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Simply put, advocates are people in the community who make their voices heard. As an advocate for music therapy, you are educating your legislators, state administration department heads, state regulatory agencies, and other key decision makers about music therapy and how it benefits the citizens they serve.
Advocacy, as specifically related to our certificants, involves education and information sharing about the profession that includes, but is not limited to, scope of practice for the profession, where music therapists work, and what the benefits are to clients and their families. Professional advocacy also includes protecting the right of MT-BCs to practice by monitoring the regulations and related legislation of other related professions to ensure that policy and language changes do not infringe on the music therapists right to practice.
There are many reasons to be an advocate for music therapy:
- To increase access to services for clients
- To increase access to funding sources for services
- To make the music therapy profession and it's members known and available as resources on related issues
- For increased respect and recognition
- To educate legislators about music therapy and issues affecting clients and practices
- For increased employment opportunities and enhanced benefits
- To have legislators and staff associate music therapy with other healthcare and education consumer groups
It takes time and perseverance to become a successful advocate. Advocacy requires a series of contacts to develop a relationship of respect. These contacts can include email, phone, face-to-face, or online communications designed to educate, explain, propose solutions, or ask for an action.
Interested in being an advocate for music therapy? Contact the chair of your state task force to learn how you can contribute and help advance the profession in your state.
Federal Issues
The American Music Therapy Association Government Relations staff and Committee work to represent the profession of music therapy in Washington DC. Click here to learn more about AMTA's top federal advocacy priorities.
State Issues
CBMT works in collaboration with AMTA and State Task Forces on the State Recognition Operational Plan. Click here to learn more about what's happening in your state.
Starting in 2011, dozens of music therapy bloggers and podcasters working with the American Music Therapy Association and Certification Board for Music Therapists (CBMT) have successfully spread the word about music therapy advocacy and the State Recognition Operational Plan through multiple social media channels. Throughout the month of January, music therapy bloggers and podcasters share their thoughts, ideas, and questions about what it means to be a music therapy advocate, what the State Recognition Operational Plan entails, and how you can be involved.
In 2012, a total of 40 bloggers and podcasters participated in this project, publishing a total of 50 articles, 5 podcast episodes, and 3 advocacy videos.
In 2013, a total of 48 bloggers and podcasters participated in this project, publishing a total of 71 posts, including 7 podcast episodes, 5 advocacy music videos, and 2 infographics.
In 2014, we explored and honored the music therapy profession as a distinct profession, unique from other professions and professionals with which we work. Over 45 bloggers and podcasters participating, publishing a total of 72 posts on the subject.
The 2015 project theme was re: VISION and centered on how music therapists convert challenges to advocacy opportunities. re: VISION can have many meanings. In the case of state recognition efforts, it involves converting the challenges we face from increased opposition—a natural consequence of the increased visibility recognition efforts have generated—to opportunities for examining the profession in a new light. It is about how we Value and Imagine Success, despite challenges, and how we Invest in advocacy Opportunities Now.
A full listing of blog posts, podcast episodes, and videos can be found by visiting:
Thank you to the following blogs and bloggers who participated in the 2015 project:
Annapolis Music Therapy Services (CJ Shiloh: 2015)
Coast Music Therapy (Michelle Lazar: 2014, 2015)
Connecticut Music Therapy Services (Jennifer Sokira: 2012, 2014, 2015)
Florida MT Government Relations Task Force (FL Task Force: 2015)
Full Circle Music Therapy Community (Amanda Burchfiel: 2015)
Heartbeat Music Therapy (Janice Lindstrom: 2013, 2014, 2015)
Listen and Learn Music (Rachel Rambach: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Metro Music Therapy (Mallory Even: 2014, 2015)
Michelle Erfurt (Michelle Erfurt: 2015)
Music Therapy and End-of-Life Care (Jillian Argue, Meghan Hinman, Kristen O'Grady, Noah Potvin: 2014, 2015)
Music Therapy Book Club (Michelle Erfurt, Jennifer Sokira: 2015)
Music Therapy Ebooks (Michelle Erfurt, Rachel See: 2015)
Music Therapy Ed (Kat Fulton and Julie Palmieri: 2013, 2014, 2015)
Music Therapy Kids (Mary Altom: 2015)
Music Therapy Maven (Kimberly Sena Moore: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Music Therapy Round Table Podcast (Michelle Erfurt, Matt Logan, Rachel Rambach, Kimberly Sena Moore: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Music Therapy Source (Matt Logan: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Roots and Wings Music Therapy (Stacey Surratt: 2013, 2014, 2015)
Serenade Designs (Julie Palmieri: 2015)
Session Cafe (JoAnn Jordan: 2015)
Songs for Success (Kerry Cornelius: 2014, 2015)
The Musical Autist (CJ Shiloh: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
The George Center (Jamie George, Andrew Littlefield, and the George Center staff: 2013, 2014, 2015)
The Rhythmic Mind (Stephanie Scheffel: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Time for Music (Wade Richards: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Tuneful Teaching (Kathy Schumacher: 2013, 2015)
We are grateful to the following blogs and bloggers that have participated in past social media advocacy projects:
…in the practice room. A Music Therapy Blog (Tania Cordobes: 2013, 2014)
Access Music Therapy Services (Jody Tucker: 2014)
All Things Healing (Bernice Chu, Rebecca McClary, Melinda Wilson: 2012)
Back Mountain Music Therapy (Antoinette Morrison: 2013, 2014)
Beyond the Music MT (Michelle Strutzel: 2012)
Bill Matney (2012, 2013, 2014)
CODA Quips (Kellee Coviak Hansen: 2013, 2014)
Developing Melodies (Meryl Brown: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Do It In Public: A Jim Ernst Project (2012)
Dr. John Carpente's Music and Child Development Blog (2012)
Earthtones Music Therapy Serivces (Jodi Winnwalker: 2014)
Eclectic Guitar (Sara Sendlbeck: 2012)
Giving Song (Kristin Noel Veteto: 2014)
Golden State Music Therapy (Kalani: 2014)
Helping Harmonies (Noa Elimelech: 2013)
Judith Pinkerton (2012)
Kalani (2012, 2014)
Key Changes Music Therapy (Natalie Mullis: 2012, 2013, 2014)
MTI in the ATL (Andrew Littlefield: 2012)
KNV Music Therapy (Kristin Veveto: 2012)
Mind-Full Music Therapy Services (Debi Kret-Melton: 2012)
Mundana Music Therapy (Megan Resig: 2012)
Music 4 Life podcast (Judith Pinkerton: 2012)
Music Makes Sense (Daniel Tague: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Music Matters (Kate Legge: 2012, 2013)
Music Moves (Natasha Thomas: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Music Sparks (JoAnn Jordan: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Music Therapy Annex (Megan Resig: 2013)
Music Therapy Equals Love (Ashley Lundquist: 2012, 2013)
Music Therapy Ideas (Connie Cheila Huettner: 2013)
Music Therapy in Thailand (Dena Register: 2013)
Music Therapy Moves (Hilary Yip: 2013)
Music Therapy Musings (Emily Keeling: 2013)
Music Therapy Research Blog (Blythe LaGasse: 2013)
Music Therapy Research Blog Podcast (Andrew Knight and Blythe Lagasse: 2012)
Music Therapy Services of Austin (Rachel See: 2012, 2014)
Music Therapy Tween (Michelle Erfurt: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Musically Thinking (Megumi Azekawa: 2012, 2013)
On a Good Note (Katey Kratz: 2014)
On the Go Studio (Megan Resig and Wade Richards: 2013)
Pathways in Music (Diana Hereld: 2014)
Prelude (Annie Walljasper: 2012)
Rehabilitative Rhythms (Sarah Thompson: 2013, 2014)
Rhythm For Good (Kat Fulton: 2012, 2013)
Slippery Rock University Music Therapy Program (Nicole Hahna and SRU music therapy students: 2013)
Sound Starts Music Therapy (Mary Altom: 2014)
Soundscape Music Therapy (Rachelle Norman: 2012, 2013, 2014)
Spectrum Creative Arts (Noa Elimelech and Wade Richards: 2014)
SMWC Music Therapy Blog (Sharon Boyle: 2013, 2014)
The Adventures of Runner Girl (Michelle Kennemer: 2013, 2014)
The Groovy Garfoose (Bonnie Hayhurst: 2012, 2013)
The Mindful Music Therapist (Roia Rafieyan: 2012, 2013, 2014)
The Music From Within (Dean Quick: 2012)
The Music Therapy Diva (Katelyn Farris: 2013)
The Music Therapy Show with Janice Lindstrom (2012, 2014)
The Rhythm Tree (Ryan Judd: 2013, 2014)
Toneworks Music Therapy Services (Andrea Yun-Springer: 2013, 2014)
Tuned In To Learning (Michelle Lazar: 2014)
Unstrange Mind (2013)
Urban Therapists (Andrea Yun-Springer: 2013, 2014)
Wholesome Harmonies Music Therapy! (Amy Kalas: 2012, 2013)


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Boston Sings [BOSS], having followed in the footsteps and success of SoJam, LAAF, SMACC, and the East Coast A Cappella Summit of yore, has established itself as the next revolution in a cappella festivals. Taking place in and around the city of Boston in April -- an area already packed with hundreds of groups, from high school to college to professional -- BOSS is a three-day event featuring everything you've come to expect from an a cappella festival and more: an innovative spin on the collegiate competition on Friday, a black tie/red carpet shindig with the exclusive LIVE presentation and announcement of the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards on Saturday, followed by the pro concert, plus two days of workshops.
To stay up-to-date with all BOSS happenings, be sure to like Boston Sings on Facebook, follow @BOSSaca on Twitter, and head over to bostonsings.com to for all the details and future rumblings!
About the producer:
Alexander Koutzoukis is co-owner (and producer, and engineer…) of Plaid Productions, a full-service a cappella production studio based in Boston, along with Alex Green. While attending Tufts University for computer science, he spent five years in the Beelzebubs, for two of which he was Music Director. He got his start in the field of a cappella production while working closely with Ed Boyer and Bill Hare on two award-winning Bubs albums (Pandaemonium and Play The Game) and continued along that path to help record and edit the most recent, BATTLE, as well as about half of the Warblers tracks from Season 2 of Glee. He won a 2010 Best Male Collegiate Arrangement CARA for his arrangement of "All The Love In The World," a 2012 CARA runner-up in the same category for "Kings and Queens," and was also runner-up for Favorite Vocal Percussionist in the 2010 ACAs (which, coincidentally, was right after he had competed with the Bubs on the first season of the Sing-Off, where they were the runners-up).
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Is there still scientific value in timing and reporting total lunar occultations? Why would I time total lunar occultations (grazing occultations are out of the question)?
When I reported observations to ILOC many years ago I never got any feedback. Is the situation better today? There are apparently new arrangements, but are they actually working, for example, how is feedback provided to observers?


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Amelia Earhart has just returned from her flight around the Atlantic. The flight was driven by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. Amelia Earhart was a passenger on that trip. I bet that she is being given credit for the trip because she was an experienced driver. She was taught to fly by Neta Snook to control a plane. Well, that's all I can say for the paper.
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I found these three steel fans while cleaning out my great grandfather's house. They're dirty and fresh from the attic but i find them to be beautiful. I was wondering if anyone could give me a value or how rare these things are anymore. Also is there a demand for items such as these fans. I am new to picking but would like to get further involved with it.
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Monarchs Defeat George Washington, 82-75
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NORFOLK, Va. (AP) (Jan. 3) - Pierre Greene scored 18 points, including four in the last 32 seconds, to lead Old Dominion past George Washington 82-75.
Old Dominion (5-8) led 59-45 with 11:00 remaining, but George Washington (5-7) used a 29-13 run to pull ahead 74-72 with 1:39 to go.
The Monarchs went ahead on a layup and free throw by Lavar Hemphill and then finished the game on a 7-1 run, including four free throws by Greene.
Hemphill finished with 16 points and Andre McCullum and Skipper Youngblood each had 10. McCullum had 10 rebounds.
SirValiant Brown led George Washington with 23 points. Bernard Barrow had 14 points and nine assists and Valery Khamenia scored 13.
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We gather at 6:30pm. All ages and skill levels welcome! Bring your own games. (Occasionally Tarot Cards have made an appearance!) Bring your own drinks and snacks. At 6:45 we generally order some pizzas. We charge $2 per slice. Come meet new people and enjoy sharing the games you love and learning about new ones! We generally finish up around 9pm.
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Skull wrote:In almost every forum and bulletin board I'm a member of, from photography to programming, if they have an "off topic" forum, the rules specifically state "No Politics" and "No Religion". There's a reason for that.
Unfortunately, as the author of the comics himself insists on bringing both religion and politics into his strips, they must be fair game in the forums.


text: Here, There And Everywhere song To lead a better life I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there. There, running my hands through her hair, Both of us thinking how good it can be. Someone is speaking, but she doesn't know he's there. I want her everywhere And if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her everywhere. Knowing that love is to share; Each one believing that love never dies, Watching her and hoping I'm always there. I want her everywhere And if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her everywhere. Knowing that love is to share; Each one believing that love never dies, Watching her and hoping I'm always there. I will be there And everywhere, Here, there and everywhere. "Here, There and Everywhere" Song by The Beatles from the album Revolver Released 5 August 1966 Recorded 14 June 1966,EMI Studios Genre Soft rock, pop Length 2:25 Label Parlophone Writer Lennon–McCartney Producer George Martin Revolver track listing 14 tracks Side one "Taxman" "Eleanor Rigby" "I'm Only Sleeping" "Love You To" "Here, There and Everywhere" "Yellow Submarine" "She Said She Said" Side two "Good Day Sunshine" "And Your Bird Can Sing" "For No One" "Doctor Robert" "I Want to Tell You" "Got to Get You into My Life" "Tomorrow Never Knows" "Here, There and Everywhere" is a song written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney), recorded for the Beatles' 1966 album Revolver. In his biography Many Years From Now, McCartney said the song is one of his favourites. Beatles' producer George Martin has also mentioned it as one of his favourite McCartney songs. John Lennon reportedly told McCartney it was "The best tune on the album" and said in his 1980 Playboy interview it was "one of my favourite songs of the Beatles." It was ranked the 4th greatest song of all time by Mojo in 2000. McCartney wrote the song at Lennon's house in Weybridge while waiting for Lennon to wake up. "I sat out by the pool on one of the sun chairs with my guitar and started strumming in E," McCartney recalled. "And soon [I] had a few chords, and I think by the time he'd woken up, I had pretty much written the song, so we took it indoors and finished it up." Please note the text from Wikipedia is imported without editing or authentication. Here, There And Everywhere (Revolver) ©1966 Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC. All rights reserved. Used by permission.


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Innovative New USBTV Platform Offers Simple Link Between Web and Home TV
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, Jan. 8, 2007 - SanDisk® Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) today introduced USBTV, a new, industry-wide initiative that is expected to enable consumers to easily move digital content from their PCs to their televisions for viewing in full, big-screen comfort. The announcement was made during a press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), where the platform technology was demonstrated and several industry leaders announced their support for USBTV.
"We believe that USBTV represents an exciting new category of flash-based products that will bring digital downloading of video to a broad spectrum of new consumers who prefer viewing on their TV sets rather than on a PC screen," said Eli Harari, SanDisk CEO. "USBTV has the potential to become an industry-transforming category as significant as the introduction of the DVD and VHS players, because in the convergence of the Web and home entertainment, USBTV solves in a simple, elegant way the 'last 10 feet' of the content portability problem in the home between the PC and the TV," he said.
Also today, SanDisk announced the creation of the USBTV Forum to stimulate industry-wide growth among consumer electronics manufacturers, TV and display manufacturers, content providers and related technology companies.
USBTV is a powerful and innovative new platform that will enable consumers to transport downloaded digital content from a personal computer, by using a small flash memory-enabled media player, and plug-and-play it directly on virtually any TV.
While more consumers are watching video on the Internet, their preferred entertainment center remains the TV. Once they've taken the time to download and store personal videos and movies on their PC, consumers often want to enjoy that content with others in the living room. Today this process requires burning blank DVD optical media so that it can be played back on the DVD player attached to the TV, a cumbersome and time-consuming proposition.
A USBTV player can tackle the problem by plugging directly into the USB port of virtually any personal computer, where it acts as a USB storage device for a rapid "drag and drop" of any desired file. At a press conference at CES, SanDisk demonstrated a product concept that employs a TV cradle and a remote control, allowing USBTV to connect to virtually any TV set. A key innovation incorporated into USBTV is a multimedia processor that converts the stored files into various TV video/audio formats for direct playback on virtually any TV without the need for any changes to the TV set.
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In addition, USBTV is expected to increase content providers' sales and advertising revenue while extending their control of content. Consumers may be more likely to pay for a download when they know they can enjoy it immediately on any TV. USBTV is developing security features to prevent unauthorized use of protected content.
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N E P Project necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 93 diseños de 30 diseñadores freelance.
The Neighborhood Enrichment Project, Inc.
The Neighborhood Enrichment Project's mission is to facilitate positive growth and wellness in underserved impoverished communities. We will provide innovative educational and mentoring solutions that will empower and up lift the people in that community. Our focus is on increasing the collective intelligence of the community through our "Intelligent Inspirations" model. Increasing consciousness and exposure in the areas of multiple intelligence theory, social, financial, health, cultural, and emotional intelligence will create individuals who are catalyst for positive growth and wellness in their personal lives and their community.
Investors; Donors; Businesses/Nonprofit organizations/Schools for potential partnerships; community leaders and local politicians.
We are mainly targeting potential donors. Funds received will be used to to run programs developed under the non-profit (ie. The Bridge, which we also ran a logo contest for on 99 designs). We want them to know that we are serious about serving our underserved communities and that we want to empower them for years to come.
We envision a clean, PROFESSIONAL, yet contemporary design. The logo can include an image, or it can be the company name alone in a creative font logo.
Our company name is The Neighboorhood Enrichment Project, Inc. We also use the initials, NEP, INC. Be creative an show us examples of both. Our tag line is "An intelligent approach..". It may or may not be used in the logo.
Make sure to submitted font type used in design.
We have no fixed ideas on colour for the logo. The logo will need to work best when sitting on a white background. However, it may also be a requirement in the future to convert it to black & white / greyscale for use in other marketing materials including Tshirts.
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The files we will require are:
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 85 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Here at InfraDNA, Inc. <http://infradna.com>, we develop "software development tools" --- software that other software engineers use to write software.
More specifically, we develop a genre of software called "continuous integration server" <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contin…ntegration> called Hudson <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_(software)>. It is a server application that's often shared by a team (as many as several hundreds) of developers, controlling a cluster of up to 100+ computers to build software, run tests, and do all kinds of automation. We can think of it as a faithful butler that helps us, hence the name Hudson.
Hudson is the most popular software of its kind, with more than 20,000+ deployments around the world across the industries, and is critical to the success of many software development companies.
InfraDNA Inc. is a startup founded by the father of Hudson, Kohsuke Kawaguchi <http://kohsuke.org>. It is *THE* Hudson company engaging in consulting, enhancing and supporting Hudson's source code and its deployments.
Software developers. Nowadays so many companies write software that you'd be surprised to see who use Hudson --- NASA, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, LinkedIn, Goldman Sachs, and all kinds of banks, hotels, food services, railroad companies, etc.
Hudson being an open source project for past several years, has a logo by itself <http://hudson-ci.org/images/butler.png>. So one possibility that we'd like to explore is for our logo to hint some visual affinity with the butler, but without incorporating the project logo as-is. Another possibility is to explore a complete deviation from the Hudson logo. So both avenues are welcome.
We named our company as such because we believe that Hudson and our enhancements around it are the foundation/DNA/core of software development and production infrastructure of any company. Since continuous integration has become so critical to success of many companies, many of our customers are not software firms themselves.
We hope that artists derive designs from our company name and the terms like continuous integration, building, automation, cloud computing, infrastructure etc. While we welcome the use of double helix in the logo, we are a software company and don't want to be confused as a bio-tech company.
We are of course open to any other creative ideas.
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CINCINNATI: A former county official�s conviction and 28-year sentence in a wide-ranging public corruption case were upheld Wednesday by a federal appeals court.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati affirmed former Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora�s 2012 conviction and sentence on 32 bribery-related offenses.
Dimora had asked the court to drop four charges and grant a new trial on the remaining ones. His attorney argued the trial judge should have allowed jurors to see ethics reports the attorney said would have proven the items that Dimora received were gifts and not bribes.
Prosecutors had argued the reports were incomplete and described only relationships with people who were bribing Dimora, not details or dollar figures.
The three-judge appeals panel found the trial judge erred in ruling that the reports were inadmissible hearsay, but it said any error was harmless because �the government produced overwhelming evidence against Dimora.�
The panel ruled that the ethics reports would have done little to tip the scales against that evidence and their admission would have hurt Dimora by �opening the door to other evidence that would have done him no favors.�
Dimora�s attorney, Christian Grostic, didn�t immediately return calls for comment Wednesday.
The investigation that led to the 37-day trial of the former Democratic Party chairman in Cleveland resulted in more than 50 convictions involving county officials, employees and contractors who prosecutors say traded bribes for government jobs and contracts.
Assistant U.S. Attorneys Antoinette Bacon and Ann Rowland said in an emailed statement Wednesday that the appeals court ruling confirmed that Dimora received a fair trial and that the jury�s verdict was supported by overwhelming evidence of greed and corruption.
Wednesday�s ruling noted that the FBI investigation into public corruption in Cuyahoga County that began in 2007 showed Dimora handed out public jobs, influenced Cleveland decision-makers and steered public contracts in return for approximately 100 bribes worth more than $250,000.
The government had said Dimora took bribes for nearly a decade, including a Las Vegas trip that involved a woman who was paid $1,000 to give him a massage in his hotel room.


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ZCZC MIATCPAT3 ALL TTAA00 KNHC DDHHMM BULLETIN POST-TROPICAL CYCLONE LISA ADVISORY NUMBER 22 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL132016 1100 PM AST SAT SEP 24 2016 ...POST-TROPICAL LISA LACKS DEEP CONVECTION... ...THIS IS THE LAST ADVISORY... SUMMARY OF 1100 PM AST...0300 UTC...INFORMATION ----------------------------------------------- LOCATION...25.8N 40.8W ABOUT 1275 MI...2055 KM NW OF THE CABO VERDE ISLANDS ABOUT 1165 MI...1875 KM SW OF THE AZORES MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...35 MPH...55 KM/H PRESENT MOVEMENT...NW OR 305 DEGREES AT 13 MPH...20 KM/H MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1011 MB...29.86 INCHES WATCHES AND WARNINGS -------------------- There are no coastal watches or warnings in effect. DISCUSSION AND 48-HOUR OUTLOOK ------------------------------ At 1100 PM AST (0300 UTC), the center of Post-Tropical Cyclone Lisa was located near latitude 25.8 North, longitude 40.8 West. The post-tropical cyclone is moving toward the northwest near 13 mph (20 km/h). A turn toward the north with little change in forward speed is expected on Sunday. Maximum sustained winds are near 35 mph (55 km/h) with higher gusts. Gradual weakening is forecast for the next 48 hours and the low-level remnants of Lisa are expected to dissipate within the next couple of days. The estimated minimum central pressure is 1011 mb (29.86 inches). HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND ---------------------- None. NEXT ADVISORY ------------- This is the last public advisory issued by the National Hurricane Center on this system. Additional information on this system can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service, under AWIPS header NFDHSFAT2, WMO header FZNT02 KNHC, and available on the Web at http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAHSFAT2.shtml. $$ Forecaster Beven/Zelinsky NNNN


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The block of Lombard between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets began as a straight, cobblestone street with a 27% grade. In the 1920s the people living on this street wanted cars, but the street was too steep for vehicles.
Carl Henry, insurance and drug business executive, is credited with initially proposing the idea of a curved street. Henry owned half of the lots on the 1000 block of Lombard and land all around the street. He created a lily pond and rose gardens, and had planned to give his land to the city as a park. However, when he died his widow sold the property to pay off debts.
Since the Lombard Street lots were inaccessible by autos, the property values were not as high as on neighboring streets. The landowners approached city engineer Clyde Healy, who came up with the street design.
A newspaper article published in the San Francisco Call, 6 December 1905, "New Street Transportation Ideas Are Suggested to City's Merchants" mentions another civil engineer hired by the he Merchants Association. This article indicates that in 1905 the Merchants Association hired a civil engineer named William Barclay Parsons to advise them how to improve San Francisco transportation. Parsons advocated the use of tunneling and terracing. The article includes sketches from his report showing how the terracing would look on California Street and on the slopes of Nob Hill. The California Street drawing is very similar to what was actually done on Lombard in 1922 and Vermont in 1928.
It seems likely that when Carl Henry proposed the idea of a curved street he may have been recalling Parsons' report, or possibly city engineer Clyde Healy found a copy of the plan for terracing.
When the two-way, brick paved street was constructed in 1922, the curved switchbacks were installed and the grade was reduced to 16%. This one block of the street consists of eight turns and approximately 250 steps on each side. The agreement was that the city would pay for the street, and the residents would pay for the steps and maintain the plantings. When the work was completed, people could drive up and down, and the property values rose.
From the beginning, the neighbors bickered about the plantings, and many would not pay for maintenance. One resident on the block, Peter Bercut, businessman and Commissioner for Parks and Recreation, would trim his neighbors' shrubbery, which his wife said really annoyed them. Then early one morning before dawn, Bercut hired a bulldozer to mow down all the plants and started planting flowers. Peter Bercut was also an avid horseman. The Bercut Equitation Field in Golden Gate Park was named for him in 1949.
Bercut's plantings did not hold back the erosion until, after a trip to his native France, he had the idea to plant hydrangeas. The brilliantly-colored block became known by people living in the neighborhood, but was not a tourist destination until, in the late 1950s, a photograph showing the hydrangeas in bloom was published, and in 1961 was printed on a postcard. Soon thousands of tourists were driving down the street.
The street was made one-way in 1939. In its high season, summer weekends, as many as 350 cars per hour drive down the street. Some tourists even ask to use residents' bathrooms. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has been presented with petitions to close the street to all except residents in 1970, 1977, and 1987. Each time the Board has decided there is no cause for the closure, despite Dianne Feinstein taking up the cause for residents when she was a supervisor. Tour buses were banned in 1980.
Past Residents
If you compare today's crooked street with photos from the past, you see that many older single family homes have been demolished to be replaced by more lucrative multi-unit buildings. One house, torn down in the 1970s for a planned 28-story apartment building, was purported to be designed by Bernard Maybeck, although this was disputed by its owner, Louis Petri (a winemaker who owned Italian Swiss Colony). Because of court actions by the residents, this development was never built. That house had once been owned by Elizabeth Huntington Metcalf, daughter of Southern Pacific Railway founder Collis P. Huntington's nephew and heir, Henry Huntington, whose collections became the Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens in Southern California. She had purchased several of Carl Henry's lots, including his rose gardens. The land was sold to Petri after her death in 1967.
Other notable residents were newspaper reporters Winifred Bofils and Arthur Caylor. Bofils was a reporter for William Randolph Hearst and used the pen name Annie Laurie. It was Caylor who had his newspaper publish the photo of the hydrangeas that would later bring the onrush of tourists.
Lombard Street in 1933, before the hydrangeas were planted.
The houses on the south side of the block were destroyed to create a fire break during the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. In this photo taken during street construction, the south side is still not built up.
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Your morning roundup for Feb. 14, the day A.J. stole Philadelphia's heart forever.
• The Boston Celtics are 3-0 against the Miami Heat this year after Sunday's 85-82 victory. Rajon Rondo had a triple-double and Paul Pierce was 0-for-10 from the field and scored one point in 40 minutes. Still, the most damaged pride award goes to Big Baby Davis, who went for it all on this fast break and came down with absolutely nothing.
• Something notable involving poles, the Daytona 500, and Dale Earnhardt Jr. happened in Florida.
• Albert Pujols reportedly rejected the Cardinals' contract extension offer already. The news has not yet reached the editor emeritus's Twitter feed and this very important clock is still ticking.
• Cleveland's one-game winning streak is over; Washington's 25-game road losing streak is over.
• Carl Spackler won a golf tournament!
• Ronaldo announced his retirement today. YouTube is here to combine his highlights with dramatic Coldplay songs.
• Justin Bieber: not the best new artist; also a total enigma.
• Mike Tomlin was "too hip-hop" for the Miami Dolphins.
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First generation BMW X1 availbe as a X1 28i with either sDrive (RWD) or xDrive (AWD) or the US exclusive I6 N55 powered X1 35i xDrive.
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Hi, my wife and I are long time BMW owners (owned 11 of them and currently own a 2006 Z4 3.0Si Coupe and a 2012 528i) and are looking to buy a new xDrive X1. We have certain requirements that demand we buy the 4 wheel drive versions and it has nothing to do with snow in Austin, Texas !!
We have driven the xDrive35i and sDrive28i on extended test drives (several hours each time on a mixture of highway, urban and twisty backroads) but not the xDrive28i. We are looking to buy an xDrive version but wanted input on the xDrive28i. We are both experienced drivers and enjoy the driving experience (hence the addiction to BMWs) and will go out to drive our favourite roads simply for the fun of it. In order to calibrate our feelings on the models we have driven here are our driving impressions of the two models we drove:
1. sDrive28i was an MSport model with 19" wheels and handled and drove well, although the 2 Litre N20 did not feel as 'torquey' as the one in the 528 which was a surprise. We suspect this had something to do with the transmission gear ratios/change up and down points. The car felt lively and handled very well. Steering was numb (it is electric on the sDrive models) but overall the car had a light 'chuckable' (the feeling that the car would do anything you asked of it) feel to it and was fun to drive. We both liked the suspension setup and the MSport additions. interior was drab. The exterior was Valencia Orange which we both like, but the interior was black with aluminum panels. It tended to look and feel cheap on the inside which was exacerbated by the lack of the navigation system. This can easily be changed by better choice of inside colours and finishes. On our test run we achieved 26 mpg.
2. xDrive35i felt heavy and ponderous in comparison. Steering was more precise and had better feel, no doubt due to hydraulic assist in the xDrive models. The car felt less 'chuckable' and gave us less confidence on the twisty roads, although it handled perfectly and as well as the xDrive 28i . This was an xLine model with navigation and matte wood finish and felt much more upmarket. What was a surprise, however, was that the N55 engine did not feel that much more powerful, although it had longer legs than the N20. BMW claim almost 1 second better to 60 mph which I have no reason to doubt, but it certainly did not feel like it. It certainly sounded better than the N20 but tended to drone at certain speeds. What was also disappointing is that it used the older 6 speed box and shifter which probably results in poorer mpg figures. On our test run we achieved 19 mpg.
Based on the above the xDrive28i seems the way to go, so after all that here is the question. Does the xDriver28i retain the feel of the sDrive28i or is it the 4 wheel drive and hydraulic steering setup that gave the xDrive35i the more heavy and ponderous feel?
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My guess is that the much heavier 3.5 engine negatively impacts the handling characteristics. I've only driven 2.8 Xdrive models, where I liked its thrust to weight ratio and handling.
Slight correction, it's a 3.0 vs 2.0 engine, not 3.5 vs 2.8. But I do remember reading a review for the F30 that it does change the handling a little bit. Best would be to drive both and compare.
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Not to be outdone by his other former 'Harry Potter' co-stars, Daniel Radcliffe has certainly grown into quite the handsome young man. What kind of amazingly sexy wizardry is this?!
It must be hard to distance yourself from the role that made you famous, a role you played in eight films over the course of most of your childhood and adolescence — but Daniel Radcliffe makes it look like a breeze.
First there was the saucy stage play 'Equus,' in which Radcliffe notoriously got naked and revealed his manhood to the world in a way that was pretty damn symbolic. Then there was the horror flick 'The Woman in Black,' which, in addition to being a very scary movie, also showed the general movie-going public that Radcliffe can be something other than Harry Potter.
Up next for the former boy wizard? A starring role in 'Horns,' an adaptation of the novel by Joe Hill, aka the son of Stephen King. So you know it's going to be disturbing and scary.
Also, he stars in 'Kill Your Darlings' as renowned poet Allen Ginsberg, alongside fellow cuties Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, and Ben Foster.


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Annamal necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 372 diseños de 67 diseñadores freelance.
Pink Matters
I am a lesbian and a coach and professional trainer. I am soon going to be launching my business Pink Matters. Pink Matters offers a range of support services for gay/bisexual women. Somewhere they can come to for information and help in any area of their lives. I will be offering them
coaching, workshops, retreats, networking events, e-books etc
I will be supporting them in all areas of their life including:
- Coming Out
- Enhancing their relationships
- Boosting their Self Esteem etc
I feel this work is my life purpose and just know that the logo which I use will soon be known throughout the gay/lesbian world, as I have plans to take this business global.
My target audience is lesbian and bi-sexual women who want to achieve a level of contentment and self acceptance and not be in emotional turmoil as a result of their sexuality
My target audience are seeking change in their life and more contentment within themselves and their relationships.
My audience will be professional gay and bisexual women.... Women who understand what coaching/workshops and retreats entail and are attracted to attending these. Also the sort of women who are looking to grow and develop themselves and who have a level of self awareness but want to improve the quality of their lives.
1) I want it to look professional so that it will be something that companies will be attracted to as I intend to be running workshops in corporate businesses.
2) At the same time it also needs to be cool/funky/uplifting/positive/proactive as need to attract individuals who would rather come for coaching and workshops to attain wellbeing rather than go for traditional counselling
3) Although the name has Pink in it and I like the name, I do not want the logo to be all Pink. Pink is used all the time in the gay world so I would like the design to have little bit of pink but not be all pink.
5) I also want to stay away from rainbows as they are ALWAYS used for gay logos and are definitely dated now. Also want to stay away from triangles, hearts and pink ribbons etc as also cliched.
6) I do not want a cartoon as think it might look cheap/childlike rather than professional.
7) I want something sophisticated and says gay and proud but not sickly.
8) Nothing sexual as that is not appropriate for my business.
9) Also 2 women together would not be good I don't think
10) Clear, clean type... possibly block type as in the DIVA mag below but open to suggestions
A cool mag in Uk is DIVA and their link is this to give some ideas:
This is an example of a coaches website in US which I definitely don't like the logo...
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M's to induct Piniella into team Hall of Fame
SEATTLE (AP) The Seattle Mariners will induct former manager Lou Piniella into the team Hall of Fame on Aug. 9.
Piniella will become the eighth member inducted. The team inducted former outfielder Ken Griffey Jr. last season.
Piniella was Seattle's manger from 1993-2002. He led Seattle to its first division title in 1995 when the Mariners rallied late in the season to win the AL West. Piniella was also in charge in 2001 when Seattle matched the major league record with 116 wins in the regular season.
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This story was updated for clarification on July 30 to reflect new information.
As the FBI considers stepping in to investigate a pair of fatal police shootings in Anaheim, the mother of one of the men who was killed is pleading for calm.
"Please, please, please stop the violence," Genevieve Huizar said at a news conference Wednesday.
Huizar showed pictures of her slain son, Manuel Angel Diaz, 25, at family gatherings, playing basketball in high school, and holding a sign expressing pride in a step-brother who was serving in the military.
"I wept as my son took his last breath," Huizar said. "I watched as his heart stopped beating."
Diaz who was unarmed, was shot and killed on Saturday after fleeing from police on foot. On Tuesday, his family filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Anaheim.
The family has alleged that police, who called Diaz a known gang member, shot him first in the leg and then in the head.
A day after Diaz died, a second man was shot and killed by Anaheim police, and anger over the two incidents boiled over on Tuesday night, as a crowd that was at times as large as 500 people clashed with police, culminating in the arrests of 24 people.
In a news conference on Wednesday morning Mayor Tom Tait took a strong tone against the protesters, saying that city welcomed public comment at its council meetings, but that vandalism and violence would not be tolerated.
He said city officials believe that some in the crowd were from outside the city.
"We are happy to hear from any and all residents," Tait said. "But we will not accept any violent protests, vandalism or arson perpetrated under the guise of public protest."
Anaheim police Sgt. Bob Dunn told NBC4 that demonstrations and occasional violence continued until about 2 a.m., seven hours after residents gathered outside a meeting of the city council.
At that meeting, the council voted to ask the U.S. Attorney's office to investigate the shootings, which took place Saturday and Sunday. So far this year, police in Anaheim have been involved in eight shootings, officials said, two of them fatal.
Diaz was shot and killed after he fled police by running down an alley in the 700 block of North Anna Drive. The next day, on Sunday, 21-year-old Joel Mathew Acevedo was shot and killed – also after fleeing on foot.
In Acevedo's case, police have said that one of the three people who were fleeing on foot that night pulled out a gun and began shooting at officers. A handgun was found near Acevedo's body.
Police have called both men gang members.
By 4 p.m. Tuesday, protesters began gathering outside Anaheim City Hall, many clamoring to get inside after the chambers were full.
After police arrested a man whom they mistakenly believed had brought a gun, some in the crowd began throwing rocks. Police ordered the crowd to disperse at about 9 p.m. and fired pepper balls at their feet, police said.
The majority of the crowd had dispersed by 11 p.m., but a small contingent remained in the street. Anaheim Boulevard was reopened with a heavy police presence. At the demonstration's peak, more than 200 police officers were at the scene, Dunn said.
Several fires broke out near the scene of the protest -- one in a trash bin, another near a bus bench, according to aerial footage. It was not immediately clear how the fires started.
At least one person was transported to the hospital after being shot in the head with a pepperball, said Sgt. Bob Dunn with Anaheim police. No officers were injured.
Police continued to take demonstrators into custody as of 11:30 p.m., according to aerial footage. Four of those arrested were juveniles, police said.
Tensions escalated for hours throughout the city where several bank and coffee shop windows were smashed with rocks.
Law enforcement was on high alert as the protest turned violent, with demonstrators throwing rocks, bricks and traffic cones at officers and squad cars, Dunn said, adding that a print reporter appeared to be injured in the melee, possibly struck with a rock.
A separate group appeared to gather near the scene of one of the deadly shootings, setting up a candlelight vigil, according to aerial footage.
Diaz' death sparked protests during the weekend, including one on Saturday in which a trash bin was set on fire and a small group of people threw rocks and bottles at police. Three people were detained, officials said.
Tait called for a state and federal probe of the fatal shootings during a news conference Sunday, at which some 70 protesters stormed the lobby.
"Transparency is essential," Tait said Sunday. "The investigation will seek the truth. And whatever the truth is, we will own it."
At least four agencies are considering joining the investigation, including the U.S. Attorney's office, the State Attorney General, the Anaheim Police Department's Officer of Internal Affairs and -- as is usual for officer-involved shootings -- the Orange County District Attorney's Office.
Anaheim officials say they will meet with the FBI and others on Friday.
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Abreu hits 2 more HRs, Chisox finally top Indians
CHICAGO (AP) — Rookie Jose Abreu connected for his second multihomer game in three days and the Chicago White Sox ended a 14-game losing streak against Cleveland, beating the Indians 7-3 Thursday night.
Abreu hit tape-measure drives in the second and fifth innings and drove in three runs. The Cuban slugger hit the first two homers of his major league career Tuesday in Colorado.
Abreu has four homers and 14 RBIs in 10 games.
Alexi Ramirez homered and drove in three runs for Chicago. The Indians had outscored the White Sox 102-45 in a streak that dated to last June.
White Sox starter John Danks (1-0) got off to a rocky start, but settled down to allow three runs and six hits in six innings.
Jose Abreu literally destroyed a baseball (Photo)
Indians starter Danny Salazar (0-1) struck out 10 in 3 2-3 innings. He also gave up five runs and six hits, including homers by Abreu and Ramirez.
Salazar fanned eight through three innings, with the only non-strikeout out coming when Adam Eaton tried to stretch a single into a double in the third inning.
Salazar's problem was that when the White Sox made contact, it was solid contact.
Cleveland staked Salazar to a 2-0 lead by scoring twice in the top of the first.
Abreu homered to lead off the bottom of the second to cut the lead in half, but Asdrubal Cabrera got the run back with a homer leading off the third.
The White Sox tied it 3 in the bottom of the third on a leadoff homer by Ramirez and an RBI single by Eaton.
Chicago took a 5-3 lead and chased Salazar in the fourth as Ramirez drove home a pair with a double.
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After months of stubbornly backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia signaled today that it's running out of patience and may be ready to pressure him into withdrawing Syrian troops from towns and cities – a key condition of the Moscow-backed peace plan authored by UN envoy Kofi Annan.
Experts say that Moscow feels the time is right to exercise its influence over Mr. Assad – earned by vetoing two previous UN Security Council resolutions that would have called on the Syrian leader to step down, among other things – to extract political and humanitarian concessions.
With the Syrian regime declaring a possibly premature military victory over its opponents, and Western leaders seeming to have lost all appetite for direct involvement in a near-civil war that's killed more than 9,000 people by UN estimates, Russian policy makers believe they have both the opportunity and the clout to help fashion a longer term settlement that might keep Assad in power and preserve Russia's privileges in its long time client, Syria.
"We never supported Assad's regime," says Andrei Klimov, deputy chair of the State Duma's international affairs committee. "Our point was always that both sides have to share in the responsibility. There has to be ceasefire, and they both have to stop shooting. Assad promised everybody, including Russia, that he will end this outrage. Let us see whether he is able to keep this pledge. If he doesn't, then Russia may change its attitude towards him, because it will mean that he has fallen out with us as well.
At least one big Western organization concurs that Russian policy on Syria may be changing.
"The Russian position has moved from what it was. They are genuinely supportive of the Annan plan," says Carroll Bogert, deputy executive director of the New York-based Human Rights Watch, who is in Moscow this week to discuss Syria with the Russian foreign policy community. "But Moscow must still recognize that the violence is being perpetrated overwhelmingly by the Syrian government – and use its own close relations with the Syrian leadership to reduce that violence and ensure compliance with international efforts to end the human rights crisis."
Today Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Moscow with his Syrian counterpart, Walid al-Muallem, and urged Syrian authorities to move more decisively to comply with their commitment to begin withdrawing troops and heavy weaponry from towns and cities by today, in preparation for a nationwide ceasefire to commence April 12.
"We told our Syrian colleagues that we think their actions could be more active, more decisive in regard to the fulfillment of the points of the plan," Mr. Lavrov told journalists in Moscow. "The Syrian leadership has confirmed its adherence to the commitments it has undertaken and provided us with information on when it will begin implementing the plan's provisions concerning the army… We are insistently demanding from our Syrian colleagues the strict fulfillment of their commitments," he added.
But Lavrov illustrated Moscow's ongoing embrace of the Assad regime by apparently accepting Mr.al-Muallem's assurances that troops were already being pulled out of some Syrian cities, a claim denied by the rebels and widely doubted around the world. He also reiterated Moscow's long-standing suspicion that Western and Arab powers may not be sincerely on board with the plan, and slammed key rebel groups for their refusal to agree to the ceasefire.
"It is clear that success is possible only if the rest of the members of the international community who have influence on the Syrian sides approach this task with the same sense of responsibility," Lavrov said. And Russia "cannot ignore the well-known fact that Annan's proposals still have not been accepted by several if not the majority of opposition groups, including the (Western-backed) Syrian National Council," he added.
The Syrian opposition has largely accepted Annan's proposal, although it rejected the regime's request for a written guarantee that it would lay down arms.
Opposition leaders said today they remain committed to the cease-fire, even though activists in Syria said they've seen no signs of a troop pullback. "Soldiers are not being withdrawn from towns and villages," said Fadi al-Yassin, an activist in the Idlib province close to Turkey. "On the contrary, reinforcements are being sent."
Syria has been a key Russian client state since 1971, and remains a major importer of Russian arms. Russia's only foreign naval base is at Tartous, Syria. Following the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, after Russia acquiesced to a UN resolution allowing NATO to intervene to protect civilians, Moscow dug in its heels against any foreign intervention in Syria.
"Russian diplomats are walking a tightrope just now," says Georgi Mirsky, a leading researcher at the official Institute of World Economy and International Relations in Moscow. "We're positioning ourselves so that, in case Assad is deposed, we'll be able to tell the world that we warned him and tried to bring him around to reason. If he holds on to power – and it's looking 50-50 right now – we can tell him we always had his back."
Next week Moscow will also host unspecified representatives of Syrian opposition groups, in an effort to find common ground, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced Tuesday.
Lavrov also announced that Russia is prepared to immediately shift some of its observer force based on the nearby Israeli-occupied Golan Heights to take part in a UN mission that would oversee implementation of the ceasefire. He did not indicate how many Russian troops might be involved.
"Syrian reality has shifted in the past few weeks, and now it's clear there is no way to remove Assad from power in the foreseeable future," says Sergei Strokan, an international affairs columnist with the pro-business Moscow daily Kommersant. "Everyone needs to work within that set of facts now, if anything is to be achieved. The most depressing thing is that we face not only rampant distrust between the Syrian regime and its opponents, but also between the big world powers.
"Russia suspects the West of a hidden agenda to remove Assad, while the West thinks Russia only wants to prop up its friend Assad. Every party is thinking not about how to achieve a settlement, but about how to extract advantages from this situation. This is what makes this peace process such a Sisyphean task," Mr. Strokan adds.


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It required 100 metres of calculator paper to map out the side-scrolling video game Beeing. You can see it here, stretched out before you, courtesy of Gonzalo Oxenford, one of the game designers who sketched the layout for their bee-themed sidescroller by hand.
Each level map can be rolled up.
So you can see the entire game like this.
Or like this.
But it's more impressive when it's unfurled.
Even this cat is impressed.
The paper levels helped Oxenford's crew at Odasoft make their game. (They've gone into more detail about that.)
And the result is a game that looks like this.
But, thanks to Oxenford, you can see the paper version of the entire game scroll past your eyes.
Beeing is now free for iPhone and iPad, but only for a limited time.


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If you can be arsed read his version of why he is A.W.O.L. over on the BBC.I do not agree with his behaviour but in terms of what it could mean for us, his main complaint is he feels Chelsea only want him back so they can further humiliate him.He just seems to want to be guaranteed a place, he even suggested he cannot wait for the Atlético move forever.He might even be alright on a loan until January so he gets a chance to stick it to Conte, I think he is likely both snidey and highly competitive enough to get off on that idea!
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As far back as I can remember, I was always very curious about speech, language and communication. When I was a little girl I noticed some people could not talk fluently and I wondered why. I also noticed that some people spoke with a lisp and I wondered why.
In our neighborhood , there was a beautiful young girl who simply could not add five and five and I also wondered why. One of my cousins kept running around and around and he never stop running—and I also wondered why.
A friend's older sister went to her first day of school, and she came home crying because she lost her hair ribbons, notebook, pencils and her school bag. The kids in her school were laughing at her. She never went back to school and she looked a little different. (She was a child with Down syndrome.) The father of my classmate never talked when we went to visit her home. During dinner he never uttered a sound and was hiding behind a newspaper—and I wondered why.
I have devoted the last 45 years of my life doing exactly what I love: speech-language pathology.
I began returning to Taiwan, the place where I grew up, beginning in 1980. I returned to Taiwan every summer for five years, teaching the various subjects of speech-language pathology. I helped to organize many symposia on human communication disorders in Taiwan. Over the last 30 years, many speech-language pathologists and audiologists have been trained there, and there are now five programs of speech-language pathology and audiology in Taiwan.
In 1984, former ASHA President David Yoder took a group of us to Taiwan to attend and speak at the first Sino-American symposium on speech-language pathology and audiology. In 1986, former ASHA presidents Kay Butler and David Yoder went to Taiwan and attended the third symposium on speech-language pathology and audiology. Thirty years later, in April 2014, I again organized a symposium to advance the knowledge about our understanding of human communication. This was held in Taipei, and colleagues Barbara Hodson, Carol Westby, Kathee Christiansen and Kenneth Tom also went to Taiwan to support this symposium on child language development and disorders. The symposium was well-attended, and we celebrated 30 years of work in the development of programs and services for Taiwan.
In addition, I also began to work with the Education Bureau of Guangzhou in China with a proposal to provide training in speech-language pathology for special-needs populations by organizing professionals from Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States. Colleagues Geraldine Wallach and Vicki Reed also participated in this program. More than two thousand teachers and special education teachers attended these training programs.
Over the last 30 years, I have traveled to many parts of the world with a focus on the Chinese-speaking populations in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore. The need for quality services for individuals with communication challenges is urgent. I feel blessed to be part of the development of many programs and many seminars. I know that there is so much more work to do. Over the last 30 years I have had the privilege to serve on the Multicultural Issues Board of ASHA, the Board of IALP, the Taiwan Speech and Hearing Association and many other organizations.
Growing up in a multilingual environment, I was very much aware of the many languages people speak. Thanks to ASHA for giving me the opportunity to continue to serve in the area of multilingualism and multiculturalism. I hope that there will be many more opportunities for my colleagues from ASHA and around the world to continue to advocate for the human right to communication and to improve the quality of life so many through our relentless effort to excel. Global civic engagement is a lifelong learning process.
I wish the best of luck to all my colleagues and happy journeys.
Lilly (Li-Rong) Cheng is professor in the School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and director of the Chinese Studies Institute at San Diego State University. She is the past chair of ASHA's Multicultural Issues Board.


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Cassie Mercer
Cassie is the editor and founder of Irish Wattle, a publishing house for Irish convict transportation to New South Wales.
She is the editor of Barbara Hall's five books tracing the 912 convicts transported to New South Wales during the first decade of the colony's settlement. During the research and writing process Barbara and Cassie have uncovered many fascinating antics about our roguish Irish ancestors before and after their transportation, and delight in sharing these stories and their research tips. Barbara's sixth book is due out in 2010.
Cassie has worked in publishing since 1999 after completing a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature at the University of Queensland. Companies she has worked for include UNSW Press, Pacific Magazines and ACP Magazines in Sydney, and Edward Elgar, IPC Media and the National Magazine Company in London.
She is currently writing a biography about her g.g.g.g.g. grandparents. He was a highwayman, she was a Dublin madam; both were shady characters with sedition on their mind.
Speaker topics include:
- How to trace Irish convicts transported between 1788 and 1810, and overcoming research roadblocks
- Stories of the Irish vanguard - the first prisoners transported directly from Ireland. Learn about early rebels, horse thieves, vagabonds, swindlers and petty crooks, and how they tried to forge a new life in the colony.


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Nil Rate Band Trust Wills Benson
The death of you or your partner can have an impact on the taxation of your/their estate, and taking into account current property values, more and more of us will be liable to pay inheritance tax on the estate.
The Inheritance Tax threshold currently stands at £325,000 (frozen until 2019), over which all would be taxed at the 40% rate on any inheritance monies over the threshold amount (after funeral costs etc. are covered).
This threshold can quickly be surpassed, even by people on modest incomes if there is a property involved in the estate. So, you ask yourself, is there anything my partner or I can do with our wills to minimise the amount of 40% inheritance tax our estate would be liable for?
Yes, there is: you can prepare an NRBT which will help the living partner minimise how much 40% inheritance tax is due from your estate.
This will arrangement is a helpful tool that comes into play when a married couple wants to bequeath what remains of their estates to each other, while at the same time ensuring that each makes the best of their inheritance tax allowance.
Circumstances are often such that a husband and wife may have individual funds, but the funds are required by the living spouse to live in a comfortable manner after their partner's death.
In such cases bequeathing funds to children and suchlike may not be a feasible option. Should an additional property be part of the estate, no tax would be payable on a property left by one spouse to the other, until the living spouse dies: at which point the total joint estate is liable for the tax.
Conversely, circumstances may be such that a spouse bequeaths funds to their family, and when they die, the £325,000 nil rate band tax amount to which they are entitled, plus that of the remaining spouse could then be utilised when he or she dies.
However, if the entire estate is bequeathed to the living spouse, any advantage of the first spouse's Inheritance Tax allowance is in effect lost.
This is where a NRBT can help upon the death of a spouse:
A couple should prepare mirror wills so, at the first spouse's death, their will stipulates that a proportion of their Inheritance Tax zero tax rate allowance is put into a discretionary trust. Beneficiaries of the trust are listed and should include the living spouse. Thus, the trustees use the capital or income to provide for the living spouse.
If the living spouse doesn't need the bequeathed funds in the trust, then the money could alternatively be bequeathed to their children. The Trust will be ended/closed by the Trustees, usually when the other spouse dies, and any remaining funds and assets pass to the couple's children/grandchildren. Hence the full use of both spouse's Inheritance Tax zero rate provision is made with such a will arrangement, and the living spouse has been able to make use of any capital/assets held in the trust: i.e. their entire joint estates. Other benefits of such an arrangement include asset protection from business creditors or divorce settlements, and trust assets aren't part of means testing should your spouse need nursing home care.


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Several readers have expressed their (well-justified) displeasure at this morning's Today segment on "cleaning like a man." Predictably, masculine cleaning involves balls.
Woman's Day editor-in-chief Elizabeth Mayhew explains that "men do clean things — take how they clean a car for example." They just do it more methodically than flighty women, who always forget what they're doing and leave the glass cleaner in the oven or whatever. Also, men know how to "reward themselves," which is something women need to learn — except they should apparently substitute girly rewards like Confessions of a Shopaholic and white wine.
Apparently, women can also learn to clean using masculine implements, like tennis balls (good for fluffing), car wax, and leaf blowers. And while the stereotype that men can only do cleaning chores if they involve cars, sports, or power tools is older than Home Improvment, we did enjoy the end of the segment, when Al Roker gives Mayhew a blow job:
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Juniper Network Connect has been an issue on 64bit linux for quite sometime. I have found 2 solutions to the Java issue (Solution 1 and 2) but now I am struggling with a new issue.
Network connect makes changes directly to the /etc/resolv.conf file. This causes issues with the newer way that Ubuntu does DNS resolutions which is to point DNS to the local resolver/cacher: dnsmasq. Once NC disconnects and you change networks, eg go from office to home then DNS stops working correctly. What happens is that NC deletes the /etc/resolv.conf file which is actually symlinked to /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf. Whats worse is that NC actually deletes the original file not the link. So when you try to restore the file with:
sudo ln -s /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
It fails as /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf is now gone. re-installing resolvconf does not fix it and neither does running resolvconf. So the best way I have found so far is to first backup /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf to another location. After you disconnect NC I then run a script that removes /etc/resolv.conf, replaces the deleted /run/resolvconf/resolv.conf and then links it's back to /etc again.
Does anyone know a way to avoid this or do I pretty much have he best "fix" in place already? Any way to prevent NC from breaking it in the first place.
Oh how I wish Juniper would sort their issues out. Juniper has been notoriously HORRIBLE on Linux and 64bit especially for over 4 years now.


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dt+n Official Coach of IRONMAN 70.3 Princeton
Draper Training and Nutrition (dt+n) named The Official Coach of IRONMAN 70.3 Princeton.
Christopher Draper, RD, LDN, CSCS, founder of dt+n says, "Draper Training and Nutrition enjoys helping age-groupers to elite triathletes reach and exceed their goals. Our mission is to take a detailed scientific approach to prepare every athlete for a successful race. We coach and support everyone face to face or virtually from first-timers to elite athletes. I am very excited about this partnership with IRONMAN, and look forward to sharing our background, knowledge of Princeton's course and experience with perspective athletes."
Draper Training and Nutrition (dt+n) is pleased to announce a partnership with IRONMAN as the Official Coach of IRONMAN 70.3 Princeton for 2014, 2015 and 2016. dt+n is a training and nutrition company, staffed with world-class professionals that cater training and nutrition services to local, national and international endurance athletes. dt+n is based out of Central New Jersey; home of the IRONMAN 70.3 Princeton triathlon. dt+n has coached triathletes to first-time finishes as well as IRONMAN 70.3 World Championship and IRONMAN World Championship race qualification.
As the Official Coach of the IRONMAN 70.3 Princeton race, dt+n is providing coaching/entry spots to prospective athletes. Please contact dt+n at 609-433-3934 or for details. Please note: the event is sold out to general entry and we are expecting our limited coaching/entry spots to sell out as well. Contact us today to get in on a most memorable experience. Additionally, dt+n will be hosting a training camp and group training sessions in preparation of the race. Follow our updates by liking Draper Training and Nutrition on Facebook or visit our website at: Drapertrainingnutrition.com for further information.


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This Week's ChessVideos Show: Prodigies Battle!
Dutch youngster Anish Giri looks like an obvious world championship contender in a few short years - what else would one expect from a 17-year-old 2700!? Still, even 2700s are fallible, and in a recent game with another prodigy, the 18-year-old Indian GM Parimarjan Negi, he came up short. It's not that Giri played badly, either - he didn't. Rather, it was a very fine attacking effort by Negi, who showed ingenuity in starting the attack and managed to sustain it for a long time.
The game is instructive as well, so viewers will get a 2-for-1: not just entertainment but also something to help improve their chess. So tune in here: the show is free, as always (one-time only free registration is required), and will be available on-demand for the next month or so.


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Corn saw a late start, but can it score enough planted acres in May to match crop expectations? Jerry Gulke shares his thoughts.
Cool, wet weather and slow planting progress continues to be the talk of the marketplace. As of April 27, USDA estimates that 19% of the U.S. corn crop is planted, behind the five-year average of 28%.
But despite rain, thunderstorms and unseasonably cold temperatures being forecast across the middle of the country last week, farmers in some states made some suprising planting progress. Illinois, for instance, jumped to 32% planted, up from just 5% the week before and putting it just shy of the five-year average of 33%. Kansas and Missouri are both ahead of their five-year averages, at 37% and 47% respectively. And Iowa jumped from 2% planted a week ago to 15% planted this past week—significant progress but still behind the 33% five-year average.
"It's a tale of two different worlds that we see here in the middle of the United States; as we progress further north, it gets worse," says Jerry Gulke, president of The Gulke Group.
While Gulke is confident that the Corn Belt will plant the acreage it intended, he thinks there could be a loss of corn acres in the northern states.
"It's a crapshoot this time of the year weather-wise, but you can't argue with the fact that the ground temperatures are cool," Gulke says.
USDA's estimates tell the story. Michigan and Wisconsin: 1% planted. Minnesota and Ohio: 4% planted. South Dakota is 11% planted, but North Dakota still hasn't gotten any corn in the ground. And with more rain and cool temperatures in the forecast, prospects for making much progress this week look slim.
But that's not the reason why Gulke thinks corn acres in the north might be reduced.
"As we've learned, there's a lot of wet corn in the bins in North Dakota and South Dakota, and we talked all winter long about the lack of farmer selling," he says. "I think with the $1.18 basis for corn, a lot of them are saying , 'I don't know if I want to plant 100% corn again, because I've got a bunch of it left in there from last year.'"
"Even if prices go up $1, producers will still make money off their old crop instead of taking a chance on new-crop," he continues. "I would not be surprised if they reduce their corn acres up there by half a million acres when it's all said and done."
But again, it really all depends on Mother Nature.
"I think it's a foregone conclusion from the marketplace that we're going to get corn planted in the Corn Belt, as intended," Gulke says, "and then we'll see what happens in the Northern Plains and those fringe areas."
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