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Parent Teacher Student Association
Membership Meeting 2nd Wednesday
every month at 7PM in the Library
Raffle Winners!
Click for the complete list of
Lincoln's PTSA Mustang Raffle 2015
PTSA Scholarship
Twelve (12) students will receive a $500 scholarship at the ALHS Senior Awards Ceremony.
Qualifications: (must meet all the qualifications below)
*Current graduating seniors at Abraham Lincoln High School.
*Cumulative GPA of 2.5 or higher.
*Excellent (E) or Satisfactory (S) in Citizenship in all Spring 2015 classes.
*Attend a university, community college, or an accredited vocational or technical
school in the Fall of 2015.
Procedures and Deadline:
1. Complete application found HERE.
2. Part A – Citizenship must be completed by all of applicant's Spring 2015 teachers.
3. Part B – Cumulative GPA must be filled out and signed by academic counselor.
4. Part C – Short Essay Response (not to exceed 150 words). See application for prompt.
5. Return application and short essay to Ms. Martinez in the College & Career Center no later than Friday, April 24th, 2015.
Message from the PTSA President
Stay involved. Stay informed. That is our mantra. So many opportunities to be involved with your Abraham Lincoln
High School student! Staying involved and informed not only helps improve student success—it can be fun for you too!
It has been great seeing some new faces at our recent events like the 8th Grade Open House, Visual and Performing Arts
(VAPA) Festival, 11 th/12th Grade Night, Financial Aid Night, and the December potluck!
Our last general membership meeting was devoted primarily to a discussion of the implementation of the new Common
Core Math Standards. We had representatives from SFUSD, ALHS math department and students as well as Ms. Akram,
our Assistant Principal of Curriculum and Instruction. It is evident that there is a need for further dialogue and idea
generation as we work together to help our students thrive during this period of great change. I strongly encourage you to
stay informed and speak up. Watch for announcements of more meetings, and by all means contact us if you would like to
take an active role.
Looking for more opportunities to get involved and be a part of the experience?
February 11 th is our PTSA General Meeting and where we will be holding the Big Raffle Drawing! Come join us in the
library, enjoy the camaraderie, buy some raffle tickets, compete for door prizes, and see if YOU are the big winner this
February 12th is the Job/Career Fair at lunch time. A great opportunity for students to find out about careers, summer
internships, part time jobs, and more! We need parent volunteers – let us know if you can come by the cafeteria between
1:45-3:45 to help us host this event.
Board and Committee Chair positions! It is time to prepare for next year – and we would love your help. Consider
taking on (or sharing) a leadership position. There are lots of ways to help – anything from the President, Treasurer or
Secretary to Membership, Fundraising, and Website. I would be happy to help you understand what some of the positions
are and help you find a place that you would be comfortable in AND do some great work for the Abraham Lincoln High
School community.
Keep an eye on the school calendar for events you might be interested in – athletic competitions, concerts, talent show,
and the Brotherhood/Sisterhood Alliance! Stay involved. Stay informed.
Eve Barringer
2014/2015 President ALHS PTSA
College & Career Center November Events*
November Events & Reminders:
December SAT Test Regular Deadline
December ACT Test Regular Deadline
Last day College Center will be accepting UC Personal Statements for review. Please turn them in by 4:00pm at the drop boxes on Ms. Zales or Ms. Martinez' desk in the College Center.
Other Helpful Things to Remember:
Make sure a College Center Counselor reviews your application before submitting
Apply for the CSU EOP Program. This is an additional application after you submit your
CSU Admission Application.
Send official SAT and/or ACT test scores to your target schools
CCSF Online Admission Application is now open for students interested in applying for Spring/Summer/Fall 2015
*Events subject to change. Check School Loop regularly and www.lincolnhigh.net for updates!
Easy Fundraising Opportunities
FREE MONEY for our SCHOOL!!
Do you shop at these stores? Tell them you are from ALHS --they will make a donation to our school!
COLE HARDWARE – www.colehardware.com
Lincoln will get a gift card equal to 10% of all purchases made throughout the year. Just mention 'Abraham Lincoln HS' when you make your purchase. Their nearest store is at 956 Cole Street (at Parnassus, near UC Medical Center).
LUCKY S.H.A.R.E.S. - www.luckysupermarkets.com/shares/index/overview
Get your S.H.A.R.E.S. card by contacting (firstname.lastname@example.com 415-759-2700). It's simple! Shop, swipe and earn points at any participating supermarket (Lucky Supermarkets, FoodMaxx and S-Mart Foods). A portion of the qualified purchases will automatically be donated to ALHS in the form of S.H.A.R.E.S. points. The more points you earn, the more money you earn for Lincoln. Up to 3% of the qualified purchases are credited to our account with each swipe. Every quarter, we will receive a check for our share of the qualified purchases- we will need to earn at least $5 to receive a check.
MOLLIE STONE'S - www.molliestones.com
Contact Bill Barnickel (email@example.com or 415-309-8087) for a Community Card. With the Mollie Stone's Community Card, Mollie Stone's will contribute up to 5% of your total purchases to our school. Register online to select up to three organizations to receive contributions from your purchases.
OFFICE DEPOT - www.officedepot.com
Present our school ID number (70014088) or mention 'Abraham Lincoln HS' when you shop online, over the phone, or at your neighborhood Office Depot store. They will give ALHS rewards equal to 5% of the qualifying purchases in the form of a gift card that can be used towards supplies for our school and teachers!
SPORTS BASEMENT - www.sportsbasement.com
Mention ALHS and you will receive 10% off your purchase and Lincoln will get 5%!
Sports Basement is an outlet sporting good and outdoor store selling the best brands at basement prices. Visit their warehouses for brands like The North Face, Burton, Asics, Adidas, Nike and Under Armour all at 10-60% below retail. They also rent skis, snowboards, bikes, and camping equipment for the whole family as well as offer discounted lift tickets to Tahoe resorts and hold monthly bike maintenance clinics.
SF locations: 610 Old Mason Street (Presidio) and 1590 Bryant Street (Potrero Hill).
TARGET – www.target.com
Target pledges 1% of purchases made with the Target Red Card. You will have the opportunity to designate ALHS as the recipient. Our Target School id is (#35250).
Please contact Bill Barnickel (email@example.com 415-309-8087) or Pauline Lee (firstname.lastname@example.com 415-586-3186).
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Thai beef stir-fry
Cooking timePrep: 5 mins Cook: 5 mins
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 4
A no fuss shopping list and super-quick to prepare, the perfect after work meal
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Easily doubled / halved
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 178
- protein
- 22g
- carbs
- 1g
- fat
- 10g
- saturates
- 2g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 1g
- salt
- 0.55g
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 400g beef strips, or steak cut into thin strips
- 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- handful basil leaves
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Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2007
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Comments, questions and tips
Really great really quick recipe! use a small chilli for more heat. I decided to augment the recipe with 2 teaspoons of sugar and one of rice wine, I also served it with some spinach! lovely! buy make sure you buy good quality beef mine started to stew with he amount of water which came out of it! it also ended up being dramatically less than the amount needed for the recipe.
Very tasty and easy to do.
Without reading any of the other comments here, I made the decision to augment the recipe by adding in 1 birdseye chilli (with seeds), a handful of sping onions chopped, and for the sauce, to the recommended level of oyster, I added several healthy shakes of dark soy, and a lesser amount of Mirin for sweetness.
Very nice - the heat was sharp and lingering but bearable, stayed on the lips but if the calories count is to be believed not on the hips!

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We have a big night of soccer radio, as Glenn Davis will be hosting Soccer Matters on ESPN 97.5 FM from 7-9 p.m. Following yesterday's announcement that CSN Houston will be the new home for Dynamo soccer, Davis will discuss the importance of the deal to the Dynamo organization. This is also an opportunity for fans to call into the show and voice their opinion of the deal.
Davis will speak with Dynamo president Chris Canetti and head coach Dominic Kinnear as well as discuss last Tuesday's friendly between the USMNT and Canada at BBVA Compass Stadium.
The call-in number for the show is (713) 780-ESPN.
On Wednesday, the Houston Dynamo announced a multi-year partnership to make Comcast SportsNet Houston the new home for Dynamo soccer. We caught up with Dynamo president Chris Canetti to discuss the new partnership.
It's not every day that Houstonians get to see the U.S. men's national team up close and personal. And it's even more rare when Houstonians get a front-row seat to see one of their own don the red, white and blue. So it was a truly special affair on Monday, when Dynamo midfielder Brad Davis, goalkeeper Tally Hall and forward Will Bruin took part in the USMNT's open training session at BBVA Compass Stadium ahead of Tuesday's friendly with Canada (8 pm CT; BUY TICKETS).
The Dynamo trio has been training with the national team over the past two weeks. Davis, the veteran of the group, has been in two prior January camps, and has five total caps for the USMNT. Hall and Bruin are in a senior national team camp for the first time.
Following Monday's training session, all three players spoke to the media about the opportunity to represent their country in their home stadium in front of the Dynamo fans.
In case you need more of a reason to attend Tuesday's match, former Dynamo midfielder Dwayne De Rosario will be in the lineup for Canada. Think De Rosario is excited to play in front of the fans that supported him for all those years in Houston?
In #houston @bbva compass field in front of Muriel. Some special memories for @houstondynamo #Dynamo with special fans twitter.com/dwaynederosari…
— Dwayne De Rosario (@dwaynederosario) January 28, 2013
With six weeks until the Dynamo open their 2013 campaign, fans now have the opportunity to buy tickets to the March 2 home opener vs. D.C. United and the March 5 CONCACAF Champions League match vs. Santos Laguna. Tickets went on sale Saturday at 2 p.m. and fans flocked to BBVA Compass Stadium to secure their seats.
After defeating Houston Baptist University 3-0 Saturday morning, Brian Ching, Bobby Boswell, Giles Barnes, Ricardo Clark and Eric Brunner spent their afternoon at BBVA Compass Stadium talking with ticket buyers and thanking them for their support.
Haven't purchased your seats yet? We suggest you don't wait much longer, as both matches are expected to sell out. For more information about Dynamo tickets visit HoustonDynamo.com/Tickets or call (713) 276-GOAL.
The weather forecast calls for 70 degrees and clear skies in Houston on Saturday, which is good news for soccer fans who are looking to see the Dynamo in action.
Houston will continue their preseason campaign with a scrimmage against Houston Baptist University at 11 a.m. at the Houston Amateur Sports Park. The Dynamo opened preseason camp on Monday and defeated the Dynamo Academy 3-0 in a scrimmage on Thursday. Saturday's scrimmage is free and open to the public.
Speaking of the Dynamo Academy, for fans who can't get enough live soccer, the Dynamo Academy will host the Sporting Kansas City Academy on Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday, the U-18s will kick off at 2 p.m. with the U-16s to follow at 4:30. On Sunday, the U-18s kick off at 10:30 a.m. with the U-16s to follow at 1 p.m.
The Dynamo U-18s currently sit in fourth place in their division, one spot ahead of the Sporting KC U-18s. The Dynamo U-16s are in third place in their division and are coming off a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over Dallas Texans last weekend.
Word on the street is that Tally Hall is surprising folks at the U.S. men's national team camp with his strong play. That's no surprise to anyone who has watched Hall emerge as one of the top goalkeepers in Major League Soccer over the past two years.
More #usmnt tidbits: hearing that Tally Hall has been impressive all camp, could be surprise starter in goal vs. Canada.
— Doug McIntyre (@DougMacESPN) January 25, 2013
The 27-year-old Hall has two seasons as a starter under his belt and led the Dynamo to the MLS Cup final in each of the past two years. Hall is currently in his first camp with the USMNT. Dynamo fans will be eager to see if their goalkeeper can represent the red, white and blue when the U.S. takes on Canada at BBVA Compass Stadium on Tuesday.
Click here to purchase tickets for Tueday's match.
Listen to Tally Hall's Friday interview on Yahoo! Sports Radio's Afternoon Delight with John Wessling and Adam Clanton.
Elsewhere around the interweb, Brian Sciaretta caught up with Will Bruin to discuss the January camp. Click here to read his article in the New York Times Goal Blog.
Tickets for the first two Dynamo home games of 2013 will go on sale tomorrow at 2 p.m. at an autograph session at BBVA Compass Stadium. Tickets will be available for the March 2 MLS opener against D.C. United and the March 5 CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal match against Santos Laguna.
All fans who purchase tickets to either game at the BBVA Compass Stadium ticket office (2200 Texas St., Houston) will have the opportunity to receive autographs from Dynamo forward Brian Ching, midfielders Ricardo Clark and Giles Barnes and defenders Bobby Boswell and Eric Brunner.
Once tickets are purchased, fans may enter the stadium through the adidas Dynamo team store and proceed to the Budweiser Deck to receive autographs and take photographs with players and the 2012 Eastern Conference Championship trophy.
In 2012, the first five games at BBVA Compass Stadium sold out. The first two home games on the 2013 schedule promise to be in-demand as well. The March 2 encounter with D.C. United is a rematch of the 2012 Eastern Conference Championship, a 4-2 aggregate series win for Houston. The Dynamo's March 5 opponent, Santos Laguna, reached the 2012 CONCACAF Champions League Final and captured the Mexican League's 2012 Clausura title. It is also the first-ever meeting between the Dynamo and Santos.
Tickets will also be available at HoustonDynamo.com/tickets.
When BBVA Compass Stadium opened last May, the promise of not only Dynamo soccer but international soccer was a major appeal to the Houston community. Since then, the downtown venue has hosted a Mexico-Guyana World Cup qualifier and the penultimate match of the U.S. women's national team gold medal victory tour. Next Tuesday, BBVA Compass Stadium will have its first opportunity to host a U.S. men's national team match, and after this morning's news from CONCACAF, another high-quality national team fixture might not be far away.
CONCACAF announced Wednesday morning that BBVA Compass Stadium is one of the 13 venues that will host matches in the 2013 Gold Cup that will run from July 7-28. With its rich soccer history and diverse population, it's no surprise that Houston was chosen as a host city for the tournament. Reliant Stadium hosted the 2011 Gold Cup semifinals and was packed to the rafters with fans of the El Tri and the U.S. national team.
"It's great to see the Gold Cup coming to BBVA Compass Stadium," said Dynamo president Chris Canetti. "I think it makes a statement that BBVA Compass Stadium is highly regarded as a top venue and Houston as a top market for international soccer matches. I am happy that CONCACAF recognizes these very important aspects and has awarded us with the games."
Aside from the stadium being decked out in orange, the Dynamo could have at least one player participating in this summer's tournament. Boniek Garcia's Honduran squad qualified for the 2013 Gold Cup after finishing the Central American Cup group stage with an 0-0-2 record. Los Catrachos will face Belize on Friday in the semifinals, with the winner advancing to Sunday's final to take on the winner of Costa Rica and El Salvador.
The Dynamo will not lose any of their Jamaican players for this summer's tournament, after the Reggae Boyz failed to advance out of their group in the 2012 Caribbean Cup. With three Dynamo players currently in camp with the U.S. men's national team, it's possible any of Will Bruin, Tally Hall and Brad Davis could earn a call-up this summer, but official rosters will not be announced until late June.
The U.S. men's national team played a closed-door scrimmage yesterday afternoon against Club Tijuana's reserves at the Home Depot Center. We don't expect any highlights to surface, but reports have said that Dynamo forward Will Bruin scored two goals in his side's win. Wasserman Media Group agent Aaron Maines appears to have had a front-row seat for the scrimmage (as evidenced by his Twitpic) and sent the following update:
FINAL: USMNT 3, Club TJ 0.Parke & @wbruin (2) w/ 2nd half goals. #USMNT twitter.com/Amaines/status…
— Aaron Maines (@Amaines) January 23, 2013
This is definitely good news for Bruin, who is in his first camp with the USMNT. It's too early to say if this type of showing might earn Bruin a spot on a World Cup qualifying squad, but if he continues to show well in training, there is a good chance to see Bruin line up against Canada for the January 29 match at BBVA Compass Stadium.
READ: Bruin impressive Klinsmann in first camp
TICKETS: Get your tickets for the January 29 friendly at BBVA Compass Stadium


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A hearing this week could begin resolving lawsuits that threaten to delay the sale of Cedar Fair.
At least seven lawsuits have been filed arguing the amusement chain and its board failed at their financial responsibility when they entered into a deal with Apollo Global Management last month.
The $2.4 billion sale would allow Apollo to absorb about $1.6 billion of Cedar Fair's debt and offers unitholders $11.50 per unit.
Erie County Common Pleas magistrate Steve Bechtel said he scheduled a hearing for Thursday to discuss requests to speed up the information-gathering process and possibly combine the lawsuits into one.
The court will also consider an application that orders an adviser who consulted with Cedar Fair about the deal to provide testimony in a New York court.
Click HERE for continuing coverage of the Cedar Fair deal.
The Sandusky law office of Murray & Murray will represent Cedar Fair.
Dennis Murray Sr. could not be reached for comment.
One of the lawsuits filed was on behalf of Pat Herring of Pennsylvania, who owns 561 units and said she wants the sale stopped unless unitholders receive a higher price for their shares.
She said Cedar Fair has been a good company, and she expects the unit price to go up. She said unitholders had no warning of the impending sale.
The lawsuits allege board members did not seek the highest price for unitholders. Spokespersons for the company have said they considered a wide range of options before concluding this deal was in the best interest of unitholders.
The $11.50 offer represents a 28 percent premium over the Dec. 15 closing price.
Cedar Fair's sale to Apollo must be approved by voters representing two-thirds of the approximately 55 million outstanding units.


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Download owner's manual Floor-standing loudspeaker Grille (installed) 4 Rubber tipped leveling feet 4 Carpet spikes Spike wrench Port cover Input terminal jumper (installed) Owner's manual (English/ French/ Spanish) Warranty information psb website information Features and Specs General Enclosure Bass Reflex Finish Wood veneer Color Black ash Tweeter Dome Tweeter Size (inches) 1 Midrange Size (inches) 4 Woofer Size (inches) 6.5 Woofer Composition Fiberglass Woofer Surround Rubber Built-in Powered Sub No Video-Shielded No Connector Type Posts Bi-amp Inputs Yes Parts Warranty 5 Years Labor Warranty 5 Years Specifications Power Range 20-300 Frequency Response 30-23k Hz Sensitivity 90 dB Impedance (Ohms) 4 Amplifier Power --- Height (inches) 43 Width (inches) 8-3/4 Depth (inches) 12-7/8 Weight 61 lbs Product Research Driver Technology Enclosure Design Connections Mounting Options Specifications Driver Technology Cone Design: The midrange and woofer cones are a laminated sandwich design; each has a fine weave fiberglass layer along with a compressed, felted natural fiber laminate. The result is a rigid cone with added damping properties. The central dustcap offers a second connection to the voice coil to improve bass and midrange control. The inherent distortion resulting from the magnetic field generated by the input signal reacting with the field in the magnetic structure's air gap and the self-induction and impedance that varies with cone movement are addressed using an aluminum shorting ring within the magnet structure, an aluminum phase plug on the pole piece, and a shorted copper turn on top of the pole piece. The aluminum phase plug also mechanically smoothes the response and acts as a heat sink for the voice coil, reducing power compression. The drivers use cast aluminum baskets and rubber surrounds. Tweeter: The 1" titanium, Ferrofluid cooled dome tweeter has a neodymium motor structure and an aluminum heat sink. The mass (low) and stiffness (high) are optimized for the required wide frequency response. Crossover Network: The crossover is a 3-way acoustical fourth order Linkwitz-Riley type with a 24 dB/octave slope. Tight tolerances were used when choosing the crossover components; heavy multi-laminated iron cores are used for large value inductors, high gauge wire air core inductors are used for medium and small values, all the capacitors are low loss and film capacitors are used for the midrange and treble frequencies. Enclosure Design Cabinet: The cabinet is an integral part of speaker design and has a dramatic effect on the overall sound of a speaker. PSB uses a combination of aluminum and wood in the Synchrony One's construction. The front baffle and rear panel are made of double wall aluminum extrusions. The aluminum panels are very rigid and precisely machined with contours to preserve the sonic characteristics of the drivers. The side panels are seven layers of 3mm MDF, curved for added stiffness, with a wood veneer exterior. 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The Food and Drug Administration won increased funding to allow it to complete construction of a laboratory complex at its White Oak headquarters campus, but its other consolidation plans remain on hold under the latest stopgap federal spending plan.
The continuing resolution President Barack Obama signed Tuesday boosted the authorization for the FDA's Silver Spring expansion by $21.3 million to $61.7 million for fiscal 2013, which ends Sept. 30. The money will allow the agency to complete ongoing construction and equip its Life Sciences-Biodefense Laboratory complex, which is scheduled to open in fiscal 2014.
Ultimately, the FDA plans to relocate 3,393 employees to the 130-acre White Oak campus, bringing the total to 8,889. But Congress left unfunded FDA plans for communications and distribution buildings and a parking garage.
In the long run, the 10-year sequestration plan — which would impose $1.2 trillion of cuts to the growth federal spending — could cause lots of headaches for Maryland landlords. In 2014, the state faces a 1.8 percent cut in total payrolls, second worst in the nation after the District of Columbia, according to a report by broker CBRE.
Jeffrey Kottmeier, CBRE's director of research, said tenants in the metropolitan Washington, D.C., area should take advantage of favorable market conditions. Because of high vacancy rates, tenants might be able to renegotiate leases or acquire more efficient, better-located space.
Broker Colliers International predicts a mixed result from the sequestration because the GSA is largely immune to direct cuts because its leasing program is sustained by federal agency payment to the Federal Buildings Fund. So short-term, private landlords are ensured continued payment under existing leasing agreements.
But Collier's Kurt Stout warns about the long-term effect, as agencies absorb staffing cuts and don't need the same amount of space the GSA has leased for them.
He wrote, "If there is peril in GSA's occupancy agreement structure it is that most of these agreements allow the tenant agencies to give their space back to GSA with just 120 days notice — this despite the remaining term on the lease. That won't impact property owners directly because GSA must continue to pay rent, but it could create vacancies within the GSA's inventory that the government will seek to backfill. If the Sequester lingers we can expect that these backfill spaces to develop a growing gravitational force, pulling tenancy out of other buildings as leases roll."
He said the trend toward GSA downsizing already is under way without the sequestration, thanks to the practice of freezing funding under annual continuing resolutions and the Obama administration's directive to freeze the federal real estate footprint.
Dan Tangherlini, the GSA's acting administrator, warned lawmakers during a House hearing last week that continued budget cutting could cost more money in the long run.
He said the agency is working on a budget baseline dating to 2010, the last time Congress passed an appropriation bill, which has forced federal property managers to defer repairs and renovations.
"Business benchmarks in real estate say invest 2-to-4 percent of fair market value for repairs," Tangherlini said. "One dollar of maintenance and repair obviates the need of four to five dollars of capital investment. Boilers stop working. Roofs that fail. This is what it's like on a very grand scale to be a homeowner."
Already, an effective freeze in new construction has forced a halt in plans to consolidate the massive Department of Homeland Security headquarters and could get in the way of the FBI moving to Greenbelt or another new home.
Even so, the FDA fared better than most agencies as Congress avoided a federal shutdown by passing a spending bill that locks in $85 billion in government-wide sequestration budget cuts this year. The increase for White Oak marks a sharp turnaround since the continuing resolution passed for fiscal year 2011, which provided no designated funding for headquarters construction. The FDA ultimately won $44 million that year, when the General Services Administration responded to appeals by Maryland lawmakers and dedicated more than half its $82 million building budget to White Oak.
When completed, the campus will include more than 1 million square feet of usable office space under a decade-old consolidation program that has moved workers from Rockville and Bethesda.
The FDA's budget death-defying act is just the latest case of how Maryland has lucked out as Congress still manages to set some priorities even as it has created a series of federal financing crises since Obama took office in 2009.
In Urbana, construction continues on the $192 million Social Security Administration's National Support Center, which helped increase office construction nationwide by 14 percent in February from January, according to McGraw-Hill Construction's monthly report.
Arlington-based AvalonBay announced it sold a 564-unit apartment property in Rockville for $135 million to an undisclosed buyer.
The 551,000-square-foot garden-style complex was completed in 1995 at 9901 Gable Ridge Terrace. It was 91.5 percent occupied at the end of 2012, according a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
AvalonBay recorded the cost of the property, after $21.9 million in total depreciation, at $48.4 million.
Montgomery County planning staff recommended approval of the site plan for Bethesda Center, an office, hotel and retail complex fronting Wisconsin Avenue.
The project includes 253,787 square feet of office space, a 12-story, 196,357-square-foot Westin hotel, 16,326 square feet of restaurant and retail and a 576-space underground parking garage on 2.1 acres in the Woodmont Triangle.
The Planning Board will consider the proposal by the Bernstein Cos., based in Washington, D.C., at its April 4 hearing.
The complex would raise the skyline of the block between Woodmont and Wisconsin avenues just south of Norfolk Avenue. The project, which won preliminary plan approval in 2011, would replace the Bethesda Court Hotel at 7740 Wisconsin Ave., Tako Grill and the Connor Building, a two-story office and retail center.
The plan has been revised to address concerns about obstructing light, air and views for the neighboring Bethesda Place building. The project steps down in height, consistent with surrounding properties and approved plans, according to the staff report.
"The height and massing does not adversely affect the surrounding properties in a manner inconsistent with urban environments," the report said.
Bernstein's preliminary plan amendment also proposes to increase the number of hotel rooms by 19 for a total of 222 rooms and reallocate 2,885 square feet of office use to restaurant/retail and hotel use.
The plan by Potomac-based Willco Cos. to build a 292-unit apartment building on the site of a surface parking lot in downtown Silver Spring goes before the Montgomery County Planning board April 4 with staff recommendation for approval.
The proposal scraps a plan approved in 2009 that would have added a 191,281-square-foot office building to the northern end of the Georgia Avenue corridor. Instead, the developer proposed a 161-foot-tall multi-family property that includes 261,737-square-feet of residential uses and 1,619 square feet of retail use.
Willco proposes to build 240 market rate units, 35 moderately priced dwelling units and 17 workforce housing units on the 0.69-acre site.
The plan ends hopes of restoring office space to the property at 8621 Georgia Ave., which served for 34 years as the first home of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory before it moved to Howard County in 1976.
Willco is not alone in dropping plans for office space in downtown Silver Spring in favor of apartments. The property sits 75 feet north of Colesville Road, next to land owned by Lee Development Group, which is waiting for demand to perk up for an office building that was approved in 2008 next to the Fillmore music hall.
Guardian Realty Investors of Bethesda also dropped plans for a 13-story office building one block north of the Willco property on another surface parking lot at 8711 Georgia Ave. Construction has started on a 160-unit apartment building.


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Running a business such as a dental services, medical services, law offices, chiropractic offices and dating has one thing in common – relationship. Both of these aspects will run well or run bad depending on how your relationship whether with your customers (business) or your partner (dating). The kind of relationship you build will determine if you can get your customers to trust and like you. Here are some useful tips for your customers can come to trust and like you.
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Adult Care Facility Annual Survey: Beginning 2013
The Department of Health requires adult care facilities (ACFs) to complete an electronic filing of each facility's licensed adult home and enriched housing program bed census, payor mix, and age demographics on an annual basis. These facilities include adult homes (AHs), enriched housing programs (EHPs), assisted living programs (ALPs), assisted living residences (ALRs), special needs assisted living residences (SNALRs), and enhanced assisted living residences (EALRs). Available bed and occupancy information in ACFs are self-reported and is not audited by the NYSDOH. This dataset is refreshed on an annual basis. For more information, check out http://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/adult_care/ or go to the "About" tab.
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Adult Care Facility Quarterly Statistical Information Report: Beginning 2013
This quarterly report contains demographic and bed availability information reported by Adult Care Facilities (ACFs). The regulations governing the operation of Adult Care Facilities (ACFs) – Standards for Adult Homes 487.10(e)(2), Adult Care Facilities Standards for Enriched Housing Programs 488.10(e)(4), and Standards for Residences for Adults 490.10(e)(4) – require each operator to submit a quarterly statistical information report. Available bed and census information is self-reported and is not audited by the NYSDOH. The ACF census database allows for; 1) Demographic information on Adult Care Facilities licensed in New York State; and 2) A mechanism to collect and report on the availability of certified adult care and assisted living facilities. For more information, check out: http://www.health.ny.gov/facilities/adult_care/, or go to the "About" tab.
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I have a friend who is 24 and can barely make mac and cheese from a box. She lives with her grandparents due to some tough financial situations, so she survives, but she is always very impressed with the things I (and others) make. Just yesterday she was floored by the fact that brownies can be made from scratch.
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We used to work with our hands. Back then better results were achieved by working harder. The problems we faced were tangible and the solutions quick to test and implement.
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Indiana Court of Appeals upholds Evansville smoking ban | READ THE RULINGS
EVANSVILLE - The Indiana Court of Appeals said Friday that a Vanderburgh County judge correctly denied injunctions requested by a group of tavern owners and private clubs against Evansville's smoking ban, which took effect last April.
The legal fight began after the Evansville City Council passed the ban on Feb. 13, 2012 that exempted the gaming floor of Casino Aztar.
At a March 28, 2012 hearing, attorneys Charlie Berger and Les Shively argued separately that bars and clubs are similar to Aztar because they pay taxes and provide the same types of entertainment.
But Superior Court Judge Robertt Pigman ruled that Aztar pays different taxes, is more closely tied with the city and provides different entertainment.
The private clubs and tavern owners claimed that the smoking ban violates Section 23 of the "Indiana Constitution, the Equal Privileges and Immunities Clause," because Casino Aztar received an exception that was "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable," according to the court filing.
However, the Court of Appeals said that a ruling in a 1994 case established that in order to pass a law giving different privileges to different groups, it must be shown that there are characteristics that distinquish the two groups and that they are not equal.
The Court of Appeals said that the private clubs and Casino Aztar "have different clientele and primary sources of revenue, differing obligations as to payments due to the (City of Evansville) from their revenue, and distinct differences in their physical premises."
Additionally, the court noted that with 87 percent of the casino's customers coming from outside the city, the smoking ban "has greatly diminished impact on (those customers') lifestyle and health choices."
The Indiana Court of Appeals also denied an appeal filed by private clubs that the city's smoking ban violates Section 9 of the Indiana Constitution, the "Right to Speak Clause." The private clubs argued that the ban would "reduce the use of the bars by the members thus negatively impacting the purposes of the Fraternal Organizations and impacting negatively the right to free association."
However, the court found that private clubs "stop short of identifying expressive activity restricted by state action or developing a corresponding argument."
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Garamba National Park
Garamba National Park
The park's immense savannahs, grasslands and woodlands, interspersed with gallery forests along the river banks and the swampy depressions, are home to four large mammals: the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus and above all the white rhinoceros. Though much larger than the black rhino, it is harmless; only some 30 individuals remain.
Parc national de la Garamba
Comprenant d'immenses savanes, herbeuses ou boisées, entrecoupées de forêts-galeries le long des rivières et de dépressions marécageuses, le parc abrite quatre des plus grands mammifères : l'éléphant, la girafe, l'hippopotame et surtout le rhinocéros blanc, inoffensif et beaucoup plus gros que le rhinocéros noir, dont il ne subsiste qu'une trentaine d'individus.
منتزه غارامبا الوطني
يتضمن هذا المنتزه سافانا شاسعة معشوشبة أو مشجرة تتخللها ممرات حرجية على طول الأنهار والمنخفضات المستنقعية، كما يشكل موطناً لأربعة من الثدييات الاكبر حجماً وهي الفيل والزرافة وفرس النهر ولا سيما وحيد القرن الأبيض غير المفترس والذي يفوق وحيد القرن الأسود ضخامة بكثير، علماً ان ما تبقى منها لا يزيد عن الثلاثين.
source: UNESCO/ERI
source: UNESCO/ERI
Национальный парк Гарамба
Обширные редколесья, древесные и травянистые саванны расчленены протягивающимися по берегам рек галерейными лесами и болотами, занимающими низины. Они служат убежищем для самых крупных млекопитающих – слона, жирафа, бегемота и белого носорога. Белый носорог, существенно превосходящий своими размерами черного носорога, вполне безопасен. Ныне здесь осталось примерно 30 этих животных.
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Parque Nacional de Garamba
Este sitio de 790.000 hectáreas posee una diversidad de hábitats incomparable: pantanos, estepas, planicies de lava, sabanas en laderas de volcanes y cumbres nevadas del macizo de Rwenzori, que se eleva a más de 5.000 metros de altura. Unos 20.000 hipopótamos viven en los ríos de este parque, que también sirve de refugio al gorila de montaña y ofrece lugar de invernada a numerosas aves procedentes de Siberia.
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Nationaal park Garamba
Het Nationaal park Garamba bevindt zich in het noordoostelijke deel van de Democratische Republiek Congo, in de overgangszone van dichte tropische wouden van het Congobekken en de Guinee-Soedan savanne. Het bevat immense savannes, graslanden en bossen, afgewisseld met galerijbossen langs de rivieroevers en de moerassige gebieden. Het park vormt de habitat van ongeveer 1.000 soorten vaatplanten, waarvan ongeveer 5% inheems is. Het is ook de thuisbasis van vier grote zoogdieren: de olifant, giraffe, het nijlpaard en bovenal de witte neushoorn. Hoewel deze veel groter is dan de zwarte neushoorn, is hij ongevaarlijk. Er bestaan nog slechts 30 individuen van deze soort.
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Covering vast grass savannas and woodlands interspersed with gallery forests and marshland depressions, Garamba National Park is located in the north-eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in the transition zone between the dense tropical forests of the Congo Basin and the Guinea-Sudano savannas. It contains the last worldwide population of the northern white rhinoceros, endemic sub-species of Congolese giraffe and a mixed population of elephants, combining forest elephants, bush elephants and individuals demonstrating morphological characteristics common to the two elephant sub-species. It is also characterized by an exceptionally high level of biomass of great herbivores as a result of the vegetation productivity of the environment. Extending over 490,000 ha and surrounded by 752,700 ha of three hunting grounds that contribute to an effective protection of the property against threats from the adjacent area, this property is an outstanding sanctuary with its unusual mix of large spectacular mammals.
Criterion (vii): Garamba National Park and its neighbouring hunting grounds offers a vast area scattered with a dense network of small permanent springs that support an exceptionally high plant productivity and herbivore biomass. This biomass translates for example in the presence of large herds of elephants at certain periods of the year, sometimes herds of more than 550 individuals, an exceptional natural phenomenon.
Criterion (x): Garamba National Park contains the four largest land mammals in the world, the elephant, the rhinoceros, the giraffe and the hippopotamus. The northern white rhinoceros population is the last surviving population of this sub-species. In addition, the sub-species of the Congolese giraffe is also endemic to the Park. Located in the transition zone between the Guinean-Congo and Guinean-Sudanese endemism centres, the Park and the nearby hunting domains contain a particularly interesting biodiversity with species typical of the two biogeographical zones. In addition to the rhinoceros and the giraffe, the purely savannicole species include the lion, the spotted hyena and numerous species of antelope. Furthermore, the species typical of the forest include the bongo, the forest hog, the chimpanzee and five species of small diurnal primates. The Park is also one of the rare places in Africa where one can observe both the African forest elephant Loxodonta africana cyclotis and the African bush elephant Loxodonta africana africana, as well as hybrid elephants presenting morphological characteristics common to both sub-species. A very large population of African buffalo also display intermediary forms between the forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus and the savannah buffalo Syncerus caffer aequinoctialis.
Garamba National Park is delineated to the east, south and west by major rivers that constitute natural and precise boundaries, recognized by all. To the north, it shares its boundaries with the Lantoto National Park in South Sudan, offering interesting possibilities of protection on the transfrontier and regional level. In a virgin landscape, no human presence or installations were indicated in the Park at the time of the nomination and the peripheral population was sparse. Garamba National Park is surrounded by three large contiguous hunting grounds, constituting an ecosystem of a sufficiently extensive area (1,242,700 ha) to support vast populations of large mammals with their local seasonal migration routes. The hunting grounds contribute towards the effective protection of the property against the threats from the surrounding zone. Their value is primordial, particularly for the seasonal movement of elephants and for the maintenance of viable populations of bush species.
Protection and management requirements
Garamba National Park has had the status of National Park since 1938 under the management authority of the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation (ICCN). It is managed by the three administrative sectors of Nagero, Gangala na Bodio and Beredwa at the northern limit, each having buildings and road infrastructures. The establishment of a management plan is an indispensable condition in the management of the Park, given the importance of these hunting grounds for the integrity of the property, they should benefit from an integrated management with the Park.
It is essential that the integration of the local communities in the management of the Park and the peripheral hunting grounds, through a community conservation approach, be established through the participatory management of natural resources.
Surveillance is ensured by the guards through patrols in the three hunting grounds as well as in the Park, in liaison with regular aerial patrols of all these zones. The tourism aspect has been developed and the possibility, unique in Africa, of tourism on elephant back existed; this activity could be revived once the security situation is more stable.
Partnerships with international bodies and sufficient fund-raising for an effective conservation of the property should also be reinforced, ideally including the creation of a Trust Fund.
Long Description
The site is located in the north-east of the country, on the Sudanese border. The park's immense savannahs, grasslands and woodlands, interspersed with gallery forests along the riverbanks and swampy depressions, are home to four large mammals: the elephant, giraffe, hippopotamus and above all the white rhinoceros.
A vast undulating plateau broken up by inselbergs (generally of granitic formation) and sizeable marshland depressions, it lies on the watershed between the River Nile and the River Zaire. The largest rivers are the Dungu, Aka and Garamba.
The park's position, between the Guinean and Sudanese biogeographic realms, makes it particularly interesting. Three formations can be distinguished: gallery forest, forest clumps and marshland; aquatic and semi-aquatic associations; and savannahs ranging from dense woodland to virtually treeless grassland. The densely wooded savannah, gallery forests, and papyrus marshes of the north and west give way in the centre to more open tree/bush savannah. Numerous small rivers with valley grasslands and papyrus swamps dissect the grasslands. It is estimated that there are approximately 1,000 vascular plant species, of which some 5% are endemic.
The park contains probably the last viable natural population of square-lipped or northern white rhinoceros. Elephant is a unique population representing an intermediary form between the forest and savannah subspecies. Other mammals include northern savannah giraffe (occurring nowhere else in the country), hippopotamus, buffalo, hartebeest, kob, waterbuck, chimpanzee, olive baboon, colobus, vervet, de Brazzas and four other species of monkey, two species of otter, five species of mongoose, golden cat, leopard, lion, warthog, bush pig, roan antelope and six other antelope species.Source: UNESCO/CLT/WHC
Historical Description
Instituted by decree on 17 March 1938 as Garamba National Park. Prior to that, an autonomous institution had been in existence since 1925, with the main aim of managing 'Albert National Park'. From 22 August 1969, under Presidential Decree No. 69/72, the National Institute for Nature Conservation had management responsibility. On 22 July 1975, the Institut Zairois pour la Conservation de la Nature, a public institution with legal status under the authority of the state Commission for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Tourism, was responsible for the management of the park. It was inscribed on the Unesco World Heritage list in 1980.Source: Advisory Body Evaluation
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We don't talk about what waits on the other side of the ocean. Not his mother. Not Toph. Instead, we browse Skymall. We play the if-you-had-to-buy-one-thing-off-each-page game. He laughs when I choose the hot-dog toaster, and I tease him about the fogless shower mirror and the world's largest crossword puzzle.
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An ideal place to read this book: in an outdoor cafe! or maybe in a movie theater while you are waiting for a movie to start! or in Paris!!!
Dream Cast: Emma Stone for Anna (I think Emma Stone should be in EVERY movie.) and Aaron Johnson for St. Clair.
People who should read this: Anyone who likes romances, or books set in Europe, or stories about friendships, or any combination of the above
People who should not read this: well there is not much obvious boy appeal, but I can see it enjoyed by boys who do appreciate smart romances with lots of snarkiness (I have several guy friends who love chick-flicks like When in Rome, etc–they would totally love this!). Also, my friend who LOATHES it should not re-read it.
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When students and teachers at School 16 in Rochester, N.Y., start the new school year in a newer school building, they'll leave their old building's laundry list of infrastructure problems behind.
As teachers finish unloading boxes and setting up their new classrooms, they hope the newer, nicer digs will give students renewed pride in their school. Education experts say the move could also bring a bump to the school's flagging test scores, because better school buildings actually improve academic performance.
A Drain On Spirit And A Drain On Grades
When the Rochester school district voted in July to move School 16 to a larger, newer building, the school's old building was in abysmal condition: Bathrooms lacked sinks and privacy; stairwells were missing safety rails; and the 100-year-old building was so overcapacity that students had to go to a trailer in the parking lot for detention. The floors sagged so much that floor tiles popped off. Students describe peeling paint and rats in the classrooms.
Teacher Michele Michel says the poor condition of the old building sapped the school of its spirit.
"You look at that and it's like, why? Why do you want to take care of your school?" Michel says. "So what if I throw a piece of paper on the ground? It doesn't make a difference; there's other paper on the ground."
As the physical condition of the building declined over the years, student performance also dropped. School 16 is one of the lowest-achieving schools in the district. Last year, only 11 percent of its students passed New York state requirements in English language arts testing; 19 percent passed in math.
School district officials have long known the school needed an extreme makeover, but say it was just one of many schools in the district in disrepair. Rochester is not the only city coping with dilapidated school buildings: As many as 40 percent of public school buildings in the U.S. are in poor condition.
More than eyesores, bad buildings are a drain on academic performance, according to Glen Earthman, an education professor at Virginia Tech who has studied the relationship between school-building conditions and student performance for 25 years.
"[Students] see surroundings that are not very pleasant, [and] it does diminish their desire to learn," Earthman says.
He says students who attend schools in disrepair score 3 to 10 percentage points lower on state tests than students in satisfactory buildings, and the effects are compounded over the years a student spends in the buildings.
"If they are in that building for six years for elementary, or four years in the middle, or four years in high school, we assume that this disadvantage is multiplied four different times, or six different times," Earthman says.
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With spacious hallways and larger classrooms, teacher Michele Michel says the boost to student morale in the new building will improve academics.
"I think if you come in and you're happy and, you know, you're all about this place," Michel says, "I think the kids will get it, and you'll get more accomplished."
But Jaida Thomas, an eighth-grader, says she is not sure all of her peers will take pride in their new building.
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Studies show that as many of 40 percent of American public school buildings are in poor condition. And that can have an impact on how students learn. School number 16 in Rochester, New York, is one example. It's dilapidated and has been for years. Now, the district is moving all the students out in hopes of giving them a fresh start. The story comes from Helene Biandudi of member station WXXI.
HELENE BIANDUDI, BYLINE: The new school year is just about to kick off in Rochester. And its crunch time at the new city school number 16. Construction workers are busy tearing down old scaffolding and hanging drywall, while teachers like Michele Michel unload boxes, chairs and desks from dollies and start arranging them in their classrooms for opening day.
MICHELE MICHEL: They told us at the end of the year, you know, pack up like we're moving because, you know, it came out. We might be moving. And I was like, OK, let's do it. Can we move tomorrow? You know, here's me throwing stuff in a box.
BIANDUDI: Here's why Michel and others were in such a rush to get out of School 16.
JAIDA THOMAS: The peeling paint and rats in the classroom.
BIANDUDI: Eighth-grader Jaida Thomas says the old school building is a dump, and School 16 principal, Matt Laniak, acknowledges there's a laundry list of infrastructure issues at the school.
MATT LANIAK: The floor is just totally sagging all over the place. It's like a roller coaster. And as a result of the floor being so flexible, all the floor tiles keep popping off.
BIANDUDI: Add to that list, bathrooms without sinks or privacy, stairwells missing safety rails and a 100-year-old building so over capacity kids sent to detention go to a trailer in the parking lot. Michele Michel says the poor condition of the building sapped the school of its spirit.
MICHEL: You look at that, and it's like, why? Why do you want to take care of your school? So what if I throw a piece of paper on the ground? It doesn't make a difference. There's other paper on the ground.
BIANDUDI: The school district has known about these problems for a long time, but officials say they have a lot of other schools in need of repair. And while the physical condition of the building has been on the decline for years, so has student performance. School 16 is one of the lowest achieving schools in the district. This past year, only 11 percent of its students passed New York state requirements in English language arts testing, and 19 percent passed in math.
GLEN EARTHMAN: They see surroundings that are not very pleasant. It does diminish their desire to learn.
BIANDUDI: Glen Earthman is professor emeritus of educational administration at Virginia Tech. He's been studying the relationship between school building conditions and student performance in the U.S. for more than 25 years. Earthman says students who attend schools in disrepair will score anywhere from three to 10 percent lower a year on state tests than students in satisfactory buildings.
EARTHMAN: So if they are in that building for six years in the elementary or four years in the middle or four years in high school, we assume that this disadvantage is multiplied four different times or six different times.
BIANDUDI: This summer, the Rochester City School Board finally decided to move School 16 across town to an updated and much larger school building.
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BIANDUDI: At a recent orientation in the new building, students and parents walked down the spacious hallways and checked out the large classrooms and the gym. Teacher Michele Michel thinks the move will improve academics thanks to a change in moral.
MICHEL: I think if you come in and you're happy and, you know, you're all about this place, I think the kids will get it, and you'll get more accomplished.
BIANDUDI: But student Jaida Thomas isn't sure all her peers will take pride in their new building.
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BIANDUDI: District officials say they hope the new facility will make a significant impact on student performance. However, they say at the end of the day, teachers, students and families working together will be the solution to turn the school around. For NPR News, I'm Helene Biandudi in Rochester, New York. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Rob Glennon: Ambush (live electrics) / (Unreleased)
Dirty Boy: b b b (mix03) / (Unreleased)
Gareth Duprey: Deep In The Tomb (Dimitri Pike Remix) / Wildub
The usual mp3- and FLAC-versions of this set are already now online; so if you've already subscribed to this series,
"Now!" might be a good time to update your podcast- and/or RSS-feed.
A more straight-forward, normal html-version of the XML-feed with all of the info and DL-links can be found at this link.
Furthermore, if you should prefer this paradigm, a new and re-jigged PDF-file with all of the track-info,
artist and DL-links can get downloaded from this link.
FYI, torrents of the mp3- and FLAC-file, respectively, are on their way...
All of the same legal-stuff, as with the previous mixes, still applies...
Enjoy - BTW, feedback always very much appreciated - T.I.A.!
P.S. This set is dedicated to Lone Skov - everyday, forever and beyond...