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Oh, the weather outside is frightful…especially if you're in a land cursed by the winter-loving White Witch. Today is the Second Day of HMNS – for 12 days, we're featuring a different fun video that previews or goes behind-the-scenes of a holiday museum activity, here on the blog (or, you can get a sneak peek at all the videos on 12days.hmns.org – we won't tell.)
For our second video, we take you into the enchanted winterized world of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Exhibition. Wondering if it will snow again this year? It's snowing every day in this exhibit, located at the museum's new satellite, the Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land. You can also catch a glimpse of artifacts from series author C.S. Lewis' personal study and experience exciting environments such as the famous attic and wardrobe. Visitors will also encounter frozen waterfalls and other interactive and instructive elements. This special exhibition is a truly captivating and entertaining experience for all ages.
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The approximately 10,455 military engagements plus naval clashes, accidents, suicides, sicknesses, murders, and executions resulted in total casualties of 1,094,453 during the Civil War. The Union lost 110,100 killed in action and mortally wounded, and another 224,580 to disease.
The Confederates lost approximately 94,000 as a result of battle and another 164,000 to disease. Even if one survived a wound, any projectile that hit bone in either an arm or a leg almost invariably necessitated amputation. The best estimate of Federal army personnel wounded is 275,175; naval personnel wounded, 2,226. Surviving Confederate records indicate 194,026 wounded.
In dollars and cents, the U.S. government estimated Jan. 1863 that the war was costing $2.5 million daily. A final official estimate in 1879 totaled $6,190,000,000. The Confederacy spent perhaps $2,099,808,707. By 1906 another $3.3 billion already had been spent by the U.S. government on Northerners' pensions and other veterans' benefits for former Federal soldiers. Southern states and private philanthropy provided benefits to the Confederate veterans. The amount spent on benefits eventually well exceeded the war's original cost.
Inflation affected both Northern and Southern assets but hit those of the Confederacy harder. Northern currency fluctuated in value, and at its lowest point $2.59 in Federal paper money equaled $1 in gold. The Confederate currency so declined in purchasing power that eventually $60-$70 equaled a gold dollar.
The physical devastation, almost all of it in the South, was enormous: burned or plundered homes, pillaged countryside, untold losses in crops and farm animals, ruined buildings and bridges, devastated college campuses, and neglected roads all left the South in ruins.
Detailed studies of Union and Confederate military casualties are found in Numbers and Losses in the Civil War in America 1861-65 by Thomas L. Livermore (I901) and Regimental Losses in the American Civil War, 1867-1865 by William F. Fox (1889).
Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" Edited by Patricial L. Faust

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Intended Audience
This document describes hardware installation of the storage system, covering the following parts: precautions and preparations, installation flow, cabling, installation check, power-on, and status indicator check.
This document is intended for:
- Technical support engineers
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As part of an effort to improve and enhance the product performance and capabilities, Huawei periodically releases revisions of the hardware and software. Therefore, some functions described in this document may not be supported by all versions of the software or hardware currently in use. For the most up-to-date information about product features, refer to the product release notes.
If a product does not function as described in this document, contact Huawei technical support engineers.
Change History
Updates between document issues are cumulative. Therefore, the latest document issue contains all updates made in previous issues.
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This is the seventh official release.
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This is the home page for the Natural Science Computing space.
Other related spaces include:The Mudd Lab, Schupf Lab Home, Bruce Maxwell's Robotics Lab
We also maintain a PSC Quad Core Opteron compute server (sona), which is used by the Chemistry Department and a dual node 8 core Proliant HPC cluster for use by researchers within the Natural Sciences (nscc). For access to these servers please contact Randall Downer.
Most computers that I support are based on a variant of the Unix Operating systerm, (eg Mac OSX, Linux) Here are some helpful tips and tricks.
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Sports medicine doctor Jordan Metzl says he's found a miracle drug that prevents almost every illness, is 100 percent effective, and has very few side effects: exercise. In his new book The Exercise Cure, he prescribes specific cardio and strength training regimens to treat everything from depression and stress to heart disease and diabetes.


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Mumbai: Veteran singer Asha Bhosle, known for crooning a variety of songs during her over six decade-old career, admits she still faces comparisons with her elder sister, singer Lata Mangeshkar.
But at the moment, she is rejoicing over the compliments that Lata has heaped on her.
"It felt good to hear her say in her interview that she can`t sing what I can. But I disagree with her," Asha said.
"I feel if she wanted to sing my kind of songs, she would have. But she didn`t want to. She didn`t have to. She got to sing all the songs for the heroines, so she didn`t have to sing for the other female characters in a film. I got those songs. And I made the best of them," said the 80-year-old, who sung romantic songs, cabarets and ghazals.
Some of her popular numbers include "Dum maro dum", "Mehbooba mehbooba", "Mera kuch saaman", "Piya tu ab to aaja", "Chura liya hai tum ne" and "Dil cheez kya hai".
Recalling her days of struggle, Asha, whose acting debut "Mai..." is now set to release Friday, said: "When there was already a Taj Mahal, I came to build another one. Bahut mushkil tha (It was tough). Who would want to go to another singer when there was already a Lata Mangeshkar? On top of that, I was her younger sister.
"Hamesha humein ek tarazu mein tola gaya (We were always weighed on the same scale)... It was very tough for me to escape all these hurdles. I still haven`t escaped those comparisons."
She says it was imperative for her to carve her own identity.
"Didi and I had to be different singers. Copying her would have meant the end of my career even before it started. No one would have entertained a copy of Didi. Just as long as Kishore Kumar was there, no other male voice stood a chance. I first had to get songs that were comparable with Didi`s. I had to cultivate a Western style of singing. I had no choice.
"I had to be prepared to do any kind of song that was offered to me. Didi became instantaneously successful. Plus there were other singers like Geeta Dutt," she said.
Talking about the new generation of singers, Asha said: "The world has moved on. Earlier the female singer sang at a high pitch and the male singer at a low pitch. Now that has been reversed. There`s no time for slow soft sentimental songs.
"No point in clinging to the past and pining for nostalgia. If you remember happy occasions, whether it is the mehndi ceremony or a wedding, they have always been celebrated with songs. Every individual wants to dance and sing. Rhythm ka zamana hai (Rhythm rules). No one listens to the words. You can`t stop the world from moving on. If you try, you`ll get left behind."


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Input Overhaul
Input is an unmitigated disaster. Aside from the horrific complexity of XKB, it's just a mess. We've already solved one problem (that of bad event generation) with input-hotplug, but we still have a number of fundamental problems. While attempting to make HAL work, it's become increasingly clear that we more or less need to start again.
XFree86 and KDrive have their own (bad) input systems, each dealing with options, the need to load an XKB keymap, a bad abstraction around deviceProc, input drivers, and so on, and so forth. ?DeviceIntRec is strictly limited to a representation of which devices are in the DIX right now: everything in the DDX uses ?KdPointerInfo/KdKeyboardInfo/KdConfigPointer/KdConfigKeyboard (KDrive), or InputInfoRec/IDevRec (XFree86). These both hold the ?DeviceIntRec, and pass that to the DIX.
KDrive's separation of input devices into separate pointers and keyboards is an immense loss.
Move most of the (common to all implementations) initialization code down to the DIX. Extend ?DeviceIntRec to include options, so we can get at these options from the DIX (two primary purposes: first, let HAL know which device is associated with UDI, and secondly, allow a generic property implementation that's better than the current ioctls). Get rid of deviceProc, and replace it with init/enable/disable/fini hooks, because we've never used deviceProc for anything else.
Proposed API
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The American Judges Association
The American Judges Association was originally founded as the National Association of Municipal Judges (NAMJ) in 1959 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, by 30 municipal court judges. As the association's membership grew to include judges from other types of courts and from a wider geographical area, its name was changed to the American Judges Association in 1973. Currently, AJA has a membership exceeding 3,000 members, which includes both present and former judges of courts of all jurisdictions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa and The Virgin Islands. Its Board of Governors is composed of representatives from fourteen districts.
The objective and purpose of the Association is: to promote and improve the effective administration of justice; to maintain the status and independence of the judiciary; to provide a forum for the continuing education of its members and the general public; and for the exchange of new ideas among all judges.
The AJA's impact on judicial education has been effective in a number of ways. In 1970, the Association cooperated with the American Judicature Society in organizing the American Academy of Judicial Education, the first such institute to sponsor formal, in-residence training programs for judges of courts of first jurisdiction. AJA has sponsored more than 30 annual conferences, bringing together leading jurists, legal scholars and law enforcement officers to discuss matters of importance affecting the judiciary.
With almost fifty years of service and commitment to the judiciary,
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Lucille Bliss, who provided the voice of the cartoon character Crusader Rabbit in the early days of television and gained recognition a generation later as the voice of Smurfette in the 1980s television hit "The Smurfs," has died. She was 96.
Bliss died Nov. 8 from natural causes at an assisted living center in Costa Mesa, according to the Orange County coroner.
Bliss parlayed a childhood love of radio theater into a career as an animation voice actress that stretched more than 60 years. She was working as recently as last month.
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"Actors from her generation who came up in live radio, you'd do one or two takes with Lucille and she'd just nail it," said David Scheve, who owns TDA Animation and worked with Bliss. "She could do three or four characters in one [scene] and you'd never know they were all her. She was terrific."
Bliss found steady work in film and television throughout her career. She gave voice to the stepsister Anastasia in Disney's 1950 film "Cinderella" and was the original Elroy in the 1960s television hit "The Jetsons."
Through the decades, Bliss' elastic voice fleshed out characters in a wide range of projects — from "The Flintstones" to animated "Star Wars" spinoffs and video games.
But her groundbreaking role was in the original "Crusader Rabbit," the first animated series produced specifically for television. Its first incarnation ran on NBC from 1950 to 1952 and was co-created by Jay Ward, who went on to produce such notable franchises as Rocky and Bullwinkle and Dudley Do-Right.
"She was a pioneer in television animation," said Charles Solomon, an author and animation historian. Crusader Rabbit "really set a pattern for a lot of future shows — the smart little character and the big dumb sidekick."
Lucille Bliss was born March 31, 1916, in New York City to Frieda Siemens, a classically trained pianist, and James Francis Bliss. After James died in 1928, Frieda and Lucille moved to San Francisco to be near relatives.
Her mother wanted Bliss to train as an opera singer. But Bliss pursued acting instead, taking lessons and landing parts on radio dramas in the Bay Area.
Bliss realized that to break into the big time she had to move to Los Angeles. She heard that Walt Disney was auditioning for the movie "Cinderella" and borrowed $50 to make the trip south.
"Six months later I got a phone call" and was offered a role, she recalled years later. "I almost dropped the phone. I was delirious. That is the way it all began."
Throughout her career, Bliss was met with plenty of rejection. She lost her job as Elroy Jetson, she told interviewers, when she wouldn't work under a stage name that would hide the fact that she was a grown woman playing a little boy, which is a common scenario in cartoons.
"Life as a voice actress is tough," she once said. "It's not an easy career."
But she persevered and continued to study her craft late into life, taking acting classes with aspiring artists a fraction of her age.
"I'm an actress specializing in voices," Bliss once told a writer. "I don't like the term 'voice-over.' … You have to be an actor first, and then the voice.... You have to take acting lessons to learn how to act before you can speak."
Bliss, who never married, left no immediate survivors.
A memorial service will be held Nov. 20 at 1:30 p.m. at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles.


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This electronic storybook published by Western Publishing is a delightful addition to the library collection of boys and girls 3 years old and up. "This classic story of 101 Dalmatians comes alive with sound". Just the press of a button as the book is read will bring the barking and sniffing sounds of the dogs, the honking of Cruella's car horn, plus eight other imaginative sounds. Our copy, while used, is in very,very fine condition and comes complete with battery for immediate use...


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The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin, A Novel Richard Lourie Counterpoint, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 1999, 261 pp. ISBN: 1-58243-004-7 Despite its title, this is a novel, albeit one based upon true events and people. In the book we see a man, Joseph Stalin, whose life is devoted solely to his own advancement and acquisition of power. Lord Acton's famous quote "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." could have been w...


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This Technical Aid serves as a Transparency Guide and Resource Document in conjunction with a one day overview on this topic.
While not intended as a stand-alone document, this guide provides the Quality Practitioner and seminar participants alike with a number of models, forms, and documentation details which may be employed in creating a Policy Deployment system commensurate with the targeted culture and organization.
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Fact Sheet
Candidiasis (Thrush)
May 21, 2012
What Is Thrush?
Candidiasis is a common opportunistic infection in people with HIV. It is an infection caused by a common type of yeast (or fungus) called candida. This yeast is found in most people's bodies. A healthy immune system keeps it under control. Candida usually infects the mouth, throat, or vagina. It can occur months or years before other, more serious opportunistic infections. See Fact Sheet 500 for more information on opportunistic infections.
In the mouth, the infection is called thrush. When the infection spreads deeper into the throat it is called esophagitis. It looks like white patches similar to cottage cheese, or red spots. It can cause a sore throat, pain when swallowing, nausea, and loss of appetite. Thrush can also cause cracking at the corners of the mouth. This is called angular chelitis.
In the vagina, the infection is called yeast infection or vaginitis. This is a common vaginal infection. Symptoms include itching, burning, and a thick whitish discharge.
Candida can also spread and cause infection in the brain, heart, joints and eyes.
Can It Be Prevented?There is no way to prevent exposure to candida. Medications are not normally used to prevent candidiasis. There are several reasons for this:
Strengthening your immune system by taking combination aniretroviral therapy (ART) is the best way to prevent an outbreak of candidiasis.
How Is It Treated?A healthy immune system keeps candida in balance. Bacteria normally found in the body also help control it. Some antibiotics kill these helpful bacteria and cause an outbreak of candidiasis. Treating candidiasis will not get rid of the yeast, but will keep it under control.
Treatments can be local or systemic. Local treatments are applied where the infection is found. Systemic treatments affect the whole body. Many health care providers prefer to use local treatment first. It puts the medication directly where it is needed. It has fewer side effects than a systemic treatment. Also, there is less risk of candida becoming resistant to the medications. The medications used to fight candida are antifungal drugs. Almost all their names end in "-azole." They include clotrimazole, nystatin, fluconazole, and itraconazole.
Local treatments include:
Local treatments may cause some stinging or irritation.
Candidiasis can come back repeatedly. Some health care providers prescribe anti-fungal drugs on a long-term basis. This can cause resistance. The yeast can mutate so that a drug no longer works.
Some serious cases do not respond to other medications. Then, amphotericin B might be used. It is a very potent and toxic drug, given orally or intravenously. The major side effects are kidney problems and anemia. Other reactions include fever, chills, nausea, vomiting, and headache. These usually get better after the first few doses.
Natural TherapiesSeveral non-drug therapies seem to help. They have not been carefully studied to prove that they work.
The Bottom LineCandidiasis is a very common yeast (fungal) infection. The fungus normally lives in the body. It cannot be eliminated. The best way to avoid an outbreak of candidiasis is to strengthen your immune system by taking antiretroviral medications (ARVs).
Most candida infections are easily treated with local therapies. In people with weakened immune systems, these infections become more persistent. Systemic anti-fungal drugs can be taken, but candida might become resistant to them. The most potent anti-fungal drug, amphotericin B, has serious side effects.
Several natural therapies seem to help control candida infections.
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Syria is not on the path to peace through the present form of Kofi Annan's six-point plan, supported by the permanent members of the UN Security Council.
The plan is based on the good will of President Bashar al-Assad to stop the repression of political dissent and punitive military actions against communities where an insurrection has arisen over the last year. The plan also presupposes that once the repression and the killing have stopped, a "dialogue on transition" will begin.
The Syrian authorities have no incentive to change the present pattern of behavior. The Security Council foresaw 30 UN monitors in Syria, expanding the number to 300. The next weeks and months can be spent uselessly arguing whether instead of 300 there should be 3,000, but the pattern of behavior will not change, as the Balkans can teach us.
Throughout the 1990s the international community had far more monitors in the Balkans (even peacekeepers in Bosnia), but that did not stop the butchery. The effort to stop killing through monitoring relies on exposure and shame as a restraining moral imperative. But a regime that has already killed an estimated 10,000 people in the past 14 months has lost moral considerations of that sort, if it had them earlier.
It is not only defiance that comes from the regime now, there is also the element of fear: Those who have killed so far fear the retribution of the future, especially if the opposition continues requesting the head of the president as an unrealistic precondition.
Indeed, the regime is not only continuing to kill, monitors or no monitors, but it is also claiming that within this framework of violence it is conducting a reforming process, through multiparty elections.
Mr. Annan's six-point plan, therefore, is failing to both stop violence in Syria and ensure a political dialogue. The Assad regime is assuming that it can drag its feet with the implementation of the plan for as long as there is no other alternative on the horizon. It is assuming, as did former President Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia throughout the Yugoslav disintegration, that the West has no stomach for an international intervention against it.
And it seems that the Syrian regime is presently right.
The calculation is that the West fears that an intervention will move the country toward disintegration along sectarian and ethnic lines. This Balkan nightmare scenario of carved out mini-states of Alawites, Kurds, and Druze, among others, associated with waves of ethnic and identity cleansing would be exponentially more threatening as the international environment is taken into account.
How will all this reflect on Turkey, the Kurdish question, the Golan Heights, Lebanon? And, who would run post-Assad Syria? Even if there were a will for intervention, would it have to go the Kosovo way, without full international legitimacy?
The regime is raising the ante based on these Western fears, especially in a presidential election year in the US. But then, there is no need for nightmare scenarios: The International Committee of the Red Cross is saying that already there are indications of civil war in parts of the country.
The continuation of the killings in Syria will likely not subside, and things can arguably get even worse, with a spiral of violence radicalizing the society as a whole.
Annan's six-point plan ought to be urgently revisited by the US, Russia, and European Union members at the Security Council. The plan must immediately upgrade two of its points.
First, it needs to spell out the transition in Syria in explicit terms.
Transition is not what Mr. Assad is doing at the moment, pretending to hold multiparty elections while neighborhoods are being shelled. Nor is it realistic to expect that transition will mean Assad's upfront resignation as requested by the opposition. Transition should mean an internationally monitored process to establish democratic institutions, through an electoral process conducted in a peaceful environment.
That means a transition that starts with a presidential election within the next six months, prepared through a round table between the Assad government and the opposition as represented by the opposition Syrian National Council (with significant representation in it from the Local Coordination Committees). This round table must be mediated by an international third party. The rough legal preconditions for such a process are already vaguely in place, with a new constitution passed in February that Assad claims opens up the country for democracy.
Second, an updated Annan plan needs to spell out security. In order to conduct a transitional political process, there needs to be a radical change of behavior on the ground. The Army needs to go back to the barracks and stay there, while at the same time the Syrian National Council needs to call for a halt in any insurgent guerrilla activity from the Free Syrian Army.
The UN should deploy lightly armed peacekeepers, under a neutral (say, Scandinavian) command, establishing themselves at the perimeters of the cities. In the Ministry of Interior, a senior international police mission should monitor basic policing activities as part of the preparations for a peaceful electoral process.
The Annan mandate for international monitors in Syria will end in July. There is no need to wait for the end of their mandate to understand that they cannot change the situation. Much earlier than the mandate expires, within the next 45 days, there ought to be an upgrade in the six-point plan.
Within this time frame, the US, Russia, and the EU, consulting with the Arab League, should prepare the conditions needed for a negotiation between the Assad government and the Syrian opposition. This can be established under a Chapter VII UN Security Council resolution.
The terms of reference for this negotiation should include non-negotiable principles, such as renouncing violence in the political process and preserving the integrity and sovereignty of Syria as well as its multiethnic and multicultural (sectarian) character. They should also include the necessary changes for free and fair elections (non-discriminatory clauses, freedom of speech and expression clauses, etc.). Assad should understand that further use of Army and uniformed or non-uniformed repression will be interpreted, for the sponsors of this resolution, as a threat to regional peace.
The Troika (the US, Russia, and the EU), through a consultation process among the Syrian parties, should also help in expanding the agenda for the negotiation. Among other issues to discuss would be the community rights charter – a bill of rights for the Syrians who find themselves in a minority position – as an essential precondition for a country that moves from minority to majority rule.
Mediators and diplomats have repeated that Syrians should ultimately find their own way to the future. This sounds right, and it should be so. But leaving the Syrian people only to themselves is to sentence them to a prolonged war and bloodletting. This is a conflict that will not be won by force: The regime will not have the power to stop by force the will of the majority, and the opposition cannot defeat the Syrian Army as it is today, and for some time to come.
The international community cannot stand by, or rely on formulas such as those that have been defeated already by the tragedy of the Balkans.
Veton Surroi is a journalist, writer, and politician. He was a senior negotiator for Kosovo in the Rambouillet peace talks in 1999 and the Vienna status talks from 2005 to 2007.
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Two months after premiering a peppy new song, "Unbelievers," on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Vampire Weekend has announced that its upcoming third studio album is set to be released this spring on XL Recordings. The still-untitled disc will follow up 2010's "Contra," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
Speaking to SPIN, frontman Ezra Koenig and keyboardist Rostam Batmanglij said the band recorded portions of the album in Los Angeles with Ariel Rechtshaid, a former member of L.A.'s Foreign Born who's since become known for his production and songwriting work with the likes of Usher and Sky Ferreira.
"I love being able to record in a room that's surrounded by trees," Batmanglij said of Rechtshaid's home studio in Echo Park. "We actually recorded vocals ... with all the windows open, and you can hear it happening."
Vampire Weekend also worked in New York and on Martha's Vineyard, where Koenig said the band felt free to experiment. "There wasn't exactly that same time pressure [as on 'Contra'] or that urge to show people our ideas really quickly, so we could focus very purely on songwriting," the singer told SPIN.
In a separate interview with England's Q magazine, Koenig described the new album as "darker" and more "organic" than its predecessors, and added that it feels "like the third chapter in a book" that began with "Vampire Weekend" in 2008.
"We created some characters on the first record, some of which are real people, some of which are ourselves," he said, "so it's not so hard to keep following them and see what their concerns are now and how their lives have changed."
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2013 "Monday Night Football" Preseason Schedule
ESPN will televise four NFL games as part of its 2013 Monday Night Football preseason schedule. Play-by-play commentator Mike Tirico and analyst Jon Gruden will call the games with sideline reporter Lisa Salters in anticipation of ESPN's MNF regular-season opener on Monday, Sept. 9. All MNF preseason games will begin at 8 p.m. ET and will be preceded by a one-hour Monday Night Countdown pregame.
The preseason kicks off Thursday, August 8, when Andy Dalton and the Cincinnati Bengals travel to Atlanta to face Matt Ryan and the Falcons at the Georgia Dome. The Bengals were an AFC Wild Card team in 2012, while the Falcons won the NFC South and reached the Conference Championship game.
The ESPN crew then heads to The Windy City when Jay Cutler and the Chicago Bears host Philip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers at Soldier Field on Thursday, Aug. 15. Both teams will have new offensive-minded head coaches in 2013 in Mike McCoy (Chargers) and Marc Trestman (Bears).
On Monday, Aug. 19, the NFC East champion Washington Redskins host Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers at FedEx Field. The Redskins are hopeful that last year's rookie quarterback sensation Robert Griffin III will be back in the lineup after he suffered a knee injury in the team's final playoff game.
Just three days later up Interstate 95, ESPN will conclude its preseason schedule when Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers face Joe Flacco and the Super Bowl XLVII champion Baltimore Ravens at M&T Bank Stadium on Thursday, August 22.
ESPN Deportes, ESPN's 24-hour Spanish-language domestic sports network, will once again offer a Spanish-language production of MNF preseason and regular season games in 2013. All games will also be available on tablets and computers via WatchESPN.
The 2013 ESPN MNF regular season schedule is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.
ESPN's Monday Night Football 2013 NFL Preseason Schedule:
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Thursday, Aug. 8 8 p.m. Cincinnati Bengals vs. Atlanta Falcons
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Is the home owner open to allowing local birders over to see the Costa's Hummingbird frequenting his hummingbird feeder?
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Bird sightings and reports from around the Kachemak Bay area in Alaska
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I went there yesterday, Sept. 13, 2017 and found it twice. Not the best photo but it shows the ("Gorgeous"?) diagnostic gorgets of a male Costa's.
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I visited two days ago... he's a real gem! The home owners don't mind if they're home, and you'll certainly need directions. Call Ashore Water Taxi.
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Adult leaders are expected to set the best example for scouts through uniform, words, and deeds. Those working directly with the youth on the troop level are expected to wear official BSA uniforms based on the description provided in section. Members of the troop committee and boards of review, parents participating on weekend trips or assisting with weekly meetings, and merit badge counselors do not have to follow uniform expectations.
Adult volunteers must register with the BSA. This includes merit badge instructors, troop leaders, and committee members. This does not include parents who drive on troop outings, although they are required to file their insurance information with the troop and be listed on the official BSA Tour Permit.
Adult leaders are expected to complete the official BSA Youth Protection training and Fast Start online (see web address below). Our Orange District training staff offers New Leader Essentials and Scouts BSA Leaders Specific training. Other levels of training, as listed below, are highly recommended but not required. Troop 39 will only be as good as the leaders who supervise the troop.
Youth Protection Training
In 1987, the BSA began to address five ''unacceptable'' in American society-drug abuse, hunger, child abuse, illiteracy, and youth unemployment. Adult leader training teaches identification and proper reporting procedures.
Adult leaders are trained to recognize signs of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect in the required BSA Youth Protection training.
Youth Protection Training accomplishes the following objectives:
- Informs leaders and parents of BSA's Youth Protection policies and materials, including videos for each level in Scouting.
- Increases the protection of children by discussing the procedures for prompt reporting of suspected abuse.
- Enables Scouting's leaders and parents to recognize indicators of abuse.
The goal of youth protection training is to make everyone aware of the BSA guidelines and what is considered acceptable behavior. These training programs educate participants on what constitutes physical, emotional, neglect and sexual forms of abuse, assault, harassment and hazing. On the youth level, it teaches the three "R's": Recognize, Resist, and Report. On the parent and Scouter levels, it teaches how to recognize indications of child abuse and how to handle such situations.
Available online at http://www.scouting.org/Training/YouthProtection.aspx, Leaders will need the membership number listed on their registration card or contact the council office if the card cannot be found.
Fast Start Training
This is the first step in training. It covers the organization of a unit, defines a meeting, and how to run a meeting. It is designed primarily for someone with no previous scouting experience. This training is available online at http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/faststart/.
New Leader Essentials (NLE)
The New Leader Essentials is the foundation for all leader training. This is where the leader is introduced to the basic philosophies and beliefs of the Scouting program. Adults will learn how these basic principles are woven into every level of Scouting.
Scouts BSA Leader Specific Training
After the completion of NLE and Fast Start, this course is the next phase of a new Scoutmaster's or Assistant's introduction to the BSA and to the responsibilities, opportunities, and resources that will ensure a successful troop experience.
The BSA Specific Training program is strongly suggested for all Scoutmasters, Assistant Scoutmasters, and Troop Committee members. Troop operation and organization are covered in these sessions. This is the prerequisite for the Outdoor Skills Session.
Other Training Courses recommended but not required
The link to these and other online training courses can be found at http://scouting.org/training/adult.aspx.
Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills
The course familiarizes the leader with the skills that a Scout must learn from Tenderfoot through First Class, learn about health and safety procedures, and learn about nature. Upon completion of this course, Assistant Scoutmasters and Scoutmasters will be considered fully trained.
Safe Swim Defense
Before a BSA group may engage in swimming activities of any kind, a minimum of one adult leader must complete Safe Swim Defense training, have a commitment card with them and agree to use the eight defenses in this plan. Online training available at http://www.scouting.org/pubs/aquatics/index2.html.
Safety Afloat
This course was developed to promote boating and boating safety and to set standards for safe unit activity afloat. Before a BSA group may engage in an excursion, expedition, or trip on the water (canoe, raft, sailboat, motorboat, rowboat, tube, or other craft), adult leaders for such activity must complete Safety Afloat Training, have a commitment card with them, and be dedicated to full compliance with all nine points of Safety Afloat. Online training available at http://www.scouting.org/pubs/aquatics/index2.html.
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Climb On Safely is designed to help adult leaders organize a climbing and rappelling program for their unit, similar to Safe Swim Defense and Safety Afloat. It is not designed to teach leaders how to instruct BSA youth in the skills of climbing and/or rappelling.
Wood Badge provides advanced training in leadership teamwork for adult leaders in all Scouting programs. Its focus is on leadership, not out-of-door skills. This course covers:
Contemporary leadership concepts utilized in corporate America and leading government organizations that are relevant to our values-based movement.
The skills Scouters will learn while participating as a member of a successful working team. The Wood Badge experience will help provide Scouting with the leadership it needs to accomplish its mission now and in the future. Course content is divided into five areas and includes:
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Each summer, the Philmont Training Center offers weeklong courses that cover every aspect of the BSA's program—from Tiger Cubs and Scoutmasters to Endowment and Scoutreach.
Conferences are led by a faculty of outstanding volunteer and professional Scouters selected by the divisions and committees of the National Council for their expertise in specific conference topics.
The conferences are designed to discuss specific Scouting issues, share information from all over the BSA, and train using "best methods" that will enhance the Scouting program for our youth and adults. Each conference features the latest tools and techniques, audiovisuals, discussions, idea sharing, and activities.


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* '''Data Source''': For the purposes of this discussion a data-source will include JTA and non-JTA data sources as well as EclipseLink's native JDBC connection pools.
* '''Data Source''': For the purposes of this discussion a data-source will include JTA and non-JTA data sources as well as EclipseLink's native JDBC connection pools.
* '''Composite PU''': Refers to a PU which combines 2 or more '''Member PU'''s to provide a persistence context which allows queries and transactions (with limitations) across the combined set of entity types.
* '''Composite PU''': Refers to a PU which combines 2 or more '''Member PU'''s to provide a persistence context which allows queries and transactions (with limitations) across the combined set of entity types.
== Requirements ==
== Requirements ==
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Design Specification: Persistence Unit Composition
This feature adds support for persistence units being composed. This means a user can define multiple persistence units with a unique set of entity types and expose them through a composite persistence unit which combines the set of classes across multiple data sources to expose a single persistence context.
Document History
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Project overview
The goal is to combine several persistence units into a single one.
em.persist(new A(..)); em.persist(new Z(..)); // insert A into db1; insert Z into db2: // the two different data bases possibly from different vendors em.flush();
- Data Source: For the purposes of this discussion a data-source will include JTA and non-JTA data sources as well as EclipseLink's native JDBC connection pools.
- Composite PU: Refers to a PU which combines 2 or more Composite Member PUs to provide a persistence context which allows queries and transactions (with limitations) across the combined set of entity types.
|Add support for a single persistence context accessing entities stored in different data sources (schemas/table-space/database) where application developers can perform queries and transactions across the complete set of entities transparently.
|Support mapping relationships between entities in different data sources.
|Provide easy to use JPA configuration.
|Clearly capture usage limitations and exceptions expected in Java Docs and user documentation. The most basic example of this is the ability to join across tables in different data sources. This limitation effects mapping and query execution and optimizations. These issues need to be identified and documented.
|Support container managed and application bootstrap JPA usage with dynamic, static, and no weaving.
User Bugs
The following potentially related bugs should be taken into consideration in this feature work.
- JPA enhancement requests.
- bug 260258 - Add JPA EntityManagerFactoryBroker support
- Core bugs
- bug 269213 - SessionBroker handling of ExceptionHandler broken because stale copy/paste
- bug 281569 - Integration of JPA using transaction-type="JTA" but without EJB container, set-up incomplete commit cleanup
- bug 326649 - DatabaseSessionImpl.finalize() leads to ClassCastException
- bug 329185 - SessionBroker: ClassCastException in Cursor.buildAndRegisterObject between ServerSession and UnitOfWorkImpl
- bug 332581 - SessionBroker session event issues to consider and resolve when implementing JPA Session Broker
- bug 331712 - Allow Isolated classes to work with client session broker
Design Constraints
Design / Functionality
The Dali team should be made aware of this feature work and track an enhancement request to uptake it.
Config files
- CompositePU must be configured in persistence.xml using property:
/** * Indicates if it's a composite persistence unit ("true"). * The property must be specified in persistence.xml of a composite persistence unit. * The property passed to createEntityManagerFactory method or in system properties is ignored. * Composite persistence unit would contain all persistence units found in jar files specified by <jar-file> elements in persistence.xml. * <jar-file>contained1.jar</jar-file> * <jar-file>contained2.jar</jar-file> * <properties> * <property name="eclipselink.composite-unit" value="true"/> * </properties> * @see #COMPOSITE_UNIT_MEMBER * @see #COMPOSITE_PROPERTIES */ public static final String COMPOSITE_UNIT = "eclipselink.composite-unit";
- CompositeMemberPU may specify in persistence.xml that it can't be used as an independent persistence unit:
/** * Indicates if the persistence unit must be a member of a composite persistence unit ("true"), * can't be used as an independent persistence unit. * That happens if persistence unit has dependencies on other persistence unit(s). * The property may be specified in persistence.xml. * The property passed to createEntityManagerFactory method or in system properties is ignored. * If this property is set to true, EntityManagerFactory still could be created, * but it can't be connected: an attempt to create entity manager would cause an exception. * @see #COMPOSITE_UNIT * @see #COMPOSITE_PROPERTIES */ public static final String COMPOSITE_UNIT_MEMBER = "eclipselink.composite-unit.member";
- While creating CompositePU EntityManagerFactory properties could be passed to CompositeMemeberPUs:
/** * The property may be passed to createEntityManagerFactory method of a composite persistence unit * to pass properties to member persistence units. * The value is a map: * the key is a member persistence unit's name, * the value is a map of properties to be passed to this persistence unit. * "eclipselink.composite.properties" -> ( * ("containedPu1" -> ( "javax.persistence.jdbc.user" -> "user1", * "javax.persistence.jdbc.password" -> "password1", * "javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" -> "oracle.jdbc.OracleDriver", * "javax.persistence.jdbc.url" -> "jdbc:oracle:thin:@oracle_db_url:1521:db", * ) , * ("containedPu2" -> ( "javax.persistence.jdbc.user" -> "user2", * "javax.persistence.jdbc.password" -> "password2" * "javax.persistence.jdbc.driver" -> "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver", * "javax.persistence.jdbc.url" -> "jdbc:mysql://my_sql_db_url:3306/user2", * ) * ) * @see #COMPOSITE_UNIT */ public static final String COMPOSITE_PROPERTIES = "eclipselink.composite.properties";
- compositePu specifies transaction type and server platform. It will contain all persistence units defined in member1.jar and member2.jar files.
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="compositePu" transaction-type="JTA"> <provider> org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider </provider> <jar-file>contained1.jar</jar-file> <jar-file>contained2.jar</jar-file> <properties> <property name="eclipselink.composite-unit" value="true"/> <property name="eclipselink.target-server" value="WebLogic_10"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
- memberPu1 defined in member1.jar file. It could be used independently as well as inside composite persistence unit.
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="memberPu1" transaction-type="JTA"> <provider> org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider </provider> <mapping-file>META-INF/advanced-entity-mappings1.xml</mapping-file> <jta-data-source>jdbc/OracleJtaDS</jta-data-source> <exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes> <properties> <property name="eclipselink.target-server" value="WebLogic_10"/> <property name="eclipselink.target-database" value="org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.oracle.Oracle11Platform"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
- memberPu2 defined in member2.jar file. It has dependency on a class defined in member1.jar and can't be used independently.
<persistence xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence persistence_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <persistence-unit name="memberPu2"> <provider> org.eclipse.persistence.jpa.PersistenceProvider </provider> <mapping-file>META-INF/advanced-entity-mappings2.xml</mapping-file> <jta-data-source>jdbc/MySqlJtaDS</jta-data-source> <exclude-unlisted-classes>false</exclude-unlisted-classes> <properties> <property name="eclipselink.composite-unit.member" value="true"/> <property name="eclipselink.target-database" value="org.eclipse.persistence.platform.database.MySQLPlatform"/> </properties> </persistence-unit> </persistence>
All three jars - composite and the two members - should be deployed on the same class loader. In case of application server the jars should by packed in an ear file; in standalone case put on the class pass. As usual compositePu could be accessed either through injection (in app. server case):
@PersistenceUnit(unitName="compositePu") EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory; @PersistenceUnit(unitName="compositePu") EntityManager entityManager;
or using Persistence:
EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("compositePu", properties);
Cannot join tables from different data sources in a query.
Still to come
Properties usage: how brokerPu and containedPu properties are processed: which one takes precedence, what is ignored etc.
Open Issues
This section lists the open issues that are still pending that must be decided prior to fully implementing this project's requirements.
|Issue #
|Description / Notes
|Should this feature include both split and aggregated persistence units? NO split support.
|In the case of split persistence units where should the additional data sources be defined? PU properties in persistence.xml, eclipselink-orm.xml, both? Since it is possible for different data sources to be different database vendors or versions it should be possible to configure all JDBC/connection/pool level options on each data source. NO split support.
|Should this feature include support to customize additional datasources with persistence unit properties. NO.
|In the case of aggregate persistence units, should persistence units be usable on their own. YES, if independent.
This section lists decisions made. These are intended to document the resolution of open issues or constraints added to the project that are important.
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Webinar Recap: An Industry Perspective on the Shale Gas Debate
On Wednesday, January 23, Mark Boling, President of V+ Development Solutions, a division of Southwestern Energy Company, kicked off the spring line-up of our 2012-2013 Policy Workshop Webinar Series on Emerging Issues in Shale Gas Development with a presentation on "Balancing Environmental, Social and Economic Impacts of Shale Gas Development Activities."
In his presentation, Mr. Boling provided both a defense for continued shale gas development and an acknowledgment that the gas industry needs to do a better job, on the whole, of acknowledging and addressing legitimate environmental concerns. Toward this end, he discussed Southwestern's efforts to: (1) study the rate of methane leakage from shale gas wells in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and others (their final report is due out soon); (2) work with EDF to develop and promote a model regulatory framework for states to ensure proper well integrity; (3) develop improved well cementing technology with the University of Houston and CSI Technologies; (4) with help from The Nature Conservancy, train employees and contractors to reduce erosion and sedimentation impacts from project sites; and (5) develop new tracer technology with Rice University to help detect hydraulic fracturing fluids if they migrate into groundwater.
You can watch Mr. Boling's full presentation below, in which he further discusses Southwestern's views on the shale gas debate and the company's vision of environmental responsibility and regulation.
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In listening to Mr. Boling's presentation and his responses during the subsequent Q&A, three things struck me as particularly important issues for regulatory discussions:
(1) "A Level Playing Field" – Mr. Boling noted that Southwestern strongly supports adoption of the model regulatory framework that it has developed with EDF. But he also stressed the need for a level playing field, suggesting that even companies interested in doing "the right thing" may hesitate to implement best environmental practices if doing so makes them less competitive. Companies may not always seek the lowest denominator – Mr. Boling noted that many implement best practices that go beyond regulatory minimums – but without effective regulatory safeguards, economic pressures will make it difficult if not impossible to address environmental concerns fully, even with good actors.
(2) "Straight Talk" About Regulations – In discussing what he sees as a need to "refocus the debate," Mr. Boling recommended that his industry spend less time trying to minimize public concerns and more time communicating about the real risks involved in shale gas development and what the industry is doing to mitigate these risks. For example, during the Q&A, Mr. Boling noted that he has split with those in his industry who argue that "green completions," which help reduce or eliminate air pollutant emissions from new shale gas wells, are too costly. New regulations adopted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last year will require green completions of all new hydraulically fractured wells by the year 2015, though Southwestern has begun this process early by participating in EPA's Natural Gas STAR Program. Mr. Boling noted that a few years ago, green completions cost his company $20,000 more per well than simply venting pollutants to the air, but these costs have since fallen significantly, and now green completions are often profitable investments because they capture natural gas that can be sold rather than wasted. Notably, these economic benefits are purely private and do not take into account the additional public benefits that arise from reduced air and climate pollution.
Companies such as Southwestern deserve credit for leading environmentally through the Natural Gas STAR Program and other such initiatives. Southwestern's experience also reinforces the observation that the costs of regulatory compliance are often much less than originally anticipated as new technologies and solutions develop or become cheaper to implement over time (see, e.g., here, here, and here).
(3) Politics and Science – Mr. Boling lamented what he sees as too much politics in shale gas regulation and not enough regulation based on sound science and risk assessments. The goal of science-based (or scientifically informed) regulation is a good one, and it is true that some parties on both sides of the shale gas debate have stretched the science too far in support of their agendas. As more research is published – including studies involving Southwestern – these data will hopefully contribute to an improved public understanding of shale gas' environmental risks and impacts as well as its potential benefits.
But it is also true that science cannot, on its own, determine the best regulatory approach when faced with uncertainty or questions of socially acceptable levels of risk. Decisions about whether to move forward with resource development or to wait for science (and policy) to catch up to practice are inherently political, and thus politics will continue to play a role in determining how shale gas fits into the future energy mix.
In the context of climate change, for example, it is indisputable, scientifically, that burning fossil fuels, including shale gas, contributes to a warming planet. Yet there is a debate as to whether shale gas will exacerbate this warming in the long run or instead help reduce the total warming by helping transition us away from coal and, eventually, to carbon-free energy. Ultimately, the outcome of political decisions about energy investments and environmental risks will determine whether the former or the latter is true. Sound science, including climate science, must be a key component of these decisions, but resource outcomes and policies are rarely pure questions of scientific fact. Politics will play a role.
Next Time in Emerging Issues in Shale Gas Development
The Emerging Issues in Shale Gas Development webinar series will continue on Tuesday, February 12, from 2-3pm EST with a presentation by Jeffrey Logan from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on "The Role of Natural Gas in U.S. Electric Power Futures." Mr. Logan will present research from a report he recently co-authored through the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis, an initiative between NREL, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the Colorado School of Mines, Colorado State, M.I.T., and Stanford.
To register for this webinar, please click here. As always, the webinar will be free and open to the public, but registration is required to participate.


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marathon-data (game data for use with alephone package)
Marathon is a fight for survival against the Pfhor, an alien race
attacking your colony ship. This fan-made conversion known as M1A1
brings the start of the Marathon trilogy to Aleph One.
Included in the package is a shell script wrapper. Type "marathon"
or select Marathon from the KDE or XFCE "Games" menu.
This requires: alephone
Maintained by: B. Watson
Keywords: alephone,fps,bungie
ChangeLog: marathon-data
Download SlackBuild:
marathon-data.tar.gz.asc (FAQ)
(the SlackBuild does not include the source)
|Individual Files:
| doinst.sh
| marathon
| marathon-data.SlackBuild
| marathon-data.info
| marathon.desktop
| slack-desc
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Patina Products F244 University of Arkansas Fire Pit
- Manufactured from cold rolled steel
- Natural rust patina finish
- University of Arkansas design
- Reviews
- Description
- Specifications
- Benefits
Patina Products F244 University of Arkansas Fire Pit
Show off your collegiate pride while creating memories around the fire pit! The Patina Products F244 University of Arkansas Fire Pit is a portable outdoor fire pit with a natural rust patina finish. It's made from cold-rolled steel that prominently features a design representing the University of Arkansas. This fire pit can go anywhere you might want to have some fun outdoors with friends and family - whether it's in your backyard or on the beach.
Fully assembled
There's no tiring or complicated assembly steps to take with this fire pit. When it arrives, it's already fully assembled and ready to use. Simply place it wherever you want it to go and start making fun outdoor memories with family and friends.
Cold-rolled steel
A fire pit by nature must be strong and durable, both because of its function and because it stays outside in the harsh elements. Cold-rolled steel is used to build these fire pits, giving them the resilience and reliability you're looking for.
Natural rust patina finish
There's nothing quite like that natural look of a rust patina fire pit. It ages beautifully over time as you continue to use it, with incredible colors and textures emerging gradually. You'll always find it a comfortable and organic complement to your outdoor gathering area.
- 16 gauge cold-rolled steel
- Includes poker, BBQ grill, spark screen, and weather cover
- Can be used with wood or charcoal fuel
- 16" high, 24" diameter (bowl), 30" diameter (safety ring)
- Five year warranty
- University of Arkansas design - Hogs Pride!
Welded legs
You won't have any problems with weak, wobbly legs making the fire pit dangerous. Sturdy legs are welded in place to prevent any wobbling from happening during usage, making the fire pit much safer and more comfortable to use.
Portable design
This fire pit was designed to be portable and easily moved from place to place. Whether you want to just have some friends and family over in your backyard or you want to take it down to the beach for a fun outdoor gathering, it can easily go where you need it to go.
Safety ring
A built in safety ring surrounds the entire circumference of the fire pit to help protect people and objects from any accidents or damage. It also can function as a footrest for people to kick back and relax with, or as a handle to carry the fire pit from place to place easily.
Guaranteed Satisfaction.
- Up To 30 days to return your purchase
- Money back guaranteed
- Free return shipping
- No restocking fees
- Model: F244
- Product Type: University of Arkansas Fire Pit
- Product Dimensions: L: 24.00" x W: 30.00" x H: 16.00"
- Product Weight: 50.00 lbs.
- Product Color: Bronze
- Application: Outdoor heating and decor
- Construction: Steel
- Finish: Rust/Patina
- Assembly Required: No
- Requires Venting: No
- Requires Gas Hook-Ups: No
- Safety Features: Outer safety ring, spark screen cover, welded legs
- Arrives fully assembled and ready to use
- Can be used with either wood or charcoal as fuel
- Fun and functional with a design representing the University of Arkansas
- Natural rust patina finish ages beautifully over time
- Portable design with built-in handle lets you create a nice gathering space anywhere
- Strong and durable cold-rolled steel construction lasts a lifetime


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Gaming | News
Researchers at the University of Southern
Game Innovation Lab are developing research-based games for education and
social awareness.
Tracy Fullerton, director of the Game Innovation Lab at USC, described the
researchers at the lab as "some of the first movers in the area of what is now
referred to as 'serious games' or 'games for change,'" which are games that are
designed to educate players in addition to entertaining them.
Fullerton cited one of the best-known games to come out of the lab, "Darfur
Is Dying," as an example of a serious game. Darfur is Dying is a
narrative-based simulation that puts players "into the shoes of a refugee in a
camp in the Sudan and helps them to understand and to talk about the crisis
there," said Fullerton.
Some other serious games to come out of the lab are designed specifically for
classrooms, such as one designed to teach 12th grade constitutional history, and
others currently under development about the upcoming anniversary of the start
of World War 1.
The USC Game Innovation Lab has been around since 2004, and, according to the lab's site, its mission is "to pursue experimental design of games in cultural realms including art, science, politics and learning."
Research is an important component of the development process of these games,
and some of the games are developed by USC graduate students as thesis projects.
Fullerton said the research-based development process involves establishing the
goals for the game, determining how best to meet those goals and then assessing
the outcomes to ensure the games achieve those goals.
As an example, researchers at the lab recently collaborated with their
counterparts at USC's Rossier School of
Education to develop a suite of games called
FutureBound, which are designed
to help students in underserved areas learn about the college application
process. The researchers brought some of those kids into the lab and taught them
how to design games themselves. "They made games about this crisis in their
lives, things they were afraid of, things they didn't understand," said
Fullerton. "We looked at those games and learned from them what types of things
we needed to put in our game to actually help the kids with these problems."
Once the games had been developed, the researchers arranged play tests in
classroom settings and then did research on the outcomes of those play tests to
make sure the games were helping the students.
The games seem to be achieving that goal. "Not only do we have the research
feedback, but we have a tremendous amount of anecdotal feedback from the
students," said Fullerton, referring to the students involved in the FutureBound
project. "They write to us and they tell us that now they have a strategy and
they know how to present themselves as candidates."
Further information about USC's research-based games can be found on the
Game Innovation
Labs' site.
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Yes, Chargers rookie linebacker Manti Te'o will hear some jokes in the locker room about his fake dead girlfriend. No, it won't be anything that alienates Te'o from the team.
That's the word from veteran Donald Butler, who is penciled in on the Chargers' depth chart to start at inside linebacker next to Te'o this season. Butler says everyone on the team is well aware that Te'o fell for a hoax that resulted in him publicly declaring that he had fallen in love with a woman who had died of cancer, only to learn later that the woman never existed.
"I'm sure he'll get some jabs," Butler told U-T San Diego. "But that comes with being a rookie. He might get a little more because of his situation, but I'm sure he's man enough to handle it and really grow from it. I don't think it's going to be anything over-the-top. It'll be your normal rookie jokes."
Butler said his own message to Te'o was a simple text telling him to be ready to work.
"I just want to see him come here and work," Butler said. "A lot of people are talking about the future, and as bright as the future may seem or sound, he has to come in and prove himself before anything. That's what I'm looking forward to. I want someone coming in ready and willing to work and learn and be a part of this defense."
The sooner Te'o shows that he's a valuable part of the Chargers' defense, the sooner the Chargers' veterans will accept him, and stop with the Lennay Kekua jokes.


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Welcome to the Pierhead
The Pierhead helped Wales forge its identity 'through water and fire' in the late nineteenth century. Today its aim is to inform, involve and inspire a new generation to forge a Wales for the future.
Come to Cardiff Bay and explore the Pierhead for yourself, and discover how the building and those who worked here helped shape Wales's past.
Have Your Say...
We welcome your opinions. During your visit, please feel free to express your opinions, and give voice to issues that matter to you as individuals, communities or organisations.


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So, if you work in a strictly suit and tie sort of place where casual Friday's denotes khakis and a button-down, these dresses won't work for your office environment. For those of us who work in slightly more liberal offices where professional chic is left open for creative interpretation, we've handpicked five dresses from Piperlime. They're Spring-y (Yep, we just invented a new word) and easily transitionable (Yep, another made up word) from day to night for Happy Hour.
Some of these dresses too short for your taste? Try pairing them with a pair of capri leggings!


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Career Advice >> Browse Articles >> Workplace Issues
Signs of a Selfish Boss
Nealeigh Mitchell | NonProfitPeople
If you've ever worked in an office environment, you've probably dealt with some breed of bad boss. Micromanagers, control freaks, and selfish tyrants lurk at all levels of organizations, their destructive powers wreaking havoc in the workplace.
In fact, employee-employer relations are major stressors for even the savviest businesswomen. According to a Gallup poll, supervisor problems surpass most other areas of worker dissatisfaction, including salary, hours, and job duties.
Don't let a lousy leader knock you off your career ladder. Steer clear of costly consequences by recognizing ways a self-centered boss keeps her subordinates in check.
Clips Your Wings:
Selfish bosses are super sensitive to younger and brighter protégés nipping at their heels. Overeager beavers rarely win a battle with the boss — especially if it's over sharing the spotlight. So if you find yourself staying late at the office but left out of important meetings, request a chat. That promotion you've been waiting for may never come.
Steals Your Work:
Self-centered bosses hate getting eclipsed by their underlings so they hog the glory by taking credit for your work. Sure, your job is to be creative and generate fresh ideas. You're also there to make your boss look good. But if you've singlehandedly saved a project — or four — and still need a nametag, there's a thief in the ranks.
Feeds You to Wolves:
You relish being the boss' right-hand woman but unfortunately, there's an ugly underbelly – you're always doing the dirty work. Firing employees or taking flak for a bad sales pitch should never land in your lap. Shoulder the responsibility only if it's a balanced load. You're there to support your boss, not be her whipping girl.
Leaves You in the Lurch:
You've proved yourself and finally get to spearhead a major project. Only your boss gave you half of the vital information and an impossible deadline. Plus, your team isn't qualified to get the job done. Why would she sabotage her own crew? She might be throwing you under the bus to keep you in your place.