text:
Carpenter is likely to be hearing more, not less, in the near future. The Southside case has provided the NCAA an unusually complete look into the recruiting practices in effect at one high school. This happens less often that one might think: Although many violations of NCAA recruiting regulations occur at the secondary level, the organization has no jurisdiction over high schools or their programs. The Atlanta Board of Education, however, is so troubled by the allegations here that it has provided NCAA access to a number of academic records involving basketball recruits who wound up at a half-dozen universities over the years.
The immediate controversy began in fall of '89, when Southside High's top basketball prospect, Wayne Buckingham, now 21, arrived at Clemson University. Under coach David Jones, the talented forward had led Southside's team to a state championship two years ago, averaging 23 points and 11 rebounds a game. (By all accounts, Jones too is a talented coach: even without Buckingham, his team was statewide runner-up in its division last year.) Clemson was glad to have the 6'9", 245-lb. power player -- at the time, in fact, Tigers coach Cliff Ellis praised Buckingham as one of the most promising recruits ever to arrive at Clemson.
But Clemson officials were confused as to how to evaluate Buckingham's transcript from Southside. NCAA regulations -- Proposition 48, specifically -- require that freshmen players meet certain academic standards in order to play, including having passed a number of "core courses" in high school. Clemson was aware that Buckingham had transferred to Southside from Cascade High School in Wartrace, Tenn., just before his junior year. To determined his eligibility -- these days, Clemson is very particular about athletes' eligibility under NCAA guidelines -- officials obtained a copy of the Cascade transcript, then asked the NCAA about whether certain courses could be described as "core" courses and exactly how to translate the grades from Cascade (an "A" requires a higher numerical average at Cascade than it does at Southside). While the NCAA evaluated the situation, Buckingham played his freshman year at Clemson, where the Tigers made it to the regional semifinals before losing to 71-70 to Connecticut.
By spring of '90, however, NCAA investigators had serious reservations about Buckingham's eligibility: they found that he had taken special education English courses at Cascade that were not so described on the transcript from Southside. Suspicious NCAA officials contacted Lester Butts, superintendent of Atlanta schools, and Southside High staff in order to have a closer look at Buckingham's records. By coincidence, senior school-board staffers had been hearing allegations from the disgruntled parents of Southside basketball players that Buckingham had received preferential treatment while enrolled at the school and that the athletic program was engaged in improper recruiting practices overall.
By October -- the wheels of justice move slowly -- a cursory inspection of Southside's records seemed to substantiate some of the charges. To its credit, the Atlanta Board of Education appointed a three-man investigative committee to take an in-depth look at Southside's basketball program. On Dec. 19, the NCAA informed Clemson that Buckingham was ineligible because he had not met "Prop 48" requirements. As he already had played his freshman year, the association ruled Buckingham ineligible to play this year.
The NCAA refuses to discuss its ongoing investigation. Horrified school-board officials, however, have not been so reluctant. Buckingham, they say, probably is not culpable for they claim was pattern of academic fraud at Southside. Says Joseph G. Martin, president of the Atlanta Board of Education, of the Buckingham case: "That's where the facts are most blatant. Others situations are just as disquieting, we're finding."
Since they began questioning present and former Southside basketball players, coaches, and administrative staff, board investigators claim they have discovered evidence that athletes at the school were given credit for courses they did not take; that someone altered their grades and transcripts to enhance their acceptability to colleges under Prop 48 guidelines; that athletes were allowed to attend school even though they didn't live in the district; that grade books from classes in which athletes were enrolled are missing; that players may have been "brokered" to colleges by school officials in return for unspecified compensation; and that public funds from the system and from the private athletic booster club may have co-mingled and misused.
Though the investigation is not yet complete, Superintendent Butts last April suspended without pay Willie Fussell, the director of Southside's community night-school program who also handled money from athletic department funds. "As best we can tell, a lot of the monies were co-mingled," says Martin. "At a minimum, it appears to be a violation of the school's operating policies." According to Martin, the NCAA is investigating whether any of the booster money came from colleges interesting in recruiting Southside prospects. (Clemson, however, does not appear to be an object of suspicion. More about that below.)
At the request of the school board, Fulton County District Attorney Lewis Slaton last week agreed to investigate charges that booster club money was misused. Of specific concern are several checks made out to cash and others that were post-dated. Butts has recommended that Southside's community director be fired; Fussell, who has denied wrongdoing, has appealed his dismissal to the full board. A hearing is set for mid-June. Fussell's attorney, William McKenney, did not return repeated phone calls from Newsweek.
Butts also has transferred Southside's principal, Charles N. Hawk Jr., to administrative duties at a district office. Hawk, who is now technically on medical leave because of knee surgery, denies wrongdoing, but board officials are angry that the alleged improprieties happened on his watch at the school. Two other staffers, basketball coach David Jones and guidance counselor Camilla Ziegler, whom board investigators claim handled athlete transcripts, have not been censured, but two board officials say they fully expect to take action against them in the near future. Jones, who has not been speaking with reporters, declined Newsweek's interview request, passed on through Carpenter. Investigators say Ziegler has been missing from Southside for a month and that they have not been able to locate her; Newsweekalso could not reach the counselor for comment.
Investigators for both the NCAA and the school board are zeroing in on another mystery: how Buckingham got to Southside in the first place. After his sophomore year at Cascade, school officials say, Buckingham moved to Atlanta to live with a relative and enrolled at Southside. His family, however, stayed behind in tiny Bell Buckle, Tenn. Says Hal Skelton, principal at Cascade: "I've been asked by everybody in the country, but I just don't know why he left." Cascade's basketball coach, James Cotham, "was extremely surprised," says Skelton. "He and I discussed it at length. Someday we'd like to know why [Buckingham] left."
So would the NCAA. As a transfer, Buckingham was ineligible to play his junior year at Southside. At this point, investigators are not sure why Buckingham moved, but an unnamed basketball coach at another city high school told //The Atlanta Journal-Constitution// that in 1987 he was approached by an assistant basketball coach from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU), also unnamed, about taking in the promising player. The understanding, he alleges, was that Buckingham would be steered back to MTSU by the coach after his senior year.
MTSU officials have denied that the college had anything to do with trying to place Buckingham at an Atlanta area school, but basketball coach Bruce Stewart has admitted that the NCAA is investigating the possibility at the MTSU campus.
Buckingham has declined to talk to reporters about his transcript or Southside generally. His South Carolina attorney did not return Newsweek's repeated phone calls; neither did his mother, Bertie Buckingham, in Bell Buckle, Tenn. Buckingham's phone at Clemson went unanswered; the regular school season has ended.
Officials at Clemson claim the school is no longer under suspicion by the NCAA. " They wanted to know what we knew and when we knew it," says Paul Aaron, the university's director of institutional compliance. "I don't think there's any question that something was amiss with the information we got, which was purported to be official. The transcript we got did not indicate anything other than that he had moved from a small place in Tennessee." According to Aaron, the NCAA has cleared Buckingham to play next year because it does not believe he was directly involved in or know about the alleged improprieties: "They NCAA has told him, as far as they're concerned...he will remain eligible," says Aaron. This may also be a sign that the NCAA does not believe Clemson contributed to Southside's booster fund or engaged in improper recruiting.
That's doubtless a great relief. The NCAA sanctioned Clemson's football team in 19tk for violating recruiting regulations. If found guilty of a second violation in a major sport in less than five years, the NCAA could temporarily suspend the university's participation in either sport.
The Southside case is only the most recent installment in an ongoing controversy over collegiate recruiting practices at high schools. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, some 5.1 million high-school kids were involved in varsity sports during the '89-'90 school year, the latest year for which statistics are available; of these, 517,000 boys and 390,000 girls played basketball. Yet the NFSHSA does not enforce high-school sports regulations, including those governing college recruitment, on a national basis, as does the NCAA. Enforcement is left to each state's sports association, and the regulations they uphold often vary from state to state. In some states there may be more than one governing association. All in all, then, the responsibility for monitoring what goes on in high-school coaching offices is considerably more diffuse than it is at the college level. Who enforces the recruitment rules at a school like Southside?
"I don't think anybody really does," says Aaron. "I've been doing this for a while now, and one thing that amazes me is how little high schools do about regulating their process. 'Exploitation' is a big word, but it's a valid adjective to describe what happens. The high school coach is in a position to say 'Yes, you can talk to my kid' and 'No, you can't.'" Coaches may provide transcripts or drag their feet, Aaron notes, and the recruits tend to listen to their advice, making it easier to steer them a particular colleges.
Says one recruiting official at a major university, who asked not to be named: "Everyone looks at college athletics and says, 'Boy, that's a real problem.' But there's at least as big a problem at high schools, especially with the brokering of players. And there's a lot of coaches or boosters giving $1,000 here and there, even $10,000. That all goes on at the high-school level."
To those ostensibly involved in the business of educating children, including athletes, the transformation of the high-school gym into a sort of meat market is quite upsetting...especially when it's happening under one's own nose. Says Martin: "What troubles us is that ofttimes the real needs of youngsters were sacrificed. Certainly they became puppets in a larger game.
"The pressures and temptations are so intense now that there's a lot of risk. Many communities served by the Atlanta public schools are disadvantaged areas [where] athletic competition is the road to success in life....The pressures on our coaches and the temptations of our kids -- the source of these is not what's happening at Southside, but what's happening at the college level. It's filtering down."


text:
This trick involves following three steps:
SOAKING: Take big enough container or bucket, in which you can soak your feet. Fill half the bucket with warm water, and mix 2 tablespoon salt and 4 tablespoon plain vinegar in the water. Soak your feet in this water for 10 minutes. Remove your feet and scrub with pumice stone. Then soak for 5 more minutes.
CLEANSING: Remove your feet from soaking bucket. Dry them with towel. Cut and squeeze juice from 4 lemons. Apply this juice on your cracked heels. Scrub gently with pumice stone. Soaking will open up the dried skin pores and Lemon juice will cleanse them deeply. Let the lemon juice sit on your feet for 10 minutes. Then soak your feet again for 5 minutes.
MOISTURIZING: Dry your feet with a clean towel. Now apply a thick layer of Coconut oil on your feet. Cover your oiled feet in a plastic wrap. This will keep the oil on your feet for longer duration and not let the moisture get away. You can wear a sock over the plastic wrapped feet and continue your daily routine. But keep the plastic wrap on your feet for 2 hours.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Advances in Consumer Research Volume 9, 1982 Pages 481-486
Lorne Bozinoff, The Pennsylvania State University
[The author is now Marketing Research Manager at Bell Canada, Toronto, Ontario. This research was supported by the Center for Research, College of Business Administration, The Pennsylvania State University. The author thanks Jerry Olson and Arno Rethans for their insightful comments on an earlier draft of this paper.]
The paradox of how unconscious or routine response behavior can occur within an information processing paradigm is examined and resolved in terms of script theory. The empirical evidence concerning scripts is reviewed and an application in the area of energy conservation is suggested. An empirical study based on script theory yielded three findings. First, support for the existence of scripts is found. Second, scripts can be reliably measured. And third, scripts can provide insights into routine response behavior not available through traditional consumer research methods.
It has long been held that the amount of information processing undertaken by consumers varies across product classes. Consumers in the process of buying either a new or expensive product are hypothesized to engage in more information processing than consumers who are engaged in the process of buying an inexpensive, frequently purchased good. For example, there is evidence that as the price of the product increases, the extent of information search increases (Dommermuth, 1965). Also, there is evidence that as product class familiarity decreases, the extent of information search increases (Bennett and Mandell, 1969). In contrast, it is posited that for frequently purchased consumer goods, little information processing will occur. In such instances, brand loyalty and routine response behavior (RRB) are likely to occur (Howard, 1977). Taken in the extreme, this type of behavior may tend to be unconscious and similar to a habit
Routine or unconscious behavior appears to run counter to the more conscious extended problem solving (EPS) behavior studied by most consumer researchers (Howard, 1977). Although conscious decision making behavior is more widely studied than unconscious behavior, ironically, people are far more likely to engage in unconscious behavior than conscious behavior (Lachman, Lachman and Butterfield, 1979). A key issue then is how RRB can be explained within a more consciously oriented information processing paradigm.
A common meeting ground can be found in the notion of scripts (Abelson, 1980; Shank and Abelson, 1977; Shank, 1980). According to most current theories of cognitive structure, knowledge is stored in long term memory (LTH) as schemata (Lindsay and Norman, 1973). Schemata are the large sets of well structured cognitions that have been learned over time as experience accumulates (Norman and Bobrow, 1975). Schemata consist of a framework for organizing the information about a concept into a meaningful structure. A script can be thought of as a temporally ordered schema. That is, a script is a knowledge structure stored in LTM which contains a sequential ordering. Specifically, scripts contain a series of actions, each arranged in terms of temporal order - hence the name "scripts." The most commonly cited script is the RESTAURANT script (Abelson, 1980). The RESTAURANT script contains a series of actions which are expected to occur when one goes to a restaurant, e.g., talking to the maitre'd, being shown to a table, reading the wine list and so forth. A restaurant schema on the other hand would not contain the information that these actions are expected to occur in a distinct temporal order
Scripts which have been stored in memory are used to direct behavior when activated. Activation is believed to occur automaticallY by the situational context. When one enters a restaurant, the RESTAURANT script will be activated and thus begin to guide behavior. On the other hand, when one enters a dentist's office, the DENTAL VISIT script becomes activated. It might contain such actions as checking in with the receptionist, sitting down, waiting, looking at other people, reading magazines and so forth. An activated script will result in unconscious or routine response behavior because while the script is initially developed or constructed in a conscious learning context, once learned, no new conscious effort is required. The situation acts as a cue to automatically trigger the appropriate script. Using a computer analogy, the script would be like a stored subroutine called by the central processor from time to time.
Scripts are inherently useful because of their ability to conserve the individual's limited information processing capacity. By retaining actions or procedures learned from previous situations, new actions need not be learned for new, but relatively similar, situations. The RESTAURANT script saves the consumer the trouble of deciding what should be done or what is expected upon entering a different restaurant. This information is already available in LTM in the form of scripts.
A script need not specify all the actions in complete detail. As Abelson (1980) notes, "free behaviors" may be allowed to occur in certain scripts. For example, the DENTAL VISIT script may prescribe all the actions up until sitting in the dentist's chair. However, the course of the conversation between the patient and the dentist may not be scripted - any subject of conversation may be permitted. At this point, the script temporarily ceases to guide behavior which is now directed by more conscious processes. Once the conversation with the dentist has ended, the script is activated again. In terms of a computer analogy, this is similar to a subroutine which returns control of the program back to the main part of the program and then is called again by the main program at some later point.
Scripts may also differ in terms of strength. Strong scripts are very explicit and contain a great number of "scene" constraints. That is, these scripts specify many actions or scenes which must occur. Weak scripts are vague and have fewer scene constraints. These scripts contain many scenes which do not have high probabilities of occurring. For example, a strong RESTAURANT script would always include a maitre'd but a weak script would not.
Most research concerning the nature of scripts is very recent. However,there is also some older evidence. Bartlett (1932), for example, found that subjects when given stories to memorize tended to change the stories so that they conformed more to their own ideas or scripts. Brandsford, Barclay and Franks (1972) found that subjects in a memory task tend to "construct semantic descriptions of situations" rather than to remember the details of information presented. Baggett (1975) found also that subjects tend to fill in missing details in a memory task in order -to form z coherent story. In all of these studies the implication is clear that subjects can and do draw upon their own scripts to fill in missing details of stories, and that they tend to store these stories in the form of scripts.
More recently, Bower, Black and Turner (1979) conducted a series of studies on scripts. They found five significant results concerning scripts. First, they showed that there are script norms. That is, when asked to describe familiar activities, subjects tend to write similar descriptions. The subjects tended to use the same characters, props, actions and order of events.
Second, subjects tended to agree on how a series of action sequences should be grouped into segments or "scenes." Third, in a recall task, subjects tended to confuse stated actions with unstated actions implied by a script. Fourth, they found that given a series of actions scrambled out of order, subjects tended to use a common "natural" or "canonical" order in unscrambling the actions.
Finally, it was shown that subjects tended to remember exceptional actions rather than scripted actions. This finding has been replicated in other studies (e.g., Graesser, Gordon and Sawyer, 1979; Graesser, Woll, Kowalski and Smith, 1980) and is very important because it is direct evidence of the unconscious nature of scripts. Subjects do not tend to notice or be conscious of scripted activities. Thus the use of scripts tends to be unconscious. However, it was shown that subjects can consciously draw upon their scripts when asked to describe familiar activities. The net result is an unconscious process - the initial development of scripts is conscious but over time, through overlearning, the use of scripts becomes unconscious.
Energy consumption can be viewed from a "scripts" perspective. The use of energy in some situations has become so routine that it is possible that energy use actions have become parts of strong scripts. For example, a consumer may have, at one point in time, decided that the best method of traveling to work each day was by private automobile. Once the consumer has purchased an automobile, he will seldom reconsider his daily use of the automobile for commuting purposes. His continued automobile usage is now a matter of unconscious or script-directed behavior. Little additional information processing will occur in this context. A commuter going to work may have a GOING TO WORK script which contains such activities as 'getting into a car,' 'driving to work alone' and 'parking the car.' It may not contain activities like 'turning off all the lights' and 'turning down the heat.' This script will be triggered by certain early morning cues such as the time of day and day of the week.
This does not mean that energy usage is totally unconscious. If questioned directly, the consumer could report his use of the automobile each morning. Rather, his behavior is script-directed. The initial behavior was conscious but over time a GOING TO WORK script has been constructed and stored in LTM. It is this script which now guides behavior. When the appropriate early morning situational cues are present, this script becomes activated and pre-empts any conscious consideration of how to get to the office.
Script-directed energy use may explain why several attempts to reduce consumers' energy consumption have failed. For example, McClelland and Cook (1980) tried to reduce energy use by providing monetary rebates to consumers every two weeks. The amount of the rebate was determined by the amount of energy saved. It was found that the rebate plan did not significantly reduce energy consumption. In a similar study, Winett, Kagel, Battalis and Winkler (1978) found that neither monetary rewards nor energy use feedback information reduced energy consumption to any great extent. McNeill and Wilkie (1979) Looked at the impact of energy labels upon appliance selection and found that consumers do not actively seek energy information. The failure of monetary incentives to affect energy consumption may be due to the fact that if energy use is script-directed, then incentives must be provided at the time that the energy scripts are being activated. A monthly electric bill rebate will not be effective in getting consumers to turn down the heat each morning if this is not in the GOING TO WORK script. Again, scripts are activated automatically depending upon the situational context. The finding that consumer; to not actively seek energy information when buying appliances indicates that a 'get energy information' action is not in consumers BUYING APPLIANCE scripts.
The study described below serves only as an initial, exploratory investigation of some of the ideas discussed above. The purpose of this study is to answer three questions. First, can scripts be measured for situations for interest to consumer researchers? In addition, what is the variability of scripts across consumers for the same situation? Second, how reliable are scripts? If scripts are to be of some use to consumer researchers, they must be reliably measured. Third, and most importantly, to scripts yield additional insights into consumer behavior which cannot be provided by traditional consumer research methods?
Forty-three subjects were recruited from two undergraduate marketing management classes. During regular class time, students were asked to participate in the study. Participation was voluntary, although all of the students agreed to participate. Approximately 60% of the sample were males. A convenience sample of students is defensible since the principal aim of the present research is exploratory in nature. In addition, Kruglanski (1975) has argued that homogeneous samples (such as students in particular classes at a given institution) are appropriate for theory-oriented research where individual differences are not of theoretical interest.
Measurement Instrument
The subjects were asked to generate a list of events or actions for each of three situations - getting up in the morning 9 preparing a Thanksgiving dinner and a day at the office. These situations were chosen because they each were hypothesized to contain several energy related activities. For example, a MORNING script might contain such activities as brushing teeth with an electric toothbrush, using an electric shavers blow trying wet hair, turning off the lights, turning town the heat when leaving the house and so forth. Energy related activities for a THANKSGIVING DINNER script might include using an electric can-opener and an electric carving knife. The OFFICE script was hypothesized to include driving to work and using an elevator to get to the office. These energy related activities are particularly interesting because for each activity there is an alternative which uses little or no energy. The specific instructions for generating the scripts were the same as those used by Bower, Black and Turner (1980). The instructions for the MORNING script were as follows:
"Write a list of actions describing what you normally to when you get up in the morning. We are interested in the common actions of a routine getting-up-in-the-morning stereotype. Start the list with waking up and end it with leaving the house. Include about 20 actions or events and put them in the order in which they would occur."
"Write a list of actions describing what you normally to when you get up in the morning. We are interested in the common actions of a routine getting-up-in-the-morning stereotype. Start the list with waking up and end it with leaving the house. Include about 20 actions or events and put them in the order in which they would occur."
"Write a list of actions describing what you normally to when you get up in the morning. We are interested in the common actions of a routine getting-up-in-the-morning stereotype. Start the list with waking up and end it with leaving the house. Include about 20 actions or events and put them in the order in which they would occur."
Because scripts are learned through experience with many similar situations, they contain information concerning a generalized or stereotypical situation. Consequently, this is the level at which they should be (ant were) measured. It is not absolutely necessary that a subject may never have actually cooked a Thanksgiving dinner or gone to work in an office. A subject should still have had some indirect experience upon which to construct a THANKSGIVING DINNER script and an OFFICE script. In fact, over 75% of the respondents were able to write THANKSGIVING DINNER and OFFICE scripts and all subjects were able to construct GETTING UP scripts.
After writing the scripts, the respondents answered twelve Likert-type items drawn from Antil and Bennett's (1979) Socially Responsible Consumption Behavior Scale (SRCB). Some items dealt specifically with attitudes towards energy conservation and some items dealt with general ecological issues. The SRCB was chosen because of its high reliability and convergent validity with other energy conservation scales (Antil and Bennett, 1979). Finally, respondents completed some energy use self-report measures.
Script Norms
The scripts were edited and tabulated according to frequency of citation of specific events and actions. Paraphrases and synonyms were lumped together. The first issue is whether respondents agree in the actions they mentioned. Because people draw on the same general experiences to construct scripts, it is hypothesized that there should be a core of actions common to all the respondents ' scripts.
Tables 1, 2 and 3 report the frequency of occurrence for actions listed in the three scripts. As hypothesized, there was a common core of actions cited by the respondents. In the GETTING UP script, over 75% of the respondents mentioned taking a shower, getting dressed, brushing teeth, getting books together and leaving the house. In addition, over 502 of the respondents mentioned waking up, turning off the alarm clock, getting up, going to the bathroom, trying hair and having breakfast. Another 252 mentioned such things as combing hair. shaving and so forth.
Similar findings were found for the other two scripts. For the Thanksgiving DINNER script, over 75% of the respondents mentioned stuffing the turkey, putting the turkey in the oven, and cooking the vegetables. In the OFFICE script, over 75% of the subjects mentioned driving to work, having coffee and having lunch.
Script Reliability
Given the nature of the script generation task, it is very difficult to conduct a test-retest reliability study. Respondents generating scripts on a second occasion may very well recall the scripts which they generated on the first occasion. Because of this, the reliability of the frequency with which a specific event or action is mentioned was calculated by dividing the sample in half and correlating the frequencies of actions mentioned by the two halves. The Pearson product moment correlation for the THANKSGIVING scripts was .76 and for the OFFICE script it was .81. (The reliability was not calculated for the remaining script.) Thus, for a homogeneous group like undergraduate students, there is a fairly high degree of script action frequency reliability.
Script Versus Self-Report Measurement
The remaining issue concerns whether script measures provide any additional insights into consumer behavior which are not available through the more traditional consumer research methods. Although the scripts which were generated contain a considerable amount of detail, most energy related actions which were listed were not detailed enough to allow for an analysis of whether an energy saving alternative was used. For example, in the THANKSGIVING DINNER script, over 50% of the respondents mentioned carving the turkey. However, not one respondent mentioned whether an electric knife was used. In the GETTING UP script, over 50% of the respondents mentioned drying their hair although very few respondents mentioned whether a blow dryer was used. This is indirect evidence of the unconscious nature of many energy related activities. Many energy related activities are so routine or automatic that even the process of generating a script fails to make these behaviors conscious.
One energy related behavior which was specified in considerable detail was found in the OFFICE script. More than 75% of the respondents reported driving to work while the remainder reported taking the bus, walking or joining a carpool. No one failed to report how they traveled to work. The method of commuting listed in the scripts was cross-tabulated with the method of commuting reported in the self-report measure of energy use. Table 4 shows that self-reported methods of commuting were not related to the script generated methods of commuting. (Because of the low cell frequencies in Table 4, this result should be interpreted with some caution.)
In another comparison of self-report and script generated measures of energy related activities, respondents who mentioned turning off the lights when leaving the house in the morning (in the GETTING UP script) were cross-tabulated with those in the self-report who indicated that they turned off the lights when not in the house. Table 5 indicates that again self-reported and script generated measures are not significantly related to each other. One possible conclusion is that energy conservation activities as well as energy use activities are primarily unconscious. (Because of the low cell frequencies in Table 5, this result should be interpreted with some caution)
Script Versus Attitude Measurement
Respondents who claim to be interested in energy conservation and general ecological issues should be more conscious of energy related activities. Presumably someone who feels energy conservation is important should put more conscious effort into energy use behaviors. In order to test this hypothesis, the sample was divided into two halves based on total energy conservation and ecological concern attitude scores. Respondents who score low in terms of energy conservation concern should mention fewer energy related activities in their scripts than respondents who claim a higher concern for energy conservation. Table 6 reports the results of this analysis.
The degree to which a respondent claims to be interested in energy or ecological issues had little impact upon the likelihood that an energy related activity would be reported. Respondents who are interested in energy issues did not in general report more energy related activities than the respondents who were less interested in energy issues. The most notable exception occurred with the OFFICE scripts. Respondents who are interested in energy issues have a significantly greater propensity to mention driving their car to work and using the elevator than do the uninterested respondents.
The present study provides some tentative answers to the questions raised earlier. First, it has been shown that scripts can be generated by respondents for situations of interest to consumer researchers. Furthermore, there does appear to be a common core of activities found in the scripts. Second, the reliability of scripts appears to be well within an acceptable range.
More importantly, scripts do provide insights into consumer behavior which are not available through the use of the more traditional consumer research methods. For example, it was shown that self-reported behavior differs considerably from script generated behavior. One obvious reason for this may be social desirability. It is relatively difficult for a respondent to provide socially desirable scripts because the goals of the research are not easily discernable to the respondent. This is not the case for self-report measures.
Finally, this study provides some support for the scripts conceptualization provided above. It was reported that a great number of energy related activities were not reported by the respondents. One reason for this may be that these behaviors are generally unconscious and hence not easily recalled by the respondent. As expected however, those respondents who were interested in energy issues did tend to report more energy related activities. In no instance did the less interested subjects report significantly more energy related activities.
As Bower, Black and Turner (1979) note, key issues remaining in script theory are how to access scripts, and how to learn new scripts. Script theory does offer some guidelines however. Because scripts are triggered by specific situational cues, efforts to change scripts must be aimed at these critical situations. For advertisers attempting to change existing scripts there are a couple of implications. First, in order to be effective, advertisements must be presented at the time that a script is being triggered. Second, in terms of ad copy, it is crucial to design ads which provide what Shank and Abelson (1977) call "interrupts" and act to make otherwise unconscious scripts conscious. By moving the consumers back to a conscious mode of thought, perhaps scripts can be altered. In order to do this, the consumer's scripts must be identified and new actions or scenes written into the scripts. A scripts framework can provide an information processing approach to routine response behavior.
Abelson, Robert (1980), The Psychological Status of Scripts. Cognitive Science Technical Report #2, (Yale University).
Antil, John J., and Bennett, Peter D. (1979), "Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure Socially Responsible Consumption Behavior," in The Conserver Society, Karl H. Henion II and Thomas C. Kinnear, eds., (Chicago, IL: American Marketing Association, 51-68).
Baggett, Patricia "Memory for Explicit and Implicit Information in Picture Stories," Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 16, 538-548.
Bartlett, F. C. (1932), Remembering: An experimental and social study, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
Bennett, Peter D. and Mandell, Robert (November 1969), "Prepurchsse Information Seeking Behavior of New Car Purchasers - The Learning Hypothesis," Journal of Marketing Research, 6, 430-433.
Bettman, James R. (1979), An Information Processing Theory of Consumer Choice, (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley).
Bransford, John D., Barclay, Richard J., and Franks; Jeffrey J. (1972), "Sentence Memory: A Constructive Versus Interpretative Approach," Cognitive Psychology, 3, 193-209.
Bower, Gordon H. (1975), "Cognitive Psychology: An Introduction," in Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes, William R. Estes, ed., (Hillsdale, NJ- Erlbaum and Associates).
Bower, Gordon H., Black, John B., and Turner, Terrence J. (1979), "Scripts in Memory for Test," Cognitive Psychology, 11, 177-220.
Dommermuth, William P. (May 1965), "The Shopping Matrix and Marketing Strategy," Journal of Marketing Re- search, 2, 128-132.
Graesser, Arthur C., Gordon, Sallie E., and Sawyer, John D. (1979), "Recognition Memory for Typical and Atypical Actions in Scripted Activities: Tests of a Script Pointer and Tag Hypothesis," Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 48, 319-332.
Graesser, Arthur C., Woll, Stanley B., Kowalski, Daniel J., and Smith, Donald A. (1980), "Memory for Typical and Atypical Actions in Scripted Activities," Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory, 6, 5, 503-515.
Howard, John A. (1977), Consumer Behavior Application of Theory, (New York: McGraw-Hill)
Kruglanski, Arie (1975), "The Two Meanings of External Validity," Human Relations, 28, 653-659.
Lachman, Roy, Lachman, Janet L., and Butterfield, Earl C. (1979), Cognitive Psychology and Information Processing, (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum).
Lindsay, Peter H., and Norman, Donald E. (1977), Human Information Processing, (New York: Academic Press).
McClelland, Lou, and Cook, Stuart W. (January-February 1980), "Promoting Energy Conservation in Master-Metered Apartments through Group Financial Incentives," Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 10, 20-31.
McNeill, Dennis L., and Wilkie, William L. (June 1979), "Public Policy and Consumer Information: Impact of the new Energy Labels," Journal of Consumer Research, 6, 1-11.
Norman, Donald A., and Bobrow, Daniel F. (1975), "On the Role of Active Memory Processes in Perception and Cognition," in The Structure of Human Memory, Charles N. Cofer (ed.), (San Francisco: W. H. Freeman).
Sachs, J. (1967), "Recognition Memory for Syntactic and Semantic Aspects of Connected Discourse," Perception and Psychophysics, 2, 437-442.
Schank, Roger C. (1980), "Language and Memory," Cognitive Science, 4 243-284.
Schank, Roger C. and Abelson, R. P. (1977), Scripts. Plans, Goals and Understanding, (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum).
Winnett, Richard A., Kagel, John R., Battalis, Raymond C. and Winkler, Robin CA (February, 1978), "Effects of Monetary Rebates, Feedback and Information on Residential Electricity Conservation," Journal of Applied Psychology, 63, 73-80.


text:
Issue 122
St. Albans, Hertfordshire, UK -
established 1934. April 2010..
Click below
for Guest Ticket info
For all the
latest news on club waters.
01727 835904
Fishing, golf, sun & sand - 2 bed family apartment to
rent on the Costa Del Sol.
Special Offer
May - Just £240/WK
Now booking for 2010. Discount for VAC
Click for info
VAC Clothing
Orders Now
Being Taken
Click here to download order form
Luxury 8 berth
caravan to let - White Acres, Newquay, Cornwall
The caravan is sited
on this 5 star award winning holiday complex which is also one
of the top coarse angling centres in the country comprising 15
Open from March to October
Contact Barry
Killinger on
07966 394717
Discount Baits
VAC members, on production of
a valid membership card, get 5% discount on
bait products from
GJW Titmuss
site is best viewed with Internet Explorer and is optimised for screens of
800x600 and larger resolution
Fishers Green,
another water for the VAC
The Old River Lea...
as a teenager in the 70's I used to look over in awe at the stretch of the
original course of Lea as I walked up the navigation towpath from Cheshunt to
the LAA stretch at Aquaduct Lock. In those days the mysterious Waverly AS had
control. Whilst I was catching 2lb chub and 3lb barbel my imagination was filled
with the monsters that lived downstream. Time moved on and the venue came under
Leisure Sport. Eventually, in the late 80's and 90's, with my precious limited
edition ticket, I enjoyed many trips there.
Jump forward a decade and much had
changed. The Lea
Valley Park, as a governing authority had been created and controlling
bodies had changed until, up to last year, the water was controlled by Cemex
Angling. Also, many will already know of a number of well documented problems,
sadly including a fish kill, and the abundant stocks of small chub and barbel
that I once fished for are no longer present. A bite these days may come only
after many hours, even days but the chances are it will be from a 7lb+ chub or a
14lb+ barbel. Big carp and bream are also present and the neighbouring pits are
home to massive pike, tench and other specimens.
Early in 2010 it was announced that
the lease for the river
and pits would be up for tender and, from this season, that lease has been
acquired by a newly formed Fishers Green Consortium comprised of 11 local
clubs. By far the largest of these is the VAC and, with our existing consortium
membership at Turnford,
we see that adding Fishers Green to our portfolio is a great development from
our club. It also shows that, yet again, we are fulfilling our ambitions and
providing our membership with AT LEAST one new water per year.
As stated, the management of
Fishers Green will be via the new Consortium and between now and the start of
the river season on June 16, all details will be made available on the VAC
website and the Consortium's own site. If you are looking to join the VAC and
gain access to Fishers Green, we open our books to new members during May.
'Complete Tangler' - The Ian Waugh
Memorial Match
On the last weekend of
March, in memory of member Ian Waugh (pictured left), who was an avid
campaigner for encouraging juniors into angling, a match was held at
Moor Mill. Fished over two days and with any fish over 3lb to count,
expectations were of plenty of bream and carp.
As sometimes happens, the
fish didn't read the script and only an 8lb carp and a 5lb bream were
landed. Not that it mattered as everyone present had a great time with a
well supported raffle and BBQ swelling the cash collected to just over
£270, all of which will go to supporting junior angling within the VAC.
Well done to Dave 'Duch'
Hiller and all those that supported him with the organising and
For the full story, click
the link
Remember, that unless your email
address is registered on Club DB, our membership database, we can't keep you up
to date via e-news nor can we accept your application to join the VAC Forum. To
check and update your details see the Subscriptions page
Under new management :
months of speculation, VAC bailiff Terry Field is delighted to be the
new owner of the Verulam Angling tackle shop in Fleetville, St Albans.
Situated at 219, Hatfield Road, directly opposite the Morrison's store,
Terry looks forward to meeting VAC members. Equally, non members are
welcome and Terry can provide lots of advice regarding VAC waters plus
provide membership forms to get you into the best angling club in the
South-East. You can also call him on 01727 861777
Picture Perfect?
Club DB, our
excellent member database, is now serving us well with members able to
log in and update their details at any time.
However, a large number of
members have not yet sent in or uploaded a passport style picture which
we will need to print up your next membership card. We believe we have
now resolved some the technical difficulties but for those who cannot
upload a suitable picture please find time to either email your photo
(quoting ID number) or pop a picture in the post to the Registrar. More
details on the Subscriptions page.
Associate Venues -
click the logos to go to the fishery web sites
VAC members, on production of their
club card, can fish for no charge subject to conditions. See VAC fisheries page
for details.
VAC members can fish The Tring
Anglers stretch of the Aylesbury Arm as part of a water share agreement.
£1 off all day
tickets for VAC members
VAC members, on production of their
club card,
can fish the day ticket section of
Jack's Lake free of charge
Your Contribution
Don't be shy, send your catch pics
to the webmaster...
Andrew Giddings has been a regular
at Fishers Green and kindly volunteered this snap of a 6lb 6oz chub
The clear waters of Fishers Green
also hold some spotty fish such as this sample caught in 2009.
Barry Shipman kindly donated lots of
FG pics including this one of dawn on Langridge Lake.
Joe Colclough spent Easter at
Smallford and landed this 17.5lb mirror carp on a cell boilie tipped with fake
corn, with some aniseed particle mix over the top.
Can't not mention that the VAC's
biggest fish, Toadless, was banked in early April at a healthy 40.03. Well done
to Matt Townend
New website - click logo to
Specials for 2010
Pop along to Queensway and see the
latest products especially selected for you.
Daiwa mission overnighter
Chub classic chair (well
padded and nice and light) £34.99
Korum specimen landing net
and handle £24.99
Chub Relaxer Recliner chair
Remember, Queensway offer great prices
and instant quotes on all products including non stock
Please come
over and have a browse
Click here for the
VAC Record List
Webmaster: Stan Kiddle
Comments on
this web site are not necessarily endorsed by the VAC General Committee


text:
Sepkus Earrings
"Sticks & Stones" opal earrings in 18K yellow gold with boulder opal drops and 2 Tsavorite garnets. Veins of brilliant multi-colored opal course through fields of rich brown ironstone matrix in this dramatic pair of matrix boulder opals from Queensland, Australia. The opals total 65.61 cts.
Immediate delivery
SepkusEarrings | Previous | Next


text:
Please join Tata Technologies and Rodney Coffey from Razorleaf Corporation, in the first of a four part series, and see the advantages of Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle first-hand.
Autodesk Fusion Lifecycle makes it easier to manage processes, projects, bill of materials, and people by automating key tasks and delivering the right information to the right people at the right time. This dramatically improves how companies create, build, support, and evolve products and services.
The webinar will provide an overview and live demo. Accelerate your time to value with Fusion Lifecycle – product lifecycle management the way it's meant to be.
Register Today: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2671277073943165954


text:
Big dicked daddy Derek Anthony meets his match when he hooks up with hungry assed Aarin Asker in this hot bareback scene. This daddy gives it to Aarin deep and hard, then Aarin sucks his own ass juice off Derek's cock before riding on it again until they both shoot huge loads.
1 Comment
smooth body
Comments are closed.
Previous Post: Scott Reynolds
Next Post: Hugh and Dolf Get Dirty


text:
At least we were trying to eat healthy with red rice which comes good with deep fried pork belly, bell peppers, onions, leeks and basil. We have been dining mostly with a bottle of wine, beer or something else so might as well blog our rating as well, of 1 to 5 cheers, with 5 as the highest to our personal tastes. Paired with Green Fin ($3.99): 2 cheers.
While listening to Cro, a cool German rapper. I sense heartburn for me later, but hope you enjoy it! Cheers, cheers!!


text:
The Pros Share Their Style Tricks Completely Below
It really is overwhelming to get into vogue. Nevertheless, there are sources at your disposal, as education and learning really is powerful listed here. Contemplate the subsequent beneficial tips and guidance for much better vogue in your daily life right now.
Sheer clothing provides a little bit of intercourse appeal, but take note of the sheerness of the clothes. If your apparel is too sheer, you will search tawdry, relatively than alluring or stylish.
Develop a fashion that is all your own. Heaps of individuals simply follow the crowd, but the folks who are really authentic are the types who come up with their very own design. Of training course, you will need the self confidence to pull it off, but getting the leap and marching to the conquer of your personal drummer will almost certainly score you a lot more compliments than you think.
You shouldn't purpose for perfection in trend. It is almost not possible to do. Also, when you look for perfection, you are striving to hard. Make your type your own and do not consider to be best.
Wedged heels are in, each for sandals and boots. Females enjoy donning them, as they enhance peak and even trim you down in visual appeal. When you might be receiving a pair of heels that are wedged, you have to keep in mind that if they're way too consider, they could be extremely hard to walk in.
Every girl should have a handful of essentials to construct on in her wardrobe. Two pair of slacks, a one pair of jeans hemmed for sneakers, and 1 hemmed for heels. Also, you need to constantly preserve a black dress for formal events.
Fashion is not very clear minimize. You just need to believe about what you like. Each and every new look can appear fashionable and interesting, so you want to figure out what will perform best on you. Maintain this suggestions in brain as you perform on your style confidence.


text:
Amazon rainforest is the World largest rainforest, located in South America. In fact, it comprises of more than half of world tropical rainforest.
They produce about 20% of the oxygen of the world so earned nickname Lungs of Earth (remember produced carbon dioxide as well at the same time).
Most of it lies in Brazil but it is expanding in nine countries overall. Brazil contains 60% of it, 13% on Colombia, Venezuela contains 10% whereas remaining 17% comes under the borders of Surinam, Guyana, French Guyana (France largest overseas territory), Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador.
Its area is about 5.5 million square kilometers, this is about double of the area of world 8th largest country Argentina. It is so large that if Amazon rainforest was a country it would be the 7th largest country in the world.
It covers more than 70% of Amazon River basin, the largest river basin in the world.
Interesting Amazon Rainforest Facts
Macau is the largest bird in Amazon, in fact, largest in the world.
Toucan is the loudest living being in Amazon rainforest, with having voice range about half a mile radius.
In 1500, just before the Portuguese came here the Amazon indigenous population was consist of minimum 8 million Amazon natives. The current estimate of native population is 400,000. There are approximately 170 different languages spoken by the Amazon natives.
There are about 500 remaining indigenous tribes in Amazon and about 170 different languages they speak. More than half (about) of the uncontacted tribes (tribes that live in primitive ways and have no contact with the civilized world at all) live in the interior of the Amazon.
About 25% of medicines have Amazon ingredients in them while hardly mere 10% plants species have tested for medication so far.
As per some recent advanced studies dust particles from Sahara desert, after blown over the Atlantic, land on Amazon and assist to thrive and nourish.
Deforestation is the major threat to Amazon rainforest, it is estimated that about 20% of the Amazon trees have been cut down in last 40 years.
Global warming is quite threating to Amazon rainforest, as per some studies 3 degrees centigrade increase would prove lethal for 75% of the Amazon.
Hopefully, you have found "Interesting Amazon Rainforest Facts" informative. stay tuned for more to come.


text:
A pause on the steep stairway up the side of the sacred Shwe Dagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma
Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Medium: Photographic print
Date: 1900
Stereoscopic pair of photographs taken by Underwood & Underwood in c.1900 of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon (Yangon) in Burma (Myanmar). The Shwe Dagon is a giant gilded stupa of legendary origins which stands at the heart of a Buddhist temple complex on a hill in Rangoon. It is the city's most famous and revered monument. The prints show a view overlooking shrines on the platform of the Shwe Dagon taken from the stepped sides of the main stupa. They are from a collection of 36 stereoscopic views of Burma, one in a series of "stereoscopic tours" of foreign countries published as the 'Underwood Travel Library'. Stereoscopic views became enormously popular from the mid-19th century onward as they enabled observers to imagine that they were really "touring" around distant parts of the world. Each pair of views, made using a special camera with two lenses, is mounted on stout card for insertion in a stereoscope or binocular viewer. This device creates the illusion of a single three-dimensional image in the mind of the observer by using the binocular function of human sight to combine the two images, which are seen from fractionally different viewpoints. The photographs in this set are generally of high quality and selected for their clarity and instructive value. A few of the mounts also have a detailed descriptive caption printed on the reverse, with instructions (presumably for the guidance of teachers) as to what general topic the photograph illustrates.


text:
Websites For Doctors by Medspace Web Design - AustraliaWant to Attract More Patients & Referrals?
Watch This Video
Professional Web Design For Doctors
We Create Websites For Doctors & Health Practitioners in Adelaide.
Without your own website you are missing out on patients who could have found you online…
The majority of your referred patients will search for you online before they come in to see you…
Without a website your private practice cannot be found by referrers and patients. Try Googling yourself right now and see what you can find about YOU.
Your website allows you to engage and educate your patients- and prospective patients- 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Medspace specialises in professional web design services for doctors and health professionals. Speak to us about your practice today.
Patients want to know that you are qualified to help them. They find interest in your education, training, language fluency and the conditions you manage. Believe it or not- they also like to know about your hob-bies too!
With a website, you become an authority. It's a place to showcase your CV, provide information and describe available treatment options. Patients can also see the locations where you consult and operate.
When patients have decided they know, like and trust you, they simply click to call or send you an online booking request- any time of day.
Your website is your professional online profile…
Long after you have spoken to GPs or presented at a conference, your referrers need a way to find you.
Present your web address on your business card, presentations, LinkedIn Profile, professional associations and all your practice marketing materials to let referrers send patients in your direction.
Why Healthcare Practitioners Should Brand Themselves & Their Practice
Your patients are your asset. They are the foundation of your private practice and its important they know where to find you. Even though you might be part of a group practice you never know what the future may bring.
With your own professional website you can be sure that your patients and colleagues can find and refer to you now and into the future.
- Connect with patients & colleagues
- Convey specialised information
- Capture prospective patients
- Attract more patients
- Activate yourself as authority
- Advance your private practice
Web Design for Doctors and Healthcare Professionals - Let Us Do The Heavy Lifting
Building your website yourself is stressful, hard work and time consuming. Your business is treating and managing the health of your patients. Let our experienced team take care of everything from design, layout and copywriting to deliver your completed website.
Your site will be polished, mobile responsive and optimised. This ensures you get the best website for capturing prospective patients and return on your investment.
A Design For All Platforms
Using the latest technology your website will adapt to any screen size. Whether patients are searching form their desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone your website will provide a beautiful user experience.


text:
Technologies, Inc.
3D Digitizers
3D Printers
3-D Structured-Light
HDI "Advance" Structured-Light Scanner
HDI 120 Blue-Light Scanner
The HDI 3D Scanners use white light technology (also
known as structured-light) that capture the full view of
the object at the press of a button in less than one
second. The High Definition Imaging (HDI)
3D Scanners use structured-light technology for
capturing digital 3D scans from real world objects. HDI
Scanners are capable of generating high resolution
digital 3D models accurately -- great for manufacturers,
visual effect studios, research labs, and academic
institutions that require 3D scan data for applications
such as 3D visualization, 3D inspection, reverse
engineering, or rapid prototyping
The HDI 3D Scanners scan objects directly without any
physical contact. This enables users to capture 3D
measurements reliably and repeatedly. The
HDI 3D Scanners are available in two different models
depending on your 3D scanning needs. The systems deliver
fast scan speed, high accuracy 3D scanning results, and
great performance at a fraction of the cost of
comparable 3D scanning systems.
The scanner is an enclosed system that is
portable and permits easy travel for on-site work.
� Affordability�A complete solution, including Rotary
table and software.
� Versatility�uniquely able to scan large, medium and
small sized objects.
� Phone tech support with live operators�not email-only
like other vendors.
� Additional on-line training available.
� Measurements that are accurate and repeat
� Portable, easy to use.
� Dependable under industrial field conditions.


text:
Dec. 12, 2013
COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State men's gymnastics team was voted second in the Big Ten Men's Gymnastics Preseason Coaches' Poll, the conference announced Thursday. Sophomore Jake Martin and freshman Sean Melton were named Big Ten Gymnasts to Watch.
"Our expectations for this year are very high," Ohio State head coach Rustam Sharipov said. "Our mindset is to go to every competition and accomplish our goals with performance, execution and hit percentage and as long as the team does that we will be satisfied. Our No. 2 ranking will motivate us to work harder every day."
Defending NCAA National Champion Michigan was unanimously selected as the conference favorite ahead of Ohio State. Behind the Buckeyes, Illinois was chosen to finish third, Penn State was selected to finish fourth and Minnesota was voted to finish fifth. Iowa and Nebraska round out the conference preseason picks in sixth and seventh place, respectively.
Martin, a native of Oviedo, Fla., competed in four meets for the Buckeyes last year, earning three first-place finishes and three second-place finishes as well as a No. 1 ranking in the all-around (Feb. 5). Martin, an Ohio State Scholar-Athlete, set a program record score on high bar (15.50) during the team's meet at Penn State (Feb. 2).
A native of Orlando, Fla., Melton joined the Ohio State men's gymnastics team after training at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. A former member of the U.S. Senior Men's National Team (2013) and the U.S. Junior Men's National Team (2007-12), Melton is a three-time competitor at the Visa Championships and a five-time competitor at the Junior Olympic National Championships.
The Buckeyes open the season with the Scarlet & Gray Intrasquad Monday, Dec. 16 at 2 p.m. at the Steelwood Athletic Training Facility.
1. Michigan
2. Ohio State
3. Illinois
4. Penn State
5. Minnesota
6. Iowa
7. Nebraska
Fred Hartville, So., Illinois
C.J. Maestas, So., Illinois
Jack Boyle, So., Iowa
Matt McGrath, Sr., Iowa
Adrian de los Angeles, Jr., Michigan
Dylan James, Sr., Michigan
Steve Jaciuk, Jr., Minnesota
Ellis Mannon, Jr., Minnesota
Austin Epperson, Fr., Nebraska
Travis Gollott, Fr., Nebraska
Jake Martin, So., Ohio State
Sean Melton, Fr., Ohio State
Trevor Howard, So., Penn State
Alexis Torres, So., Penn State


text:
The Poi Room
Introducing designs produced and made by The Poi Room, both created by The Poi Room creative team and in collaboration with local New Zealand artists. All our products have been produced in New Zealand by talented makers and creatives.
Bringing you the perfect gift, souvenir or addition to the home, acknowledging our beautiful home, Aotearoa.


text:
Quirk, Lawrence J.
Place Published: New Jersey
Publisher: Citadel
Date Published: 1974
Book Id: 112408
Movie Book Club Edition. 224pp., Illus. DJ has wear and rubbing to front; else Book and DJ are clean, crisp and tight; no internal marks, flaws or underlining. This book is the co mplete record of Newman's career to date (up to 1974), from his beginnings as a stage actor, to his first screen role in a costume romance, to his triumphs in Hud, The Hustler, and Cool Hand Luke and his current acting and directorial successes. Complete with casts, credits, and synopses of all the films, along with reviews of them. Lavishly illustrated with photos, including some rare early portr aits. Cinema; Auteurs; Biography. CH22. FAST SERVICE: ALL ORDERS WITH PAYMENT RECEIVED BY 3:00pm PST, M-F, SHIPPED SAME DAY!!! BOOKS WITH DJs COME WITH FREE CLEAR PROTECTIVE MYLAR COVER!


text:
valentine measurement activities
Browse our large selection of Quilt Measurement Guide products, supplies, and other crafts at Joann seriously. com online kids math games - free online games for children. Our online craft store is your source for all your creative elementary measurement game. Updated - Feb 2015 measure the teddy bears. TEACHING HEART S Valentine s Day Theme Unit!! Valentine s Day Lessons, Printables, Links, and Activities For Lovely Teachers!!! Fun valentine s day activity for toddlers! a collection of hands-on, developmentally appropriate valentine activities for kids designed to spark their creativity and learning. Toddlers love digging through things measurement activities. Kitchen cabinets, boxes of blocks or my daughter's favorite the DVD drawer measuring is a great early math and science skill for preschoolers to learn because it is so hands on. Walter AG produces precision tools for turning, boring, milling and threading, along with customised special tools for carbide machining Maths worksheets for high school math teachers, tutors, relief teachers and math students students can easily see how tall. Printable math worksheets and problems for practising skills, classroom use making it easy for you: valentine s day workbook quick print kids pick pages to complete small book - easy handout and quick to print in betty's recipes, we have used the larger measurement 1/4 cup, not 4 tablespoons but this equivalency chart will help you with other measuring you do in the. Explore Sandy Fleming s board Valentine s Day Cards/Ideas on Pinterest, the world s catalog of ideas practice skills for 4th grade standardized math tests; resources for number relations, data analysis, graphs, problem solving, computation, geometry, symmetry. Metric linear measurement worksheets for measuring centimeters and millimeters with a ruler login to your control panel. Worksheets with the common core icon align with the Common Core Standards satisfaction guarantee. The Valentine Measurement learning center provides children with the opportunity to practise measuring Valentine objects using non-standard units of Printable measurement worksheets for kids at KidsLearningStation every purchase includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. com! Check out our sets of measurement worksheets that are design to help kids learn the concept of valentine s day craft - all natural gelatin heart-shaped bird feeder. The EC12 is a one-design radio controlled yacht about 59 inches in length, a mast standing 72 inches above the deck, supporting about 1300 square escort passport max vs. Baking is about precision and accuracy and weighing ingredients is a far superior method of measurement compared to volume in cups valentine one under the radar: who builds the best high-end detector? 19 valentine do-a-dot printables designed to help kids practice skills including shapes, patterning, letter recognition, counting, and number recognition. With Demo Video Email me at technologyrocksseriously at gmail students practice reading graduated cylinders with these printable worksheets. com with any questions or resources you d like to see here on technology rocks seriously


text:
Please join us this Friday as Tamara Vardomskaya from the Linguistics Department presents work on the sources of linguistic subjectivity.
Date and time: Friday, October 27, 11:00 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Location: Stuart 209 (Philosophy seminar room)
Title: Sources of subjectivity
Subjective expressions pose a problem for truth-conditional models of meaning: what does truth mean when expressions such as "Avocados are delicious" can be false for one speaker and true for another? A spate of recent linguistic and philosophical literature starting with (Lasersohn 2005) has offered various solutions to the problem, but most of them did not define what subjective expressions are, identifying them ad-hoc, "We know one when we see one." This would predict that expressions are either subjective or not, but that is not actually the case – there are contexts where seemingly-subjective expressions are objective, and vice versa.
This talk, based on my dissertation research, uses findings from psychophysics and aesthetic research to offer a predictive model for when expressions are subjective. I argue that for an expression to be subjective, the perceptions and/or the categories that form its evidential basis must vary among speakers. For example, smells and tastes vary because people with different genes have differing smell receptors, while an expert would classify the features she sees in an artwork according to different criteria than an amateur would, but similarly to another expert.
I show how this model explains contextual shifts in subjectivity and provides clarity to other models, from expressivism to Lasersohn's judge-index relativism to Kennedy and Willer's counterstance contingency (2017). Subjective expressions reflect differences in how language maps to reality, but also reflect differences in how speakers can perceive reality itself, and thus play an important role in establishing norms of consensus and collaboration.


text:
While a great deal of information is available to help consumers and companies deal with health reform and understand how it will affect them, there is at the same time an effort to understand how well it is meeting its goals, and how it will affect communities and the nation as a whole.
Chronic Disease Management in the Affordable Care Act
A February 2011 brief from Health Reform GPS about provisions in the Affordable Care Act to encourage chronic disease management as part of the overall emphasis on improving the efficiency of health care. ACA provisions incentivize active self-management by patients, provide opportunities for reimbursement of providers, and provide federal support for development of chronic disease management programs.
Connect with us and get our newsletter with the latest on health reform in Illinois.
|Data Matters
|Our Blog
|Word of the Week
|Personal Stories
|SHOP Case Studies
|Useful Sites
|Myths & Facts
|About IHM
|Contact Us


text:
Item description: This Clothing Hats product is by Browning - BOYS WEAR HATS. REAL MEN WEAR CAMO HATS.Classic six panel baseball cap design with mesh back and hook and loop closure.FEATURES Main Fabric Structure Woven Main Fabric Content Cotton:Polyester Color Realtree Max 5 Closure Hook and Loop Size Range OSFM... Learn More
Manufacturer: Browning
Category: Hats
You may also consider:
Copyright © 2019 - http://www.naturallysports.com/ All Rights Reserved.
Website design by Business Edge


text:
9/17/2017 0 Comments
Carbohydrates - how much to have?
By Dr Megan Chircop
Perhaps the second most reviled macronutrient in history - carbohydrate. But, not all carbohydrates are "bad". And, as is often the case, the dose makes the poison.
Carbohydrate is not the enemy, it is essential and provides the body's "rocket fuel".
- carbs fuel your body to generate intense/rapid movement.
- carbs are the brain's preferred fuel.
How do you know if you are eating enough carbs for your body?
If you answer YES to any of the questions below perhaps you are not eating enough carbs to fuel your body:
1) Do you experience brain fog? unable to concentrate?
2) If your energy and appetite levels off?
3) Are you unable to complete your workouts?
4) Are you tired throughout the day?
5) Do you wake up throughout the night hungry and unable to sleep?
6) Do you get headaches, the "shakes"?
7) Are you irritable? HANGRY?
8) Have you noticed that you have a reduced sex drive, and/or mood disturbances such as anxiety and depression?
Are you eating too much carbs, especially in the form of sugar?
The western diet is heavy on carbohydrates so most people fall in to this category.
Consuming relatively high levels of simple carbohydrates, like sugar, can produce similar symptoms and you would have answered YES to many of the questions above.
The main difference is that, initially, energy levels might seem quite high. However, as insulin secretion catches up with carbohydrate absorption, the energy levels come crashing down. AND YOU FEEL LOW, perhaps lower than before you consumed that sugary snack.
How much carbs to eat, without gaining weight but still have energy all day?
* Portion-control (Read Understanding portion sizes for a good place to start).
* Structure your consumption of carbohydrates at specific times during the day.
BREAKFAST - This is the most carbohydrate-fuelled meal of the day.
* replenishes your depleted stores after sleep.
* provides energy for your brain and muscles to fuel the day - run to the bus stop, drop your kids off at school, write that report and more.
Pre-WORKOUT - Also another time during the day to fuel your body with carbohydrate. WHY?
* to complete your workout.
* to workout at maximum intensity without flaking out! Result - more calories burnt, build stronger muscles - achieve your body goal sooner.
* refills muscles with energy stores. This reduces the amount of carbohydrate available for conversion to fat compared to consuming carbohydrate during other parts of the day, e.g. when sedentary and not using much energy.
DINNER - This is a debatable topic. To include or not to include carbs during your evening meal. We believe that a small amount of carbohydrate is required.
* for many people, carbohydrates aid in optimal sleep that is undisturbed by hunger, sweats, and bizarre dreams. And in turn, sleep reduces stress, which aids in weight loss or maintaining a healthy weight.
HOW MUCH AT DINNER? Don't over do it. About 20-30g of carbohydrate during dinner is sufficient and most of this can be obtained from non-starchy vegetables and/or a small potato. Leave the pasta, rice, etc for lunch.
If you really can not do without grains for dinner, then read Lose weight and be healthy without feeling hungry for how to include these starchy carbohydrates in your evening meal without affecting your weight.
Combine carbohydrates with fibre, fats and protein in your meals. This will slow the rate of energy absorption.
Reduce fluctuations in energy levels.
Reduce cravings for more carbohydrates.
Assist weight loss/weight maintenance.
The Body Sculptors Australia team prides itself on developing nutritious recipes that are absolutely delicious. You will wonder why you have not eaten like this your whole life when food tastes this good.
Our mission is to help as many people as possible achieve their ideal healthy, lean and active body to have confidence and happiness in their everyday lives.
Do you know...
How much (carbs) you need to eat to achieve optimal health and energy?
How to turn healthy food in to delicious meals?
then let us teach you how....its easy...
we do all the thinking and calculations for you (to take the stress out of every day),
all you need to do is follow the plan!
You might also be interested in the following articles:
8 reasons why meal planning will ensure you lose weight and keep it off for good
Roasted vegie wrap
How to beat food cravings?
Nutritional optimisation for weight loss
The secret to eating for weight loss
Top 5 delicious potato dishes you can enjoy whilst losing weight
Understanding portion sizes
The low-GI and gluten-free answer to pasta
Leave a Reply.
Welcome. I am Dr Megan Chircop. I am a medical scientist and nutritionist with 20 years in medical research. As such, I have extensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of how the body works. I am able to simplify the science behind the way food fuels the body and mind to provide energy and nutrition needed to achieve optimal health and vitality. I am also a keen sportswoman, and have extensive knowledge of sports nutrition.
Want to know more about a particular topic?
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com to tell us what topic you would like us to BLOG about
September 2018
All Body Appearance Cooking Fitness Food Health Meal Plans Motivation Nutrition Recipes Training Weight Loss Workout Gym Workout Home
Please be respectful of other participants in the conversation. We'd love you to keep your comments respectful, friendly and relevant. Differences of opinion are welcome, but trolling and abuse of other commentators and the Body Sculptors Australia team is not, and will result in blacklisting.
The advice and nutrition plans received do not diagnose or treat disease, prescribe medication, or perform the functions of clinical occupations. Always consult your doctor. We are happy to work with your physician's guidance to best support your well-being.
The advice and nutrition plans received do not diagnose or treat disease, prescribe medication, or perform the functions of clinical occupations. Always consult your doctor. We are happy to work with your physician's guidance to best support your well-being.


text:
It's nice to take a break sometimes from being a cynical, miserable curmudgeonly git, moaning variously about how much it hurts to do an honest day's work, or marvelling at the depths people will plumb at the expense of the nation's embattled birdlife.
There's no better way of taking a break than looking at the Bogbumper blog. I probably should know what a bogbumper is. I've a feeling it might be a local name for a Snipe. Or maybe some sort of amphibian. Or possibly it's one of those kerazy people who swim along a ditch in Wales during the annual World Bog Snorkeling Championships. Either way, it's not important what it means. It's the name of a great blog, with dead good photos of all manner of wildlife stuff, including but not exclusively birds.
To give you a taster, I've stolen (yes, stolen!) a couple of Katie's recent photos to show off how despite being complete bobbins myself with a camera, it doesn't stop me knowing people who can actually use the damn things, and publish consistently great images on their blog. How uplifting and generally spring-like is this? (and how in focus? she knows her f stops and everything…)
However, it's not all stunning macro work. There's some genuinely groundbreaking pictures too. I challenge you to find a better photo of a Muntjac's anals anywhere in the internet's annals. (This is a very safe challenge. Who's going to explain to their wife why their recent Google Images search history includes "deer + bum"?)
Seriously though, I love Bogbumper, and I think you will too. Try it and see:
PS – I'm pretty certain this isn't a bogbumper…
Filed under: Uncategorized | Leave a comment »


text:
Small Business Administration – Chase Bank Small Business Loans. SBA will help facilitate a loan for you with a 3rd get together lender, assure a bond, or help you find enterprise capital. The primary use of the packages is to make loans for longer compensation periods based mostly partly upon looser underwriting criteria than regular business enterprise loans, though these programs can allow house owners with unfavorable credit ratings to receive a mortgage.
SBA helps lead the federal authorities's efforts to ship 23 p.c of prime federal contracts to small businesses. VBOCs also provide instructors for the SBA's program Boots to Business. SBA opens Disaster Mortgage Center in Austell, GA , October 26, 2009. By entering authentication data, you are trying to entry a United States Federal Government data system.
Civilian staff of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , working in concert with an employee of Alaska Native Corporation Eyak Technology LLC allegedly submitted fraudulent bills to this system, totaling over 20 million dollars, and kept the cash for their own use. Most banks need annual payment for loans no more than two-thirds (2/3) of prior yr's operating earnings.
Before sharing sensitive information, be sure you're on a federal authorities website. Once an SBA mortgage is approved, the SBA mails closing paperwork to the applicant for signature. Understanding how SBA works is step one towards receiving assistance. HUBZone is an SBA program for small corporations that operate and make use of folks in Traditionally Underutilized Business Zones (HUBZones).
Reasonably, SBA units the guidelines for loans, which are then made by its partners (lenders, group improvement organizations, and microlending establishments). Passage of the Act addressed concerns raised in a Federal Reserve Board report to Congress that concluded that a significant gap existed within the capital markets for long-term funding for progress-oriented small companies.


text:
Local Patch 10
A lovely sunny day, fresh to start off with but warming nicely later, and no wind, thank goodness. Ideal conditions to be outdoors. I must make the best use of these days before the temperatures climb too high and photography becomes a challenge with the heat haze.
Eurasian Curlew
Siberian Stonechat
There was another wave of Wagtails and Pipits passing through. Here from the left is a Yellow Wagtail, A Red-throated Pipit and a Tree Pipit.
Willow Warblers were on every small bush today. Here is a nice crisp image of one
A male Semi-collared Flycatcher was hawking insects from this low branch. Unfortunately he would only very briefly venture out into the sunlight, so I was unable to get a sharper image
An inquisitive Common Red Fox stopped to have a look at me before moving on
Other species included: Ortolan Bunting, Red-vented Bulbul, Slender-billed Gull, Squacco Heron, Masked Shrike, Crested Lark, European Bee-eater, Northern Wheatear, Common Redstart, Pied Wheatear, Indian Silverbill, Common Redshank, Daurian Shrike, Little-ringed Plover, Sand Martin, Common Swift, Common Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Common Sandpiper, Eurasian Hoopoe and the usual suspects.
Leave a Reply.
March 2019


text:
This website makes use of cookies to enhance your expertise. By persevering with to browse, you agree to our use of cookies. DOHS (Division of Health Companies), (2010). Annual Report – Division of Health Services (2008/9). Kathmandu: DOHS. Drink loads of orange juice as orange not just represents gold, but helps
Month: April 2018
Health Fitness
An non-obligatory, portable, individual/family, government sponsored health care plan for 8% of a person/household's taxable revenue, capping out at $6K that encourages competitors and stimulates the economic system. A buddy's father was denied a excessive degree contract position as a result of his credit had been ruined due to hospital payments.
Black Health Journal Review
Its ok typically that not to take work much seriously and likewise not a lot with ease and to take some days off making plan for some fun like picnic, hill station or near a seaside side and avoid going to pub, disco. Sure, I forgot to say natural cures. I
Limitation Of The Biomedical Mannequin In Healthcare
Costs in US$ apply to orders positioned within the Americas solely. Prices in GBP apply to orders placed in Nice Britain solely. Costs in € symbolize the retail prices legitimate in Germany (except in any other case indicated). Prices are subject to vary with out discover. Prices don't embrace postage and
Careers In Human Providers
I first found the wonders of the House Organizer in the Emilie Barnes book, Survival for Busy Ladies , that I picked up at a garage sale. Emilie went into element about how her personal upbringing had prepared her for her future where she found herself retaining home with 5 little
50 Study Motivation Quotes To Get You Finding out Tougher
International Journal for Quality in Health Care is accepting top quality original articles, critiques, and case research addressing analysis, coverage, and implementation associated to the quality of health care and health outcomes for populations and sufferers worldwide. The WebMB Web site(2013) conjointly warns that berberine interacts with medications referred to as
Health Fitness Specialist Salary
As a part of the official health system in Germany the Federal Centre for Health Schooling (BZgA) has been pursuing the goal of preventing health risks and encouraging health-selling lifestyles since its establishment in 1967. After I did my analysis, I began performing some weight bearing and resistance coaching, walking daily,
Capitalizing On Health & Wellness Trends
Social establishments are enduring relationships that consequence from human interplay. Over a time period, these relationships have established predictable patterns that allow the members of society to pursue life, their dreams and happiness. Social institutions are natural merchandise or creations of societies, the primary perform of which is to assist societies
Looking And Feeling Youthful
Know what's hot, and what's not, in the health and health area. ACSM's Health & Health Journal , a bimonthly journal for members of ACSM's Alliance of Health and Fitness Professionals, responds to the sensible data needs of health instructors, private trainers, train leaders, program directors and different entrance-line health and


text:
– Marc Delghust –
How accurately can official energy performance calculations assess the real energy use in high-performance houses? This question was investigated by analysing 537 dwellings. Data on building characteristics and calculated performance from the Flemish Energy Performance of Buildings (EPB) database were complemented with data from energy utilities and surveys of inhabitants, their socio-demographic characteristics and user behaviours.


text:
Three Pennant Bunting
sold out
Three Pennant Bunting
This macramé bunting is made with 100% natural 1/8" 3 strand cotton rope and hangs from a 3/16" solid braid cord.
Each pennant is approximately 8"W x 11"L. This listing is for the THREE triangle bunting that stretches approximately 30"L with 12" tails (54" long total).
All buntings are made to order and will be shipped out within 2 weeks.
If you would like a custom order, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Add To Cart


text:
TTD releases 48,690 online quota tickets for May
March 03 2017 at 16:07 32 TTD Tirumala
The monthly Dial your EO program took place at Annamaiah Bhavan in Tirumala on Friday. The TTD EO Dr D Sambasiva Rao briefed the pilgrims about the upcoming religious events and the developmental activities taken up by TTD recently.
The EO said the TTD's Ugadi Panchangam is available in TTD book stalls for sale .He also elaborated on the Trusts and schemes being operated by TTD and invited the largesse from devotees spread across the world to participate in great service activity. "For those who are donating Rs.1Crore and more will get privilege of VIP break darshan in L1 thrice and Suprabhatham thrice in a year for five members. They too get Vedasirvachanam and Rs.2500 worth accommodation free of cost. The donors will get IT exemption for the same", the EO added.
The Annaprasadam Trust has so far received Rs.800 crores and spending Rs.85crores every year in providing Annaprasadam to devotees. Adding further the EO said, as Corporate Social Responsibility the Coal India Limited and ONGC have come forward to take up developmental works worth Rs.13crores in Tirumala.
The devotees can now procure Rs.300 tickets through APT online centres present at AP and TS. The temple management of TTD has released 48690 online quota tickets for the month of May which will be released on TTD web site on March 3 after 11am. Suprabhatam -6,250; Thomala-130, ; Archana-130 ; Visesha Puja – 750 ; Astadalam-80; Nijapada darshanam- 1,500 ; Kalyanotavam- 10,875 ; Unjal Seva – 2,900 ; Arjitha Brahmotsavam- 6,235 ; Vasanthotsavam-5,590 and Sahasra Deepalankara Seva – 14,250.


text:
admin Alphasmart Alternative OS Android Apps Archive Arduboy Arduino Art Audio Automation Bhajis Loops blogs Bluetooth Camera Case Clie Coding Comment Credit Card PDA Database Design DIY eBay Emulator Experimental Eyemodule 2 Featured Flash Foleo Fossil Future Games Hacks Handera Handspring Hardware History IFTTT Infrared Instagram Instruments iPod Touch iziBasic Java Library Libretto LifeDrive Memory Stick MIDI Modular Music Apps Newton NinerPaint Onboard languages Oregon Scientific OS Palm Palm sites PalmPix PalmTX PCMCIA PDA PDAT Photography Pictures Pinterest Raspberry Pi Retro Rex Robotics Scripting Sharing SmartPad Smartwatch Sony Springboard Store Stylus SunVox TRG Pro Upgrades Watch Wearable Tech Windows Mobile Zire 71 Zodiac
Sunday, January 31, 2016
Now that's a good idea for a Rex 6000 case
And it might take my two 6000's as well, rather than some post it notes. I've found a few of these cases on eBay so I may grab one soon.
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Corporate Hospitality For our business and corporate clients we cater for the discreet boardroom lunch, team building events, office parties and new product launches.
Parties We offer so much more than simply providing the food, with meticulous attention to detail, we manage the event making sure the whole experience is one to remember. We can arrange everything associated with holding an unforgettable party.
Weddings For your wedding reception we add that special touch, we welcome you with reception drinks, ensure that everybody is in the right place at the right time and our head waiter can make the announcements and introduce the speeches.
Sporting Events We can provide hampers for some of the country's key sporting events such as Royal Ascot and Henley Royal Regatta and for any other special occasion within a 15 mile radius of Maidenhead, Berkshire. All are provided using recyclable materials with a variety of two menus.
Private Dining Entertaining has never been so easy! We cater for a minimum number of 10 guests at each dinner party. Select your menu and leave everything else to us. We can also provide a personal butler service or qualified silver service.
Menu Selection All our menus can be adapted for your own requirements.
Whatever the occasion we come to you to make your day very special.
Please do not hesitate to give Chris Burns a call on 07713 639 726 to talk about your event. We add that special and personal touch to make your day a very special occasion.


text:
Orange Triumphal Arch - Symbolic of Roman-Celtic struggle.
When a book is accepted for publication, it sets off an agonizing search, primarily by the author, for a cover idea. Sure, the publisher hires an artist, but nobody is really in a position to understand what the story is about and what images best convey the content of the book to the reader. The adage about judging a book by its cover may or may not be true, but the cover and a twenty-word blurb are about all you have to convince a prospect to purchase your story.
The other problem is that nobody wants to spend any money on stock photography or elaborate illustrations. I was really stumped on what to convey to the artist for "Cult of Camulos". As with most novels, there are a myriad of scenes and images that the author can chose to promote the work. By chance, I was looking through some old photos of a trip my wife and I had made to France several years ago. As I thumbed down the stack, I lingered on a photo of the Roman Triumphal Arch that sits in the city of Orange. I remembered how impressed I was with the structure and studying the freeze that depicted a great battle between the old Gallic residents of the area and Rome's legions, a fitting image for a novel in which I tried to bring to life a great battle between Romans and Celts on the plain of Telemone, Italy.
I scanned the photo, zoomed into it, and there it was, three figures in pitched battle still clearly visible despite years of erosion and even bullet holes from WWII, not to mention the extreme magnification of the relief. It was a striking image that conveyed everything I wanted the reader to feel about novel.
The freeze and triumphal were created during the reign of Augustus Caesar(about 35 BC) to commemorate the victory of Julius Caesar over the Gallic tribes. The battle of Telemone happened about 200 years before this, but the freeze is symbolic of the struggle between Roman and Celtic culture.
Posted by W.H.Russeth at 4:53 PM
No comments:
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Pending home sales were up in March, according to the National Association of Realtors.
The pending home sales index rose 3.2 percent to 84.6 from 83.7 in March 2008. The index was also up from February's index reading of 82.
In the South, the index rose even higher, up 7.7 percent from March 2008 to 93.2. The South's index for March was also up 8.5 percent from February.
It should take a few months for the market to gain momentum, said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist, in a statement.
"This increase could be the leading edge of first-time buyers responding to very favorable affordability conditions and an $8,000 tax credit, which increases buying power even more in areas where special programs allow buyers to use it as a downpayment," he said. "We need several months of sustained growth to demonstrate a recovery in housing, which is necessary for the overall economy to turn around."
A pending home sales index of 100 is equal to the average level of contract activity during 2001, which was the first year to be examined as well as the first of five consecutive record years for existing-home sales, according to NAR.
NAR also released its housing affordability index figure, which fell from February but is still 30.8 percentage points higher than a year ago. The housing affordability index was 166.7 in March, compared to 174.4 in February.
The March figure was still near a record high for NAR's housing affordability index, which has been published monthly since 1981.
An index reading of 100 means that a family with the median income has exactly enough income to qualify for a mortgage on a median-priced existing single-family home.


text:
Book Search
Enter Title, Author, ISBN, etc.
Product Categories
Use arrow tabs for subcategories
Title: Coptology: Past, Present, and Future. Studies in Honour of Rodolphe Kasser
Author: Krause, M S Giversen, P Nagel (eds)
Publisher: Peeters; Publication Date: 1994
Hardcover; ISBN: 9789068316469
Volumes: 1; Pages: 370
List Price in Cloth: $128.00 Our price: $101.99
(Add to Cart button is at the bottom of this page)
This volume is a compilation of 28 contributions, predominantly in German, but also in English and French, and is dedicated to R. Kasser. To honour his 65th birthday, colleages and pupils have chosen 5 themes on coptology. The first is concerned with coptic art, archaeology and inscriptions. The second chapter shows some aspects of theology and church history. The third theme is concerned with the history of religions. The book also includes 6 articles on various linguistic aspects of coptic. A last chapter deals with some coptic manuscripts and editions in the field of theology and history of religions.
All Prices in US Dollars
Website Security
30108 Ford Road
Garden City, MI 48135


text:
Settling on the perfect dress for your special day is something that may come easy for one bride yet not another. When you want to have the ultimate experience while shopping for bridal dresses in Arlington-Smokey Point, we invite you to come by to see us at Estelle's Bridal Suite so that we can help.
Why Estelle's Bridal Suite?
We are a lovely bridal salon that features a dedicated staff with a vast amount of knowledge when it comes to bridal attire and all of the related accessories. When you work with us for your bridal dress, you not only have access to a wonderful selection of gowns ranging from size 2 through 28 but you also have your pick of all of the related veils and any of the accessories that you need.
There is a lot that goes into choosing the ultimate wedding dress and this is one of the biggest days of your life. Because of this, we take the process of looking for bridal dresses very seriously and our staff will work hard to find you the right ensemble within your budget to make you feel amazing when you walk down the aisle, as you are greeting guests, when you are dancing, and making all of the most precious memories.
If you would like to make an appointment to work with us to find the right dress for your special occasion, we will be happy to set up a time where you can come in for our full attention. Be sure to ask us about the new line of special order gowns and learn more regarding our vintage an consignment collections. We will do everything possible to help you find the dress of your dreams.
Let Estelle's Bridal Suite help you to select the ultimate bridal ensemble. Call us today at (360) 217-7823 to set up a time to talk with our professional staff about your options in bridal dresses in Arlington-Smokey Point.


text:
Random Colorsexample processing for-loop
void setup() {
size(200, 100);
void draw() {
for(int y = 0; y < height; y++){
for(int x = 0; x < width; x++){
float r = random(256);
float g = random(256);
float b = random(256);
stroke(r, g, b);
point(x, y);
This code uses a nested
for loop to loop over every pixel in the window. For each pixel, it creates a random color and draws a point with that color at that pixel.
See the Pen by Happy Coding (@KevinWorkman) on CodePen.
Tweak Ideas
- Instead of drawing a random color, use the
noise()function to come up with a shade of gray for each pixel. Read more about Perlin noise for more info.
- Take a big number like pi or Euler's number. Visualize that number by going through the first 100 (or 1000, or 1,000,000) digits. For each digit, draw a pixel with a color based on that digit. For example if the digit is 0 draw a red pixel, if it's 1 draw a green pixel, etc.