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If incoming tight end Reese Leitao slips up again off the field, it's Tom Herman's reputation that'll be on the line.
Leitao was arrested on a felony drug possession charge, but pleaded down to a misdemeanor.
Herman's decision contrasted with the philosophy of Charlie Strong, who had little tolerance for drug offenders.
Texas AD Mike Perrin, who met with Leitao and his family, said he believes Leitao is contrite.
Reese Leitao deserves a second chance.
When the Jenks tight end got caught with 20 Xanax pills and $1,300 in cash and, according to the arrest affidavit, admitted to selling drugs, he would have forfeited any chance to play for me had I been the University of Texas’ head coach, athletic director or president. He would have had to re-enter the recruiting game and convince some other football program to take him on.
Luckily for Leitao, Texas coach Tom Herman is taking a different approach, a risky one at that.
Longhorn Nation is split on whether the 2017 Longhorns signee should be allowed to be a part of the program, and it’s understandable. Where do you draw the line? Was this simply a case of a young man making one mistake or was this merely the first time he was caught?
Herman would not have pursued a talented tight end prospect who was facing a felony drug charge, but a talented tight end prospect who pleaded down to a misdemeanor was enough for him to pull the trigger with the blessing of UT athletic director Mike Perrin and the apparent approval of UT President Gregory L. Fenves.
This would never have happened under Charlie Strong’s watch because Strong’s stance against drugs was well documented. Leitao would have gotten the gate without a second thought.
Guess what else didn’t happen under Strong? Wins. And that’s part of the reason Herman is taking this gamble. He’s here to win games first and influence people second. Don’t get it twisted. When Strong got hired, I said on more than one occasion: If he loses, he will be that real nice man who used to coach at Texas.
Strong parted ways with players who weren’t able to follow his rules for one reason or another, but wasn’t able to get enough victories with a locker room full of solid citizens to keep his job.
Herman has brought a new excitement to the program even if some fans aren’t on board with this move.
“We knew it was a new era when we started taking drug dealers,” one fan commented on our Facebook page Wednesday.
Someone with Leitao’s baggage would never have made it to Austin over the last three seasons once the news of his arrest became public record, but this is a new Texas regime and Herman is risking his reputation on a position that hasn’t been a reliable part of any UT offense since Jermichael Finley left town.
He took some heat for bringing in Casey Horny from Baylor and if Leitao slips in any area off the field, it’s Herman’s reputation that will be on the line.
Hopefully the kid has realized the error of his ways. This is a tremendous opportunity, one that would not have been afforded to others his age who have committed similar offenses.


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Join us Thursday, April 18th for the 6th Pint Night of our Anniversary Week! We'll be hanging with our friends at Lucy's Lot, and enjoying our Great Hall Hefe and Nine Volt on tap!
Don't forget, we'll have anniversary-edition glassware for the first lucky customers!

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Are you looking for that one garage that you can trust with all the works on your car? Then you found it! At Venture Fleet Service Centre we attend to your car with good prices from a trustworthy team!
You can find everything under one roof, from ITV, over Services, clutches, exhaust, timing belts, Airconditioning service and re-gas up to body work and collission repair. We accept all insurance work.
We are a happy family run business and we like to make our customers feel welcome and at home. We speak several languages to avoid possible misunderstandings.
So when you think of caring for your car, think of Venture Fleet!
In our garage we count on specialized personell to ensure a successful repair of your vehicle. Services are being carried out by Auto-Technicians with special training and certifications, so that your next ITV will not be a problem either.
Our high number of satisfied customer shows the appreciation our our special service. Thanks to a full set of services offered, we resolve the problems of your car efficiently and trustworthy.
We ensure to give that special shine back to your car! Wether you had a dispute with a curb or an insurance claim to carry out, we carry our your collission repair and do the body work for you car to bring it back to its original splender!

industry_corpus2: Automobiles


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Have you ever asked a question like that before? I know I have.
I thought that following God and being a Christian would lead to a life that was kind of easy, filled only with joy, free from pain and sorrow. Silly me.
I’m not even sure where I got that idea but when I ask around, I find that most of the Christians I know have believed (or still believe) some version of that. After all, it sounds good, doesn’t it? It’s so appealing, this thought that if you are a true believer you are spared suffering.
It is also completely contrary to what the scriptures teach.

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Catherine Toney has been profiled on the CAN-DO website for many years. We thought she would get clemency from the Obama administration because she not only met all the criteria of the Clemency Project 2014, she was assigned a CP14 attorney from Duke University who filed her petition, but sadly, like so many she never received a response to her pending petition, which is still currently pending on the Office of the Pardon Attorney.
Catherine, her daughter Brandy and her granddaughter Channon were invited to D.C. to meet with lawmakers on Capitol Hill and later with Jared Kushner in the West Wing of the White House. The criminal justice reform organization, #Cut50 made arrangements for everyone, including CAN-DO’s Amy Ralston to travel to DC . The highlight of the trip occurred when President Trump addressed the attendees of Black History Month and had Catherine Toney and her family come on stage so he could introduce Catherine as the first female to receive an immediate release due to The First Step Act! Catherine made everyone extremely proud when she stepped to the mic and thanked everyone who helped reunite her with her family!
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industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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When presenting a seminar presentation on the "Legal Aspects of the of Product Marketing," I always include a brief section on trade libel as a caution against a too free-wheeling style in sales pitches. My usual example, from 30 years ago now, is the Applied Materials salesman chatting with a prospect at the then notorious Wagon Wheel in Mountain View. In the course of the conversation, the salesman claimed that Applied Materials' then arch rival, Hugle Industries, was in serious financial trouble and was rumored to be heading for bankruptcy. Unbeknownst to salesman or prospect, standing behind them and overhearing them was the founder of Applied Materials' rival, William Bell Hugle. That was a Friday evening. On Monday morning, a $1,000,000 trade libel suit by Hugle Industries arrived at Applied Materials' front door.
After a lot of lawyerly skirmishing, the case was dismissed with Applied Materials paying some legal expenses of Hugle Industries, a pretty unremarkable event. Had it gone to trial, the stakes were pretty large. If the Applied Materials salesman hadn't had good reason to believe the truth of his statement, a large judgement could have resulted. The libel was not merely of Hugle Industries products, where more latitude is allowed for "salesman's puffing", but of Hugle Industries business and financial reputation, where the rules are stricter.
On the product side, the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One, in San Diego, California, recently provided further comfort to salesmen, who in the course of a pitch, disparage the competitions' products (but not their reputations). In the context of allegedly false statements about product, the court ruled that a plaintiff must demonstrate the highest degree of culpability, that is, the defendant's actual knowledge of falsity or actual serious doubts as to the truth of his or her statements. This standard, the court ruled, was based on the distinction at common law that has always given the owner or marketer of a product very limited rights against the publisher of statements that disparage the product. The public has always had a well recognized interest in knowing about the quality and content of consumer goods.
This is clearly not a license to lie about the competitions' products, but does provide pretty broad latitude for expressions of opinion, albeit only lightly supported by a factual basis. But don't get personal. That eliminates some strong defenses and exposes the speaker and his or her company to potentially large liability.


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wohl einer der besten Coups und Schnäppchen, die Gladbach je machte. Unter Bernd Krauss konnte er dann seine Stärken im Organisieren einer Vierer-Abwehrkette zeigen, als zentrale Figur im Krauss-Experiment "Viererkette" einfach unersetzbar.
Andersson besticht einfach durch perfektes Stellungsspiel, antizipiert Spielsituationen im Voraus und stellt den Gegner somit frühzeitig. In Eins-gegen-Eins-Situationen bleibt er fast immer Sieger, setzt seinen Körper geschickt ein und erkämpft ohne Foulspiel den Ball. Darüberhinaus spielt er kaum Fehlpässe beim Spielaufbau. Diese Fähigkeiten machen ihn zum Garanten für eine stabile Defensive. Seit Jahren ist er der statistisch zweikampfstärkste Spieler der Bundesliga...mit imposanten 80% gewonnener Zweikämpfe, einfach unglaublich und dies kontinuierlich seit ca. 5 Jahren.
Andersson has a total of 96 caps for the Swedish national team, scoring three goals. He won a bronze medal in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Andersson also played in the team which reached the semi-finals in the 1992 European Championship. He was also part of the Swedish national squad that took part in the Euro 2000, 2002 FIFA World Cup and was a member of the Swedish squad that competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In December 1992 he went professional as he moved to Blackburn Rovers for £800,000. His next step was to go to Germany and play for Borussia Mönchengladbach. There he won the German Cup with the team in 1995, but left the team as its performance deteriorated, in 1999. The famous Bayern Munich became his next club. His time with Bayern resulted in two Bundesliga championships (in the 2000–01 championship season he scored the final and decisive goal against Hamburg in the last minute – his only goal for the club) as well as a German Cup and victory in the Champions League, despite missing his penalty in the final shootout. Andersson moved to Catalan giants FC Barcelona in 2001 and spent three injury-plagued seasons there. For the 2004 season, Andersson came back to Malmö FF to play in the Swedish league again after 10 years. This year he captained Malmö FF who won their first Swedish league (Allsvenskan) title in 18 years. He has twice been awarded Guldbollen as the Swedish footballer of the year, in 1995 and 2001. After suffering yet another knee injury during a Champions League qualifier against Swiss team FC Thun on 10 August 2005, Andersson announced his retirement from top level football on 12 August 2005.

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text: The continuing series, ‘Here Comes the Neighborhood’ doesn’t slow down as they interview talented artist Kenny Scharf. Well known for his work, KS talks about his origins and where he intends to push graffiti in the future. An innovator seeing his passion simply as that and not a fashion commodity for sale.

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This Olympic style boxing card is headlined by a title unification between Maryland State Middleweight champ Deshawn “Soulsnatcher” Chase of Baltimore Boxing and East Coast belt holder Marquis Moore of Salisbury’s Main Street Boxing Gym.
Chase is one of Baltimore’s better amateurs and a regular at Michael’s Eighth while Moore is a well-schooled boxer that believes both titles will be his come the 26th.
This excellent evening of boxing also feature the debut of former NFL player Leon Joe. A standout linebacker at the University of Maryland, Joe was listed by Street & Smith as an All American Honorable mention in 2003.
The next year, the Chicago Bears drafted Joe in the 4th round and he played in Super Bowl XLI. He later spent time with the Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars and Detroit Lions before playing two years in the Canadian Football League.
Baltimore Boxing’s ‘Super Brawl of Boxing” also serves as a fundraiser for Tina Frost. On October 1, Frost was shot in the head during the mass shooting in Las Vegas. Her right eye was removed and spent time in a rehab facility. Originally from Baltimore, the 28-year-old Frost was working as a CPA for Ernst & Young in San Diego but is back in Maryland with her family.
While Frost’s made great progress, she has a long way to and a mound of medical bills that will only continue to grow.
“What happened to Tina is incredibly said,” said Jake Smith. “She was professionally successful and had everything going for her in life. It is a true tragedy what happened to her and all of the other shooting victims in Las Vegas.


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Joann Karges has kept records on this species in Tarrant County (Fort Worth) since 1974. Her earliest dates are Feb. 10.
Chris Durden reported one as early as Feb. 5, 2013 in Austin, Travis County, Texas.
Covell, C.V. 1984. A field guide to the moths of eastern North America. Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, MA. xv + 496 pp.
Drury, D. 1782. Illustrations of Natural History; wherein are exhibited upwards of two hundred and forty figures of exotic insects according to their different genera. London: White. Vol. 3: 76 pp.
Durden, C. 1999. Learn about ... Texas Insects. Texas Parks & Wildlife, Austin. 60 pp.
Wagner, D.L. 2005. Caterpillars of Eastern North America. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. 496 pp., 1,200+ color photos.

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text: Floor ~ Overstock Floor Tile Phenomenal Picture Inspirations Printed Home Goods Free Shipping On Orders Over At Phenomenal Overstock Floor Tile Picture Inspirations. Overstock Floor Tile Discount. Overstock Floor Tile Near Shrewsbury Ma. Overstock Floor Tile.

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245 00 $a Burnett County sentinel.
260 $a Grantsburg, Wis. : $b M. Wescott, $c -1910.
300 $a 35 v. : $b ill. ; $c 56 cm.
362 0 $a -v. 35, no. 50 (Jan. 27, 1910).
362 1 $a Began with Feb. 12, 1875 issue. $z Cf. Oehlerts, d. Guide to Wis. newspapers.
500 $a "Devoted to the interests of the upper St. Croix Valley."
500 $a Editor: M. Wescott, <Aug. 20, 1875>-Feb. 25, 1876.--W.E. Talboys, Mar. 3, 1876-Sept. 7, 1888.--G.A. Olson, Sept. 14, 1888-1891.--A.M. Anderson, Jan. 1, 1892-Sept. 24, 1896.--W. Hoffstead, Oct. 1, 1896-Apr. 18, 1901.-- Ahlstrom & Myrland, Apr. 26, 1901-May 11, 1905.--Myrland & Fisher, May 18, 1905-Dec. 3, 1908.
588 $a Description based on: Vol. 1, no. 28 (Aug. 20, 1875).


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#Update: #Israel's ambulance service has raised it's alert level to the highest possible across southern #Israel as continued systematic preparation of escalation continues. #Gaza.
#Update: All night confusion protests of #Hamas at the #Gaza/#Israel strip border this night will be cancelled!
#Update: The Loud explosion reported in #TelAviv are the result of multiple interceptions of the #IronDome in #Israel.
This is a momentous time. @POTUS Trump is making history. We are deeply grateful and our people will be eternally grateful for his bold decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the @usembassyjlm there tomorrow.
President Trump’s decision to move the embassy to Jerusalem affirms a great and simple truth: Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people for the past 3000 years. It’s been the capital of our state for the past 70 years. It will remain our capital for all time.
Has a t-shirt with the frontispiece to Deaths Duell on it. Once sang the Willow song at a party. Humanities 2.
Hooked up at SAA. Are *that* couple in the reading room. Rare Books, but have no reason to be in there specifically.
¡Basta de usar al #multiculturalismo como forma de encubrir los copiosos, continuos y horrendos crímenes, que los #migrantes están cometiendo contra la población europea, al amparo de los gobernantes de la UE!
an official list, by Ruth.
Strictly speaking, this Bear isn't a real Bear. But then again, Dustin the Turkey isn't a real Bear either, and he's been to the Eurovision.
This Bear would have a DJ on stage, and he would say "drop the B-B-B-Bear Beat!"
And then the beat would drop.
This Howler Monkey would represent a small Balkan nation and wear a highly embroidered loose shirt and sing a melancholic folk song with a dramatic key change midway the third chorus.
It would be a thing of beauty.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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Welcome to the Pearson Education Urban area.
We offer an extensive range of Urban related books to meet your needs in today's ever-changing marketplace. Why not browse our titles featured below.

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On April 23, 2012, the City of Pocatello enacted an ordinance restricting the tethering of dogs. It is very important that dog owners be aware of the details of the dog tethering ordinance. Violations of the ordinance are misdemeanors.
It shall be unlawful for the owner/guardian of any animal to keep or maintain any animal on a fixed point tether or chain for a period of more than 3 continuous hours and no more than 6 hours combined in any 24-hour period.
The chain or tether must be at least 10 feet in length and placed in an area to prevent the animal from becoming tangled with any item or other animal in its surrounding area or able to leave its property. The chain or tether must be situated where it prevents the animal from reaching a fence or sidewalk.
No chain or tether shall weigh more than 1/8 of the animal’s body weight.
Any chain or tether must have swivels on both ends and be attached to a properly fitted buckle-type collar or harness worn by the animal. Choke chains or pinch collars are prohibited for purposes of tethering an animal.
Any female animal in estrus (heat) must not be chained or tethered at any time.
Exception: An animal may be restrained by a chain or tether up to 8 hours, provided the chain or tether is at least 10 feet in length attached to a pulley or trolley mounted on a cable which is also at least 10 feet in length, and mounted no more than 7 feet above ground (see diagram (PDF)).
Regardless of the above provisions, no animal that has been convicted of being a dangerous animal, regardless of the form of the judgment, may be chained or tethered outside and left alone for any amount of time without an adult present and the animal muzzled.


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Amazing person, very patient and intelligent.
deserves more +REP all day.
+rep really nice trader and quick trade too.
Cool gal, nice and honest. Go ahead and trade.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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XML is finding its way into applications beyond those that traditionally utilize markup languages. In particular, XML is becoming popular as a data interchange notation for database-oriented applications.
The two mainstream XML APIs (SAX and DOM) are highly document-centric. They are designed to handle XML in all its generality, including deeply nested structures, mixed content, external entities, and so on. Although these APIs can be used to process the simple, flat XML that databases typically generate, they are not well-suited to doing so. Moreover, the processing paradigms they employ (event processing and tree processing, respectively) are unfamiliar to most database programmers.
We will take the simple problem of extracting all the phone numbers (Phone elements) as an illustrative example.
We will start with the RAX implementation and then develop SAX and DOM implementations.
It goes without saying that this is a pretty trivial and easily understood control mechanism! The code drives the data reading process, record by record, in a way that is very familiar to database programmers. At any given point, the contents of particular elements making up the record structure are available with simple calls to GetField(), specifying the name of the field required.
Not only is the paradigm trivial, it scales well too. At any given moment, only one record from a potentially multi-gigabyte XML database dump need be in memory. This processing paradigm is a good fit with database style XML, in which records are typically processed independently of each other.
Let us now look at SAX- and DOM-based solutions to the same problem. We will use Python for illustrative purposes, but the essential shape of the code would be the same in any OO language (Java, C++, etc.).
SAX is an event-oriented API for XML. To use it you need to set up handlers for various events and then yield control to the parser, which will call back to your handlers as required.
When a start-tag for a Phone element comes along, we initialize storage space for it and use a Boolean variable, StoreIt, to record the fact that we are in a data storing mode.
Until such time as the end-tag for a Phone element appears, calls to the character data handler check to see if we are in storing mode. If so, the data is appended to the existing storage. When the end-tag for a Phone element finally appears, the accumulated storage is stripped of any white space and then printed out.
The event-oriented nature of SAX is a paradigm well-suited to dealing with nested and hierarchical XML, such as that commonly found in document-oriented XML applications. However, for record-oriented XML applications that do not use these features of XML, a SAX implementation requires close coupling between a number of event-handlers (that is, handlers that change their behavior based on shared Boolean variables and storage buffers). Although not too difficult in this simple application, for more complex applications the number of Boolean variables and intermediate storage buffers required can lead to hard to read, hard to maintain code.
Let us move on to the DOM implementation.
DOM is a tree-oriented API to XML. The code works by first building a tree representation of the XML document. Then it navigates through the tree, looking for element nodes with an element type name of Phone. Once found, the code walks any child nodes accumulating the data in the Phone element. When the list of children is exhausted, the phone number data is printed out.
The tree-oriented paradigm of the DOM is well-suited to handling nested and hierarchical XML such as that commonly found in document-oriented XML applications. It is particularly handy for dealing with complex formatting problems that may require "looking-ahead" into the data yet to be processed in order to work.
Most DOM implementations are memory bound. That is to say, the entire document is read into memory before processing begins. For reasonably sized database dumps, memory bound DOM is at best inefficient -- at worst, unusable.
A lot of the machinery in the DOM is concerned with allowing full navigation around the tree structure. For record-oriented XML data, this tree structure is very flat and does not gain any great benefit from this functionality.
Both the SAX and DOM implementations of the simple record-oriented XML processing example presented in this article are significantly more complex than the RAX implementation. This is not because there is anything intrinsically wrong with SAX or DOM; it is simply a reflection of the fact that they are designed to handle many features of XML typically not used in record-oriented XML applications.
The RAX API provides a simple and scalable alternative when working with record-oriented XML. The next section of this article presents the Python implementation of the RAX API in full. Although I have used Python, RAX can easily be implemented in other languages such as Java and Perl.
End accumulating data for child element.
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industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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Sandwiched between Old Country Road and Hempstead Turnpike, Eisenhower Park, a namesake of our 34th president, occupies over 930 acres of sprawling green in the heart of East Meadow.
It’s also the home of Carltun on the Park, a former country club turned restaurant. It has a full bar, banquet hall and even a meeting room. Now, that’s something you wouldn’t find in any average park, right?
From Thursday, June 1 to Sunday, June 4, the Nassau County Strawberry Festival will take place at the Bellmore BOCES. Sponsored by the Bellmore Lions Club and the Bellmore Kiwanis, the festival will feature carnival rides, games, live entertainment and endless succulent strawberry snacks!
Pay one price bracelets will be available so you can enjoy all your favorite rides as many times as you’d like! You can even find a coupon here.
On just about any night of the week, you’ll be more than likely to find live musical entertainment for you to enjoy during your meal. But restaurants aren’t the only thing the Nautical Mile has to offer; there are also plenty of unique, quaint boutique shops and bars, too.
Finish the night off with a round at The Crow’s Nest Mini Golf course and a few scoops from the old-fashioned ice cream shop next door for a delicious dessert.
In a small parking lot, behind a strip of businesses off of Jericho Turnpike in Mineola, the Can You Escape? LI trailer attracts thrill seekers of all kinds. This unique adventure game gives you an hour to escape one of their many themed, locked rooms.
Along with your group, you need to investigate and brainstorm a way to escape the locked room. It’s ideal for dates, family bonding, birthday parties and team building! The different rooms even have varying skills levels so you can choose the setup that works best for your team.
Don’t let this spring pass you by- make yours count by taking part in these excellent spring activities!

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Are you ready for a challenge? Experience White Water Rafting in the Adventure Capital of New Zealand.
Go rafting in Queenstown on New Zealand's most popular whitewater rafting trips. Challenge Rafting offers a variety of exciting half day white water rafting trips on the Shotover and Kawarau Rivers. Are you up to the challenge?


text: This lesson is on the order of operations. Everything you learn in math is important but I would say mastering the order of operations is "extra" important to math students at this level. As a math teacher I have seen so many student errors due to the lack of really understanding the order of operations. Hence, you should pay extra attention to the lesson and follow the procedure called "PEMDAS". Don't be fooled into thinking this is easy because you can do a few basic problems you really need to practice more difficult problems to have absolute confidence in this area.


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ATM Money Machine has been extremely pleasant to work with. Their prompt service and friendly atmosphere are two of their many great traits as a company that make me feel confident that I can continue to grow my business.
ATM Money Machine is a registered ISO with MetaBank.


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Cards on the table. I am a complete rollercoaster groupie. I have scoured the world from Six Flags Magic Mountain in California to Sydney's Manley Park in an effort to attain the biggest high of all, the adrenalin fix of hurtling down a sheer drop on a driverless train, and inching up that first huge climb knowing that there is no turning back now. Bullfrog have in one foul swoop satiated my burning desires, not to mention my bank account, by letting me build my very own on my computer, while creating a masterpiece of a game that is way up there in the league of the World Builder genre.
Building Game Worlds has a special place in computer entertainment, because it gives the player's own imagination a chance to really let hp and do its own thing. In Railroad Tycoon, I built the biggest most successful railroad system in the world; in Sim City, I saved the world from pollution and traffic jams; in Populous, I played God and decided the fate of mankind and in Caesar, I rewrote the history books. Airbucks made me more successful than Branson; Settlers showed me that storing wealth doesn't do anybody any good and Sim Earth proved to me that a world covered in just oceans spawns some interesting alternative outdoor sports!
Having dealt with violent death in Syndicate, Bullfrog have gone the opposite route and made a world that is free from injury. If one of your rides explodes, or someone is flung from a badly designed rollercoaster, they don't make a red mess on the pavement, just get up, dust themselves off and wander away in the direction of the nearest ice cream parlour. They may however have a word or two in some of the other visitors' ears about avoiding said rides and that will affect your income just a tad!
In its most basic format, Theme Park has a simple scheme. You start with some money and land and using the bit in between your ears you build the biggest fun fair you can imagine, while trying to turn a tidy profit. But not only do you build a fair, you must also provide paths, toilets, food and scenery like lakes and trees. You need to employ staff: mechanics to fix the rides and maintain safety, rangers to keep the place clean from litter and the grass short, entertainers to keep the crowds happy while they're standing in line and security guards to throw out the troublemakers.
There are a number of levels available to test your theming skills. On the most basic level the 'sandbox', you have to construct your park and set the prices for admission and food. You start the game with just four rides and some shops, but new rides become available at the start of every new year. Whether you can afford to buy them though is another story. On the next level up, you don't get the rides handed to you, you have to invest in researching them instead.
This, of course, brings in the spectre of overindulging your fantasies too early. Run out of cash, and you'll run out of customers pretty quickly. Who would want to come to a theme park with only a ghost train and a jumpy castle? You can allocate research money to different projects, for instance new rides, or upgrading existing rides, making them safer and improving capacity so more of the punters can use them.
Food stands and sideshows are an important source of income. You can begin with a Mr Whippy ice cream stand, a coffee shop and a balloon stand, but pretty soon you'll need to look at burger bars, restaurants, saloons and video arcades. Then you'll need to look at upgrading your park's facilities. That cheap, smelly loo might just have outlived it's usefullness, now that those new super toilets have come on the market. Staff training is a good idea to motivate them to work harder. The stock levels in the shops and restaurants have to be maintained at the most economical levels, (you could build a warehouse and store it all for later) and what about increasing the size of the buses that bring in the punters? If you set your wage levels too low, or your stock prices too high, negotiations need to take place. This could end in a strike and you'll see Chicken Man and everyone else picketing the entrance waving placards!! This means that there is no one to maintain the rides and fires break out everywhere!
But really the most rewarding level is the 'full' level, where you get the chance to invest in other rival parks. Buying shares in these parks may be a wise investment, but remember, your rivals can also invest in your park and you could find yourself ousted in a boardroom takeover. Where Theme Park really takes a major step forward over say Sim City is that life doesn't end when you've built a major successful park. Now you can sell off your dream to the highest bidder and then use the cash to buy something else in another part of the world which would test your skills further. Try building a park in Siberia or darkest Africa!
From the amazing ray traced intro sequence to the first person testing and riding (1200 or CD version only), there is quality stamped all over the game. All your customers have their own personalities for instance. They laugh, cry, get scared, yawn, throw up, get hungry, all kinds of things. These traits are shown by little "thinking" balloons above each character and close monitoring of your customers feelings will point you in the right direction for customer satisfaction. Disregard them at your peril. There are even yobs who vandalise the rides and beat up the entertainers. A few good security guards should put paid to these bad guys.
Back to my personal favourite though, the rollercoasters. You can design your own making them as high and as fast and as twisty as you like. You can add water splashes, corkscrews and loops, but make them too violent and people start to get thrown off with alarming regularity. You can customise almost anything to suit your own preferences and warped state of mind. Theme Park is addictive, attractive, compulsive and great fun to play, and will appeal to anyone who enjoys at least a particle of brain testing games.
This game has been set up to work on modern Windows (10/8/7/Vista/XP 64/32-bit) computers without problems. Please choose Download - Easy Setup (3.31 MB).

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Early Sign of an Industrial Slowdown?
Flatbed capacity appears to have increased rapidly over the past month according to the flatbed tender rejection index for the U.S.
Since September 17th the FTRI.USA has dropped 48% or 848 bps from 17.74% to 9.26%, indicating flatbed trucks are not as in demand as they have been for the first 3 quarters of the year.
The flatbed tender rejection index measures the apparent supply and demand in the flatbed freight market. As capacity increases, the FTRI decreases. The converse is also true, capacity decreases as the FTRI increases.
It is no secret that the flatbed market is much more volatile than the other equipment types such as reefer and dryvan, but we can gain other insight from the apparent increase in flatbed capacity. The rapid drop in rejections could have significance due to the type of freight normally associated with this trailer type.
Diving demand for flatbeds: does it mean oil and construction are hitting the brakes?
Flatbeds generally haul large machinery or over-dimensioned freight that is delivered to jobsites or places without a dock—construction sites or undeveloped areas such as oil fields. So, when flatbed volume drops, it is an indication that the construction cycle and other industry is slowing.
One more thing to keep in mind: the flatbed sector is far more exposed to seasonal fluctuations than the other modes. Builders are reluctant to start construction heading into winter, so demand will drop off in anticipation. Is this a warning sign for the broader market or a normal seasonal pattern? Construction certainly does appear to be slowing and oil is challenged with pipeline capacity, both creating drags on demand for flatbeds.
(SONAR: FTRI.USA) Flatbed Tender Rejection Index USA. The flatbed tender rejection index provides daily insights on flatbed capacity in the entire country. As the FTRI increases capacity decreases. As the FTRI decreases capacity increases. An FTRI value of 26% indicates there is less capacity available in the flatbed market than when the FTRI is 10% for example.


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An extension of the existing Lila Palette, featuring five brand-new shades.
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A rather eccentric looking young man wearing an old brown suit and holding a small, worn, stickered suitcase walked into the center of the city, spun around a few times in the middle of one of the main squares and then looked up to the skyline. Fixing his eyes on the closest church steeple, he immediately made his way to the front door of the rectory beside the church. He knocked on the door and asked to speak with the pastor. When the pastor met him in the parlor, the young man rose to his feet and immediately stood on one foot. Wearing a curious expression, the pastor asked how he could help the man. The young man said – I have come very far and wish to settle in this town and join your church; however first I would like you to instruct me in the entire faith as I stand on one foot. Assessing the man to be deranged, the pastor promptly showed him the door.
Returning to the city centre to repeat his spinning ritual, he headed in a new direction to the nearest church steeple. He made his way to the front door of the rectory and repeated his request to speak to the pastor: I have come very far and wish to settle in this town and join your church; however first I would like you to instruct me in the entire faith as I stand on one foot. Determining the young man to be irrational he also showed him the door.
A third time the young man repeated his spinning ritual and headed toward another church steeple and knocked on the door of the rectory. An old, slouched and limping, white-bearded pastor answered the door and showed him into a sitting room. The young man repeated his request saying: I have come very far and wish to settle in this town and join your church; however first I would like you to instruct me in the entire faith as I stand on one foot. The pastor looked at him through timeworn but wise eyes and smiled saying: Love God, love your neighbor, love yourself – the rest is all commentary.
Satisfied with the response, there and then, still standing on one foot, the young man decided to settle in the city and join the parish church.
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2. What you need to be able to do and understand:Group properties Identification of ions and gases Describe lithium, sodium and potassium  Use the following tests to identify: in Group I as a collection of relatively soft Aqueous cations: metals showing a trend in melting point and reaction with water.  ammonium, copper(II), iron(II), iron(III) and zinc by means of aqueous Predict the properties of other elements sodium hydroxide and aqueous in Group I, given data where appropriate. ammonia as appropriate. (Formulae of Describe the trends in properties of complex ions are not required.) chlorine, bromine and iodine in Group VII Anions: including colour, physical state and reactions with other halide ions.  carbonate by means of dilute acid and then limewater, Predict the properties of other elements in Group VII, given data where  chloride by means of aqueous silver appropriate. nitrate under acidic conditions,Transition elements  nitrate by reduction with aluminium, Describe the transition elements as a  sulfate by means of aqueous barium collection of metals having high ions under acidic conditions densities, high melting points and Gases: forming coloured compounds, and which, as elements and compounds, often act  ammonia by means of damp red as catalysts. litmus paper,Noble gases  carbon dioxide by means of limewater, Describe the noble gases as being  chlorine by means of damp litmus unreactive. paper, Describe the uses of the noble gases in  hydrogen by means of a lighted splint, providing an inert atmosphere, i.e. argon  oxygen by means of a glowing splint in lamps, helium for filling balloons.
3. Trends of group I the alkali metals Physical properties: -good conductors -very soft (a knife can cut them) -low density (they float) -low melting and boiling points Chemical properties: -all react with H2O but with increasing reactivityMetal This metal is silvery and Density (g/cm3) Melts at (°C) Reactivity with waterLi soft 0.53 181 Floats and fizzes Increasing Shoots across water reactivityNa a little softer 0.97 Density 98 Melting Softness increases increases pointK softer still 0.86 63 decreases Melts with heat and H2 catches fireRb even softer 1.53 39 Watch the YouTube video.Cs the softest 1.88 29 Watch the YouTube video. Make a prediction for Fr (the last in this group)- what are the trends? WHY?
4. Why do we see these trends?Why do the elements in group I all react in a similar way? Atoms with the same number of valency electrons react in a similar way.Why does reactivity increase down group I? In reactions, the group I atoms lose their outer electron, to gain a stable outer shell. The more shells there are, the further the outer electron is from the positive nucleus – so the easier to lose. The easier it is to lose an electron, the more reactive the metal. Li Na K How do Rb and Cs react with water?
5. Trends of group VII the halogens General information: -form coloured gases -are poisonous -form diatomic molecules Reactivity DECREASES as you go down the group.Halogen At room temperature Boiling point (°C) Reactivity with iron woolF2 a yellow gas -188 Iron wool burst into flame as fluorine passes Colour gets Boiling over it – without any heating deeper and pointCl2 a green gas -35 Hot iron wool glows brightly decreasing density increases increases reactivityBr2 a red liquid 59 Hot iron wool glows but less brightlyI2 a black solid 184 Hot iron wool shows a faint red glow Make a prediction for At (the last in this group)- what are the trends? WHY?
7. Trends of group o the noble gases General information: -unreactive -form coloured gases -are non-metals -are monoatomicNoble Size and mass of atom Boiling point (°C) A balloon full of this gasgasHe -269 rises quickly into the airNe Increase -246 Boiling rises slowly Density in size pointAr and mass -186 increases falls slowly increasesKr -152 falls quicklyXe -107 falls very quickly Make a prediction for Rn (the last in this group)- what are the trends? WHY?
12. Testing for ions Cations are positive Tests for cations Anions are negative Cation Test Result if positive ammonium add aqueous NH4+ sodium hydroxide -ammonia gas produced (red litmus paper turns blue) (NaOH) copper(II) -a pale blue precipitate forms Cu2+ -dissolves on adding more ammonia giving a deep blue colour iron(II) add aqueous -a pale green precipitate forms Fe2+ sodium hydroxide iron(III) (NaOH) or aqueous ammonia (NH3) -a red-brown precipitate forms Fe3+ zinc -a white precipitate forms Zn2+ -dissolves on adding more NaOH or NH3 giving a colourless solutionYou need to NH4+ Zn2+ Cu2+ Fe2+ Fe3+know the test Cu2+ in NH3but not the (pale blue) andformulae of Cu2+ in excess NH3 (dark blue)complex ions.
13. Testing for ions Cations are positive Anions are negative Tests for anions Anion Test Result if positivecarbonate -add dilute acid (HCl) and then -mixture bubbles and turns limewater CO32- limewater milky chloride -add dilute acid (nitric acid) and -a white precipitate forms Cl- aqueous silver nitrate -add sodium hydroxide nitrate -ammonia gas produced (red litmus (NaOH), then reduction with NO3- paper turns blue) aluminium sulfate -add dilute acid (HCl) and then -a white precipitate forms SO42- aqueous barium nitrate Cl2+ SO42- NO3- CO32-You need to knowthe test but not theformulae ofcomplex ions.

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Two years ago, the Dunbar Award recipient left us with the curious quotation highlighted on this year’s plenary brochure. Referring to clinically trained, educated, transformed chaplains as “responsible scavengers,” the suggestion was that they have survived because they know how to search, salvage, purify, and transform the elements of the world into that which nurtures and sustains life.3 As a trained, educated, transformed historian who has been learning from chaplains for over 35 years, I hope to share some of these skills and to have become adept at searching through lost tradition, salvaging neglected gems, purifying muddled thoughts, and transforming all into that which might nurture and sustain.
Let me now note and weave together a number of significant anniversaries worth celebrating today.
1927 – Again, eighty years ago, Dunbar completed her now often reprinted Doctor of Philosophy dissertation, “Symbolism in Medieval Thought ….” This arresting study of Dante’s Commedia elucidated, in many ways for the first time, the continuing power of “insight symbolism,” to recreate and expand meanings, to reach out “toward the supersensible,” to “give a glimpse of the beyond,” and to effect individuals’ “adjustment to the Infinite.”5 Certainly there was a theologian within her. While Presbyterians and Methodists had women as ministers by 1927, Dunbar’s resonance with the multi-layered medieval mass led her to align, doctrinally, with “high church” Episcopalians – which meant that ordination would not have been even an option for her until the mid-1970s, over a decade and a half after her death.
1957 – Fifty years ago, Dunbar first reported her research on centenarians. We will come back to this. While her colleague, Boisen, made it to almost age 90, and 50 years ago this year, Chicago Theological Seminary honored him after his 80th birthday as a Doctor of Letters, Dunbar made it to only age 57. Her 105th birthday would have been next May 14th. The College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy was among the first – besides Dantean scholars who kept buying her 1st book – to honor Helen Flanders Dunbar.
Now let me jump ahead quite a bit, before jumping back.
1982 – Twenty-five years ago, an editorial, “The 'Secret' of Clinical Pastoral Education," noted that the soul of the process HAD been in that supervisors' goal was "not education but transformation – transformation of themselves first of all and ultimately of their students." Consigning, however, this “mystery of the laying on of CPE hands” to the dustbin, the editorial went on to praise "objectification, quantification, and verification."13 That brief essay, in a nutshell, defined a key tension that has remained within the movement – how to function as a knowledgeable professional AND retain one’s soul.
1987 – Twenty years ago, during Christmas week, the 1st issue of the infamous Underground Report arrived in the mailboxes of supervisors of clinical pastoral education. As most of you know, the short essays and many letters appearing in subsequent issues of this renegade publication led directly to the founding of the College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy.14 These chaplain supervisors valued knowledge and professionalism, but they also longed for a committed community of colleagues that would foster creativity and growth.
1992 – Fifteen years ago, as we noted earlier, the CPSP held its first plenary gathering of the community.
2002 – Ten years later, 5 years ago, once again, our country was in the opening months of a foreign war. The CPSP Governing Council noted Solomon’s prophetic warning, that vision must precede action.15 The pastoral care community was not being called upon to provide almost 9,000 chaplains, as it had 60 years ago. Chaplains were called upon to provide vision – even action. Apparently the pastoral “vision thing” – and action – is still “in committee”. The challenge has not gone away.
Now let me jump back, before ending up at the present time.
1937 – Seventy years ago, tonight’s honoree attained the age of reason.
1962 – Forty-five years ago, he was ordained as a Roman Catholic priest in the committed community of Jesuits.
1967 – Forty years ago, as best I can tell, tonight’s honoree began toying with a versatile programming language the computer world calls “MUMPS” – officially the Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System – which made many healthcare information systems possible. Our honoree views himself as a simple, clinically trained parish priest. Apparently for 40 years, however, various communities have been served by someone who appreciated both silicon and communion wafers.
2007 – This evening, we are honored to have Chaplain Henry G. Heffernan, as the 6th recipient of the Helen Flanders Dunbar Award for Significant Contributions to the Field of Clinical Pastoral Training. We are especially honored since this may well be the year that we see the full fruition of a project he has been working on for several years, the “Ideal Intervention Paper,” a structured description of a patient visit that attempts to capture, nourish, and sustain the soul of pastoral care – albeit it with an eye on research.
As best I can tell, this approach starts with only the broadest of assumptions about what might be best, and then lets the serious interaction of one human with another help elucidate what might be most useful. Priority is given to respecting the mystery of transformation, while making some movement toward, in an appropriately loose sense, objectification, quantification, and verification of what seems to support positive change – healing and wholeness. Again, as best I can tell, the Ideal Intervention Paper has nothing to do with “so called” third parties. It has everything to do with relationship, of the suffering person – including those like him or her in the future – and of the attending chaplain – including those filling that role in the future.
The earliest eras of professional chaplaincy spoke of trying to discover the axioms of faith, the art of ministry, and the laws of the spirit. This new era of professional chaplaincy might entail the re-discovery of how – in a more effective way – to help those suffering to find deeper meanings of life. The Ideal Intervention Paper appears to start with real, engaged service, move toward active inquiry, move on to contemplation, and move still further toward guiding a future generation. The problem continues to be how to function as a knowledgeable professional AND retain one’s soul.
Let me now begin to pull to a close.
A moment ago I referred to Dunbar’s research 50 years ago on centenarians. Five years ago I suggested that, if the clinical pastoral community hoped to be flourishing at the 100-year mark, it might want to internalize some of the values Dunbar outlined as characteristic of centenarians.17 As I quickly list her findings once again, I would like you to consider the extent to which CPSP might want to sign on to these values. Also, I would like you to appreciate the degree to which these attributes characterize our honoree.
For the clinical pastoral community, that challenge, too, still stands. Perhaps CPSP will choose consciously to embrace some, most, or all of these values. Perhaps our honoree, Chaplain Henry G. Heffernan, can help to show the way.
3. The original story of the pastoral scavengers is from Valerie DeMarinis, Critical Caring: A Feminist Model for Pastoral Psychology [Louisville, Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993], p 12.
Robert C. Dykstra’s 2005 Plenary address, “Who We Shall Be,” was drawn from the manuscript of his then soon-to-be-published anthology, Images of Pastoral Care: Classic Readings [St. Louis, MO: Christian Board of Publication, 2006]; this edited volume includes readings by Anton Boisen, Alastair Campbell, Donald Capps, James Dittes, Robert Dykstra, Heije Faber, Charles Gerkin, Brita Gill-Austern, Karen Hanson, Seward Hiltner, Margaret Zipse Kornfeld, Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Jeanne Stevenson Moessner, Henri Nouwen, Gaylord Noyce, Paul Pruyser, and Edward Wimberly.
4. “Methods of Training in the Devotional Life Employed in the American Churches.” From references elsewhere we know that her thesis, which was destroyed, with many others, when the seminary library basement flooded, focused on the use of ritual. Seminary records indicate that William Adams Brown had her in at least two courses and one tutorial.
5. H. Flanders Dunbar, Symbolism in Medieval Thought and Its Consummation in the Divine Comedy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929 [= PhD dissertation, New York: Columbia University Press, 1929] reprinted New York: Russell and Russell, 1961, and again by Atlanta, GA: SOLINET, 1994; pp 11,14.
6. Anton T. Boisen, “Evangelism in the Light of Psychiatry,” Journal of Religion 7(1):76-70, 1927; pp 79, 76.
7. Anton T. Boisen, “Exploration of the Inner World,” Chicago Theological Seminary Register, 17, 1927; p 11. Yes, Boisen used the title for an article a full 8 years before he used it for his most famous book.
8. H. Flanders Dunbar, “The Psychic Component in Disease: From the Point of View of the Medical. Social Worker’s Responsibility. Bull Am Assoc Med Soc Work 10: 69-80, 1937; pp 76, 70.
Helen Van Voast and Ethel P.S. Hoyt, "History of the [Joint] Committee on Religion and Medicine of The Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and The New York Academy of Medicine, 1923-1936," ?1936, p 9; in folder "Religious Healing, 1923," Subseries 6, Association for Clinical Pastoral Education records, Archives & Manuscripts Department, Pitts Theology Library, Atlanta, GA.
12. Flanders Dunbar, Mind and Body: Psychosomatic Medicine. New York: Random House, 1947; as a "Book-of-the-Month Club" selection, this had numerous printings; a "new, enlarged" edition was issued in 1955.
Flanders Dunbar, Your Child’s Mind and Body: A Practical Guide for Parents. New York: Random House, 1949.
Flanders Dunbar, Your Pre-Teenager’s Mind and Body, edited by Benjamin Linder. New York: Hawthorn, 1962.
Flanders Dunbar, Your Teenager’s Mind and Body, edited by Benjamin Linder. New York: Hawthorn, 1962.
13. Edward E. Thornton. J Pastoral Care 36 (3): 145-146, 1982, p 146.
14. The web page http://www.cpspoffice.org/the_archives/1999/03/whatever_happen.html has a number of quotations from the Underground Report; note also footnotes 42-53 there. While most of the “old folks” of CPSP know that Raymond J. Lawrence, Jr. was the founder of the Underground Report, this fact is here recorded for the benefit of newer members and posterity.
16. Henry G. Heffernan, “The Ideal Intervention Paper Exercise: The Learning and Maturing Experience for the CPE Student,” “preliminary draft,” May 2006, http://www.acperesearch.net/Spring06.html. See also his “An Approach to the Specification of Chaplain Visits,” http://www.acperesearch.net/Spring04.html; “Update on the ‘Structured Descriptions’ Project, with a Draft of a Student Manual.” http://www.acperesearch.net/Winter06.html; “Update on the ‘Structured Descriptions / Ideal Interventions’ Project” [which has links to printable PDFs for "A Databank Resource for Pastoral Research: Detailed Descriptions of Chaplains’ Visits with Patients" and "The Terminology and Concepts of Pastoral Practice,"] http://www.acperesearch.net/Spring06.html; and “A Report on the Pilot Phase of the Ideal Intervention Paper (IIP) Project: Introducing Pastoral Research into Clinical Pastoral Education,” October 2006, http://www.acperesearch.net/Fall06.html [has printable PDF].
http://www.cpspoffice.org/the_archives/2002/03/the_continued_a_2.html, citing, Flanders Dunbar, Psychiatry in the Medical Specialties, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959, pp 465, 461, 464, 153, 459, 460.


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Some thoughts before leaving – Later on today my wife and I will be traveling to the States for the first time in almost two and a half years. This will be my fourth time back to the States since I left, and my third time with my wife. It will also be the first time our whole family will be together for Christmas in quite a while—since the last century, as a matter of fact.
It’s always a bit strange going back to the States, and the more time passes the stranger it gets. I suppose it makes sense, but I’ve always found it a bit odd (and not a little frustrating) that my picture of “home” is what it was like before I left the first time. No matter how things may change when I go back for a visit, those new memories fade away to reveal the old memories beneath them. Like I said, it makes sense—after all, those old memories were built up over a period of seventeen years. How can I expect them to be replaced during a brief visit?
I vividly remember the day I left. My plane left in the evening, so I did my packing that morning. I have never been able to pack in advance—if I’m leaving in the morning I pack late the previous night, and if I’m leaving in the evening I pack that morning. Even leaving the States for Korea, not knowing when I might come back, I couldn’t bring myself to pack even the night before.
After packing as much of my life as I was willing to bring with me into two big bags and a carry-on, I went outside with my brothers to go rollerblading. For some reason we decided it would be a good idea to have my youngest brother lie down in the road while we jumped over him. Everything was going fine until I missed a landing and ended up scraping just about every joint in my body. That certainly made the 16-hour flight to Korea fun.
I went back home, patched up my wounds as best as I could, and then grabbed my luggage. The whole family was going with me to the airport, and everyone filed out the door, except for me. I stopped at the top of the stairs leading down to the front door, as if my feet had suddenly been glued to the ground.
I slowly turned around and stared into the kitchen, and suddenly it hit me. I was leaving, and this wasn’t my house anymore. This was the last time I was ever going to see this kitchen. Oh, I knew that I would visit again, and that I would sit at the kitchen table in my old seat, but it wouldn’t be the same. It would never be the same. I fought back tears as I looked around the house, and my father said nothing, giving me my moment. I can remember exactly what everything looked like in that moment.
And that’s how I remember the house today. The old wallpaper in the kitchen, the one with the white background and the old fashioned pictures of fruit and a stein (or maybe it was a teapot) sitting on a shelf, repeated over and over again. The railing on the stairs is loose, and it rattles when we grab onto it and vault down the stairs. There is a hole in the hallway wall where I once kicked it when I was angry, forgetting how fragile sheetboard is. Then there’s my room: rust-colored carpet and blue walls, and a ceiling fan that didn’t really do all that much for air circulation.
Some of these things have changed, and some haven’t, but this is how I remember things. I know that the kitchen has been redone, and I even sat in the new kitchen the last time we were in the States, but I honestly cannot remember what it looks like. The whole exterior of the house has changed, for that matter, since we were there last. I’ve seen pictures, but it doesn’t look like our house. Our house is brown, not blue with stonework around the bottom. There’s a big pool and deck in the back, but I still see the garden—the garden where my mom spent so many hours, and where the tomatoes grew that I used to sell by the side of the road when I was young.
The house, my tiny little hometown of Mahopac, the church—however they might change, it is fairly easy to readjust. It’s a lot harder to readjust to people, though, especially my family. I remember my family the way they were when I first left, but people change over time. It pains me to see my parents, because they look so much older than the way I remembered them. I know that they are growing older as I am growing older, but it’s still a hard thing to deal with.
My youngest brother, Matt, is the hardest to deal with, though. When I left the States he was eleven years old. I remember the last time I saw him—we had come in from the airport and I walked in the front door, and there he was, standing at the top of the stairs. I recognized his voice, but the little boy I remembered was gone and a young man stood in his place. He smiled as I reached the top of the stairs, but I could only stare at him.
“I need to be alone for a minute,” I said, and walked down the hall into my old room. I was examining something on the shelf when my mother came in to ask me if I was OK. I wasn’t OK. Here was my brother, and I didn’t even know him. It was a while before I could come out of my room to face him. I can’t imagine what he must have thought, and I feel bad about it, but I just couldn’t handle seeing him at that moment.
My other brother, Brian, is a different story. He is only three years younger than me, so he was nineteen when I left. Still, I was much closer to Brian than I was with Matt, mainly because we grew up together. Matt was almost like a son in some respects—I changed his diapers, fixed meals for him after school, and took care of him when my parents weren’t around. Brian was different, though. I took care of him, but in a different way (“taking care of him” often involved beating him senseless, until the day we wrestled to a standstill for two hours in the floor lounge of my dormitory at university). We shared so many things—hopes, dreams, and fears. We were very close.
I sometimes forget how close we were. The other day, though, I happened to stop by his website at www.ambioniks.com. It’s primarily a site for his music, but he also has some of his writings posted there as well. I never really got around to reading them, mainly because they’re really long files stuck in these tiny framesets. This time, though, I decided to read some of what he had posted there. I glanced through each of the framesets and stopped when I came to the last one. It was his old journal that he used to keep religiously on his Mac. The first entry was dated June 11, 1995.
My brother is leaving in two weeks. That hurts me probably a lot more then I realize. I don't know how to react to him leaving. I want to.... I don't know what I want to do.
Charles is leaving tomorrow. It hurts me, but I don't think it's really hit me yet. I'm just choosing not to deal with it at the moment, but I'm eventually going to have to. I hope that I see him more then I think I will. I think maybe when he actually gets to Korea, he might change his mind and decide to come back sooner, or he might not. Anyway, that's a rough subject to talk or think about so I won't.
My brother left last night. I really didn't know what to say to him so I didn't say anything. I just don't know what to feel.
I was stunned as I read—I never knew that my brother felt like that. As he said, he didn’t say anything to me when I left, and I didn’t say anything special to him, at least not that I can remember. I guess there’s not really all that much you can say in that sort of situation. It’s not like we could say anything we hadn’t already said in the years we grew up together.
I am often assaulted by guilt, guilt for leaving my brothers. It pains me to think that Matt has grown up without me, that he doesn’t really know me, and I don’t really know him. Brian has also changed over the past eight years, and there is much we don’t know about each other. But as I read through his journal, I was stunned by a sudden realization. All this time I had been feeling guilty because I didn’t know my brother anymore, but the truth was that I didn’t know him before I left either. I had gone away to one school, and three years later he had gone to another, and we obviously saw a lot less of each other. All the pain and doubt that plagued him—I just never knew. He was going through all of that, and he was going through it without me.
That was when I realized that my leaving for Korea was not what started the process. It had already started, and it was going to happen whether I was in the States or not. Yes, being halfway around the world has made it a bit more difficult to keep in touch, but what happened was most likely going to happen anyway, at least to some extent. I don’t know if this should be a comfort or not, but I think it is more truthful.
Will one month be enough to catch up on all the time we have missed? No, it will not. When we get together with someone we haven’t seen in a long time we speak of “catching up” with that person, but in reality there is no such thing. You cannot make up for lost time, and you cannot go back and become part of a person’s life when you weren’t there to begin with. You can, however, start anew, and make new memories for the future.
At least for the next month, my family and I will be part of each other’s lives, and I’m looking forward to that. I’m looking forward to getting to know my brothers again. I’m looking forward to seeing what has changed, and what has stayed the same. And I’m looking forward to being a family, together, again. I think it will be a good Christmas this year.


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Due to the planned bicol-wide transport strike of Condor-Piston Bicol, many areas in Albay declared suspension of classes on Monday, June 25.
However the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) headed by Governor Al Francis Bichara issued advisory, June 22, that the suspension of classes will be at the discretion of the Local Chief Executives based on their information that not all municipalities will be affected.
Concerned Drivers and Operators-Pinagkaisang Samahan ng mga Tsuper at Operator Nationwide (Condor-Piston) Bicol Deputy Secretary General Ramon Rescovilla said the strike aimed to grant their demand to return the additional peso fare in jeepneys in Albay and condemn the Train Law of the government that only leads to more sufferings of the drivers and operators in the country.
Rescovilla added that many drivers and operators in the provinces of Bicol are greatly affected by the Train Law and the modernization act of the government in transportation.

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Barefoot and minimalist running is growing in popularity by day, but right now it’s definitely still a lifestyle niche. As with any niche and the folks involved in it, differing opinions fly, people get segmented into this group or that, and elitists are born.
Personally, I try to stay clear of all that. When the debate over shoes versus barefoot circles again as it always does, I just roll my eyes and wait it out. I don’t like to pigeonhole myself into any one role in life. When it comes to this topic, mostly I just identify as a runner and leave the barefoot part out unless it’s pertinent. Frankly, the barefoot part is only a small fraction of what my running life is about. Obviously, I prefer running with much less on my feet than most people, but that’s because to me it means good form with less injury, and it feels more natural. And I enjoy running much more when it feels natural to me.
My opinion on the whole barefoot vs. minimalist shoes debate is that there should be no debate. I feel strongly that it’s important to embrace all aspects of something important to you, or else you’ll never see the whole picture. I agree that barefoot is your best learning tool. I agree that shoes are tools. I agree that good running form requires a mid-foot strike, straight posture and high cadence. I agree that minimalist trail shoes are good for trails, and that you can go barefoot on trails. You can call me wishy-washy, but I believe that to truly understand something you must welcome all facets into your study of it, not just one or two specific ideas.
People who go barefoot 100 percent of the time arrive at limitations when it comes to extreme temperatures and certain aggressive terrains, and there may be some experiences they will have to avoid because of it. People who never go barefoot remain numb and consequently miss out on the glorious wealth of the world that can be experienced through the soles of their feet. Only those of us who fling aside the puritanical garble from both far ends of the spectrum can really gain the benefits of both worlds.
Like I said, I am a runner first, and a barefoot/minimalist second. Like the rest of the folks in the minimalist niche, I use my choice of footwear (or lack thereof) as a tool to allow good technique and improve my joy in running. I am also a bit of a minimalist shoe geek. I love to test and review all kinds of minimalist shoes for running and casual wear. I believe in minimal footwear and enjoy promoting it over shoes that alter or try to “fix” one’s gait. It makes me happy to think that even in some miniscule way I am serving to shape the future of the sport through the quality of its products.
No shoe company has ever paid me to write a review of their shoes, good or bad, but most of the time the products I write about are given to me free of charge. On occasion, if I want to try out a certain shoe badly enough, I will purchase it myself if the company’s PR department is unresponsive. Some people will tease me by calling me a “shoe whore,” and well, I suppose that’s partially true. I relish in my growing choice of footwear each time I head out for a run (and likewise, in giving some away to others who will enjoy them more). But my intentions are pure: my childlike curiosity and desire to be as involved as I can in this sport are my driving forces.
But I am most certainly not without a canyon of flaws. For the last two years I have run almost exclusively in minimalist shoes. Yes, you read that right. Except for on rare occasions and really good moods, I all but avoided running barefoot out of a fear of nasty blisters and uncorrectable form issues. And the few times I tried to run bare, it felt too difficult and had some less than desirable outcomes. For the longest time I lived by the resolve that it would take too long for my feet to adapt, and in the meantime I want to bank mileage at every run, not limp around over tiny stones that my baby-soft feet can’t handle.
But in the last couple of weeks I have finally taken the opportunity to set aside my hesitations about running barefoot, and just started doing it. I guess you could say I’d finally had enough of hearing myself talk. One night I came home from work, got into my running skirt and sport bra, leashed up the pooch and left the toolbox of shoes at home. I didn’t take a pair with me as a back-up, just in case, like I’d always done (and invariably put them on half a mile later). I left my front door just as barefoot as my beloved dog Oscar, and I found out that it wasn’t nearly as scary as I thought it would be. I ran a mile around the neighborhood and I didn’t get any blisters. So I did it again a few days later and it was a little bit easier. Last night I ran two full miles completely barefoot, for the first time ever. I came home, washed my feet off and started dinner like it was no big deal. Because it wasn’t, not anymore. What a triumph to know such simplicity! In a few weeks my feet will be tougher and I’ll take on more challenges. I am thrilled that I’ve finally overcome my fears and feelings of inexperience related to running barefoot.
So I guess you could say that I am finally coming to a point in my experience where I can make an argument for or against running totally barefoot, because I’m actually dedicated to the use of both toolboxes. But I actually have less of a need to argue about it now than ever before. Why? Because there’s really no point.
Many barefoot purists have felt the glow of enlightenment as they shunned those who choose to wear shoes in their daily life. Many shod runners have felt smart in their cushioned shoes while they shook their heads at those weird barefoot hippies. But I have never felt more enlightened than I did the day I realized that I don’t have to make a choice. I can have the whole toolbox for myself, and I can be ready for anything.
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Thousands of mobile apps hit the market every day. Each required (or should have required), a carefully selected development methodology. A software development process methodology governs how a software team attacks the mobile app development process. There are two key strategies: agile application development and waterfall application development. We’ll discuss them both below and then give our opinion on which one is the best fit for your project (hint: it’s probably agile development).
Conception- where the scope, audience, and fundamental value of your application are decided. This stage determines your focus in each of the following steps.
Initiation- the first, preparatory steps of making your app’s concept a reality are put in motion—a team is hired, and several clear objectives and deliverables are proposed.
Analysis- also called a feasibility analysis, in this step, you and your team validate and determine whether the objectives and deliverables you proposed during initial preparation are feasible.
Design- the skeleton and structure of the app emerge through wireframing, storyboarding, and mock-ups. The app’s overarching design is honed, typically through multiple rounds of revision and reworking.
Construction- here, the app’s design is finally committed to code. Typically, different parts or features within an app are constructed in tandem or one after the other.
Testing- though one of the keys to good testing is incremental tests and quality assurance throughout the steps above, a final round of testing is always a good idea after a feature’s construction.
Deployment- your app is rolled out, either to the wider public, beta users, a closed group of testers, or some combination of the three.
In this post, we’re going to discuss how two different types of development methodologies—agile vs. waterfall- tackle each of these steps.
The waterfall process model follows a more traditional strategy. It tackles each of the steps listed above in a distinct, chronological order. An app’s design, for example, is completely laid out and decided upon before moving onto construction. And, similarly, an app’s construction is completely finished before testing begins.
Check out this illustration for a visible representation of waterfall vs. agile.
The blueprint for agile methodology evolved to address several shortcomings in the more traditional waterfall development process. And the word “agile” actually describes the model’s philosophy pretty well. The agile approach to mobile app development adopts a different strategy for attacking these development steps.
Instead of finishing one step before moving onto the next, agile application development enables teams to set and pursue incremental goals in each of these areas simultaneously.
a more organic, adaptable, and cost-effective approach to mobile app development: the team can shift and adapt to setbacks in any step of the process—even in a later step like testing or construction.
flexibility while maintaining process organization: flexibility and organization are often diametrically opposed. An organized plan is often hardened against adaptation, while a very flexible plan often promotes (or at least allows) procrastination and missed deadlines. By relying on sprints, agile enables developers to adapt by shifting goals and targets while maintaining deadline-central organization.
equal time and effort are given to each step in the process: with an agile methodology, your team doesn’t risk having to completely redo your app’s design or construction due to a fundamental flaw identified in testing (or worse, identified by users after launch because there wasn’t enough time left over for testing after several delays in reconstruction).
Let’s wade in and compare the two different philosophies and approaches of agile and waterfall mobile app development. We’ll discuss the core structures of each approach in greater detail, but here’s a quick summary.
Steps tackled simultaneously via fast time sprints.
Steps tackled one after the other in an assembly line style.
Issues can be addressed and fixes can be implemented as soon as next week’s sprint.
When issues are identified, other steps grind to a halt until the problem is addressed.
You will get a better picture of what your app looks like faster—that way you can make suggestions or adjust expectations in real time.
You often don’t see a working version of the app until just before launch (during the final stages of construction or testing).
Changes are anticipated and expected, not resisted.
Can make team members resistant to adjusting, improving, and adapting.
With an agile approach, your mobile app team will set about developing your app in a short time sprints that simultaneously apply each of the app designing steps listed and illustrated above. After your app idea’s initial conception, they won’t just move onto initiation, but also analysis, design, testing, and more.
Why is this approach so potentially powerful? Because, contrary to popular belief (and what experienced app developers or coaches might like you to believe) mobile app development is a messy process, and is rarely carried out in discrete, isolated project development phases. Your mobile app’s design, construction, and testing, for example, can and should be closely intertwined.
If a fundamental construction issue or design flaw is uncovered during your mobile app’s development, then your team may have to make tough choices and adapt or adopt a new design facet or construction elements. But, with an agile approach, a pivot or adaptation like this isn’t seen as a setback or even a mistake. It’s simply considered an intentional part of the design process.
And, because the agile process tackles each design step simultaneously, pivoting and making changes to your app’s design, construction and deployment is more cost-effective. Instead of waiting to test until you’ve invested your entire construction budget in a full-fledged, feature rich near-final iteration of your app, your team will test smaller, incremental iterations constantly, making changes, revisions, and improvements as you go.
In the end, more often than not, this agile development process results in an app with a better design, fewer flaws or bugs, and greater usability.
If you’d like to learn more about the agile mobile app development process and how it can be applied to create great results for your app-in-the-making, feel free to reach out to us for a consultation. We offer a full range of development services for many mobile app types.
Compared to the agile process, the waterfall model is a bit clunkier. Though, if your team is experienced and you know exactly what you and your customers are looking for in an app, this process can still prove efficient and viable.
So how, specifically, does the waterfall methodology work? Like the agile methodology, the more traditional waterfall model tackles the same seven basic steps of app development (as listed and illustrated above). But unlike agile, which simultaneously tackles each of these steps, the waterfall method attacks each step sequentially. That means that, before construction, your mobile app is completely designed. And, before testing begins, your app is completely constructed.
While this type of organization does have some appeal—it does, for example, make management easier and may make more sense to application or business owners less interested or engaged with the minutia of mobile app development, this process presents several potential pitfalls.
First, when you follow a sequential approach like the waterfall model’s, it makes it more costly and time intensive to adapt your app when adopting new features or fixing fundamental errors.
In the waterfall method, if you reach the testing stage and uncover a significant bug, you may have to scrap code or construction elements that cost thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to create.
What’s worse, because of the sunk cost bias, you and your team might decide to keep a less than optimal feature, even if it doesn’t test well, because you’ve already invested so much in its design and development.
Along the same lines, the waterfall development process can tempt your team to take shortcuts in the later project development phases, even though these stages are arguably the most important. If your app launch has a clear, non-negotiable deadline and you encounter unexpected setbacks early on in the development process, you might be forced to cut corners in the later stages of construction or skimp out on crucial testing or deployment processes.
In the end, we believe that the waterfall model is more likely to lead to unforeseen and unplanned project delays. Because waterfall allows little to no flexibility, your team may be forced to make costly changes or avoid changes that would keep your app and concept alive and relevant. That means final products may be less likely to satisfy user expectations.
Agile development’s iterative approach leads to mobile apps with better designs, better code, and better ROI. Why? Because compared to the waterfall model, the agile model doesn’t just acknowledge that mistakes and flaws will occur in the development process—it expects them. And, by enabling simultaneous construction, design, and testing, it allows your team to diagnose, resolve, and engineer around these potential setbacks as they appear.
Are you looking for an app development company that can deploy the agile approach to help your company capitalize on the mobile app technology boom? Clockwise Software is equipped to assist you at any stage of the development process. You can contact us right now for more details!


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The Dykes on Bikes have led the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade for as long as it has been running.With up to 200 motorbikes at the front of the parade, there is a serious problem if there are breakdowns – the parade stops! For 12 years Sydney Motorcycle Workshop have provided the support vehicles to pick up or get running again bikes that have stalled, over heated or just aren’t up to the ride. If there are any injuries, the parade route is lined with ambulances, police and paramedics , so the missing link was mechanics and utilities.
This group of heterosexual men, the staff at SMW, enjoy supporting the Dykes on Bikes every year at the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade.


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