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Pro Stocker Line Wins One For Hospitalized Teammate
Jason Line arrived at the 2014 NHRA Winternationals with a built-in excuse should he end the event with a less-than-wonderful result. The KB Racing Pro Stock driver could simply say he had more important things than drag racing on his mind.
Line, however, opted against excuse making. Instead, he used news that teammate/team leader Greg Anderson would be forced to miss the first six races of the 2014 Mello Yello season because of a heart surgery, as motivation.
And the result was an impressive victory in Pomona and, hopefully, a nice emotional boost for Anderson, who is recuperation from his surgery in North Carolina.
"I talked to Greg this morning, and he gave me strict instructions," said Line, who joined the KB Racing team, a group that now owns 104 event titles, in 2004. "When I finally get to talk to him tonight, I'm pretty sure he'll be happy with me. This is really cool, and I'm glad Greg is getting better. I'm forever indebted to him for giving me the opportunity so many years ago that nobody else would have."
The Ken Black-owned team announced just a couple of weeks ago that Anderson would have the surgery, the purpose of which is to correct a condition the 52-year-old former Driver of The Year Award winner has had since birth.
"It's really not a big deal," Anderson said in late January in announcing his plans. "I was born with a bicuspid aortic heart valve (two valve openings instead of three). It's something we've kept track of over the years, and my doctor has decided it's time to make some repairs so I stay in good shape. I will miss the first few races of the season, but once the doctor says I'm good to go, I'm gonna be right back at it looking for another Pro Stock championship."
So KBR headed to Auto Club Raceway with NHRA rookie Jimmy Alund from Sweden in Anderson's car, with Vincent Nobile driving under the team's banner and with Line competing without Anderson to lean on for the first time since joining the team 10 years ago.
Line, tuned by crew chiefs Rob Downing and Tim Freeman, had a strong Summit Racing Camaro from the start. He entered eliminations as the No. 3 qualifier based on a best time of 6.514-second at 212.63 mph.
On Sunday, Line over came Matt Hartford's .004-second reaction time to win the first round matchup.
In the second-round, Line nabbed a .003-second starting line advantage over Pro Stock returner Dave Connolly and lengthened his lead as he raced down the quarter-mile for a 6.536, 212.06 to 6.544, 212.06 win.
In the semifinals, Line beat Shane Gray with the quickest and fastest pass of the round, a 6.527, 212.23 to Gray's 6.541, 211.79.
In the finals, Line beat V. Gaines by .003-seconds with his best run of the day.
Anderson was watching and cheering in a hospital room in N.C.
"But in all seriousness, this is a big deal for the Summit Racing team and our Chevrolet Camaros. We worked hard over the winter, and I think we really made some progress. The sport is crazy competitive right now, but we're certainly off to a good start."
Alund, meanwhile, qualified the second blue Summit Racing Chevrolet Camaro in the No. 10 spot with a best time of 6.546-second at 211.86 mph. But in his first round matchup against Gray, he illuminated the red light by .014-second and forfeited the win.
"I think this is only the third one [red light] in all my days," said Alund, who explained that the LED lights on the Christmas tree, NHRA's timing system, were different than the system used in Europe, where he is an eight-time FIA Pro Stock champion. "It's a little different here, but that's okay. That's racing."
Still, the KBR folks head home happy.
"The KB Racing team was great this weekend," Line said. "We all pitched in and worked together, and Jimmy Alund [who will drive Anderson's Summit Racing Camaro for the first six events] was a great help as well. He's a very capable guy and was certainly an asset to us this weekend, there's no question."
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The free market will take care of this. Oh no it won't.
There seems to be a few ways to take care of this.
Treat it like oil, pay the residents of Michigan for the water-it is more expensive than oil and cheaper to get.
Crank up the cost per million.
Regulations are bad though, right. We should take off all regs and trust the corps that the supreme court says are people. Profit is it, the next quarter is the only numbers that matter, and they better be increasing.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
a reply to: jrod
Tell the Tampa City Utilities that "water is a human right", as they shut your water off. Go picket out there in protest at their payment center. Expect to show your papers if you do!
Diamonds are free, they're just laying in the ground. Gold is too. Where's the ethics with extracting and selling them?
originally posted by: NightSkyeB4Dawn
Not just diamonds, but other precious gems and metals are extracted from areas where the human cost is deplorable.
There have been a movie or documentary or two, made about the nightmare of the extraction of gas, oils, and minerals from our planet, but since most of us are content with the life we live, knowledge of the horrors have very little impact on our consumption.
originally posted by: seasonal
a reply to: 3danimator2014
We have a snap program (think food stamps) to give people help when they can't afford it. Is this a right, you tell me.
originally posted by: JinMI
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I agree and to anyone who lives in an urban area trying to go against those norms are met with extreme resistance.
I keep telling myself, few more years. Can't wait to invade MichiganSwampBucks neck of the woods!!!
Stop on by. We can mess with the campers and weekenders while we drink well water and eat venison.


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The purpose of this project is to visualize real-time images of molecules in living cells. To test this, I employed the evanescence microscopy and the confocal microscopy with a microlens-attached Nipkow disk scanner. By these techniques, catecholamine release from chromaffin vesicles and gating activity of K-cahnnels expressed in Xenopus oocytes were captured as dynamic 2-dimesnional images.Exocytotic release of catecholamine was visualized by first loading a fluorescent dye, quinacrine, into chromaffin vesicles, and then by observing the fluorescence of the dye with the confocal microscope equipped with an objective lens of a high numerical aperture. It was found that some vesicles release their contents only partially and recycle without a full release. This findings do not support the widely accepted hypothesis of quantal release of tranamitters.Messenger RNA for K-channel was modified at 351 position, so that K-channel expressed in Xenpus oocytes injected with the mRNA can be specifically labeled with tetramthyl rhodamine maleimide (TMRM). Under the voltage clamp condition, the fluorescence of TMRM on the oocyte membrane was examined with the evanescence microscope. Many fluorescent spots showed voltage dependent changes in brightness (50% in amplitude with 100mV depolarization) that reflects the gating process of the ion channel. Moreover, with the time of illumination these spots disappeared abruptly in a mode of quantal bleaching, as expected for a single fluorescent molecule. This is evidence for the first observation of single molecules on the plasma membrane in a livinf cell.
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I'll be speaking at the following sessions at next week's VoiceCon
Monday, March 30, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM,"Building Business Cases for IP Telephony and Unified Communications", Presented by Robin Gareiss, EVP and Senior Founding Partner and Irwin Lazar, VP Communications Research
Whether an enterprise is early in its migration to IP Telephony or further along and now evaluating the concept of Unified Communications, it's not easy to build a credible business case. IP Telephony and, in particular, UC, are complex and involve numerous technologies, decision-makers and equipment, software and service providers. This tutorial will be divided into two segments: The first is devoted to IP Telephony businesses cases, the second will cover the UC business case. It will be based on IP Telephony cost data that has been gathered over the past five years from more than 800 companies that have implemented the technology, as well as real-world data from hundreds of IT decision makers on the newer UC products and technologies.
Tuesday, March 31, 8:00-8:45 AM, "Voice Mashups: Tool or Toy", Moderated by Irwin Lazar, Vice President, Communications Research
What's a voice mashup, and why should you care? This session will explain how different application and services elements can be combined in an ad hoc manner by end users drawing upon enterprise resources, to create "mashups." We'll look at the uses for mashups, where the elements of a mashup come from, and how they can benefit your end users.
Wednesday, April 1, 8:00-8:45 AM, "Web 2.0 and Enterprise Communications - Fad or the Future?", Presented by Irwin Lazar, Vice President, Communications Research
Improved collaboration is one of the key benefits of next-generation communications technology. The range of systems and tools available for next-gen collaboration is vast—from ad hoc, Web-based social networking to large enterprise platforms for information sharing, integrated with communications platforms. In this session, we'll look at social networking and enterprise collaboration—where the two intersect, where they diverge, and what it means for the systems you'll deploy to help your workers collaborate more effectively and securely.


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During a recent speech, President Barack Obama, once again, fomented class warfare, misquoted scripture and said he was a Christian. This is a man who believes in the legality of killing unborn children; who believes homosexuality is moral; who believes in a back-handed manner of forcing birth control and abortion policies on religious hospitals; a man whose writings, policies and associates, past and present, all fit the descriptors of a Marxist, a statist, a socialist and a communist.
Not surprisingly, someone who doesn't know what defines a Christian.
He continued in this speech to quote Jesus, "… to whom much is given, much will be required." The passage from Luke's gospel has nothing to do with people's wealth, but the knowledge of God's will as revealed in his word.
God, speaking through Paul also said, "… if any would not work, neither should he eat." Jesus told his apostles "… the poor you will always have with you."
After misinterpreting scripture for his own personal agenda, Obama went on to draw moral equivalences between Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and atheism.
Are you kidding me?
Obama has no apparent transcendent, normative standards upon which he bases his value system. Like many Americans, those values are an eclectic mix of whatever fits one's self-centered lifestyle.
The Bible nowhere gives, or even suggests, a government confiscate money from the wealthy for redistribution. We are told to give "from a cheerful heart" of our own free will, 10 percent and hopefully more.
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Recently I have been quite addicted to soaps, it suddenly became all fun to discover awesomely cute soaps again!
When I see this very cute soap from Nostalgia Organics, I was delighted! Look at the cute sack!!! First time I am having soap with sack! 😀
On the little instructions, it says I can saw a strawberry pin cushion from the sack. But honestly I am bad at crafts, so it is better that I recycle this sack as an accessory holder or something.
Found this pic on the net, you can sew the sack into this!
Undressing the soap. It is a huge bar!
Usually I chop my soap into half if the soap is too big. I like to alternate my soaps 😀
This is how a half-bar looks like on my hand. I have used it for about a week, still big right?
See the bits on the soap? It works as exfoliant too! But don't rub too hard against your skin though.
Surprisingly the soap lathers up quite well. But it does not have much fragrance though. Could be a bonus for people who do not like heavily-scented soap. I use this soap at night as day time I prefer to use citrusy shower to wake me up in the morning. 😀
This baby definitely makes a great gift for birthdays or Christmas, it is really cute!
Available on Soap'n'Sorbet for SGD$20. Do check the site for some really cute stuff!


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©2014 By Julia DarkRose
**This is not directed at any one person or group. This is simply an overall view of humanity, from my perspective, of course.**
Pretty Little Lies
Your alarm clock rings again.
You rise and start your day, the same old way…again.
You go through the motions of the living, you keep smiling or crying, but you don't believe.
You keep hoping, you keep praying, you keep worshiping your absent gods/goddesses, you keep trying to escape. You keep playing your games, reading your fantasy novels, watching movies/TV, telling pretty little lies on FB/Internet groups/pages…
But you don't believe, not really.
You smile…again. You scream inside of your head, please wake me from this dream. Your mind whispers to you…
Please don't fix me, I'm not broken. I'm the lie living for you so you can hide away from reality, from the beautiful world that you're allowing to pass you by, that you have never truly seen.
Oh, my sweet Dark Angel, please don't cry…
Put down the alcohol, remove the syringe from your sacred flesh, flush the pills down the toilet, turn off the TV, put down the book of make-believe (for awhile), remove yourself from the fairytale…for truth is stranger than fiction and far more beautiful.
Suddenly you will know that you're not sleeping.
You're wide awake now and you're still here…
Now, face the truth, face your truth, so that you may finally start to live.
Or you can continue to be an empty shell, filling yourself up with all the pretty little lies…then, of course, you will never truly know all that you are capable of. You will never allow yourself the chance to know all that you might be capable of. You will never truly know all the people you could have helped save (assuming you want to help save people). You'll never know how much you could have truly help change our world (assuming that you are actually wide awake and want to help evolve our world in a positive forward motion). You will forever be empty. Nothing will ever be able to fill your essence, your mind, your body, the way that the truth of reality can.
Living a lie, living in a fantasy world, will only, in the long run, hurt you, those around you, those you love and eventually, just like a domino effect, living a lie will hurt our precious Mother Earth. Pretty little lies, turn into big ugly lies…they kill your true spirit…they are a disease.
As always, you choose. Are you strong enough to accept reality? What are you truly made of? What do you want to be truly made of? Are you willing to pull your head out of the sand and start to truly live? Are you ready to make the hard choices that will lead you down a path riddled with hardships so that you might finally realize your truest self, your truest essence, and realize what you are truly capable of?
I, Julia DarkRose, am a beacon of Darklight. I always have been and I always will be. I know what I'm made of. I choose to know the truth over pretty little lies…do you wish to walk with me in the beautiful, erotic, pure truth of reality?


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text: Well,I guess the subject heading pretty much says it all,eh? Only been playing the bass for like 7+months now so strings never really crossed my mind.Started reading some of the posts in the Strings forum and now I realize how important strings are and what an impact they can have on the playability/sound/tone of any given instrument. Thankfully,I still have plenty of life left in my stock Ibanez strings. What are the major differances in strings?I know what roundwounds,flatwounds,and groundwounds are.Just wondering what an all around high quality string...one that would make my(or any)instrument have more punch/bottom end and so forth. Basically,the music I play now is pretty much dictated by my skill level;that is I play what I am able to.Mostly Rock,Alt Rock though.They say that flatwounds are really good for getting that "vintage" sound.Are they ever used for more modern music? It`s just so confusing is all! So many damned brands/types of strings to choose from!Guess I want to know a bit about them before I actually have to choose and buy my first set. And another thing!! I don`t even know how to put the damn things on!! Thanks PPLZ! Usul


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FOX Orders Pilot for Series Based on 'Delirium' Book Trilogy
With the surge in dystopian novels translating to the big screen — The Hunger Games, The Mortal Instruments and Divergent are just a select few that come to mind — it makes sense that television networks start picking up on the trend as well. And that's exactly what FOX is doing with its latest order for Delirium.
According to TVLine, Karyn Usher, one of the writers and producers for shows such as Bones and Prison Break, also wrote the pilot episode for the potential FOX series, based on the bestselling Delirium trilogy by Lauren Oliver.
To give you some background, Delirium is set in a world where love is considered a disease (slash illegal) and everyone must undergo a special treatment when they turn 18 years old to be cured of the "illness." There are particular cases where the cure's been administered prior, but it's not recommended due to plausible complications. However, with just three months until her 18th birthday and scheduled procedure, lead protagonist Lena Holoway falls into the unspeakable — in love.
So, why not a movie instead of the small screen? Author Lauren Oliver took to her Tumblr today to explain: "The deal is that FOX, which initially optioned the books for film, decided that due to the complexity of all the side plots and characters, the Delirium series might be better suited for TV, as we'd have a chance to explore all of those elements… I know that some of you are concerned that a TV show will be "untrue" to the books… Look, the books will always be the books. No adaptation, either for film or TV, will or can completely replicate and remain faithful to them — it's a totally different art form!"
She continues, "The talented people writing the show aren't trying to take anything away from the story, their goal is to add and expand, and give us all more time with the characters that we love. The wonderful thing about an expansive medium like television is that there is the time and space to explore smaller elements of the story and the world that would have detracted from the momentum of a novel. Think of how much Julian we'll get! Think of how much Alex we'll see!"
So far, no details have been given as to the roll-out date for the pilot, but at least avid Delirium fans can look forward to the third and final book in the series, Requiem, releasing March 2013. Oh, and there just so happens to be a contest going on at this very moment — courtesy of Figment, HarperTeen and yours truly — where you can win the ultimate prize: a two-day trip to the HarperTeen offices in New York City and a one-year book column on Teen.com! The challenge: Write a story in which love is dangerous (like in the Delirium trilogy). For more details, plus information on how to enter, click on the link below.


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Throughout 2010, we've documented the scramble by independent exploration and production companies to tilt their production mix in favor of oil and natural gas liquids. From big boys like Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK), which now promises to become a "top five" U.S. liquids producer by 2015, to smaller shops like Carrizo Oil & Gas (NASDAQ:CRZO), everyone seemingly has oil on the brain.
There are some exceptions among the independents. Range Resources (NYSE: RRC) recently doubled down on the Marcellus shale (which is admittedly liquids-rich in spots), while gas-weighted EXCO Resources (NYSE: XCO) is facing the launch of a management-led takeover -- or is it a takeunder? On the whole, though, onshore producers are shifting toward oil and liquids en masse, and like EOG Resources (NYSE:EOG), are willing to dump gas assets to fund the transition.
This all suggests to me that it's a great time to be a buyer of natural gas. In fact, I've been going to bat for certain gas-weighted producers since the summer. Yesterday, Chevron (NYSE: CVX) demonstrated a similar contrarian bent, as it agreed to buy out Marcellus player Atlas Energy (Nasdaq: ATLS) for $4.3 billion, including assumed debt.
The purchase makes perfect sense. My only question is: Why so modest, Chevron? Why buy Atlas when you could grab Range Resources or Cabot Oil & Gas (NYSE: COG) or Ultra Petroleum (NYSE: UPL)? Before today, all were trading at modest valuations. Of course, each is trading higher today, because the natural gas space is suddenly deemed "in play" by the momentum-chasing hot money.
The point of value investing isn't to strike while the iron is hot. Apache (NYSE:APA) clearly gets this, as demonstrated by purchases of tossed-off assets like Devon Energy's (NYSE:DVN) shallow-water Gulf of Mexico portfolio. I'm glad to see Chevron embracing this principle of striking while the iron is cold as well.
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Hiring A Glenview Personal Trainer
A good workout program should be properly balanced. It should focus on the areas that are necessary in helping an individual achieve his long term fitness goals. A trainee cannot by himself be able to come up with such a program. He will need the help of a trained and professionally knowledgeable Glenview personal trainer to be able to achieve this.


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Oh Tannenbaum pictures of an image
Published to accompany exhibitions at 25 branches of the Goethe-Institut, this book includes tear-out Christmas cards featuring designs from recent years, a foreword by jjoo design and texts by two authors involved in the Oh Tannenbaum project reflecting their individual perspectives on the topic.
Conception & coordination
jjoo design
Layout & cover design
Martin Borst
Daniel Schludi, Antonia Huber & Nadja Schoch & Stefanie Miller, Evi Künstle, Ilda Kim & Kirstin Griech
Jacqueline Todd
Texts by
Volker Albus, Daniel Hornuff, Johannes Marmon & Johannes Müller
Goethe-Institut, Dachauer Str. 122, München
Oh Tannenbaum designer christmas trees
A book with 25 Christmas cards with motives from the exhibitions of 2004 to 2007 to take out and four short essays about the tradition of the Christmas tree and the exhibition itself.
Graphic Design & photography
Martin Borst, Sebastian Cremers, Daniel Schludi
Texts by
Volker Albus
Franziska Beyer
Simon Bieling
Johannes Marmon & Johannes Müller
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Mini Shoe Porn: Amanda's shoes for fun and work
L-A: Bonus post! These are the shoes I couldn't find last week. It's mini-shoe porn because it's just two pairs.
Here is the fun pair:
All I have to say about that is: Dear Friends, please start buying great shoes in size 10. Since most of you are not a size 10, I will happily buy them from you.
I like Amanda's idea of a practical work shoe:
I don't know, they're still pretty fun. My practical work shoes are usually along the lines of a black heel. I saw this pair at Winners recently for a steal…but the colour wasn't for me.
I know there hasn't been much shoe porn lately, but shoe porn depends on submissions. I have a feeling a lot of people aren't thinking about taking pictures of their shoes while on summer vacation.


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While there was some controversy about the idea of adding a playoff in a league with only seven teams, there's no doubt the first MIAA A Conference championship game kept the 5,728 fans at Johnny Unitas Stadium riveted for Friday night's entire game — and two overtime periods.
No. 1 Gilman's 34-32 victory over No. 2 Calvert Hall will be talked about for a quite some time.
The Greyhounds (10-1) pulled ahead, 20-14, on a 1-yard plunge by quarterback Shane Cockerille and the ensuing two-point conversion pass from Cockerille to fellow junior Henry Poggi.
But senior quarterback Thomas Stuart led Calvert Hall (9-2) on a crisp, six-play drive that ended with his third touchdown pass of the game, an 18-yard strike to senior Brandon Neverdon to tie it with 28 seconds to go.
The Cardinals' euphoria was short-lived, though, when they missed an extra point and the game went to overtime.
On fourth down in the first overtime, Stuart rainbowed a throw that Neverdon pulled down for a 26-20 Cardinal advantage.
After Jones scored to tie it on a 1-yard dive, Gilman fumbled the point-after snap. That sent the game into a second overtime, but a Calvert Hall penalty allowed the Greyhounds to start their next possession from the Cardinals' 5 instead of the 10.
Jones scored on his first carry from there, and he added the conversion run for a 34-26 lead.
Stuart then found junior Kyle Levere to close the deficit, but he could not do the same on the ensuing conversion pass, which was knocked down by Gilman junior Wyatt Dickerson to give the Greyhounds the crown they lost to the Cardinals last year.
It was the third straight game between the rivals that the team leading at halftime went on to lose, including Gilman's 28-21 win Oct. 7 after trailing 21-7.
"I really feel bad for Calvert Hall," Gilman coach Biff Poggi said. "We were on the losing side last year, and we know how they feel. But Jones said, 'Ride me.' He wanted the ball in overtime. He wanted it for the two-point conversion. He wanted to put us on his back. The team rallied around him."
Calvert Hall struck first on a six-play, 61-yard drive capped by a 15-yard pass from Stuart to fellow senior Trevor Williams, who broke a tackle at the 3-yard line before crossing the goal line. Junior Austen Strachen's extra point made it 7-0 with 4:10 left in the first quarter.
On a fourth-and-10 from the Gilman 14, Stuart found senior C.J. Williams streaking over the middle for another score and a 14-0 advantage with 5:17 remaining in the first half.
Trailing by two touchdowns, Gilman called on Jones to rally the troops, and he did just that, carrying the ball four times for 41 yards and catching a pass for 9 more yards on a 65-yard drive finished by a Cockerille keeper with 1:27 to go before halftime.
It took the Greyhounds another quarter to score again, when senior Kenneth Goins powered in from the 3. Cockerille kept that drive alive on a fourth-and-10 completion to junior tight end Micah Kiser after scrambling out of a sack attempt and rolling to his left long enough for his receiver to shake free.
That left Calvert Hall with a 14-12 lead with 46 seconds left in the third period, but it was a lead the Cardinals couldn't hold onto.
"My hat goes off to their kids and their program," Calvert Hall coach Donald Davis said. "They played awesome tonight."
While Gilman's season ends with its 10th MIAA title since 1998, the Cardinals will finish their year with the annual Turkey Bowl Thanksgiving Day against rival Loyola at Towson's Johnny Unitas Stadium.
MIAA A Conference championship
No. 1 Gilman 34, No. 2 Calvert Hall 32 (2 OT)
Gil 0 6 6 8 6 8 34
CH-T. Williams 15 pass from Stuart (Strachen kick)
CH-CJ Williams 14 pass from Stuart (Strachen kick)
Gil-Cockerille 3 run (kick missed)
Gil-Goins 3 run (pass failed)
Gil-Cockerille 1 run (Cockerille to Poggi)
CH-Neverdon 18 pass from Stuart (kick failed)
CH-Neverdon 18 pass from Stuart (pass failed)
Gil-Jones 1 run (miss kick)
Gil Jones 5 run (Jones run)
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Photobomb (verb): to drop in a photo unexpectedly
Looks like animal cross-breeding is doing quite well in Texas!
Grab the bull by the corns. - Archie Bunker
Moose are the squirrels of Alaska. - Tim Moon
A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit. - Sarah J. Parker
The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. - Henry David Thoreau
Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight, and bull-strong. - Unknown
If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. - WC Fields
The farmer allows walkers across the field for free, but the bull charges. - Unknown
I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. - Kay Robertson
Like a bull into a china closet. Like in that picture, "The Prince and The Porpoise." - Archie Bunker
There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway
I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick. - Sarah Palin
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. - Hal Borland
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull. - Ralph Nader
see also Animal & Illusion Sections
Bird Cam
Chicken Photobomb
Cow Photobomb
Horse Photobomb
Oscar Photobomb
Photo Op
Photo Scratch
Roo Cam
Self Portrait for Squirrels
Train Photobomb
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- 1 package (9-oz) Beyond meat vegan chicken strips, defrosted
- 1 (15-oz) can black beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 can Rotel (tomatoes with diced green chilies), drained
- 1 16-oz jar green enchilada sauce (salsa verde)
- 1 cup Tofutti sour cream
- 4-oz Tofutti cream cheese
- 1/4 cup unsweet almond milk
- 1/2 cup vegan cheddar shreds (I used Daiya)
- Garnish: shredded lettuce, avocado cubes, sliced scallions, pickled jalapenos
- 6 flour (soft-taco size) tortillas (I had extra filling left over but only had room for 6 enchiladas in my dish)
Preheat oven to 375. In a large bowl whisk together the sour cream, cream cheese, cheese and milk.
Stir in the Rotel, black beans and chicken strips.
Scoop the chicken mixture evenly (I used a 1/2 cup scoop for each one) into 6 flour tortillas and roll up. To roll turn in the sides slightly the turn in the bottom and roll.
Cover the bottom of your dish with a layer of salsa verde. Place enchiladas seam side down into a 7×11 baking dish.
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Cover with foil and bake for 35-40 minutes. (Make sure the foil isn't touching the tortillas too much, because it will stick to them). Enjoy with garnishes of your choice!


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Editor's Note: This is the first article in a three-part series about distributed partitioned views in SQL Server 2000.
Online transaction processing (OLTP) environments and large Web site databases usually consist of many individual queries requesting or manipulating relatively small amounts of data. As the system grows, and users issue more queries against the database, DBAs usually try to improve response time by scaling up, which means increasing the server's power. You can add CPUs, replace CPUs with faster ones, add more memory, expand the network, or add faster disk drives with smarter controllers. But at some point, you exhaust the available resources for scaling up because you reach your machine's—or your budget's—limit. SQL Server 2000 introduces a solution for the growing need for more processing power—scaling out.
Part 2: Querying Distributed Partitioned Views
Part 3: Modifying Views with INSTEAD of Triggers
When you scale out, you split huge tables into smaller tables, each of which is a subset, or partition, of the original table. You place each partition on a separate server. You manage each server independently, but together the servers form a federation. To access the data on any of the partitions, you define a view with the same name on each of the servers, making transparent the fact that the data is distributed among several nodes. A user or an application connecting to any of the servers can issue all Data Manipulation Language (DML) statements (i.e., SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE) against the view as if it were the original table. SQL Server 2000 intercepts the statements and routes them to the relevant servers. This configuration distributes the processing load among the federation members.
SQL Server 7.0 lets you create local partitioned views (see Claude Seidman, "Creating Horizontally Partitioned Views," April 2000). In SQL Server 7.0, you can also create partitioned views across multiple servers, but they aren't updateable, which greatly reduces their usefulness. In SQL Server 7.0 and earlier versions, any view based on a UNION operation is not updateable, whether it's on a single server or distributed across multiple servers. SQL Server 2000 removes this general restriction (letting users update a certain class of views based on a UNION statement) and introduces new optimization techniques for processing partitioned views. In this article, we discuss the new optimization techniques and show you how to set up and modify distributed partitioned views.
Setting Up Distributed Partitioned Views
Setting up distributed partitioned views involves three steps: setting up the linked servers, creating the partitioned tables, and creating the partitioned views.
Setting up the linked servers. Setting up distributed partitioned views requires a preliminary step that isn't necessary when you set up local partitioned views. Because partitioned tables are distributed across multiple servers, each server needs access to every other server. So, you need to configure all the servers as linked servers. Suppose you want to partition the tables Customers and Orders across three servers called Shire, Hobbiton, and Rivendell. Shire needs to point to Hobbiton and Rivendell; Hobbiton needs to point to Shire and Rivendell; and Rivendell needs to point to Shire and Hobbiton. Figure 1 shows the linked servers setup. Each arrow stands for a linked server configuration. Listing 1 contains the script to set up the linked servers on Shire, or Node1.
The @server parameter in the sp_addlinkedserver stored procedure specifies the logical name that we use to refer to the linked server, and the @datasrc parameter specifies the name of the server we want to access. Notice that in this script, remote server names consist of two parts separated with a backslash, as in server\instance. SQL Server 2000 supports multiple instances of SQL Server installations on the same server. So if you want to run these code examples on a single machine, you can install three instances of SQL Server 2000 on your machine and simply replace the server names used in the scripts with your server\instance names. For example, if you have a server called Server1, you can install three instances of SQL Server 2000 called Instance1, Instance2, and Instance3, and refer to them as Server1\Instance1, Server1\Instance2, and Server1 \Instance3, respectively. (For more information about multiple instances in SQL Server 2000, see Kalen Delaney, Inside SQL Server, "Multiple Instances," July 2000, and "Managing Multiple Instances."
After you define the connection to each of the other two servers, use the procedure sp_ serveroption to set lazy schema validation for each linked server. This setting optimizes performance by ensuring that the query processor won't request meta data for any of the linked tables until users request data from the remote member table. Microsoft introduced the lazy schema validation option in SQL Server 2000.
When a user executes a distributed query on the linked server, the local server logs on to the linked server on behalf of the current user. If the following conditions are met, you don't need to configure linked server security:
- Users connect to SQL Server by using Windows Authentication.
- Security account delegation is available on the client machine (where the user interface is running) and on the local server. Security delegation is available with Windows 2000.
The configuration in this example meets these requirements, so you don't need to configure linked server security. The three servers are member servers in a Win2K domain called MIDDLE _EARTH, and the users connecting to the servers use Windows Authentication. If your configuration doesn't meet these security requirements, you need to configure linked server security by using the stored procedure sp_addlinkedsrvlogin.
Next, run the script in Listing 2 to set up the linked servers on Hobbiton, or Node 2. Last, run the script in Listing 3 to set up the linked servers on Rivendell, or Node 3.
Creating the partitioned tables. After you configure the linked servers, and each server can communicate with the other servers, you're ready for the most important part of distributed partitioned views—creating the partitioned tables. On each of the servers, create a table that has the same structure as the original table that you're splitting. Each table will hold a horizontal slice of the original table. The key point in creating the partitioned tables is that each table contains a column called the partitioning column, and the value in this column determines which of the partitioned tables any row can be inserted into. The partitioning criteria, which you implement as a CHECK constraint, define the subset of the rows that each partition will host. The CHECK constraints on each table must be mutually exclusive. Each row that you want to insert must satisfy only one of the CHECK constraints, as we'll demonstrate.
We use a UNION statement to combine these tables into an updateable view. As we mentioned, views based on UNION statements are updateable in certain situations. If you want to maximize query efficiency, exploit the new optimization capabilities introduced with SQL Server 2000, and allow updates directly to the view, then you need to ensure that the following conditions are met in each of the tables:
- The partitioning column needs to be part of the primary key of the underlying tables, must not allow NULLs, and can't be a computed column.
- The CHECK constraint defined on the partitioning column that defines the partitioning criteria can use only the following operators: BETWEEN, AND, OR, <, <=, >, >=, =.
- The tables can't have identity or timestamp columns, and none of the columns in any of the tables can have a DEFAULT constraint.
You need to answer two important questions: Which column will you use as the partitioning column, and which range of values does each partition need to host? The most efficient partitioning criterion is one that defines a range of values in each partitioned table that users are most likely to access locally and that results in rows distributed as evenly as possible. This criterion could be a range of customers, a range of part numbers, or a geographical region. This setup lets the local server process most of the queries, minimizing the need for distributed processing.
Now that you're aware of the requirements for the tables, you can create the tables. In this example, we show you how to create tables that are similar in structure to the Customers and Orders tables in the Northwind database. We'll distribute the rows among the tables based on the first letter of the customer ID: A through F will go in the first table, G through P in the second table, and Q through Z in the third table. The following code samples run in a database called testdb, which we created on each of the servers. Listing 4 shows the script that creates the first partitioned tables in the server Shire\Shiloh (Node1).
Notice a few important points in the script. We have a CHECK constraint on the customerid column, which is part of the primary key in the CustomersAF and OrdersAF tables. This CHECK constraint ensures that only customers with customer IDs in the range AAAAA through FZZZZ can be in this table, and the optimizer will use this CHECK constraint to optimize queries and modify data. If you want to partition the Orders table by customerid, you need to include the customerid column in the primary key. Partitioning the original Customers table by the customerid column is obvious, but why do we use the same partitioning criterion for the Orders table? We'll explain the partitioning criterion in an upcoming article when we demonstrate how to query the partitioned view. Note that for the purpose of guaranteeing uniqueness of rows, it isn't necessary for the customerid column to be part of the primary key. However, to effectively maintain the partitioned data, customerid needs to be part of the key of the Orders table so that you can partition the Orders table by the customerid column.
Next, create the partitioned tables in the Hobbiton \Shiloh (Node2) server, with customer IDs in the range GAAAA through PZZZZ, as Listing 5 shows. And last, create the partitioned tables in the Rivendell \Shiloh (Node3) server, with customer IDs in the range QAAAA through ZZZZZ, as Listing 6 shows.
Creating the partitioned views. Now that you've set up the partitioned tables, you need to assemble them, which is probably the easiest part of the process. You define a view that assembles the rows from each table by using the UNION ALL operator. In each server, you have one local table and two remote tables, so the view looks slightly different in each server. You reference the local table by using only the table name, and you reference the remote tables by using the four-part table name, such as Node2.testdb.dbo.CustomersGP.
Let's create a partitioned view in the Shire\Shiloh (Node1) server, as Listing 7 shows. After you create the view, users can start modifying and querying it if they're connected to Shire\Shiloh (Node1). Creating similar views on the other two servers enables the same modifications and queries, regardless of the server the users are connected to. Next, create similar views on Hobbiton\Shiloh (Node2), as Listing 8 shows. And last, create similar views on Rivendell\Shiloh (Node3), as Listing 9 shows.
As the partitioned tables do, the views need to meet a few conditions to be updateable and to exploit the new optimizing capabilities that distributed partitioned views feature:
- The view can't reference any table or column more than once.
- Each SELECT list must reference all the columns participating in the primary key of the underlying tables.
- The columns in the same ordinal position in the select list in all the select statements must be of exactly the same data type, precision, scale, and collation. And the partitioning column must be in the same ordinal position in all the select statements.
- If a column exists in the base table but doesn't exist in the select list in the view, the column must allow NULLs.
Note that the last two requirements are much stricter than any requirement for creating local, nonpartitioned views. Simple views must have compatible data types in the corresponding positions of the select lists, but the types don't have to be exactly the same. Also, you can insert data into simple views even if columns from the base table that aren't included in the view don't allow NULLs but have a defined default. But if you're inserting data into a distributed partitioned view, the columns can't have defaults.
Modifying Distributed Partitioned Views
When you create distributed partitioned views, you need to ensure that the underlying tables and the views created on them meet certain criteria. Most statements that you use to modify a distributed partitioned view also need to meet certain requirements. Delete statements have no restrictions; you can delete any or all rows from the view. However, insert and update statements need to meet the following requirements for you to use them with distributed partitioned views:
- An insert statement against the view must supply a value to the partitioning column.
- If you are running a beta version of SQL Server 2000, an update statement against the view might fail if an attempt is made to modify the primary key. You can issue a delete statement followed by an insert statement instead of an update statement. Note that Microsoft announced that the final version of SQL Server 2000 will support updates to the primary key.
In this example, we ran the following modifications from our connection to Shire\Shiloh (Node1), but you can run the modifications from a connection to any of the servers. Make sure the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) service is running, because these modifications will result in a distributed transaction. You also need to set the XACT _ABORT session setting to ON. This setting determines whether an entire transaction will roll back if a runtime error occurs, but in this case, this setting is required for data modification statements in an implicit or explicit transaction against most OLE DB providers, including SQL Server. Make sure you turn on the Graphical Execution Plan in Query Analyzer to see the detailed execution plan, or use SET STATISTICS PROFILE ON if you prefer to analyze the execution plan in a textual mode.
Now you can populate the Customers view with all the rows from the Customers table in the Northwind database, as Listing 10 shows. Notice that we ran the insert statement against the view. Figure 2 shows the execution plan, which illustrates how SQL Server processed the insert statement. Let's analyze the execution plan's important steps (and ignore one trivial step):
- Step 1 (Clustered Index Scan): Read all of the rows from the local Customers table in the Northwind database.
- Step 2 (Compute Scalar): For each of the rows read in Step 1, compute a new column called Ptn1034, which will hold a value that specifies which of the three ranges of rows it belongs to—0 if the partitioning column is AAAAA through FZZZZ, 1 if the partitioning column is GAAAA through PZZZZ, and 2 if the partitioning column is QAAAA through ZZZZZ.
- Step 4: Store the rows read in Step 1, including the computed column Ptn1034, which was calculated in Step 2 in a temporary table.
- Steps 5 and 6: Read the temporary table and insert only the rows that match the criteria Ptn1034 = 0 into the local CustomersAF table.
- Steps 7 through 9: Read the temporary table and insert only the rows that match the criterion Ptn1034 = 1 into the remote Node2.testdb.dbo .CustomersGP table.
- Steps 10 through 12: Read the temporary table and insert only the rows that match the criterion Ptn1034 = 2 into the remote Node3.testdb.dbo .CustomersQZ table.
You can issue insert, update, and delete statements against the view. Try the modifications that Listing 11 shows against the view with a connection to Node1 and compare the execution plan for statements that modify a local table with the plan for statements that modify a remote table. You'll see that the optimizer splits and routes the modifications to the relevant nodes and can determine when to perform a local operation and when to perform a remote one.
Long Nights, Partitioned Views
Microsoft code-named the distributed partitioned view project Coyote, and we imagine that the Coyote team worked many long nights on this new feature. In the September issue, we'll demonstrate the next step in the process—querying distributed partitioned views. We'll show you the execution plans for various queries so you can see how SQL Server distributes queries across the nodes. And in a third article in an upcoming issue, we'll offer suggestions for achieving similar functionality when your tables or views don't meet the criteria for distributed partitioned views that we described here.


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I hit the road, listen to some tunes and see where the day takes me.
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Lately I've been asked what type of camera I use.
I actually have 2 Digital SLR's that I switch back and forth from. I started out with the Olympus E-420 (great camera to learn on). I would highly recommend it to anyone that's new to the Digital SLR world and a little unsure of what they're doing. The price point is not too high and the lenses are affordable (by affordable I mean not $1,000 a pop). It's one of the smallest Digital SLR's on the market but rates right up there with some of the lager cameras. Due to this I still use it A LOT!! It's easier to lug around than my professional camera and still delivers great shots…..especially in natural light.
The other camera I use is a Cannon 50D. I like to call this my big girl camera. The price point is quite higher than my E-420 and so is everything that comes along with it…..including the lenses, ouch! I've only had it for a short time so I'm still getting use to it but I'm already loving it! It does great in natural light as well as indoors and delivers awesome clarity.
The pictures above were taken with my 50D or E-420.
Not sure if I will ever fall out of love with my E-420. We've had some good times but I'm tickled about my new big girl camera!
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Packaging: Rice Lake Weighing Systems opens European service center
US-based scale manufacturer strengthens dedication to customers abroad
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Having only recently cemented the details of a newly formed partnership within India, Rice Lake Weighing Systems (RLWS) announces the opening of a fully staffed European distribution center. Rice Lake Weighing Systems Europe B.V. is now open in Arnhem, Netherlands.
RLWS is a privately owned industrial scale manufacturer with roughly 400 US employees. The Rice Lake brand, recognized worldwide for everything from industrial weighing equipment to made-to-order process-control systems, is perhaps best known for a uniquely personal approach to service and customer contact.
The company has been part of CEO Mark Johnson's family since 1946. "Our business was built on service— the ability to be responsive and stay connected with our customers. As we've grown, having this facility within Europe makes sense. It's the best way to maintain those standards and provide the trademark service, selection and speed our customers have come to expect."
Employees at the Arnhem location are experienced and ready to assist with technical support, product training, and more. Rice Lake Weighing Systems Europe B.V.is a full-service operation with a complete warehouse of products that will ship direct to dealers across Europe. These trained and authorized dealers offer industrial customers a range of popular Rice Lake products, including weights, bench scales, weight indicators, digital controllers and even custom weighing solutions.
"Our European customers will now have the option of calling on a European-based staff and have better access to support services like training and product demonstrations," adds Mark.
Rice Lake Weighing Systems is a family-owned, ISO9001 certified corporation based in the United States. Headquarters, metrology laboratory and main manufacturing plant are located in Rice Lake, Wisconsin with support facilities throughout the world including Alabama, Connecticut, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, India and the Netherlands.
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Michael Bradley got his start in professional soccer as an 18-year-old midfielder for what would eventually become the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer.
Now he gets a chance to see just how far the league has come.
Bradley will join Francesco Totti and the rest of Italian club AS Roma in taking on the best that MLS has to offer in the league's annual All-Star game on Wednesday night.
Michael Bradley got his start in professional soccer as an 18-year-old midfielder for what would eventually become the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer.
Now he gets a chance to see just how far the league has come.
Bradley will join Francesco Totti and the rest of Italian club AS Roma in taking on the best that MLS has to offer in the league's annual All-Star game on Wednesday night.
The son of former U.S. national team coach Bob Bradley, Michael Bradley joined the MLS team then known as the MetroStars in 2004. He played in 30 games over two seasons before he left for Europe, where he bounced around a handful of clubs, recently landing with Roma.
"There's no question that the league continues to grow," Bradley said. "You look around the league, you see the stadiums that are being built, you see the teams that come into the league that have support and fans like they do in Seattle, Portland, and I think that's great for the league and great for our country. I think the quality continues to get better and better."
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The club was known as the Wizards in its early years, but after it was sold to local owners in 2006, it underwent a dramatic rebranding that ultimately spawned Sporting KC.
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The stadium has already hosted a myriad of international competitions, and will do so again in October when the U.S. national team plays Jamaica in a World Cup qualifier.
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One of the most prestigious clubs in Italian soccer, Roma has won three Serie A titles and features one of the greatest players ever in the 36-year-old Totti, who has hinted that he may retire next year with his contract set to expire.
"For me and my teammates, for Roma, it's the first time we've played a match against a team like MLS," Totti said through a translator. "We're happy we've been invited for this match, and of course, very happy to see Michael play against some of his good friends."
Totti will be facing some familiar faces, too.
One of the players on the MLS squad is Red Bulls forward Thierry Henry, the longtime Arsenal star helped lead France to the World Cup final in 2006. Henry's team finally ran into the Azzurri of Totti and lost 5-3 in a dramatic penalty shootout.
"When you think about Roma, you think about Francesco Totti," Henry said. "I have maximum respect for him to stay with the same team throughout his career, the team he supported as a boy. We could be here and talk about Francesco Totti all day."
There are plenty of American stars who will be taking part, though, including a couple from the host club. Matt Besler, who helped the U.S. win the Gold Cup over the weekend, is scheduled to play along with Sporting KC teammate Graham Zusi, who has become a staple of the national team.
They'll be coached on the MLS side by Sporting KC manager Peter Vermes.
"The challenges are simple," Vermes said. "We're playing against Roma and we have a very short period of time together to prepare for the game, but just knowing the players we have on this roster, I'm sure we'll make it extremely exciting and give them a very, very good game."
The MLS is 7-2-1 in All-Star games since the current format featuring an international opponent was adopted more than a decade ago. Both losses came to Manchester United of the English Premier League, though the MLS side beat Premier League club Chelsea last year.
"For me, I grew up with the MLS. I was 9 years old when the league began," Bradley said this week, "so for me to have an opportunity to come back to my home country and play against the MLS All-Star team, it's going to be a great night."


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Eegra writes: "We have a real treat for you today! As a personal favour, Kotaku editor Brian Crecente set aside some time in his very busy schedule to create this video review of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, exclusively for Eegra."
Lol that was pretty funny...i loved the part he was talking about sonic but had 2 mario characters on the screen. lol.
*Laughs* This was a really good video. I liked how they made it so that it looked like Crecente did nothing the entire time but make up things to do.


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Two Philadelphia police officers were hurt on the job early this morning in Kensington.
The officers sustained injuries making an arrest about 2 a.m. at H and Tioga streets, 6ABC Action News reports.
The two officers moved in on a burglary suspect, who was being tracked by Bensalem police, when the 41-year-old man allegedly intentionally struck one of them with the SUV he was driving.
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The second officer grabbed onto the SUV in an attempt to grab its keys and was dragged approximately 800 feet. The suspect crashed the SUV into several parked cars, including an unmarked police vehicle, in the process.
Both police officers were taken in stable condition with minor injuries to Albert Einstein Medical Center.
The burglary suspect, who reportedly was also wanted for burglaries in Northeast Philadelphia, is in stable condition at Temple University Hospital.


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No. 7 Tennessee tops Auburn 73-52 in SEC opener
AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Meighan Simmons scored 20 points and the No. 7 Tennessee women pulled away late in opening Southeastern Conference play Sunday with a 73-52 victory over Auburn.
The Lady Vols (9-3, 1-0 SEC) closed the game on a 19-6 run to turn a tight contest into a blowout and win for the 27th time in the last 30 meetings with the Tigers (8-6, 0-1).
Shekinna Stricklen added 17 points on 5-of-18 shooting for Tennessee. Glory Johnson had 14 points and 13 rebounds and Alicia Manning scored 10 points.
Camille Glymph led Auburn with 21 points, making 5 of 10 from 3-point range.
The Lady Vols struggled from the field, shooting just 32 percent (21 of 65) but gave Auburn fits on the boards and with a trapping defense that allowed few open shots.
Tennessee forced 25 turnovers and had 12 steals, and the Lady Vols dominated in rebounding 49-31.
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Details: Join us a for a special presentation of From Their Lips, a work-in-progress play based on Intergeneracial, a black youth oral history theatre project. It was founded by Fiona Raye Clarke in 2015 and is currently in its second year. The project involves youth meeting weekly, interviewing Black elders and fellow Black youth in the community asking them the same set of questions, and using their words and stories to create the theatrical piece entitled, From Their Lips.
Following the performance, the Hart House Social Justice Committee and Hart House Senior Members Committee will host a moderated talk back session with the performers, director and playwright. The talk will explore a dialogue in relation to the issues of race raised through the project, followed by refreshments and further informal discussion with the cast.
When: Thurs., Dec. 1, 2016, 7 pm
Where: Debates Room, Hart House
Cost: Free online registration >> / Or pay what you can at the door
This event is presented in partnership with the Hart House Social Justice Committee, Hart House Senior Members Committee and the Hart House Theatre.
The Intergeneracial Project is generously funded by ArtReach and the Toronto Arts Council, and hosted by Jumblies Theatre.


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mid-day 37th anniversary: Navi Mumbai - the capital we did not build
Few years before mid-day was born, the idea for a new state capital was killed. Civil engineer Shirish Patel, who co-conceived Navi Mumbai with Charles Correa, looks back at the ambitious plan
What kind of city do we want? In those years, actually, the question was: What kind of India do we want?" says Shirish Patel.
There is a well-worn tale, and its varying versions, among architects, civil engineers, urbanists and government bodies, of how Navi Mumbai was born. It was the mid-1960s. The Maharashtra government was nudged to look eastwards from Bombay, to the districts of Thane and Raigad. Industries had started coming up in the Thane-Belapur belt; work on the first bridge, now called the Old Vashi Bridge, to connect the island city to the eastern mainland, had begun. Bombay had started to sag under the weight of its own glory — its population count going up and quality of life dipping.
Shirish Patel at his Carmichael Road home in South Mumbai. Pic/Bipin Kokate
A holy trinity — chief architect Charles Correa, architect Pravina Mehta and civil engineer Patel — wrote a piece titled 'Bombay: Planning and Dreaming' in the June 1965 volume of Marg magazine. It was a response to BMC's Development Plan 1964. The trio spoke of a "twin city", not one that lived for the sake of the megapolis, but an independent parallel entity.
The distribution of nodes in the original plan for Navi Mumbai, as conceived by Charles Correa, Pravina Mehta and Shirish Patel
"That's how it started," says Patel. "We suggested that the government acquire area to the east of Mumbai, on the mainland, and plan a new city. We also strongly recommended for the headquarters of the state government to move from Nariman Point to Navi Mumbai."
The layout for the transport system in each node included a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), which Patel says never got executed. Each BRT was meant to be a lane exclusively for buses from the railway station to residential areas. Pics/CIDCO
City from scratch
Rueing the manner in which Ulhasnagar has grown into an unplanned mess, he continues, "Navi Mumbai was a blank slate. We had all kinds of ideas. When we first saw it, it had a varied landscape. There were hills; there was the Panvel Creek, which we thought could be made into a lake by damming it; low-lying areas along the creek were obviously hard to develop."
CIDCO, in CBD Belapur, where Patel held office as director of planning and works until 1975
Patel, now 84, is recuperating at his Peddar Road home from a recent illness. Correa and Mehta are no more. Patel has preserved the charm that agile visionaries tend to cultivate early. He evokes pictures in your mind, filling it with little details, teasing your imagination to pay attention. In that way, Patel, the civil engineer who gave India its first flyover, at Kemps Corner, is a blueprint artist.
With similar thought values, the three visionaries had set down two important features for Navi Mumbai. First, that sufficient land would be provided to all income categories, that affordable housing would be key. This city was for everyone. Second, Navi Mumbai would be self-financed from the sale of its land, and would provide for its own physical and social infrastructure.
When Patel dreams of Navi Mumbai, however, you are quickly recalled to reality. If you are a resident of Panvel, Kharghar or any part of Navi Mumbai, it is with mixed feelings that you go about your day. The wide roads, the orderly sectors, localities flanked by green hills are only offset by the difficulty of taking the stuffy Harbour Line.
There was a plan that only partially succeeded.
An 'Old Mumbai'?
We did it with the nation's capital, then why not with the state's? Half a century later, it is a question that still puzzles Patel. "We have successfully shifted capitals in the past, from Delhi to New Delhi for instance. Can you believe what it would have been like if the capital was in Old Delhi? Chaos," he says.
The idea with shifting the capital to Navi Mumbai, along with affording bungalows for ministers, was to jump-start jobs in the area, so the new city could be more than a dormitory town. That way both the old city and the new could prosper, says Patel.
Five years down the line, in 1975, Patel, who helmed planning at CIDCO as director, along with the other two, hit the eject button. The seat of power squatted in the 'old' city, refusing to move. "The government was selling plots in Nariman Point simultaneously. How do you expect Navi Mumbai to grow if this was happening? What is the point of adding jobs to the tip of a city that you had to travel to every day?" says Patel. He then adds, "I am not in this line of work to prettify cities. I have to take overall strategies for planning into account."
But Patel hazards a guess why the state government held fort in South Mumbai. There was "a real fear" that with moving capitals, Mumbai would become a union territory. As long as the capital was in Mumbai, "no one would dare take it".
Since the plan to shift centres of power never came through, Navi Mumbai has lost out of its share of iconicity too. Where was the prestige it badly needed, after all, which was to be derived with the tag as state capital?
Today, its landmarks are private malls and structures built by private bodies, but public heritage is absent, save for the municipal corporation building.
But Patel, laughs lightly and admits that being in their early 30s (Mehta was a little older) had something to do with abandoning ship as well. "We were like 'bachchas', and the government didn't take us seriously. In hindsight, I feel that if I had had a little more of the persistence of the kind that Madame Curie had, and if I had stuck on, it would have been frustrating, but a few of our ideas would have been implemented."
In 1995, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) had organised a seminar, 25 years after Navi Mumbai started taking shape.
Patel was interviewed in a paper and asked to rate Navi Mumbai, out of 10. Three, was his reply. "But [MV] Gore, from TISS, in a faint academic voice, said, that I was being unfair in giving it three. He said he would give it 4/10," laughs Patel.
Somewhere in the course of our conversation, Patel says that he has heard many tell him that they love living in Navi Mumbai. "Whatever little success it has had is because it was planned."
The could-have-been city
Mumbai had two main transit axes — one via road and another via rail — to Navi Mumbai. Correa, Patel and Mehta planned nodes built along these transport corridors, insisting that the FSI should be varied. Since CIDCO held the land, plots could be sold according to varying FSI. Higher intensity development was to be centred around stations, and lesser intensity further away; bungalows were to come up at the perimeter of these nodes, and lastly, open areas, which touched the open areas of neighbouring nodes. CIDCO later commissioned a number of architects to plan each node; Vashi was the first to develop. "It was more efficient to have variable FSI, with land variably priced, according to FSI and income group, so there was an element of cross-subsidy between rich and poor groups," says Patel. "However, the CIDCO, for some inexplicable reason, decided to have a uniform FSI throughout, and instead of catering to all income groups, maximised profits like a private developer."
All for one city
"Making a city is not an architectural enterprise but a multidisciplinary approach," says Patel. With that intention, an eight-member planning team was formed, which included, Dr Kirit Parikh for operations research, economist Dr Pheroze B Medhora, social scientist MV Gore and writer Vijay Tendulkar, to represent the common man.
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Niall Moran out of retirement and in Limerick's Munster final plans
NIALL Moran is in contention to play a surprise role in the Munster senior hurling final.
This Wednesday night Limerick hurling manager TJ Ryan confirmed that Moran had come out of retirement and was part of his plans against Cork on July 13 in Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
The Ahane man announced his retirement from inter-county hurling last December, but did return to the Limerick scene in recent weeks for a number of in-house training matches. He also played during a recent challenge games against Waterford.
But it wasn't until this Wednesday night that it was 100% confirmed that Moran had made a full return to inter-county action.
Manager TJ Ryan confirmed his situation during Limerick's pre-Munster final media briefing in The Greenhills Hotel.
"Niall's been training with us since before the Tipperary game, we brought him in for some 15s v 15s and Mike Fitzgerald from Doon as well but he got a hamstring injury in a club game so he's been unfortunate," outlined Ryan.
"Yeah, he's back alright."
The Limerick manager revealed that he had tried to change the mind of Moran from the outset of the year.
"At the start of the year maybe I tried to change his mind but Niall has a lot of things going on between teaching and farming and building a house. You have to take into consideration that people have lives outside of this too. We're looking for 24/7 but this is what we do as a hobby at the end of the day. I'd said it to him initially (at start of the year). I said to him that from where we are at anything or anybody that can help we'll certainly have a look at it, any advice that's good or worthwhile," said Ryan.
"It's a long story but at the end of the day we were looking to make up 15-v-15s in training and had a few injuries before Tipperary so he was one of the calls I made basically and he was mad keen. He came back and we said we'd have a look, there was no pressure on either side but he's back now and he knew 100 per cent what it was about. Niall is a top man," said the Limerick manager.
He also updated the injury situation, stating that David Reidy (collar bone), Conor Allis (ankle) and Alan Dempsey (knee) were all receiving treatment at present.


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Kansas City International Airport Weighs Proposed Changes
Kansas City International Airport is looking at a potentially major change: tearing down the current three terminals and moving to a single, new terminal on the site of the current terminal A. The one terminal idea came to a head in 2008 when the Master Plan called for a new, central terminal south of the current airport. That came just four years after the airport wrapped up nearly $260 million in renovations.
Controversial Medicare Bid Program Takes Next Step
Medicare patients who have diabetic testing supplies delivered to them are in for some changes which started on July 1. It's all part of an effort by the Medicare program to save money and cut down on fraud. But some people are worried about unintended consequences.
Treece, Kansas: Ghost Town In The making
Treece, Kan., was incorporated in 1918 as a home for lead and zinc miners. After WWII, the industry began to drag. The area's last mines closed in the 1970s, leaving behind a small community of the children and grandchildren of miners. Treece is part of Tar Creek, the largest EPA superfund site in the United States. Poor mining practices left the ground unstable and susceptible to sinkholes. Mountains of "chat," the toxic remnants of the mining, surround the town. According to a 2009 EPA test, 8.8 percent of children in Treece were shown to have elevated blood-lead levels, compared to just 2.9 percent statewide. The residents of Treece asked the government for help. In 2009 Congress passed a bill authorizing funding for a voluntary buyout.
Mexican-American Softball Tradition Lives On In Kansas
Mexican-American fast-pitch softball has historic roots in Kansas and Missouri. Every summer, Mexican-Americans play a game that is wrapped up in family ties and traditions, including a tournament in Newton, Kan., that's the oldest of its kind.


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Programme Code: SAQA-71889 – NQF level 7 – Credits 360
The Bachelor of Commerce in Information and Technology Management [BCom (Information and Technology Management)] is a popular and much-sought-after undergraduate programme. Information Technology is presently one of the fastest growing industries creating significant career opportunities for students. Employers value graduates who demonstrate skills and knowledge in both business and information technology domains and the management thereof. The aim of the programme is to create graduates who are able to offer and manage business solutions through information supported technology.
Students are exposed to the design and development of systems and engage in solving real-life problems and implement and continually adapt these systems to changing organisational needs. This programme enables students to become professionals in their fields providing them the perfect opportunity to pursue and succeed in their postgraduate studies.
Upon successful completion of the programme, the student should be able to:
- Structure data, information and knowledge in an organisational setting.
- Apply information and knowledge management principles and theories in a variety of organisational settings.
- Apply information and knowledge management principles in the different functional units of an enterprise.
- Understand the architecture, platforms and configuration of systems to generate information and knowledge for decision making.
- Utilise information and knowledge management as a strategic tool for competitive advantage.
- Analyse, evaluate and present financial, quantitative and functional information and knowledge for meaningful interpretation.
- Propose business solutions through information and knowledge management techniques.
Duration: 3 years
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Economics 1A
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June 17, 2009
Player development a priority for Redhawks
Greg Schursky and Rob Powell took a quick glance at Arizona's hockey talent scattered around junior leagues in North America.
A state with a growing reputation for producing talent (see: Beattie, Kyle; Samuelsson, Phil; Langlois, Jeremy; et. al) still had only one junior team locally.
"How come 17 kids that are playing juniors aren't in this town?" Schursky asked.
In reality, that number is even higher – with 17 playing in the Northern Pacific Hockey League alone. That doesn't count those in the USHL, EJHL or NAHL.
The Phoenix Polar Bears have provided an excellent opportunity for local talent to play junior hockey in state, winning the 2009 Thorne Cup, given to the victors of the Western States Hockey League. They also made their eighth-consecutive appearance at the national tournament.
Since that program joined the WSHL in 1999-2000, the Polar Bears have won the league six times, including a Junior B National Championship in 2002-03
Eighteen of the 24 players on its roster during the 2008-09 were homegrown.
Still, even if the Polar Bears were to have a roster full of Arizona natives, that'd mean that only 24 slots each year would be open.
Enter the Arizona Redhawks, the state's newest junior hockey team based out of Polar Ice in Peoria.
"Hopefully there will be more Arizona boys that don't have to travel," said Powell, the Redhawks' coach.
It will be a program dedicated to getting their players to the next level.
"The ideal hockey player for us is the kid that wants to go as far as he can," said Schursky, the Redhawks' GM. "If you don't want to go somewhere after this, you're not going to have your heart in it. You're not going to have the determination. You're not going to have the pride."
Powell was approached by a group of interested parties who asked him if a second junior team in the state was feasible.
"My first reaction was, 'Yeah, there's a whole opportunity that's available in town for a group of owners and a lot of kids,'" said Powell, who also serves as the Arizona High School Hockey Association's director of coaching and player development.
Powell has a history of starting programs. He helped get the San Diego Jr. Gulls off the ground in California; the Gulls also compete in the WSHL.
But there was one major obstacle in making the Redhawks a reality: Harry Mahood and the Polar Bears owned the territorial rights to Maricopa County.
Mahood, the team's president of hockey operations, as well as GM and coach, was instrumental in the Redhawks' inclusion into the WSHL.
"I've got to be honest with you, if it wasn't for Harry Mahood, we wouldn't be a program right now," Powell said. "Without his support and encouragement and enthusiasm, there would be no Arizona Redhawks.
"On paper, we're not part of each other, but I'm telling you, without Harry Mahood, we would not exist. We are partners in junior hockey together."
The Redhawks were officially announced as a WSHL expansion franchise in late May. If they get their way, it will be the start of a healthy rivalry with the Polar Bears.
"There will be big rivalries between us, because a lot of these kids know each other, they came out of the high school groups," said Schursky, who has 11 years of experience as a hockey administrator, including three as the GM of ASU's Division I team, and four as an AHSHA board member.
The addition of a second team locally should help the WSHL's scheduling. Often times, by the time the third game of a weekend series rolls around, both teams are testy.
Now, two WSHL teams will be able to travel to Arizona, play the Redhawks twice, then flip-flop and play the Polar Bears once – and vice versa.
"Now suddenly, we have two teams in town and we can swap out a game," Schursky said. "It breaks it up a little."
Powell envisions Arizona's high school ranks providing talent for the Redhawks.
"One of the caveats that I added was that I would be allowed to stay with the high school program, because that's so near and dear to me," Powell said. "We can utilize the high school program as a recruiting tool."
In-state players won't be the sole focus.
The Redhawks hope to create a circle, one that begins with sending alumni to higher levels of hockey, then returns around with a boost in reputation, and thus, attracts better talent.
"When you sit down at the end of the day," Schursky said, "and you're hearing, 'Hey, we've got this junior team out in Arizona, and … these guys are putting out good players and getting into good schools.' The kids will be exposed to that, and maybe they'll consider playing for us."
Player development will be at the forefront for the Redhawks.
"Even though you're playing at this level, you're building up, getting better," Schursky said. "We're going to get you, if not to college, we're going to get you to somebody who can look at you some more.
"We have the avenues to move kids into college," he added. "We have the avenues to move the kids other, higher, junior teams that also have the avenues to get them to D-I."
The Arizona Redhawks will hold tryouts in July. For a complete schedule, click here.


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Plantar Fascia TapingTaping techniques for plantar fasciitis and heel spurs
How to Tape Plantar Fascia with KT Tape
How to apply kinesio tape for plantar fasciitis:
1. Measure the distance from the back of your heel to the ball of your foot
2. Cut the tape into 4 long strips
3. Round the edges of all of your strips
4. Measure the length of the ball of your foot
5. Cut it and round the edges
6. Lay each strip down over your arch
7. Place the second piece of tape on the ball of your foot to secure the strips
8. Make sure you secure the tape by gently rubbing with your hand
How to Tape the Plantar Fascia Using Athletic Tape
- Place anchor strips around the metatarsal region of the forefoot
- After wrapping this area several times, use a strip to wrap from the metatarsal region near the big toe and place it around the heel before attaching at the origin behind the big toe
- Wrap another strip around the heel, but this time starting closer to the smaller toes. Rewrap these areas several times to add support. The area should look like an X along the mid-foot region
- Place additional strips laterally along the wrapped area of the foot to close up gaps and to reinforce the taped area
Plantar fascia taping is a common way to help relieve the symptoms of plantar fasciitis. It is widely used to add support and reduce stress on the plantar fascia ligament as both a way to relieve pain from plantar fasciitis, as well as a preventative measure against that and other heel pain ailments.
What kind of tape to use for plantar fasciitis
There are two different types of athletic tapes used to tape your feet. Kinesiology tape is a great option for taping your feet, especially if you are planning on being active. Kinesio tape works by providing support to the plantar fascia ligament, and gently lifting the skin to promote blood flow and reduce swelling. KT tape is available for sale online, or in some sports stores.
Regular athletic or medical tape can also work for plantar fasciitis. It will provide support to the foot, however it does not treat plantar fasciitis, it simply prevents pain in the short-term. Regular athletic or medical tape can be found at the drug store or sports stores.
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How does taping the plantar fascia help?
Plantar fascia taping is a good way to stabilize the fascia ligament. When the foot is taped properly, the fascia's movement becomes limited. Often times, athletes may tape their feet during certain times to help prevent strain during exercise. By limiting the fascia's movement, it becomes a way to keep the ligament from moving abnormally or stretching excessively and thus preventing tears from developing in the tissue.
When using plantar fascia taping, it is important to keep the feet dry and clean. When washing the feet, avoid using a moisturizing soap to allow the tape to stick better to the surface. If you are using KT tape, it can be left on for several days, until the adhesive wears away and the tape peels off. However athletic tape should only be left on during the day, and removed at night to allow the skin to breathe. You can apply taping in the morning to give the feet support throughout the day, at night before you go to bed to avoid morning heel pain, or prior to exercise to keep it from stretching excessively.
Does taping plantar fasciitis work?
Plantar fascia taping has varied success in treating heel pain. In some cases, taping can reduce pain that may be linked to plantar fasciitis. However, in many other cases taping is not enough to treat heel pain ailments. Taping can often be more effective when used in addition to other treatment methods. When it is used to treat heel pain, taping is mainly a short term option which is why combining it with a device that can treat the symptoms in the long term is a better way to achieve positive results. Our proven treatments have a clinically proven record of reducing the symptoms of and completely reversing plantar fasciitis and other related conditions.
When used along with shoe inserts, plantar fascia taping can significantly reduce the negative and painful effects of plantar fasciitis. The combination of the support of the tape and the acupressure of the heel insert repositions the plantar fascia ligament into its natural position, allowing it to heal.