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The dark shadow of paramilitary terror fell over Antrim's Steeple estate once again last week, when a major security alert drove scores of families from their homes.
Police and army bomb disposal experts made the familiar journey to Mallusk Gardens following the discovery of a suspect device.
It is understood that the length of piping had been put through the letter box of a house. No-one is presently living in the house, but sources in the estate have claimed that the incident was linked to recent unrest in the Ballycraigy area.
[Source: Antrim Guardian]
A group of young entrepreneurs from St. Joseph's High School, Crossmaglen have wowed the panel of R.T.É.'s Dragon's Den with their young enterprise business, "Splash." As part of the school's C.O.P.E. (Certificate of Personal Effectiveness) program, 10 lower sixth students, along with their teachers, Paul Mulholland and Noreen McMahon, created the business to supply personalized reusable sports water bottles to schools, businesses and sporting clubs. The company has already secured orders from local primary schools and football clubs.
In December last year, Splash achieved the award for Best Product at the Young Enterprise Trade Fair in Banbridge. The pupils continued on their path to success, becoming the only representatives from Northern Ireland, and the only school to make it through to the final 20 entrants to present their project to a panel of judges at the Gibson Hotel, Dublin for the All-Ireland final of Junior Dragons Den.
[Source: Examiner Newspaper]
Friday evening (April 26) at the Carlow County Council offices was set aside to honor the achievements of the All-Ireland-winning Myshall team at a civic reception, but, with so many of the players representing Carlow in the camogie National League Division Four final, it was no surprise that talk centered on the possibility of the county winning promotion to Division Three.
After losing last year's final to Dublin, the set-back spurred them on to All-Ireland glory, but when a new season came along, it was back to the lower division where they recorded easy wins over Kildare (2-13 to 0-2), Tyrone (2-12 to 0-3) and Cavan (1-14 to 0-6). Wicklow were also in the same group but there are clearly problems as the Garden County conceded four walk-overs.
[Source: Carlow Nationalist]
May 1 marked the introduction of a new carbon tax, and Cavan/Monaghan Fianna Fáil T.D., Brendan Smith, has expressed serious concerns about its introduction.
The Cavan/Monaghan deputy says the new tax on solid fuels, which took effect last Wednesday, means that the price of a 88-pound bag of coal will rise by as much as $1.60, with cost of briquettes also increasing.
"This will have a severe impact on older people and families who cannot pay their basic household bills as it is. Many people across Cavan and Monaghan are having serious difficulty finding the money to pay for fuel due to the prolonged winter. This new tax will make a bad situation worse," Deputy Smith said.
[Source: The Anglo Celt]
Proposed investments in the region of $69 million by Doonbeg Golf Club could be left blowing in the wind if plans for a new $131 million wind-farm are approved in West Clare.
That's according to Doonbeg Golf Club manager, Joe Russell, when he was questioned about the impact on the west Clare economy if An Bord Pleanála approves Clare Coastal Wind Power's plans for a 10-year planning permission for a 40-turbine wind-farm in the area.
As one of the largest tourism providers in Clare, Doonbeg Golf Club has already made considerable investments in the local economy, with an ongoing commitment of $195 million and has plans for major additional investment.
[Source: Clare Champion]
Five people, including two Cork city councilors, were arrested and three young people were cautioned and removed from a protest at Bank of Ireland, Patrick Street last Wednesday.
Clr. Ted Tynan, Clr. Mick Barry, Jim O'Connell, James Hallinan and Brian Gould were all arrested under the Public Order Act during a peaceful protest when they refused to leave the branch after instruction from the Gardaí (police).
The protest was part of a national day of civil disobedience organized by Campaign Against the Household and Water Tax against the property tax on Mayday, the international day of workers.
[Source: Cork Independent]
A 44-year-old man has died hours after being recovered from the River Foyle by Foyle Search and Rescue.
Shortly after 9:30 a.m., the P.S.N.I. received a report that a man had been fallen from the Foyle Bridge into the river. Foyle Search and Rescue were alerted and recovered the man who was then taken to hospital.
Minutes after the incident, four vehicles were involved in a collision on the waterside-bound carriageway of the bridge. Police said they believe the two incidents were linked.
[Source: Derry Journal]
The Letterkenny man charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a three-year-old boy has been found not guilty.
The jury of six men and a woman took less than an hour to find Alex McDaid not guilty of dangerous driving causing the death of Patrick McDonagh.
Mr. McDaid was the driver of a bin lorry which was involved in an incident at Ballymacool, Letterkenny on February 16th, 2010, in which Patrick McDonagh was killed.
[Source: Donegal Democrat]
Two men have robbed a shop in County Down.
The pair entered a business in the Hill Street area of Newry on Wednesday afternoon.
One – who may have been armed with a gun – demanded money before making off on foot in the direction of High Street.
[Source: Belfast Telegraph]
The gangster shot dead in a Dublin business park was executed by his own gang, Gardaí (police) believe.
It has also emerged that Gintaras Zelvys (43) tried to use his wife as a "human shield."
Detectives are working on the theory that the Lithuanian criminal was murdered by members of his own gang over a bitter cash dispute.
[Source: Evening Herald]
Police in Fermanagh are investigating an incident of arson at the Carlton Hotel in the Main Street area of Belleek in the early hours of Thursday morning, May 2.
Shortly before 1:30 a.m., it was reported that a window in the property was smashed and what is believed to be a petrol bomb was thrown inside.
Police and N.I.F.R.S. attended and the fire was extinguished.
Nobody was injured in the incident.
[Source: Fermanagh Herald]
A Connemara campaigner is calling for a dangerous road stretch in Rossaveal to be addressed following a fatal road crash in the area last Wednesday night.
Fifteen-year-old Leah Feeney from Clynagh in Carraroe was killed in the collision, which occurred at around 9:45 p.m.
The student of Scoil Colmcille in Inverin was walking with a friend near Terry's pub in Rossaveal when she was struck by a car.
[Source: Galway Bay FM]
A Garda (police officer) has spoken of how the death of a colleague through suicide had a profound effect on other Gardaí serving at the station.
Garda Eoin Donovan said help received from Console, the suicide-prevention agency, helped Gardaí come to terms with the horrific loss of much-respected colleague and friend.
The agency had approached the Gardaí in the aftermath of the tragedy to offer support.
Last Monday, Console opened the country's first suicide resource center in Tralee, County Kerry, one of the counties with the highest rate of suicide and self-harm.
[Source: Irish Independent]
Angry credit union members took part in the first of a series of protests outside Newbridge Credit Union offices on Friday morning, April 26, calling for more information and the holding of an A.G.M.
Around 50 people turned out for what will be the first in a number of protests outside the premises each Friday morning at 10 a.m.
No annual meeting has been held in the past two years and special manager Luke Charlton and his team from Ernst & Young, originally appointed by the High Court in January of last year, continue to examine the credit union's finances, an operation which, to date, has cost almost $2.6 million.
[Source: Kildare Nationalist]
On Monday evening, May 6, Kilkenny Roses will gather at the Ormonde Hotel in Kilkenny for a night full of entertainment, glamour and above all, great fun, as we find out who will represent Kilkenny at the Regional Festival 2013.
Roses will appear on stage to speak with M.C. Brendan Hennessy and get an opportunity to do a party piece of their choice if they so wish. All entrants will be interviewed by a judging panel prior to Rose Selection night.
[Source: Kilkenny People]
Prison officers in Portlaoise and elsewhere have warned that they will ballot for industrial action up to and including strike action.
Speaking at their Annual Delegation Conference in Athlone last Wednesday, Stephen Delaney, president of the Prison Officers Association, said prison officers would ask members to vote a strike if the government imposes pay cuts.
"Our National Executive Council (N.E.C.) has forwarded an emergency motion to conference which I hope is supported. This motion states that should the government decide to unilaterally impose pay cuts by way of legislation on prison officers that the N.E.C. convene immediately with a view to conducting a national ballot of the membership for the taking of industrial action, up to and including strike action."
[Source: Leinster Express]
Gathering events are being staged throughout Leitrim this year to welcome back emigrants, to towns, villages and parishes to enjoy their native culture, music and sport. Well the Leitrim diaspora, particularly those from the McLean area in Yonkers, have got a head start on this process.
Seamus Clarke, the proprietor of J.P. Clarke's on McLean Avenue, recognized a good idea when he heard it, and he adapted the concept to coincide with the Leitrim versus New York clash on May 5. Seamus and Leitrim supporters' committee organized "A Leitrim Gathering to Remember" in Rory Dolan's on McLean Avenue in Yonkers after the game.
[Source: Leitrim Observer]
Gardaí (police) had to be called to Shannon Airport after what has been described as a "mutiny" took place among passengers on a diverted Ryanair flight two weeks ago.
The flight from Krakow to Cork had to be diverted to Shannon due to high winds, but passengers were kept waiting for a number of hours on the tarmac and were not allowed to get off, despite the fact that many of them were due to travel on to Limerick anyway.
After spending close to six hours on the plane, passengers then began to demand that they be let out and claim their baggage, leading to an "agitated" and "vocal" stand-off between passengers and crew.
[Source: Limerick Leader]
Twenty-four-year-old Aisling Farrell from Tang was crowned the Longford Rose 2013 following a gala event at the Longford Arms on Saturday night, April 27.
The fourth-year medical student at University College Dublin (U.C.D.) is a former pupil of Mercy Convent, Ballymahon, and is the daughter of Susan McKenna and sister to Siobhán and Fergus.
The self-assured and bubbly young woman managed to pip 13 other Roses to the post to claim the Longford Rose crown.
[Source: Longford Leader]
A Louth man has been given a five year sentence for ramming a garda car. It emerged in court that Padraig O'Riordan had a pistol in the car when gardai pursued him in a high-speed chase.
In his submission to the court, defense barrister Brendan Grehan said that the weapon had been discarded some distance from where O'Riordan was arrested and the behavior of the accused was an attempt to escape from gardai rather than an attempt to confront gardai.
In an apparent reference to the murder of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe, who was a colleague of the gardai in the case, Mr Grehan said he accepted the evidence "has a particular resonance in this circuit given recent events".
O'Riordan (28), of Point Road, Bellurgan, Co Louth, pleaded guilty to a series of 11 offences carried out in Co Louth between January 17 and 19, 2011.
[Source: Irish Indepdendent]
An investigation into the alleged smuggling of cannabis and cocaine into the Acute Mental Health Unit at Mayo General Hospital is ongoing. The Garda (Police) Drugs Unit has visited the hospital unit, where visitors were reportedly smuggling drugs to patients. The H.S.E. has issued a statement saying they are aware of the issue.
In a 2012 report by the inspector of Mental Health Services, the Mayo General Hospital Acute Mental Health Unit was described as being "well managed" on the night of the inspection and it was noted that "observation was carried out as prescribed."
However, a Castlebar councilor has said it was "no surprise" that drugs were reported to have been smuggled into the hospital unit, as services were being "cut to the bone."
[Source: The Mayo News]
A warning over the H.S.E.'s refusal to replace ambulance crew members who are off sick was made last week following an incident on Sunday, April 28, in which a Garda (police officer) had to drive an ambulance from the scene of an accident near Dunsany.
Four ambulances were dispatched to a road accident in the Dunsany area on Sunday, but one ambulance had just one crew member as the other member of staff was unexpectedly sick.
A Garda had to drive that ambulance to hospital from the scene of the accident.
[Source: Meath Chronicle]
Patients who turn up at hospital minor injury units are now facing a charge of $130 for the first time.
Minor injury units, which open for a limited number of hours, have replaced round-the-clock A&E departments in several hospitals.
These units treat sprains and strains, broken bones, wound infections, minor burns and scalds, minor head injuries, insect and animal bites, minor eye injuries and injuries to the back, shoulder and chest.
They have so far been free but hospitals will now be able to charge $130 following a recent move by Health Minister James Reilly.
Monaghan Hospital is the latest to announce the charge for its minor injury unit and it came into effect last Wednesday.
[Source: Irish Independent]
Gardaí (police) in Tullamore are investigating an incident in Edenderry where shots were fired at former Offaly County Council Chairman Ger Killally as he and three other people were leaving his house in a car at the townland of Shaen.
The incident occurred at 10:40 a.m. last Thursday. Nobody was injured during the incident; however, the former Fianna Fail councilor and his three passengers sustained minor injuries after the car collided with a ditch and overturned. A number of shots were fired at the silver Volkswagen Passat. It is believed that Killally had a five figure sum of cash in the boot of his car.
[Source: Offaly Express]
A 56-year-old parish priest in Roscommon is to be the new bishop of Kerry.
Raymond A. Browne, a graduate of St. Patrick's College Maynooth and the Gregorian University in Rome, where he studied canon law, has been appointed by Pope Francis to succeed the serving Bishop of Kerry Dr. Bill Murphy, who has served almost two years beyond his retirement.
The announcement was made after 10 a.m. mass in Killarney's St. Mary's Cathedral.
[Source: Irish Times]
A Health Information and Quality Authority (H.I.Q.A.) report into an unannounced assessment at Sligo Regional Hospital has exposed a litany of hygiene issues from unclean resuscitation trolleys to failures of staff members to observe proper hand hygiene practices.
The assessment was carried out at the hospital on February 28 and included checks on the emergency department; surgical gynecology ward and the medical south ward.
The 16-page report said there were a number of risks identified by H.I.Q.A. staff including three patients with transmissible infection being cared for in a room were doors were open, near other patients; failures in the disposal of contaminated personal protective equipment and overflowing bins for health care risk waste.
[Source: Leitrim Observer]
Gardaí (police) are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a body in Tipperary last Tuesday, April 30.
It is believed the body is that of Bobby Ryan (52), who went missing nearly two years ago. His family is being kept informed about the Garda investigation.
A postmortem examination is to be carried out on the body which was found in a slurry tank in the Fawnagowan area, between Tipperary and Bansha, at about 2 p.m.
[Source: Tipperary Star]
A former Catholic Bishop of Clogher has said he accepts the criticisms of a report that said opportunities to deal with cases of child abuse in parishes across the diocese were "consistently missed."
Dr. Joseph Duffy, who served as Bishop of Clogher for much of the period the child abuse report focuses on, said he regretted the management of some cases.
On Wednesday, April 24, the church's National Board for Safeguarding Children (N.B.S.C.C.C.I.) published the findings of seven reports it conducted on the child abuse scandal, including one centered solely on the Diocese of Clogher.
[Source: Tyrone Courier]
New Street, in the city center, was closed to traffic for nearly four hours of last Sunday morning as four units of the Waterford City Fire Service fought a blaze at the former Kiely's Bottling Store.
The alarm was raised at 9.01 a.m. by a passerby. When the fire service arrived the blaze had caught hold at the 3,000 sq. ft. unoccupied building. Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus were committed to the site and, with assistance from a hydraulic platform used to pump water in the fire, were finally brought under control at 12:30 p.m. and no damage was caused to any adjoining properties.
[Source: Waterford News & Star]
Former Mullingar player coach Joe Schmidt has been officially announced as Ireland's new head coach by the I.R.F.U., stepping up from his Leinster position after beating competition from Les Kiss and Ewen McKenzie for the Ireland post.
He succeeds Declan Kidney who was removed on April 2 after presiding over a dismal fifth-place finish in the R.B.S. 6 Nations.
The New Zealander spent a couple of seasons in Mullingar during the early 1990s as a player/coach.
[Source: Westmeath Examiner]
Wexford is set to embrace the spirit of one of its most famous sons, with a Mexican-themed, action packed festival in honor of William Lamport – arguably the inspiration for Mexican hero, Zorro.
"Zorrofest Wexford," last Saturday, saw the town turn "Wexican" with a celebration of the life and legend of a real-life "Irish Zorro" – 17th-century Wexford-man Lamport, born in Wexford Town in 1611.
[Source: Irish Independent]
One of Wicklow's landmark pubs, McDaniel's of Brittas Bay, will go under the hammer at the next Allsop's Auction to be held in the Shelbourne Hotel.
The pub and holiday home is a popular destination, especially during the busy summer tourist seasons, when visitors flock to Brittas Bay from far and wide.
The guide price is $815,000 to $880,000 – well below the $4 million paid for the pub the last time it was up on the market.
[Source: Irish Independent]


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"But this study makes a critical dilemma for teachers more clear. Teachers who saw the act of learning as highly complex and non-routine experienced more uncertainty as they approached their teaching tasks than teachers who saw learning as relatively straightforward (168)."
– Kirsten Oslson, Wounded By School
In Wounded By School, Kirsten Olson makes education reform human.
The books is meant primarily for students, parents, and educators. It's effect is meant to be the reformation of schooling from a broken system to one that nurtures its students and their learning. The book urges us towards an educational "kintsugi" – towards a consideration of schools' "points of weakness as opportunities to create new beauty" (9).
Olson does an excellent job of holding schools and educators accountable for the wounds they inflict on students without coming across as partisan, blunt, or heavy-handed. This is a book that acknowledges and faces the complexities of schooling and the greater complexities of human beings – of students, parents, and educators alike. Olson uses anecdotes and interviews with students and parents to make clear how hurtful schooling can be for those who don't play its game well enough to "merit" the system's approval. For all the good public education does, it's difficult to argue with the evidence of harm it inflicts as recounted by children and parents.
I found it even more difficult to argue with the memories that the book evokes. I played the game of school fairly well, and I have played the game of teaching fairly well. Nevertheless, Olson has me reevaluating the personal price of my education, as well as the cost-added attitudes I bring to my work that simply don't serve some students.
I'd like to stick with that thought for a moment: "cost-added." As we reform teacher evaluation without reforming education – as we cook up formulas for "value-added" teaching (not learning) – how many of us and how many of our leaders will be looking at "cost-added" education? At "cost-added" teaching? At the resources we spend decreasing the value of an American public school education? Who will lose pay over outmoded practices that are harmful to children and learning, like letting the private standardized testing industry drive public education? Who will lose pay over following a scripted lesson for kids in the middle while opportunities for intervention and extension dwindle away for the outliers? Who will lose pay for making sure kids in the middle never leave it? How many of us, in all honesty, would come out even or ahead in a pay scheme accounting for both the "value-" and "cost-added" aspects of our practices? How many of those practices are mandated? How many could we change or resist?
I've been working to lighten up lately – to bring a level of nurturing to my classroom that matches my expectations for student independence and learning. I don't want to create a space that pits students cognitively or behaviorally against my expectations, inflicting wounds of compliance or rebellion, or of numbness or perfectionism. While I don't want to hide my philosophies from my students, I don't want them to bear any of the tension I feel between my job and my calling. I want our classroom to be a joyful place at the nexus of these things, in the overlap of community and self-reliance, in the territory shared between a public school classroom and learning.
Olson's book has helped me reassert agency in changing what I do to become the person I aspire to be in helping students learn. As a teacher, I can't give the book more praise than that. The book spends as much time describing how teachers and schools can heal the wounds they currently inflict as it does demonstrating how prevalent schools' wounding practices are. Olson shares the steps that schools and wounded students have taken towards healing. These stories of restoration and fulfillment give students, parents, and educators hope for education's future and models to follow in reversing the damage that standardized education does to the unique people living, learning, parenting, and teaching in America.
If you are a teacher, read this book. You are the interface between students and school. You and your decisions are supremely important in wounding and healing schools' stake-holders – including yourself. Use the lessons in this book to make your classroom, PLC, and school places of restorative teaching practices and justice for children.

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Emma in Paris
I think most of us agreed that it was a total boner killer right? All that anticipation with the fun clues on her Twitter, and it only led up to an ad campaign for Lancome. I mean, great for her that there's another lucrative contract on the books, but something tells me, you know what with the Hermione action and all, that Emma doesn't need the money.
Still, in fairness to her, there's a certain prestige involved with fronting a brand in the way she's expected to front this brand. Obviously Lancome wants to go younger, to shake its reputation, real or imagined, as your grandma's skincare. Nothing says young and fresh like 20 year old Emma Watson. And it appears that that's exactly the vibe they're aiming for as photos from the set of her first ad indicate.
This is Emma in a short dress and a cropped leather jacket, being all beautiful and glamourous in Paris, shot by Mario Testino, with what appears to be a very attractive boy in pursuit. I asked this question the other day though, and I'll repeat for this post too: at most this is a few days off school, right? There has to be something else.
Photos from KCSPresse/Splashnewsonline.com


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spacex should partner with reaction engines
New designs for potential single stage to orbit space planes won't replace rockets. But they could handle crews while the rockets handle cargo.
This might seem a little odd, but think about it. Single stage to orbit, or SSTO, space flight is the holy grail of aerospace design right now. If you can fly a plane into space, you can easily reduce launch costs by a factor of ten and still build a profitable business. Not only would you make it a lot more tempting for companies and universities to exploit space, but you can also offer shorter commutes between far flung, attractive destinations, and take space tourism to the next level. A big problem with SSTO however, is that it's been tried before with few positive results because physics tend to get in the way of a smooth ascent to orbit. If you need to drag tons of oxidizer to incredibly high altitudes, you may as well just use a rocket. If you try to gulp down the incoming air, you'll be dealing with blistering heat that will be monstrously difficult to compress and use to provide thrust. But the brainchild of engineer Alan Bond, Reaction Engines, has recently shown that it has a solution to a viable hybrid engine for the SSTO craft it wants to build.
By cooling the super-heated air coming into the intakes at the speed of sound with liquid helium, the SABRE engine can ignite a rocket motor while traveling at supersonic speed. Now mind you, this was only a test and we're still a few years away from an engine ready to go to market, but a technical audit by the ESA found no flaws with the design. So while Reaction Engines may seem like it's pitching something out of a science fiction movie, its technical chops seem to be in order and it's not hiding behind invocations of or trade secrets when faced with tough questions. This is why they've gotten several grants from the ESA to keep working on SABRE. However, the final tally for the Skylon spaceplane fleet is estimated at $14 billion, several orders of magnitude more than government grants being offered and out of reach for the vast majority of private investors. So far, the plan seems to be to solicit another $4 million or so in funding to finish SABRE to then license the engine to other manufacturers and use the proceeds to start building Skylons. It's certainly an interesting idea, but who exactly would want to license an SSTO engine?
How about SpaceX? Right now, to advance its strategy of licensing SABRE, the company has a derivative design called the Scimitar and bills it as already being 50% funded by the EU to bring intercontinental travel at Mach 5 to the world at large. Now, this would certainly help big airlines make more profits by flying trans-oceanic routes more often in theory, but in practice, the really, really burdensome regulations against supersonic travel thanks to the kind of NIMBYism which played a major role in preventing the supersonic travel revolution predicted by many futirists, as well as the lead time to finish, test, and prove these planes in operation, Reaction Engines may as well forget about Skylon for the next several decades. If it wants to raise money and interest for a spaceplane, it should focus on creating a spaceplane and selling the Scimitar to militaries as the child of the successful SABRE. Yes, SpaceX is working on its Dragon capsule for sending humans to the ISS, and it has rockets capable of getting there, but if it can offer rocket launches to deliver larger spacecraft into orbit, ready for a Skylon to deliver the crew, it can build a major competitive advantage. An extra 20 or 30 tons of cargo capacity can help enable a less spartan mission beyond Earth orbit, and Dragon could be an emergency habitat in deep space.
We should no longer have just one launch stack for sending humans into space, but instead, we need to mix and match our technology for optimal results. Doing heavy lifting with rockets while the orbit is given to SSTO craft and inflatable space stations for staging, assembly, research, or all of the above, is probably our best way to steadily expand upward into space. So maybe Elon Musk should consider working with Reaction Engines in the near future. The investment wouldn't be small and returns on it won't be quick, but they'll not only be an investment in furthering how far SpaceX can go and what it can do for its clients, but also an investment in the infrastructure of the dawning space tourism and exploration industry. And judging from many proposals for the future of NASA and space travel in general, he's rather likely to find deep-pocketed and willing partners to make it all work. After all, sticking to space capsules and heavy lift rockets for almost everything would be a huge technological step back to doing what we know rather than using all our past skills to build something for the future. Why should we circle back now, especially when there's promising technology to make it happen just waiting for people with a big vision and the resources to make it come together, especially at a profit when all is said and done?


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Zentyal As Router - MUST be knowledgeable in Zentyal 5.0
Orçamento $15-25 USD / hora
Currently our Zentyal server is public-ally visible on eth1 through a public / external static IP and this is working perfectly.
We need to use eth0 as an internal Gateway / Router to our inside computers. We are not familiar with how best to configure this and need an expert in this area.
We require that you have previous Zentyal experience as this MUST NOT BE configured from a command line. Instead it must be configured within Zentyal UI as Zentyal overwrites any manual configs.
The attached Diagram makes clear (I hope) the configuration we need to put in place.
Furthermore, it is VERY important that we understand the exact configurations you changed in Zentyal as we must duplicate these changes for our client that you are making for our business.
I do not wish to pay for you to learn. I mean no offense by this. I am looking for someone who can teach us to resolve this and not learning as they go.
6 freelancers estão ofertando em média $21/hora para esse trabalho
Hi. I am a network/system administrator security focused with 5+ years of experience configuring proxies/firewalls. In the past i have configured Zentyal to a government company with great results in network controls, Mais
Setup a static route con eth1 to provide the router functionality
I am Ring. I am about 16+ years experienced in GNU/Linux based system, server installation and customization, develop, deploy, security and support. I may help you in this regard.


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Adams Rural Cemetery – G Surnames
Adams Rural Cemetery is located on the west side of of South Main Street 1)NYS Route 3 at the southern edged of the Village of Adams. The cemetery is very well maintained. Stones, for the most part, are in excellent condition and readable. 2)Description of Rural Cemetery. Due to the large size of this cemetery I have had to spread it out over multiple pages. You can find the main page here: Adams Rural Cemetery – Includes Map This section contains the interments whose surnames begin with the letter G. SurnameGivenBirthDeath GabrielEmily M1840Nov 24, 1915 GageHerbert C1885Nov 18,...Read More


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Connecticut's hourly $10.10 minimum wage a 1st
NEW BRITAIN -- Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy signed legislation Thursday that will raise Connecticut's minimum wage to $10.10 an hour by 2017, the highest rate for any state in the country.
Surrounded by state lawmakers and officials, Malloy appeared at a packed Café Beauregard, the same New Britain restaurant where he dined earlier this month with President Barack Obama and several other New England governors. The president was in town to advocate for a national $10.10 minimum wage.
After signing the bill, Malloy said it was one of his "proudest days as governor" and added: "It's time to get people out of poverty."
Earlier in the day, Malloy and legislative leaders received a congratulatory phone call from Vice President Joe Biden, who thanked Connecticut for being the first state to pass legislation enacting the $10.10 wage. Some cities, but no states, have higher minimum wages.
"Our message back to the vice president was, 'Mr. Vice President, you can use this and use the states that are marching in the right direction. But we need to do this on a national basis,'" Malloy said. "No one in no state should work 40 hours a week and still live in poverty. Connecticut has put the marker down. Other states will follow. We're going to get the job done."
Connecticut's Democratic-controlled state House and Senate approved the bill Wednesday, with only Democrats supporting the legislation. The bill will increase the state's current minimum hourly wage of $8.70 to $9.15 on Jan. 1, 2015, to $9.60 in January 2016 and to $10.10 in January 2017.
Legislative Republicans and various business groups criticized the increase as another action making Connecticut uncompetitive. The state's wage recently climbed to $8.70 on Jan. 1. It was previously scheduled to also increase to $9 next year.
"Many small business owners were disappointed by the increase last year but partially relieved that the issue was behind them. Suddenly it's back and it's bigger," said Andrew Markowski, Connecticut director of the National Federation of Independent Business. "They must be wondering what's next, and who could blame them?"


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It's never too late to learn technology skills, and you don't need deep expertise to be good at a technology job. That said, I'm a big proponent of starting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) skills at a young age, especially for girls.
My own story illustrates the benefits of early STEM training. When I was 8 years old, I read an article about flying trains in a children's magazine, and I wrote a letter to the editor. That editor wrote me back and encouraged my interest in STEM. In eighth grade, I actually created a science fair project testing the durability of plastic, which helped me decide to go into engineering.
I had enormous support in high school and college from my teachers and parents. My experience inspires me to help young girls interested in STEM careers. There are so many cool digital and technology career options today.
I recommend that girls shadow their parents, aunts, uncles and other adults they know who are actually working in technology fields. They really can get a feel for what it is like.
In my work, I focus on digital, mobile technology, and the Internet of Things. We support Blue 1647, an entrepreneurship and technology innovation center in Chicago that fosters economic and workforce development. Accenture partners with Blue 1647 on The 1919 Women in Technology initiative, which connects professional women in technology and helps them create, develop and innovate. It's essential to bring together like-minded people to create a sense of community and have spaces to have important conversations.


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On March 20th the following bloggers will post a special blog post in honor of Meatout! We hope you enjoy visiting their sites where you'll be sure to find delicious vegan recipes,
vegan tips, and/or thoughtful reflection.
***Please note that some bloggers are also doing GIVEAWAYS!
Thanks so much, bloggers, for supporting Meatout!
If you are a blogger and would like to participate, see the bottom of this page. Thanks!
Mighty Vegan (Julie Kelly)
Lola Lollipop (Lara Matthews) *has already created a special
Meatout comic strip that you can also find on her Facebook page. Check it out!
Vegan Heartland (Matthew) * is also having Meatout giveaways on his blog on 3/20
Don't Fear The Vegan (the DeRobertis family) *Will be raffling off 2 canvas bags
custom designed for Meatout that also say - Don't Fear the Vegan!
Vegan Machine (Kaycee Bassett)MeloMeals: Vegan for $3.33 a Day (Melody Polakow)
Kiss Me, I'm Vegan (Lindsay Wolf)Action For Our Planet (Oli Dillon Squire)
Hungry Vegan (Vegiegail)
Hungry Hungry Hippie (Elise)
Daisy Wares (Roni Seabury)We Animals (Jo Anne McArthur)
Our Hen House (Jasmin Singer & Mariann Sullivan)
Your Time Travels (Liz Longacre)
The Tourist Trail (John Yunker)
Ashland Creek Press (Midge Raymond)
The Vegan Project (Bridget Burns, Jennifer Hanover, and Jessica Grajczyk)
Tracie Cooks (Tracie Boyle)
Veg Reflections (Jessica)
Vegan Gluten Free Karaoke (Rachel Lee)
Julie Beyer's For the Love of Food (Julie Beyer)
The Vegan Swedes (Emma)
Veg Vine (Ryan Draving)
Vegan Splendor (Carol Kunze)The Fruit Pursuit (Sabine)
My Vegan Blog (Breezy Rondilone)
My Big Yellow Book (Breezy Rondilone)
LJ's Veganlicious (Laura Jill)
Vegan Miss (Alexis)
Dinner Peace (Colleen Boucher)
The Veganomaly (Shannon Alberta)
Eat & Talk (Kelly E. Spivey)Reverence Gardens (Chris)
Vegan Wellness (Charlotte Cressey)
Greenderella (Franzi Schleiter) *not a 100% vegan blog, but promoting Meatout
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Amanda Eats (Amanda Rock)
Hungry Vegan Traveler (Amanda)
Vegetarian ( Xiao Kang, Terri Lynn Merritts, and Isobella Merritts)
Serendipitous Vegan (Ashley & Richard)
Vegan Fazool (Dawn Carlock)Vegan Version (Lee Khatchadourian-Reese)
Vegan Appetite (Tami Noyes)
Bankrupt Vegan (Jen Manriquez)
Bunny Bread Surprise (Emily Keith)Little Vegan Planet
The Opinioness of the World (Megan Kearns)
Beyond Willpower (Alicia Birmingham)
Gone Vegan (Lindsay Hutton)
JAM Vegan Bakery (Jesse Coyne & Mallori Simko)
*Will have special Meatout activities on 3/20
Viva la Vegan! (Leigh-Chantelle)
Soul Veggie (Mark Sutton)
Jill of Ark (Jill Ennis)
* Will be raffling off a free 30-minute animal communication phone session
Lifeforce (Peter Hamilton)
*see a special Lifeforce Meatout news pdf
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The Driftwood Remains: My Search for A Bankable TitleBy Shalom Auslander
Hope: A Tragedy was the first title I suggested to my editor. I really thought it was right.
"No," he said.
My parents didn't love me, so I have low self-esteem, and I agreed to keep working. These are some of the alternate titles I presented, and the reasoning for or against them:
The Diary of Anne Frankenstein:
My working title; I never really intended to use it—too Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters—but it had grown on me, and I mentioned it to my editor as I was finishing the manuscript. This caused him to proclaim a couple of "title rules" for this novel:
1) Nothing funny.
2) No mentioning Anne Frank.
Apparently, people don't buy "funny" novels, and they don't buy books about Anne Frank. Which is, ironically enough, pretty fucking funny.
It's a Wonderful Ka-Pow:
Too funny.
Did I Ever Tell You How Unlucky You Are?
Too funny.
To Those About to Be Consumed by Flames:
Too Sedaris.
Nowhere Ho:
I liked this title quite a bit, a play on the old expression "Westward Ho." Kugel, the main character, wishes for nothing more than to be nowhere—a place with no past, no history, no wars, no genocides. My editor liked it as well, and began mentioning it to people, testing it out. It turns out young people don't know that expression anymore. The poor dears were very confused. My editor was disappointed. I wanted to run to Nowhere even more than I had before.
There was a brief concern that they wouldn't know who Anne Frank is, either, which, we decided, would be pretty fucking funny.
The Sufferers:
I do my best to stay out of bookstores because they make me want to kill myself, but apparently The X is a bit of a trend now. The Informers, The Intuitionist, The Imperfectionists. Et cetera. There was some concern it would be seen as that. I had a difficult time believing that things had gotten so bad that the word "The" was a trend.
"Like the Bible?" I asked.
"Keep working," I was told.
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Yes, you did read the title correctly. RIM has posted an official workaround for the problem of AT&T users not being able to bridge a PlayBook with a BlackBerry device under it's service, available here (KB26699). This is for users who get the following errors on their PlayBook:
- "Unable to connect BlackBerry Bridge with BlackBerry smartphone. Please ensure you have BlackBerry Bridge installed on your device and turned on"
- "Unable to pair with playbook. Try again"
- "Failed to pair with BlackBerry model"
And it also applies to users who get the error message "Unable to pair with PlayBook. Try again" on their BlackBerry Smartphone.
Read the full workaround below:
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- BlackBerry® smartphones running BlackBerry 6 OS
- BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet
- BlackBerry® Bridge
This is a previously reported issue that is being investigated by our development team. No resolution time frame is currently available.
Delete the paired device on the BlackBerry smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Attempt to pair again using BlackBery Bridge.
Step 1: Disconnect from BlackBerry Bridge and delete the paired device from the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet:
1. Select the Options icon from the top right corner of the main screen.
2. Select the BlackBerry Bridge item from the left side.
3. Select the Disconnect button from the bottom right side.
4. Select the Bluetooth® menu item from the left side menu from within the Options.
5. Select the Pencil button.
6. Click the Trash icon beside the paired BlackBerry smartphone.
Step 2: Delete a paired Bluetooth enable device
To perform this task, you must first disconnect your BlackBerry device from the Bluetooth enabled device.
1. On the Home screen, click the connections area at the top of the screen, or click the Manage Connections icon.
2. Click Bluetooth Connections.
3. Highlight a paired Bluetooth enabled device.
4. Press the Menu key > Delete Device.
Step 3: Uncheck all Bluetooth Message Services on the BlackBerry device
1. On the BlackBerry device home screen, Click on Options > Network and Connections > Bluetooth Connections
2. Click the Menu key and select MAP Options
3. Uncheck all Email addresses under Message Services
4. Save and exit
Step 4: Remove unused Serial Port Profiles (PlayBook uses the Data Transfer Serial Port Profile)
Open Bluetooth Connections from Manage Connections icon in home screen.
Click the Menu key and select Options
Uncheck unused Serial Port Profile entries except Data Transfer (Desktop Connectivity, SIM Access Profile, Wireless Bypass)
Save and Exit
Step 5: Restart the BlackBery smartphone and BlackBerry PlayBook tablet
1. Perform a hard reset on the BlackBerry device, KB02141
2. Perform a hard reset on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, by holding the Power button for 10 seconds
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To connect your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to your BlackBerry smartphone, you need to install the BlackBerry Bridge app on your smartphone. You can download it from the BlackBerry App World storefront.
1. On your tablet home screen, on the status bar, tab Options icon and select BlackBerry Bridge
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Independent deputy Clare Daly is to take action against the Irish police force after she was cleared of drink driving last month.
The left-wing politician has claimed police tried to tarnish her reputation when they leaked a story to the media that she had been arrested for driving under the influence.
The Dublin deputy has now issued a statement confirming that she was 33 per cent below the legal limit in tests conducted on the night of her arrest on January 28th.
In the statement, released on her website, Daly explains what happened on the night and how she has now been cleared of all charges after the test results were issued.
The statement on www.claredaly.ie says: "On Monday night 28th January, after meetings in the Dail, I attended a meeting in Swords and left at 9.30pm for another meeting requested by a family on the Southside of the city near the Canal.
"I arrived after 10pm and spent almost two hours discussing issues which I had raised in the Dail. Before I left I was offered a hot whiskey for a cold.
"I left at midnight and not being familiar with the area found myself on the road to Ballyfermot at Kilmainham and took a right turn onto the South Circular Road trying to get back onto the North side - unfortunately there is No Right Turn at this junction and this was brought to my attention by Gardai (police) in a car who stopped me.
"I was breathalysed but the equipment didn't register a reading. I was arrested and handcuffed on the side of the road. I objected to being handcuffed and stated that I would willingly go to the Garda station. I was told by the arresting Garda that this was 'procedure'.
"I was brought in a patrol car to the Kilmainham Garda Station - within 300 metres distance. At one point I was placed in a cell on my own. A doctor was called and I provided a urine sample.
"When I was released a female Garda told me to 'come back when you are sober'."
Daly is to make a formal complaint to Ireland's police ombudsman and clearly believes she has been victimised.
She added: "I believe that the Gardai implementing road safety have a job to do and I support them. However, I object strongly to the arrest, handcuffing and release of information re the arrest on suspicion of drink driving to the tabloid press early on Tuesday. My legal advice is that none of this is 'procedure'.
"I believe that this was a deliberate attempt to discredit a left-wing TD who has raised issues of malpractice within the Garda Siochana. This information could only have come from within the Gardai.
"The Garda Ombudsman is investigating this matter, as a criminal investigation under Section 98 of the Garda Soichana Act 2005. This is a very serious issue. Every citizen is entitled to their good name and to have their privacy respected.
"Garda whistle blowers who have quite correctly approached the designated Confidential Recipient and elected TDs, as they are lawfully entitled to do, have been threatened that they will be fully investigated in accordance with the Garda Siochana (Discipline) Regulations 2007 for speaking to a third party.
"I now expect that the same enthusiasm will be taken in relation to those who have sought to damage me.
"I have received the official result of the test on the urine sample provided and the result is 45 milligrammes per 100 millilitres of urine, which is 33% below the allowable limit - 67 milligrammes."


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Bing Maps API - Libraries
The Microsoft Bing Maps API is the re-branded name for the Microsoft Virtual Earth API and Virtual Earth SDK. It features an AJAX map control. Use Bing Maps to build maps which can include routes and traffic info. Gives developers the ability to code the controls, shapes, and layers of the maps, and can summon the birds-eye, 3D, and aerial imagery. For commercial applications there is a SOAP-based Web Service also provides access to the Bing maps and geospatial features.


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The biggie is the head's size for the helmet. The head is just too small for the helmet it seems and a little annoying then with how the helmet rests on the head, and things. It sits too low. While I know there's complaints on the helmet's sculpt, I consider it "good enough" more or less. I'm not a Stormie helmet sculpt expert though so while I knwo there's differences between the 3 films and all, and this one may not be perfect, it seemingly serves its purpose to me. To have the chance at SA clean while Stormtroopers, I'm happy then. Plan to slip some different headsculpts on there though and hopefully get the helmet issue fixed up a bit then so it sits better on different heads.
Wow, I'm kind of shocked at the seeming vitriol for the 30AC Stormie. Since the last five I've found have seemingly had the waist looseness issue corrected, I'm beyond thrilled with it. Different strokes to move the world, I guess.
Speaking of the head sculpts, does everyone's look possessed with misprinted, high positioned pupils? All of mine do.
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YWSI program engages middle school girls in science, math
Courtesy: Ohio Supercomputer Center
PHOTO: OSC Young Women's Summer Institute Class of 2010
VIDEO: An Alexander High School teacher, Jenny Lang, discusses how OSC's Summer Institute and Young Women's Summer Institute prepare students for careers in science and technology.
VIDEO: A Strongsville High School student, Marisa Supanich, discusses OSC's Summer Institute and Young Women's Summer Institute.
Courtesy: Ohio Supercomputer Center
PHOTO: OSC Young Women's Summer Institute student Christina Liu conducts chemical testing on a water sample.
Courtesy: Ohio Supercomputer Center
PHOTO: OSC Young Women's Summer Institute students visit the Big Darby Watershed.
Columbus, Ohio (August 3, 2010) – Last week, a group of young women waded through a creek and toiled in a computer lab to experience science first-hand as participants of the Young Women's Summer Institute.
On Saturday, the 15 middle-school girls celebrated their many accomplishments at a final ceremony attended by parents, teachers and staff at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). YWSI was designed by OSC to help young women develop a deeper interest in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, by solving a practical, interesting scientific problem.
During the week, students conducted hands-on, streamside quality monitoring and chemical testing of Darby Creek, a state and national scenic river just southeast of Columbus. They then analyzed their samples with the latest in computer technology, comparing their results with Ohio Environmental Protection Agency data for their small-group watershed projects. Participants also interacted with successful women scientists to learn about their professional contributions to math, engineering and science fields.
Throughout the weeklong residential program, students shared in activities at OSC, took field trips to the creek and specialized Ohio State University facilities and stayed in residence halls on the OSU campus.
"YWSI provides girls with not only the skills, but also the confidence, to pursue science and technology fields," said Kathryn Kelley, director of YWSI. "If this class's enthusiasm and proficiency during the activities are a good indication, they stand to make strong contributions in these fields in the not-too-distant future."
Through annual surveys and longitudinal studies conducted in 2004 and 2010, YWSI participants have indicated that they learn a great deal from the program. One participant commented in her final program evaluation, "I liked everything! I especially liked the way it was designed so that we got to experience many different types of science, the way we got to explore OSU and how we learned so much!"
Five teachers selected for the program also benefited by gaining practical experience in project-based teaching, using real data to teach and conduct research and learning to effectively integrate technology into classroom activities.
YWSI is a program of the Center's Ralph Regula School of Computational Science and was sponsored this year by Battelle, American Electric Power, P&G and OSC. For more information about the YWSI program for sixth and seventh grade girls, please visit www.ywsi.org.
Editors: The list below, arranged by last name, identifies the students and teachers who participated in YWSI.
2010 YWSI participating students:
Caitlyn Baird, Benjamin Logan Middle School
Ellen Butts, Hilliard Weaver Middle School
Bailey Eckerle, Plains School
Becina Ganther, Jones Middle School
Madysen George, Davis Middle School
Jenna Hardin, Benjamin Logan Middle School
Jane Kelleher, Wilson Hill Elementary
Christina Liu, Worthingway Middle School
Aubrey Milligan, Bowling Green Middle School
Sonia Pattisam, Davis Middle School
Rachel Reinhart, Hilliard Tharp School
Aarathi Sahadevan, Cincinnati Country Day School
Elli Schwartz, Dominion Middle School
Kirsten Simpson, Cincinnati Country Day
Deepthi Tumuluri, Karrer Middle School
2010 YWSI participating teachers:
Luna Alsharaiha, St. Michael School
Kasey Harris, Alexander High School
Kristi Krupp, Bowling Green Middle School
Jenny Lang, Alexander High School
Jill Prout, Upper Arlington City Schools
Paula Williams, Bowling Green Middle School (lead teacher)
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August 15, 2012 — Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's recent announcement of House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) as his running mate has prompted a closer look at Ryan's record on abortion rights and other women's health issues, National Journal's "The Next America" reports (Ramirez, "The Next America," National Journal, 8/14).
Ryan opposes abortion rights except when a woman's life is at risk, while Romney has said the procedure also should be available in cases of rape or incest (Baker, "Healthwatch," The Hill, 8/15).
Although Ryan had not introduced a single abortion-related bill during his 12-year congressional tenure, antiabortion groups consider him a "stalwart opponent of abortion rights," according to the Washington Post's "Wonkblog" (Kliff, "Wonkblog," Washington Post, 8/14). In every abortion-related vote he has taken in Congress, he has sided with abortion-rights opponents (Condon, CBS News, 8/15). Americans United for Life Action and the National Right to Life Committee have given Ryan a 100% "pro-life" ranking for his voting record.
Ryan has voted for laws banning so-called "partial-birth abortion" and prohibiting accompanying a minor across state lines to help her obtain abortion care ("Wonkblog," Washington Post, 8/14). He voted against legislation that would have allowed servicewomen stationed overseas to obtain abortion care at U.S.-run medical facilities. In 2006, he voted for a bill requiring women seeking abortion care to be counseled about purported "fetal pain" (CBS News, 8/15).
Recently, Ryan gained attention for his support of the Sanctity of Human Life Act (HR 212), which would define life as beginning at fertilization. In an article for the Heritage Foundation in 2010, Ryan wrote, "I cannot believe any official or citizen can still defend the notion that an unborn human has no rights that an older person is bound to respect" ("Wonkblog," Washington Post, 8/14).
Opposition to Contraceptive Coverage, Family Planning Programs
Ryan also opposes the federal contraceptive coverage requirement, calling it a violation of "our first amendment rights to religious freedom and conscience."
He has taken a firm stance against federally funded family planning programs and has voted at least four times to cut off federal funding for Planned Parenthood. He voted in 1999 to deny birth control coverage to federal workers and has voted multiple times against funding international family planning programs (Daily Beast, 8/13).


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This is group for anyone interested in ImageArt, practising Photography, Tea fans , Creativity and Relaxing Time. Cameraholics are welcome!
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There are still a few hours left in 5775, here is to wishing a Happy New Year 5776!
May this be a year of Peace, Love, Camaraderie, Healing, and Joy for all.
Though there may be blame to share, I ask forgiveness.
Though there may have been harm, I ask for healing.
Though hearts may have hardened, I ask for love and compassion.
Though there may have been destruction, I ask for solidarity in building anew.
Though there is War, I ask in humility for Peace.
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While you wait for a tutor, you can sit in the lobby, study quietly at a table, or use our computer lab.
If you leave the English Center while waiting for a tutor and your name is called, it is possible that you might lose your place in line. Make sure you tell the EC staff that you need to leave momentarily if you have to use the restroom or answer your phone.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota Timberwolves center Nikola Pekovic will miss the next seven to 10 days because of badly bruised right quadriceps.
Pekovic was injured in the third quarter against the Los Angeles Clippers on Thursday night after a collision with Blake Griffin. Pekovic did not practice on Friday and Timberwolves president David Kahn says he will miss at least a week.
Pekovic leads the team in scoring and rebounding and is the latest significant injury to a team beset by them all season long. Shooting guard Alexey Shved sprained his left ankle in the fourth quarter as well and is questionable for the game on Saturday night against Houston.
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After the school's troubles surfaced in the mid-1990s, a series of special trustees struggled to find a way forward while trying to appease a community that in some ways seemed more upset with the state for intervening than with the school management that had created the crisis. Then, last December, the community college chancellor appointed Genethia Hudley-Hayes, former president of the
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What has angered the community most was her decision to toss out the college's chief executive officer, a popular leader who ingratiated himself to the community in part by promising that accreditation was around the corner. Hudley-Hayes showed him the door, and Compton's seething anger boiled over.
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Even the more civilized response was rough. A group known as the Committee to Save Compton Community College District called for her ouster. Hudley-Hayes, the group's leader charged in a letter to the governor and chancellor, "is dictatorial, presumptuous, demeaning, condescending, disrespectful, dismissive of the input of others and mean-spirited in manner and deed." As if that weren't enough, the letter also faulted her diction: "Please inform Ms. Hudley-Hayes that the word is 'accreditation' and not 'accredi-DA-tion.'" The letter identified Hudley-Hayes, Villanueva and Keith Curry, the acting chief executive brought in by Hudley-Hayes, as the "triumvirate of inexperience."
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Perennial with solitary spikelets. Glumes are strongly keeled throughout. In many species, the middle internodes of the inflorescence are less than one third as long as the adjacent spikelets.
Plants perennial, not or only shortly rhizomatous. Culms 25-110 cm tall, geniculate or erect; lowest internode 1-2 mm thick.
Leaf blades 1.5–9 mm wide, flat, folded, or convolute, upper surface with 8–12 prominent ribs.
Inflorescence spikelike, stiff; rachis tough, with solitary spikelets; lowest internode subequal to much several times longer than the middle internodes; middle internodes 1-5 mm, often less than one third as long as the adjacent spikelets.
Spikelets solitary, tangential to the rachis, sessile, sometimes strongly divergent; lowest spikelet longer than the adjacent internode, sometimes many times longer; middle spikelets from almost twice as long as the adjacent internode to many times longer.
Glumes shorter than the adjacent lemmas, strongly keeled from the base to the tip, glabrous or hairy, not scabrous, acuminate.
Lemmas often keeled from base to tip, not or shortly awned. Paleas not winged, tapering with straight sides to a narrow tip, the keel veins often extending beyong the intercostal region. Lodicules lobed, ciliate. Anthers 0.4-5 mm.
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Agropyron used to be interpreted as including all the perennial Triticeae with solitary spikelets and tough rachises. That interpretation has now been universially rejected and the sense used here universally accepted. The genus was recognized as such before it was appreciated that all its members were diploids or tetraploids based on the P genome.
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Agropyron cristatum (L.) Gaertn.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Nov. 17, 2011) – ETSU women's soccer freshman defender Ellis Parsons (Cardiff, Wales) will travel to Ness Ziona, Israel to join the Wales women's national team in a qualifying group stage match for the European Championships against Israel.
"Ellis [Parsons] thoroughly deserves to be part of the team," said ETSU head coach Adam Sayers. "She has played magnificently for us all year and we wish her and the national team the best of luck against Israel."
Having played for the youth U19 and U17 Welsh squads since 2007, Parsons will now join her country's national team in hopes of earning her first cap as the squad prepares for Israel. So far, the senior team has earned one point in the qualifying group stage after tying Scotland 2-2 on Oct. 27. In its two prior matches, Wales fell to the Republic of Ireland, 2-0, and France, 4-1. Wales currently sits in fourth place in its group.
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Neighboring states like New York have been implementing the law for more than a year and California has major portions in place. But other states balked, hoping the law would be overturned by a new Republican president or the U.S. Supreme Court, which earlier this year upheld the law but allowed states to decline to expand their Medicaid programs.
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