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What is a comparable modern-day rim to these "fir el 201" rims? I believe they came stock on a 1996 Bianchi Eros.
I need to replace the rims, and I am trying to gauge the quality that I am used to in order to set a baseline in my search.
According to BikePedia, these did not come stock on the Bianchi Eros in either 1996 or 1997. Since this bike came stock with Mirage level components, you're probably looking at a low - mid level quality OEM rim. Fir is/was a good brand, as is Ambrosio (which came stock on this bike). Finding a rim from Velocity or Alex Rims or Mavic just to name a few common manufacturers will provide you with a quality alternative that is affordable and readily available today.
To match the style, you are going to want to get a low profile or "box" style rim as opposed to a deep profile or "aero" rim. All of these companies and more have a style of rim like this.
You will definitely need to purchase new spokes and nipples for this, so make sure you know how to purchase the proper size.


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RAYLAND - Consistency is something basketball coaches have been seeking since practice started back in early November.
Martins Ferry's girls had it for a while Thursday night, and so did Buckeye Local.
However, when it was all over and done, the Purple Riders (9-3) had posted a 43-40 triumph over the homestanding Panthers (3-10).
"We have yet to play a full four-quarter game," said Martins Ferry head coach Lindsay Coyne "We usually play a bad first half and a good second, or vice versa.
"We need to put together a good 32-minute game, and it has to be very quick. We've got some big powerhouses that we have to play coming up on our schedule."
It was the first half that Martins Ferry played its best as Jessica Kinney netted nine of her game-high 19 points in the initial eight minutes. The all-Ohioan's performance helped the Purple to a 13-7 advantage.
Kinney's basket with 5:11 on the second-quarter clock gave the visitors a 19-9 bulge, but Buckeye Local kept battling behind Kayla Fillipovich. The 6-foot senior, basically playing on one leg due to a knee injury, scored eight of her team-best 18 counters in the quarter as they trailed 28-17 at the half.
A basket by Megan Rose to start the third quarter bumped the count to 30-17, but the Panthers reeled off the next 10 points to whittle the deficit to 30-27 as Fillipovich banked one off the glass with 3:42 showing. She had half-a-dozen points in the surge, while Kierstyn Czuchran meshed a pair of free throws and Lauren Swiger kissed one off the glass.
Martins Ferry answered when senior Kylie Stalder drained a triple for a 33-27 count. The visitors would hold the upper hand after three panels, 39-34.
The final quarter was anything but a thing of beauty as the teams combined for a grand total of 10 points, with the Panthers recording six of those. However, the closest they could get would be three points - twice - including the final margin.
"That was really a tale of two halves," said Buckeye Local head coach Willy Luther. "The first half we got outhustled and our effort wasn't what we expect from them. The second half we did a much better job of hustling for loose balls, and their effort was really, really good.
"When our effort and hustle are there, we can play pretty well."
The Panthers were coming off a big win against East Liverpool Wednesday night, but Luther said he stressed to the girls that tonight (Thursday) was a new night.
"We talked in the lockerroom about coming out and giving everything we've got," he said. "Whether we're on the court for 5 seconds or the entire game. We have to have effort and you've got to be able to play for four quarters.
"Consistency is something we're striving to find. We did a good job in the second half, but we had three turnovers in the final minute or so."
Martins Ferry led 41-38 before Tyrah King powered her way to two points in the lane at the 2:07 mark. Following a missed bonus situation by the Purple Riders, Becky Zeroski weaved her way through traffic to find the bottom of the basket, making it 43-40 with 22.6 ticks left to play.
After Martins Ferry called a 30-second timeout, a jump-ball situation gave possession to Buckeye Local with 19.5 remaining.
Amy Balk was then fouled with 10.1 left and missed both shots, but rebounded her own miss. Her shot at the basket was off the mark as Rose rebounded and the Purple Riders were able to run out the clock.
"It's a win. It's a Buckeye 8 win," said Coyne. "Give Buckeye credit. They battled back."
Martins Ferry 43, Buckeye Local 40
Martins Ferry 13 15 11 4 - 43
Buckeye Local 7 10 17 6 - 40
MARTINS FERRY: K. Stalder 2 0-0 5; Kinney 7 4-4 19; M. Stalder 1 0-0 2; Rose 2 0-0 4; Oberdick 0 1-2 1; Suriano 2 0-0 6; King 2 0-0 4; DeLeonardis 0 0-0 0; Lee 1 0-0 2; Totals: 17-52 5-7 43. 3-pointers:?Suriano 2, Kinney, K. Stalder.
BUCKEYE LOCAL: Swiger 2 1-2 5; Fillipovich 8 2-2 18; Valuska 1 0-0 2; Czuchran 0 2-2 2; Balk 2 0-2 4; Zeroksi 3 2-2 8; Leonard 0 1-2 1; Banal 0 0-0 0; Totals: 16-40 8-12.

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BTW let me know if you start experiencing WiFi issues.. Maybe it's something with the refind stuff. The only thing that I haven't been able to fix yet. It must be interference from something inside the MacBook. In OS X and Windows I get 50 MBit/s+, in Linux its around 5Mbit/s - 20MBit/s, lots of packet loss etc. Neither the internal nor an external USB WiFi adapter work.
But on the other hand I've also tried the USB WiFi with an extension cord, so it shouldn't be interference. Also I've tried different APs etc. Truly a mystery.
Lately I've been thinking I guess it could be that some component X is on which is interfering with WiFi and/or USB, but don't know. I mean some component that is turned on in Linux but not in Win or OS X. And oh yes, I always have Bluetooth disabled too.


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In America in 2011, where was the most dangerous place for a baby to be? Inside the mother's womb. The numbers confirm this.
Abortions kill roughly one out of every four babies conceived. Abortionists will kill more than a million babies this year. More than 3,000 of those babies will be killed today alone, with Planned Parenthood killing a third of them and using your tax dollars to do so.
Sadly, by the time you finish reading my letter, three innocent children will have been killed in a legal abortion here in the United States.
President Barack Obama nearly shut down the federal government instead of cutting taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion supplier.
Thomas Jefferson once wrote: "The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government." In modern American society, it is naive to suggest that government can be absent from this debate on human life. The government acts through law to regulate in areas much less fundamental than the right to life. The real issue is whether the government will fulfill its responsibility to protect and preserve life, or continue to allow this most fundamental right to be denied.
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Digital Media Creation prepares students for careers in the IT industry. The course sequence focuses on duties and tasks performed by professionals developing interactive multimedia as well as pre-employment and employment skills.
Major Concepts/Content: Digital Media Creation (DMC) provides students with the opportunity to develop professional-level skills in multimedia using Adobe Flash. This product-oriented course introduces the student to interactive multimedia presentations. Hands-on activities are used as students develop skills, master techniques, and prepare products for a client-based environment. Students learn to create professional digital media creations using animation, sound, and videos. The course also introduces students to document construction for publishing on the World Wide Web using authoring software. Units of instruction include design and layout, font selection, image editing, and digital cameras and images. Internet research and copyright laws are emphasized.
Major Instructional Activities: Individualized instruction and online resources will be provided in a lab environment. Students successfully completing this course may be eligible to take the Adobe associate level certification exam.
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From a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter at The New York Times comes the explosive story of the rise of the processed food industry and its link to the emerging obesity epidemic. Michael Moss reveals how companies use salt, sugar, and fat to addict us and, more important, how we can fight back.
Every year, the average American eats 33 pounds of cheese (triple what we ate in 1970) and 70 pounds of sugar (about 22 teaspoons a day). We ingest 8,500 milligrams of salt a day, double the recommended amount, and almost none of that comes from the shakers on our table. It comes from processed food. It's no wonder, then, that one in three adults, and one in five kids, is clinically obese. It's no wonder that 26 million Americans have diabetes, the processed food industry in the U.S. accounts for $1 trillion a year in sales, and the total economic cost of this health crisis is approaching $300 billion a year.
In Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Michael Moss shows how we got here. Featuring examples from some of the most recognizable (and profitable) companies and brands of the last half century - including Kraft, Coca-Cola, Lunchables, Kellogg, Nestlé, Oreos, Cargill, Capri Sun, and many more - Moss's explosive, empowering narrative is grounded in meticulous, often eye-opening research.
Moss takes us inside the labs where food scientists use cutting-edge technology to calculate the "bliss point" of sugary beverages or enhance the "mouthfeel" of fat by manipulating its chemical structure. He unearths marketing campaigns designed - in a technique adapted from tobacco companies - to redirect concerns about the health risks of their products: Dial back on one ingredient, pump up the other two, and tout the new line as "fat-free" or "low-salt". He talks to concerned executives who confess that they could never produce truly healthy alternatives to their products even if serious regulation became a reality. Simply put: The industry itself would cease to exist without salt, sugar, and fat. Just as millions of "heavy users" - as the companies refer to their most ardent customers - are addicted to this seductive trio, so too are the companies that peddle them. You will never look at a nutrition label the same way again.
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"What happens when one of the country's great investigative reporters infiltrates the most disastrous cartel of modern times: a processed food industry that's making a fortune by slowly poisoning an unwitting population? You get this terrific, powerfully written book, jammed with startling disclosures, jaw-dropping confessions and, importantly, the charting of a path to a better, healthier future. This book should be read by anyone who tears a shiny wrapper and opens wide. That's all of us." (Ron Suskind, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President)
"In this meticulously researched book, Michael Moss tells the chilling story of how the food giants have seduced everyone in this country. He understands a vital and terrifying truth: that we are not just eating fast food when we succumb to the siren song of sugar, fat, and salt. We are fundamentally changing our lives - and the world around us." (Alice Waters)
"This is all too real, and YOU are the victim."
There are times when you listen to horror audiobooks for sheer listening enjoyment.
In this case, it's all too real, and you are the victim.
Moss is, essentially, an industry whistleblower. A food industry whistleblower, to be precise. And what he reveals is something many of us suspected, but is no less dramatically disturbing.
Basically the food industry is creating and adding extremely addictive chemicals to processed foods of all types, with the single intent to get you to buy more, eat more, and repeat ad nauseum. Salt, sugar and fat additives are manipulated at the molecular level to cause the pleasure centers of the consumer's brain (the very same pleasure centers affected by heroin addicts) to dramatically respond to and become addicted to the taste of the grocery store foods you eat, causing you to again, buy more, eat more, thus fattening yourself as well the food industry's (and the health insurance industry's) sizable wallets.
These additives are now causing a generation of pre-teen illnesses once only seen in the very elderly, and causing the soon to retire baby boomers to face illnesses that don't have to be endured.
We have placed our trust in the food industry, quickly swallowing, literally, what we're told. It's time to wake up, to realize that trust has been nightmarishly broken, and our very health and lives are in danger. And the food industry couldn't care less.
These reveals aren't speculation, but facts backed up by insider company documentation, with more discovered on a daily basis. The sheer amount of proven conclusions are stunning, and the result is a national disaster. Moss was recently on the Oz show, among others, and is spreading the word. It's sobering, and it's scary, to state it plainly.
I can speak solidly on this audiobook's conclusions, having once weighed 390 pounds and endured a horrible physical lifestyle. I began to do the research, and discovered much speculation regarding what Moss has now proven to be fact. It disturbed me so much, that it changed my life, and I went on a strict program of healthier foods, additional water intake, and walking daily. As the processed foods remains washed out of my body, I began to lose a dramatic amount of weight, my health returned, and I felt better than I had in a very long time. I've kept the weight off, and enjoy my life immensely. I'm living proof that these processed foods can damage you, and that it's not too late to change.
Dear Audible listener, note the star rating I've given this book. VERY FEW of my reviews garnish such a positive recommendation. I cannot help by make this my most highly recommended listen thus far for 2013. And when you listen, I'm confident that you'll agree.
I appreciate that you've taken the time to read this review. Now, take the time to learn the truth about what you eat, and what it's doing to you.
Stop being the victim.
"The Smoking Gun on the Obesity Epidemic"
If you want to know what caused the obesity epidemic, here it is!
Sugar, Salt, Fat is about how the processed food industry figured out how to use sugar, salt, and fat to make processed foods taste more than just good, but to make them something close to addictive. With this technology, they could make cheap, unnutritious foods taste good, and use the resulting high margins to fund advertising to drive demand. The food industry also made these foods more convenient than cooking. They even played a role in killing off home economics in the schools to ensure the next generation would not know how to cook.
Oh, one little side-effect that the industry needs to sweep under the rug: because these processed foods are so unlike foods found in nature, the body body can't properly gauge when these foods make the body full -- causing people to consume far more calories than they need.
Some interesting angles to the story are the involvement of the tobacco industry, such as Phillip Morris's acquisition of food companies; and the healthy lifestyles pursued by the food industry executives, who eat their own products far more sparingly than the general public does.
This is not rocket science, but it's great investigative journalism. It may be the best investigative journalism about the food industry since Upton Sinclair's work a century ago about food impurities. Yes, that good; that important.
One minor annoyance is that the narrator, Scott Brick, over dramatizes. Brick mostly narrates fiction, which he should probably stick to. He was perhaps chosen because he did an excellent narration of The Omnivore's Dilemma (another great book for folks concerned about modern food), but that book was more of a memoir, making it a better fit with his narration style. Sugar, Salt, Fat is pure investigative journalism. The emotional level of Brick's reading doesn't fit with this genre.
"Tasty, and nutritious."
I really liked this book. One of the most compelling and telling facts that I took away from it is that the people who create processed foods, in general, actively shy away from consuming them in their own diet. The history of processed foods is well told here. The moral of the story: try not to eat foods that require chemists, engineers and lawyers to produce. You'll be happier and live longer.
I read science, biographies, histories, mysteries, adventures, thrillers, educationals, linguistics but not no way, not no how, romances.
"The Kind of Writing I Wish For"
Salt Sugar Fat is almost unthinkable. Not just in its content, in the unimaginable marketing strategies, innumerable addatives with powerful addicting properties, deceptive tactics, and blatant disregard for consumer health described in this book; not just in the sheer timeline and product scope of the reporting; not just in the reasoned approached the author takes to the shocking evidence uncovered; but also in Michael Moss's skill at investigative reporting and his ability to uncover the full strategies and willful ignorance that defines the mega food corporations.
Divided into three sections (Sugar, Fat, and then Salt) he takes us through the history of products that rely on these ingredients to hook, keep, and addict us. It is a stunning work of reporting in detail and scale. More impressive, is Moss's ability to remain dispassionate and intellectual as the book picks up steam. It is non-fiction, but I tore through this book with the same speed as I do a skillful thriller. This book is as addictive as the products it discusses. You will learn the unending reliance the food conglomerates have on sugar, salt, and fat and what this reliance has done to our collective health. Bringing all this wonderful writing to you is Scott Brick, possibly the best reader in the Audible catalogue.
This book makes my list of the best books I've read this year. It'll make yours too.
"Food = Drugs"
Equal parts Fast Food Nation, The Informant!, and The Omnivore's Dilemma. It does a great job of showing the closed door meetings, food industry rivalries, Wall Street, the government, as well as our own demands that have gotten us into the cluster we are in today. It was highly informative in not only mentioning the key players behind the food giants (like Cargill that provides the salt/sugar/fat and Monell that does the taste research), but also in the gradual developments and insider terms/tricks (stomach share, bliss point, checkoff money, line extension, single serving, vanishing caloric density) that have come together for the perfect storm of our obesity problem. Food = Drugs. I'm not going to lie... it made me want cookies, cheese, and chips pretty bad, though!
The Book Snob for Paris Life Magazine.
"Shocked to be so shocked"
It's hard to shock a veteran lawyer, but this book did it. Wish I had known this years ago. This book is not another fad diet book, rather, it is a food industry exposé. Even if you take it with a proverbial grain if salt, you'll be disturbed. I grew up on a farm where we ate mostly the food we raised. Now I'm even more motivated to return to the ways of my youth.
I do agree that the narrator is a bit too dramatic; it is distracting. But don't let it discourage you from this important work.
"Shocking Must Read!"
The point that is made over and over - that the obesity epidemic was scientifically engineered to get the exact results it has produced, i.e. sell a lot of processed food with no concern for health - is devastating to whatever crumb of credibility the food industry has left. The research that Michael Moss presents I found to be comprehensive and convincing. I hope parents take the time to listen to this and think of how to change the behaviors that "convenience" foods have instilled in the tastes of our kids. It is worth the time and the credit. Otherwise, we are out gunned in the fight.
On a purely personal note, I find the narration slightly overly conspiratorial and breathless. But I got used to it after awhile.
Flapjack Jones
"I thought I knew this stuff."
Moss interviews food scientists and corporate leaders to detail exactly how our American diet has been manipulated by the processed food creators. Human response to food additives has been so well studied and understood that I became convinced we are all being duped. Without full knowledge of how each product is made, we are defenseless against the subtle emotional and physiological responses that the food companies use to sell their products.
I am not a fan of Scott Brick's narration. The diction is perfect, but his tone of bleak resignation and condescension detracts from a great listen. He is easy to follow but I think the book sounds more even-handed than his tone implies.
"Excellent but narrator over the top"
One of the best narrators forgets that over dramatizing makes the book hard to listen to. Let the words speak for themselves.
I love listening to books when cycling, paddleboarding, etc but I press pause when I need to concentrate. Its safer & I don't lose the plot!
"Not a feelgood book"
'Salt, Sugar, Fat' is a depressing expose of the processed food industry. It's a fairly detailed analysis of how the industry has crammed more and more of these three ingredients into food, and the resulting havoc wrought on the health of Americans. Dramatically increasing rates of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and stroke have arisen as the population has become increasingly dependent on fast, cheap, convenient, tasty food and drink containing frightening amounts of these eponymous ingredients, as well as a whole load of other chemicals to flavour, colour and preserve the food and increase its shelf-life. The same problem has now been inflicted on other, poorer, nations, such as Mexico as the corporate giants have colonised other markets in their relentless pursuit of greater profits.
Over time, some sections of the public have become more aware of the health hazards associated with these foods, but it hasn't really reduced the scale of the problem. Attempts to introduce government regulation in the US have largely been scuppered by the lobbyists representing the powerful food and agriculture industries. There has been some effort on the part of the food corporations to reduce the quantities of salt, sugar and fat in their products, but these reductions have been fairly minor, token cuts and haven't reduced the scale of the problem. Many people have cravings for these powerfully tempting products and can't cut back effectively, and often don't have the time, awareness or motivation to make radical changes to their lifestyles. Advertising and marketing campaigns are cleverly designed to make processed food seem irresistible, and of course advertisers are more likely to emphasize health benefits than to warn of the dangers of eating these products.
The World has surely got itself into a sorry mess when people are encouraged to oversize their drink portions so that they are ingesting 44 teaspoons of sugar in their giant cup of fizzy soda, while people in other countries starve to death in droves. The companies defend themselves by saying that no one is being forced to consume their products. It's a free market and they are only selling what people want. But surely, for the sake of the health of everyone, there should be a massive education campaign telling people how they are potentially harming themselves by eating fast food. There should be limits on the amounts of salt, sugar and fat that can be included in processed foods, as there are in other countries. Surely enough is enough?
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Everyone needs to keep warm during the colder months of the year, and socks can help.
Christian Family Radio is hosting its second Socks for Seniors drive.
If you want to give a gift to senior citizens in our area, CFR is asking for patterned, bright-colored, striped or fun socks.
Promotions Director, Derek Gregory says senior citizens are the most overlooked group during the holidays.
And last year, Gregory says Socks for Seniors was a huge success.
"Many of them don't get a whole lot of visits, or many gifts around the Christmas season. And so, with a warm pair of socks, I mean you would think that we were giving them hundred dollar bills or something. They were just rejoicing at the fact of getting something tangible that they can open up," Gregory says.
You can drop off sock donations to any South Central Bank locations in Bowling Green or Glasgow.
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Print, cut out, and take along this handy wallet-sized healthy produce shopping list to help remember what fruits and vegetables are on the dirty dozen and clean 15 lists, so you know what produce to buy organic and conventional.
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I have a file with the following fields
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I would like to have an output that for every change in column2, find maximum in column4 but also report corresponding column1. So far I found a solution that report column2 and 3 but not column1 because the number in column1 is different. I like to use awk please.
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WJU, Sisters to Establish Mount de Chantal Conservatory
Officials of Wheeling Jesuit University have joined with the Sisters of the Visitation to announce plans to establish the Mount de Chantal Conservatory of Music at the university.
In establishing the conservatory, Wheeling Jesuit will honor the legacy of the sisters and continue their educational mission by providing WJU students with fine arts instruction in the revered tradition of Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy, which closed its doors in Wheeling in 2008.
"The idea of creating the Mount de Chantal Conservatory of Music at Wheeling Jesuit University is built on a friendship that has flourished for centuries between the Visitation Sisters and the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), and locally for more than 50 years between Mount de Chantal and WJU," said Wheeling Jesuit President Richard A. Beyer.
The initiative includes renovating a 5,000-square-foot space in the WJU Center for Educational Technologies, transforming it into the new home of the university's Department of Music. The space will house a recital hall, a study lounge, multiple practice rooms, an artist-in-residence studio, a director's office and the Sisters of the Visitation Art Gallery, which will showcase Mount de Chantal antiques and archival materials, along with WJU student art.
Wheeling Jesuit has already received $550,000 in gifts toward the $3 million fundraising goal for the conservatory. This includes a leadership gift of $250,000 from the Sisters of the Visitation, which was matched by an anonymous local donor.
The sisters contributed an additional $50,000 to establish an education fund that will provide scholarships, beginning in the fall of 2013. Each year, an incoming fine arts student will receive a $10,000 Mount de Chantal Scholarship, renewable annually for four years. In addition to these gifts, the university has committed $350,000 to support the programs as they develop.
"We are tremendously happy to entrust our legacy – the legacy of Mount de Chantal – to Wheeling Jesuit University," said Sister Joanne Gonter, VHM, former teacher at Mount de Chantal and superior of the Wheeling sisters. "We are fully confident in the university's plans to expand its reach into the fine arts by establishing the conservatory and we look forward to its growth in the years to come."
A 1952 graduate of Mount de Chantal, Gonter also has the distinction of being a WJU co-founder as a member of the first graduating class of Wheeling College in 1959.
In addition to their financial support of the conservatory, the Visitation Sisters have donated various items including the Mount de Chantal front door, three beveled glass panels that surrounded the door and two chandeliers from the front hall and the Parents' Parlor. These items will be incorporated into the design of the new space. The Mount's 800-pound bell, which hung for 150 years in the school's tower, will be given a place of prominence at the entrance to the conservatory.
Archival items donated by the sisters will be on display in the Sisters of the Visitation Art Gallery, such as photographs, music and publications including an 1858 book titled "The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary," which belonged to Sister Mary Agnes Gubert. In the mid-19th century, Louise Gubert gave up a promising international singing career to join the Sisters of the Visitation and brought fame to Mount de Chantal's Department of Music.
WJU faculty have approved four new majors within the Department of Fine Arts: music, art, film and theater.
Currently, WJU offers students a variety of co-curricular music opportunities including three choirs, the WJU Chorale and a pep band.
The university will enhance its fine arts curriculum and instruction with money raised through this initiative, supplement the curriculum with concerts and lectures, enlarge the symphonic band, further develop its partnership with the River City Brass and support its underwriting of the College Concert Series of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra. In addition, the university will establish an endowed chair of fine arts and host an artist-in-residence each year.
Fundraising efforts will continue throughout 2012 and 2013 as the university develops its plans. It expects to have the conservatory ready for student use in the fall of 2013. For more information about the conservatory, contact Kathryn Kelly in the WJU advancement office by email at email@example.com.


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There's much more to Smith teaching than the "chalk and talk" approach you may be used to in high school. Smith professors expect students to speak up in class, contribute original ideas, question assumptions, even challenge their teachers' views. The lively intellectual exchanges taking place in Smith classrooms (and student houses, snack bars and study lounges) prove that great minds don't necessarily think alike.
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It just dawned on me...it's time to celebrate the 12th year of the current Golden Era of ballet! Just think of how many Petipa-era ballets have been reconstructed or 'recovered' in various ways in only the last 12 years. Until about 1999 -- the year of the Mariinsky/Vikharev's Sleeping Beauty and the Bolshoi/Lacotte's Pharaoh's Daughter -- the closest that any of us could get to seeing something similar to what the Romanov court saw while Petipa was alive were Soviet or Royal Ballet reworkings, i.e., ca-1946 ballets.
In, say, 1997 or 1998, did ANY of you ever dream that you would one day be seeing all of the following Petipa Era ballets, let alone having DVDs of some or all of these ballets in your video libraries?
This is a great post--and so true. I can remember as a kid obsessed first with the Tchaikovsky ballets, and then the Petipa ones in general, I never thought we'd see anything close to these reconstructions. It just seemed to not interest any of the companies that had the resources to attempt it. I used to continuously have the Wiley Tchaikovsky's Ballets book out from the library, just trying to imagine from the notation descriptions what the ballets were like. I have to say while there's a lot to celebrate, I am still really disappointed that the Mariinsky reconstructions (particularly Sleeping Beauty--with the exception of Act III and some clips) were never professionally filmed, and I hope the ballet returns to the repertoire and is filmed at some point.
I think in a way, it was time for these extravagant original productions to come back--audiences seem to want to see these kinds of ballets more now than they have for a while--although I naively would have never thought about all of the political issues and concerns these reconstructions would bring up, particularly with people prefering more modern interpretations, though I think I understand the sentiment now (even if from my outside perspective, I can't agree).
It's great to see your list--a number of these ballets (like an attempt at a reconstructed Don Quixtoe), I didn't even know about, although I know the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Don Quixote's seem to be pretty faithful to the early 1900's Gorky revision, and as mentioned, Giselle also seems to exist in a fairly close to the Petipa version.
I am really surprised that we've gotten a non Russian company's recreation of Raymonda, before we've had any similar version of Swan Lake anywhere. But I suppose nearly every company already has a production fo Swan lake in their repertoire--it feels like it must be just a matter of time, though... I'd also love to, obviously see a recreation of Nutcracker but that's obviously more problematic. The original production wasn't a success, and it seems like a lot of the Act I elements in particular aren't very well notated--and some elements like the "Beehive" apotheosis would probably be seen to confuse the family audience that Nutcracker attracts in most countries. Still, I admit I'd be ost curious to see it (back when I was first obsessing about thse ballets, Nutcracker was the one that was the hardest to find information on the original production of). We do have a number of important numbers, more or less--thanks to the 80s Royal Ballet the Snow scene, more or less, and in various other productions the Pas de Deux and trepak. It's a topic for another thread, but for whatever issues people have with Nucracker, I do think that all modern reinterpretations have proven that following the original, perhaps simplistic story ultimately works the best.
As for other ballets--while I would be curious to hear about oddities like the Petipa/Cecchetti Cinderella (does the music even exist, let alone the choreography?), the two that immediately spring to mind, are Glazunov's two one act ballets from 1900--Ruses d'Amour (aka Lady Soubrette) and The Seasons. I have no clue if either was notated--Ruses d'Amour in particular seems obscure, I had to find a random Soviet recording to finally hear it (it's gorgeous, as one would expect from Glazunov music). The Seasons has lived on much longer, but more as a piece of music it seems. I used to always think if these did exist in some way, they'd make a nice night long of three short ballets for the Mariinsky along with The Awakening of Flora.


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I've been aware of stacks since grad school, and I can usually follow in rough lines a discussion about stacks, but I've often wondered what particular (purely!) scheme-theoretic argument or theorem is significantly simplified by the introduction of stacks. I'm sure there are many, but since I don't deal with stacks on a regular basis I don't encounter them as frequently, and I thought maybe some of you can enlighten me.
The classic application is Deligne & Mumford's paper proving the irreducibility of the coarse moduli scheme $\overline{M}_g$ of stable genus g curves over any algebraically closed field. They proved irreducibility first for the moduli stack $\overline{\mathcal{M}}_g$ of curves, and then inferred from this result the irreducibility of the scheme.
The DeRham space is a stack $X_{DR}$ associated to a smooth variety $X$, so that modules on $X_{DR}$ are D-modules on $X$. This is accomplished by declaring the maps from $Y$ into $X_{DR}$ are the same as maps from $Y^{red}$ (the reduced scheme) into $X$. This has the effect of identifying points with their infinitesmal neighborhoods.
The DeRham space is often most useful as a conceptual tool. However, a specific application of it was by Ben-Zvi and Nevins, who used it (and other tools) to show that certain cusped versions $\widetilde{X}$ of $X$ had equivalent categories of D-modules. The idea being, these cusps were identifying some of the infinitesmal neighborhoods of some of the points, and so they should be intermediate between a variety and its DeRham space.


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Problems with Camino (Ext.Button, Ext.menu)
Hey Jack, this is a problem I noticed back in .33 and was hoping it would be fixed in the new release. It seems that when using Camino all buttons created using Ext.Button need to be clicked twice to be activated. The first click puts the focus on the button, and the second actually depresses the button.
As for Ext.menu, there seems to be some severe flickering issues. Seems as though the menu is not registering the onmouseover event correctly, just from observation though, I could be wrong.
These issues have come up in both the alpha examples (which I know are out of date), the old .33 examples, and in some quick tests I've thrown together.
Is Camino explicitly supported currently, and if not are there any plans for support in the future?
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Camino is not officially supported but I generally include it in the final test run before a release. I will take a look at it and let you know.
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I was thinking about this today and thought I should ask. I think I understand IV's enough to say that they are basically the same thing as Salts when talking about hashes. They are there to improve randomness between messages. If the IV is simple appended, or prepended to the plain text, why does AES need to know the IV to decrypt it? Can't it just decrypt it, drop the first x amount of bytes and then it has the original plaintext or does AES do some special jizz-jazz with the first bytes in the stream?
The initialization vector is XORed against the first plaintext block before encryption in CBC mode, as shown in the Wikipedia article on block cipher modes. After the first block is decrypted, you still have an intermediate value which has been XORed with the plaintext — without this, you have little hope of recovering the plaintext. However, you do not need the IV to decrypt subsequent blocks.
You could perform CBC in a way that would remove the need to know the initialization vector (note: this is not recommended or encouraged, just pointing it out for the novelty). If you use a null IV and use a random value for the first block of plaintext, you can discard this value and only transmit the ciphertext. Note that this actually gains you nothing, because now the ciphertext is one whole block longer!


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I have noticed that many people use images in their Ask Ubuntu answers. What software are people using?
I am using Shutter .
If you don't find it, you can check the detailed installation instructions which will give you a PPA for it.
It's a really handy screen capture application with easy to use plug-ins to give a nice touch to your screenshot and as many other to easily share the files.
It offers in-house image editing and special effects (via plug-ins) to enhance the quality of your screenshot. You can access this options via the menu (1), or the toolbar (2).
And then to publish them, I just right click in Shutter and choose Export (3). Then I publish it via Ubuntu One. I go to the directory where I published the file, right click on it and select
Finally here when I comment, I click on
It's easy and fully integrated.
For those on 10.04, check that you have all shutter dependencies. As you might miss some of the plug-ins. For user on Ubuntu 10.10, this should be fixed.
GNOME Screenshot
I find the GNOME screenshot tool to be the most effective of all. And it is installed by default!
My favorite is the use of shortcuts to quickly generate images. For example - Print Screen which takes the entire desktop and Alt+Print Screen for the current focused window.
Furthermore the interface is extremely simple and powerful for such a small tool.
It provides nearly the same functionality as the Snipping Tool in Windows via the Select area to grab option, but you can also make a screenshot of a window without the window frame and shadow.
There is a new kid on the block of screenshot utilities: screencloud
It's a pretty cool tool, available in the Ubuntu Software Center (at least on Ubuntu 12.04).
It has many nice features to easily share the screenshots via the Internet, hence its name.
I recommend using
To install:
To capture a screen area:
I use GNOME Screenshot, but for the sake of the reference and for all the old timers you can use xwd from the command line:
For a screenshot of your entire screen:
I use GIMP. It has a nice tool which allows you to pause (to move it out of the way) and to select just a portion of the window. Usually I crop or edit a screenshot after taking it, so I want to be in GIMP anyway.
On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), simply press Shift+PrntScr.
It is confirmed in KeyboardShortcuts.
There is also Nanoshot - more simple than Shutter.
GNOME Screenshot does the job fine for me, but there is also ImageMagick for CLI-oriented folks:
But, same as xwd, it will not work well with Compiz.
It is simpler with the Compiz plugin called screenshot.
Open the CompizConfig Setting Manager, search for the screenshot plugin, and activate it.
To use it, hold down the windows key (super key), click and drag the screen that you want to grab, release, and KAZAM, your screenshot on the desktop.
For a video and tutorial, see Shawn Powers' LinuxJournal article Quick Compiz Screenshots.
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Moreover, it should not be forgotten that
I use 5CM Uploader.
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This seem like bigger problem then expected. I had problem with input dialog boxes problem-with-input-method when I learned that I had some Chinese language in language preferences and couple of Thai input methods.
I started to remove all related data, many thai fonts, additional input methods, and when I selected
libthai-data from Synaptic, now it wants to remove more then 100 packages, everything I have installed including Unity, Compiz, Nautilus, Firefox...
I installed 12.04 on clean formated hard drive on the day it was announced, without selecting anything exotic, like other language then English and similar
Any suggestions?
Also when some dialog in Nautilus (not sure if it's globally) pops, then buttons are placed opposite than they should, and then quickly roll to normal position. I assume it's related to this issue, and also think that there must be some bug report already, as I downloaded ISO image from Ubuntu site normally, and followed simple installation instruction without tweaking anything.


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I am starting a new project that includes subscriber registration and emailing them daily. For my project I created a server application written in c#, a website written in PHP, and a database managed by PHPMYADMIN and MySQL My question is, do hosting companies, usually, allow running custom made server software? and how do I know if a specific hosting company allows for all the technologies I use to create my project? Thanks
Hosting companies will usually list all of their available technologies on a page that describes their hosting plans. Go to Hostgator and click on "compare all hosting plans". You will see a list of what their hosting plans support. If you see it, you can use it.
PHP and MySQL are very common and offered by most hosting companies. C#, when used in .NET, is also common although you have to look for Windows hosting for that to work (mono availability is not very common). In your case it is not very common to use both C# and PHP/MySQL in the same website so you may find getting hosting that supports both a little more difficult to find.
As far as custom software goes, usually custom written binaries are not allowed to be installed or run in a shared hosting environment. Typically you need a VPS or dedicated server to do this.
Some hosting companies, such as the one I use, LiveHosting, allows hosting .NET and PHP (and offers also MySQL and SQL Server database hosting too) on the same account, even the same domain.
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Progressively firmer foam or plastic posts along the medial (inside) edge of the shoe, paired with a wider base, are the most common features used to reduce the foot's inward roll. Some models also employ plastic shanks near the arch for extra stability, and the Saucony Mirage 2 (Est. $105) uses cleverly structured welds to provide extra support along the medial part of the upper (top half or cloth-like part of the shoe).
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'85 FXRPWritten by on January 1, 1997 Cop Cruiser
It's got cop tires, cop shocks, a cop motor, a cop transmission. It's a model made before the trendies latched on, so what d'ya say, is it the new Bluesbike, or what?
If Jake and Elwood had a Harley, it would no doubt be a duplicate of Steve Bailey's '85 FXRP. For those of you who don't know what the P stands for, it means Police Special, as in "cop bike"! Bailey bought his two-wheeled law machine when he was living in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and drove the wheels off of it, racking up over 15,000 miles every year. But coming home from work one night, some brain-donor pulled out in front of him in traffic. Needless to say, the nose of the bike was wasted, with roughly $4000 worth of damage. But before you could blurt out the chorus to "Sweet Home Chicago," Bailey had adapted a Wide Glide front end to the bike and put it back into the serious service it saw before the wreck.
Over the next few years, the bike went through various other stages of modifications, with different parts being either replaced, updated or chrome plated. The bike no doubt fed the urge to tinker full-time, so Bailey moved to New Paris, Ohio, and set up shop in his grandparents' barn. The Bailey's Cycle Service shingle was hung out front, and the bike came apart yet again.
By the time it emerged from the barn, the former cop bike was sporting the same Wide Glide front end, but with a dual-disc-brake setup from Bill's Custom Cycle in Pennsylvania, and a Chrome Specialties triple tree. Custom Chrome's lowering springs and its shortest fork tubes brought the nose down, and the rear shocks were shortened 1¼ inches to drag the tail. Bailey laced Custom Chrome 16-inch rims with Buchanan's twisted spokes, which really pop when the light hits them right. The tank is a Fat Bob, the rear fender is a Custom Chrome long version, the cool bullet taillights are also from Custom Chrome, and the bars are 15-inchers that still sport the siren buttons from the original Police Special bars. All the other chrome plating on the bike was performed by Brown's Plating of Kentucky.
Of course, Bailey didn't want a stock mill powering his newly-customized Harley, so he tweaked the Evo with a small overbore, a Dyna single-fire ignition with two Dyna S coils, a RevTech 42mm carb, a Barnett clutch, Custom Chrome pipes and lots of detailing. The finishing touch was the liquid spit and polish of a paint job. If the graphics look familiar, that's because Dayton, Ohio's Bob Maynard (Bob'z Pro-Stylin' Graphics) was holding the airbrush. Maynard designed and painted the bitchin' tank and fender graphics after laying on the white basecoat.
With help from Darvin Lightner, Bailey has transformed his cop bike into a cruiser that's unlike many others in that it actually gets ridden. The hog had a mere 7000 miles on it when he bought it, and that was over 59,000 miles ago. Let's see how many boulevard posers can claim that!
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Sister Khloe Says She's Not Jealous Of Kim Kardashian's PregnancyJoanna Mazewski
I'm sure that the majority of us all probably thought the same thing when we first heard that Kim Kardashian was pregnant last year: "Oh, poor Khloe." But according to the reality television star, there's nothing to really feel sorry about as she explains that she is no where near jealous about her sister's pregnancy despite dealing with her own fertility struggles from the past few years.
In a new interview with Redbook Magazine, Khloe even admits that she was angry at the fact that no one wanted to break the news about Kim's pregnancy to her. She says:
Please. People want to assume that I'm devastated. I couldn't be happier. I actually got mad at Kourtney, because she was afraid to tell me at first. So I get why people think I'm hurt, because my own sister thought I would be.
She also talks about Kim's baby daddy Kanye West joining the Kardashian family:
I love Kanye. We've known him since 2004. He always had a crush on Kim, but she was never into him at the time. I'd always told Kim they were like two peas in a pod, and she would never listen. Then one day she says, "I think I like Kanye." I was like, "Since when?"
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Instead of asking whether a particular animal model is "valid" as a proxy for a particular psychiatric disorder, we should be asking, Is it useful? Can it tell us something we can't learn in humans? If we base that solely on supposed behavioral similarities, we haven't gotten very far—we might as well just be doing rodent psychoanalysis. What we are interested in is elucidating the underlying neurobiological abnormalities and the pathways from etiological factors to resultant pathophysiological states. Such states should be expected to affect behaviors in a species-specific manner—maybe there will be some surface similarity in the results between rodents and humans, but maybe not. Certainly, expecting any animal model to recapitulate the full profile of human symptoms associated with a particular psychiatric diagnostic category is asking too much—does any human patient model the entire spectrum of disease? If these diagnostic categories are really umbrella terms for hundreds of distinct genetic conditions, each with variable outcomes, then the focus in models should be more on the expression of particular symptom domains than on entire disease profiles.
Starting with strong etiological factors is a proven route to discovery of pathogenic mechanisms. As such, the SHANK3 duplication mice are more inherently relevant to disease than the calcineurin mice, which are an artificial transgenic line not directly representative of any human patient. Indeed, the genetic evidence implicating calcineurin in schizophrenia risk has effectively been superseded by negative results from very large GWASs (unless it has popped up again in the unpublished results of the PGC). It is, nevertheless, a very interesting genetic preparation that can be used to dissect circuit mechanisms of memory, which clearly are of relevance to several disease states. That really ought to be enough to garner a wide readership without resorting to claims of direct disease model validity.
There is a classic catch-22 in an attempt to model...
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There is a classic catch-22 in an attempt to model schizophrenia (and other major mental disorders) as, on the one hand, the main purpose of creating a model is to discover the cause of illness (e.g., a genetic defect and the subsequent pathological processes underlying the disease), and on the other hand, it is unclear what to model because the etiology of schizophrenia is still not well understood. Many new models focus on genetic causes because of the strong evidence for heritability of mental illness and the recent discoveries of particular predisposing genes. It is also becoming clear that in most cases, no single gene is necessary or sufficient to cause the disease, but instead, common, low-penetrance genetic variants in more than one susceptibility gene, each contributing a small effect, act in combinations to increase the risk of illness. In some other cases it is possible that rare, but highly penetrant, mutations (i.e., point mutations, translocations, deletions) in single genes are responsible. It is also increasingly clear that there are interactions among susceptibility genes, and between genes and environmental factors that contribute to the risk for mental illness. Given all this, there is no doubt that the task of modeling schizophrenia in animals is formidably difficult.
It is further complicated by the fact that a gene-based animal model 1) may have to be related to a specifically human transcript and/or protein variant or variants artificially introduced into the animal; 2) will not exhibit abnormalities in all schizophrenia-related phenotypes (as animals will not have hallucinations or delusions); and 3) may require additional environmental manipulations to become fully penetrant at the behavioral level. We should thus perhaps accept the fact that a mouse model for an individual candidate gene will never be representative of the entire disorder, and at best it will reproduce either a subtype of the disorder or a particular aspect of a given phenotype. In that context, human cell-based models and studies of human brain tissues obtained postmortem from patients with mental illness (severely underutilized resources!) are perhaps better alternatives to gain insight into the origins and pathophysiology of these specifically human, challenging disorders.
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I think that we are often making a mistake if we directly declare what disease are we modeling. There are no "valid" animal models of human schizophrenia or other major psychiatric disorders, and most likely, there will never be—the mouse is not a human, and has a quite different lifestyle! Furthermore, the mouse and the human genetic diversity are quite distinct. Thus, talking about modeling physiological and pathophysiological processes is much more correct. Understanding behavioral modulation by the various interneuronal subtypes, evaluating the role of gene X on cortical lamination, or assessing the effects of factor Y on neuronal outgrowth are all disease-relevant, essential studies.
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I previously had emerald working with 11.04, as I had compiled from source. This morning, though, I updated a series of packages, and now emerald --replace doesn't work any longer. I know for a fact that it updated the kernel, but I can't seem to find a place where it will tell me what else it updated. (I blindly accepted updates, thinking that they were just minor).
At any rate, I recompiled emerald, and I ran it from the terminal to see if there is something that's going wrong, but when I run
emerald --replace, it runs just fine, just doesn't change my theme when I select a new theme from the emerald theme manager. It does, however, report that it is
Reloading... when I select a new theme - so it does seem to be running correctly.
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In what edition of DnD was the Barbarian's rage introduced?
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Although the barbarian was introduced in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (1st edition) in the Unearthed Arcana supplement, they were tribal wilderness warriors more akin to rangers, and didn't have anything resembling the rage ability. It wasn't until Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition that barbarians appeared with an ability with the actual name "Rage." However, there were earlier versions of the Rage ability that just had different names.
In The Complete Barbarian's Handbook (AD&D 2nd edition) there is the Brute class kit which provides a barbarian with the "Wild Brawl" special ability, which is introduced with, "When fighting without weapons, the Brute can propel himself into a berserk frenzy." However, "Wild Brawl" is mechanically entirely unrelated to Rage.
In the same book, the Ravager class kit provided the barbarian with the "Become Enraged" special ability, with which the "Ravager may work himself into a fighting frenzy, increasing his effectiveness in combat." Mechanically, an enraged Ravager hits easier and does more damage, is hit easier, is harder to damage, and is harder to charm.
Also in AD&D 2nd edition there is a Warrior class kit exclusive to dwarves in The Complete Book of Dwarves called the Battlerager, which is "a fearless warrior, able to create an insane rage within himself which increases his fighting ability and distorts his physical features," and therefore a dwarven barbarian in all but name. A Battlerager in "the Killing Rage" receives bonus hit points, bonuses to attack and damage, and an AC bonus, as well as being immune to charm-like effects, but may not stop fighting until there are no more enemies standing.
Similar to the Battlerager is the is the Berserker class kit for fighters in The Complete Fighter's Handbook (AD&D 2nd edition). A Berserker takes a long time to "Go Berserk", but once Berserk gains similar benefits and also can't stop fighting until every enemy is down. Notably, a Berserker isn't allowed to know their own hit points while Berserk!
The Complete Book of Dwarves was published in 1991, four years before The Complete Barbarian's Handbook; but The Complete Fighter's Handbook was published two years earlier in 1989, making the Berserker the first barbarian-like† character with an ability that is recognisable as a "rage" ability.
†Bear in mind that before D&D3, the actual barbarian class was restricted to humans, so fighter class variants like the Berserker and Battlerager was the official way of playing a non-human character that fulfilled the same class role despite not bearing the name "barbarian."
Although the barbarian as a class was not introduced until AD&D, the idea of rage does predate that publication.
The Dragon issue #3 (October 1976) had rules for a "New D&D Subclass: The Berserker" (by Jon Pickens). This class had an ability called Berserking.
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A Barbarian class was also published in White Dwarf #4 (Dec 1977) and reprinted in The Best of White Dwarf. It had a mechanism called First-strike Ferocity:
There was also a version of the barbarian in an article by Gygax in The Dragon #63 (July 1982, predating Unearthed Arcana by a couple years) but, like the Unearthed Arcana version, it lacked a Rage ability.


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MORRISTOWN - Harrison Central head coach Justin Kropka believes it when he hears that this Friday's 7 p.m. game is a must-win for his football team.
But, he also believes that same thing about Weeks 1, 2, 3 and so forth. The fact that his Huskies have lost two games in a row, slipped to eighth in the Division IV, Region 15 playoff rankings doesn't make this week any bigger than the rest.
"Even if we're sitting in 20th (in the region), it's a must-win game for me," Kropka said. "I sure hope it feels the same way for the kids. We start lifting the Monday after Thanksgiving and go four days a week, so we've got a lot invested for these 10 games."
The Huskies next challenge comes Friday when they make their final road trip of the regular season to take on Union Local.
"We go into each game hoping to win like all teams, but unfortunately, we've come up short the last couple of weeks," Kropka said. "We hope to come out on the better end of things this week. Every game is the Super Bowl to me. We're not preparing any harder this week than we have for any other game because the playoffs are involved. I'm preparing hard because I want to beat Union Local."
The Jets have experienced another season of growing pains. Coach Mark Cisar's squad is 1-7 on the season after dropping a 52-14 decision at Bellaire last Saturday.
"We only have five seniors, so our kids understand their job and it's to get better each week," Cisar said. "Our kids are still busting their butts, giving us everything they have, so it's been a joy coaching these kids even though our win-loss record isn't favorable."
The biggest challenge the Jets face this week is somehow finding a way to slow down the vaunted Harrison Central ground game, which has been chewing up yardage in chunks.
"We know they're going to line up and run right at us," Cisar said. "We've had trouble stopping them each of the last two years, so we have to find a way to slow them down."
Senior Maurtice Hython is the area's leading rusher. He's ran for 1,367 yards on 161 carries and scored 14 touchdowns.
"I definitely think a lot of coaches will be happy to see Maurtice graduate," Cisar joked. "He's a physical runner, but he's also got great speed."
If Hython isn't enough to worry about, the Huskies have also shown an ability to be balanced with a strong passing game thanks to senior quarterback Rashaen Mitchell. He's thrown for 959 yards and nine touchdowns.
Nate Olmstead and senior tight end Nick Pelegreen are his top targets. Olmstead has made 17 receptions for 417 yards and four touchdowns. Pelegreen has made 12 receptions for 214 yards and two scores.
The Jets, meanwhile, are triggered by improving quarterback Gavin Porter. He's thrown for 862 yards and four touchdowns. He's also ran for 298 yards and three scores.
Eric Dunfee is one of the Jets' top two-way players, but he was injured against Bellaire. He's ran for 216 yards and two scores. Kaleb McDiffit has developed into Porter's favorite target with 28 receptions for 391 yards and four scores. Travis James and Tater Blake are also solid options.
"I honestly like what I see out of Union Local," Kropka said. "They've got a lot of young kids playing, which translates into them playing hard. I really think this is one of Mark's best coaching jobs for how hard he's got these kids playing. Plus, they do the right things, but they're just a step behind, but that won't be like that forever. I respect teams and kids that don't bail when things aren't going there way."


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As a man protesting against the mass of wealth accumulated by the Pope I was wondering what Luther proposed to do with all the lands and endowments obtained in those regions where the Catholic church lost her influence and ownership of various assets. Also what about the nuns and monks still living in those properties formerly owned by the Catholic church? What did Luther think should be done with them?
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Where Catholicism lost influence and property during the reformation, what did Luther think should be done with the acquired assets?
Considering the intensity of the reformation one might possibly imagine some extreme idea like burning down the monasteries and tossing out the monks as heretics, or even burning them, but such is the opposite of what Luther was about at the personal level. Although Luther has said some of the most harsh language ever recorded against Catholic doctrine, Luther had a very kind attitude towards Catholics themselves, in terms of their welfare. As a matter of history, Luther in fact directly sought to ensure their protection and economic welfare.
With regard to rural monasteries, Luther did no suggest they be burned down, but instead to treat kindly those in error through Christian love, even to support them financially for the rest of their lives:
For those monasteries in the cities Luther thought they could be converted to Christian schools. I presume he meant any monks or nuns who wanted to stay would be relocated to rural locations.
Luther had the same loving approach with respect to bishoprics, foundations, and chapters which have under their control lands, cities, and other possessions, etc. His aim was to build a community chest for the poor, 'for all who were needy among the Christians.'
Where the remaining family which originally endowed the properties to the church were now suffering poverty Luther thought it should be divided between the poor and the original family:
So we see that though Luther strongly condemned the beliefs of Catholics during the reformation his personal attitude to their persons (not their doctrine) was like a caring father desiring to take care of all involved. This bit of history is somewhat of a surprising liberal and generous position, easily overlooked by the doctrinal passions and battle of the reformation.


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How to Draw Fashion Figure Noses
Draw a simple fashion nose from the front view.
Female fashion noses breathe class and refinement. The sweet girl-next-door button nose is nothing to sneeze at, but it doesn't fit a woman of high fashion.
Draw an oval for a face and a face grid. Divide the bottom half of the face into thirds and mark them with dashed lines. For the nose, draw two little slash lines in the center of the upper dashed line.
Fashion noses are much shorter than real noses. Figure c shows what this type of nose looks like after you erase your guide lines.


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ENNIS, Mont. (AP) — About 500 wild horses have arrived so far at the Spanish Q Ranch in western Montana as Bureau of Land Management officials work to reassure neighboring landowners about the long-term holding facility.
Reports indicate the horses, all geldings, began arriving Feb. 27.
Officials say about 700 horses will eventually be held at the 15,456-acre ranch with the remaining 200 arriving by Friday.
The Spanish Q near Ennis has a 10-year contract with the BLM to house the horses at a cost of $1.36 per animal per day, much less than the average $5.50 cost at short-term facilities in Wyoming, Colorado, Nevada, Utah and Oklahoma
The ranch will hold horses that have been captured to control population levels on public land and have not been adopted.


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Dinner Sunday at Jewett VFD
The Jewett Volunteer Fire Department will host a baked steak and ham loaf dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
The menu will also include vegetables, salad, bread, dessert and a beverage. The cost is $8 for adults and $4 for children.
Sands of Time to perform
Country Friends will host the Sands of Time band Saturday at the Memorial Hall located at 402 Old Police Lodge Road, Colliers.
Country Friends has events each Monday, Friday and Saturday at the hall. The doors open at 6 p.m. on Saturdays, and the dance starts at 7 p.m.
On Mondays and Fridays, the doors open at 4 p.m., and open mic begins at 6 p.m. Participants can bring a covered dish if they so desire for the meal that begins at 5 p.m.
Country Friends Foundation Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christianity, friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity.
For information, call (304) 527-4253 or (304) 479-1270.
'Christmas Clown' in area
The "Christmas Clown" will visit the community of Brilliant on Friday, beginning at 10 a.m., conducting a collection to help two mission-oriented projects.
The "Christmas Clown" will be at the north end of town to accept donations to aid local needy families. He also will collect donations for next summer's mission project in Jefferson County in partnership with Group Mission Camps and hosted by Crossroads Christian Church in Wintersville.
Following the tag day, the clown will visit local businesses and residents.
Anyone wanting information on the Christmas clown or to help in his efforts for local families can contact Pastor Marc Tinstman of Brilliant Christian Church located at 323 High St., Brilliant. The number is (740) 598-4851.
The Christmas clown is an alternative to Santa with a focus on the "spirit of Christmas" on humanitarian activities such as raising funds, food, clothes and toys for needy families during the Christmas season.
Hounds' Haven bazaar set
Volunteers with Hounds' Haven Inc. will hold their Christmas Holiday Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the fellowship hall of the Cornerstone Church located at North Fifth and Market streets in Toronto.
A variety of bargain-priced, new and gently used items, including dishware, lighting, ornaments, artificial wreaths and a 7-foot Christmas tree, will be available.
According to a volunteer spokesperson, "Due to an overwhelming response of donations of items for the October event held in Wintersville, we decided to offer what remained to those who could not attend the fall event. We still have quite a selection of good quality merchandise available. Pastor Raul Diaz of Cornerstone Church, an animal lover himself, was more than happy to donate the hall to help our cause."
Santa Claus also has promised to take time from his busy pre-Christmas Eve schedule to stop by between noon and 1 p.m. to hand out candy canes to those who have come to browse and shop.
All proceeds will help with operations at Hounds' Haven, Inc., a nonprofit, "quality-of-life" animal shelter in Jefferson County dedicated to helping homeless and abused pets from all around the Ohio Valley to find shelter, care and love for a lifetime, the spokesperson said.
For information, call (740) 457-9809.
Shanagu party Sunday
The Mingo Junction Shanagu Senior Citizens Club met Nov. 28 with Marilyn Campbell, president, presiding.
Plans were completed for the Christmas party to be held Sunday at the Mingo Knights of Columbus Hall. The event will include dinner, entertainment and prizes.
Donations were sent to the Mingo Social Services and the Mingo Senior Center.
Barb Jackson gave a reading entitled "My Every Day Thanksgiving."
End-of-the-month prizes were presented to Tillie Guisto, JoAnn DeSantis, Ernie Gampolo, Ruth Sterling and Rose Gampolo.
The club meets every Wednesday from noon to 3 p.m.; however, there will be no meeting Dec. 26 because of the holiday.
Bingo is played prior to the meeting. New members are welcome.
BV Residents to meet
Buena Vista Residents group participants are reminded that the monthly meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 12 at the church basement for a cookie exchange and silent auction. The amount of cookies needed will be determined by the number of participants.
To sign up, call (740) 264-7871. A charity for all donations will be chosen at the meeting.
The monthly recycle pickup is Dec. 13. Items should be placed at curbside by noon on those days for pickup by volunteers between noon and 4 p.m. Plastics and cans can be combined, but paper and plastic should not be mixed. Paper should be bundled in paper bags or cardboard. The pickup is not for glass or Styrofoam.
The group's theme is Neighbors Helping Neighbors.
Coffeehouse open Friday
Carl and Nancy Koonce will be the featured guests at the 213 Coffeehouse, performing from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Friday.
Wheeling residents who have been together for 31 years, the Koonces enjoy singing classic songs from the 1930s through the 1960s. They met in the choir at Vance Memorial Presbyterian Church.
The relaxed evening of music has a suggested donation of $5 per person with proceeds benefiting charity. Snacks are available for purchase.
The coffeehouse operates out of the Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church located on 3279 state Route 213, Steubenville.
St. Paul's luncheon Sunday
St. Paul's Episcopal Church at 415 Adams St., Steubenville, will host its soup and sandwich luncheon from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday.
Featured soups are potato, broccoli cream and black bean and rice. Sandwiches include sloppy joes and egg salad.
Lunches are $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.
All items are available for takeout.
'Man to Man' group to meet
The "Man to Man" cancer support group will meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 13 in the conference room of the Tony Teramana Cancer Center, located at 3200 Johnson Road, Steubenville.
The meeting will consist of a roundtable discussion.
The meetings are open to the public. For information, contact Brother John Paul McMahon, district coordinator, at the Franciscan University of Steubenville at (740) 283-3771.