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Dottie Harper Park to be Cleaned of Contaminated Soil Starting this Week
Last week, it was the scene of a community lantern festival called Arts-A-Glow, where dozens of families and children frolicked in the woods.
This week, Burien's Dottie Harper Park will be one of seven area parks being cleaned up by the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology), in an effort to remove arsenic and lead-contaminated soils from play areas in King and Pierce counties.
Additional park play areas being cleaned up are McMicken Heights and Sunset Playfields in SeaTac, Lake Grove in Federal Way, Dockton on Vashon Island, and American Lake and Kiwanis in Lakewood.
Soil sampling in 2010 confirmed the presence of arsenic and lead contamination from the former Asarco smelter in Tacoma.
"Although contamination levels in the parks are not high enough to cause immediate concern, the long-term health risk for children has made the cleanups a priority for Ecology," reads an announcement.
Work is scheduled for a narrow window of time between the busy summer season and the onset of heavy rains.
"We have a very tight timeline," said Ecology's cleanup coordinator, John Zinza, who will oversee the contractors. "Grass must be seeded by mid-October in order to survive the winter, and rain can make soil work more difficult."
Park neighbors can expect construction noise and some truck traffic during normal work hours. Contractors will use dust control measures to minimize contaminated soil escaping the site.
Money from a settlement with Asarco allowed Ecology to expand the existing Soil Safety Program to include parks, camps, and public multi-family housing. The program, created through 2005 legislation, initially covered school and childcare play areas.
"Every single park cleanup project protects more children in South King and Pierce counties from toxic chemicals," said state Rep. Dave Upthegrove, D–Des Moines, the prime sponsor of the original soil safety legislation. "This program is an investment in the health and safety of future generations."
Play area cleanups reduce arsenic and lead exposure for large numbers of children, in the places they regularly spend time.
"Children's developing bodies are more sensitive to the toxic effects of heavy metals. They play on the ground, and their hand-to-mouth behaviors put them at higher risk than adults," explained Marian Abbett, Ecology's Tacoma Smelter Plume project manager.
Some contamination may still remain outside of designated play areas, especially in wooded areas. Several parks have already installed signs that recommend reducing contact with those soils.
Simple actions can also help reduce contact with potentially contaminated soils – hand-washing, taking off shoes or using a doormat to keep dirt out of the home, regular vacuuming and damp-dusting, and keeping toys clean.


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OCCA strengthens the arts by ensuring that the Oregon coast has a rich and vibrant arts community through support and promotion of arts organizations and individual artists.
This directory represents the coastal areas of Oregon, which include Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Coos, and Curry counties and the coastal towns of Lane and Douglas counties. OCCA is the regional arts council for this area. Learn more about OCCA's regional arts activities.
Bob Pagani thinks up interesting things of an art-like nature. He makes them. Then you get to see them.
Karen Gelbard, "The Oregon Weaver",
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handwoven jackets and scarves.
Nestled near the beach between downtown Pacific City and Cape Kiwanda on Cape Kiwanda Drive, we are a Community Center for South Tillamook County. The Center is self-supporting and staffed with the nicest volunteers from around the area. Fundraising events are put on throughout the year.
Hand-driven art and design, at the beach in Pacific City.
Pacific City's South Tillamook County Library is the pride and joy of the community. Housed in the new Winkelman Library Building, the full service facility is rivaled by none.
PCAA seeks to develop, coordinate and schedule artistic, cultural and educational activities.


text: Starting this week, the Research Center will hold another book drive to continue our efforts with Better World Books (check out this post for our previous book drives). You can start bringing in your gently used books starting today, Thursday, October 27, 2011. The book drive will go on until Thursday, December 8, 2011. The donation drop box is located in front of the Research Center. Please RSVP on our Facebook event page to pledge your support, and spread the word!


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Dwarf galaxies are the most know dark matter dominated luminous objects in Universe. Observing the line of sight velocity and position of stars in Milky way satellites, and assuming the dark matter potential and a specific configuration of stellar orbits, one can obtain the mass profile of dark matter in galaxies. In this talk I will show that by considering a generic case of phase-space density as a function of energy and angular momentum and by relaxing the specific choice of orbital configuration (which is assumed in literature), we can find the dark matter potential and mass profile in this general case and restudy the challenges of Cold Dark Matter(CDM) paradigm like core-cusp or missing satellite problem.


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PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African state prosecutor Gerrie Nel asked the judge in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial on Thursday to reject the Olympic and Paralympic track star's defense as "devoid of any truth".
Double amputee Pistorius, once a national icon for reaching the pinnacle of sport, is accused of murdering his law graduate and model girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria on Valentine's Day last year.
If found guilty of premeditated murder, he could face life in prison. A potential lesser charge of culpable homicide could carry a sentence of 15 years.
Since the trial opened in early March, Nel has portrayed Pistorius as a gun-obsessed hothead who shot 29-year-old Steenkamp four times through a locked toilet door where she was taking refuge after a heated argument.
The defense team says Pistorius, nicknamed the 'blade runner' after his hi-tech prosthetics, was a vulnerable and caring boyfriend who killed Steenkamp by accident after mistaking her for an intruder hiding behind the door.
"The court should have no difficulty in rejecting his full version of events, not only as not reasonably possibly true, but in essence as being absolutely devoid of any truth," Nel told the Pretoria court during his closing arguments.
Nel, known as 'The Pitbull' because of his fierce cross-examination style and penchant for the dramatic, said Pistorius was caught up in a "snowball of lies".
Lead defense attorney Barry Roux began his closing response by accusing the state of deliberately avoiding calling witnesses whose evidence would have damaged their case.
Roux will give the bulk of his wrap-up on Friday, which is expected to be the final day of a long-overrun trial.
There is no jury, and so the verdict hinges on whether judge Thokozile Masipa believes Pistorius' version of events. If she rejects his defense, she would only be able to consider the state's case, circumstantial evidence and the balance of probabilities.
Nel spent the morning session trying to pick apart what he says is the contradictory evidence provided by Pistorius, 27, often shaking his head and holding his hands up in disbelief as he read from the athlete's testimony.
During his cross-examination, an emotional Pistorius said he had fired his gun accidentally without knowing what he was doing, straying from his original argument that he had shot knowingly because he thought his life was in danger.
Nel said Pistorius could not credibly assert that he had shot both deliberately and accidentally.
"The accused never said to anyone that got to the scene: 'It was an accident. The shot just went off'. He never said 'I didn't want to shoot'," said Nel.
"He said: 'I thought it was a burglar and I shot her. Sorry, I shot Reeva. I thought she was an intruder'," Nel said, reading from testimony taken by police after the shooting.
Roux's team has said that psychological evidence shows Pistorius has a 'heightened fight response' because of his disability and he would be more likely to confront danger than able-bodied people.
Nel referred to the part of his cross-examination of Pistorius where he analyzed pictures of the couple's bedroom, which he said showed that the athlete's account of how he acted in the minutes before Steenkamp's death was impossible.
Pistorius says the police tampered with the evidence and moved items around the room, which Nel said was an "impossible conspiracy".
"The most devastating aspect of the accused' s evidence is his inability and failure to contest the veracity of the scene's photographs ... as to the condition of the scene prior to the commencement of any investigation," Nel said.
"Equally devastating is the vagueness of his version and the how and when the police would have tampered with the scene."
Roux said the defense was not arguing that there was a conspiracy but that there was proof that officers disturbed the crime scene, citing a photo submitted as evidence that showed a policeman moving a bedroom plug.
Another pivotal moment in the case was evidence given by witnesses who said they heard a woman scream prior to the sound of a volley of shots, supporting the prosecution's argument that the couple had an argument and Steenkamp feared for her life.
The defense says Pistorius sounds like a woman when he screams in distress and the witnesses did not hear shots after the shouts but the sound of Pistorius breaking down the door with a cricket bat after Steenkamp was already dead.
Pistorius also faces three separate charges, including two counts of discharging firearms in public and possession of illegal ammunition, all of which he denies.
The fathers of both Pistorius and Steenkamp were in court for the first time on Thursday. The runner, dressed in a dark suit and tie, sat impassively through most of the proceedings.
The killing has shattered the image of Pistorius as an embodiment of triumph over adversity for both his Paralympic victories and his success against able-bodied athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.
The athlete broke down frequently during the trial, often sobbing and vomiting into a bucket.
The closing arguments were expected to last two days, after which judge Masipa, who has more than 4,000 pages of evidence to review, will retire to consider her verdict.
Masipa was only the second black woman to be appointed a high court judge and has a reputation for handing down stiff sentences in crimes against women.
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Ada Fung is a fashion PR, working as an account manager at Karla Otto Asia. Fung is a graduate of Central Saint Martins and the London College of Fashion. Having studied womenwear design, Fung previously worked at Julie Verhoeven and was editorial assistant at SHOWstudio in 2004. The following year she made a transition from editorial to fashion management by assisting Camilla Lowther at Camilla Lowther Management. In 2008 Fung moved back to China to work as a bookings editor at Vogue China.
Whilst in China, Fung worked on GQ China pre-publication and was a styling assistant at Max Mara's 'Coat!' catwalk in Beijing. In 2009 she became fashion features editor at Modern Weekly China (for Beijing and Shanghai) before returning to London to assist Penny Martin at The Gentlewoman.
During her time there, she helped produce a shoot for Fantastic Man in Beijing. Fung then started work as a contributing editor for Hong Kong-based magazine Obscura. Since 2011 she has been at Karla Otto Asia as an account manager for Hong Kong and Bei Jing.
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Sometimes in this magic land of the intarwerbs, fantasy becomes reality. Apparently, this is one of them: A team at the Freie University in Berlin have actually rigged a car so it can be fully controlled with an iPhone.
There are not a lot of details except what you can see in the video. The GPS- and Wi-Fi-equipped Spirit of Berlin—as they called the car—uses drive-by-wire controls, with mechanic parts to operate the pedals. On its top, there are video cameras and pewpewtastic laser 3D sensors.
The iPhone connects to the car using Wi-Fi, transmitting acceleration data to the car in real time. It looks like the real thing, but maybe it's all a four-wheeled Octoberfest joke. []


text: « Return to Search Dr. Eliot Berson Receives Visionary Award from Foundation Fighting Blindness June 27, 2012 Contact: Public Affairs Ph.: 617-573-3341 BOSTON (June 27, 2012) – Eliot L. Berson, M.D., director of the Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations located at the Mass. Eye and Ear, recently received the Foundation Fighting Blindness Visionary Award. Mr. Gordon Gund, Chairman of the Maryland-based Foundation Fighting Blindness, presented Dr. Berson with the award at the foundation's "Dining in the Dark" event on Thursday, June 21 at the Boston InterContinental Hotel. Other recipients awarded include Massachusetts Governor Deval L. Patrick and Joshua S. Boger, Ph.D., founder of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, an international company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. Mass. Eye and Ear President and CEO John Fernandez attended the event. The Visionary Award was presented to Dr. Berson for his important role in research to advance the understanding of potentially blinding diseases and for the development of the first treatment for retinitis pigmentosa. "Our studies have led to a better understanding of the causes of hereditary retinal degenerations at the DNA level and also have led to the first treatment for the common forms of retinitis pigmentosa. We have found that a high-dose of vitamin A combined with an oily fish diet and lutein will, on average, extend vision for up to 20 additional years, thereby making it possible for many patients with retinitis pigmentosa to see for their entire lives. We were also the first to show that high-dose vitamin E supplementation aggravates the course of these diseases," said Dr. Berson during his speech. Dr. Berson earned his degree from Harvard Medical School and has served as director of Mass. Eye and Ear Electroretinography Service since 1970 and as director of Harvard Medical School's Berman-Gund Laboratory for the Study of Retinal Degenerations at Mass. Eye and Ear since 1974. Dr. Berson is also the William F. Chatlos Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Berson's recent Visionary Award was one of many other recognitions for his research including the Llura Liggett Gund Award also from the Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Fransceschetti Award of the International Society for Genetic Eye Diseases, the Friedenwald Award of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the MERIT Award of the National Eye Institute, the Pisart Vision Award of the New York Lighthouse International and the Ludwig von Sallmann Prize from the International Congress of Eye Research. About the Berman-Gund Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear The Berman-Gund Laboratory performs multi-disciplined research to discover the causes, understand the pathogenesis, and seek means for treatment of retinitis pigmentosa, Usher syndrome, juvenile macular degeneration, choroideremia and allied retinal degenerative diseases. About Massachusetts Eye and Ear Mass. Eye and Ear clinicians and scientists are driven by a mission to find cures for blindness, deafness and diseases of the head and neck. After uniting with Schepens Eye Research Institute in 2011, Mass. Eye and Ear in Boston became the world's largest vision and hearing research center, offering hope and healing to patients everywhere through discovery and innovation. Mass. Eye and Ear is a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital and trains future medical leaders in ophthalmology and otolaryngology, through residency as well as clinical and research fellowships. Internationally acclaimed since its founding in 1824, Mass. Eye and Ear employs full-time, board-certified physicians who offer high-quality and affordable specialty care that ranges from the routine to the very complex. U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals Survey" has consistently ranked the Mass. Eye and Ear Departments of Otolaryngology and Ophthalmology as top five in the nation. For more information about life-changing care and research, or to learn how you can help, please visit MassEyeAndEar.org.


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- Series hub | Game 2: Notebook | Box score
MIAMI – The Derrick Rose Watch is in its final hours, so all that huffing and puffing that the Chicago Bulls and the Miami Heat heaped onto Game 2 of their Eastern Conference semifinals series at AmericanAirlines Arena wasn't all for naught.
It served to move Wednesday night closer to Thursday morning, which gets everything more quickly to Friday's Game 3 tipoff, the point at which this long rehabilitative sideshow ends once and for all. Either the Bulls' injured point guard goes for something Hollywood and steps through the darkness onto the court at United Center to a booming embrace … or he emerges again after another pregame shooting session in a suit and sits his way straight into the offseason.
Truly, it is now or it is never. There can be no middle ground.
The "never" part of that equation should have won six weeks ago but has shown itself to be a tough out. Months of daily talk shows and Twitter timelines keep alive the chatter of Rose coming back. This weekend will officially become 12 months after surgery to repair the ACL in his left knee.
The waiting game sucked most of the air out of the Bulls' regular season – remember, the conventional wisdom suggested Rose would be back in late February or early March – and here it is, still laying claim to what at times has been a remarkable postseason precisely because of his absence.
But it all ends Friday night. Fortunately.
Neither side of the debate looks good right now. The principals and their constituencies could have, and should have, acquitted themselves much better. The ugliness and lopsidedness of Miami's 115-78 victory Wednesday night turned the fourth quarter into a lab-perfect petri dish in which the debate could grow. Or fester, depending on your take.
Well, they're all on the clock now.
Those who snarkily question Rose's manhood and wonder about his commitment to teammates — who are risking pain if not additional injuries by playing through a variety of ailments — and those who appoint themselves guardians of his right to make decisions.
Those who childishly want what they want when they want it. And those content to defer gratification in a city all too comfortable with "Wait till next year" refrains.
This gets dealt with by Friday night.
If Rose is going to come back this spring, if he is going to wake up and decide that, hey, he really, really wants to play, it must be in Game 3. The Bulls need him more now than at any point since their playoff series last year against Philadelphia slipped away.
Yes, their smackdown in Game 2 Wednesday night looked like it should have counted double or triple, so dominant was Miami's performance and so thorough was the Bulls' meltdown. But it doesn't. The emotionally frazzled losers flew back to Chicago late Wednesday with a 1-1 split in their duffel bags.
Now, Dwyane Wade, LeBron James and the rest of them not only have to play two games in Chicago but live there for four days, too, getting back a little of what they – or at least, their crowd – gave out.
In what already is a series too chippy by half, the initial reaction to Rose's return would rival that famous "I'm back" faxed out by Michael Jordan upon his baseball retirement in 1995. It would self-nominate for one of the city's all-time classic sports moments. No guaranteed payoff, of course, and even a considerable risk of backfire. Still, at a time when teammate Luol Deng was the one coming off a spinal tap, Rose once again would be the guy turning the volume up to 11.
On the other hand …
If Rose has waited this long because the time has not felt right, if he's still thinking when he ought to be instinctively reacting, then it will not be right. There is no reason to hold out hope for more perfect circumstances. The level of contact in this series is only going to increase, though hopefully the number of technicals, flagrants and ejections won't keep pace.
(Imagine Rose being out there Wednesday in the middle of all that woofing, maybe even being sent sprawling into the photographers himself by James or Birdman Andersen. Imagine Bulls chairman Jerry Reinsdorf and the suits at adidas all gasping and grabbing their wallets in unison.)
Others' ACL rehab timelines – Ricky Rubio's March to December, Iman Shumpert's May to January and especially NFL rusher Adrian Peterson's Christmas Eve to September – shouldn't matter at all. If Rose needs another May to October, so be it. Then, he will have eight tune-up games in the preseason in which he won't be expected to be Derrick Rose quite yet.
Now, it all would be on him. The spotlight. The pressure. The responsibility to be the difference.
When you look at it that way in this now-or-never proposition for Rose in this postseason, now doesn't stand much of a chance.


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Mary Fuhrer to speak on Tuesday, October 16
"Old Towns in a New Nation:
New England Village Life in the Early Republic
By Mary Babson Fuhrer
Tuesday, October 16, at 7:00 P.M.
We sometimes romanticize New England towns in the first decades of the nineteenth century as peaceful, bucolic havens -- they were not. In this talk, Mary Babson Fuhrer will discuss the remarkable stories of conflict and transformation that reshaped local communities in the decades leading up to the Civil War. The Boylston, Massachusetts, diaries, letters, and account books she draws on form the basis of her recent book, Crisis of Community: Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815-1848 (2014).
Mary Babson Fuhrer is a public historian and independent scholar who lives in Littleton, Mass. She specializes in using primary sources to recover everyday lives from the past; she was recently honored by the MassHumanities with their 2014 History Commendation for 20 years of contribution to public history. Her research has been supported by MFH, Old Sturbridge Village, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the American Antiquarian Society.


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The University Business Center (UBC) focuses on business development and outreach to the business community through professional development opportunities, student internship and practicum coordination, graduate placement assistance, relationships with business alumni, and publications related to activities in the School of Business.
The best interests of both business and the FSU School of Business are served when we communicate and collaborate on our shared, fundamental goals. The type of partnership envisioned through the UBC would mean the School of Business, in achieving its educational objectives and mission, would be even more informed and attuned to what potential employers want their new hires to know.
Employers would realize substantive advantages by bringing on board graduates who, because of their finely tuned preparation and competence, would be quicker to add real value to the enterprise.
The School of Business and our students might find their programs increasingly vital and relevant, and stronger rapport between these partners might foster even more interaction between students and the business world.
Through sustained, meaningful connections with the School of Business via the UBC, industry would also reap the benefits of closer ties to research, access to knowledge centers, and communication with intellectual leaders. As a result of their invigorated growth and capacity, enterprises could, in turn, give back to their communities and stakeholders at an even higher level.
The UBC expects to provide high-quality professional development, executive education, consulting, and information resources to businesses throughout the State of West Virginia. Examples of these services may include:


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Integration continues to be a major challenge for both cloud adopters and cloud vendors. A recent KPMG survey found that of approximately 350 executives, nearly a third found cloud to be harder and more expensive than they anticipated, in large part because of integration problems.
There are four basic options for solving cloud integration. Keep in mind that your cloud service provider may offer these options for free or as an add-on, but your organization can also handle the integration separately with a third-party provider or by building it yourself.
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Welcome to Fred Butler's therapeutic world. For NOW Gallery's Design Commission, Fred has created a joyful destination for healing with light, colour, shape and sound. In this environment, she explores chromotherapy and light as an antidote to SAD – seasonal defective disorder – and to our urban living.
Remove your shoes, wear some headphones and dip your head into the tetrahedrons of coloured light.
This exhibition is about looking after you. It's inclusiveness addresses Fred's concern about the future of human nature becoming introverted, isolated and immobile. Let go of instant gratification from constant scrolling and over stimulation which shortens attention span.
Enjoy the moment, forget the past, don't speculate the future be in the NOW.
Due to high demand, time is capped to a 30-minute visit in the space, where you can borrow headphones and listen to a sonic journey by Nature Boy to accompany your experience.
For a full description of the event visit: http://nowgallery.co.uk/exhibitions/harmonics-in-space/
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- Shoes must be removed when entering the space
- A deposit must be left with the reception desk for use of headphones.
- No drinks and food allowed within the space
- Children to be accompanied and supervised by parents at all times
Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?
All children require a ticket for the space, except for babies in arms, and are required to be accompanied and supervised by an adult at all times.
What are my transport/parking options for getting to and from the event?
The gallery is three-minute walk from North Greenwich Tube and Bus Station. Car parking is also available, requiring a fee for use.
What can I bring into the event?
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Cameras and phones are allowed.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
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When we are finished writing a book, while everything is hot and fresh in our mind there are some VITAL things we need to prepare that will be used in every step of getting the book represented, getting it published, and later in sales and promotion . The first is called a concept sentence, promo sentence or logline. It is a single SHORT sentence that tells the main concept of the book written in a very compelling manner.
The second is known as an elevator pitch or cover copy. It is a slightly larger version of the logline, 2-3 sentences that are used to pitch the book to an agent or editor if we find ourselves with a very brief opportunity to do so. Later it is used as cover copy and still later in advertising and promotion. These first two items are commonly used in our cover letter as well.
The third thing is a short synopsis or story summary. This is a slightly larger version of the first two, ideally a half page single spaced. It is used to produce a one page sell sheet, along with a logline as an attention getter on the page and with a very short WRITING RELATED bio. This will go in the proposal and the primary use of a sell sheet or one sheet is to provide an editor taking a project to committee to try and get it accepted with a single page to use or possibly to hand out that can be used to sell the project.
An agent, editor or publicist can write these for the book but ideally the best person to write them is the person that created the work from scratch, the one who lived with it from the ground up. A person trying to create them based on a brief read or two will surely not come up with as strong of an effort as the author.
Finally we have the synopsis itself. Most commonly desired is a 2-3 page single spaced synopsis that gives the main points of the story including the ending or plot resolution. This is not a chapter by chapter synopsis which may be required by a few editors but is more common on a nonfiction work than a fiction. Editors reading a proposal may read a synopsis first before reading the writing itself, may read it after reading sample writing to decide whether the story carries out in a manner that they would like to ready the full manuscript, or some may not use it at all but it should always be provided. Some submission guidelines require them to be longer and the submission guidelines should always be followed.
Even though these are presented in this order, they are often produced in a reverse order boiling the story down to get the synopsis, boiling the synopsis down to get the short synopsis or story summary, boiling it down to get the elevator pitch or cover copy and reducing it further to get the logline.
To give our work the best chance of success we as the originator of the work need to give these tools to the agent, editor or publicist to give them the best chance of advancing the work to its final conclusion. It is critical to provide these tools and to craft them to the best of our ability.


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By OG
Pennsic Independent
You know what I hate? Not much, really. I am a pretty… well maybe not really pretty… happy guy. Pennsic is fantastic and SCA people are the best in the world, as I have said many times. However, flat beer and tear-down Saturday are on my list of the things I hate. Ever seen someone in great garb? Shoes right, A&S competition-quality tunic, perfect period leather, and all the trimmings. You go up to compliment them and there is a Bluetooth glowing on their ear. I think that they're a BORG! They have been assimilated by the mundane world.
That world is my big problem this year. Don't you hate it when the mundane world gets in the way of what is really important? SCA events, Pennsic, good friends. We all have work troubles, money troubles, car troubles, got to paint the house, responsibilities, health issues, health of loved ones, etcetera. When those times come we cope but when those times come all at once, all of them ganging up on you, you feel that the fates have conspired. God has hit that big "smite" button.
We make a choice. We hate to like staying home in August. It is sad that at times like this we need Pennsic the most. We need a break from the mundane insanity. Unfortunately, it is often not meant to be. Sadly, we are adults and sometimes we must choose work over play. As for me, right now Pennsic is a ? My mother's health has taken a turn and I may be staying home playing the good son. Many a year I was not. I must make amends. The yurt has been set up in the backyard. Had the grandkids over for a sleepover. They think it is cool. It is!! I may come to Pennsic for a long weekend. We will see what the gods say.
Lords and Ladies!
Charge your glasses and raise them high!
To the Gods! Whichever ones you choose to pray to, may they in their divine wisdom and mercy bring us all together again next year. Till then…
Drink well
Drink Often
Drink with…
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Brandon Weeden knows he's on the fast track to be the Browns' starting quarterback, and it can't happen soon enough.
"I feel like I'm ready," Weeden told The Plain Dealer Thursday. "I have a long way to go, but I feel like I've taken the right steps to get to where I can play at that level.
"If I'm asked to be the guy Day One, I'm going to do everything on my part to put our team in position to win games and score points. I'm really anxious to get going and the season will be here before you know it."
Weeden, the No. 22 overall pick, said he's been inspired by the rookie quarterbacks who started last season.
"You see guys like Andy Dalton and Cam Newton and Christian Ponder that came in, these guys played relatively soon. That's what I mentioned to teams the entire time, that my maturity in baseball will help," he said. "There's going to be a learning curve. It's going to be a challenge, but I have a lot of faith in my ability to play football."
Weeden, who will attend rookie camp May 11-13, said he's been mostly insulated from the buzz his selection generated, including the impact on the status of Colt McCoy and Seneca Wallace.
"I understand how that works," he said. "It's a business and there's a lot that goes into it, but honestly, I'm still in Oklahoma trying to get all my stuff together, so I'm not in Cleveland, which probably makes it a little bit different.
"Those are two great quarterbacks and they've had a lot of success at that level. It's kind of something you need, kind of relying on them, getting help from those guys. Like I said, I'm just really just champing at the bit to get to Cleveland and get going on learning this offense and meeting the guys around me and start working to win a lot of football games."
Weeden also knows he's been asked to elevate the play of the current crop of receivers. The Browns also drafted Miami speedster Travis Benjamin.
"It's all about the chemistry," said Weeden. "It's all about comfort, trusting the guys you're throwing it to and letting them make a play. That's going to take some time, working with these guys and getting a feel for what each guy can do.
"I look forward to us pushing each other and getting the most out of each other."
One of Weeden's Oklahoma State targets, Josh Cooper, is coming to Cleveland as an undrafted free agent. Weeden was driving in the car with Cooper Thursday when he did the phone interview. Cooper was Oklahoma State's second-leading receiver last season behind Justin Blackmon, with 71 catches for 715 yards and three TDs.
"We came in the same year and he's a guy that's made a lot of big-time plays for us at Oklahoma State," said Weeden. "Josh is actually going to live with me, so we'll be able to help each other learn this entire system and get through this entire process."
Weeden, who went 23-3 the past two seasons, said it won't be a problem going from the spread's shotgun attack to the West Coast scheme and operating under center.
"When I was at the Senior Bowl and I was under center, we ran the same exact offense as we run in Cleveland," he said. "I felt more comfortable under center than actually taking snaps in the shotgun.
"The biggest difference between the West Coast offense and what we did at Oklahoma State is the terminology. I don't think it will be a huge, huge, adjustment at all."
He also disputed critics who questioned his ability to throw under duress.
"You've just to get a feel for it," he said. "You have to stand in there and take a hit. If you throw a good ball and you take a shot to the chin, it's always a little more fun.
"To be the quarterback you've got to be a tough guy. You don't get to hit anybody, everybody just gets to hit you, so you've just got to take on that mentality."
Weeden said he appreciated working with former Browns offensive coordinator Marc Trestman for three days before the NFL combine and also meeting former Browns QB Bernie Kosar at the Senior Bowl.
"I've talked to [Kosar] from then on out," said Weeden. "Obviously he had a great career in Cleveland. When you get to this level you need guys like that to talk to and help get a feel for what you're about to go through."
For fans wanting to buy his jersey, he confirmed what everyone already knew.
"I'm letting the cat out of the bag," he said. "I was informed Friday I'll be wearing No. 3."


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Bayern Munich have one foot in the Champions League final after thrashing a insipid Barcelona side 4-0.
Here are the reasons why Barcelona lost:
1. Unfit Messi
Lionel Messi is Barcelona's go to guy and it is his mazy runs that open up many avenues for attack. All those runs were absent from his game on Tuesday, as he looked a shadow of himself.
2. Untested central defence
Barcelona's defence has been below par this season. They once went on a spell of conceding for 10 consecutive games. Against lesser opposition they outscored them. But this Bayern Munich side took advantage of a unfamiliar partnership at the centre of the defence.
3. Weaknesses at set pieces
The first two goals came from set pieces and this exposed Barcelona's weakness in this area. Other than Gerard Pique they lack any sort of physical presence at set pieces and that was exploited by the Bayern side who took care to avoid Pique. The rest was too easy.
4. Missing Puyol
When Carles Puyol and Pique play together, Puyol plays the role of the senior defender and whenever Pique steps up to join attack Puyol organises the defence to protect against counter-attacks. But his absence was felt when Marc Bartra was the one entrusted with this responsibility on the night.
5. Ruthless Bayern
Bayern Munich were ruthless in front of goal, taking their chances in clinical fashion. Be it Thomas Muller's brace, Mario Gomez's tap-in or Arjen Robben's curler, Bayern took their opportunity whenever it was presented to them.
6. Sweeper Schweinsteiger
Bastian Schweinsteiger played probably the best game of his life so far. Whenever Bayern were playing out from the back he often slotted in as an additional centre-back and carried the ball to the midfield, from where he orchestrated the attacks.
7. Strategic fouling
Bayern also committed a lot of tactical fouls very high up the pitch to put Barcelona's players off their rhythmn. Javi Martinez and Schweinsteiger were very clever in committing fouls and this results in disrupting Barcelona's passing, which frustrated them.
8. Wing wizardry
In Robben and Franck Ribery, Bayern have probably the best wingers in the game today. And in Tuesday night's game both were hugging their respective touchlines. Neither Dani Alves or Jordi Alba are great defenders - both are more comfortable attacking - and against a quality opposition they came up painfully short.
9. Overcrowding the midfield
One other key aspect of the game was overcrowding of the midfield area by Bayern. Both Ribery and Robben worked their socks off. What was also interesting is the both Muller and Gomez, who was playing as striker, dropped back to help Bayern out in midfield. This effectively reduced the space for Iniesta and Xavi to work their magic.
10. No Plan B for Barcelona
Barcelona do not have a Plan B for their famous tiki-taka. On days like Tuesday, when their usual game-play is not working, they do not possess a means to change their game style. There was also no other alternative on their bench.
All the above factors contributed to Bayern landing a crushing blow to Barcelona's Champions League hopes. Overcoming this deficit might prove to be a bridge too far for this Barcelona side.
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Written by Dr. Crystal Bailey the Education and Careers Program Manager at the American Physical Society in College Park, MD. This article from the APS Summer 2011 Forum on Education newsletter discusses the biggest challenges physics educators face today. In spite of the fact that only a tiny fraction of physics bachelors can reasonably expect to become physics faculty, students consistently name this career path as the "typical" track for physicists. Therefore a reliable, accurate source of information about physics careers is essential, in order to give students a clear picture of what's possible after graduation, and beyond. Bailey discusses the way that the comPADRE Career Website does this.
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This paper outlines the pedagogical and technical features of the Open Source Physics (OSP) project and how we use OSP-based tools and resources to introduce modeling into the curriculum. We describe our current effort to create and distribute new material using the Easy Java Simulations and Tracker tools and how we distribute this curricular material with ComPADRE National Science Digital Library [OSP 2009]. The paper is organized as follows. Section II introduces the Modeling Cycle that is the basis for our pedagogy. Section III describes basic Easy Java Simulations concepts and section IV describes Tracker. The main features of ComPADRE are presented in section V and section VI presents the pedagogical benefits of this connection. Finally, section VII summarizes the improvements obtained by the use of our approach.
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The Physics Front collection is the physics and physical science online library developed for pre-college teachers within the ComPADRE Digital Library Pathways Project. The Physics Front serves a broad spectrum of users that include new and crossover physics teachers, pre-service as well as in-service teachers of physical science and physics for grades K through 12, teacher preparation instructors in universities as well as students of physics and physical science. Participation in The Physics Front collection also extends to physics departments involved in the preparation of pre-service teachers and the support of in-service teachers and their students.
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ComPADRE, the physics education digital library of the AAPT, APS, AAS, and SPS, and the Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College have joined forces to make it easier to access a rich body of expert teaching experience. The new pedagogic portal at ComPADRE brings together information about effective teaching methods and examples of ways in which teachers and faculty use these methods for specific physics concepts. Each teaching method is described in peer-reviewed websites that are written by faculty known for their teaching (in physics or other disciplines).
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Do you support electric cars? If you do, these could be discouraging times. Sales have slowed in early 2012, critics are legion, and startup businesses are scuffling for traction. The struggles are real, and any added bump prompts headlines that build on a well-documented flawed narrative.
So RMI today is kicking off a solution-oriented forum. We know the problems (some of them exaggerated) that others are writing and talking about a lot. As gas prices spike again—as they are certain to do periodically as long as we rely on oil for transportation—how can we offer encouragement and perspective amid these setbacks?
At RMI, we believe a transition to a clean energy future is critical. But we don't expect that change to be easy or quick, or the path to a brighter future to be straight. And we believe that electric vehicles hold the single greatest promise to address America's dependence on oil, a challenge identified by every president since Richard Nixon, but one that remains unsolved and dangerous.
Oil use endangers our country's economy, health, security, and natural environment. This country uses 13 million barrels of oil a day on transportation at a direct cost of $2 billion. Our oil dependence also incurs hidden costs totaling roughly $1.5 trillion a year, or 12 percent of GDP—more than our annual budget deficit—plus untold costs to human health and the environment.
None of the headlines or setbacks involving electric vehicles changes these facts, dismisses the need to change, or disproves the potential of EVs to address these risks.
Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute's blueprint for a business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewable energy by 2050, shows how electric vehicles made from ultralight, ultrastrong materials can provide radically improved fuel efficiency without compromising performance and safety. It shows their potential to store energy and feed it back to the electric grid to help equalize power generation from renewable sources, further moving us away from fossil fuels toward a cleaner environment.
Progress is being made. We are heartened by California's new Advanced Clean Car rules, which will help accelerate adoption of EVs and plug-in hybrids. We are encouraged that major automakers continue to add electric offerings to their lineups. We are encouraged by the military's commitment on alternative fuels and reduced energy use, and by the U.S. Department of Energy's move last month to invest $14 million in accelerating adoption of lightweight automotive materials.
We believe EVs are too good an idea to not catch on. Sticker prices remain high, but research shows that 40 percent of Americans are extremely or very interested in buying an EV. Early adopters are extremely satisfied.
We believe manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and our leaders will find solutions, improve battery range, and bring down costs. We think EVs are a key part of the way to build a cleaner, safer world as they help reignite America's innovation machine, reinvigorate our economy, help transform our aging electricity system, and enable us to rethink and rebuild our communities.
Join our discussion in comments below, on our Facebook timeline, or on Twitter using the hashtag #EVsupport
I have had a Chevy Volt for 2+ months and I Love it. My wife was skeptical but has been easily convinced by the car itself. We both love it. I think that one of the biggest challenges is getting the general public to actually see what an EV can do. A simple test ride/ drive can make a huge impression. Bringing the entry level price down with improved battery technologies to compete with gas cars is going to be a challenge. Charging infrastrucutre and relationships with power companies presents challenges and opportunities.
I can't wait for Tesla's Model S!
My company needs funding for city based EV. EcoV is perfect for city/unban area fleets and then later we enter the private use market. We have production prototype and for $5M in capital we could be in production in 9 months. EcoV represents a new and emerging market for affordable ($11,999), safe, versatile & will save 70 percent in operating costs over small ga car. EcoV does not meet all needs, but where missions are short and at lower speeds, EcoV is a perfect solution. INTERESTED in learning more?PS EcoV is designed, sourced,and built in USA with over 200 years of ex-auto OEM experience in our team. Www.EcoVElectric.com
I have now owned my Nissan LEAF for a little over two months. I really like the car and feel that Nissan did an excellent job in designing it. I bought the LEAF for in-town use, and it fulfills that need for me extremely well. I am lucky that I am retired and live in a relatively warm climate, which means that I have neither a long commute nor cold winter days to deal with. Because the LEAF's range is limited (60 to 75 miles per charge), and the car further loses range in cold weather, either of those conditions could make the LEAF less desirable. For me, it is normally sufficient to charge the car to 80% charge only every other day. That level of charging appears to raise my electric bill about $15 per month. It's also a huge plus that electricity prices are quite stable as compared to gasoline prices, which can vary greatly from day to day.
In summary, I hardily recommend the LEAF, provided it meets your specific in-town driving needs. So far, I have driven the LEAF over 2,000 miles with a fuel cost of about $30, and I have greatly reduced my carbon footprint.
One of the most enjoyable things about owning the car is when someone stops me in a parking lot and asks "how do you like you LEAF?"
Tried a few electric vehicles at a show a few months ago - Tesla sports car was, of course, very impressive. The Nissan Leaf also - actually was really impressed with it, a full-featured car and great to drive. Very nice. As Sam says, once you actually drive an electric vehicle and see for yourself how responsive they are, how quiet, and how little the running costs are (not just fuel/power but all the rest too), you quickly realise that they're so much better than what we currently drive.
One of the trends that is helping to build awareness and to showcase the advantages of the EV here in Portland, OR is the emerging car sharing concept. Start up companies such as Getaround provide a clearing house for people to rent their personal cars to others. Most of the cars available are ICEs, but there is a Tesla and more than one Prius available now, and hopefully the Volt, Leaf, iMiev and other EVs will be available for rent in the future.Also Enterprise has several Leafs available for rent from their West Burnside location. So now it is possible for someone to live with an EV for hours, days or weeks to help them decide if the EV fits into their lifestyle.Also I see that Zipcar Chicago has added Chevrolet Volts to its fleet in that city.Getting people behind the wheel of an EV for an extended length of time is a great way to convert an ICE owner to an EV owner, and it is encouraging to see that the ability to do this is becoming more prevalent.
We've had a LEAF for just over a year now and get 5.4 miles / KwH so it's 5060 miles for $1 of US electicity.
We make our electric from our GRID Tied solar system that runs our house, car and still helps the utiltiy and we get paid each year since use make more than we use.
Our LEAF have been on the top 25 LEAFS in the world for going the farthest on the lest energy since we drive smart.
We use our bicycles as much as possible since it's good for us and our health along with the economy and environment.
My dream car is a Toyota Prius. I have seen them around my neighborhood and I notice that they are super quiet when they run on their electric motor. My driving is both highway and around the neighborhood. I would love to have a quiet car that emits way less CO2 than my current 2003 Honda Accord. I love the Accord, but I want 52 mpg!! I also noticed that Dr. Temperence Brennan on the TV program, Bones, drives a Prius -- way to go Bones!!
An electric car is just a fossil fuel powered car with the pollution being shifted from the car to the power plant. Until the cost of green energy comes down significantly they do not make economic sense for the masses. While they could be cost effectively powered by nuclear or hydro-electric power sources, there are significant problems with both, especially if needing to massively expand capacity to power millions of electric cars.If transportation is going to have a paradigm shift, power plants must have one too.Other than a fusion reactor, the holy grail in achievable nuclear power is a thorium reactor. Thorium is much more plentiful than uranium, is much easier and safer to process, can't go critical, and can't be made into a bomb - the "boom" or dirty kind. Additionally, the reactor is much more cost effective as it doesn't need to have a massive containment building.Thorium enables much cheaper and safer nuclear power. India already has a prototype thorium reactor up and operating. Early last year, China announced they'd be building them too. India has the largest thorium reserves in the world. The second largest? The USA.What is the U.S. doing with thorium? Diddly-squat. Maybe because it doesn't involve GE?
My husband and I drive an electric car. Our Leaf is powered by the 5.6k solar panels on our home. Last month our electric bill for 4500 sq ft and two people was $86--- including the power for our car! The cost was not something that can be ignored but with federal assistance, it's quite a "doable" thing for the average American. We MUST have that federal incentive however! Why would you not make it easier for Americans to live intelligently and with less carbon impact?
For the nex several years conversion of used modern cars is more marketable than new manufacturing and half of the cost or less, so a conversion can be done for $10K and that will fill the gap until used EV become available (This would be a GREAT colaboration for a used car dealer and a conversion shop. Service and repairs are dificult to get except at dealers. no one is teaching EV repair. I am ready to start a school called " elecrtic vehicle technical institute inc. com" and I am seeking a partner to help with promotion and finding funding. we would train auto mechanics and hobbyists to service and repair EV and do conversions to EV and Conversions to Hybrid.
RMI Outlet, Rocky Mountain Institute's blog, explores topics critical to RMI's mission to drive the efficient and restorative use of resources.


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OWINGS MILLS, Maryland (Reuters) - Just days after winning the Super Bowl and being hailed as a hero by several hundred thousand fans, Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh is already preparing for next season.
"We talk to our team about, 'We've got to improve,'" Harbaugh told reporters on Thursday. "We have to get better next year as a football team, just like we always do.
"That's going to be our goal. (Guard) Jah Reid's in the weight room right now lifting as we speak, so that's what we're going to be about going forward."
Harbaugh, general manager Ozzie Newsome and team owner Steve Bisciotti, though still euphoric over Sunday's 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers, are formulating a gameplan to sign their key free agents.
Six starters, including Super Bowl MVP Joe Flacco, nine-time Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed and starting outside linebacker Paul Kruger are eligible to flee to the highest bidder.
The top priority will be keeping Flacco, the soft-spoken quarterback who threw for 11 touchdowns and no interceptions during the Ravens' improbable postseason run.
He emphatically silenced his critics who said he was not demonstrative enough to be an effective leader.
Bisciotti compared Flacco to another reserved quarterback, Eli Manning of the New York Giants, who has won more Super Bowls than his more effusive brother Peyton.
"Joe proved that you can win being like Joe and we're thrilled because we never thought we needed to change the way that Joe was," he said. "Now he gets to say, âI told you so.'
"He went to the Eli Manning school of disrespect. They gave Eli the same business and now he's got two Super Bowls and Peyton's got one, so we'll let Joe do it his way."
Bisciotti is confident he will be able to sign the 28-year-old Flacco, who has guided the Ravens to the playoffs in each of his five NFL seasons.
"This is history," he said. "I have faith that it didn't set us back in our negotiations. We offered him a top five contract last year and we will be back at the negotiating table.
"It was pretty close last year. I don't see us winning the Super Bowl making the negotiation any more difficult than it would have been had we gone out in the first round of the playoffs. That might have been more difficult."
Bisciotti was adamant the club would not repeat the mistakes made after the Super Bowl-winning 2000 season when too much of an effort was made to keep the team intact. Instead of letting players go, too many contracts were restructured so they team could remain under the salary cap, he said.
"We're not going to get caught up in the moment and do things to our salary cap and make decisions in the euphoria of winning that could hurt us in 2014 and 2015," he said.
"Every single veteran (in 2001) was restructured so that they could stay, and then we ended up losing so many people the next year. We don't want to do that.
"You have to make sure that the excitement of the day doesn't cloud what we promised to build, and that was a consistent winner."
While Bisciotti was thinking of the future, Ravens fans remained ecstatic over Sunday's Super Bowl, with so many people attending Wednesday's parade in downtown Baltimore they spilled out in the street and walked alongside the players' vehicles.
When the procession reached already-filled M&T; Bank Stadium, officials had to close to gates due to the unexpected crush of people trying to squeeze in. People scaled the stadium fences to catch a glimpse of the brief ceremony.
Harbaugh, who already had the title game in his rear-view mirror, said he will treat the upcoming season like any other.
"The word repeat means nothing," he said. "You sink the pilings deep every year, and we're going to try to sink our pilings deep in the bedrock against this year starting this week, the day after the game. You just go back to work."
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I ended up having a nice weekend last week and I wanted to write about some insights I had...but it looks like that will have to wait for next week. I felt pretty good on Monday and a little run-down on Tuesday, but I went ahead with my plans to go to Target and Trader Joe's for a major stock-up trip. Big mistake! Jamie's been feeling bad all week, too, so I'm also wondering if there's a virus lurking around, triggering our CFS to flare up. Who knows?
Meanwhile, I thought I'd just post a few funny links that gave me some much-needed laughs this week:
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Thoroughbred Hoof Care: Foal to Racehorse to Sport Horse
• By Alexandra Beckstett, The Horse Managing Editor
• Feb 26, 2014
Miller advised trimming and reshoeing racehorses every three to four weeks because of the high speeds at which they work.
Thoroughbreds are born to run. But to satisfy this need for speed, the horse must have a strong foundation on which to gallop—we're talking about his hooves.
South African farrier Robbie Miller, ASF, has decades of experience trimming and shoeing race- and sport horses. He shared his hoof care suggestions with industry members during the 2014 Cape Breeders Club seminar, held Jan. 27-28 in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Starting with foal feet, he followed the horse's natural progression to the sales, races, and, ultimately, retirement from the track.
"This is the basis from where your racehorse or sport horse is going to kick off from," Miller said of the very early stages of hoof care.
He said farriers should trim foals' hooves every four weeks, starting at 4 weeks old, to keep pace with their fast hoof growth rate. They should avoid addressing any carpal (knee) or tarsal (hock) angular limb deviations until the foal is 12 weeks old, he said, at which point the distal third metacarpal (lower cannon bone), proximal P1 (upper long pastern bone), and proximal P2 (upper short pastern bone) growth plates will have closed.
"With the first three months, you just want to make sure the fetlock and pastern bones set and grow straight," Miller explained.
By 18 months of age, the foal's distal radial physeal (growth plate just above the knee) sets, and by 2 years his distal hind tibia sets. "This is your window for addressing angular limb deviations," he said, emphasizing that there is plenty of time to perform any necessary corrective farriery or surgery.
Yearlings/Sales Horses
Foals should continue on their four-week trim cycle past weaning, at which point many will begin preparing for yearling sales. "There is a lot of pressure and stress involved for the horse during this time," Miller said.
His goals when maintaining yearlings' feet include addressing flares, chipping, and thin walls all while trimming the hoof capsule into a "nice" shape through monthly hoof care.
Preceding and during the sales themselves, yearlings will be asked to do a lot of walking on hard surfaces. This causes hoof wear and tear, so many of these horses will need shoes applied at this time, Miller said.
"The hoof capsule is still growing, though, and the coffin bone and collateral cartilages are still developing, so you need to make sure the yearling is comfortable," he cautioned.
Miller advised trimming racehorses every three to four weeks because of the high speeds at which they work. He said his primary focus with these horses is maintenance trimming, as the longer the cycle between trims, the more out of balance the hoof becomes.
"Performance is directly related to the hooves," Miller explained. "We can't make the horse run faster, but we can help the horse perform to his optimum by keeping the hoof balanced. This, to a large degree, helps in preventing tendon, ligament, and skeletal injuries."
He said he also pays attention to the racehorse's heels: "You want to bring them back to the widest part of the frog. This is part of 'mapping the foot,' an aid in achieving hoof balance."
One thing Miller advised keeping in mind when caring for racehorses' hooves are the surfaces they're running on. When horses gallop on synthetic tracks, for instance, their feet don't slide upon hitting the ground as they would on dirt or turf. He said this can cause jarring injuries such as bone chips in the fetlock and carpal joints. Fortunately, he said, one farrier recently designed a shoe specifically for synthetic runners, allowing the foot to slide some upon impact. "Make sure shoeing protocols are correct if racing on this surface," Miller said.
Sport Horses
At the conclusion of their racing careers, many Thoroughbreds enter the private sector as sport horses. Miller said hoof care protocols and type of shoe used at this point will be specific to the horse's chosen sport, environment, and footing.
"Not being speed horses anymore, you can change the shoeing cycle to every five to six weeks," he said. "You have a little more leeway."
Miller then listed questions owners and farriers should consider when making hoof care decisions for their sport horses:
• Does the horse works on sand or synthetic surfaces?
• Will the horse need some form of traction device (e.g., studs for show jumping or eventing), support (palmar/plantar/medial/lateral), or a hunter or pleasure fit?
• Are concave or flat shoes more suitable?
• Will you choose aluminium or steel shoes?
"Take into account the new and different stresses of the sport," Miller said. "All of these are factors you'll discuss with your farrier."
Take-Home Message
The Thoroughbred is a prime example of the consummate athlete, racing at top speeds starting when he's 2 or 3 years old and potentially continuing on to a show jumping, eventing, polo, or dressage career later in life. To help your Thoroughbred perform to his potential, tailor his hoof care to his specific age, needs, and job.


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March 7, 2011
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The day of awards continued for UC Santa Barbara women's basketball player Mekia Valentine as the senior was named Big West Player of the Week on Monday after already nabbing All-Big West Second Team honors and the conference's Defensive Player of the Year award.
Valentine had a career-high 27 points, a season-best 20 rebounds and five blocked shots in the Gauchos' 78-64 win over Cal Poly on Saturday, helping UCSB clinch a share of its 14th Big West title.
The six-foot-4 center enjoyed her second 20-20 game as a Gaucho, also completing the feat February 11, 2010 vs. UC Riverside. It is the fourth 20-20 game in program history.
Valentine is on track to become the first UCSB player since Erika Kienast in 1991-92 to average a double-double as she currently has 11.1 points and 11.0 rebounds per game.
The Greensboro, N.C. native is averaging 3.7 blocks per game, ranking her third in the nation.
The Gauchos (19-10 overall and 12-4 in the Big West), seeded second in the tournament, host No. 7 Pacific (8-21, 5-11) on Tuesday, March 8 in the first round of the Big West Conference Tournament. Tickets are available by calling (805) 893-UCSB or by clicking here.
The game, as all women's basketball games are, will be broadcast live on AM 990 and and online by clicking here with the pregame show starting a half-hour prior to tip-off.


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Get out the togas; Congress is fiddling while Rome burns.
As the grim economic numbers show, this economy is barely moving, crippled by government cutbacks that once more cost jobs. 25 million people are in need of full time work, a number that is growing as the economy is failing to generate enough jobs even to employ those coming into the labor market for the first time.
And while this is happening, conservatives in Washington are intent on exacting even more cruelty on the vulnerable. It is simply beyond shame that Tea Party Republicans suggest that the Boehner plan isn't harsh enough, demanding that deep cuts in Pell Grants that allow deserving low income children a chance to afford college. The notion that Pell grants that help low income kids go to college is a way to sweeten legislation to make it more attractive to right wing extremists is unspeakable. The Tea Party right in Congress offends not only the majority of Americans, but the majority of their own supporters.
Every plan before Congress will make the economy worse. Every plan tramples the priorities of the vast majorities of Americans.
This week, hundreds of Americans crowded into, phoned or emailed Congressional offices at home and in Washington to make their displeasure known. We need to keep the pressure on and continue to demand that Congress listen to the vast majority of Americans, who want Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid protected, and millionaires and billionaires and corporations to pay their fair share.
We will continue to build a movement to defend an American dream that is increasingly being shattered by corrupted policy and perverted values.


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The dogs of downtown are fancy and enjoy "the finer things in life", but they want you to know they are just like all the other dogs out there. The Sister dogs of Clay Corner Inn Minkie and Caly enjoy lawn games with their parents and guests. Caly is an expert cornhole player, frisbee golfer, and both sisters love their tennis balls. Bella, the greeter and Fine Jewelry Expert at Capone's Fine Jewelry enjoys visits to the Farmers Market and sitting on laps in the store while visitors work with her mom and "brother" to design beautiful pieces of jewelry. While Keith R. Dogg ("Keefer Dogg"), the assistant curator at Matrix Gallery, enjoys long walks and seeing all his friends at doggy daycare. When Keefer is not working at the gallery he can be found relaxing or helping his dad around the house, talking nice long walks, attending daycare at Flying Fur and taking training classes with his humans.
While visiting I saw Mr. Dogg knock over a small book with his tail and he told me that often his big fluffy tail is too cumbersome for his mom's gallery, so he gets to go on a car ride with his dad. Since he does spend a good amount of time "off the job" he really tries to soak up the attention from his customers at the gallery when he's there. Keefer Dogg really does enhance your shopping experience, as he is such a smiley beautiful English Shepard. Keefer is very well trained, and getting even better as he grows. His treat of choice is cubed Colby cheese, but we are pretty sure he would not turn down any kind of treat.
I asked Keefer a few important questions to get to know him better.
Q: So Keefer, are you a big Hokie fan?
A: I loooove turkey!
Q: What do you want people to know about you?
A: My bark is worse than my bite, and I wanna be loved!
Q: What is your main gripe about Downtown Blacksburg?
A: Not enough fire hydrants
Q: Do you get bored at the store with no other pets around?
A: I get walks with Dad lots , and I get a lot of treats. Of course I do want some more friends–furry and not– to come on over and visit me in Matrix Gallery!
Keefer is very excited that his store will be celebrating its 25th birthday on November 16, although he is a little concerned that mom may not let him come to the party. (Something to do with fluffy waggy tails and too much cheese which is supposed to be for the guests and not for him!) The big celebration takes place on November 16, 4:00-8:00pm. All non doggies are welcome to join the fun which will take place in Matrix Gallery!
Matrix Gallery is located at
115 North Main Street
Coming in our next installment of the Dogs of Downtown; meet Minkie and Caly, the innkeepers of Clay Corner Inn.
Why not visit some of the Dogs of Downtown:
Calypso the Golden Retriever and Minkie the Jack Russell mix, Dog-keepers at Clay Corner Inn
Keith R. Dogg "Keefer Dogg", Assistant Curator at Matrix Gallery
Molly and Minnie the mini-Schnauzers, Sales Assistants at Mad Dog
Goliath the Bulldog, Marketing Team Member at Nest Realty
Bella the Bischon Freis, Diamond and Fine Jewelry Expert at Capones Fine Jewelry
Barkley, Antique Collector at Heirloom Originals
Xena, the receptionist at The Laser Clinic
Milo, the greeter at 130 Jackson, who can often be found stationed outside Bollo's
Dog friendly downtown locations:
Fringe Benefit
Greenhouse Boardshop
Heirloom Originals
Huckleberry Trail
High Peak Sportswear
Heavener Hardware Lumber and Rental
Mad Dog
Market Square Park
Matrix Gallery
Nest Realty
The Community Arts Information Office
The Henderson Lawn
PLEASE be a responsible pet owner and pick up after your dogs.


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Is it possible to set up my Oracle Application Express (Apex) application with Single Signon (SSO) based on Windows Integrated Security (NTLM), so that the end-users are automatically logged into the Apex application with their Windows (Active Directory) account without entering their username and password?
The answer is yes, but the implementation depends on your infrastructure, and specifically your web server:
- If you are using Apache (Oracle HTTP Server), the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (DBMS_EPG) or the Apex Listener, then this post is not for you. There are various options such as mod_ntlm, mod_auth_sspi, proxies, etc., but you must look elsewhere for more details about those.
- If you are using (or can use) Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) to serve your Apex applications, then read on.
- Install (enable) Microsoft IIS on your Windows Server
- Download and install the Thoth Gateway, a mod_plsql replacement for IIS
- Configure the virtual directory of the gateway application (typically the "pls" folder) to use Integrated Windows Authentication
- Create an authentication scheme in your Apex application that checks the HTTP header called "LOGON_USER" and make that the current scheme of your application
In the following screenshot the folder is called "web-integrated-security", which just shows that you can really call it anything, but in a default installation of the Thoth Gateway the folder will be called "pls" (which mimics the naming convention used by Apache and mod_plsql).
Simply check "Integrated Windows Authentication" to enable SSO. Also remember to remove anonymous access to the website!
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I want one of these soooooo bad!!!!
(Only I want it to be condo-trained!)
A day in the life of a pug in Portland's Pearl District. "Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made." - Roger Caras


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Justin Bieber mixed it up Tuesday with the paparazzi in Paris and appeared to throw a punch during the fracas. We're told Bieber and his crew tried to clear the photogs out…
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"I see a lot of disruption get stymied by 'the system' or process blocks. Don't wait for permission; rather seek forgiveness with your awesome results!" – UK
For Ben Betts, a classroom doesn't require four walls, and in fact, learners may be better off without them. Betts, who is currently completing his doctorate in engineering while leading HT2, his learning technology company, mixes business and engineering acumen with a strong desire to change the status quo in education. The changes he advocates range from how kids learn to how they're ultimately accredited for what they've learned.
To address needed improvements in the "how" of learning, Betts and team have built
Curatr, a new learning approach based on peer-to-peer collaboration. The tool is free
to teachers and worth checking out:
Betts shared with us his views on what's wrong with the current accreditation process, and how teachers can get up-to-speed on the latest in e-learning.
Can you describe how your professional achievements have advanced innovation in education?
In online education we've been facing a couple of problems. Firstly, it costs a lot to create an online course. For example, MITx is sinking $60m into their MOOC (massive open online course) projects. So we came up with a method that relied more on peer-to-peer collaboration than it did on creating an expensive piece of e-learning – this has helped to radically reduce the cost of creating an online course.
But participation figures in online collaborative learning are low – often people quote so called "power laws" to suggest that 80 percent of the work will be done by 20 percent of the students. This is a problem as we know that those students who are more active in a learning experience will achieve greater results than those who are passive. So we then worked to create a method that would actively encourage participation in an online learning experience, using techniques like 'gamification' to encourage students to try new behaviors.
The work has resulted in both a new platform (Curatr) and a new method (The Collaborative Learning Cycle). Curatr has won awards in both the UK and USA for its novel approach and it's implemented at a number of schools, universities and companies to change the way they do education.
What has changed as a result of your efforts?
Hopefully we've presented a way in which online learning can be both effective and affordable. But to be honest we're only just beginning. There is a growing acceptance of peer-to-peer learning activities being a great way to facilitate online learning; but this isn't the result of my work, it is the result of many researchers all over the world coming to the same conclusions.
How can others facing similar challenges implement what you've learned through your work?
They can use our platform – Curatr is free for teachers. But they can also read and research the techniques in a number of ways – be on the lookout for ideas like Computer Supported Collaborative Learning, Gamification and MOOC's. In fact, the best way to implement what we've learned is probably to take one of our courses or one that's similar in structure.
How have you applied technology in innovative ways to support your work?
We now host accredited online courses using our techniques. So instead of using a more traditional LMS (learning management system) if you visit Warwick University online, you might just get to use Curatr. The platform also has a commercial arm and we're experiencing fantastic growth which has led to our company doubling in size over the last three months.
What is the biggest obstacle you have had to overcome to ensure students are receiving a quality education?
Cost. In the UK, cost is probably the single biggest barrier, especially with fees increasing.
What is your country doing right to support education?
The UK is starting to embrace more quality online initiatives and certain pots of funding have been made available to support education using technology – the UFI Charitable Trust is investing £50m to improve adult education through technology, for instance.
What conditions must change in your country to better support education?
For me, the keys to accreditation need to be taken away from universities. Any company or person should be eligible to accredit a qualification and given the technology at our disposal, it's now very easy for students to create and share personal portfolios of their learning as evidence of their education. It makes very little sense for a programmer to be accredited by a university when they could be accredited by Google, for example. But until that system is opened up to disruptive innovation, it is very hard for new avenues of education to open up in the UK that conform to the requirements of the job market.
What is the best opportunity for innovation in education?
Accreditation – the system is old and outdated. We still award degrees fundamentally based on the number of hours someone spent studying a subject. But we all know that hours spent in a lecture theatre are not the equivalent of hours spent experiencing something in the real world.
What advice would you give a new teacher (or to anyone wanting to make a difference in education)?
The Facebook mantra – move fast and break things. I see a lot of disruption get stymied by "the system" or process blocks. Don't wait for permission; rather seek forgiveness with your awesome results!
What educational "trend" do you think is helping students? Is there a trend that is getting in the way of learning?
I think adaptive learning as a trend is probably helping students. Systems like Knewton
and Grockit are very clever and are starting to do the job of one-to-one tutors. But they remain expensive to build and maintain. So I wouldn't want us to get too wrapped up in the computer as a tutor – people can still do a better job in person.
If you could give one educational tool to every child in the world, what would it be? Why?
An smartphone with a data plan.
As far as I'm concerned, it puts a world of knowledge at your finger tips and gives you the perfect device for creating videos and other media that can show your learning. And of course you can use it as a phone, should you want to talk to someone! You don't really need anything else.
About Ben Betts
With a decade of designing, developing and managing online learning projects, Ben is fast becoming a household name in the E-learning industry. He was named as one of Elliott Masie's "30 under 30" thought leaders in learning for 2010 and was elected to the board of the eLearning Network in 2010. Betts is a frequent presenter both in the UK and globally, and has published a number of articles for popular industry magazines, including E-Learning Age and Learning Solutions Magazine.
Birthplace: Nottingham, UK
Current residence: Oxfordshire, UK
Education: MBA, final year of PhD at University of Warwick, UK
Website I check every day: Slashdot, BBC Sport
Person who inspires me most: Right now? Probably Jesse Schell. You should totally get him to do this.
Next travel destination (work or pleasure): Marrakesh (pleasure)
When was the last time you laughed? Why? About a minute ago – my dog, Jasper, constantly makes me laugh.
Favorite book: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Favorite music: Anything that I can tap my foot to
Your favorite quote or motto: One thing at a time, most important thing first, start now.


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Palmeral de Elche palm grove
Porta de la Morera, 49
03203 Elche-Elx, Elche, Alicante - Alacant (Region of Valencia)
Tfn::+34 965451936
- Autonom region: Region of Valencia
- Provins/ö: Alicante - Alacant
Världsarv, certifikat som beviljas av UNESCO.
The Palmeral de Elche is the largest palm grove in Europe. Although its presence dates from prehistoric times, it was in the Arab period when it reached its greatest splendour, as the Muslims laid out the palm trees in the form of orchards and vastly improved their cultivation. The site that can be seen today around the historic quarter of the town has over 200,000 palm trees and is known as the Historic Palm Grove. It was declared a World Heritage site by the UNESCO for its role as a testament to its role in the transmission of culture from East to West, and for the survival of an exceptional watering system inherited from the culture of Al-Andalus. Spaces open to visitors today include the Municipal Park (with some singular buildings and fountains with neo-Arabic inspiration), the Huerto del Cura garden (declared a National Artistic Garden), the El Palmeral Museum (located in the Huerto de San Plácido garden), and the Route of El Palmeral (which goes through traditional palm groves, and the Filet de Fora palm park).
- Byggnad: Garden
- Konsthistorisk period: Arab
- Miljö: Basilica of Santa María.