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Wild About Math blogs 5/27/11
Welcome to Wild About Math blogs!
This is the last edition. If you'd like to put on your own personal Math blog carnival I recommend you follow the large list of blogs at Mathblogging.org and let us all know about the articles you like. I thought I had a pretty big list of Math blogs in my RSS reader; their list is much bigger. You can subscribe to parts or to all of their list via RSS and you can even follow the twitter feeds of a bunch of Math bloggers.
I discovered some really wonderful BBC Math radio shows. See here.
Math Teachers at Play Carnival #38 is up at Mathematics and Multimedia.
I've been spending time at the Math Pickle site, greatly enjoying the simple yet deep and difficult to solve Math puzzles and games there. The "inspired people" page is particularly noteworthy. There are some familiar faces on the page, Martin Gardner, Vi Hart, and James Tanton to name a few. And, there are a bunch of people I don't know much about who I'll have to read up on. Here's one inspired person from the list:
Leo Moser seems to have been the first person who advocated unsolved problems being used in K-12 education. He asked many tough problems with child-like zeal: "What's the area of the smallest house that a unit worm can live comfortably?" meaning what shape can cover a worm no matter how he curls up?
And, also from the Math Pickle site, is a video of a fun division game with some deep stuff going on beneath the surface.
Wild About Math blogs 5/20/11
Summer is coming to Santa Fe. Welcome to another edition of Wild About Math Blogs!
Check out the Mathematics and Multimedia Carnival #11 at Love of Learning Blog.
My Playing With Mathematica Blog is doing well. For a new blog, in a niche space, to have nearly 100 subscribers and over 100 article views per day in only three weeks is quite cool! If you're getting up to speed on Mathematica or even if you're a Mathematica whiz I think you'll like the blog.
I really like this essay at Without Geometry, Life is Pointless: Teaching Problem Solving, Part 1: Starting with a Good Problem. Here's the first of five characteristics:
The problem is accessible. It minimizes vocabulary and notation (and vocabulary and notation that does exist should simplify, not complicate). It should only be as precise as necessary. The problem should have multiple entry points, and include ways to collect data of some sort. It should have multiple methods that promote different learning styles and celebrate different ways of being smart. It may have multiple valid solutions.
Brent Yorgey, one of my very favorite Math bloggers, has a nice little proof by induction of a neat property of numbers in the Fibonacci series. This is a good example of proof by induction for those new to the technique.
The Wolfram Blog has a fascinating story: Former Microsoft CTO Uses Mathematica to Explore the Science of Modernist Cuisine.
Ever wondered how to grill the perfect steak? Or how well dunking food into an ice bath stops the cooking process? Nathan Myhrvold used Mathematica to answer these questions, and many others.
Myhrvold, the first chief technology officer at Microsoft, has had a longtime interest in cooking and has a background in science and technology. When he started using new techniques like sous vide, in which food is slowly cooked in vacuum-sealed bags in water at low temperature, he discovered that many chefs don't know much about the science behind cooking. He decided to change that with a massive cookbook that was released in March. In 2,438 pages, Modernist Cuisine covers a wide range of cooking techniques and their scientific backgrounds, including heat transfer and the growth of pathogens. (It has recipes, too.)
Wild About Math blogs 5/13/11
Welcome to the post-Mother's Day edition of Wild About Math Blogs!
Carnival of Mathematics #77 has been posted at Jost a Mon.
Scientific American just republished a wonderful article they originally published in 1961: The Mathematician as an Explorer. Hat tip to Shecky.
Murray at squareCircleZ has a very thought provoking article: Is there a place for invention in math?
Each time one prematurely teaches a child something he could have discovered for himself, that child is kept from inventing it and consequently from understanding it completely.
Statistics lovers might enjoy this little gem from xkcd:
Wild About Math blogs 5/6/11
Hello, everyone! Here's this week's blog roundup.
My new blog, Playing With Mathematica, is doing well. In only a week the blog has gotten 45 subscribers and 1,000 page views. Plus, I've been getting a good number of comments and participation from Mathematica wizards. There are three interactive notebooks on the site. My aim is to have two new notebooks each week. Come check it out.
Oxford University Press sent me a review copy of the revised and updated edition of their book, The Number Sense, by Stanislas Dehaene.
Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain.
I've not had a chance to read it but I see that the old edition has a number of reviews on Amazon and almost every single one is four or five stars. (The updated edition is too new to have many reviews.)
Wild About Math blogs 4/29/11
Welcome to another edition of Wild About Math blogs!
Playing With Mathematica has taken its maiden voyage. If you're a Mathematica lover, or wish you were, check out the new site. I'm engaging the community of Mathematica wizards to help me get up to speed and you benefit because I'll be taking apart Mathematica programs that do neat things and explaining them step by step in a Mathematica notebook. You will need Mathematica to open and interact with the notebooks so I realize that the site won't be for everyone. But, for many people, I believe it will fill an education gap.
math4love has a great article about algorithmic art, including a video of a "human algorithm." The article is of particular interest to me as I dive into Mathematica as I see Math+art as a great medium for exploration. Be sure to follow the links in the article.
Alfred Posamentier is a great writer of popular Math books. I've never seen him or heard him speak, until now.
Hat tip to Shecky.
Wild About Math blogs 4/22/11
Welcome to another edition of Wild About Math blogs!
I'm about to start a new blog about the intersection of Math+kids+exploration+programming+Mathematica.
I'm about to start a blog about programming with Mathematica as a way for kids (and adults) to get engaged with Math. I'm pretty new to Mathematica and I find myself getting stuck with some of the basics (which will make the new blog all the more valuable.)
If you have experience with Mathematica and can help me with writing some simple animations I would be incredibly grateful and, of course, I will acknowledge you in the blog and (if you like) I'll link to your site.
In the new blog I'll be writing how-to articles where I dissect some simple Mathematica code and show readers how to do neat explorations.
If you can help please drop me an email at
Wild About Math blogs 4/15/11
Here we go with another edition of Wild About Math Blogs!
Check out this impressive April Fool's video on complex numbers.
Hat tip to Dan.
Carnival of Mathematics #76 has been posted at Walking Randomly.
Check out this great sculpture with 80 pencils!
Wild About Math bloggers 4/8/11
Welcome to the April 8th edition of Wild About Math Bloggers!
What's special about Algebra II? The Washington Post reports that ...
Of all of the classes offered in high school, Algebra II is the leading predictor of college and work success, according to research that has launched a growing national movement to require it of graduates.
Hat tip to Shecky.
Try your hand at this problem that lends itself to proof by induction.
It is known that
is an integer number. Prove that is also an integer number for any integer n.
Discussion and hints: Use mathematical induction. First square the given integer number to show that is also an integer number, thus proving the statement for n = 2 .
Wild About Math bloggers 4/1/11
Welcome to April!
The 9th Mathematics and Multimedia Blog Carnival is hosted at Virtual Math Tutor. Check out this perpetual motion waterwheel I discovered at the Carnival:
Math Teachers at Play 36 is published at Math Hombre.
Check out the article (and video below) of a 12-year old physics genius. The article title refers to the boy as autistic but, if you read the article, you'll learn that the boy has Asperger's Syndrome. HUGE difference. (Hat tip to Shecky.)
Wild About Math bloggers 3/25/11
Welcome to Spring!
Conrad Wolfram writes about how the usability of the Wolfram Demonstration site has been greatly improved:
Our "knowledge app" site demonstrations.wolfram.com was completely redesigned to use the inline Mathematica 8 or free Wolfram Player plug-in rather than having to open a separate window (alongside various other changes).
This apparently small plug-in change makes a big usability difference and by the same token, it changed the site workflow quite a bit. It also required the latest version of Player--just releasing too--and itself quite a feat of engineering.
Division by Zero has an exploration of Albrecht Dürer's ruler and compass constructions.
These constructions are definitely Geogebra-worthy.


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Book 6 – Allie Beckstrom
Zayvion stretched out in my bed wearing nothing but his boxers under the covers. He lay on his side, elbow propped under his head, wide, bare shoulders blocking most of the view of my door and apartment beyond. I faced him, wearing boy shorts and tank top, the covers tucked under my free arm.
We were not touching. We were not talking. We were at war.
"Two out of three?" Never go into battle without laying basic ground rules.
"Fair," he said.
Zay threw rock; I threw scissors. Damn.
"One," Zay said.
I threw paper; Zay threw rock.
"Mine." I looked into his eyes, brown and filled with that gold fire that came from using magic. And let me tell you, he'd been using it very nicely over the last three days since we'd sealed the undead magic users in Maeve's Inn. Three days we'd spent almost entirely in bed.
We both knew our rest would be short-lived. Victor had called last night and asked me to come down so he could talk to my dead dad, who was possessing my mind. Wanted to know what my dad knew about the solid Veiled—dead magic users who used the disks my dad invented to reclaim bodies.
Yesterday, the higher members of the Authority—Victor, Maeve, Hayden, and a few others—had broken the magical lock on the inn my dad had left there. They transported the solid Veiled to the secret prison the Authority uses to deal with magic users who break the law.
Leander, who had followed me into this world through death's gate, had not been among them.
Zay had been angry he hadn't been asked to help. Shame, the only one of us who they requested go along, didn't talk much about it afterward. All he'd said was: "Freaks are still alive-ish. We have no idea how to remove the disks. Victor will probably want to ask your da about that, and what he knows about Leander. But that place . . . that prison?" He'd shaken his head. "Nothing can break out of those walls."
I was actually glad I hadn't been a part of that. Those people had died once. As far as I was concerned, they had no right to be living again—especially when they were bent on killing me and my friends.
I didn't want Victor or anyone else digging in my head to talk to my dad about undead magic users, but there were still disks out there that could be used to create more solid Veiled. And the longer we waited to find those disks, and whoever was behind the undead using them, the higher chance we'd have of more solid Veiled to deal with.
"Still with me?" Zay asked.
"Sorry. Tie breaker?"
"Winning hand." He gave me a quick smile, then schooled his face into that impenetrable Zen mask.
"Think that's going to throw me?"
"That Zen thing."
"What Zen thing?"
"You know what I'm talking about. It won't work. How many times do I have to tell you, you are the easiest man in the world to read, Mr. Zayvion Jones?"
One eyebrow quirked. "Bring it."
It's one of the most underrated survival skills in history—winning at rock, paper, scissors. Zay had thrown rock twice in a row. Would he stick with his game and throw it again? Or would he expect me to think he would and instead throw scissors to cut my paper?
I studied his eyes, his lips, his smile. Nothing.
We fist pumped one, two, three.
I threw paper.
Zayvion Jones threw rock.
"A-ha!" I crowed. "I win. I'd like my eggs scrambled, toast buttered, and coffee hot."
"You get a bowl of stale cereal."
"Oh, no. Hot breakfast was the deal."
"True." He pushed the covers down a little, kicking his feet free. "What do you think about omelets?"
"I'm pro-omelet if there's cheese involved. If not, then I'm totally on scrambled's side."
"Maybe I'll make a nice, slow quiche." He leaned over me, forcing me to roll onto my back.
I made a face. "I don't like quiche."
"I can make you like quiche."
He kissed me, soft, easy. Moved down to my neck and the edge of my breast and kissed me there, his teeth catching my nipple.
"No, you can't," I gasped. Which was a lie. When he kissed me like that, I was pretty sure he could make me like anything.
"Tell me you want quiche."
"I want coffee."
"And quiche?"
"Scrambled," I breathed.
He grinned. "Stubborn, stubborn, stubborn." His lips pressed against mine, silencing my objections and sending a pulse of heat coiling down my spine. I squirmed to get my hands free, then wrapped my arms around his wide back, ready for more than just a kiss. His muscles bunched under my palms as I dragged fingers over his skin, silently thankful for how quickly he was recovering from the coma. I slipped my fingers up into the soft, short curls at the back of his head and shifted so our bodies fit together as one.
His mouth remained soft, easy, slow. Too slow.
I wanted out of my clothes. Wanted him out of his. I caught at the waistband of his boxers and drew them down just enough I could stroke the edge of his hip bones.Finally, his tongue dragged delicious warmth across my lips. I opened my mouth and his tongue dipped deeper. A shock of need rolled beneath my skin, and I caught my breath.
Oh, baby. If he kept kissing me like that, I'd eat all the quiche he wanted to cook.
Then he pulled away, dragging all of the covers with him.
"Wait, where are you going?"
"Those omelets aren't going to cook themselves. Deal was hot breakfast." He mercilessly shucked the covers down to the foot of the bed and grinned.
Cold air sent goose bumps over my bare legs and arms. "Oh, you are such a sore loser. Winner gets to stay in bed—warm." I sat and crawled down for the covers, bringing them back up over my shoulders. It was ten o'clock in the morning. I wasn't planning to get out of bed until noon if at all possible.
"Sore loser? You do know I let you win?"
"You did not."
"Throwing rock three times in a row? Yes, I did. You make your eggs too runny."
"I cannot believe you are critiquing my kitchen skills in my own home."
"Not your skills. Just your eggs." He stood. "Since you're awake, how about winner sets the table?"
"Winner doesn't want a formal breakfast."
He strode out of the room wearing nothing but his boxers and the fine skin he'd been born with, though he grabbed a T-shirt from the dresser top.
"Not feeding it to you in bed," he called back. "Again."
I smiled and snuggled deeper into the blankets. "Didn't want you to." Okay, that was a lie. Even though breakfast in bed would be a really nice way to begin the day, it was probably time to start behaving like regular people instead of honeymooners.
I took a minute to stretch out and hog the bed all to myself. Zay's half was still warm and smelled of his cologne. I closed my eyes and savored the uncommon sensation of not hurting, not worrying, and not running for my life.
Things were good in my life. Right here, right this minute. It felt good to be happy. And I wanted it to last forever.
The sizzle of bacon hitting the pan made me smile, and then the salt and maple aromas were joined by the rich, almost chocolate scent of fresh brewed coffee.
I knew I should get out of bed. If not to set the table, maybe to harass Zay while he cooked. But the bed felt too good to leave behind. Just five minutes more of blankets and bliss.
I woke to the sound of my front door opening.
We weren't expecting anyone. Maybe Shame decided to drop in. I heard voices. Two. Zay and a man I couldn't quite place. My landlord?
I got out of bed and put my robe on over my shorts and tank. I strolled into the living room. Zay stood in the middle of the room, his back toward me, hands up and out to the side.
It was not my landlord who had walked into my apartment.
It was Dane Lanister, Sedra's bodyguard. He was not a handsome man, his eyes too close together in his long, squared-off face, his lips too thin, but he had that thief or professional hit man way of fading into the crowd. His clothes were indistinct—slacks and a gray jacket—and even though he was a member of the Authority, he'd been absent since before we fought the Veiled. I'd last seen him during the wild-magic storm when Jingo Jingo, my ex–Death-magic teacher and current Authority betrayer, had kidnapped Sedra.
The gun in his hand was new too.
He lifted the gun and aimed it at both of us.
"Don't move, don't cast magic, and don't make a sound, or I will kill you both."
Magic is fast. Bullets are faster. And neither Zay nor I was in any shape to dodge bullets.
I held very still, the thump of my own heartbeat in my ears so loud, I almost couldn't hear Dane over the noise of it. How had he gotten in? I realized it wouldn't have been hard. Last I knew, last Zay knew, Dane was a good guy. One of the people in the Authority who was trying to make sure magic was safe for everyone. There was no reason to suspect he would want to point a gun at us.
"We are going to do this quietly," he said. "Very quietly."
He stepped into the room, and two other men, one who looked like he wrestled in the heavyweight division and another, shorter man who looked like he could take him, followed behind. I didn't know them, or at least I didn't think I did. They shut the door, and it made no sound. Mute spells.
They were using magic to make sure no one above or below us heard what was happening.
"I have business with you, Allison," Dane said. "Something I should have finished months ago. Don't," he said to Zay, who had opened his mouth and inhaled, "or I will shoot her between the eyes this time."
This time? My stomach twisted, and I wanted to vomit. I didn't know what other time he was talking about, but I had two bullet scars I didn't remember receiving. And even though I had no memory of him shooting me, my body—my adrenaline—made it clear he was responsible for at least one of my scars.
Zay did not move, did not twitch a muscle, did not cast magic, did not say a thing.
I tried to pick up the pieces of my brain, to think of what I could do to stop this so we didn't wind up dead. What weapons did I have? Magic. But I'd have to move to use it, and then I'd be dead.
I knew Zayvion was going over the possibilities too. I wasn't touching him, so I had no idea what he was thinking. We couldn't read each other's minds enough for this to be a coordinated effort.
The two men strode across the room, smiling and silent, straight toward Zayvion. Without breaking stride, they both flicked their fingers, releasing an Illusion they'd been holding. I could hear more people behind us, maybe two—no, three.
They'd used Illusion to give them time to spread out into the room. Illusion so well cast, I couldn't smell the magic they were using for it. There could be an army of people in the room right now, with guns, knives, and swords at our backs.
My skin crawled. It was everything I could do not to turn and look, but Dane's gun was unwavering. Soft footsteps scuffled across the carpet. I counted up to six intruders in the room. Two in front closing in fast on Zayvion, maybe three behind doing the same, and Dane, still just on this side of the closed door, the barrel of his gun steady, finger on the trigger.
They hit Zayvion from behind. The Mute spell made sure I didn't hear what they hit him with. It might have been magic. It might have been a crowbar. He grunted and crumpled to the floor, unconscious.
"Eyes on me, Beckstrom."
I did as he said, trying to see what they were doing to Zayvion with my peripheral vision. No luck.
"What do you want?" I asked.
I heard the ratchet of handcuffs opening, and then Zay was dragged to the far corner of my living room toward the radiator.
I chanced a look over my shoulder.
"Your attention, Allison," Dane said calmly, far too calmly, "or I will shoot you. You don't have to be standing for what I want out of you."
Zay was bleeding, out cold. Five men, not four, were handcuffing, gagging, and blindfolding him. They all had guns too. I heard the meaty thump of a boot slamming into muscle. Probably ribs. I hoped it was just ribs.
I turned back to Dane. Furious. I didn't know how, but I was going to take him down.
"What the hell do you think you're doing? Do you even know what will happen to you when the Authority finds out about this?" Buying time, really. I didn't care what he thought was going to happen. I needed a minute to figure out what I could do to him and his five friends without hurting Zay. In theory, I could call on enough magic to burn this place to the ground. I had enough magic at my fingertips, even without the small magic I'd sacrificed in death to do it. But I'd have to pay just as big a price as the spell I cast, and then I'd be nothing but ashes and burnt bones.
I didn't have any weapons—which scared the hell out of me, and that, in turn, only made me more angry.
I was good at angry.
He motioned with the gun. "Now that Zayvion is out of the way, you have two choices. Do what I tell you to do, or bleed."
If I lifted my hand to cast magic, I'd be on the ground bleeding. And I did not want to fall to the floor with six angry, armed men in the room.
"All right," I said. "What do you want?"
Dad? I thought. I knew he was still there, still in my mind. But he had been silent for three days. Either he was too weak to help, or he was hiding from Dane. I didn't think Dane knew my dad was in my head.
No, he had to know. I'd been trying to convince everyone in the Authority my dad was in my head for months now. Great.
"You are a problem," Dane said. "And the easiest way to get rid of a problem is to kill it. Simple, efficient, gone. A gun to the back of the head, a knife through the spine, magic to boil your blood, crush your skull, stop your heart. The kind of death we gave your father, Greyson and I. The kind of death I will give you. But first, I want to know where Daniel is keeping Sedra."
Holy crap. I knew Greyson was a part of my dad's murder, along with James Hoskil, but I did not know who else had been involved—had no idea Dane had been involved.
"My dad's dead," I said, anger steadying my voice. "He's not keeping Sedra anywhere. Jingo Jingo has her."
"A technicality. Jingo is working for your father. Carrying out what I admit is a very comprehensive plan to hold Sedra hostage and use her as sacrifice to bring Mikhail back into power. I don't know what Daniel intends to get out of that. And I don't care. Tell me where she is."
"I don't know. Dad never told me his plans."
"Oh, he told you. You may not remember it." He paced toward me. "Daniel was paranoid about how much information any one person should be allowed to access. But not you. He told everything to you. You just don't remember."
He stopped. Not close enough for me to make a grab for his gun, but close enough that I could smell the old-vitamin stink of him. One sniff and a wash of fear rolled through me. I remembered that smell. That smell meant pain. Even though I was furious, a whimper filled my throat.
"The information, your father's information, is in your head," he said with a tight smile. "All I have to do is pull it out of you."
The men behind me were moving. I couldn't hear them, but I felt their footsteps vibrating beneath my bare feet, coming closer.
"Your father Closed you many times. Used you. He's been taking your memories away since the accident when you were five years old."
A high ringing started in my ears; my heartbeat thrummed behind it. I was breathing too fast. I didn't know if I was angry, panicked, or about to be sick. I didn't remember an accident. I didn't remember my dad Closing me.
That didn't mean those things hadn't happened.
He had to be lying. He had to be trying to knock me off my footing, to break me down so he could get me to tell him where Sedra was.
I didn't want to believe the bastard, but I knew, somehow I knew, every word was the truth.
His eyebrows lifted. "You didn't know, did you?" He shook his head. "He never even trusted you with that much. Isn't that sad? And now he's in there, isn't he? Filling up the holes in you he's been making for himself all these years. Taking up the room he's carved out in you."
"I told you I don't know where Sedra is," I said. "We're all looking for her. If you'd been here the last few weeks, you'd know that. Where have you been? Why haven't you been helping us look for her?"
"I know who my allies are," he snapped. He lifted the gun slightly, aiming at my head. Then, in a voice clipped with anger: "Tell your father I want to talk to him."

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For the past several months I have been working on consolidating my three websites—which is at least two too many for someone who isn't selling anything! But since I finished Yoga Teacher Training earlier this year, I thought it would be a good idea to have one site that incorporates some of what I am doing these days: teaching yoga, leading yoga retreats/rituals and writing a blog. I am very excited to give you a tour and let me know what you think.
We (I worked with an excellent website designer who has designed my past websites—her name and link is at the bottom of every page) came up with a banner for the top in colors that I love. She designed the logo to combines both yoga and the spiritual aspects of my life (after all they are all related anyway. We placed it between my first and last name, playing on my full name: Heidi BK Sloss. I changed my name when I got married and use the middle initials of BK to honor my father as these are his initials when I changed my maiden name to my husband's.
he HOME page has links to all sorts of information, but before you start jumping around, scroll down, take a look at the beautiful mandala buttons we created or scroll even further and take a look at the gorgeous photo. Do you think it is a sunset or a sunrise? And below that is a short blurb about my current focus.
Each beautiful mandala button takes you to a page that has information about what I am up to:
THE ART OF LIVING FULLY BLOG: Here are posts by me about various ideas and inspirations as well as posts about places we have traveled to.
YOGA: This page describes why practice yoga and explains some of my teaching philosophy. It also has information about where I am teaching and how to work with me on the yoga mat.
RETREATS: One of my goals is to offer both local and international yoga healing retreats. I am in the process of exploring sites in the San Francisco Bay area as well as some more tropical and/or exotic locations.
SPEAKER/AUTHOR: As some of you know I used to work as a marketing consultant/business strategist and I wrote a best-selling book five years ago. Because the book is still generating calls for me to give presentations, I wasn't quite ready to let it go. This mandala button links to information about my book, where to buy it and my background as a Business Consultant.
There are also some links at the top of each page, above the mandala buttons, below my banner.
Reading left to right:
The HOME link takes you to the HOME page
The ABOUT link has a very short bio and a photo that my husband took when we went to Maui year.
The HEIDI'S BLOG link takes you to THE ART OF LIVING FULLY BLOG page.
The RITUALS link takes you to information about the importance of rituals to mark important occasions in our lives, shows some photos from rituals and gives some examples that I offer.
The YOGA, YOGA RETREATS and SPEAKER/AUTHOR links each take you to those pages.
And the CONTACT link allows you to contact me for information and or feedback.
Thank you for taking this short tour of my new website. I hope you like it as much as I do. Would love to hear your feedback!
As a blogger, I enjoy sharing my ideas and thoughts with people, and I get a special thrill when someone leaves a comment. When you share my posts on social media sites, I jump up and down doing a happy dance. So thank you!


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CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Dozens of aircraft from multiple countries continue the search for the missing Malaysian Airliner that literally disappeared without a trace Saturday. 22News talked to travelers about whether tragedies like this one make them think twice when boarding a plane.
Almost three days after the Malaysia Airlines plane vanished, investigators have very little information to work with. We're learning more about the 239 people who were on board, including three Americans, but still not a clue as to where the plane is or what caused its disappearance.
That red eye was traveling in relatively clear conditions when communication was lost somewhere between Malaysia and Vietnam. Investigators believe the pilot may have changed course before it went down, but made no indication of that.
Travelers told 22News it's a terrible tragedy, but seems like an isolated incident.
"The only time I'd be worried is if there was something wrong with the model of aircraft. With the 787 there were issues with batteries. It's sad what happened in Malaysia but I don't think it affects air travel elsewhere," said Pariksheet Nanda, a traveler who takes several flights a month.
"I have family that lives all over so I travel both here and in Europe. I don't get concerned. Something can happen in a car or in your home or anything. I just black it out and don't think about it and go see my family," said another traveler.
Two men on board were traveling with stolen passports. It's unclear whether they had anything to do with the plane's disappearance, but investigators are now looking at hijacking as a possibility.


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I have changed plugs cap rotor fuel pump and fuel pump relay. The car runs great above 1500 rpm but below that it stalls. The car is a brat with a 1800 turbo engine. I have also notice the voltage from the alternator is low but had it checked and it checks out ok. The coil just recently stopped putting out a spark as well. The distributor turns and there in 12v going to the coil. Please help with my electrical problems.
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by Belo Cipriani
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One of the first sounds I learned to detect and fully understand was the song of a screaming ambulance. As a little boy, I would run toward the window every time that scary noise appeared in my simple world. I would glance back at my mom, my hand flat on the glass, and eagerly await a response. Mom would sadly answer, "Someone's hurt; we should close our eyes and pray for them." As I got older, I realized these massive sound waves didn't just alert one of another's injury, but, in many cases, they shouted that death was nearby and lingering. As I journeyed through different parts of the world, I was quite intrigued to notice that despite the language spoken, that high-pitched tune had the same meaning in every quaint small town and every grand metropolis.
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"With humor and passion, Belo journeys from darkness to light."
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"In this intriguing biographical account, we learn along with Belo Cipriani that there's a lot more to life than meets the eye – much in the same way that Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince has taught generations that, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
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So, I'm at the critical point of the evening where I need to make a dinner decision immediately, or else I'll end up wandering through the "Now Playing" list on Tivo, grazing on potato chips and other sundries, or just knitting the body of my sock. Just typing that makes me want to hop into the car and head over to my long-lost knitting night. They serve food there and it would be nice to catch up the gang.
See, blogging doesn't ruin lives. It's improving mine tonight. That means I won't go into details about what I was doing 24 hours ago and why I'm really sunburned. A long day of synchronized swimming (two performances and two practices) with a midday break for fast-food and friends over to watch Amelie. Besides the dermatological damage, my passion for the pool was rekindled.


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Discussion in 'NFL Draft' started by Tim, Mar 15, 2014.
Lol you really haven't watched him play have you? This is completely bs
Actually I have several times.
but he bangs so many whores!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a true alpha.
Did you ever watch Wilson at Wisconsin? In what world do you did any similarities... Lol your espn scouting has you all ****ed up. They don't play anything alike. It's a cute idea to peg but it's so obviously wrong. Wilson came into the league with very little wrong mechanically. Ran a run heavy pro style offense in college as well. If he would have been a few inches taller he was an easy first round pick.
NONE of these things scream "run around like a fairy and throw arm punts and 50/50 balls to a legit first round WR. He has elite protection and 5 years to throw...
But nice try Mel Kiper of the Go titans world.
Manziel does not have a weak arm.
That is not analysis. That is stupid. "Runs around like a fairy" makes you sound 10 years old.
Manziel completed 595 passes in 2 seasons, 69% of his attempts he did not complete almost 600 passes throwing hail mary type passes. He did have a good offensive line.
Manziel did not win the heisman by running gimmick plays. He destroyed Oklahoma in that cotton bowl, they simply could not stop him.
He gets away with so much bs considering defenses can't exactly rush him like they really would. They play soft and contain. His line has been retarded good. He does run like a fairy. If I ever had to graphically design a fairy running I would use him as a mock up.
He does not play anything remotely like Wilson. So quit that comparison. You think the 207 5'11 was a coincidence? That was agent built comparison from the get.
Let someone else have Manziel...he'll soon be known as Johnny College Football


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On Friday, Jim Harbaugh said it's "unlikely" quarterback Alex Smith will be released.
Did you hear that, Chiefs? Are you listening, Browns? How about you, Cardinals, Jets and Jaguars?
As expected, Harbaugh presented two scenarios for how the 49ers would proceed with Smith in the offseason, and neither involved parting ways without netting something in return.
"We think we've got the best quarterback situation in the National Football League," Harbaugh said at the NFL combine in Indianapolis. "I feel strongly about that. Again, that will be a process that plays out. Alex Smith continuing to be a 49er, or if a trade occurs in the next weeks and months. Those are the two possibilities, most likely possibilities."
Are the 49ers really prepared to keep good-soldier Smith in clipboard-holding mode and pay him $8.5 million to do so in 2013?
That seems unlikely. But why announce that to quarterback-starved teams holding out hope that Smith will be released and could be acquired without the loss of a draft pick or picks?
Two days after the Super Bowl, Harbaugh took a similar – if slightly less definitive – stance when asked if the 49ers would grant Smith his release.
"I don't think any player has those wishes granted that are under contract," he said. "And everything is different. Every scenario is unique, and certainly something that we're not going to delve into and get into specifics at this point."
Manningham update: Harbaugh said he didn't think wide receiver Mario Manningham would be ready to participate in the start of training camp, according to Comcast SportsNet Bay Area and the Sacramento Bee.
Manningham sustained torn anterior and posterior cruciate knee ligaments on Dec. 23. At the Super Bowl, where he was still on crutches, he said he underwent surgery in mid-January.
Another 49ers wide receiver, Kyle Williams, has said he'll be ready for training camp after sustaining a torn ACL on Nov. 25.
Talking about practice: Harbaugh took a 50-mile trek to Bloomington, Ind., this week to see his brother-in-law, Indiana basketball coach Tom Crean, and watch the Hoosiers practice.
Indiana is 24-3 and ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press Top 25.
"It made me want to be a better coach – it made me want to have better practices," Harbaugh said. "One of the finest practices I've seen a football or basketball team go through. … It was a 2 1/2-hour practice and there was no grab-assing going on.
"The attention was there. Coaches coaching players and players coaching each other – holding each other accountable. It was real good. I got some good notes and want to make some of our practices better."
On Friday, Crean, via Twitter, sounded fired up about Harbaugh's visit: "Jim Harbaugh was here for practice yesterday. Every1 loved it. He had his #iubenchmob tshirt on uner the 49er sweatshirt. He is invested."
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I have another project that I've made with my little visitor to share today and this one comes with a cut file for you. I made some Door Handle Hangers, there are 2 designs to chose from so they should fit on any style of Door Handle that you may have. The one we made today is for my little helper to take home and hang on her bedroom door :)
First we chose one of the designs and cut it from some chipboard. I cut the shape twice more from some patterned paper remembering to mirror one as I was using single sided paper. I glued the paper to both sides of my chipboard and it was ready to decorate.
To decorate ours, we used the heart from the heart easel card and layered the little girls name over the top (I blanked it out in the photo). We finished the decoration with some glitter paper, ribbon and heart sparkles.
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A list of biodiversity institutes is a resource for researchers
Our sister site, SavingSpecies has published a directory of biodiversity institutes around the world. The list includes 27 organizations whose primary mission is related to biodiversity and science. The list is open access for all who might benefit from a one-stop directory. The list is also available for additions and editing so that it can keep track of new institutions. Scientists, researchers, job-seekers and funding agencies could benefit from the list.
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I'm so happy we made it to autumn. This is my absolute favourite time of year. Cool mornings and evenings, crisp air filled with the smell of freshly fallen leaves. Oh, and kids back in school 🙂
DS started grade one at a new school last Wednesday. This was huge for him (and me). I think I may have been more nervous than he. It took me an hour to pack his lunch (don't ask) and all the while I kept thinking how fast everything flew by. I could have sworn my little guy was just a baby a few months ago. Now, he's off to grade one. He had a great first day, loved his class, and his 'big kid' school. HUGE relief! I still have the almost-two-year old at home with me, so the days are packed.
This wasn't the best of summers, so I am happy to see it go. Radiation for my dad ended the last week of August, and in December he will hopefully get the all-clear. He's looking good, so that's a nice indicator that he should be fine. We managed to squeeze in one last trip to the beach before school for the kids, so that makes me feel a little better that the boring summer for the kids ended on a high note.
As for my writing…well it's been a challenge. For the first time in a long, long time, I've really struggled with productivity. The whole summer was filled with chaos, lack of routine, and those daily trips to the hospital. And it's taken it's toll. I feel like I'm finally getting back into the swing of things. And boy do I need to…
I'm gearing up for a huge year-I'm working on a super secret project (I can't believe I'm actually writing that), as well as finishing up a proposal that should have been done a while ago, and I'm waiting to hear on a proposal that was sent in during the summer. My first book releases in November! As soon as I have the title I'll share…
Now that routine is back, I'm starting my 5am wake-ups again…and I do love them. The trick to making them work though, is by being asleep by 11pm. I know that this 5 am slot is my time, without any of the interruptions and unexpected duties that the day inevitably brings. And it's nice to know that some word count has been done by the time DD and I are walking DS to school.
Here's to a happy, healthy, productive autumn….with plenty more blog posts!


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My guild has been progressing Siegecrafter for the last couple of resets or so. Coming close to 200 wipes now ><, for some funked up reason we have gone with empowered mines tac (even though we don't have the ideal setup for some of the raids). I am the tank dealing with the first 2 shredders with 3 & 4 stacks. I have no problem killing the add when boss is tanked at shredders spawn location, but tonights raid i think we will be trying the tac of tanking him by the belt. This results in me having a bit less up time on shredder, therefore he will die a bit slower than normal. We are attempting to solo heal it with a mw monk.
So on to the point of this post , would dropping 4 set and gaining more crit help in the killing of the shredder much? atm i alternate HA & AW and do the ES about a second into his cast of death from above. He dies within a second or 2 of landing. But this won't happen when i have to run to him to pick him up and get him to a sawblade, resulting in an extra electro thingy raid damage going of, i want to try and avoid this if i can. Will gaining a bit more crit make much of a difference? i already reforge mastery to crit with my 4 set. Trinkets i use are spark hc & whip hc, been quite lucky this tier with trinkets and have all options from SoO available on hc, but spark still feels like the best choice?


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Many US Voters Fear 'Foreign Oil,' But Should They?
As the findings of a recent Rasmussen Reports survey of likely voters indicate, energy policy is among the Top 10 issues for the U.S. electorate.
Recognizing the issue's appeal to voters, political candidates and elected officials of various persuasions regularly tout their policy ideas for the country to achieve "energy security" and/or "energy independence." The two terms are not synonymous.
"Energy independence" corresponds to a country being self-sufficient in terms of supplying its own oil, natural gas, coal and other fuels for transportation and electricity. "Energy security," meanwhile, refers to its having reliable and affordable access to vital energy sources – whether they are produced domestically or abroad -- to meet its needs.
The central argument for those espousing energy independence is often that the United States needs to end its reliance on "foreign oil." As figures from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) show, the volume of U.S. oil imports actually has been declining since peaking in 2005. Frequently cited reasons for the decrease include lower demand during the economic downturn, changing consumer behavior and increasing domestic production. The latter factor is expected to remain on an upward path. In January of this year, EIA projected that domestic oil production will increase by 20 percent by the year 2020. Moreover, EIA forecasted that the United States will become an overall net exporter of natural gas the following year.
Despite the changing U.S. oil import picture, "foreign oil" appears to be a lingering concern for Americans.
Fear of 'Foreign Oil'
In the fall of 2011, the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business released the findings of its inaugural Energy Poll that examines consumer attitudes and perspectives on energy issues. The results of the poll, conducted by the business school's Energy Management and Innovation Center (EMIC), concluded that a clear majority (84 percent) of the 3,400-plus American consumers surveyed were worried about U.S. consumption of "foreign oil." A subsequent survey of 2,371 individuals this past spring found overall support for political candidates in favor of measures aimed at producing energy from domestic sources such as natural gas and renewables.
"People indicated their top concern was dependence on foreign oil," said Tanya Andrien, EMIC's associate director, adding that the sentiment appears to be stronger among respondents who tend to participate in elections.
"People who actually vote most or all of the time showed a greater concern [52 percent very concerned] for this than people who don't [36 percent very concerned], which is significant at 99 percent confidence level," Andrien said.
Is Energy-Independence Possible or Even Desirable?
Although the U.S. has made progress in producing more of its oil and gas at home, a national security expert with The Independent Institute maintains that growing domestic oil production likely will not totally wean the United States off much-maligned "foreign oil" in the foreseeable future.
"The U.S. is most dependent on foreign sources of oil for vehicle transportation, but even that is being reduced by new technology to exploit oil in the U.S.," said Ivan Eland, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center on Peace and Liberty with the Oakland, Calif.-based think tank. "Nevertheless, the U.S. will not become independent of foreign oil anytime soon."
In fact, Eland challenges claims by policymakers that U.S. energy independence would be good for American consumers. In a recent commentary, he argued that energy independence is "a canard and not even desirable."
"Politicians of both parties who endorse energy independence as a goal don't tell consumers that even in the unlikely event that they could achieve it, it would increase the price of energy greatly," said Eland, pointing out that protectionist measures inevitably increase prices for any item.
"For example, the U.S. buys some of its oil from Saudi Arabia because it is much cheaper to produce than the relatively expensive U.S. supplies. Thus, shutting off foreign oil would significantly raise the price to the consumer."
Eland also dispels the view that energy independence is essential for the United States to achieve energy security. He reasons that "huge incentives" exist for people and countries to sell oil and other commodities on the world market.
"The two main alleged threats to energy security are that the U.S. would not have enough oil to run its military or its economy [or, in the latter case, that it would be too expensive]," said Eland. "We have enough oil within the U.S. many times over to run the U.S. military, even fighting two medium-sized wars simultaneously."
Eland added the attractiveness of selling oil in an international market has even thwarted threats to energy security such cartels or embargoes.
"Because there is a worldwide market for oil and incentives to cheat on any cartel or embargo, neither have ever been successful," Eland said. "The U.S. will always be able to get oil, but sometimes the price will be elevated."
"[F]ortunately, research shows that contrary to conventional wisdom, industrial economies are resistant to oil price shocks, Eland added, pointing out the same is true for other price shocks.
"Therefore, with a working global market, energy independence is not needed for energy security."
In fact, Eland sees the U.S. energy security as "usually relatively good, especially if we rely on the market to bring us oil and not resort to armed force."
"Wars fought for oil are usually counterproductive by taking oil off the market, thus increasing the price," continued Eland.
"[P]aradoxically, the best way to secure oil is not to defend it," Eland concluded. "Let the market work. Besides, oil and other energy exports have been routed around war and even through it. So the market does work, even in the face of foreign threats to it."
Steps Toward Self-Sufficiency
"We'll never be [energy-]independent in the world economy because we're always trading with others," said Rayla Dougher, senior economic advisor of media relations with the American Petroleum Institute (API). However, she pointed out that U.S. public policy initiatives such as increasing access to onshore and offshore oil and gas resources and granting full approval to TransCanada's Keystone XL oil pipeline project would bring the country "a very long way toward self-sufficiency, a much more stable oil market, more jobs and more government revenue."
Dougher said that federal permitting delays have been particularly frustrating for exploration and production companies. Onshore, specifically on federal lands in the West, Dougher said that leasing and permitting have fallen dramatically. She pointed out the Bureau of Land Management granted 1,053 drilling leases in the region in 2009/2010 compared to 1,874 in 2007/2008 -- a 44-percent decrease. Offshore, 87 percent of federal acreage is off-limits to drilling, Dougher added.
API estimates that increasing access to currently off-limits oil and natural gas resources, along with returning to historical levels of development on existing U.S. production areas, would boost U.S. crude oil production by more than 1.4 million barrels per day by 2020 and 6.2 million barrels per day 10 years later. As a point of reference, U.S. oil production was 8.93 million barrels per day and the total U.S. liquid fuel supply was 19.22 million barrels per day in 2010.
Assuming that the Keystone XL project obtains a permit from the U.S. Department of State, API projects that an additional 700,000 to 830,000 barrels per day of crude oil could be available to the U.S. market within the decade.
"What we're looking for is practical, realistic rules and regulations," concluded Dougher. "We can make a difference with policy."
Matthew V. Veazey has written about the upstream and downstream O&G sectors for more than a decade. Email Matthew at email@example.com.
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I have been using Wardflex for the past 3 or 4 years. never had a punctured line. Its all about how you install it. In that video the lines are way too close to the roof. That is just stupid. All you have to do is slow down and think. Besides, the inspector should have caught that.
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Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
Been plumbing 21+ years...only once have I ran WardFlex, and that's 1 too many.
Everything else is Black Iron and will be this way till I lay my tools down for the last time.Northern Kentucky Plumbers Twitter Feed | Plumbing Videos
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Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
couldn't open the link, but all csst piping has an installation standard that is there for a purpose.
any pipe can be penetrated. including steel gas pipe. a proper hit with a nail gun while nailing shear wall/ plywood will penetrate steel pipe.
seen it done. there are even pneumatic guns that shoot into concrete now.
if the proper installation standards are followed, there would be no way to hit the pipe.
once again i couldn't open the link, but roofers and csst sounds like an installation issue.
rick.phoebe it is
Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
Didn't watch video but about 3 years ago went on a call at an apt. complex "excessive gas bill" in one of the units, About 20 units as I recall. Tankless water heaters had been installed, The plumber co. ran 1.5" csst off the individual gas meters up the outside wall ( 2 story) into the attic thru the roof eave blocking 2x4. Roofers came along @6 months later and shot nails into the csst which was right up against the roof sheathing, 3 holes total, fortunatly they only hit one csst tube. They were so lucky that the leak was right where the csst made the 90 so that gas went to outside, the attic was wide open 10 apts long kaboom! had to pump up the csst with air to listen for the leak, real inaccessable. They had covered the up the wall runs with a permanet stucco enclosure. Advised the owner about possibilities of future damages to the csst but I'm sure this particular owner will never take any precautions.
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Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
Watching that video what bothered me was the sloppy work installing the piping, it looked like spaghetti. An electrician could have done it with as much care . It is another sign of hte dumbing of the trade that there is so much gastite product or copper being used instead of black pipe.
Those products do have a time and place that makes them the best choice but when this is so please show some pride and let it be known by the finished product you leave that it was done by a trained journeyman and not some hack handyman.
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Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
We also do roofing,only on our own additions. Want to Buy 2 tar kettles ?
Keep in mind , on a steep pitch , We're using 8 D nails around 2 1/2" long!
Think of this if You're drilling rafters!
I believe this has also happened in Mass. csst was banned for a short time there ?
I like My pipe threader!I can build anything You want , if you draw a picture of it , on the back of a big enough check .
Re: Roofing nails+CSST=Trouble in Texas
I don't use any CSST other than temp gaslines. Problem with that is lots of companies undercut me because their labour is half what mine is. We even went out to a job where a "reputable" company was planning to run gastite outside the house at chest level.West Trail Mechanical Ltd
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Last week, on Saturday, August 10th, 2013, I turned 20 years old. I've completed two full decades of my life, and prayerfully I have many more decades ahead of me. Every time a birthday passes me by I reflect on the past, evaluate the present, and plan for the future. This helps me to keep my goals in order and keep my life on track.
As I look back on my past, I realize how much I have changed and how different my personality is. When I was a child I was talkative, but soft spoken. I always had a lot to say, but I was afraid to be forceful about saying it. Over the years, I have realized that if I want to be heard, then I need to be outspoken and assertive. I spent years developing my social skills and my public speaking, and now I am almost too loud and outspoken. People often don't believe me when I tell them that I used to be timid. Looking back on my earlier years gives me satisfaction in that I was able to successfully make a personality change that has greatly improved my life.
I am satisfied and content with my current situation. I am doing well in school, I am where I need to be financially, and my relationships with my loved ones are strong. I have maintained a 3.9 GPA throughout my first two years of college, and I expect to extend the streak through the end of my time in higher education. Ever since I started my first job I have been in the habit of saving my money, and my parents assist me where they are able, so I am stable and provided for. I put my all into my relationships with God, my family, my friends, and my girlfriend. I put a strong effort into being communicative, loving, and forgiving toward my loved ones. I take initiative and responsibility for everything that is within my control, and in everything I cannot control I trust God to keep order and make everything work together for my good.
Barring any major catastrophes, I expect my future to be great. I had a wonderful upbringing, I retained a lot of the things that my parents have tried to instill in me, and I have a lot of good things going for me. Some day I will have my own family, and I hope to give my children the same good life that I was given by my parents. I will also have a career as a professor, and I want to be as hard-working as my parents are. With every birthday that passes, I think more and more about what it means to be an adult and have my own responsibilities. I hope and pray that, as has been the case up until now, every one of my birthdays is better than the last.


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As I was praying about my upcoming move I saw a picture in my mind of a door frame. I often think of new adventures as being open doors, but I didn't see a door, just a door frame. Instead of being attached to a wall, the frame wasn't connected to anything. It stood alone in a field. I am still not sure what the unattached doorway signified, but somehow I knew that when I walked through it I would never be the same. In my spirit I felt the Lord was telling me that when I walked through the doorway some old stuff I have been carrying would be stripped away, and I would be equipped in a new way.
New seasons bring new understanding, new direction, new equipping, and new adventures.
Are you ready for a new beginning?Is the Lord leading you, as He is me, into a new season where you need to shed some of the old and receive the new?
If so, may you walk through the doorway and receive all He has for you!
May you be abundantly blessed!
"Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert" (Isaiah 43:19).


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1. "Darker" by E.L. James (Vintage)
2. "Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway" by Jeff Kinney (Amulet Books)
3. "Wonder" by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
4. "The Elf on the Shelf: A Christmas Tradition" by Carol Aebersold & Chanda Bell (CCA and B)
5. "The Rooster Bar" by John Grisham (Doubleday)
6. "The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It!" by Ree Drummond (Morrow Cookbooks)
7. "Origin" by Dan Brown (Doubleday)
8. "The People vs. Alex Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown)
9. "The Midnight Line" by Lee Child (Dell)
10. "Tom Clancy Power and Empire" by Marc Cameron (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
11. "Past Perfect" by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
12. "Giraffes Can't Dance" by Giles Andreae (Cartwheel Books)
13. "End Game" by David Balducci (Grand Central)
14. "The Sun and Her Flowers" by Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
15. "Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
16. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition" by J.K. Rowling; art by Jim Kay (Arthur A. Levine)
17. "Hardcore Twenty-Four" by Janet Evanovich (G.P. Putnam's Sons)
18. "Milk and Honey" by Rupi Kaur (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
19. "The Anthology Part 1: Limited Edition" by Garth Brooks (Melcher Media)
20. "Astrophysics for People in a Hurry" by Neil deGrasse Tyson (W.W. Norton)
21. "Guinness World Records 2018" by Guinness World Records (Guinness World Records)
22. "Two Kinds of Truth" by Michael Connelly (Little, Brown)
23. "Artemis" by Andy Weir (Crown)
24. "Grant" by Ron Chernow (Penguin Press)
25. "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green (Dutton Books for Young Readers)
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Microcap Movers for Tuesday December 6, 2011
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RIT Technologies
Shares of RIT Technologies (NASDAQ: RITT), the Tel Aviv, network management company, rose 38% Tuesday on 42 times the average daily volume. The company announced today that it has appointed Peter Leonard, a Johannesburg-based IT industry professional, to become its Country Sales Manager of South Africa. Mr. Leonard will be mandated with further developing RiT's business in South Africa, a region whose rapid uptake of IT technologies makes it a land of opportunity for RiT's industry-leading solutions.
RIT also announced a deal with Vodafone Ghana, already in place.
RIT Technologies traded in a range of $3.46 to $5.00 Tuesday, closing at $4.47.
DHT Holdings
DHT Holdings (NYSE: DHT), the Channel Islands-based crude-oil tanker owner and operator, rose 26% today on 4.5 times the average daily volume.
There was no news reported in DHT today. The stock currently pays a 15% dividend.
Shares of DHT Holdings traded in a range of $0.83 to $1.06 on Tuesday and closed at the high of the day.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals
Shares of Peregrine Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: PPHM) the Tustin, CA clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, rose 21% Tuesday on 15 times the average daily volume.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals announced preliminary results from a randomized Phase II trial showing a 50% improvement in overall tumor response rates in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Patients treated with bavituximab plus carboplatin and paclitaxel currently demonstrate an ORR of 39%, versus 26% in patients treated with carboplatin and paclitaxel alone.
Peregrine traded in a range of $1.20 to $1.53 Tuesday, and closed at $1.21.
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Crime Watch: Prince William Police Investigate Rash of Robberies
Prince William police are investigating a series of robberies.
Here's unedited information released today by police about the latest incidents:
Armed Robbery – On May 11th at 12:30AM, officers responded to the 8300 block of Irongate Dr in Manassas (20109) to investigate a robbery. The victim, a 45 year old man of Roosevelt NY, reported to police that he was walking in the above area when he was approached from behind by an unknown man. The man pointed an unknown object against the victim's back and demanded his property. The suspect took jewelry and an undisclosed amount of U.S. Currency from the victim before fleeing on foot. No injuries were reported. The victim believed the object pointed to his back was a handgun; however, no weapon was seen. The victim never faced the suspect and was unable to provide police with a description.
Prince William Crime Solvers are also looking into this incident, where a man armed with a gun walked into an Exxon Station at the corner of Dale Boulevard and Minnieville Road and robbed the place May 8:
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On May 8th at 10:55PM, officers responded to the Exxon Service Station located at 13505 Minnieville Rd in Woodbridge (22193) to investigate a robbery. An employee reported to police that an unknown man entered the store and approached the counter. The man then displayed a handgun and demanded money. The employee complied and the suspect fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of U.S. Currency. No injuries were reported.
Suspect Description:
White male, between 23 & 27 years of age, 5'11"-6'0", 180lbs with a medium build Last seen wearing a gray long sleeve shirt, blue jeans, black skull cap, and a black bandana over his face.
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