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Flower Essence Therapy
Did you know that Flower Essence Therapy can be an inexpensive and effective approach for developing well-being? Flower Essences are liquid vibrational remedies that are similar to acupuncture, reiki, qi gong and homeopathy. They are an excellent complementary modality to be used with counseling and other kinds of bodywork and somatic healing modalities.
Flower Essences enjoy a reputation of being both highly effective and safe to use. The Flower Essence Society has been collecting case studies and practitioner reports about how people respond to working with in depth with flower essences for over twenty years, and here you can read more about specific case studies and review the scientific research.
Here you can find information about affordable sliding scale services.
Feel free to contact me for a free 15-minute phone consultation.
Check out this free 2 hour webinar to learn more about how flower essences can be used to resolve emotional issues. This webinar also described the differences between homeopathy, flower essences and aromatherapy.
Flower essences can be used to help with:
- Major life transitions
- Depression
- Anxiety
- Self-esteem
- Isolation
- Grief and Loss
- Career Goals
- Relationships & Sexuality
- Communication
- Creative blocks
- Pregnancy & Parenting
- Gay & Lesbian issues
- Workaholism
- Leadership
- Dreams & Sleep
- Spiritual Seeking
- Traumatic Experiences
Flower essences can also be used in conjunction with other holistic
modalities as well as with allopathic medicine for:
- Chronic health problems
- Immune disturbances
- Substance abuse recovery
- Mental health diagnosis
This image and logo is inspired by Soulsign Astrology and the Deep Heart Meditation .
What about Astrology?
Astrology is an archetypal language that connects us to a deeper understanding of ourselves and how we experience cycles of change. Understanding this language can help us to choose more consciously how we work in partnernship with nature and the cosmos in our own authentic way. However, the use of your natal chart is not necessary for you to benefit from the essences.
"After taking Jen Gouvea's "Introduction to Flower Essences" class an entirely new spiritual tool opened for me. I knew very little about flower essences and found Jen's warm and welcoming teaching style and packed curriculum a wonderful way to be introduced to this fascinating subject. The field is vast and leads the curious student to many opportunities to explore a lot of research and data driven practices. Despite what might be overwhelming for the novice, Jen made the experience fun, easy, and inviting. I highly recommend Jen as a masterful guide into this realm of personal growth and healing."
~ Susan, Retired Elementary School Principal
"I am so grateful Jen Gouvea introduced me into the world of vibrational healing. Her extensive knowledge of astrology, compassionate listening, and intuitive insights allowed me to feel safe and supported while working through the issues the flowers helped bring up. At the end of our time together, I felt noticeably clearer, more confident, and more grounded. I will continue to explore flower essences with joy! If you are curious about flower essences, you should try them. Let the gentle flower spirits be your guides!"
-Anastacia, Nanny & Montessori Teacher
"In the beginning, I was skeptical that the essences would affect me. However, after five months of flower essence counseling I have noticed measurable shifts -- among them feeling more centered, having the ability to know what healing steps I need next, and becoming more receptive to others. Within the first weeks of taking Self-Heal, my pace noticeably started to slow down. I was sleeping more, and I was allowing more time for quietness. This was quite a shock since I usually only slept 5-6 hours a night, and I could never sit still."
"Jen Gouvea is highly intuitive and driven, which is a combination you don't find often. She is a gem and a gifted healer. I am so glad I happened upon her on my healing path. I will continue to use vibrational remedies to help me further align with my true self".
-Allison, Nurse Practitioner
"I had used essences before, but under Jen Gouvea's guidance and expertise I quickly learned the value of teamwork in conjunction with the essences. Jen's gentle and open-minded approach has taught me a great deal about how essences "show up" in my system. She showed me how to work with the essences to the greatest effect in a way that's unique to me and my personal journey. I also learned how to use essences to keep myself grounded while they do their work. Jen is gifted in holding a simple sacred space for her clients, and at giving just the right support for them to accomplish their work. I'm grateful for Jen's contribution to the healing light in the world!"
-Darcy, Reiki Teacher
"I had a very positive experience working with Jen and flower essences. I came into the process a skeptic, and left if not a complete enthusiast at least a believer. Through the combination of counseling and various flower essences, I was able to make a major life decision with peace and confidence. The best part of the whole process was how professional and invested Jen is with her clients. I trusted her implicitly, and greatly benefited from the experience."
- Kris, Artist
"I began flower essence counseling with Jen Gouvea in which she paid special attention to my natal chart and astrological evolution in each session. After some time with the essences, I felt called to receive a full astrology reading. Jen made it clear from the beginning that she supports my personal journey and evolution with my natal chart, transits, returns and relationships and ultimately to trust my intuition in partnership with her reading. She customized the reading to touch on points that are of special interest to me and communicated an amazing amount of information with patience, care, and consideration for my experience and understanding. She had recommendations for further study, which I have begun to pursue. Having an astrology reading with Jen has completely enhanced and deepened my understanding of the flower essences with which I am working, and has helped me develop a deeper relationship with the heavens."
Mary, Massage Therapist & Teacher
About Jen Gouvea
Jen Gouvea, MSW is fascinated by plants, planets & people. Since 2004 she's been researching how people transform through the combination of depth-counseling, astrology and flower essences. She is a certified Flower Essence practitioner through The Flower Essence Society. Her educational background includes a master's of social work where she has experience working with women's issues, children and teens, relationships, diversity, trauma, and grief. She also has experience using mind-body techniques to work with clients in substance abuse recovery as well as with veterans coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. Jen spent seven years as the program director of a nonprofit in Baltimore city where she participated in community arts projects and the production of videos about social justice and education issues for youth empowerment.
Jen has studied astrology through personal apprenticeship with notable astrologers Adam Gainsburg, Donna Cunningham and Emily Trinkaus. She is an instructor at The Portland School of Astrology.
She has also apprenticed with pioneering Flower Essence Practitioners Dr. Sabina Pettitt and Camilla Blossom. Jen works with the local flowers of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon/Washington and the Columbia Gorge as well as North American and English flower essences in her practice.
She is a certified Breathwork facilitator through the The Venus Rising Association for Transformation.
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Flower Essences Websites
Flower Essences Books
- "Flowers that Heal: How to Use Flower Essences" by Patricia Kaminski
- Calix International Journal edited by Patricia Kaminski
- The Flower Essence Repertory by Patricia Kaminski
- "The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide" by Kyra Mesich, Psy.D.
- "The Medical Discoveries of Edward Bach, Physician" by Nora Weeks
- The New Encyclopedia of Flower Remedies by Clare Harvey
- Planetary Apothecary by Stephanie Gailing


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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4122?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13583817#comment-13583817 ] SuoNayi commented on AMQ-4122: ------------------------------ The cause is that LeaseDatabaseLocker always succeed updating the broker name (the owner of the lease lock) by later lease time in contrast to the current lease owner,that means new broker will always obtain the lease lock and the previous owner has to give up the lock and becomes slave. > Lease Database Locker failover broken > ------------------------------------- > > Key: AMQ-4122 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMQ-4122 > Project: ActiveMQ > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 5.7.0 > Environment: Java 7u9, SUSE 11, Mysql > Reporter: st.h > Assignee: Gary Tully > Fix For: 5.8.0 > > Attachments: activemq-kyle.xml, activemq.xml, activemq.xml, AMQ4122.patch, mysql.log > > > We are using ActiveMQ 5.7.0 together with a mysql database and could not observe correct failover behavior with lease database locker. > It seems that there is a race condition, which prevents the correct failover procedure. > We noticed that when starting up two instances, both instance are becoming master. > We did several test, including the following and could not observe intended functionality: > - shutdown all instances > - manipulate database lock that one node has lock and set expiry time in distance future > - start up both instances. both instances are unable to acquire lock, as the lock hasn't expired, which should be correct behavior. > - update the expiry time in database, so that the lock is expired. > - first instance notices expired lock and becomes master > - when second instance checks for lock, it also updates the database and becomes master. > To my understanding the second instance should not be able to update the lock, as it is held by the first instance and should not be able to become master. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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By Michael O'Brien, Political Reporter, NBC News
Senate Republicans on Thursday stalled further work on confirming former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., as the next secretary of defense, likely prolonging the fight over the Pentagon nominee for at least another week and a half.
The Senate voted 58 to 40 to end debate on Hagel's nomination, falling short of the 60-vote threshold they needed to move toward a final confirmation vote, and subjecting the former Republican senator to an unprecedented, de-facto filibuster. Four Republicans supported Hagel and one GOP senator voted present, though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., switched his vote to "no" in a procedural move to be able to bring up Hagel's nomination at a later date.
Related: Five lessons we've learned from the Hagel fight
The vote is only a temporary setback for the White House, which still views Hagel's eventual confirmation as a likely proposition. President Barack Obama said in a Google+ hangout shortly after the vote that his "expectation and hope" is that Hagel would eventually be confirmed.
"Senator Hagel is going to be confirmed, if not tomorrow then when the Senate returns from recess," a White House official said Thursday. (The Senate is away from Washington next week and is scheduled to return for work as soon as Feb. 25.)
The Obama administration's confidence is rooted in statements Thursday by a number of Republicans who have said they intend to switch their vote after the recess and support moving toward a final vote for Hagel.
NBC's Kelly O'Donnell shares the latest news about Chuck Hagel's confirmation vote.
The delay still incensed Democrats, though, who argued that the delay was without precedent and risked leaving the military essentially leaderless during a time of war and as major cuts to the defense budget loom. (Outgoing Secretary Leon Panetta continues to serve in his role until Hagel is confirmed, though he had intended to finish his service this week.)
"I'm going to go call Chuck Hagel when I finish here and say, 'I'm sorry,'" Reid said after the cloture vote. He set another cloture vote for Tuesday Feb. 26.
Indeed, the White House scrambled for much of the afternoon to find the handful of Republican votes that would have allowed for Hagel's confirmation this week. They released a letter in response to GOP senators' questions about the administration's response to the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a diplomatic posting in Benghazi, Libya, and Vice President Joe Biden worked the phones in hopes of finding the necessary votes to overcome the de-facto filibuster.
Recommended: Obama hits Georgia to sell new childhood initiatives
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Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee to be defense secretary, on Capitol Hill, Jan. 31, 2013.
The 60-vote threshold means that Hagel's nomination is, in effect, being subjected to a filibuster. Because Republicans are objecting to ending debate – often a formality in the Senate, where lawmakers give their "unanimous consent" to moving forward with a vote – Democrats must deliver the same 60 votes that they would need under the circumstances of a filibuster to end debate on the Hagel nomination.
Republicans argued that they were not orchestrating a formal filibuster against Hagel – a maneuver which would be unprecedented in the instance of a nominee for the secretary of defense position.
Some GOP senators – led by Sens. John McCain, Ariz., and Lindsey Graham, S.C. – said that they just needed a little more time to thoroughly vet Hagel's background, despite having served with the former Nebraska senator during the bulk of his two terms in the Senate. Graham and McCain argued that they needed more time than the two days that have elapsed since the armed services panel approved Hagel's nomination for consideration by the whole Senate.
This story was originally published on Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:56 PM EST
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The EFF explains how to delete your google search history, which you need to do ASAP if you don't want it combined with everything else google knows about you - they've changed their privacy policy to allow them to do this from march
My history includes every article I've read on google news as well as searches
I guess one benefit to combining it would be all the donkey porn videos youtube would start to recommend me
Mine was off already :S
Link is slightly borked.
Try this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/how-remove-your-google-search-history-googles-new-privacy-policy-takes-effect
Or just browse to https://www.google.com/history/
Your search history is currently empty.gg nextmap
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The Google Dashboard is your one-stop shop to see everything Google knows about you.
It's worth noting if you use google apps, you can turn web history for yourself/users off here: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/YOURDOMAIN/Organization#Organization/subtab=services
Urgh, web history.
I have my browser set to clear everything when I close down - then I allow certain cookies like AusGamers and so on so I don't have to keep logging in.
I don't even have much to hide. I just hate the idea of tracking every single f*****g move on the web.
I have my browser set to clear everything when I close downYa, but if you use your Google account they track all sorts of stuff you do. What you search for and what sites you visit from there. Independent of your cookies and such.
Yeah I know, but it helps me sleep better at night. I turned Google Web History off as soon as I knew about it.
Thanks for the heads up, I cleared mine and it seems that it's on paused now.
This is why I'm super paranoid about Chrome and Android. It's in Google's nature to invade your privacy.
thanks for the tip
The EFF explains how to delete your google search history, which you need to do ASAP if you don't want it combined with everything else google knows about you
I fail to see how deleting your google search history stops google knowing anything about you? as if they couldnt just record what you search for when you search for it........... this thread fails.
It stops them combining it with other information.
On the 1/March all your search history will be combined with everything else they know about you. Have a look at the dashboard link trog posted.
It's not a big deal, you can do nothing, no one's going to hold that against you.
but I don't get it.. you are just deleting the history that is displayed on your dashboard. Doesn't mean you are deleting your history of google searches as far as Google are concerned. Who is to say they dont list every single google search alongside your IP.
2 things. 1 - most people who care about this are probably googling things they shouldn't?
2. I for one would like to see people who do google illegal stuff get a knock on their door from the proper authorities thanks to googles heads up.
Somewhat like minority report - stop a crime before it is committed type stuff.
Breach of privacy? maybe.
Carefactor from me for using technology for the betterment of society on a global scale? zero.
Why not use the resources available to us to this end?
The benefit of Google invading your privacy is better search results and more usefully targeted products and services.
The risk is that your information is compromised and suddenly the whole world knows you were searching for fleshlights.
I have it on for the moment, and I'm pretty privacy conscious. But I sincerely believe Google generally try really hard to not be evil, and that is enough for me - for now.
suddenly the whole world knows you were searching for fleshlights.


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View the Video Books last checked out under Reagan
- Related: 20 little-loved library books
A grand, $185 million public library is set to be dedicated downtown on Saturday, with Wi-Fi and fiber-optic technology, computers and e-readers, terminals set up for patrons to FaceTime with staff, and a multimedia gaming area for teens.
Oh, and it will also have books — you know, heavy items fashioned from dead trees, many of which the public has shown little interest in reading for years.
More than half of the books in the stacks had not been used in the previous 12 months when the old library on E Street closed on June 9, according to a data review by U-T Watchdog. Taxpayers still spent $450,000 moving the whole collection to the new domed building on Park Boulevard.
About 19 percent were last used in the 2000s. And about 5 percent, or more than 20,000 books, had last been used sometime between 1985 and 1999.
When did you last check out a library book?
This year 85% (820)
Last year 2% (16)
Last decade 6% (60)
The one before that 8% (74)
970 total votes.
Such statistics might take some of the glow off the gleaming edifice, although library officials say critics are missing the point.
Some of the least popular items:
- "Half Angel" by Barbara Jefferies, a 1959 book called by a recent online reviewer "a tender story about a lonely little boy who rescues a lost Siamese cat." Last used: March 1990.
- "Gold Country," a book of poems by Shirley Kaufman, published in 1973 and last used in March 1995. Sample verse: "Someone. is always on the way. to end the world. restoring Paradise."
- "The Murder of the Dainty-Footed Model," a work of fiction published in 1968 and last used Oct. 15, 1985.
The Watchdog obtained the library's collection data under the California Public Records Act and reviewed the most recent action recorded — when the book was checked out, checked in or placed on hold. Because of the way the information was kept, an unknown number of the "last used" dates were a report of a missing book, although examples used in this report were all in stock.
The review considered the 455,600 items that were on the shelves at the old location on E Street. The review excluded about 200,000 books that were stored in the basement, even though those items were available for people who requested them. The library is hopeful those books will get more use once they are on display.
Library officials pointed out that the library's data does not account for situations when a patron uses a book on site.
"We get considerable use of materials in the library," Library Director Deborah Barrow said.
Library officials said scant use is no justification to give up on traditional libraries, or to begin purging little-used items — particularly since taxpayers already paid for them. They likened throwing away a book to discarding knowledge itself. Around the country, large-scale efforts to weed books from a public collection, especially when haphazard or conducted without transparency, have been met with public protest.
The phenomenon of certain San Diego Central Library books going unread is hardly unique, said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project.
Libraries "are classic long-tail organizations," Rainie said. "They deal in products, that a relatively small number are very, very popular and very, very compelling to the public, and a large, large number are not used nearly as much and not sought out nearly as much."
The library catalog search page features a string of best-sellers, like "Never Go Back" by Lee Child, a suspense novel about a military cop, for which there is a waiting line 430 people deep.
By contrast, a reader perusing the hundreds of titles by and about Dostoevsky, a Russian novelist, could have the pick of the lot, with no holds on the first 100 items that popped up in a recent search.
That issue is old and predates the Internet, Rainie said.
Libraries are responding to digital trends and demands for more meeting and events space, Rainie said. They have diversified by adding venues for socializing, like the new library's upstairs terrace, and inventing, like the library's 3-D printer.
The San Diego library offers e-books, too, but those efforts are vulnerable to price changes by publishers.
"Everything is not on the Internet, and everything is not free, even if it is on the Internet," Barrow said. "But if we have those hard copies, we have something available to our community members that otherwise would not be available."
John Celis, 42, of San Diego, who was visiting the Mission Valley branch earlier this week, believes the library and its collection of hard-copy books is still very relevant. Celis, a sheet metal mechanic, reads a few dozen books in a year, mostly history.
"We spend a lot of money on a lot of things," Celis said, noting as one example redevelopment of the Gaslamp district. "If you don't build things, you don't progress."
Also at Mission Valley was Sylvia Cunningham, of San Diego, who was not fazed by the usage numbers on the Central Library's items. Cunningham noted that some of them could be rare or first editions.
"Technology is great, but there's something very comforting about a book," Cunningham said.
Allen P. Hemphill of Hidden Meadows, near Escondido, is aware of people like Cunningham.
"A small subset of the population loves the smell and the tactile feel of books," Hemphill said. "I just wonder if taxpayers should feed that sort of thing."
Hemphill, 80, prefers audio or e-versions of books and had trouble remembering which decade it was he last visited a public library — "I think the '80s, probably."
Hemphill supports small community and branch libraries, especially in areas where the population is of limited means. He questions the value of a large central library in downtown, which he predicts will become a magnet for the homeless.
"The building's going to last for 40 years, books are going to last for 10 to 20 years. What the hell are you going to do with this building?" Hemphill said.
Taxpayer activist Richard Rider has also been critical of building a new library but not because of book circulation trends. He believes governments would do better to contract out the job of providing computer and Internet access to coffee shops and restaurants, and stay focused on books.
"I don't have a problem with having libraries that lend books. It seems to me that's a long-standing tradition," Rider said. "But it doesn't require a Taj Mahal to do that."
About three-fourths of Americans say they read at least one book, printed or digital, in a year's time, although the percentage of Americans reading digital books is increasing while the percentage reading the print versions is decreasing, from 72 percent in 2011 to 67 percent in 2012, according to a December study co-authored by Rainie.
Among readers, the median number of books read in that 12-month period was six.
Fewer people read books now than they did in the late 1970s, though the most marked shift away from reading occurred in the 1980s.
What do people do instead?
The greatest share of Americans' leisure time is devoted to watching television, more than two-and-a-half hours on a typical weekday and nearly three-and-a-half hours on weekends and holidays, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics snapshot of people 15 and older. That's compared to less than 20 minutes that Americans spend reading on a typical weekday.Copyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Bruce Taylor, Hugh Greene, Matt Brockelman, Joy Korman, Rad Lovett, Joannie Newton, Lynn Pappas, Myron Pincomb, Patrick Plumlee, Lanny Russell, Sharon Wamble-King
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Chair Taylor called the workshop to order.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION to approve the minutes from the October 18, 2011 and January 17, 2012 workshops. A MOTION was offered and seconded. Both sets of minutes were approved as presented.
Marcelle Polednik, director of MOCA, and Debra Murphy, chair of the Department of Art and Design, provided an update on MOCA, from their different perspectives. Following this update, trustees discussed the museum's finances, as well as the report from the State Auditor General.
In this discussion, Marcelle noted that 5 new trustees were added, which brought the Board toward a full 40-member Board. Additional notes were discussed on the museum's project-based budgeting and MOCA's fiscal responsibility to UNF.
Debra discussed the history of MOCA and UNF's presence downtown. She talked about the cost of attending class downtown, including parking.
The discussion concluded, noting that the future of MOCA was positive, with multi-year commitments looking bright.
Chair Taylor adjourned the workshop.
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I have a confession to make. I've never seen ET or Titanic. Shame shame yes but I was never really interested in the stories. A boy making friends with an alien only to have ET leave him at the end or to wait 3 grueling hours just to watch a ship sink. Come on.
Anyways, thought I'd share the trailer to the upcoming blockbuster Avatar. The film has been getting lotsa hype on the interwebs. Apparently it is filmed with a new technology - a fusion of live-action, 3D and CGI.
Whatever - it looks really cool.
Elements of the central plot include many environmental themes. I may check it out in the theaters come December.
Enjoy and have a great weekend !


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The Dry Grass of August
Infused with the intensity of a changing time, here is a story of hope and heartbreak, of love and courage, of a journey from wounded to indomitable. In August 1954, Jubie Watts, a white teenager, leaves Charlotte, NC, with her family and their black maid for a Florida vacation.
Jubie notices the anti-integration signs they pass, and feels racial tension build as they journey further south. But she cannot predict the shocking turn their trip will take. In the wake of tragedy, Jubie confronts her parents' failings, decides where her own convictions lie, and makes a leap to independence.
Praise for The Dry Grass of August
BookPage: "...Anna Jean Mayhew's debut novel deserves all the early praise it's getting...(her) narrative is beyond contestation and well-deserving of a wide readership." read more
Bookreporter.com: "The angst and ennui of a young girl on the brink of her teenage years recall classics like Carson McCullers's THE MEMBER OF THE WEDDING..." read more
Publishers Weekly: "A girl comes of age in the tumultuous 1950s South in Mayhew's strong debut..." read more
Booklist: "Through immediate first-person narration, this first novel gets the prejudice and cruelty in daily life exactly right..." read more
Lee Smith: "The Dry Grass of August is a perfectly realized novel..." read more
"Beautifully written, with complex characters, an urgent plot, and an ending so shocking and real it had me in tears." — Eleanor Brown, author of The Weird Sisters, a NY Times Bestseller
New York subway rider reading The Dry Grass of August
Mayor Steve Benjamin of Columbia, SC, at the kickoff for One Book, One Columbia, scheduled for February 28, 2013
Read a literary academic review of The Dry Grass of August — click here
Winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for 2011
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What was Flagler's Folly?
In extending his F.E.C. Railway down to Key West, Henry Flagler was convinced that that port would become a major focus of transoceanic commerce to be opened up by the forthcoming Panama Canal which was, in fact, completed in 1914. Key West did not, however, attract the trade which Flagler had anticipated, and his enormously expensive "overseas" railroad thereto was never a financial success. Running from 1912 until 1935, it was also ill fated due to an engineering weakness which rendered the railway vulnerable to the devastating hurricane of 1935. Largely to please the aging Flagler by completing the project ahead of schedule, the highly regarded engineering firm in charge of the monumental task of construction decided to build the railroad's roadbed on natural and man-made sand dunes, instead of pilings. Although lasting 23 years, the sand roadbed was finally washed away by the pounding surf generated by the fury of the Labor Day Hurricane (September 2nd, 1935).
Answer: The extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from Miami to Key West.
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I emerged a small doubt .. Is there any way to eliminate the launchers that are added to the Open with ... in Xfce? :?
The problem is that, when added when a file can not find the application with which to comply, and applications are added to the Open With option, then you can not delete?
Is there any way to do this?
url: blog.desdelinux.net
twt: @elavdeveloper
I think that Thunar uses the MIME type information in the ".desktop" file provided by an application. For those you are added yourself, you will find them in "~/.local/share/applications". Look also in "defaults.list" and "mimeinfo.cache".
Check /usr/local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications or a similar directory (depending on your system).
OK.. gracias... Creo que esa es la solución.
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Amanda Bynes has ended things with boyfriend Doug Reinhardt who she believes was using her for "her celebrity," according to Us Magazine:
"She ended it. She had had enough," a source close to the actress tells Usmagazine.com. "Her friends didn't trust him. Everyone thought he was using her for celebrity. He was not good, and she was over it. It was definitely her who ended it."
Using Amanda Bynes for her celebrity. Jesus. Way to bark up the wrong tree. Then again, this guy dated Lauren Conrad. Also, he might've been on to something with Amanda. Check out her views on marriage:
"I feel trapped with the idea of marriage," she said. "How can you really be with somebody forever? I'd get bored! As I get older, I don't settle. I'd rather tell somebody, 'This is what I want — take it or leave it.'"
Wow. It's like we share the same thoughts. Marry me? – – Oh, right, all that stuff you just said.


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Skier killed after hitting tree at Deer Valley
January 29, 2014
Editor's note: Deer Valley has released the name of the skier who died Tuesday. Michael S. Leone was from West Palm Beach, Florida.
A skier died on the slopes of Deer Valley on Tuesday after colliding with a tree.
Deer Valley Communications Manager Emily Summers confirmed the fatality saying the victim was skiing on a run off the Wasatch chairlift.
According to Summers, the accident occurred on the Keno above a connecting trail with the nearby ski run Nabob. Keno is classified as intermediate terrain on Deer Valley's trail map.
A press release from Deer Valley issued later in the afternoon stated, "After rescue efforts by both Ski Patrol and Air Med staff on a 65-year-old male skier from Florida, who was wearing a helmet, proved unsuccessful, he was pronounced dead on the scene."
Citing privacy concerns "and out of respect for the family," Deer Valley representatives declined to release the name of the deceased.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
The Cowboys Need Another Win
A few weeks ago it appeared that this would be an easy game for the Cowboys. The Dolphins were winless and they were finding a way to lose every week. But the Cowboys three game winning streak has been mirrored by a three game winning streak for the Dolphins.
Matt Moore has been on a roll during the winning streak. I felt that when the Cowboys released Moore a few years ago that they had made a mistake. It isn't like Matt Moore is going to be the next Tom Brady but I thought he had potential. He has developed into a guy who would have been a good backup option for the Cowboys.
I think the bigger concern for the Cowboys has to be Reggie Bush. The Dolphins have finally figured out how to use Reggie Bush in their system. And he creates matchup nightmares for any opponent. Sean Lee has the athleticism to match up with Bush but he is still playing one-handed. Lee's ability to contain Bush will have a big impact on whether the Cowboys can contain the Dolphin offense.
I think the offense will put up points for the Cowboys. The Dolphins aren't world beaters on defense but they are decent. They are currently ranked 9th in the NFL in yards allowed so it isn't like we should expect Tony Romo to throw for 5 TD's and DeMarco Murray to run for 150 yards. But I do think the Cowboys will be able to put up at least 24 points which should be enough for a win.
The Cowboys defense needs to force a few early 3 and outs and maybe a turnover or two so the Cowboys can get out to an early lead. The Dolphins don't have an explosive offense that can play from behind. Matt Moore has been great over the last 3 games but his history includes a lot of high turnover games. The defense needs to make this another one of those games.
I'm expecting a relatively easy win for the Cowboys. But I don't think that it will be a complete blowout. Tony Romo will continue his excellent play and Sean Lee will find a way to limit the big plays of Reggie Bush. I'm picking the Cowboys to win the game 24-13.
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- AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM
First off, R2W, I enjoy your blog very much. I agree with about 85% of what you say most of the time. I have been reading your blog for a little over 3 years I'm thinking.ReplyDelete
Now, I was born and raised in West Texas and I bleed blue and Gray. With that being said, I have three words for our defense, HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!!!
There is now way in hell we are going to beat the Giants, let alone go anywhere in the playoffs. Regardless if we win or lose this game, our defense is pathetic.
Or maybe the blame should fall on Ryan. I don't know. But really? I don't care what anyone says, Miami is NOT THAT GOOD! I don't care if they won three games in a row or not. They beat KC, Skins and the Bills. Big whoop!
I'm just venting and I appreciate the place your provide for me to vent. But dammit DEFENSE, TIGHTEN UP!!!
I agree 100% with Mike (about the blog and defense). You know whats funny? My wife said to me, "I am sick and tired of the Dallas defense making these average quarterbacks look amazing".ReplyDelete
Another comment she made, and she has said it for the past 3 or 4 weeks, is how the opposing team seems to try and make a 1st down EVERY play, the Cowboys seem to want to make only 2-3 yards per play.
Gosh, I have such a smart wife....
- AnonymousNovember 24, 2011 at 7:36 PM
A win is a win, right? The Cowboys are beating the teams they need to beat. But barely. I've never felt more nervous about a 7-4 team. They just haven't beaten anyone and have trouble beating the lower to mid-level teams. If they make the playoffs, whoever they play is going to be really happy to play them because I don't see the Cowboys having a chance to win a playoff game. They lucked out with the schedule this year. Same as the Packers. The Packers could go undefeated because of their schedule. No games against the 49ers or Pats or Steelers or Ravens and so on. The schedule is set up for the Boys to make the playoffs but it's not set up for them to be prepared for what waits for them when they get there. They need to get better real fast.ReplyDelete


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In just five months, Bharti Airtel's App store has had over 13 Million downloads. What a terrific example of a Telco App Store in action and (presumably) making money for the Telco. This article came across my screen this afternoon and given my previous posts about Bharti's App Store and carriers wanting to get into them (something I've seen all over Asia) to try and arrest some of the revenue bleeding to Apple (and to a lesser extent Google, Nokia and RIM) through single brand (phone) app stores.
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/printarticle.aspx?cid=742043 - Thursday 24 June 2010 | 03:29 AM CET, Telecompaper
The article is really brief, barely a footnote, but it does lay out some interesting facts:
- 13 Million downloads since Feb '10
- Over 71,00 Applications available, up from 1250 at launch
- Support for 780 different devices
- 1.2 downloads per second
Technorati Tags: app_store, bharti, airtel, telco, mobile_portal, andrew_larmour,
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The first link on this page is for the entire document, which is quite large and may take considerable time to download on certain internet connections. The other links will take you to specific sections or pages for faster downloads.
PDF file of entire easement atlas (PDF) (100 MB) Note: Once this PDF file is open, clicking on items in the Table of Contents will take you to corresponding sections.
Map Index (PDF)
Cover, How to Use this Atlas, Explanation of Terms, List of Conveyances, Corporation and Government Contacts, Easement Use Limitations
Maps and Reserved Easements
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The Emerman Lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, in the division of Human Biology studies host-cell interactions of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and related viruses. We wish to understand the molecular and evolutionary basis of virus replication and pathogenesis.
We study the evolution and function of host antiviral genes in order to determine how HIV adapted to humans, and how ancient viral infections influenced the susceptibility or resistance of humans to modern lentiviruses.
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VIENNA, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama has been wearing a pink wristband in recognition of breast cancer awareness month and his challenger, Mitt Romney, donned a pink ribbon on his shirt during a factory stop in Ohio.
The symbolic gestures are part of a determined competition in the campaign's closing weeks for suburban and working women who could help determine the winner in a series of toss-up states.
Women have emerged as the pivotal voting bloc in the aftermath of the second presidential debate, where Obama and Romney sparred over contraceptives and pay inequality and Romney spoke about reviewing "binders full of women" as governor when he sought to diversify his Massachusetts administration.
Some national polls suggest Obama's longstanding edge with female voters is narrowing, prompting both sides to make an all-out blitz for women.
At the heart of the debate, which is playing out in the suburbs of northern Virginia and in several swing states, is this question: What will most motivate women in the 2012 election?
Romney's pitch is heavily focused on economic issues — his campaign contends that the vast majority of women will respond to pocketbook issues like paying for gasoline or groceries, the need for more take-home pay and how the federal debt might affect their children.
Obama has emphasized a mix of economic and social issues, warning that Romney's vow to repeal the Obamacare health law would hurt women and the Republican would fail to protect abortion rights.
Shirley Jackson, an 82-year-old Republican from Vienna, Va., said she continues to support Romney but is worried about how women perceive him. Jackson said she recently facilitated a discussion about the election at her local Red Hat Society meeting and was struck by how many women in the group said they were turned off by Romney's opposition to abortion rights.
"He has lost a tremendous amount of support among women because of this decision," Jackson said.
Democrats say Romney's views on women's health should be a deal-breaker. Melissa Skelton, 41, a stay-at-home mom from Vienna, said women's health has overshadowed other issues for multitudes of women — and would help the president.
"I'd rather live with a president who struggles with the economy but cares about people," she said.
Romney's campaign is mindful that it does not need to win a majority of women because it maintains a healthy lead among men. But campaign officials say they could severely weaken the president's re-election chances by slicing into the 13-point margin Obama had with women voters in 2008 and picking off support in swing states where women form a majority of the electorate.
Obama's team, meanwhile, is trying to take advantage of the president's personal favorability among women and undermine those voters' trust in Romney.
Ads have highlighted Romney's opposition to federal funding for Planned Parenthood and his shifting views on abortion rights, which he supported in Massachusetts but has opposed during his two presidential bids. The Obama ads end with this tagline: "Women need to know the real Mitt Romney." Abortion-themed ads have been on the rise in recent weeks across the political spectrum, more than tripling in the number of occurrences since mid-September, according to Kantar Media Intelligence.
The campaigns are competing for women in several key suburban markets — including northern Virginia, the Denver suburbs, central Florida and Cleveland's suburbs — while simultaneously appealing to unmarried women and those with blue-collar backgrounds who have been more vulnerable to the slow economic recovery. Obama won about 70 percent of unmarried women and carried about 60 percent of suburban women in 2008, setting a high bar for the president's campaign.
The intense effort to reach female voters has grown as national polls have shown cracks in Obama's support among women. Four years ago, Obama and Republican rival John McCain essentially split men in 2008 but polls have shown Romney with a double-digit lead among males this time.
"The big gender gap I'm looking at right now is Obama's male gender gap because those men seem pretty cemented in," said Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, who served as an adviser to Newt Gingrich's presidential bid. "Whereas there's a fair amount of women who remain fluid, either completely undecided or soft in their support for either Obama or Romney."
Romney has sought to distance himself from statements he made on abortion and contraceptives during the Republican primaries while driving home that his economic plan would create jobs for women and their families. Romney's wife, Ann, has been a key surrogate for her husband, vouching for him before female audiences.
In TV ads, Romney offers a moderate image. In one ad, a woman says that Romney "thinks abortion should be an option in cases of rape, incest or to save a mother's life" but says she's "more concerned about the debt our children will be left with." Another spot features women who served under Romney. "He totally gets working women," says Ellen Roy Herzfelder, Romney's former environmental affairs secretary.
Obama reminds voters that the first law he signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which prevents restrictions on workers filing lawsuits over pay inequity. Romney has not taken a position on the bill but said he wouldn't repeal it.
At rallies, the president routinely talks about the women in his life: how his grandmother watched men she trained get promoted over her, how education lifted his wife, Michelle, from a modest upbringing and why it wouldn't be fair if his two daughters earned less than their male counterparts when they eventually join the workforce.


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Posting of Promotional Materials in the Law Library
The Law Library does not permit the posting or display of non-library related materials. Official Law School and University publications selected by the Law Library staff may be distributed in the Law Library on a short-term, limited basis. The University of Georgia Campus Promotion Guide for Student Organizations and UGA Departments includes venue suggestions for promotional materials.
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By Scott Stein
Apple's iPhone 5 launched to massive fanfare on Sept. 12, and now the verdict is in from CNET's Scott Stein. He found that the new iPhone offers key features that were desired by users when its predecessor, the iPhone 4S, shipped.
"The bottom line is, we said last year that the two big missing parts of the iPhone were 4G LTE and a larger screen. The iPhone 5 has them, plus a new processor, plus a new design, plus iOS 6, plus a lot more. It's the best iPhone that's been made.
Stein described the iPhone 5 as a "reboot" of the device, which started the smartphone revolution in 2007. "It's hard to find a single part of the iPhone that hasn't been rewritten, redesigned, retooled," Stein wrote.
Stein gave the iPhone 5 four out of five stars, noting some missing features and drawbacks compared the top competition.
Read full review: http://www.cnet.com/iphone-5/


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Chandra Image of M101
Chandra's image of Messier 101, taken in X-ray light, shows the high-energy features of this spiral galaxy. X-rays are generally created in violent and/or high-temperature events. The white dots are X-ray sources that include the remains of exploded stars as well as material colliding at extreme speeds around black holes. The pink and blue colors are emission from million-degree gas and from clusters of massive stars. The pink emission indicates lower-energy X-rays and the blue higher-energy X-rays. One reason astronomers study Messier 101's X-rays is to better understand how black holes grow in spiral galaxies.
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The following seems counterintuitive to me and so I am constantly getting burned by it. Just thought I'd add a note for anyone else who might also get burned.
if (!odbc_exec("select MyValue from MyTable where Key1='x' and Key2='y'"))
is not a good way to search for the existence of a record with Key1 = x and Key2 = y. The odbc_exec always returns a result handle, even though there aren't any records.
Rather, you must use one of the fetch functions to find out that the record really doesn't exist. This should work:
if (!($Selhand = odbc_exec("select MyValue from MyTable where Key1='x' and Key2='y'"))
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I'm trying to install CLAPACK-3.2.1 on ubuntu9.04, which is running on VirtualBox3.2.8. And the host's OS is win7. The installation process is carried out under the instruction of README.install.
While I successfully finish the first three steps( tar, make f2clib, make blaslib, to be specific, no error reported ), problems begin to occur in the 4th one:
cd CLAPACK/BLAS/TESTING; make -f Makeblat2
cd CLAPACK/BLAS
xblat2s < sblat2.in
xblat2d < dblat2.in
xblat2c < cblat2.in
xblat2z < zblat2.in
cd CLAPACK/BLAS/TESTING; make -f Makeblat3
cd CLAPACK/BLAS
xblat3s < sblat3.in
xblat3d < dblat3.in
xblat3c < cblat3.in
xblat3z < zblat3.in
It's expected to get some output files *.SUMM, but I don't see any.
However, I proceed the 5th step: cd CLAPACK/SRC; make; Sadly, I got error report as follows:
ar: ../INSTALL/slamch.o: No such file or directory
make: *** [../lapack_LINUX.a] Error 1
But I have slamch.c under /INSTALL/. I'm bewildered why there's no slamch.o file generated.
Any hints about the problems? Also, it's said that I should copy the generated *.a files to /usr/local/lib/. Is that all before I can use CLAPACK? ( Sorry to bother you with such a question, I'm not familiar with Linux yet :-(. )


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Representations of the World in Language Textbooks Author: Karen Risager
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This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The framework is transferable to other kinds of learning materials and to other subjects. The framework distinguishes between five approaches: national studies, citizenship education studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies and transnational studies. In a series of concrete analyses, the book illustrates how one can describe and uncover representations of the world in textbooks for English, German, French, Spanish, Danish and Esperanto. Each analysis is accompanied by suggestions of possible supplements and changes. The book points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.
This intensely scholarly work provides an exhaustive study of textbooks used in Danish schools in six languages. It focuses on discourses of culture and potentials for intercultural learning. It will be core reading for researchers in textbook analysis and the problematised concepts of nation and its relationship with language and culture.- Adrian Holliday, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
This important research-based book is unique in that it addresses the issue of representation in materials for the teaching of a range of modern foreign languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Danish and Esperanto. Written by a well-established author, the book deftly combines theoretically informed analysis with practical suggestions for language teaching professionals and materials writers and producers.- John Gray, UCL Institute of Education, UK
The cultural dimensions of language learning are important and complex. Teachers and researchers will therefore welcome this accessible introduction to culture for language learning. Risager breaks through the seemingly impenetrable divide between theory and practice by analyzing textbooks through multiple theoretical perspectives on culture.- Carol A. Chapelle, Iowa State University, USA
Karen Risager is Professor Emerita in Cultural Encounters at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Language and Culture Pedagogy: From a National to a Transnational Paradigm (Multilingual Matters, 2007).


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Or is it the only video game gourd ever conceived? Neither here nor there. Either way: it's excellent (it's mother-flipping Pumpktris, for crying out loud); it's fully operational (thanks to a handy dandy peduncle-turned-joystick); and it was born out of a daydream. Explains Nathan, its creator:
One of my habits is to write down all the crazy, fleeting ideas I have, then go back to review later rather than judging right off the bat, or even worse, forgetting them. Earlier in the month I was looking through that idea notepad and found "Make Tetris Pumpkins" from sometime last year. My original plan had been to make forms to shape pumpkins into Tetris pieces as they grew, then stack them together for Halloween. Since Halloween was only a few weeks away and it was too late to start growing pumpkins, I thought "Why not make a pumpkin you can play Tetris on instead?"
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Let your friends in podcasting put a little Ho Ho Ho into your holidays (and honestly, we have no idea what this even means) with their fourth "Top Ten" show of this, year ten of YOUR Chillpak Hollywood Hour … This week, Dean and Phil count down their Top Ten (episodic) Television Shows of 2016, and this year their countdown comes replete with caveats! Who doesn't love a good caveat during the holiday season?
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Social and biological indicators of sustainability
Social and biological indicators of sustainability can be used to encourage individual and organizational stakeholders in a natural resource to act in ways that promote ecological, economic, and social health. We hypothesize that regular monitoring and reporting of such indicators may improve resilience in the complex human-environment system by improving stakeholder perception of ecological change, enhancing learning, and facilitating the process of adaptive management over time. This expectation arises for two reasons related to psychological framing: First, an explicit link between pollutant controls and measurable indicators will frame the sustainability issue in terms of "property rights." Second, well-designed indicators are more easily remembered and processed and may link more easily to personal aspirations. There is evidence to suggest that both effects are likely to motivate stakeholders to act in ways that promote sustainability. We anticipate that the results of our work in this area will be used to design regulatory frameworks, especially in the energy domain, that ensure environmental protection while exploiting economic efficiencies and addressing social justice concerns.
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|Even Patti learned to stitch!
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Thank you for spending your precious time with us.
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What an interesting work shop :)ReplyDelete
looks like a great class, and i agree, art does healReplyDelete
Wow! That's a big group of smiling faces. How wonderful.ReplyDelete
Davi showed me her piece yesterday and, as i knew i would, i was drooling!!!
Congrats to you two!
I see Wendee!ReplyDelete
I wish there were more opportunites for healing through art. Art is such a powerful was to express emotions.ReplyDelete
I'm new to your blog, but just had to write to tell you what a wonderful, and most healing, workshop this looked to be.ReplyDelete
Looks like a great class! CongratsReplyDelete
Art does heal, and it works when nothing else will. I think it can be a form of prayer. I'd like to see more of what was made. Even making my 'own version' of what you described after being inspired by the class description has been helpful. I want to push the boundaries and do MORE. The picture of the smiling women holding their art made me think, "so much sorrow surrounded by so much joy." Peggy in TulsaReplyDelete
hi Jane... yes, I know you are "more" than 200, but I want to share you with my friends. So I am taking some artistic license with the numbers on the Award... because of your wonderful sharing, and your creative ideas... hope that is ok with you...one day we will meet. hugs, vReplyDelete
What a POWERFUL Workshop Jane.. I bet you came away from that day feeling both uplifted and heavy hearted.ReplyDelete
What a fantastic workshop! Bring it to the east coast!ReplyDelete


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Sue Lyon
"I defy any pretty girl who is rocketed to stardom in a sex nymphette role to stay on a level path. Lolita exposed me to temptations no girl of that age should undergo. From the time I was about 16, I'd go totally wacko, totally crazy, for about three months at a time, then go into such deep depressions that I wouldn't even leave the house to go to the grocery store.
I hate the spotlight, I hate people looking at me, I don't like strangers asking me questions. I like to be left alone. I enjoy my security, my safeness with a private life. I was once on a television show, a talk show. My brother had just died two days before that. The interviewer opens his show by saying – and now I was 16 years old – he said, 'Did your brother kill himself because you played Lolita?' I didn't say a thing. I got up and I walked off. I couldn't even dignify that. I had no words. That's typical of the reason that I can't be a movie star. I never could.
Am I going to be Lolita when I'm 50? Much as I appreciated Lolita in her day, I'd like to leave her now."
–Sue Lyon, after her early retirement from films (photo via Chicago Sun-Times, 1962)


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Nick Williams impressive at UConn's Pro Day
STORRS -- The smallest guy might have had the biggest day.
Nick Williams, listed at 5-foot-10, 185 pounds on the roster, but likely a couple of inches shorter (and a lot lighter), first opened some eyes with a 37-inch vertical leap and then opened some more with a 4.56 40-yard dash at UConn's annual Pro Day on Wednesday afternoon at the Mark E. Shenkman Training Facility.
Along with Williams, NFL Combine participants Sio Moore, Trevardo Williams, Blidi Wreh-Wilson and Dwayne Gratz took part in individual and position drills as did 10 other seniors, including defensive end Ryan Wirth, wide receiver Michael Smith and tight ends Ryan Griffin and John Delahunt.
"There was definitely a little bit of pressure. There's obviously no tomorrow," Nick Williams said. "I think I tested out pretty well, got some decent feedback from some teams before this event ... and post. I might be short but I think I can bring a lot to an (NFL) team. I'm really quick, I can play a bunch of positions. I'm faster than I look. I can be a valuable asset to a team."
Williams will initially be looked at as a punt/kick returner and special teams performer -- most likely as a free agent -- but UConn head coach Paul Pasqualoni feels that he has potential to be a solid inside slot receiver, a la Wes Welker.
"What Nick brings is, he's got a way on punt returns and kick returns, he's got a way of really making plays," Pasqualoni said. "But I really think that he can play that inside slot receiver spot, he just hasn't had enough experience there yet. We just put him in there last year, but you can't do it all in a year. I think he's going to open some eyes and surprise people with his ability to return punts and kickoffs, and he will develop into being a good inside slot receiver."
Of the 32 NFL teams, just Dallas, Minnesota and Washington did not send representatives or scouts to the Pro Day. New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, wearing a Trinity College sweatshirt, showed up and spent a long time talking with Pasqualoni.
Several mock drafts show Moore as a possible second-round selection with Wreh-Wilson and Trevardo Williams slotted for the mid to late third round or early fourth round. Gratz is being looked at as a sixth- or seventh-round pick.
Moore stood out at the NFL Combine last month in Indianapolis, posting a 4.65 40-yard dash, doing 29 reps of 225 pounds in the bench press, having a 38-inch vertical jump and a 127-inch (10-feet, 7-inches) in the broad jump, earning "top performer" status in all four categories.
"I was just trying to give them the best that I can," Moore said. "For me, I had an opportunity to showcase myself (playing in the East-West Shrine Game and the Senior Bowl) and show what I can do. I went into those games with a chip on my shoulder, trying to prove to everyone that I am the best linebacker in this class ... that I can do everything on the field that they ask me to do."
Despite working on a bad ankle in Indianapolis, Trevardo Williams of Bridgeport, a defensive end at UConn, ran a 4.58 40-yard dash (the best of all 37 linebackers that competed), tied for first with Moore with a 38-inch vertical leap and did 30 reps of 225 pounds. On Wednesday, he competed in the three drills he didn't do at the combine -- the 3-cone drill, the 20-yard shuttle and the 60-yard TD shuttle -- but the sore ankle limited what he could do.
"I gave everything that I had and I just hope that (the scouts) appreciate what I did," said Williams, who is still being bothered by a right ankle sprain and spent much of Pro Day fighting back spasms and a groin strain. "I tried to bear through it. I was a little concerned how it was going to affect me, especially after the (3-cone) shuttle, I tweaked it then, so I knew I wasn't going to have a good run."
Wirth had a solid day, doing 33 bench reps, posting a 33½-inch vertical leap and running a 4.85 40-yard dash. Other highlights were guard Adam Masters (33 reps), Griffin (34½-inch vertical, along with a 4.84 40-yard dash) and Smith (33-inch vertical, 4.53 40-yard dash).
"I think they were all prepared. I think they worked hard and gave it all they had," Pasqualoni said. "It's a big day for them. It's the most important job interview they've ever had. I don't know what the times were but it looked like they did well."
In other news, UConn announced a home and home football series with Boise State, starting in 2014 with a game a Rentschler Field and then a 2018 game in Boise, Idaho.
"Our commitment to our fan base and the state of Connecticut is to bring in quality teams outside the conference each year," Pasqualoni said. "By bringing in Boise State, we're demonstrating what that commitment is."
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Opinion: The Case for Destroying Hamas
Global View Columnist Bret Stephens on why entering Gaza to oust Hamas for good is the only path toward a safe Israel. Photo credit: Associated Press.
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... I ... chill Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... Israel has stepped up attacks on a terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip ... meanwhile Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system is intercepting ... many missiles headed for civilian areas in Israel ... global view calmness Bret Stephens joins me now Brett ... what triggered this latest round of buyouts ... well I think was a politically opportune moment for Hamas ... the for a number of reasons ... they'd been regionally backflow did did Last Update written in the charts are used to be the best friend and he started killing all of Palestinians ... so they were sort of embarrassed of the Damascus ... that Last Mohammad Morsi in ... Egypt ... then there was the um I'll Regis murder of a Palestinian teen age boy hey this looks like a Jewish vigilantes Shinsei Jewish terrorists ... um just in the last of last week and that set off a widespread rioting in the West Bank and I think of Moscow that it was an opportunity ... perhaps to spark a third intifada that would sideline the rivals ... of President Mahmoud Abbas in in in in the Fatah party ... to give them some um ... but some credibility some some momentum within Palestinian policies that Hamas is miscalculated for ... well that remains to be seen and it depends on the sense of the Israeli reaction because ultimately what Hamas figures ... is that no matter how badly the Israeli students ... are not going to affect us from Gaza ... so therefore ... we win politically by just showing that were leading but they called the resistance ... and we would propaganda sickly because every Palestinian civilian casualty and those are very artful voice when they're firing rockets from within ... urban areas serves the propaganda purposes of the Palestinians ... so ... so long as some Hamas has reason to believe ... that they will emerge from this written of this latest round of fighting essentially escape ... that they are actually making a pretty good bet for themselves however much ordinary Palestinians suffer ... ordinary Palestinians suffer now in the editorial that we had in the newspaper this morning it's up on the beest dot com right now ... in the editorial page argues it's time to obliterate Mosby of the old one died right ... well look what is the root cause of this conflict everyone likes to say the settlements accepted forget one inconvenient fact this is that Israel removes all of its settlements from the Gaza Strip in two thousand five ... twenty one settlements in all this from the strip us about nine thousand ... settlers so it's very hard to play what's happening in Gaza the civil war the takeover by Hamas the endless ... rain rain of rockets on on terrorism ... it's it's because this is an enclave governed by its identity Rex want is fails to strike in Israel goes in civilians will suffer if there are already suffering right now right that's absolutely true assets are kept at ten a and and Israeli soldiers will suffer but that the op the other ... the other possibility or the other reality that is a looks at ... his of war over Gaza ... every of every three years ago but every three years or so ... and um ... this does not have to permanently re occupy the strip ... it has to destroy Hamas as a military entity which would mean a planned invasion of just an air to air a campaign ... headed pass to seize on ... the creek or Torah plan that separates ... them that the bill with separate ... Egypt's Sinai Peninsula ... from the Gaza Strip to prevent the smuggling of the kind of highly ... sophisticated long-range medium range munitions ... that are now hitting targets as far north as Haifa ...


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Friday, December 2, 2011
Potato and Mushroom Gratin with Gruyere
Potato Gratin with Mushrooms and Gruyère
Bon Appetit Magazine November 2010
8 to 10 servings
PREP: 1 hour TOTAL: 2 hours
1/4 cup olive oil
4 cups finely chopped leeks (white and green parts only; about 3 large)
1 1/2 pounds 1/2-inch cubes assorted mushrooms (such as crimini and stemmed shiitake; about 10 cups)
2 garlic cloves, minced
3 pounds Yukon Gold potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/8-inch-thick slices
2 cups heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon (or more) salt
1/2 teaspoon (or more) freshly ground black pepper
1 cup coarsely grated Gruyère cheese
The Technique: Gratin
Parboil sliced potatoes in whipping cream, then layer them with mushrooms and top with Gruyère. Your end product has great texture and flavor through and through--the cheese gets browned and toasty in the oven, and the layers of creamy potatoes and mushrooms are rich and satisfying.
Heat 1/4 cup oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add leeks; sauté until soft and lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Add mushrooms, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and sauté until soft and liquid evaporates, 7 to 8 minutes. Add garlic; sauté 1 minute. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside. DO AHEAD Can be made 4 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.
Preheat oven to 375°F. Pat potato slices dry with kitchen towel. Combine cream, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 teaspoon pepper in large pot. Add potatoes. Bring to boil; reduce heat to medium and simmer, covered, 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove lid; simmer until cream is reduced by about half and potatoes are partially cooked, stirring often and watching closely to prevent mixture from burning, about 3 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Brush 13x9x2-inch glass or ceramic baking dish with oil. Transfer half of potato mixture to dish, spreading out in even layer. Spoon mushroom mixture over in even layer. Spoon remaining potato mixture over, spreading in even layer. Sprinkle cheese over. Cover with foil, tenting in center to prevent cheese from sticking to foil. Bake 30 minutes. Uncover; bake until potatoes are tender and top is brown, 20 to 25 minutes longer. Let rest 10 minutes before serving.
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Posted by Michele at 11:00 AM
4 comments:
- All Things Yummy said...
Julia Child has a similiar recipe to this and I love it. It's so cheesy and delicious. yum!
- December 2, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- janice15 said...
mmmmmmmmm mm Good this looks great I love Potato with cheese I have always done this one my second Italian mom gave me when I first got married..with Velveeta cheese.. Idk why I have never tried others...but I ready to try this one...Looks great thanks...Janice
- December 2, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- Patti T. said...
I just made this yesterday to go with smoked pork chops. I cheated and did not parboil the potatoes, don't try it, it did not look very pretty at all. It still tasted good though. Just love gruyere cheese.
- December 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM
- Ciao Chow Linda said...
What a great dish for a special occasion.
- December 4, 2011 at 8:43 PM
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Technology Blamed For Bad Grammar Despite Total Lack Of Causal Evidence
from the wow deptWe were just recently reporting on yet another in a very long line of studies that showed that instant messaging and texting was actually helping kids have better writing skills. So, it was interesting to see an article published up in Canada (thanks to Marcus Carab for sending this in) that claimed a study "proving" that Twitter and texting was causing grammar and spelling problems for students. But, if you read the details of the article, they don't say that at all. It's entirely made up by the reporter. It's done with a neat little rhetorical trick. The title of the article says:
Students failing because of Twitter, textingOkay, fair enough. Let's see the details of how Twitter and texting are leading students to fail.
The opening paragraph is:
Little or no grammar teaching, cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, all are being blamed for an increasingly unacceptable number of post-secondary students who can't write properly.First note that the reporter combines "little or no grammar teaching" with "cellphone texting, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter," even though those are very, very different issues. Onto the next few paragraphs, where the rhetorical "switch" is pulled:
For years there's been a flood of anecdotal complaints from professors about what they say is the wretched state of English grammar coming from some of their students.Now, if you're not reading carefully, you might think this claimed that there was "proof" that texting or social networking sites were leading students to fail. But that's not what's being said at all. The only "proof" is a study showing that students aren't doing well on a particular grammar test. It presents no evidence as to why. It also presents no evidence that suggests that it's any worse than at any time in the past, since it doesn't present any historical comparison at all. It just says a bunch of students are failing and blames texting and Twitter, despite all those actual studies that say the opposite.
Now there seems to be some solid evidence.
Ontario's Waterloo University is one of the few post-secondary institutions in Canada to require the students they accept to pass an exam testing their English language skills.
Almost a third of those students are failing.
Nowhere else in the article does it present any evidence at all that texting or Twittering has anything to do with the grammar skills of students. Instead, there are a few people who suggest the real problem was that first one listed: the lack of any grammar instruction in high schools. But, I guess that doesn't make a very good headline or opening of an article.
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Wingtip vortices for sure. They are a byproduct of wing (and fuselage) lift, NOTengine thrust / "displaced air" / downwash etc. (which all are ALSO hazards but nothing like wingtip vortices). They sink behind the airplane and/or drift with the wind (I think FAA says 700ft/min "normal" sink rate). They are a serious hazard even to a "heavy" airplane, for instance in taking-off behind another "heavy", a pilot has to explicitly waive the "wake turbulence" waiting period. Even light airplane can generate significant wake turbulence (one funny instance is that in certain aerobatic figures, if well executed, you end up flying through your own wake turbulence)
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This light-hearted show follows a typical American family—narrated by patriarch, John—through 4 generations of the past 100 years. During each era, learn how the technological marvels of the day have made life more convenient, comfortable and fun—and paved the way for even more new and exciting innovations.
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Presented inside a revolving theater, the show includes an innovative audience seating area that rotates around a stationary central stage from act to act like a carousel.
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With the classic song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow," written and composed by the Academy Award®-winning team of brothers Richard and Robert Sherman, the show was an instant hit. Following its success, the show moved to Disneyland park and was renamed "The Carousel of Progress," where it played until September 9, 1973.
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Nicole Scherzinger calls out Cheryl's lies
In her autobiography Cheryl Cole described her first meeting with Nicole Scherzinger as 'awkward'.
The Girls Aloud singer explained how she was left cringing after Nicole sang her track Promise This back to her.
Not impressed with the way Cheryl remembers their encounter Scherzinger, 34, blasted Cole making her look bad.
Speaking to Fabulous Magazine, Nicole admitted that she had not had a chance to read Cheryl's book but wasn't sure what to 'believe'.
She explained that she had seen the quotes and felt the whole thing was 'silly.'
Nicole told the publication: 'I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt and hope that she would only have spoken highly of me because I've not spoken poorly of her.'
However upset at the fact Cheryl had failed to speak well of her, Nicole went on to explain what really happened.
Snapping back, the Don't Cha singer said: 'No. No. The story is I met her once at The X Factor and I wanted to make her feel good. I said I'd heard her song on the radio and I think I sang the words "promise this". But I really don't know any lyrics after that.
'And then that is made out to be something else and I don't understand why. I don't understand why anybody would do that. It's been blown out of proportion and it's silly.'
In the book, entitled, Cheryl: My Story, Cole described the meeting as 'really embarrassing'.
She wrote: 'I swear to God the woman sang the whole song, to my face.It was just so awkward.'
Cheryl likened it to performing Baby One More Time up to Britney Spears and notes: 'Can you image how weird that would be?'
In April 2011, Cheryl was hired to help launch the American version of X Factor but the following month she was unceremoniously fired.
Amid claims the US audience struggled with her Geordie accent, Cheryl only appeared in two episodes before being replaced by former Pussycat Doll Nicole.
Nicole was then dropped from the US show after one series but was drafted in to take a seat on the judging panel in the UK, and on Sunday her contestant James Arthur was crowned at the 2012 winner.
A follow up to this post.
Stay bitter about Nicole snatching your mic/job on X Factor USA, Cheryl.


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Daryush Omar was found to have a blood-alcohol level over twice the legal-limit when he blew through a red light at 34th Street and 31st Avenue in his Range Rover, killing livery cab driver Bessy Velasquez, 41, of Brooklyn, and her passenger, Panayiota Demetriou, 30, of Astoria.
The Pakistan national, whose blood alcohol level was .17, was also charged with driving with a suspended license, which stems from his arrest for the 2006 murder of Thomas Whitney, Jr. in Chelsea.
Omar was out of jail, and due back in court on December 12. The trial had been postponed because prosecutors were having difficulty finding witnesses to the incident that could testify.
Velasquez was a mother of 14- and 17-year-old girls, and was working a second job as a cab driver to support her family. Demetriou was a Greek immigrant working on her graduate degree in child psychology at Pace University.
Astoria resident Iris Blitt, who came to see the makeshift memorial for Demetrio and Velasquez at the intersection said she was outraged such a thing could happen.
"He was illegal. He had no license, no insurance, nothing, and this is his second offense," said Blitt. "My husband drives for a living. This could have been him."
Police at the scene also arrested Evangelos Fotiou, 42, for allegedly attempting to steal the wallets of the injured as they lay in the street dying. He is charged with interfering with an investigation and larceny.


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By the age of 17, Daubigny and a friend, who was also a painter, had managed to save about three hundred dollars for a trip to Italy, then considered the ultimate educational experience for any would-be artist. With his friend, Mignon, and all their worldly possessions packed up on their backs, the two painters set out (on foot, no less) for Italy where they studied for a year in Rome, Florence, and Naples (and no doubt wrote the book on seeing Italy for less than a dollar a day). A year later, back in Paris, broke, the trip had nonetheless changed their lives. Mignon realised he was not cut out to be a painter while Daubigny found a job as an assistant conservator for the king's art collection. It was, however, a job he was not happy at, and after months of quarrelling with his boss, he was fired.
But rather than being distressed at his dismissal, Daubigny felt free. Using the keen feeling for pigments, colours, and techniques he'd gained in studying the king's collection, and the great art of Italy, Daubigny applied himself to painting. In 1838, he had accepted in the Salon competition a painting of the Chancel End of Notre Dame though it attracted little attention. However the next year, in spite of his lack of academic training, his St. Jerome in the Desert was a serious contender for the Prix de Rome. But having lost out to what he considered an inferior, academic painter, Daubigny switched to landscapes, finding refreshing solitude in joining the so-called Barbizon painters who liked to work outdoors in and around that small town on the edge of the Fountainbleu Forrest. He eventually settled in another small town not far from Paris, Auvers-sur-Oise where he lived and painted and was a never-ending source of support and inspiration for the next generation of out-of-doors painters--the Impressionists.
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There are temporary traffic lights on the B6039 Chesterfield Road in Holmewood at the A6175 Williamthorpe Road junction which are causing congestion.
Similarly, temporary traffic lights are causing problems on the A6135 Sheffield Road in Eckington at the Pipworth Lane junction and the A61 Derby Road in Wingerworth between the Longedge Lane junction and the Nottingham Drive junction.
Roadworks on the A632 Matlock Road in Walton at the Stoneycroft Lane junction and water mains work on Longedge Lane in Wingerworth between the Hockley Lane junction and the Allendale Road junction means traffic is slow.