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Diffusion of Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon [Brazil]: A Panel Database, 1996-2000 (ICPSR 3948)
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Jill L. Caviglia-Harris, Salisbury University. Economics and Finance Department
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This study, DIFFUSION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE AMAZON [BRAZIL]: A PANEL DATABASE, 1996-2000, is no longer current. Please see DYNAMICS OF HOUSEHOLD LAND USE AND ECONOMIC WELFARE ON THE AMAZON FRONTIER, 1996-2005, RONDONIA, BRAZIL (ICPSR 25322), which includes a third round of panel data (2005), as well as edits and changes to the previous years (1996 and 2000).
This study gathered farm-level panel data in Ouro Preto do Oeste, Rondonia, Brazil, to determine the relationship between household decisions and land use for Amazonian households. This project was initiated in August 1996 when a stratified random sample of 171 farmers in Ouro Preto do Oeste was selected along with 25 households that participate in the Association of Alternative Producers (APA) to investigate the decisions of farmers using slash-and-burn agriculture and others using sustainable methods of farming. The survey questions consisted of inquiries about the household (including age, education level, farming experience, and number of farm animals owned), lot characteristics (including size and division between pasture, forest, agriculture, and agroforestry), harvest of market and subsistence crops, agricultural and other forms of income, and the use of agroforestry and major influences determining farming techniques. Questions about income derived from agriculture provided information about the harvest of all perennial and annual crops, milk harvest and meat harvest, the amount of each item that was sold, and at what price.
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This study, DIFFUSION OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE IN THE AMAZON [BRAZIL]: A PANEL DATABASE, 1996-2000, is no longer current. Please see DYNAMICS OF HOUSEHOLD LAND USE AND ECONOMIC WELFARE ON THE AMAZON FRONTIER, 1996-2005, RONDONIA, BRAZIL (ICPSR 25322), which includes a third round of panel data (2005), as well as edits and changes to the previous years (1996 and 2000).
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The data include 323 observations from a stratified random sample, surveyed in 1996 (171 households) and 2000 (152 households) enriched with 45 observations (25 households in 1996, 20 in 2000) of the Association of Alternative Producers (APA) members. The sample includes considerable variation in distance to the main road (from 0 to 90 km) as well as soil type and topography. In the initial data collection, a random sample of 171 households, stratified by the rural population of each of the six municipalities in the region, were interviewed over a six-month period (August 1996 through January 1997). Jill L. Caviglia-Harris, assisted by a local farmer, conducted each of the interviews. The distance between interviews, in terms of lots, was designated in each municipality to represent the areas equally and to obtain spatial variation in topography, soil type, and distance to market. If the house was unoccupied at the time of the interview or the owner of the lot was not available, the owner of the next house on the same side of the road was interviewed, and if the same occurred at the next house, the owner of the next house on the same side of the road was interviewed. This occurrence was generally uncommon since most of the farmers stay close to, or on, their lots during the time of year the surveys were conducted (August through January), which ranges from the end of the burning period to the beginning of the planting season. Data were collected from the same farm lots in the August to November 2000 interview period. Some of the original 171 lots were dropped from the panel data because they were sold to land speculators who did not take up residence on the land purchased some time during the four-year time period. This reduced the stratified random sample to 152 households, a combined set of 304 observations across both years.
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The Ouro Preto do Oeste region of Rondonia, Brazil.
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There was only one refusal to participate in the survey in 1996. This was in the municipality Mirante da Serra. The high response rate is attributed to two factors: first, culturally, Brazilians are generally very hospitable to strangers, and second, because of the lack of contact with people, the farmers were generally pleased to communicate with outsiders. Many of the farmers do not leave their farms on a daily basis (especially during the rainy season) due to a lack of transportation, long distances to city centers, and poor road conditions.
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- Caviglia-Harris, Jill L. Diffusion of Sustainable Agriculture in the Amazon [Brazil]: A Panel Database, 1996-2000. ICPSR03948-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03948.v1
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Thank you Sharn for your gracious response.
Name Sharn White
Hometown Brisbane Queensland
Are you a Hobbyist or Professional Genealogist? I am currently working towards becoming a Professional Genealogist
What, if any, formal or informal studies have you undertaken that are relevant to genealogical research? My current studies are an Advanced Diploma in Applied, Local and Family History through the University of New England.
My background in teaching and other university studies in Ancient History and English have been very relevant to my genealogical research as they are areas which require analysis and critical thinking. The study of the German language as part of a BA has been especially helpful as I have German ancestry on my mother's side of the family.
What is your day job? My husband is a heritage architect and I work in his practice.
How long have you been chasing ancestors? I have been on the trail of ancestors seriously since the mid 1990's but I was interviewing family members and scribbling down family trees from the early 1980's onward.
How did you get hooked on genealogy? I grew up with my paternal grandmother telling me fascinating stories of her childhood in County Tyrone Northern Ireland and can recall being interested in my family history from my teenage years. I became much more involved in researching my family tree after a great aunt told me just before she died, that I had German ancestry. That was in the mid 1990's and I had never known that. Her comment sparked a thirst for more information and that was that. I was hooked!
What are your areas of Expertise in Genealogy? I really enjoy all aspects of Genealogy. I thrive on examining evidence and finding clues and solving genealogical puzzles. I enjoy the way that history come alive through finding about the lives of ancestors. I have done quite a lot of research about convict Australians, as well as British, German, Norwegian and New Zealand family history, but I really enjoy everything that comes my way. I would quite like to write and speak about genealogy.
Please outline your involvement in Genealogy Societies and Groups I am a current member of the Society of Australian Genealogists, The New Zealand Society of Genealogist and the Maryborough District family History Society and a past member some others including the Kent Family History Society and the Darling Downs Family History Society.
What are the lands of your ancestors? England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Prussia, France, Switzerland, New Zealand, Australia.
What Family Names are you Researching?
In England - MORLEY, HOYES, TAIT, GAIR, BERRY, BERRIFF, DUNSTER, FRYER, BEARD, LLOYD, DIXON, MALLOWS
In Scotland - MCDADE, GIBSON, CAMPBELL, FEARNS, CUPPLES, BULLOCK, SHAW, ARTHUR, MCFARLANE, MCDERMID, MCDAIRMID, MORRISON, RENNIE, MACDONALD, MCPHERSON, MCALISTER
In Ireland - WHITE, THOMPSON, SHAW, CLARKE, CUPPLES, SHAW, CRAIL
In Germany- NERGER, SIEGLER, SIGLER
In Switzerland- HABERLING, RYSER, BOSSHARDT, GERBER, HEINIGER, HILTBRUNNER, GRUETTER, RICKLI, RAMESEYER, HELD, GEISSBUEHLER, WIDMER, BUETTIKER
In New Zealand - HOYES, MORLEY, THOMPSON, WHITE, CRAIL
Who is your favourite ancestor? Why? I have become attached to quite a few people on my family tree, but I do have a definite favourite. I tend to get most involved with the scoundrels in my ancestry, probably because they are the most interesting to research. My great uncle Rex Morley Hoyes is an all time favourite because I have had so much fun finding out about his colourful life. He was charged with espionage and bribery in England during World war 2 but acquitted. I have extensive files from MI5 about him, detailing their suspicions. He owned a home which once belonged to King Henry the Eighth, flew illegal guns into Hyderabad with Sidney Cotton when he was Air Advisor to the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1947-48, built a secret airstrip on his property, Marwell Hall where Seafires were converted to Spitfires and owned a large steam yacht 'Warrior 11' which was originally built for American Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt. He also changed his name to the fabulous creation of Vicomte Fessenden Charles Rex de Borenden! I would really have loved to have met Uncle Rex, but do suspect that he was rather a scoundrel.
What ancestral city or town would you like to visit? Why? I have never been to Zurich or Bern where my Swiss great great grandparents came from so that would be my first choice and then Winchester in England to visit Uncle Rex's Marwell Hall which is now part of a Zoological Park.
What is your favourite resource for genealogy? I love visiting Archives and Libraries to find original documents, especially those which have an ancestor's handwriting on them. There are so many wonderful resources on the internet as well and so I spend a great deal of time on my computer.
Do you keep your genealogy files on paper? Yes
Do you keep your genealogy files on a computer? Yes
What genealogy software do you use to record your family tree?
I am looking at The Master Genealogist.
Do you have your tree posted on the internet?
What Social Networking Sites do you use for genealogy?
Do you have a blog? Several
What are your blogs' URLs?
What are your Other Hobbies, Activities, Interests? In my 'spare' time I enjoy reading, playing the guitar and flute, collecting antiques and visiting art galleries and secondhand book stores.
What is your favourite lesiure time activity apart from genealogy? Reading
What is your favourite (non genealogy) book? I have many favoutite books but right now I am revisiting an old favourite - Wuthering Heights. I also enjoy anything written by Alexander McCall Smith
What is your personal philosophy in a few words ? Always do your best and be generous in heart.
If you have anything else to share please add it below I am quite humbled by the invitation to share my profile. Thankyou for this opportunity, regards Sharn

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Intentionality and Meaningfulness
in Bach's Cyclical Works
A personal search for knowledge involves the search for patterns within patterns in a holistic context. No pattern can occur in isolation, autonomous from a larger context or set of assumptions, and still be meaningful to human beings. Patterns require larger contexts, with relevance to more inclusive patterns, if they are themselves to be meaningful to us. The total autonomy of parts of knowledge does not exist. Conviction 5.1: A description of units within patterns within larger intersecting patterns is a kind of knowledge and a component of truth.
Kenneth L. Pike from "Talk, Thought, and Thing: the emic road toward conscious knowledge" (Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1993) p. 55
A set is a collection of objects. In music, these objects may be movements, keys, meters, pitches, etc. An "intentional" set is a collection of like objects that achieves its "likeness" by means of patterns indicating that the order or attribute of events comprising the set, is purposeful. The presence of a pattern does not necessarily warrant inference that a large-scale cycle ought to be performed in set order or without interruption. But, in situations where arise uncertainties about completeness, or when extraneous factors call into question the "belonging" of elements to a set, evidence of intentionality can be enlightening. Internal coherence of the B-Minor Mass, for example, indicates that Bach conceived of that work as a set, whereas historical incidents culminating in the composition of the Mass are sometimes used to urge a point of view that he did not.
Johann Sebastian Bach often shows intentionality by means of musical-theoretical constructs such as key or mode. His Well-Tempered Clavier is a case in point. The first prelude and fugue are in C-major, second in c-minor, third in C#-major, fourth in c#-minor, and so on. This pattern infers that the set is completed after Fuga XXIV. To continue beyond this point would be to commence a repetition of the cycle, which the composer does in Volume II. Further, if parts of the cycle were missing, apprehension of the pattern would enable one to determine not only how many preludes and fugues had been lost, but also in what keys.
Whereas set characteristics of the Well-Tempered Clavier constitute a referential device allowing one to locate preludes and fugues quickly, in most instances such utilitarian intentionalities, like the alphabetics of a dictionary, "mean" nothing. But we know that the Well-Tempered Clavier did mean something. The cycle was written first to demonstrate the feasibility of an intonational system that the composer himself had helped to invent. This system was predicated upon an emerging acoustical science as well as practical constraints that had puzzled (and plagued) musicians for a hundred years.
As the name implies, the Well-Tempered Clavier was also written to demonstrate the range of Affektenlehre that could be achieved by a "well-tempered" scale. These affects accrue, writes Harnoncourt, from "various strong tensions, created by intonation, which increase with distance from the C major center and which are also felt as a kind of longing for the beautiful, relaxed keys (F major, C major, G major)." The set structure of the Well-Tempered Clavier can be seen, in such a light, as an artistic manifestation of physical and metaphysical presuppositions, peculiar to the eighteenth century. The presupposition is one of Affekt, the most important aesthetic concept of that era, and the manifestation seeks to exploit affect to the fullest extent possible. Obviously the card catalogue organization of the set is not a product of affect, but the systematic structure implies that each affect has been fully explored. The set is therefore rationally distinguished as more than utilitarian, but meaningful.
Meaningful sets, then, are intentional formulations that indicate purposefulness, not merely with respect to order, but wherein the order itself is born out of higher patterns of thought or thing (see Pike). To J. S. Bach, for whom music was not only the physical representation of affection, but subject to the same laws governing the cosmos, meaningfulness would have been exceedingly important. After all, music was, in the words of his student, Mizler, "sounding mathematics." Nicolaus Harnoncourt comments, of the 18th-century preoccupation with proportions in music, art, and architecture, as follows:
...the perfection of sounds is revealed by numbers. And vice versa, all simple numeric ratios could be imagined as sounds. Kepler's harmony of the spheres, as well as harmonically "resounding" architecture, are based on this notion: if the visible proportions of a building could be expressed in simple numeric ratios, then these relationships could be seen and heard as "chords." In many ways, Palladio "composed" the ground plans for his structures as a kind of petrified music. According to theory, harmony in music rests on a principle similar to the golden section in architecture. Both impose order on the hearts and minds of men by virtue of their simple, natural relationships. The Baroque idea that music was a reflection or a likeness of the divine order was applied to all music, sacred as well as secular. (Baroque Music Today: Music As Speech pp. 61-62)Because of their position within the large-scale context of the Clavier-Übung, Bach's Goldberg Variations hint of meaningful possibilities to wit. That the Goldbergs comprise an intentional pattern is self-evident; every third variation is canonic, with the interval between leader and follower expanding by one scale step in each successive canon. The apparent intentionality of this set gives pause to wonder if it was generated by a higher pattern of thought giving meaning to the whole. I believe that it was. But to explain the meaning it shall be necessary to view the Variations in a larger context. We shall begin by examining Bach's model (Kuhnau's two volumes by the same name), and the preceding three volumes of Bach's own Clavier-Übung.
The Goldberg Variations comprise the fourth, and last, volume of the Clavier-Übung. The composer produced volume I of that cycle in 1731, a year when he surely could not have envisioned writing the Goldbergs nearly a decade later. Bach had moved to Leipzig only five years earlier to assume the post of predecessor, Johann Kuhnau. The first composer to use the term Clavier-Übung ("Keyboard Practice"), Kuhnau titled two volumes by that name. With little doubt, Kuhnau's is the model that inspired Bach to attempt a similar collection. Knowledge of the structure of Kuhnau's Clavier-Übung, shall help us to understand Bach's complementary titles, especially his Goldberg Variations.
Whereas the first volume of Kuhnau's model consists of seven partitas in ascending major keys (C, D, E, F, G, A, B-flat), the second consists of a similar sequence, in minor (c, d, e, f, g, a, b). The intentionality of this set is found in its ordering and grouping of tonic and mode. Curiously, the order incorporates intonational impediments that render both volumes impractical in performance. These impediments are difficult to justify without recourse to symbolic associations that the Lutheran culture would have traditionally attached to the numbers six and seven. From antiquity the number six has represented perfection. In Judeo-Christian cosmogony six stands for the creation, while seven represents the perfection, fullness, and completeness of that creation. Kuhnau's conclusion of both volumes with a seventh partita probably stood for such completeness, while his order may have represented the form and structure that God renders, out of void and chaos, into that which is visible, and, in the case of music, invisible: factorem coelli et terrae omnium visibilium et invisibilium.
Like Kuhnau's, the first volume of Bach's Keyboard Practice may have been conceived as seven partitas of which only the first six were published. Bach's partitas are in the keys of B-flat, c, a, D, G, e: a pattern of expanding intervals in alternate directions. This pattern allows us to predict that the key of the unpublished seventh partita, would have been a seventh below the key of the sixth: i.e. F major.
The tonal plan of the first volume of Bach's Keyboard Practice is immediately recognizable as an intentional set comparable to those of his Well-Tempered Clavier, Inventionen, & Sinfonien. While there can be little doubt that the order of the partitas is intentional, the meaning of the order is a matter of conjecture. Whether or not Bach planned to include a seventh partita, the six comprising his set echo Kuhnau's allusion to completeness.
Volume II of the Clavier-Übung contains two titles: the Italian Concerto in F-major and French Suite in b-minor comprising a total of fourteen movements. In them Bach explores the two national idioms of his day, the French manier and Italian gusto. Not surprisingly, the Italian Concerto is in the key implied by set characteristics of the preceding six partitas. If there is intentionality in volume II it has to do with contrast between two national styles in juxtaposition of unrelated keys (a tritone apart), flat signature versus sharps, opposing modes (major vs. minor), and genres (concerto vs. suite). Thus the composer's perfect "creation" of the preceding volume, is marred by dualistic juxtaposition of unrelated, if not opposing, elements in volume II. These opposing elements await resolution until 1739.
Resolution (and symbolic redemption) comes in the form of the so-called Organ Mass. Volume III of the Clavier-Übung was published eight years after the first folio in the series and two years before the Goldberg Variations. Unlike the other three, Volume III was composed for organ, the grandest instrument of the keyboard family. The book is comprised primarily of chorale preludes to hymns of the Lutheran liturgy. The "Organ Mass" contains numerous set characteristics that convey meaning. The most superficial of these is its abundance of ternary patterns representing the triune God. While there is much more to this cycle than triads, they do contribute to our understanding of a higher pattern that its composer appears to have invoked.
The "Organ Mass" consists of twenty-seven (3x3x3) movements grouped as follows: prelude and triple-fugue, twenty-one (3x7) chorale preludes, and 4 duets. The cycle begins with a prelude in E-flat major (3 flats) on the chorale Was mein Gott will, das. The prelude has three themes arranged in an enlarged ternary structure of nine parts: ABACABACA. The fugue that concludes the cycle has three subjects in three proportional meters. In the second exposition of this fugue Bach divides the beat into three equal parts, and in the third exposition he subdivides the divisions into three equal parts. Such parsing of meters is highly unusual for Bach and underscores the extent to which the composer appears to employ small patterns to intersect with a larger pattern (or, in this case, Being).
Ordinarily, when Bach follows a prelude with fugue on the same subject, the following is immediate, but in this instance the fugue is reserved for the conclusion of the Mass twenty-seven movements later. Such framing Bach uses rarely in his instrumental works but routinely in his choral, where it always has theological significance. The significance can be determined by looking at what falls between the framing movements...what the Germans call the Herzstück. The twenty-five sections sandwiched between this framing prelude and fugue have three functions within the Lutheran liturgy: Mass, catechism, and communion. The functions of specific movements are as follows:
Whereas the catechistic preludes of the Organ Mass are twelve in number, because they exist in pairs, they speak to but six texts. These six poems represent the heart of Reformation dogma in that they address, in order, the six components of Luther's Short Catechism: the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, Baptism, Penitence, and the Lord's Supper. While the order is Martin Luther's, Bach employs three musical techniques (canon, pedal, and full organ) to correlate the whole within a threefold-elided frame, below.
Whereas the maintains linkage between corresponding measure and motor groups in canons three, five, eight, and nine, the transposition of motor elements effects a pattern distortion in which those links cross. The distortion draws attention to itself because it does not participate in the set. Indeed, the distortion could not exist without the pattern against which it has been superimposed. Inasmuch as it is impossible to disrupt something that does not exist, I conclude that the pattern exists to permit its disruption. If this is true, and there is meaning to be found in this set, it should be found in the disruption, not in the pattern.
It is significant that this marring is consummated by a transposition of elements from canons five and nine. Between these two lie the only three where motor and measure groups exist in proportions of one-to-one. The sixth canon has 2 beats per measure, with each beat divided into 2 parts. The seventh canon has 4 beats per measure, with each beat divided into 4 parts. The eighth canon has 3 beats per measure, each beat divided into 3 parts. In the anagogic parlance of the eighteenth century, this simplest and noblest of numerical ratios (1:1) was the point of Unitas, and symbolized God.
I shall develop the significance of this proportional unity in greater detail momentarily. But, for now, it bears observation that the sum of five and nine (the canons framing the Unitas) is 14. Not only so, but the sum of transposed motor units, plus their corresponding measure units (3+4+3+4), is also 14. That there is an intentional set to the Goldberg canons, there can be no doubt. That the set has been disrupted, there can be little doubt. That the composer deliberately marred the set, is debatable. But that the composer stamped the marring with his number, the reader shall be left to infer what he wishes from the following discussion.
The symmetry of the Goldberg set devolves from a sequence of motor groups that is echoed, three canons later, by measured groups. This sequence reverberates motorically with two anomalies: products of the transposition of one pair of numbers. If one comprehends evidence of design in the undisrupted pattern, one might suspect that the anomaly itself might have been intentional. If not, then surely the composer has made a mistake. There are twenty-seven such "mistakes" possible of which two-thirds would have undone, as this one undoes, not only the sequence of measure and motor groups but also the architectonic structure of the nine canons, which this one does not (review Figure 2). If the switched integers were a mistake, there would have been a .67 probability that the canonic matrix would have looked like Figure 4 instead of Figure 2. The principle of entropy argues, therefore, against Bach having made a mistake as this would tend to have destroyed a pattern that could not have existed without careful forethought, and which the composer seems to have been intent upon creating. If not a mistake, then the disruption itself must have been conceived and executed by the composer.
I propose, therefore, to develop the alternate view, that the marring was purposeful, itself part of the plan, and designed to intersect with a larger pattern conveying meaning. Having created something perfect, the composer appears to have sacrificed it. And in sacrificing it he may have said something profound about himself, his art, and himself in relation to his art. As for what is said, I shall attempt to show that this pattern distortion is driven by soteriologic and catechistic themes evident in similar structures of the "Organ" and B-Minor Masses. To demonstrate this it shall be necessary, first, to consider the eighteenth-century rhetorical device known as chiasmus.
Chiasmus involved the transposition of words at the beginnings and endings of sections. Transposition of elements, inversion, and mirroring held an unusual fascination for Bach. The Art of the Fugue contains, for example, two mirror fugues that can be played right side up or upside down. This mirroring extends not only to the inversion of melodies, but also to the entry of voices, key relationships, tonal functions, sequence directions, and cadences. Without speculating as to why Bach held such processes in high regard, it should be enough, when he employs them, for us to sit up and take notice. They often point to something else.
But what? In the literature of Bach's day similar transpositions demarcated boundary structures lending emphasis and coherence to the whole. The model for this practice may have been the Holy Scriptures, especially its Hebrew poetry. Whereas, for example, the book of Ruth refers to her sons, at first, as "Mahlon and Kilion," toward the end they become "Kilion and Mahlon," thereby marking the boundaries of that narrative. While chiasmus was well known as a rhetorical device, it is unclear the extent to which this may have been a conscious imitation of Scripture. Regardless of its source, there is no doubt that Bach used chiasmus, extensively, as a symbolic construct.
When Bach transposes the motor groupings three and four in his repetition of an otherwise symmetrical sequence, we do well, therefore, to ask: what might he be marking? The answer can be found in what lies between the transposed elements: canons six, seven, and eight--the only canons where the proportion between measure and motor groupings is in a one-to-one relationship. It is more than a coincidence that these three are contiguous. It is also significant that the composer uses not one canon, but three, in proportional Unitas. The connotation of Tri-Unitas is eloquent, and the Trinitarian conception of God as "three persons in one and one in three persons" comes immediately to mind. Accordingly I shall refer to these three canons as the "Triunitas" of the Goldberg set. Inasmuch as the triadic formulations of the prior "Organ Mass" also symbolized the triunity of God, I suspect that this Triunitas does the same.
Consider now how the composer assembles the Triunitas in his Goldberg set. The proportional relationship between measure and motor groups of canon six is 2:2, of canon seven is 4:4, and of canon eight is 3:3. This order is extremely meaningful, for it intersects with Martin Luther's division of the Nicene creed. Chafe informs us that Luther interpreted that creed as having articles related to creation, redemption, and sanctification. These articles corresponded to the three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Chafe asserts that, in both his small and large catechisms, Luther devotes 2 clauses to the Father and creation, 4 clauses to the Son and redemption, and 3 clauses to the Holy Spirit and sanctification [note]. Thus, the total number of clauses is divided according to an asymmetrical 2+4+3 and not the symmetrical 3+3+3 of the Kyrie and Gloria.
Was Bach aware of Luther's asymmetrical division? The answer to that question is found in his Symbolum Nicenum of the B-Minor Mass. There he devotes 2 movements to the Father, 4 to the Son, and 3 to the Holy Spirit. Chafe emphasizes how this is a musical demarcation as well as textual...each of these sections is marked by a dramatic crescendo involving instrumentation and voices. In view of the fact that Luther's division of the creed was dictated by the order of creation, it is significant, perhaps, that the Goldberg's Triunitas employs canon six (the number of creation) to designate the Father: Patrem omnipotentem, factorem coeli et terrae. Likewise, it uses canon seven (fullness) to designate the Son: Deum de Deo, lumen de lumine.
Canon seven, at the center of the Triunitas, is also the second of three variations in minor mode. Canon seven is, therefore, Herzstück of two chiastic formulations. The first of these is the Triunitas itself, while the second is comprised of three variations in minor mode. This second of three places is, anagogically, the position occupied by Jesus, the second person of the Trinity. Only two of the minor mode variations are canons. Canon No. 7 (fullness and completeness) is positioned 7 movements after Canon No. 5 (Christ's passion), and 5 movements before Variation 25 (5x5). This last minor mode variation is the only one of the three that is not a canon.
The minor mode itself may be seen, from this perspective, as an allusion to Jesus passion, which is not the passion of an ordinary man but of God (three variations in minor). Of these minor mode variations, two are canons and one is not. Whereas it was God the Son who hung upon the cross (Variation 25 not a canon), it was God the father, and God the Holy Spirit (Canons 5 and 7) who participated in this passion (minor mode) with the Son. In this view Christ is linked to the one variation that is not canonic (his humanity), while the Father and Holy Spirit are linked to the two that are canonic. The non-canonic Variation 25, being the product of 5 squared, represents the fullness of that passion as well as Christ's dual nature: God and man. Finally, Variation 25, being the final act (so to speak) in minor mode, represents the "It is finished" that Jesus spoke from the cross. Wanda Landowska's designation of Variation 25 as a "Crown of Thorns," was probably suggested by these implied associations as well as a certain resemblance to the double mirror canon Christus Coronabit Crucigeros.
But if one looks at the chiastic of the Triunitas, one sees the inverse. Of the three canons in proportional unity, one is minor, while two are not. In this instance the one that is minor (No. 7) is the Christ canon, as represented by its position in the middle of the Triunitas, and by its 4:4 proportion (four clauses of the Creed). The other two canons of the Triunitas (No's 6 and 8) are not minor. Thus, between the three variations in minor and the three canons in Triunitas, there exists a distinction of functions, but a commingling of essence in which one member is set apart from the other two. Yet, over the course of the two chiastic formulations, each member is represented once as a canon. This double chiastic separation of one as belonging apart from the other two is, I believe, a representation of the incarnation.
Whereas the disruption of the canonic set serves to mark, chiastically, the unity of proportions in canons six, seven, and eight, visualizing the links between disrupted measure and motor units also produces the Christ sign: . This sign is superimposed upon the Triunitas, symbolizing not only Christ's deity but also the participation of the Godhead in redemption. It is intriguing to think that the composer may have chosen to effect this out of units suggesting his own name. Motor and measure units 3+4+3+4 comprising the extremities of this cross add to 14, the same sum as B+A+C+H, and the same sum as canons 5+9. Did the composer use these elements to suggest his willingness to participate in Christ's passion? In "suspending himself," so to speak, from the , was the composer creating a metamorphic representation of vicarious atonement? Or was he simply perpetuating a venerable tradition in which the artist paints himself into his own picture?
We have focused our attention, so far, upon the canons of the Triunitas. But the transposition of elements that mark this structure also forms an exclusive, or reverse, frame for the remaining six canons. I am suggesting, here, that the canonic sequence be viewed, like a reversible vest, from the inside out. This view is justified inasmuch as the pattern is circular. The set can be seen, then, as an eternal and self-generating continuum as in Figure 5.
Consider the musical implications of proportions found within this Triunitas. Because of the disruption framing the Triunitas, canons 3,5,8,9 become unwilling participants in the mimetic parallels of their counterparts. Not only are they rendered oblique to the pattern, they become oblique to each other in a very interesting way. First, the asymmetrical proportions between 3:5:8:9 (inclusive of each number) represent yet another analogue, in retrograde, to Luther's creedal series 2-4-3. Second, and of musical significance, the differences between adjacent pairs of this eccentric proportion are 2, 3, and 1--proper divisors of that most sonorous number, six. Third, the 3:5:8:9 proportion yields the six aliquot divisions of the monochord that Zarlino (later Kirnberger & Rameau) used as acoustical generator for all voices, consonances, and species of harmony. Finally, to the modern musician, an interval vector of this set yields [1,1,1,1,1,1] showing that it is capable of producing each interval in the chromatic system, and the pitches of an all-interval tetrachord!
Returning to the circular characteristics of the set (Figure 5b), notice that the pattern disruption that defines the canons of the Triunitas as belonging together also defines the remaining six as belonging apart. And, if the Triunitas can be expressed in a single proportion, the six can be expressed in a variety of proportions, all factors of one. The relationship between the six canons of the reverse frame is one of reciprocating pairs (Figure 6). The integers comprising each of these pairs involve an exchange like the disruption that marked the Triunitas itself.
By using the symbols of his own name to disrupt the set, thereby symbolizing the creed, Bach eloquently affirms that this is not just any creed, but his own. In this aspect of the disruption we detect a soteriological theme, for the transposed elements produce the familiar --the symbol of Christ, his cross, and the believer's salvation, since the first century A.D. Thus the meaning transcends theism to embrace a theology both redemptive, explicitly Christian, and highly personal. As if to show that it was his own sin that marred God's perfect creation, Bach switches motor groups in canons five and nine, the sum of which is fourteen--his signature number--while the reciprocating pairs of integers (3/4 & 4/3) marking the four points of this cross are also addends of fourteen.
While Trinitarian apologists delight in analogies from nature and the constitution of man, we must politely reject the notion that the mathematical unity of Bach's canonic set was intended to be an argument for the triunity of God. While analogies are interesting, they do not prove anything, nor is the canonic set of the Goldberg canons such a proof. The Lutherans were very clear on this point. Johann Muller's Judaismus, a copy of which Bach owned, identifies two types of numerological symbols of which only the first was permissible. Cabbala Speculativa involved the use of numbers to allude to Scripture in an ingenious manner, while Cabbala Practica used numbers to interpret Scripture. Bach could not possibly have had in mind a defense of Lutheran belief and practice (he would have been preaching to the converted), but, rather, an expression of it by means of mathematical, and musical, processes.
Like a string of pearls adorning the neck of a lady, nine canons grace Bach's Aria with Thirty Variations, giving them mystery as well as form and substance. "Prepared for the enjoyment of music lovers" they have indeed made joyful generations of thankful musicians. Yet through these pleasurable tones the thoughtful ear faintly hears echoes of an earlier note humbly scored in his Bible and with his hand: "splendid proof," wrote Bach, "that besides other arrangements of the service of worship, music too was especially ordered by God's spirit through David." All music--choral, orchestral, sacred, secular, vocal or Clavier--for Bach there appears to have been but one Übung--one order--that which was decreed by the Spirit of God. In the esoteric symbols of his set Johann Sebastian participates not only in the spirit of his age, but also the spirit of creative ingenuity, and in the Spirit of his God.
Hearing this masterpiece of "autonomous" music in harmony with Bach's faith and liturgical oeuvre cannot help but raise, for some, as many questions as they might have hoped to have had answered. But, least we forget, two-thirds of the ink that flowed from the composer's quill was scratched upon the parchment of Lutheran praxis. To the one who scratched it, at least, this reading of his Variations would not have seemed at all strange. Book IV of his "Keyboard Practice" is best heard after Book III.
Of the canons with TWO beats per measure:
|Play Canon No. 6
|Play Canon No. 9
|Play Canon No. 5
|Play Canon No. 2
|Play Canon No. 8
|Play Canon No. 4
|Play Canon No. 3
|Play Canon No. 1
|Play Canon No. 7
But to musicians, six was even more significant. When, in 1558 (Institutioni Harmoniche), Gioseffo Zarlino increased the possible divisions of the monochord (a vibrating string) from four to six, he was able, for the first time, to generate every consonant interval. From this division Zarlino theorized that there are six species of voices (Unisone, Equisone, Consone, Emelle, Dissone, & Ecmele), six consonances (Diapason, Diapente, Diatessaron, Ditino, Semiditino, & Unisono), and six species of harmony (Doria, Frigia, Lidia, Mistalidia o Lochrense, Eolia & Ionica).
Zarlino's senario became the acoustical foundation for all of music theory through the eighteenth century. J. S. Bach's relative, Walther devoted a chapter of his Musicalisches Lexicon (1732) to the properties of the Numerus perfectus, while Bach's pupil, Kirnberger, in Die Kunst des reinen Satzes in der Musik (1771-79), explained scales, temperament, and intervals, in terms of acoustical proportions derived from Zarlino's senario. Before he learned of the harmonic series, Rameau also based his ideas upon the division of the monochord (Traite de l'harmonie, 1722). It was theorized by musicians of the day that the reason God created the cosmos in six days was because of the strongly sonorous characteristics of that number.
The function of imaginative speech is not to prove, but to create--to discover new similarities, and to arrange them to form new entities, to build new self-consistent worlds out of the universe of undifferentiated mind-stuff. ("Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World" Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1969, p. xiii)
Given our understanding of eighteenth-century Zeitgeist, Bach's own writings, and the immediate context of his Goldberg Variations, it is possible, however, to assert that Bach "may" have meant certain things by his canonic set, and that, regardless of what he meant (or didn't mean), we are justified in apprehending meaning, in structure, nonetheless. If nothing else, structure indicates intelligence and purposefulness, which itself is a powerful meaning.
Accordingly, the purpose of the remainder of this essay shall be to create intersections between the intentional patterns of the Goldberg set, and a higher pattern of thought, a Christian world view, with which we know Bach was acquainted, would have understood, and would have agreed. These intersections are intended to suggest meanings that the composer may have intended, or, if he did not intend, with which he might have identified at least. In the process I shall describe what these structures mean to me (a valid form of criticism). All of this, in turn, may or may not mean anything to the reader (both valid forms of reader response). I appeal, again, to Sayers and Pike.
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Can a Food Elimination Diet Help with ADHD?
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Mar 20th, 2017
Can a Food Elimination Diet Help with ADHD?
Using the elimination diet to test for food reactions
In the first phase of the study, 100 children between four and eight years old who had been diagnosed with ADHD were randomly assigned to either an elimination diet group or a to a control group that ate a basic healthy diet for five weeks. The basic elimination diet included only rice, meat, vegetables, pears, and water. Doctors, teachers, and parents used assessment scales to track changes in ADHD symptoms over the course of this phase.
In the next phase, children in the elimination diet group whose scores on assessment scales improved 40% or more while on the diet entered the second phase of the trial, in which foods were tested, or "challenged." Researchers looked at the effects of foods on immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody production. IgG is a part of the immune system that is involved in some types of allergic reactions, particularly to foods.
Three foods that were found to elicit high amounts of IgG antibodies (and therefore predicted to trigger symptoms) were added back as a group for two weeks, and three foods that elicited low amounts of antibodies (and therefore predicted not to cause symptoms) were added for another two weeks. Changes in symptoms were tracked using the same assessment scales.
The diet helps but the blood test doesn't
The following results were reported in the study:
- During the first phase, scores on the assessment scales decreased (improved) in the elimination diet group but not the control group.
- 64% of the children in the elimination diet group had a 40% or greater reduction in scores on ADHD symptom scales.
- 63% of children in the second phase of the trial experienced a relapse in symptoms and behaviors after one or both challenges.
- Children were just as likely to relapse during the low-IgG food challenge period as the high-IgG food challenge period.
"Our study shows considerable effects of a restricted elimination diet in an unselected group of children with ADHD," the study's authors said in The Lancet. "Therefore, we think that dietary intervention should be considered in all children with ADHD." They also discouraged the use of IgG blood tests, noting that IgG test results did not predict which foods children with ADHD would react to in this study.
Other ways to help children with ADHD
Whether or not your child with ADHD responds favorably to an elimination diet, there are a few nutritional supplements you may want to consider:
- Magnesium. Researchers have found that children with ADHD had lower levels of magnesium and preliminary evidence suggests that they could benefit from taking a supplement.
- Zinc. Many children don't get enough of this trace mineral, and studies have found that zinc supplements can make a difference for children with ADHD.
- Omega-3 fats. Both of the omega-3 fats from fish, EPA and DHA, are important for healthy neurological development. Some studies have found that omega-3 fatty acid supplements can improve cognitive function and reduce behavioral problems in children with ADHD.
(Lancet 2011;377:494–503)
Maureen Williams, ND, completed her doctorate in naturopathic medicine at Bastyr University in Seattle and has been in private practice since 1995. With an abiding commitment to access to care, she has worked in free clinics in the US and Canada, and in rural clinics in Guatemala and Honduras where she has studied traditional herbal medicine. She currently lives and practices in Victoria, BC, and lectures and writes extensively for both professional and community audiences on topics including family nutrition, menopause, anxiety and depression, heart disease, cancer, and easing stress. Dr. Williams is a regular contributor to Healthnotes Newswire.
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One Response to Can a Food Elimination Diet Help with ADHD?
Jim Barclay 14/04/2017 at 10:00 pm
It would have been nice if Adult ADHD had been included in the study. Kids with ADHD often grow into adults with ADHD. About 45% of the time according to the last study I saw.


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September 1, 2007
The Little Giant cross country team honored J. Owen Huntsman's legacy with a victory in the 46th Wabash Hokum Karem Saturday morning. Wabash took second through fourth in the combination cross country and relay race to claim the team title for the first time since 1996.
Geoff Lambert and Hugh Jackson combined for second place for Wabash, finishing in 29:54 and only ten seconds out of first place. Teammates Sam Compton-Craig and Seth Einterz were right behind, with Einterz racing to the finish line to complete the race in 29:58. Ben Bly and Matt Maher were joined together to finish fourth overall with a time of 30:00.
(View photo album number 1 and number 2 from Saturday's race.)
Saturday's meet started and finished on the very track that bears Huntsman's name.
The Hokum Karem was created by Huntsman as a conditioning race. A pair of runners alternate laps around a one-mile cross country course on the Wabash campus until each has completed three miles. The first Hokum Karem took place in 1962 between Wabash and the University of Chicago.
"Our top three pair of runners did exactly what I asked them to do," Head Coach Roger Busch said. "I wanted them to run early behind DePauw's top pair and either hang on our make a move late in the race.
"I was most pleased with how close our top-three paris finished. That combination of six guys and the relay style of racing works well. We also got great support and a great effort from our middle group of runners. They are a younger group of runners and are improving every day."
Wabash scored a total of nine points in the team competition, scored exactly like an individual cross country race with the victory going to the team with the lowest point total. DePauw was second with 15 points. The University of Indianapolis took third place (26 points), while Millikin was fourth (28 points).
DePauw won the women's race with a total of nine points. The women compete over the same one-mile loop, running a total of four miles between the two teammates.
The Little Giants return to action next Saturday when they compete at the Great Lakes Colleges Association Cross Country Championship Race at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Top left - Ben Bly leads teammates Sam Compton-Craig and Geoff Lambert during the early stages of the Wabash Hokum Karem.
Bottom right - (left to right) Seth Einterz, Matt Maher, and Hugh Jackson stayed together as a pack throughout much of the race to lead the Little Giants to the win.
Main pages - The Little Giants celebrate their first Hokum Karem victory since 1996.


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Savior, Samuel Tells of the Baby Jesus, 36
1. Said Samuel, "Within five years
A night will be as day,
And Baby Jesus will be born
In a land far, far away."
Hosanna! Hosanna!
Oh, let us gladly sing.
How blessed that our Lord was born;
Let earth receive her King!
2. Across the sea, in Bethlehem,
Lord Jesus came to earth
As Samuel had prophesied,
And angels sang His birth.
Words: Mabel Jones Gabbott, b. 1910
Music: Grietje Terburg Rowley, b. 1927
Original title: "Christmas in Zarahemla," © 1985 by Mabel Jones Gabbott and Grietje Terburg Rowley. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.
Helaman 13:2-4
Helaman 14:2-4
3 Nephi 1:9-15


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Social Security Administration Now Accepting Claims From Same-Sex Married Couples
Nigel Campbell | July 12, 2013
The Social Security Administration is now accepting claims from same-sex married couples that may be eligible to receive benefits!
According to a statement from Social Security spokesman Mark Hinkle, the SSA will wait to process these claims until they receive finalized instructions on how to handle them.
Here's his official statement:
Let's get those instructions finalized! Our married gay couples deserve those benefit$$$$$$!!


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Bitexion wrote:No we don't. Not in Europe.
jaypodesta wrote:Bitexion wrote:No we don't. Not in Europe.
Got mine (UK) so there must be a few around? Surely?
Bitexion wrote:The "Ultrasaw" on the sawtooth isn't the same thing as the Supersaw on the JP8K btw. It makes two physical clones of the sawtooth, set them a bit out of phase with the original, and apply a 0.5Hz LFO to the first, and variable (via a knob on the panel) from 0.5-10Hz LFO on the second, and mix it with the original to create a different waveform. This creates a lovely chorusing effect, or just sounds like 3 slightly detuned sawtooth oscillators. Very well thought out feature.
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Pedaler's Fair is this weekend at their new location: 2407 1st Ave in Seattle.
Pedaler's Fair is an annual marketplace for Washington based, bicycle-inspired small businesses to exhibit their goods. In its first year, Pedaler's Fair hosted 23 exhibitors and received over 1,000 guests. In addition to exhibitor booths we had live music, workshops and presentations.
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Dear Editor: April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and we must increase awareness and understanding of this difficult subject. The sexual abuse of children is one of the most damaging and least understood crimes in our community. So many stereotypes seem to imply that they are usually crimes of physical violence or that strangers are the ones who usually sexually assault children.
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60 years of innovation and efficient food production
Swedish innovation and engineering excellence were the building blocks of today's global group, of which a part is dedicated to more efficient and safe food production.
Creating the perfect climate for customers is a vision that has been fostered at Munters from its inception to present day. When Carl Munters founded his company in 1955, he brought with him years of experience working on innovative solutions for how air can be best cooled, dehumidified and optimised for people and industry. The company he formed has now grown into a global corporation with 2600 employees in over 30 countries. It is quite vertiginous to think about the number of patent applications made by Carl Munters, they amount to 1,000 of his own inventions!
Today, Munters is a global leader in energy-efficient solutions for optimising the air. The technology is often key to the customers and can also be part of the solution to many of the biggest challenges facing society. One example is the need to reduce the world's energy consumption in the future to be able to stop global warming. Energy-efficient solutions for proper cooling and moisture are an important part of this.
According to an FAO report* the world's population in 2050 will reach 9.1 billion, 34 percent higher than today. This population growth will mainly take place in developing countries, materialize itself in expanding urban areas and income levels will be many multiples of what they are now. In order to satisfy these growing and changing demands, food production (net of food used for biofuels) must increase by 70 percent. Needless to say, this challenge requires us to make food production both more efficient and safe, while keeping the environmental impact and use of resources as low as possible. In Munters we see ourselves as an important contributor to this necessity, it is reflected in everything we have strived for during these 60 years starting from the CELdek® pad and Euroemme® fans up to today's intensive farmproductions often fully enclosed and intelligently controlled by a computer that coordinates all functions to maximize bottom line results for the grower. A contemporary and very important invention is Munters Air Cleaner that allows for a purification of ammonia emissions from stables for livestock production by up to 80% on average. Ammonia is a natural by-product of livestock farming and as a result of stricter environmental legislation, many farmers in Europe face emission limits for ammonia - especially when they want to expand their production.
Munters has engineered the latest advancement in motor technology by developing this unique motor drive system which we call Munters Drive. The motor enables reduction of energy costs of up to 40%, helping to reduce carbon foot print, save money and usher in a "greener" approach to agricultural and horticultural ventilation.
This year, Munters celebrates its 60th anniversary and is one of the most well-established Swedish industrial companies. The head office is still in Sweden (in Kista), while the company as a whole has become increasingly global over the years and now has operations located throughout the world. Munters is found in more than 30 countries, has SEK 4 billion in turnover and is owned by Nordic Capital Fund VII.
*) FAO report: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/wsfs/docs/expert_paper/How_to_Feed_the_World_in_2050.pdf


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If any good has come from the recent devastating earthquakes off Sumatra, it is that they are providing scientists with unprecedented clues to understanding how these large undersea earthquakes occur and how they create tsunamis.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake and tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004, and the March 28 magnitude-8.7 quake, scientists have gathered new information to answer provocative questions: Did the Dec. 26 earthquake shift stresses in the Java Trench where the earthquakes occurred and help trigger the March 28 quake? Was the Dec. 26 quake shallow, and did this contribute to generating such a great tsunami? Why did the March 28 quake generate only a minor tsunami even though it was a great quake?
The earthquakes occurred in a subduction zone where two of Earth's great crustal plates are colliding. As one plate is thrust beneath another to form the deep Java Trench, it causes the buildup of stress in rock formations, which slip suddenly to generate earthquakes.
Jian Lin, a marine geophysicist at WHOI, and his colleague Ross Stein of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., have investigated thrust earthquakes both on land and under the oceans for several years. In a study published in early 2004, the two scientists theorized that as thrust earthquakes alleviate stress in one region, they can shift that stress to adjacent areas.
In a domino-like effect, stress can transfer through the crust, interact with neighboring faults, and trigger another earthquake elsewhere. Lin and Stein noted that such domino-like reaction appears to have occurred in a series of moderate-sized thrust quakes in central California in the 1980s.
Is the domino-like reaction also occurring in the Java Trench? Recently a number of research groups had calculated that the Dec. 26 quake shifted additional stress further south along the Java Trench. That could have helped trigger the March 28 earthquake, which occurred about 120 miles southeast of the December quake.
"If this is true, this could be good news for the people living close to a large part of the Java Trench where the stress was released by the recent great quakes," Lin said. But unfortunately both quakes have now added stress to some other fault lines in this region, making them more susceptible to future quakes.
With an estimated magnitude as large as 9.3, the Dec. 26 earthquake could be the second largest ever recorded. The largest earthquake ever recorded was a magnitude-9.5 event in a geologically similar ocean trench off Chile in South America in 1960, which killed an estimated 2,000 people.
Lin found a striking comparison between the1960 and 2004 earthquakes: Both ruptured the seafloor for distances as long as 1,000 to 1,300 kilometers (about 625 to 810 miles), and both caused ocean-spanning large tsunamis. However, the rupture plane of the 2004 quake appears to be significantly shallower and narrower in its down-dip direction, resembling a long, "skinny" stripe.
"What we learn from the Dec. 26 event will probably define what we know about tsunami-generating earthquakes for a long time," said Lin, who plans to survey the rupture zone on the Java Trench this fall on a research cruise with a team of international colleagues. "The new observations should help us to improve earthquake models and bring us closer to understanding the behavior of these devastating events."
But there are still many unsolved mysteries of the Dec. 26 and March 28 events, including why the March 28 quake created only a minor tsunami. "It is clear that a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean is badly needed," Lin said.
A DOMINO-LIKE EFFECT?Scientists theorize that the magnitude-9.3 earthquake off Sumatra on Dec. 26 may have shifted additional stress further south along the Java Trench, which may have helped trigger the March 28 magnitude-8.7 earthquake. (Map provided by K. Sieh, California Institute of Technology)
STRESS TRIGGERINGThe March 28 earthquake occurred to the south of the December 2004 earthquake rupture zone, supporting the theory that the 2005 earthquake may have been triggered by the 2004 quake. Such stress triggering behavior is very similar to a sequence of thrust earthquakes in central California in the 1980s, reported by Lin and Stein in 2004. The small yellow circles in the pink rupture zone, which is many times larger than the 2005 rupture zone shown in blue, represent aftershocks within the first three weeks after the Dec. 26 earthquake. The data were provided by the U.S. Geological Survey. (Illustration by Jack Cook, WHOI)


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Post-shutdown, the same customer service people you've been dealing with will still be here, no one is losing their job and there will be no change in customer support or necessary refunds, etc.
We're looking forward to serving you through the final MuscleHQ Rolling Deals and for those of you who also shop MMAHQ and BJJHQ, we'll see you there.
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and 'canadasmellslikefarts' - take it down a fukin notch.
LMAO..... Butt hurt American. Sorry your hockey teams sucked dick.
Dude goes through so much trouble to make an account and a picture about Canada and calling Canadians losers? LOL. What a fucking retard.
Lol nobody in the USA gives a chit about hockey or the winter olympics, plsgo phaggot
Hey friends :)
Tim Punishmann nice fake picture you gay weeble
For those still searching...here's a partial list of what's available in order as of Feb 22/23: ...
MP Amino1,
MP FitMiss tone,
Beast Sports Beast Mode,
Cobra Labs The Curse,
Dymatize Xpand,
Top Secret Cardioigniter,
Prime Force BCAA,
VPX Protein Rush,
MP Recon,
Burn Machine Speed Bag,
MP Hybrid NO,
MPH 8 Hour Alert,
Species Lipolyzer,
Metabolic Bio Shock,
AEN Presurge,
Controlled Labs White Blood,
MP Arnold Iron Whey,
VPX Redline Ultra Hardcore,
Hyroxycut Hardcore Elite,
Oxy Elite Protein,
Iforce Conquer,
Iforce Compete...
---was done with my shift at work, not sure what's next or when it loops around in the deal cycle.
In the words of Bob Couch, ya gotta pump iron!
Interasting, wish theyd lower the prices, if they dont this stuff will never get sold....
They're already losing money?
Might as well just give it away for free if they lower the prices even more...
Everything is like one-two dollars cheaper than lockout and nutraplanet lol...and im sure other places have stuff even cheaper...these "deals" are going to go on forever
Put up the controlled labs fish oils Ill buy whatever you have left!
This is sad :( You guys were the best.
cellucor c4 or muscle pharm creatine left?
Thanks for kickin ass! Sad to see it go. Sorry for you, that it did not work out as a profitable venture. Revamp and come back, we will be waiting.
Wow, this sucks! So sorry to hear. I've gotten tons of sweet deals from you guys! Thanks for your great support and deals over the years! Hope to score a few more!
Really! Damn! I don't want to live anymore!
I thought this site was a great Idea. I found some good deals and it's sad to see you go. thank you.
do you know when you'll be selling phase 8 protein. I'll more than likely purchase that deal today.
Wheres the super cheap blowout deals!
You're looking at them...?
Theyre better now earlier wasnt really
The deals are lacking hard
You're back? Am I dreaming??
no more rolling deals?
yeah what happened? that REDuction thing was also something i was interested in and it's sold out :(
I'm sad to see you guys go as well. I've enjoyed seeing the deals and was able to get quite a few for myself. Good luck with your other ventures.
is it just me or is the Athletic Edge Nutrition: PreSurge Pre-Workout Formula a new product?
my bad it's been on rotation :'
Got my protein, VPX Rush, today... bummed I spent $20 for expired product. Could of spent $5 more and got one that wasn't expired. Atleast Gi's, Shirts, and Shorts don't expire.
Sad sad day when this site closes, was always my 9AM email I looked forward too.
Haven't been able to watch as closely as I'd like - feels like we are down to the last 10 or 15 products.
Will definitely miss your amazing deals..sad to see you go...God Bless
Sad Sad Day. I would have thought more money could be made from supplements than MMA gear! :(
Could you try to find a deal for a Myostatin Inhibitor?
does anyone know if controlled labs oximega (fish oil) showed up in the rolling deals?
they sell any phase 8 protein yet?
Thanks for all the great deals! You WILL be missed!
White flood . Thank you for your deals
First off - thanks for all you've done! I've purchased multiple items (just got the Purple PsyKO last week!).
For my own purposes - is there going to be any Controlled Labs products coming up? I'm trying to review at work and I'm an admitted CL fanboy...just want to see if I could look out during a specific time period! Thanks either way...will be sad to see this shut down...
Thank you for the deals! I found you guys about a year ago and have bought many supplements. I really hope this isn't the end.
For me to say the only 2 sites I would go to were Bodybuilding.com and this one is a huge congrats to you guys. It makes me wonder how they are making money but oh well. All good things have to come to an end sometime.
I hope you guys revamp and return.
so sad to see you guys go. i'm not a supplement kind of person but this site made me discover supps that i religiously use now. Shred matrix and iforce joint help FTW! hope they pop up and i catch them so i can stock up.
see you guys on bjjhq and mmahq!
miss u guys. thanks to the offers here i've been able to experiment w a wide variety of supplements that i otherwise would never try. glad that the other HQs are staying up though.
damn this was my go to supp store....I don't really know what to do now except spend all my money today lol
Thanks for the great service
sad day, thank you for everything!
Booooooo. Any way of telling us what you are going to roll out. Would love to see so I know when to go on
Bummed to see you guys go... I did become a member here after shopping off mma/bjj.com Just grabbed from VPX Protein, great deal. All the best to you guys and your future.
anything good roll out yet?
This really sucks. Sorry to hear about this. Good luck in your future endeavors!
That sucks!!! Sad to see you guys go. Any quest bars left? I'd love some of those! And any muscle gels from MP!
im definitely gonna miss you guys!!!!!! Thanks for all the great deals!!!!!
Wow, this is a sad day! Thanks for the great deals!
Can you guys please lower the shipping to Canada on some of the deals?
Find it hard to believe that since 12 minutes left there is only a single bottle of the iforce joint help left. Would not let me purchase 3. Bunch of sh....
Any amino x by bsn?
Sorry to see this site close. 61K likes is impress!
Any chance vasotropin will be in the deal, and or can I just pay for 3 if you got em?
Man, I certainly hate to hear that you guys are shutting down! I am pretty stocked up on most things that I use often, thanks to you guys! Hopefully I'll see some things on here today that I would like to get more of! I guess after this it's back to Bodybuilding.com! They've been sending me emails asking where I've been! :-) Thanks again for the many months of awesome deals that you have provided, and I wish you the best with all that you do! Take care and God Bless!
Lamar M. Davis II
So sad have purchased many deals on here, thanks!
So sad to see you go. One of the only emails I was always waiting for every day. Got some great deals here. Best of luck to you for the future.
This is sad to hear guys. this is one of the website I checked every single day for the past few months now, now that I have added some extra time in the gym. you guys were my number 1 source of my supps. But, hey not to late to be back in the future. ;) Flow Neural Enhancer pls. for the last time
Thanks for keeping it running even at a slight loss, much appreciated.
You guys are so great, thanks again for all the deals. I checked every single day!
Rolling deals over ?
thats a good question i thought rolling deals till the end?
Maybe they are taking a day to get all the previous rolling deals out before hitting it again.
I would think the rolling deals are a little more time-intensive to get shipped considering the time to pick/double check/ship multiple products instead of just the one SKU that would normally be on sale.
could be.... i missed both assault deals the one thing i was looking for but both sold out as i was chalking out.... hopefully they come back up before the site closes down (depressing)
I'm devastated. Where am I going to get my supplements now?
Hey can you guys put up the Pro-Supps stuff? I missed out the first time and have not seen it since yesterday!
man i may possibly be being ignorant but cant you guys get some ads or sponsors to help out, i mean shit you have 61k followers and id say over half of them probably check your site weekly and a good many daily, im sure they wouldnt mind a prelink or something to help out with costs as long as they are getting the stuff cheap.
WOOT WAS ABLE TO GET 3 Purple PsyKO!!! SAVED MYSELF $30 COMPARE TO AMAZON. ESSENTIAL BUY 2 GET 1 FREE HERE ; )
is there any purple psyko left?!?!
Like dis if u crii errytym, seriously, been on here since this site started, i have shed a manly tear now that your leaving :'(


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First drive: Touring Disco Volante
What is it?
It's an Alfa Romeo 8C for the discerning cove who sees the 8C itself as (a) too cheap, (b) too common and (c) a bit boring to look at.
That'll be the very expensive, very rare, very not-boring-to-look at Alfa 8C?
Indeed. It takes a certain sort of confidence/madness to look at Alfa's V8 masterpiece - the car widely regarded as perhaps the most beautiful of the 21st century - and think: hey, not bad, but what if we chopped it up and started again? But that is the sacrifice Milan's Touring Superleggera must make for every Disco Volante: taking an angle grinder to the delicious bodywork of an 8C and crafting its own voluptuous coachwork about the Alfa's chassis and V8.
Murdering an 8C? Noo, the inhumanity, etc…
In fairness, if anyone has the pedigree for such an act of sacrilege, it's Carrozzeria Touring. One of the original Italian coachbuilders, the Milan house crafted masterpieces including the original Alfa 8C and BMW 328 Coupe, and, after World War II, the Alfa 1900 C52 (which provides the inspiration for this new Disco Volante), Aston DB5 and Lamborghini 350GT. After a rather quiet five decades or so, the brand is back on the up, recently showing a fastback Maserati Quattroporte and shooting brake Bentley Conti.
The Disco Volante, however, is Touring's first entirely blank-sheet design of the 21st century – and one, it's worth mentioning, too, fully sanctioned by Alfa.
So how much 8C remains?
Though Touring leaves the donor Alfa's ample powertrain and chassis largely untouched – bar a fresh exhaust and a few suspension tweaks to cope with the slight redistribution of weight – its skin is all-new.
The body is rendered in hand-beaten aluminium - the only way to achieve those phenomenally complex, voluptuous panels - with a smattering of weapons-grade carbon fibre thrown in for good measure. It is coachbuilding in its most traditional sense, an art that has virtually died out in an era of monocoque construction and mass manufacture.
It looks… different.
It does. Touring's chief designer Louis de Fabribeckers accepts this is a car that'll polarize opinion: it's not a conventionally elegant design, doing away with the pared-back, sharp-edged minimalism of modern supercars in favour of a more curvaceous aesthetic.
That said, for a car referencing the 1950s so strongly, the Disco Volante steers clear of shamelessly retro, feeling more like a Fifties vision of the future. That name means 'Flying Saucer' in Italian, and from dead front or rear you can see the 2001: A Space Odyssey and Flight Of The Navigator influences. For what it's worth, Top Gear thinks it looks jawdropping. And it's not just us: the Disco won design if the year at the glitzy Villa D'Este Concorso d'Elegenza on Lake Como in May.
So how is it to drive?
Monstrous. Memorable. With the mechanicals little changed, the experience is very much Alfa 8C, which means that vicious, whipcrack V8 and the full-fat Italian front-engined supercar experience.
We always found the 8C entertaining but interestingly fallible, and the Disco Volante is more of the same: that six-speed flappy paddle box remains inescapably thunky, the ride inescapably hardcore. That said, the Disco's foibles are even more forgivable than in its donor car, so immersive is the experience. And noisy, too: with a new, go-louder exhaust, the Disco Volante emits an extraordinary barrage of screams and booms and rattles worthy of Top Gear's finest Pavarotti/opera metaphor.
At first it feels an odd sort of powertrain for something that looks like the Disco Volante - from its past-meets-future visuals, maybe we expected the noise of a 1950s Le Mans Alfa overlaid with Tie Fighter whooshing - but one that suits it well: organic and very extrovert.
It looks fast.
It is. Touring quotes 0-62mph in 4.2 seconds and a top speed of 182mph, which sounds distinctly plausible. But most of the time you don't feel the need to drive the Disco at Full Stig: firstly because it's a very expensive, very wide, very rare slice of near-irreplaceable exotica, but mostly because this a machine in which to waft around, basking in the attention it provokes, enjoying the bass-to-soprano range of the 4.7-litre V8 and the sheer occasion of the thing.
The giant sunroof adds a surprisingly airy dimension to the low cockpit, while Touring's interior upgrades - which is to say most of it bar the dash, which had to remain unfettered for homologation reasons - are as bespoke and immaculately executed as anything on the planet. This is an event of a supercar like no other, making the Veyron feel mass-produced, even a Pagani Zonda seem a litte straight-laced.
So can I buy one?
Yes. With a couple of caveats. First, that you have vast reserves of spare cash. Touring won't reveal exactly how much you'll pay for a Disco Volante - firstly because the exact price will vary by each customer's specific demands and secondly because, as they say, if you have to ask - but politely points out you can get a measure of the cost by the fact that each car requires over 10,000 man hours just to build. And even if your pockets are sufficiently voluminous, you'll also have to lay your hands on, and stump up for, an Alfa 8C donor car. And be happy to see it chopped to pieces.
If you pass the qualification criteria, best be quick: Touring plans a production run of just eight cars, with most spoken for already. But however exorbitant the final pricetag, we're pretty sure it'd be a canny investment: has any car in history ever screamed 'future classic' more loudly than this?
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Do you have a company supplied smartphone or do you use your personal one to get your company email? There used to be a clear line between company and personal when it came to smartphones and accessing company data.
Within the last few years, this line has more than just blurred - it's been obliterated. What was once only done on a company supplied smartphone is now being done all over the place on personal smartphones and tablets.
Because of this, it used to be that company data was easier to manage and secure. Smartphones themselves are (relatively) "easy" to manage. With the line so much more blurred, smartphones are now a major issue when it comes to the impact they have on IT staff to manage them, support them, and secure them.
While most smartphones are purely personal, we're seeing more and more of these devices being connected into the networks we're managing. This means more and more of them have company information on them - emails, texts, documents, etc. So, what does this really mean?
Well, from the IT channel's perspective it means MDM (Mobile Device Management) and BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) have become hot topics. Clearly the line is blurring. The issue for us AND our clients is the impact to the organization. One of the bigger issues relates to the additional threat BYOD brings to company security.
And here's why: a little known, but startling fact is 70 million smartphones are lost each year, with only 7 percent of them being recovered! Most companies are unaware of this statistic and most are NOT doing anything to protect themselves when it comes to this potential loss.
We recently upgraded our monitoring and alerting system and one of the latest additions to it gives us is the ability to monitor and manage Android devices and iPhones. Not only do we have the ability to monitor them, but we also have the ability to wipe their contents if they've "gone rogue". This is a HUGE benefit to our clients who want to allow access for personal smartphones yet limit the risk these devices bring. Regardless of where it's at, we can ensure everything that's on them won't get into the wrong hands. This is huge!
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therman needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 11 designs submitted by 2 freelance designers.
The Champions Challenge
This is for an online program to help athletes learn mental game strategies to build their confidence and improve their game rapidly.
Sports Youth, Parents and Coaches.
It would be nice if it was animated at bottom with arrow pointing to "Get Instant Access Here"
I'd like the variations of the headlines in the Banner to be:
"Why do most athletes fail to reach their potential? Video here..."
"Are you involved in the most difficult sports challenge on the web?"
"The #1 sports training trend with pro athletes—is now available for you!"
There are also files to use for brand coloring: (I don't want the logo used though.)
For the first video you could possibly use the 'frustrated athlete image' within the banner.
I will need variations in:
150 x 600, 125 x 125, 468 x 60, 250 x 250
Here is a link to some sample creative from someone else:
I'd like the same type of style...


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Monday, February 28, 2011
Sun Dried Tomato, Goat Cheese and Olive Oil Loaf
Savory loafs are really one of the easiest recipes in my cooking repertoire. It's literally ready in minutes, and it's a wonderfully versatile recipe that you can adapt to leftovers in your pantry. You can substitute the cheeses to suit your preference, add scallions, artichoke hearts, prosciutto, olives, any herbs of your choosing... It's really adaptable to any season and any taste. I like to serve it in small slices to complement a cheese platter, for any aperitif snack food or serve it warm with a nice crisp salad. It also makes for a wonderful afternoon snack if you don't want to indulge in something too sweet.
Savory loves are quite common in France, and are misleadingly called 'cake'! I grew up eating many different variations of the recipe I bring you today and I still enjoy them just as much today.
Sun Dried Tomato, Goat Cheese and Olive Oil Loaf
3 eggs
1/4 cup of white wine
1/4 cup of heavy cream
1/4 cup of olive oil
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup of flour
1/2 cup of grated Gruyere, tightly packed
70 grams of crumbled soft goat cheese
8 large sun-dried tomatoes packed in oil and coarsely chopped
2 tsp of fresh oregano, coarsely chopped
salt and freshly ground pepper
In a large mixing bowl, whisk the 3 eggs, wine, olive oil and cream. Once homogeneous, add the flour and baking powder and whisk. Fold in the Gruyere and leave in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350F. Take out the loaf batter and fold in the goat cheese, sun-dried tomatoes and oregano. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Pour the batter into a greased standard loaf pan and bake for 35-45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean. If the loaf starts to brown too much, cover with a piece of aluminum foil and continue to bake. Let cool for a few minutes and unmold. Enjoy!
26 comments:
- Jennifurla said...
I am all sorts of in LOVE with this, Goar Cheese is one of my top 5 things to eat...on just about anything. Lovely
- February 28, 2011 at 9:44 PM
I can't say that I've ever eaten a savory loaf before but this sure looks good!
- February 28, 2011 at 10:59 PM
- Nina said...
Wow, your loaf looks wonderful! Gruyere, goat and sundried tomato? Heaven!
- February 28, 2011 at 11:50 PM
- Odile said...
Very good, i make on like this and is very good. Good day an hello from spain.
- March 1, 2011 at 2:40 AM
- Claudie said...
This loaf looks really beautiful, and I really enjoy the look of the crust. Definitely must be really really tasty :)
- March 1, 2011 at 8:35 AM
Amazing looking loaf! I love goat cheese and sun dried tomato together. Great idea!
- March 1, 2011 at 9:01 AM
- Stefania said...
Bella ricetta ♥
- March 1, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- Jean said...
I love the simplicity and sophistication of your loaf. I'm eager to try this, especially with all the wonderful ingredients.
- March 1, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- Evan @swEEts said...
This would be perfect for a brunch.. I would never think to make a savory loaf.. I'm loving this right now!
- March 1, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- Meaghan Luby said...
this looks like a great brunch bread! thanks for sharing :)
@ http://www.clutzycooking.blgspot.com
- March 1, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Chocolate Freckles said...
This looks completely adorable!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- March 1, 2011 at 5:12 PM
- Pure2raw Twins said...
Wow this loaf looks incredible! Goat cheese and sundried tomato yum
- March 1, 2011 at 9:34 PM
- Kankana said...
wow .. that looks fabulous ! seriously !!
- March 1, 2011 at 11:06 PM
- polwig said...
This looks wonderful. I love that french make such elaborate loafs in comparison to American Corn Bread, probably the only savory loaf I can think of.
- March 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM
- Holly said...
You had me at sun dried tomato!!! YUUUMMMY:) I'm just over from Taste and Tell blog-now following!
- March 2, 2011 at 6:15 PM
- elle marie said...
Nice to see a post update = ) Goat Cheese and Sun Dried tomats... perfect pair = )
- March 3, 2011 at 8:45 AM
- Serena said...
Mmm goat cheese with sun-dried tomatoes, so summerish. Great photos!
- March 3, 2011 at 1:02 PM
- Mary said...
That looks incredibly delicious!
Mary xo
Delightful Bitefuls
- March 5, 2011 at 1:10 AM
- B-egg said...
Beautiful loaf!! It seems very nice
- March 5, 2011 at 3:30 AM
- Aisha Jameel said...
Luckily I had all the ingredients of this dish!!! In the process of making it... im sure it'll turn out good :) thanks for sharing, it looks absolutely awesome
- March 5, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- envierecipes said...
Came by to check out the savory loaf...can't wait to try it...and ended up browsing all around your site. Everything looks wonderful. Thanks!
- March 5, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Ummm...hate to point this out, but where are the olives in your list of ingredients? Did you use stuffed, or just plain? I'm baking this for a wine tasting/nibbles party! Testing it as I type, and it sure fills the air with promise! Thank you!
- March 5, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Chocolate Shavings said...
Anonymous: there are no olives in the recipe, but there is olive oil (1/4 cup). It would be delicious with some olives added too though!
- March 5, 2011 at 5:44 PM
- Junglefrog said...
That looks wonderful! With all those ingredients it can only be extremely good. I might have to tone down a bit on the goatcheese as my hubby hates it (why I wonder??) but otherwise this is just perfect!
- March 11, 2011 at 8:40 AM
We bumped into your blog and we really liked it - great recipes YUM YUM.
We would like to add it to the Petitchef.com.
We would be delighted if you could add your blog to Petitchef so that our users can, as us,
enjoy your recipes.
Petitchef is a french based Cooking recipes Portal. Several hundred Blogs are already members
and benefit from their exposure on Petitchef.com.
To add your site to the Petitchef family you can use http://en.petitchef.com/?obj=front&action=site_ajout_form or just go to Petitchef.com and click on "Add your site"
Best regards,
- March 15, 2011 at 1:51 PM
- almostveg said...
Goat cheese is a nice tangy addition to the savory loaf. I made one with sharp cheddar, pesto and sundried tomatoes. Will try the goat cheese version.
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LOTZ VS The Headless Horsemen 12 - LOTZ -14Last edited by Keefie on Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:39 pm, edited 11 times in total.
5 days and no update whats up since we took the Lead the updates stoped ????
Keefie wrote:Apologies for the delay, I've had an extremely busy week.
I must say that I've been very impressed with Lotz, they certainly don't deserve their current ranking. Despite being far closer than I feel comfortable with I still expect HH to pull this one off.
Jimmy V wrote:
No worries, I think Custer felt his team was about to make a big comeback also...
Yellow Peril wrote:do we not need 7 more for 25 wins to take it not 9?
Yellow Peril wrote:We will get back to you on that one
Yellow Peril wrote:I am not really sure what your point is? I never said we would win this, just confirming the number of wins needed to claim victory. I don't know what "MATH" is as this term is foreign in Australia. We call it mathematics I do believe as I think you do too.
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hello all-- I've been reading around and it looks like there are decks set up a lot around BM....this will be my first BM and I'd love to have a chance to spin some records if some decks are open. Been DJing for about 9 years now. I spin all types of music and use vinyl and Serato. check out my myspace page if you have a chance ( http://www.myspace.com/djsleepyd ) I also make a lot of music as well. Anyways, I'd love to meet up with some other DJ's at BM so please hit me up-- thanks and hope to be in touch
there are endless sound systems to play on out there. Best bet is just to cruise around buddie up with people and you should be able to play as many sets as you would like to play. The big systems are gona be hard to get on and they will have set times booked tight, but on lots of the little systems its usually a free for all, and just have to slip in the rotation.
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Lincoln Parks and Recreation officials today announced that the Billy Wolff Trail from 27th Street and Capitol Parkway to Randolph Street will remain closed until June 25th, about two weeks longer than originally planned.
The City and the Lower Platte South Natural Resources District are relocating the trail to the east side of Antelope Creek, allowing it to connect with the Antelope Valley Trail near "J" Street. The trail is closed for construction of an abutment for a new bridge that will cross Antelope Creek east of Randolph.
Terry Genrich, Natural Resources and Greenways Manager, said the abutment is so close to the trail it is impossible to shore up and work on it without creating safety concerns for the workers and trail users. He said the existing trail in the area of the abutment will need to be removed during the closure.
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TechAvanzadas needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 18 designs submitted by 11 freelance designers.
Our website http://www.iacprofessionals.com has a banner on it right now that says 2008 is the year to automate. We are looking to replace that for 2009
The 2009 slogan will be: Increase your bottom line in 2009. There will be no more 'click here to speak live' so you do not have to worry about that. We are looking for something fresh, hip, bright and Web 2.0 to replace that current banner.
- Creative
- Think Social Networking Style
- Bold and Bright
- Use Slogan: Increase your bottom line in 2009
- Clip Art
- Photos are okay (see we have one now) but I would really prefer something more unique.