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First Drive: 2011 GMC Acadia Denali
The Sum of Its Parts
"Denali" is actually an Athabascan (Eskimo) word for "the High One," and the original name of Mt. McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America. It's also the "tallest" price point for GMC models like the 2011 GMC Acadia Denali.
Never mind that Mt. McKinley is in Alaska, and "Acadia" was the French name for what is now New England and Canada's Maritime Provinces. Denali means "trim package" now, and an expensive one at that. Such is the case of the new 2011 GMC Acadia Denali that recently rolled into Motor Trend HQ with a $50,125 price tag, a pricey sum considering the Acadia starts at $32,615, and there were still options boxes left unchecked. Sure, ours was good and optioned-up, but the base price for an Acadia Denali is still an eyebrow-raising $43,995.
While the Denali package is typically considered a luxury package, on the Acadia it works out to more of a dress-up kit than anything else. Denali models get a unique front fascia that looks like a tame aftermarket addition, and body-color cladding, fascias, fender flares, and rockers. They're simple changes, but they help make the rig look classier than the black plastic-clad regular Acadias.
In addition to the extra paint, Acadia Denalis also get chrome, and lots of it. Twenty-inch chrome wheels are standard, though there are other optional designs if you don't like the six spokes. Drilled chrome grilles are right up front per Denali rules, but that's just the beginning. There's chrome on the doors, on the window sills, on the bumpers, on the trunk, on the exhaust tips, and even the badges. Wear sunglasses.
Once you're inside, you'll notice extra accent lighting, new chrome door sills with lighted Denali logos (front doors only, rears are sans logo) and wood grain that doesn't look like wood. You'll also notice how quiet it is, thanks to laminated glass, triple door seals, and extra sound deadening, all borrowed from the Buick Enclave. Standard leather seats with heaters and coolers for the front row, a leather and wood steering wheel, double sunroof, navigation, tri-zone climate control, and a heads-up display are all present as well.
As a vehicle, the Acadia Denali is a nice piece. The sound control measures make a noticeable difference in the interior noise level, though the change has the unfortunate consequence of making it obvious that the door windows were not part of the upgrade. The ride is smooth and quite comfortable for such a large vehicle on 20-inch wheels. In fact, some editors remarked that it was actually better than a substantially more expensive Cadillac Escalade also at the office rolling on 22s. Handling, on the other hand, had us sliding out of the thinly bolstered seats, but this isn't a sports car and was never meant to be one.
GM's 288-horsepower 3.6-liter V-6 offered up nice, smooth, linear power that had the big SUV gliding easily down the road like a V-8 of years past. Unfortunately, it also drinks gas like V-8s of years past. Despite EPA ratings of 16 mpg city and 23 mpg highway for our all wheel-drive tester, a mix of city and highway driving returned no better than 14 mpg after two weeks on the job. We're more inclined to pin the blame on its nearly 5000-pound curb weight than on its smooth-shifting six-speed automatic, which was always eager to get to top gear.
This is where things start to come apart. As good as the Acadia Denali is, everyone who drove it came away wondering if it was $50,000 good. Aside from the cringe-inducing fuel economy, editors were quick to point out a cabin that wasn't up to its price point. While the plastic quality isn't bad, the only soft-touch materials to be found were on the arm rests. Everything else was rock-hard plastic. Embedded in it was GM's old DVD-based navigation system, which is easily outclassed by the latest equipment on the market, including GM's own work.
Then there were the little things. How is it you can get a power-retracting sunroof shade on a $22,000 Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, but not on a $50,000 GMC? Why can I get technology like blind spot warning systems on a $25,000 Ford Fusion, but not on a $50,000 GMC? Why does this "wood finish" trim on the center stack look like it came out of the $24,000 Suzuki Grand Vitara we tested two years ago? Why are the controls for the in-gauge displays on the center stack, the heads-up display controls on the dash below the instrument cluster, and the odometer reset in the cluster? Why can't we get one-touch windows all around? How is it that Ford and Dodge can both offer multiple engine options and a power-folding third-row in their less-expensive Explorer and Durango, but GMC can't? Or a steering wheel heater. Or voice-activated nav and stereo controls. Or adaptive cruise control.
This isn't to say the Acadia is a terrible car. We liked the comfy seats and the acres of personal space. We liked the sliding and folding second-row captain's chairs and the adult-friendly third row, as well as the ample cargo space. But when you can get online and spec out a 2011 Ford Explorer or 2011 Dodge Durango with more options and still not break $49,000, one has to wonder what the extra cash is buying you.
Of course, if you've ever priced an Acadia, this may not be news to you. Turns out you can spec an Acadia SLT2 just over the Denali's price, but you won't get the chrome and such. So, if you were planning on picking up a loaded Acadia to begin with, or had plans to outfit your Acadia with all manner of aftermarket chrome bits anyway, it's really not a bad deal. This challenges the value of the "Denali" package as a luxury trim, if all you're getting are dress-up parts and thicker windows. If it's no more expensive than any other loaded Acadia, what does Denali even mean? It means people who were going to buy a mid-range Acadia might be willing to pay more for a body kit, some chrome, and a badge, apparently.
The bottom line is this: If you like the looks of the Denali and want a quieter cabin, go for it. It won't cost you any more than a loaded Acadia. But if you're looking for the best value in the segment, you may want to keep looking.
|2011 GMC Acadia Denali AWD
|Base price
|Price as Tested
|Vehicle layout
|Front-engine, AWD, 7- or 8-pass, 4-door SUV
|3.6L/288-hp/270-lb-ft DOHC 24-valve V-6
|6-speed automatic
|Curb weight (f/r dist)
|4950 lb (mfr)
|118.9 in
|Length x width x height
|200.7 x 78.2 x 69.9 in
|0-60 mph
|8.0 sec (MT est)
|EPA city/hwy fuel econ
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The Forgotten Man and Other Essays/Prosperity Strangled by Gold
SOME of the silver fallacies were stated by Mr. St. John, in his address before the silver convention, with such precision that his speech offers a favorable opportunity for dealing with them.
He says that "it is amongst the first principles in finance that the value of each dollar, expressed in prices, depends upon the total number of dollars in circulation." There is no such principle of finance as the one here formulated. The "quantity doctrine" of currency is gravely abused by all bimetallists, from the least to the greatest, and it is at best open to great doubt. When the dollars in question are dollars of some money of account which can circulate beyond the territory of the State in which it is issued, the quantity doctrine cannot be true within that territory. It may be noted, in passing, that this is the reason why no scheme of the silver people for manipulating prices in the United States can possibly succeed. Silver and gold will be exported and imported until their values conform throughout the world, and prices fixed in one or the other of them will conform to the world's prices, after all the trouble and waste and loss of translating them two or three times over have been endured.
The quantity doctrine, however, means that the value of the currency is a question of supply and demand, and everybody knows that to double or halve the supply does not halve or double the value, or have any other effect which is simple and direct. If it did have such effect speculation would not be what it is.
Mr. St. John goes on to argue that our population increases two millions every year, on account of which we need more dollars; that the production of gold does not furnish enough to meet this need, and that, therefore, prices fall. This argumentation is very simple and very glib. Prosperity and adversity are put into a syllogism of three lines. But, if we can avert the fall in prices and adversity by coining silver, it must be by adding the silver to the gold which we now have. "High" and "low" prices are only relative terms. They mean higher and lower than at another time or place; higher and lower than we have been used to. If misery depends on ten-cent corn we are advised to cut the cents in two and we shall get twenty-cent corn and prosperity. Corn will not be altered in value in gold, or outside of the United States, and, as all other things will be marked up at the same time and in the same way, its value in other things will not be altered by this operation. When we get used to twenty-cent corn it will seem just as low and just as "hard for the debtor" as ten-cent corn is now. Then we can divide by ten and get two-dollar corn, by adding free coinage of copper. When we get used to that we shall be no better satisfied with it. We can then make paper dollars and coin them without limit. Million-dollar corn will then become as bitter a subject for complaint as ten-cent corn is now. The fact that people are discontented is no argument for anything.
The fact that prices are low is made the subject of social complaint and of political agitation in the United States. Prices have undergone a wave since 1850. They arose until about 1872. They have fallen again. They are lower than they were at the top of the wave all the world over. This fact, the explanation of which would furnish a very complicated task for trained statisticians and economists, is made a topic of easy interpretation and solution in political conventions and popular harangues, and it is proposed to adopt violent and portentous measures upon the basis of the flippant notions which are current about it. But what difference does it make whether the "plane" of prices is high or low? If corn is at forty cents a bushel and calico at twenty cents a yard, a bushel buys two yards. If corn is at ten cents a bushel and calico at five cents a yard, a bushel will buy two yards. So of everything else. If, then, there has been a general fall, and that is the alleged grievance, neither farmers nor any other one class has suffered by it.
It is undoubtedly true that a period of advancing prices stimulates energy and enterprise. It does so even when, if all the facts were well known, it might be found that capital was really being consumed in successive periods of production. Falling prices discourage enterprise, although, if all facts were known to the bottom, it might be found that capital was being accumulated in successive periods of production.
It is also true that a depreciation of the money of account, while it is going on, stimulates exports and restrains imports.
But who can tell how we are to make prices always go up, unless by constant and unlimited inflation? Who can tell how we are to avoid fluctuations in prices or eliminate the element of contingency, risk, foresight, and speculation?
It is also true that, although high prices and low prices are immaterial at any one time, the change from one to the other, from one period of time to another, affects the burden of outstanding time contracts. Men make contracts for dollars, not for dollar's-worths. Selling long or short is one thing; lending is another. Borrowers and lenders never guarantee each other the purchasing power of dollars at a future time. If the contracts were thus complicated they would become impossible. Between 1850 and 1872 the debtors made no complaint and the creditors never thought of getting up an agitation to have debts scaled up. The debtors now are demanding that they be allowed to play heads I win, tails you lose, and Mr. St. John and others tell us that they have the votes to carry it; as if that made any difference in the forum of discussion.
Increase in population does not prove an increased need of money. It may prove the contrary. If the population becomes more dense over a given area, a higher organization may make less money necessary. If railroads and other means of communication are extended, money is economized. If banks and other credit institutions are multiplied, and if credit operations are facilitated by public security, good administration of law, etc., less money is needed. If these changes are going on at the same time that population is increasing (and such is undoubtedly the case in the United States), who can tell whether the net result is to make more or less currency necessary? Nobody; and all assertions about the matter are wild and irresponsible.
If it was true that an increase of two millions in the population called for more dollars, how does anybody know whether the current gold production is adequate to meet the new requirement or not? The assertion is arithmetical. It says that two quantities are not equal to each other. The first quantity is the increase in the currency called for by two million more people. How much more is needed? Nobody knows, and there is no way to find out. The silver men have put figures for it from time to time, but the figures rested on nothing and were mere bald assertions. The second quantity is the amount of new gold annually available for coinage in the United States. How much is this? Nobody knows, because if an attempt is made to define what is meant it is found that there is no idea in the words. The people of the United States buy and coin just as much gold as they want at any time. Hence two things are said to be unequal to each other, when nobody knows how big either one of them is. It may be added that it makes no difference how big either one of them is. How much additional tin is needed annually for the increase of our population? Do the mines produce it? Nobody knows or asks. The mines produce, and the people buy, what they want. The case is the same as to gold.
We find, then, that Mr. St. John begins with a doctrine which is untenable; then he asserts a relation between population and the need of money which does not exist; then he assumes that this need is greater than the amount of new gold produced, although neither he nor anybody else knows how big either one of these quantities is. This is the argumentation by which he aims to show that prices are reduced and misery produced by the single gold standard. It is the argumentation which is current among the silver people. Not a step of it will bear examination. The inference that we must restore the free coinage of silver, to escape this strangulation of prosperity, falls to the ground.
- ↑ Leslie's Weekly, August 20, 1896.

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Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:45 AM
A federal court ruling limiting presidential appointment power could jeopardize a large swath of the work undertaken by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the last year.
Although a court would still have to decide on the appointment of Richard Cordray, the agency's first director, the ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington raises the possibility that regulations and enforcement actions of the new agency could be overturned, according to regulatory lawyers.
"This is very bad news for the bureau, there is no way to slice it any other way," Deepak Gupta, a former top lawyer at the CFPB, said in an interview. "There is little question that this applies to the Cordray appointment."
Among the bureau's achievements under Cordray are new consumer protections on international money transfers and rules on mortgage underwriting and servicing. The bureau also reached settlements with credit card companies, including Riverwoods, Illinois-based Discover Financial Services and McLean, Virginia- based Capital One Financial Corp., for deceptive marketing practices.
The CFPB said its work is not affected by the ruling on the NLRB appointments.
"The bureau is not a party in the case decided today, and the court's ruling has no direct effect on the bureau," CFPB spokeswoman Moira Vahey said in a statement yesterday. ' Going forward, we will continue our essential work to protect American consumers.''
President Barack Obama bypassed Republican opposition to Cordray's nomination in the U.S. Senate by installing him -- and three officials of the National Labor Relations Board -- through a so-called recess appointment in January 2012. That move put Cordray in the job through the end of 2013.
Full Term
Obama nominated Cordray to a full five-year term on Jan. 24.
Now that a federal appeals court has invalidated the labor appointments, saying they did not occur during an official recess, a similar ruling against CFPB could alter the landscape of consumer finance regulation. For the industry, the decision creates uncertainty at a time when it is digesting a raft of new rules that are aimed at the causes of the 2008 financial crisis.
"We're not gloating here," Richard Hunt, president of the Consumer Bankers Association, said in an interview. "It creates chaos in the marketplace. But we knew this was possible when the president made this controversial appointment."
The CFPB, created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law that overhauled U.S. oversight of financial services, is intended to protect consumers from abusive practices. Covering both banks and non-bank firms like payday lenders and debt collectors, the agency has also created a system for resolving consumer complaints.
Dodd-Frank Timeline
Dodd-Frank created a timeline for the bureau to assume its powers. It assumed powers over banks with assets above $10 billion on July 21, 2011 but the law only permitted its other powers, such as supervision of non-banks, once its first director was confirmed by the Senate.
Senate Republicans, using rules that let the minority block nominations, closed ranks to oppose any nominee in 2011 unless the Obama administration agreed to create a commission to run the CFPB and subject its budget, now linked to the Federal Reserve, to congressional appropriations.
Obama tried to outflank Republicans by using a recess appointment, the constitutional power to install officials while the Senate is in recess. The court yesterday said that his move was, in the case of the labor officials, "constitutionally invalid" because the Senate was not officially in recess at the time.
Judge's Ruling
"Considering the text, history and structure of the Constitution, these appointments were invalid from their inception," U.S. Circuit Judge David Sentelle wrote. The ruling today is the first substantive decision by a federal appeals court on several challenges to the president's naming of the NLRB members on Jan. 4, 2012.
Raymond Natter, a partner with Barnett Sivon & Natter P.C. in Washington said a company can now go to court and seek a "summary judgment motion" overturning the Cordray appointment and his actions on the basis of the decision in the labor case. Natter's firm represents financial services companies.
"It means rules would have to be reissued," Natter said in an interview. "Proposals would have to be re-proposed. Enforcement actions could be reversed."
One possible candidate for that role, Natter said, is State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, which in June filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington. It charged that the CFPB is unconstitutional because Congress does not appropriate its budget and because the president has a limited ability to remove its director.
Supreme Court
C. Boyden Gray, one of the attorneys who helped bring the case, said the labor case still had a ways to go.
"This is not the final word," Gray, who served as legal counsel to President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993. "It will go to the Supreme Court."
Gray called today's ruling "helpful" in the context of his lawsuit, though not necessarily decisive. "We're challenging the entire structure of the CFPB. We're challenging its ability to do everything that it's doing," he said.
The case brought by Gray faces other hurdles. The Obama administration has argued that the Texas bank has no standing to bring the case because it has not been affected by CFPB actions.
The question of what is left of the CFPB's work over the last year could become the subject of complicated parsing by the courts, Natter and Gupta said. One legal doctrine holds that the actions of invalid appointees can be preserved to avoid chaos in a regulated market.
Cordray Defense
Previous regulatory action would probably survive under that doctrine while companies facing current enforcement action could raise Cordray's status as a defense.
"This really throws a wrench into pending enforcement proceedings," Gupta, now a partner with Gupta Beck PLLC in Washington, said.
Congressional Republicans immediately seized on the labor case as a reason why Cordray's appointment was not legal.
"This decision now casts serious doubt on whether the president's 'recess' appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which the President announced at the same time, is constitutional," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said in an e-mailed statement.
Mark Calabria, a former Senate Republican staffer, said the NLRB would probably have the ripple effect of stalling any progress Cordray makes in the Senate after his renomination. They would also embolden Republicans in their quest to change the law.
Process Questioned
"How can you have a confirmation process if a court has said he's been unconstitutionally appointed?" Calabria, director of financial regulation studies at the Cato Institute in Washington, said in an interview.
White House press secretary Jay Carney said the ruling affects only the NLRB case and "has no bearing on" the president's recess appointment of Cordray.
He said the ruling was "novel and unprecedented" and contradicts 150 years of practices by Democratic and Republican administrations. "The court decided a case brought by a specific company and the decision applies to that case. It does not apply more broadly than that."
The decision also comes at a moment of leadership change at the upper levels of CFPB. Raj Date, the bureau's deputy director, is scheduled to leave on Jan. 31. No replacement has been named.
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The modern soil surveys that are the basis for FMMP's qualitative soil ratings range in age, scale, and coverage. Produced by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS--formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service), each survey was originally published in paper format. Each includes a large volume of information on the potential uses and limitations of soils in a given region.
FMMP now uses NRCS' digital soil data (gSSURGO) to compile the Important Farmland Maps. The digital data provides greater detail and accuracy in soil mapping compared with prior hand-transfer or digitizing methods. The gSSURGO data may have additional soil units that did not exist in the paper version; the lists linked from the attached spreadsheet indicate any changes that have occurred. Historic FMMP files will continue to reflect the original map compilation methods and soil lists.


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WANTED: Someone to go back in time with me. This is not a joke. You'll get paid after we get back. Must bring your own weapons. I have only done this once before. Safety not guaranteed.
Those were the actual words of a classified ad that ran in Backwoods Home magazine some years ago. That innocuous, if bizarre, ad would ultimately serve as the inspiration for "Safety Not Guaranteed" (opens Friday), starring Mark Duplass stars as a man who placed the ad, and Aubrey Plaza ("Parks & Recreation") as the young journalist who goes undercover to answer it.
In celebration of the film's release, we present the rest of our top 10 classified ads from the world of film.
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The day's top national and international news.
Desperately seeking Susan. Meet me, four o'clock, Battery Park. Keep the faith. Love, Jim.
"Desperately Seeking Susan" (1985) - This marked the film debut of a hot up-and-coming pop star known simply as Madonna in the title role. But Rosanna Arquette had the lead, as an unsatisfied housewife who sees the ad and goes to the meeting spot to see what transpires, only to get tangled up in a web of mistaken identity, amnesia and crime.
Do you remember me? Airport shuttle, June 7th. You: striking redhead with yellow dress, pearl necklace, brown shoes. I was the bookish fellow in the green cardigan who helped you find your contact lens. Am I crazy, or did we have a moment?
"Ghost World" (2001) - From director Terry Zwigoff ("Bad Santa") comes Steve Buscemi as an eccentric record collector who places an ad to which two bored and slightly cruel teens, played by Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, respond. Once Buscemi gets over his anger, a friendship blossoms between him and Birch, who decides to help him find the woman.
SWF seeks female to share apartment in west 70S. Non-smoker professional preferred. 555-9814
"Single White Female" (1992) - Starred Bridget Fonda as a young woman who needs a new roommate after dumping her fiancée and is lucky enough to settle on a half-mad loon, played by Jennifer Jason Leigh, who at first gets way to involved in her life before trying to take it over.
For a good time in the privacy of your own home...
"Risky Business" (1983) - The film that made Tom Cruise a star. Cruise starred as Joel, a Chicago teen left home alone for the weekend, who avails himself of the opportunity to solicit some female companionship via the classifieds. Jackie, unfortunately turns out to be a rather muscular transvestite male, but "she" is kind enough to put our hero in touch with Lana, played by Rebecca De Mornay, assuring Joel, "It's what you want. It's what every white boy off the lake wants."
Short-statured file clerk with unusually nimble and dexterous fingers needed for speed filing.
"Being John Malkovich" (1999) - John Cusack stars as Craig Schwartz, a struggling puppeteer who responds to an ad seeking an office clerk. It's behind a filing cabinet at his new office that he discovers a portal into the mind of acclaimed actor John Malkovich, allowing him to see and experience everything that Malkovich does. Things get weirder still when the co-worker he lusts after (Catherine Keener) starts using Malkovich's body to have sex with Craig's wife (Cameron Diaz). Incredibly, this film is even weirder than it sounds--and totally awesome.
Modern girl wishes to correspond on cultural subjects anonymously with intelligent, sympathetic, young man.
"The Shop Around the Corner" (1940) - Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullivan star as two co-workers who can't stand each other, not realizing they've been courting each other via the classified ads. The film was remade in 1998 with the title "You've Got Mail," starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
But only for the one who is on the lookout for everything, who excludes nothing not even the most enigmatic, will the relationship to another become something alive and speak to the whole potential of one's existence.
"Kissing Jessica Stein" (2001) - Jennifer Westfeldt ("Friends With Kids") co-wrote and stars in this film about a young woman coming off a string of disastrous dates. Having all but given up, she see an ad featuring a quote from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. When she realizes the ad was placed in the women-seeking-women section, she figures she'll give it a go.
Skilled professional with years of experience in domestic and international wet work. Fast and discreet. No children or political figures.
"Horrible Bosses" (2011) - Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day star as three friends who conspire to kill each other's bosses. In an effort to contract some outside help, they respond to an ad they find on the Internet, but the man who posted it has very different ideas about "wet work."


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Hi , I am about a 3.0 to 3.5 level. I would like to practice with someone. Please call me at 440-6884 if you are interested. thanks MarikaContinue
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Thanks for hitting with me! I hope we do so again!
I am sorry - I missed your msg this am - I think it came late. (??)
I live out East near Houghton Road. I sometimes go to a court off Pantano and 29th "Rolling Hills" - it's near adjacent to an executive golf course. Maybe Sunday a little before sunset? so it's not quite so hot - 2 lit courts if we run long.
Ya know what? I have not been on this site for a thousand years (almost) and I would love to go hit.
I am rusty but I doubt that I will keel over. When would you like to hit? I am NOT free on Sunday from 5am to perhaps 11am, as I expect to watch the men's final.
HI Marika,
I am a casual Player that is around 3.0. I am up for some rallies or practice games almost anytime.
Let me know.
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The panorama tools optimizer understands various different schemes for aligning photos using control points: Normal points are t0 points, horizontal control points are t1 points, vertical control points are t2 points, and straight line control points are t3, t4, etc... points.
The main use of vertical control points is to change the perspective of the output panorama such that the marked structures are vertical in the output projection. In a multi image panorama this is only possible if the optimization of Roll and Pitch is allowed for all images and of Yaw for all but the anchor image.
You set vertical control points on a vertical structure as far apart from each other as possible.
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A warm welcome to all our Reception children from Miss Hodkinson. If you have any questions or information you would like to know please do not hesitate to come and ask me. As we are very busy when the children come into school if you have anything you would like to ask me, please chat to me before or after school.
This half term our topic is Buildings in the Local Area. The children will be learning about what different buildings there are near to school and what they are used for. We will be looking at different materials and why they are used for different purposes. We will be finding out buildings in the local area by watching video clips, reading information books and going on a walk. They will be learning all their new skills in the areas of learning in the classrooms and through focused activities.
During this half term we willl be doing gymnastics in the hall on a Monday morning. Please can you make sure your child has their PE kit available on this day and all their kit is named. We are practicing doing the buttons on their school uniform and I would be grateful if you can encourage your child to practice doing their own buttons at home.
The children can bring in a healthy snack for the morning or afternoon snack time and water in a named water bottle. We are encouraging the children to make healthy choices in relation to their food and appreciate your support with this.
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Team sizes are ideal between 10 and 15 on each side, and the network code allows 56k upwards to play smoothly. Game type offerings range from the classic Capture the Flag, Deathmatch and Duel to our own new types, e.g.. 'War'.
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Legends follows closely in the traditions set by both Tribes 1 and 2. While not exactly the same as those 2 great games, Legends has many of the same strategic aspects and potential those games have.
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Legends currently has a small, but dedicated, following and certainly has plenty of room open not only for more players and clans, but also those interested in creating new fresh content for them game. As well more players or clans willing to contribute servers in various world locales to help ease the ping issues Legends fans in areas other than the US sometimes experience due to the limited number of servers would help greatly.
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WAYZATA, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- TCF Bank is celebrating the opening of its new branch in Shoreview, Minnesota. The new branch location at 3836 Lexington Avenue will open on Monday, January 28.
"This is TCF Bank's first branch in Shoreview and we have received a warm welcome from city officials, local businesses and residents," said Tim Doyle, TCF Retail Director of Branch Banking for Minnesota. "We are excited to open the doors of this newly constructed facility in the heart of Shoreview."
Customers will notice several convenient enhancements in the building including new cash dispatch equipment at the teller line resulting in faster transactions, video drive-up equipment at the drive-through allowing the teller and customer to hear and see each other, and drive-up ATMs available 24 hours for conducting cash withdrawals and deposits. There will also be easy access to the branch with its convenient location near retail shopping areas. These features are all important trends for TCF branches in the future.
Special grand opening offers for customers and non-customers will be available through March. Also, as part of the TCF's grand opening celebration, a special donation of $1,000 will be presented by TCF Bank to the Ralph Reeder Food Shelf. The Ralph Reeder Food Shelf is a Community Education Program offering emergency and supplemental food assistance, school supplies and holiday help to low income residents in the Shoreview community.
With the opening of a brand new branch in the area, the existing branch at 1160 West County Road E in Arden Hills will be closing at the end of the day on January 26, 2013. All services continue to be available at the new location including drive-up service.
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TCF Bank is a wholly-owned subsidiary of TCF Financial Corporation (NYSE: TCB), a Wayzata, Minnesota-based national bank holding company with $17.9 billion in total assets at September 30, 2012. The company has nearly 430 branches in Minnesota, Illinois, Michigan, Colorado, Wisconsin, Indiana, Arizona and South Dakota, providing retail and commercial banking services. TCF, through its subsidiaries, also conducts commercial leasing and equipment finance business in all 50 states, commercial inventory finance business in the U.S. and Canada, and indirect auto finance business in 40 states. For more information about TCF, please visit tcfbank.com.
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Hi Jon,
Please post more deets for the best advice: I see that your site is at http://www.ycp.edu/ and you list a proprietary CMS, Terminalfour (http://www.terminalfour.com/). Are you sticking with your CMS, or considering a switch? Any significant new features being added? Any other requirements that would help us make good recommendations for design and development.
As a follow-up, if you are looking for a full rethink of your site that addresses strategy as well as design and development, Converge (http://www.convergeconsulting.org/) is an excellent agency to work with.
However if your project is specifically technical, without a strategy and design component, you are probably looking for a technology-specific development team instead. In that case you'll need to consider your CMS choice before you pick a team.
If you are planning to stick with your current CMS, you'll want a development team with experience in that specific technology. If you plan to switch, you'll need deep experience with your next CMS platform.
Have you made a decision on strategic vs. technical, or switch vs.stay, or is that still under analysis?
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for getting back quickly. I appreciate your input. At this time, we need first a technical upgrade to make as much of our existing content responsive. A couple of vendors have mentioned taking a framework "cms agnostic" approach. We will not move from our current cms which is Terminalfour.
The next phase will likely involve some visual redesigns and probably some strategic changes as well. We have a new committee forming, so we will find out not too long from now.
Have you worked with Converge before? It's not encouraging to see character encoding "typos" on some of their main pages http://www.convergeconsulting.org/about-us/ http://www.convergeconsulting.org/our-team/. How would you characterize their team?
Best regards,
Hi Jon,
In my view Converge focuses on design and marketing for higher ed more than on tech. We are currently working with them on a brand refresh, and I think they are very good in that kind of creative space. The firm that I believe Converge 'diverged' from, Stamats (http://www.stamats.com/) is also very big in the design/marketing end of things, and was responsible for our web site redesign back in 2010, using some early responsive design techniques. It seems to me that both firms are well worth checking out when you decide to look at a new design cycle.
The idea of CMS agnostic responsive design is an interesting one to me... depending on the structures generated by your CMS, I can see that media queries and CSS could address some of your responsive requirements, but it also seems to me that working within the CMS templates will almost certainly be required, or at least very, very helpful. If Terminalfour gives you or your selected agrency access to both HTML rendering templates and CSS, then you have all the control you need... but that would not be CMS agnostic then, but more along the lines of 'CMS DIY templating'. Unless Terminalfour has committed to implementing the responsive design your agency comes up with for you? In that case you probably have smooth sailing ahead!
As an opinionated aside: I think proprietary CMSs need to be proactively approaching their clients and offering free or discounted responsive template upgrades if they are going to remain relevant and maintain any market share at all. The competition from consultant-supported open source alternatives is only growing stronger. I expect that only the most nimble and proactive of the proprietary CMS offerings will survive beyond the next few years. Most will become legacy products... though some might morph into hosted cloud services and gain a new lease on life that way.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for your thoughtful comments. I will look into these firms. Just for info, we do have complete access to css, html, etc. with Terminalfour.
Have a great day.
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We all could've (and should've) seen this type of ugly, downright disgusting, event coming. In case you missed it, 13 Miami Hurricanes and 18 Florida International Golden Panthers were suspended by their leagues after a big brawl in the middle of the field Saturday. It was worse than that. One player was seen on video stomping on another player who was on the ground. Helmets were taken off and slung as weapons. Afterwards, the players were less than contrite; talking as if a fight that anywhere else would have landed them in jail was a badge of honor.
For all that, they got one game suspensions. An online poll on ESPN.com as of 10 a.m. showed 80 percent of the nearly 30,000 respondents thought the punishment too lenient. You have to wonder about the 20 percent who think otherwise.
I was ill watching it, and ill to have to explain it to my 12-year-old athlete in the making. Disgusting, yes. Surprising, no. Ignore the fact that these are two lousy football teams. It could have been any team under the wrong circumstances.
Larry Coker clearly has lost control of this Hurricane team and is likely to be fired. It might even happen today. That's probably best at this point. Losing control is the kind of thing that happens to a coach when major boosters hire airplanes to carry banners calling for his ouster. And when the talk show airwaves are filled with venom. Why should players listen to a guy that is going to be fired anyway?
These kinds of things build up at universities where all that matters is winning. No, make that where even winning isn't good enough; where winning every game is what matters. Football is not life and death, the saying goes; it is much more important than that. That should ring true pretty close to home, too.
There is a bandwagon trying to gain momentum at Florida State to get rid of Bobby Bowden, who has won more games than any coach in NCAA history, because the Seminoles have not competed for the national title recently. Never mind that the team is the defending ACC champions. Privately, boosters are worried about the impact of the Seminoles' losing. They are now 4-2 for the season.
On my blog last week, one person wrote in that he (or she) half expected FSU to lose to Duke on Saturday. I offered the person a quarter for every point Duke scored more than Florida State. FSU won, of course, 51-24. My children's milk money is safe.
I've even heard media pundits and "fans" use words like "deplorable" and "embarrassing" to describe what's happening with the FSU football program. Nothing could be further from the truth.
What happened in Miami Saturday is "deplorable" and "embarrassing." What has been happening at Florida State is football, a game in which sometimes you gotta lose.
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When the sh*it goes down, it's comforting to know that our nation's color commentators are ready.
In a television broadcasting display reminiscent of Jack BuckÃÆââÃâìâÃââs famed ÃÆââÃâìÃâ¦ÃâThatÃÆââÃâìâÃââs what you get for
f%#@ing with the S-T-L, *******!ÃÆââÃâì? screed during a Cubs/Cardinals telecast in 1983, former University of Miami wide receiver and current Comcast Sports Southeast booth analyst Lamar Thomas was comparably dignified during an outbreak of unprecedented on-field violence between the Hurricanes and visiting Florida International:
ÃÆââÃâìÃâ¦ÃâNow thatÃÆââÃâìâÃââs what IÃÆââÃâìâÃââm talking about. You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You donÃÆââÃâìâÃâât come into our O.B. playing that stuff. YouÃÆââÃâìâÃââre across the ocean over there. YouÃÆââÃâìâÃââre across the city. You canÃÆââÃâìâÃâât come over to our place talking that [WHOLLY UNINTELLIGIBLE]. You get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator and get in that thing.ÃÆââÃâì?
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It should be noted that this kind of behavior be distinguished from, say, coming into the O.B. and outplaying Miami, which is still openly encouraged. Thomas' Boltonian jeremiad is all a part of the University's larger effort, a bold new campaign to take the school into early 1990s.
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I heard that some wanted Coker out before this incident, here's there chance to fire him, thing is it wasn't him that started the brawl but as we all know the head coach is responsible for his team, bad luck for Coker.
If some one was to tell be that this thing took place but gave me no names of the teams I would have guessed Miami was one of them, they love to fight at the U
As a huge football fan I found that to be disgusting an example must be made with the players involved.
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Summary: APA (American Psychological Association) is most commonly used to cite sources within the social sciences. This resource, revised according to the 6th edition, second printing of the APA manual, offers examples for the general format of APA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the reference page. For more information, please consult the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, second printing.
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Helmut Lang tank, Madewell jeans, LF belt, TOD's boots, Sandro bag, vintage necklace.
A look of lightness and luxury, white-on-white outfits have been severely on-trend for about two years now. When this trend first surfaced, I ignored it despite my adoration, because I figured it was fleeting, and because I assumed someone as pale as myself just couldn't carry it off.
When I was invited to help organize an event to which all guests are asked to wear white, I was forced to reconsider my relationship with the color. I eased my way into the world of white attire with a standard bodycon dress, and guess what? I looked good. Did I look pale by comparison in photos? Yes. What else is new?—and so what? There's a difference between colors that accentuate fair skin, and colors that wash it out. If you know how to do your makeup and walk with confidence, you can definitely wear white. Ditch the negative stigmas associated with fair skin, and celebrate the fact that your vampiric tendencies will hopefully help you avoid visible sun damage, or worse, skin cancer.
After that first event, I was really excited to experiment more with white attire, and by the party's second year, I felt ready for head-to-toe separates (see my white Theory suit here). I enjoyed the all-white, menswear-inspired evening look so much that I decided to put together a daytime version with a jersey tank, loose white denim, and simple black and silver accessories. A pop of color can give you a little more confidence trying an all-white ensemble, whether it's a brightly colored clutch or bold lip color. Luckily for me, I've got a pop of color permanently attached to my scalp.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – The goal for Friday night's friendly against Veracruz of the Mexican second division was to get 90 minutes for Seattle's starting unit against a team that plays the style of their CONCACAF Champions League opponents next month in Tigres UANL.
On both sides of the ball the Sounders were able to execute that game plan, however, despite creating several chances to score the goals didn't come and the match finished in a 0-0 draw.
"It gives us some good talking points as to what we can expect when we play Tigres," Sounders FC head coach Sigi Schmid said. "We had opportunities to score three-four goals in the first half. We didn't finish well. The goalkeeper came up big on one or two, as well. If we finish those chances then the game would have been a little bit different for us. Overall, I'm pleased that we got 90 minutes in."
The Sounders started off the match strong, working the ball around the field in the Veracruz end with ease, and looked like they would get on the board in the seventh minute when Eddie Johnson got into space on the right side of the box and shot to the far post, hitting the inside of the post where it was cleared off the line by the defense.
The Sounders continued to press for the goal and in the 15th minute Mario Martinez sent a fantastic ball from Seattle's own end to slip Johnson behind the Veracruz defense again. With nothing but grass and the goalkeeper between him and a 1-0 lead Johnson looked to be poised to give Seattle the advantage, but he was pulled down from behind by Raul Rico for a red card ejection.
Given the nature of the preseason friendly, the teams agreed before the match that players would be replaced on the field in the event of a red card, so Veracruz was allowed to play at full strength for the rest of the match.
For a stretch after the ejection, Veracruz played the ball back and forth along the backline, attempting to create space in the Seattle defense to start an attack. Steve Zakuani was able to break up that plot though, breaking away and picking off a pass, carrying it into the box before having his shot saved by the Yoin Urbina, who would be tested throughout the night.
Seattle continued to create chances on the offensive side, but the second half also saw plenty of action for the Sounders defense.
In the 78th minute Veracruz earned a corner kick and two point-blank headers were saved off the line by Michael Gspurning, who continued his scoreless preseason with the shutout.
In the 84th minute, Gspurning made another diving stop at the post and despite several efforts on goal in the final minutes, the Sounders weren't able to take advantage and the match finished in a scoreless draw.
"People got into the box, I thought we were around there," Schmid said. "Again, it's that fine-tuning of finishing under pressure that practice can't quite replicate. Only games can replicate it so it was good to have a game today to do that."
The Sounders will meet Real Salt Lake on Saturday in the final match of their preseason prep for the 2013 season in the Desert Diamond Cup final. The match will be televised nationally on NBC Sports Network with a scheduled start time of 5 pm PT.
Sounders FC – None.
Veracruz – None.
Sounders FC – Zach Scott (caution) 81.
Veracruz – Raul Rico (ejection) 15.
Sounders FC – Michael Gspurning, DeAndre Yedlin, Zach Scott, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Leo Gonzalez, Mario Martinez (David Estrada 62), Osvaldo Alonso, Brad Evans, Steve Zakuani, Mauro Rosales, Eddie Johnson.
Veracruz (starters) - Yoin Urbina, Raul Rico, Omar Dominguez, Guillermo Chavez, Orlando Pineda, Jose Luis Lopez, Jorge Manrique, Braulio Luna, Rafael Medina, Pablo Torres, Alvaro Estrada.


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With only a month to go, Ellie is practicing her curtsy for Christie's wedding. We think she'll be just fine with the task of scattering flower petals, but she also demonstrates her classiness twirling Mish's bridesmaid parasol.
Thanks to Kyle's new (and almost old) job at RCWilley, we scored free tickets to Lagoon, Utah's prized amusement park and enjoyed an exhausting day there yesterday. Coming from Portland's ghetto Oaks Park, I was quite impressed with their repertoire of rides, as was Ellie.
Here we just flew down the log flume ride, similar to Disneyland's Splash Mountain, minus the music, characters, and magical ambiance. We still thought it similar to a romantic gondola ride, though.
Kyle and I embraced (me with reservations) every screamer at the park, and there were more than just a few thrillers. Fortunately for us, Mish shuns the roller coaster genre so was kind enough to watch the kids while we submitted to every moment of insanity these coasters offered, and let me tell you, human kids are getting harder and harder to scare...
These next few shots are Didi's first photographically-captured smiles. He is now at the age where gas has no relation to some of his smiles and we just can't get enough of those gums, not to mention the little dimples that emerge from his tubby cheeks. Speaking of which, at his recent doctor's appointment the kid weighed in at a whopping 13.11, which happens to be in the 90th percentile. It's quite a shift from our little runt of an Ellie, though we find both extremes to be quite adorable.
Last week Ellie experienced her first non-kiddie swimming pool, and the novelty ceased to wear off for the entire hour or so she was in there. She was the only person under 20 in the pool (it was my friend Kjerstin's birhday party) so she soaked up plenty of attention, too, which is what Ellie's do best, of course.
Bryce celebrated his 26th last Friday (the same day our darling new niece Nora was born) with a manly night out to steak dinner and the new Transformers movie and topped it off with this manly strawberry cake.
Only a week and a half until we make the finishing touches on our permanent departure from Provo... and Ellie's exploring that fourth of Chinese that must be in her somewhere. We can't wait to see her running around preschool in a chi-pow with a load of Asian babies. We think she'll blend right in.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
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With only a month to go, Ellie is practicing her curtsy for Christie's wedding. We think she'll be just fine with the task of scattering flower petals, but she also demonstrates her classiness twirling Mish's bridesmaid parasol.
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Sunday, July 08, 2007
Big Buddha
How about rubbing this belly for good luck!
I guess I'm not sure why I bother putting cute clothes on my kids at the beginning of the day. They much prefer nudity, but I guess I don't mind that either. I think this one is supposed to be a cuddle.
And this one's supposed to be a hug.
And this one a kiss. I think Didi's feeling the love.
And then when she DOES wear pants... sort of...
After five years of complacency, I finally relented to hike Y mountain. The arduous journey was no sweat, literally, for Kyle, while I huffed, puffed and panted my way through seemingly endless switchbacks until we turned a corner and there lay the loveliest slab of painted cement I've ever laid eyes on. It was a great workout, a wonderful view, and I just couldn't feel like a genuine BYU alumna without having hiked the Y. So, congratulations me! I am a real graduate now.
Kyle tried to get me to think we still had a ways to go, and I was still trying to get him to carry we the rest of the way, and then I looked up and there it was. Oo, if I'd have had a spare calorie of energy, I'd have jumped for joy.
oops, I meant to put in an aerial shot of Provo here, but I guess the parking lot will do.
Here's my victory Y.
4th of July was a fun but exhausting day, commencing with a community parade (quarter of a million people strong) and concluding with the Stadium of Fire fireworks show after dark. It was selling nachos at Stadium of Fire three years ago that Kyle and I first fell in love, so we have even more to celebrate at this time of year than the birth of America.
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The other day my youngest son was watching CNN with me. The images were of dead fish washed upon the shore, and birds covered in slick black oil. The story, of course, was about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In all his 8 year old wisdom he said, "It makes me sad because I want to do something, but I really can't."
That's how I often feel about so much I see in the news, but I wanted to show him it wasn't true. I wanted to show him that you can make a difference, no matter how small you feel.
After a little research, I found out that there's an organization called "Matter of Trust". This organization makes booms out of human and animal hair which they stuff into stockings. It sounds crazy, but apparently these booms are very effective at soaking up the oil and are re-usable.
FACT: 1 pound of hair can absorb 1 quart of oil in 1 minute and be reused up to 100 times.
I called our regular hair stylist at Hair Cuttery and said, "I have a weird question…" I fully expected her to have no clue what I was going on about, but she enthusiastically informed me that they do participate in the program and donate all the hair they cut.
When I explained all of this to my son, he was very excited. The next day, we headed over to Hair Cuttery. We signed in and then browsed the books until he found a hair style that he liked.
The stylist put him up on a booster seat, (because even though he's 8 years old, he's only in the 5th percentile for height. Puro guanaquito!), and I took his photo before the hair cutting began.
Afterwards, my husband and I paid for the haircut, but our son pulled a few dollars from his own pocket to tip the hair stylist.
When I asked him how he felt he said, "Great! I like my haircut and I helped the animals in the Gulf of Mexico."
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Schwartz was a Satmar Hasidic Jew who lived in the village of Kiryas Joel — a place we read about in the Supreme Court case Board of Education of Kiryas Joel v. Grument:
The residents of Kiryas Joel are vigorously religious people who make few concessions to the modern world and go to great lengths to avoid assimilation into it. They interpret the Torah strictly; segregate the sexes outside the home; speak Yiddish as their primary language; eschew television, radio, and English language publications; and dress in distinctive ways that include headcoverings and special garments for boys and modest dresses for girls. Children are educated in private religious schools, most boys at the United Talmudic Academy where they receive a thorough grounding in the Torah and limited exposure to secular subjects, and most girls at Bais Rochel, an affiliated school with a curriculum designed to prepare girls for their roles as wives and mothers. See generally, W. Kephart & W. Zellner, Extraordinary Groups (4th ed. 1991); I. Rubin, Satmar, An Island in theAccording to the NYT article (the first link):
Like many Hasidim, Mrs. Schwartz considered bearing children as her tribute to God. A son-in-law, Rabbi Menashe Mayer, a lushly bearded scholar, said she took literally the scriptural command that "You should not forget what you saw and heard at Mount Sinai and tell it to your grandchildren."


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a swap might be possible. I'm getting a Roadster Sport 2.0 this weekend that is Siver with the black alloy wheels. When I've used the design tool, I've like the appearance better with the silver alloy wheels. I'll know better when I see the car in person this weekend. If you'd like to discuss, email me at email@example.com
Factory silver wheels are cast aluminum, but there are also forged wheels that look exactly like the black wheels except that they are silver. Those are the three wheel types available on modern Roadsters, but there are a couple of other variations from the past. The local Seattle Tesla Store has five different examples of wheels in total, and only a couple are mere color variations on the same wheel.


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Jon Stewart unleashed his comedic wrath on Senate majority leader Harry Reid on Wednesday, spearing him for claiming Mitt Romney's dead father, George, would be ashamed of his son.
"I can't believe you just went dead dad shame on Mitt Romney," said an agast Stewart.
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Senator Reid said he spoke with a Bain insider who told him the presidential candidate hasn't paid his taxes for 10 years.
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The late night host remarked that wild speculation over the nature of Romney's taxes is more in line with the job of a late night comic, rather than a senator.
"You know what Harry Reid, if you're not going to fact check anything that comes out of your mouth, I will," Stewart declared.
Pulling out an Ouija board, Stewart proceeded to channel the ghost of Romney's father, to ask whether he was proud of his son.
With his hands on the planchette, Stewart was guided to his answer: Yes.
"Oh wait, there's more!" Stewart began, before launching into a heated tirade, purportedly on behalf of George Romney, defending his son.
"I had no idea how precise these things were," Stewart quipped.
To see Stewart's séance, check out the clip below, courtesy of Comedy Central:


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Last spring, with Summit at Sea fast approaching, we asked our community a simple questions: "What is one thing that you, your company, or your industry can do to protect the ocean?"
The answers we received were funny, poignant, and creative. We posted them on sharktagyoureit.com as part of a competition to go shark tagging at Summit with the University of Miami.
One attendee had a particularly innovative response. Kristofor Lofgren, founder of Bamboo Sushi, the country's first sustainable sushi restaurant, presented the idea to use revenue from his restaurant to help create marine protected areas where fish could find sanctuary and reproduce.
The shark tagging expedition had an immediate impact. Blake Mycoskie announced a shark shoe for 2012 and committed $25,000 to the University of Miami's shark program.
Kristen Bell talked about the 200,000 sharks slaughtered daily for their fins on the Tonight Show.
The campaign hit millions.
Then we got a call from Kristofor. He had a $250,000 check and a plan: "Let's create a marine protected area together."
Turns out, twenty miles from where the ship anchored at Summit at Sea there's a sanctuary that needs help. It's one of the most ecologically diverse areas in the Bahamas and was named a marine protected area (MPA) a decade ago.
But it's a sanctuary only in name. There's no infrastructure, not a single enforcement, officer, and no protection.
The Nature Conservancy needs $500,000 to get the park running. Thanks to Kristofor, Bamboo Sushi and others, we've raised more than 400K.
Now we're turning to the most giving community we know--all of you--to help with the last $100,000.
Tim Ferriss just announced that he will match every dollar up to $25,000.
Get involved. Donate what you can.
Even better... donate and join our team and become a fundraiser.
We know you are the most connected people on the planet, so let's kick those networks into action.
Summit Series events last three days. This is an opportunity to make an impact that will last a lifetime.
Also, if you give $10 or more right now, you'll be entered to go shark tagging with the University of Miami and help them out with their research and tracking program. Travel expenses not included. Check out all the boring rules below.
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From 1972 to 1989, the foundations for high-rise residence halls never completed stood abandoned near the site of Liberty University's football stadium. In their own peculiar way, the foundations became a monument to the university's vision for the future.
Now, on a different site, plans are being made for the campus's first high-rise residence tower, 40 years after the residence halls were first envisioned. In fact, the same company that started the project in the early 1970s, English Construction, was awarded the contract for this project, which is scheduled to begin this spring.
The eight-story tower is expected to be completed in time for the 2014-15 academic year. It will provide 1,200 beds, enough to replace all 16 "temporary" residence halls built in the 1970s in Liberty's Champion Circle housing area. Then, once the remaining Circle population has been accommodated, Liberty plans to construct another 1,200-bed high-rise tower and additional towers as needed.
The residence halls are part of a general transformation of the Liberty campus, which includes new academic buildings and an expansive quad with a lake and lawn that will serve as a central common area for studying, socializing, and relaxing with a gorgeous view of the Blue Ridge Mountains. At the heart of the campus is the state-of-the art Jerry Falwell Library, now under construction. All new buildings will feature a modern version of Jeffersonian architecture.
The kickoff for the residence hall project will begin with the demolition of residence halls 1-4 on Champion Circle next to the Vines Center, the school's primary assembly and athletic facility. About 350 students were relocated to off-campus housing at the former Lynchburg Quality Inn, which the university recently purchased.
The Quality Inn building is adjacent to Liberty's Residential Annex (the former Lynchburg Inn), which has its own dining hall and about 500 beds. Students at both sites will share the dining hall, and frequent bus service will continue to and from campus.
Sophomore Louis Hensler shared his excitement when he heard he would be moving.
"All of the guys are sticking together, so I'm happy about that," he said. "I think it's good that Liberty is trying to grow and expand. I'm excited the campus is getting nicer and improving. I think overall it is a good thing for the university."
As Liberty expands its on-campus amenities, it should be able to accommodate future growth and bring its student body closer to campus. Liberty Chancellor and President Jerry Falwell, Jr. said the objective is to reduce the need for transient automobile traffic to and from the campus that clogs roadways and requires construction of parking lots for commuters. "Students will be able to ride bikes, walk, and ride buses to and from campus," he said.
Within a decade or so, the new residence facilities will be able to house Liberty's East Campus population (2,800 beds) in addition to the entire Circle and Annex population. At that point, the university will consider selling both hotels, Falwell explained. East Campus would then become Liberty-owned student apartments, accommodating many students who now commute several miles daily.
Private real estate developers have also indicated that they may build housing complexes near the school. One concept would allow students to rent rooms around a common living area without the need for a standard lease legally obligating roommates for each other's rent.
Liberty acquires Sears building to assist in transition
Liberty purchased the former Sears building at River Ridge Mall for $6.9 million in October 2012. The 112,000-square-foot building, with 700 parking spaces, will be used in the short term to house Liberty's non-academic departments, freeing up space for several academic departments to relocate while their buildings are being demolished and new ones are built.
Once the new academic buildings are constructed, faculty and staff from those departments will move to their new spaces on main campus and the university plans to vacate the Sears property. Liberty has presented a proposal for the site to eventually become a new Lynchburg Civic Center, with the university as its primary tenant.


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Paul V. Conley, 69, Wabash, died at 5:58 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Home in Fort Wayne. He was born June 20, 1944 in Lackey, Ky. to Dennis and Hazel (Wicker) Conley.
Paul married Karen E. Cooley in Wabash on June 22, 1963. He retired from Ford Meter Box in 1998 after 34 years. He attended the Southside Freewill Baptist Church. Paul was a member of the National Rifle Association and the Wabash Wildlife Club. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, gun collecting, and spending time with his family, especially his grandkids.
He is survived by his wife, Karen E. Conley, Wabash; two daughters, Melissa Gatt, Wabash, and Teresa (Alfred IV) Plummer, Noblesville; four grandchildren, Derrick Gatt, Fort Wayne, Caitlin Gatt, Wabash, Alexandra Plummer and Ryan Plummer, both of Noblesville; brother, Ralph Conley; and sister, Anna (Denny) Correll, both of Wabash. He was preceded in death by his brother, Billy Conley Sr., and his sister Sally Begley.
Funeral services were held at Grandstaff-Hentgen Funeral Service on July 8, with Pastor Tim Webb officiating. Burial followed in Falls Cemetery, Wabash.
Preferred memorial is Animal Shelter of Wabash County.
The memorial guest book for Paul may be signed at www.grandstaff-hentgen.com.


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