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Checking in on… the Big WestPosted by rtmsf on January 25th, 2010
Current Standings (Conference/Overall/Win Streak)
- Pacific (5-1) (12-6) W3
- UC Santa Barbara (5-2)(10-7) W2
- Cal Poly (5-2)(8-10) W3
- UC Davis (3-3)(7-11) L1
- Cal State Fullerton (3-4)(7-11) L1
- UC Irvine (3-5)(9-11) L1
- Long Beach State (2-4)(8-11) L2
- Cal State Northridge (2-4)(7-12) L2
- UC Riverside (2-5)(8-11) W1
Games of the Week
UC Santa Barbara defeated Cal State Fullerton 85-80 in overtime on Saturday night thanks in large part to Orlando Johnson, who hit a three-pointer with 3.4 seconds to tie the game at 72. Johnson finished with career high 27 points in the contest. His teammate, sophomore forward James Nunnally, also had a career day, scoring 25 points. Johnson is currently third in the conference in scoring, averaging 16.6 points a game. The Gauchos had defeated last place UC Riverside on Thursday night, but entered the week after a crushing 67-47 loss to UC Irvine on January 14th. The Titans had overcome a sixteen point second half deficit earlier in the game, but could not hold onto a late lead. Senior forward Jer'Vaughn Johnson also scored a career high 22 points. In addition, he grabbed seven rebounds. The loss marks the third straight for the Titans, who lost 80-73 to Pacific on Thursday night. With the win the Gauchos remain a half game back of Pacific for the lead of the Big West Conference. Santa Barbara is the only team to hand Pacific a conference loss this season.
In another great conference battle UC Riverside snapped its five-game losing streak by defeating Irvine 65-56 on Saturday night. Junior guard Dwight Gordon who finished with a game high 19 points led the Highlanders. Fellow junior Kyle Austin added 18 points. Riverside was able to get its second conference win because of a late 9-1 run, which gave them a nice cushion. As for the Anteaters, it was their second loss of the week and their fourth of their last five. It doesn't look promising for them as they host Pacific on Thursday.
Conference Overview
Pacific added two more conference wins to its resume this week by beating Fullerton 80-73 on Thursday and UC Davis 77-61 on Saturday. Currently, the Tigers do not have a player who averages above 10 points a game, but have seven players that average above five a game. The Tigers' conference lead is thin as the Gauchos of Santa Barbara won both of their conference matchups this past week. UCSB is shooting a conference best 36.3% from the behind the three point arc.
Cal Poly is riding a three game win streak, which has landed them a half game behind Pacific for the conference lead. The Mustangs went on a late 9-0 run to barely squeeze by Cal State Northridge, defeating the Matadors 73-72. The Matadors' senior guard Mark Hill led all scorers 24 points. Senior guard Lorenzo Keeler scored 23 points while sophomore forward David Hanson added 15. The Mustangs have won eight of their last 13 games.
UC Davis has lost three of four, but the Aggies have three of the conferences top scorers. Junior guard Mark Payne leads the Big West in scoring, averaging 17.6 points. Senior forward Dominic Calegari averages 16.4 points as well as grabbing 5.7 rebounds a game. Junior guard Joe Harden averages 13.9 points per game while snatching 7.1 rebounds per game. The Aggies have a half-game lead on the Titans for the fourth spot in the conference.
As for the bottom five teams in the conference only UC Riverside is coming off a win. The Highlanders are 2-5 in conference play this season yet are only a half game back of Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge. The Titans are first in the conference in field goal percentage shooting 45.0 percent. The 49ers have the Big West's best scoring offense, averaging 72.6 point per game.
Lenny Daniel was named conference player of the week after he led Cal State Northridge to three straight wins a week ago. During the stretch, Daniel averaged a double-double scoring 13.7 points per game and 10.7 rebounds per game. Daniel is currently third in the league in rebounding.
Important Matchups
On Thursday night 1/28, UC Santa Barbara takes on Cal Poly for second place of the conference. The winner has an opportunity to move into second place if Pacific were to lose on the road to UC Irvine. With either the Gauchos or the Mustangs winning on Thursday, Pacific has a must-win game against the Anteaters if they want to maintain their conference lead. Both games have late tips at 10:00 E.T.


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Happy Moon Festival! This year I am making an effort to celebrate Moon Festival on my own. Since moving away from home for a few years now, certain holidays have just been casually acknowledged. Moon Festival is such a great holiday to bring family and friends together, it is definitely a tradition I want to keep and pass along. In my childhood, we will lay out fruits, tea, and mooncakes on a table by an open window facing the moon. At night, mom will gather us together to observe the bright, beautiful full moon with lit lanterns and candles. Then we'll go ahead and eat throughout the night until bedtime. In my nostalgic endeavor, Yip and I went to the Asian markets to buy mooncakes and an assortment of fruits. Here are some festive fruits we got:
Longan "Dragon Eye" (Doesn't it look like an eyeball with its lacquered black seed)
Star Fruit
Dragon Fruit
Lotus seed paste and egg yolk mooncakes are Yip's favorites. Most friends I know simply eat a slice and we are good for the year! Yip is the only one I know who can eat a whole box of mooncakes by himself! So it was difficult for him to wait and not eat them before I got to perform all my celebratory duties like taking these pictures. We celebrated in our community Movie in the Park event. Instead of lanterns, kids here were running around with glow sticks:) With the beautiful moon in sight, we had a little picnic with mooncake and fruits while watching Back to the Future.


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Rather than a white elephant, for the ODA McAslan designed a lean, rust-red monument of a power plant in Stratford, writes Felix Mara. Photography by Hufton + Crow
As a nation of heritage enthusiasts, Britain deserves the white elephants that have been foisted on it, notably by Giles Gilbert Scott, architect of London's strangely popular Battersea Power Station. But white elephants were precisely what the ODA, development authority for the London 2012 Olympic Park, did not want, least of all in the case of the flagship energy centre designed by John McAslan + Partners to house the plant for its super-green but invisible district energy system, built, commissioned and substantially up and running in time for the Games' opening ceremony last July. Although it seemed unlikely to enter the catalogue of six-week architectural wonders alongside pre-2012 Olympic sporting venues, the 50-year operational life of Scott's behemoth was a reminder that McAslan's design required adequate contingency provisions.
Like Lyall Bills & Young's Stratford Box Pumping Station, also designed for the incipient Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, McAslan's energy centre at King's Yard and its scaled-down doppelgänger serving Stratford City and Westfield, raises questions about the limits of an architect's remit. Process engineers and others were responsible for the strategic design of the CCHP and biomass plant housed by the energy centre, as well as its siting and the 35km underground district energy system it serves, which substantially underwrites the environmental performance credentials of the park's sporting venues.
The strategy to use the energy centre as a huge heat exchanger converting return hot water to coolth, and the decisions to install one biomass boiler, with space provision for another, and to use gas rather than alternative fuels, which might have lowered CO2 emission, were not McAslan's. Arup determined the centre's volume, while the ODA imposed height and scale restrictions. These variables would have been the same, irrespective of the choice of architect.
McAslan's expertise came into play in the design of the energy centre itself and its performance, working with the process engineer and Cofely East London Energy - which took a 40-year concession to operate the facility - to develop an organisational diagram for the energy centre. Above all other considerations, the ODA wanted it to be flexible and adaptable, enabling Cofely to augment, replace, reconfigure, upgrade and repair equipment, in addition to facilitating future changes of use in the volatile environment of British energy and infrastructure strategy. To these ends, McAslan's design for the new building and its retrofit of the adjacent Edwardian structure, a former sweet factory, provides large spans and high ceilings.
The new building also has a modular steel structure and its principal facades have panels which can be removed to provide access for plant, with a surface layer of Cor-ten mesh to screen louvre and fenestration adaptations in the underlying weathering envelope, retaining its flush, uniform, monolithic appearance. Its high ceilings and precast floor design loadings broaden the options for changes of use and could accommodate mezzanines. This flexibility also meant architectural design and construction could proceed in parallel with plant procurement.
The energy centre's detailed design and specification was also critical to its environmental performance. The recyclable Cor-ten mesh will age gracefully and endure. Aluminium, whose specification at the park was policed by the ODA because of embodied energy concerns, clads only the ground floor. The use of recycled and recyclable materials and waste minimisation provisions, which included co-ordinating EPDM roll widths with the sizes of the SIPs they are bonded to, is thoroughly documented in AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman's London 2012 Sustainable Design (John Wiley & Sons). As Hartman observes, the post-Games strategy to use the facility as a community energy centre serving future developments, partly fuelled by local renewable resources, rather than transmitting energy from remote power plants, conserves energy. However, McAslan associate Aaran Pexton explains that the option of a green or brown roof was rejected because of concerns about plant access, adaptability and bird control.
Concern for the local community transcended energy supply. The energy centre's pre-1989 Checkpoint Charlie locale will soon be transformed, becoming a new west entrance to the park. The former sweet factory will be reintegrated with the neighbourhood to the west, where future development is planned. It houses offices for Cofely as well as biomass plant. 'It gets through an artic-load of wood chips every day,' says Cofely design manager Stephan Budasz. The massive external masonry walls running the building's length remain uninsulated, balanced by enhanced provision elsewhere.
Original timber trusses were retained, with strengthening steelwork, and all existing windows were replicated. It will also house an educational visitors' centre, scheduled to open this summer. NORD's sublime Primary Substation (AJS 11.09), with its tough, perforated black brickwork and Make's rather more dour Copper Box, complete the energy centre's context. 'The main challenge was the industrial building typology,' says McAslan design director Kevin Lloyd.
'These buildings are usually aluminium boxes.' The energy centre's main volume is indeed a large, 18m-high rectangular box, but a filigree veil mitigates the raw geometry. Its Cor‑ten has heavy industrial nuances and evokes Stratford's railway legacy. The energy centre's programme also offered opportunities to elaborate on its sculptural qualities. A 45m-high flue tower counterbalancing the principal volume's horizontal thrust casts the structure as an abstracted zoomorph, with a gaping head resembling Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion: on its rooftop, an array of plant like a stegosaurus's dorsal scales and large, bendy, flange-coupled ducts like puffy black caterpillars; at its hindquarters, three 20m-high water tanks and a rhythmical flame-red escape staircase in heated chromatic dialogue with the mesh's earthy hues.
An inclined, umbilical link bridge tows its Edwardian satellite and the glazed ground-level shop front reveals the complex processes within.
If you lamented the energy centre's lack of human scale and wrote this off as big, nasty and opaque, you'd be missing the point. Like Scott's power stations, or for that matter, like an ancient Greek temple or the Great Pyramid at Giza, this is a monument.
The mysterious, unpredictable forces of energy our lives ultimately depend on reside within. But it's no memorial. McAslan's energy centre has the gravitas of Battersea, without its reactionary bombast, stasis or intransigence; reverting to the heroic, dynamic optimism of Russian Constructivism, ennobling efficiency, utility and technology, with a raw, demountable aesthetic - the architectural equivalent of an El Lissitzky Proun. Observing the way its orange glow on a hazy Stratford skyline conjures up memories of northern mill towns, you might even call it post-post-industrial.
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In the last snapshot of the Bay Area's housing market to be released in 2012, November continued yearlong trends that have rewarded investors, challenged first-time homebuyers and sent prices upward.
A shortage of homes for sale and competition from buyers paying cash jacked up the median price of a single-family home by double-digit percentage increases from a year ago, real estate information company DataQuick reported Thursday.
The report reflects a year of dramatic changes in a housing market battered by the collapse of a bubble and the credit crunch that followed in 2008. The year saw bidding wars at every level of the market as prices rose in response to strong demand for homes in the East Bay, Peninsula and South Bay.
Sales of all types of homes in the nine-county Bay Area were the highest for any November since 2006, DataQuick said. But that was still below the average going back to 1988.
Median sales prices for single-family homes in November reached $667,000 in San Mateo County; $616,000 in Santa Clara County; $448,500 in Alameda County and $320,000 in Contra Costa County.
"We're getting multiple offers on anything that shows well and is priced well," said Joe Cutrufelli, manager at Alain Pinel Realtors in Walnut Creek. "We're seeing it from the bottom all the way up" the price range, he said. "I feel sorry for first-time homebuyers."
This year, bidding wars for scarce homes have been largely won by people who can pay cash.
"For every qualified buyer there are many more ready-cash buyers," said Doreen Roberts, president of the Bay East Association of Realtors. "Every property that comes on the market receives incredible attention," she said, with some commanding 20 to 40 offers.
Pleasanton broker Don Faught, who is 2013 president of the California Association of Realtors, said one client just back from Afghanistan was struggling to buy a home with a VA loan.
"No one will touch him. He's going up against all-cash buyers, who typically are investors. That's a terrible consequence of what's going on in the market," Faught said. "But definitely, prices are going in a positive direction."
A drop in foreclosure sales is also contributing to the mismatch between a flood of buyers and the number of homes for sale. Those sales reached the lowest level in the Bay Area for any month since 2007, DataQuick reported. The drop reflects a switch by banks to short sales and loan modifications to deal with homeowners who had fallen behind on their mortgage payments.
The pressure on prices is beginning to pull more underwater homes — worth less than their mortgages — back above water, stirring hopes for a stronger recovery in the spring.
"It will take until about March for sellers to catch up to the fact that now that they have a little more equity they can put their house on the market," said Suzanne Yost, president of the Silicon Valley Association of Realtors.
Although November's sales of existing single-family homes were down from October in a normal seasonal trend, the East Bay, Peninsula and Silicon Valley had gains of 15 to 19 percent from the previous year.
The median sales price rose more than 20 percent in Contra Costa and San Mateo counties, 17.3 percent in Santa Clara County and about 10 percent in San Mateo County.
The median sales price for condos in the nine-county Bay Area jumped almost 36 percent to $350,000 from a year earlier, reaching $456,750 in San Mateo County, $396,500 in Santa Clara County, $286,000 in Alameda County and $227,500 in Contra Costa County.
Reflecting steadily increasing prices, the percentage of homes sold in November for less than $500,000 dropped nearly 13 percent from a year earlier, while the number sold for more than that increased 36 percent, DataQuick said.
"There were definitely signs of recovery at every level of the market" in 2012, said Barbara Lymberis, president of the Santa Clara County Association of Realtors.
Distressed property sales, a combination of foreclosure and short sales, accounted for 35 percent of the market, down from 50 percent a year ago.
Foreclosure resales were another 11.5 percent of the market, but that was down sharply from 25.2 percent a year ago. It was the lowest number of foreclosure resales since November 2007, DataQuick reported.
Short sales, in which a home is sold for less than the amount of its mortgage, made up 23 percent of the sales in November.
Investors were out in force, typically paying cash. Absentee buyers bought 24.4 percent of all Bay Area homes in October, well above the monthly average of 14.7 percent going back to 2000.
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Aaron Rodgers caused a small commotion after the game yesterday when asked about the gameplan going into the Lions game. Greg Bedard posed the original question and got this as Rodgers' initial response:
Offensively we've got to find our identity again I think we've got to make sure that we've got our best players on the field at all times and find ways to get them the ball. We had some ad-libs today where we hit Donald (Driver) on the big play today. Take that play away and there's clearly not a whole lot of production...I think we need to find ways to keep our best players on the field and find ways to get them the ball.
Bedard, much to his credit, followed up on that, asking Rodgers to clarify his statement in regards to keeping "the best players on the field".
Rodgers response:
We had great production last week getting in the shotgun, spreading them out. Chicago is a tough scheme. I think Detroit runs their scheme well but I don't think we gave them a chance (by) spreading them out enough to find those mismatches. When we did, I think we were pretty productive.
And after a few other questions, Bedard circled back one last time, asking Rodgers specifically if he though the offenses identity should be the spread we saw last Monday night, specifically throughout the second half against the Bears.
I think you have to see what's working. We had a lot of success last week. Chicago plays a different scheme than Detroit does but I think we can dink and dunk out of the spread and I think we can attack down the field. We need to continue to find ways to keep our best weapons on the field at all times.
Let it be said loud and clear, far and wide:
Aaron Rodgers is absolutely right.
Now, Bedard has a point when he says that all quarterbacks are biased, that they almost always want to throw more and think they are the best option when it comes to moving the football. At least the better quarterbacks do. But Rodgers is spot on when he looks at an offense that, when presented with a 3rd and 2 in the first quarter, ran John Kuhn on a stretch play out of a shotgun set.
That, in a word, is stupid. And Rodgers knows it.
Mike McCarthy will no doubt be having some words with his quarterback tomorrow, if he hasn't already. But when he does, I hope he allows Rodgers to plead his case. In a way, this is similar to what they went through last year after the Bengals game, where Rodgers made a public plea to McCarthy to send more guys out in pass patterns and let him take care of getting rid of the ball, rather than keeping more guys in to protect. (This concept was the basis of an article in the Maple Street Press' Packers Annual by Chris Brown of Smart Football. If you haven't yet, but your copy here. And thank me later.)
I know some fans might point at Rodgers two interceptions as reason for trying to "establish a running game" (I hate that phrase) and "take some pressure of Rodgers" (another ridiculous concept) but I have zero problem with either of the throws Rodgers made there. The throw up the right sideline where he thought Jennings was ready for a back-shoulder throw was just a case of two guys being on different pages. It happens. And on the second one, he has Jennings one-on-one after the Lions double Finley. Like Rodgers said after the game, you throw that 10 out of 10 times, no questions asked. It was almost a freak play how Jennings was off balance just enough for the cornerback to take it away from him and come down with it.
Look, I've been one of the people saying Rodgers needs to be more aggressive - a thought he echoed this summer during training camp, saying he wanted to take more calculated risks when guys were seemingly "covered". With that, you take the good and the bad. Yes the deep ball to Jennings was unfortunate, but how could anyone argue with the laser to Finley in the endzone? That's a throw Rodgers has no business making, but the result is a touchdown. The only concern I might have with the second Jennings throw would be that it came on first down after the defense had already been on the field for a day and a half. But again, with Jennings singled up deep, its hard not to take a shot.
Rodgers is absolutely right to say the Packers did their best work on offense when they spread the Bears out and moved up and down the field using short passes in lieu of the running game. If Thompson and McCarthy are steadfast in their belief that Brandon Jackson and John Kuhn are all they need at running back, the least they can do is ride the player and the gameplan that gives them the best chance at winning - and that is Aaron Rodgers throwing the football, not trying to prove that they can run the football.
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Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet was asked to leave the Los Angeles Dodgers game Saturday night after reportedly getting into an argument with another fan, according to TMZ.
The Emmy winner, 41, reportedly said something to a St. Louis Cardinals fan after the fan heckled a Dodgers player, according to the site. The two exchanged words and security eventually intervened and asked Stonestreet to leave. According to video footage of the incident, the man Stonestreet argued with was also asked to leave.
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Stonestreet is nominated for an outstanding supporting actor in a comedy Emmy for the third year in a row. Modern Family returns with new episodes on Wednesday, Sept. 26 at 9/8c on ABC.


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Photos of Sochi's Olympic construction, showing piles of trash, unfinished sidewalks, and half-built hotels, are making the Internet rounds today, seemingly proof that one week before the opening ceremony, Sochi is "screwed." A consensus seems to be building that thanks to construction delays and evidence of massive corruption, serious concerns about terrorism, and the harsh spotlight the event has focused on the treatment of LGBT people in Russia, the event is going to be an embarrassing fiasco for Vladimir Putin's government. I wouldn't count on it. Or at least, if things do go wrong, it's not going to be in the embarrassing but not catastrophic way that Vladimir Putin's international critics seem to be hoping for.
First, some historical perspective is needed. Bad press is always a feature of the lead-up to these events, but usually swiftly dissipates once the competitions are underway. It's never as bad as it looks like it's going to be a few weeks before the opening ceremony.
Six weeks before the Athens Olympics in 2004, the New York Times worriedly reported that "the main Olympic park and the soccer stadium are still construction sites" and that officials were "running out of time" to install proper security measures just a few months after the catastrophic Madrid train bombing.
The news in the run-up to the Beijing Olympics was dominated by human rights protesters disrupting the torch relay, a harsh crackdown on protesters in Xinjiang, international calls for boycott over China's support for Sudan, and the deaths of workers in stadium construction. Today, the arrest of AIDS activist Hu Jia and eight American pro-Tibet protesters during the games is remembered quite a bit less than the stunning opening ceremonies and Michael Phelps' record-breaking performance in the pool.
In the run-up to South Africa's World Cup in 2010, concerns about construction delays, strikes, and crime, reached the point that FIFA President Sepp Blatter admitted there was a backup plan in place if the country turned out not to be ready. (Things weren't helped by Fleet Street scare stories that made it seem as though Britons would be mugged, murdered, and infected with AIDS the moment they got off the plane.) The event went fine.
Even London's Olympics were the subject of pessimism about the city's preparedness from the press and certain U.S. presidential candidates thanks to construction delays, the fragile state of the British economy, and an embarrassing scandal over security preparations.
And while I've poked some fun at Sochi's subtropical climate, it's worth keeping in mind that Vancouver wasn't exactly frigid and the skiing events are being held some distance away from the city.
I don't mean to minimize the human rights concerns around the games themselves and Russia in general, and I'll grant that the problems facing Sochi have been more serious than those facing previous games. I can certainly think of better ways to spend $51 billion. But this kind of coverage can also serve to lower expectations.
As long as the Olympics facilities hold up for two weeks—if history is any guide, they may never be used again after that—there isn't a major terrorist attack, nothing too awful happens to any spectators, and there isn't a major political protest that has to be broken up by police in the middle of action, the games will probably be considered a surprising success by the standards of the pre-event coverage. If major headline-grabbing event doesn't happen during the games, NBC's cameras will remain fixed on the ice rink and the slopes, not the unfinished sidewalks.
Such an event is certainly not out of the question—hopefully, if it does happen, it will be more 1968 than 1972—but given the number of large institutions that have a vested interest in the Olympics going well, most likely, things will turn out somewhat better than expected, and we can all do this again for Brazil this summer.


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A coalition of media outlets is fighting to keep the courtroom open next week for a hearing about the sanity of Colorado movie theater shooting suspect James Holmes.
Holmes' attorneys have asked the judge to bar the public and the press from hearing pretrial testimony from the psychiatrist who evaluated Holmes' sanity.
The judge hasn't ruled on the request.
Media outlets including The Associated Press filed a response Wednesday, saying the First Amendment guarantees access to pretrial hearings on a defendant's mental health.
Holmes pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to charges of killing 12 people and injuring 70 in a suburban Denver movie theater in 2012. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Holmes underwent a mandatory sanity evaluation last summer. The conclusions haven't been made public.
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Falling leaves and wet weather conditions during the autumn months have the potential to cause "slippery rail" conditions when fallen leaves are crushed by train wheels. The crushed material becomes pectin, an oily residue that can make it difficult for trains to gain or maintain traction, maintain proper speeds or climb steep grades. Glen Ridge Station is located at the bottom of a steep hill to its west. Effective Monday, October 15, NJ TRANSIT will begin stopping westbound trains at the far east end of the westbound platform to improve the ability of westbound trains to gain speed and traction prior to reaching the hill. NJ TRANSIT will continue this procedure through the end of November. Customers disembarking at Glen Ridge Station on westbound (outbound) trains must be in the first two cars of the train. Please board the first two cars at your origin station (i.e. New York/Newark) to avoid having to walk through the train. We appreciate your understanding as we work to mitigate the effects of slippery rail.For information and language assistance, please call NJ TRANSIT Customer Service at (973) 275-5555 between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily.


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Dogs are loyal.
Parents can be loyal, to a fault.
Fans are loyal, until the team starts to lose.
Employees are loyal, but not as much as they used to be.
A friend is loyal, especially when defending your honor.
A spouse should be loyal, showing faithfulness to their vows.
Loyalty was discussed all of the time in my house growing up although I did not think of it until I was an adult. I was raised knowing that loyalty was one of the utmost characteristics which would secure a relationship no matter if the relationship was personal or business. My father used to always talk about people who "always" bought their car from him, or in the negative, "never" bought their car from him. The worst insult you could levy on my father was to shop his store then buy from a competitor.
Today my son is coming home to compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships at Erie County Community College's natatorium. This is a dream come true for him… junior at Fairfield University swimming NCAA Division I at a pool where he competed in high school. Many of his family and friends who have never had the opportunity to see him swim in college can stop by this week and experience a little of the excitement that championships bring.
So what of loyalty? My alma mater and employer, Canisius College is hosting this championship! Although I will be decked out in Fairfield red and will act as a host for the parents, I will be wearing my Golden Griffin pin and Canisius Athletics jacket.
As those great philosophers, the Beach Boys once sang:
"So be true to your school now
Just like you would to your girl or guy
Be true to your school now
And let your colors fly
Be true to your school"
Life is good!
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It's been more than 40 years since Watergate, but the old story—and its characters—made news once again with the Washington premiere of Robert Redford's new documentary about the scandal. And Top Line snagged red carpet interviews with the big stars of the night: Robert Redford, Bob Woodward, and Carl Bernstein.
Redford's new documentary All the President's Men Revisited takes a historical look at the scandal—and the investigative reporting by Woodward and Bernstein—that ultimately led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Redford, who says "we need a lot of people like Woodward and Bernstein" today, hopes the documentary is a good resource for young aspiring reporters who come to journalism in the age of the Internet.
"The Internet changed everything," says Redford. "There's so many voices claiming the truth, it's harder and harder to get to it."
While Redford says it's up to the audience to decide whether modern technology has altered journalism for the better or worse, Woodward and Bernstein agree that the fast pace set by technology sometimes sacrifices thoroughness and accuracy.
When asked how the Watergate story might have been covered differently in the modern day, Woodward replies: "It might be on Twitter, but you can't get what Watergate was about in 140 characters. 40 years ago, we could work two weeks on a story before it had to be published; now it looks like if you have an advance on the story can we get it on the website in 10 minutes."
They also agree that thorough investigative reporting is still achievable.
"I think there would be some great reporting and emphasis on same techniques that we used, visiting people at night, and then I think there'd also be an awful lot of people who rush out, come to a conclusion without much information," says Bernstein.
To hear more about the documentary, which will air on the Discovery Channel on May 4th at 10 AM/EST, and to hear how Woodward says he disappointed many dates in the 70's by not being Robert Redford, check out this episode of Top Line.
ABC's Eric Wray, Alexandra Dukakis, John Bullard, and Mark Rabin contributed to this episode.


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What does Desperate Housewives, Sex and the City and the new ABC show Dirty Sexy Money all have in common? You guessed it – Sex! We are inundated with so many explicit messages from Hollywood about sex. In a culture obsessed with sex, it might seem surprising that we don't hear more about sex addiction. However, there is plenty of information for people addicted to alcohol, drugs and gambling. In a culture where sex, like alcohol, is socially acceptable and encouraged, and sexual images and provocation abound, it becomes more challenging to distinguish between normal sexuality and excessive, or abnormal, sexual behavior. However we are becoming better able to understand and treat this sexual disorder.
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The National Council on Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity has defined sexual addiction as "engaging in persistent and escalating patterns of sexual behavior acted out despite increasing negative consequences to self and others." In other words, a sex addict will continue to engage in certain sexual behaviors despite facing potential health risks, financial problems, shattered relationships or even arrest.
Behaviors associated with sexual addiction include:
- Compulsive masturbation (self-stimulation)
- Multiple affairs (extra-marital affairs)
- Multiple or anonymous sexual partners and/or one-night stands
- Consistent use of pornography
- Unsafe sex
- Phone or computer sex (cybersex)
- Prostitution or use of prostitutes
- Exhibitionism
- Obsessive dating through personal ads
- Voyeurism (watching others) and/or stalking
- Sexual harassment
- Molestation/rape
What causes Sexual Addiction?
Sexual addiction can simply be seen as a coping mechanism (much as alcohol is to the alcoholic, food to the overeater, etc.). However, as with many mental health issues, the causes of this addiction are complex. I often see some common themes such as: abuse in childhood, lack of adequate nurturing as a child, intimacy problems, depression, anxiety and certain ingrained personality factors. Another significant contribution is the way men are socialized.
The research of Dr. Patrick Carnes, the leading authority on sexual addiction, has led him to estimate that about 60% of adult sex addicts were sexually abused by someone during their childhood.
Differences between Men and Women in Sex Addiction
The "triple A" engine of the Internet – Accessibility, Affordability, and Anonymity – is drawing women, as well as men, into its dark side. Female Internet activity, though, is generally more relational. Women are drawn more to chat rooms, rather then merely viewing pornography. Another way women get drawn into sex addiction can be obsessively reading hot steamy novels or watching "love" movies and then letting their minds wonder to the possibilities that they are the main character in the book or on the screen.
Healing from Sex Addiction Through Counseling and Therapy in the Orlando Area
There are a number of key ingredients that make recovery possible. I'll discuss just a few.
- Relationships. Supportive relationships can assist in healing the trauma and the key to long-term recovery. Addicts cannot recover in isolation. Addicts were wounded in relationships, and they have to heal in relationships. Fellowship is also the antidote to lust. Healthy fellowship is what will help the addict become free from lust.
- Accountability. It's not enough to just have fellowship. Addicts can have fellowship that does not involve accountability, and that's not going to solve the problem. Addicts need people who know their story and who will hold them accountable for the rituals as well as for the acting out.
- Counseling. The Twelve Steps lead addicts through a methodical process that focuses on their addictive behaviors and on the defects of character that underlie the addictive behaviors. But the Twelve Steps, as wonderful and useful as they are, will not adequately address all the problems of abuse and abandonment that are at the root of sexual addiction. That's not their goal. The goal of Twelve Step programs is sobriety. And sobriety gives us an opportunity to work on the other problems that have led to the addictions or that accompany the addictions.
- Courage. Recovery requires courage. It is a difficult journey—and one that is not undertaken lightly or easily. For many giving up an addiction feels like death. It is the addiction that has helped individuals cope with the wounds of abuse and abandonment. When there are no other, healthier coping skills, becoming abstinent from the addictions can be an absolutely terrifying, incredibly painful process. That's another reason why the fellowship and accountability is so important. Without support individuals will inevitably retreat into "safer" territory.
- Grace. The experience of grace is central to the recovery process.
Sexual Addictions Group Meetings in the Orlando and Winter Park Florida area
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Faithful and True – Men's Sexual Addictions Group at Northland Church, Mondays at 7:30pm
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SOCORRO, N.M., March 21, 2002 -- New Mexico Tech has boosted the upper limits on the school's top three merit-based scholarships by at least $1,000, making the state-supported research university's scholarship programs one of the best available anywhere when associated costs of attendance are factored into nationwide comparisons.
New Mexico Tech's top scholarship for first-time students, the Gold Scholarship, was raised by $1,000 to a $6,000 per year limit, as was the university's second-tier scholarship, the Silver Scholarship, which was boosted to a $5,000 per year limit.
Meanwhile, the amount of money awarded to first-time students receiving Presidential Scholarships at Tech also was raised by $1,300 to a new limit of $4,000 per year.
Amounts for New Mexico Tech's various scholarships for transfer students also were hiked, with $2,500 more now available for Phi Theta Kappa Scholarship recipients ($6,000 per year) and $1,500 more for Transfer Excel Scholarships, which top off at $5,000 per year.
"When we decided to raise the dollar amounts for all our scholarships, we did so with the goal of making the scholarships on the transfer side and the first-time student side equal in terms of dollar amounts," says Roderigo M. Padilla, financial aid counselor and scholarship coordinator at New Mexico Tech's Financial Aid Office.
"We thought that implementing this type of approach to boosting our scholarships would be especially important in making New Mexico Tech more attractive to students who are financing their own education and are concerned with getting the best value for their money," Padilla adds.
The cost of attending New Mexico Tech -- tuition, fees, and room and board--runs about $6,800 per academic year, Padilla notes; and, when the New Mexico Lottery Success Scholarship is "stacked" on top of their merit-based scholarships, Tech students who attend on Gold Scholarships often find themselves in the enviable position of having 115 percent of their costs of attendance paid for strictly by scholarship monies.
"New Mexico Tech adds the money from Lottery Scholarships right on top of any other scholarships an in-state student might be receiving," Padilla says. "We are the only one in the state that does that. . . . No other university, no other two-year college, no other junior college does that -- just us."
Padilla also points out that most of New Mexico Tech's scholarships are either entirely supported or matched by monies made available through one of the university's larger endowment funds, a fortunate situation in which most public universities don't often find themselves.
"Judging from all the information that I've seen, I can say without reservation that New Mexico Tech now has one of the best scholarship programs in the country, especially when you compare the relatively low costs associated with attending Tech," Padilla asserts.


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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Avoid The Free Food At Conferences
Trust me.
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I can't trust you. What's the rational behind it? It's so darn tasty.ReplyDelete
You mean "rationale", not "rational." Anyway, trust is a wonderful thing. The best way to be trusted is to trust others.ReplyDelete
Corollary: Wash your hands before eating free food[ at conferences].ReplyDelete
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Broken front window :*(
Broken front window :*(
It seems that in an effort to reuce weight Tesla may have gone with a thinner windshield.
Geez, I know TM is big on vertical integration, but making windshields? A glass plant inside Fremont? Somehow I doubt that.
Windshield replacement completed under warranty this morning. While waiting for the seal to cure I looked at the 10 Model Ss that were being prepped and detailed for delivery.
How long did the whole process take?
@Andrew 18 The windshield was replaced in about 30 minutes. I waited an additional hour for the adhesive to set.
I have the exact same crack. As long as it's replaced under warranty and they eventually address whatever the engineering issue is, it doesn't bother me too much. What bothers me is that the LA service center told me it would take "a day or two" to order the windshield. One week later (and multiple phone calls), it still hasn't arrived and I no longer have an estimate on it's arrival. It's just a continuation of Tesla's stellar communication, I guess...
All that griping aside, I still love the car.
My windshield cracked as well three weeks after I got it. I had assumed it was a rock, but I was only going about 5 MPH when I noticed it. Cost me $1150 to replace it at Fremont.
@richard.m.judy - I assume TM replaced it? Did you happen to know where the crack was? If it was half way up on the passenger side, I'd be giving TM a hard time and asking for them to refund the cost.
No, he said he paid $1150 to replace it. Maybe he should ask for his money back!
Sorry, your post confused me. Asking if TM replaced it and then if he got a refund X-d my wires.
Nick - Mine was exactly as described by many...about 1/3 of the way up the passenger side, curving upwards. I paid out of pocket assuming it was just a pebble that hit me, but I am going to call Tesla today and ask that this be covered by the warranty. My colleague who got his Tesla 3 days before me, just had the same thing happen last night to his.
I can be added to the list of having a cracked windshield, 11 days after delivery.
I just discovered the same crack in my windshield too. (Passenger side, originating from the edge midway up in the shape of a backwards "L"). I've had the car for 6 months with no problem and being in So. Cal. the weather is mild, so no obvious reason for the stress. I'm bummed becuase I had a 3M Winshield Film installed ($500) and I doubt Tesla will reimburse me for that. I'll think twice about having that installed again given this issue with the Model S windshield.
Yup, it's not a matter of if, but when all our MS's windows crack due to excessive rock dings. I actually decided against installing the 3M tint on my windshield because of how many rock dings I currently have after 5500 miles of driving on Los Angeles freeways.
Unfortunately, having amazing aerodynamics is like a magnet for stray rocks flying off of big-rigs.
Add another one to this list, have only 500 miles on car and not even 20 days after taking delivery. A small crack right in the middle of winshield and looks prominent. Hope tesla takes care of this under warranty.
What? only 25 mi/day? How did you manage that?
@ TikiMan, amazing aerodynamics should actually avoid getting hit by rocks because of the low surface area and low profile nature of the car. Tesla supposedly solved the windshield cracking problem with the first batch of cars that rolled off the line, I'm surprised with the report of a delivery taken in June still having this problem.
@vbandl01, could your crack be due to an impact?
Some cracks happen to external impact not any product defect. About a year ago a relative of mine bought a brand new Japanese Mobile :) for close to 45K....while she was driving on a freeway some relatively tiny solid object hit her windshield. Now she has a huge crack on her front windshield the size of about 7 inches. Incredibly her insurance company nor her vehicle warranty cover her damage, though she has FULL insurance coverage on her car...........


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There is a debate raging between the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) – and LEED certification is caught in the middle. Treehugger reports that the latest battleground is in North Carolina, which recently introduced legislation that would effectively ban LEED in the state. The legislation follows on the heels of similar bills that banned LEED in Maine and the Department of Defense in 2011. Is this an ominous sign of things to come as more state governments bow down to the almighty dollar – or will protecting the world's forests prevail?
LEED certification is highly desirable in the construction market, and everyone wants to be a part of it. Right now, wood certified by the FSC is the only wood acknowledged by the LEED system because it has proven to be environmentally sustainable. But the SFI wants to be a part of the process as well. The only problem is that most people consider SFI certified wood to be significantly less environmentally friendly than FSC wood. Rather than improving their own standards, the SFI has chosen to fight for acceptance, claiming that LEED has created a monopoly for FSC wood.
After years of fighting, — and failing — to be accepted by LEED, the SFI has changed tactics. Instead of trying to be a part of LEED, they now want to get rid of it. Their latest move is to lobby states to ban LEED on the basis that it is unfair to American-grown wood. The SFI claims that the FSC favors foreign wood and so builders should support locally grown lumber. Besides being untrue, it's also misleading to consumers – SFI wood avoids foreign labor markets because they don't want to enforce fair labor practices and respect the rights of indigenous people.
In North Carolina, this has translated to legislation that proposes that any certification process in the state must give equal weight to SFI and FSC certified wood. Only time will tell if North Carolina will pass the legislation and if other states will follow suite.
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See on Scoop.it – Aspiring Outliers
Ask anyone to name the most popular social media tools used by students, and it's a safe bet everybody could name the top two: Facebook and Twitter.
But those are far from the only online applications making inroads. As administrators warm to engaging students through social media, the list of potential resources at their disposal grows longer by the day.
Facebook and Twitter are the obvious choices. But there are other options- Tumblr, YouTube and Google+, to name three.
Of course, if naming the latest social media tools seems tough, learning how to use them all is harder still. In an attempt to shorten the learning curve, Flowtown and Column Five published this Social Media Cheat Sheet for your reference…
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Sam works in a convenience store off the highway on weeknights. Generally, Tuesday nights are pretty slow and Sam has plenty of time to read. Tonight however, he'd had a steady flow of customers since his shift started four hours ago. He suddenly realized that his last five customers had been a bit odd too. Usually, he got lots of people stopping for coffee or some other drink while they were on the road. Some would get munchies to go with the drinks. Locals would stop by for the paper or lottery tickets. His last five customers had all bought one drink and one bag of chips. The strange part was that each had bought a different drink but the same type of chips... but each also had a different flavor of the chips. Thinking back, he also realized that each had driven a different type of car in a different color. Knowing how common black, red, and white cars are, that in itself was very odd. Shaking his head, he shrugged and picked up his book again. Maybe this time he'd get more than a few minutes to read... Determine the color (one was green) and type of each car (one was a Chevrolet) used by Sam's last five customers, the kind of drink each bought, and the flavor of chips each bought.
1. The guy in the yellow Toyota didn't buy the sour cream & onion chips. The lady who bought the Dr. Pepper drove a black car.
2. The woman who bought the salt & vinegar chips drove a blue car. The Mercedes driver didn't get the ginger ale.
3. The one who bought the Pepsi didn't drive a Toyota but she did buy the barbecue chips.
4. The one who bought the ginger ale didn't drive a red Lexus.
5. The one who drove the Saturn, which wasn't blue, bought a can of Crush but not the plain chips.
6. The guy who bought the Coke also bought ranch chips.
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Singer Janis Siegel can't be categorized by her music or the people she sings with. Her repertoire includes Broadway, jazz, rhythm and blues, swing and other genres, both as a solo performer and as a member of the four-part jazz group The Manhattan Transfer.
Siegel will showcase her vocal talents with The Manhattan Transfer at Koerner Hall in Toronto on March 8 in a Royal Conservatory of Music concert. She also may sing a solo from her latest CD, Night Songs, a collection of Caribbean and Latin-flavoured songs.
Siegel is the rare singer to have dual careers – singing for 41 years with The Manhattan Transfer while also performing solo for 32 years and never leaving the group for her solo career.
"I love all aspects of music. I never want to stop the individual style of singing solo, and yet, at the same time,
I always enjoyed the beauty of singing in harmony," the 61-year-old Siegel said in a phone conversation from her home in New York.
The Manhattan Transfer's original four members, including Siegel, have endured longer than The Beatles, The Four Seasons and most other vocal groups.
"All four of us care and have both professional and personal friendships that have endured for decades," Siegel said. "We instinctively know how to harmonize and which songs fit best for each singer in the group. It is a blessing for me to have been with The Manhattan Transfer for most of my life."
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Siegel started singing at age 12 with the group The Young Generation, and released two singles on record while still a teen. She had no intention of making singing a career, studying nursing in college, but a chance meeting with Tim Hauser, who was to create The Manhattan Transfer with Siegel and two other singers, led her to a new path.
"I loved singing, and the thought of doing it full time for a kid who loved Motown, Beatles, jazz and Streisand was too enticing to resist. I never had any regrets for choosing singing as my career."
Over her career, Siegel has earned nine Grammy Awards and 17 nominations for her music, both with The Manhattan Transfer and as a solo performer. Her strong vocals led to songs such as Operator, Chanson D'Amour and Route 66 becoming hits for The Manhattan Transfer.
Less well-known are Siegel's strong Jewish roots and love of Judaism, especially because she has been romantically involved with Rabbi Harry Levin for several years.
"Harry has made me appreciate his deep connection and love for Judaism that inspires me and [makes me] wish to share the more meaningful values and ethics of our religion."
Siegel has used her vocal talents to express her joy at being Jewish. In the 1993 film Swing Boys, set in Nazi Germany, she gave a stirring emotional interpretation of the famed Yiddish song Bei Mir Bist Du Schein.
She also teamed with Jewish vocal partner Alan Paul of The Manhattan Transfer in the 2008 CD Jewish Songbook, singing vocal harmony in the song Ut A Zoi.
The Manhattan Transfer has performed in Israel many times and will perform there again in May.
"I especially enjoyed my first trip, taking my parents to see me perform there, and it was thrilling," Siegel said.
Siegel performs with The Manhattan Transfer March 8, 8 p.m., at Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor St. W. in downtown Toronto. For tickets, call 416-408-0208 or go to www.rcmusic.ca.


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seems like it's been raining all night and all morning and i am sitting in my Stefan chair (see this post for an explanation), doing a little proofreading of a very fine companion guide to Lost's final season, looking at my new T-Rex pal, and drinking what i'm sure is too much coffee.
my reading frenzy continues with: Megan McCafferty's Sloppy Firsts (loved it; this review made me pick it up); Maggie Stiefvater's Linger (between her blog, twitter, & LJ, she's quickly becoming one of my favorite authors online); Suzanne Collin's Catching Fire; Sara Zarr's Sweethearts (which also came via Forever Young Adult — their How to Judge a YA Book by Its Cover post had me rofling); the third book in the Vampire Academy series, Shadow Kiss; and Let Me In, which unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to finish before it's due back at the library. Thanks to Goodreads, I'm going to save my page and come back to it another day!
On the docket for this afternoon: trying out Smoke's Poutinerie (finally…) with four-fifths of the Knitting Club; having some sort of non-soaked-in-the-rain activity with my out-of-town pal whom I adore, Clairey, and her fiance; start in on my second half of Gossip Girl season 3 rewatch (so I can write up the continuation of these surprisingly popular posts); and loads of boring dullsville things that involve vacuums and cleaning products and yawns.
Word on the street (and by that I mean twitter…) is that Amazon.com is shipping Love You to Death a few days early, so watch your mailbox, folks with pre-ordered copies! (Thanks for the head's up, @Katelinnea!) There's still time to enter the giveaway over at Bite on This and/or the Vampire Stalkers giveaway — and remember to tune in to the VRO on Tuesday if you'd like to hear me chatting about the book and TVD. I'm really excited about it.
There are only 11 hours and some-odd minutes left in the Vampire Support auction of a signed copy of my book! Keep on bidding — proceeds are going to a great cause! Check out the Vampire Support blog for a fun Ian Somerhalder & Candice Accola related update…
i better go get ready for the "poutine hangout" — got a haircut recently and who knows what my shorter bangs are up to. yikes.


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2013-14: Lettered as a first-year ... will look to gain additional court time as a sophomore.
2012-13: Saw limited action as a first-year ... notched a 2-1 record in singles and a 2-0 doubles mark.
High School: Earned four letters each with the golf and tennis teams at Harriton High School ... helped lead the tennis team to a second-place finish at the state championships as a first-year and a third-place finish as a senior ... named the 2012 Harriton High School Male Athlete of the Year ... two-time all-league selection in singles ... won the league championship in doubles as a senior and was a state champion in doubles as a junior and senior ... received the school's United States Army Reserve National Scholar-Athlete Award.
Off the Court: Father, Larry, played golf at Pennsylvania ... brother, Alan, played golf at Lehigh and another brother, Marty, wrestled at Penn ... mother, Pam, won the 1980 Philadelphia Marathon ... undeclared major.


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Welcome to
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Cypress-Woodlands Junior Forum is a growing organization of women dedicated to providing volunteer services, leadership and philanthropy to enrich the northern corridor of Houston. In partnership with individuals, families, schools, organizations and corporations, Cypress-Woodlands Junior Forum strives to fulfill identified needs in an evolving community where the participation of its members can be most effective through education, crisis intervention, interaction with an aging population and support for people with disabilities. Cypress-Woodlands Junior Forum is widely recognized for its compassion, integrity and steadfast involvement in community outreach.
Signature Program - BookSmartBook Smart is designed to enhance interest in reading for second-grade students attending designated Title 1 schools. Members perform a play based on the book Bubba, the Cowboy Prince and provide each child with a copy of the book to take home.
Signature Program - Forum FriendsForum Friends provides large groups of senior citizens an opportunity to develop and nurture friendship and fellowship. Forum Friends is held several times a year in four locations with CWJF members providing entertainment and lunch.
Mission Statement
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In her ongoing series "The City," photographer Lori Nix creates incredibly detailed scenes by hand in miniature, then photographs them. The result is an amazing collection forecasting scenes of danger and disaster. The pictures share some commonalities with Matthew Christopher's "Abandoned America," recently covered on b/d, but instead of finding places that have been left behind, Nix constructs them.
"In my newest body of work 'The City' I have imagined a city of our future, where something either natural or as the result of mankind, has emptied the city of it's human inhabitants. Art museums, Broadway theaters, laundromats and bars no longer function. The walls are deteriorating, the ceilings are falling in, the structures barely stand, yet Mother Nature is slowly taking them over. These spaces are filled with flora, fauna and insects, reclaiming what was theirs before man's encroachment. I am afraid of what the future holds if we do not change our ways regarding the climate, but at the same time I am fascinated by what a changing world can bring."
The images are classically composed, with a balance of color and space. Even once the viewer is told that these are dioramas, it's difficult to believe. The intricate details, realistic lighting, and cohesive scale make them absolutely lifelike.
"My scenes can be as small as 50×60 centimeters and as large as 182 centimeters in diameter. It takes approximately seven months to build and photograph a scene. I build it for one angle of view and never move my camera from that spot. I will change the lighting, the placement of the objects and re-shoot until I'm fully satisfied with the results."
Nix's apocalyptic visions are both familiar and fantastic. She presents a world on a tabletop that is beautiful and alarming.


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Forms Jobs
The Office of Business Inclusion and Advancement issues a number of special permits for events, mobile carts and businesses, sidewalk dining and other permits. Below are the various permits along with further information.
To see what events are already on the schedule for street closings, see the Street Closings Due to Special Events page. For assistance or information regarding availability of date(s) and Permit Applications, please contact Vanessa Banner at 336-734-1251 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Special Events
Read application process [pdf/2p] | Download application [pdf/6p]
A permit is required for an event such as a festival, parade, or run/walk held in the public right of way or property owned or maintained by the City of Winston-Salem. (Please contact Vanessa Banner for additional forms that may be needed for your event).
Sidewalk Café
Sidewalk Cafe Application Process [pdf/4p] | Sidewalk Dining Application [pdf/4p]
A permit is required for a restaurant or bar to operate a dining area that extends onto the sidewalk or pedestrian walkway within the central business district (CB) or pedestrian business (PB) zoning districts.
A permit is required to operate a pushcart, which is any rubber-wheeled vehicle or portable cart, used for displaying, keeping or storing any articles by a vendor or peddler which may be moved without the assistance of a motor. Products such as prepared food, fruit, merchandise, drink, and flowers may be sold.
Mobile Food Unit
A permit is required to operate a vehicle, other than a pushcart, from which is vended prepared food, drink, and fresh fruit.
Foot Peddler
A permit is required to sell non-food items on foot without a pushcart or motor vehicle on public non-restricted property within the City of Winston Salem.
Street Performers/Busker
A permit is required for performances on public property within the City of Winston-Salem. A performance is an audible or visual entertainment such as, but not limited to, reciting or singing, acting, dancing, miming, pantomiming, playing a musical instrument or performing a theatrical or literary work.
Open Air
A permit is required to hold public air meetings on a public street, sidewalk, alley or mall within the City of Winston-Salem.
Pyrotechnics (Fireworks)
Pyrotechnics Permit Application [pdf/2p]
A permit is required for the exhibition, use or discharge of fireworks within the City of Winston-Salem.
A permit is required to utilize sound amplification on a public street, sidewalk, alley or mall within the City of Winston-Salem.
To learn more about Specialized Permits, please contact:
Vanessa Banner
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Utilities Propane
Find local businesses, restaurants, outdoor activites in and around Vernon Township, NJ.
Eastern Propane255 Oak Ridge Road, Oak Ridge, NJ 07438
Vernon411.com provides business listings and information about Vernon Township NJ including Highland Lakes, McAfee, Glenwood sections of Vernon. We also include business listings for Hamburg & Franklin NJ as well as New Milford & Warwick NY businesses. If you own or operate a business in Vernon and would like to be listed in the Vernon411.com directory, please visit our Get Listed page.


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Beekeeping Presentation 3/1
Many of our patrons have commented on the beautiful nature and animal photography of Lucinda VanVleck hanging in the Smart Community Room this month. We are excited that Ms. VanVleck, the secretary for the Southern Tier Beekeepers' Association, will speak about the art of beekeeping this Saturday, March 1st at 11:00am in the Smart Community Room. We hope you can join us for what promises to be an informative talk.


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Instructors in Tayside
We are currently looking for instructors for this area.
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Price includes shipping. This deck, conceived and created by Michele Penco and Pierluca Zizzi, takes for its theme the widely held belief that 2012 is a momentous year in terms of spiritual development in our race - several ancients texts point to this time as one in which mankind can count on being either killed or cured.
Accordingly the images, interpretive pointers and the especially designed reading included in the leaflet all follow concepts of self-growth and rebirth. This leads to a couple of newly assigned functions for certain cards, and theres a flavour of inner striving carried throughout.
The artwork is lavish and highly detailed , most cards displaying a remarkable use of perspective. In many cases the background adds immeasurably to the cards ability to convey its topic. There are some truly interesting juxtapositions in some of these cards for example both Sun and Moon display both heavenly bodies.
The Magician is an interesting example of this. Looking at the upper half of the card, we see a figure standing before a table upon which are various implements. This table appears to be within a draped tent of sorts. However an examination of the lower half of the card reveals an expansive valley landscape.
Major card 13 usually Death is renamed here as Ascension, though this name is not displayed on the card itself. Again here we see that anomaly of perspective a giant figure towers above city streets, drawing aside a veil which reveals the expanse of the Cosmos.
The world shows us a central figure again towering above a lush landscape, and the Elemental animals are replaced by scenes from various lands and cultures.
The Minors follow the regular Wands, Chalices, Swords, Pentacles pattern, with the Courts running Knave, Knight, Queen, King. Many of the images pay a certain acknowledgement to RW symbolism, but this is expanded and enriched to fit with the one world theme. Each card shows the symbol of the relevant suit placed around the card, though not usually woven into the actual design.
The reading included in the instruction booklet is quite interesting it is a seven-card lay-out which attempts to determine the querents current obstacles, then following through by suggesting an experience that must be gathered in order to overcome the highlighted obstacle, this process finally culminating in a last card which suggests the spiritual lift accessed by going through the steps suggested.


text: Many rack cases have threaded standoff's directly attached to the case metal. On the outside of the case one sees a hexagonal nut, and on the inside the cylindrical standoff - with no sign of the hexagonal nut. We even have one type of case with a removable motherboard tray, which is quite thin, and even here this type of standoff is employed. The question is, how are these things put together, and more specifically, how are they to be taken apart? Some of the standoffs are in the way of a larger power supply that needs to go into one of these cases. Is there a more elegant way of removing these than by grinding them off or drilling them out? I have already tried unscrewing one, on the theory the standoff might be threaded into the hex nut, but it wouldn't budge. Thanks, David Mathog mathog at caltech.edu Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech


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AmeriCorps Service Award
Amount: $1,800; 5 awarded
Due Date: Friday, February 22, 2019
Important Information: this is a tuition award. Tuition Awards listed are a waiver of a student's tuition. A recipient of a tuition award cannot receive funding in excess of the cost of full-time undergraduate tuition. In addition, a recipient of a tuition award cannot use the funding for any of the study abroad consortium agreements.
Offered to new and currently enrolled students attending full time who have completed one year of full time service with the AmeriCorps program. Students may receive this award for up to two academic years, but must reapply each year.
- Letter of application addressing your commitment to community service and how AmeriCorps and the Education Award have impacted your desire to attend college.
- One letter of recommendation, preferably from an AmeriCorps program supervisor, supporting your application.
- Verification of completing one year of full-time service with AmeriCorps programs. Examples of evidence include:
(a) a copy of your AmeriCorps Education Award voucher; or
(b) a signed letter from a program supervisor.


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M and N gene sequence analyses on the newly occurred SARS CoV in Guangdong
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|26. Mai 2004
Background: The first case of SARS was reported in Foshan of Guangdong Province on Nov 16, 2002 and caused a outbreak. One year later, a new case of SARS was reemerged in Guangzhou on Dec 16, 2003. The patient showed a positive IgM and IgG to SARS-CoV in serum, and viral sequences were amplified by Light Cycle PCR in throat specimen, but the isolation of virus from clinical specimen was unsuccessful. The M and N genes were thus sequenced to confirm the newly occurred SARS and look for possible origin.
Methodology: RNA was extracted from the samples and used for RT-PCR by specific M and N gene primers, and the PCR products were used for direct sequencing.
Results: In comparison with published Genbank sequences of SARS CoV, GD03T0013 has a difference of 1 base in M and 4 bases in N, the coded amino acid sequence is the same in M and has a difference of 3 amino acids in N, and two of the amino acids changed from hydrophilic threonine to hydrophobic isoleucine. Compared with the early and middle phase SARS-CoV of the 2002-2003 outbreak, the M gene of GD03T0013 has a nucleotide homology of 99.8% and 99.7%. Compared with GD01, SZ3, palm civetand GD69, the N genes of GD03T0013 has a nucleotide homology of 99.7%, 99.7%and 99.6%. amino acid homology of 99.1%, 99.1%and 98.8%.
Conclusion: The origin of SARS CoV of the new patient may come from the palm civet, The disease showed a less severe symptoms and signs, and caused no human to human transmission. So the virus may belong to a different branch compared with the SARS CoV of the last outbreak.


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Glen Highland Farm
217 Pegg Road
New York 13808
This "Canine County Getaway" sits on 175 picturesque acres complete with ponds, a stream, trails, open meadows and forests, and dogs may explore anywhere on the farm off-leash. The farm is home to several dogs but it is also a Border Collier rescue sanctuary that functions as a training/recovery and placement center, and their complete obstacle course is also available to guests and their dogs. There are several mini-activity camps and programs available to help strengthen the bond between dogs and their companions such as the "Canine Discovery" camp to learn about how smart your dog really is and the "Inner Dog" camp for a greater understanding of your dog. There is even a trainer on staff available to work one on one with guests. The getaway lodging for guests and their canine companions include cottages, cabins, rentable RVs, a few RV spaces, and a camping shelter that has all the amenities on hand for meal prep plus private showers and flush toilets are only a few feet away. There are no additional pet fees. Dogs may not be left alone, they just have to be friendly and have a great time.
DogFriendly.com, with tens of thousands of places listed to take your dog to, will be releasing on it's Dog News blog, Facebook page and on Twitter a list of 200 Top Places that you can take your dog in the U.S. and Canada. This list, while intended to highlight top places that are especially pet-friendly, is not designed to be the absolutely top 200 places that we could find, but a sampling of the top places so that all regions, types of attractions, hotels, B&Bs, vacation rentals, parks, beaches, shopping and more can be considered. No doubt each of you will find many other places not on this list or our full list of dog-friendly places at https://www.dogfriendly.com. Please let us know about them by commenting on the blog or emailing us at email@example.com. You can also let us and our readers know if you agree or disagree with the selections, or your experiences there. Please keep in mind that places often change their policies regarding dogs and thus may have different policies at any time in the future.
The blog entries can be found at https://dogfriendly.com/dognews/?cat=243, our Facebook page, or Twitter.
Tags: dog camp, Dog Events, Dog-Friendly, pet friendly


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Father knows best for Saints rookie receiver Kenny Stills
Kenny Stills, Sr., a former defensive back for the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings, is as proud as any father can be these days.
His son, Kenny Stills, Jr., is continuing in the family business he and his brother, Gary Stills, started in as NFL players -- sort of.
Kenny Stills, Jr., a standout receiver with the Oklahoma Sooners, was taken by the New Orleans Saints in the fifth round of last month's NFL draft. Gary Stills, an ex-linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs and Baltimore Ravens, and Kenny Stills, Sr. were both defensive players in the NFL.
That clearly won't be the NFL experience of Kenny Stills, Jr., who long ago took a different, and arguably not as physical, a path, which has sometimes spawned some good-natured teasing from his dad.
"He was playing defense and I think he decided he wanted to score touchdowns instead of hit people. And he's a mamma's boy and that's who plays on offense, those mamma's boys," the elder Stills said as he laughed. "Daddy's boys are on defense."
But a daddy's boy is exactly what Kenny Stills, Jr. was, especially as a young kid growing up around his father. While other fathers and sons may have gone fishing or talked about girls, the Stills' duo discussed press coverages and how to beat them.
Kenny, Sr. had long since left football but admits he still enjoyed challenging his son in the game, while allowing him to learn the business through the stories that he and other ex-NFL friends freely shared around the household.
"Kenny has just been raised around the sport all of his life," the elder Stills said. "All of my buddies, guys I played in the league with, were always around and Kenny was fortunate to be around.
"He has many uncles who have played the sport."
Having that type of access has always seemed to serve Stills in football since his days of playing Pop Warner for the Mighty Pirates on through his time as a standout wideout with La Costa Canyon High School in San Diego and definitely during his time with the Sooners.
Many of the nuances and fundamentals of the game were already instilled, while his peers who didn't have the benefit of a father who played in the NFL, either had to learn or rely on natural athletic ability.
"Kids who grow up around parents who have been in pro football or college football, they talk the game, they learn the game, they hear the stories and so they are just a little bit better prepared," said OU co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach Jay Norvell, who competed against Kenny, Sr. in college. "Kenny could have been a good defensive back."
Norvell says from day one he could see Stills had a natural understanding of the game to go along with his impressive athletic ability. Those attributes paved the way for Stills to start every game of his three-year college career from his true freshman season.
"Kenny had very good athletic ability, he's got good vertical speed, he's a very good route runner and he gets in and out of breaks because he has good body control and he's very smart," said Norvell, who spent part of his six years as an NFL assistant coaching All-Pro receiver Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne in Indianapolis. "It's a combination of athletic ability, body control, agility and intelligence that really help receivers be good route runners and Kenny has those qualities."
Stills joins a Saints team that already has a few players whose fathers previously played in the NFL. Running back Mark Ingram, defensive end Cam Jordan and fellow receiver Nick Toon all grew up as sons of NFL-playing fathers.
Stills admits there is a huge advantage he and his three teammates have over their peers.
"I think it's the understanding we have for the business and we know how we have treat it," he said. "We know we have to come in and work our tails off every single day. Nothing less is expected from us."
It's almost like Stills is echoing the advice his father has given him as he sets upon his first Rookie Minicamp with the Saints this weekend.
"Today we were talking about Rookie Minicamp and what to expect. I always tell him to act like a pro in the business," said Kenny, Sr., who played in the NFL in the 1980s. "I've been there and done it and I didn't do it that way. We were just a bunch of clowns.
"But I've told him to treat it like it's a professional job because that's what it is. I told him to realize it doesn't last forever."
That much the younger Stills seems to grasp, as he does the many lessons his father taught him from the time he was a kid. He still remembers vividly those lessons about the game.
Now, Stills is anxious to put them into practice in the NFL.
"Since age 6 when I started playing football I dreamed of playing in the NFL, especially being that my dad played," he said. "It's almost like we are in competition. Obviously he played defense, but for me to be able to make it and to get drafted before him, now I just have to go out there and prove myself and hopefully have a great career."
The consensus seems to be that the speedy 6-foot, 194-pound receiver has been given a great start to his career. While there was some disappointment that he slipped from the expected third round to the fifth, the feeling is Stills couldn't have landed in a better spot than with the Saints.
He will have the chance to catch balls from one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL in Drew Brees. Stills will also be part of Coach Sean Payton's prolific offense while working as understudy to Saints stalwart receivers Marques Colston and Lance Moore.
"A lot of times it's better to be in the right place than to necessarily get drafted higher," said Norvell. "I know financially you would like to see that but in the long run it's better to be in the right place for his career. I think it will benefit him being there."
Kenny, Sr. agrees. "He has a great opportunity in front of him," the elder Stills said. "His focus should be winning an NFL championship, making the playoffs and working as hard as he can with one of the best quarterbacks around and a great surrounding cast, a great head coach and offensive coordinator.
"He fell into a situation where you couldn't have flipped a coin or thrown a dart and landed better for a receiver."
It remains to be seen how prepared Stills is to compete with Joe Morgan and Toon for time behind Colston and Moore. But if his high school and college careers are any indication, Stills will certainly turn some heads with his vertical speed and big-playmaking ability.
Stills, who remains the all-time leading receiver in San Diego high school history, became known for his flair during his three years at OU. Before leaving school a year early, Stills amassed 204 catches for 2,594 yards and 24 touchdowns and more than 65 percent of his career catches were for either first downs or touchdowns.
"He has a knack for making big plays," Norvell said. "He likes to play when it's the biggest games. His best games were some of our biggest games. He always played well against Texas, he always made big plays. He had the winning touchdown against Florida State, which was one of our marquee games of the year.
"He is one of those guys when the bright lights come on he responds, makes plays in traffic, finishes on deep balls, he's got the ability to run past people. He's a talented guy. He's got good football smarts and understands coverages, understands the game because he's been around it with his dad for a long time."
You will get no argument there from Kenny, Sr., who has prepared his son well for the opportunity he now has.
"Not because he's my child and I want to boost him, but he makes plays," the elder Stills said. "He knows how to high point the ball. Being an old DB and playing against his dad, he knows how to high point the ball in the red zone and the end zone. He knows where the chains are, he knows how to get depth, he knows to push guys' cushions, he knows how to turn get guys to turn their hips and then sit down and then catch it.
"He's raw and has a lot to learn but he will be fine."
Father knows best for Saints rookie receiver Kenny Stills | NOLA.com
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You tell 'em Daddy-o. :beatnik:
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I hope he pans out. Too many times sons of former players do NOT have good careers in the NFL.
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