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The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing is an academically challenging program designed for deaf and hard of hearing students with skills in math or science who may be considering careers in computing. The program introduces students to computers and computer programming with the goal of encouraging them to consider college majors and careers in computing fields. The Summer Academy occurred annually at the University of Washington (UW) between 2007 and 2013.
Ten to fifteen students who are deaf or hard of hearing have participated each year. Students may apply any time between their sophomore year in high school and their junior year in college. Students are recruited in multiple ways, including targeted emails to educators and counselors who work with deaf and hard of hearing students. Students are required to apply for the program and admission is very competitive. During the application process, staff communicates with students to encourage them and answer questions. Students are selected to participate in the program based on an assessment of potential ability in computing and enthusiasm to participate in an intensive experience. Prior to students' arrival, instructors participate in a "Deaf Students 101" class to learn about teaching deaf and hard of hearing students through a presentation and panel discussion with students who are deaf or hard of hearing.
While students are staying on campus, they live in dorms. Students also participate in many aspects of college life such as eating in student cafeterias, finding their way around campus, making new friends and finding time to study. Students attend classes held across campus and in the Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science and Engineering.
A typical student week includes a one-hour computer programming class four days a week, animation classes for two hours four days a week, and a ninety minute Academy Base class three days a week. During Academy Base classes, students meet guest mentors, hear graduate research presentations and student presentations on careers in computing, and observe demonstrations of current accessibility research. One day a week is set aside for the field trips to local computing companies. Based on students' preferences, interpreters and captionists are used throughout the summer. In addition, students and mentors are encouraged to communicate directly with each other by writing and/or typing to each other.
Based on their academic transcripts, students are placed in a computer programming class that best matches their knowledge and skills. Students may take a class in person at UW or an online class through a local community college. A certificated class in Animation is held exclusively for Summer Academy students. Students learn basic concepts of animation, including lighting, movement, shading, and storyboarding. Small teams work together to develop their own animations, providing students valuable lessons in leadership and working together.
The Academy Base is used to help students with personal and professional development. During the Base, students learn about financial aid options for deaf and hard of hearing students. Also during this time, deaf and hard of hearing computing professionals serve as mentors. For most students, this is their first professional networking experience. Finally, during the Academy Base, UW graduate students give presentations about their research. During the program, students also take weekly field trips to learn more about these employers. Students learn about career and internship opportunities and how to prepare for such opportunities.
During the summer, students join a private Facebook group to use for social networking both during and after the summer.
Students who come to the Summer Academy succeed in their computing classes and report that they enjoy the experience. In 2011, twelve out of thirteen Summer Academy students received a B or better in their computer programming courses. Three students received 4.0s. In evaluations, students report increased knowledge of computer programming, particularly those students with less programming experience. Likewise, students report increased skills in animation.
Besides computing skills, student participants reported that their Summer Academy experience helped them develop more general skills that will help them succeed in college and beyond. Likewise, parents have reported that their children had increased knowledge in computing as well as improved self-esteem, social skills, and self-advocacy skills. These last three skills are critical to the success of deaf and hard of hearing students in college and careers.
The Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing is a promising practice for encouraging students to study computing in college. Students who participate in the program experience college life by living in the dorms, attending classes, and forming a support community. In addition, students learn about many aspects of computing and about a variety of career paths. Such efforts can increase the participation if individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing in computing fields and benefit those fields with their expertise and perspectives.
Learn more about the Summer Academy for Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing in this replication package.


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Peru: Machu Picchu & The Sacred Valley
Tread in the footsteps of the Incas throughout this awe-inspiring Peruvian journey. We'll hike the storied Sacred Valley and its ancient site—Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman and Tambomachay—meeting the Cuyuni people along the way and learning about traditional life in the Andes. We'll ascend to the valley's crowning glory, Machu Picchu, either aboard a panoramic Vistadome train or by hiking the legendary Inca Trail. We'll end our unforgettable trip in lively Cusco where modern Peru collides with its pre-Columbian and Colonial pasts.
Cultural Highlights
- Trace footsteps of the Inca in the astounding Sacred Valley
- Approach Machu from above, and peer down at the ancient wonder from the "Sun Gate"
- Enjoy the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to hike a stretch of the Inca Trail
- Shop at a local market and get to know the locals with the help of your Trip Leaders
- Browse local crafts and art work at the artists' galleries of Cusco
- Spend a day walking the historic streets of Cusco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
- Take part in a tasty tradition by enjoying a glass of the native corn beer, at a local chicheria
- Explore Machu Picchu at dusk and day break to avoid the crowds
- Unwind at luxurious and environmentally-conscious accommodations
What to Expect
This tour features a combination of cobbled streets, uneven footpaths and rocky, irregular terrain over hills and valleys. An elective 8 mile Inca Trail hike includes a 2,000-foot elevation gain. Altitudes of between 6,500 and 13,500 feet may require a slower pace. Our VBT minibus support is available at specified meeting points for those who need assistance except on the Inca Trail, where there is no road access and you will be required to hike the entire 8 miles. Both morning and afternoon walking options are available most days. Appropriate for experienced walkers. Several of the walks require a transfer from our hotel to the start of the walk. Our tour leaders often use this time in the van for our morning route review, so we can enjoy a more leisurely morning at breakfast.
BOOK EARLY FOR THE INCA TRAIL: If you want to hike the Inca Trail, you should make your reservations as early as possible! The Peruvian government limits the number of hikers on the trail at any given time. Permits are issued on a first-come, first-served basis. Have your passport details in hand when booking your reservation with VBT. Permits are only issued for individuals, and only for a specific passport number. VBT cannot guarantee your permit. If a permit is unavailable, you will travel by train to Aguas Calientes, by bus to the entrance, and then walk into Machu Picchu. This will not impact your visit to Machu Picchu, only the hike into the site. Should you elect at anytime to take the train option instead of the hike, the permit is non-refundable.
Average Daily Mileage: 4 - 8 miles
Average Cycling Time: 2 - 6 hours
Climate Information
Average Daily Temperature (°F) – Cusco Mar 66° Apr 67° May 67° Jun 66° Jul 66° Aug 67° Sep 68° Oct 69° Nov 69° Dec 69°
Average Rainfall (in.) – Cusco Mar 4.3 Apr 1.8 May .3 Jun .1 Jul .2 Aug .3 Sep .9 Oct 1.9 Nov 3.1 Dec 4.7
What's Included:
Walking Tour Only – without Air
- 7 nights in fine hotels and inns
- 16 meals – 7 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 5 dinners
Air Package Plus
- Roundtrip international airfare
- Transfers
- 8 nights in fine hotels and inns
- 16 meals – 8 breakfasts, 4 lunches, 4 dinners
- And the option to add our Low-Cost Trip Extension: Pre-trip: Lima – 2 nights for only $445* • Post-trip: Peruvian Amazon – 2 nights for only $595**
*Please note for those traveling in 2016: Pre-trip: Lima is $495, Single supplement is $195.
**Please note for those traveling in 2016: Post-trip: Peruvian Amazon is $645, Single supplement is $195.
Both Vacations Include
- Service of two bilingual VBT Trip Leaders
- On-tour vehicle support
- FREE use of VBT custom walking poles
- Daily route directions and maps
- Welcome reception
- Sightseeing and cultural activities
- 5% Frequent Traveler Credit to use on your next VBT vacation
- Special Good Buy Discount
- Permits for Inca Trail and Machu Picchu (subject to availability)

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Hello I'm new here, just wondering if anyone knew anything about the DVI. I currently have a Lincoln 135 and want to upgrade. Right now I only need to weld up to 3/16 but thinking about going with a bigger welder just in case. Since the DVI is dual voltage,,, what I want to know is how does the DVI compare with the Miller 210 while operating on 220 volts. I know the duty cycle is slightly greater on the 210, but really won't have an effect on my decision. Also I would like to know if you can weld the small gauge stuff while plugged into 220 with the DVI or if you have to change it to 110. Thanks ahead of time for your input.
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Miller DVI????
The Millermatic DVI has a very nice short arc and does a very nice job on thin material plugged into either 115 or 230 volt input power. As far as differences between the DVI and the Millermatic 210, the Millermatic 210 has a higher duty cycle, more top end weld output, is easier to hook a spoolgun to and has gun on demand.
Both units are fully capable of welding the material thicknesses you are contemplating it comes down to what features you want.
If the output differences are not a driving factor then my opinion is, "if you plan on putting a spoolgun on the machine buy the Millermatic 210". The gun on demand feature is well worth the extra cost and as a bonus you get the extra weld output, this is of course unless you have to have the 115 volt input capability that the Millermatic DVI offers.
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UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
[FS 91/92 #26] Consenting romantic and/or sexual relationships between persons where a power differential exists (e.g., faculty and student, supervisor and employee, tenured and nontenured faculty) are strongly discouraged and should be avoided. Consensual relationships are of concern for two primary reasons: (1) conflict of interest and (2) abuse of power differential.
Conflicts of interest may arise in connection with consensual romantic and/or sexual relationships when there is an imbalance of power in the relationship (e.g., between faculty of different ranks, faculty or other instructional staff and students, between supervisor and employee). General ethical principles, reflected in the University's nepotism policy, preclude individuals from evaluating the work or academic performance of relatives, family members and/or spouses and from making hiring, salary or similar financial decisions concerning such persons. The same principles apply to consensual romantic and/or sexual relationships. Should such relationships develop, appropriate arrangements for objective decision-making (e.g., grades, promotion, salary determination, hiring) must be made.
Although conflict of interest issues can be resolved, in a consensual romantic and/or sexual relationship involving a power differential the potential for serious consequences remains. Although the policy does not expressly forbid romantic and/or sexual relationships between individuals when a power differential exists, it discourages such conduct. Individuals entering into such relationships must recognize that the reasons for entering such a relationship may be a function of the power differential.
A person entering a romantic and/or sexual relationship where a power differential exists (e.g., faculty and student, supervisor and employee, tenured and nontenured faculty) must realize that if a charge of sexual harassment is subsequently lodged, even in a seemingly consensual relationship, there are limited after-the-fact defenses against charges of sexual harassment. The individual with the power in the relationship will bear the burden of accountability. Liability protection under Wisconsin statute will probably not apply to protect the accused in subsequent litigation arising out of the relationship's effect on the student or employee. See Regents Policy 14-8.


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The PING G25 TFC Fairway Wood showcases a traditional shape with a slightly larger head design, promoting a high Moment of Inertia (MOI). Combined with low-profile construction, the G25 is forgiving and the Center of Gravity is positioned low and back to compensate for mis-hits. An Extreme Variable-Thickness Face creates an efficient energy transfer for faster ball speeds and greater distance.
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- Extreme Variable-Thickness Face - face is slightly taller than the G20 (1.31" vs. 1.27")
- Low-Profile, forgiving design - CG positioned low and back for high launch
- Traditional shape for a high Moment of Inertia (MOI) design
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Wu's resignation following allegations of sexual misconduct gives voters in Oregon's 1st Congressional District an overdue chance to replace him. (In his 12 years in office, Wu managed to sponsor exactly two bills that actually passed, according to govtrack.us.)
Democrats and Republicans will choose their nominees in a Nov. 8 primary, and voters choose the winner in a general election Jan. 31.
The victor won't get much of a break. He or she must defend the seat three months later in the regular May 2012 primary and general election the following November.
The good news is the 1st District is a prize worth fighting for, the state's bright spot amid Oregon's general economic gloom.
Over the past three decades, Washington County, which dominates the district, has added 127,000 private-sector jobs, state figures show. That's nearly twice as many as Multnomah County.
The 1st District has more manufacturing jobs than any of Oregon's other congressional districts, Census data show. And those jobs pay well. Median household income in Washington County in 2009 was $61,000, about $10,000 higher than in Multnomah County.
The district is home to many of Oregon's largest and best-known private employers: Intel, Nike, Columbia Sportswear, Solarworld and Genentech. The district is also home to the state's richest man, Phil Knight, whose fortune Forbes pegs at greater than $12 billion, and to Columbia Sportswear CEO Tim Boyle, whose company stock is worth more than $700 million.
Thanks to redistricting, most of the tony Pearl District and Southwest Portland, the city's wealthiest section, is in the district. (The special election will be run using the existing boundaries. The new lines will take effect beginning with the 2012 primary.)
But the 1st District is not just about semiconductors, solar panels, running shoes and high-end condos. The Clatsop and Tillamook state forests supplied a big chunk of the nearly 300 million board feet of state-owned timber cut last year. Seafood processors provide jobs in Astoria.
What most of the district has in common is trade. Oregon ranks seventh in the nation for its economic reliance on trade, and the 1st District counts on imports and exports to an unusual degree.
"It's hard to find congressional districts in this country that are more trade dependent," says Oregon Business Association President Ryan Deckert. "I think you could count them on two hands."
For Republicans, capturing the 1st District is harder than winning the governor's office. Oregon last elected a GOP governor in 1982, but the 1st District has not sent a Republican to Congress since 1972.
Six-term incumbent Wu, who resigned in August, was no political giant. But after squeaking past Republican Molly Bordonaro in 1998, Wu never faced another close race.
Even after a 2004 Oregonian investigation of Wu's alleged date rape of a college girlfriend, he defeated GOP challenger Goli Ameri by 20 percentage points.
Part of Wu's success came from Democrats' increasing registration advantage over Republicans.
Republicans have also repeatedly nominated weak candidates. Except for former State Rep. Derrick Kitts (R-Hillsboro) in 2006, recent GOP nominees have come into their races with little political experience or name recognition.
In 2010, Rob Cornilles, a political newcomer who owns a Tualatin sports-marketing firm, challenged Wu. Cornilles, 47, earned The Oregonian's endorsement but lost to Wu by 13 percentage points.
Now, Cornilles is back, running as a "job creator." Although his company, Game Face Marketing, which helps pro and college teams sell sports tickets, has just five employees, Cornilles claims he's trained or found jobs for hundreds since 1995.
Game Face has had a couple of hiccups. In 2003, as the Forest Grove News-Times first reported, the company settled Bureau of Labor and Industries complaints by three Game Face trainees who alleged they'd worked hundreds of hours without being paid. Cornilles denies wrongdoing, but he paid the three about $9,000 to avoid litigation.
What's never been reported is Game Face later encountered a more serious problem. Although Cornilles boasts, "For 162 months we've met a payroll," records show that in May 2007, the Internal Revenue Service filed an $83,000 federal tax lien against his company for failing to make 2006 tax withholdings.
Cornilles says an inexperienced bookkeeper neglected to make the required payments. After discovering the problem, he paid off the lien in August 2007. (He says his company has regularly been profitable. Last year he disclosed personal assets of between $8 million and $49 million—primarily his wife's property investments).
Cornilles is pro-life and opposes gay marriage. But in a district with a Democratic registration edge, he's trying hard to establish street cred as a moderate. He refused, for example, to sign the "no new taxes" pledge many federal GOP candidates have inked.
That's not the case with Cornilles' most serious rival. Tigard property investor Jim Greenfield, 64, won the 2002 GOP nomination but lost to Wu 63 percent to 34 percent. A constitutionalist who says he arrived at tea party principles 20 years ago, Greenfield boasts two Ivy League degrees (Cornell undergrad and Penn for law school), but other than the 2002 race, he's kept a low political profile. He's only raised about $5,000 for this race.
Cornilles' platform is thin, but he's run an active campaign, raising more than $500,000, and would be a credible opponent to the winning Democrat.
We give Cornilles our primary election endorsement.
Lisa Michaels, 51, a tea party activist and ad saleswoman who most recently ran unsuccessfully for the Tualatin Valley Parks and Recreation District board, is also in the race, as are Pavel Goberman and DR Delgado-Morgan.


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Machine Gun Kelly Disses The Fader and XXL Magazine
Machine Gun Kelly has some issues with The Fader and XXL, respectively. He says as much on his latest freestyle, "Champions," which finds him rapping over the classic Roc-A-Fella "Dream Team" instrumental.
MGK spits: "Yet and a couple people got a problem with me up hater magazine/ I mean


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Harper Building
4280 Geist Road
The Harper Building is home to UAFs Interior-Aleutians Campus, which oversees delivery of education to the Aleutian and Pribilof islands and the 54 towns and villages within the Doyon region in Interior Alaska.
Courses offered through the Interior-Aleutions Campus by audio conferencing, Internet and local on-site classes are administered through the educational centers in Fort Yukon, McGrath, Tok and Unalaska.
The building is named after Flora Jane Harper, who in 1935 became the first Athabascan woman and the first Alaska Native woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines.


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Take a Stand for #EqualRights4LGBTtz
LGBT people in Tanzania are under threat because of the proposed anti-gay law.
LGBT people in Tanzania are under threat because of the proposed anti-gay law.
Todo funcionario de Gobierno de Puerto Rico jura defender la constitución de los Estados Unidos, Ellos tiene una
We are all the same, sexuality does not define ones personality. There is no way that I will be able to understand
Because everyone deserves the right to love.
- Gay teens are 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide and 5.9 times more likely to report high levels
Together as a Facebook community we can let Facebook know exactly how we feel about these particular pages and get these
To help make a difference!
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Say you're a typical twentysomething in today's wretched economy. Except you want to write about sex, which maybe isn't too typical. Or maybe be a career coach, or a ghostwriter. Oh, and you want job security—so, naturally, you would rather not have a job at all.
A decade or more ago, if you fit this description, you were probably insane, or at least your parents thought so. Now you are (alert: vogue words ahead) a "slasher," someone whose career is built on doing this/that/other things, with the things separated by slashes. More precisely, you're a "solopreneur," someone who is self-employed and makes a business out of multitasking. Bringing some unity to your portfolio career requires developing your personal brand. If you succeed, you become, in effect, a micro-conglomerate.
If the jargon sounds suspiciously trendy, a genuine trend seems to underlie it. For a small but growing number of people, a new business model is emerging. These one-person start-ups believe that if you succeed in branding yourself and building a portfolio of multiple online businesses, you will enjoy not only more freedom than a traditional job can provide but also more security. Thanks largely to the Internet, you can do for yourself what your parents relied on corporations to do for them.
Take, for example, Steph Auteri, the aforementioned sex writer/ghostwriter/career coach. Auteri graduated from Emerson College and planned a traditional career path. She did freelance writing and editing and interned at several publications, but blogging and freelancing opened an opportunity to make ends meet while having more fun on her own.
"If you're not a brand, you're a commodity, and you compete on price."
"I'm trying to build a cohesive business around publishing and sex," says Auteri, who is 31 and lives in Clifton, N.J. Under her own byline, she has written for Playgirl about sex parties and freelanced an advice column called Sex With Steph. Consistent with her stated policy of over-sharing details of her intimate life, she is working on a book about being a sex writer with sexual dysfunction. For a larger share of her income, she ghostwrites and ghostblogs for sex counselors. When the recession hit, Auteri decided to diversify by becoming a consultant for people who want to freelance as writers and editors. She styles herself a "career coach for word nerds"—a rubric that, when you talk to her, suits her half-nerdy, half-naughty demeanor.
Auteri says she makes about $30,000 a year; along with her husband's income, that pays the bills. She hopes to build the business, of course, as her brand and her customer base strengthen. In any event, "I wouldn't give up this lifestyle," she says. "It's so much fun. I feel like I'm living a constant experiment. I shift gears maybe once a year depending on what's working and what's not." Next likely ventures: creating a social network (the Word Nerd Network) and developing workshops, both physical and virtual, that combine yoga with writing.
"I get bored if I'm only working on one thing," Auteri says—a sentiment characteristic of the species. "I've seen my own father, who's still miserable and hating his job and never felt he could change course. I don't want to be like that. I don't want to be miserable and stressed all the time."
To an old-media denizen, it all sounds a bit ... peculiar—as in: You call this a career? But, Auteri says, "I know a lot of people with this kind of lifestyle."
Enabled by the Internet and social networking, and propelled by the slow economy and an increasingly unreliable job market, folks like Auteri are engaging in the most radical kind of corporate downsizing—becoming, in effect, their own conglomerates and brands. "It's a change in how we see ourselves in the world of work," says William Arruda, a prominent personal-branding consultant. Most of these new businesses offer personal or professional services—writing, business coaching, social-media promotion, legal and financial guidance, Web and graphic design, to name a few. Some are built around inventions, crafts, or other products. If a business can interact online and if the capital required to enter is modest, it is ripe for solopreneurship.
Arruda and others date the new paradigm to a 1997 article in Fast Company magazine by the business writer Tom Peters. "We are the CEOs of our own companies," he wrote. "To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called 'You.' " Arruda, who had made his career in corporate branding, was taken with the concept. He launched a personal-branding business in 2001, when few people were doing it. Now the field is cluttered with personal-brand consultants and coaches.
The underlying idea, that of the brand, is old. "It's a unique promise of value," Arruda explains. Your brand isn't just a label you give yourself—it's your reputation. "Each of us has a personal brand, whether we're aware of it or not," according to Malcolm Levene, who has consulted on branding from London for 20 years.
This article appears in the June 9, 2012 edition of National Journal Magazine.


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Another historic Outback town, Bedourie started life in the 1880s as a major watering and rest stop for drovers and cattle. Cobb and Co coaches serviced the town.
Bedourie is an Oasis in the Desert. Bedourie is the administration centre of the Diamantina Shire. Covering 94,690 square metres, it is the second largest shire in Queensland and is twice the size of Denmark. Excellent town facilities include motels, hotel with meals, cabins, caravan parks, restaurant and tavern, general store, post office, fuel and auto services, police station, and a medical clinic.
A particular favourite is the 22 person therapeutic spa with the warm, fresh, crystal-clear water coming directly from an artesian bore. To soak up the historic atmosphere of Bedourie is a 'must do' experience. The Royal Hotel was first licensed in the early 1880s and has since traded continuously. The famous Bedourie Camp Oven, invented in the droving camps of a bygone era, can still be purchased in town. In contrast to all the history, the modern Simpson Desert Oasis motel, ensuite caravan park and bar offer visitors every convenience.
Just a day trip from Bedourie is the fabulous Diamantina National Park, well known for its fishing (Hunters Gorge), birds, wildlife and scenery. Overnight camping is also permitted.
In September the annual horse race meeting, in July the gymkhana, campdraft and rodeo and all the fun of camel racing draw a large number of sport loving visitors.
Permanent water in the nearby creek means numerous species of birds can be observed at Carcory Ruins. Cuttaburra Crossing is a renowned wetland area, with prolific birdlife.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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Spa features†: The Kempinski Spa offers free use of indoor and outdoor heated pools and hot tubs' two saunas' two steam rooms' fitness room & range of treatments
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(2–3 people): Deluxe twin or double rooms are approx. 35m2 with satellite TV' minibar' mini–safe' balcony' Wi–Fi' bath' separate shower' wc' bathrobes' slippers and hairdryer. Some rooms can take an extra bed suitable for a child only. Double rooms for sole use available. Deluxe rooms with mountain & gondola views also available.
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Second graders in Natick create song and video 'Call Tom Brady'
"Hey, it's the playoffs, we're going crazy, but 12 is his number, so call Tom Brady ..."
These are the newest parodied lyrics to the hit Carly Rae Jepsen song "Call Me Maybe," and they were written by second graders at Lilja Elementary School in Natick.
A few months ago an a capella group performed at the school and it inspired a group of girls in Jessie Bloch's second grade class to write a little something of their own.
"There was a group of girls who last week had changed just the chorus of 'Call Me Maybe' to 'Call Tom Brady.' It was really cute," said Bloch.
It inspired Bloch, a huge Patriots fan, to give the class a mission.
"I said if we get to the next round of playoffs, you'll have to rewrite the entire song," said Bloch.
And that's exactly what they did.
"They all have Google accounts in Natick, so they were able to go home and share the document with each other and help each other create it," said Bloch.
There are 21 kids in her class -- 11 girls and 10 boys. The girls did the singing and the entire class collaborated on the lyrics and choosing images for the video.
"The boys in the class wanted no part of the singing," said Bloch with a laugh. "But they helped them out."
The students wrote "98.9 percent" of the lyrics, she said. Adults helped out in just two spots, Bloch said -- with the word "yield" to rhyme with field and with information about Brady getting hurt in '08.
"It was really a group effort," said their proud teacher. "It is pretty cool."
It was also pretty cool when a former Patriot player's wife (who Bloch preferred not to name) saw it on Twitter and wrote to her, she said.
The project took a week to complete. And then Bloch put the video up on the school blog and YouTube.
"Everybody in school is singing it. And I can't stop singing it," said Bloch, who added jokingly, "My husband is ready to kill me."
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Kari is a member of the Norse group of moons, which orbit Saturn at mean distances ranging from 12 to 24 million km, at inclinations between 136° and 176° from the plane of Saturn's equator, and with eccentricities between 0.12 and 0.77. (A satellite's eccentricity is a number between 0 and 1 which describes the shape of the orbit. The closer to 0, the more circular it is; the closer to 1, the more elongated.)
The Norse moons all have retrograde orbits (they travel around Saturn in the opposite direction from the planet's rotation). That and their deviations from circular orbits and from the plane of Saturn's equator classify them as "irregular" satellites. Like Saturn's other irregular moons, they are thought to be objects that were captured by Saturn's gravity, rather than having accreted from the dusty disk that surrounded the newly formed planet as the regular satellites are thought to have done.
Unlike the Gallic and Inuit groups of Saturn's moons, the wide range of distances, inclinations and eccentricities among moons in the Norse group suggest that they are not the pieces of a single original object that shattered in a collision, but they may be the pieces of several such "original" objects. Kari appears to be a member of a subgroup that also includes Skathi, Skoll, Hyrrokkin, S/2006 S1, Farbauti, Bergelmir, and S/2006 S3.
Kari has a mean radius of about 3.0 km, assuming an albedo of 0.04. It orbits Saturn at an inclination of about 156° and an eccentricity of about 0.5. At a mean distance of 22.1 million km from Saturn, the satellite takes about 1231 Earth days to complete one orbit.
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The next America is arriving ahead of schedule. And it could rattle assumptions about the coming presidential election.
Last week's release of national totals from the 2010 census showed that the minority share of the population increased over the past decade in every state, reaching levels higher than demographers anticipated almost everywhere, and in the nation as a whole. If President Obama and Democrats can convert that growth into new voters in 2012, they can get a critical boost in many of the most hotly contested states and also seriously compete for some highly diverse states such as Arizona and Georgia that until now have been reliably red.
"One of the strengths of our candidacy in 2008 is, we had a broader battlefield; what these numbers suggest is that those same opportunities are there [for 2012], and there are new ones to consider," David Axelrod, who is expected to be Obama's senior campaign strategist, told National Journal.
Even as the growing minority population creates new opportunities for Democrats, however, the party faces persistent challenges within the majority-white community. In November's midterm elections, Republicans won 60 percent of white voters—the highest share of whites they have attracted in any congressional election in the history of modern polling. Since May, Obama's job-approval rating among whites has exceeded 40 percent only twice in Gallup's weekly summary of its nightly polling. Unless the economic recovery accelerates, many analysts in both parties believe that Obama could struggle to match the modest 43 percent of white voters he captured in 2008.
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Unless Democrats regain some of the support they lost in 2010, Obama has no guarantee of matching his 2008 share of the white vote, especially in metal-bending states such as Ohio and Indiana where voters without a college education dominate the white population. "You have a situation where the bleeding can be so severe that it can overwhelm the changes that are positive," says Ruy Teixeira, an electoral and demographic analyst at the liberal Center for American Progress.
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In releasing its final 2010 national results last week, the Census Bureau sent Americans a postcard from the future. From every angle, the results showed that the nation's transformation into a "majority-minority" nation is proceeding even faster than expected. Nationally, the overall share of the non-Hispanic white population dropped from 69.1 percent in 2000 to 63.7 in 2010, a greater decline than most analysts anticipated. In a mirror image, the minority population grew from 30.9 percent in 2000 to 36.3 percent in 2010.
The change over the past decade was especially dramatic among young people. In the new census, 46.5 percent of people under 18 were minority, a dramatic jump from 39.1 percent in 2000. As recently as last summer, demographers projected that minorities would make up a majority of the under-18 population sometime after 2020. At the current rate of growth, however, nonwhites will comprise a majority of children in the United States by 2015. And because of the explosive minority growth in the youth population—the people who will form families and become parents in the coming years—the nonwhite share of the overall population is likely to grow even faster over the next decade, says Brookings Institution demographer William Frey.
The census numbers are "telling us about our future," Frey says. "I see this as a pivot decade. This decade what we're seeing is, these Hispanics and Asians are really crucial to our country because they are juxtaposed against an aging white population. It is really the new minorities—Hispanics and Asians—that are driving where we're headed." Strikingly, as Frey notes, the census found that the number of whites under 18 declined by more than 4 million over the past decade, even as the number of minority young people increased by more than 6 million.
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Late August, warm summer eve, the team is still in the race, and the stands are packed. Does life get any better than this? It is Tuesday, August 28, 2001, and with Chicago trailing Houston by only 3 games, the North Side is rockin'. With the likes of Fred McGriff, Todd Hundley, Kevin Tapani, Delino DeShields, Ricky Guttierez, Bill Mueller and Sammy Sosa on the historic pitch, the hometown boys battled gamely throughout the night. Of course, in true Cubbies fashion, the team waited an excruciating 14 innings before dropping the ball (literally) and losing to the Florida Marlins, 4-3.
The pennant race of 2001 didn't last much longer than that night for the Cubs, but with this poster you are transported back to an evening when everyone in the park got their money's worth and more. Like all prints in photographer Rob Arra's Everlasting Images series, every single detail is in perfect focus, and as you pan across the image you feel like you are actually back at Wrigley Field on a warm summer's eve. You can read the scoreboard, check out the famous bleachers and rooftop patios beyond the grounds, see the ivy and the perfect grass - you can even pick yourself out of the crowd if you were actually there! For fans of the greatest ballpark in the world, this item belongs in a nice frame in a prominent place in your home or office.
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swyman ok i have read all the post about your idea and now i'm going to give my opinion.
I do think there needs to be some one that is qualified in this area to give the basic instruction to the weekend welders in the world that don't have all the skills or knowledge of some one that is a skilled welder, if this is the case then i'd be considered as an insrtucter ta my job because the guys i work with are not at the same skill level as i'm at with this trade, for example I have over 15-20yrs of welding and the guys in the shop only have 2-5yrs and not all of it is within all the same areas mig-steel,alum,cast, or tig-steel,alum cast do you see what i'm saying, so what i'm getting at is yes i do welding instruction at my full time job and some times i do get a little cash from the guys and sometimes not and NO I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THERE WELDS GOOD OR BAD. As for some one trying to sue me go a head and try it will take you for ever to get any money becuase i'l be the one who draggs it out for ever to the point where you will be saying just forget it this guys nuts(ha,ha,ha,) I do have a buddy from school that teaches welding a class at our local community carrer school and he do's charge between $90-120 for an (A & B class) and the classes are always full, so if any of you are in th coldwater,mi are and want some welding insturction shoot me a line and i'll get info for you.
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checking the local adult edd schools is a great idea. they give you a lot of leeway and would help be a buffer between you and the fool that welds the shock back on his 3/4ton with a 80amp clark. lets hope you explain size dose matter first.
they have an ornamental welding class here for like $80 or $90 they decided to just try on a whim, its been full every class. there is a big need for the home hobby guy. not to learn to weld bridges, just to do a better job at home on the stuff he dose for him or the wife. look into school options.thanks for the help
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have you talked to the schools to see why they don't have the classes any more ?? could just be they have no instructor ?? in this case you should know they do take experience into account when hiring teachers for Vo-Tec classes. might be worth a call or trip ???
best of luck. i suppose putting an add in the local shopper or paper will tell you if the market is there.thanks for the help
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Try PMing Bert. Might take him a while to answer though. The last time I talked to him he was pretty busy at work. But he can probably answer some of your questions.
One of the high schools here has a metal/welding shop and offers adult ed Basic Welding classes. Bert taught the class for a couple of semesters while he was waiting for a welding job.
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Hey swyman just thought i would give a shout to you and see if you came up with any thing else on your instructing post?
It might be a good idea if you put an ad in the local paper if some one is wanting to learn the basics of welding just for the weekend or hobby welders
you might be suprised and find that alot of people are interested but feel like ti might be to overwhelming for them to (GO TO SCHOOL AGIAN) if you know what i mean and would prefer that it be with some one on a 1-1 basis and not feel so pressured and get a more understanding of the trade.
Like i said in another post a school buddy of mine does it at the local career center an he has an A & B class the fee was $90-100 and you had to have the basic gear.


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This incredible panoramic poster features game day on campus, in all its glory. Like all prints in photographer Rob Arra's Everlasting Images series, every detail of the scene is in perfect focus, and as you pan across the image you feel like you are actually there. You can see the scoreboard, the players on the sideline and on the field, the cheerleaders, the marching band, the campus bell tower, the giant pines surrounding the grandstands, and the massive assembly of student body, alumni and boosters. If you've been to Kenan Stadium for a game, or even if you're an armchair fan, you'll love this piece - just looking at it makes you feel like you're there on gameday, cheering on the Tar Heels at the top of your lungs. Worthy of a nice frame and a central location on your sports wall-of-fame!
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How did you dismount the drive?
You need to use the Safely Remove Option under all versions of Windows to Dismount the Drive or run the risk of Corrupting the Partition Tables.
You can try running Check Disc on the affected drive and it may repair the Partition Tables but depending on how Important the data on it is you may want to pay a Professional to Recover your Data. If it's only just Nice to recover the data run Check Disc without a second thought but if you must recover the Data send it to a professional as the more you unsuccessfully mess with it now the more expensive the recovery is going to be and the less likely you are to recover 100% of the data.
I think Windows likes to reserve the D drive anyways.
No, it doesn't. It's just the first drive letter to use, alphabetically.
Is it USB or eSATA or something else ?
On power up does the drive spin up and do the usual few seconds of activity ?
Is the use of conflicting with a CD/DVD/Blueray drive or chip reader or something.
On the Win 7 system...
Disconnect the problem disk and reboot
Run DISKMGMT.MSC.
Is some device assigned to ?
Be sure to look through the lower pane list. CD, DVD etc appear only there.
If there is a then change it to some other letter.
Connect the problem drive. Is it visible at all in DISKMGMT.MSC
Try a power cycle reboot.
That's perfect advice for the problem of a drive not showing up, but it can't be the case here. Drive letters are a first-in-wins affair. Either the external drive gets and it works fine, or it doesn't get and therefore won't appear at all. It's not possible for it to kinda-a-little get but only enough to show as needing to be formatted.
Been there done that twice on non-CD laptop computers! Change it Back to F: and it should work. The drive designation appears to be reserved in Windows XP for a CD drive. Even if your computer does not have a CD drive.
I suspect your experience was a function of the laptop BIOS not Windows.
I just plugged a USB disk into my Toshiba laptop (it has no CD or DVD) and the drive came up as
It is Win 7 64bit not XP.
Also on XP if you install a second internal disk drive it will come up as and the CD/DVD will be E:
Windows isn't very smart about this stuff. D could be reserved for disks or drives, but not removables.
I have a repeating example, I have in my laptop, drive C, D, F and H. E is my CD drive. I have a mapped G drive. Whenever I plug in a new flash drive, it tries to give it the letter G, and then it doesn't show because G was used by the mapped drive. So I have to go into drive management and reassign the flash drive to another letter.
Your problem is unique to your hardware/software.
I have never had the problem you describe.
If a drive being connected cant get the letter assigned to it by diskmgmt.msc it just grabs some available letter.
Years of use, XP now Win 7, my desktop mapping drives to 3 or 4 other desktops and 2 laptops.
And on my desktop 2 eSATA drives, 4 or 5 USB drives.
A USB chip reader coming and going. It creates 4 drive letters.
Other USB drives and jump drives coming and going.
only reserved drive letters are ones already in use
you can't change the drive letter in disk management to one that is already in use
on a system with no CD/DVD drive, card reader, or floppy drive that has windows installed on the default C:\
you can assign A:\, B:\, or any letter from D:\ - Z:\ to any other partition / drive / mass storage device
windows assigns the letters sequentially after C:\
thus you generally won't encounter a USB drive getting A:\ or B:\
but if you plug in 23 storage devices you will have used all the letters from D:\ -> Z:\,
and then when you plug in number 24 you will get a drive letter assignment of either A:\ or B:\
in this case however, I agree with Col
and I'm leaning more to either the corrupt partition table or a mechanical or electronic/electrical failure of the HDD or USB -> SATA/IDE chip(s) etc. in the enclosure
removing it from the USB enclosure and attaching the HDD directly to an internal connector or a known working USB adapter will give some idea about whether or not the electronics are fried in the enclosure or if the HDD has gone for a dump,
I've seen these things just go poof for no apparent reason
recently had an HDD go poof just by touching the case while it was writing
heard a click and then it was gone, (the read / write heads were immediately barbecued)
I know it was static because of the dusty & dry environmental conditions in that particular office, but I didn't even feel it leave my finger
a static blast up the USB cable while plugging, unplugging or just grabbing it can cook these devices.
even a small static blast that you might not even feel can cook toast it
a larger static blast can **** a whole trace line right out of a PCB
Removing a USB SD card reader, flash drive, or HDD without safe removal can toast the partition table,
however, even with safe removal you can still fry it electrically with static discharge
There's more than one way for these things to go poof.
if it's a partition table corruption
there are some tools available that can correct the partition table or attempt to read the data from the disk that appears as unformatted
but an electronic / electrical failure will require data recovery services
@Who Am I Really
I have two objections to your post.
Static electricity
You are exaggerating the dangers of static electricity.
Do you not think that the designers of the actual disk drives have not worked hard to resist static electricity.
Yes external drives will just fail. They are commodity products, mass produced, always seeking lowest cost to manufacture. Cooling is often marginal. Time and heat (added by dust) take their toll. Components weaken. One day the surge of power up becomes too much and a component fails.
These fail on power up have led to the debate between "never power off" and "power off when done"
Is static electricity the great destroyer of external drives. I don't think so.
Safely Remove is not needed
The requirement to use "safely remove" is incorrect old advice.
External drives, by default have write caching disabled.
Once a few seconds have passed after the last activity the drive can just be unplugged.
In order to see the setting...
In windows explorer right click the drive -> properties -> Hardware (tab) -> in the list select the disk and click Properties -> Change settings -> Policies (tab) -> and you will see...
Removal Policy
(*) Quick removal (default)
Disables write caching on the device and in Windows, but you can disconnect the device safely without using the Safely Remove Hardware notification icon.
This is the default even for external disks that are NTFS formatted
but you can disconnect the device safely without using the Safely Remove Hardware notification icon.
That is your mistake you Can Not Safely do what you are suggesting without running the risk of corrupting the Partition Tables on the HDD itself.
When you remove the plug all you are doing is removing the power and leaving the HDD to it's own devices to park it's Read Write Heads and stop immediately what ever it was doing. If it was performing a Write to the drive no power means that the Write is incomplete and possibly the Read Write Heads could have touched the Platters damaging the Heads and the platters in the process.
While you may get away with just pulling the USB Plug 99 times out of 100 it's going to eventually come and bite you on the Backside and trash your data which is what I think you'll find has happened here.
I'm fairly certain you cannot damage NTFS that way.
But Fat32 (which it seems flash drives are still formatted too), definitely could damage it.
The point of my advice was to do some first-step basic trouble shooting.
Trying the disk on another computer would have been another first step.
Evaluate, diagnose, remediate.
What would you have advised ?
Sorry if I came across as snarky Cmd_Line_Dino. That wasn't my intention. I have a lot of respect for the people that give up their time to help out others on these forums, and I don't want to discourage you from doing so.
I did actually write another post about what I thought the issue was but it didn't save for some reason (happens to me sometimes... I think it's a problem with my laptop, it badly needs a reformat). As others have said, it is corruption; perhaps a physical fault, or perhaps from yanking the drive out without first safely removing it. Whatever the case Windows can clearly see the drive and recignizes it as being a hard drive, but it cannot make sense of the file system so offers to format it. A thorough chkdsk might fix the problem, or using a tool like TestDisk to repair the partition table might also do the trick.
I do need to point out that Safely Remove Hardware is still needed and it is dangerous advice to suggest otherwise. Sure, 99% of the time you will get away with doing it provided you wait 30 seconds after you *think* the computer has finished using it. That other 1% is the problem; that's where problems like the OP's come from. (Personally I'm lazy and yank my drives ut 90% of the time. I always safely removeh drives that have data I really care about though).
The reason you need to safely remove (even if you have optimised for quick removal turned on) is that the drive will often be accessed in the background. Anti-virus systems and poorly written shell extensions that don't close handles are the two worst offenders for this in my experience.
About using safely remove
So we should believe you rather than Microsoft ?
On there website MS CONTINUES to say it's not needed.
I will go with MS considering their decades of experience dealing with a vast universe of hardware.
But of course, as MS says, don't pull the cable while there is activity.
And why do you and others here keep saying the partition tables will be damaged.
First, for the vast majority of systems it's partition table (singular).
Second, for those systems it's a single 512 byte sector on the disk which is NEVER changed UNLESS you are reconfiguring the partitions on the disk.
Just because it's sector 0 is that why you think it's going to be changed/corrupted ?
About power being abruptly removed from an active hard disk
Disk drives are DESIGNED TO DEAL with the unexpected loss of power.
They immediately park the heads in the landing zone. Some use the rotating spindle to generate power to do the last activity and parking.
Think about how each day around the world hundreds of thousands of systems either abruptly lose power or are just powered off with no use of system shutdown. And for the vast vast majority nothing happens.
And about USB (AGAIN)
Here too, USB is designed for plug/unplug with the power on.
And here is a tidbit. In XP doing safely remove would drop the USB power.
Starting with Vista safely remove no longer drops the USB power.
Perhaps an evil MS plot to destroy USB devices ... nah probably not.
Feel free to believe what you want to it personally doesn't worry me in the slightest.
I will however mention that I make a lot of money by recovering lost data on external HDD that people have corrupted the Partition Table as you seem to prefer
I didn't say that it happens with SSD Drives or things with no movable parts but it most defiantly happens with mechanical HDD. I currently have a 2 TB Drive from a customer which is unreadable and they want their data back off it. Easy Money when the customer does stupid things. :^0
The HDD is SATA; I can't rename it back because the computer doesn't see it, even in Disk Management. There's no drive assigned with letter D.
Of course, any HDD can fail, but this problem coincided with changing the drive letter, so it's quite a low probability that the cause is different.
It doesn't show anything, not even unallocated space?
Sounds more like the drive is dead.
Were you able to use the drive for awhile after changing it to ?
Have you tried it in another system ?
Does it even spin up ?


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