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[Blue Raspberry]
[Intro: {Raekwon & (Ghostface Killah)}]
Yo what what, yo
Exotic type shit
Ninety-four, we must go to war fast
With the pen and the pad
Goddamn, shine like gold rims on Pathfinders
Wu-Tang reclines, lamps for the nine-squares kid
(Money, clothes, designer hoes and shows y'all)
[Verse 1: Raekwon (Ghostface Killah)]
Yo, yo, waking up about ten kid
Jumping in the shower, peace about to make
(Moves and slide like grease)
What, I'm all about Tecs and checks with nuff respect
You front, I'm slamming you like the Lex
So now I'm out in the ninety-five
Rocking that real nigga don't die
Guess down, (Drawers Kani)
But yo, I'm making a pit stop
Go and buy a box of Glocks, he rolled up and yo
(Whattup 'Ak)
(Yo, remember that kid that we vicked
He made a half of mil for real
He brought about four bricks)
Yo, so now we connect thoughts
Meet me at the airport
{Tell Golden Arms maintain the fort}
(Get in touch with that west coast Cali crab you stabbed
And meet me at the bitch lab)
So word up kid, we slid like a fat four to twelve bid and shit
(Couldn't even rest, I need the vic)
And when I slept, I dream Gs, son I need some
(Keys won't sell, call up Son)
I heard Pook and Tyriq caught a beef over some real shit
(A fake nigga faked and they killed his clique)
Gimme a minute and I'm with it
(Yo, niggas done did it), rock your vest
(Keep your whip tinted)
(So now we see him up in Bojangles strangling a forty ounce
With ten Gs worth of gold bangles)
Diamonds, what, all up in his face
(With his man's mace), medallions (the size of dinner plates)
Yo, he knew we knew him so we blew him
Took thirty G's worth of jewels off that nigga {Do him}
(So now I'm lamping in my man's Land)
Streets is hot like sand
(G's is rolling in my right hand)
Yup, you know the steez all-black
Got to go down like that, (Shallah)
Cigars and {mob hats}
Ninety-four, taking niggas to war, yo, yo
What do you believe in, heaven or hell?
You don't believe in heaven cause we're living in hell
{What do you believe in, heaven or hell?
You don't believe in heaven cause we're living in hell}
So it's your life
(What a chamber, fucking with mad strangers
Yeah, you know how it runs baby, straight up yo
Money, clothes, designer hoes and shows y'all
That's how it goes, whatever)
What do you believe in, heaven or hell?
You don't believe in heaven cause we're living in hell
(31st chamber y'all)
So it's your life
Niggas ain't even know Son, only half is sewed cash
They haven't yet sold their weight
(Question, shit is real, you know what I'm saying?)
Niggas think it's all about a real live Allah
A little hundred dollars and that make you a man
Know what I'm saying?
(You ain't even promised tomorrow Son, word up)
Niggas don't understand how life can be so short
Come so fast
(With the blinkin of eye, blinkin of eye you're gone baby
Straight up, know what I'm saying? Get turned to dust Return to the casket)
And that ass is out Son, word up (Word up, get evaporated, straight up)
Word up (Lose all your strength nigga)
Crazy dedication shout out to the memory of Two Cent Jason
Heartbroken, we soakin wet though
Keepin it real for my peoples
(Yeah, yo And my physical brother DeVon, you're still in here baby, because you're in my arms nigga, word up
I never let you go baby
You know what I'm saying? You my life charm, word up)
For real (Keep shinin)
Real for keepin' it real, shout out to major niggas
Big Kawai, Jess, Hell in the computer system
The RZA, who slams fat discs for the ninety-four
(Word up, RZA, he's my nigga baby
Yeah, eatin dinner with the big boys now)
You know what I'm saying?
Word up, Big Booth represent the Q
Know how we do? lamp, get that power-u, type, things on float
(The GZA, word up, Masta Killa)
The Abbot of the Clan, Method Man, Inspectah Deck
Dirty Bastard
(U-God, word up baby Keep it real Son Keep packin' them guns)
Word up
Originally released way in advance of "Cuban Linx" on the Fresh soundtrack (along with GZA's "I Gotcha Back"), this was the first taste of Raekwon's seminal debut album.
Contains a sample from "Could I Be Falling In Love" by Syl Johnson.
Was featured in the soundtrack to The Wackness (2008).
'Heaven and Hell' definitely is one of my favorite beats. It was something totally slow, and made me reminisce about another story. 'Heaven and Hell,' that was a hook that me and Cappa made up way back in the day before we were even thinking about becoming stars and we used to have our little bars that we used to write, and that happened to be in one of our songs. And I just remembered the hook for this beat. And I called it 'Heaven and Hell' because we wanna be in heaven but we're living in hell.
Heaven is something once you make it, hell is what you go through. So, I was just telling a real nigga story 'cause shit like that really take place on the block. And I just started rhyming to the beat and I realized that the beat wasn't hard. So I was like, 'I still like how it sound. It sound like champagne bottles, the bar, coolin'.' It was just cinematic to me, and I just wanted to tell a mean story.
We just started talking about some niggas that's getting some guns and they on they bullshit, but they scheming to rob something. This is a dude who got stupid money, but he doesn't realize it could happen, but you're still living in hell even though you're in your heaven. So, me and Ghost just decided to go back and forth on it. I think I probably had like 65% of the rhyme, and me and Ghost came in and finished it off together. And we felt like just rhyming together and bouncing it off each other on some 'slow motion' shit would be something to excite people.
We did the video and I was pissy drunk. If you look at the video, when I was walking in, my hat was all fucking crazy. I'm in the limo just intoxicated like, 'Wow, I'm really doin' this shit.' And we just set it up like we were the richest niggas in the town, like silk shirts. Try to really go away from the hardcore shit for a second, and just show the versatility.
So I was always the dude that initiated like, 'Let's come in like this, let's get the silk shirts.' And you know everybody else will be lookin' at me like, 'You sure?' And Ghost'll be the one to be like, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah lord. Yeah, we gon' get the hats. We gon' get the shoes.' We felt like we was the black Frank Sinatra. Word.


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Heineken Cup
McCall grateful for harsh euro lessons
ESPNscrum Staff
November 4, 2011
McCall believes last season's harsh lesson propelled his side to Premiership glory © Getty Images
Saracens boss Mark McCall believes his side's dismal Heineken Cup showing last season propelled them to Aviva Premiership glory.
The headline-grabbing club finished bottom of a challenging pool after winning just one of their six matches and were effectively out of contention by the end of round two. But McCall, their director of rugby, insists the experience fuelled their march to a first Premiership crown and will leave them well placed to challenge in Europe this term.
"What we noticed was that there are things you can get away with in Premiership matches that you can't get away with in the Heineken Cup," he said. "That was a big, big lesson for us. We'd become a little bit untidy in some areas.
"I thought we were prepared for the competition, but in fact we weren't prepared. We believe the reason we had a good end to the second half of last season was because the Heineken Cup highlighted some of those failings.
"Hopefully we're a year wiser and we go into this year's competition with far more belief."
It has been four years since an English club claimed the Heineken Cup and Saracens are determined to make their mark in the competition. "We haven't talked in terms of making a statement as Premiership champions. It's nice to be Premiership champions, but that's gone," said McCall.
"If you want to be a Toulouse, or Leinster or Leicester, teams who have been successful over a long period of time, then we must aspire to be much more than Premiership champions one year. We are ambitious and we want to do well in the Premiership, but we really, really want to do well in the Heineken Cup.
"We feel like we're getting there in terms of having the squad to compete on two fronts. You must be fortunate with injuries, but we do have strength in depth."
McCall believes the pressure rugby style adopted by Saracens should prove as effective in the Heineken Cup as it is in the Premiership. "The belief we have comes from an understanding of how we want to play the game," he said. "From one to 15 every player has a real understanding of what's expected from them in any given situation. The players enjoy that clarity.
"It's about understanding what we're trying to achieve in different areas of the pitch. We're about building pressure on teams. If you spend enough time in the opposition half, something will happen. We have to see if that's good enough for Europe. We're better at those things than last year and our understanding is clearer, but the proof is in the pudding."
Saracens will break new ground when they host their pool game against Biarritz in Cape Town on January 14, the first time a Heineken Cup match has been played outside Europe.
Skipper Steve Borthwick insists the move has the full backing of the squad. "It's a great, forward thinking idea by Saracens. It expands the brand and the brand of Heineken Cup rugby. It's a super move," he said. "But to make sure it's an important game, we need to make sure matches one to four go well. The idea has been very well embraced and it's a positive step."
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- In 2010, the United States Junior Ryder Cup team won its second consecutive trophy with a narrow 13½ to 10½ triumph at Gleneagles Resort in Perthshire, Scotland. It was the second consecutive victory for the United States, following a 22-2 domination in 2008 in Bowling Green, Ky.
The Americans used a strong opening-day start for a 9-3 lead before Europe rallied to win six singles matches to close the gap. Thanks to early singles victories from Jordan Spieth of Dallas, Texas; Doris Chen of Bradenton, Fla.; and Justin Thomas of Goshen, Ky., victory was secured.
"It got a little close out there in the singles matches, and we luckily got them in the foursomes and four-ball matches," said U.S. Captain M.G. Orender. "I am so thrilled for these kids and they played their hearts out."
The U.S. squad was led by Spieth and Chen, who each won all three of their matches.
"This was really unbelievable," said Spieth, who also went undefeated in three matches in 2008. "I feel like this team was even stronger than our 2008 team, but the European team was better, too, so we really were able to come together and grab the trophy again."
Chen, the reigning U.S. Junior Girls' Champion, won three closely contested matches.
"I played one shot at a time and didn't get down," said Chen. "This was so much fun and we played well as a team both days."
Orender, the 33rd President of The PGA of America, reflected on his week as captain.
"In my time as a PGA Professional, I don't know of a better experience I have had," said Orender. "They came together this week and I could not be happier."


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NEW YORK — Two days after the encampment that sparked the global Occupy movement was cleared by authorities, demonstrators blocked traffic into New York's financial district on Thursday and promised mass gatherings in other cities.
Hundreds of protesters clogged the streets leading to Wall Street in lower Manhattan, bringing taxis and delivery vehicles to a halt. Police in riot helmets watched the protesters from behind barricades.
"All day, all week, shut down Wall Street!" the crowd chanted. At the corner of Nassau and Pine streets protesters were sitting on the ground and refusing to move.
The protest remained peaceful, and the demonstrators and police were still allowing workers to get to their offices.
Passer-by Gene Williams, a 57-year-old bond trader, joked that he was "one of the bad guys" but that he empathized with the demonstrators.Story: To demand or not to demand? That is the 'Occupy' question
"They have a point in a lot of ways," he said. "The fact of the matter is, there is a schism between the rich and the poor and it's getting wider."
The day of action had been planned before the city and park owners cracked down on the encampment in Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan, but took on added importance to the protesters after tents, tarps and sleeping bags were cleared out early Tuesday and the granite plaza was cleaned for the first time since the group arrived more than two months ago.
"This is a critical moment for the movement given what happened the other night," said Paul Knick, 44, a software engineer from Montclair, N.J. "It seems like there's a concerted effort to stop the movement and I'm here to make sure that doesn't happen."
Transit officials were preparing to deal with a crush of people as part of the protest billed as a national day of action. The group announced it would rally near the New York Stock Exchange, then fan out across Manhattan and head to subways, before gathering downtown and marching over the Brooklyn bridge.Occupy protesters march on NYC, nationwide
Similar protests were planned around the county. New York City officials said they had not spoken to demonstrators but were aware of the plans.
"The protesters are calling for a massive event aimed at disrupting major parts of the city," Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said. "We will be prepared for that."
Some of the latest developments in other Occupy protests:
Occupy protest organizers promised Thursday would be their biggest event yet. A New York deputy mayor said officials were bracing for tens of thousands of people at various locations who could clog subways and bridges.
It was unclear Wednesday how reliable that estimate was. Previous protests in New York have consisted of several hundred people.
The encampment in Zuccotti Park, considered the epicenter of the global Occupy movement, was cleared out by police early Tuesday, leaving the movement in the nation's largest city without a permanent home. The day of marches was planned before the raid.
Some of the 200 or so protesters arrested in the raid were arraigned Wednesday, while dozens more arrested during an Oct. 1 march had court dates down the hall.
Protesters were also told they could retrieve belongings confiscated in the raid from a Manhattan sanitation garage. The mound of items ranged from books to tents to clothing.
An 84-year-old woman has become a face of the national Occupy Wall Street movement after she was hit with pepper spray during a Seattle march.
A photo of Dorli Rainey with the chemical irritant dripping from her chin quickly went viral, becoming one of the most striking images from the protests that have taken place in cities across the globe.
Rainey has been active in Seattle's liberal politics for decades and once ran for mayor. She said Wednesday that she showed up at the downtown protest the previous day to show support.Video: 84-year-old pepper sprayed at 'Occupy' Seattle (on this page)
Police said demonstrators were blocking a downtown intersection.
Rainey was not among the six people arrested.
Mayor Mike McGinn is apologizing to some protesters who were pepper sprayed during a march and said he has spoken to Rainey.
In a city that celebrates behaving badly, Occupy Las Vegas protesters are touting civil obedience and government cooperation as anti-Wall Street efforts elsewhere have turned to violence and police confrontations.
Las Vegas demonstrators have sought approval from government leaders and police before protesting or setting up a camp site. They called off a protest during President Barack Obama's visit to Las Vegas last month because police asked them to do so. And they have created a system of protest rules that ban, among other things, law-breaking and hate signs.A night of re-Occupation at Zuccotti Park
The good behavior in Las Vegas and other Occupy efforts across Nevada is even more noteworthy because Nevadans may have the most cause to rage against the machine. The state tops the nation in foreclosures and unemployment and entire neighborhoods have been overtaken by vacant homes and storefronts.
But while protesters in other cities riot and rage, the Vegas group is hosting a series of free foreclosure mediation workshops for homeowners who are underwater on their mortgages.
Organizers insist their anti-greed message has a better chance of spreading if they aren't labeled violent anarchists.
Philadelphia officials have told protesters camping out next to City Hall to leave because of the "imminent" start of a long-planned renovation project.
Mayor Michael Nutter's office said Wednesday the city has posted an official notice saying the $50 million renovation work at Dilworth Plaza is about to start following selection of a general contractor. Officials issued no deadline and said they would work with the protesters on finding another location for them.PhotoBlog: Occupy Wall Street
"This project's commencement is imminent," the statement said. "Accordingly, you should take this opportunity to vacate Dilworth Plaza and remove all of your personal belongings immediately."
The protesters have had hundreds of tents camped in the plaza for more than a month. The group has resisted the city's call to move to another plaza across the street to clear the way for the renovation.
Officers started arresting Occupy Columbia protesters Wednesday after Gov. Nikki Haley ordered them to leave the Statehouse grounds. The governor said the people who had been sleeping on the complex for more than a month had cost the state more than $17,000 in property damage and overtime for police.
About 20 people challenge the governor's order and they were arrested in the pouring rain without incident.
The governor said she tired of seeing mattresses, sleeping bags, storage bins and toilet paper on the grounds that house her offices, the state's legislative chambers, office buildings and Court of Appeals.
A Boston judge has ordered the city not to remove protesters or their tents from a downtown encampment without court approval, except in an emergency such as fire, a medical issue or an outbreak of violence.
A temporary restraining order was issued after a hearing Wednesday on the protesters' lawsuit. Fuller arguments will be heard Dec. 1, and the judge orders the sides to hold a mediation session before then.
A lawyer for the demonstrators says they are concerned they will be forced out in the middle of the night as Occupy protesters were in New York City this week.
San Francisco police began arresting students and anti-Wall Street protesters who stormed into a downtown Bank of America, sat down and began chanting on Wednesday.
More than 100 demonstrators stormed the bank,chanting, "Money for schools and education, not for banks and corporations."
Riot-clad officers began putting plastic cuffs on the demonstrators, who refused to leave the bank.
The bank protest occurred after ReFund California, a coalition of student groups and university employee unions, bused in protesters from UC Berkeley, the University of California, Merced and other schools to join San Francisco's Occupy demonstrators.
Occupy San Diego protesters also were rousted from a downtown plaza by police.
The San Diego Union-Tribune said nine people were arrested and a 10th was cited during the confrontation early Wednesday.
Officials say most arrests were for resisting or obstructing police.
Officers used bullhorns to roust sleepers at the Civic Center Plaza. A police statement says tables, sleeping bags and other items were removed so the area could be cleaned up.
It is the latest confrontation in the city where 74 people were cited or jailed since the demonstrations began last month.
Occupy Indy protesters have been given 24-hours to clear out their camp on the Statehouse lawn.
In a letter delivered Wednesday, the Department of Administration ordered the handful of remaining protesters to clear out. The state gave protesters until Thursday afternoon to clear out and said protesters who try to stop them will be arrested.
Protesters said the order was not about their safety but about stifling their demonstration.
LONDON, England
Officials attached eviction notices to protest tents outside St. Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday. They are asking demonstrators to remove the camp by Thursday evening or face legal action.
The notices posted by the City of London Corporation said the encampment was "an unlawful obstruction" of a sidewalk, and asked protesters to take down "all tents and other structures."
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Water pricing needs to reflect contribution of natural ecosystems to water quality and quantity, says a new publication by the World Conservation Union
The global water crisis can be solved through fair water markets. This is the main conclusion of the new publication "Pay – Establishing payments for watershed services", to be launched on World Water Day on 22 March 2007 by the World Conservation Union (IUCN).
"Markets can solve watershed degradation through investments in the sustainable management of ecosystems", says Ger Bergkamp, Head of the IUCN Water Programme.
French Vittel already invests USD 24.5 million per year to compensate farmer's reduced use of fertilizer
Vittel, the world's largest mineral water bottling company, has already incorporated this into their business by spending an average of USD 24.5 million per year to compensate farmers' reduced use of fertilizer in France. The result is a reduction in the contamination risk of the bottler's main source of water.
In Costa Rica, individual water users in the city of Heridia pay through their water bills to protect the forests and watersheds on which Heridia's healthy water supply depends. Landowners upstream receive up to USD 110 per hectare per year to safeguard downstream water quality.
Nature provides clean water for free – but only if watersheds upstream are kept safe and healthy, and soils free from pollution. Once the landscapes that make up watersheds – for example forests, grasslands, cultivated and riparian areas, and wetlands - are disrupted or contaminated, water becomes very expensive to purify. That is why Costa Rican and French landowners are being paid for protecting this precious source.
These fair water markets can also help break the cycle of water overuse, deforestation and impoverished rural communities. Already 1 billion people live in areas where there is not enough water to meet basic needs, with the real onslaught of climate change still to come. Furthermore, 70% of water that is being used for agricultural production is wasted, and investments go to expanding production rather than increasing water efficiency.
Water payment schemes require careful design and people involved need to understand the benefits and costs associated with creating such markets. The new book 'Pay' lays out a range of payment schemes that are commonly used, from private trading, to cap-and-trade, to certification and public payment schemes. A water market and payment scheme needs to be tailored to the social, economic and political realities in any specific location. As with all natural and biological solutions, no one size fits all.
Notes to Editors
For more information contact or to set up interviews please contact:
Claire Warmenbol, IUCN Water Programme Communications, Mobile: +41 79 404 1973; [email protected]
Carolin Wahnbaeck, IUCN Media Relations Officer, Tel. +41 22 999 1027, Fax +41 22 999 0020, [email protected]Dr Mark Smith, Water Management Advisor, [email protected]
Publication download:
To download "Pay - Establishing payments for watershed services", please visit: Water
Photos are available from: [email protected]
About the World Conservation Union (IUCN)
Created in 1948, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) brings together 83 States, 110 government agencies, 800 plus NGOs, and some 10,000 scientists and experts from 181 countries in a unique worldwide partnership. The Union's mission is to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable.
The Union is the world's largest environmental knowledge network and has helped over 75 countries to prepare and implement national conservation and biodiversity strategies. The Union is a multicultural, multilingual organization with 1,000 staff located in 62 countries. Its headquarters are in Gland, Switzerland.
More information can be found at www.iucn.org


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centralABI necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 40 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Central ABI Collaborative
The Central ABI Collaborative is a working group consisting of all publically funded acquired brain injury (ABI) services in the York-Simcoe region (just north of Toronto). We provide networking solutions for individuals with acquired brain injuries living in our community, provide educational opportunities and seek partnerships with non-ABI service providers to increase service capacity to our population. Partners in the collaborative include hospitals, Community Care Access Centres and community-based service providers. Funding for this initiative is provided by the Central Local Health Integration Network.
Our audience will largely consist of service providers outside of acquired brain injury services (i.e. mental health, addictions, homelessness, stroke services, corrections). Part of the objective of the Central ABI Collaborative is to build working relationships with people in other sectors with the aim of working together with them on innovative services for both of our populations. We would like a logo to communicate this eagerness to work together (perhaps through a touch of 'playfulness' in the design, less of the sterility that seems common in health service logos).
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Story highlights
- Alaska is estimated to have the highest rape rate in the country
- John Sutter talks with Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell
- Parnell calls rape Alaska's "resident evil" and an "epidemic"
- The governor's "Choose Respect" campaign aims to change that
Quick: Name the governor of Alaska.
Nope, not Sarah Palin.
He's no reality TV star. Isn't on anyone's list of 2016 presidential candidates. And the local press thinks he's so bland they call him the "Oatmeal Governor."
But Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell deserves national name-recognition for one reason: He's taking on one of the most important issues of our time.
He's trying to get Alaska to talk about the "resident evil" of rape.
"It's culturally permissible to be silent about it," and that must change, Parnell told me in a recent interview at the governor's office in Juneau. (You commissioned that trip, by the way, as part of CNN's Change the List project. More on that here.)
For years, this state -- which has the highest reported rate of rape in the country, according to 2012 FBI crime estimates -- denied it had a problem. Politicos and advocates said maybe Alaskans reported rape more often than people in other states -- but, gosh, it couldn't be a bigger problem here than elsewhere, could it?
Parnell has helped end that era of senseless denial.
In our interview, he called violence against women an "epidemic." Like an alcoholic must admit he has a problem in order to face it, he told me, the governor of the state with the highest rape rate must, too, fess up to the problem in order to solve it.
"I can't wave a wand and solve alcoholism, I can't wave a wand and solve domestic violence, but I can work to create a climate where it's culturally permissible to speak about these things with our family and friends, get people to help who cross our paths, to stand up for those who are being abused and hurt," he said.
"To me that's a win in the end."
True enough.
The cornerstone of Parnell's campaign is his "Choose Respect" initiative, which he announced in late 2009 after assuming the office from Palin. Now nearing the end of his first full term and seeking re-election in 2014, Parnell, a Republican, oversees a state that has increased spending on sexual violence treatment and prevention at a time when the overall state budget is shrinking. The "Choose Respect" program would receive $12.4 million in fiscal year 2015 if the governor's proposed budget were approved. That's only 0.1% of the total proposed budget, but it's still considerable.
The laid-back 51-year-old governor, who looks like a kinder version of Sean Hannity plus Vladimir Putin, was born in California but moved to Anchorage at age 10, according to a biography on the Republican Governors Association website. His dad was in the Army and later served in the state legislature.
Parnell, an attorney, once worked as a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips and other oil and gas interests. He served in the state legislature and then as lieutenant governor to Palin. Even liberals in the state, like Caren Robinson, who started the first women's shelter in Juneau, praise the fact that he has supported addressing domestic violence and rape since the 1990s as a member of the legislature.
Parnell was elected to the Alaska House at age 29.
I disagree with some of Parnell's policies -- he's not giving enough autonomy to Native Alaskan communities and courts, for instance, which may be well poised in some cases to handle cases of sexual and gender-based violence; his decision to block part of Obamacare is unwise; and, despite substantial efforts to change things, parts of the state is so remote they're almost totally lawless, which leads people to rape and abuse with a sense of near-impunity.
But the governor's efforts to get Alaska to talk about rape and violence against women are laudable in and of themselves. No policy will be able to fix this problem as long as silence and shame surround rape and abuse.
Someone's got to speak up.
I saw some results of the "Choose Respect" program firsthand:
• In Juneau, I met members of the Thunder Mountain High School basketball team, which participates in a program called Coaching Boys into Men. The team's coach, John Blasco, talks with his players regularly about healthy dating relationships and respect for women. A star shooting guard, Matt Seymour, 18, told me there have been instances when he's told teammates not to use demeaning language about women because of what he learned as part of the program.
• In one small town in southwest Alaska, I met young people who are learning about the Yupik Eskimo culture in after-school programs at the Tundra Women's Coalition, which receives funding from the state. The idea is that traditional culture can strengthen society and, ultimately, reduce rates of sexual assault. I also met women who were flown into a shelter run by the coalition from outlying villages that are not connected to road systems.
• Across Alaska, I saw the power of a statewide survey analyzed by the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center, and funded by the state. The survey effectively ended debate about whether Alaska has a problem with domestic violence and sexual assault, said Andre Rosay, director of the center. The 2010 survey of 871 adult women found 37% had suffered sexual violence and 59% had been the victim of sexual violence and/or intimate partner violence in their lifetimes.
"It was shocking and distressing for many people" to see how common violence against women really was in Alaska, said Lauree Morton, executive director of the Alaska Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, a state-funded agency.
That survey also has spurred change.
Alaska shouldn't have needed those shocking numbers in order to act, but they do underscore the need for urgent action, and that information has won converts.
Parnell told me he is convinced Alaska can change in part because his own grandfather was verbally and physically abusive to his family.
But violence stopped with Parnell's father, who was never violent, he said.
"That gives me hope for the future of our country, when I see people taking that responsibility to live larger than what they've been taught," the governor said.
Parnell is leaning on his people to spread the message that violence against women haunts Alaska and should not be tolerated. The state promotes a series of "Choose Respect" marches, which were organized in more than 140 communities across the state last year and will be held again in the spring.
Those rallies help create a climate where "more people come to safety and more people are willing to speak about the unspeakable," Parnell said.
"That's been the hardest part about the evil among us: We haven't been willing to talk about it," the governor added. "The 'Choose Respect' initiative has given Alaskans permission to speak about these things."
He added: "I'm also sending a message as a man to women who have endured this shame that they are not to blame. They do not need to carry the guilt and shame -- and we are willing to embrace and love them unconditionally."
Parnell would like the "Choose Respect" campaign to spread across the country. He told me sports figures, in particular, have the power to raise awareness about ending sexual violence. "This is going to be won in the hearts and minds of our young people," he said. "To have a nation where every person lives free of fear ... and every person has that hope and opportunity for the future, that's my dream. But it's going to take everybody -- it's going to take 'real-deal' heroes standing up and speaking out and giving people permission to speak about this."
Those "real-deal heroes" should include people like Sarah Palin, the woman still more associated with the governorship in the American public's mind than Parnell.
And -- forget celebrity -- they should include you, too.
Hold a "Choose Respect" march in your community and let me know about it by tagging your photos #chooserespect on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.
If you tag your photos, they will show up on this page.
Bonus points if you can convince Sarah Palin to upload one, too.


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The Canadian Hockey League today announced that 11 current CHL players have been named to the Preliminary Roster for the 2013 U.S. National Junior Team which was released by USA Hockey today.
A total of 27 players will attend training camp Dec. 16-18 at the New York Rangers' Madison Square Garden Training Center in Tarrytown, N.Y. An additional camp will follow in Helsinki, Finland, with the final 23-man roster announcement scheduled for Dec. 23.
The 2013 U.S. National Junior Team will compete at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Junior Championship Dec. 26, 2012-Jan. 5, 2013, in Ufa, Russia.
"We have a young, but talented group of players," said Jim Johannson, general manager of the 2013 U.S. National Junior Team and also the assistant executive director of hockey operations for USA Hockey. "There will be some tough choices to get to the final roster, but that's certainly a good problem to have."
Three invitees were members of the 2012 U.S. National Junior Team, including goaltender John Gibson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Kitchener Rangers) and forward J.T. Miller (East Palestine, Ohio/Connecticut Whale) who is a former member of the Plymouth Whalers.
CHL Players on Team USA Preliminary Roster:
John Gibson (Kitchener Rangers)
Garret Sparks (Guelph Storm)
Seth Jones (Portland Winterhawks)
Connor Murphy (Sarnia Sting)
Patrick Sieloff (Windsor Spitfires)
Tyler Biggs (Oshawa Generals)
Alex Galchenyuk (Sarnia Sting)
Ryan Hartman (Plymouth Whalers)
Stefan Matteau (Blainville-Boisbriand Armada)
Stefan Noesen (Plymouth Whalers)
Vince Trocheck (Saginaw Spirit)
Team USA will compete in a group with Canada, Germany, Russia and Slovakia at the 2013 IIHF World Junior Championship.
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Captain Jim's. We have heard about this place before from friends, but every time we tried to go it was closed.
Captain Jim's is a fish market and restaurant that serves fresh fish that they catch daily (and locally.) It's a no-frills sort of place, but the food is serious. You sit at tables sticky from being cleaned over and over again, get served by people who know the food and you eat some serious chow.
Our service was a bit slow, but that's because there was one waitress. They immediately brought us water and a tasty amuse-bouche with crab meat and fresh fish. When ordering, El Hombre almost ordered the yellowtail, but was told by the waitress that it came in small because "they aren't farmed fish, they are local so today the catch was all small." That earned Captain Jim's a hundred extra points in my book!
I ordered the dolphin tacos on soft shells. They were amazing. Made with juicy blacked dolphin with a cilantro cabbage topping and a bit of cheese, it was an explosion of fresh, crisp delicious flavor. I got sweet potato fries as my side (because I love them and cannot resist) and they were perfectly crisp and delicious.
El Hombre ended up going on a combination plate with blackened grouper (highly recommended on Yelp!) and fried conch. I didn't get a chance to try to grouper but the conch was delicious. All the sauces and sides were also made in house. Mine came with a salsa that I drizzled over the top of the tacos, which was fresh and delicious. The only thing I wasn't crazy about was the slaw, but I'm not much of a fan anyways, so that comment should probably be scratched from the record.
So if you are in North Miami, definitely stop by Jim's for a tasty local spot!
|Dolphin tacos with sweet potato fries, fresh salsa and homemade slaw
|Combo plate 2 with blackened grouper, fried conch and black beans and rice


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It's a 100-year old design. It needs tools to disassemble. It has unreliable magazines. It is finicky about ammo. And, as a single-action pistol, it is unsafe for 95% of its users to carry.100 years old? Ok as if age really meant anything. In general a gun being in use 100 years after it was designed is proof of value not proof it is rubbish. I am reminded of one of my first blog posts back in 2004.
Tools to disassemble? No it doesn't. Field stripping most 1911s requires no tools. Detail stripping the 1911 can be done with tools the gun itself provides during the process. It is possible to screw this up with some manufacturers full length guide rods, etc.
Unreliable magazines? There are 100 years of mags out there for the 1911. Some of them are bound to suck. Any gun can have unreliable mags and any automatic will be unreliable with a bag magazine including Glocks and Sigs.
Finicky about ammo? Maybe. The original wasn't designed to feed hollowpoints. You need a 1911 with a modern feed ramp geometry that fixes this. The original had a steel frame and so making the feedramp integral to the frame isn't a problem. If you buy one with a softer aluminum frame, get a ramped barrel so the feedramp is still steel. But I've met a lot of modern guns that still prefer one brand of hollowpoint to another.
The last bit about safety is crap. I would gladly take the 1911 with it's many redundant external safeties to the Glock with it's single non-redundant trigger safety. Yes you have to train with the 1911. But you have to train with everything so that 1911 is not special. The 1911 also has a great consistent trigger almost entirely because it is single-action.
Why does a reliable 1911 cost so much, and need so much gunsmithing?Because it was designed before CNC machining became the dominant firearms technology. You can still get good cheap 1911s (~$400), they just have to come from cheaper labor countries like the Philippines or China. And they largely won't be target guns, they'll be ordnance grade guns.
The very expensive 1911s are because of people wanting everything. With cars you can have only have two items from this list: acceleration, handling, low cost. With guns the list is different but the concept is the same: accuracy, reliability, low cost. If you tighten up the tolerances to get accuracy, you lose most of the clearances required for reliability. Which means you need someone who knows what they're doing to keep both so you're paying for their expertise. For ordnance grade guns, you're typical getting reliability and service level accuracy for not much money.


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Alice Ghostley
Alice Ghostley (1926-2007), American actress best-known for her television roles as "Alice" on Mayberry, R.F.D., as "Esmerelda" on Bewitched (1969-72) and as Bernice Clifton on Designing Women
This page is the most complete and thorough biography of Alice Ghostley which exists. It's however not finished. So if you have something to add let me know.
This article written and copyright 2008 by Will Johnson, Freelance Biographer and Professional Genealogist, All Rights Reserved. You may email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Alice Ghostley
Early Life
Alice Ghostley was born 14 Aug 1926 in a train station in a place called "Eve" in Vernon County, Missouri as the second child of Harry F Ghostley and his wife Edna M Rooney. Her father was at that time, a telegrapher at this "whistle stop", and shared quarters in the building. Wikipedia reports her middle name as "Margaret", but I don't know on what authority.
By 1930, the family had moved to Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas where her father Harry was buried in 1933 having died at a hospital in Missouri that year. She attended school in Siloam Springs through the sixth grade, and then the family moved to Henryetta, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma where Alice finished growing up and graduated from high school.
Afterwards Alice went to the University of Oklahoma in Norman, where she majored in English and drama, but dropped out, to move with her older sister Gladys to New York City. Gladys got a job as a secretary at Columbia University, while Alice got her first job as an usher at the Imperial Theatre for $11.88 a week. She studied singing, aiming for a career in that area, but at her 648th audition, as she relates, she was accosted by pianist-composer George Wood. George hated his first name and so he was always credited as "G. Wood". He persuaded her, that what she really was, was a comedienne. The two of them begun doing comedy in small venues where she was spotted by Imogene Coca.
Early Career
Her act, as reported many years later consisted of : "Appearing in horn-rimmed glasses and dressed in a frumpy black sweater, she stumbled across the stage as a bewildered, sexually repressed young woman, crooning to a beguine beat about her ill-fated romance with a Harvard man, underneath a 'Voodoo moon' in Boston."
On Broadway, Alice had parts in 1956's "Shangri-La" a musical. Also and again on Broadway but in an as-yet-unknown-year in "Maybe Tuesday" a comedy. In March 1957 she appeared in the live show "Cinderella", as one of the ugly stepsisters with Kaye Ballard playing the other one, and with Julie Andrews as Cinderella. Watch the "Making of Cinderella" on YouTube Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4. Note: Alice does not appear in this documentary, but there are long talking-head segments with both Julie and Kaye.
Her off-Broadway experience included her role in 1957 as Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly in Livin The Life. And also a role in a production "Sand Hog" in an undetermined year. On television she played in "Twelfth Night," with Maurice Evans, and also in "The Show-Off". She appeared on the Jack Parr show in 1958/9 and performed for many years in Greenwich Village's Bon Soi, the Blue Angel, and other New York nighteries. She also did a stint of summer stock in New England. In 1960 she appeared in The Thurber Carnival, a revue based on the humorist's writings. In 1961 she appeared with Art Carney in an NBC "Show of the Week" called "Fads and Foibles". In the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, she played Stephanie Crawford the fussy aunt of Dill Harris, and later in 1962 she played on-stage in S.J. Perelman's fantasy The Beauty Party, for which she received a Tony nomination. "For three seasons of The Jackie Gleason Show, from 1962 to 1964, Ghostley and Gleason regularly played Agnes and Arthur, two lovelorn residents of a tenement." (The Independent) Watch one episode here on YouTube.
Middle Career
For her role as Mavis Parodus Bryson in the 1965 "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window" she received a Tony Award as "Best Featured Actress in a Play".
In 1967 Alice appeared in her first full-time TV series as "Mrs Nash" in NBC's new-series Captain Nice for that one season. Alice and Felice moved to Los Angeles, California in 1968 when she states she didn't work for six months.
She appeared on "Hogan's Heroes" and "What's It All About World". She had a role in the 1969 movie Viva Max, and that same year she again teamed up with Paul Lynde to appear on the Jonathan Winters show.
Alice was a good friend of Maggie Smith and when Smith won an Oscar in 1969 for her starring role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and was unable to attend, Ghostley accepted the Oscar on her behalf.
Later Ghostley's character "Esmerelda" was introduced as a regular on the series in 1969, after the May 1968 death of Marion Lorne, the actress who played the lovable-but-befuddled "Aunt Clara". The studio wanted another comedic-actress to be introduced to the series to replace her, but in a different role. Esmerelda is typically summoned when Samantha needs a babysitter. She is a shy bundle-of-nerves who often fades slowly away when nervous. When she isn't nervous her spell-casting is often very good, but when she is nervous all havoc breaks loose.
In Episode 180 aka Season 6, Episode 12 "Sam's Double Mother Trouble", as Esmeralda is reading a Mother Goose rhyme to Tabitha, she sneezes and the real woman appears. Darrin's mother comes over threatening to separate from Mr. Stephens, then Mr. Stephens comes over and falls for Mother Goose. This makes Mrs. Stephens jealous. You can watch this episode here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
In Episode 182 aka Season 6, Episode 14 "Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays", Esmeralda brings Santa to the Stephens' home and he can't get back to the North Pole to direct the making of the toys. Samantha rescues Christmas by zapping all the Elves to her house as well. They finish all the toys just in time for Christmas. You can watch this episode here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
In Episode 184 aka Season 6, Episode 16 "Samantha's Lost Weekend", Tabitha won't eat so Esmerelda hexes a glass of milk that will make the drinker — eat. Samantha drinks it instead, and goes on an eating frenzy. A hilarious side-story occurs when Esmerelda has to get an antidote from the witches' Apothecary while avoiding his randy advances. Instead Dr. Bombay shows up and cures her, but gives her a side-effect of narcolepsy. You can watch it here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
In Episode 193 aka Season 6, Episode 25 "Okay, Who's the Wise Witch?", Samantha, Darrin, Endora and Dr. Bombay are all caught in a magical vapor lock around the house due to Samantha's non-use of powers. Esmerelda only appears incidentally. You can watch it here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
In Episode 197 aka Season 6, Episode 29 "Turn on the Old Charm", Esmerelda again appears only incidentally. The main story centers around Samantha giving Darrin an amulet which makes Endora be nice to him. Esmerelda filches it thinking it's a love charm. Endora now uncursed, curses Sam and Darrin to constantly bicker. Watch it here Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.
In Episode 198 aka Season 6, Episode 30 "Make Love, Not Hate", Dr. Bombay formulates a potion to help Esmeralda find a man, instead she accidentally pours the potion into some clam dip and everyone at the party falls for a different person. Watch it here Part 1.
Later Career and Death
In it's third season in 1970, Alice became cousin "Alice" on the TV-series Mayberry, R.F.D. starring Andy Griffith, after the "Aunt Bea" character was written out of the script. She played in this role for one year. Alice and Felice in 1970 moved into their first house in the Hollywood Hills, previously having rented, mostly living in apartments in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. In 1971 she appeared with Patty Duke in the movie Two on a Bench, you can watch an excerpt here, as the kleptomaniac mother. Very funny.
In 1973 she again teamed up with Julie Andrews, playing her roommate and foil, in the ABC "The Julie Andrews Hour". Watch it here on YouTube. (Note: Alice appears only for the few few minutes, the rest is Julie dancing and singing.) Alice appeared in 1976's film Gator starring Bert Reynolds. She appeared in an episode of the TV-series Good Times (with J.J. Walker), playing an adoption agent. You can watch her in this role here, she begins speaking at time 7:50. It's just a tiny bit saccharin so you've been warned!
In 1978 she took over the role of Miss Hannigan, the alcoholic matron of the orphanage, in the long-running Broadway play Annie. Alice appears here on YouTube in an undated "children's" show with Charles Nelson Reilly and Jonathan Harris (that guy who played the evil Dr. Smith on the TV-series Lost In Space).
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Harry F Ghostley
Harry F Ghostley (AFN 21FQ-2V7) was born 10 May 1884 in Minnesota to Harry Ghostley and his wife Margaret Anna Walker. Harry is living with his widowed mother in the Special 1905 Minnesota State Census.
By 1910 Harry has moved to Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon where he is listed as single and a boarder. By 1920 he is in the US Panama Canal Zone evidently in the armed forces. That year or the next, he married Edna Rooney. The family lived in both Oklahoma and Missouri before locating to Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas by 1930.
Harry Ghostley died in 23 Oct 1933 in a Kansas City, Missouri hospital, and is buried at Oak Hill Cemetery in Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas.
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Edna M Rooney
Edna M Rooney was born in 16 Sep 1890 in Oklahoma, daughter of Ed Roony and Alice. In 1920 or 1921 she married Harry F Ghostley. They had two children by the time they were enumerated in Siloam Springs, Benton County, Arkansas in the 1930 US Census. Harry developed Carcinoma of the Liver and died in a hospital in Kansas City, Missouri in 1933.
Edna outlived him by 32 years, dying in May 1965, having last resided in Oklahoma. They are buried side-by-side in Oak Hills Cemetery (aka Siloam Springs Cemetery) in Benton County, Arkansas.
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Harry Ghostley
Harry Ghostley (AFN 21FQ-2QD) was born 28 Jan 1844 in Berkeley, England. He married Margaret Anna Walker on 28 Jan 1874 in Minnesota.
Harry and Margaret had four children: Edith who died age 1 on 12 Aug 1875, Edith born 2 Nov 1875, Ella born 2 Sep 1877, Harry born 10 May 1884 and Gladys born May 1888.
Harry Ghostley died Sep 1887 in Minnesota.
Margaret Anna Walker
Margaret Anna Walker (AFN 21FQ-263) was born 26 Aug 1851 in Hanover Neck, Morris County, New Jersey to Richard Westbrook Walker and his wife Eleanor Shields. She married Harry Ghostley on 28 Jan 1874 in Minnesota.
She outlived her husband Harry by almost 58 years, dying on 30 Jun 1945.
Ed Rooney
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Fatal shooting outside skateboard shop
Victim shot multiple times outside Patriot Skateboard in Malden
A fatal shooting shut down part of Main Street in Malden Tuesday afternoon.
The Middledex County District Attorney's office said Shawn Clark, 39, of Saugus, was shot multiple times just before 1 p.m. in the 800 block of Main Street.
Clark was transported to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Eight yellow shell casing markers were clearly visible in the street, in front of the Patriot Skateboard store and Dante's Barbershop.
Neighbors identified Clark as the owner of the skateboard store.
Malden Police and Massachusetts State Police are conducting an investigation into the circumstances of his death.
No one has been charged in connection with the incident at this time.
Anyone with information that they believe may be helpful to the investigation should contact Massachusetts State Police at 781-897-6600 or Malden Police at 781-397-7171.


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The International Society of Environmental Indicators (ISEI Journal) is focused on the use and development of plant and animal indicators of environmental health, inclusive of molecular to community and landscape-level research investigations. The Editorial Board encourages manuscripts that employ indicators and biomarkers as they relate directly to specific measurable effects in ecological and human populations. Status of aspects of the environmental health under study and the applicability of environmental indicators in guiding the development of regulatory policy should be addressed. Manuscripts addressing only laboratory-based toxicity testing will not be considered.
Interested in submitting a paper, see the instructions for authors section.


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Unit Conversions
Dimensional analysis
can also be called:
Unit analysis
Factor label method
How do I change units on a number?
Unit conversions in the geosciences
Introduction to unit conversionsIn the geosciences, we think about how the Earth works on a variety of scales. For example, the San Andreas Fault that runs nearly the length of California's coastline is over 1200 km long.
How do I do a unit conversion?
You can do any unit conversion if you follow a few simple steps. Although there is no single "right" way to do unit conversions, these steps provide one way to learn to do unit conversions. DO NOT SKIP ANY STEPS! Although it may seem tedious, working through unit conversions requires that each of these steps be followed so that you can be sure that you end up with what you want, especially when you are just starting out with learning to do unit conversions.
Below, you can download and print some tables for your use when doing unit conversions:
- If you are converting from one metric unit to another, this list of metric prefixes (Acrobat (PDF) 7kB Aug31 11) will be useful.
- When converting from metric to imperial (sometimes called English) units (orvice versa), this conversion chart (Acrobat (PDF) 40kB Sep3 09) might be helpful.
When you do any unit conversion, you should always know what units you started with and what units you want to end up with. This is key to success at unit conversions.
The StepsThe steps to successfully completing a unit conversion are outlined below. To illustrate the steps, lets use a geologic example: In Southern California, slip on the San Andreas Fault is on the order of 25 km/Myr. How many cm does the San Andreas Fault move in one year?
- Write (copy) out the units that you are given as a fraction.
- Write out the units that you want at the end of the conversion as a fraction:
- Determine appropriate conversion factors. Use tables in your textbook or download one of the tables listed above (for this particular example, you probably only need to know the prefixes for metric system (Acrobat (PDF) 7kB Aug31 11)).
For our example of movement on the San Andreas Fault, we need to convert 1 km to cm and Myr (Mega-years or Million years) to years, so with the handy guide to metric system prefixes, we need three conversion factors:
- 1 km = 1,000 m
- 1 m = 100 cm
- 1 Myr = 1,000,000 yr
- Evaluate the appropriate arrangement for conversion factors. That is, copy the conversion factor(s) from step 3 into fraction form so that the units end up canceling. Remember that when you multiply fractions (as you will in step 6 below), you can cancel units ONLY when they appear in the numerator of one fraction and the denominator of another.
We're going to have to do several steps in this conversion and we have to start somewhere. Let's start with converting km/year to cm/year. Because km is on top, we're going to want to arrange the conversion fraction so that km is in the bottom position (denominator) like so:Now we have what we want in the numerator but we still have Myr in the denominator. So, we need a conversion factor that has Myr in the numerator:
- Set up the conversion by writing the fractions in a row with multiplication signs in between.
- Evaluate. Do the original units cancel so that you end up with what the question is asking for? If not, repeat steps 2 and 3 until they do!
- Now, lets do some arithmetic: To complete the conversion, we multiply all the numerators and then all the denominators (or multiply across the top and bottom).
If you are unsure about how I got the numbers here, you can review what is meant by "multiply across top and bottom" below:When fractions are multiplied, you need to keep track of numbers on the top (also called the numerator) and bottom (also called the denominator).
- It's easier to keep track of these numbers if you write the fractions like this: . In this case, the numerator is 25 km and the denominator is 1 Myr.
- To multiply fractions, treat top and bottom numbers separately (multiply top numbers and then multiply bottom numbers).
- Write out your new numbers as a fraction (the top product as the numerator; the bottom product as the denominator)
- Reduce the fraction by dividing numerator by denominator once you have the top and bottom multiplied.
- EVALUATE (again). Is this a reasonable number?Considering that plate motions are in the range of 1-10 cm/yr, 2.5 cm/yr is a reasonable answer!
You can download and print a sheet with the unit conversion steps (Acrobat (PDF) 44kB Apr11 08)to use while completing the practice problems.
Comparison of 25 degrees C with 25 degrees F. From NIST's website for kids
Just a quick note about the metric system: Although the US is one of the last hold outs on the imperial or English system of measurement (inches, miles, °F, etc.), the metric system is often much more intuitive because it is a system of base 10 numbers. The nice thing about dividing numbers in the metric system is that when you get to the end, you can actually cancel out the zeros in the fraction (remember, you have to cancel the same number on the top and bottom - there may be a few left over in either the numerator or the denominator). For example in the question above:
so that you only have to divide 25 by 10. If you are rusty about what the prefixes mean for the metric system, you can review the order of magnitude for a "femtogram" or "gigabyte" or any other SI unit using the metric prefixes (Acrobat (PDF) 7kB Aug31 11) document available earlier on the page.
Where are unit conversions used in the geosciences?
- Plate tectonics - converting rates of plate motion, etc.
- Topographic maps - converting scales
- Rivers and Streams - converting rates of flow, slope, etc.
- Groundwater - converting rates of flow
- Glaciers - converting rates of flow (or retreat), etc.
- Geologic time - converting time, rates of deposition, etc.
Next Steps
I'm ready to practice! (These problems have worked answers.)
I still need more help! (See the links below for more help with unit conversions).
More Help with Unit Conversions
Some tables of conversion factors
- NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) has an extensive list of weights and measures. There are specific tables for metric units of measure, US units of measure and US and metric equivalents.
- SOSMath has several tables of conversion factors for linear measure (length/distance), square (area) measure and http://www.sosmath.com/algebra/unitconv/unit4/unit4.html 'cubic (volume) measure'.
- The geology department at Rutgers has a list of important conversion factors in geology.
- The engineering department at Auburn University has a long list of conversion factors.
- Alabama Learning Exchange has a handout about basic mathematical skills needed for the workplace.
- Alysion.org has a page with step by step instructions for dimensional analysis and some fun with dimensional analysis.
- Oak Road Systems (Stan Brown) has a discussion of converting units and how to go about it.
- SOS Math has an entire unit on fractions. These pages include a list of rules for the mathematics of fractions, reducing fractions, multiplying fractions.
This page was written and compiled by Dr. Jennifer M. Wenner, Geology Department, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh,
and Dr. Eric M. Baer, Geology Program, Highline Community College


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Alan Brennert's Moloka'i is a brilliant read. Rachel Kalama is a protagonist anyone would root for. Mostly because she could be the girl next door. She could have been anyone from 19th-20th century Moloka'i. Alan Brennert didn't try to make her some sort of heroine, or keep her safe while everyone around her suffered. Her disease not only shattered her, but also her entire family in a rippling fashion. How does one cope with losing every single person that ever mattered? Over the years, Rachel meets so many people that even we come to love and pray for. And this motley cast of people are not just treated as faceless extras, but have very interesting back-stories and are molded into fully-fleshed characters by Brennert. They have their own place in the book and without overwhelming the reader get their story told too. In the end, I cried and hoped for every character in this book.
In addition to the tangible players of this book, Moloka'i has several other characters - leprosy, the island Moloka'i, and history itself. Through the book, we see how leprosy ravaged the people of Moloka'i, both directly and indirectly. Just like in any other community, Rachel makes friends with other patients, many of whom become her playmates in pranks, and has adult figures she respects - a Sister who remains her constant companion, an aunt who treats her like her own daughter, an uncle who loves her a lot. The only difference is that this whole coterie is surrounded by leprosy and thus there is a chance they could die any time. One day, Rachel is having the best time of her life with a person, and the next day, that person has passed away. It is one of life's mocking cruelties - to become so close to someone, and then watch that person being taken away. While some people took to brooding about their disease, most accepted it and became the better for what they were.
Set beginning in the 1890s and going all the way to middle of the twentieth century, this book captures so much of the history that happens during this period - and clearly, this period is one of the richest in terms of its history - two world wars, tons of innovations; in fact, the world in which the book starts and the world in which it ends are so different that it would make you wonder if you were still reading the same book. This history is as significant as the characters of the book, and yet Alan Brennert doesn't ramble about the important events that I've noticed in so many books and found digressing. You almost never notice the history, but rather you feel like you are part of the history itself. You feel the same amazement felt by the characters, almost as if you are watching it too.
When I started reading the book, I expected to come to hate the place called Moloka'i, because of all it stands for. On the other hand, I came to love the place. There is this bunch of people who were so set apart from the rest of humanity, and also didn't have any part in the innovations that were happening. The rest of the world was moving into the 20th century, while the residents of Moloka'i were still stuck in 19th century with no electricity and feeding on the same standard diet provided by the government for more than 20 years. Without being too wordy or stopping the story to talk about the place, the author slowly but surely builds Moloka'i as a significant character in the background. Moloka'i had a church, a school, a "sanctuary" for girls under the age of eighteen, proper houses for residents, and most importantly, in Moloka'i, nobody ran away from them or looked at them with disgust. But, on the other hand, this place received what people from other places didn't need anymore, as if indicating that these people have no worth and no place in society, which is how they were treated.
Class was held only three hours each day. The books were old and had DISCARD stamped in red ink on the inside front cover; the crayons were neither as plentiful nor as colorful as those provided at Fort Street School; and the classroom lacked even a globe of the world!
The initial part of this book was hard to read - not because of language or lack of intrigue - but because it was hard reading about a seven-year old girl (and other unluckier girls) forcibly separated from her parents by a disease she wasn't even old enough to comprehend, and sent to Moloka'i, from where no one apparently returns. Rachel's parents knew what Moloka'i meant, and they realized that they may never ever see her again. For victims of leprosy, Moloka'i is understood to be their grave even before they die. But for all the doom and gloom associated with this place, people in Moloka'i knew how to live. They partied, danced, had their own cozy homes, and made best with what they had. At times, I saw a civilization that was far more tolerant and cohesive than people elsewhere. They understood each other at a level other people didn't. While others shunned them as outcasts and looked at them with disgust, the victims gelled well with each other, even though the effects of the disease on each person varied hugely.
It should also be mentioned that so many characters in this book actually existed in reality, and yet this is not nonfiction. I wasn't aware of this at first but the afterword draws clear lines between what was real and what is fiction. Through the course of the book, I came to respect some of those real characters, and it was with a lot of pride that I read their back story. Alan Brennert gives those characters a tribute of the highest order by forever immortalizing them in print for us to read.


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The Board of Directors of Regal International Group Ltd. (the "Company", and together with its subsidiaries, the "Group") is pleased to inform shareholders that its wholly owned subsidiary, Kenyalang Avenue Sdn Bhd ("Kenyalang Avenue") has entered into a project management cum construction agreement on 21 July 2016 ("Agreement") with an independent third party.
The Agreement relates to the development and construction of 31 units of detached houses, 10 units of semi-detached houses, 19 units of terrace houses and 21 units of low-cost terrace houses at the land located at Kampong Rampangi, Kuching, which spans an approximate area of 4.103 hectares (described as Lot 47 Block 9 Salak Land District). Pursuant to the Agreement, Kenyalang Avenue shall serve as the project manager and contractor for the Land, while the independent third party shall serve as the developer of the Project.
Regal International Group Ltd. (簡稱"公司"及旗下所有子公司統稱"集團") 的董事會僅此宣佈其全資子公司Kenyalang Avenue Sdn Bhd (簡稱"Kenyalang Avenue") 已於2016年7月21日與集團的非關聯方立訂項目管理及建築契約 (簡稱"契約")。
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2006: a challenging year for Jules Verne
At ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands, technicians have been working hard on Jules Verne - Europe's first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) - to replace all 48 valve-actuators in the spaceship's propulsion system. This unexpected task will be completed by the end of this month. A challenging yearlong campaign of crucial environmental and functional tests will follow, ahead of the inaugural launch scheduled in 2007.
Last year, small technical problems and failures which occurred late in the processing of Jules Verne - such as a small fatigue failure on a propulsion valve and an anomaly on the drive mechanism of the crucial solar arrays - had an impact on the campaign schedule with a snowball effect, delaying the launch by at least one year.
"We need to have a fully integrated ATV with all the flight hardware already tested at the subsystem level to complete the extensive test campaign of the real 19.7-tonne Jules Verne as a whole", says Bachisio Dore, ESA's ATV Test Manager. 2006 is a crucial year to achieve the complex environmental test campaign - such as the main acoustic and thermal tests - which will take most of the year and will last until the autumn.
In parallel, functional and operations tests have to be performed on the one hand at the Functional Simulation Facility (FSF) - which is the ATV simulation facility at EADS-ST facilities in Les Mureaux, 50 km west of Paris - and on the other hand, at the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse. If all these tests are satisfactory, the most complex space vehicle ever developed in Europe will be ready a year from now for its inaugural trip to Kourou, in French Guiana.
Acoustic tests
The first part of the year will be dedicated to preparing and performing mechanical tests. Acoustic vibrations will be used to simulate the stress the ATV will encounter during the first three minutes of launch - due to aerodynamical forces - on top of the powerful European Ariane-5 launcher.
The whole structure of the ATV, which is the size of a double-decker London bus, will have to withstand frequencies up to 8 kHz with an acoustic level reaching 143 dB. The same amount of acoustic vibrations would be lethal for the human body.
For several days different test runs will be conducted in a special enclosed facility called LEAF (Large European Acoustic Facility). Dozens of sensors placed in different areas of the ATV will measure and check its hardware behaviour. Two-dozen technicians and engineers from Prime Contractor EADS Launch Vehicles, EADS Space Transportation (former Astrium), Alcatel Alenia Space (former Alenia Spazio), Dutch Space (recently acquired by EADS Space), European Test Services (ETS) and ESA will coordinate the test runs.
"Jules Verne will be in the same flight configuration as for launch except for the several tonnes of dry cargo and the propellants," says Dore. Although the tests themselves will only take four to five days, it takes weeks to prepare the spaceship and to move it between the different facilities at ESA's centre in Noordwijk.
After the acoustic stress test, the next step will be to check the critical deployment of the four solar arrays, which, with their total span of 22.3 meters, provide electrical power to the spacecraft and to rechargeable batteries indispensable for eclipse periods in orbit. Last year, some recurring anomalies on the drive mechanism of the solar arrays forced engineers to add a back-up device to monitor the good angular position measurement of this vital system. Some 95 minutes after lift-off, the ATV activates its navigation systems and deploys its solar panels, which must track the Sun - as early as possible - to get energy while orbiting at 28 000 km/h.
Thermal tests in summer
Detailed computer analysis of the test data acquired during the acoustic tests will continue in parallel to the post-test inspection and reconfiguration of the ATV for the next test campaign. If everything goes as planned, during the summer the ATV will undergo a series of critical thermal tests, under vacuum and with the ATV operational, which replicate the harsh temperature environment cycle of space.
"These thermal tests are the most critical environmental tests to make sure that all the Jules Verne systems are robust enough to withstand the whole six-month long orbital mission", says Dore. It will be the largest spacecraft ever tested in Europe in almost half a century of space programmes.
From autumn the next challenge for the Jules Verne campaign will be to test the full interaction between the very extensive flight software and the hardware as a whole. Using the Electrical Ground Support Equipment (EGSE), which includes hundreds of cables and umbilical connections and dozens of ground computers, it is possible to replicate the functional environment of the navigation and flight dynamics during the flight of the spaceship.
This was already tested at the Functional Simulation Facility (FSF) at EADS Space Transportation facilities in Les Mureaux, France. This simulation facility includes some of the actual mechanism and flight box replicas, which are the electronic 'brain' and the 'nervous system' of the ATV, and an even larger piece of ground equipment, which simulates all the external interfaces, including up to sixty electronics racks. However, to be sure that the FSF exactly replicates Jules Verne, the results from the two campaigns will be minutely compared.
To make the tests even more realistic, at some point the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse will be added into the loop. The preparation and simulations in closed loop will take up to three months and should take place by the end of the year.
If all the challenges are met according to schedule, Jules Verne will be ready for sea shipment early in 2007. The transportation of ATV by boat from the Netherlands to French Guiana will take two weeks, after which an eleven-week launch campaign will be required before lift-off.
In any case, the actual mission will most likely take place no earlier than May 2007. First, all the international partners have to agree upon the best date to re-supply the Station with the 7.1 tonnes of cargo that is to be carried up by the ATV.


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Well here it is; Link.
Notions: G Hook
Green, Brown, and yellow Yarn
Stitch Holder
Tunic (worked bottom up): Ch 24, sl st in first ch to make a loop.
1-5: Sc around.
6: Sc 4, dec. Repeat around
7-8: Sc around
9: Sc 3, dec. Repeat around. Ch 1 and turn
10: Sc around. Skip last st. Ch 1 and turn
11: Sc 2, Dec. Repeat. Ch 1 and turn
12-13: Sc around. Ch 1 and turn
14: Sc 2, ch 7, skip 2, dc in next 4 sts, ch 7, skip 2, sc 2. Ch 1 and turn
15-16: Sc around (5 sc per ch space.) Ch 1 and turn
(Note: You'll realize there is a split down the back of the tunic. This is to aid the dressing process. After the tunic has been successfully put on Link, you can simply tie in up with a few strands of extra brown yarn)
Sleeves (make 2): In ch space,
1-6: Sc around
1-5: Sc around
6: Sc 5, dec. Repeat around.
7: Sc around
8: Sc 4, dec. Repeat around
9-13: Sc around
14: Sc 3, dec. Repeat around
15-16: Sc around
17: Sc 2, dec. Repeat around
18-24: Sc around
25: Sc, dec. Repeat around
26-28: Sc around
29: Dec around
30: Sc around
Gloves (make 2): Ch 2, sc 6 in second ch from hook.
1: Inc around
2-5: Sc around
6: Sc 2, dec. Repeat around
7-12: Sc around
Boots (make 2): Ch 2, sc 6 in second ch from hook.
1. Inc around
2: Sc, inc. Repeat around
3-6: Sc around
7: Sc 4, dec. Repeat around
8-13: Sc around
Belt's and Hair:
I'm not great at explaining how to apply hair, so your better off without me. But I'm sure if you run Amigurumi hair tutorial through Google you'll find something. The belts are simple enough. Simply make a ch that fits around the waist and sc across. Same for the chest (?) belt. Haha, whatever. Have fun everybody.
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S.T. Admin1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 58 diseños de 22 diseñadores freelance.
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Cool logo and separate header design for blog/website that supports my twitter profile (@stupidtweets) build members/subscribers who are looking for a daily laugh. No specific design or color requirements at this time...this is a BLANK SLATE!!! I will be very responsive and get comments on designs out to everyone. Design can be edgy/new...but not too childish or bland. Can look crazy or whacky (if you like). Website is hosted at SquareSpace.
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The site will be used to "catch traffic" from various sources (including Twitter). Site will have membership and feedback attributes. Will typically post 'blog-style' content like links, pictures, videos, quotes, etc. of everyday stupid stuff. Site will remain simplistic in its structure (without a lot of graphics, sections, etc). Will stay 2 column site like current (http://www.stupid-twit.com) with colors changing in future to match headers/personal taste.
What do you think of when you heard the words "Stupid Twit"??? Take that and create your mind's vision!
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