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With the recent cuts to federal funding for state homeland security efforts, New York's National Guard and state government must evaluate how they will continue to provide protection from possible terrorist attacks.
Ten years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a Senate Veterans Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee hearing has been called to examine the current and future status of the New York's Army National Guard and Air National Guard.
The upcoming hearing will be led by Republican Sen. Greg Ball of Patterson, chairman of the committee and committee member Martin Golden, R-Brooklyn.. The hearing will focus in part on how much it costs to operate National Guard bases across the state, according to Ali Skinner, a spokeswoman for Ball.
Also anticipated at the hearing will be a discussion of the role the National Guard plays across the state, especially in emergencies such as natural disasters and terrorist attacks, and how the state will continue to fund it.
The Associated Press reported in May that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in the wake of a $789 million cut to federal grant funding, had notified more than 20 cities across the country that they would be seeing their anti-terror aid eliminated, including Rochester, Albany, Buffalo and Syracuse. New York City, however, was considered to be one of 31 high-threat areas and remained eligible for Urban Area Security Initiative grants in fiscal year 2011.
"Everybody is going to be sharing the pain," said Skinner.
This could pose a problem because the majority of funding for the New York Army and Air National Guard comes from the federal government. In 2010, the National Guard received $865 million in federal funding compared to $38 million from the state, according to the New York National Guard and Federal Initiatives 2012 report.
Those testifying will discuss other topics, including retirement, soldier benefits, mobilization and activation of its members.
The New York National Guard has more than 16,000 members as of 2010.
Following the hearing, the committee hopes to have a better understanding of how New York state will be affected by the federal budget cuts, according to Skinner.
The hearing titled, "New York's Army and Air National Guard: Maintaining our Commitment to our Soldiers, Airmen and Facilities for the 21st Century," does not have a definite date yet, and the committee has not released a list of those testifying. It is not known if a live stream of the hearing will be available. The Legislative Gazette will report the date of the hearing when it is announced. (ARTICLE)


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FACETs: Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats
FACETs is a proposed next-generation severe weather watch and warning framework that is modern, flexible, and designed to communicate clear and simple hazardous weather information to serve the public. FACETs supports NOAA's Weather-Ready Nation initiative to build community resilience in the face of increasing vulnerability to extreme weather and water events.
Warn-on-Forecast (WoF)
Collaborators on the Warn-on-Forecast project investigate ways to make predictions of severe weather so specific, forecasters will be able to issue a warning based on that forecast before the weather forms—up to an hour or more in advance.
VORTEX-SE: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast
VORTEX-SE is a research program to understand how environmental factors characteristic of the southeastern United States affect the formation, intensity, structure, and path of tornadoes in this region. VORTEX-SE will also determine the best methods for communicating forecast uncertainty related to these events to the public, and evaluate public response. In many ways, VORTEX-SE represents a new approach to tornado research in general.
The Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm (HCA) is continuously being refined using observations collected through NSSL's Meteorological Phenomena Identification Near the Ground (mPING) project. mPING is a project to collect weather information from the public through their smart phone or mobile device. Researchers compare the reports of precipitation with what is detected by the dual-polarized radar data.
Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT)
NOAA's Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) is jointly managed by NSSL, the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), and the National Weather Service Oklahoma City/Norman Weather Forecast Office (OUN). The HWT accelerates the transition of promising new meteorological insights and technologies into advances in forecasting and warning for hazardous weather events throughout the United States.
Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS)
The MRMS system produces severe weather and precipitation products for improved decision-making capability within NOAA. The automated algorithms in MRMS quickly and intelligently integrate data streams from multiple radars, surface and upper air observations, lightning detection systems, satellite and forecast models.
The Flooded Locations And Simulated Hydrographs Project (FLASH) was launched in early 2012 to improve the accuracy and timing of flash flood warnings. FLASH uses forecast models, geographic information, and real-time high-resolution, accurate rainfall observations from the NMQ/Q2 project to produce flash flood forecasts at 1-km/5-min resolution. FLASH project development continues to be an active collaboration between members of NSSL's Stormscale Hydrometeorology and Hydromodeling Groups, and the HyDROS Lab at the University of Oklahoma.
Field Projects
Field research gives NSSL scientists a way to test new technology, check their theories, and propose new ideas about severe weather. NSSL researchers often go into the field to observe severe weather. They use radars mounted on trucks, cars with weather instruments on them, special cameras and vehicles for launching weather balloons to observe and record the atmosphere in and around storms.
More Projects
The Coastal and Inland Flooding Observation and Warning (CI-FLOW) project is a demonstration projection that predicts the combined effects of coastal and inland floods for coastal North Carolina. CI-FLOW captures the complex interaction between rainfall, river flows, waves, and tides and storm surge, and how they will impact ocean and river water levels.
Multifunction Phased Array Radar (MPAR) project
The Multi-function Phased Array Radar (MPAR) project was established to demonstrate the potential to simultaneously perform aircraft tracking, wind profiling, and weather surveillance with a single phased array weather radar. NOAA's National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT) is a phased array radar (PAR) actively being tested and evaluated in Norman, Oklahoma.
MPAR Software Upgrade Project
Specific goals for this project were to improve the quality of meteorological data produced by the NWRT PAR, to demonstrate adaptive scanning capabilities for weather observations, and to demonstrate dynamic scheduling of multi-function scanning strategies.
The Multi-Year Reanalysis Of Remotely-Sensed Storms (MYRORSS) is a cooperative endeavor between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) and the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) to reconstruct and evaluate numerical model output and radar products derived from 15 years of WSR-88D data over the coterminous U.S. (CONUS). The end result of this research will be a rich dataset with a diverse range of applications, including severe weather diagnosis and climatological information.
Each spring, NWS forecasters evaluate how rapidly updating phased array radar data impacts the warning decision-making process in the Phased Array Radar Innovative Sensing Experiment (PARISE).
NSSL Weather Research & Forecasting Model (WRF)
NSSL is working on ensemble forecast models for very short-range (0 to 60 minute) forecasts of severe weather events. Ensembles are groups of computer forecast models that are able to ingest Doppler radar, lightning or satellite data of thunderstorms to provide improved predictions of thunderstorms and their associated severe weather.
NSSL On-Demand
NSSL's On-Demand, a web-based tool helps confirm when and where severe weather occurred by mapping circulations or hail detected by radar on Google Earth satellite images. NWS forecasters can quickly review warnings and check their accuracy with this system.
The Severe Hazards Analysis and Verification Experiment (SHAVE) project blended high-resolution radar data with reports of hail size, wind damage, flash flooding and winter weather collected through phone calls. The data helps evaluate the performance of radar technology and decision-making tools.
The Warning Decision Support System: Integrated Information/National Mosaic and Multi-Sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimation is the research version of MRMS. Successful applications will be moved into MRMS as they are approved.
NWS forecasters are evaluating a new weather-adaptive 3DVAR system from NSSL/CIMMS that automatically detects and analyzes supercell thunderstorms. The 3DVAR system uses data from the national WSR-88D radar network and computer models to automatically locate regions of thunderstorm activity. It is able to identify deep rotating updrafts that indicate a supercell thunderstorm at 1 km resolution every five minutes in these regions. Initial development and testing of the 3DVAR was done at the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms at the University of Oklahoma.
Preliminary display of the 3DVAR product
NSSL Briefings: New system automatically detects supercell thunderstorms
A team from NSSL partners with the NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed at the Weather Prediction Center in the Flash Flood and Intense Rainfall Experiment (FFaIR). FFaIR explores using high-resolution atmospheric and hydrologic models to improve short-term forecasts of both precipitation amounts and flash flooding.
Severe Weather Hazards Climatology
NSSL researchers watch trends over a number of years to look for patterns that could help improve severe weather forecasts and warnings.
NSSL supports the European Storm Forecast Experiment by evaluating the severe weather forecasts they produce for Europe. The project was started in 2002 and is ongoing.

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You know, we do a lot of hard work here at G4tv.com, but, sometimes, we have to interrupt some of that work to have an office-wide argument about popular culture, music, movies, or something that someone ate one time. In short, we do a lot of arguing. So, when MMO Report producer and all-around 90's apologist Patrick Roche-Sowa and I got into an argument about the integrity of corporate rock radio in the 90's, it led to a white board discussion about the best vs. worst of 90's rock music as played on the radio. In this case, the barometer was alternative rock bastion 106.7 KROQ, here in Los Angeles.
Also, Moye wanted you all to know that it was her handwriting, for the most part, on the white board.
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Michael Golston, Danny Snelson, and Sarah Dowling joined Al Filreis this time to talk about two short poems by P. Inman from his book at.least. (published by Krupskaya in 1999). The poems are "lac[e]y." — dedicated to Tom Raworth — and "reception. theory." — which is "for Diane Ward." The text of the poems is available as a downloadable PDF, and the book is described and available here. Recordings of Inman reading the two poems, made in 2005, are available at Inman's PennSound page and as follows:
reception. theory., for Diane Ward (1:06): MP3 lac[e]y., for Tom Raworth (0:44): MP3
Ammiel Alcalay, Gary Barwin, and Danny Snelson joined Al Filreis to talk about a poem by John Wieners for which we at PennSound have two recordings. The version used as the basis of this PoemTalk discussion was part of a brief two-poem performance at the Poetry Project in New York, in 1990. (He also read "Confidence" that day.) "The Acts of Youth" was written in the early 1960s and published in Wieners's second book, Ace of Pentacles, in 1964.
Last July, Edit Publications launched eleven books expanding Tan Lin's Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obiturary 2004, The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan Poetry Series, 2010). These printed editions derive from an event at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania on April 12th, 2010 titled "Handmade book, PDF, lulu, Appendix, Powerpoint, Kanban Board/Post-Its, Blurb, Dual Language (Chinese/ English) Edition, micro lecture, Selectric II interview, wine/cheese reception, Q&A (xerox), film."
Books published include: Purple/Pink Appendix by Tan Lin with an introduction by Danny Snelson, afterword by Charles Bernstein and indexes by Lawrence Giffin, Ashley Leavitt, John Paetsch, Danny Snelson, and Tan Lin. Blurb by Tan Lin. Event Inventory and Documentation (monochrome and polychrome editions) by Jeremy JF Thompson. Selected Essays About a Bibliography, with contributions by forty-eight authors. 7CV Chinese Edition (1-4) (七受控詞表和2004年訃告). 7CV Critical Reader, with full text downloads in PDF format. Printed on demand by lulu.com in a continual state of revision.Event Editors and Authors include: Matthew Abess, Chris Alexander, Louis Asekoff, Stan Apps, Danielle Aubert, Charles Bernstein, Marie Buck, Lee Ann Brown, E. Shaskan Bumas, Ken Chen, Evelyn Chi'en, Clare Churchouse, Cecilia Corrigan, AMJ Crawford, Kieran Daly, Monica de la Torre, Thom Donovan, Patrick Durgin, Kareem Estefan, J. Gordon Faylor, Al Filreis, Thomas Fink, Mashinka Firunts, Robert Fitterman, Jonathan Flatley, Brad Flis, Peter W. Fong, Christopher Funkhouser, Kristen Gallagher, Sarah Gambito, Ellen Gruber Garvey, Kenneth Goldsmith, Cecilia Gronberg/Jonas (J) Magnusson, Heidi Brayman Hackel, Erin Gautche, Lawrence Giffin, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Paolo Javier, Greem Jellyfish, Josef Kaplan, John Keene, Diana Kingsley, Matthew Landis, Ashley Leavitt, Tan Lin, Warren Liu, Jessica Lowenthal, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Maya Lin, Warren Liu, Dana Teen Lomax, Patrick Lovelace, Dan Machlin, Rachel Malik, Josiah McElheny, Stephen McLaughlin, Joe Milutis, John Paetsch, Asher Penn, Ellen Quinn, Diana Ro, Raphael Rubenstein, Jay Sanders, Katherine Elaine Sanders, Karen L. Schiff, Jeremy Sigler, Danny Snelson, Carlos Soto, Kaegan Sparks, Chris Sylvester, Gordon Tapper, Michelle Taransky, Jeremy JF Thompson, Richard Turnbull, Dan Visel, Dorothy Wang, Andrew Weinstein, and Sara Wintz.
You can download everything at once, or you can purchase individual copies of the volumes - or download each separately. Your friendly blogger here has an essay in the volume called "Selected Essays About a Bibliography." Click here and you should get to a page where you can buy a copy of that book.
The newest event in the EDIT series, created by Danny Snelson for the Writers House, will feature Adachi Tomomi and Tianna Kennedy on The newest event in the EDIT series, created by Danny Snelson for the Writers House, will feature Adachi Tomomi and Tianna Kennedy on February 18. EDIT is a roving events series pairing innovative performances with focused critical responses toward an exploration of editorial strategies in contemporary writing and the arts. For more, listen to this announcement. In the photo: Tiana Kennedy.


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南非的國防工業:市場機會與打入策略,到2015年為止的分析和預測The South African Defense Industry - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies Analyses and Forecasts to 2015 |
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南非的國防工業:市場機會與打入策略,到2015年為止的分析和預測 The South African Defense Industry - Market Opportunities and Entry Strategies Analyses and Forecasts to 2015 | ||
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This report offers insights into market opportunities and entry strategies adopted by foreign OEMs to gain a market share in the South African defense industry. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the following:
The South African defense market, though not particularly large, is growing moderately, with a defense expenditure allocation of US$XX.XX billion for 2010. Post-apartheid, the country witnessed a significant decline in its defense budget, both in terms of value and as a percentage of GDP. Furthermore, the lack of military aggression by neighboring countries and very low terrorist activity levels has contributed to the recent overall reductions in defense spending.
By 2015, ICD Research estimates that South Africa' s defense expenditure as a percentage of its gross domestic product (GDP) will rise from its 2010 level of XX.XX% to XX.XX%. This translates to a budget increase from US$XX.XX billion in 2010 to US$XX.XX billion in 2015, and a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of XX.XX%. Currently, XX.XX% of the defense budget is allocated for revenue expenditure, and the remaining for capital expenditure, a trend that is not expected to vary significantly by 2015.
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Enriching classroom involvement incorporates real-world experience preparing students for successful and rewarding careers in the arts.
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ESOPUS — Eight people were injured in a two-car crash Saturday on Hardenburg Road in Esopus, according to the Ulster County Sheriff's Office.
Kedar Choudhury, 38, of Jamaica, was driving a 2012 Kia on Hardenburg Road at 3:38 p.m. when he crossed into oncoming traffic and struck a 2007 Honda driven by Rebecca Hyde, 44, of New Paltz, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office said.
Choudhury and Hyde were transported to Kingston Hospital for complaints of neck pain, police said.
Choudhury's six passengers: Three from New York City, two from Willow Spring, Mo., and one from India – suffered minor injuries and were transported to Kingston Hospital; all were treated and released, the Ulster County Sheriff's Office said.
Choudhury was issued a ticket for failure to keep right.
All eight injured were treated and released, the sheriff's office said.
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Giving people coaching and resources to improve is nice.
Shelly Sun, CEO of BrightStar Care, pulls no punches with her staff. Each employee has quarterly goals to accomplish. The goal-setting is done carefully, with coaching provided as needed. The goals should be realistic, she says, but should also stretch the employee a bit.
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text: Activision Renames Modern Warfare 2 Again, Slaps Call of Duty On the BoxBrian Crecente7/09/09 6:00pmFiled to: Name GameCall of duty: modern warfare 2Modern warfare 2Modern warfareInfinity WardActivisionTop491EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Modern Warfare 2 has once more been renamed, shifting back to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 after ditching the franchise name for a few months. Advertisement Why the back and forth? It's not really clear. But this is what Activision has to say about the name game:"Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare 2 is the direct sequel to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare," a spokesperson told Kotaku. "We have focused our attention on Modern Warfare in order to most effectively communicate the fact that this is the first true sequel in the Call of Duty series. Infinity Ward, the original creators of the Call of Duty franchise, has said from the beginning Modern Warfare 2 resides in the Call of Duty universe. This is reflected in the title's package." Advertisement What this doesn't answer is why the game initially ditched the Call of Duty moniker for the title, calling it just Modern Warfare 2, only to put the franchise name back on the box.Stranger still, why did the world find out about this latest change through a tweet by Infinity Ward? Could this latest move be concerns over brand awareness? Is it possible that we're just seeing the repercussions of the sort of in-house-versus-external development of a game that analysts say cause friction at big publishers? Perhaps we'll never know.Reply49 repliesLeave a reply


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WrestlingINC: What were your thoughts when ECW folded in 2001?
Richards: I really had none except people were out of work and I was hoping that they'd get work after that.
WrestlingINC: You were with WWE for over 8 years. What would you say were some of your favorite highlights during that span?
Richards: Actually, I was there for over nine. [Laughs.] Still, it's a long time either way and I was very fortunate to be there. Personally for me, the most fun that I ever had, the most memorable stuff I ever did, that I enjoyed and was mature enough and knew enough about the way the company worked to be comfortable with my spot was Stevie Night Heat. Which shocks a lot of people.
They figure Right To Censor or ECW One Night Stand. But no, Stevie Night Heat was just something that every week was fun and cool and just enjoying it. It was a reason to be on the show rather than just feel like you were punished and relegated to that show. So, I really enjoyed being creative and being a part of that.
WrestlingINC: While you were there, that's when they did the first ECW reunion show. What was your reaction that they were going to be doing that?
Richards: Just hoped for more work and money. Opportunity equals work, which equals money. That's what I always strive for when I worked there.
WrestlingINC: Were you surprised when they brought back ECW?
Richards: A little bit. But, they bought the tape library. Just like WCW and everything else, Vince will monetize it and market it the way that he sees fit. The One Night Stand concept was really a great nostalgia thing and from what I understand, that and the Rise And Fall of ECW DVD -- even the current ones they have out now -- are very profitable for WWE.
WrestlingINC: Do you think it could have worked out if they had taken a different direction than they did?
Richards: Absolutely. But I think people found out very quick that that was not the agenda that they had. What their agenda was? I'm not sure. If it was just to get Punk over, then they did a great job. But if it was actually to make a viable third brand and an alternative -- I don't thin that that was what they wanted to do.
WrestlingINC: What lead to your eventual release from the company in 2008?
Richards: A combination they always give: creative has nothing for you and it's a budget thing. [Laughs.] Yeah, you can take that for what it's worth. But, well over nine years in WWE and not being a top name like Triple H, Undertaker, Steve Austin, I think I had quite a run there. Never got in trouble, never failed a drug test and I never will. I can guarantee you that of either one of those things. I was really a model employee.
Listen, I owe nothing to them and they owe nothing to me. We had a work-for-hire contract. They gave me everything they promised, I gave them everything I promised them and then it came to an end.
WrestlingINC: You're wrestling Luke Hawx at Extreme Rising [this Saturday]. I know you guys wrestled this past summer. What can fans expect this time around?
Richards: You can both of us to be ready to go, be in top shape and really have a hard-hitting match. It's funny. Luke, I've seen some video of Luke training, doing some striking with probably one of the toughest guys I've ever seen named JJ who is a professional stunt man as well and an MMA fighter.
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Artist Zhao Huasen created a cool collection of images, entitled 'Floating' where bicyclists pedal through city streets on invisible bikes. For the project, Huasen captured hundreds of cyclists going about their every day lives and then digitally removed the bicycles from the images. The seats and shadows remain intact offering a humorous take on a common scene.
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Leading Indian players who boycotted last week's Davis Cup defeat against South Korea say they're available for the playoff tie against Indonesia in April.
The 11-strong group, including Somdev Devvarman and Mahesh Bhupathi, has accepted new terms offered by the All India Tennis Association but says that since a number of issues "remain unresolved", their confirmation of availability is limited to the Indonesia tie.
Leander Paes was the only prominent name in India's team which lost 4-1 to South Korea in the Asia-Oceania Group after players declined to confirm their availability for selection due to an impasse over team management and prize money. VM Ranjith and Vijayant Malik lost both their singles matches while Purav Raja partnered doubles specialist Paes in the only win for the home side.


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justinkapur - that is crazy awesome! Great stuff from everyone above.
I notice a few posts where lace loops/ends are running ankle-toe and I think that detracts a bit from the appearance of some of these amazing shoes. Lace loops/ends running left/right is more visually appealing to me. My $0.02.


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While the drinks were flowing in his hometown of Holywood following Rory McIlroy's remarkable performance in the US Open Championship, praise for 'golf's next superstar' came pouring in.
George O'Grady, Chief Executive of The European Tour, said: "Since Rory turned professional on September 19, 2007 and finished third in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship – his second Tour event – a few weeks later to secure his card, we have recognised that we are dealing with a very special talent.
"Rory's US Open victory was the most complete performance and compelling spectacle, both for the spectators lucky enough to be at Congressional and the millions watching on television throughout the world. It was simply stunning.
"In victory and defeat, Rory displays a dignified and polite demeanour and he is an inspirational role model for all who follow sport worldwide."
McIlroy became the youngest European Tour Member to win a Major Championship with his devastating eight stroke victory at Congressional Country Club and his peers are predicting more records and honours will be heading his way.
The Ulsterman attributes the recent avalanche of success by European Tour Members on the world stage – McIlroy was the fifth straight European Tour Major winner - to the breakthrough of three-time Major Champion Padraig Harrington, who in turn feels McIlroy could go on to become one of the game's all-time greats.
"If you are going to take about someone challenging Jack's record, there's your man," said Harrington. "Winning Majors at 22 with his talent, he would have 20 or more years and probably about 100 more majors in him where he could be competitive. It would give him a great chance."
Harrington's assessment is one shared by another Irishman Graeme McDowell, McIlroy's close friend and the man he succeeded as US Open Champion. The pair played together in The 2010 Ryder Cup and no player is probably better positioned to give an insight into the reasons behind McIlroy's success than McDowell.
"Rory's probably the best driver of the ball I've ever seen," said McDowell. "We nicknamed him the BMW because he is the Ultimate Driving Machine. I played off his drives at The Ryder Cup. I'd love to do it for just one week playing off his drives. Fair play, he's decimated this US Open golf course and this was no easy test. It was an amazing display of golf.
"Nothing this kid does ever surprises me. He's the best player I've ever seen. I didn't have a chance to play with Tiger when he was in his real pomp so this guy is the best I've ever seen, simple as that. He's great for golf. He's a breath of fresh air for the game and perhaps we're ready for golf's next superstar. Maybe Rory is it."
Another of McIlroy's Ryder Cup Teammates Luke Donald, who went into the US Open as World Number One, also predicts a bright future for the player who showed the sort of unerring accuracy normally displayed by Donald himself.
"I said it a couple of years ago when I first saw Rory, I think he is one of the greatest talents in the game," said Donald. "He has probably the most talent I've ever seen from a golfer.
"Just the way he swings and goes at the game. I can see him winning a lot of times, especially Majors. It's lovely to watch him play, he has such a fluid motion, and he hits it far. He's got a great attitude on and off the golf course.
"He comes from a background where his parents gave up a lot for him to do what he's doing, and I think he still knows where he came from and appreciates that. He's very good with the fans, and it's very good for the game."
Lee Westwood, a stablemate of McIlroy's, added: "He's been knocking on the door. It's amazing he's only ever won three tournaments the amount of time he gets into contention. Maybe this will give him that impetus to go forward and win more often."
Charl Schwartzel, the man who benefitted from McIlroy's final round problems at the Masters Tournament, was impressed by the way he recovered from his Augusta heartache.
"It's pretty spectacular what he's done," said the South African. "The way he reacted, the way he handled it afterwards, he just put it behind him very quickly. He just said, well, it happened, and he sort of got on with it a lot quicker, which for him was very good, and the results are showing."
Open Champion Louis Oosthuizen said: "It was just a matter of time. There was no way he was never going to win a Major. He's too good a player, and you expect him in every Major to be up there."
US PGA Champion Martin Kaymer, expressed his delight at McIlroy joining the illustrious group of Major Champions on The European Tour.
"He plays golf fantastically," said the German. "To finish at 16 under par is very impressive and I'm very happy for him. The way he plays golf, it's a different golf. It's close to perfect."
Four-time Major Champion Phil Mickelson also reserved praise for McIlroy after playing alongside him for the opening two rounds at Congressional and then watching as he broke record upon record over the weekend.
"You can tell that Rory has had this type of talent in him for some time now, and to see him putting it together is pretty neat to see," said Mickelson.
And Jack Nicklaus had to laugh tonight when reminded that new US Open champion Rory McIlroy was a few months younger than him when he landed the first of his record 18 majors in 1962.
"He's ahead - and his score is way ahead of my pace," said Nicklaus, who only two weeks ago chatted to the Northern Irishman about his Masters disappointment in April.
"I think this kid's going to have a great career - I don't think there's any question about it.
"He's humble when he needs to be humble and confident when he needs to be confident. I like his moxie - he's cocksure and I like that. You've got to have that.
"He obviously had a couple if disappointments at The Masters and last year's Open (McIlroy started 63-80 at St Andrews and finished with an 80 at Augusta), but I didn't think that was going to happen again and it hasn't."
His victory also drew applause from outside his sport, with even Tennis World Number One Rafael Nadal revealing his performance was an "inspiration" as he sets about defending his Wimbledon title.
"What he's been doing is really something unbelievable. He's probably got one of the nicest swings in the world, if not the nicest. It's been fantastic to watch what he's been doing in this tournament. In my opinion, right now he's playing at a different level to the rest. So for sure he is an inspiration. I admire him a lot." .


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As Rhode Island continues to make efforts to grow employment – either through companies already located here adding jobs or by attracting companies to move into the state – business owners are confronted by a number of challenges when deciding what to do.
Which of the supplied list of impediments would matter most to you if you were deciding on locating a new business or adding on to an existing business in Rhode Island?
In addition to having an available work force a business must be able to compete on price and build a viable business model. With Rhode Island's structural deficit problems, which causes a high tax burden, combined with the unfriendly permitting environment, businesses should not seriously consider locating here. While work force may be polling as the most important issue, there are more factors to consider when deciding where to locate your business.
Attleboro would be close enough to attract RI residentsfor the workforce while avoiding the extremely high taxes and unfriendly environment to obtain necessary building and operating permits. We need to be able to compete with our neighbors for new businesses. We are not competitive now. We could start seriously working on this problem tomorrow but people need to get out and vote for the candidates that are not committed to business as usual.
It's one thing to ask people what they think is important. It's quite another thing to observe how they actually behave. All the research on business location finds one of three things: (1) businesses select metropolitan regions first, and taxes only come into play regarding location within a region; (2) taxes are totally irrelevant because they are such a small % of business expenses; (3) they show up as important only if one controls for the quality of public services. As far as start-ups go, an area's industrial composition is by far a better predictor than taxes or anything like them.
So, asking about the importance of local taxes and red tape only makes sense if (a) they're separated (they're not the same) and (b) taxes are evaluated against what they buy you. If low taxes were all that's important, then the rural southern U.S. would long ago have had the highest income growth.
There seems to be a 'packet' of elements to lure ~ and keep ~ business[es] (large, medium or small) to and around Rhode Island.
The longitudinal permitting process ( TAXES & RED TAPE)(building/renovation/environmental,reporting & taxes) is significant as well as the cost (insurances) to do business as well.
Also, the actual location to access highways should be of consideration - traffic patterns, lessening of road congestion and even cleanliness of aggregate areas can again play a role in BUILDING or RENOVATING (RE-USE) FACILITIES..
The WORK FORCE talent is key too (in some or newer technological industries) and taxes, job AVAILABILITY for instance can discourage our young and mobile Work Force. We certainly have enough higher learning institutions and pay rather extensive costs for educational services from elementary to secondary learning.
Rhode Island has to become more business friendly, less politically persuasive, more innovative with tax policy and fully cooperative on regional bases (after all, we are the littlest state in the Union) with a quality marketing matrix emphasizing, quality of life, industrial development, tourism attraction and transportation diversity.
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I'm watching your Singer 319 stitch issues conversation with great interest. I still have more to do to get mine to work. I've been really busy on other things and other machines lately. Yesterday I got a lot done so I'm down to just a couple machines. Mr. Ed (319) has gone back up to the top of the repair line! I have needles now but I forgot to order a belt. I have a hand crank so I may test that out on it. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be sitting there with the manual in one hand trying to figure out the bite thing since I turned it. I found another 319 on CL but they don't have contact info and don't answer emails. Maybe it is sold and they haven't taken it down.
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Good Morning everybody! Hope your Thanksgiving was a good one!
I just bought a 1970 Singer Touch and Sew for $5.00. I cleaned it up and plugged it in and she ran, A little clackity until I oiled her and let her set awhile. Now she sounds so purty and peaceful. Poor thing is missing some of her parts and I can't find what I need on e-bay or the Sibger co site. Anyone out there got any cams you want to sell or a cover plate and a straight stitch plate? I may spend a little money on this machine because I really like how she sounds and there is an on/ff/slow/fast button! I love it!! I also need a bobbin or two!
Miriam, I am really curious how it goes with your 319 when you get a chance to play with your machine. I love the looks of the 319, and the fact that my 319 had a motorectomy and sits in a treadle, but I am a little frustrated right now with the machine. I need to sit and try different fabrics and play with the 'bight' control some more. I also need to order some more needles in a larger size than a 80/12 and see if that makes a difference. Candace may have a point, something is out of adjustment with the move and set up of the machine, although, I didn't drop her or anything?
My son got the motor housing apart on the turquoise Universal. It was very hard to separate. The cord attachment (it needs a new cord) is too far in the housing for me to get at. Also a set of brushes that I see no space for fell out. Time to call in the cavalry. I will call my retired Elna repairman - if he won't do it, then I only have the guy in the store downtown. Wish me luck. I want to sew on this one badly and, no, I don't care to treadle it which I doubt is an option anyway.
I have a couple T&S 600 series your welcome to parts from if there for the cost of mailing. They seem like nice machines but on both the plastic gears deteriorated and broke. Gears are available but it seemed more trouble than it's worth. Good luck with yours
Check out this spinning wheel! I know we are not a knitting site, but a lot of quilters knit too. I don't but this is just the coolest thing. Too bad I don't live near Vancouver and don't have room for this in my house.


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text: Dante's Inferno Dev Diary Makes My Head HurtMike Fahey6/12/09 10:40amFiled to: ClipsDante's InfernoEadeveloper diary24EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Conflicting emotions run rampant as I watch this developer diary for EA's Dante's Inferno, which turns one of the great works of literature into an over-the-top action game.The game seriously makes my head ache. I made a study of Dante's Divine Comedy in High School, probing deep into the themes, his representation of hell and how his work has been integrated into the more popular perception of hell. To see it turned into an action title just makes me dizzy. What's worse, the game actually looks like something I would really want to play. Crecente went into great detail about the game and our expectations last week, and this clip just punctuates his thoughts. Perhaps it's simply the fact that I feel the work should be treated with a certain amount of reverence and weight, and seeing impishly cute assistant producer Tracy Espeleta talk about how brutal the game is just makes the whole thing seem adorable.Reply24 repliesLeave a reply


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Feb. is a little busy for me, but would be very interested in joining in on an Ohio meet. When will this achieve critical mass? I am in Columbus but could travel most any weekend, feb excluded... We have a couple descent high end stores here, but apparently no one listening to headphones... Calls around town reveal a modest selection of the usual suspects.
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In her singular voice both humble and brave, touching and humorous Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
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Maxine Hong Kingston is the author of The Woman Warrior, China Men, Tripmaster Monkey, and The Fifth Book of Peace, among other works. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle award, the presidentially conferred National Humanities Medal, the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation, and the F. Scott Fitzgerald Award. For many years a Senior Lecturer for Creative Writing at UC Berkeley, she lives in Oakland, California."
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"A brilliantly penned memoir written in a fluid, narrative poetry genre. . . . Gritty…and energetic all in one breath." —San Francisco Book Review
"Rich. . . . Only a few older writers—poets or not—can manage this balance of self-amusement and genuine longing. It's an effect fully equal to the shaded tones of Kingston's best writing."—The New York Times Book Review
"[A] graceful meditation. . . . Achieves meaningful insights into the art of living." —Boston Globe
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"She leads the reader on a tour of her native China, her rich language often matching the lushness of the landscape itself. . . . Effortlessly transitions from personal experience to the worlds of her characters. . . . As much an examination of the nature of time and aging as it is an exploration of cultural identity and origin, I Love a Broad Margin to my Life contains both moments of dark alienation and buoyant transcendence." —Time Out New York
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"She seems at peace with the necessary sacrifices and negotiations she's made as a writer, wife and mother. Yet she's also acutely aware of her mortality and determined to carve out the free time to which she feels entitled at last. . . . Written in a dreamlike, impressionistic style. . . . Takes on a kind of mythical quality." —The Boston Globe
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"A sprawling, globe-hopping long poem. . . . Kingston is thinking deeply about the act of writing itself. . . . I found myself compelled by Kingston's efforts to capture the disjointed landscape wrought by globalization. . . . Touching. . . . Offers its readers a memorable set of images, narratives, and questions that continue to push against the foundations of memoir, just as her earlier work, The Woman Warrior, did four decades earlier." —Hyphen Magazine
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We had expected to meet Istanbul's best known graffiti artist in the corner of some dimly-lit, inconspicuous café. Perhaps one in the city's more artistic neighborhoods like Cihangir or Kadikoy --where most of the graffiti is.
Instead we met at Starbucks, in Istanbul's wealthy and graffiti-less Bebek district. The place was posh, three stories tall with a wooden terrace protruding right over the waters of the Bosphorus. Even though it was late in the evening, the coffee house was packed with young, gentrified couples -- hardly the kind of place to maintain a shadowy profile. But it turned out the man we were after is no "Banksy." His identity was known to anybody who could use Google. His commercial success depends on it.
Dunc "Turbo" Dindas sat waiting for us at one of the deck's corner tables, flanked by a young, attractive woman named Roxanne who introduced herself as his manager. Turbo was almost twice her age -- heavy set, with ruffled brown hair and a pair of thick round glasses.
"Everybody knows Turbo" Roxanne announced shortly into our conversation. She said it matter of factly, to which the graffiti artist grinned sheepishly. He has reason to feel accomplished. At 43 years old, Turbo has fashioned himself as the go-to source for commercial graffiti work in Turkey. Advertisements, pamphlets, logos, and even wall decorations in corporate offices. He's the man sought out by major companies like Coca Cola and Adidas to insert graffiti drawings in their Turkish ad campaigns -- the
hired-hand who can paint an appeal to a young and trendy consumer base. His colorful characters, his aliens and Doctor Suess-like animals, are used to make products appear fun and playful. His signature graffiti style – a mixture of New York, Subway, and Bubble lettering – can give ad campaigns an edgy, "street" feel. Over the past two years, companies including Bellona, Pepsi, and Samsung (links to youtube videos) have hired him to digitally insert playful 2D drawings into their television commercials. It's a slick animation trick, and allows inanimate objects like soda bottles and washer-driers to look like they have a life of their own, interacting with the human actors in commercials. This is why the ad agencies keep calling. Turbo is the artist who can make a conservatively-financed corporation look hip.
It didn't happen overnight. Turbo is what one might call a first-mover. While the artist now fields the commercial proposals of his choosing, his reputation in the Turkish graffiti world was a long time coming. In fact, Turbo first had to create the market to which he now owes his entrepreneurial success. The process took him over 30 years.
Before Turbo, graffiti didn't exist in Turkey.
The year was 1984, and Istanbul's walls were prime for the taking. Besides a few scrawled signatures, the city had yet to witness the kind of elaborate subway art that was exploding in the United States. Things were about to change. That year, a young and rebellious Turbo got his hands upon the cult classic American film, Beat Street, which details the story of an aspiring rap and graffiti artist from the South Bronx.
"It opened a whole new world for me" Turbo said.
Inspired by the bravado and creativity of the film's graffiti art, Turbo decided he would become the first to bomb Istanbul's walls. But it wasn't so easy back then. At the time, spray paint in Istanbul was of terrible quality, and there were only two colors available in the city's furniture stores – black and white. He admits his first pieces were "pretty embarrassing."
Even so, graffiti writing became his obsession. Turbo began using paint markers to put up his name up everywhere he could – street corners, underpasses, tunnels, stairs. Most days, he would leave home with two markers in his backpack, and only return that evening with less than half of one left. Only religious and educational buildings were spared. He became the consummate graffiti "writer" – the
term used for artists who paint their name to spread their brand awareness. After a few years it worked. People started taking notice, and other graffiti writers entered the scene. Some of these new comers were so irritated by the omnipresence of Turbo's tags that they started writing his name backwards in protest.
But there were some others who took notice as well. The police. In 1989, Turbo was caught while putting up an illegal piece with a graffiti collective he had founded, the "Zombie Boys Posse." It wasn't the painting that bothered them; the police thought he was putting up political propaganda. They thought the 'P' at the end of the tag meant "party." The misunderstanding ended with a judge handing Turbo a five year prison sentence.


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The etiology of pain in women with IC is often difficult to identify resulting in unnecessary medical and surgical treatments (e.g. hysterectomies). The vulva may actually be the site of some of the reported pain in women with IC, not the urethra or bladder. IC and vulvodynia can impact one's sexual functioning and diminish one's quality of life. Unfortunately, vulvodynia is often unrecognized since it is not part of the usual urological assessment with IC patients.
Vulvodynia is characterized by persistent generalized or localized vulvar pain of varying degrees often characterized as "burning," suggestive of a neuropathic pain response.
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Vulvodynia |
Study Type: | Observational |
Study Design: | Observational Model: Case Control Time Perspective: Prospective |
Official Title: | Relationship: Interstitial Cystitis & Vulvodynia-Part 2 |
- The objective of our study is to identify and clinically confirm the presence of vulvodynia in women diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis (IC) based on mailed survey results (Part 1, HIC #2007-183) and confirmed with a clinical assessment. [ Time Frame: Visit 1 ]
Estimated Enrollment: | 127 |
Study Start Date: | September 2008 |
Study Completion Date: | September 2008 |
Primary Completion Date: | September 2008 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
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In a mailed survey (Part 1 of this study), 127 women with a documented diagnosis of IC agreed to be contacted for an in-office examination.
Detailed Description:
In a mailed survey (Part 1 of this study), 127 women with a documented diagnosis of IC agreed to be contacted for an in-office examination. The mailed survey was internally developed specifically for this project and included items related to demographics, adolescent and adult history related to genital pain and current health. The last section allowed the subject to include contact information if they would also like to participate in Part 2 (additional questionnaires and examination) of the study.
The study coordinator will review those surveys containing contact information and all women at least 18 years of age will be invited to the WISH program (Beaumont Women's Initiative for Pelvic Pain and Sexual Health) to be examined by a certified Nurse Practitioner (NP) who will be blinded to their survey responses.
Questionnaires will be completed by the subject. These questionnaires relate to one's history, pain symptoms, quality of life, bladder symptoms and sexual function and will be completed prior to the examination. The NP will perform all the clinical evaluations. A vaginal pH and wet mount slide will be done first. Testing for vulvodynia will be done utilizing an algesiometer q-tip followed by Neurometer® surface CPT testing for pain threshold (not tolerance) to quantify pain levels in the distribution of the pudendal nerve on the perineum and vulva will be done. The Neurometer® current perception threshold (CPT) is a device for evaluating and measuring sensation It is a battery-operated stimulator which delivers painless electrical stimulation via surface electrodes at frequencies of 5 Hz, 250 Hz, and 2000 Hz and at a current of 0.01 to 99mAmps.
Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Senior) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | Female |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Sampling Method: | Non-Probability Sample |
Inclusion Criteria
- Women with interstitial cystitis and vulvar pain who agreed to be contacted in Part 1 (HIC #2007-183) of this study.
- Age 18 or older
- Capable of giving informed consent
- Capable and willing to follow all study procedures
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnant women· Vaginitis (may be treated, then tested later)
- Vulvar disease (other than vulvodynia)—lichen planus, lichen sclerosis, neoplasia
- The subject is deemed unsuitable for enrollment by the investigators based on their history or physical examination.
- Neuropathy
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00751010
United States, Michigan | |
William Beaumont Hospital | |
Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, 48073 |
Principal Investigator: | Donna Carrico, NP | William Beaumont Hospitals |
Responsible Party: | Donna Carrico, NP, William Beaumont Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00751010 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
2008-139 |
Study First Received: | September 10, 2008 |
Last Updated: | October 10, 2008 |
Keywords provided by William Beaumont Hospitals:
Vulvar pain Vulvodynia Interstitial cystitis |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Cystitis Vulvodynia Cystitis, Interstitial Urinary Bladder Diseases |
Urologic Diseases Vulvar Diseases Genital Diseases, Female |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on March 23, 2017


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Trotter calls for Labour to expel some of its MPs
Like the Castle Street Branch of the 1980s, the Labour Party of 2014 boasts a narrow left-wing majority. That majority, after changing the party rules, elected David Cunliffe as its leader and is in the process of constructing a binding policy platform for the next Labour Government. At first glance, then, the lessons of the 1980s appear to have been learned.
All but one – and that the most important of them all. Majorities mean nothing outside the only Labour Party institution that truly matters: the parliamentary caucus. If you cannot control the caucus, then you simply cannot reassure the party that its best efforts will not be rendered worthless through the calculated insubordination of a clique of rebellious caucus members.
This is especially problematic when these insubordinate rebels (most of whom are securely ensconced in safe Labour seats) believe it will be easier for like-minded politicians to protect "the policies this country needs" if David Cunliffe and all that he represents loses the forthcoming general election.
Butcher's gambit is as powerful today as it was 25 years ago.
What are Cunliffe's options? Obviously the option of splitting the Labour Party and forming "NewLabour" – the Labour Left's choice in 1989 – is not available to the party leader. Which leaves the other option put forward by Matt McCarten back in 1988.
"It seems obvious to me now that the right-wing MPs have put their hands up and threatened the party", Matt told Labour's president, Rex Jones. "So we should call a special conference of the party and expel them … The Labour Party made a mistake selecting these people so sack them. Throw them out and let them stand against us. They'll lose and the Labour Party can rebuild itself."
Chris should name the MPs that he thinks should be explled!


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MoMA's Rain Room hours extended to midnight on Sunday
You might just be able to get into the Rain Room—or you may have to wait that much longer—thanks to extended hours on its last day.
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The countdown has begun: MoMA's rabidly popular Rain Room is closing this Sunday, July 28. Accordingly, Instagram-induced hype and FOMO-driven panic have reached peak levels: The New York Times wrote about nine-hour–plus wait times, and that was last week.
As Gothamist first reported, the immersive art piece will be extending its hours until midnight on its final day—though we have a feeling the line will close well before then. Hey, at least waiting outside for so long is a good opportunity to dig in to your summer reading and work on your tan! It's almost like going to the beach—with a ten-minute cultural pit stop slapped on.
The rainsanity has us wondering (and slightly concerned): Who are the folks standing around—sometimes for longer than the average workday—in order to get in to the exhibition? Are they all tourists? Do they have jobs? Did they do this for the cronut, too? Stay tuned for more.
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Qualicum school district says schools will be ready
While they wait on negotiations between the provincial government and the teachers' union, District 69 schools are ready to welcome teachers and students, despite the complications of school closures and reconfigurations over the summer.
There are still late details to work out, trustees heard at Monday's board meeting.
Secretary treasurer Erica Bailey said last year at this time the district had 840 students registered to ride the bus. So far this year, that number is just over 500.
"That's concerning because we don't know if that's indicative of the the fact that there are fewer people that need to ride the bus or, as we think is more likely, there's a whole lot of people who haven't applied," she said, pointing out this complicates the district's efforts to design an efficient system.
She urges parents to register as soon as possible, both those requiring busing, and any students in general who are not yet registered with the district for school.
Because of the strike, parents are asked to register at the board office in the PCTC in Parksville.
Asked about the lack of sidewalks for younger students heading to different schools after the reconfiguration, superintendent Rollie Koop said it was out of the board's hands.
"We're well aware of the issues, they've been part of the conversation right from the earliest phases of our conversations about potential reconfiguring our middle schools," he said, highlighting Despard Avenue between Craig Street and the Alberni Highway near Springwood Elementary and "the Wembley-Church Road corridor" on the way to Oceanside Elementary.
Koop said while the district is aware, "the board of trustees doesn't control community infrastructure." He also said the situation is further complicated in the Wembley-Church case by the fact that Wembley Road crosses from Parksville into the RDN and back into Parksville.
The district will be providing what Koop called a safety bus site at the former Parksville Elementary School, transferring students that used to attend there to the new Springwood and Oceanside elementaries.
Both Koop and Bailey expressed "a huge thanks and congratulations to staff for the school conditions," as Bailey put it, admitting she had "a few moments of doubt" early in the summer.
Unlike most districts, due to the reconfigurations, all students in District 69 are scheduled to start class on Thursday, Sept. 4, also beginning an hour later and ending an hour earlier than usual that day.
Assuming the strike ends, elementary students should report to last year's teacher at their new school.


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1: Cuonzo Martin won his first game as head coach of the Vols in his debut
8: Martin is the eighth-straight Vols head coach to win his first game on the sidelines.
15: The Vols made 15-of-24 from 3-point range, one shy of the school record.
29: Trae Golden scored a career-high 29 points in the win.
64.6: UT shot 64.6 from the floor tonight.
- UT coach Cuonzo Martin won his debut game on the sidelines for the Vols with a 92-63 victory over UNC Greensboro.
- Martin is the eighth straight Vols head coach to win his first game. ALl-time UT coaches are now 15-3 in their debut games.
Legendary Voice of the Vols John Ward was part of the pregame festivities as the Legend of the Gane.
- Trae Golden started for the second time in his career. Kenny Hall started for the fifth time in his career. Jeronne Maymon and Jordan McRae each started for the first time in their college careers. Tatum with his 44th start, more than all the others combined by 11 times!
- Jeronne Maymon with first points of the season on a jumper 11 seconds into the Cuonzo Martin Era.
- Sophomore Trae Golden set his career-high with 29 points. He equaled his previous best of eight points within the first seven minutes of the game and set it in the first nine minutes. Last season, he averaged 3.0 points per game.
- Golden scored in double-figures for the first time in his career.
- Golden set career-high in: points (29), assists (9), rebounds (6), field goals made (10), field goals attempted (14), 3-pointers made (9), 3-pointers attempted (9).
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- Jordan McRae scored a career-high with 14. He passed his previous high of six, which he scored against Belmont (12/23/10).
- Jeronne Maymon scored a career-high 15 points surpassing his previous best of 10 vs. Memphis (1/5/11). It was his second-career game in double-figures.
- Maymon had his career-high in the first half alone with 11 at intermission.
- Renaldo Wooldridge scored in double-figures for the first time since his career-high 14 vs. Kansas (1/10/10) with 11 vs. UNCG.
- Wooldridge now has five career games in double-figures.
- With the 29-point margin of victory, the Vols had their largest win since a 39-point win over East Carolina on Nov. 20, 2009 in the U.S. Virginia Island Paradise Jam.
- The Vols bombed 15 3-pointers in the game. Last season's high was 12 set vs. Memphis (1/5/11).
- The school record for 3-pointers in a game was 16, accomplished five times, most recently vs. UNC Asheville (11/17/09).
- The Vols tallied 49 first-half points. That was one shy of last year's season best for the first half when UT scored 50 vs. Oakland (12/14/10).
- Tennessee shot 65 percent for the game including 63 percent in the first half. Last season's best shooting game was 56.3 against Pittsburgh (12/11/10).
- UNCG missed its first seven shots of the game.


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In the preceding section we considered trees in which the nodes can have arbitrary degrees. In particular, the general case allows each of the nodes of a tree to have a different degree. In this section we consider a variation in which all of the nodes of the tree are required to have exactly the same degree.
Unfortunately, simply adding to Definition the additional requirement that all of the nodes of the tree have the same degree does not work. It is not possible to construct a tree which has a finite number of nodes all of which have the same degree N in any case except the trivial case of N=0. In order to make it work, we need to introduce the notion of an empty tree as follows:
Definition (N-ary Tree) An N-ary tree T is a finite set of nodes with the following properties:
- Either the set is empty, ; or
- The set consists of a root, R, and exactly N distinct N-ary trees. That is, the remaining nodes are partitioned into subsets, , , ..., , each of which is an N-ary tree such that .
According to Definition , an N-ary tree is either the empty tree, , or it is a non-empty set of nodes which consists of a root and exactly N subtrees. Clearly, the empty set contains neither a root, nor any subtrees. Therefore, the degree of each node of an N-ary tree is either zero or N.
There is subtle, yet extremely important consequence of Definition that often goes unrecognized. The empty tree, , is a tree. That is, it is an object of the same type as a non-empty tree. Therefore, from the perspective of object-oriented program design, an empty tree must be an instance of some object class. It is inappropriate to use the null reference to represent an empty tree, since the null reference refers to nothing at all!
The empty trees are called external nodes because they have no subtrees and therefore appear at the extremities of the tree. Conversely, the non-empty trees are called internal nodes .
Figure shows the following tertiary (N=3) trees:
In the figure, square boxes denote the empty trees and circles denote non-empty nodes. Except for the empty trees, the tertiary trees shown in the figure contain the same sets of nodes as the corresponding trees shown in Figure .
Figure: Examples of N-ary trees.
Definitions and both define trees in terms of sets. In mathematics, elements of a set are normally unordered. Therefore, we might conclude that that relative ordering of the subtrees is not important. However, most practical implementations of trees define an implicit ordering of the subtrees. Consequently, it is usual to assume that the subtrees are ordered. As a result, the two tertiary trees, and , are considered to be distinct unequal trees. Trees in which the subtrees are ordered are called ordered trees . On the other hand, trees in which the order does not matter are called oriented trees . In this book, we shall assume that all trees are ordered unless otherwise specified.
Figure suggests that every N-ary tree contains a significant number of external nodes. The following theorem tells us precisely how many external nodes we can expect:
Theorem An N-ary tree with internal nodes contains (N-1)n+1 external nodes.
extbfProof Let the number of external nodes be l. Since every node except the root (empty or not) has a parent, there must be (n+l-1)/N parents in the tree since every parent has N children. Therefore, n=(n+l-1)/N. Rearranging this gives l=(N-1)n+1.
Since the external nodes have no subtrees, it is tempting to consider them to be the leaves of the tree. However, in the context of N-ary trees, it is customary to define a leaf node as an internal node which has only external subtrees. According to this definition, the trees shown in Figure have exactly the same sets of leaves as the corresponding general trees shown in Figure .
Furthermore, since height is defined with respect to the leaves, by having the leaves the same for both kinds of trees, the heights are also the same. The following theorem tells us something about the maximum size of a tree of a given height h:
Theorem Consider an N-ary tree T of height . The maximum number of internal nodes in T is given by
extbfProof (By induction).
Base Case Consider an N-ary tree of height zero. It consists of exactly one internal node and N empty subtrees. Clearly the theorem holds for h=0 since
Inductive Hypothesis Suppose the theorem holds for , for some . Consider a tree of height k+1. Such a tree consists of a root and N subtrees each of which contains at most nodes. Therefore, altogether the number of nodes is at most
That is, the theorem holds for k+1. Therefore, by induction on k, the theorem is true for all values of h.
An interesting consequence of Theorems and is that the maximum number of external nodes in an N-ary tree of height h is given by
The final theorem of this section addresses the maximum number of leaves in an N-ary tree of height h:
Theorem Consider an N-ary tree T of height . The maximum number of leaf nodes in T is .
extbfProof (By induction).
Base Case Consider an N-ary tree of height zero. It consists of exactly one internal node which has N empty subtrees. Therefore, the one node is a leaf. Clearly the theorem holds for h=0 since .
Inductive Hypothesis Suppose the theorem holds for , for some . Consider a tree of height k+1. Such a tree consists of a root and N subtrees each of which contains at most leaf nodes. Therefore, altogether the number of leaves is at most . That is, the theorem holds for k+1. Therefore, by induction on k, the theorem is true for all values of h.


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Mincey, the Jaguars' fifth-year defensive end and sacks leader last season, was asked Tuesday as 2012 organized team activities opened about realistic expectations for next season.
"I think we can be very good," Mincey said. "You'll never catch me talking down on guys I believe in. We have what it takes. We just have to come to work, which we've been doing, and things can fall right. That's a realistic expectation for us – to be good. We're going to be good."
Asked why he believes that, Mincey replied, "Guys are growing up. Our quarterback (
Asked if those things weren't there last year, Mincey replied, "Let's just say they're better."
Mincey said one reason he expects improvement overall is he expects improvement from a pass rush that produced 31 sacks last season.
"I think we're getting there," Mincey said. "A tree just doesn't grow overnight. It grows leaves and branches. We're finding the right pieces to the puzzle."
Mike Mularkey saw progress, and that's what he wanted to see.
Mularkey said much of his first off-season as the Jaguars' head coach is about not only installing schemes, but establishing philosophy, practice schedule and expectations.
Overall, he said, Tuesday's first day of organized team activities was better in that area than the first veteran mini-camp in mid-April. He said that was to be expected, because that mini-camp marked the first days of installing the new system.
"You could tell the guys were a little more comfortable with the system," Mularkey said, adding that the coaching sessions that have been held at EverBank Field in the weeks since have helped.
"It was definitely an improvement from the first time we had them in here," he said.
Mularkey said two areas that must improve are fumbles and penalties. Mularkey said there were two fumbles at the end of plays Tuesday – one at the end of an interception and another at the end of a big play offensively – "that cannot happen."
"We love when the defense strips it," Mularkey said, "but we can't have the ball on the ground regardless."
Mularkey said those areas are a constant emphasis.
"We have an emphasis every day in these OTAs," Mularkey said. "Today's emphasis was first and second down, but really, there's an emphasis every time we walk on the field and that's ball security: keeping the ball and taking it away defensively."
Mularkey, too, said there's an emphasis on pre-snap penalties and penalties the Jaguars can control. Mental errors, he said, will be not be tolerated, adding that there will be officials at practice every day in OTAs, mini-camp and training camp and that penalties will be posted in the locker room daily.
"You don't want your name up in that locker room," he said.
"It's May. Everybody knows what kind of shape they're in. Everybody has their own way of getting into it. When they leave here June 14, they've got to do something to come back here ready to go (for training camp July 27). I told the whole team today, 'You have to gauge your conditioning right now. It's May 15. See where you are today. See where you are after 10 OTAs. I can't tell you how much to sleep. What to drink. You have to know your own body. You better be in shape. If you're not in shape, you're going to get exposed in this camp coming up in July and August.' "
"I like him. I like the kid. He's a high-energy guy. He works hard and is very respectful. That alone will take you a long way as a football player. The kid's going to be a really good player."
Middle linebacker
The 90 Jaguars players on the off-season roster will participate in OTA practices Wednesday and Thursday, with OTAs scheduled to run through June 1. The team will then have a veteran mini-camp June 12-14 with training camp scheduled to begin in late July.
The big news on Day 1 of Jaguars 2012 OTAs took place before the first practice when defensive tackle
*The following players did not practice Tuesday: defensive end
*Mincey, who long has had a reputation as a high-energy, maximum effort player, on why signing a long-term deal won't change his approach. "They took a chance on me. It's only right for me to go out and give my all."
*The Jaguars on Tuesday signed rookie linebacker Joshua Jones and waived rookie running back
*Mularkey said he is pleased that Knighton has been able to return to working out earlier than expected, something he said will be important to the defensive tackle being in shape for training camp. "He has weighed in every day," Mularkey said. "He's very aware of his weight and we are, too. We're trying to do as much as we can without putting strain on him (or the eye)."


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