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If you plan on corner balancing make sure you take the proper steps to extricate all the benefits from the corner balance. The key to any corner balancing procedure is to have your vehicle in the condition you normally drive it in. If you plan on racing your vehicle, make sure it is in the condition you normally race it in. Have all the fluids topped off, tire pressures and ride height adjusted.
Find a level spot to perform the corner balancing. If the surface is not level the readings will be off and affect the readings. Once the vehicle is on a level surface mark the spot where the vehicle will be measured. Mark off with tape the wheelbase and track width of the vehicle. That way when you go back to measure the corner balance again you will have consistency in your measurements. Once marked off, lift one side of the vehicle at a time. Make sure you zero out the scales prior to placing them underneath the tire.
Once the vehicle is in place put it in gear and release the hand brake. Next, settle the vehicle by pushing down on the front and rear bumper as well as sitting in both passenger and driver seats. If you have front and/or rear sway bars, be sure to disconnect them to prevent any possible preloads.
Under ideal conditions a racecar will have 50/50 weight distribution between the front and rear and left and right. Unfortunately, that is nearly impossible unless you have a purpose-built racecar. Most vehicles will weigh heavier on the driver's side due to steering column, pedal assembly, master cylinder, etc, and other parts associated with driver control.
The key however is to balance the cross-weight percentages, also known as wedge. That way the vehicle performs identical on both right and left hand turns. The idea is to attain 50 percent bias on both right front (RF) and left rear (LR) to the left front (LF) and right rear (RR). By adding the RF and LR weight and dividing it by the total vehicle weight you can figure out the vehicle's wedge. If the percentage is higher than 50 percent the vehicle has a wedge, a percentage lower and the vehicle has a reverse wedge.
Again it is probably going to be impossible to get exact figures due to the driver's weight not being in the mix. The key is to get that figure as close to 50 percent as possible.
Many recommend distributing weight around vehicle by moving the battery, fuel cell or ballast around but not everyone is willing to go to such extremes for weight balance. To adjust the wedge of the vehicle with a 53 percent cross weight between the RF and LR suspension you need lower the RF and LR spring perches to decrease the percentage. If you lower the ride height of a given corner, the weight of the corner will decrease as well as the weight of the diagonal corner. The weight will however increase on the two opposite corners.
Instead of making large increases or decreases at one corner make smaller adjustment at all four corners to help maintain a level ride height. For example if the wedge of a vehicle between the RF and LR suspension is extremely high instead of just reducing the ride height of the RF and LR suspension you could also increase the LF and RR suspension to offset the difference. Although most of us do not have corner-balancing equipment at our disposal, corner balancing should be left to the experts.


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French brand Sandro opened its first stateside shop in late November in New York. As it turns out, that was just the first step in incorporating a little Americana into the fold. The brand has enlisted Dree Hemingway to design a ten-piece capsule collection for Spring '12. "The inspiration was growing up in Idaho and men's rock climbing books from the seventies," Hemingway tells Style.com of the collection, made up of boho-style sheer white dresses and printed maxi numbers. As for her turn as designer, she says, "I could not have done it without the guidance of Evelyne Chetrite, Sandro's creative director." She added, "She had to give me a bit of a reality check when I was trying to mix Navajo embroidery with huge flower details." The collection hits stores in February.—Kristin Studeman
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After growing up in Brazil Mike Haubner is heading back to the mission fields to provide medical care to villages along the Amazon.
He says caring for others is all he's ever known and whether that's in Roanoke County or Brazil it doesn't matter to him.
"It kind of blends in with what I kind of grew up knowing and what my parents taught me, so being in this profession is the best thing ever, because I can help people every day," Haubner explained.
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College, tell me why things are important. And three new courses to do just that.
Or: Why technical coursework should instill an understanding of Robert Pirsig's Quality, and what to do about it.
During my first year at Chapel Hill, I found myself memorizing equations for calculus, function calls for computer science, and models for economics. Throughout my time at UNC, I asked smart friends why they were learning about the rational abstractions in their fields. The questions can be reverse-engineered to get a syllabus of three questions college should force students to ask.
I follow each question with a subheading (in [] brackets), but not the name, of a course I will suggest near the end of this essay that will empower students to answer each question with competence - and maybe even a newfound arete.
- What analytical rational tools that do not currently exist might be useful, and how would you go about developing them? (Got some good answers to this one. Most involved some specific form of stronger artificial intelligence. Most answers were things students learned about outside of school.)
[Romantically-inspired rational-tool production]
- How is the power of the rational tools you are using bounded? (For example, practical computational tools are usually bounded by the power of Turing machines. Mathematics generally cannot prove everything about itself without resorting to ideas outside of math - see Gödel's incompleteness theorem. Economic policy involves tradeoffs that the models cannot moralize about.)
[The power of reason in your field]
- Can you place the rational abstractions you're learning in a larger context? (For example, for what human purposes are we learning to code on practical implementations of Turing machines? Has nobody ever thought to start by making students figure out what might be best to study!?)
[The big picture]
Four years ago, a first grasping at my frustrations
My first year, I sat down with then-Chancellor Holden Thorp, who was awesome because he liked to stay in touch with campus life by speaking with students. I told Thorp that majors in science, math and other technical fields should begin their studies with an introduction to what people can do with these intellectual tools. He countered (very sensibly, given my unrefined argument and phrasing) that it's best to actually teach the fundamentals of chemistry, biology, math, physics or computer science than to teach what their applications are.
But as time went on, I realized that's not exactly what I meant.
I wanted to know why I was studying computation, how what I was currently learning related to the big picture, the big picture of the big picture, and so on, until I could place my learning in context of the ultimate big picture: human thought itself.
This sounds grandiose, but is actually not much to ask at all. If I believed higher education in science, math and technical fields as it is today were anything more than vocational training, then upon developing the views I am writing about here, my immediate reaction might have been be that we have philosophy departments for training in the theory of knowledge, and that I should go study philosophy. This reaction would have sent me spiraling down into modern philosophy, which can at times and without physicalism be, somewhat ironically, simultaneously internally consistent and vapid. It is also somewhat lacking in new ideas outside of mathematical logic.
(Note: Some old ideas do have much to teach us. But the point is that philosophy as a field evolves only so much, and its evolution does not really drive the evolution of our understanding of the world. The sciences and humanities - fields which actually apply rational inquiry - do that.)
I came to believe that teaching methods before theory is the essence of vocational education. Higher education is about context, theory, the study of abstractions for the ability to manipulate symbols in the appropriate way as to take advantage of those abstractions (methods), and, crucially, the study of abstractions for the sake of understanding the purpose of the abstractions.
The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
- Albert Einstein
Smart students find it much more interesting and engaging when instructors explain the rational context for knowledge (i.e., symbolic manipulation for math, or abstract computational models for programming) before or at least while asking them to learn about methods (i.e. integrals or programming).
But, critically, it's not just about motivating study of methods. It's actually the case that this context makes for a more rigorous technical foundation for study. As I'll show later, it turns out MIT and Stanford already do this.
Methods and theory should be one because, at the highest levels of intellectual activity, they already are
College is supposed to be a place for higher learning, but really, we undergraduates are just learning about the implementations of established techniques for problem solving. For example, if my math education had begun with an explanation that math is a symbolic manipulation system of limited power, I would have been much more interested in learning calculus and other specific methods because I would have understood that only by getting into the details of other peoples' established techniques could I hope to arrive at an understanding of what it means to create good techniques in the first place.
This means, for example, that calculus students would come into college with a base level of knowledge in math, most of which was acquired through rote. But their introductory coursework would help them develop some rudimentary understanding of the fact that math is a system of symbolic manipulation of limited power whose methods we study not only because we hope to become proficient in those methods, but also because we hope to construct better, more mathematically beautiful methods.
Looking at methods' details with an eye to esthetic is the zen bit of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and its approach to true intellectual mastery of a subject. Become a mechanic in order to see why abstractions are useful and generate better ones.
This isn't essential to my argument, and is almost an aside, but one way we might tell which abstractions are good is something akin to Pirsig's Quality.
Quality is the esthetic rational toolmakers compare their work against. Rational tools exist, and exist in their specific forms, for reasons motivated by an undefined but detectable rational or mathematical beauty.
The author doesn't mean to suggest that students learn most from vocational curricula. He actually prescribes a path for self-study, I suppose because no vocational and few higher ed curricula care to enlighten students about rational toolmaking in their fields. For college, Pirsig ends up recommending Quality Studies. I think that class would be a moderately stimulating addition to a philosophy curriculum, but that it would be insufficient for higher technical education.
I'm not committed to Pirsig's ideas. But I do believe that undergraduates can experience their own journey into the details (becoming motorcycle mechanics, so to speak), and emerge with a sense of what makes abstractions good instead of merely the ability to use abstractions, by making a study of rational toolmaking in their various technical fields.
As a friend put it, we need to 'turn the scientific method upon reason itself.' In doing so, we might find ways to focus its ends, sharpen its methods and make our tools more powerful and relevant.
And now [Phaedrus] began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth - but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
I think the system can be improved. People don't learn what math *is* (symbolic manipulation of limited power, as Gödel showed with his incompleteness theorem, designed to solve certain problems humans face) or what computing *is* (implementations of abstract models closely tied to linguistics) or what physics *is* (abstractions, but probably actually just approximations, of the real world, wrapped in symbolic logic for easy manipulation by human brains) before learning about specific methods.
"The system" risks being a creativity-killer and deterring some bright students
By teaching them methods only, I think colleges are throwing away their brightest, most creative students. I think that generally speaking, colleges kill creativity in the same ways Sir Ken Robinson says primary education does. But nobody has really expressed the reason why very well. I think it is because college leaves Quality to philosophy and teaches methods to undergraduate students it treats as human equation-solvers who can only appreciate the place of methods after they study all of them.
The reason for this killing of creativity, I think, is that smart people are deterred when majors appear to be all about memorization of existing tools. COMP 455 opened my eyes to computability, abstract notions of computation, and other thought that helped answer my questions about why I'd bother to go sit in a room and learn about basic Java, data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networks et cetera.
I want to place rational tools in a larger context, analyze their power, and understand why they were created. I believe I am a good student because I want to know why I am studying a thing before I devote my life to it. For me, devotion to study before answering that "why" question meant acceptance without good reasons. It was entirely irrational.
I felt like I was mindlessly studying methods, with no direction beyond vocational application. I am capable of seeing the big picture, and was capable of that four years ago. I want more than vocational education; I want higher education.
An aside: Now that I have been enlightened, I am excited about MOOCs. I just have to teach myself where abstractions fit in the web of human understanding. Ironically, given our country's focus on four-year college, I will be responsible for my own education as a motorcycle mechanic, so to speak.
How things should be: A general description
Higher education should include thinking about how our romantic notions actually lead to our rational abstractions. By starting out seeking something like Pirsig's notion of Quality, students will see why the great thinkers of the past developed the abstractions they did. They will learn to appreciate what mathematical beauty is, and why it is more than mere esthetic.
How things should be: Two very specific solutions
Solution 1: Three classes that develop students' abilities to critically analyze abstractions
I think undergraduates should take one theory class in their field (i.e. COMP 455/Models of Languages and Computation, or What is Modern Physics, What is Modern Math) before (potentially and probably, depending on the student's prior exposure to the field) blindly and purposelessly memorizing techniques as if college is some kind of vocational program where you learn how to use existing tools.
I also think that everyone in technical fields should take an Introduction to Symbolic Logic, in order to appreciate what math is, the upper limits on its power, and to develop mathematical maturity easily. There is no reason students should be afraid of symbols. But every year, smart students drop out of math courses because they don't understand what it is they are studying. True, some can't do the work. But others are inquisitive and unwilling to blindly follow unlit paths. Light up the path a bit and you'll get a flood of bright students from the humanities flowing into technical fields.
I think everyone in all fields should take Introdution to Linguistics and Computation. The ideas behind the two can be analyzed using similar toolkits. The parallels are fascinating to me, and even if they aren't fascinating to everyone, everyone has to use both language and computation these days. The least higher education can do is enlighten us to their Quality.
There are three practical benefits to this three-course introduction to modern thought. First is the sudden, widespread development of mathematical maturity (or the state of being unafraid of symbols) among undergraduates. I believe that "my students don't have mathematical maturity" is a cop-out. We should just teach students what symbolic manipulation is all about, since it is so fundamental to modern technical thought.
Second, I just think technical subjects would make a lot more sense, and fewer truly bright and extremely inquisitive students would give up, if they could place the methods they learn in college in context in a) their field of study and b) the whole of human knowledge. For example, students whose minds are open to the theory of computation while they study programming will develop a deeper understanding of why functional programming exhibits rational beauty. This seemingly lofty theoretical suggestion would actually have a low-level vocational impact by making them better job candidates.
Third, I think that treating theory (ex. abstract computation) and methods (ex. programming) as one is the only way to generate creativity on a broad scale in higher ed.
Solution 2: Develop an intuition for Quality in abstractions by viscerally experiencing their relative utility (i.e., by studying the lower-order abstractions first)
This solution is perhaps the most clever didactic approach to higher education I have seen because it relies on students' introspection on the material to help them develop an understanding of the importance, meaning and romantic notions behind abstractions in the technical fields.
MIT teaches computer science from the ground up. They start with math and physics, building upon Maxwell's equations and logic gates to get to computation.
I pose a question about the best students in society. Which of them, given this introspection-derived intuition for beauty in abstraction, for Pirsig's Quality, could not be prepared to accept the crystallization of mathematically beautiful new thoughts, given a set of patterns to recognize from past inventors of mathematically beautiful abstractions? Wouldn't these students be not just fully capable but actually driven, by an intuitive understanding of the romantic beauty of the abstractions, towards study that truly furthers human understanding (i.e., by the creation of more subjectively beautiful and therefore practically useful abstractions)?
And most importantly for the great masses of college students: Among average students, who would not be capable of at least critically analyzing abstractions and appreciating their value?
Only by placing reason in a larger context, analyzing the value of reason, and understanding why reason was created can we value life as more than a series of milestones, people as more than objects whose labor government or capital can exploit, and undergraduate education in technical fields as more than a four-year journey of rote (interspersed, if the student is lucky, with a touch of ethics unconnected to the rational tools that constitute the primary focus of study).
Riemann didn't formalize the integral because he was an automaton with a reservoir of methodological knowledge. I feel that he must have had a full appreciation for the power of abstractions. Clearly, he needed methods to inform his thinking, and rigorous technical training to guide his work. He wasn't guided by romantic notions of abstractions. But I beg you to tell me how many undergraduate students can even tell you what an equation is - what its power is, what its creation did for humanity, and suggest a couple directions for new abstractions.
And while not everyone can be a Riemann or Newton or whoever, at least give bright students the chance to ask "why" questions before they become completely disillusioned because of a missing-the-forest-for-the-trees curriculum.
Addendum: Related Observations and Predictions
Stanford, MIT and a few others already do what I am talking about. Most seem to do it using Solution 2. With the rise of MOOCs, colleges that take the vocational approach will fade away unless they go beyond mere vocational training via the approximately the way (instilling a sense of Quality) described above.
Addendum: Request for Comments
This essay could be completely wrong, and maybe college students should blindly study methods, because the world is so complicated that the ability to develop abstractions or at least appreciate others' abstractions is beyond your average college student. I see things differently, which is why I wrote this.
This essay would be nothing without critical analysis, refinement, counter-examples and other critical discussion. Send your thoughts my way - please.
Addendum: What this essay is not
This essay is not a call for a new Great Books curriculum. It is true that the Great Books curriculum is dead. I think this is for good reason: The Great Books were written in another time, and I think their advice just isn't applicable or great anymore.
This essay is also not a call for students to study philosophy only. One can argue that philosophy as a field is failing to make an impact on our world in the way it could. Philosophy as a study should be kept, but integrated into each technical subject. The equations ultimately come from a sense of what is valuable in the world, from a sense of what "it is to be part of the world, and not an enemy of it."
Addendum: The three courses
What is X: The power of reason in your field, and the big picture
Introduction to Linguistics and Computation
Introduction to Symbolic Logic: Romantically-inspired rational-tool production*
* - This course must also teach Quality itself, and not just symbolic logic methods. That is, the ethos and open-minded didactic methods (yes, I think it is okay to use methods to teach non-methodical things) of the first two courses must be embedded in it.
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The Cheesemonger: A Bit of Crunch in Your Cheese?
Ever wonder about the whitish spots of crunch in your cheese? People have a wide variety of theories on those little crystalline bits. No, it's not salt, it's not something deliberately added during cheesemaking, it's not that the cheese is old and it's starting to dry out, and it's not a cheese mite.
Today we're setting the record straight in a big reveal of the little known component in some of your favorite cheeses.
Those bits are called tyrosine, and they're actually amino acid clusters that form with age. Tyrosine clusters are signs of a well-aged cheese, which is why you'll find them in some of the world's most loved cheeses like Parmigiano Reggiano, aged goudas, and mountain cheeses like gruyere or Pleasant Ridge Reserve.
Tyrosine is a non-essential amino acid found mainly in casein, the dominant protein found in milk. The word itself is from the Greek tyros, meaning cheese. What's most fascinating (from a dorky cheese fanatic perspective) is the reason that these protein clusters form.
When cheese is made, fats and proteins are trapped within chains of proteins that have bonded together during acidification. Groupings of these fats and proteins make up the solids, or curds, that form cheese. When cheese spends a long time aging, these protein chains begin to unravel, leaving small, crunchy deposits behind.
Tyrosine lends a distinctive textural charm to cheese, and is a welcome interruption within the body of an otherwise smooth paste. And sometimes it even compliments the beverage you may be drinking with your cheese, as in the case of pairing a full-bodied stout with a super-aged cheddar; the crunchiness of the cheese somehow matches the fullness of the beer by contributing its own textural intensity.
Tyrosine is not to be confused with the crunchiness you can find in some washed-rind cheeses. Since this category of cheese is usually washed in some kind of salt water brine, residual salt crystals are often left behind on the crust of these cheeses. When you take a bite of rind and inner paste together, the crunchiness from the outside can be mistaken for existing on the inside.
Now go and impress your cheese-loving friends with your new vocabulary word!
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Thanks! Lately I've been buying some Irish cheddar and really wondered what those little crunchies were; my least worrisome assumption was salt.
Fascinating. Thanks for the lesson! : )
The tyrosine is one of the reasons I love Robusto cheese (especially more mature versions) so much. Yay for tyrosine!
They were just talking about this in the latest Splendid Table radio show, doing a scientific analysis of the flavor of Parmagiano Reggiano. I love food science info like that!
I was just staring at some gruyere and wondering what was going on with the white bits. Thanks for the tip!
Great article, good information...very interesting! I'm a student employee in marketing at the Washington State University Creamery. Our Cougar Gold Cheese is a world renown gourmet cheddar. In 2006 it won a gold medal at the World Cheese Awards!
I deal with customer's who ask, love or complain about the "crunch" in our cheese when it is aged past two years (sometimes it is found in our 1-year aged Gold). I have known about Tyrosine Crystals, but this article expanded on the scientific approach. On our cheese the "white" powder or residue on the outside of the cheese is calcium lactate. As cheese ages it emits moisture (whey and butterfat) which drys on the cheese...leaving the white powder. In turn, the cheese becomes more sharp, flavorful, dry and crumbly. Our cheese comes vacuum sealed in a can and lasts indefinitely. One customer even contacted us who had aged the cheese around 35 years!
We recently got to open a can of cheese that was 30 years old! We documented the opening with a video camera and I'm currently working to edit it into a movie. We will post it to our website in the near future if anyone is interested.
We are a nonprofit entity...students produce, market and sell our dairy products! You can find us here: http://www.wsu.edu/creamery/.
And here is the article about the 30 year old cheese: http://cahnrsnews.wsu.edu/reportertools/news/2007/old-cheese-2007-09.html.
I enjoyed your article. Great job!
I also forgot to add we use a special culture that doesn't allow our cheese to produce a "bitter" taste as it ages!


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A behavioral therapy technique based on operant conditioning in which patients' positive behaviors are reinforced with tokens that they can exchange for desirable items
Contingency Management
A form of behavior therapy in which certain behaviors are reliably followed by well-defined consequences
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A form of cognitive therapy associated with Albert Ellis, in which the therapist actively challenges the patient's irrational beliefs
Cognitive Therapy
An approach to therapy that tries to change some of the patient's habitual modes of thinking about herself, her situation and her future
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A set of cognitive therapy techniques for changing a person's maladaptive beliefs or interpretations through persuasion and confrontation
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A hybrid form of psychotherapy focused on changing the patient's habitual interpretations of the world and ways of behving
An approach to treatment that deliberately weaves together multiple types and forms of therapy
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Medications that control, or at least moderate, the manifestations of some mental disorders
A movement that began in the 1950s that aimed to provide better, less expensive care for chronically mentally ill patients in their own communities rather than at large, centralized hospitals
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Medications that treat bipolar disorder, such as lithium
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Neurosurgery performed to alleviate the manifestations of mental disorders that cannot be alleviated using psychotherapy, medication or other standard treatments
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An emerging biomedical treatment for depression that involves applying rapid pulses of magnetic stimulation to the brain from a coil held near the scalp
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The relationship between therapist and patient that helps many patients feel hopeful and supported
Empirically Supported Treatments
Clinical methods that research has shown to be effective for treating a given disorder
Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT)
A procedure for evaluating the outcome of therapy, usually involving random assignment of participants to one or more treatment groups or a no-treatment control group
A chemically inert substance that produces real medical benefits because the patient believes it will help her
Wait-list Control
In randomized clinical trials, a control condition in which patients receive delayed treatment rather than no treatment. Before being treated, they are compared to patients treated earlier
Manualized Therapy
A form of therapy, often used in research, in which a manual describes a set of course of therapy, indicating what steps the therapist should take, what instructions to offer, and so on
Whether a therapeutic intervention works under carefully controlled conditions
Clinical Utility
Whether a therapeutic intervention works under real-world conditions
A statistical technique for combining the results of many studies on a particular topic, even when the studies used different data collection methods
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Vermillion, S.D. –- South Dakota head men's basketball coach Dave Boots has announced that standout Brandon Bos of Markham, Ontario, Canada, has signed a letter of intent to continue his career with the Coyotes starting in the fall of 2011.
Bos is a 6-foot-1 guard who attended prep school at The Kiski School in Saltsburg, Pa., in 2010-11, where he posted an outstanding season. Bos averaged 19 points, five assists and two steals per game last season in helping Kiski to a 26-9 overall mark. Kiski finished undefeated in the Independent Preparatory School League in claiming the championship. Bos averaged 22 points per game over the last 10 games of the season. He played for former Division I and NBA coach Daryn Freedman last season.
"Brandon will be a great addition to our team," Boots said. "He is a complete player who will make his teammates better. He's a great student with a 4.0 GPA and has leadership abilities. With his talent and attitude he can be an impact-level player."
Bos also had an outstanding high school playing career at Markham District High School in Ontario, Canada. As a senior in 2009-10 he averaged 27 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals per game while shooting 54 percent from the field, including 47 percent from three-point range. He had a season-high of 39 points in a contest against Alex MacKenzie.
Bos led the GTA with the greatest number of games with 25 points or more. He was named the Toronto Star Athlete of the Week and named five times as part of the Toronto Star Top 10 Performances of the Week. He was also selected to the Canadian Class 2010 "Top 50 Players by Position."
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American Legion to Set Up Crisis Center in Phoenix
In light of the recent VA healthcare scandal, the American Legion announced it will be setting up a Veterans Crisis Command Center here in Phoenix this week. The center will help veterans and their loved ones affected by the scandal.
The crisis center will have a team responsible for identifying the visitors' problems and then directing them to the necessary aid stations. Services given will include filing for benefits claims, enrolling in VA healthcare, and grief counseling. The claims station will help those who are able to prove that their veteran died because of a lack of medical care. Veterans may also be enrolled in the VA healthcare system, and those who have lost a loved one can find someone to talk to among the grief counselors.
National director Verna Jones says the center is a response by the American Legion to the concerns and complaints of veterans about their lack of health care. 1400 veterans have been waiting for medical appointments, and as many as 1700 have been kept off of waiting lists entirely. The complicated scheduling system has resulted in veterans dying before they can receive their medical help.
National chairman Ralph Bozella hopes that Phoenix's crisis center can restore veterans' faith in the VA health care system and serve as a template for helping veterans in other cities that suffer in the same way.
The center is located at American Legion Post 1 on 364 N 7th Ave. Hours are noon to 8pm Tuesday June 10, 8am to 8pm June 11th and 12, and 8am to noon on Friday June 13th.


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Suggestions for Paint Colors in Bedroom?
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Q: I have just moved into my new house and am in the process of choosing paint colors and decorating the various rooms. One room that I am anxious to get together is the bedroom. I am recently divorced and really want a nice, somewhat feminine retreat.
I have attached a photo of the room without any furniture (to get a feel for the space) and one of just the bed. Here's a link to the Lucia bedding.
Any help and suggestions would be very much appreciated. I was thinking a nice warm grey color (i.e. Benjamin Moore Alexandria), but don't want that to end up being too boring. I have also thought about doing some kind of contrast on the slanted part of the wall.
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Dark! We have a small bedroom and painted the walls Benjamin Moore's Mysterious. I'd pair a dark, cool, sexy color with something really pretty, light and feminine like a purple comforter?
We painted our bedroom walls Skimming Stone from Farrow & Ball. It's a beautiful color that shades from tan to light grey to taupe with the changing light throughout the day. I highly recommend it.
We painted our spare bedroom Drawing Room Blue (also F&B) which is a dramatic, rich navy or cobalt blue. I think it would look lovely with the Lucia bedding and bright white trim and ceilings.
Sorry about your divorce, and I hope that your new home is all you want it to be.
The C&B website shows a picture of the bedding on their Colette bed which is upholstered in a flax/natural linen color. I think the color (used as a wall color) pairs nicely with the bedding and provides a calming counterpoint to the busyness of the bed. I think dark furniture (like your night stand) and dark frames look nice and crisp against it.
Since the bedding has blue and purple in the design, perhaps a very light shade of either of those? In a space that dark I personally would choose white to brighten it up and reflect the light better. Are you a renter or owner? That carpet color is hard to work with, and I think the room would look great with a light wood flooring as well. Otherwise, the room itself looks really cozy, and I'm sure once you find the right paint color you will love it!
It looks like the room does not get a lot of light so I would choose a brighter color rather than a dark color. I do not think grey necessarily will look the best with the pattern of your comforter as it seems to have more vibrant colors and I am partial to grey with more muted shades. Although somewhat boring, I actually think a very light beige or eggshell white would brighten the room and work well with the comforter's pattern. You could make it more interesting by choosing a paint line that has certain effects in these colors (making it look more stucco, patterned, etc.). I think you could get nice curtain or shade treatments and a cool bench for the end of the bed to make it more interesting as well.
What about a cheery yellow? I could envision anything from a soft pastel to a bolder, saffron-y hue. I think a little yellow would brighten it up in there and make it quite cozy, and though I can't quite make out the exact colors in your comforter, I think adding a few of the right accessories/ accents could make it all tie in together.
From your post, I am assuming that you own the house.
If you have the funds, I would change the carpeting to something dark (carpet or hardwood) and paint the ceiling and the slanting parts a nice bright warm white. I have learned this from a professional - a dark floor and a light ceiling make a room look bigger, a light carpet can make a room look lower than it is. If you can't replace the carpet (now), you could think of an area rug.
The lower straight part of the walls and the wall with the window you can than paint in one of the lovely colors the others propose.
I would also consider a floor length curtain for the window to give it more prominence and for a feminine scrumptious look. I can't tell from the picture, but if you can I would suggest to pull the bed away from the window wall and space it with another bedside table (I don't think bed side tables have to be same necessary, they just have to match in same way).
Good luck! Creating your own space is a good way to work through your life changes.
If you want a bright fresh modern look...my suggestion would be to paint the wall behind your bed an orange (maybe a lighter brighter tone) to match the orange in your duvet.
Then paint the rest of the room (ceiling too) a nice white.
Considering the darker wood of your night stand and framed art...you could swap out orange for the darker green of your duvet. but still follow up with the white on the ceiling and other walls.
First I would pull up the carpet and see whats there if it's wood floor great just clean them up, if it's plywood just as good, maybe paint them. I would paint the room white all over and maybe some floor to ceiling sheers othe windows. Maybe some earthy bambo roll ups in the windows instead of the miniblinds. The Lucia duvet will be perfect. Pull the bed over so you have a night stand on either side. Keeps it simple. One green plant. You know if you get rid of the carpet I would put the boxspring and mattress on the floor just make sure you cover the box spring with a fitted sheet. plus lower bedside tables.
Cerulean blues and grays are in!
I would go with all white walls and ceiling, but punch up color with a hot pink area rug to bring out the fun hues of the bedspread.
I agree with the yellow idea, tough to get the right shade... I'd also throw a rug down or something, the carpet looks very bland.
Take a look at the BM off-white colors for something that will have a hint of color and paint the ceiling the same as the walls. I think bedrooms should be cozy and restful, not bright. I have a small bedroom with not much light and chose BM Paper White. It's blue-gray but not very saturated and I find I like not having the bright white ceiling hanging over me.
My bedroom is shaped similarly, and I painted it a pale grey-blue, have white bedding with an antique wool blanket and white drapes. It makes it feel like a cozy jewel-box. :) I see you have a lot of shades of taupe/brown on the walls, and I think that would just blah down the room. After such a big life event, you need something chic, not blah.
I would try a pale grey or grey-blue - soothing for sleeping and not so dark that it makes the room feel more cave-like. It would look nice with the black frames you already have and would make the bedding pop rather than blend in. You could add a soft cotton flat-weave rug in plum or taupe with white stripes, chevrons, or zig-zag (although you could pick any accent color in your bedding for this). Inexpensive white drapes would be lovely too.
You could also go for a deeper shade of green on the walls like Benjamin Moore's Urban Nature, creamy white on the ceiling (White Dove?) - will be a much happier, less blah color than your current green and I think it will go nicely with your bedding. Found this combo on Benjamin Moore's site (the beige-y color is similar to your carpet: http://www.benjaminmoore.com/en-us/for-your-home/rooms-by-color/pale-pretty-green-bathroom
Also, I'm not a fan of the location of the bed. If you have a taller wall (even under the windows), I'd move the bed there and do floor to ceiling curtains in a white similar to the ceilings. If you can replace the carpet, that's great - but I think if you have a deeper color on the walls, the carpet will be less of an issue.
Best wishes on life after divorce. After mine, I went out and bought things with battenberg lace cutouts (pillows, table covers) - had a tiny bedroom that had a greenish carpet (tried to stick with colors I already had in the 1950's house) and bright white paint and a pine four poster bed and an antique pin dresser. My bedroom was my cocoon and a wonderful place to go feel comforted and happily alone (after a not so happy marriage).
My first thought was to go with yellow, though you have to be careful - the wrong shade can make you feel like you're living in a lemon chiffon cake. Also, yellow is supposed to be an "agitating" color. I'd personally go with something light blue, trimmed with white. Also if you want to paint the ceiling, picking the same color but slightly lighter helps open up the room a bit.
I usually love lighter rooms for sleeping, but I'd honestly encourage you to go dark in this space. I think it's cozy and the dark color could help the walls recede a little bit and the angles would disappear without being invisible (best of both worlds when you have cool, interesting angles in a room but the headroom is pretty low.)
A nice milk chocolate color would be gorgeous if you kept the rest of the furniture and bedding light. Maybe even a plummy brown. I think you have the perfect space to go darker and get more creative than just yellow, white or greeny beige. Go for it!
My first thought was, should those slanted walls be painted a wall color or a ceiling color? (Or should the walls/ceiling/slants be all one color?)
When I had an attic apartment, I painted the vertical walls a dark, chocolatey brown (BM mudslide, I think). I like the suggestion of dark in this room. Consider a dark aubergine, which is pretty and feminine.
I am going through the same thing and in the process of redecorating my bedroom the way I want it...I'm going the pale pink route. I don't think that would work with your bedding...the F&B Skimming Stone suggested above would be nice. I'm looking it on the ceiling of my office right now, it's lovely. I can't describe how smoothly and lushly their paints go onto the wall.
I would not go dark. I bought into the medium grey craze for my office walls and am in the process of repainting. It turned what was a sunny and cheerful room into a cave.
Katherine, it really depends what you mean by "feminine".
The bedding you have chosen does not really have "feminine" colors, nor would I immediately think of grey as a feminine color, so I'm not sure what sort of qualities you are trying to highlight.
The shape of your space lends itself to cozy enveloping colors, which even if not feminine in and of themselves, can create a cozy, feminine atmosphere. In that vein, I would encourage you to think beyond your comfort zone: you may well like the dark color. Our first house had similar ceilings in the bedrooms, and one room I glazed with 4 colors off the Pratt & Lambert color chart on a balanced white base (called "milk white"), and it was truly gorgeous. The room wasn't too dark because the colors were quite sheer on a nice white base. In one room I did Chinese Orange, Hermosa, Haiku, and Aura (or was it almond blossom?), and in another room, I did shades of gray.
Otherwise, I would suggest a wall covering, one with texture.
For example, the wallcovering I think would be perfect in your room would be "RM 619 81 - Ses lettres de noblesse" by Elitis:
It would look lovely with your mirrored silver lamp, white sheeting (as opposed the the cream color you have paired your duvet with), and a plush white rug -- perhaps a flokati, or a rug similar to that in C&B bedding picture, some sort of a white shag rug.
Good luck!
I'm in a very similiar situation and am trying to figure out what I'm going to do as well. I'm thinking I might do different shades of teal on each of the walls in order of lightest to darkest.
Thank you to everyone for all of the wonderful suggestions. To answer a few questions, my mom and I own the home so I am kind of free to do as I choose; however, just coming off of a move and with no permanent job lined up at the moment I am stuck with just changing up the paint colors since that is all my budget will allow. I do like the idea of potentially pulling up the carpet and seeing what is below, but its not in the budget right now.
I do appreciate the suggestions on colors and also how to make best use of the angled walls. The color yellow is out as the outside and the rest of the house is already painting yellow (will be changing potentially, but for now there is too much yellow).
I guess when I said feminine, I was speaking in terms of what was considering to be too "girlish" by my ex. I'm not too into frilly, girlie stuff like lace and ruffles, but do want a nice retreat that is warm and inviting and not masculine or cold.
I have considered getting an upholstered headboard similar to that of the Colette bed (but without the hefty CB price tag) and I do like the suggestion of maybe pulling from the plum colors in the bedding. The last bedroom I had this in was a very boring, very stark builder color beige. The room had much higher ceilings, but it felt a bit too bland (even with the design of the bedding).
Keep the suggestions coming! I am going to be checking out the suggestions already made as soon as I get home and hopefully picking up some swatches to see in person.
Since I think that a silk fabric wall covering would be the most beautiful -- the texture and the glow, the sheen, are amazingly beautiful -- and I've lived in a similar space which was faux painted, I think you should glaze the walls.
This would resemble the fabric wall covering -- I think it would go beautifully with your lamp and bedding. It could be a little lighter, but otherwise, I think the grey is ideal:
Other ideas:
- Silver City Suede:
- Or one of the pale palettes of the denim line:
white walls,shabby chic short curtain panel that covers only the lower portion of a window and hits the sill ,and if possible shabby chic quilt /bed cover(target have both shabby chic curtains and bed covering at a very affordable price) ,get the bed a lil bit away from the window and place the nightstand between the bed and the wall without touching eaither of them ,you can place a large white cotton lace doily on the night stand , and a crystal chandlier instead of the fan.If you can change the carpet to hardwood that will make a huge difference ,if not place a rectangular small dark jute area rug beside your bed .
I would go with a bright warm white.
It is very dark in there.
I would first get a large area rug that pulls a color from your comforter that you like:
I'd then pick something lighter for the walls- a blue/grey, I like Behr Cloudy Day:
This way you are coordinating with your comforter, but keeping it lighter and opening the room up.
agree w/ pulling bed away from window wall & adding second table w/lamp. w/so many angles, painting walls & ceilings in different shades chops up room, not soothing. to fem up room, consider a pseudo-canopy: hang bed-width curtain rods in seam of ceiling to wall & wall to wall, get one more lucia sheet, hang from upper curtain rod & slide behind lower curtain rod, drops behind bed to make headboard. bed s/b diagonally across from door, becomes focal point for room.
I would paint the room warm white, add light curtains to both windows and try to fit another nightstand (even if it's a very slim one) with a lamp. If you can't fit another nigthstand, try to bring another table lamp in the room, on a dresser or a low bookcase. Two lamps instead of the celing light will make the room look instantly cozier.
Consider making your own upholstered headboard in a dark and sumptuous coloured fabric. Internet is full of tutorials and some of the are very easy.
And feel free to make decorating mistakes!! You can change them whenever the mood strikes (or you have a little money to spend) and nobody will complaint. It's one of the pleasures of being divorced... ;-)
Good luck and please, show us the whole room when finished.
Although I like the idea of being submersed in a pillowed room with dark colors on the wall and floor -almost as it you were at a retreat in a far away land. It would become a holiday but as relaxed as you may feel you need something that will energize you. Something soft but crisp. (Something that will get you out of bed in the morn with comfort.)
I think that it would be lovely to have a fluffy white down style comforter, with shades of pinks and soft yellows, multiple patterns, with warm elements of the organic (wood, coral, recycled newspaper, raw rope etc). I see that you are considering your walls to be in the family of gray. I think that if you choose a light gray it wouldn't overwhelm the space. If possible consider replacing the carpet to hardwood and then adding a super funky (or to your taste) rug (which will be easy to change if/when the function of the room does). Also depending on what the direction of the windows are, I would consider an elegant lace for the window treatments or perhaps a sheer white. The slanted wall makes the room feel very cottage like. You may consider painting it a very light blue (just a bit). And what's great is you can still keep some of your pieces that you already have -like the side table, the lamp, bed skirt (or dye it to make it match the chosen color), and the interesting wall art. I would keep the fan (I bet it does get hot up there) but maybe change the blades to match the cottage feel.
Good luck! There are many great ideas on this post.
palest pink wall paint. would go great with that bedding and make the room a very happy place without making you think about the pink. my sorority painted all the bedrooms that color one year and it was really nice.
I read this post a little bit too late. In such a scenario my suggestion would have been :
1) candy pink
2) silver
3) white
mintgreen, violet , orange in icecandy shades would also help as accents.
bright orange, red, neons, black, gray and purple, blue


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Green Pizza
From EatingWell: September/October 2009
Why not use cooler-weather vegetables like broccoli and arugula as an unconventional pizza topping? The arugula adds a slightly bitter, peppery taste—for a milder flavor, use spinach instead. Serve with wedges of fresh tomato tossed with vinegar, olive oil, basil and freshly ground pepper.
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- 1 pound prepared pizza dough, preferably whole-wheat
- 2 cups chopped broccoli florets
- 1/4 cup water
- 5 ounces arugula ,any tough stems removed, chopped (about 6 cups)
- Pinch of salt
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1/2 cup prepared pesto
- 1 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- Position oven rack in the lowest position; preheat to 450°F. Coat a large baking sheet with cooking spray.
- Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface to about the size of the baking sheet. Transfer to the baking sheet. Bake until puffed and lightly crisped on the bottom, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook broccoli and water in a large skillet over medium heat, covered, until the broccoli is crisp-tender, about 3 minutes. Stir in arugula and cook, stirring, until wilted, 1 to 2 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper.
- Spread pesto evenly over the crust, top with the broccoli mixture and sprinkle with cheese. Bake until crispy and golden and the cheese is melted, 8 to 10 minutes.
Per serving: 323 calories; 13 g fat (4 g sat, 7 g mono); 19 mg cholesterol; 33 g carbohydrates; 15 g protein; 3 g fiber; 511 mg sodium; 241 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (45% daily value), Calcium (34% dv), Vitamin A (31% dv).
Carbohydrate Servings: 2
Exchanges: 2 starch, 1 vegetable, 1 medium fat meat, 1 1/2 fat
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James Braly
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The marriage memoir—from Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed to Isabel Gillies's It Happens Every Day —has been a balm to beleaguered wives everywhere. But who speaks for the husbands--and tells you what you never get to hear from your girlfriends? In this sharp, funny, poignant glimpse into a very unusual marriage, sensitive, decent, shell-shocked James Braly earns the job. His marriage to a woman who is so bewitching--that at their very first meeting she corrects the handwriting he uses to write her prized name and number on a slip of paper—is by turns fascinating and casually shocking. Thus begins a romance that includes progressive adventures in extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping, even fine dining (dinner parties whose guests include a connoisseur of human placenta: "pan roasted...in cumin").
The scenes from Braly's marriage are wrapped around the story that explains why someone chooses such a partnership to begin with: a colorful, kooky family that includes a fierce bomber pilot dad, a debutante heiress mom, and a delightfully druggy sister dying in a Houston hospice, and who'd rather be dead than married to James's wife. In other words, love is what love was--only darkly hilarious.
Braly's one-man show of the same name is currently touring the country, produced by Meredith Vieira Productions, which is developing the show for television.
If God had told me, "Go down there and find the woman least suited to walk this earth with you," that woman would have been your mother. —my father
I'm standing on the sidewalk in Blue Hill, a tiny town in upstate New York, hands cupped around my eyes, peering through the plate-glass window of a Victorian house that's been converted into a café, like a thief, or a real estate agent, or—given the crazed reflection looking back at me from the plate glass—an ex-husband
"Without a scrap of sentimentality, James Braly manages to infuse his story of life on the home front with humor, authenticity, edge and that rarest of all qualities, heart."— Joyce Maynard, author of To Die For
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Yellowstone National Park rangers will be conducting vehicle safety checkpoints in the park over the June 3-4 weekend.
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UTSPS is seeking submissions for the 9th volume of Utah Sings. Deadline is June 1, 2014. See the Publications page for guidelines for submissions.
NFSPS Annual Convention in SLC, June 26 - 29, 2014
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2014 Poetry in the Park was March 21-22. See the Events page for more details.
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Why the surface of Mars is red.
It is because of the presence of Iron Oxide (III) in the surface of Mars.
It is because of the presence of Iron Oxide (III) in the surface of Mars.
Supermoon. 05.06.12
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. - Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard
- NASA Godddard
Photo of the Moon and stars by me :)
I'm currently working on an Investigatory Project about DNA and Astrobiochemistry.
I'm currently researching for Astrochemistry stuff. :)
What do chemist do in astronomy? They examine the samples from space. For example, they examine a meteorite from the outer space. :)
To terraform Mars, the planet needs a lot of transformation process. The first thing they need to do is to reduce the amount of Carbon dioxide and increase the Oxygen in the atmosphere.
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There's another interesting twist in the Albemarle County court case that saw a $10 million court settlement get reduced by the judge who heard the case.
Jessica Lester died after the car she and her husband were driving in was crushed by an Allied Concrete truck in June of 2007. The jury awarded her husband and her family what was then a record-setting $10 million settlement.
After allegations of lawyer misconduct emerged, Judge Edward Hogshire reduced that amount by several million dollars. Now in a letter to the judge, one of the jurors who heard the case is objecting to his reasoning.
Margaret Gardiner says she's disappointed that Hogshire suggested that the verdict was unreasonable, unfair and motivated by bias, sympathy, passion, prejudice or anger.
Judge Hogshire wrote her back saying that because the case is still pending he cannot say much, but thanked her for her letter. He noted that there is no legal basis upon which to require jurors to return to court to explain the reasons for their decisions.
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