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UPDATE 6/11/09 - [spec] and [btn] modifiers, and reworked the keybind commentary.
UPDATE 3/17/10 - A few changes/updates.
UPDATE 10/26/10 - patch 4.0 updates
These macros are intended for Feral DPS and Tanking. They have been made specifically for keybinding purposes and to combine multiple abilities into one key. You can, of course, replace shift or alt with the ctrl key if you find it more comfortable. I included notes on my keybinds for each, as suggestions.
For more macros that are useful cross-class, see the Generic Macros post. An introduction to building macros is available here.
Table of Contents:
- Cat Form + Prowl
- Bear Form + Feral Charge
- Feral Charge
- Travel Forms
- My Feral "e" key: Ferocious Bite, Maim, Lacerate, Maul, and Mangle-Bear
- My Feral "q" key: Swipe, Bash, Pounce, and Rake
- Bear Taunts/Roars toggle
- Cat Shred/Mangle/Ravage toggle with Tiger's Fury
- Faerie Fires for multiple forms
- Savage Roar/Charge + Ravage
- Enrage/Frenzied Regeneration/Dash/Savage Roar
- Trinket + Mangle
- Defensive Abilities + Tranquility
Catform / Prowl:
I bound this to my 3 key.
/cancelform [flying]
/cast [noform:3] [combat] !Cat Form; Prowl
- If not in cat form, will turn you to cat form.
- Cat form: will use Prowl (or cancel Prowl if already prowling).
- If in combat, it will recast Cat Form (useful for escaping snares).
- If flying, it will cancel your form (such as flight form) to shift you into cat, so mind your height!
An alternative that does Dash in combat is below:
/cancelform [flying]
/cast [noform:3] Cat Form; [nocombat] Prowl; Dash
Bearform / Feral Charge - Bear:
I bound this to my 1 key.
|#showtooltip Feral Charge - Bear
/cancelform [flying]
/cast [noform:1] Bear Form; Feral Charge(Bear Form)
- If not in bearform, will turn you to bear form.
- Bear form: will use Feral Charge.
- If flying, it will cancel your form (such as flight form) to shift you into bear, so mind your height! This is useful for "bear bombing" from the air.
Feral Charge:
I bound this to my G12 key on my G15 keyboard.
/cast [form:1] Feral Charge(Bear Form); [form:3] Feral Charge(Cat Form)
/stopmacro [form:1/3]
/cast [@mouseover,help] [help] [@player] Wild Growth
- Bear form: it will cast Feral charge - Bear.
- Cat form: it will cast Feral Charge - Cat.
- If you are in neither form, it will cast Wild Growth. Replace this spell with another of your caster preference, if you desire; I keep it as wild growth so that I don't have to remap my keybinds when I respec.
Travel Forms:
I bound this to my 4 key.
/castrandom [swimming] Aquatic Form; [flyable,nocombat] Swift Flight Form; [combat] [ ] !Travel Form
- If you are swimming, it will cast Aquatic Form.
- If the area allows flying and you are not in combat, it will cast Swift Flight Form.
- If you are in combat or the area does not allow flying, it will cast Travel Form.
Cat FB, Rip, and Maim, and Bear Lacerate, Maul, and Mangle toggle:
I bound this to my "e" key in feral forms.
/cast [form:3,mod:alt]Rip;[mod:shift,form:3] Ferocious Bite;[form:3] Maim
/stopmacro [form:3]
/cast [nomod:alt] !Maul
/cast [mod:shift] Pulverize; Lacerate
Cat form:
- Standard click for Maim.
- Shift-click for Ferocious Bite.
- Alt-click for Rip.
- Standard click will queue up a Maul on your next attack, and cast Lacerate.
- Shift-click for Pulverize.
- Alt-click to use Lacerate only, such as if you need to avoid breaking CC with a two-target Maul or if your rage is low.
Swipes, Cat Rake, and Bear Bash toggle:
I bound this to my "q" key in feral forms.
/cast [mod:shift,form:1] Thrash; [mod:alt,form:1] Mangle(Bear Form); [@mouseover,harm,nodead,form:1] [form:1] Swipe(Bear Form); [stealth] Pounce; [mod:shift] Rake; [@mouseover,harm,nodead] [] Swipe(Cat Form)
/startattack [nostealth]
Cat form:
- If in stealth, it will cast Pounce.
- Standard click for Swipe, with mouseover targeting.
- Shift-click for Rake.
Bear Taunts/Roars toggle:
I bound this to my middle mouse button in bear form.
|#show Growl
/cast [mod:shift] Demoralizing Roar; [mod:alt] Challenging Roar; [harm] [@targettarget,harm] Growl
- Standard click will Growl either your current enemy target, or on your friendly target's own target, if that is an enemy.
- If shift is held, it will cast Demoralizing Roar.
- If alt is held, it will cast Challenging Roar.
- In all cases, it will start up your auto-attack.
Cat Shred, Ravage, Mangle toggle with Tiger's Fury (plus Cyclone and Moonfire):
I bound this to my middle mouse button in all forms but bear.
/cast [mod:alt] Tiger's Fury
/cast [mod:shift,form:3] [mod:alt]Shred; [stealth] Ravage;[form:3] Mangle(Cat Form);[mod:shift] Moonfire; [harm,nodead][@focus,harm,nodead] [] Cyclone
/startattack [nostealth,harm]
Cat form:
- If in stealth, it will cast Ravage.
- Otherwise, on a normal click, it will cast Mangle. If you do not know Mangle(Cat Form), replace it with Claw.
- If shift-clicked, it will cast Shred.
- If alt-clicked, it will cast Tiger's Fury in combination with any of the above (stealthed will be Tiger's Fury + Ravage, nostealth would be Tiger's Fury + Shred).
- If shift-clicked, it will cast Moonfire: a great way to kill totems or other small things.
- Normally clicked, it will cast Cyclone first on your enemy focus target, else on your target.
Faerie Fires, with Tiger's Fury toggle:
While technically keybound to "y" on both of my druids, I rarely stretch to press that key in combat, so I have it bound to an extra mouse button as well. It has a place on my screen because it contains so many useful cooldowns that I want to monitor.
Pure Feral:
/cast [mod:shift,form:3] Tiger's Fury; [mod,form:1] Skull Bash(Bear Form); [mod:alt,form:3] Skull Bash(Cat Form); [form:1/3] Faerie Fire (Feral)(); Faerie Fire
- Standard click will cast Faerie Fire or Faerie Fire (Feral) depending on your stance.
- Cat form: if shift-clicked, it will cast Tiger's Fury.
- Cat form: if alt-clicked, it will cast Skull Bash - Cat.
- Bear form: if clicked with any modifier key, it will cast Skull Bash - Bear.
Resto primary/Feral secondary Spec Variant for cooldown monitoring:
/cast [mod:shift,form:3] Dash; [form:1/3,mod:alt] Skull Bash;[@mouseover,harm,nodead,form:1/3][form:1/3]Faerie Fire (Feral)(); [mod:shift,spec:1] Swiftmend; [mod:alt,spec:1] Nature's Swiftness;[@mouseover,harm][] Faerie Fire
- Standard click will cast Faerie Fire or Faerie Fire (Feral) depending on your stance.
- Cat form: if shift-clicked, it will cast Tiger's Fury.
- Primary Spec: If shift-clicked, it will cast Swiftmend.
- Primary Spec: If alt-clicked, it will cast Nature's Swiftness.
Kitty Charge + Ravage:
I bound this to my "t" key in cat form.
/cast [mod] Savage Roar
/stopmacro [spec:1]
/castsequence reset=8 Feral Charge(Cat Form), Ravage, Mangle(Cat Form)
Cat Form:
- Standard click to cast Feral Charge, and then Ravage, and then Mangle if you're still spamming. It will reset to Feral Charge by the time your cooldown is up. Useful for talented Feral Charge.
- Shift-click to cast Savage Roar.
Bear Enrage/Frenzied Regeneration/Challenging Roar and Cat Dash/Savage Roar:
I bound this to my "t" key in feral forms, and use it as a cooldown monitor visible on my screen.
/cast [mod:shift,form:3] Savage Roar; [form:3] Dash; [btn:2][mod:shift] Enrage; [mod:alt] Challenging Roar
/stopmacro [noform:1]
/cast [btn:1] [mod:shift] Frenzied Regeneration
/stopmacro [btn:2]
/s You no take cookie!
Announces in /say if you have cast Frenzied Regen. Replace the red text with your own Frenzied Regen announcement, or remove it if you prefer.
Bear form:
- Right-click to cast Frenzied Regeneration.
- Left-click to cast Enrage.
- Shift-click to cast Enrage + Frenzied Regeneration.
- Alt-click to cast Challenging Roar.
- Standard click to cast Dash.
- Shift-click to cast Savage Roar.
Trinket + Mangles:
I bound this to my "g" key in feral forms, and keep it visible on my screen to watch the cooldowns.
|#showtooltip [mod:shift] 13; 14
/use 13
/use 14
/cast [form:1] Mangle(Bear Form); [form:3] Mangle(Cat Form); [@mouseover,help] [help] [@player] Rejuvenation
- Standard click to use both of your trinkets and cast a form-appropriate Mangle.
- If you are in any other form, it will cast rejuvenation via mouseover with your trinket instead of mangle. This is useful when using healing trinkets.
- If necessary, replace Mangle(Bear Form) with Maul, and Mangle(Cat Form) with Claw.
Defensive Abilities + Tranquility:
Keybound to H as well as a mouse button, and I also keep the macro visible prominently on my screen to watch the cooldowns and click things as needed.
/cast [form:1/3,mod:shift] Survival Instincts; [mod:alt] Nature's Grasp; [btn:2] Hurricane; [mod:shift] Tranquility
/cast Barkskin
/stopmacro [nomod:shift] [form:1/3]
/s Pretty lights! Gather close for healing!
- In all cases (including a normal click), it casts Barkskin.
- If Shift-clicked while in cat or bear form, it casts Survival Instincts.
- If Shift-clicked and you are not in cat or bear form, it casts Tranquility and announces to everyone that they need to be near you to get the heals. Replace the red text for your on Tranquility announcement, or remove it as desired.
- If Alt-clicked in any form, it casts Nature's Grasp.
- If the macro is right-clicked, it will cast Hurricane.
~~If you need help or would like to see one of these macros more customized for your spec, feel free to ask in the comments! ~~


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August was my second month participating in the Lean Green Bean's fun Foodie Penpal Program. Lindsay will pair you up with a recipient and a sender and the anticipation of the foodie box brings great excitement to the household. Katie from Knoxville, TN sent a lovely box to us!
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Ah, a huge bag of roasted, unsalted sunflower seeds! This was most welcome to everyone in my family. Most salted nuts in the stores are just too dang salty, and we cannot usually find unsalted ones unless we buy them in bulk, which we do occasionally. We snack on these at my son's baseball games, and add to many regular dishes. It's nice to have such a big sack.
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Lwaxana Troi was a Betazoid Federation ambassador and mother of Deanna Troi. She was one of the more colorful Federation diplomats, having led a life of both flamboyance and tragedy.
Lwaxana had a larger-than-life and extremely flirtatious persona, which caused severe friction with and embarrassment to her daughter Deanna, of whom she tended to be extremely overprotective.
Early life
Lwaxana's father was something of a traditionalist; he rarely spoke, saying it was for "offworlders and people who didn't know any better." Both of Lwaxana's parents and sister had died by 2372. (TNG: "Eye of the Beholder"; DS9: "The Muse")
Ambassadorial duties
Lwaxana was a daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed, the Holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed. She had a tendency to remind people of this fact when she felt that she had been slighted or whenever she chose to establish her authority. (TNG: "Haven"; DS9: "The Forsaken")
Lwaxana represented the government of Betazed at the Pacifica Conference in 2365. Shortly before arriving to the conference, she exposed two Antedean assassins who were planning to bomb the conference with ultritium explosives. (TNG: "Manhunt")
In 2366, Lwaxana, along with Reittan Grax, was part of the delegation of the biennial Trade Agreements Conference on Betazed. She was kidnapped by Ferengi DaiMon Tog along with her daughter and William T. Riker. They were eventually rescued by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
Lwaxana was part of a delegation of four Federation ambassadors visiting Deep Space 9 in 2369. Her fellow ambassadors included Lojal, Vadosia, and Taxco. (DS9: "The Forsaken")
In 2371, she visited Bajor and attended Deep Space 9's Gratitude Festival. (DS9: "Fascination")
Personal relationships
Lwaxana was married a number of times. Her first husband was a close friend of fellow ambassador Reittan Grax. Lwaxana described him as "not much of a conversationalist, but what a lover." (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
A subsequent marriage to Lieutenant Ian Andrew Troi produced two children: Kestra in 2330 and Deanna in 2336. According to Deanna, Ian worshipped Lwaxana. Ian died in 2343, although the circumstances of his death were unknown. Deanna later recalled how she cried after his death. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi", "Half a Life", "Dark Page")
Her marriage to Jeyal, a Tavnian, produced a son, but she ended the marriage by marrying Odo due to her disagreement over the Tavnian custom of separation of the sexes in child-rearing. (DS9: "The Muse")
Kestra Troi
Kestra was the oldest of Lwaxana's children. Tragically, Kestra drowned during a family picnic at Lake El'nar. The incident left Lwaxana so broken with sorrow, guilt, and regret that she decided to repress all memories of Kestra. She also deleted all diary entries pertaining to her. She destroyed everything that could possibly remind her of Kestra and also made her husband promise never to mention Kestra again. A picture of Kestra remained, however, secretly preserved by Mr. Homn. (TNG: "Dark Page"; DS9: "The Muse")
Deanna Troi
Deanna was Lwaxana's second daughter. She was born a few months before Kestra's death. Deanna often felt that she was the parent while Lwaxana was the child.
Lwaxana often considered Deanna to be "all she had left," and thus was often protective of her, hoping she would find a husband to take care of her. (TNG: "Haven")
Child with Jeyal
In 2372, Lwaxana was pregnant with her third child. This child was the product of her union with the Tavnian Jeyal. When their marriage was dissolved, Lwaxana returned to Betazed to raise the child. (DS9: "The Muse")
In addition to her string of marriages, Lwaxana has also had numerous dalliances and flirtations with various others.
During a romance with a native from Rigel, the man named a star in Lwaxana's honor. (TNG: "Half a Life")
In 2367, Lwaxana fell in love with the Kaelon scientist Timicin while he was performing experiments on board the Enterprise-D. Unfortunately, he was to perform the "Resolution," a ritual suicide which people of his race were expected to perform upon reaching the age of sixty. Although Lwaxana desperately attempted to convince Timicin not to go through with the ritual, Timicin ultimately decided it must be done, and Lwaxana eventually relented. She then opted to witness the ceremony along with Timicin's family. (TNG: "Half a Life")
In 2368, Lwaxana exchanged personality profiles with Kostolain Minister Campio. Their profiles were very harmonious, but in real life, they couldn't have been more different. Campio was incredibly tied to protocol while Lwaxana was too free-spirited for him. Their marriage was canceled during the wedding when Lwaxana appeared to the ceremony in the traditional Betazoid way – without any clothes. (TNG: "Cost of Living")
Lwaxana also had a romantic attraction to Constable Odo, the security chief of Deep Space 9. She first met Odo while visiting the station in 2369, along with several other Federation ambassadors. Odo returned a precious hair brooch for Lwaxana after it was stolen at Quark's, and he caught her attention immediately. According to Lwaxana "All the men I've known... who've needed to be shaped and molded and manipulated. Finally, I've met a man who knows how to do it himself." She tried to seduce him, unfortunately quite unsuccessfully. She didn't lose her interest, however, and further tried to attract his attention. A power failure caused the pair to get stuck in one of the station's turbolifts. During their time in the lift, they were bonded in a special friendship: he was the first person ever to see her without a wig, while Lwaxana used her skirt to contain Odo when he had to revert into his gelatinous state to regenerate. (DS9: "The Forsaken")
Lwaxana returned to the station in 2371 shortly before the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. She was officially there to take part at the festival, but actually she was there to visit Odo again. Her continuous attempts of seduction were once again unsuccessful. She suffered from Zanthi fever, which caused her to project her amorous feelings for Odo to other persons. She was ultimately cured by Dr. Julian Bashir. While parting from Odo, she wished him good luck with Major Kira Nerys, whom she realized he was in love with. (DS9: "Fascination")
She returned seeking Odo's help the following year, after she had run away from her new husband, Jeyal. She took refuge on the station, and at once depressed Worf, Jadzia Dax, and Kira with the sad story of her marriage. Her mood brightened after spending some time with Odo. Jeyal soon arrived in search of her, with the intent of claiming his unborn child. Odo and Lwaxana were married in order to prevent this, as the child would be the property of any man who was married to the woman, not only the biological one. They parted some time later and she apparently delivered the child at Betazed. (DS9: "The Muse")
Jean-Luc Picard
Lwaxana first met Captain Jean-Luc Picard aboard the USS Enterprise-D in 2364 when she boarded the ship from planet Haven to meet her daughter, Deanna. Her attitude towards Picard was not the expected as she treated him like a servant, embarrassing her daughter. Picard found Lwaxana's presence aboard his ship to be an annoyance, but Lwaxana did not seem to be bothered by it. She considered joining with Picard, but thought he was a little too old. As she departed she commented that Picard's thoughts about her were very erotic. (TNG: "Haven")
She returned to the Enterprise in 2365 while she was in "the Phase," a period in a Betazoid woman's life when her sexuality is in a heightened state. She decided to concentrate all her energy to a single man, Picard. Despite arranging a private romantic dinner, her advances for him failed. The captain hid from Lwaxana in a Dixon Hill holodeck program. (TNG: "Manhunt")
Picard was responsible for rescuing Lwaxana from DaiMon Tog after she was kidnapped by him. He managed this by convincing the Ferengi that Lwaxana was actually his lover and that he would destroy Tog's ship if she was not returned to him. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
Lwaxana apparently "gave up the hope" for Picard, but the Enterprise still remained one of her favorite sites to visit. (TNG: "Cost of Living", "Half a Life")
According to Doctor Crusher, the arrival of Lwaxana made Picard shudder. (TNG: "Remember Me")
Ambassador Troi commonly referred to Worf as "Mr. Woof", to which he always politely corrected her with, "It is Worf, madam." For a very brief time in 2365, when Lwaxana was going through "the Phase," she considered Worf as a mate, but decided Captain Picard made a better choice. When Worf asked Deanna to become his son's Soh-chim, he did not consider that that would make Ambassador Troi his stepmother; he ultimately decided to go through with it anyway. Worf once stated that Lwaxana was an "admirable woman." (TNG: "Manhunt", "Ethics", "Parallels", "Ménage à Troi")
Alexander Rozhenko
Lwaxana befriended Alexander Rozhenko, Worf's son, while visiting in 2368 with the intention of marrying Minister Campio on board. Lwaxana taught Alexander how to have fun, angering both the boy's father and her husband-to-be. She called Alexander her "little warrior."
Additionally, young Alexander had something to teach Lwaxana, reminding his elder of the importance of being true to one's self. Lwaxana had resigned herself to compromising who she was in order to not be alone anymore, and she shared this resignation (without mentioning the specifics) with Alexander. He then asked, with characteristic childlike innocence, "why?" which got her to thinking about what she was doing... and why. It was that exchange that finally led to her appearance at the wedding ceremony in the true tradition of her homeworld. As she walked up to the altar wearing all her finest jewelry – and nothing else – Alexander looked up at her, beaming with pride (apparently he had figured out what the issue was). Lwaxana gave him a particularly meaningful, and appreciative, smile in return. (TNG: "Cost of Living")
Xelo was Lwaxana's attendant before Homn. She apparently had to fire him after his thoughts about her became too erotic. (TNG: "Haven")
Mr. Homn was Lwaxana's attendant for several years and he often accompanied her on her journeys. (TNG: "Haven")
- Year unknown
- Born on Betazed.
- 2330
- First daughter with Ian Troi is born, Kestra Troi. (TNG: "Dark Page")
- 2336
- 29 March - Second daughter with Ian Troi is born, Deanna Troi. (TNG: "Conundrum")
- 2336
- Kestra drowns, causing Lwaxana to self-impose a memory block, effectively erasing Kestra from her memory. (TNG: "Dark Page")
- 2343
- Ian Troi dies. (TNG: "Dark Page")
- 2364
- Comes aboard the USS Enterprise-D for Deanna's marriage to Wyatt Miller, but they decide not to marry. (TNG: "Haven")
- 2365
- Attends the Pacifica conference, to decide if the Antedeans should be allowed Federation membership. Reveals that the Antedean ambassadors are in fact terrorists. (TNG: "Manhunt")
- 2366
- Attends the biennial Trade Agreements Conference when they are held on Betazed; is later kidnapped by a Ferengi, and rescued by Captain Picard. (TNG: "Ménage à Troi")
- 2367
- Attends a conference. En route back to Betazed, the Enterprise assists the Kaelon, where Lwaxana falls for a scientist, Timicin. (TNG: "Half a Life")
- 2369
- Visits Deep Space 9 for the first time. (DS9: "The Forsaken")
- 2371
- Visits Bajor and DS9 to attend the Gratitude Festival. (DS9: "Fascination")
- 2372
- Visits DS9, seeking help from Odo. (DS9: "The Muse")
- 2379
- Her daughter Deanna is married to William T. Riker on Earth. A second wedding is planned to take place on Betazed. (Star Trek Nemesis)
Background information
Lwaxana Troi was played by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (The wife of Gene Roddenberry) . Her makeup in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cost of Living" was applied by makeup designer Michael Westmore himself.
- "Haven" (TNG Season 1)
- "Manhunt" (TNG Season 2)
- "Ménage à Troi" (TNG Season 3)
- "Half a Life" (TNG Season 4)
- "Cost of Living" (TNG Season 5)
- "Dark Page" (TNG Season 7)
- "The Forsaken" (DS9 Season 1)
- "Fascination" (DS9 Season 3)
- "The Muse" (DS9 Season 4)
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Photographer Charlie Russo got in touch to share his collection of photos of San Franciscans watching the World Cup last month at various locales around town. The guy up top is at the Napper Tandy; the guy below him is at Bissap Baobab. And then there are a ton of pictures of people at Civic Center, like this one, from when the USA scored that one epic goal late in that one game:
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Curl has announced Version 7.0 of its Curl Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform, which enables the development of mission-critical, Web-based business applications that, the company claims, provide superior security, high performance, and support for large data sets. Version 7.0 offer the essential capabilities to build both traditional enterprise-class RIAs and desktop RIAs at a lower total cost of ownership. Additionally, Version 7.0 allows businesses to run a true Fit Client application -- a convergence of RIA technologies and desktop applications. Fit clients embrace the local processing and offline capabilities of Thick Clients while providing tooling normally associated with thin-client web applications. Fit Clients can leverage the processing power and disc space of the client machine, but they can also offer more restrictive and secure environments than client/server platforms.
"Developing the Fit Client application is becoming more important for the enterprise in 2009," said Bert Halstead, Curl's chief architect. "We have received great feedback during the beta testing of Curl 7.0 and are confident that it delivers enterprises a better choice for secure, mission-critical applications that use large data sets and require 3D and 2D rendering, sophisticated data input and visualization."
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Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo Program) - 2015 NOFA
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Closing Date: 11/23/2015
Program: Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo Program)
FTA Opportunity ID: FTA-2015-006-TRI
Opportunity Announcement Text: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-24/html/2015-24231.htm
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9/24/2015. Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA): Solicitation of Project Proposals for the Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo) Program. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announces the availability of $22.5 million of Fiscal Year 2015 funds for the deployment of low or no emission transit buses. Of that amount, a minimum of $3.0 million must be spent for supporting facilities and related equipment. Synopses and full announcement are posted on Grants.gov site as opportunity FTA-2015-006-TRI. Proposals must be submitted electronically through Grants.gov website by midnight Eastern Time on 11/23/2015.
Summary: The main purpose of the LoNo Program is to deploy the cleanest and most energy efficient U.S.-made transit buses that have been largely proven in testing and demonstrations but are not yet widely deployed in transit fleets. The LoNo Program provides funding for transit agencies for capital acquisitions and leases of zero emission and low-emission transit buses, including acquisition, construction, and leasing of required supporting facilities such as recharging, refueling, and maintenance facilities.
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An Eligible Applicant is a recipient for an eligible area and designated, in accordance with the planning process under section 5303 and 5304, by a Governor of a State, responsible local officials, and publicly owned operators of public transportation, to receive and apportion amounts under section 5336 to urbanized areas of 200,000 or more in population; or a State, for an urbanized area in which an "eligible area" as defined under section 5312(d)(5)(A)(i) is located that also has a population under 200,000 individuals, as determined by the Bureau of the Census.
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Hala Hotel Apartments is located in the heart of Muscat's business district in Ruwi, just a 20-minute drive from Muscat International Airport. Hala is also connected to nearby shopping centers with over 100 shops and 25 restaurants and cafes.
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Hala building is designed with the style of Omani architecture to provide guests with Omani and Arabic culture. Recently opened in 2009 with over 48 luxurious Suites.
Hala hotel apartment in Muscat has a wide range of Deluxe, Business Executive Suites to suit the needs for business travelers to Oman. Rooms are equipped with business facilities; Telephone, Internet, Fax, Satellite TV, etc.
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If the user wants to connect sensors or actuators to a mobile controller or to an input/output module which does not provide the required output or trigger signal, signal converters are used. The ifm range comprises PWM/analogue converters for valve control, current converters for the control of hydraulic motors and DC/DC converters to provide a constant supply voltage.
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The word panache entered the lexicon at the finale of Edmond Rostand's 19th century French drama in verse "Cyrano de Bergerac." British writer Anthony Burgess preserved that panache in his 20th century translation and adaptation. And panache aplenty remains in director Penny Metropulos's production of "Cyrano," based on Burgess, now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater. But that panache is served up with a twist of irony so tart that it dissipates some of the romance of the original.
One example of that irony comes in a line from the play's famous balcony scene, where the hunky young baron Christian (Nick Dillenburg, typecast as Handsome) woos the out-of-his-intellectual-league Roxane (Julie Jesneck). No wordsmith, Christian has enjoyed some success with Roxane up to this point only because he has been parroting the words fed to him by the title character, who is himself in love with his cousin Roxane but is certain that she is repelled by his extravagant nose. In the balcony scene, Christian decides to speak to Roxane in his own words. Cyrano, knowing that the tongue-tied Christian will fall flat in his effort, replies, "Speak for yourself, sir."
The irony is that Cyrano, as accomplished with words as he is with swords — which is to say extraordinarily accomplished — is the one who fails to speak for himself, frozen by his fear of rejection. Is Cyrano correct about how Roxane would judge him? That question will be addressed at length in the play — and at three hours long, the Chicago Shakes production has plenty of time to explore it — but perhaps the more apt question should be: Even with a perfect nose, how likeable would Cyrano be?
Harry Groener, whose nuanced performance as Cyrano is reason enough to see this show, portrays his character warts and all. In the end, we see Cyrano not so much as a lovesick underdog but as a flaming narcissist. Cyrano enters Act I as a killjoy, closing down a play within the play, as Parisians gather in 1640 at the Theatre Beaujolais to watch the actor Montfleury (Richard Baird in a very funny turn) emote from within a cloud. Cyrano has decreed that Montfleury should not perform; he does not trust theatergoers to make their own judgments.
When Cyrano learns that 100 thugs are waiting to ambush the poet Lignière, he appoints himself as the inebriated poet's protector, facing up to the entire throng and slaying a half dozen. The line between guardian and overzealous crusader becomes uncomfortably thin. Despite his ample talents, Cyrano comes off as something of a loner and a bully.
As good as Groener is, "Cyrano" is not a solo show, and it works best when Groener is matched with complementary actors, especially Sean Fortunato as Henri Le Bret, Cyrano's only confidant. Ross Lehman, as pastry cook Ragueneau, leavens the proceedings nicely. But Jesneck seems to be in another production, enunciating Roxane's words as from a 1930s movie.
Audiences can feast their eyes on sumptuous sets designed by Kevin Depinet and period costumes in autumnal colors by Susan E. Mickey, while costumed musicians (Dave Belden, Elliott Delman and Regina Leslie) entertain their ears. Credit goes to fight director Rick Sordelet for the convincing swordplay and to wig and make-up designer Melissa Veal for the 40 hairpieces used in the production and for that important prosthetic, the nose that never quits.
Cyrano de Bergerac
Through Nov. 10, 1013
Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 800 E. Grand Ave., on Navy Pier
Tickets $48–$78 at (312) 595-5600 or chicagoshakes.com
Photos: Liz Lauren
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After forty years of advances in integrated circuit technology, microelectronics is undergoing a transformation to nanoelectronics. Modern day MOSFETs now have channel lengths of only 50 nm, and billion transistor logic chips have arrived. Moore's Law continues, but the end of MOSFET scaling is in sight. At the same time, there are exciting new advances in carbon nanotube electronics, semiconductor nanowires, and molecular electronics, and spintronics. How long will the evolutionary approaches that have been so successful for 40 years continue to fuel progress? What role will new ideas from nanotechnology play in the field of electronic device technology? Is nanoelectronics the new frontier of electronic devices?
In the Fall of 2002, we launched two nanotechnology initiatives at Purdue University – the NASA-funded Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing (www.inac.purdue.edu) and the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology (www.ncn.purdue.edu). As we launched those programs, I presented my thoughts on where the field was heading in a talk, "Nanoelectronics and the Future of Microelectronics." I made some predictions, but concluded that everything would be much clearer in 2-3 years. Since it has been more than two years since I gave that talk, it is time to report back with my current thoughts of where electronic device technology is heading and what the role of unconventional nanotechnologies will be. Things are still not as clear as I had hoped they would be, but the field is even more interesting than it was a few years ago, and I hope that the audience will help me think through where were are heading.
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Things that work: Graphics (full 3d support), a number of the hotkeys, wifi, screen brightness adjustment, sound/volume.
I have been able to get CPU scaling, tap to click (with the trackpoint), and middle mouse button scroll to all work fine. I am still working on getting suspend/hibernate/sleep to work, and hotkeys working (although a surprising number work right away).
If anyone has anything related to using Gutsy to ask/share/talk about that would be great.
I have been working on a list of how to get some things working (with intent to post in the Ubuntu forums) and I hope it might be of use to someone here.
1. Install ondemand frequencey governor, which modulates your CPU frequency (saving battery and reducing heat).
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(1) sudo modprobe acpi-cpufreq
(2) sudo modprobe cpufreq_ondemand
(3) sudo aptitude install sysfsutils
(4) sudo -s
(5) echo "devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor=ondemand" >> /etc/sysfs.conf
(6) reboot
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2. Enable CPU frequency scaling. Doing this will give you the option to scale your CPU yourself (ondemand will modulate your CPU by default if you dont change it manually).
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sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets
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3. Getting tap to click to work with a trackpoint.
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sudo -s
echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/press_to_select
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sudo aptitude install sysfsutils
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sudo gedit /etc/rc.local
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echo -n 1 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/press_to_select
4. Getting middle mouse button scroll to work.
Replace the mouse entry of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the following (its a good idea to back up your xorg.conf before making any changes):
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2" # IMPS/2 is not recommend for TrackPoints
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeout" "200"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
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Note: This will also cause you to page back and fourth (at least within Firefox) when any pressure is put left or right. You can prevent this by changing some values in about:config in Firefox.
enter about:config into the address bar. Then change the values of the following to these:
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.action = 0;
mousewheel.horizscroll.withnokey.numlines = 1;
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5. Enabling Compiz Fusion with Intel X3100 graphics
Add this line:
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sudo gedit /etc/xdg/compiz/compiz-manager
You will have to have the compiz settings manager installed (search the synaptic package manager) to get the extra compiz options, it will add a new custom option to your appearance settings.


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Christmas is at the end of this week, so if you are looking for a last minute hostess gift or just a quickie idea to spruce up your holiday decorations, check out some of these fabulous Christmas tree ideas. Normally I would number these, but this time there's not a lot of room left for numbers! The links are below, they correspond with the pictures starting from left to right and then moving down to the next row.
1. IKEA Vase Christmas "Trees"
2. 3D Paper Tree
3. Yarn Wrapped Trees
4. Ruffled Fabric Tree
5. Wooden Frame and Shim Christmas Tree
6. Anthropologie White Feather Christmas Tree Knockoff
7. Ruffled Christmas Trees
8. Ruffled Trees
9. Glittered Bedspring Trees
10. Lighted Christmas Tree
11. Split Tree
12. Glitter Damask Christmas Tree
13. Pearlized Christmas Tree
14. Sewing Pattern Christmas Tree
15. Christmas Ornament Tree
16. Jute Christmas Trees
17. Magazine Christmas Tree
18. Aged Paper Tree
19. Patterned Paper Christmas Trees
20. Pinecone and Berry Tree
21. Silver Beaded Tree
22. Driftwood Trees
23. Fabric Covered Poster Board Christmas Tree Cones
25. Spray Painted Trees


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What to Know
- Robert Small, who survived the '93 bombing, was an office manager at Morgan Stanley on the 72nd floor of the south tower on 9/11
- He is still haunted by the images of seeing people jumping from the burning towers after the planes hit
- Small helped two people escape the towers that day, and, 15 years later, is still looking to reconnect
Somewhere out there may be a 14-year-old boy or girl whose mother's life was saved by Robert Small as the twin towers burned on Sept. 11, 2001.
Small was an office manager at Morgan Stanley on the 72nd floor of the south tower, and as a survivor of the 1993 attacks on the World Trade Center, he'd become the company's fire safety warden.
"There was this boom and a vibration, and I thought, 'Not again,'" Small said, telling his story in a video for visitors to the 9/11 Tribute Center.
Confident he could walk 72 flights down to safety, Small guided others along the way with encouragement and water.
"My friend and I had two backpacks full of water. The reason why I had so much is in '93, I wished I'd had water," he told NBC 4 New York.
Small still remembers watching victims jumping from the burning towers.
"The flames, I'd never seen such an orange color before," he wrote in a 44-page account of the day after his therapist advised him to recall every detail.
"I remember calling out, 'Oh, God' over and over," he wrote. "It was a person. Who was going to help this person? This person is going to hit the ground. This person is going to die."
"As much as you want to look away, you really can't," he said.
But the sight somehow gave him strength.
"And then this woman fell. She seemed to have accepted her fall. She made a star-like pattern," Small told NBC 4 New York. "From that moment on, everything went my way. She was a calming feeling. She got me out."
Small journeyed down the stairwell, counting the floors every so often as he passed it: "Sixty more to go. Fifty-two more to go."
On his way down, he encountered a 4-month pregnant woman.
"I just encouraged her to keep going," he said. "Every time she wanted to stop, I'd ask her to give me one more floor."
After finally getting to safety, "as we parted, I just jokingly told her, if it's a boy, name him Robert."
Small never saw the woman again. But he's been looking for her.
"I just want to say hi, give her a hug and say I'm glad she made it," he said.
He also never saw the East Brunswick, New Jersey, man who gave him a ride home after the towers fell.
Each year, Small, who lives in Old Bridge, New Jersey, posts on Facebook to honor the day. Last year, he made an appeal to help find the woman and the man who got him home.
"Maybe, just maybe we'll find those two folks," he said in the Facebook video.
His first Facebook plea got 170,000 views. This year, Small will be overseas on the anniversary, but he's hoping someone watching or reading this story will remember him from the south tower stairs.
Perhaps the woman's child is walking around the city somewhere, Small thinks.
"I probably passed the kid a thousand times and never knew it," he said.


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The PolitiFact app, built with the new Adobe Flash Builder and Flex updates, has really taken off. We learned yesterday that it was listed as the number one news app (number 78 overall currently) in the iTunes Store!
Created by the Pulitzer Prize-winning St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact features the Truth-O-Meter, rating the accuracy of statements made by lobbyists, Congress, the President and other political gadflies. From a development standpoint, the app only took three weeks to build because the new Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flex updates helped the developers use the same content, data and logic from the existing website.
PoltiFact is now available on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS. To learn more about the app, check it out here. Congrats, guys!


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Originally Posted by billstew
[I][B] profit by a substantial margin, sometimes eliminating it altogether. This is most often done to reduce the amount which the corporation must pay in royalties or other profit-sharing agreements.
Due to Hollywood accounting, it has been estimated that only about 5% of movies officially show a net profit, and the "losers" include such blockbuster films as Rain Man, Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Batman, which all took in huge amounts in box office and video sales.
Because of this, net points are sometimes referred to as "monkey points," a term attributed to Eddie Murphy, who is said to have also stated that only a fool would accept net points in his or her contract.
All of this shows why so many big-name actors insist on "gross points" (a percentage of some definition of gross revenue) rather than net profit participation. The saying in Hollywood is "a percentage of the net is a percentage of nothing."
This practice reduces the likelihood of a project showing a profit, as a production company will claim a portion of the reported box-office revenue was diverted directly to gross point participants.
I can't find it at the moment but I believe Mario Puzo and Stan Lee both got stung by this very loophole.
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The Journal of Field Robotics seeks to promote scholarly publications dealing with the fundamentals of robotics in unstructured and dynamic environments. Articles describing robotics research with applications to the environment, construction, forestry, agriculture, mining, subsea, intelligent highways, search and rescue, military, and space (orbital and planetary) are encouraged. Papers in sensing, sensors, mechanical design, computing architectures, communication, planning, learning, and control, applied to field applications are encouraged.
The Journal focuses on experimental robotics and encourages publication of work that has both theoretical and practical significance. Authors will be encouraged to implement their work and demonstrate its utility on significant problems with emphasis on the underlying principles. That is, the Journal will encourage reporting on what was learned in doing the work, rather than merely on what was done. Also encouraged are comparative or meta-studies and verification of previously published results as well as reports of extended field experiments that seek to validate autonomous systems in representative environments. Systems papers will be welcome but they must include analysis and insight into why approaches work and the challenges still to be addressed. Studies of systems that have been fielded over extended durations are encouraged. The journal will publish only articles of high quality rather than achieving a particular number of papers or a ratio of accepted papers to those submitted.
The Journal will push the frontiers of electronic publishing in the following ways:
1. Exploitation of the medium via multimedia that accompanies articles . JFR will publish code, models, data, and animations (either synthetic or actual video demonstrations) as appendices to articles. Such appendices will not be a requirement for publication but will be encouraged.
2. Low-cost access to articles and appendices . JFR will be deliberately structured so as to reduce the costs of publication. Fast and easy access to the journal will accelerate the pace at which new results can be absorbed by other researchers. It will also allow access to new results by a large population across the globe currently not privileged to the infrastructure required to support robotics research and, in some cases, who do not have easy access to archival quality printed journals.
3. Reduced time to publication . JFR will organize the reviewing and publication process in such a way that a short turnaround time is possible. Reviews will be led by members of the Editorial Board and by notable researchers. Papers and reviews will be managed via a Web interface and a paid managing editor will be in charge of ensuring the process of submission and resubmission runs smoothly. Before being asked to review a paper, reviewers will be asked whether they have the time to review the paper, and if they do not, they will not be sent the paper.
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Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the Research4Life collective. For information visit, www.research4life.org.
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It starts with the warnings. I'm told that it's dangerous at night. Don't walk alone at night, don't be on the sketchy side of town at night, don't wear revealing clothing at night. Don't talk on your cell phone when you're walking home from the bus stop in the dark. It'll distract you from potential attackers. No, wait. Do talk on your cell phone. It'll make potential attackers think you have a boyfriend.
After the warnings, it's the stories. Women I love slip frightening, barely disguised hints into stories about their pasts. Stories that happen at night. I never know the details, but I know I'm not allowed to tell anyone.
When I'm nineteen, I move to Vancouver. It seems gigantic and bustling compared to my little home town. My dad buys me a small canister of dog spray, makes me promise to keep it with me in the city.
First Year. In the dorms, the RAs tell us how to stay safe at UBC. They talk about party culture and date rape. They warn us never to go alone into the Endowment Lands, a large, sprawling forest that separates the campus from the rest of the city. A woman was murdered in there a few years ago, some girls who were raised in the city tell me. They never found the man who killed her.
I make friends quickly with a group of girls. We go out to bars on the Granville Strip. It's one of the last weekends of summer, and the street is packed. Neon signs overhead paint the street bright red, orange, and pink. Men come up to us. They try to talk to us but the street is too loud. "No thanks!" We all call to each one. We don't even know which one of us they want to talk to.
More men approach us and they get in between us. We link arms in order to stay together. More men come. They take us by the shoulders and pull us apart. We shake them off, spin away from them, regroup. At first, we were laughing, but not anymore. We link arms tighter.
A man is sitting on the sidewalk across the street from us. I make eye contact with him. A mistake.
"Hey blondie!" He calls out to me.
I put my head down, make no response.
"Hey, you! Blondie!" He yells again.
Still, I ignore him, looking at the ground. My friends glance in his direction and look away.
"I'm talking to you, girl!" He yells, and stands up.
I strain against my friends' arms, trying to walk faster. I don't take my eyes off the sidewalk.
"Hey! I'm fucking talking to you, bitch!" He screams at me, and starts walking towards us.
We make a beeline for the nearest open door, scurrying as fast as our heels allow us. As we step inside, I look back. He is standing in the middle of the street, watching me. His friends are laughing. The street seethes with people, flowing around him, but no one else looks in his direction.
A boy asks for my number in a bar. I feel bad refusing him outright, so I tell him I have a boyfriend.
"Aw, come on. Don't be like that," He wheedles.
He won't stop pestering me and eventually I give in. I take his phone and type in the wrong number.
"'Sara,'" He reads, sarcastic, "unique name." He presses the call button on his phone and watches me, waiting.
The phone in my hand doesn't make a sound. He waits until he reaches someone else's answering machine, then hangs up. He doesn't take his eyes off my face.
"I must have typed the wrong number by accident," I lie feebly.
He snorts. "I guess so. Why don't you put the right one in this time?"
He presses the phone back into my hand.
One of the guys down the hall from me is too friendly. He stops me to talk every time he sees me leave my dorm room. He texts me every weekend about frat parties. He wanders into my room unexpectedly, and stays long after I've hinted at him to leave. I'm not sure how to handle his advances, so each time I laugh awkwardly, make some excuse, and wait for him to leave me alone.
I've just gotten out of the shower, and I step back into my room wrapped only in my towel. He's there.
"Woah, dude!" I say, a little too loudly.
"What's up?" He is leaning against my bed frame.
"Um, nothing." I hike the towel up higher around my torso. "Just took a shower."
He grins. "I noticed."
He takes a step towards me, and I step back instinctively.
"I was thinking we could hang," He says, stepping forward again.
"I've got a lot of homework," I say, stepping back in turn.
This awkward two-step continues, until I've backed up into the washroom that joins my roommate's room with mine. He continues to follow me.
Gripping my towel, I step away from him once more, and now my back is pressed against the far bathroom wall. He comes in closer, looks down at the towel covering my body. He fingers the edge of it.
My heart is pounding. I don't know what to do.
On the other side of the wall, I hear a door open as my roommate comes home.
I call out a greeting to her, and my voice cracks, panicked. She calls out a greeting in return.
He leans back, stepping away from me.
"My roommate's home," I tell him, stating the obvious. I can't keep my voice from shaking.
He blows out a big breath and rakes a hand through his hair. "I should probably get back to work," He says.
I nod, and continue standing in the bathroom, huddled against the far wall until I hear my bedroom door close behind him.
Second year. After a summer spent at home in Alberta, I come back to school in September. Over the summer months, there's been a rash of sexual assaults at UBC.
We all receive the same email: these assaults are believed to be linked, the victims are all young women, the perpetrator hasn't been caught. UBC tells its female students never to walk alone on campus, not to come home late, to be careful how much we drink and what we wear. Police sketches of the predator's face are plastered everywhere on campus.
Every few weeks, we get a new update. Another assault.
In my creative writing lecture, my professor shows us the memoir she published. It's about her missing sister, Sarah. She tries hard not to cry when she tells us that Sarah's remains were found on the Pickton farm, alongside the remains of over twenty other women.
Third Year. My roommate and I live in a small basement suite off campus, near the edge of the Endowment Lands. I ride past the forest on the bus on my way to school every day, and I see an intricate network of trails spreading deep into it. I see people running, biking, walking their dogs in the forest. The murder stories I heard in first-year seem far away now, and I've been dying for a good trail run.
I stuff my little canister of dog spray, now two years old, into the back pocket of my running tights. I lace up my runners, and jog off towards the Endowment Lands. At the entrance to the trails, there is a wooden map of the forest. Taped over the map is a poster with a large, coloured photo of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry. Below her picture are the details of her murder. Those with any information are urged to come forward.
At the sight of the poster, I shy away from the trailhead, but soon a large group of middle-aged men and women come jogging up the street and disappear into the trails. They pay no mind to the poster. Emboldened, I run in after them.
I fall in love with the trails. No other place in Vancouver feels as much like home to me. They wind for miles into the forest. Some are wide and straight, brightly-lit and lined with trees, with small families with dogs and strollers ambling along them. Others are narrow and twisting, carved out by mountain bike tracks. These are my favourites. Rocks and roots cut steps into these trails, and they're so densely forested on either side that the light filters through green. These trails are far emptier than their wider, straighter counterparts.
I grow bolder with every trail run. Each time, I go deeper and deeper into the forest, ignoring the picture of Wendy Ladner-Beaudry at the trailhead. Her face is now covered in water stains, obscured by the Vancouver rain.
I'm running along my favourite path, banking around each sharp corner. Up ahead, a man in a black shirt trudges slowly towards me. I keep my eyes straight ahead until we pass, then give him a quick, cursory nod, meeting his eyes briefly. Something about him raises the hair on my arms. I run straight for several metres after I pass him, then turn my head around quickly as I jog, checking his progress. He's stopped moving. He is standing still in the middle of the path, watching me. As soon as I've seen him, he turns around quickly and begins walking down the path again.
My stomach tightens. I whip my head back and pick up my pace. Another few metres, and I glance behind me again. Just as before, he is standing still, watching me. I'm sprinting now. I can see the place where this trail joins one of the larger, busier ones; it's only half a kilometre away. I check behind me several more times as I race towards the intersection of the trails. Each time, he is motionless, staring at me, and each time, he turns around quickly as soon as he catches me looking at him. With shaking fingers, I unzip my back pocket and clutch my dog spray.
Out on the wider trail, I breathe a sigh of relief and slow my pace. I pass young families and couples, the dog spray hidden in my fist. My route has looped back around now, and I'm headed for home. I try to convince myself that there's no way he's taking the same circuit that I am—there are too many trails in here for that. Still, my heart pounds nervously.
At last, I reach the home stretch. Only a kilometre or so of twisting trail left, and then I'll be back out in the open. I run past a group of walkers, men and women all around my parents' age, and they smile as I pass them. I smile back, feeling calmer now that I know the forest's edge is so close.
The voices of the walkers have faded into the distance when I see him again. I can make out his black t-shirt through the trees, just on the other side of a bend in the trail. I slow to a walk. At that sound of my footsteps, he stops and turns in my direction. I hold my breath, but it's no use. My bright clothing stands out like a neon sign in this forest. He pauses for a second and then slowly, deliberately steps off the trail and into the bushes, until he is concealed by the foliage.
I turn and bolt back towards the group of walkers I passed minutes ago. They recognize me as I come running up to them.
"Mind if I join you for a bit?" I ask. I try to keep my voice steady, but it doesn't work.
They agree, and one particularly kind woman makes one-sided small talk with me. As we approach the end of the trail, I see him again, walking slowly. He turns around at the sound of our approach, and I stay close to the woman who's still telling me about her daughter in Toronto. He seems disappointed, but I don't look his way again until we're on the street.
As soon I leave the kind walking group, I begin sprinting once more, up the hill to my house. Paranoid, I check over my shoulder every few feet, but I've lost him.
Fourth Year. I'm standing in the centre of Waterfront Station, waiting for a Tinder date. It's our first date, and I made certain to choose a busy meeting place. It's hard to get busier than the SkyTrain station downtown.
I scan the crowd, searching for him, but I can't find anyone who looks remotely like the guy in the pictures. After a while, I see an unfamiliar man approach me, smiling. I smile back politely, and then continue looking around. He can't be the right guy.
He walks up to me and holds out a hand.
"Sara?" He asks.
Disappointed, I nod and shake his hand. This guy looks nothing like I thought he would. He's tall, nearly a foot taller than I am, and bulky with muscle. He towers over me.
He knows the area better than I do, so he suggests that we grab coffee at a nearby Starbucks a couple blocks away from the main drag. I agree, and follow him to a quieter residential area.
It's a bad date. We sit out on the freezing Starbucks patio—God only knows why this patio is open in January—and I shiver while he complains about all the places he's travelled to. It takes me less than twenty minutes to decide that I can't stand this guy. By this point, the street has almost completely emptied. I escape to the washroom briefly and text my roommate.
"Help, please," I beg her. She agrees to call me with a pretend emergency in fifteen minutes.
By the time I come back from the washroom, he's finished his coffee.
"Let's go for a walk," He suggests.
I nod emphatically, and throw away the cold remains of my tea. The neighbourhood is entirely deserted at this point, and I can't wait to get back to the bustle of Granville Street.
We begin walking back in the direction we came from. I keep to myself, my arms folded tight around my body as he looms over me. He moves to put his arm around me, but instead of draping his arm across my shoulders, he places his hand at the base of my neck, gripping tightly. I shiver and my entire body tenses. I could not look more uneasy—arms crossed, shoulders hunched, putting as much space between us as his arm will allow. But he doesn't let go. I dart my eyes around the street, looking for anyone else whose presence might reassure me. There's no one.
"Let's go this way," He says, slowing to a stop and pointing into a dark alleyway.
I shake my head nervously.
"No," I say slowly, "let's go back to Granville Street." I start to move in that direction, but his hand, tight around my neck, stops me.
"Nah," He says, "I hate how busy Granville is. Let's go in here." He pulls slightly, turning my head towards the alley.
I can distantly hear the bustle of all the people on Granville street, only two blocks away.
"No, I really want to be where the people are." It comes out shrilly. To hide my panic, I add lamely, "I like people watching."
He scowls and pulls me once more towards the alley. I plant my feet and strain against his grasp, protesting again.
Finally, he lets up.
"Fine," He mutters and stops pulling me. He doesn't let go of my neck.
We walk slowly, wordlessly back toward Granville Street. His fingers are still digging into the back of my neck. In my pocket, I clutch my cell phone.
At last, my phone rings and his grip loosens. I jump away from him. On the phone, my roommate makes up some story about breaking her ankle. I play along, promising to come home immediately. I hear him snort derisively as he listens to our conversation.
"Listen," I tell him after I hang up, "my roommate is in trouble. I need to go home."
He rolls his eyes and turns away.
"Bitch," He mutters under his breath.
I don't care. I spin away from him and take off, speed walking up the street towards the SkyTrain station. I'm too scared to check if he's behind me.
On the train, I shrink down in my seat, scanning the faces around me. Every time a new passenger comes on, I look for him. I can still feel his fingers around my neck.
At home I lock the door behind me. I'm shaking and I can't get warm, and I feel stupid for being this afraid, miles away from the guy and locked inside my own house. My roommate is gone for the evening, and I spend the rest of the night curled up in an armchair, shivering in my blankets, waiting for her to come home so I won't be alone.
I meet my date at a bar in Kits. Our conversation isn't anything special, but he's cute and my roommate has been pressuring me to get laid before finals season hits. We go back to his place, drunk.
When I ask if he has a condom, he searches his room briefly and comes up empty handed. I pull the last condom out of my purse.
We've been in bed for a while when I realize the condom is gone. I sit up straight, knocking my head against his.
"What the fuck?" I stammer.
"What?" He asks.
"Did you take it off?" I accuse.
He tilts his head. "You said I could."
No I didn't. Did I? In the dim light, I can't make out his expression.
"I didn't," I insist. "We're done now."
He pleads with me, but I keep saying "No," I keep shaking my head. He doesn't listen. He's too heavy for me to push off, and each time I make him stop, he just starts again.
Afterwards, I can't shake the feeling that it was my fault. Did I really tell him he could take the condom off? When my roommate asks me how my night was, raising her eyebrows suggestively, I lie.
"It was great," I say.
When I get sick half a week later, I'm convinced that I have an STI. Panicked, I call my stepmom, a nurse practitioner.
"Did you use protection?" She asks.
"No," I whisper.
She sounds disappointed. "Sara, you know better than that."
She begins listing off symptoms and treatment options. I cover my mouthpiece so she won't hear me cry.
Two months later. I'm back in my home town, spending the summer here between my undergraduate degree and my master's.
I go out to the only country bar in town with my friends. I hate country music. It doesn't take long for my friends to pair off dancing with a couple guys, and their friend looks over at me and holds out his hand. He's good at two-stepping, and more importantly, he doesn't care how bad I am at two-stepping. He laughs at all my jokes. I have no interest in going home with him, but I'm having fun.
After a while, he offers to buy me a drink. I walk over to the bar with him, craning my neck to spot my friends on the dance floor. I'm not really paying attention when he leans over me and places his hand on the small of my back.
"Consider this a down payment," He whispers. His breath smells like beer and tequila and hot dogs. His fingers crawl up my back, under my t-shirt.
I feel the blood drain from my face. (How many ways are there to describe what fear feels like?)
I grab my gin and tonic and slip into the crowd, disappearing while he pays the bartender.
Two weeks ago. My partner's friend and I are arguing about why a woman would give a man her phone number and then never respond.
"Why don't they just say 'No' instead of leading the guy on?" He asks.
"Because that's not really an option."
"Why not?" He presses.
I give him a list of reasons: maybe she changed her mind, maybe the man wouldn't stop asking, maybe she knew he would check to see if she typed in the right number, maybe she didn't feel safe saying "No."
"You're really saying a girl wouldn't feel safe, surrounded by people in a bar?" He sounds doubtful.
"Yeah. That's exactly what I'm saying," I snap.
He scoffs. "I find that hard to believe."
My face goes red. I lean forward, mouth open, ready to list off every single shitty, terrifying experience I've had with a man, regardless of the place.
But I see his face—set and dismissive—and I deflate.
I'm done. I'm too tired for this, and I'm too fucking angry.
I didn't learn to fear men because of one singular, catastrophic event. This fear grows gradually. Every day, it compounds.


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One Million Electric Vehicles By 2015 - US DOE February 2011 Status Report
One Million Electric Vehicles By 2015 - US DOE February 2011 Status Report
DOE counts the GM Volt as an EV, contributing more than 500,000 to the projected 1,2 million EVs. Plus the Fisker PHEVs totaling beyond 200,000.
In my opinion, you should talk about emission reduced cars here, but not EVs. Pure EVs total to 496,000 cars - a close miss to even half a million.
Still, having all those PHEVs running around will give a push to things like charging infrastructure and independence from gasoline prices - and that's what counts in my eyes.
Agree - with todays gas prices, quit worrying about a made-up
number of vehicles on the road by a certain time - that's useless when the real problem is charging stations that are situated on travel routes that can do level 3 and high voltage DC charging.
So far this country has NO standards for charging. This is absurd - get on the ball, Feds, and stop spending money bribing
people to buy electrics when you should be initiating standards.
We have over 250 million vehicles on the road. Anyone who thinks a mere million electrics is going to affect anything, either gas consumption or emissions, is nuts and obviously isn't capable of simple math. We need many tens of millions of electrics.


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MEDIA, Pa. -- Each year, Penn State Brandywine honors students across numerous academic disciplines during its annual Exhibition of Undergraduate Research Enterprise and Creative Accomplishment (EURECA). This event serves as an occasion for Brandywine undergraduates to present their research to the campus community and outside guests after several months of hard work and dedication.
This year's EURECA featured more than 15 poster presentations and two oral presentations from students in academic programs such as English, psychology, biology, human development and family studies and communications. Students are also able to give video and computer presentations, short readings, artistic displays and performances.
Senior psychology majors Dennis McCune and Karmanpreet Singh were presented the Social Science and Humanities Research Award for their study, "Effects of Stimulus Variability on Pitch Discrimination: Lexical Tones and Musical Intervals." This honor recognizes a social science and humanities project that holds importance in the field of study and has a potential impact on the public.
"We looked at the correlation between perceiving pitch in music and tonal languages and compared the normalization processes found in speech and music," McCune said.
He went on to explain that their research could further the understanding of language and potentially lead to alternative ways to learn new languages faster.
The Enterprise Award, which recognizes an endeavor from any field, was presented to senior human development and family studies major Somnang Roun of Philadelphia. Known by his friends as Sam, Roun's enterprise project "Parenting Classes for Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia" studies the relationship between immigrated Cambodian parents and their children.
"The purpose of my research is to develop methods to close the gap between parents and children and build an understanding relationship between the two," Roun explained.
He plans on continuing his work after graduation through the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia's Legacy Project.
The STEM Research Award honors a project that is in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering or mathematics and possibly holds significance to the general public. This year's recipient was freshman Marina Mathew for her work titled, "Location and Function of Dynamin-Like Protein in Crithidia Fasciculata."
Penn State Brandywine has been hosting EURECA for more than a decade and remains committed to giving its undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research in their respective fields of study. By conducting research alongside scholars, students become stronger critical thinkers and develop into more effective problem-solvers.


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At the heart of Crows Nest, the Crows Nest Centre connects our local community with a variety of centre and home support services.
Dedicated staff and volunteers work with older people, people with a disability, migrants, parents and people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
If you would like to give back to your community there is a wide variety of volunteer opportunities waiting for you.
The Crows Nest Centre is perfect for meetings, workshops, conferences, training and events. Our rooms can accommodate 20 to 150 people and are available seven days a week.
Income from venue hire supports our community work.
Office Hours: 8.00am to 4:30pm Monday to Friday
Crows Nest Centre
2 Ernest Place
Crows Nest NSW 2065
Phone: (+61) (02) 9439 5122