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The A's just don't give up, no matter the circumstances. They did it again in game No. 162 Wednesday afternoon, and for the first and only time this season — when it matters — hold sole possession of first place.
That means the Oakland A's are your 2012 American League West Champions!
Oakland overcame a 5-1 deficit to score six runs in the fourth inning and 11 straight runs overall going on to sweep the Rangers 12-5 to claim the top spot in the division.
They also made history in the process as the first team to make up a five-game deficit with nine games remaining, and just the fifth team to make up a 13-game deficit to win the division title.
After the game, A's manager Bob Melvin was looking forward, not back:
"… we're in the postseason now and the slate is clean and we have to go out there and play with the same intensity. Just because we're in this position right now doesn't mean you deem this a complete success. We have a lot more work to do."
Now the A's will face the AL Central champions Detroit Tigers beginning on Saturday night in the Motor City the first two games of the American League Division Series.
The A's will host the Tigers for games three, four and five if necessary.
Brandon Moss started the key rally in the bottom of the fourth with a leadoff walk. Josh Reddick doubled him home. After an RBI single from Seth Smith, Coco Crisp came through again. This time batting right-handed, a double down the right-field line to score two more runs to tie the game.
Yoenis Cespedes hit a high fly ball that should have been the third out of the inning. Instead, center fielder Josh Hamilton non-chalantly jogged in on the ball — and dropped it — allowing two runs to score.The A's never looked back after that. Derek Norris with an RBI single in the fifth.
Leading by three runs in the eighth, the A's put the game away scoring four more runs. Norris got it started with a home run. Then Moss delivered the finishing blow. He singled to right with the bases loaded scoring all three runs, the third as a result of a fielding error by right fielder Nelson Cruz.
Norris told SFBay everybody just did their job:
"Nobody tries to do anything more or nobody does anything less. Just whatever your tools are that you bring to the table is what everybody does here. Whether it's coming in the seventh inning when we're tied and holding them to no runs or it's getting a save. Whatever it is, everybody knows their role and just does it."
One unsung hero was reliever Evan Scribner, who came in relief of A.J. Griffin who — finally — had an off-game. Griffin lasted only 2-2/3 innings, giving up seven hits and five runs.Scribner, though, was clutch, pitching three innings giving up only two hits and had two strikeouts.
The late inning trio of Ryan Cook, Sean Doolittle, and Grant Balfour closed it out as the A's bullpen shut the door again. The five relievers gave up just four hits, striking out eight.
Balfour had pitched in five straight games, but he told SFBay he was determined to be the last man standing on that mound:
"I wanted to be in that game. I didn't care if it was up by 10, up by one. I wanted the ball. I went to bed last night and I dreamed about being on the mound jumping up and down and watching everyone run out of the dugout and that's what happened."


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This video is a bit of a diversion from the graphics stuff to do a little bit of experimentation and brainstorming with data structure and meta-programming. The goal is to replace the functionality of what you can do with the
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Students will be required to take the core course offered by SDS itself – SDS1000H. This 0.5 FCE requirement must be supplemented by at least another 0.5 FCE in the area of sexuality. Courses may be counted toward the 0.5 FCE required beyond the core course if a significant portion of the course addresses questions related to sexuality, or if most of the term work completed in it explores such questions. All such course selections must be approved by the director of the Collaborative Specialization. To receive approval please submit the following form, along with a course syllabus, electronically to email@example.com.
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Candidates admitted to the doctoral program will be required to take the Collaborative Specialization's core course – SDS1000H, and at least an additional 0.5 FCE in the area of sexuality, subject to the Collaborate Specialization director's approval. Students who have completed the Collaborative Specialization at the Master's level will not be required to take SDS1000H a second time, and therefore only will be required to take another 0.5 FCE in the area of sexuality. To receive approval please submit the following form, along with a course syllabus, electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com.
All students will pursue a dissertation topic related to sexual diversity, and include on the thesis committee at least one faculty member associated with SDS. (In most cases, the supervisor would be associated with SDS, though in some cases, the student's particular analytical perspective will suggest another faculty member in their discipline.) The director of the Collaborative Specialization must approve the topic as compatible with the requirements of the program. We ask that students submit a copy of their thesis proposal as well as a list of committee members for review and approval to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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vai? was released in the year 1980。vai? is also called as Just Tell Me What You Want, Dime lo que quieres, Dimmi quello che vuoi!, Kuu taivaalta, Amit szemed szád kíván, Sag mir, was Du willst。
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A website which guides users through the basic techniques for taking better photographs. Topics covered include framing, viewpoint, juxtaposition, film speeds and choosing the right film, camera technique and camera accessories. The materials include an interactive quiz and are also available in booklet form.
Read the full case study to find out more about this resource and how it was made.
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I haven't had the chance to sit down and transcribe this monstrous interview from GDC until now, but I spent 25 minutes in a tiny room with Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison. We talked about everything: LittleBigPlanet, Home, backwards compatibility.
On that last point, he allayed my fears that my PS3 would be gimped when they switched over to software-enabled BC:
Wired News: I have a first-run PS3 in the US, with the Emotion Engine chip, and
I love playing PS2 games on it. Is that functionality going to be killed with a future firmware update? Are they going to switch all the
PS3s over to software emulation?
Phil Harrison: You can't switch it off.
That should be a relief to early adopters. The entire gigantic interview after the jump.
WN: Tell me about the history of LittleBigPlanet. Did you personally see Rag Doll Kung Fu and think, I've got to get these people?
PH: I can't take credit for that. It was one of my producers who knew what those guys were doing and had nurtured that relationship. And he brought them to us. Part of the role of the producer is to go out and nurture the relationships, for individuals who are currently occupied elsewhere but might want to come and work with us in the future, and that was indeed the case with the founders of Media Molecule is that they were gainfully employed at – I guess I can say this – Lionhead, and Criterion, and they came to us and said look, we're thinking of setting up on our own, we've brought this idea which we'd like to share with you, but we think it's too weird for you and we don't think you're going to like it. And I loved it. And I said not only is it not bad, it's great, and we want you to go for it even more.
The point where I got involved was after the initial contact had been made, but I was lucky enough to get the pitch from them, and I said, look: this is fantastic. We definitely want to work with you guys.
WN: Are they now working collaboratively with Sony designers and producers?
PH: Yeah, we funded them, and they're working exclusively with us and they formed their company and hired some great people. I mean, they are the most amazing group to work with. Their output is phenomenal, their iteration speed is phenomenal. They're very experienced artists and designers, they might look a little unorthodox, but they really know what they're doing.
WN: As a player of this game, what kind of options do I have to change what's going on? Is it pretty much just that every object has a defined set of characteristics, or can I tweak things?
PH: You can tweak things.
WN: Give examples of what I might be able to do. Take the soccer ball. What could I do to the soccer ball to change the way it reacts?
PH: We are going to take a deeper dive on Little Big Planet probably in May, on the next Gamers' Day. Or maybe at E3 in July. And we'll take you through that in more detail. But there are ways to… think of an object being in certain classes: things that are spherical have certain spherical physical properties, things that are square kind of more square… you can see, you can change the shapes, you can extrude things, you can cut things out, you can blend things together. But you can also allocate behaviors to shapes as well. And that allows them to become alive. And that's where the really interesting gameplay comes from.
WN: I get the sense that what you're presenting to us, the fact that it's a soccer ball and an orange instead of just a sphere and a smaller sphere, is to get a sense of it in our heads immediately as to what the properties of those things are going to be. But are you going to be able to skin a sphere with whatever you want?
PH: That's what we showed you today.
WN: Oh, yeah, you could put the faces on [the orange]. But will you be able to totally change that?
PH: Yeah, totally, yeah.
WN: So the release plan was kind of laid out in the sense that there is a demo coming this year…
PH: That's not what I said. It'll debut on the PlayStation Network. And there will be a Blu-Ray disc release next year.
WN: Okay. At some point the words, I think it might have been in the press release that came afterwards, it said "demo."
Dave Karraker, director of communications: Yeah, that's what's in the press release.
PH: My bad.
WN: Okay. So the question is, what is meant by "demo"?
PH: It will be a commercial release. It will not be a free demo in the traditional sense.
WN: Is the content going to be identical on the download version versus the Blu-Ray version?
PH: No.
WN: Is the idea here to…
PH: Yes. [laughter]
WN: And will I be paid for my contributions?
PH: How did I know that was going to be your question? The possibility of that – syndication of content – is not lost on us.
WN: Obviously the video you showed was very much a mock-up of what it's going to be like to trade your stuff, that's not final –
PH: Yeah, that is the interface. There's a concept of a little planet where there are spaces on the planet and each space is a badge, a pin that goes onto the planet. And each one of those is a LittleBigPlanet level that's been created by somebody. We have this kind of idea of that growing as users add more and more.
WN: But that in the first couple of days is probably going to get stupidly huge. How do you filter out and manage and push the best – besides simply user votes?
PH: We're going to have a number of different filters, and as you can see on that presentation, filters for recently added, most ranked… we're going to have some kind of way of recommending levels that we think are cool, we might have a "What's Hot" level design club where we have the best levels that have recently come on, or ones that the designers or team think are great. But ultimately it's all about empowering the community. We want the users to decide. Now that will involve a little bit of trial and error by users, but very quickly not only will the best levels get ranked to the top, but the best level designers will get recognized for their work as well. So I think, and this is a good thing, it might be a little chaotic to begin with, but it'll form some structure of its own afterwards.
WN: What about offensive content, if somebody were to do something with the game you might not want people to see, is there going to be a system in place that'll shut that down/
PH: Yeah. Sure.
WN: So, moving on to Home. Obviously you can view all this information in the context of the game itself, but – it looks like you're running high-definition video, it's processor-intensive, so you need to devote the PS3 to doing this exclusively. Is there a way to get this information within the context of a game – press the PlayStation button and there's a list of my friends who are online, achievements – er, trophies that I'm working on… is that going to go along with this?
PH: So, there are certain elements which are going to be unique to the Home experience, they'll stay inside the Home experience because that's the way they're being crafted. But Home sits on top of the PlayStation Network platform. So as new features are added to PlayStation Network, they will not only be available inside Home, they can also be exposed inside other games as well.
WN: So what features will not be exclusive to Home?
PH: We'll come back to you on that. The roadmap for the platform is very well-defined internally but we haven't shared that specifically.
WN: This represents a change in position for Sony, because when I talked to Jack Tretton before the PS3 launch, he said that Sony had no, they had no interest in pursuing at that point a pan-platform system that ranked achievements in games. So why the change in attitude towards this idea?
DK: I can preface that. What he said was that we had no intention of mimicking Xbox achievements. We recognize that gamers see that as important, but we weren't going to simply replicate that exact system on the PS3.
WN: Well, the idea, I think the quote was "pan-platform": that individual games could do it, like Resistance did that, and I think what he really said was if I'm playing SOCOM, I don't care what happens in Madden.
DK: What he was getting at was the total score, so I've got this great score of 1200, but I've only gotten it playing sports games and I'm gonna play a shooter with you.
PH: And I think he's spot-on. The beauty of trophies, and the fact that they're expressed in 3D in your own hall of fame is a great way of individualizing the experience and allowing your friends to see it as well. And I think that what we're doing here with Home, what we've announced today with Home is totally compatible with what Jack has said.
WN: So the idea of displaying 3D trophies, that might be an example of something displayed in Home, but then across the PlayStation Network, that might be expressed differently in other applications?
PH: I'm not sure I follow the question.
WN: Where I could press a button during a game and my list of achievements in that game opens up. It's not just trophies that appear in Home.
PH: We don't use the word "achievements…" [laughter]
WN: I'm sorry. You're very on-message. That's good.
PH: Let me show you something so you can get a sense of this, because we didn't have time to go into details. [boots up Home on PS3 in room] When you come back to the Cross Media Bar, you can see that we have this Home icon. But also, underneath it you can see we have Favorites and Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame icon lets you jump straight into Hall of Fame, you don't have to go into Home to get there. And this is where what you just described will be exposed.
Inside Favorites, you'll create bookmarks, shortcuts to the spaces you want to visit most often with your buddies. So it could be that you like hanging out in the SOCOM barracks room, something like that. You just bookmark it, and that will appear as a long list of thumbnails in that area. Next time you log into PS3 you can dive straight in there. Your personal apartment will appear there as well.
WN: And speaking of that, one of the things I wanted to ask was how do you get one of those big houses?
PH: What we wanted to show today was the sense of progression: this is the basic one, this is a more advanced one – not necessarily the most advanced one, because it'll continue to grow from there. But users will be able to upgrade by purchasing new items, by being gifted new items from games that they purchase, and from buying items that we provide into the network ourselves as the kind of benefactor of everybody in the world. So to get the best, biggest apartment users will most likely have to buy it through microtransactions. I'm not going to get to you on your next question, which is how much is that going to be?
WN: How much is that going to be?
WN: That's interesting because as we've seen with other platforms, there's a really fine line that needs to be walked between giving people extra content and making them feel like they're being ripped off forwards and backwards. How do you balance out, what's the value proposition to somebody, why do I want to buy a bigger house? What's that really going to do for me?
PH: We believe that users want to express themselves by physical objects that they own within the universe. Home allows people to expand and customize their space so they can invite their friends round, they can hang out with their friends in their space, they can have premium items in their space like pool tables or arcade machines, and that allows people to say, you know what, I'm going to hang out at Chris' place because he's got some cool art on the walls, or a cool patio, or he's just got the new Mount Fuji view. I think there are really compelling reasons to invest your money in fully tricking out your space.
Now, it's hard for me to answer your question fully without telling you how much. Because it's difficult for you to get a sense. We think pricing should be from this much [makes a tiny hand gesture] to this much [opens hands wide] and everything in between.
WN: You're talking about personalizing this as much as possible. Are users going to be able to create their own content? Can I make a shirt for my character, draw it?
PH: Come back in May, and we'll show you some stuff in that area. We wanted to show Home today, and announce it in a way that everybody could get the basic message. But you can clearly see – I can tell that you get it – how this could expand over time. Most of the answers to your questions that I could probably give are, "Yes, that's on the list." The list is incredibly long. And it's our job to prioritize it.
WN: Moving on to Singstar, what labels do you have signed on?
PH: We work with pretty much every record label that there is. We have done over 40 SKUs now, US, all European countries, we've worked with majors, worked with independents, worked with artists directly. Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, EMI…
WN: Are they all signed on to the idea of downloadable content?
PH: We are in advanced discussions with our music partners.
WN: Okay. As far as the video playback in Home, what formats are going to be supported? Is it going to be digital video that you have on a memory stick? Or DVDs, Blu-Ray…
PH: Not DVD, not Blu-Ray because those are copy protected. Any content which is open standard and not copy-protected on your hard drive or memory stick is supported.
WN: And I'll be able to invite my friends over and say, sit in my place and we're going to watch something on my big screen TV.
PH: Exactly as we showed today.
WN: What is going to happen with getting that content up there? Are you going to have to sit there and upload that content to your servers?
PH: It's streamed peer-to-peer to other users.
WN: Okay. What about – I wanted to ask about you using the PlayStation 3 to give your presentation. Is this an official switchover? Is Powerpoint being phased out?
DK: What's Powerpoint? Who makes that? [laughter]
PH: It was a liberating experience to be able to jump from a slide straight into [a video] really quick. It's a great way of showing it. The one part of the equation that I didn't control was the video switching, which is where we had our little snafu. That wasn't me, that was someone sitting at a desk.
WN: Well, that speaks to the usefulness of using a PS3 for the presentation in the first place, because when the video wasn't switching over, you could just swap back to the first PlayStation and load up Home on that. Which for me, having seen the event last night, was like, "Oh, they're not engaged in any trickery here. This is actually…"
DK: No more trickery! That's our motto for 2007.
PH: If you write that, that will make me feel so much better about the snafu, because I hated that.
WN: I will write that.
PH: That will make my day. Because while we would never deceive you, we wanted to make sure that you get a sense of what we're doing. Last night, I thought went great – so polished that I thought you might even suggest that there was some subterfuge.
WN: The other thread that I wanted to follow up on about Home was the publishers adding their own spaces. How is that working – is that something where you're just so into this that you're telling publishers, create your space and we'll host it for free, or is this a thing where they're basically paying Sony to be a part of it?
PH: Forgive me for not sharing all the business models with you in this forum. But we have recently started very detailed discussions with our third-party partners about the potential of Home, and I'm pleased that their reaction was as positive as your reaction and others' today. So we're looking forward to working with our partners on that.
WN: Because it seems like a lot of this is a good advertising venue for you guys. The lobbies are plastered with advertisements. Do you think that is going to draw any pushback from players, who are like, I just want a virtual world to live in, I don't want a giant billboard feeding me advertising constantly?
PH: I think you're absolutely right, I think we do need to be sensitive to it, I think we are sensitive to it. And that's why users can customize their space in their own private apartment, and that's the environment they control, and they are masters of their domain. Not in the Seinfeld sense of the word.
WN: I think at this point, what do you see as the PS3's biggest challenge going forward, after a holiday season that's put you guys at third place in the console race? What do you feel needs to happen from the software side?
PH: Sorry to sound like a broken record, but measure this over a ten-year cycle and not over a three-month cycle. PlayStation 3 has got all the things that we need in order to maintain not only our market leadership but also our growth in the entire industry. We've got the hardware, we've got the software, we've got the network services, we've got the multiple media offerings. I'm very comfortable.
WN: Then what's going on? If all those pieces are in place, why is it not performing to the level you thought it would?
PH: We've outsold our preceding platforms for the same time frame, PS1 and PS2, both of which went on to sell more than 100 million units each. We have great momentum in the marketplace, in Japan and in the US and in Europe where we're shipping in just a couple weeks' time. We're shipping over a million units into the European market, which we've never had that on Day One going into PAL markets before.
WN: This is what I mean about you being very on message. And actually speaking of that, one of the things that you had said prior to launch was that backwards compatibility was a "core value," that you were building a platform with PS3 and that it was so important. But now there's a dialing back on the amount of titles that are going to be backwards compatible with PlayStation 3. How do you reconcile that statement of purpose with what's going on right now?
PH: Well, there's a huge amount of games that are available for PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2. The vast majority of games that people want to play are going to be compatible on PlayStation 3. So I stand by what I've said. I think there's been some confusion in the marketplace about the numbers, but on March 23rd when we launch in Europe there are going to be over a thousand games playable from PS2.
WN: I have a first-run PS3 in the US, with the Emotion Engine chip, and I love playing PS2 games on it. Is that functionality going to be killed with a future firmware update? Are they going to switch all the PS3s over to software emulation?
PH: You can't switch it off.
WN: Are the American PlayStation 3s going to remove the EE/GS chip in future iterations?
PH: I have no idea.
DK: We have no announcements regarding that.


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Hi Bernadette,Thanks for the comments. I sgeugst reading the article I wrote on plantar fasciitis (below) and following the exercises as a starting point. Hiring a really good fascial therapist who has a successful history treating PF would be a good idea too. I have had great success in treating PF. In most cases, moving out of the acute pain stage within 3-4 sessions. Once you are out of the pain stage, it is time to focus on flexibility and corrective exercises to strengthen the arches, knees and hips. You will find a few in this article.Now, my guess is that you have been wearing shoes with a significant heel lift for many years. (I consider the heel lift of most running shoes to be significant). The heel lift in shoes places your achilles tendon in a shortened position. It does not get stretched out fully when you walk. This is compounded by heel strike. Over time the achilles and lower leg muscles in your calf become somewhat permanently shortened. This is the primary issue that causes PF and just about every other foot pain issue. The shortened state places strain through the plantar fascia and other structures which eventually become inflamed (for lack of a better term). This is also the reason going barefoot is so painful. When you are barefoot, you are forcing the full natural range of motion of your now shortened ankle which places excess stress on the achilles tendon. Plus the muscles of the lower leg and arches are not strengthened to handle this new ROM. So they get fatigued quickly. The key will be to work through the active pain of PF. Then begin a rehab process that focuses on increasing flexibility and strengthening the ankle and calves. When it comes to walking around barefoot: I would keep the amount of time down. Spend 5-10 minutes a day at first and over the course of weeks slowly add more time. It MUST be PAIN FREE. Start buying shoes with less of a heel wedge. Don't make a drastic move from the higher heels you are currently wearing to a zero drop over night. But eventually you will want a zero drop shoe, if your foot can handle it. This is a process that will take at least a year and possibly two years to fully adapt into. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more questions. Also, something you didn't mention in the above post. Do you wear orthotics?Jesse James Retherford
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Gingival flap surgery is a kind of gum surgery. The gums are separated from the teeth and folded back for a short time. This lets a dentist get to the root of the tooth as well as the bone.
This kind of surgery is used to treat gum disease. It might be suited to those with advanced or moderate gum disease. Generally, a treatment, which does not need surgery, is performed first. This is known as root planing or scaling. If this treatment doesn't get rid of the gum infection, gingival flap surgery can be used. It as well might be performed together with another procedure called osseous (bone) surgery.
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• Wedding receptions for up to 150 people
• Open bar available (unlimited consumption of house wine, beer and soft drinks)
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The Prague State Opera resides in the building which on January 5, 1888 was opened as a Prague German stage with the performance of Wagner's opera, The Mastersingers of Nürnberg. In the 19th century, Prague Germans performed in the Estate's Theater in alternation with a Czech company.
Among the exceptional artistic figures who performed here were directors Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss, Felix Mottl, Arthur Nikisch and Felix Weingartner. After liberation, the building was handed over to the May 5th Theater, which later became part of the National Theater. Since its inception in 1992, the Prague State Opera has celebrated the tradition of the New German Theater, not only through the space in which it plays, but above all through the dramaturgy and establishment of its own documentation center, which would like to archive the activities of the NDT (New German Theater), since the archive of this theater has unfortunately been irretrievably lost.
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The YES-VertaCoat Silane Vapor System is designed for high-volume production, using an EFEM with one or two load ports and a wafer handling robot inside an integrated Class 1 minienvironment. The system incorporates the laminar flow technology of the YES-PB series. The laminar flow for the process chamber and the clean work cell environment provide the particle control required for nanoscale wafer processing.
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As technology shrinks, there is a growing need for precise control over nanoscale surface areas. Silane vapor deposition is a process that assists in the deposition of monolayer films of various chemistries in order to achieve precise surface modification. Compared to wet chemistry, vapor deposition is the preferred method for coating surfaces with organosilanes, as trapped wet chemicals in high-aspect ratio features, as an example, corrode copper. YES vapor deposition systems provide total environmental control over the deposition process and accommodate a variety of functionally diverse silanes, for a variety of processes, on a variety of surfaces.
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What Are the Different Types of Azaleas?
The azalea is a member of the rhododendron family and a staple of gardens around the world. There are more than 10,000 types of azaleas registered, but only a few are typically available in commercial nurseries. Some of these are hybrids that fall into two basic categories: evergreen and deciduous.
Evergreen azaleas are native to Asian countries such as Japan, and these types of azaleas are the most common. There are two sets of leaves on evergreen azaleas; one set falls off in the spring and the other set falls off in the fall. Flowers measure 2 inches (5 cm) in size and bloom in bold colors such as pink, red, orange, white, chartreuse and purple. There are not yellow flowers. Indica or Indian, Glen Dale and Kaempferi are three common varieties of evergreen azaleas.
Deciduous azaleas that are native to North America are very common in the southern United States and also grow in some parts of Asia. In the United States, these types of azaleas also are sometimes called native azaleas. They bloom in the spring and the leaves fall in autumn. Blooms come in bright pastel colors including pink, red, purple, yellow, white and orange. Some common names for deciduous azaleas are Flame, Alabama and Honeysuckle.
An azalea is either a species or a hybrid. Species azaleas are those that grow from another azalea through pollination and seeds. Azaleas that are species azaleas have not been exposed to other types of azaleas, so there is no crossbreeding. These azaleas prefer a moderate climate, high humidity and rich soil that drains well. They are not as hardy as hybrid azaleas and can easily die when there are extreme changes in conditions.
A hybrid azalea is a cross between an azalea and some other kind of plant. Hybrids can only grow from a cutting of another hybrid. Caring for azaleas has been made easier with the introduction of hybrid varieties, because conditions do not have to be ideal for the plants to thrive. Many hybrids are resistant to extreme temperatures, sun and drought but can be prone to problems when they are grafted with another plant. The three largest groups of hybrids are the Kurume, Belgian Indian and Southern Indian, with several varieties in each group.


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Sunday, February 14, 2010
When you care enough to send the obscure.
Pretty recognizable characters, huh? Can anyone out there explain Mister You-make-me-feel-like-a-hero? We don't even get a power-related pun to go with him!
Is it some type of Thanagarian lingerie perhaps?
6 comments:
- Jamdin said...
El Dorado from the Super-Friends
- February 14, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Kerry Callen said...
Oh! Thank you, Jamdin!
I'm mostly Super Friends illiterate, sadly. I thought it was some sort of revamped Hawkman...
This is the second post in a row where a reader has come to my rescue. I love it.
(Maybe my next post should ask about the meaning of life...)
- February 14, 2010 at 11:13 AM
That Supergirl-Batgirl one cracks me up. Surely someone at the company must've realized what they were implying...?
- February 14, 2010 at 12:25 PM
- Shamus said...
There is even a figure of this guy for 2011 http://www.itsalltrue.net/resources/dcimages/exp/2011/18dor.jpg
and indeed he does look like a revamped Hawkman too me too.
- March 24, 2011 at 7:47 PM
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- May 3, 2011 at 8:16 AM
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I think we can share some comics! I've got a similar blog and it'd be nice if you can bring me your vintages, specially if we are talking about superheros.
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BOCC encourages residents to utilize community resources to resolve conflicts in constructive ways
Contact:Commissioner Karn Stiegelmeier: 970-471-2298
SUMMIT COUNTY – The Summit County Board of Commissioners proclaimed October 2018 to be Conflict Resolution Month in Summit County. In doing so, the BOCC joins with individuals and organizations across Summit County and the State of Colorado committed to productive and nonviolent strategies for dealing with conflict, dispute and disagreement."We have a great lineup of events that highlight a variety resources, tools and strategies available to help people work through conflicts in ways that result in positive outcomes for all involved," Commissioner Karn Stiegelmeier said. "Everyone can relate to the impact of good and bad apologies in this year's book, 'Why Won't You Apologize?'"Conflict Resolution Month is a statewide initiative that builds awareness of practices such as arbitration, mediation, restorative justice and non-violent communication, helping Coloradans deal constructively with conflict. Gov. John Hickenlooper recently issued a statewide proclamation declaring October 2018 as Conflict Resolution Month in Colorado. Locally, a diverse coalition of organizations has come together to advance conflict resolution.The Conflict Resolution Coalition of Summit County was organized in September 2014 to expand awareness of conflict resolution programs and services in the area. The coalition has more than 40 members, including attorneys, educators, mediators, organizational development practitioners, Summit School District, CMC, law enforcement agencies, Summit County Library, the faith community, social services administrators, the Keystone Policy Center and others.The coalition has organized a number of events that will take place locally through the end of October:5-8 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 25: Author Helen Thorpe will sign copies of her new book, "The Newcomers." At 6 p.m., with Summit High School students, Thorpe will make a presentation on the conflicts faced by refugee students. The book is available at The Next Page Books and Nosh, 409 Main St., Frisco.1:30-4:00 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 2: "Why Won't You Apologize?" is a skills seminar that covers the difficulty of giving and receiving apologies and coping with the issues involved. The seminar is based on the 2018 Colorado Conflict Resolution book, by Harriet Lerner. The event will take place in the Hoosier Room, Summit County Community & Senior Center, 0083 Nancy's Pl., Frisco. For more information, contact email@example.com:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25: Rural Resource and Legal Resource Day will take place at the Summit County Justice Center, 501 N. Park Ave., Breckenridge. A class, "Parenting Through Separation and Divorce," will be held from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., in English and Spanish. Interpreters are available. Mediation for domestic cases will be held in the afternoon. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com:30-6:30 p.m., Monday, Oct. 29: "Resilience for Mediators Through Neuroscience" will take place in the Buffalo Mountain Room, Summit County Commons, 0037 Peak One Dr., Frisco. This seminar will be delivered by Michelle Sylvain, MBA, JD, and Jill Squyres, Ph.D. This training on the neuroscience of stress and trauma will help attendees better understand what happens in the human brain, the body and their emotions during high-conflict situations while serving as a caregiver. The seminar will demonstrate how to use trauma-informed tools in a way that facilitates taking care of one's self while caring for a client. Interested attendees must reserve a seat by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com. Continuing legal education credits are pending.Throughout the month of October:
• Dialogue panels will be displayed at the Summit County Justice Center, 501 N. Park Ave., Breckenridge, and the Breckenridge Recreation Center, 880 Airport Rd., Breckenridge.
• Resources for conflict management will be available at the Summit County North Branch Library, 651 Center Cir., Silverthorne.
• Resources for teens in conflict will be on display at the Summit County Teen Center, Summit County Commons, 0037 Peak One Dr., Frisco.
For more information on the Summit Conflict Resolution Coalition, email email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on Conflict Resolution Month in Colorado, visit www.conflictresolutionmonth.org.


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Mon, 31 March 2014
Happy April Fool's Day! This week, the Convert to Raid crew get the information you need about the game you love!
A new WoW Source video with Morgan Webb is coming soon, this time talking about PvP and class changes direct from the game designers. But could there be a leak at Blizzard HQ? The guys intercept some fantastical information with the upcoming changes!
If you could blacklist a couple of 5 man dungeons, would you? Lead Encounter Designer Ion Hazzikostas pondered this on Twitter, which turned into an online poll! But could dungeon blacklisting be bad for the World of Warcraft?
Some new tools are being developed by names we already trust! Ask Mr. Robot will be revealing their brand of combat logs soon, and Wowhead.com just unveiled their class guides for new and boosted 90s. What do they bring to the game, and who are they trying to connect with?
All of that, plus a discussion on professions in WoD, your questions, and more on another intriguing show!
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Mon, 24 March 2014
This week, Koltrane and Pat Krane welcome Derevka for a very fun and informative show on all the latest in World of Warcraft!
Siege of Orgrimmar has been out for over six months, and this is the longest we've ever had to wait for new content in the history of WoW. Was this a communication breakdown between the developers and the rest of the WoW community, did something go wrong, or is this "working as intended" according to the development plan?
Blizzard has made the wait a little easier, however. This week, Blizzard announced that normal and heroic raiding were both going cross realm. Is this move so that raid teams can recruit for Mythic raiding in Warlords, or did the devs do this to try and extend the life of Siege of Orgrimmar?
The crew takes a look at the pieces and give you their insights on these issues and a lot more in another jam packed show!
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Mon, 17 March 2014
This week, Blizzard released the Warlords of Draenor pre-purchase along with the boosts to level 90, but have they caused more issues for raiders in the World of Warcraft? The Convert to Raid crew takes a look into how the new 90s have made their impact on LFR and Flex, along with how much we can expect to pay for the next expansion and when we can expect it.
Could flight not come to Draenor in the next expansion? Blizzard developer Alex Afrasiabi discussed it in a recent interview, and the CtR gang finds some surprising results from their chat room.
Plus, the guys tackle questions on raid and guild leadership issues, news from other Blizzard games, and a bunch more in this week's show!
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Mon, 10 March 2014
This week CtR tackles the latest Dev Watercooler released just a couple of days prior, this one talking about health pools and healing for Warlords of Draenor. The guys break it down and try to keep it all in context for what it could mean for the next expansion.
Plus, a new video was published on YouTube (on the Warcraft account) about the level 90 boost being available, yet it hasn't made it's way to the World of Warcraft site. What does this mean, and when will it be available in game?
And the guys answer a ton of viewer questions, including one about how to examine combat logs during raid. The crew gives you the 411 on some of the key information to look at as well as some great addons to try out.
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Mon, 3 March 2014
This week began the "info dump" from Blizzard, and the guys at Convert to Raid have you covered with tons of information and some really bad jokes.
The latest blog article from Blizzard discusses the process behind a lot of the upcoming changes for Warlords of Draenor, including the stat squish, racial bonus changes, ability pruning, crowd control changes, and more. While the article itself is more general, a couple of developers took to Twitter to give much more detailed information, and the crew helps sort it all out.
What do these changes mean for raiders in World of Warcraft? How will your game be impacted as we head into the next expansion? These changes show a marked difference in the mindset of Blizz, but are they dumbing down WoW or making gameplay choices more interesting?
Plus, we answer several viewer questions, talk about our raid team's expansion, the WoW Insider cutbacks and more!
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Marc-André 2 Figuères dédicacera les 2 affiches (nuit/jour) qu'il a dessiné pour les prestigieuses fêtes de Collioure, lors du vernissage de son exposition "Baigneuses à Collioure" le 17 aout 2013 à partir de 17h.
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Mise en valeur de vos plus beaux points de vue, par des sculptures-cadres® en bronze.
The artist Marc-André 2 FIGUERES proposes the installation of his Points 2 vue® in some fifty cities in France, Europe or the World and even on the Moon, with the publication of a book that brings together the photographs of some of the most beautiful points 2 vue®.
The installation occupies a space with sculptures that are shaped like empty frames serving to highlight a view that is not pictorial but real and directly linked to the spectator's point of view.
The sculpture-frames are not set up randomly but according to a precise objective; a Point2vue that has not only to do with the object but also with the approach. The eye penetrates the frame and glides towards the site that has been selected.
This in-situ installation is also interesting in that the representation of the selected site is a perfect hyper-figuration, it is reality itself, open to all interpretations and none of these interpretations takes away from the others nor do they caricature a single point of view. This reality can only fully exist through an in situ installation; even taking a photograph through the frame reduces it. Alternatively, it is possible to add a webcam in order to transmit the images selected in real time.
Initially conceived as a sculptural gesture, the artist takes his points 2 vue outside of his studio in order to involve them in the lives of these towns, not as decoration but as a social and political act. This essential motivation enables original interactions between diverse elements, the town and the site, the artist who is inspired by it and the public's imagination. The public is then invited to create their own personal museum free of the constraints one encounters in traditional museums. Along with a catalogue representing the 50 most beautiful Points2vue, this artistic installation has become a national and international project. Similarly, the work represents an unquestionable asset for the influence and visibility of the town in which it will be installed.
"POINTS 2 VUE" network as a link between european countries.
The concept is based on the idea of a network by placing the points 2 vue in partnering towns as a link between European countries. More than a work of art, it is also a way of emphasizing the region and the cultural influence that goes beyond the town and the country.
The European Points 2 Vue Networks proposal is the fruit of the first installation that has been in Collioure (in the Pyrénées Orientales region) for the past 15 years and was awarded the patronage of the Ministry of Culture.


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Water fountains have around for several centuries. As a matter of fact, they have always been in the history. The Roman influence on them is powerful even t this day. Because the ancient Roman population was over 1,000,000 individuals, the engineers made eleven aqueducts to convey a stream of water to every individual within the town.
Once the Roman Empire declined, several of those aqueducts got cut, but the Mid Ages has seen a restoration of the many aqueducts and therefore the creation of assorted public fountains. Ever since then garden fountains are talked about everywhere in the planet.
These days water fountains have varied uses, starting from drinking water to being stunning items of engineering art. You will be able to realize various styles which will greatly enhance any garden they're placed in.
Floating fountains that famous which are being talked about in ponds and pools. A wall with a dim light put on it creates a nice flowing sort of a textile curtain. The one with the lion head is one in all the foremost common sorts that return to mind. The alternatives are endless and whether or not you would like it inside or outdoors, you' will be able to realize the appropriate according to your choice.


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It should be no surprise that a discussion of the future of Route 29 North would involve Wendell Wood. The long-active local developer has requested that three changes be made as part of the so-called Places29 master plan, and, at a September 5 work session, the Board of Supervisors seemed game for two of the three.
As much as any individual, Wood has authored the 29N of today, responsible for developing Barracks Road, Wal-Mart, Target and plenty in between, from trailer parks to subdivisions. He sold land to GE Fanuc when the company came to Albemarle in the 1980s, as well as to the federal government for the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) in the late 1990s.
The Board of Supervisors seemed O.K. with two of three requests from Wendell Wood to change the zoning of county land along Route 29N.
And still Wood has thousands of acres left to sprout big boxes or single family houses.
In order to maximize the profit on some of that land, however, Wood needs it rezoned to allow him to develop and sell it to the retailers or the homeowners willing to buy it. Hence, he requested that the Board of Supervisors go ahead and rezone land just south of the Hollymead Town Center in order to accommodate "a large footprint retail store, with surrounding retail and mixed use"—a.k.a., another big box center.
As a carrot, Wood dangled money for a bridge over the South Fork of the Rivanna, needed to complete a road parallel to Route 29 to the west. The County Planning Commission has been skeptical, but staff is open to the idea. For the most part, the Board too was amenable to getting money "for all or part of the cost of the bridge" from Wood.
"We don't have a nickel in our pockets to go building that thing right now as a county, so it's going to have to be built, if it's going to be built at all, with proffered money," said Supervisor David Slutzky, who called the parallel road the linchpin of the Places29 plan. "If we've got a developer who's already shown up…I think it would be inappropriate for us to not take them up on that opportunity." Slutzky went on to say he felt so passionately about the road network, he'd also be open to the idea of expanding the growth area between Hollymead and the South Fork of the Rivanna.
Supervisor Dennis Rooker was more skeptical. "We'd have to be very careful about thinking we're getting something when all we're doing is creating another traffic generator that actually overwhelms the traffic improvements we're so enthusiastic about."
If the Planning Commission didn't want to take an offer on the table, said Chair Ken Boyd, then "show me the money. …I'd like to see how it's going to get built without those proffers." It's worth noting that Boyd's challenger in the fall election is none other than Planning Commission Chair Marcia Joseph.
The Board also generally supported an expansion of the growth area just southeast of NGIC by 53 acres, which the Planning Commission has balked at. The expansion would satisfy the Resolution of Intent the Board passed last year to move at least 30 acres of Wood's land into the growth area so as to encourage Wood to sell additional land to NGIC for an expansion. That transaction has been the subject of numerous C-VILLE articles.
But the supes couldn't support another growth area expansion requested by Wood near NGIC. The amount of land wasn't specified, but involved no less than 100 acres—"some or all of the Rural Areas north and east" of the existing northern most growth area, Piney Mountain. In light of the existing capacity for 49,600 additional residential units to be built in the 29N area, staff, consultants, the Planning Commission and even the supes think the expansion is a bad idea.
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text: No one is sure what effect Russia had on the 2016 presidential election. The U.S. intelligence community and private sector cybersecurity firms are confident that Russian intelligence agencies sponsored efforts to steal and release information from the Democratic National Committee, and from Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta. The stolen emails were mostly banal, but the Trump campaign used them as evidence that Clinton and her party were corrupt and untrustworthy. This may have had the effect of increasing support for Trump, or at least depressing the turnout among would-be Clinton voters. Even small shifts might have changed the result, given the razor-thin margins in key states. But the election was so peculiar in so many ways that it is difficult to attribute the outcome to a single cause. Alleged Russian 'doxing'–the term for stealing and revealing private information–may or may not have been terribly important compared to other factors in a historically strange campaign.


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This will be about Villanova, which plays Michigan for the national championship here Monday night. First, though, some context.
The 3-point shot is no new deal. The NCAA adopted it in 1986. The first Final Four in which a 20-footer was worth three points featured Providence, with Rick Pitino as designer and Billy Donovan as implementer, and UNLV, which hit 13 treys against Indiana, a record that held until Saturday night. Freddie Banks, who made 10 of the 13, said afterward: "Yes, my shooting was tremendous tonight."
Over the intervening three decades, collegiate teams haven't exactly backed away from the trey. In a realm where good big men tend to spend no longer than six months on campus, it has assumed even greater power. Lessons taken from college – drive-and-kick, pace-and-space – can be seen in the NBA. It works the other way, too.
Speaking Sunday, Villanova coach Jay Wright said: "We always look at what the NBA is doing. The Golden State Warriors have been using this for a while. Mike D'Antoni's Phoenix teams had a great influence on us. In fact, Jalen's favorite player was Steve Nash." (Point guard Jalen Brunson is the national player of the year.)
Villanova has long been one of the prime exponents of the trey. Two years ago, Kris Jenkins' 3-pointer at the horn beat North Carolina in the NCAA final. But what the Wildcats did to Kansas, a fellow No. 1 seed, here Saturday seemed an instance of the commonplace being lifted to a rarefied plane.
Of Villanova's first 15 baskets, 13 were 3-pointers. Bill Self called his first timeout not three minutes in, his Jayhawks already down 9-2. He called his second with 13:03 remaining in the first half, his team now 18 points in arrears. He switched defenses and saw the Wildcats, who'd shredded his man-to-man for four treys and a deuce over five possessions, make four treys in a row over a zone.
Said Self: "They got anything they wanted early … We got spread out and our game plan went to crap on how we were going to guard certain actions. Then we got caught in between, and the worst thing you can do defensively is be caught in between."
Villanova would win 95-79. It made 18 treys, obliterating the Final Four record by five. Said Wright: "Man, we made every shot to start the game."
But it wasn't just to start this game, and it wasn't as if Villanova hasn't been doing something similar all along. With the 18 treys, the Wildcats ran their seasonal total of 3-pointers to 454, most ever by a Division I team.
Wright has run a motion offense since his days at Hofstra, where big men were in short supply. His 2005-2006 Villanova team lost so many bigs to injury that he was forced to start four guards. (Mike Nardi, now the Wildcats' director of basketball operations, was one of the four. Kyle Lowry, an NBA All-Star for Toronto, was another.) That team went 28-5 and was a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament; it was eliminated in the Elite Eight by Florida, which had Al Horford and Joakim Noah and was just too big.
Wright no longer deploys four guards – it's just that his big men shoot like guards. Self said he'd asked Bob Huggins, whose West Virginia Mountaineers had been run down by Villanova in the Sweet 16, for advice. Huggins' discouraging text: "You'd better hope (center Omari) Spellman doesn't shoot the ball well."
Spellman, who's 6-foot-9 and 245 pounds, made three treys against Kansas. Forward Eric Paschall, who's 6-9 and 250, made four. This was not by accident. Having big men who can shoot, Wright said, "is invaluable. It's the toughest thing to guard."
Villanova's standard set is called "four out, one in." (A handy breakdown can be found on coachbase.com.) There's always a post player, whose presence in the lane is offset by the other big man -- known as the "slot big" -- flaring to the perimeter. (Ergo, the "four out.") The Wildcats station two guards high and run the usual ball screens and pick-and-rolls. There's nothing terribly revolutionary about that: Villanova just does it better than anybody else.
Wright has long put a premium on shooters, to whom he imparts a golden rule: You're never more open than when you catch the ball. When you've stocked up on shooting and your shooters aren't afraid to miss, you can put up big numbers. The 18 treys against Kansas didn't constitute a Wildcats season high. Villanova's shooting is tremendous most nights.
It also helps that Wright's recruits stick around. "We can't get the one-and-dones," he said, but that has become more asset than debit. All the Wildcats know the system. All of them can make a jump shot. That they run their halfcourt sets at fast-break speed is a function of knowing where to go because they've gone there many times.
As for Michigan: Yes, the Wolverines have a chance. They're the Big Ten champ. They haven't lost since Feb. 6. Villanova, which isn't a great defensive team, will have trouble with Moritz Wagner. John Beilein knows Wright and Villanova well from his days in the Big East with West Virginia. According to Ken Pomeroy's rankings, Michigan is third nationally in defensive efficiency.
But Villanova is No. 1 in offensive efficiency, and the margin between the Wildcats the the No. 2 team is 4.9 percentage points. (The margin between No. 2 and No. 15 is 4.7.) This is only the fifth team since the tournament expanded in 1985 to reach the final while winning every game by at least 10 points. The only one of the previous four not to claim a title was North Carolina in 2016. It lost to Villanova. On a 3-point shot.


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Pittsburgh police release data about use of force
Overall, instances are low, but there are some areas for improvement
A five-year study shows that Pittsburgh police are using less force when controlling and arresting people, but still use more force than statistics would project when arresting black people.
The study released Thursday by Police Chief Cameron McLay recommends further study of several questions, including whether officers respond differently when arresting black people or are simply encountering more resistance from black suspects, and therefore need to use more force.
Mayor Bill Peduto said Friday that officers are undergoing training at all levels of the police bureau to focus on de-escalation rather than using force.
"We have been working to train our officers. They're being trained right now. This will continue through the middle of November, and then provide them with the tools, the necessary weapons, to be able to de-escalate force," Peduto said.
The city has been tracking the force used by its officers since the city entered a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice designed to lower instances of police brutality.
The study crunched numbers from Subject Resistance Reports, which officers must file whenever they use force to control or arrest someone.
Overall, police used force in about four-tenths of one percent of all incidents they handle.
McLay and Peduto also announced the city's entrance into a White House initiative to improve police-data sharing.
Peduto says this will benefit citizens; they'll have more access to more police data. But it will also help police, as they'll have access to more resources with more data. Peduto says information is power.
"If we can get more specific on where crime is happening, what type of crime is happening, what time is it happening, where is the location that it's happening, our officers would be able to better utilize and have more tactical responses," Peduto said.


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Operating a rock quarry may not have been the ideal preparation for the job of legal counsel to InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. But Ralph Thomas says his various life experiences, particularly those working as a small town lawyer, have come in handy preparing him for the job he's held for the last 15 years.
Ralph's career path has taken some unexpected turns, but concluding his career path in a job with a ministry has been unexpectedly fulfilling.
Ralph graduated in 1954 from Penn State University with a degree in chemical engineering. Serving out his military commitment with the U.S. Army in Korea, he was in charge of a platoon that maintained all of the roads between Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone. To keep the roads properly surfaced, they ran a rock quarry.
As an Army officer he also had the opportunity to participate as a judge in military courts martial. "I spent quite a bit of time hearing serious cases," he said "I got interested in it."
Those legal experiences came to mind about ten years later when he reached what appeared to him and his wife Betty as a dead end for his chemical engineering career in the oil business. They were living in New Orleans at the time, and he decided to start attending Loyola University's night school law classes.
After two years of night school, Ralph decided he was doing well enough to use his GI Bill benefits and become a fulltime student. He applied to a number of schools and ended up at the University of Washington.
One of the best things about a legal career is that it can be done just about anywhere. So after graduation Ralph and Betty decided to settle their family in a small town. He joined another lawyer in a practice in Montesano, Washington, population 2500.
After ten years of general practice law, he was appointed court commissioner, which put him back on the judge's bench hearing juvenile cases, domestic violence cases, and other cases that didn't involve jury trials. Eventually he applied for appointment to a judicial vacancy but the governor chose someone from his own political party instead. Then he ran for an open judge's seat but lost that election.
"So I learned a little bit about politics there," Ralph recalled. "When that happened I decided, 'OK God, now you've got my attention, what do you want me to do?' I just had the feeling I should be doing something else."
Having been an elder and delegate in his local Presbyterian Church, he considered ministry-related positions, and took a class to become a church business administrator. But the few interviews that he had were frustrating. "They all decided I was over qualified," he said. "I never got an offer."
After five long years of waiting, Ralph had almost resigned himself to practicing law for the rest of his life. And then, through a contact made by a family friend, he got a letter in the mail from InterVarsity's missions director Dan Harrison. The letter said, "I think we could use you in the Soviet Union."
Ralph and Betty had never heard of InterVarsity. And although they had traveled abroad frequently, the Soviet Union was not high on their list of places to visit. But they responded anyway.
Because of thawing relations between the superpowers, InterVarsity was working with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students to place American Christians into educational positions in the Soviet Union. The original proposal for Ralph was to teach law in Kiev. That didn't work out. So instead, Ralph and Betty ended up in the Ukrainian ship-building city of Nikolayev. In 1991 they, and the two other students who were part of their team, were the only Americans in Nikolayev.
"Betty and I started a Bible study for the faculty," he recalled. Faculty members and even some students attended. The team established a Christian student organization and got it recognized by school officials. But as the end of their second year in Nikolayev approached, the inflation rate was at 100 percent per month. "The Institute just couldn't afford me at that point," he said. "So we came back."
Not sure what to do next, Ralph offered his assistance to InterVarsity's corporation counsel, Yvonne Vinkemulder, at the National Service Center in Madison, Wisconsin. They worked together for several years, and when Yvonne retired Ralph became InterVarsity's corporation counsel.
Over the last 15 years Ralph has helped InterVarsity's staff navigate an increasingly complex legal system. On two different occasions he's also had to help prepare the legal casework as InterVarsity filed federal lawsuits against Rutgers University and the University of Wisconsin-Superior, in order to maintain access for student chapters on public college campuses.
Those cases were resolved in InterVarsity's favor. "We've learned that we have certain rights," he emphasized. Unfortunately, similar pressures against Christian groups exist on other campuses and InterVarsity may have to address them in the years ahead.
But now at the age of 75, Ralph is ready to step down and let someone else take the lead on legal issues. He and Betty have moved back to Washington state, to be closer to their grandkids.
The legal profession has many jobs, some which are quite lucrative. Ralph is thankful that he's been able to use his legal skills to help a ministry like InterVarsity for so many years. His experiences as a private practice attorney in a small town were perfect preparation. "That variety is what made it easy for me to step into this job," he said.
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Mr Thomas Edgar Major was born in Stoke Newington, Middlesex, England in the last months of 1876. He was the son of Thomas Rowe Major (1848-1893) and Mary Simmonds (1851-?).
Both his parents were natives of Dorset and had married in St George's Church, Fordington on Boxing Day 1871 when his father was described as a printer by trade. He had three known siblings: William Henry (b. 1874), George Herbert (b. 1880) and Mary Anne (b. 1883).
Thomas first appears on the 1881 census when he was living at 17 St George's Terrace, Islington. The family would shift to 13 Melgund (?) Road, Islington by the time of the next census in 1891. Thomas, aged 14, had already left school and was working as a clerk. His father passed away in 1893 and the family show up on the 1901 census living at Colne (?) House, Islington, his mother dressmaking to support the household; Thomas was absent, perhaps at sea.
Although not certain with Major first went to sea he first appears on crew manifests in July 1902 when he was working as a waiter aboard Campania, specifying his local address as 17 Roxburgh Avenue, Liverpool and his ship prior to that as Soudan.
Thomas was married in London in late 1907 to Elizabeth Jane Shoard (b. 1879 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex) and the couple would have one child, a daughter named Pearl Georgina Elizabeth (b. 8 October 1909).
On the 1911 census he, his wife and daughter were listed as living at 9 Old Park Villas, Palmers Green, North London, the home of his widowed mother-in-law Sarah Shoard, and he was described as a ship's steward.
Thomas was on board the Titanic for her delivery trip from Belfast to Southampton and when he signed-on again in Southampton for the maiden voyage on 4 April 1912 he gave his address as Criterion Res., (Southampton). His previous ship had been the Olympic and as a bath steward he received monthly wages of £3, 15s.
Thomas Major died in the sinking and his body, if recovered, was never identified.
What became of his widow Elizabeth is not certain but she may have remarried several years later.
His daughter Pearl was married in 1930 to Robert Spearmint Leach and is thought to have had one child. Her second marriage was in 1960 to Ralph Griffin. Pearl settled in Hove, Sussex and died there in 1989 aged 79.


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The exhibition "Dans mon Coeur" will be held on the cymas of the "Romană Art Gallery" from Bucharest , from 9th of March to the 1st of April 2017.
Author: Claudiu Victor Gheorghiu, Senior Editor at Culture at the Intell News agency as well as at the newspaper Jurnalul Bucurestiului, who are media partners with "Romană Art Gallery" from Bucharest.
2nd of March 2017
Press release
Galeria Romană is pleased to invite you Thursday, March 9, 2017, 7:00 pm, at the exhibition opening "Dans mon Coeur", the artist Christian Paraschiv.
Founding member, along with Paul Gherasim of Prolog group, representative artist of the 80's generation, Christian Paraschiv proposes an unusual exhibition. Oils on canvas, drawings on transparent paper, transfer radiography and gold foil, graphite on canvas, small tapestry, all deals with the theme intersection of biological sciences and their incorporation into fine art. Recent personal experience, through medical examinations type MRI and other specialized technologies, is currently the artistic response to the exhibition.
Concerned over time in experimentalist zone of Bio-Art, Christian Paraschiv is one of the first artists in the world who have created works based on anatomical studies of her own body, DNA, medical imaging, techniques for making artificial skin by sampling cells, and more. Emblematic works are present in important collections, institutional and private, in France, United States, Belgium, Britain, Germany, Romania.
The exhibition "Dans mon coeur" presents such interpreted images of his own heart, using techniques of the most diverse, causing a confrontation between the observer's gaze on the process alive, biological, and interaction with the artistic conscience of the creator.
Christian Paraschiv lives and works in Paris since 1986, and starting 2010 he works in the studio of master Paul Gherasim in Bucharest, due to the desire of the latter.
The exhibition is open from 9 March to 1 April 2017, and the visiting schedule is:
Monday-Friday: 10: 00-18: 00
Saturday: 10: 00-15: 00
Galeria Romană Bd. Lascar Catargiu 1, Bucureşti. (Piaţa Romană).
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