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This is the Accurate STORY concerning 2 songwriters who met for a songwriting appointment in Nashville, Tennessee…otherwise recognized as Music Row. One of the writers was thinking about canceling the songwriting appointment since he had been to the Doctors office the day before and tested for Cancer. The Doctor did his tests and was feeling that the cancer may have even spread to the lymph nodes which can be most often a death sentence because once in the lymph nodes it spreads like wildfire.
Upon each songwriter greeting each other for their 11am writing appointment. It had been visibly noticeable that one of the writers wasn't doing to good as he told the other that he was waiting on a call from the Medical doctor to let him know if indeed the diagnosis was cancer…and secondly if it had spread to the lymph nodes.
Understanding how stressful and devastating it must have been due to awaiting a call that would mean life or death. The selection would be to stay and write the song. After talking with the scared to death songwriter that he felt in his soul that he had no choice but to create a song during this life hanging in the balance moment.
The other songwriter told him that he's glad that he made that decision because a song came down to him in a very special dream during the night which was all about never quiting no matter what. And as the guitars began to play and the words began to be sung. The following song and song lyrics were born. Perhaps to inspire those hearing this song and reading these words that no matter what…..It ain't ever over at halftime.
The lyrics are on the screen as you tune in to this life giving song which was inspired by death knocking on the door. The Song is known as, "Halftime"
P.S. If you are inspired by this song then pay it forward and share it with everyone you know. Motivating Song – Written While Waiting On Phone Call From Doctor About Cancer Diagnosis


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Text messaging spam is annoying, and intrusive.
Spammers hope to trick you by sending a message, and making a quick buck.
But where exactly does it come from?
Though mobile spam is usually against the law, sales pitches might come to you legally as a result of your buying something on your phone.
Sometimes illegal messages may appear because a spammer guessed your phone number. Since mobile phone companies allow PCs to send you messages at a certain e-mail address, like your_phone_number@your_phone_company.com, spammers only need to make an educated guess to come up with thousands of valid addresses, says PCWorld.
Spammers can get your mobile numbers from the web. They can also use software or websites to randomly generate thousands or even millions of numbers in a particular area code. These spammers are often using prepaid phones that can't be traced back to the them. They can then use auto-dialing technology to reach phones.
How can you stop mobile spam?
wikiHow says, "the most important thing you can help stop text message spam is to report it to your carrier. Carriers shut down and block spammers, often suing the worst offenders. But they need you to tell them who is spamming and what is in the spam messages. To report text message spam, forward the text message to short code 7726 (spells 'SPAM' on the keypad).
Take a look at this chart from BusinessWeek to see which area codes are most popular for spammers.

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Crystal meth has at least two faces, in common with those people unfortunate enough to succumb to its charms, as these horrific before-and-after pics show. I'd like to look at the drug chemically, to shine a light on what it does.
As written about previously on The Conversation, Australia has a particularly strong relationship to the drug. Approximately 2.5% of people over the age of 14 have used the drug in the last year, a rate far higher than in the US, Canada or the UK.
Far from being glorified, the drug also plays a starring role – alongside Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul – in AMC's critically-acclaimed television series Breaking Bad, currently airing its fifth and final season.
Crystal meth – also known as ice – is a form of methamphetamine or, to give it its technical name, n-methyl-1-phenyl-propan-2-amine. Instead of being produced as a powder (as amphetamine, or speed, is) it's made as large chunks that look like crystals (as per the image below). Producing it as a solid lump can change the way methamphetamine is absorbed by our bodies.
Methamphetamine is a stimulant, with common side-effects including euphoria, increased alertness, talkativeness, panic, excessive sweating and – as portrayed in the following video – compulsive fascination with repetitive tasks:
Nerves and chemicals
Amphetamines in general produce their stimulant action by acting on nerves that secrete biogenic amines.
Nerves conduct electrical signals through the body, almost, but not quite, like wires. Unlike wires, the nerves aren't physically connected to their targets, be they a muscle cell, a glandular cell or another nerve. There is a gap the signal must jump.
Nerves get the signal across this gap by secreting chemicals, neurotransmitters, and there are a wide range of chemicals that are used:
- the biogenic amines, including norepinephrine and epinephrine (more commonly known as noradrenaline and adrenaline outside the US)
- amino acids (such as glutamate, which you can find in your miso soup)
- a gas, nitric oxide.
The huge variety of physiological processes that the nervous system coordinates is made possible by these varying neurotransmitters. The sympathetic nervous system, which speeds up our hearts in preparation for running away from danger, using noradrenaline (often referred to as the fight or flight chemical). The parasympathetic nervous system, which opposes the sympathetic nervous system, uses acetylcholine, the most common neurotransmitter.
Once the chemicals are released by a nerve impulse, they can't keep hanging around or we would be in a state of permanent activation (or inhibition). They have to be gotten rid of quickly before the next nerve impulse arrives. Some of the chemicals, such as acetylcholine, are broken down by enzymes.
The biogenic amines are removed by protein structures known as monoamine transporters (MATs) in the nerve membranes.
What meth does
Amphetamines, like methamphetamine, look sufficiently like the biogenic amines that they block these pumps. But that's not all: amphetamines that do get taken up into the nerve cells get put into the nerves stores of the biogenic amines, and push the real neurotransmitters out of the nerves.
The net result is that you end up with a lot of biogenic amine neurotransmitter hanging around and stimulating cells.
In the heart, noradrenaline released from nerves will stimulate the heart to beat faster and stronger, increasing your pulse and blood pressure. In the brain, a whole range of biogenic amines are released that can increase alertness, concentration, and energy.
Higher concentrations of methamphetamine can cause mania and euphoria through to paranoia and hallucinations through the higher levels of these same biogenic amines.
Because this stew of biogenic amines (noradrenaline, serotonin and dopamine) is being released in an uncontrolled manner you also get potentially dangerous rises in blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature (all physiological processes controlled by biogenic amines in the body).
And because dopamine, a critical link in the psychological reward pathway, is released (to ten times its normal levels) it produces addiction - powerful addiction. Methamphetamine is one of the most addictive substances we know of.
The crystal form is smokeable. The rush a user gets depends on how fast it gets into the body: swallowing it takes longer, injection is the fastest but of course carries risks from injection.
Smoking crystal meth gives a very rapid high without the risks of injection.
Also, orally-ingested methamphetamine goes straight to the liver, where it is metabolised, so less gets into the bloodstream than via smoking.
Withdrawal from methamphetamine produces effects including depression, intense craving and anxiety – much of which can be explained in chemical terms.
The stew of biogenic amines released while using the drug has multiple effects: they increase metabolism and decrease appetite in the short-term (amphetamines used to be used for weight loss).
Long-term behavioral problems result in malnutrition. Then there are chronic sleep problems and of course there is the increased probability of disease for those users who inject methamphetamine. All this combines to produce physical deterioration.
And let's not forget "meth mouth", the abnormal loss of teeth and accelerated tooth decay:
Sympathetic stimulation causes all sorts of secretion to stop (drugs which mimic noradrenaline are in our cold and flu medicines to stop runny noses), including saliva secretion.
This results in an increased risk of tooth decay that, combined with behavioural problems (meth addicts, we might assume, don't prioritise brushing their teeth) and poor eating habits, means teeth are rapidly lost.
The high levels of biogenic amine release can also damage the heart and blood vessels, leading to cardiovascular problems; and high levels of dopamine release can damage the dopamine containing nerves that control movement, with a high risk of Parkinson's disease.
There are other adverse effects – (suicide, psychosis) – but I think you get the idea.
Breaking Bad has put crystal meth use at the front and centre of the TV-watching public's minds – both the fleeting highs and almost unimaginable lows. In this we have a case of art, quite disturbingly, mimicking life.


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For every specialty, there is a matching practice area. However, there are many more practice areas than there are specialties.
Ideally, when viewing a practice area (say, Bankruptcy), I'd be able to list attorneys who have Bankruptcy as a specialty.
I know I could use the posts2posts plugin, and create a connection between the attorney post type and the practice-area post type. However, that would mean essentially setting an attorney's specialty twice (once as a taxonomy term, and once as a posts2posts connection). Is there a way to somehow make a connection between the a specialty taxonomy term and the relevant practice-area post type? I could simply assume that names and/or slugs will match up, but that's a pretty hacky/fragile solution.
I'd ideally like to connect regular 'category' terms to the various 'practice-area' post types as well, to list relevant blog posts on the individual practice area pages (and vice versa).


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Out with the old
Mileage: 30.1
March mileage: 636.3
Temperature: 38
My Gary Fisher Sugar sold on Sunday. I went to my local bike shop to pick up a shipping box, realized they were closed on Mondays, and drove around back to dig one out of the rubbish pile. (I was disappointed to discover that there was no Orbea in that box. Just tattered packaging materials.) Tomorrow I will box Sugar up ship him off to his new home in the frozen land of Minnesota (where I'm sure he will feel right at home.) Tonight is our last night together.
I wanted to take him out for one last ride, but I didn't want to tarnish the scouring I gave his drivetrain or risk damaging a part of a bike that no longer belongs to me. I felt a tinge of regret when I realized I couldn't remember our last ride together. Since I discovered he needed a new bottom bracket, he's sat idle - and sometimes in pieces - in my front room. There was never a grand send-off, never a tearful goodbye. I like to joke about being in love with my bikes, but when I'm honest with myself, does it really matter? Can I really be so emotionally attached to aluminum and steel? Well, yeah. Yeah I can.
When I think about Sugar, I think about years (three years!) and miles (thousands!) during which that aluminum and steel carved its way into who I am and how I see the world. When I think about Sugar, I think about myself as a fearful novice coasting the gravel rollers of the Idaho Falls hillsides. I think about gaining more confidence on the steep singletrack of Millcreek Canyon in Utah. I think about honing my exploratory skills on the elaborate web of trails beyond my new home in Homer, Alaska. I think about discovering my endurance on the soft slush beyond the Susitna River. I think about perfecting my technical moves as I repeatedly circled the same loop during the 24 Hours of Kincaid. I think about realizing the power of unconditional joy as I kneeled into the dirt, nearly cashed out, at the top of Resurrection Pass. When I think about Sugar, I think about growth. I think about change. I think about loss.
But the truth is, this is good for me. It's good to make a clean break. The fact is, Sugar is still a good bike and deserves to be ridden, deserves to be thrashed, deserves to be ground into the dust he was destined to become. No bike deserves to rot amid the cobwebs and asbestos in an apartment basement. Every mountain bike deserves a dignified death by steady abuse, if not a brilliant flash-out in a blaze of glory. If I'm not the one to levy that abuse, if I've moved on, then I have to let him go.
It does help that I have something to distract me ...
Hoo boy!
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That is one pretty little monkey.ReplyDelete
What will you use it for mostly? shorter racing events?
you got yourself a monkey? cool! enjoy the steel goodness!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 1, 2008 at 6:35 AM
Investing all your emotions in steel, aluminum, animals and nature is "safer" than making the investment in another human.ReplyDelete
I'll raise a pint to Sugar.ReplyDelete
Any excuse you know...
- AnonymousApril 1, 2008 at 9:44 AM
I think you get a real emotional charge from any vehicle you have to lean into turns. All my motorcycling friends have names for every one of their bikes; I've tried (selfconsciously) to name my bicycles, but it's felt forced. They'll name themselves when it's time.ReplyDelete
That said, when I donated Stumpy to a local bike non-profit I moped around for a couple days. I hadn't realized how many places we'd been together (not always vertical).
I feel sorry for someone who thinks the only valid emotional investments are in people. Sheesh!
JAT in Seattle
Hi Jill,ReplyDelete
I just found your blog on Sunday and I am really enjoying it. You are helping to inspire me to train harder and go out into the cold to ride. At least what passes for cold here in CA. Keep writing, this is great stuff.
- AnonymousApril 1, 2008 at 12:22 PM
JAT, I think you should reread the post about emotional investments.ReplyDelete
I'm afraid you missed the point.
- AnonymousApril 1, 2008 at 4:50 PM
Jill ~ ~ ~ReplyDelete
Kudos to you for being able to part with Sugar. You documented her ride history over the years via your blog so not all will be lost. She'll live on in the mind, heart and soul.
AS for your new ride ... wow! Your Monkey is going to kick some serious Monkey Butt! Hope you get to enjoy your new ride soon
Your Monkey will be a sweet ride. I'm still trying decide which route to go...ReplyDelete
29r single speed or 29 1x9, complete or build?
Love the blue :)
I think it's cool how women discard a bike, it's called "personal growth". When men do it we are "heartless bastards".ReplyDelete
Enjoy your time in the sun Monkey.
See ya on ebay pal!
Human, I LOVE your posts!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 2, 2008 at 9:43 AM
fair enough, anonymous.ReplyDelete
Very nice blog. Your Header is very cool. I have posted in my german blog about your blog. Sorry for my English.ReplyDelete
Biken in Alska
Greetings from Karsten
The bike I cycled across Canada on is still in the storage unit. Stripped of parts and bent to the point of completely useless, I just can't bring myself to throw the frame away... I just can't.ReplyDelete
I need to buy a new house with a garage so I can hang her on the wall with dignity.
- AnonymousApril 6, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Helmets, tech crap, ah the deterioration of youth. Same Myata road bike for 34 years, same shitty green trek MTB for the last 20. *Always* waiting for Titanium at the top of the hill.ReplyDelete
Used to ride in snow, until I figured out there was a place called Spain.
check out Roz rows the pacific.
M. Atta


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Press Release for the Eat-In at the FDAPosted: April 3rd, 2013 | Filed under: Press Releases | Tags: Be-In, Birke Baehr, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, College Park, Demonstration, Emilianne Slaydon, Emma Hutchens, Farmers, FDA, food, Food & Water Watch, Food and Drug Administration, Food Democracy Now, Free Speech, GE Salmon, gmo, GMO Free CT, GMO Free DC, GMO Free MD, GMO Free NY, GMO Free PA, GMO Free VA, GMO Inside, GMO Labeling, GMO Salmon, hugh grant, Iowa, just label it, Lisa Stokke, Margaret Hamburg, Maryland, MD, Organic Consumers Association, Patty Lovera, petition, Protest, REAL Cooperative, Right to Know GMO, Sit-In, stone soup, Taan DC, Tom Llewellyn, We the People |
CONTACT: Adam Eidinger 202-744-2671
"Eat-In†at FDA April 8 Demands Action on GMOs
Activists to Prepare & Share "Stone Soup†to Protest
FDA's Antiquated Policies on Genetically Engineered (GMO) Foods
COLLEGE PARK, MD – Alarmed by the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) outdated and pro-biotechnology industry policies concerning the labeling & safety of GMO foods sold in America, safe food activists will hold the largest protest to date at the FDA to demand immediate policy changes. On Monday, April 8, concerned citizens traveling as far away as the Midwest will descend on the FDA for a day-long "Eat-In†outside the FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition located at 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740. Organic farmers and backyard gardeners will bring organically-grown vegetables from their region that will be combined in a huge cooking pot to make a special, GMO-free "Stone Soup" that will be eaten in protest as a picnic-style event outside of the FDA.
WHO: Safe food activists, students, farmers, and concerned citizens, including Dave Murphy & Lisa Stokke, founders of Food Democracy Now!, Patty Lovera, Assistant Director of Food & Water Watch, Birke Baehr, 14-year-old Organic Farmer, members of the Organic Consumers Association, GMO Inside, and representatives from Right to Know GMO, a grassroots Coalition of States for GMO Labeling, including GMO Free DC, GMO Free VA, GMO Free MD, GMO Free PA, GMO Free CT, GMO Free NY, and GMO Free MA. Jonny Motto, chef at Taan DC will cook the soup.
WHAT: "Eat-In†at the FDA for GMO Food Labeling and Food Democracy.
WHERE: Sidewalk outside of the Food And Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway College Park, MD 20740 – Directly across the street from the College Park Metro Station (Green Line).
WHEN: All day, Monday, April 8 from 8am until 6pm – From 8am until Noon Safe Food Activists will prepare the Stone Soup and at 1pm the Stone Soup will be served to everyone with a bowl. After lunch, there will be a seed exchange and workshops on various topics.
Last week Safe Food Activists formally invited FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg and the staff at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to speak at 1pm while the Stone Soup is being served. In the letter, they requested the FDA explain why they've refused to change the official policy toward labeling of GMO foods and to explain why the transgenic Aquabounty Salmon does not merit a GMO label.
"The FDA has a terrible track record when it comes to genetically engineered food," said Patty Lovera, assistant director at the consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch. "They have allowed GE ingredients to spread through our food supply without labels and they may soon make it worse by approving GE salmon, the first genetically engineered food animal. If FDA wants to actually fulfill it's mission to protect the public, it needs to reject GE salmon."
"The awareness is growing in the US, from the grassroots up, of people from all walks of life and from moms to students to CEOs, that are demanding their right to transparency in the labeling of genetically engineered foods. It is time that the FDA fulfill its role of protecting citizens by granting us our right to know what we're eating,†said Lisa Stokke, co-founder of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots advocacy organization based in Iowa. "The folks gathering near the FDA building, and in over 20 states where legislation for labeling is being considered, are a testament to the strength and resolve of the food movement.â€
While Occupy Monsanto originally called for the demonstration, there have been numerous groups that have pledged their support for the picnic protest, including Food Democracy Now!, Food & Water Watch, Organic Consumers Association, GMO Inside, and the Right to Know GMO, a grassroots Coalition of States for GMO Labeling. There will be buses and vans from across the United States making their way to the FDA with the common goal of getting GMO foods labeled like they are in most industrialized nations.
"There have been 'Be-Ins' and 'Sit-Ins' but there has never been an 'Eat-In' in the history of the FDA,†says Adam Eidinger, spokesman for Occupy-Monsanto.com. "Its shameful the White House has nothing to say about the multiple 'We The People' petitions on GMO labeling that have gone unanswered for over a year,†adds Eidinger.
"The fable of 'Stone Soup' has been rewritten many times throughout history and will be rewritten once again on April 8,†says Tom Llewellyn, a lead organizer with the REAL Cooperative in Asheville, NC. "One version of the 'Stone Soup' tale is about a hungry soldier who, when passing through an impoverished village, announced that he would make 'Stone Soup' for everyone in town. The promise of this mysterious 'Stone Soup' persuaded people in the small village to pool their resources and offer up their hidden onions, carrots, lettuce, and spices to feed everyone. With all food activists and citizens working together, a greater good can be achieved by forcing changes in the way huge food corporations source ingredients and the way our government regulates food safety,†says Llewellyn.
Nearly 93% of all soybeans grown in America contain man-made, patented genes owned by a very small number of agrochemical companies that the FDA passively oversees. Instead of conducting rigorous independent analyses of patented GMO crops that make up Americas food supply, the FDA has relied on short-term industry studies that were written for profit, not food safety. In a January 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal, Monsanto's CEO Hugh Grant stated the corporation was open to the FDA allowing GMO labeling, but only if it was done scientifically. "What is more scientific than a patent listing," asks Emma Hutchens of the REAL Cooperative. "The FDA says that GMOs are not materially different than their non-GMO counterpart, but if the plants are patented there must be a material difference, otherwise there would be no need for a patent. They can't have it both ways."
In 2011 and 2012 over a million Americans signed the "Just Label It†FDA petition for GMO labeling, but the FDA has responded with silence. "The Food and Drug Administration is not listening to the overwhelming majority of Americans who want honest food labels," says Emilianne Slaydon, founder of GMO Free DC. "We have signed numerous petitions but we've received no response. We only want the same food labels citizens of over 40 countries enjoy, so we are going to enjoy some 'Stone Soup' to demand this simple democratic right.â€
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We know; today is going to be rough. Ever since the 1970 Buick GSX 455
robbed the Judge edged out the other the other three GM big blocks for a spot in our Fantasy Garage there have been howls for 440 Six Packs, 426 Hemis and general Mopar R/T madness. Well friends, today is your feast. As always, caveat emptor, for we only have 50 parking spots in this Garage of ours. As worthy as both these mad machines are, only one is getting in. Since our first introduction to each car was via celluloid, we thought we'd employ the magic of Hollywood to plead each car's case. Yeah, exactly, we're talking Bullitt and Vanishing Point. Hey, it worked for the 450SEL 6.9. One final point, we know we're leaving out the 'Cudas. And we're sorry.
Dodge Charger R/T
In the mid-1960s the Dodge boys had to stand aside and watch as Pontiac sold tens of thousands of GTOs. Not surprisingly, Dodge dealers were pissed. Chrysler President Lynn Townsend (the man behind the Pentastar) called Dodge's chief engineer Burt Bouwkamp into his office and demanded a solution, adding, "for God's sake don't make it a derivative of the Barracuda." Bouwkamp and his team followed the order and in 1965 presented the Charger II Show Car. If the public liked it, the thinking went, Dodge would build it. As Bouwkamp said, "It was pre-ordained that they would like it." Dodge went on to build the Charger, selling 37,344 in six months. However, added competition from the Chevy Camaro and Ford Mustang saw total sales for all of 1967 drop to less than 16,000 units. A redesign was ordered.
The resulting car was the 1968-1970 B-body, quite simply one of the baddest looking machines ever built. While the previous version had all the right go-fast stuff (including the introduction of the 426 Street Hemi) it looked frumpy. Not so for the new model, as Dodge's stylists knocked the sinister-look ball out of the park and into the next millennium, where the car continues to blow minds and take numbers. That's owed to its seductive double-diamond or "coke bottle" styling, where the body bulged out at the front and rear quarters. Think about it: how much time did you spend as a child fondling a Hot Wheels General Lee? We bet a lot.
Like all great muscle cars, the Charger didn't just look hot, it frigging flew. Power came from a variety of engines, but only two matter in today's context: the please-mod-me 440 Six Pack Magnum and the 426 Hemi with its insane compression ratio straight from the factory. We know the Hemi had the power advantage (supposedly), pulling 433.5 horses on the dyno in 1965 (the factory claimed 425). but Bill Hickman, the baddie in Bullitt, hooned the 440. Long story short, we wish we had tough decisions like this in front of us nowadays. How does this sound — if the Charger R/T makes it into the Garage, just imagine it comes stuffed with your favorite engine, as it really don't matter. And if you like, just debate it in the comments.
Let's take a closer look at the Bullitt Charger. First, the (awesome) Mustang(s) that McQueen drove were actually heavily modified cars. Here's what Max Balchowsky, the guy responsible for modifying and maintaining all the Bullitt vehicles had to say:
I was really impressed with the Mustang after I got done with it. I didn't think it'd make that much difference beefing it up. Later, we took both cars out and went playing around with them over by Griffith Park (near Los Angeles). The Dodge, which was practically stock, just left the Mustang like you wouldn't believe.
And he wasn't the only one to notice how the Charger beat up on the Mustang. Ron Riner was the Transportation Coordinator for Warner Brothers. He purchased the two triple-black Charger R/T 440 Magnums at a dealer in Glendale:
The Charger ran rings around the Mustang. We trimmed the tires down (on the Charger), we practically made them down to bicycle tires to try and handicap Hickman, and Bill just run them.
Man, today is tough.
Dodge Challenger R/T
But on the other hand, you have the Challenger. For half a decade Dodge dealers had to bend over and take the fact that Ford was selling millions of Mustangs while they had no pony car whatsoever. To compound the injury, Chevy had its Camaro, Pontiac had the Firebird and even cousin Plymouth was raking in the youth market duckets with its Barracuda. Hell, even Mercury had the Cougar. All of that changed in 1970 when Chrysler, saving (maybe) the best muscle car for last, green-lighted a Dodge version of its new E-body chassis. And man oh man, was a legend ever born.
Like its big brother Charger, the Challenger was available with a raft of engine choices, but again the only two we care about are the 426 Hemi and the 440 Six Pack Magnum. Same power, too, but the smaller Challenger was lighter and more nimble. Performance, for the time, was massive, with zero-to-60 times right around six seconds and the quarter-mile happening in the mid 13s. And with decent tires, the times dropped. The Challengers looked the part, too, with their sleek snouts and bulging, slightly jacked up haunches. Designer Carl Cameron actually borrowed the design for the grill from a sketch of a '66 Charger he drew that was to be turbine-powered. We love that.
But you just can't talk about think about the Dodge Challenger without a close examination of Vanishing Point and the car meant to the film. For those who haven't seen the Barry Newman original, slap yourself. Then, bookmark this page, go rent it then watch it. Finished? Good. And now you know that for no reason other than the fact that he can do it, Kowalski jumps into his white "supercharged" Challenger and decides to drive from Denver to San Francisco solo in 15 hours. While hopped up on goofballs. Why did you climb the mountain? Because it was there.
For years the rumor mill has prolifically churned out all sorts of speculation as to what exactly Kowalski was driving. For certain it was a white Challenger with a Hurst four-speed. One camp maintained that there was in fact some sort of special, also hopped up, supercharged Mopar mill under the hood. Sadly, that's just not so. Vanishing Point featured five different Challengers (and a doomed Camaro!) in the role of Kowalski's ride (though oddly at one point Newman claimed there were nine cars). Four had 440 Magnums, while one had a 383 with a three-speed slusher.
Many people (me nearly included) consider the chase scene in Bullitt to be the greatest ever. However, where Bullitt is only an — admittedly — good movie that just happened to feature an eye-popping chase sequence, Vanishing Point is nothing but a car chase. And, paradoxically, anything but a car chase. America was near the bloody end of the Vietnam War and the young not
white privileged enough to get a college deferment were being drafted and slaughtered in an essentially meaningless old man's war. At the same time the politics of the day seemed hopeless and the idealism of the 60s had crashed and burned. Vanishing Point then, was an expression of disgust, a shot across the bow of the status quo. With car as metaphor. And of course, the car chosen to vent this rage was the mighty Challenger. Kawolski's ticket to ride, man.
Maybe you're not feeling it: the hunger for freedom, the raw angst, that generations' damaged zeitgeist. One of my favorite moments from Die Hard was when Agent Johnson shouts to Agent Johnson, "YEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! Just like fucking Vietnam!" To which Agent Johnson replies, "I was in junior high, dickhead." I want to leave you with a poem by W.S. Merwin that I'm hope will shed a little light:
Losing a Language
A breath leaves the sentences and does not come back
yet the old still remember something that they could say
but they know now that such things are no longer believed
and the young have fewer words
many of the things the words were about
no longer exist
the noun for standing in mist by a haunted tree
the verb for I
the children will not repeat
the phrases their parents speak
somebody has persuaded them
that it is better to say everything differently
so that they can be admired somewhere
farther and farther away
where nothing that is here is known
we have little to say to each other
we are wrong and dark
in the eyes of the new owners
the radio is incomprehensible
the day is glass
when there is a voice at the door it is foreign
everywhere instead of a name there is a lie
nobody has seen it happening
nobody remembers
this is what the words were made
to prophesy
here are the extinct feathers
here is the rain we saw
However you end up voting, you're picking a hell of a car whose Fantasy Garage credentials are unimpeachable. And just because Vanishing Point moves me into the realm of existential bliss/terror, I don't want to take anything away from the poetry of Bullitt and the righteous Charger R/T. In fact, Davey does a bang up job of explaining exactly that here. We know it's a difficult choice. And we'll take either one in
Statutory Grape Plum Crazy. Happy voting.
The Jalopnik Fantasy Garage, So Far:
RUF RT12 | 1978 Aston Martin V8 Vantage | Honda 1300 Coupe 9 | 1931 Daimler Double Six 50 Corsica Drophead Coupe | Ferrari 288 GTO | Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 | 1970 Buick GSX 455 | First Generation BMW M Coupe | Bugatti Veyron 16.4 | Ford GT | Citroen SM | Porsche 928 | Jensen FF | DeTomaso Vallelunga | Audi Quattro S1 | Buick GNX | Nissan Skyline R34 GT-R | Honorary Fantasy Garager: The LS1 Powered Rotus | Lamborghini LM002 | Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe | Ferrari 250 GTO | Bentley Speed Six | Talbot-Lago T150C SS Figoni et Falaschi Raindrop/Teardrop Coupe | Porsche 917 | Audi RS4 Avant || Lamborghini Miura | Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9 | BMW E39 M5 | Jaguar E-type | Mercedes-Benz 300 SL


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Geophysical process
The sudden release of energy resulting from the fracturing of rocks relieves much of the stress at the earthquake's focus; however, much of this energy is transferred to nearby rock. This transference either creates stresses where none existed before or increases the stress within or between rocks. When the sudden buildup of stress is great enough to fracture these rocks, thereby relieving the stress between them, a series of smaller tremors are produced.
Small tremors that follow an earthquake are considered aftershocks if they originate within the fault harbouring the earthquake or if they occur outside the fault within one full fault length (the measurement of the fault end to end) from the earthquake's epicentre. (This measure will vary according to the length of the fault.) Aftershocks decrease in magnitude and frequency over time. Overall, this decay is inversely proportional to the amount of time passing since the principal earthquake. Once the rate at which these tremors occur has declined to pre-earthquake levels, the sequence of aftershocks ends. The typical aftershock sequence may be as short as a few weeks or as long as a few decades. Some aftershock sequences, however, may last centuries, such as the sequence resulting from the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12, which continues to the present.
In general, aftershocks are most severe and happen more frequently in the hours and days that follow an earthquake. Larger earthquakes tend to produce larger aftershocks. When attempting to predict the decrease in moment magnitude (the measure of the total amount of energy released during an earthquake) between the principal earthquake and the largest aftershock, seismologists often refer to Båth's Law, which notes that the average difference in size between the two events is 1.2 orders of magnitude. The actual difference in size, however, ranges from 0.1 to 3 orders of magnitude. Small aftershocks occur with a greater frequency than large ones; however, aftershock frequency falls off with the passage of time.
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Although aftershocks tend to be weaker events relative to the power of the main quake, some aftershocks have caused significant damage. One of the most devastating aftershocks was a magnitude-7.1 event that struck the city of Luanxian, China, on July 28, 1976. Some hours earlier, a magnitude-7.5 earthquake had struck the nearby city of Tangshan. The aftershock was responsible for additional damage and casualties, as well as for delaying efforts to free people already trapped beneath rubble. There are also examples of large aftershocks' causing more damage and loss of life than the earthquakes they are associated with. One of the most famous was the magnitude-6.3 aftershock that struck Christchurch, N.Z., on Feb. 22, 2011. Because of the aftershock's shallow focus and the location of the tremor's epicentre within Christchurch's metropolitan area, it proved to be more devastating and deadly than the principal quake, which was centred in a rural area.John P. Rafferty


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Nail art and polish blog - freehand nail art and swatches! Neglelak blog, frihånds neglekunst og neglelak swatches!
onsdag den 12. december 2012
Flowers in a glitter gradient - Artsy Wednesday
The base color is China Glaze Poinsettia and the glitter is Illamasqua Spartan. As usual I painted the flowers with acrylic craft color, and the top coat is Seche Vite.
Check out what the other girls in Artsy Wednesday did in this weeks challenge:
Michelle - Lab Muffin, Alanna - Pretty Purple Polish, Melanie - Nail & Polish, Jessica - Beauty Gnome, Emily - An Accent Nail, Catrine - Unnakednails, Ameerah - Valiantly Varnished, Jean - Laquered Lunatic,
Denne uges tema i Artsy Wednesday er en glitter gradient - men i kender mig jo, jeg er nødt til at snige lidt nail art ind, og det er jo december, og jeg valgte farverne efter det...
Grundfarven er China Glaze Poinsettia og glitteret er Illamasqua Spartan. Blomsterne er som sædvanligt malet med akrylfarve, og top coaten er Seche Vite.
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On April 14, 15 and 22 the Faculty of Physics will host the next session of an Workshop on machine learning techniques for students and University researchers. The Workshop is organized by the Center for Machine Learning, established as part of the IDUB program. In this edition the Workshop will be held in a modified formula - the following days will be dedicated to persons at different levels:
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On 23rd of the May took place the International Conference "Polish - Brazilian Experiences in Economy and Management: Recent Trends".
In connection with the European Week for Sustainable Development (ESDW), we invite to a conference SD Polish Roadshow #3, which will be held May 30 at the Faculty of Management of the University of Warsaw.
Faculty of Management programmes continue to take a leading positions in the new Eduniversal Best Masters Ranking, evaluating graduate and MBA studies from the entire world.
We are pleased to announce that recruitment for upcoming edition of the GlobalMBA study program has been just officially open.
We kindly invite to a special lecture taking place April 27th at 09.30 - 11.00 - room 207A Faculty of Management with our guest speaker Tomasz Flanek, PhD – Director of custody operations from Citi Service Centre Poland – who will be talking on current challenges and potential of the industry, along with career opportunities that a multinational organization like Citibank can offer.
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Omega-Net 10.5/180
Area of Application
Omega-Net 10.5/180 is a cable net product used for high strength slope stabilization solutions. The nets are made from individual strands of spiral steel wire rope that have thick individual wires to resist abrasion. The strands of rope are pre-bent into arcs resembling an omega shape and then woven together to make the net. This process yields an extremely strong net with high flexibility and energy absorption characteristics.
Ultimate Flexibility and Strength
Omega-Nets provide maximum flexibility coupled with high strength to suite the most difficult stabilization needs. Whether it is covering large surface areas or securing individual boulders, the nets conform to the topography to ensure a snug fit.
Simple and Efficient Installation
Since the nets are so flexible, panels can most often be fitted with no overlap in a very efficient manner. Seams between panels are constructed using shackle connections for quick installation. The size of individual panels are manufactured as required.
Draped Net System
Draped net systems allow material behind the mesh to move down slope in a controlled manner. These systems are normally secured along the top of the system with a suspension cable, with few or no anchors below. A major consideration for draped mesh systems is not only the strength but the unit weight of the material. The higher the weight, the better the system will resist impacts. Omega-Nets are the primary nets used in high energy hybrid rockfall catchments fences and are used where dynamic loading of the draped mesh system requires the highest stopping power available.
Anchored Net System
To prevent the movement of large material down a slope, the nets may be pinned using a matrix of rock anchors, often with the combination of steel ropes and anchor plates. Such systems are termed slope retention or anchored net systems. The anchor spacing, depth and type must be designed by a geotechnical engineer to properly accommodate the expected forces and to reduce maintenance.
Heavy Duty Hardware
To transfer the expected loads from the nets to the anchors, robust anchor plates are used in combination with steel cables. A variety of plates are available depending on the design of the system. Anchors are set in topographic lows in order to best tension the net and rope system.
Net Characteristics
|Net Type
|Steel Cable Net
|Strand Diameter
[mm (inch)]
|Single Wire Diameter
[mm (inch)]
|Arc Diameter X
[mm (inch)]
|Number of Mesh Openings, Horizontal
[per m (per ft)]
|Number of Mesh Openings, Vertical
[per m (per ft)]
|Sewing Rope
[mm (inch)]
|Seam Shackles
Strand Properties
|Strand Type
|Spiral Rope
|1 x 19
|Tensile Strength
[N/mm2 (ksi)]
|Corrosion Protection
|Zn or Zn-Al Galvanized
|Coating Class
|Class A
Net Strength Properties
|Strand Break Load
[kN (lbf)]
|Tensile Strength
[kN/m (lbf/ft)]
Standard Panel Sizes
|Length (L)
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|made to order
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When President Obama nominated John Brennan to run the CIA earlier this week, the most interesting reaction to the choice seemed likely to come from the left. Liberals had previously shot down Obama's first plan to install the grim-faced Brennan at Langley, back in late 2008, on the grounds that Brennan, as a Bush-era CIA official, had been complicit in the nastiest anti-terror detention and interrogation policies of the past decade. (The evidence for this remains murky and circumstantial, and Brennan has long stated clearly his opposition to torture.) That led Obama to name Brennan as his White House counter-terrorism advisor, ironically a position in which Brennan came to have more power and influence than either of the two men who have run The Agency under Obama.
The civil-liberties left doesn't intend to give Brennan a free pass–not only for his Bush-era record, but also for his central role in shaping Obama's aggressive campaign of drone strikes against suspected terrorists and pro-Taliban fighters. But at the moment there's no evidence that a significant number of Senate Democrats, if any, will oppose his nomination.
Less expected is the bitter criticism of Brennan now emerging from the right. It's true that Brennan came under Republican fire early in Obama's presidency, after conservatives complained about the handling of the would-be Christmas Day 2009 bomber. Brennan fired back with a tart USA Today op-ed that some conservatives have not forgotten, which perhaps injudiciously argued that some critics of the administration's counter-terror policies were "serving the goals of al Qaeda."
But no one's even arguing that should disqualify Brennan from running the CIA. Instead, the conservative case against him seems to be that this man, who has overseen a White House "kill list" which has led to the deaths of scores of suspected Islamic radicals, is somehow soft on terrorism.
The case largely revolves around a 2009 speech in which Brennan argued that America needed to reframe the way it thinks and talks about the terrorist threat. One argument Brennan made is that the U.S. should drop broad declarations of a war on terror–which describes a tactic, not an enemy–and a "global war"–which suggests America is fighting the world–for a "clear, more precise definition of this challenge." Specifically, Brennan advocated talking more specifically about a war on al Qaeda and its extremist allies.
Some right-wing outlets are now revisiting and spinning the speech to suggest that Brennan had called for an end to the fight against Islamic radicals–waving a white flag of surrender, if you will. This line of attack runs into a bit of trouble, however, in the form of Osama bin Laden himself. In diaries retrieved from his compound in Abbottabad after his killing (which Brennan helped to plan), bin Laden fretted that his terror network had developed a branding problem in part thanks to Washington's rhetorical shift:
Bin Laden's biggest concern was al-Qaeda's media image among Muslims. He worried that it was so tarnished that, in a draft letter probably intended for Atiyah, he argued that the organization should find a new name.
The al-Qaeda brand had become a problem, bin Laden explained, because Obama administration officials "have largely stopped using the phrase 'the war on terror' in the context of not wanting to provoke Muslims," and instead promoted a war against al-Qaeda. The organization's full name was "Qaeda al-Jihad," bin Laden noted, but in its shorthand version, "this name reduces the feeling of Muslims that we belong to them." He proposed 10 alternatives "that would not easily be shortened to a word that does not represent us." His first recommendation was "Taifat al-tawhid wal-jihad," or Monotheism and Jihad Group.
It's hard to imagine a more effective way of refuting the complaint than that.
A related critique is based on the same speech, and targets the fact that Brennan warned against referring to "jihadists" as violent enemies of America. "Describing terrorists in this way—using a legitimate term, 'jihad,' meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal—risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself."
Some conservatives say it's appalling to describe jihad this way. "When the person in charge of counter-terrorism at the White House starts describing jihad as something we need to understand, a legitimate tenet of Islam, I start to worry a little bit about it," the American Enterprise Institute's Danielle Pletka scoffed on NPR this week. But the word jihad really can does have a nonviolent meaning. And whereas Pletka simply denounces such talk as "claptrap," some right-wing agitators are now proclaiming Brennan to be "pro-jihad," as though the architect of Obama's drone war is actually some kind of terrorist mole. That might make for a great episode of Homeland, but it's an embarrassment to the people making the argument.
One reason Brennan thinks in these terms is because he speaks Arabic and has spent extensive time living in the Arab world. To some conservatives this, too, makes him suspect. I don't know whether these same people trashed George W. Bush's efforts to communicate with the Muslim world, and to make clear that America is not waging war against it. But their critique of Brennan seems exceedingly unlikely to win any converts not inclined to despise automatically anyone associated with Obama.
"The fact that John speaks some Arabic, cares about the culture and the people of the Middle East, has spent years living in the region–it's stunning that that would somehow be seen as a negative," says White House spokesman Tommy Vietor. "Caring about and understanding an important part of the world seems like a net benefit for someone in his position." You would think.


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Mr. Dawud Akram
Assistant Principal of Discipline
(909) 477-6900 Ext 2030
Mrs. Irene Mendoza
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(909) 477-6900 Ext 2031
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Chuck Philips, the LA Times reporter who wrote a huge front page story in March tying Puff Daddy to the shooting of Tupac Shakur-only to find out that this main source was a serial con man and the story was wrong-has been laid off from the paper, along with 150 colleagues. On one hand, Philips once won a Pulitzer; on the other hand, he tended to write things that turned out not to be true. Perhaps journalism's just not his field. Pinkberry franchisee maybe? He'll find something. [MTV News]


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MOBILE, Ala. -- Even among a collection of the nation's most talented college football players, Tennessee defensive lineman Daniel McCullers can't help but stand out for his size at the Reese's Senior Bowl.
McCullers, a nose guard on the South squad, stands 6-7 and 348 pounds and has been impressive in practice this week, holding his own in double-team drills and causing major problems for offensive linemen in one-on-one work. NFL teams that run a 3-4 defense see him as a true nose guard, and having played in 3-4 schemes from high school to junior college to the SEC, McCullers expects nothing else in the NFL. According to McCullers, the Atlanta Falcons and Denver Broncos have shown the most interest in him this week.
"I can be physical at the point of attack, hold gaps, and get pressure on the quarterback when needed," McCullers said.
His 2013 statistics at Tennessee -- one sack and two quarterback hurries -- don't back up the latter part of that claim. Nor do NFL Media analyst Charles Davis' remarks Tuesday.
"He'll blot out the sun, and the Earth moves when he walks. He's a monster, an absolute monster," Davis said. "The problem for him is, he looks like John Henderson coming out of Tennessee, same school. But it's not John Henderson. John Henderson was the ultimate freak defensive lineman -- destroy you in the run game, rush the passer and obliterate you that way. I haven't seen that second part out of Daniel."
On the positive side, McCullers has maintained his playing weight from the season, if not shed a few pounds, so his weigh-in Monday served notice to NFL scouts that he has taken his conditioning seriously since the Vols' bowl-less season ended in late November.
"My high school coach, he always gets on me to make sure when I go home, to break a sweat every day," he said. "And I'm eating better and drinking a lot more water, staying away from sodas. (No more) Mountain Dew."


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By Michael R. Blood
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — The operator of California's ailing San Onofre nuclear power plant proposed Thursday to restart one of its shuttered reactors after concluding it could be run safely despite damage to scores of tubes that carry radioactive water.
A plan to return even one reactor to service is a milestone for Southern California Edison, which has spent months unraveling what caused excessive tube vibration and friction inside the plant's nearly new steam generators, then determining how it might be fixed.
But the plant is far from returning to robust operation.
Edison's plan, which must be approved by federal regulators, calls for operating Unit 2 at reduced power for five months, then shutting it down for inspections. The outlook for the more heavily damaged Unit 3 is bleaker — no decision is expected on its future until at least next summer.
Meanwhile, the company is facing a state review of costs related to the long-running outage that could leave customers or shareholders with a huge bill for repairs and replacement power — a figure that had reached $165 million at midyear. The company did not update those figures Thursday.
Edison, a subsidiary of Edison International, filed its proposal with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which is expected to take months to review the details.
The NRC has said there is no timetable to restart the plant.
"The agency will not permit a restart unless and until we can conclude the reactor can be operated safely," NRC Chairman Allison Macfarlane said. "Our inspections and review will be painstaking, thorough and will not be rushed."
The proposal was immediately denounced by environmentalists and anti-nuclear activists who have argued for months that restarting the plant between San Diego and Los Angeles would set the stage for a catastrophe.
About 7.4 million Californians live within 50 miles of San Onofre, which can power 1.4 million homes.
"Both these reactors are alike and neither is safe to operate," said S. David Freeman, a former head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power who advises Friends of the Earth. "While Edison may be under financial pressure to get one up and running, operating this badly damaged reactor at reduced power without fixing or replacing these leaky generators is like driving a car with worn-out brakes."
Edison wants to operate Unit 2 at 70 percent power, which company officials predicted would prevent vibration that has caused excessive wear to tubing.
Company officials expressed confidence in the proposal, which followed more than 170,000 tube inspections over more than eight months.
"This is not an experiment," Pete Dietrich, senior vice president and chief nuclear officer at SCE, told reporters in a conference call.
The problems center on four steam generators that were installed at San Onofre during a $670 million overhaul in 2009 and 2010. Tests found some tubes were so badly corroded that they could fail and possibly release radiation, a stunning finding inside the nearly new equipment.
The trouble began Jan. 31, when the Unit 3 reactor was shut down as a precaution after a tube break. Traces of radiation escaped at the time, but officials said there was no danger to workers or neighbors. Unit 2 had been taken offline earlier that month for maintenance, but investigators later found unexpected wear on hundreds of tubes inside both units.
In a March letter, federal regulators outlined a series of benchmarks Edison must reach to restart the plant, including determining the cause of vibration and friction that damaged tubes, and how it would be fixed and then monitored during operation.
In June, a team of federal investigators announced that a botched computer analysis resulted in design flaws that are largely to blame for unprecedented wear in the tubes.
Overall, investigators found wear from friction and vibration in 15,000 places, in varying degrees, in 3,401 tubes inside the four generators.
And in about 280 spots — virtually all in the Unit 3 reactor — more than 50 percent of the tube wall was worn away.
In Unit 2, investigators found that the wall thickness had been worn away by at least 20 percent in 147 tubes.
When about a third of the wall thickness wears away, a tube is deemed too risky to keep in service.
Edison has retired, or plugged, more than 500 tubes in Unit 2 because of damage or as a precaution, a number within the margin to continue operating the plant.
Dietrich said Unit 2 was susceptible to the same problems that ravaged Unit 3, but engineers believe that the extent of damage was different because of manufacturing and assembly differences that resulted in looser tubes in Unit 3. Running at lower power should correct the trouble, at least in Unit 2, he said.
The generators, which resemble massive steel fire hydrants, control heat in the reactors and operate something like a car radiator.
At San Onofre, each one stands 65 feet high, weighs 1.3 million pounds, with 9,727 U-shaped tubes inside, each three-quarters of an inch in diameter.


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1. Sleep schedule: Kids tend to sleep in and stay up later during the summer. Getting them back on a regular sleep schedule now will make it easier to adjust back to their school schedule. Getting enough sleep is critical for children to concentrate and succeed in school.
2. School physical and vaccines: Bring your child in for their annual school physical to avoid the rush later. Be sure to check with your child's pediatrician or family medicine provider to see what vaccines may be required heading into the new school year and ensure all medical forms required by the school are completed.
3. Backpacks: Be sure to choose the right size backpack for your child; ideally a wide backpack with padded shoulders and back straps, weighing no more than 10-15 percent of your child's bodyweight. Pack your child's backpack with school essentials including hand sanitizer, tissues, bandages and a water bottle.
4. Healthy snacks: Studies have shown that children who eat a nutritious breakfast have the energy to function better at school. Make sure your child eats a healthy, proteinaceous breakfast before going to school. Packing healthy snacks like fruit, fat-free or low-fat cheese sticks, whole-grain crackers and granola bars, will keep them full and energized throughout the day.
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6. Study or homework area: Create a quiet area in your home where your child can work on their schoolwork when they come home from school. This area should be stocked with pens, pencils, crayons, glue sticks and other items needed to study and complete homework. Checklists and parental supervision with homework may be needed, especially in younger children. As many children now submit work electronically, supervise computer and internet use. Discuss clear rules to eliminate electronic distractions including TV during homework time!
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Chapter 3
At the Second Coming, all nations will assemble to battle—Men will have a pure language—The Lord will reign in their midst.
1 Woe to her that is afilthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
2 She aobeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening awolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
4 Her prophets are alight and treacherous persons: her priests have bpolluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the claw.
5 The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
6 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.
7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me, thou wilt receive instruction; so their dwelling should not be cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings.
8 ¶ Therefore wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to the prey: for my determination is ato gather the bnations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the cearth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
9 For then will I turn to the people a pure alanguage, that they may all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one bconsent.
10 From abeyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
11 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be ahaughty bbecause of my holy mountain.
12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the Lord.
13 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak alies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
14 ¶ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
15 The Lord hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the Lord, is in the amidst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
17 The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
18 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
19 Behold, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee: and I will save her that ahalteth, and bgather her that was driven out; and I will get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.
20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I agather you: for I will make you a name and a bpraise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your ccaptivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.


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Tsunamis 101
A tsunami is a series of ocean waves that sends surges of water, sometimes reaching heights of over 100 feet (30.5 meters), onto land. These walls of water can cause widespread destruction when they crash ashore.
What Causes a Tsunami?
These awe-inspiring waves are typically caused by large, undersea earthquakes at tectonic plate boundaries. When the ocean floor at a plate boundary rises or falls suddenly, it displaces the water above it and launches the rolling waves that will become a tsunami.
Most tsunamis–about 80 percent–happen within the Pacific Ocean's "Ring of Fire," a geologically active area where tectonic shifts make volcanoes and earthquakes common.
Tsunamis may also be caused by underwater landslides or volcanic eruptions. They may even be launched, as they frequently were in Earth's ancient past, by the impact of a large meteorite plunging into an ocean.
Tsunamis race across the sea at up to 500 miles (805 kilometers) an hour—about as fast as a jet airplane. At that pace, they can cross the entire expanse of the Pacific Ocean in less than a day. And their long wavelengths mean they lose very little energy along the way.
In deep ocean, tsunami waves may appear only a foot or so high. But as they approach shoreline and enter shallower water they slow down and begin to grow in energy and height. The tops of the waves move faster than their bottoms do, which causes them to rise precipitously.
What Happens When It Hits Land
A tsunami's trough, the low point beneath the wave's crest, often reaches shore first. When it does, it produces a vacuum effect that sucks coastal water seaward and exposes harbor and sea floors. This retreating of sea water is an important warning sign of a tsunami, because the wave's crest and its enormous volume of water typically hit shore five minutes or so later. Recognizing this phenomenon can save lives.
A tsunami is usually composed of a series of waves, called a wave train, so its destructive force may be compounded as successive waves reach shore. People experiencing a tsunami should remember that the danger may not have passed with the first wave and should await official word that it is safe to return to vulnerable locations.
Some tsunamis do not appear on shore as massive breaking waves but instead resemble a quickly surging tide that inundates coastal areas.
The best defense against any tsunami is early warning that allows people to seek higher ground. The Pacific Tsunami Warning System, a coalition of 26 nations headquartered in Hawaii, maintains a web of seismic equipment and water level gauges to identify tsunamis at sea. Similar systems are proposed to protect coastal areas worldwide.
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