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Keep your PIN safe
Most Irish payment cards now use 'Chip and PIN' technology meaning they contain a micro-chip that helps prevent counterfeiting or cloning fraud. Cardholders use a PIN (Personal Identification Number) instead of signing to authorise payments. It is very important for cardholders to keep their PIN safe.
- Do not write your PIN down or carry it with your payment card
- Do not tell anyone your PIN
- Know that your bank or card issuer will never ask you for your PIN
- Never disclose your PIN over the phone or on the Internet
- Don't mistake the 3-digit Card Security Code (CSC) on the back of your card for your PIN. They are not the same thing
- Do not allow your payment card to be taken out of your sight when you are paying for goods or services. If the till is not nearby, go with the staff member to make the payment
- Keep your card issuer's phone number handy, for reporting lost or stolen payment cards
- If you do not protect your payment card or PIN, or you give them to someone else, you may be held liable for unauthorised transactions.
Access BPFI's Fraud Prevention Guide
Retain receipts
Retain receipts to reconcile them against your statements. If there are transactions on your account that you do not recognise, contact your bank or card issuer immediately in order to have the issue investigated.
Using your payment card abroad
- In some countries you are asked to provide photo identification (e.g. a passport), to key in a PIN and/or to sign a receipt in order to verify a transaction. These are simply added security procedures carried out by some shops – similar to the way in which shops here might ask you to initial your cash back on a debit card transaction. Chip and PIN is a European initiative and is operational in Ireland.
- You may wish to advise your bank or card issuer in advance of travelling abroad. In order to protect against fraudulent transactions on your card, banks operate fraud monitoring systems which alert them to unusual spending patterns. Generally the card issuer will contact the cardholder on detection of these unusual spending patterns.
Keeping your cards safe when travelling abroad
Information to help you keep your payment cards safe when travelling abroad is available on our website here.


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In large cities such as Singapore, space comes at an absolute premium, and therefore apartments tend to be compact and perfunctory. For most of us, a small bathroom is a way of life. Even those who reside in larger condominiums or townhouses tend to have the inevitable tiny guest bathroom, or ensuite. The good news is, compact bathrooms are not the end of the world, with a few handy alterations and modifications, a minuscule washroom can be reconfigured to provide a comfortable, and ultimately stylish place to bathe.
Today on homify we are taking a look at how to maximise space within your bathroom, with a few handy tips and tricks to create a practical, yet sophisticated wet room. From simple solutions such as reducing clutter and improving storage, to a more involved approaches of employing well-configured fixtures and unique colour schemes, we've got you covered! Check out the exciting examples and ideas below, and ensure you get the most from your compact bathroom.
First things first, let's talk about bathroom storage. Many of us tend to accumulate an ungodly array of all manner of toiletries and cosmetics. Essentially, these items take up space, and within a small bathroom, this can cause an organisational nightmare. It's time to clear out all of those unwanted, and more importantly, unneeded accessories, and tidy up any clutter.
When it comes to storage within a small bathroom, it can be tricky finding furniture that fits the bill. Often pieces are too large, cumbersome, or simply don't conform to awkward dimensions or spaces. This is where built-in shelving can really offer a sophisticated alternative. Take a peek at this example. The built-in shelves provide a handy place to keep accoutrements, and could easily hold baskets to look after smaller items. The shelf is also illuminated, adding a warm glow within the room, and looking extremely elegant. The best thing about built-in shelving is that it can be designed to fit almost any bathroom, despite its compact size. Chat to a professional if you are considering this for your own home, and rethink your bathroom with style.
Colours and tiles have a huge impact on the overall aesthetic and ambience of your bathroom. If you have a small space, you will probably want to avoid using huge amounts of brightly coloured or contrasting hues. However, colour can still be implemented with more neutral tones to evoke a sense of depth. Contrary to popular belief dark shades can actually look brilliant in small rooms, and work beautifully to create a moody and rich atmosphere. Use in moderation, and always pair with soft subtle lighting, minimal furniture, and consult an interior designer if you have any queries.
This example is a good demonstration of how to utilise different patterns and colours in a compact space, without impeding on the overall spacious feeling or vibe. The theme is nautical, and utilises a seaside palette of blues, whites, and light browns. The patterned tiles behind the basin add interest and a uniqueness to the room, while the vibrant blue tiles are used minimally to create a serene restfulness.
Bright lighting is always a welcome sight within a bathroom. It is evocative of hygienic spaces, and helps to suggest the room is clean, sanitary, and fresh. As a bonus, bright well-lit bathrooms also feel more spacious, working perfectly in conjunction with a white or neutral colour scheme.
Within this bathroom we are greeted with a minimalist space that utilises a few simple yet thoughtfully chosen fixtures and colours. The bright and crisp while walls and ceiling exudes elegance and a contemporary edge, while the timber flooring is a nice contrast, seen again in the mirror frame. The basin is neutral and earthy, allowing the occupant a warmth and inviting ambience.
Fittings can make or break a bathroom. With correctly chosen pieces, the room will look fabulously open and as spacious as possible. However, if fixtures are bulky and do not integrate well with the shape and size of the space, the room will end up feeling cramped and cloistered.
The bathroom above is particularly well designed. As we can see this space is extremely compact, and normally in this situation it would be impossible to include a bath. However, utilising ingenious fixtures, the room not only have a bath, but also a shower, and neat basin as well.
Built-in shelving is employed to save space, while the bath and sink overlap, expertly using the corner area. The colour scheme is neutral, and lighting is bright and sophisticatedly placed.
Awkward spaces are a common challenge in small bathrooms. Often the inherent nature of a small bathroom is that it is located in a nook, or unusual area of one's home. To combat this, it is important to think outside the box, and use a little creativity. If you are unsure how to go about this, a professional architect or bathroom designer is your best option.
In this image above we see a space that has beautifully included the shower within a corner of the room that may have been overlooked due to its awkward placement. Generally we tend to place the basin next to the window, but in this case it would have made the arrangement and position of the other fixtures extremely difficult. Instead, the shower takes up the window area, looking inventive and highly unique. Paired with an elegant timber vanity and matching mirror, this room is original and full of character.
Last, but certainly not least, we arrive at the use and inclusion of mirrors and reflective surfaces. Mirrors have long been used as an easy and effective way to increase the apparent size of various domestic spaces. From bedrooms to living rooms, handy, inexpensive, and timeless mirror can drastically alter one's perception of a room. There are also a plethora of different designs and implementation options. You may want to consider adding some additional storage space with a mirrored medicine cabinet, or perhaps an entire wall of reflective glass.
This bathroom is a beautiful example. The colour scheme is neutral and spacious, the fixtures are thoughtfully considered, appropriately sized, and the mirror adds an element of elegance. This sophisticated space is a great combination of a number of factors, all which contribute to a welcoming, and age-defiant bathroom.
If you would like some more bathroom tips and tricks, check out our other Ideabook: 6 easy steps to a fancy bathroom

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Editor's note: The following story is the first chapter in Jim Becker's "Saints, Sinners and Shortstops," his 2006 memoir recounting his life as a journalist, including stints as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press and as a columnist for the Star-Bulletin.
It was once claimed that only seven Westerners had ever set eyes on the Dalai Lama in his secluded Himalayan Kingdom. One of them, Heinrich Harrer, a German who spent seven years as an advisor to the Dalai Lama and wrote a book about it, has had his life made into movie, too.
So in April of 1959, when the Dalai Lama decided to flee, on foot, to India ahead of the Chinese takeover of his country, it was the major international news story of the day. The usual suspects among the foreign corresponding corps, of which I was one, were dispatched to India to report on and, most importantly, to photograph his flight to freedom.
Photographs, however, were another matter. Given the primitive communications of the day (no cell or video phones; even satellites were not in general use), the only method of dispatching photographs was via a single "Radiophoto" circuit from Calcutta, several hundred miles southeast of Tezpur, to London.
The Radiophoto circuit could send but one picture at a time, and each took nearly 20 minutes to transmit.
The circuit was the target of the two major news agencies in the field. The one who managed to convey a photograph from Tezpur to the Radiophoto office in Calcutta and file it first would score a considerable journalistic scoop, a word then still in vogue.
I did everything I could think of to ensure that AP would file that first picture. I chartered an airplane to fly the film from Tezpur to Calcutta. (So did UPI.) I arranged for a fast car with a manic driver to speed the precious cargo from the airport to the Radiophoto office in town on a dusty, two-lane road crammed constantly with sacred cows, jaywalking villagers unaware of the threat posed by a speeding motorcar, pedicabs, pushcarts and countless pye-dogs who moved reluctantly from their resting places in the middle of the road. I engaged a crew of Indian boys with AP signs to form a human chain that would direct us from the airplane to the waiting car. And I bought the only photographic shop with a darkroom in the vicinity of the Radiophoto office. (One of the best deals AP ever made; after the event I sold it at a slight profit.)
Then there was nothing to do but wait. It was a dangerous time in South Asia. India and Pakistan were growing increasingly antagonistic, a feeling that would build into a major shooting war in a few years. The Chinese were exceedingly anxious about intrusions into their air space, which they declared now included Tibet. This precluded any attempt to fly into it to check on the Dalai Lama's progress.
Nehru was nervous, too. He hated the spotlight beaming on his impending guest at a time when he was trying to placate his Chinese neighbors. Border skirmishes and discrepancies between Indian and Chinese maps had resulted in a sometimes acrimonious exchange with China in the 1950s called Hindi-Chini bhai-bhai (Hindi for "India and China are brother"). Nehru got a shooting war with China in 1962 for his pains.
In the midst of these powder kegs, the gaggle of foreign correspondents gathered at the Great Eastern Hotel in Calcutta, eyeing each other warily, and waiting for the signal to fly to Tezpur and meet the mysterious refugee.
During this vigil, a correspondent for the Daily Express of London, then a newspaper with pretensions of importance, decided to give us a lesson in British tabloid journalism. The correspondent excused himself from a gathering in the hotel bar -- just as his turn to buy a round approached -- and was gone for half an hour or so. Not long after his return, many of us received angry cables from our home offices demanding that we match an exclusive Daily Express story describing in copious detail the Dalai Lama's entourage as it made its way through the foothills of Tibet to impending freedom in India.
The Express correspondent had, of course, repaired to his hotel room and concocted the story out of whole cloth. It began with the fetching lead, "I flew over the Dalai Lama today," went on to name the plane's pilot (a fictitious tea planter), and described in flamboyant detail the spinning prayer wheels and fluttering banners of the procession.
Soon after, word came that the Dalai Lama and his party were indeed approaching the Indian border, and we all flew to Tezpur to cover the real story, and to take those precious photographs and rush them back to the Radiophoto office and file them -- FIRST!
The refugee procession made it into town. There were no fluttering banners or spinning prayer wheels, just dusty shaven-headed monks in saffron-colored robes, including the Dalai Lama himself, a small and shy man who nevertheless appeared pleased to have reached safety.
The Dalai Lama was led to a platform and a microphone which the Indian government had provided for a news conference. Standing alongside his interpreter, a husky Indian with a beard and a lovely head of wavy hair, he submitted to questions from the press corps. He had no English at this time, and was very cagey in his own language, perhaps because in his wildest nightmares he'd never dreamt of venturing so far from his sheltered palace or subjugating himself to the scrutiny of so many strange-looking individuals.
After the conference we wrote and dispatched our stories, and then the race was on to get the pictures to the office in Calcutta, and thence to London and the waiting world.
The plane carrying AP's precious cargo of film, and the less important occupants such as the photographer and me, sped down the runway and took off almost simultaneously with the UPI plane.
Whereupon my best-laid plans began immediately to unravel. The direct route, and the fastest, from Tezpur to Calcutta was right over India's neighbor, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The previous day, the Pakistanis had shot down an Indian Air Force plane that they claimed (probably correctly) was taking pictures of Pakistani military installations, and they announced they would shoot down any other planes intruding in Pakistani airspace.
This warning was not lost upon the pilot of the AP plane. He refused to risk the direct flight, choosing instead to fly around East Pakistan, adding at least half an hour to our flight time. The UPI pilot apparently had no such fears, and fortunately for him, if not for me, was not shot down.
Hence when the photographer and I arrived at the Calcutta airport we were informed that the UPI plane had landed well before us. We did our best to make up the time. We dashed down the chain of AP signs to the waiting car, whose driver blew his horn non-stop all the way to town, scattering cows, roosters and villagers with no distinctions. We rushed into our darkroom, developed three photos -- the limit was three -- and I hustled next door to the Radiophoto office with three wet prints over my arm. Too late. Three UPI Radiophotos were on file ahead of me, and the first one was just about to be transmitted. I had lost in a photo finish, thanks to a chicken pilot.
This defeat did not escape the attention of the AP photo editors in London. Within minutes I received the first of an increasingly furious series of cables, all marked URGENT, at about two bucks a word. It read:
In journalistic cable-ese, "HOW OURS" is not a polite request for feeble excuses about craven pilots. It is a scream of anguish, a veiled threat that you can be replaced, a demand for action.
I tried bribery, cajolery, even threats of suicide in an attempt to get one of my photos moved up in the queue, to no avail.
Soon came a second cable: URGENT BECKER SECOND UPI DALAI LAMA PHOTO ROLLING NOW OUR SUBSCRIBERS UPSET ANXIOUS. AP PHOTOS LONDON
The third one was even nastier.
I began contemplating another line of work, something less stressful, after I received the following:
Bad news, indeed. But within minutes the sky cleared and the birds began to sing and all was right with the AP world. I was handed a fourth cable:
And I knew right away that God had saddled me with a cowardly pilot but he had more than leveled the playing field by matching me with a UPI correspondent named Earnest Hobrecht, who was almost certainly the only member of the entire foreign press corps who had no idea what the real Dalai Lama must look like.
People who worked with him told me that Ernie was one of those journalistic accidents, a classic example of the Peter Principle in action. He was, I believe, a salesman who was promoted to newsman when a vacancy suddenly appeared and he was available. He probably could not have located Tibet on a map and he was obviously uninformed about the tonsorial habits of Tibetan monks.
Ernie had sent three Radiophotos of the wrong man. He had sent photos of the wavy-haired and bearded Indian interpreter, who was, after all, the man standing behind the microphone. And to make certain that a good clear picture emerged at the other end of the Radiophoto circuit, Ernie had carefully cropped out of each picture the insignificant shorn man in the monk's robe who was standing next to the Indian interpreter -- the Dalai Lama.
Two things then happened simultaneously. One man handed me a copy of the The Statesman, the excellent newspaper published just down the street, and he passed me another cable from London. I looked at The Statesman first. There, on the front page was a huge, six-column blank space. It was where a photo of the Dalai Lama was to have appeared. Then I read the cable:
Regards indeed. The first kind words I had heard all day.
All became clear. The Statesman had planned to run the photo six columns wide on its front page, and received the KILL order just in time to chisel the photo out of the plate used to print the front page, leaving a huge blank space.
I then wrote the cable that has passed into journalistic legend:
I went back to the hotel, where the news of the killed photos had preceded me. The assembled press corps insisted that I mount the bar and relate, in detail, the tale of the right Dalai Lama.
Ernie was not there to enjoy it. He had retired to his room and did not emerge for two days. The next I heard of him, he was selling real estate in Oklahoma, I believe.
When I finished the story, grown men collapsed around me in tears of joy and spasms of laughter.
When composure was restored, several members of the audience insisted that I tell it again, and I did, and I have ever since, at the gatherings of foreign correspondents, in Tokyo or Washington, New York or London.


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Gentrification panic, boho narcissism, and aging anxiety have always seemed like suspiciously confluent mental conditions, and the revival of Philip Hartman's 1987 Alphabet City grime opera No Picnic illustrates that this peculiar urban syndrome existed long before the arrival of Barnes & Noble, Kmart, or even delicious, convenient Starbucks. Macabee Cohen (David Brisbin), a thirtysomething jukebox technician with a terminal case of interior monologue, navigates a rapidly upscaling East Village of run-down walk-ups, guest-listed punk clubs, and endless stretches of dirty-blanket sidewalk sales. "In our neck of the woods, the more things change, the more things change," he narrates, over shots of shuttered storefronts clad in real estate signs. To Cohen, his 'hood isn't the no-wave playground of cool-kid legend; it's a cramped hipster gulag wherein he continuously bumps into reminders of his long-gone salad days: a woman he thinks he knocked up, the guy from high school who married the girl Cohen wanted, someone who remembers him from his long-defunct band Three Legged Dog.
Well shot in fat-grained monochrome 16mm (by experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton, who typically turns his lens toward expansive landscapes), No Picnic partakes of the shabby-chic downtown aesthetic that was once a New York cinematic mainstay, from Robert Frank and Al Leslie's upbeat Beat-era Pull My Daisy to the depress-o-vision nasties of Richard Kern and Nick Zedd to the crossover indies of Matthew Harrison, Jim Jarmusch, and numerous others. In this case, the recipe gets a neo-noir twist, complete with a tough-talking prostitute and Cohen's ceaseless voice-over narration, a deadbeat drone of corny bitterisms.
Though surely crafted in the seedy mold of its day, No Picnic
doesn't transcend the era as some of its contemporaries do, working mostly as a museum specimen of bygone sensibilities. The film's grim view of East Village life makes it an almost ironic choice to topline the film portion of this year's Howl Festival (which was founded and run by Hartman, with screenings at his Pioneer Theater). While Howl exists to celebrate the vibrant artistic output of decades past, No Picnic provides a decidedly uncelebratory vision of old bohemia. Even so, the blinkered self-absorption of Macabee Cohen may be closer to the inner experience of some downtown denizens, though separating historical reality from scene-mythologizing cliché remains challenging.
Another aspect of the countercultural vision—social commentary served with inspired lunacy—may be found in Robert Downey Sr.'s 1970 rarity Pound, which gets a Howl-affiliated run at Anthology in a new director's cut. In this follow-up to Downey's 1969 race satire Putney Swope, Pound's ensemble cast play a cageful of wayward dogs awaiting execution at the city animal shelter, including a punch-drunk boxer (Stan Gottlieb, complete with robe and gloves), an aged, snooty Pekingese (Lucille Rogers), a bald, crazy Mexican hairless (Lawrence Wolf)—and a cameo by Robert Downey Jr. as a lost puppy. Part wacky comedy (with plenty of jailhouse humping), part existential allegory, Pound betrays its stage-play roots with too much actorly grandstanding but is peppered with ecstatic funk-powered freak-outs. (Downey kicks off Howl in person with Greaser's Palace, his 1972 psychedelic Christ-parable cowboy flick.)
Still evolving at press time, Howl's lineup includes the premieres of local features and tributes to East Village personages like '80s club proprietor Gary Ray and actor Luis Guzm (who appears in No Picnic). Ephemeral-film collector Dennis Nyback's show "The Open Road" presents vintage car-culture shorts, including the driver's-ed legend Mechanized Death and the alluringly titled Hitchhiking—The Road to Rape, while a screening and exhibit devoted to '60s Lower East Side expanded-cinema artist Aldo Tambellini seems right on time for the contemporary multimedia art moment.


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Name: David Garcia
Team: Hassle Free Barbell Club
Coach: Kevin Doherty, Paul Doherty & Zygmunt Smalcerz
Hometown: San Francisco, Calif.
Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colo.
Year of birth: 1989
Weight class: 105
Height: 5-9
What year did you begin lifting? 2003
How did you get involved? High School Football
Favorite Competition Lift? Clean & Jerk
Favorite Training Lift? Romanian Deadlift
Education: B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from U.C. Davis
Personal Goals: Make the Pan-Am and World Teams in 2014 and 2015 and the Olympic Team in 2016
Favorite Food: Ribeye Steak cooked medium rare
Favorite Book: The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Favorite TV Show: Breaking Bad
Favorite Song: "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie
Hobbies/Interested outside of Weightlifting: Molecular biology, nutrition, my dog, computer building and gaming
Most people don't know that…. I am a fan of Broadway musicals.


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Pollution and politics in a congressional standoff
As the genial host at a White House dinner party, Ronald Reagan could not resist getting off a one-liner. He would have preferred a barbecue in the Rose Garden, he said, but all that smoke from the flaming grills might have violated the Clean Air Act. The gag evoked a chuckle from his guests. But environmentalists around the nation were not amused. They see the wisecrack as just one more sign of the Administration's hostility to maintaining the quality of the nation's air.
Central to the argument is the Clean Air Act, one of the more...
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Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said on Tuesday that Russian special forces were operating in eastern Ukraine to undermine a presidential election due on May 25 and he called on Moscow to pull them out.
At a news conference after meeting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, Yatseniuk also urged Russia to remove its troops from Crimea, annexed by Moscow last month.
"Everything that is now happening in the east and which Russia is supporting is aimed at wrecking the presidential election," Yatseniuk said.
"We demand that our Russian neighbours immediately recall their special forces, which are in the east, recall the army from Crimea and turn this shameful page in which Ukrainian territory has been seized by Russian troops."
Thanking the United States for its support, following offers of aid during Biden's visit that is intended to help ensure a viable election and to fight what Biden called the "cancer" of endemic corruption in Ukraine, Yatseniuk said: "The Ukrainian government understands that money is only given to those countries which are truly fighting corruption.
"One of the key tasks of my government and the new president will be the struggle, and victory over corruption."
He also said he would welcome "the widest possible" cooperation with U.S. and EU companies in the energy sector, which would help Ukraine reduce its dependence on Russian gas.Last Mod: 22 Nisan 2014, 14:35


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The majority of historians concur that the duvet come from countryside Europe where the winter seasons are rough and ruthless. A duvet is a little and flat bag filled with feathers of an elder duck, which is believed at that time to offer the very best degree of insulation. Modern duvet use a variety of products– cotton, wool, silk, artificial fibers such as polyester batting, etc.– to accomplish the exact same result. No senior ducks were damaged in the writing of this article!
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A 3-2 win against the "Baggies" yesterday saw us snatch third place therefore guaranteeing us Champions League football again next year.
Perhaps more importantly, well for me at least, a win yesterday means that T*ttenham finish fourth….
Now excuse my ignorance here but I am fairly sure that 4th is below 3rd in the table. What's that? It is you say.
Well in that case allow me to wish you a very happy St Totteringham's Day.
Well I am so glad to see that the much talked of "Power Shift" in North London is still in effect and that Spurs best team in living memory has done oh so well.
Except they didn't…Hahahahahahahahaha. Let this be a lesson to all of you fans of the chicken on a basketball lads; premature gloating,boasting and a chip on the shoulder that McCains would be proud of get you precisely nothing.
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M Nazif Shahrani is Professor of Anthropology, Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington, has served two terms as Chairman of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program at IU. Shahrani is an Afghan-American anthropologist with extensive field research in Afghanistan, and has studied Afghan refugee communities in Pakistan & Turkey. Since 1992 he has also conducted field research in post-Soviet Muslim republics of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. He is interested in the impact of Islam on social life, institutional dynamics and political culture of Muslims, problems of state-failure, role of nationalism in social fragmentation in multi-ethnic nation-states, and the political economy of international assistance to postcolonial failing states and its consequences. He grew-up bilingual in Uzbek & Tajik/Dari/Farsi, learned Pashtu, Kyrgyz, English and some Arabic.
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A Computational Study of the I-35W Bridge Collapse
Principal Investigator:
Minmao Liao, Taichiro Okazaki
October 2009
Report no. CTS 09-29
Projects: A Computational Study of the I-35W Bridge Collapse
Topics: Bridge design and sensing, Data and modeling
Reported evidence suggests that failure of gusset plates initiated the collapse of the I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The particular gusset plates were at a panel point designated as U10. Therefore, a computational study was conducted on the condition of the U10 gusset plates at the time of bridge collapse. The primary objectives of this study were: (1) to evaluate previous research and existing design methods for gusset plate connections; (2) to examine the mechanical condition of the U10 gusset plates at the time of the collapse; (3) to examine possible scenarios that led to the collapse of the entire bridge; and (4) to identify research needs to improve the design methods for gusset plate connections. The forces delivered to panel point U10 were reproduced using available information of the bridge. The truss forces were introduced to detailed nonlinear, three-dimensional finite element models to calculate stress and strain states of the gusset plates. The results indicate that substantial portions of the U10 gusset plates were yielded at the time of collapse, confirming earlier findings from federal and state investigations. Insufficient strength of the gusset plate, along with weight increase due to past deck reconstruction and construction material and equipment staged on the day of collapse, were identified as the main contributing factors to the substantial yielding. It is important to note that, even with the weight increase, the gusset plates would not have yielded substantially if the gusset plates had adequate thickness. The results also suggest that the interaction of compression and shear played an important role in the gusset plate failure and should be addressed in gusset plate design. This interaction is not well understood based on available research.
This research was also published in the Journal of Structural Engineering:
Nonlinear Finite-Element Analysis of Critical Gusset Plates in the I-35W Bridge in Minnesota
Journal of Structural Engineering 137, 59 (2011); doi:10.1061/(ASCE)ST.1943-541X.0000269 (10 pages)
Minmao Liao, Taichiro Okazaki, Roberto Ballarini,Arturo E. Schultz, and Theodore V. Galambos.
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|Map of the area at Red's Meadow Resort
June 18th, Wednesday
896ish to 912ish
The next morning, we had a hard time getting out of bed, because it was still freezing (no wonder— we were camped at 10,000 feet). We laid in bed and looked at our maps. Ten miles ahead, just 3/10s of a mile off trail, was a place called Red's Meadow Resort. We hadn't supplied there because it was a bit too far from Independence, and because they charged even more than VVR did to hold packages, but we decided that we were definitely going there. I had been out in the woods too long, and it was driving me crazy. There would not be free burgers, but there would be a roofed building where you could buy chips, and that sounded pretty amazing right now.
My blister had pretty much healed by today, so we power-walked toward Red's Meadow, with the mountains rising around us, sometimes clearing to reveal gorgeous meadows, sometimes parting to reveal huge ranges of mountains beyond.
On the trail, we came across bits of wood arranged on the trail: 900. We had reached 900 miles! For some reason, that felt so much more impressive and hardcore than 800 miles.
At last we found ourselves skirting along the side of a mountain through a forest, and we saw a sign for Red's Meadow Resort, and took the detour. I looked through the trees and saw a roof. And then another one. Hallelujah, manmade structures! They looked incredible to me. There was something so restful about straight lines and right angles and metal, after all the organic lines of the forest. I almost cried to see a simple manmade structure.
"I'm a really bad backpacker," I told Zach.
We reached the main building of the resort, low and long. Tourists milled about, getting ready for horseback rides or trying to catch a bus to the nearby town of Mammoth. I stared in awe at them: they were so… clean. And wearing bright colors. And there were children! I hadn't seen children since the trail magic at Walker Pass. It was so strange to see families.
We dropped our backpacks at one of the picnic tables and stepped inside the general store. It was fairly well-stocked, decorated on the edges with caricatures of different people who worked at the store. The cashier welcomed us and told us to sign the trail register. (We saw that we were right behind Ché!) We wandered around, trying to decide what to do. Then a thought occurred to me, and I asked the cashier where the bathrooms were. She pointed to a building outside. I practically ran over there.
The bathrooms exceeded my wildest expectations. I walked in and there were sinks. And a mirror. And a FLUSH TOILET. I rushed to the toilet first. After three and a half weeks in the woods, a flush toilet was a luxury almost beyond my imagination. I was tempted to flush it twice just for the novelty of it.
Then I went to wash my hands— which I hadn't done in a couple weeks either, other than sanitizing them with GermX. The water turned black under my hands. Then I looked up, and stared at my face in the mirror.
What I saw shocked me. Again, it had been almost a month since I'd actually looked in a mirror, and that had been a really tough three and a half weeks. My face was tanned and ruddy, caked in dirt. My blue eyes blazed out from my darkened skin (I mean, I'm still about as white as you can possibly get, so any shade darker is noticeable to me), looking haunted and a bit wild. My own face looked thinner to me, as did the rest of my body. My thighs were the same size as always, but now instead of padded with fat, they were solid muscle. I looked thin and beat-up and scared. I began to realize why people were so eager to give me food— I looked pretty starved.
I rolled up my sleeves and began washing some of the grime off my arms, wiping them down with a paper towel. I knew my legs were caked in dirt, and my hair had a buildup of dirt that I just tried not to think about. At about the two-week mark, I had felt so dirty that I could barely stand it. But now, I had adjusted. I had reached a certain level of dirtiness, and I felt like it couldn't get worse. One of the tourists eyed me nervously, trying not to stare, as she washed her hands.
"It's been three and a half weeks without running water," I told her.
"Wow," she said, and practically ran away.
I left the bathroom, vowing to return at least once before we left, and found Zach in the general store eyeing the chips. I began to realize that he had changed, too. It was difficult to tell with his beard, but his face was getting very gaunt. His body was thin, and he'd lost a lot of muscle from his shoulders and arms. His exposed skin, like mine, was caked with dirt.
"They have flush toilets," I told him in an awed whisper.
Zach held up a massive "party-sized" bag of tortilla chips. "These are four dollars."
"Let's get them."
In the end, we spent very frugally: one bag of chips, an apple, a bottle of Tabasco habanero sauce (he had run out before the Sierra), and six Red Vines. We sat down on a couch near the counter. I sat there and savored the feeling of sitting. I had not sat on an actual couch since Tehachapi, and not even a chair since Independence a week ago.
I ate the apple— the first fresh food in a week. It was incredible.
After that, Zach and I wandered outside and sat at a picnic table. He used our stove to cook some refried beans, and then we ate the entire bag of chips with the beans. My mouth felt overloaded with salt and I was almost sick to my stomach, but I felt like I needed every single one of those 2,000 calories.
Unfortunately, Zach started feeling really sick to his stomach now. This was a problem that would ongoing from now until the end of the trail. We figured he had just eaten too much, but we didn't know what the actual cause was (and never did). We had to chill for a while as he tried to let his food digest.
At last, he felt well enough to walk, so it was time to head out. We left the resort and started down the trail toward the PCT. We came to a crossroad of several trails and looked around in confusion, trying to figure out which one would lead us back to the trail. As we were standing there, a family group came hiking up. Seeing our appallingly dirty condition and massive backpacks, they asked us if we were PCT hikers.
"So what mile is this?" they asked.
"906," I replied proudly.
They responded with heartwarming enthusiasm, and then proceeded to ask us all kinds of questions. There were several adults and a couple kids, including a little girl (probably six or seven), who hung behind her mom and looked at us shyly. They were really nice, visiting from the Bay Area, and we were happy to chat with them.
We told them about what it had been like so far— the trials in the desert, the windmill battles, the amazing trail angels, the snowy passes in the Sierra.
As we talked, it suddenly occurred to me that what we were doing was impressive. Like, it actually was. I had been around so many other hikers lately who seemed to be doing so much better than us— having more fun, finding everything easy, loving every minute— that I had forgotten that it actually was hard. I had been a crybaby over the past few days, but this was a genuine challenge. It wasn't just all in our heads. I know it may sound silly from the outside, but when you're inside the trail and comparing yourself to other hikers, you can start feeling like a total wimp.
I was also happy to tell the people that I loved California more than ever before— the people here thus far had been incredible, and the small towns were charming. They were thrilled to hear that we liked their state so much.
After talking for a while, one of the men pulled off his daypack. "Do you guys want some food? We're heading back to the Bay area tomorrow and we way overpacked on snacks."
Even though we had enough food (for once!), we eagerly accepted. The guy pulled out two huge bags of jerky— turkey and buffalo— and a bag of high-quality trail mix. We gasped as he dumped the bags into our hands. "I hope you guys aren't sick of jerky," he said.
"Not at all!" I said. Other than the jerky the JMT hiker had given us, we hadn't gotten any on trail, since jerky is expensive and not very calorie dense. But it's just about the tastiest thing ever invented.
"Well, we better get going," the guy said, but then the little girl whispered something to her mom, and her mom nodded.
The little girl stepped forward, looking up at us shyly. She held out a little ziplock full of gummy bears. In her cute little voice, she asked, "Would you like some of my candy?"
It was so adorable that I almost cried. "We would love some of your candy. Thank you so much."
She smiled cutely and we held out our hands and she dumped some of the gummy bears into them. Then the family wished us goodbye and good luck, and we continued on our separate ways.
|If you zoom on the picture, you can kinda see
Devils Postpile… it was easier to spot in real life.
The trail wound through the nice forest for a while, then we reached an area we weren't familiar with yet— the trees were all dead, but not burnt, knocked down as if they'd been ripped right out of the ground. I'm not talking small trees, either— some of the trunks were four or five feet in diameter. One of the hikers who passed us said a ranger told him that these trees had been felled in a massive windstorm a few winters ago, where wind speeds had reached a couple hundred miles an hour.
We also decided not to take a detour to a geological formation called Devils Postpile, especially since Zach was still feeling bad. We did catch a glimpse of it, as we climbed one side of the mountain, looking across the valley to the cliffs on the other side: massive columns of volcanic rock shooting up in planks along the cliff face.
As we were hiking, we saw another hiker walking toward us— a skinny middle-aged man with a short beard and a broad hat. He spoke with a jolly-sounding voice. "You're going the wrong way!"
"We're PCT hikers," we said, thinking he was a typical southbound JMTer.
"So am I, but you're going the wrong way. The PCT is this way."
We politely tried to tell him it wasn't, but he seemed convinced, so we let him pass us by and continued on our way. A few minutes later, he came up behind us, chuckling sheepishly. "I took the Devil's Postpile detour, and I guess I got turned around."
We hiked together for a while. He introduced himself as Zen Dawg. A former AT hiker who lived in North Carolina, he was big into karma and mindfulness. I didn't think much of our meeting, but it was certainly not the last time we saw him. I was enjoying talking to him, but eventually Zach had to stop for a break because he felt like he was going to throw up.
I was concerned for Zach as he sat on a log, looking washed out and sick. After a few minutes he was able to keep slogging, but only walking at a slow pace. We had to stop a couple times to let him rest, doubled over. The trail wound into a close forest by a rushing stream. I saw some white-headed woodpeckers climbing the trees.
As twilight fell, mosquitoes began to swarm. We swatted them away. Zach could go no further. Even though we still had a couple hours of daylight (since it was only 6:30), we had to stop. We found a nice flat spot in a grove of pines. We wore our head nets to keep the skeeters off, and I set up the tent since Zach was too weak to do anything. Once I blew up our sleeping pads and put them in the tent, I told him to get in. He sat there, listless, while I finished our camp chores, such as gathering water and getting the bear canisters in order. Then I crawled in beside him. We went to sleep early that night, and I hoped that Zach would wake up feeling better.


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April in Calgary brings warmth and a promise of spring just around the corner. Finally the long, cold winter is coming to an end and all the snow and ice is quickly disappearing.
After a brief spring break we are back to music lessons as usual. Not that there is anything usual about our team of great instructors and helpful staff here at Bowtown Music. Special would be a better word to describe our wonderful musical educators and front desk personnel. We cannot say enough how proud we are of our team. They have proven over and over again what dedicated professionals they are by the satisfaction of our students and customers. When we see happy faces coming out of the studios after lessons, it is because of musical connections, development, skills, understanding and a sense of accomplishment one feels at these moments. Love of music when nurtured in a positive and supportive environment can last a lifetime.


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Goody Goody Yum Yum
February 13, 2011
It's the BAFTA's tonight. Are you going? I'm not. Instead, I'm sitting here thinking about goody bags. They go crazy for them at the BAFTA's don't they? They love them, the Jeffs, Colins, Natalies and Coens. Christopher Nolan only made Inception so he could get a gold cover for his phone. And some booze.
They love booze, those film folk. But if there's one thing they hate, it's paying for it. It's a known fact that BAFTA luvvie Russell Crowe once pinned the TV director Malcolm Gerrie to a wall just because Gerrie had the nerve to tell Crowe his Tia Maria was £4.50. Or something like that. I don't know. Don't quote me. Don't hold me to it. Don't pin the messenger to the wall.
Here's what gets them all so whoop-di-dooed.
Let's see. There's a phone, some booze, some shampoo. You get the idea.
It's a goody bag. But it's not the goodiest bag.
Last night I was at a Valentine's Ball. It was the Caravan Valentine's Ball. Held at the Marriott Hotel in High Gosforth Park, Newcastle (winner, in 2008, of the North East England Large Hotel of the Year Award!)
Ok, I'll slow down. I've become aware that I'm maybe piling on the information. Taking too much for granted. You think I'm some kind of Caravaner. I do wish I was, but I'm not. This Caravan is the name for the National Grocers' Benevolent Fund; the charity for the grocery industry. It's a fundraiser and everyone there does there best to raise money for grocers who've fallen on hard times.
You can laugh. But I'd rather you didn't. I've fallen on hard times myself now and then (mainly now), and Caravan has come to my rescue too. And yes, I know I'm no grocer (if it helps, my grandpa and grandma were). Caravan help me in other ways. Caravan give each guest a goody bag that, frankly, makes the BAFTA goody bag look like a la-di-da ponce-fest. Yes Portman, you deserve all the best for your skinny-ballet horror lesbo romp. You deserve a gold phone. But be honest, wouldn't you rather get your bony fingers on this?
Look closer. Let's spill the bag and see what's inside.
There were also crumpets and tea cakes. Actors, that's a Goody Bag!


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Here's How it Works: Just scroll down to the entry form below and take our online quiz. When you get there answer 10 easy trivia questions about past (and passed-on) U.S. Presidents. Sound tough? No way! These are EASY questions. Even if you paid just a little bit of attention in history class, you should be able to get these right. PLUS…we've hidden the answers somwhere on our website – you can find them with some quick searching. AND…you can always Google to find the answers. About two minutes is all it will take!
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Over 80 Interact officers from 18 high schools and 10 Rotarians gathered at this year's Interact Presidents and Officers Training Seminar. The event was held at the Boys and Girls Club in south Sacramento.
To the left on this page are the handout materials including PowerPoints and
selected videos from the 2018-19 Interact Presidents and Officers Training Seminar.
If you missed IPOTS it would be very beneficial
to take the time to print the materials and view each segment.
John F. Kennedy Interact Club
This month our club will raise money for Rotary's End Polio Campaign by selling Halloween-grams
The Interact table at Club Rush
RYE student from Belgium who talked about high school in his country and about his experience as an RYE student in the U.S.
Why Join Interact?
District 5180 Interact alumni share their experience
"In Interact, students really do organize every aspect of a club. We plan our own events, decide which organizations to partner with, and worked together to solve issues. I learned real responsibility and got to use that responsibility to positively affect the world around me. I will continue to seek out such opportunities in the future and use teamwork to aid others while having fun and enjoying 'Service Above Self'."
Ashley, Class of 2014
"My leadership capacity, interest in the experiences of others, and understanding of organizational change grew exponentially during my time in Interact. There is thus an inherent connection between Rotary's ethic of 'Service Above Self' and my personal and professional development. Interact provided me with a friendship base, a place to explore my creativity and test the waters of group management, several personal and professional mentors, networking opportunities, and of course an unmatched sense of fulfillment and purpose as a human being through service." - Ian, Class of 2012
"Being a part of Interact instilled in me the desire to volunteer as often as possible and the confidence
to lead my own club centered around volunteerism. 'Service above Self' has been integrated
into my daily life, and I have my time in Interact to thank." - Ayesha, Class of 2011
Now you can do your RI Interact Club officer information annual update the easy way, On-Line!
Simply follow the link on the left!
Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and guidance, but they are self-governing and self-supporting.
Club membership varies greatly. Clubs can be single gender or mixed, large or small. They can draw from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools in the same community.
Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two community service projects, one of which furthers international understanding and goodwill. Through these efforts, Interactors develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs and learn the importance of
- Developing leadership skills and personal integrity
- Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
- Understanding the value of individual responsibility and hard work
- Advancing international understanding and goodwill
As one of the most significant and fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 13,500 clubs in over 100 countries and geographical areas, Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon. Over 310,000 young people are involved in Interact.
Middle School Interact:
RI has lowered the age of qualifying Interactors to 12, thus many 7th and 8th graders can join Interact.
If you are interested in sponsoring a Middle School Interact club or need more information, please contact Judy Foote
Additional Information:
For more information about Interact in your area, contact your local Rotary club , or ask RI staff . Read the Interact Handbook and the Interact Brochure .
You may want to contact the Rotary District 5180 Interact District Chairman:
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Volunteer Park could one day be in line for a $760,000+ upgrade of its paths, plantings, and entryways to help the Capitol Hill green space more fully meet the vision of its original Olmsted design. Brothers John and Frederick Jr. carried forward father Frederick Olmsted's philosophies and practices of landscape design to create some of America's greatest urban parks and campuses. In 1903, the city hired the brothers to create a family of parks and boulevards across Seattle.
116 years later, Seattle Parks is conducting a survey to help it prioritize restoration investment in the city's multitude of Olmsted-designed parks and boulevards:
Seattle Parks and Recreation needs your input on prioritizing future Olmsted Park and Boulevard restoration projects. Based on your input, future projects could provide restoration in several different Olmsted parks/boulevards around the city. A study conducted in 2018 looked at 10 different sites to assess existing conditions, research historical design intent, and determine restoration feasibility.
Sites assessed included:
- Magnolia Boulevard • Volunteer Park
• Queen Anne Boulevard • Schmitz Park
• Lake Washington Boulevard parks • Woodland Park
• Lakeview Park • Washington Park
- Colman Park
- Mount Baker Park
The survey closes Friday, March 1st.
A study completed last year, below, examined the ten sites under consideration for restoration work including Capitol Hill's Volunteer Park. The study lays out recommendations for each and estimated construction costs.
Selecting Volunteer Park for work would be tantamount to putting the final touches on one of the city's most polished Olmsted parks. "Volunteer Park is one of Seattle's most developed and most intact Olmsted landscapes," the study reads. "That is likely because of its location in a wealthier neighborhood, but also because John Charles Olmsted spent several years involved in the design and development of the park between 1904 and 1912."
Because of its excellent condition, Volunteer Park would allow "for more precision in implementing John Charles Olmsted's plans," the study notes. Work would include planting, formally incorporating the park's many "social paths" and enhancing its entrances to better connect with the surrounding neighborhood.
The park has already undergone a series of improvements under the guidance of the Volunteer Park Trust including updated lighting and new fencing around its ponds, and is in the middle of more including the overhaul and expansion of the Seattle Asian Art Museum expected to be wrapped up later this year.
Other efforts underway includes path work you may have noticed on recent visits:
Through an inclusive planning process in partnership with the Capitol Hill Community, Seattle Parks and Recreation, the National Park Service, Friends of Seattle's Olmsted Parks (FSOP), Volunteer Park Trust (VPT) and many other local and regional stakeholders, the Seattle Art Museum is in the process of constructing two historic Olmsted pathways, improving the surfacing of existing park pathways, strengthening the connection between 15th Avenue/ public transit and the park, and improving safe pedestrian circulation around the Seattle Asian Art Museum.
That work is expected to be completed by this spring.
Other parts of the Olmsted vision will, sadly, never see the light of day in the park. The study describes the original plan for a playground "intended for older children" along the park's western edge:
The playground was intended for older children, with apparatus laid out in the plan along the existing western border of the park. Olmsted strongly recommended that the Parks Board acquire the remainder of the land between the park border and Federal Avenue, but it was not purchased and houses were built on the lots. When the playground was proposed, neighbors opposed its placement because of noise concerns and the playground was moved to the northeast corner of the park, near the "Little Folks Lawn" and wading pool.
For more, check out the Olmsted study, below.


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Bonds and Borrowed Time
Bond market investors had a tough first half. When interest rates rise, bond prices fall. This is confusing for a lot of folks, so imagine you own a ten-year treasury note with an 8% coupon. If interest rates on new bonds being issued today were around 5%, your bond paying the higher rate of 8% would be worth more than par to a prospective buyer. Conversely, if rates were to rise to 10%, you would not be able to sell your 8% bond for par because a prospective buyer could now get 10% elsewhere. This is what is known as interest rate risk.
Another type of bond risk is credit risk. If you own shares of a bond fund that holds bonds issued by a struggling company or government, you may see the value of your bond fund fall even though interest rates haven't moved very much. This is because the ability of the issuer to pay interest and make good on principal is being questioned. The greater the uncertainty, the lower the bond price will fall.
Many bond investors suffered declines as a result of both risks. Farr, Miller & Washington bond managers have enjoyed a better experience because they have been very cautious. We have kept our maturities relative short, which lessens the impact of interest rate increases. At the same time, research is ongoing on every bond purchased for our portfolios to ensure the issuer's ability to make timely payment of interest and principal. We never see cause for speculation with fixed-income investments.
The Federal Reserve has been buying both Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities at a rate of $85 billion per month. The Fed has undertaken this program of "Quantitative Easing" in order to keep interest rates at very low levels, thereby stimulating investment and consumption. As a consequence of improved economic data, the Fed has now suggested that at some point in the future they may reduce the amount of their monthly purchases. This suggestion spooked investors and rates moved higher. Higher rates mean that already struggling issuers, such as some municipalities, will have to pay even higher costs for new bonds they may issue. This fortifies the economic headwinds they are facing already.
In stock land, earnings season is in mid-stream. Reports continue to show lackluster revenue growth with modestly better gains on the bottom line. It strikes us as illogical that earnings will remain robust without increasing revenues. Price-to-earnings multiples remain a bit above average and earnings margins for the S&P500 are near all-time highs. If the gains in the equity markets are to be maintained, revenue growth must resume.
We have been through these ambiguous periods before and know that they can last much longer than most ever expect. When prices seem to creep ahead of fundamentals, we conclude one of three things: our evaluation is flawed (and prices and fundamentals are not out of line); fundamentals will improve to support prices or; prices will come down to a level supported by the fundamentals.
It is really important at periods like this to make sure that your holdings have substance: strong balance sheets, highly visible revenue and income streams, market share, and high-integrity management. While all boats get battered by storms, sturdier boats fare better and are more comfortable for passengers. Farr, Miller & Washington has long advocated these higher-quality, blue-chip companies. The markets seem to agree with us, and our advocacy continues.


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Air Force head coach Troy Calhoun isn't a fan of the College Football Playoff. Calhoun went as far as describing college football's new postseason as "un-American."
When college football decided to adapt its system to a four-team playoff, it was clear that programs from "Group of Five" conference would be non-factors in the final decisions. Only those teams in the ACC, Big 10 Conference, Big 12 Conference (OK, maybe not), Pac-12 Conference, SEC as well as Notre Dame would be seriously considered for the two semifinal games.
Programs outside of the powers conferences aren't happy with the glass ceiling that is now in place. Calhoun clumsily illustrated his point when he discussed the matter Friday.
"There's no doubt that it's all set up for five conferences, as it is," Calhoun told the Colorado Springs Gazette. "You've got to be in one of those five conferences.
"It's un-American, bottom line. We live in a country where upward mobility is possible, where games should be played out on the field."
While Calhoun has a point about the smaller conferences being excluded, his argument lacks substance at this particular juncture. Air Force finished the season 9-3. Only one team outside of the Power Five conferences finished with at least an 12-1 record. And Marshall's schedule this season was laughable compared to those teams in the bigger conferences.
The No. 20 Boise State Broncos eventually claimed the lone berth into an access bowl (Fiesta Bowl) granted to the best team in the Group of Five. But none of those teams were ever in serious consideration for one of the top four spots.
However, this is yet another opportunity for advocates of an eight-team playoff to push for change even before the first year of the new system is complete.
House representative Joe Barton (Texas) railed against the system during a recent interview on the "Capital Games" podcast, via ABCnews.com.
"The system as they have it now is going to fail every year," Barton said. "You can't squeeze all that sausage into the sack. There's going to be a few teams left out. So they need to go to at least eight teams, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if they went to 12 — with first-round byes — or to 16."
Of course, Barton is primarily representing his constituency by denouncing a system that left TCU and Baylor out of the equation. These types of gripes will continue every year, though, because the playoff is currently set up to leave multiple deserving teams out in the cold.


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International Einojuhani Rautavaara Chamber Choir Composition Workshop and Competition 2012
1. Applications to The International Einojuhani Rautavaara Chamber Choir Composition Workshop and Competition will be accepted from individuals of any nationality born between 1 February 1977 and 31 January 1994 inclusive. The deadline for applications to arrive in Helsinki is 30 September 2011. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.
2. 4-8 participants will be selected on the basis of applications by an international panel of composers and choral conductors.
3. The International Einojuhani Rautavaara Chamber Choir Composition Workshop and Competition will consist of two sessions: a workshop in Helsinki on 19-21 February 2012 (henceforth Workshop) and a competition in Viitasaari on 6-7 July 2012 (henceforth Competition).
4. Selected participants are required to commit in writing to participation in all stages of the Workshop and Competition by 30 November 2011. Failure to attend any part of the Workshop and Competition will result in disqualification. Similarly, failure to submit three copies of the final composition for the Competition by 30 April 2012 will disqualify the participant.
5. Participants are required to make their own arrangements for travel to and from Helsinki. The Competition will reimburse travel costs upon presentation of receipts up to a maximum of 300 euros for the Workshop and 300 euros for the Competition. For the Competition, travel from Helsinki to Viitasaari and back will be arranged and paid for by the organisers. The organisers will also arrange and pay for accommodation for both the Workshop and the Competition.
6. The a cappella work submitted with the application and the final work submitted for the Competition must each be written specifically for the International Einojuhani Rautavaara Chamber Choir Composition Workshop and Competition and must not have been previously published or performed. These two works may be versions of the same piece. The scores must be submitted on A4 size paper. The work submitted for the Workshop must be for 8-12 singers chosen from SSSAAATTTBBB and must be 4-6 minutes in duration. The work submitted for the Competition must be for 13-16 singers chosen from SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB and must be 7-10 minutes in duration. The compositions may not include instruments or electronics. The singers may be required to sing either one or more on a part. Entrants are free to choose any text they like, or not to set a text at all. However, if an unusual language is chosen, entrants must be prepared to tell the singers how to pronounce it. Entrants must also clear the rights to any copyright material in advance of submitting their work. Any costs that arise from the use of copyright material must be borne by the entrant.
7. The works submitted for the Competition must be dedicated to the Helsinki Chamber Choir. The Helsinki Chamber Choir will retain exclusive performing rights to these works until 31 July 2013. The work that wins the Rautavaara Prize will be performed by the Helsinki Chamber Choir in its 2012/13 concert series in Helsinki.
8. The Einojuhani Rautavaara Prize shall consist of 5000 euros plus a commission for a 10-minute work for the Helsinki Chamber Choir for its 2013/14 season in Helsinki. The Helsinki Chamber Choir will retain exclusive performing rights to this work until 31 December 2014. The commission fee will be 3000 euros (including the composer's travel and accommodation for attending the first performance), to be paid upon receipt of the completed work. The jury may allocate the Prize money in a different way if it sees fit. Additional prizes may be awarded at the discretion of the organisers. All applicable taxes and social security payments will be deducted from the prize money and commission fee.
9. The organisers reserve the right to allow some or all parts of the Workshop and Competition to be recorded for distribution via radio, television, the internet and CD or other comparable media. The participants shall not be entitled to any financial compensation for such a recording or for any media interviews they may be asked to give. However, the organisers will endeavour to ensure that participants receive a copy of any recording made of their work, for private use only.
10. The participant is required to ensure in good time that he/she has all the necessary documentation for travel to Finland for each stage of the Workshop and Competition. The organisers will supply an invitation for visa purposes if necessary.
11. Members of the jury must declare any personal or professional connection to the participants and shall not be allowed to vote on the work of any participant to whom they are deemed too closely connected. The jury shall not include the teachers of the Workshop. All members of the jury will attend both the dress rehearsal and the concert of the Competition. Participants will have the chance to receive personal feedback from members of the jury following the prize-giving ceremony. The jury's decision at every stage of the Workshop and Competition is final.
12. In case of dispute, the Finnish version of these rules is binding.


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Raffi singing "Apples and Bananas" was a staple of my childhood, as it was for many a fellow youth services provider. I've found that this quintessential millennial's song remains popular with todays young kiddos, too--they love the silliness and catch on to the repetitiveness, making it a great singalong for storytime groups.
I played around with a few ways to accompany the words with the ukulele, and this is the version I like best. Now go sing about fruit!


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[Video] Introduction to the Financial Services & Corporate Governance Working Group
J.W. Verret is the Chairman of RTP's Financial Services & Corporate Governance working group and Associate Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School. In this short video, he explains how this working group looks "for the regulatory red tape that causes fees to go up, that stops entrepreneurs from getting loans," and finds "common sense solutions to solve those problems."
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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.
Related Links:
RTP Paper: "Creating Pro-Innovation Fintech Regulation"
Free Lunch Podcast: "Fintech and Federal Alternatives to State Money Transmission Licensing"
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Hi, welcome to the site. I am an astronomer at the University of Toronto (all opinions here are my own only). I work on stellar astrophysics and the evolution of massive stars from their nuclear-burning centers to their surface and winds. I also work in the field of Indigenous astronomy, bring Indigenous knowledge of Universe into the classroom.
Please note the website is a work in progress.


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UPLIFT Service Partnership
UPLIFT Service Partnership provides care coordination, comprehensive case management and wraparound services to youth and families in Little Haiti, West Little River, North Miami and North Miami Beach. The program targets at-risk children who are experiencing truancy, poor school performance, disruptive behavior, child maltreatment or family violence. Services include, but are not limited to, emergency assistance, access to safety-net benefits, afterschool programs, individual and group counselling, homelessness prevention, anger management and workforce development.
The program partners with 39 schools throughout the service area, the Department of Children and Families and other community based organizations to identify and refer students to the place-based partnership. Eligible families are assessed and provided a care plan to address the many needs of the household. Care coordination and regular follow-ups are an integral part of the process to ensure a continuum of care.