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Women in Science in the Pursuit of Excellence
Date: Friday, November 4, 2011
UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet speech at the Rockefeller University on the occasion of the award of the Pearl Meister Greengard prize to renowned neuroscientist Brenda Milner. November 3, 2011.
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Thank you, Dr. Tessier-Lavigne for your very kind introduction and the gracious welcome you have given me here at Rockefeller University.This is an inspiring venue. A venue where men and women in science come together in the pursuit of excellence in the service of humanity.
I want to especially congratulate you for having a programme for women in science. Some forty percent of your faculty staff are women and that is impressive! The dedicated support you extend to the advancement of women scientists, the fact that you see Rockefeller women as national and international agents of change is an inspiring best practice.
We sure have come a long way since those days when Pierre Curie had to insist that the Nobel Prize in Physics offered to him and Henri Becquerel would not be accepted unless his wife shared in it. But so much more remains to be done. Achievements and programmes like yours are key and yet all too often they are the exception, rather than the norm, in this world.
So it's a privilege and an honor to spend this evening in your company. I thank the members of the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Selection Committee for inviting me to participate in the presentation of this award.
I would like to commend Ursula von Rydingsvard and Paul Greengard for establishing this significant award. Thank you for recognizing the need for such a prize. Today deeply rooted attitudes and beliefs continue to guide women away from the pursuit of excellence in science. In establishing this prize, you showed more than vision. You showed deep generosity when you decided to help move women from the margins of the scientific enterprise to the center where they belong.
Tonight we dedicate this award to Dr. Brenda Milner.
Dr. Milner, I am very happy to participate in this moment of your life. Please accept my congratulations to you on this recognition of your important work. You have inspired countless men and women. Your path-breaking work in basic science, no doubt, helped and will continue to help countless people around the world.
Not only are you an exceptional scientist, you stand out as a great woman pioneer of our times. Your stamina, integrity, and curiosity coupled with your courage, generosity, humility and perseverance make you a role model for generations of women and women scientists to come.
I am told that wherever you go young people flock to you! I am not surprised because role models and mentors like you are so needed today. You combine the rigors of scientific inquiry with the compassion of the humanities. This makes you a woman of the brain and the heart—a combination that is truly needed to overcome the challenges we face in our complex and interdependent world!
As you know, I am a medical doctor by background. As a young physician I took the Hippocratic oath. This oath contains a sentence relevant way beyond the confines of the world of the physician. It says: "I will remember that I remain a member of society with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.
Life gradually led me onto a path in public policy and life. Yet, it is a path guided by, as the oath says, that special obligation we all have towards our fellow human beings.
Right now, this path has bestowed on me the responsibility of being the founding Executive Director for UN Women.
Before I talk about that, let me go back for a moment in time. In 1918, the year Dr. Milner was born, the world population was 1.8 billion, an influenza epidemic incapacitated 1 billion and killed 20 million people, all this within the space of eight weeks. Most of the people who died were in their thirties.
Dr. Milner was born in a country just experiencing the end of the first world war. It was women who had worked in munitions and kept farms going during the war and for this, the women expected something in return from the government. In response, the 1918 Representation of the People Act gave propertied women over 30 years of age the right to vote!
Today, women can now vote virtually everywhere. This week, we also reached the 7 billion mark in world population. Our planet that we all share is now host to the largest generation of girls and women ever born. There are now more than 850 million girls and young women aged 10 to 24.,
But despite enormous progress including tremendous scientific advances - the reality for women remains one characterized by inequality. For far too many women and girls, the reality is physical violence or sexual trafficking, lack of education or employment, under-representation at executive levels, lack of access to health and HIV/AIDS prevention and care, basic human rights violations and political under-representation. Women continue to suffer all sorts of discrimination and disparities persist.
So it is incumbent on all of us to ask what kind of world will our children inherit? What kind of world will their children be born into? How will they lead the next generation? Who will girls and young women, boys and young men look to as role models and mentors?
Too often still, in many parts of the world, women cannot make their own decisions about their body or their life and their voice is silent or silenced.
Statistics show us how far we are from gender equality. Of the estimated 1.3 billion poor in the world more than sixty per cent are women. Of the estimated 780 million illiterates in the world about sixty-five per cent are women. Up to six out of every ten women experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.
Women work two-thirds of the world's working hours and produce half of the world's food, yet earn only 10 per cent of the world's income and own less than one per cent of the world's property. Only one in four senior officials or managers is a woman.In 2010, six per cent of elected head of states or government were women. On average, women hold 16 per cent of ministerial posts and 19 percent of seats in parliament.
And in the sciences throughout the world, only a handful of women preside over a national science academy.
Well, ladies and gentlemen, women represent not only half of the world population but also a tremendous untapped potential from which their community, society and entire nation can benefit.
We already know that many industrialized economies will soon face shortages of scientists and engineers. In the decades to come, people who master the sciences will change the world to a large extent. And for these reasons and more, it is important to fully tap the human potential of both women and men.
So far 2011 has indeed been a challenging but also a groundbreaking year for women. We all have seen the protests in North Africa and the Middle East and the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to three women who stand up for peace and democracy. And while that is progress and the past century has brought deep transformation of women's legal rights, most of the laws continue to exist only on paper. They still do not translate to equality and justice for so many, too many, women.
It was against this background that UN Women was created in 2010. And tonight's award was created to bring women from the margins of the scientific enterprise to the center where they belong.UN Women was created to drive greater progress in gender equality and the empowerment of women. Together with partners worldwide, we are working to advance women's economic empowerment, political participation and leadership, to end violence against women and girls, to make gender equality a priority in national plans and budgets, and to make sure that women enjoy full participation in peacemaking, peacebuilding and reconstruction.
To achieve this, we will need many Brenda Milner's in this world. We will need many men and women like Ursula von Rydingsvard and Paul Greengard. Indeed, a peaceful, just world founded on dignity and respect for each human being cannot be achieved if fifty per cent of the population is excluded.
Once more science gives us a beautiful insight here! It became evident to Dr. Milner and others that each hemisphere of the brain acting alone was severely handicapped- on memory and other vital tasks and functions. So what did she do? She used her excitement and curiosity to further explore how the two hemispheres work together, both in health and disease, in a holistic manner.
And this is the same for all of us at UN Women. What drives us forward? It is knowing that equality between women and men is a matter of human rights and it also so much more. Gender equality is a condition for social justice; it is a necessary and fundamental prerequisite for democracy, peace and development for all.
Having said that, we also know that achieving this equality will require a stamina akin to the one shown to us by Dr. Milner. Sustained and long-term commitment will be essential, so that women and men can work together for themselves, for their children and for society to meet the challenges of our century and beyond. Just as you at Rockefeller University help women scientists to move ahead, we all must work together so that women have equal access to all educational, economic, social, cultural and political opportunities. Including the "other half of the world on equal footing is the only way to face the challenges that the entire planet is facing and will increasingly be faced with in the 21st Century. And recent events are telling in this regard.
So let me close with words pronounced long ago but so relevant to our times. "In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality. It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions. And the actions which speak louder than the words. It is making the time when there is none. Coming through time after time after time, year after year after year. Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power to change the face of things. It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) Sixteenth President of the United States.
Dr. Milner you showed commitment, you show action, you know it takes a team to advance - it takes men and women.
Let us all live up to the high standards you set for all of us.
Thank you.


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With StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm scheduled to roll out March 12, Blizzard is already well into development of the scripts, story and missions for the Protoss-focused expansion Legacy of the Void, according to Game Director Dustin Browder.
In a recent Reddit AMA, Browder said that he hopes the time between Heart of the Swarm's release and the completion of Legacy will not be as long as it was between Wings of Liberty and HotS. "But efficient and quick game development is not something we have traditionally been great at. We will certainly do our best to reduce the time between expansions."
The campaign team for HotS has already transitioned over to Legacy, he said, but a few artists have shifted over to work on Blizzard All-Stars.
Alan Dabiri, lead software engineer, said that the team is working hard to make sure that the Heart of the Swarm does not experience the same online server issues that plagued Diablo 3. "We've learned a lot from our previous launches, including the Wings of Liberty launch, and we're doing everything we can to make sure this launch goes as smoothly as possible. We have the advantage that we've been building on an existing platform that's been evolving for several years."

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Instument dimmer stuck on low!
Posted 15 January 2005 - 11:40 PM
Baically it all started when i was wiring up a boost gauge for my 00 Impreza,i was runing the light of the light around the cigar lighter and as i was wiring it up to wires touched and had blown the instument illumination fuse.I replaced the fuse only to find that the instrument lights are now permenetly dull not matter what stage the dimmer switch is set!
Ive checked all fuses(in the engine bay and under dash) but to no avail!Am i missing some other fuseable link??!!
Any help would be awesome!
Posted 16 January 2005 - 12:45 AM
P.S. remember to disconnect the battery when doing electrical work on your car. Saves you bundles on fuses after a few years
Posted 16 January 2005 - 01:29 AM
Ive used the same amp fuse but still no luck!Well it looks like i will be dragging the car to subaru with my pride in my hands........thanks anyhow!
Posted 16 January 2005 - 10:20 AM
Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:15 PM
I would guess you did damage a fusible link. From the sounds of it, the prblem may be a bad connection somewhere also. I would look for the problem using a voltmeter. You should be able to find where the voltage drops with that. I would make sure the grounding is ok also to the dash.
OK, this may sound overly simple, but are you sure that the polarity of the guage light is the same as the dash lights (IE you are not putting dash light hot to ground and visa versa)?
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Dye Your Easter Eggs With Onion Skins
My chickens are busy gals, laying over a dozen eggs every day. They lay a beautiful blue-shelled egg that would look great in any Easter basket but what if we took things up a notch? I heard you could use onion skins as a dye so I gave it a try. Here's how to do it.


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There was no glass slipper to be worn on the tour this year, not – at least – for the professionals. Melanie Oudin did her best at that last year at the US Open (as did the much-forgotten Jelena Dokic at the Aussie), but no such slipper was happening this year. There were, however, plenty of good shoes to be worn by the pros and we give you a good line-up to find over the next two weeks, just in case you have a Christmas Day tennis match with Pete Sampras (or his trophy stealer).
The adidas Barricade (shown above) has been alive and well for awhile now, and the sixth version of the shoe launched this fall. Oudin sported her "Courage" pair at this year's USO, and a bevy adidas-wearing players were together to tout the shoe before the start of play at the US Open. But you don't need to be at Flushing Meadows to sport these kicks, find them online starting at $115.
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If you're not looking for competitive kicks, we would have loved to have recommended you landing on the K-Swiss collaborative shoe, Deuce. But the shoe, which we gave a thumbs-up to in October, sold out in three weeks after a successful collaboration with Undefeated, a quirky SoCal. Therefore, we're giving the nod to the aptly-named "Classic Hiker" from K-Swiss, which was just named one of Complex's 18 Best Boots for Winter. What's even better than the look of this no-nonsense shoe is its price: $75 online.
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NAPLES, Italy (AP) — A soccer player in Italy could face sanctions after hitting and threatening to kill a journalist.
The incident happened Sunday after Napoli's 2-1 victory over Udinese.
According to reports, Napoli defender Salvatore Aronica repeatedly said "I'm going to kill you" while also slapping the journalist twice and jabbing him with bystanders present.
Aronica, who had been upset by the journalist's comments about him on television, later apologized.
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Makeover Chicken Potpies Recipe
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- 3/4 cup plus 6 tablespoons all-purpose flour, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons cold butter, divided
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 to 2 tablespoons cold water
- 4 medium carrots, sliced
- 3 celery ribs, sliced
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 2-1/2 cups reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 2/3 cup fat-free milk
- 2 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1 egg white, lightly beaten
- In a small bowl, combine 3/4 cup flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in 2 tablespoons butter until crumbly. Add buttermilk and oil; toss with a fork. Gradually add water, tossing with a fork until dough forms a ball. Cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- For filling, in a large skillet, melt remaining butter. Add the carrots, celery and onion; saute until crisp-tender. In a small bowl, combine remaining flour with the broth and milk until smooth. Gradually stir into vegetable mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Stir in the chicken, peas and pepper. Transfer to four 16-oz. ramekins; set aside.
- Divide dough into four portions. On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to fit ramekins. Place dough over chicken mixture; trim and seal edges. Cut out a decorative center or cut slits in pastry. Brush with egg white.
- Place ramekins on a baking sheet. Bake at 425° for 20-25 minutes or until crusts are golden brown. Yield: 4 servings.
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"Made this last night, but topped with mashed potatoes leftover from Thanksgiving. Delicious! Will make more tonight with turkey instead & freeze."
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Cueto roughed up, Athletics top Reds
- Article by: GARY SCHATZ
- Associated Press
- March 21, 2013 - 8:05 PM
GOODYEAR, Ariz. - Johnny Cueto insists there's still enough time to get set for opening day.
Derek Norris homered as the Oakland Athletics roughed up Cueto and beat the Cincinnati Reds 10-9 Thursday.
Cueto allowed five runs on five hits and two walks in 1 2-3 inning.
The Reds have not announced their opening day starter, but Cueto's turn would come up then. He blamed his mechanics for the tough outing.
"My fastball was up and out over the plate," Cueto said. "I was flying open. I knew what was happening but couldn't correct it. In the bullpen all my pitches were down."
Cueto said he had no concerns about being ready for the opener against the Los Angeles Angels on April 1.
"I'm ready," Cueto said.
Norris added a single to increase his spring average to .379. Josh Reddick and Chris Young hit doubles in the A's five-run second inning. Jed Lowrie had two hits for Oakland.
Mark Prior, trying to make another comeback, pitched a scoreless inning for the Reds. He struck out one and hit a batter.
"It was good to be out there. It was fun," Prior said. "I was trying to throw strikes. I was a little up, a little rushed."
"It was the first time doing it in a big league environment in a couple years. It was good. Two years ago when I was in camp with the Yankees, I got to face hitters in spring, nine outings that went pretty good. It was a good test for me to see if I could get big league hitters out," he said.
The 32-year-old righty, who hasn't pitched in the majors since 2006, was in Triple-A for Boston last year.
"After pitching in minor league games in minor league camp and last year in Pawtucket, you still want to know does your stuff still play," Prior said. "My location wasn't as good as it's been in the minor league camp, but I'm sure it was adrenaline and anxiety."
Prior starred in Chicago a decade ago when Dusty Baker was the manager. Now managing the Reds, Baker helped Prior get this chance.
"I'm fortunate to have the opportunity to be in this position. I'm here because of Dusty. Maybe I can surprise some people by doing something," Prior said.
Said Baker: "He's not far off from where he was before."
"His fastball had good zip on it. His breaking pitches will come in time. He hasn't been here that long. I'm glad for him. It's a matter of staying healthy. It was nice for me to shake his hand when he came off the mound."
A's starter Brett Anderson pitched for the first time in a game since March 10. He had been out with a strained right trapezius. The left-hander missed most of last season while recovering from elbow surgery.
Anderson gave up six runs on eight hits and two walks in 4 2-3 innings. He struck out five.
"The results weren't awesome but I threw some good pitches," Anderson said. "I threw some not good pitches. I threw a lot of pitches I wouldn't throw in a regular season game. A lot of changeups that got hit. I got some strikeouts on my slider that was good."
"The results weren't very good from the outside looking in, but I gave up eight hits, four or five were on pitches I wouldn't throw in the regular season," he said.
Todd Frazier and Derrick Robinson homered off Anderson. It was the third of the spring for Frazier.
Grant Balfour made his first appearance of the spring for Oakland and pitched a perfect inning, striking out one. The A's closer had surgery on his right knee on Feb. 14.
NOTES: Reds OF Shin-Soo Choo put in full workout. He's missed five games with back spasms.
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I'm trying to make a start in Python programming. I consider myself competant with Perl, and I want to do some of the same things which are easy in Perl, in Python.
In particular, I want to be open a file and process each line at a time.
In Perl I just do:
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I've had a browse around python.org, but can't find any good references to opening and processing files.
Can anyone tell me how to do the above Perl code in Python? I really would appreciate it, thanks.


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
I have been reading through the comments while at work - so I hope that I haven't missed anything about what I am going to mention. Also, I haven't read through the whole site so it could be addressed elsewhere.Why do some assume that children go to heaven? I have never read anything about this in a bible. Is there some verse to clear this up?


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TOMPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A south-central Kentucky man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison in the fatal shooting of a former sheriff.
The Glasgow Daily Times reports a judge handed down the sentence Wednesday after 81-year-old Charles Hammer pleaded guilty to murder and tampering with evidence. He was accused of gunning down 81-year-old Herbert "Sprocket" Proffitt, a former sheriff and Tompkinsville police chief, in August 2012.
After the slaying, police said Proffitt arrested Hammer a decade ago, and they think a desire for revenge prompted the slaying.


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Half a Century of More of the Same
by Connor Boyack, Utah Tenth Amendment Center
On August 23, 1958, 46 Chief Justices from the Supreme Courts of the several states gathered together in Pasadena, California. The event drawing their presence was the Conference of Chief Justices, a regular forum for the highest judges in each state to meet and discuss important issues.
Their 1958 meeting, however, proved to be quite different from any of the other conferences. Ten chief justices had been previously assigned, as part of a committee, to produce a report and resolution to the entire conference for a vote. The subject: federalism.
36 chief justices ultimately voted in support of the resolution and report, which declared that the U.S. Supreme Court "has tended to adopt the role of policy maker without proper judicial restraintâ€. Eight voted against it, and two abstained.
The report spans several pages, as presented in the October 3, 1958 edition of the U.S. News and World Report (PDF), and until now, has nowhere been made available on the internet. Scanning the statement provides an interesting insight into the tenuous balance of federalism from half a century ago, and supports concern that things have not improved, now decades later.
It should be noted, first, that the chief justices, themselves products of the conventional legal system and general adherents to its philosophy, were not advocating federalism to the extent of more radical action, such as nullification. As one example, they state in their report:
Second, when we turn to the specific field of the effect of judicial decisions on federal-State relationships, we come at once to the question as to where power should lie to give the ultimate interpretation to the Constitution and to the laws made in pursuance thereof under the authority of the United States. By necessity and by almost universal common consent, these ultimate powers are regarded as being vested in the Supreme Court of the United States. Any other allocation of such power would seem to lead to chaos. (emphasis added)
Clearly, interposition and nullification were not even under consideration for these quasi-federalist chief justices. Nevertheless, they were quite concerned with an overreaching federal government whose accumulation of undelegated power seemingly knew no bounds. Here is the text of the resolution which received an overwhelmingly affirmative vote:
- That this Conference approves the Report of the Committee on Federal-State Relationships as Affected by Judicial Decisions submitted at this meeting.
- That, in the field of federal-State relationships, the division of powers between those granted to the National Government and those reserved to the State Governments should be tested solely by the provisions of the Constitution of the United States and the Amendments thereto.
- That this Conference believes that our system of federalism, under which control of matters primarily of national concern is committed to our National Government and control of matters primarily of local concern is reserved to the several States, is sound and should be more diligently preserved.
- That this Conference, while recognizing that the application of constitutional rules to changed conditions must be sufficiently flexible as to make such rules adaptable to altered conditions, believes that a fundamental purpose of having a written Constitution is to promote the certainty and stability of the provisions of law set forth in such a Constitution.
- That this Conference hereby respectfully urges that the Supreme Court of the United States, in exercising the great powers confided to it for the determination of questions as to the allocation and extent of national and State powers, respectively, and as to the validity under the Federal Constitution of the exercise of powers reserved to the States, exercise one of the greatest of all judicial powers—the power of judicial self-restraint—by recognizing and giving effect to the difference between that which, on the one hand, the Constitution may prescribe or permit, and that which, on the other, a majority of the Supreme Court, as from time to time constituted, may deem desirable or undesirable, to the end that our system of federalism may continue to function with and through the preservation of local self-government.
- That this Conference firmly believes that the subject with which the Committee on Federal-State Relationships as Affected by judicial Decisions has been concerned is of continuing importance, and that there should be committee appointed to deal with the subject in the ensuing year.
The proceeding report details several specific cases in which the balance of federalism had been pushed too far in favor of the federal government. Towards the end, the chief justices provide some compelling arguments as the foundation of their concerns:Details


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Washington (CNN) - An independent super PAC that's backing President Barack Obama's re-election bid said Monday it's going up with a television commercial and on-line video that highlight's what the group calls the "anti-middle class" tax policy of all but certain Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
"His own tax return from last year reveals he made $21 million, yet paid a lower tax rate than many middle class families," the narrator in the spot said. "Now, Romney's proposing a huge new one hundred fifty thousand dollar tax-cut for the wealthiest one percent while cutting Medicare and education for us. Mitt Romney. If he wins, we lose."
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Priorities USA Action will run the ad on television in Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia, all considered crucial battleground states in November's presidential election, according to a source with knowledge of the ad buy, who said the release of the spot is timed to Tax Day.
The source said the spot's the first part of a multi-million dollar campaign that will run on television and on the web.
Romney spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg the president's "liberal allies" are trying to "distract Americans from serious economic issues with a series of political stunts and sideshows."
"President Obama realizes that he can't campaign on his failed policies and abysmal economic agenda, so he is willing to do and say anything to change the subject," Henneberg said in an email. "Middle class families are smart enough to see through the President's dishonesty, and they are ready to replace him with a leader like Mitt Romney who can turn around our struggling economy."
I love it!! the Pres is demanding that Romney release past tax filings... I would say, "Lets have a release party.. You bring your Doctoral Thesis and birth certificate and I will bring my past tax filings.".. Romney could show up and Obama would bail... Romney looks transparent and Obama looks.... well ... like Obama...
Like I have allways said romney is a snake in the grass, he want what he wants. Not what the most of Americans want. He just says what people want to hear where he is at the time. Can't trust romney with this great country.
Don't we have bigger problems than Romney being successful and Obama & Buffet not knowing the difference between income tax and capital gains tax?


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ps- I parked next to a silver GL-10 wagon...my car wanted to catch up with her cousin...was that anybody from the board?
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I only saw one EA82T at the tacoma yard, and it was missing the turbo and a bunch of other goodies
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Lynnwood has a Turbo sedan; turbo's gone but the engine still seems to be there. It's a dark blue one. I forgot what year.
What do they Charge, and is there any garentee (I can't spell) that it isn't going to be blown?
I am having one hell of a time with my reseal... and I need something that I could just drop in with minimal Motor problems ($$ is tight.) and also can they pull, possible do a compression test>?
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They don't pull. They give you a 30 day warranty for returns. A comp test will be tough to do there as they have removed the batteries and do not allow them out in the yards.
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Hospira to Present at the J.P. Morgan 30th Annual Healthcare Conference Jan. 10, 2012
LAKE FOREST, Ill., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), the world's leading provider of injectable drugs and infusion technologies, today announced that the company will present at the J.P. Morgan 30th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012, in San Francisco.
The presentation is scheduled to begin at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2012. It will be available to all interested parties through a live audiocast accessible via the investor relations section of Hospira's website at www.hospirainvestor.com. Listeners should log on approximately 10 minutes in advance to ensure proper setup to receive the audiocast. The slides accompanying the presentation will be available on the Hospira website. A replay of the webcast will be available on the Hospira website approximately 24 hours after the live presentation for 30 days after the event.
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Photo Taken by Joshua Trujillo. See more photos and an article on UW Bothell crows on Seattlepi.com
From fall to late spring, more than 10,000 crows call the UW Bothell campus home.
While no one on the UW Bothell campus at dusk could miss the swooping, perching, and cawing of the crows overhead, many do not realize how intelligent and interesting these animals actually are. In many ways, "crows are very similar to humans," says Professor John Marzluff, from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. Like many of us, crows love brewed coffee and a taste of beer now and then.
Marzluff says the UW Bothell campus is an ideal environment for crows to roost.
"They like to be in large numbers for safety," Marzluff says. "They don't typically roost out in big exposed areas that would make them vulnerable to a Great Horned Owl, their main predator."
Instead at night, they like to drop down into the thick vegetation in the restoration area located on campus. They use the willow as a kind of cage. If anything taps on the side it reverberates through the branches and the crows all flush out. "It's a really good early warning system," he says. "They're not coming in to eat or drink at the site here, it's all about safety for the night."
He says the crows also use the big population of birds in the roost to serve social purposes. Some might be searching for a mate, while others might be looking for a new place to eat and will follow their peers the next day to various feeding sites ranging from Snohomish Valley to downtown Seattle. "They may be just getting together and shooting the breeze," he says. "We really don't know how structured the birds are in the group."
Marzluff says there are countless examples of crows, ravens, and magpies around the world doing smart, funny, and mischievous things.
Take "Hitchcock" a raven in the North Cascades who was stealing windshield wipers from people's cars at the Newhalem Creek Campground. "We took advantage of this bird's intelligence to try to condition it not to do this," he says. They caught Hitchcock with a net and restrained him while they banded his leg for tracking purposes. "We held him on the car on the windshield wiper while we banded him, so he had about ten minutes of terror right there on the windshield wiper," he says.
The hope was that the bird would associate fear with the wipers. Marzluff says Hitchcock's bad behavior definitely declined after that, but the park also started handing out PVC piping for people to put over their windshield wipers. "He's been a model citizen since then," says Marzluff.
Other stories showed birds mimicking human voices, using tools, playing in the snow, and giving gifts to humans who fed them. The following video features crows at play, sledding down the roof of a home:
Marzluff says crows are especially intelligent animals thanks to their large brains for their body size. They have brains that are similar to humans, with discrete areas serving different functions. "They have the same machinery in their brain as we do," he says. "There's no reason to think it doesn't work the same way."
In one research project on the UW Seattle campus, researchers wore masks with faces and either ignored crows or caught and restrained seven of them. The mask that was used to catch the crows subsequently elicited a strong scolding and mobbing response not only from the crows that were caught, but from others as well. "What has been surprising is how long lasting the effect is," says Marzluff. "Six years after the birds were caught, about 60-70 percent of the birds we encountered scolded that face."
On a typical walk, a person wearing the dangerous face would encounter 15 to 20 birds scolding. "We only caught seven birds and hardly any of those 15 to 20 birds that are scolding are those seven that we initially caught," he says. "They've learned from one another that that's a dangerous face." He noted that the birds did not scold other faces.
Marzluff relates the story of a couple in Sweden who also experienced the birds' facial recognition capabilities. The woman in the couple had fed some magpies, which are closely related birds, in her backyard. "Then she started to notice weird things were happening around her house," he says. "The doorbell would ring and nobody was there." She would come out, look around, see the birds, and throw them some food.
"She kept doing that and the birds kept ringing the doorbell and finally one day she saw them," he says. Her husband did not like the birds hanging around the house so he went outside and pretended to throw something at them to scare them away. "From that day on they started crapping on his car," says Marzluff. "He had to wash the window of his car every day, only on the driver's side and only his car, never his wife's."
Marzluff attributes the birds' intelligence not only to the size and complexity of their brains, but also to their ability to learn from each other's experiences, and to the fact that they are long-lived creatures. Some of the birds in the roost at UW Bothell are 30 to 40 years old, he says, which means they have had a lot of time to learn survival skills.
After presenting his research on crow brains, it was remarked that the term, "bird brain," is considered to be derogatory. Marzluff quickly responded, "It's a compliment!" If you want to keep your car windshield clean, you'd agree.
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Crows descend on Bothell for nightly slumber party
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Crows converge on UW Bothell campus
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"A Murder of Crows: What's All the Cawing About" by UW professor John Marzluff.
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"Crows react to threats in human-like way" by Sandra Hines.
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Early history of the planet is not well known. Prior to the colonization the planet was probably orbiting a star which was exploded with a supernova since a trace radiation can be observed on the planet. The planet should have been very distant to its former star because the planet has a very unique type of life on it. The atmosphere is full of Lila-violet colored microorganisms that produce light. Although the planet is not orbiting a star today it is illuminated by its own atmosphere. The planets young core still produce heat to increase the surface temperature to an average level of 25oC. The planet is covered with %80 land and %20 water.


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It was never to happen but it did. Jasper whole web lies came undone. Bella's true nature comes forth. Edwards becomes lost, Jacob is dead to everything around him and Alice is broken. Jasper used Alice; made her love him. Only so that he could get closer to Bella. Bella, that used Edward to get closer to Jasper. And it worked. She let Jasper turn her; he took her away, and now are running around free, feasting on human blood. Edward, heartbroken and lost moved to Italy. But Bella did not just break Edwards's hart, but Jacob's as well. But Jasper broke Alice in more was then one. Can these heartbroken characters find love again, and with each other? (banner by me)
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I knew something was wrong, that night of Bella's 18th birthday party. He tried to kill her. I did not see it coming. I should have known! My head screamed and I punched the large old oak tree in fort of me. The pouring rain was hitting my pale skin and washing away my tears. I should have known, from the first time he saw her. He acted different. She saw it too! But she wanted it that way! She used my brother to get to Jasper. My head was screaming, and lifeless heart was aching. Both he and she used my family and me! I hugged my own body, anything to help stop the pain. He made me love him, with his stupid gift! All he waited was her blood, and he got it. Not like she did not want him to. After her party, I saw them. It was a vision. She was naked in his arms, blood running down her nick. He made love to her, in a way that was true, never once was he like that with me. I did not want to believe my vision, so I tried to put it aside, and I did not tell Edward either. Because sometimes my visions were not true, but it was true and it did happen. It happened after we come back from Italy. When Bella went to save Edward, but she only did it has a 'play along' for Jasper. And while we were gone, I found out that Bella, also used the mutt; Jacob, to even better at her part After Jasper got wait he waited from me, he took Bella away from Edward and now no one not even me know where they are at. All that we do know is that they are not vegetarians. They tore my family a part! Edward become nothing but a shell, and now is some were in Italy, we don't know why he left for there, but we prayed that it had nothing to do with the Volturi. I let out a bloody cry, from pain and hated. Hate fro Jasper, my former lover and Bella, my former best friend. I let a cry of loneness for my brother. That old saying; "It is better to love and lost then not to love at all." It is a lie!
I was so lost, that I almost did not notice the wet dog husky smell. I turned my head to meet the eye of a red russet wolf "Jacob?" I thought. "What do you went!" I yelled. He had a sad look on his face. I knew I was not the only one hurting, but I did not want to see anyone right now. "Jacob, please all I want is to be alone!" I yelled and stood up. He still just looked at me. I could not take those sad eyes looking at me. There was so much pain and hurt because of those two so I ran. I did not want to run home because I was not ready to face them yet. I have not been home in two weeks, but I called in, so Esme would not worry. I did not know where I was going, I just ran. My heart aches even more when I thought about that moment that meant more to me than anything else.
I looked up into his soft eyes, and smiled. He looked down at me with love.
"You've kept me waiting a long time" I said.
He ducked your head, like a good southern gentleman and said: I'm sorry, ma'am.
I stopped running looking around where I was at. I was at the beach. First beach, I was not aloud here. I should go, before those mutts find me and kill me. But I did not care nor would I fight back. I want to die. To forget, him and her and who much I hurt. I looked up at the moon. It's light reflecting off the water. I heard a sound. I knew what it was by the smell, so I did not need to look.
"What is it Black?" I said, with a numb sound in my voice.
"I know you are hurting, but what you need right now is to go back, to your family, so that the rest of the pack will not kill you. You are on our side." He said.
"What if I went to die?" I said.
"You think that will help!" He yelled at me. I was shocked so I faced him.
"You're so called mother and father, just lost Edward, and Jasper. Jasper also used them. And the last thing they did is you going all mental and having to go to an asylum!" He yelled at me He went over the edge.
I marched right in front of me and I slapped him. It was loud, sharp and my nail drew blood from his face. He was shocked and pissed. Now there was a wolf in front of me.
'Look! You know nothing about me and my family! All you think is that we are monster leeches! Yes I know Bella hurt you too, and that I am not the only one hurting! But how am I going to confront my family, when all of my emotions were drained, and used against me! Yes I wish I could make your pain go away along with mine, and that Edward was back. But it is not like that!" The thunder clapped as I stopped. "I never waited anyone to get hurt. I am sorry for that pain you are felling, I know what she did to you and it hurts. I know! She did it to all of us!" I cried, and it started to rain harder.
I stood still as he walked over to me, and rubbed his warm dog nose on my cold hand. I felt so weak. I could never let a mutt make me feel better, but it was working. He was making me felling safe, I did not know how he was doing it, but he was. I know he needed someone to comfort him, but here he was trying to comfort me, and I pushing me away. Man I was a bitch. So I gave in and let him help me. I feel to my knees, getting wet sand all over my dark blue dress. I wrapped my small arms around his big warm furry nick. I cried into it. It felt good. To have some that know just what kind of pain I was going through being there for me. He rubbed into my chest as I cried. Like saying it was my time to cry and it was okay. But I swore after I cried I would let Jacob cry on my shoulder. I would confront him.
The rain never seemed to stop that night just like my tears, but this mutt….I mean this kind hearted werewolf made me feel better, I don't know how or way, but It felt like he was the only one that could.
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7/17/12 Mets at Nationals: Nationals Park
After two games at Yankee Stadium, it was off to the magical land of Nationals Park…where the home team doesn't hit for whatever weird reason:
Obviously, I tried to get a ball from the Nationals warming up:
but given I go to a bunch of Nationals games, I thought it would be in my best interest to maybe not draw as much attention to myself as I could, so the Nationals wouldn'ty recognize me or potentially recognize me at a later game. Therefore, I didn't get a ball from them.
I waited and waited. Finally, after what felt like hours, the Mets started hitting. You would think that meant I would get a bunch of baseballs, right? Nope. The Mets aren't exactly the most powerful lineup. They really didn't hit anything within fourty feet of me. The only ball I got from Mets batting practice was tossed to me by Chris Young in the Red Seats:
That was it. After Young tossed me the ball, I wanted to just catch a few home runs before I started asking the Mets for more balls. I wanted to set up myself for success the next day. I was thinking, "Hey, if I don't ask that many Mets today for a ball, I can maybe hit double digits tomorrow." Unfortunately, as I mentioned earlier, the Mets are power-hitter deficient, so I would end batting practice with one baseball.
With two lefty pitchers- Ross Detweiler and Jonathan Niese- this game, I just sat out in left field pretty much the whole game. I had ushers on both the right field and left field sides who were letting me into their sections, so I made it to right field a few times (or maybe I'm getting this mixed up and I stayed mostly in the right field seats and made it occasionally to the left field seats), but in the dead space between the end of batting practice and the first pitch (usually about 50 minutes from 6:20 to 7:10) I didn't know this, so I had some time to kill sitting in the left field seats. I filled such time by yelling out the correct answers to people playing trivia games, shown on the jumbotron, since the place they were getting filmed from was only a few feet from me in real life:
If you're wondering, I got all of the answers right. I can't remember what the questions were about, but I have also learned a pattern in the correct answers of the Nationals no matter the question being asked.
During the game itself, I saw no action at all. At the end of the game, though, I made my way over to the Mets' dugout. I asked the umpire for a ball, but got rejected. By the time I got back over to the dugout itself, all of the Mets had entered the dugout from a way-too-drramatic loss. What had happened was: the Nationals had been leading 2-0 pretty much the whole game. Then, in the top of the ninth, Jordan Valdespin hit a three-run home run. It looked like the Mets had just won the game, but the Nationals tied the game in the bottom of the ninth at 3-3. As we headed to extra innings, the Mets scored again, but the Nationals came right back in the bottom of the tenth and scored two runs to win the game 5-4. It was the most back-and -forth game I have ever been to. I ran down the stairs three times to get an umpire ball, since I was convinced the game was over.
Anyway, my last hope was the people coming from the bullpen. When they arrived, I asked bullpen coach, Ricky Bones, for the lineup card. He said no, but reappeared from the dugout right after he went down and tossed me a ball before then proceeding into the clubhouse:
That was it. A long, full day of boringness that I didn't think was noteworthy enough to include in this entry. That's why this entry is so short.
- 2 Balls at this game
Numbers 347 and 348 for my "career":
- 126 Balls in 27 Games= 4.67 Balls Per Game (9 Balls under 500)
- 2 Balls x 26, 342 Fans= 52, 684 Competition Factor
- 36 Games with at least 1 Ball
- 12 straight Games with at least 2 Balls
- 99 Balls in 21 Games at Nationals Park= 4.71 Balls Per Game
- 14 Games with at least 1 Ball at Nationals Park
- 14 Games with at least 2 Balls at Nationals Park
- Time Spent On Game 3:37- 11:18= 7 Hours 41 Minutes


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Hi everyone, I'm in an entry level Java class and I'm supposed to be able to count the # of 7's within an integer. I've read the chapters and looked online for help but can't seem to figure it out. We just learned loops (do, while, for) and if statements so I'm thinking I need to use some of those to solve it. Here's what I came up with so far:
public class CountSevens { public static void main(String[] args) { // ask the user for input and assign to a variable System.out.print("Please enter an integer: "); Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); int number = in.nextInt(); // calculate the number of digits that have a 7 int count = 0; if (number == 0) { System.out.println("There are no 7's."); } while (number % 10 == 7) { count++; number = number/10; } System.out.println(count); } }
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March 2, 2009 - U.S. soldiers are making a difference in the lives of Iraqis, as evidenced recently by the opening of a senior center and orphanage, a new school and school renovations, and a refurbished joint security station. "We are making a difference -- you can see it in the smiles of the local residents who are diligently working every day to provide a brighter future for their children and grandchildren," said Army Lt. Col. Dwight Davies, officer in charge of the Diwaniyah-Najaf Resident Office for Gulf Region Division South. "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its partners are building strong today to help Iraq move forward for tomorrow."
The new senior center and orphanage in the north and a new girl's school in the south are the latest of more than 4,400 projects, valued at $7 billion, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed in Iraq. More than a quarter of those are schools, officials said.
Representatives of the USACE Gulf Region Division North district, the northern Iraq regional government and contract partners gathered in the 4,300-year-old city of Irbil on Feb. 12 to celebrate the completion of the Irbil Orphanage and Senior Center. The new building provides a home for some of the city's most vulnerable residents and stands on the site of an old, substandard orphanage built in 1967.
The new $3.7 million facility nearly doubles the capacity of the old orphanage, and can accommodate 250 boys and 250 girls in separate dormitories. About 100 destitute senior citizens, who have no alternative means of support, also will live at the new center. Assisted living is a new concept for the region, and planners consider it a logical combination to have homeless children share the facility with senior citizens.
"In the United States, we're starting to see day care centers on assisted living properties because seniors and kids get along well together," according to Gary York, the area engineer for the Gulf Region North district's Irbil office.
The new facility also has a unique look and modern functional design. At the heart is the multipurpose room, surrounded by six three-story resident halls. The buildings were designed so that the small children's playground is located in front of the seniors' home. Other conveniences for the senior center include a hydraulic elevator, extra-wide doors, kitchenettes in each apartment and handicap-accessible tubs and showers.
Amenities on the orphanage site include a playground, swimming pool, soccer field, guard house, administration building, garden lot, exterior water tanks and parking lot.
"Many responsible individuals and companies from the local area have made generous donations for equipment and furnishing. There is no greater service to your country and community than helping the underprivileged," York said.
In Diwaniyah province, south of Baghdad, USACE's Gulf Region Division South district celebrated the Feb. 26 opening of the Al Irshad Secondary School for Girls, a $1.2 million facility. The 12-classroom, multilevel school includes a laboratory, library, storage rooms and administrative buildings for 360 students. Iraqi contractor Al-Kahlaa Co. began the project in December 2007 and employed 50 local men during construction.
"In Iraq, in the United States, in every society that I know of, education is among the things people value most for their children. And so, we come here today to celebrate the opening of a new school," Michael Klecheski, Diwaniyah Provincial Reconstruction Team leader, said. "We celebrate a school with classrooms and hallways in which young women will be able to develop into productive members of the new Iraq that is growing around us all.
"Construction of this new school was itself a reflection of that new Iraq," Klecheski continued. "It took courage and determination to bring it to completion, especially on the part of those Iraqis who did the work, oversaw it, and brought us to this day. May this school always stand as a symbol of partnership between our countries."
Also in Diwaniyah province, soldiers with the 4th Infantry Division's 8th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, Comanche Company, have completed renovating a joint security station they share with Iraqi soldiers and police.
"This place needed a lot of help to be up to U.S. and Iraqi standards," said Army Staff Sgt. Josiah Cecil, Comanche Company headquarters platoon sergeant and intelligence noncommissioned officer in charge. "There were feral cats running around and garbage lying everywhere."
Army 1st Sgt. Dwayne Uhlig of Comanche Company said his soldiers took out 30 truckloads of trash and debris when they arrived in September.
A quick survey of the roof found that it needed immediate improvements. Working quickly, Uhlig and his soldiers drew up a plan for weapons and bunker braces and began bunker fortifications, filling about 17,000 sandbags, weighing close to 200 metric tons, within two months of arrival.
"I'm really proud of what my soldiers have done in a short amount of time," the first sergeant said. "I gave them basic guidance and they ran with it, doing it right the first time. We take great pride in what they've done here."
In Kirkuk, soldiers with the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team oversaw the Feb. 15 completion of three new classrooms at Hegna Primary School to better accommodate younger students.
"This is a great opportunity for the children of Hegna to have greater access to a learning environment and will allow teachers to be able to focus more closely on the children by reducing the classroom sizes," said Army Capt. Justin Michel, commander of Company A, 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment.
The Iraqi government is determined to create better lives for its citizens by continuing to add on to this school and schools like it around the country, Michel said.
"Opening more classrooms creates opportunities for local teachers to use their skills to benefit the village's children," Michel said. "The continuing improvements to the infrastructure of Iraq are beginning to be more and more apparent in towns like Hegna."
(USACE writers Mike Scheck of Gulf Region Division North district and Alicia Embrey of Gulf Region Division South district contributed to this report, as well as Army Spc. Josh LeCappelain with the 4th Infantry Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team.)
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Initiative to Tackle High Number of Black Kids in Special Education
It's no secret that education systems are quick to label hyperactive or troublesome black kids as learning disabled. African American children make up about 16.6% of students enrolled in the nation's public schools, but they represent 31% of students identified as having an intellectual disability and 28% of those with an emotional disturbance, according to the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.
Recognizing how disproportionate that figure is, the association has developed an initiative to to train parents across the country to effectively advocate for kids to ensure that students are labeled appropriately by their school districts and receive the services they need.
"This project will start a movement of parents that are not solely dependent upon the school system for their children's success but will allow them to discover how to work with schools in order to achieve academic success based on learning style," said Nancy Tidwell, president of the National Association for the Education of African American Children with Learning Disabilities.
The initiative will include a partnership with the U.S. Department of Education's parent training centers and other groups to help distrubute information to specifically assist parents of black children. The developers of the program expect to train 20 master teachers who will then reach 900 parent leaders through in-person trainings and another 240 through online sessions. I definitely hope this is an initiative that will catch on so parents can feel empowered to not just accept a teacher's recommendation but fight for their child to get the education they need and deserve.
What do you think about this idea? Have you had to fight with school administrators who've tried to inappropriately label your child? As a educator, do you think this initiative will be effective?
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Monday, April 16, 2012
BALTIMORE, 04-15-12---Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates, will join with Pimlico Race Course to host a Grade 1 race for purebred Arabian horses on Preakness Day, Saturday, May 19. The $1 million Preakness® Stakes (G1), the middle jewel of Thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown, headlines the 14-race card.
The 14-race program also will feature the $75,000-added The President of the United Arab Emirates Cup, a Grade 1 race for Arabian horses. The race is limited to 14 horses and will be run on the main track at 1-1/16 miles.
"Adding the top Arabian race to what is already a first-class series of races will enhance the value of the day," Pimlico president Tom Chuckas said. "We are pleased to partner with the UAE for this historic event and look forward to future opportunities."
The President of the UAE Cup Series was established more than 20 years ago to promote and celebrate the Arabian breed internationally. It was the first international racing series for Arabian horses and continues to be considered as the world's premier racing series for the breed. Last year's running of The President of the United Arab Emirates Cup was held at Churchill Downs in mid-June, as part of the Stephen Foster card.
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, will display its branded Formula 1 race car in the Pimlico corporate village. Visitors will have an opportunity to have photographs taken with the vehicle.
Preakness Day fans will have the opportunity to enter a sweepstakes drawing that has a grand prize of a Five-Star trip to Abu Dhabi.
Post time for Preakness Day is 10:30 a.m. The Preakness program will have eight added money races for Thoroughbreds, including five graded events. In addition to the Preakness, the card will feature the $300,000 Dixie Handicap (G2) and three Grade 3 races.
2012 Preakness InfieldFest will include performances by Grammy Award winner Maroon 5 and American Music Award winner Wiz Khalifa. Both artists will play extended sets on the main stage in the public Infield. The Darkness, Little Big Town and Mr. Greengenes will perform on the Jägermeister stage.
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Good news for all you Family Guy fanatics. Twentieth Century Fox announced today that they will allow Take-Two Interactive Software and Airborne Entertainment to produce new Family Guy video games. Take-Two will produce multiple platform video games while Airborne Entertainment will introduce new mobile phone content for enjoyment of the Griffins on the go. The new video game will be a third person action/adventure where players take the role of characters such as Stewie, Brian the Dog, and Peter as they interact with the citizens of Quahog. The expected release will be in 2006. Until we see some updates, we can only assume this will be something like The Simpsons video games as it is a third-person adventure.
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Looking for 8 people who want to be general managers of the top 8 countries cricket teams.
The rules are simple - you get 7 trades over the space of 5 days to improve your team.
The general manager of the other team must agree to your proposal. And one other person (who is playing in this game) must consent that it is a fair trade - this is to stop collusion.
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I'll start by dibsing NZ.
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When calls flood in these guys come to the rescue. Being a firefighter takes courage, endurance and most importantly strength, which is why the Tallahassee Fire Department requires its firefighters to stay in tip-top shape.
Travis Oaks, a Tallahassee firefighter, says, "Our contract allows for certain time to be able to exercise, workout and play volleyball."
Bump, set, spike it, that's the way they like it. Rather than the mundane weight lifts, you're likely to see these firefighters testing their AYP skills
"Matter of fact you may drive by and see us doing this, this is our chance to exercise, bond as a team," added Oaks.
It's an opportunity not afforded by many employers, but it's been so popular they're taking it to a higher level as the fire department has certified 10 physical fitness trainers.
Judy Davison of the Tallahassee Fire Department says, "What we're doing is trying to improve the quality of fitness and to enhance our lifestyle."
It may look like fun and games, but ultimately volleyball keeps these guys in shape especially since more time is spent chasing balls down than blocking hits.
Team games keep firefighters on their toes, it builds relationships and it allows them to de-stress during a 24-hour shift, so when the next emergency calls, this team will be ready to serve you.
Tallahassee firefighters have an hour and a half allotted for physical training every shift. Shifts are 24 hours long, but fitness trainers say it's their responsibility to keep up the workouts on their days off.


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When your belongings check in without checking out
It's one of the dreads of travelers; that sinking feeling one gets when realizing something of value has been left in the hotel room. By then it's often too late because you're already on the plane or in another city.
Hotel room leave-behinds made headlines not long ago when a police officer left two guns after checking out. That prompted news reporters to ask other hoteliers what guests had left behind. Some of the more amusing and valuable items were prosthetic legs, dentures in glasses, blow-up sheep, a monk's outfit and diamond rings.
The Rose Hotel is no exception on this front. Travelers are often in a hurry and that can make them absentminded.
Just how do we handle lost items to reunite them with guests? Here's some real-life examples of our standard procedure.
One of our housekeepers found a Rolex watch in a room a guest had just departed. The housekeeper noted the room number, date and time. The item was then handed over to our executive housekeeper, who placed it in a safe. The front desk then contacted the guest and discreetly inquired if anything was missing. When the guest identified the missing item, the Rolex was sent via FedEx to him.
In another incident, a housekeeper found a diamond ring in the corridor outside a guest room. The front desk called the guest who had most recently occupied the room and inquired about the ring, which the guest confirmed was missing and reclaimed it.
Another guest left house keys in his room after checking out. Fortunately, one of our staff members caught the guest on his cell phone before boarding a flight to his locked home. He returned to Rose and retrieved his keys. Mishap successfully avoided.
A recent guest speaker at the local Firehouse Theater left her iPad in the room. Housekeeping turned the hot new piece of technology over to hotel management and the iPad and owner quickly reclaimed one another.
The same scenario played out when a male guest left a backpack in the closet containing a laptop computer and books.
In a typical week, three or four guests leave items in their rooms, though most are not as valuable or sentimental as those enumerated above. Generally speaking, they range from cell-phone chargers and toothbrushes to shavers and clothing. All are tagged and locked away.
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The breathtaking Apassionata horse show will be on tour in a number of German cities from 2 November 2013. 'Time for dreams' is the title for this year's live entertainment show, which takes the audience on a journey between dream and reality. Along with exceptional displays of horse riding skill, spectators can expect sensational dancing and lavish costumes. Apassionata has been going strong for more than ten years, and is seen by around 600,000 people annually. This event is an absolute must for horse lovers. The tour continues until May 2014.
For more information on what's going on in Destination Germany, check out our event listings.


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By Jackie Gerstein
"This fall, I am getting the opportunity to design and teach a graduate course for Boise State University's Education Technology Program entitled, Social Networked Learning. The majority of students in the program are K-12 in-service teachers who are seeking ways to enhance their teaching with integrated and emerging technologies. I am so excited about what students are producing for this course and in terms of meeting this goal that I wanted to share information about the course, a sampling of course activities, and example student work.
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This course explores collaborative and emergent pedagogies, tools, and theory related to the use of social networks in learning environments. Participants gain hands-on experience with a variety social networking tools, create their own personal learning networks, and have an opportunity to develop a MOOC-inspired course for their learners."
Gertsein sets a wonderful example as one of the leading sharers of information and experience about ed tech that the web has to offer. In this lengthy blog post, she offers considerable information about the content of the course, links to key resources, and samples of work by graduate students. An extremely generous and informative effort, and well worth the time to read. -JL


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Ernest R. Caldwell, 88
Ernest R. Caldwell, 88, formerly of Brookville, died Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, at Highland View Health Center, Brockway.
He was born Dec. 29, 1921, a son of the late Wayne J. and Carrie Reed Caldwell.
Mr. Caldwell was married to Lois M. Evans, who survives, for 65 years.
A veteran of the U.S. Army, Mr. Caldwell served in World War II and in the Philippines.
He worked for Humphrey Gas Co., Brookville, and later in the Business/Clerical Department of Brookville Equipment.
In addition to his wife, surviving relatives include a daughter, Sherry DeLio and husband Paul of Brockway; and one granddaughter, Tara Caldwell May of Alexender, Va.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by an infant son, Larry Caldwell; and an infant brother, Clyde Caldwell.
Friends will be received from 7 to 9 p.m. today at the McKinney Funeral Home, Brookville.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 27, 2010, with Pastor Don Henderson officiating.
Interment will be in the Temple Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Brookville Hospital, 100 Hospital Rd. Brookville, Pa, 15825.


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