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British Library Act 1972
The British Library Board was established under the British Library Act 1972 to manage the Library as 'a national centre for reference, study, and bibliographic and other information services, in relation both to scientific and technological matters and to the humanities'.
This is what it says.
- The British Library
- The Board
- Transfer of British Museum Library
- Further provisions as to the Board
- Finance and accounts
- Consultation on terms and conditions of employment of staff
- Citation
SCHEDULE - The British Library Board and its Advisory Councils
An Act to establish a national library for the United Kingdom under the control and management of a new Board and incorporating the Library of the British Museum; and for connected purposes. [27th July 1972]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
(1) This Act shall have effect with a view to the establishment of the United Kingdom of a national library, to be known as "the British Library", consisting of a comprehensive collection of books, manuscripts, periodicals, films and other recorded matter, whether printed or otherwise.
(2) The British Library shall be under the control and management of a public authority, to be known as "the British Library Board", whose duty it shall be to manage the Library as a national centre for reference, study and bibliographical and other information services, in relation both to scientific and technological matters and to the humanities.
(3) The Board shall make the services of the British Library available in particular to institutions of education and learning, other libraries and industry; and
(a) it shall be within the functions of the Board, so far as they think it expedient for achieving the objects of this Act and generally for contributing to the efficient management of other libraries and information services, to carry out and sponsor research; and
(b) the Board may contribute to the expenses of library authorities within the meaning of the public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, or of any other person providing library facilities, whether for members of the public or otherwise
(4) The Board may, subject to such restrictions and conditions as they think necessary to safeguard their collections, lend any item, and make any part of their collections, or of their premises, available in connection with events of an educational, literary or cultural nature:
Provided that in deciding whether or not to lend such item and in determining the time for which and the conditions subject to which any such item is to be lent, the Board shall have regard to the interests of students and other persons visiting the national library, to the physical condition and degree of rarity of the item in question and to any risk to which it is likely to be exposed.
(1) The British Library Board shall consist of a chairman appointed by the Secretary of State and not less than eight, nor more than thirteen, other members of whom one shall be appointed by Her Majesty and the remainder by the Secretary of State: and -
(a) at least one of the members (who may be the chairman) shall be appointed as a whole-time member;
(b) subject to paragraph (a) above, any member (including the chairman and the member appointed by Her Majesty) may be appointed as a part-time member
(bb) one part-time member appointed by the Secretary of State shall be a person who appears to him to have special knowledge of Scotland; and
(c) one part-time member shall be a person nominated by the trustees of the British Museum.
(2) In selecting persons for appointment to be members of the Board, the Secretary of state shall give preference to those who appear to him to have knowledge and experience of library or university affairs, finance, industry or administration.
(2A) Before making an appointment under subsection (1)(bb) above, the Secretary of State shall consult the Scottish Ministers.
(3) The Board shall, in accordance with directions of the Secretary of State given after consultation with them, constitute Advisory Councils with responsibility for providing advice to the Board, or to any department of the British Library, on such matters as the Secretary of State or the Board may determine from time to time.
(4) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the Board and its members, to the Board's proceedings and incidental powers, to the employment of staff and the terms and conditions of their employment, and to the Advisory Councils constituted under this section.
(1) Subject to this section, all articles which immediately before the appointed day were the property of the trustees of the British Museum and -
(a) formed part of the collections in the Museum's Department of Printed Books, Department of Manuscripts and Department of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, or
(b) were in normal use in those Departments for the purposes of the collections, or of their storage or management, or for the purposes of the administration of the Departments,
shall on that day cease to be property of the trustees and become property the British Library Board.
(2) In this Act "the appointed day" means a day appointed by the Secretary of State by order made by statutory instrument.
(3) Subsection (1) above shall not apply to any article in the case of which it has been agreed in writing between the trustees and the Board that it shall not become the property of the Board under this section.
(4) Without prejudice to subsection (1) above, the trustees may transfer to the Board any article from their collections in the case of which the Board have indicated to the trustees that the article is required for the British Library; and the power of the trustees under this section to transfer any article shall be exercisable notwithstanding any trust or condition (whether express or implied) prohibiting or restricting the disposal of the article, and also notwithstanding anything in the British Museum Act 1963.
(5) Any property transferred to the Board under this section shall, if it was previously vested in the trustees subject to any trust or condition, be subject to the same trust or condition in the hands of the Board.
(6) The trustees may make any part of their premises available for the use of the Board, and may arrange for services to be rendered to the Board by British Museum staff, on such terms (including terms as to payment) as may be agreed with the Board.
(1) As from the appointed day, section 15 of the Copyright Act 1911 (which requires the publisher of every book published in the United Kingdom to deliver a copy to the British Museum) shall have effect as if references in subsections (1), (3) and (6) to the trustees of the British Museum were references to the British Library Board; and-
(a) corresponding amendment shall be made of all references to the trustees in section 1(1) of the British Museum Act 1932 (which excepts certain categories of publications from the requirements of section 15 of the Act of 1911, subject to written demand by the trustees);
(b) the power under section 1(2) of that Act to make regulations shall, instead of being exercisable by the trustees, be exercisable by the Board; and
(c) any regulations of the trustees under that section which were in force immediately before the appointed day shall continue in force as if made by the Board thereunder, with the substitution for references in the regulations to the trustees of references to the Board.
Subsection (2) repealed
(3) The Board shall, not later than such date in each year as the Secretary of State may determine, send to him a report of the proceedings and activities of the Board during the previous twelve months, and the Secretary of State shall lay copies of the report before each House of Parliament.
(1) The Secretary of State shall, out of moneys provided by Parliament, make to the British Library Board such payments as the Treasury may approve towards expenditure incurred by the Board, whether in respect of their management of the British Library (including the acquisitions of new items for the Board's collections), or of general administration, or otherwise; and so far as relates to the use and expenditure of sums so paid to the Board, the Board shall act in accordance with such directions as may from time to time be given to them by the Secretary of State.
(2) Moneys received by the Board in any financial year, whether in respect of property disposed of, or services provided, or otherwise, shall be applied by the Board in such manner as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct; and any such direction may require the whole or any part of those monies to be paid into the Consolidated Fund
(3) The Board shall keep proper accounts and other records and shall prepare in respect of each financial year statements of account in such form as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct; and those statements shall, on or before 30th November next following the expiration of the financial year in question, be submitted to the Secretary of State and shall be transferred by him to the Comptroller and Auditor General, who shall examine and certify the statements and lay copies thereof, together with his report thereon, before each House of Parliament.
(1) It shall be the duty of the British Library Board to seek consultation with any organisation appearing to them to be appropriate with a view to the conclusion between the Board and that organisation of such agreements as appear to the parties to be desirable with respect to the establishment and maintenance of machinery for the settlement by negotiation of terms and conditions of employment of persons employed by the Board with provision for reference to arbitration in default of such settlement in such cases as may be determined by or under the agreements; and
(2) It shall be the duty of the Board to seek consultation with any organisation appearing to them to be appropriate with a view to the conclusion between the Board and that organisation of such agreements as appear to the parties to be desirable with respect to the establishment and maintenance of machinery for the promotion and encouragement of measures affecting the safety, health and welfare of persons employed by the Board and the discussion of other matters of mutual interest to the Board and such persons including efficiency in the operation of the services of the Board.
This Act may be cited as the British Library Act 1972.
Schedule - THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD AND ITS ADVISORY COUNCILS
Section 2
Constitution and membership of the Board
- The Board shall be a body corporate, with perpetual succession and a common seal.
- Subject to the following provisions of the Schedule, a member of the Board shall hold and vacate office in accordance with the terms of appointment; but no member of the Board shall be appointed for a period of less than three years or more than seven years.
- A member of the Board may, by notice in writing addressed to the Secretary of State (or, in the case of the member appointed by Her Majesty, by notice in writing to Her) resign his membership, and the chairman may be such a notice resign his office as such without resigning his membership.
- A member of the Board who ceases to be a member, or ceases to be chairman, shall be eligible for re-appointment.
Remuneration, allowances and pensions
- (1) The Board -
(a) shall pay to the members thereof such remuneration and allowances as the Secretary of State may determine; and
(b) as regards any member in whose case the Secretary of State may determine, shall pay such pension, allowance or gratuity to or in respect of him, or make such payments towards the provision of such pension, allowance or gratuity, as may be so determined;
and, if a person ceases to be a member of the Board and it appears to the Secretary of State that there are special circumstances which make it right that that person should receive compensation, the Secretary of State may require the Board to pay to that person a sum of such amount as the Secretary of State may determine.
(2) The Secretary of State shall, as soon as possible after the first appointment of a person as a member of the Board, lay before each House of Parliament a statement of the salary and allowances that are or will be payable to that person under this paragraph; and if a subsequent determination by him under this paragraph involves a departure from the terms of that statement, or if a determination under this paragraph relates to the payment of, or the payment towards the provision of, a pension, allowance or gratuity to, or in respect of, a member of the Board, the Secretary of State shall, as soon as possible after the determination, lay statement thereof before each House of Parliament.
(3) Any determination by the Secretary of State under this paragraph, and the imposition by him of any requirements thereunder, shall require the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.
Disqualification of paid members of Board from membership of House of Commons
- Section 6 repealed.
- (1) The quorum of the Board shall be five; and the arrangements relating to the meetings of the Board shall be such as the Board may determine.
(2) The Board shall have power to regulate their own procedure.
- The validity of any proceedings of the Board shall not be affected by any vacancy among members or by any defect in the appointment of any member
- The application of the seal of the Board shall be authenticated by the signature of the secretary or of some other person authorised by the Board, either generally or specially, to act for the purpose.
- Any document purporting to be a document duly executed under the seal of the Board, or to be signed on behalf of the Board, shall be received in evidence and shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to be so executed or, as the case may be, signed.
- (1) The quorum of the Board shall be five; and the arrangements relating to the meetings of the Board shall be such as the Board may determine.
Incidental powers
- (1) It shall be within the capacity of the Board as a statutory corporation to do all such things, and enter into all such transactions, as are incidental or conducive to the discharge of its functions; but the Board shall not have power to borrow money.
(2) The Board may frame, and vary and revoke from time to time, rules relating to the exercise by them of any power or the manner of entering into any transaction; and the rules may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, provide for the imposition of charges for any services provided by the Board or for the loan or use of any item from their collections.
(3) Without prejudice to the foregoing, the powers of the Board shall include power to acquire or dispose of any property, whether or not for the purposes of their collections, but subject to the following sub-paragraphs
(4) The power of the Board to dispose of an article transferred to them by section 3(1)(a) of this Act shall be exercisable only if-
(a) it is a duplicate or another article in the Boards collections (whether or not so transferred), or
(b) it appears to the Board to have been printed not earlier than the year 1850, and a copy of that article made by photography or a process akin to photography is held by the Board, or
(c) in the opinion of the Board it is unfit to be retained in their collections and can be disposed of without detriment to the interests of students; or
(d) the disposal is an exercise of the power conferred by section 6 of the Museum and Galleries Act 1992.
but the Board may transfer an article to the trustees of the British Museum (Natural History) where they are satisfied that it would be more appropriately held with the collections of that Museum.
(5) Where any property in the hands of the Board (whether or not transferred to them under section 3(1)(a) of this Act) is subject to any trust or condition except as provided by section 6 of the Museum and Galleries Act 1992.
(a) they shall not dispose of or deal with it in any manner inconsistent with the trust or condition; and
(b) it shall be subject to the same trust or condition in the hands of any person acquiring it from the Board.
(6) Subsection (6) repealed
- (1) The Board shall appoint a secretary, and may appoint such other officers as they may determine, and may pay to their officers and other persons employed by them such remuneration and allowances as the Secretary of State may determine with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service
(2) The Board shall, in the case of such officers or other persons employed by them as may be determined by the Board with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service (not being members of the Board), pay such pensions, allowances or gratuities or in respect of them as many be so determined, make such payments towards the provision of such pensions, allowances or gratuities as may be so determined or provide and maintain such schemes (whether contributory or not) for the payment of such pensions, allowances or gratuities as may be so determined.
(3) Where a participant in such a scheme as is referred to above become a member of the Board, he may be treated for the purposes of the scheme as if his service as a member of the Board were service as a person employed by the Board otherwise than as such a member, and his rights under the scheme shall not be affected by paragraph 5(1)(b) of this Schedule.
- (1) In the case of persons to be employed by them on and after the appointed day who immediately before that day are employed either in the civil service of the State or by the trustees of the British Museum, the Board shall, in negotiating their terms of employment, ensure that the terms, taken as a whole, are not less favourable in the case of each such person than those on which he is employed at the time when an offer is made to him of employment with the Board.
(2) In the following provisions of this paragraph, "the Act of 1965" means the Redundancy Payments Act 1965 and "the Superannuation Acts" means the Superannuation Acts 1965 and 1972.
(3) Where a person enters the employment of the Board on the appointed day having been, immediately before that day, employed as mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, then -
(a) for the purposes of the Employment Rights Act 1996 any period during which he was so employed before that day (other than a period excepted by sub-paragraph (4) below) shall count as a period of employment with the Board, and the change of employer shall not break the continuity of the period of employment; and
(b) if he was employed by the trustees of the British Museum and his contract of employment was terminated with a view to his being re-employed by the Board as from that day he is not to be treated for the purposes of the Act of 1965, as having been dismissed by reason of redundancy.
(4) A period of employment excepted by this sub-paragraph is one which ended before the appointed day in consequence of termination of employment, where there was made to the person in respect of that termination a payment in accordance with Part I of the Act of 1965, or under the Superannuation Acts or any enactment replacement by either of those Acts, or under any such arrangements as are mentioned in section 41(3) of the Act of 1965.
Advisory Councils
- (1) Advisory Council Constituted by the Board in accordance with Section 2(3) of this Act shall consist of a chairman and such number of other members as the Secretary of State may specify in directions given under that subsection.
(2) The Board shall pay to the chairman and other members of an Advisory Council such remuneration by way of fees, and such allowances, as may be determined by the Secretary of State with the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service.


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Decking out your home for the holidays involves more than just mantels! The real magic of the season happens outdoors, where strings of twinkling lights illuminate the fresh snow, and sprigs of evergreen can add holiday cheer almost anywhere. Family and friends alike will appreciate a festive welcome with these inspirational outdoor decorating ideas.
Above, an outdoor courtyard offers a cheerful snow-dusted vignette. A vintage mirror hangs above a wire urn filled with greens and branches for a picture-perfect winter scene.
Evergreen-Infused Entry
Talk about an inviting first impression! Lush evergreen boughs are wrapped around the handrails and columns on this cozy cabin's porch. Red details—like silk bows and felt angels woven into the wreath—shine even brighter against the home's green cedar-shingle siding.
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Lighting the Way
A fire burning brightly outside a front door has long been a symbol of hospitality and good will. This home embraces tradition with a pair of quaint wooden lanterns that light the way up to the front porch. A red silk bow and silver wintery details amp up the Christmas cheer.
Porch Details
Red and green don't have to be the rule when it comes to holiday palettes. Sprigs of evergreen mingle with cinnamon sticks and purple blooms to add a little color to the stoic wooden reindeer on the home's porch.
Symmetrical and Sophisticated
A symmetrical entrance gives an air of sophistication in this Chicago home. Steps lead up from the front gate to double doors illuminated by twin custom brass-and-black steel sconces. Galvanized metal containers hold merry assemblies of pine branches, luminescent glass balls, winter flowers, and painted pinecones. A twinkling wreath centered between the doors grounds the display.
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Elegant Outdoor Entertainment
French doors lead from the family room out to a covered patio, which serves as an outdoor living room and entertainment area. The family gathers on two wicker all-weather sofas before a cozy fireplace; on the broad stone mantel hangs an elegant wreath wound with green and yellow ribbon. Lanterns from Fourteenth Colony Lighting cast a pleasing light after dark.
Traditional Farmhouse Window Display
A wreath in every window creates a welcoming display on this Virginia fieldstone farmhouse. Although today they are mostly associated with the holiday season, wreaths have a long history. In ancient Greece, they were hung on farmers' doors year-round as part of a ritual intended to protect against crop failure and plagues. While this homestead no longer sits on a farm, the wreaths still represent a lasting tradition.
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Doorway Details
A classic evergreen wreath graces the front door of the Pennsylvania-style fieldstone farmhouse. Its multiple-paned glass windows flanking the door add to the home's 1930s-vintage charm. A thick silver ribbon hints at the elegant simplicity of the home's interior, designed by Frank Babb Randolph.
Coastal Christmas
A home can still be outfitted for the holidays sans snow. In Newport, strings of icicle lights wrap this home like a glittering Christmas package. A fixed horizontal shutter shading the front porch provides a second ledge for more lighting. Even the palm trees got into the spirit, their densely illuminated trunks framing the front yard.
Classic Entryway
A white oak front door is nestled in a stone niche to create an intimate entryway to this French-inspired home. Classic red and gold accents punctuate the lush greenery around the entrance; a thick crimson wreath is festooned with sparkling ribbons, dried water lily pods, and red berries.
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Illuminated Gateway
The entrance gate is bedecked in holiday greenery that takes on a festive glow when the sun goes down.
Eye-Catching Mailbox
Pinecones and red berries lend colorful texture to the family's mailbox. The bright greenery pops against a light coating of fresh snow.
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Southern Porch
A Texas home exudes traditional Southern flavor with a deep porch and plenty of comfy seating. Casual wicker armchairs and matching ottomans are upholstered in beige all-weather fabric. A rocking horse dons a fluffy holiday wreath; urns are filled with evergreen and festive poinsettias for charming Christmas touches.
An Urban Twist
Decor goes vertical in this urban setting. A loft in downtown Aspen utilizes slender young trees outside to hold strings of glittering lights. Potted trees also twinkle softly underneath the second-floor deck.
Family-Friendly Christmas Customs
A pine tree strung with cranberries and popcorn is a classic Christmas staple that still tickles young and old alike. Seasonal sentiments of good will towards man (and beast) are put on display with this simple tradition. Children will appreciate the decorating process, while adults can savor the results. Best of all, the mess stays outside! Pinecones covered in birdseed provide wildlife with a little holiday treat.
Vibrant Entrance Display
Pomegranates and persimmon mingle with magnolia leaves, evergreen, and winter branches to form a cheerful and colorful display at the entrance of this home. Complemented by the front door's silvery cobalt paint, these warm hues make a striking impression.
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Potted Red Branches
Festive red dogwood branches add depth and elegance to the entry's holiday display. Potting urns are filled with sprigs of evergreen and pinecones for wintery touches.
Natural Elements
Nature brings casual beauty to this end of the front porch. A blanched wooden table boasts organic curved legs, boughs of greenery, and scattered pinecones for a natural look. Corroded metal lanterns lend rustic beauty; the burning candles inside add to the classic Christmas feel.
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Inspired Entry
A beautiful home in Pacific Palisades, California, features a pediment-crowned entry framed with delicate branches of red berries and greens. A simple wreath of evergreen and pinecones adorns the front door, which opens into a courtyard.
Tradition-Inspired Home
A variation on the Charleston Single House style, this home is ready for the holidays with wreaths hanging in every window and other charming Christmas details. The red brick exterior sets off the vibrant greenery near the front of the house, where a loggia opens up to a "real" front door and access to the courtyard.
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Candlelit Entry
Cheerful red glass vases nestled among holly and evergreen lend a delightful touch to the front entry.
More candlelight and Christmas lights illuminate the home from the outside. The backyard courtyard features a steeple-shaped structure filled with twinkling lights, which glows merrily after the sun goes down.
Loggia Embellishments
Muted stone fixtures on the patio allow for the homeowners to switch up their style based on the changing Charlotte seasons. During the holidays, they utilize candlelight, silvery details, and greenery to extend the holiday décor into the courtyard.
Heralding Cherubs
Tied with festive red bows, cherubs flanking the main entrance herald friends and visitors. Magnolia and holly are signature holiday greens of the South.
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Décor and Architecture
A traditional holiday display reflects this home's classic hallmarks of the Georgian Revival architectural style. Around the front entrance, pops of crimson punctuate the surrounding evergreen, which is historically a symbol of strength and renewal because of its resistance to cold weather.
Inspired and Personal Ornaments
Rather than using a conventional wreath on the front door, this homeowner opted for less traditional but far more personal decor. An oversized recipe card displays Grandma's nut bread recipe, one of the family's favorite holiday treats. Wooden spoons and colorful ornaments add a little sparkle and shine.
Stylish Outdoor Lighting
White orbs glow from the branches of an enormous tree in this festive front yard. A contemporary alternative to strings of lights that typically illuminate homes during the holidays, these elegant hanging lights complement the home's traditional Tudor-style façade.
Grand Entry with Topiaries
Trimmed topiaries add flair to this home's grand front entrance. Embellished with bright red bowties, they add texture and color to the porch. The stately trees stand in pots topped with red and silver glass balls, which are both inexpensive and weather-resistant. Behind, a wreath is decorated simply with a cheerful stocking.
Colorful Garden Details
A glass gazing ball is nestled in a bed of twinkling lights, pinecones, and greenery. Vibrant shots of cheerful red make a strong statement around the yard, especially after a fresh snowfall. Simple white lights help to illuminate the glass, casting a whimsical glow after dark.
Simply Alluring Door Decor
Simple design and plenty of color outside this Boston Federal-style townhome introduce the holiday décor inside the home. Fresh green and vibrant crimson establish a classic Christmas palette on the glossy front door; a peek inside shows the homeowners' sophisticated, no-frills approach to interior holiday decorating.
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This beautifully crafted bar cart, The Sidecar by Moore and Giles, is a great way to store liquor, glassware, bar tools, and anything else needed to complete your own miniature bar. The cart, made of Virginia black walnut, birch, leather, aluminum, and brass, is wheeled to make sure the party can travel with you. Perfect for drink-lovers without the space for a full bar.


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and tomtom is dead.
He pushed eliasboy over the edge I saw it coming like mlaw's giant bulbous nose
I think I saw this on a placemat in a truck stop back in 1994.
Never heard the eiffel tower thing tho.
This thread is now about mlaw's giant bulbous nose
How about her milky udders?
Crosshatched blue veins
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Say it slower please.....
I think I saw this on a bathroom wall in a truck stop back in 1994.
truck stops rule so hard. I saw one with showers before.
Her long hair warty chin is still avail
This one had a badass arcade and the guy who ran the truck wash sold weed.
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1. Re: HornetQ HA with data replicationJustin Bertram May 8, 2012 5:58 PM (in response to xptokis)
Data replication isn't supported in any of the latest versions. I can only assume it was removed after 2.1.2 because it wasn't fully functional. Data replication should be HornetQ 3.0 (if not sooner).
2. Re: HornetQ HA with data replicationpsvneves May 9, 2012 3:38 AM (in response to Justin Bertram)
And anyone has any idea when we will have HornetQ 3.0? Or other version with data replication?
3. Re: HornetQ HA with data replicationClebert Suconic May 9, 2012 3:00 PM (in response to psvneves)
We just talked about wrapping up what we did and going towards a 2.3.0. Beta
We were busy with AS7 releases which was based on 2.2 which was dragging our resources. Now we are done we are moving towards 2.3.0 faster now. We don't have a date yet.. we need to see what is needed to change the examples.
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Disgo 9104 9.7in Android tablet
There are plenty of 10in Android tablets out there, but few of them have the screen 4 x 3 aspect ratio of the Disgo 9104 and its 1024 x 768 resolution. With a passing glance, it's easy to mistake for an iPad, especially having silver metal back too. Admittedly, it's a bit on the chunky side, as the display is somewhat pronounced from the metal housing. The screen is bright, rather than dazzling and finger prints need a bit more than a lazy wipe to shift after a session.
The 1.2GHz Boxchip ARM 8 chip delivers a somewhat lacklustre AnTuTu score of 3122, yet the Disgo 9104 runs Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich quite fluidly. It's no doubt helped by having 1GB DDR3 RAM on-board along with 16GB of storage that can be increased to 48GB with a micro SD card. Indeed, it works pretty well as a media player and notched up around 5hrs with repeated movie playback and it even has a mini HDMI output. Sadly, there's no Bluetooth and it doesn't officially support the Google Play Store.
Instead, Disgo bundles a bunch of apps for free, including OfficeSuite Pro and relies on the Slide Me marketplace for app downloads. However, there is a neat, easy-to-follow hack, if you know where to look and you're not fazed by the, ahem, limited support: "If you follow the instructions you will be done in 5 minutes, if you don't and can't do it I don't care." I had the Play Store up in no time and the tablet was transformed. Disgo has said official support for the Play Store is coming, but if you can't wait and fancy a cheap 10in tablet, it'll do nicely for most things.
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D-Link DHP-1565 802.11n router and Powerline combo
If you talked the folks into getting a connected TV last Christmas and they've complained all year about the streaming quality, then getting them kitted out with Powerline gear is one way to ensure tidings of comfort and joy this Yuletide. D-Link's 802.11n wireless router offers only 2.4GHz connections, but that will suffice for most people, and it's the 500Mb/s full duplex Powerline features that are the selling point here. That said, don't forget that you'll need to buy additional Powerline adapters to dot around the house, as the DHP-1565 is just the main router, there's no ADSL modem either.
The Powerline functions are enabled straight out of the device's mains power cable and it is compatible with 200Mbps HomePlug AV gear and has four Gigabit Ethernet ports if you need them. Expanding its functionality further is the USB "SharePort" that can used to connect up peripherals such as external storage for access over the network. It's a neat combination of networking options that can be picked up for well under £100 if you shop around.
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Old-growth Pine
Here's a close look at a piece of old-growth pine reclaimed from salvaged timber – on top of it is a piece of new-growth pine. Notice the difference in the growth rings (click on the photo to see a larger image). It's no wonder some of the woodworking techniques used in the 18th and early 19th centuries wouldn't go well with lumber we have available today. What would you do differently given these two different materials with which to work?
Pine is a great wood to work. Here's a book of pine furniture for inspiration, a finish to get a pumpkin pine look and a piece by Bob Flexner on tackling pine finishing issues.
- "Country Pine Furniture Projects" by Bill Hylton
- "Carving out a Pumpkin Pine Finish" from Woodworking Magazine
- "Flexner on Finishing: The Pine Problem" by Bob Flexner
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Lorenzo Ghiberti's 15th-century bronze doors at the Baptistery of Florence have God, Noah, Adam and Eve going for them, but even the fabled "Gates of Paradise" don't have transom zaps.
Brass bolts of electricity converge on your head as you walk under the transom — a support beam above a door or window — over the north entrance to the Ottawa Power Station. Each door has an elegant stainless steel silhouette of the power plant's ziggurat design, studded with dozens of bright brass bosses.
Even now, taken to pieces in restorer Ron Koenig's workshop in Niles, the doors leap off the worktables.
Koenig started as a restorer in the 1990s, working on the Michigan Capitol, and most recently restored the football-field-sized ceiling of University of Michigan Law Library.
Koenig is shy by nature, but the restoration job of a lifetime has really flipped his switch.
"I've never seen anything like this, particularly on what amounts to a public building," Koenig said. "It's astounding. They make such a powerful statement."
Richard Renaud wrote the restoration specifications for the doors. "These are the most fancy metal doors I've worked on yet," Renaud said. "The mixture of metals is quite strange. These are one-of-a-kind."
Renaud works for Quinn Evans, the architectural firm that worked out the preservation detailing for the Ottawa Power Plant's entire envelope, including the doors.
"We see a lot of custom doors, but nothing that had the style and grace of these doors," Renaud said.
Quinn Evans has restored the Old Executive Office Building in Washington, the Michigan Capitol, Hill Auditorium and several buildings at Cranbrook.
Since September 2009, Koenig and his team have been cleaning, buffing and replating six "fancy" doors in all: matched pairs of inner and outer lobby doors, a storage room door between the pairs, and another single door from the lobby to the main plant.
The restorer's eternal headache — what to fix and what to leave alone — was a migraine here. Koenig had little to go on. Old black and white photos don't show a lot of contrast and the architectural drawings are not only sketchy, but wrong: The brass elements are marked "bronze."
Koenig was hesitant to muck with the patina, but grunge wasn't big in 1939.
"The Art Deco period is all about contrasts, those crisp and sharp variations in plane, tone and shape," Koenig said.
Koenig consulted Malcolm Collum, chief conservator at the Smithsonian Lawrence Cosentino/City Pulse Clockwise from top left: Christman historic coordinator Jon Brechtelsbauer with restored doors; how the doors looked in a 1939 BWL brochure; and how the doors looked right before restoration National Air and Space Museum.
Brass is an alloy of zinc and copper. The doors spent decades on an industrial site, a high acid environment. Collum and Koenig concluded that the zinc had "gone out of the system," leaving mainly copper.
"We needed to pull back," Koenig said. "We needed to polish them and reestablish the patina."
The restoration team decided to polish the brass, copper plate it and then oxidize the plating to tone down the brightness.
Often, the work was tedious but sensitive, like assembly line surgery. The innumerable brass bosses had to be polished, but not so hard as to grind away the fine grooves that make them shimmer. One boss was missing and will be replaced.
The new one will have subtle differences visible only from 10 inches away, so the restoration "story" is clear.
Strewn about Koenig's workshop are bags of smaller parts, from screws to hinges to the pneumatic closers (plated and polished to a blinding brass). Every part is labeled so it can be put in the exact same place.
The work was painstaking, but Koenig said it was unavoidable.
"If somebody called you and said the Mona Lisa was coming to Lansing, you'd buy tickets," Koenig said. "If they said the greatest copy ever of the Mona Lisa was coming, you'd say, 'eh.'"
Koenig's five-man team will put the doors back together this month. In August, he'll work on site to restore the door frames, along with an Art Deco staircase and light fixture inside the power plant's old lobby. The vestibule between the sets of doors is sheathed in Vitrolite, a heavy, tinted glass used from the 1920s to the 1940s. Koenig will polish that, too. At the end of August, the doors will be crated, trucked to Lansing and reinstalled.
One question remains. Neither the Lansing Board of Water nor Quinn Evans knows
who built the doors in the first place. Koenig's team found no maker's
mark, most of the architectural drawings are missing and the ones that
survive didn't help.
there is a clue. When Koenig's team took the doors apart, they found a
Nov. 29, 1938, edition of the Allentown, Pa., Morning Call. The
yellowing copy of "Lehigh Valley's Greatest Newspaper" must have been a
calling card left for posterity by the builders.
Herrity, librarian of the Lehigh County Historical Society, said only
one Allentown company could have built the doors: L.S. Grammes &
Sons, which went out of existence in the 1960s.
& Sons turned out a variety of Art Deco metalwork, including
plates, cigarette cases, candy dishes, and all the AAA safety patrol
badges in the United States, according to Colin Andres of Allentown.
Andres's father, mother, uncle and aunt all worked at L.S. Grammes.
"They did a lot of fancy metal work," Andres said. In the 1950s, the
company had at least one Michigan connection: interior and exterior
metalwork for Corvettes and Thunderbirds.
could they turn out six monumental 350-pound doors? As a 9-year-old,
Andres visited the shop with his dad on Saturdays. "They did have heavy
equipment to move large things throughout the floors, and the elevator shafts were quite big," he said. "I'm pretty sure it's the only place where those doors could have been made."
Google search of the company brings up a stack of employee obituaries.
As Koenig's work winds down, he confessed to feeling a connection to
the doors' anonymous builders. "You don't get too many chances in your
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Notre Dame Bits: Charlie Weis on fake field goals, Robby Parris' status, more
The Pac-10's coordinator of football officials said Notre Dame's fake field goal against USC last weekend should have been flagged and shouldn't have been allowed. Irish coach Charlie Weis, meanwhile, wasn't saying much of anything.
"I will have no comment on it," Weis said Thursday.
The play in question involved receiver Robby Parris hanging out on the field after the third-down snap, but not entering the huddle before the fake. Pac-10 officials coordinator Dave Cutaia told the Los Angeles Times that "a foul should have been called for using substitutions to deceive."
Weis did say that he warned the officials that the Irish would be throwing "the kitchen sink" at the Trojans -- though apparently wary of conference conspiracy theories, he didn't get into detail.
"I'm not going to tell the Pac-10 officials, ever, that we have a special play," Weis said. "I won't tell them the next time either. They're going to have to call it as it happens. And that might not be the only conference-affiliated officiating crew I don't tell that there's something special we're doing, if you get my drift.
"But what I usually do is I usually say, we've got a bunch of wrinkles in here, so be on guard. Not that we ever have a vanilla game plan, but if I'm not doing anything out of the ordinary, I'll just say we don't have anything out of the ordinary."
Here are more Weis words from pertinent topics Thursday...
On receiver Robby Parris' injury outlook: "He's actually a go. I'm really surprised, too. But he'll be out there right from the first play. Put it like this: He just practiced full-speed today. So unless he has a setback tonight, he'll be out there right from the start."
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Ronaldo hits 50 goals for season in win for Madrid
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 49th and 50th goals in all competitions this season as Real Madrid won 3-0 at Athletic Bilbao on Sunday, while Barcelona didn't need Lionel Messi to brush aside Real Zaragoza 3-0 and ease closer to the Spanish league title.
Ronaldo opened with a dipping free kick two minutes in and scored again in the 69th, before passing for Gonzalo Higuain to net a third in the 76th.
"We have a great player in Ronaldo," Madrid midfielder Xabi Alonso said. "He is so competitive. He wants to play every game and score as many goals he can.
"We got a great result tonight that lets us continue in second place."
Barcelona's own convincing victory led by a double from 21-year-old forward Cristian Tello kept it 13 points clear of Madrid with seven rounds to go.
Elsewhere, Radamel Falcao scored twice in Atletico Madrid's 5-0 rout of Granada as it remained three points behind Madrid in third place, while Real Sociedad cemented its hold on fourth place and the last Champions League spot by winning 2-0 at Rayo Vallecano.
Ronaldo struck a perfect free kick to put Madrid ahead at San Mames Stadium.
Known for his blistering long-range blasts, Ronaldo instead used an exquisite bending effort to swerve the ball over the barrier and land it beyond the reach of goalkeeper Gorka Iraizoz.
"Cristiano's first goal put us on the way to victory," Higuain said. "He's in great form, and I hope he keeps it up for all of us."
Bilbao responded well, but Madrid goalkeeper Diego Lopez got just enough of Markel Susaeta's and Ander Herrera's shots to push them wide and protect the lead until Ronaldo struck again in the 69th.
After Ronaldo had complained vehemently following a collision with Ander Iturraspe at the beginning of the second half, the Portugal forward fought off Ramalho to thump home Xabi Alonso's free kick with a stinging header. Ronaldo has scored 31 league goals — 12 fewer than Messi, who has scored 57 in all competitions.
Ronaldo capped his outstanding night by beating the offside trap with a pass that Higuain drove past Iraizoz.
Messi was left out of Barcelona's squad as he recovers from a right hamstring injury that he played through as a substitute to help Barcelona rally against Paris Saint-Germain and reach the Champions League semifinals earlier this week.
The Argentina forward wasn't the only Barcelona player to take the day off. It played with only five of its regular starters, given that the league title is well in hand and several players need extra rest before its Champions League tie with Bayern Munich begins on April 23. Madrid faces the first leg of its semifinal against Borussia Dortmund the next day.
Even with a side full of reserves, Barcelona still had more than enough quality, above all in the playmaking provided by Thiago Alcantara, to waltz around the relegation-threatened Zaragoza.
"We're happy for the result because La Romareda has been a difficult ground for us in recent times," Thiago said. "I think the team overall played a very complete game in every facet, both in attack and defense.
"The league is almost over. We want to thank the people who supported us and the cheers of 'Champions!', but we have to fight until the finish."
Thiago got things rolling by linking up with Alexis Sanchez on the break. He played the Chile forward wide before receiving the ball back and rolling a shot in off the far post before two defenders could close him down.
The 22-year-old midfielder then played Tello through the defense and with time to size up goalkeeper Roberto Jimenez before beating him with a curling left-footed shot.
After Alexis had hit the crossbar, Tello sealed the victory with an audacious step-over dribble to leave defender Glenn Loovens in his tracks before he slipped the ball past Roberto from a tight angle.
Zaragoza stayed winless in 2013 and appears destined to yet another late-season struggle to avoid the drop.
Falcao scored his 23rd and 24th league goals this season to guide Atletico to an easy home victory over Granada.
Diego Costa, Raul Garcia and Filipe Luis netted Atletico's other goals in a game featuring a superb performance by midfielder Jorge "Koke" Resurrecion, who set up three goals with expertly placed crosses.
Sociedad striker Imanol Agirretxe scored two early goals to give the Basque side its win at Rayo.
Sociedad rose four points clear of Malaga and Valencia. It is on a league-best run of just one loss in its last 21 games.


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Several media outlets have reported that the Phillies turned down an offer from the Yankees for Cliff Lee over the offseason. Now, it looks like the Bombers will get their man anyway.
The Mariners and Yankees are on the verge of a deal that would see the erstwhile Phillies ace join forces with the team he dominated in the offseason, ESPN.com is reporting.
One of the prospect reportedly on the move is highly-regarded catcher Jesus Montero. FoxSports.com's Ken Rosenthal, meanwhile, is reporting that the Phillies are exploring trade offers for right fielder Jayson Werth.
The Phillies continue to look for help for both their bullpen and rotation.


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Fresh Tomato Mozzarella Toast
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|Day Part
|Lunch, Dinner
|Menu Part
|Appetizer/Small Plate
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Fresh tomatoes and mozzarella are a classic combination. Served here on toasted rolls and broiled until the cheese is melted, it makes a great appetizer.
2 lb. ripe Florida tomatoes, held at room temperature, cored and chopped
1⁄4 cup olive oil
1⁄3 cup chiffonade basil
1 tsp. minced garlic
Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
2 Italian rolls (8-in. each)
8 thin slices Prosciutto di Parma
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1. Preheat broiler. In a large bowl, combine tomatoes, 2 tbsp. olive oil, basil, garlic, salt, and pepper. Let stand 30 min.
2. Slice rolls in half horizontally, then vertically. Brush cut sides of bread with remaining 2 tbsp. olive oil and broil until golden.
3. Reserving about 1⁄2 cup of tomato mixture, spoon remaining tomato mixture on toasts, dividing evenly. Top each toast with 2 slices of Prosciutto, 1⁄4 cup mozzarella, and an equal amount of the
reserved tomato mixture. Broil until cheese is melted (about 3 min.) and serve.


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Ok, this one is just plain scary. "By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm - without ever running the algorithm. Using an optical-based quantum computer, a research team led by physicist Paul Kwiat has presented the first demonstration of 'counterfactual computation', inferring information about an answer, even though the computer did not run." The research team published their results in Nature.


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2012-2013 Catalogue
Biochemistry [CALS] (Bachelor of Science)
Students may apply to the program either through CALS or CAS, which vary in their college distribution requirements. The distribution categories and the number of required courses in each category differ slightly. In CAS, students are required to fulfill distribution requirements in all of the following seven categories: foreign languages, fine arts, literature, humanities, social sciences, physical sciences, and mathematics, plus complete the University Approved Diversity requirements. In CALS, students are required to fulfill distribution requirements in science, humanities and fine arts, communication skills, information technology skills, quantitative skills, critical thinking skills, interpersonal skills, citizenship and social responsibility values, environmental stewardship values, and personal growth values. Regardless of the college through which students choose to apply, all students must take a core set of basic courses in chemistry, biology, and mathematics in their first two years followed by advanced courses in biochemistry, chemistry, and/or molecular biology in their third and fourth years. Since biochemistry is a "hands-on" science, involvement of students in undergraduate research projects, most of which qualify as Honors projects in either college, is strongly encouraged. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com .
General Requirements
In addition to the CALS or CAS college distribution requirements, the biochemistry core requires satisfactory completion of BCOR 011, BCOR 012; MATH 021, MATH 022; PHYS 051, PHYS 152; CHEM 035, CHEM 036; CHEM 143, CHEM 144; CHEM 162; BIOC/CHEM /MMG 205; BIOC/CHEM /MMG 206; BIOC/CHEM /MMG 207; BCOR 101, BCOR 103; and nine credits of advanced Biochemistry-related electives. In addition, students must select one course from the following group of intermediate-level laboratory electives: CHEM 121, MMG 104, MMG 201, BIOL 204, or BIOL 205. Students may substitute BIOL 001, BIOL 002 for BCOR 011, BCOR 012; PHYS 011, PHYS 012 with PHYS 021, PHYS 022 for PHYS 051, PHYS 152; CHEM 031, CHEM 032 for CHEM 035, CHEM 036; and CHEM 141, CHEM 142 for CHEM 143, CHEM 144. However, the program of study recommended above will provide a better preparation for advanced course work in Biochemistry.
- Colleges and Schools: College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. College of Arts and Sciences. College of Medicine.
- Departments and Programs: Biochemistry Program. Biochemistry Department.


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As downtown's historic Grand Central Market undergoes renovations, new retailers are moving in as part of the planned revival of the 1917 community marketplace.
Thai food vendor Sticky Rice opened last month, and now Valerie Confections has announced the planned opening next month of Valerie at Grand Central in the stall formerly occupied by MF Gourmet.
Valerie Confections owner Valerie Gordon said the coffee-and-pastry shop will open in phases, at first offering all of the same pastries she sells at farmers markets, such as her Durango cookies (chocolate chip cookies with roasted almonds, cacao nibs and smoked salt), seasonal fruit galettes and hand pies, as well as croissants, danish, muffins and a few lunch items. To go with the pastries, drip coffee will be $2 a cup.
Hours will be Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., but as the market renovates, the hours, along with the menu, will expand. "We'll be expanding our menu in two different phases; it will be more elaborate with each phase," Gordon said.
"The menu and concept are an homage to the market itself. I did a lot of research into the history of the market, the culture behind a lunch counter and what that means and the relationships that happen there. I went through tons of old menus pulling out really classic great lunch-counter food.
"Melted cheese on toast, which is what a grilled cheese sandwich was once called. Fruit cup. Silver dollar pancakes. An exact replica of the Cobb salad served at the Brown Derby, not veering at all from what was printed in the Brown Derby cookbook."
Gordon likened the process to the development of her classic cakes, including the Brown Derby grapefruit cake, Blum's coffee crunch cake and Scandia's apple cake, staying true to the original while using the best ingredients available.
Valerie at Grand Central features a small kitchen and 12-foot red linoleum counter, discovered recently underneath a wood counter top. "It's so great the peeling back that's happening there. We peeked underneath the wood counter to find red linoleum. It's the chicest red counter -- red stools and red counter."
Gordon said she expects to open Valerie at Grand Central in three to four weeks. "I've been hunting downtown for years and years and years. I love the history of the market. It just plays so perfectly into what we do and what we appreciate."
Grand Central Market, 317 Broadway St., Los Angeles, (213) 624-2378, www.grandcentralsquare.com.


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STOCKTON - Speaking before more than 50 fellow students this week at Edison High School, junior David Escalante painted an evocative and troubling picture of the tense relations between Latino and black students at the south Stockton campus.
STOCKTON - Speaking before more than 50 fellow students this week at Edison High School, junior David Escalante painted an evocative and troubling picture of the tense relations between Latino and black students at the south Stockton campus.
"It's kind of like a prison yard here: Hispanics here, African-Americans in the hallways only, not a lot of mixed ethnic groups here," the 16-year-old Escalante said. "There's not enough communication between the races, and it causes problems. There are a lot of fights at this school over such ridiculous reasons."
A fight might be over a $5 debt. It might be over a rumor. Earlier this school year, Principal Brian Biedermann said, a fight on ethnic lines erupted over a lone purple grape. One student threw the grape. Another was hit by it.
The campus climates at Edison and at Chavez High were a central topic at the schools this week. At the request of Stockton Unified, a representative from the United States Department of Justice's Community Relations Service led daylong gatherings at each school aimed at addressing a full range of student concerns.
Administrators identified student leaders from a spectrum of each school's demographics. The students were arranged in small groups to discuss their issues and to brainstorm. Adult facilitators from the Stockton area were assigned to each group to keep the discussions focused and productive.
Similar sessions are set for next month at Franklin and Stagg high schools. Stockton Unified officials are hoping the student-centered conflict-resolution sessions will be a big step toward making the campuses more peaceful and productive.
"The value of what you are telling us is stuff we're sometimes paying consultants tens of thousands of dollars to tell us," Biedermann told his students at the close of Edison's session.
Student concerns at the schools ran the gamut. They spoke of fighting, edgy race relations, stereotyping, outdated and crumbling textbooks, teachers who fail to control unruly students, unprepared substitute teachers, the aroma of marijuana wafting in the air, smelly bathrooms, cheap toilet paper and less-than-palatable sweet-potato fries in the cafeteria.
A sampling of concerns from various Edison and Chavez students:
� One student cited a textbook that refers not to euros but to francs, which have not been the currency in France for more than a decade. "It kind of makes me feel like they don't think anything other than math, engineering or science is important," the student said.
� "I feel like (substitute teachers) should be at least educated in what they are subbing for. It shouldn't just be some random person."
� "Violence is the culture now. We need to break that chain."
� A girl in Edison's Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program: "I'm wearing my uniform now, and I get this a lot: People think I'm a tomboy, I'm tough, I'm mean. I'm not that mean."
The Department of Justice program was part of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Community Relations Service was instituted at the time to serve as a neutral third party to assist communities experiencing conflict based on race, nationality, sexual orientation, religion and disability.
"Conflict resolution is our job," said the service's Carol Russo, who is leading the Stockton Unified sessions.
Students and the local facilitators said they found this week's sessions valuable.
"In the culture now, people tend to isolate themselves," Edison junior Tony Gladney said. "Now we see the problems. We know what everybody thinks. We can be that start. It has to start somewhere."
Dave Cicileo, who served as a facilitator during the Edison session, said the program "has the potential to empower teens and engage them in being part of the solution."
"I think it could start with this nucleus of students and grow to affect the city at large," added Cicileo, 32, who is with Restore Stockton, a nonprofit organization.
As part of this week's proceedings, a core group of student participants was selected to regularly meet with the administrators at their schools.
The goal is to maintain the momentum from this week and give the students an ongoing opportunity to bring concerns and new ideas to their school officials.
"I'm a huge advocate of giving youth a voice," said YMCA program coordinator Whitney Ramirez, 26, who served as a facilitator at Edison. "They are the untapped resource of the city. They have energy, they have ideas, they have vision. I think they are the ones who are going to be at the forefront of changing the city."
Contact reporter Roger Phillips at (209) 546-8299 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/phillipsblog.


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Three dead in crash of van carrying 10
The 10 of them – three adults and seven kids – were piled into the minivan on their way back to Buffalo after a trip to Florida for a wedding.
Their van was cluttered with luggage and blankets and pillows as the travelers headed along the Thruway early Thursday morning bound for home.
Then, the van – for reasons unknown – drifted off the Thruway just east of Silver Creek and crashed into a dump truck parked in the center median, killing two adults in the van and the youngest passenger – a one-month-old baby boy.
That's what friends and State Police investigators have been able to piece together so far about Thursday's tragic crash on the eastbound Thruway that has devastated a West Side family.
The dead were identified as:
• Luis A. Arroyo, 27, the driver of the minivan.
• Christieann L. Gonzalez, 29, the front-seat passenger.
• Luis A. Arroyo Jr., Arroyo's son, who was just born on March 13.
Among the injured were:
• Jessica Gonzalez, 24, the mother of Arroyo's infant son and Christieann's sister.
• Jaicob and Jaiden Gonzalez, Jessica's two other sons.
• Arroyo's daughter, Adrianna.
• And Yamaris, Alexis and Alexandra Rodriguez, Christieann's three children.
Adrianna, 6, Yamaris, 8, and Alexandra, 13, were the most seriously injured and are listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit at Women & Children's Hospital, officials said Thursday afternoon.
Jaicob, 2, Jaiden, 4, and Alexis, 10, are in stable condition in Women & Children's.
Meanwhile, Jessica Gonzalez is listed in serious condition at Erie County Medical Center after undergoing surgery Thursday afternoon, a hospital spokesman said.
A large number of family and friends gathered at both hospitals Thursday to keep watch over their injured loved ones.
Information about the victims slowly began to trickle out as friends explained the family relationships.
Arroyo and Jessica Gonzalez were the center of a "really close family" that was active in a Buffalo church, one friend said.
The family lived in a duplex with a grandmother and other family members on the city's West Side, friends added.
They called Jessica Gonzalez a "great mother."
"It's shocking," said Ramon Mendoza, who grew up with her and got to know Arroyo when the couple started dating a few years ago.
"He made you smile," Mendoza said of Arroyo. "He always had a joke. If you had a problem or needed anything, he'd say, 'Let's go get it right now.'"
The family was returning from Florida, where they had attended a wedding, friends said.
In fact, Jessica Gonzalez was able to speak briefly with first responders at the scene, and confirmed the family was returning home from a trip to Florida, said Capt. Douglas Montijo with the State Police on the Thruway.
Investigators were hoping to interview Gonzalez after her surgery to get a better idea of what may have happened to cause the vehicle to go off the road.
The minivan was at traveling speed when it struck the dump truck, leaving investigators to believe Arroyo never tried to brake and may have fallen asleep at the wheel.
"That makes it a strong possibility in lieu of the other signs," Montijo said. "You have family with blankets and pillows, either traveling overnight or starting out early in the morning. It's not inconceivable a driver would doze off.
"It's pretty consistent with driver fatigue," Montijo added. "We don't know that for sure until an autopsy rules out any medical condition with the driver."
The deadly crash happened a little after 7:30 a.m. on the eastbound Thruway in the Town of Brant, about four miles east of the Silver Creek interchange at Exit 58, Montijo said.
The van drifted out of the traffic lanes and hit a state Thruway Authority dump truck parked in the median, Montijo said.
The dump truck was slowly following behind workers picking up trash, the captain said. The worker driving the truck suffered a broken wrist.
Arroyo and his son were pronounced dead at the scene.
Christieann Gonzalez was taken to Lakeshore Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Also uncertain is whether the infant was in a car seat at the time of the crash, Montijo said.
"We're not clear on that," he said. "There were more children than car seats."
When investigators sifted through the wreckage, they found a booster seat, as well as a car seat, but the carrier didn't appear to be properly restrained, Montijo said.
Investigators also found that the middle seat in the van had been taken out. "It appears some of the children were just sitting on the floor of the vehicle," Montijo said.
Alexandra Rodriguez, who suffered severe lacerations and other trauma, was in surgery for about an hour and a half on Thursday said, Dr. Kathryn Bass, director of pediatric trauma at Women & Children's.
Adrianna and Yamaris also were on ventilators in the ICU, Bass said Thursday afternoon during a press conference at the hospital.
The next 24 hours are critical for the three children, but right now doctors are hopeful, she said.
"The primary difference [between kids and adults in an accident] is children are more prone to have multiple [internal injuries in more places] and that is what we are seeing here," Bass said.
The three other children sustained less serious injuries and were able to communicate and talk with staff, the doctor said. They were expected to move from the emergency room to general care rooms.
While people stopped at the crash scene to render aid, there were no known witnesses to the actual crash, said State Police Investigator John McCusker.
Anyone who may have witnessed the accident is asked to call State Police at 935-6570.
News Staff Reporter Lou Michel contributed to this report
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Italy international and Juventus midfielder Andrea Pirlo has revealed his desire to be finish in the top 10 of the Ballon d'Or this season.
The midfield maestro is considered an outside chance for football's most prestigious individual award following his superb displays at Euro 2012, which helped the Azzurri finish as runners-up to Spain.
The World Cup winner, who also played a key role in the Bianconeri's title winning campaign last season, has admitted that Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi remain the obvious choices but that he will just be happy to be close behind them in the rankings.
"For many years Messi and Ronaldo will be the two best. After them there is Xavi, Andres Iniesta and others. I hope to be in the top ten," Pirlo told reporters.
Following Juventus' emphatic 3-0 victory over European champions Chelsea in the Champions League, Pirlo is now looking forward to his team's clash with his former side, AC Milan, this Sunday in the Serie A.
"We needed a win like the one against Chelsea," he added. It gives us confidence having beaten the European champions. Our inner strength helped. We are a solid group and we work hard.
"[The Milan match] is a special game for Juventus. I hope to win it, though Milan are a strong team. When great teams meet there is never is a problem with concentration."


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If inhuman treatment by our government is not illegal, then legality itself is meaningless.
A night in the ER without insurance.
Medically we are definitely a country of haves and have nots. My friend, who has no health insurance or job, slipped and fell on the ice. Some wonderful people took her to the ER. I was called because I was in the phone book and I am her friend. I went to the hospital and was at first told her bone was not broken. Then the doctor came in and he ordered more xrays. Turns out the bone was broken.
When a person with insurance has a broken bone they almost always seem to be told that they need to have an operation or their bones won't heal correctly. My friend was told she might have nerve damage and they splinted her leg and showed her some crunches. As she attempted to use them she grew dizzy. She was given a pain shot and a pain prescription. There was only one pharmacy open at this hour and it was in the opposite direction of home. I suggested that I should get the prescription and come back to get her.
Perhaps I should point out that most of the roads in Boise were covered with ice. My driveway was covered with ice.
I watched my friend begin to use the crutches. I watched how hard it was for her to move and how much pain she seemed to be in. I realized that despite some nursing training I had no idea how I would get her into my home. I explained the problems. I asked if I could put a deposit down and borrow a wheel chair. I could not imagine the second trip on crutches would be my icy slippery driveway. They said they don't do that. They thought I could rent them at the pharmacy. You can't rent them but you can buy them for $300. (I didn't find out about the misinformation until I got to the pharmacy) I only needed to get 20 feet.
I sort of panicked. People will tell you I am good in a crisis, especially a medical crisis. I remembered that the Synagogue had a wheel chair in the basement. I had a key but I didn't want to just go in so I called Rabbi Dan. He started asking me about my brother, who is fighting his second bought of cancer. I told him I needed to talk about that but I had an emergency and needed the wheelchair. He told me to to get it and that he would see if he could find more help in the morning. I had left the room to make the phone call. The nurse kicked me into the waiting room. I went to get the car. They followed me out with my friend. They put her in the car on this very nasty ice day and shut the door.
The staff did not ask if we could take my friend. The staff did not ask if we knew how to help her in. The staff seriously did not seem to care that she could easily fall on the ice trying to get inside with bare toes on her broken leg.
I got the wheelchair. My husband, son and I helped my friend in. She seems to be managing. We went back out to drive the 5 miles to the pharmacy where my car kept skidding. I was so mad at the treatment and about the policy that said that they could not give enough medicine (it was a cheap pain killer) to make it though that first night. The treatment my friend got seems to me to be callus. They did set her bone but.....
I am sure if I came in with the same break with my good health insurance policy I would have been admitted and I probably would be having an operation to steady my bones today.
- Debbie Holmes's blog
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And, Of Course,
. . . the bill your uninsured friend will receive will be higher than the same bill you'd receive for the exact same care with your good health insurance policy. Because, of course, your friend doesn't have the benefit of "network negotiated" charges that even high deductible policyholders who haven't reached their deductibles tend to have. Of course, perhaps she's wealthy and it doesn't matter, but in my experience, those who are uninsured are the least able to afford that higher cost.
You know, kind of like how the rest of us pay for the failed "job creator" millionaires' tax cuts.
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It's a long hard road ahead
to single payer, everybody-in health insurance. And there are armies of companies with suboptimal, parochial interests who are prepared to fight against it every inch of the way.
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iRobot Roomba 770 £420
Looking like R2-D2's plasticky girlfriend, the iRobot's highly evolved sensors mean you don't have to fret about it crashing into anything. Quiet, powerful and long-lasting, the Roomba's one spinning brush sweeps up all your debris and its whopping battery means it keeps going until the floor is spotless. The lord of the future-vacs.
Litter-Robot II £295
OK so it's not quite a robot vac but the Litter-Robot can cosy up nicely in your 'bot cupbaord. This automated litter cleaning pod means that you'll never again have to deal with your cat's litter tray – all you need to do is swap the waste bag every few days.
Samsung NaviBot Silencio 8895 £500
So smooth you could slim it across a lake like a stone, the NaviBot Silencio – as its name suggests – is all about being quiet while still offering sufficient cleaning power. It has 39 sensors and a Visionary Mapping System which shoots 30 snaps a second to map a room. Just watch out for tangled cables.
Neato XV-15 £400
The Neato's military design and big suspended wheels would be just as at home on rocky terrain. But the Neato is pretty clever – it uses a laser system to accurately map out the room to avoid table legs and other obstacles. There's a top-loading dust tray and it's smart enough to find its way back home to recharge when it's running low on juice.
Robomow RL2000 £1900
So you've sucked up all the dust inside, turn your attention to messy lawns with the Robomow RL2000. This mower-bot is ideal for lazy landowners – peg down a perimeter wire and it'll trundle around, making the lawn look pristine before returning to its charging base.
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The Ecig Mega-C delivers the highest amount of vapor and satisfaction with its new and latest 3rd generation technology. Ecig mega-C required the least hassle to carry and removes virtually all need for detailed maintenance. The high durability ensures a life long consistancy in performance. Ecig Mega-C is the crowning item of Ecig Pakistan and it delivers the exact same performance throughout time.
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2 Mega-C Atomizer (Replacement Warranty*)
4 Central Coils (Replacement Warranty*)
2 eCig Mega Batteries (1400mAh) (Replacement Warranty*)
(3-4days for average smoker)
1 10ml E-liquid
1 USB Charger (Replacement Warranty*)
1 A/C Adapter (Replacement Warranty*)
5 Tank Type Blank Cartridges
2 Mouth Pieces
Diameter: 14mm
Length: 155mm (w/ cartridge)
Weight: 70g (w/ battery)
Package dimension:237X100X36mm Weight: 780g
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