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Wilson Industries was conceived from my lifelong involvement with the
bicycle. My bike shop experience began in 1987 as an assembler/mechanic.
Since then, I have worked and ridden all over the US as a shop mechanic,
service manager, bike courier, race team mechanic and framebuilder,
gaining valuable experience in a variety of terrains and conditions.
From tricycles to Stingrays, from 10-speeds to BMX, from road racing
bikes to mountain bikes, and cruisers to cargo bikes; I've ridden them
all and am dedicated to sharing the joys and educating the auto-bound
about the most efficient vehicle humans ever created. The time is ripe
for elevating the bicycle back to a position of prominence in the US
transportation system, and DWI will strive to offer two (and maybe three)
wheeled alternatives to the automobile including several models of cargo
bicycle and comfortable, efficient city bikes. I am very interested
in the impact we humans have on our environment and believe we can minimize
this impact by getting away from our dependence on oil with human power.
The bicycle's inherent reparability (in steel) also gives us an opportunity
to conserve resources by keeping bikes on the road that may otherwise
be destined for the landfill. With this goal in mind, DWI offers a full
range of bicycle and vintage motorcycle frame repair and restoration
with an eye toward historical accuracy; preserving the past while looking
to the future.
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Fascinating. This NYT article bears out a suspicion I've held for a long time about the plasticity of sexual orientation. The crude one-sentence summary is that, if you go by physiological arousal reactions, male bisexuality doesn't exist, while female bisexuality is ubiquitous.
I've spent most of my social time for the last thirty years around science fiction fans, neopagans, and polyamorists — three overlapping groups of people not exactly noted for either sexual inhibitions or reluctance to explore sexual roles that don't fit the neat typologies of the mainstream culture. And there are a couple of things it's hard not to notice about them:
First, a huge majority of the women in these cultures are bisexual. To the point where I just assume any female I meet in these contexts is bi. This reality is only slightly obscured by the fact that many of these women describe themselves and are socially viewed by others as 'straight', even as they engage in sexual play with each other during group scenes with every evidence of enjoyment. In fact, in these cultures the operational definition of 'straight female' seems to be one who has recreational but not relational/romantic sex with other women.
Second, this pattern is absolutely not mirrored in their male peers. Even in these uninhibited subcultures, homoerotic behavior involving self-described 'straight' men is rare and surprising. Such homeoeroticism as does go on is almost all self-describedly gay men fucking other self-describedly gay men; bisexuality in men, while an accepted and un-tabooed orientation, is actually less common than gayness and not considered quite normal by anybody. The contrast with everybody's matter-of-fact acceptance of female bisexual behavior is extreme.
It is also an observable fact that many women in these cultures change either their sexual orientation or their sexual presentation over time, but that this is seldom true of men. That is, a woman may move from being sexually involved mostly with other women to being mostly involved with men, and back, several times during her adolescent and adult lifetime; nobody considers this surprising and it doesn't involve much of a change in either self-image or social identity. Not so for men in these cultures; they tend to start out as straight or gay and stay that way, and on the unusual occasions that this changes it tends to involve a significant break in both self-image and social identity.
Until I read the abovementioned NYT article, I thought these were peculiar, contingent traits of this group of subcultures (which are influenced by each other). That is, I thought that (in the jargon of postmodernism) SF fans, neopagans and polyamorists had arrived at a common social construction of sexuality with no privileged relationship to the biological substructure.
Now I wonder. If the studies the article references are correct, the distribution of behaviors I've been describing is exactly what you see when you bypass self-consciousness and social construction entirely, and just measure how aroused people get when they look at pictures of other naked people. This actually is how our biology 'wants' us to be! Who knew?


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Individual, group and youth counseling is free and offered throughout Worcester County. Joining a class gives you the best chance for success.
Vouchers are available for program participants who wish to use:
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You can become a non-smoker!
Who is eligible for these services?
- Any resident or person working in Worcester County is eligible.
Where are these services provided?
- Snow Hill Health Center
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- WACS Center (West Ocean City)
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- How long are the sessions?
- 12 weeks (7 weeks education/ 5 weeks group support)
- How do I enroll in the voucher program?
- You must be a resident of or working in Worcester County and attend group or individual smoking cessation counseling. The counselor will provide you with the voucher program information.
- Do I have to participate in group counseling?
- While group counseling is encouraged, individual counseling can be arranged as needed.
- When do the next sessions start?
- Call 410-632-0056. These are held throughout the year.
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Please note : This help page is not for the latest version of Enterprise Architect. The latest help can be found here.
A Feature is a small, granular function or characteristic expressed in client-valued terms as a satisfaction of a requirement; for example: 'context-sensitive Help', or 'ability to reverse-engineer VB.Net'.
Features are the primary requirements-gathering artifact of the Feature-Driven Design (FDD) methodology. They define the product feature that satisfies what a Requirement element has formalized as a contractual, testable, expected deliverable (for example: requirement - 'every element must provide context-sensitive Help'; feature - 'every element provides context-sensitive Help'). One Feature might realize one or more Requirements, and one Requirement might be realized by more than one Feature.
Features also have relationships with Use Cases. A Use Case defines the interaction a user has with the system in order to satisfy one or more Requirements. The Feature identifies the facility that provides the means for that interaction.
Feature elements are non-UML and are not related to the UML elements of the same name which are either BehavioralFeatures (operations, or methods) or StructuralFeatures (Ports, Parts and attributes).
Feature elements are available from the Requirements page of the Toolbox.
Feature elements can be displayed with or without an identifying F in the top right corner of the element. To toggle the display of this letter, select or deselect the Show stereotype icon for requirements checkbox on the Options dialog, Objects page.
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History of the Universe eBook. 398 pages, 300 illustrations only £5.99
Cretaceous Period 146 to 66 myaSummaryThe Cretaceous Period, named for the chalk often contained in its rocks. Dinosaurs still ruled the land. Flowering plants continued to evolve. During this period new plants and animals appeared possessing new methods of reproduction. Birds were flying, plants had flowers and mammals had appeared by this time. The end of this period saw the extinction of the dinosaurs. Continents 150 myaEarth 150 mya. Click here for key. Previous image. Next image The break up of Pangaea became more obvious. The Tethys Sea opened up between Laurasia in the north and Gondwana in the south. Within Gondwana, South America was still joined to Africa and Antarctica (EAn). Continents 100 myaEarth 100 mya. Click here for key. Previous image. Next image With continents separating instead of colliding there were few high mountains and the continents sank down below warm shallow seas. This was the Cretaceous period, the age of chalk. The continents moved towards their present positions. The most dramatic movement was of India (Ind). Watch how it shoots northwards during the next 100 million years! ClimateAs Pangaea broke apart and spread the climate of many fragments became less tropical. Flowering PlantsPlant seeds could not grow or spread very quickly. They needed the wind to carry the pollen to the egg. Also it took over a year for the plant to store enough food in the seed to make sure the baby plant could grow. About 200 mya a new kind of plant evolved. It attracted insects using colored flowers, and gave them sugary nectar to eat. Bees, butterflies and other animals evolved to eat the nectar offered by the flowers. While eating they picked up pollen on their bodies which they carried to other flowers. The pollen itself was different. It carried two sperm. One fertilized the egg. The second fertilized the flower which then grew rapidly into a fruit. The seed used this for food. These flowering plants could grow and make fruits in just a few weeks, so they spread much faster than the seed plants. Fruits, berries and nuts appeared, so there was lots of new food for animals. New animals evolved to eat the fruit. The land became filled with the color and scent of many beautiful blooms. The hardwood trees and other plants of the tropical rain forest, now being so rapidly destroyed by people, are of this kind. Image courtesy Uwe H. Friese Invertebrate ReproductionInsects were also evolving new methods of reproduction. One method involved insects living together and helping to look after their brothers and sisters instead of reproducing themselves. Social colonies of bees, ants and wasps evolved in this way. Image of bee courtesy of Jon Sullivan
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Long Island Home Advisors Expands General Contracting Services in Suffolk and Nassau Counties
Long Island Home Advisors, a prominent general contractor renowned for its exceptional home renovation services, has announced a significant expansion of its service area to encompass more regions within Suffolk and Nassau Counties. This strategic move allows the company to extend its expertise in roofing, siding, window replacement, and custom kitchen and bathroom remodeling to a wider customer base. Celebrating over two decades of industry excellence, Long Island Home Advisors is committed to delivering high-quality home improvement solutions across Long Island. The expansion is a testament to the company's dedication to craftsmanship and customer satisfaction, as emphasized by owner Stephen Liotta.
Bayport, New York, United States, 5th Feb 2024 - Renowned Long Island contractors, known as Long Island Home Advisors, a leading general contractor on Long Island, proudly announces the expansion of their service area into additional regions of Suffolk and Nassau Counties. This strategic expansion enables Long Island Home Advisors to offer their top-notch home renovation services, including roofing, siding, window replacement, and bespoke kitchen and bathroom remodeling, to a broader customer base. With a legacy spanning over 20 years, Long Island Home Advisors is synonymous with superior craftsmanship and unparalleled customer service.
Stephen Liotta, the owner of Long Island Home Advisors, shares his enthusiasm: "Our commitment to exceptional craftsmanship and customer satisfaction is at the heart of this expansion. We are excited to extend our services to more homes across Long Island, especially Suffolk county, ensuring each project aligns with our high standards of quality and service."
Comprehensive Home Renovation Services
Long Island Home Advisors, specialize in a variety of home improvement services:
- Roof Installations and Replacements: Combining durability with aesthetic appeal.
- Siding: Offering a range of styles and finishes to enhance home exteriors.
- Window Replacement: Boosting energy efficiency and increasing property value.
- Kitchen and Bathroom Remodels: Customizing renovations to align with client preferences and the latest trends.
Client-Centric Approach and Value-Driven Solutions
The company is dedicated to a client-focused approach, providing free estimates, transparent pricing, and various financing options. They also offer special discounts for seniors and active military members, underscoring their commitment to the community.
About Long Island Home Advisors
With over two decades of expertise, Long Island Home Advisors has earned a reputation for reliability and quality in home renovation. Based in Bayport, NY, and now extending their reach in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, they continue to be a benchmark for home improvement excellence.
Contact Information: Long Island Home Advisors 2 Purdy Ave, Bayport, NY 11705 Phone: (631) 696-7279 Website: longislandha.com
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As summer comes to a close, kids are bracing for their inevitable return to school. Their days of sleeping in and relaxing will be over. In their place will be stress-filled, drowsy mornings that lead to long lectures. In the chaos of getting ready in the morning, it can be easy to forget what is arguably the most important meal of the day.
Everyone has heard that breakfast is the most important meal, and many studies have proven that this is true. Breakfast is the first meal a person has after roughly 8 hours of fasting. In order for your body to wake up and be able to focus on anything, it needs energy. Breakfast helps refill your energy and gives you a jumpstart for the rest of the day.
Eating breakfast in the morning, which should occur sometime within the first two hours after waking up, has many benefits. It can improve memory and concentration, which is very important for kids who are heading off to a day of learning. Eating breakfast can also make us happier, so you aren't feeling hangry, and can reduce stress. All of this can combine to mean better grades for students.
Growing children need a lot of energy to stay active, and they can get a lot of that required energy from having breakfast. It is estimated that boys between the ages of 7 and 10 should consume roughly 1970 calories per day. Girls within the same age range should consume about 1740 calories per day.
As hard as it can be to fit in, in the early hours before school, it is important to always make time for breakfast. Doing so can put everyone in a better mood and help your kids be more attentive and prepared for the school day.


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If you're lucky enough to be planning on adding a Sundance Spas hot tub to your backyard, hardscaping may be on your list of things to do to get ready. Hardscaping refers to the "hard" parts of the design, such as concrete, gravel, wood, etc. Plants are sometimes called the "softscape" elements, but it all adds up to a backyard landscape.
Backyard hardscaping can literally mean the spa's foundation: the patio, deck or other hard surface where your spa will sit. You may not need to do anything but clear the way for the hot tub to be delivered and set up on an existing surface. Or you may want to set up your hot tub on grass or dirt, using a special pad for spas, and avoid special backyard hardscaping. Your Sundance Spas dealer can answer any questions about spa pads, foundations, weight-bearing requirements for decks, etc.
Another piece of the backyard hardscaping to consider is a walkway or path to the hot tub from your house. You may want to add a walkway or a path made from pavers, stones or bricks. Other backyard hardscaping ideas for your Sundance hot tub include gazebos, arbors, walls and trellises. You can pick up backyard design concepts for your hot tub at Backyard Ideas.


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Success continues as NASA's Orion parachute tests get more difficult
(Phys.org) —A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.
In the test, conducted in Yuma, Ariz., the mock capsule was traveling about 250 mph when the parachutes were deployed. That is the highest speed the craft has experienced as part of the test series designed to certify Orion's parachute system for carrying humans.
Engineers rigged one of the test capsule's two drogue parachutes not to deploy and one of its three main parachutes to skip its first stage of inflation after being extracted from a plane 25,000 feet above the Arizona desert. Drogue parachutes are used to slow and reorient Orion while the main parachutes inflate in three stages to gradually slow the capsule further as it descends.
The failure scenario, one of the most difficult simulated so far, will provide data engineers need for human rating the parachute system.
"The tests continue to become more challenging, and the parachute system is proving the design's redundancy and reliability," said Chris Johnson, NASA's project manager for the Orion parachute assembly system. "Testing helps us gain confidence and balance risk to ensure the safety of our crew."
Orion has the largest parachute system ever built for a human-rated spacecraft. The canopies of the three main parachutes can cover almost an entire football field. After reentering Earth's atmosphere, astronauts will use the parachutes to slow the spacecraft for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Testing irregularities allows engineers to verify the parachutes are reliable even when something goes wrong. The tests provide information to refine models used to build the system and Orion. Changes to the design and materials used in Orion's parachute system already have been made based on previous tests. Other government or commercial spacecraft using a similar parachute system also can benefit from the work done to validate Orion.
"Parachute deployment is inherently chaotic and not easily predictable," said Stu McClung, Orion's landing and recovery system manager. "Gravity never takes any time off—there's no timeout. The end result can be very unforgiving. That's why we test. If we have problems with the system, we want to know about them now."
Orion's next Earth-based parachute test is scheduled for July, when the test capsule will be released from 35,000 feet, a higher altitude than ever before. The first test of the parachutes after traveling in space will be during Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014, when an uncrewed Orion will be return from 3,600 miles above Earth's surface. The spacecraft will be traveling at about 340 mph when the parachutes deploy.
More information: For more information about Orion, visit: www.nasa.gov/orion
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Working on Venus - how close did we get?
Time: Wed 2019-10-02 15.15 - 16.00
Location: Lecture Hall FD5, Roslagstullsbacken 21
Participating: Mikael Östling and Carl-Mikael Zetterling
The ambitious Knut and Alice Wallenberg project Working on Venus had the goals to demonstrate all the electronic parts for a Venus Lander operating at Venus temperatures of 460 °C. This includes motion, gas and image sensors, amplifiers, analog-to-digital converters, microcontroller with memory, power supply and radio transceiver. The presentation by the KTH principal investigator will reveal how close we managed to fulfill the goals.
Coffee and cake will be available for the first 50 attendees at 15:00, warmly welcome!


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What is the best and quickest way to stop it?
When you're blaming someone, what you're really doing is pointing the finger at them and saying "Hah! It's your fault. You're wrong." Then, that person typically comes back and says, "No, it's your fault..." and this can go on in an endless loop.
To radically shift out of a blaming consciousness in 1 minute or less, try this tip from Gay & Katie Hendricks:
When you catch yourself starting to blame or you're having critical thoughts about your partner or colleague, make a pleasant "Hmmm...." sound. And what this does is it shifts you out of your "critical" brain into your "wonder" brain.
So, you can say to yourself, "Hmmm... I wonder what I could learn from this." Or "Hmmm... I wonder how I'm contributing to this situation."
When you do this from a place of sincere wonder, then an immediate change takes place in your connection with the person you were previously blaming or criticizing.
Try this the next time you have a critical thought, and watch real miracles open up in your relationships! And of course, work on keeping your heart chakra open to love and compassion - listen to my free Chakra Meditation at www.thechakras.org.
Namaste! Becca Chopra, author of The Chakra Diaries


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The insurance needs of food and beverage companies may vary by geographic location, product type, and other factors.
In many developed nations, companies of any description are required to carry workers' compensation insurance (sometimes called "workers' comp") or its equivalent, in case of accidental injury to or the death of an employee. Due to the inherent risks of working in the food and beverage industry, especially for personnel assigned to production lines with heavy equipment, it is essential that any employer provide this type of coverage where legally obligated.
Other types of insurance may include general liability insurance, which can sometimes be bundled into a general business owner's policy that includes property insurance, commercial auto liability insurance for business-related transportation, and liquor liability insurance. In the event of international transport or shipping, for example of food commodities or large-scale production of consumer packaged goods, more specialized insurance coverage may also be warranted.
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The simplest of compact thermal models (CTMs) is a one resistor type. Of these the most widely quoted is Theta_ja (ok, ok, and Theta_jma, more on that variant later). Knowing the power dissipation of the component as well as the ambient temperature is in theory all that is required to determine the junction temperature from the supplied Theta_ja resistance value. You would think so. Unfortunately the junction temperature answer would be wrong.
Maybe wrong is the wrong word. It would be right once, just as a stopped clock is right twice a day.
The method for the experimental derivation of Theta_ja is defined in the JEDEC standard JESD51-2 "Integrated Circuits Thermal Test Method Environment Conditions – Natural Convection (Still Air)". Basically you put a package on a test board, secure it horizontally in a 1×1x1ft box, power it up and measure its junction temperature and the temperature of the ambient air in the box. With the power, Tjunction (Tj) and Tambient (Ta) you can work out Theta_ja = Tj-Ta/Power [degC/W]
For this specific package, a ceramic ball grid array, the resulting Theta_ja value is 12.2 degC/W. For every watt of heat dissipated, the junction temperature will rise 12.2 degC above the temperature of the air around the board.
Let's now take this same package and place it in a more realistic operating environment. Still Ta is the same value, the same power is dissipated from the package, the PCB is horizontal but…
…it gets about twice as hot or in other words its Theta_ja about doubles. Turn that round and consider if you'd used Theta_ja to predict Tj your simulation would be about a factor of 2 out, somewhat outside 'engineering accuracy' constraints. It should be very obvious that the resistance will change due to other effects apart from the ambient temperature and power dissipation. In the above case the fact that there are lots of other dissipating components around will change things, the PCB stack-up is different etc.
The Theta_ja value is therefore not independent of the environment around the package. The Theta_ja value is only valid for the one environment that it was measured in. It is said to NOT be 'boundary condition independent' (BCI).
I'm going to put my hands up at this stage and confess to being a bit of a simulation bigot with a point to prove; don't use Theta_ja for prediction. Of course it's not as if JEDEC didn't realise this. As is described in detail in JESD51-12 "Guidelines for Reporting and Using Electronic Package Thermal Information":
"The θJA and θJMA values are sometime used to estimate how a package will perform in a specific
application. These estimates cannot be accurate because a standardized test condition cannot match
the user's application condition. The reasons for this and how to deal with this situation have been
described in section 5.1."
I've seen too often though the bad application of Theta_ja for prediction purposes to NOT say something about it in this blog. So what can it be used for? It's a good parameter to compare packages with each other. Say you've got a package on a board, you know its operating temperature (and it's just on the limit of Tj_max) but you're thinking of replacing it with another component with better thermal efficiency as the power in your next design is about to go up 20%. You could use Theta_ja ratio comparisons between current and proposed packages to get a feel as to what the change will be in Tj for the new component. Sarang Shidore explains more here.
Ahh, I nearly forgot, Theta_jma. Very similar to Theta_ja in that it's a resistance that (if you've forgotten already) should NOT be used for prediction purposes. Instead of characterising the thermal behaviour in a 'natural convection' type environment (i.e. no fans), Theta_jma is a set of resistance values at differing speeds of air as the air is blown/washes over the component. It too though suffers the same well, not faults, but considerations as Theta_ja.
In our continuing search for the grail of BCI CTMs I'll move onto 2-R models next time.
For now "Remember remember the 5th of November the gun powder treason and plot, I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot".
5th November 2009 Ross-on-Wye


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Meet An Art Deco Apartment With A Touch of American Style in Kyiv – The Fountain Boulevard private residence is a modern apartment project in Kyiv designed for a young cosmopolitan couple and is one of the latest projects by the deluxe lighting brand Delightfull. Miami Design Agenda entered this magnificent project in order to share with you the astonishing and inspiring interior design.
Located in Kyiv, Ukraine, the Fountain Boulevard private residence is a modern apartment project designed for a young cosmopolitan couple. The 85 m² modern apartment is owned by a young cosmopolitan couple that already has enjoyed living in big cities such as New York and Moscow. However, both of them were born in Kyiv and decided to buy their first common apartment at their hometown.
The choice of the interior style for designer Yana Molodykh was not difficult; she opted for an art-deco style combined with the light of the American style equally relevant in the big cities of the world. The apartment resembles the interior of Carrie Bradshaw and Big's apartment, the iconic couple of the famous series "Sex and the City"
A key feature of the interior apartment is the large panoramic windows, due to which the whole space is flooded with a daylight. However, to give the space even more "feeling of air and freedom" Yana decided to make some changes. Kitchen, living room and dining-room were united into one unique space. As a result, the owners of the apartment received a perfect place for a leisurely breakfast with a stunning overlooking of the city.
As the basis for the interior design, Yana selected a gray color for the walls and a geometric pattern to the floor, furniture ad wallpaper, which is typical of the Art Deco style. The design of the apartment does not seem to be a bright one, but all the shades and halftones can "play" in a very special way due to the abundance of natural light.
"The soft shift from a darker shade of grey of the walls into a lighter shade of the cornice, ceiling and window slopes make a color composition of a living room more difficult and adds some magical glow", says Yana Molodykh.
Glossy surfaces and mirrors create an interesting game of reflections. At the window there is a small console, which can turn into the desktop and become a work-zone. On the wall there is an ironic painting "Dancefloor" by famous Ukrainian artist Tatyana Malinovskaya, which perfectly reflects the bright character of the owner of flat, a young woman that loves and knows how to attract attention.
A midcentury floor lamp Stanley by Portuguese brand DelightFULL has become an important and essential element, which stylistically linked the entire interior. "The piece added that light American accent due to its geometric shape, and highlighted levity ambience of space", said Yana.
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Word Up! The Vocab Show is simply fantastic.
But anything by Compass Classroom is likely to be. Especially anything that features Dwane Thomas.
This runs $15, which is $1.50 per lesson. Totally affordable.
Each lesson covers a single English word -- like "write" in the second lesson. You learn the Latin root (scribo/scriptum) and the Greek root (grapho). For each root, you learn TEN English words (proscribe, cacography). So that is about a nickel per vocabulary word right now. Even when not on sale, we talking $15 for the whole thing. A bargain, I tell you.
Each lesson includes a video that is around 15 minutes in length, and it features a few characters, all played by Dwane. After the video, you also have access to Quizlet for more workbook-ish work with the ten words for the Latin root, and another Quizlet area for the ten words for the Greek root.
Before I go further, here is the very first lesson:
How it works:
So, the "characters" in the video include:
The guy who introduces each word. In this case, he's introducing the word "time." This guy is definitely goofy. In this video, he's taking his kids (off-screen) to explore London. This segment is only around 45 seconds, before the opening credits.
The announcer. Suit and tie, in studio, he's the guy who transitions between the various segments and provides commentary on the strange antics of the first guy. We see him in between pretty much everything. In this particular video, he's complaining about how much we must be spending to send that first guy to London. He also wants to know why he doesn't have a clock anywhere in the studio. Then we get to the meat of the lesson.
Here we have the Latin Expert. He gives us the Latin root, always in front of cool Roman backgrounds. He then goes through ten vocabulary words, with sometimes offbeat comments about the words, and always there is something in the background to help you to figure out the words too. Some of the words are fairly common, some are more obscure or specialized. Words for Tempus include temporary, contemporary, extemporaneous, temporal, atemporal, tempo, tense, temporize, contretemps, tempest.
In this lesson, he talks about how a word like tense (present tense, past tense, future tense) did come from tempus through French, and that is why it doesn't LOOK like it comes from tempus. He tells a joke, and comments on how that joke works because tense has another meaning too (tension), and that tense also comes from Latin, but not through French this time.
After a trip back to the announcer, who now has a pink clock, we head on.
The final character is the Greek Expert. As you can see above, you get to see the Greek root in both Greek and English letters. That is something we really appreciate. Again, we get great Greek backgrounds for the first part of his segment. Again, the words range from fairly common (though not really common in this particular lesson) to more obscure. The words included in this lesson are Chronos, crony, chronic, chronicle, chronology, chronograph, chronometer, anachronism, synchronize, and diachronic.
In talking about the various words, The Greek Expert covers all kinds of material, not just short little definitions. What shows up in the background varies a lot -- a statue of Father Time (Chronos), a photo of the White House (crony), an x-ray of a knee (chronic), a map of Narnia (chronicle), a gorgeous historical timeline (chronology), a timepiece (chronograph), another timepiece (chronometer), a Pilgrim with modern glasses and a camera (anachronism), video of swimmers and divers (synchronize), and various pages written in English from long ago (diachronic).
For many of those, there were other images too. And The Greek Expert's explanations make the background pictures make sense.
And the end of the episode, we go back to the Announcer, who can't get his pink alarm clock to stop.
The videos are a little silly, but very memorable. Everyone here, from the 8-year-old to Mom and Dad, love them. Dumb jokes, fun little comments, interesting trivia related to the words, all combine to make the words stick.
Of course, then you go to Quizlet to cement that knowledge. I do not have the 8- and 10-year-olds doing Quizlet independently. The teens all certainly can though.
In Quizlet, you can look at a nice, dictionary-style list of the words. You can do flashcards. You can do various exercises that have you typing the word from the written definition, or from listening to it.
There is a test, which I really love. You can choose what types of questions it will ask, so if I do have the younger two use this, I just make sure they don't have to do the "written questions" format, and instead they get multiple choice, matching, and/or true false. The student can do the work on the computer, or you can print the tests. I love that, except that then I have to grade it.
There are also a couple of games, but we don't tend to use those.
My bottom line:
I LOVE THIS PRODUCT. Everyone needs this. Seriously.My kids' bottom line:
"Mom, promise you'll buy any more of these that come out." Need I say more? My kids have really learned the words in the lessons. The elementary kiddos don't necessarily "own" the obscure words, but they really know the more common ones, and most of the sort of obscure ones. The teens (who are actually more of the target audience) truly learned the words.This is available as a download -- which I love, as I can easily put the video onto the iPad or computer -- or as a DVD. Same $15 regular price, though you need to add shipping for a DVD.
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received the download of this course from Compass Classroom. This post does contain affiliate links. I was not required to write a positive review, and any affiliate relationship does not impact my opinions. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."


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The New York Times: Reckless Drivers Who Hit People Face Few Penalties in New York
By MICHAEL POWELL
September 10, 2012
Roxana Sorina Buta, dark-eyed and lithe, hurried home from work as a waitress on May 24, scurrying through rain and 1:30 a.m. darkness toward the subway. She got to Broadway and stepped into the crosswalk when the light turned green.
At the same time a New York City dump truck rumbled eastbound on 14th Street and turned south on Broadway. On the video taken in a Citibank on that corner, you can see the truck making a fast, seamless turn. If you look very closely, you will also see a shadow flicker in front of the truck's right headlight.
That was Ms. Buta, and the truck hit her square.
Ms. Buta, 21, an aspiring actress, the only child of immigrants from Romania, was no more.
Even at that hour, in the rain, witnesses screamed and yelled, and within a minute a police car pulled up. But the driver, who worked for the city's Transportation Department, never stopped his truck; nor did he respond to pleas in subsequent days to step forward. Police investigators found him anyway. But to this day no one has been charged, or even gotten a ticket.
It is as though Roxana were collateral damage, a human fender bender in the movement of huge trucks and vans and cars through the streets of New York.
"How can you go through a crosswalk and not see a 5-7 woman in front of you?" asks Stephanie Iscovitz, one of many friends who have made a cause of her death. "Someone took Roxy's life as if with no consequences."
Technically, this is not so. Technically, the police continue to investigate and the Manhattan district attorney examines a possible case. But Ms. Iscovitz is not far from the mark. In this city of walkers, where we take pride in hoofing it with such a manic intensity that researchers often find us moving faster than crosstown buses, striking a pedestrian — or a biker — and driving away carries few consequences.
The State Department of Motor Vehicles recorded about 3,000 serious nonfatal accidents last year in New York City. The city Police Department's Accident Investigation Squad investigated only 63, or 2 percent of these nonfatal serious crashes, according to the state. Squad members chalk crosswalks, measure tire tracks, and analyze video. Their expertise is unquestioned. This unit, however, numbers just 20 or so.
They investigate only when a victim is "considered likely to die." (State law, too, remains a problem; it is difficult to criminally charge reckless drivers. As the writers of the indispensable StreetsBlog.org note, "under New York State code 'I didn't see her' is a credible defense."
The City Council, of late, has examined this closely. There are proposals to double the size of the traffic investigation squad and to ensure that each precinct has officers expert in such matters.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, characteristically, claims to see no problem. His department is state of the art; the streets get safer all the time; pedestrian fatalities have dropped 30 percent in the past decade.
An interagency task force, he wrote to Councilman Peter F. Vallone Jr. in July, would not be "beneficial or necessary."
There is an "Alice in Wonderland" quality to this defense. Departmental procedure also prohibits officers from writing even a ticket unless they personally witnessed the accident. And few precincts appear equipped to handle investigations.
Just in the past year, officers examining the death of Clara Heyworth, a young woman who was killed crossing a street in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, used improperly calibrated breath-testing equipment; as a result, the district attorney had to toss out the results, which showed the driver had been drinking.
In October 2010, a car struck Michelle Matson on her bike. Her neck was broken, her left leg was shattered and skin was scraped off her hands and wrists. The driver, who appeared to have been intoxicated, was not charged.
I conducted my own anecdotal study. This Monday morning I stood by the lamppost on Broadway and 14th Street that has become a de facto altar for Ms. Buta. In 25 minutes I watched three trucks, including an 18-wheeler, narrowly miss pedestrians walking the intersection. I counted 17 cars, trucks and a "New York Waterway" bus running red lights.
Ms. Buta's mother has returned to Romania for several months and has hired the lawyer Joseph Tacopina to sue on her daughter's behalf. "She is quite insistent that this not get treated like 'Hey, that's life in the big city,' " he said.
Like Ms. Iscovitz, Andrea Kristinsdottir took acting classes with Ms. Ruta, a woman of boundless energy. "It was impossible for men to watch her enter a room and not fall in love with her," Ms. Kristindottir says. "She had such empathy. It can't be possible that we just forget about her in death."


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"A Life more Celestial than terrestrial" in the words of Saint Annibale Di Francia
"A Life more Celestial than terrestrial"
Saint Hannibal Di Francia left this beautiful witnessing about Luisa, part of which is here reported:
"…She wants to live solitary, hidden and unknown. For no reason in the world would she have put in writing the intimate and prolonged communications with adorable Jesus, since her most tender age until today, and which still continue who knows until when, if Our Lord Himself had not repeatedly obliged her, both personally and through holy obedience to her Directors, to which she always surrenders with immense violence on herself and also with great strength and generosity, because the concept of holy obedience that she has would make her refuse even an entrance into Heaven, as it actually occurred…
The substance is that this soul is in a terrible fight between an overwhelming love of hiddenness and the inexorable empire of Obedience, to which she absolutely must surrender. And Obedience always wins. This constitutes one of the most important characters of a true spirit, of a solid and tested virtue, because she has been submitting to the dominion of the great Lady Obedience, with strongest violence against herself, for about forty years!
This solitary soul is a most pure virgin, all of God, who appears as object of singular predilection of Jesus, Divine Redeemer. It seems that Our Lord, Who century after century increases the wonders of His Love more and more, wanted to make of this virgin with no education, whom He calls the littlest one that He found on earth, the instrument for a mission so sublime that no other can be compared to it – that is, the triumph of the Divine Will upon the whole earth, in conformity with what is said in the Our Father: Fiat Voluntas Tua sicut in Coelo et in terra.
This Virgin of the Lord has been placed in bed as victim of Divine Love for more than 40 years, since the time she was still adolescent. This has been a state of a long series of pains, both natural and supernatural, and of raptures from the eternal Charity of the Heart of Jesus. Origin of these pains, which exceed every natural order, has been almost continuously an alternate privation of God…
The sufferings of the body add to those of the soul, and occur at mystical level for the great part. With no sign appearing on her hands, feet, side or forehead, she receives frequent crucifixion from Our Lord. Jesus Himself extends her upon a cross, and pierces her with nails. And then it happens within her what Saint Terese says, when she received the wound from the Seraphim – that is, a sharpest pain such as to make her faint, and at the same time a rapture of love.
But if Jesus did not do so, it would be for this soul an infinitely greater spiritual suffering, because, like the Seraphim of Carmel, she also says: To suffer or to die. This is another sign of the true spirit…
After having mentioned her long and continuous staying in bed as victim, for years and years, with the participation of many spiritual and physical sufferings, it may seem that the sight of this unknown virgin should be afflicting, as though seeing a person laying down with all the sign of past sufferings, present pains and similar things.
Yet, here there is something admirable. In seeing this Spouse of Jesus Crucified who spends the night in painful ecstasies and in sufferings of every kind, during the day sitting on her bed doing her needlework – nothing, nothing appears, absolutely nothing, of one who has suffered so much during the night; nothing, nothing extraordinary or supernatural in her air. Instead, she appears as a healthy person, happy and jovial. She speaks, talks, laughs at the occurrence, but receives few friends.
Sometimes some troubled heart confides in her, and asks for her prayers. She kindly listens and comforts, but never advances to make prophecies, never a word which might refer to revelations. The great comfort which she presents is always one, always the same: the Divine Will.
Although she possesses no human knowledge, she is abundantly endowed with a Wisdom, all celestial, with the Science of the Saints. Her words illuminate and console. By nature her intellect is not poor. She studied to first grade when she was little; her writing is filled with errors, although she does not lack appropriate terms in conformity with the revelations, terms which seem to be infused by Our Lord.
A note of the great detachment of this soul from any earthly thing is her firmness and constancy in accepting no gifts, of money or anything else. On more than one occasion, people who read the "Hours of the Passion" and in whom a sense of sacred affection for this solitary and unknown soul arose, wrote me that they wanted to send her some money. But she opposed so firmly, as if they had offended her.
Her way of living is very modest. She possesses little, and lives with a loving relative who assists her. Since the little that they have is not enough to pay the rent and for their support in these sad times of expensive living, she peacefully works, as mentioned before, and earns something from her work, which has to serve especially to her loving relative, because she has no expenses for food or shoes. Her food is of a few ounces per day, which are offered to her by her assistant, because she never asks for anything. Furthermore, a few hours after she has taken that scarce food, she brings it up. However, her appearance is not of a dying person, but not even of a perfectly healthy person. Yet, she is not inactive; rather, she consumes her strength, both with the supernatural events of sufferings and strain during the night, and with her work during the day. Her life is therefore almost a perennial miracle.
To her great detachment for any earning which is not procured with her hands, one must add her firmness in never accepting anything from the edition and sale of the Hours of the Passion, which would be due to her by right as literary property. As I pressed her not to refuse it, she answered: "I have no right, because the work is not mine, but of God."
I will not continue. The life of this virgin, Spouse of Jesus, is more celestial than terrestrial. She wants to be ignored and unknown in the world, looking for nothing else but her Jesus and Her Most Holy Mother, whom she calls Mama, Who has a special predilection for this soul."


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Millions of Americans are desperate to get vaccinated. But right now, there simply aren't enough vaccines to go around. But there's some good news. Yesterday, an independent advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration endorsed the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Dr. Montoya, Dr. Chatterjee, yes. Dr. Fuller, yes.
SIMON: The committee voted 22 to 0 in favor. And that opens the way for the FDA to authorize its emergency use. NPR's Joe Palca was listening to the committee deliberations. Joe, thanks so much for being with us.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: You're very welcome.
SIMON: And what did the committee base its decision on?
PALCA: Well, the committee heard from scientists both at the company and the FDA. And they were both looking at the data that came from several studies, the most important of which was a large 40,000-person efficacy study that was carried out in the United States, South Africa and six Latin American countries.
I guess the good news is that the company and the FDA by and large agreed with their analysis. The key findings were that the vaccine had 66% efficacy against moderate to severe disease overall, 72% if you just look at the data coming from the United States, and 85% efficacy against more serious disease. This was basically keeping people out of the hospital, and that number held up across all countries.
SIMON: Which sounds encouraging, but don't the vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna have better numbers?
PALCA: Yeah. Those numbers were closer to 95% efficacy. But you have to keep in mind a few things. First of all, those studies were done before these new variants started popping up. And it's possible - and laboratory results suggest that it is possible - that they won't work quite as well against the new variants. The other thing is that this vaccine did work in South Africa, where there is a variant that people are very worried about circulating. And that's good news. And the other really important thing is that this is a vaccine that can be given in one dose. So from a logistical standpoint, you come in, you get the thing, you're done. And public health officials would be very happy to have that as a tool in their arsenal when they're trying to control a pandemic.
SIMON: So what happens next?
PALCA: Well, what happens next is that the Food and Drug Administration decides whether to grant this emergency use authorization. And that will allow the vaccine to be distributed. Then the question is, how much vaccine is there? And that's been a bit of an issue. The company said in testimony earlier this week that they had 4 million doses ready to go out the door. They have 20 million doses they think they'll be able to provide by the end of March and 100 million by the end of June. And keep in mind that each dose is one person vaccinated. So, you know, it's a one-to-one thing.
SIMON: Joe, we've been hearing some of the vaccines out there right now might have to be modified because of the new coronavirus variants that are spreading. Does that mean the companies will have to do another study of 40,000 people if they modify the vaccines?
PALCA: No. That's something the FDA has thought about. They issued guidance earlier this week. They have said that they will be satisfied with much smaller studies just to make sure that the vaccines are safe. They'll be particularly eager to see that the same techniques were used to create the vaccines. And they'll be looking at laboratory data that will help convince them that a modified vaccine will work as well as the original vaccine.
SIMON: NPR's Joe Palca, thanks so much.
PALCA: You bet. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Before we get into the chart patterns themselves, we must understand something even more deep-rooted. The key to consistent trading is good psychology.
- One of the keys to good psychology is having a trading plan. Trading without a plan is tantamount to amateur gambling.
- The key to a good trading plan is a clear set of rules.
- The key to a clear set of rules is an easily definable chart pattern that identifies clear areas of support and resistance for entry, exit, stop placement, and profit management.
- If you're clear about all that and can stick to the rules, then you'll win—pure and simple. I've trained people with no experience whatsoever, and they're now "boringly" consistent traders who understand the virtue of being patient and take only the prime opportunities on offer.
So let's review our requirements for finding a tradable chart pattern. It must provide us with easily identifiable areas of
- Support
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- Entry
- Stop placement
- Profit management
These are all critical elements. If you only trade when you have these elements in place, your trading results will soar in the right direction, whether you're trading options, stocks, or futures.
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Have you ever traded a stock where you were in a winning position? Have you seen your paper profits start to increase as the stock rose in your favor? What did you do? Did you have a plan for taking profits, or did you stay in too long? Did you stay in too long? Did you stay in as the stock started to fall? Did you stay in until your profits were all wiped out and you then had a loss-making situation? Did your winner end up being a loser?
Most people who have invested in the markets have been through this type of situation...on multiple occasions.
Why is it that traders stay in a position too long? Why is it that traders don't take their profits when the signs are that the stock is about to reverse?
Well, I can only go by the countless interviews I've conducted with traders and investors, plus my own early experiences. The fact is that most people don't have a consistent method of identifying suitable candidate stocks regularly in the first place! So when they suddenly find themselves in a winning situation, they tend to hang on too long, as if it's the only opportunity they're ever going to find. Does that ring a bell? Because if you did know how to find good opportunities on a regular basis, then you wouldn't need to hang around in an existing position if all the signs said "sell."
There's another key, one that I've already alluded to. That is to have a clearly defined trading plan. Most traders have no idea what a trading plan is. They go to seminars and read books, but they are never taught how to enter or exit their trades. A trading plan outlines your entry and exit points so you know exactly what to do in any circumstance ahead of time. In other words, every trade has a business plan attached to it.
So we need to address two disciplines in this chapter:
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- How to create a trading plan


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With a new majority in the House, a new chairman and many new members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, as well as a changing national economic picture, it is worth asking the question, "What's ahead for transportation in 2011?"
The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has compiled a list of issues that loom at the local, state, and federal levels.
"We are urging Congress to write a balanced bill next year that meets the needs of preservation and new capacity, meets the needs of rural and urban America, and meets the needs for highways as well as transit," says John Horsley, AASHTO's executive director, in a written statement. "If we get a bill passed with these elements, we have a shot of meeting the country's needs.
"It's important to remember that for every dollar that we don't spend today to preserve highways, five years from now it will cost us $7," Horsley continues. "In addition, President Obama wants exports to lead our national economic recovery. But you can't move goods competitively to markets without a solid aviation, water, and rail system, and if we let those systems decline further, we won't be able to sustain that export-led growth. Bottom line: It's vital to the national economic recovery to have a world-class transportation system."
Here's a look at the top 10 transportation topics that we think will be part of the national conversation in 2011 – in the media, in government, and around the dinner table.
1. Enacting a long-term transportation bill that will keep America moving.
In 2010, there was a lot of talk about the need for a new long-term transportation bill, but in the end, Congress opted for a short-term extension until March 4 of the existing law. Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has said he would like a new bill ready for consideration in the spring. Short-term extensions can create difficulties for state departments of transportation who must juggle major, multi-year public works projects such as reconstructing bridges or interchanges. In addition, these projects require that states have secure, long-term financing before any contracts can be signed. A multitude of associations, states, counties, cities, businesses and highway users will continue to work to ensure that a balanced, long-term and multi-year bill is adopted in 2011.
2. Paying for the transportation system we need.
Although the need to pass a long-term bill is a significant priority for the country, the question often comes back to how we pay for it at the federal, state and local levels. Many states are facing severe cutbacks in funding used to match the federal contribution, compounding the overall funding problem. Work is expected to continue in the next Congress to adopt a series of sustainable funding sources for transportation infrastructure; identify state and federal responsibilities for the funding of transportation; and create innovative financing options such as infrastructure banks, public-private partnerships or subsidized bonding programs.
3. Ensuring Safer Roads.
Deaths from traffic accidents dropped significantly in 2010, but so did the number of cars and trucks on the highways. As the economy turns around, keeping our roads safe will be an ongoing challenge. In 2010, much of the emphasis from the U.S Department of Transportation and state DOTs focused on distracted driving. These efforts will continue. But in 2011, transportation agencies will have a chance to join with a national roadway safety effort – Toward Zero Deaths – intended to eliminate roadway fatalities completely. Toward Zero Deaths will be unveiled in 2011, and will take a comprehensive approach that combines aspects of new technology, roadway design, law enforcement, and cultural change to achieve this goal.
4. Moving on High-Speed Rail Grants.
State DOTs are working closely with railroads, Amtrak, and the Federal Railroad Administration to deliver on $8 billion in investment in high-speed and intercity passenger rail included in the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, as well as another $2.5 billion allocated to state programs in 2010 under the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act. As a result, states and their contractors are gearing up to begin work on an unprecedented level of investment in our nation's passenger rail system. Whether it is establishing a right-of-way for a new high-speed rail line, improving or expanding an existing intercity passenger rail line, or developing standards for rail cars that will boost American manufacturing, states are building passenger rail aimed at generating more convenient options for travelers.
5. Bringing modernization and new technologies to our transportation network.
2011 could mark the beginning of the era of smart cars, smart roads and smart construction. More "smart cars" on the road will help increase safety for all of us. And with new "whiz-bang" technologies using specialized materials, updated techniques and innovation, road builders and the transportation construction industry will be able to speed-up construction, reduce costs, and increase safety. AASHTO's new Green Book – A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets, the bible of transportation engineering – will be published in early summer. In addition, the next generation of air traffic controls – based on global-positioning satellite technology (GPS) instead of radar – will smooth air travel.
6. Moving freight to keep our communities more competitive in the global economy.
Grain grown in Nebraska moves by truck to a nearby railhead in Kansas, where it is loaded and sent to a barge floating down the Mississippi. Once at the international Port of New Orleans, it is sent to countries around the globe, part of an integrated system that depends on a well functioning transportation system. Problems such as too-narrow country roads, congested freeways, old, worn-out levees and ports with limited access pose significant challenges to our economic future. With the widening of the Panama Canal by 2014, ports along the eastern seaboard and in the Gulf of Mexico are gearing up to serve larger ships, that, in turn,will cut container shipment time from Asia to the Eastern United States, while placing new burdens on the existing and aging transportation system. 2011 could also be the year in which the United States adopts a national multi-modal freight plan.
7. Increasingly assertive environmental regulations.
Under the aegis of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing more stringent rules to control stormwater from transportation sources. Other regulations addressing air quality and other transportation-related issues are also expected in the year ahead, adding new challenges and financial pressures on construction, maintenance, and preservation. State departments of transportation are looking closely at their existing programs and many are instituting promising practices to address these new challenges.
8. Social Media Continues to Rock the Transportation World.
The Nebraska Department of Roads created a YouTube video that features some of its recent transportation construction projects set to original guitar licks. Washington State DOT has more than 12,000 Twitter followers. Fifteen states and 24 metropolitan areas along the I-95 Corridor, participate in www.i95travelinfo.net , and are offering speed and congestion information to travelers. Social media has hit the state departments of transportation, and in a big way. "Know Before You Go," transparency, and information are the hallmarks of the new outreach, and drivers are clamoring for more. Ahead: more targeted use of social media, with better communication and information being the end result.
9. New support systems to bolster renewable and reliable energy sources.
With the advent of electric vehicles, charging stations will begin to pop up to allow the driver to connect to the grid where vehicles park-street-side, garage or parking lot-and provide the car's onboard charger with the electricity it needs to refill the battery. AASHTO is working with the Pew Center on Global Climate Change on a project to integrate plug-in electric vehicles with the U.S. electricity grid, nationwide. Elsewhere in the transportation sector, opportunities to support energy and climate goals include vehicle technology, alternative fuels, transportation system operation and driver behavior, and reducing travel demand.
10. Wrapping up Recovery Act projects. What's next?
The Federal Highway Administration has reimbursed states and local governments almost $16.8 billion for thousands of projects completed under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), a.k.a. "the stimulus." As a result, Wyoming has paid out 94 percent of its ARRA highway funds, the most of any state. Oklahoma, South Dakota, Iowa, and Vermont have also spent more than 90% of their ARRA money. Twelve other states have spent 80 percent of their allocations. Which leaves two questions: With no additional funding coming to states for transportation projects, what's ahead for small (and large) transportation construction businesses and their workers in 2011? And how will state DOTs respond to their backlog of aging road, bridge, and transit projects? Examples of state projects and more data at https://recovery.transportation.org/.


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At this time of Fidel Castro's passing, we extend a hand of friendship to the Cuban people. We know that this moment fills Cubans – in Cuba and in the United States – with powerful emotions, recalling the countless ways in which Fidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him.
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For nearly six decades, the relationship between the United States and Cuba was marked by discord and profound political disagreements. During my presidency, we have worked hard to put the past behind us, pursuing a future in which the relationship between our two countries is defined not by our differences but by the many things that we share as neighbors and friends – bonds of family, culture, commerce, and common humanity. This engagement includes the contributions of Cuban Americans, who have done so much for our country and who care deeply about their loved ones in Cuba.
We offer condolences to Fidel Castro's family, and our thoughts and prayers are with the Cuban people. In the days ahead, they will recall the past and also look to the future. As they do, the Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of América.
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Basically no one picked the Chicago Sky to win the WNBA title when the playoffs started last month. The Sky barely broke even in the regular season, so they were a long shot, to say the least. But last night on ESPN, the Chicago Sky wrapped up a month of proving just about everyone wrong.
UNIDENTIFIED SPORTSCASTER: That's it. For the first time in franchise history, the Chicago Sky are WNBA champions.
MCCAMMON: The Sky's 80-74 win over the Phoenix Mercury last night earned the team its first title. And in its 25th season, the WNBA crowned one of its most unlikely champions. Here to talk about it is Chantel Jennings, senior writer at The Athletic.
CHANTEL JENNINGS: Thanks for having me, Sarah.
MCCAMMON: Did the Chicago Sky show any signs that they could be this good during the regular season?
JENNINGS: Well, it's funny because I actually picked the Sky as my preseason champion pick. And then basically, through the whole season, they made me look very, very silly because they seesawed between looking excellent and incompetent at times. And they had a seven-game winning streak. They had a seven-game losing streak. And so they just went through this season that ultimately ended up in them being .500 and sort of sneaking into the playoffs with the sixth seed.
MCCAMMON: So you were vindicated.
MCCAMMON: How'd they pull this off? What happened here?
JENNINGS: Well, so I think one of the things people need to know about the WNBA season is it's not very long. It's only 32 games. So when we say .500, that means 16-16. We're not talking about a Major League Baseball team that plays 162 regular season games or even an NBA team that might play 82. It was only 16 losses, and seven of those actually came when Candace Parker, the star who returned home for this team during free agency last year, was out with an ankle sprain. So the Sky weren't too far from being 20-12. But ultimately, I think it's a story of a team that found chemistry and momentum at the right time. And they actually credited some of those early season struggles to why they were able to weather storms in the postseason this year.
MCCAMMON: You mentioned Candace Parker. She grabbed the final rebound of the game as time ran out. She's been one of the league's brightest stars since she joined in 2008, really a star since she was in high school. Now she's a seasoned veteran for her hometown team. With all of that success, does it kind of feel like today is Candace Parker appreciation day?
JENNINGS: Well, there's already an official Candace Parker Day in Chicago, but I feel like probably there's a lot of people in Chicago right now - Chicago loves a winner. They haven't had a basketball championship since the late '90s. I'm sure there's a lot of people in Chicagoland that are checking out Portillo's because it's her favorite restaurant today in her honor.
MCCAMMON: And like we said at the top, this was the 25th WNBA season. Regular season ratings were up almost 50% over last year. Game two of the finals drew the largest TV audience for a WNBA game in four years. How is the WNBA surging like this when so many other sports have struggled to keep their audiences?
JENNINGS: Well, I think women's sports in general are sort of proving this season the old mantra - if you air it, people will watch. And that's especially true with women's sports. Like you said, viewership was up 50%. The finals games were sold out - almost 11,000 people in the stands, with celebrities on the sideline. Chance the Rapper, who's a Grammy winner, announced that if the Sky won the Championship, he would get a tattoo of the team's choosing. And so he said he's going to make good on that promise. And so this is a league that's really at an important point in its history. I think we're going to continue to see it grow. I think we're going to see expansion in the coming years.
JENNINGS: And it's really built.
MCCAMMON: All right. That's Chantel Jennings, senior writer at The Athletic.
Thank you so much.
JENNINGS: Thanks for having me.
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In this game, which is aimed at a more mainstream audience than parent game Geek Out!, you draw cards asking you to list a certain number of things which fall under a certain category: television, movies, music, literature, and more. Before you begin, however, the other players may try to steal your points (and bragging rights!) by bidding to list even more than the card requires. The bidding continues until one player is ready to "out-geek" their friends. Collect a predetermined number of cards, and you win!


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