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I saw a very similar question here about N4, but I still hold out hope - are listening conversations/questions repeated in N3?
I can't find anything about it. I've been trying to prepare for the exam for about 2 months but listening is my greatest weakness (I've mostly learnt Japanese on my own so have very little experience with listening). If I fail (I probably will) it'll be because of the listening.
As a final note, because I'm desperate - does anyone have any advice/ideas on how to best prepare for the listening?
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Neighbors say at least 229 homes in the area are being rented out as "boarding houses" to Stony Brook University students who find it cheaper to rent than live in a dorm. The Town of Brookhaven, which oversees housing laws, says it's begun a new crackdown on absentee landlords and illegal group homes before a tragedy occurs.
"There are a number of code violations," says Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine. "There was no smoke detector, there was no CO detector. There were interior doors that were locked,"
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I am about to receive and install an HDD replaced under warranty. I have not a Windows 7 image backup but I think I have somewhat out-of-date datafile backups. (How can I tell the backups are generated by Windows 7). The simple question is do I (try to) restore the data before or after reinstalling the programs.
A supplementary problem. I have full backups using Acronis True Image 11 which I now find is incompatible with Windows 7 mainly because of driver issues. Acronis normally allows the extraction of chosen folders and files. Ideally I would like to extract the emails and email addresses, as well as various other data files.
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Do you have an Acronis Image backup? It should work using the boot disk to reimage the new HD.
If you have any WD or Seagate HD's attached, you can use their free compatible Acronis premium programs from their Support Downloads webpage. The Manual is here as well.
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Hi gregrocker
Just got home and read your message. Many thanks. The Acronis True Image 11 backup is indeed on a WD external drive. Sorry but I have been unsuccessful in finding the download for the 'free compatible Acronis premium programs from their Support Downloads webpage' on the WD Support Downloads website. Please could you give me the url or other pointer. Off to bed now as approaching midnight here.
tia John
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It might recognize the plugged-in external HD as a valid drive qualifying for using the free Acronis app to clone or image your new HD. Try it.
Here are the download and Manual: WD Support
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Many thanks for the url. Once the new HDD is installed I will download the current Acronis True Image WD edition to a WD external drive if I can. (I do not know what make the replacement HD will be - the failed one was a Samsung.) Then I will do a complete backup of my new HDD so I should be able to restore if necessary. Only then will I see what if anything I can recover from the Acronis True Image 11 backup. But I am not too optimistic as I have read this has compatibility problems with Windows 7.
Thanks again - I will report back on progress.
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Sorry to say but I have been unwise enough to connect my external Western Digital HDD to a WinXP computer. The WD had an Acronis Safe Zone with backup generated by True Image 11 from the Windows 7 computer. Now on connecting the external WD drive to a different Windows 7 machine the partition seems to have disappeared together with the backup. Although there was no certainty that the backup could be useful in any way (True Image 11 not being suitable for Windows 7) it is rather frustrating. I do not know if this is a querk of the WD drive or a Windows problem.
I suspect the Safe Zone and backup cannot be recovered. Any ideas?
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I would plug the external back into the machine where Acronis image is recognized, use the Acronis feature to Convert Image file to Windows Backup image, place WindowsImageBackup in the external root, then boot the Win7 DVD or Repair CD to "Recover Using an Image" to the target HD. Again, this might work.
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Thanks for the suggestion. Still awaiting the return of the HDD.
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Rick Ross and Spaceghostpurrp are both from the Carol City community in Miami. Both are steeped in Uncle Luke's 2 Live Crew carnival of raunch--Ross' women wear panties that look like shoestrings, and Spaceghostpurrp's strippahs have already lost theirs. But Ricky Rozay has employed the J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League producers to drape his "Playboy's Paradise" in the kind of sonic opulence that befits the corpulent rapper: There's no shame (in fact, almost a wink) in the video for "Mafia Music," in which a shirtless, Jabba the Hut-referencing Ross reclines on a sofa with a still-life feast in front of him.
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It's not over, though. The song morphs, slithering into chopped-n-screwed territory, Houston's DJ Screw's early '90s response to Miami's fast body-shaking bass:
Continuing "Spaceghostpurrp on lean" is NASA mixtape's "Foe Tha Love of Muney Jordan," during which car doors slam outside an amusement park's tinkling merry-go-round and arcade's video game explosions:
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His whole catalog, however, is bound together by the influence of his favorite cartoon, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. The creator, Mike Lazzo, intermingled stock, original, and completely unrelated material to make a talk show whose phantasmagoric vibe is the easiest way to describe Spaceghostpurrp.
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How's everyone sugar doing after the holiday? Mine were really good @ 92. I know that sometimes after a holiday it can be rough trying to maintain good numbers. My worst holidays are Thanksgiving and Christmas. I was suppose to go to the doctor today but, I rescheduled. I do have to go to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine. It's convienent because, I work in a hospital.
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Over the past few months I have had a real blast! I've met people that have read my book and enjoyed it and I've also met people that have been inspired by my journey to become published. I have not met one nasty or obnoxious person because of my writing and I am very thankful for that.
I have joined a writers group called New Writers UK who are a collection of interesting and diverse people with one important thing in common, they all enjoy helping other new writers. I went to Wookey Hole at Easter for an event that New Writers put on and another event yesterday at Rufford Abbey in Nottinghamshire. They get about a bit and promote their work as a non-profit organisation. On Saturday the Children's Writing Competition for 2011 was launched and it is to be judged at County Hall in Nottingham in October. It is open to children from Nottinghamshire aged 8 - 15 and is growing year on year.
The other Authors I have met lately have been mainly from Facebook and, love it or loathe it, Facebook helps bring like-minded people together if you know where to look.
Help is out there if you want to become published or learn how to edit your work to the standard that publishers want. There is help and advice for all aspects of writing but the best advice I can give, I think, is Dont give up! Keep on writing and honing your craft and ask other people. Writing is a very solitary occupation but you don't have to be solitary all the time.
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As has been widely reported, Pope Francis began his papacy with an already strong relationship with the Jewish community. Yet only time will tell if this pope will put the final nail in the coffin of Christian anti-Judaism: namely, an official end to the absurd notion that Christian faith produces more compassion and mercy in the human heart than does the Jewish faith.
It is worth noting that in addition to his expressions of solidarity with Argentina's Jewish community, Pope Francis, while archbishop of Buenos Aires, participated in a Jewish-Catholic Tzedaka service; a charity effort where Jewish and Catholic volunteers went out – together – distributing aid to the poor and downtrodden of Buenos Aires.
Arguably, inter-faith Tzedaka-like service programs could be a template for a healthy, and I would argue very necessary, reform of Catholic religious life: specifically, the kind of reform that would help to end the utter fiction that Christians are more loving and compassionate than Jews.
Of all the teachings of Jesus that Christians are capable of summarily jettisoning, this one might take the cake:
Be on guard against performing religious acts for people to see. Otherwise expect no recompense from your heavenly Father. When you give alms, for example, do not blow a horn before you in synagogues and streets like hypocrites looking for applause. You can be sure of this much, they are already repaid. In giving alms you are not to let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. Keep your deeds of mercy secret, and your Father who sees in secret will repay you. (Matthew 6: 1-4)
I've often wondered why those outside the Christian faith, including Jews, seem to do better with this instruction of Jesus than do some Christians. Many people seem to know, instinctively, that ostentatious displays of mercy are linked to ulterior motives. Yet it is nothing short of tragic that millions upon millions of Catholics still drink the Kool-Aid that gets them to believe that those individuals who show off their "good works" and use those "good works" as a source of power, status and influence are doing the will of God, as opposed to what they are actually doing: creating social, ecclesiastical, political and oftentimes, monetary, capital for themselves.
That the founder of the Christian faith, Jesus Christ, warned against the dangers of false mercy – performing good deeds for no other purpose than to pursue power, status, and adulation, namely all the spokes of a dis-equilibriated ego – is the mother of all ironies. I will leave it to religious historians to debate how we got from A) Jesus who expressly warned against such practices to B) Christians who routinely incorporate such activities into their social domination stratagems.
Though the Second Vatican Council greatly advanced Catholic-Jewish relations, specifically by revoking the violence-inducing charge of deicide against the Jewish people, the legacy of Christian moral supremacy lives on in Catholicism, and indeed all of Christendom.
An inter-faith Tzedaka-like reform of the Catholic Church's religious orders could help end that nearly two millennia-old absurdity that simply believing in Jesus as the son of God – even if that belief could be outwardly verified, which of course it cannot – makes a person a more loving, caring, and all-around more moral, human being than not believing that Jesus is the son of God.
It is that false belief that is the very bedrock of historic Christian anti-Semitism.
Mercy is a work of the human heart, and it can come from any one of God's children. It is by no means the province of just one faith. By issuing a papal decree that all non-worship, non-evangelization programs and activities by Catholic religious orders – namely works of charity and mercy – must pro-actively strive to incorporate men and women from all religious backgrounds, Pope Francis could help throw the aforementioned poisonous Kool-Aid down the drain where it belongs.
As Jesus Christ so clearly warned his flock, there is a vast gulf between the authentic mercy of the human heart, and false "mercy" that is so commonly used by human beings to advance their own interests, particularly religious status, power and influence.
As I touched upon in this article, too many children have had their lives torn apart by sexual abusers in the Catholic Church who deliberately used false mercy as their source of raw power and influence over others.
Too many Jews have been murdered throughout the centuries because Catholic priests and prelates taught that Jews were less capable of love and compassion for other human beings simply because they were not Christian.
My hope, for Catholics and Jews, and indeed all people whose lives have been adversely affected in some way by Catholic religious, is that Pope Francis will end the scourge of false mercy and articulate this most basic truth: Authentic mercy is from the human heart itself, and cannot be annexed by anyone.
For any Christian to assert, or imply, that their faith in Jesus Christ provides them with a more merciful heart than Jews, or others who are not Christian, is nothing more than an expression of the human will to dominate others. It has nothing to do with love.
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You won't believe how easy it is to prepare this 5-Ingredient Apricot Glazed Ham! Sure, it's spring…and sure, Easter is almost here. And while this beautiful and impressive-looking main course would be an obvious centerpiece on your Easter dinner table, please don't overlook it as a great weeknight meal as well. I promise, it's that easy!
By mixing together just a few simple ingredients and heating a ham in your oven, you can have a fancy-schmancy-looking dinner on the table with just a mere 5 minutes of prep time! My boys loved the combination of the sweet glaze over the salty ham. And I especially appreciate that the ham is pre-sliced, which eliminates one more step in the process of getting this dinner on the table fast. If you have any left-overs, just keep the ham in the refrigerator to enjoy on sandwiches throughout the week. This recipe is a true winner!
5-Ingredient Apricot Glazed Ham
- 1 sliced Hickory-Smoked Boneless Ham about 2.5 – 3 lbs.
- ¾ cup apricot preserves
- ¼ cup Dijon mustard
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Place ham in a baking dish.
- In a small bowl, combine preserves, mustard, sugar, and cloves. Spread about half of the mixture on top of the ham. Reserve the remaining glaze.
- Cover ham and bake for about 25 minutes.
- Uncover ham, spread remaining glaze over top, and bake (uncovered) for an additional 20-30 minutes. Do not overcook.
- Spoon remaining glaze from the pan over individual ham slices for serving, if desired.
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If you did not make it last year, here's how to make 2017 rock when it comes to your scholarship applications.
Sure, the economy is still in the dog house, but that does not mean your scholarship dreams should be too. We share some super insights into how to hit the ground running, and get that scholarship you deserve, this year!-
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It's time to kick-off a year new, which means new opportunities galore.
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Start the New Year off right by applying to any of the 2017 scholarships below but wait, don't just stop there! Be sure to check out your 2017 scholarship matches for even more opportunities to make this year count.
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Gates Millennium Scholars Program
Deadline: 1/15/17
The Gates Millennium Scholars (GMS) Program is open to African – American, American Indian / Alaska Native, Asian Pacific Islander American and Hispanic American students who are citizens, nationals, or legal permanent residents of the United States.
You must be an entering, full-time, degree-seeking, first-year student and have a minimum 3.3 GPA; or have earned a GED to be considered for this award.
You must also demonstrate significant financial need (meet the federal Pell Grant eligibility criteria) and exhibit leadership abilities through community service, extracurricular, or other activities.
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AXA Achievement Community Scholarship – $2,000
Deadline: 2/1/17
Ages: College Freshman
The AXA Achievement Community Scholarship is available to high school seniors who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in their activities in their school, community, or workplace.
You must be a U.S. citizen or legal resident and be planning to enroll full-time in an accredited two-year or four-year college / university in the U.S. by fall 2014 to be eligible for this award.
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The Cargill Global Scholars Program is open to freshman and sophomore students attending one of the partner universities.
You must demonstrate high academic performance and leadership potential to be considered for this award.
Special consideration will be given to students majoring in agriculture-related fields, business, computer science, economics, engineering, food science, international relations, political science, and public policy; as well as female students, minority students, students with disabilities, first generation college students, and veterans.
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The "Frame My Future" Scholarship Contest is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students attending a U.S. college or university for the 2014-2015 academic year.
To enter, you must submit an original creative image that expresses what you hope to achieve in your personal and professional life after college.
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The Toyota Teen Driver is awarding a $15,000 Grand Prize to a high school student who submits a short video about safe teen driving.
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Debate Center: Is there a way to unplug the pressure cooker that is the United States?
The recent bombing at the Boston Marathon has provided fuel for opponents of gun control to express that restricting gun ownership will not be an adequate solution to prevent carnage. They point to that incident, the Oklahoma City bombing, other recent bombing attempts and shootings as evidence that dangerous people will do nearly anything to create massacres, and even the strictest of laws would have little chance of stopping them, especially if the laws are not enforced. And if we are to have increased restrictions on guns and their availability, they argue, then we need bomb-control laws now because bombs can create similar – or even greater – damage. But as with guns, they say making laws prohibiting bomb-making items would not then prevent mad bombers from dealing death; it would only frustrate legitimate users of those items.
Supporters of gun control see things differently. They would admit that no laws are 100 percent effective, but they argue certain restrictions on what weapons people can own are helpful in preventing future tragedies, from either bombs or shootings. The idea behind gun restrictions is to limit the availability of tools used to create violence and death, and if it would be possible to restrict availability of items commonly found in homemade bombs then that would be good as well. Applying this logic of less is better of anything that is capable of creating mass casualties, gun control supporters believe gun crimes, homicides and massacres will be greatly reduced.
With constitutional rights at stake and fears of so-called slippery slope legislation that could infringe on those rights, gun rights supporters are suspicious of talk about firearm restrictions. Yet, gun control supporters want freedom, too – the freedom from being shot or blown up at an array of venues, or at least a reduced chance of it happening. Both sides know the potential for mass killings could lurk anywhere, but each disagrees about the solution, or if a solution is even realistic.
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Just as guns were tools for the premeditated carnage of Newtown, Conn.; Aurora, Colo.; Fort Hood, Texas; and Virginia Tech (just to name a few), fertilizer was used by Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma City, and now pressure cookers and ball bearings in Boston. Is the gun control debate truly about controlling tools of mass carnage? Should there now be laws requiring background checks and registration for persons who wish to purchase pressure cookers and ball bearings at WalMart? Is controlling potential tools of carnage (guns, fertilizer, pressure cookers) a solution, or just a bandage?
Debate Left: Regulations aren't for criminals – they're for us
By Ben Tomkins
The great human tragedy is perhaps the most difficult condition to manage legislatively. Raw, inflammatory emotions – both personally and rhetorically – make it all but impossible to broach relevant social questions that are often highly nuanced and worthy of deep introspection. School shootings, bombings and calculated terrorist acts gouge those things that are held most sacrosanct by our culture and our legal system – our family, our privacy and our solidarity – and as a result bring to the foreground profound questions about our fundamental personal and civic values.
In writing this piece, at a time when the families, victims and community members of the Boston attack are still in a state of shock and without answer for their loss, I suppose I am both the better and the worse individual to address these questions because of the simple fact that I am removed from its epicenter.
Given the all-too-recent horrors of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Newtown shootings, the reality of our voluntarily weaponized society must be reexamined. Personally, I am equally appalled by the extreme insensitivity of organizations like the NRA, and the intellectual sloth of those who would suggest something patently absurd as regulating pressure cooker sales. To be fair, I have not heard of anyone calling for a pressure cooker or ball bearing regulation, and if I did it would reduce my view of their critical faculties well beyond that of an individual making the gun argument. Nonetheless, the point still stands. Using the deaths of humans to paint frothing, vitriolic, black-and-white reductio ad absurdum arguments to forward a social agenda is the last thing we need to come to some kind of a mutual resolution regarding the issues of weapons and terrorism in our society.
If we take the example of the pressure cooker bomb for the sake of a foil, I think a distinction can be drawn immediately between generic elements of destruction and those that are demonstrably worthy of some regulation. A pressure cooker is a generic example one of a hundred possible household items that could be used to make a bomb. You could just as easily put explosives in, well, a Ryder truck and drive it into a building in Oklahoma. Similarly, ball bearings may as well be deck screws or teaspoons.
Guns are fundamentally different. A gun is not a generic delivery system for a bullet. You can't just shove a bullet into a piece of PVC pipe and start shooting people. I've always hated the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" pseudo-profundity that dribbles out of the mouths of the less intelligent of the pro-gun crowd and onto the front of their stupid t-shirts. I'm sorry, but I think you're missing the point, dear. Every gun owner is a personally knighted defender of the rest of humanity right up to the point that they start murdering people. The issue is the ease with which one can make the transition.
Likewise, the government already has restrictions on various dangerous chemicals. The average human, for instance, can't just go to Walgreens and buy Agent Orange. This would be a somewhat insane thing for society to allow. Also, many other chemicals, fertilizers and lab equipment listed on a document known as the Special Surveillance list are not banned, but are carefully monitored. Red phosphorus, one of the primary chemicals necessary for making crystal meth, is highly regulated so as to make it very difficult for the average member of the public to attain. The same is true of nitrate fertilizers that can be easily converted into a bomb. Some lab equipment is on the list, and even cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine requires a pharmacist to enter your name and purchase date into their computer to stop people from buying fifty packages for the purpose of making meth.
But to understand the purpose of this document is to understand exactly the way in which regulation does help to prevent proliferation and reduce crime. We have all heard the argument – largely in reference to guns, but now for bomb components as well – that we shouldn't limit the availability of these things because once a person is using them for criminal purposes we aren't going to stop them anyway. Well, obviously. However, what the Special Surveillance list does is it criminalizes otherwise law-abiding individuals who casually mishandle or sell these items to others.
This serves as a tremendous deterrent to crime, in that it reminds citizens to take extra precautions to ensure that they handle these things responsibly. If a lab technician knows that they can't just sell a centrifuge to their buddy because it seems harmless, then casual transactions with profound results will be greatly reduced.
If Boston and Newtown have taught us anything, it's that it is time to look anew at the social casualness with which we as a society treat those things that have the tangible potential for mass harm. Not mom's pressure cooker or a handful of deck screws, but objects and products that have an obviously narrow usage for both law abiding citizens and criminals alike.
Ben Tomkins is a violinist, teacher, journalist and critically acclaimed composer currently living in Denver, Colo. He hates stupidity and generally believes that the volume of one's voice is inversely proportional to one's knowledge of the issue.
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Debate Right: We must be careful not to overreact
Whenever our nation goes through a tragedy, many times there is a rush to react quickly, which results in our constitutional rights being challenged. Looking back through history there are numerous examples of this occurrence.
During the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, essentially ending a citizen's right to challenge their incarceration by the government by going before a judge or court. Lincoln at the time felt it was justified in order to keep the Union together, capture southern sympathizers and ultimately bring the country back together.
Shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese military, President Franklin Roosevelt ordered Japanese Americans to be interned. Roosevelt was trying to prevent sabotage by what were believed to be Japanese in the U.S. helping the Empire of Japan.
And after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, the passage of the Patriot Act gave the U.S. government broad powers for wiretapping, surveillance and more to prevent terrorism. President Bush felt the law would help the FBI and CIA capture terrorists both abroad and domestically and prevent them from harming Americans and American interests.
Some view these historic responses to tragic events by our nation as mistakes and in lots of cases complete violations of the U.S. Constitution.
President George H.W. Bush said, "In remembering, it is important to come to grips with the past. No nation can fully understand itself or find its place in the world if it does not look with clear eyes at all the glories and disgraces of its past. We in the United States acknowledge such an injustice in our history. The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry was a great injustice, and it will never be repeated."
The recent events of violence during the past year from the Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting to the recent Boston marathon bombings are no exception. They were horrendous crimes on U.S. soil and those responsible shall receive the full weight of the law against them.
However, those tragic events are challenging our rights as Americans. They have cast doubt on the very ideals and freedoms we hold as Americans. Unlike the reaction our nation had after the bombings of Pearl Harbor, we must learn from our history and continue to maintain the constitutional principles of the U.S.
Many believe the appropriate action in order to prevent such tragedies is to regulate the "ingredients" of terror. They would like to regulate, control or – in a few cases – outlaw pressure cookers, ball bearings and fertilizers. Alternatively, many want background checks of individuals who are purchasing such items. However, is regulating ordinary and legal items a solution to preventing terror whether foreign or domestic?
Is putting restrictions on pressure cookers or ball bearings a good use of the U.S. government's time to prevent repeats? Maybe a better and more effective solution would be to be more aggressive in spotting those who are looking to do damage? Several elected officials and citizens are calling for severe restrictions on the purchase, use and sale of firearms in the U.S. One issue that is never addressed by them is that in most instances those who purchase firearms through the legal process are not the ones who commit these terror crimes, and if, say, a law abiding gun owner were carrying their firearm they could stop a terror event from even happening through self-defense.
Not to mention the Second Amendment allowing Americans to own firearms. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the amendment numerous times.
Those who commit terror will find other ways to make homemade bombs using new ingredients. Ultimately, the true terrors that must be stopped are the individuals who bring it. It's the saying that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Therefore, the main focus should be stopping those individuals and possibly empowering private law-abiding citizens who could defend against terror.
As more questions from the Boston bombing are answered and time begins to pass from that tragic event and others, sensible thinking will return. Our heightened urgency to react will diminish some. Regardless, we cannot shred the very foundation that makes our nation a free society.
Having a free society can be very difficult. Our Founding Fathers strove for it and built a foundation that protects it. Freedom is what makes being an American special.
The U.S. is made up of people from all cultures throughout the world, with different mindsets, religions, priorities and overall beliefs. The one thing that binds all Americans together regardless of wealth, education, sex and religion is our freedom. The former President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, said, "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
The moment our government begins to impinge on our freedoms, specifically the rights of a free society, we will begin to lose what it means to be an American and the enjoyment of a free society.
Rob Scott is a practicing attorney at Oldham & Deitering, LLC. Scott is the Chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Party, founder of the Dayton Tea Party and a Councilman in the City of Kettering, Ohio. He can be contacted at email@example.com or gemcitylaw.com.


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Notable names in the sword industry include Cheness Cutlery, Cold Steel, Albion and Hanwei, which all make high-carbon steel swords. The quality of carbon steel swords depends on the manufacturer and what type of sword you want, as well as the steel itself.Continue Reading
Some manufacturers are known for using certain types of steel with specific properties. Cheness Cutlery, for instance, uses 9260 spring steel, which is high carbon steel that can take extreme lateral stress and return to its true shape. This is an important quality for a sword that is intended for functional use. Hanwei focuses mainly on Eastern swords such as the katana, which is made of high carbon steel that can hold a keen edge with proper maintenance. If you want European swords, Albion is well-known in the industry for functional longswords, zweihanders and others.Learn more about Collecting


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Educational Arts Society (E.A.S.) is a 501 c 3 non-profit organization in Detroit, serving the needs of students in music, art, preservation of the music history of Detroit and the development of essential personal qualities such as warmth, compassion and human dignity.
Think of your school days—days when you held an instrument in your hand for the first time or sang in a school or church program and watched your parents beam with delight! Every child needs the same opportunity—you are making this happen! Let's keep moving forward with it!
Our Mission:
Motivating aspiring young artists in developing a professional and artistic skill-set in art, music and theater, while increasing self-esteem, self-discipline, confidence and responsibility.
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To establish an environment in which students, teachers and the community can immerse themselves and flourish as musicians and artistic developers.
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To build and develop a school curriculum that yields quality performances, challenges children of all ages and establishes an appreciation for the arts.
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To provide a pathway to professional growth and development for young artists.
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To provide financial assistance to economically-challenged students exhibiting the desire and commitment to learn music and art.
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- Schools with music programs have an estimated 90.2 percent graduation rate.
- Compared to schools without music education who average 72.9 percent graduation.
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Mr. Leon Vermast, a resident of Wallaceburg, passed away on Monday, July 22, 2013 at the Chatham-Kent Health Alliance, Sydenham Campus, in Wallaceburg, at the age of 72.
Leon was a son of the late Camile and Margaret (Van Den Brocke) Vermast.
Beloved husband of Rosemary (Toulouse) Vermast.
Loving father and father-in-law of Dan & Connie Vermast, Jeff & Louisa Vermast, Tina & Dave Authier, Laurie Gustin and the late Lisa Vermast (2005).
Sadly missed by six grandchildren.
Kind brother of Robert Vermast, Elaine (Reg) Hayward and Mike (Susan) Vermast.
Predeceased by a brother, Brian Vermast. The Leon Vermast rested at the Eric F. Nicholls Funeral Home, 639 Elgin Street, Wallaceburg, Ontario (519 627 2861).
At Leon's request, cremation has taken place and a private family interment of ashes was held at Riverview Cemetery, Wallaceburg. As an expression of sympathy, donations to Cancer Research or the Charity of Your Choice may be left at the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.ericfnichollsfuneralhome.com.
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A local boutique is opening its second Capital Region outlet.
Miss Scarlett Boutique already exists at 19 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs. Now it is opening a second store selling fashion and accessories for women and children to Clifton Park Center.
The new location will carry the same women's and children's designer and discount clothing and accessories as the existing store. It will also offer more gift items and home goods.
"Clifton Park is a rapidly growing area and many of my current clients come to Miss Scarlett from the Clifton Park/Albany area. This will offer a more convenient location for our customers to shop," Jennifer Marcellus, owner of Miss Scarlett, said in announcing the new store. "I am excited to bring the unique items and shopping experience of a small boutique to Clifton Park Center."
A reception will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, followed by a fashion show at 7:30 p.m.
The store is located inside the center next to the Regal Movie Theatre and the entrance to the Hilton Garden Inn and Prime Restaurant.
Store hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday thru Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
The first Miss Scarlett store was opened in 2009 by Saratoga native Jennifer Marcellus when she moved back home from San Diego where she designed and manufactured her own line of children's clothing under the label "Jen Jen."


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May is Celiac Awareness Month.
What is Celiac Disease?
Simply put Celiac Disease, "Celiac disease is a problem some people have with foods that contain gluten. Gluten is a kind of protein found in foods like bread, crackers, and pasta. With celiac disease, your immune system attacks the gluten and harms your small intestine when you eat these kinds of foods. This makes it hard for your body to absorb nutrients that keep you healthy.
Gluten comes from grains like wheat, barley, and rye. It's important to get treatment, because celiac disease can lead to iron deficiency anemia and osteoporosis. It can also raise your risk of lymphoma ( WebMD )."
Here are the top five signs you MAY have undiagnosed Celiac disease. To know for sure you need to see your doctor, for a blood test and/or intestinal biopsy. This is not an exhaustive list by any means, there are many, many symptoms of Celiac Disease.
1) Persistent Joint Pain ( At any age )
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Heart surgery saves the lives of thousands of children with heart defects each year, but it comes with a price. When children are placed on mechanical heart support - such as cardiopulmonary bypass and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) - it can fundamentally weaken their hearts. The Portman Research Group is investigating what causes this damage, and is developing new ways to protect against it.
The lab is unraveling the metabolic processes that govern how the heart responds to stress and injury and is identifying hormone and nutritional supplements that prevent damage and accelerate recovery. For instance, Portman's team made a key discovery when they found that giving a thyroid hormone called triiodothyronine to infants supported by cardiopulmonary bypass could reduce the time those infants spent on ventilators after surgery. This improves recovery times and reduces patient and parent stress, and may improve long-term outcomes.
The study that yielded this discovery, Triiodothyronine in Infants and Children During Cardiopulmonary Bypass (TRICC), was one of the largest and most successful pediatric clinical trials ever performed. Portman's team is pursuing a Phase III clinical trial to confirm these results.
Building on this research, Portman and his colleagues are conducting studies in animal models to understand exactly how thyroid hormone influences how the heart uses energy. As part of this project, they are investigating how other supplements, including pyruvate and fatty acids, affect cardiac metabolism and influence the recoveries of animal models placed on mechanical support. This research could set the stage for discoveries that further improve the lives of children who undergo heart surgery.
The lab also plans to pursue more clinical trials of thyroid hormone, including studies of whether other, more affordable, thyroid hormone drugs - including Triostat - can improve outcomes in patients with congenital heart disease worldwide.
Help us answer questions about childhood health and illness, and help other children in the future. Learn more.
More than half of the kids who come to Seattle Children's live with conditions that they will have for the rest of their lives. Research can give them a different future.
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If you know me personally, you'll know Marc Jacobs is my all time fave when in comes to perfumes and fragrances. I love his quirky designs on the bottles and the scents he creates are beautiful. I'm obsessed, I literally own all of his perfumes. I cannot wait to pick up his latest scent 'Daisy Dream' when it comes out. *excitement*
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My all-time favorite oven baked chicken breasts recipe! It never fails me, thanks to this simple 5-step method.
Every time we do a survey on the blog and ask what kinds of new recipes readers would like to see, the #1 request is always the same:
Specifically, recipe that call for boneless skinless chicken breasts.
Not thighs, not legs, not wings, all of which I personally happen to also love. Nope, everyone seems to be interested in the lean white meat that comes with chicken breasts, and all the better when you don't have to mess with any skin or bones. Plus, as lean proteins go, chicken breasts are pretty affordable. They also extremely versatile to work with. And — let's be real — you can make chicken taste like just about anything you like!
That said, anyone who has baked chicken breasts before will tell you that they can be annoyingly finicky to work with, especially when baked in the oven. Cook them the wrong way and you'll end up with a dry, rubbery, tough, and flavorless disaster. But cooked the right way?! We're talkin' juicy, tender, flavorful, perfectly baked chicken breasts.
Let's make some!
Everyone out there seems to have an opinion about how to make perfectly roasted chicken breasts. But I thought I'd go on record today and share with you my favorite way for baking up my favorite bird. It's incredible easy, it requires minimal prep, and it is absolutely foolproof (at least in my experience) for making juicy chicken breasts that you can either serve plain, cut up into strips, or shred for your favorite meal. And — pro tip — these baked chicken breasts are also freezer-friendly, so go ahead and bake up a double batch to have leftovers for later!
All you need to remember is this simple 5-step acronym for making perfectly cooked chicken bbrrreasts: B.B.R.R.R.
Many people are in the habit of brining a turkey for Thanksgiving, but have never considered brining chicken breasts on a regular ol' weeknight. I'm telling you — this step is an absolute must for anytime you want to bake chicken breasts in the oven. Brining chicken is super easy, it makes your chicken extra juicy and moist (yes, I used the "m" word), and — best of all! — it can be effectively done in just 15 minutes. Plus if you brine chicken in lukewarm water, it also helps bring the chicken to room temperature, which makes for more even cooking.
To brine chicken, simply fill a big bowl with warm (not hot) water. Stir in a handful of salt until it mostly dissolves. Then add your chicken breasts and let them sit in the saltwater to brine for at least 15 minutes. If you are doing this in advance, you can cover and refrigerate the bowl of chicken and saltwater for up to 6 hours. But you really don't want to let the chicken brine for much longer than that.
Then when you're ready to go, remove the chicken from the brine, rinse it with cold water, then pat it dry with some paper towels. Again, don't skip this step!!! You'll be amazed at the difference.
Edited: As it turns out, some store-bought chicken breasts are now sold pre-brined. So double-check your packaging before doing this step. If your chicken has already been pre-brined in a sodium solution, just move onto step two. :)
…with melted butter. Or at least, I highly recommend using butter. It adds great flavor and helps give a nice golden crust on the outside. But if you'd rather use olive oil (or another favorite cooking oil), feel free. Brush the breasts liberally on both sides, partly so that the chicken does not stick to the pan on the bottom, and also to help the seasonings stick. Then place them in a large baking dish (affiliate link).
If you're really wanting to keep things simple, you can simply rub on some salt and pepper. But again, chicken will pick up the flavor of whatever seasonings you add. So even if it's just a simple dish that calls for "plain" chicken breasts, I highly recommend the simple chicken seasoning recipe I have included below that includes salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika.
So this is the step that causes some disagreement amongst chicken lovers — what temperature and how long to bake chicken breasts. Do you bake your chicken low and slow (as in, 30 minutes at 350)? Or do you roast chicken high and quick (as in, 15 minutes at 450)? I have tried both — and just about every interval in between — dozens upon dozens upon dozens of times. And after testing, I fall firmly in the latter camp when it comes to baked chicken.
I like to roast my chicken breasts on high heat. 🔥
Depending on the thickness of your chicken breasts (pro tip — be sure to pound them beforehand if needed with a meat mallet so that they are uniformly thick for even cooking), roasting chicken at 450°F should require a cooking time between 15-18 minutes. It's speedy and it's easy. But I love it most because cooking at high heat quickly develops a nice crispier "crust" on the outside of the breasts, which also locks in those juices and keeps the oven roasted chicken perfectly tender on the inside. It's the best of both worlds.
I highly recommend investing in a small cooking thermometer to measure the cooked chicken temp in order to tell if it has fully cooked (160-170 degrees F), versus cutting into it with a fork (which lets those good juices seep out). I use this instant-read thermometer (affiliate link) that I bought on Amazon for $15, and it will accurately measure your internal chicken temperature in seconds.
And this is where that "patience is a virtue" stuff comes in. You must, must, must let your beautifully baked chicken breasts rest before cutting into them. This goes for any meat, really. If you cut in right away, you lose all of the amazing juices and some of the tenderness that we're going for!
Instead, give the bird a rest so that it can finish cooking and soak back up all of those juices. I recommend loosely tenting a sheet of aluminum foil over the pan to keep the heat in while the chicken rests.
Then after 5-10 minutes, you can finally serve and enjoy your perfectly-cooked chicken breasts.
And enjoy every last bite. ♡
The easiest way, of course, is just to serve these roasted chicken breasts fresh outta the oven. But feel free to also slice, shred, or dice these oven baked chicken breasts for use in another recipe, such as these faves:
Or if you'd like to save them for later, these baked chicken breasts can also be refrigerated in a sealed container for up to 3 days, or frozen (I recommend shredding, dicing, or slicing the chicken beforehand) for up to 3 months.
Looking for some side dishes to serve with this baked chicken recipe? Here are a few of my faves:
Enjoy, everyone!
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Learn how to make juicy, tender, delicious baked chicken breasts with this easy foolproof recipe.
If you make this recipe, be sure to snap a photo and hashtag it #gimmesomeoven. I'd love to see what you cook!
Also, if you're interested in a lemony twist on this recipe, check out this Baked Lemon Chicken. Or check out our new post (below) for 5 Easy Chicken Marinades!


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Finally! After 3 months of hard work, Background Manager version
1.1 1.1.1 has been released, coinciding with the release of WordPress 3.4.
(Update: A rather annoying bug was introduced in version 1.1, which has been remedied in 1.1.1. If something can go wrong, it most certainly will).
It includes a large number of new features, which I will outline below. Please note that there are a few changes that could potentially affect the layout of the background, so keep these in mind before upgrading.
WordPress 3.4 introduces a theme customizer, allowing you make adjustments to your theme and see them in a preview. It's a welcome addition to WordPress, making it a lot easier to customise a website and Background Manager takes full advantage new feature.
All the visual options found in the Background Manager's Settings screen can be accesses directly from the theme customizer, allowing you to change image sets, background colors and overlays, select between full-screen and normal display modes and more.
All these changes are non-permanent until you save the settings, allowing you to test various options, like the new image transitions, to see which ones work best for your website.
Version 1.1.1 increases the number of available transitions to 19 with the introduction of Fade-in and Zoom transition and 8 CSS3 transitions based on the hard work of Joe Lambert's Flux Slider.
Previously Background Manager relied upon CSS to adjust the background image size according to the browser window. This worked well for images that were smaller than the browser window, but larger images were not resized and this lead to some confusion, particularly in what size the background image to use.
One of the most requested features was the ability to display images in the order they appear in an Image Set, as well as the ability to re-order those images.
This feature has been added to version 1.1, and allows you to display the images in random, ascending or descending order. When editing an Image Set, highlighting an image will provide to option to move it left or right. You can also double-click to select images, and move them in one go.
Another improvement when editing Image Sets, is the ability to remove an image from an Image Set. This differs from deleting an image, as it will remain in the Media Library for later re-use.
The window showing the images within an Image Set can now also be resized (and it will remember the size for next time).
The ability to make backgrounds click-able since version 1.0.6 has proven rather popular, and another frequently requested feature is the ability to track the impressions and clicks of such click-able background images.
Version 1.1 introduces the option to do so with the help of Google Analytics and will trigger Events whenever a click-able image is shown or clicked on. These events can also be used as part of Goals.
In addition to the above, version 1.1 also introduces the following new features:
As well as numerous bug fixes, including the "blocking" during a background change as well as the "flicker" noticeable on certain browser.
Hi Myatu,
I'm having a problem using the fullscreen mode, the images don't show up.
The normal mode is working okay, but I wanted to use the transitions options of the fullscreen mode.
Can you please give me hint what could be wrong?
Thank you.
It works great in my local development PC which have PHP 5.4. But the actual server has 5.2.
Is there any other version that supports PHP 5.2?
Or do you know any other fullscreen random background image plugin?
Clickable backgrounds — not working with some themes?
Had the plugin recommended to me and works on their test site but not on mine. I am able to add a background image with no plugin by using this custom code into the themes Custom CSS box but what I need is the link for the background to work so I turned to this plugin.
The Background Manager plugin is great and I have managed to see a lot of the functions working but the key feature, that of a clickable background does not. Have tried adding a normal url
to the Background Image Link box in the settings for a 'set'. The Clickable Backgrounds box is ticked in Settings. The site theme is Bold News by Woo Themes.
Hope you can help as it would be great to support this plugin for all the other stuff it can do.
Great Plugin! Would like to use it – but is it compatible on all Browsers – Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, Safari, Firefox, Opera and Chrome?
Hi Mike,
I'm using your plugin for a friend's page. After your (quick) update I'm still getting a "Fatal error" message when I'm trying to activate the background-manager-plugin.
Here is the message:
Fatal error: Call to a member function save() on a non-object in XXXXX/wp-content/plugins/background-manager/app/Myatu/WordPress/BackgroundManager/Main.php on line 766
thanks in advance and ty for your great work!


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Measurement of $$\mathrm{ t \bar{t} } $$ production with additional jet activity, including b quark jets, in the dilepton decay channel using pp collisions at $$\sqrt{s} =$$ 8 TeV
Jet multiplicity distributions in top quark pair (tt-bar) events are measured in pp collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC using a data set corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7 fb -1. The measurement is performed in the dilepton decay channels (e +e -,μ +μ - and e ±μ ∓). Furthermore, the absolute and normalized differential cross sections for tt-bar production are measured as a function of the jet multiplicity in the event for different jet transverse momentum thresholds and the kinematic properties of the leading additional jets. The differential tt-barb and tt-barbb-bar cross sections are presented for the first time as a function of the kinematic properties of the leading additional b jets. Furthermore, the fraction of events without additional jets above a threshold is measured as a function of the transverse momenta of the leading additional jets and the scalar sum of the transverse momenta of all additional jets. Finally, the data are compared and found to be consistent with predictions from several perturbative quantum chromodynamics event generators and a next-to-leading ordercalculation.
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text: Bernard B. Plotzker, age 74, beloved husband of Sheila, nee Kagan and the late Phyllis, nee Pullman; loving father of Larry (Bonita), Donna Plotzker, Adriane (Bob) Leavitt and Norm (Vicki) Kellerman; adoring grandfather of Brett and Jason Plotzker, Joshua and Jason Kellerman, Jennifer (Josh) Sosnow and Judy (Brian) Cohen; dear brother of Leonard (Frances) Plotzker. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to charity of your choice. Service Friday 1 p.m. at Congregation B'nai Tikvah, 1558 Wilmot Rd., Deerfield, IL. Interment Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery, Arlington Heights. For info The Weinstein Family Services Wilmette Chapel, 847-256-5700 .


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Local public transportation advocates searching for inspiration could find it by looking west to El Paso.
The West Texas city's system was in shambles just a few short years ago, but is now in the midst of a major investment program that has doubled ridership and has the local transit authority building a new operations and maintenance facility, creating bus rapid transit routes and eyeing a new streetcar line.
The latter two, rapid transit along major arteries such as Florida Boulevard and a streetcar for Nicholson Drive, are initiatives eyed by FutureBR, Baton Rouge's recent overhaul of its master plan.
As for El Paso, "we were imploding," Jay Banasiak, director of Sun Metro in El Paso, told an audience at the Center for Planning Excellence's annual Smart Growth Summit in Baton Rouge.
Banasiak estimated ridership in El Paso was at about 10 million per year, half of what it is expected to grow to next year.
He said the mayor and city manager made public transportation a "top three" priority in the latter half of the last decade. The move insulated Sun Metro from political pressure by privatizing its management and brought in Banasiak, who added "economic opportunity" to its mission statement.
"Ever since then it's been pedal to the metal," he said.
Ridership is now at 17 million and on the rise as rapid transit lines — linear bus routes that bring in people from outlying areas into and out of the city quickly — are created and Sun Metro eyes $90 million state funding for a streetcar line, Banasiak said. Sun Metro has four of eight new transfer centers completed, he said.
El Paso's system is larger than Baton Rouge's — a budget of $60 million compared with $12 million — but Banasiak summed up its philosophy thusly:
"If we can't do it first-class, we're probably not going to do it," he said.
El Paso's transfer stations offer WiFi, a concession stand, real-time digital display of arrival and departure times, and other amenities. Stops are lit and landscaped and the latest buses run until 1 a.m.
The 60-foot buses arrive every 10 minutes, the stops are about a mile apart and traffic lights will stay green longer if the bus is approaching, Banasiak said.
The system's reliability is now at about 98 percent, Banasiak said.
Banasiak said Sun Metro is funded by a half-cent sales tax but gets state and federal funding by having plans and partnerships ready. It is planning a $5 million conversion of an abandoned mall to the northwest of the city into a transfer center. The agency will put in the streets, transit station, parks and other public infrastructure with $5 million before bringing in developers to build out the 40-acre site, he said.
Banasiak said the project has piqued the interest of the Federal Transit Administration, not to mention private interests.
"There are a lot of developers, believe it or not, interested in developing this land," he said.
Rachel DiResto, executive vice president of the Center for Planning Excellence, said the recent voter approval of a property tax in Baton Rouge and Baker to permanently fund the Capital Area Transit System could start to improve the system and increase ridership in ways that could make things like rapid transit and FutureBR's plans for a streetcar line along Nicholson possible.
Florida Boulevard has been identified as a corridor in which bus rapid transit could be used to bring workers in and out of downtown. A street car on Nicholson has been targeted as a way to connect LSU and downtown while encouraging development along the corridor and increasing land values.
CPEX formed the Connect coalition to advocate for public transportation and mass transit in East Baton Rouge Parish. The 10.6-mill property tax is expected to generate about $18 million annually for CATS.
Speaker Roger Millar of Smart Growth America, who spent 15 years in Portland while the city turned the empty railyard into the vibrant Pearl District, said the streetcar there played a major role in spurring development.
When the streetcar first went in, Millar said Portland State University didn't want to have anything to do with it, but "got religion" pretty quickly on finding ways to get people to the university without automobiles.
Portland told the university, in effect, "Would you rather build a parking garage or a research facility," Millar said. "They came to us with the money and we put in the line."
Using planning and transit, Millar said Portland "moved the people of Portland and the real estate development community a long way in a short period of time."
He said the Pearl District generated 15,000 new residential units around the streetcar line.
Millar urged the audience to ditch the "Nome (Alaska) to Key West syndrome," which he said stops a lot of public transportation projects.
"Pick a phase and get that phase done," he said.
Jason King, a planner with Dover, Kohl & Partners who spoke about El Paso's master plan, noted that transit is "really just a way to connect two walkable places."


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I graduated from Manistee High School in 2009, where I competed in multiple varsity sports, and it was because of athletics that the door opened for me to attend The United States Military Academy at West Point. I am currently a member of the Black Knights track and field team, where I compete in the high jump and long jump. Track has allowed my time at the Academy to be smoother than most cadets, because it allows me to have an outlet to compete collegiately in a sport that I have grown to love. However, I am first and foremost a student on track to become a commissioned officer in the United States Army this May 2013. I will be receiving a bachelors of science degree in business management with a track in systems engineering.
West Point has provided me with incredible experiences during the past three and a half years that I have been a cadet. I was given the opportunity to earn my wings by attending Air Assault School, as well a three week training exercise in Hawaii. During the summer, I was given the privilege to travel to China, and intern at the F.B.I. Academy in Quantico, Virginia. I have witnessed The President of the United States address the nation, the Secretary of Defense speak to the Corps of Cadets, and the Chief of Staff of the Army directly engage my graduating class. For these opportunities I give my praise to God, for his blessings have fallen unto me.
The 48 month journey at the Academy is one that forces every individual to fail. It is from this failure that resiliency is built. As a cadet, you become accustomed to stress at every level, which is purposely designed. The harsh environment allows leaders of character to be developed; a development aimed at providing our country officers that will lead its sons and daughters in combat. Through the words of Duty, Honor, Country, graduates of the long grey line will live, serve, and die for America's citizens. The United States Military Academy is the single greatest establishment our country has at its disposal, and it will be an honor to be considered an Old Grad.
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Health Care Access for the Homeless
- Describe a specific issue related to health care access or policy with respect to a particular ethnic or socioeconomic group.
- Explain the potential solutions for this problem.
- Identify the pros and cons of the solutions.
Argue for or against the solution
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A discussion on the pros and cons of uninsured homeless Americans, attached in Word.


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Pharrell & Nigel Sylvester VMA Entrance
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Skateboard P found a new mode of transportation this past Sunday at the VMA's. Along with BMX star Nigel Sylvester, Pharrell rode down Dean St. to the Barclays Center. On a related note, P's production is still at the top of the Billboard charts.