text:
All You Need to Know About Fed Policy in Three Questions
One enduring rule for covering the Federal Reserve is that you can make it complicated or you can make it simple.
In a recent conversation, Larry Summers -- the former Treasury secretary who was a contender to be Fed chairman -- boiled the Fed's current situation down to three simple questions. Here are our answers.
1. How much slack remains in the U.S. economy?
Slack is the amount of unused capacity and idle labor. In a recession, there's more; in a recovery, there's less. The more slack, the more unemployed workers, the longer the Fed can keep rates low without fear of triggering inflationary increases in wages. When all the slack is gone, there's likely to be more inflation than the Fed would like; so the Fed usually tries to act before that point.
Today, economists disagree about how much slack remains in the job market.
One camp argues that many who've been out of work for six months or more and have dropped out of the labor force are never coming back to work – and, importantly, they aren't exerting much downward pressure on wages. This group, including Princeton's Alan Krueger and Northwestern's Robert Gordon, says the Fed should focus primarily the ups and downs of the short-term unemployment rate (those unemployed for less than, say, 15 weeks or perhaps less than 27 weeks.) That puts the U.S. much closer to full-employment than the headline 6.3% rate suggests.
If they're right, then the Fed should move sooner to tap the brakes by raising interest rates.
The other camp – which, notably, includes Fed Chairman Janet Yellen -- strongly disagrees. "There may be more slack in labor markets than indicated by the unemployment rate," she said recently. "For example, the share of the workforce that is working part time but would prefer to work full time remains quite high by historical standards."
If she is right, then the Fed should hold off on tapping the brakes because a lot of those long-term unemployed will go back to work when there are more jobs.
2. Once the economy returns to normal, say 5.5% unemployment, where should the Fed expect short-term interest rates to be?
In the recent past, the inflation-adjusted short-term interest rate has averaged around 2% in normal times. Some economists -- Mr. Summers prominently among them -- say that the economy may have changed. They fear the U.S economy may no longer be able to achieve full employment at a 2% inflation-adjusted interest rate.
If so, the Fed will want to aim for lower rates, perhaps an inflation-adjusted rate around 1% or even lower to achieve its mandate of maximum sustainable employment and price stability.
In their latest forecast, Fed officials foresee an inflation-adjusted interest rate of 2% when all the slack is gone. But they're hedging. The last statement by the Fed's policy committee said it "currently anticipates that, even after employment and inflation are near mandate-consistent levels, economic conditions may, for some time, warrant keeping the target federal funds rate below levels the Committee views as normal in the longer run." In other words, they don't expect to see inflation-adjusted rates at 2% anytime soon.
3. What else should the Fed take into account?
There are a few obvious candidates. One is the much discussed goal of avoiding financial crises by acting before dangerous bubbles or excesses develop. If all the Fed's new regulatory and macro-prudential muscle proves inadequate, the Fed might someday decide to raise interest rates to head off a credit bubble even if the inflation and unemployment outlook doesn't justify it.
Another is the elaborate game between the Fed's monetary policy and the fiscal policy made by the president and Congress – perhaps keeping credit easy to compensate for foolishly tight fiscal policy, perhaps sometimes tightening credit to prod the other folks into action.
And then there's the rest of the world. Indian central banker Raghuram Rajan has been arguing that the Fed needs to pay more attention to the impact of its policies on the rest of the world.


text:
Please Read Our Letters Policy
The Sun welcomes original letters from our readers. Letters must be signed by hand and include the writer's full home address, plus daytime and evening telephone numbers for verification.
Because of space limitations, letters should be 350 words or less in length.
Anonymous letters will not be considered, and we will not withhold the names of letter writers. Pseudonyms will not be used.
We will not publish personal attacks, libelous material, falsehoods, unsubstantiated claims against businesses or evidentiary matter in lawsuits.
We will not publish "thank-you letters" that list commercial sponsors. "Thank-you letters" which concern a matter of public interest or current events will be considered.
Generally, we publish letters in the order in which we receive them.
The editors reserve the right to shut off debate when letters on a specific subject become repetitious.
Please Read Our Letters Policy

subset: commoncrawl


text:
INDIANAPOLIS -- The New York Jets came as a united front to the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday. General manager John Idzik and coach Rex Ryan both went out of their way to dampen speculation about a potential trade involving Darrelle Revis. Still, their efforts to snuff out Revis trade talk didn't prevent reporters from asking about the cornerback for the majority of both media sessions.
Ryan said there was "no validity" to the trade rumors.
"Plain and simple, it's not accurate. I told (Revis) that," Rex said. "There's no validity to that trade."
Rex kept mentioning that the rumors made no sense because they started on Idzik's first day on the job. But the reports never said Idzik was looking to move Revis. The reports said that Jets owner Woody Johnson started the discussion while interviewing potential GM candidates. Ryan confirmed he hasn't even spoken to Johnson about Revis.
Ryan also said that no teams have contacted him about a Revis trade.
"Not even my twin brother, which is saying something," Ryan said.
Idzik said the Jets have always wanted Revis as part of the team, but both Ryan and Idzik wouldn't rule out a possible deal.
"Could there be a trade? Yeah, anybody could be traded," Ryan said. "But do I expect there to be a trade for Darrelle Revis? No. But that doesn't mean something couldn't come up... Again, we have not discussed trading Darrelle Revis."
A year ago, Ryan would have sent a clear message that Revis wasn't going anywhere. It's more complicated now. Ryan seems a little humbled by the Jets' struggles. He still jokes around, but the tone has changed. Although, he's still not afraid to make a bold prediction.
"I can't wait to get Darrelle back. I would not be shocked to see him have the kind of year that Adrian Peterson had," Ryan said.
Follow Gregg Rosenthal on Twitter @greggrosenthal.


text:
Martha Stettinius, Author of Award-Winning Book "Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter's Memoir:
In 2005 I became the main
caregiver for my mother, Judy
—a role I never expected, and
at first resisted. At seventy-
two, she could no longer
balance her checkbook, and
the lakeside home where she
had lived alone for twenty-five
years overflowed with garbage
and recyclables.
Each winter her steep, gravel road left her cottage inaccessible except by foot, so Mom would park her car at the top of the cliff and carry her groceries down the hill in a small, red backpack, creeping along with ice cleats on her boots for traction and a ski pole in her hand for balance.
I knew that I had to move her out of there. I offered to take her into my home an hour away with my husband and two children. I wanted to keep her from losing more weight, and protected from falling on the hill.
Though at first cheerful and grateful for my help, my mother grew sullen and withdrawn, and I quickly felt overwhelmed working, taking care of my children and tending to Mom. In the short time she lived with us I learned my first tough lesson as a "sandwich generation" caregiver—I couldn't be a superwoman.
Inside the Dementia Epidemic chronicles the challenges I faced over eight years as my mother's dementia worsened, and how I sought help. She lived in assisted living, a rehab center, a "memory care" facility for people with dementia, and a nursing home. Our years together presented twists and turns that I never expected, transforming our relationship and affecting me profoundly.
Read the Preface, sample chapters, or one of the appendixes,"Medications Approved to Relieve Symptoms of Alzheimer's Disease."
"Martha's greatest gift to readers is that of optimism—that caregiving can deepen love, that dementia can be fought, and that families can be strengthened. Her book is appealing, enlightening, inspiring."
—Barry J. Jacobs, Psy.D., author of "The Emotional
Survival Guide for Caregivers—Looking After
Yourself and Your Family While Helping an
Aging Parent"


text:
Private Equity
Contact us
Timur Pulatov
+7 727 258 5960
Timur Pulatov
Partner, Transaction Advisory Services Leader for Central Asia and Caucasus
Connect with us
Stay connected with us through social media, email alerts or webcasts. Or download our EY Insights app for mobile devices.
on Private Equity
Your source for in-depth information on the private equity industry. Private equity defies the odds with a steady recovery.
| Sponsored


text:
The Ohio Department of Education strongly supported a bill yesterday that would instantly revoke the licenses of teachers who commit one of more than 80 listed felonies.
The Ohio Department of Education strongly supported a bill yesterday that would instantly revoke the licenses of teachers who commit one of more than 80 listed felonies.
"No longer would an educator be able to hold a valid teaching license while a lengthy administrative hearing process is pending," Lori Kelly, associate director of the Office of Professional Conduct, told the House Education Committee.
House Bill 428 requires that a teacher lose his or her license if convicted of any of a host of felony crimes -- the same ones that currently prevent a person from getting a teaching license in the first place. They include murder, rape, unlawful sexual contact with a minor, gross sexual imposition and a number of drug and firearms offenses.
The measure, along with an identical proposal in the Senate, also would require a district to remove a teacher from the classroom immediately if he or she is charged with any of the disqualifying offenses.
Although at least one teachers union has said the bill could result in the punishment of good teachers who are targeted unfairly by revenge-seeking students, Kelly said the bill does not sacrifice due process.
She stressed that the bill limits license revocation to only the "most heinous criminal offenses" and allows educators to be reinstated if a conviction is overturned.
Removal from the classroom, Kelly said, can occur only if a teacher has been arrested or charged with one of the listed offenses.
"An allegation of misconduct without a criminal charge is not sufficient to trigger this provision," she said.
The bill also would give the Ohio Department of Education access to daily arrest reports from the state Bureau of Criminal Identification & Investigation.
In the past, Kelly said, it could take months or years for the state Education Department to get a teacher's updated criminal background check.
The bills come in response to a Dispatch investigation in the fall that found the state's system for catching and disciplining rule-breaking educators was riddled with problems. Legislative leaders have said they want to pass the measure this year.


text:
Veil-Evasion v2.28.2 – is a tool designed to generate metasploit payloads that bypass common anti-virus solutions.
Changelog Veil-Evasion v2.28.2 [09.12.2016]:
* Modified.: Setup script heavily updated by @g0tmi1k, thanks for the continued updates!
* Modified.: update.py script now changes the pyinstaller update path based on the latest setup script updates
Veil-Evasion is a tool designed to generate metasploit payloads that bypass common anti-virus solutions.
NOTE: ./setup/setup.sh should be re-run on every major version update. If you receive any major errors on running Veil-Evasion, first try re-running this script to install any additional packages and update the common configuration file
Software Requirements:
Linux :
Use Kali (x86) and all dependencies are pre-installed
or –
Install Python 2.7
Install PyCrypto >= 2.3
Windows (for Py2Exe compilation)
Python (tested with x86 – http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.7/)
Py2Exe (http://sourceforge.net/projects/py2exe/files/py2exe/0.6.9/)
PyCrypto (http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/modules.shtml)
PyWin32 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20218/pywin32-218.win32-py2.7.exe/download)
Setup (tldr;)
Quick Install:
sudo apt-get -y install git
git clone https://github.com/Veil-Framework/Veil-Evasion.git
cd veil-Evasion/
cd setup
sudo setup.sh -c
typing update on your terminal
Run ./setup.sh on Kali x86 (for Pyinstaller). Install Python 2.7, Py2Exe, PyCrypto, and PyWin32 on a Windows computer (for Py2Exe).
Veil-Evasion was designed to run on Kali Linux, but should function on any system capable of executing python scripts. Simply call Veil-Evasion from the command line, and follow the menu to generate a payload. Upon creating the payload, Veil-Evasion will ask if you would like the payload file to be converted into an executable by Pyinstaller or Py2Exe.
If using Pyinstaller, Veil-Evasion will convert your payload into an executable within Kali.
If using Py2Exe, Veil-Evasion will create three files:
payload.py – The payload file
setup.py – Required file for Py2Exe
runme.bat – Batch script for compiling the payload into a Windows executable
Move all three files onto your Windows machine with Python installed. All three files should be placed in the root of the directory Python was installed to (likely C:\Python27). Run the batch script to convert the Python script into an executable format.
Place the executable file on your target machine through any means necessary and don't get caught!
Download : Master.zip | Clone Url | Stable: 2.28.2.zip tarball: 2.28.2.tar.gz
Source : https://www.veil-framework.com/ | Our Post Before


text:
Your chances of ever being corrected by teachers here will be increased if you correct all the easy/obvious mistakes like "i" notoriously not capitalized, first letters of a sentence often not capitalized.
Student or Learner
Hi all ,
im a new member in this forum. i find this forum very intresting and i think is the best way to improve my english .My english isn't well im doing all my effort to improve it ,also with your help it will be well .thank you all
this is my essay could you check it and give me my mistakes thanks again
Since early age everyone would be influenced throughout his childhood by many factors which be able to influnce on his character , personality and beliefs .
first of all there are many sources in which we can get different information and education , but i think there two stronger influence which be able to let deep trace on our character and belifs : school and home life .
On the one hand , home life is the first element or factor which helps the person to build his personality and character because of the good relationship between parents and their child , so they will be able to let a great impact on him than any other person .
On the other hand , we have to make sur that the second home of child is the school in where he gains extra information and different strategies of education .Also school helps us to devolop mutually relations with friends , teachers and others.
Not only school gives us good and basic education but also helps us to find ourselves with other personalities and characters , so to make comparision between freinds and classmates , we will find out similar and different personalities which have different interests and passions. However every one has his unique pattern of feelings ,thoughts and behaviours .
to sum up , i think both school and home life have an importance role on our character and beliefs but in my opinion home life is the fondamental factor on our personality and character .I have to make sur that home life or house hold provides us a rich environment , we don't forget that we gain also too much encouragment , support and love from home than other place .
Your chances of ever being corrected by teachers here will be increased if you correct all the easy/obvious mistakes like "i" notoriously not capitalized, first letters of a sentence often not capitalized.
It seems you need to work on the verb 'to be' and its correct forms:
e.g. would be influenced ---> is influenced; factors which be able to influence ---> factors which are able to influence.
Perhaps you could ask a teacher to give you some exercises to help you learn the rules.
Also, you have to stop using what we call 'sexist' language. When you are talking about both males and females it is now considered 'sexist' to just refer to males and exclude the females.
e.g. everyone would be influenced throughout his childhood --> everyone would be influenced throughout their childhood
I have not got time at the moment to discuss more but I will return tonight with further comments.
Oh, and remember, English is always spelled with a capital E!
Hi Tina , thank you very much for your help
I edited your essay tonight - then lost all the text. It's late now so I will redo it tomorrow. I hope you are not in too much of a hurry for the edit.
Which has a stronger influence on our character and beliefs: school or home life?
I'm going to deal with each paragraph separately.
Comments paragraph 1:
Don't put space between words and punctuation marks and watch spelling mistakes.
Don't introduce new terms into essay question e.g. 'character, personality and beliefs'. You only need to discuss character and beliefs.
Be absolutely sure of the meaning of words you are using. You have confused the meaning of 'factors and influence'. e.g. Factors have influence NOT Influences have influence.
In a general essay try not to use expressions like 'I think that/In my opinion...." unless you are specifically asked to speak from personal viewpoint e.g. a blog. If you are unsure of the correctness of your personal opinion you can say things like: "It can be considered that..." "It is believed that...". Or, if it is a widely accepted idea, just make your statement without prefacing it with 'I think'.
SinceFrom a young earlyage, and throughout our childhood, everyone would bewe are influenced throughout his childhoodby many factors which beare able to influence on hisshape our character personalityand beliefs. first of allBut, although there are many factors to consider , sources in which we can get different information and education , but i think thereit is the two strong influencemajor factors of school and home life deep impactthat have the strongest influence on the formation of which be able to let deep trace onour character and beliefs. school and home life.*
*Okay - now that this paragraph is edited can you see that you are not fully addressing the essay question? It is a good introduction - but it only serves to say that home and school life are strong influences (which is already acknowledged by the essay question). You have to also introduce the idea that one of these (home/school) might have a stronger influence than the other. Just one or two more sentences are necessary. (I cannot write this for you)


text:
DETROIT — General Motors is knocking 13% off the sticker price of the Chevrolet Volt electric car as it tries to keep pace with rivals in the market for plug-in vehicles.
The automaker said Tuesday that the 2014 Volt will start at US$34,995, including shipping — US$5,000 less than the current model. The new model is scheduled to reach showrooms late this summer.
Sales of electric vehicles are rising, but they're still only 0.2% of the U.S. auto market. Automakers have been forced to cut prices or offer discounted leases in order to move the vehicles off dealer lots. Nissan dropped the price of its electric Leaf and sales soared, something GM had to notice.
"Chevrolet is undoubtedly aware of this shift in Leaf pricing, and its resulting sales spike. We all know what you're supposed to do when you can't beat 'em," said Karl Brauer, senior analyst at Kelley Blue Book.
Electric vehicles once were billed as the answer to high gas prices and dependence on foreign oil. But U.S. oil production is rising and gasoline supplies are abundant. Pump prices have remained relatively stable the past three years, while gas-powered cars have gotten more efficient, making consumers reluctant to give them up.
There's also the worry that an electric car could run out of juice on longer trips.
In practice, the price of the Volt has been lower since last year. The TrueCar.com auto pricing site said that in 2012 Volt discounts were nearly US$10,000, or 25% of its sticker price at the time. The discounts were more than four times the industry's per-vehicle average, according to TrueCar estimates. Discounts include low-interest financing, cash discounts to buyers, sales bonuses to dealers, and subsidized leases.
Mustafa Mohatarem, GM's chief economist, said GM doesn't know yet where the "sweet spot" is for pricing the Volt.
"You're trying to build a market for this new technology," he said at an auto industry convention near Traverse City, Mich. He said
Kelley Blue Book said in a report Tuesday that the average price for battery-powered and plug-in hybrid vehicles has dropped 10% so far this year, to US$36,922 from US$41,102.
That's before a US$7,500 federal tax credit. GM says that including the credit, the cost of the Volt could drop as low as US$27,495.
Chevrolet has sold 11,643 Volts through July, up 9.2% from the same period a year ago. But Leaf sales more than tripled, to 11,703, after Nissan cut some features and lowered the base price to US$29,650 including shipping.
The Volt can go about 38 miles on a battery charge, then a small gas-powered motor kicks in to power the car until it can be recharged. GM said it has cut costs as it has gained experience making electric vehicles and parts, all while adding features and increasing the car's battery range.
The sluggish sales of electric cars have dampened high expectations. President Barack Obama has said he wants to put 1 million plug-in electric vehicles on the road by 2015, but with less than two years left, the nation is far short of that goal.
Associated Press


text:
And so it begins. With the release of this trailer, the most ambitious year in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit history has officially kicked off. It'll be a busy week for us, with several new digital launches, multiple red carpets spanning the country, a David Letterman appearance or two, the release of a new app, and a model-packed, 45-minute live show on SI.com leading up to one of the most spectacular live presentations ever attempted. Overwhelmed? We've got you covered. Here's a breakdown of all the action.
Seven continents. Seventeen models. There's never been a more ambitious year in SI Swimsuit history. Check out the trailer here to learn why this year's issue is our biggest ever.
*Launching 12:00 noon, ET TODAY*
Come back at noon to meet the newest member of the swimsuit family, SwimDaily.com--your ultimate source for non-stop news, photos, interviews and videos throughout the year. We'll have daily content from our models, behind-the-scenes stories from our hard-working editorial team, exclusive interviews, an always-updating Instagram feed powered by the girls themselves, and much, much more. Bonus: We're launching with an exclusive gallery of photos showcasing Katherine Webb--30 photos in all. What's more, to kick off the launch we'll be following along with the models as they celebrate in New York, jet to Las Vegas, walk the red carpets, and hit the strip to celebrate.
*On newsstands this week, select newsstands TODAY*
Don't miss this year's epic Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, featuring 220 model-packed pages and a special bonus insert on the beauty trends and fashion secrets behind the issue. Available on newsstands this week and on digital platforms after midnight tonight. Click here to download.
*Launching 6:00 p.m. ET TODAY*
Our immersive online portfolio of photos and videos takes an exciting new turn this year with a full-screen experience featuring all 17 models on all seven continents. It's the ultimate experience for the swimsuit fan.
SWIMSUIT: Top 10, LIVE ON DAVID LETTERMAN
Tune in tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET (or check local listings) for Dave's Top 10 list featuring our Swimsuit models. And tomorrow night, tune in tonight at 11:30 p.m. ET (or check local listings) for Dave's exclusive interview with our cover model, Kate Upton. You don't want to miss this--stories about her trip to Antarctica, the suspense surrounding her second consecutive cover, and more.
*Launching 6:00 p.m. ET TODAY*
Our newest app is jam-packed with 75 videos, more than 150 high-resolution photographs from our 2013 shoots, and more. This year, we've even added in body painting in 360 degrees. Just swipe to rotate each look. If you already have the 2012 app, just update; if not, click here to download in iTunes.
SportsIllustrated and Google+ have partnered together to offer fans inside access to editors and models of the iconic Swimsuit franchise with three Google+ Hangouts during the 2013 launch week. RSVP for the hangouts here.
Meet The Swimsuit Editors (Feb. 12, 2:30 p.m. ET): Live from New York, Swimsuit Editors MJ Day and Darcie Baum will discuss the process of putting together the 2013 Swimsuit issue and answer questions from fans on fashion, what it was like to shoot on all seven continents and much more!
Meet The Swimsuit Rookies (Feb. 13: 7:30 p.m. ET): What's it like to be a new Swimsuit model? Find out from the 2013 Swimsuit Rookies with host Chris Mannix live from Las Vegas. The Rookies will also discuss their favorite shoot locations and memorable stories from their first ever SI Swimsuit.
Spend Valentines Day with Kate Upton & Katherine Webb (Feb. 14: 6:00 p.m. ET): What's better than spending Valentine's Day with two beautiful Swimsuit models? Live from Las Vegas, Kate Upton and Katherine Webb will join Swimsuit senior editor's MJ Day and Darcie Baum for a live Hangout that will ensure that all fans have a Valentine on the day dedicated to love.
*Airing LIVE on SI.com at 10:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, Feb. 13*
We'll be coming to you live from poolside at the Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas where model Chrissy Teigen and SI.com managing editor Matt Bean will host a live show powered by Lexus featuring model interviews, clips from our upcoming Travel Channel behind-the-scenes show, sit-downs with creative director Chris Hercik and senior Swim editor MJ Day, and more. The climax: An event so big, you'll have to see it to believe it.
The action continues at our cross-continental launch party schedule, starting at Crimson in New York City on Tuesday night. From there, we'll hit Nobu in Las Vegas at Caesars Palace Hotel and Casino Wednesday night, and then head to Marquee in The Cosmopolitan Hotel for a second red-carpet event featuring all of the models. Thursday night, we'll head to 1OAK in the The Mirage Hotel & Casino for our third red-carpet and (phew!) finally, we'll hit The Bank in the Bellagio Hotel where a select group of models will walk the red carpet.
Be sure to follow along: We'll be live-tweeting all of the action on @si_swimsuit and on Instagram at @si_swimsuit, and covering everything on SwimDaily.com (as of noon today).
*Airing February 17, 8 p.m. ET*
Our big idea--seventeen models across seven continents--comes to the small screen with this hour-long look into the world of Swimsuit. We'll give you unprecedented access to the models, editors, photographers, and more. Not only that, The Making Of... offers an in-depth look at the far-flung locales we visited, from Easter Island to China to Antarctica. Tune in, this is one show you don't want to miss.
As always, we'll be keeping you updated on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. This year's official hashtag: #whereIswim. We'll be taking your questions live during our Wednesday red carpet livestream, and @SI_swimsuit will offer daily updates, trivia contests, surprise model takeovers throughout the week.


text:
Welcome to JTM Power website! JTM Industry leading technology
View larger image
Add to cart
No posts found
To ensure that a person, not an automated program, is filling this form, please enter the characters you see in this picture. All letters will be shown in their capitalized form.
Solar Panel 100W-12V Monocrystalline
Track my order(s):
view all
Submit e-mail address to receive free updates and promotions:
Home |
Meet the people |
Contact Us |
Info |
Promotions |
Site map
Copyright © 2008-2019 JTM Power - Energy Products and Energy Generation | JumpStart SEO


text:
New Studio!
I'm really pleased to announce that I have founded a brand new creative studio along with Kelly Thompson, called UNA.
With over 20 years combined experience in illustration, creative direction, consultancy and brand management, Kelly and I are very excited about this next chapter in our creative journey.
At UNA we like good ideas and we realise them as visuals every day.
We help to develop and fine tune concepts, or respond to your existing brief.
We take said concepts, find the perfect medium to realise them, and translate them to your desired output, be it packaging, textiles, point of sale, posters, fashion, merch, film, or editorial.
We can develop long term visual strategy or work on a one off basis, tailoring each project individually based on requirements.
A Few of Our Clients...
Contact UNA:
Web www.weareuna.com
Email firstname.lastname@example.com
Phone +61 (0)449 014 231
My Online Store & Prints
Although my personal portfolio has now been replaced by UNA, you can still purchase your favourite prints and archived artworks from our online store.


text:
A sampling of Aaron's remarks:
Games reinforce:
- Risk taking and experimentation
- Collaboration
- Prioritizing
- Continuous partial attention/multi tasking
- Persistence
- Decision making skills… all are skills we teach in schools (and "21st Century learning behaviors")
Host a gaming event—to create good feelings about your school library. OK, if it's too much for your library space, Aaron said, he's known some school librarians to set up gaming events in cafeteria after school.
Interestingly (to me, at least), there was no sign of skepticism in the room. This group of school library media specialists buys in to the idea that it's necessary to "understand the culture" of their learners and reach out to them; they appear willing to go to considerable effort (and expense?) to get kids into library, create good library vibes. There's got to be more to it, though, and I'd say we/they all need to ponder "what's the next step?" after that.
Got a comment about the usefulness of gaming in your particular library environment? School librarians … public librarians … legal librarians (well, maybe not the latter.)
–Dave Hoffman
Internet @ Schools co-moderator


text:
When is Cobra releasing all new models? Is there a website to check for upcoming future releases? Will Cobra ever add the feature that let's you know the speed limit of the road or highway you are on?
When is Cobra releasing all new models? Is there a website to check for upcoming future releases? Will Cobra ever add the feature that let's you know the speed limit of the road or highway you are on?
That said, I don't think I've ever heard of anyone knowing of future cobra releases for the reasoning above. I would suggest looking into other detectors personally as the value is not there with cobra currently.
Cobra has gotten a bad rap (and for a time, it was well deserved, but no longer). The time of Ka false causing Cobras has been long long gone, but the misperception persists nonetheless. The last two iterations of their top models have not been bad at all, IMO.
I believe your assertion too about certain "Cedar" technology making its way into future Cobra models, as certain Cobra attributes have actually been making their way into Escort's products! Just check out the new iX. The top menu buttons closely resemble both in look and feel the 7800 and 9200BT Cobra detectors and I believe Cobra has the best tactile feel in the business, irrespective of price or mfr.
Things should certainly be looking up for them.
ALERT: Purchase the latest Veil G5 Direct from the Manufacturer or from one of our Authorized Dealers at the Veil Store.
Stay informed with the latest industry news and product reviews Veil Guy's Radar Detector Reviews.
Experience real-world encounters as they actually happened on the open road, from the pioneer of this bonafide real-world testing format. Visit Veil Guy's radar detector videos.
Socialize with the Veil Guy: Google+, Facebook
I believe they usually unveil new products at the SEMA show in early November. They usually go on sale by the beginning of the next year. If you can navigate it, you can search the FCC's website, where manufacturers have to file tests for Part 15 compliance that typically shows basic pics or schematics. Or at least it used to....haven't kept up with it too closely in about 5 years, lol.


text:
I would like to convert the htmlentities in only my atom feed to their corresponding characters.
Using the below in my functions.php I've gotten close, but obviously the commented out line doesn't work, and the change is applied to all of my feeds.
Is there a way to do this using filters/hooks?
function decode_feed_entities($content) {
return wp_kses_decode_entities($content);
// add_filter('do_feed_atom', 'decode_feed_entities');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'decode_feed_entities');
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'decode_feed_entities');


text:
Let's say you have a child today. You're estimating that their college education will cost $25K a year, so that child is going to need $100K in eighteen years in order to pay for college. Let's also say you can earn a steady 6% return on that money you save.
If you wait until the child is ten years old to start paying for college, you're going to have to save $917 a month to reach that goal.
If you wait until the child is five years old, you're going to have to save $442 a month to reach that goal. That's a lot cheaper.
If you start when the child is born, you only have to save $271 a month. In fact, if you start as soon as you discover the pregnancy by starting a college savings plan for yourself and transferring it to your child, you only have to save $250 a month.
For a lot of people, $917 a month is either impossible or seriously challenging, while $250 a month is well within reason. That's the difference between starting now and starting later.
Obviously, this same phenomenon works for any long-term goal you're saving for. The longer you devote to saving, the less you have to save out of your own pocket overall (because interest is doing more of the work for you) and the less you have to save per month as well. A long-term approach turns something that seems impossible into something that seems quite doable.
The question really isn't whether or not you should start saving right now. You should. The only real question is what your college savings goal is.
For example, if you intend to only save enough for a few semesters of textbooks – say, $2,000 – you're still better off starting your savings at birth than waiting until the child is 18. At age 18, you'll have to come up with the $2,000 out of pocket. If you start saving when the child is a newborn, you only need to save $5.50 a month.
In that $5.50 a month example, you're actually only saving $1,188 out of your own pocket. The other $812 comes to you in the form of interest, which is the real reward for saving over such a long period of time.
The sooner you start saving for any goal, the more time you give for interest and growth on your investment to help you.
If you have children, right now is the time to start saving for their future education, even if it's just $5 a month. Put it in a savings account for starters, but eventually you should look into a 529 college savings plan for your child.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book "365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


text:
I am a husband and father of 5 beautiful little girls. They are my joy and my passion in life. I am also a professional singer and a self-taught chef. I love to sing and I love to cook and I love to enjoy delicious beers. But more than that I love to inspire and encourage others to cook and to sing and to enjoy all the small moments in life. Like enjoying a good hot dog. And not just any hot dog, a skin-on wiener.
If you were to ask my family what my favorite food would be they would emphatically shout, "Hot Dogs". And hold the ketchup. Please. No offense to those of you who love ketchup. I hold no ill will towards ketchup. But, when it comes to MY hot dogs, ketchup has no place in the same universe. That's just how I roll. You see, I developed this love for hot dogs from my dad and from a lifetime of trips to the MN State Fair where I can enjoy delicious footlong hot dogs. And boy do I enjoy the footlongs. Last year I consumed 8 footlongs in a single day. I just love 'em that much.
My hope is that you will love Natedogs that much. Enough to enjoy 8 or more in a single day. I can't wait to share with you my passion for hot dogs and I can't wait to make a bunch of new friends. See you soon!
You can get your fix of our delicious dogs at your very own event!! We can bring Natedogs® umbrella-topped cart (or a winter friendly, indoor setup) to any location or event, including graduation parties, weddings and late-night wedding snacks, business lunches, birthdays, family picnics, coroporate events and more. The same friendly service and commitment to excellence that made the cart famous is yours to enjoy.
The base charge to have Natedogs at your event is $575.00 (plus applicable sales tax). This includes 75 wieners, all the fixings and condiments and up to 2 hours of serving time. Additional wieners are $6.00 each and gourmet chips can be added for $2 per bag. The cart is completely self-contained, and we bring the napkins and serving supplies (all of which are compostable). No plates or utensils needed!
For more information, click the button below and send us a note!
Have you tried Natedogs Honey-Spiced Mustard? My Honey-Spiced Mustard is a grown-up version of a classic. People always ask me how I like my hot dogs, and my perfect dog has generous quantities of caramelized onions and honey-spiced mustard. Natedogs Honey-Spiced Mustard adds several different spices to round out the flavor and add kick.
We'd love for you to try it. You can purchase it here or in person from my cart or at the following local store:
The Golden Fig
790 Grand Ave
St Paul, MN 55105


text:
Cancer didn't keep boy from dreaming
On the day he died, Nicolas Ramirez Castro called his family to his bedside. After fighting a rare form of childhood liver cancer for nearly a year and a half, he had something important to say.
His 10-year-old sister Natalia stretched out next to him on the bed, and his brother Jorgito, 15, clasped his hand. His father held him, and his mother knelt at his side.
"Today is the day," he whispered to them. "Today, I have to say goodbye."
Less than an hour later on Nov. 18, he died at the age of 11.
The outgoing boy everyone knew as "Nico" imagined himself a professional soccer player, a student at Harvard University and the owner of a candy shop.
At age 3, when he started playing soccer with his older brother, his parents noticed that, unlike other children who typically run in a pack for the ball, Nico held back from the group. Instead, he hovered nearby, waiting for the ball to break loose before he pounced.
"We knew he had this special gift," said his mother, Lourdes Castro Ramirez, president and CEO of the San Antonio Housing Authority. "It almost seemed like he was strategic from the beginning."
Soccer was his great passion — the family living room was nearly empty because so much furniture had been broken by a flying soccer ball. But he brought the same focus and determination to other goals.
For example, he worried that his plans to attend Harvard might conflict with his professional soccer career, and he frequently asked his mother how he could balance both pursuits.
After he stopped playing soccer, he planned a joint business venture with his younger sister — a candy shop that was to be called "Candy Heaven."
"When he set his mind on something, he was very serious about it," Castro Ramirez said. "Of my three children, he was the one who was always thinking about his future. And that's what made it so hard when we were told he had cancer."
By the time Nico was diagnosed with heptocellular carcinoma in July 2011, the cancer already had spread to his heart. He underwent surgery and chemotherapy in Houston and San Antonio without success. He later made frequent trips to Houston to participate in two clinical trials.
More Information
Nicolas Ramirez Castro
Born: Sept. 3, 2001
Died: Nov. 18, 2012
Survived by: His mother, Lourdes Castro Ramirez; father, Jorge A. Ramirez; brother, Jorge Ramirez Castro, 15; and sister, Natalia Ramirez Castro, 10.
Services: Today, 4 p.m. at St. Pius X Catholic Church, 3303 Urban Crest Drive
While undergoing treatment, Nico met several Houston Dynamo players. With his knack for engaging adults in conversation and his knowledge of the sport, he offered the Dynamo players his advice. When he recently met Kofi Sarkodie, No. 8 for the Dynamos, he asked the player why he was spending so much time on the bench.
"He said, 'You're really good. I think the coach should give you more playing time,'" said Jorge Ramirez, Nico's father, who was his full-time caregiver. "It was just amazing. He believed in people and their ability to succeed."
Throughout most of his illness, Nico often reassured his family that he would be all right. Until his last moments, his mother said, he sought to spare them the pain of knowing how much he had suffered.
"He went through so much pain and found the courage and strength to almost hide it from us," she said.
After Nico told them he needed to say goodbye, he said he loved them, and added a final request.
"Please, don't worry," he said.


text:
TCID50 for low titre HIV - (Sep/10/2012 )
I am trying to quantify the TCID50 of a batch of HIV BaL that I have. I infected TZMbl cells with 10 fold serial dilutions of my virus starting with neat virus for 3 hours. After three days of culture I stained the cells using X-Gal and looked for blue cells. My neat wells containing undiluted BaL viral supernatants from T cells were all dead, presumably from the culture medium and not virus, as the next dilution had ~40% blue TZMbl cells. Any suggestions on how I can calculate the TCID50 when I don't have any wells with 100% infected TZMbl cells? I also ran the same experiment in parallel using IIIB viral supernatant collected from transfected 293 cells, which did not show any cell death with neat virus, and also did not have any wells with 100% infection.
Put simply, you can't.


text:
Another day to remember. Every box got ticked and they raised over $30,000.00
A lot of effort went in to presenting the day. Facebook posts will be full of accolades and appreciation for all concerned no doubt.
The bands rocked. JumpnJive, Fender Benders, Atomic Hi-Tones, The Dizzys, Andy Phillips & the Cadillac Walk and last what was a special treat for everyone who made it to the end was a band called Devils Brew.
As Devils Brew set up and I tweaked the mixer I thought, here we go, another one of those bands with a screaming guitar to blow my ears out.
They were awesome. They had a powerful sound but enjoyable with lovely clear vocals not drowned out by their own instruments.
Brendon on guitar and vocals looks great, is an amazing guitarist, great singer and confidant front man. The bass player and drummer did their stuff and really contributed to the band being a tight little trio.
They did different songs to what other bands round town do which was refreshing.
The Pinup girls strutted their stuff, the auction and awards entertaining.
Frank did a great job as MC and so did DJ Jazzman with his collection of hand picked tunes custom fit for the gig.
There was a hand made bike made by some young Rodder guys I believe that got auctioned for $2500 and the buyer said another $500 if they delivered it.
Bev & Graham who are huge attendees in the Hot Rod, Rockabilly, Rock and Roll scenes got a trophy first day out with their just delivered pink 1955 Cadillac.
It was a perfect day.
.... and while I wrote this, Cliff unpacked and sorted all the PA and sound equipment we used.


text:
The Minnesota House of Representatives on Thursday voted to permit same-sex marriage, clearing the way to add Minnesota to a string of states that have recently made it legal for gay and lesbian couples to wed.
The House, which is controlled by Democrats, approved the measure by a vote of 75-59, dividing mostly along party lines. In recent months, as the debate over same-sex marriage emerged in St. Paul, a capital newly dominated by Democrats, the outcome in the House had been seen as most uncertain. State Senate leaders say that the outlook is more assured in that chamber and that they expect to approve same-sex marriage next week. Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, urged approval and said he would sign the bill, which would allow same-sex marriages starting Aug. 1.
If the measure is approved, Minnesota would become the 12th state, in addition to the District of Columbia, to permit marriages for gay and lesbian couples and the third to decide to do so, along with Delaware and Rhode Island, this month alone. Minnesota would also become the first state in the nation's middle to make such a choice through legislative action. Elsewhere in the Midwest, Iowa allows same-sex marriage, but that was decided in the courts. In Illinois, which allows civil unions, State House members are considering a same-sex marriage bill already approved in the State Senate.
In a way, the vote here came as a remarkable shift. Just a few months ago, in November, voters had cast ballots following a hard-fought campaign aimed at amending the State Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The amendment failed, and, with Democrats winning control of both legislative chambers in the same election, a renewed effort to allow same-sex marriage emerged. Dueling campaigns — an RV tour, rallies, leaflets and advertisements — have consumed the state in recent weeks.
"This is a historic day for Minnesota," Representative Karen Clark, a Democrat and the bill's sponsor, said as House members debated the issue before the vote and as advocates on both sides crowded into the Capitol, chanting and cheering. "Freedom means freedom for everyone," she said.
The debate lasted for several hours, sometimes growing emotional and personal.
"I am not a homophobe or a Neanderthal or a hater," said Representative Tony Cornish, a Republican, explaining why he would vote against the measure. "My constituents back home, the majority of them wanted me to vote that way," he said.
In the weeks before the vote, supporters of same-sex marriage said they were hoping to win support from at least a few Republicans and from Democrats who represent more rural districts, where the issue was more contested, far from the Twin Cities. In the end, four Republicans voted for same-sex marriage, officials said, and two Democrats opposed it.
"Sometimes," said Representative Raymond Dehn, a Democrat who supported the measure, "it gets down to doing the right thing."
Opponents said lawmakers had misunderstood the feelings of Minnesotans, and had misinterpreted voters' rejection in November of the constitutional amendment to mean that they now wanted to legalize same-sex marriage. Others said that same-sex marriage remained too divisive, too much of a diversion from the fiscal issues that voters truly wanted answered in St. Paul.
Representative Kelby Woodard, a Republican who voted no, warned supporters about the size and significance of marriage. "We are redefining an institution that has been the bedrock of our society for generations," he said. "We're asked to empathize with the idea that we should redefine marriage, and I'm asking you to empathize with at least half of Minnesotans who disagree with that. Think about them as well."


text:
2019 Genesis G70 Preview
Christian Wardlaw | Sep 18, 2017
- New compact luxury sports sedan
- Turbocharged 4-cylinder or V-6 engine
- Rear-wheel or all-wheel drive
- Standard and Sport trim levels
- Upscale interior materials
- Latest in driver-assistance technologies
- Impressive ownership benefits package
- On sale by summer 2018
Explore car shopping guides
10 Most Popular Midsize SUVs and Crossovers
Read the full review
Families flock to midsize SUVs for their seating capacity, cargo capability, and available all-wheel-drive systems. This guide provides an overview of the 10 most popular, non-luxury midsize SUVs and crossovers in America.
Warning Signs You Need New Brakes
Read the full review
They may not be something you think about very often, but your vehicle's brakes are one feature that should always be in top working condition. Let's look at how to know when you need new brakes.Look, listenThere are two ways to check for brake wear on disc brakes: by looking and by listening. First, check for wear by looking at your brake pads through the spaces between the wheel's spokes. The outside pad will be pressed against a metal rotor. Generally, there should be at least 1/4 inch of pad. If you see less than 1/4 inch of pad, you may want to have your brake pads inspected or replaced.
Most Reliable Crossovers and SUVs in 2017
Read the full review
According to J.D. Power, these are the crossovers and SUVs that are expected to provide the best reliability over time.


text:
Thanks to the Academy for the Love of Learning for their annual grant to Friends of Creation Spirituality for helping to make YELLAWE a reality.
The overall Vision of Youth and Elder Learning Laboratory for Ancestral Wisdom Education (YELLAWE) is, bluntly, to supplement the exam-driven definitions of education with a system that is more student-friendly, one that does not define education as an infinite number of exams that please quantitatively driven bureaucrats, but that elicits the joy of learning and the wonder of learning from the students. In YELLAWE we desire to reinvent education from the inner city out. And this means attacking the issues of dropping out and of meaninglessness head on.
It is not only students who find themselves at odds with the No Child Left Behind definition of education but many teachers and parents as well. Learning is meant to be a joy as well as work. Students learn in very different ways—some by exams and papers and texts—but many through their bodies, imaginations, hands and story telling—and given today's new technologies there are multiple fresh ways to tell stories and the youth are quite at home with these languages. A teacher in Napa commented one day: "I love teaching; I am a great teacher. And I am quitting. And every other good teacher in my district is quitting. We cannot stomach the current definition of education, that of giving countless exams. This is not the reason we became teachers. We are hurting along with so many of our students. We became teachers to bring alive the learning capacities of the kids."
In addition to exciting the awe and joy of learning, YELLAWE has proven itself useful for solving a very basic issue in today's educational world: that of dropouts. A recent study found that 1.2 million American youth are dropping out of school annually—that is 7,000 for every school day. Dropping out means as a rule lacking skills to secure a good job. It often means the next step is jail. Currently, about 40% of state prison inmates are high school dropouts. Gangs too are heavily populated by dropouts. In the state of California alone, dropouts cost the state $46.4 billion over their lifetimes. U.S. Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has drawn attention to this reality too when he says: "To get this economy back on track, we need to lower our high school dropout rates. These students need an education, and our economy needs these students."
Methods. How do we lower high school dropout rates? YELLAWE has been a two-year pilot project associated with Oasis Charter high school in downtown Oakland, California. Oasis has drawn heavily for its student enrollment from students who are dropouts or were tending to be such. YELLAWE has worked with 56 of these students. In a recent survey of students in the YELLAWE program, 100% of the YELLAWE students said they wanted to stay in school—and continue taking the YELLAWE course.
See the"10 C's" on which YELLAWE is based…
The YELLAWE pedagogy is based on the method successfully used in the Creation Spirituality graduate school programs for over twenty years. The aim is to not only teach the students facts and ideas, but to give them a holistic approach to learning that involves body practices that can help them deal with stress in their lives, and creativity. Each aspect of the pedagogy should be seen not as a separate "subject" from the others, as in modern education, but as a different way to integrate the same wisdom. The YELLAWE pedagogy is three-fold, comprising healing arts, wisdom education, and creativity.
Healing Arts
Wisdom education begins with the wisdom of the body. The modern educational system is based on a worldview that radically separates the body from the mind. YELLAWE views the mind and the body as part of the same cosmic process. The healing arts practices of YELLAWE begin each session. These practices serve a variety of purposes: they center and calm the students, helping them to concentrate; they integrate the body into the learning process in a positive way; they give the student a practical skill they can take with them. First and foremost is the idea that the body is an expression of the Universe, 13.7 billion years of cosmic wisdom, and it contains a deep wisdom. This is a very different view of the body from what our youth hear on television. Many different practices can be used: for example, meditation, qi gong, and hatha yoga. In each case, the practice is led by a skilled and trained facilitator.
Wisdom Education
YELLAWE is different from many other programs emphasizing creativity in our insistence on basing the creativity on the wisdom of the elders and ancestors. This phase of the pedagogy addresses the same wisdom as the others, but from a more conceptual viewpoint. The philosophy of the content of YELLAWE can be found in detail in Matthew Fox's The A.W.E. Project, and is based in the "10 C's". Usually, this dimension of the pedagogy comes after the Healing Arts practice.
The integration of this wisdom occurs during the creative expression of the students. During this time, the students must re-learn the material by expressing it from their own, unique perspective. In this way, the students not only learn, but become teachers in their own right. Students will now begin to create their own wisdom as they create works of art.
While the students' creativity can and will ultimately take over, it is important to have skilled facilitators who also understand the YELLAWE philosophy. Any medium can serve this purpose. In the past we have used African drumming and theater, but a special emphasis has been placed on Hip Hop music and video production. Hip Hop has been a point of emphasis because of the role it plays in the minds of the youth and the power of the images—unfortunately, mostly negative images—it conveys. YELLAWE recognizes the necessity of empowering youth through this creative medium because, ultimately, it is the creative vision of our youth that determine the world they will create for the future.
Usually, creative expression is the final phase of the pedagogy. We tend to emphasize the wisdom teaching more in the beginning of a semester, gradually phasing those lessons out to leave more room for creativity.
For news on Y.E.L..L.A.W.E.'s growth, see Matthew Fox's 2012 update.
For further information on Y.E.L.L.A.W.E, contact:
Dennis Edwards
Executive Assistant to Matthew Fox
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
tel: 510.835.0655
fax: 415.346.8635


text:
If you have a question or comment about Crime Stoppers, or would like to make a suggestion of any kind, please submit your comments in the form below.
Report Information on an Unsolved Crime
or Individuals Wanted by Police is Easy!
Regardless of the method you use, you will remain anonymous and be eligible for an award of up to $2,000!
Call: 720-913-STOP(7867)
Online: MetroDenverCrimeStoppers.com\tip
Here's How it Works:
You remain anonymous no matter what.
- When you anonymously submit information on an unsolved crime or individual wanted by law enforcement by calling or via the ONLINE or through our APP, a Code number is issued to you the caller.
- The information is anonymously shared with law enforcement.
- At the conclusion of the investigation law enforcement will notify MDCS.
- The MDCS Awards Committee will review the information provided by the tipster and law enforcement and for information that leads to an arrest an award amount will be determined.
- MDCS will inform the tipster that they are entitled to monetary award.
- MDCS authorizes our bank to release the award money to you.
- You, the Tipster, can then pick up the award money from our bank using the code numbers given to you for identification.
Metro Denver Crime Stoppers > Contact Us
Contact Us
Comments are closed.


text:
Data sheet
Data sheet
- Type
- Groene thee
- Application
- Metabolisme
Shipping and returns
Shipping cost:
On ietsGezond.nl you do not pay for shipping from €34. If you would like to make order under €34 then you have to pay €5,99 for shipping. For orders to Belgium please take a look below.
Term for shipment:
We delivery our products mostly to the Netherlands. Small orders on ietsGezond.nl will be shipped with PostNL. Orders are delivered withing 1-3 working days. Sometimes it can happend it takes longer, for example if you place order in the evening.
Note: on Sunday and Monday packets are not delivered. If you order on Friday evening, Saturday or Sunday, your order will be delivered on Tuesday.
Orders from Belgium:
You can also order from Belgium. Because of sending abroud we have to charge extra shipping costs. Shipping is free for orders over €56. If you order for amount between €56 and €34 you pay €3,99 for shipping. Orders under €34 we send with extra cost of €9,98.
All orders can be returned within 15 days from the purchase day. You can return only unused products in the original packaging. If you would like to return some products please login on your account on ietsGezond.nl or write to us: email@example.com.
Our payments goes by our partner: Mollie BV. Thanks to it all payment details are 100% safe. On ietsGezond.nl you can pay by iDEAL, Creditcard, Bancontact or bank transfer.
Customers who bought this product also bought:
Yerba Mate with ginger 20 x 2g


text:
Your free online merchandise shop. Create and sell custom music merch or YouTuber merch to your audience.Get Started Now
At Spreadshirt, we are dedicated to providing beautifully-printed apparel and accessories at fair prices, created with responsible and eco-friendly production practices. What began as a start-up in 2002 soon grew into one of the world's most successful print-on-demand ventures. We value fair employment, transparent manufacturing methods, and sound working conditions at all of our locations worldwide.Get To Know Us
At long last, the quality, speed, and reliability associated with Spreadshirt prints and products is now available for your Shopify store! Boasting Shopify's fastest turnaround (48-hours or less for 95% percent of orders), SPOD gives you full control over your own white label print-on-demand services. Give us a try today!


text:
ROCKLEDGE, FL — Health First announces the official launch of the Health First Medical Group, Brevard's largest multi-specialty physician group.
The creation of the Health First Medical Group comes following the successful acquisition of certain assets of Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates (MIMA) in February. The medical group is a collaboration of Health First's existing Health First Physicians and MIMA physicians, and now includes 246 physicians and over 1040 associates.
"Health First is pleased to unveil this physicians group to Brevard," said Steve Johnson, President/CEO of Health First. "Health First is moving to enhance its Integrated Value Based Delivery Network in order to increase patient quality, safety, and the patient experience. The creation of this new group allows us to strategically align physicians who share our vision and philosophies."
According to James Ronaldson, MD, President of Health First Medical Group, this strategic alignment will better serve the patients in the community. "By combining our resources into one organization, patients will have access to a strong network of primary care physicians, specialists, sub-specialists, and ancillary services that can effectively address all their medical needs."
Health First now employs more than 7,500 employees across Brevard County.
Visit the site by clicking here.
# # #
About Health First
Health First is Central Florida's only fully integrated health system. With a Mission to positively change the health and wellness of the communities we serve, Health First offers multiple commercial and Medicare health plan products, the latest technological advances and quality care through our four hospitals and numerous Outpatient & Wellness Services, including four fitness centers to help members of our community stay healthy. We offer Brevard's only Trauma and Heart Centers, and the Health First Medical Group is the largest multi-specialty physician group in Brevard County with 246 employed physicians.


text:
There is nothing French about this recipe at all. But if you say anything with a French accent when you are not French, it makes you smile. Try it, veggie le crunch. It's funny.
There has been all sorts of on-the-go-ness going on lately. It's always something. Keeping busy is really a skill I could put on my resume, I am excellent at it. Needless to say, I am tired of protein bars, trail mix and pears. They are foods intended to be had in small doses, and my bod has been starving for vegetables. I do believe our bodies tell us what they need, and contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as craving lettuce. I needed these wraps badly, and the 'large batch' I intended to snack on through the week, was gone by the end of the day. You can call it lack of self control, but I think it was more of a survival reflex.
VEGGIE LE CRUNCH // Serves 2
I suggest using farmers market and or organic vegetables here. When you are eating them raw like this, the genuine flavor of the vegetables is important.
6-7 Radishes, depending on size
1 1/4 Cup Black Beans, cooked and drained
1 Cucumber
1 Cup Diced Pineapple
Handful of Fresh Basil
1 Head of Lettuce (any soft green will do)
// Avocado Dressing //
You could make this vegan by using 2 tbsp. olive oil and an extra tbsp. of vinegar in place of the buttermilk.
1 Avocado
1/4 Cup Buttermilk
1 Tbsp. Honey (more to taste)
1 Tbsp. Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar
Juice of One Lime
Splash of Cholua/Tapatio Hot Sauce
1. In a small blender or in a bowl, mix the avocado, buttermilk, vinegar, lime, honey, hot sauce and salt and pepper to combine. The blender will make it smooth, but a bowl and whisk will still get you a dressing consistency.
2. Use a mandoline to slice the radishes thin. Cut in fourths. Peel and halve the cucumber, scoop out the seeds and dice into small pieces. In a large bowl, combine the radish, cucumber, black beans, diced pineapple and a pinch of salt and pepper. Add desired amount of fresh basil (chopped or slivered).
3. Here is where you make a decision for yourself. Hugh prefers to put the veggie mix in the lettuce leaf and dribble dressing on top. I prefer to mix my dressing with the veggies and put them in the leaf, already dressed. Six of one, half dozen of another. Except my way is probably better ;)


text:
BOTHELL, Wash., June 16, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- BioLife Solutions, Inc. BLFS, +1.74%, a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of proprietary clinical grade hypothermic storage and cryopreservation freeze media and precision thermal shipping products for cells and tissues today announced that Nice, France-based TxCell (euronext paris:TXCL) a biotechnology company developing innovative, personalized cell-based immunotherapies using antigen specific regulatory T cells (Ag-Tregs) for severe chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, has adopted BioLife's CryoStor clinical grade cell freezing media for use in their European phase IIb clinical trial of Ovasave immunotherapy in refractory Crohn's Disease, which is planned to start in the second half of 2014.
Ovasave is TxCell's lead product candidate and is classified as an Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) by the European Medicines Agency.
Mike Rice, BioLife's President & CEO, said, "We are very pleased to support TxCell in their development and potential commercialization of Ovasave cell-based immunotherapy. TxCell joins a growing list of personalized medicine immunotherapy companies that have adopted our clinical grade biopreservation media products to optimized stability and viability of cellular source materials and manufactured cell products. Biopreservation yield has a significant impact on manufacturing costs and geographic distribution, both of which affect commercial potential for novel regenerative medicine products and therapies."
The November 2013vision gain Translational Regenerative Medicine market research report forecasts that the regenerative medicine market comprised of cell and gene therapies and tissue-engineered products will grow to more than $23 billion by 2024. BioLife expects to participate in this market growth by providing biopreservation media and precision thermal packaging products used to store, freeze, ship, and administer clinical cells and tissues to patients. To date, BioLife's proprietary biopreservation media products have been incorporated into over 100 hospital-approved and clinical trial stage regenerative medicine products and therapies.
Arnaud Foussat, Ph.D., TxCell Vice President of Research and New Products, commented on the adoption of CryoStor for post-manufacturing storage and delivery of Ovasave by stating, "We evaluated several traditional cryopreservation media formulations and products and found CryoStor improves post-preservation survival and stability before infusion compared to the alternatives. Retention of cellular function of our antigen-specific Treg cell therapy product appeared to be in line with quality expectations. In addition, the quality and manufacturing profile of CryoStor supported our decision to work with BioLife on this important aspect of our manufacturing and clinical delivery processes."
About TxCell
TxCell is developing innovative personalized cell-based immunotherapies for the treatment of severe chronic inflammatory diseases with high medical need using its unique and proprietary ASTrIA technology platform based on the properties of autologous antigen-specific regulatory T lymphocytes (Ag-Tregs). The company has completed a phase I/IIa study of its lead product candidate, Ovasave® in refractory Crohn's disease patients and has reported good tolerability and positive clinical efficacy. The company plans to initiate a phase IIb study in the same patient population. TxCell has a strategic partnership for Ovasave with the Swiss company Ferring International Center.
Listed on Euronext-Paris, TxCell, a spin-off of Inserm (France's National Institute for Health and Medical Research) is located in the Sophia Antipolis technology park, Nice, France. The company has 38 employees based at its headquarters and at its manufacturing site in Besançon. For more information, please visit www.txcell.com
Practical Information about TxCell shares: ISIN code FR0010127662 Ticker code TXCL
About BioLife Solutions
BioLife Solutions develops, manufactures and markets hypothermic storage and cryopreservation solutions and precision thermal shipping products for cells, tissues, and organs. BioLife also performs contract aseptic media formulation, fill, and finish services. The Company's proprietary HypoThermosol® and CryoStor® platform of solutions are highly valued in the biobanking, drug discovery, and regenerative medicine markets. BioLife's biopreservation media products are serum-free and protein-free, fully defined, and are formulated to reduce preservation-induced cell damage and death. BioLife's enabling technology provides commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of cells, tissues, and organs. For more information please visit www.biolifesolutions.com, and follow BioLife on Twitter.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, statements concerning our 2014 outlook, potential revenue growth and market expansion, new products and customers, the potential benefits of our NASDAQ listing, and the timing and potential consequences of the termination of our agreement with ORS and the related tail period provisions. All statements other than statements of historical fact are statements that could be deemed forward-looking statements. These statements are based on management's current expectations and beliefs and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements, including among other things, uncertainty regarding market adoption of our products; market volatility; competition; litigation; uncertainty regarding our ability to reduce or reallocate overhead expenses related to ORS; the need to negotiate and execute definitive agreements with SAVSU Technologies, Inc., in order to proceed with the planned biologistex product line; and those other factors described in our risk factors set forth in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including our Annual Report on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. We undertake no obligation to update the forward-looking statements contained herein or to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof, other than as may be required by applicable law.
SOURCE BioLife Solutions, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2014 PR Newswire. All rights reserved


text:
» You are here: Home » Bath & Body » Shaving & Personal Grooming
Illinois residents will be charged 8.00% sales tax.
This website is intented solely for viewing and purchasing by an adult audience. If you are under 18 years old (21 years old in some states) we ask you to leave this website. Please do.All models are 18 years of age or older.


text:
In this first part I'm covering:
- Game Window Setup
- Displaying Text
- Changing The Background Color
- Drawing Images To The Screen
- Image Rotation and Transparency
Game1.cs, Basic game setup
When you create a new XNA project a number of methods are added to the Game1.cs file by default, though they are mostly empty to begin with. Any code in the Game(), Initialize(), and LoadContent(), methods is called when your game starts up. Update() and Draw() will get called every game cycle.
First we are going to do basic set up for your game window. So after creating a new XNA project, go to the Game1 file and scroll down to the Game() method where the graphics device manager and content root directory are set up:
public Game1() { graphics = new GraphicsDeviceManager(this); Content.RootDirectory = "Content"; // We are going to put more stuff here now. }
First we're going to set the size of the game window. So, where I've placed the comment, put these two lines, and change the numbers to whatever size you want:
graphics.PreferredBackBufferWidth = 800; graphics.PreferredBackBufferHeight = 500;
If you want to make the game start in full screen mode, you can set the IsFullScreen variable like this:
graphics.IsFullScreen = true;
Next, set the title of the window:
window.Title = "Name of your game/whatever else you may want to put up here.";
Now by default, if you move your mouse over your game window when you run the program, it will not be visible. If you wish for the mouse to be seen over your game window then you need to set its visibility to true by adding:
IsMouseVisible = true;
If you are using MonoGame, the mouse should already be visible, and you can skip this step, unless you want to change it so it's not.
Also by default, the game window cannot be resized with the mouse while running. If you want then change it with:
window.AllowUserResizing = true;
Loading Content, SpriteFonts and Background Color
SpriteFonts represent the text that you draw in your game. To add a SpriteFont file to your game, go over to the solution explorer and right click on the content folder, [your project's name]Content(Content). Then go to Add->New Item, and select SpriteFont. I've named my file Segoe UI Mono since it's the default font for new SpriteFont files. If you open the file you can change the font as well as other properties such as size, as well as if it's bold, italic, etc., each field is described in comments in the font file.
Now if you're using MonoGame, you'll need to go about this a bit differently, as a replacement for the content pipeline hasn't been added yet (though from what I've read, it is being worked on). While I've read a few articles where people have manged to add an XNA content project back in, the easiest way I've found to get your files in is to first build them in XNA and then move them over to your MonoGame project. To go this route you need to make a new XNA project, or if you have an old one you can just use that. Add your SpriteFont file in there like I described above, and build the project. Then go into the Your Visual Studio 20XX folder, and keep entering the folders with the name of the XNA project you're using. Then go to Bin->x86->Debug->Content. Copy your SpriteFont File -it should have the extension .xnb- then go back to the MonoGame project and paste it into the Content folder in the solution explorer. Click on the file name once it appears there. Then go to the properties window, and where it says Build Action, change it from "None" to "Content". Right below that, change the Copy To Output Directory slot from "Do cot copy" to "Copy if newer". You can now use the file in your code as described below.
To use the SpriteFont we first need a variable in the code to hold it, so go back to the top of the Game1 file, just above the first method we edited, and make a variable of type SpriteFont. There should already be GraphicsDeviceManager and SpriteBatch variables up there as well. I'm just naming mine the same thing as the file/font name, minus the spaces of course. Now go back down to the LoadContent() method. The spriteBatch variable is set there, as well as a comment telling you where to start putting things. To load the new font you need this line:
SegoeUIMono = Content.Load<SpriteFont>("Segoe UI Mono");
Content.Load<>() is used to load many different file types you'll need in your game, including sound files and images. Though it's too complex to go through here, you can even write your own content pipeline extension to handle your own file types or possibly handle existing ones a bit differently. At the end you put the name of the file you are assigning the variable to between quotes, notice that you do not need to include the file extension.
Now we can use the spriteBatch variable you've seen to display the text on the screen, so go down to the drawn method. First off we need to add two lines to the method that are required in order to draw anything to the screen. First,
spriteBatch.Begin();and then under it,
spriteBatch.End();Every time you use the sprite batch object to draw anything it has to be inside these two lines. While you'll add them in the draw methods of components we'll add latter in this tutorial series, be careful not to have too many of them being called each game cycle as it can slow down your game's performance.
We are going to use the DrawString() method of our spriteBatch object. The first overload of this method takes four arguments, the font to be used, the text you want, the position of the text, and the color you want it to be, respectively.
spriteBatch.DrawString(SegoeUIMono, "These are not the droids you're looking for.", new Vector2(40, 60), Color.Black);
There are five more overloads to this method, and they take extra arguments that let you do things such as rotating the text and flipping it either horizontally or vertically. This works almost identically to doing the same thing with images, which I will discus below.
While we're in the draw method, you can change the currently blue background color of the screen by changing the color name in this line from CornflowerBlue to one of the other available colors:
Images, Rotation and Transparency
Adding an image is very similar to adding a SpriteFont. Right click on the content project and go to Add->Existing Item, choose an image from your computer, and add a variable of type Texture2D up top. Once again go to load Content and use Content.Load like before, only now we change the spot between the < >'s to Texture2D.
image_variable_name = Content.Load<Texture2D>("NAME OF YOUR IMAGE FILE");
Now, going back to the draw method we will use spriteBatch's Draw() method, once again placing it between the Begin() and End() calls.
spriteBatch.Draw(image_variable_name, new Vector2(0, 0), Color.White);
This will draw the image at the top left corner of the screen, at the image's actual size. if you want the image to be drawn a different size then use a Rectangle instead which will allow you to specify the width and height of the image. When you draw images you can add a color tint to them, the Color.White makes it so there is no added color. If you want to draw only part of the image, pass in an extra argument between the Vector2/Rectangle and the Color, another Rectangle specifying the four corners of the section of the image you want drawn:
spriteBatch.Draw(image_variable_name, new Vector2(0, 0), New Rectangle(5, 5, 20, 20), Color.White);
There is another overload of the method that, like I mentioned above with drawing text, lets you rotate and flip the image.
spriteBatch.Draw(image, new Vector2(0, 0), new Rectangle(0, 0, 40, 50), Color.White, 55, new Vector2(0, 0), 1, SpriteEffects.None, 0);
The number 55 is the amount of rotation I've chosen, in radians. The Vector2 after it is the point of the image that will be the center of the rotation. The number after that is for image scaling, 1 being normal size. With the SpriteEffects argument you can also do both
.FlipHorizantallyThe last number is image depth, used to order how images are drawn, and is a float value that can be anywhere from 0 to 1. It can be left at zero in most cases, unless you find you need such a way to order images aside from just putting the spriteBatch.Draw() calls in the order you want.
Now for transparency. If you want to make the whole image transparent then you just need to multiply the Color.somecolor part by a float number:
spriteBatch.Draw(image, new Vector2(0, 0), Color.White * .5F);
That will make the image 50% transparent.
If you want to make just the background of your image (if it's a solid color like a white background on one of your sprite images) transparent then you need to go into the image's properties. Click on the image in the solution explorer and then in the properties tab click on the little arrow to pull down more options for the content processor section. You can then change the numbers in the color key slot, and for whatever color you put there, every pixel of the image that matches that color will be transparent. I usually use a bright purple that I know will likely never end up in the actual sprite that I want to be shown. If you're working with MonoGame, you'll want to follow these steps while in the XNA project, before building it.
And that's it for the first segment of this series of starter tutorials for XNA. Coming up: components, render targets, and dealing with inactive windows. Thanks for reading, criticism welcome, though hopefully I haven't managed to leave too many opportunities for it in a base guide like this.


text:
What is wrong with the US government? It seems the optimism from the 2008 election has long faded and promises of a post-partisan America seem now a fantasy. This has been made clear by the contentious debate over raising the debt ceiling (the legislated limit for America's national debt). Where the United States risked default, Republicans -- in particular Tea Party Republicans -- seemed more concerned about ideology than with jobs and America's economic recovery.
In 2008 Barack Obama led a brilliant election campaign which gave many Americans hope for real change in the acrimonious nature of politics and policy in Washington DC. In retrospect though, expectations were too high.
The United States Congressional system, with separate branches of government and weak party discipline, is a difficult system to navigate in passing legislation. Trade-offs (such as money for projects in a Congressperson's district) is common to win their votes. Legislation must pass the House of Representatives, Senate, and receive the president's signature -- each branch having significant power.
There are presidents who have been skilled at the art of legislation and dealing with Congress. For example Lyndon Johnson, who himself was Senate majority leader before becoming vice president and then president, was able to navigate this system and pass significant legislation on anti-poverty, government provided Medicare for Americans 65 and over, and civil rights for African-Americans.
Also, in crisis situations like the Great Depression of the 1930s, the president and Congress passed social welfare legislation and public works programs to help Americans suffering economic hardship.
The complexities of passing legislation through Congress have, in recent years however, become treacherous with an intransigent Republican Party bent on seeing Barack Obama fail (an aim admitted by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell). Also, particularly after the 2010 midterm elections, there is an increased cohort of hard-right Tea Party Republicans driven by a purist ideology of minimal taxes and small government.
The Tea Party ideological world-view is one that can trump facts and empirical evidence, as seen with the debt ceiling negotiations where many Tea Party Republicans seemed willing to risk economic calamity in the name of avoiding tax increases on the very wealthy, and in the name of cutting government services, even essential services like healthcare and social welfare. It should be noted that Republican Congressman Paul Ryan's budget plan calls for the dismantling of America's limited public healthcare provision for seniors, the very Medicare passed by Lyndon Johnson.
The debt ceiling has been raised numerous times in the past, under both Democratic and Republican presidents. It has been a routine task, a quick formality passed either through a short bill, or short addition to an existing bill, simply stating the new amount the debt ceiling is raised to. This happened even when opposing parties occupied the Whitehouse and Congressional leadership, with these Congressional leaders ensuring there would be enough votes for the debt ceiling limit to be raised.
It seems simple and straightforward, especially as the consequences of not raising the debt ceiling are potentially dire, with consequences for the American and world economy. These potential consequences include the United States defaulting on its loan obligations, which can hurt America's credit rating and lead to higher interest rates on borrowing, as well as havoc in American and international stock exchanges risking another economic downturn as bad, or worse than, the one in 2008.
Not raising the debt ceiling could also mean that the U.S. government would not be able to meet the financial requirements of running programs and services, including healthcare and social welfare which help millions of Americans.
American stock markets and the American dollar took a hit over the drawn out debt ceiling negotiations.
The responsible action would have been to quickly raise the debt ceiling, especially in a recession where the focus should be on jobs and unemployment. However, Republicans -- especially with a strengthened Tea Party contingent -- have become increasingly irresponsible.
The Tea Party can be viewed as the latest and most extreme trend in a shift towards the right that began in the late 1960s under President Nixon, and continued -- with growing intensity -- under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush (with Bush surpassing the prior two in neo-conservative adherence). Each president was more stridently neo-conservative, each increasingly more driven by ideology.
This is something we should be worried about here in Canada too, as the neo-conservative right gains greater foothold with Harper's Conservative majority government and the potential, after the upcoming Ontario election, to have another Mike Harris-style government in Ontario -- there is the prospect that the federal government, Canada's largest province, and Canada's largest city (Toronto under Rob Ford) could all be governed by ideological conservatives.
In the United States, there are officials from the Nixon and Reagan administrations now denouncing the Tea Party's extremism, though maybe they are also horrified at the Frankenstein whose creation they laid the groundwork for.
America's constitutional division of powers, and hard-right Tea Party Republicans, make for a worrying situation in the United States, with ideology trumping facts, and with the American and world economy in the balance.
An earlier version of this article appeared in the Telegraph Journal.
Hassan Arif is a columnist with the Telegraph Journal in New Brunswick. He is a PhD candidate in urban sociology at the University of New Brunswick and has a background in law and political science. He can be reached at email@example.com.


text:
Alex is going to bring the Toreador clan from Bloodlines 2 to life - in case mod form!
Sleek and solid, the £190 Sekira 500G is taking on the big boys.
Iiyama ProLite XUB3493WQSU-B1 up for grabs!
Three times more efficient than copper.
October 18 2019 | 17:00
Copyright © 2000 - 2019, bit-tech.net. All rights reserved.


text:
The Northfield jr high wrestling team WON the Running Rivers Conference Tournament at Northfield Friday night. All the Northfield wrestlers placed to help the Norse win the tournament.
Ryan Driscoll, Macauley Miller, Jensen Frieden, Chris Orpurt, Jeremy Okuly, Dayon Waldron, Adam Smalley, and Layne Evans won their weight class .
Matt Campbell, Michael Ford, Heath Lambert, Zach Shadden, Tyler Sisco placed second.
Hunter Cox, Cole Persinger, and Tyler Copeland placed third.
Victor Treska finished fourth and Tim Charles finished in sixth place.
The Manchester JH wrestlers finish 5th at RRC Tourney. Champions: Teeter, Q. Moore, D. Moore; Runner-ups: Meggison, Shepherd
Placing for the Knights were: Chris Adams and Reid Votaw 1st; Isaac Cooper, Joseph Brinson, Chad Elliott, and Nathanael Fadil 2nd; Brandt Crabtree 4th. Also competing were Codie Sarll and Logan Louck.
No results for Wabash
[dmalbum path="/wp-content/uploads/dm-albums/rrcw3813/"/]


text:
A conservation group that has raised concerns about the huge increase in crude oil rail shipments through the Columbia River Gorge is now warning that oil train traffic is increasing through Central Oregon.
The number of tank cars transporting oil through downtown Bend and other cities east of the Cascades increased by 58 percent from 2011 to 2013, according to information released by the Oregon Department of Transportation on Wednesday.
The nonprofit Friends of the Columbia River Gorge obtained photos this week of what the group's conservation director says was a train with approximately 100 oil tanker cars that was traveling south along the Lower Deschutes River on Sunday. Public officials and activists have focused on the increase in oil shipments by rail along the Columbia River Gorge, which is a major corridor for oil from the Bakken formation in North Dakota.
But the Oregon Department of Transportation confirmed Wednesday that Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway transported increasingly large numbers of crude oil tankers in recent years along the line that runs from the Columbia River south through Central Oregon to the California border. The state agency says BNSF transported more than 4,300 tanker cars of crude oil through Central Oregon in 2013, approximately 23 percent of the total of more than 19,000 carloads of crude transported on railways through the state last year.
That was a 58 percent increase from 2011, when BNSF transported more than 2,700 tank cars of crude through Central Oregon, according to ODOT.
Gus Melonas, a spokesman for BNSF based in the Pacific Northwest, said on Wednesday that the railway does not release information to the public about the types and quantities of materials it transports through communities.
"That's for security," Melonas said. He added that this is "customer privileged information" and "the Oregon trunk line (through Central Oregon) is not a high-volume crude oil line." The state does require railways to submit annual reports to ODOT on the quantities of materials transported through the state.
Earlier this year, The Bulletin's analysis of data from the state Department of Environmental Quality on hazardous material spills from trains revealed that a BNSF train derailed in Maupin in June 2000. In that case, the initial report of possible leakage from sulfuric acid cars turned out to be unfounded. Melonas described that incident as minor. "Not in years has there been one of significance," Melonas said of incidents on the line through Central Oregon.
Michael Lang, conservation director for Friends of the Columbia Gorge, said he was in a drift boat on the Lower Deschutes River around 3 p.m. Sunday when he spotted a Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway train with a long string of crude oil tank cars. Another person in the boat snapped photos of the train. Lang said he saw the code for crude oil on the tank cars. He said he heard rumors about trains transporting crude oil along the Deschutes River last winter, but to his knowledge this is the first time someone photographed one of the crude oil trains.
"It matters to Friends of the Columbia Gorge of course because the mouth of the Deschutes (River) is a national scenic area," Lang said on Tuesday night. "And it matters to me and my friends because we've been recreating on the Lower Deschutes for 25 years."
Lang said a top concern for Friends of the Columbia Gorge is that first responders across Oregon are "not ready for this."
In Maupin, Fire Chief Tom Troutman said the fire department needs to know about hazardous materials transported through the community, but has not received reports with that information from BNSF.
"The railroad doesn't tell us much," Troutman said. "I know we have asked the railroads for information before, but here we are. We're a small community. We don't really have much pull with the railroad."
Larry Medina, deputy chief of prevention for the Bend Fire Department, said the city has not requested nor has it received information on the types and quantities of hazardous materials BNSF transports through Central Oregon. He said it would not help the fire department to receive the annual reports railways submit to ODOT because "We need real-time information."
"We're always going to plan for the worst-case scenario," Medina said. However, that plan calls for Bend firefighters to evaluate a hazardous material spill from a train, evacuate people if necessary and then likely wait hours for a specially trained and equipped team of firefighters from Salem. Medina said Redmond Fire and Rescue used to maintain a hazardous material response team, but the agency eliminated it within the past five years because of a lack of specially trained staff and resources.
Some Central Oregon residents are worried about the black tanker cars they see parked on the tracks alongside U.S. Highway 97 in Bend. John Wood, a volunteer with The American Red Cross Oregon Mountain River chapter who lives north of Bend, said he noticed a couple of dozen tanker cars in downtown Bend last week.
"It looked like the same car that was on fire that they showed on TV," Wood said, referring to one of several high-profile oil train derailments across North America. In December, an oil train exploded in Casselton, N.D. On April 30, several tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire in Lynchburg, Va. Bakken crude oil has proved to be more explosive.
Shelley Snow, a spokeswoman for ODOT, said on Wednesday that the agency is working on rules to require railways to disclose more information about oil shipments. Also on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued an emergency order, effective immediately, to require all railways to notify states of train routes and frequencies, for trains that will contain an amount of Bakken crude oil equivalent to approximately 35 tank cars.
Melonas, the BNSF spokesman, said the track along the Lower Deschutes River is not a dangerous area for trains, and the railway is upgrading the track. "Speeds range from 10 mph to 35 mph through the Lower Deschutes corridor," Melonas said. "It's not a high-volume line, it's not a high-speed line and BNSF is currently spending over the next two months millions of dollars by installing 50,000 concrete ties."
— Reporter: 541-617-7829, email@example.com


text:
SAVANNAH, Ga. – With the Georgia College men's tennis team (19-6) holding a 4-2 lead over Francis Marion University, senior No. 48 Johan Wadstein (Helsingborg, Sweden) and junior Andreas Ainalides (Heusenstamm, Germany) both stood within points of securing a singles victory. Ainalides would beat Wadstein to the punch, downing Gavin Davison by a final score of 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Wadstein finished two points away from defeating No. 15 Alex Caspari for the second time this season.
Senior Wictor Andersson (Karlskoga, Sweden) and freshman Yannick Hass (Troisdorf, Germany) earned an overpowering 8-0 victory against Eimon Heywood and Arnauld Holl.
Wadstein and Ainalides fell behind early, quickly earning a 4-1 deficit against Caspari and Davison, the No. 15 doubles team in the nation. The Bobcat tandem surged into the lead with a 6-game win streak, taking the 7-4 lead. After the Patriots took the next two games, the Bobcats earned an 8-6 win.
Freshman Mattia Campus (Rome, Italy) and junior Alex Schubert (Frankfurt, Germany) jumped to an early 5-3 lead, but eventually dropped the No. 3 doubles match 9-7 to Tim Ruepke and Marius Wahlier.
The Bobcats took a 2-1 lead into singles play but would quickly build on that.
Andersson battled freshman Luke Bateup in the No. 6 slot and the senior Bobcat eased to a 6-2, 6-3 victory. Campus played close with Wahlier the entire match, but was felled 7-5, 6-3.
Hass earned a decisive victory over Heywood, 6-3, 6-2. The Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Freshman of the Year earned his 16th victory of the season, tying him for second most of the team, he also pushed the score to 4-2 on the day.
Wadstein and Schubert each had their matches halted as Ainalides clinched the victory and the berth into the final for the subregion.
With the victory, the Bobcats advance to the finals for the subregional tomorrow, April 29 at 10 a.m., they'll battle the No. 1 team in the nation, the Armstrong Pirates for the right to advance to the NCAA National Tournament.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


text:
Appetizers and snacks to kick-off any meal.
Use this control to limit the display of threads to those newer than the specified time frame.
Allows you to choose the data by which the thread list will be sorted.
Order threads in...
Note: when sorting by date, 'descending order' will show the newest results first.
Forum Rules


text:
German motorhome manufacturer Dethleff has revealed the first pictures and details of its new concept Class A, the Evan.
According to Out&About Live, the concept motorhome, which is likely to form the basis of a production Class A motorcaravan for the 2013 model year, is just under 19-feet long but still offers six travel seats and two double fixed beds. It also comes with two wide conversion doors – one at the side and one at the rear.
Motorhome designer, Michael Studer, said he wanted to create a motorhome that is "compact, flexible, ideal for daily use." Studer added, "I've been following the idea for some time and now it is time for a new vehicle concept. A flexible, compact one which combines the advantages of various motorhome concepts."
At first sight the Evan looks like a large van with its bi-color exterior. It has unusually short over-hangs and 18-inch alloy wheels.
Up to six passengers can be carried – four in the rear using single seats with lateral support and individually adjustable back rest inclination. The seats can be moved lengthwise or crossways and the rear locker can be equipped with a folding rack for more luggage pieces when being away on holidays.
For the night, the large pull-down bed can be used, which disappears under the cab roof during the day. A further double bed is in the elevating roof with bed, which is equipped with large air inlets and a large panorama window.
The kitchen features a sink, two mobile gas cartridge cookers, an ample working area and a refrigerator. The variable bathroom comes with a removable Porta Porti, wash bowl and small shower. When it is cold outside the under-floor diesel heating will warm up the interior.