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This past Friday the Creative Collaboratory club went on a field trip to the Kansas City- Missouri River to kick-off their river-related project. The club is led by art teacher Adam Finkelstein in an effort to help create awareness and raise money for the health of the river.
"I was most excited to be on the Missouri River and just hangout," Senior Caitlyn Price said. "What inspired me the most was the juxtaposition of the man-made buildings around the river coinciding with the nature and river."
The club does raises money by creating different projects involving science, art and literature. The students involved in the project work on these projects all year for their showcase on the first Friday of May. The projects are displayed and sold to those who come to the art show, and half the money made is donated back to the Healthy Rivers Foundation, while the other half goes to the artist.
Mr. Finkelstein has his IB Visual Arts, AP Portfolio and Art Portfolio classes participate, as well as other students interested. This year, students from Shawnee Mission South, Shawnee Mission Northwest and Saint Teresa's Academy will be joining as well.
On Friday the students from East and Northwest met at the Healthy River Foundation's building right by the river. This is the space the students will be showcasing their work in later this year. They get to see the space, find what area works for them and figure out what they can do to help with the rooftop garden.
After getting a run-down of the space, the students met with a local artist, Jose Faus, who works in writing, painting and murals. Finkelstein then gave an overview of what the young artists can expect, and what the scheduling to work in the space would be like. Junior Anna Williams felt very inspired by Jose Faus.
"Coming from Pembroke I was confused by Creative Co-Lab. at first, and what to do for it," Williams said. "Hearing Jose talk about how he throws himself into projects, does the right amount of research and collaborates with artist in other mediums reassured me that I can do this project."
Once everyone got a clear view of what the project fully was, and an inside look at the space, it was time to head to the river. At the river, founder Vicki Richmond took the students on a boat ride on the river. On the river Richmond talked about the history of the river, the issues going on such as the trash around the river, and gave a scenic tour. Northwest sophomore Asher Norberg loved his ride with Richmond.
"I loved learning about the history of the Missouri River," Norberg said. "Especially how it's treated differently in different parts of the country, and how it was crucial in Kansas City's development. The ride helped me realize that I am interested in a performance piece or creating wearable objects from litter found along the river, to help create awareness."
While some students were on the river tour, others took time to meet with another local artist who specializes in architecture, Dave Macaulay, as well as explore the area. This was a time to collect thoughts and ideas for projects, sketch things out, collect samples of plants or take some photos around the area.
"Overall the trip was really successful and I am so thankful I got to go," Williams said. "From meeting the artists to exploring the area, it made me excited to do a project that benefits the city."


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Jackson school districts rate recognized, academically acceptable
July 29, 2011 at 2:29 a.m.
Updated July 30, 2011 at 2:30 a.m.
Jackson County school districts maintained recognized and academically acceptable statuses in state results released Friday.
The Industrial school district received recognized status, down from 2010's exemplary. While Industrial Elementary School West remained on par with its exemplary status, both Industrial Elementary School East and and Industrial Junior High dropped to recognized.
Industrial High School fell to academically acceptable.
Superintendent Tony Williams attributed the high school's shift to changes in reporting standards.
Commended performance was calculated into results this year, he explained, and only 13 percent of the economically disadvantaged group were at commended, versus the 15 percent necessary to be recognized.
"Overall, we're happy," he said.
The Ganado school district maintained the recognized status it had in 2010.
Although Ganado Elementary School received exemplary status, just as in 2010, both the high school and junior high dropped from recognized to academically acceptable.
Ganado school district Superintendent Jeff Black was unavailable for comment Friday.
The Edna school district maintained its academically acceptable rating.
While the elementary and junior high maintained their academically acceptable ratings, the high school dropped from recognized to academically acceptable.
Edna school district representatives said they could not comment Friday because they did not have adequate time to review the results.
As for Williams, he said he's proud of the Industrial school district.
The district is developing curricula to help students prepare for new assessments down the road.
"We've got some good teachers out here," he said. "We're looking forward to the future."


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Just in case you aren't yet following me on Facebook, Twitter or G+…I made a little announcement on Wednesday about my full brand. In preparation of my spring, summer and fall travels I wanted to make sure you all know where other posts might be happening with The Deal Fanatic Brand. Meet my other divisions:
You've probably heard me mention them from time to time. My cupcakey site now TDFcupcakes has been around for over 4 years now. TDFtravel has been around for about 2 but sitting idle just waiting to break out. They all have their own social media so if you have a passion for either of those, make sure to follow them.
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If you're wondering which site will house what pieces of information, let me break it down for you:
- Family recipes and eats that I find are located on TheDealFanatic.com
- Restaurants that I explore or find in my travels, local or away are located on TDFtravels
- All things sweets are found on CupyCakey.com
I hope you find something you like at one or all of my sites. I enjoy them all because they're pieces of me and my life!
I think everything else is pretty self explanatory. If you follow me on instagram, you probably are thinking to yourself…..I think she's missing a division! Nope, I have them all covered just further developing them.
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So come out of your cave walking on your hands
So. How do you know when a story is ready to be sent out on submission? I get this one a lot, often in some version of "how can I make sure this story will sell?" I'm going to combine the oracular answer to the former with the more practical answer to the latter.
A story is ready to go out on submission when it is the best story you can write at that moment in time. Unless an editor sees enough potential in the story to ask for a rewrite, you only get one chance per market per story. So revise your story before you send it out. Give it to your writers' group, your beta readers, your friend who respects your work enough to tell you where the flaws are. Remember that revision does not just mean correcting spelling errors, although of course it includes that as well. Then think about your story - do you still see places where it doesn't work? If so, hang on to the story until you can fix them.
Does this mean that I expect you to write and rewrite until your story is perfect? No. Your story will never be perfect. And writing, like every other skill, has a learning curve - you will get better the more you do it. But unless you want to spend your entire career polishing the same piece of prose, there comes a time when you say this is the best I can make it right now, and you put it out in the world.
How can you guarantee your story will sell? You can't. Sorry. But there are some things you can do to make the submissions process less intimidating and less fraught. First, before you start sending your story out, familiarize yourself with the short fiction market. Learn what markets buy what type of fiction - no matter how good your hard SF story is, a magazine that specializes in epic fantasy is not going to buy it - and what they pay. Before you start submitting, decide what pay and prestige scale you are willing to accept for your work - pro only? semipro if the magazine gets reviewed or if the stories are often included in year's best volumes? token so long as you see your name in print? nothing if it's in a venue you really love? a venue you despise, but they pay lots and lots of money? - and stick to that decision. Stick to that decision even in the face of rejection letters.
Read the submissions guidelines for each market. Follow them. To the letter. The only thing that should stand out is the quality of your writing. If the submissions guidelines go beyond "please submit a .doc file in standard manuscript format," read those, too - if an editor is telling you that lusty pirate stories are a hard sell for her, take that seriously. Then go to your list of markets, and start out with your dream market, because it is not your job to reject your own work.
And realize the likeliest outcome is still rejection. Markets receive hundreds of stories a month, and tend to buy in the single digits. Your story may be good, and still get rejected if it was not to the editor's taste. Your story may be salable, and still get rejected - I have sold rejected stories. Many writers have. It doesn't mean that we sold to bad or second rate markets, it just means editors are people too, and like people, they have varying tastes.
And yes, the submission process can be nerve-wracking - I still get sick to my stomach every time I press "send." And yes, rejection sucks. It sucks every time, and on some days worse than others. Sending your work out takes guts, and I'm proud of each and every one of us who does it.
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I think I'm going to print this and hang it on the wall above my laptop. It's good to be reassured about this, every now and then. Rejection is part of the process; we don't have to like it, but we have to handle it.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing this.
You're very welcome. I'm glad you found it helpful.ReplyDelete
Good point about making sure the story is the best it can be. If I could change one thing about my writing and process, I would probably ask for more patience. I'm terrible at waiting until a story is ready for submission - and I don't know how often I just sent something out in the hope that "I can't stand working on this anymore -- maybe the editor will see something there." Er. Of course, now I'm at the other end of the extreme, where I hardly submit anything anymore.ReplyDelete
At least I'm paying more attention to what happens during revision. Hopefully, this process will become second nature at some point. (cue laughter...)
I'm pretty good at waiting when it's short stories - I don't write many, and the ones I do write are so short that I usually don't sit with them long enough to get sick of working on them.ReplyDelete
For longer projects, though, like my dissertation, I can't tell you how many times I took a chapter ( or a "chapter") into my advisor, and said the equivalent of "fix this!" because I just could bear thinking about it anymore, and had thought about it for so long I could no longer see the flaws. I'm just lucky she had to read it and help, instead of banishing me to the slush pile.
The solution seems simple: Write shorter short stories...:-) (If, like me, you have multiple 23K "short story" drafts, you have a problem. On the other hand, if you can revise this, you can probably revise anything...I'm working on it.)ReplyDelete
Since you mention your dissertation, I just have to say how much I envy scientists. Their papers are also rejected, but the reviewers have to tell them precisely why. And they are often invited to resubmit "pending revisions." That's a far cry from "not quite right for us."
It hurts just the same, though.
Rejection: the experience that binds us. :-)
The one thing I have really come to appreciate is the personalized rejection letter (especially having some inkling of how busy editors are.) When they take the time to explain why the rejection, it's so helpful, in terms of whether and how to revise, or whether I've been sending to the wrong type of market. It makes me so, so grateful.ReplyDelete


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FCC votes to require broadcasters in top 50 markets to post political ad records online
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Update: The Wrap reports that the FCC has voted to require the four largest broadcasters in the top 50 markets to post records online; everyone else is exempt for two years. This means that 160 markets, everything smaller than Louisville, Ky, are excluded, as the Sunlight Foundation illustrates. ProPublica's Justin Elliott notes that stations will be allowed to provide the reports in any file format, so they won't be searchable.
The sticking point, as noted below: disclosure of ad rates.
Original post: Today the FCC is expected to vote on a new rule requiring that broadcast television stations post their records of political ad buys online. The debate over this rule is another illustration that the real test of public access is putting records online where anyone can get them, anytime, rather than filing them away in an office that few will visit.
First, broadcasters argued that putting records online would cost too much. In a recent push, reports ProPublica's Justin Elliott, they've lobbied to disclose only aggregate information, not the individual ad buys now in the paper files. But if it would cost too much to simply scan the documents and put them online, wouldn't it be more expensive to create another system of online-record-keeping?
Maybe there's another motivation for stations' commitment to some measure of transparency. As NPR's Brian Naylor explains, because stations must offer political campaigns (but not super PACs) their lowest ad rates, which are disclosed in the files, they'd be telling their competitors how much they charge for ads.
(This is called information symmetry; it means markets can operate more efficiently, but that could mean some sellers make less money.)
ProPublica has called on people around the country to visit their local TV stations and copy the files so it can post them online. Files for 26 stations have been put online so far, Social Media Editor Dan Victor tells me.
Before they vote, I wish FCC commissioners would look at the video below produced by by Kent State University journalism students. They tried to videotape their examination of the public files at Cleveland-area TV stations. Seems that the TV stations don't like being on camera: Three of the four wouldn't let the students record. (WOIO-TV, a CBS affiliate, was the exception.) And no one would agree to be interviewed on-camera about whether they thought these files should be put online, although an employee at ABC affiliate WEWS-TV did say off-camera that they should be. It's a solid piece of journalism about journalism, student or professional. || Related: Charlotte television reporter notes that TV newsrooms would rather avoid reporting on this issue, but he doesn't || Earlier: FCC about to require TV stations to put public records online


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Kakashi finds someone he's been looking for. Vagueish Kakashi Gaiden spoilers. One-shot.
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The stars looked beautiful tonight. And from the silence fallen over Konoha it looked like Hatake Kakashi was the only one awake to see them. Lying against the sloping tile toof next to his apartment, the young Jounin swaps the arm cushioned behind his head for the other and lets it lie flat at his side. He's supposed to be asleep, he knows, but he's always liked night better than day and its rare he lets himself relax outside the security of his apartment. For a moment he wonders why he feels so calm and still tonight, but decides to just let it be because it doesn't happen often without the aid of copious amounts of sedatives and/or bloodloss so he should take it while its going.
He can see furthur into the starry sky than he has in a long time and he remembers someone he treasured very much who taught him how to really look at them, and what to see. He's considering pushing up his hitae-ite so Obito can see too when his silence and still is interrupted.
"Thinking anything special?" a voice asks from behind him. Kakashi almost groans, he's hallucinating - his sanity has finally got to that stage. He doesn't turn around, hoping it's just a voice he can ignore, but then he realizes he can sense somebody behind him, and smell just the faintest hint of lavender.
Lavender like the color of a precious person's stripes.
Blinking he gets to his feet and turns around. Standing there behind him, her hands linked loose behind her back and a painfully fond look in her eyes is someone he lost a long time ago. She's taller but not as tall as him, her figure has changed but those were still her shoulders and legs. Her dark hair is still short and curved to frame her round face, her pale purple stripes still angle over her cheeks and her eyes...
Those eyes. His whole body freezes as he meets them and knows this can't be a hallucination because those eyes are the warmest, most gentle brown and he couldn't mistake them for anything other than her eyes.
But you... you're gone. You di-
She reaches up and touches the side of his face, on the bare skin just below his temple and the sensation makes his knees nearly buckle and his whole body shoot through with warmth from her fingertips. He can only look down at her in shock beyond measure because she's just proven she's real and she's right there with him and he doesn't care how or why but she's come back to him.
"Rin..." he whispers, and she smiles up at him because she can hear everything unsaid in the way he says her name.
They sit just a little apart and look out over the village and don't really talk, they never really talked. Well, he never talked, she did - but only when there was something he needed to be told. A part of him wonders if Rin ever minded too much and he's about to open his mouth to ask when she turns to him and smiles a little sadly.
"We missed each other didn't we?" she asks him, and Kakashi can see so much of the beautiful, bright girl he'd known in the person next to him.
He nods, because looking at her makes it hard to speak. Rin's huge, kind brown eyes hold his for a long moment and then she slowly, carefully reaches out to put a hand over his. Her movements and touch are very delicate and its almost as if he's a wild creature she's trying to earn the trust of and he can appreciate how perceptive she's always been.
"I'm still not sure this is real," he confesses quietly, glad she can't see the look on his face because he's sure its not one he's comfortable letting anybody see. Even Rin because its been so long since...
An understanding smile, "Good things do happen, Kakashi. It's not all blood and loss," He can feel her hand pressing a little harder against his and suddenly understands how much she's missed him too.
"It can't be, or the stars wouldn't shine," she finishes and they can each see the starlight reflecting off the other's eyes.
The wind rises and even though he's fascinated by how it makes her deep mahogany hair flit to and fro he suggests they go inside and a few seconds later he's holding out a hand to guide her over the crowded windowsill and into his small, rundown little apartment. She steps in gracefully and not for the first time he has to remind himself that she is a ninja and a very, very good one at that. Dropping silently to stand on the wooden floorboards she turns and gasps a little in happy surprise, reaching over to touch the potted plant on the window.
"Mr Ukki... how are you doing?" she asks solicitously, ruffling the green leaves and almost grinning with fondness at Kakashi's roommate. "Has Kakashi been behaving himself?"
Kakashi takes the opportunity to surruptitiously kick his copy of Icha Icha Paradise under the bed and is suprised to hear himself protest, "Whatever he tells you it's not true," as if the raggedy plant can tell her anything. Of course, maybe Rin can understand plants so its better safe than sorry.
Rin can't hold back a giggle and turns to look at him standing there with his hands shoved into his pockets. For just a second he sees a look on her face, as if she's come home after a very, very long journey and she loops her hands behind her back and glances around. He remembers that she's been in here before, and follows her gaze around the place that's been home since he was six years old.
"It's not really changed," she says and he's not sure if that's relief or sadness she hears in her voice. He shrugs a little, "Are you thirsty or anything?" he asks and she shifts her gaze from the dented dresser in the corner and nods.
"Some tea would be nice," she says and Kakashi smiles under his mask for the first time since he saw her. Rin always liked tea.
A few minutes later they're in his microscopic kitchenette and he's leaning against the wall because there's only one chair and he left it for her to sit in. The water is almost boiled and Rin is again looking around with a far away look in her eyes.
"This place seemed so much bigger back when we were little," she says, and looks over to him with a little mischief in her eyes.
"Do you remember the time you got that horrible fever so Sensei broke quarantine and moved in with you?" she asks.
Kakashi nods, how can he forget. Of all the things their Sensei had been, a good cook was not one of them. After barely surviving his first few culinary attempts the pair of them had lived on carry-out, canned chicken soup and Rin's herbal remedies for two weeks because Konoha's future Yondaime couldn't stand the idea of Kakashi on his own in the apartment while so sickly.
"I told him I'd do it but he said I'd want to kill you after a few days," she tells him.
"He was probably right," Kakashi admits. God, he'd been such a little bastard when he was young.
She smiles, "How did that work out anyway? The two of you stuck in here?"
"He got more sick than me so I wound up looking after him," Kakashi tells her, and she has to clap her hands over her mouth to fight down her giggles, he thinks she's incredible because she can still really laugh. "And he snored like a chainsaw," Kakashi adds, not voicing what both of them knew, that it all paled next to the fact that their Sensei had gotten in shit like you couldn't believe from Sandaime-sama for letting himself get infected so he could stay with his student.
Rin squeezes her eyes shut, and he sees her face change as she looks down at her hands.
"I miss him so much," she says as he set her tea down on the fold-down table. Her eyes grow a little sharper and more tired, "Everything feels... unsteady, without him," she whispers.
Kakashi nods, he knows, he feels it everyday. But then he realizes she hasn't looked up so he says "I know," and Rin looks up to meet his eye.
"But its gotten better in the last hour or so," he says.
Now they've abandoned the cramped cooking space and are back in the main room.
"It's late" Rin says.
"Have anywhere to stay?" he asks.
She shakes her head, so for the first time in his life he says, "Stay with me?"
She nods. It's all they need to say.
It's just starlight through the window and Kakashi wonders at how much brighter than moonlight it seems, even though he knows its barely enough to cast a shadow with. He feels Rin's ankle pressing against his and hopes the sun never comes up.
They haven't said a word. The communication's all in their eyes and Kakashi distantly remembers that it should be strange for her to be seeing Obito when she looks at him. But she reached over at the start and when he pushed his hitae-ite up she gently ran her thumbs over each eyelid to say 'hello' to them both.
No one's ever been able to make him understand like that before.
And the shiver that ran through him at her touch couldn't be held down that time. She'd let him pull down his mask so he could let her see his face and she'd smiled a heartbreakingly proud little smile at him when he did. Then she'd tentatively brushed a finger over the groove he'd bitten by habit into his lip, that nobody else knew was there, and before he knew it she'd kissed him right there and he was kissing her back and holding on tight and...
Now they're lying there, still fully clothed and just looking at each other. There hasn't been anything more tonight and there won't be. They're both exhausted, in their bodies and their hearts and their minds but they won't sleep because the other one is there. They need to get used to each other again, need to reconnect and get over the pain of separation and the fears of this new part of their connection. It's very breakable... very delicate.
Rin's hand is resting on his neck, and she can feel his pulse gently, calmly thumping through. It's as though she needs to make sure he's alive and there with her, and he can understand that. Her other one is wound around his thumb, cradled in the palm of his hand and resting on the bed between them. He feels a sense of debt and awe, holding that hand, one that's brought him back to life over and over. It's so small, and soft in his rough palm and he doesn't know if he'll be able to let go. As for him, he's got his free hand gently stroking the pale lavender stripe running over her cheek as she watches him with those warm, empathetic eyes that have never, ever been any other way towards him.
He wonders what she's seeing when she looks at him and decides it can't be anything too awful because she's got a peaceful smile on her sweet face. The starlight is fading into dawn by the time either of them speak and Rin squeezes his thumb and he knows she's about to start again where he made her stop when they were twelve years old. Back when both their lives had just been cut and never healed.
"Kakashi, my feelings..." she whispers, and he feels his heart twitch involuntarily in his chest. She shifts her fingers on his neck and he realizes she must have felt it too. He bites his lip just a little and she presses her forehead against his, holding on to him gently to let him know he can run if he wants to but he'll take part of her with him. Her eyes can't be more than a few millimetres away from his and they're breathing each other's air.
"...I understand you. So I love you,"
He decides that Rin can probably hold lengthy conversations over tea and biscuits with Mr Ukki because if she can understand him she can understand anything. He's about to say something back, something he hadn't understood until now but when he opens his mouth the starlight dies and everything goes black.
I love you.
Kakashi kicked out slightly in his bed and cracked his toe off the wall. That woke him up with a start and he was suddenly bolt upright with his hands reaching out for someone who wasn't there. It took too short a time for him to understand what had happened, and when he realized Rin wasn't with him and things weren't as he'd been dreaming he had to grit his teeth against a snarl of anger and pain and grief that wanted to claw up out of him and make the world understand some of the hurt in his heart.
But his careful self-control held him down and he just took long, deep breaths to try and calm himself. He pushed his forehead against his knees and remembered where he was. A hostel somewhere, and Team 7 was on their way to a mission on a farm half a day's walk away and he'd only been dreaming because Rin wasn't here and she never would be.
It was just a dream, you have them all the time.
But all the time they weren't like that. They weren't peaceful and calm and beautiful and tender like that. His dreams were always nightmares and they always involved blood and death and loss that he thought enough about in his waking moments. They were always perfectly detailed in the things people said, the noises they made, the looks on their faces but this time... this time it was a blessing not a curse.
It was just a dream, it wasn't real.
Part of it was. The part where Rin loved him. And, now he was being forced to admit and understand, the part where he couldn't go on without admitting it to her because he-
It wasn't real. Calm down. Don't start with yourself now, you're on a mission and the kids are next door and if you admit-
He loved her too.
And just like that the self-control shattered like he'd always known it would. He groaned and pushed his face into his pillow and worked hard not to make too much noise as he cried bitter, heart-broken tears into the fabric. Bitter at himself for never being able to reach back to her; at the war that had taken him from her and her from him and fucked both of them up beyond repair. Heart-broken because he'll never get the chance to tell her now, and even worse she'll never know.
It took more effort than he imagined to calm himself down and he fisted his hands into his eyes to make them stop crying. Surprisingly this time the Sharingan one stopped first, it took maybe ten minutes for his own black eye to stop watering uncontrollably. Dragging himself out his bed he started the search for whatever the hell it was that made him dream like that and had to hold out his hands to balance because for some reason he felt dizzy and weak like he hadn't in forever. He looked around the room and seeing nothing, walked carefully over to the small window that led out to the garden of the hostel he'd booked himself and the three kids into for the night. He's very glad something made him book a separate room for himself tonight, or he'd probably have had alot of impossible explaining to do to Sasuke right about now. Naruto no doubt would have slept through anything he might have done - up to and including set off an explosive tag.
He got to the window and disabled the traps he set on it before pushing it open. The night air spilled in and he looked down.
There was a lavender bush just outside his window.
He closed his eyes and clenched his fists, cursing his subconscious and his over-sensitive nose and - knowing he wouldn't sleep again that night - he leaned against the windowsill and looked up into the stars. He let the gentle fragrance of lavender tickle his nose and as he raised his eyes to the dark, bright heavens he could almost feel her fingers in the starlight on his face.
R and R please, it's the only way I'll learn.
(P.S.: Who knows if Rin's stripes are orange (as seen in anime) or purple (as seen in manga Kishimoto's artwork)? I went with purple cos they look nice and I figured Kishimoto's own pictures probably said the truth but does anybody know for sure?)


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Oprah Winfrey was born January 29, 1954 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Even at age three she was already working on her career in broadcasting by learning to read aloud and performing recitations. Three years later Oprah Winfrey would go stay with her mother, where she suffered through a lot of abuse. After she had enough of the abuse and molestation, she ran away and only to be sent to juvenile detention home at the age of 13. After she was denied admission to the detention center she decided to stay with her father in Nashville. Oprah's father was determined to make her life the best it could be. He would not accept anything less than her best.
Oprah Winfrey attended Tennessee State University, where she majored in Speech Communication and Performing Arts. Then in 1978 she discovered she had a talent for hosting talk shows where she became co-host of WJZ-TV'S "People Are Talking". Oprah was determined to become a talk show host that she turned a sitting on the fence talk show into the most popular show in town. Then in 1985 it was renamed "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
Oprah's strong affinity for acting encouraged her to from the production company, Harpo Productions, Inc, in 1986. She campaigned to establish a national database of convicted child abusers, which Bill Clinton signed the "Oprah Bill" into law in 1993. She was named one of the 100 Most Influential People of the 20th Century by Time Magazine. Then 2003 she was disclosed as the first African-American woman to become a billionaire. These are just a few of her many honors, awards, and achievements.
I believe Oprah Winfrey is the best example of an African American woman who took her tribulations and made them her stepping stone into her future. She is truly the best example of determination at its best.
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For sophomore basketball player and business student Amanda McHenry, studying at Carnegie Mellon University was an easy decision – once she stepped on campus. As one of the new faces on the 2012-13 women's basketball team, she played a significant role in pushing the program to new heights this past season, even though she wasn't initially sure whether or not she wanted to play a sport in college.
A lover of both athletics and numbers, McHenry played a variety of different sports while growing up in New Jersey and her initial college search was focused on mostly large schools. That changed when a letter arrived from the Carnegie Mellon athletics coaching staff after her exceptional play in an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball tournament.
"I thought, 'okay, that's a good school,' but I really didn't know if it would be a very good fit for me," McHenry said. "My mother suggested I check it out and see what it's about. As soon as I stepped on campus and met the coaches and team, I fell in love."
The opportunity to study at the Tepper School of Business was also a significant draw, as the self-proclaimed perfectionist sought to pursue a world-class business education. The undergraduate business program admits approximately 80 students each year and shares faculty with the school's globally recognized MBA and Ph.D. programs.
The 5-foot-10 guard wasn't quite sure what to expect during her first year of college, but quickly found that the small class sizes, which encourage interaction with faculty and other students, and opportunities for studying a wide range of subjects offered across the CMU campus presented an exciting academic paring with her athletic interests.
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2008 Alabama Crimson Tide Men's Swimming and Diving
Alabama Crimson Tide men's Swimming and Diving team showed good effort to come up with performance during the last 2007 and 2008 seasons.
In 207 the team secured third place in SEC championships.But University of Alabama senior Vlad Polyakov did excellent throughout the 2007 season. He won his third consecutive Southeastern Conference 100 breaststroke title and second NCAA 200 Breaststroke Championship title. In 2008 the team also showed improvement as it A very young finished 22nd at the NCAA Championships.Under the head coach Eric McIlquham, Alabama Crimson Tide men's Swimming and Diving team looks confident for the upcoming 2009 season.
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Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving teams, one for women and one for men, have produced lots of awards, titles, and championships since it's start.
Bama Swimming and Diving teams have had fifty six Olympians, who have won six gold medals, nineteen individual National Collegiate Titles, one hundred and sixty six All-American members, 15 Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year Honors, thirteen Southeastern Conference (SEC) Athlete of the Year Honors, and twenty-two National Top-10 Team finishes.
The teams' past excellence continued last season, in 2007, when Vlad Polyakov won his 2nd NCAA title for the 200 breaststroke. It was the 5th year, out of six, that an Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team member has taken home an NCAA title.
University of Alabama swimming and diving team members have long been recognized as being some of the finest swimmers and divers in the nation.
Gambril coached 5 US Olympic teams as well as taking the Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team to a career mark with a season score of 270-49. Gambril was also a head coach of the 1984 Olympic squad.
When Gambril retired and handed the coaching position over to Jonty Skinner, who was Gambril's first NCAA Champion, Skinner lead both the men and women's team to the nation's top 10. Skinner also earned his Southeastern Conference Coach of the Year award. That was Skinner's first and last season as the Alabama swimming and diving team's coach.
2008 Alabama Crimson Tide Women's Swimming and Diving
Alabama Crimson Tide women's Swimming and Diving team showed some individual as well as team performance during the last two seasons.Alabama women team is strong relay.At 2007 SEC championship it finished fifth in the 800 freestyle relay with a 7:25.50 timing and eighth in the 200 medley relay with a 1:42.45 timing. Senior Victoria Genova also finished fifth in the 200 butterfly with a 2:01.41.
In 2008 season the team showed improvement and finished 8th at SEC championship and 37th at NCAA.Individully, Alabama sophomore Elizabeth Hughes took third in the platform diving event with 248.35 points by posting Alabama's highest individual finish on the women's side at 2008 SEC championship. Alabama sophomore Agustina de Giovanni was impressive throughout the season and won the finals of the 400 IM at the NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships with school record. For the upcoming 2009 season the Alabama Crimson Tide women's Swimming and Diving team looks enthusiastic under Eric McIlquham.
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The Crimson Tide swimming and diving team has always been a point of pride for the University of Alabama with the men's team starting in late 1959 under John Foster, and the women's team in late 1974 with Gary Illman as the mentor.
The University of Alabama swimming and diving men's team has a record of 350 dual meet wins and a pair of Southeastern Conference titles while the Tide swimming and diving women's team have almost 200 dual meet wins.
The current Alabama coach is Eric McIquham, and has been for the last two seasons. Under McIquham's coaching the Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving men's team reached the top 15 national finish and the team reached in the top 25. In addition, for the fourth year in row they an NCAA Championship.
McIquham was a standout athlete, winning 15 NCAA Division II individual and relay titles while competing and attending Oakland University. He was a two-time NCAA D2 100 butterfly champion and also held the national record in that event. McIquham was also a graduate assistant coach for the Alabama Crimson Tide swimming and diving team in the early 1990s and then became a full-time assistant coach in 1994.
After two more seasons in that position McIquham left Alabama to coach at the University of Virginia. From there McIquham became the head coach at West Virginia and finally the head Alabama Tide swimming and diving coach.
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Roma man killed in head-on collision on U.S. 77
By ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT
Oct. 28, 2010 at 5:28 a.m.
REFUGIO - A Roma man was killed after a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler on U.S. Highway 77 early Thursday morning.
Jose M. Jaime-Escobedo, 20, was heading north on U.S. Highway 77 about eight miles south of state Highway 239 when he overcorrected his Chevrolet Impala, went into a side skid into the southbound lane and crashed into an 18-wheeler, said Cpl. David Poland, with the Department of Public Safety in Refugio.
After crashing into the 18-wheeler, his vehicle rolled off to the side and caught fire, the officer said.
The collision happened at about 5 a.m., Poland said.
The driver of the 18-wheeler refused treatment, but did have some pain to his leg, Poland said.
Poland is still investigating why Jaime-Escobedo overcorrected.
"It's a possibility he fell asleep," he said. "But we're not 100 percent sure of that."
The wreck forced southbound traffic to be detoured throughout the morning down state Highway 239 to either Goliad or Tivoli, he said.


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Last month I posted about a stack of books I covered over the weekend and one of you posted this suggestion in the comments section:
Love your book covers Liz, but can't you think of something schmanzy so that we can do this, and still know what book is inside? Maybe using that adoooorable new font? 😉
I wasn't planning on covering any more books but Sine's comment intrigued me so I set out to create labels. I had so much fun that I ended up creating three different labeling systems.
Super quick and easy but only works if you're covering small books.
Print book titles on twill and sew onto bookcover. Not as quick, but I had a lot of fun, especially with the thread colors. Couldn't decide on white or red so I made one of each.
This one is my favorite because of the possibilities it offers.skinny label
Like the labels? Here's a full sheet of 'em.
This free download includes a high resolution pdf file of red labels in three different sizes. I also included a png version of the printable labels so you can easily recolor and customize to fit your project needs.
Download and get to labeling! Enjoy!


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STARKVILLE -- Starkville became a bit more pedestrian-friendly Tuesday night after the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance to set standards for the construction of all new sidewalks throughout the city.
The ordinance, which passed unanimously, requires sidewalks along new public and private roads in the city. It also requires sidewalks in front of all new homes and businesses before the city issues certificates of occupancy.
Although the ordinance primarily addresses the construction of new sidewalks, it also attempts to improve the city''s existing walkways.
According to the ordinance, whenever the city makes significant improvements to a major roadway, such as overlaying, the city also would have to install new sidewalks along the stretch of road, or improve the road''s existing walkways to meet current standards.
Additionally, as a way to maintain existing sidewalks, the city''s sidewalk committee included in the ordinance a section holding property owners accountable for their walkways. According to the ordinance, if a sidewalk is damaged or removed by any direct action, such as backing over it repeatedly with a heavy truck, the property owner would be responsible for replacing or repairing the section.
And, in an attempt to make sure future aldermen keep sidewalks in mind, the ordinance requires the city to create a separate line item on its annual budget, which would be designated specifically for sidewalk funds.
Ward 4 Alderman Richard Corey spearheaded the ordinance over the last nine months to help improve accessibility throughout the city.
"It really was a labor of love for me and I think it''s something people 20 years down the line will see the lasting effects on," Corey said after the meeting. "You just have to think about if Starkville would have had this ordinance 20 years ago, how different things would look today."
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PaoloM said:Shining Arcanine said:*snip*
So they can wipe out the competition with the successor of WP7, like they did with the successor of Vista?
Sounds like a good strategy to me!
Has it? I think that Microsoft is too busy with its own forced obsolescence initiative to worry about its competitors. After all, it has been trying to kill Windows XP for a few years now as part of it and that has not worked very well. In the mean time, Mac OS X has been siphoning significant marketshare from Windows and other UNIX-like operating systems have been growing in popularity too, although they have been growing at a slower rate than Mac OS X.


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Written by Stephen King, 2006
Leave it to Stephen King to not only find a way to bring some originality back to zombies, but to also make cell phones threatening past those silly brain tumors.
King's severely pessimistic tale opens on the day of the apocalypse and ends a few weeks later, giving the reader a very complete view of life – or lack of – during the end of the world. However, unlike the stories of Richard Matheson and George Romero, the two men whom King's novel is dedicated to, Cell doesn't concern the dead coming back to life and taking over the world. Instead, the King takes a novel approach to the niche genre with his creation of 'the Pulse', a plot device which really is brilliant in its simplicity.
'The Pulse' hits in the early afternoon of October 1st and turns anyone who sends or receives a cell phone call into a blood thirsty rage. The opening scene, which introduces the reader to the Bostonian gang of travelers who serve as our proxy for the apocalypse, is written with incredible urgency and the unfolding of the first minutes of catastrophic carnage is horror perfection. Men biting the ears off of dogs. Children ripping the throats out of women. Cars crashing left and right. Planes attempting to land on city streets. Suicides. Police officers executing people with little hesitation.
The pacing of this brutal opener is pulled off miraculously and carries well into the story, however it would be a lie to say that any other section of the novel matches the insanity of the first few chapters. This could hardly be faulted to King's writing – you can't drag the intensity of a heart attack on for 10 days – but it still holds that the length of the slow burn of the last half is felt. Then again, this is me complaining that a book's opening was actually too perfect, while the rest of the book is only 'pretty damn good'.
The initial survivors – Clay, Tom and Alice; three perfect strangers – head slowly north in a War of the Worlds reunion search for Clay's ex-wife/child. Typical of King fashion, they're a mixed crowd of characters who all compliment each other and they're given a nice host of interaction with the dying world and the
zombies phone crazies which makes for some terrific scenes. Their observations of the evolving crazies, who start behaving less and less like zombies and more and more like a collective unconscious, are worked out with ease and believability, even when the logic behind some of it is a little absurd.
The latter half of the story is not at all typical of the novel's zombie influences, but could rather be viewed as another one-up on zombie evolution. The developments the
zombies phone crazies go through is actually kind of jarring because of how radical it is. This isn't the slow evolution from the mindless bodies of Night of the Living Dead to the primitive motor/communication skills of Land of the Dead's undead – which took 4 films to show. It all happens pretty quickly by zombie standards and can be a little out there to accept, but once you decide to just buy into the oddness of it all, it's a very enjoyable story.
It's written with a lot of violence and a lot of anger, which are two ingredients all good horror should have. It may use technology as a means of destruction, and the social commentary may be there, but King doesn't have some kind of anti-cell phone agenda, which greatly helps the enjoyment of the novel. The main characters work together well as a group and do receive some emotional investment, but you could hardly call any of them truly dynamic on their own. The phone crazies are a very, very unique and interesting set of antagonists, especially their 'leader', The Raggedy Man, which makes for some genuinely heartfelt conflict between the two groups.
I'm intentionally trying to be vague as to what kind of developments the phone crazies go through, or who the Raggedy Man is, or what kind of horrific stuff happens to the group on their trek up the east coast, because it really is a great discovery to read through without knowing the specifics of King's imagination.
Cell won't change your life or anything, but it is a one-of-a-kind and is definitely worth checking out before Eli Roth comes along and twists the story, which is very local in its scope, into a global scale. It does a lot of cool, new things with zombies and will even, in its opening moments, make reaching for your cell phone a little less desirable.
definitely worth checking out before Eli Roth comes along and twists the story
s/twists/totally ruins
Haven't given much thought to King in a long, long time. This looks tempting though. I find it very hard to pass up zombies, unless they're returning.


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Guest post by MrTopStep contributor Kathy Garber of StructuralTrading.com
ESU13 has completed a bearish harmonic pattern. A bearish pattern during formation behaves in a bullish move until the completion. It is at this completion point that the pattern becomes bearish.
Strong harmonic patterns typically will retrace more than 61.8%, and ideal harmonic patterns retrace over 100%.
How much a harmonic pattern retraces tells a story. Typically the ideal minimum retracement is 38.2%. When price cannot get to a 38.2% retracement or fails to go lower than a 38.2% retracement, the story is typically a retest of the PRZ. PRZ is the abbreviation for Potential Reversal Zone, a short way of saying the "completion target for a harmonic pattern that consists of confluence levels." Another interpretation of the story is that the bullish move continues, tests the top of the upward move again, and goes past it to reach a further target.
In ESU13, a Bearish Garfly has completed and the PRZ was from 1661.5 to 1675 (yes, this is a big zone, but it was a big pattern). So far there was an attempt to hold above the PRZ (to hold above 1661.5), but price has since fallen back inside the zone. This implies a test of the lower portion of the zone at 1661.5.
If price does not hold above this level, the initial target on the downside is 1649 (yes, there is a harmonic reason for that price). Below 1649, the ideal minimum retracement target is at the 38.2% Fibonacci ratio.
So let's see what story unfolds ... does price stall sideways inside the PRZ? Does price break back above the PRZ and seek the 1708.25 target? Does price break down the PRZ to shift into retracement mode?
There's no guarantee of which scenario plays out first, but due to the harmonics we have clues, and the clues state that a hold above 1675 increases the probability of upside continuation, and that if price breaks down below 1661.5, the probability increases that the bias is downside to initial targets of 1649 and 1631.25.
Reminder ... targets are places to take profits, protect a winning position or exit the trade. Always trade with a plan, especially an exit strategy.
The S&P futures have closed higher 10 out of the last 11 days, up 61.5 handles.
Monday, July 1 +7.4
Tuesday, July 2 +.50
Wednesday, July 3 +1.9
Friday, July 5 +18.2
Monday, July 8 +8.2
Tuesday, July 9 +10.1
Wednesday, July 10 +3.0
Thursday, July 11 + 21.5
Friday, July 12 +.20
Monday, July 15 +7.2
Tuesday, July 16 -6.3
Our view (Danny Riley): The Asian markets closed mostly higher and Europe is trading modestly higher too. Well, we got the down day we were looking for, but overall volume was still very low. When you take out the 150,000 ESUs traded in Globex, just over 1mil ESU traded in the day session. Today is the first day of Bernanke's two-day testimony in Washington. It's important to remember that while the Fed may have backtracked on tapering right now, that doesn't mean they won't backtrack again. Do we think the S&P is on track for 1700? Yes, we do, but we also understand that once the bus gets too full it moves the other way.
According to the Ned Davis S&P cash study, the Wednesday before the July expiration has been up 16 / down 13 of the last 29 occasions. Our view is there is probably more room on the downside for at least the first part of the day. As we said last Friday and Monday, there will be at least one down day this week. With that in mind and the fact that the S&P tends to be up a day / down a day during the expiration, we lean to selling the early rally, then buying weakness. The buying the weakness part didn't work yesterday, but don't be surprised if it does today.
Lastly, before yesterday's lower close the S&P futures had been up 13 out of the last 14 sessions; as of this morning the S&P has been up 9 out of the last 10 sessions. As always, have an exit strategy before you enter, keep an eye on the 10-handle rule, and please use stops when trading futures.
- It's 8 a.m. and the ESU is trading 1671.50, up 1 tick; crude is up 2 cents at 106.02; and the euro is down 29 pips at 1.3134.
- In Asia, 7 out of 11 markets closed higher (Shanghai Comp -1.01%, Hang Seng +0.28%, Nikkei +0.11%).
- In Europe, 7 out of 12 markets are trading higher (DAX +0.27%, FTSE unchanged).
- Today's headline: "Bank of England surprise hits shares, dollar steady ahead of Fed"
- Total volume: (LOW) 1,171k ESU and 8.9k SPU
- Economic calendar: MBA purchase applications, housing starts, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to testify before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, EIA Petroleum Status Report and the Beige Book.
- Fair value: S&P 1670.66, +0.09; NASDAQ 3070.77, +3.23
- Ned Davis Expiration Study for July - https://mr-topstep.com/index.php/equities/3687-expiration-study-for-july
Danny Riley is a 34-year veteran of the trading floor. He has helped run one of the largest S&P desks on the floor of the CME Group since 1985.
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In Kess We trust: Canucks win in shootout 5-4
Three Stars:
1) Ryan Kesler. Two goals, one assist, most dominant Canuck on the ice
2) Christian Ehrhoff: 2 assists before leaving game with injury
3) Teemu Selanne: Dangerous all night, 1 goal, 1 assist for 40 year old.
It was tense, nerve wracking, and when it was all over, cheers echoed through the rafters in Rogers Arena. Ryan Kesler scored two goals, including the game tying mark with 21.6 seconds left, and the Cancks stole two points from the Ducks, winning 5-4 in a shootout.
The game was far from beautiful, but it was deliciously entertaining. Corey Perry, starting to become very disliked in Vancouver, had the opening tally on the Powerplay, and the Ducks looked to be in control. However, just over two minutes later, Ryan Kesler scored his first of the night his 11th, also on a powerplay. Kesler, who had been playing marvelous hockey this homestand will little result, finally got rewarded by tipping a point shot home.
A mere eleven seconds later, Jeff Tambellini whacked a rebound past backup goaltender Curtis McElhinney for his fifth of the season, and the Canucks were the ones who seemed to be in control, 2-1.
It was a seesaw battle however, as Joffrey Lupul wristed a shot past Luongo just nine minutes into the second. It was a questionable goal for sure, and Luongo didn't really look as dominant as he had looked previously at home. Then, with only seventeen seconds left in the second period, Teemu Selanne, the 40 year old finnish flash wristed a knuckler over Luongo and into the back of the net.
Just like that, the Ducks had all the momentum going into the third, and it showed.
Eleven minutes into the third, Cam Fowler had his shot go off Luongo, and then off the inside of Alexander Edler's knee and past Bobby Lou. It was a weird goal, and the life was sucked out of the building; It was 4-2 with nine minutes left. It seemed that the Canucks would drop another contest at home, where they had previously been invincible!
Cue the comeback.
It all started when Daniel Sedin knocked his 15th goal of the year past McElhinney on a rebound. The goal wasn't without controversy though; The original shot had hit McElhinney in the mask, and he fell to the ice clutching his face. While he was falling to the ice, Daniel Sedin had already deposited the puck into the net. Ducks head Coach Randy Carlyle was livid, claiming that the referees should have blown play dead, as is customary to do when a goalie is hit in the mask. Nevertheless, it was 4-3 ducks.
Then, with the stage set for a dramatic finish, Ryan Kesler showed why he is a leader on this team. He would not give up on the play, whacking at the puck, getting shoved to ice, and then continuing to hit the puck while on his behind, finally banking it in off Jonas Hiller's stick for his 12th of the season and second of the game.
Hiller had come into the game to replace McElhinney, and it was clear he was not warmed up at all. It was 5-5 with 21.6 seconds left, and Rogers Arena was rocking.
The Canucks had plenty of opportunities to end the game in the first Overtime session, especially at the end of the period. Corey Perry, showing all types of class and hockey smarts, decided it would be in his teams best interest if he punched Daniel Sedin in the face. The Canucks ended up with a powerplay with under a minute left, but couldn't capitalize.
The shootout, usually Luongo's nightmare, was kind to him this time, as he managed to just, and I mean just, get his glove on Joffrey Lupul's hard wrister, after Jeff Tambellini had made a perfect shot under the crossbar to give the Canucks a lead.
Then, after a Ryan Kesler miss, one that will end up on blooper reels for years to come, Teemu Selanne tried to go under the bar, but ended up going over the net. Lastly, after Hiller made a brilliant stop on a Daniel Sedin deke, Corey Perry shot right into Luongo's leg pads.
Boom. Over.
Just like that, the Canucks had stolen two points.
The Canucks will now get two days off and host old friend Mattias Ohlund and the Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday night at 7:30 pm pacific time.
Notes: Jeff Tambellini has been producing, getting 5 points in 9 games since being called up..
Markus Naslund will have his jersey retired on Saturday. His number 19 will join Stan Smyl's number 12 and Trevor Linden's number 16 as the only official retired jerseys in Canucks Franchise history..
Ryan Kesler has matured apparently, as he has pledged he will no longer "beak" or trash talk in hockey games, instead opting to focus on his game. Alex Burrows has also agreed to do this.
Mason Raymond was involved in a collision in the third period and only had one shift afterwards..
Curtis McElhinney was hit in the mask with the puck, bled profusely, and did not return to the game.
Christian Ehrhoff was hit in the ear with a puck, left game and did not return
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Bay Point Man Pleads Guilty To Having Sex With Unconscious MinorA 33-year-old Bay Point man has pleaded guilty to one count of child molestation and one count of committing sex acts on an unconscious minor.
Bay Point Woman's Body And Car Recovered After A Week Submerged In Sacramento RiverA woman's body was recovered from a car submerged in the Sacramento River in Isleton almost a week after she lost control of the car.
Bay Point Woman's Body Remains In Submerged Vehicle After Crash In IsletonThe body of a Bay Point woman whose car was found in the Sacramento River in Isleton Sunday night remains underneath the water and won't be removed until at least Thursday, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
Man Found Fatally Shot Near Antioch WaterfrontA Bay Point man was shot and killed near the Antioch waterfront Wednesday morning, according to police.
2-Alarm Fire Decimates Bay Point Apartment ComplexFire crews in the East Bay are responding to a 2-alarm fire at a residential building in unincorporated Contra Costa County Friday afternoon, according to county fire officials.
2 Hurt In Bay Point ShootingTwo people were injured in a shooting in Bay Point on Saturday night, a Contra Costa County sheriff's lieutenant said Sunday.
BART Restores Normal Service Between Martinez And Bay Point StationsThe regular train service will last all weekend and BART officials hope to continue the service through the Monday morning commute.
BART Riders Expected To Face Nightmare Morning CommuteAs many as 25 BART cars were taken out of commission by an equipment problem caused by a power issue that was expected to disrupt BART service systemwide into Wednesday evening. Crews were scrambling to fix the issue, according to transit officials.
Coast Guard Rescues 2 Men After Boat Capsizes Near Bay PointCoast Guard personnel rescued two men Saturday morning from a capsized boat near Bay Point.
7 Injured In Bay Point Fire Reportedly Caused By Smoking Drugs In VanInvestigators believe someone smoking drugs in a van caused a three-alarm fire that injured seven people and damaged four homes in Bay Point early Friday morning, a Contra Costa County Fire Protection District fire marshal said.
Bay Point Vegetation Fire Burns 37 Acres Before Firefighters Contain ItA fire burned 37 acres in windy conditions in Bay Point before being contained Monday afternoon, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials said.
20 Acre Brush Fire Allowed To Burn Near Bay Point; 3rd Recent Fire In Same LocationFirefighters allowed a small brush fire to consume roughly 20 acres of vegetation on Wednesday after responding to the same location near Bay Point for the third time in recent weeks, a fire official said Thursday.


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Busta Shinjuku opened today - a brand new highway bus and taxi station across from the South Exit of Shinjuku Station that was completed after ten years of construction. "Busta" is short for "Bus & Taxicab Terminal."
|Busta Shinjuku
Busta Shinjuku's main feature, reflected in its name, is the Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal that occupies the fourth floor and most of the third floor.
|4th floor Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal, Busta Shinjuku
|Shinjuku Expressway Bus Terminal ticket office and waiting room, in Busta Shinjuku.
|Taxi stand, third floor, Busta Shinjuku
The Tokyo Tourist Information Center is also on the third floor. This large information center has iPads arrayed for visitors to freely use and find multilingual information about Japan on. There are fluent English speakers in attendance.
|Inside the Tourist Information Center, Busta Shinjuku
|An entrance of the Tourist Information Center, Busta Shinjuku
|Koshu-kaido Gate, Shinjuku Station, in Busta Shinjuku
|Inside NEWoMen shopping building, adjoining Busta Shinjuku
|Takashimaya Times Square and the platforms and lines of Shinjuku Station, from Busta Shinjuku.
Shinjuku Busta has made as big an entrance onto the Shinjuku transport and Shinjuku shopping scene as its name implies, making this Tokyo's busiest and most vibrant area all the more accessible and glamorous.
© JapanVisitor.com


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20.16 Acre Garden Home Trl, Snowflake, AZ 85937
- $11,900
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Pretty 20. 16 acres with decent access... only 17 mi to Main St Snowflake & about 34 mi to Show Low. Power is in the neighborhood, but would be pricey to bring to property... easy ''''off grid'''' living on this land... lots of sun for solar panels. Gently rolling hills, with scattered, small, trees. Wash along the west side adds to the character of the land. Property sits over the Coconino Aquifer, providing abundant, good, water. Owner looking for a quick cash sale, and has priced the property accordingly. Click here to learn more about this listing..
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Nearby Elementary Schools
- Snowflake Intermediate School
- 62 W 2nd St S
- Highland Primary School
- 361 West 7th South
- Taylor Elementary School
- 29 South 300 East
Nearby Primary Schools
- Snowflake Preschool
- 682 W School Bus Ln
Nearby Middle Schools
- Navit - Snowflake High School
- 951 W Snowflake Blvd
- Snowflake Junior High School
- 1380 S Main St
Nearby High Schools
- Snowflake High School
- 190 South 2nd West
- Navit - St. Johns High School
- 951 W Snowflake Blvd
- Navit - Round Valley High School
- 951 W Snowflake Blvd
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Thanks everyone! I had a lovely birthday, and yes, little Benny was very nice to me! Bec and I went out for a great breakfast while her grandparents watched Benny, and he was a champ about being abandoned for a little while.
Among other things, my birthday gifts included two cans of Dr. Pepper, which were heartily enjoyed!


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- 8.5.x core/lib/Drupal/Core/Routing/routing.api.php routing
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Route page requests to code based on URLs.
Overview and terminology
The Drupal routing system defines how Drupal responds to URL requests that the web server passes on to Drupal. The routing system is based on the Symfony framework. The central idea is that Drupal subsystems and modules can register routes (basically, URL paths and context); they can also register to respond dynamically to routes, for more flexibility. When Drupal receives a URL request, it will attempt to match the request to a registered route, and query dynamic responders. If a match is made, Drupal will then instantiate the required classes, gather the data, format it, and send it back to the web browser. Otherwise, Drupal will return a 404 or 403 response.
The following sections of this topic provide an overview of the routing API. For more detailed information, see https://www.drupal.org/developing/api/8/routing
Registering simple routes
To register a route, add lines similar to this to a module_name.routing.yml file in your top-level module directory:
path: '/admin/reports/dblog'
_controller: '\Drupal\dblog\Controller\DbLogController::overview'
_title: 'Recent log messages'
_permission: 'access site reports'
Some notes:
- The first line is the machine name of the route. Typically, it is prefixed by the machine name of the module that defines the route, or the name of a subsystem.
- The 'path' line gives the URL path of the route (relative to the site's base URL). Note: The path in Drupal is treated case insensitive so /example and /EXAmplE should return the same page. @todo Fix https://www.drupal.org/node/2075889 to actually get this behaviour.
- The 'defaults' section tells how to build the main content of the route,
and can also give other information, such as the page title and additional
arguments for the route controller method. There are several possibilities
for how to build the main content, including:
- _controller: A callable, usually a method on a page controller class (see Route controllers for simple routes below for details).
- _form: A form controller class. See the Form API topic for more information about form controllers.
- _entity_form: A form for editing an entity. See the Entity API topic for more information.
- The 'requirements' section is used in Drupal to give access permission instructions (it has other uses in the Symfony framework). Most routes have a simple permission-based access scheme, as shown in this example. See the Permission system topic for more information about permissions.
See https://www.drupal.org/node/2092643 for more details about *.routing.yml files, and https://www.drupal.org/node/2122201 for information on how to set up dynamic routes. The Events topic is also relevant to dynamic routes.
Defining routes with placeholders
Some routes have placeholders in them, and these can also be defined in a module_name.routing.yml file, as in this example from the Block module:
path: '/admin/structure/block/manage/{block}'
_entity_form: 'block.default'
_title: 'Configure block'
_entity_access: 'block.update'
In the path, '{block}' is a placeholder - it will be replaced by the ID of the block that is being configured by the entity system. See the Entity API topic for more information.
Route controllers for simple routes
For simple routes, after you have defined the route in a *.routing.yml file (see Registering simple routes above), the next step is to define a page controller class and method. Page controller classes do not necessarily need to implement any particular interface or extend any particular base class. The only requirement is that the method specified in your *.routing.yml file returns:
- A render array (see the Theme and render topic for more information). This render array is then rendered in the requested format (HTML, dialog, modal, AJAX are supported by default). In the case of HTML, it will be surrounded by blocks by default: the Block module is enabled by default, and hence its Page Display Variant that surrounds the main content with blocks is also used by default.
- A \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response object.
As a note, if your module registers multiple simple routes, it is usual (and usually easiest) to put all of their methods on one controller class.
If the route has placeholders (see Defining routes with placeholders above) the placeholders will be passed to the method (using reflection) by name. For example, the placeholder '{myvar}' in a route will become the $myvar parameter to the method.
Additionally, if a parameter is typed to one of the following special classes the system will pass those values as well.
- \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request: The raw Symfony request object. It is generally only useful if the controller needs access to the query parameters of the request. By convention, this parameter is usually named $request.
- \Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface: The raw request, represented using the PSR-7 ServerRequest format. This object is derived as necessary from the Symfony request, so if either will suffice the Symfony request will be slightly more performant. By convention this parameter is usually named $request.
- \Drupal\Core\Routing\RouteMatchInterface: The "route match" data from this request. This object contains various standard data derived from the request and routing process. Consult the interface for details.
Most controllers will need to display some information stored in the Drupal database, which will involve using one or more Drupal services (see the Services and container topic). In order to properly inject services, a controller should implement \Drupal\Core\DependencyInjection\ContainerInjectionInterface; simple controllers can do this by extending the \Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase class. See \Drupal\dblog\Controller\DbLogController for a straightforward example of a controller class.
- core/
lib/ Drupal/ Core/ Routing/ routing.api.php, line 8
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|Rebuilds the route information and dumps it.
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CDI sub-licenses patents from GE
Cellular Dynamics International Inc. has reached an agreement to sub-license patents from GE Healthcare Life Sciences as part of its strategy to protect its customers from future patent disputes.
The Madison company produces human cells, derived from what are known as induced pluripotent stem cells, used to develop new drugs and other research.
Given the complexity of the patent law underlying the technology, part of Cellular Dynamics' strategy is to license important patents tied to the manufacture of human cells and their use by the company's customers, said Bob Palay, chief executive of Cellular Dynamics.
Terms of the agreement with GE Healthcare Life Sciences, a unit of GE Healthcare, were not disclosed.
GE Healthcare Life Sciences, based in Chalfont St. Giles in the United Kingdom, recently obtained the exclusive global rights to Geron's intellectual property and know-how for the development and sale of cellular assays, or tests, derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.
Cellular Dynamics now holds or has the rights to more than 700 patents or patent applications, Palay said. Before the agreement with the unit of GE Healthcare, it held or had the rights to more than 500 patents.
The portfolio lessens the chance that a Cellular Dynamics customer who discovers a new drug using its cells, for example, would find itself in a lawsuit with a company that contended its technology was used in the discovery.
Cellular Dynamics has licensed patents from companies throughout the world, Palay said.
The company, founded in 2004 by James Thomson, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one of the pioneers in stem cell research, employs about 110 people and has raised more than $100 million from investors.
Cellular Dynamics, also known as CDI, used methods developed by Thomson to reprogram cells from adult tissue, such as skin or blood cells, to make human cells that can be used in research.
The technology, which doesn't involve embryonic stems cells, can produce cells to guaranteed specifications.
"CDI is about manufacturing cells and putting them into the hands of great scientists," Palay said.
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