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Ray Clay
Ray Clay
As well as his role as secretary of the Leicestershire and Rutland District Association, Ray is often the public face of the CTC in Leicestershire dealing with the press and liaising with local authorities.
He coordinates a rural rides program in conjunction with several district councils and is the secretary of a road safety committee. He is an active Right to Ride member and takes a close interest in issues relating to the East Midlands Airport.
The successful Beaumanor Rally camping weekend in May, now in its fourth year, is an excellent opportunity for cyclists in the region to meet each other. Ray organises this event most effectively in his self-effacing and quiet way.


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Computer-Assisted Tailored Cue-card Health [CATCH] Study (CATCH)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01170741
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 27, 2010
Last Update Posted : October 25, 2012
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This study will draw from proven interventions to refine and pilot test a cue card driven computer-assisted intervention, along with HIV/STI testing, that will be tailored to each participant's demographic characteristics, risk behaviors, and biological test results. The specific aims of the proposed study are:
- To refine a cue card driven computer-assisted risk reduction intervention that will be tailored to each participant's demographic characteristics (e.g., gender, ethnicity), risk behaviors, and biological test results (HIV, hepatitis B and C, syphilis and herpes).
- To pilot test the tailored intervention's effects on sexual risk behaviors (e.g., frequency of unprotected sex, condom use), drug use during sex and injection risk behaviors (e.g., direct syringe sharing, indirect sharing practices) using a two-group randomized design that compares the tailored intervention with a delayed treatment control condition.
- To assess the feasibility and acceptability of the tailored intervention in a rural setting.
|Condition or disease
|Human Immunodeficiency Virus STDs Hepatitis, Viral, Human
|Behavioral: Tailored Cue Cards
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|122 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Single (Participant)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Tailored Cue Card HIV/STI Intervention for High Risk Groups Pilot Study
|Study Start Date :
|June 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|June 2012
No Intervention: Delayed Control Condition
Participants assigned to the delayed treatment control condition will be offered biological testing and the tailored cue-card intervention upon completion of their 3- month follow-up interview. Use of a delayed treatment control group design will permit us to separate intervention effects on HIV risk behaviors from the general effects of participating in the study and completing a detailed HIV risk assessment.
Behavioral: Tailored Cue Cards
The proposed intervention uses education to increase knowledge and skill building to influence behavior-specific self-efficacy and outcome expectations. In addition to providing general information regarding drug use and diseases, the cue-cards include information that is designed to raise awareness regarding perceived threats (perceived susceptibility and perceived severity) related to HIV and other STIs and blood-borne infections, which increases motivation to reduce risk behaviors. The cue-cards also provide information regarding risk reduction strategies. The cue-cards also contain instructions on how to anticipate and avoid risky situations (e.g., using alcohol or drugs prior to sex). This information is augmented with an exercise that involves modeling and guided practice. This combination of information and exercises modifies outcome expectations by increasing confidence (i.e., perceived self-efficacy) that a protective action can be performed
- Sex risk [ Time Frame: 3 months ]Compared with participants assigned to the control condition, participants assigned to the tailored intervention will report lower rates of unprotected sex at 3-month follow-up.
- Injection risk [ Time Frame: 3 months ]Compared with IDU participants assigned to the control condition, IDU participants assigned to the tailored intervention will report lower rates of direct and indirect syringe sharing at 3-month follow-up.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
The sample of 120 will be drawn from the Raleigh-Durham, NC metro area with the following targets:
- 40 MSM (at least 12 African American, 12 non-Hispanic white and 12 Hispanic) - eligibility includes unprotected sex with another male in the past 30 days
- 40 sex workers (at least 6 male and 6 female of each race/ethnicity) - eligibility includes unprotected sex within the last 30 days and exchange of sex for money or drugs within the past 30 days
- 40 drug users who are not sex workers or MSM (at least 2 males and 2 females of each race/ethnicity) - eligibility includes use of methamphetamine, crack or powder cocaine, or heroin in the past 30 days and unprotected intercourse and/or syringe sharing in the past 30 days.
Additional eligibility criteria include the following:
- be 18 years of age or older
- self-identify as male or female
- self-identify as African American, non-Hispanic white or Hispanic
- not currently be in or seeking substance use treatment
- speak and understand written English proficiently
- be a resident of Wake, Durham, Orange, Johnston or Chatham counties, with no plans to move in the next 3 months
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01170741
|United States, North Carolina
|RTI International - Wake County Field Site
|Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, 27601
|Principal Investigator:
|William A Zule, DrPH
|RTI International
|Responsible Party:
|RTI International
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01170741 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
1R21DA026771 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|First Posted:
|July 27, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 25, 2012
|Last Verified:
|October 2012
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
HIV Infections
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Liver Diseases
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
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PORTLAND � While Congress has been engaging in political brinksmanship over the so-called "fiscal cliff," Sen. Olympia Snowe has been busy cleaning out her office. In her desk she has found a career's worth of proof that Republicans and Democrats can come together to reach consensus. Many recently elected senators, she said, don't know anything but corrosive partisanship. They don't know how to work together, she said. By David Sharp.
PORTLAND, Maine � A 74-year-old Maine man was scheduled to appear in court Monday to face charges in the shooting deaths of two of his tenants after a possible dispute over where they parked their cars during a snowstorm, state police said. James Pak was arrested at about 10 p.m. Saturday after a three-hour standoff at his home in Biddeford, about 15 miles south of Portland, police said. He is charged with two counts of murder in the deaths of Derrick Thompson, 19, and Thompson's 18-year-old girlfriend, Alivia Welch. He was being held at the York County Jail in Alfred. By Clarke Canfield.
MONTPELIER, Vt. � At the Lakefront Express Mart in Island Pond, Vt., owner Bob Dexter says he's hopeful about a winter of good snow, good snowmobiling and strong business. Many of northern New England's rural communities depend on snowmobilers to keep stores, restaurants, motels and gas stations going strong, and they've seen a sudden increase in traffic thanks to the snows of recent days.
� SNOWMOBILER THROUGH ICE � Maine wardens are searching for the body of a 45-year-old woman who crashed through the ice on Rangeley Lake on her snowmobile and didn't come up in Maine's first snowmobile fatality of the season.
� MISSING SNOWMOBILERS � Wardens say three snowmobilers are missing in western Maine after going for an evening ride and failing to return.
BOSTON � It was a year when a bear vacationed on Cape Cod, a third-grader dodged jury duty, and police briefly pursued a monster in Boston. Weird news grabbed lots of headlines in New England in 2012. By Bridget Murphy.
� DEER HUNT � Wildlife officials say hunters killed more than 21,000 deer in Maine this fall, representing an 11 percent increase from 2011.
� HIGH TECH JOBS � The state is taking aim at a projected gap between the number of high-tech jobs coming to Maine and the lack of qualified people to fill them.
� PORTLAND-WATER � Portland Water District officials say an aging infrastructure could mean more massive water main breaks like one in mid-December.
� GAS PRICES-MAINE � Gas prices in Maine are up nearly three cents per gallon in the past week. Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail cost of a gallon of gasoline jumped to $3.51.
� SHERIFF RETIREMENT � One of Maine's longest serving law enforcement officers has retired after 46 years in a police uniform. Franklin County Sheriff Dennis Pike retired Friday.
� INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS � Maine's Labor Department says the state's new independent contractor definition is going into effect.
� POLAR PLUNGE � Maine's largest environmental advocacy organization is holding its fifth annual cold-water ocean plunge to raise money in the name of global warming.


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Special Programs and Events Program Adviser
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| Special Programs and Events
Program Adviser
A Varsity Scout Team Special Programs and Events Program Adviser is a Team Committee member and an adult counterpart to a youth Special Programs and Events Program Manager in the Varsity Scout team. The program adviser serves as a sounding board and adviser as the youth plans and is primary leader for his program.
Position description
This program adviser mets with the youth program manager. The Varsity Scout acts a primary leader by supervising one or more advancement and award activities; the adviser provides direction and encouragement for these activities. The program manager learns leadership skills by carrying out these activities, and satisfies a requirement for the Denali Award. The other Varsity Scouts on the team may also fulfill a requirement for the Denali Award by active participation in the planned event. The adviser does not need to attend the activity, but approves the activity of the primary leader and determines what is required by the other Varsity Scouts to satisfy "participation."
Appointed by the Team Committee Chairman (can be recommended by the Team Coach). The program adviser can be a parent of a youth member of the chartered organization; in smaller units, the team coach may serve as a program adviser. The chairman along with the team coach meets with the program adviser to review duties.
- Serves on the team committee.
- Guides and mentors the youth advancement program manager.
- Meets with the youth program manager(s) to advise and encourage worthwhile activities that will help the team advance and the program manager satisfy the Denali requirement.
- Helps plan activities that will expand the interests of the Varsity Scouts in worthwhile programs that may not be covered by the other fields of emphasis.
- Helps the program manager develop unity among the team members through the team's participation in these special programs and events.
- Participates in programs and causes that will lead to the team members to stretch and grow beyond themselves.
- Gathers information about other district, council, and national events such as Scout camp and Camporees, Order of the Arrow activities, and other special events.
- Be aware of community events and happenings that could be suggested for an event that the team may volunteer or participate in.
- Locate speakers and consultants who will be informative and helpful to the team.
- Be familiar with the standards of safety and youth protection in the BSA to keep all activities safe for all participants.
- Participates in boards of review on a regular basis.
- Completes all training that is available for the adult Varsity Scout leader.
- Sets an example for youth members by maintaining the principles of the Boys Scouts of America.
The special programs and events program manager is responsible for helping the team members learn about and attend worthwhile programs that may not be covered by the other fields of emphasis. Help the program manager choose and plan events that are not part of the same-old routine. Boys may need encouragement and help visualizing the fun that can be had with something they have no experience or thought about before.
Working with the youth advancement program manager
The program manager's tenure may be as short as three months, so help him make a plan and get started right away. Please make yourself available to meet the youth program manager, especially for the first time meeting. It is critical to get together with a program manager very soon after he receives this new assignment. Familiarize yourself with the Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet; make sure that the Varsity Scout completes one for "event" activities (involving team meetings), and submits it to his Squad Leader.
Activities across the areas can be fairly divers and should be interesting for the program manager. Read the Special Programs and Events Program Manager's duties and responsibilities, and the "Program Features at a Glance."
Stay current with Scouting events by subscribing to and reading the council's newsletter or other posted events on its web site. Encourage activity with the Order of the Arrow (OA) membership and participation. Encourage participation in district and council events such as camporees, and other events. Stay current with community events and happening listed in the local newspaper.
Other activities may be approved by you as the adult program adviser to encourage advancement and allow the Varsity Scout to exercise leadership by organizing multi-step projects, making assignments, and working with Scouts and other adults.
Program helps
Event and ultimate adventure planning
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (25K PDF) BSA 2003.
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (33K PDF) Modified, Team 336 Omaha, NE (6/06).
- Varsity Scout Team Activity Planning Worksheet (8K PDF) Modified, Utah National Parks Council, Provo District (2001).
- Varsity Scout Sample Trip Plan (29K PDF) BSA 2003.
See also
|Varsity Scout portal
- Varsity Scouting
- Varsity Scout Program
- Varsity Scout Advancement
- Boy Scouting
- Boy Scout Uniform
- Merit Badges (Worksheets)
Varsity awards:
Team Advancement Leaders:
|Reports to:
|Chartered Organization Representative
|Lead by:
|Team Committee Chairman
|Committee Secretary • Committee Treasurer • Advancement Chair • Equipment Coordinator • Activities Chair • Membership Chair • Training Chair • Public Relations Chair • Friends of Scouting Chair • Scouting for Food Chair • Fundraising Chair • ScoutParent Unit Coordinator • Chaplain
|Program Advisers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events
|Team Coach • Assistant Team Coach(es)
Team Positions of Responsibility and Adult Advisers
|Team Leadership:
| Captain • Cocaptain • Team Secretary • Squad Leader • Quartermaster • Chaplain Aide •
Librarian • Instructor • Den Chief • Order of the Arrow Team Representative
|Program Managers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events
|Other team leadership:
|Historian • Bugler
|Team Coach • Assistant Team Coach(es) • Committee Secretary • Committee Treasurer
|Program Advisers:
|Advancement • High-Adventure/Sports • Personal Development • Service • Special Programs and Events


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First Impressions Of Programming With Adobe AIR
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Many of you will have, by now, installed the Adobe AIR runtime. Most probably it will be to run something like Twhirl.
At this point many of you will be asking "what's Twhirl?"
If I said it was a nice desktop application that makes using Twitter so much easier I hope you don't ask "what's Twitter?" :-)
So, we're beginning to see these desktop applications coded using Adobe AIR, which stands for "Adobe Integrated Runtime" (formerly "Apollo").So, what's special (if anything) about AIR?
In my experience, two things:
So what does an AIR application consist of?
In principle one can do fancy things with Adobe Flex Builder and .SWF files but that requires expensive tooling. But there is another way:
You can write an AIR application of arbitrary complexity with two files:
This isn't an AIR tutorial so I'm not going to give you samples of the small XML and html files. You can easily find those on the Web. I just want to leave you with the impression there isn't much to it. And there is an O'Reilly pocket guide for AIR. (But there isn't a "For Dummies" book for it - so that's alright.) :-)
There are alternatives - such as Mozilla's XULRunner (whose user interface is based on XUL rather than HTML) and, I suppose, Microsoft's Silverlight. But neither is as easy and "I just need a text editor and the SDK to do it" is pretty enticing.
So, I'm impressed at its simplicity, the fact it builds on HTML, XML and Javascript. And if you want to be able to build something that looks like a desktop application, complete with drag-and-drop and clipboard capabilities, this may well be a good fit for your needs.
I mentioned the SDK. It's free (but it doesn't run on Linux and I've not heard any suggestion that it will). It comprises two useful tools:
Both are simple to use.
So, I got a "Hello World" application up and running in about twenty minutes, and that even with typ(o)ing in the XML and HTML files from the O'Reilly book. Swiping from the Web would probably be quicker - but you'd learn less.
And now I'm proving remarkably productive at writing a full-scale application. What's slowing me down - if anything - is my very basic CSS. And this application uses XMLHttpRequest and walks the DOM tree to build the window contents on the fly. All using standard javascript. Oh, and my CSS is rather more under control. :-) I just need to refactor it into multiple parts as all my CSS / HTML / Javascript is in the one file. Oh, and then there's refactoring to use dojo. I'm told you can use dojo in an AIR application, so long as you ship the dojo runtime with it.
If you want to know more about AIR go to their blog. For Twhirl go here and, of course, Twitter is here.
Note: IBM doesn't appear to have any commercial interest in AIR. And I certainly don't. So I'm just telling you how I see it.


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"When you hold a pose and relax into it, you stimulate the connective tissues that the deeper meridians run through, improving their ability to function. Healthy meridians create healthy organs," says Sarah Powers, renowned yoga teacher and author of "Insight Yoga." This sequence of poses, developed by Powers, addresses the major body parts through which the heart meridian flows. "The idea is to relax, release stress, and let your body rest," says Powers, "so it can balance and heal itself."
The Routine
For optimal heart health, Powers suggests alternating between a day of quiet practice and a more active one like Vinyasa yoga or traditional cardio. Balancing physically demanding exercise with a gentler routine works your heart in new ways, says Powers, while nourishing your whole being -- and not through sweat alone.
In that spirit, find a cool spot to spread out your mat, and use whatever props (pillows, blankets) you need to make each pose comfortable. Breathe naturally when performing this routine -- don't strive or push -- and let your muscles soften. Start by spending one to three minutes in each pose, and then gradually work up to three to five minutes.
1. Butterfly
What it does: Compresses the front of the torso, nourishing the heart meridian. Also opens the hips and lower back, and decompresses the spine.
How to do it: Sit on the floor with knees bent and soles of the feet touching.
Move your feet away from your hips so that your legs form a diamond shape. Lift your spine tall and bring your hands to your ankles, palms together.
Fold forward at the hips; at the same time, extend your arms as far in front of you as you can, keeping your palms together.
Let your head fall forward or rest it on a firm pillow (or stack of pillows, depending on your flexibility) placed on your feet or lower legs (again, depending on flexibility). Hold for one to three minutes.
2. Sphinx Pose
What it does: Lifts and broadens the chest, which stimulates the heart meridian. Temporarily puts pressure on the lower back, releasing tension and stimulating the kidneys, which promotes vitality.
How to do it: Lie on your belly on the floor with your legs, buttocks, and feet relaxed and arms folded (palms down) by your sides.
Prop yourself up on your forearms, with your elbows shoulder-width apart and one inch ahead of your shoulders. Bring your palms together. The buttocks, legs, and feet remain relaxed.
Gaze straight ahead, keeping your chest lifted and shoulders back. Hold for one to three minutes.
3. Seal Pose
What it does: Opens the chest and heart meridian and relieves lower back tension. Also stimulates the kidneys.
How to do it: Lie on your stomach with your legs relaxed and arms extended in front of you.
Using your back muscles, lift your torso up into a backbend and rest your hands on the floor about four inches in front of your shoulders, keeping them slightly wider than shoulder-width apart. Turn your hands out to a 45-degree angle; don't lock your elbows.
Look directly ahead. Hold for one to three minutes. (If you feel any pain, follow suggestions from Sphinx pose.) To come out, bend your arms and lower your torso to the floor. Spend a minute on your stomach, and then push your hips back and sit on your heels, with head down and arms stretched in front of you. Stay for a few minutes to rest the lower back.
4. Quarter-Dog Pose
What it does: Applies gentle pressure to the shoulders and upper arms, stimulating the heart meridian as it travels to the fingertips. Also relieves tension in the neck and upper back.
How to do it: Start on all fours with your knees directly under your hips and palms below your shoulders.
Drop your left forearm to the floor; it should be horizontal in relation to your body, with the upper arm perpendicular to the forearm.
Reach your right arm straight out with fingers spread and extended.
Stretch your spine until it is as long as possible, keeping your hips directly above your knees (adjust your arms to accommodate the length of your spine), and rest your head on your left forearm.
Relax for one to three minutes. Come back to all fours, reverse the placement of your arms, and repeat the move.
Press into your fingertips to stimulate the corresponding meridian points.
If you experience sharp back pain, engage your buttocks and inner thighs and pull in your ab muscles. This takes pressure off the ligaments that run along your spine.
5. Lateral Dragonfly
What it does: Energizes the chest and side of the body, nourishing the heart and lung meridians. Also stimulates the meridians of the lower body, improving the flow of qi (energy) throughout your body.
How to do it: Sit on a mat with your legs in a wide straddle and your weight shifted slightly forward.
Lift your spine tall, and then lean your torso to the left and bring your left elbow to the floor in front of your left knee.
Reach the right arm overhead and let it rest on your head. Relax for one to three minutes, then return to the starting position for five breaths. Repeat on the right.
If your elbow doesn't reach the floor, rest it on a block just inside your knee or on your leg.
6. Lying Spinal Twist
What it does: Stretches the spine, abdomen, and chest, stimulating the heart meridian. Also improves digestion. "This pose is particularly helpful to anyone with diseases of the breast, heart, or lungs," says Powers, "because it gently opens the chest, encouraging the flow of qi and activating the body's natural healing response."
How to do it: Lie on your back with your knees bent, soles of the feet on the floor, and arms extended in a "T."
Drop both knees to the floor on your left, keeping your right leg stacked directly on top of your left leg and your knees at hip height. Keep your right shoulder weighted toward the floor.
Extend your right arm straight above your head. Turn your head to the left and stay for one to three minutes.
Use your abs to bring your knees back to center. Rest here for five breaths, then switch sides and repeat. When done, hug your knees into your chest for five breaths to allow your spine to unwind.
If you find it too difficult to keep your shoulder down, place a folded blanket under your knees to make the stretch less intense.
Wrap Up
When you've completed all six moves in this sequence, unwind for one to three minutes in corpse pose: Lie on your back with your arms resting beside you, palms up. Allow your thoughts to quiet and your muscles to relax completely.
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Big business on sequester: Zzzz
The financial markets and some of the nation's biggest business groups have a collective response to the looming sequester: yawn.
President Barack Obama is warning of economic catastrophe if deep and immediate spending cuts hit Friday. Yet some of the most influential business organizations are adopting a decidedly blasé attitude, staying largely silent on the matter.
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And so far, the markets don't seem to care much either. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed less than 100 points below its all-time closing high, hit in 2007.
It's a big shift from the fiscal cliff fight in December, when even longtime adversaries of the president, such as Chamber of Commerce Chief Executive Tom Donohue, dutifully trooped to the White House for emergency meetings with top West Wing aides.
( PHOTOS: What they're saying about sequestration)
This time, the White House has focused its attention on warning consumers they could face long lines at airports, less-effective law enforcement and underfunded schools, among other horrors. They have also warned of a depleted national defense if the $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, known as the sequester, go into effect.
The administration has not been able to tap into the heavy pressure that comes from deep-pocketed and well-connected groups like the Chamber, the Business Roundtable, the Financial Services Forum and many others putting out statements and sending breathless letters to the Hill demanding immediate action, as they did during the cliff fight.
The lack of alarm bells reflects crisis fatigue among Beltway business groups and a belief that even if a last-minute deal somehow averts the sequester, another all-hands-on-deck, everybody-freak-out moment will come later this month when the continuing resolution that funds the government expires, threatening a shutdown.
( Also on POLITICO: Bloomberg: 'Spare me' sequester fear-mongering)
"We are tired. We just go from one crisis deadline to the next," said Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association. "And it seems like the White House is more focused on the consumer approach this time around."
Corporate groups are also taking cues from financial markets, which largely have ignored threats about the sequester's potential impact. Stocks sold off early this week, but that had much more to do with worries over the muddled outcome of elections in Italy and their possible impact on the European debt crisis than Washington and the sequester, analysts said.
( Also on POLITICO: Senate GOP ponders ceding power)
"Investors have been hearing a lot of hysteria out of the politicians for the last two years over all the different end-of-the-world deadlines," said Michael Obuchowski, portfolio manager at North Shore Asset Management. "We are human beings with vertebrate nervous systems, and there is a desensitizing effect when you hear it so many times. You eventually ignore it."
The Big Business calm also speaks to a general belief that the sequester, which includes $85 billion in cuts over the next year, would be much less damaging to the broader economy than the fiscal cliff, which included both automatic spending cuts and the largest tax increase in U.S. history.
"The fiscal cliff had serious implications for the U.S. credit rating and fiscal image across the world," said John Engler, former governor of Michigan and president of the Business Roundtable. "Nobody in America thinks you can't take a couple percentage points out of the federal budget. That's why [the White House] isn't getting much traction. If you get five miles outside the Beltway, it's hard to find somebody that cares very deeply about this."


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Jet plane, tick.
Private island, tick. Chopper, tick. Submarine?
When director James Cameron descended to the bottom of the Pacific on Monday, he not only shed light on the world's deepest ocean, but the world's most exclusive hobby: private submarine voyages.
The phenomenally profitable director of "Avatar" piloted an ungainly looking, bright green, one-seat sub to an amazing 36,000 feet, or 11,000 meters, down into the Mariana Trench.
Only the third person to go there, Cameron led the mission, which was entirely privately funded.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the globe, another mega-rich man with a sub, Richard Branson, is plotting to penetrate the Atlantic's deepest point, the Puerto Rico Trench.
For a man who's done extreme sailing and hot air ballooning, a jaunt miles under the ocean in a James Bond-style, winged mini-sub is the logical next step. He dreams of finding "Spanish galleons" or "a species that hasn't been discovered."
"It's enormously exciting that the oceans can now be explored and we have the vehicles to do that," Branson told AFP from his private Necker Island in the Caribbean.
Charles Kohnen, co-founder of submarine builders SEAmagine, said private sub owners are still a tiny group -- perhaps less than a dozen individuals -- but that the general trend of ever fancier toys for billionaires is likely to change that.
Most underwater craft on the civilian market are technically called submersibles, meaning they have only limited autonomy and need yachts to act as motherships. True submarines are more closely related to the naval equivalents, although both types can make safe journeys to at least 500 feet (150 meters), and in most cases a great deal further.
When SEAmagine started 16 years ago, "yachts weren't big enough to hold submarines. The evolution we've seen over the last five, seven years is interest from the private sector and it's directly related to the yachts, the mega-yacht industry," Kohnen said.
One recent private client has a specially designed 82 foot (25 meter) catamaran with a helicopter deck and submersible launch. Another didn't need any particular design changes to hold his submersible, but that's only because he has a 280 foot (85 meter) "luxury ship."
"A submarine -- it's not just a jet ski," Kohnen said.
His craft retail at between $1 million and $3 million. But the annual upkeep of $15,000-$20,000 is practically spare change to the super rich and a fraction of what it costs to fly an executive jet.
A company called US Submarines targets an even further frontier, offering luxury subs in addition to the more common submersibles.
Business is growing in the smaller craft sphere, especially "from the scientific community and very much more from the film community," Marc Deppe, an executive with subsidiary Triton Submarines, told AFP.
What they'd like to find now, Deppe said, is the world's first private owner of a full-blown submarine -- a modern day Captain Nemo.
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US Submarines offers the "Nomad," described as having an interior equivalent to a personal jet plane, the "Seattle," comparable in comfort to a large yacht, and the amazing "Phoenix."
This vessel, a full 213 feet (65 meters) long, would be able to cross an ocean, diving whenever weather got rough, and has so much room it would carry its own mini-sub.
At $78 million, according to its website, the "Phoenix" exists only on paper, but could be built as soon as a buyer ordered. "It's going to take someone who's a little bit extravagant, who has a passion to be the first one to have that type vessel," Deppe said.
Kohnen said subs are still too daunting a prospect for most wealthy people, but that those who take the plunge will find a magical world on the other side of their bubble windows.
"How little we know is astounding. There's much to be discovered," Kohnen said. "We take photos and bring it to universities and they scratch their heads and say 'what is that?' What you see out there doesn't look real. It's amazing."


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Tonight TNB will be having a virtual meetup on the PTR.
To join us:
– Download the PTR client(link).
– Copy an Alliance toon or use an alliance-side pre-made on the PTR PVE server (Broxigar)
– Join the TNB chat channel. /join TNB
– Ask for an ginvite/invite and ventrilo information to whatever we're doing
We're hoping to check out one of the new 5-mans.
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What is rubella?
What causes rubella?
Who gets rubella?
How does the rubella virus cause disease?
What are the common findings?
How is rubella diagnosed?
How is rubella treated?
What are the complications?
How can rubella be prevented?
What research is being done?
by Hal B. Jenson, M.D.
Chief, Pediatric Infectious Diseases
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX
by Charles T. Leach, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, TX
Rubella-also commonly known as German measles or, sometimes, three-day measles because of the characteristic duration of the rash-is usually a mild and frequently inapparent infectious disease in children and adults.
A rubella infection during the first trimester of pregnancy can result in miscarriage, stillbirth, or infants with a pattern of birth defects known as "congenital rubella syndrome." Congenital rubella syndrome can result in many severe symptoms in the newborn, including poor growth, cataracts, deafness, and heart defects.
The rubella virus, an RNA virus of the rubellavirus family of viruses, causes rubella.
Rubella was an important disease that occurred in almost all children before the introduction of the rubella vaccine. Rubella is highly contagious, and it has historically caused large outbreaks. The last epidemic of rubella in the United States occurred in 1964, and resulted in more than 20,000 infants being born with congenital rubella syndrome. Rubella is now very uncommon in the United States. Since licensure of the rubella vaccine in 1969, the incidence of rubella has decreased from an average of more than 47,000 reported cases annually to only 345 cases in 1998, with only 5 cases of congenital rubella syndrome.
The rubella virus is transmitted from person-to-person by direct contact or by contaminated secretions of the nose and the mouth. The rubella virus infects the lining of the nose and the upper respiratory tract. Then, it is spread through the blood throughout the body, which causes the rash.
The symptoms of rubella are variable and usually very mild. Up to one-half of persons have no symptoms at all. The typical symptoms of a rubella infection are a low-grade fever, swollen lymph nodes ("lymphadenopathy"), and a rash. Such symptoms as fatigue and poor appetite usually are not prominent.
Swollen lymph nodes of the neck are a common feature of rubella. Classically, it appears one day before the rash, and is most prominent in the lymph nodes behind the ears and in the back of the neck. After approximately 12 to 24 hours, the rash appears. The rash is a flat rash that appears all over the body and is very subtle. The rash usually disappears within two to three days. It is commonly itchy in adults, but not in children.
Rubella is diagnosed primarily on initial suspicion from the clinical and physical examination findings and confirmation by a laboratory test for rubella antibodies. The appearance of the rash usually is not characteristic. It is very difficult to be certain of the diagnosis of rubella without testing for the antibodies (i.e., IgM antibodies) found early in the illness.
There is no specific treatment for rubella. Antibiotics are not helpful because a virus causes rubella. Viruses cannot be treated with antibiotics. Fortunately, most persons with rubella have either no symptoms or very mild symptoms, and have complete recovery. The fever should be treated with acetaminophen or ibuprofen.
Complications of rubella are very uncommon in children. Young female adolescents and young women are more likely to develop transient joint aches and pains that typically affect the fingers, knees, wrists, elbows, and ankles. Usually, this lasts for one to four weeks; however, some patients develop chronic arthritis.
Approximately 1 in 3,000 cases of rubella will develop very low platelet counts, which can interfere with blood clotting. Inflammation of the brain ("acute encephalitis") may occur in approximately 1 out of 5,000 to 24,000 cases.
Progressive rubella panencephalitis is a rare chronic encephalitis associated with a persistent rubella virus infection of the brain. Approximately 20 cases have been reported, all in males who were 8 to 21 years of age at the onset of the symptoms. Most of these patients also had congenital rubella syndrome. No new cases have been described in the United States in recent years due to the routine rubella vaccination.
A major complication of rubella is congenital rubella syndrome, which occurs when a pregnant mother develops rubella and transmits the viral infection to the developing fetus. The fetus may be severely affected with poor intrauterine growth, cataracts, deafness, and heart defects. These and other findings are usually present at birth.
A vaccine for roseola is not available. There is very little information on how to prevent Rubella is effectively prevented by the routine administration of the rubella vaccine, usually given as Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccines to all children. This vaccine is recommended beginning at 12 months of age. A single dose of the rubella vaccine results in protection of approximately 95% of children. A second dose of MMR is recommended at four to six years of age. It is not a problem if an additional dose of the rubella vaccine is given in addition to the two recommended doses.
The spread of rubella can be prevented by minimizing exposure to children who have symptoms of the disease, and by good handwashing after exposure to the disease.
Pregnant women should routinely be tested in early pregnancy for antibodies to rubella. If a pregnant woman who does not have antibodies is exposed to rubella in the first trimester, antibodies can be given as soon as possible to try to prevent infection of the fetus and congenital rubella syndrome. Pregnant women who do not have rubella antibodies should be immunized immediately after delivery.
Because rubella is now extremely uncommon, and because the vaccine is extremely safe and effective in preventing rubella, there is not much research on rubella currently being performed. There is some research being conducted on the role of the rubella virus in causing arthritis that some persons develop, and on the long-term immunity of the rubella vaccine to confirm that it does provide lifelong immunity.
About the Authors
Hal Jenson, M.D.
Dr. Jenson graduated from George Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC,
He also completed a residency in pediatrics at the Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases and epidemiology at Yale University School of Medicine.
Dr. Jenson has an active research program on the biology of Epstein-Barr virus and other human and non-human primate herpes viruses.
He is active in the general pediatric and infectious diseases teaching and clinical activities of his Department and Division, is a co-editor of Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics and of Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Principles and Practice, and authors the book Pocket Guide to Vaccination and Prophylaxis.
Charles T. Leach, M.D.
Dr. Leach received his medical degree at the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed his pediatrics residency as well as a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at UCLA.
He is currently Associate Professor and Director of Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Leach conducts scientific research in the areas of herpes virus infections, pediatric AIDS, and infectious diseases among residents of the Texas-Mexico border.
Copyright 2012 Hal B. Jenson, M.D., and Charles T. Leach, M.D., All Rights Reserved
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Which educational entities have developed web accessibility policies?
Many institutions of higher education have developed web accessibility policies, guidelines, and/or standards. Some of these policies address web accessibility exclusively, whereas others have incorporated accessibility into an overall web policy that also address other issues such as copyright, branding, and security. For addressing accessibility, most institutions that have policies declare a specific well-recognized set of standards or guidelines to which their websites must conform. Typically institutions either adopt the Section 508 Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards or the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). The WCAG was updated in 2008, so policies that were issued prior to that tend to adopt the earlier version, WCAG 1.0. Newer policies tend to adopt the newer version, WCAG 2.0. The WCAG is structured with three conformance levels (A, AA, and AAA), Level A being the most basic level of conformance and Level AAA being much more thorough and difficult to attain. Policies that adopt the WCAG typically specify their target level of conformance, although many policies have overlooked this important detail.
Some campuses merely state the policy and expect employees developing websites to comply; others provide training and support to help campus units comply. Some inflict penalties for noncompliance; others give awards to campus units with exemplary pages. There are nearly as many approaches to web accessibility policies and support as there are institutions.
The University of Washington has compiled a short annotated list of IT Accessibility Policies in Higher Education. The policies listed on this page were determined for various reasons to be exemplary.
Also, the W3C maintains an international list of policies on their Policies Relating to Web Accessibility site. This site includes a list of U.S. state policies. In some cases, state policies may cover state educational entities.


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Company: Box Jobs in London
The idea for Box originated from a research project Aaron Levie worked on while at USC. He shared his concept for a simple content sharing platform with his childhood friend, Dylan Smith, and the two built the Box platform in 2005. Soon after, they moved to a cottage in Berkeley with their first round of funding — Dylan's online poker winnings of $20,000 — to pursue their goal: to change the way people worked.
Today, Box helps millions of customers worldwide untether from their desks and share content in the cloud. People can now work anywhere, on any device and collaborate across the globe with complete ease and security.


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An open house at beautiful Mulberry Gardens of Southington, an assisted living, adult day and memory care community, will be held on Saturday, June 9, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Marie Terzak, retirement counselor, will lead the event. Light refreshments will be served. Mulberry Gardens is located at 58 Mulberry St. in the Plantsville section of Southington.
People are welcome to just stop by. For more information, call Terzak at Mulberry Gardens, 860.276.1020.
Mulberry Gardens of Southington is a not for profit assisted living, adult day and memory care community, and a member of Hartford HealthCare Senior Services. To learn more, visit http://mulberrygardens.org.
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Northern Mariana holds 7th annual Kids Beach Volleyball Cup
Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, March 5, 2014 - The seventh annual Kid's Cup Saipan saw 123 youth participants out for a full day of volleyball fun at the 22nd annual Marianas Cup Beach Volleyball Festival on Sunday.
Team Luther Lasagna won the first place in the 13U division while Team Vaskuu topped the 17U division at the 7th annual Kids Cup.
The Kids Cup event consists of 17U and 13U four-person co-ed divisions. Both Guam and Saipan hold individual separate Kids Cups events as part of the overall Marianas Cup Beach Volleyball Festival. The Kids Cups are the third event in a series of back-to-back weekends that began with the Junior Cup (19U) and was followed by the Pro Am Cup (+16) when local amateurs paired with US and Japanese professional players.
The principle concept of the Kids Cup is to get young players accustomed to playing competitively in a festival type environment. This event is the icing on the cake for many players who take part in twice weekly trainings during the fall and spring in addition to six months of practice tournaments. Standard FIVB beach volleyball rules apply for the 17U division while the 13U are giving special advantages such as second chances at serves, serving closer to the net and scoring additional points for full 3-touches by a team. This year, the 17U division saw 60 players and 13 teams while the 13U division saw 63 players and 12 teams topping the 2013 record by just three players. The event took place at the venue of long term sponsors Fiesta Resort & Spa beach side.
Japanese pros training in Saipan for the last three weeks played one exhibition match for spectators and players while young players waited for the results of their pool play matches, which started at 09:00 am and finished around 13:30. The teams that advanced into the Double Elimination brackets began their matches at 14:00 and finished around 17:30.


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We would like all people to enjoy their Mondays. For this to happen, we think they have to love their jobs, appreciate their co-workers, and they have to be working at successful organizations. Our mission: to help build a world of work where these things are the norm.Get to know us!
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Taking a training is a great starting point for most people and organizations. With a small investment, you can get a great introduction to a broad topic, or a focused workshop on a certain skill.
We organize both public and in-house tranings by request. We do this around the world and in multiple languages. We cover many areas of Agile and Lean and are constantly adding new trainings to our growing offer.Learn more
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Experience has shown us that embedding top professionals within project delivery teams is a highly effective way to transfer knowledge and instil a new spirit of collaboration and improvement. This transformation will typically happen in a gradual and organic manner, which assures our clients that they can begin their improvement initiatives while continuing to deliver on their key projects.Learn more
When going to a new organization, we noticed that many of our coaches carried in their toolbox some form of a checklist containing topics and questions to discuss with the client. Once this pattern was apparent we started asking ourselves, wouldn't it be useful to centralize this list of topics and questions?
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Appstrakt Agilar helps to increase visualization and focus
Agilar coached Appstrakt, a highly competitive, up-and-coming software development company to help them organize the multitude of projects and customers coming through their doors. With a few focused workshops together with the organizational leaders, Agilar consultants helped Appstrakt visualize their work and defined some Agile practices to implement in order to improve their delivery capabilities and their internal collaboration. Appstrakt was able to take the principles and ideas and run with them, embedding continuous improvement as part of their delivery process.
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Agilar coaches and professionals introduced Agile methodologies and Lean process improvements at Belgacom. Agilar coaches played a key role in the Enterprise Scrum Team, developing and implementing a change strategy that started with selected pilot projects and moved onto changing entire application domains. We were also involved in the delivery process, embedding many professionals directly in the delivery teams, including senior engineers, technical coaches, Agile testers and ScrumMasters.
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Noor Hifz Academy *NEW
This is a full-time Hifz (Tahfeez ul-Quran) program run by MCA. Hifz is taught through individualized instruction that incorporates correct memorization and review of new material as well as ongoing cumulative review in accordance with individually assigned daily, weekly, and monthly goals. Goals are determined in accordance with the student's demonstrated ability to memorize.
Youth Groups
On Friday nights during the academic year, youth meet at the MCA Islamic Center to attend their "halaqas" or circles of learning with their peers and halaqa leaders to conduct activities and discuss issues relevant to their ages and environment. Halaqas are oriented in such a way to integrate Islamic education along with the activities.
Weekend Islamic School (WIS), popularly known as Sunday school, provides supplementary Islamic education to a diverse group of students with different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds. This diversity is also reflected in the composition of the teachers and staff.
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Granada Islamic School (GIS) was established in 1988 by the Muslim Community Association (MCA) to meet the PK-8th grade educational needs of the Muslim community of the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Al-Arqam School's mission is to provide supplemental Islamic education for students 6 to 12 year of age in recitation of Quran, Quran memorization, Arabic language and Islamic studies. The program emphasizes proficiency in recitation of Quran and provides structured and progressive instruction towards a mastery level.
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Cordoba Academy is an after school Quran reading (Tajweed) and memorization program for children and Women. Its mission is to provide low cost high quality education to Muslim community in science of Quran Tajweed with emphasis on character building based on the teachings of Quran and Sunnah.


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The following steps must be completed for entry into the UCC Commercial Truck Driving Program:
- Complete the Commercial Truck Driving (CTD) application and work history. Pick up a UCC Truck Driving Packet at Workforce Training Center and set up a time to meet with program coordinator, Judy Ode.
- Obtain a court print copy of your driving record (MVR) from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV Fee $3.00). If you have held a license in more than one state in the past five years, a driving record from each state is required.
- Obtain an Oregon Commercial Motor Vehicle Pamphlet to study for the General Knowledge test, and the Combination Vehicle and Airbrake knowledge tests (Endorsements) to enter the UCC program.
- Return the CTD application, work history, driving record, authorization for release, drug screening policy to:
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Attn: Judy Ode
1140 Umpqua College RD. (Old Science Building)
Roseburg, OR 97470
Upon notification of preliminary acceptance into the program
Drug Screen and Physical
You must be able to pass a Department of Transportation (DOT) Physical and DOT pre-employment drug screen with a negative result. Drug Screen must be less than 30 days prior to the start of class. The physical and drug screen can be completed at:
Evergreen Family Medicine
2570 NW Edenbower Blvd. Suite 100
Roseburg, OR 97470
(541) 957-1111 or (541) 679-2273
The fee for the physical is approximately $110 and the drug screen $60. These fees are payable to Evergreen Family Medicine and are subject to change without notice.
CDL Permit Requirements
Students must have a CDL permit (Fee $23.50) before the start of the class. This will also involve the following tests and fees which are all payable to the DMV:
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The minimum requirements for a CDL permit are:
- Must be at least 18 years old
- Must have a valid Oregon drivers license
- Must have at least one year's driving experience
- Must pass the CDL general knowledge, Airbrakes, combination knowledge test
- Must present a valid CDL Medical Card
- Must have a social security number and one other piece of personal identification.
This information is available in the Oregon Commercial Motor Vehicle pamphlet. The general knowledge test takes about two hours and each test after that may take from 30 minutes to an hour. The DMV will not test after 4:00 PM Monday through Friday. The CDL instruction permit is valid for 12 months from the date of issuance.
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Hazardous Materials Endorsement
Important information for students needing a Hazardous Materials Endorsement for Employment
Students must know that:
The U.S. Department of Transportation published regulations under the USA Patriot Act of 2001 requiring all commercial motor vehicle operators to submit fingerprints and obtain a security from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) before the issuance or renewal of a commercial driver license (CDL) that includes a hazardous materials (Hazmat) endorsement.
DMV will not be collecting fees or processing fingerprints and criminal background checks. In Oregon a TSA agent, Integrated Biometric Technologies (IBT), will process applications, collect fees, and take fingerprints for background checks.
Students may complete criminal background check applications and pay on line (Fee approx. $100) at www.hazprints.com or with the aid of a TSA agent at fingerprinting locations or over the phone at (877) 429-7746. It is estimated the background checks can take up to 90 days. If you need a Hazmat endorsement, please contact a TSA agent right away.


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El Constante has been a landmark of the Texas Gulf Coast for over 30 years. This well-maintained, family-friendly complex is the beachfront destination your family will visit to make memories that will last a lifetime. From any unit you can hear the gentle murmur of waves rolling ashore and be just steps away from miles of windswept Texas beaches.
Start your day with a cup of coffee and a nice walk on the seawall while enjoying a gorgeous sunrise over the Gulf of Mexico. Several food and entertainment destinations are near-by and popular activities like beach and jetty fishing; surfing, horseback riding or just relaxing and soaking up some sun are all at your finger tips. The all-new Schlitterbahn water park is now open and is just 3 miles away. If you're bringing a boat you'll appreciate the near-by access to boat launches and canal system here on the Island.
This beautiful complex also offers one the most serene pool settings you'll find and the pool is heated for year-round enjoyment. When you're ready to make lifelong family memories you won't find a better beachfront complex than El Constante.
You can sleep 4 in this corner beach front property which comes with a king size bed as well as a queen size sleeper sofa in the living area. This ground level unit offers spectacular views from all angles, a cozy private bedroom, an open kitchen with a pantry, dining and living area with an adjacent bathroom.
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Dec. 18, 2000-Another Race Trophy
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Today Warrior conceded that Wings was the winner of the Wings Blue Ribbon Race to Australia, and presented a bottle of Bundaberg Rum to us. Hooray! Well, racing sometimes can be fun, and the impromptu race we sailed from New Caledonia to Australia was one of those fun ones. Warrior made the initial challenge and Wings accepted. The rules were simple, any course, any departure date, any destination as long as it was in Oz, and the fastest average speed under PHRF handicaps over the passage to Oz was the winner. Other boats silently joined in and off we all went.
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Sandy & Lloyd Banta
Wings had a great passage, as we said before, and we clearly beat all the boats near us, but we never saw Warrior, and all we heard was that they really took off, leaving the boats near them in their dust. So until we caught up with Lloyd and Sandy in the boat yard in Mooloolaba we didn't know how well they actually did, but we suspected they had really clobbered us. Not so! When we got together and compared times we knew it was going to be close, they finished just 45 minutes ahead us. Lloyd scored the finishes on his computer, and although they sailed a longer course to Brisbane, on corrected time we just nipped them. Our average speed was 7.22 knots, theirs (on corrected time) was 7.19; that's close! The payoff was prompt and with our bottle of rum in hand we invited them over to Wings to share it.
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Old Blue's Last Day
The trip to Mooloolaba ended with a great spinnaker run down the coast, some super speeds, great rock on the stereo, and a little hard stuff out of the bottle, and it all ended with a shredded spinnaker. Yep! We blew out old blue, our favorite 22 year old 3/4 oz. spinnaker. In a big gust it just went away, pulled a Cayard. We knew the cloth was getting tired, in fact it was rotten, so it is no more. When we got into the marina we just dropped it in the dumpster. But never mind, we have four others.
Now we are waiting for a good weather pattern to head off to Sydney. It will be hard to leave Mooloolaba. This wonderful beach town has everything, tons of sunshine, a great beach, shopping that can't be beat, and a sailing program that looks really fun. But we've set our sights on Sydney, and Mooloolaba will still be here if we want to come back later, so we have made up our minds, we will leave soon. But then... we need northerly winds and the forecast is for southerly winds So if you hear from us next week and we haven't left, don't worry, this is a nice place to be stuck.
Click here for some more photos of the trip to Mooloolaba
Click here to see the hardcopy log of the trip (race)
Click here to see the hard copy log of our sail to Mooloolaba
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Denver won its third in a row, getting a 30-point performance from Lawson and 29 more from Andre Iguodala.
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At the end of 1996, Greenpeace had prepared the Arctic Sunrise for the icy conditions of Antarctica.
The Arctic Sunrise began its Greenpeace life during the Brent Spar campaignwhere it was used to prevent dumping oil installations at sea.
In1997 it became the first ship to circumnavigate James Ross Island in the Antarctic, which previously was an impossible journey until a 200mthick ice shelf connecting the island to the Antarctic continent collapsed. This was just one of the many signs of climate change whichthe Arctic Sunrise has helped document.
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In the Southern Oceans it thwarted Japanese attempts to pursue its so-called "scientific" whaling programme and chased pirate vessels fishing illegally for Patagonian Toothfish to the largest pirate port of Mauritius.
Manoeuvring directly into the missile's pathdid not prevent the US from proceeding in 2000 to test its "Star Wars"missile defence system, which threatens to ignite a new nuclear arms race.
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Port of registry: Amsterdam, NetherlandsFormer name: PolarbjornDate of charter: 1995Number of berths: 28Inflatable boats: 2 Ribs and 2 inflatabesHelicopter capable: YesType of ship: Sea-going motor yachtCall sign: PCTKBuilt: 1975 by AS Vaagen VerftGross tonnage: 949 tonnesLength O.A: 49.62 mBreadth: 11.50 mMaximum Draught: 5.30 mMaximum Speed: 13 KnotsMain engine: MAK 9M452AK 2495 IHP 1619kWAux engines: 2 x Deutz BF6M716 208hp (175 kva)Bow & stern thrusters: 400 hp each
We are peacefully protesting against illegal Japanese whaling in the waters around Antarctica when we hear a mighty crash and the ship rolls heavily. The chief engineer David de Jong rushes to the bridge shouting"That didn't sound like ice"!He's right - it's neither sea ice nor an iceberg, but the Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru, 10 times the Arctic Sunrise's weight, ramming us.Despite risking the lives of both crews, fortunately no one is hurt.
"The offer by Greenpeace to use the ship and her helicopter, and the assistance offered towards the cost of the ice mass balance buoys, demonstrate Greenpeace's commitment to supporting critical climate research in the vital area relating to changes in Arctic ice volumes and thickness - the theme that underlay all of the ship's work this summer. The support offered by the whole crew on board was amazing - unstinted, professional, and far better than I normally find on government-owned research ships."
At 4am local time in Russia, six Greenpeace activists, including Executive Director Kumi Naidoo, set off in three inflatable speedboats from the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise and scaled Gazprom's 'Prirazlomnaya' Arctic oil platform in the Arctic...
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Hundreds of ex-pats living in New York are making the trip home to Ireland this week for the biggest sporting event of the year, but many may not make it inside Croke Park.
Tickets are scarce for this Sunday's All-Ireland football final between Donegal and Mayo, but Irish immigrants living in New York remain optimistic in their quest for a golden ticket.
"I don't have a ticket yet, but I am hopeful," John Crowe, a Mayo supporter who lives in Manhattan told the Irish Voice.
Crowe, who has been living in New York for almost a year, booked his flights home to Ireland on a whim after Mayo defeated Dublin in the semifinal.
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Hoping to witness Mayo's first All-Ireland football victory in his lifetime, Crowe said, "I would be really disappointed if they won and I wasn't there."
Most GAA clubs around Ireland lost players due to the recent wave of emigration, but it's expected many will make the trip home for Sunday's game.
"I have friends in London going and a few boys in Scotland who are coming back for it," said Crowe.
Explaining the significance of the weekend fixture to his American friends, the Mayo man compares the All-Ireland final to the Super Bowl.
"It's the biggest day of the year in Irish sports," Crowe told the Irish Voice.
Confident in his home county, Crowe thinks the trip home will be worth it. "I would not fly home the 3,200 miles, if I didn't think they could do it," he said.
Up in the Bronx, Donegal supporters are also gearing up for Sunday's game.
Ballyshannon native Simon Gillespie, who is the New York GAA games development officer, says the demand for tickets is very high.
"There are loads of Donegal people going home," he said, explaining up to 100 people from the Woodlawn/Yonkers area alone are heading home for the match.
Unlike the countless number of loyal supporters, Gillespie confirms, tickets are hard to come by.
"They have never had demand like this before," he said.
"A lot of them are going home in the hopes they will get the tickets."
An average adult ticket for Sunday's final costs €80 ($104). The fourth largest stadium in Europe, Croke Park will be packed to capacity with 82,300 GAA fans this Sunday.
"Club allocations are very limited back home. They have to pick and choose who they give tickets to," Gillespie explained.
"Black market tickets are selling for up to €600. It's impossible for families to get two or three tickets."
Advice for those scrambling to get tickets, Gillespie says try outside your home county. "I would not encourage people to buy tickets from the black market," Gillespie added.
In Woodside, Queens, Mayo woman Corina Galvin is grateful to have a ticket secured.
"I cannot wait," Galvin, who's flying home to Dublin on Friday, told the Irish Voice.
Originally from a village outside Castlebar, she managed to get a ticket from a Cork friend.
"My brothers at home still have not sorted one," she said.
The Mayo woman, who immigrated 17 years ago after graduating from college, felt she had to make the trip home for this All Ireland.
"I have always been a big fan," she told the Irish Voice. "I booked my flights in the taxi on the way home from the semifinal."


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Let's explore an amazing set of very rare construction photos of Magic Kingdom's Liberty Square. These photos were taken at different stages of construction.
In the photo above we see Haunted Mansion construction in the distance. That building on the right is The Hall of Presidents before the bell tower steeple was added. Next we see a higher view of Liberty Square with some Cinderella Castle construction in the foreground.
The Hall of Presidents building is taking shape. The Liberty Tree Tavern exterior has been almost complete for some time now. Gift shop construction begins.
Upper levels of the gift shops begin. Wait... No Liberty Square bridge yet? Very odd.
Beautiful curvy brick wall (still there today) is coming along nicely. There's that wonderful backside of Liberty Tree Tavern. It's meant to look like the frontside of "other" buildings.
The large white building seen here is The Hall of Presidents show building. Connected to it to the north is the show building for Peter Pan's Flight. Also, we have a bridge now.
Riverboat dock, dry Rivers of America, and Haunted Mansion in the background. Notice there's no canopy over the outside Haunted Mansion queue?
Construction continues on the Admiral Joe Fowler Riverboat (but not in in Liberty Square yet). Remember the story of this first boat? It began carrying passengers through Rivers of America on October 2, 1971 (the day after Opening Day). It was damaged at dry dock in 1980 and never returned to the Rivers. A second riverboat called Richard F. Irvine (with only one smoke stack) was added in May of 1973. It continues to run today under the name Liberty Belle Riverboat. In this photo I noticed the back windows are a bit different than the windows in the final product. They must have changed them at some point.
Here we can compare aerial views of Magic Kingdom construction in December of 1969 to the year-old park in December of 1972. Look at the evolution of Seven Seas Lagoon and Bay Lake!
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If he's nuts enough to want the job, why not give it to him?
That should be the response to state Treasurer Bill Lockyer's apparent interest in becoming chancellor of the California State University system.
The job is nearly impossible.
California's governance system makes it easier to cut higher education, including Cal State, than other parts of the budget. That's led to years of cuts and resulting tuition hikes, with no end in sight.
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Lead Prop Zero blogger Joe Mathews is California editor at Zocalo Public Square, a fellow at Arizona State University's Center for Social Cohesion, and co-author of California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It (University of California, 2010).
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