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And you were the first perlson to see it O:-)
I recommend you look into receiving Enzyme Potentiated Desensitization treatment. It originated in England, but is available in some other countries. In the U.S., the alternative is called Low-Dose Allergens.
He said it was either the inhalor for the rest of my life or some expensive shot treatment for a short period.
First hand experience?
Oh, BTW, my condition is, apparently, hereditary.
Allergies are definitely often hereditary.
EPD/LDA is probably something your doctor didn't tell you about. You might need to go casting about on the Internet for a doctor who can provide it.
There are the standard allergy shots which are allegedly for a "limited" period, but in my experience tend to go on indefinitely. EPD/LDA is somewhat similar, but the injections are different and contain less allergen and more of some kind of enzyme. The treatment is every two months for a year, and then every six


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A Cautionary Tale:
My opinion arises from a personal faux pas: during a fit of pique while bug-killing a particularly befuddling bit of code, I inserted some F-bombs into some diagnostics (the cause turned out to be a bug in Perl, btw, so the F-bombs may have been well deserved).
# The following code is totally insecure and we
# probably lose lots of customer credit card
# info because of it!
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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Some nice pics can be taken in the Masters' days. Here is one I'd like to share: "he doesn't miss the Masters"
Wow...just wow. I think I would keep those in a bit of a safer place than on my head haha
Wow...just wow. I think I would keep those in a bit of a safer place than on my head haha
like in your pocket
Obviously, he goes for the "attention" and not the golf yet, it must have a few stories based on the years of experience shown.
-ICONs for ALL
Anyone take a guess as to how many are tagged onto his hat?
What a fantastic way to celebrate the number of Masters played and attended by you. Going to be a really nice collectible one of these days and something to give to someone later in life.
That hat would go well with Poulter's outfit.
Someday I will be happy to have just one of them, let alone enough to make a terrible example of a hat :D
Maybe he should have went for boxers ;)
I bet he got a free bowl of soup with that hat.


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Rodriguez isn't coming to Yankees camp
TAMPA, Fla. -- Alex Rodriguez will not report to spring training with the Yankees' position players and will work on his rehabilitation from hip surgery in New York.
The third baseman is expected to be sidelined until at least the All-Star break following the Jan. 16 operation.
"I spoke to him last week. He was still barely, I think, on the crutches," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said Tuesday during his opening spring-training remarks. "There's not a lot that he can do here."
The Miami New Times last month published records that allege Rodriguez purchased performance-enhancing substances in recent years from Biogenesis of America LLC, a now-closed clinic in Coral Gables, near Rodriguez's offseason home.
Rodriguez has denied the allegations. Four years ago, Rodriguez admitted using PEDs from 2001-03 while with the Texas Rangers.
"Him being in New York has nothing to do with trying to get rid of a distraction. It's the best place him for him to be."
Major League Baseball is investigating the New Times report and hopes to acquire the documents.
"MLB has to go through its steps before any of us are really going to be aware of anything," Girardi said. "I think you're always curious about things that you read about that are potentially damaging to your players and to baseball, of course. My concern is getting him healthy, and that's what I'll focus on. I think that's our team's focus, too."
New York signed former Boston third baseman Kevin Youkilis to fill in for Rodriguez. Girardi said that when Rodriguez is able to do more, his rehab situation will change.
"I think Alex had somewhat of a special surgery," the manager said. "It's not a hamstring. It's not something we've done a lot of, and we feel at this point the best place for him to be is New York, rehabbing under the doctor's supervision."
Yankees captain Derek Jeter is coming back from a more common operation, surgery on Oct. 20 to repair a broken left ankle sustained during the opener of the AL championship series against Detroit. The 38-year-old shortstop expects to be ready for the April 1 opener against Boston.
"When you look at our club, Derek has been very important over the years," Girardi said. "And I think we all anticipate that he's going to be back opening day. In my mind, he's going to be an every day shortstop for us, I do."
Closer Mariano Rivera also expects to be ready for opening day. The 43-year-old closer had surgery June 12 to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, an injury that occurred while he was shagging fly balls during batting practice in Kansas City on May 3.
"He's had ample time to heal, and I believe he's a great athlete," Girardi said. "I don't think it should affect his pitching."
Girardi said no decision has been made about potentially switching Curtis Granderson to center field and Brett Gardner to left.
Speaking in the pavillion behind third base during his news conference,
Overall, Girardi feels good about the defending AL East champions.
"This team could win 95 games and get to the World Series, and win the World Series," Girardi said.
"There's a lot of talent in that room."
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Stroke Program Awarded RecertificationEisenhower Medical Center's Stroke Program has earned advanced recertification of its primary stroke center by The Joint Commission, earning the distinction after The Joint Commission's recent on-site review. Eisenhower's 2009 certification was the first in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
"The Joint Commission's recertification acknowledges the incredible teamwork and clinical excellence physicians, staff and administration," Ann Mostofi, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President, Patient Care Services. "Moreover, it underscores Eisenhower's ongoing commitment to our patients and community by providing the very best patient care."
To receive designation as an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, Eisenhower participated in a rigorous application process and submitted data on stroke admissions, treatment plans and outcomes.
"We've gained a lot of experience during the last five years because our service line has so much depth," says Deborah Bayer, BSN, RN, CCRN, SCRN, Stroke Coordinator, Eisenhower Medical Center. "We've created protocols and put processes in place that result in high quality outcomes. The numbers we submitted to The Joint Commission have all been nearly perfect in the last quarter, which is unheard of. We added Stroke Nurse Practitioner Carol Marietta, RN, NP-C to our team and she has increased our ability to provide exceptional care because of her background in Intensive Care."
The combined efforts of a multidisciplinary team of neurologists, interventional neuroradiologists, hospitalists, nurse practitioners, emergency physicians and specialty-trained nurses — all trained to assess acute ischemic stroke, helped meet the strict national standards for providing safe, high-quality care to stroke patients.
"Not every hospital provides this level of care," explains Sue Effinger, RN, MSN/MHA, Director, Neurological Care Unit, Eisenhower Medical Center. "We have stroke neurologists, three interventional radiologists, and neurosurgeons on call, which means we can provide comprehensive, specialized care for stroke patients 24/7. The result is immediate diagnosis and treatment during a critical window of time."
Stroke, the nation's third leading cause of death, affects nearly 700,000 people every year. On average, someone suffers a stroke every 45 seconds and someone dies of a stroke every 3.1 minutes. Stroke is a leading cause of serious, long-term disability in the United States, with nearly 4.7 million stroke survivors alive today. Ischemic stroke is the most common type of stroke caused by blood clots that block blood flow to the brain.
The Joint Commission's certification is based on the recommendations for primary stroke centers published by the Brain Attack Coalition and the American Stroke Association's statements/guidelines for stroke care. The Joint Commission launched the program — the nation's first — in 2003. A list of organizations certified by the Joint Commission is available at http://www.jointcommission.org/.


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my $sub; $sub = sub { construct, and that whenever that code got called, the reference count for $sub would never go to zero. Is what you're doing any different than this (leaks in 5.8), or did this sort of thing recently get fixed?:
...$sub... };
my $foo = sub {
my $sub;
$sub = sub {
my $i;
print "Start: ";
while (++$i) {
my $f = $foo->();
unless ( $i % 100_000 ) {
print "$i: ";
sub U {
my $f = shift;
sub { $f->($f, @_) };
sub Y {
my $f = shift;
U(sub { my $h = shift; sub { $f->(U($h)->())->(@_) } })->();
# Now we need a recursive anonymous function
my $fact = Y(sub {
my $f = shift;
sub {
my $n = shift;
# wrap an anonymous function into a function that takes $func as the first
# parameter so we can make use of it from within the call.
sub wrap_func {
my $func = shift;
return sub { $func->($func, @_) };
# sometime later...
$imap->message_info($i, wrap_func(sub {
my $sub = shift;
my $flags = shift;
my $headers = shift;
Well yes, you get away without the Y combinator here. wrap_func is a rather nondescript name, though, don't you agree? A better one might be something like curry_self or apply_self_maker or some such, although it's probably not obvious to someone without basic knowledge of functional programming why these names are in fact better. All of them sound similarly meaningless, though the better ones might even be a little scary. And to someone with functional programming knowledge, U would be just a
Oh d'uh. I got confused between properties of the Y and U combinators.
Heh. I'd read about the Y combinator before but I only started studying it in anger yesterday because I realized I wouldn't actually understand it on any deeper level if I didn't sit down to derive it from first principles for myself.
My grasp is strengthening by the hour, but you can see I'm not quite there yet.


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Small Businesses Continue to Reduce Delinquent Debt: Experian
Small firms continued to reduce their delinquent debt over the past year and their credit quality followed suit, according to the latest data from Experian.
Consumer confidence is high and small business credit quality has shown improvements throughout the quarter due to personal income growth, retail sales increases and steady employment gains, the Experian/Moody's Analytics Small Business Credit Index revealed.
Findings from the report showed that small firms have steadily reduced their delinquent debt over the past year. Balance volumes for all business sizes also receded measurably from a year earlier, bringing down delinquency rates, according to the report.
Further, credit quality has strengthened for every business size. At an average of 10.2%, the total share of delinquent dollars is 2.4 percentage points lower than it was a year ago and is at the lowest point on record.
"During this period of modest growth, small businesses have improved their credit profile by decreasing delinquent debt and meeting financial obligations in a more timely fashion," said Joel Pruis, Experian's senior business consultant.
Businesses of all sizes need to maintain a strong credit profile, as it enables them to more easily secure the credit or funding they need to grow their enterprise, Prius suggested.
Regionally, delinquency rates were significantly lower than the national average for small companies in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and Utah, the report showed.
At the top 10th percentile among metro areas for small business credit quality were Houston, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Diego and San Francisco.
"The economy has held up better than anticipated so far this year in the face of large tax increases and government spending cuts, which has supported improved small business borrowing and credit quality," said Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics.


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Free Horse: I am looking for a new home
Go Lucky Sarge! My registered name! I go by SARGE or Sargie (?) I am a handsome 21 year old registered quarter horse gelding about 15.2 a fine confirmation and I am looking for a new home. In August 2011 I was rescued from starvation, I was 200# underweight, split hooves, just a sad mess. I am ready to move to a new place. I have been gamed, did pretty good if I do say, used for a lesson or 2, trail ridden, I tie to anything, I have a great trot and smooth cantor, I do what I am told. mo
Horse NameGo Lucky Sarge
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Mya Talks to Billboard's Keith Caulfield About Topping the Hot 100
2011 was the year that Billboard celebrated the 1000th No. 1 song on the Hot 100. As we look back on this year in music, we're celebrating that milestone with a month-long series of videos — one for each day of December — chatting with 31 of the hitmakers who rocketed to the top of the chart since its inception in 1958. SEE THE FULL CHART HERE.
On day 25 of our 1,000 Hot No. 1s video series, we move from yesterday's pair of Shaggy charttoppers — "Angel" and "It Isn't Me" — to a blockbuster remake as we chat with Mya about her No. 1 alongside Christina Aguilera, Pink, and Lil' Kim, "Lady Marmalade." "[It] was an extraordinary collaboration," Mya says of the hit, which spent five weeks at the top beginning June 2, 2001 <http://www.billboard.com/
The ladies' No. 1, which was the lead hit from the "Moulin Rouge" soundtrack, knocked Janet Jackson's "All For You" out of the top slot.
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Hi, I don't know much about bone identification but I found a strange part of a skull in my woodland today. Can anyone help me identify it? I suppose it is the skull rather than some kind of jaw bone. It might be a very common animal but I have looked at all the normal woodland animal skulls and I can't find a match. Thanks in anticipation.
Hi Dom, this is the sternum (breast bone) of a bird. You don't say what part of the country/world you found it in or what size it is but it is very similar to a wood pigeon.


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Can anyone please advise me:
I am writing a program to recover bad sectors on optical discs (CDs, and DVDs). I use the APSI interface. I set ASPI timeouts to a small number (4), using SC_GETSET_TIMEOUTS (ASPI Command 0x08), and then I read through all the sectors, good and bad, sequentially. The read operations on the bad sectors time out quickly. If there are a very lot of bad sectors, there are a very lot of timeouts, and this is when I encounter the problem.
The symptom is that the CD drive becomes not only completely inaccessible, but ceases to even appear in the My Computer virtual folder. The only way I found to make the drive accessible again is to reboot.
I would like to 1) avoid causing this problem; and 2) be able to recover from it programmatically.
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A context is the environment in which an Oracle Identity Manager operation is performed. For example, a user creation operation performed on the Oracle Identity Self Service is carried out in the Web context. The following information constitutes the context or environment in which this operation is performed:
User performing the operation
Date and time at which the request is submitted
Proxy that is used to reach the application server
For example, if the user is created by running the bulk load utility, the context includes the user who started the bulk load utility, the computer from which the operation is being performed, and so on.
A context is maintained in main-memory. It consists of a set of context variables where each context variable has both a name and value. Each functional component involved in an operation, such as request management, reconciliation, or notification, can add values to the context. Context values can only be set, they cannot be modified. The context values act as a means of communication across components involved in an operation.
Context variable values are loaded into memory only when they are required. This enhances performance. A context also acts as a cache of the typical values required by event handlers. This helps reduce the need to fetch values from the repository each time the values are required.
A child context is a subcontext that is initiated while an operation is in progress. For example, if user creation operation involves provisioning of resource through access policies, resource provisioning runs in the access policy context, which is the child context of the one in which user is being created. This means that contexts can be nested, and there can be a stack of contexts. New contexts can be created by functional components, and further processing starts using the newly created context.
Context Manager supports the following context types:
SELF: Operation is initiated through Oracle Identity Self Service.
ADMIN: Operation is initiated through Oracle Identity System Administration. This is the default context.
RECON: Operation is performed by reconciliation.
REQUEST: Operation is performed by a request.
POLICY: Operation is performed because of access policy.
Calling ContextManager.getContextType() should tell the type of context. Some of the information that you can retrieve under various contexts are:
Reconciliation context: The profile from which the reconciliation event has been created can be retrieved by ContextManager.getValue("profileName") method call.
Scheduled tasks run in ADMIN context: Some of the information that can be retrieved are:
Job name: ContextManager.getValue("JOBNAME")
Task name: ContextManager.getValue("TASKNAME")
Request context: You can retrieve the request key by using the following code:
HashMap<String, ContextAware> requestContext = (HashMap<String, ContextAware>) ContextManager.getValue("requestData", true); requestContext.get("requestKey");
Policy context: ContextManager.getContextKey() provides the policy that is evaluated. If multiple policies are applicable, then this returns the highest priority policy key.


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GRAMMYs On The Road With Charles Bradley, Ben Kweller And Victor Wooten
The Recording Academy Texas Chapter recently played host for GRAMMYs On The Road at Utopiafest in the Texas Hill Country community of Utopia. GRAMMY.com conducted exclusive backstage interviews with artists performing at the festival, including soul/R&B singer Charles Bradley, indie singer/songwriter Ben Kweller and GRAMMY-winning bassist Victor Wooten.
Bradley discussed creating a great song, his musical message and advice for aspiring artists, among other topics.
"All I'm here to do is let the people know who I am, and know that my heart and soul is for real," said Bradley. "I'm not on this planet to hurt anyone, all I want to do is show you the love [in] me."
Raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Bradley's passion for music was ignited after attending a James Brown concert in 1962. After working odd jobs on the East and West Coast for several years, Bradley relocated back to Brooklyn where he began performing Brown-inspired sets at local clubs, eventually garnering the attention of Daptone Records. Now commonly referred to as the Screaming Eagle Of Soul, Bradley released his debut album, No Time For Dreaming, in 2011. The album peaked in the Top 50 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. Bradley is currently on tour throughout the United States, with select dates scheduled through December.
Kweller discussed how the Austin, Texas, music scene has shaped his music career, his musical influences and balancing his career and family life, among other topics.
"Austin is such a special place," said Kweller. "It's such a communal town, especially when it comes to the music scene. Everybody helps each other out and it's very friendly. Everybody's on the same team."
Kweller developed an early interest in music and began writing songs at age 8. Throughout his teenage years he performed and recorded with several bands, including Mirage, Green Eggs & Ham, Foxglove, and Radish. After relocating to Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1999 Kweller launched his solo career. His solo full-length debut, Sha Sha, followed in 2002, which was followed by 2004's On My Way and a co-headlining tour with Death Cab For Cutie. His most recent album, Go Fly A Kite, was released in February and peaked at No. 18 on the Top Independent Albums chart.
Wooten discussed his music and nature camps, his new solo albums, 2012's Words & Tones and Sword & Stone, and his musical influences, among other topics.
"I'm the kind of person [who] will take opportunities when they come," said Wooten. "If you show up at my house and I hear that you sing, I'll ask you if you want to record. So there [are] a lot of people on both of these CDs that you've never heard of."
Wooten made his stage debut at age 5 as part of the Wootens, which featured Wooten and his four older brothers performing R&B songs by James Brown, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & The Family Stone, and War. Wooten moved to Nashville in 1988 where he met Béla Fleck, who at the time was forming a jazz group. As a member of Béla Fleck And The Flecktones, Wooten garnered his first GRAMMY in 1996 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for "The Sinister Minister." That same year he released his solo debut album, A Show Of Hands. Wooten has since earned four additional GRAMMY Awards. In September, he released two albums, the instrumental Sword & Stone and Words & Tones. Aside from recording, Wooten also operates Vix Camps, a series of nature and music camps for children and adults.


text: So this is by far my favorite episode.... This week that is. I think it blends dealing with disease spreading over the enterprise with a totally separate issue with the planet bring the ship down. I think it makes for a great episode. One thing has always puzzled me tho.... When they go back in time the three days... What happens? Do they just hang low and wait three days to pass... go back and save the crewman that died? Why not go back and Prevent the whole problems in the first place


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Tip Sheet: Making Sense Of The Toy Recalls And Protecting Children From Lead Poisoning
COLUMBIA, Md. - The National Center for Healthy Housing has released two fact sheets to help parents make sense of the recent recalls of toys tainted with lead paint. The first fact sheet titled "Testing for Lead in Consumer Items," explains the various options that parents have for testing household items to confirm or deny the presence of lead. The second fact sheet titled "Toys and Childhood Lead Exposure" explains how lead ends up in toys and how the lead can be ingested by children through normal play.
Even though lead paint was banned in the U.S. in 1978, it continues to be used in many countries throughout the world. Because of this, lax oversight by toy manufacturers and distributors can lead to the importation of toys tainted with lead-based paint. Lead can also be found in toys when it is used a stabilizer in plastics. Lead makes plastic more flexible and softens the plastic so that it can go back to its original shape. When the plastic is exposed to substances such as sunlight, air, and detergents the chemical bond between the lead and plastics breaks down and forms a dust. This dust can then be ingested by a child playing with the toy.
"The National Center for Healthy Housing is committed to helping achieve the federal goal of eliminating lead poisoning by 2010. We want families to have the best information to protect their children, whether the risk is from lead in toys or lead paint hazards found in older homes," said Jonathan Wilson, Deputy Director of NCHH.
Lead poisoning is also a potential hazard in any home built before 1978, the year when lead paint was banned. Children are particularly vulnerable to lead poisoning, because their developing bodies absorb lead more readily than adults' and they are more likely to put their hands in their mouths after they have touched floors, windowsills, or objects where lead settles after renovation work. Children are also acutely vulnerable to lead's harmful effects because it disrupts crucial development processes.
If you have any reason to suspect that your child has been exposed to lead, contact your child's health care provider to help you decide whether to perform a blood test to see if your child has an elevated blood lead level. A blood lead test is the only way you can tell if your child has an elevated lead level. Most children with elevated blood lead levels have no symptoms. The health care provider can recommend treatment if your child has been exposed to lead.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 310,000 young children in the U.S. have elevated levels of lead in their blood. Lead harms children's nervous systems and is associated with reduced IQ, behavioral problems, and learning disabilities. In large doses, it can cause coma, convulsions and death.
NCHH is the only national scientific and technical non-profit organization dedicated to developing and promoting practical measures to protect children from residential environmental hazards while preserving affordable housing. NCHH develops scientifically valid and practical strategies to make homes safe from hazards, to alert low- income families about housing-related health risks, and to help them protect their children. NCHH also works with governmental and non-governmental organizations to develop standards and programs and guide their implementation through insurers, lenders, federal and state laws and regulations, community organizations, and the courts.
Fact sheets are available at: http://www.nchh.org/


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• Anthony Wayne Davis, 24, 1010 SW 12th, Atkins — Sex offender failing to register.
The following civil cases were filed in Pope County Circuit Court from Sept. 6-13:
Cases assigned to the Fourth Division:
• Little John Transportation Services, Inc. v. Richard P. Casillas III.
• Mark and Terrie Wood v. Pat Brannon % Pat Housley.
• Liberty Bank of Arkansas v. Leon Fancher and Nancy Fancher.
• Johnny and Marilyn Blackwood, as parents of Dillon Blackwood, a minor v. James and Feonia Allen and Brian Allen.
• Spring Lake Apartments, a limited partnership v. Tommy Boyce and Nikita L. Boyce.
Pope County Clerk Laura McGuire issued marriage licenses to the following couples from Sept. 6-13:
• Kevin Wayne Blair, 38, and Bethany Fern Ingram, 25, both of London.
• Ethan Paul Duvall, 23, and Andrea Marie Haney, 24, both of Atkins.
• Brandon D. Graham, 24, and Brooke Nicole Sherrill, 21, both of Russellville.
• Devin R. Hughes, 18, and Danielle D. Hertel, 20, both of Russellville.
• Kevin Von Lewis, 26, and Desha Danyel Nelson, 25, both of Russellville.
• Edwin Noe Martinez Ventura, 23, and Karen Alicia Argueta Oyuela, 24, both of Russellville.
• Lorenzo Brandon Reveles, 23, and Jessica Gomez, 23, both of Russellville.
• Colton M. Ross, 19, of Waverly, Ohio, and Samantha R. Reed, 19, of Russellville.
• Brock D. Runyan, 23, and Hannah Mourine Conner, 26, both of Russellville.
• Johnny Lee Taber Jr., 22, and Nikki Nickcole Gilbreath, 21, both of Russellville.
• Brett R. Walters, 27, and Emma Jean Lovell, 27, both of Dover.
The following divorces were filed from Sept. 6-13:
• Leah K. Gordon v. Christopher Shawn Gordon.
• Jonathan D. Terry v. Brittany L. Terry.
• Sara E. Kilburn v. Brad Kilburn.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Stocks are closing sharply higher on Wall Street as Americans head to the polls in a closely fought U.S. presidential election.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 133 points to close at 13,246 Tuesday.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 11 points to 1,428, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 12 points to 3,012.
Companies that investors believe would benefit under a potential Romney administration had some of the biggest gains. They included United Technologies and Boeing, which do substantial business with the Defense Department.
Energy company stocks rose after the price of crude oil jumped $3 to $88.71 a barrel.
Two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was lighter than usual at 3.2 billion shares.


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I think Shingon, which is yoga-tantra, would be found appealing to many people outside of Japan if it were actively translated and taught outside of Japan. It isn't anuttarayoga-tantra (I don't think it was even developed in India at the time Shingon was being transmitted to Japan from China), but the model presents a path to Buddahood in a single lifetime. It is a model of tantra without Bon elements like in Tibet, though the Chinese influences are clearly present.Namdrol wrote:Seishin wrote:Why isn't Tendai popular in the West?
For the same reason that Yoga Tantra is not popular in Tibet -- anuttarayoga tantra is alive and well in the West.
Like Tendai, I don't think there is a strong inclination to actively take Shingon overseas. The leadership of the numerous Tendai and Shingon sects in Japan are not pushing for it to be taught outside Japan as far as I've ever seen or heard, though they don't object to it being taught overseas.
It might actually be what spells the end of Tendai and Shingon in Japan in the future. The Japanese population is declining and interest in Buddhism is rapidly waning. As the social function of Buddhism disappears within society there will be less funding and finances available. As the economy worsens people will ask themselves if they really want to bother paying stupid sums of money for traditional funerals and just go with the cheaper generic funeral option via an ordinary company rather than a temple. A lot of temples will close down and those who would have become priests due to familial obligation will just join ordinary society. Temples will close down, the sect HQs will have less incomes and assets will be liquidated.
You're already seeing this actually. Koyasan University is suffering financial hardship because of a lack of enrolment. This is the university for Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, too. The bank was apparently worried about whether they could pay their bills or not. I don't know if the situation has been resolved or not. But not a lot of people want to go to university in the small town of Koyasan on top of a mountain. Here is a university with superb resources for the study of not just Japanese Shingon, but Tibetan and Sanskrit tantric literature as well.
I think if they pushed for internationalization they would flourish, but this won't happen. It doesn't matter which sect really. Even Soto Zen in Japan itself isn't really interested in overseas activities even though thousands of people dream of practising at Eihei-ji. There is a lot of conservative attitudes and pride which blind Japanese Buddhist organizations to the fact that they're in rapid decline and in a few generations they'll probably be financially and culturally crippled. Permanently.


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A public hearing regarding the proposed Charlotte-Atlanta train line will be held on Thursday.
Transportation officials will be administering the hearing from 3-6 p.m. at the N.C. Department of Transportation office in Charlotte.
An extension to the Southeast High-Speed Rail Corridor is being proposed by state and federal representatives. The rail line will extend from Washington to Charlotte on into Atlanta, connecting with the Georgia Multi Modal Passenger Terminal and Hartsfield-Jackson.
The routes being considered for the addition to the train line are as follows: Norfolk Southern Rail Corridor; the CSX right-of-way connecting Charlotte, Rock Hill, Augusta and Atlanta; a route along the I-85 highway; and a route along the I-77 and I-20 highways.


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Near the end of his outstanding sophomore season, USC receiver Marqise Lee continues to receive national honors.
On Wednesday, Lee was named as one of five finalists for the Walter Camp Football Foundation player of the year award, along with Oregon running back Kenjon Barner, Kansas State quarterback Collin Klein, Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel and Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o.
The winner of the award, voted on by coaches and sports-information directors, will be announced on Dec. 6.
Lee also was named Wednesday to the AFCA FBS Coaches' All-America team, as a first-team receiver. Lee is also one of three finalists for the Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation's top receiver, and that winner will also be announced on Dec. 6.


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Activity note: Hotel check-in is available from 4:00 p.m.
Afternoon: Program Registration: 4:00 p.m. After you have your room assignment, come over to the Road Scholar table in the lobby to register with the program staff and get your welcome packet containing your name-tag, up-to-date schedule that reflects any last-minute changes, and other important information. If your arrival is delayed, please ask for your packet when you check in. During the Registration period, we'll have a wine reception as well, with one complimentary glass provided; others available for purchase. Orientation: 5:00 p.m. The Group Leader will greet everyone with a warm welcome and lead introductions. We will review the up-to-date program schedule and any changes, discuss roles and responsibilities, logistics, safety guidelines, emergency procedures including contact numbers for key staff, and answer any questions you may have. Travel throughout the program will be via private motorcoach unless noted otherwise. Scheduled free time is reserved for your personal independent exploration. Please be aware that program activities, schedules, and personnel may need to change due to local circumstances. In the event of changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding.
Dinner: At the hotel, enjoy a 3-course plated meal with salad, entrée, and dessert, plus water, coffee, tea; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: After dinner we'll hear from a local specialty food vendor about how Portland's food culture influences the industry. Over the past decade, Portland has often been called one of America's best "food cities." We'll discuss how and why Portland developed its culinary culture from regular suburban fare into a food lover's mecca with a focus on locally grown and sustainable sources.
Activity note: Taking public transportation; walking up to 1.5 miles, periods of standing. Closed-toe shoes required for brewery tour.
Breakfast: At the hotel, enjoy a breakfast buffet with choices such as eggs, breakfast meats, cereals, fresh fruit, juices, milk, coffee, tea.
Morning: To get our culinary adventure off to a start, a local public historian will present an illustrated lecture that will provide historical context about the Pacific Northwest and how food has become part of Portland's culture from Oregon's earliest days. We'll then take Portland's Streetcar to a local coffee roaster to tour their roasting facility and sample some of the coffee Portland is known for around the country.
Lunch: At a local restaurant featuring Pacific Northwest cuisine, enjoy a 3-course plated meal with salad, entrée, dessert, and a glass of wine plus coffee, tea, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Afternoon: After lunch a local expert will lead us on a walking field trip to learn about the history, art, and architecture of this exceptional Northwest city. See and hear stories behind many unusual details that even many locals miss. Our field trip will end at the hotel. Later in the afternoon we will reconvene and travel via Streetcar to a local brewery. In the 1980s small breweries in Portland began making bold, experimental beers, earning Portland the nickname "Beervana" for boasting more microbreweries per capita than any other city in the world. We will tour the brewery and taste some of the beers.
Dinner: Buffet dinner at brewery will include salad, entree and dessert.
Evening: We will return to the hotel for an evening at your leisure.
Activity note: Getting on/off a motorcoach; walking up to 1.5 miles. Gardens have paved paths with some inclines.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: This morning's field trips feature two exceptional gardens in Washington Park where we'll explore with docents. After breakfast we'll depart by motor coach to the International Rose Test Garden — known simply as the Rose Garden — which overlooks the city. It covers 4.5 acres in Washington Park and features more than 650 varieties of roses producing more than 10,000 flowers each year. The Portland Rose Society was established in 1888. In 1915 as World War I raged in Europe, newspaper editor Jesse Currey persuaded city officials to establish a "test garden" to protect and preserve European hybrid roses in danger of being destroyed. Fortunately, the roses outlasted the war. Portland today is known as the City of Roses. The primary purpose of the garden today is to serve as a testing ground for new rose varieties. The City of Portland Gold Medal Awards are issued annually to the best introductions. We'll continue to the Portland Japanese Garden, acclaimed as "the most beautiful and authentic Japanese garden in the world outside of Japan." There are five distinct areas that help to establish a sense of peace, harmony, and tranquility. A docent will lead our exploration of the garden that includes a Japanese Tea House as well as arbors, bridges, pagodas, stone lanterns, water basins, and an unsurpassed view of Mt. Hood. We'll then take the motorcoach downtown.
Lunch: Lunch at a favorite local restaurant.
Afternoon: This afternoon is free for you to explore more of Portland on your own. Please refer to the list of Free Time Opportunities. Your Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.
Dinner: This meal has been excluded from the program cost and is on your own to enjoy what you like. The Group Leader will be happy to offer suggestions.
Evening: At leisure. Go out to see more of Portland on your own, spend time with new Road Scholar friends, or simply relax.
Activity note: Getting on/off public transportation; walking up to 2 miles, some standing in museum.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: We'll take the MAX train to the Portland Farmers Market. This non-profit organization actually operates seven farmers markets in different neighborhoods throughout the city, providing direct connections between consumers and more than 200 farms, bakeries, cheese makers, meat and seafood providers, nurseries, and specialty food producers. We will see the abundance of local produce, meet and talk with local farmers and vendors, and spend some time exploring.
Lunch: At the market, vouchers will be provided to choose what you like.
Afternoon: We'll walk to Portland's Old Church. Built in 1882, it served a congregation until 1967 and was later saved from destruction by dedicated local citizens who wanted to preserve it as an historic and architectural landmark. It is now a concert hall and community events venue. We will attend a concert and as we listen to the music, admire the original leaded, frosted, and stained glass windows, and details of its Carpenter Gothic architecture. Next, we'll walk to the Portland Art Museum, the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest, that has amassed a diverse collection numbering more than 35,000 objects and works of art since its founding in 1892. A docent will lead us though highlights of the museum's collection. We'll then hop on Portland Streetcar and ride to the Pearl District. Whether you like the story of pearls discovered in an oyster canning factory or Chinese sailors hiding pearls beneath cobblestones, the Pearl District — known simply as The Pearl — is now a popular neighborhood filled with art galleries, bookstores, cultural institutions, pubs and breweries. A local expert will lead our walking field trip through this former industrial center that became one of the country's largest urban renewal districts.
Dinner: At a popular restaurant in the heart of the Pearl District, enjoy American brasserie-style cuisine.
Activity note: Drive is approximately 70 miles throughout the day, up to 90 minutes on the motorcoach. Getting on/off a motorcoach; walking up to 2 miles. Historic buildings have optional stairs. Possibility of spray while viewing waterfall. Walking on uneven farm fields.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: We'll spend most of today in the Columbia River Gorge. Our first stop will be at the Vista House at Crown Point- a building constructed in 1917 to provide travelers along the Columbia River Highway a place to rest and refresh themselves. This stop is also known as one of the most scenic points along the highway. After a short tour, we will continue to our second stop of the day: Multnomah Falls. At 611 feet or 630 feet — depending on how you measure — Multnomah Falls is one of the most majestic waterfalls in Oregon. It flows year round, fed by underground streams in addition to rainwater and seasonal snow melt. We will view the waterfall from below (possibility of feeling some spray depending on current conditions). Those who feel adventurous and vigorous may hike 2/10ths of a mile up a steep, paved path to a scenic footbridge for a closer look.
Lunch: At a restaurant with views of the falls.
Afternoon: After lunch we will depart by motor coach to explore a small family farm that was named a "Local Food Hero." The owner/farmer will share some of the joys and challenges of running a small farm, what it means to be sustainable, and how they fit into the local food economy. We'll return to the hotel via our coach with some time to freshen up and relax. Before our farewell dinner, we'll reconvene in a meeting room of the hotel to hear from an expert how Oregon has grown to become a world class wine producer over the past 40 years. This talk will include an opportunity to sample some of Oregon's wine varieties.
Dinner: We'll head out again on our coach to experience a farewell dinner featuring seasonal, regional cuisine. Enjoy a 3-course plated meal with salad, choice of entrée, dessert, plus glass of wine, coffee, tea, water; other beverages available for purchase.
Evening: After returning to the hotel, prepare for departure in the morning.
Activity note: Hotel check-out by 12:00 Noon.
Breakfast: Hotel buffet.
Morning: We'll gather one last time as a group for a wrap-up session to share our favorite experiences and say farewell to new Road Scholar friends. This concludes our program. We hope you enjoy Road Scholar learning adventures and look forward to having you on rewarding programs in the future. Please join our Facebook page and share photos of your program. Visit us at www.facebook.com/rsadventures. Best wishes for all your journeys!


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Sorry but this is total nonsense. Firstly because gravity truly is negligible in these circumstances, but more importantly because quantum mechanics doesn't allow a muon/electron to just take any arbitrary orbit. The electron can not be in orbit any closer to the nucleus than its rest state. You also need to stop thinking about it as a discrete particle wizzing in circles around a big lump, although language like "orbits" don't help with this.
r2 is really close to zero. Where is it measured from? But anyhow, nobody can offer a good explanation of gravity, so here we are.
Electrons/muons can take higher orbits. Why do you think they used a laser? When the electron goes from a higher energy state (orbital) to a lower one it emits a quantum of energy. But the orbital is just a probability, and what you see pictured is just a visualisation of probability formula that an electron will be there 99% of the time.
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The electron can not get any closer to the nucleus than its rest state because you can't get closer than 0 distance. As the article said clearly, "The proton structure is important because an electron in an S [ground] state has a nonzero probability to be inside the proton."
What's then the significance of proton's size? The famous 0.84fm-0.88fm value? Is there some kind of a border at that diameter? What happens when touching/crossing it?
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Most people don't think about it or realize it, but it is indeed a valid position for the electron to find itself *at* the nucleus. The S state orbital shape allows the electron to find itself in the center of the atom without any problem. In fact there are uncommon nuclear reactions that happen which can be thought of (in my understanding) as the electron actually being absorbed by the nucleus.
A free neutron decays into a proton, an electron and an electron antineutrino. So the reverse is also possible. Well, this is what I remember from high school a good decade ago, so...


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The tube system travels over the desks,
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There are viewing ports for engaging with humans though,
and hidden access points.
As well as lots of details to make it aesthetically pleasing. Including this operable wheel!
The first step to greater cat mobility throughout the room is here!


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Puffy Cheddar Grits
By using "quick-cooking" grits, you save about 15 minutes of stirring. Make this a day ahead and bake the morning of brunch -- just add 20 extra minutes to the baking time.
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Serves: 12
- 2 tbsp. margarine or butter
- 1 tsp. salt
- 3½ c. milk
- 1¼ c. quick-cooking grits
- 1 package shredded Cheddar cheese
- 1 tsp. Hot pepper sauce
- ¼ tsp. pepper
- 5 large eggs
- In 3-quart saucepan over medium-high heat, heat margarine or butter, salt, 1 1/2 cups milk, and 2 cups water to boiling. Gradually stir in grits, beating constantly with wire whisk to prevent lumping. Reduce heat to low; cover and cook 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. (Grits will be very stiff.) Remove saucepan from heat; blend in cheese.
- In large bowl, with wire whisk or fork, mix hot pepper sauce, pepper, eggs, and 2 cups milk until blended. Gradually stir grits mixture into egg mixture.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Grease shallow 2 1/2-quart casserole. Pour grits mixture into casserole. Bake 45 minutes, uncovered, until knife inserted in center comes out clean.
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The Smart911 system was first implemented late last year. It allows users to confidentially store safety profiles for themselves and their loved ones. Profile information includes facts about a person's medical conditions, allergies, or parental contact information when a child makes the call to 9-1-1. Already, it has provided important information for more than 20,000 9-1-1 calls.
When a call comes in to 9-1-1, emergency responders immediately have access to any information that has been entered. In one recent example, a child was missing in Pulaski County. When dispatchers received a frantic call from the child's parent, they learned that the child's photo was already in the Smart911 system. That photo was immediately made available to police officers, and the child was quickly found. Not only does Smart911 speed reaction time, it also provides details that can be easily forgotten in stressful situations. Callers who are panicked or unable to speak can still communicate valuable information through their previously created profiles. The system also allows responders to more precisely pinpoint the location of a caller with a wireless phone.
Arkansas' other new online tool, SmartPrepare, operates in a similar way, but on a larger scale. Managed by the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, the system helps responders determine the needs of residents in communities that have been hit by disaster. Emergency-management officials can access the information without having to contact anyone in the affected area. Disasters often create multiple emergencies that must be dealt with simultaneously. Along with the immediate safety of residents, responders also encounter power outages, the need for shelters, evacuations, or impassable roads. SmartPrepare enables emergency-management officials to anticipate the needs within a community before disaster strikes. For example, say a tornado or ice storm creates widespread power outages in a city. Using information already collected in SmartPrepare, officials will be able to locate those people who depend on electrically-powered medical devices or refrigeration for medications. The same databases can also indicate which individuals have physical conditions that might necessitate the most immediate assistance.
Having access to the right information is critical for managing the appropriate response to any incident. With this new technology, Arkansas' emergency responders can more efficiently use their resources and manpower to provide aid. However, this new technology is only useful if our citizens also prepare themselves by signing up in advance.
By going online and creating a confidential profile at smart911.com, you can help responders help you in the event of an emergency. In those situations, the right information can save time, and can save lives. During my administration, I've repeatedly said that we've been getting too good at natural-disaster response, because we've had too much practice. By preparing ourselves and our communities with these new tools, we can make Arkansas that much safer before disaster arrives.


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South Carolina faces Mississippi State in the first round at 7:30 Wednesday night.
COLUMBIA — South Carolina coach Frank Martin says the Gamecocks have made significant strides the past two months despite their struggles in the Southeastern Conference.
The Gamecocks (14-17) finished 4-14 during the expanded conference season and head into this week's SEC tournament having won twice in the final six games. They face Mississippi State (9-21) on Wednesday to open tournament play.
South Carolina enters with more confidence, fight and polish, Martin believes, than the group he had in November and December. That may seem hard to fathom given the Gamecocks record and some of Martin's own postgame pronouncements — remember "I've never been more embarrassed to call myself a basketball coach than I am today" after the Gamecocks 64-46 home loss to LSU last month?
Martin, though, says his team hasn't stopped improving and competing each time they take the court.
"I think we're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were in November and December," Martin said Monday. "I think this team's a lot better."
The evidence, Martin says, comes at practice when he sees players taking in the message and improving technique. It also comes when workouts are over as players put in the extra time shooting or running drills to get better.
Martin said junior Brenton Williams was like "Houdini" earlier this season with how quickly he'd disappear following practices. More recently, though, Williams joined point guard Bruce Ellington for some post-practice shooting work.
It's no coincidence that Williams put up 38 points, the highest scoring total for a Gamecock player since the school joined the SEC in 1992-93, in a 79-72 win over Mississippi State. Williams followed that performance with 17 points in a loss at Vanderbilt that concluded the regular season.
The Gamecocks see the SEC tournament as a chance to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. "I definitely think we've learned a lot," forward Lakeem Jackson said. "It's not easy to just throw it away, the season's going to be lingering around. But I think we've fought hard and we know what it takes to win and finish out some games now."
For Martin, this is the most important time of the year because at some point — unless you win it all — your season comes to close. "Every team understands that they don't want to get on that plane and go home," he said.
Martin's always had more to practice for following the conference tournament his first five seasons as a college head coach at Kansas State. After playing in the Big 12 Conference tournament, Martin and Wildcats took part in four NCAA tournaments and one NIT.
Unless there's a miracle run through the SEC in Nashville this week, the Gamecocks season will come to end in short order.
Martin's not giving in to anything, though, encouraged by what he's seen building the past two month. "Our record is what it is, we lost the games we lost," Martin said of his team's 14 SEC defeats. "But you know what? We had a chance to win nine of those 14, so how can you be discouraged?"
Six of South Carolina's league losses came by single digits.
Martin and the Gamecocks have dealt with their share of personnel problems. Expected senior leader Lashay Page, who still has the team's best scoring average, was dismissed from the team in January because of academic eligibility issues after transferring from Southern Miss.
Bruce Ellington, who also plays football, wasn't with the basketball team regularly until after the Gamecocks' Outback Bowl win over Michigan on New Year's Day.
Martin knows there's plenty of work ahead before South Carolina can head to the SEC tournament with serious hopes to challenge for championships or NCAA tournament at-large berths.
Still, he's happy his players have stuck with things and taken the early steps of that journey, no matter what the record shows. "That's nothing to be ashamed of," he said.


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DreamVision Dream'E front projector
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|$9,595 (as tested); $5,295 projector only / DREAMVISION.NET
|A good midprice projector that comes alive when mated with its optional fixed anamorphic lens. The resulting super-widescreen picture makes blockbuster 2.35:1 movies far more involving and exciting.
|• Superb color fidelity • Converted 16:9 mode allows use of fixed anamorphic lens • Makes switching to 2.35:1 cheaper and easier
|• We said cheaper and easier, not cheap and easy • Black levels could be deeper • Some frustrating control functions
Key Features
|• 1080p resolution • 1.5x zoom lens • Accepts 1080p/24 input signals • Anamorphic zoom mode for fixed or motorized constant-height lenses • Available in black, white, or custom high-gloss colors • Inputs: 2 HDMI; VGA; component-, composite-, and S-video; RS-232C • 7 5?8 x 20 1?2 x 20 3?4 in, 37 1?2 lb
Most home theaters use a screen with an aspect ratio of 1.78:1. In other words, it's 1.78 times as wide as it is high. This ratio is also referred to as 16:9. But many blockbuster movies employ a wider aspect ratio of 2.35:1. That's why you often get black bars at the top and bottom of the picture on your TV. Those bars are a dead giveaway that you're sitting in your living room rather than in a real movie theater.
About 4 years ago, Runco introduced a method to fill an ultrawide 2.35:1 screen using a standard 16:9 projector. Here's how it works. First, a video processor vertically stretches the 2.35:1 image to fill the full pixel array of the projector's 16:9 display chip - no pixels are wasted displaying black bars. Next, an anamorphic lens stretches the picture horizontally to restore its proper geometry. The lens rides on a motorized "sled." To watch regular 16:9 programs, you simply hit a button and the lens slides out of the way. Unfortunately, the first of these systems cost around $50,000 all-in, and while they've since come down in price, they remain expensive and complex.
That's where the DreamVision Dream'E comes in. The Dream'E is a 1080p projector with internal video processing designed to accommodate a fixed anamorphic lens. Unlike the Runco solution, DreamVision's doesn't require a motorized sled or a control system to trigger it. Rather than moving the lens out of the way when 16:9 programs are displayed, the projector electronically squeezes the 16:9 picture (which would otherwise appear distorted) into the correct shape and places black bars at the sides. The disadvantages are that you lose about 24% of your horizontal resolution when watching 16:9 high-def programs, and you also lose some brightness because fewer pixels are illuminated. But you cut costs - and you gain simplicity, in more ways than you might expect.
The Dream'E costs $5,295 on its own. For $9,595, you can get it packaged with the Wide System kit, which includes a Panamorph UH480 lens, a custom bracket, and a metal cowl that makes the lens look like part of the projector. The projector can work with lens sleds too.
DreamVision built the Dream'E around an LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) projection engine similar to those used by JVC and Sony. The projector doesn't have an automatic iris, so it can't adjust its aperture on the fly to create darker blacks. Many videophiles would consider this omission a plus, because auto iris can make the blacks "pump," or fluctuate in level. For video processing, the Dream'E relies on a Reon VX HQV chip, known for delivering a low-noise picture practically free of scaling and deinterlacing artifacts.
The Dream'E proved more complicated to set up than most projectors because its manual lens-shift controls sit under the projector, not on its side. If the projector hangs upside down from the ceiling, this poses no problem. But if it's sitting on a shelf or table, you'll probably have to lift the projector up to get to the lens-shift controls - then set it back down, check to see if the image position is correct, and readjust if necessary. This control layout made it a pain to get the image centered on my screen. Focus and zoom are also manual, but those didn't slow me down much.
The projector's Contrast (white level) control actually seems to be a Brightness (black level) control that works backward - that is, turn it up and brightness goes down, but contrast is barely affected. Fortunately, the Input menu features a separate set of black-level and white-level controls. These also work in reverse - turn the black level down and the picture gets brighter - but they do control what they're supposed to control, and in much finer steps than the main Contrast and Brightness controls offer. Once I figured all this out, dialing in the black and white levels was easy.
The projector's Theater preset mode produced nearly perfect color accuracy. Gain and bias controls for red, green, and blue are provided for full color calibration, but I was unable to better (or even match) the accuracy of the factory settings. With a quick touch-up of the color saturation and hue controls, I had a nice-looking picture.
The Wide System kit proved simple to install. Assembling the bracket, the lens holder, the lens, and the cowl took only a few minutes, and the lens forgives minor positioning errors. To accommodate the Wide System, I changed from my usual 16:9 screen to a 2.35:1, 106-inch-wide JKP Affinity screen made by Da-Lite.


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18th Annual Blues Talent Competiton
Date: October 7, 2012
Time: 1:00 pm
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Double Door Inn
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Charlotte, NC 28204
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The Charlotte Blues Society hosts its 18th Annual Blues Talent Competition at the Historic Double Door Inn. Winners of this contest will advance to Memphis, TN in January to compete in the 2013 International Blues Challenge. This year's competing bands are:
Gene Gene & The Blues Machine 2:15pm
Doors Open at 1 pm. $5 members/ $8 non members
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OHWOW presents TV Baby, the self titled debut from Brain McPeck and Matt McAuley from A.R.E. Weapons. More than a feature length album, TV Baby comes packaged in a genre defining 52 page book with artwork from Jim Jarmusch, Leo Fitzpatrick, Nate Lowman, Agathe Snow, Rita Ackermann, Spencer Product, Tom Jarmusch, Hanna Liden, Adam Greer, Aaron Bondaroff, Paul Sevigny, Ry Fyan, Aaron Young, Spencer Sweeney, Alan Vega, Dan Colen and Dash Snow plus many more.
Each artist was given a page in the book and asked to develop imagery that defined their personal relationship with television. Submissions ran the gamut from Aaron Bondaroff's logo inspired look back at the past twenty years of television to Jim Jarmusch's classic photograph of William Burroughs from 1978. This collaborative project, two years in the making, captures the musical and visual energy of downtown culture.
The TV Baby book and CD are now available at the OHWOW store in NYC, as well as their online store.
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In the old days, human beings got drunk on unsanitary, bacteria-ridden, fermented pulp provided by agricultural negligence and elated discovery. Thousands of years have passed, science has dissected nature and people still get drunk on fermented pulp. At Oakshire Brewery, colonies of latent bacteria thrive in the wood-grains of aging barrels stacked in a warehouse across from the main facility.
|Matt Van Wyck
Brewmaster Matt Van Wyck says the barrels are kept there so they won't inadvertently contaminate the other beers. "We hand-bottle these beers," Van Wyck says, "to keep the bacteria out of our main bottling line." And this series of single-batch wild and sour ales, constituting less than 1 percent of Oakshire's total production, are some of the most interesting and exciting beers in Eugene.
"To succeed as a brewery in the Northwest it used to be that you had to have a solid IPA, stout and pale ale," Van Wyck says. "The diversity and experimentation wasn't happening."
Since starting at Oakshire in 2009, Van Wyck has orchestrated dozens of single-batch beers — 20 so far this year. These one-off brews are usually made for special events, festivals, anniversaries or because an interesting or obscure ratio of malts, hops, yeasts and aging vessels is available.
But as far as these special cellar beers are concerned, "we don't really have batches that are oaked or wild," Van Wyck says. "We have about 40 barrels filled with beer. Sometimes a beer comes out unblended and sometimes we blend parts of several barrels."
The barrels, previously used in the maturation of gin, whiskey, bourbon and wine, have reached the status of "neutral" by the time they get to Oakshire. So what remains is a porous vessel.
"Each barrel is different," Van Wyck says. "The organisms in the wood are constantly conditioning the barrels." These organisms are Brettanomyces and Lactobacillus, wild yeasts that chew through sugars and are often unable to be fermented by regular Saccromyces yeast. These yeasts provide earthy, leathery, funky, sweaty and barnyard-like aromas, while creating tart and sour aftertastes to finish the job.
This technique is similar to the way vintners utilize a secondary malolactic fermentation or a barrel-conditioning program in many wines to achieve rich and unique flavors.
It makes sense then, that Van Wyck would concoct a barrel-conditioned framboise in neutral pinot noir and cabernet barrels, then fill half of them with 42 pounds of raspberries — which, of course, also harbor wild yeast — and let the other half age until blending time in the special tank near the back door to avoid releasing the contagion to the normal beers.
"Coming soon is the best I can do," Van Wyck says. "These beers are not a consistent product year after year."
So far, Van Wyck's reserve includes two rounds of Hellshire Imperial Stout and a Skookumchuck Sour Pale Ale. We can only speculate what else he has tucked away. With different fruits and different strains of yeast, Van Wyck says that every round of cellar brew is different each time.
"As long as there's fermentable sugar, the sky's the limit," he says.


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We need a way to indicate if someone is already working a certain problem. I notice a lot of times that people are working on solutions simultaneously and both people post without realizing the other person already did. It's not a problem to have more than one solution presented (in fact it's better), but it would certainly be faster for everyone if we had some kind of system to indicate that someone is working on a long problem.
Just an idea if anyone has a suggestion.


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Tewodros Wakie
I obtained my B.S and M.S degrees in Forestry from Haramaya and Hawassa Universities, Ethiopia. I have work experience in forestry research, forest seeds, forest monitoring, and agricultural extension from same country. I came to United States in 2006. Here, I acquired additional training in GIS at a specialist certificate, and A.S degree levels, and worked for a Californian based Information Technology, and Environmental Planning Consultancy firm. I am joining GDPE this fall semester through USDA National Needs Fellowship. Through the use of new remote sensing, and GIS modeling techniques, my research aims at generating valuable information in the science, and management of invasive Prosopis tree species in U.S, and Africa. My advisors are Melinda Laituri and Paul Evangelista.


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Good Morning Texas - October 2011
Palm 85th Anniversary
Watch Bruce Bozzi, Jr., Palm Executive Vice President and 4th generation descendent of founder Pio Bozzi, cook a Palm classic and talk about our 85th anniversary on Good Morning Texas.
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S.C. House Ethics panel clears Haley
COLUMBIA — Gov. Nikki Haley has been cleared of charges she violated ethics laws while a member of the South Carolina House.
The House Ethics Committee voted 5-1 Wednesday to dismiss all charges against the governor, following a review that began in March.
The panel said there was enough reason to look into the allegations, making them public. But committee members said there is not enough evidence to warrant a hearing on whether Haley violated ethics rules when she represented Lexington County in the House.
They directed staff attorneys to define consulting for a future House rule.
The complaint stems from a lawsuit by GOP activist John Rainey accusing Haley of violating ethics rules. A Circuit Court judge dismissed the lawsuit in March, saying such ethics issues are not a judicial matter.


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It's time to dip into the SEC recruiting mailbag and answer your questions. Because of the amount of questions we've received, we won't be able to get to all of them today -- but we encourage you to ask again next week by tweeting your questions to @DerekTysonESPN or @HamiltonESPN and use the hashtag #SECRecruiting.
@LisaHorne: If UGA loses again this week, will it affect their recruiting?
Derek Tyson: If history is any indication, then no, it should not make much of a difference in recruiting. Remember, Georgia started off 0-2 in the 2011 yet finished with the No. 5-ranked recruiting class including stud running backs Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall. Head coach Mark Richt has recruited at a very high level and has Georgia in a place to compete for conference and national championships just about every year. His job is not in jeopardy and recruits believe in what he and his staff are trying to accomplish. Starting the season off with two top-10 opponents is no easy task for any team, and I would be shocked if Georgia isn't in the hunt for the SEC East title come November. Georgia will be just fine in recruiting.
@Time2Strive: No LSU in Gerald Willis III & Speedy Noil top 3. Is UF the team to beat?
DT: I'll admit, I was just as shocked as everyone else to see LSU not in the top three for New Orleans Edna Karr teammates Speedy Noil and Gerald Willis III. Though I wouldn't completely count out the Tigers, it looks as if Florida, Texas A&M and USC are the teams to beat. Florida will have the first crack to impress the two Under Armour All-Americans, as they are both set to officially visit the Gators when UF hosts Tennessee on Sept. 21. At this point, I believe this will be a Florida-Texas A&M battle. Rarely do "package deals" work out, but in this case, the two seem set on playing together in college.
@kylelambsports: How much do Alabama's chances increase for Leonard Fournette and Hootie Jones with the commitment from Cameron Robinson?
Gerry Hamilton: I'm not sure Robinson picking Alabama helps with Leonard Fournette (New Orleans, La./St. Augustine). Their decisions will be separate, and Fournette has a long way to go in the process with his recruitment having even more importance now for LSU after Robinson picked the Crimson Tide. When looking at Laurence Jones (Monroe, La./Neville High), he's on I-20, where Alabama has made its run in the Pelican State in this class. Obviously, Jones knows Robinson and Cameron Sims (Monroe, La./Ouachita High), but he's not as close as Robinson and Sims. It certainly doesn't hurt Alabama's chances with Jones, but I don't believe it will sway his decision one way or another. Both players will very likely come down to LSU and Alabama, as has been expected.
@AshevilleLaw: What effect does Clemson's win have on recruits balancing CU-GA decision?
GH: I believe the Clemson win and showcasing of an electric atmosphere will resonate more with the 2015 class than 2014. When looking at the 2015 class, and especially in the Atlanta area, the Clemson staff being able to walk into high schools having beaten LSU and Georgia is suddenly a different and stronger message than a year ago. It will also be even easier to get top prospects to make unofficial visits -- not that the Tigers have struggled in that area. That's not to take away from the positive reviews by David Sharpe (Jacksonville, Fla./Providence School) and Raekwon McMillan (Hinesville, Ga./Liberty County High), but the win will almost certainly have a lasting impact on 2015 if the Tigers go on to have a BCS bowl game-type of season. Beating SEC powers changes the message of the staff on the trail, and that is very key when battling SEC programs in Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Florida for top prospects.


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Land Use, Agropastoral Production, Family Composition, and Household Economy in Santarem, Para, Brazil, June-August 2003 (ICPSR 34347)
Principal Investigator(s): Moran, Emilio, Indiana University. Anthropological Center for Training and Research on Global Environmental Change (ACT)
The 2003 Santarem dataset consists of 8 interconnected datasets and 1 linking file. The primary unit of analysis is the rural property or lot. Each lot in the sample contains a minimum of 1 household with a mean of 1.33 households per lot in the final sample. Within households, data were collected on subsets of individuals as well as additional properties used by the households in the study. These 2003 Santarem data come from interviews with farm families in an agricultural zone south of the city of Santarem in the Brazilian state of Para. Santarem is a relatively old settlement within the Brazilian Amazon that has experienced waves of regional settlement in the 1930s, mid-century, and the 1970s. The study region is adjacent to the confluence of the Amazon and Tapajos Rivers and the northern terminus of the BR-163 (the Cuiaba-Santarem Highway). BR-163 links intensive agropastoral production (particularly mechanized soybean farming) in the state of Mato Grosso to Santarem, where the multinational corporation Cargill runs a deepwater port (opened in 2003) for loading soybeans onto oceangoing ships. The opening of this port has accelerated the process of urbanization and led to a transformation from a landscape of small family farming to a landscape of mechanized agriculture (description adapted from VanWey, Leah K., and Kara B. Cebulko, 2007, Journal of Marriage and the Family 69: 1257-1270). The discourse on deforestation has focused on the alarming rates of deforestation in the Amazon Basin to the neglect of the dynamic and reciprocal influences between the human population and the environment. Deforestation is a process mediated by human intervention, from the act of clearing to how such a clearing is used and managed over time. It would be helpful to know whether observable rates of forest removal represent a stage in the developmental cycle of households or represents the simple and direct impact of increasing population in these environments. From the point of view of theory and method, it is necessary to develop new approaches that effectively link demographic process to the interactive relationship of population to specific aspects of an environmental matrix. This project addressed multiple scales, from household dynamics to landscape dynamics and has developed methods by which to scale between them. We hypothesize that as households occupy frontier areas past the first generation, they move from a strategy of managing their land under the constraints of available household labor to a strategy that gives greater recognition of the constraints posed by land quality and of the risks to their farm operation coming from external socioeconomic forces and biophysical constraints. In the first generation, the labor available to a household is determined by the size of the household making the initial trip to the frontier (primarily young couples is common in frontier regions) and later by the fertility of these initial migrants. As these initial migrants age and their children enter adulthood (thereby becoming the second generation), labor supply is determined by the reproductive and land use choices of these children. Given the precipitous decline in female fertility, other factors gain salience in the second generation: the suitability of the land for various uses, the availability of off-farm employment and educational opportunities (both locally and those requiring migration), and macroeconomic factors affecting the economic viability of farming. These decisions then directly determine the entries into and exits from the household. This study investigated five basic questions: (1) Does the changing availability of household labor over the household life cycle affect the trajectory of deforestation and land use change in the same way for later generations of Amazonian farmers as for first generation in-migrants? (2) What are the determinants of changing household labor supply? Specifically, what are the biophysical and socioeconomic determinants of entries into and exits from the household through fertility, migration, and marriage? (3) How are the decisions of households regarding land use and labor allocation constrained by soil quality, access to water supplies, interannual drought events (e.g. El Nino type events), and other resource scarcities? (4) Are there notable differences in land use choices made by landholders who live in an urban area (away from the piece of land owned in the rural area) in contrast to the decisions made by those who live on their rural properties? (5) What are the bases for the precipitous decline in female fertility in these frontier regions, especially the use of sterilization after two pregnancies? Households will be surveyed in the Santarem region, in the Lower Tapajos Basin, Brazilian Amazon to collect detailed demographic, land-use histories, and economic data. The sampling of households for inclusion in the study will be based on a stratified random sample by period of occupation in Santarem, to capture intergenerational processes that preceded the availability of satellite images. Based on the particular combination of methodologies used in this investigation (traditional household surveys, satellite image analysis, and GIS, and the scaling up and down from households to landscape), future environmental changes were projected for the regional landscape under various scenarios of continued settlement, household life cycles, combinations of credit, and changing environmental conditions.
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Moran, Emilio. Land Use, Agropastoral Production, Family Composition, and Household Economy in Santarem, Para, Brazil, June-August 2003. ICPSR34347-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-01. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34347.v1
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Subject Terms: agricultural productivity, agriculture, birth control, crop income, crop value, deforestation, fertility, household composition, household income, immigration, land ownership, livestock, livestock income, population characteristics, property values, rural population
Smallest Geographic Unit: Property or lot
Geographic Coverage: Brazil, Global, Santarem
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Unit of Observation: individual, household
Universe: Households and household members dwelling on properties within the sampled study area (Santarem and Belterra municipios) during the summer months of 2003.
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Mode of Data Collection: face-to-face interview
Response Rates: Of 488 household heads on 300 lots that were sampled for an attempted interview, 401 provided data that appear in the final sample for an overall response rate of 82.2 percent. These households occupied 244 of the original 300 properties sampled for a property-level response rate of 81.3 percent.
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Michigan CUSOs Add Owners, Release DDoS White Paper
CU*Answers and its sister CUSO, Xtend Inc., have added new owners and the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based core processor also Is offering a white paper on assessing DDoS risk.
The document describes a DDoS attack and what credit unions can do to protect themselves and prepare for examinations.
"DDoS attacks are in the news and on the minds of examiners," said Scott Page, CU*Answers executive president.
"A credit union needs to show they have controls in place and a grasp of what the business impact can be – and be able to show examiners they are aware and proactive. This white paper provides credit unions a valuable resource to do just that," Page said.
CU*Answers said the white paper is from AuditLink, the auditing and compliance division of CU*Answers Managed Services, and is available online.
Meanwhile, the new CU*Answers owners are the $14 million Thornapple Valley Community Credit Union in Hastings, Mich., and the $62 million Firefighters CU in La Crosse, Wis.
Page said eight credit union core processing clients have bought into the CUSO so far this year, bringing the total to 111. The technology CUSO's CU*BASE core processing platform is in place at 175 credit unions under $250 million in assets at seven above $250 million, according to the Technology Survey from Callahan & Associates.
Also, the $20 million Kenowa Community FCU in Wyoming, Mich., and the $27 million Tri-Cities CU in Grand Haven, Mich., have bought ownership shares in Xtend Inc., an affiliated CUSO of CU*Answers in Grand Rapids.
That CUSO said it now has 70 owners and about 150 credit union users of its bookkeeping, member contact, back-office mortgage, partnered liquidity, shared branching, compliance monitoring and insurance services.


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Top China Stories from WSJ: Rural Doctors, Fishing Industry, Nissan
Your daily round-up of the best of the Journal's China coverage:
Peru's Fishing Industry Lures Chinese Firm: China Fishery Group is offering $556 million for Copeinca to capitalize on the Oslo-listed company's access to Peru's rich fishing resources. (Subscriber Content)
Nissan China Sales Slowdown Continues: The president of Nissan's Chinese joint venture operations said that its sales in China for January and February combined may fall by 20% compared with the same period a year ago on continues tensions and a holiday slowdown. (Subscriber Content)
China Seeks Doctors for Rural Areas: China is encouraging doctors to come out of retirement and work in rural areas as part of an effort to tackle a health-care disparity between wealthy cities and the much poorer countryside. (Subscriber Content)
China Rate Cuts Hurt Bank of East Asia Profit: Bank of East Asia's profit at its mainland China operations fell slightly last year as Beijing's interest rate cuts ate into its margins. (Subscriber Content)


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Finding Arctic Cyclones
From 2000 to 2010, about 1,900 cyclones churned across the top of the world each year, leaving warm water and air in their wakes – and melting sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. That's about 40 percent more of these Arctic storms than previously thought, according to a new study of vast troves of weather data that previously were synthesized at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).
A 40 percent difference in the number of cyclones could be important to anyone who lives north of 55 degrees latitude – the area of the study, which includes the northern reaches of Canada, Scandinavia and Russia, along with the state of Alaska.
The finding is also important to researchers who want to get a clear picture of current weather patterns, and a better understanding of potential climate change in the future, explained David Bromwich, Ph.D., professor of geography at The Ohio State University and senior research scientist at the Byrd Polar Research Center.
The cyclone study was presented at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December, in a poster co-authored by his colleagues Natalia Tilinina and Sergey Gulev of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University.
"We now know there were more cyclones than previously thought, simply because we've gotten better at detecting them," said Bromwich, who amassed the weather database and consulted on the cyclone study.
Cyclones are zones of low atmospheric pressure that have wind circulating around them. They can form over land or water, and go by different names depending on their size and where they are located. In Columbus, Ohio, for instance, a low-pressure system in December would simply be called a winter storm. Extreme low-pressure systems formed in the tropical waters can be called hurricanes or typhoons.
How could anyone miss a storm as big as a cyclone? You might think they are easy to detect, but as it turns out, many of the cyclones that were missed were small in size and short in duration, or occurred in unpopulated areas. Yet researchers need to know about all the storms that have occurred if they are to get a complete picture of storm trends in the region.
"We can't yet tell if the number of cyclones is increasing or decreasing, because that would take a multi-decade view. We do know that, since 2000, there have been a lot of rapid changes in the Arctic – Greenland ice melting, tundra thawing – so we can say that we're capturing a good view of what's happening in the Arctic during the current time of rapid changes," Bromwich said.
Read more at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Top of the world image and cyclone images via Shutterstock; merged and morphed by Robin Blackstone.


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Swizz Beats = Jared Jefferies
Swizz Beats = Jared Jefferies
I still have that Swizz Beatz song on my ipod, hes definitely gotta re-do it. He should get Lin and Shumpert to spit a verse and fields can sing on the hook
crazy 8's had a really good one in one of his gamethreads
better than swizz beats
yeh now we score :S
LOL, end of the Q3 and we're on the 5th page... this place has got quiet lately, where you at Knicks nation?
Nets about to beat the sixers for us. Nice
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NOVAKKKK haha
MAN the wizards suck . . . am i talking to myself here ? :O
Jorts looks like an international spy.
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Tierra Vista Elementary
2001 Sanford St.
Oxnard, CA 93033
- Compare with other schools in Oxnard
- Compare with nearby schools
- School Type: Elementary School
- District: Ocean View
- Ranking compared to similar schools: 1
- Achieved API growth target: No
- Teachers with Full Credentials: 100%
- Teachers with Emergency Credentials: 0%
- School Schedule: Standard
- Grades: K-5
- K-3 Class Size: 23
- Grades 4-6 Class Size: 29
Student Information:
- GATE students: 10%
- English learners: 69%
- Reclassified as English proficient: 2%
- Migrant education program participants: 2%
- Eligible for free/reduced price lunch: 99%
- Special education within past two years: 4%
Kindergarten Immunization Information:
(2014-15 School Year)
(2014-15 School Year)
- Up-to-date Immunizations: 100% (114)
- Conditional admission: 0% (0) 6
- Medical exemptions: 0% (0)
- Personal Belief exemptions: 0% (0)
- Religious Belief exemptions: 0% (0)
Parent's Education:Overall Average Education4: 1.87
(based on the 99% who responded)
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|College Graduate
|Some College
|High School
|Not a High School
Student Ethnicity:
|African American
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Circle View Elementary rank: 10 in Huntington Beach
College View Elementary rank: 6 in Huntington Beach
Golden View Elementary rank: 8 in Huntington Beach
Harbour View Elementary rank: 9 in Huntington Beach
Hope View Elementary rank: 10 in Huntington Beach
Laguna Vista Elementary rank: 4 in Oxnard
Lake View Elementary rank: 6 in Huntington Beach
Mar Vista Elementary rank: 2 in Oxnard
Marine View Middle rank: 7 in Huntington Beach
Mesa View Middle rank: 9 in Huntington Beach
Oak View Elementary rank: 3 in Huntington Beach
Ocean View Junior High rank: 3 in Oxnard
Spring View Middle rank: 8 in Huntington Beach
Star View Elementary rank: 9 in Midway City
Sun View Elementary rank: 5 in Huntington Beach
Tierra Vista Elementary rank: 1 in Oxnard
Village View Elementary rank: 9 in Huntington Beach
Vista View Middle rank: 8 in Fountain Valley
Westmont Elementary rank: 5 in Westminster
- The State Rank is determined by a school's API Score in comparison to all other schools in California. (1 is the worst, 10 is the best). An equal number of schools occupy each rank. * This rank comes from the 2013 California Academic Performance Index (API) Growth report.
- The API Score is a number between 200 and 1000 that reflects a school's performance on statewide student assessments administered in 2013.
- Alternative Schools receive APIs but do not receive ranks
- Parent Education is the average of all responses where "1" represents "Not a high school graduate" and "5" represents "Graduate school."
- More information: 2012-13 Academic Performance Index Reports Information Guide (PDF; 629KB; 65pp.)
- "Conditional admission" is admission based upon either documentation of having received some but not all required immunizations and of not being due for any vaccine dose at the time of entry or upon documentation of a temporary medical exemption to immunization in accordance with Section 6050. Continued attendance after conditional admission is contingent upon receipt of the remaining required immunizations in accordance with Sections 6020 and 6035.
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Time Warner Cable has been under harsh criticism from consumers and politicians alike to stop their proposed tired internet pricing trials. The trials were to be started in Rochester, N.Y., Greensboro, N.C., Austin, Texas, and San Antonio, Texas. The trials would have seen users currently paying about $40 for unlimited bandwidth forced to pay $150 per month for the same service.
Time Warner has now announced that it is not going to be adding the new areas to its metered pricing trial. However, customers in Beaumont, Texas who are already paying for metered access will continue to do so.
Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt said in a statement, "It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about our plans to roll out additional tests on consumption-based billing."
Much of the consumer protest surrounding the metered trials was in the Rochester, N.Y. area reports the AP. In that area, U.S. Rep. Eric Massa had said he was preparing legislation that would ban metered billing of internet access.
Timothy Karr from Free Press said, "We're glad to see Time Warner Cable's price-gouging scheme collapse in the face of consumer opposition. Let this be a lesson to other Internet service providers looking to head down a similar path."
Under the Time Warner metered plan, consumers would have paid at least an extra $1 per gigabyte over the miniscule monthly allotments provided. Streaming video would have been the hardest hit internet service under the tiered pricing plan. One gigabyte of data equals about three hours of streaming video.
Karr added, "Consumers are not going to stand idly by as companies try to squeeze their use of the internet."


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Why Does Gedo Mazo still exists, after Pain is dead now? (Madara said he would need a new Pawn to sync with it)
I Mean Pain - or rather NAgato - Summoned it in the Battle With Hanzo, How can something like that be controlled by someone else than the Rinnegan user who summoned it (and got stabbed by it with those strange black chakra control things)?
Also, do you think Madara meant exactly with "sync with gedo mazo" ? Just another guy standing on the Fingers and helping extracting the Bijuu? or rather a replacement for Nagato, stabbed with the Black Chakra control Things that somehow seem to be an important connection to gedo mazo?