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Bedford makes history with title
Nate Ritchey
nritchey@altoonamirror.com
11/17/18 Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski / From left, Bedford's Juliana Taylor (8), Lindsay Mowry, Jenna Brown, Amber Thomas, and Sydney Taracatac celebrate the championship.
HERSHEY — Leading up to Saturday, Bedford's Amber Thomas had scored 144 goals in her high school soccer career.
The midfielder scored in a variety of ways in all sorts of situations with many different things on the line.
Though all the goals helped, whether long term in building the team or short term in this season, in getting the Lady Bisons to the PIAA Class 2A state championship, it was the 145th and last goal of her scholastic career that lifted her team to the highest level possible — a state title.
Thomas' penalty kick just 52 seconds into the first overtime gave Bedford a 1-0 victory over Lewisburg, the District 4 runner-up, at Hersheypark Stadium.
"It's great to come out on top," Bedford coach Jeff Thomas said. "I was looking at them roller coasters over there (at Hersheypark) during the game like there's so many highs and lows during the game … They (Lewisburg) definitely came to play, and we were just fortunate to come out on top."
The Lady Bisons not only capped off an unbeaten season at 22-0 but they also became the first school from District 5 or 6 to claim a girls state championship in soccer, and the first overall from the district since the State College boys captured the crown in 1976.
Meanwhile, the Green Dragons overcame a 4-7 start to their season to finish runner-up with a 13-9-2 record.
"It took awhile to get them (Lewisburg) going. It took a couple of heart-to-heart meetings when I told them if they made the playoffs, they could be dangerous but you've got to believe it," Lewisburg coach Jose Vega said. "At some time, the light went on and they started playing a lot better. We went into a run playing with confidence, playing good defense and we rode it all the way to the final."
Bedford had come close the last two years with back-to-back losses in the state semifinals. It was that experience, coupled with playing into OT in their quarterfinal win and into a shootout in the semis, that gave the Lady Bisons confidence once the match reached the overtime session.
"That was my fourth time making it to the state semifinals — twice with the boys and twice with the girls — and we finally made it through," Jeff Thomas said.
Despite being out shot by Lewisburg, 8-4, heading into extra time, the Lady Bisons were confident in each other that if they played their game, they would get the break they needed.
"That's what we told them when it was going into overtime; 'we just got to get the ball down to the outside, cross it in to the box and see what happens, because one goal is going to win the game'," Jeff Thomas said.
That break came when Abigail Donaldson was tripped in the box going after a cross with 19:08 showing on the clock.
"I didn't know where I was. I was hoping I was in the box and I was hoping he (ref) was going to call it," Donaldson said. "I kept yelling at Robyn Casalena, 'Am I in the box? Am I in the box?' She said 'yes' and I just blew up. I was so happy. I've never been so happy to fall over in my life."
While Lewisburg did an outstanding job of shadowing, being physical and making sure that Thomas did not beat them throughout regulation, there was no doubt Thomas was taking the shot with the match on the line.
The senior calmly buried it just to the right of Green Dragons' goalkeeper Lauren Gross to clinch the title.
"I just made sure I focused. I made sure I was picking my spot at the goal and not looking at anybody else — that was my main focus," Amber Thomas said. "It was like other ones I've had in previous playoff games. I just had to do what I've been doing."
The two teams played in a defensive battle that saw several close chances by each team only to be denied.
"It was a game where both teams played great defense," Vega said. "I thought as the game went on we were getting better and better. We were putting pressure — the forwards were making runs and we were creating shots.
"Then the ball got in the penalty box and, it doesn't matter. The referee called it whether we like it or not and that was all. It was an unlucky break for us and a lucky break for them."
Lewisburg had more chances to score in the opening half as they ripped off six shots with four of them being on goal.
However, it was Bedford which had the best chance as Thomas' direct kick off of a Green Dragons tripping penalty hit the bottom of the crossbar and bounced back in play.
"That must have been close," Jeff Thomas said. "Those rounded goals like that, sometimes you have the rectangle goals — it makes a big difference. With the rectangle, it might have been it, but evidently it didn't go in on the rounded. It's a game of inches."
Thomas' teammate, Kiley Horne, was in perfect position on her crash to the net, and she was able to get the ball past Gross, who came charging out.
Lady Bisons' Jenna Brown was crashing from the backside to make sure the ball reached the back of the goal. However, before Brown could get there, the Green Dragons' Chloe Michaels stepped in front of Brown and cleared the ball out of danger to keep the match scoreless around the 3:30 mark.
Lewisburg had the best chance of the second half when Allie Reed chipped a ball to Selena Permyashkin, who outraced a Bedford defender for a shot from about 9 yards out at around the 19 minute mark.
However, when Permyashkin turned to look at the goal, the senior found a charging Lindsay Mowry charging out, and rather than keeping the ball on the ground and tapping it around Mowry, she lifted it slightly in the air and right at the arms of Mowry, who deflected it away.
"I saw that she (Permyashkin) was open in the middle, and I was yelling for my girls to come get her, but no one really stepped quick enough," Mowry said. "I just knew that if they scored, they would be up, and I did not want that to happen. I did whatever I could to block it, and it just came right to me, so I was grateful for that."
Both teams had chances off of direct kicks but the shots were either right at the opposing goalkeeper or sailed wide of the net.
In addition to Thomas, the Lady Bisons also sent four other seniors — Brown, Brooke Lankey, Hallie Sisk and Bailey Donaldson out with the title.
"It's unreal. I don't even know what to think right now," Amber Thomas said. "It's what we've been working so hard for. It's just a great team to be apart of. I love them all."
The Green Dragons lose four seniors as well in Reed, Permyashkin, Sarah Ayers and Cassia Kiepke.
"Just after last year losing in the semis was terrible," Brown said. "I knew we just had to keep improving and getting better. It was my last year to do it, so I just figured why not go out with a bang."
SCORE BY HALVES
Lewisburg 0 0 0 — 0
Bedford 0 0 1 — 1
First Half: none.
Second Half: none.
First overtime: B–Thomas (penalty kick), 19:08.
Goalies: Lewisburg — Gross: 2 saves, 3 shots on goal; Bedford — Mowry: 6 saves, 6 shots on goal.
Shots: Lewisburg 8; Bedford 5.
Corner kicks: Lewisburg 3; Bedford 2.
Records: Lewisburg (13-9-3); Bedford (22-0-0).
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Sentence context effects on lexically ambiguous words
Evidence for a postaccess inhibition process
Sachiko Kinoshita*
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the process involved in selecting the contextually appropriate meaning of a homograph. Both experiments employed a grammaticality decision task. In Experiment 1, the primary (more frequent) and secondary (less frequent) meanings of homographs were used as the target items requiring a "yes" decision. The results indicated that the effect of relative frequency of these meanings of homographs was reduced when the target word was preceded either by a semantically congruous or anomalous sentence context relative to when it was preceded by the grammatical morpheme "the" or "to." Experiment 2 indicated that "no" decisions were consistently slower for syntactically unambiguous, but semantically ambiguous words (e.g., ORGAN, FEET) than for syntactically and semantically unambiguous words (e.g., CENT, LEND), irrespective of the type of preceding context. The results, taken as a whole, are best interpreted within the postaccess inhibition model of sentence-context effects suggested by Forster (1981).
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Kinoshita, S. (1985). Sentence context effects on lexically ambiguous words: Evidence for a postaccess inhibition process. Memory & Cognition, 13(6), 579-595. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198328
Kinoshita, Sachiko. / Sentence context effects on lexically ambiguous words : Evidence for a postaccess inhibition process. In: Memory & Cognition. 1985 ; Vol. 13, No. 6. pp. 579-595.
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Ink Blots, Soft Spots and Penny Drops.
It's one of those things where I just don't quite get it. Those ink blots that some psychiatrists used, so that what you see tells them something about your thinking state. Some of us might see a lion's head. Some might see a swirling torrent of flowing water. Some of us might see a dark and mysterious reaper like the Wraiths in Lord of the Rings.
We see different things in the patterns that happen around us. Not necessarily right or wrong. And I am NOT sitting on the fence here.
We also have soft spots. Things which are either a pet like / adoration of ours – and no matter what others belittle, we believe in it and we feel it as "right". Or indeed the soft spot is a weaker element of our make-up. Something we are not that great at doing or working up towards. Be it statistical analysis; turn of phrase or influencing tactic.
We then have penny drop moments. We get it. We may not have been first to get it but we get it. Eventually.
So when others see a different shape in the ink blot; have no tolerance for our soft spots and are earlier in the penny dropping is that REALLY something to get all arsey and hyper ventilate to others about?
Maturity of viewpoint; realisations over busted models of operating; outmoded thinking on certain elements – things happen to us in different waves, at different times and with different catalysts to change our approaches.
Instead of giving it "oh, we've been operating that model for so long we're actually moving to an all new approach. That "X" model is so not the way forward".
I see this in Social Business already. And it's not really gotten started yet. It's like fashionistas saying tgtt his years fashion collection is already out of date before it's on the catwalk and thet know what 2016's is all about. What a crock. In your own mind maybe.
Maybe you have a frustration that not everyone around is on the same page or even chapter of the book as you. Or maybe, just maybe, you're being deliberately anti-fashion to be fashionable. Like the Intellectual Parents in Viz.
It's all a bit smug when the kickback on the state of play is tinged with sarcasm (lowest form of wit); undeserved admonishment and a touch of "oh I'm so beyond all that".
Here's an example of what I am getting at. I used the Alfred Mehrabian quote on communication around 7% words; 38% tone and 55% body language as "how we receive communication". So it's not what you say but the way you say it. I understood this (as it was taught to me at the time and I had no reason to doubt it) for all communications.
I was then alerted by someone else via Twitter that actually this was what was behind the meaning of comms which resulted in a MISUNDERSTANDING. So I had to unlearn and then relearn that. The debate around this still rages on.
So if I see someone who uses this in the wrong context I can put them right now and give them something else to explore.
Not tear a strip off them for seeing the ink blot as someone else had described it. Of having a soft spot for not checking their research with amazing scrutiny or label them lame and useless for the penny not having dropped.
All that would serve is embarrassment to the individual concerned and the overall feeling that I was a "know it all arse" if I battered the intellectual crap out of them for being so behind the curve.
FFS have some tolerance for others arriving a little later than you.
Have some humility and dignity in pointing out alternative views.
Be generous in people at least trying to get it right and help them move their thinking on.
Or call them out as missing the point and making them feel pretty rubbish.
"Oh Dan Pink is so 2009" or whatever.
Well, maybe. But if this is about others arriving a little later, they need YOUR HELP TO CATCH UP.
Not a verbal slap in the face. We live in a tolerant society not a fricking bootcamp. Life's tough enough without chucking insulting put downs around.
Give them something MORE inspiring instead of chewing their ear off.
Giving is proven to stimulate you and others. Taking away just simply doesn't.
Gnashing just wears down your teeth enamel and can damage any confidence to think differently that people are maybe just trying to build.
I still don't get ink blots though.
"I'm fed up 'cos all you want to do is criticize"…sang Alexander O'Neal and deliberately spelt in the American-English version.
In this world we're in, and in democratic states of course, we can say what we like about topics and issues and others can disagree and challenge. Be it a discussion with your significant other about the choice of wallpaper for the feature wall, to a chat with a cabbie about the educational policies of the Government.
Question Time on the BBC is a great debating forum for political and societal issues and not for the feint hearted. Audience participation is a key part of this and proves either the man-in-the-street can trump the politicians or some thoughts ought to be left to ferment a little more in peoples' heads.
We don't have to agree with each other and we express the what and why behind that and somehow we either try and convince our fellow humans we have merit and that they adjust their views.
We may not even wish to "win" – we may simply wish to provoke more thought and discussion amongst others (whilst being mindful of becoming a sociopath with no real intent other than to feed their own desires).
Some situations around such challenges get heated, argumentative, sarcastic, dogmatic yet there's a richness to be had in open discussion to help shape thoughts. Many people enter into such frays to prevent someone making a pillock of themselves and others.
Plenty of people just don't get into this kind of arena – actively avoiding conflict. It would be a strong assumption to make that they are short of thoughts or confidence; they maybe don't want/need to get involved in "spats". Others love the cut and thrust of a verbal joust. It's not an introvert / extrovert stereotype either.
Up for a debate? Strong on contra views and share them regularly? Controversial and edgy in your dialogue? Sounds good doesn't it.
A cavalier of the conversation.
A buccaneer of the banter.
At the vanguard of the vernacular.
If ALL you do is the equivalent of BBC's Grumpy Old Men then it is my assertion you diminish, negate or totally lose the impact you wanted to have with your prose.
Want to shift people's minds to a better way? Choose your critique carefully.
Moan like a trooper over almost everything? Then be prepared to get lost in the wilderness of dismissable "oh that's just how they are" reactions.
Worse still – insult, berate, take the piss…lose, lose some more and lose pretty much every time.
Now, equally so, being ultra positive about everything is probably as annoying to some as having a permanent grump-on. So I'm not advocating we need to be living in an episode of "The Waltons" or like a Retreat for the Extremely Happy.
Positivity can change the world for the better as much as calling something out can help avoid or overcome a tyranny.
One difference though stands out for me: acknowledegment of others in a positive sense is very likely to induce a good reaction. Not gushy mind, just positive and factual. Sincere and specific.
Criticise carelessly and it's like a verbal glare and "come on" to induce an argument. Even carefulcriticism could lose your impact before you've even got going.
And think you'll get away with non-personally directed criticism lumping people into one amorphous glob? Then you will likely cause a negative reaction as often we may go "they're talking about me…" and that's people not being overly paranoid, more a natural reaction.
A nation of moaners. About the weather, the state of immigration, the newspapers. This presents another picture. Dare to be different. Not dare to be miserable; or even dare to be happy-clappy.
Dare though, is sometimes killed outright before it's even gotten going.
Just think of the fallout of your overly fluffy happiness or your dark clouds of doom.
Daring yourself into something foolish and others smile away whilst you are on the road to making a burke of yourselves or others.
Daring to speak up about something you deem worthy but is shot down in flames of venomous attack by others simply because they don't like "it" or the phraseology used?
Encouragement; support; belief – these aren't given without thought though: they are though gifts that can turn criticism into impact; concern into acceptance and challenge into action.
Chastise, knock down, insult – too easily dismissed, the cause of overly-emotional arguments which rarely get anywhere; a waste of good intellectual energy.
We're cleverer and more considerate than that. Aren't we?


Nearly 80 private park operators gathered at Wine Country RV Resort in Paso Robles to attend CalARVC's Fall RV Park Day education and networking event.
But roughly a dozen park operators arrived the day before the Sept. 26 event to attend a disaster planning workshop with Patrick Hardy, of Hytropy.com, one of the nation's top disaster planning firms.
Meeting at The Vines RV Resort in Paso Robles, Hardy walked park operators through the process of how to develop their own disaster plan. He also focused on the details, such as coordinating with county emergency officials to find out where they want people to evacuate to.
Hardy said it's important for park operators to gather the preferred contact information for all park guests and to develop a system for emergency communication with them in the event of an evacuation order. While emergency text messages, such as the emergency presidential alert text issued by the Trump Administration last week, are one way to communicate, not all guests have cellphones or ways of receiving text messages and require another method for emergency communications.
Each park should also have an "incident commander" who is responsible for making key decisions during a disaster, Hardy said, adding that park operators should make several copies of their disaster plans and make sure appropriate park personnel, even new hires, know how to implement these plans.
After completing their disaster planning session, park operators toured The Vines RV Resort, one of three Sun Communities resorts in the Paso Robles area that hosted CalARVC RV Park Day attendees.
The disaster planning workshop attendees then traveled a short distance down the road to attend a late afternoon grand opening celebration at Cava Robles RV Resort, the first Sun Communities RV resort built from the ground up.
The early arrivals for CalARVC's RV Park Day event had dinner together at Wine Country RV Resort, another Sun Communities resort in Paso Robles.
The actual RV Park Day event on Sept. 26 attracted nearly 80 park operators, who gathered at Wine Country RV Resort. The day started with breakfast and a presentation by Brooke Burnham and Michael Wambolt of Visit SLO Cal, the tourism marketing agency for San Luis Obispo County.
"Tips and Tricks for Tracking What's Important," by Lindsey Foos of Fireside Accounting in Castle Rock, Colo. Foos talked park operators through several strategies on ways to improve their accounting to better track their property's performance.
"The State of the WiFi Industry," by Kimberly Chung and Tami Tock of Austin, Texas-based TengoInternet, who presented the company's 2018 State of the Industry Report. Chung noted that while growing numbers of parks are investing in WiFi improvements, fewer than one in five parks are currently meeting guest WiFi expectations, according to TengoInternet's latest industry survey.
Tock and Chung also discussed the importance of open and honest communication with park guests and noted that only a small fraction of park operators communicate the limitations of their WiFi systems with guests before they check in, a situation that can lead to unhappy campers and negative park reviews.
Expert roundtable discussions were also held in mid-afternoon with CalARVC's seminar presenters as well as other vendors, including Cerrina Jensen of Sacramento, Calif.-based CoreMark Insurance; David Schenck and Damian Petty from Leavitt Recreation & Hospitality Insurance; and John Pentecost, an attorney from Santa Ana, Calif.-based Hart King.
Becca Sipe, CalARVC's membership coordinator, also briefed park operators on CalARVC's benefit programs, including the association's legal services, which include free 15-minute consultations with CalARVC attorneys. While consultations are limited to 15 minutes, members can contact the attorneys many times throughout their membership year.
After the networking and education sessions, CalARVC President Randy Hendrickson unveiled the association's newest award, the Susanne White Award, named in honor of the CalARVC staffer who died earlier this year after a short battle with cancer. The award will be given to a CalARVC staffer in White's honor.
White, who joined CalARVC in 2010, developed the RV Park Day concept. She also managed the recent redesign of both CalARVC.org and Camp-California.com and launched CalARVC's successful reservation software education day earlier this year with six vendors.
The daylong event included presentations of plaques honoring David Schenck, who is retiring from Sturgis, S.D.-based Leavitt Recreation & Hospitality Insurance. Schenck received plaques from Leavitt Recreation as well as CalARVC honoring his decades of service to the campground industry.
CalARVC Fall RV Park Day activities concluded with a park tour, a reception and dinner. "It was a great event with unparalleled networking opportunities with industry and campground market professionals," said Ben Harrison, marketing coordinator for Irvine, Calif.-based Highway West Vacations.
CalARVC's Spring RV Park Day event will take place April 3 at 49er Village RV Resort, another Sun Communities property in the town of Plymouth, in the Sierra Nevada Gold Rush Country.
Pictures from the event can be found on Facebook.com/CalARVC.


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Arbetstidslagen , förkortat ATL, lag antagen av Sveriges riksdag 1982. Lagen reglerar bland annat hur mycket man får arbeta per dygn, per vecka och per år, samt i vilken utsträckning man måste ha rast. ATL reglerar även övertid och mertid (vid deltidsanställning).

ATL är i stora delar dispositiv vilket innebär att den kan avtalas bort i kollektivavtal.

Senaste ändring
Arbetstidslagen ändrades 1 augusti 2011 i följande paragrafer:
2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 19, 24, 26 §§. Nya paragrafer som införts är 8 a, 10 a och 19 a §§ samt en ny rubrik närmast före 19 a §. Tidigare 10 a § benämns numera 10 b §. Innan dess ändrades lagen 1 juli 2005 då lagen anpassades till EU-reglerna i Arbetstidsdirektivet (direktivet 2003/88/EG) om arbetstidens förläggning. Bland ändringarna märks bland annat nya regler om vecko- och dygnsvila, vilket skapade nya förutsättningar för yrkeskårer med mycket jour- och beredskapstid.

De paragrafer som ändrades var 2, 3, 13-14, 19 och 24 §§. Dessutom infördes två nya paragrafer, §10a (veckoarbetstid) och §13a (nattarbete).

Dessa ändringar trädde i kraft den 1 juli 2005. Om arbetsgivaren under perioden 30 juni 2005 till 31 december 2006 var bunden av kollektivavtal som reglerar arbetstidsfrågor skulle dock inte ändringarna tillämpas förrän 1 januari 2007.

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Q: Is the data statistically significant? A tiger killed 60 villagers in the year 2018. The villagers came up with a technique to wear a mask on the back of their heads to prevent the tiger from attacking from the back. They did this for an entire year and the deaths due to tiger for 2019 was calculated to be 52. The villagers are convinced their technique worked.
Is there any way to tell if the reduction in deaths is statistically significant? Can we do a hypothesis test or do we need more data?

A: Normal approximation to binomial test. In order to do a test of binomial proportions one would need
an estimate of the size of the village population, which
presumably has not changed from 2018 to 2019. Just as an experiment let's suppose it is $n = 5000.$ Then we can test the null hypothesis $H_0: p_{18}=p_{19}$ that the proportion of deaths due to the
tiger has not changed by wearing masks, against the alternative
$H_a: p_{18} > p_{19}.$
Then the procedure prop.test in R, which uses a normal approximation, goes as shown below. The null hypothesis is
not rejected (large P-value), so there is no statistically
significant evidence that masks offer protection against
deadly tiger attacks. [The test statistic X-squared is
the square of a normal z-statistic.]
prop.test(c(60, 52), c(5000,5000), alt="less")

        2-sample test for equality of proportions
        with continuity correction

data:  c(60, 52) out of c(5000, 5000)
X-squared = 0.44246, df = 1, p-value = 0.747
alternative hypothesis: less
95 percent confidence interval:
 -1.000000000  0.005261848
sample estimates:
prop 1 prop 2
0.0120 0.0104

Technically speaking, the P-value depends on the population
size assumed for the village, but for reasonable assumptions
the interpretation of the test is the same.
Normal approximation to Poisson test. Suppose the village
rates of tiger deaths in the two years are $\lambda_{18}$ and
$\lambda_{19},$ respectively. Then we can test
$H_0: \lambda_{18}-\lambda_{19}=\delta=0$ against the alternative
$H_0: \lambda_{18}-\lambda_{19}=\delta>0.$ In this formulation,
we estimate $\delta$ by $\hat\delta = X - Y = 60-52 = 8.$
Then, under $H_0,$ we have $E(\hat \delta) = 0,$
$Var(\hat\delta) = 120,$ and $SD(\hat\delta) = \sqrt{120} = 10.95.$
The z-statistic
$Z = (\hat\delta-\delta)/SD(\hat\delta) = 8/10.95 = 0.79 < 2.573,$ where $2.576$ cuts probability 5% from the upper tail of a standard normal distribution. Thus $H_0$ is not rejected.
Also, the P-value is $P(Z > 0.79|H_0) = 0.2148 > 0.05.$
1-pnorm(0.79)
[1] 0.2147639

Parametric bootstrap one-sided confidence interval for $\delta.$
For $\lambda$ as small as $60.$ one may question whether the
normal approximation gives reasonable P-values. A parametric
bootstrap procedure estimates the distribution of $\hat\delta$
by taking repeated samples of $\hat\delta$ from distributions
suggested by the data. We use $B = 10,000$ such re-sampled estimates
$\hat \delta,$ called Del in the R code below.
del.obs = 8
set.seed(1226)
x = rpois(10^4, 60);  y = rpois(10^5, 52)
Del = x - y
summary(Del)
   Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
 -49.00    1.00    8.00    8.01   15.00   57.00
quantile(Del, .95)
95%
 25

The 95% upper bound for $\delta$ is $25.$ Our estimate is far
below this bound, and so we can believe that $\hat \delta = 8$
is consistent with no benefit from wearing masks to keep tigers
from killing villagers.
The histogram of simulated values Del of $\hat \delta$ illustrates that the sampling distribution of $\hat\delta$ is not far from
normal. The 95% upper bound is shown as a vertical red line.
hist(Del, br=-50.5:60.5, prob=T)
 abline(v=25, col="red")
 curve(dnorm(x,mean(Del),sd(Del)), add=T, col="blue")

A: One simple option, if you know the total population in both years, is to do a test for equality of proportions, where you compare the proportion of villagers who died due to tigers in 2018 to the proportion of villagers who died due to tigers in 2019.

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The Faculty of Civil Engineering for Universiti Teknologi MARA Malaysia was established in 1967. It started by providing courses in Civil Engineering at the Diploma level for Institiut Teknologi MARA. Students who have completed the Diploma were given options to continue their studies to obtain a Higher National Diploma.
When ITM is granted a full university status, all diplomas issued by ITM have been upgraded to an undergraduate degree. The faculty starts offering undergraduate and post-graduate courses in (year).
SOE was established in early 1967 when Tan Sri Dato' Dr Arshad Ayub was then the Principal of MARA College. In the middle of 1967, a memorandum for the establishment of SOE was submitted to the British Government for financial & technical aid for the establishment of SOE. Proposed Program of Studies In SOE: Admission Qualifications-5 credits in MCE examination. Students were prepared to sit for University Of London A-Level and O Level examinations. Students with minimum 2 A-Level & 3 O-Level passes will proceed to a 3-year Advance Diploma in Engineering (in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering). and O Level examinations. Students with minimum 2 A-Level & 3 O-Level passes will proceed to a 3-year Advance Diploma in Engineering (in Civil, Electrical or Mechanical Engineering).In Oct. 1967 MARA College became MARA Institute Of Technology.
First-Intake of 12 students for the 2-year A-Level program in June 1968.
In the year 1969 the Oversea Development Aid of U.K. assigned the Head of the civil engineering department, Head of the mechanical department and the Head of the electrical department from Brighten College of Technology to ITM for four weeks to assist & advise SOE in the curriculum & facilities planning.
The British Government approved £ 1 million allocations for the purchase of British made equipment to SOE. Purchase of British made equipment began. In June 1970, the first batch of A-Level students passes were sent to Australia to continue their studies, as the facilities in the SOE were not ready.
In early 1971, Oversea Development Aid Department Of U.K. assigned three experienced engineering lecturers in civil eng., electrical eng. and electronics eng. to ITM in early to assist in the running of the engineering program.
In July 1971, SOE began to conduct Advance Diploma courses in civil eng., mechanical eng and electrical eng courses with the help of volunteers from Australia, New Zealand and Canada together with the three British advisers and part-timers. Lectures were conducted in ITM campus in Shah Alam but all practical works were carried out in the laboratories of the University of Malaya. At the same time, SOE also started to conduct the Diploma Course in Land Surveying.
Similar type of arrangement as 1971 was carried out throughout in 1972 for the engineering Advance Diploma courses and the Land Surveying Diploma course.
With the completion of the SOE building and laboratories plus the arrival of all the equipment from U.K, the SOE started to conduct all their lectures and practical laboratory works in the new building. In 1973, the ASIA FOUNDATION sponsor the Ex- President of Ohio University to help and advise the Head of SOE in running the school.
SOE together with the schools adopted the U.S. grading system (GPA and CGPA)
As most of the expatriate staffs services will be ending soon, SOE began to recruit engineering teaching staff from India, Ceylon, Pakistan, etc.
In 1974, SOE introduced the two – tiers system replacing the existing system of 2Years A-Level followed 3 Years Advance Diploma program. In two –tiers program, the students have to complete 3 Years Diploma Course with good grade; only then they will be allowed to carry on with the Advance Diploma Course for another two more years.
BEM and IEM accepted all Advance Diploma holders from SOE as Graduate Engineers, similarly JPA recognize all Advance Diploma holders as Division 1 Government officers and Diploma Holders as Division2 Government officers.
In the next 10 years (1975 – 1985), the school began to employ Malaysian engineers as the academic staff to replace the lectures from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and sri Lanka. Most of these engineers were trained overseas and many were also alumni of ITM, recruited from the ITM Young Lecturer's Scheme. The school progressed and was widely accepted by local engineers as the main organizer of short courses, sminars and conferences. Activities for life long learning were mainly conducted by experienced speakers from overseas who were brought in to conduct seminars, conferences and workshop.
Developing further, in the following 10 years (1985 – 1995) the School of Engineering conducted numerous consultation and research works when the Bureau of Research and Consultancy was set up in the institution. This era also showed that professional involvement from the academic staff increased tremendously: be it as adviser or consultants to projects, or voluntary services to professional bodies. The School's activity of organizing seminars and conferences has now grown into an international level, when in 1989 the Regional Conference on Concrete Engineering and Technology was held in Kuala Lumpur.
In the last 10 years (1995 – 2005) there have been tremendous development for faculty where Diploma programmes were offered in five other branch campuses namely Perlis, Pahang, Sarawak, Sabah and Penang. This was to meet the demand in job market as well as the university's strategic planning to increase the number of semi professional bumiputras. At present, the good diploma graduates gained admission into the bachelor degree programme and admission has very been competitive as many applications to the programme have been received. To date the Bachelor degree programme is also conducted at the Penang campus. Initially this was to cater for for matriculation and STPM school leavers. It was also aligned with the four year duration required by the BEM in the conduct of any Bachelor of Engineering degree programme in Malaysia. At present, the Shah Alam campus is phasing out the diploma programme and will be concentrating on the bachelor's and postgraduate degree programmes. Currently, there are 4,000 students enrolled in UiTM. The total no of academic staff has reached more than 150, serving Shah Alam, Penang, Perlis, Pahang, Sarawak and Sabah campuses. The number of courses offered has increased and is mentioned in the following section.
The Faculty progressed and has international connections in every aspect of academic matters, particularly in the exchange of academic staff and posy graduate students. This has started with the University Stuttgart and has now moved towards collaborations with Aalborg University Denmark, Chungnam National University and KAIST Korea, Nagaoka University of Technology Japan and Institute Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember Indonesia.
The PhD programme in Civil Engineering is by research (EC 990) and has been offered, there are two admissions per year, which are in June and November.
At present the Faculty of Civil Engineering consists of four Centres of Study, namely ; Structural Engineering and Computing ; Geotechnical, Transportation and Surveying ; Water Resources and Environmental Systems : and Construction Engineering and Project Management. The specialization in the diploma and master levels evolve from these centres of study. The Centres have also witnessed a tremendous in the number of post graduates at both Master and PhD levels.


La Traviata owes its enduring popularity to a superb story of young love and fatal sacrifice, set to music by Italy's master melodist at the peak of his powers. Interest and poignancy are added by the fact that this is a true story – the baritone 'heavy' is Alexander Dumas who wrote The Count of Monte Cristo. But it is the central figure, the heroine Violetta, the archetypal 'whore with the heart of gold' who dominates the piece. It is her opera and we love her for it. A superb 'human interest' story, a captivating cast of characters, and music which is both enchanting and insightful: just some of La Traviata's ingredients explaining its enduring popularity. The characters are outlined with Smillie's reliable blend of insight and originality: 'Violetta, we must accept, is the proverbial Whore with the Heart of Gold, and this ravishing melody goes a long way towards melting the said heart.' David Timson narrates throughout.
From its early origins in Italy opera spread across Europe, establishing individual and distinctive schools in a number of countries. France had an early and long- standing love affair with it – hence the term grand opéra, referring to the massive five-act creations that graced the Paris Opéra in the nineteenth century. Germany had an excellent school from as early as mozart's time, and opera perhaps reached its highest achievement with the mighty music dramas of richard Wagner. russia, Great Britain, and the Americas have also made their contributions.
But in the popular imagination opera remains an Italian concept – and no wonder. From its earliest years Italians dominated the art: Cavalli and monteverdi were among the first to establish its forms; there was a golden age, called the bel canto, at the beginning of the nineteenth century when Bellini, Donizetti, and rossini ruled supreme; Giuseppe Verdi was probably the most revered artist in history; and, for many, Puccini represents in every sense the last word in this beloved genre.
that such perceptive minds as Beethoven and Wagner should so completely miss the point is one of the great ironies of music. Both these pundits – and much of nineteenth-century opinion – castigated mozart for squandering his genius on such a trivial piece as Così fan tutte. Even the title, Così (thus) fan (do) tutte (all women, or women are all the same), hints at the reason for their disapproval. the plot – 'social anecdote' might be a better term – does seem on the surface to be pretty silly stuff. two young officers are engaged to two fashionable young ladies. From their tutor Don Alfonso, usually described as 'a cynical old bachelor', the men accept a wager that their women are incapable of fidelity. to prove him wrong the men leave, pretending to go away to war, return heavily disguised, and begin to woo each other's fiancée. the first act is largely fun and games, but in the emotional and climatic heat of the second act the women switch their affections and at the peak of infidelity contract marriage with their new lovers. the men return in their original guises, the infidelity is revealed, and we all agree – or at least the men do – that women are just like that.
Silly? Perhaps in any other hands yes, but not here. Here, librettist and musician comprise the first great combination of poet and composer who in the last years of the eighteenth century took opera to a pinnacle it has since approached but never surpassed. Lorenzo da Ponte wrote three librettos for Mozart and this trilogy of masterpieces still continues to astonish with its daring and creativity. The Marriage of Figaro, as a play by the French writer Beaumarchais, was widely regarded as subversive. In the defiance of Figaro and the defeat of his aristocratic master it is possible to hear pre-echoes of the tumbrels that would shortly carry the master and his peers to the guillotine. Don Giovanni takes an equally unflattering view of the aristocracy in addition to being a highly amoral work, which no doubt accounts for its immense popularity throughout the Victorian Age.
Così fan tutte did not fare so well at the box office of history and it is only in recent decades that we have really seen beneath the social chit-chat to the raw emotions that da Ponte and mozart expose with an almost surgical probing. the two women, often viewed as sisters, are really very different people. Dorabella is the more bubble-headed, the first to give in to seduction; of the men Guglielmo is her perfect match – warm and passionate, if not exactly sensitive in his dealings with others. Fiordiligi and Ferrando are deeper characters, their love the stuff of tragedy, their grief more profound. And how do we know that? Because the story tells us so? Not really – it is more the music. In addition to being the most prodigally gifted of all composers, mozart was a great sensualist and the first true psychologist of music theatre. As Shakespeare is admired for his plots and revered for his characterisations and his poetry, so mozart takes this simple tale – this social anecdote – and, by fleshing out the characters with music at once sumptuously beautiful and full of character detail, elevates it to great theatre. the story can be told, as above, in a few words, but the implications of mozart's score repay a lifetime of study.


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Q: repeating function with time I am trying to display sports scores every 90 seconds in an iframe. I have everything working except for one part. The issue I have is that once the time goes from 90 to 0 it loads the html page into and iframe and continues to reload the same html page forever. How can I make it load one time, and then start the 90 second countdown over again?
// variables
var timeCountdown = 90,
  minutesCountdown,
  secondsCountdown,
  mainCountdown;
// main script countdown
mainCountdown = setInterval(function() {
  // display countdown time
  document.getElementById("countdown").innerText = mainCountdown + " seconds remaining!";
  // if time is 0 or smaller
  if (timeCountdown <= 0) {
        // load sports scores
        document.getElementById("iframe").src = "sports/nba/feed.html";
  } else {
        // convert random time to minutes
        minutesCountdown= Math.floor(timeCountdown / 60);
        //  convert random time to seconds
        secondsCountdown = (timeCountdown % 60);
        // add leading zero to seconds if less than ten
        if (secondsCountdown < 10) {
        secondsCountdown = "0" + secondsCountdown;
        }
        // add leading zero to minutes if less than ten
        if (minutesCountdown <= 10) {
        minutesCountdown = "0" + minutesCountdown;
        }
        // display countdown until next search
        document.getElementById("countdown").innerHTML = "Loading NBA scores in " + minutesCountdown + ':' + secondsCountdown;
        // reduce countdown time
        timeCountdown--;
  }
}, 1000);

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clearInterval(intervalId) is what you need.
in your case it would be
if (timeCountdown <= 0) {
    window.clearInterval(mainCountdown);

Oh you want to reset the timer? Set your variable timeCountdown  back to 90!
if (timeCountdown <= 0) {
    timeCountdown = 90;

A: When timeCountdown reaches 0, and you load the iFrame, you need to set timeCountdown back to 90.


Sindh with its proven reserves of oil & gas, coal, Gharo - Dhabeji wind corridor, and round the year sunshine is tipped as the Regional Power House of the future. Only Thar coal offers 200,000 MW of electricity for 300 years. The Government of Sindh is in the process of preparing bankable feasibility in Joint Ventures with private sector to set up mechanized mining of coal reserves of Thar and Badin and subsequent power generation projects. It intends to have 30% energy produced on coal by year 2030. It is also blessed with a Wind Corridor (60 kms wide and 180 km long) at Gharo – Keti Bander coastline which has an estimated potential to produce 50,000 MW of electricity; thus providing lucrative investment opportunities in this sector. The cattle colonies of Karachi provide a unique opportunity for biogas generation and thousands of tons of daily production of organic fertilizer.


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Well, it's nice to find your observations justified and backed by facts and figures, but it's horrible when that observation is your hometown is turning into a crime ridden cess pool. Orlando is now ranked #25 in America for the most unsafe cities, and #1 in all of Florida, beating out Miami, Tampa and Jacksonville. So, while the cops look around for excuses and the mayor has his head in the clouds with visions of sugar plum fairies waltzing from their condos to a play at the new performing arts center (assuming those fairies don't get mugged and murdered on Pine Street or something), The City Beautiful is right on track to become the new setting for HBO's crime drama The Wire, about drug gang murders and crooked politicians. Congrats to every member of our local leadership, from the Mayor's office, to the city council, and all of Orange County too. You have let my quiet hometown turn into the place in Florida you are most likely to get stabbed by sheer ignorant negligence. So, are you going to do something now that it's official, or are you just going to keep your collective heads planted firmly up your arses?
The Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens is exhibiting the art of Zelda Fitzgerald (married to F. Scott Fitzgerald, the "Great Gatbsy" guy?) beginning Nov. 7. There are other related events: a symposium called "Icons of an Era," Nov. 15-17, and a gala in the museum gardens where you can dress up in evening attire of the era.
Every big city has this problem. Every society for that matter. Homelessness.
Recently, city leaders decided to crack down on the distribution of food given out to homeless folks. And the homeless and their supporters have responded to this by protesting on the steps of City Hall. Seems Monday, they'll be doing this again from 1-2pm.
I live downtown. And almost daily I'm met with panhandlers in various spots. A current fave is the light on North Bound Orange Ave as you're about to get on the 408 at OUC.
I was raised to by my family to be generous, considerate and to help people in need. And so I find myself at an odd crossroads when I'm faced with handing over cash to someone who is obviously homeless and has a dirty, discarded cup and he's rattling it at my window. But there's something inside of me that won't let me roll down my window and fork over any spare change I've got. And I'm not sure I can tell you why.
If the firemen are out with their boots on a Saturday, boy I am emptying my purse of anything and everything in the way of dollar bills, coins… I'm even digging in the seats. Through my work, I donate to a variety of United Way Charities and Goodwill as well. I'm all for helping people who need the help, who are down and out, who need a leg up.
And yet sometimes I have to wonder why I keep seeing the same faces at the traffic lights or under the bridges. I honestly can tell you that there is a whole community of people who are out there and are homeless… and I might get hate mail for this… but they seem to WANT to be homeless.
Am I the only person who feels this way? I realize that because I live in downtown, I see it more than others who live on the outskirts. But if for months and YEARS you keep seeing the same faces… and you have to wonder.
And I do wonder what has brought them to this point in their lives… but more importantly I wonder what keeps them there. Do we lack enough social programs to help people become self sufficient again? Do we just have no other options for them? Is this a one-way ticket that's impossible to get out of this situation once your in it?
I don't have any desire to condemn these people because I know nothing about them or their life circumstances. I honestly admit I know very little about the programs in place to help folks living on the streets. But I think instead of trying to hide these people or push them off into a different part of our community (i.e. by shutting down their meal options), maybe we need to start a dialouge about it.
What do you think Orlando? Am I wrong for not handing over my spare change? Are we as a city ignoring our most fragile and fraile? Is the city just trying to sweep this problem under the rug instead of addressing it? Or has it been addressed and these folks just want a free ride with no rules?
This Friday and Saturday night the West Orange County town of Winter Garden will host the inaugural Winter Garden Music Fest in downtown Winter Garden, sponsored by the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Inc. which operates three museums: The Heritage Museum, The History Center and The Railroad Museum.
In addition to a wide variety of musical groups and performances featuring something for everyone's musical tastes, there will be a multitude of different foods at the International Food Court as well as food and drink available from the outstanding downtown Winter Garden restaurants.
Plus the downtown streets will be filled with merchandise vendors offering everything from jewelry and stained glass to candles and incense. There will also be booths set up for the various musical performers allowing them to offer CD's, posters and band merchandise.
The Winter Garden Music Fest is free and open to the public. The event will be open Friday, October 27, 2006, from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Saturday, October 28, 2006, from 4:00 p.m. to midnight. Directions, street locations, vendors and performance schedules can all be found at the official web site.
The Metroblogging family has a new member — give a hearty welcome to Graz, Austria!
Graz is beautiful city in the south-eastern corner of the country, just south of Vienna, that balances its designation as a World Heritage city with the growth of modern times. From scenic vistas to incredible architecture, Graz will take your breath away. Stop by and say hello to the 50th Metroblogging city!
Ok, I'm joking about the voting often part, at least as far as each individual election is concerned. But you CAN vote early here in Orlando and across the state. Early voting began yesterday and will continue each weekday until the 2nd day before the general election for 8 hours each day. It's an excellent opportunity to avoid election day crowds. Here in Orlando, you can check the locations and hours of early voting precincts at the Orange County Elections web site.
I arrived at my polling place (my local library branch) yesterday 10 minutes after they opened at 10am and was actually gratified (rather than perturbed) to see about 30 people already in line and while I was waiting in line another 40 or so early voters joined the line behind me. I happen to believe voting is one of our greatest rights and I'm always happy to see people taking advantage of that opportunity. The biggest delays were caused by the fact that the election office personnel were having to use the library's Internet connection to access their records and that connection kept going down. Anyway, I was out of there within 30 minutes, glad that I voted and that I voted early.
So what's going on in Daytona this weekend? The only reports I heard were that Biketoberfest was "stinkin' hot" and more crowded than anticipated, but I didn't hear anything else about the festivities. Anybody have any news? Good? Bad? Indifferent?
There's a schedule of festivities here, but today's the last day. Have fun.
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Something really bugs me about this most recent bout of violent crime at Universiity High School. I say violent crime, and not "school violence" like many because I think what that does is conveniently put the act into some kind of different class that we can either dismiss or attribute to different causes. No, this was a violent crime, part and parcel to the plague of violent crime that has been on an ever increasing and destructive path in our city for the past year or more.
But what bugs me is what the police are saying. I've heard the city's finest blame everything from video games to pocket knife rules, as if those are the deep rooted problems with the human condition. Give me a break, those are excuses for not being able to handle your job. I know that's harsh, but I am a life long resident of this city and it is going to crap in a hurry due to this increasing violent crime, and there is one organization tasked with curbing that problem, and it it the law enforcement community. Do your job, and last time I checked your job was not to play the blame game.
A short while ago I wrote about the running down of a police officer on Conway Road by a youth on a jacked motorcycle. The police officer was out there because after MONTHS of complaints of dangerous drag racing on that road they finally decided to look into the problem. What happened? One of those thugs broke the cops leg. What happened next? NOTHING! So I'm driving down the road the other morning in bumper to bumper commute traffic and that same spot where this violent crime occured what do I see, a police officer with a radar gun. I drive that same stretch multiple times every day and the only time I see a police is in the morning with his radar gun. So the police are plenty concerned with writing tickets for drive time traffic, targeting hard working people on their morning commute, but when it comes to putting feet on concrete to patrol those same spots in the night time hours for vandals, drag racers, thugs and such, when residents have called to ask for it… well, that's just not a priority.
I'm sure the police don't want to be portrayed as not doing their jobs, not caring, being more concerned with writing tickets than righting wrongs and all the other negative stereotypes that people sometimes come to have, but when you consisently display an inability to control and reduce crime, especially that of the violent type, and offer up nothing but lame excuses like video games and pocket knifes in school (you can stab a person with a pencil, it's the intent, not the weapon that kills), well, those stereotypes look more and more like educated assumptions every day. Stop talking and start walking the beat. I want my city safe like it used to be, do what you have to, but just get it done.
News tonight is that a 15-year-old student is dead at University High School after being stabbed by a 17-year-old with a pocket knife.
The final fight happened at their bus stop, but the argument started at lunchtime. The kid might have gotten away if other students and the school resource officers (can anyone here tell me what a "resource officer" is?) hadn't pointed him out as he tried to escape.
For those of you who are coming to MB Orlando after hearing this news story, University High School is one of the more upscale schools in the county, consistently ranked near the top of standardized testing for as long as I can remember. It only makes the shock that much more deep for everyone living around University. One law enforcement officer on the scene was blaming the American culture of violence–video games, etc.–for the rise in violence at schools, which would actually explain why school shootings and killings are happening in all economic situations across the board. But I don't think the answer is that easy.
I know some of our readers, and our bloggers, will send their kids to school tomorrow morning with their hearts in their throat.
I live downtown and have for the past two years. And it's no surprise that everywhere you look, things are building up around us — but this is true for most of Central Florida in general.
But I was very surprised to find that TWELVE major building are proposed for the downtown area. Skyscrapers some of them that will completely change the look of our skyline. Frankly, I think our skyline needs some beefing up, so I welcome it.
Below is a link to an interactive map that gives you a current photo of the downtown area with a superimposed graphic of each proposed buildling. It's pretty cool to see what is planned. I especially like the looks of the Traditional Towers (number 8).
Also, here is another graphic showing other downtown projects that are on the drawing board.


There are few things greater in life than pizza and good tunes. Something I never could've prepared myself for though is the melding my favourite food with my favourite child star and one of the best bands. That's right PIZZA x VELVET UNDERGROUND x MACAULAY CULKIN have all come together to amok the hilariously wonderful group Pizza Underground.
While hunting the internet for their demo and to see if they will ever play anywhere outside of Brooklyn you can also watch this video of their lead singer eating a slice of pizza in a fantastic homage to Andy Warhol eating a burger.
This year I spent Canadian Thanksgiving in New York City. We didn't opt for the traditional turkey and stuffing, but we ate enough other food to make up for it.
Everything pictured and described below is gluten-free, as America is surprisingly well-informed about the severity of cross-contamination. I didn't get sick once and I have quite the sensitive belly. But since we were on vacation, I did not bother to eat strictly vegan (I'll eat vegan 9 times out of 10, but I do eat fish and eggs, so therefore I don't achieve the 'vegan' title). Sorry to any honey-haters who were on my side.
Gluten-free? Yes! The staff seemed very knowledgable about cross-contamination.
Vegan? Yes. S'MAC makes their own vegan 'cheese' which is a mix of coconut milk, rice flour, potato flour, palm oil, organic palm shortening, marmite, salt and pepper.
Where? There are two locations in New York City. We went to the one in the East Village at 345 East 12th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenue.
What? I bought a vegan mac & cheese which is made with brown-rice elbow macaroni and is then topped with cornflakes. I had it mixed with shiitake mushrooms, tomatoes and spinach with garlic.
Cost? Approximately $15. I should have gotten the smaller size, which was nearly half the price. I ordered a 'Major Munch' skillet, which was overwhelmingly filling. I wasn't able to finish it, so I would recommend opting for one size down.
Gluten-free? Vegan? Both! The bakery is entirely gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, vegan, kosher and refined-sugar free. This place is essentially an allergy sanctuary.
Where? 248 Broome Street, between Orchard & Ludlow.
What? We split a black forest cupcake, a carrot cupcake and a cinnamon sugar doughnut. The doughnut was delicious, but the cupcakes were extremely dry. No specialty bakery ever seems to compare to Bunner's.
Cost? $4.75 per cupcake, $3.75 per donut. Eek.
Gluten Free? Yes: an entire gluten-free menu and a designated preparation area in the kitchen. Pala makes their own gluten-free dough fresh in house.
Vegan? Yes! They also offer a vegan menu.
Where? 198 Allen Street, 10012.
What? I asked for an 'Etna', which is a pizza topped with eggplant, basil, daiya and tomato sauce. Our waitress misheard my order and brought me a cheeseless pizza with butternut squash, peppers, onion and raisins instead. I ended up thanking her for messing up my order because the pizza was delicious. Pala definitely offers the best gluten-free pizza crust that I've ever tried. The crust was thick and had bubbles and everything.
Gluten free? Lots of GF options! The employee who served me was very considerate and offered to clean all of the necessary utensils after I mentioned my allergy.
Vegan? Yes! This is a vegan cafe run within an eco general store. They even sell vegan shoes.
Where? 139 Avenue A, 10009.
What? We walked a considerable distance to check out Tompkins Square Bagels, where I was promptly shut down by an employee who warned me that the kitchen was not a safe environment for those with Celiac disease. Luckily I found this place half a block away. I had a peanut butter and jam sandwich on gluten-free bread, and then treated myself with two scoops of vegan ice cream (one chocolate, one lavender) in a gluten-free cone. First cone in over a year, y'all. It was heavenly.
How much? I can't remember specifics (black-out bagel rage?) but it was definitely $5 or less.
Gluten-free? Yes! They have an entire gluten-free menu and prepare food in a designated area of the kitchen.
Vegan? No, but they do have a few vegan options including a garden vegetable sandwich and an eggplant quinoa/rice bowl.
Where? 75 9th Ave, right inside Chelsea Market.
What? I ordered the fish tacos: blackened pollock, corn tortillas, citrus fennel slaw, tomatillo salsa, sriracha aioli and cilantro. Too good.
Where? Some taco truck in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Gluten-free? Not sure. Taco shells are generally made from corn instead of wheat, so there's a good chance that this meal was gluten-free. I didn't eat them though, Nick did. I just threw these photos in because the tacos look delicious and I'm mean. Sorry.
What? Nick got fish tacos topped with cheese and veggies.
Gluten free? Yes. Pomme Frites serves fries that are cooked in gluten-free vegetable oil.
Vegan: Yes and no. We chose two dips, one of which was vegan and the other was not. Ask the cashier and he/she will give you a chart that outlines all dietary and ingredient information.
Where? 123 2nd Ave, between 7th St. and St. Mark Place.
What? A huge paper cone full of thick Belgian fries, with mexican ketchup and roasted garlic mayo. Pomme Frites has a great selection of uniquely flavoured dips to choose from.
Photo credit goes to Nick White.
Let's make one thing clear, Fat Girl Food Squad: I am on the quest to find the perfect Macaroni and Cheese — or at least try all of them. First up, we headed to New York's own S'Mac to test out the multiple flavours they have of mac and cheese.
S'Mac currently has two locations in NYC, both in Manhattan, and they offer dine-in, take-out, free delivery and catering for all your many cravings. If I lived in this city I would probably turn orange from the amount and frequency that I would order.
After looking at their extremely large menu (and being indecisive), we decided to test out the S'MAC Sampler. Served up in a skillet for $16, you receive 8 different varieties of Mac-n-Cheese. This is the only version that accepts no substitutions, so they pick the flavours and it is only regular pasta. Thankfully they let us add breadcrumbs on top for that extra added crispiness.
The sampler comes with a visual wheel showing you which flavours lay where which helps both the picky folks, and those deciding what to order in a larger size next time. Flavours include: All-American, 4 Cheese, Cheeseburger, La Mancha, Cajun, Napoletana, Alpine and Parisienne.
Trying all of the flavours provided us with a daunting task, even for 2, but we managed to leave no noodle uneaten. The verdict for best flavour goes to the Cheeseburger. Made for the hearty meat eater, it comes with both cheddar and American Cheese combined with seasoned ground beef. There is not too much ground beef, and it's definitely gooier and tastier than anything I've had like it before. With the breadcrumbs added on top it was like eating the best cheeseburger but a step above. Coming up in a close second would be the Alpine. This swiss mac goes a different route than the other traditional american styles and uses gruyere cheese and is filled with slab bacon. It was the perfect melty stringy cheese that stretches as you try and take a spoonful out for yourself, very hard to share. Our least favourite had to be La Mancha. It may have very well been my personal distaste for onions leading that one, but if you're looking for a taste of Spain in a dish, this is the one for you. It was Manchego Cheese mixed with fennel and onions.
What was the most fascinating to me is that those were not the only flavours available. They have another 4 recommended flavours to choose from as well as a build your own category with four different sizes: The Nosh, Major Munch, Mongo and Partay. Having been here before I felt that the Major Munch was enough for two but we each got one and it's a really good portion leaving plenty of leftovers should you have the hankering for more later.
S'Mac makes sure to cater to everyone having the option of multigrain and gluten free pasta, as well as reduced lactose and dairy free cheeses as well! And for those who want the full cheese option but are worried about a tummy ache, they offer lact-aid's at the counter just in case.
As a special secret if you check in at any S'MAC location on foursquare they have different loyalty specials. Including the 25% off for newbies and also 25% off on every 3rd check in for loyal customers. And on every other trip the option of 50% off (max $5 discount). I'll definitely be going back for all those deals, and to try building my own soon!


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Q: Display Link to Category in Wordpress? I am trying to figure out how to display the category of an article, and a link to the category. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

A: If you want to do this on post page you can add something like the following to your single.php file of your theme.

Posted in: <?php the_category(', ') ?>

A: Here's some info that will be of use:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_categories
Basically you can call:  <?php wp_list_categories( $args ); ?> and this will output what you're looking for.
Thr $args parameter is an array of settings strings that lets you change the order, style, depth etc, on links returned.

A: Note that: <?php the_category(', ') ?>will display the category as a link. which is good.... but if you want only the category  URL (that is, the category link only), then you will have to use the <?php get_category_link($category_ID); ?> the $category_ID is required. once you fix that in, the category URL will be returned.
Consider the example:
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<a href="<?php echo esc_url( $category_link ); ?>" title="Category Name">Category Name

Now you can see how we got the category ID and then using it to get the category Link. Hope this answers your question well enough?

A: You can use get_the_category()
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Over Experts' Objections, House Committees Move …
Over Experts' Objections, House Committees Move Dangerous Health Care Bill Forward
By Planned Parenthood Action Fund | March 10, 2017, 2:52 p.m.
Category: Health Care Equity, Voting
The House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee advanced the bill that would repeal the Affordable Care Act and block Medicaid patients from accessing preventive health care — like birth control, breast and cervical cancer screenings, and STD tests and treatment, and well-woman exams — at Planned Parenthood health centers nationwide.
The two Committees moved the dangerous legislation forward despite objections from an array of health care experts, health care providers, members of Congress from both parties, and millions of Americans.
"We've made tremendous gains in this country thanks to expanded access to reproductive health care and birth control, and now is not the time to roll that progress back."
— Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
About the Bill
The bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and block patients from care at Planned Parenthood would also:
Cut Medicaid,
Roll back maternity and newborn care, and
Restrict abortion insurance.
Next steps in the legislative process: The bill is now on its way to the House Budget committee. It then goes to the House floor for a vote.
"Planned Parenthood is a 100-year-old health care provider that one in five women in America has relied on. The American people oppose this bill, health care experts oppose this bill, and even Republican members of Congress oppose this bill. It's time to stop playing politics with women's health and lives." —Dawn Laguens, Executive Vice President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
The Impact: Jeopardizing Health Care for Millions
This reckless legislation would jeopardize health care for millions of people and would be devastating for women across the country.
Simply put, if this bill becomes law, it would mean a health care disaster for the United States. This bill would leave an estimated 15 million people without insurance, and would strip millions of Planned Parenthood's patients from the essential reproductive health care they depend on.
Amendments Protecting Preventive Health Care
Passage of the ACA repeal legislation came after a marathon 27-hour markup in the Energy and Commerce Committee. In the middle of the night, Committee Republican leadership rejected an effort by women's health champions Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) to remove the language attacking Planned Parenthood. Committee members even laughed when Representative Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) falsely tried to claim that this measure is not about Planned Parenthood.
In fact, the language to block people from accessing care at Planned Parenthood is the only provision in the bill that is not related to the ACA. It's also deeply unpopular with the American public: An independent poll released in January by polling firm PerryUndem, shows that 70% of American voters oppose legislation that would deny patients the ability to go to Planned Parenthood for their health care – including 50% of Trump voters.
4 Facts on "Defunding" Planned Parenthood
Every year, 2.5 million people rely on Planned Parenthood health centers for essential health services, and studies consistently show that proposals to attack Planned Parenthood will result in people losing access to health care. Here are 5 facts you need to know.
FACT: The term "defunding" Planned Parenthood is a misnomer. The Hyde amendment, a law Planned Parenthood opposes but follows, prohibits the use of federal funds for abortion. This type of legislation would actually prevent millions of women who rely on Medicaid and/or other federal programs from accessing cancer screenings, birth control, HIV and STI testing, and other preventive and essential care at Planned Parenthood health centers.
FACT: Blocking access to Planned Parenthood hurts people in communities who are struggling to get by the most – especially those with low incomes and those living in areas with no other quality health care providers. This disproportionately impacts people who already face structural barriers to accessing care including people of color, immigrants, young people, and members of the LGBTQ community – with those whose identities overlap facing multiple barriers.
FACT: Other providers cannot absorb Planned Parenthood's patient base if it is cut off from federal programs. Politicians who want to deny patients using Medicaid from going to Planned Parenthood often insist that other providers will fill the gap, but the experts at the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the National Partnership for Women and Families said it flat out: They can't. Even the executive director of the American Public Health Association has called such claims "ludicrous."
FACT: 54% of Planned Parenthood health centers are in health professional shortage areas, rural or medically underserved areas. Planned Parenthood health centers provide preventive health care to many who otherwise would have nowhere to turn for care. In 68% of counties with a Planned Parenthood health center, Planned Parenthood served at least half of all safety-net family planning patients.
Tags: Obamacare, Planned Parenthood, Congress
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