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Villa Ventanas is truly a unique architectural masterpiece. Through walls of glass you look out at one of the most glorious panoramic views in Costa Rica. Located in the private gated community of Monte Paraiso, our newly remodeled house affords luxurious indoor and outdoor living. With two gorgeous patios and a stunning bi-level infinity pool, Villa Ventanas is a modern gem.
The house is only 20 minutes from Liberia's International Airport and is less than 1 hour's drive to 3 National Parks and only 3 hours from the Arenal Volcano. The house has every amenity, from dishes to cookware, linens, Internet, security system, outdoor grill, outdoor fridge and wetbar, jacuzzi tub, and washer/dryer.
"Our stay in the Costa Rica Villa Ventanas was amazing! We soaked up the sun, the greenery and the magnificent views from this stunning home that overlooks Playa Hermosa. Our stay was very comfortable - truly a home-away-from-home. While the kids splashed around in the beautiful pool, we were able to sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery from the expansive patio - exactly what we needed. Every day, we explored the area, ate the local food and experienced numerous exciting adventures. Costa Rica was completely the trip of a life-time!"
This home was the highlight of our vacation to the beautiful Costa Rica. After very full and tiring days out in the hot sun and beautiful beaches the respite of this home was priceless. It is set back in a safe private community but accessible to all that Playa Coco and Hermosa have to offer. Other beaches in the area are only a 20-30 minute scenic drive where you get to see Costa Rican life. The cultural experience of renting and commuting by car rather then staying on resort is unmatched. The home is beautifully appointed, well maintained and very clean. The infinity pool is how we began and ended most days. The bedrooms are spacious and equally lovely. We went with our children so we got the master but if traveling with other adults I would be satisfied with any bedroom. There are 2 additional twin beds in a first floor bedroom. We hired Rocio for my husbands birthday dinner. We enjoyed in the home and it was delicious and she made him a wonderful birthday cake and decorated with balloons and a pinata. This home far exceeded our expectations!
This home was beautiful, well maintained and perfect in every way for our group of six adults. We could have stayed "home" all day just enjoying the pool, but the beach and surrounding area were great too. Great team managing the place - very helpful and responsive to your needs. We hope to return here for another visit soon.
I completely agree with everyone else who gave this five stars. Beautiful house, amenities, and location
My wife and I, our two sons, one daughter-in-law and three grandchildren enjoyed this great place. We cooked and ate there, went out to the local restaurants some nights or ordered pizza, travelled around this part of the country to the nice beaches, the Arenal volcano and hot springs, did some SCUBA and some hiking in the jungle and some zip lining. Of course, we spend plenty of time in the very nice pool enjoying the view of Hermosa and good having times with family, My wife and I went for morning walks at 6 AM most days and usually saw the same troop of monkeys in different spots around the area. The owner and property managers were great to deal with, friendly, accommodating, and responsive. We all had an excellent holiday as a result!
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I can't say enough about our stay in Costa Rica overall, however it was that much better to have this beautiful home to stay in! The view was just incredible and the infinity pool was so impressive. The adult kids never got bored when we spent one day diving as they found a way to entertain themselves all day in the house and in the pool. We didn't bother to cook meals except breakfast here, but it is fully equipped and that is certainly an option. The beds are comfortable and each bedroom has its own air conditioning unit! I will definitely be a return guest next year!
Spent an incredible week here relaxing and enjoying the area. Great food and drink near, but bought fresh fish and cooked at the house often. The house is top notch with all of the amenities you need. Best part was sitting around the pool at night watching the stars.
My family and I recently spent a week in this wonderful home. The description of the home is accurate and the owners were wonderful to work with. They gave us plenty of information about the home and area prior to our arrival. The property manager also met us in town and we followed him to the house where he gave us a folder of info regarding things to do and place to go. We have two children (ages 9 and 11) who loved the pool area. The town of Playa Hermosa is wonderfully small, all the locals are so friendly. Every morning I walked from the house to the beach and back, the little hill will work off any excess calories you consume while on your trip! The locals and expats that I met along my walk were very friendly. Car rental is a must. We went to several local restaurants and excursions, I will try to list and tell a little about them for those who are interested. Father Rooster's has the best Nachos and Margarita's, The Black beach there is cool, but remember your water shoes, sand is hot! Donde Johan's food was okay, could have been what we ordered, (pizza) atmosphere, staff and owner were all very nice, I would go back just for that reason. We went sailing with Ferit, wonderful day, couldn't ask for a better trip, very accommodating. (Daryl the property manager can give you his number) Had dinner on the beach at Roberto's, had great Shrimp, and drink specials. Also had dinner out last night at Ginger's our only regret is that we didn't go here earlier in the week so we could have gone there twice!! It is a tapas restaurant, so don't expect large portions but my husband and I ordered 5 different items between the two of us and ended up bringing home left overs. Went to Palo Verde National Park, Luis was our tour guide, very nice guy, tour was nice unfortunately we only saw the monkeys from afar. Bring some bananas with you if you do this tour...especially if you want to see monkeys close up. Lunch at a small local town on this tour was very authentic, worth the little extra $. After the tour they take you to watch a local make pottery..it is beautiful. I purchased a very large bowl at a expensive price, my fault for not trying to negotiate but after you sit there and watch a guy make one on a wheel and tell you how long it takes to make I had a hard time haggling now knowing what I know I would have.
Villa Ventanas is a gorgeous modern house with floor to ceiling windows in every room. With its hilltop location in the private gated community of Monte Paraiso, Villa Ventanas overlooks the beautiful beaches of Playa Hermosa. The newly renovated villa features four bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths. Wonderful outside living space allows you to enjoy two fully furnished patios with a stunning bi-level infinity pool. One patio features new luxurious lounge seating with a full fridge and wet bar; the other patio features a full dining table for 8 and a gas grill. Interior features include brand new furniture and decor, large flat-screen TV/DVD, washer/dryer, jacuzzi tub, central A/C, and new stainless appliances. The villa provides elegance and privacy, yet you are only minutes away from the restaurants of Playa Hermosa, Playa Panama and Playa del Coco.
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Weekend Cleanup Events: Apr. 26, 2014
Tackle the Trash: County-Wide Spring Cleaning Day
El Paso County is hosting Tackle the Trash, a County-wide "spring cleaning" event on Saturday, April 26, 2014 and encouraging civic organizations, churches, scout groups, schools, and individuals to participate. Volunteers will pick up trash in six specific areas around County parks, trails, public areas, creeks and roadways. El Paso County Commissioners will greet volunteers at various check-in sites beginning at 9 a.m. The County will provide trash bags and safety vests. Volunteers are encouraged to bring gloves and bottled water.
For more information, and to register for the event, go to www.tacklethetrash.com.
Those younger than 16 must be supervised by an adult.
Tackle the Trash Check-In Sites (all open at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, April 26, 2014):
-Monument Area / New Santa Fe Regional Trail: Check-in at 3rd Street Trailhead, between Adams Street and Beacon Lite Road
-Monument Fountain Area / Fountain Creek Regional Park: Check-in at the park, 2010 Duckwood, Fountain
-Falcon Area / Rock Island Regional Trail: Check-in at Falcon Trailhead, Falcon
-Bear Creek Regional Park / Surrounding Areas: Check-in at the park, 21st Street and Cresta Road, Colorado Springs
-Calhan Area/ El Paso County Fairgrounds: Check-in at the fairgrounds, 10th Street, Calhan
-Downtown Colorado Springs: Check-in at Centennial Hall, 200 S. Cascade Ave., Colorado Springs
Bessemer Neighborhood Cleanup
The annual Bessemer Neighborhood Cleanup is scheduled from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 26. The cleanup will be held in the empty lot at the corner of Abriendo Avenue and Canal Street. The main entrance to the cleanup site can be accessed by traveling southbound on Abriendo Avenue. Participants must pre-purchase tickets to dispose of waste at the cleanup. Tickets for a level pickup truckload are $15 each, with a limit of two per household. A limited number of seniors and disabled residents, without any means of delivery, may request curbside pick-up assistance with ID by signing up when tickets are purchased by April 23.
Lake Pueblo State Park Cleanup Day
Here's a way to help our little corner of the planet for Earth Day - volunteer for the annual clean-up day at Lake Pueblo State Park, 9 a.m.-noon, April 26.
Park entry fees are waived for volunteers, and lunch will be provided to everyone who helps out. Meet at the Lake Pueblo Quail Run group picnic area.
Volunteers will pick up trash throughout the park, along the shore of the reservoir and from the banks of the Arkansas River. Come by yourself or bring the whole family. Remember to bring work boots, gloves, a hat and water.
Work Day at Historic Monument Valley Park
Date: Saturday, April 26
Time: Cleanup kickoff - 9:00 a.m.
Ribbon-cutting ceremony of new playground - 11:00 a.m.
Where: Monument Valley Park
Note: Go to the entrance of Monument Valley Park at intersection of Fontenaro St. and Culebra Ave.
The Spruce Up the Springs event will include playground and park beautification volunteer projects and a Pikes Peak Greenway and Monument Creek stormwater cleanup. These park cleanups are part of the Mayor's Spirit of the Springs initiatives.


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A is for Abstinence
Starting this week I am going to try something a little different. Once a week I'll write about food, fitness, weight loss and other lifestyle type topics according to the alphabet. We'll see how far I get. "X" should be interesting. 🙂
A is for Abstinence
Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing a good job of "practicing what I preach." The reason I wonder this is because I did some different things when I was trying to lose 100 pounds. I was very strict with my calories. I ate a LOT of processed foods because they were portion controlled and low in calories. The last year or so I've gotten away from that. I'm trying to limit the processed foods I eat and prefer to eat REAL FOOD now instead of portion controlled frozen food.
When I say "abstinence" I'm talking about the time when I was losing 100 pounds, not now that I'm in maintenance mode.
I had to go cold turkey. I had to abstain from ALL temptations. Period. It sounds like a hard feat right? It was. I went from overindulging in EVERYTHING one day to limiting everything I ate the next day. I counted everything. The butter I put on my toast. The extra half serving of Wheat Thins with my lunch. I was meticulous. It was the only way to do it.
The hardest part in losing weight for me (besides being patient with how slow it was) was resisting my trigger foods. Ice cream and pizza. That's what I craved, that's what I couldn't eat in moderation. I always went hog-wild with those two things. I knew that I couldn't lose weight and stay on track if I had ice cream in my house at all. Period. For two years I did not buy any ice cream. Once in awhile I'd buy the Smart Ones diet desserts and I'd have those but I just didn't trust myself with a carton of ice cream in my freezer.
One bite was such a slippery slope for me. As for pizza, I ate it almost weekly. I'd get a medium sized or sometimes large sized pizza delivered and I'd vow every time that I wouldn't eat the whole thing.
"Just one more piece" I'd tell myself. And before I knew it over half the pizza was gone. So for two years I didn't eat pizza. At all. Did I crave it? Sometimes. But usually only when I saw someone else eating pizza.
Abstinence is a funny thing. For me, once I stopped eating something I didn't crave it as much. Another example is when I tried the Slow Carb Diet for a few weeks. I thought I wouldn't survive not eating bread but I quickly discovered I didn't miss it when I wasn't eating it.
Now that I'm in maintenance mode I can have a carton of ice cream in the freezer without the urge to eat the whole thing. I can go out for pizza and only eat a few slices. Having leftover pizza in the fridge does not mean I HAVE to eat it. It can sit there for a few days and be eaten slowly.
Abstinence helped me get to that point. Denying myself those things while I learned how to eat again gave me the clarity I desperately needed. It made me appreciate them when I did eat them in moderation.
My piece of advice (learned the hard way) is to abstain from the trigger foods that cause you trouble. If you can't stay on track if there's a bag of Cheetos in the house, don't have them in the house. At least for awhile. It might be hard at first, but think about how proud and empowered you will feel by conquering that challenge!
QUESTION: Do you abstain from any specific foods in order to stay on track?
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C is for cereal! I still cannot control myself with cereal. If I allow myself 1 serving it turns into 5 or 6 for some reason. Then the guilt and anger comes. Then the start of the binge begins. I wish I could solve this problem as my husband and daughter should be allowed to have cereal. There have been times when I have told them that it needs to stay out of the house for a little while. Thankfully they are understanding and supportive. When there is cereal in the house- I just can't have any. Not even a nibble. *sigh* so sad……
I never had anything completely off limits, but I did try really hard to stay on track and "be good." Now that I live alone, I don't like to have trigger foods in my kitchen and try to keep snacks and things that are easy for me to overdo it on at a minimum. If I want ice cream, I'll go get a serving or go to an ice cream shop, rather than having the tub in my freezer. The temptation is just not worth it!
I've just started my weight loss journey and this post hit home with me. I'm also the kind of person that needs abstinence… I've quit candy and chocolate, and the beloved junk food. So far I'm 6 days in and no problem. I know it'll get hard, but it's really the only way until I can be in charge – and not the food!
Thanks for a good post 🙂
This is such a cool idea! I love it! And I definitely think sometimes it is best to avoid ALL temptation, especially if it's having to relearn eating healthier. I couldn't imagine giving up pizza and icecream though. Those would be my two big things as well.
So true about abstinence giving you clarity. I'm losing weight with Take Shape for Life/ Medifast (45 down and 20 left to go) and you are so right about not missing bread when you don't have it for awhile.
Trigger foods for me are many- but sweets (Peeps, smarties, kettle corn, etc) and some salty foods like potato chips are very much triggers for me.
Thank goodness for clarity! Time to get to the root of the overeating and to change my habits for good.
Great post.
Milk fat and sugar. Both trigger my addiction. Not having them has enabled me to keep off 220 pounds. I can have the in the house and not eat them. But it I put a bite of either into my mouth I find myself in a pit of struggle. I do not have them in my mouth – no struggle.
Some days I ask my family not to parade the food around the kitchen but for the most part it is a peaceful co-existence.
I love this post! Because I can relate to it and because it gives me hope. I have abstained from a whole bunch of trigger foods. Peanut butter – over a year. I don't keep bread in the house any more. And the list goes on. Like you, I found that if they are not here and I go without, I don't crave them. And, mostly, don't miss them. I have had some of the foods when I'm out, when moderation is a given since the whole loaf or box or jar isn't at home tempting me. My long term vision for maintaining is that I CAN someday return to moderation of certain foods. But I also know that it might be a slippery slope so I need to tread lightly and slowly and see which, if any, should just never come into my house. I know that this is controversial. Maybe subscribe to the "anything in moderation" theory. But for some of us, that just doesn't work.


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Torqeedo has revamped and expanded its service center in Crystal Lake, Ill.
The company said it can repair and troubleshoot eight to 10 motors a day in its new 50-foot-by-50-foot space.
"Our new center and computer system is a full-circle, one-stop shop for service and parts," Sven Kirchhoff, Torqeedo service and quality manager, said in a statement. "Our customers are always our highest priority. This new system helps makes the entire process, from receiving the motor to shipping it back to the customer, even more efficient."
Torqeedo has 12 certified service centers in the United States and two in Canada.


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Anyway, I have a couple questions about plopping. I have been doing it for a few days and get okay curls but nothing that amazes me. I know not everyone likes it, but for those that do:
1. What refreshing spray do you use in the morning?
2. Do you pineapple with the plop or just plop? If you do pineapple and plop together, how are you doing it and what is your resulting look? Do you get more volume on top?
3. When you get your best plopping curls, did you use gel the night before? Did you tight plop or loose plop? Basically, what was your routine when you got your best curls?
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1859. The Attakapas District of Louisiana.
With the crisis of Secession looming only a few months in the future,
a group citizens composed of planters, cattlemen, and merchants,
formed numerous militias known as "Vigilante Committees."
Their mission was to strike down the raging criminal activity and
suspect morality of those who lived on the margins of society. Their
methods: banishment, the whip, and, when needed, hanging.
The resulting prairie fire swept across
the Attakapas, sweeping up in its wake more than 4,000 Creoles and
Cadiens determined to crush those deemed undesirable so that the
region could be returned to the control of "honest people."
While nothing could shake their belief in the integrity of Lynch
laws, Louisiana's vigilantes were fully aware that their methods
were unlawful. Although they clothed their Comités with all
the trappings that could bestow legitimacy to them—constitutions,
by-laws, written procedures to be followed—none of this was
sufficient. They needed a champion, a defender, a bard who could
ennoble the concept of popular justice. It was this atmosphere that
gave birth to a book that drew the hate and scorn of the children
and grandchildren of those Barde names in his Histoire des Comités
de Vigilance aux Attakapas.
This work offers a troubling and stirring
account of the events that rocked 1859. And yet, it conceals a story
as moving as the history revealed within its pages: this is also
the epic tale of a young Frenchman who arrived in a new nation in
his most vibrant youth, who had abandoned his dreams of literary
glory to discover his own exile in the American wilderness, and
who threw himself into the remarkably romantic enterprise, suggested
by the vigilante chief, Sarrazin Broussard, to "make this
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A look at how the Indians Minor League affiliates fared Saturday:
Triple-A Columbus (6-3) - The Clippers topped host Louisville 3-1 with single runs in the first, sixth and ninth. RHP Yohan Pino (2-0, 1.50 ERA) limited the Bats to just four hits and a walk while striking out six in seven strong innings to earn the win. One of Columbus four hits was by C Carlos Santana, who drove in a run with a single and walked to raise his batting average to .414.
Double-A Aeros (5-5) - The Aeros dropped their fourth consecutive game 3-2 and their third straight at Canal Park to Bowie on a chilly and windy afternoon. RHP Ryan Edell allowed just two runs on three hits over six innings, but earned a no decision...Second baseman Cord Phelps hit his second home run of the season and is now batting .385.
High Class-A Kinston (3-7) - The K-Tribe lost 7-3 to host Winston-Salem despite a mini-two-run rally in the top of the ninth inning. CF Donnie Webb went 3-for-4 with a run scored and 3B Kyle Bellows went 2-for-4 with 2 RBI. LHP T.J. House (0-2) suffered his second loss in giving up four runs (three earned) on six hits and two walks in five innings.
Low Class-A Lake County (9-1) - The Captains lost their first game of the season, falling 6-2 to visiting Fort Wayne. RHP Clayton Cook and LHP Matt Packer each allowed three runs a piece in defeat. Taiwanese C Chun-Hsiu Chen hit a home run, drove in a run and scored a run. LF Bo Greenwell continued to swing a hot bat, hitting a double and scoring a run to raise his batting average to .410.


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Deals worth more than £500 million to run baggage handling at Heathrow and weapons handling for an international client saw FTSE 100 support group Babcock International declare today that it will hit City expectations for the year to April.
Babcock, which is best-known for maintaining the Royal Navy's submarines, also said its order book had contracts worth £12 billion, having won £1 billion worth of business since November.
Last month it was named preferred bidder on £440 million worth of contracts at Heathrow, including maintaining British Airways' fleet on the ground and running baggage handling operations at all five of the airport's terminals for the next five years.
Babcock already has contracts at Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh airports in the UK, as well as Vancouver and Dubai airports and Schiphol in Amsterdam.
"Across our businesses, market conditions have been positive," the engineering services group said today. "As a result, bidding activity remained high throughout the year and we continue to track significant new outsourcing opportunities."
Babcock also said its bid pipeline had grown, to £15.5 billion from £14 billion in January. The biggest reason for that is the potential for a new Ministry of Defence contract to manage all "non-explosive commodity items" — including food, clothing, fuel and medical supplies — which Babcock is bidding for in a joint venture with Germany's DHL.
But Babcock warned that it did not expect an imminent decision on that contract. It said: "We have been tracking this opportunity for around 18 months and expect the formal competitive process to run into 2015."
City analysts reckon Babcock's full-year pre-tax profits will come in around £313 million, and expect it to pay out a dividend of 25p.
John Lawson. support services analyst at Investec, said: "Babcock has demonstrated once again that it is a quality business with a sizeable order book. Some of [its] potential new projects will not influence earnings for some years, assuming that the group wins its fair share of these opportunities, but given Babcock's high technical expertise, there is a fair chance of some major successes. The stock is one to own."
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Six Nations ticket for 2013 are now available to purchase via the club. Please fill out attached form, along with payment and give to Susan Cochrane.
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Nürburgring Free Practice & Qualifying Practice 1.
Friday, 30th August 2013.
Weather conditions: Partly sunny, partly cloudy.
Temperature: Air: 21 22 °C, Track: 33 35 °C
Number of riders participating: 20 from 13 teams
Fastest lap Free Practice: Tom Sykes (Kawasaki Racing Team) 1:55.904 min
Fastest lap Qualifying Practice 1: Chaz Davies (BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team) 1:55.034 min
The BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team took provisional pole-position at its home round at Nürburgring (GER). Factory rider Chaz Davies (GBR) set the fastest time in todays first qualifying practice for the tenth round of the 2013 FIM Superbike World Championship. His team-mate Marco Melandri (ITA) finished tenth. In this mornings free practice session Chaz and Marco were fourth and sixth respectively with their BMW S 1000 RRs.
In the FIM Superstock 1000 Cup, Sylvain Barrier (FRA) from the BMW Motorrad GoldBet STK Team also took provisional pole-position after being fastest in todays first qualifying session with his BMW HP4. His team-mate Greg Gildenhuys (RSA), who has never raced at Nürburgring before, finished 11th.
Chaz Davies:
Fastest lap Free Practice: 1:56.222 min (P4)/Fastest lap Qualifying Practice 1: 1:55.034 min (P1)
It was a good day. I am happy with the RR, it was working pretty well straight away this morning. The bike was already pretty good in the dry at Silverstone and it was also working very well in Russia so that shows that we have found some decent settings in the last few races. Today we only struggled a little bit at the beginning of the first qualifying as we went in the wrong direction with the shock absorber but the guys quickly went back to a previous setting and the bike improved again. I am happy and I think that we can make another step tomorrow.
Marco Melandri:
Fastest lap Free Practice: 1:56.509 min (P6)/Fastest lap Qualifying Practice 1: 1:55.705 min (P10)
It was quite a good day. The bike works well here despite the fact that the track is bumpy. With the hard tyres, we were fast, but with the soft tyres I was not able to ride well. I could not raise the tyre temperature properly and with the little grip I could not go faster. Tomorrow well test the soft tyres again because its important to be fast with soft tyres, especially in qualifying. It is crucial to start from the front to have a good race but our race pace is good and we feel we can fight for the podium.***8232;
Serafino Foti (Sport Director BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team):
We are quite happy with today. Chaz has shown hes in really good shape, he set the fastest lap and demonstrated that he feels really comfortable on this track, where last year he was very successful. Were really happy with this result which also repays the work the team has done. Marcos results do not show the real situation, with hard tyres he was fast and the race pace was really good. Tomorrow we need to find a solution to improve with soft tyres to put in a good performance in qualifying and to start from the front. Anyhow, Marco is focused and for sure, hell do very well.
In the Superstock class, Sylvain got the provisional pole-position, continuing the positive trend. We need to avoid underestimating our competitors who seem to be fast on this track. Tomorrow well keep concentration high in order to start from the front. Greg also did quite well, despite the fact that he is riding on this track for the first time."
Andrea Dosoli (Technical Director BMW Motorrad GoldBet SBK Team):
Overall it was a positive day. It was nice to get back to action after the long break. Our riders spent the morning session taking off some rust but I must say that they started on the right foot. Both began with our base setting and then they worked as usual on the suspension set-up and they were able to evaluate almost all tyres available. Chaz did an amazing lap claiming P1. Now we have to work on the race pace because we have seen that our competitors are quite consistent. Marco was quite fast with the used tyre and did a lot of consistent lap times but once we fitted a new soft tyre, he could not get the best out of it. This is the point we need to improve, especially for tomorrows Superpole because as always it is very important to start from the two front rows which is our target for tomorrow.
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Greetings All!
My name is Carl & I'm new to DIY board.
I have read all the "dangerous, for info purposes" warnings & will not hold anybody liable for helping me! Ha! Ha! All that being said, I have what should be a simple question, how do I correctly hook up some old fused circuits to my new service panel? I'm renovating my childhood home, which is a two family flat. The lower flat was no problem as there was an updated fuse panel box which I simply transferred circuits/wires. The upper flat has two fuse blocks which I have attached pics of & identified the wires based on test meter.
Can't find anybody at local electrical supply to help? They always say there's some old guy, but I haven't been able to catch him yet?
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
Start with some junction boxes.
Terminate the old stuff onto some nice new romex in those boxes.
Run the romex from there to the new panel.
If a "two family flat", will there be renters?
If so, I'd think this falls under commercial use of the property and I'd doubt you can use knob and tube connected to a modern circuit breaker system with a permit. You'd want a permit for insurance coverage. I also don't believe that permitted work involving knob and tube wiring allows you to connect to a CB box; the k and t has to be replaced with modern wiring systems, i.e., romex brand of NM, etc...Again, insurance liabilities.
Also, though it could be safe (whatever that means) and people say their k and t is just fine; updating the house to NM wiring with grounds etc... will provide for better electrical service/convenience, and safety IMO.
Should not have rental tenants in the flat where that fuse block, with exposed live terminals, is located.
At best you will have to run the knob and tube wiring into a panel or a junction box at that location.
You will have to check with your city to see if the K&T is still grandfathered when attached to Romex cable for the final run to a panel in a different location.
Looking at pic for reference, do I take two horizontal sets of wires across two fuses, or two vertical sets of wires across each fuse to make circuit? Yes, I do know that I have to use 1 hot + 1 neutral/ground? As you can tell, I'm not good in knob & tube!
No Renters! Just me!
No Renters! Just Me! I've got the old service line connected to 30 amp breaker now, I just want to break up/eliminate fuses?
If it was me, and due to how the 2011 NEC has been written, and that a lot of laws are changing starting Jan. 3rd 2012, I would change it out. If you are saying that all there is, is a 30amp service feeding one whole unit, you will be lucky if you can power anything, without blowing fuses. My average daily use is 535kwh, daily amperage use is about 46 amps. No way is 30 amps going to work.
You need to pull permits and upgrade not only the panel, but the wiring also.
Bit the bullet, this needs to be all redone from the power pole to the breaker box then all the wiring.
Total waste of time and money to change what you have to breakers.
Carlascomputers should know the dangers of running computer systems off of old ,non grounded receptacles.
Well done knob and tube has soldered splices and T-joints, and back in those days they used the screw terminals of switches and receptacles. All that is actually less likely to overheat than modern wiring using back stabbed (push in and it sticks) connections at receptacles, etc.
If the detail given isn't enough to point you in the right direction then I'm done.
Knob and tube circuits (also BX circuits and 14-2 w/o ground "Romex" circuits) can be grounded using a separately run ground wire from the desired new 3 prong receptacle down to the new breaker panel following the route of the circuit conductors exactly, approximately, somewhat, or vaguely. I would stretch the exception in the NEC to daisy chain or tap this ground wire to multiple receptacles on the same branch circuit if I wished to.
K&T can also be equipped with ground fault circuit interrupter receptalces or breaker although most outlet boxes of that vintage may be too small to stuff a GFCI receptacle back in amidst all the wires.
Thanks All! I guess I'll take my time & do it right (run new Romex from service panel to upper flat) I reside/run pc's in lower flat which is wired correctly. I'm just gonna use upper flat for home office, no tenants. Was just trying to take the easy/lazy way out?
I would pull at least 2 20 amp circuits up to the upper floor office area for computers and such, maybe 4 at the most, depending on how much technology you are going to be running up there. If it is just a laptop, tv, radio, 2 should work. Lighting I would probably split the upstairs into two zones.
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Universities and college conferences have policies to handle fans behaving badly. Administrators don't want athletes taking matters into their own hands; yet, many players and coaches feel fans routinely cross the line with profanity-laced tirades, racial slurs and obscene gestures while those policies — typically threatening ejection — are rarely enforced.
Oklahoma State All-American guard Marcus Smart is suspended three games for shoving a Texas Tech fan who later apologized for his actions. The incident shows how volatile the interaction between fans and athletes is becoming, especially with the proximity between the two.
"When you sign up to play a sport in college, you sign away whatever freedoms you thought you had coming to college," Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma said. "You can't react like a normal human being.
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There are two plays going on in the matter of Lance Armstrong.
One is to the court of public opinion. That's why he's talking to Oprah Winfrey. It's good for ratings, probably, but substantively may ultimately prove little. Lance Armstrong got caught in a big lie and now he wants something, so anything he says publicly has to be measured against what he wants.
Which leads directly to the second play: Lance Armstrong wants to compete again. To be clear, his cycling career is done. It's not that. Instead, he wants to compete in triathlons.
And so he's trying to figure out how to do that.
The challenge is that the one thing that has always been the hallmark of the Armstrong way has been stripped from him.
Which is: control.
In its damning report, issued in October, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency made plain that Armstrong had "ultimate control" over his own drug use, and the doping culture of his team, which it made plain was the most sophisticated and well-run scheme in sports history.
In particular, he controlled — there was a code of silence on his team — the fact that he doped to win.
As it all came crashing down, Armstrong sent out by Twitter the photo of himself lying around with his seven framed Tour de France jerseys.
The message could not have been more clear: Lance, king of the Alps, believed he was still in control.
That was a fundamental miscalculation.
You can bet that he and his legal team were stunned not only to see the riders he thought were his guys turn against him but, more important, the breadth and depth of the file USADA made public.
That was the game-changer.
Now, with sponsors fleeing or gone, he has to try to assert control of his narrative.
Thus, Oprah.
But choosing the time, place and manner of your "admission" — or whatever this turns out to be — is not real.
What's real is testimony, delivered under oath, preferably subject to cross-examination. Anything else is just noise.
If you want to lie under those circumstances — like Armstrong did in 2006, when in connection with a contract dispute brought by the Texas company SCA Promotions, Inc., relating to a 2004 Tour de France bonus payment — then you get to face the consequences.
Which is one of the tap-dances Armstrong has to try to perform now, and why anything he tells Oprah ought to be measured against what he said under oath six years ago.
It's not enough to be apologetic, or deliver contrition, or offer a confession of sorts.
Now is the time for accountability.
It's this way when it goes bad on Wall Street and in lots of other areas of American life. The authorities can get involved, and they might or might not have their own ideas about your finances, sometimes even your liberty interest, and then you have to play by their rules, not yours.
This is how these things go. This is what USADA has made clear, and why — according to the New York Times — Armstrong is in discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice to possibly testify in a federal whistle-blower case involving the U.S. Postal Service team.
It's not hard to figure out what USADA and the public authorities want to know: who funded the scheme and who else knew about it, and at what levels — how high — in international sport.
If you think about it, that thread of inquiry is not so different from the kind of thing you might find at your local courthouse. Imagine a drug case involving, say, methamphetamine or marijuana — the cops and prosecutors are typically far more interested not just in the end user but in the financiers and in the protection.
Meanwhile, the International Olympic Committee, which is even now engaged in a far-reaching review of the roughly two dozen sports on the Summer Games calendar, has to be looking at what is going on in cycling with renewed interest. Baseball was kicked off the Olympic program in no small measure because of doping-related issues.
If it seems far-fetched to imagine the Olympics without cycling, it does not seem like much of a stretch to imagine cycling's top officials under intense scrutiny in the coming weeks and months, with even their IOC privileges at issue. USADA and the World Anti-Doping Agency both made plain Tuesday that they would offer no cooperation with an "independent commission" being set up by cycling's international governing body, which goes by the acronym UCI.
In the long run, the only thing that will clean up up the sport itself is, as USADA has proposed, a "Truth and Reconciliation" and amnesty program.
In the meantime, Armstrong is not going to get out of a lifetime ban by talking to Oprah. That's just — ridiculous.
It's what he has to say when he's not on television that matters. And that's going to take a while yet to unfold.
That said, a read of the World Anti-Doping Code strongly suggests that even if he were to name names — even big names — the best he could do is, first, get a hearing and then, maybe, get life knocked down to eight years.
Armstrong is now 41. Eight years makes him 49.
Which sort of makes you wonder what the Oprah thing is really all about. And when, if ever, Lance Armstrong is going to tell the whole truth, and nothing but.
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HSBC is to abolish what it said was its "most complained about" banking fee – the £25 charge it makes for bouncing a direct debit or cheque.
The change, which will also apply to customers of its First Direct subsidiary, comes into force on 24 November and will affect nine million account holders.
A £25 fee will still be applied if HSBC agrees to pay a bill, such as a direct debit to the gas or electricity company, that takes the customer beyond their agreed overdraft limit; the fee that is being axed is the £25 for returning an item such as a direct debit or cheque unpaid.
An HSBC spokesperson said: "Eight out of 10 of our current account customers don't pay any overdraft fees at all. But of those who do, the fee for what used to be called a 'returned item', but is now called an 'unpaid transaction fee', was the charge that people complained about most.
"They could understand being charged a fee for processing a transaction that had gone through, but not a charge for something that hadn't."
HSBC's move throws down the guantlet to the other high street banks. Lloyds currently charges the highest rate, at £35 for each "unpaid transaction fee", while NatWest charges £6 and Barclays £8. However, if Barclays rejects multiple transactions in any one day it will charge a maximum of £40, while NatWest will charge up to £60.
Nationwide caps the maximum it will take over the period of a month at £75 and Santander at £95. HSBC says that while it charges £25 for a bounced direct debit, if it bounces more than one on the same day it only charges the £25 once.
Bank charges that snowballed into hundreds or even thousands of pounds were the subject of a lengthy legal battle that culminated in the Supreme Court in 2009. At stake were about £2.6bn in charges that the Office of Fair Trading argued may be illegal under consumer contract regulations.
According to the Consumer Action Group, more than 1.2 million claimants lodged complaints with their banks, hoping to get more than £2bn in returned fees, based on the average successful claim of £1,700. But the two-year fight ended in victory for the banks at the Supreme Court.
Since then, banks have modified the charges they make when customers go beyond their overdraft limits. In general, fees for unauthorised borrowing have come down, while fees for having an agreed overdraft have risen.


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You may be right...there's just something off with the leaves, just as there was with the L. maackii identified earlier in the year. Amur honeysuckle is known to be in the woods there, but this doesn't look like that, either. I'm thinking that perhaps the honeysuckles in Fontenelle are hybrids.


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Republicans took over Congress promising big change, but internal battles and refusals to compromise have made them historically unproductive. With public approval at 14%, is this Congress more dysfunctional than those of the past? Also, a British Panel finds Rupert Murdoch unfit to run News Corporation, and the largest fossil forest ever discovered is 300 million years old. Was it done in by climate change?
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Check out this video from Socialnomics.net for some compelling statistics on just how big the impact of social media really is.
One of the findings in practically every recent study on social media is that in older companies cutting edge social media initiatives are sometimes harder to get off the ground because of the powerful muscle memory formed from years of success. But, as many communicators in these companies undoubtedly know, the way we operate is changing and communicators at all levels of the corporate world find themselves fighting that muscle memory of broadcast-style push communications techniques. Certainly this generalization doesn't apply to every company; it may not even apply to most, but for some it seems a formidable challenge.
But support for the social media buy-in proposition is coming from an unlikely source … the U.S. Army.
A recent New York Times piece explored a new pilot program of wikis launched by the Army for developing a number of its field manuals. These "rules of the road" documents were historically written by military thinkers at the various educational and training institutions across the country. The pilot program allows for editing and adding content by any active soldier, from Private to General, using technology similar to Wikipedia while requiring that each entry be attributed to someone.
With many economic indicators pointing to at least the beginning of the end of one of the greatest recessions since the Great Depression, is it finally time to start examining what life might look like on the other side of the downturn? Is it too early to start injecting hope back into your organization? Does your CEO have a new story to tell about the next chapter in your company's history? Is there an agreement on a growth strategy? These questions are worth asking now, or soon, even if we believe the economic turnaround is still a couple of quarters away.
Why? Well, you wouldn't think it would be too difficult to get senior leadership to start projecting a positive future, if indeed things are beginning to look a little brighter. But, the fact is that leadership teams find it far more difficult to get focused early on telling the positive story, than they do when the news is all doom and gloom. There is something about a deep dive in financial performance, severe lay offs and waning sales that focus a leadership team with laser like precision. It's far more difficult, particularly in the early stages of the rebound. Why?
In the old world, press releases were the preferred route to communicate important messages about your business or organization. Quarterly earnings? Press release. New board member? Press release. New product? Sure, there may be a blog or video, but typically only after the press release.
Then the higher powers (those brainiacs from Harvard, MIT and Stanford) created Web 2.0.
Now, some employee can catch wind of something, blog about it anonymously and it shows up in your Google alert with your company's name on it. And changing your Network on Facebook is basically sending a press release to your friends saying "Hey! I changed jobs/cities!" Subsequent wall postings with "congrats" and "what next?" are to be expected.
In essence, the press release's main job – to share previously withheld information with the public – is no longer one of exclusivity.
Paul Argenti, professor in Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, on the greatest resistance to adopting social media inside most companies -- fear of losing control.
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The Solution to Reading Comprehension
- Lesson 1
- Use textual clues and prior knowledge to make a prediction
- The Stories Huey Tells
- Lesson 2
- Revise predictions that are incorrect
- Two Bad Ants
- Lesson 3
- Create a prediction beyond the text using evidence from the story
- Two Bad Ants
- The Doorbell Rang
Unit Reading Passages
- Meet the Emperors!
- The Sandwich Thief
- The Two Best Cakes
- Traveling Turtles: A Trip Across the Atlantic
- Where Will I Live?
- Lesson 1
- Make predictions based on character relationships
- Soupy Saturdays with the Pain and the Great One
Unit Reading Passages
- Catch That Ball
- Eruption!
- Secrets of the Great Pyramid
- The Magician
- Whoop It Up!
- Lesson 1
- Predict events in a story based on a cliffhanger
- Marvin and the Meanest Girl
- Lesson 2
- Create predictions based on historical events
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
Unit Reading Passages
- A Duck Out of Water
- Hard Times For Honeybees
- Hide and Seek
- Inventions of the Future
- One Big Family
Predicting lessons can be found in the following fifth grade novel units:
Bridge to Terabithia
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Maniac Magee
Unit Reading Passages
- Climbing the Walls
- The Koala Search
- Place in Space
- Storm Warning
- Taste This
Predicting lessons can be found in the following fifth grade novel units:
Chasing Vermeer
Sammy Keyes and the Hollywood Mummy
Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
The Westing Game
Unit Reading Passages
- Escape from Kiev
- Finders Keepers?
- Living on the Moon
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Bolton and USA international midfielder Stuart Holden has traveled back the U.S. to have an examination after experiencing discomfort in his right knee during a U-21 game on Monday night. Holden started the home game against Everton in what was his first appearance since tearing his right ACL during the USA's 1-0 win against Panama in the Concacaf Gold Cup final last August. The 28-year-old was in discomfort when he fell to the turf in the 23rd minute and was replaced by Luke Woodland. Bolton confirmed on Tuesday that the 28-year-old will undergo a scan before meeting with Dr. Bert Mandelbaum, the surgeon who operated on him last summer.
This was the latest in a string of injuries for the USA midfielder. Holden
first had his right leg broken on a tackle by the Netherlands' Nigel de Jong during an international friendly in March 2010, but returned to make the U.S. World Cup team, where he
made one appearance in the Americans' 1-1 draw against England. He then injured his left knee against Manchester United during a tackle by Jonny Evans in March 2011, returned from
surgery for a League Cup game against Aston Villa that September, but needed more surgery eight days later.
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Submitted to: Crop Science
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 5/1/2005
Publication Date: 7/15/2005
Citation: Shannon, J.G., Nelson, R.L., Wrather, J.A. 2005. Registration of S99-11509 and S99-11986 soybean germplasm. Crop Science. 45(4):1672-1673. Interpretive Summary: This is a germplasm release and no interpretive summary is required.
Technical Abstract: Soybean germplasm lines S99-11509 and S97-11986 were developed and released for use as parental lines in soybean improvement programs by the University of Missouri-Delta Center, Portageville, MO, the USDA- Agricultural Research Service, and the Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station. S99-11509 and S99-11986 combine high yield on less productive soils of the southern US with unique diversity that is not known to be present in the current gene pool for cultivar development in North America. These lines were developed through an early generation testing procedure. The progenitor populations were yield tested as F2 families in the F3 and F4 generations at Urbana, Illinois. S99-11509 and S99-11986 were derived from single-plant selections made in the F5 generation and bulk harvested in the F6 at Urbana Illinois. S99-11509 is from LG91-7320 x Probst. LG91-7320 is from BSR 101 x LG82-8379. LG82-8379 is from PI 68508 x FC 04007B. PI 68508, maturity group II, was collected in northeast China in 1926. FC 04007B, maturity group III, was imported in 1924 from an unknown origin. S99-11986 is derived entirely from plant introductions from a cross of LG87-1782 x LG88-3186. LG87-1782 is from PI 297515 x PI 290126B and LG88-3186 is from PI 427099 x PI 445830. PIs 290126B and 297515 are maturity group II introduced from Hungary in 1963 and 1964, respectively. PI 427099 and PI 445830 are maturity group I introduced from China in 1978 and 1980, respectively. These lines were tested in southeast Missouri research trials in four environments in 2001 and five environments each in 2002 and 2003 versus DP4748S, a high yielding late group IV from Delta and Pine Land Co, Scott, MS. S99-11509 and S99-11986 were equal in yield to DP4748S in three tests on very sandy soils and were 2% and 4% less, respectively in six tests on sharkey clay (Vertic Haplaquept, very fine montmorillonitic, thermic) than DP4748S. However, in five tests on productive loam soils, yields of S99-11509 and S99-11986 were 10 and 15% less, respectively than DP4748S. Good performance on clay and sand show that these lines have potential as parental material to breed for higher yielding lines on more stress prone soil types. S99-11986 and S99-11509 were tested in the Preliminary IV-S of the Uniform Soybean Tests, Southern Region in 2002 and 2003, respectively. S99-11986 yielded 10% less, was 15 cm taller, 6 d later and lodged more (1.6 versus 1.2) than KS4602N. S99-11509 yielded 5% more, was 10 cm taller, 1 d later and had the same lodging score compared to KS4602N. Both S99-11509 and S99-11986 are resistant to stem canker [caused by Diaporthe phaseolorum (Cooke and Ellis) Sacc. var. meridionalis F.A. Fernandez] and bacterial pustule [caused by Xanthomonas axonpodis pv. glycines (Naleno) Vauterin et al.]. They are susceptible to soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines Ichinohe and root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.). Seeds of S99-11509 and S99-11986 will be deposited in the USDA Soybean Germplasm Collection.


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Writing Resources: Revision
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Malamud claimed that "First drafts are learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge or enhance an idea, or reform it." The same goes for news stories, marketing proposals, letters to congressmen and women, and yes, college essays. No matter what the writing assignment in college--whether a personal narrative, an explanation of a concept or historical event, an analysis of a painting or poem, or a thesis-driven argument--students who intend to succeed must learn how to "enlarge," "enhance," and "reform" their first drafts. That means budgeting enough time to raise new questions, to explore new angles on the subject, and to perform additional research if necessary. It means taking seriously the project of "re-visioning" one's initial efforts of putting ideas to paper.
Students often understand revision to mean a simple process of editing an essay according to their professor's marginal comments about mechanics and grammar. Rather, effective revision entails literally "re-seeing" the first draft and the original assignment. As teachers, we can encourage students to think of revision as an opportunity to explore new and surprising facets of the topic, to deepen and complicate the paper's central claims, to consider alternative ways of organizing material, and to move towards more subtle, mature expressions of thought. With intellectual curiosity, a positive attitude, and trust that there's much to be gained from revision, students can experience the pleasure of watching an early draft transform into an essay that expresses its ideas in clear, coherent, and thought-provoking prose.
First Steps of Revision
A good way to start the revision process is to locate strong ideas in the first draft and to work on "mining" them. The metaphor prompts students to dig deeper into those good ideas, to tap their as-yet-undiscovered resources, and to explore new veins of inquiry and response. This mining activity may take the form of additional brainstorming and journal writing. It may include a conversation or two with a fellow student or tutor in the Writers' Workshop. And it may involve asking journalistic questions that begin with Who? What? Where? When? How? and Why? Provocative questions force all writers--seasoned vets and upstarts alike--to test and rethink their earlier positions. For the revision process to work, writers must become almost possessed with curiosity and the will to modify and enlarge their thinking. Questions such as the following may trigger revisionary impulses:
Who is my audience and what expectations do they have about my essay?
Who else has written on this topic and what can I learn from them?
What does my topic compare to and/or contrast with?
What parts of my topic need more emphasis?
What fresh, new directions might the essay take?
Where can I find more information on my topic?
When did I first become interested in this topic and why?
How can I bring my essay to new plateaus of clarity and maturity?
Why does this topic interest me?
Why should anyone care to read about my topic ?
Two Kinds of Revision
Global revision focuses on thesis, organization, and evidence--the fundamental aspects of content and structure that, if not handled with intelligence and care, can derail a college paper. Here, students should try to enlarge the vision of the essay, to develop their ideas, to include more specific, concrete details and researched, well-documented proof. They should also try to re-organize and seek focus; earlier versions of essays often lack central organizing principles, although strong, supportable theses are frequently buried somewhere in an early version. Students must allow themselves to slow down and linger over the details of the topic at hand, asking two fundamental questions about global matters: what works? and what needs work? Students often need to be reminded to locate evidence. Direct quotes from the text being analyzed and secondary material can either enlarge a point, lending authoritative support to the paper's central claims, or, conversely, stand as voices against which the paper can assert its claims. Good writers often try to consider the consequences and implications of their topics from a dialectical approach: what might an opponent to this idea raise as an objection or blind spot or less persuasive point? Can the paper respond persuasively to such counter-arguments?
Local revision means sentence-level work. It involves more than merely sprucing up stylistic and mechanical problems--correcting misplaced commas and clunky transitions, selecting more accurate language, tidying up spelling. But good local revision also asks that a writer consider such questions as these:
Will my sentences clearly communicate meaning to my readers?
Are my style, diction, and tone appropriate for my subject and my audience?
Can I revitalize sentences by making them more active and direct?
Can I eliminate ineffective clichés--those stale, hackneyed phrases that have lost their ability to convey meaning with specificity and originality?
Have I avoided inflated or overly simplistic language?
Is my prose direct, concise, engaging?
Can I eliminate "gridlock," places where the essay repeats itself ineffectively?
Can I locate the strongest, most direct sentences and try to write up to their level throughout the paper?
Revision Anxieties
"The piece written at midnight on the eve of the deadline date will be bad. It is scarcely looked over in that desperate hour of fatigue and self-reproach; it is no piece of prose, but the possible embryo of one. Without time to reread and some calm thought to effect repairs, you defeat your purpose: the hastily cobbled thing you produce cannot succeed, whether its aim is to persuade, prove, enthrall, or merely show such powers of writing as you possess. Any of these ends can be achieved only after a series of revisions."
--Jacques Barzun, Simple and Direct
The very word "revision" seems to provoke dread in many writers, perhaps because we find it so difficult to re-enter the "space" of writing and call up our original energy or excitement about a topic. But the further students can move away from thinking of revision as a necessary evil suffered for a (potentially) higher grade, and toward the idea that revision allows time to clarify, focus, and enhance the writing, the less fearful revision may seem.
Encouraging revision thus requires enormous sensitivity. As teachers, we ask our students to face their own self-doubt: "I'm no good at this," they might want to confess. We must reflect on our personal experiences of revising written work, and remind our students that rewriting allows for positive transformation and development. Young writers need to be self-reflective about the psychological dimensions of rewriting and re-visioning, but they also need to know that all writers experience struggles and self-doubt. Writers are those who persist, and who find ways of making their writing projects matter to them, and to others. Revision means persisting in the face of inevitable setbacks (all writers experience them). It also means searching for those windows of opportunity that can be opened onto new intellectual landscapes.


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BLACKHAWKS 4, OILERS 1: Patrick Kane had a goal and two assists, and Chicago (35-6-5) secured the Presidents' Trophy, for the best record in the league, for the first time in 22 years with a win over Edmonton. Jonathan Toews, Patrick Sharp and Johnny Oduya also scored for the Blackhawks, who have gone 10-1-2 in their last 13 games and clinched the league's best record for the first time since 1991. Nail Yakupov scored for the Oilers (17-22-7), who lost for the ninth time in 10 games.
RED WINGS 3, KINGS 1: Jordin Tootoo netted the go-ahead goal early in the third period, and Johan Franzen scored on a power play with 6:26 left, lifting Detroit over Los Angeles and into eighth place in the Western Conference. Detroit is one point ahead of Columbus and one behind seventh-place Minnesota. All three teams have two games remaining. The Red Wings are aiming to extend their postseason streak to 22, the longest in North American professional sports. Detroit's Jimmy Howard made 23 saves, and Pavel Datsyuk scored a game-tying goal midway through the second period.
LIGHTNING 5, MAPLE LEAFS 2: Martin St. Louis scored three goals and Tampa Bay snapped a six-game losing streak with a victory over Toronto. St. Louis, who has 16 goals this season, took over the lead in the NHL scoring race with 58 points — two more than teammate Steven Stamkos and Penguins forward Sidney Crosby. Stamkos scored his 29th goal, two behind NHL-leading Alex Ovechkin of Washington, and added an assist. Radko Gudas gave the Lightning a 3-2 lead in the third period. With 55 points, Toronto is fifth in the Eastern Conference.
COYOTES 2, SHARKS 1: Mike Smith stopped 33 shots, and Phoenix prevented San Jose from moving up in the Western Conference standings. The Sharks had a chance to pass Los Angeles for fourth in the West, but the Coyotes played more like the team still in the playoff hunt. Phoenix beat Thomas Greiss for two goals in the first period. The Sharks are tied with the Kings at 57 points. Michael Stone and Keith Yandle both scored, and Shane Doan had a pair of assists for Phoenix.