text:
Hough: Why Recreational Vehicle Stocks Have Vroom
Shares of recreational vehicle makers have sped past the broad stock market this year-and look likely to continue their smooth ride. Barron's Jack Hough reports on Markets Hub. Bloomberg.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... big ticket items the biggest of big ticket items all of these are the sales actually be in the ... main fuel counterintuitive but actually doing pretty well check out here ... head of the crown on SmartMoney ... noisy ... at Barron's How dairy dairy close Irancell site ... often came and said I thought this is kind of surprising or be tilted to his will to do I did say oh it's the it's still a little bit of a mystery to me you would think that in in its server ... if the economy that a big ticket item or discretionary purchase that would not be an area where you want to invest but ... if you look over the past month ... or the makers like Thor Industries morning bagel they are among the stock markets there were top performers ... and stocks are up twenty percent over the past month of much more year to date ... if you look at especially in Shinkansen with the rest the market still ... yet and it's not just this very clear that the list that only backed up by the sales numbers right when they go sales rose twenty five percent last quarter Thor Industries ... preannounced thirty percent sales increase ... where else in the market reducing those kinds of sales gains for a new very least the earnings growth ... no one has revenue growth ... and the RV maker circular right now so ... become a curious neighbors heard checked and aam our RV guy on what you've ever written around one night we rented one for the Giants can be ... spitting image of the one below the current ... twenty five ... what what ... what I understood your first ball a lot of baby boomers entering retirement yet copper or perks is among ... the among retirees ... aam but more that I spoke to an industry representative uses ... you know you can get into one these things one that stole balls for about twenty five thousand dollars the average purchase price last year was thirty seven thousand that includes the big giant luxury you know posh ones that can ... cost hundreds not thousands of dollars so ... he spent twenty five thousand dollars ... you take a ten year loan ... you didn't interest deduction on mostly on many models just went to a home buyer was ... sold for families out there to travel Sobel terms throughout the summer ... there we have to cost the airfare and hotels ... is actually of her record as a cheaper option for them to take family trips gives us not just people splurging on a one three good right now right that is actually think of anything these but they really think it is giant ball size yes numbers it's really that cold will center but for most of that growth has come and look a lot of this or is that this industry bottomed out there and that it during the recession outs coming back it's not all the way back to its people oh was it ... a little more than half way back ... but here look ... there were were we look at the fiscal cliff and things like that we obsess over but there are some ... pretty upbeat signs the economy right now consumer confidence is at a five-year high ... housing isn't great but it's the best it's been in several years ... ALM so I think it's got people feeling a little bit better ... about some these purses so you can even as the trend ... is not the point ... where I look at the salon I look of the stocks surrendered his Thor Industries is a stock it's it's fifteen times longer fifteen times earnings ... if you look at its next fiscal year earnings are expected to climbed eighteen percent that's great growth I'm not very expensive stock when they awoke smart enough to beat the market you definitely want a bigger looks more expensive relative to earnings just because earnings are really depressed right now it's it's a this is a ... turnaround company but its earnings per share are expected to double over the next few years so ... you know that is not what growth out there matched the Arby's I'm not sure that I fully understand the appeal iam out on my way to vomit the numbers are the numbers the numbers of the numbers look this is very popular and how ... awesome you're a much of the country


text:
WASHINGTON — Cecilia Soto-Loftus, co-founder of a Malibu party services company, was new to presidential politics when she started raising money for President Obama's reelection bid last year.
After pulling in more than $400,000, she is getting the red carpet treatment at this weekend's inaugural festivities, with invitations to a strategy briefing for top fundraisers, a VIP candlelight reception and the official inaugural ball.
The special access reflects the unusual role Soto-Loftus and other Latino fundraisers played in Obama's 2012 campaign, the first to focus on tapping Latino celebrities, lawyers, business owners and community leaders for cash. The effort, called the Futuro Fund, aimed to raise $6 million — and brought in more than $30 million.
"It really sent a strong message that we shouldn't be overlooked," said Soto-Loftus, a Boyle Heights native who hopes to be considered for an ambassadorship, perhaps to Costa Rica or the Bahamas. "And I think we have only hit the tip of the iceberg."

subset: commoncrawl


text:
The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel on Wednesday approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.
Several recent court decisions have struck down similar state laws, and the GOP-backed bill has little future in the Democratic-led Senate, but the measure will give House conservatives a rare chance to reaffirm their social issue credentials.
The bill, named the "Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act," was approved by the House Judiciary Committee on a party-line 20-12 vote and could get a vote in the full House as early as next week.
House Republican leaders, concentrating on budgetary and jobs bills and investigating administration scandals, have largely avoided contentious social issues such as abortion, but anti-abortion conservatives have been spurred by the recent conviction of a Philadelphia abortion provider, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, for killing three babies born alive at his clinic.
"The terrifying facts uncovered during the course of the trial ... and successive reports of similar atrocities committed across the country, remind us how an atmosphere of insensitivity can lead to horrific brutality," said committee chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va.
Bill sponsor Trent Franks, R-Ariz., and others argued that there is evidence - a contention Democrats say is unproven - that fetuses can feel pain after five months, justifying a ban on later abortions.
A federal court in May overturned a 20-week abortion ban in Arizona, saying that the law violated a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy before a fetus is viable. Viability is generally considered to start at 24 weeks.
Some nine other states have enacted similar bans and have faced court challenges.
The National Right to Life Committee said the other state laws and the Franks bill are based on an NRLC model based on evidence that the unborn have the capacity to experience pain. It noted that the 20-week post-fertilization age used in these measures is equivalent to 22 weeks of pregnancy under a widely employed dating system.
The leaders of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said that at a time when voters want Congress to concentrate on jobs and the economy, "the House majority has instead once again decided to reignite its war on women."
Democrats pointed out that all 22 Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are men.
Franks and his allies, said NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue, "are mounting a clear campaign to spur a Supreme Court case that will dismantle the protections established by Roe v. Wade," the 1973 Supreme Court decision that made most abortions legal.
Franks generated another controversy during the committee debate when, in response to a Democratic amendment making an exception to the abortion ban in cases of rape and incest, he stated that incidences of rape resulting in pregnancy "are very low."
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said the statement was "astonishing" and Democrats quickly compared it to the statement of former Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., whose campaign for a Senate seat in Missouri collapsed last year after he stated that the female body is capable of stopping pregnancies in the case of "legitimate rape."
Franks later said that what he intended to say was the later-term abortions, such as those banned under his bill, were rarely the result of rapes.
The bill does provide for an exception to save a pregnant woman whose life is endangered by a physical illness arising from the pregnancy, but Republicans rejected Democratic amendments to expand those exceptions to include rape, incest or non-pregnancy related illnesses.


text:
Keeping with my recent theme of parking issues, "...according to figures developed by University of California at Davis professor Mark Delucchi and updated by (Donald) Shoup to account for inflation and the number of motor vehicles owned in the United States, in 2002 the subsidy for off-street parking alone was between $127 billion and $374 billion. This figure is roughly the same amount as our nation's Medicare or national defense budgets—without including subsidies for the free on-street parking that exists on most urban streets." [Next American City] [Emphasis Mine]
So there you have it, some of the cost of socialized automobile parking care. Something to think about when you hear excuses from government officials about there being no money for bike rack spaces that cost 40+ times less than a surface lot car space and 300+ times less than an auto garage space in a tiny fraction of the land use.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Food For Thought, Just How Many Tax Dollars Do We Spend On Automobile Parking Subsidies As A Nation
3 comments:
"Socialized automobile parking care" I love it! Great choice of words. Although Public Housing is not such a hot button topic right now, I think the analogy holds there as well. "Subsidized Public Car Housing" "Section 8 for cars"
"Car Parking Welfare" are some possibilities. By the way - the link to Next American City is broken
- April 21, 2010 at 9:54 AM
- Gary said...
Yeah the choice of words was quite deliberate, and something I've been thinking about lately with so much noise made over what should and should not be "socialized". Thanks for the tip on the broken link, I fixed it.
- April 24, 2010 at 9:30 PM
- Velocipedus said...
Striking images in large numbers, they work their own poetry, of the kind where humans are marginal, a beautiful horror show, - thanks
- May 11, 2010 at 12:19 AM
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)


text:
Skinny Fit Brushed Stretch Denim Jeans
All orders will be fulfilled by Burberry Limited and shipped from the UK. When you place your order, you accept Burberry's Terms and Conditions and confirm that you have read our Privacy Policy.
Size Guide
Use the Size Guide to choose the best fit for your measurements.
In this window, you can find out the shipping and returns options for the selected item.
In this window, you can contact customer service for further assistance.
- A pair of regular-rise jeans cut for a skinny, tapered fit. The soft, hand-brushed denim is woven with stretch for added comfort.
- 99% cotton, 1% elastane
- Trim: 100% leather
- Buttons: 100% brass
- 10.25oz denim
- Regular rise, skinny fit
- Button fastening, zip fly
- Leather patch with embossed Burberry lettering at waist
- Machine wash on reverse
- Imported
Item 40512441
Wear this with
Recommended Products


text:
cpapXchange TONIGHT Newsletter
The cpapXchange Email Newsletter is Packed with Sleep News, Reviews and Information!
It's Not All News!
Sign Up Today for Exclusive Deals Too.
Sign Up & Shop Smarter!
cpapXchange is Rewarding!
As a cpapXchange Account Holder You'll Earn Rewards to Cash in on Any Item we Sell!
And There's More...
Whenever You Log In You'll Get Extra Savings Too.
Earn & Spend Rewards Today!
Free Shipping On All US Orders!
Best Price Guaranteed
Call 866-992-7279 Toll Free
Newsletter Signup
Account Log In
Premium Headgear for Various Respironics Comfort Series CPAP/BiPAP Masks
Respironics Premium Headgear has a simplified design for improved comfort and durability. It uses soft, wide Lycra stretch fiber straps to provide a stable fit that stands up to long term use. It is highly resistant to fraying and curling and eliminates the stitching which can cause irritation. Premium Headgear is available in two sizes -- Standard and Reduced Size. The Standard size is provided on all ComfortGel NASAL, ComfortGel BLUE and ComfortFull 2 CPAP/BiPAP masks.
Nasal Cushion with Flap for ComfortGel Blue CPAP/BiPAP Masks
LOGIN & SAVE 5% MORE! Login to your account and save an extra 5% on this item and many great products.
BLUE Gel Nasal Cushions and SST Comfort Flaps are supplied with all ComfortGel BLUE Nasal CPAP/BiPAP Masks. They are also compatible with ComfortGel "Original" NASAL CPAP/BiPAP Masks. The BLUE Gel Nasal Cushion features a new generation, soft, pliable gel that readily adapts to facial features, thereby simplifying fit and contributing to overall comfort. The Secure Seal Technology (SST) Comfort Flap fits over the gel cushion to improve overall seal and help extend the life of the cushion.
Mushroom "Ball and Socket" Headgear Clips for Various Respironics Comfort Series Masks (1-Pair)
Respironics mushroom swivel headgear clips are made of softer materials, with a mushroom shaped head and more ergonomic grip area, than the older style black ball clip. Extensive testing has shown that the mushroom shaped design results in a significant increase in the life of the mask frame socket area as compared to the original design. These clips will work with all ComfortGel Nasal, ComfortGel Full, ComfortFusion, ComfortSelect, ComfortFull, and ComfortFull 2 CPAP/BiPAP masks.
Premium Forehead Pad for Various Respironics Comfort Series & Amara CPAP/BiPAP Masks
This Premium Forehead Pad is larger with more padding than Respironics original Comfort Series Forehead Pads. The Premium Forehead Pad is supplied as standard with all ComfortGel BLUE Nasal, ComfortGel ORIGINAL Full Face, Amara, and ComfortGel BLUE Full Face CPAP/BiPAP Masks. It can also be used to replace the standard forehead pad on many other Comfort Series masks.
Site Design & Content Copyright © 2004-2019 cpapXchange.com
cpapXchange offers online support through our website, toll free and live web chat support during normal business hours, and email support 24-hours a day. cpapXchange.com sells and ships products exclusively to end-users residing in the United States, we do not ship to other third parties or businesses. Respironics recommends that new patients purchase their devices, masks and initial accessories from a homecare company that can provide an individualized patient equipment set-up, clinical and after-sale support, and a program to assist patients with therapy success. All products and services advertised on this site are provided by cpapXchange.com or its designates, independently of the manufacturer. Due to manufacturer's advertising policies some ResMed, Respironics and HDM products may be excluded from some promotions. Proposition 65 Warning: Some products on this site may contain a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Selected product materials are used with the permission of the copyright holders. ResMed Product Materials © ResMed 2019, Used with Permission. Philips Respironics Materials © 2019 Philips Respironics, Used with Permission. Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Materials © Fisher & Paykel Healthcare 2019, Used with Permission. CPAPXchange occasionally offers discounts via coupon code. Coupon codes cannot be combined and there is a limit of one coupon per order. DISCLAIMER: Information on this website is informational only and should not replace the advice of a physician. January 24, 2019


text:
Natalie Portman: 'Thor: The Dark World' Set!
Natalie Portman waits around on the set of Thor: The Dark World on Wednesday (November 21) in London, England.
The 31-year-old actress' face was made up to look super dirty for her upcoming scenes in the superhero action flick.
Last week, her co-star Chris Hemsworth was spotted in his Thor costume on the set! He filmed some action sequences throughout the week with some costumed villains.
Thor: The Dark World is set to be released on November 8, 2013!
30+ pictures inside of Natalie Portman getting all dirty on the set of Thor: The Dark World…


text:
Earth : North America : United States of America : Southwest (United States of America) : Arizona : South Central Arizona : Tucson
Tucson [32] (pronounced TOO-sawn) is the second-largest city in the state of Arizona, in the United States of America.
At an elevation of 2,400 feet, it has slightly cooler temperatures than its desert cousin, Phoenix. It is situated in the biologically diverse Sonoran Desert. With a population of 486,699 (2000 Census) in Tucson and 843,746 in the greater metro area, which also includes Marana, Oro Valley, Green Valley, Sahuarita, Drexel Heights, Vail, South Tucson, etc (most of eastern Pima County [33]), Tucson was the 32nd fastest growing of 280 metropolitan areas from 1990-2000. As of 2011, the population within city limits was 843,168 and 989,569 in the Greater Tucson Metropolitan Area, making the 52nd biggest city/metro area in the country and the 2nd in the state and the Southwestern US
Tucson has always been a crossroads. Until recently, water was relatively plentiful in Tucson, in spite of its location in the middle of a desert. This made it an important travel route, an agricultural center, and a communications nexus.
Tucson's history is ancient, with evidence of human occupation stretching back 10,000 years. Between A.D. 200 and 1450, the Hohokam culture dominated the area -- the Pima and Tohono O'Odham peoples that still occupy the area are descendants of the Hohokam. In 1699, Father Eusebio Kino, S.J., established the Mission San Xavier del Bac, southwest of present-day Tucson. Over the next 100 years, other missions were established in the area, but European presence was minimal.
It wasn't until 1775 that the Presidio of Tucson was created by Don Hugo O'Connor. At that time, it was the northernmost Spanish outpost in the New World. In 1821, Tucson became part of the new country of Mexico, and in 1853 it became part of the United States as a result of the Gadsden Purchase. In 1863, Arizona became a US territory, and by 1880, its population was around 8,000. In 1912, Arizona became the 48th state to enter the union.
Today, Tucson is still a crossroads, with European, Native American, Mexican, and Asian cultures bumping into one another, in sometimes conflicting and sometimes compatible -- but always interesting -- ways.
Visitor Information
Metropolitan Tucson Convention & Visitors Bureau, [34], Phone: 1-888-2-Tucson. The Tucson Visitor Center is located at 100 S. Church Ave. in Downtown Tucson and is open M-F 9AM to 5PM, Sat & Su 9AM to 4PM Pick up a free Official Destination Guide, Golf Guide or Dining Guide.
Get in
By plane
Tucson International Airport (IATA: TUS), 7250 S Tucson Blvd, ☎ +1 520 573-8000, [1]. Served by a number of airlines. Some people fly into Phoenix Sky Harbor and then take a shuttle to Tucson.
By train
The local Amtrak +1 520 623-4442, [35] station is at 400 N. Toole Avenue, and is served by the Los Angeles - New Orleans Sunset Limited [36] line.
By car
I-10 from the north and southeast, and I-19 from the south.
By bus
Get around
Tucson is a very diverse city. English is the most widely spoken language, and there are Russian and French speaking minorities in the north towards Oro Valley. Many people in the south side are Bilingual in English and Spanish.
As you can guess, Tucson is a veritable hub of Southwestern and Mexican cuisine. But Tucson is an adventurous town (easily the most liberal metropolitan area in Arizona) and as a result of its diversity, has a vibrant culinary culture.
Tucson has an active "wine community" - with many retailers, restaurants and wine bars regularly offering scheduled wine tasting events. Cochise County, southeast of Tucson has many wineries, some of which welcome visitors.
Some motels located on West Miracle Mile Rd and south of 3000th block of North Oracle Rd tend to be cheaper, run-down motels that involve the shady types. Although good deals can be found you probably wouldn't want to take your family to any one of these. This area is a legacy of the pre-freeway auto courts, 1937 to 1965, [78], called Miracle Mile [79]. A number of the old hotels remain, mostly run by Indian owners, compete on price and upkeep. With the city fighting crime, mostly prostitution, aggressively in the area, widening and landscaping Oracle Rd, even removing one of the few traffic circles in Tucson, now only a unsavory reputation remains as the area tries to pull itself out of decline. If you need a room for $25 this is the place to start looking.
, [92] The Wyndham Canoa Ranch Golf Resort in Tucson brings you a chance to play and relax in a truly stunning environment, with exceptional amenities and plush accommodations.
Stay safe
Stay healthy
For all emergencies you may dial 911 from any cell (active or inactive cell phone) or land line phone free-of-charge. If using a cell phone be sure to inform the operator of your exact location, as it takes extra time for the operator to attempt to triangulate your location--time is of the essence in emergency situations. When calling 911 for assistance be as calm as possible, and do not panic or use profanity over the phone, as the operator on the phone might consider the call as a prank.
For non-emergencies dial the police department at 520-791-4444 between 0800-2200 hrs (after 2200 hrs, you may dial 911 for all issues). If you find yourself in a non-emergency and don't have the number, simply call 911 and they'll transfer you
For visitor information about events and activities taking place in Tucson, check out the city of Tucson's on-line directory [103].
There are surprisingly many locations within the city of Tucson that are free Wi-Fi hotspots, so free Internet access shouldn't be viewed as a problem. Most of the hotspots are located at coffee shops (such as the Bruegger's Bagel locations[104]), the local book store (Bookman's[105]), and the local libraries[106] throughout the city.
The following foreign consulates are located in Tucson:
Canadian Consulate, 1840 East River Road Suite 200, phone (520) 622-3641
Consulate General of Mexico, 553 South Stone Ave, phone (520) 882-5596
Consulate General of El Salvador, 3127 E. 2nd St, phone (520) 318-0410 ext 1. Email: [email protected]
The following are honorary consulates in Tucson. Be aware, honorary consulates typically represent the business interests of a nation, and do not provide legal or citizen support (such as passport support) to it's citizens.
Costa Rican Honorary Consul, 3567 East Sunrise Drive Suite 235, phone (520) 529-7068
Paraguayan Honorary Consul, 3903 E Justin Lane
Get out
If you're a traveler, and you're leaving Tucson, you might want to go to Phoenix, or Nogales, Mexico. For cool weather, head up to I-17 to Flagstaff. Also take the Catalina Highway to nearby Mount Lemmon.


text:
Sponsored Links
Plastic Surgery
Body Procedures
- Arm Lift
- Body Procedures
- Buttock Augmentation
- Calf Augmentation
- Circumcision
- Gastric Bypass
- Liposuction
- Penis Enlargement
- Sex Change
- Thighplasty
- Tummy Tuck
- Vaginal surgery
- More...
Skin Procedures
- Hair Removal
- Hair Transplant
- Injectable Fillers
- Skin Procedures
- Skin Resurfacing
- Spider Vein Treatment
- More...
Breast Procedures
Face Procedures
- Cheek Augmentation
- Chin Augmentation
- Ear Surgery
- Eyelid Surgery
- Face Procedures
- Facelift
- Fat Grafting
- Lip Augmentation
- Lip Reduction
- Nose surgery
- Permanent Cosmetics
- More...
Cosmetic Treatments
Alternative Treatment
- Brazillian Blowout Treatment
- Dental Implants
- Diabetes Treatment
- Medical tourism
- Plastic Surgeon
- Plastic Surgery
- Psoriasis Treatment
- Swine Flu
- More...
General Info
IA (Iowa) Breast Augmentation
Breast Augmentation Related Terms:
Breast Augmentation In IA Iowa, IA Body Procedures, IA Boobs Job, IA Boobs Lift, IA Bosom Lift, IA Breast, IA Breast Enlargement, IA Breast Enlargement, IA Breast Implants, IA Breast Implants, IA Breast Lift, IA Breast Lift Crescent Incision, IA Breast Lift Doughnut Incision, IA Breast Lift T Incision, IA Breast Lift Vertical Incision, IA Breast Lift, IA Breast Procedures, IA Breast Surgery, IA Breast Up Lift, IA Capsular Contracture, IA Chest, IA Cosmetic Surgery, IA Mastopexy, IA Mastopexy, IA Non Surgical Breast Lift, IA Plastic Surgery, IA Saline Breast Implants Areola Incision, IA Saline Breast Implants Armpit Incision, IA Saline Breast Implants Under The Breast Incision, IA Silicone Breast Implants Areola Incision, IA Silicone Breast Implants Armpit Incision, IA Silicone Breast Implants Under The Breast Incision
Breast Augmentation plastic surgery in IA section, includes general infrmation about Breast Augmentation Procedure, Breast Augmentation IA Local News, Breast Augmentation IA Surgeon Locator and other breast augmentation related materal.
IA Breast Augmentation - The Plastic Surgery Procedure
The plastic surgery operation is usually done when the breast reaches its final size after puberty (ages 17-18). Except for cases when there is congenital breast hypoplasia or breast asymmetry in which it can be done earlier (local regulations in IA may be applicable).
IA breast augmentation - the implants
There are three possible areas for the insertion of an implant for augmentation. The lower fold of the breast is the most common site. It allows full excess and lives a hidden scar. The second site is through the areola. This incision gives the best esthetic results but it is also the only one that goes through the breast tissue therefore the risk of infection and sensation loss is higher. The third one is through the armpits. Some plasit surgeons prefer it because the scar is almost invisible (except for those women who like to wear open close with no sleeves(. The disadvantage of this incision is a slight asymmetry of the breast. The decision usually made individually with each woman and the plastic surgeon (consult local IA surgeons).
The augmentation implant can be inserted above or below the chest muscles. The below position considered to be more preferable by most IA surgeons. There is less chance of feeling the implant, less chance of developing irregular folds or bumps on the surface of the breast and the implant is less likely to drop. This kind of plastic surgery technique is suitable for women with relatively little extra skin and less fallen breasts.
Most of the implants are made of silicon, and since the FDA determined that they safe for use they are being widely used by most plastic surgeons in IA.
IA breast augmentation - shape and size
The augmentation implants come in two shapes: round and pear shape also called "anatomic implants" because their shape resembles the natural contour of the breast. They are more expensive and require larger excision during the breast augmentation plastic surgery procedure.
The size of an implant usually depends on the woman size and proportions, the average size is 300cc. It is believed that smaller implants have lower complications.
IA breast augmentation - after the plastic surgery
After the augmentation plastic surgery you`ll be wearing a sports bra or a bandage. You`ll continue wearing them at all times day and night for about a month. You`ll be able to take a shower 24 hours after the plastic surgery. The most optimal results usually seen 3 month after the surgery. Several things can complicate this plastic surgery procedure; those are rare complications, which you should be aware off. Bleeding around the area of the implant, infection, disturbances of sensation and touch around the nipples, silicon leak, rejection off an implant and some degree of irregularity on the surface of an implant.
Other Breast Augmentation Procedures
All Breast Plastic Surgery Procedures
IA Breast augmentation Plastic Surgery (current)
IA Breast Lift Plastic Surgery
IA Breast Implants Plastic Surgery
IA Implant Removal Plastic Surgery
IA Armpit Incision Plastic Surgery
Breast Augmentation Services & Sponsored links in IA
Plastic Surgery Articles
»Add Your Article«
Find more Breast Augmentation locations in IA
Cedar Rapids Breast Augmentation
Davenport Breast Augmentation
Des Moines Breast Augmentation
Find more services in IA:
IA Natural Makeup, IA Blush, IA Mineral Makeup, IA Concealer, IA Light Concealer, IA Makeup Set, IA Makeup Brush, IA Eye Pencil, IA Eye Brush, IA Makeup Palette


text:
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Lord have emrcy on Your Servant and his family!Have you noticed if certain foods, drinks, or stress issues cause the problem to occur?
Dear folks, may I ask for your prayers for me? I am generally in a pretty good health, but lately my heart is beating chaotically. It is not faster than normal, but simply completely irregular. It's been like this for something like 8 or 9 weeks. I saw a nurse practicioner, and she referred me to a doctor, but that doctor says that I need to see a different specialist, and that specialist's office is closed for the holidays, so I am "up in the air." Worst of all, I got scared when I read that dysrhythmia can cause a sudden cardiac arrest, and developed a kind of nervous insomnia. Thank you so much in advance, and blessed Advent/Nativity Eve!
Page created in 0.087 seconds with 25 queries.


text:
Posts tagged Gordie Howe
SCF's Live Chat with ITG's Dr. Price
Jan 24th
Posted by 30ranfordfan in Hobby News
by Richard McAdam (aka RGM81) and Sean McCafferty (aka 30ranfordfan)
On January 6, 2012, In The Game President Dr. Brian Price participated in a chat session with members of SCF. Though the initial impetus for Dr. Price reaching out to SCF to have a discussion was the controversy surrounding the upcoming release of ITG Enforcers (for more information about the product, see the official preview here the chat was a wide-ranging affair that covered many bases and shed some interesting light on a variety of topics relevant to collectors.
On Enforcers
With all the media hubbub created over the product, which features blood-splattered designs More >


text:
Google News reports prominently that a university isn't supporting Windows 7. The headline screams Windows 7 Beta Flunks Out Of Georgetown.
This of course is not news. No IT organization supports beta software; they can't, because the definition of a beta product is that the vendor itself doesn't support it. Windows 7 is the next version of Microsoft Windows, an attempt to patch the many design flaws in Vista. It's available to the masses as a beta download. The university's IT department is merely warning the campus not to use an unsupported product.
Yet the Google News robot not only snared this non-story, it placed it above the fold, adjacent to news about world security, the global financial crisis, and the fool Blagojevich.


text:
Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Cablevision Remote DVR Case: Good News, For Now
from the at-least-for-a-little-while dept
The basic facts are quite straightforward. A DVR, such as a TiVo that sits next to your TV is perfectly legal. Time shifting content has been shown as legal, and not infringing by the courts in the past. That's great. However, Cablevision effectively built a remote DVR. It sat in Cablevision's datacenter, rather than next to your TV. Otherwise, it did exactly the same thing. From a user's perspective, it was almost identical. You could save shows and forward and rewind shows. Functionally identical. Hollywood insisted that by moving where the box lived, it somehow made it illegal, coming up with absolutely ridiculous arguments about how it's like Cablevision setting up a gun for someone to shoot by pushing a button -- ignoring that in the equivalent reality, no one's getting shot, they're just doing something that's already been found to be perfectly legal (time shifting).
That said, this question is hardly over. While the appeals court decision came to the obviously correct conclusion, the fact that it did so in such a roundabout, and at times tortured, way, actually suggests that we'll be seeing this issue come up elsewhere in other courts in some manner. Eventually there's likely to be a split of some sort, and perhaps then the Supreme Court will weigh in. Still, given how screwed up the Supreme Court seems to get when it comes to copyright, delaying that seems like a good thing. It's quite strange that the Supreme Court seems to do such a good job with patent law, but gets totally twisted around when it comes to copyright law. Still, in the meantime, Cablevision can move forward with its remote DVR, and at the least, folks in the Second Circuit can rest assured that buffered copies are not infringing.


text:
Sara Shostak explores human, environmental health issues
New book digs into environmental science research and policy-making
"But, is it safe?"
While price and quality have been at the forefront of purchasing decisions for decades, today's newspaper headlines make clear that concerns about the health effects of chemical exposures are increasingly a part of individuals' decision-making about everyday products.
"Though we may not realize it, we use environmental health science in our daily lives," says Sara Shostak, assistant professor of sociology and the author of "Exposed Science: Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health." "Even before you individually make a decision about whether or not to buy a certain product, or to try avoid certain kinds of pesticides in food, environmental health scientists, risk assessors and regulators have been asking questions about the risks posed by such exposures."
"Many of my friends who have had children in the past five or six years have thought a lot about what foods they'll eat because they don't want to expose their developing child to mercury," says Shostak. "We know that there are increasing levels of mercury in seafood. There was a huge controversy a couple of years ago about Bisphenol A in baby bottles and in children's toys. We use this research all the time."
Even as the public struggles to make sense of how chemicals in the environment affect our health, major changes are underway in environmental health science and regulation.
Shostak finds most people know very little about environmental health research and regulation. By writing about the history and recent and proposed transformations in environmental health science and policy-making, Shostak hopes to make these worlds more accessible. She says, "We need to change the terms of the debate about environmental risk and safety in this country. Rather than focusing on the effects of single chemicals, we need ways of assessing the real life effects of the multiple chemicals that we are exposed to every day."
Shostak is especially interested in the different approaches that scientists have taken to studying gene-environment interaction. Her research documents how some scientists seek to identify genetic susceptibilities which make some people more vulnerable to being harmed by environmental exposures. In this framing of gene-environment interaction, scientists acknowledge the harmful effects of environmental contaminants, but genetic variations in individuals' responses to them are the crucial problem to be explained. Other scientists examine how environmental chemicals affect human genetic material, whether by causing DNA damage (e.g., mutations) or altering gene expression (e.g., epigenetics). In this framing of gene-environment interaction, scientists acknowledge human genetic variability, but the effects of environmental pollutants are the crucial problem to be explained.
These different approaches, Shostak says, have implications for whether we understand environmentally associated illnesses as an individual, biomedical problem, a societal problem, or a combination.
Shostak contends that tracing the history of environmental health research also illustrates unique pressures that environmental health scientists face. One researcher interviewed by Shostak described legal battles between industry and regulatory agencies as the "drumbeat" to which the entire field works. Shostak argues that this "drumbeat" makes it more difficult for scientists to do research that would inform broad efforts to protect public health.
One of the topics Shostak covers in her book is scientists' efforts to change the process of risk assessment and regulation. For example, much environmental regulation in the U.S. relies on measures of chemicals in the ambient environment, and defines threshold levels that specify how much lead, mercury or other substances can be in the air, water or the soil before it's considered to be an actionable problem. In contrast, says Shostak, "The scientists whom I study are interested in changing that framework to include measurements and indicators that we would take from inside the human body."
Shostak was employed at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research while working on her masters in public health and it was soon thereafter that "the human genome project was in the news, and the first draft sequence was published," says Shostak.
"I became really interested in what the policy implications of new forms of science would be." She was particularly interested in what regulation would look like if the scientific underpinnings of the regulations started to change.
Shostak hopes that her book will help students in the social sciences, public health, public policy and bioethics think differently about environmental health science and policy.
Return to the BrandeisNOW homepage
Categories: Humanities and Social Sciences, Research


text:
By Jaspreet Chowdhary, Reproductive Justice Fellow (LSRJ), National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum
I'll admit. I'm totally a legal nerd. I love the Fourteenth Amendment so much that I took a course in law school devoted solely to the amendment. I think you should love it too! The Fourteenth Amendment contains the Citizenship Clause which overruled the Supreme Court decision that said Blacks could not be citizens of the United States. It also contains the Due Process clause which prohibits state and local governments from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without certain steps being taken to ensure fairness. Finally, it has the Equal Protection Clause, which requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction That's why all of us should be concerned about what some powerful and radically conservative lawmakers are trying to do to the Fourteenth amendment – turn it into a bludgeon to beat up on women and families.
Yet these attempts to change the amendment reveal the utter hypocrisy by those who support these measures. For example, Kentucky freshman Senator Rand Paul had an almost singular focus on the Fourteenth Amendment at the beginning of his term. First, he co-sponsored the Life at Conception Act, which would establish that a person's life begins at conception and, thus declaring fetuses to be legal persons protected under the Fourteenth Amendment. Paul hopes to override the constitutional right to an abortion that the Supreme Court found in Roe v. Wade. Second, Paul also co-sponsored a resolution that would change the Fourteenth amendment to prevent children born to illegal immigrants from gaining automatic citizenship.
The two different approaches to the Fourteenth Amendment reveal a subtext of whose children are wanted and valued. The fetuses of white women are offered constitutional protection, while the lives of immigrant women of color are dismissed and demonized. In the United States, immigrants are denied benefits while being blamed for environmental degradation, the recession, and lack of jobs. They are also portrayed as coming to the United States solely for the purpose of having children who are then raised to be terrorists. Anti-immigrant advocates are the same people who spout pro-life rhetoric and claim to be protecting family values.
However, the families that they value are of a specific color, economic class, and immigration status. The large family size of people of color is criticized while the tradition of having many children that is part of the Mormon and Catholic faith are not even questioned. The impact of the racist and disparate treatment is not limited to immigrants, but also extends to people of color in the United States who have origins in countries that are the target of these anti-immigrant zealots. What does it mean for non-white families who are trying to establish themselves in America? For children, who have grown up in the United States but have a cultural connection to other countries? Why do some people have to clarify that they are American, whereas for other people it is assumed?
I am a child of immigrant parents. While my parents' path to citizenship was different than those targeted by anti-immigrant advocates, my family is South Asian. Our Sikh community has been the target of hate crimes. After September 11th, we were advised to put American flags on our cars and our houses to advertise our patriotism. The United States is my home. I grew up here. I got married here. I am going to raise my child here. However, I still need to answer questions about where I am really from and why I speak English so well. In some spaces, I am afraid of being the target of a hate crime. When I think of raising my child, I think about how I am going to handle racism, sexism, and threats to our safety that derive from some notion of what it means to be American and the assumption that we are not.
Changing the Fourteenth Amendment to take out birthright citizenship hurts not only immigrant women and their children, but those of us with strong ties to immigrant communities. Growing up in a bicultural environment is a gift. It is the chance to be enriched by customs and traditions of two different communities. Instead of helping to celebrate the diversity of America, anti-immigrant activists want to punish those that do not fit into their narrow perception of who should be American. And that narrow vision… is the real problem.
By Jaspreet Chowdhary, Reproductive Justice Fellow (LSRJ), National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum


text:
Best Western Marmora properties are listed below. Search for cheap and discount Best Western hotel rates in Marmora, NJ for your business gathering or personal travels. We list the best Best Western Marmora venues so you can review the Marmora Best Western hotel list below to find the perfect place.
We will show you discounted Marmora, NJ hotels & motels that have similar star quality of Best Western.Booking a group or meeting? Get bids from hotels in Marmora NJ
How should we direct your call?


text:
You are hereHome ›
Narrow Search
Now showing results 1-3 of 3
In this investigation, students use "point-source" light, light meters, and graphing software to quantify the reduction in light over distance. Through careful measurement of light received at several distances, students discover the best fit of the... (View More) data is the inverse square rule. Using this rule, students then calculate the distance between the light source and the light meter at random placements. Finally, students extend this principle to model the manner in which distances to Cepheid variable stars are measured. The distance between the Cepheid (here the light source) and the Earth (the light meter) can be determined by comparing the output of the source to the amount of light received. An historic scientific breakthrough occurred when the period-luminosity relationship of Cepheids was quantified throughout the early 1900s. This breakthrough allowed astronomers to gain a more correct understanding of the dimensions of our galaxy and the universe beyond. This activity is part of the "Cosmic Times" teacher's guide and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1929 Cosmic Times Poster. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
In this lesson, students will be introduced to how the Doppler effect changes our perception of wavelengths of sound (pitch) and light (color). Students will model how astronomers use the line spectra of stars to identify elements in the stars and... (View More) the speeds of galaxies in the universe. Requires some special equipment for spectral analysis and a darkened room for viewing spectra. Suggestions are included for introducing the Doppler Effect for students unfamiliar with this concept. This activity is part of the Cosmic Times teachers guide and is intended to be used in conjunction with the 1929 Cosmic Times Poster. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students
Students determine the ability of various lenses and mirrors to gather light in order to compare and calculate their light gathering power. This activity is part of Unit 3 in the Space Based Astronomy guide that contains background information,... (View More) worksheets, assessments, extensions, and standards. (View Less)
Materials Cost: Over $20 per group of students


text:
Throwback Footage: Ray J Letting Fabolous Borrow His Lambo For A Music Video + Ray J Plays The Piano For Floyd Mayweather On 24/7 (Where Beef Started) [Fixed]
Credit: HarlemKnightTV100
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
No Artists in this Genre
Artist Directory
Make use of our eclectic pool of artists
Looking for a particular artist and wish to find out more?
Put a name in the search field or view by list of names
Are you a curator or commisioner and looking at a particular type of artist?
Search by artform
Or are you interested in looking at the different artforms within a broader genre such as crafts?
View by genre
Fellowships & Artists
Since 1993 The Arts Foundation has been awarding Fellowships to talented artists based in the UK.
From poets to animators, painters to furniture designers the Directory contains all the fellows, runners up and shortlisted artists who have been selected twice through both the nomination and judging process
The Directory contains a wealth of talent including videos, imagery and links to artist sites.


text:
Workshop Request Form
* - Required Fields
Workshop requests must be approved by the sponsoring committee(s) before they are submitted to AAPT. This form is NOT a request for committee approval. Please read our information page on How To Organize a Session or Workshop for a Future AAPT National Meeting.
View Area Committee Chairs & Contact Information »
AAPT is improving our session and workshop submission process. To submit your session please use this link.


text:
As a general rule the animals on ARKive don't wear jumpers, but to mark the launch of Save the Children's Christmas Jumper Day today, we thought we would highlight a few species that could perhaps do with one.! We've also unearthed a plant that surprisingly seems to take part in Christmas Jumper Day all year round…
Hairless babies
As a small mammal living in a temperate climate, one of the main challenges the common dormouse faces in life is maintaining its body temperature. An adult dormouse has to hibernate for up to seven months of the year to survive the colder months so it can't be too much fun for a hairless newborn. Fortunately a cosy nest will protect the baby dormice which spend the first ten weeks of their life with their mother.
Hairless adults
If there was a competition for the animal most in need of a new wardrobe, the award would probably go to the naked mole rat every time. The naked mole rat controls its body temperature by moving to different parts of its burrow according to the temperature, with the tunnels closer to the surface being warmer. It is just as well as it may take more than a Christmas jumper for this tunnel dweller to be considered 'cute'.
Cold and wet
In addition to being entirely absent of hair, the wood frog also has to make do with moist skin on top of that. Yet the wood frog can be found as far north as Alaska, so it must be doing something right when faced with cold conditions. Amazingly the wood frog can survive being partially frozen many times over the winter due to the special chemicals in its blood. Even so I reckon a nice warm jumper would not go a miss.
Early (feather) baldness
Feathers are an essential insulator for the many bird species living in cold climates. Magellanic penguin chicks are left unattended for days while the adults go off to forage and so depend on their first layer of feathers to keep out the cold. Sadly the Wildlife Conservation Society recently reported large numbers of chick have succumbed to a feather-loss disorder, resulting in these bald babies gaining weight at a slower rate than their feathered fellows.
An exception – the plant with a pre-made jumper
It's not just the name of the woolly willow that's in line with the idea of a nice warm Christmas jumper, the coat of hairs on each leaf also add a furry touch to this shrubby willow.
George Bradford, ARKive Researcher


text:
NORFOLK, January 19, 1775.
We are informed, from King and Queen county, that several Gentlemen there have of late attempted to extract molosses from pumkins (a plant easily raised in this county) and met with the desired success; the pumkins yielded liquor of a good quality, and in such quantities that two rendered three quarts fit for distilling.----This being the case, the colony may, with a proper use of this information, be thoroughly supplied with rum without extra imports of molasses.
Virginia Gazette (Dixon & Hunter) January 28, 1775
About this entry:
Molasses was one of the commodities in the controversy over the Sugar Act of 1764 and later in the nonimportation agreements. While the Sugar Act slightly reduced the tax on foreign molasses, it increased the tax on sugar imports and prohibited the importation of rum. Finding a locally made substitute would reduce the need to import molasses.
Language notes:
Variant spellings of molosses / molasses, pumkins / pumpkins
Sources: Encyc. New American Nation


text:
LMFAO: Guy On Maury Odin On His Wife For Cheating On Him With 3 Dudes! (Flips Out, Head Shakin Head Like Crazy)
FYI. Yes he is the father to all 3 kids
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
Hi, welcome to our site and thanks for stopping by here. As a premium Loafers & Slip-Ons products, Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US were made to give you the ultimate Satisfaction. According to my research, this product has receive so many positive review among users. Most of them love what this product features, so it's should on your top list when you looking for a Loafers & Slip-Ons. There are so many Loafers & Slip-Ons products with various brands on the market. Each of them claims as the best. In fact, not all those products give the truth as their claimed. Most of them just low quality product with hype marketing tagline.
Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US
So if you looking for an amazing Loafers & Slip-Ons, this product should be on your top list to try. But before you grab it, read this review first. This article will cover about what the product feature, and where you can get it with great price offer.
BUY this product with Discount!
A Glance of Premium Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US
Clarks has been in business for over 100 years making very fine men's dress shoes in a variety of styles. Featuring a wide range of top-quality components, Clarks gives you the options you desire in the quality you demand. …Click here to read full details.
You will get all these feature below when you own this Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US
- Wave sole technology
- Moderate arch support
- Eases walking motion
READ All info about this product HERE!
What people say about Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US?
Not the same as other Clarks 11WI found this shoe to be not as wide as another pair of Wave11w shoes that I purchased about a year ago. I wear an orthotic device and with that in the shoe they were too tight on my bunion. I do have 2 pairs of waves that fit fine with the orthotic in them.
Where you can grab Clarks Men's Wave.Tackle Slip-On,Tan Nubuck,10.5 M US with great offer?
You can get this product from a local store near your neighborhood or by online shopping. Personally I recommend you to get it from Amazon.com. They offer great price. At the time I wrote they offer discount.
To claim your discount, please visit the sales page on Amazon website through the link below.


text:
IBM's dedicated Talent and Change Consulting Practice enables organizations to use analytics and behavioral science to identify top talent, deepen employee engagement and manage transformational change to provide differentiated customer experiences.
Talent engagement and transformation are top priorities for C-suite leaders. According to the recent IBM global C-suite study, the pace and magnitude of change are disrupting every aspect of business. A major challenge is the ability to attract and retain top talent while making sure the existing workforce is fully engaged to deliver exceptional customer experiences.
Our Talent and Change solutions help organizations prepare for the transformational change required to build a smarter, more connected workforce. The practice gives clients access to organizational change management methods, tools and expertise gained from our external clients and IBM's own transformation initiatives, proven by thousands of project teams. It addresses key areas – Organizational Change, Talent Analytics, Employee Engagement and HR Cloud.
Our offerings include:
Organizational Change: Organizational change underpins every client's transformation and enables them to prepare for and successfully implement change. Organizational change is a core component of all IBM's solutions, helping to accelerate results and drive sustained business impact.
Talent Analytics: Talent is one the top three CEO priorities. As organizations shift from buying new talent to building existing talent, CHROs depend on real-time insight and immediate access to the right resources at the right time. Our solutions integrate leading analytics with talent management expertise to provide a holistic view or where you are, where you need to be and how to shape the future of talent within your organization.
Employee Experience: Engaged employees drive business results. The C-Suite understands that the ability to engage, develop, recognize and support employees will be critical in the battle for customer loyalty. Our solution helps organizations drive cultural change based on employee engagement and collaboration, and improve workforce productivity and retention through a blended approach of behavioral sciences, technology and organizational consulting.
HR Cloud: Engaged employees drive business results. We support organizations as they consider moving their HR systems to the cloud. We provide strategy support, vendor selection, and implementation of HR Cloud systems. Our solution also supports the culture and organizational changes that stem from a move to the Cloud processes.
IBM Smarter Workforce
A Smarter Workforce reinvents work in this age of the empowered employee. Taking advantage of behavioral science, predictive analytics, and collaboration tools, it ensures a best-fit, engaged workforce to drive innovation, develop deeper client relationships and move business forward.
We're here to help
Easy ways to get the answers you need.
- E-mail us
- IBM Client Satisfaction
or call us at 1800 425 3303 or +91 80 267889901800 425 3303 or +91 80 26788990
Connect with Leaders
Tina Marron-Partridge
Partner and Vice President, Talent & Change Global Leader
Connect with Tina Marron-Partridge
Maria-Paz Barrientos
VP & Partner, Talent & Change Center of Competency
Connect with Maria-Paz Barrientos
View the video "The role of the CHRO in the Customer Centric Enterprise" (00:01:39)
New expectations for a new era: CHRO insights from the Global C-suite Study


text:
Tag Archives: comic
Video: Flaming Lips "Turning Violent"
Wayne Coyne and co. are back with uncharacteristically straightforward new video for "Turning Violent"
The Flaming Lips have released a new video for "Turning Violent" off their latest album, The Terror.
The video is somewhat of a departure from the usual sort of videos the band releases. The rampant craziness the Lips are usually known for is reigned in significantly and aside from a bit of psychedelic lighting and glimpses of women lolling around in glitter, it's basically about the… Read More
Posted in Home Slider, Performances Tagged Arts, comic, Flaming Lips, Lips, Sun, Sun Is Sick, Terror, Wayne Coyne
Acoustic Guitar Guide
Subscribe Now and get a special bonus gift "The Ultimate Guide to Acoustic Guitars"


text:
Moodswangz vs Kronic Plague Freestyle Battle [Grind Time Midwest]
"Moodswangz from Chicago goes up against Kronic Plague from Los Angeles in the Windy City Takeover 3 main event battle for $800 hosted by Sonny Bamboo." - Grind Time
Please click the "Report" button below if the video on this page is not working properly.
Comments will only be displayed by verified emails. No Spamming or Racism.


text:
This site is intended to serve as a centralized source for all information pertaining to the El Camino Department of English, including resources for students and faculty. It is also the gateway to the home pages of department members currently using the web for on-line instruction.
For Current and Future Students . . .
Students can learn about the department's degree requirements, as well as find links for important on-line tools related to the study of composition and literature, including guides for documenting research papers. Students can also read a list of Frequently Asked Questions and learn about El Camino's faculty by perusing the faculty directory.
For Faculty . . .
Faculty will find the Faculty FAQ, a valuable one-stop resource for (mostly administrative) questions of every sort. Course outlines, recommended textbook lists, and a faculty directory can all be found as well, on the Faculty Resources page.
Contact Information:
English Department
Telephone: 310-660-3316
16007 Crenshaw Blvd. Torrance, CA 90506
Location on Campus: The English Department is part of the Humanities Division located in Humanities 322. The Humanities building is located on the Crenshaw Boulevard (east) side of the campus map.


text:
Westward Ho!
Westward Ho! is a quaintly-named sea-side town in Torridge, Devon, England, near Bideford. It has recently undergone a lot of investment, with new or improved apartments, restaurants and pubs.
Westward Ho!'s unusual name comes from the title of a book by Charles Kingsley, Westward Ho! - the exclamation mark is an intentional part of the town's name, and the only such place name in the United Kingdom.
This quaint oil day village is benefiting now from inward investment with a large part of the village being regenerated with restaurants, hotels and luxury apartments being built. The number of tourists to the area is increasing the lure being the fabulous beach and extra curricular surfing activity.
Get in[edit]
The town can be found to the north of the A39 road, providing easy access from the towns of Barnstaple, Bideford and Bude. It lies at the south end of Northam Burrows, and faces westward into Bideford Bay, opposite Saunton Sands and Braunton Burrows.
Get around[edit]
Westward Ho! is small and best explored by foot. There are two Pay and Display car parks - one by the slipway to the beach, another between the church and The Waterfront Inn, although during high season it can be very difficult to find a parking space in both car parks.
See[edit][add listing]
Do[edit][add listing]
Westward Ho! is well known for its surfing seas and the long expanse of clean sand backed by a pebble ridge. Other attractions of the town include the arcades, go kart track and the grasslands behind the pebble ridge.
Buy[edit][add listing]
Eat[edit][add listing]
Hocking's Ice Cream Van - A local favourite. There are usually two vans facing the sea front.
Moran's Restaurant - opened in 2013, with an extensive menu. Open all day but serves mainly Thai food in the evening.
Drink[edit][add listing]
The Waterfront - A busy, modern pub with an external play area for children. Occasionally hosts tribute singers. The Westward Arms - opened in 2012, with an extensive range of drinks. The Pierhouse has two balconies with spectacular views of the sea (and on a good day, of Lundy island). It is owned by the same family as The Waterfront. Morans Restaurant and Bar - Golf Links Road. A restaurant and bar situated directly opposite the seafront offering Thai cuisine, cocktails and locally brewed Ales.
Sleep[edit][add listing]
The Waterfront Inn
There are also a variety of holiday cottages located close to the the beach and with amazing sea views.
Additionally, there is more accommodation in neighbouring Bideford and Northam, a short drive or bus ride away.
Get out[edit]


text:
Even though I failed, I learned a lot.
Socrates said, "The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
Socrates thinks I am the wisest in all the land.
I'm no handyman. Neither am I a farmer. I know these things that I do not know.
The only work I do well with my hands is type. And truth be known, I do that quickly but my three-finger claw method would make any proper typist – especially my mother - cringe.
A few weeks ago, my son Blake started a renovation project in our entryway. He fell down the stairs and knocked a hole in the wall.
Thankfully, that renovation stopped at drywall and didn't include any of his bones or joints.
I don't know how to fix a hole in drywall. So I did what anyone would do. I went to Youtube and found a video showing how to do it.
I was so proud. I even found a drywall repair kit at a local hardware store.
I'm a genius.
I placed the patch and smoothed the gooey pink stuff on the wall and waited. While I was waiting on the patch to dry, my favorite Ethiopian came upstairs and he had strange pink and white dots on his skin.
No, he wasn't sick. He likes to help.
He found my putty knife and "helped" smooth out the patch. He even helped poke a hole in the patch. I should have known better. Not I do. I'm learning a lot.
So I fixed it again. It must have been really good because my wife said, "It really doesn't look THAT bad."
I felt like I had just discovered my super power and it is spackling.
But as godlike as I felt after repairing that hole, I felt equally inept trying to grow a pumpkin for the boys.
Last year, we saved the seeds from the jack-o-lantern carving. We were going to roast them but they got put away and never thought of again. So when they were discovered in July, I dug up a spot in the corner of the back yard and planted some seeds.
It was like God Himself ordained these homegrown pumpkins. As soon as the seeds hit the soil, a years-long drought succumbed to some of the heaviest summer rains you have ever seen. Our lakebed became a lake. Our pumpkin seeds became some of the finest pumpkin vines ever grown in a backyard.
But then it happened. Actually, nothing happened. We had all of these beautiful pumpkin flowers and no Great Pumpkins. So I did what every self-respecting farmer would.
I went online and found a discussion on what to do when you have a plant that is too lazy to make pumpkins.
It turns out that we were accursed with vines that have too many male plants, too little heat, lazy bees or something so we basically were watering a big worthless weed.
That's when I ran across a web page that had the answer to my problem - forcible pumpkin intercourse.
Basically, at this point, I became the worlds largest bumble bee. I would go out every day or so and take one of those male flowers, peel back the petals and force that pollen into the female plants. I even took the boys out and showed them what I was doing. They seemed really impressed. (Sarcasm noted)
And then it happened. A trip to the back fence revealed a little green pumpkin growing under a leaf. Success was mine.
But that success was fleeting. The next day, we suffered pumpkin-o-cide. The fruit rotted on the vine. And now we are back to being leaf farmers.
But even though I failed, I learned a lot.
Mainly, I learned I don't know how to grow pumpkins.
Kent Bush is the publisher of the Augusta Gazette, the El Dorado Times, and the Andover American newspapers. He can be contacted at: firstname.lastname@example.com


text:
Premium Multimedia Apps for
macOS, iOS and Windows.
Recommended by 8000+ Users.
Free Lifetime Updates, Live Support, 30 Days Money Back GuaranteeGet Started Now!
Easy to Use macOS & iOS Apps
Perfomance Based App Architectures
Clean Design, Various Features, 100% Performance
1200+ Cups
40+ Projects
8000+ Users
Live Support
Our Products
Free Online Services
Let's Grow Together
Get Started Now!
We build on our own needs and grow dynamically in the areas of our Business Clients. As part of this journey, we developed Premium Multimedia Editors so that our clients can benefit from these high-level apps. Currently, we have over 30 Apps Completed and counting . We believe in you and we are here to listen. Drop us a line and tell us what you need!
Get Started Now!


text:
I swear this wasn't my idea.
Lucy decided on her own that laying on the ground with a plate of brisket on her back would make a good photo. She tried several brisket poses, but decided this one was best. She also decided it should be shared with all of you on the blog and also that I should tweet it.
Last week, David pointed out that nearly every picture on the blog recently had been of Lucy. He also pointed out that someday the children would scroll through this little blog as adults and Edie would see she was featured less and maybe she'd think we loved her less. And maybe she'd start doing coke and having sex with the New York Knicks just to get us back.
So I'm now going to speak to my daughter, grown-up Edie, who might be wondering if I didn't love her or think she was adorable enough to make the blog. Here goes:
Dear Edie,
Your sister is a ham bone. If someone raises a camera within a radius of 200 yards, Lucy drops into her ethereal, angelic, contemplative face and gently, softly picks at the petals of a flower, as if she were a fair maiden lost in the woods, dazed among the daisies. You, on the other hand, put your hands over your face, make scrinchy troll faces and throw things at the camera. I know this is a phase, but the only pictures I get of you lately are the ones I sneak. And even then, you say "Don't tweet that, Mommy!" as if I were going to tell everyone you got your period or something.
Also, you don't want me to talk much about Boily, Shapian and Sarah, your imaginary friends, who I'm afraid we will lose someday soon and they will go unrecorded and undocumented and eventually we will all forget they even existed. And that would be a shame because last week, Boily, Shapian and Sarah ate a human in my living room and sucked the blood out of it. Or at least that's what you told me. I feel like they should be writing their own blog.
Mostly, Edie, I want you to know that whether your picture is posted here these days as much as your ham bone sister is of no matter. These things ebb and flow. And anyway, girl, you shine without trying. You've never needed to jump in front of the camera or push someone else aside so you can be seen. You have quiet strength. You are sure of who you are, like no one else I know. You are a wild goat on a near-vertical rocky cliff. Sure-footed. Hoof over hoof on crags. Hoof over hoof across ravines. Dangling off the rocky edges. Skipping up the side of mountains. Without fear. Without faltering.
If you are wondering where you got that, well, that's all your daddy. You might have my eyes, but you have his core. That will get you places.
So, grown-up Edie, even if you don't see your photos here as much these days, know that I see you. Really see you. Every day...Even if you won't pose with a brisket on your back and let me write about it.
xo Mommy


text:
Ireland isn't crowded with distilleries today as it once was. A total of four active distilleries exists on the Emerald Isle as of today: Old Bushmills (Co. Antrim/Northern-Ireland), New Midleton (Co. Cork), Cooley (Co. Louth) and recently re-started Kilbeggan (Co. Westmeath).
But today it was made known that a planning permission has been applied for to build a distillery in Dingle, Co Kerry. The €8m development is to use a former creamery building, just outside the town centre, to build the distillery and a visitors centre.
The money behind the plans is coming from Jerry O'Sullivan, a Dingle auctioneer and managing director of Southbound Properties, which sold the creamery to the distillery-project and the Porterhouse group – a small pubco who also has it's own brewery and hotel. The pubs are in London, Dublin and Bray (hotel/pub).
Former distillery manager John McDougal (ex-Laphroaig, Springbank, Ladyburn, Balvenie and Tormore, and involved in the running, development and start up of several other distilleries) is hired as a consultant. Forsyth's in Scotland will be hired to build the stills.
The whiskey will be triple distilled (pure pot still) in the traditional Irish manner, and will be matured in ex-bourbon and ex-port(!) casks. While we wait for the first dram to make it's way into a whiskey glass the distillery will also be making gin. It's belived that the distillery will be up and running by the end of 2009, if all goes as planned (something that rarely happens), and four years later the first whiskey is to be bottled.
I raise my glass to you lads. Here's to the possibility to sample a Dingle-whiskey before Christmas 2013.


text:
This is what I am
Under the Dome by Stephen King. I am just two days into the audiobook, which is TOTAL of 34 hours and 29 minutes! Good gravy! That's a lot of story. But I know, just like with every other King book I've read, when it's over I'll be wishing there was more to read.
Here's what I've read or listened to recently.
11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King. Told you I was a fan. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it.
I have recently gotten into the Harry Potter novels. These are also books that you don't want to be over when you finish them. I have made it through Book 4 and am patiently waiting on someone to return the audiobook version of Book 5 to my local library.
I really love these books and now am a total Potter fan. I probably like them more than the Twilight series. (Gasp!) I know.
I also just finished The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.
I have to say that I'm honestly not sure if I really liked this book or not. I think one problem is that I did listen to the audiobook and I think that hindered me because at the beginning of each chapter the year or date is announced. One aspect of the storyline is that it spans a number of years and there is magic involved where none of the circus participants age during the story. This goes on for years and there is some back and forth between years at the beginning of the book. I was never quite sure how many years had passed when I was listening. If I had been reading the book instead, if I got confused I could always flip back and I didn't have that chance so I think a little of it was lost on me. The imagery is really wonderful though but I'm not sure I fell in love with it all.
What's on your book shelf that you're reading or have to read?


text:
I've recently begun researching my wife's ancestry and it didn't take very log at all before I encountered my first, and very formidable, brick wall. At issue is the origin of her paternal great-great-grandfather, James McGregor of Macon County, Missouri. Through online research I've been able to learn a great deal about James, such as his marriage to Ida "Giddie" Calhoun and his death in 1914 which left his three young children (the oldest of which, my wife's great-grandfather, was only 15) orphaned. He's a steady fixture in Macon County from 1880, according to census records, but it's the time from his birth in 1858 until that first census appearance that has me scratching my head.
Family lore has always held that James was an orphan, and that fact is confirmed on his death certificate. James' father-in-law, Pleasant Calhoun, is listed as the informer on the certificate and notes that James was orphaned in infancy, an event which occurred in Pennsylvania. This is also circumstantially backed up in the census records as James' story about where his parents were born varies from year to year. For example, in 1880 he declares that they were both born in Pennsylvania. In 1900, however, he states that his father was born in Scotland and his mother originated from Ireland. The census for 1910 displays a slight alteration to the story, with his mother now being from England.
A pretty exhaustive search of census records from 1860 and 1870 has yielded no match for James McGregor, or any name remotely similar, with a birth year of 1858. So how, if he truly was born in Pennsylvania, did he reach Missouri twenty-two years later? When he first appears in 1880, he's a boarder in the home of an elderly couple named Linn. No other McGregors are listed in the county, so a familial tie is very unlikely. Enter the Orphan Trains as a possibility, then. I fired off an email to Shirley Andrews, the Missouri contact for the National Orphan Train Complex, asking for more information of the resources available to those who think they may have had an ancestor who was a rider. After all, several hundred thousand children from eastern cities moved west as part of this phenomena. Shirley very quickly replied to my inquiry, though she couldn't locate James among her records. She did, however, have some great suggestions, such as perusing the local newspapers from the period since many Orphan Train arrivals were mentioned in the press. An interesting side note to my theory is that, in the 1870 census, there is a James Smith living with a Gordon family in Macon County. This James was born about 1856 in Pennsylvania and is listed as a "domestic servant". Many Orphan Train riders weren't adopted, but were taken in as laborers, farmhands, and servants. Could this James and my James be one and the same? Intriguing.
So what are my next steps? Thanks to the great information on the website of the Macon County Genealogical Society I was able to ascertain that James' will and probate records still exist at the county courthouse. I've sent away for copies in the hope that some clue to James' early years might be found there. The State Historical Society of Missouri has a great collection of newspapers on microfilm that contains many Macon County editions from the 1870s. They participate in the Inter-Library Loan program, but my local library refuses to accommodate requests for microfilm. Hopefully the Kentucky Historical Society's Martin F. Schmidt Research Library can help me to get my hands on these reels. One way or another, I am going to scour through those newspapers!
I'll keep you posted.


text:
Implementation and Support Unit (ISU)
|You are here: ISU Home > RTT Technical Assistance > School Turnaround Community of Practice
The purpose of the Race to the Top School (RTT) Turnaround Community of Practice (ST CoP) is to create an environment for RTT grantees to come together to share lessons learned and promising practices on turning around persistently low-achieving schools. Through this work, the CoP will produce tools, case studies and papers that will be broadly distributed to all 50 states. The CoP is committed to continually assessing its work to determine what is helpful and what needs to be changed in order to meet state needs and facilitate shared learning.
ST Strategies for Community Engagement
For further information about the School Turnaround Community of Practice, contact Danielle Smith email@example.com or Gohar Sedighi firstname.lastname@example.com at the U.S. Department of Education.


text: Korean Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - teaching a young kid to read..... Speak Korean Now! Korean Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in teaching a young kid to read..... Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message ratslashJoined: 08 May 2003 Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 3:54 am Post subject: teaching a young kid to read..... this is quite a wierd situation. i've recently started teaching a kid who has lived in america all his life. he is 6 years old korean so about 4 or 5 western age. the kid has great subject knowledge. i mean, show him a flashcard and he knows what it is. he can speak english well too. but he can't read. not a word. i was wondering if anyone out there has any great tips on how to get this kid reading. all the foundation is there i just don't know how to advance him to the next step. any advice would be cool and thanks for your time. also, shouldn't this kid be able to read now if he has lived in america for all his life? what age are children usually able to read something by? thanks again. Back to top anaeJoined: 13 May 2003Location: cowtown Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:56 am Post subject: 4 or 5 western age? That may or may not mean he ever went to kindergarten. Even then, many children do not learn to read in kindergarten. Many kindergarten focus on social skills and getting kids ready for reading. What is all the rush with learning to read? Reading at an earlier age is not better does not mean a better end result. The pressure to read makes some kids hate it. Anyway- try and make this a pleasant experience if his parent insist that he needs a private tutor to learn to read in English. Reading should be fun an meaningful to him. Repetitive stories are a must. Rhyming ones are also good. Let him fill in the parts that he knows. As you read model pointing to the words and then have him do it, so he learns that the sound chunks are related to words on the page. Later when he is reading some on his own these repetitive books will help him achieve success, because he knows that story well, and the vocabulary is more limited. A series called Learn to Read and Read to Learn has this type of structure and works particularly well with ESL young learners. However, don't let your storytime be limited to these books. Also choose ones that he shows interest in or are just for fun. This is an important tip to give his parents as well- here in Canada, we really push parents to read to their kids. It is the biggest indicator of future reading success. The alphabet is a must, but I caution against too much drill and practice unless it is fun for him. Letter recognition is key to decoding. My kindergarten class always does the letter hunt. I assign the special person of the day to find all of the letter C's in the morning message. There are lots of other fun games too. Let me know if you need some. Phonics doesn't hurt either - just don't let it take over your program. Some kids need this approach and others don't. There are plenty of books on it if you need support. Start with initial consonants first, then final ones, and short vowels last. Once you have those you can read a lot of small words. Play lots of games with this stuff too or it can be like eating your daily quantity of fibre - both of you hate it. Don't forget writing. These skills should be developed at the same time because they are so related. Write stuff together. At first maybe you write the message - showing yourself as a model for how someone writes - but don't give too much information at once. Focus on one or two key elements. Then let him tell you the message and you write it - again thinking out loud. Later - as he knows more letters sounds, sight words, punctuation rules - he can tell you what letter to write, how to spell words etc. Let him write as much as he can. A whiteboard is good for this if it is special for him. Journaling is also a good way to build writing skills. At first it will just be pictures telling a story. Have him tell the story to you. Later help him to add letters to his pictures to represent the words he wants to say. It is sometimes helpful to make blanks together to represent the words in his sentence. Let him help you with that - how many words long is your sentence? As he knows more about words and phonics - the journals will become more about the words than the pictures. Use what he loves to get him to write. Way back in 2000, with my 5 year-old class in Seoul - they loved Pokemon and would wait for me every Friday afternoon with their journals open to see what Pokemon picture I would bring for them to write about. Any other meaningful writing or reading is always good. Kids love to imitate adults - making lists, ordering from a menu, writing letters. Maybe he would enjoy a penpal relationship with kids in his old neighbourhood? Well, I can't say everything here, but I hope this might give you some ideas about how to start to think about teaching literacy. Give me a PM if you need specific ideas or help. Happy reading! Back to top ajumaJoined: 18 Feb 2003Location: Anywere but Seoul!! Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:33 am Post subject: Quote: Phonics doesn't hurt either - just don't let it take over your program. Wrong, wrong, wrong! Phonics is BASIC!!! Once a kid learns phonics, reading is easy...and so are the things that are difficult for Korean kids such as rhyming. If he already knows the alphabet, teach him how each letter sounds. Start with simple things such as "mat" "rat" "hat" then go on to "mate" "rate" "hate". I've found that the better the kid is at phonics, the better they are at English. Back to top anaeJoined: 13 May 2003Location: cowtown Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 9:56 am Post subject: Ajuma - Perhaps my sentence of "it doesn't hurt" was belittling the role of phonics too much. Of course, if you can't decode the sounds - you can't read. But people thinking about teaching kids to read rarely miss the phonics part. They seem to think that doing worksheets and having kids repeat r says "rrrr" constitutes a reading program. Decoding without seeing the whole picture of what literacy means often leads kids to hate the very idea. I recently went to observe a reading program given by a popular tutoring company in North America who have kids fill out endless worksheets and read boring passages like "the fat cat sat on the mat " day in and day out. The kids have to be pushed into doing them and complain the whole time. Reading should be a joy not a chore. Plus there are plenty of kids who don't get formal "phonics training" in the traditional sense who learn to read. My kindergarten partner teacher in Calgary has been teaching kids to read without the worksheet route for 15 years. Letters and their sounds are taught in their natural state - in words. I am not so opposed to isolating sounds as she is as long as I make sure to to show kids how the phonics we talk about relates to the words they see on the page. Phonics alone won't guarantee that kids learn to read. English as any number of confusing rules that apply and then don't apply. I always start with basic phonics being a regular subject but don't go much past the "e" controlled vowels. I want kids to be reading real books right away instead of waiting until they have "mastered phonics". Once we are reading - we can talk about the different sounds and their families in a real context. Back to top kimcheekingGuest Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 1:14 pm Post subject: Mr. Bugs phonics and Dr. Seuss Back to top justagirlJoined: 17 Jan 2003Location: Cheonan/Portland Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 5:52 pm Post subject: This is exactly like my old school. I had to teach all but 2 classes how to read. I would start out by having him memorize/learn high frequency words. Here they are (I'll never forget them) a am be can I is it go like look my see the to you your These are the words most used in children's books. Phonics is also great, and the other advice you've gotten so far is really good, too. I'd just add these high frequency words--I'm sure if you look it up on the net, you can find the next most common words. I think it's good to have some memorization in the begining stages of learning to read. My kids felt so good that they could at least read some words and tried to sound out the rest of them. Back to top bignateJoined: 30 Apr 2003Location: Hell's Ditch Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject: What anae said before are all important, particularly the bit about making it entertaining, as well as making sure he experiences success in the begining stages very frequently to build up his confidence, then justagirl wrote: I would start out by having him memorize/learn high frequency words. Here they are (I'll never forget them) a am be can I is it go like look my see the to you your These are the words most used in children's books. Yes, the learning and use of "sight" words is very important for early readers when they are decoding simple sentences. The use of Dolch word lists can get you started. Also the technique of boxing the words to show the form and shapes of the words is sometimes helpful in their development of a good repertoire of sight words. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Korean Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Job-related Discussion Forum All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Forums:----------------FAQJob-related Discussion ForumGeneral Discussion ForumOff-Topic ForumTravel ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumBuy/Sell/Trade Forum You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group TEFL International Supports Dave's ESL Cafe


text:
ID.me Raises $7.5M to Help Teachers, Veterans Get Deals Safely Online
For years, Overstock.com Inc. Chief Executive Patrick Byrne wanted to give special deals to U.S. active military personnel and veterans to show patriotic appreciation. The e-commerce company attempted to do so–but the challenge of privately and securely validating military credentials proved cumbersome both to Overstock.com and its customers.
So the company abandoned the initiative, until recently.
A startup called ID.me Inc., based in McLean, Va., has made it possible for Overstock.com and others to validate customers' group affiliations with a purely online process, Mr. Byrne said.
ID.me CEO Blake Hall says the security startup has raised $7.5 million in new venture funding and $2.5 million in venture debt financing to grow its business, validating shoppers' group affiliations and identity online.


text:
At Ubuntu One we required to be able to use named pipes on windows for IPC. This is a ver normal process in multi-process applications like the one we are going to provide, but in our case we had a twist, we are using twisted. As some of you may know there is not default reactor that would allow you to write a protocol in twisted and allows to use named pipes as the transport of the protocol. Well this was until very recently.
Txnamedpipes (lp:txnamedpipes) is a project that provides a ICOP based reactor that allows to use namedpipes for the transport of your protocol. At the moment we are confident that the implementation would allow you to use spred.pb or a custom protocol on twisted 10 and later on Windows 7 (we have been able to find a number of issues on Windows XP). The following is a small example of a spread.pb service and client that uses a named pipe for communication.
from txnamedpipes.reactor import install install() from twisted.spread import pb from twisted.internet import reactor class Echoer(pb.Root): def remote_echo(self, st): print 'echoing:', st return st if __name__ == '__main__': reactor.listenPipe('\\\\.\\pipe\\test_pipe', pb.PBServerFactory(Echoer())) reactor.run()
from txnamedpipes.reactor import install install() from twisted.spread import pb from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.python import util factory = pb.PBClientFactory() reactor.connectPipe('\\\\.\\pipe\\test_pipe', factory) d = factory.getRootObject() d.addCallback(lambda object: object.callRemote("echo", "hello network")) d.addCallback(lambda echo: 'server echoed: '+echo) d.addErrback(lambda reason: 'error: '+str(reason.value)) d.addCallback(util.println) d.addCallback(lambda _: reactor.stop()) reactor.run()
The code has the MIT license and we hope that other people find it useful.Read more


text:
Patricia Miller has not received any gifts yet
Hello Dear,
How is everything with you,I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately.I have something very vital to disclose to you,but I found it difficult to express myself here,since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on(email@example.com)for the full details.
Have a nice day.
Bruno Serra.
© 2019 Created by new untouchables. Powered by
Badges | Report an Issue | Privacy Policy | Terms of Service


text:
It's not actually impossible. You just have to get use to diving with strobes the size of small jet engines.
You mean just slightly bigger than my SS200s, right? But seriously, I think I got some pretty good sun bursts even with the limited 1/250 sync speed of the D2x. The problem is knowing how well the D200's CCD will handle sun bursts.


text:
The io9 Book Club meets every month to discuss a book, and then the author usually joins us for a chat. This month, we're reading Gail Carriger's Soulless, the first book in her popular Parasol Protectorate series. The fifth book, Timeless, came out this year — but we figured it would be best to start with the first one! Read as many in the series as you like over the holidays. We'll meet January 8, 2013 to discuss the first book. Watch for a post that day announcing the book club, and jump into comments for discussion. There's still time to read the book, too, so get moving! You can pick it up via your favorite bookstore or Amazon.
We're hoping Carriger will join us later in the week for a discussion.
If you're wondering what this whole io9 Book Club thing is all about, you can visit our past meetings here.


text:
"Hey man I was in the Zone "
I'd like to think at least all of us at one time or another have had the good fortune to experience this feeling while playing a game of Tennis. I know I have and I've witnessed others that seem to have. So how does this occur?
When your entire World is no larger than 78' x 27' and nothing outside of those dimensions exist. Sometimes you can sustain this for a game or two. There are those occasions where you can sustain this for an entire Set and God Bless those who can sustain this for an entire Match.
How do you know when you're in the Zone? The beauty of being in the Zone is not knowing. And to be quite frank, you don't want to know.
[TS] = true story:
About three years ago, I was playing Men's Doubles during a local Round Robin Event. This is a social activity that some people put together for enjoyment purpose only. There are no prises awarded only bragging rights however the Partner you start with is the partner you stay with throughout. So I was having a very good night of serving. It seemed my 1st Serve was in the groove as they say. During one game, I served out the entire game in Aces.
Then when it was my turn to serve again, I started that game with an Ace and our Opponents started standing as far back as they could, which was a mistake but I'll talk about that another time. Anyway, when I was preparing to serve to the Ad-Court Side, my partner of all people leaned to me and said, "I bet you can't serve an Ace again" and after consecutively serving aces in a roll, I missed my first serve. I put down my Racquet and walked over to him and said these words, "After this game is over, you and I are going to have a talk" and I'm guessing by the look on my face, he became very worried. I didn't serve another Ace in that game and subsequently we did have that talk. I basically asked him why in the World would he say something like that to his own partner? I suppose you can guess my actual comments were not G-Rated. I was floored that my own partner disrupted my concentration by making such a comment like that.
Concentration = Focus and all good things follow. If you can get yourself in a position where you are no longer aware of your surroundings outside of that 78' by 27' perimeter and your entire focus is on the task at hand, you are giving yourself an opportunity to be in the Zone. When the Cars, Barking Dogs, Games on adjacent Courts, Wind etc. are not allowed to be a distraction, you are completely focused on the Game and when you are focused on the game, your concentration is at its' peak and when your concentration is at its' peak, you unknowingly will find yourself watching the ball, paying attention to your movement(s) and what your Opponent is doing as well.
These attributes will give you the best opportunity to be competitive and I assure you, whatever level you are at, you will play your best game. It doesn't mean you will win it only means you will play your best game.
to be cont.


text:
The Governor's Lady
Cooper Lanier has been surrounded by politics her entire life. Her late father, Cleve Spainhour, was a beloved two-term Southern governor, as was her husband, Pickett Lanier. Now Cooper is taking office as governor herself, succeeding Pickett as he campaigns for president. But she quickly realizes she is surrounded by leftovers from her husband's administration and that Pickett intends to manage the state's affairs from the campaign trail, even if it means undermining her. Cooper is faced with the choice of seizing control or becoming an irrelevant figurehead.
"The Governor's Lady" shows how politics brings out the best and worst in people and how the public arena affects politicians' values and relationships. Author Robert Inman, a former anchorman and reporter, lives in Conover and Boone. Hardcover, 331 pages, $26.95; also available as an e-book for $9.99 through Kobo.
(800) 222-9796


text:
Investigating Eddy Current Braking
Mark Fowler May 21, 2014
Have you ever wondered how a roller coaster or a train is brought to a stop? A braking effect produced by eddy currents is most likely the cause. Today, we're going to discuss eddy current braking as well as investigate this phenomenon through an example model.
Eddy Current Braking
Eddy current braking is an effect that occurs when an object's motion slows down due to forces produced by eddy currents. Eddy currents are induced in a conductor due to time-varying magnetic fields or moving magnetic sources, such as magnets. The induced eddy currents, in turn, create a magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field of the source. The opposing magnetic field, produced by eddy currents, will eventually generate a braking force. When this happens in the eddy current brakes of a roller coaster or train, the vehicle is slowed down and eventually stops.
Here, we'll explore this phenomenon through an alternative example of a magnet falling through a copper tube.
Solving for the Magnet's Terminal Velocity and Acceleration
In this model, a cylindrical magnet is dropped down a copper tube. During its fall, the magnet produces eddy currents on the tube walls. The magnetic field — generated by the eddy currents — opposes the magnetic field of the magnet, creating a braking force. This force gets stronger as the velocity of the magnet increases. At some point, the force of gravity equals the braking force produced, i.e., the magnet reaches terminal velocity.
The AC/DC Module contains a set of interfaces and features to help us solve for the magnet's magnetic field, the magnetic field produced by the eddy currents, and the Lorentz force acting upon the magnet. With the software, we can solve for the dynamic equations of a falling magnet and calculate the magnet's velocity and acceleration as it reaches terminal velocity.
This problem can be solved in a two-step process. First, we would need to solve for the vector potential field in and around the stationary magnet. Using the resulting solution as an initial condition, we can then perform a time-dependent study to solve for the falling magnet's terminal velocity and acceleration.
Let's have a look at the graphs after all of the necessary steps have been implemented.
Terminal velocity of the falling magnet versus time:
The falling magnet's acceleration versus time:
We can see that the acceleration of the magnet decreases and becomes zero after 20 milliseconds, which agrees with the magnet's constant velocity of 0.26 m/s after t = 20 ms.
Other factors can influence our results, like the thickness of the copper tube. What do you think happens if we use a copper tube that is twice as thick?
Further Reading
Beitrag-TagsAC/DC Module
Simone Angela Winkler
May 21, 2014 10:24 pm
This is nice – I am working on a related phenomenon in the frequency domain. Are the model files for this available for download?
Mark Fowler
May 23, 2014 9:58 am
Thanks for the question, Simone. You can download the model files for this example here: http://www.comsol.com/model/magnet-falling-through-copper-tube-13875 (also located in the "Further Reading" section, above). For this example, you will need to solve the Global ODEs and DAEs in the Time Dependent Study to solve for the dynamics. You can use the Frequency Domain Study to solve for the magnetic fields.
You will need to log into your COMSOL Access account to download the model files.