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The Most Dynamic Range Rover
Range Rover Sport is designed to command attention. Its lower, sportier stance is enhanced by the refreshed front and rear bumpers with integrated exhaust finishers* and a dramatic, modern feel is completed by the wrap-around LED lights with optional sweeping Animated Directional Indicators.
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Supremely comfortable. Exceptionally functional. The clean, modern design of the interior space is complemented by enhanced Ambient Interior Lighting and the fitment of Touch Pro Duo.BUILD YOUR OWN
For the first time on Range Rover Sport, seating can be specified in the finest Semi-Aniline leather and in a choice of contemporary new colourways, including Ebony Vintage Tan and Ebony Eclipse, ensuring your vehicle looks and feels as good as it drives.BUILD YOUR OWN
Delivers the perfect balance of ride and control by offering continuously variable damper settings. Adaptive Dynamics monitors vehicle movements up to 500 times a second, responding to your inputs and the road conditions to ensure a comfortable, composed drive.BUILD YOUR OWN
The spacious cockpit is created around the driver. The Sports Command Driving Position helps deliver a more confident drive and intuitive controls include the CommandShift 2 gear lever, providing the option of manual gear shifting, and gearshift paddles on the steering wheel.Download a brochure
Providing the choice of enhanced refinement and comfort or performance, the optional Configurable Dynamics* allows you to configure the vehicle's throttle mapping, gearbox shift points, steering settings and suspension to suit your driving needs.
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Pixel-laser LED headlights with signature Daytime Running Lights provide the ultimate headlight option, with laser technology delivering five times higher luminance than standard LED lights. Becoming operational above 80km/h and when no other external lights are detected, the system produces clear sight for over half a kilometre.EXPLORE TECHNOLOGIES
The Head-up Display* presents key vehicle data including your speed, gear position and navigation directions, on the windscreen. It features full-colour, high-resolution graphics, enabling you to see relevant information with ease.
*Requires infrared reflective windscreen in some markets.EXPLORE TECHNOLOGIES
Delivering a wealth of information and entertainment, the Touch Pro Duo in-car infotainment system features the most intuitive and advanced integrated technologies to ensure you can make the most of your journey.
Range Rover Sport's line-up of refined and fuel-efficient engines deliver strong performance. Choose from a selection of advanced petrol and diesel engines or the new Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV)—our most innovative powertrain yet.
Exceptional grip and steering confirm Range Rover Sport as our most dynamic SUV. With a suite of carefully engineered technologies it delivers an exhilarating drive, whatever the road and conditions.
Range Rover Sport's exemplary off-road capability is derived from a combination of All Wheel Drive (AWD) systems and unique, innovative all-terrain technologies.
From negotiating city traffic to providing additional safety for you and your passengers, there's a wealth of standard and optional innovative technologies available. Each has been designed and engineered to provide convenience, ease and comfort during your journey.
Range Rover Sport takes driver and passenger comfort to the highest levels. Meticulously designed, the contemporary interior comes with new front seats offering increased support and the option to select them in Semi-Aniline leather.
Providing additional convenience and capability, Automatic Access Height, enabled through electronic air suspension, allows occupants to more easily enter and alight by lowering the vehicle by 50mm.Build your own
Enabling the vehicle to accommodate up to seven occupants, the optional 5 + 2 arrangement has two seats stowed under the floor of the luggage compartment. There is no loss of loadspace and the second row seats have forwards/backwards movement of 100mm allowing for ease of access.BUILD YOUR OWN
To ensure your cabin is clutter-free, there is increased stowage space, including a recess for smartphones. And the optional front centre console refrigerator can accommodate up to four 500ml bottles and maintain their temperature at 5°C.
To prevent the cabin from overheating and minimize demands on the air conditioning, the auto sunblind closes automatically when passengers have disembarked and the doors locked. The optional gesture sunblind* provides intuitive forward/backward gesture control allowing the driver to concentrate on the road ahead.
*Standard when panoramic roof is specifiedEXPLORE TECHNOLOGIES
Set and maintain a steady speed in challenging conditions such as mud, wet grass, ice, snow and dirt roads. All Terrain Progress Control (ATPC)* functions between 1.8km/h and 30km/h, enabling you to maintain full concentration on steering and finding a path to cross difficult terrains.
*Not available with Si4 and P400e engines.EXPLORE TECHNOLOGIES
Range Rover Sport can wade in depths of up to 850mm*. Our optional Wade Sensing feature uses sensors in the door mirrors to let you know when water levels are near the vehicle's maximum depth. The control system provides real time information and is particularly useful in dark conditions.
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Our unique Terrain Response system optimizes the engine, gearbox, differentials and chassis to match the demands of the terrain. Optional Terrain Response 2 takes the system's award-winning capabilities to a new level, automatically selecting the most suitable setting. It also includes additional Rock Crawl Mode.DOWNLOAD A BROCHURE
Range Rover Sport powertrains incorporate low CO₂ technologies such as the advanced intelligent Stop/Start system. The system shuts down the engine at rest and starts it again when you lift your foot off the brake, improving fuel consumption by between 5 and 7 percent. The additional ECO Mode uses software to ensure the vehicle runs more efficiently and economically.
Range Rover Sport's aluminium body structure incorporates recycled material, resulting in weight savings, improved fuel efficiency, lower emissions and performance benefits.
As an environmentally responsible company, we are committed to producing vehicles that use more sustainable materials, produce less waste and use fewer natural resources. Accordingly, Range Rover Sport has been designed to be 85 percent recyclable and 95 percent recoverable. And we are investing in state-of-the-art facilities where we can make our cars even more efficiently – using less water and energy, generating less waste and emitting less carbon.
ISOFIX points in the rear seats make it easy to install child seats. They also ensure a strong connection between the child seat and the vehicle for improved safety.
Range Rover Sport's comprehensive system of driver and passenger airbags provides excellent protection for all the vehicle's occupants.
Additional protection is offered by seat belt pretensioners which, in the event of front impact, reduce forward movement.
Range Rover Sport features all-round exterior LED lighting as standard. LED lights are designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle and use less energy.
Range Rover Sport's Command Driving Position helps deliver a more confident, engaged drive. The elevated position gives you improved visibility contributing to better safety and security.
Emergency Brake Assist understands when you apply the brakes quickly but without the necessary force to maximise stopping performance. It therefore boosts the brake pressure through the ABS pump to ensure you stop in time.


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VANCOUVER — The B.C. government is threatening to cut teachers' wages by five per cent if a new contract agreement isn't reached by the end of the school year, but the union representing those teachers vows it will take that threat to the Labour Relations Board.
Peter Cameron, chief negotiator of the BC Public School Employers' Association, the organization representing the provincial government, also said Friday that teachers will receive a $1,200 signing bonus if both sides reach an agreement by the end of June.
The incentives and disincentives placed on the table by the government were the latest details to emerge from a year of contentious labour relations between the B.C. Teachers Federation and the provincial government that included a 89 per cent strike vote and involved a B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
Both sides remain firmly divided over issues related to wages, class size, the composition of those classes and the length of the contract term.
"The proposal we have on the table to try and get a settlement, and the disincentives that we are putting in place are all aimed at getting a deal, and in fact the disincentives will rise if there's further job action," said Cameron. "So if they do move to Stage 2 we will, it's pretty well definite that we'll have a further response to that."
The purpose of the government's actions, he added, is not to try and provoke further strike action but to "provoke a settlement."
Both sides were back at the bargaining table Friday, and B.C. Teachers' Federation president Jim Iker said his members will deal with the threat of the five per cent pay cut at the Labour Relations Board.
He said the government still hasn't addressed issues related to class size and composition and specialist teachers, and the government's offer of a 6.5-per-cent pay hike over six years isn't enough. On Thursday, Education Minister Peter Fassbender announced the provincial government was dropping its demand of a 10-year contract.
"They need to put some proposals to get us closer to a deal, including preparation time," said Iker. "Bargaining is about compromise, and we want a compromise.
But Cameron said teachers are demanding a pay raise of 15.9 per cent over four years. With increased benefits and other factors taken into consideration, the total compensation package demanded by teachers is about 21 per cent, he added.
"We need to see some movement from the union now to come into the ball park because they're at this point still far, far away from the settlement pattern of all the other unions."
On Thursday, the B.C. government and the 11-union, 47,000-strong Facilities Bargaining Association announced a tentative deal that would see unionized workers receive a 5.5 per cent over five years.
The teachers have been without a contract since last June. In early March, some 26,051 members of the B.C. Teachers' Federation voted overwhelmingly in favour of job action, and in April, the union began Stage 1 of its job action.
Teachers stopped supervising students outside the classroom or communicating in writing with administrators, which prompted about a dozen school districts to cancel recess.
A B.C. Supreme Court decision in January awarded the federation $2 million in damages and declared the province's removal of class size and composition from contract negotiations unconstitutional.

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The moment Mentalist fans have been waiting for for six seasons has arrived. Will Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) and Teresa Lisbon's (Robin Tunney) professional partnership finally turn into something more on Sunday's season finale?
Well ... that's up to Lisbon to decide. Her options: Accompany new boyfriend Marcus Pike (Pedro Pascal) to Washington, D.C. and accept his marriage proposal, or stay behind with Jane, who hasn't exactly tried to sweep her off her feet.
"It's a big decision," Tunney tells TVGuide.com. "There's somebody who's sort of declaring themselves, and I think there's something really flattering about that. ... That's there on the table and it's real. [Should she be] holding off on that for something that's sort of not real and you're sort of wondering if it's been an imagined thing, or one-sided? I've been inviting Jane to declare himself and he hasn't."
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That will all change in Sunday's finale (10/9c, CBS). Faced with a do-or-die moment, Jane arranges a romantic dinner for himself and Lisbon. But it unfortunately gets derailed thanks to Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) and Cho (Tim Kang). See a sneak peek, exclusive to TVGuide.com, below:
But is the gesture too little, too late? In last week's episode, Lisbon told Pike that she was taking the job offer in D.C. However, she neglected to share the news with Jane.
"There's something very valuable in the friendship they have, which is sort of based on silence, and not speaking," creator Bruno Heller says. "Certainly for Jane, there was something comforting and secure about a relationship in which he didn't have to reveal himself. ... If you haven't swum for a long time, getting in the water seems like a huge step. And protecting yourself as he has been doing becomes its own end."
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Adds Baker: "The most effective way to illustrate the idea of getting back into being a human again, is giving yourself to another person, or making yourself vulnerable to another person. And I think [Jane's] obviously really afraid of doing that. He's had this kind of relationship with Lisbon — you could call it a flirtation of sorts over the years, and a comfort and a confidence. But to actually declare himself to her is a major step of getting back into the real world and being human again. I think that's the problem. He's afraid of, what does that mean? Does everything change?"
Before CBS officially announced that The Mentalist will indeed be back for a seventh season, Heller told TVGuide.com that he intentionally wrote a Season 6 ending that would provide closure to the Lisbon-Jane storyline, but also "opens up all kinds of new possibilities" for the characters.
"I think the fans will think of it as a very satisfying finale," Heller says. "We're very happy with where we've taken them."
Do you hope Lisbon and Jane get together in Sunday's season finale?
The Mentalist finale airs Sunday at 10/9c on CBS. Catch up on previous episodes here, and see why the episode is one of our Watch This Tonight editors' picks below:
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Hello Happy Saturday! I am excited to share that my etsy shop Anita Rex Designs has hit 300 sales! Whooo hoo! I love making the wreaths and am so blessed with the success! I have a lot of work to do! The kids have a playdate and Chad is out on appointments so I thought I would take a break of making wreaths and before I make lunch to blog a card! I used the set Thanks Bunches by Avery Elle that I was lucky to get as a pub incentive! I got it a bit ago and finally inked it up making another Mother's Day card:
I used Hero Arts Pale Tomato, and Memento's Pear Tart. Pretty straight forward what I did on this one layer card, added some sequins (yay the orange avery elle ones matched!) I used a Hero Arts sentiment!
The weather is finally nice enough for the kids to play outside. It started to get warm than it got freezing cold, than a bit warm, than rain and snow and now we are hopeful! The kids are having a blast playing outside with the neighbor girl and I can get so much done! We've already gone to the park a few times! Once it was so cold and windy but if it's nice we go because tomorrow may not be nice! :>
That's it from me! I will be back still have more to share (yay!) Thank you so much for stopping by!
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Promotional Youth T-Shirts
Promotional youth t-shirts serve as an ideal platform for promoting a brand- or increasing team spirit- amongst a younger target audience. Unlike button down shirts and corporate work apparel, promotional youth t-shirts have a simple design. Personalized kids shirts often feature a round, crew neck- without buttons or collars- and thereby allow organizations to imprint a large logo or mascot without any interfering design elements. While they generally have a fairly simply look, designed to appeal to youth of all ages, these promotional products come in a wide range of styles, materials, and colors, so organizations in all industries can find the perfect youth giveaways.
A Wide Variety of Promotional Youth T-Shirts
Promotional youth t-shirts are available in an assortment of styles, including those with short sleeves, long sleeves, crew necks, and mock turtlenecks. However, this has not always been the case; t-shirts originally developed as undergarments to keep workers warm during the cold weather. During the 19th century, industrial workers in warmer climates began to wear t-shirts in order to protect their skin from the elements while still allowing them to maintain a cooler body temperature. As time progressed, t-shirts gained popularity as affordable work shirts for employees in the agriculture industry. Today, t-shirts are still known for their affordability, but also for their stylishness and ability to promote any organization or brand with their different looks and feels. Despite the wide range of options available, many promotional youth t-shirts are made from cotton or cotton polyester blends. One major advantage of cotton is that the material is breathable, which helps recipients to stay comfortable in a wide range of temperatures. In addition, cotton is safe for those with sensitive skin, making it ideal for youth giveaways.
Promotional Youth T-Shirts for the Education Industry
There are many reasons for organizations in the education industry to distribute promotional youth t-shirts, including to raise money for a fundraiser or to promote school spirit. One idea is to outfit students in personalized kids shirts during field days and sporting events. Creating a unified look will not only help to distinguish the different teams, but it will also foster a sense of unity and excitement about the various events. Moreover, recipients will keep these t-shirts as souvenirs long after the events are over, thereby endorsing the imprinted logo to all of the people with whom they come into contact.
Promotional Youth T-Shirts for Corporate Sponsorships
In addition to distributing promotional youth t-shirts for educational purposes, these items also make great giveaways for companies that sponsor local Little League teams or other youth activities. T-shirts serve a dual purpose; they prepare the team for their games, while also helping the distributor's company to increase brand recognition and customer loyalty within the community. For extra measure, organizations can even distribute t-shirts in corresponding styles for the players' coaches and parents. Everyone who comes to cheer on the team will take note of the promotional youth t-shirts and remember the imprinted brand name when they are looking to do business with your company.


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The PEAR blog has a recommendation for those that might not have updated their package udage in a while - there's been major changes in many packages, but two in particular.
We've had 60 releases since July. While most are often minor improvements or bug fixes; a number of packages really stand out. Net_DNS2, and HTTP_Request2. Each of these packages represents the second edition of their respective APIs; each having been honed over time to a point of stability.
Net_DNS2 gives you the ability to communicate and resolve host names/domain names inside of a PHP application. HTTP_Request2 gives you a simple way to perform HTTP requests.


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091 Labs will be taking part in Galway Culture Night this Friday, September 19th from 5pm until late (or more realistically, 8pm or 9pm)!
Culture Night is a country-wide event where businesses and organisations open their doors to the public for a night of free events and entertainment. This will be our third year participating and if the last two Culture Nights are anything to go by it's going to be a heck of a lot of fun!
This year, we'll be holding a Sugru Build Night in association with tutorials mega-website Instructables. Sugru is a mold-able material that sets to a non-toxic, water-proof, cold and heat resistant silicone rubber overnight, allowing you to make custom grips, shock-absorbing bumpers for fragile items, seal leaky shoes, mend frayed charging cables, make any toy Lego-compatible (and at lest ten times more awesome) and improve almost anything. If you have something that you think you can improve, repair or just mess with, bring it by on thenight and we'll provide the Sugru! Many, many thanks are owed to Sugru and Instructables for donating the Sugru to us. If you need inspiration, check out Sugru's own suggestions or the Instructables Sugru tutorials.
As well as Sugru, we will be hosting an exhibition of artwork from Galway Pub Scrawl, Galway's local social art group. They will also be running a mini-meetup in the Labs for anyone interested in doing some chatting and sketching. Or if you're more gaming-minded we will have Board Games Club Galway playing some board games, suitable for all skill levels. Expect back-stabbing and cunning strategies!
And on top of all this we will have our members showing off their projects, arcade games, electronics, 3d printing and more.
The city will be absolutely jam-packed with events so get out there and experience what Galway has to offer!


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Project Food Blog is a competition offered up by foodie and blogging website FoodBuzz for which I'm thrilled to be a Featured Publisher.
This is Challenge #1, explain why you have your blog, why you slave away for it, why it inspires you, and why you have what it takes to become the next Food Blog Star.
Lighter and Local is my path to sanity, plain and simple. My days are filled with the craziness that comes with being a local television news producer. My day begins and ends fast furious with the day's news, cooking provides the solace in the middle that allows me to slow down. Cooking should be enjoying, not dreaded at the end of every day.
You know why? Cooking is creative, it's passion. News is a passion too, but the end result, well, it's just not as tasty as what comes out of my kitchen. I often tell my co-workers that cooking and baking is methodical, it's slow. It make you stop and think about what you're doing, how flavors will come together. That, my friends, is why I started this blog, to share the final results and the journey it takes to get to wonderful and delicious food.
The other reason I began Lighter and Local is to celebrate New England's fabulous raw ingredients. Every season here allows for farm finds, amazing local artisans, and food bloggers that are using them all to come up with exquisite final products. I scour farmers' markets, farms, tiny shops, my own backyard for inspiration as to what happens in my kitchen. I try to celebrate the amazing network of local bloggers in my community every single day. They are what drives me and gives me the next great idea.
So why should I be the next Food Blog Star? I have no pride here. I'm a cook, in my greatly-in-need-of-a-renovation kitchen, just trying to figure out what tastes best. I'm still learning, growing, and admitting my mistakes. I'm simply trying to take the simplest and best of raw, fresh and local ingredients and teach myself and others that something fabulous can come out in the final product. I'm committed to helping grow my community of bloggers and reminding all out there that the community is truly the reason we all got into food blogging. Yes, it was to showcase all our hard work behind the stove; but it was also to find the people are share the joy of the perfect cake to the learning experience of a failed stew. This is a journey, not a destination.


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Monastic Meditation Tools under Tulku Buddha Maitreya's Monastic Teachings, Pujas and Healing Meditation Transmission Tools for Personal and Planetary Healing
"One of the things to understand with meditation or spiritual development, is that you are working on an energetic level. It's subtle but it can be extremely powerful and influence you greatly if the right forms of integration happen. It has a healing effect on so many levels that it would have taken a person lifetimes to have gone through all the changes in their mental, emotional and physical body and lifestyle in order to bring about such a benefit."


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Public Comment
UC Pension Proposal Boosts Executive Payouts, Targets Low-Wage Workers for Cuts
Californians are tired of University of California President Mark Yudof saying one thing but doing another. Yudof has spearheaded a drive to hike tuition on students struggling to pay their room and board while spending lavishly on his own housing. He has forced furloughs and reductions on the lowest-paid staff while he hauls down an outsized salary and bevy of perks of close to $1 million annually.
Now Yudof has declared that in fixing UC's beleaguered pension system, "Retirement programs and policies must treat all faculty and staff equitably, [1] " even as his pension team appointees propose to hike pension payouts to UC's highest paid executives while cutting retirement benefits for low- and middle-income workers.
As the San Francisco Chronicle has reported, shortfalls in the pension system were created when the university stopped contributing to its employees' retirement account twenty years ago. UC's Board of Regents met this week to hear recommendations to shore up the pension system. But what Yudof's hand-picked pension panel didn't want to tell the public is that the "solutions" they propose would protect or boost retirement income for those earning $180,000 and above while cutting retirement income for the UC custodians, food servers, and parking attendants least likely to have additional retirement savings. The task force's unfair proposals come as the public is again questioning Yudof's priorities. A New York Times/Bay Citizen report just raised new questions over Yudof's wasteful spending on a $13,000 per month rental mansion and his use of University top officials to manage the relationship with his landlord at taxpayer expense.
Yudof's pension panel proposal would slash the meager retirement earnings of workers whose low salaries barely pay to keep a roof over their family's heads.
Yolanda Lopez, a senior custodian UC Santa Cruz, is the kind of employee UC's task force proposals unfairly target. At 63 years old, Yolanda cleans dorms. After working 20 years at UC and raising three children as a single mother, Yolanda is ready to retire soon and spend more time with her grandchildren.
Under UC's current pension formula, Yolanda will receive about $1,500 a month from UC after she retires. It's not enough to pay for anything but the basics, but with social security checks beginning after she turns 65, she'll have just enough to get by.
The Yudof Task Force wants the UC Regents to make retirement cuts that would drastically reduce retirement income for workers who begin at UC after 2013.
Under Yudof's plan, when a worker who comes to UC in a few years retires at 63 after 20 years like Yolanda, that person would only receive about $773 per month, less than half of Yolanda's retirement income under the old plan.
Stunningly, at the same time that UC claims it needs to cut retirement costs, one Task Force proposal would actually increase retirement income by as much as 47% for 200 highly compensated UC executives earning over $245,000.
What's more, cutting benefits for new workers, as the Yudof panel suggests, does not address the pension fund's most critical problem – meeting the current gap between inputs and outflows. That's because savings would only be realized when the wave of newly hired workers retires – a gap of about 15 years.
Low-wage workers represented by AFSCME Local 3299 believe cutting benefits does not address the primary issue: keeping the UC pension adequately funded. The UC fund's pension funding gap should be addressed by UC resuming the level of retirement contributions it paid up until 1990 when it took a 20-year holiday from paying any contributions.
Restoring contributions in 2011 at pre-1990 levels – to be shared between UC and its employees through the collective bargaining process – would restore the pension to health.
Restoring public trust in the UC means Yudof must take responsibility for keeping UC's promise of a dignified retirement for the hard-working employees who dedicated their lives to making UC the best university in the world.


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The following majors are offered by the departments and interdisciplinary programs of the School of Humanities and Sciences:
Anthropology (B.A.)
Art (B.A., B.F.A.)
Art Education (B.A.)
Art History (B.A.)
Biochemistry (B.A.)*
Biochemistry (B.S.)
Biology (B.A.)
Biology (B.S.)
Biology with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Chemistry (B.A., B.S.)
Chemistry with Teaching Option (B.A., B.S.)
Computer Science (B.A., B.S.)
Computer Information Systems (B.S.)
Economics (B.A.)
Applied Economics (B.S.)
English (B.A.)
English with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Environmental Science (B.A.)
Environmental Studies (B.A.)
French (B.A.)
French with Teaching Option (B.A.)
German Area Studies (B.A.)
German with Teaching Option (B.A.)
History (B.A.)
Italian Studies (B.A.)
Mathematics (B.A.)
Mathematics with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Mathematics-Computer Science (B.S.)
Mathematics-Computer Science with Teaching Option (B.S.)
Mathematics-Economics (B.A.)
Mathematics-Physics (B.A.)
Philosophy (B.A.)
Philosophy and Religion (B.A.)
Physics (B.A.)
Physics with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Planned Studies (B.A., B.S.)
Politics (B.A.)
Psychology (B.A.)
Applied Psychology (B.S.)
Social Studies (B.A.)
Social Studies with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Sociology (B.A.)
Spanish (B.A.)
Spanish with Teaching Option (B.A.)
Speech Communication (B.A.)
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Writing (B.A.)
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In addition to the courses listed in this catalog, others may be offered on an experimental basis. Details of such courses are published in the Undergraduate Course Offerings and the Humanities and Sciences Supplement for the semester they are offered. Students should consult these publications for specific information on the schedule of all courses for the semester.


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The Butterfly Garden: A Haven for Wild Bees
July 30, 2014 at 3:00 pm smithsoniangardens 3 comments
In major urban landscape such as Washington, D.C., a place like the Smithsonian Institution's Butterfly Habitat Garden serves a valuable purpose as a rich and rewarding refuge, not only for butterflies, but also for bees. With so many flowers in bloom at the end of July, it's easy to see that bees are very important for pollination. A bee moves from flower to flower searching for nutrient-rich nectar, which it laps up with its hairy tongue. In this process, pollen will collect on the bee's body and be transferred from one flower to another, providing for the production of the seeds that sustain many gardens and wild-flower populations. On the hind legs of some bees, there are corbiculae, or pollen baskets. These serve a function similar to suitcases, allowing the bees to pack lots of pollen into the baskets for the flight back home to their colony where they share their newfound resource with many others. Solitary bees do not have pollen baskets, but species like leaf-cutter bees have very hairy abdomens, which collect a large amount of pollen. Recently the Butterfly Habitat Garden was abuzz with a large number of bee species, including bumble-, leaf-cutter, honey, and sweat bees, all collecting resources and pollinating flowers.
-Lisa Horth is a Smithsonian Gardens Enid A. Haupt Fellow and an Associate Professor of Biology at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, where she studies plant-pollinator interactions.
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Well it turns out that I didn't want 'net access badly enough on the break. I didn't find any open hotspots around, only for-pay ones. Hmm.
Anyway the drive between Sydney and Melbourne is a really nice one these days, we have it down to 12 hours or so (with the kids, you know…) I imagine we might even go again soon – depending on room availability at B's!


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Facts about the Soyuz
ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli shared a ride with his crewmates Dmitri Kondratiev and Catherine Coleman in a Soyuz TMA spacecraft that boosted into space on a Soyuz FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Inside the spacecraft, Paolo was the prime flight engineer. Seated to the left of commander Dmitri Kondratiev, the European astronaut assisted him in flying the vehicle up to orbit and then to the Station.
For more than 40 years, Soyuz rockets have been launched into space – they are the longest-serving route to space. The design goes back to the Vostok launcher, which was used for the first manned spaceflight in 1961, carrying Yuri Gagarin.
The Soyuz spacecraft can manoeuvre, rendezvous and dock in orbit. This was the 20th in the TMA series, which allows a greater height and weight range for the three astronauts (the 'A' stands for anthropometric).
With a height of 1.88 m, Paolo is one of the tallest members of the European Astronaut Corps and he will use the space inside the capsule to the last centimetre.
Each Soyuz spacecraft remains docked to the International Space Station for about six months to serve as a lifeboat. If necessary, Soyuz vehicles can change their docking location to clear the occupied docking port for another approaching supply craft.
The latest version of Soyuz Paolo flew in was the TMA-M. It had new, fully digital flight computers and systems. Weighing less than the previous equipment, it allowed Soyuz to carry more payload.
Orbital Module
This spherical module is used only in space and acts as living quarters, with hygiene and sleeping facilities. The orbital flight phase before docking usually lasts two days.
Descent Module
This is the only module to return to Earth and so is designed to resist the aerodynamic stresses of reentry into the atmosphere. The module descends slowly under a parachute and lands on the steppes of Kazakhstan, within reach of recovery helicopters.
Three individually moulded crew seats are situated at the bottom of the spacecraft's interior, below the instrument panel. Their shock-absorbing material softens the landing, together with retro-rockets slowing the speed just before touchdown.
Service module
This cylindrical module contains oxygen and propellant tanks, attitude control thrusters, electronics for communication and the primary guidance and navigation control. Cosmonauts have no access to it and all the functions are controlled remotely.
Soyuz-FG Launcher characteristics
Diameter: 10.3 m
Total launch mass: 310 t
Launch performance payload: 7150 kg
Propellant mass: 157 t
Height: 49.5 m
Soyuz TMA-20 Spacecraft dimensions
Diameter: 2.7 m
Total launch mass: 7.1 t
Length: 7.2 m
Width (solar array deployed): 10.6 m
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Linda SS said...Great job of thinking outside the box to come up with the paper lace for your cards. I'm so thrilled that your found a church where you feel at HOME again:) God bless you.
April 27, 2008 7:39 AM
Celeste said...you are too sweet! :)
April 27, 2008 4:17 PM
Congrats ladies! Celeste...I have your address, and Linda...I will contact you for yours!! I have a few other surprise goodies that I am throwing into the mix...so hope you enjoy them!
I have a couple cards to share with you! This card was done using the My Sweet Spuds April kit. Love this kit...so full of fun items in it!! And BTW- deary is a word! I spell checked it and looked it up in the dictionary to make sure! It is a term of endearment...just the way I wanted it to be! Tee hee!
And Thursday is the day I normally post my CPS card...be sure to check out the blog and see what the other ladies have come up with. Lots of gorgeous cards! I used Tinkering Ink and American Crafts paper on this card, and the Martha Stewart lace punch! Love that thing!
Thanks for looking, and congrats to my RAK winners again! Be sure to check back when you can....I will be doing more RAKs in the future!
Have a happy Thursday,
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Beautiful cards Lea! Your style is awesome, so clean and fresh! Congrats to the RAK winners:)ReplyDelete
I absolutely adore your card with the sass deer!! awesome!ReplyDelete
I love the first and the second....And so "deary" is a real word??? Who'da thunk!? LOLReplyDelete
You are too funny!
such lovely, happy cards, Lea!ReplyDelete
Yay to the winners!!
i cna't believe i won! thanks lea. and i love the deary card! i'm sure both will have out for pub signs soon!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 1, 2008 at 2:28 PM
Oh I just adore the "miss you deary" card. Georgeus colours and the bling fited great! And congrats to the two who won your RAK!!! :-) Have a nice weekend Lea, and thanks for the coment in my blog;-)ReplyDelete
These cards are just Fab!ReplyDelete
Looks like a great kit and congrats to the winners!
eeek! love that deary sentiment... so cute and your cps card is super too!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous cards!ReplyDelete
Love these elegant cards. Especially the deer looks really nice.ReplyDelete
Your cards are always so fabulous!!!! The deary one is really awesome!!!ReplyDelete
Have a great weekend!
Congrats to the winners! and Lea your cards are so beautiful and clever...can't decide which I like the best! :O) Hope you're having a lovely weekend. GxReplyDelete
That dear is just too cute! Oh, and I love those pears and apples too, so fun!!ReplyDelete
Hello Lea!! Thank you for visiting my blog and leaving a sweet comment!!! I love your cards...so very pretty... always!!!ReplyDelete
These are beautiful! I just love the little dear and sentiment on the first card!ReplyDelete


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They called themselves the "Chicago connection" and appeared confident that their contacts with Illinois politicians would help persuade newly elected President Barack Obama to lift longtime economic sanctions against leaders in Zimbabwe, according to federal charges unsealed Tuesday.
"The Chicago connection NEVER surrenders or forgets its friends," a criminal complaint quoted one of the men as writing in a 2009 letter to the head of Zimbabwe's national bank.
The two, Prince Asiel Ben Israel and C. Gregory Turner, were charged with violating federal law by lobbying on behalf Zimbabwe's longtime president, Robert Mugabe, whose violent and oppressive regime has been the target of U.S. economic sanctions since 2003.
According to the charges, Ben Israel and Turner attempted to persuade undisclosed federal and state government officials — including an Illinois state senator and two U.S. representatives from Chicago — to push for the lifting of the sanctions. The two reached a consulting agreement with Zimbabwe officials to be paid $3.4 million, authorities charged, but it was unclear whether they received any money.
Authorities said the discussions began in early November 2008 when Ben Israel and Turner told Zimbabwe officials that they knew many politicians with close ties to Obama, the U.S. senator from Illinois who had just been elected to the White House. But their efforts over the next year failed as the president continued the sanctions first imposed under the previous Bush administration. None of the public officials was accused of wrongdoing.
Dressed in a dark suit, red tie and light blue suede loafers, Ben Israel, 72, made a brief appearance in federal court Tuesday before he was released on his own recognizance. He had no comment as he left the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse hand in hand with his wife.
An arrest warrant was issued for Turner, 71, who authorities said is believed to be living in Israel.
Ben Israel has a colorful history in Chicago. For decades he and his family have run the Soul Vegetarian Restaurant on East 75th Street, a well-known neighborhood spot for authentic vegan food. He also gained recognition in the 1980s as a leader of the Black Hebrew Israelite sect, a Chicago-based group whose members believe they are direct descendants of the ancient Israelites.
The 56-page criminal complaint described in detail how Ben Israel and Turner allegedly enlisted the support of a "State Senator A," who hoped that the election of Obama would cause the U.S. to take a fresh look at Zimbabwe.
That same state senator wrote in a 2009 letter that he had made a "commitment" to Mugabe and could use his leadership position with the National Black Caucus of State Legislators to organize a delegation to travel to Zimbabwe and fight for the removal of the sanctions, according to the complaint.
Records show that state Sen. Donne Trotter, D-Chicago, chairs the international committee of that caucus. Efforts to reach Trotter were unsuccessful Tuesday. His attorney, Thomas Anthony Durkin, said he had not seen the complaint and had no comment.
Ben Israel and Turner were successful in arranging for State Senator A and several other lawmakers to meet with Mugabe and other top Zimbabwean officials during several trips there in 2008 and 2009, according to the charges.
The charges also described the two Chicago congressmen as sponsors of a failed 2010 House resolution to end the Zimbabwe sanctions. Congressional records show that the only Illinois congressmen to sponsor that bill were U.S. Reps. Danny Davis and Bobby Rush, both Chicago Democrats.
Reached by phone, Davis said he has known the two defendants for "at least 40 years or more" but would not comment on whether he traveled to Zimbabwe or lobbied for lifting the sanctions.
"I don't know enough about what the situation is," Davis said.
According to the complaint, "U.S. Representative A" wrote two letters in 2009 to Mugabe and Gideon Gono, the head of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. The correspondence, written on the representative's official congressional letterhead, detailed information that Ben Israel had provided on "the plight of the people of Zimbabwe" and requested a meeting with Mugabe and Gono that August or September.
About the same time, Turner forwarded a Zimbabwean official an itinerary from a second congressman from Chicago who was traveling to Africa as part of an official congressional delegation.
In a written response Tuesday night, Rush said he has known Ben Israel for 30 years and called him a small-business man and advocate for Africa and African-American issues. "This is the first I've heard of this," he said when asked by the Tribune if he was one of the congressmen referred to in the complaint.
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Rush said he canceled a planned trip to Liberia, Ghana, Angola and South Africa in 2009 because he was ill. He said he did not send four of his staffers in his place but that they went as House committee staffers.
Tribune reporter Ray Long and Alexei Koseff of the Tribune Washington Bureau contributed.


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Remember how I asked you all for your advice on making the big leap to give up cable? I couldn't believe how many of you already had, how many of you had lived without it for years. I felt a little bad for those of you without it. You poor, deprived souls, living without your Bravo and HGTV. Oh, I didn't want to have to suffer through like you had.
But, we would save $65 a month, nearly $800 a year. *sigh* So I stood idly by while my husband unplugged the cable box and drove it back to the Verizon store. And then I had a moment of silence for the loss of Teen Mom and Real Housewives of the OC.
Scott, being the frugal and handy man he is, built us a digital antenna that is now in our attic, and we get THIRTY THREE channels for free. Granted, half of them are Spanish and a third of them are religious programming and weather channels, but STILL. Free.
Among those, though, are actually some pretty decent channels. Did you know PBS plays kid's shows Monday through Friday from 6 am through 5 pm? Not gonna lie, most days our TV just hangs on out PBS during the day. Well, that is after I get done drinking my coffee and watching Kathy Lee & Hoda (a sick addiction, I tell you).
We also get a channel called Qubo, which is kid's programming all day, although it's sorta like b-list, low grade animation programming, but it doesn't seem to bother the children.
And here in Dallas, I've discovered NBC Nonstop, which, while not an HD channel (we can pick up the basic channels in HD with our digital antenna), it fills the void of not having HGTV and the Food Network just a little bit. You know, it's just one of those channels that's nice to have on while you're folding laundry and not too invested in what's on. They have programming about local food places, and home decorating shows.
If that's not enough to satisfy my home decorating and cooking cravings for knowledge and ideas, I just turn to the internet. Pinterest is my new muse for both of these things.
Really, we've found things like the internet and digital magazines on the iPad, and, *gasp* books and toys to fill the time we used to spend watching crap TV on cable.
We still get to see all our favorite shows in some form or another. We can watch prime time shows on ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox in HD on our TV still. We have Netfilx hooked up through our Wii, and hopefully we'll add Hulu Plus to that soon, too, whenever they release it for the Wii. We can hook our iPad up to the TV to watch shows we can find online.
The only thing we're really missing at this point is a DVR, but Scott says he can make us one out of our old computer. Oh, and sports. I guess sometimes it can suck that we don't get ESPN or TBS, but we don't watch it enough to justify $65 a month, especially when you can still see plenty of games on the basic channels.
Honestly, seriously, we one hundred percent do not miss it. Sure, there was a bit of an adjustment period. I'd say it took a couple weeks to get used to it, but now I just can't believe we went that long paying that much money for that much crap.
So there's my update. We've been without it for 3ish months now. If you're on the fence, I say pull the plug and give it a couple weeks. I really don't think you'll miss it.
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September 11, 2005
G142: Yankees 1, Red Sox 0
Tim Wakefield threw a masterpiece yesterday, striking out a career-high 12 batters. His only blemish was a cheap home run down the right field foul line by Jason Giambi in the first inning. He allowed three hits and one walk in his second consecutive complete game, but unlike his last start, the Sox couldn't pull out a victory.
Randy Johnson was similarly impressive. Boston managed only one hit against The Big Ugly in seven innings, a semi-bloop single to left center by Kevin Youkilis. Once Johnson left the game, the Sox quickly rallied.
Tom Gordon began the eighth and gave up a single to Tony Graffanino. Adam Stern went in to pinch-run, and was erased when Doug Mirabelli's popup fell in the middle of the diamond. One of the YES announcers mused that Derek Jeter had purposely let the ball drop in order to get a force at second, replacing the speedy Stern with the immobile Mirabelli on the bases, but that was pure Yankee spin.
The big question was: Why did Terry Francona pinch-run for Graffanino (and for David Ortiz when he walked later in the inning) but not for Mirabelli? I guess it was the Personal Catcher crap, as if Jason Varitek couldn't have caught Wakefield for two innings.
Ortiz's two-out walk (against Mariano Rivera) moved Belly to second -- I had horrible thoughts of Dale Sveum waiving Mirabelli around third on a hit -- but Johnny Damon grounded to first in a 10-pitch at-bat. (The 8th pitch was a fly ball that landed about four inches foul down the right field line, thisclose to being a game-tying double.)
In the ninth, Edgar Renteria's first-pitch line drive was speared at the mound by Rivera and Trot Nixon, batting for Yook, grounded out. But then Manny Ramirez walked and Kevin Millar singled to right center. With Manny on third, John Olerud struck out to end the nailbiter.
Having 2004 in my mind makes this one easier to take -- as does being the chasee and not the chaser -- and New York needed it way more than Boston. Joe Torre is calling these last few weeks his team's post-season. It was an amazing game.
The Red Sox lead is back down to three games with 20 to play; the Yankees trail Cleveland by 1.5 in the wild card. New York heads to Tampa Bay and Boston is in Toronto.
Arroyo / Lilly at 7:00.
6 comments:
- Big Fan said...
More game thoughts if you're interested.
- September 11, 2005 at 4:31 PM
Great game, well pitched, no errors. I got scared when they took ortiz out, dreading a showdown in the 10 inning... but alas.
Wakefield deserves better.
- September 11, 2005 at 5:02 PM
- Robin said...
0-1 losses makes kitten cry.
- September 11, 2005 at 9:40 PM
Just a thought... When the Sox were one hit by Schmidt last year in SanFran, wasn't that one hit a double by Youk? He seems to have a knack for that kind of situation.
- September 12, 2005 at 7:18 PM
- DanM said...
My heart pounded all the way through the game - more so with each approaching and then fading inning. The days of summer slip behind us and the Yankees seem wilting onthe vine. But that game was one of the years best pitching duels. Onward to victory and here is hoping the Cleveland Indians habg tough the rest of the way!
Dan Matthews (one of the kittens!)
- September 13, 2005 at 3:12 AM
Dead on, Red Sock: I have a source with the Sox who confirms that Terry's logic for not running for Mirabelli was indeed "the personal catcher crap." This should worry anyone about Francona. It's the 8th, perhaps the only chance the team will have to tie the score (with Rivera coming in), and Damon up: you simply HAVE to get a guy on second who can score on a single, and Mirabelli can't. This is weenie managing, a la Grady, and there is no excuse for it, no logic that supports it. Of COURSE Veritek (who should have been the DH, not Damon...another weenie move) could catch Wakefield. Gee, you think Wake would have gladly traded his personal catcher for a tie game? Is Rick Sutscliffe a smarmy moron?
- September 13, 2005 at 6:24 AM


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As the subject states, I've been wondering if the Hex Editor allows us to change the names of the ranks in RTKXI. I've always wanted to mess about with them to try and make a ranking system that isn't confusing.
If so, could the stat bonuses also be changed? For example, could I change the stat bonus of one rank from POL+5 to INT+5, or to WAR+3 and so on.
Would be amazing if I could do this as I've been thinking of making a Game of Thrones themed ranking system (with ranks and titles like "Warden of the North", "Master of Coin" etc).
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Police say the theft occurred late Monday at Brussels Airport. According to authorities, a group of eight men cut a hole in a perimeter security fence, drove out to the tarmac and removed diamonds possibly worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the cargo of a Helvetic Airways' Fokker 100 jet operating for Swiss International Airlines.
"There was no shooting and nobody was injured," the operating company for Brussels Airport says in a statement to FlightGlobal.com. "This lasted only a few minutes and, after that, they left the airport domain through the damaged fence."
The airport tells FlightGlobal.com that the incident has "had no impact on the continuity of (other) air traffic."
As for the heist, Brussels prosecutor's spokeswoman Anja Bijnens tells The Associated Press that the armed and masked men used two vehicles in their Monday raid.
The robbers apparently impersonated security personnel to help pull off the heist.
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The robbers, who wore outfits resembling dark police clothing, got away with 120 parcels, mostly containing diamonds but some also holding precious metals.
Brussels Airport spokesman Jan Van der Cruysse tells Bloomberg News the diamond thieves apparently were efficient, needing just three minutes at the plane in an operation that took only 11 minutes total.
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To CTE or not to CTE, that is the Question
So my post really has nothing to do with the title. This is not a post to help you determine whether a CTE is appropriate or not. Or is it?
This month, we have the 18th installment in the TSQLTuesday series. We are being hosted by Bob Pusateri (Blog|@SQLBob) this month. The essence of the topic this month is around CTEs (common table expressions). There are a great many uses for a CTE in SQL server and this was a nice addition to the product.
One thing I like about CTEs is how much cleaner the code looks to me. Another benefit for me is the recursion that is available through the use of a CTE. An observation about CTEs is that a common use would be to use them to replace inline derived tables (which lends to cleaner looking code for some).
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I gave this topic a good long thought. As I thought about the topic, I came to the conclusion that I had nothing new or unique on the subject. I did however have some scripts that I posted once upon a time that would work very well for this topic. Though it is a bit of a cop out, it is an appropriate solution for this month.
In the case of the CTE that I have chosen, there are multiple CTEs being used. I use the CTE to recurse through data, and then to recurse that same data again – in reverse. This particular script was created to traverse through system catalogs and create a hierarchy of table relationships. I use this hierarchy to better understand the structure of the database and the interrelationship of the data between objects. It is a cheap way of mapping out the objects in an effort to better understand it.
I had thought about using this script once upon a time for a different TSQLTuesday, but thought better of it that time. Since the original post is more than a year old, it is a good time to bring it up and use it again. Without further adieu, you can read about that script and CTE here. I hope you enjoy.


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This Kitchen Organization Trick Can Help You Waste Way Less Food
As someone who is all too aware of the damage that food waste does to the environment (and my wallet), I'm always on the hunt for ways to tighten up my kitchen routine and make less trash.
So during a recent meeting with Ben Simon of Imperfect Produce, a company that saves and redistributes "ugly" produce that might otherwise not be used, my ears perked up when he started talking about how he avoids waste in his own kitchen. The co-founder is a proponent of what's known as the Eat This First shelf: "Any time I'm opening the fridge, I'm thinking, 'Is there anything I see here that only has a few days left?' I can put that on this shelf and go back to it," he said.
How do you set up an "Eat This First" shelf?
I'd heard of this approach before but never formally put it into practice in my fridge. Figuring it was worth a shot, I reached out to Angel Veza, a food waste expert and director of hospitality advisory for First Principle Group, to learn more. Veza, who has designed food waste reduction strategies for restaurants and major companies like Google, is a fan of the practice and thinks it's similar to the "first in, first out" rule that you'll see in professional kitchens.
"Whatever went in first needs to be eaten first. So when you bring in new products, you put them at the top of your fridge and move the older food down." Eventually, food reaches the bottom shelf, or the Eat This First shelf. (The bottom shelf is the best place for older food because it tends to be the coldest spot in the fridge!) Veza even recommends hanging a sign that designates this spot as official Eat This First land; that way you'll be prompted to take from it every time you open your fridge.
Food on this bottom shelf should be arranged strategically. "How you store food is a big deal in terms of maintaining its shelf life," Veza cautions. Be sure to separate your fruits and veggies since fruit's gases will cause other produce to deteriorate quicker, and help your herbs and asparagus last longer by chopping off the stems and storing them upright in a jar filled with water as if they were a bouquet of flowers.
How can I use everything up in time?
So what can you make with fruits, veggies, herbs, and leftovers on the brink of going bad? I'm so glad you asked! This creamy artichoke soup can help you use up any vegetables you have on hand, while this chia jam is the perfect home for any mushy fruit. You can throw your herbs in a detoxifying soup. You can turn your onion quarter into vegan sloppy joes. Hell, you can make chips out of your beet greens and follow them up with apple cider doughnuts made from your leftover mashed potatoes. Get a little creative and have fun with it.
If an ingredient does somehow slip through the cracks and start going bad on your watch (let your eyes and nose be the judge of this; many "best by" dates are largely meaningless), consider popping it in the freezer to use in smoothies, broths, and sauces down the road.
Now that I got all that down, I'm grabbing my pen and making my EAT THIS FIRST sign. Who's with me?
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Leona, the Radiant Dawn
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The patch was due to be released on the week of the 4th of July, but it was delayed several days because of the last minute bugs. Riot ultimately decided to release first the changes to the PVP.net platform only during the server downtime scheduled for Thursday, July 7th early morning. However, the PVP.net changes were delayed further and the server downtime was cut short too. The patch was finally released on Friday, July 8th at 2 PM (PDT). But new content (Leona, first batch of new skins) wasn't available for purchase until Wednesday, July 13.
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The following skins were released along with this patch, but were not available for purchase until Wednesday, July 13.
The following skins were released along with this patch,but were not available for purchase until Monday, July 18th.
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- Updated the filter on summoner name creation and change.
- Updated Custom Game Lobby interface.
- Added default game names to Custom Game creation.
- Custom Games now have a "Quit" button in Champion Select. Players will no longer have to log back into PVP.net to cancel a custom game in Champion Select.
- Added multiple rune purchases to the store. Players can now use the "+" and "-" signs to choose how many runes of a certain type to buy, up to 9.
- Updated matchmaking to make level 30s matching with non-30s rarer.
- Removed warnings for leaving Battle Training during Champion Select.
- Updated Champion filters in the Summoner Profile.
- Fixed a bug where the incorrect Mastery Page name was being displayed when viewing another Summoner's profile.
- Fixed a bug that could cause you to overwrite your own Mastery Pages.
- Fixed a bug with viewing other players' Rune Pages.
- Multiple bug-fixes for the PVP.net store.
- Fixed a bug with multiple error pop-ups appearing in PVP.net.
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Leona, the Radiant Dawn (Original Stats)
- Shield of Daybreak: Leona charges her shield with the power of the sun causing her next melee attack to deal additional damage and briefly stun the target.
- Eclipse: Leona raises her shield granting her additional Armor and Magic Resistance for 3 seconds. When the effect ends she deals area of effect damage and increases the duration of the defensive bonuses by 3 seconds if she damages an enemy.
- Zenith Blade: Leona throws a blade of sunlight that deals damage to all enemies in a line. Leona teleports to the last enemy champion hit by this attack.
- Solar Flare (Ultimate): After a brief delay, Leona calls down a beam of solar energy dealing damage and slowing enemies. Enemies in the center of the beam are stunned instead of slowed.
- Sunlight (Innate): Leona's abilities mark the target with sunlight. Allied champions that damage marked targets deal additional damage and consume the mark.
- Akali will now attempt to immediately attack champions upon arriving when she uses Shadow Dance.
- Headbutt: ability power ratio reduced to 0.7 from 0.8.
- Pulverize: ability power ratio reduced to 0.5 from 0.6.
- Triumphant Roar Triumphant Roar: ability power ratio reduced to 0.2 from 0.4.
- Enchanted Crystal Arrow:
- Slow duration reduced to 3 seconds at all ranks from 3/4/5.
- Cooldown increased to 100/90/80 from 75 at all ranks.
- Rocket Grab Rocket Grab now has a proper animation.
- Fixed a bug where Pyroclasm could instant-kill enemies under some circumstances.
- Adjusted autoattack animation to be more responsive.
- Trueshot Barrage: cooldown reduced to 80 from 100.
- Essence Flux: mana cost reduced to 60/70/80/90/100 from 70/80/90/100/110.
- Fixed a bug where Dark Wind could instant-kill people under some circumstances.
- Grog Soaked Blade: maximum stacks reduced to 4 from 5.
- Bladesurge: mana cost changed to 60/65/70/75/80 from 70 at all ranks.
- Transcendent Blades Transcendent Blades: base damage per blade reduced to 80/120/160 from 85/135/185.
- Demacian Standard:
- Base damage reduced to 60/105/150/195/240 from 60/110/160/210/260.
- Cooldown increased to 13 from 12.
- Dragon Strike: base damage reduced to 70/115/160/205/250 from 70/120/170/220/270.
- Leap Strike can now target wards again, but will now reveal wards for two seconds when used in this manner.
- Shunpo can now target wards again, but will now briefly reveal wards for two seconds when used in this manner.
- Updated autoattack animation to be more responsive.
- Updated Caustic Spittle animation to be more responsive.
- Bio-Arcane Barrage:
- Updated animation to be more responsive.
- Duration increased to 10 seconds from 6.
- Cooldown increased to 17 from 15.
- Living Artillery: projectile drop time reduced slightly to improve consistency.
- Fixed a bug where Void Ooze was not flagged as an area-of-effect spell.
- Safeguard can now target wards again, but will now reveal wards for two seconds when used in this manner
- Fixed a bug where Nether Grasp would sometimes only deal 4 ticks of damage instead of 5.
- Flamespitter:
- Base damage changed to 30/60/90/120/150 from 40/65/90/115/140.
- Ability power ratio reduced to 0.45 from 0.5.
- Overload: base damage increased to 40/65/90/115/140 from 30/55/80/105/130.
- Ravenous Flock: now heals Swain for 75% of the damage dealt versus champions and 25% versus minions instead of 50% regardless of the target.
- Hungering Strike Hungering Strike: heal reduced to 80% of damage dealt from 100%.
- General:
- Ghouls attack damage and health gain from Yorick increased to 35% from 30%.
- Ghouls are now immune to slows.
- Ghouls now take 50% reduced damage from AoE abilities.
- Stats:
- Health per level increased to 85 from 80.
- Mana per level increased to 35 from 30.
- Armor per level increased to 3.6 from 3.
- Base attack speed increased to 0.625 from 0.613.
- Movement speed increased to 320 from 315.
- Unholy Covenant Unholy Covenant:
- Yorick now also takes 5% reduced damage for each summon that is active.
- Omen of War Omen of War:
- Fixed a bug where the Spectral Ghoul would not spawn if Yorick was silenced.
- Omen of Pestilence Omen of Pestilence:
- Improved the consistency of the AoE slow by increasing the radius and rate of application.
- Mana cost reduced to 40/45/50/55/60 from 50/55/60/65/70.
- Cast range increased by 50.
- Omen of Famine Omen of Famine: mana cost reduced to 55/60/65/70/75 from 60/65/70/75/80.
- Omen of Death Omen of Death:
- Removed the 10% health decay per second on the Revenant Ghoul and Reanimated Champions.
- Updated the visual of Reanimated Champions to better show when a Champion has revived.
- Fixed a bug with the interaction between Chrono Shift and Revenants.
- Fixed a bug with H-28G Evolution Turrets and the Reanimated state.
物品 编辑
- : base ability power reduced to 140 from 155.
Spells 编辑
- Using Teleport on a ward will now reveal the ward to enemies for a few seconds.
General 编辑
- Fixed areas in brush that did not correctly hide units.
- Added minimap range indicators for long range (non-global) spells such as 魔腾的 Paranoia and 艾希的 Hawkshot.
Hotfixes 编辑
Just after the patch was released, a matchmaking related bug that made Champion Select on matched games appeared, as a result matchmaking was disabled. That same day the servers were brought down to fix the bug and didn't come back until several hours later at 10 PM (PDT). Three hours later a bug that caused Yorick's presence on games to create lag was discovered and he was disabled from Champion Select.
A hotfix then went live at 8AM (PDT) that fixed Yorick's lag, enabling him in Champion Select. It also fixed a bug where 黑默丁格的 H-28G Evolution Turret would attack ally Anivia and Trundle if the turrets were pushed by their abilities, Crystallize and Pillar of Filth Pillar of Filth.
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Cardiac and Smooth Muscle
While most of the processes are similar, there are some notable differences between the actions of skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle.
Cardiac-muscle cells are striated, and are a lot like skeletal-muscle cells except that in cardiac muscle, the fibers are interconnected. The sarcoplasmic reticulum of cardiac-muscle cells is not as well-developed as that of skeletal-muscle cells. Cardiac-muscle contraction is actin-regulated, meaning that the calcium ions come both from the sarcoplasmic reticulum (as in skeletal muscle) and from outside the cell (as in smooth muscle). Otherwise, the chain of events that occurs in cardiac-muscle contraction is similar to that of skeletal muscle.
Compared to skeletal muscle, smooth-muscle cells are small. They are spindle-shaped, about 50 to 200 microns long and only 2 to 10 microns in diameter. They have no striations or sarcomeres. Instead, they have bundles of thin and thick filaments (as opposed to well-developed bands) that correspond to myofibrils. In smooth-muscle cells, intermediate filaments are interlaced through the cell much like the threads in a pair of "fish-net" stockings. The intermediate filaments anchor the thin filaments and correspond to the Z-disks of skeletal muscle. Unlike skeletal-muscle cells, smooth-muscle cells have no troponin, tropomyosin or organized sarcoplasmic reticulum.
As in skeletal-muscle cells, contraction in a smooth-muscle cell involves the forming of crossbridges and thin filaments sliding past thick filaments. However, because smooth muscle is not as organized as skeletal muscle, shortening occurs in all directions. During contraction, the smooth-muscle cell's intermediate filaments help to draw the cell up, like closing a drawstring purse.
Calcium ions regulate contraction in smooth muscle, but they do it in a slightly different way than in skeletal muscle:
- Calcium ions come from outside of the cell.
- Calcium ions bind to an enzyme complex on myosin, called calmodulin-myosin light chain kinase.
- The enzyme complex breaks up ATP into ADP and transfers the Pi directly to myosin.
- This Pi transfer activates myosin.
- Myosin forms crossbridges with actin (as occurs in skeletal muscle).
- When calcium is pumped out of the cell, the Pi gets removed from myosin by another enzyme.
- The myosin becomes inactive, and the muscle relaxes.
This process is called myosin-regulated contraction.
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Rehtaeh Parsons in Canada and Audrie Potts
in the United States were teenage girls. Both alleged that they were
gang-raped by teenage boys while being unconscious from alcohol. Both
also seem to have been the victims of social media and real world
ostracism after the events took place. And both took their own lives,
Audrie last September and Rehtaeh this April.
Parsons' case the initial police investigation about the alleged
gang-rape ended in no charges though the case has now been reopened,
apparently because of new information.
The rumors are that a witness or one of the alleged rapists has come
forward because of Rehtaeh's suicide. In Potts' case the police has
made recent arrests.
That is all a very neutral summary
of the events which otherwise bring Steubenville to mind. The shared
aspects of these three cases (and many more) are a) the alleged
unconsciousness or near-unconsciousness of the girls, b) the gang aspect
of the alleged rapes, and c) the destruction of the girls' reputations
via social media and real world ostracism, including the spread of
photos about the alleged rapes or the otherwise disgusting treatment of
an alleged rape victim. At least two of the cases also suggest a fairly
lethargic involvement by the police and all three cases demonstrate
that the schools failed in their duties.
Reading about
all these cases is painful and difficult. Writing those cut-and-dry
statements is extremely insufficient. But it is a necessary prelude
for what I want to talk about: The second Act in the play titled "How
To Ruin A Young Girl's Life."
The First Act of the play is
a sexual act, or an act which some parts of the society labels as
mutually voluntary sex, even if it really is a gang-rape where one
"participant" is unconscious and has given no consent. More generally,
almost any kind of sexual behavior by the young woman or girl may suffice the get the play going.
The Second Act is what articles about these cases call bullying. But
it's something more vicious than that term can convey. It is ostracism
combined with the destruction of someone's external reputation. Mere
ostracism at least leaves the target alone. What the treatment of these
teenagers suggests is more abhorrent: The target is isolated, left
almost friendless but still continuously harassed, ridiculed, gossiped
Rehteah Parsons received text messages from
strangers asking her for sex months after the alleged gang-rape. The
Steubenville rape victim was described as a whore and a slut in many
tweets I read a month after the rape, and those who described her that
way were her age and both male and female. The Facebook messages I also
scrutinized at that time described her as a slut and the boys as
innocent victims of the naturally-must-hump-a-slut instinct.
the Steubenville victim not get supportive messages in the social media
then? Perhaps, but despite my attempts I couldn't unearth any. This
suggests (only suggests, as support could have been offered in personal
channels only) that the view of sexually active women as sluts and
whores is widespread among the young, that many teenagers think being
unconscious or extremely drunk is not a valid excuse for becoming the
object of sexual treatment by others and that men cannot help themselves
in sexual matters, cannot abstain from having sex with inanimate human
beings. In short, the responsibility for gate-keeping sex is clearly
seen as belonging to women.
What in olden days used to
be called victim-blaming (why did she go to that party? why did she
drink so much? how come was she dressed like that?) is not seen as
victim-blaming but as The Way Things Are. Boys are supposed to try
to get sex, at almost any cost, good girls are supposed to cross their
legs and somehow have that hold, whereas bad girls are stamped with the
slut label and are then free game forevermore.
was shocked to find all that so very much alive in the social media. I
naively thought that the past discussions about victim-blaming were now
knitted into the wider society. But that does not seem to be the case.
There are still good women (not for public sexual consumption) and bad
women (for public sexual consumption).
What makes all
this so horrible is that we are discussing minors in most of the
better-known cases. Children, really. Teenagers whose lives revolve
around their peer groups and for whom the sentence of that peer group
can well mean death. At the same time, those teenage boys got their
understanding of the rules of the sex game from somewhere. Who taught
them that unconscious girls can be used that way? Was it their
parents? The general culture? Pornography? I think the answer matters
But it's not just the boys we need to
reach. The girls with those Twitter and Facebook accounts too often
shared a similar understanding: In some odd way boys and men are
entitled to try for sex, by hook or crook, and if they succeed then the
girl or a woman is a slut or a whore but he got lucky.
We need to do something about those values, and the need is urgent.
In the final and Third Act of the play
the wider consequences of all this play out. What they are depends on
the individuals involved, on whether the woman or girl ever tells
anyone about what happened, on her mental and emotional strength, on the
severity of the hatred she must bear from her culture, on the support
she receives and on the whole larger culture. If the police is informed
about the case as an alleged rape, the values the police officers hold
enter the story, and finally the values of those who decide whether a
case can go to court or not.
At all those stages we
must be aware of those underlying values, of the submerged belief that
the destruction of some lives (such as the student athletes in the
Steubenville case) really counts for more than the destruction of other
lives (such as that of the Steubenville victim) and of the deep, deep
roots of the belief that women really are responsible for sex that
happened, except if she lost an arm or her life while fighting against
The least helpful of all reactions I have read is
the recommendation that girls not be allowed to go to parties, that
alcohol should be kept away from teenagers, that parents are to blame
for not supervising their children (usually their daughters) better.
This is not because it wouldn't be good to monitor teenagers but because
all those assumptions are the same as saying that young men really all
are rapists, that nothing can be done about that except to make sure
that it's not your daughter who gets raped by them. Besides, the
advice usually boils down to limiting girls' freedoms as a solution to
something that really isn't their fault.
All that is
preposterous. It is also highly insulting to all the young men who
would never try to have sex with an unconscious woman or man, while
doing nothing to the suggestion that perhaps that IS how young men are
expected to act.
I have written before on the derogatory terms we have for women who do not obey traditional ideas about how women should behave. It could be useful to look at the whole collection of such terms, because almost all of them have the characteristics of stating "this is a nasty person AND a woman", whereas the corresponding male terms tend to say just "this is a nasty person." There are exceptions to that rule but not many.


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Undefeated Seasons
This story appears in the September 2002 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »
If Shirley Dreifus had not overslept on the morning of September 11, 2001, she and most of her staff would most likely have died when a Boeing 767 plowed into 1 World Trade Center. Her company, Strategic Communications Group Inc., had offices several floors below the main point of impact. "I understand that my office was gone immediately," says Dreifus, who was on the phone with her staff when the first plane hit. "I think a lot of people wouldn't have made it because we would have been meeting in my office--if I had been on time."
As it turned out, all 22 employees made it out safely after Dreifus directed rescue workers by phone to the adjoining office where they were trapped by a locked stairwell. "It really was a miracle," says the 54-year-old Manhattan resident, who owns Strategic Communications with Farhan Ali, 40.
Nearly as miraculous is the fact that their company, which provides marketing and communications services to financial services firms, is alive and well, despite losing almost everything in the attacks. Like many entrepreneurs, Dreifus and Ali went into high gear that fateful day and in the hazy weeks that followed, focusing on their business, not their emotions. "We didn't give ourselves a lot of time to think because we knew what we had to accomplish," says Dreifus. "You have to keep going. You have a job; you have to do it."
"A lot of small-business people didn't give up because they knew there were a lot of people out there trying to help them."
Their story of survival is not unique. Across the country, small companies are finding ways to survive and thrive despite the combination of terrorism and recession. While initially devastating to many businesses, the terrorist attacks did no permanent damage to the majority, say experts.
"I've seen a number of businesses that suffered physical damage or were at Ground Zero, and they were able to relocate 10 or 12 blocks away, re-establish their business and reconnect with their customer base," says Jim King, director of the New York State Small Business Development Center, which dispatched business advisors to New York City in an effort to assist small firms with their recovery efforts. That meant helping companies apply for disaster loans, file insurance claims and even simply retrieve their e-mail using SBDC computers. "A lot of small-business people didn't give up," says King, "because they knew there were a lot of people out there trying to help them."
By the Numbers
Some industries, such as construction and services, have done well since September 11. Others, such as travel and manufacturing, have suffered.
"I think in the aggregate, small businesses were hurt pretty seriously," says Damon Dovier, director of government and public affairs for National Small Business United. "We also found a number of indirect effects. Not only were restaurants hurt adversely, but we also found that the people who service those restaurants were hurt tremendously."
Despite those challenges, small companies remain a driving force in an economy posting surprisingly high employment and a solid gross domestic product. According to an April survey by the National Association for the Self Employed (NASE), 49 percent of the nation's self-employed say they're optimistic or very optimistic about their revenue, while 41 percent said they are cautiously upbeat. Just 10 percent said they are not optimistic.
That's not to say small businesses haven't struggled. The survey also found that 48.6 percent of respondents saw sales drop after September 11, with 46.4 percent seeing no change and just 5 percent seeing an increase.
The NASE study also found that 87 percent of respondants expect the state of their businesses to improve in three to six months; 51 percent expect their businesses to be strong in five years. Just 7 percent said that "World Events/Terrorism" had the most impact on their businesses in the past year, behind "Self" and "Consumers."
"'Rebound' is the word I would use," says NASE president Robert Hughes in describing the state of small businesses one year after the attacks. "There's no doubt there was an economic downturn prior to September 11, and September 11 probably deepened it." He adds, however, that entrepreneurs are resilient, responding by refocusing efforts on personal service, the effective use of technology and the like.
Ups & Downs
Whether an individual business does well or poorly depends on a number of factors. For companies affected directly by the attacks, the year has been filled with challenges. Strategic Communications, for example, lost physical infrastructure, technology, client files, tax returns and more. Dreifus and her staff pieced together much of the work by obtaining copies from clients and searching their home computers for work they had done after hours.
Dreifus estimates that the $5 million company has lost about $1.5 million in sales during the past year. Some of those losses were offset by loans and grants. Strategic Communications received a World Trade Center Business Recovery Grant and a Lower Manhattan Business Retention Grant, both from the New York City Economic Development Corp. The company also received an SBA Economic Injury Disaster Loan of almost $250,000.
"It took us almost eight months to get back to where we were on September 10, 2001," says Dreifus. "But now we are managing all the old projects we had and we're finally starting to work on new business."
Strategic Communications is now located in a nondescript building on Manhattan's lower East Side-far from their old site, but close enough to clients. The company was able to avoid layoffs, and the staff is determined to move on, Dreifus says. Still, personal effects of the tragedy remain. Says Dreifus, "I think it's going to take a long time for people to recover, even though business itself is coming back."
For Vishal Garg and Raza Khan, the twentysomething managing directors of MyRichUncle.com, the year has been equally tumultuous. In July 2001, they moved their student finance company into offices on the 78th floor of 1 World Trade Center. Luckily, neither Garg nor Khan was in the building when the plane hit, but it took nearly eight hours to determine that just one of their 12 employees was. When the attack began, she was in the lobby and sustained minor injuries.
The staff gathered the next day to form a strategy for saving the company, a student-financing site through which investors fund tuition in exchange for a percentage of students' post-graduation income. The employees split up immediate tasks: filing an insurance claim, determining data lost, securing office space and so on. Through it all, their site remained live because it was hosted elsewhere and backed up in several locations.
Nevertheless, the attacks came at a particularly inopportune time. The company was in the process of negotiating a major investment deal and poised to enter an aggressive marketing phase. The deal fell through, and the marketing campaign had to be put on hold. Garg and Khan decided not to fill vacant positions, shrinking the company down to four employees.
"To not be able to pursue that marketing plan and business development delayed our growth significantly," says Garg. Nevertheless, MyRichUncle.com is again in discussions with prospective investors, and Garg estimates the company took in about $5 million in investments and fees this year.
MyRichUncle.com eventually relocated to the Woolworth Building, about 10 blocks north of Ground Zero. And the remaining employees have adjusted well. "We've dealt with the setback, and we've become stronger," says Garg. "We're much more flexible, much more dynamic and much more cohesive as a result of all this."
Khan is just as upbeat about the performance of MyRichUncle.com and the company's prospects. "We haven't let the doubters stop us; we haven't let the challenges of a recession stop us," he says. "And we're not going to let terrorism stop us."
Make sure your business sticks around to see the good times. These articles will help.
New Heights
Fallout from the terrorist attacks has indeed been far-reaching. Some businesses had clients in affected areas; others suffered as customers cut spending due to economic uncertainty.
Charter airlines and flight schools were among those hardest hit in the early days after the attacks. According to a study released on September 27, 2001, by the National Air Transportation Association (NATA), charter airlines, flight schools and other aviation-related businesses lost $300 million to $400 million and had to furlough thousands of employees during those first weeks. Since that time, however, many have seen gradual increases--and even spikes--in business.
"People are even more frustrated with the airlines because of the delays," says Clif Stroud of the NATA. "That's a big advantage of charter. There's also the security advantage of knowing with whom you're traveling and what is being brought on board."
Michael and Maureen Tarascio's charter business and flight school came to a screeching halt when the Federal Aviation Administration shut down Republic Airport in Farmingdale, New York, where Air East Airways Inc. and Air East Management Ltd. are located. Because of the airport's proximity to Ground Zero, it remained closed for almost a month after September 11 and then under restrictions until December 31.
"Charter airlines, flight schools and other aviation-related businesses lost $300 million to $400 million during those first few weeks. Since that time, however, many have seen gradual increases--and even spikes--in business."
"It was hard," says Maureen, co-owner and operations manager. "We had 19 aircraft to consider and notes that still had to be paid."
Maureen, 44, estimates the $3.5 million company lost $2,000 to $4,000 per day. Since then, they've made up those losses in a big way as charter business has jumped more than 50 percent in the past year. In an uncomfortable twist, the attacks have been a boon to Air East's business. "We took on a new jet," Maureen admits. "We saw the increase in business, and we saw that there was a need for a third jet."
Clyde O'Connor has experienced a similar boost at Execstar Aviation, his $4 million private charter company in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After the first two weeks--when he considered closing up shop--O'Connor saw a "huge increase" in business at the 22-employee operation. He brought home regular customers stranded by groundings and delivered safety-conscious tourists to their destinations.
The tourist side has become a new line for Execstar, and O'Connor admits: "If business stays the way it is, I would say we are better off than we were [before] September 11.
Looking Ahead
In the end, the September 11 attacks may have actually had positive effects on the small-business community. Many businesses are now more nimble and able to do more with less. And some experts believe there's renewed interest in entrepreneurship. "September 11, I think, caused people to look inside and say 'What's important to me?'" says Hughes. "If I've had any dreams or ideas about running my own business, now's the time to do it."
Dovier agrees: "Nine-eleven reminded us all that we don't have a promise of tomorrow. The time is truly now to do the things you really want to do."Duty Calls
Ted Valentini's company is located far from Ground Zero and the Pentagon, but the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks hit Beaver Creek, Ohio-based Tramco Mold hard. The 37-year-old father of three had to take out a $91,600 loan when he was deployed to the Emergency Operations Center at the National Guard Bureau in Washington, DC, last December. Those funds are providing working capital for his $1 million plastic molds business, but the company still lost $125,000 last year, a 63 percent drop in sales.
"Where it's really hurt us is I did all the sales and marketing," says Valentini. "And now's the time we need to be out there, beating the bushes harder than ever."
Tramco Mold isn't alone. As of May 31, the SBA had approved 28 Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loans for a total of $2.56 million for businesses affected by the activation of reserve units.
Michele Marrinan is a Long Island, New York, writer specializing in small business, technology and e-commerce.
Contact Sources
- Air East Management Ltd./Air East Airways
(613) 756-5500, www.aireast.com
- National Air Transportation Association
(800) 808-6282, www.nata-online.org
- National Association for the Self-Employed
(800) 232-NASE, www.nase.org
- Strategic Communications Group Inc.
(212) 802-0803, www.scgnyc.com
- Tramco Mold
(937) 426-8681, email@example.com


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The death of a man in his Hialeah home Friday left Miami-Dade County Animal Services with more than 50 small to medium sized dogs in need of adoption.
Hialeah Police responded to a call of a man passing away from natural causes Friday morning at a home on the 5900 block of East 6th Avenue. When police arrived, they found the body of a man along with his elderly parents and roughly 50 dogs in the home.
Police said the family loved animals and would pick up stray dogs from the street to try to help them. Hialeah Police said both parents appeared to be suffering from dementia and the dogs were taken by animal control to be put up for adoption.
Both parents were taken to Palmetto General Hospital for further evaluation.
The dogs are at Miami-Dade County Animal Services at 7401 NW 74 Street in Miami. The shelter waived all adoption fees for the dogs. The dogs are available this weekend from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday and Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.