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Dr Bryan Keon-Cohen AM QC is a retired barrister, writer and activist. He was born and educated (Scotch College) in Melbourne and graduated LLM, LLB, BA from
Melbourne University in 1971. He thereafter lectured at Monash University law school, worked with Kirby J at the Australian Law Reform Commission in Sydney,
and joined the Victorian Bar in 1981. He was junior counsel for the plaintiffs
throughout the Mabo litigation (1982 – 1992); has acted for claimants in many native title and immigration
matters in the Federal Court; has appeared in the High Court in significant constitutional, native title and refugee matters; and has
written and lectured extensively on Indigenous rights.
He took silk in 1996 and retired from active practice in 2016.
During the 1980's he was a committee member, including Secretary, of the Victorian Council for
Civil Liberties (now Liberty Victoria). During 2012-2014, he was President of COIN ("Commission of Inquiry Now"), a community group advocating for victims of child sexual abuse.
On 26 January 2012 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for
services to the law especially the development of Indigenous rights. In May 2012, Bryan graduated PhD from Monash University following publication of his thesis/book: Mabo in
the Courts: Islander Tradition to Native Title: a Memoir.
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The E-U-C program was established in 2008 and allows benefits for those living in states where the three-month seasonally adjusted unemployment rate averages at least 9 percent.
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June 11, 2012 | By John Oreovicz
FORT WORTH – You can look, but you won't find detailed coverage of the Firestone Firehawk 550 that was written by me.
As always at Texas Motor Speedway, Texas native Terry Blount was on hand for ESPN.com. The bosses were therefore kind enough to give me the weekend off.
So what did I do? I loaded my 5-year old son and myself in the car and headed for…Texas Motor Speedway. I was interested in experiencing an IZOD IndyCar Series race from a fan's perspective for the first time in more than 20 years, and if I am honest, I wanted to be on hand in case anything notable happened, for better or worse.
I'm delighted to say that Saturday night's race bore little resemblance to the 'pack' racing that the IndyCar Series had become famous for at Texas. I can vividly remember the first IRL-sanctioned race at TMS in 1997, and while most people focus on the post-race contretemps involving A.J. Foyt and race winner Arie Luyendyk, I was flat-out terrified to see so many open-wheel cars running that close at 210-220 mph.
A lot of effort went into making the racing as safe as possible, but I always believed that the combination of the last generation of IndyCar Series chassis and high-banked, 1.5-mile ovals like Texas was extremely dangerous. The extreme banking (24 degrees in the case of Texas, compared with 9 degrees at Indianapolis Motor Speedway) permitted the drivers – all of them – to circulate at 100 percent throttle at all times.
That's not to say it wasn't challenging to drive a race car around the track at 215 mph, whether alone or in a pack of cars. But it was nothing compared to Saturday night, when the high-speed oval aerodynamic package unveiled on the Dallara DW12 chassis truly did require the drivers to DRIVE their cars.
You could see over the course of a 40-lap stint – especially late in the race – that the cars were a handful. The vast majority of the drivers asked for a major reduction in downforce for 2012 for that very reason. Instead of being glued to the track, the DW12 slid around and forced the drivers to learn and adapt.
Maybe not surprisingly Justin Wilson, a driver as analytical as the best of them, emerged as the winner, after pressuring Graham Rahal into a mistake with just a couple laps to go.
Rahal hadn't managed his Firestone tires as well as Wilson over the final stint and he paid the price by whacking the Turn 4 wall with his right rear wheel. He managed to continue and finished second, but the error was a tough psychological blow for the 23-year old son of three-time Indy car champion Bobby Rahal.
Were the cars difficult to drive? Ask defending series champion (and Texas race winner) Dario Franchitti, who dropped through the field like a stone with a loose car on the way to finishing 14th, three laps down to Wilson.
Ask his Target Ganassi Racing teammate Scott Dixon, who dominated the first three-quarters of the race before crashing, on his own, on the 174th lap.
The best news is that, with the exception of Ed Carpenter, who complained about the quality and the style of the racing via Twitter during the event, the drivers were unanimous in their approval of the changes made to the cars for tracks like Texas.
Yes, the cars were more spread out, but there was more passing than you might have seen on TV. Carpenter, for example, started 19th, but made a lot of ground on the track and ran as high as second before ultimately finishing 12th.
Wilson started 17th but really began making his move at about the 100-lap mark. From lap 95-109, he went from seventh place to second, all via passes on the track. But he never took the lead until the 227th circuit of 228.
Along with Franchitti and Tony Kanaan, Wilson was a leader among the drivers in pushing for changes to the cars to make for safer racing on high-speed ovals. They got what they were hoping for Saturday night.
"I think IndyCar did a fantastic job," Wilson said. "We came here with a great package, and it allowed for people to come and go throughout the race. We weren't just glued to the racetrack and flat out waiting for something to happen. You're actually racing each other.
"It's the most fun I've had on an oval," he added. "Obviously I won, so I'm going to feel a bit biased towards it. But I think it was a great package. I think it was as safe as motor racing goes, but still high stakes. You can't afford to make a mistake out there."
I won't be able to tell you how it looked on TV until I get home and watch the recorded broadcast, but the last gasp action had the TMS crowd on their feet. There was some griping in the grandstands that the racing wasn't as close as it used to be in Texas Indy car races. But anyone who stuck around for the final 50 laps – when the racing began in earnest – was certainly not disappointed.
From a fan perspective, Texas Motor Speedway is a great place to watch a race, with excellent amenities, comfortable seats and spectacular sight lines of the whole track.
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We're not in Tokyo anymore
We've switched venues, but not for long. Got to Osaka last night — but we're taking off after tonight's game and going to Fukuoka for the final leg of the trip. Before getting here, however, we had a memorable sightseeing tour of historic Kyoto, which gives you just a wonderful feel for ancient Japan.
The Golden Pavilion is a chillingly amazing sight to see. If that doesn't hit you, you might not have a pulse. It is right near the Rokouon-Ji Temple.
Before getting there, we had a real nice lunch — Italian-style buffet, but good. Like something you'd eat at a real fancy hotel buffet in America. The neighborhood near the restaurant was also neat, with another temple and some cool statues. These are sights that you don't forget.
Our tour guide was very helpful and kept everyone laughing on the bus, including Ryan Howard, who was decked out in his throwback Johnny Unitas jersey.
The last stop on the tour, I must say, was a little goofy. It was called Movieland and was basically a poor man's version of Universal Studios. I felt as if we had too much time there, but we're kind of rushed through the other parts of the tour, which would have been nice to see more of. But that's the only complaint you'll hear from me.
When I say goofy, how else do you describe Ryan Howard trying his hand at archery? Or Brian Fuentes posing as a samurai. There was also a haunted house where an imaginary dead person scared us all by jumping within an inch of you at the end. Poor Mike Myers' kids, they were a little scared by that experience, and so was I.
Anyway, once we got to Osaka, we learned that while Tokyo is the political capital of Japan, Osaka is the commercial capital. It's a financial district, and to me, it felt a little like the financial district of Boston. Tall buildings, water, expensive restaurants, good walking city, the whole deal.
Osaka is far less American-ized than Tokyo. It's tough to order food.
The waiters and waitresses really try hard to understand you, but
there's just such a language barrier.
The Kyocera Dome (formerly known as the Osaka Dome) is a nice, state-of-the-art venue. It's much nicer than Tokyo Dome, which is sort of dingy and depressing. It's eerie how much this place reminds me of the Rogers Centre in Toronto. The roof is very cool here. Howard just went deep again. Unbelievable. Bumped into Bobby Valentine before the game. Managing in Japan has made him about 10 years younger. Unbelievable how refreshed he looks. Anyway, we're off to Fukuoka after the game. Until then,
The tourist thing
Yep, I did the tourist thing yesterday. The tour was provided to us by Major League Baseball, and many of the players were on it also. It was a local tour of Tokyo.
We started out at the historic Kannon Temple, which is the oldest temple in Tokyo. It was pretty spectacular and i wish we had more time there. In front of the temple was Nakamise Street, which was a cool little shopping area with little token gifts and food that I didn't recognize, but in once case, still decided to eat. Tasted like chicken or pork, or something in between.
After that, we did a river cruise, which I must say, was not as nice as a river cruise would be in Boston, Chicago, New York or some other nice American city. The water was brown, not very attractive to look at. And we all sat on the bottom floor of the boat.
I have a theory about Tokyo. Nobody has gotten the memo that smoking is bad for the health. I'm not kidding when I say that just about everyone lights it up in Tokyo, and they are more than happy to do it in public. Every bar or restaurant you go to is filled with smoke. And this boat ride was pretty unbearable because of all the smokers. Smoking is one vice I've never quite understood. It smells bad and it's bad for you. What's the point of it? Just have a beer instead, I say. Make it a Sapporo.
Once we got off the smoky boat, we explored a garden and park type area. Very woodsy, nice to walk around, and a little bit of history to go with it. If you're wondering who is pictured in this statue, i was wondering the exact same thing. But I do have an answer for you. Check it out. Click for clearer image.
Then, it was back on the bus and off to a very nice Sushi restaurant. We sat at big tables, which made it nice and social. As regular readers of this blog know by now, I love sushi. But the same can not be said for everyone on this trip. Chris Capuano's dad, who, by the way, is a great guy, is not a sushi eater. But he gave it a try.
Chris Young and his lovely wife didn't seem to be too into the sushi, as most of the food was left on their plates. I was too polite to ask them if I could eat it for them. Ha ha.
Not quite sure what the dessert was, but it tasted good. It was some sort of wrap with doughey sweet stuff in the middle. I seriously have no clue what it was.
Then it was back to work — back to the ballpark. Ryan Howard was on the tour all day with his mom and sister. But the day obviously didn't tucker him out as he belted a couple of titanic home runs.
Howard also had the line of the day. After his first homer, some little kids ran out and handed him a flower. I guess it is customary in Japan during special events such like this to give gifts to the home run hitter of the hour. Anyway, Howard, talking about his second homer said, "I was hoping I'd get a bouquet for the second one."
I'm lucky enough to cover David Ortiz in Boston and i'm sure the Philly guys feel the same way about Howard. This man is something special. He's great for the game.
MLB leads the series, 2-0. Perhaps they'll run the table and re-establish their dominance on a national level.
We're off for more tourism tomorrow, with a trip to Kyoto, which gives you a real feel of ancient Japan, without many of the modern Western-style fixtures that you see in Tokyo. Then we'll get to Osaka after the tour, where Game 4 of this series will be played on Tuesday evening (Dawn for you guys and gals back in the states). The trip wraps up in Fukuoka on Wednesday, the native land of Mariners catcher Kenji Johjima.
I miss my wife and kids, and, of course, the good old USA. But this trip has been a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.
Sayonara. Or as they say back in the States — Hasta La Vista Baby.
Japanese baseball
I continue to learn new things every day out here, even from a baseball standpoint. For instance, at the Tokyo Dome, there is a protective mesh fence that extends all the way from the screen behind the plate and all the way down both foul lines. They take every measure here to make sure the paying spectators do not get harmed by a foul ball. I must say, that is very cool, especially for the youngsters in the audience.
Here's another cool thing. When they take BP here before the game, it is serious BP. They use real pitchers who are humming the ball in at 80-85 MPH, unlike the soft-serve slop that MLB hitters rake against in BP. They mean business out here. Every movement is with a purpose of getting ready for the game. There is no wasted energy. They even have bunting centers during the game, where hitters bunt against a pitching machine that is bringing the pitches in at game speed. No wonder why they are so great at fundamentals out here.
Today, they did have the two cages side-by-side as they did yesterday. Instead, there was another cage behind the regular cage where a batter took flips from a coach and hit the ball against a screen that had a bulls-eye sign on it. You can't see the bulls-eye in the picture because the batter just hit the baseball into it, forcing the white drapery to rise.
As for the game itself, there was a bit of pomp and circumstance, as this was the first real game in the Japan All-Star Series. The prime minister of Japan — Shinzo Abe — threw out the first pitch. The poor guy gave it a good try, but I'm not exaggerating when i say that he missed catcher Kenji Johjima by a good 20 feet.
Once the game started, each MLB player was introduced individually when they went out to play defense. And they all threw a squishy ball into the crowd. i guess that's some sort of custom here.
Before the game, I took a walk out to the Japanese Garden that is at the hotel we're all staying at it, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that it was spectacular. I especially loved the fishies in the pond. Great stuff, really.
Tomorrow, there is a big sightseeing tour of Tokyo, so I'll be sure to take some pictures of that.
Until then, sayonara!
Baseball, politics and food for thought
Quite an interesting day, Day 3 here in Tokyo. I had the honor of going with five players to the office of the Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe. He is a big baseball fan, they say. The entrance to his office was pretty cool, it had a huge Japanese garden outside.
Then I got here to the Tokyo Dome and realized that Japanese teams taking batting practice with two batting cages side-by-side. That was weird.
Another quirk here. The bullpens are underneath the stadium so the players out there have to watch the game on TV. The atmosphere is pretty lively. They are doing a lot of very animated chants, not that I could translate them for you. Also, the dugouts are very orderly, amazingly clean, and have two rows of seats.
I've just been trying to soak all of this in as much as I can. The hotel we're staying at — the Hotel New Otani — has a very nice surrounding area. It's next to a shopping mall which has some wonderful architecture on the bottom floor.
I had some more awesome Sushi today, I just can't get enough of it.
Another interesting thing about life here is that people wear oxygen masks when they are sick as a measure to not spread germs. Also, at the hotel, they are not big on people talking on their cellphones.
Discovered a very cool nightlife district of Tokyo last night called Roppongi. It felt a lot like Times Square and the bar we went to loved American disco songs. Those of us Grease and Saturday Night Fever buffs surely enjoyed it. Good time had by all.
I'm looking forward to reporting on more places in the coming days, including the Imperial Palace. There really aren't enough hours in the day to see everything that is here. I might come back here for vacation some day so I can really live it up.
If this exhibition against Yomiuri is any indication — a 7-7 tie — there is going to be some stiff competition out here.
A walk through Tokyo
I took a walk through the main streets of Tokyo last night, when it was all lit up, and again today. Very, very cool.
And very American-feeling. For every sushi or noodle place, you can find a McDonald's or Subway. A ton of the natives speak English, which is very helpful for a tourist such as myself.
I ate some Sushi last night, which was incredible. I kid you not when I say it melted in my mouth. And that was even before I had the beer to go with it.
I slept off the jetlag with one heck of a good sleep. My fear that I was going to turn into Bill Murray in Lost in Translation and not be able to sleep my entire time here was quickly put to bed, literally.
Woke up feeling like a new man. Got outside and discovered that it was a gorgeous day in Tokyo. Temperature in the mid 60s, no humidity, beautiful. I'll tell you this, the buildings are tall here.
Ate lunch with my pal Vinny — those of you MLB.TV watchers know who Vinny is — and we changed our cash for Yen at a Citibank and then had a really good lunch at a noodle place.
I must say it was a little challenging trying to explain to the server what we wanted, but the servers here really bear with you until they understand what you're saying. The noodles were delicious, and were in a soup with some type of meat. I have no clue what I was eating but I do know that it tasted very good.
When we walked back to the hotel, the Japanese business day was in full force. The business attire seems to consist of conservative suits, typically with black sportscoats. Everyone is extremely polite and respectful. While it looks a lot like New York, it is much quieter. Honking horns? What's that? People abide by the laws here.
Crossing the street is interesting. Nobody j-walks. You wait until the light turns green (that's the walk signal for pedestrians.) There are no false starts around here.
Sayonara (for now),
For those of us trying to learn the most elementary of Japanese, that means hello. Here I am in Tokyo after a long travel day that started with the MLB charter leaving Phoenix at 11 a.m. local time Monday and arriving here at roughly 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Yes, the system is a little out of whack, but it wasn't a bad day at all. The atmosphere on the plane was very laid back. A lot of players slept, watched TV, played video games or cards. Bronson Arroyo played the guitar. The seats turned into beds. I must say, that was very cool.
Once we got here, the Japanese media seemed very excited to see the Major League stars. Flashbulbs popped the second we walked out the door of customs and toward the buses.
It was a pretty decent haul from the airport to downtown Tokyo, where the team hotel is. It was a little after 5 p.m. by the time we arrived.
The drive was interesting. In Japan, they drive on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right side of the car. That much I learned. During the ride, I saw two of the largest ferris wheel's of all-time. I can't believe how high they were.
The sunset was gorgeous. Unfortunatley, this picture I took from the moving bus doesn't quite illustrate how gorgeous.
Once we got close to downtown, the traffic made it feel like New York City at rush hour. So did the skyscrapers, which seemed even higher here than in the Biggest Apple. It's going to be a great time. I can tell you that much.
The welcome press conference starts in about a half hour downstairs, so I'm going to go get ready for that. I'll check in with some more soon. Happy Halloween to those of you back in the States! Have a Kit Kat on me.
Desert first — then the Far East
Before this star-studded collection of Major League All-Stars departs Monday for a fascinating trip to Tokyo, they have gathered here in the Desert for workouts this weekend. Sorry, you residents of Arizona, the gatherings are closed to the public.
For us media members lucky enough to get through the gates, there wasn't a heck of a lot of excitement today, but it was hard not to marvel at the collection of stars sharing the field. Ryan Howard, David Wright, Andruw Jones, Jose Reyes, Jermaine Dye, mercy. Lots of studs.
Phoenix is a good, blissful place to kind of chill out before the electricity and frenzied excitement that will be Tokyo, and the other stops in Japan.
I must say, it's kind of strange to watch Major Leaguers go through the paces of Spring Training in late October, when the World Series is winding down. The guys who didn't make the playoffs have been off for the last month, and now, all of a sudden, they are starting it up again.
I suppose this tour represents the International coming out party of Ryan Howard. Do you think he can match the 515-foot homer that Big Papi hit in Japan two years ago? Don't be surprised by anything this man does. He did swat 58 home runs this season, after all, and has the smile and the personality that will allow him to easily embrace the Big Attraction role that he will surely play during this tour. Life isn't so bad for Bruce Bochy right now. He became the Giants manager today, and, tomorrow, he comes out here to manage these All-Stars. Just FYI, i'll be blogging regularly until this tour ends on Nov. 9. So come back here early and often for updates of the games and the sights.


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12 Days of Christmas with Paper Wishes® – Day 10
Welcome to Day 10 of 12 Days of Christmas with Paper Wishes®!
Thanks for joining me today, as I find "hidden" treasures from our Paper Wishes Webisodes. Just in case you missed last week's posts, here's a link to our Weekly Webisode & Gallery Archive – click here.
All the projects featured from the last week – all came from our Weekly Webisode over the years. Soooo much inspiration and not just for the holidays!
In the theme of Gift Giving – Let's see the goodies I found today!
Today's projects come from Shape Studio – Click here to watch now
Aired: December 13, 2011 (On my mom's birthday)
I've been a crafter for many years; however being able to work here at Paper Wishes™ has opened my eyes to so many great products. One being Shape Studio, or in other words – mini Crockpots! (You'll have to watch the webisode to see why) 😉
These little crockpots have sooo many great uses for them. As you can see for yourself in some of the projects I've highlighted down below.
I forgot that Ann used a little picture of Emerson (my little guy) to show an example…awwww.
They are great to use on cards, to make jewelry and I'm sure you'll be inspired to use them in other projects as well. You can do a simple search for Shape Studio on PaperWishes.com and see the assortment of products we have available. (Click here)
First project is "Happy" embossed tag necklace
By: Susan Cobb
This is one of my favorite necklaces – Susan did a great job of putting this all together.
Click here for complete instructions for this project.
Here's another great way to use these crockpots –
Presents by Lodell
Very cute across the top on the card. Click here for complete instructions for this project.
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Fatima Al Qadiri
Fatima Al Qadiri will participate in Rhizome's Seven On Seven Conference on Saturday, April 20th, paired with technologist Dalton Caldwell.
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Check out key takeaways of a B2W-sponsored survey on challenges, opportunities and the state of technology related to heavy construction resource scheduling and dispatching.
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Comics that Teach by Prof. Jay Hosler '89 are Praised
February 4, 2012
Clan Apis, Jay Hosler's "collection of comic books illustrating the life of a honey bee (is) both a delightful read and a superb leaching tool," exclaims American Bee Journal. The publication notes, "Hosler is a neurobiologist who teaches at Juniata College in central Pennsylvania. He uses science comics in courses including sensory biology, and he has demonstrated that they spur understanding."
A fan of comic books as a child, Hosler "contributed comic strips for the student newspapers of DePauw University, where he was an undergraduate, and Notre Dame University, where he completed his Ph.D. in neuro-ethology. At the same time as he was studying how the nervous system affects behavior in bees, he was drawing 'the usual college humor about parties, hard courses, trouble getting a date. I didn't connect my two interests.' "
As a postdoctoral student at Ohio State, Hosler merged his love of cartoons with science. "I was constantly looking at bees close up -- staring at their faces to assess whether they had learned, what they did with their mandibles and antennae. I didn't want to give them big camera eyes like a Disney character. I needed a way to convey emotion without changing the shape of their eyes. With humans, a furrowed brow looks mad, but I had to ask how to do that with a bee. I saw that when they didn't like something, they crossed their mandibles and antenna. The solution I came up with was to use the antenna-like eyebrows to convey emotion."
The lengthy article appears in the February 2012 issue of American Bee Journal. Visit the publication's website.
A 1989 graduate of DePauw University, Jay Hosler is an associate professor of biology at Juniata College. He served as DePauw's Lee G. Hall Distinguished Visiting Professor of Biology at the University during the 2007-08 academic year. The professor's comics have been featured in Science, the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, NPR's Morning Edition and Discover magazine. You'll find more information in this previous story.Back


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Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing manufactures stainless steel screws like the one pictured to the left. They are screws that are used to run conveyor belts and screw presses used in wet corn milling, ethanol production, and manure and fertilizer manufacturing. Its customers include Cargill, Kellogg, Hormel Foods and Georgia Pacific and it is truly an American business to be proud of.
So pardon me for making a natural connection here, but while Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing is a serious unsung hero in American life, on so many levels including agriculture, jobs, and the economy, I can't help but see a remarkable symbolic connection between the screws they make and how President Obama has screwed America.
Despite his rhetoric regarding his three day, five-state tour of battlegrounds that are filled with electoral college votes that the Presidents badly needs, and in which officials say the President will use to lay out his vision for a "new era of American manufacturing with more great jobs and more products made in the USA", what the President will not be admitting is that his policies have actually screwed America, its people, and the manufacturing industry he is trying to become a hero of.
President Obama will not be addressing the 30 jobs bills that Republicans in the House passed but thanks to the President and his Party, are still sitting over in the United States Senate. The President will not be mentioning that many of those Republican initiatives were endorsed last week by his own jobs council. And, he will not admit that for three years now, all he has done is regurgitate the same failed past policies of more spending, more taxes, and more regulations.
The President will not be pointing out how his policies have held back economic growth and stymied the ability of manufacturers to broaden their base and ability to increase production, which in turn would normally increases profits, and the hiring of new employees.
You will not hear about how President Obama's decision to impose 35% tariffs on Chinese tire imports resulted in job losses for U.S. downstream industries, higher prices for U.S. consumers and led to an avalanche of similar trade case filings and other demands for protectionist measures, or how killing the Keystone Pipeline cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and diminished any immediate hope to alleviate our reliance on foreign oil and to lower the cost to for manufacturers to do business in our nation.
President Obama will not be admitting that the inability for him and his Party to present a budget in what is now more than 1,001 days, has helped to create an air of uncertainty that hangs over our economy like a sword of Damocles. Nor will he speak about how his policies to bailout out all his buddies in GM and in Fannie and Freddie Mac have burdened Americans and American manufactures with a driving need for the federal government to generate more tax dollars in order to pay for these bailouts. And you will not hear President Obama campaigning on the fact that his overspending, debt busting, crony capitalism, government depency promoting, pro-poverty policies, led to the first downgrading of the American bond rating in our nation's history….a downgrade that made it even riskier to do or grow businesses in America.
You will not hear about any of these facts as President Obama tries to blame his destruction of the free market and stagnation of the economy on others. But I am grateful for the fact that the President chose the backdrop that he did to launch his financial fiction and fantasy tour of America. The backdrop of the giant screws which Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing produces is much more fitting than the infamous Greek columns he used as a backdrop when he accepted his party's presidential nomination three years ago. The backdrop of a big screw is much more appropriate for this President, a President who has screwed America more than any other President since Democrat Jimmy Carter compelled Americans to fumigate the White House with a dose of Ronald Reagan conservatism.
So as President Obama leaves the screw factory, all I can really say is thank you Mr. President, and screw you too.
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Dr. Reuven Firestone was the opening plenary speaker at the June, 2012 Association of Jewish Libraries conference in Pasadena, CA. He gave a fascinating talk called "Jews in the Koran, Jews on the Koran" to a packed house.
In this brief interview, Dr. Firestone describes the theme of his talk, and also mentions his new book, Holy War in Judaism: The Fall and Rise of a Controversial Idea.
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- 185,914 +/- Sqft
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Lot Size4.27 Acres (185,914 SqFt)
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Furthest Uphill Lot, with flat building envelope- 180 degree long range views, backs up to Open Space and BLM Land. Frost Creek Trail runs behind lot for easy hiking.Topo Survey available and Scott Turnipseed preliminary site plan for lot. Partial Water Tap Fee paid $2500. Purchase to pay 1.5% transfer fee to Master Association and .2% Wildlife Enhancement Fund. Resident Social Membership Required.
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Hayward's First Axiom of Environmental Energy holds that there is no source of energy—"clean" or otherwise—that environmentalists won't oppose if it becomes cheap, practical, and scalable. So for example the left once favored nuclear power. There's a favorable reference to nuclear power in the famous Port Huron Statement, the founding document of the Students for a Democratic Society, but of course Tom Hayden, the principal author of the Port Huron Statement, later became a leading anti-nuclear figure. Environmental groups currently have dozens of lawsuits in process around the country trying to block proposed wind power projects, and not just off Cape Cod. As my pal Chris Horner likes to say, you can't build wind power anywhere birds fly or Kennedys live.
And then there's solar power. Most environmentalists say they love solar power, except, apparently, where the sun shines. From our friends at the Cooler Heads Coalition comes this news item:
Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, and the Natural Resources Defense Council this week notified the Interior Department that it will sue to block the Calico Solar Power Generating Facility, a proposed 660 megawatt solar power plant in Pisgah Valley in Southern California. The environmentalist groups allege that the Interior Department violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to adequately account for the project's possible effect on the desert tortoise, a federally threatened species.


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"Operation Streamline": The New Prison Boom
From Truth Out/ By Leticia Cortez
What is "Operation Streamline"? It's a U.S. Border Patrol Operation that began in 2005 under G. W. Bush. This law makes jail time mandatory for people convicted of illegal entry or re-entry into the United States. The plan was designed to get tough on illegal immigration by arresting and prosecuting those crossing the border, instead of simply deporting them or placing them in a civil detention center. This made the private prison industry a very profitable sector since they started incarcerating these immigrants. According to a report released last year by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, more than 80 percent of immigration defendants convicted in federal court since 2010 received a prison sentence. This has had a dramatic effect on the makeup of the criminal justice system.
The immigration issue in this country is complex on many levels from the personal, political and economical. If one looks at it from the perspective of a woman, man or child caught crossing illegally, then held in jail up to 15 months, one must ask what is going on with the new prison industrial system. The war on immigrants is replacing the previous war on drugs that filled the jails and made obscene profits for private prisons. This new prison boom is foremost in states along the border with Mexico such as Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico. In Texas it costs the state $266/day to house a person not including food. That's $97,090 per year paid for by taxpayers.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced reforms to the nation's drug sentencing laws in an attempt to reduce the number of federal inmates held on non-violent drug charges. "It's great that Eric Holder is talking about over-incarceration, but the actions he's taking are not tackling the full scope of the problem," said Carl Takei, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project. "There's this whole other population that's looming in the background, and growing."
Advocates for reducing incarceration say that true reform of the prison system must also address the criminalization of immigration since reducing punishment for drug offenders is unlikely to affect the private prison industry.


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KINGWOOD, Texas - The message in a recently mailed Gold's Gym ad is clear: stop childhood obesity. However, a Kingwood mom worries it might do more harm than good.
"I just thought, 'What if a teenager sees this?' That would be really hurtful to see a message like that," says Marcy Young. "I think there are a lot more positive ways to get our kids."
The ad features two pictures. One includes a young boy and a caption that reads "My fat may be funny to you but it's killing me." Next to it is a photo of a girl. The caption: "It's hard to be a little girl if you're not."
"I saw it and thought, 'That seems like a really odd message," Young says.
Toni Galata, a board member with Houston-based Body Love 4 All, says the message isn't just odd; it can be harmful for kids.
"They see a kid who looks like them in the ad and that kid's being shamed, they begin to start feeling shame and anger toward their bodies," Galata says. "That's a life-long mental health issue for a lot of adults. We're starting them on it younger and younger."
Body Love 4 All is about to launch a free online class for parents called "How to raise body-positive kids." Sign up for email alerts about it here.
Galata adds that studies have shown that the onset age for anorexia keeps getting younger. It's now between 9 and 12 years old.
"We're getting 9-, 10- and 11-year-old kids already feeling that their bodies are so worthless or not good enough that they're actually starving themselves sick," she says. "At 10 years old, you should be worried about math homework and playing with your friends and sleepovers, not counting calories or your waist size."
Young posted a photo of the ad on Facebook, which got a response from the gym's owner, T. Bryan Murphy.
"He took total ownership of it, like a good company should. He apologized," Young says. "He said he totally did not mean to offend anyone and he was very sorry about that."
Murphy's statement said, in part, "As a father and a person who is deeply committed to children's health and wellness, I was devastated to learn that some people saw my ad as an attempt at body shaming. …. Reflecting on your remarks helps me to realize that there are more positive ways to communicate my commitment about the programs we offer. Moving forward, I will be more thoughtful as to how we seek to move our message."
Young says she appreciates that Murphy took the time to respond to her concerns.
"He made me feel better about the message that they're going to send out in the future, try to have a more positive message for our kids," she says.
KHOU 11 also reached out to Gold's Gym corporate. The company released the following statement:
We agree that fat-shaming children -- or anyone -- is wrong. At Gold's Gym, we strive to provide a supportive, motivating environment that helps people feel healthy and strong. Our local Houston gym owner has worked for years to help kids live active, healthier lifestyles and more than 11,000 Houston-area kids have participated in his Youth Performance Program. While we don't condone the wording or images of his mailer, we recognize his commitment to area kids, and are working to help him frame his message in a positive way that reflects Gold's values. We apologize to our members and everyone who was offended by this ad.


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Ash Cave
In the southernmost reaches of Hocking Hills is Ash Cave—beyond doubt the most spectacular feature of the entire park. Ash Cave is the largest, most impressive recess cave in the state.
The approach to Ash Cave is through a narrow gorge lined with stately hemlocks, massive beech trees and various other hardwoods. The valley floor offers brilliant displays of wildflowers in all seasons including large flowered trillium, Dutchman's breeches, trout lily, Jack-in-the-Pulpit and jewelweed. The narrow gorge is approximately one-fourth mile in length and with astonishing suddenness gives way to the tremendous overhanging ledge and cave shelter.
The horseshoe-shaped cave is massive; measuring 700 feet from end to end, 100 feet deep from the rear cave wall to its front edge with the rim rising 90 feet high. A small tributary of the East Fork of Queer Creek cascades over the rim into a small plunge pool below. The cave was formed like the others in this region; the middle layer of the Blackhand has been weathered or eroded while the more resistant upper and lower zones have remained intact.
Ash Cave History and Facilities
Ash Cave is named after the huge pile of ashes found under the shelter by early settlers. The largest pile was recorded as being 100 feet long, 30 feet wide and 3 feet deep. The source of the ashes is unknown but is believed to be from Indian campfires built up over hundreds of years.
More recent uses of Ash Cave were for camp and township meetings. Pulpit Rock, the large slump block at the cave's entrance served as the pulpit for Sunday worship service until a local church could be built. The cave lends itself well for large gatherings due to its enormous size. Picnic facilities are offered adjacent to the parking lot. The restrooms and trail leading to Ash Cave are wheelchair accessible.
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Restaurant week for IPOs: Outback Steakhouse, Carls Jr. going publicAugust 7, 2012: 4:14 PM ET
It's "Restaurant Week" at U.S. stock exchanges, with Outback Steakhouse owner Bloomin' Brands and Hardees parent CKE selling shares to the public this week.
Bain Capital-backed Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), which also owns smaller chains like Carrabba's Italian Grill and Fleming's Prime Steakhouse, is set to debut on the Nasdaq (NDAQ) Wednesday. CKE (CK), backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management, also owns Carl's Jr. and is expected to start trading Friday on the NYSE (NYX).
The private equity owners of these heavily indebted companies are betting that investors, so enamored with restaurant stocks these days, will gobble them up.
"Big institutional investors want exposure to the restaurant sector," said Will Slabaugh, a restaurant analyst at Stephens. "There aren't a ton of ways to do that."
With the exception of Del Frisco's (DFRG), the restaurant sector has offered juicy returns this year. Ignite Restaurant Group (IRG), owner of Joe's Crab Shack, is up 7% since it went public and Tex-Mex chain Chuy's (CHUY) has soared 47% since its debut. Meanwhile, shares of Dunkin Brands (DNKN) are up nearly 60% since the doughnut chain's July 2011 IPO.
And investors are seeking more ways to whet their appetite this week. Late Tuesday, Bloomin' Brands sold 16 million shares at $11 apiece. That's less than it had hoped to sell and the IPO was priced below the estimated range of $13 to $15. That may not bode well for CKE, which plans to sell 13 million shares in the $14 to $16 range through its IPO Thursday.
Related: Don't mess with Tex-Mex. Chuy's stock spikes
Both PE-backed companies are laden with debt, and CKE has so much of it that the restaurant chain will have trouble generating any profit after paying interest on roughly $730 million of debt.
Apollo bought CKE in April 2010 for nearly $700 million. As part of that buyout, Apollo immediately extracted a $190 million profit, after writing a $250 check. Since then, it hasn't paid off much more of the restaurant chain's debt load.
"It's a somewhat typical leveraged buyout deal. The chain was running just fine until Apollo bought them," said Francis Gaskin, president of IPODesktop. "With all its debt, the company has to run very fast just to stay in the same place and break even. "
By contrast, Bloomin' Brands is saddled with $1.5 billion of debt, but Gaskin says Bloomin' Brands' earnings are not solely going to pay down debt. In fact, it booked a $100 million profit on $3.8 billion of revenues in 2011.
Bain Capital and Catterton Partners spent $3.2 billion in 2006 to take the company, then known as OSI Restaurant Group, private. Since then, the PE firms were able to pay down a substantial portion of Bloomin' Brands debt
Still, the problem for both of these brands is whether there's another neighborhood that needs or even wants an Outback Steakhouse or Carls' Jr. Bloomin' Brands has more than 1,000 restaurants already and CKE has more than 3,000 locations.
Another dicey issue: The drought. It's almost inevitable that food costs will rise and dampen the profit margins of both companies.
Even with the potential pitfalls, analysts who track the interest in IPOs say that Bloomin' Brands is "0versubscribed", meaning institutional investors have asked for more shares than the underwriters have available. CKE also has a decent amount of interest.
This week, investors will be looking to see whether steaks will trump burgers.


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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
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Newberry Teachers' Consortium
The United States is commonly described as a nation of immigrants or as a melting pot of racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. In celebrating American pluralism, we rarely think about its origins or its contested history. This seminar will examine the origins of cultural pluralism in the early twentieth century and will consider the many contested meanings of pluralism at the dawn of the twentieth century. Our readings, primary sources dating from the 1880s to the 1910s, speak directly to the particular challenges of racial and ethnic pluralism during a period of heightened racism and nativism in the United States.
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Standard fuses the underground streets with youth streetwear sensibility. Combining contemporary silhouettes, monochrome colour palettes, and premium fabrics, the latest collection expresses individuality and attitude by using understated design details paired with statement fashion conscious prints. Available exclusively to General Pants Co.
Shop Standard online at General Pants, providing men's and women's apparel and accessories with statement branding, including dresses, short and long sleeve T-shirt, sweats, jackets, jeans, and pants. General Pants edits global trends to offer a curated vision of contemporary fashion for young-blooded individuals.


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Joaquín Castro is headed to D.C.
Joaquín Castro, who soared to prominence with his twin brother at the Democratic National Convention, was elected Tuesday to replace U.S. Rep. Charlie Gonzalez, D-San Antonio, in District 20.
Castro, 38, a Harvard-trained attorney and five-term state representative, outpolled Republican David Rosa, 51, and two third-party candidates.
Castro and his twin, Mayor Julián Castro, celebrated the election results at Henry's Puffy Tacos on the Northwest Side.
"We won this race not only with the support of Democrats but also Republicans and independents," Joaquín Castro said.
Gonzalez has served since 1999, replacing his father, Henry B. Gonzalez, who held the seat from 1961 to 1999.
"For 50 years, Henry B. and Charlie fought the good fight," Joaquín Castro said.
Rosa, an insurance agent with tea party backing, is a Chicago native and former Democrat. He acknowledged lessons learned in his first race.
"Start a little bit sooner, beg for more money and keep the momentum going no matter what happens," Rosa said.
Rosa mobilized Republicans in a district controlled by Democrats since its creation in 1934.
"Win or lose at the end of the night, we've already won because these young people know that they have the ability, as grass roots ... to do this," Rosa said.
He and Castro were unopposed in the primary elections. Their three-month campaign showed sharp disagreements over policies including health care, taxation and spending.
Rosa said he is a "pro-life, orthodox Catholic Republican," but getting his message out wasn't easy on a small budget. He portrayed Castro as a "tremendous mind" but too liberal for the district.
"So I pray for him. And I hope that as a Catholic ... that he would really read the teachings of the church and embrace that. But as a young man, he has a lot to offer going forward," Rosa said.


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As I mentioned in my Christmas mantel post, I have decided to do something a little different this year…repurpose what I have or use thrifting finds to create a new Christmas look for my home! So my little wheels started turning when I came upon…
…these while Goodwill hunting with my friend Linda at Nina's Nest…an old French wire basket for $1.91 and eight silverplate forks for $2.00! (I'm still working on what to do with the knives.) I have to thank Linda for finding the basket, which I absolutely love! It makes me think of my grandmother's egg basket, with handles worn from years of use.
I imagine that the original owner would chuckle if she saw what I have planned for this old basket! All I need is candy canes and ribbon, which I already had in my Christmas stash, my trusty hot glue gun…
…and the assistance of our celebrity co-host, Baby Kitty! Are you ready?
First, I tied the ribbon around the basket and then hot-glued the candy canes to the ribbon from the inside…burning myself several times in the process! Ouch! Do not try this at home unless you are a professional! lol
Next, I added a bow, some greenery and pinecones …and voilà! What do you think?
I was so excited about the next project that I forgot to take photos until it was finished! I simply tied some of the ribbon around a pillar candle that I had on hand, forming a nice bow. I spaced the forks around the it and…taaa daa! It's my new favorite Christmas decoration! I didn't even polish the forks because I think they look more old-fashioned with a little tarnish. What do you think of this one?
And there you have it…new Christmas decorations made from thrift store finds and items that I had on hand for less than $4.00! I am having more fun and spending less money this Christmas than ever before! Isn't that what it's all about?
Thanks so much for stopping by! Please head on over to Mary's at Little Red House for Mosaic Monday to see one of her beautiful mosaics and to find a list of this week's participants. You will be treated to some wonderful photos from some very talented people!
Next, be sure to visit Susan at Between Naps on the Porch for Metamorphosis Monday where you can get a peek at her gorgeous home and see what sorts of changes she is making, as well as find out who else is playing along! I'm betting there will be lots more Christmas decorations today!
And then on Tuesday, please join Susan at thoughtsfromovertherainbow for Deck the Halls! We will be showing off our Christmas decorations every Tuesday between December 1st and January 5th, so come get in on the fun! Thanks again for stopping by! See you next time! A la prochaine!


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Michielle Yong, July 18th , 2020.
The most important upgrade you can make in your bathroom involves lighting. A Swedish study found that lighting, paired with the right color, affects mood. Changing out your lighting is not difficult or expensive to do, but makes a bathroom look fresher and larger. Older lighting fixtures and fluorescent lighting cast unattractive shadows and odd color hues on your skin. If changing a fixture isn't possible, you can upgrade the bulb with some of the new fluorescent bulbs that are similar in color warmth to the light cast on a bright, sunny day.
There's a great variety of affordable lighting fixtures available. Replace outdated lighting fixtures with new ones from your home improvement store. Electrical projects are best left to professionals, but with some guidance, switching out lighting fixtures shouldn't be difficult for a DIY-er. Be original when upgrading lighting. Bathroom lighting trends include hanging pendants and light bars that diffuse light in a room. Select LED lighting fixtures since they're the most energy efficient and don't heat your bathroom up.
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Vinyl Wrap - Looking Your Best
In today's competitive sponsorship market it's important to give your backERs maximum exposure by putting your best foot forward
If you had two identical race cars, one a Plain Jane and the other a stunning super model, but they were identically prepared, there wouldn't be any theoretical difference between them in on-track performance. But there would be a considerable difference in a very important way.
Dayton, Ohio's Larry Miller, who owns Ham Signs explains, "Having a dazzling car gets everybody's attention, including potential sponsors who just might visualize how their company's name would look on your sheetmetal."
Miller specializes in creating that dazzling look. He has worked with numerous racers in and around the Midwest including some major superstars such as Jeff Gordon, Dale Blaney, Kasey Kahne, Kenny Irwin, Jack Hewitt, Joey Saldana, and Ryan Newman just to name a few.
Miller learned the art of hand painting from Indy 500 painter Jake Dixon when he was only 14. He started his business in 1991 after dabbling a few years in Sprint Car racing. "I got tired of running last or crashing," he lamented. "But I loved racing, so Ham Signs gives me the opportunity to stay connected to the sport.
During his early years, Larry did a lot of that old-school hand painting of cars. He says that it took a long time to do, but he will still break out the brushes and do a little of it for customers who like that vintage look. But today, it's the vinyl look that everybody likes and Miller is heavy into it.
Ham Signs is a small operation which includes his brother, Jamie. Coordination is a key to this team operation between the brothers as much of this tedious work requires two sets of hands. Many stock car bodies carry one-piece vinyl strips which can be up to 10 feet in length.
Miller explained that the start of the project is the most difficult, that being getting the actual artwork approved by the client. Most of the time, there is little direction from those customers. "You never know what to expect when somebody walks through the door. Some will tell me their colors and number, and to do something that 'looks good.' Most of the time, I nail it pretty good, but sometimes I don't. Then other times, customers have everything down to great detail and I'm not allowed to deviate from it at all," Larry explained. "The customer is always right, no matter how dumb his layout idea. In that case, I often try to convince him to use my idea, and 95 percent of the time I will change his mind."
Most of Larry's business is with the Sprint Car community, but he'll design and create wraps for any division such as Street Stocks, Modifieds, race haulers, trailers, pit equipment, and more. Interestingly, there are also many police cars in the Dayton area that have been given the Ham treatment.
When we caught up with Larry he was in the process of completely wrapping an E-Mod for a local racer. He uses a modern solvent printer with a lamination capability. The results, as you'll see, are truly amazing. The printers are costly—real costly—but their capabilities provide a huge time reduction and deliver a greater quality end product. He explained that the modern vinyl covering is very durable and can last three to five years outdoors.
Further adding to the benefits of a solvent inkjet printer is the type of designs that can be created. The finished vinyl wrap can be layered two-deep, as illustrated here, with the gold/red fluorescents on the primary sponsor's name. The added gold-leaf look delivers an irredescence to the car when hit by sunlight or by the track lights when racing at night.
The machine's versatility allows Miller to do a lot with a design based on the customer's wishes. "Some car owners want to recognize every sponsor, no matter how small. This particular Modified has 29 sponsors and every one of them is there. I think it makes the car a little busy, like a NASCAR machine, and I wish that they only had about four," Miller said. "But remember, the customer is always right!"


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Robert Bradley Kendrick (born November 15, 1979 in Fresno, California) is an American tennis player. He turned professional in 1999. His career high single ranking is World No. 69, achieved on July 20, 2009.
Robert Kendrick was born to Tom and Doris Kendrick and began playing tennis at the age of 5. Kendrick's family is of relatively modest means. Tom is a real estate appraiser and Doris is a housewife. Kendrick has three older siblings: Kerry, Tommy, and Scott. He graduated from Bullard High School in 1997. In 1996, he led his team to an undefeated section championship.
Kendrick has been called a "serve and volley" player by some. Kendrick's main strengths are his serve and his forehand.


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President Obama Includes Harry Potter Story in Education Speech
Sep 07, 2009
Tomorrow President Barack Obama will address the nation as it goes back to school; the pre-released text of his speech (which you can read here) includes remarks on the beginnings of Harry Potter as proof that not all great ideas or ventures are accepted as such to start:
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But the truth is, being successful
is hard. You won't love every subject you study. You won't click with
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That's OK. Some of the most
successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most
failures. JK Rowling's first Harry Potter book was rejected twelve
times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his
high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed
thousands of shots during his career. But he once said, "I have failed
over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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These people succeeded because they
understand that you can't let your failures define you ' you have to
let them teach you. You have to let them show you what to do
differently next time. If you get in trouble, that doesn't mean you're
a troublemaker, it means you need to try harder to behave. If you get a
bad grade, that doesn't mean you're stupid, it just means you need to
spend more time studying."
Pres. Obama will deliver the address at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., at 10 a.m. MDT; it will be live on the C-SPAN cable channel and streamed life at whitehouse.gov/live.


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Hope College has a first team softball All-American for the second year in-a-row.
Senior first baseman Kelli Duimstra of Hudsonville, Mich. has been named to the 2009 Louisville Slugger/National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III All-America team.
"Kelli was the backbone of our team this year," said coach Karla Wolters. "When our only other senior went down the a torn ACL injury in Florida, Kelli picked us up and kept our team focused on the field. She was also our clutch player on offense and defense. She came through time after time with a big hit or a big play on defense.
"It was very special that Kelli received not only our team MVP award, but also the league MVP and now an All-American. There were many great players in our league this year, all worthy of the MVP award, but Kelli was the best of the best; a record setter, a clutch player, a calm leader in times of adversity. She will be remembered as one of the best players Hope has ever had both on offense and defense."
Duimstra becomes Hope 13th NFCA All-American. A year ago Kylee Brouwer was named a first team All-American at designated hitter. Both Brouwer and Duimstra are graduates of Hudsonville High School. The Flying Dutch have had seven All-America selections this decade.
Duimstra this spring was voted the most valuable position player in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA). A two-time All-MIAA first team honoree, Duimstra this spring set an MIAA record for home runs (7) as she batted .442. For the season she batted .434, tied the school record for home runs (10) and set a new Hope mark for total bases (97). She was also outstanding defensively with a .992 fielding average.
She has also been honored as a scholar-athlete by being named to the CoSIDA district all-academic team. A geology major and psychology minor, Duimstra maintained a 3.76 cumulative grade point average. As a junior she received an education department award for academic achievement in science and mathematics.
The honor roll of Hope's softball All-Americans includes -- Johanna Pscodna (1992, 2b); Deb Vashaw (1992 & 1993, c); Laurie Byington (1993, 1994 & 1996, cf); Nicki Mannes (1995, p); Keri Roelofs (1995, p); Amy Moeckel (1996, c); Wendy Moore (1996, if); Carrie Scott (1999 & 2001, c); Emily Adams (2005, ss); Jessica Regnerus (2005, cf); Candace Graham (2005, of) Kylee Brouwer (2006, & 2008, dh), and Kelli Duimstra (1b).


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I recently read two poetry books, one that has been on my TBR ever since it released and another that the author sent, but I wasn't able to read immediately because of prior review commitments. Because my review for the two books are both short, I've combined them in this blog post.
Book #1: Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim
Depression & Other Magic Tricks is the debut book by Sabrina Benaim, one of the most-viewed performance poets of all time, whose poem "Explaining My Depression to My Mother" has become a cultural phenomenon with over 5,000,000 views.
Depression & Other Magic Tricks explores themes of mental health, love, and family. It is a documentation of struggle and triumph, a celebration of daily life and of living. Benaim's wit, empathy, and gift for language produce a work of endless wonder.
It's no secret how much I love performance poetry. One day, I'll probably even write a blog post about all my favourite spoken word poets, but for now, know that Sabrina Benaim is one of my absolute favourites! If you haven't watched her performance of Explaining My Depression To My Mother, you've most definitely been living under a rock.
Another favourite poem of mine is How To Unfold A Memory, which along with the previous poem, has been included in this book (yay!).
So naturally, I've wanted to read her books for a really long time now. And I finally got to read it! It was just as heartbreaking, emotional, and relatable as I've found her spoken word to be.
Sabrina Benaim is a passionate poet and you can feel the emotion in her work. I haven't come across a poet who wields metaphors as well as Benaim. If you like passionate and relatable poetry, this is THE book for you!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Book #2: Wild Flowers by Michelle S. Smith
renovations of my spirit
started and stopped
replanned without warning
i have been formed and broken
molded and smelted
crumbled and built up
torn and sewn again
yet my cornerstone remains
my foundation is not shook
no matter how often
i must be repainted
This Raw and Powerful Poetry Collection is an explosion of Survival, Depression, Self-discovery and Sexuality
When Michelle reached out to me and asked me if I'd be willing to read her book, I was fully booked for reviews. But because I love poetry, I accepted her request anyway, promising that I would get to the book soon. But I totally forgot about it until today, when I was going through all the unread ARCs on my Kindle app.
Reading this book just took half an hour of my time. Michelle has written about powerful themes, including depression, suicide, loss, and pain. I liked the narrative of the poems in this book, but it just wasn't for me. I'm a metaphors person and poetic devices just weren't used as much as I like in this book.
This, obviously, is a "me problem", so if you like poems about strong life issues in short formats, go for this book!
Rating: 3 out of 5
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Dennis Shasha is a professor of Computer Science at New York University. His latest puzzle book Puzzles for Programmers and Pros outlined some general approaches to programmatic puzzle solving. This column challenges you to find the solutions to the puzzles that lie at the core of some cool tough applications. He solicits your help in identifying such cool apps. If you have written an application that required extensive use of heuristics (because no algorithm would solve it) or that is otherwise algorithmically interesting, please send mail to Dennis at [email protected]. Put "Tough Apps" in the subject line.
Many problems have the property that they can be broken down into two or more subproblems whose solutions can be combined in some way.
For example, finding the shortest path from point x to point y through z can be expressed as finding the shortest path from x to z and then finding the shortest path from z to y. That realization leads to Dijkstra's classic algorithm:
i. Mark the initial node x as having cost 0 and all other nodes as having cost infinity; also mark x as current but all other nodes as not current. ii. Until node y is current: If the cost from x to some current node q plus the cost from q to q' (where q' is not yet current) is the minimum of any cost to a non-current node, then set the cost to q' to the sum cost(x,q) + cost(q,q') and mark q' current.
This remarkably simple algorithm is used millions of times a day, even though Dijkstra had trouble publishing it. (As Cathy Lazere and I found out when we interviewed Edsger Dijkstra for our book Out of their Minds, Dijkstra had trouble publishing the algorithm after he came up with it. "At the time, algorithms were hardly considered a scientific topic. I wouldn't have known where to publish it...The mathematical culture of the day was very much identified with the continuum and infinity. Could a finite discrete problem be of any interest? The number of paths from here to there on a finite graph is finite; each path is a finite length; you must search for the minimum of a finite set. Any finite set has a minimum--next problem,please. It was not considered mathematically respectable..."
Dynamic programming generalizes this approach. Let's look at the classic problem of string comparison, used whenever you run the diff command or biologists compare gene sequences. In string comparison, the goal is to find the smallest number of changes to transform one string into another. For example, starting with the string "some," three changes (also called edits) will yield "sammy" (e.g., replace "o" by "a," replace "e" by "m," and insert "y"). To see how to arrive at such a conclusion, consider a matrix with "some" written on the top and "sammy" written down the side, as in Figure 1.
Next note that in Figure 2, the top row corresponds to deleting first 0 letters (at cost 0), then one letter ("s"), then two letters ("so"), and so on.
So the top row corresponds to transforming some portion of "some" to the empty string. The left column corresponds to transforming the empty string (above the 0) to some portion of "sammy" through insertions. With the setup done, Figure 3 shows the matrix in mid-expansion.
The 0 at the intersection of the two S's corresponds to transforming "s" to "s" (at cost 0,) and the 1 at the intersection of the A row and the O column corresponds to transforming "so" to "sa." The arrows suggest which sub-solution certain numbers come from. So, the 0 at the intersection of the two S's comes from the 0 corresponding to the cost of transforming an empty string to an empty string. Similarly, the 1 at the A row and O column corresponds to mapping "s" to "s" and then mapping "o" to "a" at cost 1. The method to compute the cost of location (i, j) (row i and column j, where (0,0) corresponds to the upper left hand corner of the array) is as follows:
cost(i,j) = min( cost(i-1,j) + 1, cost(i,j-1) + 1, cost(i-1,j-1) + delta) where delta is 0 if letter i of the top word ("some" in our case) is the same as letter j of the column word ("sammy" in our case) and delta is 1 otherwise.
So the 0 at the intersection of the S's comes from the top left 0 plus a delta of 0. The 1 of the A row and the O column comes from the 0 plus a delta of 1 because "o" and "a" are unequal.
Continuing the expansion of the matrix, Figure 4, we see that the minimum cost of the 2 in the S row and M column comes from deleting an M after transforming "so" to "s."
Finally, the full matrix Figure 5 shows a path from the bottom right corner to the top left corner.
Each leg of that path corresponds either to the identity transformation (e.g. "m" to "m") at cost 0 or to either a replacement, insertion, or deletion. Thus we can read off the insertion of the "y," then the tranforming of the "e" to an "m," and so on. The cool thing about this algorithm is that it is very simple even though the problem to start with might seem very complex.
Quiz: (For the mathematically inclined) Do you see a way to make this more efficient than quadratic (i.e, proportional to the product of the two strings) when the strings are relatively close? Formally, can you find a method that can find the best edit sequence in time proportional to k*n if k is the number of edits that need to be made?


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32nd Annual Industrial and Employment Relations Summit (IER)
Leading a modernised workforce in changing regulatory tides
Event Details
- 7 - 8 Mar 2018
- 6 Mar 2018
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separately bookable workshops
Conducting a sufficient investigation6 March 2018 | 9:00am - 12:30pm
Investigations represent an opportunity to remove a misbehaving employee but also present significant risk if conducted incorrectly. This workshop will give you practical lessons on how to conduct a proper and thorough investigation, avoiding making a costly mistake during the process.
- Looking at what constitutes "sufficient investigation" in the eyes of the Employment Court
- Providing a step by step guide of putting together an employee investigation
- Developing questioning skills and conducting interviews
- Responding to conflicting information and misleading answers
- Avoiding wasting time in the investigations process
- Consulting with staff and adequately explaining the situation
- Managing the rights and expectations of all parties involved
- Looking at and learning from recent case law - where have employers gone wrong with employee investigations
Kylie Dunn
Russell McVeagh
Strategies for restructure & redeployment processes6 March 2018 | 1:30pm - 5:00pm
With pressures to align business strategies alongside a modernised workforce and digital future, businesses are challenged with the need to restructure. However, redundancies should be the last resort for businesses going through brave change. An effective approach for organisational
restructure to reduce risk and retain talent is to redeploy staff. In this workshop gain in-depth knowledge on the processes to manage transitions and minimise risk.
- Defining business objectives for the change and transition
- Developing consultation processes
- Highlighting the nature of new roles and working collaboratively with staff • Managing employee grievances and conflict of interest during selection process
- Avoiding pitfalls and dealing with risk
Chris Baldock
Senior Associate
Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Chris has extensive experience advising corporate clients on a wide range of employment and health and safety matters. With a background in commercial litigation, Chris regularly represents clients in mediations and in proceedings before the Employment Relations Authority and the courts. He advises on all employment related matters, including statutory compliance, restraints of trade, disciplinary investigations, restructuring processes, personal grievances, poor performance, leave entitlements, employment agreements and policies, industrial relations, and workplace health and safety.


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Duct lets you design complete 3D air duct systems.
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We won the ACHR News 2009 Dealer Design Awards
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Visit our Booth # 1562 to receive a FREE 15 day full working version of the Mc4 FireCad 2008 software.
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MONTPELIER POLICE DEPARTMENTMontpelier, Idaho - 208-847-1324
IT Rick Sterling – 2B44 is a retired electrical engineer who worked in the fields of electronic countermeasures with the US Air Force, F/A 18 Hornet computer flight control systems with the US Navy and commercial computer systems. Rick retired to Bear Lake in 2002 from upstate New York. Rick's current interests are computers, music (playing keyboards), Amateur Radio Volunteer Examiner, web site design & maintenance, genealogy and genealogical DNA research.
Rick sustains the Montpelier Police Department's Information Technology requirements with computer software/hardware support and MPD web site/server design and maintenance.