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For hours, Matt Sooter had been watching his two young children talk and play.
A dad from Arkansas shared a photo of his son, Jackson, doing something "a little boy should not have to." Jackson was comforting his 4-year-old sister, Addy, on her deathbed.
But the father does remember the heart-wrenching moment that followed — when Addy's 6-year-old brother, Jackson, told his younger sister good night for the last time.
Adalynn "Addy" Joy Sooter was diagnosed with a type of tumor in her brain stem known as Diffuse-Intrinsic-Pontene-Glioma (DIPG) in November 2016. About a year and a half after her diagnosis, the little girl's life was coming to an end.
Addy's father, Matt Sooter, frequently posted updates on his daughter's health in a Facebook group, "Hope for Addy Joy – Fighting DIPG." The photo of his son comforting Addy was one post in particular that gained widespread attention.
"A little boy should not have to say goodbye to his partner in crime, his play mate, his best friend, his little sister," Sooter wrote in the post.
"This isn't how it's supposed to be. But this is the broken world we live in." Jackson stands right at Addy's bedside with one hand on her forehead as she holds his other hand near her chest. Addy appears to be sleeping, something her family says she had been doing a lot of at that point.
The June 2 post explained that Addy's symptoms progressed rapidly, but the day before she had woken up "as her spunky playful self." Addy, however, could no longer eat or swallow without difficulty. Sooter wrote that "most likely she doesn't have much time left."
"Pray for Jackson," Sooter ended the caption of the photo. "He doesn't want to leave her side and we won't make him. Pray for us. That we have the right words and can make the necessary arrangements in time."
The photo of the siblings was shared hundreds of times and attracted media attention. In a previous post, Sooter explained that the family had been spending the past few weeks "trying to live it up and have fun."
"We went to the beach thanks to some dear friends! We've spent time playing with family and friends and just enjoying our time together," Sooter wrote June 1. "Over this past week Addy has lost her mobility and has developed quite a bit of pain in her back from the tumor in her spine," and she was admitted to Circle of Life Hospice care in Springdale, Arkansas.
Sooter explained that his daughter's symptoms were progressing quickly and urged family members and close friends to say their goodbyes.
He then asked for prayers for their family — specifically for Jackson.
"He doesn't want to leave her side and we won't make him," he wrote.
Jackson knew that his sister had a tumor and that, if it kept growing, she would die. His father said that it made Jackson sad that his "sissy" would no longer be there but that he was glad "she was going to be with Jesus."
Sooter said Tuesday in an interview with The Washington Post that about 20 minutes after Jackson tucked his sister in, her breathing changed — it became slower, more labored and more erratic. She opened her eyes a couple of times, but she was not coherent, Sooter said.
For the next several hours, Sooter and his wife, Chandra, sat on either side of their daughter's bed. Then, just after 1 a.m. on June 3, Addy died.
They woke up Jackson about 4 a.m., deciding there was no reason to continue to stay at the hospice facility. It was time to go home, grieve and rest.
"We told Jackson that she had passed — that she was with Jesus and she wasn't hurting anymore," Sooter said. "He said 'Goodbye, Sissy,' and they went out to the car."
Sooter posted a photo later that morning, showing Addy wearing a bright white sun hat.
"Our sweet little girl received the miraculous healing that we've all been praying for so long and ran into the arms of Jesus," he wrote. "She passed from this life to the next just as she had lived: stubbornly but also peacefully, and surrounded by family. She wasn't in any pain at the end.
"For those who were wishing to say goodbye I'm so sorry," he added. "This all happened so much faster than we expected, but that in itself is a blessing because she suffered so little at the end."
"She was still walking but only if she could hold your hand," he said. "Otherwise, she would crawl."
In November of that year, Addy was diagnosed with DIPG — a rare and incurable tumor that starts in the brain stem, which controls "breathing, heart rate and the nerves and muscles that help us see, hear, walk, talk and eat," according to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. The hospital states that about 10 to 20 percent of pediatric brain tumors are DIPG.
For the next 19 months, Addy underwent 33 radiation treatments in Arkansas, then 10 experiential chemotherapy and immunotherapy treatments in Mexico to try to buy her more time, Sooter said.
But they also tried to enjoy the moments they had left with Addy — a Make-A-Wish vacation to Walt Disney World to meet her favorite "Frozen" queen and her first trip to the beach. Then, her father said, there were the little things that were on the 4-year-old's "bucket list": playing hide-and-seek and watching YouTube videos of people opening plastic Easter eggs and showing what was inside.
Eventually, the cancer spread to her spine. Her last week, the tumor in her back started pressing on the nerves in her spine, causing her pain, so her parents placed her in hospice care, Sooter said.
Following Addy's death, her father said he and Chandra donated their daughter's tumors to scientific research "in hopes of saving future children from a similar fate," he wrote on Facebook. At Addy's service Saturday in Rogers, her parents asked family members and friends to wear bright colors "or one of Addy's favorite colors, pink, purple, or blue," to celebrate her life.
He also said that his daughter continued to help others. "This morning she donated her tumors, both brain and spine, to scientific research in hopes of saving future children from a similar fate," Sooter wrote. "Our sweet girl loved helping people and giving gifts so we thought this would be an excellent way of showing her giving heart."
Rest in peace little ANGEL!


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text: This was one of those "Stop the car!" pix. It's probably not that old, but the fact that it's unfinished and somewhat perplexing as to what the name was going to be interested me. I think it was going to be "Dandridge" and the painter realized he didn't have room to put all those letters in. Maybe he just gave up.


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The theme for Vegas Odds this year is "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." Why? Aside from the fact that I've already done Hollywood Squares, it's a time when most of us were actually in High School (I was between sophomore and junior year when it came out).
In fact it is not a stretch, to say that Fast Times at Ridgemont High was one of the most influential movies of the 1980's. Think about it. How many of the catch phrases from the movie have you mumbled? How many scenes do you remember, even if you haven't seen the movie since the summer of '82. Who could forget Brad (JUDGE Reinhold, more on that in a moment) in that ridiculous pirate suit doing his, uh, personal business on the toilet? What about Reinhold practicing breaking up with his (hot) girlfriend, only to be dumped when he really needed her most? What about Jefferson (Forest "Fat Then, Fat Now" Whitaker) going apeshit on Lincoln H.S. after (presuming) that Lincoln H.S. had stolen and defaced his ride? How about the late Ray Walston clearly having a blast as the ornery, old-school Mr. Hand? Watch the movie – this is a man who, despite his sternness, is clearly enjoying himself. Or Mike Damone (the unsung hero of the piece) basically being TONY with concert tickets and a bad haircut? (Of course, Damone resembled TONY in more ways than one – remember the "money" scene with Stacy in the pool house?) And of course, any one of 100 vignettes with Jeff Spicoli. Pick one.
It says here that Jeff Spicoli was the most influential movie character of the 1980's – and one of the most influential and memorable characters ever. Hands down. It's remarkable to to think that the character of Jeff Spicoli only appeared in one movie (the ill-advised TV series, as far as I'm concerned, never happened.) Spicoli was to Fast Times at Ridgemont High what The Fonz originally was to Happy Days – a relatively minor character that somehow captured everyone's imagination. I know in my high school, in the fall of 1982 every other guy had those checkered sneakers, or bleached blond hair. One dude even toted his skateboard around from class to class. (No one ever ordered pizza during history class, unfortunately.) Not to mention the short and long term effect that that character had on pop culture. Whenever a movie had a "surfer dude" type, he almost always seemed to be at least loosely based on Spicoli.
More significantly, was the fact that the two "Bill and Ted" movies were little more than de facto sequels to (or spinoffs of) "Fast Times," where both lead characters blatantly and shamelessly aped Spicoli throughout the movie; the sad thing was that, inexplicably, it worked. (At least in the first one.) "Beavis and Butthead" also claimed Spicoli as, if not the primary inflence, at least part of the mix. As if that isn't enough, when you think bleached-blond, California stoner/surfer dude, who do you think of? Even if you didn't see the movie. That's what I thought.
It is truly a testament to Sean Penn's career path, that as recognizable as that character is, and as closely identified as he is with the character, that he has not been typecast as Spicoli, in the same way that, even today, we still think of Henry Winkler as The Fonz, or Keanu Reeves as Ted S. "Theodore" Preston, Esquire. Rather, he seems to be bent on making himself the Robert DeNiro/Marlon Brando of this generation – the brooding tough-guy, the anti-establishment guy who hates bullshit and all phoniness and, as a symbol of such disdain, always blows off awards shows like the Oscars as a matter of principle. Perhaps because of this attitude, he landed Robin Wright - an E-ticket among E-tickets - as his spouse. (Which raises another point: his ill-fated marriage to Madonna – something that dominated the tabloids in the mid-80s – has been all but forgotten. His briefly being jailed for assaulting a photographer - has also been all but forgotten as well. All quite unusual, when you think about it.)
Anyway, I digress. Presenting the 2002 Vegas Odds, bottom to top:
Anthonyapolis Colts
Odds to Win: About the same as TONY hooking up with Heidi Klum.
Odds to finish in the money: 10,000-1
While TONY and Phil's fantasy team desperately tries to avoid last place for the third year in a row – surpassing P-Gar's legendary run (even if they do have Bob SR to thank for them getting to play Brad Johnson in Week 9) - TONY is in the can, blissfully thinking of the runaway success of his fantasy basketball team…..
(cue The Cars, "Moving in Stereo" in the background) "Tracy McGrady….For 3….GOOD!!! That's 43 points on the night, a career high…." "Grant Hill, is 17-for-17 from the line tonight!!!"….."…and Jamal Mashburn with another Board, that gives him a double-double!!!' (Oooooooooooh…….) "….."Eddie Griffin with another block – That's a double-double for the second-year pro!!" "You cannot stop Stromile Swift, you can only hope to contain him!!"
And then, here comes the Old Timer, with the Kristy Swason "Playboy" tucked under his arm, and…well, you know the rest.
Sorry Phil. Nothing personal; but you KNEW that with TONY, that this HAD to be the quote selected.
Mike's Magic
Odds to Win: 800-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 75-1
The scene where Brad Hamilton was fired from All-American Burger while standing in for Arnold (his prize recruit who had to use the bathroom, and then ducked back in there for cover when he saw Brad getting berated) after losing his cool at a surly customer who demanded his money back, goes to Mike losing Jay Fiedler on that last, desperate drive against the Broncos on an ESPN Sunday night telecast.
This is a game that Denver SHOULD have put away long before this, and their final drive, capped by Jason Elam's 8-point field goal, by rights should have ended the game. Drive home safely. Yet, the Dolphins, and Jay Fiedler, go on this desperation comeback that would have been difficult to pull off on Playstation. This dramatic, frantic drive set up Olindo Mare for a game-ending 8-pointer of HIS own as time expired. Of course, that drive resulted in Fiedler breaking his finger, leading to him being out for several weeks, leading to Mike trading Fiedler (and, eventually, Ray Lucas) to Derek.
Kudos to Mike, though, for obtaining Amos Zereoue in a trade with Derek. I have to admit I was rather surprised by the trade when I first heard about it, and wondered if Mike got enough for what he gave up. However, with Bettis banged up and clearly nearing the end of the line, and Zereoue playing very well, it's looking more and more like Zereoue is going to wind up being the full-time RB in Pittsburgh permanently. You can't do much better for a buck. Plus, Drew Brees is going to get a lot better. Better days ahead.
Long Hill Peteriots
Odds to Win: 750-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 50-1
Quote: "You're absolutely right, Mr. Spicoli. This IS our time. Yours, mine and everyone else's in this room. But, it IS my Class. Hamilton, Brandt, Kornfeld, (clap, clap) up front. Mr. Spicoli has been kind enough to bring us a Snack!!…..Ahhh, be my guest. Help yourself. Get a good one!!!"
One of the most memorable scenes of the movie for me was Spicoli's "brillant" move to have a pizza delivered to his history class. Mr. Hand, of course didn't take very well to this, and asked Spicoli to explain himself. Fortunately, Spicoli had an explanation at the ready – "I just thought it would be good to have a Feast on OUR time." Not bad. Unfortunately, Hand, wily fox that he was, used Spicoli's own rationale as basis to take the pizza from Spicoli and turn it over to the entire class – and himself. Needless to say, Hand enjoyed this victory (and the pizza) immensely while Spicoli sat there, in shock and disbelief, unable to do a thing about it except look on like a sad puppy dog watching everyone else have fun - at his expense, no less.
In the same vein, no one – and I mean, NO ONE – has done more wheeling and dealing over the last twelve months than the inestimable Black Pete. He picks the guys out of obscurity, out of the pool, takes the risks. Then, just as they are about to fully realize their potential, he moves them on to everyone else, sometimes in what charitably might be called dubious moves – allowing others to enjoy the fruits of his efforts (and 20-point afternoons,) while Pete sinks ever closer to his customary place at the bottom of the standings.
Instead of Ladainian Tomlinson, Pete has William Green and Jonathan Wells. Note that Wells for most other people is a injury reserve and bye week guy, at best; for Pete, he's a no brainer start. Instead of Peerless Price and Eric Moulds, he has Keenan McCardell and Joey Galloway. Yeah, THAT was a good swap……in 1998. And in-season trades are no exception. He trades for Eddie George, who does nothing, then turns him AND Plaxico Burress around for Corey Dillon. You will note how George's stats picked up as soon as he got out of Dodge. If nothing else they've almost mirrored Dillon's. And he forks over 757 Plaxico, for the privilege.
Still the year has not been a total disaster for our commissioner. Pete did score Tommy Maddox out of the pool, who's clearly his best QB right now (with thanks to Greg for going 60 on Martin to make it happen; more on that in a minute) And, if you want to look at Pete's trades another way, in the preseason there's not a guy on the planet that doesn't gladly trade Tomlinson, Price and Curtis Conway for Kurt Warner. Even if he has to wait until next year to enjoy Warner, when Warner's in Dallas, or Arizona, or Seattle, or some other aerial circus waiting to happen.
Tom's Turkeys
Odds to Win: 200-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 20-1
Quote: "Excuse me, are you in my class?"
"I am today!"
The exchange between Mr. Vargas, the wacky and eccentric Science teacher, and Jeff Spicoli, who invited himself on a field trip to the hospital with Vargas's class, goes to Tom's mid-season pickup of Marc Bulger, who single-handedly is keeping Tom afloat and suddenly giving him a fighting chance at finishing in the first division.
Tom and the Rams have a lot in common this year. The Rams got no production out of their quarterback and lost their first five games when Kurt Warner went down. Likewise, Tom got little production out of his quarterbacks, then Mike McMahon and Kordell both lost their jobs. The Rams in Week 6 were forced to go with Marc Bulger, simply because there was no one else out there. After missing out on Tommy Maddox and Jamie Martin, Tom was also forced to go with Marc Bulger, and spend heavily for the privilege, simply because there was no one else there. And both the Rams, and Tom, have enjoyed a noticeable, palpable boost, thanks to the efforts of Marc Bulger. For the Rams, the margin of error to get the NFC's third wild-card is still wafer-thin, as it is for Tom to finish in the Top Five. But the fact is that there is a chance, and it isn't that much of a reach, which is a lot more than you could have said a month ago.
At 49 bucks, it's highly unlikely that Bulger would be kept. But it's not completely out of the question, and who the hell ever thought we'd be saying that.
Benham Brawlers
Odds to Win: 75-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 8-1
Quote: "Look, I always stick up for you…..When people say, Oh, that Damone, he's a Loudmouth – and they say that a lot – I always say, "Hey, you just don't know Damone." When they say "That Damone, he's an Idiot," I just tell them, "Hey, you just don't know Damone." Well, maybe I'm the one that doesn't know you."
Rat's dramatic, wussy-coming-of-age rant against his best friend whom he had defended to any and all comers, only to have said best friend stab him in the back and get his girlfriend pregnant, goes to Cousin Brucie and Walt's undying loyalty to, respectively, the Vikings and Redskins. In other words, the two teams that are the hardest teams in the NFL to defend year in and year out this side of the Bengals and Cardinals.
To their everlasting credit, Bruce and Walt are loyal to a fault to their teams. They bleed purple and gold, and burgundy and gold. They have for as long as I've known them (although there IS a picture of Cousin Brucie, as a young lad, in Giants gear, somewhere.) They'll defend Randy Moss's shenanigans, Cris Carter and/or Daunte Culpepper going off on the sidelines ("Hey, the guy wants to win!!") They'll defend the Redskins turning into Gainesville North, all but ignoring Stephen Davis, and Daniel Snyder making George Steinbrenner look hands off.
And what do they get for this? Getting pole-waxed by – shudder – the JETS? The very real chance that Danny Wuerffel and Todd Bouman might be leading both of these teams permanently? Either team looking up at the Jets or the Browns with something resembling envious admiration?
Then again, if the Patriots can rebound from their pathetic history to where they are now (arguably, one of the NFL's model franchises), there's no reason that the Vikes or 'Skins can't get back there too. You would think.
Odds to Win: 70-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 4-1
Quote: "C……D……F……F……F…..Three weeks we've been talking about the Platt amendment. What are you people, on dope?"
Mr. Hand berating his class of slackers on their poor performance on an exam about an obscure (and now obsolete) trade amendment, goes to Greg's blowing his FAAB on Jamie Martin.
Martin, of course, is the newest member of the Derek Loville Memorial $60 FAAB Washout club. The club of course is named for Derek Loville who you will remember was dubbed the starting running back in Denver in the wake of Terrell Davis's 1999 season-ending ACL injury. Consequently, TONY went 60 for Loville, who in turn accomplished nothing and promptly found the end of the bench and, not long afterward, the unemployment line. Instead, it was Olandis Gary who rushed for over 1,000 yards and who made the Pro Bowl.
You can add Jamie Martin now to the club. Handed the keys to the Ferrari that is the Rams' offense, he immediately went out and got tagged for DUI. Yeah, THAT'S good for a career.
Keep in mind, though that Greg's got top-drawer, cheap talent for next year: Chris Chambers, Donte Stallworth, James Thrash, Shaun Alexander. Most intriguingly, however, he's got Marshall Faulk who, with a tight race for the top 5 positions, he can use to score a true cornerstone to build around for years to come (did someone say Michael Vick?)
White Pete Panthers
Odds to Win: 15-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: 6-5
Quote: "Sorry someone broke into your car and stole your tape deck."
Damone stealing the tape deck out of Rat's car, as "compensation" after Rat interrupted Damone from watching cartoons to go to Rat's house to get Rat's wallet, to bring it to the restaurant where Rat was wooing Stacy.
PGia's stealing, in two separate trades, of Ladainian Tomlinson, Peerless Price, Plaxico Burress and Eddie George for Drew Brees and Corey Dillon from PGar, while PGar was apparently distracted by watching cartoons while looking for his wallet, which he probably left at the restaurant.
I don't see any difference. Do you?
D.A. Dolphins
Odds to Win: 4-1
Odds to Finish in the Money: Even
Quote: "Can you honestly tell me that you forgot? Forgot the animal magnetism of Robin Zander or the charisma of Rick Neilsen?…."
"That's kid stuff"
"Kid Stuff? How about the tunes? I want YOU…to want ME……(singing) The Dream Police (Dadadadadada)…Your mammas alright, you're daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird…."
The constant, relentless, never-say-die peddling by Mike Damone of, in this instance, Cheap Trick tickets, goes to the constant, relentless, never-say-die peddling by Derek of anyone and everyone on his team. Just like in baseball, where anyone on his team – including Randy Johnson – was available for the right price. Who here has been offered Santana Moss, Troy Hambrick, Moe Williams, and/or Patrick Ramsey or any combination thereof? How many people got offered Kelly Holcomb before Mike Montagano took the bait? And how safe a bet is it that, as Week 13 approaches, some of us will be getting a phone call or e-mail about trading for Trent Green in a trade. (BTW Derek, you understand this is all in fun. Remember, I'm the guy who told you to sign Trent Green over David Boston. You're welcome.)
99 Yarders:
Odds to Win: 6-5
Odds to Finish in the Money: 1-3
Quote: None.
Sorry, Bob, no quote for you. Just the fact that the role of Brad Hamilton was played by JUDGE Reinhold. Not JUDD Reinhold. JUDGE. That's JUDGE, as in Judge Lance Ito. As in "Here Come da Judge." As in Brandeis University, whose sports teams are called the Judges. You get the idea. That's what it says on the DVD Box, that's what it says on his royalty checks, that's what it said in the credits, and that's what it says here.
By the way, nice team. If Brian Griese can stop tripping over dogs at barbecues you've got a shot to win it all.
Odds to Win: Even
Odds to Finish in the Money: 1-4
Quote: "Listen, Mister, if you don't shut up I'm going to kick 100% of your Ass!!!"
Brad Hamilton's snapping at a surly, sarcastic customer who demanded his money back for not being 100% satisfied with his Breakfast, goes to Bob SR's ongoing frustration with quarterbacks and running backs not named Rich Gannon or Priest Holmes.
Aside from Rich Gannon, Bob's quarterback situation has, to be kind, been a mess. Redman has been hurt, and when he's played he hasn't been all that. He hasn't made anyone forget Trent Dilfer, let's put it that way. Frerotte lost his job to Jon Kitna, enough said. Kerry Collins has been the best of a weak lot; but that's much like saying Channel 3 has the best newscast in the state of Connecticut: really, what the hell does it mean. He's been outpointed by Tommy Maddox and Marc Bulger, even though Maddox and Bulger spotted Collins a month's worth of starts. More tellingly, he's only 16 points ahead of Shane Matthews and 23 points ahead of Jake Plummer.
The running back situation is another pile of misfits. After Priest Holmes, SR's next highest running back is Jerome Bettis, the Fat Assed, Broken-Down Bus. Next in the pecking order is Jamel White, who can thank All-Dunce Co-Captain to be William Green for his job by default. And Michael Pittman can't even beat out Mike Alstott for a regular job. Enough said.
Even with all that, Bob is right up there in the thick of it. Donald Driver has been a revelation and Bubba Franks is the best tight end in the league that didn't threaten to sign with the Miami Heat in the preseason. If Gannon and Holmes stay hot, with a few more breaks, he may score his repeat ring yet.
Coin Tossers:
Odds to Win: 3-5
Odds to Finish in the Money: 1-6
Quote: "You know, a lot of people expected Marc Cutback Davis or Bob Jungle Deck Gerard would take the honors this year"
"Ho-oo-oo…..Those guys are Fags!!!"
Jeff Spicoli's fantasy sequence, where he celebrates a surfing title surrounded by two beautiful, bikini-clad girls (one a Playboy centerfold, as it turns out) goes to Craig's being the man to beat in this league this year – the guy everyone wants to be.
This is the best chance Craig's had for a ring - better even than 1995, his last real run. At the three key positions, he's among this league's best. The best Quarterback situation in the league not involving Brett Favre and Drew Bledsoe: McNabb and Brady as the starters, with Chad Pennington waiting in the wings. The best running back situation in the league, maybe ever: Five deep in solid starters (Martin, McAllister, Tiki Barber, Clinton Portis and Kevan Barlow) with TJ Duckett at #6. And the deepest, if not the best, receiving corps: Conway, Holt, Jerry Rice and Troy Brown, with David Patten and Quincy Morgan as alternates. The icing? Adam "Money" Vinatieri at kicker and Green Bay's defense.
To be sure, the race isn't over yet. Craig hasn't clinched anything yet and there's still two months to go. But if there's any guy in this league this year that looks to go Joe McCabe on all of our asses, it's Craig. And who would've thought I'd ever be saying that. (Not that Craig would be the guy that would run away with the league title – the fact that I would be using Joe McCabe's name as a euphemism for doing it!)
That's it. Good luck down the stretch.


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- Open Access
Implementation leadership: Confirmatory factor analysis and supervisor-clinician discrepancy in ratings on the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS)
- Gregory A Aarons1Email author,
- Mark G Ehrhart2,
- Lauren R Farahnak1 and
- Natalie Finn1
© Aarons et al. 2015
- Published: 14 August 2015
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis
- Leadership Development
- Order Factor
- Clinical Supervisor
- Leadership Training
In healthcare and allied healthcare settings, leadership that supports effective implementation of evidenced-based practices is critical. There is only one empirically validated measure to assess implementation leadership, the Implementation Leadership Scale (ILS). This study moves beyond testing the ILS with clinicians to assess the factor structure with clinical supervisors. Leader self-ratings can provide important insight into how leaders perceive their own abilities and behaviors, and assessing the discrepancies between leader self-ratings and follower ratings can be particularly useful in developing leaders' self-awareness, informing leadership development, and improving organizational functioning.
Participants included 119 clinical supervisors and 441 clinicians. All participants completed the ILS with supervisors rating themselves and clinicians reporting on their own immediate supervisor. We conducted confirmatory factor analyses utilizing supervisor data, accounting for the nested data structure (i.e., supervisors nested within agency [k = 31]) and indicating a hypothesized second order factor structure. We then conducted t-tests to examine ILS scale score discrepancies between supervisor self-ratings and clinician ratings of their supervisors.
Multilevel confirmatory factor analyses showed good fit to the hypothesized second order factor structure (CFI = 0.96, TLI, 0.95, SRMR = 0.05). First order factor loadings ranged from 0.85-0.92 for Proactive Leadership, from 0.93-0.96 for Knowledgeable Leadership, 0.88-0.94 for Supportive Leadership, and 0.83-0.96 for Perseverant Leadership, and second order factor loadings ranged from 0.74-0.95. Discrepancy analyses demonstrated that supervisors rated themselves significantly higher than clinicians on the Proactive (p < 0.05) and Supportive (p < 0.01) ILS subscales.
The factor structure of the ILS is robust indicating its utility for both supervisor and clinician report. Discrepancies between supervisor and clinician ratings suggests that leadership training based on 360 degree assessments could be utilized to create development plans to improve the implementation and sustainment leadership knowledge, skills, and behaviors of supervisors with responsibilities for supporting evidence-based practices in the workplace.
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It is hard to believe, but it is a reality that, in spite of being rich in water resources and having tremendous potential of developing hydropower generation, Gilgit-Baltistan with a population of about 2 million, has been experiencing worst kind of power outages like any other part of Pakistan. The residents, primarily the households, brace with massive electricity load-shedding day and night, in summer and in winter, every year, as power outages adversely affect civic and commercial life in the capital city and other major towns known as the popular tourist destination.
Against a total demand of electricity of 200MW in summer and 300MW in winter, total installed power generation capacity, mostly hydropower, is about 128MW, resulting in power shortage of about 80MW across the region that is not connected to the national grid. Currently, Gilgit-Baltistan has in operation 119 small and mini hydropower stations with a cumulative installed capacity of over 121MW, and net available capacity of 100MW in summer to 60MW in winter. The mountainous region is spread over 72,971 square kilometres. Administratively, Gilgit-Baltistan consists of ten districts namely Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Skardu, Shigar, Kharmong, Ghanche, Ghizer, Diamer and Astore. There are about 650 towns and villages, widely scattered, with population density of 24 persons per square kilometre.
Shockingly, Pakistan is ranked one of the lowest, 167 among 217 countries of the world, in terms of per capita consumption of electricity. The global data of 2014 shows per capita annual consumption in Pakistan as 438kWh compared to 50kWh yearly consumption of electricity in Gilgit-Baltistan. No one can deny this fact that electricity is crucial for the socio-economic development of the region. This will, raise the living standards of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan who are currently deprived of the basic amenities. But the measures taken by successive governments in this direction leave much to be desired.
Primarily, the electricity is used in Gilgit-Baltistan for lighting households, shops, schools and dispensaries etc. Still, only 65 percent of the population has access to electricity, which is not even available to some of the valleys at all. Nonetheless, the demand is increasing at a faster rate, as tourism, trade and the SMEs develop in major towns. The national grid is at a distance of 350 kilometres from Gilgit, and its extension to Gilgit-Baltistan is neither practical nor justifiable. The electricity network here is, therefore, being operated in isolation, and in many remote areas, even the transmission lines and grid stations do not exist.
It is now planned to establish a 132kV regional grid in Hunza District, providing interconnection of all existing and future hydropower stations of Gilgit-Baltistan to a common grid. In this context it is heartening that, on March 22, the Regional Chief of Industrial Promotion Services (IPS) for Asia, a subsidiary of the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED), visited Gilgit, offered the regional government help in the energy and power-distribution sector, and, reportedly, agreed to allocate $30 million for constructing the power grid. The government needs to materialise the project on priority basis.
Obviously, the major source of power generation in Gilgit-Baltistan is hydropower, which is reliable, clean and affordable, whereas thermal power generation is to the level of few megawatts only. The diesel generators have been installed, mostly in the capital city, to meet the demand of power during peak hours. Although the government plans to install more diesel generators, any further increase in thermal power generation capacity is not feasible due to logistic and financial costs involved in the transportation of diesel.
Gilgit-Baltistan offers enormous hydropower potential from River Indus and its various tributaries with steep gradients, to the level of 44,334MW, and a number of mega and large hydropower projects are being developed by the Pakistan government.
Out of this, hydropower potential in the tributaries and sub-tributaries of the River Indus is estimated at 5,726MW, which can be exploited economically for power generation. The main tributaries are Kharmong River, Shyok River, Shigar River, Skardu River, Gilgit River, Naltar River, Hunza River, Astore River, Ghizer River, Yasin River and Ishkuman River, and their ravines and gorges such as Kargah Nullah, Kilik, Shimshal and Khunjrab rivers.
So far, however, just over 2% of the water resources have been tapped, achieving an installed hydropower generation capacity of 121MW. A network of small- and mini-hydro-power stations, generally in the wide range of 50kW to 4MW, has been constructed. In addition, there are more than 400 micro-hydro-power stations operating in remote localities, developed mostly under community-based and rural support programmes, like the AKRSP and the Sarhad Rural Support Programme.
To cater to the increasing demand of electricity, a broad-based plan for the development of small hydropower generation is being implemented, though, the pace of work is slow. Another 29 hydropower projects are currently at various stages of implementation. Major projects under construction are 26MW Shagharthang at Skardu; 14MW Naltar-V, 16MW Naltar-III in Gilgit; 2MW at Misgar, 1.7MW at Hassanabad in Hunza District; 2MW at Dermadar in Ghizer and 4MW at Thak Nullah in Chilas. Other hydropower projects, currently in design and planning stages, include 20MW at Hanzel, Gilgit; 28MW Basho at Skardu, 20MW at Ghuwari-Shyok and 4MW Hushey, in Ghanche District; 5MW at Hassanabad in Hunza. As many as 200 potential hydropower sites, up to 150MW capacity projects, have been identified and techno-economic feasibility studies are being prepared.
On June 3, the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan had stated that by 2020, total installed power generation capacity would reach around 250MW, and the electricity load-shedding would be eliminated by then. However, taking into consideration present demand and its rapid growth, particularly in winter, is much low due to water lean period, no respite from load-shedding is seen in Gilgit-Baltistan in near future.
It is indeed, a daunting task to provide electricity to the region of high mountains and isolated valleys where infrastructure is practically non-existent. Furthermore, the widely varying topography, geology and hydrology, coupled with extreme weather conditions, make the construction of power stations difficult. The reliability of power supply is also impacted in the wake of frequent floods and landslides. Thus, the available power supply is optimal during summer, but the season covers three months only. During the remaining nine months of the year, the net electric supply is reduced to almost half of the installed capacity due to non-availability of water for power generation.
On the other hand, Wapda is also actively involved in contributing towards the addition of power generation capacity in Gilgit-Baltistan. It has constructed Satpara dam along a hydro power station of total 17MW capacity in Skardu, whereas design and engineering are in hand for Basho project of 40MW capacity, which will be connected to Skardu and other upstream valleys through the 66kV transmission line.
Earlier, it has commissioned 4MW Kargah power station in Gilgit. Likewise, Harpo hydro power project of 34.5MW capacity is to be developed in Skardu District. The two projects, Basho and Harpo, are being financed by the European donor agencies. Wapda also plans to construct 80MW hydropower plant at the Phundar Lake in Ghizer District, which is currently at initial stages.
Small-scale hydropower plants are proving to be a crucial in providing power in remote regions, while at the same time helping protect the environment. Development of hydro power projects in Gilgit-Baltistan will be accelerated if Pakistan can build the capacity to manufacture and install small power stations of above 5MW module that can be multiplied at a given site. The same is lacking at present though various items of electrical and mechanical equipment and related materials are being produced locally, and the infrastructure for implementing small hydro power schemes is available. The requisite advanced technology, however, is essentially required for achieving the purpose of creating the indigenous capability for design, engineering and manufacturing of equipment for power plants. The government needs to take initiative in this direction, pursuant to its policies of developing far-flung areas and promotion of renewable energy.
The writer is retired chairman of the State Engineering Corporation
Courtesy: The News


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Aiming to refresh my creativity in my own little world. To be sweet but not too sweet. To organize my inspiration. And maybe, just maybe, pass a little of it onwards.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Listen and learn, Grasshopper
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Wooty Hoot Hoot for you!! To be moving in the direction of something that inspires you and fills you with energy is just the best! Summers off... an added bonus. I admire your for wanting to work with teenagers. It's an art! Congratulations on the beginning of your journey and looking forward to hearing all about it!ReplyDelete
Congratulations, Carly! How exciting. I wish you much happiness in this new venture.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 17, 2009 at 4:05 PM
Wow - good luck with your training! You sound so passionate about the change and I'm sure with that amount of energy you'll be a fantastic teacher :-)ReplyDelete
Congratulations! You must be so excited.ReplyDelete
Congratulations on following the voice in your head -- it's not always easy to make such drastic changes, but you sound very prepared!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! That is quite an undertaking, and it does take the right kind of person. Wanna know a secret? I'm working towards the same degree. Except I'm more of an on the floor with the kids, singing silly songs kind of teacher and am going for early education (Kindergarten or First Grade would be my dream right now, though ask tomorrow and it might be Third or Fourth grade). Good luck!! Sometimes you just have to go after your passion, right!?ReplyDelete
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I'm a secondary teacher, (and yes, the holidays are great. I'm in the middle of summer holidays right now and it's wonderful.)ReplyDelete
Go for it. I love teaching. Every day is different, the kids make me laugh so much and there's always something happening.
Who doesn't love comments? I appreciate every single one and try to reply to each. Unless you're a no-reply commenter. Then I can't. And I have a little sad moment. Like a dropped ice cream cone. So if you're a no-reply commenter and have a question, check the comment thread and I'll try to reply there. :-)


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Here's how the front garden looks in Aug 2012.
Remember how it looked when we just planted it?
And here's how it looked before we even got that far
This year we went with red petunias and white Alyssium in the garden, and white petunias and lobelia in the planters. The petunias overgrew the lobelia.
The boxwood grew a few inches this year. Those tall plants are Crocosmia Lucifer. They grow gorgeous orangey-red flowers in July. If they are still alive when the boxwood gets too big, we'll move them.
I also picked up 3 butterfly bushes. They struggled a bit until I mulched them 4 inches deep, and now they're growing in again. They attract butterflies like crazy. In spring you cut them down to the ground and they'll grow up to 5-7 feet high. They're drought tolerant after they get established.


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Marlene Boissonnault is a goaltender from Dundee, New Brunswick playing for Cornell University. Before Cornell, Boissonnault played for the prep school Rothesay Netherwood in New Brunswick. At Rothesay Netherwood, Boissonnault was named team MVP her senior year and was awarded the Highest Commitment to Athletics Prize. Boissonnault played for Team Canada while in high school as well. She earned a silver medal at the 2015 IIHF U18 Women's World Championships while on Team Canada. She also represented Team New Brunswick at the 2015 Canada Games and the Atlantic Team at the U18 Canadian National Championship. At the Canadian National Championship, Boissonnault was named the top goaltender. Additionally, she participated in the 2014 Female World Sport School Challenge, where she was named to the all-tournament team. Academically, Boissonnault earned high proficiency graduating honors and the Biology Prize while at Rothesay Netherwood school.
Her freshman year at Cornell, Boissonnault played in six games, picking up five wins along the way. Her sole loss came against the consistently top ranked Boston College. In the Windjammer Classic, she was named to the All-Tournament Team for her efforts in a 4-2 win over Boston University.
Boissonnault stepped into a two-goalie rotation as a sophomore. With a 10-1-2 record, Boissonnault had the second-best winning percentage among all goalies in the nation as she won 0.846 percent of her games. Additionally, her 1.52 goals against average was fourth-best in the country and her 0.925 save percentage was 18th best. In ECAC league play, her 1.28 goals-against average was second best among all ECAC goaltenders. Boissonnault earned a spot on the All-Ivy Second Team for her breakout performance. Her highlight of the season came in January in a 29 save performance against Clarkson to upset the eventual national champions, 2-1. She shutout Clarkson for just under 55 minutes, which ended up being the longest shutout against Clarkson that season.
As a junior, Boissonnault became the full-fledged starting goaltender for Cornell. She played in every game except two while putting up a 21-7-3 record and a 0.924 save percentage. Her 21 wins tied for second in Cornell history for wins in a single season and her 652 saves ranks seventh in Cornell history. Additionally, her seven shutouts were the second most in program history. She had a winning percentage of 0.726 percent, which ranked ninth in the nation and a goals-against average of 1.76, which ranked eighth in the nation. Boissonanault even got in on Cornell's offense, tallying two assists from the back end. At the end of the year, she was named to the All-Ivy First Team for her efforts.
This season, Boissonnault has gotten off to a strong start. She has a 4-1-3 record with two shutouts. Also, she has a 1.58 goals-against average and a 0.933 save percentage. She will graduate from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the end of the year..
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Kelly Pannek (F), University of Minnesota
Loren Gabel (F), Clarkson University
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Follow a fully working application from beginning to end and learn how to make sense of data available to you. We'll look at some data available from Government sources, and look at how to turn that into a meaningful application.
FlightStats is an application designed to monitor all aspects of the airline industry, and has been created as a demonstration application for MySQL, PHP, and Perl and their use together. It demonstrates a complex application, with over 50 million records, and is actually real data. The working data set is from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, and the FAA, and contains data about every commercial flight in the United States since 1995.
Using the FlightStats application, we will look at:
When we're finished, you may take the application and full working data set home with you to try things out on your own. All software used is under the GPL, and all data is in the public domain.


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Completion time: 15 minutesDrying time: 48 hours
Spray the wooden frame with light green decoSpray and let it dry 15 for minutes.
On a glass pane, flatten the non-firing clay using a pencil as a rolling pin.
Place the leaves and flatten again.
Remove the leaves and let it dry for 48 hours.
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|A postcard from LUTZ BIELEFELDT sent from Kairo, Egypt. Lutz is a Vienna based visual artist. He used to live in Berlin before moving to Vienna. He and I attended the same grammar school, together with Markus Bickel (and a few others, more or less important people). Lutz was a Punk, and yes, he still is, just without a mowhak now. Lutz and Markus sent their postcards the same day, from Cairo, where Lutz visited Markus, who currently lives there.
|Lutz' work can bee seen here: http://lutzbielefeldt.de/


text: Oompa Loompa 856 Report post Posted October 24, 2014 Well, what's better. Nespresso seems ridiculously easy. How fiddly is a coffee machine with ground beans. Speed, nespresso,seems about a minute which is awesome when you have no time of a morning? Pros, cons of both Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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M is called the Intelligent Composing and Performing System.
Allows new sounds to be programmed through randomisation.
Create your own guitar sounds.
Small audio-player application to listen to songs from various sources
iPodCopy lets you copy music and photos on your iPod to your Mac or directly into your iTunes library.
Share and download files
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A child with learning differences may overwhelm even the most competent and experienced parents. Many families find it helpful to enlist the services of an autism consultant to help them explore, understand, plan, and implement interventions that address their child's and their family's needs.
"Respect and value your instincts about your child – never ignore them, no matter what anyone tells you. Holding a loved one's life in your hands means that you have to accept a position of power even when you don't want it. You must become an advocate for your child, even if it means standing alone against the world."— Karen Siff Exhorn
Family consultations
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Deb Berrang and Jennifer Lemke-Pawlak of Dynamic Connections help families identify their needs, concerns, and goals for intervention, then design an intervention plan that specifically works toward those goals. Their approach is family-centered and designed to support family-directed interventions at home.
During your initial meeting, Deb and/or Jennifer will listen and learn about your family and your needs. They provide support and guidance as you work together to develop a family-centered home program, implemented by you, the parents, that helps establish positive routines in your home, reduce overall stress levels, and target any specific needs in relation to your child's learning difference. These services can occur through a combination of face-to-face, phone/Skype calls, and/or videotape reviews. Each program is carefully designed to meet each individual family's needs. The family consultation program is a great starting point for families who would like individualized support but are not yet ready for or interested in participating in the formal RDI® Program.
A family consultation program may include:
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The Social Responsiveness Scale is a 65-item questionnaire completed by parents, teachers, and/or other care providers who are familiar with the child's current behavior and developmental history.
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My third baby quilt, using diamonds left over from my second quilt.
My new design wall. 2 panels of flannel wrapped around 4'x8' Styrofoam sheets. I cut about 2" off the top of each panel as my ceiling is 8' and it was too tight of a fit. So much easier to layout patterns on the wall instead of the floor, especially when I leave it hanging for a month or two waiting to actually sew it together... I had originally planed on doing whole rows of chevrons of one color, but it just didn't look right with the gradient so I alternated.
I cut these diamonds while making my previous quilt. That quilt was mostly blue, this one mostly orange, and so I still have enough left to make a 3rd quilt from these diamonds with mostly green. Good thing I have a niece due in March that will need a quilt.
I forgot some of the technique for doing the corners for the binding, (I remembered not picking up the needle to rotate, I didn't remember that is only for the back, not the front.) So the corners aren't crisp clean miters, but they work. I made sure to get a refresher course from my mom when I visited for Christmas. The backing is Timeless Treasures - Forest Frolic Foxes Stone


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Julio Jones and Antonio Brown satisfied owners last week. They should again. Dez is injured and Beckham jr. didn't do much. The Giants head home and expect bigger things. Look for Steve Smith play well against Oakland after a poor game in Denver.
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2. Julio Jones
3. Odell Beckham Jr.
4. Brandon Cooks
5. Jordan Mattews
6. AJ Green
7. Calvin Johnson
8. Keenan Allen
9. DeAndre Hopkins
10. Steve Smith
Brandon Cooks should have plenty of opportunities coming his way. Tampa looks bad on both sides of the ball. Jordan Matthews did everything but score. Even let a ball bounce off his face mask and into the arms of the Falcons. I expect the Lions to make Calvin Johnson a priority after only targeting him 4 times in San Diego. Keenan Allen looks back after a down 2014. 15 catches for 166 yards. Tougher game on the road in Cincinnati. I still think he'll get double-digit looks from Rivers. If Hopkins can get steady Quarterback play he's a star in the making. Even with an uncertain QB situation he's a must start. Steve Smith heads to Oakland after a defensive battle in Denver. Smith should have some huge plays against the Raiders. I can see 100+ yards and at least a score.
12. Jarvis Landry
13. Mike Evans
14. Julian Edelman
15. Randall Cobb
16. Alshon Jeffery
17. Terrence Williams
18. John Brown
19. Brandon Marshall
20. Demaryius Thomas
21. Davante Adams
22. Kendall Wright
23. Emmanuel Sanders
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25. Andre Johnson
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27. Golden Tate
28. Eric Decker
29. James Jones
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31. Brandon Coleman
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33. Roddy White
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Peter Newburn has served in full-time ministry for over thirty years. His pastoral experience encompasses many different lay ministry positions. He served for almost nine years as a parish life coordinator in the Diocese of San Bernardino, California, where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of pastoral ministry and the administration of a large parish.
Peter and his family currently are serving as full-time missionaries in Cameroon with Lay Mission Helpers, a lay missionary organization based in Los Angeles, California. Peter has served Lay Mission Helpers as a theology teacher at the major seminary in northwest Cameroon, providing formation for lay leaders. He also hosts a weekly evangelistic Catholic radio program in Cameroon. Pete's passion is to help others both grow in their relationship with the Lord and live out their God-given purpose in life. He serves as Renewal Ministry's country coordinator in Cameroon. He and his wife Joy have three children.


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This database covers a comprehensive amount of peer-reviewed literature on carnivore ecology & conservation published during the past 30 years. It is available for free to download on your computer.
The file can be imported in the reference manager software you use (e.g. Papers, Mendeley, Zotero, Endnote, Procite, Reference Manager, BibDesk or any other recent one). The archive carnivore_paper_database.zip includes the database in RIS format.
Please note the database does not contain any PDF files!
Follow the instructions below on how to import it.
Step 1: Turn-on your computer (just want to make sure...) and launch Endnote (or another reference management software) and create a new library.
Step 2: Name and save this new library.
Step 3: Now, import the carnivore database into this new library.
Step 4: In the import dialog box, it is very important to choose the option Reference Manager (RIS) to make sure references are properly imported.
Step 5: The import process can take some times according to your computer performance (maybe it's time to think about getting a Mac), once done you should get a working database as shown below.
This database is the results of several years of literature compilation. I hope it is useful, but I know it is also likely to include some errors (pagination is missing for some papers). Use the database at your own risk! And before quoting a paper in a manuscript, please always check on a reprint that the reference is correct (but I'm already sure that you never quoted any paper without having fully read it, did you?).
For praise, comments, bug reports, questions, corrections, additions of new references, weather forecast, etc, feel free to email me. Enjoy the database!


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Look, I respect the fact that Barack Obama is president-elect now, and when he assumes office, I'll give him as much respect as the station demands.
It doesn't mean I have to like it that Obama won.
All that unity and healing that you guys keep saying needs to happen now? Calling me a sore loser isn't a great first step. Just because your guy won doesn't mean I'm drinking the kool-aid here.
The reference to cult-like behavior is intentional. I've never known the joy of "my guy" winning the office of the president, so maybe it's just sour grapes, but I've seen hundreds of reactions on the web in various places that make reference to tears of joy and other sorts of orgasmic sighs of relief.
If your expectations are set that high, you will be disappointed. At the end of the day, President-Elect Obama is still a politician. Politicians say what it takes to win office.
At any rate, I'll close with my tweet from when I saw the networks call the election for Obama:
"If you thought I was annoying during the elections, just wait for the next four years. Be careful what you wish for!"
The way I see it, it's the least I can do. There are going to be an avalanche of people taking credit for Obama's win, tons of substance ascribed where there is none, and a lot of "in your face, Rizzn."
(update: in fact, that's already started).
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VA 200 Vs VA 1205
Westerham - Chute Transitional Stater?
OBVERSE: Abstracted head of Apollo (Philip II?) right. Laurel leaves point downwards, spike with crescent (hairpin), subtle smile on large mouth and mustache, crescent eyes.
REVERSE: Abstract horse left with crab under horse and a small pellet above. The rider is indicated by 8 or 10 pellets; coffee-bean rump, 2 tails
The Westerham staters of the Atrabetes were the 1st struck in Briton, starting around 75 BCE. They are superficially similar to the Chute type staters of the neighboring Durotriges minted about 10 years later with a very similar design. The usual pellet below the horse was replaced by a 'crab' in the Chute staters which also has a 'bug' or small pellet with legs above the horse. The gold content of the Chute staters was about half that of the Westerham staters. This example has been suggested as a transitional issue between the 2 as it has a crab below, but a pellet above and a low gold content. This is contested. My feeling is that it probably Durotrigian. This stater is also quite light for a Westerham type and more like the later white gold Durotrigian staters which may have a pellet above the horse. This coin is also shown on the Durotriges page.
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The Codan NGT AR GPS (mobile) station provides a live display of your current GPS position by latitude and longitude. It enables you to transmit your position to another unit or to request the position of another unit. When used in conjunction with a tracking base station, it forms part of a complete fleet management system.
GPS position information can be scrambled with a security PIN to ensure that it is only available to authorised users.
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Codan Automated Link Management (CALM) is a new and very advanced feature in which the transceiver performs the channel selection operation automatically. The handset in most ways looks and operates like a mobile phone.
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Next season's 1872 Cup will once again be contested over three rounds, with Scotstoun now hosting the final match of the series, as a Glasgow Warriors home match, on the last day of the regular Guinness PRO14 season following a review by Scottish Rugby of operational and logistical elements.
With an increased capacity set to be in place at Scotstoun for the fixture, the match will continue to form part of the Edinburgh Season Ticket Membership package. Supporters who have already purchased their Membership for next year will receive a letter in the post in the coming days.
Any Season Ticket Members who are unable to travel to the match in Glasgow or simply do not wish to attend, will be offered an additional ticket to any home Edinburgh match of their choice in 2018/19. Details of how to redeem your ticket for the final 1872 Cup match in Glasgow (or an alternative Edinburgh home game) will be communicated in due course.
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Related to rhinoceros: Indian rhinoceros
an odd-toed ungulate in the family Rhinocerotidae of the order Perissodactyla, with a massive size, thick, armourplate-like skin and one or two horns low down in the middle of the face. They are herbivorous, partly nocturnal, unpredictable and aggressive. There are several genera including Diceros (white and black rhinos), Ceratotherium simum (white rhino), Dicerorhinus (Sumatran rhino) and Rhinoceros (Indian rhino).


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This tutorial will describe how to manage consumables which replenish over time, even when the player is out of the game. We will use a coin system to illustrate the process.
APPFormative™ keeps track of the total seconds lapsed, since the app was opened for the first time after install.
Apart from making time calculations like these easier, using APPFormative™ to keep track of the users elapsed time, prevents possible user manipulation of the device system time to gain an unfair advantage.
First off, create a new game level attribute which will store the game time value at the start of the current play session.
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Use a "Change Attribute" behavior to assign it the current game.Time value.
Define a new table as below. In this case, the game starts with a starting budget of 5 coins.
We already have the elapsed seconds since first launch ( game.AF_SecondsAfterLaunch ),
and can calculate the elapsed seconds of the current session ( floor(game.Time - game.SessionStartTimer) ).
Together these values give us the total number of seconds since the game was first lauched, up to the current point in the play session:
self.TotalSeconds = game.AF_SecondsAfterLaunch + floor(game.Time - game.SessionStartTimer)
We can now calculate the total possible coins the player may have gained since first launching the game (here we will assume a 2 coins every 5 minutes gain):
self.TotalCoins = 2 * floor(self.TotalSeconds/(60*5))
Recalculate and write this value to the 2nd column of the T_Coins table at regular intervals.
Note that this system is flexible and any kind of coins/second ratio can be represented.
Any time coins are used, update the CoinsSpent column in the T_Coins table. E.g. if it costs 1 coin to play a level, add 1 to the value stored.
Any time coins are accumulated through IAPs or bonuses, update the CoinsBought column in the T_Coins table. E.g. if the user bought 10 coins, add 10 to the value stored.
Always save the T_Coins table after changes to these two columns.
It is now possible to use a Display Text behavior to always show the correct number of available coins with the following calculation:
tableCellValue(game.T_Coins,1,1) + tableCellValue(game.T_Coins,1,2) - tableCellValue(game.T_Coins,1,3) + tableCellValue(game.T_Coins,1,4)
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Eat These Foods for Healthier Gums
October 14, 2017
Gums are the unsung heroes of your smile. They keep your teeth in place, protect the underlying bone structure and fight bacteria every day. And while brushing and flossing are important, there's more you can do simply by eating foods that support gum health. Read on to learn about the foods you should be eating for your gums.
Onions Make You Cry
Onions may bring tears to your eyes, but they bring bacteria fighting power to your gums. Onions are loaded with microbial properties that neutralize the oral bacteria leading to gum disease and tooth decay. For healthier gums, try adding onions to a salad, on top of a sandwich or hamburger, and in soups, stews and chili.
Eat Your Greens
Leafy vegetable such as kale and spinach are chock full of vitamins and minerals. In particular, they both contain vitamin C, which supports the production of red blood cells and reduces inflammation. In addition, leafy greens are high in fiber, so they demand more chewing, which increases saliva production. Saliva helps to flush away bacteria, plaque and food particles that may lodge near the gum line.
Speaking of Vitamin C
Colorful peppers and acidic fruits such as oranges, pineapple, strawberries and kiwi also contain a lot of vitamin C. Add these to salads, yogurt parfaits and smoothies for a boost of this anti-inflammatory vitamin.
Oh, Shiitake Mushrooms
Shiitake mushrooms contain an antibacterial compound called lentinan, which fights against the bacteria in plaque. These bacteria often multiply between teeth and along the gum line. Eventually, they can cause irritation and lead to gum disease. Shiitake mushrooms are great in stir-fry dishes, sautéed as a side dish or added to salads and vegetables.
Pass the Crunchies, Please
Fruits and vegetables that are crunchy help to scrape away particles of food and plaque that get stuck to teeth. Celery, carrots and apples, for example, can get in between teeth and into small crevices, thereby helping to keep your mouth fresh. And they're also high in fiber so they take a while to chew, which means there's more saliva to wash away bacteria.
Have a Dairy Day
You know that dairy products are great for building strong bones and teeth, but did you know that they are also good for your gums? Most milk products contain casein, which is a protein that helps to neutralize acids that oral bacteria produce. If not removed, these acids can lead to cavities as well as gum disease. So be sure to enjoy dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt every day.
Tea Time
Green tea is rich in antioxidants, which help reduce inflammation in the body. There is one type of antioxidant—catechins—that helps fight gum inflammation caused by oral bacteria.
Of course, if you've noticed that your gums are sensitive or bleed when you brush and floss, then it's time to see the dentist for professional treatment.
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On a recent leisurely drive from Toronto to Collingwood I passed at least three Pan Am sites – PCX, DRU, and SXY – or some group of letters like that. As enticing as these combinations sounded, without a single word about what the sport was; the name of the renamed facility where it was being held; and no idiot-proof universal picture to help me guess, I simply could not make up my mind. And so continued on my way.
Too bad, DRU did sound pretty darn exciting.
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by Ronda Simmons
There are times for every writer when the work gets bogged down and writing becomes a chore.
We've all been there, but how do we move past it? "Go where the heat is." These are words of wisdom from Trai Cartwright (she'll be at the NCW conference, by the way) and useful advice when you don't know how to get yourself out of the mire.
|Has your writing gotten cold and dreary?
You must write what excites you. If you are bored with your writing, you cannot expect anything except boredom from your readers. We all know that a bored reader is a former reader and quite unlikely to be a repeat reader.
A perfect example comes from the Advanced Screenwriting class Trai is teaching on Sundays at Wolverine Letterpress and Publick House. One of the students, an experienced playwright, named Barb, could not decide which of her current works in progress would be best suited as a workshop exercise for the class.
Trai asked her to read both log lines. The first one was a quirky tale about three old women surviving a natural disaster together. I thought it sounded cute and I looked forward to reading it until she read the logline for the second one, a dystopian saga of intrigue, betrayal, coming of age and redemption.
This was a story itching to be told and one I couldn't wait to dig into it. In fact, the entire class straightened up as Barb described the horrific world of her imagination. Her voice grew stronger and louder, her eyes sparkled, her cheeks got pink.
She had found the heat.
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Have you been too soft on your hero? Raise the stakes. Is your antagonist too predictable? Provide backstory that will warm us up to your villain. Does changing the setting, the genre, the point of view, or the time period of your story make it more intriguing, more interesting, hotter?
For more on finding the heat, check out these websites:
Writing About LOVE—Ditch the Cliches & Turn Up the Heat in Your Romance


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Ah, Net neutrality – the misguided idea that somehow every Internet user has the automatic right to the same speed for every type of data or content they're using regardless of how little they pay.
This month the net neutrality campaigners were in uproar after Virgin Media's CEO Neil Berkett called the idea of Net Neutrality B****cks.
Instantly campaign sites were springing up and you-tube was awash with panic stricken posters worried that the net and high bandwidth services and web sites that they loved would suffer a lingering demise..
A totally unfounded fear that campaigners have is that web hosting companies are going to go out of business – Web hosting companies are already paying for bandwidth, and their costs are just passed to their clients – It's not their service that virgin is talking about throttling, this whole discussion is about the end users having their connection throttled based on what content they're looking at. – So pay more for a premium service!
Time to cut to the chase:- Internet access isn't free, ISP's pay for their bandwidth, and that cost must be passed to the consumer in order for the ISP to survive. In the UK most ISP's are trying to readjust for the forthcoming 21st CN roll-outs, their infrastructure and pricing models have gone to pot, as more and more content rich services are being rolled out such as the BBC Iplayer in particular. Just because you've been able to have your cake and eat it in the past doesn't mean that you can do that in the future. As service improves and bandwidth increases – pricing structures have to change or the ISP goes out of business. Users need to understand the costs of the service their using and pay accordingly.
EG. Plusnet has a great pricing model – 4 tiered options which range from 1gb to 40gb of transfer per month with each tier giving faster bandwidth allocation to download services such as p2p and ftp at specific times. The more you pay the better your service. UK Internet users thinking they'll just cancel their Virgin subscription and move to an unmetered connection at unlimited speed will be in for a wake up call.
You're also going to see a lot more tiered pricing as ISP's begin to differentiate between low cost and premium products. It's advances in content filtering and bandwidth limiting that have helpedisp's introduce these newer pricing structures – of course one of the main issues in the UK that's helping to bring this to a head is the increase in massive amounts of streamed and downloaded content from media networks such as virgin, SKY, BBCiplayer, ITV which has meant that there is the potential that the majority of web users in the UK now have the potential to be heavy users. So how does anISP change it's pricing model to accommodate this – Pretty much the same as they've been doing, introduce limited download speeds for lower paying customers at peak times. After all – a user now wanting to pay for fast speed must surely be happy to wait a bit longer for their download.
Water, electricity, and gas isn't free – we all pay for how much we use. If I use a little I don't want to subsidise the cost of those users demanding more than I do. Just because water used to beunmetered doesn't mean the water company cannot change their pricing model. (it didn't when we switched to metered water connections in theUK – in fact we had a lowering of prices for low usage water users).
Of course now there is workable pricing model for ISP's that can provide free Internet access to users, that's where technology such as Phorm comes in – so allowing ISP injected advertising into web pages means that ISP's now at least have a way to offer very low pricing models (or even free Internet access) for users that don't mind their surfing habits being tracked. So therefore you get what you pay for. Do you want advert injections and throttled bandwidth on a free connection or do you want to pay for a quality service?
Today OFCOM decided the BBC shouldn't contribute to UK network upgrade that the BBC shouldn't need to contribute to the cost of upgrading the UK's fibre network (ISP's are blaming the BBC's iplayer for its drain on their bandwidth). Instead advanced peering and caching between the ISP's and BBC's network looks like an intermediate solution. But work on the UK's 21st century network is well underway – expect that to push up broadband speeds by 2011,and there's the mobile telecoms companies pushing 4G andwimax and BT's assessing it's unused dark fibre network to look at the potential to use that to increase capacity.
The biggest improvement to network capacity come in fibre to the home – But it's estimated that the upgrade to supply fibre to local exchange boxes will cost £15 Billion and 10 years not forgetting the roadworks needed.
As far as the data transfer side goes – the Kangaroo Project has the potential to put further pressure on the network UK ISP's – it's a join TV venture to create an access point and portal for all the major UK broadcasters. So short term the ISP has very little choice – throttle and tier their service offerings until the wholesale price goes down or the government (or BT) intervenes and subsidises nationwide infrastructure upgrades.


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Temperature for January 1983
In January 1983 the average high temperature in Corpus Christi, TX was 67.7°F, and this was 0.4°F cooler than the average of 68.1°F. The hottest day in January 1983 was 31 January when the temperature reached 82.9°F. Overnight the average temperature in January is 47.1°F and in 1983 the average overnight temperature was 4.1°F cooler at 43.1°F.


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