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Bruce Taylor, Hugh Greene, Matt Brockelman, Joy Korman, Rad Lovett, Joannie Newton, Lynn Pappas, Myron Pincomb, Patrick Plumlee, Lanny Russell, Sharon Wamble-King
Fred Franklin, Oscar Munoz
Chair Taylor documented a quorum and called the meeting to order.
Chair Taylor spoke about the UNF Foundation Board drive, and asked trustees to make an annual unrestricted gift before December 31, 2012. He thanked Trustee Lovett for his time and effort, over the years, on the Foundation Board.
President Delaney updated trustees on the UNF budget, noting that the university was preparing several scenarios, based on the numbers that come out of the Legislature, which would be available in May. President Delaney spoke about reapportionment and redistricting and how these actions might affect the State University System.
Chair Taylor offered opportunity for open comments concerning items on this agenda.
Mr. Carlo Fassi, president, Student Government, stated that students voted unanimously against Item 5Bi. He noted that students acknowledged that the Board of Trustees approved tuition but students would like to ask that tuition not be increased for one year.
Mr. Joseph Turner spoke about other options, including cuts at the university level or increases to revenue. Joseph stated that increasing tuition was easy. He asked the Board to consider that college students were struggling the hardest and that $500 increase to a student was a month's rent. Joseph urged the Board to exhaust all efforts before raising tuition. He asked trustees not to take the easy way out.
Ms. Monica Bowman stated that she was an out-of-state student who was looking to receive an advanced degree at UNF. She noted that if tuition costs continued to increase, her parents would not be able to pay costs and she would have to transfer back to South Carolina. Monica stated that she was in the Honors Program, on the Dean's List, in Student Government and a community volunteer. She stated that her parents attended UNF and wanted their children to have a traditional college experience. Monica stated that raising tuition not only affected current students, but their families and upcoming students.
Chair Taylor thanked students for their comments.
Chair Taylor asked that Item 5Bi Increases in Undergraduate Tuition and Tuition Differential for 2012-2013 be pulled from the consent agenda.
Proposed Action: Approval. Motion and second required.
The purpose of this item is to present a list of tenure nominees for university faculty. The President, Provost and the University Promotion and Tenure Committee have reviewed these nominees and are making a recommendation for approval to the Board of Trustees.
Twelve (12) nominees are being recommended based on a traditional review of their credentials.
The purpose of this item is to submit, for approval, a proposed new degree program. The College of Arts and Sciences proposes to transition the Bachelor of Art in Art History concentration to a stand-alone Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History in the Department of Art and Design.
This new degree would reform and update UNF's current Art History program; thus bring Art History in line with national standards. The proposed new degree is also consistent with the current State University System (SUS) strategic planning goals, including access to and production of degrees, building world-class academic programs, and meeting community needs.
Estimated demand for the proposed program, based largely on current enrollment numbers, includes about 69 students enrolled in the concentration and 63 students with minors in Art History. Though no systematic survey has been done, inquiries from students indicate they are dissuaded from enrolling in the current program because of the heavy studio art requirements; therefore, the proposed degree program is likely to attract these added students. Additionally, MOCA, Jacksonville has been interested in art history classes, especially in the offering of a museum studies course.
Because this proposal is seeking to transition the Art History concentration of the Bachelor of Arts in Art to a stand-alone degree program, there will be no change in Education and General Funds to support the program. Also, this proposal will not have an impact on other programs or resources and no additional faculty of resources will be required.
The purpose of this item is to present, for approval, the termination of the Bachelor of Arts in Music. Since this degree's inception, two new degrees – Bachelor of Music (B.M.) and the Bachelor of Music Education (B.M.E.) – have been instituted, both of which incorporate performance as an essential and widely accepted element. Because the Bachelor of Arts in Music does not include the performance element, which is considered to be a necessary component to any respectable baccalaureate-level degree in music, there are no students enrolled in the degree and it has ceased to serve a role in the Department of Music's curricular offerings.
Since the Department of Music's faculty are engaged in the offerings of the two new degrees, B.M. and B.M.E., none would be affected by the proposed termination of the Bachelor of Arts in Music degree.
The purpose of this item is to present, for approval, the termination of the Masters in Human Resource Management. The last degree for this program was conferred in summer 2006 and, because of a lack of adequate enrollment, this program was inactivated.
The Coggin College of Business added a Human Resource Management concentration to the MBA curriculum in fall 2002. Enrollment was monitored in the MBA concentration and there was not sufficient student demand to justify reactivating the Masters in Human Resources management.
Because the Masters in Human Resource Management suspended admissions about 10 years ago, there will be no need to accommodate students or faculty, gender and racial distribution of students, and faculty will not be affected. There will be no potential negative impact of the proposed action on the current representation of females, minorities, faculty and students.
The purpose of this item is to seek approval for (1) limited access status and (2) approval to exceed 120 credit hours to degree for the Medical Laboratory Sciences concentration of the Biology major.
The College of Arts and Sciences Biology department is seeking limited access status for the Medical Laboratory Sciences concentration of the Biology major. The program can only accommodate 30 students. The Biology department plans to initiate the Medical Laboratory Sciences program in fall 2012.
Closure of medical laboratory science training programs over the past several decades, combined with increased demand for trained personnel, has resulted in a nationwide shortage of qualified medical technologists to staff clinical laboratories. The facilities, equipment and personnel required to properly train these students is limited and health care organizations with which we are affiliated can only accommodate a limited number of students at any given time. Because this clinical experience is a requirement for licensure and completion of the program, the administration is proposing limited access status. The proposed limited access is not anticipated to impact the current diversity.
Approval to exceed 120 credit hours to degree for the Medical Laboratory Sciences concentration is necessary to be in compliance with the National Accrediting Agency Clinical Laboratory Sciences. The university is seeking approval to exceed the 120 credit hour limit by five semester hours, bringing the total number of hours required for this specific concentration to 125 credits.
The purpose of this item is to present the annual report addressing the requirements of the Florida Educational Equity Act (FEEA), Gender Equity in Athletics, and the Equity Accountability Program (EAP) statutes. Each state university is required to maintain an annual equity plan for appropriate representation of women and minorities in senior level administrative positions, within tenure track and non-tenure track faculty and within faculty granted tenure. In addition universities are required to monitor student participation in programs or courses where certain protected classes are underrepresented and to ensure that provisions of non-discrimination laws are adhered to and educational resources are equitably distributed.
This report must be approved by the university President and the university Board of Trustees and submitted to the Board of Governors through the Office of the Chancellor.
This item provides a listing of reports discussed at the committee meeting. Individual reports will be discussed as deemed appropriate by the committee chair or an individual Board member.
This item provides a review of the findings and recommendations from the State of Florida's Auditor General for UNF's financial audit for the fiscal year which ended on June 30, 2011.
Vice President Shuman will address the committee and present this item.
The purpose of this item is to present a report to the Board of Trustees for this quarter's activities in the Office of Internal Auditing.
Vice President Shuman will provide an update on the whistleblower hotline.
This item provides a review of this quarter's budget report.
This item provides for review an overview of the annual treasurer's report for year ending September 30, 2011.
This item provides a listing of reports from the Academic Affairs Committee. Individual reports will be discussed as deemed appropriate by the committee chair or an individual Board member.
Dean Hallblade will describe new library projects and services with a focus on UNF Digital Commons. Dean Daniel will discuss urban education initiatives in the College of Education and Human Services.
Chair Taylor addressed the Board and asked for approval of the consent agenda. A MOTION was offered and seconded. The consent agenda was approved with Item 5Bi pulled for additional discussion.
Chair Taylor asked Vice President Gonzalez to speak about this item.
Vice President Gonzalez reminded trustees that the student conduct code was presented, with amendments, at the Board meeting in January. He noted that, since then, the Board of Governors had made the university aware of a mandatory provision that was not included. Vice President Gonzalez clarified that the provision was not substantive but was procedural and required Board approval.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION for approval for added language to the student conduct code. The MOTION was presented and seconded. The MOTION carried unanimously.
Chair Taylor asked Vice President Allaire to speak about this item.
Vice President Allaire stated that the university would like to recommend that the College of Education and Human Services building recognize Tom and Betty Petway. He noted that both had quite an impact on the community, region and state. Vice President Allaire mentioned that Tom was very much involved with higher education and had served on the Board of Regents and the Board of Governors. Vice President Allaire stated that Betty was greatly involved with UNF and the community.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION to name the College of Education and Human Services building to recognize Tom and Betty Petway. A MOTION was made and seconded. The MOTION was unanimously approved.
Chair Taylor asked Mr. Leonard Carson to speak about this item.
Mr. Carson stated that the Fraternal Order of Police contract had been ratified by the bargaining unit. He provided a summary of the agreement, noting that a reopener would be negotiated in the near future.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION for approval of the Fraternal Order of Police Contract. A MOTION was offered and seconded. The MOTION was carried as presented.
Chair Taylor asked Vice President Serwatka to speak about this item.
Vice President Serwatka stated that the university administration recommended an overall 15 percent increase to the in-state undergraduate tuition differential. In addition, the administration recommended an 8 percent increase in the undergraduate out-of-state fee.
At the graduate level, the administration recommended a 15 percent increase in in-state graduate tuition. It also recommended a reduction in the out-of-state graduate fee to keep the total per-credit-hour cost for out-of-state graduate students the same as last year for out-of-state graduate students.
Trustee Brockelman stated that, despite circumstances, the university administration always had a choice and a chance to do something different.
Chair Taylor asked that the university communicate with students, possibly on an individual basis, the reasons for the choice to increase tuition.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION for approval:
15 percent increase to the in-state undergraduate tuition differential,
8 percent increase in the undergraduate out-of-state fee,
15 percent increase in in-state graduate tuition, and a reduction in the out-of-state graduate fee to keep the total per-credit-hour cost for out-of-state graduate students the same as last year for out-of-state graduate students.
A MOTION was presented and seconded. Chair Taylor asked for a vote on the MOTION and Trustee Brockelman asked that the record reflect that he voted "yes" for #3 but "no" on #1 and 2. The MOTION was carried with one dissention.
Chair Taylor asked Vice President Shuman to speak about this item.
Vice President Shuman stated that this was the typical quarterly report made to the Board of Trustees to inform members of all change orders on any capital projects. Vice President Shuman discussed the timing of the biology building, the student wellness center and the dining facility. She noted that all change orders were listed in each project's report.
Chair Taylor offered appreciation to Trustee Brockelman, stating that this was his last meeting, as a trustee. Trustee Brockelman introduced Carlo Fassi as the newly elected president of Student Government and his replacement on the Board of Trustees. Chair Taylor adjourned the meeting.
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Flat file database
This article possibly contains original research. (March 2015)
A flat file database is a database which is stored on its host computer system as an ordinary "flat file". To access the structure of the data and manipulate it, the file must be read in its entirety into the computer's memory. Upon completion of the database operations, the file is again written out in its entirety to the host's file system. In this stored mode the database is "flat", which means it has no structure for indexing and there are usually no structural relationships between the records. A flat file can be a plain text file or a binary file.
The term has generally implied a small, simple database. As computer memory has become cheaper, larger and more sophisticated databases can now be held in memory in their entirety for faster access, but these would not generally be referred to as flat-file databases.
Plain text files usually contain one record per line,[2] There are different conventions for depicting data. In comma-separated values and delimiter-separated values files, fields can be separated by delimiters such as comma or tab characters. In other cases, each field may have a fixed length; short values may be padded with space characters. Extra formatting may be needed to avoid delimiter collision. More complex solutions are markup languages and programming languages.
Using delimiters incurs some overhead in locating them every time they are processed (unlike fixed-width formatting), which may have performance implications. However, use of character delimiters (especially commas) is also a crude form of data compression which may assist overall performance by reducing data volumes — especially for data transmission purposes. Use of character delimiters which include a length component (Declarative notation) is comparatively rare but vastly reduces the overhead associated with locating the extent of each field.
Typical examples of flat files are
/etc/passwd and
/etc/group on Unix-like operating systems. Another example of a flat file is a name-and-address list with the fields Name, Address, and Phone Number.
A list of names, addresses, and phone numbers written by hand on a sheet of paper is a flat file database. This can also be done with any typewriter or word processor. A spreadsheet or text editor program may be used to implement a flat file database, which may then be printed or used online for improved search capabilities.
Herman Hollerith conceived the idea that data could be represented by holes punched in paper cards then tabulated by machine. He implemented this concept for the US Census Bureau; thus the 1890 United States Census processing created the first database—consisting of thousands of boxes full of punched cards.
Hollerith's enterprise grew into the computer giant IBM, which dominated the data processing market for most of the 20th century. IBM's fixed-length field, 80-column punch cards became the ubiquitous means of inputting electronic data until the 1970s.
In the 1980s, configurable flat-file database computer applications were popular on DOS and the Macintosh. These programs were designed to make it easy for individuals to design and use their own databases, and were almost on par with word processors and spreadsheets in popularity.[citation needed] Examples of flat-file database products were early versions of FileMaker and the shareware PC-File. Some of these, like dBase II, offered limited relational capabilities, allowing some data to be shared between files.
In the 2010s flat file databases were used in content management systems. Instead of using a database, web developers were able to change the content directly in the file system or at the command line.
Contemporary implementations
FairCom's c-tree is an example of a modern enterprise-level solution, and spreadsheet software and text editors can be used for this purpose. WebDNA is a scripting language designed for the World Wide Web, with a hybrid flat file in-memory database system making it easy to build resilient database-driven websites. With the in-memory concept, WebDNA searches and database updates are almost realtime while the data is stored as text files within the website itself. Otherwise, flat file database is implemented in Microsoft Works and Apple Works. Over time, products like Borland's Paradox, and Microsoft's Access started offering some relational capabilities, as well as built-in programming languages. Database Management Systems (DBMS) like MySQL or Oracle generally require programmers to build applications.
Faceless flat file database engines are used internally by Mac OS X, Firefox, and other computer software to store configuration data. Programs to manage collections of books or appointments and address book are essentially single-purpose flat file database applications, allowing users to store and retrieve information from flat files using a predefined set of fields. As of 2011[update], one of the most popular flat file database engines is SQLite,[dubious ] which is the engine used by Firefox and Android and is part of the standard library for PHP and Python languages.
Data transfer operations
Flat files are used not only as data storage tools in DB and CMS systems, but also as data transfer tools to remote servers (in which case they become known as information streams).
In recent years, this latter implementation has been replaced with XML files, which not only contain but also describe the data. Those still using flat files to transfer information are mainframes employing specific procedures which are too expensive to modify.
One criticism often raised against the XML format as a way to perform mass data transfer operations is that file size is significantly larger than that of flat files, which is generally reduced to the bare minimum. The solution to this problem consists in XML file compression (a solution that applies equally well to flat files), which has nowadays gained EXI standards (i.e., Efficient XML Interchange, which is often used by mobile devices).
It is advisable that transfer data be performed via EXI rather than flat files because defining the compression method is not required, because libraries reading the file contents are readily available, and because there is no need for the two communicating systems to preliminarily establish a protocol describing data properties such as position, alignment, type, and format. However, in those circumstances where the sheer mass of data and/or the inadequacy of legacy systems becomes a problem, the only viable solution remains the use of flat files. In order to successfully handle those problems connected with data communication, format, validation, control and much else (be it a flat file or an XML file data source), it is advisable to adopt a Data Quality Firewall.
"Flat file database" may be defined very narrowly, or more broadly. The narrower interpretation is correct in database theory; the broader covers the term as generally used.
Strictly, a flat file database should consist of nothing but data and, if records vary in length, delimiters. More broadly, the term refers to any database which exists in a single file in the form of rows and columns, with no relationships or links between records and fields except the table structure.
Terms used to describe different aspects of a database and its tools differ from one implementation to the next, but the concepts remain the same. FileMaker uses the term "Find", while MySQL uses the term "Query"; but the concept is the same. FileMaker "files", in version 7 and above, are equivalent to MySQL "databases", and so forth. To avoid confusing the reader, one consistent set of terms is used throughout this article.
However, the basic terms "record" and "field" are used in nearly every flat file database implementation.
Example database
The following example illustrates the basic elements of a flat-file database. The data arrangement consists of a series of columns and rows organized into a tabular format. This specific example uses only one table.
The columns include: name (a person's name, second column); team (the name of an athletic team supported by the person, third column); and a numeric unique ID, (used to uniquely identify records, first column).
Here is an example textual representation of the described data:
id name team 1 Amy Blues 2 Bob Reds 3 Chuck Blues 4 Dick Blues 5 Ethel Reds 6 Fred Blues 7 Gilly Blues 8 Hank Reds 9 Hank Blues
This type of data representation is quite standard for a flat-file database, although there are some additional considerations that are not readily apparent from the text:
- Data types: each column in a database table such as the one above is ordinarily restricted to a specific data type. Such restrictions are usually established by convention, but not formally indicated unless the data is transferred to a relational database system.
- Separated columns: In the above example, individual columns are separated using whitespace characters. This is also called indentation or "fixed-width" data formatting. Another common convention is to separate columns using one or more delimiter characters. More complex solutions are markup and programming languages.
- Relational algebra: Each row or record in the above table meets the standard definition of a tuple under relational algebra (the above example depicts a series of 3-tuples). Additionally, the first row specifies the field names that are associated with the values of each row.
- Database management system: Since the formal operations possible with a text file are usually more limited than desired, the text in the above example would ordinarily represent an intermediary state of the data prior to being transferred into a database management system.
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- ↑ Data Integration Glossary, U.S. Department of Transportation, August 2001.
- ↑ Fowler, Glenn (1994), "cql: Flat file database query language" (PDF), WTEC'94: Proceedings of the USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference on USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>


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Ascent – my own break in Ambient style. This track very easy, calming and its application is quite various. You can use it for presentations in the movies. This track it is possible to listen and enjoy it simply! On nature of sounding – quiet, melodious, with a beautiful melody and big width of sounding. In this track tools of a piano, a guitar, percussion, by kick and snare are used. Creative successes!
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While some think that taxidermy has been done to death, we think that this is a unique example of how taxidermy can have a new and impressive effect. The Butterfly Room is part of Singapore House in Adelaide, Australia and is one of the more interesting things we've seen in The City of Churches.
A wall covered almost from head to toe in framed single and paired butterflies would make even the most boring of dinner parties interesting. With over 600 specimens of butterflies hanging on the wall The Butterfly Room certainly lives up to it's name. For more info visit the Singapore House website here.
Found via Brown Button blog.
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RANRan (Ras-related nuclear proteins) /TC4 subfamily of small GTPases
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|Ran is involved in the active transport of proteins through nuclear pores.
|Interpro abstract (IPR002041):
Small GTPases form an independent superfamily within the larger class of regulatory GTP hydrolases. This superfamily contains proteins that control a vast number of important processes and possess a common, structurally preserved GTP-binding domain [(PUBMED:2122258)], [(PUBMED:1898771)]. Sequence comparisons of small G proteins from various species have revealed that they are conserved in primary structures at the level of 30-55% similarity [(PUBMED:2029511)].
Crystallographic analysis of various small G proteins revealed the presence of a 20 kDa catalytic domain that is unique for the whole superfamily [(PUBMED:1898771)], [(PUBMED:2196171)]. The domain is built of five alpha helices (A1-A5), six beta-strands (B1-B6) and five polypeptide loops (G1-G5). A structural comparison of the GTP- and GDP-bound form, allows one to distinguish two functional loop regions: switch I and switch II that surround the gamma-phosphate group of the nucleotide. The G1 loop (also called the P-loop) that connects the B1 strand and the A1 helix is responsible for the binding of the phosphate groups. The G3 loop provides residues for Mg(2+) and phosphate binding and is located at the N terminus of the A2 helix. The G1 and G3 loops are sequentially similar to Walker A and Walker B boxes that are found in other nucleotide binding motifs. The G2 loop connects the A1 helix and the B2 strand and contains a conserved Thr residue responsible for Mg(2+) binding. The guanine base is recognised by the G4 and G5 loops. The consensus sequence NKXD of the G4 loop contains Lys and Asp residues directly interacting with the nucleotide. Part of the G5 loop located between B6 and A5 acts as a recognition site for the guanine base [(PUBMED:11995995)].
The small GTPase superfamily can be divided in 8 different families:
Ran (or TC4), is an evolutionary conserved member of the Ras superfamily of small GTPases that regulates all receptor-mediated transport between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. Ran has been implicated in a large number of processes, including nucleocytoplasmic transport, RNA synthesis, processing and export and cell cycle checkpoint control [(PUBMED:7885480), (PUBMED:8851043)]. Ran plays a crucial role in both import/export pathways and determines the directionality of nuclear transport. Import receptors (importins) bind their cargos in the cytoplasm where the concentration of RanGTP is low (due to action of RanGAP), and release their cargos in the nucleus where the concentration of RanGTP is high (due to action of RanGEF) [(PUBMED:12019565), (PUBMED:17170104)]. Export receptors (exportins) respond to RanGTP in the opposite manner. Furthermore, it has been shown that nuclear transport factor 2 (NTF2, IPR002075) stimulates efficient nuclear import of a cargo protein. NTF2 binds specifically to RanGDP and to the FXFG repeat containing nucleoporins [(PUBMED:10698256)].
Ran is generally included in the RAS 'superfamily' of small GTP-binding proteins [(PUBMED:2029511)], but it is only slightly related to the other RAS proteins. It also differs from RAS proteins in that it lacks cysteine residues at its C-terminal and is therefore not subject to prenylation. Instead, Ran has an acidic C terminus. It is, however, similar to RAS family members in requiring a specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) and a specific GTPase activating protein (GAP) as stimulators of overall GTPase activity.
Ran consists of a core domain that is structurally similar to the GTP-binding domains of other small GTPases but, in addition, Ran has a C-terminal extension consisting of an unstructured linker and a 16 residue alpha-helix that is located opposite the "Switch I" region in the RanGDP structure [(PUBMED:12051861)]. Three regions of Ran change conformation depending on the nucleotide bound, the Switch I and II regions, which interact with the bound nucleotide, as well as the C-terminal extension. In RanGDP, the C-terminal extension contacts the core of the protein, while in RanGTP, the extension is extending away from the core, most likely due to a steric clash between the switch I region and the linker part of the C-terminal extension. This suggests that the C-terminal extension in RanGDP is crucial for shielding residues in the core domain and preventing the switch regions from adopting a GTP-like form. This prevents binding of transport factors to RanGDP that would otherwise lead to uncoordinated interaction between importin beta-like proteins and cellular factors.
|GO process:
|intracellular protein transport (GO:0006886), signal transduction (GO:0007165), nucleocytoplasmic transport (GO:0006913)
|GO function:
|GTP binding (GO:0005525), GTPase activity (GO:0003924)
|Family alignment:
There are 625 RAN domains in 622 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
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Rail fare 'dissatisfaction' grows, survey suggests
There is a growing feeling that train tickets across the UK do not represent value for money, a watchdog's survey of 30,000 rail passengers suggests.
Passenger Focus found 46% of rail users were satisfied their ticket was value for money compared with 49% a year ago.
But the number of passengers satisfied with their journey overall remained at 84%, according to the survey.
The Association of Train Operating Companies admitted it needed to tackle costs as well as improve services.
Anthony Smith, chief executive of Passenger Focus, said the national passenger survey illustrated "the impact that tough economic times, coupled with fare rises, are having".
He said: "These results will enable the industry and government to focus resources and effort where passenger satisfaction remains in the doldrums.
"It can be done and passengers will give them credit when investment and proactive management coincide."
Passenger Focus surveyed 30,590 travellers between 1 September and 18 November 2011 and asked people for their opinion on the journey they were taking on that day.
This was carried out before an average rise of 5.9% for all rail tickets, including unregulated fares such as advance and business tickets, came in at the beginning of January.
Commuters have faced increases of up to 11% on their ticket prices.
'Basic promise'
Michael Roberts, chief executive of the Association of Train Operating Companies, said of the survey: "We recognise that value for money scores remain lower than others and the whole industry needs to focus on tackling costs as well as improving services.
"Successive governments have pursued above-inflation fare rises to reduce taxpayer subsidy while ensuring ongoing investment in the railways.
"The industry has already set out plans to cut the annual cost of the railway by £1.3bn a year by 2019 as a way to help limit future fare rises."
Passenger Focus found a large difference in levels of overall customer satisfaction depending on the area in which people travel.
Satisfaction scores for individual routes provided by different firms varied from 72% to 95%.
National Express East Anglia (NXEA) had the lowest overall satisfaction rating of all the train-operating companies at 77%, while Grand Central, which operates routes between London King's Cross and the north of England, had the highest rating, at 95%.
NXEA said a number of "disruptive infrastructure failures" last autumn affected its performance on certain days.
Managing director Andrew Chivers said: "We're obviously disappointed. We have been determined to improve customer satisfaction rates in our eight years running this railway. And while they are higher than when we started, they have not increased by as much as we had hoped."
Mr Chivers said he was encouraged by reported improvements in the survey in areas such as availability and comfort of seats on trains. He said it reflected the recent completion of an £185m investment programme.
Nationally, 81% of passengers were satisfied with punctuality, compared with 82% last year.
Passenger Focus singled out South West Trains and Chiltern for problems with punctuality, saying there had been a decline in satisfaction from 2010, but praised London Overground and Merseyrail for improvements.
Mr Smith said: "We know from this research that performance remains the key passenger priority.
"Train companies and Network Rail must keep up a relentless attention on getting trains on time, not only at the end of their routes, but at stations along the way as well.
"Passengers are still paying above-inflation fares rises and have every right to expect the industry to keep its basic promise to get them there on time."
South West Trains said it had launched a joint 10-point plan with Network Rail to tackle the drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction in response to the survey.
The company said fatalities on the line had more than doubled in the last year and delays caused by cable theft incidents had increased by almost 500% year on year.
Managing director Tim Shoveller said "Our customers rightly expect a reliable train service and we understand their frustration. When disruption happens, they deserve clear information and a quick response to get trains running normally.
"We are sorry we have let our passengers down recently. We are absolutely determined to work closely with Network Rail to restore their trust and our normal high levels of service."


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Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig at the Golden Globes 2013
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig Heat Up the Golden Globes Carpet
Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig arrived together at the Golden Globes in LA tonight. The couple looked glamorous, with Rachel in a black gown and Daniel in a sleek tuxedo. Rachel is up for best actress for her role in The Deep Blue Sea and had Daniel by her side for support. He made the award-season rounds this weekend and attended Sean Penn's Help Haiti event last night, though Rachel wasn't photographed with him. They're just one of the many stunning couples at the Golden Globes, and the duos keep arriving.
With so many gorgeous red-carpet gowns, make sure to vote on your favorites in our Fab and Bella Golden Globe polls.


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Author Notes: I'm not using a French title to be fancy (though France is where I learned to love this dish), it's so people won't be put off by kidneys! I don't know why some folks get so squeamish about these "parts", if you're going to eat meat, night as well eat the whole animal right? (not least because it's delicious). Okay, off my soapbox now. Please try this, it is seriously good. —Vivilicious
Serves: 4 generously
veal kidneys, cleaned, dried on paper towel and cut into 1.5in cubes (if you have trouble finding these, you can also try lamb's kidneys, about 12)
shallots, finely minced
cup dry white wine
ounces button mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
tablespoons butter
tablespoon olive oil
cup crème fraîche
cup veal stock (if you don't have any in your freezer, use good quality bought)
tablespoons whole grain mustard
salt and pepper to taste
In This Recipe
- Note: A few principles to remember when working with kidneys. First you must emove the membrane, then cut kidneys in two lengthways. Cut out the central fat inside (the white stuff, looks like branches). Secondly, please please please do not overcook the kidney or you'll be chewing rubber. And finally, once you have added mustard to the sauce, don't let it come to the boil again.
- In a pan, melt 3 tablespoons butter and sauté the mushrooms, season and set aside.
- Heat another pan and add 5 tablespoons butter and oil. Once very hot, almost smoking, add the kidneys (BE CAREFUL, oil could splatter). Sauté kidneys for 1-2 minutes until they are nicely browned, then remove them from the pan and drain them in a sieve over a bowl.
- Add the shallots to the fat in the pan, letting them sweat over low heat for 2 minutes. Tip in the wine and turn up the heat, cooking for another 5 minutes to reduce.
- Pour in the crème fraîche and let it reduce by half. Then add the veal stock, taste for seasoning and take off the heat. Add the mustard whilst stirring the sauce, put back on the heat and add the kidneys and the mushrooms. Heat through for about 5 minutes (without letting it come to a boil). Do one last taste for seasoning and serve.
- You could just serve this over rice, but for a really decadent dinner, try it over fresh tagliatelle tossed in butter and grated parmesan, lip-smackingly good!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Nose to Tail Recipe
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Coloring Pages: Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day Coloring Pages
Grab your crayons and get ready to color some awesome Valentine's Day coloring pages. Color pictures of hearts, happy couples, cupid, sweet moments and more. Squigly's coloring pages are free printables that you can print over and over again! Share them with your friends and relatives. Display them in your home or even on a school bulletin board.
If you'd like to do some online coloring, click on the flower () that appears on a coloring page and you'll be taken to an online coloring page.
... more Valentine fun.
General, Animals, Birds and Fish, Dinosaurs, Dogs, Fairy Tales, Families, Farm, Flowers, Kids, Sports, Sunday School
Season and Holiday Coloring pages:
Autumn, Back to School, Christmas, Earth Day, Easter, Father's Day, Halloween, Independence Day, Mother's Day, Spring, St. Patrick's, Summer, Thanksgiving, Valentines, Winter, Online Coloring
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If you've been using Twitter through its website, I recommend that you use a desktop client instead to further enhance your tweeting experience. Since Twitter has become immensely popular, there are tons and tons of available desktop applications that support this great micro-blogging service. So I'm here to assist you on narrowing down the choices, and hope to somehow give you an idea on picking the one that suits you best.
For Linux users, here's my list of top of the line Twitter desktop clients that can surely help you better organize your friends, followers, and tweets, and overall make tweeting a lot more fun:
TweetDeck is my preferred Twitter desktop client right now because of its rich features and well thought out interface. It is ideal for those who have lots of friends and followers (I don't have much so follow me HERE :-) since you can split the application into columns making it possible for you to group things up. TweetDeck can be easily installed using Adobe Air.
I used twirl for quite some time before, and until now I can still say that it's one of the best Twitter clients out there. It has a great number of features like image posting, tweet search, changeable theme, spell-checker, ability to record videos on Seesmic, and plenty more. Like TweetDeck, twirl also runs on Adobe Air.
Gwibber is an open source Twitter client for GNOME desktop environment. It is developed with Python and GTK and supports other social networking services like Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, and Digg. To Ubuntu or other GNOME-based distro user who wants a lightweight Twitter client with basic functionality, then Gwibber is for you.
For KDE users, Choqok is the one Twitter client I can highly recommend. I know the name is hard to pronounce, but don't get discouraged as it has good amount of features like Twitpic.com integration, ability to notify user about new statuses via KNotification or Libnotify, KWallet integration, and more.
Spaz is an open source Twitter client with cool looks and features. What I like most about Spaz is its support for user-created themes and it's built-in global search function. Spaz is also dependent on Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR).
I hope you have made your choice already. If you have time for a little adventure, why not also try tweeting via the Linux command line (terminal).
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you can also use Twitter via Pidgin.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention that you can also use Twitter via Pidgin.


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In my June 14 2009 Email "Revise LaSalle's Route? An Exercise in Topology" I discussed the new "tools" that have become available since I did my original research including Internet access, satellite imagery and the Natural Features Inventory pre-settlement vegetation maps.
In that memorandum I described what I believe to be a more accurate designation of the LaSalle party's probable route from where they abandoned their elm-bark canoe along side the Huron River to where they built the raft to float across the Detroit River.
In this exercise I am re-looking at how they got from Ft. Miami to the Paw Paw River valley on the first day of their cross-peninsula trek on March 24, 1680.
Those of you who know the Twin Cities know that downtown St. Joe where Ft. Miami was located sits on top of a very steep bluff overlooking the St. Joseph River on the north and Lake Michigan's beach on the west. Now the river is confined by Corps of Engineers' breakwaters to a straight west course out into the lake. In LaSalle's time it was free-flowing and curved around the base of the bluff a ways before entering the lake. The actual entrance shifted north or south over time according to the whims of storms and the along-shore current.
The Paw Paw River flows into the St. Joseph River from the northeast through an extensive low-land which in LaSalle's day was a large marsh. The extent of that marsh is shown very plainly on the pre-settlement vegetation map of Berrien County. The confluence of the Paw Paw with the St. Joseph is about 3/4 mile east of and inland from the Lake Michigan shore. The marsh extended most of that distance. There were low sand dunes between the marsh and the big lake.
The high and dry ground on both sides of the St. Joseph River was covered with a beech-sugar maple forest according to the pre-settlement vegetation map as was the dry land south of the Paw Paw River marsh now occupied by the City of Benton Harbor.
When LaSalle concluded that his ship the Griffon was lost and that he would have to return to Niagara by walking cross-country his first problem was getting across the St. Joseph River. They had walked up the Lake Michigan beach from the south and climbed the bluff to get to the fort. I am surprised that the two men occupying the fort didn't have a canoe but apparently not because LaSalle's party built a raft to cross the St. Joseph. LaSalle said that took them half a day on March 24, 1680.
My first job in this exercise is to figure out where they would have been able to cobble together a raft. It makes sense that it would have been on the left bank of the St. Joseph where there was relatively level, dry ground (as opposed to where the river flowed against the steep bluff or marshland) and where the river bank was covered by trees. This assumes that LaSalle and his men would have made their raft by lashing together riverside downed trees or large branches with vines.
A close examination of the pre-settlement vegetation map and the USGS Benton Harbor Quadrangle topographic map (1:24,000 1970) shows that the closest such place to the fort would have been along the left bank of the river a little less than a half mile downstream of the Napier Avenue Bridge (Napier Avenue follows the trace of an old Indian trail that eventually led to the Kalamazoo River ford). That location would have been about 1 3/4 miles from the fort. The route from the Ft. Miami Historical Marker would be kitty-corner south to the intersection of Wayne and Broad Streets then down Broad Street (past the house where my late wife Elaine grew up) to the bottom of the hill and then following Ann Street upstream along the river bank.
The next question becomes would they have crossed the river directly or would they have floated downstream before they landed and got off the raft on the right bank? If they could have floated or poled about 3/4 mile downstream they could have landed on a prominent point just beyond a gully cut in the right bank by an intermittent stream. They would have run into some marsh before they could reach the bank at that point but in spring flood the water level would probably have been high enough. Today Parker Avenue comes down to the river at that point, about a block south of Benton Harbor High School.
That side of the St. Joseph River was also covered with beech-maple forest. About a mile to two miles to the east began more open oak-hickory forest. LaSalle was deliberately avoiding Indian trails and open woods, savannas or prairies for fear of Iroquois war parties so he would have headed northeast along the edge of the Paw Paw River marsh still in the beech-maple woods until the marsh ran out where the Paw Paw flowed out of a relatively narrow valley.
To follow that route today you would zigzag through Benton Harbor on Empire Avenue, Colfax Avenue, East Market Street, Highland Avenue, Paw Paw Avenue and Territorial Road.
The area where LaSalle and his men would have started up the Paw Paw River valley is now mostly occupied by the Southwest Michigan Regional Airport.
The pre-settlement Paw Paw River marsh was over two square miles in area. It's extent can be plainly seen on a topographic map or by observation from high ground in St. Joe or Benton Harbor.
The vegetation type of the Paw Paw River valley bottom was (and mostly still is) mixed hardwood swamp. I believe the travelers would have been following the edge of the beech maple forest above the mixed hardwood swamp. Remember they were traveling in the leafless season thus would have been able to hike along away from the river a ways just keeping the left bank of the meanders in view without having to follow closely the Paw Paw's extremely sinuous path.
The problem of trespass on private land keeps us from laying out a trail closely following LaSalle's but there are places where the 1680 experience can be sampled such as the Sarrett Nature Center between Benton Harbor and Coloma, adjacent to the Watervliet Airport runways, and the Southwest Michigan Land Conservancy's Paw Paw River Preserve.
* In case you have forgotten or never knew, "topology" is defined as the topographic study of an area in relation to its history.


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HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
In the case of South East Asia, the forests are essential for the survival of the rich diversity of plants and animals, including such special species as elephants, rhinos and orang-utans. Equally important, they are of critical importance for the goods and services they provide for the local people.
For the conservation of natural forests to have any chance of success, it requires the maintenance of very large blocks of inter-connected forest.
There is only one place on the planet where sufficiently large areas of the Indo-Malay forests of Southeast Asia could be conserved on such a scale. It straddles the trans-boundary highlands of Indonesia and Malaysia, and reaches through the foothills into adjacent lowlands and to parts of Brunei.
There is still time to protect and manage this area as one of the last bastions of the Southeast Asian rainforest.
I am very encouraged to know that WWF is seeking to engage the governments of Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia in making plans to protect the existing forests in the area, and to achieve the sustainable use of the forests and the vital water-catchment areas with these unique forests.
This is a major initiative, and to succeed, WWF will need to establish technical and financial partnerships in the international community, including NGOs, multilateral and bilateral agencies.
This is a last chance initiative, and it simply has to succeed.
The Duke of Edinburgh is the patron of many organisations, including WWF and the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The Duke was the first President of WWF-UK from its foundation in 1961 to 1982, and President of WWF-International from 1981 to 1996. He is now President Emeritus for WWF.


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Alabama man charged in international terror plot pleads not guilty at arraignment
MOBILE, Ala. – A Mobile man has pleaded not guilty to charges that he provided support to international terrorists.
Twenty-five-year-old Randy Wilson entered the plea in federal court on Wednesday.
Wilson was arrested by federal agents earlier this month as he prepared to board a flight to Morocco. Federal prosecutors allege he wanted to travel from Morocco to another African country where he could join a violent Islamist Jihad.
Wilson's attorney says Wilson is a devout Muslim who wanted to study abroad. The attorney says he has been unfairly targeted because of his connections to another Alabama native who is on the FBI's list of most wanted terrorists and has joined jihadists in Somalia.
A judge has set a tentative March 3 trial date for Wilson.


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Bryan Cantrill explores Rust, explains why it has captured the imagination of so many systems software engineers, and outlines where it might best fit in the deep stack of operating system software.
Software architecture diagrams, when created well, and sparingly, can greatly improve communication within the development team and with external stakeholders. They require an understanding of the intended audience, and thoughtful restraint on what to include. Resist the temptation to think that diagrams are unnecessary or unhelpful, simply because there have been plenty of cases of bad diagrams.
Christian Tzolov showcases how building a complex use-case such as real-time image recognition or object detection, can be simplified with the help of the Spring Ecosystem and TensorFlow.
In the book Future Ethics, Cennydd Bowles explores the role ethics play in the tech industry and in the work of product managers, designers, and engineers. The book provides guidance on how to think and act ethically when designing products.
Adin Scannell talks about gVisor - a container runtime that implements the Linux kernel API in userspace using Go. He talks about the architectural challenges associated with userspace kernels, the positive and negative experiences with Go as an implementation language, and finally, how to ensure API coverage and compatibility.
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Will Nicholas Negroponte Ever Understand That Competition Isn't About Killing OLPC?
from the get-over-it dept
Sorry, Nicholas, but competition isn't undermining.
In fact, competition is generally what drives all parties to be better at what they do, in order to fend off the competition. Yet, somehow, the UK's Times Online has bought into Negroponte's side of the story and written up an article bashing Microsoft and Intel for trying to "kill" the OLPC. The article is riddled with factual errors and opinion substituting as fact, but the worst is in the central point of the article. The author mistakes companies all aiming for the same market as a nefarious attempt to "kill off" Negroponte's pet project -- as if he has some universal right to the market that no one else can attempt to enter. It also brushes over some simple facts, like the one where many countries have looked at the OLPC and realized it doesn't really serve their needs just yet. That, if anything, should be even more reason why competition is necessary. It helps create better products that actually serve the needs of people in those markets, rather than just what Negroponte decides they must want in his top-down manner.


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Victoria Beckham: Universal CityWalk with the Kids!
Victoria Beckham keeps it chic while spending time with her kids Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz, and Harper at Universal CityWalk on Sunday (November 4) in Universal City, Calif.
The 38-year-old designer watched Cruz fly away during a session of indoor skydiving.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Victoria Beckham
On the same day, Victoria's husband David Beckham is scheduled to play a playoff soccer game against the San Jose Earthquakes.
Last weekend, Victoria was seen supporting David at his soccer game against the Seattle Sounders at the Home Depot Center.
FYI: Victoria is using her Bugaboo stroller.
30+ pictures inside of Victoria Beckham and her kids enjoying the date at Universal City Walk…


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Hamilton Jewelers iCatalog+ for iPhoneFree
Free Hamilton Jewelers iOS Version 3.4.2 Full Specs
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Presenting Hamilton Jewelers iCatalog+ for iPad, the easiest, most innovating and feature-rich way to shop our catalogs. Download and keep our most recent catalogs with you at all times, for easy and convenient access at home or on the go. View amazingly beautiful pages and spreads and tap on your favorite products to obtain additional information and purchase your selections right from your iPad.The Product Detail view presents all products within the same page (for portrait view) or spread (for landscape view), all within a nice, scrollable interface. -- Easy shopping at its best! Save products to your Favorites List for quick access at a later time and share the entire list with friends and family via email. You can also share individual items via email or social networks. Our app features a beautiful photo gallery, as well as videos, store finder, and social media sections.With Hamilton Jewelers iCatalog+ your shopping experience is a breeze. Easy, fast, enjoyable. A truly remarkable and almost magical experience that will have you coming back over and over again. The convenience of the traditional catalog with the ease of use of twenty-first century technology -- Hamilton Jewelers iCatalog+
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Joyful Movement & Jolly Steps Sydney
Shane Warren Coaching & Counselling Services
Sunday, 10 December 2017 from 5:45 am to 9:15 pm (AEDT)
Event Details
Joyful Movement & Jolly Steps working from the philosophy of joyful movement is a group for people who recognise there is happiness and health to be found in regular exercise; but really do not have the innate motivation to get out there and go go go...
We offer 40-plus classes in a week and limit the numbers in each class so bookings are essential; once you have secured your ticket you can enrol in a class here.
Classes range from sunrise walks to intensive movement classes to gentle yoga strategies!
Each year we offer classes that reflect season motivations; the dates of terms roughly reflect the season daes below but with public holidays and events it is subject to minor changes....
Summer Term: December, Janaury, February
Autumn Term: March, April, May
Winter Term: June, July, August
Spring Term: October, November, December
You can join the program from the beginning of term or mid-way through or maybe just try one event first!
Joyful Movement is a joint initiative of Shane Warren and Kait Luker
What are the health limits to participate in Joyful Movement?
Please consult with your doctor before attending our event to ensure there are no health limitations to your full participation.
Are there ID requirements or an age limit to participate in Joyful Movemnet?
There are no ID requirments but participation is limted to persons 18 years and over.
What are my transport/parking options getting to Hyde Park?
Parking is a challenge around the Hyde Park area so we encourage you to catch public transport - buses stop on all sides of the park and Museam Station is the closest train stop.
What to bring?
Please dress is comfortable exercise clothing. On cooler nights it is beneficial to wear warmer outfits. During the stretch and relax exercises you will be required to sit and lay on the ground so you might like to bring a towel or yoga mat.
What are the bad weather arrangments?
As this is an outdoor activity we will always cancel the event due to dangerous weather conditions. A broadcast email will be sent when the event it cancelled but for your planning in general if it is raining heavily or we are having one of those windy or stormy days we will cancel the event.
Does Joyful Movement ever change the path?
In general we will follow the same path over a 10-week term and people can join us during the event if they are running late. During times of major events or in cases of police warnings we will amend the walking path for participants safety.
Where can I contact the organiser with any questions?
You can email any questions to firstname.lastname@example.com
Is my registration/ticket transferrable?
No once purchased no tickets can be transferred for other sessions or events. Nor do we offer refunds.
Can I update my registration information?
Yes - please do so that we can email any announcement or event updates to you.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
What is the refund policy?
Tickets are not refundable (nor transferrable).
The name on the registration/ticket doesn't match the attendee. Is that okay?
No we ask that name on the ticket will match the attendee as all attendees will be asked to sigh a terms and conditions of partipation.
When & Where
Darlinghurst Comnunity Space
277 Bourke Street
Sunday, 10 December 2017 from 5:45 am to 9:15 pm (AEDT)
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Shane Warren Coaching & Counselling Services
Shane Warren is a registered psychotherapist, certified practicing hypnotherapist and certified practicing coach. His field of expertise is in the area of emotional resilience which Shane has applied to clients across the globe through such roles as coach, counsellor and facilitator.
Shane's practice motto is Changing lives through simple solutions! because this is what he strives to achieve with each and every client.
Working from a deeply personal motive to empower others to be better for themselves, he is a highly respected and well sort after consultant, coach and therapist within the Asia Pacific region.


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The Pocket Satchel in Lizard
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- The new satchel, in polished lizard with hand-stitched details. Artisanally made, the miniature bag is sculpted around a wooden mould in Italy to achieve its neat structure and shape, with a contrast-coloured crossbody strap and soft nappa leather interior.
- 12 x 6 x 11.5cm/4.7 x 2.4 x 4.5in
- Min. strap drop length: 54cm/21.3in
- Max. strap drop length: 56cm/22in
- Outer: 100% wild teju lizard skin, tupinambis merianae, country of origin: Argentina
- Trim: 100% lambskin and 100% wild teju lizard skin, tupinambis merianae, country of origin: Argentina
- Lining: 100% lambskin
- Pocket lining: 100% lambskin
- Shoulder strap: 100% calf leather
- One exterior flap pocket with magnetic closure
- One interior slip pocket
- Detachable and adjustable crossbody strap
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Set your watch to automatically scroll through your sport mode displays while exercising by using Autoscroll.
In Movescount, you can turn Autoscroll on/off for each sport mode and define how long the displays are shown.
You can also turn Autoscroll on/off during exercise without any effect on your Movescount settings.
To turn Autoscroll on/off during exercise:
- While you are in a sport mode, keep pressed to access the options menu.
- Scroll to Activate with and select with .
- Scroll to Autoscroll with and select with .
- Toggle on/off with or .
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Car Review
2013 Nissan Maxima: New Car Review Video
If you want a car that gives you equal parts performance and luxury, you're going to have to drop some serious cash on an upscale European vehicle, such as the BMW 3-Series or Audi A4. With the new 2013 Nissan Maxima, Nissan understood the large gap and decided to do something about it. Now, you'll be able to find a genuine luxury-performance sedan without the premium price tag.
Even though the 2013 Maxima is pretty much a carryover from the 2012 model, it does offer style, a high-end interior and enough horsepower and handling ability to satisfy the performance requirements of just about anyone shopping for a sporty sedan. And with two trim levels, including S and SV, plus a few different option packages, consumers have many options to make a Nissan Maxima the vehicle they demand.
On the inside, Nissan perfected the interior with the use of classy, luxurious bits that offer a sporty yet contemporary feel. The Maxima also offers a great selection of electronics such as standard Bluetooth, but the optional 7-inch touchscreen navigation system with voice command and rearview monitor is not to be overlooked. On the downside, one would expect at least a USB port or even iPod integration, but neither are available standard or as part of an option package.
Under the hood, the 2013 Maxima comes with a 3.5-liter 290-horsepower V6 engine that offers excellent straight-ahead performance that is better than many in its class. However, unlike its German counterparts, the Maxima cannot be found with a manual transmission, but one can get the optional steering-wheel mounted shift paddles if you need to simulate manual shifting. Also, since the Maxima is front wheel drive, the pure enthusiast might feel the understeer when driving aggressively.
The fuel economy for the Nissan Maxima is decent at 19 miles per gallon city and 26 mpg highway. These numbers might be a tad below what other entry-level luxury sedans can ring up, as they might use a manual transmission or even a smaller, turbocharged engine.
On the flip side, those entry-level luxury sedans might be way more expensive than you think. The base price for the new Maxima is just $33,270, but you'll be surprised by the near-lavish interior, first-rate craftsmanship and loads of available upmarket features. Also, with a muscular V6 and athletic handling, the 2013 Nissan Maxima is incredibly crowd-pleasing at a great price.


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Karine Provost, managing director, Joffrey Academy of Dance
Karine Provost has joined the Joffrey Academy of Dance as managing director. Provost will serve as the public face of the Academy through interactions with families and students, members of the Joffrey board of directors and women's board, donors, partner organizations, teachers, principals and school administrators, and other special communities with an interest in the academy. She will oversee the Academy's 20 faculty and 8 accompanists, plus the programming and day-to-day operations of the Academy's dozens of classes in multiple programs, including Children's, Youth and Adult Divisions, Summer Camps and Summer Intensives, Pre-Professional and Trainee Programs. Approximately 700 students take classes at the Joffrey Academy. Provost brings extensive experience managing studio and education programs with dance companies across the country. She arrives as the school of the Joffrey Ballet expands to Los Angeles and pursues expansion to the Chicago suburbs on the near horizon. Provost, 30, worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago since 2007, where she served as the Manager of Pre-Professional Programs, creating and overseeing Hubbard Street's Summer Intensive program. She also oversaw day-to-day operations at the Lou Conte Dance Studio. Before that, she was School Manager of The Washington Ballet. Provost has a B.S. in dance and arts administration from Butler University in Indianapolis.
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MOA on ARCCESS Project
The Department of Agrarian Reform in Agusan del Norte and Surigao del Sur State University (SDSSU) signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) to conduct Agrarian Reform Community Connectivity and Enterprise Support Services (ARCCESS) project at a ceremony held recently at SDSSU campus, Tandag City last July 3, 2013.
The MOA covers the Organizational and Enterprise Needs Assessment and Design Assessment of the proposed "Rice Production and Palay Trading" and "Crop Trading." These are to be implemented by the Avanceña Beneficiaries-Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (ABFMPC) in the Cabadbaran City and Palmavera Small Coconut Farmers Beneficiaries Cooperative (PASCOFBEC) in the municipality of Las Nieves, Agusan del Norte.
Assistant Regional Director for Operation (ARDO) and concurrent Provincial Agrarian Reform Officer II (PARO II) of DAR Agusan del Norte Andre B. Atega, CESOV, is the signatory representing Agrarian Reform Beneficiaries Organizations in Agusan del Norte. On the other hand, the President Remegita C. Olvida, Ed.D., represented SDSSU who will provide technical assistance such as agricultural and agribusiness instruction and research activities to the participating ARBOs.
PARO Atega said, "This is another milestone in Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) implementation in DAR-Agusan del Norte that will enhance the chances for growth and increase income of the agrarian reform beneficiaries."
Ester Cabalan, OIC Chief of the Beneficiaries Development and Coordinating Division (BDCD) said that DAR-ADN, in partnership with SDSSU, aims to assess the needs of the ARBOs (ABFMPC & PASCOFBEC) for an effective implementation of their agri-based enterprise projects.
ARCCESS Coordinator Raul N. Hermoso mentioned that, "we engaged the services of SDSSU knowing their competency and track record in conducting research and evaluation in rural development projects."
Also in attendance during the ceremony were Antonio D. Meso, CARPO-RSSD, Engr. Vangie Hanginan, Regional Project Engineer, Gil E. Miranda, information officer and some DAR-SDS personnel.


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End Of Year Teacher's Gift Dilemma
Well, it's that time of year again; end of the school year and time to purchase the teacher gifts. Last year I did small gifts for all of the teachers and slightly bigger ones for the main teachers. Seeing as though this ended up being for approx. 25 people, it was very stressful and expensive, even though we limited price amounts.
This year, we're just focusing on the main teachers, both at school and at Sunday School. But even with limiting the number of people we are purchasing things for, it's been extremely difficult to come up with ideas, especially since the end of the year gifts come right after Teacher Appreciation Week.
I see lots of cheesy things on Pinterest that I could make (and we kind of did for the "SundAE" School teachers – yes, we got them small frozen yogurt giftcards housed in little ice cream cups on top of tissue paper vaguely resembling an ice cream sundae), but I'm kind of burnt out from making things for everyone (I know, I'm pathetic) and I'm kind of sick of the cheesy stuff for some reason. I feel like the teachers might be sick of it too seeing as though some of the popular stuff has been around for many years and chances are, they have already received the gifts we were considering.
My daughter wants to make a pencil vase with "beautiful" flowers in it for her teacher and I think we can pull that off (plus she got a first year teacher who hasn't had the good fortune to already receive the cheesy gifts yet).
But then, there's my son, who has a teacher that has been teaching for A LONG TIME and has everything she needs; not to mention his gifted teacher who is a little quirky (aka, not your average teacher).
Does anyone have any reasonably priced go-to gift ideas for teachers? I am at a loss and we only have 2 weeks left before our crazy Summer! Please help! We can pretend this is a blog party if that makes it more exciting! 🙂


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Council chairman Gene Ciarus indicated during the council's Tuesday, Feb. 19, meeting that the issue likely will be on the March 5 agenda for discussion.
The tax has been proposed by a task force as the best option to help finance the extended-care center, which is losing $40,000 to $50,000 each month, center officials have said.
However, it is unclear whether Utah tax code allows a county of Grand's size to levy the tax for that purpose. The Canyonlands Healthcare Special Service District has written to the Utah State Tax Commission seeking an opinion, but had not received a reply prior to Tuesdays' council meeting.
Members of the healthcare district spoke during the meeting to urge the council to act quickly in case the tax is declared legal.
The district's board recently heard a proposal from Mission Health Services of Huntsville to manage the care center, including the addition of skilled nursing services that would prompt higher reimbursement from Medicare than is now being received. Council vice chairman Lynn Jackson asked district representatives whether outside management would provide enough revenue to keep the center viable.
They told him the tax would still be needed to raise money to pay off the center's construction bond.
Jackson said there should be a public discussion of all options to raise revenue for the center.
"Then it [the tax] stands a better chance of passing," he said.
Grand County Clerk/Auditor Diana Carroll said April 10 is the latest date to add the potential tax to the June primary election ballot. That means the council would have to decide no later than its April 3 meeting.
"We need to get it on the council agenda so we can start the process," Ciarus said.


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There were quite a lot of rumours about upcoming HTC Sense and Android 4.2.2 update for HTC One and HTC Butterfly. All were expecting HTC Sense 5.1 to show up, but instead, the version of HTC UI in latest Android 4.2.2 update is still 5.0. However, it does have a lot of important changes. Let me introduce few of them.
Finally! The most popular modification in custom ROMs of all kind. Now you can enable it under Settings ---> Power ---> Show battery level.
HTC did a great job by incorporating Android native EQS. You can switch it by tapping on the EQS icon in the upper right corner of the notification menu.
3. Android Daydream
Another Android 4.2.2 feature included in latest HTC update.
4. Long press home button works as menu button.
It's been very popular modification in HTC One custom ROMs. Now it's by default added to Android 4.2.2 update as well.
5. Minor changes in the app drawer and dock
Now you can remove all the icons from the dock, which wasn't possible in HTC Sense 5.0 we had in Android 4.1.2. Also, after moving some particular icon to the dock, it won't be gone from the app drawer.
6. More new screenshots coming soon!


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Beyond its musical attributes, the exhilarating performance delivered by soul singer Sharon Jones and her band the Dap-Kings on Tuesday testified to the restorative power of music.
Other than her ultra-short hair, there was no outward evidence of the harrowing medical treatments Jones underwent after being diagnosed last year with Stage 1 bile duct cancer. The subsequent surgery and chemotherapy took her off the road for much of 2013 as well as placing on hold a recording career that auspiciously began in 2002.
The 57-year-old Augusta, Ga., native alluded to the episode midway through her show at the Wiltern when the band laid down a vibrant gospel vamp, which shifted her into preacher mode. "Last year when I was laid up in the hospital, I promised I was going to make it through to be at this theater here tonight!" she said, eliciting a cheer from the packed house.
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Jones may say the same thing at every date on this tour, but nothing about the line -- or the rest of her show, for that matter -- felt rote as she and the 10-member Dap-Kings soared through a galvanizing R&B and soul revue that wasn't so much old-school as forever-school.
The format of a powerhouse singer fronting a large but nimble band buoyed by a horn section and backup singers fleshing out a core guitar-bass-drums lineup goes back to the '40s.
Although Jones and the Dap-Kings' act has roots in template-setting bands such as James Brown & the Famous Flames and Sly & the Family Stone, it's wrong to call what they do "retro," any more than you'd apply the term to Prince's recent marathon concert with a horn-rich band that also demonstrated the timeless appeal of the soul-funk big band.
There's a reason Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake have also on occasion delved into this musical milieu, and both could have learned a thing or two watching Jones.
Her vibrant and dynamic vocals inject each moment with life, and the turn-on-a-dime flexibility of the Dap-Kings was a wonder to behold throughout the 90-minute-plus performance.
The vast majority of her songs revolved around the many faces of love lost, love found, love betrayed and love just out of reach. Drawn from her new, belatedly released album "Give the People What They Want," "You'll Be Lonely" is an "I told you so" sendoff to a wayward lover set to a slinky slow-walk groove. "Long Time, Wrong Time" struts along like some of the great tracks from Memphis' Stax Records.
At times Jones recalled R&B-soul divas Tina Turner and Gladys Knight, with the latter also referenced with a funked-up reading of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" modeled on Knight's hit version in a nod that felt drawn from a sense of musical sisterhood rather than facile name-checking.
Jones even indulged a fan's request for her upside-down arrangement of Woody Guthrie's politically charged singalong anthem "This Land Is Your Land," which she and the Dap-Kings transformed into a riveting minor-key blues-gospel workout.
And her dancing? Forget what's come to be the standard of choreography in spectacles assembled for modern pop stars such as Britney Spears, Lady Gaga and Beyonce, who exult in choreography that virtually demands audiences to take notice of their hard work. Jones' foot and legwork are no less dizzying but emerge organically from the music, a physical manifestation of the joy, heartbreak or sexual energy within each song.
At times you wish she'd tap material that would lift her out of the world of doomed romance more often, or more distinctively — any number of John Hiatt's songs spring to mind — but at any given moment in Tuesday's show there was hardly an opening for second-guessing.
The evening got off to a dazzling start with the opening 30-minute set by Valerie June. The Jackson, Tenn.-born singer and songwriter weaves a fascinating multiplicity of influences into her music: folk, blues, gospel and country, creating a distinctly intriguing style that can veer from the childlike wonder of Victoria Williams to the deep-rooted intensity of Richie Havens.
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It's no wonder she attracted the likes of organist extraordinaire Booker T. Jones and Black Keys producer-songwriter Dan Auerbach to help out on her 2013 breakthrough album, "Pushin' Against a Stone."
Sporting a short black dress, turquoise leggings, gray western boots and mounds of dreadlocked curls, June opened with spare banjo-drums on the blues standard "Rollin' & Tumblin'." From there she moved from acoustic guitar to her "baby" banjo-ukulele to a stinging electric guitar on the closing number," "You Can't Be Told," an exploration of a life hell-bent on destruction.
She focused largely on songs from the album, which, as good as it is, doesn't capture the magic she invokes in the live setting. In each number, her steely voice sliced through the accompaniment, at times with the power of a warrior's blade, at others with the nuance of a scalpel, often leaving the impression that if this is how she goes about pushing against a stone, the stone doesn't have chance.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Following a lethargic first 27 minutes, the Bridgewater Eagles offense found its rhythm, scoring twice in 89 seconds to take a 21-13 halftime lead before rolling up 35 second half points to cruise past the Guilford Quakers by a 56-27 score at the Armfield Athletic Center. Senior Darrin McKenzie barreled for a career-high 219 yards in the victory.
The 56-point outpouring from the Eagles is the highest point total for a Bridgewater team since the 76 point effort against the Quakers in 2007.
Guilford (0-6, 0-2 ODAC) got on the board in a hurry, scoring on the first drive of the game on a five yard strike from quarterback Billy Watkins to receiver Ben King to put the Quakers ahead 7-0.
After a rough start for the Bridgewater offense in the first quarter, the Eagles capitalized on the short field caused by a Guilford muffed punt.
Bridgewater's drive looked to stall out at the three, before a Guilford penalty allowed the Eagles to go for it from the two. Starting quarterback Carlos Gonzalez (Pembroke Pines, Fla./Archbishop McCarthy) caught freshman fullback Nick Wimer (Grottoes, Va./Spotswood) out of the backfield on a two-yard strike to knot the game up at seven each with 11:18 to play in the opening frame.
Following the Bridgewater score, Guilford marched back down the field going 71 yards in five plays to regain the lead when Watkins connected with King on a 20-yard pitch and catch to put the Quakers back up by a 13-7 tally. Tyler Hull's PAT missed wide right to keep the score at a 13-7 margin with 9:54 to play in the second quarter.
Bridgewater's offense continued to struggle until a 45-yard connection from replacement quarterback Hagan Driskell (Ruther Glen, Va./Caroline) to senior Tyler Beiler (Ronks, Pa./Conestoga Valley) put the Eagles in scoring position at the Quakers three. Two plays later, Driskell put the ball in from a yard out on a quarterback keeper to put the Eagles ahead 14-13.
On the ensuing kickoff, the Guilford return man muffed the kick, giving Bridgewater excellent field position inside the Quakers red zone. On one leg, Driskell dashed to the two to set up a 19-yard Jordan Thacker (Hickory, N.C./Fred T. Foard) field goal. Thacker's attempt missed wide left to send the Eagles to a locker room with a 21-13 lead.
Bridgewater avoided disaster following a turnover on the opening kickoff as the Eagles defense forced a Guilford three and out to get the ball back with 14 minutes left in the third quarter.
The Eagles capitalized on the ensuing drive when senior Darrin McKenzie (Rustburg, Va./Brookville) barreled 49 yards to the Guilford nine before powering his way into the endzone two plays later to put the Eagles ahead 28-13.
Nine minutes later, Driskell connected with Beiler on a 19-yard strike to put the Eagles ahead 35-13 as the game headed to the fourth quarter.
With 13:43 to play in the game, sophomore Dwight Sweatt (Glen Allen, Va./Patrick Henry) barreled into the endzone from seven yards out to put the Eagles up 42-13.
Guilford responded on the ensuing kickoff on an 84 yard kickoff return from the feet of Jordan Nelson to bridge the gap to a 42-19 Bridgewater lead, after the Quakers two-point conversion attempt failed.
Less than three minutes later, Gonzalez tossed his second touchdown pass of the day, this time a 34-yard connection with Julius Delbridge (Virginia Beach, Va./Tallwood) to put the Eagles ahead by a 49-19 tally.
Guilford responded one more time on Watkins' third touchdown pass of the day to cut the Eagles lead to a 49-27 gap.
The Eagles struck last with Sweatt again rumbling in from seven yards out to finalize the scoring at a 56-27 tally.
After 60 minutes of play, the two teams racked up 879 yards of total offense between them, with the Eagles rolling up 508 yards of offense on the Quakers. The 500-plus yard performance from the Eagles is the highest offensive output since last season's victory at Emory & Henry.
Through the air, Bridgewater was led by Driskell's 7-of-16 performance for 118 yards and a score. Gonzalez was also solid, completing 7-of-13 passes for 78 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
On the ground, McKenzie's 219-yard afternoon was the 15th-best single game performance in school history. McKenzie's output was the highest for a Bridgewater tailback since Davon Cruz's 228 yard performance in the 2000 playoffs against Washington and Jefferson. The Rustburg, Va. native also jaunted for a pair of touchdowns in the win.
On the receiving end, Beiler led the way with five catches for 106 yards and a touchdown. With his five catches, Beiler moves into second place on the career receptions list, while his touchdown grab moves him into the top spot on the career receiving touchdowns list with 23. His 106 yard game also marked his fourth straight game with over 100 yards receiving.
Defensively, senior T.J. Montague (Reston, Va./South Lakes) led the way with seven tackles. Dominic Jeter (Yorktown, Va./Tabb) picked up a sack on the afternoon for the Eagles to move into fourth place on the single season sacks list with his eighth sack of the season.
Guilford was led on the ground by Ray Brown's 22 yard afternoon. The Quakers rushed for just 23 yards on the day, marking the sixth straight game that the Eagles haven't allowed an opponent to rush for 100 yards. Guilford rushed for 44 yards in the first half, but the Eagles rushing defense held strong, holding the Quakers to -17 yards on the ground in the second half.
Through the air, quarterback Billy Watkins was impressive, completing 25 of 47 passes for 339 yards and three touchdowns.
On the receiving end, redshirt-sophomore Ben King hauled in 15 catches for a Guilford record 251 yards and a pair of touchdowns. King's 251 yard game is the fourth-highest single game total in ODAC history.
Defensively, Jordan Nelson led the way for the Quakers with a game-high 11 tackles, including eight solo stops.
Bridgewater's red-zone woes came to a halt as the Eagles scored on 7-of-9 red zone attempts.
Bridgewater is back in action on Saturday against Washington and Lee in the first of a two-game homestand at Jopson field. Kickoff against the Generals is slated for a 1:00 p.m. start.


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As fall turns into winter, and malls become filled with holiday shoppers, retailers will make it a point to offer customers a store credit card as they check out. Typically, such offers come with some sort of a sign-up bonus in the form of a discount on the day's purchase.
The First Thing to Do Before Applying for a Credit Card
At that moment, filling out an application in exchange for a big discount may be tempting, but is it smart? Here are seven things to consider before applying.
|What is the grace period?
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A credit card's grace period is the time that cardholders have to pay their balance in full without having to pay interest. Most credit cards have a grace period, but some don't. Without a grace period, charges start accruing interest from the day of the transaction.
|What are the promotional financing terms, if any?
Some store credit cards offer interest-free financing on new purchases for a limited time. Thankfully, the CARD Act of 2009 requires these financing terms to extend for at least six months. Shoppers who take advantage of store card offers should understand exactly how much time they have to pay off their balance before incurring interest charges.
|What is the standard interest rate?
The standard interest rate is what you will be charged if you do not pay your balance in full and on time, and when any promotional financing offer expires. The cards with the lowest interest rates range from about 6 percent to 16 percent, while many store credit cards charge more.
|Are there other ways to get a discount?
The big lure of store credit cards is the immediate discount that is available. Yet stores offer other discounts that don't require applying for a new line of credit. For example, some stores will provide shopper coupons when you register your email address, text them or like them on Facebook. And, of course, your local newspaper is still a great place to find department store coupons. To find these discounts, you can ask the salesperson or clerk if there are any discounts available. Sometimes, that results in being given a coupon as valuable as the discount for applying for a card.
|Are you trying to build new credit or to keep a high credit score?
Applying for a new credit card will affect your credit score. Those with a limited credit history are likely to benefit from receiving a new line of credit. At the same time, those who apply for several new credit cards within a short period of time will see a small but temporary drop in their credit scores. In addition, it is always wise to avoid any new credit applications before closing on a home mortgage or any other large loans. Banks do not like for loan applicants to take out new lines of credit at that time.
|Is it a store charge card or an actual credit card?
Store credit cards can be valid only at that store, or they can belong to a wider payment network such as Visa or MasterCard. Both products can be worthwhile, but applicants should know which one they are getting.
|How generous is the sign-up offer?
Sure, it is nice to save 10 percent on your purchases, but in most cases, the savings will not be very large. In contrast, many credit cards offer huge sign-up bonuses that can be worth hundreds of dollars in cash, or even more in points or miles. Given that shoppers can't sign up for every credit card they are offered, it makes sense to apply for the cards that offer the most valuable incentives.
By fully understanding the nature of store credit cards, you can make the right decision when asked to apply for one this year at the checkout counter.
This work is the opinion of the columnist and in no way reflects the opinion of ABC News.


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