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BOWLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL: NEW ORLEANS BOWL PREVIEW
By Orson Dec 12, 2005, 12:12pm EST
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When it comes to bowls, apply a handy beatitude to their valuation: and the first shall be last. Bowl games are much like clustered tourist attractions--the last stop is the biggie, with the outliers decreasing in value the further out you go.
In Orlando's case, this is something like Medieval Times; in the world of the bowls, it's got to be the New Orleans Bowl, which wins the Retsyn Award for truth in advertising by not even taking place in the title locale. Due to Katrina, the bowl game has been moved to scenic Lafayette, the gateway to Cajun country and home to the unfortunately monkiered University of Lousiana-Lafayette. We say unfortunately monikered since every dedicated NCAA 2006 viewer knows that as you're beating them 325-0, their team's name appears as "UL-LAF," which sounds a lot like "you'll laugh," which we usually do as we loft a HB pass for the sixteenth score of the day against them.
But the Southern Miss Golden Eagles and Arkansas State Indians will be there, along with legions of fans and doting Eagle fan Sunday Morning QB. So just in case you feel like getting on your airboat and heading down to bayou country to watch bottom of the barrel qualifiers slug it out in the cancer belt, here's our handy guide to the New Orleans Bowl.
Name: The New Orleans Bowl.
Motto: Laizzes les bon temps roulez! Yes, that's "Let the good times roll" in French. Yes, it's misspelled on the website.
Intrusive Corporate Sponsor: Surprisingly, none.
Tradition rating: Has been existence since 2001, which puts it on par with the Smoothie King down the street from you. But hey, they do tout the 2001 game as "the third highest-ranked game in the history of ESPN2." Rating: Smoothie King.
Tradition rating: Smoothie King.
Setup: Sun Belt vs. C-USA.
Location. Gotcha! Lafayette, Lousiana, which you may have noticed is NOT New Orleans.
Katrina's to blame here, but Lafayette seems to have done a bangup job running with it and promoting itself as the "Doorway to Acadiana." Seriously, we were all set up to crack out the whip on the site, but for a mid-sized Southern city this is quality work, here.
We would demand a few things if we were to visit Lafayette, though.
1. We want to do everything on an air boat. We've been entranced with these ever since we watched Gator with Burt Reynolds, and they're all over the place in Lousiana. Bonus points if we can get liquored up and spray buckshot at wildlife from the deck of one while a one-eyed Cajun guy tells us stories that always end up with a body in the swamp and lonely woman singing over a misty grave.
You think we jest? Hell to the no. We want to pull up to a strip mall in one of these.
Stranko and Orson's episode of Cribs, Lafayette edition
2. A bowl ticket and hotel receipt for longer than three nights in Lafayette should come with a voucher for a complimentary balloon angioplasty at a local hospital. Life must have been hard for settlers, since they decided to mitigate the bitter taste of living in a malarial bog by making food that would ensure a short but happy life. Cajun/creole food stands at the crossroad of traditional southern cooking and French cuisine, which means a lot of "parts" cooked in gusts of pure, tasty lard. It's all tongue-slapping good, but that sludgy sensation in your chest followed by numbness after your third bowl of gumbo is NOT indigestion--it's a stroke. Seek medical attention in between courses and you'll be fine.
Matchup quality: We'll rate these comparatively. Example: USC/Texas in the Rose is akin to Ali-Frazier. Arkansas State/Southern Miss? Barry Williams versus Danny Bonaduce in Celebrity Boxing.
What to watch for: Ummm...why does a drunk down the vanilla extract in your cabinet? Because they have to, that's why. You'll have gone weeks without a game at this point. That's weekends of the worst of adult living: you, babbling and compliant, wandering around Bed, Bath and Beyond like Will Ferrell's character in Old School. Mil Millington put it better in Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About:
I didn't know, however, that when you get a house you also need to buy monstrous amounts of pointless rubbish. Toilet-roll holders, lampshades, a trio of candlesticks of cleverly diminishing height and Mondrian-themed coasters. There's a thin line that divides the man you were from the person shuffling around Ikea with a stupid big yellow bag and dead eyes.
That person with the dead eyes and the bag? That's your sentence for the next seven and half months following the bowls. Oh, you'll watch it and hate yourself for it--you will. So will we.


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Q: Running model from ArcPy? I am using arcGIS 10.0  SP5
I have the following code :
import arcpy

arcpy.ImportToolbox(r"C:\Documents and Settings\Derek\FRAME\FORTEST.tbx", "Derek")

arcpy.TEST_Derek()

The model is names TEST
The toolbox alias is Derek
When I try and run this I get an error
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'TEST_Derek"

What I want to do is to run the model TEST from the toolbox FORTEST

A: I agree with some of the other posts, it sounds like you at one time or another edited the model from a 10.1 machine and clicked save.  Doing such would make it a v10.1 model now and unable to be opened or viewed by a v10.0 machine.  The only options I know to get around this are A) Right click on the TOOLBOX (not the model) and save as a v10.0 toolbox and then run from there.  B) Rebuild the model on a v10.0 machine using the same tools and parameters... seems like a waste of time, but you could do it this way.  C) You could open the tool from a v10.1 machine and, if it includes no 10.1 specific functionality nor any modelbuilder specific functionality (no modelbuilder specific tools or iterators) you could try the export model to python script and then just call that python script instead of calling your model from the script you are actually writing.
What I would do is try to open the model from ArcGIS Desktop on the v10.0 machine.  If you can open it correctly there and it is still having this issue, there there is something else wrong, you may want to re-check spellings, permissions issues, etc... not sure.  But if it won't let you open the model from the v10.0 machine but will from the v 10.1 machine, I'm pretty sure it's a model version issue and the save toolbox as v10.0 model would work just fine (note that this may potentially do odd or unexpected things to your model if it has a lot of v10.1 specific tools or functionality....so you may want to double check it).

A: After ImportToolBox, you can display arcpy.ListTools() and arcpy.ListToolBoxes() to see how your tool is actually defined.

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Now that April is here, I thought I'd have a look back at some of the goings on around here during March.
We had our last weekend stay at the beach early in the month and what a contrast in the temperature compared to our last stay there back in February - quite chilly overnight and then first thing in the morning, and there was definitely no way I was going in the water this time! A very enjoyable time with our family and friends and I'm sad to think our next visit will be in early 2020.
We celebrated a very special family occasion on the 7th March - my lovely niece Zoe turned 18. Wow, how did that happen so quickly?? Because she had been quite unwell prior to her birthday, her celebrations were very low key with a family dinner at her favourite local restaurant.
Zoe with her longtime boyfriend Dylan.
Nannie and Grandad with their girls.
Our Boxing Day sales purchase finally arrived in early March too, a new lounge suite. We are so pleased with it and how well it matches our newly purchased blinds and curtains.
Another room in our house renovation project was finished during March, with the plumber coming in to finish the work needed to connect up our new laundry sink and the new washing machine. Oh how happy I am to have a working sink in the laundry again. Photos to come!
No, it wasn't wacky hair day at school - Miss H just modelling a new hair style for us, lol.
She has us in fits of laughter the things she comes up with!
A yummy recipe that I've now made several times is this banana and chocolate chip loaf. The recipe is by Vanya of VJ Cooks and she is one of my favourite Kiwi foodie bloggers to follow. Vanya is also on Instagram, vj_cooks, and she shares lots of easy and delicious family meal recipes.
Last week I was in Palmerston North for the day for work so I got to catch up with two of my favourite people, my cousin Donna and Aunty Dorrie.
Although it was just a quick catch up, it was just wonderful to see them both. My Aunty recently shaved her hair off for Shave for a Cure, collecting sponsorship to donate for the cause, what a wonderful thing to do.
Next weekend the annual charity Bookarama sale is on so I'm looking forward to popping along to see if I can find anything to add to my reading pile for the winter months - there's quite a stack there already including to a couple of books bought late last year that I've still got to get to.
Married at First Sight Australia- this is the first season Glenn and I have watched and we have been sucked right in watching it every time it's on. Only a week to go now and then we are looking forward to a new series of Dancing with the Stars New Zealand.
On Netflix - Homeland Series 7 (halfway through), Designated Survivor Series 2 (just finished), the Order (2 episodes in) and I'm looking forward to the 2nd series of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina coming soon. I've also been catching up on a couple of seasons of Scandal. A couple of other Netflix series I've enjoyed watching are Line of Duty and Shetland.
Movies - I've been to see several movies lately. Hannah and I enjoyed Dumbo last weekend and last night I finally made it along to see Captain Marvel. Although I haven't seen all the Avengers and other Marvel movies, I'm looking forward to the Avengers- End Game coming soon. Hannah and I also watching a rerun of the Harry Potter movies on Friday evenings, this week is the Deathly Hollows Part 1. I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched these over the years!
I'll finish this post with a couple of photos I took from our front deck early one morning last week. Wow, the sky was amazing, it only lasted for a few minutes and then it was gone but just incredible the colours and how quickly it changed.
There's definitely an autumn feel in the air here now and Daylight Savings finishes for us this coming weekend, clocks go back an hour.
As always, thank you for all the kind and encouraging messages you leave for me here.
If you enjoyed the Lilac Girls, check out both books by Kate Quinn - The Alice network and her new book The Huntress. Both were great reads!
Beautiful sunsets ,and lovely fun family photos .
the weather is definitely changing. On Sunday I wore a sundress, and today I'm in trousers, boots, and a woollen jumper. And I've had to turn the heater on in my home office! It's sad to think you won't be back at the beach until next year.
Can't believe Zoe is 18, she has grown into a lovely young lady. Wonderful family photos too.
Sweet photos, I love the one with all the hair bobbles in, I think my daughter has even more than that (but much shorter hair!). I've also made banana loaf this week... I could have put choc chips in it if I hadn't forgotten about them sitting there in the cupboard. Have you got 'The Umbrella Academy' on Netflix? We just binge watched that one, it was really excellent, and also 'Russian Doll' was pretty good too. Hope you have a lovely weekend!
Loved reading all about you and your family and Zoe 18 wow, where did those years go to as I have followed your blog for a while. I loved married at First Sight too, very daring young people I don't think I could do it.


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Bridge of Glass
Posted by Ed Leckert on Oct 15th, 2013 | 1 comment
Thirty miles to the south of Seattle in the city of Tacoma, right outside the Museum of Glass, there is a 500-foot-long pedestrian overpass that crosses I-705 and some railroad tracks. This curious footbridge connects the Museum of Glass to the rest of the Tacoma Museum District, the University of Washington Tacoma, and a few hundred Starbucks locations. But in addition to its function as a footbridge, it is a bit of a museum itself, for it is known as the Chihuly Bridge of Glass.
The bridge contains three very different art installations by Dale Chihuly, the internationally-renowned Tacoma Washington native known for his glass sculptures. But it is the Seaform Pavilion that I find the most interesting, for it consists of a fifty-by-twenty-foot plate-glass ceiling topped with 2,364 objects from Chihuly's Seaform and Persian series. The objects are lighted from above by daylight and by fluorescent lights, which are also used at night. The exhibit gives visitors the experience of a seemingly underwater world of glass shapes and forms a few feet above their heads.
Dale Chihuly's Seaforms have soft, undulating sides and rims, and feature delicate, flowing forms and colors, while his Persians, the exotic cousin to the Seaforms, are a rich variety of cones, flasks, and roundels with spiraling ribbons of color.
The exhibit, a gift to the city of Tacoma, is open to the public and has no entrance fee. So the next time you find yourself in Tacoma, be sure to check out the Bridge of Glass. But be warned – all that looking up can be hard on the neck!
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Under the National Law, the Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA work in partnership to implement the National Scheme, each with specific roles, powers and responsibilities set down in the National Law.
The guiding principles of the National Law require the National Scheme to operate in a 'transparent, accountable, efficient, effective and fair way'; and for registration fees to be reasonable '…having regard to the efficient and effective operation of the scheme'.
Each year the Board and AHPRA publish a health professional agreement that details the services provided by AHPRA that enable the Board to carry out its functions under the National Law.
In 2016, all National Boards agreed to the expansion of the HPA to a four-year agreement to reflect the life of the National Scheme strategy, 2015-20. With a four-year head agreement, annual updates to the schedules will be added to the HPA for each National Board up to and including the 2019/20 financial year. Schedules for previous financial years can be found (on the Schedule Archive below).
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(856KB,DOCX) 9 November 2016
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(2.79MB,DOCX) 9 November 2016
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About Viterbo
D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership
2019 Conference on Servant Leadership
For the past five years, Viterbo University has held a Conference on Servant Leadership for individuals who aspire to be servant leaders in nonprofit organizations, business, government, health care, ministry, and education. This year's conference seeks to gather individuals for a conversation on emerging leadership. By 2025, roughly 75% of the global workforce will be millennials. Our organizations will be directly shaped by this generation's habits and expectations. What can we do to better prepare the next generation of leaders? Join us for an engaging two-day conference held at the Weber Center for the Performing Arts located on the banks of the beautiful Mississippi River in La Crosse.
Registration is closed. Please contact Nicole Van Ert at 608-796-3616 or email at nmvanert@viterbo.edu.
Pricing and Registration
Viterbo University Campus
Weber Center for the Performing Arts
Student Rate
Fees Include
All sessions & materials
All plenary sessions
Continental breakfast provided both days
Lunch provided both days
Pre-Conference Workshop Schedule
Viterbo University - 900 Viterbo Drive
School of Nursing Building - Collins Auditorium
Wednesday, June 26 : 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Printable PDF Schedule - Pre-Conference Schedule.pdf
Main Conference Workshop Schedule
Weber Center for the Performing Arts - 428 Harborview Plaza
Thursday, June 27: 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. (Registration and Breakfast begins at 7 a.m.)
Friday, June 28: 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m.)
Printable PDF Schedule - Main Conference.pdf
Home 2 Suites by Hilton has reserved a block of rooms for the conference. For reservations, click on this link. Or you may call 608-881-6666 and ask for the Viterbo Servant Leadership block rate ($109 + tax). Reserve your room by Sunday, May 26 to ensure availability and to receive the discounted rate.
Community Leadership in the 21st Century
Margaret Wheatley, Author and Management Consultant
10:15 a.m. - Weber Center for the Performing Arts
Since 1966, Margaret Wheatley has worked globally in many different roles, as a speaker, teacher, community worker, consultant, advisor, formal leader. She is the best-selling author of nine books, from the classic Leadership and the New Science (1992) to her newest book, Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity (June 2017).
Wheatley is co-founder and president of The Berkana Institute, a nonprofit that supports emerging leaders and emerging ideas about how to organize in life-affirming ways. She received a doctorate from Harvard University in 1979 in Administration, Planning and Social Policy. She was inducted into the Leadership Hall of Fame of the International Leadership Association in 2014, and the American Society for Training and Development dubbed her a 'living legend' when they honored her with their highest award for contributions to workplace development.
Derek Cortez, CEO of Chileda
Derek Cortez is the current CEO of Chileda, an organization whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children/adolescents with severe autism and other cognitive challenges. Chileda's residential and day school program serves on average 60-70 children and employs more than 200 people. Cortez is an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Viterbo University.
Anne Finch, CEO of Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI)
Prior to being named CEO, Finch served as CIO of LHI for nearly four years overseeing the Information Technology department. In this role, she helped grow in LHI's capabilities and lead strategic planning. Before joining LHI, Finch was Vice President of UnitedHealth Group Solution Support Services, where she oversaw a team of 1,500 IT professionals around the world. Finch has 35 years of broad-based experience in Information Technology, at US Bank, St. Jude Medical, Assurant, Fortis, Health Partners, Arthur Andersen, MedVision, MedPower and MidWest Federal. She holds a Doctorate in Organization Development, a Masters in Software Engineering from St. Thomas University and a Bachelor Degree in Business Science from the University of Minnesota, as well as degrees in Computer Operations/Computer Programming from Century College.
Don Frick, President of Don Frick & Associates
On the day when he first read Greenleaf's essay The Servant as Leader in 1986, Don Frick decided to dedicate the rest of his career to understanding and teaching Greenleaf's ideas about servant leadership. Since then, he has written books and essays about servant leadership—including Greenleaf's biography—made presentations, conducted workshops, taught graduate seminars, and consulted with corporations on the principles of servant leadership. He is currently working on another book that offers details about how various organizations have implemented servant leadership. His formal education includes a B.S. in Education, Master of Divinity, and Ph.D. in Leadership and Organizational Studies.
Jerry Jendusa, Co-Founder and Partner at STUCK, LLC
Jerry Jendusa is a passionate entrepreneur, author, and speaker, whose goal is to help small to mid-sized businesses get unstuck. For 18 years, he was the Co-Founder, majority owner, Chairman, CEO and President of EMTEQ. During this time, his team came across many situations that got them stuck. They responded by creating strategies, processes, and tools that revolved around the execution of a Single-Page Plan. From creating a culture of growth, establishing accountability, empowering staff, and using the Single-Page Plan to unite everyone to one vision, they were able to get unstuck. By learning from our mistakes, EMTEQ grew from a basement start-up to an international 100M business.
Jim Kingen, Human Resources Business Partner at Southwest Airlines
Jim grew up outside of Chicago in northwest Indiana. After graduating from high school he spent a few years in the Navy before returning to his home state where he studied business and human resources at Indiana University. After receiving his Bachelor's degree Jim moved to Colorado where which has been home for the past 20 years. During this time Jim held various HR roles in medium and large companies including; Time Warner Cable, Dish Network, Carquest Autoparts and EchoPark Automotive. Jim also earned a Master's Degree in Organizational Performance and Change from Colorado State University. Currently he works as Human Resources Business Partner with Southwest Airlines supporting Ground Operations for their Denver Region. In this role Jim advises leaders in all areas of People Strategy including organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, performance management, and leadership development.
Adrian Lipscombe, Owner of Uptowne Café and Bakery and Urbanlocity
Adrian Lipscombe opened Uptowne Café restaurant on the northside of La Crosse to create a catalyst of urban change, and at the same time she works with the community to help revitalize the area. Lipscombe also holds a master's degree in architecture and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning. She was the first planner in Texas to place bike share systems in the large cities of San Antonio and Austin. Lipscombe is an advocate for equality in land use and transportation. She consults, along with her firm Urbanlocity, with cities around the world on the revitalization of communities.
John McHugh, Director of Corporate Communications, Leadership Development, and Training at Kwik Trip, Inc.
John McHugh has helped Kwik Trip achieve recognition as a Top Workplace as listed by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Des Moines Register. Prior to joining Kwik Trip in 2004, McHugh was an instructor and principal at Aquinas High School in La Crosse. He holds degrees from the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minn., and the Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. McHugh sits on the board of Friends of Wisconsin Public Television, Trust Point, National Mutual Benefit Society, Marywood Franciscan Spirituality Center and the Mayo Clinic Health System in La Crosse.
Dave Skogen, Philanthropist and Founder of Festival Foods
Dave Skogen has been in the grocery business for over 50 years. In 2005, Dave was named 'Wisconsin Grocer of the Year.' He is past president of the Onalaska Rotary and an active supporter of United Way. He was honored as a hometown hero by President Clinton in 1998. Other honors include: Oktoberfest Torchlight Parade Marshall in 1981, Recipient of the Paul Harris Fellow Award from the Onalaska Rotary, Iverson-Freking Award in 1997, and the Boy's and Girls Club Wall of Fame in 2003. In 2007, Dave and his wife, Barb were named 'outstanding philanthropists' by the Association of Fundraising Professionals – Upper Mississippi Valley Chapter.
Tom Thibodeau, Distinguished Professor of Servant Leadership at Viterbo University
Tom Thibodeau is a faculty member of Viterbo University where he has been teaching for he past 35 years. He is the founder of the Master's degree in servant leadership at Viterbo, the only master's degree of its kind in the nation. Thibodeau is a nationally recognized speaker who provides leadership and organizational culture development consulting to health systems, school systems, large cooperatives, communities, and organizations of all sizes across the U.S. He has been serving the La Crosse community for more than 20 years through his leadership on a number of community boards and committees and as founder and active member at Place of Grace, a local Catholic Worker House.
Shaundel Spivey, College Connections Manager at Western Technical College
Shaundel Spivey is an activist and educator. In his previous role, as the cultural liaison at the La Crosse School District, Spivey created and coordinated the annual Black Youth Summit. He also created an organization of black community leaders called Black Leaders Acquiring Collective Knowledge (B.L.A.C.K.). The organization raised more than $70,000 to sponsor a week-long trip for black and multi-racial youth to travel to historically black colleges universities, and visit cultural attractions in Washington, D.C. Spivey has received numerous awards for his work in the black community from community leaders and organizations including the 2018 Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Award.
Jervie Windom, Pastor at RESONATE Wesleyan Church
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jervie Lamont Windom served 24 years honorably in the United States Army. Jervie is an alumnus of Southern Wesleyan University, Villanova University, and Viterbo University with over 19 years ministry experience. Jervie is married to the lovely Nilda Windom, a native of Neptune, New Jersey. Nilda is a United States Army veteran as well with 16 years of honorable service.
Don Weber, Founder and Chairman of Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI)
Weber has more than 30 years of experience in designing and implementing creative health service programs. In 2010, under Weber's leadership, LHI was awarded the highest honor given by the U.S. Department of Defense to an employer, the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Freedom Award, in recognition of the company's support of its Service member employees.
Weber was named Wisconsin Entrepreneur of the Year, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has created the Don Weber Wounded Warrior Employment Award in his honor. Most recently, he was honored to receive the prestigious Nathan Hale Award from the Reserve Officers Association. Weber also serves on the Board of Trustees for Viterbo University and the La Crosse Area Family YMCA.
We look forward to seeing you. In the meantime, if you have logistical questions, contact Nicole Van Ert at 608-796-3616 or email at nmvanert@viterbo.edu.
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Harry Potter and The Death and Return of Poopsie Bear...
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You just never know what a child will gravitate toward. Despite having countless toys of her own, at some point within the past year, Adalyn grew fond of a plush bear by the name of Poopsie. Created in 2001 by Ty Inc. and released as both a Beanie Baby and Beanie Buddy, Poopsie is essentially A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh, crafted to appear similar in shape to "Classic Pooh," but in a color scheme closer to Disney's more mainstream version. I bought Poopsie for my wife long before we ever considered having kids.
Fast-forward to 2013 and Poopsie is described by Addie as being "Pooh Bear's brother." He's a frequent guest at the dinner table, a regular car-riding companion, and somewhat of a snazzy dresser at times (even when it's "in Drag").
What's unfortunate, is that Poopsie Bear recently had a run-in with a real asshole named Harry Potter.
Harry is a dog... a sad brute that is more brawn than brains. Purchased as a puppy over a decade ago, Harry was pitched to us as a mix between a Pug and an American Rat Terrier. He looks somewhat like a "Puggle," but with short ears. As he "matured" into adulthood, it became clear that he's not Rat Terrier - but possibly Pit Bull, Bulldog, or some other, more "meaty" kind of dog. Despite thousands of dollars in training, Harry (named by my wife for a series of books by J.K. Rowling that I've never read) typically only responds to me, fails to follow the most basic of commands, and has a history of destroying toys. In fact, Harry is so bad, that he can't even be out with his "brother" Rocky, as the two of them mauled each other back in 2010. I'm switching dogs out all day long (one in cage, one roaming free), and while Rocky can (for the most part) be trusted, Harry can't be left out-of-sight. As I type this at 11:34pm, the a-hole is sitting next to me on the floor. If I leave the room, chances are - he'll eat my computer.
Back in early February, Poopsie Bear took a ride to Deer Park for a special, pre-Valentine's Day Tea Party at Pottery Barn Kids. Addie was decked-out in her finest Cinderella dress, and Poopsie was her companion as they enjoyed stories while sharing drinks and snacks with Mommy and Auntie Jill.
The following morning, Addie played with Poopsie Bear for awhile as I secretly shot a little video of them engaged in a five-minute conversation. As the whole family soon prepared to go outside for some winter play, Poopsie Bear was left on the table for a few moments, and that's when tragedy struck. Harry swooped in and viciously attacked Poopsie Bear, tossing him about and mauling his face. In mere seconds, Poopsie Bear had been made to look disturbingly like Gary Oldman in HANNIBAL. His face was destroyed, and his nose had been ripped out. Panicked, Addie looked at Poopsie Bear and started weeping. "It's ok... it's ok..," she said, holding back tears for around 30 seconds until she broke out in a full-fledged crying fit. As we tried to comfort our little girl, I threatened Harry with a trip to the Chinese Restaurant. Since he doesn't speak English, my words fell upon deaf dog ears. I took Poopsie Bear from Addie and gently told her that Poopsie would be going to "the bear doctor" to get better.
"The Bear Doctor" works at a hospital called eBay.
I'm not sure how I would've handled this in the pre-internet years, but in 2013 it was fairly simple to track down a toy that had been "retired" and out-of-production for over a decade. It took a bit to find one that was new, and reasonably-priced, but I found one. The original Poopsie Bear was stashed in a cabinet while we awaited the arrival of his replacement.
Every day for the next week, Addie would ask, "Did Poopsie Bear come back?"
Then one morning, as we prepared for breakfast, a familiar, yellow bear returned to the dining room table. Poopsie Bear had come back...
All was well.
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World of Science was only one of numerous camps hosted by Dalton State. The ever popular Stream Stomp and Creek Critters returned allowing children to explore the creek on campus and learn about the aquatic life there.
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There is one more camp planned for the summer, the Nature Exploration Camp at Lakeshore Park.


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The appointment of Justices is an Executive Act, to be performed by the Governor-General with the advice of the Federal Executive Council. No particular mode of appointment by the Governor-General in Council is prescribed; but the usual, if not universal, mode of appointing colonial Judges is by letters patent under the royal sign manual. (Todd, Parl. Govt. in Col., p. 829.) The sub-section dealing with appointment makes no provision as to tenure; but sub-section 2, prescribing the only mode of removal, shows that the tenure is during "good behaviour," with special restrictions as to the mode by which misbehaviour or incapacity is to be proved and adjudicated on. "The legal effect of the grant of an office during 'good behaviour' is the creation of an estate for life in the office. Such an estate is terminable only by the grantee's incapacity from mental or bodily infirmity, or by his breach of good behaviour. But, like any other conditional estate, it may be forfeited by a breach of the condition annexed to it— that is to say, by misbehaviour." (Todd, Parl. Govt. in England, p. 857.) This liability to forfeiture is, of course, subject to the provisions as to proof and procedure in the next sub-section. It seems that this section can only be construed as vesting in the Governor-General in Council the appointment of Justices to whom an ascertained salary is payable by law at the time of their appointment. (Buckley v. Edwards [1892], App. Ca. 387.) That was a case decided under the Supreme Court Judges Act, 1858 (N.Z.). Sec. 2 of that Act provided that the Supreme Court of New Zealand should consist of a Chief Justice, "and of such other Judges as His Excellency, in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, shall from time to time appoint." Sec. 6 provided that "a salary equal at least in amount to that which, at the time of the appointment of any Judge, shall be then payable by law, shall be paid to such Judge so long as his patent or commission shall continue and remain in force." The Constitution Act of New Zealand contained a provision that it should not be lawful for the General Assembly to diminish the salary of any Judge during his continuance in office. Lord Herschell, in delivering the judgment of the Privy Council, quoted this provision in the Constitution, and said (p. 394):—"It is manifest that this limitation of the legislative power of the General Assembly was designed to secure the independence of the Judges. It was not to be in the power of the colonial Parliament to affect the salary of any judge to his prejudice during his continuance in office. But if the Executive could appoint a judge without any salary, and he needed to come to Parliament each year for remuneration for his services, the proviso would be rendered practically ineffectual, and the end sought to be gained would be defeated. It may well be doubted whether this proviso does not by implication declare that no judge shall thereafter be appointed save with a salary provided by law, to which he shall be entitled during his continuance in office, and his right to which could only be affected by that action of the New Zealand legislature which is excluded by the Imperial Act." Apart from this, it was held that a reading of the whole of the New Zealand Act showed that the legislature did not contemplate the
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In an exclusive interview, the State Department's leading Iran expert discusses his resignation and why the Islamic Republic and the United States keep on talking past each other.
By Barbara Slavin
| July 27, 2010, 11:35 PM
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John Limbert knows better than anyone not to have high expectations about U.S.-Iran relations.
One of 52 Americans held hostage by Iranians for 444 days in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Limbert came back from retirement nine months ago to head the State Department's Iran desk in hopes he could help end the bitter enmity between the U.S. and Iran.
Those hopes have been dashed as Iran rejected U.S. overtures and the Obama administration pivoted to a familiar pattern of economic sanctions.
On Friday, Limbert is stepping down from his position. In an interview Tuesday — his first since rumors of his departure were confirmed earlier this month — he said he had promised the U.S. Naval Academy, where he had been teaching history and political science, that he would return for the fall semester. But he acknowledged personal regret that U.S.- Iran relations have not made more progress.
"I have the sense right now that we — the Obama administration writ large — are not in the place we wanted to be," Limbert said. While he said the administration is determined to pursue efforts to negotiate with Iran, he fears that both countries risk regressing to the dysfunctional pattern that has kept them largely at odds for three decades.
"Here's the problem," Limbert said. "For 30 years, careers were made both here and in Tehran by how nasty you could be to the other side and how creative you could be in being nasty to the other side. So if you're going to change that, what happens if it doesn't get some immediate result? It's very easy to slip back into what you always have been doing."
Limbert says he worked hard during his tenure to tone down the language U.S. officials employed in talking about Iran during George W. Bush's administration.
"Phrases like 'They have to change their behavior' — this kind of preachy sermonizing," he said, referring to a phrase often used by former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, "do not create much confidence." Limbert said he sought to "make things less judgmental, more professional." As a result, "We are perhaps doing less yelling at each other. That's a pretty small step but compared to what's gone on over the last 30 years, maybe it's more important."
Still, it's hard not to view Limbert's departure as a turning point and yet another missed opportunity in U.S.-Iran relations. A number of players with more skeptical views about the prospect of rapprochement with Tehran — such as White House aide Dennis Ross and nonproliferation experts like Robert Einhorn and Gary Samore — appear to be driving U.S. policy now, and the president himself blames the Iranian government for failing to respond to his outreach.
Limbert, a scholar of Persian history and poetry and former Peace Corps worker in Iran who is fluent in Farsi and whose wife, Parvaneh, is Iranian, wrote a book about how to negotiate with Iran for the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is also the only American official who has met Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — during the hostage crisis before Khamenei became Iran's president and then supreme leader.
"I believe his departure is a loss for the Department of State," says Haleh Esfandiari, head of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "John is not only a skilled diplomat but a historian, versed in Iranian history. He speaks the language just like a native, he knows the literature and he understands the mentality and the way Iranians think. As far as I remember John is the most qualified person on the Iran team at State in the three decades I have lived in the United States. He would have made an ideal negotiator if ever the U.S. and Iran sit across the table to talk."
"John is an exceptional diplomat and a really fine human being," said William Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs and a leading administration player on Iran. "We were fortunate that he agreed to return temporarily to government service, and we hope to continue to draw on his insights and experience. I deeply admire his commitment to trying to build better understanding between Iranians and Americans, with no illusions about the challenges involved."
It has been the pattern in U.S.-Iran relations that whenever one side is ready for progress, the other is not and vice versa. As Limbert put it: "They always zig when we zag."
What looked like an opening for negotiations last year passed as Iran plunged into domestic turmoil following disputed presidential elections. Then, in January, the Obama administration turned its focus toward ever more punitive economic sanctions while Iran continues a nuclear program that can give it the capability to make weapons.
U.S. officials insist that sanctions are another form of engagement and meant to persuade Iran to change course, but it appears that the Iranians — Ahmadinejad said this week that "the logic that they can persuade us to negotiate through sanctions is just a failure" — view the matter differently.
"Sanctions were never supposed to become an end in themselves but unfortunately they can easily became so, because they are something we know how to do," Limbert said. "Changing relations with Iran is much harder [than imposing sanctions] — particularly if the other side is not going to be very cooperative."
Trita Parsi, a scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center who is writing a book about the Obama's administration's Iran diplomacy, faults both Washington and Tehran for the current impasse. While internal Iranian politics are a major factor, he says, the Obama administration has not shown enough patience and should have responded with more enthusiasm to an Iranian-Turkish-Brazilian plan to allow Iran to send out large quantities of its low-enriched uranium — a variant of the original U.S. proposal but one that had lost much of its attraction as Iran's uranium stockpile grew.
Limbert, who has also served in a host of difficult posts from Algeria to Sudan to post-U.S. invasion Iraq, was pessimistic when asked if he believed he would ever get to return to Iran.
"To be honest, I don't think so … I'd love to go back. If I could, I'd go back in a heartbeat," Limbert, 67, said.
He said his advice to his successor, Philo Dibble, another State Department veteran who oversaw the Iran file during the first term of George W. Bush, is to "keep at it … whatever you can do to keep some rationality in the policy."
Noting that Iran is asking for more talks this September with the United States and its European partners, Limbert said, "If you can get people at least exchanging letters in a professional way, given what's gone on for the last 30 years, that's a form of progress."
Barbara Slavin directs the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council. Twitter: @BarbaraSlavin1
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Nov 2018 sampling events for NUS–NParks Marine Debris Monitoring Programme – 2nd last sampling @ Lim Chu Kang mangrove!
Are you concerned about marine trash and want to do more than just a cleanup? Then join us in the 2017–2019 NUS–NParks Marine Debris Monitoring Programme!
Join us in the upcoming sampling events for November 2018!
No prior experience is required, just your interest and attention to details and data accuracy! Briefing and sampling supplies would be provided. Please click on the registration link below for details.
As each study site is visited every two months and the monitoring programme ends in Feb 2019, this is the second last sampling session for Lim Chu Kang beach and mangrove! So join us next month if you haven't before but wish to contribute to the study!
It is a citizen science programme that was recently initiated to engage volunteers, schools, and organizations with an interest to survey and collect data on marine debris found on Singapore's beaches. Click on this link or the tab above to find out more!
What will we collect and why?
Data on both macro-debris (>5 mm) and microplastics (1 – 5 mm) will be collected from six sites every alternate month. These data collected would supplement the annual ICCS data and form the national baseline of marine debris for Singapore which would help inform marine debris management.
For individuals who are interested in participating in the data collection exercises, please sign up with this form to receive updates of monthly sampling events.
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Phnom Penh Post - 'Fine dining' doesn't fulfil its promise
'Fine dining' doesn't fulfil its promise
Emily Wight | Publication date 23 May 2014 | 08:51 ICT
Lighting glares above the tables. Charlotte Pert
Emily Wight
Phnom Penh has no shortage of Italian food: there is the cosy, deli-style Piccolo Italia da Luigi; the crispy pizzas at Limoncello and the fabulous gnocchi at Opera Café, washed down with red wine and jazz. Caravan's, which opened a month ago, promises to bring "Italian fine dining" to the table.
And promise there is: on Sihanouk Boulevard, close to Norodom, the restaurant offers a prime view of Independence Monument, glorious when lit up at night. But when I dined there with friends last week, I found there to be almost no substance behind the shiny façade.
The staff did their absolute best to be welcoming. Before we'd even stepped inside, two waiting staff eagerly bombarded us with questions and tripped over themselves to invite us in, as though to leave us to our own devices would risk us slipping through their fingers. When we sat down, they gathered around our table – the only one occupied – and stood watching. Unnerved, we moved nearer the door and further away from the bar, which was marginally more private.
Caravan's tortellini a fungo: I couldn't taste any mushroom. Charlotte Pert
As with the service, so much effort was put into the décor that it was affronting. The tables, draped in white tablecloths, are set in the style appropriate to a fine-dining experience. But it's all chillingly ostentatious. Walls are painted a garish gold colour with a shiny veneer, paintings in a faux-Picasso style hang on the walls, and the lighting, mostly dark, glared above us at the tables. It felt as though we were on a film set that could collapse at any second.
A first glance at the menu's high prices prompted an intake of breath: $6 to $8 for appetisers; pasta dishes that ranged between $8.50 and $27, and as much as $30 for a main course of meat or fish. A cut of Kobe beef steak was a whopping $67. But then again, it was fine dining I expected – more fool me.
Our main courses were disappointing – obscenely so, when taking the price into consideration. I ordered tortellini a fungo ($9.50), described on the menu as "mushroom tortellini stewed in a tomato sauce, butter, chopped parsley". It was in fact a very ungenerous portion of what tasted like undercooked pasta from a tin, covered in Heinz tomato soup. I couldn't taste any mushroom.
A friend's salmone grigliato was flavourless and unseasoned and came with sides of a peculiar spinach puree and lumpy mashed potatoes. It cost $20.50. The torta al cioccolato caldo dessert didn't prompt too many complaints, but at $12.50 it was more than double the price of similar dishes available elsewhere in the city.
I don't know what kind of clientele Caravan's is trying to draw in. In Phnom Penh, $80 between three people – a price that includes just two glasses of wine – is a lot of money for cuisine that is underwhelming to say the least. Management is going to have to push the views of the monument as a selling point unless the menu is drastically improved, and fast.
Caravan's, #68 Sihanouk Boulevard.
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Wonga to pay £2.6m for 'unfair and misleading' debt collection practices
Posted on 25 June 2014 15:56pm 8 August 2018 15:20pm | Caroline Hill
Wonga, the UK's biggest payday lender, has entered an agreement with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) which will see it pay compensation of over £2.6m to around 45,000 customers for unfair and misleading debt collection practices.
In an investigation begun by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and taken forward by the FCA, Wonga was found to have sent letters to customers in arrears from non-existent law firms, threatening legal action. In some instances, Wonga also added charges to customers' accounts to cover the administration fees associated with sending the letters.
Clive Adamson, director of supervision at the FCA, said: 'Wonga's misconduct was very serious because it had the effect of exacerbating an already difficult situation for customers in arrears. We are pleased that Wonga has been working with us to put matters right for its customers and to ensure that these historical practices are truly a thing of the past.
'The FCA expects firms to pay particular attention to fair treatment of those who have difficulty in meeting their loan repayments.'
The failings, which took place between October 2008 and November 2010, saw Wonga, and other companies within its group, use unfair debt collection practices which put customers under great pressure to make loan repayments that many could not afford.
During this time, Wonga sent communications to customers in arrears under the names 'Chainey, D'Amato & Shannon' and 'Barker and Lowe Legal Recoveries', leading customers to believe that their outstanding debt had been passed to a law firm, or other third party. Further legal action was threatened if the debt was not repaid.
In fact, neither Chainey D'Amato & Shannon nor Barker & Lowe existed and Wonga was using this tactic to maximise collections by piling the pressure on customers.
Wonga is the UK's biggest payday lender; in 2012 it made nearly four million loans to over one million customers. The agreement with the FCA says that Wonga must identify and pay redress to all affected customers. While some customers will receive cash, others will likely have their outstanding balance reduced.
The FCA has also appointed someone to oversee the process and ensure that affected customers get what they are owed.
The process will start by mid-July with compensation likely to be paid from the end of July. It is thought that up to 45,000 customers could receive, between them, a total of over £2.6m in compensation.
The poor practice was uncovered by the former consumer credit regulator, the OFT, in 2011 in response to formal notices requiring Wonga to disclose information about its debt collection practices. The FCA took over the investigation on 1 April 2014 when it became responsible for consumer credit.
In April 2014, Wonga also reported to the FCA that it had discovered system errors relating to the calculation of the amount owing on customer accounts where fees, balance adjustments or the timing used to calculate interest were not consistently applied.
caroline.hill@legalease.co.uk
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What was NASCAR's gentleman's agreement?
by Ed Grabianowski
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A gentleman's agreement -- a contract with no need for forms, files or signatures, enforced solely by trusting in the honor of the other parties to the agreement -- seems like a strange way to govern a sporting event, doesn't it? After all, every professional sport relies on a written rulebook, right? But the world is full of unwritten rules, too, and even though they aren't codified in any book of laws, there are still consequences if you break them. The world of sports, which certainly has plenty of written rules, has its share of unofficial rules as well. Don't run up the score on a struggling opponent. Pass the ball to a teammate when he has the chance to break a record. Violate these rules, and the results won't be measured in points or penalty minutes, but your peers will make sure you feel them just the same. Angry words in the post-game press conference might be the least of your worries. Some transgressors spend months looking over their shoulder on the field, court or track just waiting for payback.
This brings us to NASCAR's gentleman's agreement, a rule that governed the behavior of all the drivers in NASCAR's top racing series for almost 30 years, despite never being written into a single rulebook. What was the agreement, and why is it no longer in effect? Are there simply no gentlemen in racing anymore? Or did something else make it obsolete?
Racing to the Line in NASCAR
NASCAR's gentleman's agreement came about due to some complexities in racing rules, and some technological limitations that couldn't be overcome in the 1970s. For most of racing's history, a car's position on the track relative to the other cars was noted by human scorers, who watched for the car each time it crossed the start/finish line. Whenever a caution flag was thrown due to a crash or some other problem on the track, scoring was noted the next time the cars crossed the line following the throwing of the caution. That meant that it was in a driver's best interest to continue racing to the line, even though there may have been damaged cars on the track. This obviously created a safety concern, not only because of the chance of further collisions, but because safety crews had to wait for everyone to reach the line before they could approach an on-track accident scene. If a driver was injured in a crash, the delay could literally be a matter of life or death.
Racing to the line was vitally important for a car that was a lap down -- that is, the leader had passed him, so he had completed one fewer lap than the lead cars. Getting a lost lap back is crucial if a driver is to have any chance at a decent finish, so a lapped car near the front of the field would race hard to beat the leader to the line in order to get back on the lead lap.
Despite the inherent danger, NASCAR never changed the "race back to the line" rule. Several of the top drivers in the 1970s discussed the problem and came up with their own solution -- the gentleman's agreement. Richard Petty, Buddy Baker, Cale Yarbrough and David Pearson decided that everyone on the track would slow down and hold their positions whenever a caution was thrown [source: Cross]. Even though it was perfectly legal under NASCAR rules to pass other cars before they got to the start/finish line when a caution flag waved, they simply agreed not to. To accommodate lapped cars that were desperate to get back on the lead lap, the leaders would often slow down a little more to let one lapped car pass. Because these drivers were the most successful and respected NASCAR competitors of the era, this idea worked. "They all went off on their own and made an agreement: When the caution comes out, let's throw up our hand, and everybody should whoa up at the same time," said NASCAR President Mike Helton in a 2003 interview. "That's the gentleman's agreement. It's been working pretty well up until recent years."
Even though it was never written down in NASCAR's bylaws, the agreement remained in place for decades. Many years after the original gentlemen had retired from racing, drivers still didn't race to the line. But in 2003, something changed.
It started at the road course in Sonoma, Calif., when Robby Gordon passed Kevin Harvick during a full-course caution and went on to win the race. Gordon was lambasted by the other drivers in the press and in person, too, but he didn't break any official rules -- the win counted. Jimmy Johnson did it at Chicago when he passed Michael Waltrip, and at that point, the flood gates were opened. NASCAR realized they needed to step in. First, Helton issued warnings, asking the drivers to police themselves. That didn't happen. The reason is anyone's guess, though racing fans have plenty of theories. A popular idea is that the influx of corporate sponsorship money into NASCAR raised the stakes too high. The chance to gain a position or win a race was worth far too much money for drivers to pass up. Others claim that today's drivers lack the sense of racing tradition held by the previous generation. One thing is for sure -- if you want to stir up a heated debate among race fans, just mention the gentleman's agreement.
We may not be able to explain the cause, but we can tell you plenty about the effect of the agreement dissolving. NASCAR changed the rule, and they did it with the help of some new technology.
The Last Legally Scored Lap
One of the strangest things about the whole gentleman's agreement controversy is that it could have been easily averted by a simple rule change. Instead of scoring cars' positions at the start/finish line after the caution is thrown, NASCAR could simply revert to the last legally scored lap. That is, if the leader completes lap 49, then the second-place car makes a pass and takes over the lead, and then a caution is thrown before they complete lap 50, the pass and lead change are undone. Track positions would revert to where they were as of lap 49. True, having a dramatic pass undone by a caution can be frustrating to fans and drivers alike, but it happens rarely enough at the thousands of local short tracks across the United States, where the rule has been in use for decades.
On the other hand, in today's NASCAR, where multi-car teams are the norm, cheating and collusion would be all too tempting. One teammate might just happen to stall or spin on the same lap that another teammate was passed.
NASCAR Transponders
During the 2003 racing season, NASCAR put in place a new rule: each driver's position would be "frozen" as soon as a caution was thrown. The exact position was determined by transponders in the cars and receiving loops positioned around the track. We'll explain the transponder system in more detail in a moment. This rule solved the "racing back to the line" problem -- no one had any incentive to race to the caution, since they couldn't gain any positions. What had been an unwritten rule was now official.
There was a problem with freezing the field, however. It became almost impossible for a driver to regain a lost lap. Having more cars on the lead lap makes for more interesting races and is often used as a gauge of parity within a racing series, so it was in NASCAR's best interest to give drivers a chance to get their laps back. Therefore, they instituted what many people refer to as the "Lucky Dog" rule. It is also known as the Free Pass, but the NASCAR rulebook terms it the Beneficiary Rule. This rule allows the lapped car with the highest track position to regain a lap whenever a caution is thrown. That is, if three cars are all one lap down, during a caution the car that is ahead of the other two on the track will get the lap back.
There are no limits on how many times a car can use the Beneficiary Rule in a single race, or how many laps down a car can be and still use it. Several drivers have won races after using the rule, and in one strange case, Kyle Busch used it five consecutive times to come back from being five laps down. He lost the laps due to mechanical troubles at a road course. Because road courses are longer and slower tracks, lapped cars are rarer, and there weren't any at the time (other than Busch). A series of caution flags allowed Busch to get all the lost laps back. There are many critics of this rule, but so far, it remains in place.
The transponder system is the key to determining every car's position on the track at the exact moment a caution is thrown. Each car carries a radio transponder that gives off a short range radio transmission of a seven-digit code number. By NASCAR rules, the transponders are mounted on the fuel cell. At varying points around a track, wire loops are embedded about a foot (0.3 meters) below the track surface. These loops receive the transmission from the transponder. NASCAR can also deploy free-standing transponders around a track if they want higher resolution. The loop immediately sends this information, via a wireless network -- with redundant fiber optic connections, just in case -- to a computer system that logs each car as it passes each loop and at what specific time. This system can be used to track where cars are in relation to each other on the track and it can also record lap speeds. The information is even sent to laptop computers used by the pit crews, so they can see scoring and timing data in real time.
Trying to figure out where everyone was on the track using human spotters would be incredibly difficult, and using video replay would be time-consuming and confusing. While the new rules may not be a perfect fix in the absence of the gentleman's agreement, transponder technology definitely makes things a lot easier.
For more information about NASCAR and other NASCAR-related topics, follow the links on the next page.
A New Agreement?
The "race to the line" agreement isn't the only unwritten NASCAR rule to come and go. Two of NASCAR's most famous tracks, Talladega and Daytona, have a yellow line demarking the bottom of the legal track. There is pavement below the line, but passes there aren't legal. There was one exception to that -- an unofficial rule that basically stated that on the last lap of a race, anything goes. Fair enough, until one driver made a pass below the line to win a race. This maneuver was perfectly in line with the unwritten rule, but the win was disallowed. NASCAR then issued a written rule eliminating the "anything goes" tactic.
Recently, NASCAR team owner Jack Roush has proposed a new gentleman's agreement, this one related to teams testing their cars. It costs a lot of money to test cars in between races, and NASCAR wants to bring team costs down. However, every time they try to create rules that limit testing, teams find ways to circumvent them, and that ends up costing even more money. Roush wants a gentleman's agreement among owners to voluntarily limit testing.
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Q: What options are there for using Zulu? We need to migrate our OpenJDK-based application to Zulu, which uses install4j.
What approaches have the best long-term viability, in terms of EJ support and feasibility:

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*Offer pre-built bundles for download?

*Install Zulu on a machine and run some scripts to massage the Zulu JDK into a JRE bundle?

*Cross-platform capabilities for option 2., e.g. unpack a Mac Zulu on a Windows machine and run a script to generate a Mac bundle?

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*As of install4j 8.0.7 there is no JDK provider for Zulu in install4j.

*You can use "Project->Create a JRE bundle" or the command line tool `bin/createbundle" to create JRE bundles from Zulu installations.

*There is no way to create JRE bundles in a cross-platform way for pre-created JRE bundles.


So to bust some "back-to-the-routine" stress and get some real nutrient back in the bloodstreams, we are now having sweet stuff for dinner!
Doesn't make much sense I know, but hear me out.
You know those beautiful desserts with ice cream and sweet fruit (often in syrup)? Well, how about an upside down version?
It takes 10 – 15 minutes to prepare and it's so yummy!
Pick 3-4 types of fresh fruit (I use apple, pear, banana, pineapple, strawberry and tangerines f.ex. depending on season). Wash and cut into bite size pieces. Pour into a big bowl and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You can add a handful of granola or nuts if you like – or not – and voila: Fruit bowl!
As the ice cream melts, the fruit gets a creamy "dressing" and if you stick to the one scoop it doesn't become overwhelmingly sweet.
It's chokfull of vitamins and let's face it – during this virus season, we really need those extra shots of freshness.
Now, what I'd love to try when I have more time, is to replace the ice cream with this Coconut sherbet "cream" because that would really add to the overall "health" of this stress busting recipe. But even with bought ice cream, this fruit bowl is still a really good alternative to (another) trip to a burger place.
The TV is like a magnet if you find one of those "soaps" that just really gets under your skin, am I right?
And once you are there before the screen, it's kind of like being in a cinema without popcorn… So maybe you are like me and go grab something out of the snack drawer?
I'm one of those lucky ones with an Apple TV and access to tv shows on demand, so I can set my own time for watching an episode and often that time is morning. Once I have gotten myself up, my daughter packed and taken to school, I got my morning exercise down 😇 and can't wait to get home to my own peaceful breakfast. But a tv episode often lasts 45 or 50 min and if I eat a normal breakfast it'll take 10… And, oh the temptation of going back to that drawer!
So I have come up with this long lasting crunching snack-like breakfast that's actually a real health booster but only takes 5 minutes to prepare and I call it crunching munching.
Then a handful of almonds and a handful of walnuts, or pick your own favorite nuts of course, and then mix them with a small handful of raisins. Yes, it's a trail mix… But preferably without any roasting or added salt etc. the raw nuts are the best.
It will keep you crunching for a good bit and nuts makes your stomach feel really full for a really long time (I actually forgot lunch one day!) and the sugar is natural and will get you off the sofa when the soap is over. Those two bowls amounts to somewhere around 700 cal. No'b, I never said it was low calorie – just that it's healthy for your body and very enjoyable when watching some favorite tv.
Now, the real challenge is to stop after 1 episode!
Do you remember sitting at a desk or other table and then found a chewed and "glued" gum stuck beneath it? Gross… In school that happened a lot to me and so I don't really have a great relationship with gum?!? Silly really.
Chewing gum is just plain bad for your teeth! With or without sugar. Just bad. And it looks really bad when people are chewing gum… well, that's a matter of opinion I suppose, but okay… I don't chew gum because it makes my jars hurt, but then again, I can't stop once I get going and that's not good either.
and I decided to give it a go… the next time I'm at the grocery store.
I should have known in a sense… I mean, in the movies the expecting daddy-to-be is always pacing the hospital hallway chewing insanely quick on gum. But in real life, that doesn't really happen. I think. Maybe it does, but it didn't to me. And given the scene, perhaps the mommy-to-be should be the one chewing the gum!??
It's impossible for me to keep this one to myself…!
Ever since my husband gave me a Jawbone for Christmas – that's a type of electronic bracelet which tracks my steps, exercise and sleep and I can log what I eat and drink in the "UP" app that comes with it – I have been logging, stepping, counting and working out how to change some habits of mine. Some of which I'm not particularly proud of… like munching on bread in front of the tv… but it's been a great incentive to get some health habits in.
I tried it the other day with frozen banana slices in the magic bullet and… well, that didn't work. The magic bullet simply isn't powerful enough to chop up those frozen chunks of coconut milk.
But last night I tried it in the food processor and it was DELICIOUS!
I used about 300 ml of frozen coconut milk, 6 slices of frozen banana and gave them a good whirl. Since honey is a great help to eliminate anxious thoughts I added a tablespoon of that and then threw in a few pieces of chocolate (note: dark chocolate is great as stress relief. No really – I'm not just saying that!) – and an oreo. My family were so surprised that this wasn't ice-cream. I would use more frozen fruits next time, but that was what I had in the freezer.
It makes a lot of sense to me to freeze coconut milk and some sweet fruits and then mash them all up in a food processor – adding whatever sweetener you feel like (Stevia, maple syrup etc.). I am loving this recipe so I'm sharing it here and hope others might want some "healthy ice cream". My daughter can't wait for next time!
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My husband's missing arm was a mystery. Even I didn't know where it had gone. He never mentioned the lack of it and I was too polite to ask. But he did have balance. He had style. Once, he stepped onto a slack-line strung between two trees, walked twenty meters before falling off. He taught life skills to young offenders. Drove the delinquents around the neighbourhood in a beat-up van, looking for odd jobs: painting fences, raking leaves, digging up storm drains. My husband was tolerant of the boys' goof-ups and fistfights, their sudden outbursts and electric rage. Disabled? He could slice bread, chop wood and do one-arm push-ups as well as any man. This isn't a story about overcoming obstacles. It's about my husband's merry band of reprobates huddled outside a country church on the day of his funeral. It's about the strange light and typhoon rain.
The woman wakes to find the man in the kitchen beating eggs in a metal bowl. He looks up, startled. When people crack, he says, nothing can make them right again. This has always been his answer to difficulty and darkness. He pours the eggs into a pan, then drapes the omelettes over the backs of chairs. Breakfast at three in the morning, the woman says. Ridiculous! They sit and eat but it feels less like a meal and more like an extended joke. The woman knows this is the beginning of love's journey in reverse, that the punch line will land with a thud the moment the man leaps up and heads out the door. She knows that she'll follow him onto the street and around a corner. For fifty years I've been the happiest man alive, he'll call over his shoulder, do you think it's been easy? The woman is running now, down cement stairs, onto a subway car, up an escalator, he's getting away from her . . . losing sight of him . . . can't keep up . . . hip hurts . . . out of breath . . . he's entering . . . swallowed up by . . . disappearing through . . . a revolving glass door . . .
My father is doing something complicated with a vise and hammer and tiny nails. Is he a carpenter? Sandal maker? Good with his hands? Are the hammer and nails literal or figurative? There's a knock on the door. Is it a life or death knock? Tentative or impatient? I open and two men in coonskin caps, exact replicas of my father, are standing on the porch. Why have they arrived at my childhood home in coonskin caps? Is this my childhood home? If so, why the loft and big windows, the gridlock below, the street honking traffic. Where's the farmhouse surrounded by fruit trees, the rope swing? And why do the men look like my father? Are they my father split into different selves? Does my father have different selves? And then I'm on a train entering a tunnel. As it emerges into light I remember that I left my father smoking in the kitchen, without saying goodbye. I left all three fathers. I have always been careless with people and now it's too late.
PATRICIA YOUNG has published eleven collections of poetry and one of short fiction. Her poems have been widely anthologized and she has received numerous awards for her writing. She has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award twice and has twice received the Dorothy Livesay Book Prize. She has also won the Pat Lowther Award, a CBC Literary Prize, Arc's Poem of the Year Award, two National Magazine Awards, the Great Blue Heron Contest, and the Confederation Poet's Prize. Her collection of short fiction, Airstream, won the Rooke-Metcalf Award, was shortlisted for the Butler Prize and named one of the Globe and Mail's Best Books of the Year. A new collection of poetry will be published with Biblioasis in the fall of 2016.