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A very complex machine utilizing a combination of torsional motion and varying stresses and strains, implemented by a complex system of pulleys and hydraulic levers. The system, operating at an astronomical 72% efficiency, is perfect for thermodynamic calculations, maximizing the output of the internal combustion engine, cooking eggs, and jerking off chodes.
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Over-the-Sink Cutting Boards
Over the years we've looked at few different ways to increase counter space in the kitchen: add an island, cart, and table or try one of these strategic storage tips. But one of the best solutions? Get an over-the-sink cutting board.
Over-the-sink cutting boards are really just long cutting boards, with a few extra inches added on either side. Specialty boards may have attached colanders and feature rubber grips or handles, but the key is finding a board long enough to rest comfortably on either side of your sink. Here are a few good options.
1 Snow River 12"x24"x3/4" Over the Sink Board with Stainless Steel Wire Basket, $39 from Amazon
2 Progressive International Over the Sink Cutting Board, $26 from Amazon
3 Island Bamboo 24" Over the Sink Cutting Board, $53 from Amazon
4 Catskill Craftsman 14"x11" Over the Sink Cutting Board, $18.95 from The Food Network Store
5 Dexas 22"x10" Over-the-Sink Bamboo Strainer Board, $29.99 from Bed Bath & Beyond
6 John Boos 24"x18" Reversible Maple Cutting Board, $88 from Amazon
7 22"x10" Cutting Board, $30 from Epicurean
8 DOMSJÖ 21"x11.5" Chopping Board, $14.99 from IKEA
9 Catskill Craftsmen 24"x12" Cut N' Catch Over Sink Carver Board with Trays, $45 from Cookware.com
Related: Extra Tall Cutting Boards for Extra Tall Cooks
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Dr. Patt is a true pro and an amazing physician. He cares about each and every patient (no matter if you are in "the business" or not). He happens to focus on the entertainment industry but he is an excellent doctor. He is so special because there is an old school approach - a small office with one on one service. He is interested in seeing his patients healthy and happy. He is always happy to refer me to a specialist if necessary and his process is as transparent as possible. His prices are fair and billing is easy. He tends to really run on time and I've never not been able to reach him. He is a busy guy and always responds to calls or even a page. His dog that will come to the office is a medical help dog that not only listens to his commands beautifully but is a loving animal who is a trained professional. People act like he is running an animal shelter. He is world class in every sense.
Wow..I saw him for a film I was doing in Los Angeles, and he was the most helpful, kind, and present doctor I've ever met...too bad he's married, but even his wife is gorgeous. I think I've found an old-fashioned Marcus Welby=type doctor, and I'll stick with him!
Doctors make me nervous. Dr. Patt made me feel very much at ease. He was very friendly and assuring.
Meeting Doctor Stephen Patt in person was like coming home and relaxing with an old friend--not only is he handsome and friendly, but, just like he is on television, he made me feel comfortable. I wasn't rushed, and every question was answered. On "Extreme Makeover", he seemed assured, calm, and knowledgeable, and in spite of all the famous celebrities he sees, I was treated with great courtesy and respect--just like the stars I saw waiting in his office! I would recommend him to any adult or family, since as a Board Certified Family Practitioner, he treats newborns, children, adults, and performs gynecological care in his office, which is right next to Saint John';s Hospital He also teaches at UCLA, which is really reassuring, and, believe it or not, he does housecalls! Plus, he's really handsome!
Stephen Patt is an excellent and knowledgeable Doctor. He has outstanding bedside manors and I would recommend him to anyone that seeks a no nonsense physician.
I went to see Stephen Patt, MD for a pre op exam, and was amazed how nice he was and communicative with me. He wasn't rushed and has a very calming way about himself as well as a sense of humor [for those of you who are nervous]. He does have a lot of VIP clients but you would never know as he treats everyone the same. Give him a try!!
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Every day, 10,000 US women are assaulted by their husband or boyfriend. Most often they do not leave and the violence continues; psychologists call it battered women's syndrome. On November 2nd, we're likely to see the political counterpart, where American voters – despite a history of egregious Republican abuse – decide to give the Grand Old Party one more chance.
The American Psychological Association reports, "Nearly one in every three adult women experiences at least one physical assault by a partner during adulthood." Roughly four million US women are assaulted each year. Often the assaults are repeated and follow a pattern: drinking or drug use; insults and criticism; physical violence; and apology. Most adults know someone trapped in an abusive relationship; a woman who despite the advice of her friends and family can't find the wherewithal to leave the abuser.
A larger percentage of Americans have been the victims of abuse by the Republican Party. We've seen our neighborhoods destroyed, our air and water fouled, our jobs shipped overseas, our children denied health coverage and decent schools. We've watched the looting of America, seen the riches of our country diverted to the offshore bank accounts of the wealthy.
The GOP assaults follow a familiar pattern: manufactured resentment; insults and criticism; financial violence; and false remorse. The Republican violence typically begins with their propaganda machine spewing hate messages: "Democrats want to subvert America, turn it into a European-style socialist state." "Obama isn't a citizen – he's a terrorist." Next the GOP criticizes Democratic politicians, blaming them for Wall Street bailouts and "robbing our children's future" by creating a massive Federal deficit. They cover their lack of concrete proposals with clever slogans: "Return government to the people;" "Put adults in charge." But underneath the agitprop is financial violence: handouts to the wealthy, destruction of our infrastructure, desecration of the environment, and abandonment of the needy. Occasionally there's an instant of remorse – towards the end of his regime, George Bush seemed guilty about ruining the American economy -- but then the cycle of abuse restarts.
Psychologists say the typical battered woman is "depressed and anxious, with low self-esteem, a poorly integrated self-image, and a general inability to cope with life's demands." If that sounds familiar, it's a profile that fits many Americans in these difficult times. TIME political correspondent Joe Klein recently completed a 24-day, coast-to-coast trip across the US. What he found was anger and anxiety; a pervasive sense of powerlessness.
There's a growing consensus that America's best days are behind it; that we have lost our way: we're hemorrhaging jobs and they're never coming back. Klein observes: "The Republican position on jobs is clear; stimulate the private sector with lower taxes and fewer regulations. The Democratic position on jobs is inexplicable."
Perhaps Klein's observation explains why Americans want to give the Grand Old Party one more chance. Psychologists tell us that victims of battered women's syndrome are often afraid to leave their abuser, as real change is perceived to be more painful than the familiar pattern of abuse.
The poster child for Republican abuse is Arizona Senator John McCain. Like most abusers, McCain was himself an abuse victim – in 1992, during the South Carolina primary, the Republican establishment, led by Karl Rove, turned on him. McCain learned his lesson and jettisoned his image as a "maverick" and independent thinker. This year, when faced with a Tea-Party primary challenge from Neolithic former Congressman J.D. Hayworth, McCain blew him out through a combination of money ($20 million) and extreme conservative positions. Hayworth observed that McCain had become, "a political shape-shifter." McCain admitted, "I've always done whatever's necessary to win."
Despite his reputation as a curmudgeon and the Senator most disliked by his colleagues, McCain was once revered as the "conscience" of the GOP. In the past he co-authored the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance bill and backed climate change legislation, as well as comprehensive immigration reform. Now, in his frantic scramble to retain his Senate seat, McCain has abandoned his former positions. In an insightful VANITY FAIR article, political writer Todd Purdum observes that, if re-elected, McCain's dominant objective will be to work against Barack Obama.
The most recent Arizona senatorial poll shows McCain with a 28 percentage-point lead over his Democratic opponent. Despite his abusive behavior, many voters believe staying with Job McCain is preferable to change.
Psychologists tell us that many victims of battered women's syndrome are confused. Some believe they deserve to be assaulted.
Perhaps American voters are confused. Perhaps they believe they don't deserve anything better than the dreadful Republican policies that have shafted America. Perhaps they believe that politicians like Bush, McCain, Palin, and Boehner are the best they can expect. Perhaps they've internalized the classic blues song: I've been down so long that down looks like up to me.
Perhaps mid-term voters are like the battered woman who justifies her decision to return to her abusive partner by saying: "He's all I have and says he's sorry. I'm going to give him one more chance."


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The Annual Beverly Arts Center Art Competition and Exhibition is a juried contest for all artists who live within 100 miles of the City of Chicago. Established in 1976 by Arthur Rubloff and local artists William and Judie Anderson, this contest celebrates and displays local artwork in the BAC's West Gallery.
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Using a mobile phone at the dinner table or in any other social situation is often frowned on as bad manners. But when a Sainsbury's employee decided the embargo extended to the checkout one of her customers quickly took offence. Jo Clarke complained to store bosses that the unidentified worker had refused to serve her unless she put down her phone.
She said: 'I was standing at the foot of the till waiting to bag my shopping up, yet the lady on the checkout was just staring at me. 'When I stopped my conversation and said "Is everything okay?" she said: "I will not check your shopping out until you get off your mobile phone".
There is some added complexity in this story in that Sainsbury has no actual store policy about using cell phones during check out and that the employee was rude. But it does bring up the issue of whether it is impolite to have a cell phone conversation while attempting to engage in a business transaction. My thoughts are that any face-to-face interaction should have each person's undivided attention and if the roles were reversed, as in the employee was talking to another co-worker or on a cell phone, that the customer would have a verifiable right to be offended at the employee's distractions. Customers on cellphones during financial transactions can slow down the check out for those behind them, the risk of misunderstanding ("Did you give me back a $10 or a$20?") is greater and it's just generally rude to dismiss those serving you as not worthy of a moment or two of your uninterrupted attention.


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Children's Medical Center Dallas, the flagship of Children's Health℠, offers one of the largest comprehensive pediatric transplant surgery programs in the country and performs more transplants for children younger than 5 years old than any other hospital in the state. We understand the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to care that supports the unique physical, emotional, psychological, and developmental needs of your child. Renowned specialists, including transplant surgeons, physicians, nurses, dietitians, social workers, child life specialists, chaplains, pharmacists, and psychologists collaborate on the care of every child before, during, and after the transplant.
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At Children's Medical Center Dallas, your child will receive care and support from a dedicated team of pediatric specialists throughout the transplant process. When you choose Children's, your child will be treated at a nationally ranked medical center by a team of pediatric transplant specialists. We offer access to every pediatric medical and surgical subspecialty, allowing us to deliver the best care and treatment for each unique case. Our partnership with UT Southwestern Medical Center creates the only academically affiliated pediatric transplant program in North Texas, elevating the care we provide through research and clinical expertise.
The Transplant Services team at Children's Medical Center Dallas offers comprehensive care to address all of your child's needs and provides education and support to your family, ensuring the best care for your child throughout the process. Our approach involves making sure that you and your child understand what is happening, providing you with information, reassurance, and compassionate care at every phase of the process. And, when your child is ready, Our Pediatric to Adult Care Transition (PACT) program helps your child successfully transition to an adult program. Our new Remote Patient Monitoring program, the first in the nation, allows our clinical staff to remotely monitor your child's health status and progress via secure mobile technologies. Remote monitoring includes one-touch video conferencing, enables physicians and other clinical staff to conduct visits and connect to patients virtually anywhere—allowing your child to receive care from the comfort of your home.
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The first pediatric heart transplant in Dallas was performed at Children's Health in 1988, and more than 150 have since been performed here. At the leading edge of transplant services in the region, Children's Health has performed more pediatric transplants than any other facility in Texas and the greatest number of transplants in patients younger than age 5 years old.
Surgeons at Children's Health not only performed surgery for the smallest heart recipient in Texas in 2008, but two years earlier performed the state's first combined heart-liver transplant. Children's Health increased the number of heart transplants performed by 188% over 2011 and 424% in the past decade.
Among the common diagnoses for which heart transplants are provided to pediatric patients are cardiomyopathy, congenital heart disease (present at birth), and congestive heart failure.
The Children's Health Heart Center offers a Ventricular Assistive Device (VAD) program, a procedure that helps sustain the child's heart until a donor organ is available. Children's Health also performs ABO incompatible heart transplants on infants younger than 9 months of age—a procedure that lets a transplant recipient receive a heart from a donor who does not match the recipient's blood type.
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Since the Kidney Transplant Program began in 1979, Children's Health has performed nearly 400 pediatric kidney transplants, making it the consistent leader in Texas for the number of pediatric kidney transplants performed.
The program offers transplantation of deceased donor or living donor kidneys in the treatment of a range of common diagnoses, including focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, obstructive uropathy, polycystic kidney disease (hypoplasia), posterior urethral valve disorder, and renal dysplasia.
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Since the first liver transplant was performed at Children's Health in 1984, surgeons at the hospital have performed more than 480 liver transplants as well as the state's first combined pediatric heart-liver transplant.
The transplant program performs liver transplants to treat a range of common diagnoses, including acute liver failure, alagille syndrome, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency, autoimmune hepatitis, biliary atresia, and intrahepatic cholestasis.


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT women's basketball team improved to 2-3 on the year following a 53-49 overtime victory against Albertus Magnus College on Saturday. Kelsey Cappelle led all scorers with 17 points as Sally Simpson contributed 15 points, nine rebounds, and five steals. Cheryl Kwinn collected 11 rebounds while Kimberly Soo Hoo posted nine boards, eight points, and six assists.
After trading baskets to start the game, the Engineers went on a 14-5 run that resulted in a 16-7 lead at the 7:31 mark. Jaclyn Venice registered the next four points for the Falcons during a span of two minutes. A pair of free throws by Kwinn and a basket from Cappelle pushed the advantage back to nine (20-11) with 2:01 remaining in the frame. Albertus Magnus narrowed its deficit with a jumper and a three-pointer before the break.
The first half of the second stanza was a back-and-forth affair, as MIT held a 28-25 lead at 10:47. A minute later, a jumper by Cappelle ignited a 7-2 spurt which propelled the Engineers to their first double-digit advantage (37-27) at 5:29. A three-pointer on the Falcons' ensuing possession sparked a 15-3 run which put them ahead, 42-40, with 38 seconds remaining. Albertus Magnus had a chance to extend its lead, but after missing the front end of a one-and-one, Kwinn collected the rebound to set up MIT's final shot. After the Engineers failed to connect on a three-pointer, Simpson grabbed the carom and sank a jumper with 13 seconds to go. Albertus Magnus made one last charge, but it couldn't drain the potential game-winning three.
After nearly a minute of scoreless play in the extra session, Alice Yeh's trey gave the Cardinal and Gray the lead for good. The Falcons answered with a basket on their next trip down the court, but MIT countered with a jumper and two free throws to extend its margin to five (49-44). Two successful shots from the charity stripe by Albertus Magnus were followed by Simpson's lay-up. The Falcons closed the gap to two (51-49) on Venice's three-pointer with 58 seconds left. Soo Hoo sealed the win by sinking both of her free throws with 14 seconds on the clock.


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Bringing Gaming to the Classroom
By Jason Kohn, Contributing Columnist
As I've been reading about technology in education, one of the most interesting trends that keeps popping up is gaming. As a casual gamer myself, I've heard the arguments about how gaming improves hand-eye coordination and problem solving and all the rest. (In fact I tried many of them with my mom when I was 12 years old)
But the arguments for gaming in education today are far more advanced and compelling than I've realized. A lot of very smart people are working on this subject, and a lot of innovative educators are putting it into practice.
The Rationale for Gaming
A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that video games really can be beneficial. Discover Magazine profiled learning sciences professor James Gee's research into the metabolic and cognitive processes at work when kids are gaming. The article is a few years old, but worth reading:
Bolstered by the results of laboratory experiments, Gee and other researchers dared to suggest that gaming might be mentally enriching. These scholars are the first to admit that games can be addictive, and indeed part of their research explores how games connect to the reward circuits of the human brain. But they now recognize the cognitive benefits of playing video games: pattern recognition, system thinking, even patience. Lurking in this research is the idea that gaming can exercise the mind the way physical activity exercises the body: It may be addictive because it's challenging.
All of this, of course, flies in the face of the classic stereotype of gamers as attention deficit–crazed stimulus junkies, easily distracted by flashy graphics and on-screen carnage. Instead, successful gamers must focus, have patience, develop a willingness to delay gratification, and prioritize scarce resources. In other words, they think.
Sam Laird at Mashable wrote about another study last fall:
"To explore the growing role of electronic games in schools, the Internet education portal OnlineSchools.com recently surveyed a number of sources, including Education Week, Ed.gov and the NEA Foundation.
Among their more notable findings, 3,500 Chinese students used an online learning course that included digital games to help them learn English. In a survey of their teachers, 95% said the digital program increased motivation among the students. Similarly, another study found that students who used a computer-learning program that included game-like elements scored 5.5 points higher in regional percentile rankings.
Gaming in the Classroom
The scientific consensus is now fairly clear: gaming can be very much a learning experience. The question is how you can use it effectively in the classroom to help students succeed. There are innovative efforts under way right now to do just that.
Greg Ferenstein of Mashable, wrote about some examples in geography, biology, and job skills training.
The Federation of American Scientists has developed a first-person shooter-inspired cellular biology curriculum. Gamers explore the fully-interactive 3D world of an ill patient and assist the immune system in fighting back a bacterial infection. Dr. Melanie Ann Stegman has been evaluating the educational impacts of the game and is optimistic about her preliminary findings. "The amount of detail about proteins, chemical signals and gene regulation that these 15-year-olds were devouring was amazing. Their questions were insightful. I felt like I was having a discussion with scientist colleagues," said Stegman.
There is also a dedicated effort to bring massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) to the classroom, led by the World of Warcraft (WoW) in School program. The program was launched a few years ago by Lucas Gillispie, instructional technology coordinator in the Pender School District in North Carolina, and has expanded to a larger group of educators who are avid gamers. Their efforts now also include another MMORPG, Minecraft, aimed at elementary-age students.
There's a great profile of Gillispie and two other North Carolina teachers using games in the classroom at the Charlotte Observer. Education Week also wrote about Gillispie and several other examples of gaming in the classroom for Education Week last month:
"Video games have been a point of connection between my students and myself, especially a certain group of students who were hard to reach otherwise," he says. Using World of Warcraft as the base of the curriculum, Gillispie developed lessons within the game to teach students about leadership skills, digital citizenship, and language arts….
The program began as an after-school club, but after gaining support from teachers and administrators, it became an in-school elective for students at Cape Fear Middle School. The class has expanded within the last year to another middle school in the district, West Pender.
Gillispie hosts wikis dedicated to the WoW and Minecraft projects to provide a hub for educators to learn about online gaming, share strategies, and develop instructional items for using gaming in a classroom setting. You can also hear firsthand accounts from Pender County schools, as well as examples of game play and teaching tools, in this long but fascinating video about the project:
Clearly, we're no longer asking whether video games belong in the classroom. It's just a matter of finding the best ways to use them. It will be interesting to watch educators find answers.
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Lighthouse Reef — a small atoll 70km from mainland — hosts many dive sites but perhaps the most awe-inspiring in the famous Blue Hole: a collapsed cave risen from the ocean's floor, leaving a deep geological mystery bursting with aquatic wildlife.
Other sites include Silver Caves. Long Caye Wall, Coral Gardens and the aptly named Oasis —where huge black coral sponges grow from vertical cliffs.
The trip begins in early morning (Tuesday) after a hearty breakfast. First Blackbird will transport guests out to Turneffe Atoll, the largest and most biologically diverse atoll in the Western Hemisphere. After diving/snorkelling the wonders of Turneffe, guests are whisked off to Light House Reef Atoll.
The Blue Hole — one of the top ten dive sites in the world — lies near the center of the Lighthouse Reef. The hole is circular in shape, over 984 ft (300 meters) across and 407 feet (124 meters) deep and has been declared one of the top ten scuba diving sites in the world!
Scuba divers are lured by the opportunity to dive in the crystal-clear water meet several species of fish, including Midnight Parrotfish, Caribbean reef shark, and other juvenile fish species.
Other species of sharks, such as the bull shark and hammerheads, have been reported there, but are not regularly sighted.
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The Abolitionists: American Experience "The Abolitionists, Part Two" Frederick Douglass escapes slavery and joins William Lloyd Garrison in the anti-slavery movement. After fleeing to England to escape recapture, Douglas returns to the U.S. in 1847 to launch his own anti-slavery paper. John Brown reveals his radical plan to raise an army, attack plantations and free the slaves. Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852. Part 2 of 3G
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Residents to receive property re-evaluations soon
Auglaize County property owners should expect to receive their property tax re-evaluations in the mail during the first part of next week.
Auglaize County Auditor's Office staff have been busy getting the re-evaluations ready to put in the mail. Notices for parcels covered by the CAUV (Current Agricultural Use Value) program already have been sent.
Ohio Farm Bureau are planning a meeting for those interested on the matter at 7 p.m. Monday at the St. Joseph Parish Life Center, in Wapakoneta. A state speaker is to be there to discuss CAUV rates.
"In some cases they have doubled and some have more than doubled," Auglaize County Auditor Janet Schuler said. "The CAUV uses production rates rather than market value to tax agricultural properties. The average rate is $700 an acre.
"For years, all it did was fall, then the state
changed the formula to account for productivity and prices and lately both productivity and prices have been up," she said. "People who that affects, who farm, know that."
Schuler said a few residential rates in the county also went up, but it was rare.
Others that went up were because of improvements made to the property that the Auditor's Office had not previously known about, such as decks, finished basements or other buildings constructed on the property.
"The majority of values went down by about 2 percent, but it varies all over the county," Schuler said. "Our values always lag the market because we're always looking back.
"It protects the taxpayer when the real estate market is hot, but it doesn't work the same way when values go down," she said.
Schuler said changes to properties were recorded during a review of every parcel in the county, conducted by an outside company this year. Those re-evaluations are done, as required, every six years.
"We didn't see any big increases in Auglaize County," Schuler said. "Foreclosures definitely have affected the housing supply and definitely changed the amount of houses available."
Many of those homes are not in the best shape when they are foreclosed, although it doesn't usually take long for them to become desirable in the marketplace again after someone buys and begins making improvements to foreclosed homes, the county auditor said.
New tax rates, calculated by the state, are expected around the holidays.
Beginning Monday and extending through Friday, Oct. 7, there will be a two-week window for informal complaints about updated values and whether owners believe they are too high or too low.
Schuler said it's especially important for those with new homes to make sure all their attributes are correct before they are taxed.
"It can be hard for an appraiser standing outside to determine exactly what's going on inside a home," Schuler said.
She said when informal complaints are received they can go out and look at the property again and make any changes necessary.
"If you're happy with your value, you don't have to do anything," Schuler said.
After the informal complaint period, the only way to make changes is through a formal complaint form filed between Jan. 1 and March 31.
At this time, Schuler said they can estimate tax bills, but they cannot determine what they will be for sure. There also will be a tax bill estimator located on the Auglaize County Auditor's website found at auglaizecounty.org/ under the elected officials, then auditor's header.
"What many people will want to know is how this affects their taxes," Schuler said. "Sixty to 70 percent of the tax bills are for schools."
Four of the county's six school districts are at a 20-mill floor, which is the least that can be taxed for operating expenses. New Knoxville and Minster school districts are the two not included in that.
"I'm unsure where they'll stay," Schuler said. "All six are in debt for building projects so just because the value of a property goes down doesn't mean taxes will go down or that it will go down by the same percentage.
"We still have to make sure those bills gets paid and we don't know if they'll be able to get up off the floor," she said. "For those not at the floor, we don't expect taxes to change much."


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Rafa Benitez hailed Frank Lampard's "fantastic achievement" after the midfielder scored his 200th goal for Chelsea in the 2-0 win against West Ham at Stamford Bridge.
Lampard reached the landmark against his former with a first-half header and he is now just two goals behind Bobby Tambling's all-time club record.
"I'm happy because Frank has scored 200 goals, it's a fantastic achievement for anyone but particularly him," said Benitez. "I'm really pleased for him.
"Frank is a fantastic player and he works very hard in training. We have a lot of games to play this season, so hopefully he can score more goals.
"I don't take credit myself but I also give credit to the rest of the team because they give balance."
Eden Hazard scored Chelsea's second goal as they cruised to victory and moved up to third place in the Premier League table following Tottenham's defeat to Fulham.
Benitez believes the Blues are gathering momentum at the right time - they are also in the last eight of the FA Cup and Europa League - and has not ruled out challenging for second place after they moved to within four points of Manchester City.
"If we continue winning, you can be closer to second," Benitez added. "We have a busy schedule now and then we will see where we are in the table.
"Today we continued the momentum of playing attacking football and creating chances - we should have scored more goals.
"For me, if the team is playing well the fans will enjoy it. The main target for us is to stick together as a team and hopefully the fans will enjoy the results. I'm really pleased with the atmosphere and I'm really pleased with the team."


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Sure, your Roomba picks up dust, but can it climb rocks and avoid obstacles? It will if you follow the example of Dean Segovis and dissect your Roomba robotic vacuum to build this killer makeshift Earth rover.
Segovis used the motors, controller and battery pack from your basic robotic vacuum cleaner and combined those with with an upgraded ultrasonic sensor for terrain detection, and tied it all together using the maker community's favorite microprocessor, the Arduino. Take all that nerdware and toss it into a simple, box-shaped frame with Rocker-bogie suspension (same thing the Mars rovers use) and off it goes to tackle the California terrain. It's a first effort and performs like one, getting stuck because of too-small wheels, flipping over from a weird center-of-gravity, and avoiding easily scaled obstacles. Dean's got plans to build one about twice this size and remedy some of these first-effort foibles, but still it's a pretty cool little project. [HackADay]


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Everybody knows what a cookbook is — or do we? They've been around at least since the Middle Ages, dispensing information on something that all households formerly had to do at least three times a day. Whether written by pros or home cooks, they convey more about their begetters and users than can be reduced to teaspoons and tablespoons. Over and beyond advice on buying, preparing, and serving food for purposes of health, thrift, glamour, or pure pleasure, they can speak volumes about the societies and times that have produced them — including our own. Far-reaching change is underway within the genre as recipes migrate online, or into e-books and culinary apps. The future undoubtedly holds even greater changes in the entire economics of cookbook publishing.
This conference is planned as an eclectic gathering of those who publish, write, edit, agent, research, or simply buy and use cookbooks. Our object is to share as inclusive a range as possible of our very different learning experiences. Our explorations will take two broad overall directions: Track I: "Cookbooks Past and Present: Looking Beneath the Sauce-Splattered Page"; and Track II: Cookbook 2020: "The Future of the Cookbook."
We hope you will enjoy the conference. Cathy Kaufman, Anne Mendelson, Adam Salomone, Bruce Shaw, and Andrew F. Smith
A note about the conference format:
The conference runs over 3 days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 9-11. There are separate registration fees for Thursday, and for Friday and Saturday. You may register: 1) for a workshop on Thursday; 2) the Conference on Friday and Saturday; or 3) both. (There is no single-day registration for Friday or Saturday.) Thursday is dedicated to workshops only. The three offered workshops will run simultaneously, so registrants can only select one workshop. There is a separate registration fee for the workshops. Pre-registration is a must; no walk-ins. Friday and Saturday are the core of the conference program. On each day, 5 time blocks will each offer 2 or 3 sessions from which to choose either Track I or Track II sessions. These 28 sessions (14 each day) are not pre-registered—you may sample all of them or stick with a single one per block.


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WHYBIN\TBWA announces dream leadership team to run NZ agency
WHYBIN\TBWA announces dream leadership team to run its New Zealand agency
Todd McLeay appointed Chief Executive Officer and Toby Talbot appointed Chief Creative Officer
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND – 9:00am Thursday February 7, 2013 – In a major top-level management change, Whybin\TBWA New Zealand today announced the appointments of Todd McLeay as Chief Executive Officer and Toby Talbot as Chief Creative Officer.
Commenting on the two key appointments, Keith Smith, TBWA President – International, said: "I am delighted that we have attracted two outstanding and proven performers. It's a very exciting time for us and with Todd and Toby on board, we are well positioned to take our business to the next level in New Zealand." Smith added, "This unique partnership is a blueprint for a new order of how we run our agencies in this rapidly changing world."
Todd McLeay joins Whybin\TBWA following a successful career in running marketing and media organizations. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer of APN New Zealand where he was responsible for all APN's local publishing and digital business, including the New Zealand Herald. Prior to that, he was CEO of NZ Lotteries.
Scott Whybin, Founder and Chairman of Whybin\TBWA Group, said: "McLeay has a reputation as one of the most customer-centric business leaders in New Zealand and has an excellent track record of growing businesses with creative marketing strategies."
Critically, Talbot and McLeay have worked together before. "When I was CEO of Lotteries I worked very closely with Toby who was Executive Creative Director at DDB," said McLeay. "Not only did we produce some of the country's most loved advertising, but we grew the business – one of New Zealand's largest consumer brands – in a very significant way. That's the combination of creative and commercial success we want to bring to TBWA's clients."
Ending months of speculation about Talbot in what can only be described as a creative coup for Whybin\TBWA, the multi-award winning creative director returns to Auckland from Rainey Kelly Campbell Roalfe Y&R in London, where he was Executive Creative Director. He is responsible for some of New Zealand's most iconic campaigns including work for brands such as SKY TV, NZ Lotteries and Steinlager. Talbot won Campaign Asia-Pacific's 2011 'Australia / New Zealand Creative of the Year' and was responsible for DDB's numerous 'Agency of the Year' titles, including Campaign Brief's 'New Zealand Agency of the Year' for the last three consecutive years – a feat unsurpassed by any New Zealand agency.
"Toby is a world-renowned creative leader," commented John Hunt, TBWA's Worldwide Creative Director. "He's been a top ranked ECD in the world for the past decade. His personal award tally is scattered across every festival. He totally transformed DDB in Auckland, and I know he has ambitious plans for Whybin\TBWA. I think Toby and Todd are going to be a unique, winning combination."
"Being ECD of a great London agency and working alongside people of the calibre of Mark Roalfe on brands like the BBC has been an incredible experience," Talbot said. "But the truth is, New Zealand has had a strong gravitational pull all year for my family. The prospect of joining Whybin\TBWA in partnership with Todd was just too good an opportunity to pass up. I've always admired Scott Whybin, David Walden and Andy Blood, and the operation and culture they've created around the impressive list of clients they work with."
David Walden will assist McLeay any way he can in the handover. "Toby and I look forward to tapping into Devo's vast knowledge in the first months. He's a legend in New Zealand advertising. We can learn a lot from him," added McLeay. Meanwhile, Andy Blood will step down as Executive Creative Director and help Talbot transition into his new role.
"2012 was a fantastic year for the agency – we launched our biggest campaign ever for Tourism New Zealand and helped our long-time client 2degrees to the one million customer landmark. I hope 2013 is even more successful and I think it's brilliant that Toby will be part of that," said Blood. "I decided last year that I wanted to move on. To start afresh and explore new opportunities."
"Andy has been with us for almost nine years and has contributed enormously to our strong growth and creative reputation," said Whybin. "Filling Andy's shoes was a near impossible task so we are thrilled that Toby, who has an impeccable creative reputation and truly understands the New Zealand market, will be joining us."
"I'm extremely proud of the group we've built here in New Zealand since Scott and I started the company in 1997," said Walden. "Whybin/TBWA's continued success is important to me and I know the agency will be in great hands with Toby and Todd".


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IncGamers: Sort of like a hack-and-slasher, but only in that you'll get hacked and slashed if you try to play it like one.
Sounds like I can look forward to being murdered over and over again by the sadistic nature of this, much like Demon's Souls.
this is on the Xbox360 right as well? Lol if this plays exactly how I think it is those CoD guys won't be able to play this for 30 seconds without auto aim and quick scoping
Dark Souls has a lock on... but the game is completely based on skill anyways.
Also flamelurker in Demon's Souls wasn't too hard. If you were a thief it was a little harder, but you could just put on ring of flame resistance, and some leather armor which increased fire resistance and you could either wait for him to do the run/leap inferno combo then hit him while he's stunned. Or just arrow/roll/arrow/roll.
If you were heavy type character you could just put on flame resistance ring and some heavy armor and kill him pretty quick with a heavy weapon. The only real thing that made flamelurker hard is that you pretty much had to fight him as quick as possible because without his soul you couldn't make any unique weapons.
Speaking of which, I really hope Dark Souls keeps the crafting system, and expands it to armor as well. You could upgrade shield, but I don't remember their being a shield you had to forge. And it would be sweet to be able to forge some armor sets as well, it would really add to the diversity of the game as well as pvp. In Demons souls, once you get around 100 SL, I almost always had to fight someone with the blueblood sword, the meat cleaver, or the Dragon Bone Sword.
demon's souls had a lock on as well. one of my favorite games of all time hell yes i'm picking up dark souls.


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How to Securely Back Up Your Data
Like the IT fellas always say, "If you haven't experienced a dreadful hard drive crash, you will." Notice the italics? You don't need to be a genius to know the importance of backing up your data. We show you how it's done, with the power of redundancy, off-site backups, and an intuitive workflow.
What You Need
Your PC/Mac
Backblaze or CrashPlan Central Account
1. Organize your data. If your files are in more places than you can remember, spend a weekend or two organizing your file structure. Think of it as Spring cleaning, except digital.
2. Get some hard drives for on-site backups. While we all know backing up is important, most of us don't do it for some reason or another. Well, actually, we can probably name those reasons: time, money, and TIME. With terabytes dropping down in prices every single day, the money factor should be no longer an issue. Now there's just the time part.
There are many services out there that allow for on-site backups. We suggest grabbing Windows Home Server, a NAS box, or Apple's Time Machine. Drobo's boxes are also a great option if you can afford it.
3. Get an online service for off-site backups. Again, because of time, most of us don't have the luxury of backing up manually every few weeks. This is where Backblaze and CrashPlan come in. Simply install, set it, and forget it. Both support PC/Mac and both have their pluses and minuses.
While a formal review of the two top dog providers are underway, we can sum up our impressions in a nutshell right here: Backblaze (Excellent UI, 4GB file limit), CrashPlan (Great value for families, Okay UI, no file size limit). Both have unlimited backup, file encryption, and have been around long enough to be considered fairly reliable as a last-resort backup.
4. Get super redundant with Dropbox (your online USB stick). While a bit on the pricey side for their 50GB and 100GB options, their 2GB offering is more than enough to make kill the need of ever purchasing another USB stick. With version control, folder sharing, and a brilliant user-interface, Dropbox will allow you to keep files on 1) your computer, 2) any other computer you have an account installed on, and 3) on their servers - accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.
5. Still paranoid? You need friends. By now, you should have at least 3 locations where your data is backed up: your local backup, your online backup via one of the services listed above, and your constantly used files up in Dropbox. However, if you're still paranoid, we suggest using CrashPlan's software to back up your files to a friend's computer (you'll have to ask nicely). Your friend will not be able to see your files, but will allow you to remotely back things up to their computer if say, they have a super-computer in their basement that needs another duty associated with it.
That's it! Once you have all of your computers with these services up and running, you should be 200% more prepared than when you were without it. And if you have more tips to share, do so in the comments and we'll keep adding them to our roundups in the future!
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How to Navigate Airline Labor Disruptions
Scott McCartney on Lunch Break looks at how best to deal with delays and cancellations, in light of the American Airlines mess as well as strikes at other airlines. It could be strategies for what to do when you get hit or if you are buying tickets now, and also an explanation of what your rights are. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... actually any of the air on time thanks to labor disputes ... are things you can get to fight back says says Scott McCartney his Middle Seat columnist joining us right now ... Scott T dot Eebee's contract negotiations with labor disputes ... American Airlines we can have a lot of us ... tells about what's been happening ... yet it's it's been terrible for travelers ... since September thirteen about half of Americans went to run late ... one out of five has been ... an excessively late more than forty five minutes late ... and they cancel almost a thousand flights on by contrast ... from the same period ultimately nine percent on time they canceled about forty points ... unit said you know for for people like to read into this happens it's incredibly inconvenient is meetings in this wedding is it just causes general horrible chaos and bad ... things in your life ... some really good ways to come for this and and one I like is know your rights tells what rights do we have ... when this mayhem uncles ... that will eat you basically have the right to walk away ... you don't have a whole lot of ... breaks in the in the US but ... you do have the right to a refund if your flight is canceled they had any time in the ... plan is canceled ... in an American is offering refunds to people on their delayed for two hours on or more ... time one hour in the case of their top from elite level frequent fliers ... so you can walk away ... if you're if you're not commit to meeting or whatever that help of some altitude gonna be there it's on a healthy to have that ... seeking descendants it didn't somehow pay full fare on another airline ... um but it's a possibility because a lot of these problems are mechanical issues American is on the hook for hotel rooms ... um not require to provide meals are amenities but as a matter of practice most big airlines in the US to do that ... United ... in Title any compensation like you aren't euro for for one delays but top ... but it was the airline is supposed to your weight from home on Security a little bit staff spent a few more of your your tips here I this is showing up early taking your bags with Hugo's always help but buying back up tickets when you when Sydney did that ... you do that when you absolutely have to be positively have to be there that are going away dinner cruise sailing or something like that ... in you wanna buy American aam ... you need a backup plan in Dodd in implying a fully refundable taken on another airline that you could just cancel and get a refund if American is going to be operating ... on the to do that ... and also by the standard taken on Southwest they don't turn change the so if you're if you're not to use the ticket ... the to do which is the money later on ... so lets them that there are things ... I need to do this or to protect yourself right aam and ... and and deal with the real possibility that your plan may be canceled ... it's got very quickly ten seconds you can get a status match if your elite flier you can ask recess smacks of a different airline ... this is a really good thing a lot of people don't know reliance on ... most airlines will get use to since then she got into it to regular line ... for three months ended in a challenge to you know you can find a certain amount ... of within that three months though will ... be the status of preferred three-month period even if you're worried about losing your elite status to upgrade to special perks of ... you get that in other airlines and then ride out the storm an American that that it says all I Scott McCartney thanks so much more in the Pursell Journal section tomorrow ...


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CHICAGO — Mitt Romney passed up a golden opportunity last week to take a meaningful step toward making inroads with the Latino community by proving he's not harshly anti-immigrant. He blew it.
No, I'm not referring to his speech to the Latino Coalition's annual economic summit. There Romney laid out his vision for our public schools, told a crowd of high-rolling Latinos "I love you," and asked for their vote without ever mentioning immigration.
Romney got flack about skating past the immigration issue because the speech had been seen by some as the perfect opportunity to clarify a monstrous blunder that has been hanging over his head since early May. At that time — one and a half months after Romney's senior adviser implied that once the primaries were concluded the candidate would reset his conservative positions for the fall contest — his Hispanic outreach director misstepped by admitting to a reporter that she didn't know if he was going to Etch A Sketch his stance on immigration.
"I think as a candidate, to my understanding, that he's still deciding what his position on immigration is," she said. This aroused the ire of everyone who had taken Romney at his word when he said he opposed the DREAM Act, that he thought Arizona's immigration law was a good model for the nation, and that he wants illegal immigration to solve itself through mass self-deportation.
But who could blame Romney from staying away from such a caustic topic at a gathering of Hispanic business owners who had convened to talk about the economy? Actually, Romney's choice to talk solely about education was politically smart.
Poll upon poll of registered Latino voters reinforces the fact that immigration is not the top Election Day worry of Hispanics — the economy, jobs and education are by far the main concerns and, by those standards, Romney's speech scored high. He stuck to those points while honoring his audience by unveiling to the nation his first thoughts on a major campaign issue.
So no, that's not his wasted opportunity.
The missed chance occurred a day later when word started getting around about how Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, had likened immigrants to dogs during a campaign stump speech.
Known for his bill to end birthright citizenship and his 2010 remarks suggesting that law enforcement agents can be trained to tell who is an illegal immigrant by their clothes and grooming, King said that highly educated immigrants were the "pick of the litter" and that you don't want "the one that's over there sleeping in the corner."
The dehumanizing remarks are only the latest in a long string of instances in which far-right politicians have likened immigrants to lesser life forms.
King suggested in 2006 that an electrified fence at the border would discourage illegal immigrants in the same way such fences successfully restrain livestock. In 2010, Tennessee state Rep. Curry Todd said that U.S. citizenship laws allow pregnant illegal immigrants to "go out there like rats and multiply." In 2011, Kansas state Rep. Virgil Peck said illegal immigrants should be shot from helicopters: "It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works, maybe we have found a [solution] to our illegal immigration problem."
So, given this history, King's dog metaphors were vile. And Romney would have earned himself some major brownie points with moderate Republicans, independents, a few Democrats and most Latinos had he repudiated King's words.
The fact is that even though it's true that immigration is not the single most important issue to Hispanics, the hostile tone surrounding it infuriates and harms all Latinos regardless of their citizenship status or political affiliation.
Standing up to the far right by condemning such belittling language would have earned Romney some respect from Latinos who believe that both he and the Republican Party hate them. And it would have demonstrated the kind of leadership all voters crave.
But all is not lost — it's not as though Romney won't have another opportunity to take the initiative. It's only a matter of time before the next foul-mouthed politician lets it slip that he believes illegal immigrants are less than human.
Esther Cepeda is syndicated columnist and an NBC Latino Contributor.
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Troglodytes aedon (house wren)
Drab in appearance, but a great singer, the House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) is one of the most wide-spread species in the New World. You'll find him from Canada to Tierra del Fuego. House Wrens also occupy a very broad range of habitats - I see them in the high conifers and the desert scrub. This one makes his Winter home around Peck's Lake [Arizona], and he's foraging and chattering in a patch of low scrub brush in this sample. The full recording lasts 5 minutes or so, with the song changing constantly.
Douglas Von Gausig (recordist; copyright holder), Naturesongs.com
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IMBALANCE OF GOVERNMENTAL POWER: Rhode Island is one of the few states in the union where one branch of government is so clearly more powerful than the other two. Of course in our little bastion of political patronage, the most powerful branch by a long shot is the legislative branch. The Speaker of the House exerts far more power than the governor or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The Senate President's power trails that of the Speaker only marginally. This has been accomplished over the years in part by the Speaker and the Senate President ensuring that judgeships are filled largely by their political friends – judges who will seldom rule against them in matters that might diminish their power over the executive branch. In essence, the legislative branch has "bought" the judicial branch in order to maintain its preeminent position in the government triumvirate.
This "imbalance of power" is being strengthened every year by the appointment of magistrates – "junior judges" who will likely be elevated to full judges at some point. Last week the Speaker's legal counsel and a former state senator were nominated for magistrate positions. This apparent circumvention of the 1994 law that intended to ensure judges are selected based on merit instead of political patronage has resulted in the number of magistrates exploding from only two in the early '90s to 21 today.
The "separation of powers" amendment to the R.I. Constitution attempted to remedy this imbalance of power among the three branches. It has met with only limited success, partly because it is hard to change old habits in the General Assembly. After all, it isn't easy to give up power. The appointment of magistrates by the legislative branch after they have been nominated by the judicial branch that is itself filled with legislative appointees, deprives the executive branch of its constitutional power to nominate judges. So much for separation of powers in R.I.
CONTRASTING EDC LOANS: One is amazed at the contrast between two EDC loans that have recently made the news. One, of course, is the ill-advised $75 million loan to 38 Studios – the company that promised us 450 jobs but is now in default and has released all of its employees. Contrast that whole saga with the courting of an energy technology company, Utilidata, by General Treasurer Gina Raimondo. Utilidata was brought to R.I. with only a $500,000 EDC loan. Not only is it successful thus far, it has already added 12 positions to our workforce and plans to add 35 more jobs with average salaries of $91,000 per year.
So, let's do the math. Seventy-five million dollars to 38 Studios for a promised 450 jobs that have now evaporated; that's $166,000 of taxpayer investment per job. Five hundred thousand dollars to Utilidata for a promised 47 jobs; that's $10,600 per job. Wow! What a difference! The $75 million lent to 38 Studios could have gone to 150 companies at $500,000 each and, if the Utilidata formula successfully prevailed, would have resulted in over 7,000 new jobs for R.I.
It just goes to show that Governor Chafee and other opponents of the huge loan guarantee to 38 Studios were right. And it shows that Gina Raimondo, a former venture capitalist, is far more capable of recognizing a company's potential for success than the collective guesswork exercised at the EDC. She should chair the EDC instead of the governor.
FISCAL COINCIDENCE: It is pure coincidence, but it is a striking one. 38 Studios declares bankruptcy, leaving Rhode Islanders to pick up the loan guarantee tab of $102 million. Coincidentally, the projected state surplus for the current fiscal year amounts to $102.7 million. So the huge ill-conceived taxpayer investment that has resulted in what appears to be a total loss wipes out the state's surplus. Just when we thought the surplus might be a harbinger of a fiscally stable future, the result of a bad loan comes along to shatter our hopes. It looks like Rhode Island just has bad juju!
VALEDICTORIANS' CAREER GOALS: Forty-six area high school valedictorians featured in last Sunday's Providence Journal indicated their career goals. The distribution of aspirations among these smartest of the smart is indicative of where our country is headed. Twenty of the 46 plan to pursue careers in medicine. This clearly follows the "graying of America" as the medical needs of an older population become greater and, unfortunately, the costs become higher. Of concern, only seven want to enter the field of business; not a good sign for an economy already losing ground on the world stage. Worse, only four want to become engineers. This is ameliorated somewhat by the seven who will pursue scientific research, but the relatively small combination points to an insufficient emphasis on science and technology in our high schools. The most refreshing revelation? Only three of the 46 want to become lawyers. In a country whose problems are greatly exacerbated by the ever-increasing number of avaricious attorneys who actively promote costly litigation, this disinterest in joining a group so infested with bottom-feeders is encouraging.
OLD GUN BECOMES YOUNG GUN: The national Republican Party has elevated Rhode Island Republican congressional candidate Brendon Doherty, former State Police superintendent, from one of 112 "on the radar" candidates to one of 21 "young guns," a designation that will likely mean much more support – both financial and organizational. More important, it indicates the national party believes that current Congressman David Cicilline will be one of the sitting Democratic congressmen most easily defeated in November. Cicilline's weakness stems, of course, from his involvement in Providence's financial mess and his dishonesty with voters about the city's financial health as he was leaving the mayor's position and vying for his congressional seat. It must make Doherty, the not-so-young guy who carried a gun for the State Police for so long, feel great to now be designated a "young gun." And it must make Cicilline, the culprit running away from his record in Providence, worry doubly now that more figurative guns are out to capture him.


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In the grand vision of the LinkedIn gurus, though, the future will offer a world map based on LinkedIn data showing every single economic opportunity on earth.
The map would include a profile of every company, every higher educational organization, every worker and every job opportunity on the planet.


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Hi Mark,
I'm struggling to see how to calculate the price of an American knock in option on a tree.
The dynamic programming (martingale pricing) method on the normal tree iterates backwards in time, taking expectations of future payoff to calculate current price. The auxiliary variable that indicates whether knock-in has occurred surely needs to 'looks back' in time. Do we need to calculate the sum of the probabilities of each path that has knocked in and reached the up branch of the future payoff, and also the sum of probabilities of each path that has knocked in and reached the down branch of the future payoff to perform the calculation? Or is there an easier way? Do you know any useful references that cover the necessary method?
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As a team the men finished 12th out of 23 teams. The University of Portland (ranked 10th in the nation) won the men's competition.
Muller was followed by Isaiah Greer (SO – Johnson City, Tenn.) 62nd in 25:25, Geoff Musick (SO – Nashville, Tenn.) 72nd in 25:31, Benton Reed (JR – Scottsboro, Ala.) 105th in 26:12, and Mike Yang (SO – Long Island, N.Y.) 110th in 26:18, with Hunter Hethcoat (JR -–Franklin, Tenn.) rounding out the Lipscomb finishers in 27:29.
"Tim has been very steady this season, leading our men in every race," head coach Bill Taylor said. "He's really matured a ton as a racer from last year and is very consistent and much smoother this year.
"I think Tim has a great chance to earn All-Conference honors this year. It will be a tough fight up front in the conference race, but he's right in there if he keeps doing what he is doing."
The top five runners ran all time PRs.
"That was nice," Taylor said. "Hunter has been sick and missed a PR, but he battled out there despite not being at his best.
"The men's team as a whole is in the same situation it has been in all season. We're not bad, but we are still too gapped and we still don't have a five yet. That could change in two weeks. Until it does we are a pretty average team. I'm hoping something changes in the final month of the season. I think we all are."
At Louisville the men's B team finished sixth in the silver race. The top two finishers for Lipscomb were Jeff Hoover (SR – Dickson, Tenn.) and Ben Wright (SO – Vincennes, Ind.) who finished 29th and 30th, both in 27:16 for the 8000-meter course.
The rest of the Lipscomb finishers were Ashton Fisher (SO – Ellsworth, Mich.) in 27:38, Cormac Carolan (JR – Peachtree City, Ga.) 27:56, Jonathan Williams (SR – Knoxville, Tenn.) 28:02, Aaron Todd (JR – Bedford, IL) 28:09, Justin Weise (FR – Cedar Park, Texas) 28:38, Cliff Denton (FR – Madison, Ala.) 28:44, Phillip Brasher (FR – Franklin, Tenn.) 29:26 and Jonathan Carmody (FR – Brentwood, Tenn.) 32:54.
The Bisons will take next weekend off from competition before competing in the last regular season race of the year, with the top men going to the Chile Pepper Invite in Fayetteville, Ark., and the rest going to the Evansville Invite in Evansville, Ind.


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LEWISTON – Students at Lewiston-Auburn College will host a special May Day celebration on campus Monday, May 1.
Organized by students in the "Labor, Literature, and the Arts" course, this event highlighting the labor movement will include a family picnic, music, guest speakers and presentations, and information tables.
If the weather permits, it will be held outdoors; otherwise it will be held in the Function Room. All are welcome to participate.
The event will include an opening breakfast of coffee and baked goods to be held from 10 to 11 a.m.
It will include a presentation by John Casey on "Australia, Spain, America, & the World Social Forum Movement," among other speakers.
At noon, there will be a free Somali-catered lunch and a potluck picnic. Everyone is encouraged to bring a favorite food to share. Several invited guests will make brief presentations on topics such as "From Theory to Practice – Working People's Politics," "Industrial Unionism and the University," and "Youth Looks to the Future." This will be followed by an open mike session and discussion.
As an added attraction, the "Eighth Annual Mousetrap Car Race" will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Students from the Auburn Middle School will compete against USM/L-A students in the applied physics class.
The students will enter their cars in various categories such as fastest, farthest distance, decoration and technology.
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MythDora supports it!
Newest Hauppauge v1069 remote and USB IR receiver
I have the latest remote ordered from the Hauppauge website just 3 weeks ago. It doesn't work with the lirc_mceusb2 module... it requires the lirc_mceusb module.
Everything I'd read pointed me to the mceusb2 module to get the thing working... after two weeks of ripping my hair out -- I finally compiled the mceusb module and the remote works...
Any suggestions on how I should update the page to indicate that the latest (black colored) Hauppauge remotes require the old mceusb driver, not the new one?
UPDATE: I think my above assumptions may be wrong -- but I haven't been able to communicate with any other actual person regarding their success in getting the new black remote working.
I have it working now -- but whether that was due to adding lirc_mceusb support or rather just recompiling and reinstalling the mceusb2 module has yet to be tested.


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I'm getting quite a few requests to watch a recent video by Alex Retrov and Krystal Alexander-Hille. Some of the points made are that 2011 is the important year, the date of Dec. 21, 2012 was given out by the Illuminati to lull us to sleep about the real date of late September 2011, major catastrophes will occur, Elenin will severely impact us, etc.
I won't be posting it.
Folks, none of these allegations are true. I'm not sure why lightworkers like Retrov or George Kavassilas want to instil such fear in us, but there are no grounds for fear.
SaLuSa discussed cabal attacks and Earth changes in today's message (Aug. 17, 2011) and said:
"Our allies are gaining more confidence in confronting those who are against Ascension and would stop its progress. The power is now with them and their demands for an end to covert actions [like earthquakes and tsunamis] are soon to bear fruit. The issue may have to be forced through, and they are fully prepared for all situations. Our allies are now to be found in every country, and it is an organisation that now wields immense power.
"You may have noted that you have not been beset with catastrophes of a physical nature, in spite of the ancient prophecies for this period of time. We have been able to control such issues, but certain Earth changes will have to take place as part of the cleansing. Whatever happens know that we are working behind the scenes to keep damage and death to a minimum, and we will do all we can to warn you in advance of any major event….
"Dear Ones, the restless Earth and the restless population are feeling the changing energies, and they are unsettling. However, they will settle down as the lower energies are gradually transmuted, and you will find that you draw the calming higher energies to yourselves. You will effectively lift yourselves out of the lower ones, and there is no reason why they should ever again be attracted by you."
Matthew Ward, in his latest message of Aug. 11, 2011, said:
"No mysterious Planet X or any other celestial body is going to collide with Earth or come close enough to have any effect, and the photon belt is so far distant from your planet that its meanderings are inconsequential.
"The Illuminati's long-time suppression of free energy developments will end within months and so will their use of HAARP to the detriment of humankind and the planet."
There will for sure be localized events and there will also be some loss of life, those people transitioning who have it in their soul contracts to do so. I know that sounds like a neat, self-serving way to escape all accountability for the deaths that do occur, but I think it's actually a true statement, however self-serving it may sound to some.
Yes, there will also be deaths from the struggle for freedom happening on the planet.
But there are no grounds for fearing a planet-wide catastrophe. I've written a large number of articles on the subject which I'll list in Footnote 1.
What needs to happen which has not yet happened so far is that we, as lightworkers, need to take a stand on our fear. We need to decide the question for ourselves once and for all that, for our own good and for the good of all on the planet. We have to set fear aside and no longer enroll ourselves in the video-of-the-moment in which some individual, for whatever reasons, tells us that catastrophe awaits us.
Surely we've been given enough evidence and enough reassurances that we can forego the need for our sources to repeat themselves on matters such as comet collisions, massive earthquakes, tsunamis, etc. Yes, catastrophes have happened in the past. Most of them have been caused by the cabal, but the cabal is now being defeated. It's ability to mount HAARP and other weather-control attacks will soon end, as Matthew said.
It's time for us to turn our backs on fear and find within us the heart of courage that allows us to demonstrate to the rest of society what faith in the Divine Plan for Ascension looks like. We are the leaders, the role models, the exemplars, if you will, for Ascension on Earth. We're the people others will look to. So we need now to realize that fear is a state of mind that can only exist because we allow it to and that the time for fear has now passed. From every conceivable standpoint.
Next month a new video will come out and the following month another. Will you watch it? Or will you get that your courage is needed and is vital to the calming of the masses of society. Our job has begun. It's the job we came here for.
(1) See, for instance:
- Ready-Reference Guide: There's No Need to Fear
- Examples of Disinformation Sites – Part 3 – "Allies of Humanity"
- More on the "Allies of Humanity" – 1/2
- More on the "Allies of Humanity" – 2/2
- Comments on Kavassilas
- Extinction-Level Events and Other Fear (Not) Scenarios
- On Armageddon or Ascension
- Niburu No Nemesis; Elenin No ELE
- Out of the Heart of Chaos and Trouble
- Surf's Up! But No 1,000-Foot Tsunami for the Planet
- How to Minimize Our Fears and Maximize our Ease Around This Time of Chaos – Part 1/2
- How to Minimize Our Fears and Maximize our Ease Around This Time of Chaos – Part 2/2
- There Will be No Catastrophe for the World – Part 1
- There Will be No Catastrophe for the World – Part 2
- There Will be No Catastrophe for the World – Part 3
- There Will be No Catastrophe for the World – Part 4
- There Will be No Catastrophe for the World – Part 5
- Should We "Leave the United States Now"?
- No War is Going to Happen
- Rumors Fly … But No Need to Worry
- More on Military Mobilization
- Planetary Evacuation is Not Going to Happen
- Global Warming and Other Earth Changes – Part 1/4
- Global Warming and Other Earth Changes – Part 2/4
- Global Warming and Other Earth Changes – Part 3/4
- Global Warming and Other Earth Changes – Part 4/4
- Will Water Become Scarce?
- Will the Armageddon of Biblical Prophecy Happen? – Part 1/3
- Will the Armageddon of Biblical Prophecy Happen? – Part 2/3
- Will the Armageddon of Biblical Prophecy Happen? – Part 3/3
- What Are the Chances of a Nuclear War with China?
- No Armageddon for the World


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EXCLUSIVELet's be blunt ... like Khloe Kardashian.
Khloe appears to have been blazin' at Tru nightclub -- where she partied Monday night with The Game and mom Kris Jenner.
Khloe was twerking up a sweat and apparently needed something to calm down ... at least that's the way it seems.
We've reached out to Tru ... for a reaction. So far, no response.
One thing's undeniable ... Khloe's smokin'.
Khloe says she did not inhale ... weed. She tweeted it was a hookah pen. Now you know.
Big difference between a hookah stick and weed.... #DumbDumbs
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Mazes for preschoolers, and really for all kids, are great for problem solving.
There's no doubt about it, life is going to throw you a curve ball at some time or another. No matter what you've planned, life can always take you in unexpected directions.
To achieve your dream, your finish line, sometimes you have to fail before you succeed. There are roadblocks, dead ends. Sometimes you can push through, other times you'll have to take a step back and try another direction. Mazes are a perfect example to show young kids about achieving your dreams, and problem solving to figure out what the best route will be to get you there.
Our sponsor, Monsters University is screaming this message, it is truly the theme of the movie. Mike's dream is to become a Scarer, and even though he's not at all scary, he's determined to do it. He battles one obstacle after another throughout the movie to become a Scarer. He's living a maze, running into dead ends and having to turn around to find another way to achieve his dream.
Kids can learn a lot from this movie, but the theme is probably a little over a preschooler's head, at least mine. So we play mazes a lot to learn about achieving their dreams! It shows them to never give up, that the right path is there, they just have to keep looking to find it.
Here's 5 mazes for preschoolers that we've done, and learned from!
- Simple and easy, a big maze out on the driveway just to drive through. Simple problem solving!
- Add numbers to a big maze outside for preschoolers to practice counting their way through.
- Use tape inside to make a maze on the floor. Add numbers to count through.
- Or use letters to make your way through the alphabet.
- Use the chalkboard and make a maze with letters, to follow the letter through the maze.
5 more awesome mazes for preschoolers that I want to try with the kids:
- Just a plain tape maze, but huge, on the floor from Adventures at Home with Mum.
- Learning math with a block maze from Little Moments to Embrace.
- Even shapes can be learnt in a maze, from Creative Family Fun.
- An a-Mazing (haha! Yes, I had to) Lego maze for kids from Kids Activities Blog.
- Mazes can even be made with playdough. How fun! From Squashed Tomatoes.
Be sure to check out all our mazes for kids as well as Monsters University, own it first on Digital HD 10/8 & Blu-ray™ Combo Pack on October 29th, to learn about believing in yourself and achieving your dreams!
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A girl in uniform, usually with a short skirt, easily seen panties, pigtails and a button up top.
That Catholic Schoolgirl needs to get closer to God. Perhaps my dick will be her diety of choice today.
by Denis Baldwin February 03, 2004
Maybe one of the most fantasized about types of girls ever. These young girls appear to innocent, holy, or wholesome when most are "naughty" or very sexual. Known for their really short plaid skirts. These girls mostly attract older men usually in there 30's or 40's. The most tempting jail bait there is. Its like the girl you want but can't have because you'll go to jail...for a long long time.
Middle Aged Guy: "Aw those catholic school girls, make me wish I was young again."
Freind: "Better stay away you know them girls, are pure jail bait."
Freind: "Better stay away you know them girls, are pure jail bait."
by Anunknownperson May 29, 2009
In slang terms, this is the stereotype describing the woman who gives the appearance of being very conformist, wholesome, and pure of "sin" (sex, drugs, and other indulgences), but in reality has a deep compulsion to be the contrasting opposite: very promiscuous and all-around unwholesome.
by Bill M. September 20, 2004
A catholic school girl is a girl who attends a catholic school. The girl is usually good-looking and has many secrets. At catholic schools, the girls try extra hard to look good because thats the only way to stand out with those fugly uniforms.
Boys are especially attracted to the catholic school girls because of Britney's Spears' music video a couple of years ago.
p.s. Catholic school girls are not sluttier than public school girls.
Boys are especially attracted to the catholic school girls because of Britney's Spears' music video a couple of years ago.
p.s. Catholic school girls are not sluttier than public school girls.
boy1: damn, sally looks fine today!! her skirt is extra short!
boy2: yeah, man. its so fucking sexy.
boy2: yeah, man. its so fucking sexy.
by weas August 10, 2005
ME!! I'm one of a lot of catholic school girls and i do it better. Simple as that.
by Shortiiie September 03, 2006
Catholic school girls are the best partiers, and they dress skanky to get all the guys' attention at parties
look at tha Catholic schoolgirl in the corner wearin that short skirt grindin up on the boys
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the most amazing people ever.
i'm a Catholic School girl, therefore i do everything better than you.
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