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"We're still in the process of confirming this candidate is a planet," said Matthew Holman, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, at a NASA-sponsored news conference on Thursday. Dr. Holman is the lead author of an article describing the discoveries that the journal Science published on its Web site.
This is the first announcement of a candidate Earth-size planet by the Kepler mission, which in March 2009 launched a one-ton spacecraft to search for planets like ours that just might harbor life. The planet was among more than 700 candidate planets that the team announced in June. If it is made of similar stuff as Earth, its mass would be three to four times as much.
Astronomers are quickly closing in on Earth-size planets elsewhere in the galaxy as they find planetary systems that look more and more like our solar system.
"This represents a significant step toward Kepler's goal of determining the frequency of Earth-size planets in the habitable zones of Sun-like stars," Dr. Holman said. Earth-size planets in orbits that are not too hot or too cold are considered the most likely places to look for life elsewhere in the universe.Continue reading the main story
The Kepler team also observed, more definitively, two giant, Saturn-size gas planets around the same star, known as Kepler-9.
On Tuesday, a European team reported what may be a smaller planet, with mass as little as 1.4 times that of Earth, around a star 127 light-years away.
In the 15 years since the first extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star was discovered, astronomers have found close to 500 more. The first were huge gas planets — composed mostly of hydrogen, similar to Jupiter — that orbited extremely close to their stars.
But as detection methods improved, astronomers began to find planets closer in size to Earth and planetary systems that contain nearly as many planets as our solar system.
The Earth-size planet seen by the European astronomers appears to be one of seven circling the star, HD 10180, located in the constellation Hydrus. Christophe Lovis of the University of
They are less certain about the smallest planet. "For this one, we have about 1 percent false alarm possibility," Dr. Lovis said. "For us, 99 percent is just not enough to be completely sure."
The team also tentatively detected a larger, Saturn-size planet farther from the star.
Neither of the slightly-bigger-than-Earth planets is Earth-like or has much chance for anything to live there. Both have orbits very close to their stars that would sear the surfaces. The small Kepler-9 planet completes an orbit in just over a day and a half at a distance of 2.5 million miles from the star. The small HD 10180 planet is even closer and faster, less than two million miles from the star and completing an orbit in about 28 hours. Earth, by contrast, is 93 million miles from the Sun, and its orbit takes 365 days to complete.
"If one particular word can describe planetary systems today, it's 'diverse,' " said Douglas N. C. Lin, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the
To date, most of the extrasolar planets have been found using the technique of the European team, by looking for wobbles in the wavelength of light from the star caused by the back-and-forth gravitational tugging of unseen planets. The discovery of the HD 10180 planets results from six years of observations at the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope in
If the orbits of planets are not edge-on to observers on Earth, the technique underestimates the masses of the planets. Dr. Lovis said that for HD 10180, computer simulations show that for the orbits to be stable, the planets cannot be more than three times the minimum masses calculated.
Some planets have been detected when a star dims momentarily as a planet passes in front. The duration of the dip tells the size of the planet, and the time between the light dips tells the length of the planet's orbit.
The Kepler mission takes that notion and applies it on a grand scale by staring at a patch of sky in the Cygnus and Lyra constellations to continuously observe the brightness of 156,000 stars.
A Kepler scientist, Dimitar Sasselov of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, created a stir last month when he said in a lecture that Kepler had discovered many Earth-like planets. He later said that the candidates had not been confirmed and that he should have said Earth-size, not Earth-like. The Kepler instruments cannot measure atmospheric or geological properties.
So far, the astronomers have seven months of data, and Kepler is scheduled to operate for 3.5 years. Astronomers will soon be able to identify smaller planets farther out, including truly Earth-size planets in orbits that would impart Earth-like temperatures.
"Come back in a couple of years," said William J. Borucki, Kepler's principal investigator, "and we'll give you an answer."Continue reading the main story


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Tuesday, 14 June 2011
The perfect plant pot
I don't know what it is about this one that I love, it just seems to have the perfect proportions and has been ideal for one of my bonsai experiments on echeveria minima. It came with a cutting from a friend and was so much better than the little take out coffee cups I was using for my seedlings.
Not all pots fit in the tasteful category and novelty pots are everywhere. So far I have managed to mainly avoid them but I do have two that go with my African 'garden tat'. This one is the hippo and currently has an flowering echeveria john catlin on its back.
Moving swiftly on, the thing about the perfect pot, is finding a pot that works for the plant and in the location. How often do you see something that looks amazing only to know it wouldn't work for you. Pots more than anything need to fit in with the garden. I have shown these painted pots before, I loved them this garden in Morocco, but they would never work for me.
One other thing about pots is that they don't have to be filled to be part of the garden. The friend that gave me the little pot has a great used pots pile. She has the most amazing garden full of different sections with hidden bits, I will have to do a post on it at some point soon. Last time I was there I took some photos of the behinds the scenes areas and one of those was this pots pile:
She is very embarrassed about it, sorry Mel, but I think it's great. Apart from looking good, I imagine it is an ideal wildlife refuge. Most of the pots are broken and are stored here until they are given a new life in a mosaic style wall somewhere in their garden.
I doubt having all my plants in fancy pots would make them more acceptable to my OH, so for now I do not need to expand my search for pots. No doubt I will continue to keep an eye out whenever I visit a nursery as you never know when you will find that perfect pot.
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I had a conversation the other day with a fellow garden blogger who said that if the word "pot" was in a post title then that post was guaranteed to be traffic generator, and not for the right reasons. Here's hoping you see record traffic today and some of these people are "real" gardeners who like what they see and come back to visit regularly!ReplyDelete
I hadn't thought of that. I wonder if the addition of the word plant will help cut it down. Although I doubt it.ReplyDelete
I really like that hippo pot. I am into the unusual pots! And I never really thought of the post name either. I may have to do a pot post! LOLReplyDelete
I have a water buffalo pot that goes with the hippo but that is it for my unusual pots. I resisted from getting the elephant and warthog ones as well.ReplyDelete
That hippo is completely charming. And tell Mel her pot stash--uh, clay pot stash--is admired as far away as California. It's delightful!ReplyDelete
I'm migrating to identical low terra cotta bowls for all my succulents, to give a uniformity to the anarchy. And because they are cheap (probably the more important factor).
I'll pass on the message to Mel. Having the majority of your plants in one style of pot does make for a less confused look.ReplyDelete

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Master of Business Administration
|The focus of the MBA program at Arkansas Tech University is to prepare you for a business career with the information analysis and executive decision making skills needed in today's fast-paced business world. If you are interested in enhancing your business or non-business career or are looking at a position of responsibility with your current employer, you may be interested in applying to this program.
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The difference you find in the Tech MBA program compared to many others is its focus on the analysis and decision making skills that you will learn. Each course is designed to help you improve your ability to analyze information, not just "crunch numbers". Employers today are interested in people who can look at data and help the company make the best decisions possible in a competitive business environment.
Program Prerequisites
Students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the course areas listed below whether they are admitted unconditionally or conditionally to the MBA degree program. Proficiency can be demonstrated by:
- Courses from an accredited university corresponding with those listed below; or
- Certification of proficiency from an approved source for each of the areas listed below; or
- A combination of 1 and 2 above.
Required Prerequisite Courses
- Principles of Accounting I & II,
- Principles of Economics I & II,
- Business Finance, and
- Business Statistics.
Unconditional Admission Requirements:
Students are eligible to apply for unconditional admission to the MBA degree program if they meet the following:
- Admission Requirements for the Graduate College
- Students will also be required to meet one of the following standards:
- A 3.50 GPA from an AACSB or ACBSP accredited business undergraduate program; or
- A score of 1,000 using the formula [GMAT + 200*GPA = 1,000] with a minimum GPA of 2.50 and a minimum GMAT of 450. A GMAT test score must be taken within the last five (5) years; or
- A score of 1,000 using the formula [GRE (combined verbal & quantitative scores) + 255*GPA] with a minimum GPA of 2.50 and a minimum combined GRE score equivalent to GMAT of 450. Please check the link at ETS website for the conversion: ETS Conversion Chart. A GRE test score must be taken within the last five (5) years.
Conditional Admission
Applicants not meeting the grade point requirement specified for unconditional admission may be admitted conditionally to enroll for a maximum of six (6) credits per semester. If a student was admitted conditionally based on grade point average, the condition will be met if upon completion of twelve (12) semester hours a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or better is achieved, and all the requirements for unconditional admission have been met, including GRE or GMAT exam scores that are stated above. A GRE or GMAT test score must be submitted prior to or upon completion of six (6) credit semester hours.
Students may be admitted conditionally if they have met the following requirements:
- Admission Requirements for the Graduate College;
- Students with a GPA below 2.50 from an accredited undergraduate program using all earned hours may earn conditional admission status if they score at least 1,000 on either of the above described formulas; or
- Approval from the College of Business Admissions Committee.
Degree Requirements
The thirty (30) hours of courses for students in this program include the following:
- ACCT 6103: Accounting Analysis
- BUAD 6103: Research Methods
- BUAD 6203: Business Information Analysis
- BUAD 6903: Industry Analysis
- ECON 6103: Managerial Economics
- FIN 6103: Corporate Financial Management
- MGMT 6103: Organizational Management & Leadership
- MGMT 6203: Decision Modeling
- MGMT 6903: Corporate Strategic Management
- MKT 6103: Strategic Marketing Management
Accredited by AACSB
The Arkansas Tech University College of Business is accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. AACSB International is the premier accrediting agency for business schools, stressing academic excellence and a commitment to continuous improvement. It also represents the highest standard of achievement for business schools worldwide. Fewer than 20% of the business schools in the world achieve AACSB accreditation.
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The Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake are always happy to support youth education in our region in whatever way possible. In addition to our scholarships and in-house educational programs, we've assisted a few more initiatives, all with the goal of boosting the educational potential of our youngest tribal members, as well as our local friends and neighbors.
We're proud to announce our latest gift, a $1,000 donation to Ms. Canela's 7th grade science class at ULMS. We learned of the class' need through tribal youth Madeline Young, who drafted a letter formally requesting the funds so that all members of her class would be able to participate in fun and challenging scientific experiments. The decision to help out was an easy one.
Once approved by the Tribal Council, Executive Council Vice Chairperson Arroyo personally awarded the check to Ms. Canela and Madeline, setting the class forward on their journeys of discovery.
Our Executive Council is always receptive to the needs of the community, especially when our children are involved. It is a point of pride for the Habematolel Pomo that we are able to provide help to those who need it. When it comes to the education of the youth of our tribe and the Upper Lake area as a whole, we consider ourselves fortunate to have the ability to lend a helping hand. When there's an opportunity to help bolster the future of our community, the choice to help out is an easy one.
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Strawberries! Sungolds! Cilantro!
Hi Farm Towners –
This will not be an elaborate newsletter, because the only thing I really need to tell you about is the strawberries. All of the strawberries. The stacks & stacks of beautifuljuicysweet quarts we'll have at market this Tuesday. And here's shareholder Lucy last year showing us exactly what to do with one of those perfect strawberries.
Check out these recipes for Spinach, Strawberry, and Maple-Nut Salad and Simple Strawberry Jam, which are also available on cardstock at the market.
Some years we have flats of strawberries available wholesale for all of you jam-makers and berry-freezers, and some years we don't. This is an exceptional strawberry season, and we are happy to say we'll have flats available at market (8 quarts for $45). Please email, call, or text us if you would like us to hold one or more flats for you. 413 262 5489. We'll probably have flats available next week as well, but no guarantees. We could probably also arrange to have you pick up a flat or two on Friday, at least for a few of you.
Hey 2012 shareholders, our first pick-up is Friday, June 8th. We can't wait! Lots more details will be in next week's newsletter. Come to market this week, remind us that you're a shareholder, and we'll give you a beautiful head of lettuce, a wee-tiny portion of the bounty that is to come (plus your 10% discount on anything else, of course).
Here's what we'll have at market this week:
ASPARAGUS (last of the season, come early)
SUNGOLD CHERRY TOMATOES! (yes, the real thing, from our high tunnel)
HEAD LETTUCE (gorgeous & plentiful)
CARROTS (so good!)
BEETS (real ones, not just the little babies like last week, though we'll have those too)
RADISHES (lots & lots – this is their moment)
Our SALAD MIX is done for the spring and summer. We'll have it again in the fall. Lots of great salad greens (arugula, lettuce, spinach) are still available, but if you're jonesing for a ready-made salad mix, it doesn't get better than what they grow over at Old Friends Farm.
Here's the ad-hoc recipe for the Raw Bok Choi Salad With Asian Dressing that Oona made tonight: Chop one head of bok choi into thin strips. Add a couple teaspoons of brown rice vinegar, a couple teaspoons of tamari, a half-teaspoon of toasted sesame oil, a couple teaspons of a neutral oil, and sprinkle some toasted sesame seeds on top. Add chopped cilantro or scallions if you like. Simple, tender, flavorful. Utterly delicious.
Friends, please consider making a dessert for next week's Strawberry Dessert Party at Tuesday Market. Bring the dessert and a card with your recipe on it by 3:30 pm (or drop off earlier). The market will provide paper plates, forks, napkins, and whipped cream. Dessert will be served for donations of $4-6 that will go directly to the FoodStampsX2 program at Tuesday Market. More details can be found in the Tuesday Market newsletter. Let us know if you have any questions or want to tall us what you plan to bring.
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We supply and install Bio Access Control, it essence is to restrict entry into certain departments, offices, rooms etc. It is easy to operate and supports (5) five types of identification modes, the configuration modes include; Fingerprint, Fingerprint + Password, Fingerprint + Card, Card + Password and Fingerprint + Card + Password.
It has various alarm functions for door including alarm for Overtime Opening, Alarm for Illegal Opening, and Alarm for Tamper Resistance.
Moreover the top surface of the fingerprint sensors is fully scratch resistant, you cannot scratch it even with blade, a paper, pin or mail. How unique.
The Access Control (Time & Attendance) is another type the records time of entry by employees, visitors etc. This supports the H.R department and others for monitory and evaluation, payroll preparation etc.
Application Areas
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It burns me up when service that you pay for it like this. I hope you didn't leave any tip!
I LOVE the 2 patterned dress! I know it was a gift...but do you know where it was bought?
These folks at that bar deserve a bad review! Good for you--putting it out there! Lovely dresses---both of you! I didn't don a dress, but I did do heels with a skirt--and included the belted waist--which I stole from the inspiration photo. :) Have a fab Monday! Thanks for this great link-up party! T. http://tickledpinkwoman.blogspot.comReplyDelete
y'all are making me want to wear dresses!! and that guy is ridiculous!! it's his job and it is not big deal. not as quick as swiping but so what??ReplyDelete
You both look great. I would have so got the manger and complained.ReplyDelete
That's an unfortunate experience. And too often unavoidable. On the plus side, these dresses are beautiful!ReplyDelete
Ugh, so rude! I hope you go on Yelp and write the review there as well so people are warned!
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Service: not so great... Outfits: Adorable!ReplyDelete
Such a great inspiration shot! Love both outfits!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh - we had a similar experience the last time we went to Town Hall Brewery - owned by the same people - so yeah, definitely not going to go to either place now! It's too bad, they have good beer, lol.
Love both of your dresses!
I love the first dress- the two patterns look so cool!ReplyDelete
Ugh! Rude! How annoying! Sorry you had a bad experience, but it sounds like you kept your cool and enjoyed your company. Such a bummer when that happens!ReplyDelete
Ugh, I hate bad service! Even if it is difficult to manually enter the digits on their machine, he didn't need to give you a hard time about it and should have done it with a smile. What a jerk!
On a happier note, you both look great. Megan, you look sexy in that getup and Nora, I might have to steal that dress.... I spy some birds....
ladies, you both look amazing. reminds me to wear my yellow sandals too. Long legs, woot woot. Ugh rude waiter, i wonder what happen after he told you how hard it was to do it manually. I will totally snap at him and call the manager.
Such a bummer about that place. I've been wanting to check it out for a while. Guess I will have the rethink that. Womp.
Lookin' pretty per usual, gals. :)
WHOA! Customer service FAIL! Boooo and hiss!
But two hot chicas! Love both dresses!
Wow! Sorry you had a sucky waiter. I love the double print wrap dress, so cute! :-) The yellow wedges really stands out with Nora's dress. :-)
Oooooh, ronchy dude! I love how boycotting works. ya.
Your dresses are darling, both of them. Ya, yeast infection in my GI tract, glorious. no energy. sleep a lot. crud. Thanks for your love and attention.
I used to be a waitress, so I get super annoyed when I don't get great service. Don't they know that they're getting tipped to be personable?! Cute dresses though on both of you. :)ReplyDelete
What a rude server!!!!
Oooh sexy dress Megan, it is really stylish! I love your cute dress Nora-fun take on this x
Such cute outfits you two! I love them both. Nora, I thought that was a romper at first. That was really terrible service. Maybe he hates his job and is hoping to be fired. I was out last night with my parents for a Father's Day dinner and we had the most excellent service. When that happens and I can see how hard they are working and yet still being nice and helpful I am going to be inclined to tip well, not to mention offer compliments and spread the word on how enjoyable my experience was.ReplyDelete
Very nice summery dress! I love the patterns on both. It sucks that you had such a bad experience there. I've been there before and haven't had a bad experience, but i'll definitely think twice before going back. You'd think the waiter wouldn't have a problem entering the digits I mean he want's to get paid right? How rude.ReplyDelete
Oh, my ladies you look so gorgeous in these wonderful summer dresses. Summer is all about skirts and dresses. Love patterns on both of your dresses.
I'm sorry to hear that you had a such a bad experience. I don't understand why people should be so rude. If you don't like your job you can always leave. I would never return as well. Why should.
xoxo Ra
Love the dresses, Dress number one is a dead ringer. Both patterns are fab. Sorry your happy hour was happier..urge!
XX, Elle
That is horrible! It's really easy to manually enter a card number, I do it at the hotel all the time!
I love the dress Meg, and Nora those shoes are fabulous!


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Friday, 22 November 2013
Art Fun For Fridays - Creating Comics
For this Friday have fun creating a comic strip at Make Beliefs Comix. An added bonus, you can print and email your finished comics.
The site also offers a ton of free printables, including art themed ones like the image below.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Today's Artistic Inspiration - Alphonse Mucha
Friday, 1 November 2013
Homemade Spider and Victim Outdoor Halloween Decorations
I hope everyone had a spooktacular Halloween yesterday. This year I decided try going beyond just carving a jack-o-lantern, and ended up making a creepy spider along with a person (an unlucky trick or treater?) caught in the web. I was able to create everything using items that I already had laying around the house as well as some materials that would normally end up in the recycle bin. Overall I only had to spend a total of $2.50 on cobwebs! It was awesome to see trick or treaters taking pictures of everything and I've already started to think of ideas for next year.
Here are a few pics:
You can just barely make out the spider egg tucked in the rafters above the spider
You can see my big grinned jack-o-lantern in the background
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Today we remember those who gave their lives so we could enjoy freedom. We will never forget their sacrifice or the ones their families have made! I'm never more aware of that than when I'm visiting my grandfather's grave at Arlington National Cemetery. Each time I've been there I've seen various families paying their respects and it's made me all the more grateful that there are brave American men and women willing to put their lives on the line for us and the red, white and blue!
And since we love this beautiful country of ours so very much, we find ourselves styling red, white and blue together often…especially in the summer. In fact, this flag tank that I wore last summer will be getting plenty of play this year as well. We couldn't be more proud of our great country. It's still great y'all! Never forget that.
As you can probably tell, I love sporting my American pride in fashion form! And there are so many ways you can wear red, white and blue together. Considering the Fourth of July will be here before we know it, I thought I would round up some of my favorite red, white and blue tanks. Not that you need a holiday to wear our colors. I got the one I'm wearing at Tipsy Elves last year and there are a few more over that are calling my name right now! I daresay they'll find themselves worked into the rotation as much as my flag tank!
And now that you've seen my patriotic style, we would love to see you join us, Momtrends and Oh to Be a Muse by linking up one of your favorite style posts! You can find the link up at Momtrends this week. Make sure you check out Cheryl's look over at Oh to Be a Muse too. She's sporting some seriously cute beach side chic!
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Do you know someone who loves to complain? Or do you wine a lot for wine?! Then you need this Grimm black apron that features a white outlined text graphic of "I WINE A LOT" printed across the front with "IT MAKES ME FEEL BETTER" printed in a smaller solid text right below. Mini white graphic print of a registered Grimm logo underneath the main text. Top straps are adjustable - you can change the length by adjusting the straps around two metal D rings. Long middle straps tie up in back, and they may be long enough to tie up in the front after wrapping around the back. Large open front pocket with small Grimm logo patch sewn on the top center. Made of 100% Cotton. Great for cooking and cleaning with a large glass! ;) LOL
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There are a lot of guilty feelings in the "Broken Dolls" episode of "Arrow," as two families face their own failings. Moira tries to find peace, Lance fights an old nemesis, and Laurel takes her anger out on Arrow as he tangles with both a serial killer and a new vigilante.
The No-Win Scenario
We left Arrow with a vengeful Laurel and a roomful of guns pointed straight at him. This is the perfect time for Roy's mysterious blonde savior to jump in. She's got a sonic device that incapacitates the police long enough for both of them to escape. Oliver asks why she's helping him, but she disappears into the shadows without answering.
Hero's Mission
Another fabulous side effect of the earthquake was that it released a few maximum security prisoners, including a serial killer who uses a lethal polymer drink to make dolls out of his victims. Officer Lance is banned from assisting on the manhunt, even though he originally captured the Dollmaker. It was his first big case after the death of his daughter, and he added each young woman's death to the overwhelming guilt he was already feeling.
[Related: 'Arrow' Star Paul Blackthorne on the 'Odd Couple' Relationship Between Lance and the Hood]
Desperate times call for help from Arrow. Using Felicity as bait, they smoke out the killer, but our hero's non-lethal methods allow another escape. Before you can ask "Why isn't Laurel in protective custody?" the Dollmaker has kidnapped her, forcing Lance to watch as he begins to turn his daughter into another dead doll. Just in time, Arrow swings in for the rescue, but there's no arresting the killer this time. The blonde vigilante turns up to play judge, jury, and executioner.
Arrow's New Friend ... or Enemy?
Arrow sends Roy out to discover where the blonde is hiding out, and we can't help noticing that all the guys are a little fixated on the "hot woman in leather" thing. Roy chases down Sin, an associate of the vigilante, and nearly gets himself killed by his former rescuer. Luckily she's busy tracking down misogynistic villains, and he gets a pass.
A hooded figure later shows up in her lair, but it's not the one we know. It's an emissary of Ra's Al Ghul, whom you may know from the "Batman" universe. Apparently the big boss wants our blonde back home, but she decides it's the right time to kill the messenger instead. She's as ruthless as Arrow used to be, but is she a hero waiting to happen or a villain in the making?
[Related: 'Arrow' Books 'Firefly' Star Sean Maher in Villainous Role]
Family Drama
After her near-death experience, Laurel is overwhelmed that Arrow would still come to her rescue. She's forced to face the fact that some of her father's earlier psychoanalysis was right, that she was taking her own guilt out on the vigilante. She confesses that her pig-headed refusal to leave the Glades on the night of the earthquake is what brought Tommy to her rescue, and caused his death.
Meanwhile, Thea Queen is suffering, seeing her mother in prison and facing a life sentence. Turns out it's much worse than that, as the DA announces in court that he's looking for the death penalty. Oliver promises his sis and mom that he'll get her out of this somehow, but Moira's pretty calm about paying the piper for her part in the Glades massacre. She tells her lawyer that her concern is about what will come out in the trial, and how certain revelations could break her family apart again.
Flashback Lesson
Slade and Ollie head to higher ground to look for their new enemies, while Shado stays in the plane to examine one of the freaky deformed skeletons. The guys are having their usual argument about attachments making you weak, when Slade slips and nearly tumbles off of a cliff. Good thing that emotional softie is there to save him, right?
[Related: 'Arrow's' Colton Haynes: Will Arrow and Roy's Partnership Work?]
Unfortunately, no sooner do they spot a giant freighter off-shore than they see it launching missiles at their base camp. Slade and Oliver rush back to save Shado, arriving just in time to get themselves blown up. Slade's facing some serious burns if he survives, and Oliver gets knocked out by the blast. He wakes up in a prison cell...in the belly of that mysterious freighter.
Maybe Slade was right about that whole emotional attachment thing after all.
"Arrow" airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.


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Am I Educated?October 7, 2007
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All the stuff I have writtenOctober 3, 2007
This is a new blog where I have given links to al the stuff I have written on the web.
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Learn PashtoJuly 17, 2007
Recently, I learnt that many people in the world are interested in learning language. It was a great discovery for me, as Pashto is my beloved language and the moment I learnt the fact, I started to contribute what I can.
We are working to launch a website where we will post information and related articles, news etc written in Pashto with English translation and audio format.
Currently we have created a weblog to see how it works. Suggestions, comments and help is welcomed.
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How To Learn A Foreign LanguageMarch 6, 2007
I have never gone to any school. Just a few years study in some madrassahs is my education. Before going to madrassah, my father had taught me alphabets and how to join them to make words. When I was able to read books, I started to read every thing. A book, a newspaper, a magazine and I wrote a lot of them. I used to write fifty pages a day to make my writing fast and good. That is why I wrote all my notes of Arabic grammar books myself and other students copied them from me.
I left madrassah in 1996 and went to Lahore in search of some work. People were speaking Urdu there and it was my first time to hear Urdu. I found a Pashtoon friend there who taught me basic Urdu words and general sentences and then I started to read and read and read Urdu books, newspapers, magazines, digests and then wrote them on blank papers. In less than a year, I learned the language fluently by reading, writing and speaking with some good experience in Punjabi.
In 1998 my first Pashto article published in a bimonthly Pashto and Urdu magazine called "Qabayal''.
I think to learn Urdu was easy for me because I was in Lahore where all the people were speaking this language. To learn a foreign language becomes difficult when you don't find any one to speak with your practicing language. And it was the case with me when I started to learn English.
English was not a language to be learned in the madrassahs I have lived in. But when I was able to read and write in Urdu, I found for the first time that English is very necessary language to be learned. So one day, I went to the bazaar and bought a dictionary, some grammar and a few storybooks with Urdu translation and started my new journey from zero in 2001.
A Chinese wise man has said that to reach your goal just need a start. I started it and read and read and read and then write it to memorize.
Today, my English is not so good and there are numerous websites and sources to learn English in like http://www.englishclub.com, http://www.mylanguageexchange.com, BBC Learning English and others where you can learn so much but it is my first hand experience that read and write and listen as much as you can. Practice makes man perfect. Listen radio programmes of the language your practicing in and speak to some one who is fluent in it.
If you are learning Pashto or Urdu languages, then we can learn it with the help of each other.


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Remembering my story-teller daughter. She was born 47 years ago and God let me have her for 31 of those years. Eva-Marie would have loved to work with me on the stories I publish here.
Honoring her memory, here are two new stories:
In Any-Time Stories: The boy who knew how to wait
In Stories for Children: Bruce and the Sad Young Man


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From all-creatures.org
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Moving people toward compassionate living
Your letters and calls do help!
|Originally Posted: 11 November 2009
Help Animals Suffering in University of Utah Laboratories
FROM People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Urge the University of Utah to stop taking advantage of the animal overpopulation crisis and stop acquiring animals from shelters that they torture in their labs.
Sign an online petition
And/Or better yet, make direct contact:
Thomas N. Parks, Ph.D.
I was shocked to learn about the painful experiments conducted on homeless dogs and cats as well as monkeys, rats, mice, rabbits, and other animals inside University of Utah laboratories.
I was especially upset to learn that the university exploits the victims of the animal homelessness crisis and buys cats and dogs from animal shelters for use in cruel and deadly experiments. I urge you to sever your unsavory ties with these shelters immediately and permanently end the practice of using shelter animals, who are awaiting a second chance at life, for any purpose in the university's laboratories.
I know that many others were appalled to learn about what goes on at the university, and as a taxpayer I further request that you implement steps to ensure greater transparency of all the university's publicly funded animal experiments by publishing experimental protocols, veterinary records, and minutes of the university's laboratory oversight committee meetings on its Web site.
Thank you for everything you do for animals!


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Fundlaunch is a quick summary of notable fund launches for startups.
CoCreate Ventures Raises Rs 15 Cr to Support Startups on Shaky Grounds
A new venture capital called CoCreate Ventures has been launched by TeliBrahma founder Suresh Narasimha and former partner at Ojas Ventures Pavan Krishnamurthy to assist struggling startups. The firm has raised Rs 15 crore from a group of HNIs. The new fund is looking for startups working in areas of healthcare, wellness, education and social awareness, which are going through a pivot, turnaround or spin off. Read More
Igate Co-Founder Ashok Trivedi Floats $500M Family Office
Igate co-founder Ashok Trivedi has floated the Trivedi Family Office with a corpus of $500 million. The fund will be deployed in a diversified portfolio, with a majority portion reportedly set to be invested in early stage technology firms. Trivedi has specified artificial intelligence, enterprise software and biosciences as the sectors with the biggest scope. Read More
Exfinity Venture Partners Closes $45M in Second Fund
Exfinity Venture Partners has closed its second fund at Rs300 crore from a group of family offices, industrial houses and HNIs. The fund would be deployed in startups in the areas of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, big data analytics, cyber technology, Internet of things and mobile technology over a time period of seven years. Read More
Tamil Nadu Government to Set Up Rs 200 Cr Amma Venture Capital Fund
Tamil Nadu Government is setting up 'Amma Venture Capital Fund' with a corpus of Rs 200 crore, in order to boost entrepreneurship in the state. The fund will receive backing from the central government. And the investments through it would be made in both equity and debt forms. Read More
Microsoft Ventures Sets Up New Fund of AI Startups
Microsoft Ventures has set up a new fund for startups focused on artificial intelligence. The size of the new fund hasn't been disclosed. It has made its first investment through the fund in a Montreal based startup called Element AI. Read More
Amicus Capital Raises $90M for its Growth Capital Venture Fund
Growth capital private equity fund, Amicus Capital, has secured $90 million as first close of its $200 million fund. The fund will look at acquiring minority stakes of 20-49% in companies through investment in companies operating in sectors of – healthcare, technology and business services, financial services, and consumer and leisure companies that have at least Rs40 crore revenue. Read More
HealthTech Firm CitiusTech Sets Up Healthcare Innovation Fund with SINE IIT Bombay
HealthTech firm Citius Tech has launched a Healthcare Innovation Fund in partnership with SINE- Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT Bombay. The size of the fund hasn't been disclosed, however it has been announced that it would be invested over a period of 5 years. Read More


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Faculty and Staff
Juan Ramos
School: ext. 138
Leslie Richardson
Director of Preschool–2nd Grade
School: ext. 107
Nicole Robinson
3rd-grade Lead Teacher
School: ext. 132
Erik Romano
Science Associate Teacher
School: ext. 108
Soraya Saeed
Pre-Kindergarten Associate Teacher, ELC After-school Coordinator
Courtney Samuelson
2nd-grade Lead Teacher
School: ext. 125
Michael Shin
1st-grade Lead Teacher
School: ext. 123
Ben Smith
4th-grade Co-Teacher
School: ext. 126/131
Taylor Stevens
Kindergarten Associate Teacher
School: ext. 120
Lauren Stronczek
Pre-Kindergarten Lead Teacher
Amanda Tachis
Class of 2003
2nd-grade Lead Teacher
School: ext. 122
Tanner Taylor
2nd-grade Associate Teacher
School: ext. 122
Nicole Theriault
Pre-Kindergarten Lead Teacher, ELC Program Coordinator
Ben Thomasian
Network and Systems Manager
School: ext. 127
Margie Tully
Kindergarten Lead Teacher
School: ext. 120
Jon Wheatley
After-school Program Associate
School: ext. 148
Karen Wolfe
5th-grade Co-Teacher
School: ext. 116/119
Lane Young
Director of Educational Technology
School: ext. 149
Teaching Standards
PBS looks for teachers who:
- Model our core values.
- Live by our mission.
- Deliver the curriculum in collaboration with our colleagues.
- Challenge students academically.
- Draw out the joy, creativity, and social development of each student.
- Uphold our Teaching Standards.
Teaching Standards
- I will create a safe and dynamic learning environment where students seek knowledge. Interest and participation will be sustained by meeting individual needs through the use of a variety of teaching techniques.
- I will provide opportunities for students to have a voice in their own learning thereby fostering intrinsic motivation and helping students to develop an understanding of themselves as learners.
- I will support the needs of varied learners in the classroom by promoting constructivism, integration and differentiation. I will support different learning styles and abilities and anticipate student needs.
- I will promote the character development of each student. I understand what children's social relationships look like at my grade level. I help students develop positive relationships with peers and adults, and I help children learn to navigate their ever-changing social worlds with age-appropriate kindness and respect.
- I understand the mission and policies of PBS, and when questions or concerns arise, I confer with colleagues and administrators to identify and solve student curricular and school problems.
- I will respect each student and establish positive relationships.
- I am familiar with our learning continuum. I am able to converse easily about the continuum and where my individual students are on that continuum.
Learning Environment
- I will create a classroom that is caring, inclusive and challenging. It will be supportive of different learning styles and abilities.
- I will help students to assume ownership, responsibility and accountability for learning.
- I will use a variety of resources and teaching methods to enhance student learning.
- I will make learning visible in the environment through documentation.
- I create safe places for children to take intellectual and emotional risks, where students can develop confidence and positive self-esteem.
Family Partnerships
Professional Practice
- I am committed to professional development and stay abreast of current research in pedagogy.
- I have knowledge appropriate for my teaching and self monitor to identify and solve problems.
- I support and promote the mission of our school and model our core values.
- I respect, value and collaborate with my colleagues and adhere to professional standards.
- I am a life long learner and constantly reevaluate my teaching practice and curriculum. I strive to be the most effective teacher I can be.
- I work to design and implement curriculum to support our program and mission.
- I will model integrity, kindness and respect for all persons both in and out of the workplace.
- I understand the importance of clearly established classroom routines and effectively utilized management systems.
- I will always use a tone of voice that communicates respect for all and never show anger or sarcasm.
Faculty–Staff Teams
Teaching Teams
|Lead: Stephanie Hall-Koester
Associate: Marcelino Perez
|Zac Oldenburg, ELC Learning Specialist and Floater
|Lead: Nicole Theriault (ELC Program Coordinator)
Associate: Soraya Saeed (ELC After-school Coordinator)
|Lead: Lauren Stronczek
Associate: Cristina Floriani
|Lead: Kitri Cook
Co-teacher: Ariel Petersen
|Lead: Margie Tully
Associate: Taylor Stevens
|1st Grade
|Lead: Michael Shin
Associate: Farah Faruqi
|Lead: Dana Doolin
Associate: Andrew Cruz
|2nd Grade
|Lead: Amanda Tachis
Associate: Tanner Taylor
|Lead: Courtney Samuelson
Associate: Bryanna Acosta
|3rd Grade
|Lead: Nicole Robinson
Associate: Dana Kilsby
|Lead: Karen Kridel
Associate: Dana Kilsby
|4th Grade
|Lead: Aracely Diaz
Co-teacher: Ben Smith
|Lead: Phoebe Mauricio
Co-teacher: Ben Smith
|5th Grade
|Lead: Jimmy Gerrity
Co-teacher: Karen Wolfe
|Lead: Jackie Haas
Co-teacher: Karen Wolfe
Specialists and Faculty Support
|Music: Michael Barbarino
Visual Art: Keriann Armusewicz
|Maeve Knoth
|Physical Education
|Stan Drake and Dave Jackson
|Lead: Barby Little
Associate: Erik Romano
Consultant: Lisa Detloff
|Sara Englis
|Support Team
|Director of Emotional Intelligence: Sarah D. Hraha
ELC Learning Specialist: Zac Oldenburg
K–2 Learning Specialist (part-time): Lea Rice
3–5 Learning Specialist (part-time): Amy Torre
Middle School Placement Consultant: Lisa Busby
K–5 After-school Associate (part-time): Jon Wheatley
Administration & Staff
|Administrative Team
|Head of School: Scott Erickson
Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategy: Olana Khan
Director of Admission: Meeta Gaitonde
Director of Finance: Kim Normington
Director of Preschool – 2nd Grade: Leslie Richardson
Director of 3rd–5th Grades and Specialists: Jordan McCarthy
Executive Assistant to the Head of School and Office Manager: Lisa Boulger
|Advancement Team
|Assistant Head of School for Advancement and Strategy: Olana Khan
Director of Admission: Meeta Gaitonde
Admission Associate: Michelle Fleming
Director of Annual and Leadership Giving: Elizabeth Leep
Director of Marketing and Communications: Michael Lavigne Jr.
Coordinator of After-school and Summer Programs: Mik Tan
|Business Team
Director of Finance: Kim Normington
|Facilities Team
|Director of Facilities: Chuck Adams
Facilities Associate: D.J. Brandt
|Technology Team
|Director of Educational Technology: Lane Young
Network and Systems Manager: Ben Thomasian
Technology Associate: Ashley Jenkins


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Dian Thomas

Dian Thomas is a columnist with Deseret News, where she writes for the Family Life section. She is the author of 19 books including "Roughing it Easy," which was a New York Times best-seller. Her appearance on the NBC's Tonight Show with Johnny Carson propelled her into the national media scene, where she became a regular on NBC's Today Show for eight years.

Dian was raised in the Manti-La Sal National Forest in southeastern Utah, where her father was the forest ranger. She holds a master's degree from Brigham Young University. She has traveled worldwide and is now a tour leader specializing in trips to China, Vietnam and Thailand.


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Proetta & Oliver, practices personal injury, criminal, DWI and municipal defense in Middlesex County, New Jersey. We provide our full attention and focus to clients facing a wide range of disorderly persons offenses, indictable charges, and motor vehicle offenses. Led by attorney William Proetta, the firm offers clients the experience and poise typical at big firms, but with the individual client service of a smaller office.
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Improving Health
Commending staff who have a Healthy Working Lives idea or have implemented an initiative to improve healthy eating, smoking cessation or improving mental health.
Concerned about the levels of obesity in their patients, Rachel Bruce, lead pharmacist, and Chrissie Roy, a pra...
Concerned about the levels of obesity in their patients, Rachel Bruce, lead pharmacist, and Chrissie Roy, a practice nurse, came up with an innovative way to encourage patients from their GP practice to become more active.
Already well aware of the significant benefits of exercise for health and well being for those with chronic disease, Rachel and Chrissie undertook a review of their prescribing 'activity' for Type 2 diabetes and hypertensive's.
However, for a GP practice getting one inactive patient to meet the recommended activity levels, doctors need to advise 12 patients.
And given that healthcare professionals have an average of 4 hours in a year to have an influence on patients, they were finding it difficult to effect any change and were disheartened by having the same unproductive discussion with patients' year on year.
They initiated discussions with their local Health Improvement Team and Glasgow Life/Live Active and decided to set up a walking group.
Five patients turned up for the first initial walk on a cold day in December! It has now grown from strength to strength with up to 20 patients taking part in a 12 week programme.
For two extremely busy members of staff to find the time to set this up and keep up with momentum when success did not come initially, is highly admirable!
The service aims to meet the immediate needs of vulnerable families by providing them with the tools and skills the...
The service aims to meet the immediate needs of vulnerable families by providing them with the tools and skills they need to support themselves in the long term; financially, practically and emotionally.
Learning from previous research and work carried out by the Macmillan Improving the Cancer Journey project in Glasgow City, a needs assessment is undertaken with parents/carers who have high levels of vulnerability due to gaps in service provision.
Before the Family Support and Information centre, services were available to look at immediate need and associated finance help was available to cover basic costs. However, there was no follow through with clients from services to ensure the sustainability of the support to look at wider needs.
The new improved needs assessment started last April with 156 assessments carried out within one year. This model has now been adapted and is being rolled out across our other hospitals
Life as a carer can be very lonely, but when you, or the person you are caring for also has a problem with alcohol ...
Life as a carer can be very lonely, but when you, or the person you are caring for also has a problem with alcohol issues, the feelings of isolation can be even greater.
The SEARCH project – Support and Education for Alcohol Related Challenges in the Home - brings together Carers of West Dunbartonshire and the local HSCP's Addiction Services, for what is believed to be a unique service in the UK, focussing on this particular area of need.
The project offers carers a range of support including one to one support, group sessions, respite/short breaks, carer outings, emotional support, money and legal advice and training and wellbeing.
One carer told us: "The SEARCH project has been really terrific. Alcohol and drugs issues are often not spoken about but this brings it into the open and I feel I can unload. We need to tell people there is help there if they need it."
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Love & Listen
The Real Surprise
It wasn't all about the fish
Our first introduction to New Wave makes us feel superhuman — it's unlike anything we've ever heard.
Jessie and I were 5th grade loves. We were classmates at Yardville Elementary School in small town NJ, and he was crazy about me.
Here she comes again
When she's dancing 'neath the starry sky
Oo, she'll make you flip
One day a rumor starts to swirl that Jessie wants to ask me to the 5th Grade Dance. He is freckled, funny, and sensitive beyond his years. For the past few weeks we have been doing a little dance of our own during recess: he comes up to me and insults my curly hair by stating that I look "like Shirley Temple on the warpath," and I kick him in the shins. He then rolls around on the concrete, hugging his leg while I stand over him with nostrils still flaring from an insult I am not even sure I understand.
With a confusing combination of shyness and bravado, Jessie finally asks and I say yes, fully aware that committing to be his date to the 5th Grade Dance means that we are boyfriend and girlfriend. Shit's about to get real. Real grown up.
And then the real wooing begins. Out go the insults and in come the daily presents. Each morning, as we are lining up on the playground to file into our classrooms, Jessie presents me with a brown lunch bag full of Swedish Fish candies. He heard that they are my favorite, so every day is Valentine's Day. Sometimes they are all red, sometimes multicolored. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THEY CAME IN MULTICOLORS. Even at the age of 10 I recognize this blatant disregard for my oral health as being so sweet and so pure. This kid is special. And we are happy.
We 5th graders have our own special something planned for the dance: we are going to perform a choreographed number for the chaperones — an obvious harbinger of the future flashmob fad, but a lot more cute and a lot less cool.
A few times a week we shuffle down to the cafeteria, push the tables aside, and practice our routine to "My Best Friend's Girl" by this new band called The Cars. Our first introduction to New Wave makes us feel superhuman — it's unlike anything we've ever heard. And we own this song.
Here she comes again
When she's dancing 'neath the starry sky
I kinda like the way she dips
Over and over again. Spinning. Dipping. Probably, definitely white man's overbite-ing. I feel so grown up, moving as one with Jessie and my classmates as we dance our little tween hearts out.
Picture the "Hot Lunch Jam" from Fame.
This is nothing like that.
Just a bunch of awkward, uncoordinated 5th graders blindly spiraling towards the abyss of an even more awkward, uncoordinated adolescence.
You're always dancing down the street
With your suede blue eyes
And every new boy that you meet
He doesn't know the real surprise
The real surprise is that I am a little bitch.
A few weeks before the dance, in a mood, and in true Mean Girls fashion, I confide in my friend that I want to break up with Jessie but don't want to part with the Swedish Fish. I don't even know why I say this to her; I don't really want to break up with him. I like him. Perhaps more than I like the fish. Or maybe it's a tie.
And in equally true Mean Girls fashion, she rats me out.
Panic. Analysis. Decision.
My surprisingly astute 10-year-old self ultimately deduces that, in order to preempt the possibility of Jessie breaking up with me first and damaging my rep as well as my ego, I have to follow through. When I break the news, he is crestfallen.
Well she's my best friend's girl
And she used to be mine
She's so fine
Like all young love, ours has a shelf life. But, considering it is based on preservatives such as sugar, corn syrup, and red dye 40, it should have lasted longer than a few weeks.
The dance is upon us. I sleep in curlers the night before, so my curls haphazardly frame the fluffy white Easter dress recycled for the occasion. In white, patent leather shoes, I gracelessly shimmy across the gym floor to the song that will end up catapulting The Cars to superstardom.
Jessie dons an ill-fitting suit that matches his suede blue eyes perfectly. A consummate gentleman, he still dances beside me despite my transgression until the 5th grade version of the wee hours of the night.
As kids do, we move up the rungs of middle and high school. Our special bond cemented by kicks to the shins and the poor man's gummy bear, we remain friends well after our dramatic breakup. He still holds a special place in my heart. We still make each other laugh.
We even drunkenly make out once during senior year, and he confesses that he has always been in love with me. But alas, freckles are no longer my jam; I have moved on to dimples. Plus I am going away to college, and planning to move to California after graduation. And I use boys for confections — so he can likely do better anyway.
But it turns out that he doesn't even remember the ridiculousness surrounding our breakup. I kicked him, used him, and broke his heart but he, mercifully, only kept the good memories of me. We should all be so lucky.
That song still gets me to this day. It represents choreographed dance routines, bad decisions, lost opportunities, and the pressure to sell out. Of mean girls and The Great Swedish Fish Controversy of 1979.
But above all it reminds me of a sweet, melodramatic love that perhaps died too soon.
Feeling romantic?
So we've collected a variety of true stories about romance. About love, sex, dating, and relationships. About searching for love in an RPG, the effects of drugs and alcohol on one's dating persona, that awesome new vibrator, mustering up the courage to kiss the girl…


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This water pump is one of the most energy-efficient pumps. It uses the latest 6-Pole technology to achieve the most effective performance during continuous operation. The pump is suitable for inline & submersible use, and comes with all the accessories for different purposes.
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YOU ARE WATCHING: Hana Ni Keda Mono
Have a nice day! All The Best
Hana Ni Keda Mono
Kumi is a transfer student at a prestigious high school. She meets Hyo who is handsome and kind. Kumi falls in love with him and has her first kiss with him, but Hyo is famous for being a womanizer at school. After she discovers his true side, she gets hurts, but her feelings for him doesn't go away.
Genres: Romance, School
Country: japan
Movie: Hana Ni Keda Mono
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The Passenger Services Conference Resolutions Manual (PSCRM) includes all resolutions and recommended practices that have been universally agreed upon by airlines to process passengers and baggage in the international interline environment. It includes procedures for reservations, passenger and baggage check-in and ticket issuance, specifications for baggage tag and ticketing and various multilateral interline agreements and other passenger traffic-related regulations.
See the 38th edition's table of contents (pdf).The PSCRM comes with a value-added web download that features an electronic version of the manual to facilitate searching by use of key words.
The PADIS Message Standards Document and PADIS Airports and Reservations Implementation Guides are included in the Passenger Services Conference Resolutions Manual (PSCRM) as part of a convenient toolbox feature.
PADIS Message Standards and PADIS Airports and Reservations Implementation Guides are the technical references of approved EDIFACT message standards. These guides outline the adopted and universally accepted components and messages from the Passenger and Airport Data Interchange (PADIS) board.
These are essential documents when implementing IATA EDIFACT passenger and airport standards, as all technical criteria relating to EDI business requirements are included.
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2019 Tulsa, OK
Past OKSCAUG Conferences 1997 - To Date
A Tornado the Day After Christmas!?!
Tim Nolan, GISP, Collin County, Texas GIS
Bret Fenster, Kendall Holland, Ramona Luster, Gabi Voicu, Khyati Desai
"Remember… tornado season in Texas is January 1st – December 31st." – David Finfrock, Chief Meteorologist, NBC 5 News, Dallas-Ft Worth. If the conditions are right, a tornado can occur at any time.
Devastating tornadoes roared through Ellis, Dallas and Collin Counties the day after Christmas. Much of our rescue and recovery efforts were taxed due to the holiday. Collin County GIS staff, in coordination with the Texas Emergency GIS Response Team (TX EGRT) and local authorities, built an ArcGIS Online (AGO) interface to display structures effected by the tornadoes. The AGO site served as a single repository for site pictures, building conditions and the eventual tornado paths. Collin County enlisted the help of Pictometry International to fly and take imagery of the tornado damage. We were able to see before and after images of the structures in the affected areas. This presentation shows some of the early data collection effort, the tornado paths and the imagery of the destruction.
Influence of the utopian Reunion Colony settlers in early Dallas, Texas. as evidenced by pattern of historical street names in the present Downtown, Deep Ellum, and Old East Dallas areas.
Albert Dwayne Taylor, City of Dallas, Texas
French philosopher Francois Marie Charles Fourier developed ideas in the early 1800's on how to create a productive, nonrepressive society, free from disorder, chaos and strife, through harmonious collaboration and elimination of tedious or unpleasant work through communal associations. This became popular as a reaction to the French Revolution and Napoleonic era earlier in the century. An early collaborator, Victor Prosper Considerant, defined the idea of a "right to (have) work" as one the main ideas of French Socialists in the 1848 Revolution in France (one of a wave of revolutions in Europe that year), which ended with the defeat of insurrectionists by forces loyal to Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, followed by repression of his opponents, including Considerant and other followers of utopian Fourierism movement, who were forced into exile in Belgium.
Considerant, with the help of other exiles, began planning the establishment of a colony in North America. With the assistance of advance agent Francois Cantagrel, a site was found in Dallas County in 1952, with the first settlers, perhaps 200-350 (the just established town of Dallas had approximately the same population), arriving in 1855 and establishing their colony in what is now considered "West" Dallas, or "Far West" Oak Cliff. As most of the settlers were from urban backgrounds, possessed artisan rather than agricultural skills, and settled on land ill suited for farming at a time of drought and periodic hard freezes, their utopian agricultural colony was officially dissolved in 1957, and most of the colonists had reported left the settlement by 1860.
Many of those who left moved back to Europe or to New Orleans, but perhaps half remained in Texas, many in Dallas, and a few purchased their La Reunion holdings and remained there permanently. Of those who remained in Dallas, many are reported to have moved into the area which later became known as Deep Ellum and Old East Dallas. The map will attempt to show the diffusion of their influence in that part of Dallas by the distribution of street names related to the former Reunion Colonists, with which the author, as street name coordinator for the City of Dallas, has become familiar through the course of his work.
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US 75 Corridor – Retail Trade Analysis 2002-2014
Bret Fenster, GISP, County of Collin, Texas
Rather than funding US 75 highway improvements through a tollway designation, Collin County is looking at innovative ways of funding improvements by capturing a portion of new sales tax revenues in the highway corridor. Revenue projections will be provided to the Texas Legislature in order to assess the viability of diverting future sales taxes towards corridor improvements. This study shows Texas State Comptroller retail trade data portrayed in graphs. The graph data correlates to the highway corridor and retail zoning areas in the cities.
The desired goal is keeping the lanes on a busy regional highway free from tolls and improving the mobility of the citizens in Collin County.
Creating a Geographical Information System (GIS) Database for Documenting Historical Structures at Rancho La Union Ranch, Zapata County, Texas.
Brent C. Hedquist Department of Physics & Geosciences, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Mukti R. Subedi, Department of Physics & Geosciences and Department of Biological & Health Sciences, Texas A&M University-Kingsville
As one of the oldest continuously operating ranches in South Texas, Rancho La Union contains several historical structures of significance. It is critical that these historical structures are documented digitally and mapped for documentation and preservation purposes. This project involved the design and creation of a geodatabase and reference map that can be added to in the future and allow prospective visitors to view and read about historical building and structures from a website. The design of the geodatabase included defining the domains and subtypes for roads, buildings, and a corral, as well as digitizing the roads, corral, dam, and buildings on the ranch property. The final map (a GeoPDF) created in the project will aid in identifying the location of the historical ranch in South Texas, as well as key structures that have existed for over 150 years on the property, such as the corral and bunkhouse.
Collin King & Bre Caller, BIS Consulting
Abstract: Using spatial analysis, we will be discovering which areas of Dallas county will be the safest in the event of a storm system producing a tornado. By dividing Dallas county into quadrants, taking fatalities, injuries, damages, EF rating, and distance covered by all tornadoes since the 1950's into account, and determining which quadrant would be the safest to settle if you were moving into the Dallas county area for the first time. This will be informative for various reasons, including the
safest area statistically in the event of a tornado, and if you choose to move to another area in Dallas county, being informed enough to know that you are more likely to be hit by a tornado and should take necessary measures to prevent yourself from being the next victim.
Click to See Poster: Tornadoes: Paths through time
Bre Caller & Collin King, BIS Consulting
A category EF4 tornado, with winds of up to 180 mph, ripped through the eastern Dallas metroplex on December 26, 2015. Dallas has not seen a tornado of this intensity since 1959. BIS Consulting is producing a poster to show the impact of the 2015 tornado using a buffer analysis of the track and an intersect of the 2015 parcel data to show the estimated number of properties affected. We will also be comparing the damage caused by the two tornados in 2015 terms and investigating what damage the 1959 tornado track would have caused today.
Ozone Trend Analysis over Time and Geography: Houston, TX
Johnny Brown, Harris County & Nicole Bradstreet, CDM Smith
The aim of this study was to visualize what effect regulation had on ozone values near Houston, Texas and to determine the influence of land use features. This was done by employing eleven years (2004-2014) of air quality data provided by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality via the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The data includes daily max ozone values for this entire time period, however, visualization contained in the study area demonstrates yearly average AQI (air quality index) values. Temporally, values declined overall by approximately ten percent when comparing 2008 (when regulation capped ozone to 75 ppb) to 2014. Spatially, the greatest decrease in ozone emissions (2014/2008) occurred in rural areas (-19.9%), near airports (-12.06%), and in highway corridors (-11.77%). The smallest amount of decrease occurred in industrial areas (-7.74%) and beach/bay areas (-8.3%). Suburban and urban areas experienced decreases in the -9/-10% range.
GIS Products and Services at the National Weather Service in Corpus Christi, Texas
Michael Buchanan, National Weather Service Corpus Christi, Texas
Since 2007, the National Weather Service office located in Corpus Christi, Texas has developed a variety of GIS products and services for their local, regional, and national customers and partners. High resolution PNG graphics, KMZ files, and Web Mapping Services of weather and climate information are routinely created using a multitude of Python scripts. These GIS products and services are used to brief customers and partners on routine and significant weather impacts through a variety of email, web, and social media platforms. The easy-to-understand format of these GIS products and services greatly assists customers and partners in making critical weather-related decisions.


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Today was a good day since I ended up doing 4 yards and we even got some rain. I have nothing planned for tomorrow so I am not sure what will happen yet. The weather today was actually rather horrible, and I am not sure it will be any better tomorrow at this point either.
I decided to install XP on the T41 again the other day and I think I have all the drivers and updates on it so I should be able to use it for some writing soon. I have some ideas I need to work on, so I am hoping that I can get something posted sooner or later.


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The legendary BMW M3 e30 Warsteiner (+Crash) at the 41th AvD Oldtimer GP
The legendary BMW M3 e30 Warsteiner DTM became a legend during the Deutsche Tourenwagen Meistershaft in the golden years. During the 41th AvD Oldtimer GP they bring back these legendary machines.
Trackandtuner.com records the best known M3 e30 Warsteiner DTM driven by Steve Soper. This one is build in 1992 with the latest DTM specifications. This means is has around 360hp out of a 2,5L 4-cylindre engine.
But this car is not about high horsepower, it's all about handling. It qualified on the Nurburgring in the same class as the M1 procars (470hp) and the M1 Turbo (800hp).
During the first race it was fighting for the win with the fastest M1 procar and M1 turbo with more than twice the power. This car flies through corners and the airbox sound is addictive.
Unfortunately it was knocked out of the second race during the rolling start. It was hit from behind by a M1 procar as seen on our onboard video. As you can see the M1 procar hits the M3 e30 Warsteiner in the back making it spin around and creating chaos in the first corner. Miraculously no-one hits the M3 e30 in a cloud of dust.
This did end the race of the M3 e30 DTM after a few laps it looked like the engine blew.
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This 10-Year-Old Memorized The Entire US Constitution, And We're ImpressedAugust 23, 2016
Twenty-five minutes. That's how long it apparently takes to recite the entire U.S. Constitution. Nathan Bond is only 10 years old, and he made it his mission to learn every word of the more than 4,000-word document. (That's not including the amendments. Maybe he's saving those for later?)
Bond apparently has a knack for memorization. He can also recite the Declaration of Independence and the periodic table.
We're impressed.
He told CNN he wants to be president some day. He's already got the suit, the hand gestures and the love of the Constitution down.
Kid President may have some competition.


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I sometimes get invited to baby showers. Sometimes to work, sometimes as a guest. Today I was a guest at a friend from high school's shower. A sneaky conversation between myself and the organiser meant I had my henna kit with me.
So after all the games were played, I got down to business.
This was the result.
It was fun and the mummy was perfect.


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His time with Jets coach Rex Ryan over, safety Jim Leonhard opted last month to join the team that includes Rob Ryan on the coaching staff. Leonhard quickly learned that these fraternal twins don't simply look like they're identical.
"Personality-wise, they're very similar," Leonhard said recently, via the Baton Rouge Advocate. "It's scary."
The coaches, who can be fiery and combative, both preach to players that football should be enjoyed.
"It's a lot of fun playing for them because they keep things interesting," Leonhard said. "They make football fun; that's their biggest thing. Rex always said that it's a game for kids, and Rob uses the same kind of [motivational] stuff.
"They say that you're very fortunate to be playing, so you should have fun doing it."
But it's not always fun listening to Rob Ryan.
"[H]e knows what we have to do, and he's been very blunt and very in your face about it," Leonhard said. "There are going to be expectations of the defense, so he laid it out there on Day One."
The good news for the Saints flows from the bulk of last year's bad news. With an historically bad defense in 2012, it won't take much improvement to propel the Saints back to the postseason.
"There's a bunch of guys in here with a bad taste in their mouth," Leonhard said. "They know what winning feels like, and they want to get back to that."
With Rob Ryan there and coach Sean Payton back and quarterback Drew Brees still in place, we've got a feeling that they will.


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Walking streets are hugely popular on Samui and each town seems to have its own dedicated evening to hold them. They involve anyone who can sell anything (souvenirs, food, cocktails etc) setting up a table along the street as a small market area. Fishermen's Village holds its walking street on a Friday and the ideal time to go is around 5.30pm (or before a sundowner at the quiet end of the street). We tend to enter the main gate (under the Fishermen's Village sign) and walk down to the performance area and jetty. The streets are mainly pedestrianized and you are greeted by tables of spring rolls, mojitos, satay, carved coconuts, fried chicken, leather wallets, guitar strings, replica cosmetics, Tshirts and hand carved soaps. The food is mostly cooked at the stalls in a health-and-safety-free zone of cooking oil, bottled gas and fire, but there is so much to take in that you have to walk slowly, pausing at each stand to examine the wares.
At the jetty, there is a performance area where children from local schools play traditional Thai instruments in their school uniform. Turn right at the jetty for the crowded end of the market, then turn back, past the jetty to the other far end of the market, quieter and fewer stands but more restaurants and bars backing on to the beach, in case you haven't filled up while wandering.
There are other walking streets at Maenam on Thursday and Nathon on Sunday.


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2015 has been a horrible year for anyone whose income depends on digging things out of the ground. Major commodity exporters like Australia have suffered, and mining companies across the board have been struggling.
A chart from analysts at Macquarie puts the whole thing into perspective, showing how a huge range of assets have performed during 2015 so far, in dollar terms. Most major equity indices are in positive territory. Bonds are negative, but not deeply so.
But industrial and precious metals, energy and agricultural commodities have all been absolutely hammered — take a look:
Of the 15 assets that have dropped by over 20% in the year so far in dollar terms, only one of them, the Brazilian real, is not directly related to the commodity slump. The worst-hit items range from rhodium to lean hogs and lumber — only a handful of agricultural commodities have been spared from the wipeout.


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Longview ISD Foundation
On Wednesday, March 5, the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc. and Longview ISD hosted a breakfast for the 2014 Grants-to-Teachers Program recipients. At the breakfast, the Foundation announced funding for this year's grant cycle.
Grant winners received funding from the Longview ISD Foundation ranging from $100 to $2000 for innovative classroom projects and programs that will enhance the quality of education for all students in Longview ISD.
This year, the nineteenth anniversary of the Grants-to-Teachers Program, $75,425.30 was requested through 53 grant applications. The Foundation funded 28 grants totaling $43,948.40 The Foundation funded 15 elementary grants for a total of $26,365.47 and 13 secondary grants for a total of $17,582.93.
Since the beginning of the Grants-to-Teachers Program in 1996, the Foundation has funded 573 grants totaling $535,294.02. These grants have enhanced Longview ISD's academic programs as well as music, art, technology, counseling and guidance, health and physical education, and character education programs.
For a list of this year's grant recipients, visit the Longview ISD Foundation's website at www.lisdfoundation.org and click on Grant Recipients on the menu bar on the left hand side of the page. Also, see pictures of this year's Grants Giveaway; click on the Photo Gallery on the menu bar.
This year one teacher at Ned E. Williams Elementary School received grant funding from the Longview ISD Foundation, Inc.
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Physical Education, Grades Headstart-Grade 5
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We are a volunteer-driven organization, relying on participation and contributions to maintain and deliver our programs. There are many volunteer opportunities within the House from helping in the kitchen to volunteering with house programs or assisting with administrative activities.
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Monday, 4 June 2018
Another successful Geelong Youth Awards has concluded with the presentation of six awards to outstanding young people in our region.
More than 300 people attended the event, which was hosted by local young person Nina Denham from the Bellarine Youth Action Crew, together with Christine Couzens MP, Simon Ramsay MP and Geelong Mayor, Bruce Harwood.
The Geelong Youth Awards recognise and celebrate young people who live, work, learn and contribute to the Geelong community.
The successful nominee from each category received $500 towards their work, education, community projects or studies.
Geelong Youth Awards category winners:
Arts and Music – Joshua De Hoog
Joshua is the 24-year-old owner of Analogue Academy, a film developing studio and café in Geelong. Joshua was nominated for the award by a friend, Jane Currie, because he donates the use of his café space to weekly art exhibitions and art classes. In March 2018 he organised and curated MUTT – a group exhibition about dogs where all proceeds went to Geelong Animal Welfare Society (GAWS).
Joshua also donates empty film canisters from Analogue Academy to environmental group Plastic Bag Free Bellarine to be used as portable cigarette butt bins.
Community Citizenship – Brandon Dellow
Brandon is a 21-year-old volunteer from Norlane. Brandon was nominated for the award by Jacqui Bennett who is the founder of Humans in Geelong – a team of volunteers telling stories about local people who are making a difference.
Brandon is an advocate for mental health, cultural diversity, equal opportunity, human rights, education and Type 1 Diabetes (having lived experience with the disease). Brandon was diagnosed with depression and anxiety in 2014. He went on to share his story to raise awareness about mental health in teenagers. Brandon now works in community engagement, education support and at the City's fOrT Youth Centre.
Leadership/Role Model – Travis Lines
Travis was nominated for the award by his boss, Norine Ma. Travis has excelled in his university studies in medicine and he is passionate about education and tackling disadvantage in education.
Travis works with a team of volunteer tutors from universities around Victoria. Travis' drive to combat educational disadvantage has seen him devote his summers to the VCE Summer School (VCESS) program. Travis also writes and edits the UniMelb Adventures, a blog aimed at helping students fit in at university. The blog has an audience of more than 100,000 people.
Social Justice (advocacy) – Georgie Demir
Georgie is a 14-year-old from Ocean Grove. Georgie was nominated by her mother Tracey. Georgie is passionate about social justice and has started her own business, Arkoun (which means thank you in Khmer). Arkoun sells handmade soaps, with all profits helping fund the construction of wash houses in Cambodia.
Georgie has tested and produced six soap products, worked with a graphic design student to create her brand and has built a website with an online shop.
Within six weeks of launching her business, Georgie sold 650 units of soap, which raised enough money to build a wash house.
Sport – Mitchell Bond
Mitchell is a 15-year-old from Leopold. At six months old Mitchell was diagnosed with Transverse Myelitis and is paralysed from the neck down. Each year Mitchell volunteers his time to paediatric students for their exams. He assists in primary and secondary school inclusion education days, where PE classes learn about wheelchair sports and inclusion.
In 2015, Mitchell was the sport captain at Leopold Primary School and he went on to win the 2015 School Sports Victoria, excellence in sports award for wheelchair racing, and the 2015 Athletics Australia National Championship for wheelchair racing.
Mitchell is dedicated to participating in sports, he is a part of the 2018 National Wheelchair Basketball Championships and is the assistant coach to about 20 children in junior development programs for wheelchair
basketball. Mitchell was nominated by his family friend Danielle Stanesby, because he continues to inspire her.
Young Carer Award – Bianka Turner
Bianka is 18 years old and was nominated for the Geelong Youth Awards by support worker Elizabeth McCracken.
Bianka cares for her mother and her sister, who both have a range of health matters. Bianka is their full-time carer and assists them with daily activities while she's studying full-time at the Gordon and working part-time as a swim instructor to support herself financially.
It is vitally important that we recognise and reward the hard work that young people do in our clever and creative community.
It was an honour to be able to meet these young people and learn about the outstanding and diverse work they do.


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When it comes to making beautiful jewelry, no detail is too small to be ignored. All micro-set diamonds are hand set, and then inspected by an experienced artisan using a microscope. This ensures that they reflect light brilliantly, and that no one has to worry about losing a single stone. Each detail is sharp, and every piece has its own unique look and feel. The way Simon G sees it, making an heirloom takes a little bit longer than just making jewelry.
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- What type of assistance is available?
- Will I still be contacted by Collections whilst assistance is in place?
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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston at 1 am--What NYC Hotels Play Role in Celeb Love Affairs!?
NYC is full of history. No surprise there. But for tourists and New Yorkers who have an interest in the lives of the rich and famous, today's launch of Oyster Hotel Reviews will be quite beneficial to their curious antics. Dating back to the days of Kennedy and his long line of lady lovers, New York City hotels have been the place for celebrities and politicians to cover up their less than faithful wandering ways. Fast forward to the days of Eliot Spitzer and even John Edwards, and not much has changed, including the hotels that seem to have a knack for covering for their unfaithful star studded list of suitors.
For those flocking to NYC or even those who call the Big Apple home, staying at one of these hotels can provide a quick glimpse into the private lives of NYC's bold and beautiful...but don't think about bringing a camera when staying at these places—they are affair landing pads for a reason.
Through the launch of its New York City hotel review section today, Oyster Hotel Reviews (www.Oyster.com) now offers more than 100 reviews and over 30,000 original photos of New York City hotels. The unbiased and independent hotel review site launched their New York section to help your readers choose the best hotel for their specific needs. And for those interested in spotting a celebrity or forbidden affair (or perhaps even engaging in their own tryst—not that we are encouraging it), Oyster Hotel Reviews has outlined some of the historic hotels in NYC that cater to those with a bit more of a hidden agenda.
· The Carlyle, A Rosewood Hotel:
For celebrity lovers trying to keep from getting slaughtered in the tabloids, the Carlyle has been their best bet. Its expert discretion -- photos aren't even allowed in the restaurants when there are people present -- has earned the historic hotel its status as a vault to some of the city's biggest secrets. Even John F.Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe reportedly trusted their affair to the Carlyle.
· Loews Regency:
This family-friendly luxury hotel on the Upper East Side hardly seems like a place for sleazy encounters, but that didn't stop Rielle Hunter from propositioning John Edwards after spotting him at the Regency Hotel bar. Elizabeth Edwards wrote in her book, Resilience, that Rielle "wait[ed] for him outside the hotel hours later when he returned from a dinner, wait[ed] with the come-on line, 'You are so hot.'"
· Four Seasons New York:
Apparently steroids aren't Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez's only vice: He has reportedly entertained a number of high-class prostitutes at this swanky establishment -- ladies supplied to him by none other than former New York governor Eliot Spitzer's madame of choice, Kristin Davis.
· Gramercy Park Hotel:
There's no hotter spot for celebrity and booze mixers than the Gramercy Park Hotel. Lance Armstrong and Ashley Olson were seen canoodling at this hotel's Rose Bar; Lindsay Lohan spent the night at the hotel with her now ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson; and, most salaciously, Jennifer Aniston and ex-husband Brad Pitt were rumored to have met here for an intimate 1 a.m. rendezvous on the 18th-floor Roof Club. (A spokesperson for the hotel denied it -- but then again, staff at the hotel are forced to sign confidentiality agreements.)
· Soho Grand Hotel:
Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz and singer Ashlee Simpson may be married now, but a drunken outburst by Ashlee revealed that the pairing didn't start quite so innocently. Simpson reportedly screamed at Pete's confused ex Michelle Trachtenberg, "I hope you know, the whole time you were dating Pete, I was f'ing him!" And where did this illicit bleeping begin? At none other than the Soho Grand Hotel, hubby Pete told US Weekly. "It was at the Soho Grand Hotel [in New York City], and I'm looking in the mirrors, [thinking], 'Oh my God, you are [sleeping with] the girl of your dreams, and you can watch yourself!'" he said. Hotel taste must run in the family: Ashlee's big sis, Jessica, spent some quality time at the Soho Grand with John Mayer in August 2006.
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- Sunny View said...
I'd love to stay at each of those hotels.
- July 22, 2009 at 7:51 PM
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Saturday Drop-in Class
December 8, 2018 @ 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This Saturday come out to the Kick Comedy Theater for our weekly drop-in class. These classes are taught by a rotating roster of KCIC Instructors, so you know each class will be unique, diverse and open to anyone and everyone! Whether you're looking to dip your toes into the Improv pool, or you just want to stay sharp between class sessions, this class is for everyone under the sun!
Class is $15 and starts at 1pm. Hope to see you out there!


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I'm just back from a 600 mile trip through Glencoe to Applecross, camping for a night then down to Skye, across the A86/A9 to Pitlochry and camping for a second night then back home to Edinburgh.
Fantastic roads, terrible weather and some absolutely awful driving from HGVs. However, nothing detracts from Bealach na Bà - here's a video of the run over the top:
The MX5 performed faultlessly, despite everything I've done to it. The throttle bodies sounded amazing the entire trip, and the tuning I've done on the car seems to be really solid.


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How to make ice cream rolls is the question that we have been getting from our visitors in the past couple of months so we worked on modifying recipes to developed a method that will give the best ice cream rolls, or as close to the real thing as possible.
How Are Ice Cream Rolls Made Commercially?
Ice cream rolls also known as rolled ice cream or as it is originally referred as Stir-fried ice cream (I-Tim-Pad in Thai) is a lovely ice dessert carefully made by hand on a iced grill (Ice Cream Rolls Machine). The process starts by pouring milk on the iced grill after which other ingredients are added (fruits, Nutella, Oreo, Chocolate etc…) and mixed right on the surface of the iced grill. After the mix obtains consistency, it's spread evenly across the surface of the iced grill and then scrapped from it using a paint scraper by rolling it towards the end of the iced grill.
Where Does This Technique Of Making Ice Cream Rolls Come From?
This ice cream making technique originated in Thailand in 2009 and started as a simple frozen desert made by mixing couple of ingredients and candy. Only few vendors existed at the time and was not popular yet. It started getting attention by the end of 2011 when it spread nation wide across Thailand and by 2012 in conquered the neighboring markets of Cambodia and Malaysia. It become globally known thanks to the internet and the viral videos posted on YouTube.
How To Make Ice Cream Rolls At Home?
We discovered couple of methods that you can use to make this delicious dessert at home but we only picked one. The criteria for picking the two best methods involves being less time consuming, using materials and tools that are available at any home or easily obtainable as well as expertise and time required.
Make sure that the pan's height is low and it is very thin for the best freezing effect and to be accessible by a paint scrapper which is crucial for this method. This method is the most similar to the original thai method but it doesn't involve the original ice cream rolls machine. Also, an important part in this method play the paint scrapers
- Start by mixing the milk, heavy cream, sugar, and salt straight into a large metal skillet or large cooking pan.
- Stir everything til it combines using a heat resistant spatula.
- Place the skillet on the stove over high heat and continue stirring til the milk gets hot and the sugar dissolves. If you don't stir constantly the sugar will start burning on the bottom of the skillet.
- When the mixture starts boiling remove the skillet from the heat and let the mixture cool to room temperature.
- When the base will cool down, add the other ingredients you chose. You can choose from a variety of toppings such as sprinkles, Nutella, Oreo, fresh fruits, dry fruits and so on. (The more you add the harder it will be to roll at the end)
- Once you add them you can use the paint scrapers to chop them into small pieces to your preference. Chopping the ingredients up will improve the texture of the ice scream.
- After you get a combined mixture of all the ingredients you want in your ice cream, you should place the skillet leveled in a freezer for 4 hours. For this method to work you need to patient and follow the instructions because if you don't freeze the ice cream enough it wont roll, you will just get cool dessert.
- Important: Before you take the skillet out of the freezer don't forget to freeze the bowl you will use to store the rolls and the paint scrapers you will use to scrape and roll the ice cream into the freezer for at least 15-30 minutes. The rolls will be very thin so they will absorb heat very well and will start melting as soon as you make them so it's crucial to serve them in cold dishes and use cold tools while you are scraping them.
- Important: After the freezing time has passed make sure you are ready to start scraping because this is something that needs to be done right after you remove the skillet from the freezer. Quickly scrape the ice cream into rolls by starting from one end at an angle and pushing carefully to the other end. If the ice cream doesn't roll don't panic, get a butter knife and help with the forming of the rolls.
- Get the frozen bowl out of your freezer and place each roll in your bowl for serving. You can top the rolls with whatever you choose. More fruit maybe or some caramel, some sprinkles maybe.


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