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When I worked in restaurants I often cornered chefs and asked them endless questions. I was young and very new to restaurant cooking. I was a bit of a pest. I wanted hard and fast cooking rules. Their responses were often more poetic than practical.
Me: "How much salt should you put in the water when shocking vegetables?"
Chef: "Put enough salt in the water that it tastes like the ocean."
Me: "When is the lamb done?"
Chef: "When it just starts to feel like a woman's breasts. A bit springy."
Maybe a 25-year old's breasts.
Now that I'm starting to write my own recipes I'm realizing how hard it is to translate cooking into words. There are always exceptions and variations. Heat sources vary. It's hard to remember exactly what I did. What details should be included? History? Failed attempts? Seasonal obstacles? How the hell do you teach someone to cook without bogging them down with too much information?
The cookbook author Richard Olney (Simple French Food and The French Menu Cookbook) managed to beautifully, whimsically, and meticulously extract recipes out of home cook Lulu Peyraud's brain and hands. Their collaboration is a book called Lulu's Provençal Table. Lulu Peyraud was French. Her family made great wine (still does) in Bandol, France and year after year she cooked really good food for her family. We are fortunate to get a glimpse into her world because Olney happened to live near her family's winery, Domaine Tempier. They had many meals together. Olney spent two years collaborating with Peyraud on this cookbook. She cooked and talked. He wrote and asked questions. He took her culinary intuition, insight and experience and put it on the page. Olney was a culinary translator.
"To peel tomatoes, Lulu first strokes the skins with a small knife blade."
"Lulu figures that guinea fowl is about the only flesh she knows that is flattered by the aggressive presence of smoked bacon."
When Olney accused Peyraud of giving him different instructions from day-to-day for the same recipe she said, "Well sometimes I do it one way and sometimes another—both are good." Richard Olney was so good at expressing the fluidity and flexibility of Lulu Peyraud's cooking. His style of culinary translation has me thinking about recipes in a very different way.
While writing my next recipe maybe I'll start with the specific ingredients and then tell a story. And I've always liked the idea of encouraging cooks to stray from the recipe. I might start using more imagery—just as those chefs did with me when I was pestering them for information. A sponge cake is done when it springs back like a baby's belly. When sugar starts to caramelize it reminds me every time of cotton candy. Wait for that nutty smell when butter starts to brown.
Less about timing and precision. More about touch, smell, taste, and play. It's a good thing I'm cooking so much with kids these days because this is very much how two-year olds relate to food. They don't care how much flour goes in the bowl or how much time you need to bake the cookies. Tart dough is edible playdough. Clementines are like building blocks. It's always a combination of inspiration and frustration for all of us.
Dash's friend Lola came over last Saturday. Dash and Lola are both two. And both are a little more interested in Mr. Talking Cash Register than the tarts that I'm SO EXCITED to make. The plan is to cook a goat cheese tart for lunch and a sweet squash tart for dessert, both inspired by Lulu Peyraud's style of cooking.
First a lengthy snack of melon. They melon-ball it directly into their mouths, skipping the bowl entirely.
Then Dash and Lola play guns, swords, and guitars with rolling pins.
Dash shakes all the tart pans and finds his favorite. Lola grabs a very small toy knife and holds onto it until we're done cooking. It's her security knife.
I roll out the dough and they help press it into the pans. But I can see I'm losing them. Dash wants to go play trains. Lola just wants out. After a snack of some scraps and a little shadow puppetry on the tart dough, we release them.
Dandy, Lola's mom, skateboards off to get goat cheese. Yes, skateboards. She owns the skate shop 510 Skateboarding. Super cool mom.
While Dandy zips around the neighborhood, I bake the tart shell for 10 minutes. I don't know what Dash and Lola are doing in the other room. Classical music is blaring. All the toys are out. I usually watch Dash like a hawk because he tends to climb up onto windowsills, run with scissors, and collect sharpies from Bella's room. I blindly trust that everything will be fine. I'm hoping that Lola's calm demeanor will rub off on him.
Skateboarding momma returns and we throw the goat cheese, egg, and cream into the mixer.
We are all very hungry. This is when I decide I was crazy to think we could cook two tarts. So we combine the two tarts into one. We're now making a tart with goat cheese, squash, and winter greens.
I saute the onions, garlic, and squash. Lola removes the tender greens from the fibrous stalks and adds them to the squash mixture.
After painting the bottom of the tart shell with the goat cheese mixture, we spread on the warm squash and greens. Tons of parmesan over the top and into the oven. At this point I have no idea how it's going to turn out.
I make a quick fennel, orange and greens salad. Dandy doesn't like fennel. I sneak it in anyway, just sliced really thinly.
We sit down and have one delicious and very chaotic lunch. Dandy wonders what the yummy thin white vegetable is in the salad. I admit that it's fennel.
You know at the end of a cooking show when the host takes a bite of the finished dish and a little cheese drips down her chin, she pauses, looks at the camera and says, "Yum. Delicious. I wish YOU could taste this tart." The problem is I never believe her. It never sounds sincere.
I call Dandy a few days later to see what she thought of the tart. Without pausing she says, "Delicious." You don't know Dandy but you should trust her. The tart kicked butt.
With cooking you move forward and then back. You change course. Just like writing. Every time I go to write down an ingredient I always want to give options and alternate paths. The trick is to cook like Lulu Peyraud and to write like Richard Olney. I'm not there yet, but I'm happy to say the tart we made the other day was born out of experience, intuition, chaos, spontaneity and a great CSA (community supported agriculture) box from Full Belly Farm.
P.S. Since we only made one tart with Lola, we have an extra tart shell. We freeze it. A few days later Dash and I make goat cheese and caramelized onion tart with olives and anchovies (my mom and I have been doing this combination for years). We use the same goat cheese filling that's in the squash and winter greens tart. Dash loves putting on all of the olives and "anchopeas."
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Inspired by Lulu's Provençal Table.
Feeds 4.
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Inspired by Lulu's Provençal Table.
Feeds 4.
tart dough:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
pinch of salt
8 tablespoon (one stick) unsalted butter, very cold
3-4 tablespoons ice water
squash/greens topping:
olive oil
1 small winter squash (butternut, kabocha, or pumpkin work great), peeled and cored and chopped into dime-sized chunks
1 small onion, diced
1 clove garlic
1 bunch of winter greens (chard, kale or collards), tender leaves only–use stalks for something else
grated parmesan
cheese filling:
1 cup goat cheese, fresh not aged
1 egg
big pinch of salt
2 tablespoons cream or half and half
Make the tart dough at least an hour, preferably several hours before you need it. You can do it by hand or in a food processor. Mix together flour and salt. Cut in butter (with fingers, pastry cutter, two knives, or food processor). Stop when the butter pieces are about the size of peas. Add half of the water (leaving ice cubes behind) and pulse two times with the food processor. If you're doing it by hand just mix a bit with a fork. It should start to look a bit stringy in places with some dry patches. Add a bit more water if it looks more dry than stringy. Pulse or mix again. Dump loose dough onto a big piece of plastic wrap. Don't touch it anymore with your hands. Press the dough together into a disc with the plastic wrap. Don't overmix. Put it in the fridge for at least an hour. If I'm in a hurry I'll put it in the freezer for 45 minutes.
Roll the dough out and press into any shape tart pan (I used a 9-inch round). Chill for another 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 350°F. Cook tart shell until you start to smell it and it looks less moist, about 10 minutes. Keep oven on.
Drizzle a tablespoon or so of olive oil into a saute pan and add diced onion after about a minute. Saute until translucent. Turn down to low. Grate (or thinly slice or press) in the garlic. Stir until you smell nutty garlic smell (less than a minute). Stir in the squash. Put a lid on and cook until squash is just tender. Check it every 5 minutes or so. It cooks very fast. Toss in the winter greens, season with salt and pepper, and put the lid back on. Turn off the heat. Leave for a few minutes to wilt. Stir and taste. Add more salt and pepper if necessary.
By hand or with any kind of mixer, cream together the goat cheese, egg, cream, salt, and pepper until light and smooth (3 minutes or so).
Evenly spread goat cheese mixture over the bottom of the tart shell (when the tart shell is a little warm it's even easier to spread because it melts a little bit). Place squash mixture on top of the goat cheese (it's ok if it's still warm). Spread it carefully and evenly to prevent the top and bottom layers from mixing. Grate tons of parmesan on top. Cooking time will vary anywhere from about 30-50 minutes. Check it often and take it out when the goat cheese is set and parmesan is golden brown. Careful not to overcook it. It will continue to set once it's out of the oven.
Variations: Except for the tart dough, there is a lot of flexibility with the ingredients.
Variations: Except for the tart dough, there is a lot of flexibility with the ingredients.
- Mix two different kinds of cheese (blue and goat OR ricotta and quark).
- Use potatoes instead of squash.
- Do 8 mini tarts instead of 1 big one.
- Top the cheese filling with caramelized onions, anchovies and niçoise olives (my mom and I have been doing this combination for years). It's like a very rich pissaladière. I will do an entire post on caramelized onions sometime soon. If you want some good tips right away buy Lulu's Provençal Table and check out her pissaladière recipe.


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A 22-year-old looking to find his way in the NHL helped the Detroit Red Wings out of a tailspin.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) ? A 22-year-old looking to find his way in the NHL helped the Detroit Red Wings out of a tailspin.
Tomas Tatar scored his first goal of the season in just his fifth game late in the second period Wednesday night as the Red Wings snapped a four-game slid with a 2-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks.
After Daniel Alfredsson tied the score 1-1 midway through the second, Tatar gave Detroit its first lead of the night with 62 seconds left in the period.
With the Canucks collapsing in their own zone, Tartar fired a shot from just inside the blue-line that found its way through Canucks goalie Roberto Luongo.
"I just tried to shoot it on net and the puck somehow ended up in," said Tatar, who has been in and out of the Detroit lineup all season. "This is a big relief."
Vancouver's best player on the night, Luongo was screened on the play by Canucks defenseman Christopher Tanev.
"I didn't see it until the last second, but I have to find a way to find those," said Luongo, who finished with 25 saves. "It's a pretty (lousy) way to lose a game on a goal like that.
"At the end of the day I have to try and find that puck."
The Red Wings (7-4-2) came in wanting to tighten up defensively after a couple of poor outings and did just that as Jimmy Howard was forced into just 19 saves.
"It's one of those games where it's little bit more difficult to keep your focus when you're not seeing as much action," he said. "I've got to give the guys a lot of credit tonight. They did a great job in front of me."
Daniel Sedin scored for Vancouver (9-5-1), which finished with a season-low 20 shots and saw its four-game winning streak come to an end. Henrik Sedin set up Vancouver's first goal to extend his point streak to 10 games (three goals, nine assists).
"We didn't generate enough offence," said Canucks head coach John Tortorella. "We certainly didn't sustain a forecheck. We just looked lethargic. For some reason we lacked some energy tonight."
Trailing 1-0 after the first period in a game that was short on excitement, Alfredsson tied the score at 11:37 of the second with his third goal of the season. The former Ottawa Senators captain picked up a loose puck in the slot and fired a shot off the post that rebounded in off Luongo's leg.
That's when Tatar, a second round pick back in 2009, stepped up with his first of the season late in the period.
"We were playing pretty good but we had nothing to show for it," said Alfredsson. "Then we get the first one and then a flukey play where their defenseman ended up being a screen and we get lucky there.
"That's a huge goal for us, to go into the third with the lead and I thought we handled that really well."
The Red Wings were happy to see Tatar get rewarded.
"You never know what's going to happen in this league when you throw pucks on net," Howard said. "Hopefully he feels a little pressure off his back. We can see how he plays in practice."
No longer conference rivals thanks to realignment, the Canucks and Red Wings combined for just 31 shots and few scoring chances through two periods in a defensive matchup that was played between the blue-lines most of the night.
"We believe we've gone through enough details that we should know how to play and we should be able to do it on a nightly basis," said Red Wings head coach Mike Babcock. "Tonight was a good step for our team. Now we've got to match it."
Vancouver's power play, which has just four goals all season and came in ranked 28th in the NHL, got an opportunity early in the third but was unable to muster any realistic scoring chances.
Notes: Daniel Sedin now has seven points (four goals, three assists) in his last five games. ... Kesler saw his five-game goal scoring streak come to an end. He came in with five goals and three assists over that span. ... The Canucks complete a three-game homestand on Saturday against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Prior to the game, Vancouver will retire Pavel Bure's No. 10 jersey. The Russian sniper played for the Canucks from 1991 to 1998, collecting 254 goals and 224 assists in 428 games. ... The Red Wings continue a four-game road trip on Friday against the Calgary Flames.

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All forms of behavior that conflict with the moral values of the Qur'an harbor an element of vulgarity. In the Qur'an, Allah praises moral virtues, self-sacrifice, humility and submission for believers and condemns selfishness, rebelliousness, bad temper, sentimentality and bad behavior. A Muslim closely bound to the Qur'an is very careful to abide by these commands of Allah's. But people who have not applied the moral values commanded in the Qur'an to their lives may exhibit ignoble behavior. This behavior may appear when people's lower selves are thwarted, when they regard themselves as being in the right, when they do not get their way, when they are troubled or when they think selfishly. For example, someone who works the whole day grumbling or complaining about things or watching to see how much work those around him are doing is behavior to which a believer who does everything for Allah's approval would never stoop.
One form of ignoble behavior is failing to heed advice intended to call them to proper moral values when they have behaved in a manner incompatible with the Qur'an and comparing oneself to other people who display poor moral values and citing them as an example in order to supposedly prove oneself in the right. Sincere believers, on the other hand, know how to avoid future mistakes in the event they make any, heed the good advice and take devout believers as model.
In addition, a believer who fears Allah never forgets that everything is created in destiny and that he must place his trust in Him. He therefore never falls into sentimentality, imagines he has suffered an injustice or becomes angry. Since Allah creates all events, he always exhibits wise behavior compatible with the Qur'an.
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|2012-12-19, 18:37
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Japan really have to change their policies, it's very good to have a strong economy, but if you have a declining birth rate and consider strangers as crap, the country is as good as dead in 20 years.
Hear me god, I pray thee, make World embryo end before it's the beginning of the end!
|2012-12-19, 18:44
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Not only changes in policy are required, but Japan needs to find ways to cut down some of those crazy prices on certain things, necessary or non-necessary. That's why I strongly hope someone or a group of people will boot all the old farts out and push them on the walk of shame soon before they bring the country down with them.
|2012-12-19, 19:16
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Stuff like Game console and electronic goods is more expensive in Japan comapre to US if you convert it to USD
depend on situation but usually it 50-100 more expensive
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|2012-12-19, 21:13
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As for the higher income individuals spending so much on their kids, I think it's perfectly possible to raise kids well without all those bells and whistles. Though Private education is often of a high quality, the deficiencies in public education can easily be overcome by living in the right place and spending sufficient time with the kids. I learnt more at home then I did in school, because of the quality of my home environment.
I think a lot of people spend a lot of money in order to make up for the lack of time they spend with their kids. I think a lot of wealthy middle class parents over budget their kids time with tutoring, soccer practice and musical instrument lessons, all the while they spend all day at work and never have any contact with them. Parenthood doesn't get enough respect these days. You can't buy good parenting. Some of the best parents are the poorest, and some of the worst are extremely wealthy.
That said, you do need to have sufficient money to feed them a good diet, and provide them access to books and a computer. The rest is unnecessary, though nice if you can have it.
Though people do spend ridiculous sums on cram schools. I think it's a bit foolish. For one thing, I suspect that the traditional "college" path to prosperity no longer functions as it used to in Japan anyway. The competitiveness is in the wrong place. Rather then being competitive in education, people should be pushing themselves to be more competitive in their entrepreneurship.
|2012-12-20, 04:34
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In fact, due to how cheap books are, one can easily overspend...Food items are roughly priced the same as my own country's as well.
Japan wages are higher than most other Asian societies BTW....so that makes up too
|2013-01-03, 16:13
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Just out of curiosity how accurate is this article about the Japanese attitudes towards the Fukushima workers?
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|2013-01-04, 19:47
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Recently I was watching some NHK World documenataries, and I noticed on two occasions the music sounded quite familiar. Lo and behold in the credit sequence I saw on one occasion the music was composed by Joe Hisaishi, and on a second occasion by Yuki Kajiura, two names that should be familiar to many anime fans.
What I'd like to know, is how much crossover is there between the Japanese Anime industry, and other types of Japanese media (Film, Television)?
Also, when we consider that the average Japanese person doesn't hold Anime (particularly late night anime) in very high esteem, would people like Kajiura be stigmatized at all for doing a lot of work in Late Night Anime? Would the work she does for the likes of NHK be considered more "prestigious" then work she does in Anime? And finally, would people like Kajiura be well known in Japan? I'd expect Hisaishi to be well known due to the Ghibli connection, but I was more surprised at seeing Kajiura working for NHK.
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Not commenting on whether she's good or not (though her music is very recognizable), I'm just surprised to hear her outside an Anime/Game context. I thought that the "Otaku Industries" were a bit of a ghetto, and found it unusual to hear her work in a more "respectable" context, like for a NHK documentary.
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After spending a month here, I must say that it is definitely cheaper than London (where I was living two years ago) and Paris (where I spent my last summer and visited multiple times), more or less on par with Munich in Germany... don't get me wrong it is expensive (by bankrupt Greece standards), but not the sci-fi cost that some have suggested here, Switzerland and all of Scandinavia are way more expensive. As long as one sticks to what locals eat and drink it shouldn't be that expensive (except from vegans and other perverts that like rotting cheese )
For example, you can get an apartment (without flat/room-mates) for £400-500 north of Yamanote line (<30 minutes time from Ikebukuro/Nippori/Ueno/Akihabara for <£100 per month commuting cost). Books, manga, doujinshi are 5-10 times cheaper here and LEGAL.
But the best thing here is that normal people are so helpful, especially when you are interested in their hobbies... be it a museum attendant talking about Japanese history, a buddhist monk talking about the combo of folk and his religions, the bimbos of Ageha about K-pop, to otaku and fujonshi about their favorite anime and their doujinshi... not to mention authors I had the chance to talk with a little in Comiket
This is really the exact opposite from their politicians who are more retarded and corrupt than any Asian, European and American conservatives
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The American Civil War took place between the years of 1861 and 1865, and it pitted twenty states known as the Union against eleven seceding states known as the Confederate States of America, or Confederacy. Those eleventh states were South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Texas. Texas in particular had many infantry, cavalry and artillery units. One of those cavalry units was the 37th cavalry, also known as Terrel's Cavalry Battalion, which saw plenty of action, not in Texas though, where there weren't many battles. However, Texas did hold a strategic position in the war, and it was called the back door of the Confederacy.
Texas declared secession from the United States the first of February of 1861, and joined the Confederacy a month and a day later. In addition to being the Confederacy's back door, Texas was a supply state, providing soldiers to the Confederate army. So while there was not a lot of fighting done in Texas, scores of Texans did engage in action. As a matter of fact, more than 70,000 Texans (distributed among 45 regiments of cavalry, 23 regiments of infantry, 12 battalions of cavalry, four battalions of infantry, five regiments of heavy artillery and 30 batteries of light artillery) served in the Confederate army, and Texas regiments participated in every major battle during the war, including veterans of the Mexican-American War, and others that took part in the Texas Revolution. Moreover, Texas kept five regiments and four battalions of cavalry, and four regiments and one battalion of infantry for home defense.
Texas usefulness as a supply state ended in 1863, when the Union managed to capture the Mississippi River, making large movements of soldiers, horses and cattle impossible. Of the battles that did take place in Texas, the most important was the Second Battle of Sabine Pass, on September 8th, 1863. On that day, the US Navy Captain entered the Sabine River with four gunboats, and was joined by 18 troop transports containing 5,000 infantrymen. Stakes had been previously placed in the river to serve as markers for cannon fire. As the Union convoy entered among the stakes, Confederate soldiers opened fire with lethal precision and heavily damaged the vessels. The Union Army was forced to escape down the river after having suffered the loss of two gunboats and the capture of 200 sailors.
The most famous Texan units are probably Terry's Texas Rangers and The Texas Brigade, but Terrel's Cavalry Battalion does not fall too far behind. Terrell's Cavalry Regiment was formed in June, 1863, with Terrell's Texas Cavalry Battalion as its core. The unit fought in several locations in Louisiana. In January, 1864, it contained 25 officers and 402 men that saw action at Mansfield, and participated in the operations against the Federal Red River Campaign. It was also active at Lecompte and Yellow Bayou. The regiment disbanded in May, 1865 at Hempstead, Texas. Field officer Colonel Alexander W. Terrell was accompanied by Lieutenant Colonel John C. Robertson and Majors George W. Owens and Hiram S. Morgan.


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We're about to launch a Surinam community portal, named "sranan.com" and because "Sranan" means "Surinam" in sranantongo (the lingua franca spoken by all people from Surinam) you'll agree "sranan.com" is the perfect url for hosting a surinam portal. Please note, that the T-shirt webshop which is currently hosted on http://www.sranan.com will be moved as soon as the portalwebsite is ready for launch.
As you probably know Surinam is a country in South-America that used to be a Dutch colony. As a result there is a large Surinam community living in The Netherlands and with sranan.com we're targetting all Surinam people living in Surinam as well as the Netherlands. Like in the country of Surinam the official language of our community portal will be Dutch, but we also want to promote the use of sranantongo which is the "lingua franca" spoken by all Surinam people. We're targetting all age-groups and all ethnic groups. Please note, that Surinam probably is the most multi-ethnic country in the world and our community portal aims to reflect that.
• We're looking for a "cool" and "colorful" logo (something "creole" maybe)
• Logo must include the URL: sranan.com
• There are no requirements regarding the use of upper/lower-case letters
• No tagline under sranan.com, but apart from the Sranan.com logo, we're also looking for a nice way to use "sranan.com" as a tagline itself. Please have a look at the t-shirts on http://www.sranan.com to see what we mean.
• Text-only or not?: We're interested in both types of logo's, but we would very much appreciate attempts of doing something really nice with the national flag of Surinam (see for example http://www.pozerscene.nl/fashion/ov…/heer_veen
• Although we also want to use the logo for business cards and website-ids, it must especially look great on (white) T-shirts.
• We don't have a real preference for white T-shirts, but because we plan to use the Flex Print service of ShirtCity.com which allows the use of only 3 colors, white t-shirts are the only option for designs that are inspired by the Surinam nation flag (which consists of 4 colors if you include white)
• Winning designs are to be delivered in vector formats (.eps and/or .ai) as well as jpg.
• After payment alle intellectual rights of the winning design are to be transferred.
• Designs that are not eliminated can be re-entered in the future T-shirt design contests.
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MASTERS 2013: A look at the Masters through numbers
AUGUSTA, Ga. – A look at the Masters by the numbers:
0 — Bunkers found on the 14th hole.
1 — Number of years it took Fuzzy Zoeller to win the Masters.
$1.50 — Cost of a pimiento cheese sandwich.
2 — Gene Sarazen's score on the par-5 15th hole in the 1935 Masters.
3 — Bridges at Augusta National.
4 — Tom Weiskopf's runner-up finishes at the Masters.
5 — Largest first-round lead, by Craig Wood in 1941.
6 — Green jackets won by Jack Nicklaus
$6.50 — Cost of a Masters club sandwich, beer and potato chips.
7 — Consecutive birdies made by Tiger Woods in 2005 and Steve Pate in 1999.
8 — Shots out of the lead when Jack Burke Jr. staged the largest final-round comeback to win the 1956 Masters.
9 — Jack Nicklaus' margin of victory over Arnold Palmer and Gary Player in 1965.
10 — Cabins at Augusta National where members can stay.
11 — Birdies made by Anthony Kim in the second round of the 2009 Masters.
12 — Tiger Woods' margin of victory in 1997.
13 — The score taken by Tom Weiskopf on the par-3 12th hole in the 1980 Masters.
14 — Career top-10s by Phil Mickelson in 20 appearances.
15 — Appearances by Mark O'Meara before he finally won the Masters in 1998.
16 — Playoffs in Masters history.
17 — How high Phil Mickelson jumped, in inches, when he won his first major at the 2004 Masters.
18 — Masters appearances by Ernie Els without ever winning.
19 — Masters appearances by Davis Love III without ever winning.
20 — Records Tiger Woods set when he won the 1997 Masters.
21 — Age of Tiger Woods when he won his first Masters.
21.5 — Seconds it took for the ball to leave Louis Oosthuizen's 4-iron until it dropped into the cup for an albatross on the second hole in 2012.
23 — Consecutive cuts made by Gary Player and Fred Couples.
39 — Countries that have had players compete in the Masters
40 — Score of Tiger Woods' first nine holes as a professional.
42 — Fewest players in the field, in 1938 and 1942.
46 — Age of Jack Nicklaus when he won his last Masters.
47 — Players who have won the Masters.
50 — Consecutive years Arnold Palmer competed.
61 — Magnolia trees on the road that leads to the Augusta National clubhouse.
63 — Lowest 18-hole score, by Nick Price and Greg Norman.
64 — Lowest final round of a Masters champion, by Gary Player in 1978
70 — Age of Charles Coody when he made a hole-in-one in the Par 3 Contest.
72 — Lowest score ever shot by Bobby Jones in the Masters.
97 — Gene Sarazen's age when he hit the ceremonial first tee shot for the last time.
109 — Most players in the field, in 1962.
$144 — Room rate for the Courtyard Marriott in Augusta, Ga., on Thursday a week after the Masters.
163 — Career rounds at Augusta National by Jack Nicklaus.
235 — Yards to the 15th hole when Gene Sarazen made an albatross in 1935 with a 4-wood.
$250 — Cost of a Masters ticket for all four rounds.
270 — Lowest 72-hole score, by Tiger Woods in 1997.
$470 — Cost of a U.S. Open ticket for all four rounds.
506 — Career birdies by Jack Nicklaus.
$525 — Room rate for the Courtyard Marriott in Augusta, Ga., on Thursday the week of the Masters.
900 — Separate pieces of silver used to make the Masters Trophy.
1,600 — Azaleas on the 13th hole (estimated).
$842,359 — Career earnings of Jack Nicklaus in 45 appearances at the Masters, including six wins.
$864,000 — Earnings of Louis Oosthuizen for finishing second in 2012 Masters.


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Missoula Neighbor Involved in Car Chase After Discovering Burglary in Process, Authorities Looking for Clues
A curious Missoula neighbor discovered a burglary in process this morning, May 8, at about 10:30.
"A neighbor was in the Orchard Homes area on Grove street, on North Grove, in the 300 block there," said Missoula County Sheriff's Department Public Information Officer Paige Pavalone. "He looked across the street and observed a suspicious vehicle. So, he waited outside the driveway and the when the vehicle - described as a white, 90's model Ford Ranger with a long cab - pulled out of the driveway it drove passed him at a high rate of speed."
The neighbor quickly gave chase, following the white truck in his own vehicle down River Road and then southbound on Reserve Street before the truck illegally crossed four lanes of traffic and disappeared eastbound on Third Street. During the chase, the neighbor was able to gather vital clues.
"He was able to get a partial plate, but he also observed that there were some golf clubs and fresh flowers in the back of the bed," Pavalone said. "The witness described the driver of the vehicle as a female in her young 20's with short blond hair and the passenger was a male with short brown hair."
Later investigation showed that, indeed, golf clubs and red flowers were missing from the home where the pursuit began.
The letters on the white truck's license plate were K – D – C, and the truck had Montana plates.
Anyone with information in this case is advised to call 911 or the Missoula County Sheriff's Department.


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XML is hardly a compact file format. In fact, XML as a markup language is inherently redundant. When you write particularly large and complex XML documents, the amount of repeated information can escalate significantly, which might invalidate the XML solution in the customer's eyes.
Let's look at a typical example of this tendency toward huge XML documents. Consider an XML document that contains payment information, including the companies that pay, the invoices you send, and perhaps the currencies the companies use. If you organize the document as a list of payments, you need to repeat for each node all the information you hold and need about the related invoices (number, description, date), the customers (name, address, bank), and the currency (name, current exchange rate). Depending on how complex your document is, this schema probably produces a much larger document than you need, especially if you have several cross-reference possibilities and you need an efficient way to retrieve such information as the customers and invoices they paid or invoices paid with a certain currency. The more you need to keep data related, the more you need an efficient way of cross-referencing XML data. After all, this is exactly the problem you solve by establishing separate tables when you design a database structure.
To port the same logic into the land of XML, you need to know about ID and IDREF data types, two special XML types that let you build a cross-reference between blocks of information within an XML schema. The structure of the document looks like this:
<xml> <payments> <data:payment id="po1"> <ref:company ref="C001" /> : </data:payment> : </payments> <companies> <data:company id="C001"> <name>First, Inc</name> : </data:company> : </companies> </xml>
You have two blocks of information: payments and companies. Instead of including direct information about the company that made a payment, each <payments> node cross-references a node in the <companies> list. With databases and tables, you don't insert company-related fields in the same table as the payments. Likewise, in XML you define two separate groups of nodes and establish a link between them.
To put this logical schema to work, you need to take two steps. First, write a couple of XML schemas to tell the parser that you're using attributes of type ID and IDREF. In the code snippet above, I use two namespaces, data and ref. The ID attribute is "id," whereas the IDREF attribute is "ref." Second, when you write script code for this type of document, use the XML Document Object Model (XMLDOM) nodeFromID method to retrieve the cross-referenced node:
set nodeCompany = xmldom.nodeFromID("C001")
The ID type marks an attribute as a piece of information that another attribute can reference.
<AttributeType name="id" dt:type="id"/> <ElementType name="company" content="eltOnly"> <attribute type="id"/> </ElementType>
In contrast, the value of the IDREF attribute specifies where the target node ID is in the document or in an external document, as in
<AttributeType name="ref" dt:type="idref"/> <ElementType name="company" content="eltOnly"> <attribute type="ref"/> </ElementType>
You can use ID and IDREF with Microsoft's MSXML parser version 2.0 and later (version 2.0 ships with Internet Explorer—IE—5.0). These data types are handy tools for cross-referencing XML data.


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|PAF plane crashes, two pilots missing
|Tuesday, 25 June 2013 11:36
The Philippine Air Force said Monday two pilots were missing after their twin-engine propellor plane went down at sea during a night flying mission.
The OV-10 Bronco, used largely as a maritime patrol support aircraft, failed to return to an air strip on the western island of Palawan Sunday night, air force spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Miguel Okol told AFP.
Combined elements of the coastguard and the navy have found parts of the debris and it appears to be the rear cargo compartment of the vessel," Okol said.
"We are still holding out hope that the two pilots were able to eject... we are searching for them."
Okol said the pilots had radioed the control tower that they were five nautical miles off the airfield and preparing to land before they crashed.
"At this point, we could not yet speculate as to what exactly happened," he said, adding the weather was clear.
The crash is the latest in a string of deadly accidents involving surplus and often old foreign aircraft acquired by the Philippine military.
The air force's fleet of 30 Broncos were acquired from the United States in 1991 and Thailand in 2004.
Developed in the 1960s as a counter-insurgency aircraft by the US Air Force, the Broncos can carry heavy ammunition for a few hours in the air.
They are used primarily for close air support missions against Muslim and communist insurgents, mainly on the southern island of Mindanao, Okol said.
However, they are also used to monitor the archipelago's extensive coastal areas, as well as for search and rescue missions in the disaster-prone Philippines, he added.
Okol would not say exactly how old the crashed plane was, but insisted that all of the Broncos were in good condition.
"They have received a good number of upgrades, and we maintain them very well," he said.
The Philippine military is among the most poorly equipped in the region, and past modernisation efforts have consisted mostly of surplus hardware acquired from its traditional ally, the United States.
In May, two pilots were killed when an air force trainer plane crashed north of Manila
In 2010, eight air force personnel and a civilian were killed when a light cargo airplane crashed in the southern city of Cotabato.


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E.J. Glave, The Slave-Trade in the Congo Basin. By one of Stanley's pioneer officers. Illustrated after sketches from life by the author (The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, 1889-1890), vol. 39, pp. 824-838.
Caption, "A Captive". The author lived in the Congo for six years, 1883-1889, and provides a vivid account of slaving activities in the Congo river basin. The illustration shown here, of a man in a 'slave shed" or barracoon, is described as follows: "Captives . . . are hobbled with roughly hewn logs which chafe their limbs to open sores; sometimes a whole tree presses its weight on their bodies while their necks are penned into the natural prong formed by its branching limbs" (Glave, p. 830); see related images by Glave in this website. In Glave's book "In Savage Africa" (New York, 1892), p. 123, the same illustration, captioned "awaiting execution" is used, but now to accompany a description of how certain slaves of men of high rank are executed so their spirits will accompany that of the deceased into the afterlife. (Katherine Prior brought Glave's account to our attention).


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Austin Menard, who played on three championship teams in a year, has room for more rings.
He won two in football and baseball as a Tuscaloosa Academy junior and expects to get another after playing for Tuscaloosa Baseball, which took the title in a national AAU tournament.
Austin Menard, who played on three championship teams in a year, has room for more rings.
He won two in football and baseball as a Tuscaloosa Academy junior and expects to get another after playing for Tuscaloosa Baseball, which took the title in a national AAU tournament.
Now that he's a senior, Menard will start at quarterback Friday, when the Knights open the season against Lee-Scott Academy. He'll also start at cornerback and do all the kicking.
"I'm going to work like I worked when (Jonathan) Plott was our starting quarterback," Menard said. "There was always the competition with me and him. Now, with Keonte (Chambers) involved, there is still competition, so I can never slack up or anything. We push each other to make each other better.
"I'm really excited about this year. We've got a lot of new guys, but they show great potential. Our line looks very, very good. They've got a chip on their shoulder because they've got to live up to last year's line. I think they can definitely do that if they just work at it."
All-State selection Terrell Bush and Kwuan Whitfield are returning starters on the line. Torrence Brown, who missed most of the season with a knee injury, is back and can play wide receiver, tight end or running back.
"He's worked so hard to get himself back in shape," Menard said. "He was always pushing himself and pushing himself, and every college sees great potential in him. He's a great target to throw to. And we have Trayshon Foster at the right split end and Harrison Standeffer at the left split end."
Menard said he plans to be a runner and passer.
"My overall speed is not that great, but I think I inherited some quickness from my brother (Christian) to make people miss," he said.
Menard and his teammates edged Lee-Scott Academy 27-26 to complete a 13-0 season and win the school's first AISA Class AAA football title. In the spring, he was an All-State pitcher with a 10-0 record. Tuscaloosa Academy took the baseball title by winning two of three games against Lee-Scott Academy. Menard pitched eight innings to get the win in the first game.
"We had a great senior class last year," Menard said. "We always knew come football season, when they were seniors and Terrell Bush and us were juniors, we said, 'We've got a shot.' It was just a matter of working hard. It was a dream year."
Tuscaloosa Academy wasn't ranked last season when it opened with a 34-0 victory at Lee-Scott Academy. Now the Knights are No. 3 and the Warriors No. 8.
"Coach (Robert Johnson) always has a 24-hour rule," Menard said. "When we lose, it's over. When we win, it's over. Considering that we won the state championship last year, I think we could hold onto it for at least two weeks. When football got started this year, it was erased.
"Lee-Scott has a great program. They're going to want some revenge."
Menard was the youngest player on the Tuscaloosa Baseball team that won the Upperclass championship in Fort Myers, Fla. Clay Thomas was a teammate, along with Tyler Gates. Thomas played on the football and baseball teams at Tuscaloosa Academy. Gates was a quarterback and pitcher at Tuscaloosa County. Both signed with Shelton State Community College.
Mickey Hollyhand was the head coach, with Adam Tennyson assisting. Hollyhand said his team was made up mostly of 19- and 20-year-olds with ties to Shelton State.
In the tournament, Menard was the winning pitcher as Tuscaloosa Baseball beat Chicago 7-3.
"Austin had a variety of pitches, but the most important thing was that he threw strikes," Hollyhand said. "He kept the ball down and kept them off balance."
Tuscaloosa Baseball lost to Texas 4-3 but regrouped and beat Connecticut 10-0 to reach the final round. Tuscaloosa Baseball downed Texas 8-0 to force an extra game and won it by a score of 4-1.
Hollyhand said Josh Lovelady was the catcher for every tournament game, including three on the final day. Other members of the team were Justin Cantrell, Donnie Elliott, Mason Hood, Greg Howard, Windham Jackson, Evan Miller, Tanner Skelton, Blake Smith, Slayton Thomas, Jake Vickerson, Ryan Ware, Dillon Williams and Steven Baggett.
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Columbia, MDUSA
June 11, 2017
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Columbia Sip 'n Knit started on a Wednesday night way back in October 2006 and we used to meet at Border's Bookstore in Columbia (now Books-A-Million). Wednesday night attendance grew and grew till Borders just could not hold us any more and we moved to Panera's. Shortly after the move the Saturday group was created for those that could not join us on Wednesday nights. Then Tuesday morning's were added to the calendar and Friday afternoon's were added.
Everyone is welcome. We have a wide range of expertise in all our groups, so if you have a problem or can't understand a pattern, do not hesitate to ask!! If the person you asked doesn't know I guarantee they can direct you to the best person! We do charitable project every once in a while and we'll schedule something soon.We'd love to have you join us anytime.
Tuesday mornings meet at Panera Bread on Dobbin Road.
Wednesday evenings meet at 2 locations! Panera Bread on Dobbin Road, and Wegmans (upper level).
Friday afternoons meet at Sidamo Cafe on Maple Lawn Blvd.
Saturday mornings meet at Panera Bread in the Columbia Mall
Each group has its own personality and there is one just right for you! Or you could go to all of them! We have no dues, no committees, no board of directors. It's a no problem, no drama kind of group. We have been knitting non stop since the fall of 2006!
Please check the calendar for special events and changes in locations.
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The Palmetto Lightning has struck gold again.
Central shot a 625 (312-313) to capture the Region IV-AA golf championship and a bid to the state championship.
Christopher Sardelli
A year after county officials and residents debated the contents of its annual budget, Lancaster County Council will begin the process again Monday evening, May 21.
That's when council will hear first reading of the county budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and ending June 30, 2013.
After three meetings of council's Finance Committee, the draft budget is $1.65 million out of balance because of several cost increases and newly added community needs.
Christopher Sardelli
A Lancaster woman remained jailed this weekend after attacking a man with a hammer earlier this week.
Gena Naliah Clinton, 26, 3034 Miller St., was arrested Tuesday, May 15, and charged with attempted murder, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.
Lancaster police officers first learned of the attack after responding to a domestic dispute call in the 3000 block of East Miller Street.
Jesef Williams
HEATH SPRINGS – The latest phase of Heath Springs' water line replacement project is at a standstill, and officials don't know when construction will begin.
Mayor Ann Taylor updated Town Council on the project during its Tuesday, May 15, meeting.
Last year, Heath Springs once again received a federal Community Development Block Grant to replace water lines in the town.
Denyse Clark
Landmark News Services
FORT LAWN – Fort Lawn resident Richard Hulse choked back tears at the unveiling of a unique memorial monument as he remembered fallen comrades who perished in the terrorist attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001.
Hulse, a former volunteer with New York firefighters, told a crowd gathered in front of the Fort Lawn Community Center on May 5 why this memorial dedication was of special significance to him.
Mildred Kinghorn
Faith Presbyterian Church
Faith Presbyterian Church recently sent nine of its members to Charleston to work as a mission team for Water Missions International.
The mission team members helped build 20 water-filtration systems for an emergency in Peru.
Team members were Indian Land residents Edye and David Bender, Sissy Kinghorn, Sue and Rick Lambert, Rodney Mandracchia, Jeannette Wilson and Diane and Colin Winchester.
Nancy Parsons
Landmark News Services
GREAT FALLS – A new billboard was unveiled last week.
But this isn't your typical advertisement.
Police hope the billboard will help find the killer of Alfreda Wertz Hinson.
Hinson was found murdered in her home on Nov. 28, 2011. She died from a single gunshot wound to her head.
Numerous law enforcement agencies, Crimestoppers of the Midlands, Lamar Outdoor Advertising and Revelations Outdoor Management held a press conference below the billboard on May 8.
Jesef Williams
KERSHAW – Lauren Joyner snapped away with her Kodak digital camera, hoping to get a few good shots of her daughter, Mary Beth, walking across the graduation stage.
Joyner said Mary Beth is the last of her three children to graduate from Andrew Jackson High School. That idea of finality made Friday's ceremony even that much more meaningful.
"I'm very proud," the mother said. "That's it. This (Mary Beth) is the last one."
Sherry Archie
Proud families rushed to fill the gymnasium at Buford High School as the Class of 2012 graduation ceremonies began. With the meaningful notes of Pomp and Circumstance filling the air, 122 seniors filed in to take their seats of honor. They entered as high school students and left as graduates ready to begin the journey of adulthood.
"We are so proud of our students. They have all worked hard to get here tonight," said JoAnn Garris, assistant principal at BHS.
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Acceptances, Denials, and Waitlists / Loyola-LA or Temple Law« on: January 18, 2012, 07:49:05 PM »
Ok, so I just got accepted into both these schools so far. I am still waiting to hear back from other schools but I am trying to decide between these two. I am from CA and I do not really care either way about saying here or leaving. I received rather large scholarships from both schools. Which school would be best? Thanks.


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U.S. Could Be Leader in Global Growth
The U.S. is best positioned to keep the global economy from an acute slowdown in 2013, a leading forecaster says. Matthew Walter reports on Markets Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Does food 'addiction' explain explosion of obesity?
By Nanci Hellmich, USA TODAY
Obesity has long been blamed on weak willpower, overeating, genetics and lack of exercise. Now scientists increasingly are seeing signs that suggest there may be an additional contributor: food addiction.
Monday night and again today, dozens of the nation's leading researchers in obesity, nutrition and addiction planned to discuss whether food has addictive properties for some people. They're gathering in New Haven, Conn., at a meeting sponsored by Yale University's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.
"We believe that there is sufficient science to suggest there is something to this, so we are bringing the leading authorities together to decide whether food addiction is real and what the underlying psychology and biology might be," says Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center.
"It's surprising that our field has overlooked this concept for so long," he says. "Society blames obesity only on the people who have it and has been close-minded to other explanations."
Support for the idea of food addiction comes from animal and human studies, including brain imaging research on humans, says Mark Gold, chief of addiction medicine at the McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Florida, who is a co-chair for the meeting.
In a medical setting, "we evaluated people who were too heavy to leave their reclining chairs and too big to walk out the doorway," he says. "They do not eat to survive. They love eating and spent the day planning their new takeout choices."
Psychiatrist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a speaker at the meeting, says the research in this area is complicated, but most people's weight problems aren't caused by food addiction.
Some studies focus on dopamine, a neurotransmitter in the brain associated with pleasure and reward. "Impaired function of the brain dopamine system could make some people more vulnerable to compulsive eating, which could lead to morbid obesity," Volkow says. She did groundbreaking research in this area while at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven (N.Y.) National Laboratory.
For some compulsive eaters, the drive to eat is so intense that it overshadows the motivation to engage in other rewarding activities, and it becomes difficult to exercise self-control, she says. This is similar to the compulsion that an addict feels to take drugs, she says. "When this occurs, the compulsive eating behavior can interfere with their well-being and their health."
But there are many differences between addiction to drugs and the intense compulsion for food, she says. Food is necessary for survival, and eating is a complex behavior involving many different hormones and systems in the body, not just the pleasure/reward system, Volkow says. "There are multiple factors that determine how much people eat and what they eat."
She does not believe that most people are overweight because their brains' dopamine systems don't function properly. There are many causes of excess weight, including unhealthful eating habits, lack of exercise, genetic vulnerability and stress, she says.
Although there is no official definition of food addiction, Gold defines it in much the same way as other substance dependence: "Eating too much despite consequences, even dire consequences to health; being preoccupied with food, food preparation and meals; trying and failing to cut back on food intake; feeling guilty about eating and overeating."
He believes some foods are more addictive than others. "It may be that doughnuts with high fat and high sugar cause more brain reward than soup."
Others pooh-pooh the idea of food addiction. "This is a dumbing down of the term 'addiction,' " says Rick Berman, executive director of the Center for Consumer Freedom, a group financed by the restaurant and food industry. "The term is being overused. People are not holding up convenience stores to get their hands on Twinkies.
"Lots of people love cheesecake and would eat it whenever it's offered, but I wouldn't call that an addiction," he says. "The issue here is the intensity of people's cravings, and those are going to differ."
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Feelin' Groovy? Groove Tubes now on Dolphin Music
Guitarists both yesterday and today can be linked by one piece of equipment: The tube amp. With all the strides in transistor amp technology, guitarists still prefer tube amps. Why do tube amp designs sound and feel differently from solid-state? Simply, tubes work differently.
What is a tube?
A tube is an electronic device consisting of a minimum of four active elements: a heater (filament), a cathode, a grid and a plate. All sealed in a vacuum glass enclosure to prevent parts from burning. Once heated, the cathode begins to emit electrons, which flow from the cathode (which is negatively charged) toward the plate (which is positively charged). The grid's purpose is to control this flow, in effect, acting as a valve.
How do Tubes Work?
When the guitar's pickup produces a small voltage (the result of the string vibrating in the pickup's magnetic field), this signal is applied to the grid, which causes a large current flow from the cathode to the plate.
Because of this, a correspondingly large voltage now appears at the plate. A portion of the amp's electronic circuitry, the grid bias control, adjusts the proper voltage setting of the grid. When the grid bias is properly set, the tube is balanced to the circuit, and therefore produces a clean, powerful signal. The plate is connected to an output transformer, which matches the impedance to that of the speaker.
How do Tubes Distort?
As the signal emitting from the plate approaches its maximum potential, the tube gradually begins to react less and less to the original input signal. This results in a type of compression of the signal, and the signal becomes cut off or "clipped." Tube distortion ("clipping") occurs gradually, producing low order distortion which compliments the original signal, creating a warm sound. This is also why it's easy to move between clean and distorted tones.
The Groove Tubes Process:
Analyzing and Selecting tubes.
Groove Tubes literally go through thousands of tubes, rejecting more tubes than they accept. Groove Tubes put every tube through a rigorous performance test, one at a time, in real amp circuits. The preamp tubes are rejected for adverse microphonics, low output or high noise. Power tubes are more involved, and they go through additional analysis. Here's what they're looking for:
- Grid Leakage. Causes tube to burn out quickly, and worse yet, to short out and wreak lots of havoc. Groove Tubes throw these tubes out.
- Weak Vacuum. Tube will act deceptively normal, then just burn out on you (usually at the worst time!). These tubes don't make it past the first round.
- Gain to Distortion Ratio. The center of all Groove Tube magic! This measurement tells them if the tube will distort early or later in its power range. Since the tube distortion is rich in harmonics (That's why we love 'em!), the tonality of each tube will vary according to this ratio. Only Groove Tubes sets have been measured and matched to insure longer sustain, wider frequency response and a more musical amplifier!
- Rating and Matching Tubes. Groove Tubes translate this gain to distortion ratio into a performance scale that can range up to 100 points, then match up the tubes to within 1 point of each other. To simplify things, they reduce the scale to 1-10 before the tubes leave the shop. All tubes are exactly matched into duets, quartets, sextets and even octets.
More than just Great Tone.
The Groove Tubes Process produces many welcomed improvements:
- Dramatically Improved Sustain by eliminating phase cancellation (which occurs when dissimilar tones coming from unmatched tubes are combined and cancel out certain frequencies.)
- Improved Harmonic Balance- All the notes you play will have the same amplitude. (No more dead spots or dull notes!)
- Longer Life Span by 1st) eliminating faulty tubes. 2nd) Our balanced sets reduce stress that occurs when a stronger tube is working too hard to make up for its weaker partner, and 3rd) because our sets drive the output transformer evenly it actually runs cooler!
Why do Tube Amps all Sound Different?
Types and quality of tubes vary, some tubes amplify more than others.
The amount of gain a tube produces varies with the each amp's circuit design, some tubes amplify more than others under similar conditions.
The 4 amp stages:
- Preamp Stage - Amplifies an incoming guitar or mic signal for tone shaping.
- Signal Processing Stage -This is where you add the effects, reverb, tone controls, etc.
- Power Amp Stage -The real workers in your amp. Most amps over 10 watts use an alternating push/pull power amp design- when one tube is on, the other is off. Your amp may have two, four, six or possibly eight power tubes.
- Rectifier Stage -Converts AC wall electricity to the DC electricity inside your amp. Most modern amps have sold state rectifiers.
Why Should You Replace Your Tubes?
Glass, metal, lots of little parts... tubes are subject to mechanical problems and are not meant to last a lifetime. Actually, the harder you work your tubes, the faster they wear out. Which means that from time to time you will need to replace your tubes. More reasons to replace your tubes:
When one starts to go, it drags the others down with it, decreasing the over all efficiency of the amp.
The better the tube, the better the tone. Simply put, the best reason to replace your tubes with Groove Tubes is that they'll make your amp sound better.
Bottom Line:
Pay attention to your amp's performance. When you hear the sound begin to deteriorate, it's time to change your tubes. Your amp will last longer. Your tone will always be at its best. Think about it, you don't wait until the strings break before you change them, do you? Look for these signs that Your Tubes May be Deteriorating:
- Loss of highs or lows, Muddy chords
- Poor balance in the output of various notes
- Lacks punch, Makes funny noises
- Amp starts sounding weak
- Power fading up and down
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BLISSFIELD — The Blissfield Downtown Development Authority and Main Street Program will accept applications beginning Jan. 1 for the next round of facade grants. Applications will be accepted until March 1.
At that time, the program's design committee will review the applications and will make a recommendation to the Blissfield DDA/Main Street Board as to who should receive a facade grant for the next year. Grant recipients will be notified by the middle of April.
In announcing the application process, Patricia Rayl, Blissfield DDA/Main Street director, said that in order to be eligible for a facade grant, applicants must own a commercial building within the DDA district and be able to match at least 50 percent of the rehabilitation cost of the facade.
If a building owner is granted a facade grant, the Blissfield DDA/Main Street Program will cover up to $15,000 of the other 50 percent. Each grant is disbursed over a three-year timeframe with $5,000 issued each year.
The facade grant program, which was initiated in 2001, has been responsible for more than $497,312 worth of investment into facades, according to the DDA. Of that, $287,298 has been private investment and the other $210,014 has been investment by the Blissfield DDA/Main Street Program and the state of Michigan.
In a news release, Mike Gunter, village president and design committee chairperson, wrote he believes the facade grant program has been beneficial to Blissfield building owners.
"We've had several successes over the past years in rehabilitating façades in our core downtown. We feel strongly that we want reinvestment in our downtown district," Gunter wrote. "That reinvestment will create attractive, inviting facades that, in turn, will make our downtown district viable and attractive to existing and new businesses. This is one of the numerous tools that Main Street membership provides."
More information on the facade grant program can be found at www.BlissfieldMainStreet.com, or by calling the Blissfield DDA/Main Street Program at 486-3642.
Blissfield DDA, Main Street Program accepting applications for facade grants
BLISSFIELD — The Blissfield Downtown Development Authority and Main Street Program will accept applications beginning Jan. 1 for the next round of facade grants. Applications will be accepted until March 1.


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CRESTVIEW � The Guardian Ad Litem in Crestview on Sunday remembered needy, unrepresented children with a ceremony at Twin Hills Park.
CRESTVIEW � The Guardian Ad Litem in Crestview on Sunday remembered needy, unrepresented children with a ceremony at Twin Hills Park.
Guardian Ad Litem is a government-assisted, volunteer-based organization that speaks for children moved from their homes due to courtroom intervention. These children, who have been abused, neglected or abandoned, are often removed from a toxic environment and placed into care of others.
Carita Smith, the Crestview Guardian Ad Litem program�s volunteer coordinator, hosted the event.
The goal was to encourage more people to volunteer for the program.
"We have lots of volunteers and I appreciate them," Smith said during the ceremony. "But right now, we have over 200 (children) without Guardian Ad Litem. So that means those children get up and have nobody to speak on their behalf and have nobody to visit them and nobody to make sure they are not hurt, harmed or endangered again.�
A basket with 201 flowers was placed inside a lookout pavilion overlooking a pond at the park. Following the service, attendees tossed flowers into the pond in remembrance of children without representation.
Additionally, area judges and program directors spoke and there were performances from the Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church children's choir, Jeilani Champion and Dr. Linda Smith.
�Doing from my heart�
Crestview resident Malcolm Parker said Sunday�s event taught him a lot about the issue.
"It opened my eyes a little bit," he said. "You don't always pay attention to what's going on with the children in the community."
Parker said he�s considering volunteering and wants to help spread the word.
Tammy Hillsman, who has worked with Guardian for the past eight months, said she enjoys speaking on the children�s behalf.
"I just want to be there because whatever situation we step in to, it's a tragedy from the very beginning," she said. "I'm basically there to help them get through it."
Hillsman said she is working on two cases involving four children. On average, she handles two cases at a time, she said.
The workload is never a burden, she said.
"They try not to overwhelm you; they start you off slow" Hillsman said.
And it�s fulfilling, she said.
"I'm doing from my heart � I don't want to get paid for it," Hillsman said. "I'm just doing it for those children."
Want to volunteer?
Prospective Crestview Guardian Ad Litem volunteers can call 689-5060. Learn more about the program at guardianadlitem.org.
Contact News Bulletin Staff Writer Matthew Brown at 850-682-6524 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @cnbMatthew.


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POL363 Chinese Foreign Pol and US
Focus on Chinese foreign policy institutions, processes and actors, and their role in foreign policy making. Secondary focus on key foreign policy issues, specifically those influencing US-China relations.
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David Egan has always dreamed big. When he was a youngster, starting out as a Special Olympics swimmer, he dreamed of winning his races. As he grew, he looked to bigger goals –having a job and finding ways to change attitudes toward people with intellectual disabilities.
David Egan's leadership skills shine as he chats up members of the Senate after wrapping up his testimony before the Health, Education and Labor Committee.
Now 33 years old, David has been living his dream – and inspiring others to live theirs. Among other things, he's grown up to be a sought-after spokesman for people with intellectual disabilities, speaking at international conferences, testifying at a U.S. Senate hearing last year, and addressing a global audience at the United Nations this year.
David's family says he has always worked hard to succeed, even when he was little.
For David, who has Down syndrome, his many achievements haven't come easily. That's where determination comes in – to keep pushing even when things seem hard. David says he learned that as a young athlete. "Special Olympics taught me to succeed, to set a goal and do my best," says David. "It changed my life." David is also marking 15 years working at the technology consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. He and his family say his path to success began early; in many ways, it began with sports.
His mom, Kathleen, says young David worked hard to compete in local swimming events, where he was the only swimmer with disabilities. "But David was a competitor and wanted to be Number 1," says his mom. "And that was hard in a pool of strong swimmers who broke records." When he joined Special Olympics, Kathleen says he began to really gain confidence and build self-esteem. "He could be his best and be Number 1," she says. "For us parents, the greatest thing was to see his joy and motivation…and celebrate his successes."
As David recalls, "It was hard for me to accept that I have Down syndrome. But it became easier when I joined Special Olympics and discovered I was not alone."
Soon, Special Olympics became more than just David's thing; the whole family got involved. While David played soccer and basketball, his dad coached, and his little sister and brother helped on the field and chased the balls. Says Kathleen, "Those practices and games have made a long impression on all of us. Then it was not only David gaining confidence and experiencing joy, it was all of us as a family volunteering." David's sisters also began mentoring figure skaters with special needs; his brother coached soccer and played unified softball.
Kathleen admits to being hugely proud of David ("he amazes me") and gives Special Olympics credit for helping him reach his dreams. As for the rest of her family, she says Special Olympics "has also changed their lives for the better." She adds, "They know now how to appreciate the little successes and give it your best: 'Let me win and if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.' They have applied this to their lives."


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OXNARD, California – Vancouver Whitecaps FC concluded their offseason training camp with a spirited 3-1 victory against Ventura County Fusion on Wednesday afternoon. Nizar Khalfan netted the first goal for the 'Caps, while Kyle Porter and Terry Dunfield rounded out the scoring in the second half.
Thordarson was forced to make an early change to his line-up when Jonny Leathers pulled out of the match after five minutes with a hamstring injury. Ethan Gage came into the match in his place.
Ventura took the lead after 30 minutes of play when a low ball sent into the box was one-timed top corner past a helpless Simon Thomas by Diego Berrera.
Whitecaps FC, though, pressed their hosts throughout the half and levelled ten minutes later when Blake Wagner beat his defender and sent a pass in front of goal to Khalfan, who calmly finished with an easy tap-in.
Thordarson made three changes to the line-up at halftime, bringing on Kyle Porter, Cornelius Stewart, and a trialist in place of Long Tan, Blake Wagner, and Willis Forko.
Thordarson's squad dominated the second half of play. The 'Caps took the lead after 58 minutes, as the ball was worked out wide to Khlafan, who slotted a precise pass to a sliding Porter for a 2-1 advantage.
Vancouver put the match out of reach six minutes later with another simple tap-in from close range, this time by a wide-open Dunfield off a pass from Porter.
Thordarson was satisfied with the way the match went and was pleased to end the training camp on a high note. "It was a good finish to the camp," said Thordarson. "I was very happy with our way of attacking today. We wanted to try and press them high and go at them a little bit, and I think we managed that most of the time. We didn't give them too much time on the ball.
"I felt that we used the width of the field quite well, we broke through them in different ways, sometimes on the flank, sometimes centrally, and sometimes individually," added Thordarson. "There was lots of variation in our attack and we created quality chances."
Looking back at training camp as a whole, Thordarson felt that the team's time in California was a success. "It was a very good experience and very useful for myself, and hopefully for the players as well," said Thordarson. "We've gotten to know each other, and for me, that's been extremely important."
The team now goes on a six-week break before reconvening for preseason training on Monday, January 24, 2011.
Scoring Summary:
30' - VCF – Diego Berrera
40' - WFC – Nizar Khalfan (Blake Wagner)
58' - WFC – Kyle Porter (Nizar Khalfan)
64' – WFC – Terry Dunfield (Kyle Porter)
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Simon Thomas; Jonny Leathers (Ethan Gage 5'), Greg Janicki, Jay DeMerit (Luca Bellisomo 67'), Willis Forko (trialist 45'); Shea Salinas, Terry Dunfield, Gershon Koffie (Philippe Davies 59'), Blake Wagner (Cornelius Stewart 45); Nizar Khalfan, Long Tan (Kyle Porter 45')


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April 16, 2012
Olivia Maiers, 515.221.3009 or email@example.com
Iowa Credit Union Foundation Awards $5,750 in Scholarships to Six Iowa Students
Des Moines, Iowa—The Iowa Credit Union Foundation (ICUF) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2012 Family Involvement Board (FIB) Scholarship program. A total of $5,750 in scholarships was given to four high school students and two post-high school students to further their education. Nearly 300 applications were received.
Each applicant was required to complete an entry form and write a 500 word essay on the following issue:
Unfortunately, many Americans try to avoid money matters altogether and deal with problems as they arise. However, even with some knowledge about managing finances, you can maintain a healthy financial life. How are you educating yourself on personal finance and money management issues? Please include how you can utilize your credit union's financial education expertise.
Winners were selected by a panel of judges including teachers and credit union professionals. Scores were based on originality, clarity, meaningful content, and accurate presentation of facts, among others.
"ICUF recognizes the importance of education within the credit union community, as well as the need for college funding," said Marybeth Foster, Executive Director of ICUF. "Through our FIB Scholarship program, we are thrilled to able to provide financial support to six scholarship recipients."
High School Winners:
Post-High School Winners:
More information about the scholarship can be found on www.IowaCreditUnionFoundation.org.
About the Iowa Credit Union Foundation
Founded in 1995 as the philanthropic arm of the Iowa Credit Union League, the Iowa Credit Union Foundation's (ICUF) primary focus is to eliminate poverty in the state of Iowa. ICUF seeks to carry out its mission to help Iowans build wealth, responsibility and independence through its various programs, grants and scholarships. For more information, visit www.IowaCreditUnionFoundation.org.


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Ontario Workplace Health Coalition
Contact Us
If you have any questions, please contact the OWHC Secretariat:
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The Ontario Workplace Health Coalition (OWHC) is an incorporated, not-for-profit body; serving as a unifying structure across the province; helping to facilitate communication among workplace health stakeholders; and promoting the importance of using a comprehensive approach to create healthy and safe workplaces in Ontario.
With the assistance of members and healthy workplace stakeholders, the Coalition has prepared a Healthy Workplace Handbook intended for use in all Ontario workplaces. It was developed to assist Ontario organizations in initiating and sustaining their own healthy workplace programs. As well,the Coalition has developed a Proposal for an Ontario Comprehensive Workplace Health Strategy. The Proposal supports the development of a strategy for comprehensive workplace health (CWH) at the provincial level and aims to establish a common guideline by which Ontario organizations can integrate CWH into their core business plans.
Our Vision
All Ontario workplaces will:
Our Mission
The mission of the Ontario Workplace Health Coalition is to:
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Java 1A Practical Class
You will need to complete the optional parts described in Workbook 6 before attempting Tick 6*. In this exercise you will extend your graphical interface to the Game of Life you wrote in Workbook 6 to include an additional panel containing statistics about the configuration as it evolves. You should produce the same statistics as you computed in Tick 5*, and additionally you should include graphs showing the evolution of these statistics over the previous one hundred generations.
To complete this tick you should create a new package called
uk.ac.cam.crsid.tick6star and implement a new class called
StatisticsPanel which extends
JPanel. The class should provide an implementation of a method called
update with the following prototype:
public void update(World w);
You should copy the code from your Tick 6 submission into your new package and update your
GuiLife program to include the
StatisticsPanel by adding it to the main window for the graphical interface and specifying
BorderLayout.EAST as its layout position. You will also need to modify
GuiLife to call
update whenever the state of the world changes.
In order to draw arbitrary content onto a
JPanel you need to override the
paintComponent method (see
GamePanel.java for an example).
You may find it helpful to create an additional class called
Graph, which extends
JPanel, to hold your line graphs. In the constructor for this class set the layout manager to be an instance of
BorderLayout. You can add a title to the graph by adding a
JLabel with
BorderLayout.NORTH as its layout position, and add the actual data plot (as another class extending
JPanel) using the
BorderLayout.CENTER layout position. This structure will ensure that your plot automatically resizes nicely if the user changes the size of the main window.
You can find out the width of a component when drawing using the
getWidth and
getHeight methods.
You can draw text on to a
Graphics context using the
drawString method.
The alignment of text in a
Graphics context must be done manually by adjusting the position you start drawing at. To do this you need to know the size of your text string. Here is an sample method which accepts 0, 1 or 2 (representing left, centre or right alignment) for
halign (horizontal alignment) or
valign (vertical alignment).
protected void drawString(Graphics g, String text, int x, int y, int halign, int valign) { FontMetrics m = g.getFontMetrics(); Rectangle2D r = m.getStringBounds(text, g); x -= r.getWidth() * halign / 2; y += r.getHeight() * valign / 2; g.drawString(text, x, y); }
The coordinate (0,0) is the top left pixel in a
Graphics context.
To complete your tick you need to prepare a jar file with the contents of all the classes you have written in this workbook and email it to
firstname.lastname@example.com. Your jar file should contain:
uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/HelloSwingWorld.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/HelloSwingWorld.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/CommandLineOptions.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/CommandLineOptions.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/TextLife.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/TextLife.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/GuiLife.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/GuiLife.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/GamePanel.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/GamePanel.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/Strings.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/Strings.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/ControlPanel.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/ControlPanel.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternPanel.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternPanel.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/SourcePanel.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/SourcePanel.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/WorldImpl.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/WorldImpl.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/ArrayWorld.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/ArrayWorld.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PackedWorld.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PackedWorld.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/AgingWorld.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/AgingWorld.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/Pattern.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/Pattern.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PackedLong.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PackedLong.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternLoader.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternLoader.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternFormatException.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/PatternFormatException.class uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/StatisticsPanel.java uk/ac/cam/crsid/tick6star/StatisticsPanel.class


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I have recorded information on this particular ancestor in a timeline. I felt this was the best way to try and keep track of his movements. As you will see he seemed to be all about the place and with the families he had I was trying to keep track of who was born when and where. This will make it easier to add more information in the future and even perhaps write a short story.
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Ruby Jane Slaydon Parnell Lawrence, 87, of East Center Street, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at Brookstone Retirement Center, Alzheimer Unit after an extended illness.
Ruby Jane Slaydon Parnell Lawrence, 87, of East Center Street, died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 2013, at Brookstone Retirement Center, Alzheimer Unit after an extended illness.
A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Reeds Baptist Church by Pastor Dave Williams and the Rev. Robin Fitzgerald of Ebenzer United Methodist Church. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Lawrence was born Oct. 2, 1925, in Surry County to William Henry Slaydon and Cinnie Myrtle Creed Slaydon. She was a member of Ebenezer United Methodist Church. She was a seamstress at Teenie's Drapery for many years. She volunteered many years at Lexington Memorial Hospital. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Elmo Lee Parnell, as well as her second husband, Kenneth Lawrence; three sons, Findale Parnell, Varner Parnell and Bradley Parnell; one brother, William Slaydon; and one sister, Ethel Tysinger.
Surviving are one son, Dickie Parnell and wife Kim of Spencer; one daughter, Twyla Sechrest and husband Kirby of Lincolnton; four sisters, Lola Smith and husband Weldon of Lexington, Kathleen Westmoreland and husband Chester of Thomasville, Allene Hartman and husband Bill of Lexington and Birdie Blankenship of Winston-Salem; one daughter-in-law, Amy Parnell; 12 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Memorials made be made to St. Jude's Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Department 300, Memphis TN 38148-0552.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net.


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Earth : Asia : Middle East : Syria : Syrian Coast and Mountains : Latakia
Latakia (اللاذقية) is a major port in Syria - population 550,000.
Lattakia is a city extending back to Ancient Greek times, and continues to be an important commercial port for Syria today. The city itself consists largely of white stucco highrises and streets lined with palm trees, and the most popular beaches are along the coast to the north of the city. Lattakia is home to one of Syria's largest universities, Tishreen University, and the city tends to be relatively socially progressive and liberal (by Syrian standards), with a mixed population of Christian, Alawi, and Sunni inhabitants.
Get in
By bus
Frequent, air conditioned, inexpensive buses connect Lattakia with Aleppo, Damascus, Hama, Homs, and Tartous. The bus station, located next to the train station on the southern end of the city, has departures throughout the day to each of these cities. Travel time from Lattakia to Damascus is 4-5 hours.
By train
There are trains to/from Aleppo, Tartous and Damascus (overnight sleeper) - timetables are online [3].
Get around
Much of Lattakia is accessable by taxi, and there is little other public transportation to speak of. One can walk along the corniche, although it is otherwise not a very walkable city, due to distances between points in the city (beach, downtown, resort hotels, Ugarit, etc).
Pay no more than S£50 to use taxis for getting around Latakia.
Lattakia region is known for its diversity of landscapes, from the green mountains to the sandy beaches, with many important archeological sites like the Saladin Castle (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2006) and the ruins of Ugarit close enough to see on a day trip from Lattakia.
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Course Details
LGS408 Children & the Law
An advanced, in-depth exploration of international and national policies that shape laws related to children. Topics covered will include the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child; relevance and applicability of civil liberties for children; and the legal status of children in the US, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Africa.
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisites: LGS 301 or permission of the instructor.


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As I've mentioned before, I really like the '10 Things Thursday' thread. It occurs to me, however, that some may be daunted by the length/number of response required and because the thread falls so near to the end of the work week there isn't that much time for circulation/response.
It might be nice to start a '5 Things Tuesday as a sort of '10 Things Lite' alternative. Let's keep '10 Things Thursday' going, but I offer this thread as an expedient early-in-the-week supplement.
1. I would like to watch an episode of Hee Haw. It's been quite a while and I can't believe the show was as stupid as I remember...
2. I will be glad when November 7 rolls around
3. I just got done re-reading "The Mouse that Roared'. What great satire!
4. Tonight I will take the Cub Scouts to the Fire Station
5. The price of fresh cider is going for $8-9 per gallon