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One of the age old questions for many homeowners is "does homeowners insurance cover flooding and flood cleaning?" followed closely by "what does flood insurance cover?"…and like any insurance, coverage and rates vary from state to state.
The answer to the first question is "no", flooding is not covered by your normal homeowners insurance policy. Flooding insurance can be obtained for an additional premium, but may not be available in all areas. You should always check before moving into an area to make sure the area you are going to be living in is not located on a flood plain or in a flood zone. Flood zones typically mean higher rates or worse, no policy offered at all.
If you do find that policies on flooding are offered, do your homework, as no two policies are the same. Be sure you get coverage designed to take care of both structural damage and damage to the contents of the home. Just having structural coverage means you will be paying out of pocket for the loss of the home's contents.
What about cases where land is lost as a result of flooding? In most cases, not all, you will be covered for flooding that results in septic overflows, drainage backups, property sinking, and so forth. It is always advisable to take plenty of pictures and video for insurance purposes, keep all receipts, and record serial numbers.
If the flooding is the result of leaks, or structural compromise in your home, chances are slim that a claim can be successfully made. If the problem can in any way be traced back to neglect on the part of the homeowner, then the claim will be denied.
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Author: Lesley Livingston
Genre: YA, fantasy
Source: Library
It's a quirk I have, but in my opinion there is very little that William Shakespeare ever got wrong. This charming story only reinforces that thought. My thoughts keep turning to the immortal line, "what a tangled web we weave." Contained within the world of this novel is a definitely tangled, sometimes sweet, sometimes painful web.
Kelly is a 17 year old girl trying to make her way in the New York theater scene. She's even landed a dream job...playing Titania, Queen of the Fairies in Midsummer. Sonny has a job to do. He's been raised / trained by the King of the Fae to be a guard. He's been charged with the task of helping control the unrully fae who manage to slip through the rifts between the Otherworld and our, human, world. However, on this particular Halloween the gates between the worlds threaten to swing open and something terrible is rumored to be coming through. All is rolled together, being tangled up thanks to tricks, lies, half-truths, and love.
There MAY be SPOILERS here. I don't mean to...but can't necessarily keep it all to myself.
What I liked:
1. I love, love, love the blending of Shakespeare's play "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and the various characters from the Otherworld. They interact and mirror each other so perfectly! It's a fun thought that one is an inspiration for the other.
2. The romance aspect is sweet and innocent. So many novels, even YA ones, seem to be going straight into the love equals hormones and kissing - immediately! This novel doesn't do that. It just wouldn't have felt right. Instead, there are so many sweet moments, sideways glances, almost kisses, and hand holding. OMG-handholding! My heart melted at that moment.
3. Lucky, the Kelpie. All that needs to be said.
4. Did you know that Puck is real?!?!
What I didn't like:
1. I don't understand the casting of the play. Granted Kelley is the understudy originally, but she's 17. Oberon is played by a man in his 50's. Huh? I know youth equals beauty in most people's perceptions, and that Titania is the most beautiful example of fairies......but really? Shouldn't Oberon be similar?
2. It leaves me hanging. I'm engrossed in the story and then suddenly the novel is finished. I want more! It makes me strangely happy to know that the sequel is
Overall: This novel is a treat to read. It's sweet and innocent while still containing elements of the tricky playfulness the fae are so well-known for. Fans of Shakespeare and YA fantasy should most definitely pick it up!

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What factors may influence how much media coverage members of the United States Congress receive? Recently a team of researchers examined the role of candidate attractiveness in determining the amount of media coverage elected members of the U.S. Congress obtain. Surprisingly, they found that politicians who were rated as more attractive received more media coverage in terms of television but not radio or print media coverage. More specifically, an increase of one point on an attractiveness rating scale (1-‐ 10) was associated with 11.62% more appearances on nationally televised media programming. Importantly, this effect was found over and above the influence of such critical factors as political seniority, media-‐market membership, legislative activity, political ideology, and House or Senate membership.
So why are attractive members of Congress receiving significantly more televised media coverage? Given that the effect of politician attractiveness was only found for televised news coverage, the researchers suggest that this effect is possibly driven by audience expectations or viewers prefer to view attractive legislators. This suggests that perhaps journalists' beliefs about what draws high viewership are contributing to this discrepancy in coverage. Alternatively, there may be something about the politicians themselves that make them more newsworthy. For example, perhaps attractiveness is related to another predictor of news coverage such as friendliness. More research is needed to parse why we may find such a strong relationship between candidate appearance and media coverage.
Does this discrepancy in media coverage translate into a greater number of reelections to Congress? The association between politician attractiveness and media coverage has the potential to impact electoral outcomes. In an election year when voters are making tough decisions, media coverage has the potential to sway those voters who are on the fence.
Waismel-Manor, I., & Tsfati, Y. (2011). Why do better-looking members of congress receive more television coverage? Political Communication, 28(4), 440-463.


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The process to gain accreditation from the Joint Commission depends on the type of health care organization, according to the Joint Commission's website. For example, hospitals must be within the United States; operated by the U.S. government or operated under a charter from U.S. Congress; have a facility license to conduct services; provide evidence they continually improve care; and receive an evaluation by Joint Commission standards.
Health care organizations that can receive accreditation from the Joint Commission include hospitals, opioid treatment programs, critical access hospitals, laboratories and ambulatory care programs. They also include home care providers, office-based surgery programs, nursing care centers and behavioral health care centers, explains the Joint Commission. Each accreditation program has different requirements. As of 2015, the Joint Commission offers a step-by-step guide on its website for each program to gain accreditation. Each of these organizations can also have certain departments or subprograms accredited by the Joint Commission.
Some requirements that appear for multiple organizations include using Joint Commission accreditation for deemed purposes and all services, including tests, treatments and interventions, be ordered by a licensed physician and meet state and federal laws, states the Joint Commission. For hospitals, the Joint Commission conducts an initial survey to review the deemed status purposes conducted at the facility.


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An abandoned railroad line in Alameda County, California of which 20 miles have been abandoned, was once operated in California by the Central Pacific Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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This petition probably has to do with the abandonment of the Interurban Electric Railway (former SP) East Bay commuter lines. There is probably a concomitant application from the Key System to assume operations over some of the IER lines subject to these abandonment proceedings. The IER abandonment took place, I believe, in January 1941, as did the KSTL operation over former IER lines, so the time line seems appropriate.
Ken Harrison
Alameda, CA
Do you have any pictures or information about Abandoned Rails of Alameda County?


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Privacy Policy - in accordance with art. 13 of Legislative Decree No. 196 of 30 June 2003 (Personal Data Protection Code)
The Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies guarantees that the personal data of users of the web services accessible via the www.santannapisa.it Portal are processed in compliance with legal requirements, as provided by Legislative Decree no. 196/2003, containing the " Personal Data Protection Code", and by Recommendation no. 2/2001 for personal data protection adopted by the European Authorities on May 17, 2001.
This privacy policy is exclusively for the University's Portal and not for other externals websites that may be reached via links on the portal of the University.
Data processing purposes and methods
The collected data are used exclusively for the following purposes:
1. perform the services required by users;
2. provide user support;
3. perform statistical analyses, for the sole purpose of improving the supply of services.
Data processing methods
The data will be processed either manually or with the aid of computers, and, within the limits and conditions laid down in Article 11 of Legislative Decree no. 196/03, will include all the collection, recording, organization, storage, consulting, development, modification, selection, extraction, comparison, use, interconnection, blocking, communication, cancellation and destruction of data operations (Art. 4, paragraph 1, point a), Legislative Decree no. 196/03).
Data controller and manager
The data controller is the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, with registered office in Pisa, Piazza Martiri della Libertà n. 33.
Data processing location
Data processing for portal services takes place mainly at the seats of Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies.
Performed by identified staff expressly put in charge for the specific purposes of the services requested and subscribed to.
For the data processing in question, the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies may enlist the help of outside companies, consultants, associations, providers of software and services operating through identified and appointed personnel, for the intended purposes and in such a way as to ensure maximum data security and confidentiality.
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The data may come to be known by processing Managers and Appointed Personnel, within their respective functions and in accordance with instructions, and only in order to achieve the specific purposes stated in this Privacy Policy.
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With regard to these data, users can exercise their rights under art. 7 of Legislative Decree no. 196/2003, within the limits and conditions laid out by articles 8, 9 and 10 of said Legislative Decree, by sending email to: firstname.lastname@example.com
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In order to protect his or her rights, the interested party can act directly against the Data Controller, the Manager, or through the Staff in Charge of processing the data, calling for the restoration of violated rights. In case said parties fail to satisfy the request of the interested party, he or she can enforce his or her rights by applying to the Judicial Authorities or through recourse to the Guarantor.
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The computer systems used to operate the www.santannapisa.it website acquire automatically some personal data, which are transmitted implicitly through the use of web communication protocols. If processed with data held by third parties, these automatically acquired data may identify the website visitor, as in the case of IP addresses and domain names of computers used when connecting to www.santannapisa.it . These data are usually collected for statistical surveys, managed anonymously and used to facilitate www.santannapisa.it website navigation. They could also be used to ascertain responsibility in case of computer crimes against the portal.
The Judicial Authority may ask the Sant'Anna School to communicate these data in accordance with law.
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Sending email to the addresses listed on this portal involves the subsequent acquisition of the sender's email address, which is necessary in order to respond to requests, and any other personal data included in the mail. The data will be processed based on principles of fairness, legality, transparency and confidentiality protection as stated in Legislative Decree no. 196/03.
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The destructive environmental legacy of Gold Rush mining in the Sierra Nevada could last for thousands of years in the form of ongoing erosion of mercury-laced sediments, according to new research.
Mercury, a toxic heavy metal, was used in copious amounts in California's hydraulic gold mining operations in the mid- and late 1800s.
Miners blasted gold-bearing sediment out of vast, ancient gravel beds with water cannons. They then added liquid mercury to the slurry, allowing the gold-mercury amalgam to sink to the bottom of troughs.
But finer gold-mercury particles washed out of the mixture with the bulk of the sand and gravel. It has been estimated that between 3 million and 8 million pounds of mercury entered the environment from the hundreds of hydraulic gold mines that were operated in the Sierra before a court order banned the downstream deposition of mining debris in the region.


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Michigan Fraternal Order of Police
3474 Alaiedon Pkwy
Suite 500
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 367-8000
The Biennial FOP State Conference will be held June 22-24, 2018, at the Wyndham Gardens Hotel in Sterling Heights, Michigan.
This conference is hosted by Christopher M Wouters Lodge 124, Central Macomb Lodge 187 and Sterling Heights Lodge 118. These Lodges have been working hard to recruit corporate sponsors and donations to not only provide you with a great conference, but do it at minimal expense to the delegates.
The Conference will begin on Friday, June 22nd at 5:00 p.m. with our Opening Ceremony and Memorial Service which will take place at the Christopher M Wouters Lodge #124 located just about a mile from the hotel. Shuttle buses will be provided.
The First Business Session will begin on Saturday, June 23rd at 9:00 a.m. and the Second Business Meeting will be on Sunday, June 24th at 9:00 a.m.
The Wyndham Garden Sterling Heights is located at 34911 Van Dyke Sterling Heights, Michigan 48312, Direct Line: 586-979-1400. The rate is $109.00 per night plus applicable taxes for single or double rooms. You may book on our website at www.mifop2018.com to get this rate, or you may book your rooms directly with Wyndham reservations at 586-979-1400 and mention you are part of the Michigan Fraternal Order of Police.
Hotel check-in time is 4:00 p.m. (early arrivals will be accommodated based on availability) and check-out time is 11:00 a.m.. There is a block of rooms being held for the Fraternal Order of Police so be sure to mention that in order to receive the special room rate and the cut-off date is MAY 22, 2018.
The hotel includes free wifi, free parking, and our group rate includes free access to the 5,000 square foot water park attached to the hotel.
This year's Delegate Fee is $50 which includes registration fee, delegate gift, dinner and hospitality on Friday, breakfast on both Saturday and Sunday and hospitality on Saturday Night.
As stated above, the Opening Ceremony/Memorial Service will be held on Friday, June 22nd, beginning at 5:00 p.m. All delegates are encouraged to wear uniforms for the Memorial Service. Please submit names of deceased members who have passed away since our last conference so they can be read during the Memorial Services (please indicate if they were Active or Associate members). Names must be submitted to the State Lodge by June 13th by calling the State Lodge at 517-367-8000, or e-mailing them to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Opening Ceremony/Memorial Service will take place at the Christopher M Wouters Lodge #124 located just about a mile from the hotel. Shuttle buses will be running beginning at 3:30 p.m. and throughout the evening. Christopher M Wouters Lodge #124 will be dedicating their Public Safety Monument during this ceremony. Immediately following, Lodge #124 invites delegates to remain for an evening of dinner, drinks, and entertainment. Guest tickets can be purchased for $15 for this event but must be purchased in advance.
On Saturday Night, we have an optional event, a baseball game between the Birmingham Beavers and the Utica Unicorns, part of the United Shore Professional Basement League. The first pitch is at 7:05 p.m. but gates open at 6:00 p.m. The cost of the ticket is $35 and includes transportation to and from the hotel, a ticket to the private left field party patio section which includes an all-inclusive buffet, unlimited soft drinks and water, 2 drink tickets per ticket, group raffle, on field photo, and more. The stadium is located in downtown Utica, about 10 minutes from the hotel. Shuttles will run continuously throughout the evening. Downtown Utica also features plenty of bars and restaurants all within walking distance of the stadium.
The Central Macomb Lodge #187 will be hosting a hospitality suite on Saturday for those who don't want to attend the baseball game, or following the game. The exact times and location will be in your delegate packet upon your arrival.
Business sessions will begin at 9:00 a.m. on both Saturday and Sunday. Breakfast times will be posted when you register along with your ticket for breakfast each morning. Guest breakfast tickets may be purchased in advance for $15. The Board of Trustees' Meeting will begin immediately following the conclusion of Sunday's business session.
Credential forms will be mailed to lodge secretaries the latter part of May IF YOUR SECOND HALF OF 2018 PER CAPITA HAS BEEN PAID. In order to receive credentials, you MUST be a member in good standing which means your lodge Per Capita must be up to date. Lodge secretaries are to fill out Credentials forms and mail only the WHITE ORIGINALS back to the State Lodge by June 1st. Lodge secretaries are to give the yellow copy of the Credentials Form to the delegate. This copy must be submitted by the delegate when he/she registers at the Conference Registration Desk.
As always, any group wishing to conduct any type of raffle or sell FOP shirts, etc. at the Conference must have prior approval from the State Lodge.
One of the official sponsors of this conference is Jack Daniels. As a result, the host Lodges are selling Jack Daniels Commemorative Single Barrel bottle, complete with engraving, gift box, and brass collar tag. The engraving will include the FOP Star, Christopher M Wouters Lodge 124, Central Macomb Lodge 187 and Sterling Heights Lodge 118 along with the date of the State Conference.
The pre-sales are $75 per bottle until May 1st at which point they will go up to $85. Also, every bottle sold before May 1st, will be entered into a contest to Win The Barrel. To place an order, visit www.mifop2018.com.
Each delegate will be receiving a challenge coin as part of the conference package. Additional coins will be available for sale, limited supply.
This year's State Conference will be a great event and months of planning have gone into it. I hope that everyone has a chance to attend as we continue our goal of Focused On Protecting! If you have any questions or concerns, please don't hesitate to contact me or the State Lodge.


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The Samba-Bugzilla – Bug 9293
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The command 'net ads keytab' is lacking a 'remove' sub command. There is no easy way to remove a SPN entry from keytab and the according entry from AD. This is the counterpart to 'net ads keytab add'.


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ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Monday 29/10/2012, 23:56
I hear a lot of complaints about ELO mode these days, what with cards like Kalindra and Askai roaming free.
I think these come from people focusing too much on cards that are individually strong and not enough on which cards have good synergy. Right now, building a good ELO deck is a fun puzzle. Which cards are banned this week? What can I do to counter the strong cards that aren't banned? While everyone is busy complaining, I am having the time of my life.
Let's take a look at Kalindra (the card people complain about most) and then take a look at some possible half-decks in two different clans, FPC and Pussycats. Think about using Fei, Chan, Shifou, and Zhu Tang -- three of those cards can easily beat Kalindra pill-for-pill, and the forth lets you threaten a fairly big life-per-damage gap of your own. Think about using Clover, Charlie, Lucy, and Ella in a Pussycats half-deck... All of these reduce Kalindra's damage so hard, that it's impossible for her to be the huge threat she usually is.
I think the definition of "OP" in this game is starting to change. When most players say a card is "OP" they now mean "I have to work to counter this card, and I don't wanna." A card that forces you right out of your comfort zone and into a creative deck you would have never tried otherwise is *good,* both for you and for UR. IMO, you can complain, or you can step up your deck-building game. The choice is yours.
14/4 with an Ulu/Vortex deck so far this week.
Sad - Guru E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 31/10/2012, 09:19
Sir Ghelas.Is a member since Monday 07/02/11.
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 31/10/2012, 09:54
I question the relevance of the statement above.
Icarus Colossus E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 31/10/2012, 11:02
Hate to break it to you, but 2009-2010 was just so balanced than the elo you're defending now.
I told you that you'll never know until you experienced one
Icarus Colossus E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 31/10/2012, 11:09
I agree with wasteroftime
Sorry bout that, but opening rounds in the current elo already set up the game mood
YOu can win either in round 1 or 2 because of the life gap that can be made plus the DR's
While back then if you lose against a methane in a 12 life format, you can still win that one hit left match by winning the two rounds that can be a KO
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 31/10/2012, 14:07
I'm sorry, but everything I heard about "old" ELO makes me think it would have been too simple for my tastes. I feel like if you can threaten KO any turn with any card, the game is really 50/50; all about reading your opponent. What you have in your deck in terms of strategy, card combinations, trying to dictate your opponent's hand etc etc did not matter so much... Because let's face it, *any* time you have won a round, you had the option of trying fury KO in round 2 *or* 3.
I have a lot of respect for the older players of the game, but I really can't see how strategy could have been as important in that era. I think if I want to just use small clues to guess what my opponent is thinking and throw strategy out the window, I will go play a "rousing" game of Pictionary or Draw Something.
Icarus Colossus E X C A L I B U R Thursday 01/11/2012, 16:49
Double old, yes that's a strategy
0_4DPaladin Veteran Thursday 01/11/2012, 18:21
Well, since 12 life was apparently too simple, with win a round and then threaten K.O. and 14 life is dominated by life-gap 50-50s and Kalindra/Askai derps, how about we try 13 life where 2 hits and life gap are both theoretically viable? I'm kidding of course.
Personally I haven't seen anything too wrong with the ELO mode yet, but I havent looked too hard either. I don't wanna say anything that could be possibly taken as offensive to the devs in fear they ban some more of my Piranas lol.
-sCapeg0d- Colossus Limit Break Thursday 01/11/2012, 22:01
Oooo ... ELO hardcores at work
Interesting points and contradictions ... very interesting indeed. Personally, I liked the 12 life format compared to the current 14 life format. Keep this conversation going
ps: Please do not insult my "manhood" by checking up on my highest ELO score, you might scare away more average joe inputs
pss: ELO was best with Jackie Cr and Zatman FTW!
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Thursday 01/11/2012, 23:40
I do agree that that darn bunny is a little too strong, and ELO may be a bit more even without him and Kalindra. But IMO, they are not nearly as OP as most people believe.
I feel like the "best" deck for the week is made up of exactly the cards that everybody complains about: Askai, Azel, add your own pick of Nightmare and Jungo. I've been playing this deck a little, and I have to admit -- it's VERY easy. However, I was able to reach the same 13somethingish scores pretty easily with my Ulu/Vortex deck as well.
Here's what I think the bottom line is, and probably the source of most people's complaints. We have 14 life. We have a lot of good mitigating cards (SoA, DR, to some extent SoB.) We have a lot of +life and LPD options available. What we don't have is a lot of base damage. 8 base damage is rare, and often has some kind of downside, and is only found on 5* cards. BUT, many cards have abilities that increase their potential gap to 8 or much more!
The natural conclusion: A good ELO deck currently *has* to be built around good high-gap cards that are SoA and/or DR resistant. It is natural that NM high poison/LPD as well as the high damage/life gain combo of Jungo 5*s thrives in this environment. But these are just the easiest "big threat" cards to use.
Good synergy is possible with MANY strong 5*s that resist SoA, and many overlooked cards.A clever player can use cards like the seemingly shaky Sayura with great effect. In fact, she was part of my best Top 100 deck.
JO3SHMO Imperator Wise Men Distracted Friday 02/11/2012, 03:21
I always enjoy threads by ghelas. They consistently stir up some very interesting insights.
I'm joking of course, I just couldn't help myself. I agree with you in that the more input the better. I don't know how the term 'Average Joe' came about. Why not 'Average Aaron' or 'Average Michael'? Whatever the case, I like to think I'm an above average Joe, so I will give my little opinion.
I've only actually been playing for a bit over a year (unlike my profile suggests), so I do not have any experience of the 'Old' ELO format. I can only go by what I've been exposed to.
I don't have any problem with the current ELO. No matter what cards you ban or unban, there will always be some that are more powerful than others. By banning all these 'situationally OP' cards it just means the meta will shift towards the 'new' power cards. I admit that the focus these days is on packing the fire power with heavy gap cards, but it's unreasonable to ban them all.
I abuse Askai just as much as the next guy. In fact I look forward to weeks where my rabbit can destroy everyone. But ban Askai and people will just find something else to abuse. People enjoy complaining about things, it's just human nature.
I'm not one to ever say that the game is broken. I will continue to go with the flow and use whatever is available to me. Keep the interesting discussion coming.


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Senior ace Stephanie Brombacher (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) stepped into the circle for the Gators on defense after tossing her second career perfect game Friday. Brombacher went the full five innings and improved to 3-0 on the season, tallying nine strikeouts and just four hits to shut out the Bulls.
Both Bruder and Paculba went 3-for-4 to lead the Gators Saturday, Bruder with five RBI and Paculba with one, as each homered.
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In the fourth, a Bruder triple far out in center brought home Paculba, who reached on a single to right field, and allowed Bruder to also score on the throw. Schutte followed with a double to center and Bush drew her second walk of the game as DeFelice stepped up to the plate for a hit to right center, bringing Schutte home for Florida's 10th run of the game.
The Gators put the icing on the cake at the top of the fifth when seniors Paculba and Bruder teamed up for two scores on a two-run homer by Bruder following Paculba's double to left center. Brombacher struck out three Bulls swinging for the three outs in the bottom half of the fifth to close out the game for the Gators.
Lindsey Richardson (1-1) tallied the loss for South Florida, allowing four hits, seven runs and just two strikeouts in two innings of work.
Florida will take on its first mid-week tilt of the 2011 season Wednesday when it heads to Jacksonville for a match-up with the Jacksonville University Dolphins. Game time is slated for 6 p.m. and will be broadcast live on 105 The Game locally. Florida holds the all-time advantage in the history of the series, 8-0, including a 2-0 lead in Jacksonville. Last time out, UF defeated JU 6-1 in Gainesville Feb. 17. DeFelice went 3-for-3 in the game with three homers and three RBI.– UF Sports Info


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Did you see the new Disney live action Cinderella this weekend? We did and we love it! Has the best theme ever too "always be Kind and Brave," Ella's mother reminds her to live by these words.
But first the NEW Frozen Short Frozen Fever is so cute. All the kids in the theater loved it too. Laughing at the antics. Most of the short was in song. There is a fun little surprise with the mini-me snowmen.
Elle is played by Downton Abbey's Lily James. When I first saw the trailer I thought but wait doesn't Cinderella have blue eyes? Are we sure Lily James is right for Cinderella? Yep, she is, the casting director know what she was doing. Lily nailed it. So perfectly sweet and spunky at the same time.
As much as Helena Bonham Carter is crazy creepy in some movies she is silly and fun and perfect as Cinderella's fairy godmother.
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The always brilliant Cate Blanchett was the perfectly elegant and wicked the stepmother. The body lines she holds are beautiful! Well done! I loved how the screenwriter Chris Weitz add a human element to her. Giving her not an excuse but a reason behind her wickedness likened to what might really happen to many stepmothers.
I have to say this is one of the best cast movies I've seen in a long time. My only wish was that more of the music was in the movie rather in the end credits.
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My period arrives. After every monthly pain I forget. I forget the backache. I forget the sickness and the shooting pains. Lying awake at night, a hand clamped over my constricting womb. That intense, crippling cramp in my stomach. This is the physical pain. Yet there is the tension in my head the week before, annoyance and snapping at trivialities, depressed and down and floating in the mundane. A time for suicidal and murderous thoughts. A time when I feel most horny and need to touch myself, relieve my tension through orgasms. Then a monthly concentration of pain on the first day. Blood seeps, drips, then rolls down my inner thighs; a concentration of agony. Sometimes the blood is so thick it is black. Sometimes bright, oxygenated red. It chafes, wet between my thighs and makes my skin sore. Then, the following days, the pain is dispersed. And the weeks in between, still nervousness, sadness, fear and anger. The neurosis is there, dispersed into fleeting clouds and transformations of mood. My emotions changeable, a microcosm of the fluxing skies above, changes of mood, moon and universe.
After every monthly pain I forget. I forget how I lie doubled-up and cursing. The anguish is sometimes almost too much to bear. I curse. I curse at this woman's curse. I ask myself, Why is life so hard? How can I carry on? For how many more years can I endure this pain? The pain of life, of the first concentration, agony. How can I endure life's agony? Is it all pain? Will it always be pain? If only I could desensitise myself just to carry on.
I lie doubled up and cursing. How dare men complain about their ills? How dare they complain at all? Like, ever. They can never feel, never understand this monthly torment. They only feel it when we lash out at them. How can they understand? They just think we are crazy. Society ignores the menstrual cycle. Ignores and disrespects our monthly pain. I am bleeding, wrapped up in a bubble, floating in menstrual consciousness and painkillers. This is a different level from ordinary, everyday consciousness, a female dimension. After every monthly pain we forget.
Days pass. Pain is dispersed yet Carly still feels cursed. Men have put a curse on her. Bad men. She sees faces of ex-lovers in the crowds. The kick boxer, his face appears in the city crowds. She sees him working behind a bar, driving a bus, and looking at her among the crowd. Aaron, she smells leather, sees him driving past in a pimpy car. The client that came to her door: now the sight of any bald-headed man sends a chill down her spine. The smell of massage oil, almond oil. Makes her sick to the stomach. It is a spell; a wicked spell.
Her father haunts her, taunts her. She sees him walking past her, hears echoes of his voice. She is mourning. She is grieving for the death of her parents; her previous perception of them. Usually a death means a death, the end. But not this kind of death. She is grieving for lots of things, most of them still alive. She knows that her father still lives. He still sits in the same armchair watching television.
There would still be a frown shielding the expression in his eyes. What was he thinking? Would there be a slap, a spark of anger next? Or would he want to play? She was eleven when it finally stopped. Then he hardly touched her at all. Apart from making up after a row. A hug. A kiss. And he would say, "You are just like me." At other times, like her mother, she would pull away. Like her sister, would walk from the room when she was left alone with him.
Now he is older. He is ill. The blood clot in his leg is back and threatening to travel up to the veins in his heart. Her mother does not stay with him for love. They are bound by their co-dependence; their low self-worth; her masochistic tendencies and his sadism. As the years have passed he has sapped her youth and vigour, until she is too weak, too guilty, too frightened to leave. Her mother gets older, thinner and tired whilst her father grows fatter and spoilt in a guilt-free comfort zone where he can get his clothes washed and his meals cooked. Carly has never seen her mother show affection towards her father, their marriage is dead of love. Yet her brother, her sister, could they not see that? She has not seen her brother since she drifted in the snow on the first day. When she drifted from her family, alone, in the cold.
She wants to forget her family, her childhood. They hurt too much. Hurt too much. In the night, humid clouds surround her bed. Loneliness. Bad memories. Anger. The unfairness of it all. Poor Carly.
I am wearing a long, light trench coat. It blows around in the wind. A wind so harsh that it burns my head. I am walking across grey, barren land towards a tree. Everything is grey except for the black tree that is leafless and stark as if it had been struck by lightening. Its branches are withered and twisted. There is a bird. A big black bird. A crow. It flies around the tree then lands upon a branch. I reach out my arm and the crow flutters then balances upon my hand, flaps its dark wings and sits upon my shoulder. My face is a scowl. There are lines on my face. I am bitter. No family, few friends. Instead, a wasteland. For many years I have been lonely.
Later, she lies, surrounded by newspaper, wishing for the storm to come. She draws circles, in blue biro, around the ads for suitable accommodation. She wants to run from this bad place. Run from these hauntings. Run from the clouds of condensed pain that float around this tiny, claustrophobic flat. Escape.
Carly feels like refugee, lying on the floor, washed up in an empty room, surrounded by her cargo. She is a survivor, a soldier, weary and battered. She fights each lover. In between fighting she is alone. Isolated from her family. Laura, the 'experiment' (when she was a child she thought that she must have been developed in a test tube) now has a family of her own. Carly has photographs of her nephew and niece, red-cheeked, laughing; her nephew running with a red flower in his hand.
Carly is a survivor, but at what cost? Bullets of anger have massacred her family. Among the wreckage lie family values, crushed, all respect broken up and splintered, the decrepit foundations of her parents' marriage exposed. In the aftermath of her accusation, fragments of blame flew dangerously and she choked on the particles of confusion. She fell, and her spirit was held, oppressed and weary beneath rocks of guilt. Her mother said that the family would never be the same again.
She opens her eyes. She has washed up on a bright place, a new place. A place to rest and heal. She listens to the big droplets of July rain on the skylight. A safe place, a shelter. She decorates the new flat with cushions, drapes, potpourri and vases. Carefully tapping into her savings to invest in her haven. Now, she savours her solitude. The skylight gives the impression of space in the small room; she can see the clouds passing beneath the stars.
She bathes. The colours of her snake tattoo, yellow eyes, red tongue, emphasised in the water. After a scented bath she massages luxuriant creamy lotion over her skin and across her tattoo until the colours shine. She wraps her smooth skin in a large, soft towelling dressing gown, makes a cup of black tea with milk and dips her favourite chocolate biscuits into the homely brew. She turns on the radio and sings in harmony to Nina Simone's 'Mood Indigo'. She sounds young, high and pure. A strange sense of well-being surrounds her. No fear, no past, no future, no regret, no grief.
They are sacrificing children in India for Kali. The newsreader's composed English accent informs her that the children are poor, unwanted, homeless. They are taken to a temple and sacrificed.
A flash of lightening. A low growl of thunder, followed by an unexpected clap of sound. Only one clap of thunder? As if in answer, there is another flash of light across the sky, a deceptive silence, followed by a low rumble then a climax like a bomb blast which makes her jump. The room shakes with the power of the storm. The raindrops sound like voices, whispering.
It is my turn to feel less lonely. I love storms. They make me feel alive. I survive. My heartbeat. My instincts. My self.
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To mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, here's Steven Wilson of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum with one of the most special artifacts in the LMU collection.
To mark the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's assassination, here's Steven Wilson of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum with one of the most special artifacts in the LMU collection.
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Smithsonian.com features Doris Kearns Goodwin's account of the Lincoln assassination from her bestseller Team of Rivals, along with an interactive map you can use to follow the evening's events across Washington, D.C.
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Lincoln Memorial University and the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum will host the fourth "War in the Mountains" symposium April 17-18 as part of the ongoing commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial. This event is free, but registration is required by April 9 due to limited seating.
The theme for this year's symposium is "Religion, Death, Martyrdom, and the Civil War."
This event also features a Q&A session, tours of the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum vault, and a book signing by the speakers. The sessions will be held in LMU's Hamilton Math & Science Building, Room 100.
To register or for more information, call the museum at (423) 869-6235 or e-mail Carol Campbell at email@example.com. The first 150 registrants will receive a free gift.
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The New-York Historical Society's newest exhibit, "Lincoln and the Jews," is an exploration of Lincoln's personal relationships with his Jewish contemporaries and his impact on nineteenth-century Jewish life in America. The New York Times covered the exhibit in a recent article:
"Lincoln played an important role in turning Jews from outsiders in America to insiders," said Jonathan D. Sarna, a historian at Brandeis University and the author, with Mr. Shapell, of the new, separately published book "Lincoln and the Jews," which inspired the show. "It's a subject that has really been overlooked."
Lincoln's lifetime coincided with a dramatic increase in America's Jewish population, which grew from about 3,000 in 1809, the year of his birth, to roughly 150,000 in 1860. Growing up in the Midwest, he probably encountered few or no Jews in person until he became a young man. But at a time when anti-Semitism and nativism ran high, the show notes, there is no evidence of Lincoln harboring any animus toward Jews.
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At his blog, historian John Fea has posted a short interview with Martha Hodes about her new book Mourning Lincoln. Hodes uses contemporary letters and diaries to examine the varied ways Americans responded to Lincoln's assassination, and how these responses reflected different visions for the country's future in the wake of the Civil War.
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Charles Francis Adams was one of many Americans who stood in front of the Capitol 150 years ago to hear Lincoln deliver his second inaugural address. "That railsplitting lawyer is one of the wonders of the day," Adams wrote a few days later. "Once at Gettysburg and now again on a greater occasion he has shown a capacity for rising to the demands of the hour." He believed the speech would be "for all time the historical keynote of this war."
Lincoln himself expected his speech to "wear as well as —perhaps better than—any thing I have produced," even though it was "not immediately popular."
Here are a few links to help you commemorate the sesquicentennial of what historian Ronald C. White has called Lincoln's greatest speech:
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The U.S. Capitol will host a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Lincoln's second inaugural on March 4. Stephen Lang will deliver the same speech Lincoln wrote for his 1865 swearing-in, and the event will also feature remarks from Congressman Ray LaHood, historian Edna Greene Medford, and prominent Lincoln authority Frank J. Williams.
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Knowing a little bit about SEO can help you make the most of your website's search potential. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a method used to increase the visibility of your website or a web page in a search engine's "organic" or "un-paid" search results. The better optimized your site, the more likely Google will display it in search by someone looking for a firm like yours.
Having an optimized site can help with getting higher page rankings in all search engines. First and foremost you should base your optimization decisions on what's best for the visitors of your site. They are using search engines to find you and are the consumers of your content.
Here are the key things you should be doing today in order to get picked up by search engines:
1. Create unique, accurate page titles
Page titles are one of the most important elements of SEO. A title tag tells both users and search engines what the topic of a particular page is. You should have a unique title for each page in your website so be sure to choose a title that effectively communicates the topic of that pages' content. Avoid choosing a title that has no relation to the content on the page and never use default or vague titles like "Untitled" or "Page 1".
2. Pick the right keyword for search
What is a keyword? Keywords are the words used by a search engine in its search for relevant web pages. When thinking of keywords to use, it's important to think about what words your visitors would use when performing a search. If you think they are using words like "advisor" "financial", "wealth" and "planning", you should use these keywords in your titles and in the first paragraph of your page content. Avoid using too many keywords, a good rule of thumb is to keep it less than 8 words – the more concise the better.
3. Make use of the "description" meta tag
A page's description meta tag gives search engines a summary of what the page is about. It is important to have an accurate summary of the page's content and to use unique descriptions for each page. Avoid writing a description meta tag that has no relation to the content such as "This is a web page" or "Page about Financial Strategies". Never fill the description with keywords only. This is raises a red flag when being crawled for search engines.
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Images may seem like a straightforward component of your site, but you can optimize your use of them. All images can have a distinct filename and "alt" attribute, both of which you should take advantage of. Use brief, but descriptive filenames and alt text. Avoid using generic files names like "pic1.jpg". Instead make it more relevant to your key content and remember to use your keywords. Supply alt text when using images as links, but avoid writing excessively long alt text that would be considered spammy.
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November 17, 2017
Announcing the Winner of the "Show Us Your Lab" Contest
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Last month, ACS Axial held a contest asking readers to send in photos of their labs, classrooms, offices or wherever they do their best work. Today I am proud to announce the winner: Dr. Greg D. Smith of the Conservation Science Lab at Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields. The 3,000 square foot state-of-the-art analytical and […]


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Materials Science and Engineering Research at the University of Maryland
Learn more about our research:
- Research Spotlight: examples of current projects
- Research Areas of major emphasis in the department
- Nano Research: nanotechnology research and initiatives
- Research Centers in or closely connected to the department
- Laboratories that enable the research
- External Interactions that provide important cross-disciplinary collaborations
- Industry connectivity which enhances the research and the benefit to students
Self organization during growth on patterned GaAs.
The department pursues a broad range of research which capitalizes on the unique position of the discipline. Materials science and engineering lies at the crossroads of science and technology, bridging the gap between fundamental understanding of physics, chemistry and biology, and the technological applications which are realized from the microscale (e.g., semiconductors and nanotechnology) to the macro scale (e.g., engineered materials from aerospace to medical applications). Its implications are pervasive in nearly all aspects of our daily lives. Thus while materials may seem like just another engineering discipline, its content and methodologies are pivotal in the context of today's scientific and technological revolutions: in a real sense, it lies at the center of the "three O's", i.e., the nano-technology, bio-technology, and information technology triangle.
As a research and educational discipline, materials science and engineering has long provided advances in material products and systems made from them through an intellectual focus on determining and understanding another triangle, namely the relationship between the structure, processing, and properties of materials. This focus remains an effective perspective to advance materials science and engineering as the field assumes its leadership role in the era of nanotechnology and the continuing advances of information technology and biotechnology.
Biomolecular micromanufacturing: chitosan biopolymer and fluorescein.
Materials research also demands a synergy between experiment and theory. Research in the department often combines these within an individual research group. Experimental research often lies on the cutting edge, because much of the work in the department exploits state-of-art equipment and instrumentation for synthesis and analysis of materials at the nanoscale. Accompanying theoretical work is based on modeling and simulation from the atomic scale up to the macro scale, enabling more intelligent design and inference from the experiments, and solidifying and expanding our scientific and predictive knowledge base.


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Something colourful this round, inspired by the beautiful sunset scenery! Combination of four colours; yellow, orange, red and purple to create the eye-catching ombre sunset background...and of course, black for the building silhouettes. Total of four layers including the top coat. And spot my beautiful Petronas Twins Tower!! :p Basically, no special skills needed (kinda lol) as long as you know how to draw and do the ombre. Have fun trying! :)
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Museums, including historical societies and other memory institutions, create and use intellectual property every day. A basic understanding of copyright law is essential to protect your organization's rights and those of other creators, further your organization's mission, and avoid disputes that could harm its reputation.
In this webinar, museum attorney Walter G. Lehmann will provide a practical, museum-focused overview of copyright law including the important exception for fair use. Topics he addresses include copyright duration, copyright orphans, fair use and the four-factor test, best practices and applying fair use, and clearing rights.
This webinar is part of the StEPs Lab series of continuing education offered to both StEPs program participants and all others interested in copyright.
Applying what you learn in a Lab to your policies and practices helps your organization make meaningful progress. The more progress you make, the more boxes you can check off in the StEPs workbook. The more boxes you check off, the more Bronze, Silver, and Gold certificates your organization earns. And that translates into more credibility, more support, and an organization that is a valuable asset to its community for many more years to come.
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For the last year, I've been reading articles about the gourmet food trucks proliferating in cities that are a lot hipper and more cosmopolitan than Orlando: New York, LA, Portland, Seattle, Austin, even Miami. LA in particular has several trucks that sell Korean barbecue tacos, a fusion that sounded "so crazy, it just might work." Well, I found one here today, and I can tell you that it works. My lunch was wonderful and cheap and well worth trying.
The yellow truck is parked in the parking lot of the Citgo gas station on East Colonial Drive and Primrose, next door to that newish McDonald's with the retro architecture and golden arches (between Maguire and Bumby). The banner reads "Korean BBQ Taco Box," and as soon as I saw it, I pulled over immediately. The two men and one woman said today was their first day of business, so I wished them the best of luck.
They have a large poster with photos of some of their dishes, as well as a small menu posted with some prices. (Some of the food in the photos wasn't listed on the menu, which was a little confusing.) They offer Teriyaki Boxes (chicken, vegetable, beef, or spicy pork for $6.99), Korean Sub Boxes (beef, chicken, or spicy pork for $5.99), and Korean Taco Boxes (beef, chicken, or spicy pork for $5.99).
I ordered the taco, and asked if I could get a combination of beef and spicy pork. I wondered if you might get two or three tacos with the box, but it turned out to be one large one, essentially half-beef and half-pork. I was starving, so I devoured it before inspecting it too closely, but it came with had grilled onions and peppers, probably some cabbage, and the flyer said there were also mushrooms (which I didn't notice, but that doesn't mean they weren't there). It was on a soft, lightly grilled flour tortilla that held up well, and all the flavors blended perfectly.
The $5.99 box was a great value due to all the extras. It came with two fried rolls (kind of like tempura-battered sushi rolls), two cream cheese dumplings (crispy like fried gyoza), two soft steamed rice balls with ground meat inside and dollops of a spicy mayo-like sauce on top, a tender, crispy chicken wing tossed in a spicy-yet-sweet sauce, and a small green salad with warm ginger dressing, in a second box to cut down on the mess.
As far as I know, they only accept cash. I left a $2 tip just because they were such nice people. They prepared everything quickly, and the chef handed me one of the fried rolls to sample while I waited. I really do wish them well in that busy location. I'd love to see more unique food trucks in Orlando, and I certainly hope Chowhounds and Colonial Drive drivers alike give the Korean BBQ Taco Box Truck a chance. On the edge of the ViMi district and all its Vietnamese restaurants (as well as other great places like Bikkuri), it's nice to have one more option that's new and exciting.
Oh, just in case, the phone number is 407.844.3990.


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The weather is so perfect that it could be used to program a holodeck, if we actually had holodecks. It's the beginning of Australia's fall, and, like everything else, they do it a little bit differently from everyone else. A lot of the trees are bare, and the gingkos' leaves have all turned the same almost archetypal yellow. The sky is a crisp blue and the air is California-clear. The sunlight even seems brighter here. You can feel sea-wind from the harbors and it gives a strange kind of unity to the experience; the light and the wind and the smells all seem to move in concert. No one could possibly complain about this weather, even Australians, who are nitpicky and ungenerous about their own weather in the kind of way that a denigrating parent might complain about their gifted child.
So I'm not going to say that I miss the bad weather. Even though that's what I'm thinking. I can't say I really enjoyed my last two New York winters, which were both miserable and totally unromantic,* nor can I say the (minor) Sydney flooding was a particularly wonderful experience. Still, I do like bad weather. I like freezing, horrible, drizzly, depressing days, and I have no idea why. Actually I do, because I especially like it in cities. Everyone goes home, or stays in the office, or pretends to be dead or down with the flu. I like feeling like I own the streets. I like that no one asks me to take their picture or begs for directions (both of which they do, with distressing regularity.) I like the feeling of water in the air. For the same reason, I like running around in the middle of the night too, in areas of town which are, frankly, stupid for anyone to be in alone in, let alone a tiny woman who could probably manage to be assaulted by a brick wall.** But I do both anyway, because essentially I am the kind of person who doesn't have enough sense to come in out of the rain.
There's something a dark and depressing places that provides a kind of solitude which you can't find anywhere else. And it seems like the more I lose people the more I like to be alone. It's not just that though, because there's something very deep, almost visceral about it, that comes before thinking or even impulse. I feel about wet nights the way people seem to feel about waking up to bright sunshine. Maybe it just has to do with two decades worth of season shifts. I was vicious in my hatred of Floridian summers and probably I associate fog with cool mornings.†
There's the memory of fog in the Smokies too, a sensation tangled up in my mind with the smell of woodsmoke and coffee made in an Italian espresso pot. It's also the smell of moldy basement, decaying leaves, and the lumberyard in the center of town, which I passed regularly and despised more than anyone else in my family. In fact I didn't even like North Carolina that much. But I keep coming back to it, as little as I really like the boredom of woods and the awful tedium of everyone who lives there†† I miss something about it, though I can't think what it is really. It's something like the sensation of running very fast in no particular direction, or standing very still in a breeze that's so strong that it feels like it could blow you away.
* It's like this: the English countryside, for instance, is entitled to have horrible weather. Horrible storms and floods, crashing lightening, sleet, hail, the works. We have to have a suitably dramatic setting for our overworked plots etc. But no city should be allowed to have such awful frost-bite potential. Cities represent all the achievements of civilization, and we should have the weather, or at least the trains, under control by now.
**Walls and I don't have a good relationship. Same with open dishwashers, tree roots, and open doors in the dark.
†And dew on the ridiculous golf courses, and swimming in the half-olympic pool right before dawn, and a million other things.
††Sorry, but it's true -- though city-people can be just as tedious, and they are harder to avoid politely.
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