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Gardening, the laying out and care of a plot of ground devoted partially or wholly to the growing of plants such as flowers, herbs, or vegetables.
Gardening can be considered both as an art, concerned with arranging plants harmoniously in their surroundings, and as a science, encompassing the principles and techniques of plant cultivation. Because plants are often grown in conditions markedly different from those of their natural environment, it is necessary to apply to their cultivation techniques derived from plant physiology, chemistry, and botany, modified by the experience of the planter. The basic principles involved in growing plants are the same in all parts of the world, but the practice naturally needs much adaptation to local conditions.
For the main history of garden development, see the article garden and landscape design: Historical development.
The nature of gardening
Gardening in its ornamental sense needs a certain level of civilization before it can flourish. Wherever that level has been attained, in all parts of the world and at all periods, people have made efforts to shape their environment into an attractive display. The instinct and even enthusiasm for gardening thus appear to arise from some primitive response to nature, engendering a wish to produce growth and harmony in a creative partnership with it.
It is possible to be merely an admiring spectator of gardens. However, most people who cultivate a domestic plot also derive satisfaction from involvement in the processes of tending plants. They find that the necessary attention to the seasonal changes, and to the myriad small "events" in any shrubbery or herbaceous border, improves their understanding and appreciation of gardens in general.
A phenomenal upsurge of interest in gardening began in Western countries after World War II. A lawn with flower beds and perhaps a vegetable patch has become a sought-after advantage to home ownership. The increased interest produced an unprecedented expansion of business among horticultural suppliers, nurseries, garden centres, and seedsmen. Books, journals, and newspaper columns on garden practice have found an eager readership, while television and radio programs on the subject have achieved a dedicated following.
Several reasons for this expansion suggest themselves. Increased leisure in the industrial nations gives more people the opportunity to enjoy this relaxing pursuit. The increased public appetite for self-sufficiency in basic skills also encourages people to take up the spade. In the kitchen, the homegrown potato or ear of sweet corn rewards the gardener with a sense of achievement, as well as with flavour superior to that of store-bought produce. An increased awareness of threats to the natural environment and the drabness of many inner cities stir some people to cultivate the greenery and colour around their own doorsteps. The bustle of 20th-century life leads more individuals to rediscover the age-old tranquillity of gardens.
The varied appeal of gardening
The attractions of gardening are many and various and, to a degree perhaps unique among the arts and crafts, may be experienced by any age group and at all levels of ambition. At its most elemental, but not least valuable, the gardening experience begins with the child's wonder that a packet of seeds will produce a charming festival of colour. At the adult level, it can be as simple as helping to raise a good and edible carrot, and it can give rise to almost parental pride. At higher levels of appreciation, it involves an understanding of the complexity of the gardening process, equivalent to a chess game with nature, because the variables are so many.
The gardening experience may involve visiting some of the world's great gardens at different seasons to see the relation of individual groups of plants, trees, and shrubs to the whole design; to study the positioning of plants in terms of their colour, texture, and weight of leaf or blossom; and to appreciate the use of special features such as ponds or watercourses, pavilions, or rockeries. Garden visiting on an international scale provides an opportunity to understand the broad cultural influences, as well as the variations in climate and soil, that have resulted in so many different approaches to garden making.
The appeal of gardening is thus multifaceted and wide in range. The garden is often the only place where someone without special training can exercise creative impulses as designer, artist, technician, and scientific observer. In addition, many find it a relaxing and therapeutic pursuit. It is not surprising that the garden, accorded respect as a part of nature and a place of contemplation, holds a special place in the spiritual life of many.
Practical and spiritual aspects of gardening are shown in an impressive body of literature. In Western countries manuals of instruction date to classical Greece and Rome. Images of plants and gardens are profuse in the works of the major poets, from Virgil to Shakespeare, and on to some of the moderns.
Another of gardening's attractions is that up to a certain level it is a simple craft to learn. The beginner can produce pleasing results without the exacting studies and practice required by, for example, painting or music. Gardens are also forgiving to the inexperienced to a certain degree. Nature's exuberance will cover up minor errors or short periods of neglect, so gardening is an art practiced in a relatively nonjudgmental atmosphere. While tolerant in many respects, nature does, however, present firm reminders that all gardening takes place within a framework of natural law; and one important aspect of the study of the craft is to learn which of these primal rules are imperatives and which may be stretched.
Control and cooperation
Large areas of gardening development and mastery have concentrated on persuading plants to achieve what they would not have done if left in the wild and therefore "natural" state. Gardens at all times have been created through a good deal of control and what might be called interference. The gardener attends to a number of basic processes: combating weeds and pests; using space to allay the competition between plants; attending to feeding, watering, and pruning; and conditioning the soil. Above this fundamental level, the gardener assesses and accommodates the unique complex of temperature, wind, rainfall, sunlight, and shade found within his own garden boundaries. A major part of the fascination of gardening is that in problems and potential no one garden is quite like another; and it is in finding the most imaginative solutions to challenges that the gardener demonstrates artistry and finds the subtler levels of satisfaction.
Different aesthetics require different balances between controlling nature and cooperating with its requirements. The degree of control depends on the gardener's objective, the theme and identity he is aiming to create. For example, the English wild woodland style of gardening in the mid-19th century dispensed with controls after planting, and any interference, such as pruning, would have been misplaced. At the other extreme is the Japanese dry-landscape garden, beautifully composed of rock and raked pebbles. The artistic control in this type of garden is so firm and refined that the intrusion of a single "natural" weed would spoil the effect.
Choice of plants
The need for cooperation with nature is probably most felt by the amateur gardener in choosing the plants he wants to grow. The range of plants available to the modern gardener is remarkably rich, and new varieties are constantly being offered by nurseries. Most of the shrubs and flowers used in the Western world are descendants of plants imported from other countries. Because they are nonnative, they present the gardener with some of his most interesting problems but also with the possibility of an enhanced display. Plants that originated in subtropical regions, for example, are naturally more sensitive to frost. Some, like rhododendrons or azaleas, originated in an acid soil, mainly composed of leaf mold. Consequently, they will not thrive in a chalky or an alkaline soil. Plant breeding continues to improve the adaptability of such exotic plants, but the more closely the new habitat resembles the original, the better the plant will flourish. Manuals offer solutions to most such problems, and the true gardener will always enjoy finding his own. In such experiments, he may best experience his work as part of the historical tradition of gardening.
Historical background
Early history
Western gardening had its origins in Egypt some 4,000 years ago. As the style spread, it was changed and adapted to different localities and climates, but its essentials remained those of disciplined lines and groupings of plants, usually in walled enclosures. Gardening was introduced into Europe through the expansion of Roman rule and, second, by way of the spread of Islam into Spain. Though clear evidence is lacking, it is presumed that Roman villas outside the confines of Italy contained native and imported plants, hedges, fruit trees, and vines, in addition to herbs for medicinal and culinary purposes.
In medieval times the monasteries were the main repositories of gardening knowledge and the important herbal lore. Though little is certainly known about the design and content of the monastic garden, it probably consisted of a walled courtyard built around a well or an arbour, with colour provided by flowers (some of which, including roses and lilies, served as ecclesiastical symbols), all of which maintained the ancient idea of the garden as a place of contemplation.
The earliest account of gardening in English, The Feate of Gardening, dating from about 1400, mentions the use of more than 100 plants, with instructions on sowing, planting, and grafting of trees and advice on cultivation of herbs such as parsley, sage, fennel, thyme, camomile, and saffron. The vegetables mentioned include turnip, spinach, leek, lettuce, and garlic.
Early gardening was largely for utility. The emergence of the garden as a form of creative display properly began in the 16th century. The Renaissance, with its increased prosperity, brought an upsurge of curiosity about the natural world and, incidentally, stirred interest in composing harmonious forms in the garden.
This awakening took especially firm root in Elizabethan England, which notably developed the idea that gardens were for enjoyment and delight. Echoing the Renaissance outlook, the mood of the period was one of exuberance in gardening, seen in the somewhat playful arrangements of Tudor times, with mazes, painted statuary, and knot gardens (consisting of beds in which various types of plants were separated by dwarf hedges). Flowers began to appear profusely in paintings and, as mentioned above, were used by poets in their verbal images.
This enthusiasm was accompanied by an earnest search for knowledge, and the period saw the birth of botanical science. A leading figure in this work was Carolus Clusius (Charles de l'Écluse), whose botanical skills and introduction of the tulip and other bulbous plants to the botanical gardens at Leiden, Netherlands, laid the foundation for Dutch prominence in international horticulture. The earliest botanical garden was that of Pisa (1543), followed by that of Padua (1545). The first in England was founded at Oxford in 1621, followed by Scotland's first, at Edinburgh, in 1667. The gardens at Kew, near London, were founded almost a century later, in 1759. These centres of experiment and learning have contributed greatly to the art and science of horticulture.
The advances from the simple medieval style were marked and rapid at this time. The English statesman and scholar Francis Bacon could already, by 1625, advance a sophisticated and almost modern conception of the garden in his essay "On Gardens." He saw it as a place that should be planted for year-round enjoyment, offering a wide range of experiences through colour, form and scent, exercise and repose. The flower garden, already well established by the early 17th century, was set against a background of tall, clipped hedges and neatly scythed lawns. The taste of the time, as contemporary lists show, was for perfumed varieties such as carnations, lavender, sweet marjoram, musk roses, and poppies.
The plant trade
As interest in gardening developed in Europe, the new trade of nurseryman was established, and the trade became highly important to the spread of knowledge and materials. By the end of the 17th century, nurserymen were relatively numerous in England, France, and the Low Countries, with keen customers among the nobility and gentry for all the exotica they could provide. The catalog of the Tradescant family's private botanical garden in London listed 1,600 plants in 1656. A number of them had been brought back by the family from visits to Virginia. These early exotica from the New World included now familiar plants such as the Michaelmas daisy, the Virginia creeper, hamamelis, goldenrod, the first perennial lupine, and such fine autumn-colouring trees as liquidambar and the staghorn sumac. The work of the nurserymen thus spread new plants more widely and, as breeding skills developed, contributed to the acclimatizing of foreign imports.
Vegetables and fruits
The history of vegetables is imprecise. Though familiar types, including the radish, turnip, and onion, are known to have been in cultivation from early times, it is fairly supposed that they were meagre and would bear little clear resemblance to modern equivalents. The early range available to European gardens and, later, to those in America, included such native plants as kale, parsnips, and the Brussels sprout family, with peas and broad beans grown as field crops.
The Romans introduced the globe artichoke, leek, cucumber, cabbage, asparagus, and the Mediterranean strain of garlic to their imperial territory wherever these plants would flourish. Among plants imported to Europe from the Americas were the scarlet runner bean and tomato (both originally grown for ornament), corn (maize), and the vastly important potato. The numerous herbs in use were mostly native to European locations. One curiosity to the modern mind is that certain flowers, such as marigolds, violets, and primroses, were used as flavourings in the kitchen.
The cultivation of fruit trees was one of the most advanced skills and interests from the 16th century onward. Pride was taken in variety, and, judging by the opulent still-life paintings of the period, the quality was remarkably high. Among the challenges bravely taken up in the 17th century in northern Europe was the growing of orange and lemon trees, though this was done more for the pleasure of their evergreen qualities than for their fruit. The catalog of the British royal gardens in 1708 shows 14 varieties of cherry, 14 apricots, 58 kinds of peach and nectarine, 33 plums, eight figs, 23 vines, 29 pears, and numerous varieties of apple.
The French style
The most favoured style for great house gardens in Europe during much of this period derived from the influence of the French designer André Le Nôtre, creator of the gardens at Versailles. The French style represented an extreme of formality, with box-edged parterres (elaborate and geometrical beds) typically placed near the residence to provide an arranged view. Trees were grouped in neat plantations or in bold lines along avenues, with terraces and statuary carefully placed to emphasize the architectural symmetry of the grand manner. The widespread adoption of this style among the European nobility and gentry reflected the potency of French cultural influence at the time. It was also related, on a practical basis, to the limited availability of planting materials, especially those offering autumn and winter display.
The change to a more natural style of gardening came about when, in the latter part of the 18th century, the opinion arose among leading gardeners, particularly those of the English gentry, that the formal manner brought with it a certain monotony. The increasing importation of foreign plants also brought with it opportunities for a large-scale transformation.
The plant hunters
The early importation of plants to Europe was managed through informal channels, following the increase in exploration and the spread of empires. Seeds and tubers were sent home by diplomats and missionaries, sea captains and travelers. An example of this type of collecting is afforded by Henry Compton, bishop of London, whose diocese included the American colonies. He was an avid collector, and he corresponded with like-minded experts in Europe and America and thus brought numerous fine plants to his exceptional garden in Fulham, west London. He also encouraged his missionaries to send home seeds. From one such source in Virginia came the Magnolia virginiana, the first magnolia to be cultivated. This was the beginning of what became known as the American garden, based upon magnolias, azaleas, and other woodland species.
As the appetite for exotica developed, plant collecting around the world became more systematized. Expeditions to foreign parts were organized and financed by nurserymen, botanical gardens, or syndicates of private gardeners. The botanist plant hunters thus sent out were exceptional and patient. They were required to endure long voyages and residence for up to several years in an often hostile environment. Their goal was to find the plant in flower, return in due season to collect seed, then see their delicate specimens back to Europe through varying climatic zones.
North America's potential to yield countless new specimens was recognized early: the first book on American plants, published in London in 1577, was entitled Joyfull Newes out of the New Founde Worlde and was in itself a hint of the excited spirit of contemporary gardening. The jacaranda, flowering catalpa, and wisteria were among the finds made by Compton's missionaries in the Carolinas. An early resident collector in North America was John Bartram, regarded as the founder of American botany. He settled on a farm near Philadelphia in 1728 and, in 30 years of collecting in the Alleghenies, Carolinas, and other areas of North America, sent some 200 important plants to British gardens in sufficient quantity that they became widespread there.
The extremely rich west coast of North America was not exploited by plant collectors until the early 19th century. The contemporary importance of such discoveries is suggested by the fact that, in their celebrated crossing of the American continent in 1804–06, Lewis and Clark found time to collect the seeds of Mahonia aquifolium and Symphoricarpos racemosus. Perhaps the most distinguished collector among an exceptional fraternity was David Douglas, one of the numerous Scotsmen who contributed to international botany. His expeditions to the North American Far West brought to Europe such important timber trees as the Douglas fir, the Sitka spruce, the Monterey pine, and a number of now familiar shrubs such as Garrya elliptica and Ribes sanguineum. The California annuals he discovered made a lasting impact on the colour of Western gardens. In the 19th century, plant collectors began to explore South America, where two Cornish brothers, William and Thomas Lobb, gained prominence. They are credited with carrying back to Europe the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), native to the Andes mountains; the Berberis darwinii; and the Escallonia macrantha.
Collectors went to a number of countries in the 19th century, but the most important area was China. Its flora was more intact than that in the West, because the erosions of the Ice Age had been less severe for climatic reasons, and it had a long history of skilled gardening. Plant collection was difficult, however, because for many years the only foreigners allowed to travel within its borders were Jesuit priests. They aided botanists by sending many specimens to Paris and London. The first professional collector to live in China was William Kerr, who sent out 238 new plants. Real exploration of the interior did not begin until the 1840s. China, Japan, and the Himalayas produced unparalleled riches in rhododendrons, azaleas, flowering cherries, ornamental maples, roses, lilies, primulas, poppies, kerrias, and quinces.
The conditions for transporting plants from such distances had been much improved by Nathaniel B. Ward's invention of the wardian case, an airtight glass box that protected the plants from sea air and harsh climate. Gradually almost all regions and countries were visited, and new plants and their progeny were dispersed around the Western world. And still the search for new specimens continues.
From the 19th century
By the early 19th century, with the expansion of the horticultural trade, gardening had become international in scope. Numerous handbooks spread knowledge. The founding of new garden and botanical societies, such as the London (later Royal) Horticultural Society, helped to increase interest, encourage science, and raise standards. Such moves signaled the rise of the small leisure gardener; a floral retreat was no longer the sole property of the rich. It now extended from the manor to the small suburban garden.
Gardens in North America had generally been smaller and trimmer than their European counterparts, with box edgings and pleached trees (that is, lines of trees allowed to grow with branches interlaced to form a screen), as seen in the reconstructed gardens of Williamsburg, Virginia. The "natural" gardening style (known on the European continent as the English style), which had overtaken earlier formality, allowed wider use of plant varieties. This approach became the pervasive trend in the west, notably through the views of John Claudius Loudon, whose Encyclopaedia of Gardening (1822) set the pattern of domestic cultivation over a long period with a style known as Gardenesque. His style encouraged the individual qualities of garden elements while ensuring that together they made a harmonious blend.
The natural style was further enhanced by an English artist and landscape architect, Gertrude Jekyll. In her opinion, the first purpose of a garden is to give happiness and repose of mind. With experience derived from the richly floral cottage gardens of Surrey, she developed the idea of supporting plants with an architectural base and allowing them to grow in a free form, encouraging natural shape and creating harmonious relationships of colour.
The period saw much progress in garden equipment and supplies. Heated greenhouses had been in use since the late 17th century, and mass production led to great strides in nursery gardening. The modern, bladed lawn mower was first seen in a design of 1832; in more recent times the application of the jet-engine principle led to the hover mower. Fertilizer development was also important, from the discovery of superphosphate to the devising of modern kinds of foliar feeding.
In the second half of the 20th century, interest in gardening brought in new adherents in unprecedented numbers; they were advised and encouraged by numerous publications and by television and radio programs. Though the process was very gradual, domestic gardening became somewhat more adventurous. Among the more ambitious, designs took a multiplicity of forms, from the Japanese garden, producing an austere magic out of rock and pebble, to the other extreme of the wild country garden, virtually left to seed itself. Increasing numbers of professional designers at their best set high standards to emulate. But the art of gardening still depends on a simple empathy with the needs and nature of living things. Symbolic of this essential, the spade has remained much the same implement that it had been in medieval times.


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This new, regular feature on NHLNumbers will share interesting stats-related posts from around the web almost every day.
Welcome to edition number eleven of the rebooted Number Chains. In this space you will be able to find the best analytical hockey writing from around the internet on a close-to-daily basis. Subject matter will include statistical evaluation, financial analysis, contractual issues, and (sometimes) closely-related tangential works. If you have something you would like to submit for a future edition (your writing or that of someone else) feel free to send it to me via Twitter @JoshL1220 or leave a comment.
As the lockout drags on we have more and more lockout-related posts. I'm doing what I can to fill this space with as few lockout posts as reasonably possible. If you want to see more lockout posts feel free to let me know. With that being said, here is the least surprising story to come out of the lockout. NBA Commisioner David Stern fully supports his protege Gary Bettman:
A year after a lockout that delayed the start of the season to Dec. 25, Stern was critical of hockey union head Donald Fehr for his side's negotiating stance in the current NHL lockout. Fehr said that sports with salary caps are more prone to lockouts because of their labor structure.
Stern disagreed and said the 50-50 sharing arrangement agreed to by the NFL and NBA, and proposed by NHL owners, was fair.
"They have no choice but to stand and protect such business model as will be left when the negotiations finish," he said.
After the jump a weeks worth of statistical goodness can be found.
* Tyler Dellow discuses the superiority of the European sports system.
* Justin Azevedo of Flames Nation tells you why Chris Butler is worth more than you would otherwise think.
* At Buzzing The Net, Cam Charron looks at CHL attendance in NHL cities during the lockout.
* Kent Wilson took a closer look at the start of the Abbotsford Heat.
* Dominik at Lighthouse Hockey wrote about the difference having a role has made for Nino Niederreiter in the AHL.
* At Hockey Prospectus, Corey Pronman gives his thoughts on several prospects currently playing in the AHL.
* Dirk Hoag at On The Forecheck discussed the benefits to the Nashville Predators of improved revenue sharing.
* Adam Proteau asked what the legacy of this current group of NHL owners will be at The Hockey News. Among the owners he questioned is Mario Lemieux:
And what about you, Mario Lemieux? You've been your typically Sphinx-like self throughout this lockout, but you're as beloved a hockey figure there is in today's NHL because you've demonstrated your passion for the game time and again. But how will your legacy change if, say, the entire season is kiboshed, Sidney Crosby goes overseas to play and suffers a career-ending concussion? Suddenly, you're attached to No. 87's life story in a way that does not reflect well on you. Suddenly, you've lost your marquee attraction and the torch-carrier for the league.
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Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger isn't the only quarterback who has a rib problem. Though the other guy's rib injury didn't keep him from fully participating in practice, he won't be starting on Sunday, either.
That's because the other guy is Tim Tebow, who has a rib injury but who likely will be available for whatever it is that the Jets want him to do. Which typically isn't much.
Absent from practice were running back Bilal Powell (concussion) and receiver Stephen Hill (illness). Running back Joe McKnight (ankle), linebacker Bart Scott (toe), and defensive lineman Sione Pouha (back, ankle) participated on a limited basis.
A total of 14 players fully participated despite injuries.
For the Rams, only three players showed up on the report; all were limited in practice. Amazingly, receiver Danny Amendola has completed exited the injury report, six weeks after having a potentially serious collarbone injury.


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This week's question comes from Theresa Milstein.
I'm writing about a thirteen-year-old who loses her eye when it gets poked by a scissor. If none of the surrounding bones are damaged, what would happen at the hospital afterwards? Would she need to wait to get a glass eye? If so, for how long? How would she care for her eye both without and with a glass eye?
If the eye suffers enough trauma that it's not salvageable, then the character would need surgery to have the eye removed (it's called enucleation). Her eye would be packed with a dressing, she could take tylenol for pain, and might be given some antibiotics to take. Her eyelids will be puffy and bruised. In six days, the dressing would be removed from inside the eye socket. At that time, if the swelling is down, she'd be given topical antibiotics to use.
Within 2-6 weeks of surgery, she would go for a fitting of a prosthetic eye. After a final fitting she'd be set to go with her new eye. The eye willl need to be cleaned daily with soap and water, and be polished every few months. The socket requires very little care, from what I've read.
There is a newer type of prosthetic eye that is quite different. With the above prosthesis, it won't move or look around like a normal eye does. (People with the traditional type of prosthetic often learn to move their heads to look at extreme angles, in order to keep both eyes parallel and normal in appearance.) The newest kind is an orbital implant. (image from Bio-Eye)They take an eyeball-sized piece of material made of a bioprosthetic material similar to bone. It's placed in the eye socket at the time of surgery and the muscles for eye movement are sutured to it. After about 4 weeks, the body grows tissue over this prosthetic, and then a removable sliver of a plastic prosthesis (that looks like the white of the eye and the iris) is attached to the implant. So the person can look all around like a normal eye. Of course the person can't truly see, though. The plastic layer has to be removed once in a while to be cleaned (2-3 x per week, and polished every few months).
As I was writing this post, I came across something called Phantom Eye. I posted once about phantom pain, in which a person feels sensations in the place of a lost limb. Occasionally, after the loss of an eye, patient will sometimes have visual hallucinations (usually fuzzy shapes and colors) and eye pain.
I can't help but think how a lost eye could be a great idea for a Sci-Fi plot. Imagine a lost eye that can see beyond your world! But then I remembered that this was kinda of covered in Toy Story 3, with Mrs. Potato Head's all-seeing eye she left in Andy's room.
Oh well. Those Pixar people are so darned clever.
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Ninja Gaiden is a combat-heavy game and skill in battle is certainly going to be a major factor in the ultimate outcome (do well and live, do poorly and die). Combat is pretty intuitive. You have three attack buttons to worry about. X is your faster, slash attack, Y is your heavy attack, and B is your ranged weapon. However, the most important button to know is the Left Trigger, which blocks. Blocking is lightning quick, so you can attack and instantly block if you're fast enough. There's nothing more important than avoiding damage. You can also roll dodge by holding Left Trigger and tapping the Left Thumbstick in any direction.
Combat, in part, is all about combos. The longer your combo strings, the fatter the essence you'll earn (see below). You can beat Ninja Gaiden without every busting a 50-hit combo, but it won't be as much fun or as rewarding. To string combos, use your quick-fire shurikens. You can get a quick combo on an enemy, leap into the air and tap B rapidly to chuck some shurikens into another enemy. When you land, go at them with your main weapon.
Your best friend in combat is the wall attack. By running up a wall and hitting Y or X, you perform a devastating attack. It's cheap and total cheese, but you can use this attack to take down enemies easier than trying to fight them. However, this will give you very low combo scores and therefore less cash.
Art of the Fire wheels: Creates balls of fire around Ryu, making his
attacks more powerful.
Art of the Inferno: Burns anyone near Ryu and ends in a giant fireball shot at the nearest enemy.
Art of the Ice Storm: Creates a whirlwind tossing around anyone near Ryu.
Art of the Inazuma: Creates an electrified field damaging anyone near Ryu. At Level 3, ends with Ryu firing a bolt of lightning at the nearest enemy.
Gold Scarabs
Yellow Essence: Money, money, money. This adds to your cash flow, which can be used at merchants to purchase weapon upgrades and goodies.
Blue Essence: Health. Not nearly as common as the Yellow Essence. Don't absorb health for the Ultimate Technique unless you don't need the healing.
Red Essence: Restore Ninpo. This is the rarest and if your Ninpo is already full, certainly use the Ultimate Technique rather than grabbing a useless essence.
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The ability to run on walls is an easy and important one to master. To run on a wall, jump towards it and off you go. To run directly up a wall, run straight at the wall and jump. As you run up the wall, if you come across a ledge you will automatically grab it. Push up to pull yourself over the ledge. You can also jump off a wall as you run directly up it. Hit A
The most difficult jumping feat is the one around corners. You can run automatically across corners by simply pressing forward on the Left Thumbstick as you run. However, if you want to gain elevation while turning a corner, hit A as you near the corner and you will spring to the next, a little bit higher, and continue to run along the wall. Additional assistance on this tough task is provided in the Walkthrough where necessary.
The last wall trick is the Wall Stick. Jump on a wall and let go of the Thumbstick and Ryu will temporarily plant and stick to the wall. If you are quick, you can whip out your bow and shoot foes on the ground. You can plant and then jump to gain some altitude and it's a good way to stay off the ground for a few moments if there's an attack you want to avoid.
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You won't use this one too often, but it's very handy. To run on water, move to the edge of the land and the moment you touch the icy blue, begin tapping A. You will quickly skip across the water. It's tough to steer yourself, but there are some secrets you can find by doing this.
Any ledge or wire you hang from can be shimmied. Move left or right on the Left Thumtick and you'll slide along as far as you can. If you are on a ledge, push up and climb or push down and hit A to drop.
There are some poles and branches that can be used for swinging. Jump towards a branch and Ryu will grab and begin to swing. To release and swing forward, hit A when Ryu is at his lowest point. To jump backwards, hit A when Ryu is at his highest point.
Each of the many areas in Ninja Gaiden has a corresponding map. Find the map and you can easily navigate through the level by hitting the Black Button. Maps come labeled with room names and even show stairs, elevators, and doors (locked and unlocked). This is an invaluable resource and in the walkthrough you will be referenced back to the maps often.
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Jason Zgardowski came to the Hays Larks on Friday night after he helped Midland (Tex.) Community College win a conference championship, a regional title and make the first NJCAA World Series appearance in school history. Zgardowski was the lone Midland pitcher to earn a World Series win and finished as the team's ace with a 9-1 record, program-best 3.21 earned-run average in 15 contests, including seven complete games and three shutouts.
First, Zgardowski watched Hays come from behind and defeat El Dorado in 11 innings on Friday on a walk-off homer from Desmond Roberts.
"It was a great introduction," Zgardowski said
On Saturday, Zgardowski worked seven shutout innings as Hays delivered a 7-0 victory against El Dorado at Larks Park on Military Appreciation Night. Before the contest, they gave the Larks a quick message after they were honored in a pregame ceremony.
"As all the veterans were coming off the field, they were like, 'Hey, you put on a good show tonight. We want to go home early tonight,' " Zgardowski said.
The Larks delivered a clean, crisp game in 2 hours, 25 minutes. Then Hays finished the series sweep with a 12-2 win on Sunday. Nick Goza earned the win with seven innings of one-run ball and the Larks moved to 7-1, 4-1 Jayhawk League. Wellington (formerly Haysville) also is 4-1 in league play. El Dorado dropped to 5-3, 3-3 in league play.
For Zgardowski, it was a weekend in classic Larks baseball: winning, large fan base and great support. Before the summer, Zgardowski, from San Antonio and a San Angelo State signee, had never heard of Hays.
"Just trust my defense and just throw strikes," Zgardowski said. "The fans here are awesome. I even got the phone call from coach (Keith) Harper and he said, 'This is the best summer event you will be a part of.' I am just loving it right now."
Zgardowski did walk five batters, but struck out eight and allowed just two hits. Helped by great movement from his fastball and quality secondary pitches, Zgardowski retired 12 in a row at one point.
"A gem," manager Frank Leo said. "His control will be better than that. I think maybe just getting a little comfortable on that mound early in the game, but once he settled in, he was pretty tough. ... Everything we were told, we saw out here tonight. A competitor, he works with good rhythm. He is quick to the plate. He is going to give our catchers a chance. Very pleased."
Hays tallied single runs in the second and third, two runs in the fifth, one in the sixth and two in the seventh.
"The offense made key hits when they had to," Leo said.
Second baseman Zair Koeiman, one of the Larks' top players from last year, had struggled early on, but delivered a two-run double in the fifth inning. Koeiman hit a line drive to deep right field on a 2-2 pitch that barely cleared Christian Cox's glove.
When Koeiman was halfway to second base, he actually thought Cox had the ball in his glove. Koeiman turned around and saw that Cox didn't have the ball and was happy.
"It felt great," Koeiman said Saturday. "I have been seeing the ball really well. I am just not making great contact. But I have patience. I am just waiting for when the day comes. One of these days, I am going to break out of it. I wouldn't call it a slump. It's always not frustrating. I will just say that it's part of baseball."
On Sunday, Koeiman went 2 of 5 with a double, run scored and three RBIs. Prior to Saturday's double, Koeiman hadn't had a hit in the series and was 5 of 22 this year.
Jake Placzek, batting .450, continued to hit well in the No. 2 spot. He went 2 of 5 with five runs scored and three RBIs.
The bottom of the lineup with shortstop Elvin Rodriguez and third baseman Ty Gilmore continued to come through. Rodriguez went 0 of 3 Saturday, but scored a run and drove in a run. Gilmore was 2 of 4 with three RBIs.
On Sunday, Rodriguez went 2 of 4 with two runs scored, while Gilmore was 2 of 3 with two runs scored and a walk. Gilmore now carries a .360 average, while Rodriguez is batting .273 with team highs in runs scored (12) and walks (11).
"When 8 and 9 become tough outs and you are going to go seven, eight pitches against 8, 9 and then you are going to turn that over against the top of the order, it's going to make a long night for a pitcher, they are going to have to work hard," Leo said.


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Cineworld, produced by Immediate Media Company's Branded Content team, is the monthly movie magazine published by the United Kingdom's number one cinema chain. It won the 2012 Digital Magazine Award for Entertainment Magazine of the Year. Download Cineworld for free to experience the award-winning digital film magazine: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/cineworld-magazine/id508350271?mt=8.
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SAN JOSE — The San Jose Fire Department quickly snuffed out a fire that broke out Thursday morning in a creek bed next to the Los Lagos Golf Course, the second time this week that firefighters have responded to the site.
The fire was reported at 11:10 a.m. off Tuers Road and Capitol Expressway. It was corralled to a 20-by-20-foot area and extinguished in about 45 minutes, fire Capt. Cleo Doss said. No one was injured.
Monday, a two-alarm fire erupted next to the course and burned 6 acres. It normally would have warranted a one-alarm response, but because all available grass crews had been dispatched to South San Jose for a fire in the Santa Teresa Hill off Curie Drive — which eventually burned 125 acres — a second alarm was called to ensure enough personnel were on hand.
Doss said officials are considering the possibility that Thursday's fire was a "flare-up" of Monday's fire, given that it "connected to the other fire" scene.
With the fire season in full swing amid a record-setting drought, officials expect the summer to be among the busiest for firefighters in memory, with Monday's two fires stretching SJFD so thinly that out-of-town agencies were summoned to backfill their normal duties.
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What happens when molten aluminium is poured into an anthill, allowed to dry, then excavated and cleaned off? Anthill Art – an anonymous American artist – creates intricate metallic sculptures by doing just that. These forms reveal the depth and styles of various ant species' hills, mainly from the beds of pesky fire ants. The complex and beautiful systems of these ant beds are revealed through this process, but has created a bit of controversy. People concerned with this method of sculpture work have commented on Anthill Art's Facebook page, where the artist has responded generally to these concerns.
"I regret every day calling it anthillart. To be honest it was a short memorable name and I went with it. I'm not really a fan of art and would never refer to myself as an artist, I guess I considered the ants to be the artists (and architects). If someone created these themselves and called it art I would call it modern art crap. That the ants created it makes me love it.
I first started doing this just out of pure interest (always having been interested in biology and science). A few of my teacher friends took them to school and camp, the kids loved it and it really seemed to get them interested in science. So, I decided to start the site and try to sell a few.
The fire ant colonies are not abandoned. The justification being that there are so many of them and I need to kill them anyway, with kids and pets around. Plus they're an invasive species in this area and wreak havoc. Some states have eradication programs. The other ants (usually carpenter ants), I try to find abandoned nests but it doesn't always work out. Either way, I do it sparingly and the property is still over run with them."
Anthill Art has even documented a survey of land to justify the eradication of the fire ants. You can watch a video of Anthill Art's process here. (via my modern met)


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Candidates for school boards made their intentions official this week. There will be contested races in Amagansett, Springs, East Hampton, and Sag Harbor, but with the departure of the incumbents on the East Hampton and Springs School Boards, those races are wide open.
In East Hampton, John Ryan Sr., a board member since 1993, and James Amaden, the school board president and a board member since 2005, are stepping down. Looking to take their seats are Patricia Hope, Jacqueline Lowey, Marie Klarman, Paul Fiondella, Liz Pucci, and Bill Rosenthal. Regardless of the election results, come July all but two of the board members — Laura Anker Grossman and Stephen Talmage — will be in their first terms.
Asked about his decision to leave the school board, Mr. Ryan said, "I did the dispensability test. You stick your hand in a bucket; if the hole stays in when you pull it out, you're indispensable."
"I've enjoyed it, but 50 years is enough," he said, referring to his time on the board and his 28 years as a math and computer teacher in the district. His 9 children attended East Hampton schools and 18 of his 22 grandchildren will, too. "I'm proud of our school system. We have great staff, great administrators, great parents."
There are some things he would do differently, he said, indicating his frustration over the district's ongoing lawsuit with Victor Canseco and Sandpebble Builders. He wanted to remain on the school board through the building project, which is now nearly complete. "I think it's been satisfactorily done. There are good people on the board and good people running."
Ms. Lowey, who has a son in first grade and a daughter in fourth grade at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, is a former deputy director of the National Parks Service and a former deputy chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Transportation. She now works as a consultant to nonprofits and corporations. She served on the board of the Children's Museum of the East End for years and was instrumental in raising the money to build it. At school, she said, she was a four-time class mother and is a frequent volunteer. This is her first run.
Ms. Hope was a biology teacher at East Hampton High School for 33 years and head of the science department for 8. When she retired from teaching, she said, she knew that she wanted to run for school board eventually and has been attending board meetings regularly for the past year in preparation. "I want to be measured and civil, and I think there's room for that," she said Tuesday. "I think money should be spent wisely and in the interest of the students' education," she said. "Any money not spent wisely in the interest of the students needs to be questioned."
Ms. Pucci, a past president and vice president of the John Marshall PTA, serves on the East Hampton Middle School's site-based committee and occasionally on the district's committee for special education. The mother of four boys, two of whom are still in the school system, she works part time for the district as a lunch monitor at John Marshall. She has been involved in school affairs for 16 years. "It's such a critical time. I'm really nervous about our school," she said Tuesday.
Paul Fiondella, long a board watchdog, had not returned calls by press time, and Ms. Klarman and Mr. Rosenthal also could not be reached.
The nonpartisan East Hampton Group for Good Government will hold a candidates' forum on April 30 at 1 p.m. in the high school auditorium.
In Springs, Liz Mendelman, Tim Frazier, Phyllis Mallah, and Arthur Goldman are vying for the spots that will be vacated by Christopher Kelley, the board's president and a board member for 12 years, and Thomas Talmage, elected in 2005.
Ms. Mendelman, who has a professional background in medical technology and human resources, is president of the school's PTA, an assistant Junior Girl Scout troop leader, and a member of the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee. She has two daughters at the school and is running for school board for the first time.
Mr. Frazier, the principal of the Southampton Intermediate School, has worked in the education field since 1976, as a teacher first and as an administrator starting in the mid-1980s. His wife, Tracey Frazier, is a teacher at the Springs School.
Ms. Mallah, who ran for school board last year, was a teacher and assistant principal in the Yonkers public school system before retiring to Springs. "Though I have many interests, I still consider myself a consummate educator," she wrote in a brief biography provided to the district along with her petition to run.
Mr. Goldman, a frequent board watcher who is running for the first time, is a social studies teacher and coordinator at East Hampton High School, where he has taught for 14 years. Both of his daughters graduated from the Springs School, and his wife, Eileen Goldman, is a teacher's assistant there.
In Amagansett, the three candidates for two spots include Vincent Vigorita and Patrick R. Bistrian, board members since 2005, and Phelan Wolf, a parent and attorney looking to win a spot on the board for the first time.
Among other things, Dr. Vigorita is the medical director at Biomet Tissue Banks, a professor of pathology and orthopedic surgery at the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, and director of research at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center and St. Vincent's Medical Center's department of orthopedics.
Mr. Wolf and Mr. Bistrian could not be reached by press time.
Sag Harbor
Four candidates are competing for three positions on the Sag Harbor School Board. The incumbents, Sandi Kruel and Theresa Samot, who have served two terms, and Mary Anne Miller, who has served one, are running to keep their seats, and Annette Bierfriend is making her first run.
Ms. Bierfriend is a co-president of the Sag Harbor PTA and serves on the district's long-range planning, professional development, and prekindergarten committees. She worked as a senior mortgage underwriter before becoming a stay-at-home mom eight years ago.
Ms. Samot, the board's vice president and a former president, has served on its audit, financial planning, budget, policy, and wellness committees and was chairwoman of the district's Wall of Honor committee. She is also a director of the College of New Rochelle alumni board and a Girl Scout leader. Two of her daughters graduated from Pierson High School and a third is a student there now.
Ms. Kruel and Ms. Miller could not be reached by press time.
Other Schools, Other Races
At the Montauk School, Patti Leber, a past vice president of the board, is running unopposed to keep her seat.
The Bridgehampton School District's longtime clerk, Joyce Manigo, died on Saturday, and the district was unable to provide the names of candidates this week.
The Wainscott School had not returned calls as of press time.
Voters will go to the polls to cast ballots on candidates and school budgets on May 17.
With Reporting by Rocio Fidalgo


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DEAR ABBY: My life has always been scary. My parents divorced when I was 3. Dad always seemed to cause trouble for Mom, who struggled to provide for me and my older sister. She always struggled with alcohol and drugs.
I have spent a portion of my life incarcerated, starting when I was a teenager. I'm now 22 and doing time for selling drugs. I have never been able to find a decent job, although I have my GED and tried to attend a school for nursing, but I screwed it up. Selling drugs seemed to be the only way to make enough to support myself.
I'd like to find a decent job with opportunity, and be able to pay my bills and save a little. I'm tired of my crazy lifestyle and want to settle down. How can I go about finding a job? Keep in mind, I don't have a resume and although I have had many jobs, I never stayed very long, and I have a criminal record. -- SERVING TIME IN PENNSYLVANIA
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The oldest prison/re-entry group in the country is the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Their website is at prisonsociety.org. If they don't serve the community into which you will be released, they will know an organization that does. Their re-entry program helps former prisoners attain self-sufficiency through a four-day job readiness workshop, which teaches the skills necessary to find and keep a job. Pre-registration is recommended, and their phone number is 215-564-6005, ext. 117. Call Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
DEAR ABBY: I had my first boyfriend when I was 16. The relationship lasted 13 years and we had a child together. Now that it's over I don't know what to do.
It has been nine months and it seems like my heartache is getting worse. I can't breathe. It feels like my heart has been ripped out of my chest and stepped on. It hurts even more because he started dating immediately after the breakup. I can't even talk to another man. I feel lost and have never been on a date with anyone but my ex.
I feel like I deprived myself of my youth. I cry every day. I can barely watch or see couples without getting depressed and breaking down. I need to see some type of light. Do you have any advice? -- DEPRIVED OF MY YOUTH
DEAR DEPRIVED: Nine months is a long time to cry every day. You have been hit with what I call a "double-whammy." You are grieving for your lost relationship, and because this was your first and only one, you never learned how to handle a broken romance.
A counselor can help you through your grieving process and, in addition, help you to build the social skills you will need to move forward. Please don't put it off. Do this not only for yourself but also for your child so you can be the most effective parent you can be.
What teens need to know about sex, drugs, AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in "What Every Teen Should Know." Send your name and mailing address, plus check or money order for $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping and handling are included in the price.)


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The purpose of this project was to use Zelle's graphics package and manipulate the pixel colors of different images. The key to achieving project goals was to understand how Zelle's graphics package works. Broadly speaking, the following are some points that I needed to know to do this project: 1) how the image is created, placed, and saved 2) how the filter manipulates an image (i.e. pixels) and 3) how conditional statements (if) can be used to make the filters to have more complicated effects on specific pixels. Given the understanding of those points, I was able to create Warhol program. which created four filtered images and put them together in a square. Then, I created blueSceen program, which manipulated the background pixels in my own picture to different color – red.
Controlling image placement:
The function placeImage() is very important in this project because it's going to be used for both Warhol program and blueScreen effect program. It basically takes the rgb values of a source image, src, and copy those values to a destination image, dst. Why do I need to do this? Because this is what this project is about. What I am doing during the entire project is that I create some filters, apply the filters to an image, then place the filtered images to an empty or background image to create this Warhol collage. Two commands must be understood to write this function: getPixel and setPixel. They basically do what I described above. Get the RGB values of the selected pixels and set the pixels to the given color. Another necessary command to understand is the loop commands.
. This is how I select every single pixel in the image. If I want to manipulate every single pixel in an image, I need to use this loop.
I created following filters for the required part of the project: darker, blackAndwhite, and sepia. Below are results, respectively. The first is the original image.
The darker filter makes the image look darker by decreasing RGB values by same factor. If RGB value gets closer to zero, it will become darker. If all RGB values are zero, then the entire image would be black. Vice Versa.
The blackAndwhite filter works by averaging the RGB values and assigning the result to value to all three RGB values and pixels in the image.
The sepia filter multiplies the RGB values by the factor of value that would create sepia color (112, 66, 20).
I am not going to talk about swapRedBlue filter because it was created during lab.
Warhol Program:
Now I have to create Warhol program that would put those four filter images in a new blank image that is width*2 by height*2. Think a new blank image as a picture frame.
Here are the steps of how Warhol program works: 1) constructs an image from contents of the given file, i.e. arg[1], which means the user input. 2) make four copies of the image using clone() command. 3) apply the four filter programs to the four copies. 4) then create the picture frame. 5) put or place the four filtered images into the picture frame by using placeImage() function that was created in the first step of the project. 5) finally, save the result to a new file. The end-result would look like below.
Blue Screen Effects:
This task is basically about creating a filter that would manipulate specific pixels by using conditional statement.
Compare this with the loop command in the earlier part of this write-up. The difference is that the filter would only apply to the pixels which g value is 1.7 times the red value and bigger than the blue value. I added this condition because all I wanted to manipulate were the very green pixels of my background image.
. Note how the green pixels only turned into red pixels.
For following extensions,
- Create a larger or more complex Warhol style collage. Place the images in a pattern more complicated than that of a square (but not random!).
- Enable your Warhol program to read in multiple images from the command line and make a collage for each one, or a collage that integrates several images.
I created a bigger collage, still-square looking. However, my end-result does not look like a square because I did not fill up the entire collage. The key is to calculate where each image will be placed within the collage. .
Another difference is the number of images I am copying within the program because I want to enable my Warhol program to read in multiple images. Here is the solution: . Simple. The rest is very similar with the original Warhol program. I just copy more images, apply more filters to those images and then place them in the collage. Below is the result.
. I did create two more filters for this extension: cooler and negative. Cooler filter, which is the flower image that looks darker, literally cools down the image by decreasing r and g values.(the bright colors) Here is how the filter would change another image.
. The negative filter basically subtracts the rgb values from 255 individually. Intuitively, this filter would basically witch the RGB values upside-down. In other words, the bright colors would turn dark and vice versa.
For the following extensions,
- Do something more interesting than a single color to replace the blue screen.
- Place yourself in a scene. Start with a background scene that is the same size image as your blue-screen image. Then copy only non-blue pixels from your images into the background. You can do this by making a version of placeImage that copies only non-blue pixels. You could call it placeImageWithoutBlue.
I created two more filters to manipulate the background of my own image. Again, the conditional statement and filter are the key.
. For this image, I manipulate the very-green pixels to have random values of RGB.. Simple but interesting effect.
. This image is a bit more complicated than a simple filter function. Rather than manipulate the background pixels, I actually copied the non-green pixels to the source image, the X-ray image. Thinks of this as combination of placeImage and filter function.
Note that the conditional statement I used for this image is the opposite of what I wrote for blue screen effect. The reason is that the pixels I am targeting are the exact opposites..
Reflection: This project was very tough initially without understanding how Zelle graphics works. The lab does give a foundation for the project; however, understanding of graphics library is a 'must.' What I mean by that is that I needed to understand the process of creating image, selecting certain pixels, giving certain color to those pixels, applying filters to different images, and placing those filtered images to one image using functions I created through the project. I think this holistic understanding was essential to completing this project.
Sources, imported libraries, and collaborators: I did not borrow anyone's code for this project; however, I got extensive help from professor Skrien and Selim, one of the TAs.


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Consolidated Income Statement and Statement of Changes in Net Assets for the twelve months ending December 31, 2009 and 2008 (dollars in millions)
A Summary of the Foundation's 2009 Financial Results
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, responding to the global economic decline of late 2008 and early 2009, worked to reduce the impact on the institution's financial performance. Expense reductions, which saved approximately $33 million, were undertaken with deliberation and care to ensure the foundation can sustain its mission and respond to significant revenue pressure.
For 2009, total revenues, including budgeted endowment support, were $192 million, a decrease of $18 million from 2008, and expenses were $216 million, a decrease of $33 million from 2008. The result was an operating loss of $24 million, a $15 million improvement over the year before.
All sources of operating revenue, exclusive of endowment support, declined in 2009. Gifts to the Colonial Williamsburg Fund, which supports the operating budget, were $14 million for calendar 2009, a slight decrease compared with 2008. Nevertheless, the number of donors surpassed the 100,000 mark for the eighth consecutive year. Endowment support increased by $2 million because the foundation's endowment spending rule is based on a trailing twelve-quarter average market value. Thus, the downturn in the financial markets did not impact significantly the annual endowment withdrawal for operations for calendar 2009 but will in subsequent years. There were reductions in all expense categories achieved through cost containment, staffing adjustments and reductions, and lower costs associated with lower business volume.
During 2009, the foundation's net assets increased by $115 million, largely as a result of the performance of endowment assets, which returned 20 percent, reflecting improvements in financial markets in the last nine months of 2009 and continued outstanding performance by Investure.
Colonial Williamsburg monitors and reports internally on the regularly recurring, or operating, revenues and expenses of routine activities to assess the financial performance of educational and for-profit activities. It reports in the audited financial statements all revenues and expenses in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles to reflect the consolidated financial impact of all foundation and subsidiary activities. A third reporting format is required by the Internal Revenue Service on Form 990, an annual information return for The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the 501(c )(3) entity that is exempt from federal income taxes on most of its activities. The financial results on Form 990 represent the unconsolidated financial results of only this organization; the foundation's taxable subsidiaries—for example, Colonial Williamsburg Company—report their financial results separately on corporate income tax returns.
The operating results reported in the internal report and reflected in the top half of the consolidated income statement and statement of changes in net assets shown in this report incorporate ticket sales, revenues generated by hospitality and products, unrestricted operating gifts and restricted gifts for operations spent for their intended purpose during the year, the budgeted amount of endowment support provided by our endowment spending policy, and all operating expenses of the foundation and its subsidiaries.
Below the operating deficit line in the report we include nonoperating items, such as the difference between the total return produced by the endowment and the budgeted endowment support; all other gifts and grants, that is to say, pledges; restricted gifts received but not spent; gifts for endowment and capital projects, and gifts of objects; gains on sale of real estate; and the financial statement impact of changes in generally accepted accounting principles. The combination of the operating and nonoperating items is reflected as the change in net assets, which is consistent with the audited financial statements.


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The City of Riverside Fire Department began providing basic emergency medical service in the early 1980's. All fire personnel were trained as Emergency Medical Technicians. We then implemented an automatic defibrillator program in 1998 and ultimately evolved to an advanced life support service in 2000 with the addition of paramedics.
Today, every fire engine and rescue squad in the City is staffed with a paramedic firefighter and advanced life support (ALS) equipment. It is our goal to respond to medical aid requests in the City within 5 minutes of receiving the initial 911 call.
Our Public Safety Communication Center utilizes an emergency medical dispatch program. EMD, as it is referred to, is a medical priority dispatching system that uses proven protocols in gathering medical information to send the most appropriate resources to medical emergencies and also gives post-dispatch instructions to callers to assist with such emergencies as CPR, child delivery, and bleeding control until emergency responders arrive.
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SBA's Disaster Loan Program Explained
SBA's Disaster Loan Program Explained
Did you know that in the wake of a disaster, SBA provides low-interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, businesses of all sizes and private, nonprofit organizations? In the aftermath of hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters, SBA is the primary source of money from the federal government for long-term recovery assistance.
Am I eligible?
SBA's Disaster Loan Program is not exclusively for small businesses. These low-interest, long-term loans are available for damage to private property owned by individuals, families, businesses of all sizes and private nonprofits not fully covered by insurance.
While property owners usually have some insurance coverage, often it does not cover all losses or even the type of hazard that caused the damage. And that's where a disaster loan comes into play.
What can I use the loan for?
There are actually a few different types of disaster loans available. SBA can provide up to $2 million in disaster assistance for businesses. This includes loans to cover physical damage and economic injury losses. Some applicants will qualify for both an economic injury loan and a physical disaster loan. Meanwhile, the dollar limit for the combined loans is $2 million.
Physical damage is probably what you think of first when it comes to a disaster – the more tangible damages done during a disaster. Businesses and nonprofit organizations of all sizes can apply. A physical disaster loan can address losses not fully covered by insurance and can go toward repairing or replacing:
- Real property
- Machinery
- Equipment
- Fixtures
- Inventory
- Leasehold improvements
Economic injury means that because of a disaster, you're unable to meet your business obligations and pay ordinary and necessary operating expenses. So, an economic injury disaster loan (or EIDL) provides the necessary working capital (of up to $2 million) to help your small business or private nonprofit organization survive until normal operations resume after a disaster.
Renters can also apply for disaster loans of up to $40,000 to repair or replace their disaster damaged personal property (like furniture, rugs, clothing, appliances—anything damaged by the disaster). Homeowners may borrow up to $200,000 to repair or replace disaster damaged real estate, plus an additional $40,000 to cover personal property losses.
How does the process work?
- After a presidential disaster declaration, first register with FEMA. In most cases, you'll be referred to SBA for possible loan assistance. Then you should apply online, which is the fastest way to receive a decision about your loan eligibility.
- Your loan processing is next. SBA will conduct a credit check and an onsite inspection to determine your losses. A loan officer will work with you to approve or decline a loan.
- Generally, within five days of signing SBA's loan closing documents, your first disbursement is made. A case manager will work with you to meet all your loan conditions and schedule the rest of your disbursements until you receive the full loan amount.
So when disaster strikes, remember that SBA is here to help. Check out this short video to learn more about how, and get more details here about the disaster assistance program.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 15 diseñadores freelance.
Martha's Vineyard Sharks
Who are the Sharks? The Sharks are an amateur colligate baseball team that is a composition of players who come from the top collegiate baseball programs in the U.S.A. and hopefully many will be drafted into Major League Baseball. This is the initial year of baseball on the beautiful island of Martha's Vineyard. The Sharks will play a 50 game schedule from June through the first week of August.
We are targeting the family. We want a logo that we can use on baseball caps that will be sold to our fans. This is NOT a logo that will be used on the caps worn by the players.
The colors of the baseball team are purple, black and white. You can get a better feel for what we are doing by going to our website http://www.mvsharks.com.
Our primary logo is displayed at the site. We don't want a man-eating shark as the logo or something that is intimidating to children....it is for the family including the children. You can incorporate the MV, which is well know as the abbreviation for Martha's Vineyard.
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Front Page Portallime -- Friday, June 03, 2005 -- 12:16:19 AM
Posts here show up on the front page. This is still in development, so you can still make mistakes. Don't panic--with one exception, Cal and Lime will be forgiving.
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Eventually, portal posts will be anchored to a thread for responses. For now, if you want to discuss or respond to a portal, just take your responses to the relevant post. Apologies for the occasional duplication of effort, but over time this will be much better than the news/breaking news/discussion craziness that existed before.
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About 55 percent of voters favored joining the EU's passport-free "Schengen" zone, indicating that the Swiss favor closer integration with the EU of which Switzerland is not a member. That mean Swiss customs controls would remain in place.
ADVERTISEMENT Caren Janssen called the men "suspects" in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, 18, but declined to provide further details. The men, who were not among the three described Saturday by police as "persons of interest," were being interrogated Sunday morning.
Police also planned to conduct forensic tests on a bloody mattress found on a beach in eastern Aruba. The mattress was found in thick brush at Grapefield beach, deputy police chief Gerold Dompig said.
Experiments at Yale with teaching monkeys how to use money lead to monkey bank robberies and monkey prostitution, proving the old saying, "The love of money is the root of all evil," applies to rest of the primate world as well.
Police made a surprising discovery when they busted the alleged madam of a prostitution ring called "August Playmates": The woman running the show was an 80-year-old grandmother.
Authorities arrested Vera Tursi last month during a sting operation to crack down on prostitution rings posing as legal escort services. Police say Tursi ran the business from her two-bedroom apartment, taking $60 of every $160 she charged clients for one hour with a call girl.
Law enforcement officials say Tursi admitted her role in the business, saying she took it over a few years ago from her daughter, who had died. Police say Tursi told them she needed money to subsidize her Social Security checks.
The New York Times did an analysis of the formula on middle-class incomes in more than a dozen states to see whether families would have to spend a greater part of their income and assets before qualifying for financial aid than they did five years ago. Though the effects of the formula changes vary from state to state, The Times found that families with the same earnings and assets as in 2000 would typically have to pay an extra $1,749 before clearing the eligibility bar for financial aid in 2005, after adjusting for inflation.
Scientists have developed vaccines that protect against the deadly Ebola and Marburg viruses. They hope to test the vaccines -- successful in experiments with monkeys -- on humans in two to three years. The viruses are at the top of experts' list of bioterrorism threats.
Officers said the New Zealand-born actor was expected to appear in Manhattan Criminal Court later on Monday.
"He was upset because he couldn't get a call out to Australia," said Sgt. Michael Wysokowski. "He threw a phone at the employee hitting him in the face and causing a minor laceration."
Federal authorities may prosecute sick people who smoke pot on doctors' orders, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, concluding that state medical marijuana laws don't protect users from a federal ban on the drug.
Skip to next paragraph Background: Arguments on Marijuana Case The decision is a stinging defeat for marijuana advocates who had successfully pushed 10 states to allow the drug's use to treat various illnesses.
Justice John Paul Stevens, writing the 6-3 decision, said that Congress could change the law to allow medical use of marijuana.
The closely watched case was an appeal by the Bush administration in a case that it lost in late 2003. At issue was whether the prosecution of medical marijuana users under the federal Controlled Substances Act was constitutional.
Under the Constitution, Congress may pass laws regulating a state's economic activity so long as it involves "interstate commerce" that crosses state borders. The California marijuana in question was homegrown, distributed to patients without charge and without crossing state lines.
Stevens said there are other legal options for patients, "but perhaps even more important than these legal avenues is the democratic process, in which the voices of voters allied with these respondents may one day be heard in the halls of Congress."
It was also a good night for "Doubt, a Parable," John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about suspected child abuse in a Roman Catholic school. It picked up four Tonys, including best play, best direction (Doug Hughes) and best actress in a play, Cherry Jones, who portrays an accusing nun.
Bill Irwin, meanwhile, whose role is that of a long-suffering and sharp-tongued professor in the revival of "Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,' " was a surprise winner in the best leading actor in a play category. Out of breath and beaming, Mr. Irwin thanked his cast, his producers and his family, before exhorting people to come to the show. "This is Broadway!" he said. "We do this every night."
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russians who marry foreigners could be exiled and stripped of their citizenship under a bill being drafted by a group of members of parliament, a deputy said Sunday.
"Our women, the most beautiful and best in the world, are going abroad. By doing this, they are wasting the most valuable thing we have -- the gene pool of our nation," Kuryanovich told Ekho Moskvy radio.
Yay! Mars Rover breaks free and resumes truckin'!
The US space agency's (Nasa) Mars rover Opportunity has finally broken free of the sand trap that has prevented it from rolling over the Red Planet.
The robot vehicle started to experience wheel slippage while trying to traverse a ripple-shaped dune on 26 April.
Engineers used a model rover back on Earth to work out a driving strategy to release Opportunity from the deep dirt.
And at the weekend the rover confirmed it was rolling free again with an image of a clean set of tracks to the rear.
Ominously for Bush and the Republicans, a strong majority of self-described political independents -- 68 percent -- say they disagreed with the president's priorities. That suggests Bush's mixed record in the second term on issues the public views as critical -- particularly on Iraq and the economy -- may be as much a liability for GOP candidates in next year's mid-term election as his performance in his first term was an asset to Republican congressional hopefuls last year and in 2002.
Overall, the president's job approval rating stood at 48 percent, virtually identical to where it was last month. Currently 52 percent of the public disapproves of the job Bush is doing as president, the first time in his presidency that more than half of the public has expressed negative views of the president's performance.
Continuing violence in Iraq continues to fuel negative views of the White House. Four in 10 Americans currently approve of the job that Bush is doing in Iraq while 58 percent disapproved. It marked the 13th consecutive month that less than half of the country approved of Bush's handling of the situation in Iraq.
A total of 1,002 randomly selected adults were interviewed June 2-5 for this survey. Margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 3 percentage points.
"We didn't need those aircraft either, but we didn't screw the taxpayer in the process," Garant added, referring to widespread sentiment at the Pentagon that the proposed lease of Boeing 767s would cost too much for a plane with serious shortcomings.
Garant's candid advice, which top Air Force officials did not follow, is disclosed for the first time in a new 256-page report by the Pentagon's inspector general. It provides an extraordinary glimpse of how the Air Force worked hand-in-glove with one of its chief contractors -- the financially ailing Boeing -- to help it try to obtain the most costly government lease ever.
The inspector general's report, slated for release today at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, adds a new dimension to what Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), John W. Warner (R-Va.) and Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.) have already called one of the most significant military contracting abuses in several decades. Already, the scandal has resulted in prison terms for former Air Force principal deputy assistant secretary Darlene A. Druyun, and a senior Boeing official, Michael M. Sears.
Besides documenting precisely who was responsible, the new report details the Air Force's vigorous efforts on Boeing's behalf. It also shows how Air Force leaders and Boeing officials jointly manipulated legislation to authorize the deal and later sought to suppress dissenting opinion throughout the Pentagon.
After interviewing 88 people and reading hundreds of thousands of pages of e-mails, the inspector general's office concluded that four top Air Force officials and one of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's former top aides, Undersecretary of Defense Edward C. "Pete" Aldridge, violated Pentagon and government-wide procurement rules, failed to use "best business practices," ignored a legal requirement for weapons testing and failed to ensure that the tankers would meet the military's requirements.
The Senate on Tuesday ended a two-year filibuster of California judge Janice Rogers Brown, clearing for final vote her nomination to the U.S. Appeals Court and hewing closely to a historic deal to avert a partisan showdown over judicial filibusters.
By a vote of 65 to 32, Brown's nomination for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was cleared for a final floor vote, expected Wednesday. It takes 60 votes to bypass a filibuster, a total that Brown's Republican supporters have not been able to muster since November 2003, when they were only able to get 53 votes for the conservative California Supreme Court justice.
In later years she continued to appear in films, although the roles grew smaller. She was briefly on screen as Nicolas Cage's mother in "Honeymoon in Vegas," trained a young woman as an assassin in "Point of No Return," scored a few points as a wily senator in "G.I. Jane" and had some campy fun in an updated version of "Great Expectations" as a loony character based on Dickens's Ms. Havisham.
She fared better in television, earning Emmy nominations playing a killer in the PBS drama "Mrs. Cage" and the title role in "Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All" on CBS.
She was resigned to the fact that age and changing times worked against her. In a 1992 interview with The Times's Bernard Weinraub she admitted to taking parts "even if they're one page," because "there are very few good scripts, even for Julia Roberts." She preferred a good bit part to a heftier bad one. She often rejected work in favor of family life - for a while. "I retire after every project," she once said. "Then somehow there's always something that pulls me out of retirement."
NEW YORK (AP) - A body part fell from the wheel well of a plane coming in for a landing on Tuesday at John F. Kennedy Airport and landed in a suburban backyard, authorities said.
More remains were found on a South African Airways flight after it landed at Kennedy, said Tony Ciavolella, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
The South African Airways jet was lowering its landing gear when the body part fell out.
Police suspect the remains were of a male stowaway and the case was being investigated, the spokesman said.
Games that depend on artifical intelligence demonstrated at the first Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment conference.
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Join Hollywood in the fight for a cure with a nationally televised event Sept. 7
Hollywood is standing up to cancer.
On Friday, Sept. 7, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julia Roberts, Matt Damon, Michael Douglas, Jessica Biel, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Renner, Seth Rogen and Emma Stone will join even more stars from film, TV and sports to Stand Up to Cancer for a televised fundraising special.
Check out the exclusive clip of stars from Neil Patrick Harris to Jane Lynch promoting the event, which aims to raise funds and build public support for groundbreaking research in the fight against the disease.
Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Alicia Keys and Tim McGraw will also perform.
Jordana Brewster, Diem Brown, Dana Delany, Chelsea Handler, Marg Helgenberger, Rashida Jones, Minka Kelly, Joe Manganiello, Jillian Michaels and Alison Sweeney are scheduled to make appearances.
Additional stars and performers will be announced in the coming weeks.
STYLE FIND: Stand Up to Cancer's Super 'Spider-Man' Tees
This is the third annual fundraising broadcast for Stand Up to Cancer. The organization was founded in 2007 by a group of women who had all been affected by cancer. Their hope was to enlist the media and entertainment industries in the fight against the disease.
Stand Up to Cancer will be broadcast live on NBC, ABC, CBS and FOX from L.A.'s Shrine Auditorium on Sept. 7 at 8 p.m.


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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Neil Patrick Harris will leave hit Broadway show Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Andrew Rannells will slip into his old wigs.
Producers of the Tony Award-winning show said Thursday that Harris will play his final performance at the Belasco Theatre on Aug. 17. Rannells will take over Aug. 20.
Rannells earned a Tony nomination as an ever-smiling Mormon missionary in the debut cast of The Book of Mormon and also plays Elijah on the HBO show Girls.
Now he'll play a German male transsexual rock singer in a tale of obsession, glam rock and a botched sex-change operation. Harris earned his Tony win Sunday for the blistering role.