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This is the only back support with an adjustable-height lumbar curve that provides customized back support. Unlike static backrests that only support one area of the back, this superior model has a patented interior air bladder that adjusts to any position along a 10" vertical range, placing compression precisely where it's desired for an optimal fit. Once in place, the bladder inflates to a preferred level of firmness to shift shoulders back and prevent slouching, relieving stress on discs and enabling optimal spinal curvature that can reduce back pain. The support straps to a chair or an automobile seat, it has a durable engineered wood frame, and its soft, smooth exterior is antibacterial and resists odors. 22" H x 18" W x 2" D. (3 lbs.)
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Excellent Lumbar Support!
By Swayingpine
from Texas
I have searched for a long time for a back support to correct the poorly designed seats in my volkswagon Beetle. After spending tons on other products that failed to work, I was skeptical about this one. But, I have to say it has far exceeded my expectations. It works so well that it feels like it is part of the original seat. I don't feel like I'm sitting with a cushion behind my back. It's the perfect height and very easy to adjust. The appearance is nice too. I highly recommend it!
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Mel
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I use in my office chair. I recently had back surgery and the lumbar supports helps me sit for longer periods of time.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Samantha
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It's wonderful,very comfortable, easy to set up. I use it all the time.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -The University of Pennsylvania men's basketball team fell to Yale, 79-65, Saturday night at the John J. Lee Amphitheater.
With the loss, Penn fell to 9-21 overall this season, 6-7 in Ivy League play. Yale closed out its season with the win, improving to 8-6 in Ivy play and clinching third place behind champion Harvard and second-place Princeton.
In a game that was played at a high pace and went end-to-end throughout, Yale turned a one-point halftime deficit into a double-digit lead before the second half was eight minutes old. Penn tried to climb back into it, but the Bulldogs shut the door time and again and pulled away down the stretch.
Brandon Sherrod had 18 points to lead five Yale players in double figures, while Armani Cotton (15 points, 9 rebounds) and Matt Townsend (10 points, 9 rebounds) both nearly had double-doubles.
For Penn, Tony Hicks had 16 points while Miles Cartwright scored 12 and Darien Nelson-Henry added 10.
Penn opened up as much as a seven-point lead in the first half, but Yale stormed back and took a two-point lead before the break. However, Hicks was able to score just before the halftime horn, and Penn went into the locker room up, 32-31.
Javier Duren opened the second half with a quick basket, and Cotton followed with a layup. Penn went back ahead a few minutes after that on a Henry Brooks layup, but Cotton was fouled as he took a three-pointer and made all three free throws to make the score 40-38. Yale would never trail again.
Sherrod made it a four-point game, but Hicks got the basket back with two free throws. However, Michael Grace - who tormented Penn here a year ago - hit a trey, then Cotton tipped in a Sears miss to make the score 47-40.
Penn got a pair of buckets from Brooks to make it 47-44, but Grace drained a trey and then another jumper. That was the impetus to a seven-point run that pushed the Bulldogs' lead to double digits, at 54-44.
Penn got back to 54-49 thanks to free throws from Cartwright and then a trey from Patrick Lucas-Perry. A critical possession then occurred when a Sam Martin three-ball bounced off the rim and over the backboard. Out of bounds, ball to Penn, right? Not tonight. Instead, Duren grabbed the board and put home a rebound. Next thing you knew, Yale's lead was 61-49.
Penn again made a move. Nelson-Henry and then Jamal Lewis hit free throws, and when Dau Jok drained a trey the Quakers were again within five, at 61-56, with seven minutes to play. However, after a defensive stop Penn committed its own turnover, and then Sherrod put back a Cotton miss.
Nelson-Henry got those points back off a nice feed from Lewis, but Sherrod hit a layup and then a Jok missed three became three more Sherrod points -- the old fashioned and-one variety -- at the other end. Penn never got closer than eight after that.
Penn and Princeton will tip off at approximately 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night, following the Penn-Princeton women's game which will start at 5 p.m.
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Killin It' 023: Golden Gals Gone Wild
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 12:21PM
The museum director and his girlfriend in front of my medical fetish Blanche piece.
The absolutely lovely and talented curator of the show, Lenora Claire. Words can't explain how much I adore her.
You can see more pics in the Miami New Times slideshow


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MOSCOW (AP) -- Russia's deputy foreign minister said Thursday that President Bashar Assad is losing control over Syria and his opponents may win, the first acknowledgement by Assad's main ally that he faces a likely defeat.
While Mikhail Bogdanov didn't issue any immediate signal that Russia could change its stance and come to support international sanctions against Assad's regime, his remarks carried by Russian news agencies appear to indicate that Moscow has begun positioning itself for a regime change in Syria.
"We must look at the facts: there is a trend for the government to progressively lose control over an increasing part of the territory," Bogdanov said during hearings at the Kremlin advisory body, the Public Chamber. "The opposition victory can't be excluded."
At the same time, he repeated Russia's call for a compromise, saying it would take the opposition a long time to defeat the regime and the country would suffer heavy casualties.
"The fighting will become even more intense, and you will lose tens of thousands and, perhaps, hundreds of thousands of people," he said. "If such a price for the ouster of the president seems acceptable to you, what can we do? We, of course, consider it absolutely unacceptable."
Russia has joined with China at the United Nations Security Council to veto three draft resolutions that would impose sanctions on Assad's regime over its bloody crackdown on the uprising that began in March 2011. Moscow also has continued to provide the Syrian government with weapons despite strong international protests.


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Brevard, N.C. - The Brevard College Tornados Coaches' Show opens up the new year at Rockafellas Sports Pub and Grill, located at the Rodeway Inn of Brevard at 950 Asheville Highway. The first show of the 2011 year will feature head men's and women's basketball coaches Michael Jones and Shannon Reid, starting this Tuesday, January 4th, at 12:30 p.m.
The Coaches' Show will reside at Rockafellas Sports Pub and Grill for the remainder of the basketball season and will be broadcasted every Tuesday afternoon from 12:30 – 1 p.m. As always, members of the community and media are invited to attend the show and interact with Coach Jones and Coach Reid, as well as various BC student-athletes.
The show will return this upcoming Tuesday, January 4th, with interviews by Coach Jones and Coach Reid, as the "Voice of the Tornados" Dwayne Summers talks to both coaches about the first half of the season and what we have to look forward to as the teams jump into the midst of South Atlantic Conference play in their third season as full members of both the NCAA Division II and the SAC.
Rockafellas offers a selection of sandwiches, wings, nachos and other various specialities, so do not miss out on the opportunity to get a good meal and talk Tornados basketball as Brevard begins the second half of the 2010-2011 season.
For more information on the Brevard College Basketball Coaches' Show, contact the BC Sports Information Department at (828) 884-8288.


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Moved to appropriate forum, the BT4 Working Hardware forum is for posting information about devices that work in BT4, not for asking advice on what hardware to get.
And you seriously need to search before posting. There are dozens of threads asking about the best USB Wireless card to buy, the last one was posted only a few days ago.


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Maureen - from Killeen, TX
I know it seems like 6 tablespoons water is not enough for the amount of dry ingredients (Meringue Powder and confectioners' sugar), but it really does work! When I prepare this icing, I combine the Meringue Powder and sugar in the bowl for my electric mixer. I turn the machine onto its lowest setting, then add the water tablespoon by tablespoon, stopping the mixer occasionally to scrape down the sides. Once all the dry ingredients are moistened – this can take a minute or two after the last of the water has been added – I increase the mixer speed slightly and set my timer for 7 minutes. Sometime around 7 minutes (10-12 if you are using a smaller hand mixer) you'll start to see the icing get a nice sheen – like well-beaten egg whites – and become fluffy. Please try it again – we know you'll find the recipe easy to make!


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Sit ON STAGE & MEET John Legend April 30th!
John Legend's show April 30th at the Florida Theatre is SOLD OUT but we have a special couch reserved ON STAGE for YOU to sit on during his performance and backstage passes for you to MEET him!
Just follow us on Instagram --> @979kissfm and take a pic of YOU on YOUR COUCH and use #kisscouch and we'll pick the most creative picture as the winner of our special seating arrangement!


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Why are technology CEOs so backbone-challenged these days? The only noteworthy actions taken by tech CEOs in recent months masquerade as brave, but they're really just crazy, like Uber CEO Travis Kalanick making fun of his own customers or Sean Parker comparing his critics to Nazis.
More mainstream CEOs trying to project a consistent leadership façade seem to have adopted the cult of weak sauce -- a far cry from yesteryear's leaders, like Peter Freuchen, an arctic explorer who was recently honored by the New York Explorer's Club for such actions as digging his way out of an avalanche by making a chisel out of his frozen feces. Compare that to today's business world, where the richest robber barons in the history of Cossack capitalism sound about as exciting as a Swedish sofa. This is why journalists drink.
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For example, everyone's favorite man-child CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, took the stage at Mobile World in Barcelona on Monday to drop the awesome and completely novel truth bomb: The NSA has gone too far. Really? I had absolutely no idea our intelligence community was being overly invasive and Facebook was supposedly having difficulties with it. In reality, it's more likely the preeminent social network has logged a billion miles in the NSA's hand-over-your-customer-data frequent flyer program.
As a legal condom, I have to state that I invented the preceding rumor, but it's made plausible by recent revelations that Facebook wants to keep data mining you after you're dead and further analyze your brainwaves by tracking the moves your mouse cursor makes on the screen rather than solely what you click on. In the very near future, it's probably a good idea to go over your privacy settings before you keel over and not leave your cursor hovering over a Cialis or hair restoration ad while you get coffee.
Netflix is now neutered
On a slightly more recent topic than a way-behind-the-news Zuckerberg quote, Netflix CEO Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr. is knuckling under to the Web-raiding Comcast regime. This guy left skid marks in his eagerness to cave in to greedy Internet providers that are trying to take advantage of the recently castrated Net neutrality laws.
Netflix spins this as an investment in customer satisfaction, which sounds better than saying it'll be paying gobs extra for pipe space to which it should have equal rights in the first place. I guess it's expecting us to forget about the company's "strong" stance against Net neutrality neutering from only a few weeks ago, though Internet providers swore up and down they wouldn't take advantage. It seems like Netflix is hopping on that train before it's even left the station.
The Eric Schmidt scale: $19B for WhatsApp, $1M for the world
Then there's Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt. Not content with the Solomon-esque compensation package he's getting from Larry and Sergey, Schmidt has written a real page-turner called "The Digital Age." To promote it, he announced he'll be giving away the marginal sum of $1 million for "groups using technology to solve world problems."
So Google was willing to plunk down more than $19 billion for WhatsApp, but only $1 million for solving world problems? Yeah, I know it's supposed to be coming from Schmidt, but what are the odds that money is not originating from his T&E slush fund? Regardless, it's still disgraceful. That's like me tossing a buck at vagrant doctors researching a cure for cancer in an abandoned Arby's on my way to a Starbucks where I'll spend $4 on a cup of coffee that I could have brewed myself for 50 cents.


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Tea Party on NSA Snooping: We Told You Not to Trust Big Government!
As if Tea Partiers needed any more evidence that Big Government is out to get them, along come Edward Snowden and operation PRISM.
It was bad enough that the tax man had been yanking their chain: Everyone knows the IRS is a bunch of jerks. But the NSA combing through people's phone calls and emails? That's a whole different level of sinister.
"I read threads all day long by Tea Party people nationwide. I talk to dozens and dozens of people on a daily basis," says Ken Crow, the Iowa-based editor of the Tea Party Tribune and cofounder of the activist hub teapartycommunity.com. "They're all afraid."
The mood among Tea Party Patriots is equally tense, reports the group's cofounder Jenny Beth Martin. "A lot of people are saying, 'Wait a minute, we seem to trending much more toward a police state than we ever imagined.'"
For a political movement largely driven by the specter of government run amok, the NSA snooping news is, to borrow a Bidenism, a big fucking deal, a smoking gun akin to Donald Trump unearthing Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
Indeed, Tea Partiers' reaction to the news of late may be best summed up in four words: We told you so! "They say that those of us in the Tea Party wear tin foil hats and we're out there and all that," says Crow. "But take a look around!"
"This is definitely not an isolated thing," says Jackie Bodnar, communication director for Freedom Works. "It's part of a huge list of Fourth Amendment violations that have been happening for years."
But almost as outrageous to many Tea Partiers as the NSA snooping itself has been the lack of outrage by Republican leaders. Even as a sprinkling of folks like Rand Paul and Glenn Beck decry the government's assault on the Constitution and declare Snowden a "hero," most party players have been more in tune with Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain, who have been quick to remind people of the hard realities of fighting terrorism, and Speaker John Boehner, who called Snowden "a traitor."
"We've given up on McCain and Graham," says Crow. "It's obvious to us that they are not going to carry the banner of freedom and liberty." As for the speaker? "A marshmallow," says Crow. "With a lot of these scandals, there is overwhelming evidence of perjury by senior officials in the administration—overwhelming evidence that criminal activity transpired. Nothing is being done, and we want to know why!"
Not that Tea Partiers expected much more from a GOP elite that many members have long held in disdain. "The political establishment voted to allow these things to happen and for government to get this large and out of control," says Martin, adding sadly, "At this point, very little surprises me."
Read The Full Article On The Daily Beast
More articles from The Daily Beast:
- New CIA #2 Pick Used to Read Anne Rice Aloud at Her Bookstore's Erotica Night
- You Thought You Had Privacy Before the NSA Leak? What About Facebook?
- Geoffrey Robertson: Edward Snowden Could Find Refuge in Europe
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Having some issues with my site in IE7. If you check out the link below in IE7 you will notice there are some funky things going on with the main global navigation. I need to get this corrected as quickly as possible. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can fix this but not wreck it for all the other browsers that it already works fine in.
Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems Supplying Customized LIS Software Solutions for Laboratories Everywhere
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It looks like IE7 is having trouble with the double widthless floats.You are nesting your floated UL in a floated div ...

<ul id="main-nav" class="nav fl">
#navigation {
font:14px/14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
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I would say remove that wrapping div but this is a WP site so I'm not sure what the consequences would be.
To fix IE7, either remove the float from #navigation or add width:100%; to keep the float from shrinkwrapping.
#navigation {
width:100%;
font:14px/14px Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
padding:5px 0 0;
That did the trick! Thanks. Now one more question...but this time regarding FireFox 3.0 and 3.6....
If you look at the homepage of my site: Seacoast Laboratory Data Systems Supplying Customized LIS Software Solutions for Laboratories Everywhere in either FireFox 3.0 or 3.6 you will notice that the large main home slider does not appear at all whereas in ALL other browsers it appears just fine....
Any ideas on what might be going on here?
^It looks like the parent container's height is collapsing in between each slide delay.
You can fix it by setting a height or min-height on the parent, you already had the selector set up on line 220 in your css so just add a height.
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Hmmm. I think it fixed it can you please just check real quick and confirm? My browser testing program is showing the space but no content, but that could be the software...just want to be sure it's working the way it should.
Sorry, that min-height was really not a good suggestion. The slides are stacking up as blocks while the page loads in FF3.
Let's change that to -
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It looks like FF3.6 is just being slow with that script and the page load. The page loads fast for me in Chrome.
Ok. Made the adjustment. Looking good now?
Yes, it is looking better in FF3 but it is still acting very sluggish for me in FF3.
You might want to get someone else to look at it in FF3 and if they give the same results I would head over to the JS forum and see what they can make of it.


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TWO firefighters have been killed while battling a bushfire near Harrietville after a tree fell and struck their vehicle.
Police late on Wednesday night confirmed the deaths of a man in his 30s from Corryong and a woman in her late teens from Tallandoon who had been battling the 27,000 hectare blaze in remote bushland in the state's north-east.
AWU Victorian secretary Cesar Melhem said that the two firefighters were from the Department of Sustainability and Environment.
Ambulance Victoria spokesman John Mullen said paramedics had been called to the scene on Pheasant Creek Track, about 10 kilometres south-west of Harrietville about 4.12pm.
Two ambulance helicopters and ground crews responded.
Emergency services were held up attending the incident at the fire grounds near Pheasant Creek for several hours due to mountainous terrain and the ongoing fire.
Mr Melhem said the loss was shattering for the families of those who perished, for their workmates, their communities,the union, and all Victorians.
"They have died heroes, which will be small comfort to those that grieve them,'' he said. "We want answers, and we want those answers to make sure that this does not happen again."
They are the third and fourth Victorian firefighters to die fighting blazes this season.
Peter Cramer, a DSE firefighter and CFA volunteer from Tyers in Gippsland, died on January 13 while working on the Tasmanian bushfires. The 61-year-old was working on foot to identify potential containment lines on the southern boundary of the Forcett fire, about two to three kilometres from the active fire edge.
Peter Harry, 48, died at the scene of a housefire in Gisborne on December 30. Colleagues found the CFA volunteer and member of almost 30 years unconscious outside the house.
Mr Cramer's daughter Linda Ketteringham was one of about 200 people who posted tributes to the fallen DSE firefighters on Facebook.
''I can't believe exactly 1 month after my Dad, condolescence (sic) to the families related,'' she wrote.
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description: December 14, 2012—In a cave in Mexico's Yucatán, a National Geographic explorer reveals what is believed to have been an underground observatory for witnessing the zenith passage of the sun.

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In an isolated region on Mexico's Yucatán peninsula, National Geographic explorer Don Slater came across a remarkable finding inside a cave he was studying: the Maya apparently used a platform inside the cave as an astronomical observatory.
If you watch this time-lapse video from inside the cave, you'll see the nearby pyramid... the largest of its kind in the area, stands in alignment with the sunrise on a very special day that only occurs twice a year: the zenith passage.
The top of the pyramid is partially collapsed, so the view is not exactly as the Maya saw it.
SUPER: Don Slater, Archaeologist, Brandeis University
"It appears that when the Maya built the city around that particular area, they aligned their largest pyramid with the cave mouth, so that when you stand inside on a special platform inside of the cave mouth, and look out and have this view of the city, the view is dominated by the pyramid, and it aligns with the sunrise on the day of the zenith passage, which is a very important day on the solar calendar for the Maya people.
While standing inside the cave, which follows a staircase descent from its entrance, an observer can see what the Maya saw. The zenith passage, the time in the tropics, twice a year at noon, when the sun passes directly overhead, is believed to have been used in maintaining the Maya agricultural calendar.
Due to the cave's special location at the heart of the ancient settlement of Ikil, regular access, let alone on the day of the zenith, would not have been for just anybody.
SUPER: Don Slater, Archaeologist, Brandeis University
"I would say this is something that would have been particularly for a small group of elite people, the cave entrance is not very large, and it's located in an area that would have been controlled specifically by the elite people."
"The way they perceived the caves on an ideological scale is so different from the way we perceive them. It's almost like a church.  It's a sacred space, but there was a certain amount of fear involved, because the deities that lived inside of these caves, according to their beliefs, wouldn't all have been benevolent. So, you would be approaching these spaces where you could upset deities, you could upset ancestors, you're putting your life at risk by going into these places, not just because of the heights, and because of the tight spaces, but because of the spirits that live inside of these caves. "
The Ikil cave with the zenith passage observatory is just one of a hundred caves Slater and his team have explored and studied in the Yucatan.
They have rappelled and crawled through tiny spaces, going where no outsider has ever ventured.
The primary purpose of Slater's research, partially funded by a National Geographic/Waitt grant, is to determine if control of the caves was a source of power within ancient Maya communities.
Slater says bringing lights into these caves allows his team to view these caves like no other humans had seen it before.
SUPER: Don Slater, Archaeologist, Brandeis University
"When people would go in the past, of course all they had was torches. And using a torch to light up a cave certainly has its interesting aspects, with the flickering light, but it's going to be a very dim light... when we go in and light up a cave, it just completely and totally reveals all of the nooks and crannies and features inside of the cave, we get to see it in a way that nobody else had ever seen it in the past."


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The Bible epic, as a genre, is typically associated with the 1950s, and for good reason. That's when Hollywood churned out a series of Bible-themed films, such as David and Bathsheba (1951), The Robe (1953) and The Ten Commandments (1956); and both the decade and the genre reached their climax with Ben-Hur (1959), which won a record number of Oscars in addition to becoming one of the biggest box-office hits of all time.
But the decade arguably got its start in the 1940s, when Cecil B. DeMille produced Samson and Delilah (1949), starring Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr. It was the first major Bible movie made by an American studio since the silent era — or since the early sound era, if we count DeMille's The Sign of the Cross (1932), which takes place after the Book of Acts, as a "Bible movie" — and it was a fairly big hit, thereby paving the way for all the bathrobe epics that followed.


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'Port Knocking' is another alternative for selectively opening ports.
On Dec 13, 2009, at 14:18, Chris Buechler wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:13 AM, Quark Group - Hilton Travis
> <Hilton at quarkgroup dot com dot au> wrote:
>> G'day Robert,
>> So, you're saying that the ability for any app to open a port on
>> your firewall when it wants is a way to increase security? Sorry,
>> not in my world it isn't. What stops malware opening ports in > a
>> UPnP device? UPnP has *no* place on a security device.
> A legit argument can be made that having the ports open only when
> necessary is better than having them open always. A good upnp
> implementation that allows you to limit which hosts and which ports
> can be used eliminates the concerns about having things opened that
> shouldn't be. In combination with the ability to not always have those
> things open, it really can be more secure than the alternative, having
> the same things open always whether or not they're being used.
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text: Has Jerry ever let any HC pick their full staffs, if I remember right Jerry had Garret hired prior to the wade Phillips hiring. Since Johnson left I think the big tuna got to pick his staff. But my point was if Jerry does this and always is undermining his head coaches, which I feel he does, Norv would be a good pick up for us. I've begrudgingly conceded that Jerry will always be meddling and hurt the authority of his head coaches, so we might as well get a good catch for it. I wish Jerry wasn't like this and stayed within his ownership role and hired a head coach and leave the head coach alone. I agree with you a 100% that would be the best thing for Dallas. But none of his behavior the last 3-5 years gives me any hope for that.


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Cedar Point to ring Closing Bell on Wednesday
Cedar Point will ring the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange while screaming fans on GateKeeper fly overhead on Wednesday with representatives from the NYSE on hand.
"Its an opportunity for us to highlight the quality assets that we have," said Stacy Frole, corporate vice president for investor relations at Cedar Fair, parent company of Cedar Point. "It was important for us to host it here in Sandusky, Ohio versus actually being in New York to allow more people to participate in the entire event."
The ceremony will be transmitted via satellite to New York directly to the exchange floor. Anyone willing to participate in this unique opportunity is more than welcome to at 3:30 p.m. at the front of the park, with the official bell ringing taking place at 4 p.m.
Get breaking news sent to your mobile phone. Text "news" to 21095.
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Amputation - traumaticLoss of a body part
Traumatic amputation is the loss of a body part -- usually a finger, toe, arm, or leg -- that occurs as the result of an accident or injury.
If an accident or trauma results in complete amputation (the body part is totally severed), the part sometimes can be reattached, especially when proper care is taken of the severed part and stump.
In a partial amputation, some soft-tissue connection remains. Depending on the severity of the injury, the partially severed extremity may or may not be able to be reattached.
There are various complications associated with amputation of a body part. The most important of these are bleeding, shock, and infection. See also: Wounds
The long-term outcome for amputees has improved due to better understanding of the management of traumatic amputation, early emergency and critical care management, new surgical techniques, early rehabilitation, and new prosthetic designs. New limb replantation techniques have been moderately successful, but incomplete nerve regeneration remains a major limiting factor.
Often, the patient will have a better outcome from having a well-fitting, functional prosthesis than a nonfunctional replanted limb.
Traumatic amputations usually result directly from factory, farm, or power tool accidents or from motor vehicle accidents. Natural disasters, war, and terrorist attacks can also cause traumatic amputations.
- A body part that has been completely or partially cut off
- Bleeding (may be minimal or severe, depending on the location and nature of the injury)
- Pain (the degree of pain is not always related to the severity of the injury or the amount of bleeding)
- Crushed body tissue (badly mangled, but still partially attached by muscle, bone, tendon, or skin)
First Aid
- Check the person's airway (open if necessary); check breathing and circulation. If necessary, begin rescue breathing, CPR, or bleeding control.
- Try to calm and reassure the person as much as possible. Amputation is painful and extremely frightening.
- Control bleeding by applying direct pressure to the wound. Raise the injured area. If the bleeding continues, recheck the source of the bleeding and reapply direct pressure, with help from someone who is not tired. If the person has life-threatening bleeding, a tight bandage or tourniquet will be easier to use than direct pressure on the wound. However, using a tight bandage for a long time may do more harm than good.
- Save any severed body parts and make sure theystay with the patient. Removeany dirty material that can contaminate the wound, if possible.Gently rinse the body part if the cut end is dirty.
- Wrap the severed part in a clean, damp cloth, place it in a sealed plastic bag and place the bag in ice cold water.
- Do NOT directly put the body part in water without using a plastic bag.
- DoNOT put the severed part directly on ice. Do NOT use dry ice as this will cause frostbite and injury to the part.
- If cold water is not available, keep the part away from heat as much as possible. Save it for the medical team, or take it to the hospital. Cooling the severed part will keep it useable for about 18 hours. Without cooling, it will only remain useable for about 4 to 6 hours.
- Keep the patient warm.
- Take steps to prevent shock. Lay the person flat, raise the feet about 12 inches, and cover the person with a coat or blanket. Do NOT place the person in this position if a head, neck, back, or leg injury is suspected or if it makes the victim uncomfortable.
- Once the bleeding is under control, check the person for other signs of injury that require emergency treatment. Treat fractures, additional cuts, and other injuries appropriately.
- Stay with the person until medical help arrives.
- Do NOT forget that saving the person's life is more important than saving a body part.
- Do NOT overlook other, less obvious, injuries.
- Do NOT attempt to push any part back into place.
- Do NOT decide that a body part is too small to save.
- Do NOT place a tourniquet, unless the bleeding is life threatening, as the entire limb may be harmed.
- Do NOT raise false hopes of reattachment.
When to Contact a Medical Professional
If someone severs a limb, finger, toe, or other body part, you should call immediately for emergency medical help.
Use safety equipment when using factory, farm, or power tools. Wear seat belts when driving a motor vehicle. Always use good judgment and observe appropriate safety precautions.
Halluska-Handy M. Management of amputations. In: Roberts JR, Hedges JR, eds. Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:chap 47.
Lyn ET, Mailhot T. Hand. In: Marx JA, ed. Rosen's Emergency Medicine: Concepts and Clinical Practice. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2009:chap 47.
Gross KR, Collier BR, Riordan WP Jr, Morris JA Jr. Wilderness trauma and surgical emergencies. In: Auerbach PS, ed. Wilderness Medicine. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2011:chap 21.
Review Date: 8/11/2012
Reviewed By: Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. C. Benjamin Ma, MD, Assistant Professor, Chief, Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service, UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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when you say "ping failed going out to www.google.com" , how did it fail?
did the server manage to get googles ip address? what was the output?
can the webservers ping each other and the firewall?
On 5/25/08, Trevor Merrill <trevor dot merrill at gmail dot com> wrote:
> I have tried twice unsuccessfully to implement Monowall in a data center
> and I cannot for the life of me figure out what I am doing wrong. I have a
> simliar setup running on another location but I am missing something. I was
> hoping the community could lend a hand so the third time is a charm. Let me
> describe the setup, i can even post the config if it goes that far.
> Here is the setup:
> Monowall 1.3B11 installed on a soekris 4501 - I have had success with this
> at two other sites
> Network Range:
> x.x.x.32 /28
> x.x.x.32 ñ Network ID
> x.x.x.33 ñ Data Center Switch
> x.x.x.34 ñ My Default Gateway
> x.x.x.35 ñ Data Center Switch
> x.x.x.36 through .46 ñ My Useable IP addresses
> x.x.x.36 - Monowall
> x.x.x.37 - web server 1
> x.x.x.38 - web server 2
> x.x.x.39 - web server 3
> x.x.x.47 ñ Broadcast
> 255.255.255.240 ñ Subnet Mask
> 192.168.5.1 /24
> DHCP Range 192.168.5.150 - 192.168.5.160
> DNS - have 3 servers listed in general settings, 2
> are root DNS servers and 1 is company DNS
> All 3 servers Have a one to one NAT, with reverse Proxy ARP setup
> firewall rules are basic:
> LAN - all ports allowed out
> WAN - ports 80, and a few others in
> I plugged everything in and from laptop connected via DHCP everything was
> working great. I could ping out, browse web, etc but the servers could not
> ping out, and pings to public addresses failed from WAN. The websites they
> host did not come up, attempted browsing from WAN. All signs point to DNS
> settings so I manually entered the DNS settings in the server, even though
> the monowall should forward the DNS querys, and still nothing. The weird
> thing is when I looked at the firewall logs it was rejecting port 80 traffic
> from the WAN to the LAN, even though I had a rule setup allowing it to pass.
> I spent hours trying to figure out what was going on and got more confused
> as time went on. Here is a summary
> 1. Browsing web, pinging www.google.com, checking email worked great with
> laptop connected to LAN via DHCP
> 2 Servers with static LAN IPs, ping failed going out to www.google.com,
> with same DNS settings as DHCP client
> 3. From WAN, hosted websites would not come up, port 80 allowed from WAN to
> 4. From WAN, ping failed to public 1:1 NATted IPs, even though ICMP from
> WAN to LAN was allowed
> Any help would be appreciated, Lik I said I can post the config as well.
> Trevor
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So Cohen is right when he notes in the Times that "Harris deserves applause for his stand."
He and Harris began to hash out ideas for a three way deal with the president-elect.
Harris said that Höss appeared like a "grocery clerk," someone you would pay no attention to if you met him on the street.
Harris confesses that he sleeps with a loaded gun tucked under his mattress, where he can easily grab it.
Harris County has the highest rate of domestic violence in the state, which is saying a lot.
At the hearing on this complaint, Harris denied that he had ever contributed a dollar to Joe at the latter's persuasion.
Perhaps, as he has said, his real man is only a Mrs. Harris.
Mrs. Harris discovered them on the piazza approaching the steps and exclaimed, Ah, here come the truants.
Harris accordingly disposed of his share of the farm and paid Grandin.
I fancied poor old Harris eyed me with suspicion, and I wished he had better cause.
popular surname, attested from c.1400, from Harry, popular medieval pronunciation of Henry. As a type of tweed (1892), it is from the name of the southern section of the island of Lewis with Harris in the Outer Hebrides; originally it referred to fabric produced by the inhabitants there, later a proprietary name. That place name represents Gaelic na-h-earaidh "that which is higher," in comparison to the lower Lewis. Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania, is named for ferryman John Harris (1727-1791), son of the original European settler.


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I am setting up a form to enter a chat queue on my website for work. The form script comes from the company we are using to host the chat, but the problem is that customers don't have to fill out anything to enter the queue. I want the users to have to fill out 3 of the 5 fields before they are able to click the sumbit button.I've found a few scripts on the web that looked they like would work, but they were all for radio selections, and I don't have enough javascript knowledge to switch the correct paramiters to work with imput.
This is the script I am using;<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><form name="channel00000" action="https://secure.logmeinrescue.com/Customer/Download.aspx" method="post">

Please enter your name: 	<input type="text" name="name" maxlength="64" />

Company: 	<input type="text" name="comment1" maxlength="512" />

Phone: 	<input type="text" name="comment2" maxlength="512" />

Username: 	<input type="text" name="comment3" maxlength="256" />

Error: 	<input type="text" name="comment4" maxlength="64" />

 <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> <input type="hidden" name="EntryID" value="00000" /> <input type="hidden" name="tracking0" maxlength="64" />  <input type="hidden" name="language" maxlength="5" /> </form>
I need the name, comment1, and comment4 sections to be filled out before the submit will go through. I don't care if the button is not available until they are filled or a popup that asks for them to be filled out, just so long as they can't enter chat without us knowing their name and whatnot. From what I understand, the bulk of the form script needs to stay the same so it directs to us and not another company, but other than that, I'm open to any suggestion.
Thank you in advance, I need all the help I can get.
Get rid of that form name and instead replace it with a unique identifier.
<form id="channel00000" ...>
Then put your script at the end of the body, so that the script can easily work with page elements. It also helps to improve the page loading speed.

Gain a reference to the form, and take over the onsubmit event:
var form = document.getElementById('channel00000');
form.onsubmit = function () {
return false;
Inside that function is where you check the name, comment1, and comment4 fields, and return true to allow the form to be submitted.
... = function () {
var form = this,
name = form.elements.name,
comment1 = form.elements.comment1,
comment4 = form.elements.comment4;
if (name.value > '' && comment1.value > '' && comment4.value > '') {
return true;
return false;
The form name is going to have to stay like that, that is part of the chat program's coding to identify which channel to take the chat to. I just changed the numbers to the 00s while posting it.
From here down is where I am lost. I have a limited knowledge of javascript and I understand some of what you have here, but not all. To put this code together completly, what would it look like? I think I woud be wrong just to place them one after the other and say yay script lol. Would it be best if I "plugged" this into the radio script I have been looking at or use this to start from scratch?I understand if you don't want to write the code for me, so if you could just guide me in the correct direction, it would be greatly appreciated
I think if you're not keen to learn much about javascript, that would be best for you to employ someone to do the work for you.
Like I said previously, I'm not looking for someone to do this for me, but I would like a little more direction than your first post included. I am learning, obviously I don't know as much as someone who works with javascript everyday. It's just difficult to look at fragments of a script and know what is it doing, at least it is for me.I would like a little more guidance in this. If you don't want to be that person, that's cool. Maybe someone else here will.
With the form identifier, if there aren't going to be more than one of those types of forms on any one page then you could use a consistent identifier on them, along with the name as well.
<form id="rescueDetails" name="channel00000" ...>


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GSA Issues RFPs for Alliant GWACs Worth $65 Billion
September 29, 2006
Contact: (202) 501-1231
Washington D.C. – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today issued Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for two 10-year, government-wide acquisition contracts (GWACs) to be named Alliant and Alliant Small Business (SB). They are collectively valued at $65 billion and will provide a wide array of information technology services to Federal agencies.
The RFPs are available on the Federal Business Opportunities Web site (http://www.fedbizopps.com). Proposals are due November 17, 2006, and GSA expects to award contracts in summer 2007.
"The Alliant and Alliant Small Business GWACs demonstrate GSA's commitment, as the premier federal acquisition agency, to provide federal agencies with the business solutions they need to fulfill their important missions," said John C. Johnson, GSA's Acting Assistant Commissioner of the Integrated Technology Service. "To the best of our knowledge, the Alliant SB GWAC is the largest federal contract set-aside for small businesses."
The Alliant GWAC has a maximum value of $50 billion, and the Alliant SB GWAC has a maximum value of $15 billion. GSA expects to make up to 30 Alliant and up to 60 Alliant SB awards. The Alliant GWACs provide a wide array of information technology services, from anti-terrorism initiatives and infrastructure support to development and marketing of evolving technologies, and more.
For more information please visit www.gsa.gov/alliant or www.gsa.gov/alliantsb.
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GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. In this role, GSA acquires products and services on behalf of federal agencies; plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies; provides services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers; and encourages a citizen-centric relationship with government by providing a single "point of entry" to the information and services citizens need in a timeframe they can appreciate. This allows citizens to receive accurate, timely and consistent answers and information, and helps federal agencies better respond to citizen inquiries.


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A Brother's Price
Jerin is the oldest of 4 boys, one of the precious male progeny in a huge brood of female children that makes up the Whistler clan. He is coming of age soon, which means that he will need to be married off for a "brother's price" so his sisters can afford to buy a husband to father the next generation. He knows full well of his fate but can't help but wish for more. Jerin has never seen any females besides his relatives so he is surprised to save a half-...
Alien Taste
Ukiah Oregon has a photographic memory, but he can remember nothing of his childhood. He was raised by wolves in Ukiah, Oregon and found by a biology student who adopted and raised him. He has no idea how old he is, who his parents were - nothing. His moms (he has two mothers, no father) try to find out about his past by hiring a private investigator, but Max Bennett can find nothing. However, as Max learns more about Ukiah, he discovers that Ukiah's spe...
Bitter Waters
Roc, May 2003, 6.99, 320 pp. ISBN 0451459229 Although the human race is unaware of it, there is a war going on between two rival groups of an alien race. The Ontongard infects humans and makes the species one of them, an individual cell in an organism. The pack aliens retain their individual identities while having access to the group memory. The pack wants to kill the Ontongard so they won't destroy the human race. Ukiah Oregon, half alien an...
Dog Warrior
Roc, Oct 2004, 6.99, 300 pp. ISBN: 0451459803 On Earth aliens species named the Ortongard and the Pack are two ET species at war with one another because the latter believes that if they don't stop the former, the planet will be transformed into an Ortongard planet as humans merge into a single cell group mind. Ukiah Oregon is the only known person on earth who is half human and half Pack. The Ortongard want him to breed more of their kind, but...
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Tainted Trail
Tainted Trail is the sequel to Alien Taste and continues the adventures of Ukiah Oregon. When Alicia, a close friend, goes missing in Oregon, Max and Ukiah fly out to try and find her. They quickly discover that Alicia's disappearance is a kidnapping and begin a race against the clock. In their search for her, Ukiah finds out that he may be the legendary Wolf Boy who was lost in 1933. He tries to contact the Kicking Deers, who wrote the original newspape...
A portion of Philadelphia has been transported to Elfhome, land of long-lived magical humanoid beings with pointy ears and arrogant attitudes. Tinker, a girl genius who runs a junkyard, saves the life of Windwolf, a high ranking elf. It turns out that this is the second time she has saved his life. Windwolf proposes to her and marries her in a ceremony so subtle, she never realized that she has just said "I do". He later performs a powerful and deep spel...


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An Arkansas program to preserve more than 3,000 acres of wetlands is among eight environmental initiatives across the country named by the Federal Highway Administration as a national model for protecting natural resources and enhancing local communities.
"These environmental success stories are characteristic of the Bush Administration's commitment to improving our transportation system while serving as good stewards of the world in which we live," said Acting Federal Highway Administrator J. Richard Capka.
FHWA annually spotlights a small group of "exemplary ecosystem initiatives" and posts information about them on its web site to encourage environmental protection, innovation and stewardship in highway and bridge projects. Capka praised the eight state departments of transportation that developed these model programs for protecting diverse biological resources and sustaining communities and regional economies.
In addition to the Arkansas program, FHWA this year recognized California's program to protect endangered species on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs; Florida's use of computer technologies to include wildlife habitat needs in road project decision-making; Kansas' program to preserve roadside prairies; Pennsylvania's ecology preservation program; South Carolina's protection of land near the Lewis Ocean Bay Heritage Preserve; Washington's preservation of wildlife habitat on the Interstate 90 Snoqualmie Pass East project; and Wyoming's program to include wildlife needs when designing highway projects.
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Lil Kim announces mixtape release date
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Hip-hop's "Queen Bee" is ready to roll out her latest mixtape.
Lil' Kim recently took to Twitter to announce that Hard Core 2K13: Back 2 Da Streetz is set to arrive on October 31st.
The mixtape is a sequel to her debut album Hard Core, which hit stores in 1996. It is also expected to precede her upcoming fifth album. Big Fendi - who is known for launching Nicki Minaj's career - is serving as executive producer on the mixtape.
Get ready!!!! 10/31/13 #HARDCOREMIXTAPE #Halloween #DontGetScaredNow #HardCoreMixtapeApp Exec producer @bigfendi RT!… http://t.co/bTWadRwVBo— Lil' Kim (@LilKim) September 11, 2013
Lil Kim's last full length album The Naked Truth was released back in 2005. It opened strong, selling 109,000 copies in its first week and landing at number three on the Billboard 200 chart.
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Our friend Physicist-retired lives in Conn. In the last 14 months he has seen Irene, the Halloween snow storm and Super Storm Sandy. Last week when I showed him the European Model of Sandy , he went dark . PR knew that the European Model nailed Irene on the nose.
I have this friend in New Hampshire, her world was smashed by an ice storm 3 winters ago , Irene smashed all the old wooden bridges in Vermont 14 months ago. This pattern of All-Time records goes way up into Canada, and curving of into Greenland.
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"Modern Family" Cast Recreates Classic TV Comedies
Posted Saturday January 5, 2013 5:00 PM GMT
Paying tribute to the iconic shows of yesteryear, the cast of "Modern Family" recreated some classic TV hits in a new photoshoot.
"Bewitched" was honored with Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen while their on-screen kids Nolan Gould, Sarah-Hyland, and Ariel Winter played Gilligan, Mary Ann, and Ginger from "Gilligan's Island."
Dressing up as one of her comedy idols, Sofia Vergara portrayed Lucy to Ed O'Neill's Ricky, while Rico Rodriguez played their son, Little Ricky.
Finally, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet got into character to play "The Honeymooners" along with their on-screen daughter, played by Aubrey Anderson-Emmons. Check out the hilarious photos below.
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Budget discussions got so contentious Tuesday night, one Salt Lake City School District board member left the meeting.
Tiffany Sandberg asked to be excused after board member Michael Clara continued to ask questions about the budget, yet none of the other members seemed to understand his point.
Clara said he wants greater transparency involving district business, especially as he considers a vote on whether to increase taxes.
The disagreement during Tuesday's board meeting was the latest in a series of criticisms Clara has lodged since joining the board in January.
Clara has a blog titled "Taxation Without Representation" that criticizes the district's actions in creating a budget for the 2013-2014 school year, especially when administrators met with no more than three board members, thereby not requiring that the meeting be open to the public.
District officials have proposed a property tax increase, which would require homeowners to pay $12.65 more annually per $100,000 of home valuation.
Even though school districts received a 2 percent boost to per-student funding in the recent legislative session, Salt Lake City School District must divert almost all of that money toward increasing retirement costs.
District officials said the property-tax increase would generate $3.6 million, covering $1.9 million needed to support current academic programs; $1.2 million for state retirement and cost-of-living increases for employees; and $450,000 to cover federal budget cutbacks.
Clara said he thinks the seven-member school board should have met as a whole, in a public meeting, to parse over the budget, perhaps coming up with alternatives to increasing taxes.
"I'm questioning the fact that we have not deliberated on this," Clara said Tuesday in an interview. "We never, ever got to talk about alternatives [to increasing taxes]."
District spokesman Jason Olsen said the complaint is false.
"Mr. Clara's contentions are completely without merit," Olsen wrote in an email. "The small-group meetings with board members in no way deprive the public of their right to review and comment on the district budget.
"The small-group meetings with board members are optional and are designed to give board members a deeper understanding of the budget development process and answer any questions they may have," Olsen wrote.
Olsen added that the board started discussing the upcoming budget in March.
In the Taxation Without Representation blog, Clara posted snippets from the May 7 board meeting, when Janet Roberts, district business administrator, said the proposed budget resulted from the board's small groups, which supported the property tax increase.
Clara disagreed and said the group he was in neither discussed increasing property taxes, nor went over funding alternatives.
On Tuesday, during the budget discussion, board member Rosemary Emery asked why the career and technical education teachers outnumber the number of core subject teachers in high schools. At East High School, for example, she said there are 13 CTE teachers, 11 English, 11 math and 10 science. Emery said the CTE program should be looked into to save money.
Board President Kristi Swett said the board would review the CTE program in the future.
Since he started in January, Clara has created a brouhaha at the district, filing multiple civil-rights complaints with federal officials and documenting his criticisms on his website, Michaelclara.com.
The past few months, Clara has clashed with board members over several issues. Here's an exchange from the May 7 board meeting, when members discussed the difference between federal funds and approving the upcoming budget.
Member Douglas Nelson said: "You can approve the budget but allege graft, or theft, but that's different, than saying as a representative of the taxpayers, this is how we want the money spent."
Clara replied: "I don't see the difference."
Nelson: "Well, you have to see the difference if you're on the board of education."
Clara: "Why?"
Nelson: "Only if you want to be a good board member, do you need to see the difference."
Heather Bennett, board vice president, said: "Let's move on."
The proposed 2013-14 budget can be seen on the district website: slcschools.org/departments/budgeting/documents/1314-budget.pdf.
On June 4, the school board is expected to vote on the 2013-14 district budget, including increasing property taxes.


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^dam can you help me find one in medium?!
Zeeks, I found mine on ebay - at the moment the only one I can find now is on amazon in either size Large or XL, but at a higher price
I read that some people can't find the street fighter shirts. They have a heap of shirts @ PYS still. You guys don't buy Triumvir from PYS or something?
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Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
The Markaz
Saturday, April 6, 2013 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Entering into the Persian New Year, the Levantine Cultural Center presents a masterpiece, Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings, a new illustrated edition of the classic work by the great 11th-century Persian poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi.
Written over a thousand years ago by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings continues to enthrall readers around the globe with its depictions of superhuman heroes, magical birds, heart-wrenching love stories, and fierce battles.
This new prose translation of the national epic is illuminated with over 500 pages of illustrations, created by award-winning graphic artist and filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian. The spectacular images in this edition were created from elements culled from thousands of illuminated manuscripts, lithographs, and miniatures dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth centuries: each page is a new work of art and exquisite collage of traditional forms. Translated and adapted by Ahmad Sadri, this new edition retells the mythological and epic stories of the original poem in prose format.A book signing with Hamid Rahmanian will follow the program.
Part myth, part history of a nation, the Shahnameh has been made anew by award-winning graphic artist and filmmaker Hamid Rahmanian. He has created an exquisite new edition featuring lush illustrations paired with a translations by Ahmad Sadri, professor of Sociology and Anthropology and James P. Gorter Chair of Islamic World Studies at Lake Forest College. Rahmanian will share images and text from the book as well as discuss the continued relevance of this powerful classic for a new generation of readers.
Advance reservations suggested due to limited seating.
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Registration is open for GIE+EXPO (the Green Industry & Equipment Expo), October 23-25, 2013 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. Dealers, distributors, landscape contractors and anyone working in the lawn maintenance, landscaping and turf care industry can register online at www.gie-expo.com.
Dealer Day - back by popular demand - on Wednesday, October 23, is a premier event for dealers and technicians to participate in valuable seminars followed by a preview of new products. They will meet one-on-one with exhibitors on the show floor at GIE+EXPO and the collocated Hardscape North America (HNA).
On Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25, GIE+EXPO, HNA and the popular 19-acre Outdoor Demonstration Area will be open to all industry participants.
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If business, particularly a startup business, is all about making connections, then the Keller Center's eLab Demo Day was a perfect example of business in action.
Archive – August 2012
Princeton engineers are building collaborations across the campus and the globe to better understand water, from its molecular interactions to its role in climate change. Their innovations are leading the way to better management of one of humanity's most important resources.
Professor James Smith writes how a trip to Nevada's Lake Mead in 2008 provided him a stark reminder of dramatically changing drought patterns and the importance of a broad-based effort to understand and manage water resources.
Tropical storms in the Atlantic are likely to increase as the Earth's climate warms in the first half of this century, but not for the reason that many people think.
A decade ago, a shockwave raced through the world's agricultural markets. China opened its borders to foreign-grown soy. Ranchers in Argentina plowed under their pastureland and Brazilian farmers opened new acreage for planting. Almost overnight, the economies of those countries changed. Why did this happen? And why does it make sense to grow food and ship it around the world rather than raise crops close to home? A Princeton-led research team has found that one of the primary
A massive expansion of hydropower planned for the Mekong River Basin in Southeast Asia could have a catastrophic impact on the river's fishery and millions of people who depend on it, according to a new study by researchers including scientists from Princeton University. The researchers analyzed a number of scenarios for dam construction along the river and its tributaries. In an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they found that, in the most extreme
Mark Zondlo and his research team frequently find themselves 45,000 feet above the Earth looking for water vapor in the upper reaches of the atmosphere. From a seat in a National Science Foundation (NSF) research jet, the engineers can search a slice of the sky for pollutants and gases that play a role in climate change. Zondlo, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering, said that water plays a greater role in climate change than many people imagine. "If we want to un
Under a microscope, a tiny droplet slides between two fine hairs like a roller coaster on a set of rails until — poof — it suddenly spreads along them, a droplet no more. That instant of change, like the popping of a soap bubble, comes so suddenly that it seems almost magical. But describing it, and mapping out how droplets stretch into tiny columns, is key to understanding how liquids affect fibrous materials, from air filters to human hair. That knowledge could allow scientists
Pablo Debenedetti studies water at the smallest possible scales — zooming in on molecule-to-molecule interactions — but the implications for large industrial processes and many scientific fields could hardly be greater. Take water quality. Debenedetti and Sankaran Sundaresan, both Princeton engineers, are attempting to find a clean, new way to desalinate water by using hydrates, or crystalline solids in which hydrocarbon molecules are trapped in water cages. When hydrates form in
Drought is often the precursor to disaster, but getting leads on its stealthy approach through remote or war-torn areas can be so difficult that relief agencies sometimes have little time to react before a bad situation becomes a calamity. The problem is that there is often no easy way to get data about water supplies in these areas — water monitoring stations don't exist, or they don't work, or their locations are simply too dangerous. Groups such as AGRHYMET, an intergover
In the course of studying water and its impact on communities, Peter Jaffe and his students have waded through the marshes of New Jersey's Meadowlands and worked with villagers in India to remove toxins from their drinking water. Their travels represent the wide range of interests that Jaffe, a professor of civil and environmental engineering, has pursued in water-related research. In India, fluoride contamination in well water is common in parts of the country. In small amounts, fluor
If recent Princeton graduate Ida Posner's senior thesis project works the way she hopes, scientists could answer critical questions about how much water plants use without expensive, bulky laboratory equipment.
There is pressure, and there is pressure. Paul Hsieh (BSE '77) mostly deals with the physical type, the stresses and forces of underground water and rock. Understanding that type of pressure is a daily task for Hsieh, a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, Calif. But after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April 2010, Hsieh learned about pressure of an entirely different kind. Engineers worked for 87 days to cap the stricken well and staunch the oil fl
At least three Princeton Engineering alumni — all in the Seattle area — are engaged in exploring the mysteries of the deep sea. As a research scientist and senior engineer at the University of Washington, Andy Stewart (Ph.D. '12) works on a variety of projects, such as basic research in dynamics and control of autonomous systems (typically underwater vehicles), and designing and building a high-definition video camera for streaming live footage from a hydrothermal vent


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USC research funding hits record
Research funding at the University of South Carolina reached $218.8 million in fiscal year 2010 (ending June 30), a 4-percent increase over last year's total ($210.5 million) and 26 percent more than five years ago.
University researchers were particularly successful in competing for federal research funds, which totaled $153.9 million, an 18.7-percent increase over last year, mainly due to USC's competitive proposals for federal stimulus funding.
Research funding from the U.S. Department of Education has increased by 38 percent in the past two years, totaling $13.5 million in fiscal year 2010, and research awards from the National Science Foundation have increased nearly 53 percent in the same time period, totaling $27.4 million in fiscal year 2010.
"The NSF increase, in particular, is a positive reflection on the junior faculty we've recruited who have won early career awards and the continuing productivity of many senior faculty members," said Stephen Kresovich, vice president for research and graduate education. "The quest for research funding has become an ultra-competitive endeavor across the country, and, while we still have room to grow, we're pleased to have registered a funding increase this year."
Colleges that achieved notable growth in fiscal year 2010 include Arts and Sciences (12 percent increase); Engineering and Computing (22 percent increase); and Education (18.7 percent increase).
In addition, the university's regional and four-year campuses increased their collective research funding by more than 36 percent, from $5.9 million to $8 million.
To retain its competitive edge, the university will work to develop interdisciplinary teams "that can put together regional, multi-institutional mega-grants in which we are a leader, not merely a participant," Kresovich said.
"In addition, there are three broad areas in which we have been particularly strong in the past 10 years: environmental sciences and sustainability, community health and social justice," he said. "We want to rally our efforts in those areas and also respond to opportunities such as Boeing's new manufacturing plant in South Carolina and the push for more nuclear energy and green energy in the Southeast."
Notable research awards in the past year include the following:
- $11.6 million (department of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computing) from the U.S. Department of Energy to study nano-structure design and synthesis;
- $4.9 million (Prevention Research Center in the Arnold School of Public Health) from the Centers for Disease Control/Health and Human Services to study health promotion and disease research;
- $4.9 million (Earth Sciences and Resources Institute in the College of Arts and Sciences) from the U.S. Department of Energy to study geological characterization of the South Georgia Rift Basin for potential storage of CO2.
With the exception of one year – 2002 – USC has increased annual research funding every year since 1983. Carolina is one of only 63 public universities listed by the Carnegie Foundation in the highest tier of research institutions in the United States.


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Lazzara Yachts has used the services of JEI (Janelle Engineering, Inc.) during sea trials of the last five 80s, as well as for the sea trials of other vessels it currently builds. JEI's PowerMate system records and graphs torque, thrust, horsepower, rpm, trim and heel angles, speed, voltage, amperage, engine temperatures, and GPS positioning without restricting engine horsepower. During a sea trial a JEI engineer secures wireless strain gauges to the prop shaft(s), the gauges communicate with a laptop nearby, and that laptop communicates with another laptop on the bridge, where the engineer conducts actual testing.
According to Lazzara, accurate shaft horsepower measurements taken from JEI's portable dyno--as opposed to theoretical fuel, horsepower, and other numbers supplied by engine manufacturers--are invaluable for specifying props and diagnosing performance problems like the one we encountered during our PMY sea trial. --B.P.
This article originally appeared in the January 2003 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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EWWNP means Exploring Wild and Wonderful Number Patterns Created by Yourself! Investigate what happens if we create number patterns using some simple rules.
Find a great variety of ways of asking questions which make 8.
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Topic: What kind of pets do you have?
My house is a zoo! We have two horses in the field behind our house. We also have two dogs (Springer spaniel and terror mutt), two cats, and two goldfish to round it out.
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text: To know a book, you have only to read it closely. But to know a writer, one book is almost never enough. This is certainly true of Thornton Wilder. At first glance, his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and his play Our Town may appear to have little in common. One is about the search for meaning after a fatal bridge collapse in Peru, the other about life in a small New Hampshire town. Only after contemplating these timeless stories side by side do we begin to discover the signature they share: an appreciation for life's preciousness in the shadow of eternity.


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By Lesli Nolen
Published March 2011
I finally did it! I finally got my trip to the Davis Mountains. When I started working for Ranch magazine, I discovered some of our advertisers and subscribers were in the Big Bend area. So immediately I began brainstorming and coming up with all kinds of ideas, trying to figure out some way to get me and my family to the Davis Mountains.
For two years straight, I planned a trip to the Davis Mountains. But every time something came up causing us to postpone our trip. So this past summer, I decided I was not going to plan anything. I finally came to terms that my dream of going to the Davis Mountains was just not in the cards for me right now.
My husband and I are the youth directors at our church and our pastor came to us and asked us about a summer trip for the youth kids. Our pastor told us he had a friend in Fort Davis and thought that would be a great place to go. I about fell over. After a bit of discussion it was unanimous, we were going to the Davis Mountains!
We loaded up the van with our four wonderful youth kids and we were off. Our first stop was just outside of McCamey. We pulled over at the rest area, climbed up the hill and stood there looking at the huge dinosaur footprints. The kids talked and laughed and looked but I don't think they really understood the magnitude of this, but either way it was pretty cool. We loaded back into the van and continued down the road.
The kids sang and sang. I think after what seemed like the hundredth time of them singing, "My Father's House," we were closer to our destination. We all could begin to see mountains in the distance. The talking amongst them grew louder with anticipation. One of our youth kids had never even been out of San Angelo, so this was a true blessing to see her eyes light up with each mile as we traveled farther from home.
As we approached Balmorhea and the State Park on our way into Fort Davis, I pointed out to the kids the spring fed pool. I told them we would be coming back and going swimming there the next day. They were so excited. The talking in the van grew even louder!! They talked about how cold the water was (so they had been told) and that fish were in there too. They couldn't wait.
We kept driving, following along with each mountain. The kids and I "ooh'ed" and "ah'ed" as we drove. They talked about how only God could make something so beautiful. I was speechless and overwhelmed with joy, and the kids were not the only ones amazed and in awe of what our Creator had made. It was so different from what they had ever seen.
We got to our cabin in Fort Davis and unloaded. Our back porch had an awesome view of a mountain. The kids looked at it and said, "french fries!" The cliff face looked like stacks and stacks of french fries on end. Of course once they mentioned french fries they were hungry. We lit the grill and started cooking hamburgers and hot dogs. The kids played; they threw the football, walked around the block, talked and just soaked it all in.
After dinner we grabbed our pillows and blankets and headed outside. We lay there, in the middle of the road, watching star after star fall out of the night sky. I don't think we planned it that way, but as it turned out we had arrived during the annual August meteor shower. The brilliant meteor display aside, I had never seen stars quite like that. God is good!
The next day we got up and headed back to Balmorhea State Park. It was time to go swimming in the 77,053-square-foot spring fed swimming pool there, constructed in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The water was cold—cold enough to take your breath—and the kids adapted to the cold water a lot better than I did.We swam, tried to catch fish, ate and then it was time to head back to Fort Davis. We had reservations for the Star Party at the McDonald Observatory.
It was another beautiful drive up the observatory. We went in and looked around at all the cool star facts and browsed the gift shop. Then it was time to head out to the top of the mountain. We sat there, again in awe, looking at this huge star-lit sky.
The host of the party began discussing the stars and what we were to expect. He told us to look at a particular star and, as we looked up, he pulled out a laser and it looked as if the light was actually touching that star. The crowd went wild. Everyone "ooh'ed" and "ah'ed" again. The next question on everyone's mind was, "Where can we get one of those?"
After the informative speech we were allowed to walk around and look at the multitude of stars through the telescopes. Again everyone was amazed at what our Creator had made. It was a beautiful, chilly night on top of the mountain. It seemed like we were the only ones on Earth.
Our journey was coming to an end as we hit the road again to come home. As we drove out of the mountains we stopped and took some final pictures. We breathed in the last of mountain air, anticipating our return. The ride home was more "peaceful," if you will. The kids were not singing as much or as loudly; they were sharing their favorite moments with each other. I'm so thankful we were all able to experience just a small piece of Heaven on Earth and will have those memories with us wherever we go.
The months have passed and our youth kids are already talking about this year's trip. They are ready to go back. Whether we return to Fort Davis or not, I will not be disappointed for I know when it's our time to go back, we will, and it will all be a part of God's plan and not mine!


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The iPhone may be consigning weighty paper tomes to the history ebooks, but there's no denying that a leather-bound volume has a certain cachet. The Twelve South BookBook case turns your iPhone into a pocket hardback volume – and it lets you do away with your wallet too, with space to store your credit cards and ID.
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As well as providing plenty of protection for your iPhone, the Pong Rugged purportedly protects you – from the radiation that your phone's pumping out.
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This handy accessory lets you line up your iPhone for the perfect photo in all manner of different ways – from propping it up on a surface to attaching it to a full-blown camera tripod.
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My three days at the U.S. Department of Education were such an incredible experience, and I am surprised at how much I was able to do in such a short amount of time. My mentor, Massie Ritsch '98, is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Outreach in the Office of Communications and Outreach. His office is the liaison between the public and the Department of Education and is in charge of outreach to many different constituents, including parents, teachers, youth, organizations, and the communities. I thank him and his assistant, Kim Morton, for preparing such a wonderful three days for me! Despite being at a specific office, I was exposed to many different offices as well as other departments throughout my three days. It was incredible!
January 10, 2012
The first day gave me a good overview of what the Office of Communications and Outreach does. I got a tour of the office and was introduced to many different people with enthusiasm and curiosity. It felt great being so welcomed, even as a three-day visitor.
Mr. Ritsch took me out to lunch near the Department of Education and discussed everything from Princeton traditions to opportunities at the Department of Education. It was really helpful talking to him and being able to see the potential my career had. He was interested in what I wanted to do and what career paths I was considering. He offered suggestions and told me about his own experiences.
Later in the afternoon, I went to a meeting with Carrie Jasper, who is in charge of outreach to parents. We met with members from a group called Mom Congress. Mom Congress consists of mothers from every state meeting to improve education through focusing on different issues in each of their communities. It was inspiring seeing how hard some parents were working in their states and schools to make their schools better. I took notes for the meeting and was able to hear some of the planning details and processes for the Department's upcoming summer conference.
January 11, 2012:
In the morning, I made my way to the White House to meet Eddie Lee, who formerly worked in the Department of Education and who is now in the White House Office of Public Engagement. Mr. Lee leads the Office of Public Engagement's outreach to the Asian American and Pacific Islander community. We discussed everything from his career path to major issues within the Asian-American and Pacific Islander community, and he gave me some great insight about my future and working in Washington D.C.
Following that, I returned to the Department of Education to attend a meeting with my mentor and students from Columbia College. This was one of the many constituencies he meets with to engage and develop relationships with.
For the remainder of the afternoon, I spent time researching active parent groups for Carrie. The Department is looking for more outlets to reach parents through so they can disseminate more best practices and information to them.
January 12, 2012:
The last day was very exciting as I got to make a second trip to the White House to attend the White House Asian American and Pacific Islander Youth Leadership Briefing. It was an opportunity for young Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders to find out what the White House is doing to engage the AAPI youth community and to hear from youth about how they could better engage them. It was a packed day full of great panels and speakers including Chris Lu, the Cabinet Secretary for President Barack Obama, and Raj Shah, the Administrator for the US Agency for International Development. Some of the topics discussed in the panels and by the speakers were public service and issues in higher education.
Lastly, I attended the Race to the Top Philanthropy Conference at the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) Building to take notes for one of the smaller discussions. At this conference, private-sector stakeholders and Race to the Top state team members explored opportunities to share ownership of the implementation and improvement of Race to the Top. I was only able to attend one out of the three days of this conference, but it was a great conference that involved bringing together many private foundations, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, and many educations and state workers.
For anyone considering this Princeternship, I would highly encourage taking this opportunity. It is great for anyone interested in education or government. I got to see several aspects of government and talk to people in many different departments. As I traveled to different locations to do specific tasks or meet people, I was able to get a taste of the entire city and could really see myself living in Washington D.C. after I graduated. I loved the environment and the people in it.
Again, I am so grateful to Mr. Ritsch and Career Services for this opportunity. As a freshman, having exposure to the government as a whole and the Department of Education has reaffirmed my belief that I want to continue learning about education and enter a career devoted to improving public education.


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Technology Review reports that researchers in the US have used CRISPR to modify a number of human embryos.
Plant researchers plan to sequence some 10,000 samples that represent the major plant clades, ScienceInsider reports.
By introducing genes from butterfly peas and Canterbury bells, researchers in Japan have developed a blue chrysanthemum, according to NPR.
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