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Now that you've explored the different paths and fully understand the power of decision making, you're ready to create your very own Choose Your Path adventure. This activity is a great opportunity for you to flex your creativity and writing skills. Just use the facts that you see on the PEERx Web site about prescription drug abuse to make your storyline as compelling as possible. You have a lot of options: write about a typical day in the life of a teen and tap into your own experiences for ideas. Or, you can always create a story about someone whose life is totally different from yours or your friends. Make sure you weave in facts about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
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Prescription drug abuse: Taking prescription medication that was not prescribed by a doctor specifically for you or taking prescription drugs beyond the dose recommended by your doctor.
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It's been so long since I have been on a Carnival Cruise! We've been going on Disney ever since we had the kids. But to celebrate my mom's 60th birthday we are going to go on the Victory with her (stopping in Key West and Cozumel).
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Summit Tool Design, Rockford, IL, has launched its redesigned website, www.summitsedge.com, where visitors can view examples of the firm's 3D die-design projects and virtual die-tryout process. Summit offers tool and die design services for the sheetmetal-stamping industry, and value-added services for Solid Edge software. Also on the site: video of a sheetmetal forming simulation, design case studies and a "Contact Us" form.
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To understand the "piercing psychology" you have to remember that it's just – ובראשם – הוא קישוט. זה, what motivates people to put this earring is the desire to beautify one's body in order to produce certain impression or create an image. בכל זאת, יש כמה סיבות אחרות, aside of those to make one's body more appealing.
Primary, it's the desire to go "nostril-to-nostril" with the fashion trends. With this in mind, people place earrings on most visible body parts. Secondly, folks strive for that exclusive distinguishing look. In this case, the desire to stay out of flock could gradually result in putting on yet more and more "frills". זה, ones this special image among those without piercing is achieved, people start to pursue new heights in acquiring the fanciest look among the others who sport those earrings, too! This way, area- and regional champions appear in certain social groups or hangouts.
One of the hidden reasons is going for sexier look. Here we are not necessary talking about some complex sexual self-assurance issue. It's just an extra attention among the potential partners, more chances for meeting someone which people are after. Some even rely on this as and aid in striking the conversation.
In general, an idea to overcome one of personal complexes by body piercing is fair reason to look for that piercing specialist and quite simple way to solve psychological issue. Though, it is simple only if the procedure would be gone with no bad consequences, the wound will heal smoothly and your body accepts new tuning without the rebellion.
Numerous cases show us that idolizing these poster-models or one's cult figures could play as powerful reason for modifying someone's own appearance. Piercing is not an exception here, and there is not only TV-stars to stay for a hero, but any other popular individuals who is a role-model in close social group.
People commonly possess a desire to be different, and not only on a personal level, but also with the way they create their own social groups, adopting one or the other significant outer attributes as a signs of belonging. Everyone can recall such groups like sport club fans, bikers, "metallists", sexual minorities, etc. Now, if someone wants to feel belonged, accepted by certain social group, to be recognizable by those who sport, for an example, some distinctive piercing, here comes more than obvious motive for it!
There are some another cases, somewhat foreign for our environment, when specific punctures of even scars are a-must ritual for entering certain cult society or organization. At the end, it is not all that uncommon when the desire to have multiple perforations on the face and body is originated in psychic abnormalities, and they tend sometimes to an excessive abundance.
Sex takes its significant place in our life, so it's no wonder to see a desire to use earrings for the self- and partner's extra-stimulation. To achieve this, the piercing is done on body parts directly involved in sex play. These are, first of all, the tongue and immediate genitals. Such piercing is more often done by those of age over 35 and who is after sexual refreshment for themselves and their partners. When performed to women, intimate piercing is perfectly safe, but in men it could damage the physiological functions, including those resulted from the development of scar tissue.
Sometimes there is sheer professional need to have the nipples or belly buttons adorned – like in topless show artists or sport dancers, etc.
As soon as we accept that the decision to beautify one's body is deeply personal issue, then it becomes clear that such decision can't be a subject for anybody's critical pressure.
And if we speculate that with this piercing he or she is probably overcoming deep inner psychological problems – for an instance, gets rid of some complex – then we look differently at this person with, say, an earring in the eyebrow, as we should be happy for such people.
The urge for the distinctive appearance, desire to show-off, be one-of-kind sits in deep sub-conscience of much many. However, among them are those who scare, hang-up, nurture their complexes: like, they want – and they don't. Now, watching others, free of such hesitations and doubts, these people vent their envy and unrealized desires by sub-conscious critical coming on the folks with piercing done.
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TWAIN HARTE, Calif. -- An Air Force pilot reported missing Monday night when his F-16 fighter jet disappeared over the Adriatic Sea off the Italian coast is from Tuolumne County, Calif.
Search teams recovered debris Tuesday believed to be from the F-16 Fighting Falcon. Rescuers continued to search for the pilot, Capt. Lucas "Luc" Gruenther, who grew up in Twain Harte and is a 1999 graduate of Summerville High in Tuolumne.
His wife, Cassy, is expecting their first child in a few weeks. The Gruenthers were high school sweethearts at Summerville.
Twain Harte resident Chance Hildreth, one of Gruenther's brothers, said family and friends have been praying for his safe return. Hildreth asked community members to keep Gruenther in their prayers as well.
Family members learned Monday that Gruenther, 32, was missing.
"I thought, 'They will find him,' " said Gruenther's father-in-law, Randy Williams of Tuolumne. "But we haven't heard anything."
Williams said his wife and Gruenther's mother are on their way to Italy to be with Cassy Gruenther. He said he last saw his daughter and son-in-law over Thanksgiving when they were home for about three weeks.
Gruenther was a standout athlete, leader and student at Summerville who played varsity soccer, was involved in more than a half-dozen campus clubs and served as student body president.
"He had the personality -- 'I'm going to make this a better place,' " said Mitch Heldstab, Gruenther's grade-level coordinator at Summerville. "When he believed in something, he went after it."
Heldstab said Gruenther and the student body vice president were so successful in tackling the campus' litter problem that the state fire marshal used Summerville as an example of keeping high schools free of trash.
Gruenther came back to Summerville in April to give two presentations to students.
Heldstab said Gruenther comes from an athletic family and that one of his grandfathers is Olympic champion Bob Mathias, who won the gold medal in the decathlon in 1948 and 1952.
Gruenther is an Air Force Academy distinguished graduate. He is the 31st Fighter Wing's chief of flight safety at the Aviano Air Base in Italy. He was performing a training mission when the base lost contact with him about 8 p.m. Monday, according to an air base news release.
U.S. military officials are coordinating search and rescue efforts with Italian military and civilian teams. U.S. military resources joined the search including an Air Force HC-130 from U.S. Africa Command and a rotation of Navy P-3s from U.S. Naval Forces Europe.
"We are dedicating all available resources to the search and rescue operation," said Brig. Gen Scott J. Zobrist, 31st Fighter Wing commander. "I'm grateful to the many Italian and U.S. professionals who are executing this mission. I am hopeful that we will bring him home safely.
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Beijing Now Has Almost as Many People as Australia
In a country of 1.3 billion people, it's no surprise that Chinese cities are huge. But just how big are they?
Recent figures released by Beijing's municipal bureau of statistics show that the capital's population grew by almost half a million residents in 2013 to 21.15 million. To put that in perspective, that's only slightly less than the entire population of Australia.
The figures were based on a survey the bureau conducted, which also found that the city is home to more than 8 million migrants, who make up about 40% of the population. The rest of the city's population, the bureau found, were hukou-toting residents—that is, those with official household registration papers entitling them to benefits like education and health care.
Figures released by Shanghai city authorities earlier this year showed that its population grew in 2013 by about 350,000 to reach 24.15 million—nearly the population of all of North Korea—including about 10 million migrants.
Technically, the most populous municipality in China is Chongqing, with a population of 29.7 million. But Chongqing, which contains vast swathes of countryside, covers an area roughly five times that of Beijing and 13 times that of Shanghai, and is more akin to a small province than a city.
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Thankful For Friendship – 28 Days of Thanks [PHOTOS]
Although we are all born to a family, our friends are the family we choose, the ones who bring out the best in us and who willingly stand by our side when they would really rather be anywhere else. For those friends, I am most grateful.
Throughout my life I've been blessed with some truly fantastic friends. Growing up, my closest friend was Monica, a beauty both in appearance and at heart. Smart and funny, she always brightened my day. We attended classes together, worshipped together and lived down the street from one another. Oh, and did I mention that she is black? Yeah, I usually forgot too. I remember when we were in junior high school, we dined together daily and I was always the only white person at the table. Monica and I never saw color, we just saw a friend, but sadly everyone else wasn't as colorblind as we were. Some of our classmates grew up with the prejudices of their parents, and they didn't like the fact that we so blatantly crossed the color line every day. I took many blows after school from those bullies who couldn't understand our friendship. Yet the violence never destroyed our relationship. If anything, it made it stronger than ever.
In my late teens when I moved to New York City, I met Adam, a young man who was tall, charming, talented, and kind with an irreverent sense of humor. We became fast friends and would stay up late playing piano, singing jazz, exploring the city or chatting over coffee in all-night diners. Aside from Monica, he was the first person to ever really get me, and he was eager to show me the ropes of city life. If anyone was ever my "brother from another mother," it was him. Along with my other New York friends like Brian, Forrest, Lamont, Josh, Jerry, Jonathan, Daniel, Mark and Sophia, we were a family of sorts, each from a different part of the country, and we ran everywhere from Broadway to Brooklyn and everywhere in between.
When I moved to Dallas in my 20s, I met Cindy, her roommate Michelle, Matt and his roommate James, and Phil, who I soon became roommates with. Remember the show Friends? Well, the six of us were very much like the characters in that show. Our lives intertwined, and we did everything together. They were fun, carefree years when we were as happy sitting on the floor eating pizza and playing cards as we were to go to a club and sip some drinks. One of my favorite memories from that time was when we all took a camping trip up near Lawton, Oklahoma and the rain washed the girls' tent away. We all had to cram ourselves into one tent, and none of us slept a wink. We just stayed up laughing at the absurdity of our predicament. When we finally did get up at dawn, the day was gorgeous and perfect for hiking down in the valley among the bison that roamed there.
Several years later, I moved to Cincinnati and made even more friends, some who were near my age and others who were either far older or much younger than myself. When I went to college at the University of Cincinnati, journalists like Jenny Wohlfarth, Jon Hughes, Elise Manahan, the late Al Salvato, Hagit Limor and Marjorie Fox and authors like Brad Meltzer, Michael Griffith, James Braziel and Brock Clarke became my friends, mentors and future colleagues. But there were also lesser known, but equally important friends like Rick and Lynn Graham and their sons Zach and Jared, Anita Hughes, Dan and Cindy Mack, Leslie Croley, Charles and Sandra Evans, David Pirozzolo, Daniel and Claudia Kees, and so many others that made a serious impact on me during my time there. My wife and I loved entertaining them, and our fondest memories were made with a house literally overstuffed with people, the laughter and talking so loud it was almost deafening, and tons of great, delicious food. Of course we had our sad times, those same friends were there for those occasions too, buffering the pain when a family member died or we were so incredibly broke we wondered how we would possibly pay our bills. The important thing with all of my friends, however, is that we anchor and fortify one another, making the ups and downs better than they would have been if I had been going through them alone.
I have always liked how Oprah Winfrey put it when she said, "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down." Throughout my life, I've ridden the bus, figuratively and literally, many times. But through it all, Monica and all those other people I love so dearly have climbed aboard with me, even when they didn't have to. That's why I'm thankful for friendship and all of the friends who have touched my life and loved me without hesitation. They make my world a far better place in which to live and I am thankful for them each and every day.


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Sprint Nearly Sold Out of iPhone 5 at Many East Coast Spots
Not surprisingly, the iPhone 5 is flying off store shelves as the product goes on sale across the globe.
A Sprint representative tells AllThingsD that it is sold out of the phones at many of its stores, just hours after the Apple smartphone went on sale.
"At this time, the majority of East Coast Sprint-branded retail stores are seriously constrained or sold out of iPhone 5 inventory provided to us by Apple," the carrier said. "Our stores will be resupplied as soon as additional devices are received from Apple."
Sprint is setting up a wait list where customers can buy a $50 gift card and secure their spot when phones become available.
AT&T and Verizon representatives declined to comment.
Market researcher comScore said on Friday that online sales of the iPhone 5 have reached a level in three days comparable to what it took a month for the iPhone 4S to achieve.
AT&T has grabbed the lion's share of those early orders, thanks to its large base of iPhone 4 customers looking to upgrade. According to comScore, more than two-thirds of online sales have been for AT&T models, with Verizon grabbing nearly a quarter of sales and Sprint around 8 percent.
"But if history is any indication, the carrier share of iPhone sales is subject to change," comScore said. "If we look back at the launch of the iPhone 4S, AT&T led with 48 percent of online sales among the three carriers in the first three days. Verizon represented 35 percent of online sales while Sprint, which joined Verizon and AT&T as an official iPhone carrier with the release of the 4S, captured 17 percent. But by the end of the month the story had shifted, with Verizon driving 45 percent of online sales, followed closely by AT&T at 43 percent and Sprint accounting for the remaining 12 percent."
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Cheryl Burke, Val And Maks Chmerkovskiy Interviewed On Ballroom With A Twist And Dancing With The Stars
In a new Ballroom With A Twist interview with Equality 365, Val Chmerkovskiy chats about why he loves doing the show. His favorite part is the "human element" and how "inspiring" it is to share the stage with such "passionate" talent. Val also talked about his brother Maks and the new season of Dancing With The Stars. Below is more….
ED: How do you feel about returning to DWTS next season?
VC: I am very excited. The announcement was just made Wednesday. I feel very fortunate to be able to perform on a show that provides me the platform to share my talent and passion with an average of 20 million people a week. I am incredibly lucky for that. I am very grateful to be called back. I love all the work that goes into the show. It is a lot of work. It isn't easy. I am also very excited to meet my new partner. I have no idea who it might be. I love the process of meeting someone new and finding out more about them while building a lifelong relationship with them. This journey that we go through each season is the greatest thing ever.
ED: What do you think about your brother (Maksim Chmerkovskiy) leaving the show?
VC: About time man, he is always hogging the spotlight (laughing). I am joking. It is rare these days for siblings to work in the same city much less the same industry. To be able to work in the same industry at the same job that also happens to be the number 1 TV show in America is just crazy. For me it has been an incredible ride. We are super close and it has been great for our family to witness that and watch us together. I think it will be amazing for our future children to know that we had that experience. Our lives didn't start with Dancing with the Stars and it certainly isn't ending there. My brother and I have a lot of projects that we want to do together. We are very close. We love one another and support each other. I am sad that this chapter of our life has come to an end and we won't be able to share the stage on DWTS anymore. But at the same time, there are plenty of other projects that we will partner in. I do think it is a great time for him to exit gracefully. Leaving on top after last season is an incredible blessing. He has a decade of commitment to DWTS and I think it is time for him to work on other projects.
More at Equality 365.
There is also a new Ballroom With A Twist interview with Maks Chmerkovskiy and Cheryl Burke at Honolulu Pulse. Both dancers talk of why they love to do Ballroom With A Twist. Cheryl said, "It's a very high-energy, two-hour show. We go into the audience and get them moving. It's really a chance for them to connect with us. A lot of people have questions, and they're always interested in (the) behind-the-scenes of 'Dancing With the Stars.'" Cheryl and Maks also talked on Dancing With The Stars. Here is more from Maks and why he decided to retire from Dancing With The Stars and how shows like Ballroom With A Twist are a better fit for him now.
Though he will continue dancing, he has announced that he is retiring from "DWTS."
Part of that decision is the grueling nature of the show.
"By week seven, no matter who you have, no matter how brilliant they are, no matter how easy they are to work with, your body is exhausted and you just want to die," he said.
Nonetheless, his victory also has given him a sense of accomplishment and appreciation for what he does so well.
"I never really appreciated myself or the talent that I have, till now," Chmerkovskiy said. "So now I do a show like 'Ballroom With a Twist.' I never would do this kind of thing before.
"Finally I said yes to these things because I just want the stage. I love the stage, I love to move, I love the audience interaction. I want to say thank you — live."
Lots more at Honolulu Pulse.
If interested in seeing Ballroom With A Twist before Dancing With The Stars begins, see this link for ticket information. This weekend they are in Seattle and then they go to Hawaii next week!!
ETA: You can also listen to Karina and Val talking on Dancing With The Stars and Ballroom With A Twist at Komo News. Note how Karina mentions there will be a bigger digital presence and a "Q & A" on Dancing With The Stars this season. ABC and BBC have something special planned this season and they are excited. Hmmmm….


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Congress is finishing this year less popular than a cockroach," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the other day.
Congress is finishing this year less popular than a cockroach," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the other day.
The reason, he charged, was simple: "mindless, knee-jerk obstruction from Republicans."
Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., sees things a little bit differently.
"As long as Harry Reid is the majority leader," he said, "the Senate will increasingly be a dysfunctional place."
It would be nice to think that Congress' easy passage of a bipartisan compromise on the federal budget this month was the sign of a new spirit of cooperation on Capitol Hill.
But in the hallways of the Senate last week, there was little evidence of bipartisanship, or even Christmas cheer.
"We need a cooling-off period," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, told me.
"I've raised two boys. Sometimes, you need to go to separate rooms to cool down."
Indeed, next year is unlikely to get better, for one simple reason: It's a congressional election year. And not an ordinary election year. A significant number of Republican incumbents in both the House and Senate will face primary challenges from tea party conservatives.
That means that some of the legislators who once were likely to seek cross-aisle compromises will be trying to show how tough and conservative they are.
Getting Democrats and Republicans to agree on anything will be harder than ever.
"Good things seldom happen in election years," noted former Rep. Bill Frenzel, a moderate Republican from Minnesota.
Where are the conflicts likely to come? Rep. Paul D. Ryan, R-Wis., who fashioned the bipartisan budget deal with Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has already promised another collision over the federal debt ceiling.
Republicans have tried several times to use the debt ceiling — the limit on the Treasury's authority to borrow — as leverage to force fiscal concessions from President Obama, even though refusal to raise the limit could lead to a default on the federal debt and disastrous consequences for the economy.
"We will not want to walk away with nothing" from a debt ceiling vote, Ryan vowed on CNBC, although he added that the GOP caucus hasn't yet decided what to ask for in return.
Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seconded the idea, noting that the debt ceiling is one way for Republicans to "get the president's attention."
The only good news in this picture is that the disastrous government shutdown in October may have taught both sides a thing or two about how to avoid needless catastrophes.
Ryan says Republicans have learned a lesson from that episode. Next year, he said, they'll be looking for goals that are practical, not unreachable.
"You can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good," Ryan said.
That was the message House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, was trying to reinforce when he denounced conservative organizations for pushing his caucus into the October shutdown, advisors say.
Boehner has told House members that even though he welcomes a fight over the debt ceiling, he doesn't want to risk a federal default, especially in an election year.
"If it happened, we'd get blamed for it," a Boehner advisor noted.
On the other side, even though Obama insists he will refuse to negotiate over the debt limit, that doesn't mean nobody will negotiate.
In two debt limit battles this year, Obama refused to bargain — but Reid stepped in and helped arrange a deal. In both cases, Republicans agreed to "suspend" the debt ceiling; Democrats didn't give up much of substance in return, but they did make procedural concessions.
Obama's absence from those negotiations wasn't a problem; it was a plus. Especially in an election year, Republicans don't want to be tarred as too eager to compromise with a man conservatives love to loathe.
A deal with Reid looks better; a compromise with the less-pugnacious Murray, better still.
So, with luck, what we can hope for next year is a return to what you might call "normal" partisan warfare: tough, sometimes even angry, but not as destructive (or, in the Republicans' case, self-destructive) as before. Just don't expect much to get done.
There won't be a grand bargain over spending and taxes; that has turned out to be unreachable.
But there may be a bit more progress on massaging the budget cuts of the sequester, a process Ryan and Murray began this month.
There probably won't be an increase in the minimum wage, although there could be an extension of long-term unemployment benefits.
And there won't be a grand compromise over a comprehensive immigration reform bill. The House will try to pass some piecemeal measures, but the two parties remain far apart on whether to offer undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
And you thought this year's Congress didn't get much done.
Still, if the legislators can get through 2014 without provoking a crisis, that will count as progress.
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It's never as bad as it appears -- or as good. Or is it? "Well, I don't know,'' admitted Illinois guard Demetri McCamey. "Penn State was pretty ugly.''
It's never as bad as it appears -- or as good. Or is it?
"Well, I don't know,'' admitted Illinois guard Demetri McCamey. "Penn State was pretty ugly.''
The level of play from No. 20 Illinois left those folks wearing orange statewide suffering from mood swings. After scoring 69 points combined in losses to Minnesota and Penn State, Illinois left Ohio State on Sunday with a 70-68 victory.
"You never know what you're going to get out of this team,'' said Illini forward Mike Davis.
It's not just Illinois. In a shockingly fluid college basketball season, even the game's biggest names suffered from the highs and lows. Duke dropped a 27-point loss at Clemson, the kind of blowout Duke hadn't suffered in 19 seasons. As Illinois (22-6 overall, 10-5 in the Big Ten) prepared to host Minnesota (20-7, 8-7) on Thursday (6 p.m., Big Ten Network), the Jekyll-and-Hyde Illini are both overachieving and exasperating.
Illinois still remained mathematically alive for the Big Ten Conference title, although a top three finish is more realistic. When it's going good, this is a team that could sniff a 30-win season. OK, that might take a sweep in the three remaining regular-season games, a run in the Big Ten Tournament and an overnight stay in the NCAA Tournament just to get close. After a 19-loss season a year ago set a school record, that's more than a fantasy.
As for the NCAAs, "Illinois is playing for a seed,'' said Jerry Palm, a cbssports.com bracketologist. "They're not a threat to miss the tournament.''
Illinois' seed may range from a No. 4 to 6, Palm said, but the embarrassing performance against Penn State hurt Illinois less than it did the Nittany Lions, even though Penn State left town with the victory.
"Penn State is just trying to break into the bottom of the bracket, trying to make a positive impression on the committee and look like an NCAA team,'' Palm said. "They didn't do it on that night. Illinois had a lot more good performances, so it's not as big a deal. But the committee won't over-value one game.''
Palm posted Illinois as a No. 4 seed with Purdue at No. 4 and Michigan State at No. 2. ESPN had Illinois at No. 7 with Purdue at No. 4 and Michigan State at No. 3. With so much parity and large numbers from three power conferences, seeding could be more difficult than selecting the field.
"If you get six or seven teams from the Big Ten and seven or eight teams from the Big East and ACC, the biggest dilemma will be seeding, trying to keep them all separate, the plus-minus factor of moving up one or down one,'' Illinois coach Bruce Weber said.
Yet there's the dark side for the Illini, so Weber can't allow himself to be happy. If he does, the players get content, don't practice well and get too casual.
"I can't relax with them,'' Weber said. "I have to get the mean face, the game face. Get on them. Keep them motivated and get a sense of urgency. Late in the year, we've got young guys that need to be always prodded along. That's what we're going to have to keep doing.''
He gets much of his help from assistant coach Wayne McClain. While Jay Price is generally a deliberate teacher on the sidelines and Jerrance Howard is more "cuddly,'' Weber said, McClain doesn't mind raising his piercing voice.
"Coach Weber will bark at you,'' Davis said. "At the end of the day, he doesn't want to yell. He says he won't sleep at night. Coach McClain doesn't care. He's goes home and sleeps no matter what.''
If Weber is constantly nagging, "they turn me off,'' he said. "If one of the assistants pops in, that might get their attention more. It's important.''
McClain learned timing from his days as an assistant and head coach at Peoria Manual High School. He guided the program to three consecutive Class AA titles after serving as an assistant during another state championship season.
"You whisper a couple times, then sometimes you have to make a stand,'' McClain said. "If you're constantly in somebody's face yelling all the time, after awhile they'll say, 'He's just going to yell.' I like to take the best player and make an example of them. Sometimes that helps in practice.''
NOTE: Former Illini stars Ken Norman and Deon Thomas are scheduled to be honored in ceremonies during the last two home games. Norman will be recognized before the Illinois-Minnesota game Thursday. Thomas, the program's all-time leading scorer with 2,129 points, will be honored at halftime of the game Sunday against Michigan State. Both players are among the 30 who have their jersey numbers hanging above the Assembly Hall court.
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Welcome to the Dual Career Network Germany (DCND)
The thoughts of researchers interested in a new job at a German University will soon turn to the question: what about my partner's career perspectives?
The number of so-called 'dual career couples', meaning couples where both partners are highly qualified and who intend to continue progressing their careers, is steadily increasing. So are the mobility requirements they have to meet. Until today, pursuing one's own career as steadily as one's partner often meant living apart, commuting long distances and suffering poor conditions for family life.
In appointment negotiations, those universities which offer professional perspectives for partners and help to reconcile jobs with family life gain an advantage. A Dual Career Service supports the spouses of newly arriving researchers by helping with the search for nearby employment that matches their, often very high, qualifications. In addition, a Dual Career Service can provide support concerning the many questions around apartment hunting, searching for child care or schools, dealing with authorities or more general issues surrounding living, leisure or social integration into the new city.
Every university individually determines who qualifies for the service and what kind of support is provided. What all Dual Career Services have in common, is that they are increasingly made use of and that their role in recruiting high potentials and young researchers is advancing. About 40 universities in Germany already operate a Dual Career Service – reason to form a network, the Dual Career Network Germany (DCND).


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For Immediate Release, April 11, 2012
Contact: Mollie Matteson, (802) 318-1487
White House Petitioned to Take National Action on Fast-moving Disease Killing Millions of Bats
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity today petitioned the White House Council on Environmental Quality to take immediate action to stem the spread of white-nose syndrome, a rapidly spreading disease that has killed nearly 7 million bats across the eastern United States and is quickly moving west. The Center urged the council to direct federal land management agencies to take measures to prevent the further spread of the disease, which in just six years has expanded from a single cave in upstate New York to affect bats in 19 states and four Canadian provinces.
"The loss of bats to white-nose syndrome is an unprecedented natural disaster that will have real financial consequences for many Americans," said Mollie Matteson, conservation advocate for the Center. "Not only do some bats species face extinction, but American farmers stand to lose an estimated $22 billion in lost insect-eating services that bats provide. This crisis is deepening by the day and it's time for the highest reaches of our government to take action."
The Center's petition asks the White House to direct federal land management agencies — including the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Park Service, which collectively manage millions of acres across the United States — to enact consistent regulations limiting human entry to caves on public lands in order to prevent spread of the disease to the western United States and other areas.
Those steps are needed because white-nose syndrome has been found to be caused by a newly described fungus, aptly named Geomyces destructans, that is easily carried on the shoes, clothes or gear of any person visiting contaminated caves and is very likely being spread by people. Indeed, all evidence indicates that the disease was recently and inadvertently introduced to North America by a cave visitor on both continents. Recognizing these realities, some agencies have enacted cave closures and decontamination procedures, but many have not, including most federal land management agencies in the West, where the disease has not yet spread and can still be prevented.
"Despite the severity and rapid spread of this disease, the response from federal land managers has been inconsistent and in many cases lackluster," said Matteson. "This crisis begs a comprehensive response that only the White House can provide."
Already this winter, white-nose syndrome has spread to new areas in the Southeast and Midwest, showing up for the first time in Missouri, Alabama and Delaware and in more areas in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. Bats also transmit the fungus, but they are not capable of migrations longer than a few hundred miles. Concern about long-distance transport of the fungus by people has prompted calls by scientists, including those with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, for restrictions on all but essential access to bat caves. In 2010, the Center petitioned federal agencies to enact comprehensive restrictions on nonessential human access to caves, but those restrictions have not been enacted in many areas.
The Center is calling on President Barack Obama's closest environmental leaders, housed at the Council on Environmental Quality, to bring federal agencies together to enact consistent bat cave restrictions on federal lands, require proper decontamination procedures for anyone entering caves, and initiate inventories of caves and bats on federal lands where little is presently known about them.
Nine species of bat have been found with the white-nose fungus, and of these, six species have experienced mortality, several of them at rates approaching 100 percent in affected caves. Biologists fear that several bat species, including the once-common little brown bat, may soon become extinct. Scientists do not yet have an effective treatment; the only known way to contain the spread of white-nose is to reduce the risk of human transport of the fungus by closing caves to nonessential access and requiring decontamination procedures of those still entering caves.
For more information, visit SaveOurBats.org.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 350,000 members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Disneyland Dining: Stage Door Cafe
A few years ago I did a write up of the various food offerings at Disneyland. One place I didn't make it to back then was the Stage Door Cafe. The Stage Door is in Frontier Land, just to the right of the Golden Horseshoe ice cream shop. The cafe is a counter where you order food to eat in the outdoor seating area.
It turns out that even more than most Disney eateries, if you can imagine this, the Stage Door is a palace of fried food. In fact, literally everything on the menu is fried, with the exception of the mandatory Disney-healthy-option bag of apple slices. The menu choices are fish & chips, chicken tenders & fries and corn dog & fries. The corn dogs are the excellent Disneyland version available at the Main Street red wagon and the Corn Dog Castle at California Adventure. The chicken was perfectly acceptable and I didn't try the fish.
For dessert, they have funnel cake offered topped with sugar, strawberry topping or chocolate. I had high hopes for the funnel cake. After all, Disney cuisine may have a number of draw backs but their strength is that they know how to fry the shit out of things. The corn dogs are probably the best food in the park, the churros are tasty and the monte cristo sandwiches at the Blue Bayou are legendary. Unfortunately, that deep frying prowess didn't seem to carry on to the funnel cake. Instead of being crisp, it was chewy and stale. I suspect it had spent some time sitting under a heat lamp, which is death for funnel cakes. But the flavor was also pretty non-existent, which is, I suppose why they buried it in strawberry glop and non-dairy whipped topping.
Overall, the Stage Door Cafe is not a bad option if you're looking for something fast and greasy. Just skip the funnel cake.
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Visit Battlesteads Observatory for an evening of stargazing. Note that event start times are 20:30pm during winter and change to 21:00pm through the summer months.
- Event includes an astronomy related presentation or talk.
- Event will involve stargazing and observing the skies through telescopes weather permitting
This event is being organised by Battlesteads Observatory who should be contacted if you have any queries. We highly recommend you confirm this event is indeed going ahead before travelling. If you do attend it would be fantastic if you could let the organiser know you found them via Go Stargazing!
Please contact Battlesteads Observatory directly for more details regarding this event or, if appropriate, contact the event venue.
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text: Holbrook Counseling Center has been providing compassionate counseling and other related services for more than 50 years to the residents of Cook and Lake counties. Our caring professionals serve individuals, families and couples. Our clients are people who are having difficulty coping with the problems of everyday life or who may be troubled by stress.


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Britain's newest energy company, customer-focused People's Energy, has received its Ofgem licence.
It is a significant milestone for the ethically-minded energy firm that will give customers 75 per cent of its profits, as the licence means People's Energy is now legally able to enter the market and start registering customers to be supplied with gas and electricity.
Co-founders, David Pike and Karin Sode were so fed up with the Big Six energy firms and never-ending price hikes that they decided to offer British consumers something better. Replacing poor customer service and a lack of transparency with the chance to be part of an energy company with a difference.
People's Energy wants to keep its customers year after year and will provide free shares to those that remain with the company. Consumers will also have a voice in shaping the company with representation on the board and salaries, decisions, accounts and prices will all be shared, meaning People's Energy will be the first completely transparent and customer-focused energy company in the UK.
The initiative is being backed by a number of senior business people, including former chair of Gleneagles Hotel, Peter Lederer CBE and former CEO of the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks, John Wright.
David said: "The vision for People's Energy is to have over one million customers, all of whom are in control of their gas and electricity and getting a percentage of the company's profits back.
"Our company is about putting trust back into the market, currently there is very little. We want our customers to know that we have their best interests at heart and that with us they will have a say in how the company is run."
Karin added: "Energy comes from natural resources that should belong to us all, not private entities. We are absolutely passionate about returning ownership of this natural resource to consumers."
To date the duo has raised over £450,000 on crowdfunder from the pledges of 2000 supporters. People's Energy will start providing energy from the beginning of August.


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Mike & Kris Keegan at South Philly Cheese Steaks in Brush recently received word that their cousin, David Tyler Proctor, lost his life fighting in Afghanistan.
In his honor, they are offering all current and retired military a free lunch or dinner tomorrow, Friday, March 22nd at their restaurant. They will also have a book for the veterans to sign, with their name and where they served, to send to the family.
Please feel free to pass this on to family and friends that would like to come and honor this fallen veteran!!
South Philly Cheese Steaks is located at 207 Clayton Street in Brush. For more information, contact them at 842-2222.
Mike & Kris thank you for your support in this tough time.


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CARTHAGE, Tunisia, July 30 (UPI) -- The United States is prepared to explore all options to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday.
While not discussing specifics about other options, Panetta said the U.S. government believes U.N-imposed sanctions on Iran still have time to work, the Pentagon said in a release.
"The international community has been strongly unified in imposing some strong sanctions on Iran," Panetta said during a news conference at the North Africa American Cemetery and Memorial in Carthage, Tunisia. "The international community will increase the impact of those sanctions in the next couple of months."
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Sunday the United States must take Iran at its word when it called for the extermination of Israel and must prevent the Islamic republic from becoming nuclear weapons-capable.
"The regime in Iran is five years closer to developing nuclear weapons capability," Romney said. "Preventing that outcome must be our highest national security priority."
In Washington, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the administration believes a window -- "a shrinking window, but still a window nonetheless" -- for a diplomatic solution to be achieved to resolve concerns about the Iranians' failure to live up to their international obligations.
"So we're going to continue to work in coordinated fashion with the international community, including with the Israelis," Earnest said during the daily briefing. "We ... have marched in lockstep with them, we've been side by side with them as they've confronted this threat, and will continue to be."
"All options do remain on the table," he said. "But right now, what we're focused on is taking advantage of this diplomatic window that remains open to pursue a solution that satisfies the world community and results in the international -- in the Iranian regime living up to their international obligations."
Panetta said Monday sanctions are impacting Iran's economy, even if results may not be obvious at the moment.
"What we all need to do is continue the pressure on Iran economically and diplomatically," Panetta said.
The international community must convince Iran's leaders to negotiate, stop developing nuclear weapons and rejoin the global community, he said.
"We believe the best course of action is to continue that pressure and to continue that unity to convince them to do what's right," the defense chief said.
In Washington, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland also said all options would be considered regarding Iran's nuclear program.
"We always talk about how we're doing on our strategy of combining pressure with diplomacy," Nuland said during her daily media briefing. "You know where we are on these issues. We don't take anything off the table, but we are focused now on trying to get the pressure and the diplomacy to work in tandem."


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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Interest rates have fallen this year because the otherwise compelling case for why they should rise was missing one crucial piece — until now.
That missing piece was in the sentiment arena: Far from the excessive bullishness typically seen at market tops, bond traders and investors instead have been quite bearish. In classic contrarian fashion, the market instead did just the opposite — rallying as interest rates fell.
But the Wall of Worry has now given way to near-record levels of bullishness. That's not a good sign.
Consider the average recommended bond market exposure among a subset of short-term bond market timers tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest (as measured by the Hulbert Bond Newsletter Sentiment Index, or HBNSI). On three occasions over the last six weeks this average has risen to its highest level since 2009 — 54.7%.
The last time the HBNSI rose to anywhere near close to this 54.7% level came in May 2013, when the average recommended exposure level reached 49.7%. Over the next four months, the Treasury's 10-year yield TNX, -1.79% rose to 2.98% from 1.63% — an extraordinary rise in such a short time.
By the end of 2013, as you can see from the chart above, the 10-year yield had risen even more, to 3.03%, and the HBNSI had fallen to minus 35.8%. That meant that as 2014 began, the average short-term bond timer was not only out of bonds but also allocating a third of his bond-trading portfolio to going short — an aggressive bet that interest rates would continue rising and the bond market falling.
Little wonder that interest rates have instead declined so far this year. But if contrarian analysis is right, that decline is now largely over.
Timing is everything
To be sure, contrarian analysis is, at best, a short-term market timing tool. The econometric tests to which I have subjected my three decades of bond sentiment data show that the HBNSI's explanatory power exists primarily at the one- to three-month horizon — and has virtually no explanatory power for the longer term.
But what gives the contrarian-based short-term bearishness additional import right now is that it comes against a backdrop of longer-term fundamental reasons for why interest rates should rise. Perhaps the most prominent is that the Fed is scheduled to soon end its bond-buying monetary-stimulus, but there are numerous others.
Those longer-term factors have been in place for some time, of course. The reason to suspect that interest rates will now respond by rising is that contrarian analysis now agrees with those factors.
If we experience another rate increase in the next four months that is comparable in magnitude to the one experienced last year's summer, the 10-year yield will be above 4% by Thanksgiving.
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This mural was painted by Angry Woebots in April 2012 as part of G40 by Art Whino.
VIDEOFoam Party by Martijn Rigters producing seats from a combination of mass production with hand-driven crafts. The resulting foam chairs are flexibly molded and made to measure.
Pixel Scratch Card. Scratch away the gold foil to reveal neon green pixels.
Sapore dei Mobili (Furniture Tasting) by Ryosuke Fukusada and Rui Pereira, a furniture pan to mold delectable edible furniture.
The beautiful Union Restaurant by Aurélie Blanchard in Kleinbasel.
Cute poster tube style t-shirt packaging that folds out to double as wall art from Society27.
VIDEOHydro-Fold by ECAL/Christophe Guberan. Christophe Guberan has created an inkjet printer that can produce self folding origami.
Gorgeous series titled "Come with a Story and Leave with Another" making clever use of negative space by Lowe-SSP3.
Incredible cave-like architecture at the Chongqing Mountain + City sales office in China designed by Ajax Law Ling Kit and Virginia Lung of One Plus Partnership.
Beautiful birdhouses from Twig and Timber.
The Giant Cubebot debuts at Tom Dixon's MOST Salone. The giant version of David Weeks' toy is 20 times the AREAWARE toy's original size. Created by David Weeks and Quinze & Milan.
VIDEOLouis Vuitton presents 'Taxi Encounters - Venice' the second in a travel series about unique taxi experiences in the cities of the world.
New Zealand-born designer, Jonathon Logan, created the 'de Sade' table as an expression of eroticism in furniture. It's gloss-black form is made from 25 individually hand-turned kauri table legs.
Elegant porcelain and cherry task lamp design by Owen Read.
Never be late to class again! In Munich, Germany, college students have the choice to slide down to their next period.
FEATURED Stanley Nineteen13 Collection 1-Handed Water Bottle. Great logo - crowned bear with wings? Gorgeous minimal collection with nice details ~ and the 1-handed water bottle has a brilliantly simple opening.
Kronk x Kidrobot's Lovebirds! I wish they had magnetic feet!
London-based artist and designer, Scott Eaton, has created a unique iPad docking station called 'Venus of Cupertino'.
The Zen armchair is inspired by the synthesized silhouette of a meditating monk, reducing the lines which defines his shape to the very minimum.
Western Edition Skateboards Featuring the Art of Mati Klarwein, the Bitches Brew Skateboard Series.
Soul Stealer - Photographer Morale Velcro Patch
GoogleBBS, from MassWerk, allows you to surf Google as if it were the 80's and running on the old-school Bulletin Board System.
Very French Gangsters is the cutest eyewear shop for kids.
The ellipsoidal Terra Light, composed of 190 terracotta flowerpots, featured at the Milan Furniture Fair. By Tyson Atwell, RISD Furniture MFA '12.
Featured at Milan Furniture Fair, Communicable Seats are constructed from disposable syringes, by Jamie Wolfond, RISD Furniture BFA '13.
Designed by Skrivo, the Divide system creates any length or height room divider by reusing left over wood, often from carpenters.
Elmgreen & Dragset will install a new permanent public sculpture on the Elsinore, Denmark waterfront, of 'Han'- a posed boy made of shiny stainless steel, who will blink creepily once every hour.
Plug your iPad into designer Jack Zylkin's functional USB Typewriter.
'Plate' lamp by Florent Brillet for Ligne Roset.
VIDEOTurnable Rider by Cogoo lets you DJ with your bike with bicycle wheels for jog wheels and brakes for sound pads.
Rivane Neuenschwander's cool 'Cloud-Continent' installation at the MCA in Sydney.
VIDEOBeautiful video capturing the vibration of oil on steel at 1,000 frames per second.
Dan Holdsworth's Transmission Series, beautiful topological prints.
VIDEOBBDO Paris takes Mercedes in a whole new world with a TV ad directed by Ludovic Houplain from oscarised collective H5 and featuring the latest track from Kavinsky.
Philosophy posters from Max Temkin.
VIDEOSnapshot of the urban installation 'Éclats de Verre' by Atomic4 for Montreal's Quartier des Spectacles on Emilie-Gamelin square. Music and video by Jean-Sébastien Côté.
Still life photography duo Bohman+Sjöstrand shot the last drinks orders of NOWNESS favorites Glenn O'Brien, Jeremy Langmead and Margherita Missoni.
Asobi's LED carbon fibre Eyen Modular Lighting.
Famous Clouds print featuring iconic stylized clouds by Yoni Alter.
Tokyo Zoo Project for the Sony Nav-U ~ animals were mapped out as routes and you can ride them throughout tokyo!
Carnovsky turn their RGB wallpaper into beautiful scarves, 'Rosone', 'Jungla' and 'Bestiario'.
A Comprehensive List of Notable Kentucky Inventions. This print was invented and printed by Cricket Press in Lexington, Kentucky.
Series 12 of Fullbleed, a series of conceptual art based t-shirts by Rob Dobi that explore a world of impossible ideas.
InfObjects by Johannes Tsopanides uses data to generate designs based on the amount of energy, CO², and cost of particular dishes and their ingredients.
'Objet Curiosité' is an amazing lamp designed by Gaëlle Gabillet and Stephane Villard.
Gorgeous look of anglerfishes from the archives of the American Museum of Natural History.
RoAndCo's amazing party invitation and favor.
FEATUREDA sumptuous feast Dickensian feast with Hendrick's Gin and the Young Turks at a pop-up dining room perched above an East London pub. The perfect pairing of delicious cocktails with a delectable tasting menu! Not to mention amazing drinksware!


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Of all the kinds of parties you can have – toga parties, foam parties, hurricane parties – an air party might seem the silliest. But that's exactly the sort of celebration many of Florida's major communities were throwing in the 1930s, when commercial aviation and air tourism were still in their infancy.
Officials in both the private and public sectors had recognized by this time that aviation offered Florida a marvelous opportunity. Distance, as one observer put it, just didn't mean as much anymore when a trip that had once taken days could now be accomplished in a few hours. To encourage Florida's growth as a destination for air tourism, state and local governments teamed up with private businesses to host air races, air parties, and other events. These efforts had two objectives: to sell Florida as a tourist destination by air to the rest of the country, and to convince Floridians of the worthiness of investing in better aviation infrastructure.
Air cruises, usually sponsored by chambers of commerce, aeronautical clubs, and other civic groups, were some of the most unique events. These were typically open to any "sportsman pilots" or private aviators who wanted to attend. The pilots would fly their planes from airport to airport along a chain of host cities, enjoying receptions, races, and other activities along the way. Here's an example itinerary from the Second Annual Florida State Air Cruise:
The towns along the route would often extend privileges to the visiting pilots at their local country clubs, hotels, and restaurants. In some cities – Orlando we know for sure – the pilots received fuel and oil at wholesale prices as an incentive. The local chambers of commerce often arranged ground transportation as well, and local groups provided opportunities for hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, and other favorite Florida pastimes.
These groups were typically quite intimate, but their activities were highly visible and helped introduce a large number of people to the possibilities of aviation. A little more time, plus some help from World War II, saw Florida criss-crossed with busy commercial air routes and a whole new sector to its thriving tourist industry.
Interested in aviation or a related Florida industry? The State Library & Archives has a wide variety of books, ephemera, photographs, and manuscript collections touching on these subjects. The program and itinerary from this blog post, for example, came from a collection of papers belonging to William C. Lazarus, who once directed the Aviation Division of the State Road Department and helped organize a number of "air parties." Search our catalogs to find out what we have on your favorite topic in Florida history!


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On-Campus RecruitingCopyright: Andreas Steindl
RWTH Aachen offers various formats company presentations at RWTH Aachen.
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Career Day – Special Fairs for Specific Target Groups
RWTH Aachen regularly holds Career Days. These are small fairs for no more than ten companies that include a company pitch, networking possibilities, and a closing panel discussion for up to 200 selected students. Career Days offer an opportunity for contact between students and companies in a specific sector. We currently offer Career Days for the following areas. Further fields and topics can and will be added in the future.
Futures Day for Women
if your company is specifically on the look out for women in the STEM fields, then the Futures Day for Women is the right event for you.
Career Day Consulting
If you are a consulting firm and would like to get to known RWTH Aachen students and doctoral candidates, then use our Career Day Consulting.
Career Day Hidden Champions
Your company is one of the so called hidden champions; you are a successful but unknown global leader and are searching for future employees to continue your success in the future. If this describes you, you are welcome at our Career Day for Hidden Champions.
Career Day Dean's List
RWTH Aachen has compiled a dean's list since 2008. The dean's list contains the best five percent of students in each academic year. If you would like to meet this target group and recruit them for your company, you shouldn't miss the Career Day Dean's List.
|Beginning at 11am
|1:30 to 2pm
|Admission, registration, networking
|Start and welcome
|2:15 to 3:15pm
|Company pitches
|3:15 to 5pm
|Break and networking
|5 to 5:45pm
|Closing panel discussion
|5:45 to 6:30pm
|Costs starting at 1,500 euros plus tax
Pop Up Career
Rent a stand on the RWTH Aachen campus and actively initiate contact with RWTH Aachen students. The cost of the stand depends on the desired size and location. If interested, please contact us.
Business Talk
This format is specifically targeted towards students on the dean's list. The dean's list is a compilation of the top five percent of students in each academic year. In our Business Talk format companies are able to reach students in a more technical setting. In this format, companies can offer case studies, strategy workshops, and more. The company provides the tasks and the trainers. It is at the company's time and expense if it would like to provide the students with refreshments. We are happy to provide the contact information of possible caterers. RWTH Aachen provides the room and invites the students on the Dean's List. Students can be invited by course of study. The companies are responsible for deciding how many students are to be invited and from what disciplines. We are happy to provide a shortlist by having students apply to us first with a resume. Costs begin at 1,200 euros plus tax.
Do you already have your own idea how you would like to present your company at RWTH Aachen? We are happy to assist you. From classic company presentations (career@...) to an entire day (innovation@...), we are here to help. If you are interested in the classic company presentation format for example, we can provide you with a room (with up to 50 seats) for two hours and advertise the event on our online platforms. Costs: 1,000 euros. Upon request, we are glad to provide you with an overview of costs for more specialized, tailored formats. For an additional fee of 500 euros, we advertise your event in our newsletter.
Career Lunch
The "Career Lunch" enables companies to establish contact with young doctoral researchers through personal conversation and to present their company as a potential employer. RWTH Aachen has prepared the infrastructural logistics (restaurant, special conditions) for you and assumes the invitation to candidates from your desired subject discipline. The "Career Lunch" is always held on a Thursday. The company pays for the meal expenses. We charge each company 300 euros (not including tax) for preparation efforts, inviting doctoral candidates, and promoting the event.


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Tiptoe through: Local gardens-- glimpses of glory
Pooped-out from planting perennials? Not sure how to add shape and variety to your backyard, or enhance the curb appeal out by the mailbox? Tired of the same old shrubs, year after year after year?
No matter what the scale of your own house and garden-– be it Belmont bungalow or gracious Glenmore estate– you can surely get some ideas and inspiration from the masters during Historic Garden Week. From Tuesday, April 22 to Thursday, April 24, a grand bouquet of tours and related events will blossom in and around Charlottesville.
As for Historic Garden Week proper, Oakwood, owned by John and Renée Grisham, tops the list of private garden tours. The approximately 240 acres were part of a land grant from King George III in 1758; Governor Frances Fauquier signed the sheepskin deed.
The gardens have been designed to flow gracefully with the landscape, mixing old and new as though they have always been there. Many special features abound, including a secret garden surrounded by old boxwoods, a formal rose garden, an allée of dogwoods and azaleas, a croquet greensward, and a purple conservatory set before a reflecting pool.
But don't go looking for a peep of the master's writing table. This is a "gardens only" tour.
Perhaps an easier ticket is the Chopping Bottom Farm tour. Inspired by the designs of Washington, D.C., architect Hugh Newell Jacobsen, Anne and Tony Vanderwarker's 1999 home, stuccoed in white with galvanized aluminum roofs, has a stylized farmhouse look. From the house one looks out on a 70-foot lap pool and the Southwest Mountains.
The surrounding grounds include a delightful freestanding screen porch and five compact herb and flower gardens. A whimsical outdoor living room furnished with Phillipe Starck furniture is set on a gravel carpet. The house received Metropolitan Home Magazine's House of the Year Award in 2002. The house, grounds, and two studios will be open.
Stillhouse Mountain Farm, Limestone Farm, Keswick Hall, and a Festival of Flowers at the Farmington Country Club fill out the fragrant offerings.
Of related interest is Patricia Kluge's annual Albemarle House Flower Show, benefiting children's charities. Open to the public Tuesday-Thursday are the Albemarle House Conservatory, the chef's Herb Garden, a special Succulent Garden installation, and a Colonial Woodland Walk surrounding the newly opened Kluge Estate Winery and Vineyard Farm Shop. Definitely worth the drive, especially if you're in the mood for a gourmet picnic.
Historic Garden week in Charlottesville-Albemarle runs Tuesday, April 22, through Thursday, April 24. Ticket prices and availability vary; call 295-3141 or visit VAGardenweek.org. Patricia Kluge's Albemarle House Flower Show and tours coincide with Garden Week. Tickets ($10) are available at the Kluge Estate Winery and Farm Shop, And George, Kenny Ball Antiques, and The Store at the Boar's Head Inn. 984-4855 or klugeestate.com.


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In addition to web site design we also specialise in PHP and Mysql custom solutions - especially Joomla development and implementation.
We provide end-to-end delivery of applications, security and secure infrastructure, from setting strategy and policy, through design and delivery, to support and management. The Ravenswood philosophy is built on three fundamental principles:
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Ravenswood IT Services is a company which offers a full range of IT security and web development services for all sizes of businesses.


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Easy on the eyes, the Sony Xplod CDX-GT920U sits close to the top of Sony's line of single DIN head units. The GT920U proves to be much more than just a pretty face, as it's packed with input options, including a rear USB input and a menu system that makes it a breeze to find the right song for the moment.
The CDX-GT920U is a very good looking single DIN head unit. The layout is similar to the rest of the Xplod line, such as the MEX-BT2600, but with fewer buttons. Most functions are controlled with a large chrome dial/joystick that dominates the left side of the faceplate. Surrounding the dial are four buttons (Mode, Source, Shuffle, and Display) and a chrome toggle. The layout is very simple and, because most operations are handled with the dial, very easy to use.
To the far right of the faceplate are the aux input jack and the Scroll, Off, and Open/Eject buttons, the latter of which operates the motorized faceplate. With a touch of the button, the faceplate rotates down, revealing the slot-loading CD player. When in the upright position, the faceplate can be adjusted between three viewing angles.
The rest of the faceplate is occupied by the single color dot-matrix display. The resolution is good enough to clearly display three lines of text information; however, the resolution fails to handle the background animations the CDX-GT920U is supposedly capable of displaying, but which simply don't look good. The image quality of these "movies" is comparable with the first-gen Nintendo Gameboy in terms of resolution and refresh rate. But the CDX-GT920U isn't a multimedia head unit and it looks better without the animations playing.
A menu option allows you to change the backlight color of the buttons from blue to red or green, but the display and the dial are backlit in blue regardless of the option chosen.
We did have a few minor issues with the CDX-GT920U's interface. Despite its large size, the mode button doesn't really do anything but toggle AM/FM bands and change the play mode of ATRAC audio devices, which makes it seem like a bit of a waste of faceplate real estate. Another minor annoyance is that the faceplate lacks a mute or attenuate button. Instead, Sony has chosen to put the mute button on the included IR remote. The whole point of the mute feature is to quickly silence the music, which would be useful if you need to suddenly take a phone call or order at a drive through; having to fumble with the remote defeats the purpose of having a mute button.
The main selling points of the CDX-GT920U are its digital audio features and the "Quick BrowZer" mode, which allows easy navigation of digital audio folders. The unit supports MP3, WMA, and AAC burned to CD or stored on a USB-compatible device (such as a USB stick or MP3 player). The unit also has an aux input on the faceplate, which is good if you own an iPod, because the CDX-GT920U doesn't natively support the iPod's proprietary file system. An external iPod adapter is available as a $50 add-on. Add-on modules are available for HD and satellite radio, as well.