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TITLE Science Education Project Director
CLASSIFICATION Exempt
IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR Dean, College of Natural and Applied Science
MAJOR ADMINISTRATOR Provost
The Science Education Project Director coordinates programs that promote science education in P-12 schools and takes a lead role in writing grants to fund science education programs with the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health (NIH), and other funding agencies in cooperation with Missouri State University (MSU) departments in the College of Natural and Applied Science (CNAS) and the College of Education (COE). The Science Education Project Director coordinates funded grants promoting science education, collaborates with appropriate MSU departments, faculty, and other science-related units on campus to offer science education programs for P-12 students, and develops programs/academies promoting science education for P-12 students and teachers.
Education: A Master's degree in education, science education, or a science-related field is required.
Experience: Experience in classroom teaching, preferably in secondary science education, is required; three or more years of experience in classroom teaching in secondary/middle schools is preferred. Experience in managing projects of significant size, including education programs and/or grant projects is required. Experience in developing or coordinating the development of professional development training for educators is preferred.
Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required. The ability to undertake a range of tasks and organize time efficiently is required. Familiarity with P-12 formal education and the ability to help provide training of teachers in science is required. Must be familiar with and supportive of hands-on and inquiry-based approaches to science learning.
1. Works with the deans of COE and CNAS, appropriate department heads and faculty, other MSU science-related unit directors, and P-12 schools to write grant proposals to fund science and mathematics education programs.
2. Provides overall coordination of funded science education programs for P-12 schools that are sponsored by MSU colleges, departments and other science-related units.
3. Cultivates relationships and partnerships with other organizations related to science education to support programs and projects for P-12 schools.
4. Works with appropriate MSU personnel in donor cultivation and other fundraising activities to support science programs and projects at MSU for P-12 schools.
5. Coordinates the cultivation of relationships, partnerships, and donors with appropriate units, such as, Jordan Valley Innovation Center (JVIC) and corporate partners.
6. Administers funded grants and their respective budgets and prepares financial and narrative reports for appropriate funding agencies and MSU offices.
7. Prepares master schedules and timelines for all projects.
8. Coordinates the hiring of instructors and resident assistants for programs and academies.
9. Plans and coordinates faculty/staff/teacher workshops, orientation sessions, and evaluations.
10. Oversees the preparation of curricular guides and curriculum development and professional development activities.
11. Increases awareness of and support for science education by conducting proactive public relations with the media.
12. Remains competent and current through self-directed professional reading, developing professional contacts with colleagues, attending professional development courses, and attending training and/or courses as assigned.
13. Performs other duties as assigned.
The Science Education Project Director is supervised by the Dean of CNAS and supervises graduate assistants, students, and externally-funded staff supporting science projects and programs in the P-12 schools.
Factor 1: Professional Knowledge, Skill, and Technical Mastery
Level 4 - 2300 Points: Knowledge of the principles, concepts, practices, methods and techniques of an administrative, managerial, or professional field such as accounting or auditing, financial management, business administration, human resources, engineering, social sciences, communications, education, law, or medicine. Knowledge permits the employee to complete assignments by applying established methods to recurring types of projects/problems susceptible to well-documented precedents or to schedule, plan, and carry out precedented projects. Alternatively, knowledge at this level might also permit the employee to carry out precedented projects requiring considerable experience in specific areas within higher education. Knowledge at this level is typically acquired through a combination of formal education and/or training and experience that includes a requirement for a college degree in a specific technical or professional specialty along with significant related work experience. Alternatively, equivalent knowledge requirements at this level include a non-technical or general Bachelor's degree requirement with substantial work experience or a non-specific Master's degree requirement with substantial work experience. Knowledge requirements generally also include a significant amount of related work experience and may include administrative or supervisory experience.
Factor 2: Supervisory Responsibility
Level 3 - 270 Points: Supervision of a limited number of (a) operative, administrative support, or paraprofessional employees who do not exercise a full range of supervisory responsibilities over other full-time employees, (b) a very small number of professional employees, or an equivalent combination of (a) and (b). The incumbent performs a full range of supervisory responsibilities including performance reviews of subordinates. The incumbent is generally responsible for training, planning, and directing the work of permanent employees, and provides major input into hiring decisions. Supervisory responsibilities consume moderate amounts of work time and may include general work planning tasks.
Factor 3: Interactions with Others
Level 4 - 500 Points: Interactions with others are somewhat unstructured. The purpose may be to influence or motivate others, to obtain information, or to control situations and resolve problems. Interactions may be with individuals or groups of co-workers, students, or the general public, may be moderately unstructured, and may involve persons who hold differing goals and objectives. Individuals at this level often act as a liaison between groups with a focus on solving particular unstructured problems. Interactions at this level require considerable interpersonal skill and the ability to resolve conflict.
Factor 4: Job Controls and Guidelines
Level 3 - 500 Points: The employee operates under general supervision expressed in terms of program goals and objectives, priorities, and deadlines. Administrative supervision is given through statements of overall program or project objectives and available resources. Administrative guidelines are relatively comprehensive and the employee need only to fill in gaps in interpretation and adapt established methods to perform recurring activities. In unforeseen situations, the employee must interpret inadequate or incomplete guidelines, develop plans, and initiate new methods to complete assignments based on those interpretations. Assignments are normally related in function, but the work requires many different processes and methods applied to an established administrative or professional field. Problems are typically the result of unusual circumstances, variations in approach, or incomplete or conflicting data. The employee must interpret and refine methods to complete assignments. Characteristic jobs at this level may involve directing single-purpose programs or performing complex, but precedented, technical or professional work.
Factor 5: Managerial Responsibility
Level 3 - 850 Points: Work involves providing significant support services to others both within and outside of the department that substantially influences decision-making processes. Work activities are complex and others rely on the accuracy and reliability of the information, analysis, or advice to make decisions. Work activities have a direct, but shared, impact on further processes or services, affect the overall efficiency and image of the department, and may have material impact on costs or service quality within the cost center. Incumbents may be responsible for identifying areas of need and for developing proposals that request funding to fulfill those needs.


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|Shake-A-Phrase: Fun with Words and Sentences
|A fun langauge app for creative writing prompts, vocabulary, and parts of speech practice.
|Grades 3-5
|"This MadLibs-style app lets you fill in adjectives, nouns, verbs, and other kinds of words to complete silly stories. But instead of writing the words in, you record your own voice, which is played back when the story is read."
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|"Find all the hidden words before the Word Thief steals them and become a spelling detective. If the Word Thief beats you to the words, you will have to recover the stolen words by spelling them. Game has three difficulty settings challenging kids aged 5 to 9."
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|Now kids can build vocabulary anytime, anywhere, all while having fun. With 9 addictive games designed to help understand words rather than just memorize them, our Kids' Vocab app will broaden kids' vocabularies and sharpen their reading & writing skills.
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|Manulife Word Hunter
|A fun and interactive game for kids to learn new words. There are 3 characters to choose from and each will compete with each other to reach the finish line to win the game. Along the way they will be tested on their learning ability by playing the mini game. Includes 3 mini games and 50 spelling words."
|Grades K-2
|Grammaropolis uses the parts of speech as animated characters whose personalities are based on the roles they play in the sentence. Every part of speech has its own neighborhood that includes a curriculum map with songs, books, videos, and quizzes." Nouns are free, additional parts of speech require purchase.
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The Deep State
The Deep State, featuring Joel Simpson
Tuesday, May 2, 2017, 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM PDT
The Deep State: Making Sense of Permanent War, Questionable Elections, Mass Surveillance, a Bloated Medical System, Embedded Racism in a Supposedly Democratic Country.
This was a LIVE Streaming Event. Video and streaming by Ed Ellsworth, Enlightened Films.


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As soon as I saw the 10 year label.m Giles Deacon collection I just knew I had to have it, I've always been a sucker for something nicely designed and this one ticked all the boxes for me. I just love the quirky illustrations and sweet colour palette, something that I'll be keeping on my dressing area shelves for years after they're empty. The anniversary collection is made up of 3 limited edition designed products, Volume Mousse, Hairspray and Texturising Volume Spray, all London Fashion Week backstage favourites.
I've been a fan of label.m for a couple of years now, but up until now I've only tried their shampoos & conditioners (the orange blossom is my fave - you can read a review here) so it's great to see how their hair styling offering holds up. The Texturising Volume Spray is definitely a new favourite of mine and probably the best of the three, it's definitely something that I'll be repurchasing once I've finished the bottle. It's kind of a cure all product, you can use it as a general hairspray, a salt spray type product which gives you really natural bed head style waves, and lastly, it soaks up any oil in your hair so you can use it as a dry shampoo too.
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Opart Thai House
1906 S. State Street
Date of Last Visit: Monday, March 14, 2011
The Victims: Many
The Damage: About $25 per person
The Background: I've been reading with interest as Tammi over at Chicago Bites has been eating her way through the Opart Thai menu at the Lincoln Square branch of Opart Thai.
Now that's my kind of challenge.
So when I had the chance to get in on a big group meal with lots of food at Opart Thai — the South Loop branch — I said YES. At something like $25 per person for a veritable feast of a set menu, it was more or less a no-brainer. (I've been using that phrase a lot lately. Apologies.)
Ah, high expectations…always destined to fail…
After our slimy and overly-sauced vegetable spring rolls, we were served up an order of the one Chinese-American-Thai appetizer that I've never been able to reconcile myself with…
…crab rangoon. Deep-fried cream cheese and scallions.
Personally…I think there's only one place cream cheese belongs and that's on a bagel. Bleh.
Tiger cry. Well, let me tell if…if I were a tiger and someone gave me a bowl of this dry, over-cooked nonsense (beef), I'd cry too. Hard.
This was the pad thai. The wettest pad thai I've ever had. Dry tofu too.
The red curry shrimp was about the only dish I had seconds of. The ratio of curry to shrimp, however, was like a gazillion-to-one.
The Basil Chicken reminded me of cat food.
The fried banana was nice though.
The Verdict: I think you get the point. The Lincoln Square location must be better because I really have no desire to ever go back here again.


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Perform the indicated operations and simplify. (Note: The answers should have no negative exponents)
1) (3mn^2 + 2mn - 3m^2n^2) - (3m^2n - 6mn^2) - (m^2n - 6m^2n^2)
2) 2x (A+B)y - (A+B)y^2 / 8(A+B)
Now, you should group like terms...m squared, n squareds go together, m squared ns should go together...so on
Now, combine like terms
Now, about this. Is this supposed to be
2) 2x (A+B)y - (A+B)y^2 / 8(A+B)
?? Can't tell by the way you wrote it...


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Attention prospective padawan learners! The schedule for Jedi Training Academy is about to change slightly.
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Starting on March 27, the 9:55am show will move to 10:00am. On days only when Fantasmic! IS showing there will be five additional shows (for a total of thirteen.) The additional show times are 9:15am, 5:45pm, 6:40; 7:35, 8:30.
Many thanks to contributor Paul Chadkin for alerting us to this change!


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Memo to the Union of Concerned Scientists: Not many Republicans are "ashamed to be an American" and not many wives of Republicans have renounced their citizenship.
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- Winning! JunkScience forces Emanuel to disclose insurance employers
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- More Deschanel and Boreanaz chemistry
The message is clear: if you're going to fall in love with someone, the best place to do it is near a decomposing body riddled with maggots. Which is why I spend so much time digging up graves. I think the arresting officer and I really made a connection.


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Books-n-Kisses is please to welcome the wonderful team of LJ Garland & Debbie Gould to that blog today to chat about their new book Sins of the Mind
DEBBIE: Thanks for inviting us, I'm excited.
LJ: Yes, thanks so much for having us today!
Can you please share with us a little about yourself
LJ: Though born and raised in the south, I've lived on both the east and west coasts. I love traveling, and the latest adventures I've added to my Bucket List: Machu Pichu and Australia's Rainforest and Great Barrier Reef. Someday, I hope to get to those places! I've been married to my best friend for over twenty years, spend my time home schooling three rambunctious boys, editing in the epub industry, and writing stories that I hopes catches readers' imaginations as much as the characters and plotlines captivate me. In my spare time (what there is of it LOL), I have tons of hobbies, including building archery equipment from scratch and creating stained glass. I have a passion for anything that goes Boom! …from fireworks to high-powered combat rifles…it's all good. My hubby and I are both rated helicopter pilots and spent our 10th anniversary flying cross-country from east to west coast…an adventure I highly recommend.
DEBBIE: Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, at the age of two my mother and I moved to New Jersey, spending many happy years on my grandparents' horse farm. You'll sometimes find this setting as a backdrop in my stories. As a teenager, my mother and I found a new home in Vermont, which is where I currently reside. With a daughter in the Air Force (along with my six-year-old grandson), and two sons working for the family Well Drilling business, I now shuffle my time between a full time job as a nurse and my writing career. About seven years ago, while looking at over three hundred treasured books lining the shelves, I realized there was a multitude of stories of my own clamoring for release. Since then, I've seriously persevered in keeping the keyboard in constant motion.
Have you always wanted to be an author?
DEBBIE: First I wanted to be a Marine Biologist, then I wanted to join the Navy and be a chef on one of their boats, but I ended up being a nurse, then writing came along.
LJ: Well, I wanted to be the President of the United States until I was twelve. Then I smartened up! lol After that I wanted to be an actress. Did that for a while then moved to teaching college and that led to home schooling my three boys… Wow, I'm old!
Can you share with us your typical writing day. Is there anything you have to have while writing?
LJ: Uh, a typical day? Do we have any typical writing days??
DEBBIE: No routine here. I keep telling her we need a routine, but she's too busy drinking coffee all day.
LJ: Hey, it works, and we get the stories finished. Hmm…my mug's empty. Back in a sec.
DEBBIE: See what I mean?
Most challenging or rewarding part of writing?
DEBBIE: Getting positive reactions from the readers would be the most rewarding. I'd say the most challenging would be coming up with a unique story they will enjoy.
LJ: Yeah. And I would add that first page. You always want to grab the reader and ensure they keep going. And reader tastes vary widely. Pretty daunting task, that.
Can you please tell us about your latest book(s)?
Our latest release is the first book from the Red River series. It's a romantic suspense from Decadent Publishing called Sins of the Mind.
BLURB: Seven years ago, Abby Montgomery survived a brutal attack. Now she is ready to put her pain in the past and move on with her life. The problem is, one by one the men in her life are being viciously murdered. The detective assigned to the case, Ethan Parker, has demons of his own to hide. As the danger gets closer to Abby, so does Ethan. But can they get past his secrets before the killer gets to them? Sometimes the sins of the mind are more depraved than the sins of the heart.
How did you come with the idea for this story?
LJ: Well, as I recall, we were both on the same Internet forum. We'd known each other for…what? Two years, Deb?
Debbie: Yup, about that. We had been brainstorming a plot in one of the books I was writing (still unfinished, lol) and I showed her the first chapter of another story that had been screaming in my brain at me. She liked it, and I asked her if she wanted to co-write it.
LJ: That's right! And I was excited because the story was interesting. Romance and murder, what's not to like? So, we started brainstorming ideas and things got pretty intense and…what's the word I'm looking for?
DEBBIE: Twisted?
LJ: Yes. That's a great descriptor. But we both loved it and voilà, Sins of the Mind!
Can you share with us your current work in progress?
DEBBIE: We're working on the next book in the Red River Series. Yup more murder, mayhem, and romance, lol.
LJ: Yep, we'll be torturing the next characters even more than the first. Though, I think Sins of the Mind had several unexpected twists…and the characters got banged up pretty good.
Who are some of your favorite authors?
DEBBIE: Suzanne Brockmann, Stephen King, Tami Hoag, Cindy Gerard, Kat Martin, Lori Foster…oh the list goes on and on.
LJ: LOL I know! There are so many! Anne McCaffrey – her stories are so creative, yet easy to visualize. Her detailed worlds and series are inspirational, not to mention fun to read! Henry Beam Piper – his Little Fuzzy series is creative and memorable for sure! Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game and all that came after was amazing. And he also did a nice twist on 'What you think is true, might not be.' Stephen King – because he didn't write horror just for the sake of writing horror, there was a deep, psychological aspect that caused the blood to run cold. Dean Koontz – because his style of writing drew me. The way he wove his earlier stories was unusual, never in a straight line, which left me wondering how these diverse characters would ever collide. Suzanne Brockmann – for her high-action stories and her hero's perspective. Robert Jordan – for his epic stories. Thomas Harris – psychologically terrifying.
Do you feel that any of your favorite authors have inspired your writing style?
LJ: Absolutely! I think if I look at the list above, I can see bits of them all in my stories. Wow, talk about multiple personalities. lol
DEBBIE: Ditto, lol. I grew up on King, so sometimes my stories tend to be a tad dark.
LJ: Right there with you, Deb. Probably why we like writing together so much!
What is in your To Read Pile that you are dying to start or upcoming release you can't wait for?
DEBBIE: Lori Foster's A Perfect Storm and Christine Feehan's Spirit Bound
LJ: Suzanne Collin's Mockingjay and Linnea Sinclair's Shades of Dark.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
We can be tracked down at http://www.garland-and-gould.blogspot.com/ where we blog, chat about stuff, and interview other authors. –
L.J. can be caught at www.lj-garland.com and emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com You can also tweet her at @LJ_Garland1 –
Debbie can be found at http://www.authordebbiegould.com/ and emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com. – We love hearing from people who have enjoyed our stories!
And you can find Sins of the Mind here!
LJ: Thank you so much for having us here today! We had an awesome time!
DEBBIE: Yes, thank you!


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Kernel Korner - AEM: a Scalable and Native Event Mechanism for Linux
We performed testing to measure the behavior of AEM during a simple exchange between two remote processes. This test was done to ensure the time needed to context switch an event handler did not cause a performance problem. More recently, we also performed benchmarking to measure the scalability of AEM and to test the internal implementation of jobs and wait queues, which represent the base functionality of AEM.
In order to generate figures we could compare easily, we decided to use an existing Web server and adapt it with the AEM interface. AEMhttpd is a simple single-threaded HTTP server (see Resources.) A single-threaded server runs entirely in the main thread of execution. It means that neither kernel threads nor user threads are created to handle HTTP requests. The measurements done with this type of server focus on the implementation capabilities rather than on the performance of the server itself.
In the example illustrated in Figure 6, we have run 100 active transactions. For each transaction, we increased the number of open connections to increase the number of jobs in the sockets' connection wait queues. In a standard server implementation based on select(), this would have increased the time to respond to requests, because all descriptors would have been scanned in sequence. With AEM, only active jobs (that is, sockets with data ready) execute their corresponding event handlers. This proves that AEM provides a generic and scalable implementation.
Linux is widely used in the industry, imposing itself as the operating system of choice for enterprise-level solutions. It also is on the edge of becoming the operating system of choice for the next-generation IP-based architectures for telecom services. There already is a wide acceptance of Linux capabilities, but providing enhancements at the kernel level will attract the next-generation service providers that demand scalability, performance and reliability.
AEM is a solid attempt to provide the asynchronous notification of processes together with event data completion. It also brings an event-driven methodology that enables a secure programming paradigm for application developments. In addition, AEM implements a mechanism that focuses on increasing application reliability and portability by exporting a simple user interface.
All of the researchers at the Open Systems Lab and Lars Hennert at Ericsson for their useful comments, and Ericsson Research for approving the publication of this article.
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New Belgium spends $225k on 10hl pilot system, collaborates with local beer blog
New Belgium Brewing Assistant Brewmaster Grady Hull peered into a bright shiny new fermenter like a mad scientist checking on his latest creation, a lavender plum bock beer. Hull can be a bit more "mad" nowadays when it comes to brewing small batches of beer, thanks to a new $225,000 brewing system, which will enable New Belgium to experiment a bit more freely when it comes to new beers.
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SFS Frontend Slides
Honorees of Oceanleaf Awards 2015
Recognizing instrumental individuals in our midst.
LION Youth performing @ Oceanleaf 2015
Dhaanto is one of the best traditional dances of Somali people!
Taxan Newsletter
The first and only bilingual (Somali & English) newsletter in California!
Day to Dream @ 2015
Youth exploring one of their future colleges!
Day of Dignity November 04, 2014
SFS Staff and Volunteers feeding to those who are less fortunate in our community!
Health & Wellness
SFS has been a champion in addressing gaps in healthcare in the San Diego East African refugee community, frequently collaborating with other community stakeholders and residents. Despite over a decade of settlement in San Diego, until recently there was no data on the demographics and health status of the Somali community, making it difficult for community groups and health care providers to adequately address health needs and concerns. Read more
Family Strengthening
SFS bolsters the East African refugee community with its Family Strengthening program. We advocate on issues such as access to quality healthcare, civil rights, law enforcement, interpretation and translation, and school-related challenges.
Working with the San Diego Unified School District Parent Outreach and Engagement Department and the San Diego Police Department, we plan Somali Community Health and Education Forums in which East African refugee parents learn how to communicate better with school professionals given the language and cultural barriers. Read more
Economic Development Program | Somali Family Service
Economic development program was created to address the economic needs of Somali and other East African families - most East African families in San Diego are comprised of single mothers, several children, and extended family members: nieces, nephews, cousins, etc. Many families have as many as 6-13 children. A largepercentage of the families are on public assistance. Read more


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Persimmon Kefir Smoothie
Persimmons are in season here in Texas, and, can you believe it, I had never tried one before! One of my favorite backyard farmers at my local farmers market had some beautiful bright red-orange persimmons and encouraged me to take a few.
They had two different varieties, a smaller flatter one and a larger rounder one (I don't know the names). I was told that the smaller flatter one is ripe when the color is bright but not to wait for it to get soft. The larger ones should be almost mushy to be really ripe and sweet. I ate half of a round one by just slicing it in half then scooping out the flesh with a spoon. The flatter ones should be peeled and eaten out of hand. Please do this over a counter, table, or paper towel. Fresh ripe persimmons are VERY juicy. I loved both types. I'm glad I've discovered a new, local fruit.
Although persimmons are very good eaten fresh, I thought I would try them in my morning smoothie and guess what, they work great and are delicious! I used one of the very ripe round ones for my smoothie. Here's how I made it . . .
1 very ripe persimmon
1/2 to 1 cup kefir (mine's homemade from local raw milk)
1 or 2 egg yolks (mine are from local backyard chickens)
1 tablespoon coconut oil (I use Tropical Traditions Gold Label)
Stevia to taste
How to make the smoothie
Pour the kefir into a beaker (I use a heavy-duty borosilicate glass beaker); cut the persimmon in half and scoop out the flesh, add the coconut oil and stevia. Blend with a hand blender until well mixed. Add the egg yolks and blend briefly. This could be made in a regular blender as well. I don't melt my coconut oil. I find that it blends very well without the extra step.
Pour into a glass to serve (or just drink from the beaker as I often do). Persimmons make a very thick smoothie, much like a mango smoothie. In fact, it may require a spoon. The persimmon smoothie looks like the mango smoothie, but they don't taste the same.
OOOOM GOOD! Nutrient-dense and healthy too!
If you like smoothies, you might also want to check out these other smoothie recipes:
Mango Coconut Kefir Smoothie
Morning Smoothie–oooom Good! (Cocoa banana kefir smoothie)
This recipe is shared on Freaky Friday 10/26/2012, Fill Those Jars Friday: October 26, 2012, Monday Mania 10/29/2012 and Fat Tuesday, October 30, 2012.


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An Introduction to Using Herbs as a Stress Remedy
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Herbs can be great if you are dealing with stress. There are a myriad of treatments for stress, but herbs have stood the test of time as being useful in helping with anxiety. Herbs could be the answer to your stress, so keep reading to find out more about them. An important and vital point to remember – natural and organic natural remedies can really help to eliminate stress acne breakouts so they are advantageous in so many avenues. Continue reading Read More


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News Release
Archive - New Contact Information
Monday, January 12, 2004, 12:00 p.m. EDT
(919) 541-1402
NIEHS and UNC to Collaborate on Registry of 20,000 Subjects to Relate Gene Variants and Environmental Disease
Scientists at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (http://www.niehs.nih.gov) in Research Triangle Park, N.C., one of the National Institutes of Health (http://www.nih.gov) , and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (http://www.unc.edu/) are collaborating on a registry that will eventually include 20,000 patients at various UNC medical facilities and will allow researchers to better study the relationship between environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and human disease.
The Environmental Polymorphisms Registry was initiated by NIEHS Director of Clinical Research Perry Blackshear, M.D., D. Phil., and NIEHS Health Scientist Administrator Patricia Chulada, Ph.D., M.H.S. Their collaborators at UNC are Director of the General Clinical Research Center (http://verne.med.unc.edu/home.html) Paul Watkins, M.D., and Director of Training and Career Development Susan Pusek.
A pilot study launching the registry requested consent from 600 patients at UNC outpatient clinics. About 80 percent of those asked agreed to allow a portion of blood drawn for other medical purposes to be used for the isolation of DNA that was placed in the registry depository. The samples are coded to protect the identity of donors and then made available for researchers at the National Institutes of Health, including NIEHS, and UNC, and their collaborators, to screen for the presence of genetic variants, called polymorphisms (literally "many forms"), in a category of genes known as "environmentally sensitive" genes.
These genes control how our bodies handle substances from the environment, encoding proteins that regulate a wide variety of cell functions such as toxicant and drug metabolism, cell proliferation and differentiation, cell cycle, cell death, DNA repair, signal transduction, hormone receptors, immune and inflammatory responses, and others.
In recruiting volunteers for the registry, health status is not a requirement, whether a patient has a disease or condition or not. The only requirement is that the patient be 18 years of age or older to give consent.
Dr. Blackshear said that the registry will be unusual in that patient identifiers will be maintained in coded form, giving scientists the ability to re-contact participants at a later date for follow-up studies. "There were no resources such as this available to NIH or UNC researchers prior to this, although there are many available anonymous DNA repositories," Dr. Blackshear said. Data from the follow-up studies will allow scientists to identify groups of individuals with genetic polymorphisms in "environmentally sensitive" genes and possibly to correlate their genetic variants with patients' clinical histories and current health status.
"The data collected from these studies may be used to define environmental risk factors and develop preventative strategies to reduce the incidence of disease," Dr. Blackshear said.
"This is a pioneering initiative," said Dr. Paul B. Watkins, professor of medicine and director of the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC) at UNC. "Clearly, this is the next step that's needed to increase our understanding of how genes interact with the environment, including the body's response to medicines."
Recruitment for the registry will begin soon at the Ambulatory Care Center at Mason Farm Road and S. Columbia Street in Chapel Hill, N.C. Other sites at UNC affiliated medical facilities may be added in 2004. Dr. Blackshear may be contacted on the registry, at (919) 541-4899.
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Over the course of the year, I, and you, see a lot of videos. Some of them are "okay" and some of them are just freaking awesome. This is for those.
It doesn't snow that much in Arkansas and as a result, the state pretty much shuts down when it does. It snowed at the University of Arkansas. Some bored dudes made lip dub of Katy Perry's Firework. Apparently, the need for shirtless barely legal males dancing around in the snow is high and this thing caught on like wildfire. It even got the attention of Katy Perry herself. It got the attention of national magazines and Katy Perry, herself. It currently has over 1,433,914 views. I think that says it all.
Jessie Miskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin, otherwise known as the "West Memphis 3," were released from prison after accepting a deal involving an Alford plea. As a native Arkansan who watched this unfold while I was in college, I never thought they would see freedom. I am still stunned by it, frankly. It's not a perfect ending but it is an ending just the same.
Okay most of the time, I want to stab my eyes out when people post videos of children doing silly things. This one, instigated by Jimmy Kimmel, is epic. Jimmy Kimmel asked parents to tell their children that they ate all of their Halloween Candy. Hilarity, and tons of crying, ensues. Also, the phrase "YOU SNEAKY MOM" is a permanent part of my vocabulary.
If MTV went back to its roots and showed tons of videos instead of reality programming involving teen moms, KeSha would be a multigazillionaire. This is the music video for "Blow" Yeah the song is a fun little dance number but OH man. This video is over the top fun snarky deliciousness: Unicorns that bleed rainbows, James van der Beek, Meunster "the lactose liquid gold," James Van der Beek's head mounted like a deer (come on Dawson's Creek fans who endured his Joey whining for six years, you know you want to see this). yeah you want it. "We're pretty and sick. We're young and we're bored." Let the crazy out kiddos. Let it out.
This one is old but I just saw it this year. Cat video bombs for the win.
Sometimes a video isn't necessarily awesome for its content but it's awesome to remind the rest of us that there is injustice in the world. The UC Davis pepper spray incident.


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"Al was a fiery individualist, an important part of pro football--the AFL and NFL--for almost 50 years. His teams had times of great success, and he was heavily involved both on and off the field. I admired the achievements the Raiders attained under Al.
"Personally, I was fond of him. He battled with the NFL, and a lot of us wished that had not been where things went, but under all that was a person I respected. It saddens me to hear that he is gone."


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Air revealed details to their next LP today: Le Voyage Dans La Lune, an 11-track effort inspired by the work composing an original score to director Georges Méliès' 1902 film by the same name (also known as A Trip to the Moon in English). Featuring guest performances by Victoria Legrand of Beach House and Au Revoir Simone, Nicolas Godin offered up the following teaser description:
A Trip to the Moon' is undoubtedly more organic than most of our past projects. We wanted it to sound 'handmade,' knocked together', a bit like Méliès' special effects. Everything is played live … like Méliès' film, our soundtrack is nourished by living art.
The French duo's follow-up to 2009's Air 2 is set to arrive on February 7 of next year, complete with a limited edition that includes a DVD of the film set to their original score. In the meantime, check out the album cover above and full tracklist below:
Le Voyage Dans La Lune


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I remember interviewing analysts and early adopters the day the very first iteration of Apple's iPhone came out: people were describing it in almost sensual terms: the stroking, the touching of the user interface; the way it gave users exactly what they needed thanks to the many accompanying apps. 'Huh' was my first impression after these early interviews, accompanied by much inner eye-rolling, which immediately ceased after I got my hands on one a few days later.
So it was with great seriousness and earnestness that I have been covering consumers' reaction to the tablet market, from Apple's market-making products to the many Android flavors to Amazon's Kindle Fire.
Emotion Connections; A Happy Space
Still I was a bit taken aback by the emotion captured in a survey released by Viacom, "Tapping Into Tabletomics."
Here I should say I own two tablets myself and they would figure pretty highly on the list of what I would pack if I had to evacuate for a hurricane.
But these people surveyed by Viacom? Them I just don't get. Or, rather, didn't quite get at first.
The research talks about emotional connections to the device unlike any other in the household.
More than 50% of respondents said their tablet makes them feel happier and more relaxed, while 49% said tablets make them more effective at managing life. Forty percent agree that "my tablet brings out the best in me" and 39% said tablets boost creativity.
A Gentle Guiding Force on the Retail Floor
Retailers, though, seem to get these people almost intuitively, perhaps because shopping can be a similarly transcendent experience. That could explain why so many retailers are rushing to incorporate tablets in their brick-and-mortar stores—faster than they ever set up mobile websites or delivered shopping apps for iOS and Android (although clunky mobile payment processes probably had a lot to do with that too).


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The Producers Lunch Forum at Quarter Twenty One celebrates the relationship between producer and chef, promotes sustainable farming and eating and brings it to the diner's table.
Chef Justin North and Host Simon Marnie
And this time, the autumn lunch brought an additional element to the experience with guests dining in the company of nearly 20,000 bees in a beehive from Maya Sunny Hunny.
Hosted by radio personality Simon Marnie, the menu embraced an autumn theme and showcased produce from Alto Olives from Crookwell, Bilpin Cider from the Blue Mountains, Melanda Park free range pork from the Hawkesbury River and Maya Sunny Honey from Mudgee in NSW.
Bilpin Cider
A refreshing spritzer-style cocktail of Bilpin Apple cider with apple juice, fresh apples, elderflower, lime and mint was served on arrival.
Epi and crostini
Wholegrain epi from the Bécasse Bakery, crostini and Alto Volos olives were served as appetisers.
Alto Olives
The olives were marinated in a little olive oil with orange, chilli, lemongrass and rosemary and placed in a sous-vide at 60ºC for about 4 to 5 hours which imparted the olives with a tender flesh and citrus flavours.
Introducing the first course, Chef Justin North explained that the inspiration behind the dish was the Alto Olive Oil hence it was created to enhance the flavours of the autumn vegetables.
Warm salad of autumn vegetables
The warm salad of autumn vegetables was slow-cooked in Alto olive oil with marinated confit blue eye. Using trevally cheeks, the head was spread in half and the cheeks are salted, confit and flaked. The dish was a delicate celebration of the olive oil which enhanced the flavours in the vegetables. The confit added saltiness and a lovely texture to the dish which was paired with a 2009 Nugan Estate"Frasca's Lane Vineyard Chardonnay from the King Valley.
Robert Armstrong from Alto Olive Oil
Robert Armstrong from Alto Olive Oil explained that the point of difference of Australian olive oils lies in their freshness. Australia imports around 35 million litres of olive oil, some of which is incorrectly labelled. The Alto Estate grove is located near the township of Crookwell in NSW, a three-hour drive from Sydney.
Q21 Head Chef Michael Robinson
Quarter Twenty One Head Chef Michael Robinson introduced the next course, which is also the first part of a 40 kilo free range pig from Melanda Park Pork. A mosaic of pork shoulder, neck, smoked hock and pickled tongue with chilled cider consommé was a visual and textural dish with a breadth of flavours set to convert non-pork lovers.
Mosaic of pork
The dish was matched with Bilpin Original Cider.
Sean Prendergast
Sean Prendergast from Bilpin, whose business partner is a winemaker, explained that his cider is made primarily with Granny Smith apples, freshly crushed with a cold fermentation process. The cider contains no added sugar, artificial flavours or concentrates.
Bécasse Head Chef Monty Koludrovic
Continuing with the remaining cuts of pork, Bécasse Head Chef Monty Koludrovic introduced the next course, a delicious roast pork loin and belly with Jerusalem artichoke pear, celeriac and licorice with a light and tasty crackling.
Roast pork loin and belly
The dish was paired with 2010 Willoughby Park Shiraz, Denmark in Western Australia.
Matt Simmons of Melanda Park Pork
Matt Simmons of Melanda Park Free Range Pork spoke about his farm at Swallow Park Reach and how it is a fine example of sustainability in action.
Ironbark honey cream and mousseline
Ironbark honey cream and mousseline with compressed melon and melon sorbet put a sweet end to the lunch with Maya Sunny Honey. The dish was paired with 2008 Cookoothama Botrytis Semillon, Darlington Point in the Riverina, NSW.
Maya Wyszynski from Maya Sunny Honey with her apiarist father Andrew
In what was arguably the highlight of the event, Maya Wyszynski from Maya Sunny Honey explained how each unique jar of Iron Bark honeycomb is made with approximately 400 bees, a process that takes approximately one month. Her apiarist father, Andrew, comes from a line of bee keepers in Poland and the unique system on display is his own invention. Maya further explained that there are holes in the apparatus to allow the bees to breathe and they can remain there for three days.
Maya Sunny Honey
The Producers Lunch Forum was an initiative that started out at Bécasse in March 2009 by Justin North, current Ambassador to the Australian Year of the Farmer, to celebrate the diversity and excellence of Australian produce and to support local producers.
Much like the previous Producers Lunch Forum, guests are known to leave with renewed appreciation for the combined passion, effort and talent of producers and chefs that goes into making a memorable and fine dining experience.
The Quarter Twenty One Producers Lunch Forum runs every two months. More information in the website below.
Quarter Twenty One
Gourmantic attended the lunch on Tuesday 8 March 2012.
This article is posted on Gourmantic.com - All rights reserved - Copyright © 2018.


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Moore can Wonderfully upset the Moyglare odds
Casey to land Dance Design
Tapestry ridden by Joseph O'Brien wins The Friarstown Stud Debutante Stakes during the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes Day at the Curragh. Photograph Niall Carson/PA Wire
It's only 220 yards but the seventh and final furlong of tomorrow's Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh could be crucial to Wonderfully upsetting the odds in Ireland's most prestigious race of the year for juvenile fillies.
Just seven hopefuls line up for the €225,000 Group One highlight but they include Kiyoshi, already antepost favourite for next year's 1,000 Guineas, her cross-channel compatriot Rizeena, mount of new kid on the jockey-block, James Doyle, and €22,500 supplementary entry Tapestry who heads a Ballydoyle trio. Aidan O'Brien chases a seventh win in the race.
The fact that big-race sponsor Moyglare, who've never won their own race, have a legitimate contender in Carla Bianca means Touch Of Snow will be regarded as the sole no-hoper. But her trainer John Murphy has a history of surprising sceptics at HQ, so this is a race to relish.
Whether it is a race to indulge in short odds about either Kiyoshi or Tapestry is another matter though.
The Charlie Hills trained Kiyoshi displayed raw brilliance to win the six-furlong Albany at Royal Ascot in June despite hanging dramatically right in the closing stages and leaving Jamie Spencer more or less a passenger. The fact that the form of that race has been boosted since has reinforced the impression of quality.
Long-term plan
"It's been the plan since Ascot to run here," said Hills yesterday. "It's an ideal stepping stone . . . but she needs to prove it again."
Wonderfully was out of the money in that Albany. But subsequently given a seven furlong task, she reversed places with Heart Focus (fourth at Ascot) in the Silver Flash at Leopardstown, showing an admirable attitude in the process, unlike the waywardness that characterised Kiyoshi who now tackles seven for the first time.
Tapestry is the undoubted Ballydoyle No 1 and she's impossible to crib having comfortably beaten Perhaps over the course and distance in the Group Two Debutante last time. Joseph O'Brien is again on board, leaving Ryan Moore to partner Wonderfully which is hardly a negative to the second string.
Tapestry has been faultless in two starts but her form comprises beating Perhaps, something Wonderfully also has to her credit. And yet the latter is at much longer odds. It's also not like the Ballydoyle No 2 hasn't won the Moyglare before. Misty For Me managed it in style three years ago.
That was part of a decade of local victories in the race, something brought to an end by Sky Lantern last season. Kiyoshi could yet emerge in that class.
Fast ground concerns
However, it was noticeable how connections yesterday were voicing concerns about the going becoming too fast. The English filly is very short in the betting for that to be factor. And in the circumstances, Wonderfully looks a value alternative.
Moore rides three others for Ballydoyle, including Expedition who is very much the second-string in the Group Three Round Tower Stakes to his stable companion Great White Eagle. This 760,000 Gns breeze-up purchase was immediately placed towards the top of next year's classic betting after an impressive Naas debut. It will be a major blow to such hopes if the Elusive Quality colt can't follow up.
Hanky Panky is Moore's mount in the Dance Design Stakes where Say tries to reverse Gowran form with Along Came Casey. Trip and quick going though look perfect for the Weld filly.
The strength of Aidan O'Brien's juvenile team is notable in a triple-challenge on the opening fillies maiden which consists of Joseph O'Brien on a 925,000 Gns sister to Irish Guineas winner Roderic O'Connor, Moore on another €260,000 daughter of Galileo and Sparrow, from the family of Sea The Stakes, only an apparent No 3. Moyglare's Sparkle Factor boasts a promising Naas debut but faces a real task here against the might of Ballydoyle.
Francis Of Assisi could emerge as a handicap blot in the Irish Cambridgeshire but each-way backers could opt for the Moran Gra. Tonabrocky's 80 rating looks enough to win a three-year-old maiden.


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|Home > Entertainment > Film > Article
|Saturday March 9, 2002
Russell Crowe is a big fan of Ron Howard. So big a fan, in fact, that after working to his direction in A Beautiful Mind, he's reciprocating by offering the former child star a role in his own film, The Long Green Shore.
The film, which will mark Crowe's debut as a director, is to be based on John Hepworth's book about an Australian battalion sent to New Guinea in the final days of World War II, and is scheduled to be shot during 2003.
Crowe will not elaborate on the precise nature of Howard's return to the big screen.
"Ron has a part," Crowe told The Age.
"But while he had seven lines to begin with, that may come down to one really essential line.
"We had a running gag going on the set of A Beautiful Mind, because when I talked to him about it early on, he was really into it. "But every time he'd make me go out in the rain and get soaking wet, I'd say six lines. And then when I had to do something else I didn't like, I'd knock it down to five lines and so on."
Though now long established as one of Hollywood's most successful directors (like Crowe, Howard has been nominated for an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind), Howard was once best known for his roles in the TV series The Andy Griffith Show and Happy Days, and in films such as American Graffiti.
And while Crowe is best known for his acting, he is keen to test his mettle behind the camera, and has long been interested in bringing Hepworth's book to the screen. But getting the project on track has been a protracted process.
Not satisfied with the first draft of the script, Crowe has teamed up with Melbourne-based writer Michael Petroni, of whom Crowe has been a fan since reading his screenplay, A Course in Miracles.
Petroni's other credits include the upcoming Jodie Foster movie, The Dangerous Life of Altar Boys, where Foster plays a one-legged nun. He co-wrote the screenplay of The Queen of the Damned, which will be released next month.
Petroni is post-producing his own directorial debut, Till Human Voices Wake Us, which was filmed in Victoria and stars Guy Pearce and Helena Bonham Carter.
Though written in 1946, and published as a newspaper serial in 1949, The Long Green Shore didn't appear in novel form until 1995. "This might be one of those things where we have to go outside the book to get what the book means," Crowe says. "There is a poetry in that book that I need to get on to the screen without resorting to a voice-over."
In the meantime, Crowe has also been preparing for his next role in the new Peter Weir movie, which has the working title of The Far Side of the World. Set in the early 19th century, the $US135 million ($A260 million), 20th Century Fox project is the first in a possible series of films based on the Master and Commander novels by Patrick O'Brian.
The film will begin its shoot in Mexico in June.
At the heart of the high-seas action adventure is the strange relationship between Jack Aubrey (Crowe's character) and a doctor who joins his crew.
"These are two guys who have completely different perspectives of the world, but who require each other and connect with each other through their love of music. It's in these moments that they retire to their cabin where the doctor plays the cello and the captain plays the violin."
In preparation for the role, Crowe is taking lessons from Australian Chamber Orchestra director and lead violinist Richard Tognetti, whom he describes as the most magnificent violinist Australia has produced.
Crowe admits he's not going to make it into Tognetti's league as a musician but he wants to give a persuasive performance.
According to Tognetti, his new pupil has a formidable power of concentration and within a short space of time has been able to incorporate the violin into his physical being.
But Crowe says that the process of adding another string to his bow is not as simple as you might think. "I'm still battling with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."
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PRO/CON VIEW: Should fracking wastewater be transported by barges?
Published 4:00 am, Wednesday, December 18, 2013
OUR VIEW: Barges are safe
Fracking has produced so much oil and gas in the United States that this country has energy stability that seemed unattainable just a few years ago. But fracking, like virtually any modern industrial practice, produces waste products - in this case, wastewater containing high levels of salt, drilling chemicals, heavy metals, etc.
Oil producers want to transport that wastewater by barge in states without underground waste disposal wells, but some environmentalists are opposed. The Coast Guard should not let those objections thwart this logical approach.
If the waste isn't transported by barge, it will be moved by truck or rail. That poses more of a threat for spills, and one barge can carry as much wastewater as 100 trucks that spew air pollution.
In 2010, domestic barges carried 2,000 tons of radioactive waste and 1.6 million tons of sulfuric acid with few problems. Fracking wastewater is not as dangerous, so there's no reason to ban it from inland waterways.
ANOTHER VIEW: Say no for a change
Here we go again. The U.S. oil industry wants to roll the dice and threaten the safety of millions of consumers, and the response of regulators is, "Sure! Why not?"
Here's why: Because transporting fracking wastewater by barge is literally an accident waiting to happen, one that could contaminate water supplies for many communities. It's time for the Coast Guard and state officials to stand up and say no for a change.
It's true that fracking wastewater would be transported by truck or rail instead. But at least a spill on land wouldn't pollute drinking water supplies and kill countless forms of marine life.
Fracking has many environmental problems, and this is just the latest one. States without wastewater disposal sites should even think about banning fracking within their borders.
The time to prevent the next environmental tragedy is now, before the oil industry is allowed to take another big risk in the pursuit of huge profits.
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Kyle Roberts is the owner of Revolution Natural running. He is also a board certified pedorthist who specializes in lower extremity biomechanics, footwear, and custom orthotic design and fabrication, specifically for athletes and active individuals. He is currently working with athletes at UW-Madison, UW-Whitewater, Concordia University, and Carroll University. He is also involved with and a sponsor of the Tri-Wisconsin triathlon team and is involved with the Badgerland Striders running club.
Kyle is an avid runner and triathlete. He has completed nine marathons, including the 2006 and 2007 Boston Marathons. He is also a finisher of the 2006, 2008 and 2010 Ironman-Wisconsin triathlons. Kyle again qualified for the Boston Marathon at the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon in November, 2010. He is a major believer in Crossfit training, the Zone Diet, and Pose Running, which he's always happy to talk to others about.
Kyle is also the founder owner of Footworks Orthotics, a Milwaukee based company specializing in pedorthic services for active individuals of all ages and abilities. All orthotics created at Footworks Orthotics are hand-crafted from semi-rigid materials which provide individuals with superior fit and function while walking, running, or participating in sports activities. Semi-rigid orthotics are preferable to those made of hard, rigid plastic because the material is more forgiving, adjusts more easily to weight-bearing forces, and takes the pressure off uncomfortable sore spots. Many over-the-counter shoe inserts do not provide one with the arch support or biomechanical correction one may need. In fact, in many cases, they may aggravate the condition .Mass-produced products are not designed to suit individual foot care needs. National laboratories are also unable to adjust the fit of one's orthotics because they never see the patient, personally.
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RF isolators and RF circulators are passive devices that are used to control the propagation of RF signals. RF isolators are two-port units that allow signals to pass in one direction while providing high isolation for reflected energy in the reverse direction. RF circulators have three or more ports and are used to control the direction of signal flow in a circuit. They allow the signal entering one port to pass to an adjacent port in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise direction, but not to any other port. Three-port or Y-junction circulators are commonly available. In these devices, the signal flow is normally expressed as 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and 3 to 1. For example, when the input is port 1, the RF signal exits port 2. Ideally, port 3 remains isolated and does not receive or pass the signal. Some RF isolators and RF circulators are designed for use with a coaxial cable. Others are designed for use with a waveguide. RF isolators and RF circulators that contain magnets are not designed for mounting near ferrous materials because the close proximity of metals such as iron can change the frequency response.
Important specifications for RF isolators and RF circulators include frequency range, isolation, insertion loss, voltage standing wave ratio, and operating temperature. Frequency range is measured in megahertz (MHz) and includes minimum and maximum frequencies. Isolation is measured in decibels (dB) and expresses the degree of attenuation between ports. For example, the isolation from port 1 to port 2 is the degree of attenuation at port 1 measured from port 2 with all other ports properly terminated. Insertion loss is the total RF power transmission loss resulting from the insertion of a device in a transmission line. It is also defined as the ratio of signal power at the output of the inserted device to the signal power at the input of the inserted device. Voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) is a unit-less ratio ranging from 1 to infinity. A value of one indicates that all energy passes. Any other value indicates that a portion of the energy is reflected. Other performance specifications for RF isolators and RF circulators include reflected power, an amount usually expressed as a percentage.
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Pentecost and Ordinary Time are the last of the seasons in the Church Year-and often among the most misunderstood and neglected. As with some of the other seasons, Christians may find that their practices are inconsistent or in need of improvement. In the Pentecost and Ordinary Time edition of Let Us Keep the Feast, you'll find help for enriching your observance and celebration of these seasons: traditions new and old, suggested readings, recipes, and prayers.
Let Us Keep the Feast by Ann E Dominguez; Kristen Stewart was published by Doulos Resources in June 2014. The ISBN for Let Us Keep the Feast is 9781937063733.
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Bolton Lower Rovers Prices
After Blackburn Rovers fans were outraged by the £32 Bolton Wanderers were charging Rovers fans for the visit to the Reebok Stadium they have agreed to lower the price... slightly!
The club have just sent me another press release (below) detailing this.
BLACKBURN Rovers are pleased to announce that Bolton have decided to revise their prices for the forthcoming fixture between the two clubs at the Reebok Stadium.
Bolton will now open the lower tier in the away end and the cost of tickets will be £24 for the Premiership match.
Under 16s will be charged £12 and senior citizens will pay £18 for the game which takes place at 1.35pm, Sunday, March 4.
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The Volkl Yumi Skis are fun, light women's skis that let you explore the whole mountain. If you enjoy both the back bowls and the frontside equally, well, so do the Yumis. These Volkl skis are stable and smooth, so you can attack new and different terrain. They're also easy to turn in all kinds of conditions thanks to a rockered tip. Bio-Logic technology provides a flex designed specifically for women. It's forgiving and easy to manipulate without being noodle-soft.
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RUMOR: Apple Expanding iWork in the Cloud
Posted on December 28, 2009 by eli courey
TechCrunch is reporting that Apple has a job posting that shows they may be planning on expanding iWork.com into a full office suite.
A year ago Apple launched iWork.com in beta, which allowed users of their office suite of applications to publish documents online. It's a light feature set compared to Google Docs and Office 10 – just viewing and commenting. But a job posting suggests Apple may be creating a true collaborative cloud based version of the iWork apps.
The job posting popped up on CrunchBoard on December 22. Apple is looking for a mid level engineer to "be part of the core development team" and "engage in an area from design to development" of a new javascript rich internet application for the iWork team.
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Little Big Planet 2 hits new level with cool tools
Published 4:00 am, Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Little Big Planet 2: Developer: Media Molecule. Publisher: Sony. Platform: PS3. ESRB Rating: Everyone.
Writing about Little Big Planet 2 at this point is a little like trying to write about YouTube in 2005: The infrastructure's all set up, and everything runs the way it should, but the impact from user-generated content is yet to come.
Gamers will, of course, point out that the first Little Big Planet has already proved itself and then some with more than 3 million levels created by players since its launch in 2008. Levels that went far beyond the running and jumping of the original game soon cropped up, a testament to the creative community of users and the robust set of editing tools at their disposal. Using a set of tools meant to re-create a platforming experience, people soon came up with a variety of shooting, racing and even tower defense games.
What makes Little Big Planet 2 a game changer is how the new tools are meant for more than just platformers from the outset, with a wider array of tweaks for vehicles, A.I. characters, gravity and more. If the user levels from the first game - which are backward-compatible here - are any indication, the online community should be very interesting mere weeks from now.
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But the core game is far more than an unassembled toy box, expanding upon the original by using many of the same new features found in the level editor. (In fact, during a panel at E3, the developers at Media Molecule proudly claimed they switched to using the same in-game editing tools midway through production.)
As such, the game changes gears at a breakneck pace; you're shooting giant cupcakes from your head in one level and hopping a robot rabbit through a spaceport in another. There are enough clever ideas here for a dozen games over, though the manic pacing at times seems better suited for a mini-game collection. I wish more time were devoted to exploring the lemming-like qualities of the Sackbots, for example, or the sudden vertical trajectory up a tree via caterpillar.
Inventing a world of your own might take a while, however. While the robust editor gives you a bigger set of tools and thorough tutorials with each one of them, you'll need a significant amount of time to master and fine-tune the art of level creation. It's not that the interface itself is particularly difficult, but there are a lot of menus to navigate through, with minutiae involving how rigid a spring should be, how fast or loose a joint should swing. And the new advance logic sequencers let you string together a series of simultaneous commands - how to react upon your presence, when to catch on fire - for one character alone. Anyone can come up with a level, but the devil is in the details.
All this talk of world building, impressive as it is, seems to suck all the fun out of Little Big Planet 2. But you can spend hours traipsing through this whimsical, macro-lensed world - think a trippier version of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood of Make Believe - without worrying about any of the technical stuff.
While a lot has been added on, the simplicity of the gameplay remains unchanged (and yes, the murky separation between the foreground and background remains a minor annoyance). There's so much playful energy here on so many levels that the game will seem just as fresh and creative - if not more so - a year from now.


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What?! It's September! Where did the summer go?
Last time on whereRVgoing.com, I shared about picking up our new trailer and beginning our trek around Texas. Then I disappeared for awhile. 🙂 I am still here and still writing, but with the added benefit of no distractions. It is hard for me to write on the road. My family and I get out and do a lot. By the time I get home to the camper in the evenings and make dinner, bath the kids and get them to bed, I am exhausted. I want to relax and spend some time with my sweet husband.
So here I am, back home in Seattle after six weeks in Texas and over a week at La Push, Washington. I can't believe we spent seven weeks in the RV this summer. That means we only spent three weeks of the kid's summer vacation in our house. So awesome! But now, the kids are back in school and I have plenty of time to rehash our summer and share our memories. Here goes… [Read more…]


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Air Conditioning problem
2001 Land Rover Discovery 2 V8 Four Wheel Drive Automatic 130000 miles
When my air conditioning or heat is on, a loud noise is also coming from the passenger dash area. The air and heat work fine, but there is a loud almost tapping sound that starts when I turn it on. It doesn't always do it (started when it was really cold), but it always stops when I turn the air/heat off. Any ideas?
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Stop signs installed for traffic safety
July 11, 2011 at 2:11 a.m.
The Victoria County Commissioners Court put the brakes on some local traffic by installing stop signs.
The order for the signs on Monday came after residents complained about some near misses at various intersections, said Kevin Janak, commissioner of Precinct 2.
The greatest safety concern was traffic at the intersection of Smith and River roads.
"It's become extremely dangerous at that intersection," said Tina Wayne at the court's meeting.
Wayne's household and two others comprise a small neighborhood that must use the intersection to get on Farm-to-Market Road 1685. The residents complained that trucks hauling gravel from a nearby pit had almost collided with them.
In one instance, area resident John M. Gonzales said his son and granddaughter were going down River Road as an 18-wheeler was coming along Smith Road. Gonzales said his son and the 18-wheeler both slammed on their brakes as they almost collided in the middle of the intersection.
The fact that Smith Road is gravel doesn't help. Wayne said the trucks are going to skid when they need to stop right away,
The complaints began after State Materials started mining gravel towards the end of Smith Road. Truckers began hauling the gravel down Smith Road after the company broke ground in April.
Scott Thomas, vice president of sales for State Materials, said that Caterpillar was one of the company's major clients. Jack Daniels, a representative for CW&A Inc., said that his company has done about 50 hauling trips per day for the gravel-mining company.
Thomas and Daniels offered to assist the residents' traffic-safety concerns.
Thomas said that State Materials will acquire a truck next week to spray water on the ground. A resident has voiced concern about the dust kicked up by the trucks.
Sara Vela said she was driving behind one of the trucks on Smith Road when another 18-wheeler drove towards them. She said that once the trucks passed each other, the oncoming truck almost hit her as it came more toward the middle of the road.
Vela said the oncoming truck couldn't see her because of the dust.
"We did come close enough to where it was frightening," Vela said.
Vela said the roads may need to be paved.
Janak praised the companies for their cooperation in the matter.
Wayne said that residents understand that the area will be mined for the gravel. Vela said she was pleased with the companies' response.


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Beginning with a mesmeric swingy swing and the footage taken from their album teaser from last December, The Knife's album 'interview' expands upon this very album teaser blurb and their later released album manifesto [also after the jump], questioning systems of fame and school institutions that they see as failed and championing those systems [the ecosystem, the soundsystem] which they still believe can instil change.
Scanning through relatively mundane images [people dancing, birds feeding, doorways and windows, railings and walls], Olof and Karin narrate a new process-heavy-shake-up of old habits:
"we approached each other…through the language of others…and we play…and we played and we played and we played…to let go of what we already knew about music and explore what we didn't know…letting go…we want to question the knife"
"we used homemade instruments, or played traditional instruments in non-traditional ways and tried to find non-tradional ways of creating traditional sounds…making a bedspring sound like a voice, or a voice sound like a bedspring"
They discuss protest songs [against monarchy and the nuclear family] and the power of safety in collectivism. They use the "commercial homogenisation and extreme hierarchical conservatism" of the music industry as a metaphor for societal shifts in Europe, and set aside their previously worn masks which questioned ideas of "fake tanning" fame and identity, but then became commercial institutions in themselves:
"I think there are no real 'us', behind the masks there are other masks"
I've popped the video after the jump due to some non-nuclear titty sucking near the end so jump in and SHAKE YOUR HABITUAL ASS !
"it's time to move…to fall…to fly"
Everybody is always desiring already imagined things. When we travel between thresholds, people say: "you're hiding." Not everything can be so easily explained.
We have a bellyache, a big stink, a major grouse or two with manufactured knowledge. But how do you build an album about not knowing? Now your voice is in my throat, floating there… Often people take pills for these things. To us the body is no longer psychological. It's certainly not a container, we don't believe in metaphors. Like dog/wolf–there aren't many anymore.
Still at twilight something blurs over your shoulder. Which is it? It's prickly.
Our hair is out.
We have made some decisions. We want to fail more, act without authority. Plus there's something phlegmatic about the world state don't you think? There's a blood system promoting biology as destiny. A series of patriarchies that's a problem to the Nth degree. What about hyper-capitalism, this homicidal class system, the school system that's kaput? Then there are castles everywhere–look at them fake tanning and signing autographs!
At least there's one thing we stand behind. There's still an ecosystem right? And here's this sound system. We dusted it off. Electronic is just one place in the body. We went temporarily acoustic. We made our own instruments. We took an old bedspring, a microphone and: "Stay out here…" Now we're bending our voices to sound like Emily R., who recorded the track on her cellphone speaker.
No habits! There are other ways to do things.
Still sometimes it all seems so bad. Don't worry we won't commit Harakiri, stomach cutting or anything like it. The honor system is corrupt, just another privilege. Like how it's a privilege to make an album, to move freely.
We just have to go faster we mean breakneck we mean "like crazy."
How at 5am that warehouse beat is coming up like sour steam. All over the dance floor we're asking: can this DNA turn into something else? It's not metaphorical. It's explicit. There are surgeries and fantasies and holes sweating through the wall. It's a question about feelings. It's a question about who gets to risk.
But things don't change so easily. There's still Monsanto, fracking and "terminator seeds." Every morning we wake up wondering: who's kicking who on the street corner?
Now we have to start. We choose process over everything else. Letting go of outcomes is another privilege. Keep it lateral. We ask our friends to help.
Together we leave the village and walk down the road. The light starts exercising itself. The old sun is out in his winter jumpsuit doing sit-ups and squat thrusts between the nettles and moldy brush.
10 more! We say to him. Get shaking!
Our walk gets longer. It's a walk in the panpipes of the body. We come to the edge. So much water. The ocean is twice its original size. We take a bunch of surveys. They know everything about us. We don't buy what they say. We take a heap of estrogen. All around us things are howling and then we stand on the pier end. The light is pink and green and pink and green. It reminds us of home–like we imagine it could be. But when the color pancakes out over the horizon, we don't know what we're looking at. That's ok. This time it's structural.
No habits!
Of course we're growing restless."