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Today marks six years of posting to this corner of the internet, and more than three years of daily drawing.  1189 daily sketches, 1413 entries, and 2433 comments so far - thanks for the encouragement, the wonder, and the sense of community. I'm incredibly grateful for all I've found in this process, and wonder what the next six years will bring...

More accurately known as Abeliophyllum distichum, it is the first shrub to bloom in our yard, with the faint fragrance of hyacinths. I cut a branch to bring inside, as it was too chilly to sit on the porch and draw this afternoon, and then I didn't find the quiet time for drawing until just before bedtime.

Tonight we observed Earth Hour, turning off all our lights from eight to nine p.m., as others did the same when it turned eight o'clock in their time zones around the world. We lit candles and finished cooking supper in the semi-darkness. We talked, listened to radio, and I drew. "Will we have Earth Hour every night now?" asked the youngest member of the family. "I like this." We turned some of the lights back on at nine, but the house felt quieter, calmer. I think we'll darken the house and have candles with dinner more often - see if a small gesture can give rise to a new habit.

28 March. The last day of spring vacation. Rainy and cold. My daughter and I spent much of the day playing with needle and thread and scraps of material. She made two very small pillows, doing almost all the sewing herself. One was plain, one had a picture in felt applique: a cherry tree in blossom and a little yellow chick. I helped with the chick's feet, and with knotting threads and turning corners. Also sewed two zippered pouches for myself. I could have gotten out the sewing machine and run the seams up quickly, but it was comforting to take the slow route. We listened to music and talked as we sewed.

27 March. Spent a while looking at the reflections and shadows on the surface.

26 March. Sent to us from Florida - the juiciest, sweetest fruit.

25 March. Restaurant lunch with a friend.

24 March. Apple on the counter. Older son went back to school today, after three weeks at home.

Easter Sunday, 2008.

22 March. A box in honor of all the virtual moving I've been doing lately. Hope to be settled soon...

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Houses and rooftops along Lawn Street, as seen from 2nd Avenue today. (I was sitting on a bench with my back to the Monongahela river, looking at the steep hillside with the line of houses along the top.)

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I walked around the house looking for signs of spring and found this sprouting potato in the kitchen. Spring is trying so hard to arrive - new growth bursts through old surfaces.

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Tomorrow is cardigan sweater day in Pittsburgh - people in the city will wear sweaters to honor the memory of Fred McFeely Rogers, who would have been 80 on March 20th.

Still a little more freelance work to do tomorrow, but for now, I'll draw the work instead of doing it.

The blog begins to go back to its regular content.  Images can be posted - comments are working.  (Sorry about the sign-in procedure - we were getting hideous spam attacks.)  I will be making various design adjustments to bring back a more familiar look, I'll get the RSS feeds back working again, and get the archived images in place, but the big news is that I've posted all the drawings made while on hiatus here.

Many, many thanks to Ms.Jen, who swept in to the rescue while I was at South by SouthWest, untangled my scripts, offered sage advice on my hosting situation, and even arranged for my absolution. If you are ever looking for a wise web developer...

17 March 2008.  Green peppers, bought to make chili tomorrow. Wasn't really thinking about St. Patrick's day when I decided to paint them.

16 March 2008. Headphones on the table - not plugged into anything right now.

15 March 2008. Red towel in the downstairs bathroom. We made a game of cleaning today,
and the house is considerably neater than it's been in a long time. (Plenty more to do, of course, but a day of progress.)

14 March 2008. First crocuses appear in a neighbor's yard.

13 March 2008. Walked home from school, with the sun shining in our faces. We stopped at the store to choose some things for supper, and found fresh pineapple there in a bin by the entry.

12 March 2008.  En route, Texas to Pennsylvania, looking out the airplane window to study the hazy jigsaw puzzle below.

11 March 2008.  Between sessions I took a break and sat on a balcony on the third floor of the convention center. Made notes on the drawing:

Balcony sounds - music from park, grackles, traffic, murmured conversations, brakes, a chair pulled closer to a table.

10 March 2008.  Another day of great conversations and ideas. Back in the room fairly
early, happy to pause, look, and not think about anything for a few minutes except paint and the shapes of this banana peel.

9 March 2008. DJs at a post-event party. I stood on the club balcony, talked out for the day, and drew and painted in semi-darkness.

8 March 2008.  Got to Austin. The conference is magnificent - a swirl of ideas and conversations. I am so happy to be here, reconnecting with friends and colleagues from conferences past, and meeting their friends and colleagues - an ever-widening circle. This is the second time I've been to this conference, and the experience improves along an exponential curve.

7 March 2008.  Holding a cup of coffee. Headed to Austin, Texas, for the South by SouthWest Interactive conference. My plane is delayed, and then the flight is apparently canceled. The airline puts me up at the airport hotel. I'll get to the conference a day later than I had planned.

6 March 2008.   Holding up the book. Empty book. Unusable blog. I am cranky about this.

5 March 2008.  A coin on the side table.

4 March 2008.  Hand. Waving? Reaching? Struggling with the blog software, and trying to remain patient.

3 March 2008. Almost empty, but if I rest it on its side, I can still find some to use.

2 March 2008. Less interested in the flower than in the vase, on this occasion.

1 March 2008. Thinking about juggling, but also just how much I like the heft of a beanbag in
my hand.

29 February 2008.  This was also my second full day of not being able to post images.  At the time, I didn't realize how long it would take to get up and running again.

A snowy field across from the school where I work. This was the image I painted just before my blog software hosting issues began.

Really and truly - just a couple more kinks to work out.

Meanwhile, I have been posting my images over on Flickr:  at , so if you'd like to see what I've been drawing, you can check over there.  (I'll bring them back here as soon as I can.)

Hoping this works once again. I had a very old custom index template and my own css style sheet - something I had altered and adjusted over the years to suit myself, and I think that some legacy code there may have been causing some of my troubles. So I've set those aside in favor of the MovableType 4.1 default layouts.

I am also hoping that my web host can figure out what's causing the server load issues so that I can get back to posting pictures again, and having comments, and using this blog as a space for quiet thought...

I am going to be going to South by SouthWest Interactive - a terrific web conference in Austin, Texas, day after tomorrow. If you happen to be there too, say hello - or contact me on twitter: elizabethperry.

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We should be back to normal operations. The only major hitch in the upgrade proceedings was that midway through running the final 4.1 upgrade script, mt-wizard.cgi, my web hosting service (who had asked me to run this upgrade in the first place) shut down my access to the script for drawing down too many server resources. Having spent an entire weekend afternoon running backups and troubleshooting, I was not happy. Fortunately they responded quickly to an email about the shutdown and I was able to conclude running the upgrade this morning.

I'm still not sure what caused the original server load problem - I'm off to compare my custom blog index template with one of the default templates, to see if I can find something to fix there. Right now I suspect the issue is something to do with the image upload process, since that was where MovableType was slowing to a crawl before I updated, and I need to figure out if the update fixed that.

Postscript: And comments are broken. So that's the first thing to fix.

But not so quiet behind the scenes. Quick note of explanation:

Three days ago, my hosting service decided to disable the main script which allows me to update and maintain this blog. After various phone calls and email exchanges, they've re-enabled the script, and I am working to resolve the server load issue which caused the problem in the first place.

I will be taking a deep breath and upgrading my installation of Movable Type to version 4.1. If the site behaves oddly for a bit, that may be why. Until I get the update done and tested, I may not be posting pictures.

Anyway - yes, I'm still here, and yes, I'm still drawing every day, and I look forward to posting daily pictures again soon.

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This old townhouse has been restored a few years ago, maintaining its authentic style. Access to the house is directly from the main street, through a gate into a short private alley, remembering the old, narrow Arabic streets of Andalusia. The house is close to the Palacio de San Benito, the old Monastery of the order of Calatraba (XVI century), and Hospital for the pilgrims of the Camino de Santiago. Distance to the public swimming pool is only 300m and it is only 500m to the centre of town, monuments and walking tracks.

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How Divorce Affects Children

How children are affected by divorce is a question of huge importance to your children and, of course, to you. Sadly, experts sometimes are confused about how divorce affects children, and they can offer parents conflicting advice. That's why I emphasize what research tells us in The Truth about Children and Divorce. I especially focus on what parents can do to promote their children's well-being in the face of the sometimes dramatic changes divorce introduces into children's lives.

For concerned parents, perhaps the most important thing to know is that you can do much to promote your children's resilience. In fact, how you parent and work with your children's other parent basically is going to determine whether your children are resilient — or end up as a statistic. I tell you how to do this — practically and emotionally — in The Truth about Children and Divorce. (See Staying Together for Children, if you are debating whether or not to divorce.)

So how are children affected by divorce? The answer is not simple, which is one reason for much confusion.

First of all, divorce is almost always stressful for children. Most children do not want their parents to separate (unless the marriage was full of intense conflict and anger or other sources of misery not suitable for children). Divorce also can strain parent-child relationships, lead to lost contact with one parent, create economic hardships, and increase conflict between parents (including legal conflicts — for a way to avoid these see Emery's Divorce Mediation Study). For all these reasons, most children have a hard time during the divorce transition. How long the transition lasts depends upon on how calm or how chaotic you and your ex make it. Parents who do a good job managing the stresses of divorce for children often are surprised by how quickly their kids make the adjustment.

Second, divorce clearly increases the risk that children will suffer from psychological and behavioral problems. Troubled children are particularly likely to develop problems with anger, disobedience, and rule violations. School achievement also can suffer. Other children become sad for prolonged periods of time. They may become depressed, anxious, or become perhaps overly responsible kids who end up caring for their parents instead of getting cared for by them.

Third — and this is very important, the great majority of children whose parents divorce do not develop these kinds of serious behavioral or emotional problems. Most children from divorced families are resilient, especially when their parents do a reasonably good job managing the stress of divorce. These children — most children from divorced families — feel and function pretty much like kids whose parents are married. They are not "children of divorce." They are what we want all children to be: just kids.

Fourth — and this is also very important, many resilient children still report painful memories and ongoing worries about divorce, their relationships with their parents, and their parents' relationship with each other. Lisa Laumann-Billings and I (2000) studied the pain reported by 99 college students whose parents had divorced at least 3 years previously. Below is a graph of the percentage who reported painful feelings on some of our carefully structured items. Keep in mind as you look at these dramatic findings, pain is not pathology. Grief is not a mental disorder. Even though many of these young people expressed longing about their parents' divorce, these were resilient, well functioning college students. You may not be able to fully protect your children from the pain of divorce, and you probably shouldn't try. Children are entitled to their feelings. Children need to be allowed to grieve. Still, as I tell you how in The Truth about Children and Divorce, you can promote your children's resilience and do much to ease their pain.

Source: Laumann-Billings, L. &. Emery, R.E. (2000). Distress among young adults from divorced families. Journal of Family Psychology, 14, 671-687.


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First Cole forum features Cuomo, Carter, Laney

By Michael Terrazas

Emory’s first Kenneth Cole Forum for Community Building and Social Change, held on campus Feb. 20–21, got off to a rousing start last Wednesday night and didn’t slow down until the next afternoon.

Former New York governor Mario Cuomo kicked things off with his keynote address, Feb. 20 in Glenn Auditorium. Cuomo—father-in-law to Kenneth Cole, the 1976 Emory College graduate and benefactor behind both the forum and the new Kenneth Cole Fellowship program—delivered an energizing speech to a crowd of several hundred.

“After just a little more than 200 years, we’ve grown into the strongest, richest nation in the world’s history,” said Cuomo, who stepped down as New York governor in 1995 and now is a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Willkie Farr & Gallagher. “We have a right to be proud. But it would be a mistake to let our rightful pride tempt us into short-sightedness. We are nowhere near the more perfect union our founders talked about.”

Cuomo, the son of first-generation Italian immigrants, spent much of his address discussing the greatness of American potential and how much work is to be done in bringing that potential to the nation’s poor and undereducated. He listed a number of sobering statistics about the plight of the American worker in regard to health care, job skills and other parameters.

“But nothing about all these unpleasant realities suggests that the United States is not the greatest nation in the world,” Cuomo said. “That’s not the question. The question is, can we be better than we are?”

The Queens native gave Emory’s inaugural group of 21 Cole fellows plenty of grist for their social-consciousness mills, and the next day they and other forum attendees listened to more detailed information on a tragically timely subject: terrorism and homeland security.

Michael Rich, director of the Office of University-Community Partnerships, wondered aloud during the Feb. 21 morning session whether people would see the connection between terrorism and community building, but the nine panelists and three moderators (Rich included) for the day’s three sessions made abundantly clear how crucial a strong community is to America’s efforts to remain vigilant against terror in the wake of Sept. 11.

In the first session, “Terrorism and Homeland Security: A National Perspective,” former Emory president and ambassador to South Korea James Laney moderated a panel that included Wyche Fowler, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia and chair of the Middle East Institute; Frances Fragos-Townsend, director of intelligence for the U.S. Coast Guard; and Julie Gerberding, acting deputy director of the National Center for Infectious Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The next session focused on the same topic, but from a local and state perspective. Rollins School of Public Health Dean James Curran moderated the panel of James O’Neal, emergency medical services director for the state of Georgia; Scott Wetterhall, medical epidemiologist for the CDC; and Moses Ector, newly appointed director of Homeland Security for DeKalb County and former deputy assistant director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

That afternoon, the forum’s final panel focused on the community perspective. Rich moderated a panel that included Mark O’Connell, president of the United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta; Bill Bolling, executive director of the Atlanta Community Food Bank; and Aisha Jumaan, vice president of the Islamic Society of Atlanta.

Finally, former President Jimmy Carter delivered the forum’s concluding remarks. Making time in the middle of a major international conference being held at the Carter Center, the former president spoke of the increasing “chasm” between rich and poor, both globally and within the United States, “though even the poor people in this country are rich compared to others around the world.”

In keeping with the terrorism theme, Carter cautioned against labeling people as “terrorists” without attempting to understand them. This, in fact, was his primary lesson to the Cole fellows.

“I would hope one of the outcomes of this forum is that you don’t take broad, stigmatizing descriptions as fact, but that you get to know people you want to help.”


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RINL VSP Recruitment 2015: 350 Operator cum Technician (Trainee) Vacancies

Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited – Visakhapatnam Steel Plant (RINL-VSP), a Navratna Company under the Ministry of Steel, Government of India, invites applications from eligible candidates for recruitment of Operator cum Technician (Trainee) Posts. Only Male candidates are eligible to apply for the post. Selected candidates will be required to undergo training for a period of two years. On satisfactory completion of training, candidates will be considered for appointment on probation to regular post, that is, Operator cum Technician.

Latest Update A on 26-May-2015: The ON LINE REGISTRATION for the post of Operator-cum-Technician (Trainee) is further kept in abeyance up to 15.6.2015. The revised date for ON LINE REGISTRATION and the LAST DATE will be intimated later. Applicants should refer official website regularly for any further corrigendum.

Name of the Posts along with Vacancies: Operator cum Technician (Trainee) – 350 Posts
Mechanical Discipline – 225 vacancies
Electrical Discipline – 114 vacancies
Chemical Discipline – 11 vacancies

Educational Qualification: Candidate should have passed SSC/ Matriculation, with Diploma in Engineering (Mechanical Engineering/ Electrical Engineering/ Chemical Engineering with 60% marks for General/ OBC candidates, 50% marks for SC/ ST/ PWD candidates) from a recognized Board/ Institute.

Age Limit: Maximum 27 years for unreserved candidates, 30 years for OBC category candidates, and 32 years for SC/ ST category candidates as on 01-April-2015.

Stipend During Training: Rs. 10,700/- per month for first year, and Rs. 12,200/- per month for second year.

Pay Scale: Rs. 16,800 – 3% – 24,110/- (Grade- S3)

Application Fee: Rs. 300/-

  • Candidates can make the payment in form of challan in “RINL Recruitment Account No. 30589461220” at any branch of State Bank of India.
  • Candidates have to pay maximum bank commission @ Rs. 25/- per Challan for depositing fees at other than SBI, Steel Plant Branch, Visakhapatnam, Branch Code 6318.
  • SC/ ST candidates are exempted from payment of fee.

Note: Candidates should mention in the appropriate place in the online application form the details of SBI Branch, Branch Code, City, Date of Deposit and the Journal Number. Candidates should submit original counterfoil of the Challan (VSP’s copy) along with his Registration Slip at the time of Interview.

Mode of Selection: Selection will be made on the basis of Written Test, and Interview.

Important Dates:
Starting Date for Online Registration: 18-May-2015
Last Date for Deposit of Application Fee: 02-June-2015
Closing Date for Online Registration: 02-June-2015 (5:00 PM)
Date of Written Test: Mid July 2015

How to Apply: Eligible candidates may apply online only through the official website of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, www.vizagsteel.com. Log on to www.vizagsteel.com and click on the link “Careers”.

For more detail on this recruitment such as relaxation in age limit, reservations, detail insight on required experiences, selection process, physical standards, information on how to apply online, and other important guidelines please refer to official recruitment advertisement from Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, here Visakhapatnam Steel Plant Recruitment 2015 Advertisement for Operator cum Technician (Trainee) Posts.

All candidates whether in Government Service or in Government owned undertaking or other similar organizations/ Corporations/ Boards/ Bodies or in private employments should forward his/ her application through his/ her Controlling Officer/ Employer.

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a couple days late and sensitive to smell - Am I pregnant?

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I had a miscarriage on November 4, I had my first period on December 6th. Today I am officially at day 31 with no signs of AF. Prior to my MC my cycle was between 28 and 30 days on my average cycle.
Starting 2 days ago, my sensitivity to smells has gone crazy. This morning I gagged every time I walked through my kitchen. Went to work was fine then picked up some mexican for lunch and could barely eat it (didn't finish) because the smell was throwing me off so much. Tonight walked through my kitchen again and kept telling my husband it smelt bad but he smelt nothing. Then he was eating chicken noodle soup and I could barely sit next to him. My dinner of chicken smelt off but not bad but tasted funny. My husband once again said it smelt fine.

Since I'm only a couple days late I don't want to get my hopes up or anything.

When I was pregnant over the fall my breasts were extremely sore and I didn't have a sensitive nose but I did have slight cramping. Tonight I did have a couple slight twinges in my ovary areas (both sides) but only for a moment. Is it AF coming or am I pregnant.

Nervous to take a test to get bad news...

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From within complex structures of organisms and cells down to the molecular level, biological processes all involve movement. Muscular fibers slide on each other to activate the muscle, as polymerases do along nucleic acids for replicating and transcribing the genetic material. Cells move and organize themselves into organs by recognizing each other through macromolecular surface-specific interactions. These recognition processes involve the mu tual adaptation of structures that rely on their flexibility. All sorts of conformational changes occur in proteins involved in through-membrane signal transmission, showing another aspect of the flexibility of these macromolecules. The movement and flexibility are inscribed in the polymeric nature of essential biological macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids. For instance, the well-defined structures formed by the long protein chain are held together by weak noncovalent interac tions that design a complex potential well in which the protein floats, permanently fluctuating between several micro- or macroconformations in a wide range of frequencies and ampli tudes. The inherent mobility of biomolecular edifices may be crucial to the adaptation of their structures to particular functions. Progress in methods for investigating macromolecular structures and dynamics make this hypothesis not only attractive but more and more testable.Mahoney, W. C., Hermodson, M. A., Jones, B., Powers, D. D., Corfman, R. S. and Reek, J. R. (1984) J. Biol. ... 130, 2532-2536 Marion, D., Driscoll, P. C., Kay, L. E., Wingfield, P. T., Bax, Gronenborn, A. and Clore, G. M. (1989) ... 74, 557-564. Richardson, M. (1991) Methods Plant Biochem. 5, 259-305. Rydel, T. J., Ravichandran K. G., Tulinsky, A., Bode, W., Huber, ... Sambrook, J., Fritsch, E. F. and Maniatis, T. (1989) Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, 2nd ed., Cold Spring Harboranbsp;...

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35º20'10"N 094º10'23"W

420 feet

2.1 square miles (2000 Census)

2,289 (2010 Census)

Incorporation Date:

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Located near Arkansas Highways 22 and 96 in Sebastian County, Lavaca can trace its beginnings to the need for a stop for soldiers traveling along the Arkansas River. From its start as a landing in new and undiscovered territory, Lavaca has become a bedroom community of Fort Smith (Sebastian County), the second-largest city in Arkansas.

Louisiana Purchase through Early Statehood
In 1817, Fort Smith became the first U.S. military installation in the Southwest. Soldiers would travel from Little Rock (Pulaski County) to Fort Smith when they could, but shallow water and jutting bedrock halted boat travel at points, forcing them to travel by land.

In 1821, Major Benjamin Moore, a former Virginia resident, and William and Ben Moore Jr. settled at what became known as Moore’s Rock. This location connected the north of present-day Lavaca to Van Buren (Crawford County), directly across the river. Nearly eighteen miles downriver from Fort Smith, Major Moore cut a channel into the bedrock at his place to allow boats to pass. He completed this project at his own expense. This is the first connection to the settlement became Lavaca. Moore is considered the first person to raise cotton and tobacco in that part of the county. He built the first gristmill between Fort Smith and Little Rock.

Because of continued fighting among the Osage and Cherokee, in 1821, the U.S. government ordered the Seventh Infantry to move from Fort Scott, Kansas, and St. Louis Bay, Missouri, to Fort Smith. Under the command of General Mathew Arbuckle, the companies arrived at the post on February 26, 1822.

At the end of his long military service, Arbuckle obtained more than 20,000 acres of land. Part of this grant is a section called Arbuckle Island. The Crawford County Courthouse was nearby. Built in 1822, the courthouse was relocated to Van Buren after a deal was reached to redraw the county lines in 1836. Arbuckle Island and the surrounding area are all part of the present-day city of Lavaca.

Between 1824 and 1827, Congress passed bills authorizing construction of a system of military roads in Arkansas, all of which centered at Fort Smith. War Department planners believed this system of federal highways would not only improve the U.S. defense on the Southwestern frontier but would help the government relocate Indian tribes to just west of Fort Smith. The highway system was called Military Road. This Military Road came directly through the community of Oak Bower and the town of Lavaca. It emerged as wagons traveled along the river to bring soldiers and supplies to Fort Smith.

The land along Military Road, today’s Arkansas 96 and Lavaca’s Main Street, came to be called Military Grove in February 1870 with the establishment of a post office. By the 1880s, Military Grove was known as Oak Bower, so named for the area because of a large growth of established oak trees. Meanwhile, another community settlement was rising just to the west.

Oak Bower was just one mile east of the present site of Lavaca. By 1827, the village was thriving. On the north side of the settlement stood a cotton gin with a hand-carved press screw that operated the box where the bales were pressed and tied down. The nearby Big Creek frequently overflowed and would flood homes and businesses. It was not long until the railroad arrived, roughly following the Military Road route.

Civil War through the Gilded Age
Deciding that the area around Oak Bower was unsuitable, the Arkansas Central Railroad Company opted to build its depot farther west to the location of the present-day town of Lavaca. When the railroad and depot were completed in 1897, there were four daily stops in Oak Bower/Lavaca.

Spanish-speaking railroad workers supposedly referred to the area as “La Vaca,” Spanish for “the cow,” in reference to the fields filled with cattle where the depot was located. It was not long until the names Oak Bower and Lavaca appeared together on land plats and other documents. Locating the depot to the area west of town sounded the death knell for the original Oak Bower.

Men of the area answered the call to service during the Civil War. Young men enlisted for both the North and South. On July 4, 1862, a large rally was held at Big Creek, an area to the north of Lavaca, where dozens of citizens, caught up in a fever of patriotism, signed up and left for immediate service.

James. B. Harwood built a large building and became the first postmaster of Lavaca in 1881. When he registered the post office, he was told an incorporated town in Arkansas already had the name of Oak Bower, so the town was named Lavaca.

Early Twentieth Century through the Modern Era
Just before the beginning of the twentieth century, and soon after, widespread growth hit the town. The population of Lavaca grew quickly, and businesses sprang up to meet the needs of the people. The Lavaca Coronet Band serenaded the community on Saturday nights under the gigantic oak trees. By 1930, Lavaca had five grocery stores, two cotton gins, livery stables, blacksmith shops, a garage, and four saloons. Silent films were shown on the side of the livery stable. When the talking movies came, Lavaca opened its first and only theater.

When the Great Depression was ending and World War II was beginning, Lavaca experienced an economic crisis. Many people had to move to find work in other states, and returning soldiers found few jobs in the area. Local farmers began growing a hybrid of the boysenberry and the raspberry called the Lavacaberry. Dozens of acres of Lavacaberry bushes were planted, and berry sheds sprang up. The success of the Lavacaberry was due to its quick popularity with local customers as well as wholesalers. The berry saved the economy as shipments were sent near and far by rail and truck. Grocers in nearby Fort Smith are blamed for the demise of the berry‘s untimely passing. Other growers dropped prices to compete with local growers until it was no longer worth growing the berries for sale. Slowly, local growers plowed over their berry fields to plant tomatoes and other vegetables. Several residents still have Lavacaberry fields, but nothing as large as it was in their prime.

Instead, many former Lavacaberry fields have been filled with subdivisions, modern houses, and winding streets as Lavaca has changed from its beginning as a settlement on the Arkansas River to become a bedroom community for nearby Fort Smith. The Lavaca Historical Museum, located in the middle of downtown Lavaca, celebrates the past of the community. Located in one of the original four turn-of-the-century brick buildings, the museum houses artifacts from Lavaca, as well as the surrounding areas that have become a part of the town.

Education and Religion
The Lavaca School District is made up of the consolidated school districts of smaller communities, many of which were one-room school houses. From its beginnings in a one-room church, the school now boasts three campuses with nearly 900 students. Ambitious plans to provide a quality education are underway to handle the tremendous growth that the area is currently enjoying.

The Lavaca Assembly of God, Methodist, and First Baptist churches provide the area with its spiritual guidance as well as preschool programs. In fact, the Baptist church boasts a membership that outnumbers the population of the city. The Reverend Vic Nixon, Methodist minister and 1958 graduate of Lavaca High School, officiated at the marriage ceremony of a young Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham.

For additional information:
Bearss, Edwin C., and A. M. Gibson. Fort Smith: Little Gibraltar on the Arkansas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

The Goodspeed Histories of Sebastian County, Arkansas. Columbia, TN: Woodward & Stinson Publishing Co., 1977.

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For years, Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) officials tried to make due with an inefficient, outdated HVAC system at its 50,000 square-foot facility in West Chester, PA  Designed and installed in 1978, the system was breaking down, costing the nonprofit thousands of dollars a year in maintenance fees.

This past spring, the system failed."We were operating on borrowed time," says Kim Hall, president of the historical society.

With financial support from a $250,000 PA Conservation Works! grant – funded through the federal Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program and the Recovery Act – CCHS purchased a new Desert-Aire HVAC system Several foundations and private donors paid the remaining costs of the $580,000 project.  According to CCHS, the system is expected to save the organization about $27,500 annually.

The multi-phase project was completed just as summer's hottest days approached and was installed by Brandywine Valley Heating and Air Conditioning of West Chester. "They were our saviors," Hall says.

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The upgrade is a relief to CCHS officials, who were concerned the old system's faulty climate controls would result in damaging centuries-old collections at the history center's Horticultural Hall.   "It was a very important stewardship matter," Hall notes.
Constructed in 1848 by famed architect Thomas U. Walter, designer of the U.S. Capitol's dome, the hall hosted Pennsylvania's first women's rights convention and speeches by Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

The building is home to exhibits featuring Chester County furniture dating back to the 1700s including tall case clocks and spice boxes. The new system is guarding these artifacts by keeping temperatures stable and moisture down.

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The project has helped CCHS' bottom line. The constant repairs on the old system took a toll on the annual operational budget, costing CCHS over $4,400 in 2008."We lowered our maintenance expenses," Hall says. "Our overall energy consumption is lower," she adds.
CCHS anticipates the energy savings will enable the organization to spend more on its educational mission including school and youth programs, lectures, seminars and workshops.

The project created three full time jobs during the system's installation and CCHS hopes the savings will eventually lead to increased staffing. "It's an important part of the overall plan to get people back to work," according to Hall.

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The energy efficient and low maintenance HVAC system also has an unexpected benefit. "From a noise pollution perspective, it's much better," Hall says. When the previous system switched on, it would make a "monstrous" sound, she says. The new system is quiet, humming at 72.3 decibels, which is roughly the same level as a normal conversation.

CCHS is looking to find even more ways to conserve energy. "We are going to get a lighting assessment done and re-lamp as much as possible," says Hall.

The HVAC project has made a significant impact as CCHS continues to preserve Pennsylvania's history and culture. "The importance for us is the maintenance of the collection and the ability to remain open to the public," Hall notes.  "The ability to have good environmental controls is what we are about."


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This throng of temptations may explain why childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions, they said.

The collection of studies, published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine, together suggest environmental factors and policies conspire to challenge the health of children in America.

"We have in our schools and communities a perfect storm that will continue to feed the childhood obesity epidemic until we adopt policies that improve the health of our communities and our kids," Frank Chaloupka, an economics professor the University of Illinois at Chicago, said in a statement.

While too many calories and too little exercise explain how children become obese, the research looks at environmental factors that contribute to these behaviors, and suggests policy changes that could make healthy choices easier.

"The environment that they live in matters," said Lisa Powell of the University of Illinois at Chicago, who studied restaurant and food store options in the neighborhoods and food-related television advertising aimed at teens.

She said when people cannot get to supermarkets but instead must rely on the convenience stores that proliferate in many poor neighborhoods, families end up eating less healthy food.

Lower-income neighborhoods also tend to have a higher proportion of fast-food restaurants, and black urban neighborhoods have the highest percentage of fast-food restaurants.

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An example of foreshadowing is the story in the Prologue that the Moonstone is cursed.

Foreshadowing is a hint at something that is going to happen later in the story.

The prologue not only explains the Moonstone’s rich and significant history, it also explains how it became cursed and how the guardian priests watch it.

[The] Moonstone passed (carrying its curse with it) from one lawless Mohammedan hand to another; and still, through all chances and changes, the successors of the three guardian priests kept their watch…

These events turn out to be important, because the Moonstone does cause chaos in the genteel English family in the story.  Also, Victorians were highly interested in India and stories like this.  Setting up the mystery by describing this story makes it clear that something spooky is going to happen, and that there is something mysterious about the diamond—and trouble comes to whoever owns it or carries it.

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This is clearly a short story.  People might disagree on how long a work must be to be called a novel, but "A Rose for Emily" is definitely short enough to qualify as a short story.

You might be interested in knowing there is a kind of middle ground, which we call a "novella."  This is a work that is too long to be a short story and too short to be a novel.  One example is The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.

According to the Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory (Cudden and Preston), there is substantial disagreement, but most scholars classify a work as a novel if it is between 60,000 and 200,000 words.  That is not very helpful for most of us, who do not want to count the words in any book, but we are stuck a definition like this because page counts will differ every time a book is published by a different publisher.

The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms & Literary Theory notes that there is also disagreement about what constitutes a short story and points out a range from about 800 words to about 30,000 words.

Although the Penguin Dictionary does not give a word count for the novella, it seems that a novella's word count would fall between that of a short story and a novel.

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In Julia Alvarez’s poem “Exile” she thinks about her family and how they left their homeland. She had to adjust to NYC and this is a concern in the poem.

The voice in the poem is very innocent, like a child. Her memories are a child’s . She remembers her father as in, “worried whispers,” and she remembers her uncle, as in his “phony chuckles," and her mother made promises to them , as in, “there was a better surprise” in the end after they move to America.

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The poem is mainly about all the conflicts and adjustments that people in exile must face when they are living away from their homelands.

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“Where Is the Voice Coming From?” raises the question of how an author can make a story tell the truth when basing his or her work on so-called facts that do not agree. The story is written in the narrator’s voice, which may well be taken as the author’s own voice, as he ponders the various historical traces of an event that occurred more than one hundred years ago.

A young Cree Indian, Jean-Baptiste, best known as Almighty Voice, is arrested for stealing and killing a stray cow owned by the U.S. government. He is held in the police guardroom at Duck Lake, Saskatchewan Territory, in the charge of Constable R. C. Dickson. Somehow he manages to escape. Dickson is later cited for negligence and punished.

While being pursued, Almighty Voice shoots and kills Sergeant Colin Campbell near Prince Albert, after warning him three times not to advance. Almighty Voice becomes a much-wanted fugitive. Although a reward of five hundred dollars is offered for his capture, he succeeds in eluding his pursuers for more than eighteen months.

The escape ends in a standoff on May 27, 1897. On a poplar bluff near the Minnechinas Hills in the Prince Albert District, Almighty Voice and two friends face an armed force of more than one hundred police officers, civilians, and Prince Albert volunteers. With two Winchester rifles between them, the three fugitives manage to kill two police officers and one civilian volunteer, while, incredibly, holding...

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Maven Usage

Example Usage

In this example, the "exception" object is a Fest assertion enhanced ExpectedException (look for my next post to expose this functionality). The expected exception will make assertions and in order to test those, the test case must be marked as @ExpectedFailure

public class ExceptionAssertTest {

    public ExpectedException exception = ExpectedException.none();

    public ExpectedTestFailureWatcher watcher = ExpectedTestFailureWatcher.instance();

    @ExpectedFailure("The matcher should fail becasue exception is not a SimpleException")
    public void assertSimpleExceptionAssert_exceptionIsOfType() {
        // expected exception will be of type "SimpleException"
        // throw something other than SimpleException...expect failure
        throw new RuntimeException("this is an exception");

Implementation of Solution

Reminder, the latest code is available on my github page.

@Rule code (

import org.junit.rules.TestRule;
import org.junit.runner.Description;
import org.junit.runners.model.Statement;
// YEAH Guava!!
import static;

public class ExpectedTestFailureWatcher implements TestRule {

     * Static factory to an instance of this watcher
     * @return New instance of this watcher
    public static ExpectedTestFailureWatcher instance() {
        return new ExpectedTestFailureWatcher();

    public Statement apply(final Statement base, final Description description) {
        return new Statement() {
            public void evaluate() throws Throwable {
                boolean expectedToFail = description.getAnnotation(ExpectedFailure.class) != null;
                boolean failed = false;
                try {
                    // allow test case to execute
                } catch (Throwable exception) {
                    failed = true;
                    if (!expectedToFail) {
                        throw exception; // did not expect to fail and
                // placed outside of catch
                if (expectedToFail && !failed) {
                    throw new ExpectedTestFailureException(getUnFulfilledFailedMessage(description));

             * Extracts detailed message about why test failed
             * @param description
             * @return
            private String getUnFulfilledFailedMessage(Description description) {
                String reason = null;
                if (description.getAnnotation(ExpectedFailure.class) != null) {
                    reason = description.getAnnotation(ExpectedFailure.class).reason();
                if (isNullOrEmpty(reason)) {
                    reason = "Should have failed but didn't";
                return reason;

@ExpectedFailure custom annotation (

import java.lang.annotation.*;

 * Initially this is just a marker annotation to be used by a JUnit4 Test case in conjunction
 * with ExpectedTestFailure @Rule to indicate that a test is supposed to be failing
@Target(value = ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface ExpectedFailure {
    // TODO: enhance by adding specific information about what type of failure expected
    //Class assertType() default Throwable.class;

     * Text based reason for marking test as ExpectedFailure
     * @return String
    String reason() default "";

Custom Exception (Optional, you can easily just throw RuntimeException or existing custom exception)

public class ExpectedTestFailureException extends Throwable {
    public ExpectedTestFailureException(String message) {

Can't one exploit the ability to mark a failure as expected?

With great power comes great responsibility, it is advised that you do not mark a test as being @ExpectedFailure if you do not understand exactly why the test if failing. It is recommended that this testing method be implemented with care. DO NOT use the @ExpectedFailure annotation as an alternative to @Ignore

Possible future enhancements could include ways to specify the specific assertion or the specific message asserted during the test case execution.

Known issues

In this current state, the @ExpectedFailure annotation can cover up additional assertions and until the future enhancements have been put into place, it is advised to use this methodology wisely.

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Add JUnit support in Eclipse project
hi mike, this is crazy stuff. Thanks for posting the code. I am trying to make this work in my project. Once done, will write a blog post on my findings.


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Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Placing Economic Value on Africa's Natural Resources

Wealth accounting and the valuation of ecosystem services are critical to Africa's future growth, as the continent undergoes unprecedented development,  Projections point, for example, to broad-based acceleration in growth in Sub-Saharan Africa to around 5.5 per cent in 2013-2014, reflecting robust domestic demand and increased investment in export-oriented sectors as the main economic drivers, according to the IMF World Outlook 2013.

Natural capital is a critical asset, especially for low-income countries, where it makes up around 36 per cent of total wealth, according to recent World Bank estimates. Achieving long term development and poverty alleviation in Africa relies on the sustainable and optimal management of the natural resource base.

The international conference on "Valuation and Accounting of Natural Capital for Green Economy (VANTAGE)" in Africa - [which took] place in Nairobi on 3 and 4 December 2013 - [brought] together African ministers,  renowned economists, scientists and development experts to review and recommend policy action towards incorporating the valuation of natural resources and ecosystems services in development planning and accounting.

UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, Achim Steiner, said, "Natural accounting and valuation is not a fringe activity, but a cornerstone of the wealth of nations upon which sustainable, equitable and prosperous societies will be built."...
In Kenya, for example, deforestation stripped the country's economy of an estimated US $68 million in 2010, dwarfing the economic benefits gained from industries such as forestry and logging.

According to the World Bank, Africa's population is expected to increase by approximately 800 million people by 2040.  This projected increase will put even more pressure on the continent's natural resources.
Innovative wealth indicators
Recent years have seen a growing recognition that a new system of resource valuation and accounting is urgently needed, in particular to help countries more accurately assess the wealth and wellbeing of their populations.

In May 2012, 10 African countries, along with various public and private organizations, adopted the Gaborone Declaration, which outlines a set of concrete principles and development goals that include valuing natural capital in the development planning process.

One month later, the Rio+20 Summit outcome document, The Future We Want - endorsed by more than 190 countries - called for broader measures of progress to complement conventional indices, such as GDP.

Released alongside the Rio conference, the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 - published jointly by UNEP and the United Nations University's International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (UHU-IHDP) - provided a rethink of traditional economic and development yardsticks. It introduced a new indicator, known as the Inclusive Wealth Index (IWI), which is aimed at revealing the true state of a nation's wealth and the sustainability of its growth, beyond GDP.

For example, if measured by GDP, the economies of China, the United States, Brazil and South Africa grew by 422 per cent, 37 per cent, 31 per cent, and 24 per cent respectively between 1990 and 2008. However, when assessed by the IWI, the Chinese and Brazilian economies only increased by 45 per cent and 18 per cent. The United States' grew by just 13 per cent, while South Africa's actually decreased by 1 per cent.

In fact, a full 25 per cent of the countries studied by the report showed a positive trend when measured by GDP per capita and by the Human Development Index (HDI) were found to have a negative IWI per capita. The primary driver of this difference in performance was those countries' declines in natural capital.

Valuing ecosystems
Other recent studies have also explored the benefits of placing a value on critical natural resources.

A 2011 UNEP report entitled, Putting Ecosystem Management in the Vision of Africa's Development, focuses specifically on ecosystems and ecosystem services - which include the multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by ecosystems, from the production of food and water, to the control of climate and disease, to water cycling and crop pollination.

According to the report, growth accounting without explicit valuation of ecosystem services is an incomplete analytical framework
  • Forestry in Tanzania is officially close to 2.3 per cent of GDP, however research suggests that if the wider benefits are factored in, the real contribution is over 4 per cent of GDP.
  • Emerging research suggests that the contribution of the value of forests to the GDP of Uganda is around US $136 million, which amounts to about 4 per cent of GDP.
  • An estimated 486,000 work opportunities were created in South Africa in environmental rehabilitation programmes since 1995. In addition, 85,000 jobs were created through formal conservation of protected areas in game ranching and ecotourism. "Decoupling" resource consumption and economic growth.

It finds that there is an urgent need to increase national awareness of the role of ecosystem services in the development process and to work towards relevant legislation and institutional reforms.

Ecosystems serve a myriad of purposes in both the earth's natural processes and in human life, and contribute significantly to a nation's wealth. Without full valuation of less-tangible benefits from ecosystems, their exploitation will remain unsustainable and degradation inevitable.

Placing a value on natural resources also demands a rethink of the traditional links between resource use and economic prosperity - separating environmental "bads" from economic "goods".

By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tonnes of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year - three times its current appetite - unless the economic growth rate is "decoupled" from the rate of natural resource consumption.

According to a UNEP report entitled, Decoupling natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth, technologies that have helped humanity extract ever-greater quantities of natural resources must be redirected to more efficient ways of using them.

Some improvements have been seen. Over the past century, pollution controls and other measures have reduced the environmental impacts of economic growth. And, thanks to innovations in manufacturing, product design and energy use - aided by the rising number of people living more efficient lifestyles in cities - the global economy has grown faster than resource consumption growth.

However, the report notes that those improvements have been relative. In absolute terms, total resource use grew eight-fold, from 6 billion tonnes in 1900 to 49 billion tonnes in 2000. It stresses that more remains to be done to reduce resource consumption while meeting the development needs of an equitable and sustainable society.

Deforestation in Kenya: a case study in natural resource accounting
In Kenya, recent economic valuations of the country's forests have catalyzed a response to conserve and rehabilitate that vast natural resource.Deforestation deprived Kenya's economy of an estimated 5.8 billion shillings (US $68 million) in 2010, far outstripping the roughly 1.3 billion shillings injected from forestry and logging each year, according to a joint report by the Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and UNEP.

The Role and Contribution of Montane Forests and Related Ecosystem Services to the Kenyan Economy, released in 2012,  points out that the contribution of forests is undervalued by some 2.5 per cent, putting the estimate of its annual contribution to GDP at around 3.6 per cent.

Between 2000 and 2010, deforestation of the country's water towers amounted to an estimated 50,000 hectares, leading to a reduced water availability of approximately 62 million cubic metres per year. This has also affected Kenya's economy, which is vulnerable to inflation spikes during periods of drought.

In response, the Kenyan government is now working to rehabilitate the water towers, in particular the Mau Forest Complex. Between 2011 and late 2012, more than 21,000 hectares of forestland were repossessed and some 10,000 hectares were rehabilitated. A number of programmes and activities also were launched to improve the livelihoods of communities living in and adjacent to the forests.

United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
Press Release dated December 4, 2014

Download the Inclusive Wealth Report 2012 at:
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Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES) partnership:
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  1. Hey, I like your post. "Environmental protection" by adjunct process or new industry is such a charming idea. Just think, we can create and preserve wealth, and treat the resultant wastes, and then protect the environment all by industrial expansion. Wow!
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Remember when we said in Spoiler Chat this morning that we will meet Ryan Hardy's (Kevin Bacon) niece in season two? Well, now we have a face to the character!

90210 alum Jessica Stroup has been cast as new series regular Max, E! News has confirmed. Max is an NYPD cop working in the Intel Division and will become a very valuable ally to her uncle Ryan. Don't you wish you were related to Kevin Bacon, even in fictional form? Us, too.

We also hinted at the fact that something might be brewing between her and Agent Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore), because their first interaction is full of sparks, even if they aren't of the romantic persuasion. You know what they say: There is at thin line between hate and doing it. Or something like that.

Another new face joining the cast in season two is Beautiful Creatures' Tiffany Boone as Mandy Lang, an impressionable young girl who gets wrapped up in Joe Carroll's (James Purefoy) cult, whether she likes it or not.

EW.com first reported the news of Stroup's and Boone's casting.

As we first revealed, Homeland alum Valerie Cruz has also signed on for the second season of The Following as NYPD detective Gina Mendez, who will work closely with Agent Weston. Other recent castings include Connie Nielsen (Gladiator) as a love interest for Ryan and Dexter actor Sam Underwood as a new bad guy the FBI will undoubtedly be chasing eventually.

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The Barnes Dance pedestrian "all-walk" phase will return to downtown Estes Park on Friday.

This signal configuration will be reinstated at the intersections of Elkhorn and Moraine Avenue and Elkhorn Avenue and Riverside Drive.

The Barnes Dance stops the vehicles on all legs of the intersection for a brief period of time and allows the pedestrians to cross the intersecting streets in any direction. It also prohibits pedestrians from crossing any of the intersecting streets during the remainder of each two-minute traffic signal cycle.

Community Service Officers from the Estes Park Police Department may be assigned to the intersections during periods of heavy traffic and pedestrian congestion.

The Town has requested approval from the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) to install new signs at each intersection corner to advise pedestrians they can cross the intersection in any direction when the "walk" signal is illuminated.

The Barnes Dance was traditionally used at these downtown Estes Park intersections until 2010.

"CDOT did an extensive study of this timing configuration and determined it will add to congestion and increase delays for drivers through Estes Park. We encouraged Town officials to wait until the possible implementation of the Downtown Estes Loop, which may be more conducive to this signal timing," said Johnny Olson, CDOT Region 4 Transportation Director. While CDOT is opposed to the configuration, it is allowing the Town to move forward with the Barnes Dance based on its request, and the Town assumes responsibility for any resulting traffic impacts. CDOT maintains its authority to revert to the current system if there are increased traffic complications.

Since 2010, the Town has received significant public comment in favor of the Barnes Dance. By prioritizing pedestrian flow and safety during a dedicated traffic cycle, proponents believe it is advantageous for pedestrians and improves the guest experience in downtown Estes Park.

Accordingly, the Estes Park Town Board made a formal request to CDOT, which manages Elkhorn and Moraine Avenues (U.S. Highway 34 and U.S. Highway 36), to reinstate the Barnes Dance all-walk phase.

For more information, contact the Public Works Department at 577-3587.


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• Toy: Molded Singles Found in Canada

    For those Canadian Bronies out there, apparently a store called "Zellers" has finally started carrying these.  Unfortunately I do not live in Canada so I'm screwed.

    They are $2.99 each, and apparently really freakin tiny (like a little more than an inch high).  I don't know how accurate that is, but $2.99 for something that small sounds kind of crazy, even if ponies are involved.

    Apparently Zellers is the Canadian version of Target, so hopefully we will see these in the US soon.

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Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA): Quarterly EPS Estimate Of $1.31

For the period quarter ended 2016-12-31, Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA) had $1.31 as the estimate of Earning Per Share(EPS). $1.31 and $1.31 were given as the EPS estimates for between seven and 30 days. But for 60 and 90 days, the EPS estimates were $1.31 and $1.31 respectively while 0% is the percentage change in EPS estimations from 7 days ago.

The last 7 days had 0 and 0 as the number of EPS adjustments. 1, 2, 2 and 3 were the number of up reconsiderations of EPS in the last 30, 60, 90 and 120 days.

The following were the number of down revisions of EPS in the last 30, 60, 90 and 120 days, 2, 1, 1 and 0.

The last 18 days had a 2 and 0 as the number of EPS revisions up and down

Earnings Surprises

Before the announcement of actual earnings for the period ended 2, the mean EPS estimate is $1.31 whose calculation is in consideration of 3 EPS estimates. However, $1.17 was the actual EPS as announced on 2016-08-03. $0.2 and 20.62% is the EPS surprise amount in per share dollar and percentage terms while $0.08 is the standard deviation of all EPS estimates before the reporting of standard variation of all EPS estimates.

Quarterly Sales Estimates

Murphy USA Inc. (NYSE:MUSA) has $3668.5 as the arithmetic mean of all Annual sales estimates whereas $3668.5 is the median of all yearly sales estimates. 2 is what the company’s analysts use calculate the estimate for the fiscal year 2017 with the $3698 being the highest and $3639 the lowest. Nevertheless, $41.719 reflects the average difference of all Annual sales estimates.

The covering of stock by analysts who have increased and decreased their sales is on an estimation of one week, one month an three months. The one week’s estimation are 2 and 2 with 0% being the percentage change of the mean estimate.

2 and 2 are for one month ago with a -2.068% change of the mean estimate.

Sales estimate since three month ago are 2 and 2 whereas the 2.558% is the percentage change of the mean estimate.

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Small Stress Proteins

Small Stress Proteins

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Studies have identified important families of proteins (denoted: heat shock or stress proteins, Hsps) which display an enhanced expression in response to heat shock or other physiological stresses. Besides the characterization of the genes encoding Hsp and the mechanisms of their induction, recent studies have concentrated on the function of these proteins. It was shown that the expression of Hsp protects the cell against different types of aggressions. In addition, Hsp can regulate essential biochemical processes in unstressed cells. For example, members of the Hsp60 and Hsp70 families act as ATP-binding proteins allowing the folding of nascent or denatured proteins as well as the assembly or disassembly of protein complexes. These observations have led to the discovery of the molecular chaperone concept (Ellis and Hemmingsen 1989). Amongst the proteins whose expression is up-regulated by heat shock or other types of stresses are the small stress proteins also denoted (sHsps, sHsp or sHSP). Small stress proteins encompass a large numbers of related proteins which are represented in virtually all organisms, including prokaryAs otes. These polypeptides share a structural domain, often referred to as the a-crystallin domain, common to the lens protein alpha-crystallin (Ingolia and Craig 1982;Wistow 1985). In addition to being increased in response to several types of stresses, the Hsp level is also upregulated during development and correlates with the differentiation and oncogenic status of the cell. In spite of the fact that sHsp can confer cellular protection against stresses, their molecular function has remained enigmatic for years.Are sHsps Dispensable in Some Pathogenic Bacteria? ... as a database that was searched with the five sHsp profiles as a query, using Compugena#39;s implementation of the PROFILESEARCH program (GenCore users manual, Compugen).

Title:Small Stress Proteins
Author:André-Patrick Arrigo, Werner E. G. Müller
Publisher:Springer Science & Business Media - 2002-01-01

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Dr. Wendong Tao, Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Resources Engineering

Prospective Graduate Students

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Environmental engineering, chemical engineering, environmental biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, ...

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ACC power rankings: Week 6

Hello, Duke ...

1. Florida State (5-0, 2-0 ACC) – There wasn’t anything spectacular about the Noles’ 30-17 road win over South Florida, but it didn’t matter. FSU won its first road game, avoided a letdown and is still undefeated. FSU will have a difficult trip to NC State this weekend, but likely got a good wake-up call from the Bulls.

2. Clemson (4-1, 1-1) – One week after a disappointing loss to Florida State, the Tigers avoided an upset at Boston College despite a respectable performance from the Eagles’ offense. Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd and receiver DeAndre Hopkins stole the show again without Sammy Watkins in the lineup.

3. Miami (4-1, 3-0) – The Hurricanes are a scrappy young team that keeps finding ways to win. They’re in the midst of a three-game winning streak for the first time since 2009, and quarterback Stephen Morris seems like he can’t miss in each of the past two games.

4. Virginia Tech (3-2, 1-0) – Ugh. This game could have gone either way in the end, and just when it looked like the Hokies were going to win it, Cincinnati’s Munchie Legaux threw the game-winning touchdown pass with 13 seconds remaining. The Hokies are now 0-2 against the Big East this year.

5. Duke (4-1, 1-0) – It’s time to give the Blue Devils some credit. You could even argue they deserve to be ranked above Virginia Tech at this point, but I'm still not sold on that move. Duke has a better overall record than the Hokies, and right now, the Blue Devils have got a more potent offense. Duke is off to its best start since 1994, the last time the program went to a bowl game.

6. NC State (3-2, 0-1) – The Pack had 14 penalties for 100 yards. Six turnovers. Repeat: Six turnovers. Did Miami win, or was NC State its toughest opponent?

7. Wake Forest (3-2, 1-2) – The Deacs’ 12-game winning streak over Duke came to an end, and star receiver Michael Campanaro injured his hand in the process. It was a rough weekend for Wake Forest, which is going to need its best effort the rest of the season to get to a bowl game.

8. North Carolina (3-2, 0-1) – If the Tar Heels weren’t playing a winless Idaho team that is statistically one of the worst programs in the country, their 66-0 win might mean something. Instead, it was more of a glorified practice before the heart of their league schedule begins. We still don’t know if this team is the one we saw in the first half against Louisville (not good) or the second half (much better).

9. Georgia Tech (2-3, 1-2) – The loss to Middle Tennessee was like a black X on Paul Johnson’s résumé. For the second straight weekend, the Jackets lost at home. They looked unenthused. There was no sense of urgency. And the defense was an open door. Johnson has to make the bleeding stop quickly before this season becomes a disaster.

10. Virginia (2-3, 0-1) – The Hoos’ loss to Louisiana Tech wasn’t entirely unexpected considering La Tech had gone on the road and beaten Illinois the previous week and was scoring more than 50 points per game. It still wasn’t good, though, for UVa or for the ACC. Virginia needs to put an end to the turnovers and figure out if it’s sticking with Michael Rocco at quarterback.

11. Maryland (2-2, 0-0) – The Terps had a bye week but will host Wake Forest this weekend in their first league game of the season. The Deacs are coming off a tough, emotional home loss to Duke and now have to travel to face a team that had a week to prepare.

12. Boston College (1-3, 0-2) – The bend-but-don’t-break defensive strategy broke against Clemson’s uber-talented offense, and the Eagles have now lost back-to-back games. It’s not going to get any easier, as the next three games are on the road.


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India's latest entrant to the 100-Test club December 26, 2007

A century for Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly joined an elite club of Indian cricketers © Getty Images

Sourav Ganguly became the seventh Indian to play a 100 Tests as India kicked off their series against Australia in Melbourne on Boxing Day. He was the third fastest Indian to reach the mark, though at 35 years and 170 days, he was also the oldest.

Ganguly was honoured with a silver plaque, presented to him by the secretary of the Indian board, Niranjan Shah, once the national anthems were done with. Anil Kumble, the Indian captain who has also played 100 Tests, joined him for a photo shoot a few minutes later.

Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar, standing either side of Ganguly when the national anthems were played out, are the other members of this side to reach the 100-Test mark. Interestingly Dravid, who made his debut alongside Gangluly in the Lord's Test of 1996, was the quickest Indian to reach the landmark.

Kapil Dev, Sunil Gavaskar and Dilip Vengsarkar, the current chairman of selectors, are the other Indians to have achieved the feat. All seven members of the 100-Tests club have also led India in Tests.

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is an assistant editor at Cricinfo


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Bet You Can't Keep a Straight Face While These SNL Stars Crack Up

Anything can happen on live television. Although most of the time, Saturday Night Live goes off without a hitch, moments where cast members crack each other up and break character are inevitable—especially when you have some of the funniest people alive on the same stage.

YouTuber KateMcKinnonTV has helpfully compiled some of those moments into one amazing, four-and-a-half minute long supercut. In it, you'll find classic cut ups, like Chris Farley's Matt Foley, motivational speaker, and some lesser-known moments, like when Bill Hader and Seth Myers couldn't stop laughing about a Jewish Dracula named Sydney Appelbaum.

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