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Tell es Sa'idiyeh, identified as the biblical city of Zarethan, lies at the heart of the central Jordan Valley. The huge, double occupation mound occupies a key strategic position, commanding the crossroads of two major trade routes, and dominating some of the richest and most fertile agricultural land east of the River Jordan.
Excavations undertaken since 1985, by a British Museum expedition under the direction of Jonathan N. Tubb, have revealed the great antiquity of the site's occupational history, with settlement phases extending from the Early Islamic period of the seventh century AD, as far back at least as the Early Bronze Age of the third millennium BC. Excavations have shown that by about 2900 BC, Tell es-Sa'idiyeh was a large and prosperous city, with well constructed architecture and evidence for highly developed municipal planning. The most significant finding in this Early Bronze Age phase has been of a large palace complex on the lower tell, with areas set aside for olive oil production and storage, wine-making and textile preparation. All three of these activities were conducted on an industrial scale, clearly designed for international commerce. The pottery and other artefacts recovered from this early city display a level of refinement and sophistication unparalleled elsewhere in the Levant.
Equally remarkable discoveries relate to the city of the twelfth century BC, where excavations have uncovered evidence to suggest that Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, like Beth Shan or Gaza on the other side of the Jordan River, was a major centre for the Egyptian control of Canaan during the final years of its New Kingdom empire. Substantial architecture, including an elaborate water system and Egyptian-style public buildings have been found on the upper mound, and the same strong Egyptian component is also found in the contemporary cemetery which was cut into the long-abandoned and eroded ruins of the Early Bronze Age city on the lower mound. The expedition has excavated, to date, some 450 graves, many of which show unusual Egyptian features, both in terms of the grave-goods and burial customs.
The principal objective of the Tell es-Sa'idiyeh excavation project has been to study in detail a large and strategically important site in one of the most fertile regions of the Levant. Through meticulously conducted and comprehensively recorded excavation, it will be possible to build up a complete story of the site's fortunes through time – from its first settlement as a small un-walled village in the fifth millennium BC to its final abandonment in the seventh century AD.
By analysis of the almost-continuous sequence of occupation phases between these two dates, it will be possible to understand how the site has responded over time to the numerous social, economic, political, climatic and environmental changes that have affected the Levant throughout its history.
Another objective is to understand Tell es-Sa'idiyeh in its environmental setting. This will be achieved by careful study of the plant and animal remains from each occupation phase. By comparing these with the contemporary collections, it is hoped to create a picture of how the landscape has changed through time, and the degree to which it has been exploited and modified by human presence.
Pennsylvania excavations:
J. B. Pritchard, The Cemetery at Tell es-Sa' idiyeh, Jordan. University Museum Monograph 41. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1980
J. B. Pritchard, Tell es-Sa'idiyeh: Excavations on the Tell, 1964-1966. University Museum Monograph 60. Philadelphia: University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, 1985
British Museum excavations:
J.N.Tubb, Canaanites. Peoples of the Past (London, British Museum Press, 1998)
J.N.Tubb, 'Interim Report on the Ninth Season (1996) of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan, 1997' Palestine Exploration Quarterly 129, pp. 54-77.
J.N.Tubb, P.G. Dorrell and F.J. Cobbing, 'Interim Report on the Eighth (1995) Season of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, 1996', Palestine Exploration Quarterly 128, pp. 16-40
J.N.Tubb, 'Tell es-Sa'idiyeh 1993: Interim Report on the Seventh Season of Excavations, 1994', Palestine Exploration Quarterly 126, pp. 52-67
J.N.Tubb, 'Tell es-Sa'idiyeh: Interim Report on the Sixth Season of Excavations, 1993', Palestine Exploration Quarterly 125, pp. 50-74
J.N.Tubb and P.G. Dorrell, 'Tell es-Sa'idiyeh: Interim Report on the Fifth (1990) Season of Excavations, 1991', Levant 23, pp. 67-86
J.N.Tubb, 'Preliminary Report on the Fourth Season of Excavations at Tell es-Sa'idiyeh in the Jordan Valley, 1990', Levant 22, pp. 21-42
J.N.Tubb, 'Tell es-Sa'idiyeh: Preliminary Report on the First Three Seasons of Renewed Excavations, 1988', Levant 20, pp. 23-89


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(Reposted from May of last year to commemorate the S&P "downgrade." The "agency" scams have since spent millions in lobbying money to weaken and delay the Franken Amendment and other urgently needed reforms.)
PowerPoints, emails, and transcripts obtained by Sen. Carl Levin's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations illustrate the real magnitude of Sen. Al Franken's victory today. Sen. Franken was able to pass an amendment which eliminates the conflict of interest that's created when ratings agencies "compete for business." It passed the Senate in a 64/35 vote – and it was a bipartisan victory, no less, with 10 Republicans joining 54 Dems to support it.
Here's how broken our current system has become: Not only are the ratings agencies competing as for-profit businesses, but our two largest agencies are publicly traded companies. That means they don't just worry about making a profit. They also have to worry about impressing the stock market on a quarterly basis to boost their stock prices and further enrich their executives. And who influences stock prices the most? Traders on Wall Street, who are also the agencies' customer base and the objects of their scrutiny.
Nowhere is this inherent conflict of interest better illustrated than in a PowerPoint presentation which consultants gave to Moody's Investor Service in 2002. Consultants held focus groups and conducted interviews with key Moody's executives and associates in the Structured Finance Group (SFG), which is responsible for rating complex and potentially risky financial products. Here's the money shot:
Got that? The people responsible for rating risky financial instruments thought their business objectives were "increased revenue," "increasing market share," and "fostering good relationships" (with issuers before investors). Seemingly as an afterthought, the Moody's group added that they should develop "high quality ratings and research." An equally critical paragraph appears further down on the same slide:
"When asked about how business objectives were translated into day-to-day work, most agreed that writing deals was paramount, while writing research and developing new products and services received less emphasis. Most agreed that there was a strong emphasis on relationships with issuers and investment bankers." (emphasis mine)
In other words, getting more business came first – hence the mentions of revenue, market share, and pleasing the issuers and investment bankers who drive those numbers. Research got "less emphasis." And why wouldn't that be the case? Moody's parent corporation (which is listed on the New York Stock Exchange as MCO) has quarterly earnings to meet. So does its principal competitor, Standard & Poor's. S&P is a division of publicly traded McGraw-Hill (NYSE:MHP), with annual revenues of $2.61 billion for 2009 (that's nearly 44% of the parent company's $5.95 billion in revenue).
No wonder the Levin Subcommittee found internal emails like this one from S&P: "I don't think this is enough to satisfy them. What's the next step?" Even more telling is this question from the transcript of the "Managing Director's Town Hall Meeting" at Moody's in September of 2007. Managing Director Raymond McDaniel was asked about "the financial outlook for the rest of the year." The question continued: "… my thinking is there's a much greater concern about the franchise. Everyone in this room is a long-term investor (ed: presumably in Moody's stock), for sure … It's disheartening … to see what's going on with the stock price."
In other words, the people entrusted with rating financial products are concerned about the value of the stock they hold in their own company … which is driven by the actions of the people they're rating! McDaniel responded that critics "are not going to find anything at Moody's in terms of corrupt or bad actions."
To that point, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is investigating eight banks for allegedly having given false information to Moody's and its competitors. The New York Times also reports that sources say Cuomo is "interested in the revolving door of employees of the rating agencies who were hired by bank mortgage desks to help create mortgage deals that got better ratings than they deserved." The Cuomo investigation was sparked by an earlier Times report which said that "Wall Street was given access to the formulas behind those magic ratings — and hired away some of the very people who had devised them."
Ratings agencies were then shocked — shocked — to learn that banks might have manipulated their models – models which they freely gave to them as their "customers." Yves Smith considers it very plausible that the ratings agencies were "duped, rather than dumb" – or worse, complicit. But these possibilities are not mutually exclusive. At the very least, Levin Subcommittee exhibits like the Powerpoint slide, internal emails, and Moody's Town Hall transcript show that it was in the agencies' financial interest not to know the truth.
The Franken Amendment fixes this problem by directing the SEC to create a board that will assign one rating agency to rate each new issue-backed security. The majority of seats on the board would go to investors. (More detail here.) As Sen. Franken explained during today's debate, the system would provide incentives for accuracy (rather than for ratings that please issuers), and the board is self-governing. Issuers would be free to seek other ratings once the board-approved agency had made its conclusion.
While the amendment passed today, it does have opponents. In an uncharacteristically inarticulate floor speech today, Sen. Chris Dodd opposed the bill for reasons he couldn't quite specify, saying that it made him "uneasy" and he "wasn't sure it was sound." Since the reasons for his opposition were unclear, it's equally unclear whether any deals might be underway to weaken the amendment with other provisions during the negotiation process.
Hopefully that can't or won't happen, but the mentality and the power base that create our current ratings agency problem is alive and well. Sen. Franken has won an important victory today, and it needs to be defended at all costs.
(Note to my fellow observers and scribes: Now that he's helped transform the financial world, can we please write about Sen. Franken without making "playful" references to his entertainment career? He's earned that.)


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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – Excitement and anticipation is high on the campus of Saint Joseph's these days. That was quite evident nearly 40 minutes before tipoff of the Hawks' season-opener on Monday night as the student section at Hagan Arena was filled to capacity. Yale was the opponent, and the Bulldogs learned first-hand what all the buzz is about.
Langston Galloway scored 20 points to lead three players in double figures as the Hawks broke open a competitive game in the second half en route to a 61-35 victory before a boisterous crowd of 4,120.
The Bulldogs (0-2) were within eight with 13:30 to go, but Saint Joseph's scored 18 straight points over the next eight minutes to seize control.
Brandon Sherrod and Armani Cotton each scored eight points to pace Yale.
The Hawks' pressure defense held the Bulldogs to 25 percent shooting (13-of-52) from the field.
Ronald Roberts (10 points, 12 rebounds) and Halil Kanacevic (11 points, 11 rebounds) both had double-doubles for Saint Joseph, the preseason favorite in the Atlantic 10.
The Hawks raced out to an early 17-4 lead, but Yale used a 7-0 run, capped by a Jeremiah Kreisberg jumper, to pull within six. St. Joseph pushed the lead back to 13 before a late Sam Martin three-pointer cut the deficit to 25-15 at the intermission.
The Bulldogs got within eight a couple of times early in the second half, the final time coming on a Cotton three-pointer. Yale, though, didn't score again until a Sherrod layup with 4:45 left and by then the outcome was decided.
Austin Morgan, who scored 28 points against Sacred Heart on Saturday, was held to four points. Javier Duren added seven points and five rebounds.
The Hawks (1-0) attempted 30 free throws in the game to seven for the Bulldogs.
NOTES: The game was part of the 2012 NABC Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. Yale next heads to Evansville, Ind., for three games this weekend. The Bulldogs play Evansville on Friday, Buffalo on Saturday and Western Illinois on Sunday… It also was the first meeting between Yale and Saint Joseph's… Freshmen Jack Montague and Nick Victor both made their first career appearances… Casey Hughes '07, a four-year letterwinner for the Bulldogs, was in attendance.
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Dr. Brett King is Associate Professor of Dermatology, specializing in skin diseases recalcitrant to first-line therapies. He has pioneered the use of Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors in cutaneous diseases, in particular for alopecia areata, vitiligo, and atopic dermatitis, in addition to other disorders. He sees patients at Yale Dermatology-Middlebury.
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Dr. King received his B.A. at the University of California at Santa Cruz, his Ph.D. from Stanford University and his M.D. from Yale University School of Medicine. He completed medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and dermatology residency at Yale University School of Medicine.
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Hacking Buildr: Interactive Shell Support
Posted By Daniel Spiewak On January 12, 2009 @ 12:52 am In Java, Ruby, Scala | 9 Comments
Last week, we looked at the unfortunately-unexplored topic of Scala/Java joint compilation [1]. Specifically, we saw several different ways in which this functionality may be invoked covering a number of different tools. Among these tools was Buildr, a fast Ruby-based drop-in replacement for Maven with a penchant for simple configuration. In the article I mentioned that Buildr doesn't actually have support for the Scala joint compiler out of the box. In fact, this feature actually requires the use of a Buildr fork I've been using to experiment with different extensions. Among these extensions is a feature I've been wanting from Buildr for a long time: the ability to launch a pre-configured interactive shell.
For those coming from a primarily-Java background, the concept of an interactive shell may seem a bit foreign. Basically, an interactive shell — or REPL [2], as it is often called — is a line-by-line language interpreter which allows you to execute snippets of code with immediate result. This has been a common tool in the hands of dynamic language enthusiasts since the days of LISP, but has only recently found its way into the world of mainstream static languages such as Scala.
One of the most useful applications of these tools is the testing of code (particularly frameworks) before the implementations are fully completed. For example, when working on my port of Clojure's
PersistentVector [3], I would often spin up a Scala shell to quickly test one aspect or another of the class. As a minor productivity plug, JavaRebel [4] is a truly invaluable tool for development of this variety.
The problem with this pattern of work is it requires the interactive shell in question to be pre-configured to include the project's output directory on the CLASSPATH. While this isn't usually so bad, things can get very sticky when you're working with a project which includes a large number of dependencies. It isn't too unreasonable to imagine shell invocations stretching into the tens of lines, just to spin up a "quick and dirty" test tool.
Further complicating affairs is the fact that many projects do away with the notion of fixed dependency paths and simply allow tools like Maven or Buildr to manage the CLASSPATH entirely out of sight. In order to fire up a Scala shell for a project with any external dependencies, I must first manually read my
buildfile, parsing out all of the artifacts in use. Then I have to grope about in my
~/.m2/repository directory until I find the JARs in question. Needless to say, the productivity benefits of this technique become extremely suspect after the first or second expedition.
For this reason, I strongly believe that the launch of an interactive shell should be the responsibility of the tool managing the dependencies, rather than that of the developer. Note that Maven already has some support for shells in conjunction with certain languages (Scala among them), but it is as crude and verbose as the tool itself. What I really want is to be able to invoke the following command and have the appropriate shell launched with a pre-configured CLASSPATH. I shouldn't have to worry about the language of my project, the location of my repository or even if the shell requires extra configuration on my platform. The idea is that everything should all work auto-magically:
$ buildr shell
This is exactly what the
interactive-shell branch of my Buildr fork [5] is designed to accomplish. Whenever the
shell task is invoked, Buildr looked through the current project and attempts to guess the language involved. This guesswork is required for a number of other features, so Buildr is actually pretty accurate in this area. If the language in question is Groovy or Scala, then the desired shell is obvious. Java does not have an integrated shell, which means that the default behavior on a Java project would be to raise an error.
However, the benefits of interactive shells are not limited to just the latest-and-greatest languages. I often use a Scala shell with Java projects, and for certain things a JRuby shell as well (
jirb). Thus, my interactive shell extension also provides a mechanism to allow users to override the default shell on a per-project basis:
define 'my-project' do shell.using :clj end
With this configuration, regardless of the language used by the compiler for "my-project", Buildr will launch the Clojure REPL whenever the
shell task is invoked. The currently supported shells and their corresponding Buildr identifiers:
It is also possible to explicitly launch a specific shell. This is useful for situations where you might want to use the Scala shell for testing some things and the JRuby IRB for quickly prototyping other ideas (I do this a lot). The command to launch the JIRB shell in the context of
my-project would be as follows:
$ buildr my-project:shell:jirb
As a special value-added feature, all of these shells (except for Groovy's, which is weird) will be automatically configured to use JavaRebel for the project compilation target classes if it can be automatically detected. This detection is performed by examining
JAVAREBEL and
JAVAREBEL_HOME environment variables in order. If any one of these points to a directory which contains
javarebel.jar or points directly to
javarebel.jar itself, the configuration is assumed and the respective shell invocation is appropriately modified.
Best of all, this support is implemented using a highly-extensible framework similar to Buildr's own
Compiler API. It's very easy for plugin implementors or even average developers to simply drop-in a new shell provider, perhaps for an internal language or even some unexpected application. The core functionality of shell detection is integrated into Buildr itself, but this in no way hampers extensibility. For example, I could easily create a third-party
.rake plugin for Buildr which added support for a whole new language (e.g. Haskell). In this plugin, I could also define a new shell provider which would be the default for projects using that language (e.g. GHCi).
The good news is that this feature has been discussed extensively [6] on the
buildr-user mailing-list and the prevailing opinion seems to be that it should be folded into the main Buildr distribution. Exactly what form this will take has yet to be decided. The bad news is that there is still some dispute about a fundamental aspect of this feature's operation.
The question revolves around what the exact behavior should be when the
shell task is invoked. Should Buildr detect the project (or sub-project) you are in and automatically configure the shell's CLASSPATH accordingly? This would give the interactive shell access to different classes depending on the current working directory. Alternatively, should there be one all-powerful shell per-
buildfile configured at the root level? This would allow your shell to remain consistent throughout the project, regardless of your current directory. However, it would also mean that some configuration would be required in order to enable the functionality. (more details of this debate can be found on the mailing-list [6]).
Additionally, what should the exact syntax be for invoking a specific shell? Rake 0.8 allows tasks to take parameters enclosed within square brackets. Thus, the syntax would be something more like the following:
$ buildr collection:shell[jirb]
In some sense, this is more logical since it reflects the fact that a single task,
shell, is taking care of the work of invoking stuff. On the other hand, it's a little less consistent with the rest of Buildr's tasks, particularly things like "
test:TestClass" and so on. This too is a matter which has yet to be settled.
All in all, this is a pretty experimental branch which is very open (and desirous) of outside input. How would you use a feature like this? Is there anything missing from what I have presented? What design path should be we take with regards to project-local vs global shell configurations?
If you feel like adding your voice to the chorus, feel free to leave a comment or (better yet) post a reply on the mailing-list thread. You're also perfectly free to fork my remote branch at GitHub to better experiment with things yourself. The root of the whole plate of spaghetti is the
lib/buildr/shell.rb file. Bon appetit!
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URL to article: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/java/hacking-buildr-interactive-shell-support
URLs in this post:
[1] Scala/Java joint compilation: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/joint-compilation-of-scala-and-java-sources
[2] REPL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REPL
[3] my port of Clojure's
PersistentVector: http://github.com/djspiewak/scala-collections/tree/master/src/main/scala/com/codecommit/collection/Vector.scala
[4] JavaRebel: http://www.zeroturnaround.com/javarebel/
interactive-shell branch of my Buildr fork: http://github.com/djspiewak/buildr/tree/interactive-shell
[6] has been discussed extensively: http://www.nabble.com/Interactive-Shell-Support-td21273331.html
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A Spruce Or This Deuce, Both Are Classics
If you checked out the pictures before you started reading, you may be thinking we're featuring two or even three cars here, but rest assured, it's all one and the same car, just with a few different guises. Isn't it amazing what a different set of wheels can do, and what a difference removing or adding fenders makes?
Bill Peratt (if the name sounds familiar it's because Bill's son, Eric, owns Pinkee's rod Shop, which will give you a clue as to where the car was built) grew up around cars in the late '50s, and wanted this project to be representative of the era. The coupe was sourced in 1999 through a contact of Eric's who knew someone who knew someone else back East who owned the coupe. Unlike many such convoluted contacts, this one paid off-the coupe turning out to be in remarkably good condition, though essentially a basket case. a stalled project that had sat for the better part of two decades, it was complete with a 20-louver hood, rumble seat, filled and peaked original grille shell, running boards with new rubber, as well as all original fenders, every garnish molding, and a complete dash.
It seems the project stalled at the roof chop stage, as it was obviously in progress, though poorly executed. It had been stretched 1 inch with misalignment at the rear window, and the top insert crudely attached. Pinkee's rod Shop corrected all this, re-chopping the top with a slight wedge, and removing the 1-inch stretch to bring the dimensions back to original, as well as correcting the misalignment and leaning the a-pillars back an additional 7 degrees from the stock 10 degrees. The chop is now 3 inches at the rear and approximately an extra half-inch at the windshield. a reversed late-'60s Mustang roof section with the correct crown was hammerwelded in place where the insert used to be.
Pinkee's re-skinned the decklid with a panel, punched with 108 3-inch louvers, which match the new four-piece rootlieb hood with louvered side panels. This and a Brookville grille shell replaced the originals, which Bill traded off. Thenew doorskins are a major body modification that probably goes totally unnoticed. These were re-crowned to '33-34 specs for a smoother flow from cowl to quarter-panels.
With the body set on a new chassis from cornhusker Street rods, further modified by Pinkee's for extra axle clearance, and the addition of a '65 vintage chevy 283 with three twos, T5, and polished Dutchman V-8 quickchange, the then-highboy coupe was wheeled into our studio for the first of two photo shoots. Which raises the dilemma-highboy or fendered, and how long does the transformation take? Speaking to Eric, it all becomes clear. The coupe was intended to be fendered all along, but the opportunity was too good to pass up, despite the obvious extra work involved in readying it for its highboy shoot, such as headlight stands and wiring and plugging all the holes in the frame that would later accept fender bolts and fender and bumper bracketry. as Eric told us, "I prefer building fenderless cars, as it's obviously a lot less work, but this looks better with fenders."
So it was back to the shop to complete the build-with fenders, hood, and bumpers-and the headlights mounted on a dropped bar between the fenders. Incidentally, those lights are, as far as Bill can tell from extensive research, auteroche items originally intended for French tractors, and now feature integral turn signals. Once complete and back in the studio, we got the opportunity to shoot the coupe with the two sets of wheels and tires that Bill and Eric brought along, again raising the question of which look was preferred. and here there was a difference of opinion. "Dad prefers the whitewalls while I like the look of the blackwalls and black wheels," Eric said. "We took it to Pleasanton with the whitewalls." Yet it was wearing the black steels and blackwalls when we awarded it a Top Tin pick at Goodguys columbus this past summer. I guess that means you can tell whether father or son has brought it to an event by which wheels it's wearing!
Rod & Custom Feature Car
Windsor, Colorado
1932 Ford Coupe
Cornhusker Street rods put the 106-inch wheelbase frame together using aSc 'rails, with raised Model a front and rear crossmembers, before Pinkee's rod Shop modified it further for greater axle travel and the addition of coilover rear suspension. SO-caL hairpins and a chromed Posies spring locate a 4-inch dropped chassis Engineering I-beam axle with hidden SO-caL discs brakes. a Vega 'box controls steering. All hardware, fasteners, and brake and fuel lines are either chromed or polished stainless or aluminum, with numerous brackets and bezels machined by Pinkee's.
The '65 corvette 283 was bored .060 over, making total displacement 292 ci before the block was ground smooth prior to painting. It now contains 10:1 pistons, and a cOMP cams valvetrain. Edelbrock 64cc angle plug aluminum heads wearing corvette finned covers flank an Offy tri-carb intake that has had the three-hole carb mounting flanges reshaped to match the bases of the rebuilt Stromberg 97s. chromed ram horns headers dump into a 2 1/4-inch powdercoated system, while a centerforce clutch is responsible for transferring power to the '86 T5 tranny that now uses an S-10 2WD tailshaft and B&M short throw shifter with Lokar gooseneck. Peek under the back of Bill and Judy's coupe and you'll get an eyeful of polished aluminum Dutchman quick-change, housing a limited-slip differential and straight-cut 3.33:1 gears.
Wheels & Tires
Which set do you want to know about? The whitewalls are coker 165r15 and 235r15 wide whites on 15×4 and 15×8 steel rims with '42 Ford caps and rings, while the blackwalls are Firestone 4.50/16 bias-plies on steel rims with early Ford centers, the rears 700/16 on similar wheels, with '42 caps.
Body & Paint
A Wedge chop, tapering from 3 inches in the rear to 3 1/2 inches at the windshield, makes the statement for this coupe, a '60s Mustang providing the perfectly crowned filler for the roof insert. a louvered skin now graces the decklid, with matching sides on the four-piece rootlieb hood. all bodywork and metal finishing was handled at Pinkee's, with initial body prep by Matt halvorson of nice rides in LaSalle, colorado. Final prep and paint saw the coupe hauled over to Mark Warick at Soncy road Body Shop in amarillo, Texas, where the special mix of PPG white and pure blue toner was applied. Bill pinstriped his coupe himself in black and white. Both front and rear bumper brackets have been shortened to bring the bumpers closer to the car.
A Paul atkins bench seat serves as the centerpiece of the coupe's interior, modified and covered in white leather rolls 'n' pleats by PJays Interiors, who also covered the rest of the interior and laid the black Mercedes carpet. a LimeWorks column and 16-inch '40 wheel are painted body color, as are the garnish moldings and dash, which houses black-faced Stewart Warner classic Wings gauges in an FPM Inc. engine-turned insert. The cowl has been prepared to accept an a/c unit, which has yet to be installed.


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STOCKTON - The former future Stockton City Hall is now the future hub for major local changes brought by Obamacare.
STOCKTON - The former future Stockton City Hall is now the future hub for major local changes brought by Obamacare.
San Joaquin County officials recently inked a lease to open a call center on the sixth floor of 400 E. Main St. to help low-income residence newly able to receive health coverage since the passage of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.
The eight-story ziggurat building has been called the Washington Mutual building and the Chase building. In 2007, Stockton issued $41 million in bonds to buy the building as a possible new City Hall.
The city's financial troubles ended that plan, and Wells Fargo repossessed the property last year, shortly before the city filed for bankruptcy.
The new call center would be part of the hastily forming network meant to provide health coverage to the uninsured put in motion by the national health care reform.
In California, people shopping around for insurance coverage will be able to buy it from private insurers through the state's health benefit exchange, called Covered California. Quickly approaching changes to the state's health care system also expands Medi-Cal coverage, the program that provides health care to low-income Californians.
Estimates show 53,000 people in the county will be eligible for the private-insurance exchange. There will be three Covered California call centers in the state. But not every county resident who calls will stay on the line with one of these call centers.
If any of the estimated 35,000 county residents eligible for the expanded Medi-Cal coverage call, they will be transferred to the new call center in downtown Stockton. The new requirements for a single adult is an income up to $15,856 for an individual and $32,499 for a family of four.
And the clock is ticking. The call center must be open by Oct. 1.
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The reigning Super Bowl champions jumped to a 17-point lead in the second quarter and held on for a 27-17 victory Monday over the NFC East's cellar-dweller.
Quarterback Russell Wilson dominated early with his arm and his legs, passing for one touchdown and running for another, propelling Seattle to a 17-0 edge with 4:37 left in the second quarter. Wilson finished with a career-high 122 rushing yards on just 11 carries and completed 18 of 24 passes for 201 yards.
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HIVESWAP: ACT 1 release date and launch trailer
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Happy Holidays, everyone! HIVESWAP: Act 1 has been Greenlit by the Steam Community!
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Thank you! And clarifications. And GRUBBELS!
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Finished at $2.48 mil! Yesssss!
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Varga Runs for 104 Yards, Cargill Adds 87
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A banged-up Yale offense was facing its second straight game with a quarterback situation jumbled by injuries Saturday at Brown Stadium, and that showed in the results. With freshman starter Eric Williams limited by a variety of injuries, the Bulldogs were held to 22 passing yards. While sophomore tailback Tyler Varga once again filled in admirably at quarterback and rushed for 104 yards, ultimately the Brown defense kept the Bulldogs off the scoreboard and the Bears came away with a 20-0 win.
Yale (2-6, 1-4 Ivy League) played without Williams, senior quarterback Derek Russell and freshman quarterback Logan Scott last Saturday in a loss at Columbia. Tony Reno, Yale's Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football, had no other quarterbacks available, so Varga -- the Ivy League's leading rusher -- remained the team's best option when Williams was forced to the sideline at multiple points in Saturday's game. Williams finished 4-for-15 with two interceptions while playing through obvious pain.
"We're a little banged-up at quarterback," Reno said. "Eric, he's a battler. He tried to go today, but we couldn't run our entire offense."
Brown (5-3, 2-3 Ivy League), meanwhile, played largely mistake-free football to take advantage of the situation. Quarterback Patrick Donnelly threw for 232 yards and two touchdowns, completing 24 of 38 passes with no interceptions. Seven different players had at least one run for Brown -- which has had injury problems of its own at the running back spot -- and they combined for 164 yards on 36 carries with no fumbles.
"Brown played a heck of a football game," said Reno. "They didn't make mistakes. They were efficient on offense, and they were efficient on defense."
It was obvious from the start that injuries would continue to be a factor in Yale's offense. After keeping the ball on an option run that gained nine yards on the second play of the first drive, Williams headed back to the sideline and Varga moved to quarterback as the drive eventually ended with a missed field goal. Williams was back at the helm of the offense on the next drive, only to be intercepted on the first play.
Senior defensive back John Powers, playing with a cast on his arm, made a tackle for loss on the ensuing Brown drive. But the Bears regrouped and drove to the Yale three for a third-and-goal, with Donnelly capping the drive with a toss to a wide-open fullback Cody Taulbee in the end zone with five minutes left in the first.
Brown tacked on a 37-yard field goal by Alex Norocea at 10:32 of the second. A 62-yard punt by sophomore punter Kyle Cazzetta pinned the Bears back at their own three on the next drive.
When senior linebacker Will McHale made a tackle on third down to force a Brown punt, the Yale offense got the ball at the Bear 48. But after a penalty set the Bulldogs back five yards, Williams limped off after second down and Yale eventually punted the ball away again. Brown took a 10-0 lead into halftime.
Norocea added a 46-yard field goal at 8:52 of the third, and Brown went up 20-0 on a 25-yard pass from Donnelly to wide receiver Jordan Evans with 4:26 left in the third. On the first play of Yale's ensuing drive, Williams got up slowly after pitching the ball, and once again he headed to the sideline. On the very next play, senior tailback Mordecai Cargill broke off a 39-yard run to get the ball to the Brown 32. But a chop block call set Yale back 15 yards, and the Bulldogs eventually punted from the Brown 43.
Yale got no closer than the Brown 33 in the fourth quarter. The Bears finished off the win by running out the clock with a 10-play, 40-yard drive that ate up the final 5:17.
Yale hosts Princeton next Saturday.
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The Missouri Department of Conservation at Mark Twain Lake, is offering a free crappie clinic. The clinic is open to youths and their parents or adult mentor with a mandatory classroom session from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 3 at M.W. Boudreaux Memorial Visitor Center at Mark Twain Lake and fishing clinic the next day from 7 a.m. to noon at Mark Twain Lake State Park.
The clinic will cover basic crappie fishing skills including casting, tying knots and proper bait and tackle.
On the clinic day, participants will be taken out by guides on boats to test their skills.
There is no cost for the program and all equipment and bait will be provided.
Participants are also welcome to bring their own gear.
Discover Nature Families programs are designed to help children and
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Poison ivy, oak, and sumac are the most common plants that cause a skin rash. A sap that comes from these plants causes the rash. The sap is not really a poison, but can cause an allergic reaction in some people.
Signs & Symptoms
The skin rash comes a day or two after contact with the plant. Symptoms that follow can range from mild to severe.
You can get poison ivy, oak, or sumac when you touch one of these plants or pets, clothes, shoes, etc. that have the sap on them. Contact with the smoke of these burning plants can also cause a rash.
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Steven Thompson struck twice in St Mirren's 2-1 victory over Motherwell
Steven Thompson struck twice in three minutes just before half-time to earn St Mirren a 2-1 SPL victory over Motherwell.
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The former Scotland striker guided home the opener in the 39th minute and soon took advantage of some slack defending to head in from a tight angle.
Motherwell came from two goals down to win against Hibernian last weekend and Bob McHugh, who netted the winner at Easter Road, again came off the bench and scored to give them hope in the final 13 minutes.
But St Mirren held on to make it seven points from three home games and end Motherwell's four-match winning streak on the road in the SPL.
The visitors began zipping the ball around but they almost conceded from John McGinn's 19th-minute corner, when Jim Goodwin managed to steer the ball on target from beyond the far post but Tom Hateley cleared off the line.
Well soon went close when Nicky Law hung a cross to the back post following a short corner and Shaun Hutchinson headed towards the top corner but Craig Samson produced a wonderful reaction save to claw the ball out.
Thompson scored his first with a clever finish from six yards. Saints kept possession after an attack was forced back and worked the ball to Marc McAusland in the right-back position. He played a one-two with Jon Robertson that sent the midfielder away down the right, and Robertson whipped in a cross that Thompson guided into the far corner.
Motherwell were then undone by a counter-attack. Some tidy play from McGinn gave Gary Teale the chance to skip past Chris Humphrey and send over a deep cross from the right. Hateley failed to get off the ground and Thompson rose to head the ball over Randolph and in off the far post from a tight angle.
The game was almost over three minutes after the break when Lewis Guy got the better of Hutchinson and cut the ball back for McGinn, who tried to steer the ball inside the far corner. However, Randolph threw himself to his left to push the ball wide.
Motherwell were having plenty of possession but were finding St Mirren a compact unit to break down and had three penalty appeals turned down by Iain Brines after the ball appeared to strike the hand of David Barron, twice, and then Goodwin.
McHugh came on in the 69th minute and soon got a chance when he met Humphrey's cutback, but Goodwin threw himself in the way of the shot to prevent a goal.
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Why my A-lister clients lead the pack…
December 11, 2012
In this week's issue of Grazia the power stylists of A-list Land – like the woman behind K-Stew's magnificent makeover and the fashion sister's styling up Solange – reveal their insider tips on party dressing and how to ace the season ahead. It's not everyday you can get mega-watt wardrobe makers to spill the beans and today's super stylist focus is Brit-via-L.A. Cher Coulter – the genius behind Kate Bosworth's sartorial swagger and her many 'It' bags, boots and jewellery. So if you fit the modern boho bill, then Cher's wardrobe advice below will be invaluable… Name to know: Cher Coulter is an award-winning British stylist based in Los Angeles. Her signature look is a modern take on boho chic. Minus the noughties bit. She's also a designer; launching her own successful jewellery label JewelMint in 2010. Names she styles: Kate Bosworth, Elizabeth Olsen and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley.
So what's the look? Think Isabel Marant's low heel boots and flirty ikat-print frocks for day, and edgy frocks by new designers Altuzarra or Erdem for the red carpet. "My clients are fashion leaders on and off the red carpet," Cher told us, "I always take bold moves and will risk a newbie designer if it fits a 'moment'." This sums it up: Rosie Huntington Whiteley doing her Jessica Rabbit best in edgy Antonio Berardi for the NYC premiere of Transformers: Dark Side Of The Moon. Phwoarh!??
Cher's labels to look out for: "For daytime I love Sandro, Maje, Isabel Marant and Asos. For red carpet – or your equivalent on a big night out – I'll go for Preen, Balmain, Antonio Beradi, Pucci, Givenchy and Chanel." The item you need now: "A leather 'shacket' – think early nineties supermodel. Layer it over sweaters, throw big belt at waist and voila! Plus,you can wear it in summer with leather pants and a tank for Balmain's look next season."
Styling tip to try: "For super-baggy pants (like those seen on the catwalk at Celine and Theyskens' Theory) wear a heel so you reveal a slither of foot and team it up with a dark structured jacket to avoid looking sloppy. But most of all for each season: Be yourself. Be original. Be happy."


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Tikveš Winery
M-6 TIKVEŠ d.o.o. Tošin bunar 274A 11000 Beograd, Srbija
Telefone: +381 11 41 45 100
Site: www.tikves.com.mk
130 years of wine making excellence
The tradition of fine winemaking has been nurtured in Tikves Winery for over a century. It is the oldest winery in Macedonia that has gone through various transformations, continuously reinventing itself to meet market needs and consumers' preferences.
In 2003, Tikves Winery became ownership of M6, successful Macedonian investment group with substantial previous experience in the beverage industry and with large multinational companies. Under the new leadership, a process of intensive investments begun and in the last decade, over 30 million euros have been invested in state of the art winemaking technology, improvement and modernization of the facilities, as well as introducing best viticultural practices. The goal is to create "Macedonia's Finest" with meticulous attention to detail in each phase of the winemaking process, starting from the vineyards, until the product reaches consumers.
Tradition meets innovation
As the largest and most innovative winery in Macedonia and the region Tikves Winery today is the driving force of the Macedonian winemaking industry. The scale of operations is determined not only by the capacity for production but also by domestic and export sales. Our wines are present in markets in the region, as well as in the USA, Great Britain and China.
Tikves Winery through numbers:
Annual turnover: € 21 million
Sales of bottles/annually: 12 million
Export vs Domestic sales: 50% : 50%
Export value within MK bottled wine export: 40%
Vinification capacity: 300.000 hl
Own vineyards: 1.000 ha
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I wasn't expecting this one so soon, but look who showed up on my doorstep today!
Horde Prime is here!
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Horde Prime is here!
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Yay I have been waiting for this review!!
Thanks Dan!!
He looks great, just like the rest of the MOTUC figures!
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Ha! I think it's awesome that they put a TMS head in there. LOL.
I adore the look of this figure. He just looks so impressive and imposing. The Kirby-esque helmet looks amazing to me. I am not in love with the fact that his cape just sits on him. I find this annoying no Faceless one too. It's an okay solution, but it limits him to just sort of standing there looking imposing because you can only raise his arms so high. It's okay to me.
It's interesting that he's taller! I like that. I also like that he uses the abbed mid-section versus the flat version. Having both hands removable is awesome. I kind of miss the old crossbow design but this turned out well. I can see a red version of the crossbow being included in a weapons back for Hurricane Hordak.
The cape doesn't look as great on the Spector buck as I had hoped with the UK head. The UK head is still fun. I might try to do something with that some day.
Great review as usual Dan- I really liked the humor you injected into this one on top of that! Thanks for showing us the UK head on a Spector body as well!
I'd imagine you could get away with buying an extra cape from someone on the marketplace here and fixing it with an exacto Jon?
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Seems pointless to send the figure to Dan without the head.
Looks cool though.
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Awesome review, Dan! I've been waiting for this ever since we first saw Horde Prime! I've ALWAYS loved Horde Prime!
Love, love, LOVE his UK head! Still really excited Mattel was able to do the dual removable hands...and fix Roboto's shoulders! I think I preferred the simpler looking crossbow, but this one is still nice. I was skeptical about the abs when I first learned of this today in the Q&A answers, but I agree...it looks better. Too bad they made flat abs for the others, but I like this.
I will have to give Hordak's staff to Horde Prime until we get the official one (if they get it in the line somehow). Can't wait for him! I must get two! Three if I can find him cheap somewhere.
Also, Busta Toons purchased the Horde Prime background from Filmation earlier this year without the effects. Behold HORDE PRIME!
LOL @ The Mighty Spector head on Horde Prime's body. I wonder if that was a joke by Scott because of everyone saying they will use TMS' body as a base for the UK Horde Prime? So he did the reverse!
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Wow, I love him. He's taller than Hordak, two interchangable hands, hidden Hordak cowl underneath the helmet, the Kirby-esque helmet, and another head yet to be seen. Hope they release that staff of his somehow.
Excited for June.
Wow. I wasn't really sold on this figure. But I am now.
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Haha had me fooled for a second with TMS head! LOL
Really can't wait for this figured, loved the review, love the colors and how he stands next to Hordak too!
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Nice review and I'm sold on this guy already.
I won't buy him until I see some head pics here...The rest seems to be pretty cool...
How did I know they'd send it to you minus the head?
He looks like a cool figure. Love that he's a bit taller than Hordak. He was a pass for me before seeing him in this video, but now I'm kind of reconsidering it. I thought he looked too plain before, but I think i t's growing on me. Can't wait to see the legit head on him though!
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You can see his forehead ridge (Klingon like from Star Trek) must be what holds the helmet on. Dan shows the groove in the helmet in the video. That's pretty cool!
The helmet also reminds me of God Skeletor, from the '87 movie!
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Nice review Dan. Surprise you didn't show your own shoulder comity review.
So if you notice, in this pic, he has 2 shades of black, gloss and flat, and many more grey paint apps, and many silver rivet highlights, all gone. The biggest loss is probably the gray on the belt. Of course the ab crunch is no longer flat, it is the muscled ab piece as well. The figure looks almost completely different now. It's all gloss black. It looks more like Darth Vader with some red highlights. It's still cool, but I can't help but feel cheated out of the horsemen's original design. Damn you profit and loss due to economic strife in the world!!!! And of course, the Mattel Design team. Darn you for the ab Crunch.
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great review, as per usual, Dan.
Does Galactus fart?
Not sure what the big deal is, given he is going to look like Hordak with big ears. I mean the dude is Hordak's brother, and if you look at all of the other pictures, he has ears sticking out of his helmet, so what is the big secret?
Nice review, but are his shoulders on correctly?
Can someone PM me the US number for Matty? I want to talk to someone who might has a clue of what is going on.
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Great review, I can't wait for him, just love all the black and red. Makes me want his crossbow in red for HH now, hmmm, when are they gonna reveal that new weapons pack?
I wasn't really looking forward to this figure at first, but now I think it has grown on me. I like the color scheme with the silvers and reds.


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Mindset makes farm transition successful
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Brandon Kaufman, a rural Moundridge native and former Wichita Wild arena football player enjoys completing a task. The chemistry major and Bethel College graduate likes to look at situations from different perspectives and he has never been afraid of hard work.
When Lloyd Voth met Kaufman a year ago, he knew he had finally found a man with the right mindset to help him manage Voth Farms, rural Goessel. What Voth did not realize at the time, was how well things would fall into place, securing the viability of his multi-generational farm and providing a rare opportunity for a young farm family to get a good start.
"This farm has been in the family for many generations," Voth said. "My great-grandparents settled here, my granddad, dad, and me — there is a lot of history here. Some people when they retire do not mind just selling out, but I did not want to do that. I wanted to make sure I found somebody that cared for the land and really wanted to farm to help me transition out."
Voth and his wife, Marlene, have three adult daughters with families of their own. None, however, seemed especially anxious to take over the family farm.
"One of my son-in-laws drives our cattle truck for us," Voth said. "But I needed someone who wanted to farm to live here and work with me."
Kaufman grew up on a small family farm near Moundridge. His parents own Underhill Farms and raise fallow deer.
"All my life I've enjoyed farming," Kaufman said. "During the summers, I helped my dad and the neighbors, driving wheat trucks, working the fields. Sometime I did it for free just because I enjoyed it."
There was another thing that Kaufman enjoyed as much as farming while growing up. That was football.
"When I think of all the hours I put into football — training, lifting weights, practices — it's thousands of hours," Kaufman said. "I felt that God gave me some talent and I tried to make the most of it. In a way, farming is like that too."
As a football player, Kaufman led his high school team to state playoffs, and in college was the 2007 KCAC Player of the Year for Bethel College. He went on to play defense for the Wichita Wild, training continuously and trying out for several professional teams.
"I was only 85 pounds as a freshman in high school," Kaufman said. "As a little guy I had to work very, very hard for everything I ever did in football. I grew and I accomplished a lot, but I guess I finally realized after several years with the Wild that professional football wasn't going to happen for me."
Kaufman's football legacy carried over into his farming career when he met Voth and found the two of them thought a lot alike when it came to raising crops and cattle.
"In football, you learn to control what you can control, and not worry about the rest," Kaufman said. "You have to do that with farming too. You can't control the weather but you can do what needs to be done so your work is successful."
Kaufman's background in chemistry also became a good fit for farming with Voth.
"I wasn't sure what I would really do with a chemistry major when I graduated," he said. "But in a way, everything we do on the farm is an experiment.
Even though Lloyd has been doing this for 50 years, he is very open-minded and knows that what worked years ago, might not work today. He is always looking for ways to improve by thinking outside of the box. Lloyd says if you are not progressing, you are falling behind. I can understand that."
Kaufman, Voth, and additional hired hand Bob Schmidt, meet every morning at 8 a.m. in the Voth Farms barn shop to discuss plans for the day.
"We talk about strip tilling plans, whether or not to use fungicides, and are experimenting with how to incorporate green fallow into our fields," Kaufman said. "Diversity makes us successful, that and being willing to consider new ideas."
Working successfully as part of a team is nothing new to Kaufman. It was an aspect that Voth valued as well when he hired Kaufman. Voth also appreciated Kaufman's family connections and stability.
"When I interviewed for the job, he asked me to bring along my fiancé," Kaufman said. "It turned out that one of Morgan's dad's customers was married to Lloyd's wife Marlene's college roommate from nursing school."
Morgan's father, Mark Peters, is an agronomist in Henderson, Neb., where Kaufman worked driving a grain truck when needed.
Kaufman and his wife, Morgan, welcomed their first child into the world just three weeks ago. Voth could not be happier with the situation.
"I am so happy with Brandon and how this is working out," he said. "They are wonderful people. We all have a good relationship."
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Right now, you can find $20 and $50 cards at Blockbuster, Pamida, Meijer Superstores, and Speedway locations. Speedway? Really?
Starting this November, you'll be able to pick up cards at Walmart, Best Buy, Sam's Club, and Barnes and Noble College bookstores. Much better.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - As the end of middle school approached this year, Zhan Haite, 15, faced two choices: attend vocational school in Shanghai in the fall or move to her ancestral home in distant Jiangxi province to take the high school entrance exam and study there.
Taking the test and going to senior high school in cosmopolitan Shanghai, where she had lived since she was four, was not an option.
Zhan is one of millions of children whose parents belong to China's vast migrant workforce and are barred from taking senior high school or college entrance exams where they live by half-century-old policies on household registration, or hukou.
The hukou system has split China's population in two for decades, affording different privileges and opportunities to urban and rural residents. It is a major challenge for China's new economic policymakers under Premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang as they try to push urbanization as an engine of growth.
Not content with her choices, Zhan launched a microblog in May where she argued her case online, igniting a heated national debate.
In the process, she has become the poster child for a loose-knit but growing campaign for equal education opportunities.
"She is, of course, very important because she is a victim, and all along we have been hoping one of the children who have been hurt by these policies would stand up and represent all the victims so that the community more broadly can pay attention to the issue," said Xu Zhiyong, a Beijing civil rights lawyer, who has campaigned for people like Zhan.
Zhan, who has been home schooling since May, seems comfortable in the role.
"I am representative of students like me, our needs, our hopes," she said in her the two-bedroom apartment where she lives with her parents, grandmother, brother and sister.
"People should be able to take the tests where they study. There is no need to debate this."
But there has been debate, and people have taken to the streets. Beijing police on Saturday broke up a small protest and detained some of the demonstrators calling for hukou reform.
"We are doing this for the right of our children to an education," one of the protesters, who gave his family name as Tie, told Reuters on a freezing street.
"We want them to get rid of these restricting rules on household registration and give equal rights to education. We will keep fighting for it," he added.
For as long as there have been migrants after market reforms started more than three decades ago there have been complaints about the hukou system's inadequacies. Discussion of hukou reform has circulated for years, but steps have been cautious.
China's 230 million migrant workers have been the oarsmen of the world's second-biggest economy but have long been treated as second-class citizens with unequal access to education, health and other services tied to official residence status.
The education issue has been particularly divisive.
Zhan's father, Zhan Quanxi, was detained for several days this month after publicly protesting for education rights in central Shanghai, but criminal charges were dropped.
Still, his online posts have been met with sharp criticism from Shanghai hukou holders, some of whom have claimed to be part of a "Shanghai Defence Alliance".
The verbal mud slinging reflects a battle over turf in big cities where high school seats can help students get into top universities, said Ralph Litzinger, an anthropology professor at Duke University who studies Chinese migrant issues.
"In an increasingly stratified and almost insanely competitive society, of which the rural-urban hukou system is one part, Zhan Haite's case is ultimately, in my view, about uncertain and unpredictable Chinese futures," he said.
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Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Renowned baritone championed German lieder
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, a renowned baritone who led a worldwide revival in popularity for German lieder, died in his sleep Friday at his home in the southern German city of Starnberg, his family said.
The respected interpreter of classical art songs and opera performed for more than five decades primarily on European stages while also touring worldwide and recording extensively. He became best known for his renditions of songs by Franz Schubert and Gustav Mahler.
"He has deeply moved countless people around the world for more than half a century through hundreds of concerts and recordings," German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said.
Neumann said Fischer-Dieskau's recordings of works by composers such as Mozart, Richard Strauss and Schubert set benchmarks for generations of singers to come, adding that his famous representation of Schubert's "Die Winterreise" (The Winter Journey) remains unforgettable.
Born May 28, 1925, in Berlin, Fischer-Dieskau studied music until he was drafted into the German army in 1943. After he became an American prisoner of war in Italy in 1945, he gave recitals at military camps.
He quickly rose to prominence after World War II, beginning in 1947 with a concert of lieder, or art songs, and at the Berlin opera. He soon became a fixture at European opera houses.
He also performed at Germany's annual Wagner opera festival in Bayreuth, and had appeared 123 times since 1951 at Austria's Salzburg Festival. Fischer-Dieskau ended his long career, during which he also worked as conductor and writer, with a farewell concert in Munich in 1992.
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Olympic and NBA great
Bob Boozer, 75, a member of the dominating 1960 Olympic basketball team who went on to star in the NBA, died Saturday at an Omaha hospital of a brain aneurysm, said his wife, Ella.
Boozer was a two-time All-American at Kansas State University in the 1958-59 season and played 11 years in the NBA after the Cincinnati Royals drafted him No. 1 overall. The 6-foot-8 forward retired after winning the 1971 NBA championship with the Milwaukee Bucks.
He played with Jerry West, Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas on the gold-medal-winning 1960 Olympic team and went on to average 14.8 points and 8.1 rebounds for six professional teams.
Born and raised in Omaha, Boozer returned to Nebraska after his playing days and worked as an executive for the telephone company. He was appointed to the Nebraska Parole Board in the 1990s and volunteered at Boys Town, the home for troubled youths.
Jim Abdnor
South Dakotan defeated McGovern to win a Senate seat
Former U.S. Sen. Jim Abdnor, 89, the South Dakota Republican who ousted prominent Democrat George McGovern from the Senate in 1980 only to lose his seat after one term, died Wednesday, his family said in a statement. Vance Goldammer, Abdnor's attorney and longtime friend, said Abdnor died of natural causes. He had been in hospice care in Sioux Falls, S.D., since May 6.
Abdnor, the son of Lebanese immigrants, was a four-term congressman when he defeated the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee as McGovern tried to win his fourth Senate term. Abdnor received nearly 60% of the vote, part of the Republican wave that swept Ronald Reagan into the White House.
Abdnor was a farmer, teacher and World War II veteran before jumping into politics. He served on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee and earned a reputation for working hard to help farmers and win water projects for South Dakota.
When Abdnor lost his Senate seat in 1986 to then-U.S. Rep. Tom Daschle, Reagan appointed him head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and he held the post for two years.
Abdnor was born Feb. 13, 1923, and grew up in the South Dakota ranching town of Kennebec. He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Nebraska in 1945.
Chuck Brown
Funk band leader known as godfather of go-go music
Chuck Brown, 75, a funk band leader and composer who was regarded as the godfather of the East Coast subgenre known as go-go music, died Wednesday at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore. The cause was complications from pneumonia, his family said.
Go-go music rose alongside New York funk and hip-hop in the 1970s and '80s, and "Bustin' Loose," the hit Brown had with his group the Soul Searchers, helped define its sound. The song spent several weeks atop the R&B chart in 1979, and rapper Nelly later sampled Brown's hit in 2002 for the Grammy-winning "Hot in Herre."
Brown's music spawned an underground subculture with distinctive dance steps, and its heavily percussive hard-funk sound became uniquely identified with Washington, D.C. The rhythms he created also became some of the earliest tracks sampled by electronic dance music producers.
With his deep, gravelly voice Brown often led extended call-and-response chants. He once said the music got its name because it "just goes and goes."
Charles Louis Brown was born in 1936 in Gaston, N.C., and grew up poor. His mother was a housekeeper, and he never knew his father.
In the mid-1950s, he was sent to prison for eight years for shooting a man, an act Brown maintained was committed in self-defense. Behind bars, he traded another inmate five packs of cigarettes for a guitar and learned to play it. After his release, Brown played with other bands and formed the Soul Searchers in 1966.
More recently, Brown performed with his daughter, a rapper known as K.K. Donelson.
Herbert Breslin
, the hard-driving publicist and manager who helped propel Luciano Pavarotti to international fame during the 36 years they worked together, died Wednesday of an apparent heart attack in Nice, France, his family said. Breslin, 87, was the co-author of the 2004 book "The King and I," which detailed his work with the acclaimed tenor.
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Creating an Electronic Grade Book in Excel
An electronic grade book is a quick and easy way to maintain student grades from semester to semester. Having your rosters available in MyCCRI make it even easier to get your students' transferred to the spreadsheet. After the initial steps to set up your grade book, all you have to do is enter the grades from week to week for the rest of the semester.
This tutorial will just cover copying and pasting your roster into a spreadsheet and plugging in new labels and grades. However once you get comfortable with this, you can also explore using the powerful Excel tools to calculate your grades by quiz and for the term.
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