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(i) A candidate placed in compartment at the Senior School Certificate Examination may reappear at the compartmental examination to be held in July the same year, may avail himself/herself of Second Chance in March/April and Third Chance in July of next year. The candidate will be declared 'PASS' provided he/she qualifies the compartmental subjects in which he/she had failed. Syllabi and courses shall be the same as applicable for the candidates of full subjects appearing at the examination in the year concerned.
(ii) A candidate who does not appear or fails at one or all the chances of compartment shall be treated to have failed in the examination and shall be required to reappear in all the subjects at the subsequent annual examination of the Board as per syllabus and courses laid down for the examination concerned in order to pass the examination. The candidate shall have the option to appear at the practical examination in the subjects involving practical or retain their previous marks in one more annual examination after the 3rd chance compartment.
(iii) Syllabus and Courses for the Compartmental Candidates in March Examination shall be the same as applicable to the candidates of full subjects appearing at the examination.
(iv) A candidate placed in compartment shall be allowed to appear only in those subjects in which he/she has been placed in compartment at the Second Chance Compartmental Examination to be held in March/April next year.
(v) For subjects involving practical work, in case the candidate has passed in practical at the main examination he/she shall appear only in theory part and previous practical marks will be carried forward and accounted for. In case a candidate has failed in practical he / she shall have to appear in theory and practical both irrespective of the fact that he / she has already cleared the theory examination.
The First chance compartmental examination will commence in mid of July. Candidates will route their requests through the Head of institution. The Heads of Institutions will ensure that the list of compartmental candidates reaches the respective regional office by last week of June.
Application forms for private / compartmental candidates for Delhi region will be issued to the candidates along with Mark Statements from their respective Schools/Examination Centres.
The Board gives five chances to clear the compartment examination. The first examination is held in July-August followed by second chance in March-April and the third chance in July-August and so on. Unsuccessful candidates after these five attempts are required to appear afresh in all subjects there on.
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A candidate failing in one of the five subjects of external examination shall be placed in compartment in that subject provided he/she qualifies in all the subjects of internal assessment.
Do not take stress of any type and clear your compartment exams.Prepare hard to clear the exam on next attempt, take help of friends or elders who can help you in learning physics. If time gap is 6 months or one year then in the meantime you can join some short term course to utilise your time and to get out of dilemma. Choose a course which is of your interest and where you can learn something useful. then there is management quota in college.After passing 12th, you can go for simple graduation like B.Sc.(maths) or B.Sc.(Computer Sc.) or some professional course or change your stream if you really feel so.
Always remember failure are not the end of everything rather they give you strength to stand firmly and succeed if you take them positively.
Below are some of the mistakes which you should avoid while filling up he form for compartment, improvement or private exam forms.
- Fresh MALE candidates are not allowed to appear as private candidate under Senior School Certificate Examination Scheme. However, he may appear through correspondence course. He is also asked to apply for refund of Exam fee.
- He/she should remit a sum of _ as balance of fee.
- He/she should intimate the previous Roll No. and year in which he/she had appeared at the Senior School Certificate Examination and submit the attested Photo Copy of the Previous Mark Sheet.
- Bank slip in original showing the amount to have deposited in the Syndicate Bank is required.
- His/her application form has not been attested by a proper forwarding officer/Principal. He/She is asked to attend the office for its rectification.
- Case(s) for holding over of fee/refund has not been received within the prescribed period of fifteen days/ three months from the date of commencement of the examination, hence, it has been rejected under rules of the Board.
- His/Her request for holding over/refund of the Examination fee has been rejected as he/she has partly appeared at the examination.
- His/Her application is returned herewith as it has to be forwarded to this office through the head of the institution in which he/she was studying.
- He/she is not eligible to appear at the ensuing Compartmental Exam.
- Fee is not refundable, however, he/she may apply for holding over the Examination fee for the Senior School Certificate Exam.
- Original Migration Certificate/Tenth pass certificate from previous Board is required.
- He/she is not eligible to appear at the Compartmental exam to be held in the month of July for improvement of performance. He/She is asked to apply for refund of fee.
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Taylor Swift Pays $17 Million in Cash for Rhode Island Mansion
Pop country superstar Taylor Swift is getting to be quite the real estate mogul. Just over a month after selling her Cape Cod-style house in Hyannis Port, Mass. for a profit of nearly one million dollars, the 23-year old star turned around and purchased an enormous mansion in Rhode Island for $17 million -- and paid in cash.
Swift sold the house in Massachusetts after breaking up with Conor Kennedy. According to TMZ, she had been looking around for a new place, and toured the 11,000-square-foot-plus home in Rhode Island on April 15. The asking price was around $24 million, but Swift talked the sellers down to the low, low price of $17,750,000. She reportedly wired over the money after the deal was reached. Movers were seen at the house on Saturday.
The singer's new abode -- which sits high on a bluff overlooking the ocean on 5.23 acres -- is a historic home built in 1930, designed by "an eminent Philadelphia architect." The real estate listing for the property said it was "thought to be the highest point of direct waterfront land on the entire Eastern seaboard, from Florida to Southern New England." The home boasts eight bedrooms, 10.5 baths, and eight fireplaces.
Other amenities include a 36-foot-long parlor, a 45-foot-long paneled sun room, and an octagonal dining room with built in china cabinets. There is also an enormous kitchen outfitted with a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a warming drawer and wine cooler, along with an adjoining sitting/family room. On top of that, the mansion boasts a five-car heated garage, a recreation room, numerous balconies and -- of course! -- a bra-shaped swimming pool. Check out pictures of the house here.
Swift's other real estate holdings include a compound in Beverly Hills, a penthouse condo in Nashville, and a mansion in a gated community in Nashville, where Swift's parents are rumored to live.

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James W. Muzyka, 57, died March 7. He was born Jan. 11, 1957, in Queens, N.Y., the son of Michael and Sandra (Calacicco) Muzyka. He married Diane Bedford on Dec. 16, 1987.
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Silverlight Spy 3 was just released. I think you'll want this in your tool bag right away. Why? Because it is a great way of seeing what's going on in your Silverlight application … and twiddling its appearance … at runtime.
It is especially helpful if you're building a compositional application of many, independently-designed views; you want to see them playing together and understand what's happening.
Quick Tour
I'm looking at my Prism Explorer demonstration app right now. This demo shows our DevForce Silverlight Data Services product working with Prism.
Fired it up in Visual Studio (to get the Cassini server side going), then pasted the URL (http: //localhost:9006/) into Spy's address bar. Spy fires up the client in its browser just fine.
Spy drew the red highlight box, not me. I held down the ctrl + shift keys and moved my mouse around the browsed page; as I did, Spy highlighted each element in this manner; and then I clicked on the address to set the focus as you see it.
Now I swing over to the Explorer view and I see that the address is a TextBlock in the middle of a DataGridCell … deep in the visual (or logical) tree that begins with my Prism shell. I love being able to start from something I see on the page right to the element in the object tree.
I get the same effect in the other direction by navigating from the tree: select a node and watch Spy highlight the corresponding visual real estate in its browser.
I can see the XAML for this TextBlock in Spy's View window:
Suppose I want to see what would happen if I gave the address a little more air. I open Spy's Properties window, locate the Padding property and try "20" all around. I see the effect immediately:
Peeking and tweaking the look on the fly is value that can hardly be overstated especially in a composite app. Sometimes you just have to see the app run in a production context with real data behind it to understand what is going on. Adjusting some values to visualize how it might look after correction … that's worth something to me.
Spy integrates seamlessly with Reflector so I can poke around in the client-side source code while in Spy. First, I tell Spy where to find Reflector through Tools / Options / Reflector. Then, in the Explorer window, "Object Browser" node, I navigate the assemblies in the XAP:
The View window exposes the disassembled code using Reflector:
I can also spy on other people's applications. Now, when I see an effect I like, I'll have a fighting chance to figure out how it's done. Nothing evil in that.
Perhaps more productively, Spy can help me better support my customers. I don't have their code. I don't want their code! Now I can fire up their app in Spy from out here in Stinson Beach (yes, kicking back with the blog) and gain immediate insight. Having reflector baked in makes it easy to walk their code too.
Helpful Touches
Spy let's me monitor mouse and key events which I can filter. In this snapshot, clicking on the event also takes me to the associated visual element.
I like to know when my app is visiting the server. Fiddler, Firebug (FireFox), and Web Development Helper (IE) are superior tools for the in-depth analysis. But if I just need to know that something went over the wire and peek at the headers, Spy does nicely. In this snap I just asked for a projection over all customers and their orders:
The top window is a grid of the traffic; double clicking a row reveals the headers panels in the lower half.
There's a Performance Monitor with the visual familiarity of the one in Windows Task Manager.
The processor metric seems parallel to the Task Manager's. The memory metric probably tracks just your app's usage although how and how precisely I can't tell. I noticed unpredictable figures simply by refreshing the application address to restart the app. I think of it as a rough gauge of relative behavior. You'll get a general feel and you might be able to detect some memory leaks this way.
There are other goodies. These are just the features that attracted my immediate attention and made me want to buy.
Spy was free in earlier incarnations. It now sells for roughly US$100 for a personal copy. You can download an evaluation copy that's good for 27 days.
Frankly, I'm glad to see a price. I love "free" as much as the next guy but nothing is truly free. I want Spy's author to keep improving this tool and he has to make a living at it to do it well. I'm bummed when a great free tool comes along and then it just sits there, waiting upon the author's free time to answer questions, fix bugs, and take the next giant leap.
The biggest shortfall (as I will repeat) is the utter absence of documentation. With a little dough, Koen Zwikstra - the man behind spy - can afford to hire a tech writer and cut some videos.
Full disclosure: I got a free copy as an MVP. This review, however, is entirely my idea with no promise of reward.
Wrap Up
Silverlight Spy 3 is a super tool and a fine piece of work. Runs like a top. No install issues, no runtime glitches so far.
No documentation! None that I could find. This is a huge weakness. Thank goodness for Koen's Channel 9 video with Adam Kinney recorded at MIX in March 2009; it opened my eyes to the potential and gave me valuable operating clues. How else would I discover "Ctrl+Shift+Mouse+Click"? Web search revealed nothing else (there is material on Spy 2).
Fortunately, it is pretty intuitive. Just bang around on it awhile and it starts to make sense. But some kind of guide needs to come out soon.
I'm hopeful this introduction piques your interest and gets you started.
A few minutes with Spy and you remember in a hurry never to put anything secret in your Silverlight client; that's the wrong place for the Coca Cola recipe. Sure other tools can do it …. but Spy makes it so easy.
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Remembering Mahatma Gandhi
Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated on this day, January 30th in 1948 after being shot three times in the chest at point-blank range.
The 78-year-old was killed by Hindu nationalist Nathuram Godse, who believed the inspirational advocate of non-violent protest favored Muslims.
Gandhi - who was himself Hindu, albeit one who had a vision of a religious unity and opposed the partition of India - had been walking to a prayer meeting at the time.
Godse approached him near the Birla House in New Delhi at 5.17pm and fired his Beretta M 1934 three times, killing his victim almost instantly. (Julian Gavaghan/ Yahoo News)
Here's a look back at his life.
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Dr. Jay Marx, Senior Advisor, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology will talk about "The Discovery of Gravitational Waves from Merging Black Holes" on May 6 at 4:00 p.m. in 101 Fraser Hall.
On February 11, 2016 headlines announced the discovery of gravitational waves from a merging pair of black holes 1.3 billion light years away, confirming the most radical prediction of Einstein's theory of gravity. What is this all about? What are gravitational waves? Why is it so important?
This discovery was made by LIGO using instruments spanning miles and yet capable of measuring distances with an accuracy of one billionth the size of an atom, among the most precise instruments ever constructed. LIGO now involves about 1000 scientists and engineers from 80 universities in 16 countries around the world, including the University of Minnesota.
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Bruce Smith
Retired Lt. Col. Bruce Everett Smith, 73, of Peabody went home to be with the Lord on Monday, Aug. 5, 2013.
He was born Aug. 28, 1939, in Hays to parents Arthur Everett and Clara Livonia (Hemphill) Smith of Greensburg and had three younger siblings: Sharyl Haruguchi of Honolulu, Hawaii, Suzanne Potter of Birmingham, Ala., and Jon Smith of Detroit, Mich.
After graduating from Greensburg High School in 1957, Bruce attended Kansas State University, where he was a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, ROTC, and the swim team and earned a degree in mechanical engineering in 1962.
While in Manhattan, he met and married his beautiful wife, Jeanne DeForest of Peabody, on March 19, 1960. They have five children, Barbara, Brenda, Scott, Brian, and Bradley.
Upon graduation, Bruce was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and served two tours in the Vietnam War, flying helicopters. He and his family traveled around the world, living in Germany, Texas, Alabama, Kansas, and New Mexico.
He obtained his master's degree from Webster University in 1982. He also received numerous awards including the Bronze Star Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Meritorious Service Medal, 16 awards of the Air Medal, and the Master Army Aviator Badge.
Bruce retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1984 after 22 years as an Army officer and relocated to Peabody where he worked for Kansas Farm Bureau, DeForest Real Estate, and Boeing Military Airplane Company. Bruce enjoyed playing golf with his friends and family, gardening, fishing at his pond, and designing and completing woodworking projects for his grandchildren.
Bruce is survived by his wife, Jeanne, of Peabody; two daughters, Barbara Smith Creighton and her husband, Dean, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Brenda Smith Rolfe and her husband, Dave, of Dallas, Texas; three sons Scott Smith and his wife, Shana, of Hesston, Brian Smith and his wife, Nissa, of Marion, and Bradley Smith and his wife, Celisa, of Wichita; and 16 grandchildren.
Visitation was Sunday, Aug. 11, at Baker Funeral Home in Peabody. The memorial service was Monday, Aug. 12, at Peabody United Methodist Church. Interment with military honors was Tuesday, Aug. 13, at Leavenworth National Cemetery in Leavenworth. Memorials have been established with Peabody Senior Center, Peabody Community Foundation, and American Legion Post 95, Peabody.


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Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Thailand claim two berths apiece for Nanjing Youth Olympics
Khanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, April 6, 2014 – Two of Indonesia's beach volleyball pairs will be headed to the Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014, after qualifying at Khanom Beach, Khanom, Nakhon Si Thammarat on Sunday.
At the conclusion of the three-day competition, where the top six teams in each gender qualifyed one team from their country for the Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014, teams from Indonesia, Kazakhstan and hosts Thailand booked two tickets, including one apiece in the boys' and girls' categories.
Twenty-seven young beach pairs from 18 countries, including 15 boys' teams, participated in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament.
Mohhamad Ashfiya and Licaro Rendy Ferdinan – who sent Iranians Mirbabak Mousavigargari and Rasoul Aghchehili packing with a scintillating 2-0 (21-13, 21-16) win in the semi-finals earlier – handed Indonesia the first gold medal in the boys' competition following the stunning 2-0 (22-20, 21-19) victory over Thailand's Surin Jongklang and Banlue Nakprakhong in the hard-fought final thriller.
The in-form Thai tandem made their mark to storm into the final clash after outclassing Sri Lankans Isuru Madushan Siddihaluge/Chamika Perera Sandaruwan 2-0 (21-17, 21-14) in the other semi-final encounter.
The third-place playoff saw a tough three-set battle of Iranians Mirbabak and Rasoul, who claimed the 2-1 (21-18, 14-21, 15-5) win over Sri Lankans Isuru Madushan and Chamika Perera.
In the classification round, Kazakhstan's Yegor Dmitriyev and Sergey Polichshuk took the fifth position, after beating Austrailia's Moore Timothy and Robinson Kahurangi 2-0 (21-18, 21-15) in 37 minutes.
In the girls' competition, Nanda Ragillia and Maria Dwiningtyas – who thrashed Vietnamese Tu Thi Thu Van/Thi Bich Vi 21-13 21-16 in the first semi-final clash – gave Indonesia a clean sweep after pulling off a nail-biting 2-1 (21-15, 18-21, 15-12) victory over Britany Kendall and Bell Phoebe in the final showdown. The Aussies downed Taiwanese Song Yu Rong and Pan Tsu Yi in the semi-finals 21-15 21-14.
In the playoffs earlier, Taiwanese Song Yu Rong and Pan Tsu Yi clinched third place after brushing off Vietnamese Tu Thi Thu Van and Thi Bich Vi 2-0 (21-14, 21-16) in 30 minutes. The fifth position went to Thailand's Sirinuch Kawfong and Saowaros Tangkaeo, who delighted home fans with an impressive 2-0 (21-15, 21-10) win over Kazakhstan's Yekaterina Lassyuta and Anastassiya Tuktareva.
The remaining slots in the boys' event were won by teams from Iran, Sri Lanka and New Zealand, while Australia, Chinese Taipei and Vietnam shared one berth each in the girls' competition.
The participating countries included Sri Lanka (1 boys' team, 1 girls' team), Australia (1-1), Maldives (1-0), Solomon Islands (0-1), Vietnam (0-1), Hong Kong (0-1), Chinese Taipei (1-1), Kazakhstan (1-1), Singapore (1-0), Guam (1-1), Vanuatu (1-0), New Zealand (1-1), Iran (1-0), Japan (1-1), Thailand (1-1), Saudi Arabia (1-0), Qatar (1-0), Indonesia (1-1).
The Youth Olympic Games Nanjing 2014 will be held at the Olympic Sports Park in Nanjing, China from August 17 to 27.
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Boys: 1. Indonesia; 2. Thailand; 3. Iran; 4. Sri Lanka; 5. Kazakhstan; 6. New Zealand; 7. Qatar; 8. Japan; 9. Guam, Vanuatu, Australia, Chinese Taipei; 13. Maldives, Saudi Arabia, Singapore
Girls: 1. Indonesia; 2. Australia; 3. Chinese Taipei; 4. Vietnam; 5. Thailand; 6. Kazakhstan; 7. Hong Kong; 8. Sri Lanka; 9. Solomon Islands, Guam, New Zealand, Japan
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ASHBURN, Va. — Washington Redskins safety Brandon Meriweather's two-game suspension was reduced to one following Wednesday's expedited appeal before hearing officer Ted Cottrell, the league announced.
Meriweather was penalized twice during Sunday's 45-41 victory against the Chicago Bears for illegal hits to wide receivers Brandon Marshall and Alshon Jeffrey.
Marshall suggested Meriweather, who has drawn at least five fines since 2010, should be kicked out of the league for his continuous violations. Bennett said Monday on a Chicago radio show, "Oh, I still want to punch him (Meriweather) in the face."
Bennett also said it's incumbent on players to look out for one another.
Marshall told the Chicago Tribune, "Guys like that really don't understand that there is life after football. I respect the league trying to better our game and guys like that, maybe he needs to get suspended or taken out of the game completely. I understand. I get it.
"I was one of those guys. I played defense growing up. ... I was a headhunter. Even sometimes on the offensive side.
"I played that way. But with rules in place, you've gotta respect it."
Meriweather's suspension will cost him $70,588 in salary. Last month, he was fined $42,000 for another illegal hit that concussed Green Bay Packers running back Eddie Lacy.
However, Meriweather's mates in the Washington secondary vehemently defended his reputation while insisting he's not a vicious and reckless head hunter. They also took exception to the verbal shots from Marshall and Bennett.
"I understand it's (about) safety," Washington cornerback Josh Wilson said. "I don't agree with other players coming out and saying things. It's football. You signed up to get hit. ... Nobody's purposely trying to hurt anybody. Brandon's not that type of guy — he's not that type of man.
"I don't agree with other players calling him out. ... He's not a dirty guy. You wouldn't call Steve Atwater (dirty). You wouldn't call Ronnie Lott or John Lynch dirty guys.
"A guy (Bennett) says he's going to punch him in the face, I don't think that's the way to handle the situation either."
Redskins cornerback DeAngelo Hall concurred, saying Marshall and Bennett violated an unspoken code.
"That's just something you don't do," Hall said. "At the end of the day, nobody is out there trying to purposely hurt somebody else. Brandon Marshall and Brandon Meriweather have a relationship beyond football."
Marshall and Meriweather are native Floridians whose paths have crossed many times before.
"I'm pretty sure B-Marsh, if he had to think about it, he probably wouldn't say it that way," Hall said. "Martellus, I don't know him personally. But he had a chance to say whatever he wanted during the game (or) after the game. But he didn't open his mouth. ... If you want to take a shot, take a shot when you're right there.
"(I have) no respect for a guy like that."
But Hall wasn't the only Redskin taking his own shots at Marshall.
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"Brandon Marshall should be kicked out of the league for pushing off every time at the top of a route," Wilson said of Marshall, who's known for his physical play. "When he comes in and he cuts (illegal low blocks) on a safety, he should be kicked out of the league.
"That's the league we live in right now. You've just got to adjust. I feel like (Meriweather) is. Sometimes it's hard to beat that reputation that he has."
Meriweather was not at Wednesday's practice and was believed to be in New York City, where his appeal was heard.
He's previously insisted he's tried to change his target level and conform to the league's altered rules.
"I'm trying to change it, slowly but surely," Meriweather said after Sunday's game. "I keep lowering my target. I keep doing everything they ask me.
"One day, hopefully, I get it to where it's perfect. And I don't have to worry about it."
Though his teammates will miss having him for Sunday's game against the Denver Broncos, they understand the conundrum he's dealing with.
"I understand safety, I get safety, I understand what the league is doing," Wilson said. "I understand they want to make it a better league. But I don't think Brandon is a bad guy, a dirty guy. ... It's not that he's trying to hurt anybody. I think he is adjusting.
"Everybody else is having a harder time believing that he's trying to be a better player. ... He's not head hunting out there anymore. It's hard for people to believe that he's not the same guy he was when he first got here."
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The new Timeline category here at Perishable Press will consist of articles that recall various events from the distant and not-so-distant past. These posts are by no means comprehensive or even 100% accurate, but rather reflect the recalled essence of whatever memory is represented therein. Further, these articles will be posted sporadically and in no immediately obvious order, depending on whatever reflection happens to be preoccupying us at the moment. Plus, we tend to romanticize events somewhat, so leave if you just can't stand it. Names have been encrypted to protect the innocent.


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I don't even know if the following sort of thing even qualifies as ephemera. It may be a sub-genre so low on the paper-waste scale of our society that it falls under the fish-wrap rubric. Still, I find it interesting and fun.
I'm not intimate with the details of the woman's life but I recall that in her early days, Cindy Sherman didn't like to be photographed, perhaps having to do with not wanting her image to distract from the imagery she created, which in the early days always included herself. Then there was a period when she was married during which she was somewhat reclusive. And finally, divorced in 1999, she began appearing in public.
Which is where this starts: in public, in 1999. What follows are appearances by Sherman in the society pages of New York City publications.
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Merchant City Music Tour
Glasgow Music City Tours
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Merchant City Music – Past and Present
Walking the oldest streets of Glasgow, our Merchant City Music – Past and Present tour covers cherished venues such as the mighty Barrowland Ballroom and the venerable Britannia Panopticon – Britain's oldest surviving music hall.
The Merchant City has proved to be a creative stamping ground for everyone from Stan Laurel to Billy Connolly, Simple Minds and Franz Ferdinand.
This tour tells the story of the veteran venues which have found a new lease of life; the fertile relationship between the city's visual arts community and its musicians; the legendary pubs frequented by folk music giants, and the newer, noisier upstarts that keep the grassroots scene growing.
This tour finishes at Mono Café Bar where customers can enjoy a 25% discount on food on production of tour ticket.
Join Glasgow Music City Tours as we lift the lid on the sights and sounds of the Merchant City.
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
The Merchant City Music - Past and Present tour is suitable for children aged five and over.
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
Yes but please email us and let us know of the changes at least 24 hours before the tour starts.
Can I update my registration information?
Email us: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Clients who cancel any tour booking will be charged a standard fee of £2 per person per booking to cover administration costs. The following terms and conditions apply:
Cancellation more than 24 hours before tour departure time – full refund less administration fee or transfer to another date or tour.
Cancellation within 24 hours or less of tour departure time – no refund will be given.
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IBM – Center for the Business of Government just published a new report in their collaborative governance series on "Implementing Cross-Agency Collaboration". Based on Professor Fountain's in-depth analysis of collaboration projects in the U.S. federal government, the report provides insights into two main factors that support effective collaboration in government:
- people skills to develop trust, norms, and connections, and
- organizational processes that allow cross-agency actions to be sustained over time.
Much of the existing research, either focuses on specific roles that are needed or the resulting inter-organizational structures. What is largely ignored are the resources and processes needed as well as informal networking and governance mechanisms that need to be allowed outside the existing formal hierarchies to allow cross-agency collaboration.
This is a timely report, that is helpful for public managers to understand that even in a bureaucratic hierarchy, innovations, knowledge and resources to fulfill broad mandates, need to involve new roles in government, such as the recently established Government Innovation Officers. These new GIOs need to be boundary spanning individuals who tap into the resources they can get access to from their own networks, but also have the freedom to connect with other public managers across organizational boundaries.
As the new Open Government paradigm is spreading around the world, this report can also help open government activists to understand, build, and evaluate the processes and roles needed to successfully collaborate with all stakeholders: activists, nonprofits, public sector organizations on all levels of government as well as contractors to implement innovative platforms.


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Griffin leads Clips past Cavs to 11th straight win
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Blake Griffin had 21 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists on his 25th birthday, and the Los Angeles Clippers held off the Cleveland Cavaliers 102-80 Sunday night for their 11th consecutive victory.
Chris Paul had 15 assists and scored 11 of his 16 points in the final 6:04 for the Clippers, who haven't lost since Feb. 21.
Los Angeles matched the longest winning streak in the NBA this season, equaling 11-game runs in November by Portland and San Antonio.
Luol Deng scored 23 points and Dion Waiters had 15 for the Cavaliers, who lost Kyrie Irving in the first quarter to a left biceps injury. Cleveland had won on its first two stops of a three-game West Coast road trip, but never led against the Clippers.


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Clean Sweep
Like many suburban dwellers, Laura and Peter Cole and their two children rarely use the front door, opting instead to come and go through the garage. But after eight years in their New Jersey home, the family had parked so much stuff in the 400-square-foot area there was room for only one of their cars. "The space was atrocious," says Laura of the exposed drywall, pitted cement floor, and piles of supplies.
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Full-Scale Renovation
Finally the couple signed up for a full-scale custom garage renovation, complete with hooks, racks, and cupboards that clip onto paneled walls. For the busy Cole clan, calling in the experts was key, but do-it-yourselfers can achieve a similar look by following the advice, outlined here, of GarageTek's Marc Shuman, whose company designed and executed the redo. This family's verdict: "We finally have an entrance to our home we can be proud of," says Laura. Not to mention a killer pair of parking spaces.
The Cost of Going Custom
Depending on location, GarageTek charges approximately $30-$40 per square foot for its tiled polypropylene flooring and slatted PVC walls. Accessories are sold separately. The company will do the floor, one wall of cabinets, hooks, and shelves (average price: $3,000) or the entire garage. Most projects cost about $8,000; a consultation and estimate are free. For more information, visit garagetek.com.
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Garden Variety
When storing disparate items, give yourself plenty of options. In this dual potting station and workbench, a combination of cupboards, shelves, hooks, and bins ensures every planter, vase, shovel, and screw has a home. A bright toolbox with stacking compartments and a row of clear plastic boxes for easy-to-lose items such as nails and washers are mounted on the wall. Colorful metal containers help stow odds and ends on shelves.
—Keep toxic substances such as pesticides and paint thinner up high and behind closed doors, where children and pets can't get to them.
—Hardwood butcher block makes a handsome, strong workbench. Sturdy plastics and steel also can support heavy items and are superior to particleboard or melamine, which can warp or crack.
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Kids' Catchall
The Coles chose a basic shelving unit to house toys and gear belonging to Charlie, 13, and Katie, 10. This rack has a place for bats or other sports equipment such as hockey or lacrosse sticks, and a snap-on bag that's a handy holder for tennis balls, Frisbees, and the like. But any durable shelves will do—combine them with a bat-and-ball rack and hang a drawstring bag.
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Garage Golden Rules
1. Divide belongings into four or five broad categories. Then designate a spot in the garage that's the most convenient place for each.
2. Create a space that's safe to move around in and easy to clean by getting as many things off the floor as possible.
3. "The ceiling is the most underutilized space in the garage," says Marc Shuman. His advice: Install adjustable overhead racks for out-of-season items such as boxes of winter gear or picnic supplies.
4. Once a space is organized, it's easier to keep it that way. "Now that everything has a place, we always put our stuff back," says Laura Cole.
Tip: Give unwieldy items like bicycles, balls, scooters, and skateboards their own holders on the wall. If you run out of space, Mom's and Dad's bikes can always be mounted on the ceiling.
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What an Entrance
Create a nook for wet or grimy jackets, backpacks, and shoes near the door. Include plenty of pegs and shoe racks or boot trays. Add cabinets to create a pantry for bulk groceries. Heavy-duty steel shelves are ideal for storing hefty items like a large bin of dog food or jugs of water.
—Keep a fire extinguisher, flashlight, and first-aid kit where they will be easily accessible from indoors or outside. For a list of first-aid items to include, visit ready.gov.
—For a finished look that's low maintenance, GarageTek installed treaded polypropylene floor tiles. DIY options include laying your own interlocking tiles or applying a hard epoxy coating over existing concrete.
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Work and Play
Put frequently used items near the door and swap them out as your needs, or the seasons, change. For instance, in spring it makes sense to have golf clubs and a sprinkler at the ready, as opposed to, say, a snow shovel and sled.
Tip: A shelf, brackets, and a golf rack are attached to a paneled surface made of strong PVC. For a similar effect, hang objects on wall-mounted metal rails.
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The internet capital of Europe or a base for technology giants' support services?
While some development work is carried out here, the focus is often of sales, marketing and support
We've all heard the headlines. Ireland is the "internet capital of Europe"; Dublin is the "Silicon Docks" of Ireland; there is a chronic skills shortage with anywhere between 3,000 and 5,000 vacancies in the tech sector.
Yes, there's no doubting it, the tech sector is booming, and Ireland is doing better than most in capturing the big names. But is the country really succeeding in winning core development work and therefore the much talked of "higher value added" jobs? Or are we potentially overstating the technological footprint of US tech giants in Ireland? And does it actually matter?
For many US multinationals (MNCs), Ireland is a hub for their Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) operations. This means that while some development work will be carried out, the focus will be on sales, marketing and support for this region.
Dermot Daly spent some years working with a US multinational during the 1990s, before he set up his own mobile app development company, Tapadoo. He found that when it came to core development work, the MNC "tended not to let that out of the US".
Significant number
"My experience of it was that there was some engineering work going on, but not a lot," he says, adding, "in terms of the Irish operation, it was under the company's support wing – not under its product development wing – which meant that work was being done for internal projects. I didn't witness a lot of high-quality engineering work going on; if it was important it would happen in the US".
This is something that was echoed in discussions that have been ongoing between Apple and US senators, over its use of Ireland for extremely favourable tax planning.
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said that while the iPhone-maker employs a "significant number" of people in Ireland, they are "functionally and practically managed" in the US, and some of its "most strategic decisions" are made back in the US.
This focus means that a lot of the jobs available in these tech giants are focused on sales. Take a look at Google for example. According to its most recent financial accounts for its Irish operations, it employs about 1,900 people here (this has since risen to about 2,500). Of these, some 8 per cent work in engineering roles, managing the infrastructure for all its products across the region, from Search to Chrome to Google+.
However, a staggering 70 per cent are employed in sales, with jobs in administration and operations accounting for the remaining roles. While there may be a technical element to these jobs, it's not Phd qualified candidates that they'll likely be looking for.
And it's no different from the other big names of the tech sector that have found their way to our shores in recent years. At LinkedIn's operation along Dublin's docks for example, 75 per cent of its 95-strong workforce are employed in sales, marketing and customer support, with the remainder working in management and administration roles.
Crucial role
At nearby Facebook, which continues to grow its Irish workforce, of the 287 people employed as of the end of 2011, 45 per cent worked in sales, with engineering roles accounting for just 10 per cent of its workforce – although it also has a sizeable cohort (26 per cent) working in "user operations".
And, when Facebook was looking for a home for its first R&D centre outside of the US, it opted for London, with Mike Schroepfer, vice president of engineering with the social media firm, saying that the London team would "play a crucial role in development of future products and core technology for Facebook".
Last year, Twitter started advertising for its nascent Irish operation, which has just found a new home in The Academy on Pearse Street in Dublin. It was looking to hire about 40 people, split between the social media group's London and Dublin offices, with the Irish operation in the market for sales executives for countries across Europe, as well as marketing and user services agents.
And the newer arrivals are adopting a similar approach. Online storage space provider Dropbox is also hiring for its Irish operation which it expects to open this year, and the Dublin-based sales team will be "dedicated to delivering Dropbox for business to the various markets across Europe".
So why do we hear so much about the lack of tech skills if what these companies really want are sales and marketing experts?
John Dennehy, managing director of Zartis. com is project director of the Make IT in Ireland initiative. It is aiming to attract the best "sales, support, development and operations" people to move here, and for Dennehy, talk of a tech skills gap is "an easy soundbite" and leads people to think that it's just java developers that are lacking.
"If you look at it, about 90,000 people work in the tech sector – but the majority aren't actually software developers," he says.
For him, tech jobs in Ireland actually fall into two broad categories – tech developers, who are typically computer science graduates; and sales, marketing and traditional business roles, such as supply chain management and recruitment.
Different skill sets
And it is the latter category where many of the jobs actually exist.
"There will be more multi-lingual people hired by MNCs in the next 12 months than java developers or .net developers," says Dennehy.
Take a look at some of the jobs Google is looking to fill at its Barrow Street operation, which hosts professionals from all around Europe: a sales manager with fluency in a Nordics language; an Italian speaking associate account strategist and a consumer support market specialist for the German market.
But should we be concerned that so many so-called "tech jobs" are actually in different skill sets?
"Getting core development in Ireland is definitely something we should seek; the more people we can get to fill those roles the better it is for the country," concedes Dennehy, adding, "but the tech sector is not just about development and a very important part is highly specialised sales and marketing skills".
And these jobs do require a high level of education and experience, with Google for example, looking for an MBA qualified professional to take on a role as sales manager. Italso pays well, if you look at average salaries in the sector. At Facebook, for example, according to figures in its company accounts (which may be a crude estimate) the average salary stood at €60,229 in 2011 – with an additional €48,630 earned in share-based payments, while at Google, the figure is as high as €90,000.
At LinkedIn, whose staff work almost exclusively in sales functions, the average salary is more than €60,000, while customer service agents at Zynga in Ballsbridge, Dublin, can expect to earn about €37,000.
And there is always the possibility that over time, more and more core development work will be transferred into Ireland. Over at Microsoft in Sandyford, south Dublin, development teams worked on the keyboard for the software firm's new tablet, the Surface, for example.
And with tax and multinationals staying firmly in the headlines, a skilled workforce – be it in development or sales – can help a company become more entrenched.
"The reality is you can probably move those tax structures into other countries far more easily than you can build up a talented workforce in another country," says Dennehy.


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Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's basketball team advanced to the Skyline Conference Championship game with a 79-55 win over No. 5 seed Purchase College (12-15). The Rams (24-1) will host second-seeded Mount Saint Mary College on Sunday, February 28th at 11:00 a.m. Senior guard Kimberly Blakney (Brooklyn, N.Y./Benjamin Banneker) posted game-highs of 27 points and 11 steals to lead Farmingdale.
In the first half, the Rams fell behind 8-0 before scoring the next 18 points to take an 18-8 lead with 8:09 remaining. At the break, Farmingdale held a 40-22 advantage behind Blakney's 17-points and eight steals, as she went 5-for-5 from the floor (3-for-3 from long range) and 4-for-4 from the charity stripe. Freshman guard Jeanette Zubizaretta (Bay Shore, N.Y./Calhoun) hit three from long range and finished the half with nine points.
Farmingdale continued to pressure the Panthers in the second half and would lead by as much as 27 points, as they forced 37 turnovers in the game and rolled towards the win. The Rams will be facing the Blue Knights in the Finals for the seventh consecutive year tomorrow morning. Mount Saint Mary, the 10-Time defending Champions, holds a 15-3 record all-time vs. the Rams.
High scorers for Farmingdale were Blakney with 27 points, senior guard Kamaya Miller (Brooklyn, N.Y./Midwood) had 18 points, Zubizaretta with 14 points.
For the Panthers, senior center Liila Mack (Monticello, N.Y./Monticello) finished with 13 points and 15 rebounds. Senior guard Jessie Domes (Glenwood, N.Y./Springville) had a team-high 18 points.


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1. My pay is rising much faster than yours.
While American workers grapple with stagnant wages and an uncertain job market, there's one group that doesn't need to worry about pay raises: CEOs.
At the country's largest 350 companies by revenue, average CEO compensation — including salary and the value of stock options exercised — was $14.1 million in 2012, up nearly 13% since 2011 and 37% since 2009, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank in Washington, D.C.
Over the long term, the CEO growth numbers look even more dramatic — especially when compared with the wages of their employees. From 1978 to 2012, CEO compensation increased over 875%, adjusted for inflation, compared with 5.7% growth in worker compensation over the same period, according to the EPI. Including the value of stock options, the CEO-to-worker compensation ratio was 18 to 1 in 1965; it was 201 to 1 in 2012.
Why does this matter? Lawrence Mishel, president of the EPI, argues that rising CEO compensation exacerbates the income gap between the richest and the average American: It "doesn't make the economy more productive, and results in less wages for everyone else," Mishel says. Inequality also makes it harder for middle-class workers to achieve the American dream, says Daron Acemoglu, professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, by concentrating political power in the hands of the most highly compensated. In particular, political contributions by the powerful affect issues like tax law in ways that can maintain a more unequal society, Acemoglu says.
Defenders of CEO compensation argue that top executives are being rewarded for making business decisions that make many other people wealthier, including their employees and their companies' shareholders. "We should applaud the richest CEOs as a group of the most successful American business professionals, and not vilify them," says Mark J. Perry, a professor of economics at the Flint campus of The University of Michigan.
Of course, most discussions about high CEO pay are talking about the pay of executives at the biggest, most powerful companies. When you include CEOs of small companies, the average pay of a chief executive was $176,840 last year, up 1% from the previous year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By that measure, the average CEO earned less than the average for anesthesiologists ($235,070) or orthodontists ($196,270). The nation's 104 million full-time workers had a mean wage of $46,440 last year, so by this measure the average CEO made just under four times as much as the average worker.


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|View Poll Results: Do you have a sport in the winter?!?
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|2003-11-05, 13:03
|Link #21
AT Field
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: #animesuki
Age: 22
as u guessed, i am an early snowboarder
i practiced a lot ski, before have the occasion to try snowboard once. since then i've never wanted to put on skis again
that's my happiness in life, i wait all the time to go snowboarding ... what i do at least twice a year.
eh come to think of it, i've got a video of one my recent crashes ... wanna see it?
|2003-11-05, 17:06
|Link #22
~chibi tenshi~
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Paris, France ~♪
Age: 37
I went skiing twice (once when I was in elementary school, and once when I was in high school) and I really like it! Ah! That reminds me a lot of fun!
I would like to go skiing again!!! But I have no money...T_T...
SirJeannot > Dozo
|2003-11-05, 17:46
|Link #23
Cantonese Dimples
Never skiied or snowed before last year... Ended up moving near the Poconos (US east coast mountains in Pennsylvania) for 8 months or so (cheap rent) and the snow season fell in the middle of those months. Bought myself a mountain season pass and a snowboard and never looked back. well actually.. i was looking back up the hill several times after a pretty bad fall to see where all my equipment fell off me (gloves, scully, ski googles, boots, snowboard.. u know)...
first day of snowboarding was hell. my friend and i were newbies and we thought we could figure out how to do it without help. i mean cmon... u stand on a board and u slide down.. how hard can it be!? my friend was a good skier and he thought he and i could figure it out.. it was one of the most painful 3 hrs of my life. i fell in every which way possible... i even did a 720 flip crash and spun a good 15 yards down the hill one time. as i was lying on the ground trying to recover, this really nice elderly couple snowboarded their way towards me to check up on me and make sure i was okay. then they suggested i take a lesson or two before i continue because they witnessed my fall and thought i needed it. my friend was also fed up w/ falling on his bum so many times so after a quick break for lunch, we promptly signed up for snowboarding lesson... and the first thing they taught us was... how to fall properly...
after several trips, i am an okay snowboarder... i still fall but only because i am trying out new stuff. and it's not as painful as that first day (thank god). anyway... yeah, snowboarding is mad fun and u should try it!!! but uhhh... don't be cheap and take a lesson or two first. u won't regret it.
|2003-11-05, 17:55
|Link #24
is dime-a-dozen
well i've been skiiing since i was like 4 for fun. last year i tried snowboarding... it's fun but hard until you learn how to stay up.... o yeah... that reminds me.... falling alot in the same place even if it isn't that hard of a fall hurts......
|2003-11-05, 19:07
|Link #25
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: daremo inai machi
Was skier before but ever since i put on the snowboard 4 years ago, never stepped on a ski again. It is just heaven* Seasons up very soon - can't wait. Snowboarding can be learned very fast - I learned in 2 weeks up to the point i was able to descend a medium slope without problems.
{ *even if i broke one arm at stunt-jumps }
|2003-11-05, 19:22
|Link #26
AT Field
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: #animesuki
Age: 22
i felt very very bad after that. i had nothing, just a small pain in the chest because of my ... phone (its battery poped out btw)
my glasses were blown away so i had to do the 3 remaining days without glasses ... quite frustrating :cry:
|2003-11-05, 20:02
|Link #27
I first went snowboarding around 12 years ago ~oO back when a lot of places wouldnt allow it. Right now the 'ol board (not too old) is in storage but will probobly come out this year cause a friend wants me to take her........total newbie that should be a laugh ~>_<
Edit: SirJeannot, that looked painful but hilarious XD
|2003-11-05, 21:34
|Link #28
PiGGiEE Judo Chop Chop!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Funny Farm
I went skiing once and was soooo paranoid cuz I'm afraid of heights (fell off 2nd floor when I was a kid)... so since I was a noob... I just practiced for a bit with one of the instructors there... they were trying to teach us how to stop and stuff... I figured I can try to at least conquer the bunny slopes... well anyways... before I could learn how to stop with the skiis... a few of my friends came cruising by and dragged me onto the steep slope... here I am kicking and screaming... they are just laughing at me... and then they push me over the edge... I almost had a heart attack (have a weak heart... can't even go on roller coasters)... so here I am going straight down the slope really fast and my arms are waving up and down like you see it in some of the anime (most especially Azumanga Daioh)... and I start going off sideways... I tried to straighten it out but it wouldn't go... probably because I'm a noob and a moron and too freaked out to do anything... so what happens? I see a big @#@$! tree that I'm headed straight into... at the last minute as I'm about to hit the tree straight on at a really fast speed... I somehow miraculously move to the left a little and the branches scratched up my arm but I didn't hit the tree... I lost balance... and started rolling the rest of the way down the slope till I stopped. Needless to say... my friends felt really bad... though they still laughed cuz they said I looked funny with my arms waving up and down and screaming like a mad woman... it was a funny sight I'm sure and I'd laugh too... of course if it wasn't for the fact that it was ME.
So did I ever get back on the slopes? HELLLLL NOOOOO! That experienced traumatized me and I was never brave enough to go back.
Dam good thing no one has pictures of it or had a camcorder... would of been embarassing...
|2003-11-05, 22:18
|Link #30
should i stay longer?
back when i was in Seattle I'd go ski every whenever it snows.. can't say I'm a pro, but I really like it.. Tried to board too, but still...I like ski better.
but, if there's anything I really like that sorta relates to winter activities... snow ball fight... tuck-roll-throw-duck~
SirJ, OUCH!
|2003-11-05, 22:41
|Link #31
Sealab Captain
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Secret Mountain Fortress
Age: 33
Snow ball fights are hecka fun, until we grew older and became stronger, now it really hurts, nowwe have to be like 30 meters away for it to actually be fun instead of painful ... I wish we still had weak girly throws in snowball fights.
Also sleding is still always fun, I have some great memories from when I lived in Canada, once me and a friend build a lot of small snow men on the hill and I had one of those sleds that you can turn with the stearing wheel, and we rode down the hill trying to run down as many of the snowmen as we could (keep in mind this was before Grand Theft Auto came out, and this was the way kids could release their great urge to run down people without actually running down someone, back then.... come to think of it, I think we actually did run over someone with that sled... good times)
|2003-11-05, 22:49
|Link #32
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Maryland
Age: 29
I dont think i even have to say....................but i will. Snowboarding is the coolest thing ever. I'm almost 14 years old and i started skiing when i was 4. Skiing used to be one of my favorite things ever. I was a black dimond skiier, and I skiied untill i turned 10 and grew a brain and decided to snowboard. My first time ever i had a board that was way too big, my boots were 3 sizes too big, my board was chipped all over. I sucked like hell. I couldn't really turn well at all so i could only do the bunny slopes cause even if u go straight ur still going slow. Even though I sucked alot i still had an ok time. The only reason why i decided to snowboard again was because this was the first thing that I haven't mastered the first time that i tried it, so that sorta pissed me off that i wasn't great the first time i tried it. It took me about 2 more times to be an ok boarder, and when I became ok I had about 10 times more fun than skiing even though i was a 10 times better skiier. I just really liked snowboarding for a while, I didn't think that it was the best thing ever...................until I discovered the terrain park. The terrain park is the best place on earth ever!!!!!! Now I'm a double black dimond boarder, and it is the best thing in my life.
Sirjeannot, i've done that same exact thing. Some stupid kid was laying in my way and I wouldda hit him if i had landed correctly. My friend got it on tape and i looked the same exact way as u did.
Asura, u watch dexters lab. i've seen that episode like 5 times.
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|2003-11-05, 23:39
|Link #33
should i stay longer?
hmm.. black diamonds? .. double black diamonds is the most I'd go.. damn those moguls..
|2003-11-05, 23:50
|Link #34
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Ohio, USA
Age: 38
snow is such sweet bliss. I love snow and I love the cold that brings it. However, I don't ski or snowboard. I hike and take pictures in it though (just like I do in all other climates). However, I am always willing to learn to do either . Now just bring me my snow.
|2003-11-06, 13:19
|Link #35
AT Field
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: #animesuki
Age: 22
eh, the other kick was closed and i wasn't used to that one :O
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MONTPELIER, Vt. - Tom Wicker, the former New York Times political reporter and columnist whose career soared following his acclaimed coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, died Friday at his home in Rochester, Vt. He was 85.
Wicker died after an apparent heart attack Friday morning, his wife Pamela said.
"He'd been ill with things that come from being 85," she said. "He died in his bedroom looking out at the countryside that he loved."
Wicker grew up in poverty in Hamlet, N.C., and wanted to be a novelist, but pursued journalism when his early books didn't catch fire. He worked at weekly and daily newspapers in North Carolina before winning a spot as a political correspondent in the Times' Washington bureau in 1960.
Three years later, he was the only Times reporter to be traveling with Kennedy when the president was shot in Dallas.
Gay Talese, author of the major history of The New York Times, wrote of Wicker's coverage: "It was a remarkable achievement in reporting and writing, in collecting facts out of confusion, in reconstructing the most deranged day in his life, the despair and bitterness and disbelief, and then getting on a telephone to New York and dictating the story in a voice that only rarely cracked with emotion."
One year later, Wicker was named Washington bureau chief of the Times, succeeding newspaper legend James Reston, who had hired Wicker and called him "one of the most able political reporters of his generation."
In 1966, Wicker began his "In the Nation" column, becoming, along with colleague Anthony Lewis, a longtime liberal voice on the Op-Ed page. Two years later he was named associate editor of the Times, a post he held until 1985.
He ended his column and retired to Vermont in 1991 but continued to write. He published 20 books, ranging from novels about gritty, hard-scrabble life in the South to reflections on the presidents he knew.
Among his books was "A Time to Die," winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1976, which recounted Wicker's 1971 experience as an observer and mediator of a prison rebellion at New York's Attica prison.
Wicker, the son of a railroad man, started in journalism in 1949 at the weekly Sandhill Citizen in Aberdeen, N.C., where he was paid $37.50 a week to report on such local news stories as the discovery of "the first beaver dam in anyone's memory on a local creek."
He moved on to a local daily and then to the larger Winston-Salem Journal, where he worked for most of the 50s, with time out in 1957-58 to serve as a Nieman fellow at Harvard University. He went to work for the Nashville Tennessean in 1959 but then a year later was hired by Reston.
In mid-1961, when Times veteran Bill Lawrence abruptly quit his post as White House correspondent in a dispute with management, Wicker got the assignment. He said it was a dream assignment - "sooner or later most of the government's newsworthy business passes through the White House" - and especially covering the excitement of the Kennedy era.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Wicker was in the first press bus following the Kennedy motorcade when the president was assassinated. He would later write in a memoir that the day was a turning point for the country: "The shots ringing out in Dealey Plaza marked the beginning of the end of innocence."
At that moment, however, all he knew was that he was covering one of the biggest stories in history. "At first no one knew what happened, or how, or where, much less why," he later wrote. "Gradually, bits and pieces began to fall together."
Wicker dictated his story from phones grabbed here and there, with most of his writing done at a desk in the upper level of the Dallas airport. "I would write two pages, run down the stairs, across the waiting room, grab a phone and dictate," Wicker later wrote. "Dictating each take, I would throw in items I hadn't written, sometimes whole paragraphs."
Although Wicker didn't even have a reporter's notebook that day and scribbled all of his notes on the backs of printed itineraries of the presidential visit, his story captured the detail and color of the tragic events.
Describing the president's widow as she left the hospital in Dallas, Wicker wrote: "Her face was sorrowful. She looked steadily at the floor. She still wore the raspberry-colored suit in which she greeted welcoming crowds in Fort Worth and Dallas. But she had taken off the matching pillbox hat she had worn earlier in the day, and her dark hair was windblown and tangled. Her hand rested lightly on her husband's coffin as it was taken to a waiting hearse."
In 1966, Wicker was named a national columnist, replacing retiring Times' icon Arthur Krock, who had covered 10 presidents. Wicker's first column reported on a political rally in Montana. He would later say that it was a huge step to move from detached observer to opinion holder - and especially in the times he was writing.
"My own transition from reporter to columnist coincided roughly with the immense American political re-evaluation that sprang in the sixties from the Vietnam War and the movement against it, from the ghetto riots in the major cities, and from the brief flowering of the counterculture," Wicker wrote in his 1978 book, "On Press."
Wicker was not lacking in opinions, though, and over the years took strong and sometimes unpredictable stands, emphasizing such issues as the nation's racial divide.
On race, he said in a 1991 interview in the Times: "I think the attitudes between the races, the fear and the animosity that exist today, are greater than, let us say, at the time of the Brown case, the famous school desegregation decision in 1954."
Although Wicker was attacked by President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew for his negative coverage during the Nixon administration, he argued in a 1991 book, "One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream," that Nixon accomplished much in his presidency and deserves a high ranking in history.
In his final column, published Dec. 29, 1991, Wicker commented on the fall of the Soviet Union and urged President George H.W. Bush to "exercise in a new world a more visionary leadership" on non-military issues like the environment.
"As the U.S. did not hesitate to spend its resources to prevail in the cold war, it needs now to go forward as boldly to lead a longer, more desperate struggle to save the planet, and rescue the human race from itself," he wrote.


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Tag #25288 - University of Alaska Nanooks
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The Early Years
Gold discoveries in the early 1900s brought sudden changes to the Tanana Valley. In 1906 the hill where UAF now stands became part of a federal Agricultural Experiment Station, and in 1915 U.S. Congress approved money and transferred a piece of land from this station to establish a school of higher education. On May 3, 1917, with a stroke of his pen, Alaska Territorial Gov. John Strong signed the bill to create the institution now known as the University of Alaska. With a federal land grant, the institution began as the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines with research and teaching in support of agriculture and mining as its focus. The Alaska Territorial Legislature added funding, and in 1922, when construction of the first building was completed, the college opened its doors to students. In the first year, a faculty of six offered 16 classes to a student body of six. Commencement in 1923 consisted of a single graduate.
The institution quickly began to grow. In 1931 the federal government transferred the entire Agricultural Experiment Station to the college. In 1935 the Alaska Territorial Legislature changed the institution's name to the University of Alaska to reflect the school's expanding role in research, teaching and public service for all Alaska. By then, faculty and course offerings had grown to include a range of liberal arts, science and engineering.
World War II brought a rapid influx of population and development to the territory. A wartime national awareness of the need for scientific polar research in the interests of defense and communications led to the establishment in 1946 of the Geophysical Institute. Since its inception, the GI has earned an international reputation for its studies of the earth and the physical environment at high latitudes. The university awarded its first Ph.D. degree to a geophysics student in 1955.
World War II Years
World War II brought many changes to Alaska. Battles were fought on Alaska soil, the Alaska Highway was built, and the activity spawned the first major migration of people into the state since the gold rush. As people moved to Alaska, so did money, ideas and energy.
The Geophysical Institute was established by the U.S. Congress in 1946. GI has since earned an international reputation for its studies of the earth and the physical environment at high latitudes. It also operates the Poker Flat Research Range, the only university-owned rocket range in the world.
In 1947, the first summer session was held at the university, symbolizing its growth into a year-round center for knowledge. Eight years later, the university awarded its first Ph.D. All this at the University of Alaska, when Alaska itself had yet to become a state.
Statehood and Beyond
The University of Alaska had a significant role in the statehood movement of the 1950s, when the Constitutional Convention was held on campus. The Alaska Constitution was drafted in what is now Constitution Hall and signed in stately Signers' Hall, now the home of UAF student service and administrative offices. Alaska became the nation's 49th state in 1959.
Research expanded broadly in the decade of the 1960s with the establishment of institutes in several disciplines. The Alaska Legislature created the Institute of Marine Science in 1960 and the Institute of Arctic Biology two years later. Since 1969 the Geophysical Institute has operated Poker Flat Research Range, providing launch facilities for NASA and the Department of Defense. Poker Flat is the only university-owned rocket range in the world.
In 1970 the university was designated a federal sea grant institution for marine research. Today the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences has been awarded the first phase of funding for the construction of the R/VSikuliaq, a 242-foot ice-capable vessel to support research in high latitudes. Stations in Kodiak and Juneau are also actively involved in marine and fisheries research.
In 1972 the Alaska Legislature established the Alaska Native Language Center and provided operating funds. Since then the university has supported research, documentation and teaching of the state's 20 Native languages.
To meet the need for expanding services for all Alaskans, the University of Alaska statewide system was created in 1975. Campuses in Anchorage and Juneau were assigned their own chancellors and central staffs, with the statewide administration and overall university president remaining in Fairbanks.
Meanwhile, the main campus in Fairbanks continued to expand and improve. The University of Alaska Museum of the North, one of the state's most popular visitor attractions, moved into the Otto Geist Building in 1980. The museum's unique collection offers the public a view of the rich and varied culture of the North. A $42 million expansion in 2006 added more than 40,000 square feet of space.
In 1981, UAF enrollment topped 5,000 students for the first time. The university also began to emphasize its shared scholarship and global education efforts in a series of agreements with schools in Japan, Denmark, Canada, People's Republic of China, and Russia. The institution has branched out to include rural campuses in Bethel,Dillingham, McGrath, Kotzebue, Nome and the Interior. Education centers in Fort Yukon, Galena, King Salmon, Nenana, Shishmaref, Togiak, Tok, Unalakleet and Unalaska provide additional education services to rural Alaskans.
UAF's public service role is filled in part by the statewide Cooperative Extension Service with its eight district offices. Public broadcasting stations KUAC-FM and AlaskaONE TV, the first public stations in the state, are headquartered at UAF.
In 1991 NASA named UAF a space grant institution for aerospace research, making it a Land, Sea and Space Grant institution. Its colleges and schools offer more than 100 disciplines with a variety of vocational and technical programs. Graduate degrees are available in a wide range of academic study. UAF is internationally known for its research in the Pacific Rim and the circumpolar North. It is consistently among the top 100 universities in the nation for funding from the National Science Foundation.
UAF is the leading doctoral-granting institution in Alaska, offering Ph.D. degrees in anthropology, several of the physical and natural sciences, mathematics, natural resources and sustainability, and engineering. Master's degrees are offered in the humanities, natural resources management and geography, social sciences, northern studies, physical and natural sciences, and in professional fields such as engineering, justice, education and business administration. Interdisciplinary programs are possible for students who have a research focus in areas where UAF has faculty expertise and research facilities available.
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