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All professional education content courses leading to certification shall include teaching and assessment of the Wisconsin Content Standards in the content area.
In this column, list the Wisconsin Content Standards that are included in this course. The Standards for each content area are found in the Wisconsin Content Standards document.
In this column, indicate the nature of the performance assessments used in this course to evaluate student proficiency in each standard.
The structures within the discipline, the historical roots and evolving nature of mathematics, and the interaction between technology and the discipline.
Material includes coverage of historical figures in the development of calculus and mathematical analysis.
Facilitating the building of student conceptual and procedural understanding.
Students are tested on concepts and methods of advanced calculus.
Helping all students build understanding of the discipline including:
. Confidence in their abilities to utilize mathematical knowledge.
. Awareness of the usefulness of mathematics.
. The economic implications of fine mathematical preparation.
Homework and exam problems require an understanding of prerequisite, calculus-based courses, enabling students to acquire greater confidence in their calculus skills.
Exploring, conjecturing, examining and testing all aspects of problem solving.
Students are encouraged to try different approaches. Hypotheses to various theorems are examined by testing alternatives.
Formulating and posing worthwhile mathematical tasks, solving problems using several strategies, evaluating results, generalizing solutions, using problem solving approaches effectively, and applying mathematical modeling to real-world situations.
Many homework problems require students to generalize results and discover theorems.
Making convincing mathematical arguments, framing mathematical questions and conjectures, formulating counter-examples, constructing and evaluating arguments, and using intuitive, informal exploration and formal proof.
In homework and exam problems, students prove theorems regarding sequences and series, differentiation, integration, vector calculus and multivariable analysis. Students are expected to find counter-examples for results that are not true.
Expressing ideas orally, in writing, and visually-, using mathematical language, notation, and symbolism; translating mathematical ideas between and among contexts.
In their work, students are expected to "bridge the gap" between informal intuitive reasoning and rigorous mathematics.
Connecting the concepts and procedures of mathematics, drawing connections between mathematical strands, between mathematics and other disciplines, and with daily life.
Applications of calculus to the physical sciences are discussed.
Selecting appropriate representations to facilitate mathematical problem solving and translating between and among representations to explicate problem-solving situations.
Homework and exam problems require geometric visualization, logic, theorem-proving techniques and skills learned in elementary calculus.
Mathematical processes including:
. Problem solving.
. Communication.
. Reasoning and formal and informal argument.
. Mathematical connections.
. Representations.
. Technology.
Solutions (homework and exams) require various problem-solving techniques based, in part, on material learned in prerequisite courses. Students are encouraged to explain their own work before the rest of the class. Calculators are occasionally used, especially when examing limits and infinite series.
Number operations and relationships from both abstract and concrete perspectives identifying real world applications, and representing and connecting mathematical concepts and procedures including:
. Number sense.
. Set theory.
. Number and operation.
. Composition and decomposition of numbers, including place value, primes, factors, multiples, inverses, and the extension of these concepts throughout mathematics.
. Number systems through the real numbers, their properties and relations.
. Computational procedures.
. Proportional reasoning.
. Number theory.
Homework and exams thoroughly test students' knowledge of the number line, including rational and irrational numbers, the concept of density, limits, infinite sequences and series, and introductory point-set topology.
Mathematical concepts and procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level number operations and relationships including:
. Advanced counting procedures, including union and intersection of sets, and parenthetical operations.
. Algebraic and transcendental numbers.
. The complex number system, including polar coordinates.
. Approximation techniques as a basis for numerical integration, fractals, and numerical-based proofs.
. Situations in which numerical arguments presented in a variety of classroom and real-world situations (e.g., political, economic, scientific, social) can be created and critically evaluated.
. Opportunities in which acceptable limits of error can be assessed (e.g., evaluating strategies, testing the reasonableness of results, and using technology to carry out computations).
Students are expected to master advanced topics related to sets of real numbers, iteration techniques, boundedness, limits of sequences, infinite series, and the definition of the Riemann Integral (including approximations of definite integrals).
Geometry and measurement from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and mathematical concepts, procedures and connections among them including:
. Formal and informal argument.
. Names, properties, and relationships of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
. Spatial sense.
. Spatial reasoning and the use of geometric models to represent, visualize, and solve problems.
. Transformations and the ways in which rotation, reflection, and translation of shapes can illustrate concepts, properties, and relationships.
. Coordinate geometry systems including relations between coordinate and synthetic geometry, and generalizing geometric principles from a two-dimensional system to a three-dimensional system.
. Concepts of measurement, including measurable attributes, standard and non-standard units, precision and accuracy, and use of appropriate tools.
. The structure of systems of measurement, including the development and use of measurement systems and the relationships among different systems. Measurement including length, area, volume, size of angles, weight and mass, time, temperature, and money.
. Measuring, estimating, and using measurement to describe and compare geometric phenomena.
. Indirect measurement and its uses, including developing formulas and procedures for determining measure to solve problems.
Students use geometric visualization in problems involving the Riemann integral and vector calculus.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level geometry and measurement including:
. Systems of geometry, including Euclidean, non-Euclidean, coordinate, transformational, and projective geometry.
. Transformations, coordinates, and vectors and their use in problem solving. Three-dimensional geometry and its generalization to other dimensions. Topology, including topological properties and transformations.
. Opportunities to present convincing arguments by means of demonstration, informal proof, counter-examples, or other logical means to show the truth of statements and/or generalizations.
Counter-examples, proofs and valid mathematical exposition are assessed through homework and tests. Students are introduced to point-set topology and use it in their solutions.
Statistics and probability from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections between them including:
. Use of data to explore real-world issues.
. The process of investigation including formulation of a problem, designing a data collection plan, and collecting, recording, and organizing data.
. Data representation through graphs, tables, and summary statistics to describe data distributions, central tendency, and variance.
. Analysis and interpretation of data.
. Randomness, sampling, and inference.
. Probability as a way to describe chances or risk in simple and compound events.
. Outcome prediction based on experimentation or theoretical probabilities.
Not applicable
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level statistics and probability including:
. Use of the random variable in the generation and interpretation of probability distributions.
. Descriptive and inferential statistics, measures of disbursement, including validity and reliability, and correlation.
. Probability theory and its link to inferential statistics.
. Discrete and continuous probability distributions as bases for inference.
. Situations in which students can analyze, evaluate, and critique the methods and conclusions of statistical experiments reported in journals, magazines, news media, advertising, etc.
Not applicable
Functions, algebra, and basic concepts underlying calculus from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Patterns.
. Functions as used to describe relations and to model real world situations.
. Representations of situations that involve variable quantities with expressions, equations and inequalities and that include algebraic and geometric relationships.
. Multiple representations of relations, the strengths and limitations of each representation, and conversion from one representation to another.
. Attributes of polynomial, rational, trigonometric, algebraic, and exponential functions.
. Operations on expressions and solution of equations, systems of equations and inequalities using concrete, informal, and formal methods.
. Underlying concepts of calculus, including rate of change, limits, and approximations for irregular areas.
In exams and homework, students must demonstrate a thorough understanding of advanced calculus topics such as limits of sequences, infinite series, differentiation, integration, and vector calculus.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level functions, algebra, and concepts of calculus including:
. Concepts of calculus, including limits (epsilon-delta) and tangents, derivatives, integrals, and sequences and series.
. Modeling to solve problems.
. Calculus techniques including finding limits, derivatives, integrals, and using special rules.
. Calculus applications including modeling, optimization, velocity and acceleration, area, volume, and center of mass.
. Numerical and approximation techniques including Simpson's rule, trapezoidal rule, Newton's Approximation, and linearization.
. Multivariate calculus.
. Differential equations.
Problems are based on an advanced treatment of such calculus topics as differentiation, integration, sequences, infinite series and multivariable calculus.
Discrete processes from both abstract and concrete perspectives and to identify real world applications, and the mathematical concepts, procedures and the connections among them including:
. Counting techniques.
. Representation and analysis of discrete mathematics problems using sequences, graph theory, arrays, and networks.
. Iteration and recursion.
Many of the homework and exam problems use discrete math concepts such as sequences, iteration, set theory and mathematical induction.
Mathematical concepts, procedures, and the connections among them for teaching upper level discrete mathematics including:
. Topics, including symbolic logic, induction, linear programming, and finite graphs.
. Matrices as a mathematical system, and matrices and matrix operations as tools for recording information and for solving problems.
. Developing and analyzing algorithms.
Concepts such as recursion (for finding roots of functions) and mathematical induction (for proving theorems) are frequently used.


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Calhoun County Extension Director
Our careers with the Calhoun County IFAS Extension Service are very diverse, and one of the most rewarding things we do is coordinate the selection of the Outstanding Farm Family of the Year. Calhoun County is blessed with a rich farming history, and we have been presenting this award for over 55 years. Each year, Farm Families are honored locally, and by the North Florida Fair.
Calhoun County's Outstanding Farm Family of the Year Award was presented Thursday night to Steve and Michelle Yoder, along with their daughters, Valerie, Whitnie, Anslie, and Nathalie.
Yoder Family Honored As Outstanding Farm Family Of The Year
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text: That's right the Dekline guys are on the road. They are going to be spending the next 2 weeks cruzin' from Hotlanta to DC with The Skateboard Mag's very own photographer Rodent. Team riders Patrick Melcher, Matt Ball, Olly Todd, Zarosh, Chris Pastras, Jason Adams, Adam Dyet, & Gareth Stehr, 2 filmers (Matt Swinski & Bradley Rosado) & Mike Sinclair new to the Dekline program helping out with the Team & Marketing are all cramming into one Van to get the job done. Have fun Guys!. Thanks for the iPhone photos Rodent….More tomarrow…..


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I post over at the Rebby Scum forums, but they seem kinda uptight there at times. And no one goes to galactic hunter forums anymore. This place seems to have its own clique I'll quickly be alienated from. Ha.
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Sunday, March 05, 2006
Cutting my teeth on my first podcast...
You can listen to it here. Love to get your feedback....
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Very good review - I'm sure I'll keep your and Laurie Anderson's blogs in my favorites - as I have heart valve prolapse.
Please keep reviewing natural meds such as CoQ10 etc. - remember aspirin was originally used from willow trees.
- Sun Mar 05, 06:43:00 PM CST
- DrWes said...
Well, on the podcast, I never got to review the "official" reccomendations of the American College of Cardiology on CoQ10 in particular. It's important to understand that the beneficial CoQ10 data comes from meta-analyses (collection of reports from a series of differently controlled studies) that showed benefit. At least two later PROSPECTIVE RANDOMIZED studies demonstrated no benefit to CoQ10 in the diet at reducing heart disease, hence the ACC does NOT recommend treatment with CoQ10 as a dietary supplement to prevent heart disease. For what it's worth, I also do NOT recommend this to my coronary artery disease patients (it's expensive without clear benefit) but if they want to take it, it probably won't HURT them either.
- Mon Mar 06, 10:50:00 AM CST
As a neophyte to your area of expertise, I thought the podcast was interesting and informative. It's unfortunate that there was such a short time period and a small number of questions to work with. I look forward to reading your blog.
- Tue Mar 07, 03:20:00 PM CST
- DrWes said...
I just started this blog, so hopefully over time I can start to address some of the multitude of questions posted on Dr. Helen's site. Just wish this paid like my day job....
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Governor Rick Scott and First Lady Ann Scott's Hispanic Heritage Month essay contest is open to all Florida students in grades 4–12. Three winners will be selected to receive a 4-Year Florida College Plan scholarship sponsored by the Florida Prepaid College Foundation: one elementary school student (grades 4–5), one middle school student (grades 6–8), and one high school student (grades 9–12).
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text: You can also look for Nate Broussard to be joining the nefarious team on July 15th in Barcelona for Toy Machine's film/photo trip through Spain and France. The photos are being shot by Burnett and are going in an upcoming Thrasher article. The filming is being held on to for the upcoming Toy Machine video.


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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He is the only U.S. President to hold a Ph.D. degree, which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University.
In his first term, Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass the Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and America's first-ever federal progressive income tax in the Revenue Act of 1913. Wilson brought many white Southerners into his administration, and tolerated their expansion of segregation in many federal agencies.
Narrowly re-elected in 1916, Wilson's second term centered on World War I. He based his re-election campaign around the slogan "he kept us out of war", but U.S. neutrality was challenged in early 1917 when the German government sent the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico and proposed a military alliance in a war against the U.S., and began unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking, without warning, every American merchant ship its submarines could find. In April 1917 Wilson asked Congress to declare war.


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I will start this thread by saying that I hope it gets alot of feedback, as I am one that is really into nostalgia, 'moments', and sports happenings/memories. Many people are fans of teams from a certain city, for a certain reason (usually b/c they are from there - or nearby). Other fans are fans b/c when they started watching, that team happened to be winning in that era. I'm kind of a hybrid fan - and have very valid reasons for all of my allegiences. Cincinnati Reds, Dallas Cowboys, Alabama Crimson Tide Football, Memphis Tiger Basketball.
As far as favorite Reds memories, I have several, of course, and will eventually get to all of them. But will start with the one that MADE me a Reds fans. I grew up in Memphis, TN, and my father, who didn't do a ton of things right, DID do some things right. He took me to st. louis in the mid-late '70s to watch the Big Red Machine. Not only that, we went to the hotel, where as a little boy I got to meet many members of that team - Rose, Bench, Morgan, Seaver, among others. We went to dinner at a horrible place called Mont Eagle (my sister's burger was so bad she tried to hide it on the seat so my dad would think she ate it), and then to the game, where George Foster hit a towering home run, and 'this one belongs to the Reds'. I was hooked, and have been ever since.
As i said, I have many many more, but that's where it started for me. I hope many of you read and choose to share yours as well. Go Reds!


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Jefferson, Buffon and the Moose
By Keith Thomson
To counter the European insult that American species were weak and degenerate, Thomas Jefferson employed scathing rhetoric and a moose from Vermont
To counter the European insult that American species were weak and degenerate, Thomas Jefferson employed scathing rhetoric and a moose from Vermont
In 1781, in the midst of the American Revolutionary War, the British army rousted Thomas Jefferson from his home in Monticello. Politically unpopular, he retired from the governorship of Virginia and threw himself into writing. The result was his only book, Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), in which, among other topics, he famously defended his country against those Europeans who said that the Americas (North, South and Central) were unhealthy places populated by lesser animals and plants, compared with those of the Old World, and inhabited by peoples who were similarly weak and degenerate.
The immediate source of these libels was Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, written in 44 quarto volumes between 1749 and 1809 by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, and his associates. A product of the age of French encyclopedists, Histoire naturelle pulled together a vast array of facts about natural history around the world. It was also the vehicle for Buffon's many ideas about the history of the Earth and the organisms that inhabit it. Buffon had never been to the New World, but that did not prevent him from damning it. His critique carried an importance far greater than its questionable scientific value. Anything that lessened the public opinion of America—awash in foreign debt, at war with a global superpower, supplicant to the thrones of France and Spain—had political significance. Buffon had to be answered.
The Secretary to the French delegation in Philadelphia was Francois, Marquis de Barbé-Marbois. (Later, as minister of the treasury for Napoleon I, he negotiated the Louisiana Purchase.) The French government had instructed Barbé-Marbois to assemble data on the 13 colonies, and he responded by preparing a 22-point questionnaire. A copy of this survey was given to Joseph Jones, a delegate from Virginia to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, in late 1780. Jones realized that Jefferson would be the best person to respond. Whereas other states sent in replies of a few pages, Jefferson's response became a book in which he distilled all his knowledge of Virginia's political and constitutional history, geography and ethnography, and of the whole country's natural history. He also rebutted specific points from Histoire naturelle (although the pagination in Jefferson's octavo edition differed from the original). Using all his rhetorical skills, Jefferson destroyed Buffon's case for American inferiority.
Buffon was not the first to assert American degeneracy, and this idea was not based on natural history alone: Politics also played a part. Buffon's immediate source was a book by a Spanish naval officer, Don Antonio d'Ulloa (Relación histórica del viaje hecho de orden de su Majestad a la América Meridional, 1748). d'Ulloa's thesis was that the human condition in the Americas was degenerate as a result of a long history of colonialism, slavery, exploitation of natural resources and subjugation of the native peoples. To d'Ulloa, it was natural that America lacked the large mammals of the Old World and was rife with noxious insects and poisonous reptiles.
Buffon, focusing on North America, developed d'Ulloa's observations into a complex theory in which climate played a central role. In his ninth volume, published in 1761, Buffon compared mammalian species and noted examples in which the same species lived on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. He claimed the New-World versions were always smaller and weaker. European livestock exported to America were always stunted. Species indigenous to the New World were always smaller than comparable species in the Old World (the largest American mammal was the tapir, nowhere near the size of an elephant). Of American Indians, he wrote, "the organs of generation (of the savage) are small and feeble. He has no hair, no beard, no ardour for the female. Though nimbler than the European, his strength is not so great. His sensations are less acute; and yet he is more timid and cowardly." And so on.
Jefferson refuted Buffon's claims, citing for example the American (black) bear at 412 pounds and the European bear at 153, the American beaver at 45 pounds and the European at 18. Jefferson's data do not bear close scrutiny (he listed the cow in America at 2,500 pounds and at 763 in Europe), but he had two trumps. The first was the North American moose, under the belly of which, he claimed (quite erroneously), a European reindeer could walk. The moose should have been familiar to Buffon from French travelers in Canada (where they called it the orignal). Live moose had been imported to Britain in the 1770s and a drawing of one of these was later used in a Dutch edition of Histoire naturelle.
Jefferson also thought he had the advantage with the example of the mastodon, which he claimed to be bigger by half than either the living elephants or the extinct Siberian mammoth. This might seem something of a cheat, but he genuinely believed that it was not extinct.
As for Buffon's evidence of the degeneracy of American Indians, Jefferson refuted it in two ways. First, he used an eloquent speech by the "Shawanee" Chief Logan as an example of their civilization. This speech was later reproduced widely in Europe and very much admired. With respect to hair and sexual ardour (a subject that Europeans found titillating), Jefferson coolly pointed out that ". . . with them it is disgraceful to be hairy on the body. They therefore pluck the hair as fast as it appears." If Indians had smaller families than Europeans, it was through economic necessity. When Indian women married white men and were treated well, they produced large families, although it was true that women had a low place in Indian society. They were subjected to ". . . unjust drudgery. This I believe is the case in every barbarous people."
On the subject of climate, Buffon had conflated several different reports and places. He believed that America was cold and damp, conditions that he disparaged but that, he had to admit, were by no means inimical to healthy life. He even repeated the claim that anywhere in North America, if one dug down a foot or so, the ground would be frozen. All of these statements were easy to counter: Not only was the average climate drier and warmer than that of Europe, Buffon himself had observed that the cold, damp regions of northern Europe were good for cattle. Despite these absurdities, not all of Buffon's ideas were bad. He noted, for example, that cities on the same latitude, such as Quebec and Paris, or Boston and Seville, had remarkably different climates.
In his En resa til Norra America (1753–1761; English translation Travels into North America, 1770), the Swedish-Finnish naturalist Peter Kalm had noted that cattle in Philadelphia were stunted. But Robert Byrd (The Natural History of Virginia, or the Newly Discovered Eden, 1737) had seen a reason: The natural pasture was so lush that farmers left their livestock outdoors through the winter, where they became thin, "which does not happen if they are given hay, and kept in stables."
Byrd also extolled the American Indians as a strong and cultured people. This opinion wasn't new; Robert Beverley had recorded similar observations decades earlier. If Buffon had read contemporary descriptions of North America, he would have known that the lack of hair in American Indians was cosmetic. As early as 1702, Beverley (History and Present State of Virginia) wrote, "The Men wear their Hair cut after several fanciful Fashions, sometimes greas'd, and sometimes painted. The Great Men, or better sort, preserve a long Lock behind for distinction. They pull their Beards up by the roots with a Muscleshell; and both Men and Women do the same by the other parts of their Body for Cleanliness sake."
Given these contrary reports, why was the leading natural scientist of Europe so zealous in arguing for American degeneracy? One answer was that Buffon believed the anecdotal evidence more than the written records. He was also blinkered by preconceived notions, thinking that America was cold because of winds blowing off the Atlantic Ocean. Other possible explanations of the cold and damp were that the biblical Great Flood had retreated later from the New World than the Old, or that the New World had more recently emerged from the ocean. Buffon also developed the more sophisticated idea that the low population density of humans in the Americas meant that they had had less opportunity to improve the ecology and thereby ameliorate the climate.
Yet another answer was philosophical. Buffon opposed Jean-Jacques Rousseau's notion of the "noble savage" and argued that the indigenous American people did not represent humans in a state of primeval grace. Instead, like the animals and plants, they had migrated from the Old World and deteriorated.
There was also a political reason to denigrate the Americas. Although much of the New World had been founded on colonialism and slavery, North America threatened to throw off these fetters. With huge natural resources, strong population growth and increasing affluence, the former colonies were rapidly evolving to become a beacon of new democracy. This egalitarianism was anathema to European aristocrats—a group that included most natural scientists of the time. The new United States was a populist place that neither needed nor tolerated aristocracy. The zeal with which Buffon's opinions were repeated may be a sign of how serious a threat the European oligarchy perceived the Americans to be. Among the authors who spread Buffon's tripe was the British historian William Robertson, whose History of America (1777) was reprinted, edition after popular edition, for another 40 years—an interval in which thousands of his countrymen cheerfully departed for America.
Before Jefferson began writing Notes, the Abbé Raynal in France (Histoire philosophique et politique, 1770) and the Dutch geographer Corneille de Pauw (Récherches philosophiques sur les Americains, 1768)—neither of whom ever visited the New World—had published books rehearsing and extending Buffon's ideas. De Pauw wrote that in the former Dutch Guiana (now Suriname) in South America, "caterpillars, butterflies, centipedes, scarabs, spiders, frogs and toads were found in gigantic size for their species, and multiplied beyond imagining. . . . Even today, the oldest European colonies in America are not yet cleansed of filthy or poisonous animals whose propagation is encouraged by the atmosphere."
A particularly delicate issue in the discussion of "degeneracy" concerned Europeans emigrating to North America. Buffon stopped short of saying that they also became inferior on American soil, but Abbé Raynal had no reservation claiming exactly that. Buffon did, however, denigrate the intellectual achievements of Americans. This dismissal incensed Jefferson, who quite reasonably noted that in two hundred years, "in war we have produced a Washington . . . in physics we have produced a Franklin, than whom no one of the present age has made more important discoveries . . . [and] we have supposed Mr. Rittenhouse second to no astronomer living." (David Rittenhouse was a Philadelphia astronomer, instrument craftsman and patriot.)
Benjamin Franklin's own response to the issue of American degeneracy was typically pragmatic. At a dinner party in Paris where a number of Americans were present (and who, he noted, were quite tall) he asked them to rise, followed by the French, over whom they towered. Adding spice to the occasion, Abbé Raynal was one of those vertically challenged French guests; Franklin graciously noted that he himself was not so very tall.
In the 1770s, Buffon used new volumes of Histoire naturelle to expand on the effects of climate on agriculture (Supplementary Volume Five, 1778) and to recant his views on American Indians (Supplementary Volume Four, 1777). In Paris, Franklin had held many scientific discussions with Buffon and was the partial cause of the latter's change of mind. The conversation that had so profound an effect had been about population growth. In this area, Franklin's insights preceded those of Thomas Robert Malthus by 30 years. Buffon wrote, "because we know from the celebrated Franklin, that in twenty-eight years the population of Philadelphia (without immigration) doubled . . . in a country where the Europeans multiply so promptly, where the life of the natives is longer than previously, it is not possible that humans degenerate." Raynal also changed his mind and was one of the French admirers of Chief Logan's speech, writing "Que celà est beau" (how fine it is) and "comme celà est simple, energétique et touchant."
Interestingly, Jefferson knew about Buffon's change of mind when he composed the final version of his Notes, having read the new volumes of Histoire naturelle. But he went ahead with his refutations anyway. Jefferson's style in these arguments was complex, a mixture of simple fact and biting rhetoric. Where possible he turned Buffon's own writings against him. Buffon had written that he loved best someone who corrected him in an error, because an error corrected became a fact. In this case, Jefferson wrote, "one sentence of his book must do him immortal honour."
Around the time Notes was published, Jefferson was living in Paris as the new nation's ambassador to France. When he arrived, Jefferson sent Buffon a copy of Notes and the skin of a large panther, and was subsequently invited to dine with Buffon at the Jardin du Roi, Paris's magnificent botanical garden. Of that meeting Jefferson later wrote, "in my conversations with the Count de Buffon . . . I find him absolutely unacquainted with our Elk and our deer. He has hitherto believed that our deer never had horns more than a foot long." So Jefferson decided to show him a full-grown American moose. He wrote to General John Sullivan, president (governor) of New Hampshire, for help in getting a large specimen, instructing him that the bones of the head and legs should be left in the skin so that it could be mounted in a life-like manner. Eventually a "seven-foot tall" moose was collected in Vermont and shipped to Paris.
Many years later, Daniel Webster told the story that Jefferson had had the moose set up in the hall of his apartment and invited Buffon to see it. Confronted with that stark refutation of his earlier thesis, Buffon was said to have exclaimed, "I should have consulted you, Monsieur, before I published my book on natural history, and then I should have been sure of my facts." It would be nice if this story were true. In fact, Buffon, by this time old and sick, was away from Paris when the moose arrived in October 1787. Jefferson sent it to Buffon's long time associate, zoologist Louis-Jean-Marie D'Aubenton, for the great man to see when he returned. Although most of the hair had fallen off the hide, the antlers sent by Sullivan were from a smaller animal and the whole carcass was probably rancid, Jefferson was "in hopes that Monsieur de Buffon will be able to have it stuffed, and placed on his legs in the King's Cabinet."
Jefferson later told Webster that Buffon had "promised in his next volume, to set these things right . . . but he died directly afterwards." Nonetheless, Jefferson had made his case and Notes on the State of Virginia went on to become an American classic. Buffon's Histoire naturelle, which encompassed so much more than just the denigration of American wildlife, continued to be one of the most influential books of 18th- and early 19th-century natural science.
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Gaming Pet Peeves - Part One - Attendance
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Well I'm not quite sure how to actually organize my thoughts on this, however I've got a few pet peeves about role playing that I find very irritating...caused by both the GM and the other players, or player characters.
First issue is attendance. I find that attendance is good the first few sessions, where you've established your character, found how you're going to play your character, you come across certain life or death situations or the game sessions end up being simply role-playing instead of roll-playing or vice versa, depending on your preference of game style. I try not to miss any sessions, but if there is one person missing, a lot of GM's won't run the game, simply because they don't feel they'd play the character properly or they just refuse to play a player character and GM/DM at the same time. Not running a session means disappointment for the rest of the players.
Too many instances have arisen in my role playing experience that players' schedules have made it difficult for them to make sessions...but what I don't get is WHY people don't inform the GM if they can't make it to a session? It should be common courtesy for the GM and the players involved to give advanced warming or some sort of warning ahead of time to make sure that they are included somehow in the party as played by another player. Or simply try to run with the players that are eager and willing to go.
A game that had yet to start using the Hero System, a user-created world was nipped in the bud before it even started because of lack of interest from every single player except for myself and another player. What started with five players ended up being two, while the others simply weren't willing to try the new style of gaming, or didn't think the style was for them, when we hadn't even [played a session yet.
Either step up and attend the meetings or character creation sessions, or don't bother signing up for the game in the first place. I can understand trying to get people's schedules together is one thing, but if you're not willing to try out a session to see if you like it rather than just quitting before you even give the GM a chance to walk you through it then don't bother joining a game. It really is a waste of the GM's time, as well as the other players getting characters ready and then have nothing to show for it if they like what they've created.
Well that probably made absolutely no sense but...I hope people understand that it's not fair to the GM or the players to miss too many sessions or just to drop out without any warning. Turnovers of players is fine, as long as they have a willingness to learn a completely different system.
I'm always willing to try anything once. Though I must admit there are a few players with whom I have a problem playing...for personal reasons. So even though I might be interested in playing...I wouldn't feel comfortable with that player in the group so I tend to avoid those games.
There...*sigh*...I've said my piece...maybe people will realize to think twice before joining a game. If you're not in it for the long-run, don't bother joining.


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We talked to Marek and Kinga after they won the Professional Rising Star Latin at the UK Open 2014 but before the Open event where they were in the top 15. Marek and Kinga are Polish Professional Latin champions.
[Kinga]: Thank you
[Marek]: There was no that much change for us. Of course, it is something new, so it is nice. I enjoyed it a lot.
[Kinga]: I enjoyed it as well. But I must say I expected to feel different in some way. It wasn't that much difference for us. After all, there was the same Cha Cha Cha (laughing). I loved to dance in Amateur, I love to compete and I enjoy every competition really. So there was the same enjoyment. Maybe the Open event will be different, dancing amongst all those stars. But maybe I will be so focused on my own dancing that I will not even see them around us.
[Marek]: For us, it was just a competition where we need to focus on our own dancing regardless if it is in Amateurs or Professionals.
[Kinga]: I started dancing when I was in my third year of primary school. I was 9 or 10 years old. My mother said I always liked to move to music. So she brought me to the school and I loved it. I started in The Sakowskis' studio which was the biggest school in Warsaw. I was quite lucky to be in good hands from the beginning. I developed there, I was there for 10 years. I never did any other style of dancing before.
[Kinga]: In Juniors I danced with Piotr Woyda, a really nice guy. We won all the Junior championships at the time. We also had good results internationally. I was actually more of a Ballroom girl. I used to have lessons with Markus Hilton and he still remembers now that I was really good in Ballroom. And not so good in Latin (laughing). After Piotr, when I was only 15, I started dancing with Przemek Lowicki in Amateurs. And, as you remembers, we won the Amateur Rising Star Latin. We only danced together for two years and then I had a break. After a year of break, and a short partnership with another guy, I met Marek.
[Marek]: I was trying to remember when I started to dance. I think I was 8 years old. It was by accident because I did swimming at the time. I had some problems with my knees and somebody suggested to my mother that I should take some rhythmic dance lessons to develop better posture. The lady who run these lessons told my mother that I have a very good sense of rhythm and it would be good for me to continue some sort of dancing. I was not that interested at first.
[Kinga]: You wanted to become a tennis player
[Marek]: Yes but I was too small and too slow basically (laughing). So I joined the dance club in Poznan. My first teacher was Mr Mieczyslaw Grzeskowiak. It was fun and I did not treat it seriously. I was lucky when I met Waldemar Ziomek and had some private lessons with him. I started to treat it seriously. I changed the club and represented them for the next 10 years. We were Polish champions but I still say that I started treating dancing really seriously when I met Kinga. Before her I never had any foreign teachers, I was in Poznan all the time.
[Kinga]: Of course, we knew each other from competitions in Poland. But we did not really spoke, we certainly were not friends. When I split from my partner I suddenly had a call from Mark if I would like to have a try-out with him. It was a nice surprise, because I actually though he was one of the most talented dancers in Poland. So yes, I was really open for it and agreed to have a try-out. It really was the first time we talked to each other.
[Marek]: I was scared of her (laughing). I always thought she was so much above everyone else. I loved her dancing but never was brave enough to talk to her. On one competition, Grand Prix in Leszno, I broke the ice and spoke to her which was nice. I still remember it.
[Marek]: No, no. But she had an opinion of a very tough girl. But surprisingly she proved to be a very nice girl when we started to talk.
[Kinga]: And then you called me
[Marek]: I always thought she was one of the best dancers in Poland. My biggest dream was to dance with her.
[Kinga]: Yes, we are married for over three years.
[Marek]: We are together for nine years.
[Kinga]: Yes, since we started to dance together. I think after three months we fell in love!
[Marek]: For sure!
[Kinga]: And because I was tough. You like challenge!
[Kinga]: Oh no, I am quite open to say what I like and what I dislike. I was thinking about it because there are many things which I don't really love in Marek but in the same time, I love him because of this. I like imperfections in life. I sometimes wish wouldn't it be nice if he was less stubborn, he is Aries by the way, but in the same time I love it in him. I am often changing my mind, but he is solid and it is really good. So that's why it is hard for me to answer this question.
[Kinga]: Why?
[Kinga]: He is not perfect and I like imperfection. This is beauty of it that he's got something which is not perfect!
[Marek]: My answer is simple: nothing (laughing). We are a really boring couple! There is nothing I would like to point out here. I like the way she is.
[Marek]: Kinga is very creative and beautiful inside and out. She is very intelligent and has a really good attitude to dance and to life. She is also funny girl and has nice sense of humour.
[Kinga]: Wow! Now it is my turn. Marek is very creative. It is really hard to be bored with him. There is always something to do with him. He is a kind person with a good heart. He is easy going and positive. He is also very sensitive. And what I like, he is very masculine and handsome (laughing) as you can see. He is a gentleman, and knows how to treat a lady. A lot of female friends of mine are jealous that I have that kind of husband. In the same time, as I said Marek is sensitive, he has a feminine side which I love. He understands me, understand women really well. I think this is his strong point, and because of that he knows how to make me happy.
[Marek]: I think both of us. Part of the success of this partnership is that we communicate really well and we are a team. When I have ideas she helps to develop them. It is all about the dialog between us.
[Kinga]: The communication, interaction...
[Marek]: So I cannot say one of us is really responsible for this or for that.
[Kinga]: Of course, there are areas when one of us is responsible more than the other. But we always seek each other's opinion or a third person opinion. When we create some choreography together we ask a teacher and maybe develop his idea. Often, with costumes, I see a dress in the film or newspaper or magazine and I say to Marek, I have this and this idea and he adds something and we build this idea together. He never says, I don't care, do what you want or you look OK in it. He always offers suggestions, it is always a dialog. One thing Marek is much better than me is make-up. I have two left hands! When I found out that he's got talent for make-up it was such a relief for me. It was like: Yes!, I don't have to do it myself anymore. So I don't do any make-up myself, only eyelashes and lipstick which I can do. Before the competition I feel like a star, I sit and he does the make-up for me. I am really grateful for him giving me so much of his preparation time, I like this a lot. He hates to do hair, but Boyko is now at all the big competitions and he can do it for me because I am also terrible with hair.
[Kinga]: If we are talking of making breakfast and maybe dinner once a month than I am cooking. Marek doesn't do kitchen but we both clean the house, he is doing washing and I am ironing.
[Kinga]: Very much so.
[Kinga]: We have our team who we work with for a long time now. We are very happy and don't want to change that. We have Bryan Watson, Carmen and Hans Galke. I've known Hans for a long time as I was his student since I was very young. I think we work with each other for twelve or thirteen years. These are our three main teacher. To that group we added Ruud Vermeji some time ago and also Tone Nyhagen, Richard Porter and Graham Oswick.
[Marek]: We have Juuka Haapalainen who is helping us with an artistic side
[Kinga]: Yes, Juuka is very artistic. We love to work with him.
[Kinga]: It is very important. Of course, we don't dance to show technique but it allows us to express our emotions through dancing.
[Marek]: This is something you start learning from the very beginning. You develop footwork, body actions, everything is built on it.
[Marek]: I think the magic is in the mix of it all. You have to have everything.
[Kinga]: The technique, the desire for dancing, the feeling, the charisma, partnership, the energy, all is important.
[Kinga]: It is important to know what you are good in, what your strong points are. You need to believe in it as well. And then you can win. I think I am good in interpreting each dance character. I am good in changing the moods. I am quite rhythmical and I am good in partnering.
[Marek]: I cannot tell. You need to come and watch me dancing and you can decide for yourself!
[Kinga]: Don't say! (laughing) We don't want our competition to find out.
[Marek]: I am really boring, because I don't have any problems with my problems. They can always be solved. I am working on myself. It is a process.
[Marek]: I have to develop and keep on working all the time. The key is to keep on doing that.
[Kinga]: I never work to improve myself to make him happier. It never is to prove anything to him or to judges. It is always for myself. Of course I listen to feedback, I trust my teachers and I trust Marek. I dance because I love to dance and I work hard because I want to become better dancer.
[Kinga]: I would say: never lose the desire and love for dancing. There will be bad times and good times in your career but don't forget why you started dancing in the first place. Always remember why you loved to practise, why you loved the partnering, why you loved that feeling of being on the floor and that will help you go through everything. It gives me strength, it makes me feel like I can move mountains!
[Marek]: It depends. Deep down there is a desire for winning. Of course I want to win. But it is not the most important thing for me.
[Kinga]: Since I was a child I was always encouraged to try to improve myself. I was told it is nothing wrong to want to be first. I was encouraged to be ambitious. So it is important to me to develop myself, to aim higher, to try to win. So this desire and my love for dancing is also a good mixture.
[Kinga]: Yes, we have a lot of friends outside dancing. The support us, the follow us sometimes and they cross their fingers for us. They are quite fascinated about all this.
[Kinga]: We love to meet with friends. The best friends we have are also dancers. We like to spend time with them. We love to party as they very well know. We like cinema.
[Marek]: We also love to spend time together, we do everything together. We have holidays together and travel and do shopping. We both love fashion.
[Kinga]: Sometimes we think it is surely too much, so we try to do things separately. But we miss each other straight away. I miss Marek after two hours of not being together (laughing)! Once we tried to go on holiday alone, just for three days. It was quite OK but not that great. In the same time each of us needs their own space. I know him so well and I can understand that he wants to be alone sometimes. So when he says: Kinga, I want to be on my own, go shopping, it is perfectly fine for me.
[Kinga]: Some people say: oh, how sweet. But this is not about being sweet, this is about this incredible closeness. I really like to spend time with him, even without talking. Sometimes we drive back from teaching and we don't speak for three hours but it doesn't matter. It is funny really.
[Marek]: We love to eat, we love food
[Kinga]: I eat more than Marek, for sure.
[Kinga]: I know, I think it is in our genes. I don't have problem with my weight and I am grateful for that. But of course if I put on 2 kg I know something is not right and I know I need to burn it on the floor. But somehow, my weight doesn't reflect the amount of food I eat. Marek likes sweet things. I am not so much into sweets. I like steaks, sometimes fast food, something concrete. But he can live on Nutella. When I eat some Nutelle I have to have something savoury after that.
[Marek]: I cannot eat it all the time. That's the problem. I am on salads now. Especially before the competitions I go on diet.
[Marek]: No!
[Kinga]: Come one, you also eat meat and pasta. Don't exaggerate!
[Marek]: I like drama (laughing)
[Kinga]: I generally like everything. I am not keen on onions, garlic and leak.
[Marek]: Dancing, definitely
[Kinga]: We will be focused on our dancing until we decided to retire from competitions.
[Marek]: It is always the first priority for us.
[Kinga]: We are always open and honest with our students about it. Our dancing is always the most important thing for us.
[Kinga]: Sometimes it is as we travel a lot
[Marek]: We might not be in Poland or we might not be available for other reasons
[Kinga]: But we share our diary with them so they know. Once a month we are in London with our teachers. Other days we are available.
[Kinga]: For me they are the three big English competitions: Royal Albert Hall, UK Open and Blackpool. I like Assen as well
[Marek]: It depends on the atmosphere. I always like the Royal Albert Hall, and now I also like UK Open as we won the Rising Stars here (laughing).
[Kinga]: I like all three competitions. Each of them has its own magic. Each of them is different and that's the beauty of it.
[Kinga]: We generally don't like to label things like that but we will try for the sake of this interview if this is necessary.
[Marek]: Jive is not necessary...
[Kinga]: What? You always said you like this dance! And Samba.
[Marek]: Not so much...
[Kinga]: I love it. How to describe it...
[Marek]: She studied psychology so it should be simple for her! Or maybe that's why it is a problem. Pick something!
[Kinga]: Let me think! Let's start from the beginning with Samba. I like what Alan Tornsberg said during the dance camp in Assen last year. He described all five Latin dances. Samba is, and it is not my own metaphor but his, like you go to the club which is full of nice people and you just say: hi!. Cha cha is when you already made connection with someone so it is more fun. Rumba is like you getting closer to this person, holding hands and you are leaving the club. Paso Doble is making love, and Jive is how you feel afterwards (laughing). I think it was nice the way he described the character of each of these dances.
[Marek]: I agree!
[Kinga]: I don't. For me both Jive and Rumba can be black. Jive can be white another time. Depends on the music and where you are, what are the surroundings and what mood you are in. That's why I don't associate colours with dances. The Rumba can be blue and can be red, even green. I can imagine you give me the colour and I can interpret Rumba to that colour.
[Kinga]: It would be warm, it would be freedom. It will not be hot but peaceful. I would be relaxed and easy. If you say red – it would be totally different.
[Kinga]: I never thought like this before. It is a nice idea actually! I could have keywords like this for each round. I could for instance choose white for Rumba in one round and red in another. Good idea, thank you.
[Marek]: Hmm... no comment from me.
[Marek]: No, I think both man and a lady are equally important in dance.
[Kinga]: Both are 100% important
[Kinga]: Very important.
[Marek]: By definition, without connection there is no couple.
[Kinga]: Connection as conversation, dialog, as two people together
[Marek]: Connection in a sense that both are sensitive to each other and are prepared to listen, have their senses open.
[Kinga]: I know what you mean. One of my good friends, she is a great actress, not a dancer, she watched a really good couple dancing Rumba and she said: oh, it is nice, but these people dance like they don't sense each other. The idea is that they don't have to look at each other but they have to be aware of each other, feel each other. And you, as a spectator, can see this connection. While we are talking now I am not looking at Marek but I still sense him. That's the connection.
[Kinga]: I am happy to hear it.
[Marek]: We have not decided yet. We will be in Blackpool for sure though.
[Kinga]: We are still at the UK Open and we are dancing the Professional Open tomorrow. This is in our head. We will think of Blackpool after that.
[Kinga]: Come on, we are realists.
[Marek]: OK, I saw myself in the final. The winning is a goal, surely. But I cannot say I will be on this or this position tomorrow. As I said earlier, this is not the most important thing.
[Kinga]: The most important thing is to be able to create a performance we are happy with. Focus and concentration on dancing helps with that and it helped us yesterday. You need to concentrate on dancing and not to think of what position you want to end up on. If I think of that I am not able to dance. That's why, long ago, we stopped to think about which place we want to get.
[Marek]: We stopped when we realised it didn't help us. I hated it.
[Kinga]: We didn't enjoy competitions at all. It was long time ago. And the moment we think only about what we want to show on the floor.
[Marek]: For now, that what works for us.
[Kinga]: I prefer competitions
[Marek]: We don't do so many shows. I also prefer competitions.
[Kinga]: Maybe in the future it will change.
[Marek]: But I feel there is still freedom in these restrictions. You know, you can have your own show during competitions, you can have your own party.
[Kinga]: You never know what music you are going to get. There is always an element of surprise and freedom.
[Marek]: At least we are searching for this freedom.
[Kinga]: You do a lot of preparation for the show, you know the song, and you play the same music all the time. So you say there is freedom but from week to week you do the same thing. Depends how you look at this. But I can see what you mean. We did shows only few times so perhaps I cannot compare. When we danced shows I was more stressed out than during the competition. But I can imagine if I had more practice with that I would learn how to deal with it and I would enjoy them.
[Marek]: I don't remember if we ever danced in the first heat. For some reason we are always at the end.
[Kinga]: It doesn't matter. It never mattered to me. It is not something I ever thought about.
[Marek]: I can go first, last, doesn't make any difference.
[Marek]: Once I had number 88 and somebody said it is Chinese lucky number. And I said, OK, nice but so what. I don't believe in these things.
[Marek]: I would make people to be nice to each other. I would like less "ego" but more open mindedness and friendliness. I would also leave more freedom to the dancers in a sense that it wouldn't matter what federation or organisation they belong to.
[Kinga]: I like the freedom to choose what competition we dance, that's why we decided to go with WDC. I don't mind whether couple choose to be with WDSF or WDC, it is the decision and they are free to make it. I have friends who chose to go with WDSF and it doesn't matter for me as long as they made this decision with their own mind and heart. I would hate if somebody forbade me to go to the UK Open or Assen. I work hard, earn money and pay for my dancing, I pay for my dancing, I am free person and somebody forbids me to go? How can somebody stop me competing where I want? I'd hate that. I am with WDC now because this federation allows me to compete where I want. I like that.
[Kinga]: They do sometimes, in Poland, and then they and Marek's parents have a party together (laughing). They don't speak English. Once they came to Paris to see us dance World Championships and it was nice but in the same time, we had to be with them all the time and take care of them. I wouldn't want my Mum to feel alone and not able to communicate and I know I would be thinking all the time if she managed to get herself a coffee or something like that. Of course, they travelled with us when we were kids.
[Marek]: We are independent and we don't need them to support us. In a sense we are more stressed when they are with us.
[Kinga]: Sometimes they are stressed out for us and that affects us. When I don't see my Mum's stressed out face I dance better (laughing).
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Individual eyewear is a little outside the scope of the library's services, but there are a couple of tools here that may make materials easier for you to read. The Reference Desk does have a magnifying glass that you can use and return. There is also a machine called an Optilec that magnifies any printed material. You can place a newspaper, book, map or magazine under the lens and it can be displayed magnified, on a screen. Text on computer screens can be made larger, as well. Ask at the Reference Desk if any of these tools might be helpful for you!
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11-Year-Old Girl Set On Fire For Wearing Lipstick In India!
IBNLive reports "Eleven-year-old Nazmeen can barely speak. She suffered 99 per cent burn injuries after her neighbour set her on fire - all because she dared to wear lipstick. Nazmeen was attacked by the man she called nana (grandfather). On Friday, Saleem told the little girl not to wear lipstick. When she defied him, in a fit of rage he allegedly molested her before pouring kerosene on her and setting her on fire. "He was beating me and when I said that I would complain to my father, he started abusing him. Please punish him," says Nazmeen. Police have arrested 55-year-old Saleem, who runs a shop in the Ghatgate area."
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What's happeningThe Chrome team is in the process of retro-fitting the ability of running tests outside a checkout to scale out testing so the tests results are returned faster.
Design documents
The whole LUCI/Swarming/Isolate project lives in its own project at github.com/luci. The design docs on the wiki are a recommended reading since it gives background about the rationale why is it done in the first place.
User guide
I want to convert my test or use the infrastructure <- most likely this one.
Admin info (e.g. I'm curious and want to learn more)
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100 Public Sector Fleets Subscribe to DEF Tracker Pricing Index
Dec 12, 2012, 10:56 ET
LONDON, December 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Integer Research has confirmed that over 100 public sector fleets have registered for their Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) price tracking index, DEF Tracker, following a nationwide campaign.
Public sector subscribers include government, state and municipal fleets. DEF Tracker has welcomed subscribers from a number of U.S. states, including New York, Florida, Texas and California, and Québec and Ontario, in Canada.
This is welcomed news for the DEF industry, as distributors push for a move away from long-term guaranteed contract prices and the use of urea price indexes, towards a more market related structure which takes into account fluctuating freight and supply costs.
"DEF Tracker provides independent and accurate monthly price references for DEF in the fleets' specific geographies, reflecting real market transactions and the real costs involved in the supply chain", said Monica Baker, Emissions Research Manager at Integer Research: "It is fantastic to see interest from public fleets so early on in this campaign. We believe that this service will play an important role in encouraging price transparency within the market".
Doug Haugh, President, Mansfield Oil Company, a national DEF supplier, said: "It is important, as volumes increase, that we do not rely on a NOLA [New Orleans, LA] urea index that does not represent the costs involved in the DEF business and therefore leaves both buyers and sellers exposed to unnecessary risk".
Purchasing professionals can use the service as a reference to better understand how the market is evolving in their area.
A complimentary sample of the service can be requested by emailing [email protected], and quoting 'Sample Tracker NW' in the subject line.
About DEF Tracker
DEF Tracker publishes monthly market pricing for full truck loads and less than truck load bulk deliveries, tote refills and 2.5G jugs for a wide range of pricing hubs, as well as DEF pump prices in every U.S. state and Canadian province offering the facility, backed by solid analysis from industry experts.
A complimentary sample of the service can be requested by emailing [email protected], and quoting 'Sample Tracker NW' in the subject line.
About Integer Research
Integer Research is a specialist provider of research, analysis, consultancy and conference services for global emissions control markets.
It stands as the largest DEF research group in North America, and has been tracking this market since its start in 2010.
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text: Zera (1761 – 1831), Thomas (1775 – 1839) and Moses (1778 – 1834) Tousey settled in Boone County around 1803. They and were born in Woodbury, Connecticut but then migrated to Durham, Greene Co., NY before settling in Boone county around 1803. They settled on the Ohio River and built Touseytown north of Petersburg where they operated a ferry to Lawrenceburg IN. The family is well known to have occupied stately homes on both sides of the river. Omer Tousey, the son of Moses, bought the Vance house which was built in 1818 in Lawrenceburg, IN and settled there. Erastus Tousey, son of Zera, built his federalist style home in Burlington in 1822 that still stands today.


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Keep detailed voice documentation of important material with a voice recorder that best suits your needs. Whether you use them to leave yourself reminders or to keep track of important conversations, voice recordings allow you to capture everything. They are also perfect for interviews.
When you are on the run or busy with dozens of other chores, leaving yourself detailed voice memos is the easiest way to keep track of urgent tasks that need to get done. To remember suggestions made at meetings, the doling out of group responsibility, or any other important detail, voice recordings allow you to keep a record that can be transcribed and distributed in hard copies to your team members. Leaving yourself voice memos is also a convenient way of recording ideas that pop into your head about future projects.
Digital recordings give you the versatility you need when completing larger projects with people you need to communicate with regularly. Share the voice memos you record with team members by converting your digital voice files so they can be played on other devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Transcription kits for digital voice recordings allow you to facilitate the sharing of data. The software included enables the automatic downloading of files from recorders, and they come with a head set and foot control for convenient transcription.
Sophisticated mini-cassette recorders are ideal for interviews conducted by scholarly researchers or journalists. They offer many of the conveniences of digital recordings, such as quick erase and review, while adding a sense of assurance to your interviewee that the material contained in the discussion will remain as confidential as it needs to be. This leads to more candid and useful conversations.


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If you catch a northbound 43 at 23rd & John, you pay as you leave; however, if you catch a northbound 48 at 23rd & John, you pay as you enter. Similarly, if you catch an eastbound 545 at the Montlake Freeway Station, you pay as you leave, but if you catch the (much slower) 242 from the same location, and headed in the same direction, you'll have to pay as you enter.
If you catch a southbound 48 at Montlake (the street-level stop) at 6:39 PM, it will take you all the way to Rainier Beach. If you catch a southbound 48 at Montlake at 6:53 PM, it will take you only as far as Columbia City.
The eastbound 3 from downtown goes all the way to 34th and Union…except when it terminates at 21st and Cherry.
Metro's Trip Planner includes Sound Transit routes in its itineraries. Metro's Tracker can tell you where any Sound Transit route is at any given moment. But, if you search for a Sound Transit schedule on Metro's site, you will get a message telling you it doesn't have that information; check Sound Transit's website.
Of course, those of us who take pride in our transit geekdom know which routes originate downtown (and are therefore "pay as you leave"), or, at least, to check the sign by the fare box when we get on (better have the fare ready, just in case). We also know where to go to find the route and schedule information we need, and that the destination on the front of the bus is far more important than the number, even though we can't explain why there aren't different numbers for routes that go to different places.
But can we really expect newcomers and bus virgins to try this hard?
Bus Nerd recently took a short trip to Chicago and got around just fine (by using the system maps and information at stops and stations), without ever making a call, checking a website, or asking a driver. As I've mentioned before, much as I love taking the bus around here, we could use a little help in the "discoverability" department.


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These things always start kind of innocently. Today it started during the afternoon dog walk, when dog and I strolled past a home and heard the unmistakable blatting of a tuba.
I came home and immediately made some inane wise-ass remark on Twitter:
"Walked the dog past a house where someone was practicing the tuba. I didn't know people took vows of chastity like that nowadays."
But the Twitter hive-mind was having none of my japery. "Tubas are so hot right now!" said @janedonuts. As incontrovertible proof, she steered me to America's foremost authority on cultural/tuba trends, The New York Times, which is reporting that 'Tuba Raids' Plague Schools in California.
At this very moment I can almost hear you starting to utter "What the …" so here's the gist:
In the last few months, dozens of brass sousaphones — tubas often used in marching bands — were taken from schools in Southern California. Though the police have not made any arrests, music teachers say the thefts are motivated by the growing popularity of banda, a traditional Mexican music form in which tubas play a dominant role.
The story quotes a music teacher who says that banda used to be uncool, but now it's cool to have a live band with a tuba, or to be a tuba player. Not only that,
As a result, sousaphones have made work in bandas more lucrative. A banda can make at least $3,000 for a night's work at a wedding or quinceañera, said J. D. Salas, who teaches tuba at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas. And the tuba player, who is often the leader of the group, usually gets the largest share.
Big money! For tuba playing! (Who says it's impossible to make a living as a musician?) Since I'm already playing three instruments that are not the tuba, I sadly admit I don't have time or oompa-power to hoist a fourth. A shame, really, since I could have been the next version, of … well, this guy.
And two women on Twitter leapt to the sousaphone's defense. One said, "Do not diss the tuba! Tubas are awesome!" And when I teasingly asked Jane Donuts if she's dating a tuba player, her response was, "Not yet."
Hmm, eh? Hmm.
But wait — in a third shockingly unforeseen event, it turns out there are tuba player pickup lines:
- How deep do you want me to go?
- In my section of the orchestra pit, we all have big brass
- It's not every day you meet a guy with a huge instrument and
great tonguing.
- Wanna play Baby Elephant Walk?
- You're so fine, I'd drink outta your spit valve.
- Stand back, I'm not sure how big this thing gets!
- Your lips say "oom," but your eyes say "pah."
[It's a good thing I don't have to try and use any of those. I just can't see the elephant one ending well. ]
Still, I'm not persuaded that tubists are now the hawtest musicians on stage. When the nation's other revered arbiter of culture, The Onion, updates their story "Area Bass Player Fellated" to something involving a sex act and a tuba, maybe I'll change my tune.


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The best kind of rice krispie squares are the soft, marshmallowy ones. I can't stand those big dry ones that you can get in vending machines that barely have any marshmallows at all.
Plus, these squares have the addition of brown butter which gives them a nutty, almost caramel flavor. Fancy!
I actually was planning on making some gooey caramel popcorn that I had read about recently on a blog. The only problem was I could not remember where I saw the recipe. I checked my google reader, my browser history, a few blog rolls.
Nothing. No popcorn recipe.
At this point I had irrationally decided that no other recipe would be as good as the one that I couldn't find. If I couldn't make that one then I wasn't going to make anything.
About half an hour later I randomly found it again. SUCCESS!
......except that it called for condensed milk which I didn't have on hand. Failure.
While I sat on the couch wondering if I could somehow transform my skim milk into a condensed milk substitute, my boyfriend suggested that I make rice krispie squares instead. I told him that we didn't have enough marshmallows because I need marshmallows to make fondant.
This turned out not be true. I'm not sure how I aquired so many bags of marshmallows, but they fill up the majority of our pantry. They would make enough fondant to cover 20 wedding cakes.
Plus we had an unopened box of rice krispies and a stick of unsalted butter in the fridge. These squares were destined to be made.
The steps are easy: brown the butter in a pot
Add the marshmallows, stir to melt
pour in the cereal with a bit of salt and then spread into a buttered pan.
Mmm the perfect marshmallow to rice krispie ratio.
So good that I forgot that I had wanted to make caramel popcorn in the first place.
Brown Butter Rice Krispie Squares
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1 stick unsalted butter (1/2 cup)
10 oz bag of marshmallows (I didn't have a 10 ounce bag so i just threw some on my kitchen scale)
6 cups rice krispie cereal
1/4 tsp salt
1. melt butter in a thick bottomed pot. Over medium heat keep heating the butter. It will foam and then after a while start to develop brown specks in it. Keep stirring it until it turns golden and has a nutty smell. Do not leave the stove while it is browning! It goes from brown to burnt fairly quickly
2. Take off the heat and stir in marshmallows until melted
3. Stir in cereal and salt
4. pour mixture into a greased pan and press flat with a greased piece of parchment paper or a greased spoon. Let cool and then cut into squares


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In the literature of Classical Antiquity an effort has been made to include the collected works of of the most significant authors. Individual editions of all Classical authors have also been included, where faculty have designated such editions to be vital for research. For the Middle Ages editions of the works of individual authors have, for the most part, not been included for reasons of space.
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The area of the Prefecture of Rethymnon was already inhabited since Neolithic times whereas there were many settlement during the Minoan Age. During the Byzantine Age, Rethymnon followed the fortune of the rest of Crete and did not exhibit any special growth, however during the period of Venetian rule the area flourished and became the spiritual and cultural center of the island. During the Cretan revolution of 1866 the epic of Arcadia was written when its warriors, commoners and monks, blew themselves up so as not to surrender to the Turks. Much later during German occupation the inhabitants of the prefecture showed strong resistance resulting in the destruction of German troops in many villages in the wider area.
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Art In Speed Park
Speed Park was filled with more than 100 of the nation's finest artisans, along with delectable food and the region's top musical artists Aug. 25 and 26 during the 22nd annual Art in Speed Park event.
Art and music fans browsed the artists' booths, enjoyed music played from the park's pavilion and even tasted wine beneath the trees in the wine garden.
Photos By TONY BENNETT | Contributing Photographer
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Ironman Louisville
Nearly 3,000 men and women, representing 49 states and 25 countries, raced through above-90-degree temperatures in the sixth Ironman Louisville, which featured a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile run.
Patrick Evoe of Texas won the overall competition with a time of 8 hours, 42 minutes, while Bree Wee of Hawaii crossed the finish line in 9 hours, 36 minutes to place first amongst the women. It was both Evoe and Wee's first Ironman titles. Mike Hermanson of Louisville finished eighth overall.
Photos by JAMES EATON | Contributing Photographer
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Wildcat Kickoff Luncheon Presented By Central Bank
The Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club and Central Bank presented the Wildcat Kickoff Luncheon, Aug. 22 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. UK alumni and friends welcomed the leader of the Wildcat Football Program, Joker Phillips, at the event, which was sponsored by Welch Printing.
In addition to hearing Coach Phillips speak, those attending enjoyed a delicious meal and door prizes. James Clay Smith, President of Central Bank of Louisville, was presented with the All-American Award by the Greater Louisville UK Alumni Club.
Photos by CHRIS HUMPHREYS | The Voice-Tribune
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The Underpants Run
Triathletes and fellow running enthusiasts paraded downtown in their underwear, and other unique costumes, on Aug. 25 near Waterfront Park.
The fourth annual event featured a "grueling†1.5 mile run and benefited the KIDS Center for Pediatric Therapies.
Photos by TIM GIRTON | Contributing Photographer
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Brew At The Zoo
The Louisville Zoo hosted its ninth annual Brew At The Zoo & Wine Too, featuring unique brews from dozens of local and regional breweries, along with a selection of locally-produced wines and scrumptious specialties from area restaurants.
Held Aug. 25 at the Louisville Zoo Oasis band shell, tent and field, the event also included a '70s and '80s-inspired performance by 100% Poly, cornhole and pub games, among other activities.
Photos by TIM GIRTON | Contributing Photographer
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Rotary Club Of Louisville's 100th Anniversary Party
After two years of planning, the Rotary Club of Louisville held its 100th Anniversary Party at the Ice House, located between Witherspoon and Main Street in downtown Louisville.
With The Voice-Tribune's Photographer John Harralson
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Wild, Wild West Bash
Hundreds of people headed to the home of local businessman Jay Mackin Aug. 25 for the Wild, Wild West Bash.
The fundraising party was held to benefit Indian Summer Camp for kids with cancer. Those attending dressed in western attire to get in the spirit of the night, which featured ice sculptures and even a hot air balloon!
Photos By JAMES EATON | Contributing Photographer
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Lincoln Foundation's Evening Of Jazz
The Lincoln Foundation's Evening of Jazz took place Aug. 24 at Churchill Downs.
Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer received Lincoln Foundation's most prestigious honor, the Spirit of Excellence Award. Contemporary jazz recording artist Marcus Johnson, a Billboard-ranked keyboardist, headlined the evening. The Voice-Tribune's Angie Fenton emceed.
Proceeds from the 17th annual event benefited the Whitney M. YOUNG Scholars Program, Lincoln Foundation's signature educational program.
Photos by TIM VALENTINO | Contributing Photographer
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Big Ol' Backyard BBQ
Louisvillians had the chance to chow down with four-star chefs Aug. 25 as they stepped out of their kitchens and fired up the grills at Home of the Innocents' seventh annual Big Ol' Backyard BBQ.
Chef Laurent Geroli hosted the popular event, which included a buffet of savory barbeque, gourmet side dishes and desserts galore. In addition to the food, guests enjoyed live music by The Remedy, hayrides, inflatables, cornhole games, face painting and more. The special fundraising event, sponsored by The Brown Hotel, Brown-Forman and JBS, was held to benefit the children at the Home of the Innocents.
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UPDATE: Includes response from Philadelphia District attorney Seth Williams.
A legislative aide to freshman state Rep.J.P. Miranda of Philadelphia was fixing cars when he should have been helping constituents in Miranda's district office.
That's what Fox 29 found when it tailed Timothy Duckett for a week.
Duckett, a former driver for Miranda during his campaign last year, was taking home $36,000 - including a recent $10k raise - for his alleged fulltime work for the state.
Tasha Jamerson, spokeswoman for Philadelphia district attorney Seth Williams, said he had reviewed the tape, but that the office would have no comment unless charges were filed.
See the classic gotcha piece below (length alert, but worth it) complete with Miranda burning rubber to avoid the TV camera.
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For those not familiar with Miranda, he won the 197th district seat in the Germantown section that was vacated by Rep. Jewell Williams who ran for and won the job as Philadelphia County sheriff.
Prior to joining the legislature Mirana worked for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, most recently directing the "Philly Counts" program that was part of the 2010 U.S. Census. He also served as community liaison for City Council President Darrell Clarke and as spokesman and community liaison for state Sen. Shirley Kitchen of PHiladelphia.
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