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The ability to drive offers individuals with disabilities the opportunity to lead more independent lives. Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation provides a comprehensive Driver Rehabilitation Program for clients who need to develop or improve their current driving capacities.
This unique program includes a multidisciplinary evaluation and training to individuals with physical, cognitive and/or vision impairments resulting from traumatic injury, illness or aging.
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Kessler's team of certified Driver Rehabilitation Specialists help individuals gain the skills and strategies necessary to be on the road safely. Both new and experienced drivers may benefit from this program, which focuses on the various mobility issues involved in returning to driving.
A prescription from a referring physician is required.
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Clients in Kessler's Driver Rehabilitation Program undergo an extensive evaluation of current skills and abilities.
- Pre-Driver Evaluation (PDE): This portion of the evaluation is conducted in a clinical setting. The evaluation includes an assessment of physical abilities, vision, reaction time and perceptual-cognitive capacities. Clients must pass the vision acuity element in order to progress to the Behind-the-Wheel evaluation.
- Behind-the-Wheel Evaluation (BTW): This assessment is performed in a Kessler Institute vehicle that is adapted/modified to meet any special requirements. Clients will drive in a variety of different traffic patterns according to their capabilities. Vehicles, both sedans and vans are outfitted with primary control adaptations for those who require such devices.
Clients must posses a valid driver's license or permit from any state to be eligible for Behind-the Wheel evaluation. Our staff can assist in obtaining the necessary permit.
The evaluation will include recommendations for further training, vehicle modification and/or a referral to the Division of Motor Vehicles.
Driver Training
Training is provided in Kessler vehicles, except under highly unusual circumstances where the client's own adapted/modified vehicle is used. Sessions, which are conducted both on Kessler grounds and within the community are tailored to meet the client's needs and are scheduled accordingly. The number of lesions required varies, based on the individual's level of ability and progress.
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When appropriate, referrals will be made for vision rehabilitation, wheelchair seating/positioning, cognitive rehabilitation, and physical, occupational or speech therapy to improve driving skills and optimize success in the Driver Rehabilitation Program.
Vehicle Modification
Kessler's Certified Driving Specialists will explore any necessary modifications and/or adaptations that will need to be made to a client's own car or van with the individual and his/her family. In addition, our staff will discuss vehicle options and the processes involved, as well as offer information on mobility equipment dealers. Prescriptions are generated for those requiring transport only.
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Upon successful completion of the training program, clients may be required to take a state road test to secure a license. Kessler's Driver Rehabilitation Specialists can assist in the process by accompanying individuals on the day of the test and providing use of a Kessler vehicle, if necessary
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Spring is coming, and a young man's thoughts lightly turn to seeing old movies that have been rejigged for 3-D.
In which case the young man - and the young woman - are in luck: both Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace and Titanic are being re-released in three dimensions over the next few months, creating a rare chance to see stereoscopic versions of Jar-Jar Binks and The King of the World within weeks of one another.
The 3-D conversions come on the heels of Disney's re-release of Beauty and the Beast and join a half dozen other films that require special glasses, not to mention a few extra dollars. The 3-D trend is expanding into the cold-weather months, and so are the kinds of films - expensive epics, kid-friendly animations - that are usually associated with summer or Oscar time. (The original Titanic came out in December, just in time for the Christmas rush, and Phantom Menace was a May release, on the cusp of the blockbusters.)
The biggest news of spring has nothing to do with 3-D, though. It's the highly anticipated film version of The Hunger Games, the post-apocalyptic young-adult novel that caused a pre-apocalyptic young-adult sensation and is the surest bet of the season. Less of a guarantee is the most expensive release, John Carter, Disney's $250-million gamble on a series of books by Edgar Rice Burroughs (who had a pretty good go with the Tarzan franchise) about an Earthling on Mars. It's a gamble that raises the questions: Can Taylor Kitsch carry a film? Can director Andrew Stanton replicate the success of Wall-E and Finding Nemo in live-action sci-fi? Is the world still up for an Edgar Rice Burroughs story?
Coincidentally, Nemo is heading for its own 3-D conversion later this year. As Jar-Jar himself said, "Whena yousa thinking we are in trouble?"
Feb. 3
Albert Nobbs: Glenn Close puts on a suit and tie for this film - which sounds like a sort of Irish Yentl - about a 19th-century woman who posed as a man so she could get a job as a waiter. Close also co-wrote the screenplay and the lyrics for the film's theme song, Lay Your Head Down. (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver; will expand)
The Woman in Black: Daniel Radcliffe, having finally graduated from Hogwarts, makes his post-Harry Potter debut in this horror film remake about a lawyer who discovers the angry ghost of a wronged woman is terrorizing a village. Good thing he studied spells.
Also opening: Big Miracle, Chronicle, Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Vancouver only, expands March 2 to Toronto), Pink Ribbons Inc., Surviving Progress, W.E. (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver; will expand)
Feb. 10
We Need to Talk About Kevin: Tilda Swinton grieves persuasively as a mother who is devastated when her son - a sort of horror-film monster with surface charm who fools everyone but her - massacres his schoolmates. (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver; will expand)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island: In this 3-D sequel to Journey to the Center of the Earth, Dwayne Johnson leads an expedition to find missing explorer Michael Caine on a, well, mysterious island. Key scene in the trailer: Johnson pops a berry off his chest muscles and it flies right into the audience's laps.
Star Wars: Episode 1 The Phantom Menace (3-D): Jar-Jar Binks flies right into the audience's laps.
Also opening: Safe House, Snow (Toronto and Halifax only), The Vow.
Feb. 17:
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance: Nicolas Cage is back as Johnny Blaze, the motorcycle rider who became the devil's bounty hunter and now must protect a young boy from Satan's clutches. Oh yes: it's in 3-D.
Also opening: In Darkness, The Secret World of Arrietty, This Means War.
Feb. 24
Act of Valor: In this mix of fiction and reality, real-life Navy SEALS - with their real-life techniques and equipment - re-enact the rescue of a captured CIA operative and foil and terrorist plot.
Wanderlust: Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are together again for this film from the Judd Apatow factory of transgressive comedy about a Manhattan couple that moves to a free-love commune. How transgressive? Aniston apparently appears topless.
Also opening: Flowers of War, Gone, Goon, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Tyler Perry's Good Deeds,
February TBD
Keyhole: Guy Maddin's latest cinematic adventure stars Jason Patric as Ulysses Pick, a man who takes an odyssey through his own house.
Also in February: Doppelganger Paul (Toronto only).
March 2
Dr. Seuss' The Lorax: Zac Efron, Taylor Swift, Danny DeVito and Betty White headline the voice actors in this animated story of the grumpy creature trying to protect his beloved trees. It was made by the directors of the ingenious Despicable Me (who are now working on Despicable Me 2, by the way). And yes: 3-D.
Also opening: Project X
March 9
John Carter: Canadian Taylor Kitsch stars in this large, expensive adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs story of a Civil War veteran who goes to Mars and must rescue a woman from the 12-foot creatures who live there.
Also opening: Being Elmo, Fightville, Friends with Kids, The Raven, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal; expands March 16 to Calgary, Edmonton, Ottawa), Think Like a Man.
March 16
21 Jump Street: Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum star in this adaptation of the TV show - which starred a kid named Depp - about two cops who are sent back to high school to find a drug gang.
Mirror, Mirror: In this version of Snow White, Julia Roberts - who, once upon a time, would have played the heroine - has matured into the role of the evil queen, with Armie Hammer as the handsome prince. Yes: 3-D.
Jeff, Who Lives At Home: Jason Segel stars in this small offbeat comedy about a slacker who is forced out of his mother's basement on an errand that changes his life and that of his brother (Ed Helms). (Limited release; will expand.)
Also opening: The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye (Toronto only), Butter, The Bully Project, Payback.
March 23
The Hunger Games: Jennifer Lawrence - who exploded onto the scene in her Oscar-nominated turn in the gritty little Winter's Bone - won the talent hunt to star as Katniss Everdeen in the film version of Suzanne Collins' novel about a future world where people fight to the death on television. It doesn't sound like much of a stretch from reality TV. Whena yousa thinking we are in trouble?
Also opening: Footnote
March 30
The Pirates! Band of Misfits, 3-D: Hugh Grant provides the voice of a pirate captain in this animated comedy about buccaneers competing for the "pirate of the year" award. It's three-dimensional.
Wrath of the Titans: In this sequel laden with Greek mythology, not to mention three dimensions, Perseus (Sam Worthington) must rescue Zeus (Liam Neeson) from the underworld.
Also opening: The Forgiveness of Blood, Won't Back Down.
March TBD
Gerhard Richter Painting, Flamenco, Flamenco, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.
April 4
The Three Stooges: The life of three nyuck-nyuck-nyuckleheads from the time they are left on the orphanage steps until their fame in a reality-TV show. The Farrelly Brothers are responsible.
April 6
The Moth Diaries: In Mary Harron's horror film, a girl at a boarding school suspects her roommate is a vampire. (Limited)
Titanic 3-D: Finally, Leonardo DiCaprio right in the audience's laps.
Also opening: American Reunion, Boy, The Cold Light of Day, The Lady.
April 13
The Deep Blue Sea: Terence Davies directs this version of the Terence Rattigan play about the affair between a Royal Air Force pilot and a judge's wife. Rachel Weisz stars.
Also opening: Alps (Toronto only), Bullet to the Head.
April 20
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: In this twist on the end-of-the-world movie - the romantic comedy at apocalypse - Keira Knightley and Steve Carell co-star as two people taking a last-minute road trip as an asteroid nears Earth.
A Thousand Words: In Eddie Murphy's comeback as a leading man - although it been sitting around since it was filmed in 2008 - he plays a lying literary agent who discovers he can speak only 1,000 more words before he dies. Eddie Murphy? Should take him about 10 minutes.
Also opening: Chimpanzee, Damsels in Distress, The Lucky One.
April 27
The Five-Year Engagement: Another comedy from the Judd Apatow gang, this one with Jason Segel and Emily Blunt as a couple who can't quite get married.
Also opening: Headhunters, The Lady, Safe, The Salt of Life.
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Say goodbye to plentiful, affordable shrimp
Last week the national fast food chain Tenya, which specializes in tempura dishes, announced that it was discontinuing two of its most popular menu items effective Oct. 20: jotendon (¥580) and ebiten soba or udon (¥790). Both dishes feature prawns deep fried in batter — the former offers two big prawns on top of a bowl of rice, and the latter one big prawn in a bowl of either soba or udon noodles. The reason for the move is the skyrocketing price of shrimp. As a concession, Tenya will continue serving tendon (¥500), which only features one fried prawn on a bowl of rice, and introduce ebi oika tendon (¥590) — one prawn and one slab of squid on rice.
Tenya's parent company, Royal Holdings, said in a statement that the Southeast Asian shrimp farms from which it buys its prawns have been hit with a disease called early mortality syndrome (EMS) that has decimated stocks, the result being that prices have doubled. The EMS plague affects shrimp prices all over the world, especially in the U.S., which consumes more shrimp than any other country. Since most shrimp farms are, almost by definition, ecologically destructive, the spread of disease is hardly surprising, and it isn't certain if the industry will be able to recover.
That's a serious problem for Japan, where shrimp, or ebi, has a special place in the national cuisine. Before the 1980s, tendon using prawns was considered an extravagant dish for the average Japanese person, and it remains one of the most popular meals to this day, beloved by all classes of people. Tendon is by far the most popular item on Tenya's menu, with the now discontinued jotendon in fourth place, according to a recent report on TV Asahi. Moreover, the kaiten sushi (conveyor belt sushi) chain Sushiro has also announced that it will be suspending sales of many dishes that use shrimp due to the "worldwide shortage." Family restaurants and convenience stores will also cut back on the number of products they sell that feature ebi.
The shortage has given rise to rumors that some Japanese restaurants and food makers have been using crayfish (zarigani) as a substitute for shrimp without telling customers. There are sushi restaurants in the U.S. that serve crayfish openly, but most Japanese people find the fresh water crustacean unappetizing. The American species of crayfish was brought to Japan by the U.S. military during the postwar occupation as a protein supplement, and now can be commonly found in rivers and streams. Japanese tend to be streotyped as able to eat almost anything but they've never taken to crayfish, which in the U.S. is normally eaten in the South.
It's the kind of rumor that some restaurants would take seriously. Coincidentally or not, the Hankyu Hanshin Hotel group recently announced that it would provide refunds to anyone who purchased any of 47 dishes in its restaurants between 2006 and February of this year.
Apparently, the ingredients in these dishes weren't as expensive as the restaurants claimed they were. Among the mislabeled dishes was shiba ebi, a high quality breed of domestic shrimp that costs ¥2,500 per kg wholesale. The restaurants were actually using a much cheaper breed, which only costs ¥1,400 per kg. The hotel group calculates that 78,775 people purchased these dishes during the time period cited. It has put aside ¥110 million for refunds, which begs the question: Do all those people still have their receipts?


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Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument [1] is a United States National Monument in southwest Washington State that was the site of a massive volcanic eruption on May 18, 1980. It can be visited as a longish day trip from Seattle or Portland, or more conveniently as a side-trip while traveling between the two cities.
On March 20, 1980, Mount St. Helens awakened from over 100 years of dormancy with a magnitude 4.1 earthquake which began a series of events leading to eruption. Steam and ash eruption started on March 27, and over the next two months the north side of the mountain started bulging at the rate of about 5 to 6 feet a day.
Then on May 18, 1980, at 8:32 a.m., a magnitude 5.1 earthquake caused the bulging north face to collapse in one of the largest landslides in recorded history. The highly pressurized magma burst forth in an explosive eruption, sending super-heated volcanic gas and ash across a large portion of the United States, destroying hundreds of square miles of forest, and killing 57 people in what was the most destructive volcanic eruption in the United States.
Today, over a quarter century later, life is starting to return to the barren landscape surrounding the mountain. However, as the recent steam eruptions starting in October 2004 have illustrated, the danger of another catastrophic eruption is ever present. Visiting Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument is to simultaneously witness the result of catastrophic destruction and see the result of rebirth.
Mount St. Helens is a typical "stratovolcano," the volcanic form most familiar from photographs of their typically conical profiles. The great 1980 eruption destroyed most of the volcanic cone, leaving a huge amphitheater on the north side that is well seen from the Johnston Ridge observatory/visitor center. Current (2004-5) volcanic activity is building a new lava dome within this amphitheater, visible from the "VolcanoCam" at the observatory but not yet large enough to replace the destroyed cone.
St. Helens is still glaciated to some extent, despite its reduced altitude. One unexpected and remarkable bit of landscape on the mountain is the astonishing Loowit Falls, a waterfall that emerges directly from the amphitheater bearing meltwater from a glacier within the crater. This falls can be seen (use binoculars) from the observatory, but to get the best feeling for the incongruity of the falls -- it seems to emerge as though from the surface of the moon -- requires a hike on a trail that is closed as of 2005 owing to the volcanic activity.
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There are a lot of flying ants near Mt.St.Helens.BEWARE!
Most viewpoints on the Monument's north, east, and south sides can be reached from Memorial Day until snow closes the roads, usually in late October. Trails are generally open from June through October, although some lower elevation trails can be hiked all year. The Mount St. Helens Visitor Center (Highway 504 milepost 5) now operated by Washington State Parks is open during the winter, except winter holidays.
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Warning: As of August 2017, there are no gas/petrol stations past Toutle, about 10 miles from I-5 on Hwy 504. A Shell station in the Kid Valley (8 mi. east of Toutle) is closed as of August 2017, and a sign in Toutle warns that no further gas stations are available. The round trip distance to the end of the highway (Johnston Ridge) from Toutle is 84 mi (135 km). Cheaper gas is available at Castle Rock as you exit the I-5 freeway.
The most popular tourist route into the Mount St. Helens area is via Washington state route 504. It can be reached at Castle Rock (exit #49) off Interstate 5 in Washington, about one hour and 15 minutes north of Portland and two hours south of Seattle. If going north on the return route (Seattle/Tacoma), State Route 505 can be used as a short cut back to I-5 (turn right a few miles east of Toutle). This is not recommended for the initial trip up the mountain, as it bypasses the main visitor center near Castle Rock.
From the east, there are three main routes. If using GPS or computer routing, be sure it doesn't send you on unpaved, one-lane forest service roads unless that's what you want. From Spokane, all three take roughly the same amount of time.
There are NO public bus services to Mt St Helens. Closest is the Lewis Highway Mountain Transit (Tel: 360-496-5405) [2] which goes along US-12 between Centralia/Chehalis and Packwood (Senior Center), thrice daily.
Monument passes are sold for single-day admission to the visitor centers along Washington 504.
Golden Passports are honored at Mount St. Helens.
Golden Passports are available only to U.S. citizens or permanent residents online at http://www.natlforests.org, or at any U.S. Forest Service or National Park Service office.
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Along Washington 504 are three visitor centers operated by Cowlitz County, the State of Washington, and the U.S. federal government. (Mount St. Helens and Spirit Lake are actually in Skamania County, but all the land near the mountain is federally owned.) A fourth center at Coldwater Ridge is semi-permanently closed now, and may be sold. The centers include video presentations, exhibits, and information desks:
In addition, there are also numerous viewpoints and turnoffs for taking photos along the highway.
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As of 13 July 2006, the summit of St. Helens has been re-opened for climbing on a reservation/permit basis.
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There is a food truck offering drinks, hot dogs and hamburgers at Johnson's Ridge Observatory. There are also options available outside of the park in the town of Toutle.
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Water is available within the park. If getting water out of the rivers, streams or wells, be sure to filter & boil. Better to be safe than sorry!
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There are no hotels located within the park, but the town of Toutle, located to the west of the park, offers numerous options.
Camping near I-5 exits to Mount St. Helens along Route 504 is available at Seaquest State Park or south of Hwy 12 at Lewis & Clark State Park. There are also National Forest Service campsites south of Randle (NE of MSH access forest road 99) and along the Lewis River east of Cougar.--18.104.22.168 13:54, 14 January 2014 (EST)
Stay safe[edit]
Volcano safety is, to put it mildly, a controversial subject; see the article on Volcanoes (and, particularly, its discussion page) for some of the issues. Compared to many other active volcanoes, Mount St. Helens has been studied extensively, and therefore has a relatively well-defined "safety envelope" that allows informed decision making as regards trail closures, etc. Even St. Helens, however, is prone to bouts of unexpectedly violent behavior, as for example on 8 March 2005 when an explosive event sent ash and steam to elevations above 35,000 feet (10 km) essentially without warning. The monument, therefore, has established a policy regarding road and trail closures that at first glance appears unnecessarily conservative -- but it is not. Believe it. The closures aren't there simply to inconvenience and irritate you. If a trail is closed due to eruptive hazard, stay off the trail.
Other than the volcanic activity, St. Helens poses basically the usual set of hazards associated with mountainous country -- changeable weather, potential for road closures due to snow in the winter, etc. One extra thing to be aware of is that much of the area on the north side of the mountain, particularly the northeast, does not yet have many travel services, even things as basic as gas stations. When leaving the main roads to head for the observatory, or particularly the Windy Ridge viewpoint and trailhead, it's wise to have a full gas tank.
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PENDLETON, Ore. – A 17-year-old boy from Vancouver says he thought he was going to die when the tour bus he was travelling on crashed in northeastern Oregon, killing nine people and injuring dozens of others.
Speaking through a translator, the boy and his 16-year-old friend who moved to Vancouver from South Korea two years ago recounted details of the crash to The East Oregonian and The Oregonian newspapers.
The boys, who declined to give their names, said they were seated near the rear of the bus Sunday morning when it swerved a few times, hit a highway guardrail and flipped.
They also described breaking glass and seeing passengers pinned by their seats as the bus slid down a hill. Both said that they feared for their lives.
Police said the tour bus was owned by a Vancouver company called Mi Joo Tour & Travel and had been headed to Vancouver from Las Vegas with 40 people on board.
But on Monday morning, Larry Blanc, a spokesman for St. Anthony Hospital in nearby Pendleton, Ore., said it appears that 46 people were on the bus when the accident occurred.
One of the passengers has told The Oregonian that the bus was carrying mostly exchange students from South Korea.
RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen said Oregon police have asked the Mounties to help notify relatives of the crash victims in the Vancouver area.
"Oregon state police has requested our assistance in regards to that tragic crash in their jurisdiction and requested that we assist in some of the next of kin notifications that may need to be done here in the Lower Mainland or even outside the Lower Mainland," said Thiessen in an interview.
"So as we do them, those notifications, we will be supporting those families that are affected and will be providing information back to the Oregon State Police in regards to those next of kin notifications."
Thiessen declined to answer questions about the nationalities of the victims.
Oregon State Police said the bus lost control at 10:30 a.m. Sunday on snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon, crashed through a guardrail and plunged about 30 metres down a steep embankment.
I-84 is a major east-west highway through Oregon that follows the Columbia River Gorge.
The bus landed upright at the bottom of the snowy slope, with little or no debris visible around the crash site.
More than a dozen rescue workers descended the hill and used ropes to help retrieve people from the wreckage in freezing weather. The bus driver was among the survivors, but had not yet spoken to police because of the severity of the injuries the driver had suffered.
St. Anthony Hospital in Pendleton treated 26 people from the accident, said Blanc. Five of those treated at St. Anthony were transported to other facilities.
Blanc told the Oregonian the hospital brought in additional staff to handle the rush of patients and did a lot of X-ray imaging.
Blanc said Monday that 14 of those aboard remain at St. Anthony, one in serious condition, and that seven were discharged Sunday and are in the care of the Red Cross.
Blanc said 16 people were sent to other hospitals in the region, including the Oregon Health & Science University hospital in Portland.
The East Oregonian reported that the teens, one of whom injured a knee and the other who suffered a broken collarbone, were staying at a hotel arranged by the Red Cross.
Lt. Greg Hastings said the bus crashed along the west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called Deadman Pass. The area is so dangerous the state transportation department published specific warnings for truck drivers, advising it had "some of the most changeable and severe weather conditions in the Northwest" and can lead to slick conditions and poor visibility.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Monday it would look into the conditions on Interstate 84 and the guardrail the tour bus crashed through Sunday morning. It also will examine the operations of the Vancouver bus carrier.
The agency said the 1998-model bus rolled at least once when it wrecked on a long descent known for dangerous winter driving conditions.
A bus safety website run by the U.S. Department of Transportation said Mi Joo Tour & Travel has six buses, none of which has been involved in any accidents in at least the past two years.
The bus crash was the second fatal accident on the same highway in Oregon on Sunday. A 69-year-old man died in a rollover accident about 50 kilometres west of the area where the bus crashed.
A spokesman for the American Bus Association said buses carry more than 700 million passengers a year in the United States.
"The industry as a whole is a very safe industry," said Dan Ronan of the Washington, D.C.-based group. "There are only a handful of accidents every year. Comparatively speaking, we're the safest form of surface transportation."
The bus crash comes more than two months after a chartered tour bus veered off a highway in northern Arizona, killing the driver and injuring dozens of passengers who were mostly tourists from Asia and Europe. Authorities say the driver likely had a medical episode.
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Wicket has slowed down and first session tomorrow will be crucial, says Pragyan Ojha
"I am pretty pleased by taking a five-for against England in the first innings. They are a top side and are no 2 ranked in the world. But this is a long series and a lot of work needs to be done," Pragyan Ojha said.
Having starred with a five-wicket haul, India's left-arm spinner Pragyan Ojha said that the first session of play on Sunday would be crucial to the outcome of the first cricket Test against England.
"The first session would be crucial. It will set the tone for the rest of the game. We need to get quick wickets," said the 25-year-old, who bagged five for 45 to bowl out England for 191 in the first innings, prompting India to follow-on.
Thanks to Ojha and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin's three for 80, India took a huge 330-run first-innings lead.
However, England, following on, fought back strongly by making 111 without losing a wicket in the second essay.
Alastair Cook led the way with an unbeaten 74, though the tourists are still 219 runs behind.
Ojha, who is playing in his 17th Test, said he was pretty pleased to take a five-for -- his fourth in this format --against a top team like England.
"I am pretty pleased by taking a five-for against England in the first innings. They are a top side and are no 2 ranked in the world. But this is a long series and a lot of work needs to be done," he said.
Ojha said the wicket had slowed down a bit and also lacked the bite it had on the first two days.
"The wicket has slowed down and the bite that was there is missing. As I said the first session tomorrow is crucial," Ojha reiterated.
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"KP is a very good batsman and has scored lot of runs. I am happy to get him out. The key was to bowl in the right areas and allow the wicket to do the rest," Ojha remarked.


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There are many approaches to the understanding of creativity, and one of such interpretations is the book by Kurdish doctor and writer Showan Khurshid entitled, Knowledge Processing Creativity and Politics. His explanation of the concept of creativity deviates somewhat from the traditional and revolutionary school of thought, to something that is quite 'evolutionary' and philosophical, banking mostly on idea of human morality.
According to Dr Khurshid, fundamental changes in society are actively linked with people's perceptions of morality, as opposed to the usual Marx inspired thinking, relating such advances and changes to class stuggle and differences in economic status and background.
His book Knowledge Processing Creativity and Politics, places a question mark on the rather conventional way we treat and deal with differences in ideologies philosophies and religions. Dr Khurshid adopts the thinking which maintains that the morality approach can be applied to all aspects and strains of human life. The main question he seeks to answer is, how is it possible to have political order and peace in society.
Knowledge Processing Creativity and Politics, stresses that man's most important and vital characteristic to survive in this world, is his creative faculties. That is the ability to obtain, pass on and apply the knowledge he has learned, based on his physical makeup or biology, and his mental abilities or psychology and experiences.
Creativity to him is a prerequisite for morality, and the best form of morality is what would help our creativity grow best. People should agree on their perceptions and definitions of morality, in order to resolve conflicts, obtain peace, give rise to political power, and eventually achieve peace and order.
We might well ask how this agreement is possible, in a world with varying interests, orientations and tastes. When we really think about it, a lot of liberal ideologies and democracies have fallen into conflict because of moral disagreements. In many cases the manner in which societies groups and concepts evolve, are also based on such disagreements.
This is not to imply that because the presence of these disagreements is common to all societies, they all ended up in the same vein. As a result of the variations in history and background, they have been transformed into different societies, with different, sometimes even opposing political thrusts and histories.
Knowledge Processing Creativity and Politics, tackles the above issue in much greater length, and it will take more than just this article to summarize all the ideas Dr Khurshid has suggested. One thing is clear however, that creativity is a powerful force in all of life's movements and shifts, and that creativity is among the factors that greatly influence and effect change.
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I was helping a friend with setting up her iMac computer yesterday for genealogy and she said something that caught my attention. She said, "I have to learn what all the genealogy terms mean." That brought home a common problem with all specializations; learning the jargon.
Jargon is a really a technical term I became acquainted with during my graduate studies in Linguistics at the University of Utah. It is defined as special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand. The main problem with jargon is that we often do not even know we are using it.
Take for example, the word "genealogy" itself, as in "I am doing my genealogy" or "I am working on my genealogy." What does that statement communicate to a non-genealogist? And sometimes we wonder why we get blank stares. The challenge is that there is really no way to avoid jargon. It is present in every (I mean every) activity and profession and interest in the entire world from skydiving to sewing. Every human activity has its own special set of insider terms.
Jargon can be very exclusionary. If you are the outsider, trying to understand what the "insiders" are talking about can be a formidable challenge. An extreme type of jargon is called an argot. Sometimes the word argot is associated with criminal activities so using the word jargon is more appropriate. Usually term "argot" is used to identify an extreme jargon specifically designed to exclude outsiders. What is more difficult is that the people who are using the jargon are usually not even aware that they are using specialized words and terminology.
I have noticed that many people who are new to genealogy are put off immediately by genealogists using terms they don't immediately understand. For example, they are asked if they have a pedigree chart or family group record. Although these terms seem so simple and fundamental, they are in fact very specialized uses of common words. If you add in the jargon associated with computers and computer use, coming into the world of genealogy can be formidable.
By the way, it often doesn't help to try to explain or define our "jargon" terms because we end up using even more jargon to define the terms. I suggest that when you are talking to non-genealogists, you think carefully about the terms you are using and ask frequent questions to see if those you are speaking to understand what you are saying.
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Understanding the Jargon of Genealogy
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Better words for Pedigree Chart, in my opinion, is an Ancestor Chart which is their road map to their direct line ancestor. This is the way I do it to a class of beginners.ReplyDelete
I would suggest jargon really began in genealogy or family history with the advent of computer use.ReplyDelete
Pedigree is certainly not jargon as any farming community (as most early communities were in the UK and USA)would recognise and understand the term.
Perhaps those from more industrial communities may have lost the understanding of the term but that does not make it jargon.
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She knew what she was talking about: Raised in the Victorian era, her father kept her out of school, believing that privilege should be reserved for boys. She became an intellectual and writer despite that--and in these lectures, "Woolf is speaking to women who have the opportunity to learn in a formal, communal setting....[she] lets her audience know the importance of their education at the same time warning them of the precariousness of their position in society."
Writing recently in The Guardian, Mary Beard looked at the missing place of women in the history of great oratory--echoing themes Woolf struck about writers in A Room of One's Own, but about public speaking. And she used these very lectures of Woolf's to suggest that the circumstances would have made for a very poor speech, indeed. From the article:
In fact, when a few years ago the Guardian published its own collection of great oratory of the 20th century, it obviously had a problem with the female examples. In addition to Thatcher, the collection ended up including speeches by Emmeline Pankhurst and Virginia Woolf – both of which survive only in written form (and in Woolf's case in the heavily edited version published as "A Room of One's Own"). We have no clear idea how either of these would have come across when they were originally delivered...My hunch is that Woolf's speech – given in 1928 in the acoustically dreadful setting of Newnham College's hall (it's hard to make yourself heard today even with a microphone) – would have sounded quirky and tremulous, and probably scarcely audible to any but the very front rows, no matter what a tremendous classic of feminism the written version has rightly become. I suspect that the same would also be true for Elizabeth I's speech to the troops at Tilbury.You can hear Woolf's voice on the rare BBC recording in the video below. Unlike Beard, I think her voice is strong, and you can hear how she uses vocal variety to emphasize particular words.
On Craftsmanship: The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice by brainpicker
Now, to the speeches. Despite being edited into a short but inspiring book, they retain the feel of a speech because of the devices Woolf used to bring her topic into focus. Here's what I notice about them as speeches:
- She turns the artifice of the speech inside-out to frame her points: From its opening line -- "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction — what, has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain." -- Woolf uses a device many speakers turn to. Using the creation of the speech as the device for framing her discussion lets her bring the audience immediately into the picture she's creating. Throughout, the published version preserves enough of these touches to suggest that Woolf used this device as a recurring touchpoint in the lectures.
- She warns them early on that she intends to confound and surprise them: "I soon saw that it had one fatal drawback. I should never be able to come to a conclusion. I should never be able to fulfil what is, I understand, the first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever." In this seemingly self-deprecating way--one that slyly pokes fun at standard lectures and the uses to which they were not put later--Woolf sends up several flares early in the talk suggesting that she will be turning a few precepts on their heads. It's a useful tactic for speakers who are addressing controversy, and most of the ideas in the book were considered outsized and heretical in her day.
- She puts her core message up front, and reiterates it throughout: "All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point — a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved." The idea of "a room of one's own" is introduced early, and carried through the lectures so clearly that the audience can envision that room and what it would mean to a woman writer.
- She tells stories, about herself and about famous women writers, to illustrate her points: Woolf describes small moments about herself to demonstrate what financial independence can do for a woman writer, describing how she paid for a lunch, feeling proud that earnings from her published writing allowed her the independence to do that. And she draws us a picture of how Jane Austen had to do her writing in the family sitting room, hiding it from servants and visitors, then wondering how much greater her great novels might have been without those interruptions--the rationale for that room, again. And she uses her novelist role as an excuse to spin fictional stories, surmising what life and work would have been like if William Shakespeare had an equally talented sister Judith who also wanted to write.
- Her stories and descriptions make vivid, memorable word-pictures: I've studied Woolf's fiction and nonfiction extensively, and am always struck with her active verbs and crystalline descriptions. Whether she's talking about lunch or a breeze or a cat crossing the quad, you can imagine the scene. That quality in a speech makes the words memorable for us, even without a text. It's a quality missing from too many speeches, loaded as they are with platitudes and buzzwords.


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As a rule of thumb, Artscroll translates and elucidates according to Rashi's commentary. As the editors write in the introduction (to the English edition, but the same appears in the Hebrew edition) "[t]he translation and commentary almost always follow Rashi, although other opinions may be mentioned in the notes". But what they fail to mention is that when Rashi's commentary is not "frum" enough, it gives them good reason to deviate from Rashi.
In tractate Niddah (2a) the Mishna speaks about how using a Bedikah cloth before and after intercourse is enough to determine here status as tahor. Rashi, in his explaining the Mishnah, writes as follows:
אם ראתה דם אחר כך בבדיקת ערבית והיא שמשה בצהרים לא מטמאינן טהרות דמבדיקת שחרית עד תשמיש, שהרי קודם תשמיש בדקה, ומצאתה טהורה.
If she saw [blood]… when she checks herself at night, and she had intercourse in the afternoon, we do not consider her as Tameh from the morning till the intercourse, since she checked herself before she had intercourse and she found that she was clean.
The problem is that having intercourse in the afternoon is not frum. Well, actually, it depends. In BT Niddah 17a it says:
אמר רב חסדא: אסור לו לאדם שישמש מטתו ביום, שנאמר +ויקרא י"ט+ ואהבת לרעך כמוך. מאי משמע? אמר אביי: שמא יראה בה דבר מגונה ותתגנה עליו. אמר רב הונא: ישראל קדושים הם ואין משמשין מטותיהן ביום אמר רבא: ואם היה בית אפל - מותר
Said R. Hisdah: it's forbidden to have intercourse in daytime, because it says "you shall love your friend as thyself". But what is the proof from this verse? Abaye replied: He might observe something repulsive in her and she would thereby become loathsome to him. R. Huna said, Israel are holy and do not perform intercourse in daytime. Raba said, but in a dark house it is permitted.
So while intercourse should be done at night, if the room is dark it can be done at daytime. But, in our day and age it's not frum enough.
In the English edition, Artscroll avoids the problem by simply not giving a time frame for that example and they just write that the bedikah before intercourse (no word on when the intercourse takes place) is considered a good enough bedikah. In the Hebrew edition, which is much better than its English counterpart in terms of explaining the Gemara, they explain in more depth. So instead of just giving the same example Rashi gave, they write as follows:
והמשמשת בעדים ... הרי זו כפקידה ... וממעטת על יד מעת לעת, כגון אם שימשה באמצע הלילה ונמצאה טהורה בבדיקתה אז, וראתה דם בשחרית, שאינה מטמאה למפרע מעת לעת משחרית של אתמול, אלא מאמצע הלילה בלבד, שהרי נמצאה טהורה אז בבדיקה של תשמיש.It doesn't really change anything in the simple understanding of the Mishnah. But it does show that Artscroll was uncomfortable to give the same example as Rashi, and changed to come of more frum.
And one who checks herself at the time of intercourse, it is considered a valid bedikah, for example, if she had intercourse in middle of the night and she found herself clean, and she saw blood in the morning, she isn't tameh only from in middle of the night onward, since she found herself to be clean in the intercourse bedikah.


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A major headache for the army ended today with the capture of the grounded Ship Farah – 3 located around 500m from the Kariamulliwaikkal coastline. The wrecked ship has been used as cover by LTTE units for so long and has been a priority target of the army. Although the ship was subjected to an aerial raid by SLAF and was rendered unusable, LTTE cadres had used heavy machine guns and other medium caliber weapons installed on the ship to assault incoming SLA units. Farah –3 was a merchant vessel that ran into trouble in seas near LTTE held territory back in 2008 – the crew was rescued by the navy.
Meanwhile two loud explosions were reported from the civilian safe zone today evening. The source of the explosions and the damages to any LTTE units/civillians is not known as of yet.


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The Washington Redskins had a 4-3 record as they took on the Detroit Lions on November 4, 1990. In their tenth season under Head Coach Joe Gibbs, the Redskins were looking to return to the playoffs after missing out in 1988 and '89 following their last trip to the Super Bowl. The running game was sound, led by veterans Earnest Byner and Gerald Riggs, and the defense was much improved. But QB Stan Humphries was proving to be too inconsistent.
The Lions, under Head Coach Wayne Fontes, were 3-4 and featured an explosive run-and-shoot passing attack directed by assistants Darrel "Mouse" Davis and June Jones.
could run the ball effectively, to be sure, with All-Pro RB Barry Sanders in
the backfield. But the defense could give up points as readily as the offense
could score them, and the quick-striking offense only tended to keep the
defense on the field far too long.
There were 69,326 fans in attendance at the Pontiac Silverdome. Following an interception of a Stan Humphries pass on
Washington's opening
possession, the Lions quickly capitalized as QB Rodney Peete threw to WR Robert
Clark for a 33-yard touchdown.
The teams traded punts before the Redskins put together a 10-play, 65-yard scoring drive. Humphries threw to WR Gary Clark for 21 yards on a third-down play and, in all, was successful on five of six throws. Gerald Riggs completed the series by breaking three tackles and running for an eight-yard TD. Chip Lohmiller's extra point tied the score at 7-7.
Peete started off the second quarter by scrambling away from trouble and running for 37 yards to the
33. Barry Sanders gained 20 yards on two carries and Peete finished off the
drive with a 10-yard touchdown run after faking a pitch to Sanders.
No sooner did the Redskins get the ball back then Humphries was picked off by CB William White, who returned it 34 yards for a TD. Down by 21-7,
fought back on the next possession highlighted by Humphries scrambling for 17
yards and completing a pass to Gary Clark for 31 yards. The tenth play of the
83-yard drive was a four-yard touchdown pass from Humphries to TE Jimmie
Johnson, who was all alone in the corner of the end zone.
The teams again traded punts. With just over three minutes to go in the first half, the Lions regained possession at their five yard line. Peete threw to WR Richard Johnson for 25 yards to get out of the hole, then hit WR Jason Phillips for 27 yards to the
43. Another pass to Johnson and a run by Sanders gained another 19 yards and
Peete completed a 24-yard scoring pass to WR Aubrey Matthews that made it 28-14
in favor of the Lions going into halftime.
Things got even better for
Detroit early in the third quarter. On Washington's first
possession of the second half, safety Bennie Blades intercepted a Humphries
pass and returned it 21 yards to the Redskins' 45. Two plays later, Barry Sanders
broke away on a draw play for a 45-yard TD. With the successful PAT, the Lions
were now up comfortably by 35-14.
next series, QB Jeff Rutledge (pictured at top) came into the game. An 11th-year
career backup out of Alabama,
Rutledge had been with the Rams and, during the previous seven seasons, the
Giants before joining the Redskins. He had started a total of nine games during
that span as he did not have the arm or size to be a first-string quarterback,
but he brought intelligence and good leadership qualities to the position.
Rutledge started off by completing all three of his passes, including a third-and-two throw to WR Ricky Sanders for 33 yards, and the Redskins scored a touchdown on a three-yard carry by Riggs. Following a punt by the Lions, two runs by Riggs and a pass by Rutledge gained 24 yards but Riggs fumbled after catching a pass and the Lions recovered at their own 46.
Peete having pulled a hamstring during the last possession,
Detroit now had a new
quarterback in the game as well in backup Bob Gagliano. Gagliano completed
passes of 19 and 24 yards to Richard Johnson and, after reaching the Washington eight yard
line, Rich Karlis kicked a 26-yard field goal. Heading into the final quarter,
the Lions were leading by a seemingly-commanding 38-21.
The Redskins started off the final period by driving 58 yards in nine plays, but after reaching the Detroit 21 Rutledge tossed three incomplete passes and
settled for a 38-yard field goal by Chip Lohmiller.
Detroit's next play from
scrimmage, Gagliano threw to Matthews who fumbled and DE Fred Stokes recovered
for Washington.
However, after driving this time to the Detroit
22, the Redskins attempted to convert a fourth-and-seven play but Rutledge's
pass fell incomplete.
The Lions went three-and-out on the ensuing possession and Rutledge completed five of six passes, including one to Ricky Sanders that gained 28 yards and another to Gary Clark for a 34-yard touchdown. The
Detroit lead was down to
38-31 with 5:48 still on the clock in regulation.
Once again the Lions had to punt after three plays and once more it was Rutledge passing the Redskins down the field.
Washington went 85 yards in 15 plays with
Rutledge completing eight passes and finishing the series off with a 12-yard
touchdown run on a quarterback draw. Lohmiller's extra point was good and, with
less than 20 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the contest was tied at
In the overtime period, each team had a possession and punted before the Redskins, starting at their 10 yard line, advanced 73 yards in 12 plays. Along the way, Rutledge converted a third-and-15 situation with a completion to WR Art Monk for 40 yards. With Rutledge tossing short passes and Riggs and RB Earnest Byner gaining yards on the ground,
reached the Detroit
17 and, at 9:10 into overtime, Lohmiller ended the game with a 34-yard field
goal. The Redskins came away with a thrilling 41-38 win.
Jeff Rutledge put up big numbers once he came into the contest, completing 30 of 42 passes for 363 yards with a touchdown and none intercepted. By contrast, Stan Humphries was successful on 13 of 21 throws for 159 yards with a TD and three interceptions. Art Monk had 13 catches for 168 yards and was one of three
receivers to reach a hundred yards, with Ricky Sanders gaining 132 yards on his
11 receptions and Gary Clark adding 132 on 8 catches with a TD. Gerald Riggs
led the club in rushing with 91 yards on 22 carries that included two scores
and Earnest Byner gained 53 yards on 11 attempts.
Rodney Peete went 8 of 17 passing for 135 yards and two TDs with none
intercepted and Bob Gagliano completed 5 of 11 throws for 68 yards with no
scores or pickoffs. Barry Sanders (pictured below) ran for 104 yards and a touchdown on 11
carries. Richard Johnson caught 7 passes for 98 yards.
"In Jeff's case, I just think he is a producer," said Joe Gibbs of Rutledge. "He has always been that way and he's a great guy. He is a class individual."
Rutledge got a chance to start the next game at
Philadelphia, but
performed poorly and was knocked out of the game by injury (as was Humphries also)
- he returned to the bench. The Redskins recovered to win five of their last
seven games and placed third in the NFC East at 10-6. They defeated the Eagles
in the Wild Card playoff game but lost at San
Francisco in the Divisional round.
Jeff Rutledge threw a total of 68 passes for the Redskins in 1990 and completed 40 of them for 455 yards with two touchdowns and an interception. The big relief performance against the Lions remained his most significant single-game effort by far. He played two more years in
Washington with limited
action as a backup.


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And so much for that market for Lower Churchill power…
Ontario residents were bemused to discover that on New Year's Day 2011, on average, they were paid to use electricity.
If that seemed unusual – and it is – it's only the start.
Within the next two years, the conditions that produced the bonus New Year's power could crop up about one day in every seven, according to an analysis by the agency that runs Ontario's power market.
A big reason: about 5,000 megawatts of wind powered generation is due to be connected to the Ontario grid in the next few years, producing surges of power that are more than the province needs.
via Toronto Star
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ORLANDO, Fla., May 23 (UPI) -- The wife of a suspect in a triple slaying also linked to the dead Boston Marathon suspect says the FBI questioned her the same day an agent killed her husband.
Reni Manukyan, 24, told The Wall Street Journal FBI agents questioned her at her Atlanta home Tuesday at about the same time agents were questioning her late husband, Ibragim Todashev, at his home in Orlando, Fla. However, the newspaper reported Thursday, Manukyan said agents did not ask her about the Sept. 11, 2011, slaying of three men in Waltham, Mass., in which her late husband and dead marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev have been implicated.
Instead, she said agents questioned her about Tsarnaev.
Tsarnaev was fingered by Ibragim Todashev in the three Waltham deaths, in which the victims' throats were slashed, federal law enforcement officials told several news outlets.
Todashev implicated himself in the slayings Wednesday -- moments before he was fatally shot by an FBI agent after he allegedly tried to assault the agent, two senior law enforcement officials said.
"He used some kind of weapon" that prompted the agent to shoot, an official told CNN.
Todashev had been talking in his apartment to the FBI and Massachusetts State Police about the Waltham killings when he "exploded" and attacked the agent, an official told The New York Times.
The FBI agent sustained minor injuries that required stitches, the official said.
Other law enforcement officials said the shooting occurred after Todashev, 27, admitted his role and implicated Tsarnaev.
One official said Todashev began writing out a statement when he asked to take a break, the Times said.
The FBI said it was reviewing the incident.
The Middlesex (Mass.) District Attorney's Office, which is overseeing the homicide investigation, and Massachusetts police declined to comment.
The three people killed in Waltham were Brendan Mess, 25, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37. Their bodies were found in an apartment a day later, covered in marijuana and cash.
Tsarnaev, 26, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, are accused of committing the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, has been charged but has not yet entered a plea.


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The Central Connecticut volleyball team swept Fairleigh Dickinson on Sunday afternoon to improve to 9-2 in Northeast Conference play. The Blue Devils held off the Knights in an exciting 29-27 third set to earn their third consecutive sweep victory.
Central (13-10, 9-2 NEC) built an 18-10 lead in the third set, but FDU rallied and tied the set at 22-22. The Knights (8-15, 4-6) were actually able to take the lead, 27-26, but the Blue Devils answered with three straight points to win the set, 29-27.
CCSU won its first two sets 25-18 and 25-10.
Rademacher recorded her 13 kills on 18 attacks and made only two errors. She hit .611 for the match and contributed a pair of assists. Senior Emily Cochran also had 13 kills in the match and shared the team lead with Rademacher. Senior Blaike King (9), sophomore Rachel Dunlap (6) and freshman Makenna Lommori (4) also contributed to the Blue Devils' 49 kills and .419 hitting percentage.
Defensively, the Blue Devils posted eight blocks with Rademacher and Lommori leading the squad. Rademacher assisted on five blocks, while Lommori assisted on three and had two solo blocks.
Senior Allyson Porter recorded 12 of her career-high 16 digs in the third set. Porter led the team in digs with sophomore Brittany Schumacher contributing nine and eight other Blue Devils posting at least one dig.
Lommori had 37 assists in the match and contributed one of the Blue Devils seven service aces. Freshman Ashley Lenington was responsible for three of the aces.
The Blue Devils have won nine consecutive sets and three straight matches to improve to 9-2 in the NEC.
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Here are few samples from this collection – they have been resized. We made them much smaller than the original to fit this format. All images in the zip file are all at least 1920 x 1080.
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It's a New Year and I'm reposting this for you lovelies who would like to get to know me a little better.
Marquessa xoxo
Like I said in this past post, I don't do selfies.
I always prefer to be behind the camera than in front of it. But since a few curious readers asked me "what I look like", I've decided to post a photo.
A photo.
One photo.
A "one time thing" that will likely not happen again for a long time.
And this photo may go POOF! Then it may disappear when I revamp my blog in the coming months.
So if you would really, really like to see "who I am", you'll need to scroll down.
Yeah, scroll down.
Scroll down some more.
Scroll down some more again.
You're almost there.
Okay, there you go…
This is who I am.
Wait…what did you say?
I never said that the photo would be a "recent" one! 🙂
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Founding investigator of the Mars research group, The Cydonia Institute, George Haas, and geoscientist Bill Saunders talked about their study of a three-sided pyramid on Mars (view related slides). They've concluded that the object shows definite evidence of artificial construction, and published their findings in a science paper (co-written by James Miller and Michael Dale) in a recent issue of the Journal of Space Exploration. The pyramid was initially discovered in a 2001 image from the Mars Global Surveyor, and sits alone in a canyon area, leading Saunders to speculate it may have once been part of an island surrounded by water.
The three faces of the pyramid are very symmetrical, Haas noted, and later NASA images provided even more clarity of the "exquisite geometry" of the structure which is about 470 ft. high and 950 ft. across. How do you end up with three sides that are the same mathematically in an area that has nothing like that? Saunders pondered. "I don't know how anything like this would form in nature," he added. Slide D, which features an enlargement of the pyramid wall, appears to show a kind of building block material, they pointed out.
Copy of the paper submitted to the "Journal of Space Exploration" https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HndBnyjSrwVf1_qr5PRm8XcnFQGKQUQK/view?usp=sharing
Discussion with George Haas and Bill Saunders conducted by George Noory
Hour 3
Hour 4
My comments:
While I find the paper interesting reading, Haas and Saunders do not include BOTH the stereo MRO images of the pyramidal "Spire" location which, when the two stereo images are forged into a 3D anaglyph as I have done below, in my opinion show clearly an unusual pyramid albeit natural formation. Sorry George, but you should have included both stereo MRO images for such an important discovery and analysis.