text:
Back to Directory Search
1991 Hillside Drive
Columbus, OH 43221, U.S.A.View Map
Phone: 614 486 3773
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
URL: http://www.BettyCollings.com
More Information
April to Dec.
Studio, Office and Gallery
1991 Hillside Drive, Columbus, OH 43221. U.S.A.
(Tel) 614-486-3773.
December thru March.
17 Patricia Place, Hahei, New Zealand.
(Tel) 7-866-3043.
Much of my earlier oeuvre was devoted to the numerous inflatable topological transformations of disc or torus made from vinyl. This work that occupied me fully from 1975 to 1984 then off-and-on up to the present. As art styles have waxed and waned these forms have been interpreted variously as minimalist, procedural, systemic, structuralist, biomorphic or geometric. I accept any of these limiting descriptions even though for me the work is expressive, intuitive, empirical, experimental, and instructive. The work led me to learn about symmetry, and about the formal potency of the spiral which I found to be key to the formal fecundity of all transformations. I came to see and use many versions of the spiral as a vehicle of instruction and as a metaphor for the life-force.
As the experiments accumulated it was possible to re-assemble, analyze and structure one complete collection of closed transformations, "Anolatabulata", into a totality with comprehensive internal sets and subsets. This, leading me towards an understanding of structure, became a sculptural model for the way in which all life forms develop and change. The completion of the 59 member "Anolatabulata" set was assisted by mathematician, Phil Huneke, who introduced the idea of a Zeeman's Dunce Cap upon which all 59 forms of Anolatabulata can be interrelated.
The initial "Anolatabulata" forms were developed by topological manipulations of a yin-yang subdivision of paired discs drawn on flexible vinyl. Within the resultant wide variety of biomorphic shapes many were particularly intriguing in that they recalled human and animal forms. Later distortions of the basic yin-yang refined the process to produce the quite delicate and "lifelike" shapes of the series entitled "Life Sculpture" and "God's Games". (See "Life Sculpture" above). Beginning in 2000, a selection of these shapes were brought to completion as larger-than-life sized bronzes by Tallix.
Concomitant with the several "closed" sets of forms that followed "Anolatabulata" I became very excited about the way in which the pairing and displacing of repeated tori create continuous spiraling transformational structures within which shapes first appear as spiraling forms then segue¢ into formless surfaces. Rotationally symmetric "Open" 1977, the first and the simplest of a series of large pieces entitled "Universe", was the seed that let me imagine how the Universe might continuously transform. An elaboration can be seen in the mirror-matched and displaced asymmetric tori of "Gold Plume" 1983. In "St Sophia" 1983, the colored bands of paired Archimedes spirals projected into a reversing helix code the geometry. For details see www.BettyCollings.com.
Although geometry became the medium of investigation in this work, the underlying expressive character was re-emphasized when I realized that the pieces chosen for reforming into hard forms represented a matriarchal lineage that began with my great-great grandmother and rested with my daughter, Jane.
Most recently - 2010 + _ the large inflated sculptural forms have continue the Universe series. For these originating paired discs are expressively painted. then severed and reformed. See "Universe 2010"; "Turtle Nebula" and " Octopus Cluster" www.bettycollings.com/painted sculpture.
Born in Wanganui, N.Z., in l934, spent nine years on an isolated Kakatahi sheep farm, attended a one-room country school. Moved to Paekakariki in l945 to attend High School, Teachers' College and University in Wellington. Married in l953 to Dr Edward Collings the family emigrated to the U.S. in l962 to live in Swarthmore, PA. In l963 an earlier casual interest in ceramics was revived and developed via at-home practice and experimentation so that in l965 Collings co-founded "Hogan" a co-operative gallery for craft. Moving to Ohio in l967 she mixed homemaking and study graduating MFA in l974. Immediately appointed Director of what became The Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art her subsequent efforts emphasized cutting-edge contemporary art and the establishment of the "Contemporary Collection". In l981 she began a decade of free- lance work including writing for Arts Magazine and Dialogue, curating exhibitions and writing catalogues. Traveling as the founding Director of The Artists' Organization (TAO) she visited and lectured in New Zealand and the Peoples' Republic of China. Subsequently, as Program Director of TAO, she was largely responsible for TAO's International Exchange Program that included exchanges of art and artists from The Peoples' Republic of China and Ukraine and the sponsorship of a permanent installation in Hocking Hills State Park, Ohio, by Tokyo artist, Akio Hizume. She became a U.S. citizen in 1999. Presently her time is divided between studios in Ohio and New Zealand. In Ohio she works with painted, inflated vinyl and with plaster as well as the necessary preparation for bronze casting. In New Zealand she works and exhibits ceramics being a founding member of an active Mercury Bay Artists collective - see www.mercurybayartescape.com.
An extensive list of national and international solo and group exhibitions as well as writing about Collings and writing by Collings can be found at www.BettyCollings.com/biography.
Website Design & Development by Cybermill Interactive


text:
What's This All About, Then?
In The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana I wrote about Victorian genre fiction, and in The Encyclopedia of Pulp Heroes I wrote about the heroes of global pulp fiction. That leaves one last area for me to write about: the superheroes of comics' Golden Age, 1935 to 1949.
Writers like Mike Benton and Jeff Rovin described some of these heroes, and I enjoyed their descriptions. But I always knew that there were more heroes than these writers described--a lot more--and I've finally decided to write about them myself. As is my way, I decided not to limit myself to just the major characters, but to research every hero of the Golden Age.
Yes, all of them. There is a fabulous variety of heroes in the hundreds of comic books which appeared in the Golden Age, floating eyeballs and centaurs and robot brains and super rabbits. But only a relative handful of these heroes has been rescued from obscurity by modern comic book writers--not just in modern comics, but in modern reference books like Benton's and Rovin's. For every Superman or Batman who still appear and for every Hangman and Supersnipe who have been written about, there are a dozen ZX-5s and Kay McKays who have been utterly forgotten. I intend to change this, and describe every hero from the comics of the Golden Age.
The end result will be 2000+ entries like this:
Captain Future. "Andrew Bryant seeks to find and develop an ultra-short wave for the transmission of radio and electrical impulses," and when he crosses the "infra-red band with the gamma ray" he is "charged with electrical power!" He gains the ability to fly, to hurl energy bolts from his hands, super-hearing, mind-reading (with his "radio mind"), and superstrength. His enemies vary from German ("Nazonians") and Japanese agents to Dr. Allirog, a Moreau-like Mad Scientist who creates "fiendish monsters" and who transplanted his brain into the body of a bear with the head, hands, and feet of a gorilla, to Dr. Bio, who creates horse-sized tarantulas with human faces, to kaiju-sized alligators. Captain Future is helped by his girlfriend Grace Adams, of the Agatha Detective Agency. Future appears in stories with titles like "The Lady Detective and the Dope Smugglers" and "Kidnappers and Quicksand."
First Appearance: Startling Comics #1 (Standard), June 1940. Created by Kin Platt and ? Note: the comic book character has nothing in common with Edmond Hamilton's pulp character of the same name.
So Why Am I Using Kickstarter?
Because I don't own all the comics of the Golden Age. There's really only one place to do the kind of research necessary for this project, and that's Michigan State University, in East Lansing. I'm estimating that I will need to spend at least two weeks at Michigan State to get all the necessary research done, and that will be expensive. (Air fare, hotel, rental car, incidentals--they all add up, and quickly).
Moreover, I will need to pay for professional web design for the accompanying web site, and that, too, is not cheap.
Stretch Goals/What You Will Get
If I raise $6,000, I will make the entire manuscript free online, as a professionally designed web site, similar to The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. You'll be able to buy copies of the book as print-on-demand, but it will be permanently available, for free, to the world.
Update, April 9: I've added a new stretch goal: if we hit $12K, I'll give away "Six-Gun Gorilla" for free. Details here.
Funding period
- (30 days)

subset: commoncrawl


text:
How to
Use the Activities
Inquiry Question
The freedom offered to humanity through the ability to fly was accomplished through a long process marked by advances and setbacks, accomplishments and failures, multiple attempts, and finally, success. The Wright brothers' ingenuity, insight, and intelligence made it possible for them to invent the first successful airplane and provide the world with one of the most significant advances in history. However, these two men offered the world something far greater, they offered the world hope, and the ability to take a dream and make it a reality. The following activities are designed to encourage students to understand the process undertaken by the Wrights in the development of the first successful airplane.
Activity 1: Advertising for Business
Activity 2: Learning from Experience
Activity 3: The Roots of Invention
This activity could be expanded by having each student think creatively to develop their own invention that utilizes some aspect or aspects of existing inventions or technology. Emphasis should be placed upon an invention which will alleviate some problem in existence today in America involving the transport of goods or people from place to place, or the invention of some form of transportation which is not currently available. Have students create detailed drawings or build a model of their invention and then make a presentation to "sell" the idea to a group of "investors" (the class).
Activity 4: Mentors
Activity 5: Inventions and the Community


text:
Toll Free at800.781.4040
Waterfalls, nightclubs, geothermic mud pools, mountains, skylines, if NZ doesn't impress you, best check your pulse. The Big Tiki from Auckland to Queenstown soaks it all up and offers an astounding list of over 65 optional activities to ramp up your trip. Dolphin cruise & black water rafting (until Sep 2018), anyone?
Welcome to NZ globe trotters. Time to meet your wolf-pack and start salivating over the overflowing banquet of adventure we have up for grabs here in the land of the 'long white cloud'. We'll cross Aucklands Harbour Bridge admiring the 'City of Sails' habour before starting our journey north to Paihia.We'll waste no time exploring what this country is famed for - unfathomable nature. Ancient Kauri trees that stand up to 50 metres high and hold over 1000-years of history will delight a walk through the reserve of Parry Kauri Park. -Walk through native Kauri ForestOn arrival to the Bay of Island we're starting off with a dose of Kiwi history on a guided tour at Waitangi Treaty grounds where in 1840 New Zealand officially became a nation of two communities. And because we like to give you that something extra, how about a free admission at the Treaty museum, in case you seek a bit more detail on Kiwi history.
Whether it's parasailing or a fast boat ride - today's (idyllic) list of optionals reads like a who's who of adventure. This area is filled with natural beauty and is sure to inspire your inner wild child. Make the most of the Free Time Add-On experiences on offer - tomorrow we head back to the big city vibes.
Feeling salty and sun-kissed we wave goodbye to Paihia & sashay our way back down NZ in the direction of Auckland, eager to carry on seeing what else this fine country has in store. Ask your Trip Manager for a bit of intel on the local lingo around here, sure to be the best way to make you feel right at home amongst the Kiwi crowd. Thought we'd "done Auckland" already? Oh hell no. Today is all about discovering yet more of this energetic city, starting with a free night to explore Auckland's great nightlife.
Laters Auckland! Today we drive through the lush farmlands of Waikato, an area that produces many of New Zealand's best Rugby players for the All Blacks, on route to Hobbiton Village. That's right, it wouldn't be a complete experience without a stop at the "Shire".When you catch your first whiff of that .. 'unusual' sulphur smell, you'll know we've arrived in Rotorua. Famed for its spurting geysers, boiling mud pools & hot springs, gondola and speeding luge rides, Rotorua is a natural wonderland, and then some. Tonight the culture will sky rocket with a traditional Maori hāngi dinner & dance performance, and perhaps best of all, the chance to get involved in the world-famous HAKA. Tongues at the ready peeps.
The day is yours to roam free. Soak in a hotspring, go white water rafting, take a canopy tour of hike up a volcano – the options are limitless and the decisions are yours.
Our Rotorua adventures are (almost) at an end, but not before we stop by the Rainbow Springs Nature Park, where you'll get the chance to learn about New Zealand's national bird, kiwis. Like nice surprises? Here's one for you - your included entrance fee goes towards the kiwi rehabilitation project, a Contiki sponsored initiative. Plus, as part of the project Treadright sponsors an incubator used to hatch eggs, so every year we get naming rights to two new baby kiwis. Cute, huh?220,000 litres (that's 58 000 gallons) of water gush over Huka Falls per second. Just let that sink in for a minute. Wild, right? Even wilder still is the Hukafalls Jet experience - a thrilling ride that will get you experiencing the full force of the falls and leave you with even more of a taste for adventure. A good thing really, given Lake Taupo is on the horizon.We'll break up our journey today with a nature jaunt to gorgeous glassy Lake Taupo.Then it's on to Mt Ruapehu for some powder riding fun. Whether you consider yourself a pro, or perhaps just an aspiring ski enthusiast, this is the perfect place for you to 'slide' into new adventures. And yes we do make excellent puns.
Known as the après-ski capital of the North island, Ohakune is a tranquil town with utterly unreal views. Spend the day bettering your skills on the slopes or generally treating yourself to all the snowy based activities on offer, then tonight snuggle down in our Special Stay ski lodge, located in prime position at the base of Mt. Ruapehu.
These landscapes are unique and the sights will leave you breathless. On route to the windy capital Wellington where we'll show you the sights of this city.As much as we've been loving the nature time, the change of scenery to New Zealand's well-cultured capital will prove an utter delights. After an orientation through the narrow streets of Wellington a night on the town will be on the cards, plus an optional dinner to start the night off as we mean to go on.
Galleries, cafes, shops, street performers, vintage markets -Wellington you're spoiling us. Stroll the eclectic Cuba Street, grab some sushi & pop by the Tattoo Museum where Maori moko face tattoos and modern ink collide, or hop on a quad bike to get down and dirty.
So long north island! Today we're making tracks for your southern brother, darting across the Tasman via the Inter-Island ferry. Our first port of call on the South Island will be Picton, the gateway to wine country. Sauv blanc, anyone? Our next drive takes us through Marlborough's wine country along the rugged east coast. Arriving in Kaikoura will see us amongst a seaside settlement known for whales & dolphins, so the camera needs to be on 110% charge as we roll around the coast. We'll stop at a seal colony, where you'll struggle not to break into a collective 'cuuuute' as you watch these guys sunning themselves on the rocks.Tonight we sleep well in Christchurch, drifting off to the pleasant memories of NZ's natural beauty that seasoned our day.
Christchurch, it was short and sweet, but with with ice age action on the horizon we gots to move on.Take in the beautiful scenery as we wind our way across the highest and most spectacular mountain pass across the Southern Alps.In the gold rush town of Hokitika we'll watch authentic carvers get to work on green jade and take a look at traditional Maori art. Back on the coach we're coastline bound to one of the islands most jaw-droppingly beautiful spots...We'll pull up for the night in glorious Franz Josef, probably one of the most beautiful places you'll ever of clapped eyes on. A bold statement we know, but well deserved.
This morning will be another big ol' tick off the list as we take to the ice of Franz Josef Glacier. Want to double tick the list in gold sparkly pen? We've got a heli ride over the glacier up for grabs for an ultra special experience. Satisfaction levels on high, tonight will be topped off with story swapping and crew drinks at the local. Be sure to breathe in that fresh alpine air - doesn't it feel good.
Armed with a new found appreciation for frozen water, we'll hop back on the coach & start making our way to Queenstown, making a few cheeky stops along the way. Our first piece of NZ eye-candy comes in the form of Haast Pass, beautified by ancient rainforests, small glaciers and waterfalls. Note how the scenery changes as we roll towards Queenstown through the Southern Alps and region of Otago.Intermitting our scenic drive we'll stop for lunch in Wanaka, a pretty ski resort town situated on a lake front and dwarfed by mountains. This town is fast becoming one of NZ's most popular spots, and a trip to the 'Dough Bin' for a luscious pie should be high on the list today. Welcome to the adventure capital of the world. Rest up tonight - the next few days are going to be BIG.
Today is yours to get acquainted with Queenstown and spend some time mulling over the activities up for grabs in the next two days. To get you warmed up, we'll be treating you to an exhilirating Shotover Jet experience (until Sep 2018), so throw those hands in the air as you fly through narrow Shotover canyons at speeds of up to 85 kph.
It's times like this that you really start to work out what sort of traveller you are. And human for that matter. You might be the one trailing through wine country and doing a spot of horse back riding, or you may be that guy that crams in a bungy jump, a skydive and a heliraft & still craves more. It's your holiday - run wild as you see fit.
With our last day in adrenalin city ahead of us, this is the time to push yourself to the limits and hurl over any mental barriers you've put up around yourself. Jump into #NOREGRETS spirit and conquer those niggling fears once and for all. For those who did their dash yesterday, a day staying mellow and enjoying this beautiful region will prove more than sufficient.
This morning our adventure comes to an end (sob). Hug it out with your new bff's, with plans no doubt in place for Contiki 2.0. NZ, you've been real.
Trusted by travelers since 1979
We guarantee to beat any price
Low deposits, Book now. Pay later.
24/7/365 Help on the road
Trip Name: The Big Tiki
Duration: 17 Days
From Price: $2,222
Supplier Tour ID: 7.891/247583
We will be in touch shortly
First Name:
Last Name:
Date of Birth:
Email Address:
Telephone Number:


text:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith expects to finish his career where it began -- just like he predicted 11 years ago.
Smith, who turns 33 in May, signed a contract extension Tuesday that likely will keep him in Carolina at least through 2015 and likely for the remainder of his career.
A person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press that Smith will earn approximately $18 million in guaranteed money over the next three seasons. There also is a club option for the 2016 season. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the terms of the deal have not been announced.
During a press conference Tuesday, Smith said the opportunity to retire as a Panther would be "extremely special." He also said it cements the promise he made to general manager Marty Hurney in 2001 prior to signing his first contract.
"I told Marty I would be the best Panther player ever to put on a uniform," Smith said.
Although Smith later qualified that remark by saying he believes former linebacker Sam Mills is the best Carolina player ever, it's hard to argue that Smith hasn't been the most productive.
Smith has caught 699 passes during his career for 10,278 yards with 59 touchdown receptions and holds almost every receiving record in team history. He also has six returns for touchdowns -- four on punts and two on kickoffs.
Last season, he caught 79 passes for 1,394 yards with seven touchdowns playing under new offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski in a pass-first offense. Smith went to the Pro Bowl along with rookie quarterback Cam Newton.
"Steve has been a difference maker at receiver for us since he's been here," Hurney said. "It's always good to keep your core players. We felt like Steve made it very clear that he wanted to finish his career as a Panther. We're glad he did."
Smith ranks 32nd all-time in NFL history in receiving yards and is coming off his fifth Pro Bowl season. He's spent all 11 seasons with the Panthers after being selected in the third round out of Utah in 2001.
Hurney acknowledged Smith's age is a concern, but he feels like the veteran will continue to prove he's still a valuable player.
"There aren't a lot of receivers who play up into their upper 30s but if anyone can do it, it's Steve," Hurney said. "His work ethic and his desire and his competitiveness are what set him apart from everyone else. He knows he's getting older. But he works so hard to keep himself in top condition. He knows with every year he has to work harder and harder. He's just so competitive."
Smith said he's still got something left in the tank.
And he already seems to be using talk of his age as motivation to prove doubters wrong, just as he did when critics said he couldn't be a great receiver because of his 5-foot-9, 185-pound frame.
"People will pretty much say he's old and he's come out of the garbage," Smith said. "Well, so be it. Another man's trash is another man's treasure. Obviously, I'm a treasure here and I appreciate the opportunity to move forward for however long I'm healthy and able to perform. When I have to walk away, I will walk away."
Smith said two of main reasons he re-signed is because his family loves Charlotte and he loves playing for coach Ron Rivera.
"The coaches and players in this organization make it real easy to re-sign here," Smith said. "I respect coach Rivera a lot. He's pushed me to grow and examine what options I can bring to the table. It's been very enjoyable. It's a great opportunity to build a stronger foundation to what we're already building."
This is the third time the Panthers have extended Smith's contract without him becoming a free agent.
After signing his rookie deal on June 19, 2001, Smith signed his first extension on March 1, 2007, just days before he was set to hit the free-agent market. However, he was so productive the Panthers gave him a new six-year, $45 million extension on May 4, 2007.
Smith's current contract was set to expire after the 2012 season, so three years were tacked on the end in what is a complicated deal.
Smith acknowledged he's thrilled about finishing his career playing with Newton, a budding star in the league.
"When I look at Cam, I don't believe anybody can do what Cam did," Smith said. "There are a lot of first-round picks who haven't been able to sustain the pressure and do what Cam did, which is take a company and say, 'Hey, I'll be the face (of the franchise). I'll handle all of the things that didn't go right and I'll fix them.' And he did that week in and week out. You have to be a special guy to endure that kind of pressure.
"That type of person doesn't come around a lot. Everybody wants to win the Lotto, but not everybody wants to buy a ticket. We won the Lotto with Cam."


text:
As we continue to mark the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, a conflict that fundamentally shaped our nation, it is important that residents of our Commonwealth bear in mind our state's rich history as a center of the abolitionist movement - the movement to end slavery - in America.
How can we forget our Quaker heritage and the difficult and dangerous work of local abolitionists who not only spoke out against the evils of slavery, but also risked imprisonment to help slaves reach freedom?
Still, it is not enough to simply remember. To truly respect and honor our abolitionist heritage, we must commit ourselves to end slavery in all its forms today.
Human trafficking in Pennsylvania and the United States involves two groups - U.S. citizens and undocumented residents. In terms of U.S. citizens, according to the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape more than 100,000 individuals - mostly young girls - are trafficked for prostitution within the U.S. each year.
In terms of undocumented residents, thousands are brought to the United States by criminals who through violence and coercion force them into situations of sexual exploitation and forced labor. The number of victims of human trafficking worldwide is estimated at 12 million, according to the U.S. Department of State. Human trafficking today is the second largest form of global organized crime, just behind the illegal drug trade.
Due to the covert nature of human trafficking and a lack of reporting, accurate statistics are often difficult to obtain. However, there is no doubt that this modern day slavery is taking place in Pennsylvania and even right here in our own backyard. Human trafficking is real and widespread. Often victims are hiding in plain sight – forced into labor at a nail salon, a sweatshop, the agricultural industry, or a massage parlor or spa serving a front for a brothel. All too often, human trafficking is tragically mistaken for or prosecuted as another crime, with victims treated as criminals and sometimes even released into the custody of the very people who have victimized them.
That is why we have joined together and to call for new measures to put an end to human trafficking.
The key to effectively combating human trafficking is a combination of prosecution, protection and prevention. We must give law enforcement personnel the tools they need to bring perpetrators to justice, while helping victims begin the path to recovery and preventing others from falling into the trap of human trafficking.
Last session, the Pennsylvania Legislature unanimously passed Act 197 of 2012, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline Notification Act, which requires travel centers (airports, train and bus stations), as well as certain businesses, like adult clubs; personal service establishments where human contact takes place behind closed doors; and bars and hotels found to be drug-related nuisances by the Pennsylvania State Police, to post a human trafficking hotline poster in a clearly visible area. This was an important first step, but much more needs to be done.
Now, we are calling on our colleagues to pass Senate Bill 75, of which we are both sponsors and strong supporters. Senate Bill 75 would improve and better define Pennsylvania's human trafficking laws, so that they can be better utilized by law enforcement. The current legal definition of human trafficking is vague, making it difficult to effectively prosecute perpetrators, who are often charged with other crimes and allowed to plea to lesser charges. In addition, as we mentioned above, victims of human trafficking can face prostitution charges even though they have been forced into the sex trade.
Furthermore, Senate Bill 75 calls for the following:
· A new chapter in the Pennsylvania Crime Code focusing on human trafficking and strengthening the hands of prosecutors. It also stiffens the penalties and increases the fines for human trafficking.
· Establishing the Pennsylvania Council for the Prevention of Human Trafficking, which would be tasked with training law enforcement personnel, raising public awareness and enacting a state plan for the provision of services to human trafficking victims in Pennsylvania.
· Giving the victims of human trafficking express authority to bring civil suits against perpetrators for actual damages, compensatory damages, injunctive relief and any other appropriate relief.
Recently, Senate Bill 75 was unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee and sent to the Senate floor for the next vote. Together, we are calling on our constituents to encourage your state senators and representatives to approve this bill.
Finally, if you suspect that human trafficking may be occurring in your area, call the National Human Trafficking Resources Center at 1-888-373-788 to report tips, connect with anti-trafficking services or request training or technical assistance.
Who would have thought that more than 150 years after the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution we would be still talking about the scourge of slavery? It is a question that is both astounding and troubling, but one that presents a challenge that we are compelled to meet. Please join us in a new abolitionist movement to relegate slavery to the archives of history, once and for all.
State Sen. Stewart Greenleaf, R-12th Dist., represents Bucks and Montgomery counties and is majority chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.State Sen. Andy Dinniman, D-19th Dist., represents Chester and Montgomery counties and is minority chairman of the Senate Education Committee.


text:
The Pet Bed Warmer does not get hot to the touch. It's specifically designed to gently warm the inside of your pet's bed and when your pet lies on it, the warmth gradually radiates through the surface of the bed.
Use the Pet Bed Warmer indoors only. Sturdy double-sealed heating element and cord are safe and durable.
Measures 6 x 20 inches, 6.0 watts
This product is intended for use in the United States using 110V Current. It is not suggested for use by our foreign customers as damage may occur to the product.
Manufacturer: K&H ManufacturingSee all products from K&H Manufacturing
Visit Manufacturer's website: www.khmfg.com
Pet Bed Warmer Medium UPC: 655199031009


text:
Satellite X LED Watch
- $169.00
Available Options
Three vivid halos of light behind a dark mineral crystal lens, Kisai Satellite-X is an LED watch with stylish lines and an intuitive way to view time.
A Futuristic LED Watch Design That's Easy to Read
The time is shown by three interlocking rings which can be read from top to bottom. Touch the button and lights showing the current time will flash for a short time.
Hours are displayed in the upper ring in the same position as hours on a clock. Groups of five minutes are displayed in the central ring in the same position as minutes on a clock. Four single minutes are shown in the lower ring.
An LED Watch with an Innovative Look
One of the most attractive features of Satellite-X is its material finish. Brushed grooves on the stainless steel case contrast with the highly polished mineral lens.
Available with blue or red LEDs, a matching color filter has been added to give the display a subtle highlight when unlit.
A USB Rechargeable Watch Design
Satellite-X is a USB rechargeable watch. To recharge, connect to your computer with the USB cable provided. One full charge will take 3.5 hours and each charge should last 1 month.
LED Animation Mode
An animation is programmed into Satellite-X and when activated, the lights will slowly rotate once every fifteen minutes between 6pm and midnight.
Limited Edition LED Watches
Like all watches from Tokyoflash Japan, Satellite-X is a limited edition design which means that it is guaranteed to be an original watch that not many other people own.
- Displays the time
- Animation mode (can be turned off)
- USB rechargeable: unscrew & connect to your computer
- USB cable and screw driver included
- Unisex design for small & large wrists
- Stainless steel case
- Adjustable silicone strap
- Machine closed case back
- Minimum wrist size: 100 mm (approx.)
- Maximum wrist size: 210 mm (approx.)
- Case Dimensions: 29 mm x 50 mm x 11.5 mm
- Weight: 70 grams
- Battery: PL301517 rechargeable watch battery
- Water resistance: 3ATM
- English instructions
- One year warranty
|Watch Attributes
|Strap Material
|Case Material
|Stainless Steel
|Stainless Steel


text:
ALBANY -- Newly appointed Assembly Insurance Committee Chair Kevin Cahill (D-Kingston) says there will be no "pay to play" on his watch, though legislators who control insurance bills are powerful magnets for campaign donors. "Some people think their campaign contributions buy them something, and it doesn't," Cahill said Friday, citing his previous job as chair of the Assembly Energy Committee. "Ask any of the utilities that come to my fundraisers how kind I have been to them. They would say not very." According to the New York Public Interest Research Group, Cahill's predecessor as insurance chair, Assemblyman Joseph Morelle (D-Monroe County) raised a total of $683,469 during the last election cycle that ran from December 2010 to December 2012. Of that, $132,650 came directly from companies that offer insurance. Morelle is now Majority Leader of the Assembly, a powerful post whose primary duty is running floor operations in the Democratic-controlled house. In the Senate, Insurance Committee Chair James Seward (R-Otsego County) raised $588,707 in the same cycle, with $193,755 coming from insurance companies, according to NYPIRG's database of campaign donations. The money was raised when Republicans still had total control of the Senate. They are now sharing power with a group of five breakaway Democrats, but still hold most of the clout there. Seward, who was not immediately available for comment, has faced criticism at election time that he is too close to the insurance industry. His response is that he is only beholden to the voters of his district. NYPIRG's analysis showed Seward finished first and Morelle third in terms of the amount of campaign money collected from the financial sector, which includes banks that sell insurance. Seward took in $203,555 and Morelle, $150,450. Senate leader Dean Skelos came in second, with $192,100. "It is clearly one of the more lucrative committee chairs in terms of campaign cash," NYPIRG's research director Bill Mahoney said Friday. "(Insurance) affects a lot of industries ... a lot of people have a lot of motivation to give." The same follow-the-money rule holds true for legislators who chair the Senate and Assembly health committee and the committees that handle bills affecting public employee unions, Mahoney said. Holding any of those committee chair jobs "really helps candidates raise a lot of money." Cahill, a lawyer who has served in the Legislature for 20 years, said he has not held a fundraiser since taking over the new committee post and does not have one currently scheduled. Cahill's Jan. 15 filing with the state Board of Elections shows a campaign fund balance totaling $30,302. With the budget hearings ongoing and the April 1 start of a new fiscal year approaching, campaign fundraising is in overdrive in Albany. Today and tomorrow, at least eight fundraisers with ticket prices set at $500 are scheduled. On Monday, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and the Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee are holding a $1,000 per ticket fundraiser. Saturday, Sen. Greg Ball (R-Putnam County) was holding a $100 a ticket fundraiser in Croton Falls. Motivated donors can give as much as $10,300 to be a "Victory Sponsor." Cahill says one big difference he has with Morelle is that his predecessor is chair of the Monroe County Democratic Party, a job that entails a lot of fundraising work. Morelle is also a businessperson with strong ties to both Assembly Speaker Silver and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Cahill says he does not have the same kind of political and business contacts and does not expect that his campaign fund will be a magnet for insurance interests. "I don't really anticipate them showing me any great favors," Cahill said. "Certainly the agenda coming out of our committee will be reflective primarily of consumer need."
Assembly Insurance Committee Chair pledges consumer-driven agenda
- Kyle Hughes
- Comments
Most Popular
- Troy man charged with DWI, three times the legal limit
- Election night roundup in Rensselaer County
- Stammel wins mayoral race in Rensselaer
- New, old faces coming to Cohoes City Hall next year
- Chamber kicks off 37th annual Troy Victorian Stroll
- Madden declares victory in Troy mayoral race
- HVCC announces new staff promotions
- Troy Farmers Market moves indoors, enjoys continued success
- Democrats keep majority on Troy City Council
- New York State Police blotter


text:
Dr. Brent T. Shoji reviews medical content for Healthwise, a
nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health
decisions. Dr. Shoji is a specialist in abdominal and gastrointestinal surgery.
He has been an Associate Surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston
since 1987. Dr. Shoji was an Instructor in Surgery at Harvard Medical School
from 1989 until July of 1997, when he was named Assistant Professor of
Surgery. Dr. Shoji also practices with Brigham Surgical Group, Department of
Gastrointestinal and General Surgery. He has been affiliated with Harvard Vanguard
Medical Association (formerly Harvard Community Health Plan) since 1987 and was
Chief of General Surgery from 1991 to 2005.
MD: University of California Los Angeles
School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, 1982
Internship in Surgery: Harbor-University of California Medical
Center, Torrance, CA, 1982–1983
Residency in Surgery: Harbor-University of California
Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 1983–1987
Chief Resident: Harbor-University of California
Medical Center, Torrance, CA, 1986–1987
American Board of Surgery
Harvard Medical
School, Boston, MA:
This reviewer reported no financial conflicts.
Healthwise Staff
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use. How this information was developed to help you make better health decisions.
To learn more visit Healthwise.org
© 1995-2012 Healthwise, Incorporated. Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise, Incorporated.


text:
The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued four people from a life raft after their tugboat sank off California near Big Sur.
The Coast Guard said in a statement that it received a distress call from the tugboat known as Delta Captain Saturday and sent two boats and a helicopter to the scene.
The helicopter spotted the crew and lowered a rescue swimmer to help hoist them out of the raft into the aircraft.
They were taken to shore in Monterey where paramedics were waiting, but there were no reports of injuries.
Two tugboats were sent to the barge the Delta Captain was pulling, and teams from the Coast Guard and the state's Department of Fish and Wildlife were working to recover the tugboat and assess any environmental damage it may have done.


text:
With the 7/7 inquests having concluded with the most ridiculous and predictable of judgments the responsibility of ordinary citizens to investigate and ask questions about the London bombings has grown. In solidarity with the July 7th Truth Campaign's excellent research and analysis on their dedicated 7/7 Inquests blog, Howard Beale's News Hour is pleased to present the sequel to 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction, 7/7: Crime and Prejudice.
The first film, 7/7: Seeds of Deconstruction largely focused on the history of covert operations and official deceptions as a context for understanding the failings of the Home Office narrative, the aim in this film was slightly different. This two-hour production explores not only the crime of the bombings in London in July 2005, but also the police investigation of that crime. The context for this exploration is threefold: the role of the British police and security services in different kinds of covert actions; the post-7/7 miscarriages of justice and instances of police violence against predominantly Muslim 'terror suspects'; and the various simulations of terrorism both before and after 7/7 that helped conditioned people into accepting one or another narrative of what happened.
The film begins by looking at the case of Victorian Anarchism, in particular the tale of the Walsall Anarchists, who were set up by Special Branch via an agent provocateur. You can find further information in a previous essay on this blog. The plot appears to have been masterminded by William Melville, who went on to head up the Secret Service Bureau, which then became the original MI5. Through his proxy provocateur, Auguste Coulon, Melville succeeded in obtaining convictions of four innocent men, three of which were sentenced to ten years hard labour. At the trial the lawyers for the defence asked Melville about Coulon, but the Special Branch man refused to answer the questions, and the judge ruled in his favour. This is an early example of how the spying game, which at that time was reviled by the population as underhanded and not becoming of gentlemen, affects the integrity of the justice system.
Coulon was a police spy, paid from July 1890 until some time in 1904, with the Walsall case coming in the spring of 1892, when he received extra money. The suspicions were well-founded, and confirmation at the time could have exonerated the men on trial, but that was of less concern to the judge than preserving the ability of the police to run or 'handle' such spies. According to Andrew Cook's excellent book on Melville called M: MI5's First Spymaster, the Walsall case was the only time that Melville practised such dark arts but Alex Butterworth's The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents illustrates how the anarchists were frequently infiltrated and manipulated. The Walsall case was not exceptional.
By the time of World War 2 MI5 had grown into a significant organisation, usurping the police Special Branches in secrecy, and hence in what they could get away with. 7/7: Crime and Prejudice details the example of Mutt and Jeff, two Norwegians who were sent to Britain by the Nazis to be spies and saboteurs. Upon arriving in this country they gave themselves up and quickly became double agents. They participated in deception operations, sending back disinformation to their Nazi handlers.
The security services also carried out false flag sabotage attacks, making the Nazis believe that Mutt and Jeff were still loyal and following orders. On one occasion a firebomb attack on a food depot was bungled. Security Service operatives snuck in and set off a couple of incendiary bombs, but the fire was quickly spotted by the local police, who were of course 'compartmentalised' and 'out of the loop'. The police called in the fire brigade, who put out the fire and discovered the remains of the bombs, which were of the type used by the British Security Services. The now-declassified files available at the National Archives record how 'This led to a very delicate situation in connection with the inquiry being made by Scotland Yard. Ultimately the inquiry died out.' Clearly MI5 trumped Scotland Yard by this time. Once again, the integrity of the justice system (the police, the prosecution service and the judiciary) was compromised so that the integrity of the secret National Security State could be maintained.
This same phenomenon was evident in Northern Ireland, where for years collusion between militants and the security services was a popularly believed 'conspiracy theory', now confirmed as historical fact. There is some reason to be cheerful - there have been a number of pretty hard-hitting inquiries into the issue of collusion, though there is still plenty of resistance to investigation and we're still waiting for even one member of the FBI, MI5, RUC Special Branch or FRU to be prosecuted for their role in the atrocities. The Pat Finucane Centre has obtained some very telling paperwork in this regard, detailing a meeting in 1971 between the Attorney General and 'J.M. Parkin, Head of C2' at the British army's Northern Ireland HQ. The documents note how Parkin had, 'no doubt the Attorney General is doing all within his power to protect the security forces against criminal proceedings in respect of actions on duty.'
We can see much the same process going on in today's War on Terror. Inasmuch as there is an international radical Islamist movement, some members of whom are willing to carry out acts of violence, it is riddled with informers, double agents and provocateurs. From Omar Saeed Sheikh to Ali Mohamed to Luai Sakra to Junaid Babar to David Headley to Edwin Angeles, from the Philippines to Algeria the unifying factor in these disparate militant and radical groups is the infiltration by those in the pay of the security services. The violence seen in Mumbai, Istanbul, Manila and beyond is one result of this covert policy. The other is miscarriages of justice.
Several significant incidents are examined in 7/7: Crime and Prejudice, all of which happened after 7/7. There are two reasons I chose post-7/7 events - firstly, to show how the attacks made it easier for the judiciary to obtain ridiculous and obscene convictions against innocent people, and also to show how whatever failings and corruption existed before 7/7 continued to exist after 7/7. Nothing has fundamentally changed. The murder of Jean Charles de Menezes by British security forces was followed by one of the most obvious attempts at a cover-up ever witnessed in this country. The have simply got away with gunning down an indisputably innocent man and then repeatedly lying about it.
Months later, in Forest Gate, the police shot another indisputably innocent man, Mohammed Abdulkahar. He survived, only to face accusations of being a terrorist. The police were forced to admit their 'mistake' but when the IPCC published a laughable disgrace of a report saying that the shooting was accidental, the police just so happened to choose that very same day to re-arrest Mr Abdulkahar on child pornography charges. These were also dropped due to lack of evidence. At no stage has anyone been held responsible for the 'intelligence failure' that led to the raid, which led to the shooting, which led to the trumped up charges. Indeed, we still have no real idea what information MI5 and Special Branch had in the weeks leading up the raid, or who took the decision to mount the 'robust operation'.
Though 7/7: Crime and Prejudice did not make this explicit, the case of Mohammed Hamid et al is in many ways comparable to that of the Walsall Anarchists. The defendants were (and are) fundamentally innocent, and yet one of them confessed for reasons that aren't particularly clear. The case against them was bolstered by the use of an undercover policeman known as 'Dawood. He made covert recordings of the defendants, Hamid in particular, saying some admittedly unwise and insensitive statements, though nothing substantially different to what anyone else has said in private conversation. By maintaining that the undercover policeman was not actually an undercover policeman when he met Hamid, the prosecution argued that Hamid's statements were effectively made in public and hence constituted incitement to murder.
The other part of the trial was the charge of providing or receiving terrorism training within the UK, which only became a crime after 7/7. Hamid was accused of running training camps during several trips he and his friends made to countryside areas, and on one trip paid for by the BBC where they went paintballing. As far as terrorism or guerrilla warfare goes, one could learn a lot more from playing games like Call of Duty: Black Ops than one could from going camping with Mohammed Hamid but that didn't stop the 'independent' judiciary deciding to prosecute a group of men for playing with sticks, jumping over rivers, and slicing a melon.
A wider issue that I have with this case is that even if Hamid were providing jihad training then prosecuting him would be an enormous hypocrisy, as the primary trainers of Islamic militants over the last 30 years or so have been the military and intelligence services of the Western powers. When Abu Hamza and 'ex' British army soldiers were training recruits in the Brecon Beacons in the 1990s to help fight the dirty wars in the Balkans, the authorities did nothing. But when one small and independent group of men who have nothing to do with the security services go to the woods and jump over rivers shouting 'Allah Akbar', somehow it is a crime.
7/7: Crime and Prejudice also covers the case of Khalid Khaliq, arrested and prosecuted because a terrorism training manual written by a CIA double agent was found in his house, and that of three men accused of being co-conspirators in the 7/7 plot. Waheed Ali, Sadeer Saleem and Mohammed Shakil were subjected to two trials, on the barely-even-circumstantial evidence of them having visited London about 8 months prior to the 7/7 bombings. The prosecution maintained that the sites they visited - The London Eye, the London Aquarium and the Natural History Museum - bore a 'striking similarity' to the targets on 7/7, which were of course three tube stations and a bus. How a 443 ft ferris wheel resembles an underground railway station is not clear to me, and obviously wasn't clear to the juries in the trials. The men were eventually found innocent, but like so many others will have to live with the stigma of accusation for the rest of their lives.
As such, the judiciary cannot be seen as independent from political influence, or from the machinations of the National Security State. For over a century, and continuing right up until the present day, innocent people have been wrongly convicted for serious crimes, or seriously convicted of trivial non-crimes. Those who are most consistently responsible for the most horrific crimes are almost invariably state actors and agents, and virtually without exception they have got away with it. And so, prospects for the 7/7 inquests did not look good. Five months of hearings recorded the testimony of hundreds of witnesses, and vast quantities of information was adduced as evidence. However, the most basic requirements of establishing who died, how and whether their deaths could have been prevented were ignored or categorically fudged.
The process by which bodies were recovered from the explosion sites and then identified was ruled to be 'outside of the scope of these proceedings'. This is extremely fortunate for proponents of the official narrative because of 56 people who died in the attacks, only 15 were pronounced dead at the scenes, and those 15 did not include any of the alleged bombers. The question of how the people died was inevitably answered with a verdict of 'unlawful killing' (a verdict denied to the jurors in the Menezes inquest), and the medical cause of death listed in each case as 'injuries caused by an explosion'. The problem is that precisely what exploded is not a question the inquests could answer, as no trace of primary explosive was found at any of the bomb sites. Nor were any bomb cases or bomb initiators found. Nor was any forensic evidence adduced that linked the alleged bombers to the tubs of allegedly explosive sludge found in the alleged bomb factory.
The question of preventability was dealt with by portraying the London emergency services as hopelessly incompetent and mismanaged, but failing to name even a single policy or budgetary decision or specific official as responsible. A few recommendations were made but even the mainstream media recognised that it is highly unlikely that any of them will be adopted. The other aspect to the 'preventability' issue is examined in some detail in 7/7: Crime and Prejudice. Among the findings outlined by J7 and presented in the film is that the security services did not tell the truth about the pre-7/7 intelligence when asked about it by the Intelligence and Security Committee. They had a phone number connected to alleged 7/7 ringleader Mohammed Sidique Khan several months before the ISC's report claims they had it. They came across the number during phone surveillance of Q, a supposed Al Qaeda facilitator who, like Auguste Coulon, the police refuse to answer questions about. According to a Security Service document made available at the inquests a subscriber check on the phone was carried out on March 11th 2003. According to the ISC's second report ('Could 7/7 have been prevented?') the British Security Services didn't start monitoring Q's phone until 'late March 2003' after receiving a tip-off from the National Security Agency about him. So where did they get the number from, and why were they doing a subscriber check on it before they had any reason to care about who was using it? The implication is that they were monitoring Mohammed Sidique Khan, and possibly others around him, more closely and for a longer timeframe than they've admitted.
Of course, this could just be covering-up for incompetence, but this is doubtful for two reasons. Firstly, it is not what the government and their friends have used as their excuse. According to them, and repeated in the inquest verdict, there was no intelligence failure. As far as they are concerned, they did everything right. Rather than make a half-assed confession of incompetence, but fail to fire anyone or change anything (the preferred PR response to questions about 9/11), the British cover-up strategy has been to deny that there's even been a cover-up, or that anything went wrong. This bizarre and implausible argument has, in the manner of doublethink, been used alongside the strategy to say that things did go wrong, that there was an intelligence failure, but that the only answer is to give more power, funding, resources and protection to the Security Services. So we go round and round, caught in a dialogue between two (likely) false propositions, having an argument that takes place in terms defined by the very people we're trying to hold to account. If we lack the vocabulary to even ask the questions in the right way then we've got no chance of ever getting a proper answer.
The same is true of the battle between conspiracy theories. The official conspiracy theory of 7/7 is a joke, indeed, it doesn't really exist. The conspiracy theory told by the police that they claim to have derived from investigating the crime contradicts the conspiracy theory told by the anonymous Home Office civil servant who wrote the official narrative. But many people take these two stories as being only one story, and reject it wholesale in favour of alternative narratives, usually revolving around terrorism training exercises and patsy suicide bombers. The 'independent' media has uncritically accepted and promulgated the alternative narratives, subjecting them to almost no scrutiny whatsoever, let alone the crackpot Jesus-freak cross-dressing intelligence agents who promote them.
In doing so, all of these supposedly independent researchers remained ignorant of the fact that in the couple of years before 7/7 there were numerous training exercises, films and TV shows that simulated terrorist attacks and helped establish this polarised dialogue about such attacks. The exercises are the only thing that have been considered, and only in the context of whether they were practice runs for the real attacks. The psychological effect of these attacks, their role as simulations (bridges between the real and the paranoid nightmares inflicted on us by the ruling class) has been under-examined, and 7/7: Crime and Prejudice seeks to put that right.
A quick run-down of events looked at in the film goes as follows:
17th June 2002 - Spooks episode shows MI5 staging a fake attack on a London train station.
9th June 2003 - Spooks episode shows Muslim suicide bombing.
7th July 2003 - Spooks episode shows bomb attack on London at the same time as a security service exercise.
7th September 2003 – 'Osiris II' exercise based around chemical attack on London underground.
3rd February 2004 – BBC broadcasts Crisis Command pilot episode featuring attack on Waterloo underground station and a plane crashing into the houses of Parliament.
11th March 2004 - 3/11 bombings in Madrid.
16th May 2004 - Panorama episode 'London Under Attack' features attacks on three underground stations and a large road vehicle.
16th May 2004 - 'Operation Transit Safe' exercise in New York based around multiple bombings on the subway.
24th September 2004 - BBC/HBO production 'Dirty War' is broadcast, featuring two pairs of Muslim suicide bombers, one pair attack Liverpool Street station in a suicide bombing, the other pair are shot dead by police.
13th December 2004 - Spooks episode shows Muslim 'proxy bomb' and shows terrorist mastermind being shot dead by special forces.
5th to 8th April 2005 - Atlantic Blue exercise based around bombings on London trains and buses. US exercise includes fake news footage and a fake terrorist suspect who is a Muslim.
June 2005 - Spooks episode filmed based around attack on London train station, also shows terrorist being shot dead by special forces.
12th June 2005 - Emergency service training exercise at Tower Hill underground station.
Early July 2005 - Tabletop exercises based on multiple bombings on the tube run by the Metropolitan Police and Deutsche Bank.
7th July 2005 - Actual attacks in London on multiple tube trains/stations and on a bus. Training exercise closely replicating real attacks takes place in London shortly after the tube train explosions. Training exercise based around attacks on subway take place in New York.As detailed in 7/7: Crime and Prejudice, however, this conditioning did not end on 7/7. The simulations continued.
21st July 2005 - Four men set off fake bombs in rucksacks on three tube trains and a bus.
22nd July 2005 - 'Police' shoot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, apparently because they thought he was a suicide bomber.
8th January 2006 - 'Northstar V' exercise in Singapore, based on 7/7. News broadcasts carry images of the arrest of a mock suicide bomber.
25th September 2006 - Spooks episode features Islamic 'unwitting suicide bomber' duped by terrorist mastermind. Also features a terrorist being shot dead by police.
16th October 2007 - Spooks episode shows Muslim MI5 agent planting bomb underneath a train in a false flag attack.
30th October 2007 - Spooks episode features unwitting suicide bomber from Sept
2006 episode, who has been turned into an MI5 informant. He is again duped into being an unwitting suicide bomber by a terrorist mastermind.
5th November 2007 - Internet documentary 7/7 Ripple Effect claims 7/7 was a inside job, with patsies believing they were taking part in a training exercise who were then shot by police snipers, and that the bombs were planted underneath the train, probably by MI5.
28th October 2008 - Spooks episode features quadruple Muslim suicide bombings on London. Four men, one of whom is an undercover MI5 agent, are watched closely by the security services. An informant in Pakistan intelligence tells MI5 that the men are only doing a practise run, with dummy bombs, and that others will carry out the real attacks. The informant double crosses MI5 and the men are given real bombs, One of the would-be bombers is shot dead by police, two of the bombs are stopped, and the fourth bomb is detonated by remote.
When considering all this it may also be illuminating to throw in the cases of Nicky Reilly and Taimur al-Abdaly. Reilly is a young white convert to Islam who apparently attempted a suicide bombing in Exeter in May 2008. His mother has said that he must have been brainwashed and given help putting his device together, citing his having Aspergers syndrome, which would make him an obvious target for provocation. His device went off in the toilet of the restaurant he admits to having targeted, injuring him seriously, though not grievously, and causing no other injury or loss of life. Taimur Abdulwahab al-Abdaly was 'Sweden's first suicide bomber', though as with 7/7, and Martial Bourdin, it is far from clear whether he intended to kill himself. In December 2010, right in the middle of the 7/7 inquests, there were two explosions in Stockholm. The first, in a car, caused two people minor injuries and didn't even destroy the vehicle.
The second, about 12 minutes later, killed al-Abdaly and caused no other injuries. You can watch not-particularly-revealing CCTV of the second explosion here. What is obvious is that if al-Abdaly had been a conventional suicide bomber, i.e. one who is trying to kill members of the public as well as himself, then he failed miserably. Despite this, the mainstream media are unanimous in saying Reilly was a failed suicide bomber and al-Abdaly was Sweden's first suicide bomber. The independent media have had little to say about either case.
Looking to the future the hope for an official but independent public inquiry into 7/7 may be optimistic, but it remains a possibility. The Gladio case, and the investigations into the collusion in Northern Ireland both found that the suspicions about state involvement in terrorist crimes were well-founded. Many of those who were wrongly imprisoned during the Irish War on Terror and the Europe-wide Strategy of Tension are now freed and exonerated. Vindication and true investigation is possible. Rather than taking the easy and lazy route of propagating our favourite conspiracy theories we should find ways to apply pressure on the state and to feed information to the growing number of sceptical people.


text:
Add a hint of decadence to your floor with this Black Red Lawrance Rug, it has a soft pile made from a Polyester and Acrylic mix and looks great in any area. Use a contemporary design rug helps to modernise the space while creating a soft surface to walk on.
Delivery is free to most of the UK with the exception of some remote Scottish regions for which a small surcharge may be applicable. Channel Islands and offshore UK locations will also incur a small charge. Please see our Delivery page for full details.
Free deliveryto most of UK
If you find one of our designs on another website at a lower price then we will reduce our price to beat it by £5 to £15. Call us on 01332 294787 or click here to fill out the form and we will get back to you within 24hrs.
Lowest PricesGuaranteed
Relax, if your room does not look more beautiful with one of our gorgeous rugs on your floor - simply send it back to us yourself within 30 days of receiving it. No questions asked.
We work closely with our supply chain from around the world to ensure we only sell premium quality rugs that satisfy your needs, expectations and purpose.
Your security and privacy is safe with us, we use secure encryption payments (look for https:// with a padlock in the address bar) and we NEVER pass on your details to third parties.
from only £61.22
Call our team on 01332 294 787
|FREE – Usually 3 to 5 Days
|construction technique


text:
College can be like a merry-go-round. You have ups and downs, but it is a fun ride all the way around. The University of Maryland, College Park is one merry-go-land that you won't want to hop off of.
Besides its ideal location between Baltimore and Washington D.C., the University of Maryland has lots to offer. From academics to sports to clubs to awesome peers, you will not be bored and your mind will remain challenged. One of my personal regrets in college was that I didn't form bonds with some of my professors. This was mostly because I was convinced that they were all celebrities so I was too intimidated to approach them. At UMCP, professors are available and attentive to student needs and questions, so don't be afraid to go to office hours! Bonding with professors is one thing, but bonding with your entire school is another. To do that, just join in with the rest of the Terps to cheer for your school's NCAA Division 1-A football team. What's a Terp? I have no idea, but it is your soon-to-be-mascot.
This merry-go-round has been fun, but it's time to get off for the night and go home to your newly rented apartment. With campus being so close to two major cities, many students find a place off campus where they can be free to explore the surrounding area and really immerse themselves in Mary-go-Land. Though living off campus might not be the cheapest option, in many instances apartment rent is comparable to the cost of living in UMCP dorms. To lessen the cost of off-campus living, try finding an apartment a little further from campus and take advantage of College Park's fabulous public transportation. Between the Shuttle-UM service, the Metro systemand the buses, students will find that a car in College Park is unnecessary, and getting to and from your apartment will be easy (make sure to allow time for traffic, though). Apartment search guides will make it easy to find an apartment that suits you! Living in College Park has more advantages than just great apartments and pub trans. There are plenty of cute restaurants in the business district. College Park is fairly small, so it is overtaken with students and feels like a perfect small college town with big cities like D.C and Baltimore conveniently nearby.
Get back on the merry-go-round and then get off at the bars in College Park. A sports bar student favorite is RJ Bentley's, where U of MD students (who forgot to get season tickets), love to gather round and catch a home game. If you want a little more urban excitement head down to Baltimore to get down at The Get Down. With so much to learn, do and see you will want to keep on riding the Maryland merry-go-round!


text:
On a First 27.7 from Saint-Malo with a group of friends. Sailed around the Channel Islands, had a good navigation!
We loved the Baltic Sea in Danemark, especially when we arrived in Copenhagen with its colorful houses. But Sweden and its canals were even better. Had the best time on board of our Oceanis 411!
We were able to do a few quotations with the customer service to find the best boat for our destination. We went for a Lagoon 450, really comfy for the family!


text:
The one date in the diary every year for our horse competitions is the Epworth Country Show.
We always love to support it and I think we've been coming on the trot now (pardon the pun) for a good five or six years, pretty much from the time we returned from living abroad.
It's got such a brilliant show schedule for everyone to enjoy, as a spectator to a competitor, and we love to take one of our three horses.
The last three years, my daughter has been competing her first pony, Jazz, at the show.
We initially started out on the lead rein (where I hold her on a leather rope) and have since progressed each year from riding on her own on the flat to turning her hand to show jumping this year.
It's the first year my eight-year-old has competed there in showjumping and it was also her highest competition to date, jumping 50cm.
Of course, it's no problem for our pony club pony who has seen her fourth child go through the ropes and learn to jump with her.
She's an old hand at it and knows her job well. That's just the sort of horse you want as a first pony.
We met lots of horsey pals there and it was great to see so many attend.
Alyssia didn't quite get her clear round so she tried again (with me shouting words of encouragement from the sidelines) and she went clear.
She then went on to do the next class, which was the same height, but more jumps and under showjumping rules.
I'm thrilled to say that she came in sixth place.
And, although she was initially disappointed with her result, she soon cheered up when I told her she had gone up against adults on big horses and that it was her first time jumping that height.
I reminded her how far she has come and that some days you can't win them all.
We'll be there again next year, so make sure you come up and say hello.


text:
Back to All Events
Earlier Event: September 16CWA Six Flags Day
Later Event: October 11October 2016 Union Meeting
The year 2019 brings us a great challenges. We must find a way to mobilize our members if we want to change the trend of our past. Do find time this year to get involved with your Union. We are doing many great things in our communities and would love for you to be involved. Our Local can only be as strong as our members.
Ed Barlow, President
CWA Local 3204
Join Us on FaceBook
404 688-1256 For information or to File a Grievance
Go to the files tab for a list of Potential CWA 3204 Members
Thanks for visiting CWA Local 3204


text:
- Home
- About Us
- Troop Overview
- Documentary Video
- Troop 8 in the news
- Facts & Figures
- Parent Information
- Joining Info
- Volunteer Info
- People
- Events
- Resources
Scouts sail through expedition
Troop members return with leadership skills
by James Briggs, Ann Arbor News staff reporter
Few high school students have such intriguing answers to the inevitable question: What did you do over summer vacation?
Among navigating a ship out of inclement weather, climbing a 3,000-foot active volcano and meeting the Governor General of Grenada, the Troop 8 Boy Scouts from St. Thomas Catholic Church in Ann Arbor struggle to answer that question without forgetting at least a few details. The group of five high schoolers took a 23-day sailing expedition to the Caribbean as part of the troop's semi-annual venture trip.
Members of the troop, who left July 19 and returned August 12, had no previous saiing experience. They prepared by sailing the Great Lakes and by earning certification in the American Sailing Association. But the Great Lakes and the Caribbean are quite different, the troop learned.
"They were as prepared as could reasonably be expected," said Eric Fretz, an adult leader on the trip who has sailing experience fro seven years of active duty in the U.S. Navy. "For 15- and 16-year olds, this was a tremendous situation to put them in. They didn't always choose the best solutions (to problems), but they chose the safe solutions."
The boys were challenged immediately when they hit a squall four days into the trip. Neale Batra, 15, was steering as the wind knocked the 45-foot ship around like a toy. "I was sitting next to Neale, watching him at the helm, and a big gust came up and knocked us over by 80 degrees," said Seth Dawson, 16, a junior at Pioneer High School. "All of a sudden, we were standing sideways. At that moment, there was a lot of fear."
"We got blown way out to sea, " Batra said. "It wasn't like I felt my life was in danger, but my adrenaline was pumping. It was fun."
It wasn't quite as much fun for the troop's leaders, though, who were on another ship that became separated from the boys' vessel. A guide from the American Sailing Association helped the boys through the storm, but Fretz said he was still nervious. "It was a tough day as adult leadership to be waiting for the radio to find out they're still there," Fretz said. "That's nothing you can prepare for. But it was nice for them to be tested like that and actually pass."
Testing is what the troop's venture trips are all about. The boys were forced to grow up quickly and leave their adolescence behind, said Bob Geier, the high school group leader for St. Thomas and a research scientist for the University of Michigan. Geier has been leading high school groups on venture trips - including a biking trip to Denmark, a backcountry ski trip to Colorado, and a climbing trip to Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa - for several years. Troop leaders let the scouts determine the destination and allow them the freedom to succeed or fail on their own, Geier said. Regardless of what happens, the boys always come back with improved leadership skills, he said.
"It's funny when the kids choose the trips," he said. "We never know what it's going to be. When they chose this one, we all looked at each other and said... 'OK, sailing...' "
The trip also can be a bit daunting for the parents, who must decide whether to let their children go. "Parents usually fall somewhere between delighted by the opportunity and fearful of the unknown, " Geier said. "That's a long time to send your son away.
Priscilla Spencer, Neale's mother, said the decision wasn't difficult for her. "I felt pretty comfortable," she said. "It's a tremendous experience for a 15-year-old. They learn people skills, self-confidence and that you can do things that you think are impossible."
Besides focusing on the adventure itself, the troop also helped clean up parts of Grenada that were ravaged by Hurricane Ivan last year. The troop is still seeking musical instruments that it will send to a high school in Grenada that lost everything in the storm.
Meeting some of the people in Grenada who had been devastated by the hurricane touched Killian Williams, 15, a sophomore at Huron High School. "We take a lot of stuff for granted," Williams said. "You sorta hate school until you go down there and see someone's school blown apart by a hurricane."
"Everyone we met on the streets was happy even though they're living in one of the poorest countries in the Americas. It makes me want to get out of America and open my eyes a little more."
Most of the boys will get that chance, so long as they continue working in the troop. They are already narrowing options for next year's venture trip and preparing for a ski trip during the winter. The trips require massive fundraising efforts to cover the costs, as well as dozens of hours of preparation time, but the boys say the experience they gain is always worth it.
Seeing people who are still suffering because of last year's Hurricane Ivan also gave the troop perspective when they consider what people along the Gulf Coast are enduring now, Batra said. "On the news, you'll see it for three days and it's gone," he said of the Ivan coverage. "But we were there a year after the hurricane and people are still without homes."
- Login to post comments
- Printer-friendly version


text:
I'm a big believer in practical examples. So, soon enough, I'll get to one, hold on. Before I do though, I have to admit, when I first saw LINQ-to-SQL, I was skeptical quite a bit. I was thinking, "Wow, more syntactic sugar. So it doesn't feel like I'm querying anything when I query SQL. big deal." After all, I'd seen that before.
What I wasn't prepared for was the fact that Microsoft had created a crafty little masterpiece. LINQ basically allows each one of us to extend the language, in a certain manner of speaking. We can take advantage of .NET's JIT-like reflexes (sorry, yes the pun with CAT-like is easy to miss) by constructing trees of LINQ Expressions.
That sounds quite a bit fancier than it is, but the short of it means that I can remove a combinatorial level of manual query writing when I want to combine predicates (tests for rows inclusion in the result set) based on run-time user input.
Using SQL Server is great, as long as you have a great understanding of the T-SQL language, and are relatively comfortable with writing it as needed. There are various shortcuts, such as ORM frameworks that make it conceptually easier to work with SQL. That's especially true when writing it out longhand isn't your cup of tea. But when it really comes down to it, anything beyond object persistence in most of these ORM tools is potentially painful, and usually requires some manual SQL code intervention.
SQL is a great back-end for web apps. In a corporate (politically correctly, read 'Enterprise') environment, you like to be able to put out some kind of application that is useful for other corporate employees. One of the things they might like to do would be searching databases. Now, for you, the SQL guru, that's no big deal. When you want to let someone else at it, you really have to make sure you've covered all the bases and tied up all the loose ends (and used too many buzzwords). I know it's a little vague so far, so, how about that example?!?
Let's pretend that you're the IT shop's in house developer. You have the big manager, Sallie, from HR, who'd like to be able to search all of the employees based on any of the available criteria in the corporate database (which so happens to look a lot like the Northwind database included with SQL Server).
That doesn't sound so hard, at first. You have an Employees table and you just need to search the fields in there. No problem... So you make a nicely styled, well oiled (and colored) app in the Visual Studio Designer in which you select which of the 18 fields you'd like to search. You've wired up a text box to supply a value, used as a parameter in a SQL Select, to data-bind the results grid to either of 18 SqlDataSources (one for each field.)
Sallie liked the idea, when you presented it, but says she really needs to be able to query based on multiple columns -- in any order and possibly using them all.
Well, that shoots the data-binding solution in the foot. Looks like you'll have to code this up with a Command pattern... So you allow the user to pick, from a check box list, any of the fields that will be included in the query, and to specify the criteria. You can do a bunch of switch-ing if logic to figure out what kind of query to render by adding a piece of it at a time, or... (of course, you knew I'd get to this) you can use lambdas and the PredicateBuilder to inject multiple predicates into an expression tree!
Now, let's be clear. I didn't invent the PredicateBuilder; in fact, it's quite a popular little doodad brought to the world by Joseph Albahari. You can see it for free here, or check it out in its natural habitat, the LINQKit, with a few other gadget-like utility classes in the same vein.
Solving this problem without LINQ and the PredicateBuilder basically requires the writing of a query variation for every possible combination of columns, or a way to build a query that works out to the same effect. Compiler writers scoff at the thought of this being considered difficult, but for the rest of us, there's only one way to build and walk a tree that compiles to some other kind of code (SQL, in this case) - have someone else do it.
The first notable feature of this example is the user interface. A user will insist that a user interface is all there is in an application. They often refer to a 'feature of the app' as a 'screen', so getting this part set up reasonably is pretty important.
Since this solution requires that the user be able to select any or all of the columns, we like the idea of a checkbox for inclusion of a filter. Most of the fields in question here are nvarchars so we can use a String.Contains() lambda for them. The DateTime field, the birth date, requires the use of value range comparison, so that filter will have to include a lambda that tests a date for betweeness (and also two valid date inputs).
So the individual filter lambdas look like this:
// This kind of lambda, when evaluated,
// will generate a LIKE clause with wildcards on both sides
e => e.FirstName.Contains(filterFirstName.Text)
// This kind of lambda, when evaluated,
// will generate two value comparisons, just like it looks here
e => e.BirthDate.Value >= startDateRange && e.BirthDate.Value <= endDateRange
That's great, you might say, but how do I combine them?
There's two ways to do this, you can do it client side, which means that you're loading all the data from SQL and filtering on the web server end. You create an array of lambdas, looping through each one, and applying it as a filter to the IQueryable as a Where condition. That can be expensive in server memory. Or you can do it the right way, using PredicateBuilder. Basically, LINQ's Where extension to IEnumerable<T> takes a conditional expression as a parameter. This can be a simple lambda, or this can be a complex combination of many lambdas, or other valid LINQ expressions. The PredicateBuilder just makes it easy to combine an undetermined number of them.
From the sample code:
public IQueryable<Employee> PrepareDataSource() {
// we start with .True, as in, no filters, get all of them.
var predicate = PredicateBuilder.True<Employee>();
// just inspect the 'checks'... throw in some lambdas
int emplId = -1;
// use tryparse to make sure we don't run a bogus query.
if (cbxUseEmployeeID.Checked &&
int.TryParse(filterEmployeeId.Text, out emplId) &&
emplId > 0) {
// here's how simple it is to add a condition to the query.
// Still not executing yet, just building a tree.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.EmployeeID == emplId);
if (cbxUseLastName.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterLastName.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.LastName.Contains(filterLastName.Text));
if (cbxUseFirstName.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterFirstName.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.FirstName.Contains(filterFirstName.Text));
if (cbxUseTitle.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterTitle.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.Title.Contains(filterTitle.Text));
// default value to avoid 'unassigned use' errors.
DateTime startDateRange = new DateTime();
DateTime endDateRange = new DateTime();
if (cbxUseBirthDate.Checked &&
DateTime.TryParse(filterBirthDateStart.Text, out startDateRange) &&
DateTime.TryParse(filterBirthDateEnd.Text, out endDateRange)) {
// tack on some numeric range testing. I'd have
// liked to do a between query, but I don't know if
// there is one that translates in such a way, so we'll just do this:
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.BirthDate.Value >=
startDateRange && e.BirthDate.Value <= endDateRange);
if (cbxUseAddress.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterAddress.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.Address.Contains(filterAddress.Text));
if (cbxUseCity.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterCity.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.City.Contains(filterCity.Text));
if (cbxUseState.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterState.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.Region.Contains(filterState.Text));
if (cbxUsePostalCode.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterPostalCode.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.PostalCode.Contains(filterPostalCode.Text));
if (cbxUseCountry.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterCountry.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.Country.Contains(filterCountry.Text));
if (cbxUseHomePhone.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterHomePhone.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.HomePhone.Contains(filterHomePhone.Text));
if (cbxUseNotes.Checked &&
!string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterNotes.Text)) {
// this translates into a LIKE query.
predicate = predicate.And(e => e.Notes.Contains(filterNotes.Text));
var results = Config.GetCurrentContext().Employees.Where(predicate);
// If you are debugging, you can put a breakpoint
// up there and see the Query by hovering over 'results'.
// this query is constructed but not yet exectued
return results;
It's so easy with the PredicateBuilder, I think they're trying to make it illegal in several states. (I'd say that is nearly akin to the so-called 'mechanical engineers' getting upset about programmers being called 'software engineers'.)
If you look in the download at the class Employee, you'll notice that I'm taking advantage of the partial nature of the objects that LINQ-to-SQL creates. I added a static method that returns the entire IQueryable<Employee> in the database. Notice, I also tagged the partial class with a System.ComponentModel.DataObjectAttribute. I did this so I could populate the columns in the GridView by binding it temporarily to an ObjectDataSource using the GetAll() as the Select method. All the columns appear, I delete the ObjectDataSource, and go on my merry way. Saved myself a little typing.
Something you may not know is that LINQ-to-SQL is very intelligent. Yes. Have you ever thought, hmmm this would best be served by a SELECT Foobar where Baz in ('some', 'list', 'of', 'elements'), and then thought better of it because obviously LINQ can't generate that? If you have, you'd have been wrong(!), because as it turns out, it can grow it just about the same way that you would. I don't use it in the code download... but see here:
SELECT Foobar where Baz in ('some', 'list', 'of', 'elements')
string [] values = new string[] { "Leverling", "Davolio",
"Callahan", "Dodsworth" };
// No WAY that'll work!
predicate = predicate.And(e => values.Contains(e.LastName));
// Yes WAY! It gets translated to AND Employees.LastName
// in ('Leverling', 'Davolio', 'Callahan', 'Dodsworth')
I did a little bit of math, and I figured out that if I were to write all possible combinations of the 18 fields in the Employees table combinatorially, I would have to construct 262,142 unique SQL statements to accommodate each one. That's not to mention an if statement and a condition block for each! (I know, nobody really does it that way, I hope.)
If you were to write a query builder of your own, you'd have to do a little bit of compiler-like translation. I know, from extensive experience writing software that performs custom tree-based syntactic translation, there are corner cases that you wouldn't expect, and those are what take the longest to find and fix.
The moral of the story is, when you absolutely need flexibility (not necessarily speed) of behavior, runtime translation is the way to go. LINQ-to-SQL is a nice, accessible, available, ready-made solution. And when someone else has already written something that does that for you, use it. (The author looks at you, while he points at 'LINQ-to-SQL'.) Don't roll your own, if you don't have to.
This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)
My blog | My articles
public IQueryable<Employee> PrepareDataSource()
IQueryable<Employee> results = Config.GetCurrentContext().Employees;
if (cbxUseHomePhone.Checked && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(filterHomePhone.Text))
// this translates into a LIKE query.
results = results.Where(e => SqlMethods.Like(e.HomePhone, filterHomePhone.Text));
//results = results.Where(e => e.HomePhone.Contains(filterHomePhone.Text));
return results;
General News Suggestion Question Bug Answer Joke Praise Rant Admin
Use Ctrl+Left/Right to switch messages, Ctrl+Up/Down to switch threads, Ctrl+Shift+Left/Right to switch pages.


text:
I have been meaning to get pictures taken of the kids since their birthdays over the summer. I can't believe how long it took to get then into the portrait studio! I am SO glad that I finally got to it. I think the pictures turned out GREAT!
Joshua and Lydia are wearing outfits that were sewn and smocked by my mom.
I knew this might be a challenging appointment as Joshua is now able to move around, but not able to follow directions. I am amazed that the photographer was able to get this many good shots!
This is my FAVORITE! Joshua was ready to leave and we were trying anything to get him to stay. Lydia was going to show him the book, but he grabbed it and started pointing to pictures. The photographer captured the moment beautifully!


text:
Western Easter already happens; eastern Easter is just around the corner. Most of blogs already discussed Easter eggs decorating ideas. But what is the most famous egg in jewelry? Of course it's masterpiece from Fabergé. The inventors of extraordinary jewelry eggs, has chosen to develop a complete range of timepieces in association with master watchmakers.
A new era of Fabergé as a watchmaker brand starts with four collection: Ladies core collection, Ladies complication collection, High jewelry collection and Men's high complication collection. First timepieces are made of precious materials with the skills of Agenhor, APRP, and Vaucher Manufacture. Expected date of delivery is set to September 2015. Read More


text:
FARMVILLE, Va. – The VCU Baseball team grabbed a 9-0 victory over Longwood in a midweek contest on the road on Tuesday night.
With the victory, the Rams overall record stands at 20-17, while Longwood drops to 18-17 on the season.
"I thought we pitched the ball fantastic for nine innings," said VCU associate head coach Shawn Stiffler. "Seth Cutler-Voltz set the tempo throwing strikes from the beginning, while the relief pitchers came in on the back side and did a great job. Offensively everyone contributed, with every starter but one getting a hit. We were able to take advantage of some early mistakes by Longwood. "
The Rams got things going off the bat, as junior infielder Jordan Weymouth reached via an error with one out in the top of the first inning. The Paradise Valley, Ariz., native swiped second base successfully and was able to trot all the way to the plate following an errant throw by the catcher into center field.
VCU added to its lead in the top of the third inning, as senior catcher Kyle Sutherland reached safely on an error by the Longwood first baseman. Sutherland advanced to second on a single through the left side by Paul Nice, before taking third on a sacrifice bunt by sophomore outfielder Bill Cullen. Weymouth plated Sutherland will a groundout to the second baseman.
The Rams followed suit in the top of the fourth, with sophomore Chris Ayers earning a free pass by a hit-by-pitch and redshirt junior outfielder Taylor Buran roping a single down the third base line to advance Ayers. Freshman infielder Vimael Machin moved the runners up each one base with a sacrifice bunt, before Sutherland plated Ayers with a groundout to the second baseman.
VCU put the game out of reach in the top of the sixth, pushing across six runs in the frame to extend their lead to 9-0. Redshirt junior infielder Brent Mikionis led off with a single through the left side, before Buran drew a one-out hit-by-pitch to put runners on first and second. Machin lifted a single to center field to load the bases. Sutherland delivered a single through the right side, which scored Mikionis and Buran. Nice followed with a single to right field, which scored Machin and put Sutherland on second. Cullen delivered a single to right field, allowing Sutherland to score and put Nice on third. After Cullen stole second to put runners on second and third, Weymouth lined a single up the middle to score the two runners, giving the Rams their sixth run in the frame.
The Rams were paced by Weymouth (pictured right) and Sutherland, who each drove in three RBI.
Cutler-Voltz earned the victory after throwing four innings and allowing four hits. The Rams used four other pitchers the rest of the way and the group did not allow a hit.
VCU will turn its attention back to CAA play, with an upcoming weekend series against William & Mary scheduled for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. First pitch for Friday's game against the Tribe is scheduled for 6 p.m. at The Diamond.
"It is going to be a great series," added Stiffler. "They are pitching the baseball really well, with one of the best pitching staffs in the conference. It is going to be one of those grinding series that may come down to one or two mistakes or pitchers."


text:
After very thoughtful consideration, 2017 will be the sunset year for IRONMAN Coeur d'Alene. In consultation with the Coeur d'Alene Chamber of Commerce, we have decided that 2017 will be the final year for this race—a part of our race portfolio since 2003.
We would like to thank the local community for their support over the years, and look forward to continuing our partnership with the community of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. for many years to come in hosting IRONMAN 70.3 Coeur d'Alene.


text:
Tertiary Student wellbeing
View all categories
View all listings
ECE Gifted and talented ECE Special needs Primary Literacy Primary Science Primary Special needs Primary Student wellbeing Secondary Careers Secondary Literacy Secondary History Secondary Numeracy Secondary Special needs Secondary Student wellbeing Tertiary Teacher training Tertiary Literacy Tertiary Gifted and talented Tertiary History Tertiary Maori language & culture Tertiary Numeracy Tertiary Science Tertiary Special needs Tertiary Student wellbeing Tertiary The Arts Tertiary Values/Behaviour
The New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZCER) is New Zealand's only national, independent educational research organisation. NZCER Press is the organisation's publishing arm, publishing research-based assessment tools, journals, books and classroom resources, written by external authors and in-house researchers. Their publications are designed to meet the needs they identify across the education sector through their research work.


text:
The three main approaches are:
The cost approach measures the values of the intangible assets by assessing the expenditures necessary to replace the assets. The cost approach is based on the economic concept ofsubstitution, that is, people will pay no more for an asset than it would cost to develop or obtain another asset with similar functionality. Cost items that should be included when valuing the assets include the legal costs, registrations costs, personnel costs, development costs, production costs and marketing and advertising costs.
Intangible assets are valued by comparing recent sales or similar transactions with similar assets involved in similar markets. This method is applicable when similar markets and similar transactions exist; however, more than often, comparable assets can't be found due to the uniqueness of most intangibles which limits the application of this method.
The income approach measures the value of an intangible asset based on the future income streams that are expected to be generated by the asset.
Some income approach methods:
Business Valuation Tool
IP Valuation Tool
Super IP-Calculator
This tool enables you to do a rudimentary
This tool enables you to do a rudimentary
This tool allows to assess


text:
Last week, Dassault Systèmes announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire full ownership of 3DPLM Software Ltd. (3DPLM), its joint venture in India with Geometric Ltd.
3DPLM, formed in 2002 with Dassault, has a team of about 2,000 employees in India working on research and development and services related to Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE platform and brand applications. In 2002, Geometric was a joint venture with Dassault Systèmes, 3D PLM Software Solutions Ltd. with an equity participation of 58% and 42% respectively.
In other words, moving forward to last week, Dassault Systemes said it will acquire all of 3DPLM Software, an R&D company it owns jointly with Geometric, an Indian engineering services provider. The transaction means that the French PLM software group will be able to fully integrate 3DPLM into its operations, which center around its 3D Experience platform.


text:
Google Certified Apps Trainer Preparation Program
This course will be led by Google Certified Trainer Aida Awad, Science Department Chair at Maine East High School, and will be assisted by Hank Thiele who is a Google Certified Teacher, Administrator, Trainer and is one of the founders and leaders of the Illinois K-12 Google Apps User Group.
Over the course of the week we will be virtually joined by several volunteer guest speakers including:
- Rachel Wente-Chaney: Chief Information Officer High Desert Education Service District Oregon and a Google Certified Trainer.
- Ronald Ho: Product Manager at Google
- Andy Crozier: Superintendent Andrew CSD in Andrews IA. Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps Certified Trainer, and Apple Distinguished Educator, and Leader in the Central Region K-12 Apps User Group
- Becky Evans - Google Education K-12 Team
- Molly Schroeder: Technology Integration Specialist for Edina Public Schools. Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps for EDU Certified Trainer, and Leader in the Central Region K-12 Apps User Group
- Julia Stiglitz: Google Apps for Education Business Development
- Scott Meech: Director of technology Downers Grove School District 58, leader at EdReach.us, IEAR.org, ICE Conference Committee Co-Chair, and a Google Certified Teacher.
- Jay Blackman: Co-Founder and Technical Coordinator of EdReach, Director of Information and Educational Technology for Tri-Creek School Corporation in Lowell, Indiana, a K-12 school system, Google Certified Teacher, and Leader in the Illinois K-12 Apps User Group
- Jamie Casap: Google Education Senior Evangelist
- Dan Rezac: Tech Specialist for Northbrook District #30 in Illinois, Google Certified Teacher, and Leader in the Illinois K-12 Apps User Group
- David Spangler: Google Apps Consultant for Appirio, helping schools and large enterprise companies move to the Cloud. Google Certified Administrator, Google Certified Apps Trainer, and formerly Network Manger and Google Cloud Evangelist at Maine 207.
- Lisa Thuman: I'm the Senior Specialist in Technology Education with theCenter for Mathematics, Science and Computer Education at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Google Certified Teacher, and Google Certified Trainer,.
- Dana Nguyen: Google Education Goddess (my title for Dana)