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Have a great Saturday & thank you to those who responded to my post on plagiarism... I was able to contact the owner of the site with the contact info you provided & they took it down immediately. {For those who didn't see it, a blog had taken my blog posts & posted them as their own under the name "stylishliving"... I called & they removed it.} If you write a blog, try googling it and seeing what comes up in case someone has done this to you too.
And finally, I was surprised (kind of happily!) at the number of you who responded that you have similar children-dog-morning-issues. Nice to know I'm in good company. :)
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Second time this year — rare goat at Miller Park Zoo gives birth
Clemente Island goat has twin kids
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[April 05, 2014]
BLOOMINGTON — A rare breed of
goat at Miller Park Zoo is the latest animal to give birth at the
zoo. Valencia, one of the zoo's San Clemente Island goats, gave
birth on March 23 to twin female kids named Cutie and Sunkist.
Miller Park Zoo is home to
six adult San Clemente Island goats: four females — Bella, Valencia,
Becca and Breeze — and two males, Poseidon and Vern. Each of the
adults is 1 to 4 years old.
The captive birth of this rare goat breed is the second this year
at Miller Park Zoo. Breeze gave birth to twin female kids, Dorothy
and Jenny, on Jan. 27.
This is the fourth consecutive year that kids were born at Miller
Park Zoo, which was the first facility in the state of Illinois to
ever have a San Clemente Island goat birth. Only a small number of
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This breed of goat is relatively small but larger than dwarf
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Dave Rhoades Named Site Vice President; Pete Karaba Named Plant Manager
Marseilles, Ill. (July 28, 2010) - Ottawa resident Dave Rhoades has been promoted to LaSalle Station site vice president. Rhoades replaces Morris resident Dave Wozniak, who is retiring after a 35-year career at Exelon.
"I am dedicated to carrying on Exelon's commitment to provide safe, clean and reliable energy and ensuring that this plant continues to be recognized as a top performer in the industry," Rhoades said.
"It has been a pleasure being a part of the community the past two years at LaSalle and a part of the Exelon team for my entire career," Wozniak added.
LaSalle Station has a track record for reliable operations. In 2006, Unit 1 set the world record for light water reactors, operating for 739 continuous days. Unit 2 is third in the world, previously running for 711 consecutive days.
Rhoades' primary responsibility will be to oversee the safe and reliable operation of LaSalle Station, including managing a staff of 800 employees, overall station performance and financial oversight.
Rhoades has spent his entire career at LaSalle Station, with 22 years of experience in nuclear power operations. Most recently, he was LaSalle's plant manager. He has gained extensive experience in operations, chemistry, outage support and work control.
Rhoades received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
"I am excited to have this opportunity and look forward to maintaining our vision of being a vital part of the local communities," Rhoades said.
In a related move, Naperville resident Pete Karaba has been promoted to LaSalle's plant manager. Karaba will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the plant, which include the operations, maintenance, work control, chemistry/environmental and radiation protection departments.
Pete joined the company in 1990 as a system engineer at Exelon's Dresden Station. Most recently, Pete was Dresden's maintenance director. Karaba has served in numerous other roles at Dresden in areas including operations, engineering and maintenance. Pete holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University.
Exelon Nuclear is the largest nuclear generating company in the nation. LaSalle County Generating Station is located approximately 75 miles southwest of Chicago. With both units at full power, the site produces more than 2,200 megawatts net, which is enough electricity for 2.3 million homes.


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Kevin Kastning is the new artist at onclassical.com: guitarist, composer and instruments inventor, he is obtaining large consensus in America for his innovative music and recordings. His four last publications (2006-2009) have been recently included in our catalog: these albums are artistically relevant, curious, and impeccable at a sound level. The art of Kevin Kastning and of musicians Szabó and Siegfried, who flanked him, is innovative, courageous, hypnotic. We directly speak with the artist in a long interview that Alessandro Simonetto, founder of OnClassical, prepared for the OC blog.
A.S. Your music is a sort of improvisation that becomes composition in the act of performing it. We know this is a very original style of composition and performance at the same time. What are the influences of your artistic language? How do your thoughts and your own musical artistic processes impact these compositions?
K.K. Wow, that is a good question. I dont know if I could list all my artistic influences, as I am sure there are some which are there, but unconscious and unknown to me. A few composers that come to mind are Bartok, Elliott Carter, Gesualdo, Tallis, Beethovens middle and late period string quartets, Ockeghem, the second Viennese school, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Bach, Byrd, Josquin, Praetorius, and even going back as far as Machaut. Bartoks string quartets had a deep and tremendously profound impact on me; both artistically and even spiritually. I also suspect that I have been impacted by artists from the French post-impressionist and the abstract expressionist periods; as well as authors such as Joyce, Proust, and Eliot. Sometimes I think I have a tendency to translate the visual into the audible.
K.K. find that when Im involved in observing and really taking in a painting, that I will start to hear things; I look at a Jackson Pollock work and I can hear a lot of sound in that. Architecture can be an influence as well; I am a fan of Frank Gehry, and can hear sound when I look at some of his designs. I have thought of how the architectural concept behind flying buttresses of the Gothic period can translate into compositional form, or become a structural element of a piece. I also find that I am pretty heavily influenced by nature: landscapes; the seeming randomness of things like leaf veining and bird song and avian sounds. Lately I see things like cloud formations, forest growth patterns, river meanders, and certainly snow and snow patterns and wonder how I could translate that directly to score paper. I think that an artists varied influences and impacting exposures become internally aggregated and sort of transmogrify into a new and unique amalgam; this becomes that artists voice.
A.S. The collaboration with other musicians such as Siegfried and Sandór Szabó: how do you discover to have the same "frequencies" / feeling for working at the same project?
K.K. As for the works with Siegfried, he and I began working together in the early 1990s; our album Binary Forms was recorded in 1992. In this case, Siegfried knew we were operating on the same artistic frequency. I didnt; he brought it to my attention and asked if we could record together. At first I said no, but Im glad he pressed me to do it, otherwise it never would have happened. He was right, by the way.
Ill use Sandór as a more detailed example; I hope he wont mind! I met him a few years ago; before we met, I knew who he was, and he had found my music and researched it a bit prior to initially contacting me. We conversed quite a lot and listened to each others music. I had a strong sense, both conscious and subconscious, that he and I would artistically fit together like two puzzle pieces. And we did, in fact, on not only an artistic level, but also on a spiritual and deeply inner level, which of course translated to and became evident in the works we jointly create. We just knew that we were operating on, to use your rather accurate term, the same frequency. Sandór stated the same thing to me, but an interesting difference is that he knew it long before I did! Its tough to verbalize or explain; it is as if wed known each other artistically long before we actually met. In fact, Ive never met anyone with whom I have so much in common artistically. The work he and I do together is the most natural process in which Ive ever been involved. I know he and I will be working together for a very long time.
Ive been asked by other artists to collaborate or record with them, but its really rare that I feel an artistic connection or affinity. There are a couple of other artists with whom Im either working or with whom Im going to be recording, though.
A.S. The guitars you, Kevin and the other musicians, play: how do you choose them? Do you personally build them? How and why?
K.K. As for the instruments I play, I initially select them based on their voice and tonal response. I will select a specific instrument for a certain composition or recording based on the requirements of that composition. For several years, I have been internally hearing (and still do) compositions which involved ranges and registers of instruments, specifically of the guitar family, which were not extant. Im fortunate to be an artist endorser for Santa Cruz Guitars; we have a wonderful working relationship. After wed established that relationship, I approached them with some instrument design ideas I had which extended the range of the guitar, and asked if they were interested in building them for me. To my surprise, they were not only agreeable, but very excited to do this. The first instrument I designed, and by designed I mean the register and range and tunings, was the DKK, which is an extended baritone guitar; it is tuned to F#, which is one whole step above a bass, and a seventh lower than guitar. For this extended range to be possible, a much longer scale length is required; this in turn requires a very different playing technique. I used the DKK in the studio on an upcoming album with Sandor wherein I had it in bass (E) tuning, and it sounded amazing; just really full and rich. With a lower-pitched instrument, far more string harmonics are available. When using the extended baritones, many of my chord voicings and harmonic structures involve artificial string harmonics; this just is not possible on a standard concert-pitch guitar. From the DKK came the DKK-12, which is a 12-string version of it, also in F# tuning.
I have devised many of my own intervallic tunings for the DKK-12, and I first used these on the album Parallel Crossings. On that album, for some pieces I used concert F# tuning and on others I used my intervallic tunings. To briefly explain: in F# concert tuning on the DKK-12, the string pairs are all in octaves; for example, the first course is F# / f#. In intervallic tunings, the first course might be F# / A. In other words, each course is tuned to a different non-octavic interval. In fact, all my work on Parabola was recorded using entirely my own intervallic tunings; I didnt use any concert tunings whatsoever on the entire record. The intervallic tunings also provide entirely other sets of artificial harmonics; as well as the possibility of 12-note chord voicings.
The newest KK / Santa Cruz instrument is the Alto Guitar. This is a small-bodied, short-scale length 12-string which is pitched a P4 (perfect fourth) above standard guitar concert tuning; concert tuning is E; the alto is in A. Its a very unusual guitar voice; it sounds like an amalgam of harpsichord and mandolin. I will touring Europe with Sandor this year, and will be taking the alto on the tour with me. So to answer your question: I dont build them, but I did design them.
A.S. Yes, that was my intention...
K.K. And they were built to fill an artistic need: that need being the compositions for instruments which didnt exist. Now they do exist. Interestingly enough, Sandor has a 12-string baritone which was built using the DKK-12 specifications; once he heard mine, he had to have one! He uses this instrument rather virtuosically on Resonance and Parallel Crossings. We have an album in the can which will be released in 2010 wherein we are both using different intervallic tunings on 12-string baritones. The harmonic densities and soundscapes are just huge! There is another new instrument on which Im working with a wonderful and gifted luthier here in the US named Dan Roberts; it will have a wider range even than the DKK-12. Again, this instrument is conceived out of a need for an even wider ranging instrument for new compositions and their required tunings on which Im working. The intervallic tunings are born out of a similar process: I have these pieces, or Im hearing compositions involving harmonic structures that I cant achieve. Unless I re-invent something; first the instrument, and then that instruments tuning scenarios.
A.S. When I was teen I improvised at the piano with closed eyes, looking for the best sound for my invention: I defined the music that came out: blind music. Do you think we could define your own language in the same way?
K.K. Hmmm I dont know, but thats another good question. I come from a discipline of composing; Ive composed over 200 pieces; various string quartets, piano sonatas, trios; mostly chamber works. So even though Im improvising with Sandor, for example, those improvisations are coming from a place of formal composition. Form is always a consideration, even where there is what might be perceived as a lack of form. I did an album in 2004 with Siegfried entitled Bichromial, and on that album, we focused on a concept I defined as open form compositions: these were improvised pieces with no repeating sections or motifs. The form was not cyclic in any way, but purely linear. So even in the absence of form, there is form. At least in my mind.
A.S. What are the technical equipment used to record (I mean microphones, preamps, and more ...). What is your attitude/mood before and during the recording session?
K.K. I am very, very finicky about and demanding of recording equipment. b>The albums have been recorded using mics by Gefell and Neumann into Millennia preamps. The Millennias are the cleanest and purest preamps Ive ever used. The Gefell mics are so incredibly detailed that I think they can almost hear your thoughts! Lately Ive been using some microphones from Peluso; I really like those very much and am excited about them. I have them in the studio, and am already at work on the next couple of albums, and the Peluso mics are being used on those, as well as the Gefells. The Peluso mics are really wonderful. They render the image in such a manner that they provide a wider soundscape, which is difficult to do and something for which Ive been searching. My recording chain is very pure and direct: microphone to preamp to recorder. In both the recording and the mixing process, no EQ, compression, or limiting is ever used. The only outboard gear used in the mixing and mastering process other than the mixing desk and mastering recorder is the Bricasti M7 reverb unit. This is like having Boston Symphony Hall right in the studio; its inexplicably beautiful and pure. Every album from Resonance on has been mixed with the M7; in fact, Resonance was the first album ever mixed with the M7. Ive been really fortunate to work with companies like Bricasti and Peluso, too. For the past year or so, I've been using the Enhanced Audio M600 microphone mounting system. It really adds a measure of clarity, depth, and detail. In fact, "Parabola" was recorded using the M600 on the mics.
As for the mood before and during the recording sessions, I suppose I would say its relaxed and natural. Sandor and I have recorded four complete albums together, and parts of two more. The feeling in the studio is highly energized; yet very placid and calm. I think he and I both have about the exact same artistic temperament and approach; no stress, no nervousness; we just allow the music to speak through us. I know that may sound a little odd, but I dont how to explain it other than that. For me, the recording process is very natural. Its a part of the creative process which tends to be more concrete than others. Strangely enough, as much as I find this process to be a natural one, after a day in the recording studio, I am just so wiped out that I can barely speak. The albums Ive done with Sandor were each recorded in just one day; while thats a pretty fast recording pace, it can leave you rather drained at the end of that long day!
A.S. The musical language from Scalar Fields to the new album, Parabola, through (via) Resonance and Parallel Crossings, is constantly evolving. Do you think to bring this moving language versus forms of electronic or maybe microtonal music, for example, using the computer to modulate the sounds during the performance or tuning the guitars with strange temperaments?
K.K. Ive never been very interested in electronic music, though I have listened to it; I find much of John Cages work interesting. Real acoustic instruments speak to me very directly and entirely spiritually; I think we will never fully explore their capabilities. Microtonal music I do find interesting; for example, Ezra Sims and the quarter-tone work of Charles Ives especially. The various tunings Ive created are like extra paint colors on an artists palette; theyre not a an end unto themselves, but a means to an end. I think my (for lack of a better term) research into scordatura has been one catalyst for growth and forward momentum, though not the only one. Since you mentioned the three released albums Ive done with Sandor, Ill answer based on those. Im not interested in repeating something Ive already done; each new composition or new album will always be different from what preceded it. Not as a prerequisite exactly, but as far as I can tell, this is just part of my artistic process. At any given moment, Im working on two or three new albums in the studio, and usually around 10 or so new non-guitar compositions; pieces for string quartet, for example. There is a new album with Siegfried which is complete; it will be released later this year or early next year. Its very different than anything weve done; yet its still us, and in my opinion, its the finest and most evolved work he and I have done together. And Im working on a solo album using my various guitar voices; specifically the DKK-12 and the alto together, and also an album of medieval works. With so many new pieces to complete, and so many new ones beginning all the time as others finish, theres just no time to repeat something Ive already done. So I think that what youre describing as hearing the music constantly evolving is maybe just a part of this forward-moving process or momentum. I know Sandor feels the same. I think this is not something unique to he and I; I suspect this is a normal developmental element of a healthy artistic trajectory.
Van Gogh once said something to the effect that a true artist is one who is always seeking, but never finding. I think the evolvement youre hearing in my music is just part of an organic process. And by the way, thank you for saying so.
A.S. To be part of our artists (and albums) at OnClassical is not very easy. We received each month tens of musicians that send their material to our office but very few products have been considered good for our purpose. Your albums are instead a summary of innovative music and well-captured sound. Why did you choose OnClassical? What do you think about the project we are working on?
K.K. OnClassical came along at a time wherein I was thinking about what they were doing. I wondered why recording technology was moving forward, but content delivery was moving backward vis a vis the low-res mp3 download trends. It would be like having a high-definition DVD player, and connecting it to a 1950s black-and-white TV. It didnt make sense to me. I wondered why no one was offering high-res downloads; with the advent of broadband connections, the low-res and terribly compressed mp3 format was no longer valid. Finally someone was making it possible to download high-res files, and a classical online label at that. The genre which could benefit most from high-res recordings more so than any other genre. I hope to provide OnClassical with the 24-bit masters of some upcoming releases, too. I think its a great concept, and I like how OnClassical is executing it. Im really proud to be a part of OnClassical.
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Geneen Roth has a problem with money. In Lost and Found, she details failed investments with a longtime embezzling accountant and an entire life savings lost in the Madoff Ponzi scheme. The Madoff debacle inspired the book—and it inspired the deep introspection that led to an examination of what money had meant to her as a little girl. All things are related, very good Buddhism and very good money wisdom.
Roth is a workshop leader and the author of a bestselling book Women Food and God. She has spent decades battling her own dysfunctional relationship to food—yo-yo dieting and every unhealthy diet and bingeing practice on the planet make her a knowledgeable and compassionate weight issues coach. But her meditation and inquiry practice, so useful in sorting out the food thing, also provided the ground and the strength to help her cope with overnight impoverishment at age 56 (with a hefty mortgage and no idea how money works at all).
The book gives numerous examples, culled from Roth's endless discussions with fellow financial sufferers and interviews with holistic financial advisors and people she quizzed in checkout lines and at parties. A fugue state is a customary reaction to money conversations and attempts to grapple with understanding personal economics. A sense of panic or exhaustion is not uncommon. Unwillingness to probe for the early beliefs about money we learn in our families—very uncomfortable scrutiny for most of us—leads too often to financial illiteracy and abdication of responsibility. The abdication comes with very high interest or outright fraud. Who takes your money—MasterCard or Madoff?
The same issues surrounding food cluster all over money and it is the topic even more radioactive than sex or politics for party chatter. Roth recommends sitting on a meditation cushion and steeling yourself to look, unflinching, at what comes up. But she assures us that a willingness to confront the past is precisely what will free us from it. If you grew up with concepts of scarcity—they are probably as much about unconditional love and enough attention as they are about your bank balance. In fact, those issues are likely reflected in your bank balance. If money was a wall to hide behind in a loveless house then you may avoid having it to dodge the risk of a loveless relationship. Or you might have inherited the conviction that people who have money are greedy or predatory or "bad." Maybe money equates for you with loss of friends or social position. Maybe it confers on you a sense of entitlement or a lack of empathy. There are as many ways to be out of harmony with money as there are erroneous myths about it.
Money isn't real, Roth reminds us. At least not real in the same way as sunshine, shelter, sustenance and people. Money is part of what you can't take with you but it does give you freedom to make choices while you are an embodied wage slave or fortunate heiress. And an important way to view investments is to follow the money to where it works. Does the high tech stock keep climbing on the backs of child laborers in the developing world? Are you benefitting from that windfall the energy company reaps from drilling—and spilling–in a fragile environment? Should you be putting your money where your beliefs are—at least some of it?
Lots of good advice and shrewd observation in this tale of goodies and gambling. Geneen Roth might not have a million dollars anymore—actually, she never had it, Bernie Madoff did—but she managed to keep her house and even patch the leaky roof on it. In the process of dealing with loss, she found a few major fault lines to address and rediscovered what really mattered to her–a significant windfall, in her opinion.
There may be no FDRs with the political will to tackle the great American 21st Century Depression (call it what it is, please) but there are some profound individual antidotes to be applied. Audit your own mind, isolate your own money issues, let go of hereditary beliefs and allot some investment to your own good causes. Figure out how to fill the holes in your soul with compassion, not compulsive shopping. And steer clear of anyone Roth chooses as an investment advisor—she admits she's still trying to figure all that out.
Lost and Found: One Woman's Story of Losing Her Money and Finding Her Life Geneen Roth | Viking 2011


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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Asking Questions instead of asking questions Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Asking Questions instead of asking questions Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Japan View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message kanjizaiJoined: 29 Jun 2003Posts: 69 Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject: Asking Questions instead of asking questions I would like to know your opinions about asking students questions that lead them to answers instead of giving them the answers. I find that the information that students 'find' tend to be retained much more than when I give students the answers. However, I find that some students demand to be told the answer. THanks!. Back to top Mr_MonkeyJoined: 11 Mar 2009Posts: 661Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 6:57 pm Post subject: Does it really matter what we think? Doesn't it matter more whether or not the students actually learn from discovery approaches? One of the fundamental problems with teaching and learning (and its associated research) is that there's a basic tension between what the teacher experiences, what the learners experience, what the teachers and learners feel about learning and what the larger-scale experiments seem to show. Back to top GlenskiJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 12844Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:53 pm Post subject: Most Asian students live in societies where teachers dominate the classroom and give them the answers. That is one reason why so many have problems adjusting when they go overseas and have classroom situations where they are forced to think things through or discuss them with teachers. If your own classroom atmosphere or relationship outside the class with students permits you to force them to think things out to arrive at the answers, good. If students need to learn by making mistakes and then being told why, that's good, too. If students simply need to be told the answers, I would hope that we can provide enough direction to show them how to arrive at the answer. Just to say, Answer to question 6 is B, is not always helping them. Then again, how often do we have the time to explain everything? One type of course that needs this time is when you teach a TOEIC or TOEFL course. Back to top kanjizaiJoined: 29 Jun 2003Posts: 69 Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 2:33 pm Post subject: Mr MOnkey: the answers are no and yes. And thanks for the file; excellent reading. Glenski: As always, very good advice. Thanks.[/quote] Back to top Mr_MonkeyJoined: 11 Mar 2009Posts: 661Location: Kyuuuuuushuuuuuuu Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 4:42 pm Post subject: You're welcome! I love that paper - it really puts the issue in focus. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Japan All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Where to Begin----------------General DiscussionNewbie ForumCurrent Events ForumTechnology ForumOnline Teaching Forum Africa Forums----------------General Africa Forum Asia Forums----------------CambodiaChina (Job-related Posts Only)China (Off-Topic)Hong KongIndiaIndonesiaJapanMalaysiaPhilippinesSingaporeTaiwanThailandGeneral Asia ForumVietnam Caribbean Forums----------------General Caribbean Forum Europe Forums----------------Czech RepublicFranceGermanyGreeceItalyMacedonia and the BalkansPolandRomaniaRussia & C.I.S.SpainTurkeyUkraineUnited KingdomGeneral Europe Forum Latin America Forums----------------ArgentinaBrazilChileColombiaCosta RicaMexicoMexico (off-topic)PeruGeneral Latin America Forum The Middle East Forums----------------BahrainEgyptIsraelKuwaitOmanQatarSaudi ArabiaUnited Arab EmiratesGeneral Middle East Forum North America Forums----------------General North America Forum Oceania----------------Australia/New Zealand You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum This page is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Contact Dave's ESL Cafe Copyright © 2018 Dave Sperling. All Rights Reserved. Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group Teaching Jobs in China


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Halle Berry's ex, Gabriel Aubry, called her a "ghetto n-word" during an argument according to court papers.
Berry and Aubry are currently in court for a custody battle over their three-year-old daughter, Nahla.
Sources: Halle Berry's Ex-Husband Used Racial Slur Against Her
The U.K. Daily Mail reports:
He screamed that she was a ''ghetto n****r'' and threw a chair against the wall,' the witness is quoted as saying. 'Halle was shaken and sobbing.'
Gabriel hated that Nahla was mixed race,' a colleague of Halle's claimed according to The Star. 'He never wanted her hair to be braided, and he always said that Nahla was white.
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The first half of Music Watching over Me displays a mastery of deep house tropes. Neophytes Leza Boyland, Queenie and Mykle Anthony—who all show up on the album's first third as guest vocalists—are mostly used here as ghostly background figures that mirror Kurtel's often abstract tunes. The title track titillates for two minutes with an echoing, cascading loop until the kick drum kicks in and Boyland's distant one-liner struggles to give the entire thing a sense of direction. "Makyaj" is just as peculiar: Tiny tin-like beeps fall around Queenie's delicate murmur, while "My Ass" displays the same kind of interest for the female anatomy and hypnotic spoken-word as Nina Kraviz's "Pain in the Ass." On the other hand, "Best Of," with its prompt use of fake strings, pumping bassline and Chelonis R. Jones-like, diva-ish pathos from the aforementioned Anthony ends up sounding like a lost Robert Owens demo and is all the more compelling for it.
"The L Word" is one you may already know by now, but it still deserves recognition in becoming one of the year's defining tracks. It's warm, welcoming and gracefully tuneful; the fact its mischievous bassline gets right to the point only helps enhance its soft-spoken immediacy. "One Chance at Happiness" and "My Heart" don't dilly dally either, and both cuts come across as "The L Word"'s distant yet vaguely sexy cousins.
The album's second half is overall more adventurous and intriguing. "Vagabond," for instance, brings a surprising twist to the long player's arc with it brazen New Wave guitar riff thrown in next to twirling pads and alarming synths, a trick repeated on the floaty yet tense "Make Me Feel." "Trust" is even weirder in the way it mixes dubstep-tinged rhythmic patterns and sampled horns. It all shows Kurtel's versatility, something an exclusive cut like the quirky R&B of "Crank It Up," recorded with Gadi Mizrahi and Soul Clap on their recent DJ Kicks compilation also proved.
With convincing long players from the likes of Jamie Jones, Maceo Plex and Art Department, Crosstown Rebels' renaissance is in full bloom, and Kurtel is a heartening addition to the stable's sound. You'd hope that she'd deviate at times from the six-minute template she sets for herself on these twelve tracks, and it wouldn't hurt if she indulged her lateral stylistic urges more often since it suits her so well. But at the same time, you can't deny Music Watching Over Me has, despite its flaws, a fulfilling aura—a feeling that makes you think that house music's freshest star might have just been born.
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01. Music Watching Over Me
02. Makyaj
03. My Ass
04. Best Of
05. The L Word
06. Vagabond
07. Trust
08. Equilibrium
09. One Chance at Happiness
10. My Heart
11. Make Me Feel
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Did CISPA Actually Get Better Before Passing? Not Really
from the depends-on-how-you-define-"better" dept
Yesterday, after I asserted that CISPA had gotten much worse before it was passed in a rushed vote, I heard from several people (even those in the anti-CISPA camp) who took the opposite position. They feel that, while CISPA is still a highly problematic bill, the Quayle amendment which I roundly criticized actually represented a significant last-minute improvement to the text. I still don't see it that way, for reasons I explain below, but they did make an important point that is worth calling attention to.
Basically, under their reading of the previous text, it allowed the government to use the data for any non-regulatory purpose as long as it has one cybersecurity or national security purpose. I hadn't initially read it that way but I completely agree, and that is indeed a troublesome wild card to hand to the government. The amendment removed the broad "any lawful purpose" language, replacing it with the list of five specific uses (cybersecurity, cyber crime, protecting people from harm, protecting children from exploitation, and national security), thus closing that gaping hole in the bill. In that sense, it's a good amendment.
But, does it really improve CISPA? That depends on how you look at it. CISPA is supposed to be a "cybersecurity" bill, and both its supporters and its opponents in Congress have repeatedly stated that cybersecurity means protecting networks and systems from disruption, hacking and malicious code—primarily coming from overseas. Even during yesterday's debate, virtually every representative who spoke opened with a speech on this topic, and Ruppersberger himself insisted that CISPA's sole purpose was allowing companies and the government to share "formulas, Xs and Os, the virus code". (I'm pretty sure he meant "1s and 0s", but what do you expect from someone who doesn't understand the thing he's trying to legislate?)
Now, critics of the bill have of course been saying all along that it could be used for things way beyond this stated cybersecurity purpose. But the response from supporters has been consistent: no, it can't, and even if it can, it won't be. [Insert another impassioned speech about the cyber-threat from China.] Then, suddenly, only a few minutes before the final vote, the representatives near-unanimously amend CISPA to include these brand new targets of bodily harm and child exploitation, which have nothing to do with cybersecurity and which have rarely if ever been mentioned in relation to the bill.
Basically, the amendment closes a loophole but opens a door. It takes away some of the language that allows overreach of the bill, but then explicitly endorses the exact things people were worried the government would do with that language—as in, start using the data to investigate and build cases against American citizens without regard for the laws that would normally protect their privacy.
Is that an improvement? CISPA would now grant the government less vague power, which is good, but would also grant it brand new specific powers, which is bad and frankly pretty insulting. Because, if this is indeed an improvement and a narrowing of the government's power, how are we to take that if not as a confession that virtually every representative has been baldly lying this whole time? They have said over and over again that they don't want or plan to use the bill for anything except shoring up network security, but we're supposed to see the addition of these brand new applications as limiting CISPA's target? To me, that sounds like they're saying: "Okay, you got us—we really wanted to secretly do all this other stuff. As long as you still let us do that, we'll change the bill."
So the way I see it, there are two ways to look at the Quayle amendment: either it made the bill worse, by massively expanding its stated purpose to whole new areas of the law such that it can no longer accurately be called a "cybersecurity" bill at all, or else it made the bill better by codifying the ways it can be abused for non-cybersecurity purposes.
Of course, it's not as though everyone trusted what supporters were saying about the bill's purpose before. We all knew it would be used for these other things. But simply getting them to admit that is not really progress. It's accurate to say that the amendment has limited the government's power under CISPA by changing the language, but it's also ludicrous to say that turning a cybersecurity/national-security bill into a cybersecurity/cybercrime/violent-crime/child-exploitation/national-security bill at the last minute represents narrowing or improving it. In fact, the only way that's an improvement is if the representatives are admitting that they were planning on it being used for even more unstated purposes all along, but are now content with choosing only a few of the things they have repeatedly denied they wanted. I see how that can be framed as progress, but it's not exactly something that the House deserves any praise for.
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The Eurostars Monumental hotel is 25 min. by taxi from Barcelona Airport.
The nearest station is Monumental (L2) only 500 m.
The nearest railway station is Arc de Triomf only 10 min. walking.
The area has an excellent public transport network (subway and buses), and a ride to main railway station takes only about 10 min.
The Eurostars Monumental Hotel (barcelona city hotel) is located less than three blocks from the Sagrada Familia. In fact, the hotel is set exactly in the middle of the two great vantage points of Barcelona's today and yesterday.
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Stewart receives Academy Award in Literature
Susan Stewart, Princeton's Annan Professor of English, has been given an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, bestowed annually to honor exceptional accomplishment in any genre.
Stewart is one of seven authors recognized with the award, which honors a body of work and comes with a $7,500 prize.
The author of many works of poetry, criticism and translation, Stewart has taught at Princeton since 2004. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and the winner of the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poems, ''Columbarium." Stewart is the recipient of a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, two grants in poetry from the National Endowment in the Arts, a Pew Fellowship for the Arts and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Her baritone song cycle, "Songs for Adam," will have its premiere with the Chicago Symphony on Oct. 29. She teaches the history of poetry and aesthetics.


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DR. HOOK- Sunny side up: Wear sunscreen to prevent burning
Sunburn makes me realize how often people slap me. "Hey mate!" Slap on the singed shoulder. "Can you believe that!" Slap on the red thigh. "Give me a hug!" Slap Slap Slap on the burned back.
Remember on I Love Lucy when sunburned Lucy wore a tweed dress on the runway? She walked like domo arigato, Mr. Robato. Sunburn hurts!
About 35 percent of American adults and 80 percent of kids get sunburned every year. I know when I lived in Ohio (hardly a sunny state), I got sunburned every single year. Why? Well, we didn't wear sunscreen back then. Instead we put on suntan lotion to get that George Hamilton tan. So we'd been in the pool for eight hours, all the sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays cooked us like rotisserie chickens. Rosemary anyone?
But I burned much less easily than fair white-skinned folks with light hair. And those with darker complexions (all 12 of them in my metropolitan hometown), they burned even less than I did– if at all.
Besides those with fair skin, those who drink too much alcohol are prone to sunburn. (Talk about getting baked!) Psoralens found in citrus fruit peels can make one vulnerable to the sun, so making fresh lemonade in the sun might not be practical. (Orange you glad you know this now?) And some medicines can lead to horrible sunburn, like tetracyclines, quinolone antibiotics, diuretics, and anti-inflammatories.
The problem with most people is they don't realize when they're getting sunburned. The redness usually pops up three to five hours later, and then the pain and real redness start after 12-24 hours. So people who walk on the sunny side of the street too long feel the misery of sunburn for the next three days.
Sunscreens are hot, hot, hot on the market now. If I'm going to be out in the sun more than 30 minutes, I definitely have my sunscreen SPF 15 on. I put on waterproof sunscreen about 20-30 minutes before going out into the sun, and usually I don't need to reapply.
However, each person differs when it comes to when to put on sunscreen and the level of SPF. I have a friend who almost gets sunburned in moonlight, so even with SPF 50 sunscreen, it's Rock Lobster time for him after only five minutes.
The SPF number means the number of minutes in the sun with the sunscreen compared to one min in the sun without sunscreen. So if you tend to burn under the sun in just one minute, and SPF 15 will protect you for 15 minutes before you get toasted.
Reapplying sunscreen also depends on whether the stuff is going to sweat off or rinse off in water, how long a person is exposed to the sun, and how easily the person burns.
Sunscreens either absorb the UV rays (chemical screens) or reflect them (physical screens). I remember in my hometown how the lifeguards wore the physical sunscreen, zinc oxide, so they had a geisha nose. But with zinc, titanium, and other physical sunscreens, you can't stick you nose into other people's business, or you might stain their clothes. And they can also cause acne, though I found a good titanium screen that keeps my skin in great shape.
Chemical sunscreens, like PABA and camphor derivatives, are often found in waterproof products. But some folks are allergic to PABA and get a rash.
To soothe the pain, a few people respond to anti-inflammatories or topical anesthetics like Solarcaine. But the best thing is prevention, prevention, prevention. Some burn trash, some burn candles at both ends, and some burn bridges. But just be careful not to sunburn your skin.
Dr. Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a renowned physician with a local practice. Email him with your questions.


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Visit the Smithsonian Exhibit and its companion website.
Visit our exhibition at the Smithsonian and its companion website. In Washington, D.C. through October 14, 2012 and online.
Bartholomew Kindred was head weaver at Monticello from 1776 to 1778. He and his family may have lived at Shadwell, the probable location of the textile shop. Kindred arrived at Monticello in the midst of the American Revolution, which had caused a shortage of cloth normally imported from Britain. Kindred compensated for this scarcity by producing wool, hemp, and flax cloth for Jefferson's plantation and neighbors. Jefferson's wife, Martha, recorded the kinds of cloth Kindred produced. For the white members of Jefferson's household, Kindred wove "fine cotton for the children," and "very fine linen shirts for Mr. Jefferson." For enslaved people, Kindred made "good linen for house servants" and coarser "hemp linen" or "yarne cloth" for "out negroes," meaning field slaves or artisans. In exchange for his work, Kindred received a percentage of the profits. In 1782, Jefferson agreed that Kindred should receive "half the earnings of the shop."
Learn about the enslaved people who lived and worked on Mulberry Row, the dynamic industrial hub of the Monticello plantation.
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A morning stock-market loss became an afternoon gain as headlines suggested that Democrats and Republicans might be able to reach a default-avoiding deal.
The S&P 500 gained 0.4% to 1,710.14, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% to 15,301.26.
Of course, there still is no deal but that's neither here nor there. As long as a deal appear to be the odds on bet before a U.S. default occurs, markets are willing to look past the noise at the wider world.
And they like what they see. U.S. Trust's Joseph P. Quinlan explains:
For the first time in a long time, 1) the developed nations are pulling along the developing nations and 2) the world is on course for a synchronized expansion in 2014...
...while there remain a few dark clouds on the horizon (think instability in the Middle East, political problems in Italy, the lingering standoff in Washington and the effects of Fed tapering), the skies are starting to look a little friendlier. The global economy is gaining altitude—a perfect time for investors to put more capital to work, notably in global equities...
In...the U.S., we are overweight more cyclical sectors like energy, financials and information technology. Long term, we continue to favor large cap U.S. multinationals leveraged to the burgeoning middle classes of the developing nations. We are also very bullish on companies partaking in America's energy revolution—in particular think materials, industrials and transportation.
Miller Tabak's Andrew Wilkinson explains that U.S. stocks, which have been underperforming since the start of the fourth quarter, should continue to underperform for the rest of the year:
History tells us that the pattern played out in the first two weeks of October is likely to roll out through year end, with a good chance that US stocks will fail to match the performance of emerging markets. Technically speaking the outperformance...appears to show a clear turning point in the ratio between [the
iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
)] and a little deeper digging into the relationship formed over a decade suggests that emerging stocks might be at the start of a decent run. Fundamentally speaking, unless there really is a nasty outcome from Washington the same two arguments that hindered emerging regions earlier in the year (Fed tapering and now the debt ceiling debate) could easily spark further outperformance into year end. Finally...stock seasonality favors the EEM, which over the last nine years has delivered an average November gain of 0.98%, while its December performance averages +3.15%, the single best month of the year for EEM.
Bristow Group (BRS) rose 4.8% to $79.07 after it was upgraded to Buy at Global Hunter Securities.
Fairway Group (FWM) gained 11% to $24.47. I'm pretty sure it wasn't because it opened a market in Nanuet.
Frontline (FRO) dropped 6.7% to $2.10 one trading day after announcing it was converting some convertible bonds to equity.


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Article 3. License for Pipeline Operator, Train Operator, and Vessel Operator
Section 7470
7470. Application for pipeline operator, train operator, and vessel operator. Every person before becoming a pipeline operator or a vessel operator shall apply to the board for a license on forms prescribed by the board. In addition, every train operator that transports motor vehicle fuel, alcohol, or aircraft jet fuel into, out of, or within this state shall obtain a license from the board on forms prescribed by the board. A pipeline operator license, a train operator license, or a vessel operator license shall be issued only to a person who is a pipeline operator, a train operator, or a vessel operator as defined in Sections 7331, 7342, and 7344. It is unlawful for a person to act as a pipeline operator or a vessel operator without first securing a license. It is unlawful for a train operator to transport motor vehicle fuel, alcohol, or aircraft jet fuel into, out of, or within this state on or after January 1, 2009, without first securing a license under this section or Section 7403.1.
History.—Stats. 2008, Ch. 306 (AB 3079), in effect January 1, 2009, added the second and last sentences; and added ", a train operator license," after "A pipeline operator license", "a train operator," after "who is a pipeline operator", and ",7342," after "as defined in Sections 7331" in the third sentence.
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An Instruction Permit is $7. Driver-license fees are based on age.
An identification (ID) card is available to all ages (including infants) for a fee of $12. For people age 65 and over, or anyone receiving federal Supplemental Security Income disability payments, there is no fee. You may not possess an Arizona identification card and a valid driver license at the same time.
You must visit an MVD office or Authorized Third Party driver license provider to complete an application and have a photo taken. Begin your application online. If you need to print one, see Driver License / Identification Card Application. See Identification Requirements for a listing of acceptable proof of identification.
Please see our Motorcycle License Information page.
You may replace a lost or stolen driver license or identification card online, by phone or at any MVD or Authorized Third Party driver license office. The fee for a duplicate license is $12. A duplicate ordered online can be sent by express delivery for an additional fee.
If your license has been lost or stolen and you have reason to believe someone else is using it, the incident should be reported to your local police department as an identity theft.
See Identification Requirements for a listing of acceptable proof of identification.
Apply online by phone, or visit any MVD or authorized third-party office.
If you have a current out-of-state driver license in your possession, you will normally not have to take a written or road test. However, in some cases it may be required.
Clearance letters are no longer issued to individuals. Your state driver-licensing jurisdiction must request clearance information directly from us.
You can change your address online. You will be asked to provide your name, date of birth and driver license or identification card number. Address changes are free. There is a $12 charge if you request a replacement driver license or identification card.
When you change your address on our records, it will automatically change the address on your driver-license record and on each vehicle record in which you are designated to receive the registration.
A Motor Vehicle Record (MVR) is the computer printout of a driving or vehicle record. The manner in which driver license or motor vehicle record information may be released is regulated by the Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act (or DPPA), 18 USC 2721-2725 as adopted in Arizona law, Title 28, Chapter 2, Article 5.
The DPPA requires you to have a "permissible use" for requesting and receiving an MVD record that contains personal identifying information (e.g., a person's driver-license photo/image, Social Security number, driver-license number, name, address and medical/disability information). The Motor Vehicle Record Request form lists those permissible uses.
If eligible, you can obtain and print a copy of a record online. You may also obtain a copy by completing a Motor Vehicle Record Request and submitting $3 for an uncertified record (3-year driving record) or $5 for a certified record (5-year driving record) by mail or at any MVD or authorized third-party office. Your signature on the form must be notarized or witnessed by an MVD agent.
Any convictions received and showing on your driving record within the past 39 months will be provided to an insurance company.
The amount of points depends on the violations. Contact us for this information. Be prepared to provide your full name, date of birth and driver-license number.
A conviction stays on your record for five years from the date of conviction.
You may be required to attend a Traffic Survival School for
Purchase a Motor Vehicle Record online or contact us for this information. Be prepared to provide your full name, date of birth and driver-license number.
It depends on the violation. Purchase a Motor Vehicle Record online or contact us for this information. Be prepared to provide your full name, date of birth and driver-license number.
A suspension has a specific start and end date. When the suspension period ends, you pay the reinstatement fee and any reapplication fees to restore your driving privilege. Revocations are indefinite; there is a minimum length of time, usually one to three years, but the action does not automatically end on that date. You must go through an investigation process to determine whether it would be safe to restore your driving privilege. If approved for reinstatement, there would be reinstatement and reapplication fees.
The reinstatement process can vary, depending on the reason for the suspension. Court-ordered suspensions require a clearance from the court. Other suspensions may require an SR22. Once any required documentation is obtained, take the documents to your local driver-license facility, and pay the appropriate reinstatement and reapplication fees. A vision screening will be required, and you may be asked to take a written and/or road skills test.
For reinstatement fees, payment may be made in cash, by cashier's check or by money order. Some offices accept credit cards. Cash and credit card payments are not accepted by mail. No personal checks are accepted.
If you have met all the requirements to reinstate your license except for paying the fees, then you may be able to reinstate online.
Depending on the violation, you may be eligible for a phone hearing, or you may send the necessary reinstatement requirements by mail. Contact us to review your record and determine what action is necessary.
Provided you meet the necessary requirements, a restricted driving permit can be issued to you either by mail or in any driver license office. "Necessary requirements" would be when
Failure to maintain proper insurance could lead to the suspension of your vehicle registration, driver license or both. To reinstate these privileges, fees and future proof of financial responsibility must be filed with MVD. The future proof requirement is most commonly an SR22 from an insurance company licensed to conduct business in the state of Arizona.
You must maintain an SR22 for three years from the date of suspension, unless it is a judgment suspension. Because judgment suspension requirements can vary from case to case, contact us to review your record and determine the length of time you need to maintain the SR22 for a judgment suspension.
A judgment is generally a court order issued when someone has had an accident and was not insured. The judgment suspension is placed on the driving record in accordance with the court order.
If the license is revoked, you must submit a Revocation Investigation Packet. We will then conduct an investigation, which is a process that takes up to 30 days. If your reinstatement request is approved, you will pay the necessary reinstatement and reapplication fees, and your privileges will be restored. If your request is denied, you are eligible to request an administrative hearing. An investigation packet is not required for reinstatement of medical revocations.
The Revocation Investigation Packet is available online.
You will receive a written response within approximately 30 to 45 days from the date the packet was submitted.
Hearing requests may be submitted by any one of these methods:
You must include your first, middle and last name; date of birth; license number; mailing address; home and business phones; and case number. Upon receipt of your written request, a hearing may be scheduled, and you will be notified by mail as to the date, time and location.
A number of documented driving studies have indicated that youthful drivers could benefit from the education and experience required by a graduated driver licensing program. While the laws vary from state to state, the intent of the class G license contains three basic stages:
See the Teen Drivers page for more information.
You are required to update your photo every 12 years. At the end of 12 years, a notice will be sent to you requesting that you visit a driver license facility for a new photo and replacement driver license.
Failure to comply with this request may result in disqualification for certain driver license services, including online services, such as duplicate replacements for lost or damaged licenses.
More information on the license issuance process.
You may renew your driver license anytime before the expiration date of your current license.
You must visit an MVD office to complete an application, have a photo taken and pass a vision screening. Begin your application online. If you need to print one, see Driver License / Identification Card Application.
You will submit your current driver license as your primary identification document. If we cannot retrieve your photo, you will be asked for a secondary form of identification. See Identification Requirements for a list of acceptable proof of identification.
You cannot renew your license online.
Failure to comply with this request may result in disqualification for certain driver license services, including online services, such as duplicate replacements for lost or damaged licenses.
In addition, you will be required to pass a vision screening test. The renewed license will be valid for five years. The fee is $10.
No. There is no formal notification process.
No. You must visit a driver-license office in person to complete the application process and have a new photo taken.
No. At one time, driver licenses were issued with an expiration date on the driver's 60th birthday. Then, the law changed to extend the expiration date an additional five years to age 65. The computer records for those licenses were automatically updated to reflect the new expiration date.
If you have a license that indicates that it expires at age 60, you may continue to use the license you have. No action on your part is required. However, because it has the old expiration date, it may no longer be viewed as a valid document when you present it as a means of identification.
If you have a digital photo on file, you may obtain a duplicate license showing the new expiration date. If your Social Security number appears on your license, you may request that it be replaced by an MVD system-generated number.
If you do not have a digital photo on file, you must visit a driver-license office in person to complete the application process and have a new photo taken.
There are three ways to pay for your duplicate license:
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If you are at least 15 years and 6 months of age, you may be issued a graduated and/or a motorcycle instruction permit. You must be at least 18 for an operator permit.
With a graduated permit, you must be accompanied by a class A, B, C or D licensed driver, who is at least 21 years of age and occupies the seat beside you.
With an operator permit you must be accompanied by a class A, B, C or D licensed driver who occupies the seat beside you.
These permits are valid for 12 months.
With a motorcycle permit, you are prohibited from operating a motorcycle on freeways or interstate highways, between sunset and sunrise, or at any time when there is not enough light to see persons or vehicles clearly at a distance of 500 feet.
The motorcycle instruction permit is valid for seven months and can be renewed one time within a 24-month period. See Motorcycle License Information for more details.
You may legally drive in Arizona using a valid driver license from another country. An international driving license or permit is not required, but it is recommended because it can be printed in English and used in conjunction with the driver license from the other country. If an international driving license or permit is used alone, it must be issued by a country other than the United States. Vehicle rental companies may have additional requirements.
However, Arizona law requires that you obtain an Arizona driver license (and vehicle registration) immediately if any one of the following applies to you:
Out-of-state students enrolled with seven or more semester hours are not considered Arizona residents, regardless of employment.
Active-duty military personnel based in Arizona who qualify for exemption under the Service Members Civil Relief Act of 2003 are not considered Arizona residents.
Please see our Statistics page for vehicle or driver statistical data.
Most delinquent court financial obligations can be paid online or by phone at 866.859.2527. When paying online, you will need the court case number or the notice number (located on the collection notice). Case number information can be obtained online or by calling 602.452.3494 (outside the Phoenix metro area, call 877.546.7404). When paying by phone, you will need the collections notice number. If your case is not delinquent and submitted to collections, or does not appear on the payment website, please contact the court for other payment options, further instructions or both.
If you received a notice from us stating you cannot renew your vehicle registration due to nonpayment of court fines, fees or penalties for civil or criminal traffic/boating violations or failure to appear in a criminal traffic/boating case, payment can be made in person at the court, online or by phone at 866.859.2527. You will receive a confirmation number with a link to ServiceArizona after making a payment. If all outstanding court financial obligations are paid in full, you or any co-owners can complete your vehicle registrations that are due. If a court appearance is required, you must appear in court before you and any co-owners will be able to register these vehicles.
Only court financial obligations approved for online payment are displayed online. You may have other outstanding obligations with Arizona courts.
If your driving privilege has been suspended, you will need to reinstate your license before you can operate any motor vehicle on the public roads of this state. If you have met all requirements to reinstate your driving privilege except for paying the fees, then you may be able to reinstate online.
Note: We cannot accept payment for any delinquent fines or penalties owed to the courts. Payment must be made directly to the courts or as indicated above. Questions should be directed to the courts.
Yes. Please see our Driver License Practice Tests page.
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pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip,
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And for the installation:
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With pigz, if you don't have many things running on your multi processor machine then you will see a significant improvement when you are gzipping the files.
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Oh, yes, people. The 4-year long wait is almost at an end, so it's only fitting we mark the occasion with a tipping competition to determine which CWer best knows his (or her) association football.
The scoring system is slightly more complex than the the one I used for the Premier League comp, but only slightly:
- For each game you predict an actual score; eg: South Africa 2 Mexico 2.
- For a correct prediction of a win you score 1 point; eg: you tip SA 1 Mex 0 and SA win 3-0.
- For a correct prediction of a draw you score 2 points; eg: you tip SA 0 Mex 0 and it's a 1-1 draw.
- For a correct prediction of a margin of victory you also score 2 points; eg: you tip SA 1 Mex 0 & the result is SA 2 Mex 1. NB: you will not also receive a point for predicting the win.
- For a correct prediction of the actual scoreline you receive 3 points; eg: you tip SA 0 Mex 2 and it comes to pass. NB: you will not also receive a point for the win or two points if the result is a draw.
- For all incorrect predictions you will score -1; eg: you tip SA 2 Mex 0 and the actual result is a 1-1 draw.
- The highest points scorer(s) on each day with games played on will receive a daily bonus of .01, to be used for tie-breaking purposes.
- Non-tippers will receive the day's lowest score for 3 days, then be removed from the comp.
- Late comers can join on the lowest actual score minus one point.
Piece of piss for people of your abilities, I'm sure you'll agree.
Friday 11 June
South Africa v Mexico
France v Uruguay
Saturday 12 June
Greece v South Korea
Argentina v Nigeria
England v USA
Sunday 13 June
Algeria v Slovenia
Ghana v Serbia
Australia v Germany
Monday 14 June
Denmark v Netherlands
Cameroon v Japan
Italy v Paraguay
Tuesday 15 June
New Zealand v Slovakia
Ivory Coast v Portugal
Brazil v North Korea
Wednesday 16 June
Chile v Honduras
Spain v Switzerland
South Africa v Uruguay
Thursday 17 June
Argentina v South Korea
Greece v Nigeria
France v Mexico
Just C&P the fixture list with your scores included. You can tip the lot in one go or do it on an day by day basis. Simple as. Don't be shy, get involved, once every four years, no-one likes a jibber, etc.
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Girls+Cheap drinks+Fun times =scientific equation for fun.
We need a list of the lists Columbus keeps popping up on. Then, we need to add "best college bar" to the list list-centered accolades our fair city has received.
According to universityprimetime.com, Columbus' own Ugly Tuna Saloona (1546 N. High St.) is the 14th best college bar in the United States.
Girls having fun times at Ugly Tuna Saloona karaoke night! Columbus Alive archive photo.
In the highly scientific study (based on the equation Girls+ Cheap drinks+ Fun times= best bar) the South Campus Gateway stalwart/ OSU student hot-spot earned high marks in the "girls" and "cheap drinks" categories.
Kilroy's (an Indiana University hang-out) took the top spot.
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The Bakers Miracle
The recent celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz sparked memories not only of those who died but those who were miraculously saved.
In the European city of Goborova the Nazis were intent on killing all of its Jewish inhabitants by crowding them all into the local synagogue made of wood and setting fire to it. The soldiers surrounded the building and issued a warning that anyone caught outside of it would be shot on the spot.
Among the Jews in the building was Yoel the Baker who had managed to bake some chalot for Shabbat before the Nazi roundup began. He was determined to bring those chalot from his bakery in order to offer his condemned brothers the bread they needed for their last Shabbat meal. Ignoring the danger to his life, he jumped out of the synagogue and soon returned with a bag of chalot and an invitation for all to wash and enjoy a Shabbat meal.
Then came the miracle. From out of nowhere came a Nazi officer and ordered the guards surrounding the synagogue to leave the area for an important combat mission. He even refused to allow them to spend a few minutes to set the synagogue on fire.
The self-sacrifice of Yoel the Baker for the sake of Shabbat was seen by all as the merit that brought about this miracle.


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Jumpoff Lookout Snow Run
January 9th, 2010
On Saturday January 9th, 2010 we up to FS1302 to see if we could make it to Jumpoff Lookout.
Waycrazy was the trail boss on this run. I rode as his co-pilot.
Here are some pictures of the day.
Insanity Fab crew.
Waycrazy's shock mount broke.
Some of the guys on the run.
A fun open hill side.
Waycrazy lost a motor mount, a tranny mount and the fan ate the radiator when he raced Superglock up the hill.
With help from Punisher and a few others, Waycrazy was able to drive the rig again.
The Insanity Fab crew escorted Waycrazy back home and the rest of the group headed on up with Colemancooler taking the trail boss position.
I hitched a ride with Nevada in he Toyota.
Mount Rainier from FS1302.
We made our way though an off camber are and regrouped at Jumpoff Lookout.
Mount Rainier and clouds over the Rimrock lake area from Jumpoff Lookout.
Divide Ridge.
Looking back at the ridge we made our way up.
Bethel Ridge across the way.
My ride back down.
Superglock got stuck and Colemancooler pulled him out.
The off camber area.
The Shindig Wheelers making sure we made it though the off camber area.
We all made it back out by dark.
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While the decline won't be large, prices for gasoline and diesel are expected to be lower this summer than in 2013, says Sean Hill, industry economist, U.S. Energy Information Administration.
"Last summer, we had a Midwest average gasoline price of about $3.60 per gallon," Hill tells AgriTalk radio. "This summer, we forecast that price to average out to $3.55 per gallon. It's a little bit lower this summer, and again maybe that's going to come down from a peak in the next week or two, or maybe over the next month, when prices typically reach their peak and slowly start to fall or at least stay relatively level."
Meanwhile, diesel buyers across the U.S. will also enjoy a bit of a break at the pump from the $3.92 diesel retail price average experienced in 2013.
"In our latest forecast, we're expecting that to fall to about $3.85 per gallon," Hill explains. "Most of that drop typically happens over the next few months."
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