], it is the 'I' who listens and questions."
Wiesel's trilogy offers meditations on mankind's attraction to violence and on temptation of self-destruction.
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What are the facts in the Sean Quinn case?
There has been much comment about former billionaire businessman Sean Quinn, who has been embroiled in a legal battle over the debts he owes the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, formerly the Anglo Irish Bank.
At the height of his success, Mr Quinn was the 12th richest man in the UK and the richest in Ireland, employing thousands, mostly in the previously job-starved cross-border area of Fermanagh and Cavan.
In April 2011, control of his business empire passed into the hands of the IBRC.
Later that year Sean Quinn declared himself bankrupt in a Belfast court, making him the biggest bankrupt in UK history.
On 26 July, a Dublin judge found that Mr Quinn, his son, Sean Quinn jnr and a nephew, Peter Darragh Quinn, hid millions in assets from the bank.
Mr Quinn jnr and Peter Darragh Quinn were given three-month jail terms.
Here are some key facts:
- Sean Quinn didn't invest in Anglo Irish Bank, he bet on it
If all he'd done was buy shares, his losses would have been limited.
But Sean Quinn chose a dangerous financial instrument called Contracts for Difference (CFDs) to build up a 25% stake in Anglo Irish Bank.
It was a leveraged bet on the share price - if it his bet had come good, he would have made billions, but because it went bad he lost more than five times his initial huge stake.
He literally bet the bank and both bank and Quinn went down. His losses totalled more than 3.2bn euros at the end, with Anglo on the hook for 2.8bn euros.
- Anglo didn't encourage Sean Quinn money to build this stake
Anglo Irish Bank was horrified when it discovered the scale of Sean Quinn's stake because they knew they could both go down if the full story was public.
It was a fatal embrace. The reason some directors of Anglo now face criminal charges is because of money lent to unwind and offload Sean Quinn's bet.
Even Sean Quinn has never publicly suggested that Anglo wanted him to build a 25% stake through CFDs in the bank.
- Sean Quinn broke the law before the bank moved in
Sean Quinn was removed from his insurance business by the regulator because he had broken the law.
He had used funds from his insurance business to prop up other parts of the group. It was a serious offence.
The regulator eventually put the entire business into administration because he found the Quinn management were still breaking the rules and there was a massive black hole in the finances. This happened a year before Anglo moved to take control of the rest of the empire.
Sean Quinn now accepts that the actions of the regulator were "right and proper".
Meanwhile all insurance policies in the Republic are now subject to a 2% levy indefinitely to fill the financial hole found in Quinn Insurance.
- The family had no viable plan to pay back the money
Once the insurance business was taken from family control, their offer to repay the 2.8 billion euros owed went up in smoke.
The fact that their plan relied upon cash from the insurance arm was not reassuring to a regulator who'd found that they had repeatedly broken the rules not to use money from the regulated business to support the rest of the group.
On 7 March 2011 (one month before Anglo took over the rest of the group) the family's lawyers stated clearly in a letter to Anglo that their offer to repay "was made solely in the context of our clients retaining economic control of Quinn Insurance".
The regulator had already ruled that out, it was not a matter within Anglo's control.
- The family did promise to honour loans of 455m euros
In that same letter to Anglo (obtained from Swedish court archives during my investigation for BBC Spotlight) the family's lawyers state: "Your client is aware that 455m euros of loans related to our clients' investments in their international property portfolio (IPP).
"These loans are performing and our clients have met the interest schedules on them, as clearly demonstrated by a review of the attached schedule."
The attached information is headed "Schedule of Valid Property Loans from Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited".
- Sean Quinn didn't just "frustrate" the bank
The reason Sean Quinn, his son and nephew, are guilty of contempt is because they took actions to interfere with the business and shift assets after Anglo had taken control last April and in breach of specific court injunctions obtained in June.
These actions include Sean Quinn falsifying documents in July (three months after he was ousted) to take control of a Moscow office block worth 180m euros and put it into an offshore company in Belize.
He falsified the documents to make it look like it was done while he was still in charge, but in fact he was a bogus director using fake documents to move very real and valuable assets beyond the reach of the taxpayer-owned bank.
Far from going to court and owning up to this course of action, as Sean Quinn has recently suggested he did, he denied all this in court.
He merely admitted taking steps to frustrate the bank while he was still in charge of the company. The judge didn't believe him.
- Sean Quinn isn't defying Anglo alone
He's defying the Irish courts.
It is the courts - not Anglo - that have found him in contempt.
Judge Kelly described the scheme he authorised as one of "mesmeric complexity" that "reeked of dishonesty and sharp practice". It is the courts that have ruled that the debt must be honoured.
- The legitimacy of the disputed loans will be determined
There is a case that will be heard over the legitimacy of the disputed 2.3bn euros loans.
But in the meantime the Quinns are legally bound to honour the court rulings.
If, ultimately, the 2.3bn euros is ruled illegal and unenforceable then they will be due compensation.
Supporters say this must be determined first, and it is right to hide assets in the meantime.
They say the actions taken to date are an attempt to bankrupt the Quinn family so they can't fight that other case.
But it is contradictory to ignore current court orders on the basis that you believe a future court decision will go your way. That suggests you only obey the law when it obeys you. It also ignores the undisputed 455m euros of debt the family have always agreed is owed.
Judge Elizabeth Dunne summarised this key argument in her contempt judgement: "Instead of trying to repay the admitted debt due, the Quinn family and in particular the respondents have taken every step possible to make it as difficult as can be to recover any amount due.
"They have engaged in a complex, complicated and, no doubt, costly, series of steps designed to put the assets of the IPG (International Property Group) beyond the reach of Anglo, in a blatant, dishonest and deceitful manner.
"They have consciously misled courts here and elsewhere. They have sought to deprive Anglo of the assets which would go some way to discharging an admitted indebtedness.
"The behaviour of the respondents outlined in evidence before me is as far as removed from the concept of honour and respectability as it is possible to be."


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It's a rivalry that began long ago. There's Carroll vs. Curren. Young vs. Nuuhiwa. John Witzig's California bashing and Occy's '80s claim that all American surfers are "seppo wankers." Australia and the USA have been at each other's competitive throats foryears and the next generation of surfers has already begun to put their stamp on this storied rivalry.
The 2008 Nike 6.0 Pier Pressure event saw an eighty-man field, with only four Australians doing battle at the Huntington pier. Three of those Aussies made it to the final and those three finished one, two, three with young gun Julian Wilson taking first, followed by Stuart Kennedy and Chris Salisbury respectively. So what's the deal? Why are we getting stomped on by the Aussies in our own backyard?
"American Surfers can easily get in a bubble here surfing Trestles everyday with their bros," said Dylan Slater, head of marketing at Rip Curl. "They need to realize there are kids overseas that are being groomed to beat them." Dylan then stressed the fact that the Australian contingent isn't more talented, they're just better prepared for the next level.
"It's definitely a wake up call for the Americans," he said. "Sooner or later they are gonna have to face these kids full time."
Former Bronzed Aussie himself Peter Townend knows a thing or two about marching onto someone's turf and smoking them in competition. He practically made a career out of it.
"They aren't scared to take their game on the road," says the 1976 World Champ and former USA surf team coach. "There is a tremendously strong junior program in Australia, and they're patient. They wait for only the best wave, and when they get it they rarely screw it up. They manufacture eights."
Andrew Doheny –– the only American to make it to the final –– had other ideas. "They came in with a more relaxed approach," he said. "There was less pressure on them since they had nothing to lose."
While that may be true, it does seem like our guys need to go back to the drawing board and figure out a way to step up their game. "Our guys need more experience against better competition," Townend says. "They don't realize how good the rest of the world is since they primarily compete against each other. They don't realize that they need to be better."
Stuart Kennedy beelining in Indo
So was this the seed for another chapter of this legendary rivalry? Should we expect revenge from our juniors?
"I'm always looking to win my heats," Doheny said. "Aussie or not."
I guess we'll have to wait and see but for now, they'll have to be think about their Laker-like buckle against the little Aussie contingent that could.


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what problems to look for? VW Beetle
I'v decided, after much thought. that an MG,Triumph or any other British sports car isn't what I need for a summer daily driver, and unless I could find a really nice corvair for really cheap, there not ither..
now I'm 100% looking for an old Beetle in the $2-3k range, so I know what I find will need some love, but should at least be drivable.... what are some problem areas to look for? the 1-800 VW parts junkyard is about 20 miles away, so parts are no problem. but I don't want to buy a painted lemon
oil leaks !!
If the engine has been overheated they start to leak. But a bug is easy to work on and parts are plentiful and reasonable. I had two corvair powered glass dune buggies and just traded my old Formula V type single seater for a sand rail. Saint Anthony Dunes are only 45 minutes away ! ! !
Yeah Id watch out for overheating
so as long as they don't show signs of leaking bad, it should be ok, and not have been overheated?
I'v been pricing out parts to build a 2000+ CC engine
This question is a bit into my specialty area, as I am just now transitioning from air-cooled VWs to small block chevys.
You will want to avoid super beetles. They have what is called the "super shimmy" which is caused by the poor design of the macphersion strut suspension up front. They also have curved glass and padded dashes, which don't look as cool.
When it comes to the engine, first check to make sure there are no gaps in the engine tin (make sure you can't see the ground from the engine compartment.) Also make sure the seal between the engine tin and body is 100% intact. If it is equipped with a stock intake and carb let it run and warm up then feel the manifold right below the carb and the preheat tubes to make sure they are hot. If they are cold it means they are clogged, and it is almost impossible to clean all the carbon out of them without replacing the manifold.
The design of a Type I VW engine leads to wear of the bearing journals on the flywheel side. If the clutch feels like it has oil on it, its usually because the main seal isn't doing its job due to wear on the journal. You also need to check for cranshaft play. Grab the pulley with both hands and try to move it back and forth (front of car to back of car) If you can feel any play then the case is either trashed or it has lost a crankshaft shim. Either condition calls for a rebuild.
If it has a single weber progressive installed on it, walk away. These carbs are almost impossible to get a nice tune on with a VW engine. Dual carb setups are preferred, with Kadrons being the easiest to tune and cheapest to work on.
You may also run into single port or dual port setups. Dual port heads produce more hp, and are much nicer for highway driving. Single ports run out of breath at high rpms, but are more torquey.
Underneath the engine you should have a small plate on each side underneath the pushrod tubes. feel the top of it to see if the tubes are leaking. Also inspect the cylinders for missing cooling fins.
As for the body, the areas that are most prone to rust are: the floorpans, underneath the back seat where the battery sits, the bottom of the windshield, and the back corners between the rear winshield and back window.
If you are as picky as I am you can request that the owner let the car sit overnight without being started before you come to see it. With the car cold you can check valve clearances. They should be between .004" and .008" If they are not then you either have a stretching valve or dropping seat, or the owner hasn't properly maintained the vehicle by setting the valves every 3000 miles. In the event that it has been upgraded to chromoly pushrods, they should be set to a loose zero.
If it has a hot cam in it, you may see dual coil valve springs when you take the valve cover off. If you have dual springs make sure the engine has either chromoly valve caps installed or swivel adjusters, or the valve stems will be mushroomed.
That's about all off the top of my head right now, if you have any other specific questions, feel free to ask away.
Good luck finding an original floor pan that hasn't rusted through on the passenger side rear under the seat, where the battery sits.
The heaters suck- if rotted out, you'll get more hot engine smell/exhaust than heat.
Pass on "hot rod" VW's. Cammed up too much and it will run like rotted stink until it's on the cam.
Cobalt mentioned staying away from hot rodded bugs, generally a good idea unless they have a receipt from the builder or for the parts they put into it. The VW parts market is flooded with chinese crap that gets passed off as "high-performance." I can't find them off hand, but I've got a side by side picture I took of original German lifters and the "Hi-po" Chinese remakes. The remakes no chamfering on the oiling holes, the holes were smaller, and some were partially clogged.
I knew about the pans and the heaters. full well expect that stuff to need some work.. heater really doesn't matter because it will only be driven in the warm climate..
I'll build a high performance engine for it after I get it cleaned up nice
i have a 68 bug with a 71 engine and it has been board out to 92 or 94 not shore
what is the hp power on one
and what is the best rebuild manual do so off of
and how much is it to rebuild one
to add some they to help u .look at the front end some have a Cali front end make shore that works win i got mine it was broke i did not no tell 1 year latter when i tried to change it
and check the front if they got in a wrack then the front hood wont open/close and it not that easy to fix( i'm not shore but u will need to cut that out and put anther clip(or what ever u call it ) in )
I had Chilton, Clymer, and Idiot manuals, and all were useful. Each one had at least a few bits of info not found in the others. If you limit yourself to one, get the Idiot book. "How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive--A Manual For The Compleat Idiot" by John Muir. The older versions concern only Beetles & Buses (AKA Type 1 and Type 2, respectively). Newer editions take up space with Type 3 and Type 4 info as well, and I believe they lose a little in the process. Check Ebay, the old ones are out there.
When you're checking for tin, look in front of the fan shroud (in front means toward the front of the car) down below the big air intake hole and be sure there's a mostly horizontal piece that keeps you from seeing the transaxle and the ground. If it's gone, the oil cooler could very well be plugged with road gook and grass, which ain't healthy for the motor.
Clicketyclack mentioned the little tin plates under the space between the cylinders. These are held in by spring tension and often fall out, or are left out by hack mechanics. They are critical to the cooling of the bottoms of the cylinders. Be sure they're there. I wired mine up so they wouldn't fall out again.
I don't know if they still make the telescoping, spring-loaded push rod tubes, but they sure cured the leaky tube seal problem for me.
a pretty engine ?
I have a friend that has a shop that specialized in VW 's, He is now doing Electric conversions and VW based Electric Kit cars. I got my last engine from him and He said to stay away from the Chrome engine Tin He said they don't have the proper baffels inside and will cause an engine to overheat. I have an oil cooler and filter Kit still in the boxes to put on my sand rail.
well. i'v got a couple to go look at. 1 is 3 hours away ( 1968 ) and very promising, the other ( 1973 ) is a short drive away, but might need too much work... both are regular Beetles, and not Super Beetles.
I stopped and looked at a '73 MGB that popped up for sale on the way to my work, and it's 'probably' drivable. decent interior, fairly sound. price is fair, but the driver side rocker is rusted bad, and it will need a small patch to the right unibody frame rail, along with paint and a top
Assuming they are both setup stock, the 73 will be a quite a bit more comfortable to cruise in. It should have a 34 PICT 3 carb and a Bosch 034 distributor. This is the SVDA (single vacuum, dual advance) dizzy that you will see a lot of the VW guys talking about. It eliminates the "flat spot" that you get with mech advance only distributors. It's a great distributor, but if they have changed the carb it will run like garbage. The vacuum can is specifically setup for the vacuum signal from that carb. I have tried to run it with 30 PICT 3 carbs , and you can almost get them running right.
I was doing a first-time oil change on a '70 VW that I recently purchased. While removing the oil strainer cover plate, 5 of the 6 cap nuts came off cleanly, but the sixth brought the 6mm stud with it. I figured, "No problem, I'll just screw the stud and cap nut back in to the crankcase when I re-install the cover plate". Nope, not happenin'. The threads in the crankcase that hold the 6mm stud are stripped out. What's the best way to repair this? Helicoil? How do you keep the aluminum shavings out of the crankcase?
For those I have always used a touch of JB weld to put them back in. They usually only strip out when they have been over torqued, the torque spec for them is only 5 ft lbs. If you are opposed to the easy fix, timeserts are the other option. As far as keeping shavings out of the case, best/easiest way I've found is to get the car high enough in the air and have a helper hold a shop vac right under where you are working. This approach works a little better with earplugs if you find the noise distracting.
Those shavings are actually a magnesium alloy, not aluminum. Ever see an old bug in the junkyard after it has caught fire? Once that magnesium case catches its like a 200lb road flare. Usually just leaves a black shell with half of the metal around the engine compartment melted away. That being said, the very first thing you want to do with a new bug is make sure that all of your rubber fuel lines are fresh, and that there is not an inline filter installed in the engine compartment. Inline filters are beneficial, but the most common place people like to put them is between the firewall and the carb, which also happens to be right above the coil, and the exhaust manifold. A good Type D extinguisher is also a good investment to carry in these cars.
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"I don't have piercings or tattoos, nor do I plan on getting any in the near or distant future, still I found this zine quite interesting and informative. Stacy really knows her stuff and has produced a thorough and incredibly useful zine about caring for tattoos and piercings so that you don't end up regretting your decision or cursing your luck when things go wrong. She starts by explaining the healing process and then goes into detail about various products and nutrients that are useful…Continue
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i've found a few sites that sell zines from the 60's all the way to the mid 90's. some are quite expensive (up to $150) while others are rather reasonably priced ($15-25).
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I love libraries (or any kind of collection, really) so naturally, i love zine libraries.
For me, zines are about sharing information and ideas within a community (if not a global community), and there is no better community for sharing information and ideas than a library. And better yet, I think the thing i I love most about libraries is that it goes with the principal that people are naturally good, and will return the books, so they're free for anyone to use.
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this is mostly just to keep track for myself, but i've sent zines out to the following people and have yet to hear a response. if one of these people is you, please let me know if you got my zine or not, and what you thought of it:
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i would kill to have those wheels on my coupe. good luck with the sale. car looks great!
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Car looked great on the cruise to Dustoff.
Always been a fan of the coupe and if I had the green, she'd be mine.
$3,000. Says so at the end of the first post.
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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) provides "standards for the basic minimum wage and overtime pay, affects most private and public employment. It requires employers to pay covered employees who are not otherwise exempt at least the federal minimum wage and overtime pay of one-and-one-half-times the regular rate of pay," according to the United States Department of Labor. Laws such as the FLSA are meant to cover every worker, regardless of immigration status. Despite the fact that this law has been in effect since 2009, studies and research of low-wage workers all over the US, in particular immigrants, reveal the high prevalence of wage theft—the failure to pay workers the wages that are owed to them.
As covered in last month's issue of The Green American, "Fair Labor at Home," about 23.1 million immigrants work in the US, and only eight million are undocumented. Another 240,000 come here legally as temporary workers. Many of the most exploited workers on American soil come from this immigrant population, both those who are undocumented and those who are legal residents or recent citizens. Thus, because many recent immigrants are unfamiliar with US labor laws or are still learning English, they are easily taken advantage of, making them frequent victims of wage theft, dangerous conditions, and uncompensated workplace injuries, discrimination and physical assaults.
A study for the National Employment Law Project, the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and the Center on Urban Economic Development found that foreign-born workers were nearly twice as likely as their U.S.-born counterparts to have a minimum wage violation, and of the overseas-born, Latino workers had the highest minimum wage violation rates of any ethnic group.
In 2009, NPR reported that an employee at a family-friendly chicken place in New York City earned $25 for an eight-hour shift—this is less than half of New York's minimum wage for waiters. He also worked several 12-hour days yet received no overtime. Another employee claimed that he was paid in cash and worked more than 80 hours a week.
Undocumented immigrants are in a particular bind, because employers can threaten to expose their immigration status if they complain about wage theft or other abuses. Last month, the Huffington Post reported that an undocumented worker working at Quick Pita at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in D.C. publicly claimed that his boss had been violating the labor law. The Guatemala native shared that he was paid under the table, earned $6.50 per hour his first year and $7 his second year—both of which are below D.C.'s minimum wage rate of $8.25—all while working more than 40 hours per week without the overtime pay he should have received by law. Shortly after, he was turned over to immigration officials and spent four days in detention, and now is waiting for his immigration hearing this month, after which he may be deported.
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In the meantime, citizens are banding together to help protect exploited workers. In an effort to combat these violations, "the Labor Department has joined forces with immigrant advocacy groups for what they call "wage watch"—an approach taken straight from the concept of Neighborhood Watches," according to NPR. These groups, comprised of ordinary people, will undergo training and will be given materials by the Labor Department's Division of Labor Standards. Groups will then select a specific geographic zone and organize activities to improve labor law compliance in those areas. For example, they will conduct know-your-rights training, provide employers with information about compliance, and distribute informative literature to workers in different industries. Furthermore, when these groups come across workers who have been violated, they will refer them to a specific person in the Labor Department's Division of Labor Standards, who will then enforce wage and hour laws.
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Hotel Al Vivit Hotel
Piazza Ferretto 73, Venice Mestre, Italy
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The property features 33 comfortable guest rooms, including elegant superior rooms, large junior suites as well as spacious suites.
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When I was 10 years old, I heard my father and my Uncle Bob talking about the car they'd most like to own. Noticing me, Uncle Bob asked, "How about you, Harley? What car do you want to drive when you grow up?"
I immediately answered, "A Mercedes!"
My father's eyes widened as Uncle Bob replied, "You have excellent taste."
Forty years later, Mercedes-Benz still symbolizes "excellent taste" for me and millions of other people around the globe. It's not just about high quality: The Mercedes brand sets a standard of comparison; it's shorthand for "great experience" and "luxury."
And that's why we're so excited that Stephen Cannon, the president and CEO of Mercedes-Benz USA, is our lead-off industry speaker at Forrester's Forum For Customer Experience Professionals East next week in New York. Cannon is just perfect as the keynote address for an event with the theme "Good Is Not Good Enough" — because for Mercedes-Benz, just being "good" would be a serious disappointment.
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Hello,Internal Revenue Code Section 104(a) provides that compensatory damages paid for "personal injuries or physical sickness," are not considered taxable income to the recipient. Any other damage award is taxable. There is also something known as "return of capital," which occurs in a lawsuit where a plaintiff receives "restitution" of money or property that was misappropriated by the defendant. This type of recovery is also not taxable, because it's not income, since you would be recovering what was already yours. However, restitution is rarely paid in the case of wrongful death, consequently I would not expect you to be able to use the "return of capital" tax argument. If you have a lawyer who represented you in the wrongful death action, you may want to discuss the issue and find out why none of your recovery could have been agreed upon as made for either of the above-described legal theories -- because had they been so characterized, it would have meant nothing different for the defendant, but it would have allowed you to avoid any tax liability. If your lawyer doesn't have a good answer for you, then you may want to talk to a legal malpractice attorney and see if you may be able to recover the taxes as part of a lawsuit against your attorney.I can't promise you that this would work out in your favor, but it's the only strategy that I can come up with that would give you a chance of getting your taxes paid. There simply isn't any grounds for tax relief, otherwise. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.


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D.C. Rescuer Shot During EMS Response
A firefighter was shot in the District on Monday night after crews made forced entry into an apartment, police said.
The 26-year-old firefighter was shot in the arm in the 4800 block of East Capitol Street just before 10 p.m., police said. Authorities said firefighters broke the door of an apartment down while responding to a report of a man having chest pains.
Police said the 57-year-old man thought someone was breaking into his apartment and shot at the firefighters, grazing one of them in the arm.
Firefighters went to the man's residence after his brother become concerned when he could not get him back on the phone, News4's Jackie Bensen reported.
Bensen reported that the man, who was a little confused, barricaded himself in his apartment for a short time. He surrendered to police without incident shortly before 11 p.m. and was taken into custody.
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Sunny And Comfortable: Alan's Weather Blog
My forecast of high temperatures in the low 80s didn't quite make it yesterday. It reached the upper 70s; 77 in Trenton and 78 in Newark. There was about 15/100th's of an inch of rain in Atlantic City and along the coastline.
There's some patchy fog in South Jersey, but not much elsewhere. It'll be mostly sunny and comfortable with highs in the lower 80s or so.
Some clear skies tonight with a few lows in the 50s, but low to mid 60s in urban and coastal areas.
Early sun tomorrow, although we've had to include the chance of a shower, mainly in western counties during the afternoon and evening. There is certainly the chance of that, as it clouds up. Highs tomorrow will be in the 70s, but cooler near the ocean.
The prospects for the weekend are not too bad. Any early showers that we have Saturday, if we have one at all, will be ending. Then we will be drying out and improving later. Saturday's highs mostly in the 70s.
Some sunshine Sunday with just the chance of a late shower, though most places probably not.
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7th Annual Cinco de Mayo Tequila Appreciation & Tasting Event
Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 8:00 PM to 10:30 PM (PDT)
Event Details
Presented by Glenda & Joe Aiello
Saturday, May 4
Event Times: 8 - 10:30 pm
Attendees must be 21 or older and must show valid I.D. upon arival.
Ticket price does not include a $10 Materials Fee due by each attendees upon arrival (Cash Only).
When & Where
The Village at Ed Gould Plaza
1125 N McCadden Pl
Los Angeles,
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George Strait vs. Sheryl Crow – The Showdown
George Strait's fans knocked Brad Paisley out of the Showdown competition earlier this week. His new song 'I Got a Car' took almost 75 percent of the vote, making for an easy win over 'The Mona Lisa.' His competition today and Thursday is fresh off a wonderful performance at the ACAs in Las Vegas, so those same voters will need to double down on their efforts.
Sheryl Crow performed 'Callin' Me When I'm Lonely' with Darius Rucker during Tuesday night's Fox broadcast, and many called it a highlight performance of the night. The sad ballad is one of the best from her new 'Feels Like Home' album. This is Crow's second shot on the Showdown after losing to Jerrod Niemann earlier this year. Her fans put up a good fight then, however, proving she's deserving of a second chance.
Listen to clips of both Strait and Crow's songs and vote for your favorite here. You can vote once every hour until this Showdown ends on Friday at 8AM ET, so come back and vote often to be sure your artist wins. The winner of this matchup will face a new challenger on Friday.
Listen to a Sample of George Strait, 'I Got a Car'
Listen to a Sample of Sheryl Crow, 'Callin' Me When I'm Lonely'
Showdown Rules: The song with the most votes wins, and the winner goes on to face a new challenger in the next Showdown. Vote as much as once per hour online. If a song wins five Showdowns in a row, it will be retired into the Taste of Country Showdown Hall of Fame to allow for new songs to compete. Some songs will be considered for a second Showdown if voter turnout is healthy in a losing effort.


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Hi everybody
Hope your Easter is going well. I have a question for you, and I KNOW all of you can help me out with this.
Ok, here we go. I was at my fav dealer today <Kittery Me> and found a Used Colt Blued Lightweight Combat Commander series 80 with TONS of extras added <Brownells, vedechi, Chip mcCormik etc>Trijicon night sights, speed adjustable trigger, enhanced hammer, sear, wide combat beavertail safety, barso BBl, enhanced ejector, etc.( a total of about 250.00 in extras) The gun appears to have much custom work done to it, quite tastfully done I might add plus it has all the factory parts with it. No box, 95% blue. for $650.00
SECOND.A USED Springfield Armory Micro Compact Lightweight Loaded with Novak night sights. Stainless slide, slimline Double Diamond grips, ambi safety, and all the factory accys that a stock Micro comes with for $730.00 95% finish (gun retails for about $1169.00 ) no box with it either.
My delemia is, I can't take both, and I'm trading my pimpy hard chrome H&K P7 with night sights <a pic in another thread I posted> for the total of 620.00 trade-in.. (I'm into the gun for $500.00 total cash money)
I can have the COLT Commander for my gun and $30.00 or
I can have the Springfield Armory Micro for 114.00...and my P7..
Let me know what ya'll think, cuz I have til Monday to figure it out..I KNOW you'll help me out on this one, but I'd love to take BOTH of them, but can't...
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Crime in the United States, 2011
November 2, 2012
The FBI's 2011 Crime in the United States Report shows that violent crimes dropped for the fifth year in a row.
Audio Transcript
Mollie Halpern: The FBI's 2011 Crime in the United States Report shows that violent crimes, such as murder and rape, dropped for the fifth year in a row. They decreased 3.8 percent when compared with 2010.
David Cuthbertson: Property crimes declined for the ninth consecutive year. They were reduced approximately .5 percent compared with 2010.
Halpern: I'm Mollie Halpern, and this is FBI, This Week. Crime in the U.S. is a statistical compilation of reported crimes voluntarily provided to the FBI by more than 18,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide. It shows what crimes were reported in specific areas. David Cuthbertson, the assistant director of the Criminal Justice Information Services, cautions against using the data to rank the safety of cities.
Cuthbertson: Many socio-economic factors go into whether a community is considered safe or not.
Halpern: The data can impact FBI resources…
Cuthbertson: Our special agents in charge in the field will use Crime in the United States to help them decide where to deploy our resources in conjunction with the already existing FBI priorities.
Halpern: For more, visit www.fbi.gov.
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Local Foods Made in Tyler
Restaurants pay attention to the quality and detail that goes into every aspect of their food business.
One look at the box, and you know something wonderful is inside. Bright-yellow-and-white-striped with a cornflower blue ribbon, the parcel holds one of Janie Clapp's specialties – a baked-from-scratch pound cake just like her great-grandmother taught her to make.
"When everybody else was asleep in the afternoons, she would get me in the kitchen and we'd start baking," Clapp recalls about her annual summer trips to "Papu's" house in Austin. "Everybody woke up from their nap, and we had treats!" Clapp says.
Janie's Cakes
Also tending to Clapp's culinary education was her mother, a gourmet chef. Thus, it's no surprise that, after honing her skills at the Culinary Institute of America in New York, Clapp opened Janie's Cakes in January 1987. The all-natural bakery is just one of a cornucopia of food-based businesses that lend Tyler's economy a certain distinctive flavor.
"Don't skimp. Use the freshest ingredients you can," Clapp advises, sharing the secret of her delectable creations.
Clapp and her husband, Matt, live on a working cattle ranch where about 300 chickens, housed in what the couple dubs the Hilton Hen, are the source of the eggs used exclusively by Janie's Cakes. "I think that's a huge plus," she says. The cakes that aren't sold at the bakery are packaged and flash-frozen "so they travel well," Clapp adds.
Distant Lands Coffee Roaster
And what goes better with pound cake than coffee? Tyler is the home of Distant Lands Coffee Roaster, an estate coffee grower since 1965. The company owns 14 farms in Costa Rica and three milling facilities, selling its coffee under its own brand names or for private labeling by restaurants and grocery chains.
"Ours is the best-tasting coffee on the planet. In 13 years, we've never been beaten in a professional cupping competition against any other coffee company," says Distant Lands' director of customer service, Brian Feiden.
About 200,000 of the 800,000 pounds grown annually at the company's flag-ship farm are packaged under the premier La Minita label.
"We go through a quality sorting process, and only the best of the best coffee is tagged with La Minita. If you were to go to Barnes & Noble and buy 10 books on coffee, nine of the 10 would probably have La Minita referenced in them," Feiden says.
Greenberg Smoked Turkey
Another Tyler-based food company enjoying wide acclaim is Greenberg Smoked Turkey. Zeleck Greenberg turned his mother's smoked-turkey recipe into a business in 1940, and his son, Sam, is president today of the company that ships more than 220,000 turkeys annually.
"A turkey like none other" is how Oprah Winfrey described the Tyler bird when she included it in her Favorite Things list for 2003. "I'm telling you, it's the best turkey I've ever had," Winfrey says on her Web site.
John Soules Foods
Meat is also the bread and butter of John Soules Foods, a Tyler company that has carved a niche for itself in the fajita business, marketing seasoned beef and chicken strips for the discriminating Tex-Mex palates of local residents and customers nationwide.
Read about more quality food in Tyler, TX.


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Three parts today.
I'm guessing Kat von D didn't look in the mirror before she left home. At the very least, maybe a different color bra.
Al Pacino and his girlfriend in Rome.
The Pink concert looks really cool. I would like to go. Who wants to go with?
I would like to meet Priscilla Presley's doctor. He has done a masterful job.
This is Rachel Bilson and Hayden Christensen in Barbados.
And five minutes later the kid was at a pawn shop. Well, if this was Pawn Stars he would have been.
Rosario Dawson out shopping.
Selena Gomez also shopping. Lots of free time for celebrities to shop.
Not shopping, but at the airport were Victoria Beckham and her kids.


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simplifying a resulted derivative expression
Hi, I have a function f[ux, uy, vx, vy, wx, wy, u, v, w, x, y]
I am doing different manipulations with this function and the results
I get have expressions like that:
Derivative[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0][f][ux, uy, vx, vy, wx, wy,
u, v, w, x, y]
which is difficult to understand. The question is how can I substitute
automatically the above expression by: fu ?
(it means I need to see that the derivative is taken over the 7th
argument which is 'u' and write that f is derived with respect to u
which I want to be written as fu)
Can it be done?
Thanks a lot!


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Description :
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200501-28
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FSU Basketball At A Glance: It's "Big Monday" as the Ferris State University women's basketball team opens Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) play against archrival Grand Valley State on Monday evening (Dec. 1) in Allendale, Mich. Tipoff at the GVSU Fieldhouse Arena is set for approximately 6 p.m. (EST) prior to the men's contest between the two schools.
Media Coverage: Monday's game can be heard live locally on Bulldog Radio (Charter TV Channel 21 or www.bulldogradio.org) with Rob Bentley handling the play-by-play duties. Live internet statistics will be available for the game. Visit the FSU Athletics Website at www.ferris.edu/sports and click on internet event schedule for a complete list of all available links.
Ticket Info: Tickets for Monday's game will be sold at the door and all seats are general admission. Prices are $7 for adults or $5 for children under 17 and seniors over 55 years of age. Call the GVSU Ticket Office at (616) 331-3741 for more information on ticket sales.
About Ferris State: Ferris State University is a NCAA Division II school located in Big Rapids, Mich., with an enrollment of 12,578. The Bulldogs are a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC). Big Rapids is located in West Michigan approximately 60 miles north of Grand Rapids or 40 miles west of Mount Pleasant, Mich.
FSU Falls At Lewis: A rough early start spelled doom for Ferris State as the Bulldogs suffered a 77-66 regional setback on the road at Lewis (Ill.) in their most recent game last Tuesday (Nov. 25) evening in Romeoville, Ill. The host Flyers scored the first 13 points of the game and jumped out to a 22-4 advantage only seven minutes into the contest at LU's Neil Carey Arena. Lewis held a 42-20 halftime edge before the Bulldogs outscored the Flyers 46-35 over the final 20 minutes. Ferris was able to cut Lewis' lead down to as few as eight points with 2:44 left in the game, but the Flyers answered with six-straight points to seal the victory. Senior forward/center Jenna Guay (Escanaba) finished with a team-best 18 points and five rebounds. Sophomore forward Tiara Adams (Lansing/Waverly) added 10 points with senior guard Teghan Thelen (Pewamo/Westphalia) limited to nine points. Thelen had averaged 31 points in FSU's opening two games of the season.
FSU Splits Two: Ferris State opened the 2008-09 campaign splitting two games at the Kentucky Wesleyan Lady Panther Classic (Nov. 15-16) in Owensboro, Ky. The Bulldogs topped host KWC 83-77 in the season opener (Nov. 15) before dropping a narrow 68-62 game to Indianapolis (Nov. 16) the following day. FSU led by as many as nine points with 12:30 to play against Indianapolis and the score was tied with 1:35 to play before the Greyhounds reeled off nine consecutive points to grab the win.
Last Season: Ferris State, which advanced to the NCAA Division II Sweet Sixteen for the first time in school history two years ago, wrapped up the 2007-08 season with a 17-12 overall record and placed tied for third in the GLIAC North Division with a 11-7 league mark. The Bulldogs return nine letterwinners and four starters this season.
Two Years Ago: Ferris State, which advanced to the NCAA-II Great Lakes Regional Championship Game for the first time ever two years ago, was ranked 25th nationally in the final 2006-07 USA Today/ESPN NCAA Division II Top 25 Poll. The Bulldogs, who prior to 2006-07 had never won a NCAA Tournament game, recorded back-to-back wins in their first two national tournament contests en route to the regional runner-up finish. Ferris also compiled a second-place tying 13-5 GLIAC regular-season finish and earned the program's eighth consecutive GLIAC Tournament bid two seasons ago.
The Bulldog Tradition: The Ferris State women's basketball program, which will embark on its 35th season of varsity competition, has compiled a 429-436 (.496) all-time mark. The Bulldogs won their only GLIAC crown, advanced to their first NCAA-II Regional Tournament and recorded the nation's highest grade point average in 1999-2000. FSU, which claimed GLIAC Tourney runner-up honors in 1999-00 and 2003-04, has posted 10 or more victories 12 consecutive seasons.
Head Coach Tracey Dorow: Eleventh-year FSU head coach Tracey Dorow (formerly Tracey Bloodworth-Fisk) presently ranks as Ferris' all-time winningest coach with a current 176-111 (.613) career record at Ferris State. A 1996 graduate of Western Michigan, she guided FSU to a 22-7 mark and the school's first NCAA-II Great Lakes Regional Tourney appearance during the 1999-00 campaign. She spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Lake Michigan College (1994-97) and one season at Indianapolis (1997-98). She also directed FSU to an NCAA Tourney berth in 2003-04 before the Bulldogs' run to the Sweet Sixteen in 2006-07.
The FSU Roster: Ferris' 2008-09 roster includes four seniors, one junior, five sophomores and three freshmen. Seven of the 13 players are guards while the remaining six are frontcourt players. All 13 players on the roster hail from Michigan.
The Coaching Staff: The Bulldogs' full-time assistant coach is Crystal Harris, who is in her second season at FSU after playing collegiate basketball at the University of California-Riverside. She also has professional playing experience. Coach Dorow's father, Rick Bloodworth, returns for his third season as a volunteer assistant coach following a lengthy tenure as a junior college coach at Lake Michigan College from 1987 to 2006. The newcomer to the staff is former Mt. Pleasant Sacred Heart (Mich.) High School coach Mark DeNoyelles, who is a volunteer this campaign and is the father of current FSU sophomore guard Stephanie DeNoyelles (Mt. Pleasant/Sacred Heart) and freshman guard/forward Kelsey DeNoyelles (Mt. Pleasant/Sacred Heart).
B2 Broadband Webcasts: A live broadband video and audio webcast will be available via B2 Networks for all of FSU's home games and selected road contests this season. The pay-per-view feed is available for an individual game cost or in a season package and includes live video along with a radio audio feed. To access the service or obtain more info, please visit the FSU Athletics Website at www.ferris.edu/sports.
Live Internet Stats: "Live Stats" of all 2008-09 Ferris State home games will be provided in progress via the internet. Two options for the live stats will be available, including one from Presto Sports. Visit the site at www.ferris.edu/sports and click the "Live Stats" icon to access.
GLIAC Games On The Air: All 22 of FSU's 2008-09 league games are tentatively slated to be carried live through a partnership with Bulldog Radio, a registered student organization on the Ferris campus. The station can be heard locally on television Channel 21 both via on-campus cable and Charter Communications in Mecosta County. A live 24-hour webcast of the signal is also available at www.bulldogradio.org. A link is also available on FSU's Athletics Website at www.ferris.edu/sports (under Bulldog Webcasts).
On The Internet: Ferris State University Athletics' official web site can be found at www.ferris.edu/sports. The site features information on all FSU varsity programs including rosters, stats, yearbooks and more.
Bulldog Bites: Ferris' home opener at Jim Wink Arena is not until Saturday, Dec. 13, when the Bulldogs host Hillsdale in GLIAC action with tipoff set for 1 p.m. (EST) ..... The Bulldogs continue their league-opening road swing by traveling to Ohio for two games later this week. FSU visits Ashland Thursday, Dec. 4, for a 5:30 p.m. (EST) league game in Ashland, Ohio, and then takes on league newcomer Tiffin on Saturday, Dec. 6, starting at 1 p.m. (EST) in Tiffin, Ohio.
FSU Picked Third: Ferris State was picked to finish third in the 2008-09 GLIAC Women's Basketball North Division Preseason Poll, which was announced during the league's media day teleconference (Oct. 30). The poll was chosen by selected members of the media and the GLIAC's Sports Information Directors. The 30-member group tabbed Michigan Tech and Hillsdale to win the conference's North and South Division titles, respectively. The Bulldogs totaled 121 points in the balloting and trailed only MTU's first-place 179 points and Grand Valley State's 134 points in the North Division.
Preseason All-GLIAC: FSU senior guard Teghan Thelen (Pewamo/Westphalia), who averaged 10.4 points per contest a year ago, was one of five players named to the Preseason All-GLIAC North Division squad in voting by the league's member head coaches. Five players were also named to the South Division team with Hillsdale's Katie Cezat earning GLIAC Preseason Player of the Year laurels.
GLIAC Player Of the Week: Ferris' Teghan Thelen was named this season's first recipient of the GLIAC North Division Player of the Week (Nov. 17) honor as announced by the league office. Thelen averaged 31 points, eight rebounds and four assists as the Bulldogs split two games to open the season at the Kentucky Wesleyan Lady Panther Classic. The 5-6 Thelen tallied a personal career-high and game-best 36 points and connected on a school single-game record eight three-pointers with nine rebounds and four assists in FSU's season-opening triumph over KWC. She then added a game-high 26 points with seven boards and four assists in Sunday's setback against unbeaten Indianapolis. Thelen shot 56% (20-36) from the floor in the two games, including an 11-of-20 (.550) effort behind the three-point arc.
Record Breaker: The eight three-pointers made by Teghan Thelen versus KWC surpassed former Bulldog Lori Young's school-record seven treys made at Michigan Tech back during the 1992-93 campaign (12/12). Her 36 points also tied for the third-highest single-game figure in Bulldog history while her 67% (8-12) effort behind the arc is the second best mark all-time at FSU.
More On Teghan: FSU's Teghan Thelen was Ferris' second-leading scorer (10.4 ppg.) last season behind departed All-GLIAC First Team pick Rachel Folcik and added 119 rebounds, 85 assists along with 35 steals in starting 25 of 29 games. Her 50 made three-pointers led the squad and ranked as the 10th-best seasonal figure in school history. She also had 19 double-figure scoring games. Thelen currently ranks sixth in school history with 111 career three-pointers made and is among the top 10 performers in school career three-point percentage (.359). Her 86.6% (97-112) career free throw percentage is the best mark in school history to date. A three-year letterwinner, Thelen scored 10 points or more in 11 games as a sophomore during the 2006-07 season, including four consecutive contests to end the year, as the Bulldogs reached the NCAA-II Sweet Sixteen.
Top Of The List: Ferris head coach Tracey Dorow became the school's all-time victory leader with two wins in the Aquinas College Classic (Nov. 18-19) to open the 2005-06 season in Grand Rapids, Mich. Dorow, who also ranks as FSU's all-time winningest coach, surpassed Pat Dolan's (1977-89) previous school-record total of 118 wins at FSU. All three of Ferris' NCAA Division II National Tournament appearances have came under Dorow. She was honored as the GLIAC's 2003-04 Women's Basketball Coach of the Year after guiding the Bulldogs to the program's second-ever 20-win campaign.
All In The Family: FSU's Tracey Dorow is far from the only coach in her family. She previously spent three seasons as an assistant coach under her father, Rick Bloodworth, at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Mich. Her father is serving as a volunteer assistant coach at Ferris for the third year in a row this season after a long stint as LMC's head coach. In addition, her younger sister, Andrea Bloodworth, currently is embarking on her second year as an assistant women's coach at NCAA-I Liberty following two years in a similar role at NCAA-I Valparaiso (Ind.) along with three years as the top assistant at GLIAC-member Gannon.
Free Admission Game: Ferris fans will be admitted free of charge for FSU's only non-league home game this season against Marygrove on Dec. 29 (6 p.m.) at Wink Arena. The game will be one of four FSU men's and women's games designated as "Fan Appreciation" contests during the holiday season. The other three games are men's non-league outings versus Olivet (Nov. 25), Grace Bible (Jan. 3) and Kuyper (Jan. 5). No admission will be charged for any of these games although all donations of canned goods to help the needy will be accepted at the door.
Scouting Grand Valley: GVSU holds a 3-1 overall record to date following a 73-62 loss in their most recent game (Nov. 22) at nationally-ranked Drury (Mo.). The Lakers are led in scoring by senior forward Kim Wyngaard (12.8 ppg). GVSU, which won the NCAA-II National Championship in 2005-06, finished 16-12 overall and tied for third place in the GLIAC North Division (11-7) last campaign. Grand Valley State, which is guided by second-year head coach Janel Burgess, won its first three games of the season before the loss to Drury, including two wins at home. The Lakers also played Kentucky Wesleyan in the Drury Tournament (Nov. 21), topping KWC by a 57-50 score.
Series Information: GVSU holds a 49-23 advantage heading into Monday's 73rd encounter. FSU has won only
five of the last 12 series' contests, but recorded a 62-59 win in the first meeting
last year (1/12/08) at Allendale, Mich. The Lakers came back to record a 69-62 triumph
in last year's regular-season finale (2/23/08) at Big Rapids. The Bulldogs have won
two of the last three games overall. Tracey Dorow currently has a 11-11 career coaching record against the Lakers.


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Information on a shortened course of radiation?
- Question from MollyS: Any news on shortening the course of radiation therapy?
- Answers - Kathy D. Miller, M.D. Nothing big. We have had the results for several years of a study looking at a 3-week course of radiation compared to the standard 6-week treatment course. That study now has very long-term follow-up, and found no difference in the risk of recurrence or the cosmetic outcome of women treated with the shorter duration. Several newer techniques decreased the duration of treatment even more, to just 1 week. But those techniques also don't treat the entire breast; they only treat the region where the tumor was. We don't yet have results from randomized studies comparing that approach to the more standard approaches. The studies doing those comparisons are going on but we don't have the results yet.
The Ask-the-Expert Online Conference called Updates From the 2009 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium featured Kathy Miller, M.D. and Kristin Brill, M.D., F.A.C.S. answering your questions about the latest updates on breast cancer risk, screening techniques, treatment options, and more.
Editor's Note: This conference took place in December 2009.
The materials presented in these conferences do not necessarily reflect the views of Breastcancer.org. A qualified healthcare professional should be consulted before using any therapeutic product or regimen discussed. All readers should verify all information and data before employing any therapies described here.
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Peruvian government establishes memorial site for African slavery
By Rachel Chase
The district of Zaña in Lambayeque will be a space for visitors to remember the tragedy of slavery and African contributions to Peruvian culture.
Peru, like most of the New World during the era of European colonization, was a destination for African slaves. Now, the Peruvian government has established the district of Zaña in Chiclayo to be a "Slavery and African Cultural Heritage Memorial Site in Peru."
According to Andina news agency, the Regional Council of Lambayeque decided to designate Zaña as a memorial site because of its historical significance for the Afro-peruvian population. "Zaña was an important historical, geographical, and cultural complex that had an international port in Chérrepe, from which many products were exported, and slaves were also brought in through this port," Director Luis Rocca of the Museo Afroperuano of Zaña told Andina.
Rocca pointed out that the special designation received by Zaña could also bring benefits in terms of tourism: "Furthermore, as there's a lot more cultural tourism and memory tourism going on, it'll be a very important space for all Afro-descendents, and for people who are against discrimination in the world."
According to Andina, Zaña is one of the oldest cities in the region, having been officially founded in 1563.
Rocca also noted that the designation of Zaña as a memorial site is an important historical step towards recognizing the injustice of slavery. "You could say that this is a moral recognition, a revindication for the slaves, where we're going to see and to value the importance of Zaña as a historical site," Rocca said.
As many as 95,000 slaves may have been brought to Peru over the course of the slave trade.


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I do not mind chaperones to tag along. I completely understand why you, the model, like them to be present. Chaperones are more than welcome to stay in the studio or on location and watch. They can even give helpful ideas or ask questions if they would like, as long as they do not get in the way to much. I want the photo shoots to be a fun experience for everyone involved and there.
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