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There was a thread for Canadian ice dance 2012/2013, but there doesn't seem to be one for 2013/2014 that I can find. There are the individual threads for the top teams, of course (Virtue/Moir, Weaver/Poje, Gilles/Poirier, Paul/Islam), but nothing for general discussion about the other senior teams and the junior level teams. Hopefully this thread will become that general discussion for other teams. It's time to start one, I think, because Mackenzie Bent/Garrett MacKeen should be congratulated on their first ever JGP gold medal this weekend at the JGP Riga (Latvia). Last season they won a bronze at the JGP in Austria, which was their best JGP standing previous to this. Their next assignment is the JGP in Kosice, Slovakia. If they get on the podium there (certainly a possibility), they have a reasonable chance of making the JGP Final. They didn't establish any new international personal bests in winning the gold, but they almost matched their previous short dance personal best from last season's Junior Worlds. Their free dance score was about the same as their free dance score from junior worlds. That's a good start for the season; hopefully they can build on that. Their free dance from Riga is here. Congratulations to them! ETA: Moderator, please see Sylvia's post below. If this thread is more appropriate to the GSD, could you please move it? Thanks.
Maybe you could ask a FSU mod. to move this thread to GSD if its purpose will be primarily for news and discussion?
Giving this thread a boost. Congrats to Bent/McKeen on a great start to the season! If this season progresses like last season, perhaps all those 3rds are going to be 1sts this season!! I think their SD was lovely. Wasn't so excited about that FD. It was boring...open, full of 2 foot skating, lacking complexity. What they have is great smoothness, unison, matching leg lines, etc. developed over many years of being a team. She needs to watch her posture. All in all a great place to start, though. Can't wait to see how all these new Junior teams are going to do over the course of the season (along with the returning ones of course). Also can't wait to see the Senior season kick off in earnest.
I agree about B/M FD.......didn't like the music cuts.......such a mish-mash, but they are a very promising young team, and their SD was terrific.
Well, then, here's the link to the short dance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaxpebzhmoU. All the JGP assignments for the JGP Ostrava are posted on the ISU website, except ice dance. Probably they will be posted tomorrow.
Ice dance assignments for JGP Ostrava Czech Republic are now posted. Assigned: Madeline Edwards/Zhao-Kai Pang (second assignment, the other being the JGP Mexico); Danielle Wu/Spencer Soo Alternates: Mackenzie Bent/Garret MacKeen (already assigned two, this presumably is just in case sickness or minor injury interfers with JGP Slovakia) Lauren Collins/Danny Seymour (already skating at JGP Slovakia) Brianna Delmaestro/Timothy Lum (already skating at JGP Poland) Katie Desveaux/Dmitre Razgulajevs (already skating at JGP Mexico) As mentioned above, skaters competing at JGP Mexico this week are Madeline Edwards/Zhao-Kai Pang and Katie Desveaux/Dmitre Rezgulajevs.
Does anyone know what happened to Desveaux/Razgulajevs? They were listed for JGP Mexico, but they aren't on the starting order.
Thank you Sylvia, I hadn't seen her latest tweet. Really unfortunate for them, especially since they might not get another assignment.
Tweeted by @icedancecom earlier tonight: "We've heard that Des/Raz (CAN) had some kind of paperwork issue that kept them from competing at #JGPMexico." Ice-dance.com's article on Madeline Edwards & ZhaoKai Pang: http://www.ice-dance.com/main/news/general-articles/1625-edwards-pang-on-the-right-path
Thanks Sylvia for the link on Edwards/Pang. We are so fortunate here in Canada to have so many great young teams to support.
Very unfortunate and I'm sure devastating for the team - especially when they were already there and just about to go into the draw.
Congratulations to Edwards/Pang on a good short dance, with a score of 53.46. It wasn't their best, since they probably lost about 2 points on a twizzles glitch, but otherwise it was strong. Last season, at their first JGP assignment in France, their short dance score was 46.53, so they are starting at higher level this season. Hopefully their free dance is at least as good. Here's the short dance (although I prefer the camera work at the BC Summerskate).
And now congratulations to Edwards/Pang on a silver medal at JGP Mexico. That's the best they've ever done on the JGP circuit. (Last season they won two bronze medals). In winning the silver, they also established a new international best score for the free dance. This is the first time anyone except the Vancouverites have seen their program, since it somehow never made it on to the live streaming from the BC Summerskate. Their program is here on Youtube.
Really enjoyed both Hayawak/Baker and Edwards/Pang FD. Junior teams looking strong! ETA: I just realized I was posting in Canadian dancers thread, I know H/B are American...was just watching the comp vids and I loved both teams!
Assignments for JGP Estonia are Brianna Delmaestro/Timothy Lum and Katie Desveaux/Dmitre Razgulajevs (the promised assignment to make up for the botched paperwork non-assignment in Mexico). Therefore the following teams have assignments (some already skated), with the teams listed in order of the best scores to date: - Madeline Edwards/Zhao-Kai Pang (JGP Mexico, JGP Czech Republic, alternates at JGP Slovakia, JGP Poland and JGP Estonia); - Mackenzie Bent/ Garret MacKeen (JGP Latvia, JGP Slovakia, alternates at JGP Mexico and JGP Czech Republic); - Danielle Wo/Spencer Su (JGP Czech Republic, alternates JGP Slovakia, JGP Poland and JGP Belarus); - Brianna Delmaestro/Timothy Lum (JGP Poland, JGP Estonia, alternates JGP Belarus and JGP Czech Republic); - Katie Desveaux/Dmitre Razgulajevs (JGP Mexico, did not skate, replaced by JGP Estonia, alt JGP Latvia, alt JGP Poland, alt JGP Czech Republic - Melinda Meng/Andrew Meng (JGP Poland, alternates Latvia, alternate JGP Mexico, alternate JGP Belarus, alternate JGP Belarus) - Caroline Soucisse/Simon Tanguay (JGP Belarus, alternates JGP Slovakia, alternate JGP Estonia). - Jessica Jiang/Tyler Miller (JGP Belarus) - Lauren Collins/Danny Seymour (JGP Slovakia, alternate JGP Czech Republic) The only team in the top 10 without an assignment is Whitney Miller/Shane Firus. In terms of score they would fit between Brianna Delmaestro/Timothy Lum and Katie Desveaxu. I wonder why they didn't get at least an alternate spot; any suggestions?
Yes, ice-dance.com wrote in an article recently that it it was because she competed on the JGP circuit last year for the US, so the fed is holding her... or something along the lines of that.
Thanks. and now my typo is preserved indefinitely. That should teach me to proofread posts before I post.
Congrats to Edwards/Pang!! So far a gold and a silver at the JGP circuit. That's a fantastic start for Canada's Juniors! Feeling bad for D/R. Hope she found some great Mexican food. Had a look at both the SD and FD events, and except for the top 2, it was all pretty underwhelming. To be honest, I'm not a fan of either the SD or FD from Edwards/Pang either. They have tremendous talent, but their programs are just not right. I think it is time for them to get their choreography outside, from someone like a David Wilson or Jeff Buttle or a famous dancer/choreographer off ice. Someone who is a ballroom expert for the SD, and someone who can do something interesting for the FD. Technically, the FD is difficult. It has the opposite problem of Bent/MacKeen from the week before. Their program was so open and full of 2 foot skating and lacking difficulty - and very cheesy. Edwards/Pang program is packed with lots of difficulty, almost too much, and it just looks like a bunch of hard stuff with a background of horrible cuts to music. They have a whole lot of potential. They need better vehicles. And more off ice dance training to go with that difficulty so that, for example, her back/shoulder positions improve and they look like they really understand their music and the story they are telling. I really loved their SD last year. Their FD was ok. I'm not ready to buy what they are selling yet this season.
It's an interesting new partnership then since due to his age, I think they would have to go Senior next year but she has just turned 15.
As far as I can tell from my records, Edwards/Pang just posted the best free dance score of any Canadian ice dance team on the JGP circuit since Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier in the 2007-2008 season. If that's true, I doubt that they care what you buy or don't buy.
NorthernDancers , what do you think about new Timoty Lum patner? Its so said he and Noa couldnt skate together anymore I love his personality so much
I saw Tim and Brianna's FD live at BC Summer Skate and it was fabulous! They seem well matched, in fact, I would say he is going to have to work to keep up with her. Age wise I think they are a better match than Bruser and Lum were. It will be interesting to see how they do on the GP.
Pani, while both Bruser and Lum were great dancers, I think as a team they had not a good future. As with most of those BC teams, the girls and boys were not a great physical match. It's really unfortunate for those poor girls. I'm not sure what happened to Bruser, but I just looked and Dalmer is still on icepartnersearch. She's listed as 5'8" tall. It's really sad because she is very talented, and very beautiful. Delmaestro/Lum look much better matched. I'm not sure their ages. He still looks very young and quite small. But he is a lovely dancer, and one of the most talented in the bunch, I think. These teams need a little time to gel. It doesn't happen overnight. Geoskate, I'm sure Edwards/Pang don't care about my opinions, and that's fine. In my opinion, comparing marks to Canadians a few years ago won't get the job done for them. They were beat by a very strong American team. The field seems a lot weaker this year with the French and the strong Russian teams all moved up to Senior. It's not about marks. It's how they will fare in a broader field, and when they age into Senior. Edwards/Pang are very talented, but, in my opinion, they are not being allowed to grow artistically. Over the long term, they need much better material, and all I've seen in terms of programs and choreography out of BC recently is formulaic programs with almost only show tune music with often horrible cuts and rushed "speed skating" like interpretation. They need some diversity in music, some sophistication, some artistic maturity. They have it in them. They need some great off-ice dancers to help them discover and grow this side of their skating. Their technique is solid and strong. Now they need to grow their artistic side. While they scored within a point on the FD to the Americans, I think there was a greater difference in quality between these 2 teams, and Edwards/Pang were a little gifted in PCS in a really weak competition. When the Americans improve their technical score, will Edwards/Pang be able to grow their PCS score to keep pace? I'm not so sure with this material.
Edwards/Pang perform very well but when you use such overused music such as Les Miz, the music carries the audience pretty far, but in my opinion, the skating has to really soar to go beyond it.
My understanding is that Noa Bruser suffered a concussion and was off the ice. I'm not sure why she didn't return, but given her age at the time, it is quite possible she had a big growth spurt (often happens when someone is off with an injury) and outgrew Lum. Lum, I believe, is the oldest of the trio of Pang, Firus, and Lum. I am pretty sure he is his full size. Brianna is never going to be very big. She is quite petite in proportion and both her parents are small.
Congratulations to Orford/Williams on their bronze medal at the U.S. International Figure Skating Classic in Salt Lake City. (Also congratulations to Weaver/Poje on their silver, but that was expected, plus they have their own thread, whereas the Orford/Williams bronze was not necessarily expected). Their skates at Salt Lake City received good scores of 54.84 in the short dance and 82.96 in the free dance. This result, and the judges' reception of them, gives them a good platform to build on for the rest of the season, IMO.


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Nooo. I think it's new Dakota. But whatever it be I LOVE it since December when I saw it on YT! My Global Selection winner!Originally Posted by DoMarcikar
aerofoil is not going to stop getting my GS vote any time in the near future
I just can't resist voting Turbulence once again.The crowd must have gone nuts when Markus dropped it.
Sirens Aerofoil or umm Turbulence? might do phoenix! idk idk idk
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My vote goes to Outsider.
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24. The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (Remix)
It sounds really-really-really Jeroma Isma-Ae-ish. Trust me. But why would he make a remix of it? Nobody played it. Markus doesn't talk with Jerome really often I think. Maybe will be know it. The only way to get IDs revalved to vote them for Global Selection. Markus always annouces what is the Global Selection. He also announced when everybody voted Phynn's Remix of Rain. Nobody knew, It is Phynn. Markus had to announced it, that is how we found the ID.
No idea who made it but the opening track in this set is a remake of the track symphonic rock band Emerson Lake & Palmer started their 1979 "In Concert" live album with. It's called "Introductory Fanfare", preceding their interpretation of the infamous Peter Gunn Theme by Henri Mancini from 1958.
http://www.discogs.com/Emerson-Lake-Pal ... ster/12126
Here you can hear some cover band play it live:
The ELP recording was later used by 2 Many DJ's as an opener for their 2002 compilation "As heard on Radio Soulwax pt.2":
My suggestion for now would be to indicate this track with "ID - Introductory Fanfare"
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Big breasts, waspish waist, long legs. Yes, this is the all too familiar idealized and hyper-sexualized body of women in video games.
Enter Diablo III's female barbarian. She's thick in the middle, has legs like tree trunks, and arms that look ripe to produce a gasp-inducing bear hug. This isn't a body that you often see in this medium.
Diablo III does tend to "racialize" its class system with the brainy female wizard appearing as a slight Asian woman, the even more unfortunate choice to portray the male and female witch doctors as a black man and black woman in a knuckle-dragging ape-like stance, and, of course, the barbarians who appear to come from Nordic stock.
I've actually known a Norweigan woman for years who has almost an identical build to the female barbarian of Diablo III, as does that woman's sister. Heck, my wife is of Scandinavian descent and has a larger skeletal frame than the typical notion of what the petite All-American girl is "supposed" to possess.
While a kind of stereotyping of an ethnic group's physical characteristics, the appearance of the female barbarian's body in a video game is kind of refreshing. This is a real body, more real than what you see more often, those Playboy Playmates and Penthouse Pets that are typically featured in video games. It is also a body that seems capable of hewing a demon's head off with a battle axe, rather than that of some slender 90-lb. "chick in chainmail," which, again, you tend to see in most fantasy-inspired video games.
Video games are, of course, not a medium especially prone to realistic imagery. Hyper-stylized images of the male are exceptionally common as well (G. Christopher Williams, "Mountains of Men: The Mythology of the Male Body in Video Games", PopMatters, 17 August 2010). However, male bodies, grotesquely portrayed as they can be as well, at least feature a bit of variety, some effort to represent differing aspects of masculinity rather than as a singular symbol expressing only sexuality. There is the wiry athlete, the muscle bound oaf, the feeble genius. For women in games, the variety ranges from sexy school girl to naughty librarian, a narrow range, indeed.
Thus, while Diablo III certainly makes some unusual (and, again, some questionable) choices in diversifying its cast, it is at least somewhat heartening to see a woman of a different body type featured as a hero, someone more like Gwendoline Christie (who plays Brienne of Tarth on Game of Thrones, a character who in the more realistic medium of cinematic photography needs to be believable as a warrior woman). Lara Croft demonstrates an incredible amount of upper body strength by dangling from and pulling herself up all of those cliffs and ledges. Somehow, I'm not quite convinced that her physique would look as it does if she had developed those muscles as much as she seems to have. So, a believable body is kind of a nice thing.
However, I still don't expect to be seeing a new Lara Croft in this mold anytime soon.
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Tabu search is one of the most effective heuristics for locating high-quality solutions to a diverse array of NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems. Despite the widespread success of tabu search, researchers have a poor understanding of many key theoretical aspects of this algorithm, including models of the high-level run-time dynamics and identification of those search space features that influence problem difficulty. We consider these questions in the context of the job-shop scheduling problem (JSP), a domain where tabu search algorithms have been shown to be remarkably effective. Previously, we demonstrated that the mean distance between random local optima and the nearest optimal solution is highly correlated with problem difficulty for a well-known tabu search algorithm for the JSP introduced by Taillard. In this paper, we discuss various shortcomings of this measure and develop a new model of problem difficulty that corrects these deficiencies. We show that Taillard's algorithm can be modeled with high fidelity as a simple variant of a straightforward random walk. The random walk model accounts for nearly all of the variability in the cost required to locate both optimal and sub-optimal solutions to random JSPs, and provides an explanation for differences in the difficulty of random versus structured JSPs. Finally, we discuss and empirically substantiate two novel predictions regarding tabu search algorithm behavior. First, the method for constructing the initial solution is highly unlikely to impact the performance of tabu search. Second, tabu tenure should be selected to be as small as possible while simultaneously avoiding search stagnation; values larger than necessary lead to significant degradations in performance.
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Oh this brings back memories..... my musical memory of our Uyuni guide/driver with his tape of Abba songs in Spanish. "Dame, dame amor esta noche!" was certainly the highlight! xx
Stunning salt flats and a stroppy teenager
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The advice we had been given for travelling by nightbus in Bolivia was the following: spend as much as you can on each ticket. The thing is that generally the standard of the buses in Bolivia is pretty bad but the cost of them quite cheap. So the more you spend, the more chance you have of getting a bus that isn't utterly filthy and run down inside, doesn't break down, has some suspension, has all its windows intact (quite important on night buses at over 4000m) and has a toilet that is open and works. Therefore, after shopping around a bit for the most expensive bus we were quite pleased to find the bus was large, roomy and quite comfy. However, no matter how nice the bus was the journey was never going to be that comfortable after leaving the paved roads a couple of hours outside La Paz and the rest of the night was spent bouncing around, banging heads on the roof when particularly big bumps were hit and having projectiles flung from the luggage racks and smack you on the head at regular intervals. Although there was a toilet, standing up to go to it was a risky proposition involving being flung onto the laps of several passengers on the way. We won't even go into what happens whilst trying to pee in such circumstances (for boys think one of those spinning garden sprinklers).
Of course, we hadn't really expected the tour agency we had booked with to actually show up and pick us up as they were supposed to, but when we made our own way to the office we found it deserted - interesting. Eventually, a woman showed up and said that we should wait and after about 3 hours of not very much happening, a rugged looking jeep showed up with a scowling young man at the wheel. This turned out to be our guide, Silvio, who was one of the stroppiest guides (if not people) we have ever encountered. He started by informing us that we were not going to take the route the agency had explained to us but a completely different one. We insisted. He got stroppy. Good start. Then, at our first stop on the Salar de Uyuni salt flat itself, and for us the main reason for the tour, he got very angry and starting talking about cancelling the tour because we were 5 minutes late for lunch having been exploring and then refused to drive us further out into the flats than a dirty salt hotel teaming with tourists, even though we could see other jeeps going out a bit further just to get away from all the people. Eventually he agreed to take us but dumped us unceremoniously out on the flats and drove off for 30 minutes (we thought he had abandoned us for a while) before coming back but pointedly parking up 200m away to force us to walk back to him. We mean, really. Is he a 12 year old from a Californian soap opera?
Anyway, the six of us (we were joined by James and Atsuko – an Australian-Japanese couple) decided that the only way to deal with this was to laugh at it and ignore his extreme churlishness and get on with enjoying the scenery which was incredible. We later learnt that we had got away with it lightly as we heard terrible stories from others of broken 4x4's, days spent stuck in sand & mud and various other horrible goings on. We were lucky that all we had to put up with was a grumpy driver.
The salt flat itself was worth the stroppiness though and was incredible. Once we'd got away from the hordes and mud at the salt hotel it is just sparkling white ground and blue sky as far as the eye can see. The scale of the place is hard to get your head around – it's almost 11,000km2 which is equivalent to half the size of Wales but completely flat and devoid of any features. At this time of year it was covered by a couple of inches of (very very cold) water which also reflects everything above it and we spent a long time taking photos that got increasingly complex and silly. Synchronised jump photos of 4 people in 2 inches of freezing cold, highly salty water over razor sharp ice crystals in flip-fops is harder than it sounds. At least that's our excuse.
That night we then drove on to a salt hotel in the middle of nowhere where we spent the night. Literally everything was made of salt: floor, walls, tables, chairs, beds, the lot. Ironically, the chicken and chips they served us needed was underseasoned and when we asked for some salt they didn't have any (nor did they see the irony of this when we laughed). There then followed 2 days of driving through incredibly scenery (we forget the order) of mountains, deserts, rock formations, volcanoes, lakes of various colours (red, green, white, yellow) and hot springs. It was absolutely stunning. We will let the photos of these places speak for themselves! The only annoyance was Silvio's music (awful panpipe-ing/coconut knocking/wailing stuff) and the fact that we had to plead with him and endure the grumpiness every time we wanted to stop for a photo or a walk-around.
The 2nd night we stayed in quite possibly the grimmest hostel of the trip so far by one of these coloured lakes and were greeted by cold, damp, absolutely filthy beds. There was a bit of wind and we decided this was clearly the time to get Richards's �3 kite from Tesco out. We were failing dismally to get it in the air for more than about 10 seconds and were attracting a crowd of little Bolivian kids to watch. Eventually Gordon & Richard gave in to their pleading eyes and handed them the reins, trying to hold on to it to give a little bit of a lesson. The 1st kid (he can't have been more than 7) shrugged Gordon off and proceeded to get the kite up in the air on the first attempt and keep it there for about 10 minutes. Hmmmm. Richard eventually decided to donate it to the kids making it very clear they had to share it, and we left them arguing over what this meant. The youngest was saying "We should have one day each" to which the oldest replied "Okay, as long as I get it the first day". After our competency as kite flyers was exposed we decided that there was nothing for it apart from going to the tiny little kiosk and buying a bottle of rum with our remaining bolivars and drink enough (over a game of monopoly deal) to stave off the biting cold in the "dining area" (read hole-ridden plastic shed tacked onto the building that was as cold as outside) so that we could stomach the dinner we anticipated would be grim (we were right, it was) and go to bed without noticing how filthy it all was.
The final morning we got up at around 5am to visit some bubbling mud pools (one of which James managed to slip into and both burn himself and lose his flip-flop, ouch and damn), swim in some beautiful hot pools on the edge of the lake to warm up before driving past some more stunning scenery and being dumped unceremoniously on the border with Chile by Silvio who didn't stick around to see if we would give him a tip (he knew he was getting nothing and presumably never does) and instead drove stroppily off, tires spinning, in a massive dust cloud.
After a short hop into San Pedro de Atacama, a dusty little oasis town in the desert at the foot of the Andes that nevertheless felt like civilisation, we settled in for our first proper meal in sometime in the nicest restaurant we could find. We were headed for Mendoza where we were meeting both Gordon & Sarah's parents who were both arriving for a holiday. Unfortunately, we had quite a journey ahead of us: a bus to the nearest airport in Calama, a late flight to Santiago arriving at 2am, a bus into Santiago and a 7 hour bus across the Argentine border to Mendoza. We also realised that it was exactly a year to the day since we left the UK and it seemed apt that having spent our first night of the trip in a stationary train in Gare d'Austerlitz station that we should spent the night in Santiago airport killing time before the buses into town started. We were especially pleased with ourselves when on arrival at 2am we managed to collect our bags, then sneak back from the baggage reclaim area to the gates where we found some benches to sleep on for 4 hours – or it would have been 4 hours if we hadn't woken up 2 hours later to find that there was a flight leaving from the gate we'd chosen and it was now full of people wanting to sit on our benches. Once again, the glamours of international travelling amaze us.


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Sweet Dreams: A Patsy Cline Tribute will be in Fairfield tonight at the Sondheim Center. Rustin Lippincott with the Center says the performance is a recreation of the style, sounds and personality of Patsy Cline. Lippincott says CJ Harding who is portraying Patsy Cline has performed as her for 15 years. Lippincott says people should come because Patsy Cline is arguably one of the best female country singers of all time. The performance is tonight at 7:30pm at the Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts in Fairfield with doors opening at 6:30. Tickets are $16 to $24 and youth tickets are $12.
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Violence is a public health epidemic in our country and carries with it significant health and psychosocial consequences, particularly for young people. More than 40 percent of kids in the U.S. are exposed to some form of violence -- or the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against another person or group. Youth can be exposed to violence in their homes, schools and communities with serious, lifelong consequences:
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The Violence Prevention Initiative (VPI) is a CHOP-wide effort to interrupt the cycle of violence. VPI builds on years of hospital and community partnership and research to address bullying and assault re-injury and domestic violence. Through the practice of trauma-informed care, in which we recognize that traumatic experiences affect how people respond to our outreach and services, we hope to become a national model for hospital-led youth violence prevention.
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Meet our team of multidisciplinary researchers and clinicians who are focused on understanding the causes and impact of different types of violence on youth and applying that expertise to pilot and refine evidence-based interventions to interrupt the cycle of violence.
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Blanche Evans has seen 99 Halloweens come and go.
But it's not a simple holiday for the La Grange resident. It's also a way to keep track of her age every year. That's because Evans was born on Halloween in 1913.
And today will be Evans' 100th birthday, or Halloween, however you look at it.
Veterans Day is just around the corner, as is Thanksgiving and Christmas. The Pewee Valley Veterinary Center has found a way to link each of those holidays.
The "Joy to the Woof" campaign kicks off on Veteran's Day, Nov. 11. The program recognizes active military members, thanks them for their service and provides them with a care package for the holidays. It just so happens that the recipients are furry and four-legged.
Five men charged with crimes ranging from conspiracy to commit murder to gang activity and drug possession are having their cases sent to a grand jury.
The five are part of a group of eight individuals arrested more than two weeks ago in La Grange and alleged to be involved with the Southside Crips gang.
Four individuals had their cases referred to a grand jury for possible indictment after a preliminary hearing on Wednesday. Those four are Thomas L. Wenz, 22, of Shelbyville and Roger D. Wilson, 19, Brandon L. Davis, 18, and Felix A. Myers, 20, all of La Grange.
A Locust Grove Elementary teacher charged with driving under the influence has been fired by Oldham County Schools.
Laura Munson, 52, a former gym teacher at the school, had her employment officially terminated on Tuesday. Her termination and unpaid suspension from Sept. 30 through her termination date were approved at Monday night's school board meeting.
Munson has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Superintendent Will Wells declined to comment on the decision at the school board meeting.
BUCKNER – Oldham County's first step on the road to its goal of a state girls soccer championship proved not to be too tough at all.
The Lady Colonels blitzed Region 5 champion Elizabethtown 6-0 Tuesday night in the semi-state round. OC scored four first half goals and cruised to the victory.
"I think we're all playing really well together," senior defender Karigan Owens said. "We're peaking at the time, finally realizing where everyone is on the field. We're all playing really well."
GOSHEN – Penalty kick karma remains squarely in the North Oldham boys soccer team's corner.
The Mustangs scored their only regulation goal on a penalty kick, then won a PK shootout to clinch a 2-1 win over Central Hardin Monday in the semi-state round of the KHSAA boys soccer tournament.
North's victory came in its first-ever state tournament game. The Mustangs (20-4-1) clinched a spot in the state quarterfinals, where they'll meet Bowling Green at 5 p.m. Saturday at Henry Clay High School in Lexington.
GOSHEN – Another new chapter can be written in a historic North Oldham boys soccer season tonight.
The Region 8 champion Mustangs (19-4-1) will host Region 5 champion Central Hardin (21-1-2) tonight in the first round of the KHSAA state soccer tournament.
The game will be the first state game in history North's history and comes four days after the Mustangs beat South Oldham 1-0 to win the school's first District 29 title. Beating the Bruins would add to a season that's already seen the North set records for wins in a season.
A ten-year-old child remains in criticial condition following a car accident Friday night.
According to La Grange Police, shortly after 7:30 p.m. Friday the child was crossing the road in front of the La Grange Community Center on West Jefferson Street when he was hit by a Dodge Neon. The driver, who's name was not released by the police, stated she was unable to avoid a collision and struck the juvenile with the front of her car.
Both North Oldham and Oldham County volleyball found out their roads Saturday to a potential fourth meeting in this week's Region 8 championship.
The District 29 champion Lady Mustangs (24-9) will meet Collins (18-9) at 6:45 Monday night at Simon Kenton High School in Independence in the first round of the Region 8 tournament. District 29 runner-up OC (28-8) will open its region tournament against Shelby County (10-10) at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at Simon Kenton.
SHELBYVILLE – If it could've gone wrong for North Oldham football Friday night, it did.
That's how Mustang coach Billy Martin diagnosed North's 35-6 loss at Titan Stadium, a defeat that cost the Mustangs a chance to win Class 4A, District 3 outright.
North (6-3, 3-1 district) instead finishes second in the district behind Collins (7-2, 4-0) and must go on the road if it makes the second round of the playoffs.


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Earth Summit Day of Action on Bhopal!
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
The U.S. multinational Dow Chemical Company -- the new owner of Union Carbide of Bhopal notoriety -- is in Johannesburg to talk sustainable development. Also, in Johannesburg are representatives and supporters of the victims of Union Carbide's gas disaster in Bhopal. Since July 17, 2002, survivors of the world's worst industrial disaster and their supporters have been on a worldwide relay hunger strike. More than 700 people have fasted till date to protest against Dow-Carbide's refusal to acknowledge the pending liabilities in Bhopal, and against the Indian Government's betrayal of the victims merely to protect the interests of the U.S. multinational.
Even as the worldwide protests against Dow Chemical gather momentum, activists of the Campaign for Justice in Bhopal have decided to take their protests to Johannesburg, to Sandton, to the WSSD at the Sandton Convention Centre, right into the proverbial belly of the beast. "If there's one protest the authorities can do nothing about, it is our hunger strike, and we'll take our protest against the hypocrisy of Dow and other multinational corporations right into the Summit venue," says Mrs. Rasheeda Bee, a Union Carbide victim and leader of a long-standing women's struggle for justice in Bhopal, also in Johannesburg. We invite you to join us.
Here's what you can do on August 27 1. FAST FOR A DAY or more- (send your name, city, and country to firstname.lastname@example.com) 2. WEAR A RED ARM BAND FOR A WEEK TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY 3. JOIN THE WORKSHOP & PRESS CONFERENCE, 11 AM, NASREC, BRKAWAY 3 4. VISIT THE BHOPAL PHOTO GALLERY, 7 PM, SANDTON MALL, FOUNTAIN CT 5. TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE DAY OF ACTION!!
For more information, visit www.CorpwatchIndia.org and www.bhopal.net or call Amit Srivastava at 072 477 2267 in Johannesburg.
December 3, 1984: More than half a million people were hit by a poison gas cloud released from Union Carbide's ill-designed pesticide factory in Bhopal. At least 8,000 people died agonizing deaths in the immediate aftermath. The death toll has risen to 20,000 till date.
February, 2001: U.S. multinational Dow Chemical acquires Union Carbide despite being warned by Bhopal survivors of Carbide's pending liabilities in India.
Today in Bhopal: At least 150,000 people in Bhopal, including children born to gas-exposed parents, continue to suffer debilitating exposure-related chronic health effects. The death toll has risen to over 20,000 and more than 30 persons still die each month from exposure related causes. More than 80,000 are too ill to work. Treatment of the victims is impeded because Dow-Carbide still refuses to share medical information on the toxic effects of the gases released that night. Dow-Carbide, which has abandoned thousands of tons of toxic wastes on the factory site, has refused to clean up the mess. The poisons have seeped into the community's groundwater and is showing up in mothers' milk.
Nearly 95 percent of the survivors have received $500 or less for lifelong injury and loss of livelihood. This works out at 7 a day -- enough for a cup of tea every day -- for 18 years of suffering. Adding insult to injury, Dow Chemical's PR official, one Ms. Kathy Hunt, maintains that "$500 is plenty good for an Indian."
Still Waiting for Justice: The disaster occurred because Dow-Carbide knowingly installed a poorly designed factory in Bhopal, and cut costs by compromising on safety and maintenance systems. For this, a criminal case was filed against Warren Anderson - chairman of Union Carbide at the time of disaster - and Union Carbide. Neither Anderson nor any official of Dow-Carbide has appeared for trial in India. The Indian Government is yet to move on the orders of the Court to extradite Anderson. The reluctance is reportedly because of pressure from the US government which is said to have warned that any action against U.S. corporations for their crimes in Bhopal will adversely affect the corporate investment climate.
The Ultimate Betrayal: The Indian Government has decided to reward Anderson and Dow-Carbide's criminal acts and contempt of the Indian court by diluting criminal charges in absentia from "homicide" to "negligence." This dilution would reduce the world's worst industrial disaster to the legal status of a car accident, and in effect allow the criminal corporation to get off the hook.
Separately, the Government is planning to use a portion of the funds set aside to compensate victims of the disaster to pay for the clean up of the toxic wastes abandoned by Dow- Carbide. Again, this act is meant solely to avoid having to make the polluter - Dow-Carbide - pay for the substantial costs involved in cleaning up.
For more information, visit www.CorpWatchIndia.org and www.bhopal.net


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Araldo A. Cossutta Annual Prize for Design Excellence
The Araldo A. Cossutta Prize will be endowed in perpetuity to support a qualified and promising student in the area of architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
The full tuition fellowship shall be awarded annually to a student of merit who has successfully completed the core program for the professional degree of Master in Architecture and whose design work consistently shows outstanding promise.
Nature of Award
One year's tuition and fees, certificate
Number Available
Open to MArch I and MArch I AP students who have just finished core.
The core studio coordinators will nominate candidates who will then be contacted to digitally submit a portfolio for review by the faculty of the Department of Architecture. The selection of the fellowship recipient will be made under the direction of the chairman of the Department of Architecture.
Basis of Award
Design excellence
Eligible students will be notified as soon as possible after studio grades are received.
When Awarded
Department of Architecture (Room 207)
Previous Winners
2016: Elizabeth Grace McEniry
2015: Justin Gallagher
2014: Iman Fayyad
2013: Joanie Tom
2012: Max Wong
2011: Brendan Kellogg
2010: Jeffrey Laboskey
2009: Jon Sargent
2008: Yoshiki Waterhouse
2007: Mathieu Lemieux-Blanchard
2006: Anya Sirota
2005: Julie Kaufman
2004: Richard Lam
2003: Andre Abrantes
2002: Chung Ping Lee
2001: Angus Eade
2000: Yu-Lin Chen
1999: Lucia Allais
1998: Jeannie Kim
1997: Gullivar Shepard
1996: Elizabeth Whitaker
1995: Shawn Emory


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European authorities still punishing Greece – Can they be stopped?
from Mark Weisbrot
Alexis Tsipras has a tough job. He is leader of the Syriza Party of Greece, a left party that has risen meteorically in the past three years: from 4.6 percent of the vote in 2009 to 27 percent last June. It is now the most popular party in the country and Tsipras could be the next Prime Minister.
Unlike most of the eurozone's leaders, he knows what is wrong with Greece and the eurozone, and so does his party: austerity. "We have become the guinea pig for barbaric, violent neoliberal policies," he said at a forum at Columbia University Law School last week, in which I participated.
Tsipras notes that Greece's fiscal problems could be resolved if the rich paid their taxes. The IMF's latest numbers [PDF] concur on this. According to the Fund, "annual uncollected net tax revenue [is] at 86 percent of collections in Greece, against an OECD average of 12 percent."
So the European authorities – the so-called "troika" of the European Central Bank (ECB), European Commission, and International Monetary Fund (IMF) – took what was a manageable problem that was caused by a world economic recession, and made it into a serious depression. More than 26 percent of Greeks are unemployed. The economy has shrunk more than 20 percent since 2008, including a 6 percent decline in 2012; the IMF projects another 4.25 drop this year.
The Syriza party has proposed an end to the budget tightening that has caused the depression. The troika wants Greece to stay the course and says growth will turn positive next year. But they have been saying this for years now, and it hasn't happened – in just two years the IMF lowered its GDP projections by 7 percentage points. Greece is now in its sixth year of recession, and the social costs have been enormous. According to the IMF this month [PDF]: "Greece is beginning to face an 'unemployment trap': the length of the Greek recession entails the risk that the skills of the long-term unemployed will become obsolete . . ."
And even if 2014 were to be the year that things finally turn around, how long would it take Greeks to recover their living standards under the program of the troika? From the IMF's projections, it looks like at least seven more years. And while most of the budget tightening of 2012 came from tax increases, the program that Greece has signed on to calls for big, painful spending cuts this year and beyond.
So even if the troika's program "succeeds" in that the economy finally begins to grow again, a lot of unnecessary suffering lies ahead.
What is the alternative, if Greeks refuse to submit to the "barbaric, violent, neoliberal" experiment any longer? Clearly it would involve exiting the euro, and re-negotiating the Greek debt.
As a matter of economics, it seems pretty clear that Greece would have been spared most of its current and future misery if it had left the euro, e.g. in 2010. Of course there would be an initial shock to the financial system and the economy, but it would not have caused years of depression, as the European authorities' program has done.
The example of Argentina at the end of 2001 has been cited many times, but it is still widely misunderstood. Most people think that Argentina – which began to recover just three months after its devaluation and default — got a big boost from exports (due to the sharp devaluation of the peso) and a "commodities boom" that followed. In fact, Argentina's remarkable recovery after 2002, in which the country reduced both poverty and extreme poverty by more than 70 percent, and achieved record levels of employment, owed very little to exports. And it owed even less to the export of commodities. What made most of the difference was that Argentina got control over all of its macro-economic policies – not only the exchange rate, but also fiscal and monetary policy. It was thus able to embark on a different set of policies, and the recovery was led by domestic consumption and investment.
Greece is actually much better situated than Argentina to say goodbye to its tormentors. Its exports are more than twice the level that Argentina's were when it defaulted and devalued. It has a more developed financial system and is a more developed country, with about three times the per capita income that Argentina had. And should it need to borrow hard currency to pay for imports, there are more sources of possible financing today than there were for Argentina 11 years ago.
But Greece most likely would not have much need for foreign borrowing if it were to exit the euro and suspend its debt payments. Its trade is now nearly balanced, with a deficit of just 0.3 percent of GDP, as a result of the depression. And as happened in Argentina, as soon as investors see that the financial system is stabilized, billions of euros would come back to Greece, since a cheap currency will make all kinds of assets attractive.
But we don't have to just look at Argentina to see that financial crises associated with devaluation and capital flight don't do the kind of damage that Greece is living through. We can look at any of the worst financial crises of the past 20 years – including Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand during Asian financial crisis. Despite terrible mismanagement of these and other financial crises, none of these countries lost as much income as Greece has, and all of them recovered much faster than Greece is projected to recover under the troika's best case scenario.
Indeed, former IMF economist Arvind Subramanian made a compelling argument last year that if Greece left the euro, its economy might well recover so rapidly that other countries would want to leave too.
But economic reality is one thing, and political reality is another. Tsipras and the Syriza party don't propose leaving the euro, and I would not criticize them for that. A political party cannot move too far ahead of the electorate, and it could be that the majority of the country is not ready to get rid of the euro. A government that decided to go that route would want strong backing from the public, and the ability, leadership, and expertise to do it right, so as to minimize the initial damage.
Still, the conversation needs to be had, not only in Greece but in Spain and other eurozone countries that are being subjected to years of unnecessary suffering, and having their economies restructured in ways that could result in more poverty and inequality for decades. At the very least, a credible threat to leave the euro must be there if the European authorities are going to make serious concessions. If not for the tremendous resistance of the Greek people – including Syriza — the troika would probably not have reduced Greece's interest payments (which are now just below the European average). And the IMF has acknowledged, in its latest country report [PDF], that more of Greece's debt will have to be cancelled.
But these and other concessions won't bring Greece out of its misery, so long as the troika is still shrinking the Greek economy, and forcing cuts in essential services such as health care. Unless they reverse course, leaving the euro may very well end up as the only sensible option – not only economically, which it already is, but politically as well.
February 5, 2013 at 3:27 pm
It is really weird that Greece is pushed through austerity, while US increases debt ceiling to unlimited level and prints money as much as it wants.
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February 6, 2013 at 5:27 am
Fantastic post. You mention that during the Asian Financial Crisis none of the countries lost as much income as Greece. Lord Keynes recently posted about the declines in Europe during the first years of the Great Depression (1929-1933). As I recall, despite hyperinflation in Austria, income and unemployment were not nearly as bad as Greece today. Considering how we terrifying the Great Depression sounds, it's amazing that today's depression continues without similar concern.


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Lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat,
And none of us could kick him to his feet;
-just blinked at my revolver, blearily;
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MIAMI (MarketWatch) — I just touched down in Miami after a 3.5-hour flight from Bogota, Colombia, on American Airlines.
Thumbing through the in-flight magazine, I came across a letter from American Airlines CEO Thomas Horton touting American's new service to Manaus, Brazil. "Manaus is the seventh American Airlines destination in Brazil," he says, and brings the number of weekly flights between the U.S. and Brazil to nearly 90.
It's hard not to boast about Brazil's economic growth, and its future. After all, it is hosting soccer's FIFA World Cup in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Although its growth has slowed lately from a pace of 7% in 2010, its economy is still expected to grow 4% this year. More important, the World Cup and the Olympics are expected to bring a hoard of new tourists to South America — and more revenue to airlines.
Investors will also have more to choose from in terms of Latin American airlines.
LATAM becomes world's biggest airline
Those choices got a big boost this week when LAN Airlines of Chile acquired TAM of Brazil, to create LATAM Airlines LFL, +3.50% With an estimated market capitalization of $13 billion, LATAM becomes the largest airline in the world, beating Air China which is second at $10.7 billion, and Delta Air Lines in third.
LATAM shares were to begin trading in Santiago, São Paulo and the New York Stock Exchange. However, the merger has taken almost two years to complete. As a result, any opportunities from the deal have been exploited by merger arbitragers. Now, investors have the fundamentals of the newly merged airline and the growth of the region to look forward to.
As far as fundamentals go, LATAM is taking on a lot of debt — about $12 billion, most of it from TAM, so it could lose its investment-grade status. But overall, LAN Chile is a well-run airline so look for cost advantages spilling over onto the TAM side. Also, there is only an overlap of 3% on routes between LAN and TAM, which could position the airline well going forward.
The Latin America region as a whole is expected to grow at least 5% a year over the next 10 years, and air travel in the region is expected to exceed that. Latin America's economy is expected to create a tripling of the region's air traffic during the next 20 years, making Latin America the second-highest region for growth in air travel in the world, next to the Middle East — according to the Airbus Global Market Forecast. Growth in the middle class of Latin America has fueled the increase, according to the Airbus report.
Travel to-and-from Latin America will be only a small part of the growth. Much of it will be from travel within the region. Where does the middle class of Brazil go for vacation? How about Chile to ski. About 50% of the guests at Vale Nevada, Chile's biggest ski resort, are Chileans. The rest are foreigners, and 70% of those are Brazilians, with Americans making up just 20% and the rest from other countries.
Opportunities for investors
There are several smaller airlines in Latin America vying for the number-two spot and which could capitalize on the region's growth and offer investment opportunities for foreign investors.
AviancaTaca Holdings (PFAVTA), which was created in 2010 from the merger of Avianca of Colombia and TACA of El Salvador, is the strongest contender. Following that are Aeromexico SA, Brazil's Gol Linhas Aereas Inteltigentes SA GOL, -1.35% (GOLL4), and COPA of Panama CPA, +0.10%
If investors are looking for a good, safe airline to invest in, COPA probably stands out from the pack. Copa has had double-digit profit growth each year since 2002, and has an annualized dividend yield of about 2.5%, the highest in the region.
But investors might also look to Delta's purchase of another 4% in Aeromexico as a sign of stability and positioning the airline for future growth.
Investors also shouldn't count GOL out due to its recent headlines on route reductions and employee layoffs. GOL, in my opinion, simply got ahead of itself in trying to position itself for future growth. But reality set in, and its recent news is an indication that the airline has become more conscious about its spending. Getting rid of its chief executive last week and replacing him with Paulo Kakinoff, Audi AG's Brazil head, was probably a good move.
Both GOL and Aeromexico were trading recently around their 52-week lows, while COPA was trading substantially above that.
Overall though, it's a good time to be a Latin American airline — and that means more mergers and acquisitions could be in store.
Note: To avoid conflicts of interest, I don't invest directly in Latin American securities.


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Two City Parks Employees Allegedly Stole About $100,000
Thursday, March 3, 2011
SAN DIEGO Two San Diego Parks and Recreation employees allegedly stole more than $100,000 from two recreation centers by pocketing reimbursement checks and membership and registration fees, according to a city audit released today.
One of the employees, who were not identified, allegedly kept about
$55,000 in membership and registration fees that were supposed to be deposited into the Recreation Council's bank account, which is separate from the city's general fund, according to the audit conducted by the office of City Auditor Eduardo Luna.
The investigation also found that between July 2004 and March 2008, 31 checks totaling about $35,000 were made out to another recreation center employee from the Recreation Council bank account to reimburse the employee for payments supposedly made to patrons to refund cleaning and damage deposits. Instead of refunding the money, the employee kept it, the audit alleges.
Another nine checks totaling about $10,000 in refunds were made out to friends of one of the recreation center employees to refund cleaning and damage deposits, but the employee never forwarded the reimbursements, and the employee's friends never paid cleaning or damage deposits, Luna said.
A Parks and Recreation spokesperson was not immediately available to respond to the audit, and it was unclear whether the two workers still worked for the city.
A complaint to the city's Fraud Hotline initiated the investigation, Luna said.
The investigation found that financial records were missing from the recreation center where the suspicious transactions occurred and that monthly financial reports made by an employee inflated the amount of money on hand at the recreation center.
One of the same city employees involved in the suspicious transactions was reassigned to another recreation center in July 2009, Luna said.
Between Jan. 30 and July 9, 2010, $893 in fees collected from people registering for classes at the center were never deposited into the Recreation Council's bank account, the investigation found.
The suspicious activity was referred to the San Diego Police Department, Luna said.
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dlevin | September 26, 2011 at 4:12 p.m. ― 5 years, 6 months ago
False Claims Act covers many types of fraudulent activity against the federal government, it does not apply to tax fraud. The Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006 amended the Internal Revenue Code to provide financial rewards for individuals to report tax fraud just like the False Claims Act promotes the disclosure of fraud against the government by its contractors.
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After making its world debut at the 2017 Geneva Motor Show earlier this month, at least a few automotive aficionados on the West Coast have gotten a good look at Honda's latest pocket rocket. That's because the first Civic Type R to ever reach these shores finally made its North American debut at 4:00 pm pacific daylight time yesterday afternoon at the Los Angeles Convention Center during AutoCon Los Angeles 2017.
The new paint trim color is called RV Match Brown. It's a slightly odd moniker, but FCA explains it this way: "the new RV Match Brown was chosen to closely match or complement a shade of brown that is frequently used in the exterior design of RV travel trailers, including premium fifth-wheel models."
According to Ford, Edge sales figures point to the fact that many buyers in the Dallas Metroplex choose a cloth interior over technology "because cloth seating materials tend to be more comfortable in the heat." In fact, Ford sells nearly 5 percent more Edge models with non-leather seats in Dallas than the national average. So maybe Texans aren't that tough after all.


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When I close certain programs, mainly Internet Explorer and Incredimail, the program is still running in the background and eating memory. What's causing this?
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Neutrons and Manufacturing of Soft Materials
The manufacture of soft materials impacts nearly every sector of modern life. Soft materials are primarily organic, amorphous, and can be described as highly viscous fluids. They form the basis of plastics used in consumer goods, automobiles, aerospace, and other structural applications, but are also important in higher efficiency energy solutions such as membranes for fuel cells, water filtration and desalination, and low energy displays. This class of materials is also at the heart of the modern diet, as important proteins within foods, preservative agents, and packaging materials. Soft materials are also the primary component of cutting edge pharmaceutical therapies, and are currently studied as potential solutions for advanced tissue regeneration. As such, the field spans topics in polymers, glasses, complex fluids, and many biomaterials.
This class of materials is defined by complexity, where structure is often defined in terms of time scale. As a result, many manufacturing processes occur far from equilibrium, and small variations in processing parameters can drastically change material properties. The need to precisely and accurately measure the response of soft materials to processing parameters increases as new, more complex materials are desired to solve issues confronting the modern world. Traditional measures of structure in these materials have relied heavily on neutron based techniques due to their non-destructive nature, their capacity to measure nanoscale dimensions, and their capacity to monitor structure under conditions of dynamic stress loading. As a result, neutron science has emerged as a core competency for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) through peer reviewed user programs at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR). The formation of the nSoft consortium represents an opportunity to develop a new generation of neutron-based measurements,sample environments, and data analysis methods to meet the emerging needs of manufacturers to develop higher functionality, higher value products based on increasingly complex soft materials.


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Every year Forbes ranks the fastest-growing technology companies. We use the following criteria to rank our list: Companies need to have minimum sales of $25 million and a sales growth of at least 10% over the latest 12 months. Also, median three- to five-year earnings-per-share growth estimates needed to be in double-digit territory. Finally, companies were ranked on their five-year annualized sales growth, which can be no less than 10%. Here are the top 10 companies in the Forbes Fast Tech 25 list.


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Celebrating the Right Christmas
After outlining the history of the "two Christmas Days," Fr John Brian talks about how to celebrate the right Christmas in Holy Orthodoxy, using the scripture reading of St Paul's Epistle to the Galatians (3:23-4:7)
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Jesus Christ." 3:28
"When the fullness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son who, born of a woman, became subject to the law, to redeem them who were under the law..." 4:4-5
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edwardragg has reviewed the Morris Rutherglen Muscat 1928 /20
From the Landmark Tutorial Day 5 (24th Sept 2010, Yarra Valley) 'Fortified' presented by Colin Campbell and Stephen Chambers.
Appearance: very dark brown, very viscous (the sugar practically rolls over the rim of the wine!).
Nose: dark soy-sauce, iodine, seaweed, glue, very intense dried fig, coffee, chocolate and later some dried red fruit aromas even. Very, very complex.
Palate: very viscous, syrupy texture with incredibly complex flavours of dried fruits, coffee, cocoa and chocolate, Indian spices (sotolon), lifting acidity and super-high utterly inter-knit alcohol. Incredible length.
Conclusion: so incredibly intense that a tea-spoon might be a suitable 'serving vessel'. In a small ISO, however, you stand a much better chance of capturing this wine's heady and super-complex aromas. Utterly brilliant. Compares very favourably in quality with the Para 100 Year Old Vintage Tawnies from Seppeltsfield. This was the final wine to be tasted at the 2010 Landmark Tutorial and a miraculous one to end on! One of the greatest fortified wines I am ever likely to taste. Drink now (as per the style).
Drool... I'd be happy to drink now, so I'm heading to my local grocery store to pick up a bottle..... ;)
2261 days ago
A sincere THANK YOU for all your answers to my questions, Edward! I'm nearly 50, but I'm still trying to learn every day.
2259 days ago
It has been my pleasure. No one ever stops learning about wine, regardless of age. Actually, I attended a Master Class yesterday in Beijing given by Etienne de Montille on the wines of Domaine de Montille and also the Chateau de Puligny-Montrachet. I'll aim to post these soon!
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Tolleson AZ Real Estate & Homes for Sale62 Properties Found
The median home value in Tolleson, AZ is $191,000.
This is
lower than
the county median home value of $226,200.
The national median home value is $185,800.
The average price of homes sold in Tolleson, AZ is $191,000.
Approximately 37.45% of Tolleson homes are owned,
compared to 48.4% rented, while
14.14% are vacant.
Tolleson real estate listings include condos, townhomes, and single family homes for sale.
Commercial properties are also available.
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$165,9008533 W Riley Road Tolleson, AZ 85353
Courtesy: Realty ONE Group
View additional info**MOUNTAIN VIEWS**SCENIC FENCING**VAULTED CEILINGS**Pride of Ownership! This single level home has 3 bedrooms and 2 full baths, an open floor plan, including a spacious kitchen, ample cabinetry and eat-in dining that's open to the family room. The living area & master bedroom offer high vaulted ceilings making these spaces feel spacious. The backyard features multiple edible fruit trees, a covered patio, rock & grass areas and a spectacular view of the mountains. Stay cool this summer with a nearly new A/C replaced October 2013! Security system. Desirable North/South exposure. Conveniently located, easy access to freeways, local schools, shopping and community playground/parks. Bring your clients! $187,0002032 S 86TH Lane Tolleson, AZ 85353
Courtesy: HomeSmart
View additional infoThe home is located in a charming subdivision a stone throw away from Dos Rios elementary/middle school. You will be charmed with its amazing curb appeal and beautifully aesthetic adjacent garage. The home has a large layout that maximizes space with a split floor plan and vaulted ceilings that really drink in the light. This home really delivers with tile flooring in all of the main walk ways and wood flooring artistically placed in the main living room area. Not to be outdone, this home boasts a wonderful backyard pool along with a separate bedroom exit to the covered backyard patio. Very few homes in the area boast a pool and this is one of those gems. This home is a winner and will sell fast! $210,0009548 W Heber Road Tolleson, AZ 85353
Courtesy: West USA Realty
View additional infoHome cleaned and fresh paint on inside and outside of home. Ready to move in. 4 bedroom 2 and half bath, family room open to kitchen and private living room or dining as you walk into home. The back yard on north side private yard on corner lot one neighbor in single level east of you and one single level behind you. great space to add pool or open to your liking. Across the street from park and walk area.
Courtesy: Planet Realty
View additional infoHoney stop the car! This is truly a perfect home, it is conveniently ready to move in, and has already been nicely upgraded. It features brand new cabinets throughout and new granite counter tops in the kitchen. Home has fresh paint outside and features a beautiful backyard. This is a must see property you will fall in love!
Courtesy: Realty ONE Group
View additional infoBeautiful remodel home, you will enter to open floor with cathedral high ceiling, large size living room and family room with floor tile through out. Kitchen with new marble counter top and cherry wood finish.Convenience with one bedroom with full bath downstairs. Leading upstairs with cherry wood finish stairs case. Enjoy second family room upstairs with all wood floor in traffic area and all bedroom, large master bedroom with big size master baths, the master bedroom door lead you to nice balcony for relaxing outdoor.
Courtesy: Cozland Corporation
View additional infoBEAUTIFUL, IMMACULATE HOME WITH TILE THROUGHOUT. HIGHLY UPGRADED HOME WITH UPGRADED KITCHEN. THIS HOME IS BETTER THAN NEW! UPGRADED INSULATION IN THE ATTIC. UPGRADED PAVER DRIVEWAY. THIS HOME IS IMMACULATE AND MOVE-IN READY! DON'T WAIT!
Courtesy: A.Z. & Associates Real Estate Group
View additional infoCome check out this beautifully redone 2 level Tolleson home, shows like new. Step inside to an overly large front room, great for an office, game room/bar or formal dining room. You will be welcomed by a calming gray toned paint with brand new cherry wood flooring and 3 inch trim. Proceed into the living area with an open concept kitchen layout. Plenty of room for a desk area alongside all your furniture, overlooking the dining area and kitchen with bonus island. The kitchen received new appliances with an elegant backsplash and modern light fixtures. Easy access to the downstairs half bath for company, lined with Wainscot panels and new fixtures. Step out onto the back patio to enjoy a maintenance free yard with a large concrete area for entertaining or playing. The stair...
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View additional infoBeautifully remodeled single level home! New (March 2017) Carpet, paint, built in appliances, ceiling fans and much more! Great 4 bedroom, 2 bathroom home with nice window coverings. Very generous room sizes! Gourmet Kitchen with lots of counter space, breakfast nook, breakfast room all open to the large family room! There is a gas hookup behind the stove if you prefer a gas stove! Great open floor plan! Lots of storage throughout too! Seller is leaving the washer/dryer and refrigerator for the buyer. 2 car garage, Large backyard too! Great house. Community park a few houses down on the corner of Hilton and 86th Ave. Seller is related to the listing agent.
Courtesy: A.Z. & Associates Real Estate Group
View additional infoLarge driveway and brand new Ryobi blue tooth garage door opener. So much space here. Very fengsheui and open. Owners have taken care of this home. Walk into to spacious tiled foyer. Plenty of storage and private powder room off the entrance for guests. Don't have to walk into the living room. There is some space for greeting. Living room was recently redone with pergo. Extra material in storage room for stairs. Kitchen is to the back. Separate eat-in-kitchen nook. Appliances stay. Water filtration system stays. Alarm equipment stays but is not connected. Wood banister to the upstairs is solid and carpet has been well taken care of. Owners take their shoes off and it shows. All three bedrooms upstairs have great space between them for older children and privacy. Windows windows and win
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View additional infoThis 2025 sf, 2 story home features 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath with LOFT & DEN an open kitchen to great room. Tile throughout in all the right places newer carpet. Kitchen features black appliances (all included!), upstairs laundry room, double doors to Master with His/Her walk in closets. Sliding glass doors lead you to a covered patio, w/play area in backyard. Easy Access to I-10 & 101 Loop - Downtown Phoenix - Glendale Arena & Shopping.
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Phoenix
View additional infoThis lovely home sits on a quiet street with nice neighbors and features a great open floor plan with vaulted ceilings and arched doorways. 3BR/2BA with separate den/office, tile throughout. Roomy kitchen has island and large pantry. All appliances included and water softener included.
Courtesy: My Home Group Real Estate
View additional infoGORGEOUS house in one of the most desirable quiet neighborhoods in Tolleson! Walk into this spacious 4bed/2bath split floor plan home and enter into the large living room are with vaulted ceilings. Beautiful kitchen features stainless steel appliances, a big island, bar stool seating, and large dining table area. Split floor plan features master bedroom on one side of the house. HUGE master bedroom with master bathroom featuring double sinks and walk-in in shower. The other side of the house has 3 other LARGE bedrooms, hall bathroom, laundry room, spacious garage +MUCH MORE! The backyard is large enough to create what you've always wanted. This house has it ALL!
Courtesy: Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage
View additional infoTHE PERFECT 'STAYCATION' HOME! BETTER THAN NEW..BUILT IN 2014! BEAUTIFUL HOME WITH STUNNING BACKYARD! This rare beauty will not last long...Featuring a Supersized Ramada, Firepit, Artificial Grass, Large Paver Patio Area with Multiple Seating Areas perfect for Relaxing and for Entertaining. Neutral colors, all 3 Bedrooms with Walk-in Closets, 2 1/2 Baths, Den, Butler's Pantry, Dining Area, Family Room, X-Large Loft. Energy Efficient Ceiling Fans & lots of storage throughout. Chef's Kitchen complete with Built-in Double Ovens, Stainless Steel Appliances including Refrigerator and Quartz Counter Tops. Washer & Dryer included! Don't miss this rare beauty it's move-in ready with quick closing due to job transfer. Buyer to verify school information and square footage. Shown By Appointment Only!
Courtesy: Turf Realty
View additional infoBeautiful 2007 built single story home in Tolleson! Brand new upgraded 12''x24'' tile flooring and picture windows throughout. Eat in kitchen is complete with BIANCO ANTICO GRANITE countertops and nice cabinets. Master suite has plush carpet with ceiling fan and spacious walk in closet. Full bathroom with single sink vanity. Oversized backyard features a patio with separate storage shed. This home is sure to go quick, so come see it today! $214,0003017 S 89TH Drive Tolleson, AZ 85353
Courtesy: Realty ONE Group
View additional infoWelcome home to your rare gem in Hurley Ranch! This Spacious 4 bed 3 full bath home is a perfect place to settle down.If you have a family or just love having guests the 3 extra bedrooms and Jack and Jill bath are perfect. 9 foot ceilings through-out!Custom built in speakers in living room. Tile flooring in all the right places. Neutral paint and flooring through-out. Beautiful kitchen with oak cabinets, Refrigerator is included with sale as-is! White faux wood blinds through-out. Spacious den located right off the main entry. Close to shopping, dining, and entertainment! $226,0003820 S 99TH Drive Tolleson, AZ 85353
Courtesy: Keller Williams Realty Professional Partners
View additional infoCome sprawl out in this spacious, open concept, two story home that boasts designer finishes, walk-in closets in every bedroom, high ceilings, and a professionally landscaped backyard filled with mature shade trees, citrus trees, a raised garden bed, and a tranquil water feature. This community, that is just south of the I10 provides walking paths, parks with playgrounds and ramadas, and is only a few miles from shopping and entertainment! Call today to make this home yours!
Courtesy: Keller Williams Arizona Realty
View additional infoYou'll love this one-owner family home in Lions Gate with 5 bedrooms, 4 baths, den/office, formal dining, upstairs loft & great room in 4022 SqFt. The spacious eat-in kitchen features maple cabinetry, lots of counter space, stainless appliances, butler's pantry & island with breakfast bar. The low maintenance backyard is complete w/covered patio & desert-landscaping. One bedroom & bath downstairs, perfect for guests! The master, 3 bedrooms & laundry room are located upstairs. The spacious master retreat has a private bath w/dual sink vanity, separate tub & shower & large walk-in closet! All bedrooms have walk-in closets! Other features include a 3 car garage, tile & carpet flooring throughout, ceiling fans, workstation nook, water softener & much more! See this great home today!
Courtesy: Mattamy Arizona, LLC
View additional infoThis beautiful home in Caballo Crossing features granite kitchen countertops, upgraded flooring, luxurious separate tub and shower at master, covered patio, and so much more! Ten year structural warranty also included!
Courtesy: Novus America LLC
View additional infoIMMACULATE AND WELL CARED FOR HOME IS WAITING FOR YOU! SPACIOUS BEDROOMS, 2 LIVING ROOMS, A LOFT THAT IS BEING USED AS A HOME OFFICE, ALMOST 2500 SQ FT OF LIVING SPACE! COME SEE IT TODAY BEFORE IT'S GONE AND YOU REGRET IT. TILE IN ALL THE RIGHT PLACES AND A CHEF'S DREAM KITCHEN. DON'T WAIT ANY LONGER!
Courtesy: West USA Realty
View additional infoCountry style living at its' best! Bring your horses, this beautifully manicured acre+ lot plus irrigation is a hard to find gem! Cozy 4 bedroom home features a custom fireplace,updated bathrooms,updated kitchen with granite like countertops! Tile in all the right places. Separate garage/workshop,RV gate and gorgeous mountain views! Your Buyer's will fall in love!
Courtesy: Realty ONE Group
View additional infoThis three-bed, two-bath home backs to a grassy common area and features beautiful green views from a covered back patio! Inside, the kitchen has black appliances, light-tone cabinets, a long breakfast bar, and a pantry, newly installed Granite Counter Tops. The Master suite includes a walk-in closet, upgraded master bath with dual sinks, separate shower with 3 sower heads. The Home also has an office/den, new interior and exterior paint! Other perks include an indoor laundry and two-car garage.
Courtesy: Century 21 Citywide
View additional infoStunning well-kept home in Hurley Ranch! Spacious 4 bedroom 2.5 bath single level home. 9 foot ceilings through-out! Tile flooring in all the right places. Neutral paint and flooring through-out. Beautiful kitchen with espresso cabinets, stainless steel appliances, and large kitchen island. Refrigerator is included with sale as-is! White faux wood blinds through-out. Spacious den located right off the main entry. The backyard features a large covered patio with extended pavers and covered gazebo. Lots of grass for kids to play or pets. Close to shopping, dining, and entertainment!
Courtesy: Realty Executives
View additional infoFreshly painted exterior of single level FOUR bedroom, 2 bath and 2 car garage very well maintained home. Formal living/dining room and big FAMILY room with TV niche. Vaulted ceilings and pot shelves in the kitchen that has separate eat-in area for dinning table. Huge covered patio and big backyard ready for your own landscaping. Master suit with luxurious master bath that has garden tub and separate shower. Travertine Tile all over the home except the bedrooms. Best location close to I10, Costco and Target shopping center.
Courtesy: Pivotal Properties
View additional infoPerfect single level home with 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 2 car garage. This home features a living room, eat-in kitchen, FRESH interior & exterior paint, NEW tile flooring, NEW carpet, and tons of natural light throughout. Kitchen has oak cabinets, NEW black appliances, ample cabinet & counter space, recessed lighting, and a pantry. Master suite has a full bath and a walk-in closet. Secondary bedrooms are spacious with ample closet space. Quaint backyard has a covered patio, paver patio with firepit, and grass. Easy access to I-10 and Loop 101.
Courtesy: Mattamy Arizona, LLC
View additional infoThis beautiful home in Caballo Crossing features granite kitchen countertops, upgraded flooring, luxurious separate tub and shower at master bath, covered patio, and so much more! Ten year structural warranty included!
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TCOM 435 - Cinema Entertainment
Introduces the process required to direct and produce the short digital film. Emphasizes communication with actors and camera blocking. Prerequisite: pre-telecommunications core courses with C (2.0) or better grades in each, and a 2.5 grade-point average for these courses; permission of the instructor. Open only to approved telecommunications majors and minors. College: Commun., Info. and Media Hours: 3 Permission: Y Prerequisite: TCOM 204 Prerequisite: TCOM 206 Prerequisite: TCOM 207 Prerequisite: TCOM 284 Prerequisite: TCOM 208 Prerequisite: TCOM 101 Prerequisite: JOUR 101 Prerequisite: NEWS 109 Prerequisite: NEWS 105 Co-requisite: none |


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METAIRIE, La. (AP) — The NFL has granted permission for Saints coach Sean Payton, general manager Mickey Loomis and assistant head coach Joe Vitt to attend New Orleans' home game Sunday night against San Diego, in which quarterback Drew Brees can break a tie with Johnny Unitas for the NFL record of consecutive regular-season games with a touchdown pass.
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says Brees, tied with Unitas at 47, asked that Payton, Loomis and Vitt be allowed to attend even as they continue to serve suspensions of various lengths in connection with the NFL's bounty investigation. Aiello says the three suspended members of the organization may watch the game from a private area and may not have contact with the team.
Aiello said details were still be worked out about where the trio can watch the game and whether they can watch it together.
Payton, Loomis and Vitt have different suspensions for their roles in a bounty program administered by former defensive coordinator Gregg Williams.Loomis' eight-game suspension and Vitt's six-game punishment began the first week of the season. Payton, meanwhile, has been away from the team since April when his appeal of the suspension was denied by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.Payton is required to tell an NFL official any time he speaks with anyone that works for or with the league, including players and team personnel.
Unitas set the record from 1956 to 1960. Brees tied it Sunday at Green Bay, throwing for three scores.
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This portable oven could be placed on top of the hotplate when needed. Its door contained a glas window for ease of use. The availability and low price of paraffin (kerosene) made portable paraffin cookers like this very popular in the United States and in rural areas of Britain. Made by Veritas-Atmos, Inscription: 'VERITAS-ATMOS BRITISH MADE'. Three-quarter view.
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Moore was pretty good overall, run blocking and pass blocking. He's old now and has some surgery's so his run blocking isn't what it used to be. Slausen has always been better in pass blocking and not very good in the Run.
We saw a big hit to our run game when we lost faneca who couldn't passblock a lick but would still maul in the running game. Greene is an inside runner, and if we had some big powerful guards to go along with mangold in the middle Greene would be very effective.
Greene isn't fast enough to hit the edges consistently, and the kind of power running Rex and Sparano want to run is predicated on one gap running attack right up the gut of the defense.
I agree with this to some degree. I was totally against going into last season with Eric Smith as the seated with Leonhard. Didn't get that at all. You can live with Leonhard back there, but he has to be paired with an athletic safety like Rhodes (before w became a b*tch) or even Landry.
I was OK with Hubter being the starter going into last season, because he did very well filling in for Woody at the end of 2010, but there is no way he should have been given more money the job going into this training camp.
Coming out of the 2010 season, I said te main priority should have been to bring back Mark's weapons: Santonio and Braylon. It didn't look like it would be possible financially at first, but them when no one wanted Braylon, there was no excuse not to bring him back on the cheap, and even less of an excuse NOT to bring him back this year, at least to compete with Hill.
I agree that the Jets personnel decisions make me scratch my head at times. Why are we sitting at $8 mil under the cap right now, when we could have used that money to being in a stud edge rusher like Wimbley, or a RT like Winston?


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Anse Bertrand Wind Statistics, Setembro averages since 2006
The graph describes how commonly and how strongly the wind blows from different directions through a typical September. The largest spokes point in the directions the wind most commonly blows from and the shade of blue suggests the strength, with the darkest shade of blue strongest. It is based on 2400 NWW3 forecasts of wind since since 2006, at 3hr intervals, for the closest NWW3 model node to Anse Bertrand, located 30 km away (19 miles). There are not enough recording stations world wide to use actual wind data. Without question some coastal places have very localized wind effects that would not be predicted by NWW3.
According to the model, the dominant wind at Anse Bertrand blows from the NNE. If the rose diagram shows a close to circular outline, it means there is no strong bias in wind direction at Anse Bertrand. On the other hand, dominant spokes represent favoured directions, and the more deep blue, the stronger the wind. Spokes point in the direction the wind blows from. Over an average September, the model suggests that winds are light enough for the sea to be glassy (light blue) about 5% of the time (2 days each September) and blows offshore 30% of the time (0 days in an average September). During a typical September winds exceeding >40kph (25mph) are not expected, but 0 have winds on the range 30-40 (19-25) at Anse Bertrand
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West African dwarf crocodile Osteolaemus tetraspis
The West African dwarf crocodile is found in freshwater, tropical grassland and tropical rainforest habitats. They prefer slow-moving bodies of water and will dig burrows that often have two passageways near the water's edge.
Diet in the wild
Fish, frogs and crustaceans
Diet at the Zoo
Fascinating Facts
- World's smallest crocodiles
- Live to be 75 years old
- Have taste buds on the roof of their mouth
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(a) On and after the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-one, collectors, haulers and transporters of infectious medical waste who are "common carriers by motor vehicle," as defined in section two, article one, chapter twenty-four-a of this code, shall be regulated by the public service commission in accordance with the provisions of chapter twenty-four-a and rules promulgated thereunder. The rules of the public service commission shall not conflict nor take precedence over the rules promulgated by the secretary.
(b) The commission shall provide a separate and distinct category of special certificates of convenience and necessity for infectious medical waste collectors, haulers and transporters regulated by this section: Provided, That within six months of the effective date of this article, the commission may issue such special certificates to existing common carriers of solid waste who are presently transporting infectious medical waste and who demonstrate that they are in compliance with the provisions of this article: Provided, however, That such common carriers need not make any additional demonstration of public convenience and necessity. Regulation of collectors, haulers and transporters of medical waste shall be separate and distinct from the regulation of solid waste collectors, haulers and transporters provided for in section twenty-three, article three, chapter twenty-two-c of this code.
(c) At any hearing conducted by the public service commission pertaining to infectious medical waste collectors, haulers and transporters, the secretary may appear before the commission and present evidence.
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