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Registration for summer session classes begins for all students on Monday, April 7. No PIN is required. Currently enrolled students will begin registering for fall semester on Monday, April 7, according to the schedule available in Ursa. PINs for fall are now available by contacting your major advisor, and they're required for fall registration for undergraduates except for Nursing majors and junior and senior Business majors. Fall semester registration continues through April 30. For more information, contact the Registrar's office at 351-2231.
Latin Grammy-nominated composer Gabriela Ortiz will visit Colorado for the first time as the featured guest composer for the sixth annual Open Space Festival of New Music, March 27-28 at the University of Northern Colorado.
Ortiz will perform with UNC faculty and students during a concert featuring her music at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 27, in Milne Auditorium in Kepner Hall, 800 17th St.
The concert will include the premiere of a new set of songs that she composed specifically for UNC soprano and doctoral student Juanita Ulloa.
A pre-concert lecture by Oritz, part of UNC's Schulze Interdisciplinary Speaker Series, begins at 7 p.m. in Milne Auditorium.
Ortiz was commissioned by Assistant Professor Paul Elwood and the UNC School of Music to compose the new songs titled Canciones de Agua (Songs of Water) for Ulloa. The music is set to poetry by Mexican and South American poets Octavio Paz, Jose Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda. Additional Ortiz works will be performed by UNC voice faculty, including mezzo-soprano Melissa Malde and doctoral saxophone student Mark Pipes.
Both events, as well as the festival's other events, are open to the public free of charge. The festival is sponsored by the UNC School of Music and a grant from the Schulze Speaker Series Fund.
In 2013, Ortiz, from Mexico City, received her first nomination for a Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition as well as the premiere of her first opera in multimedia style titled Unicamente la Verdad (Only the Truth). Her compositions are played worldwide, and she has written commissions for Dawn Upshaw, Kronos Quartet and many others.
Ortiz trains, writes and teaches composition and has a global background in music studies ranging from Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris and Mexico City's National Conservatory to the University of London, where she earned her Ph.D.
Her parents were folk musicians from the famed Latin American group Los Folkloristas. Ortiz taught at Indiana University in the United States, and currently teaches at, the National Autonomous University in Mexico City.
The festival will conclude with a concert in Milne Auditorium featuring the winners from the Call for Scores Competition.
Building and parking lot locations are available at http://www.unco.edu/uncmap/. Parking is free in UNC lots after 5 p.m. Before then, parking permits can be purchased at automated dispensers located at lot entrances.
A complete schedule of events is at http://www.unco.edu/arts/music/openspace/default.html.
The UNC Hydrofracturing Task Force will host a presentation by Sara Barwinski of Weld Air and Water from 10-11 a.m. today, March 26, in Spruce B of the University Center. Barwinski will discuss her experiences with the oil and gas drilling operations planned for her west Greeley neighborhood near Northridge High School and Sheep Draw Trail (4th Street and 66th Avenue).
Please join us to learn about these plans for our local community! For more information, contact email@example.com or visit the UNC Hydrofracturing Facebook page: www.facebook.com/UNCHydrofracturing.
The National Hearing Conservation Foundation awarded University of Northern Colorado graduate student Alyssa Lerner a $5,000 Student Research Award.
Lerner, a second-year graduate student studying Audiology, received the award during the National Hearing Conservation Association's annual conference March 13-15 in Las Vegas, Nev. The award is designed to assist student research studies, such as special projects, theses or dissertations relating to hearing loss prevention and hearing conservation.
"This is a highly competitive scholarship and included competition from Ph.D. students from other disciplines and universities; both nationally and internationally," said UNC Professor of Audiology and research adviser Deanna Meinke, who also co-directs Dangerous Decibels, an award-winning public health campaign to reduce the incidence and prevalence of noise-induced hearing loss and tinnitus.
Lerner is researching how ear impressions taken in open and closed jaw positions affect noise reduction in custom-fit hearing protection devices for individuals. Lerner will return to the association's meeting in 2015 to present her findings.
"I am truly honored that I was chosen to receive this competitive research award and I am so grateful for this amazing opportunity to present my research at 2015 NHCA meeting," Lerner said. "I could not have accomplished this without the support of my research advisor, Dr. Meinke, and I am so thankful that I have had such an extraordinary mentor throughout this process."
As a graduate assistant in the Audiology and Speech-Language Sciences program, Lerner coordinates and performs hearing screenings for the Weld County Headstart program. She also assists the mobile occupational hearing testing services. She's a certified educator of Dangerous Decibels.
In addition, she is actively engaged in community outreach efforts using educational mannequins that are equipped with sound-level meters to measure the sound-pressure levels produced by personal music players. The mannequins educate kids about the often-overlooked topic of noise-induced hearing loss and the long-term effects that can come from too much time with the volume up too high on personal music players.
You can recycle old cell phones and empty laserjet and inkjet cartridges (and support the Classified Staff Council) at the campus locations listed on the CSC website.
The University of Northern Colorado's celebration of Women's History Month concludes March 31 with a presentation by a social theorist internationally recognized for his groundbreaking work in gender violence prevention education.
The presentation by author, educator, filmmaker and social theorist Jackson Katz at 7 p.m. in the University Center ballrooms, 2101 10th Ave. is free and open to the public.
Katz has long been recognized as one of America's leading anti-sexist male activists. He's the author of The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help, a candid look at the cultural factors that lend themselves to tolerance of abuse and violence against women.
He co-founded Mentors in Violence Prevention, a program that has worked with thousands of high school and college-aged men to prevent violence against women, and he's the director of the first worldwide domestic and sexual violence prevention program in the United States Marine Corps.
Katz, who was the first man to minor in women's studies at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, earned a Ph.D. in cultural studies and education from UCLA.
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All the while, Georgia has been listening. The No. 13 Bulldogs host the up-and-coming but unranked Cowboys on Saturday in Sanford Stadium (6:45 p.m., ESPN2).
"Yeah, we hear it," defensive end Marcus Howard said. "We just want to go out there and play hard and let the pads do the talking."
Oklahoma State was one of two teams in the country to average more than 200 yards passing and 200 yards rushing last year, and all its key parts return. Junior quarterback Bobby Reid was a semifinalist for the Davey O'Brien Award last year; junior tight end Brandon Pettigrew isexpected to be top flight NFL prospect by the season's end; senior running back Dantrell Savage, a Columbus native, was honorable mention All-Big 12 last year, and Bowman set a Big 12 record with 300 receiving yards against Kansas last season.
"I'm not surprised that they feel that way," Georgia defensive coordinator Willie Martinez said of the Cowboys' confidence. "They are good offensively. They have proven that with their stats. You can tell they are very confident."
"It's got our attention obviously. We'll see what happens."
Oklahoma State was second in the Big 12 in scoring (35.2 ppg) and fourth in yards (409.8 per game) last year. The Cowboys expect to be even better in offensive coordinator Larry Fedora's third season. Fedora came from Florida, where his last group led the SEC in total offense.
"Everybody talks about balance, (Fedora) has got balance," Georgia coach Mark Richt said. "He understands the value of being able to run and pass equally well. He's probably better than most at understanding his talent and what they can do."
Reid wishes the people around him in Stillwater, Okla., would shut up and not put so much pressure on the group he leads, he said.
"I have not been personally saying things like that in the public," he said. "Those things have been out of my control. I help run this offense. I know all the hard work that was put into it."
It's too late to take anything back, though. Georgia's players already are using the as a rallying cry.
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Yesterday Dagr was probably the most energetic I have seen him, he was a land shark biting everything and we could not get him to stop.
We had two short outings including car rides. We met with the trainer for awhile and visited family for an hour. He was a perfect gentleman both times. He is always a gentleman when we are out.
At home, he was full of piss and vinegar, defiant and mouthing. So last night I started to teach that biting is bad and we stop playing when you bite. I was on the floor with him playing, he would bite, I got up, sat in the office chair and turned my back to him. I was amazed at his reaction, visibly upset. I repeated this three times using the term "No Biting". I would say, over the course of an hour, each time he lasted a little longer before he would start biting again.
I noted that still being on the floor with him and turning my back had no effect. I also tried standing with my back to him, no effect, but if I sat in my chair turning my back to him he sat behind me and either cried or barked but it wasn't a normal bark. It was more like he was trying to get my attention, almost mournful.
My wife and I discussed his behavior and came to the conclusion of, that worked now but tomorrow is a new day. Well today if I tell him "no biting" he immediately stops and sometimes redirects himself to a toy.
Last night was the first time he didn't make a peep in his create, coincidence? Not so much as a whimper. No fussing in the middle of the night until he woke me about 7am. He has been really good in the crate for his age but there is always just a little fussing.
It feels good to make a little progress even if it is short lived, but I'm still holding out hope...
Oh, side note: Friends over with a 6 year old little girl. Mom said, and she is not known for her observational skills..... That Dagr was very different playing with the little girl than he was playing with the grown ups. She said he was very easy with her and if he did bite, he didn't use hardly any pressure. Interesting.
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I need the names of some SHOOTO dudes, or guys who are sweet but would be considered more obscure. I need to learn the 135, and 145 pound weight classes better. I follow the a lot of mma but have noticed recently that there are some orgs out there, mostly foreign ones that I dont know much about. Deep I think it is is another org. I dont know much about. I just saw the results for the Shooto card the Sakurai lost on and it made me realize I need to broaden my horizons, plus my favorite weight class is 155 and I am a 145 pounder so I need to learn the lower weight classes, and from what I understand they are dominated by foreign fighters. Give me names, links, etc.. thanks.
My 07 FOTY was Takaya vs Carvalho (Shooto). Just 2 145'ers punching each other in the face. It was a great stand-up fight, and I definitely recommend that.
You have guys like Tamura, who are top dogs at 145 in Shooto. From what I heard, he & Rumina Sato had a fun fight not too long ago.
Oh, Rumina Sato is freakin' awesome, and you should dig up some of his older fights. One of my all-time favorites. He's Shooto's Sakuraba.
Hatsu Hioki is a very solid 145'er, and I recommend pretty much anything from him.
The Shooto 145 class is seriously competitive. Tamura just got beat not too long ago, and he was top dog. Takeshi Inoue was a top dog, and he lost to Savant Young. Carvalho is up there. It's a stacked weight class.
As for Deep, it's a weird org. Lot's of weird fights, with pro-wrestlers and masked men and stuff. Mishima was Deep's MVP, with Ryo Chonan in second place. So, if you're looking for Deep fights, get Chonan vs Sakurai, Chonan vs Roan, Mishima vs Imanari and Mishima vs Rotten Rob Emerson. Deep's undercard is just, wow, weird. There's also the El Solar vs Minoru Suzuki fight that was, perhaps, the weirdest fight I have ever seen. Oh damn, I forgot about IMANARI!!!! Imanari is the best thing going in Deep nowadays, and one of the best 145'ers on the planet. Pretty much, any Imanari is good Imanari, except his fight with Abe, which sucked.
Here's Takaya vs Carvalho.
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Flying armbar!
Sato vs Uno 1. Part 1. One of the greatest fights ever.
Part 2.
Imanari vs Sato from Combat Wrestling.
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Imanari vs Mike Brown.
Imanari vs Maeda 2 part 1 (Great fight).
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I had a feeling you would be the one that would help me out with this Damone, thanks a lot by the way, great suggestions. This is pretty cool, getting a whole new list of fighters to learn about. Right now I just downloaded the Rumina Sato fight with Tamura and am downloading it to my Ipod right now. I will hit up all of those links for sure. Thanks a lot.
Not a problem, kami-kami. If you want, I can recommend some more solid Shooto fights, from guys like Aoki, Kawajiri, Hansen and Gomi.
I just finished watching that Ramuni Sato Tamura fight. It was wonderful. There were so many techniques displayed. I tend to like fighters that do things in a fight that kind of opens up your mind to something new. Sato had a cool armlock attempt when Tamura had his back. Both guys had very very technical striking. Sato was really tight with his punches. Also the triangle Sato locked up, like the one on Carvolho from that weird angle was creative.
I really like Tamura, he reminds me of a 145 pound,asian, Nick Diaz. He is super flexible and he has some sick body kicks. I can see why he would lose a fight here or there though because if someone is able to avoid subs and maintain top position they could give him problems. The Rumina Sato/Tamura fight was really good too. I also like Carvalho's stand up, he is really technical but I just dont think he is that gifted of an athlete, really fun to watch though. I need to watch some of Savant Young now.
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During this week's Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council meeting, FASB Chairman Leslie Seidman noted that the FASB and the IASB have not succeeded in converging several fundamental elements of the insurance contracts model, and said that the FASB will consider whether to make changes to US GAAP by comprehensively replacing existing guidance or by making targeted amendments. At a subsequent FASB Education Session, the Chairman clarified that the Boards intend to continue the insurance contracts project and will jointly deliberate the remaining issues.
6 June 2012 FASB meeting
Impairment of indefinite-lived intangible assets - After considering comments received, the Board decided that the ASU would be effective for fiscal years beginning after 15 September 2012 and early adoption would be permitted. If a company's impairment test is performed as of a date before the ASU is finalized, the company would be permitted to perform the qualitative assessment as long as it hasn't yet issued its financial statements for the most recent annual or interim period or made them available for issuance. A ballot draft will be developed.
Not-for-profit financial reporting: financial statements - The Board discussed the staff's proposed project plan and asked the staff to proceed accordingly.
Definition of a nonpublic entity - The Board decided that a company that otherwise meets the definition of a private company, and that (1) is a consolidated subsidiary of a public company, or (2) controls and consolidates a subsidiary that is a public company, would be included in the definition of a private company for financial reporting purposes. However, an employee benefit plan would not be included in the definition of a private company.
Revenue recognition - The FASB met briefly to discuss feedback received from nonpublic entity stakeholders, including private companies, not-for-profit organizations and users of nonpublic entity financial statements. The FASB is expected to redeliberate some of the issues raised by these entities.
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May IFRS for SMEs Update
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IFRIC draft interpretations
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- Draft Interpretation DI/2012/1: Levies Charged by Public Authorities on Entities that Operate in a Specific Market
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IAASB Strategy and Work Program, 2012–2014
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Psalms 24:4
Stanley Hasegawa
10/28/2009 / Bible Studies
He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear by what is false. (Psalms 24:4 NIV)
I suppose Psalms 24:4 is best translated something like the NIV translation above. However, the literal translation of "who does not lift up his soul to an idol" really speaks to my heart. The literal meaning in Hebrew is "who does not lift up for emptiness my life."
Here is the translators' note from the Net Bible:
Heb "who does not lift up for emptiness my life." The first person pronoun on "nafshiy," (my life) makes little sense here; many medieval Hebrew mss support the ancient versions in reading a third person pronoun "his." The idiom "lift the life" here means to "long for" or "desire strongly." In this context (note the reference to an oath in the following line) "emptiness" probably refers to speech (see Ps 12:2).
If my life is like a jar of clay, I want to be one who does not lift up for emptiness, my jar of clay. I want to lift up for fullness my jar of clay. By itself, my life is just a container it is just common clay, baked mud. My jar-of-clay-life does not impart value to its contents any more than a glass bottle imparts value to a fine wine. The idea of lifting up my jar-of-clay-life for the sake of worldly emptiness - that really speaks to me of what I am tempted to do instead of lifting up my jar-of-clay-life to God (worshipping God with my whole life). I don't want to fill myself with worldly emptiness according to my will and my own efforts. I want God to fill me with ALL his fullness according to his will and his power. "All the fullness of God" - that's worth lifting up (as in presenting as a sacrifice) my jar of baked mud for.
"and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:19)
"till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." (Ephesians 4:13 NKJV)
"But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us." (2 Corinthians 4:7)
"Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice alive, holy, and pleasing to God which is your reasonable service.
(Romans 12:1)
I am richly blessed in my marriage. I have two grown children. I am semi-retired. I have been a computer programmer, systems analyst, househusband and homeschool teacher. I love to walk, talk and eat, and write short articles about devoting our lives to Jesus.
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If Iraqis want U.S. troops to leave, what will McCain say?
Now that a growing number of top Iraqi officials are talking openly about a timeline for U.S. troop withdrawal, its worth taking a moment to consider how this might factor into John McCains vision of an indefinite war, followed by an indefinite troop presence.
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Question: What would or should we do if, in the post-June 30th period, a so-called sovereign Iraqi government asks us to leave, even if we are unhappy about the security situation there?
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Planning the First Ocean Passage

The author and his boat have become a team ready to face the challenge of sailing in the open ocean.

Block Island lies 17 nautical miles off Montauk Point, Long Island, a distance my catboat Kirsten has covered in sheltered waters in less than four hours. The difference in sailing to Block Island is that those 17 nautical miles are open ocean. I'd be riding the heaving swells, out of sight of land, for the first time.
I'm a worrier by nature, and that small stretch of blue water has had me worrying since last winter when I conceived the scheme of making Block Island my summer cruising destination, the big trip of the season. Choosing this destination would stretch my skillshopefully within the range of my abilitiesand help build my confidence.
There are about two yards worth of books on my shelves about cruising and voyaging, but they don't do much to help me prepare for this short sail in local waters. The general principles and guidelines are all there, but on a grand, globe-girdling scale. Somehow I have to collapse them down to Lilliputian-size for the voyage I have in mind.
Cruise planning seems to involve just three factors, but they are complicated factors: logistics, safety, and seaworthiness.
Logistics involves charting out the trip, identifying places to anchor or dock, arranging for crew, and timing it all to fit within a vacation and coincide as favorably as possible with weather and tide conditions.
Safety involves provisioning with adequate food, water, fuel, first aid materials, charts, safety gear, communications gear, navigational gear, and the knowledge of how to use them and how to respond in emergencies.
Seaworthiness is the big onecan the boat and the skipper handle it?
Dealing with the first two factors is fairly simple and straightforward, and it involves the pleasures of poring over charts and guidebooks, making lists and shopping. Seaworthiness is a combination of philosophical and engineering challenges. How will a 20-foot catboat, with its shallow draft and wide beam, handle large seas? What is the best reefing system? What should I do if I'm midway to Block Island and get caught in a thick fog or a storm?

"On recent trips I've been replacing other people's adventures with my own."

Some of these questions simply can't be answered in advance. Research and more hours under sail in different conditions and locations can only go so far.
I've spent months and many dollars preparing for the Block Island cruise in one way or another. It will be a trip with three legs out and three legs back, each leg less than 20 nautical miles, easily done in about half a day with Kirsten's top speed of five knots. The first leg would be a familiar one, from the marina in Flanders out to Shelter Island, where I could dock for the night at Greenport or Sag Harbor, or drop the hook in an anchorage. The next legs would take me into strange waters, to Montauk, and from there on to New Harbor (aka Great Salt Pond) on Block Island.
If the prevailing southwest winds are in working order, I will have an easy run from Montauk to Block Island. The drawback is that, in a following wind, it could be insufferably hot. I hope instead to have the morning offshore breezes from the northwest to keep things cool on a broad reach, and to arrive before the mid-day dead calm that can last several hours before the southwesterly sets in. At least, this is the habit of the wind that I know from the bays, but it may have an entirely different set of habits on the ocean.
Coming back, the southwesterly may head me, forcing lengthy tacks or even a different route, a higher, slightly north-of-west route toward Greenport or Shelter Island. Either way, the return leg could well be over twice the distance of the outbound leg.
The main question is whether Kirsten and I can do it. I know that other catboats have sailed to Block Island by the longer and more challenging route from Connecticut, a route subject to strong currents, heavy commercial traffic, and even the occasional submarine. But knowing that it has been done doesn't guarantee that we can do it.
With less than a year at the helm of Kirsten, the largest boat I have ever sailed on my own, I haven't had much time to gain experience. I've been an armchair sailor longer than I've been a real skipper.

Passing the Montauk Light turns a coastal cruiser into an offshore voyager.

Having read about rough conditions, my imagination quickly takes flight when the wind is above 15 knots. At that wind speed, white caps abound and waves can look intimidating. Amplify those waves with boat wakes, contrary tides, and shoals, and I begin to think of Cape Horn.
On recent trips, however, I've begun replacing other people's adventures with my own. On one brisk day, Kirsten seemed to come to life and leap eagerly into the waves when the wind whistled through the rigging and the bow spray reached to the back of the cockpit. We even surfed down some large following waves. And on another trip, when a mega-motor yacht set up steep wakes that flung the crew about the cockpit and rolled Kirsten's lee rail and the end of the boom into the water, she rolled back, shook herself off, and continued plunging along. And in one long hot day that took me around Shelter Island and briefly into the swells of Gardiners Bay, I managed over 30 nautical miles single-handed. I've also slept on board and know how difficult it can be to get a good night's rest in a ship's berth.
It all adds up to sharper instincts and a better understanding of what's involved. I have learned to trust that Kirsten knows how to behave like a good boat, and consequently shed some landlubberly anxieties. Observing her strength and resiliency firsthand increased my confidence.
We are now a team, Kirsten and I, and we are almost ready to take on that open stretch of water.
Block Island is a regular destination for many cruisers, with up to 2,000 boats crowding into New Harbor during the summer holidays. It was a port of call on the annual summer cruise for Anthony Bailey, who wrote the following about Block Island's Crescent Beach in The Coast of Summer: " We've been coming to to this beach for thirty years to walk, swim, and doze. It is one of those places that marks the passing of timehere we are again, another summerbut also makes time pause."
However, even after 30 years of sailing to Block Island, the journey could still stir up some anxiety in Bailey as he prepared to set out from Newport. "I know on rising just what sort of day it's going to be. A strong sou'westera deep reef in the maindamp foul-weather geareverything below needing to be stored properly As I brush my teeth, I feel the same suspense in the stomach one has before standing up in a public meeting to make a complicated point."
There are other ways to get to Block Island aside from sailing. Ferries depart for Block Island from several points in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New York. There's even a small airstrip. Over the decades, Bailey remarked with regret, Block Island had become crowded. Was it still possible to relax anywhere, doze on a beach, and make time pause?
The island has its own website (www.blockisland.com) and a webcam aimed out at Great Salt Pond. During the winter months, I checked this site from time to time, and found the harbor empty except for fog. It looked peaceful and inviting. Now that the season has arrived, so have the boats, and the webcam now shows full docks and anchorages.

The goal for the end of the voyagehere's to fair winds, calm seas, new friends, and Mudslides at The Oar.

Busy or serene, is not really the issue now. First, I have to get there.
I've read whatever I could find in narratives and guidebooks about how to sail there. I've walked the needle points of a compass across the chart several times along different routes, and checked the tide tables. During the winter and spring, I mulled over changes in the rigging, setting up reefing lines and tinkering until they worked right. I equipped Kirsten with handheld and base station VHF radios, a GPS, and a safety harness to attach myself to the boat. A self-steering rig of some sort is also on the list. These are items that will rarely see any use in the sheltered bays where I usually sail, but they seem essential for venturing offshore.
Reefing, GPS, and anchoring skills need to be practiced, particularly if I do the cruise single-handed. While I will be sailing during the week when transient slips are usually available, it's best to be prepared, just in case. And at $2 a foot and more for a slip, anchoring would be preferable, especially at Shelter Island and Montauk, where I don't plan on going ashore anyway. At Block Island, where I do plan to go ashore, I'll pay for a slip. If one isn't available and I have to anchor or take a mooring, water taxis can take me to and from shore, so it won't be necessary to tow a dinghy. I haven't towed a dinghy before, and this cruise already has a steep enough learning curve.
At times, all the preparations seem out of proportion for such a short cruise. But after I posted a message on an Internet bulletin board to solicit local knowledge for the trip, I realized I hadn't even scratched the surface of what I needed to know. In addition to getting helpful tips on where to anchor, dock, and shower in New Harbor, respondents also provided the names and nicknames of bartenders and waitresses, and the scoop on where to get the best Mudslides.
One cruiser, planning to visit Block Island during the same week, scheduled a time and date to call me on the radio.
With those responses, I began to realize all the preparation is not so much for getting me to Block Island, but for taking me from daysailing to the wider world of cruising. Here's to fair winds, calm seas, new friends, and Mudslides at The Oar.

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What is puzzling is that although the A8 has keyless start, via a button mounted in the centre console, it still has an ignition slot and can still be started by turning the key in said slot. Also curious is the fact that the button you press to start the car doesn't also stop the engine, there's a separate button for that. And you have to press the stop button a second time to engage the steering lock. It all seems a little convoluted to me.
There's no traditional handbrake, with Audi instead opting for an electronic parking brake, just like the Renault Laguna Coupe. However, unlike the Renault, the parking brake on the A8 did not engage automatically when the engine was stopped, nor did it disengage when the car was put into drive and the accelerator pedal pressed. Of course a traditional handbrake would do neither of those things either, so it shouldn't be too much of a chore to remember to engage and disengage it manually.
With a car this size parking will be a worry for many owners so it's good to see that Audi has taken this into account. The A8 is equipped with parking sensors front and rear, while there's also a reversing camera mounted just above the rear number plate. As soon as reverse is engaged the music volume drops and the screen displays the view from the reversing camera.
To aid your parking you get both audible and visual cues of obstacles, while there are guidelines superimposed onto the camera view that you're meant to line up with your desired parking place. The default mode is for reversing into a parking bay, but you can also switch to a parallel parking mode. The system does work pretty well, but I've got to say that I still feel more comfortable doing it the old fashioned way using my wing mirrors - the audible warnings are always nice on a car this size though.
Audi has also attempted to address some of the hazards associated with motorway driving by incorporating Side Assist and Lane Assist systems into the A8. The former comprises a cluster of yellow LEDs integrated into the wing mirror housings. These will light up when there's a vehicle either side of you, potentially in your blind spot. If you indicate to change lane they will flash to tell you that there's another car next to you, or travelling at speed in your intended lane. Lane Assist is there to stop you drifting unintentionally into another lane by making the steering wheel vibrate if you cross the white lines.
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Springfield, Ohio – The Springfield community currently has the opportunity to experience Rome through the artistic expressions of nine Wittenberg University students and Associate Professor of Art Ed Charney. The Watercolor Painting in Rome Exhibition, which features artwork by participants of a cultural immersion last summer, is on display from Dec. 8–Jan. 2 in the Beech Gallery at the Springfield Museum of Art.
All of the students, a group that includes Wittenberg Associate Professor of Education Lora Lawson, have artwork that features subjects from Rome, Florence and Tivoli in the exhibit. Charney also presents 12 watercolor paintings in the exhibit.
Charney said Wittenberg's art department has sponsored study abroad studio experiences for years, including a trip to Ireland he led in 2005. The Watercolor Painting in Rome course took place in May and June 2007.
"We are expecting to return to Rome in the summer of 2009," Charney said. "The program will continue to offer watercolor painting on location and will expand to include art history courses taught by Alejandra Jimenez-Berger.
"We encourage our art students to study internationally if possible. Many of them study for a semester or even a full academic year, often in Italy, and this course provided students who might not have been able to leave campus for a full semester an opportunity to study abroad."
Charney said the course "was a mixture of painting and looking at historical sites and a cultural immersion." The objectives ranged from learning how to communicate in a foreign culture to conducting individual research and making presentations on historically significant sites throughout Rome and surrounding areas.
The group toured Baroque-era churches, museums and other historically significant sites, all while staying in apartments with Italian students who helped immerse the students into Italian culture. Throughout the course, the students and Charney painted on location.
The Watercolor Painting in Rome Exhibit is free and open to the public during regular operating hours. It is running concurrently with a display of watercolor paintings by the Western Ohio Watercolor Society members juried exhibit, which carries an admission fee.
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Australian Red gets another free pizza to help with his budget!
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2017 Reds record when I'm attending: 8-52017 Dragons record when I'm attending:
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops." - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
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Gotta love how the Reds just swept the first place Dodgers and the sports highlights on Channel 9 started off with the Bengals loss and other NFL highlights. The Reds got about 30 seconds of coverage.
Anyway, I am SOOOO proud of the Reds for this amazing week of baseball! I went to games on Tuesday, Friday, and Saturday and they were ALL amazing games (even without the Great 8 stuff, those games this weekend have all been fantastic). I've always thought that their best baseball hadn't been played yet this season and September is the absolute BEST time of the year for them to heat up and go on a hot streak of winning. I can't wait for them to crush the Cubs this week!
"I tried to play golf, but I found out I wasn't very good." -Joey Votto on his offseason hobby search
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldnt do. I cant skate or play hockey, Votto said. Well, I can skate ... but I cant stop.
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"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
We've wondered if they'll ever go on their run.
I think they're on it.
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Chapman appeared in 5 of the 6 games against the Cards and Dodgers, pitched 5 innings, gave up 1 hit, kd 11. 2 saves and a win.
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"I never argue with people who say baseball is boring, because baseball is boring. And then, suddenly, it isn't. And that's what makes it great." - Joe Posnanski
amazing manager, he should be Manager of year in a cakewalk
It's 12:19 AM and only MLB network has mentioned baseball. It's NFL all the time. I despise the NFL. I guess I'm in the minority.
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
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I was over at a friend's to watch Breaking Bad so I missed everything post Votto up with the bases loaded at 9, pre Hanley hitting the game tying HR at 10ish, but rest assured I was yelling at my TV over Soto pinch hitting and had a celebration reaction very similar in spastic movement to Hanigan's.
We're still good.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
I never thought they would sweep the Dodgers. Great series! All three games were like the playoffs. You really can't ask for more if you are a Reds fan. Looks like a battle to the wire for the top spot in the NL Central. Pirates are in a definite fade and the Cards have a pretty weak schedule the rest of the way. Just have to keep winning and let the chips fall where they may.
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Than God for the internet so I can pick and choose my news sources, Redzone, MLB, and several other baseball-centric sites.
Great week of Reds Baseball!!
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All the dishes rattle in the cupboards when the elephants arrive
What a game, what a week!
The Reds just held the dangerous Dodgers to seven runs over a three games series. That was playoff baseball. Unbelievable pitching by the Reds and the offense provided some excitement when it counted. How about Jay Bruce hitting two homers off Kershaw? Wow!
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Green-Cabbage and Red-Apple Slaw with Brussels Sprouts
A crunchy slaw unites three winter produce stars: green cabbage, brussels sprouts, and citrus.
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- 3 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1/2 small green cabbage, very thinly sliced (about 5 cups)
- 8 brussels sprouts (about 6 ounces), trimmed, halved lengthwise, and thinly sliced
- 1/2 small red onion, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced crosswise (about 1/2 cup)
- 1/3 cup fresh orange juice
- 4 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh dill
- 1 teaspoon grainy mustard
- 1 teaspoon poppy seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 small red apples, such as Gala, cut into matchsticks
Bring 1 1/4 cups water to a boil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Add 2 tablespoons vinegar and the cabbage. Cover, and steam until cabbage has just wilted, about 2 minutes. Using a slotted spoon, transfer cabbage to a colander set over a large bowl. Immediately add brussels sprouts and onion to colander; toss to combine. Let cool 5 minutes.
Whisk orange juice, lemon juice, remaining tablespoon vinegar, dill, mustard, poppy seeds, salt, and pepper in a small bowl. Pour in oil in a slow, steady stream, whisking until emulsified.
Transfer cabbage mixture to a large bowl. Add vinaigrette and apples, and toss gently to coat. Let stand at room temperature 10 minutes, tossing occasionally. Serve.


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Steve Kelman is professor of public management at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and former administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy.
I have long argued that the most underused tool in the government manager's arsenal is appealing to what scholars call the public service motivation of many civil servants — the desire to help others, make a difference and support the mission of the organization. In fact, I have written that it often seems managers at Frito-Lay are more successful at getting employees to believe in the importance of what they do than many government managers are.
Research has established that there typically are differences between government and private-sector employees in the strength of the desire to serve others and make a difference through one's job. For example, civil servants are more likely to donate blood than employees of big private firms. Scholars are now investigating whether the presence of public service motivation makes a difference in performance.
The managerial question is not so much the impact of some pre-existing level of public service motivation — although if there is one, it has implications for what kind of people government should be hiring. It is about what managers can do to encourage employees to focus more on their desire to make a difference or awaken such a desire where it is less present. I have long thought it makes sense for managers to talk frequently with employees about the mission in order to remind and inspire them.
However, I recently came across two academic papers that seem to show I have been too optimistic. In a 1998 study, Boas Shamir of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a number of his colleagues asked soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces about various actions of their unit commander and then got data on unit performance from a higher officer. The findings were surprising. The more soldiers reported that their commander had an ideological orientation (e.g., "often refers to national history," "talks a lot about Zionism" or "refers to values frequently"), the lower the performance of the unit.
In a 2011 paper titled "Outsourcing Inspiration," Adam Grant of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and David Hofmann of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recount a lab experiment in which three groups of students corrected the grammar and spelling in a research paper written by a student from outside the United States. Two of the groups received identical messages about the importance of the work in helping international students succeed in their studies. But one group received the message from somebody identified as one of the students while the other heard it from a person identified as the project supervisor. The third group received no message.
Participants who heard the message from a student corrected more errors than those who received no message or heard it from a supervisor. The paper presents evidence that supervisors' messages often aren't successful because employees distrust their motives, believing the goal is simply to get them to work harder.
Together, these papers suggest that my earlier assumption about the value of mission-oriented messages from managers is too simplistic or perhaps even wrong. They also underscore the good intuition of the contracting leaders at an Army installation I visited a number of years ago. They organized an annual dinner for employees and their families at which the soldiers who use the equipment the contracting folks were buying addressed the employees and explained how that equipment helps them do their jobs.
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After coming to terms with Cerner on a price for its electronic health record system, VA expects to pivot to finding an integrator to handle legacy interoperability and change management.
The department's failure to launch an agile services contract can serve as a teachable moment, according to DHS procurement officials.
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And getting back to the topic of the article, as both a soldier and DoD civilian it's been my impression that when senior leaders find they need to start spouting platitudes about values and such that it's because their own leadership is lacking. I don't excel because someone tells me I should. I do it because it's the right thing to do. If you don't understand that, then you don't belong in the government.
I am a DoD fed that donates blood consistently and it never even occurs to me to take time off. I do it on my own time because I can't afford to stop working for even a couple hours. And by the way, when I did work in private industry we were given time off to donate and often did. I wish people would realize that the governemnt operates very much like an industry with some agencies being very generous and others being miserly. It all depends on who you work for.
In the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), it is policy to allow 4 hours of time off to donate blood.
" They are provided free time off work (4 HOURS) to go give blood."
Since when? In my 33 years of public service I've always had to donate blood on my own time. Yet another "fact" that has no basis in reality.
Wake up professor.....you use this..."civil servants are more likely to donate blood than employees of big private firms" as an example of federal employees desire to serve others. They are provided free time off work (4 HOURS) to go give blood. Those of us in the private sector who give blood do it on our own time. Got any other examples?
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Two boys killed on second day of Somali protests
By Abdi Sheikh
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Two boys were shot dead in Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday during a second day of protests against a deal to extend the mandates of the country's president and parliament, residents said.
Hundreds of supporters of the prime minister, who must resign under the terms of the deal, marched through the city's rubble-strewn streets chanting "long live Prime Minister (Mohamed Abdullahi) Mohamed".
The two boys died when police loyal to the speaker of parliament shot at the demonstrators, starting a gunfight with soldiers loyal to President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed and his government, witnesses said. About a dozen other demonstrators were wounded.
Clan loyalties divide almost all spheres of life in Somalia.
"We were just walking and chanting when police guarding the Hotel Muna opened fire on us," Nadifa Ali told Reuters.
"Two young boys died on the spot and others were injured. Soon a military vehicle came and fired on the police guarding the hotel," she said.
A Reuters photographer said the protesters then set the hotel ablaze.
Other rallies in support of Mohamed, a U.S.-educated former diplomat from the Somali diaspora, were also reported in central and southern Somalia. Continued...


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In November 2009, Cardiovascular Business asked if the much-anticipated FREEDOM trial would "set us free" by better informing decisions to treat high-risk diabetics with multivessel disease using either PCI or CABG. The findings demonstrated resounding support for surgery, but some physician experts are concerned that the decisions may overlook the patient's perspective on risks, such as stroke, and that these results may get translated to lower-risk diabetics.
'Practice-changing trial'
|Source: Elizabeth A. Magnuson, PhD
In real-life clinical practice, one-third of the patients who undergo cardiac catheterization and PCI have diabetes with multivessel disease—similar to the FREEDOM population, according to senior author Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, director of Mount Sinai Heart in New York City and past-president of the American Heart Association.
In the trial, Fuster et al enrolled 1,900 patients (mean age, 63.1 years, 29 percent women and 83 percent had three-vessel disease) at 140 international centers from 2005 through 2010 (N Engl J Med 2012;367:2375-2384). After five years, the CABG group had a lower combined rate of strokes, MIs and deaths (18.7 percent) than the PCI group (26.6 percent).
"FREEDOM, a well-conducted, practice-changing trial, demonstrated that CABG is the preferred strategy for most diabetics with multivessel disease, particularly if there aren't simple, straightforward lesions, and a mammary artery can be used to bypass the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery," says interventional cardiologist Peter B. Berger, MD, chairman of cardiology at Geisinger Health System and co-director of the Geisinger Heart & Vascular Institute in Danville, Pa.
"Until this study, there were no clear guidelines to direct physicians for these patients, and it was left to a case-by-case basis," says Fuster. "Any diabetic patient with significant coronary disease who is scheduled for a cardiac catheterization should be informed about the results favoring CABG, if this is what is found at the time of catheterization." In the evolving drug-eluting stent (DES) era, the difference between adverse events for CABG vs. DES will not be a greater than 8 percent, he adds.
Stroke, a well-known risk of bypass surgery, occurred more often in the CABG group (5.2 percent) than in the PCI group (2.4 percent). However, more people died from any cause in the PCI group (16.3 percent) than in the CABG group (10.9 percent). The survival advantage of CABG over PCI was consistent regardless of race, gender, number of blocked vessels or disease severity, according to the study authors.
"If you were to look solely at death and MI, CABG is clearly superior in this trial," says Ajay J. Kirtane, MD, chief academic officer and director of the interventional cardiology fellowship program at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. "But the two procedures are clearly different from a patient perspective, particularly with regards to the invasive nature of the two procedures and the increased stroke risk, especially within 30 days."
Conversely, Fuster calls the risk of stroke "relative," if a physician considers the number of events with heart attack and mortality that are avoided. "The risk of stroke is minimal, compared with what you gain. Regardless, all the risks and benefits of both procedures need to be addressed with the patient."
To better assess these risks, this "study reaffirms the heart team strategy," Kirtane adds. "For the past five years in our practice, if we are presented with a diabetic patient with multivessel disease, interventionalists take the patient off the cath lab table to consult with a surgeon."
While repeat revascularization drove many of the outcomes, particularly the economic outcomes, of FREEDOM, Berger says "death and stroke are much more important to physicians and patients." Kirtane adds that the risk of stroke may be even more compelling to some patients than mortality.
Mark A. Hlatky, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, Calif., wrote in the accompanying editorial that mortality has been consistently reduced by CABG compared with PCI, in more than 4,000 patients with diabetes who have been evaluated in 13 clinical trials (N Engl J Med 2012;367:2437-2438). "The controversy should finally be settled," he wrote.
However, Hlatky concurred with Kirtane that informed decision-making is necessary for patients and specialists. He wrote there


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PHILADELPHIA -- An interesting pattern seems to be emerging in University of Delaware men's lacrosse games of late, and the Blue Hens like the results just fine.
Despite once again falling behind by multiple goals in the opening quarter, the No. 18 ranked Blue Hens stormed back and came through again, remaining atop the Colonial Athletic Association standings with a 9-7 victory over host Drexel at blustery Vidas Field Saturday afternoon.
The Blue Hens (7-3, 3-0 CAA) won their third straight game and extended their win streak over conference opponents to eight straight dating back to last April.
The 3-0 start is the best for the Hens in league play since joining the CAA in 2002 and their best since starting out 4-0 in the America East conference in 2000. The eight-game winning streak vs. league foes is the longest for Delaware since winning 11 straight over three seasons in 1998-2000.
The recent three-game win streak has followed an almost identical pattern. Delaware fell behind 2-0 in the opening four minutes vs. then No. 4 ranked Hofstra back on March 19 before rallying for a 7-6 victory. Last Saturday, Towson broke out to a 5-0 lead in the opening 11 minutes before the Hens methodically chipped away at the Tiger lead and came away with an 8-7 triumph.
The Hens fell behind 4-2 after one period on Saturday vs. Drexel and were down 5-2 at halftime before netting four straight goals to open the second half, tying the score at 5-5 on a goal by Sean Finegan with 9:09 left and taking a one-goal lead just 66 seconds later on a score by Eric Smith.
Drexel came back to tie the game at 6-6 on a goal by Brendan Glynn with 6:58 left in the stanza, but consecutive goals by Delaware's John Mills (at right) and Brendan Gilson 40 seconds apart early in the final stanza put the Hens up for good. Grant Kaleikau's tally with 1:17 left was the insurance the Hens needed to move on to the win.
"We just told our guys at halftime that it wasn't about the x's and the o's, but about coming out strong and cranking up the energy level" said Delaware head coach Bob Shillinglaw, who won career game No. 295. "We came out and played with 100 percent heart and dominated the first six or eight minutes of the second half and go the lead. After Drexel came back to tie, we just weathered the punches and finished it off. Once again, it was two good teams battling hard in conference play."
Finegan led the Hens with two goals while Grant Kaleikau scored once and dished out two assists and Kevin Kaminki and Smith each recorded a goal and an assist. Smith, the Hens' leading scorer, has now produced a point in all 10 games this season. Goalkeeper Noah Fossner, the reigning CAA Player of the Week, came up with another big effort with 10 saves in goal.
Drexel, which entered the game leading the CAA in scoring offense at 11.1 goals per game, was held four goals under its average as the Dragons (5-5, 1-2 CAA) suffered their second straight loss following a four-game win streak.
Robert Church led the way with two goals and an assist while Nick Trizano scored twice and Kyle Bergman had a goal and an assist. Delaware held CAA goal-scoring leader Scott Perri (25 goals) to a single goal and two assists on the afternoon.


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