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Basic Facts About Sage-Grouse
Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are a striking and charismatic bird that derives their name, food and shelter from the sagebrush on which they depend. Both males and females are a mottled, brownish-gray. White chest feathers and specialized head feathers distinguish males during the spring breeding season. Males also have long black tail feathers with white tips, while female tail feathers are mottled black, brown, and white.
Sage-grouse are the charismatic ambassador for the Sagebrush Sea, a little known but critically important western landscape that supports hundreds of fish and wildlife species. A classic umbrella species, sage-grouse need large expanses of healthy sagebrush grasslands and functioning hydrologic systems to survive and flourish. Conserving sage-grouse will benefit a host of other species in the Sagebrush Sea, pronghorn, elk, mule deer, native trout, and nearly 200 migratory and resident bird species.
While sage-grouse will feed on wildflowers, insects and forage crops in spring and summer, they depend on sagebrush for food year round, and especially in winter when sagebrush is the only available food source.
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Sage-grouse were once prolific in the West. Native Americans celebrated the species, and explorers, settlers, and government surveyors reported seeing huge flocks of the birds.
The total population is estimated between 200,000 and 400,000 sage-grouse in the U.S.
Range & Habitat
Greater sage-grouse are a widely distributed but sparsely populated species that occur in Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Colorado, with remnant populations in Washington, California, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alberta and Saskatchewan. The species has been extirpated in Nebraska and Arizona. A genetically distinct population of sage-grouse occur near Mono Lake along the border of east-central California and southwestern Nevada.
Sage-grouse are low, fast fliers. But they also have relatively poor eyesight. Sage-grouse commonly collide with barbed wire fences, guy wires for wind turbines and other obstructions that are difficult to see, often with fatal consequences.
The sage-grouse mating ritual is fascinating to observe, and often described as among the most stirring and colorful natural history pageants in the West. In early spring, at dawn and often at dusk, sage-grouse congregate on "leks"—ancestral strutting grounds to which the birds return year after year. Leks vary in size from one to 40 acres and may be up to 50 miles from the birds' winter habitat. To attract a hen, cocks strut, fan their tail feathers and swell their breasts to reveal bright yellow air sacs. The combination of wing movements and inflating and deflating air sacs make an utterly unique "swish-swish-coo-oopoink!"
Hens nest under sagebrush, screened by tall grasses. They will lay a clutch of 6-10 eggs. Chick survival is reduced by poor habitat quality and is one of the limiting factors in sage-grouse population growth.
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Height/Length: Adult males are 26-30 inches in length and may be as much as two feet tall. Adult females range from 19-23 inches. Sage-grouse are larger than domestic chickens, to which they are often compared in the news media.
Weight: Males average 6 lbs; females half as much.
Lifespan: The average lifespan is 1-3 years, although sage-grouse have been known to live up to 10 years.


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SOCORRO, N.M. July 5, 2012 – Construction of the new dormitory will commence officially later this week. Pavilion Construction of Albuquerque, with headquarters in Portland, Ore., has begun fencing off its staging area and will close the road from Neal Street to the Swim Center no later than Monday, July 8.
An architect's rendering of the new dorm that is now under construction on campus at New Mexico Tech.
Miguel Hidalgo, Director of Special Projects, said Pavilion Construction has ample experience constructing similar buildings. The company was the low bidder for the project, outbidding 12 other companies.
The $6.7 million dormitory will be on the south side of the Athletic Field and will eliminate about 50 feet of the fields. However, the Athletic Field is still large enough to accommodate a regulation size rugby pitch and a regulation size soccer pitch.
The project to renovate the Athletic Field has been completed and the fencing will be removed when the UTEP football team arrives for its training camp in early August. That project included a new irrigation system, laser leveling and new sod.
The three-story dormitory, which has yet to be named, will include 150 beds, with study spaces on both wings of each floor and a multi-purpose room on the main floor. The former Child Care Center has been razed to make room for additional parking.
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Scroll down to learn about the Law School Survey of Student Engagement, CQ Electronic Library, the 10 Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade, Legal History: English Year Books, and the 2009 Legal Blogs Lists.
Law School Survey of Student Engagement
Indiana University's Center for Postsecondary Research recently released its 2009 Law School Survey of Student Engagement. The survey measures variuos aspects of the law-school experience, including how students spend their time and how well they have learned the material. This article from the Chronicle of Higher Education provides a good summary of the survey's findings.
CQ Electronic Library
The CQ Electronic Library contains a collection of reference materials on topics including American history, politics, and law. The Library includes electronic databases as well as online versions of CQ periodicals and books. The databases include the CQ Press Congress Collection, Supreme Court Collection, and Voting and Elections Collection. The Supreme Court collection permits users to search for information about specific cases, justices, voting alignments, etc. The CQ Electronic Library can be accessed on-campus or off-campus with authentication.
The 10 Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade
The Webby Awards are presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and honor excellence on the Internet. Recently, the Webby Awards published its list of the Most Influential Internet Moments of the Decade. The list includes significant events such as the launch of Wikipedia, the Google IPO, and the shutdown of Napster.
Legal History: English Year Books
Boston University law professor David Seipp has created a database (Legal History: The Year Books) that indexes all printed English Year Books and many alphabetical abridgements for the years 1268-1535. The Year Books are the law reports of medieval England. They are the principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines, concepts, and methods from this early time period. The Year Books organize the case law by regnal year (year of the English sovereign's reign) and show the development of the common law. The database has sophisticated search functions and includes language notes and commentary in English (the Year Books were written primarily in Latin and Law French).
2009 Legal Blog Lists
The ABA Journal's annual list of the 100 best web sites by lawyers, for lawyers, has been released. The list is divided into the following catagories: News, Legal Theory, Careers, Criminal Justice, Lighter Fare, Practice Specific, IMHO (in my humble opinion), Legal Tech, Business of Law, and Geo (geographic specific).
University of Cincinnati law professor Paul Caron has released his 2009 Law Prof Blog Rankings, which are based on the traffic
(page views and visitors) of blogs edited by law professors. Moritz professor Doug Berman's Sentencing Law and Policy blog appears on both blog lists.


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February 2005
PNNL to play key role in RTK Consortium
PNNL scientists Steven Wiley and Haluk Resat took part in the first meeting of the International Consortium on Systems Biology of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Regulatory Networks (RTK Consortium) January 17-19, 2005, in Yokohama, Japan at the RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center. Wiley, who is director of PNNL's Biomolecular Systems LDRD Initiative, was asked to serve on the board of the new Consortium, and PNNL will develop the internal and external websites for the Consortium.
Receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling has long been implicated as a key regulatory machinery of growth, proliferation, and differentiation. The Consortium will be organized from a systems biology perspective by using high-throughput methods to study the overall process and will combine groups worldwide that work on RTK biological networks either experimentally or computationally. Systems biology is the study of living organisms in terms of their underlying network structure rather than simply their individual molecular components.
The Consortium will serve as a juncture between industry and academia for the study of RTK regulatory networks. The objective of the consortium is to facilitate research to obtain as complete as possible an understanding of RTK biological networks and to
- Build a high-resolution, quantitative understanding of the RTK systems through quantitative study of RTK processes as whole integrated systems and the identification of key components and regulations, design and extension of assays de novo, and formulate a series of mathematical models of RTK regulatory networks.
- Generate and test hypotheses important for the identification of therapeutic targets and translational research.
The consortium chair is Boris Kholodenko, Thomas Jefferson University, USA. Other board members are Hiroaki Kitano, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Japan; Mariko Hatakeyama, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan; Pierre De Meyts. Hagedorn Research Institute, Denmark; Yoshiyuki Sakaki, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, Japan; Steven Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA; and Yosef Yarden, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Wiley's research interests have focused on understanding mechanisms of cell communication and signaling using the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) system as a model. He pioneered methods for the quantitative analysis of receptor dynamics in mammalian cells and published some of the first computer models of receptor regulation. He has been a major contributor to the field of receptor research, particularly with regard to the control of receptor distribution within cells.


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The Roots, 'And Then You Shoot Your Cousin'
Three years after releasing their masterful concept record, "Undun," The Roots push the boundaries of hip-hop with a conceptually fragmented, cinematic song cycle exploring stories from different points of views. The short, musically diverse work, underlined by R&B and jazz, barely maintains a coherent narrative. While the ambition and musical dexterity is admirable, the work doesn't feel fully realized. The disc unfolds like an aural equivalent of a Shane Carruth film: Varied narrative strands coalesce into a unique whole with slightly opaque internal logic. Here, though, the song suite never quite reveals itself. The band and guests stitch together characters and scenarios that raise questions and provoke. "When the People Cheer," with Greg Porn, knowingly winks at hip-hop stereotypes, but the voices seem a bit too self-aware. Highlights, featuring an otherwise severely underused Black Thought, come late. "Dark Trinity" is a richly conceived dialogue while "The Unraveling" is haunted by impending existential dread. This intricate jigsaw needs a few more pieces. (Out Tuesday)
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DEFIANCE, Ohio—Prosecutors in northern Ohio say a woman somehow persuaded her 10-year-old stepson to kill his own father in a decade-old killing that had initially been ruled accidental.
Authorities in Defiance County have charged Judith Hawkey with aggravated murder, insurance fraud and child endangering in connection with the 2003 death of Robert Breininger.
Hawkey, of Oakwood, pleaded not guilty to the charges Tuesday and is being held on a $3 million bond.
Authorities reopened the investigation last year. Defiance County Prosecutor Morris Murray says new evidence led to the charges last week.
Murray says Hawkey abused the boy for at least three years before the shooting.
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The 2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog and 2016-2017 Graduate Catalog list the academic programs offered by the University.
The semester of a student's official entry into a major determines which catalog requirements apply. Catalogs of previous years are available. Students are strongly encouraged to meet regularly with an academic advisor to establish and review their degree plan.
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When I moved to the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago five years ago, the area had yet to be completely and totally saturated with bars and restaurants and breweries and distilleries. But it had Lula Cafe, and even after all these years, the restaurant is still as relevant (and packed) as ever. Part of that is due to the fact that it's the rare kind of place that is both funky and serious about its food, regardless of whether you want a six-course vegetarian tasting menu or a simple sandwich. One of the staples is a simple noodle dish called pasta yia yia, which features long and hollow tubes of pasta tossed with brown butter, cinnamon, and goat cheese. It's essentially spruced-up mac and cheese—creamy and comforting, with interesting spices going on.
I never thought of making it because, well, I just live around the corner from Lula. But then my mom got me a package of maccheroncelli—the same kind of pasta that Lula uses for the dish—so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
I had all kinds of ideas of how to make this recipe my own, but all the embellishments felt forced, so I stripped almost all of them away. I only had one true insight, and that was to add slivered almonds. They're toasted with the brown butter, adding a much-needed crunch to each bite. I also gave it a squeeze of lemon to help brighten things up. I, of course, forgot to add the goat cheese before taking the photo, and then ate all the pasta before I realized the mistake. I hope you'll forgive me.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Pediatricians are sending a back-to-school message: Let teenagers sleep in a bit.
In a new policy statement in the journal Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatrics says delaying the start of the school day until at least 8:30 a.m. for teens would help curb their lack of sleep, which has been linked with poor health, bad grades, car crashes and even depression and suicide.
The influential group says studies have found that most U.S. students in middle school and high school don't get the recommended amount of sleep — 8½ to 9½ hours on school nights.
Kristen Amundson, executive director of the National Association of State Boards of Education, says later start times for teens is really an issue of cost because bus drivers would have to be added and buses rerouted.
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Calling architects, clients, engineers, contractors and developers. The AJ wants to hear your views on the newly introduced RIBA Plan of Work
Back in May the RIBA's 50-year-old Plan of Work was consigned to history. The familiar A-L work stages were scrapped, replaced by eight new, numbered steps.
When the new plan was launched there was criticism of the reworked workflows and it was unclear whether there would be widespread take-up of the updated plan.
Now five months down the line, the AJ wants to hear from you about whether you have adopted the RIBA Plan of Work 2013. The survey, which will take less than three minutes to complete, aims to find out whether the new scheme has been accepted by the industry.
The short questionnaire is confidential, but entrants can choose to throw their hat into the ring to win a copy of The Library: A World History by James W P Campbell and Will Pryce (rrp £48.00), which tells the stories of some of the world's most significant libraries.
The results of the survey will be published in the AJ in the coming weeks.
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Whilst the new plan of work is perhaps appropriate for larger more complex projects it is too unwieldy for smaller projects, particularly when clients are doing a building project for the first time. The document becomes very daunting fo them to understand.
I also feel that , the forward loaded work load caused by the introduction of BIM onto a project must be reflected in some way. It is immediately apparent to us that because of the benefits that BIM can bring to a Main Contractor in establishing cost certainty, we are being requested to provide far more information at the planning stages of a project than ever before. This currently is not properly relected within the plan of work and certainly not in the current fee percentages attached to the work up to stage D. As a practice we are reviewing our services schedule and fee structure to reflect BIM projects as a separate issue. Small projects still work well within the original scope of services and plan of work stages.
My suggestion would be to have a small works POW, medium/large works POW and a BIM project POW as separate downloads so that te correct document can be attached to the appropriate project.
Adam Clark
Director : Halliday Clark Architects
The new plan specifies that architects should prepare and submit Building Regulation applications in Stage 4 – Technical Design.
This is similar advice to the previous plan and does not reflect current best practice which increasingly sees Approved Inspectors (AI's) engaged much earlier at the conceptual stage – equivalent to the new Stage 2 – where the full weight of the AI's expertise can come into play to the benefit of the project design. Early Building Regulation input into the design process allows architects and scheme designers greater opportunity to explore cutting edge
solutions. These solutions may seek to consider aesthetics, building functionality and project economics. Enabling a design team to explore these avenues encourages innovation whilst delivering greater risk management and
cost certainty.
The proposed Stage 4 proposed involvement for Building Control stifles the opportunity. The new Plan of Work is a missed opportunity. As it stands the update does not go far enough and the RIBA is failing its members by not keeping pace with the changing face of the industry.
Steve Highwood
Director: HCD Building Control
I agree with both the previous comments. Having recently applied for RIBA Chartered Practice Membership, I was surprised to see that the RIBA Quality Management Toolkit is still based on the 'old' Plan of Work.
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Thousands of Muslims try to flee CAR capital
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) -- Thousands of Muslims who tried to flee the violence in Central African Republic's capital were turned back by peacekeepers Friday, as crowds of angry Christians shouted "we're going to kill you all."
The convoy was turned back as France announced it would send 400 more soldiers to its former colony mired in unprecedented sectarian fighting.
The U.N. chief, meanwhile, warned Friday that in Central African Republic "the very fabric of society, woven over generations, is being ripped apart."
"We must live up to the promises made around this table to act swiftly and robustly in the face of such bloodshed," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Friday. "We cannot claim to care about mass atrocity crimes and then shrink from what it means to actually prevent them."
In Bangui, some cars carried as many as 10 people as the convoy made its way through the capital, the second such mass exodus in a week. Christians gathered alongside the road to taunt the Muslims, many of whom have been targeted by murderous mobs in recent weeks.
But the convoy, which stretched as far as the eye could see, was turned back because peacekeepers feared it would be attacked when going through some volatile parts of Bangui.
The procession of vehicles was halted in the Miskine neighborhood, where one vehicle tumbled into a ditch on the side of the road. On the orders of a Burundian captain, African peacekeepers went vehicle-to-vehicle instructing everyone to return to a local mosque, according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene.
Peacekeepers stopped the group before it passed through neighborhoods where fresh fighting had erupted Friday. At least one person was killed there in a grenade attack by Christian militiamen, according to witnesses at a nearby mosque.
French peacekeepers had to evacuate two other severely wounded people from an angry crowd that set tires on fire and was shouting anti-Muslim and anti-French slogans.
Tens of thousands of Muslims have fled for their lives as Christian militiamen and crowds of angry civilians have stepped up their attacks in recent weeks. Muslims have been killed by mobs almost every day and their bodies have been mutilated and dragged through the capital's streets, despite the presence of peacekeepers.
Victims have been accused of supporting the Muslim Seleka government forced from power last month. The Seleka rebels cited economic and political grievances, not religious ideology, in overthrowing the president of a decade. However, they became deeply despised and their armed fighters are accused of scores of human rights abuses against the country's Christian majority during their 10-month rule.
The violence against Muslims and their current exodus from Central African Republic is tantamount to "ethnic cleansing," according to warnings issued earlier this week by a top U.N. official and Amnesty International.
The head of the French mission in Central African Republic has called the Christian militiamen an "enemies of the peace," even though they started out as a way to protect Christians against the attacks by Muslim rebels.
Before the crisis, Muslims made up about 15 percent of Central African Republic's 4.6 million people. Most of the displaced Muslims have headed to Chad, a neighboring country that is predominantly Muslim and whose military has provided armed guards for departing convoys.
Outside the capital, an untold number of other Muslims have been slain. Amnesty International on Friday said its researchers found an 11-year-old girl alive among scores of bodies in a remote village west of the capital. Her parents were among the 20 people slain in an attack there that took place several days ago, the rights group said.
"The girl was crouching in a corner in an abandoned, ransacked house," said Donatella Rovera, senior crisis response Adviser at Amnesty International. "She was terrified and could barely speak. She had been hiding there since the massacre, four days before."
Other Muslims remain in hiding in other communities under the control of Christian militiamen, some seeking refuge inside churches offering protection. Nearly 1,000 people -- mostly Muslims -- are under threat in the southwestern town of Carnot, said Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders.
"Armed men have announced that they intend to track down and kill all the city's Muslims," the organization warned Thursday. "Anyone who hides Muslims is also at risk."
The organization said Christian militiamen had invaded hospitals in search of Muslims who had sought treatment and refuge. In another attack, the Christian fighters seized control of the town's airstrip, blocking outgoing flights of wounded patients, MSF said.
France strengthened its presence in its former colony to 1,600 troops in early December, who are joined by nearly 6,000 African peacekeepers. On Friday, France announced that it is increasing the number of its troops on the ground in Central African Republic by 400 for a total of 2,000.
European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York that the bloc has commitments for more than the 500 troops it initially expected to send to Central African Republic and "is looking at double that number."
The EU contingent is expected to be based at the airport in Bangui, where 100,000 people have taken refuge.
"The EU remains concerned about the heavy civilian casualties, massive displacements of people, serious human rights violations and a worsening of the humanitarian situation in the Central African Republic," Ashton said. "It is imperative for the international community to act to enable a lasting solution to the chaos."
The U.N. secretary-general has dispatched an envoy to the country to consult with the African Union about possibly transforming the African force there into a U.N. peacekeeping force, though such a mission could take up to six months to become operational on the ground.
Larson reported from Dakar, Senegal. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the U.N., Sylvie Corbet in Paris and Hippolyte Marboua in Bangui, Central African Republic, contributed to this report.
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It's easy to get caught up in Adrian Peterson's pursuit of Eric Dickerson's single-season rushing record. For starters, Peterson is a great guy. He's also a rare talent. And he's coming back from one of the worst injuries a running back can have.
But to finish the assault on Dickerson's record will require Peterson to put up 506 yards in three games — and that's something he's never done in his six-year NFL career.
Before this season, Peterson came the closest to that feat in 2008, when he gained 454 yards in games against the Bears, Texans, and Packers. In his rookie season, Peterson churned up 438 yards versus the Chiefs, Packers, and Bears.
This year, however, Peterson has three different three-game stretches in which he has come closer than ever before to 506 yards. In his most recent three games, Peterson has 468 yards. In the three-game stretch that ended with a Week 13 loss to the Packers, Peterson rushed for 489 yards. And in Week Eight through Week 10, Peterson gained 476 yards.
So he's having, without question, the best season of his career — and he has taken his production to a new level as of Week Seven, rushing for 1,001 yards in seven games. That's an average of 143 yards per game.
If he continues that, he'll definitely get to 2,000 yards. The question is whether he can kick it up just enough to get to 2,106.
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"Tydeus and Capaneus at the Siege of Thebes" is a temple pediment plaque that was sculpted by a genius: an unknown Etruscan artist. The tale he told through sculpted clay is able to be seen by viewers today, thanks to the monumental effort and dedication required for reconstruction. The high relief plaque illustrates the defeat of Thebes by an army led by seven men, a favorite theme in Etruscan art. Maybe the fact that this treasure has been reconstructed from mere fragments is what is so incredible…. Discovered while ploughing, the pieces were found in a farmer's field 30 miles from Rome near Caere, an ancient harbour. Dated to 470-460 BCE, the making of the plaque is well-described in a new book called "What Makes a Masterpiece: Artists, Writers and Editors on the World's Greatest Works of Art." The plaque once graced the pediment of a temple to the sea goddess Leucothea, a temple so sumptuous it was pillaged for its riches in 384 BCE by Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Syracuse, according to the book.
After being modeled in terracotta, the plaque was cut in two pieces in order to make transportation to the kiln and firing process easier. It was then fixed to the end of the ridge-pole (columen) of the temple with twelve bronze nails…The high relief is without precedent, and has been modelled entirely by hand, following a preliminary sketch on the surface of the plaque. No one had ever been able to superimpose high-relief terracotta figures so that they could overhang by almost a quarter of their height — a decision that would have involved great difficulties and risks during the firing process. — Giovanni Colonna, What Makes a Masterpiece


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Eight hours into "Grand Theft Auto IV" (Rockstar Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), I've stolen 17 cars, run over 20 people and killed another 15 (some of whom had it coming). I've shaken down a couple of store owners and beaten up an old lady. I've driven while drunk and, perhaps worse, while talking on a cell phone.
Eight hours into "Grand Theft Auto IV" (Rockstar Games, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, $59.99), I've stolen 17 cars, run over 20 people and killed another 15 (some of whom had it coming). I've shaken down a couple of store owners and beaten up an old lady. I've driven while drunk and, perhaps worse, while talking on a cell phone.
I've also bowled and played pool. I've listened to some really cool tunes and watched a surprisingly lame standup routine by Ricky Gervais. I met a nice young lady and took her out to dinner. I bought some new clothes and got my car washed.
I haven't murdered any prostitutes or engaged in any graphic sex acts. (Although, for the record, there's a very brief, non-interactive S&M scene right at the beginning of the game � which almost serves as a warning that this isn't "Pokemon.") And the violence has been relatively tame: Certainly, the number of bodies dropped per hour is less than in the last two Oscar-winning best pictures, "No Country for Old Men" and "The Departed."
Still, protests are inevitable, because any game that puts the player in the shoes of a criminal is bound to be seen as perverse. It's hard to argue with critics who find the "Grand Theft Auto" games immoral, because the developers at Rockstar Games seem to revel in their nihilism. I've attacked Rockstar in the past for such cynical, ultraviolent games as "Manhunt 2," but I'd never argue that they don't have the right to publish them.
Just so we're clear, "Grand Theft Auto IV" is not for the kids. It's rated "M'' for mature, so people under 17 shouldn't be able to buy it. It has lots of blood, some nudity and a nearly constant stream of filthy language. And it's very entertaining.
It's the story of Niko Bellic, an Eastern European who's just arrived in America. As soon as he lands in Liberty City (which looks an awful lot like New York), he's greeted by his cousin Roman, who's been in America for 10 years. Roman has lured Niko with promises of glamour and riches, but all he really has to offer is a dilapidated apartment and a crummy job at a car service.
Niko and Roman's relationship is initially played for laughs; they reminded me of the Festrunk brothers, the "wild and crazy guys" from the early days of NBC's "Saturday Night Live." But things quickly take a darker turn when Nico shows up for work, only to end up running errands for a low-level crime boss. Niko also has another motive for coming to America besides trying to strike it rich, and I don't think it's giving away too much to say the plot escalates into a revenge drama.
So far, I've found the plot to be the most compelling element of "GTA IV," which I couldn't have said about previous games in the series. I really care about what happens to Niko, so much that I wish Rockstar had sent me a cheat sheet so I could get to the plot points a little more quickly.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the scenery. Not surprisingly, given the souped-up graphics of the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3, this is by far the best-looking of the "GTA" games. What took me aback was just how well it evokes New York City, from the glittering skyline of Manhattan (here called "Algonquin") to the trash-strewn elevated-train platforms of the outer boroughs.
The sidewalks are filled with hustlers, hookers, dealers, junkies, wiseguys, mooks and even some law-abiding citizens, and none of them are shy about letting their opinions be heard. It may be a little exaggerated � I've never had a burger joint cashier tell me, "Enjoy your meal, fatso" � but just a little.
The overwhelming sprawl of Liberty City does have one big drawback: It can take a long time to drive from one job to the next. Fortunately, you do have a diverse menu of radio stations to listen to, whether you like talk, rock, jazz or funk. The soundtrack has about 200 well-chosen songs, with talent ranging from David Bowie and The Who to the Russian punk band Leningrad.
The other drawback to Rockstar's otherwise laudable ambition is that none of the many individual gameplay elements are particularly distinguished. Hand-to-hand fighting is awkward, while gunfights are just a little better. (Rockstar has made aiming and shooting quite a bit easier this time around.) Among the variety of bonus games, I kind of enjoyed shooting pool but found the bowling lackluster.
Of course, "GTA" is mostly about driving, and Rockstar has made some big improvements. You always have access to a GPS-like device that shows you the best route to your target. You can choose between several different camera angles, although I pretty much stuck with viewing the road from Nico's point of view. And the car damage feels more realistic; you can only plow into so many Jersey walls before your performance starts to suffer.
Rockstar doesn't pull off everything it tries to do. There are certainly better fighting, shooting and yes, bowling games out there. If all you care about is high-speed urban driving, there's always "Burnout Paradise." But if you want all of that, along with a dose of satire and a fascinating story (at least for the eight hours I've seen so far), you won't want to miss "GTA IV." You're unlikely to find a more ambitious game this year.
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We were struggling as a company with some of those basic business principles. The program gave me the skill set that I needed to move the company forward into a sustainable business model long term. —Dr. Donna Milavetz, founder and CEO of OnSite Care
SALT LAKE CITY — Dr. Donna Milavetz is the founder and CEO of OnSite Care, a company that operates workplace medical clinics.
Since 2007, Milavetz's business has provided "primary care at work" for employers in Utah and Arizona. Today, she oversees 40 employees at 13 clinics that generated about $2.5 million in revenues in 2013.
Despite the success of her growing enterprise that she started with no previous entrepreneurial experience, she said, "You really do need some business skills to run a successful business."
That's what brought her to a table with other entrepreneurs and small-business managers in an upper-floor meeting room of the 222 Main Street building in downtown Salt Lake City.
She was a "student" at a professional workshop series called 10,000 Small Businesses, sponsored by global investment bank Goldman Sachs in partnership locally with Salt Lake Community College. The program offers small-business owners along the Wasatch Front access to a practical business and management education.
Milavetz said she was looking to develop tools that would help her manage and navigate growth for her company over the long haul, and that was the reason she chose to apply to 10,000 Small Businesses.
"We were struggling as a company with some of those basic business principles," she said. "The program gave me the skill set that I needed to move the company forward into a sustainable business model long term."
Milavetz, who also has a master's degree in public administration, said that without the program, she believes her company "would still be floundering."
Launched nationally in 2009 through support from Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation, the program helps business owners selected to participate in the program by offering scholarships to cover tuition and materials. The first Salt Lake City group began in January 2013.
Participants are required to attend a mandatory orientation as well as 11 pre-scheduled learning sessions. Each session has approximately 30 participants.
They must also commit an additional 6 hours to 8 hours per week to out-of-class activities to work on their business, including completing assignments and attending networking events and business support clinics. Each participant also develops a tailored plan for growth prior to graduation.
"Based on our experience so far, (participants) get business planning, leadership and ownership tools as well as an educational framework to think about how to operate their business more efficiently and smarter," said Bruce Larson, managing director and chief administrative officer for Goldman Sachs in Salt Lake City. To date, the program has impacted 1,700 small businesses nationwide, including about 60 companies in Utah.
Nationally, the criteria for participation are at least two years in business and at least $150,000 in annual revenue. The goal of the program is to help established small businesses progress to the "next level," said Karen Gunn, associate provost and executive director of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at Salt Lake Community College.
Some of the graduates call the program "a mini MBA without all the stuff you don't need," she said. "Others call it 'entrepreneur survival school.' "
She said local partners also include the Salt Lake Hispanic Chamber, the Governor's Office of Economic Development and other business-oriented organizations.
"It's a really great infrastructural ecosystem of partners working together to advance small business in Utah," Gunn said.
Meanwhile, for those who would like to make their entrepreneurial dream a reality, there are other resources.
In 2006, Zions Bank launched the Business Resource Center as a resource to provide free services to prospective entrepreneurs wanting to start a business. Since then, the center has aided more than 5,000 individuals with tools to help them create and launch new businesses or expand existing companies, explained director Beth Holbrook.
Of the clients served over seven years, the majority were startups while others were existing companies in need of business plan development, she said.
The center offers a publications library, business plan templates, computer workstations and staff to assist clients in their business endeavors, all at no cost. Beyond the brick-and-mortar location, the online center, utahsmallbusiness.com, offers articles, worksheets and tips for those interested in starting a business.
Holbrook said budding entrepreneurs, including those with home-based businesses, can get started with just a few steps:
• Have passion for your idea and make sure it will be competitive in your market.
• Identify and build clients even before you launch.
• Write a great business plan.
• Assemble a team of key advisors, including an accountant and lawyer.
• Explore funding from a variety of sources, including venture funding and Small Business Administration loans.
The center partners with organizations such as the Governor's Office of Economic Development, the U.S. Small Business Administration, Salt Lake Community College and the Greater Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce to offer seminars, workshops and business-networking opportunities, Holbrook said.
Capital provided through Zions Bank's Small Business Administration loans in 2013 helped Utah businesses grow, enabling companies to hire 858 new employees and retain 1,732 positions, according to administration data.
"We know that people who are chasing their dreams of owning their own businesses need resources and support to succeed," she said.
The three C's
For those in need of funding to help launch their idea or support their already existing venture, the U.S. SBA, online at sba.gov, has resources available, said regional administrator Matt Varilek.
"We have the three C's, which are capital, counseling and contracting," Varilek said. The agency can provide loan guarantees on small-business loans from local lending institutions to aid small enterprises that "are on the bubble" and want to obtain the necessary monies to fund their businesses. Many SBA loans are low-fee or no-fee, he added.
In Utah alone, the SBA issued nearly $400 million in guarantees last year, said district director Stan Nakano.
Confidential counseling from current entrepreneurs is available to prospective business owners, and there is an agency goal for at least 23 percent of goods and services to be purchased through small-business contracts, Varilek said.
"We have programs and experts who can guide small businesses through what can sometimes be a mysterious world of government contracting," he said.
The agency has a commitment to provide assistance to startup and existing business owners who strive to build their business and move it forward, Nakano said.
"We are always trying to increase the ability of small businesses to gain access to capital," he said.
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Best Starbucks Employee Ever Causes Stir After Drizzling Satanic Symbols in Customer's Drink
So, Starbucks is run by the devil after all… at least in Louisiana. The corporate coffee empire has issued an apology to a local schoolteacher after a Starbucks barista allegedly drizzled a pentagram and '666' on the top of two beverages.
Louisiana teacher Megan K. Pinion contacted Starbucks through Facebook after her drinks were contaminated by Satanic caramel. "I unfortunately can't give the young man's name who served it, because I was so appalled that I could not bring myself to look at him," Pinion writes. "The star is almost okay because it is in your Starbucks logo, the 666, however, was quite offensive. I am in no way judging his beliefs or dis-meriting his beautiful artwork, I am however judging his lack of professionalism and respect for others."
Pinion continues, "I am a teacher in the public school system and if I were to present a child of atheist or pagan believers with a Christian art project I could be sued in a heartbeat. I am of Catholic faith and would love to share in my beliefs daily. Fortunately I have enough common sense to present myself with professionalism and follow an ethics code. Perhaps that could be suggested to that particular location."
As Pinion's Facebook post spread, it was eventually seen by Starbucks, who issued an apology to the teacher. "We're taking the complaint seriously and have sincerely apologized for her experience," Tom Kuhn, a Starbucks spokesman, tells the Huffington Post. "This obviously is not the type of experience we want to provide any of our customers, and is not representative of the customer service our partners provide to millions of customers every day."
The Starbucks spokesperson, however, did not comment on the employee who allegedly drew the evil caramel topping. "We do not discuss details about individuals' employment with our company," says Kuhn.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
December 2010
Proteomic Profiling of Low-Dose Radiation Effects on Human Skin Cells
Unique radiation-responsive proteins affected by low doses of ionizing radiation
Results: In the most comprehensive analysis of its type published to date, scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found that exposing human skin tissue cells, or fibroblasts, to low doses of ionizing radiation regulates phosphorylation of proteins that are involved in a wide range of biological processes. In short, the body can sense low doses of radiation and activate the cell signaling pathways needed to respond to any induced cellular damage.
The research team, led by Dr. Feng Yang and Dr. David Stenoien, identified a number of proteins associated with radiation responses and DNA damage repair 1 hour after being exposed to a small dose of radiation, 2 and 50 centiGray (cGy).
Prominent among the proteins identified is one that plays an important role in DNA damage recognition. This protein is called p53 binding protein 1 (53BP1). The study shows that 53BP1 gains a cluster of phosphate and oxygen atoms at both low and high doses. Scientists believe this phosphate addition could either recruit DNA proteins repair or cause DNA damage.
Why it matters: High doses of ionizing radiation, such as those from nuclear fallout, result in biological damage and increased cancer risk. But the precise relationships between long-term health effects, including cancer, and low-dose exposures, such as those from radon and medical procedures, remain poorly understood because any increased cancer risk is too small to measure in a very high background of naturally occurring cancers. In fact, such relationships are currently extrapolated using high-dose exposure data.
The data presented in this study indicate that a subset of the proteins and signaling pathways are differentially regulated at low and high doses. This indicates that extrapolating disease risk linearly from high to low doses may not accurately assess the actual risks of low-dose exposures.
Methods: The researchers employed a unique capability at the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) using phosphoproteomics to map changes in post-translational modifications on thousands of proteins that occur following exposure to low-dose radiation. Those phosphoproteins showing statistically significant changes following radiation exposure were analyzed using bioinformatic methods to identify the signaling pathways and biological processes affected by radiation.
What's next: The results provide a basis for the systems-level identification of biological processes, molecular pathways, and individual proteins regulated in a dose-dependent manner by ionizing radiation. Further study of these modified proteins and affected networks should help to define the molecular mechanisms that regulate biological responses to radiation at different radiation doses and clarify the impact of low-dose radiation exposure on human health.
A global phosphoproteomic analysis identified 7117 phosphopeptides in skin cells exposed to 0, 2, and 50 cGy of ionizing radiation. Statistical analysis was used to identify 286 2-cGy phosphopeptides (on 233 proteins) and 245 50-cGy phosphopeptides (on 187 proteins) that were apparently altered compared to 0 cGy treated cells. Bioinformatic analysis of the 2- and 50-cGy affected proteins suggests that low- and high-dose ionizing radiation affect different biological processes. Shown are the log p values for each dose group, with the dashed line indicating statistical significance (p=0.05) identified using the DAVID web portal. Enlarge Image
Acknowledgments: The work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy's Low Dose Radiation Research Program. Experiments and data analyses were performed in EMSL, a DOE national scientific user facility located at PNNL. The research team included Feng Yang, David Stenoien, Katrina Waters, Marina Gritsenko, Rui Zhao, Xiuxia Du, Eric Livesay, Sam Purvine, Matt Monroe, Dave Camp, and Richard D. (Dick) Smith, all PNNL; John Miller, Washington State University-Tri-Cities; and Yingchun Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Reference: Yang F, KM Waters, JH Miller, MA Gritsenko, R Zhao, X Du, EA Livesay, SO Purvine, ME Monroe, DG Camp II, RD Smith, and DL Stenoien. 2010. "Phosphoproteomic profiling of human skin fibroblast cells reveals pathways and proteins affected by low doses of ionizing radiation." PLoS ONE 5(11): e14152. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014152.


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Ripple Sunshine Coast Massage Day Spa And Beauty - the day spa that comes to you all Sunshine Coast.
Their massage therapists will come to you in your home or hotel. Just sit back, relax and they will take care of the rest.
They come to you in all areas of the Sunshine Coast, all the way from Caloundra through Mooloolaba, Maroochydore to Noosa and up through Montville and Maleny.
With Ripple Massage, Day Spa and Beauty you can really take a break with one of their spa packages. It is perfect for couples massages, they can send two therapists to you to have your treatments at the same time.
Perfect for spa day and hens party treatments, pamper parties, there is something here for every budget including manicure, pedicure and facial. Or, try a rare massage you won't find anywhere else in Australia - choose from Russian, Chocolate, Honey or Coffee massage styles. Or maybe try a pregnancy massage, hot stone, Blokes, Indian head or Frangipani package.
Their value for money spa treatments also include lots of free spa extras like tangerine and walnut body exfoliation, organic green clay facials and free gifts like aromatherapy lotions.
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There are several types of financial aid available to help students & their families pay for college.
Credits earned at Lone Star College transfer to any public college or university in the state.
Being involved in civic activities prepares our students for life after Lone Star College.
We want you to save money!
Lone Star College is conducting information sessions for businesses interested in becoming a vendor and doing business.
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Junior volunteers brighten their future, serve community
For the 20 junior volunteers at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, donating their summer vacation isn't just about gaining experience, it's about giving back to their community.
The 2015 junior volunteer staff, ages 14 -18, serves in many different capacities across the health care organization. They can be found delivering balloons and cards to patients who need cheering up, doing clerical work at the information desk, delivering newspapers and putting together information packets for in-patients. They even work in areas like the emergency department, endoscopy and physical therapy.
The guest services department and volunteer coordinator Janet Conner take pride in the junior volunteers' dedication to their tasks and compassion toward patients.
"It is so inspiring to come in to work each day and see their eager, smiling faces. The dedication to their work and their compassion toward our patients speaks volumes about the integrity of these young people," says Conner. "Many of these junior volunteers are planning to go into the medical field and being able to watch them gain experience in a health care setting is a real privilege."
For many junior volunteers, 2015 is not the first year they have decided to pledge their time to Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital.
"For several of these volunteers, this is the second and third year in a row that they have committed their summer vacations to helping us serve," Conner noted. "It is a great way for them to not only give back to their community, but to also have something valuable to add to their resumes as they move into their college careers in the years to come."
As the 2015 junior volunteer season begins to wrap, the junior volunteers will continue gaining experience and serving their community until July 31. Even though the volunteering will soon draw to a close for this year, these dedicated young people will be actively looking forward to the next time they can come in and donate their time to those in need.
Junior volunteer Paige Nichols captured this sentiment best when she quoted Winston Churchill on her 2015 junior volunteer application:
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."


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World Bulletin/News Desk
Canada's Liberals regained a seat in the House of Commons on Monday in a race viewed as an early test of the popularity of the party's new leader, Justin Trudeau, son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
Liberal candidate Yvonne Jones had 50.8 percent of the vote and incumbent Conservative Peter Penashue only 29.1 percent, with 86 of the 91 polls reporting.
The third largest party in the House of Commons, the Liberals have vaulted to first place in national polls since Trudeau won the party's leadership a month ago. He campaigned hard to retake the seat in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, on Canada's Atlantic coast.
"Today we have demonstrated that the Liberal message of hope and hard work is resonating, and that Canadians are tired of the Conservatives' politics of cynicism, division and fear," Trudeau, 41, said in a statement, pledging that the victory in Newfoundland was only the beginning.
Penashue, who had served as intergovernmental affairs minister, resigned in March after it emerged that his campaign accepted illegal corporate donations in the 2011 general election. His campaign also spent more than the C$84,468 ($83,362) limit.
He blamed an inexperienced campaign official for the violations and said he knew nothing about the issues, but the scandal cost the Conservatives their only seat in the province. The Liberals have held it for 58 of the 64 years that Newfoundland and Labrador has been part of Canada.
The results marked the first time the Conservative Party failed to defend a seat between general elections since it was formed as a merger of two rival right-wing parties in 2003.
The Conservatives, led by Stephen Harper, have been in power since 2006. The next federal election is due in October 2015.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay, campaigning on Penashue's behalf, had said that Penashue was guaranteed a seat in cabinet as the only member of Parliament from Newfoundland.
Trudeau, a former teacher, has been in Parliament for less than five years, and his leadership victory reflected both his family name and his personal magnetism. His father was prime minister for all but nine months from 1968-84.
Past efforts by Trudeau on behalf of other candidates before he became party leader had proved less successful, failing to produce Liberal seats in special elections last November or in a similar Toronto area election two years earlier.
Opinion polls for April, the month when Trudeau became party leader, put the Liberals ahead of the Conservatives nationally for the first time since June 2009, with an average 33.4 percent support, compared to 30.2 percent for the Conservatives.Last Mod: 14 Mayıs 2013, 09:58


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Implement Fiori for iOS controls
You will learn
You will learn to implement SAP Fiori for iOS controls, and style your application according to the SAP Fiori for iOS guidelines.
In the previous tutorials, you created and build upon an application which utilized the technical parts of the SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS. The application itself still had the 'traditional' iOS look and feel.
In this tutorial, you will implement the use of a Fiori for iOS control (the Object Cell), as well as change the general appearance of the application conform the SAP Fiori for iOS standards. When finished, your application will look like this:
Open the project's
Products.storyboard in
Demo > ViewControllers > Products. Locate the Master Scene Table View and select the
FUIObjectTableViewCell cell:
Now, you need to implement logic to bind the Object Cell's display properties to the model data.
Open the file
ProductsMasterViewController.swift under
Demo > ViewControllers > Products.
Locate the following function:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let product = self.entities[indexPath.row]
let cell = CellCreationHelper.objectCellWithNonEditableContent(tableView: tableView, indexPath: indexPath, key: "ProductId", value: "\(product.productID!)")
return cell
Replace this function with the following code:
override func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
let product = self.entities[indexPath.row]
tableView.estimatedRowHeight = 80
tableView.rowHeight = UITableViewAutomaticDimension
let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "FUIObjectTableViewCell",
for: indexPath as IndexPath)
guard let objectCell = cell as? FUIObjectTableViewCell else {
return cell
objectCell.headlineText = product.name!
objectCell.subheadlineText = product.categoryName!
objectCell.footnoteText = product.shortDescription!
objectCell.descriptionText = product.longDescription!
objectCell.statusText = String(describing: product.price!)
objectCell.substatusText = product.currencyCode!
objectCell.substatusLabel.textColor = UIColor.preferredFioriColor(forStyle: .positive)
objectCell.accessoryType = .disclosureIndicator
return objectCell
The above code does the following:
First, increase the row height since the Object Cell is higher than the standard table cell.
Then a reference is created to the Object Cell with identifier
Finally, now you have the reference to the Fiori Object Cell control, you then bind the model properties to the control properties and return the instance of that control.
The Master Table View for the Products entity is now prepared to use a custom Object Cell from the
SAPFiori module. Build and run the application.
Click the Products item. You should now see the master list with Object Cell items displaying the various properties of the Product entities:
- Development environment: Apple iMac, MacBook or MacBook Pro running Xcode 9 or higher
- SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS: Version 2.0
- Tutorials: Create an app using the SDK Assistant


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We are excited to announce that Michael was honored as a Mastersmith by the American Bladesmith Society on June 4th, 2010. A very small number of masters are honored each year and it shows a tremendous accomplishment and many years of work! Each year, the B.R. Hughes Award is presented in recognition of the knife judged to be the best submitted for review by a new mastersmith. Michael Rader won the B.R. Hughes Award for his mastersmith presentation dagger. Michael was honored as a Journeyman Smith in June of 2006.
Michael Rader lives and works out of a small shop in the Washington State Cascade Foothills and has been a full time maker since 2002.
He trained in eight different martial arts styles throughout his life and continues to practice Tai Chi and Pentjak Silat daily. His blades are hand forged to shape using a 42 inch long barrel forge. The handles, scabbards, and display stands are hand sanded and oil finished in a process that takes nearly two weeks and provides a custom gunstock-quality finish.
Michael is a maker that is constantly experimenting. He continuously evaluates his knives for cutting dynamics and edge geometry -- evolving his designs and developing new techniques. His work incorporates influences from many styles, cultures, and histories, though he does not follow any traditional or historical styling. His sole interest is in making an original modern knife or sword and not a replica-of-a-copy-of-an-original.
Michael has spent years experimenting with heat treatment -- one of the secrets to any high performance knife. He continuously improves his heat treatment and regularly tests his blades, taking them to the limit. Each blade is tested to make sure that it will bend 45 degrees and return true. The edge is tempered so that it is hard enough to stay sharp but won't chip and can be easily sharpened. Intuitive, organic design has its place throught Michael's planning, but in the later phases of construction, he makes every attempt to create an intelligent sword or knife. He is a firm believer in the old adage, "Form follows function" and tries to adhere to that as much as possible even in his art knives.
Michael's woodworking skills are exceptional and a hallmark of his style. Swooping archs are perfectly combines into elegant and dramatic handles and sheath. Though many collectors first mention Michael's wood inlay designs when talking about his knives, Michael intends the sculpting and carving to be ergonomic first and beautiful second. The result is both a captivating knife and one that is so comfortable that you won't want to put it down.


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Enjoy the look of custom framing at a great value with our Profile frames. These refined frames are assembled by a family-run company in Ohio where the care that goes into each one is as special as the photos or artwork you choose to put in it. Artisans carefully select lengths of solid ash then meticulously craft the frames, using miter joints that are secured by hand with wood glue and nails for extra stability. Uniquely proportioned white mats complete the classic, gallery-worthy appearance. Whether used solo or as a part of a wall gallery, Profile frames create a timeless display.See the full Profile collection
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- Wood Profile Frame
- linen tape (included)
Tools needed
- flat-blade screwdriver
- hammer
- common nail
- Place the frame face down on a flat, protected surface.
- Carefully slide a flat-blade screwdriver under the flexible metal tabs and gently bend them up, toward the edge of the frame. (Figure 1)
- Remove the backing board from the frame.
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The 1964 World's Fair showcased jet packs and new miracles of science. There was an entire house made of Formica. You could wipe it clean with a sponge!
The people who put the fair together tried to imagine how the future would look. Here are a few predictions, and how they actually turned out.
1. We had picture phones back then?
Vito Turso was at the fair when he used one of the first picture phones. Back then, he was a boy selling pizza at the fair. He says the Picturephone was one of his favorite exhibits.
"To walk into this room and have a conversation through what was like a small television — it was incredible," Turso said. "The lines to use the Picturephone were unending."
But the Picturephone was expensive back then — and it took decades before the technology became affordable. Also, it turns out, people don't always want to see the person they're talking with. Even now, in the era of Skype and Facetime, people mostly just want to talk on the phone, without seeing the person on the other end.
2. The fair basically missed the computer and the Internet.
IBM had an exhibit at the fair. But it focused mostly on the Selectric typewriter, according to Larry Samuel, who wrote a book about the fair.
Samuel says while the exhibit did include computers, they just seemed like machines for adding numbers together. "At the time, it really was just a business machine," Samuel says.
The fancy new electric typewriter seemed like a bigger deal.
3. Why don't we have underwater hotels?
Futurama was a ride at the fair that took you past dioramas of what the future might look like. One showcased an underwater hotel.
Alas, there aren't many underwater hotels open today. But there is the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Fla. It isn't fancy. It's at the bottom of a lagoon, and you have to scuba or swim down to it. There's no stove (but there is a microwave).
Neil Monney, who developed the place, said he has tried to build a fancier underwater hotel. But investors are hard to find. The World's Fair brought together futurists and the diorama-makers. But they didn't invite bankers.
A fantasy utopia
The fair presented a Utopian vision of the future, where technology and science could solve problems. But, Samuel says, even back then people didn't quite believe it. President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated a few months before the fair opened; there were civil rights protests; the Vietnam War was happening; and the economic optimism of the 1950s was fading.
People went to the fair, Samuel says, because it was a fantasy.
Fifty years ago this summer people from all over came to New York to visit the 1964 World's Fair and to get a glimpse of the future. The fair had stuff like jet packs and new miracles of science like a house made of Formica. You could wipe it clean with just a sponge. David Kestenbaum with our Planet Money team looks back at how we saw the future 50 years ago.
DAVID KESTENBAUM, BYLINE: I bought an actual guidebook for the fair on eBay, and it's amazing to flip through it today - 50 years later. There are some things that, looking back, are clear misses. We do not, for instance, have any colonies on the moon today. But there are other things where you're like, really, we had that back then? It turns out there was a picture phone at the fair 50 years ago.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Someday, people may want to see, as well as talk, over the telephone.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #1: (Singing) In a place where electronic wonders abound - a marriage of sight to the drama of sound.
KESTENBAUM: We tracked down someone who had used that picture phone at the fair 50 years ago. Vito Turso - today, deputy commissioner for the New York City Department of Sanitation. Back then, he was a boy selling pizza at the fair. The picture phone was one of his favorite exhibits.
VITO TURSO: To walk into this room and have a conversation through - with a, like, small television - it was incredible. The lines to use the picture phone were, you know, unending.
KESTENBAUM: So why didn't the picture phone takeoff? Well, they were really expensive. But there was another reason, as well - a reason that explains why we often get the future wrong. Sometimes, the idea of the thing is cooler than the actual thing. It turns out people don't always want to see the person they're talking to. We've got picture phones now, but, for the most part, people still seem to prefer talking and not seeing. The fair got some things right. Those new color TVs - we really liked those. But it basically missed what was arguably the most futuristic thing that really was going to happen over the next 50 years - the computer and the Internet. IBM had an exhibit at the fair, but a lot of it was focused on the selectric typewriter.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #2: Here's a better way to put words on paper - a remarkable electric typewriter.
KESTENBAUM: Larry Samuel wrote a book about the fair. The IBM fair did cover computers, he says, but they seemed boring - machines for businesses that could add numbers.
LARRY SAMUEL: I wouldn't say it bombed, but, you know, I think it was just - people - you just couldn't get it. And they tried to break it down a do little skits and little, you know, puppets and stuff to make it really easy. But I think it was beyond the reach of most people.
KESTENBAUM: As a kid, which did you think was cooler? - the typewriter or the computer?
SAMUEL: Oh, definitely the typewriter.
KESTENBAUM: So there were things the fair got right. There were things it missed and really one other category - things where you wonder, why didn't that happen? It seems like such a good idea. Take, for instance, the underwater hotel. This is from a ride at the fair called Futurama, which took you past dioramas of what the future might look like.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN #3: A weekend, if you wish, at Hotel Atlantis in the kingdom of the sea - a holiday of thrills and of adventure.
KESTENBAUM: My colleague Robert Smith looked into this one, and he did find an underwater hotel you can stay at today - the Jules Undersea Lodge in Key Largo, Florida. He talked with Neil Monney there.
NEIL MONNEY: It's a very unique experience to dive down and spend the night and to, you know, just live underwater.
KESTENBAUM: The hotel used to be a research facility. It's in the bottom of a lagoon. Inside, there's no stove - just a microwave. But it's got windows.
MONNEY: I'm not sure that it's working at this particular time, but we had a little fish feeder that you could drop some food in inside the habitat. And it would pop up by the window and then the fish would gather around at feeding time.
KESTENBAUM: Neil Monney says he has tried to build a bigger, fancier underwater hotel. The problem has always been finding investors. When the organizers built the World's Fair, they invited the futurists and the diorama makers. They did not invite the bankers. The fair presented this utopian vision of the future where technology and science would solve all manner of problems. But Larry Samuel, the author, says that even back then, people didn't quite believe it. Outside the grounds, things were happening that made the fair seem pretty naive. JFK had been assassinated just five months before the fair opened. There were civil rights protests and the Vietnam War. The economic optimism of the '50s was fading. People went to the fair, he says, because it was a fantasy. David Kestenbaum, NPR News.
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pao1 Posts: 2I have a 2005 Sportage EX, V6 automatic. There are a little over 3500 miles on it - I do mostly city driving. I'm getting 14.1 mpg. The dealer says that the vehicle will get much better mileage after its "broken in" at about 4500 to 5000 miles. I had the ECM adjustment when I was notified by Kia. Anyone have experience with low gas mileage or other comments about gas mileage? Thanks.0
petec1 Posts: 10I have an 06 Sportage automatic EX V-6 as well with about 4300 miles on it and have the same complaints that you do with the mileage. Took it to the dealer who handed me a brochure on EPA testing and basically told me "live with it, it doesn't get any better". I'm getting what you do and drive like you do (mostly city). One poster here said he had good luck by switching to a harder Goodrich tire ........that's not a workable solution when you have only 4300 miles. I change vehicles often and unless something dramatic is done with the transmission (doesn't know what gear it's supposed to be in) and/or the engine, I will not buy another. That's really too bad, because I really love this car in every other respect.0
What we really need to do, is send a barrage of letters, phone calls, & e-mails to Kia, & Hyundai, to get on the stick, and fix this widely known major problem! That they refuse to acknowledge!
I traded in a perfectly good 2002 Santa Fe LX 2.7 V6 4WD Auto. That gave me 20-24mpg around town, & 24-30mpg on the highway, for over 3yrs, & 87K miles, that was completely stock, except for using 10-30W, winter, 10-40W summer, Quaker State synthetic blend oil, changed every 3-5K miles, for this similarly equipped, lighter, more aerodynamic, GAS HOG! What Did They Do Wrong?!?!?!0
What is the ECM adjustment? Haven't heard from Kia!
:mad: I too only get 14 mpg city but there have been others on in this forum reporting 17. That sounds more like what we should expect when you take into consideration the EPA overstatement.0
last winter I wrote sevral articles about how lousy my 2006 4wd Sportage was ....I estimated about 10 miles to a US gallon at the worst of it in -20F temp.
at mid point on my gas gauge I was hitting 100 km (60 miles with 25 liters or 5 imp. gallons gone in the tank !!
Summer is here now I can get 200km on a half tank or...
about 24 miles to one imp. gallon (19.2 miles to a US gallon)
City driving issue was closed shut when I did a 100KM run with Kia mecanic he did 50 km I did Km we both refilled to the top and total consumed was 13.5 liers
(within kia spec for city driving) except I never drive 100km straight in twn... I go to walmart and back, i get groceries and come back etc...
The kia test met he specs So I stopped complaining although the issue ...doing 10mils per US ga;llon in twon in winter will come back next winter !
pretty lousy if you ask me,
right now...24miles to a Imp. gallon highway driving well what Can I say it is not so bad but by dodge Caravan gave me 30-32 miles to an Imp. gallon going to Florida.
But hey!! In snow on 4wd... it is a real safe car to drive !! it just sucks a lot0
bhmr59 Posts: 1,601That's surprising. My '05 Sonata with the 2.7L engine averages about 18 mpg year round in mostly "city" driving. Lowest I've gotten was 16.something when it was very cold and the highest was 19.something in warm weather. If I do even a little as 50 miles on the highway, the increase in mpg is noticable. I drive 2.7 miles to work, up & down hills, with 2 stop signs the 2 traffic lights (usually only have to stop at one light) and the last 1/2 mile is stop & go due to a traffic light 1/4 mile after my office's parking lot. With 40% highway adn 60% city I've gotten 23+ mpg. The last time I drove a full tank of gas on the highway I got 28+, and that was with only 1100 miles on the car and having to stop for tolls on the Garden State Parkway.
Don't estimate your milage based on the gas guage reading...you'll likely be way off. Maybe you're heavy on the accelerator, maybe you spend a lot of time stopped in traffic (which gives you ZERO mph when stopped).0
been using the same foot since I was 20.. now 56
been driving the same roads in the same city for 36 years
Been enduring winter after winter
the only vatiable is a awd 2.6L v6 Kia Sportage
I use the odometer to calculate the miles (KM) and the meter on the gas pump to calculate gas quantities and my wallet says OUCH ! :mad: everytime I fuel up0
I have an '05 EX auto w/ 5,300 miles and get 14 mpg in city driving. I just use the computer in the dash to figure it out. If I'd known, I wouldn't have bought the car.0
daddye Posts: 7I have an 05 EX 4WD 2.7.
I too, thought it got bad gas mileage early on.
Now, the car has about 16,000 miles on it. I have had the computer traction control recall work done.
The mileage has gotten noticably better: I do a combination of city/highway, and it gets about 21 MPGs. My feeling is that the EPA rating is right on: if all I was doing was going to get grocercies, errands, etc (lots of stop and go parking lot driving) i think it would get about 19 MPGS. On the highway, it can get 23 or so.
One change I have made that I would recommend is getting a different air filter. I went with the K&N air filter after I looked at the stock air filter that came with the Sportage: The design is poor: the dirt spots on the air filter indicate that most of the air is being forced through only part of the filter, thus probably restricting air flow.
I have been really happy with the sportage. I also own a 2001 Optima that has about 130K miles on it. Mostly, it has needed only regular maintenance.
artgpo Posts: 483My wife's 2005 V-6 4 x 4 Sportage has about 17,000 miles. She averages 19 city, 21 highway. The MPG has not changed much since she bought the car new in April, 2005.0
Hey gang, I'm new to the Kia site. Today I drove home my new 06 Kia Sportage LX 4 WD with the 2.7 6 cyl. Olive green paint with the beige interior. Options that we got are keyless entry, mats, and the tonneau cover with an out the door price of $21,000. According to the research that my wife and I did prior to purchase, this seemed like a good deal. Any thoughts from the members? Is there a break-in period for the vehicle? Any other tips you guys can pass on would be appreciated.0
heiman Posts: 12005 Kia Sportage EX 4x4. I use this vehicle for meter reading with lots of stops and idling. I got about 18 MPG during the time that I read meters with it. When my wife drives it she gets about 20-21 MPG with about 50/50 city/highway driving. Currently has about 15,000 miles on it.0
Hey Craze, That's the color, and model I wanted!,,, But, after looking at a new 2005 last year, I told the salesman I had to have the heated leather seats, & sunroof, with it, he said it wasn't available in that color combo, only dark grey, or black cherry, I told him good bye,,, I chose a 2005 Nautical Blue Tucson LX instead, with all the options I wanted, I'm very happy, except for poor gas milage, 24mpg is the best I've ever got, but I still have a soft spot in my heart for that Olive green, & Tan, Sportage
By the way, I was quoted close to that figure on the Sportage LX a year ago, so I think you did good! Mike0
June of last year I bought an '05 LX 4WD 2.7L Olive Green Sportage with the black interior. Still love it except for the mileage. Hovering right around 20 mpg with 50/50 driving. I paid $20,000 out the door, but don't have the keyless or the tonneau cover. So the price sounds about right. I would try not to go much over 65 mph for the first 1200 or so miles. But you should vary your speed when you can and try to avoid the cruise control for awhile. It's in your owners manual I believe.0
Thanks for the info. I originally looked at the jade green/gray in a 2wd v6 model but liked the olive/tan setup better. The olive was in the showroom and was the AWD model. I drove the 2wd along with wife and she really wanted the jade. I said to wait a week until the end of the month draws closer and we'll talk price then. Long story short, we got the AWD olive/tan combo with the options for less $$ than originally quoted for the 2wd jade Sportage. I'm glad to hear that your price quote was close to what I paid and it seems like a fair price. Last weekend we drove it on a mini road trip following my 2 oldest son's soccer careers from the mountains of western Maryland, thru West Virgina, and out to the DC area. Our milege at fillup after was at 20.4 mpg. That was the 3rd tank of gas for the vehicle. I would be happy to get 24-25 mpg after break in. My 95 Blazer only got 17 mpg. BTW, I like the nautical blue Tucson. We looked at an 06 ex and it is a nice clor combo with the leather package.0
Hey Bolt,
Thanks for the info. It was the best vehicle for the $$$ that both the wife and I could agree on. I had not driven the new style sportage and was amazed at the quality and the improvements over the older model. It just feels so solid from the "thunk" of the door closing to the ride and engine sound. Your advice is sound for the break-in period and we'll take caution not to exceed 65 mph. I strongly suggested that wifie read the owner's manual from cover to cover on this car. It's mainly going to be her daily driver and she drives a whole 2.5 miles each way to work. I drive 56 miles one way to work in my Scion XB. When it snows I'll take the Sportage to work and follow my kids soccer games from its comfortable cockpit.0
Funny, I live in Western Md. The best mileage I ever had was 24.5 mpg on a 350 mile trip. I do have a little of the steering wheel vibration, but have yet to get a proper tire balancing done.0
I live in the WV's Eastern Panhandle and am in Western Md. often, so we should get similar gas mileage after mine breaks-in. I don't have any of the vibration in the steering. Will a tire balance fix the issue? My Sportage came stock with the Goodrich T/A Traction Specs, what about yours? I bought the performance T/A Traction's 3 years ago as replacements for my work car and they were an excellent all around tire. I have read a few reviews on Tirerack.com about the T/A Specs wearing out at 20k miles. How have your's held up?0
I'm hoping a tire balance will fix the problem. The steering wheel shimmy gets worse when I'm braking hard. I hope that doesn't mean the brake rotors are warped. As for the T/A Specs, I think they're about average. I may make 40K on them, maybe. From what I've heard, the Specs aren't nearly as good as the original T/A Tractions. I'll definitely be looking for a different model tire when the time comes.0
No problems at 1850 miles. Last tank mileage was 18 mpg in all city driving. We're off to a college soccer game in Columbia, Md. this weekend and we'll get a good concentration of highway miles.
My wife took it to Hersey, Pa. last weekend and claimed that the steering was pulling to the right on I-81, but I checked it out and didn't find the problem. Maybe the wind? It was blowing pretty good that day. Our friend went with us to the Prime Outlets last week and commented about how much nicer the interior of the Sportage is as compared to his Jeep Grand Cherokee along with a better ride. He's in the market for a new suv and said that he will test drive the Kia's 1st to see if the other suv's can measure up.0
I've also had passengers comment on how smooth the ride is in my '05. A little more insulation in the floor area, and this cute ute would be extremely quiet. Its already pretty nice. My steering was a little off when I first bought it, and had an alignment done under warranty, the only warranty item I've had so far.0
jamieanne Posts: 4I have an 05 AWD Sportage with lots of extras. I love the car with the exception of the mpg. I live in a valley with flat long roads mostly 50 mph. I work in a small town, not too much stop and start or waiting at lights so I wouldn't consider this city driving. I'm an easy on the car driver. My mileage is only 18.5 tops - lower if I go to the city or into the mountains. I complained to Kia - they responded with a brochure about how to drive efficiently. When I call the dealer, they tell me to change to premium gas which contradicts advice in the users manual. They also point to the small print on the sticker saying I should expect 16 to 29 mpg, so I am in the range. They also say, contrary to the advice of another poster that I must use the Kia filters no matter where I get my oil changed. hmm. Really, I feel stonewalled by the Kia dealership and the company. In my opinion they need to fix this problem.
I also see that the new advertising for the Sportage claims high fuel economy. Phooey!!0
Well I guess Kia is advertizing the "good" mileage of the Sportage compared to the Nissan Armada, Chevy Tahoe, or the Ford Explorer. I have friends with those vehicles and they are real gas hogs. The friend with the Armada is chomping at the bit to get rid of it due to the 10-12 city mpg. The loan is upside down so they are stuck with it for a few years. I hadn't heard about the Kia filter issue. I've run Purolator and Mobil 1 filters for years and testing shows these 2 filters to be top notch.
Did Kia tell you that the warranty is void if you use another brand name filter?
I knew before I bought it that the Sportage was not the greatest mpg suv. It is on a par with the Honda Element, CRV, Ford Escape, etc. The ride and interior are nicer than my Chevy Blazer and my friend's Grand Cherokee. I really want a hybrid suv but will wait for the prices and the technology to improve.0
csandste Posts: 1,866"Did Kia tell you that the warranty is void if you use another brand name filter?"
Having just bought an Optima this certainly caught my eye.
Do they give you the filter free? If not, that practice would be a blatant violation of Magnuson-Moss.0
I just hit the 3,000 mile mark on the Sportage. I have not yet changed the oil as the owners manual states 7,500 for the change, but I have traditionally dropped the oil on new vehicles at 3,000. I usually do all my oil changes with synthetic. As far as the exclusive use of KIA filters is concerned, I will call my neighbor who is the manager of the dealer from where i bought it. I will post his response. How do you like the new Optima?0
mkennett Posts: 1just wanted to let you know the dealer cannot make you use any certain product and cannot void your warrenty for not using a Kia filter it is federal law in the United States. Look up "magnuson-moss warranty act" for more information and if the dealer still claims that you have to use a Kia filter i would call your state attorney because they are trying to scare you and being dishonest.0
Hi Im Renzo, I'm from Albuquerque, NM and we just recently bought a brand new 2006 Kia Sportage EX 4WD, Fully loaded, Leather Interior, Sunroof, And We Love it, but It does terrible on gas, We Have to fill it up almost every 2-3 days and it's just not working for us, but we love it to pieces, its comfortable the ride is impressive and incredible, but I need advice in the Gas, Do I need to use Premium Gasoline, Or What Do I do? Also I need to take it in monday for a defective tire!!! Thanks!!! :confuse:0
You didn't say what your mileage is but with the 2.7 L (6 cylinder) version at the low end of the EPA numbers (i.e. mostly city) that adds up to about 300 miles per tank (15.3 gallons). It sounds like you're doing some heavy duty driving. I'm guessing that's an Albuquerque-Santa Fe commute.
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Hi, Well I don't do a Albuquerque-Santa Fe Commute, I guess it's because I drive It Alot, but Still It Waste To much Gas!!!! Well Thanks anyway!!!!0
Your MPG will improve slightly as you break it in. Make sure your tires are inflated to 33-35. We have 4600 miles on our 06 LX 4x4 and ours is steadily improving. My wife uses it mostly in city driving so I have no highway numbers yet, but the last tank was 20.562 mpg.0