text:
Sources also tell us that the FBI and the NYPD met Sunday with the parents of Etan, to update them on the investigation.
The search will resume Monday after investigators temporarily shut down the operation on Sunday.
The FBI wouldn't go into specific details as to why it abruptly decided to call it quits for the day, only saying it was for "operational reasons".
"It's in part because of the weather, we can't go into details but we've concluded the operations for the day," said FBI spokesman Jim Margolin.
Day four of this investigation included the collection of yet more evidence from the basement of 127 Prince Street.
Roughly 35 members of the Evidence Response Team started the day around 8 Sunday morning.
Agents have finished ripping up the basement's concrete floor and are now digging deeper, 4 to 6 feet down.
They're hoping to find Etan Patz's remains or any clues, in this heart wrenching mystery.
"If they could solve it, bring it to a close, that would be amazing, to find out what happened, if it was here," said SoHo resident Steve Rodriguez.
6 years old at the time, Etan vanished on May 25, 1979 while walking to the school bus stop.
The day before he spent time in the very same basement, helping Othneil Miller, a handyman who used the space as a workshop.
The 75 year old was cleared at the time but is now considered a person of interest, although he maintains he is innocent.
Officials won't say what, if anything, was found in the basement.
However sources tell Eyewitness News that a stain found on a concrete wall is being tested.
As for how long all of this will continue, the FBI says, they'll be done, when they're done.
"It's about going carefully through dirt and sifting it carefully and looking for evidence," said Margolin.
For decades, the prominent case of a missing 6-year-old had a prime suspect: an admitted child molester in a Pennsylvania prison. Although the inmate was never criminally charged in Etan Patz' 1979 disappearance, he was found responsible in a wrongful-death lawsuit.
Authorities said they had yet to find any new evidence as of Friday, and the police commissioner and the FBI said they wouldn't discuss any possible suspects. It's unclear what the renewed probe may turn up, if anything.
But if it leads definitively away from Pennsylvania prisoner Jose A. Ramos and to someone else, it could create a legal conundrum: one person held accountable for the boy's death in civil court while another became the focus of a criminal case.
On Friday, investigators were using jackhammers and saws to carefully break through the basement's concrete floor, pulling rubble out and carrying it out of the building with gloved hands, as an anthropologist stood by in case any human remains were found; the work concluded for the day around 6 p.m. but was expected to continue over several days. The debris was to be taken elsewhere and tested, a process that could last into next week, chief police spokesman Paul Browne said.
Police were using a chemical that can spotlight traces of blood and expected that X-ray equipment could help them peer behind walls, though some walls were being removed, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
"We're hopeful that we can bring some level of comfort to the parents, perhaps find some - obviously, the body of this poor child - but evidence that may lead to a successful investigation in this case," Kelly said. He was a lieutenant working on organized crime cases when Etan (pronounced AY'-tahn) vanished on the first day he was allowed to walk to his school bus stop alone.
As for whether authorities were optimistic, he said, "I really can't say."
Investigators decided to refocus their attention on the building after recently speaking again to Miller, whom they had interviewed several times over the years, according to a law enforcement official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Among the first vanished children to appear on a milk carton, Etan became a symbol of a movement to draw attention to child safety - the day of his disappearance, May 25, became National Missing Children's Day. The case has bedeviled investigators as leads emerged and fizzled over the years; Etan, never found, was officially declared dead in 2001.
Ramos, a drifter whose girlfriend was Etan's sometime baby sitter, has been publicly floated as a possible culprit since the 1980s. Now 68, he is serving a 10-to-20-year sentence in Dallas, Pa., after pleading guilty to abusing an 8-year-old boy at a campground there. He is due to be released in November. Efforts to reach lawyers who have represented him were unsuccessful Friday.
A former federal prosecutor who had worked on the case, Stuart GraBois, declared in 1998 that he believed Ramos was behind Etan's disappearance and death; efforts to reach GraBois on Friday were unsuccessful. A Manhattan civil court judge held Ramos responsible in 2004, saying that his refusal to answer some questions amounted to not responding to the suit. The judge ordered him to pay $2 million to Patz' father, Stan.
Police investigated leads to Ramos at various points, including a 2000 search of the basement of the building where he lived in 1979. But the Manhattan district attorney's office concluded there wasn't enough evidence to charge him, or anyone else. Former DA Robert Morgenthau, who led the office from 1975 to 2009, declined to comment Friday.
Current DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr. spent time with Stanley Patz while running for office in 2009 and pledged to reopen the case if elected.
After the investigation resumed in 2010, authorities considered if they should take a fresh look elsewhere since decades of eying Ramos had never yielded anything conclusive, according to another person familiar with the investigation, who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss its workings.
The basement Miller had used "started to seem more and more like at least a viable place to start," the person said.
Should the new direction lead to a new suspect, that wouldn't automatically negate the civil court's finding against Ramos.
But he might be able to get a court to reconsider it, legal experts said.
"This would be such a colossal change from what was thought to be the case at the time, I think the courts would probably, to be just, find some kind" of avenue to reopen the case, said Annemarie McAvoy, a former federal prosecutor who now teaches at the Fordham University School of Law.
Associated Press writers Jim Fitzgerald, Samantha Gross and Karen Matthews, photographer Bebeto Matthews and researcher Barbara Sambriski contributed to this report from New York, and writer Matt Moore contributed from Philadelphia.
Get Eyewitness News Delivered
Facebook | Twitter | Newsletters | Text Alerts


text:
@LB: Mmmmmm. That's as it should be (regarding the apparently stiff basis for the government loans) but we don't know the details yet. Or at least, I don't. I very it very hard to believe that the taxpayer will 'win' in any way - it's totally against form. Government and big business are just a little too cosy in this country. If I come across anything (plausible) pointing towards my view of the situation, I'll post it here. Failing that, we'll know next April!
LIBOR. I've never seen a graph on that (ta) but I do remember the news about how the LIBOR rate broke it's holding pattern with the BoE base rate. That really made me think the wheels were coming off the markets.
#3905896, By Carrybagma This is starting to get a little scary
Carrybagma 3,904 posts
Seen 10 years ago
Registered 13 years ago

subset: commoncrawl


text:
In response to the reopening of 16 schools in southern half of the state, the New Mexico Activities Association has lifted its suspension of high school sports effective on Wednesday.
As a result, the usual round of spring sports championship events will indeed be staged, albeit with a revised "Plan C" schedule, also released on Wednesday. The revised schedule contains several differences from the tentative one issued on Monday. (See the weekend print edition of the Optic for a full explanation and the schedule.)
If you currently subscribe or have subscribed in the past to the Las Vegas Optic, then simply find your account number on your mailing label and enter it below.
Click the question mark below to see where your account ID appears on your mailing label.
|ZIP Code:


text:
decoupage 0.13.1
Decoupage is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects ... The software decoupage lets you stitch together index pages from filesystem content
Latest Version: 0.15.1decoupage
what is it?
`decoupage` is a *dynamic* file server that allows for index pages
configurable with genshi templates and .ini files. I mainly wrote it
because i was tired of using apache for serving my website and
generating index.html files by hand. Decoupage provides views into
the filesystem.
how do i use it?
Set up a `paste <http: pythonpaste.org="">`_ .ini file that specifies the
directory to serve (``decoupage.directory``) and, optionally, a
configuration file .ini file (``decoupage.configuraton``) which
specifies the labels for the files based on directory. An example of a
`paste <http: pythonpaste.org="">`_ .ini file is in
``decoupage.ini``. Note the ``[app:decoupage]`` section::
paste.app_factory = decoupage.factory:factory
decoupage.directory = %(here)s/example
decoupage.configuration = %(here)s/example.ini
The labels for files are in ``example.ini``, specified by sections as
foo.txt = a file about cats
lilly.txt = lilly
hobbes.txt = a file about Hobbes
You can specify the entire layout from here. Alternately, you can
have an ``index.ini`` in a directory which, if present, overrides the
default configuration. Such a file is in the ``fleem`` subdirectory
of ``example``::
/template = index.html
fleem.txt = some fleem for ya
Try it out! Install decoupage and run ``paster serve decoupage.ini``
and point your browser to the URL it gives you.
how do i do more with decoupage?
Since filenames can't start with a ``/`` (just try it!), the
functionality of decoupage may be extended with ``/`` commands in a
section. This is done by adding a setuptools ``entry_point`` to
``[decoupage.formatters]``. See the decoupage ``setup.py`` and
``decoupage.formatters`` for examples. For instance,
Running `decoupage-formatters` from the command line gives the list of
formatters that are available (which are pluggable setuptools extension points
at [decoupage.formatters]). For example: /include = site.html could
include the site.html genshi template at the top of the body.
determines how to sort the files in a directory;
right now only by case-insensitive alphabetically
* reverse : reverse the order of the sorting
only pass files of a certain pattern;
the inverse of ignore
calling all with no arguments means only files with descriptions
are used
splits a description into a title and a description via a
separator in
the description. The template will now have an additional
'title', per file
* separator: what separator to use (':' by default)
obtain the description from the filename
the file extension (if any) will be dropped and
spaces will be substituted for underscores
ignore files of a glob patterns.
These files will not be linked to in the template.
e.g. /ignore = .* *.pdf # don't list dotfiles and PDFs
include: include a file at the top of the body
css: specify CSS used (whitespace separated list)
Decoupage also makes use of other special intrinsic keywords:
formatters: ordered list of formatters to apply
inherit: inherit configuration from a certain directory (instead of
the parent
transform: a list of transformers for contenttransformer
* allow transformers to be configurable on a per-directory basis
* add a ``?format=rss`` query string argument
* add a ``?template=foo.html`` query string argument
|Py Version
|Uploaded on
|decoupage-0.13.1.tar.gz (md5)
- Author: Jeff Hammel
- Home Page: http://k0s.org/hg/decoupage
- License: GPL
- Package Index Owner: k0s, ejucovy
- DOAP record: decoupage-0.13.1.xml


text:
Tempo has a win over workers' comp
Page Tools
Changes to workers' compensation legislation, due to be introduced across NSW on July 1, look set to be modified after intense lobbying by unions and businesses - including John Schaeffer's Tempo Services.
As Tempo confirmed it had been in "discussions and negotiations" with the office of John Della Bosca, NSW Minister for Commerce, a spokeswoman for the minister said certain changes concerning the introduction of "group provisioning" would be announced tomorrow.
The spokeswoman said industry bodies and unions had demonstrated "unintended consequences" the Government wanted to avoid.
They are understood to involve the threat of job losses among big employers like Tempo, which has more than 20,000 staff, mostly subcontractors.
Group provisioning would have forced such companies to pick up the total workers' compensation bill, resulting in higher costs.
Under the current structure, companies can leave the issue to its subcontractors, thus improving the health of the parent company's balance sheet.
"Everyone should pay correct premiums and the use of company structures to avoid workers' compensation premiums is unfair," the spokeswoman said.
"We want to ensure that there is a level playing field."
Tempo has maintained group provisioning was never a major issue because the costs would ultimately have been passed on to its clients.
But speculation has been intensifying in some quarters that the renewal of Tempo's lucrative NSW school cleaning contract early next year is no longer a foregone conclusion.
And Tempo, along with the other school cleaning contractors, Menzies and Broadlex, has been busy trying to ensure additional cost burdens do not put further pressure on margins or scupper their chances of renewing the contract, which has a particularly high incidence of compensation claims.
Tempo director and former NSW premier Barrie Unsworth is believed to have been particularly active in negotiations with the Government.
Such concerns have been weighing heavily on Tempo's share price and on the finances of founder John Schaeffer, who holds 30 per cent of the stock. The shares fell 2c to $1.08.


text:
Sorry, but specific product you requested is not currently available. Hopefully you can find another option below.
Deep scoop neck vest with ribbing for shape. XS (S, M, L, XL); Length: 21 (21�, 22�, 23, 23�)"; Width at bust: 14 (16, 17�, 19, 21)"You can also view all Blue Sky Fibers Adult Clothing Patterns.
We provide endless possibilities for you including yarn, knitting gifts, needles, kits, sale yarn, free knitting patterns, and more!Jimmy Beans Wool is Your Local Yarn Store... Online!


text:
TeleDirectory Messaging & Paging Services
Providing superior customer service with a personal touch in today's fast-paced Call Center is a challenging task. From physician's answering services in a hospital, to a high-volume message and paging center in the corporate environment, proficient call handling with messaging and paging delivery is imperative.
Conveyant's TeleDirectory Messaging and Attention! Notification System provide an automated and powerful solution to meet customer's messaging, event and emergency notification and paging needs. Your attendants can provide that personal touch by talking to your customers, accessing critical information and processing calls and notification capability. All messages and page requests are electronically logged, and may be delivered in a variety of methods best suited to the customer needs.
Customizable TeleDirectory Message Pad
TeleDirectory Messaging and Paging Services are integrated with Conveyant's TeleDirectory Console application software as an optional package. Attendants may take messages and page requests; view, print and send text messages and pages. Messages and page requests may be taken by an attendant with TeleDirectory's user-customizable Message Pad. The Message Pad has fields for entering names and numbers as well as user-defined check boxes and a free-form text entry area.
• Product Bulletin (PDF)
For more information, contact us at Conveyant Systems.


text:
There was a new, but familiar face in the Mariners clubhouse on Sunday morning. Outfielder Endy Chavez was unpacking his gear.
The 35-year-old outfielder has signed a minor league contract with the Mariners, but has joined the big league club for spring training. Chavez was released from his contract by the Royals on Friday.
"I'm glad to have this opportunity," he said. "I just have to go forward and work hard and be healthy. I believe this is opportunity is better for me. It's more clear for me. And I feel more comfortable."
The move is really about adding depth to an outfield spot, which seems strange. However, past the big league level, there is an issue at the Triple A Level. Right now, Tacoma would have to use Abe Almonte – acquired in the Shawn Kelley trade, or recent outfield convert Francisco Martinez in center field. Adding Chavez gives them some depth at the position.
"I'm not expecting anything crazy," he said. "I know I have to start in Triple A. That's good for me. I think I'm getting the opportunity to play baseball and that gives me a good chance to get back to the majors."
Does this have some deeper meaning for the slumping Casper Wells, who is fighting to make the 25-man roster or risk being designated for assignment? It's hard to tell. If the Mariners decided to keep Jason Bay over Wells, they do run the probable risk of losing him. They would likely try to trade him and get something in return instead of losing him for nothing on a waivers claim. Chavez gives them an emergency outfielder, who can play center, down in Tacoma waiting if/when Franklin Gutierrez gets hurt.
Wells' numbers this spring are not pretty. He, went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and a hit-by-pitch yesterday, dropping his batting average to .188 (9-for-48) with 17 strikeouts. Wells is just 2-for-25 with 10 strikeouts after missing a few days with stiff neck. Of his nine hits this spring, five of them came in back-to-back games right before he was injured.
But his defense and ability to play all three spots at high level is big value.
Chavez played in 64 games with Orioles last season as a bench player. He hit just .203. Obviously, he's not an every day player. But when used properly he can be effective. In 2012, he played in 83 games with the Rangers in a similar role. He hit .301 that season with
"In Texas, I started in Triple A and I showed them I could still play the game," he said.
Chavez played 54 games with the Mariners in 2009 before his season came to an abrupt end when Yuniesky Betancourt plowed him over on a blooper at Safeco Field, tearing Chavez's ACL.
"The knee is good," he said."It took almost two years, but I did it."


text:
Two New Tupac Tracks Surface — Dissing Diddy, Biggie, Nas & Others
When Tupac Shakur died in 1996, he left behind so much unreleased material that new songs continue to pop-up even 15 years after his death.
While many posthumous Pac tracks were uplifting, such as "Changes" and "Til the End of Time," two new tracks hit the Internet this week, showing the rapper's other side, in which he disses his adversaries.
On the tracks, "NY 87" and "Watch Yo Mouth," Pac takes aim at several east coast rappers.
While "Watch Yo Mouth" is being called a new track, it surfaced online two years ago (according to MTV), but the new version boasts an alternative beat. On it, Tupac goes hard at the legendary Dr. Dre.
"He ain't made a beat in six years, swear he the sh** / Won't get no record sales suckin' Nas' d***."
Later, he throws shots at Nas, as well as De La Soul, Wendy Williams, Diddy and the Notorious B.I.G. Despite the lyrical insults, Pac downplays the much-hyped East Coast/ West Coast beef of the mid-1990s by chanting, "For my n****s on the east side" throughout the song.
Tupac - "Watch Yo Mouth"
On "NY 87", Pac gets help from The Dogg Pound (Daz and Kurupt) and Threat; and DJ Quik kicks things off with a monologue, stating: "Them n****s on the East is the enemy." Kurupt and Daz take the first two verses, and on the last verse, Pac doesn't drop any names.
Instead, he spits: "Move motherf***ers 'til they feel me / It's West Coast n****, f*** New York, now did everybody hear me?"
Tupac ft. Dogg Pound & Threat - "NY 87"
Both songs seem to have been recording during Pac's Death Row days in 1996, at the height of his feud with Diddy's Bad Boy record label, the Notorious B.I.G., and other New York artists.
Why these tracks were released now is still unknown.


text:
ScorecardĀ| Images from day 2
Virender Sehwag's brilliant batting gave India the advantage after they restricted South Africa to 305 in the first innings on day two of the second Test at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Monday.
At close of play, India were 129 for the loss of opener Gautam Gambhir's wicket.
Sehwag, 82, looked set to reach his ninth Test century. Rahul Dravid was unbeaten on a solid 33.
Earlier, the Indian bowlers shared the spoils in the morning session and took wickets at regular intervals to make short work of the South African innings.
Zaheer Khan and Irfan Pathan claimed three wickets each, Harbhajan Singh two while Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble claimed one each.
Morning session:
The day did not start well for South Africa. The visitors lost the wicket of Zander De Bruyn after just three runs were added to the overnight total of 227.
The cool morning resulted in some moisture in the air and Zaheer Khan exploited it to the maximum by getting De Bruyn (15) to edge one to wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik, who claimed his fourth catch of the innings. (230 for 6)
South Africa's approach to batting hasn't done them any favours. When you score at a slow pace you are always in the danger of capitulating quickly with too little on board. In India, wickets tend to fall in a heap or not at all.
South Africa's run-rate at this point was 2.57. With six batsmen back in the pavilion, one hoped that Kallis would start playing a few strokes.
But that didn't happen. Instead, what did happen was that Sourav Ganguly introduced himself back into the attack. It was an inspired move, though at that point one did not think so.
Kallis and Shaun Pollock, the new batsman, played out a few overs -- 15 to be precise. They put on exactly 31 runs, played a few strokes but did nothing to force the Indians to do anything different.
Then, Ganguly, who till this point was content bowling out-swingers, bowled a beauty to Kallis to get his wicket. The ball pitched way outside the off-stump and swung in. Kallis shouldered arms and the ball did enough to clip the top of middle stump. (261 for 7)
The ball was a beauty and there is no denying that, but Ganguly was helped by the defensive approach. If Kallis had played shots, he might have got around 30-odd runs more, but he was gone for 121 after facing 259 balls and spending what seemed an eternity at the crease.
The partnership was worth 31 but the South Africans were now in danger of handing the match on a platter to the Indians.
Pollock was joined by Justin Ontong, a player who started out as a batsman but is now an erratic leg-spinner.
Five overs after Kallis's dismissal, Pollock was gone as well and South Africa were tottering. Anil Kumble got his first wicket of the match, the 432nd of his career, and went past Richard Hadlee in the all-time wicket-takers' list.
The ball in question jumped and bounced on Pollock, who could do little but fend at it. The resultant edge went straight to Rahul Dravid, who made no mistake. (273 for 8)
Thami Tsolekile, the South African wicketkeeper, strode out to the wicket. The best South Africa wasĀhoping for on day 2Āwas scoring 350 and then getting some quick wickets.
Ontong (16) and Tsolekile (3) played sensibly till the umpires called lunch after 111 overs were bowled in the innings. The visitors had reached 289 for 8.
The innings could have well been over had Karthik held on to two catches off Kumble in the overs before lunch. The young 'keeper has looked at home against the pacemen but his keeping to the spinners is a different matter altogether.
Ganguly bowled a brilliant spell and ended the session with figures of 9-3-14-1.
India dominated the first session. Zaheer,ĀGanguly andĀKumble claimed a wicket each to put India in the driver's seat.
Post-lunch session
It took only six balls from Harbhajan Singh after lunch to end the South African resistance. The off-spinner was kept out of the attack throughout the morning session because of the regular fall of wickets to the other bowlers, but he got his chance and wasted no time in getting into the thick of action.
Tsolekile (15 off 53 balls) lobbed the first ball, a full-toss, straight back to Harbhajan, who completed an easy caught and bowled dismissal. (305 for 9)
Mahkaya Ntini (0) defended one ball before he played a typical tail-ender's shot to the mid-off region, where Pathan took a good catch over his head. South Africa were all out for 305.
Ontong was not out on 16.
South Africa were well short of their intended target of around 400, which gives India a chance to put together a good first innings total and take the match by the scruff of its neck.
India innings
With only 305 runs on the board, Graeme Smith knew he had to attack and get as many Indian wickets with the new ball. And if one of those dismissed happened to be Virender Sehwag it would be a huge bonus.
With three slips and a gully, Smith certainly had the right intentions and he got an early reward for positive thinking when Gautam Gambhir, who scored 96 in the last Test, was dismissed byĀPollock in the seventh over of the innings.
Gambhir (7 off 22 balls) goesĀacross his stumps a lot and that makes him a prime candidate for a leg-before decision. That's exactly the weakness Pollock exploited and trapped the left-hander in front. (17 for 1)
Dravid walked in and from ball one looked more positive than he has inĀa very long time. Sehwag, at the other end, was content to wait for the bad ball, and when he did get itĀmade sure he got the maximum.
Another plus for India is that as long as Sehwag is at the wicket, the run-rate is never a problem.
At tea, after 14 overs India had reached 48 for 1, with Sehwag unbeaten on 26 off 41 and Dravid on 10 off 22.
Post-tea session
The Indians consolidated after tea as Sehwag and Dravid were content biding their time at the wicket and allowing the bowlers tire themselves. But soon they launched into a fierce counter-attack that left all those watching gasping for breath.
The first 17 overs of the session saw nothing extraordinary happen as the batsmen scored only 37 runs during that period. Sehwag reached his eighth fifty in Test cricket and his first at the Eden Gardens, off 79 balls.
Then the run-rate of the innings, which had been steadily dropping, shot up in the space of four overs.
It all started in oneĀOntong over. A huge appeal for leg before wicket, off the second ball, against Sehwag was turned down by the umpire. That provided a spark in Sehwag. The next ball was smashed through the covers for four; the ball after that was a full-toss and was hit over the mid-wicket boundary for a six; the fifth ball was short and pulled to the mid-wicket boundary for another four.
The South African skipper got together with his bowler and tried to formulate a strategy to keep Sehwag quiet for the last ball of the over. Ontong came round the wicket and pitched the ball outside the leg-stump. Sehwag was expecting it and reverse-swept to the backward point boundary. This was what people had come to watch at the Eden Gardens.
21 runs were scored off the next three overs. The first 17 yielded 37, but 40 runs came in super-quick time in the next four overs.
It was the perfect session for India and watching Sehwag on fire seemed to inspire Dravid as well. The India vice-captain came out of his shell and played a few shots.
Play ended early again due to bad light. The umpires offered the light to the batsmen, who, after a 112-run partnership for the second wicket, had no hesitation in accepting the offer.
Sehwag was unbeaten on 82 off 107 balls, including 11 boundaries and a six, while Dravid was not out on a patient 33 off 106 balls.
At close of play, India trail by 176 runs and will be looking to hammer in the advantage on day three. For that to happen, Sehwag will need to stay in the middle for as long as possible, because right now no one seems to have an answer to his brilliance.


text:
Two candidates will fight to fill a vacant district council seat.
A by-election was called in South Kesteven District Council's Aveland ward, which covers the Rippingale and Aslackby area, after Debbie Wren resigned earlier this year. Voters will go to the polls on Thursday, March 13, to fill the seat.
Two candidates are standing for election. John Morgan, of Harrowby Road, Grantham, is the Labour Party's choice, while Peter Moseley, of East Street, Rippingale, will stand for the Conservatives.
Votes will be taken between 7am and 10pm at the following polling stations:
- The Church of St James the Great, Aveland Way, Aslackby
- Dowsby Village Hall, 23 Main Road, Dowsby
- Dunsby Village Hall, The Cross, Dunsby
- Kirkby Underwood Village Hall, The Green, Kirkby Underwood
- Pointon Village Hall, Millthorpe Road, Pointon
- Rippingale Village Hall, Station Street, Rippingale
People can apply for a postal vote until 5pm on Wednesday next week or a proxy vote until 5pm on March 5.
Anyone who is not registered to vote must do so by Tuesday in order to be eligible.
Application forms can be obtained from the council's electoral services department or online at www.aboutmyvote.co.uk.
Further information on 01476 406080 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text:
The Society for the Advancement of Consulting® has asked its global members to comment on how best to terminate employees, a leadership accountability which can't always be avoided. "We are a global association of top consultants," notes SAC CEO Alan Weiss, PhD. "and we regularly ask our clients and our members what they are seeing. Here's a representative sample."
Best Approaches to Rumors in the Workplace
"Rumors in the workplace aren't going away anytime soon," notes Roberta Matuson, President of Northampton, MA based Matuson Consulting and author of Suddenly in Charge. "It's best to address these issues head on before the rumors spread like wildfire." Matuson suggests you consider the following when dealing with rumors in the workplace.
- Do your best to locate the source of the rumor. Then have a private conversation and explain how these rumors are impacting both the workplace and the reputation of the people who are spreading them.
- People make assumptions and rumors begin when people feel they don't have enough information. Bump up the frequency of your communications, which should significantly reduce the rumors flying around your organization.
- Eliminate the gossipers. Sometimes in organizations there are people who make it their life mission to start and fuel gossip. If people like this reside in your workplace, then you know what you have to do. Show them the door.
Dr. Brusman notes: "In today's world, individuals can make a single decision that can have a profoundly positive or negative effect on their family, their employer, coworkers, a nation, and even on the entire world. The life we lead reflects the strength of a single trait: our personal character. Personal ethics are different for each person but for the most part, people want to be known as a good person, someone who can be trusted. Most people are concerned about their relationships and personal reputations."'
According to Dr. Brusman, "When a person hears gossip about someone else, whether they personally know that person or not, they form an image of the person in their mind. This damages the talked about person's reputation. If the listener were to hear something else about the person or meet them, the gossip almost always comes back to mind. Gossip consumes society. Just think about all the stories that you read on the internet. Many of the stories are simply not true. Society balances itself through the honest exchange of ideas, but when exaggeration, misrepresentation, slander, and misuse of the internet come into play, gossip becomes a malicious exchange. Is there a time in your life when someone had gossiped or spread rumors about you? How did you feel when that happened? After that, would you then gossip or talk about someone else? As a society we need to stop unethical gossip. None of us need or deserve judgment."


text:
Articles related to your search:
Three Reasons to Install Shade Sails
Shade sails have one obvious function- to provide shade. But their benefits go beyond that.Read more
Choosing Exterior Shutters for Your Home
Adding shutters to your home is a great way to increase value, security, privacy, and curb appeal. They're stylish and low maintenance, and there are plenty to choose from. The two main types of exterior shutters are plantation shutters and roller shutters.Read more


text:
|Reference : Study of bendability of steel sheets
|Scientific journals : Article
|Engineering, computing & technology : Materials science & engineering
|Study of bendability of steel sheets
|Ben Bettaieb, Mohamed [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F >]
|Lemoine, Xavier [ > > ]
|Duchene, Laurent [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F > Département Argenco : Secteur MS2F >]
|Habraken, Anne [Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Département ArGEnCo >]
|Steel Research International
|Verlag Stahleisen GmbH
|[en] bendability ; Gurson law ; semi-analytical model ; LIMARC
|[en] In the present contribution bending tests are modeled and the bendability of steel sheets is evaluated. Bendability refers to the ratio of the minimum bend radius to the initial sheet thickness at which the bending proc-ess is successfully accomplished [1]. The metallurgic microstructure of the studied sheet consists in two principal phases: a fully dense matrix (which may be itself composed by several metallurgic phases) and spherical voids. For that purpose, the Gurson Tvergaard Needleman law ([2], [3], [4]) is used and significantly modified. The behavior of the fully dense matrix is de-fined by the anisotropic Hill 48 function and the Swift hardening law. The width of the sheet is assumed to be large enough to neglect the transversal strains and the stress component in the thickness direction is also neglected. The bending operation can thus be modelled by a plane strain-plane stress loading. The influence of mechanical pa-rameters such as the initial porosity, the Lankford coefficient and the strain harden-ing exponent on the bendability is studied herein. The failure here is defined by the onset coalescence of neighbour voids and is checked by using Thomason [5], Pardoen [6] and Brunet [7] coalescence models. So the influence of other phenomena (like the shear band development and the localized necking) on the bendability is neglected here.
|File(s) associated to this reference
Fulltext file(s):
All documents in ORBi are protected by a user license.


text:
STUDENTS at a Dearne secondary school pulled out their best disco moves to raise money for a local charity.
Pupils at Saint Pius X Catholic High School in Wath-upon-Dearne managed to raise £150 for Rotherham Hospice through their performance of Disco Inferno last week.
Year 10 student, Fraser Mycroft, helped to organise the show and donated the money in memory of his grandmother Lyn, who died at the hospice a few weeks ago.
A spokeswoman at the school said: "Lyn always helped Fraser learning his lines for productions he was performing in. Unfortunately Lyn passed away in the hospice a few weeks before she had chance to see Fraser perform in Disco Inferno. Fraser thought it would be a nice gesture to donate the money to Rotherham Hospice."


text:
Coconut cherry chocolate ice cream
If you like it, save it!
Save and organize all of the stuff you love in one place.Got it!
If you like something…
Click the heart, it's called favoriting. Favorite the stuff you like.Got it!
Author Notes: A dream of an ice cream. Don`t share it. Cause you are worth every single to last scoop of this vegan coconutty goodness. It`s ok to be greedy once in a while. —goodgalsasha
Serves 3
- 250 milliliters full-fat coconut milk
- 250 milliliters coconut cream
- 200 grams sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 3 teaspoons tapioca starch
- 200 grams pitted cherries
- 3 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon rose water
- 80 grams dark chocolate
- For the ice cream dissolve the tapioca starch in the coconut milk, leave to rest.
- Combine the coconut cream and 100gr sugar in a saucepan and simmer on medium just until boiling. Add the starchy coconut milk mixture and cook on medium stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from heat, cool to room temperature, transfer to a jug and chill in the fridge overnight.
- For the candied cherries combine the pitted cherries, 100g sugar, 30ml water, the lemon juice and the rose water in a saucepan and cook over medium heat for 10-12 minutes. Remove from the heat, cool and save for later.
- Freeze the ice cream in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. At the very last minute of churning fold in the melted 70% dark chocolate in a thin stream. When the chocolate flecks seize up, fold in the cherries, stop the machine and transfer into an airtight container and store in the freezer at least 5 hours until set.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Vegan Recipe
More Great Recipes:
Chocolate|Fruit|Ice Cream & Frozen Desserts|Cherries


text:
Give real life examples of a monopoly, perfect competition, oligopoly, monopolistic competition and duopoly in India.
- print Print
- list Cite
That's quite a question you've got there!
Okay, here we go, in relation to India:
OLIGOPOLY: A situation where there are only a few sellers in a particular economy who control a particular commodity. They can, therefore, influence prices and affect the competition. In India, an example of this would be mobile telephony - There are only a few operators, examples of which are: Airtel, Idea, BSNL, Reliance
PERFECT COMPETITION: This is an economic situation that really doesn't exist, in which a bunch of conditions are met, not the least of which are free entry and exit from a market, tons of sellers selling the exact same product, and tons of buyers for that product who have perfect knowledge of what it does and how it works. An Indian fish market might be an example of something close to this (though real "perfect competition" doesn't really exist.) At the fist market, lots of sellers gather together to try to sell the same wares, and lots of customers try to buy them with a good knowledge of what they are buying. There is little to prevent someone from joining in on the selling or quitting the market altogether.
DUOPOLY: A market in which two giant brands control most of the product being sold and therefore have a great amount of influence over the factors involved in the selling. This is the one I can't give you a great example of in relation to India...I just can't think of one that is specifically "Indian." Some examples would be Visa & Mastercard and Reuters & Associated Press and International news agencies.
MONOPOLY: A market dominated by one seller. The cable company is an example of this in India (sort of like it is in America.) The cable company in India, facing no competition, is notorious for poor quality and poor service.
MONOPOLISTIC COMPETITION: Here, there are lots of sellers selling similar products that don't differ a whole lot in terms of characteristics or price. Think breakfast cereals. In India, an example of this is the banking system. After financial sector reforms in 1992, the banking system in India has become much more competitive with lots more banks offering similar products at similar prices.
I hope that these examples help you in your research or class!
Perfect competition is a concept used to explain some economic concepts, but it does not exist in real life anywhere. What does exits is a near perfect competition. Monopoly is, in a way, the opposite of perfect condition, in which a single firm or supplier has complete control over market prices and supplies. Oligiopoly is some thing in between perfect competition, where a few suppliers have some control over the market prices and supplies. However. this control is not complete control as enjoyed by monopolies.
I am not aware of a concept like "diopoly". Perhaps, it should have been spelt as duopoly, which refers to a special case of oligopoly with exactly two dominant suppliers in a market.
I am giving below examples of each of these types of market structures.
Situations like perfect market exists for markets for most of unbranded staple goods such as food grain and vegetables. However it should be noted that there is a trend of branding more and more of such goods also, and in this ways making their markets become more and more like oligopolistic markets.
Oligopolistic markets are most common form of markets we get to see today. One of the most fierce oligopolistic competition exists in the automobile industry across the world.
Duopolistic market with exactly two suppliers is not very common. However, there are number of products that have two dominant suppliers plus a few smaller ones. For example, in aerated soft drinks market, Coca Cola and Pepsi represent two dominant suppliers in many countries.
True Monopoly generally exist only in government controlled markets. For example provision of civic services such as sewage disposal is generally monopoly of local self government bodies such as municipal corporations. Railways is a government monopoly in India.
Monopoly in private business are rather rare, and even then they only approach monopolistic power bur are not perfect monopolies. As a matter of fact governments in many countries have special provisions to control monopolistic operation. For example, Microsoft which is considered a monopoly for operating system and some other software for personal computers is facing many litigation on the charge of following monopolistic practices.
Some times very small businesses are also able to enjoy monopolistic power because of their location and reputation. A hair stylist or fashion designer may enjoy such high reputation that many rich and the famous insist on using his or services. Also, a retail store with no other store in vicinity may enjoy a monopolistic advantage in that locality.
A monopoly is a market structure in which there is only one producer/seller for a product. In other words, the single business is the industry. Entry into such a market is restricted due to high costs or other impediments, which may be economic, social or political. For instance, a government can create a monopoly over an industry that it wants to control, such as electricity. Another reason for the barriers against entry into a monopolistic industry is that oftentimes, one entity has the exclusive rights to a natural resource. For example, in Saudi Arabia the government has sole control over the oil industry. A monopoly may also form when a company has a copyright or patent that prevents others from entering the market. Pfizer, for instance, had a patent on Viagra.
In an oligopoly, there are only a few firms that make up an industry. This select group of firms has control over the price and, like a monopoly, an oligopoly has high barriers to entry. The products that the oligopolistic firms produce are often nearly identical and, therefore, the companies, which are competing for market share, are interdependent as a result of market forces. Assume, for example, that an economy needs only 100 widgets. Company X produces 50 widgets and its competitor, Company Y, produces the other 50. The prices of the two brands will be interdependent and, therefore, similar. So, if Company X starts selling the widgets at a lower price, it will get a greater market share, thereby forcing Company Y to lower its prices as well.
There are two extreme forms of market structure: monopoly and, its opposite, perfect competition. Perfect competition is characterized by many buyers and sellers, many products that are similar in nature and, as a result, many substitutes. Perfect competition means there are few, if any, barriers to entry for new companies, and prices are determined by supply and demand. Thus, producers in a perfectly competitive market are subject to the prices determined by the market and do not have any leverage. For example, in a perfectly competitive market, should a single firm decide to increase its selling price of a good, the consumers can just turn to the nearest competitor for a better price, causing any firm that increases its prices to lose market share and profits.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Compare_monopoly_monopolistic_competition_perfect_competition_and_oligopoly#ixzz1dCUSUmyW
Monopoly: A single seller-large no of buyers, There is no alternate product.
Ex: Indian railways.
Duopoly: Two sellers shares the maximum market share
Ex: Pepsico and Coco-cola
Monopolistic: Exactly Opposite to monopoly. no of sellers produces a similar product.
Ex: Juice points, Hotels, Rice (Chawal) etc.
Perfect compitation: If large no of buyers, and large no of sellers present in a particular market area then it is called as perfect compitation.
Ex: We can see large no of sellers in a vegitable market. no of buyers come to the market and selects things whar ever they want.
Oligopoly: it is a market situation where the sellers command the over all industry to increse the product price ect. in oligopoly situatiuon the sellers produces an identical product like same features with same inputs.
Ex: Mobile networks like airtel, vodafone, Docomo ect.
Ex: Cement companies like: Jaypee, Birla cement, Nagarjuna cement ect are the identical product manufactured by producers. All the producers come together to take a decision about price of the product, and about the subsidaries from govt.
According to Milton Friedman, some kind of government subsidy is necessary for a product or service to maintain its monopoly position.
see Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman
This book has had several editions. I think I read the 1981 edition.
Oligopoly: Very few sellers controlling the Market like cell phone and credit card compaines
Monopoly competition: Many sellers selling similar products like Tea and coffee.
Duopoly: Only Two companies controls most of the market. These are the major market structure that are feasible in any economy. India has mixed economy system where the monopoly and perfect competition has limited existence.
Monopoly: Not present in real terms, but if you see one geography there could be many examples as TATA steel in jamshedpur belt.
Btw Indian railways is an example of monopoly
Oligopoly: Soft drink, Pepsi vs Coke
Perfect Competition: aviation, all are free and almost equal.
Monopolistic competition: Credit card companies
Duopoly: Petroleum: HPCL and BPCl
KFC,fish market,kfc,automobile industry,pepsi and coco-cola


text:
Perfect for social media campaigns and blogs. Web photos (up to .5 MP). 1 Seat.
Learn More
Build a high res library or promote your brand. Up to Large (2.5-4.5 MP). 5 Seats.
Learn More
Get more high res photos and more. Up to Large (2.5-4.5 MP). 25 Seats.
Learn More
willow tree, pond, plant, willow, tree, lake, woody plant, pool
willow tree by the pond


text:
Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
Purchase Benefits
What is included with this book?
|Introduction: How Real Is History?
|p. 1
|The End of the World: How Rome Fell - And Why
|p. 9
|What Was Lost: The Complexities of the Classical Tradition
|p. 33
|A Shifting World of Darkness: Unholy Ireland
|p. 69
|Good News from Far Off: The First Missionary
|p. 99
|A Solid World of Light: Holy Ireland
|p. 121
|What Was Found: How the Irish Saved Civilization
|p. 145
|The End of the World: Is There Any Hope?
|p. 197
|Pronunciation Guide to Key Irish Words
|p. 219
|Bibliographical Sources
|p. 221
|p. 231
|p. 235
|p. 239
|Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.
Excerpted from How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill
All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.


text:
LITTLE Adam Stamper urged his gran to get in touch with the Mail to tell park visitors about a tree he thinks looks like a dog!
Jacqueline Renwick contacted us after she, her grandson and her husband Keith Renwick, thought they were going barking mad when they believed a dog was staring at them from behind a tree in ward Jackson Park, in Hartlepool.
But on further inspection they were surprised to find that what they thought was a canine in the bushes was actually a chopped down tree.
The trio wanted to highlight the dog-shaped stump so other visitors to the park can see if they think it looks like a dog too.
Jacqueline, 64, a retired adult education lecturer, said: "It really looks like a dog but it's actually a bit of tree that's been cut right down.
"It's quite uncanny."
Jacqueline and Keith, 69, a retired machine operative, have taken Adam to the town park since he was a baby.
And since the Wingate Primary School pupil could walk he has always loved to collect sticks and hide them behind a tree near to the clock tower.
Now when they take Adam to the park after school, it is a family ritual that they go and see "the dog", or if Jacqueline and Keith go for a stroll in the park by themselves, their grandson always asks them if the dog was there.
Jacqueline, who lives in Clavering, Hartlepool, said: "My little grandson loves to hide sticks and he always hid them behind the same tree when we used to look after him.
"Now we just take him when we pick him up from school.
"Anyway, we started to call this tree Adam's Tree. There's a triangle patch where there's some flowers near to the clock tower and it's just there.
"One day we thought there was a dog behind it but it is actually another tree which has been cut down.
"It's just staring at you and when you get closer you can see it's just a tree.
"Now when we go Adam always says let's see if the dog's there."
l ARE there any other objects or landmarks in Hartlepool which you think look like something else? If so contact our newsdesk on (01429) 239326.


text:
sigma lens? I was looking for an 18-200mm lens for my Sony A100k at Ritz camera and they said the quantaray is made by Sigma so it's the same thing. Hmmm...whaddaya think? Thanks for any info!
I worked for Wolf Camera, same thing as Ritz Camera, and they told me that Tarmon makes Quantary lenses.
Originally Posted by pagnamenta
I worked for Wolf Camera, same thing as Ritz Camera, and they told me that Tarmon makes Quantary lenses.
It is a TAMRON lens.
This image is linked to the Ritz Camera web-site
for the Quantaray-version
THis image is linked to the B&H Photography website for the TAMRON original
Knowing this, it makes you wonder if the 6-year warranty is available from Quantaray? I know Ritz is trying to sell extended warranties on the lens. You wouldn't need one if you bought it as a straight TAMRON ... you'd have your 6-year mfr. warranty. The price looks right about the same range, too. I don't know who is fooling who, but this does not look like any bargain.
Weird thing about these images ... the top image is of the 18-200mm for a Canon-mount, the bottom image is the correct 18-200 for the SONY, although both are suppose to be SONY mounts. You can tell by the location of the red alignment dot. On a SONY mount, the red dot is about half-an-inch further to the left as you look at it, bottom to top.
Last edited by DonSchap; 03-11-2007 at 07:54 PM.
Don Schap - BFA, Digital Photography
A Photographer Is Forever
Look, I did not create the optical laws of the Universe ... I simply learned to deal with them.
Remember: It is usually the GLASS, not the camera (except for moving to Full Frame), that gives you the most improvement in your photography.
flickr® & Sdi
Don, but I can't see your images. I don't know why they never come up
So are you saying Quantaray does not offer the 6 yr. warranty only Tamron does?
Well, it would appear that way. Obviously, that may be the Quantaray (grey market) solution for $30 less.
If you were going to buy the lens, I suggest getting a real TAMRON version, which guarantees the 6-year warranty (everything being the same, of course).
Last edited by DonSchap; 03-11-2007 at 07:55 PM.
There is some kind of warranty issue that needs to be resolved before I'd invest in anything other than TAMRON lensing.
Don's absolutely right; the Tamron offers a six year warranty whereas the Quantary, the exact same lens, does not. You can buy the Quantary from Wolf/Ritz for a little cheaper because it's their own brand, but their warranty for the equivalent 6 years will be a lot more, maybe $150+, though they'll cover anything that happens to it.
Forum Rules


text:
By Kate Johnson; Peninsula Press
Stanford's stem cell scientists still have boxes to unpack, but they already seem at home in the nation's largest stem cell research center, built at a cost of $200 million.
"Now that we're all here, collaboration is much easier," said Dr. Mark Chao, a cancer stem cell biologist and Stanford medical student. Continue Reading >>
Follow the Peninsula Press on Facebook and Twitter


text:
Having problems with your Hoover Vacuums ?
How do i open up or disassemble the hoover hero 1600
\015 The machine was fine for 3-4 years but then it suddenly wouldnt turn on.It could have been due to yanking on the cord to hard, but I cant see how to pull the xx thing apart.\015
Answers :
Go to www.hoover.com then to customer support and go to instructional video.
God bless you
God bless you
Repair Help & Product Troubleshooting for Hoover Vacuums
Tips for a great answer:- Provide details, support with references or personal experience .
- If you need clarification, ask it in the comment box .
- It's 100% free, no registration required.
Suggested Questions/Answers :
How do i open up or disassemble the hoover hero 1600
Go to www.hoover.com then to customer support and go to instructional video.God bless you ... Hoover Vacuums
Hetty hoover not working. It was working ok until I opened it up to search the bag for a missing jigsaw piece and I put it all back and I hoovered the mess on the floor, then switched off and switched on and hoover would not work? Is there a cut off button on Hetty hoovers?
Know cut off switch, its just not getting power ? 2 things its ether at the wall plug or in side the unit. I have never found a fuse in side them , so it may be just a lose wire did you try other plugs in the house . good luck DFD ... Henry Numatic "" Canister Vacuum
How do I disassemble a Hoover S3825 Elite Cyclonic Vacuum
... Vacuums
Hoover Mach 6 U5198-900 vacuum roller brush won't turn. I had opened the bottom to clean hair off the roller. the belts are not broken. When I closed it and turned it on, now the roller brush won't turn. I can push and turn it by hand, but not easily. Then I noticed the brush on/off switch is turned off, but when I step on it, it won't turn on. I was thinking I let something get out of place when I opened the bottom, but can't see what.
... Hoover Tempo Widepath Upright Vacuum - Blue
Disassemble hoover savvy - Hoover U8145-900 Savvy Bagless Upright Cyclonic Vacuum
... Hoover U8145-900 Savvy Bagless Upright Cyclonic Vacuum
Vacuum will not pick up dirt. plate in hose stays shut. It has a spring that goes to the plate assemily but will not open. What make it open and close. U6616-900 Hoover Vac Alex
Sounds like you have a valve arm not operating properly. The valve door sould spring open when you lower the handle and will shut when the handle is raised and pushes down on the rear valve arm. See a parts diagram and look at parts 39-41 and 19. ... Hoover U6616-900 WindTunnel Bagless Upright Vacuum
How can I open hoover telios 1700 - Hoover Telios Canister Vac Vacuum
... Hoover Telios Canister Vac Vacuum
I just bought a Samsonite "Freeminder Flex" backpack with handle. My issue is with the lock... The combination for this lock was set to open at 0-0-0. It opened and locked perfectly at first. But after following the instruction to set up the new combination code, it doesnt lock anymore....please help and thanks! Linda
... Vacuums
My Electrolux Regency Series upright vacuum brush motor does not activate. Cleaned the brush and press reset to no avail. Opened handle switch assembly and checked each wire attached to all three switch settings. Tried disassembling brush assembly but could not pry open after removing all screws.
... Electrolux Vacuums
Disassemble hoover sh40060 multi cyclonic - Hoover SH40060 Bagless Canister Vacuum
... Hoover SH40060 Bagless Canister Vacuum
Hoover Telios TC3202 200W Cord Rewind is jammed - cannot see how to open body of vacuum to look at the source of the problem. Found 4 screws but that did not help - guess you have to prise something open but cannot see where or how.
There are many models of the Hoover Telios. This solution applies to the T5603 at least, but perhaps not to all models... sorry, I don't know about the others. \015\012Anyway, this is it. The cover is held to the b ... Vacuums
Hoover RepairGood Day. I have a hoover HWD 020. It seems that the on/off switch broke, but I don't know how to open the space ship looking lid to get to the switch. Any idea?
... Vacuums
Hoover pops open
... Miele S5281 Callisto Bagged Canister Vacuum
Hoover steamvac trigger valve is stuck open. water
... Hoover U8147-900 WindTunnel V2 Bagless Upright Cyclonic Vacuum
How do you open hoover s3639???????
Take out all the tools out of the tools compartment. The screws are "hiding" under the tools. ... Hoover S3639 WindTunnel Bagged Canister Vacuum
How to open a goblin rio hoover to change bag
... Vacuums
How to open the hoover DM4526 to change the belt
There are normaly5screws 3in the front 2in the back remove these and the bottom should come off pull the brudh off repace belt on to brush put brush back in to seating pull brush on to drive and re,asemble ... Vacuums
Hoover Model S3281, disassembly instructions
GET TO THE REEL AS FOLLOWS:\015\012 \015\012(BEFORE YOU START, BE SURE TO UNPLUG THE DIMENSION FROM THE OUTLET)\015\012 \015\0121). TURN VACUUM OVER ... Vacuums
How do I get to the cord retractor open on hoover windtunnel 2
... Hoover Vacuums
Hoover u8173-900 think motor is bad but how to disassemble
Is this a Savvy? If so your problem may be in the handle switch asm or one of the circuit boards. The switch is really a problem, but they have come out a hopefully a better one. If it is the motor, take it aprt, you can check it with an ohm-meter ... Hoover F7220900 SteamVac V2 Upright Vacuum
Need instruction to disassemble Hoover F7425-900
... Hoover F7425-900 SteamVac V2 Widepath Upright Vacuum
Floor Mate Need to find REPAIR, not owners manual for hoover floormate spinscrub 810 for disassembly instructions
There is a black shaft with a black circular arm at a right angle to the shaft. The black plastic arm that sticks out of the front ( farthest away from the hinge) of the roller assembly plugs into the circular arm so that moving the scrub/vacuum slid ... Hoover Floormate H3000 Upright Wet/Dry Vacuum
Hoover Flair S2220 cleaner w/power nozzle disassembly instructions
With the head flipped upside down, take a flat tipped screw driver and carefully pry up the rollers on the front the head. Underneath, you'll find a screw. Remove the screw under each roller, and the front cover will come off with ease. The roller ... Hoover U8185-900 Upright Vacuum
How do you open a hoover steamvac agility to change the lower hose assembly?
Ok. you will need a screwdriver phillips and a pair of ****. this is going to take about an hour. first take off the tanks, nexted on one side of the machine you will see i believe its 8 to 10 screws. (you don't need to take apart the handle) once yo ... Hoover SteamVac Carpet/Upholstery Deep Cleaner Vacuum
How do i open my hoover u5131900 to replace the belt
On the bottom, turn screw-like objects and it will pull apart ... Vacuums


text:
If anyone needed a reminder that violence in soccer stadiums remains a problem in Italy then Wednesday's game between AS Roma and Dynamo Kiev provided it.
The question is whether this latest incident will finally lead to any action from authorities who have so far proven incapable of tackling the problem.
The Champions League match at the Olympic stadium was abandoned after Swedish referee Anders Frisk was struck on the head by a missile thrown by a fan and had to receive medical treatment for his bleeding wound.
'Disgrace in Rome' was the headline in the daily Gazzetta dello Sport the following day and, as is customary after nights when football is marred by violence, pundits are pondering the reasons why Italian football continues to be blighted by hooliganism.
They do not need to spend too much time agonising for the answer is remarkably simple -- no one keeps order in football grounds in Italy.
While serious clashes between rival fans inside or outside stadiums remain relatively rare, the throwing of objects onto the pitch or into other areas of the stadium has gradually become the dangerous norm.
Last season's decisive end of season game between Milan and Roma was ruined by the antics of visiting Roma supporters who hurled all manner of objects down towards the Milan players.
Milan's goalkeeper Dida, who should have been enjoying sealing his first 'scudetto', had to keep goal while missiles rained down on him from the stand behind his goal. Twice he had to receive treatment after powerful firecrackers exploded near him.
The choreographed firework displays put on by the hardcore 'ultras' before games are seen as part of the build-up to big derbies and do indeed add to the atmosphere, but too often the flames are used not to entertain but to maim.
Outside every stadium in Italy is a sign which declares that along with knifes and guns, coins and cigarette lighters, fireworks and small explosives are not allowed.
Yet every week, in almost every stadium, these potentially damaging weapons are indeed brought into the stands and frequently lobbed into the areas occupied by rival supporters.
Either the fans are simply not checked on entry or a blind eye is turned to the pyrotechnics.
While you cannot take a canned drink into English stadiums, in May 2001 Inter Milan fans were able to take a stolen moped into the San Siro before setting it alight and hurling it from the second tier.
The moped incident not only illustrates the laxness of security checks on entry, it also shows that there is little in the way of preventative action taken inside stadiums.
When crowd trouble begins the police stand by in a corner, afraid to enter the territory of the 'ultras', while stewards who can barely be bothered to check people's tickets are hardly going to take on a public order role.
Laws have been passed to make it easier to arrest fans after matches on the basis of video evidence, but closed circuit cameras are not used at all grounds and the police are usually as ineffective in chasing up hooligans after the event as they are in trying to stop them at the time.
The number of arrests after serious incidents is almost always tiny -- fans know there is a good chance that if they misbehave they will get away with it.
The lack of coordination between club and stadium officials and law and order agencies was vividly illustrated last season when the Rome derby was abandoned following a false rumour that a young Roma fan had died.
Roma fans were allowed to come on to the edge of the pitch to talk to players and the final decision to call the game off, which prompted a riot, came not from an official in the stadium but from the Football League president, who was sitting at the other end of the country watching on television.
Why people turn to violence is a question that sociologists and psychologists have long been disputing but what matters for people in football is how to ensure it stays outside of their game.
Proper policing, well-organised stewarding and the firm application of the law are hardly imaginative or radical solutions but the Italians might want to consider giving them a try.


text:
Dear Serverroomcooling,
Regarding your previous post:
now way....not starting with the operation heat load again....that's a real dead end.....what I am doing is putting in a challanger that can pump out from 3-5 tons so I can adjust it is I find I really need 3.5 tons. Right now, I have been told that I am getting 1.5 net tons because of the load, out of the full 3 ton trane.....I can't go and demand heat load tests again, it just won't be fun, and I don't have the time
First, Im not sure who you are addressing with your posted not starting with the operational heat load again , but if it were me, then I would state that you have yet to determine your heat load based on what you have already posted my friend.
Second, you wont be able to adjust the new system for 3, 4, or even 5 tons because if the system is equipped with hot gas bypass (DBV), then it does so automatically based on its commissioned setting.
Third, who told you were only getting 1.5 net tons from your 3 ton system? This is the first time you have posted this my friend. How did they obtain this information, quantified analyses of the systems operating readings, or just by guessing? This type of quantified statement would require a complete set of operational readings, which has NEVER been performed as far has we here can tell, to be accuarte.
Respectfully Submitted,
John J. Dalton


text:
Classroom attendance sheets, documents and reports may present an information security risk if they contain certain personally identifiable information. State law requires government agencies and data collectors to keep personal information confidential.
Security Policy When Using Documents and Excel Worksheets to Track Attendance (PDF)
Standardized assessment materials must be safeguarded to maintain their veracity and integrity. The Nevada Assessment Policy stipulates the safeguards that program providers must adhere to.
Home| Educators| Administrators| Students and Supporters| About| Contact| Privacy Policy
copyright © 2010 Nevada Adult Education


text:
Fast-paced cartoons could slow kids' memoryBy Shayna Brouker • Published: December 8th, 2011
Category: Health in a Heartbeat
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Too cold or snowy to play outside? Another dreary winter day during the break from school often means another day spent inside playing video games, watching movies or cartoons if you're a kid. But parents, you might want to limit the amount of cartoons the kiddos watch and have them pick up a book instead.
Research from the University of Virginia found that children who watched just nine minutes of a fast-paced cartoon did worse on routine tests of attention and other skills compared with kids who drew pictures or watched slower-paced educational cartoons. The study divided 60 4-year-olds into three groups: One watched a fast-paced cartoon about a certain sponge who lives under the sea, the second watched a slower-paced educational cartoon about a preschooler, and the third group colored pictures.
Afterward, they all took tests to evaluate their attention span, problem-solving abilities and even their ability to delay gratification. Those entertained by the sea sponge performed the worst, with just 15 percent of the group passing the problem-solving test, compared with 70 percent in the coloring group and 35 percent in the slow-paced cartoon group.
Curiously, the results were not as pronounced in 6-year-olds.
The culprit could be that cartoons' rapid animation activates the senses rather than parts of the brain responsible for memory, controlling inhibition and problem solving. The result is sensory overload and mental exhaustion.
But parents can limit brain drain by limiting T-V. The reality is most kids are going to watch T-V if it's there, so when they do, make sure they watch age-appropriate educational shows, for the most part. Like a balanced nutritional diet, preschoolers need good-for-you, educational staples as they absorb information faster than an undersea sponge.


text:
WELLINGTON ABC middleweight Peter Martin will make his England amateur debut on the Scandimania show against Sweden at Rainton Meadows Arena in Houghton- le-Spring on February 26.
Martin will box Ben Bodilla after impressing ABA North of England coach Martin Utley during a selection camp at Birtley last Saturday, when he sparred light- heavyweight Peter Bebbington from Macclesfield.
Wellington team-mate Louis Cunningham has also earned another England call-up at light-middleweight and will face Nurbo Bozan from Linkoping.
Cunningham made the five- man England team ahead of a strong pool including Pallister Park's John Doherty.
Doherty's team-mate Jahmal Weaver rematches Tommy Nicholson (Darlington) in a supporting bout.
EAST Middlesbrough ABC's Joe Winchurch and Wellington's Liam Bousfield both lost their Northern quarter-finals in the National ABAE Schools Championships.
Light-welterweight Winchurch was unable to continue after a first round punch to the solar plexus from Kettering's William McCann.
Bantamweight Bousfield was beaten on unanimous points by Small Heath, Birmingham's Louis Regan.
Welly coach John Dryden said: "He did his best but the kid looked a lot more mature."
SELECTED results from Hartlepool Catholic's show at Owton Manor Social Club:
Juniors: Haroon Malik (Wellington) beat Adam Richards (West Durham) maj pts; Deven Sargent (Wellington) lost unan pts Bobby Carter (H'pool Catholic); Curtis Graham (Wellington) lost unan pts Morgan Murray (H'pool Catholic); Marley Devitt (Pallister Park) lost unan pts Jamie Cowie (Horden).
Seniors: Kiril Anastasov (Phil Thomas SOB) lost unan pts Luke Sullivan (Gus Robinson ABC).
HENRY Thomas is turning pro in America with Hall of Fame trainer Freddie Roach.
The Darlington 19-year-old has been training at Roach's Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles for the past month and is set to make his pro debut around May.
Former Darlington ABC boxer Thomas has happy memories of the States after becoming the first Briton to win a US Junior Golden Gloves title in 2009.


text:
Unicorn Socks
Cute and adorable socks for toddlers and kids available in Small. Cotton blend woodland animals capture the imagination of boys and girls around the world. Knee High socks created with joy and happiness all socks designed in Melbourne with love.
OEKO-TEX Cotton – 75% Cotton; 22% Polyester; 3% Elastane
Small: 12 months – 24 months


text:
Chris Weingarten appears in the following:
The Grammys And Dance Music: A Long, Awkward Pas De Deux
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Dance Music And The Grammys; London Grammar Plays Live; Radio V. Spotify
Thursday, January 23, 2014
In this episode: Daft Punk is no stranger to the Grammys. Since 1998, the French electronic duo has been nominated 13 times, and, five years ago, they won the awards for Best Dance Recording and Best Electronic/Dance Album. But this year, Daft Punk has managed to break into what's known as the "Big Four" categories -- and has become the first group ever to be nominated for both Best Dance/Electronica Album and Album of the Year. Chris Weingarten, music editor at Rolling Stone explains why this is matters for dance music.
Then, the moody and lovely British pop group London Grammar performs songs from its new album, If You Wait, in the Soundcheck studio.
And: Radio programmers at Top 40 stations are desperate to keep you tuned in and listening to ads -- that's how they pay the rent. So they've done some homework, and they think they might have a way of competing with music streamers like Spotify: Play fewer hit songs, more often.
Daft Punk: Making The Uncool Cool Again
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
SPIN editor Chris Weingarten shares with Soundcheck host John Schaefer some of his thoughts behind the album.
Audra McDonald Goes Back Home: Daft Punk's Random Access Memories; Paul Williams
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
In this episode: Actress and soprano Audra McDonald recently starred in Broadway's revival of Porgy and Bess. Now, she's back with her first solo album in 7 years, Go Back Home, featuring songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein and Stephen Sondheim, among others.
Plus: Spin editor Chris Weingarten gives his take on the new Daft Punk album, Random Access Memories, which has spawned a heavy favorite for the "song of the summer" title.
And: Songwriter and Muppet pal Paul Williams recently teamed up with the masked men of Daft Punk to work on their new album. He joins us to talk about the results.
Oh, The Agony! The Worst Music Of 2012
Friday, December 28, 2012
Critics Look Back At 2012: The Worst Of The Year (And Some Good Stuff Too)
Friday, December 28, 2012
The Year's Worst Music
Friday, December 17, 2010
All week, we've cheered on the best – now for the rest. Music critics Maura Johnston and Chris Weingarten join us in the Soundcheck studio to talk about their picks for a VillageVoice.com series called "The 20 Worst Songs of 2010."


text:
R-value claims for ICF buildings can be confusing, mainly because the thermal effects of the wall's concrete core vary depending on climate. In the case of Rastra, for example, tests at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have found the "steady state" R-value of a 10-inch-thick wall is between 7.7 and 8.2. But Rastra says its walls behave as if they had higher R-values because of the mass of the concrete—what it calls the "thermal mass multiplier." This, the company says, varies by climate zone—a 10-inch panel (which contains 6 1/2 inches of composite material) has a claimed R-23.8 in climate zone 2, a mild part of the country, which includes the Gulf Coast and southern Arizona, but only R-11 in Alaska.
In writing about "mass-enhanced R-value," Environmental Building News says that it is "only significant when the outdoor temperatures cycle above and below the indoor temperatures within a 24-hour period. Thus, high-mass walls are most beneficial in moderate climates that have high diurnal (daily) temperature swings around the desired indoor set point."
In very cold climates, where outdoor temperatures stay below the indoor temperature (the "set point") for days, weeks, or even months, the mass of the concrete wall doesn't provide a thermal benefit. Where the mass of the concrete does help is in regions where there's a big swing in daily outdoor temperature, or during the spring and fall "shoulder seasons" in colder climates.


text:
Turkey Thigh Supper Recipe
4 2 1
This family-pleasing meal-in-one has it all—tender turkey thighs, tasty vegetables and a homemade sauce. I like to cook chicken breasts the same way. It's also good with honey-flavored barbecue sauce poured over the meat instead of the soup mixture.—Betty Gingrich, Oxford, Arkansas
Featured In: 46 Slow Cooker Recipes for Two
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
Popular Videos
- 3 medium red potatoes, cut into chunks
- 1/2 pound fresh baby carrots
- 2 medium onions, cut into chunks
- 4 turkey thighs, skin removed
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed tomato soup, undiluted
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
- In a 5-qt. slow cooker, layer the potatoes, carrots and onions. Top with turkey. Combine the soup, water, garlic, Italian seasoning and salt; pour over turkey. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours or until a thermometer reads 170°-175° and vegetables are tender. Yield: 4 servings.
Originally published as Turkey Thigh Supper in Quick Cooking November/December 2005, p8
Reviews forTurkey Thigh Supper
My Review
Click stars to rate
Any changes to your rating or review will appear where you originally posted your review
Average Rating
Reviewed Nov. 7, 2008
"I would like to know where to get turkey thighs? i have found almost every other part of a turkey, but not thighs. The supper looks and sounds DELICIOUS!!! [email protected]"


text:
Almost $3.1 billion of the money would be used to stockpile the antiviral drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu), and the rest would go for global flu surveillance, development of vaccines, and state and local preparedness, according to a Reuters report. The government currently has enough oseltamivir to treat a few million people, with a goal of acquiring enough to treat 20 million.My emphasis. "Not yet a threat" is Category 5 Hurricane Katrina a couple days before landfall. It's a sudden change in temperature trends that hasn't yet melted the icecaps or caused irreversible changes in growing seasons.
The funding measure was sponsored by Democrats, who called H5N1 avian flu one of the greatest threats facing the country.
"It's the midnight hour," Reuters quoted Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, as saying. "We have to get moving on it now, not next year, not after some study group in the White House bangs this thing around for another three months."
But the story said Sen. Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican who is guiding the defense-spending bill through the Senate, promised to try to block the avian flu money, Reuters reported. He will have a chance to do that when House and Senate negotiators meet to forge a compromise on the bill, the story said.
Stevens argued that the avian flu "has not yet become a threat to human beings," according to Reuters.
Mike the Mad Biologist had a nice piece a few days ago about the current state of vaccines. In short, not encouraging, in no small part because the virus is evolving in birds which are being treated with some of the same drugs people use. That means the virus is evolving an immunity.
In other news. BoingBoing reports that H5N1 is getting scarier, noting in particular that (according to an industry source):
H5N1 has clearly evolved and has become markedly more efficient at transmitting among humans, and has done so via recombinationWhen it becomes a threat, it'll be too late. That's the whole point. That's the whole problem. There's no political will to take action before something becomes an unambiguous threat. People will die because of incompetent morons like Ted Stevens.


text:
Regular price: $3.95
Jenny would love to spice up her sex life, but her boyfriend has no imagination and isn't interested in trying anything new. Even a quick fling with the neighbor leaves her disappointed. All she wants is some spanking, a little bit of BDSM and maybe even some anal sex.
Now she's late for work, and then her boss catches her reading an erotic story about anal sex while she's on the job. He tells her that she must report to his office after work for punishment or risk losing her job. She really needs her job, but this is one punishment she won't forget. The penalty he imposes may be far more than she expected as her fantasies become reality and threaten to go even further.
Adults only. Caution: this story contains explicit anal sex, domination/submission, spanking, and orgasms.
The narration of this story did it more harm than good. I found his voice to be a distraction throughout the story as it was not pleasant to listen to. It was very amateur sounding.
The story (hardly a 'book' really) was somewhat ordinary and lacking in excitement. It wasn't very original. Fortunately, the price was cheap, to match the quality of the material.
The title threatens that there may be 25 more of these stories yet to come. I don't recommend this one. 'A' is for 'Avoid'.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful


text:
NEW YORK (AP) — Police say an emotionally disturbed man is in custody after he slit his wrists outside NBC's "Today" show in New York City.
Authorities say 75-year-old Pak Chong-Mar was in the crowd Thursday morning outside the "Today" studio in Rockefeller Center. Onlookers and police say he was yelling that the government was going to take his house.
"Today" show host Matt Lauer tweeted: "Sorry, a man attempted to harm himself with a knife." Lauer also explained the situation to viewers.
The man was taken to a hospital, where his mental condition was being evaluated. His physical injuries were not life-threatening.


text:
Benja Fallenstein
Hyperstructure Group
Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä
P.O.Box 35, FIN-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
We present an approach to RDF visualization in which a central node is shown in the middle of the screen and the nodes directly connected to it are arranged around it, making a different node the central one when the user clicks on it. With this navigational approach, the user can see which nodes are connected to the central node without following long connective lines through a graph. However, experience with our work-in-progress implementation suggests that more work is needed on representing common structures in a concise manner.
The usual approach to visualizing RDF graphs is to create a 2D layout of all nodes in a graph. This approach is taken by the IsaViz and RdfViz applications, for example. However, this approach, it can be hard to see which nodes are connected (Figures 1 and 2).
We propose to apply to RDF an approach originally developed for semantic network visualization by the SemNet research group (Fisher and Kibby 1996). The Semantica software is based on this (Figure 3).
The SemNet approach is to show a central node in the middle of a screen, and show around it the nodes directly connected to it. When the user double-clicks on one of the connected nodes, it is made the central node. We call this approach navigational.
In this section we introduce Fentwine, our prototype of a navigational RDF browser and editor. Fentwine is part of the Fenfire project, which develops an RDF-based desktop environment (Fallenstein and Lukka 2004).
Fentwine shows the nodes connected directly to the central node on an ellipse around the central node. Nodes more than one step away from the central node are also shown, up to a maximum number of steps. Nodes further away from the center fade into the background.
The property of each connection is shown between the two connected nodes. Each property is shown in a different color, computed deterministically from the property's URI. This allows the user to recognize the type of a connection without reading the property name.
Fentwine hides nodes' and property's URIs if a natural language label is available. For example, this can be a person's name. A pre-defined set of properties for finding the label of a node is provided (containing e.g. rdf:label and foaf:name). The user can extend this set.
We show the user a list of the properties in the current RDF graph, which allows them to show or hide each property separately. Properties can be grouped in categories which can be switched on and off as a whole. For example, when browsing a FOAF network, the user can hide all properties except foaf:knows. This reduces clutter by hiding relationships irrelevant to the task at hand (for example, foaf:workplaceHomepage). This feature derives from Nelson's ZigZag (Nelson 2004).
A screenshot is shown in Figure 4. Figure 5 shows how Fentwine uses animation to make moving from one central node to another smooth.
Fentwine works reasonably well for graphs created with it, as well as for many RDF files on the Web, as long as the properties to use to find natural-language labels are specified. However, there are many RDF structures that it does not represent well, yet.
An example is shown in Figure 6. The structure shown specifies that ovo-vegetarian food is a subclass of the intersection of a class equivalent to food with the complement of the union of a subclass of meat, including fish, with a subclass of dairy. (We didn't write the ontology.)
The problem seems to be that there are many interconnected anonymous nodes that don't have labels. We hope that this problem can be solved by providing special ways to render these structures, which map more directly to the user's mental model.
We already use this approach to show RDF collections. In Figure 6, the values of e.g. owl:unionOf are collections. Instead of showing the internal RDF structure, we show different unionOf "connections" between the union and each member of the collection. This appears to work well. (However, we have not yet decided how collection properties should be visually distinguished from ordinary properties; currently, we show connective lines between the elements of the collection.)
We have proposed to adapt SemNet's navigational approach to graph browsing to RDF, and reported on our work-in-progress implementation. Our software works reasonably well for some kinds of RDF, but structures that make use of many connected anonymous nodes without properties that could be used as labels (such as OWL intersections) are not yet shown well.
Fallenstein, B., and Lukka, T.J.: "Hyperstructure: Computers built around things that you care about". Submitted to the Third Hyperstructure Workshop at the ACM Hypertext'2004 conference.
Fisher, K.M., and Kibby, M. (Ed): Knowledge Acquisition, Organization and Use in Biology. Springer Verlag, New York, 1996.
Nelson, T.H.: "A Cosmology for a Different Computer Universe: Data Model, Mechanisms, Virtual Machine and Visualization Infrastructure". Journal of Digital Information 5(1), 2004.


text:
Benn Lays Down Government Strategy for Future Food Supply
Byline: Karen Dent
ASUSTAINABLE food supply is as vital to the UK's future as the country's energy supply and must be maintained, Defra Secretary Hilary Benn said as he unveiled the Government's latest vision to feed the nation.
He launched the Food 2030 strategy yesterday at the Oxford Farming Conference, where he reiterated the importance of the pounds 80bn farming and food industry, which is the UK's largest manufacturing sector employing 3.6 million people.
The strategy contains the Government's vision of how the country's food supply can be maintained against a backdrop of climate change and a growing population plus outside forces such as rising commodity prices.
Mr Benn said: "We need to produce more food. We need to do it sustainably.
And we need to make sure that what we eat safeguards our health.
"We know that the consequences of the way we produce and consume our food are unsustainable. There are challenges for everyone involved in the food system, from production right through to managing food waste.
"We know we are at one of those moments in our history where the future of our economy, our environment and our society will be shaped by the choices we make now."
The Government is calling on farmers to produce food more efficiently and sustainably, with high standards of animal welfare and fewer carbon emissions.
The food sector itself needs to be innovative, competitive, skilled and resilient with top-class scientific research and development to meet these challenges, the document said. …


text:
World 2-Tent
Stamp: Happy Sprixie
Enter the bonus tent on the map to find a stamp inside.
World 2-1: Conkdor Canyon
Star #1
Use a Cat Suit to scramble up the first tall platform you see. Up here, you'll find a few coins and a star.
Star #2
Just after passing the narrow walkways with several Conkdors, you'll come to a single Conkdor in the center of some big bricks. Stand near them to have him break them with his beak - one of them holds a star.
Star #3
As you near the end of the level, continue just past the many moving platforms. There's a Conkdor here attacking a Toad. Defeat the Conkdor, and the Toad will give you a star.
Stamp: Jumping Mario
You can't miss this one. It's right before the many moving platforms at the level's end.
World 2-2: Puffrod Peaks
Stamp: Goomba
Early in the level, you'll see two touch platforms under some bricks. Touch the right one - notice the hole underneath? Drop in to find a hidden chamber where you can touch another platform to reach a stamp.
Star #1
When you reach the wall of touch platforms, keep left. Wall jump into the nook to reach the star up here.
Star #2
Before hopping off the trio of blow platforms, hop to the left one and ride to the cloud. This will launch you to a secret area. Dash through this course to find a star at its end.
Star #3
Just beyond is a trio of touch platforms. Activate the first two, then blow into the GamePad mic to attract a hidden blow platform. Ride it to another star.
World 2-3: Shadow-Play Alley
Star #1
You'll see the shadow of the first star shortly into the level. Simply walk into the foreground to grab it.
Stamp: Piranha Plant
You need a Cat Suit for this. After passing the giant Piranha Plant, drop into the pit to the right. The bricks to your left can be clawed through to reach the stamp.
Star #2
In the next section, you'll see this group of pink eye blocks. Touch them on the GamePad, and they will briefly disappear. Do this and quickly jump through the wall to reach a mystery block. Inside the secret area, you'll have ten seconds to hit the blue switch and grab the star it reveals.
Star #3
Before going through the last red door, walk through the gap in the bricks to your right. In here is a Toad being tormented by Bowser…or is he? Walk into the foreground to find a moving cardboard cutout of Bowser. Walk into it to tip it over, calming the Toad and earning you another star.
World 2-4: Really Rolling Hills
Stamp: Little Mario
From the start of the level, head right to find a Mario switch. Use Mario to hit it and reveal stamp.
Star #1
You'll need a Cat Suit for this. Ride the first clear pipe, then scramble up the wall to find this star on a higher ledge.
Star #2
When you enter the underground area, look for this warp pipe along the path. Take it to a secret area, then get moving. Every tile in here needs to be stepped on before the music stops. Do this, and you'll receive a star.
Star #3
When you reach the three wooden wheels, drop between them. There's a secret area down here with a star.
World 2-A: Big Galoomba Blockade
Star #1
Simply take out the Galoombas to earn a star.
World 2-5: Double Cherry Pass
Star #1
Destroy the crates near the clear pipe to reveal a star.
Star #2
As you leave the tunnel, be sure to hit both tiles to reveal another star.
Stamp: Fire Flower Peach
You need a Cat Suit for this. When you reach the multicolored hills, move to the back left corner. Use a Double Cherry clone to hit the leftmost question mark brick and reveal a brick above. Keep hitting the question mark to create a whole column of bricks. Use a clone to quickly scramble up this column to reach a stamp.
Star #3
If you have at least four Double Cherry clones left by the level's end, hop onto the elevator tile. It will rise up to another star.
World 2-Special: Mystery House Melee
Star #1
In the first room, you'll have 10 seconds to take out the Galoombas. Do so to earn a star.
Star #2
Do the same for the Koopa Troopas in the second room.
Star #3
Do it again for the Cat Suit Goombas in the third room.
Star #4
…and again for the Conkdors in the fourth room.
Star #5
…and one last time for the Fire Bros. in the final room.
World 2-Castle: Bowser's Bullet Bill Brigade
Star #1
The level's first star is by a group of Piranha Plants after the first caravan.
Star #2
The next star is inside the first box on the second caravan.
Stamp: Boom Boom
This will float by during the second caravan. Quickly break the boxes to reach the platform where it rests.
Star #3
Hopefully you managed to keep the Bomb Box on your head through the whole level. Just before hopping into the warp pipe, fire a shot at the wooden Bowser wall to reveal star behind it.


text:
BURBANK – An early 12-3 lead this past Friday against Columbia-Burbank helped the Mabton Lady Viking basketball team secure a 51-47 win.
Mabton Coach Chris McCallum said there were a couple of quarters during which the Lady Vikes faltered. He believes it may be due to giving the team too much time off during the winter break.
However, in the end, Mabton was able to dig deep to secure the win.
"We started fast, jumping to an early 12-3 lead, but then in the middle quarters we got winded, made some dumb fouls and just got outworked for 16 minutes," said McCallum.
In the second and third quarters, the Lady Vikings were held to just eight points in each stanza. The Coyotes tallied 12 points in the second quarter and 17 points in the third period.
Mabton maintained a 20-15 lead at intermission, but Columbia-Burbank whittled away at the score for a 32-28 lead in the third quarter.
"Being tired led us to make mental mistakes and miss a lot of free throws," said McCallum.
The Lady Vikes were just 8-for-18 from the charity stripe, whereas the Coyotes were 11-for-17.
"This was really my fault…the girls were giving me everything they had. I didn't keep them sharp over the break," McCallum said.
But, Mabton is competitive and battled back in the final stanza, outscoring the Coyotes 23-15. With just 5:30 on the clock, the Lady Vikings had an 11-point deficit. "They went to work in the last five minutes…they didn't give up," McCallum said.
He said the team stuck together and defended the ball well.
"Oh! And, it doesn't hurt that we can shoot the ball," said McCallum.
The Lady Vikings, in the final minutes, went 5-for-8 from treyland. Three of those shots were made by Irene Pineda, who scored 11 points and recorded three steals.
McCallum said all three of her 3-point shots were "..all net."
Soila Zaragoza of Mabton was the team leader with a double-double. She scored 13 points and tallied 10 boards. She also provided eight assists.
"Zaragoza had an all-around great game," said McCallum.
The defense had difficulty keeping Columbia-Burbank's Rachel Roberts and Julie Mosqueda away from the basket. They combined for 30 points for the Coyotes.
Mabton returns to the hardwood in Zillah this coming Friday and will host Naches on Saturday.
Comments are subject to moderator review and may not appear immediately on the site.
Please read our commenting policy before posting.
Any comment violating the site's commenting guidelines will be removed and the user could be banned from the site.
Use the comment form below to begin a discussion about this content.
Information from the Daily Sun News and our advertisers (Want to add your business to this to this feed?)


text:
IADH 2018 Congress will be organized in Intercontinental Dubai Festival City.
Adjacent to Festival City Mall, InterContinental Dubai Festival City boasts a 25 m outdoor pool that extends onto a balcony with panoramic views of Dubai Marina. A full-service spa with aromatherapy is offered.
All rooms at InterContinental Dubai Festival City are sunny and fitted with large windows overlooking the skyline. Each one is fitted with a flat-screen TV with multilingual channels, a DVD player and CD player.
Dubai International Airport are a 10-minute drive away from InterContinental Dubai Festival City.
The United Arab Emirates consists of seven emirates: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah, Ajman, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. Four-fifths of the UAE is desert but has contrasting landscapes—from the towering red dunes of the Liwa to the rich palm-filled Oasis of Al Ain, from the precipitous Hajjar Mountains to the more fertile stretches of its coastal plains.
Though small in size (similar to the size of Scotland), the UAE has become an important player in regional and international affairs. In 1971, the late President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan unified the small, underdeveloped states into a federation—the only one in the Arab world. With his visionary leadership, oil wealth was used to develop the UAE into one of the world's most open and successful economies.
Dubai is the second largest Emirate by population and size. Dubai borders the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Dubai has been an economically dynamic city since long before the establishment of the UAE in 1971. In the years since, it has demonstrated a track record of remarkable economic growth and political stability. Over this period, Dubai has moved from being a small, local trading city into a global hub of commerce.


text:
Planning a trip? Those who love to travel know the essence of all travel is about you and your enjoyment. Travelers know that the destination is a major part in planning a trip, experiencing and delving deeper into an unfamiliar places, people and culture is paramount.
Expand your horizons and set your sight to the Philippines, an off the beaten path travel site! An undiscovered paradise made of thousands of islands and white sand beaches all around! A tiny dot in the map of the world, and yet a haven for travelers, backpackers, retirees and even passersby.
It offers awesome tourist attractions, magnificent beaches, hot spring resorts, colorful festivals, hundreds of scenic spots and world-class hotels and facilities. Not to mention the tropical climate, the affordable prices as well as the friendly and hospitable, English-speaking people! You will be glad you came, and we're sure, you WILL come back for more FUN in the Philippines!
Photo from: driftwoodjourneys.com
Kennon Road is a roadway in Benguet province in the Philippines connecting the mountain city of Baguio to the lowland town of Rosario in La Union province. The project was begun in 1903 and opened for travel on January 29, 1905. It was originally called the Benguet Road and later renamed in honor of its builder, Col. Lyman Walter Vere Kennon of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For travelers coming from Manila or the provinces in the central plains of Luzon, it is the shortest route to Baguio.
The construction of the road commenced in 1903 by cutting across the mountains of Benguet with the combined efforts of Filipinos, Americans, Filipino-Chinese and Japanese nationals. It was considered one of the most difficult and expensive civil engineering projects of its day, with expenditures by the newly established colonial government in excess of $2.7 million.
Photo from: imagesphilippines.com
More than 2,300 foreign and local workers worked on the road. Aside from Filipino engineers and construction workers and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers headed by Col. Lyman Kennon, foreigners from 36 countries were recruited to work on the road; the majority, about 1,500, were Japanese. Hundreds of workers died from malaria while more plunged to their deaths while building the road. After the road was completed, some of the foreign road workers decided to remain in Baguio to live permanently.
Photo from: nicethoughtsnthrills.blogspot.com
The original road was a Macadam Telford-type road which was later improved into an all-weather asphalt roadway. More recently, some portions of Kennon Road have been replaced with concrete pavement. – wikipedia.org
Photo from: pinoyphotography.org
Read More on Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
Read More on Benguet Province – Salad Bowl of the Philippines
Read More on Natural Points of Interest In Benguet
Read More on Interesting Sites in Benguet Province
Read More in Colorful Festivals in Benguet
Read More on Having Fun in Benguet
Read More About Benguet from our Amazon Travel Book Store