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It might be trickier than you think.
Hooking up with your hot friend might seem like a no-brainer. They're single, you're single, what's the big deal? But actually pulling off a healthy, happy friends-with-benefits arrangement might be trickier than you think. Before you get naked with a friend, take a look at these tips for making it work.
Love and sex expert Sheri Meyers, PsyD, says that in order to pull off this arrangement, you have to understand the situation first. "There's a huge difference between 'friends with benefits' and 'no strings attached,'" she says. The first is that you're friends but you're also agreeing to get busy together, while the second is no expectations, just sex. Have an agreement ahead of time so you're clear on what's really going on.
Think carefully about how your relationship with a potential FWB might evolve if you added sex to it and how you'd deal if for some reason you two became less close. You don't want to end up losing a close confidante if your FWB adventure goes awry. Your best friend since childhood who's also your emergency contact? Probably not the best candidate. Your cute coworker three desks down? Also not optimal. That friend of your cousin's who's hot but whom you just don't see yourself having a full-blown relationship with? Now that's more like it.
It's important to consider if your approach to relationships will allow you to become sexually involved and stay friends, Meyers says: "You may enter the situation going, 'I don't want commitment, this is so much easier,' but the minute you start kissing, the oxytocin stars flowing and your emotions get in the way." On the flip side, he could be the one who starts wanting more, which could get awkward if you don't feel the same.
You are by definition not obligated to be monogamous with an FWB, so it's super important that your protection game is on point. In other words, condoms are a must, and if you're in the habit of spontaneous meet-ups, it's smart for both of you to carry them. This is also no time for anyone to be shy about wanting or needing to use lube. You're here for a good time, so equip yourself with what you need to have one safely and comfortably.
The only way this FWB relationship will work is if the two of you are totally honest about how you feel from the get-go and continue to talk it out when needed, Meyers says. Not only is it important to speak up about changing needs and desires (like, if one of you meets someone), but you should also talk about what you like and don't in bed — that's what this is all about, right?
"Find out exactly what you're really saying yes to," says Meyers. The more specific you are about setting guidelines — How often are you going to see each other? Will you stay over at each other's places? — the better the arrangement will work.
Keep hugging, kissing, and cuddling — especially in public — to a minimum, Meyers advises: "You have to stay detached or it's going to become a romantic relationship, which changes all the rules." You can also keep boundaries in place by not leaving stuff like toothbrushes and clothes at each other's places.
Yes, you two are friends, meaning — presumably — that you get along and have a good time together. And that's great! But think twice before making your FWB your date to your college BFF's wedding or inviting them to dinner with your parents. Casual hangouts are one thing, but including them in significant or intimate moments in your life as if they were your partner can blur the lines that you worked so hard to draw.
People typically don't get jealous of the people their friends date unless they have feelings for them, Meyers says. So, if you're irked when you see him talking to girls on Instagram, you have to speak up — and maybe even end the FWB situation. Better to address your emotions head-on rather than squash them down only for them to bubble up into resentment later.
If this is truly a FWB and not "no strings attached," you are welcome and encouraged to sustain the "friends" part of that by continuing to do whatever activity or hobby brought you together as friends in the first place. If/when the sex stops, ideally you'll come out the other side still being friends.
While you should never enter an FWB arrangement with someone you actually want to date — Don't sell yourself short! — some FWBs do become partners. That can only happen if someone speaks up, though, so if you want a greater commitment from you FWB, say so. If you two are on the same page, awesome. If not, then you have the knowledge you need to move on to look for a connection that truly makes you happy.
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- Central Transport, LLC, participated in Guinness World Record breaking truck convoy for Charity.
The event hosted by RoadPro, took place Mother's Day in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with proceeds benefitting Make-A-Wish for Philadelphia, Northern Delaware and Susquehanna Valley. This was the 27th annual Mother's Day convoy, an event which continues to grow year after year. This year, the convoy had 590 trucks participate, and expects to raise more than $300,000 when the final total is calculated.
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+ All Time Low will drop Don't Panic on Oct. 9, but you can listen to a full stream of the album ahead of its release. You guys, the stream also includes cool video animation and song lyrics! (PureVolume)
+ Yesterday, Miguel dropped his excellent album, Kaleidoscope Dream, and he's now sharing the romantic video for "Do You..." WARNING: Watching it may steam up your computer screen. (Rap-Up)
+ Looks like the rumors that Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey aren't getting along as judges on "American Idol" might be true. Yesterday, the two looked to be in an argument. Nicki was caught on tape swearing at Mariah, and poor Keith Urban didn't seem to know what to do. (MTV News)
+ Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Bruno Mars have been tapped to perform during the Victoria Secret's Fashion Show, which will air Dec. 4 on CBS. (MTV News)
+ Forbes list of "Highest Paid Women" includes some of our fave pop stars. Britney Spears comes in at No. 2, Taylor Swift weighed in at No. 3, Rihanna tied Ellen DeGeneres at No. 4, and both Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez took the No. 5 spot. Oprah topped the list. (MTV News)
+ Was the song The Jonas Brothers teased on the recent "Married With Jonas" episode the new tune they've been promising? In it, Nick sings, "I'll meet you in Paris/ Somewhere in dreamland come to life/ That smile you're wearing/ Keeps me believing, keeps me alive/ We'll be the king and queen to our broken scene/ Meet you in Paris/ Meet you in Paris." (MTV News)
+ Watch MGK today on "RapFix Live." Singer Ryan Leslie is also a guest. Tune in at 4 p.m. E.T. and don't forget to tweet questions for the artists to @MTVRapFix. (RapFix)
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Congratulations Nicole!!!!! You're totally inspiring. Diana and Don
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YAY!!!!! I knew you could do it! Rock on!
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I'm thrilled, so happy. Thanks Morrie & everyone for that amazing last push. WE DID IT!
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wow, Nicole, congratulations for your hard effort!!! xx
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congrats! over the top with just minutes left - way to go!
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great work, Nicole---both with the film and with the fundraising!
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Just kicked up my donation! CROSSING fingers you make it to the finish line!!!
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So great seeing the clip on Saturday!!! Such an inspiring story about an important subject. I can't wait to see it on a big screen!
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This project fills me with hope. As a USer, I often feel bombarded with international news that I can't really take in because I don't know how to connect with the people whom that news is really about. Nicole Karsin has the credentials and a great angle to help us really understand what is happening in Colombia because of the drug wars. I look forward to learning more about her three warriors.
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Wonderful job, Nicol! This subject is so important and really, I, we, nobody is doing anything about it. We are all washing our hands and letting the governments deal with it and look what a disaster it is... Thank you for bringing awareness on the drug war and the plight of indigenous people and for elevating indigenous women to the hall of fame of peace makers.
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GOOOOOO Nicole!!!!! I'm rooting for you and your team and this awesome film! Or as we would say in Korean "Hwighting!!!!"
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Congrats, Nicole! Can't wait to see the final film. Thank you for your dedication to this project, I know it will make a big impact.
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Thank you for making this film! I love supporting and collaborating on projects that make a positive difference, especially in the lives of brave women and girls!
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Abrazos for using your skills to tell important stories. The voices of indigenous peoples of Colombia must be heard if they are to survive. So much more critical than the stories that grab headlines and focus the public's attention on escorts and government agents. I wish you had a dollar for every time that scandal in Cartagena has been re-told or updated...
Thanks, Nicole, for the opportunity to join the fight with We Women Warriors!
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I love that we are both doing doc about radical women. You got this!!!!!!
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Nicole: Keeping my fingers crossed - hope you make the goal.
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Your strength and perseverance are commendable! I wish you much success with this fantastic film that empowers women of all creeds and specially the marginalized. Adelante!!
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Teresa Palmer was plunged into a downward spiral of despair after a bad break-up last year (12).
The Warm Bodies star has shared her crippling heartbreak with fans in a home video titled Overcoming Adversity, which was posted on her spirituality website YourZenLife.com.
She does not name the ex-boyfriend, but she is believed to be discussing her romance with actor Scott Speedman, who she split from in 2012.
Palmer explains, "Last year, I had a really difficult time. I had my heart broken last year, really terribly, I was very badly portrayed and it was humiliating and upsetting. At the same time that that happened, my mum had some health issues as well. I'd flown her out to Los Angeles to be with me while I was grieving the breakdown of this relationship and she really suffered from some health issues. It was one thing after the next.
"I remember being literally on the floor, bawling my eyes out, just suffering terribly and feeling alone and scared and unsure of the future. Just completely dark, a very low point. I realised that there was nothing I could do but find the strength within myself to pull me out of it."
Palmer credits yoga and meditation with helping her through the dark episode, and adds, "Every day I moved further and further away from the pain and I started to rely solely on myself for happiness and fulfilment. It taught me that I don't need to have this despair. As a result of my darkness, probably the worst time I've ever had in my life, I'm a much better person."
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Paul Harvey has joined Stifel Nicolaus Weisel's European investment banking team as a managing director in the firm's London office, heading up its European technology practice.
"We are pleased to welcome Paul to the team," said Thom Weisel, Co-Chairman of Stifel Financial. "Paul's extensive private equity and venture capital relationships in Europe and the U.S. are a great asset to our technology effort, particularly in Europe, where we see significant opportunity."
Harvey reports to New York-based Brad Raymond, co-head of investment banking at Stifel Nicolaus Weisel. "The opportunities we see now in Europe are principally in the M&A market and in our ability to raise capital for European companies in the United States," Raymond told On Wall Street. "Over 50% of our M&A assignments have cross-border dialogues. Ten years ago, that number was closer to 0%."
Raymond said that Stifel's ability to participate in such transactions will be enhanced by the addition of Harvey, whose experience in the technology sector dates back to 1986. Harvey, who received his BSBA from Georgetown University and his MBA from the Harvard Business School, has held senior positions in the European Technology Investment Banking practices of Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and Goldman Sachs.
For the past six years, Harvey has been a general partner at Atlantic Bridge, a European mid-market tech-focused private equity fund that he co-founded in 2005. According to Stifel, Harvey was involved in over $16 billion of technology financings prior to co-founding Atlantic Bridge. In addition, he has advised on transactions with aggregate values of approximately $60 billion.
"We continue to expand and strengthen the Stifel platform," Raymond said. "Paul brings to this role an impressive network of senior executive, entrepreneur, private equity, and venture capital contacts built and nurtured over the 25 years that he has been active in this sector."
In Europe, Stifel hopes to leverage its U.S. relationships. "The mid-market companies we work with in the U.S. are potential buyers of European assets," Raymond told On Wall Street. "At the same time, smaller U.S. companies might be sellers in deals involving large European companies. As an example, several years ago we advised a seller on a transaction in which a U.S. company was acquired by Alcatel," he said, referring to Alcatel-Lucent, the French-based tech giant. "With Paul in our London office, we'll have more access to major European companies such as Alcatel."
Economic stress in Europe may help create opportunities for Stifel, according to Raymond. "European companies are looking for liquidity," he said. "They may be trying to raise capital in the U.S., if it's not available in Europe, or they might be trying to sell assets here."
It has been nearly five years since Stifel established a "beachhead" in Europe by setting up a London office. "Our emphasis has been on natural resources companies. Tech is a logical 'vertical' for us, given the breadth of our tech team in the U.S.," Raymond said, referring to increased emphasis on the tech sector. "We see opportunities in adding more verticals in the future, in areas such as health care."
Donald Jay Korn writes for On Wall Street.
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Update on Union Rallies
- California: The California Teachers Association has budgeted $1 million for labor protests at the State Capitol on May 9-13.
- Illinois: More than five thousand union members from three different states gathered in Daley Plaza on April 9. Participants claim both private sector employers and state governments are eroding the standard of living of working people by wage roll backs and cuts to benefits. Other protests took place around the state, including in Collinsville, Peoria, and Gurnee.
- Michigan: On Wed., the state saw its second big labor rally when thousands at the state Capitol protested Gov. Snyder proposed a budget that makes steep cuts to education and calls for public employees to pay 20 percent of their health insurance premiums. In a "call to battle," Herb Sanders of AFSCME Council 25, said public employee unions in Michigan should be prepared to use the ultimate "weapon" of their labor to "shut this state down" if Snyder and the Republicans who control the Legislature don't back off. The Michigan Education Association is awaiting results for local approval for "unprecedented action," including work stoppages that Republicans say would be an illegal strike and are prepared to punish.This week, the Grand Rapids Michigan Teachers union president suggested to the school board tstudents attend protests as a field trip. Unsurprisingly, the school board rejected the proposal.
- New York:Thousands of pro-labor demonstrators gathered April 9 at a rally in Times Square, organized by the New York state AFL-CIO. The marchers say they are standing strong against what they claim to be a war against organized labor in this country.
- Ohio: Ten thousand protesters gathered at the Ohio Statehouse at the kickoff rally to repeal Senate Bill 5, Gov. John Kasich's union-busting initiative that takes away collective bargaining rights of Ohio's public workforce.
- Washington: Protests have taken place at the Capitol where 7,000 gathered and where state troopers had tophysically remove nine protesters, as well as in Seattle.
The left also plans to protest the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) meeting in Cincinnati at the end of this month. In addition to unions targeting state lawmakers, they are also going after banks, and the SEIU has focused on JP Morgan Chase. The next month or so will certainly be full of union activity and we need to be aware. We also need to get out the message of the differences between private sector and governor sector collective bargaining.


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Author Notes: Candied sweet potatoes, a fall harvest classic, take on an entirely new character when the "candy" comes from glazed, spiced praline pecans in this family recipe. —The Weiser Kitchen
Serves: 4
Sweet Potatoes
pounds (4 to 6) sweet potatoes, washed, skin on
tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
tablespoon unsalted butter
Glazed Pecans
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cups (about 12 ounces) large pecan halves
cup brown sugar
cup cane syrup
teaspoons ground cinnamon
scrapes nutmeg (see note below)
teaspoon ground allspice
teaspoon kosher salt
tablespoons toasted nut oil, such as walnut or pistachio, divided
- Prick the sweet potatoes with a fork 4 or 5 times each. Microwave at high power for 10 to 15 minutes, until partially cooked (slightly softened but not cooked through). The time will depend on the size of the potatoes; check them often by squeezing them slightly during the cooking. Remove them from the microwave individually as they are done and set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, combine the pecans, brown sugar, cane sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, salt, and 3 tablespoons of the nut oil in a large bowl and, with a rubber spatula, fold together until well mixed and the nuts are thoroughly coated with spices and oil.
- In a 12-inch skillet, heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil over medium high-heat until it begins to shimmer. Add the nut mixture and cook, stirring frequently for 7 to 8 minutes, until the sugar dissolves. Set aside.
- When the potatoes are cool enough to handle, slice in ½-inch rounds.
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- Note: Nutmeg is available ground, but if you buy the whole nutmeg, and grate it or scrape it with a sharp knife yourself, the flavor and fragrance will be much stronger. Look for it in specialty spice stores, good supermarket spice sections, or online.
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On this week's show, we'll hear about a program that funds pork research, and revisit a story about food hubs.
Every time a hog is sold, farmers contribute to the National Pork Check-off. The program each year raises tens of millions of dollars that goes to the National Pork Board, which is charged with improving the $20 billion dollar industry. Some of that money funds scientific research. But as Harvest Public Media's Amy Mayer reports, though all producers contribute, they aren't all satisfied with the research.
Also, we'll revisit a story about food hubs. These food processing and distribution centers make it easier for restaurants, grocery stores, and others to buy local food. As Sean Powers reported for Harvest Public Media back in July, it's part of a trend that's not only helping struggling farms, but also bringing in new talent to agriculture.


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FORT LAUDERDALE — Four blond, sun-tanned, teen-agers wearing shorts, T-shirts and tennis shoes were cruising the Galleria Mall when a bright red, $24,000 McLaren convertible caught their eye.
They gravitated toward the car like bees to honey.
Their find wasn`t in the parking lot. It was sandwiched between the Carnegie Deli, a shoe store, Jordan Marsh and the other stores located in the center of the mall.
Lincoln-Mercury was the first automobile company to locate a dealership in a South Florida mall. That was about 13 months ago and, according to Lincoln- Mercury Galleria salon sales manager Larry Clemons, 200 cars have been sold.
``If we never sold a car out of here it would be worth it for the exposure,`` Clemons said of the store.
Other car companies seem to agree.
Bayview Cadillac opened its own Galleria salon right across from Lincoln- Mercury about a month ago.
John Marschall, Bayview new car sales manager, estimates that the store has sold about 20 cars.
That`s not bad, considering the number of mall-goers who spend most of their time window shopping and maybe picking up a $3 magazine.
Joe Feuda, a Bayview salesman, said one man came into the shop finishing the corned beef sandwich he had purchased at the Carnegie Deli and walked out with a $30,000 gossamer blue Eldorado.
``The day we opened, we sold two cars,`` added Marschall.
For most people though, ``buying a car is a process and this could be a starting point,`` Marschall said.
He said the difference between working in a dealership and working at the mall is that there are more ``lookers`` at the mall, and the whole point of the sales person`s job is to ``separate the lookers from the buyers.``
Edna and Frank Rella were just lookers.
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Meet the Raspberry Pi tablet, named PiPad by its owner and creator Michael Castor.
The tablet was built by maker-enthusiast Castor as a Maker Faire project. He used a 12V, 10-inch touchscreen with a 5V HDMI to LVDS adapter, since the Raspberry Pi runs off 5V. He also managed to squeeze in a 10,000mAh battery that gives a good six hours of use.
But it's the design we love. Castor made the PiPad using some beautiful half-inch Baltic birch plywood wrapped over a carbon fibre frame, which looks great on the back. There appear to be some blue battery notification lights to the rear that could prove useful. It's also been signed, at Maker Faire, by Raspberry Pi Foundation founder Eben Upton.
The PiPad charges via a 5V mobile phone charger, features Wi-Fi, a waterproof on-off button with white LED lighting, micro to mini USB, a Flio E5 headphone amplifier, and USB.
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This is purely just a 'what a wore' to Band night this evening. It was a charity event for 'Shelterbox' (a disaster charity) and the music was great. Despite the grand music, the highlight of my evening has to have been some very amusing dancers (for instance, a rather arrogant female who clearly considered herself Beyonce and an incredible male who seemed as though he was on an entirely different planet). To focus on the music, or the band more so i guess, I really wouldnt mind a lovely song writing, guitar playing, check shirt buttoned to the neck and stucked into the trousers wearing young gentleman to come and sweep me off my feet (although I gather that may very well be far more difficult that it sounds; I'd settle for a cheeky smile and an introduction). Goodness me, where are all the decent lads? Seeing as even those I consider my friends take me for granted, I think that it is high time that some good looking fellow came to cheer me up.
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With a layout like its light theme counterpart, this particular item simply adds some color and appeal to cater to those visitors who might visit your site most often… women.
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Long-Form, Parallax Design Shopify Theme
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Shopify – it's one of the most popular and fastest-growing eCommerce solutions on the market today, and for good reason. There are few companies or products that offer the ease-of-use and robust functionality that you will find when using their platform.
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The Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures
Lesson 5 of 9
Objective: Student will be able to describe the relationship between variables in The Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures as well as solve problems using these gas laws as demonstrated by taking notes and performing practice questions.
Big Idea: The Ideal Gas Law describes the relationship between temperature, pressure, volume, and number of moles of a gas while Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures can be used to find the total pressure of a mixture of gases.
In this lesson students continue their learning about gas laws through reviewing Boyle's Law, Charles Law, Gay Lussac's Law, and The Combined Gas Laws and then learning about the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures.
- This lesson does not align with any specific NGSS Performance Expectation; however, it does align with the old California State Standards. Additionally, I feel that understanding gas laws and the basics of earth's atmosphere are important for students to know and is a topic that is interesting and fun for students.
- This lesson also aligns with the Next Generation Science and Engineering Practice 5: Using Mathematics and Computational Thinking. It does so because students are challenged to understand the mathematical relationship between variables (P, V, T & n) and solve problems using the Ideal Gas Law and Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures.
- This lesson aligns with the Next Generation Crosscutting Concept 3: Scale, Proportion, and Quantity. It does so because students are challenged to think about gases, despite the fact that they cannot see them as well as understand how algebraic expressions can be used to understand the relationship between variables.
For this lesson I have students do a review activity using matching cards. I print them on regular paper but you could also make them on cardstock to improve their longevity.
To begin this lesson I have students spend some time reviewing what they have already learned in the first four lessons of the unit through performing a gas laws matching activity.
- The goal of this activity is to help students differentiate between the four gas laws (Boyle's, Charles', Gay Lussac's, and Combined) in terms of variables, constants, equation, type of relationship, and a representative graph.
- Before the lesson I make a set of cards for each table group (8 sets). In order to make them I print out the attached papers(cards for gas laws matching 1 and cards for gas laws matching 2), cut out and then color. I like to color each type of category card a different color.
- During the lesson I pass out a stack of cards to each group, making sure that they are shuffled.
- I then instruct students to, "With your group match each gas law with its characteristics. You should have one of each colored card matched together. Make sure to have them laid out on the table and when your group thinks that you are done than raise your hands for me to check."
- I then let students spend time working with their groups. If they are stuck I tell them to go back and look at their old notes and foldable to help.
- Here is a movie showing my students working together to figure out which cards match.
- This picture shows the matched cards, notice how I have each outlined a different color.
- This movie explains how I make the cards and expect students to match them.
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After students have completed their introductory activity I then have them do a quick mid-unit quiz.
- The goal of this quiz is to check that students are understanding the material that we have covered so far in the unit.
- I have students put away everything except for their periodic table, a calculator, and a pen or pencil. For this quiz they need their periodic tables because it has a reference sheet on the back that has the equations that they may need.
- I then pass out the quiz to students. I have two versions of the quiz to ensure academic honesty and give them so that students have a different version from the person next to or across from them. This is a copy of the quiz.
- As students complete their quizzes I have them turn over and then come around to collect. I give students about 10 minutes to complete the quiz. When students are done if I have collected their quiz then I encourage them to get out their binders and begin to get ready for the lesson.
- After class I grade the quizzes using the answer key and place in my gradebook.
- Then, the next class period I pass back the quizzes and students do corrections. See the attached reflection for more details about how I do quiz corrections.
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When students have completed their quizzes, I then let them know that we are going to be learning two more gas laws.
I pass out the Unit 7 lecture 4 students notes graphic organizer and show them the first slide of the PowerPoint.
- I begin the lesson with teaching students about the Ideal gas law on slide 2.
- I stress that this is the only gas law that has one of each variable at the SAME TIME!
- I also tell students that there are multiple "R" values, but that for this class we will only be using 0.0821 so our units for volume are always in Liters, temperature in Kelvin, moles in mol, and pressure in atm.
- I then have students do the practice questions on slides 3-9.
- I make sure that students use the problem solving technique of underlining what they know, circling what they want, labeling, writing down the equation, isolating their variable, and then solving for the answer.
- In the first example students have to first convert mL to L. I have them do this to review this type of conversion.
- In the second example students need to first convert grams to moles using molar mass. I give them the hint that they will need their periodic tables for this.
- I also teach students Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures which is on slide 10.
- I then have students do two practice questions on slides 11-14.
- For the first practice question students need to convert between pressure units.
- For the second practice question students get confused if they do not read the question carefully because they are solving for one of the partial pressures, not the total pressure.
- This is a copy of one student's filled in notes.
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To complete the lesson I have students perform practice homework questions on the Unit 7 lecture 4 homework paper.
I have students begin the homework in class and then finish at home.
I stamp their papers for completion at the next class period and go over the answer using the answer key.
Here is one example of a student's completed homework.
The biggest mistakes that students make are when they have to first perform a conversion before plugging into the equations. For example in question 2 where they first need to convert pressure to atm, and in question 3 where they need to first solve for moles and then convert to grams.


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The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) investigated this occurrence for the purpose of advancing transportation safety. It is not the function of the Board to assign fault or determine civil or criminal liability.
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Of the bulk carrier "ALGOLAKE"
In the Canadian canal upper approach channel
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
17 April 1997
While downbound in the ice-covered St. Mary's River, in the channel leading to the Algoma Steel dock, the "ALGOLAKE" suddenly developed heavy vibration and came to a halt. The vessel was positioned in the centre of the channel and it was later determined that the vessel had come into contact with a bottom accumulation of rock debris and suffered significant hull damage.
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|Port of Registry
|Sault Ste. Marie
|Registry/Licence Number
|Self - unloading, Bulk carrier
|Gross Tonnage
|22, 852 Tons
|219 m
|F: 7.44 m. A: 7.44 m.
|1977, Collingwood, Ont
|Pielstick diesel motor
|Number of Crew
|Number of Passengers
|Registered Owners
|C3013286 Canada Inc.
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
On 17 April, 1997, the "ALGOLAKE" was downbound in the St Mary's River, in the Canadian canal upper approach channel (also known locally as the Canadian channel) bound for the Algoma Steel dock at Sault Ste. Marie. The waterway was ice-covered and the vessel was proceeding in the middle of the 160 m wide channel, when, at about 1740, the master felt the ship beginning to vibrate. He immediately put the propulsion machinery to full astern. The vessel was loaded with 24,073 tonnes of iron ore pellets from Marquette, Michigan, and her momentum carried her forward, for a distance later estimated to be a further 61 m, before she stopped. The "ALGOLAKE" remained in that position until she came free at 1030 the following morning after being lightered by 2300 tonnes. A post-casualty inspection revealed the vessel had sustained hull perforation damage, over the length of 61 m, in way of port DB tanks No's 1 and 2 between the keel and the turn-of-the-bilge.
Water Depth
At 1640 the master of the "ALGOLAKE" called the ('Sault Control') U.S. Coast Guard Traffic Control by VHF radio to determine the water level for the area above the Sault locks. He was advised the water level was 0.43 m over chart datum, based on NOAA instrumentation. This gauge level reading is used to represent the general area, including the Canadian side around the Algoma Steel dock above the Canadian and U.S. locks.
Three days after the occurrence, the Canadian Coast Guard ship "SAMUEL RISLEY" conducted a sounding survey of the Canadian channel, the detail of which was restricted due to the limited equipment aboard, but which found no shallow spot. A more detailed survey was commenced by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a courtesy to Canada, and this found all the channel conformed to the controlling depth of 7.62m. The "ALGOLAKE" was drawing 7.44m forward and aft. Prior to the occurrence, the last survey of the channel was conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on 26 September 1996 and that survey did not reveal any high spots. The interval between soundings was between 5 and 10 metres.
Bottom Debris
The Canadian channel was constructed over 30 years ago by means of explosives, which left fragmented rock on the bottom in the vicinity of the channel. After this occurrence, divers examined the bottom of the channel in the vicinity of the area where the vessel sustained damage and found rock debris with paint scrapes. A video tape showed the bottom rock debris to be irregular in shape, mostly shot-rock of sandstone variety, created when the channel was constructed. Rock debris from shallower water can be moved towards the ship channel when ice shifts during the spring thaw or during ice-breaking operations. Rocks forming bottom debris can also come free from the edge of the channel through natural underwater degradation of the channel sides and when large vessels manoeuvre in the confines of the ship channel.
Navigation to the Algoma Steel Dock
The Canadian channel runs for approximately a mile and a half off the main shipping channel giving access to the Algoma Steel dock and leading to the Sault Ste Marie (Canada) Canal and lock. Vessels calling at the Algoma Steel dock of necessity proceed at a minimum safe speed in order to negotiate a turn near the end of the channel and dock at the facility. Nine other vessels with a similar loaded draught had cleared in and out of the Algoma Steel dock since the start of the 1997 navigation season. The Transportation Safety Board has no record of a similar shipping accident, involving a vessel striking debris in the middle of the channel, being reported in the area since TSB's computerized records were commenced in 1975.
- The blasting procedure used to create the Canadian channel resulted in considerable rock debris remaining in the vicinity of the waterway.
- Rock debris accumulated in the shipping channel.
- While proceeding in the middle of the channel, the "ALGOLAKE" contacted an accumulation of rock debris which was sufficiently large to "ground" the vessel.
Causes and Contributing Factors
The "ALGOLAKE" was brought to a stop and sustained significant damage to her hull when she contacted rock debris in the centre of the Canadian channel. Natural, and vessel induced, degradation of the channel sides and ice-breaking operations likely contributed to the accumulation of rock debris in the channel
This report concludes the Transportation Safety Board's investigation into this occurrence. Consequently, the Board, consisting of Chairperson Benoît Bouchard, and members Maurice Harquail, Charles Simpson and W.A. Tadros, authorized the release of this report on 29 September 1998.
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Right, then: down to business. The vast majority of ordinary knowledge - everything except instinct and revelation - gets into what we conveniently think of as our minds via our senses. As human beings we generally regard sight as the most reliable of the senses: we tend to accept anything that we've seen with our own eyes. And yet we know that we don't all see the world in the same way: some people have colour blindness to varying degrees; some need spectacles; and so on. It is similar with the other senses. Some of us are more or less deaf; when plagued with a cold we cannot smell; and so on. Modern technology tells us that there is a lot going on in the world - radio and television waves for a start - that our senses cannot register at all.
Acquiring knowledge by sight may seem to be achieved "directly". But, that is not really valid. It is worth taking a closer look (to coin a phrase).
It is obvious that a Christmas card, say, doesn't get into the mind. In fact, it doesn't even get into our eyes: the most we can say is that an image gets into our eyes which our mind interprets as a Christmas card. So we are clearly dealing with a multi-stage process even with "direct" learning from sense data.
In diagrammatic form the shortest possible chain in my own case would seem to be something like this:
Christmas card
Most obvious, I suppose, is that in order to be able to see there must be some light: to see the colours accurately we need to be able to make use of a particular range of wavelengths since in physics colour equals wavelength. This is nothing like as simple as it may seem. In fact, of course, "physics" cannot see colours at all. Colour is something that you and I and many other living things can appreciate - though even we can't describe it. All that any physical instrument can do is to measure wavelengths and then it is up to us to match those figures with what we know, internally, about red, blue, yellow and so on.
Let's think about a favourite TV programme. Of course it doesn't really exist: it's all an optical illusion. It is quite well known that apparently smooth movement is actually achieved by showing a series of similar but slightly different still pictures in quick succession. The human eyes-brain system takes a minimum of something like one sixteenth of a second to realise what any particular picture is about. Some home movies worked reasonably well by projecting sixteen successive pictures per second: modern television uses half as many again in order to minimise flickering.
Not that your TV set can actually produce a picture: it can't! All it can do is to show one spot of picture at a time, with the spot location zipping across the screen one line at a time (taking something like one fifteen-thousandth of a second to do so), half-filling the screen from top to bottom and then going back to fill in the missing alternate lines before starting work on the next image. Meanwhile though, any watching human eye (I can't vouch for moths' or alligators') has been sending messages to the brain which "sees" a single picture - just one within the apparently smooth succession of whole pictures.
But if you enquire into the TV mechanism you quickly discover that it can boast of a mere three colours - red, green and blue. So can it "actually" produce mauve and gold and black and white and so on? Certainly a colour photograph of the screen shows the full range of colours so the answer would seem to be "Yes". But again it is just an illusion: size is responsible this time, rather than speed or time. The spots on the TV screen are of three types, each capable of glowing only red or only green or only blue. But as they are so tiny we can't make so fine a distinction unless we look at the screen very close-to, or with a magnifying glass perhaps. So on normal viewing the colour spots fuse and our eyes-brain system perceives the whole range of intermediate, mixed colours. Obviously, no colour at all equates with black: it is a happy fact of physics that equal contributions of the three basic colours gives white. (Incidentally, this is not the same as the colour-mixing system that you can achieve by mixing paints. In that case the primary colours are red, yellow and blue: no paint gives no colour and a mix of all three gives a dirty brown. The difference from the television system arises from the fact that the TV uses light production whereas paints rely on the reflection of light.)
There can be a whole host of other colour illusions. Generally speaking, our eyes-brain system compensates automatically for all but the most severe upsets of colour regimes: that's why your partner looks much the same in a dim restaurant, in sunshine, and in gaudy neon-lit surroundings. Researchers have shown that what seems to us to be a particular colour is not directly the result of the wavelength of its light alone: what matters is relative rather than absolute wavelength. If you want to demonstrate this for yourself you can try projecting your holiday slides onto a bright pink screen: the people and scenes appear to have quite normal colouring. But there are limits: don't expect your partner to look healthy and rosy under orange street lamps at night.
Even if we are seeing under ideal lighting conditions we can't say that we see "true" colours since the only colours we know about are human colours: colours are different for a bee since it can see (if we are still going to call it "seeing") up into ultra-violet frequencies beyond the scope of human eyes. And some snakes, for instance, extend their vision down to the infra-red "colours". So what are the "true" colours of the Christmas card? We can never know.
Similarly, it's as well to be aware of the cleverness of our brains as regards shapes: artists have to. Let us make a distinction:
Even the direction of the light can make a huge difference to what reaches our eyes: highlights, reflections and excessive contrasts can make a thing "unseeable", as when the sun is in our eyes. There are not likely to be any detectable errors in viewing a Christmas card across the reading distance involved, or even across the width of the room. But transmission "errors" in other circumstances are many and very varied. Here are just a few to be going on with.
The case may not be quite so straightforward with other instruments though. Even a simple microscope shows us a world very different from that of our unaided senses. So we have to ask what the world is "really" like, rather than assume that our human viewpoint is in some meaningful way more true than is that of the carpet mite.
Although we tend to think of sight as being so much more reliable than the other senses it is perhaps worth realising that taste suffers none of the limitations we have been thinking about so far. When we taste something it is the actual material itself that has to be in direct touch with the sensors on our tongues. Even if some part of what we think of as taste is really the smell of the material the same rule holds good: minute amounts of the substance must reach the similar sensors in our noses. Only then can we form anything that could be regarded as a taste "image" of roast beef or strawberry yoghurt.
And yet we know for certain that people differ in the way they taste the same things. Geneticists are the scientists who study biological inheritance. For some purposes they are particularly interested in characteristics that are as simple as possible, controlled by a single gene, a single unit of inheritance. That makes it relatively easy to follow what happens to such a gene, both from generation to generation and in some cases from race to race or population group to population group. They happened to discover that the ability to taste a chemical compound called phenylthiocarbamide is controlled by a single gene: it is more common in some human populations than others. "Tasters" find it dreadfully bitter, while it has no effect on "non-tasters". The point is, from our point of view, that even in the case of tasting, where there is direct contact between what is to be sensed - the chemical in this case - and the sense organ concerned - the taste buds - the result is still not a reliably constant image, person to person. There could be some similar explanation as to why some people enjoy eating several green vegetables of the cabbage family and other people don't like any of them. Perhaps we experience the same thing in different ways: we can never know, however much we try to compare notes.
Smell is probably our least developed sense. Undoubtedly there is a lot going on in the world of smells that we don't know anything about. Any pet dog obviously has a picture of the world built up largely of smells - of olfactory information if you prefer. Certainly the bloodhound and the skunk, the dogfish and the salmon, the fly and the moth all rely on the sense of smell - their own or somebody else's - for finding food or a mate; for tracing the way home; for marking territory; or for defence. The concentrations of the chemicals involved are in most cases much, much too low for humans to be able to detect unaided.
And of course we know they are not! Well, not totally anyway. The classic case always quoted in this context is the poor chap who has had his leg amputated and yet it still itches from time to time: so he scratches his wooden leg! In fact, of course, the feeling which the brain has interpreted as an itch must have originated somewhere along the transmission path which used to come from the leg.
The mystery surrounding the relationship between physico-chemical signals in nerves and the mental processes that we attribute to our minds is a complex one with no universal agreement. We read of hallucinogenic drugs, of magic mushrooms, of alcoholics afflicted with delirium tremens. So we know for a fact that in common with all living processes the body's message-carrying system can be poisoned and upset in many ways.
Descartes was, you may remember, concerned about dreams. Certainly dreams and nightmares do not come from sense data in the ordinary way.
On all these grounds, then, we have got to realise that not every sensation was set up by a sense organ. We already know that sense organs differ in their sensitivity but once a sense organ has detected something does it necessarily send off its message and does that message always finish up as a sensation? Both answers are "No". We don't need to get terribly involved here: it gives us a good clue if we simply ask about sleep and attention.
One of the convenient marvels of our bodies lies in the matter of attention. Perhaps the most obvious example is breathing. We are "on automatic" virtually all the time, so we don't have to give any attention to it: the control system keeps us breathing fast enough to provide all our body systems with the oxygen they need. But the moment we want to drink, swim, kiss, gargle, or blow up a balloon - in fact whenever we need conscious control of breathing - we can switch to "voluntary" for as long as we want.
The same thing applies to the incoming signals from our sense organs. If you stop to think about it - to give your attention to it - here and now, you will realise that many areas of your skin can feel your clothes; you know pretty clearly where your arms and legs are; you would know immediately if the bottom of this page suddenly turned red, and in fact your eyes have images of much more than the few words you happen to be concentrating on in the normal course of your reading; there may or may not be noises in the background, but certainly you would be likely to be aware of it if your ears changed their messages to your brain; and it could even be that you can, when you think about it but not otherwise, still taste your last meal and can smell something in your environment. The plain fact of the matter is that at any time, even when we are asleep, there are countless sensory signals being received and being processed which never reach any level of awareness. This is just as well: I would guess that we would suffer nervous exhaustion after a couple of days' attention to everything!
To make our living simpler (but our understanding of the process more difficult) there is no straightforward link between the strength of the sensory data and the level of attention. I'm not here referring to blindness, deafness and so on: quite apart from that there is no direct relationship between the strength of the signal reaching the brain and the brain's reaction. It seems as if receptivity can be pre-programmed. The fortunate and well known result is that the conscientious Mum can hear and distinguish her baby's cries when for anyone else they would be lost in the background noise or the soundtrack of the television film. Any of us can "keep an eye open" for some object or "be on tenterhooks" for a significant signal. Conversely, it is very difficult indeed to guarantee that a particular sound did not take place, that a special person was not among those who have walked by. Even worse, it is virtually impossible actually to detect insignificant events: would you know whether or not an aircraft had flown overhead while you were changing the oil in the car or planting your new shrubs in the garden? Normally, of course, it doesn't make the slightest difference: after all, we are discussing insignificant events. The worry arises only if you are witness to some crime, say: then your brain is not properly attention-programmed and it is very difficult to swear what did and what did not happen.
Anyway, enough about attention. What we must be aware of is that sense organs are not like parking meters, clicking reliably into their repertoire of reactions at distinct pre-set levels.
If a report of prices on the Tokyo stock exchange arrived into our environment in the form of an explanation of the Nikkei Average in Japanese few of us in the west would be able to get the meaning out of the given data: the image-to-meaning conversion could not be carried out. But the case would be exactly the same if the Christmas card artist had gone a bit over the top and made the symbolic form of a robin rather too way-out, remote from its real-life shape and colour: we couldn't then recognise that either. Certainly the interpretation and recognition parts of the system are very obviously significant when we contrast our own "seeing" with that of an expert. What is just a patterned stone to me is an identifiable fossil with an imposing Latin name to a palaeontologist. And my dentist can learn a lot more about me than I can from a view of my dental X-ray pictures.
We all accept that an ordinary landscape photo is an accurate image of a scene: it doesn't need any "interpreting" - it is just as it is. But then you might come across the interesting case of stereoscopic pairs of photos. If these are carefully lined up in a special mount with eyepieces (a stereoscopic viewer) it is possible to "see" in three dimensions. Of course the photos are both still flat: the 3-D effect is produced by making use of the brain's powers of interpretation. It's not the actual eyepieces of the viewer that make the difference but the alignment: the brain can't fuse two images which aren't at least partly identical. (The 3-D view is also lost if ordinary field binoculars are badly adjusted, but in that case the scene is in 3-D whereas the flat photos could show depth only as an illusion.) The photos don't change when they are aligned but the brain's use of them does. Incidentally the 3-D shapes can be "wrong" if the viewer eyepieces are not the same distance apart as were the lenses of the double camera that took the photos. So the brain might be illusorally right or illusorally wrong!
In short, a lot of information can be present and available, correctly imaged by the sense organs, sending valid messages to the brain, without correctly yielding its data unless handled by the brain in a particular way or in a special context of interest and attention.
If sense data by themselves are not enough to provide true knowledge there is a pretty clear need for something else, either instead of sense data or in addition. This cannot be anything external to ourselves since the only route back to ourselves is via our senses. But we have got to take account of the existence of the world and must accept something of the knowledge we get from our everyday senses. So we have got to conclude that the only possible way of improving the status of our supposed knowledge must come about from organising the sense data in some way. Put another way -
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Rana boylii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Rana boylii Baird, 1854
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|Taxonomic Source(s):
|Frost, D.R. 2014. Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6 (27 January 2014). New York, USA. Available at: http://research.amnh.org/herpetology/amphibia/index.html. (Accessed: 27 January 2014).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
Needs updating
|Georgina Santos-Barrera, Geoffrey Hammerson, Gary Fellers
|Global Amphibian Assessment Coordinating Team (Simon Stuart, Janice Chanson, Neil Cox and Bruce Young)
Listed as Near Threatened because the species has declined seriously in some areas (but overall probably at a rate of less than 30% over ten years), and the causes of the decline are not well known, thus making the species close to qualifying for Vulnerable.
|Range Description:
|This species is known from the Pacific drainages from the upper reaches of the Willamette River system, Oregon (west of the Cascades crest), south to the upper San Gabriel River, Los Angeles County, California, including the coastal ranges and Sierra Nevada foothills, in the USA. There is a disjunct population at La Grulla Meadow, Sierra San Pedro Martir, Baja California, Mexico. It has apparently disappeared from portions of its historical range, especially in southern California (see Hayes and Jennings 1988). It occurs from sea level up to 2,040m asl.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Mexico; United States
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|This species has probably been extirpated from the Tehacahapi Mountains southwards, and there have also been severe declines in the central Sierra foothills of California (Drost and Fellers 1996). It is now rare or absent in Oregon (Leonard et al. 1993), moderately common in north-western California and the northern Sierra foothills, and rare or absent in the central and southern Sierra foothills. This species was first recorded in Mexico three decades ago, but almost nothing is known about its biology there.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species inhabits partially shaded, rocky streams at low to moderate altitudes, in areas of chaparral, open woodland, and forest (Nussbaum, Brodie and Storm 1983; Hayes and Jennings 1988). It seeks cover at the bottom of a pool when startled. Its breeding and non-breeding habitats are the following, in order of decreasing favourability: (1) partially shaded, small perennial streams, 30-1,000m asl, with at least some cobble-sized rocks, riffle areas and a stream depth rarely greater than 1m; (2) intermittent, small, partly shaded, rocky streams displaying seasonal riffle habitat; (3) large (consistently greater than 1m in stream depth), partly shaded, perennial streams with rocky or bedrock habitat; and (4) open perennial streams with little or no rocky habitat. Breeding takes place in pools of streams, and eggs are usually attached to gravel or rocks at the edge of pools or streams (Nussbaum, Brodie and Storm 1983). In northern California, eggs were found attached to cobbles and boulders at lower than ambient flow velocities, near confluences of tributary drainages in wide, shallow reaches, and most breeding sites were used repeatedly (Kupferberg 1996).
|Terrestrial; Freshwater
|Major Threat(s):
|Threats to this species include stream scouring (it may negatively impact frogs in stream bed hibernation sites), introduced aquatic species, non-selective logging practices, and stabilization of historically fluctuating stream flows. However, because causes of declines are uncertain, it is difficult to assess the degree to which this species is threatened. S.J. Kupferberg (pers. comm.) found that bullfrog (Rana catesbeiana) larvae perturbed aquatic community structure and exerted detrimental effects on R. boylii populations in northern California but had only a slight impact on Pseudacris regilla.
|Conservation Actions:
|Some populations of this species occur in national forests in California and Oregon, but this does not necessarily provide adequate protection. It also occurs in a few national, regional and state parks, and on properties owned by The Nature Conservancy. In Mexico it occurs within the San Pedro Martir National Park, which is a relatively well-preserved area. This species is protected by Mexican law under the "Special Protection" category (Pr).
|Georgina Santos-Barrera, Geoffrey Hammerson, Gary Fellers. 2004. Rana boylii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2004: e.T19175A8847383. . Downloaded on 15 August 2018.
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Professor Eileen Connolly is Director of the Ireland India Institute in DCU and a member of the School of Law and Government. Her research interests include gender and politics, women's and political representation and post conflict reconstruction. Prof. Connolly leads the Gender and Political Transition research cluster within DCU's Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction - which includes a team of PhD students working in different regions, including Georgia, Moldova, Central Asia and the Caspian region, sub-Saharan Africa and Central America. Prof. Connolly has led a number of research projects for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, official development agency – Irish Aid, including a major study of local civil society organisations in Tanzania, Ethiopia and Central America. Prof. Connolly was previously Director of DCU's Centre for International Studies and she was a member of Executive Committee of the ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research).


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Chip Kelly said "We'll be back," in response to:
A: Losing last season's national championship game to Auburn.
B: Oregon being put on major NCAA probation in connection with Willie Lyles.
The answer is "A" because "B" hasn't happened, and might never happen.
That said, it drizzled overcast news all winter, spring and summer in Eugene. It was a constant, persistent patter, the kind of soak that seeps into artificial turf seams.
Last season's last-second loss to Auburn was supposed to be the start of something big, and might still be, yet there is no getting over the uncertainty of it all.


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|14 May 2009
Windows 7 Unable to go past 1024x768 Screen Resolution
Hi, I have Windows 7 RC Build 7100 x64, and my 15 inch Compaq CRT Monitor can not go past 1024x768 in windows 7, but in windows XP and Windows Vista, im able to go all the way up to 2048x900 57 hz, ive tried upgrading drivers, using a DVI-to-VGA adapter to use the DVI port with my vga monitor, and clearing the checkbox that hides the higher resolutions, but, i still cannot go any higher than 1024x768, which is too low of a screen resolution for me, so, please help, ive also tried using vista drivers from 2008, but still a no-go, so im out of ideas, if theres a way to fix this, or this is unfixable for the time being, ill stick with XP, so please let me know, thanks
|My System Specs
|14 May 2009
Windows 7 Home Premium
I was running 1360x768 on my lcd tv as my display, and when I updated to the newest nvidia drivers through the windows update, I also could not change from 1024x768 resolution. Any other selection would not display anything but a black screen on my tv. I then attempted to change the resolution through the nvidia control panel. I chose 1360x768 in there, and bingo it displayed perfectly. Maybe give that a try?
|My System Specs
|14 May 2009
RE: Last Post
ive tried that, and still doesn't allow me to change it, i guess its because im running an old CRT monitor, oh well, ill wait and see if anyone else has a solution before I decide to go back to XP Permanently, or at least until i get a LCD monitor.
|My System Specs
|14 May 2009
Windows 8.1 Pro RTM x64
I'm actually quite surprised that you can get the resolution that are claiming to have obtained with this monitor. The maximum official resolution is as highlighted here.
Information taken from ftp://ftp.uniroma2.it/%7BB/DEC/compa...ning/mv520.pdf
|My System Specs
|14 May 2009
RE: Last Post
I'm actually quite surprised that you can get the resolution that are claiming to have obtained with this monitor. The maximum official resolution is as highlighted here.
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This study demonstrates that early-establishing plants may have the ability to suppress exotic invasive grasses and help restore native ecosystems.
(PRWEB) July 07, 2014
Invasive Plant Science and Management—Restoring rangelands degraded by invasive annual grasses has proven to be a difficult task. Even with reseeding help, native species have found it hard to compete with invaders across the western United States Great Basin, an area that includes most of Nevada, and parts of California, Oregon, and Utah. A new study helps identify the role certain plant species can play in the successful rehabilitation of rangelands. Restoring more diverse native plants can improve habitat and forage for wildlife and livestock, along with reducing soil erosion and fire risk.
The study in the current issue of Invasive Plant Science and Management, compares performance of two mixes of native seeds against medusahead, an exotic grass from southwestern Europe which has invaded the Great Basin. Invasive grasses, such as medusahead, decrease native species biodiversity and increase fire frequency.
Two seed mixes of native species, each containing grasses, forbs, and shrubs, were tested for their performance against medusahead. Establishment, above-ground biomass, and seed production of each plant type was measured during the first year of growth. The experiment was conducted in two types of soil—clay loam and sandy loam.
An early seral seed mix containing bristly fiddleneck and squirreltail was more successful in establishing against medusahead, than a late seral seed mix which contains more spring emerging, slower maturing plant species such as gooseberryleaf, globemallow, and Wyoming big sagebrush. The early mix emerged in the fall and contained faster maturing plant species. This early mixture reduced biomass of medusahead plants and seed production by 16 and 17 percent, respectively.
This study demonstrates that early-establishing plants may have the ability to suppress exotic invasive grasses and help restore native ecosystems. This is an important weapon in the arsenal of native species restoration because, as the study also found, medusahead can successfully establish and produce seeds in different soil types. This information may be critical in decreasing potential grass fires in the Great Basin area.
The native annual forb, bristly fiddleneck, was particularly effective against medusahead in both soil types. This study opens the door for future research that can better determine which native species to pit against the invading exotics and what optimal seeding density is needed for bristly fiddleneck and other native plants to suppress medusahead.
Full text of the article "First-year Establishment, Biomass and Seed Production of Early vs. Late Seral Natives in Two Medusahead (Taeniatherum caputmedusae) Invaded Soils," Invasive Plant Science and Management, Vol. 7, No. 2, April–June 2014, is available at http://www.wssajournals.org/doi/full/10.1614/IPSM-D-13-00068.1.
About Invasive Plant Science and Management:
Invasive Plant Science and Management is a broad-based journal that focuses on invasive plant species. It is published by the Weed Science Society of America, a non-profit professional society that promotes research, education, and extension outreach activities related to weeds; provides science-based information to the public and policy makers; and fosters awareness of weeds and their impacts on managed and natural ecosystems. For more information, visit http://www.wssa.net/.


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Start date: 29 Nov 2014
End date: 29 Nov 2014
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Two brand new works, Ex Nihilo / The Human Edge, draw on the epic creation myths of sacred Indian texts to explore the ancient questions of creation and human life through dance. Ex Nihilo is an expression of the poetic thinking and abstract imagery questioning the time before the Big Bang whilst The Human Edge draws inspiration from the aspect of the universe that is perceivably within our grasp – the human angle. Based on the story of Sati the choreography evokes the drama of Sati's life and death as a metaphor of a star.
Featuring sound installation from Bill Fontana and music composed by Boonham's long-term collaborators, Midival Punditz.