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Dallas-based Climate Commodities announced the launch of Climate Commodities Finance Partners and said that John Jose, a former family office executive, will lead CCFP as its president.
Climate Commodities is a climate economy-focused platform company with operating subsidiaries in physical trading, mineral processing & refining, transportation & logistics, renewable power, and insurance.
“John’s wealth of experience in capital formation positions CCFP exceptionally well to fulfill key capital gaps facing the climate economy and allows the Climate Commodities platform to offer its customers customized financing solutions to alleviate capital bottlenecks,” co-founder Nicholaus Rohleder said in a statement.
Prior to CCFP, Jose was portfolio manager at Headington Companies, a multibillion-dollar single-family office based in Dallas, where he led multi-sector direct investment and investment manager deal execution, strategy formation, and strategy implementation.
A platform for companies ‘leading the new climate economy’
“Climate Commodities has built a cutting-edge service platform for companies leading the new climate economy,” Jose said in a statement. “I’m excited about the initiatives we have in the works to help companies, investors, and strategic partners bridge the gap between innovation and investment. Our platform is designed to streamline access to capital markets for climate tech innovators while providing investors with curated opportunities to support businesses that are making a measurable impact on sustainability.”
Jose will lead CCFP’s rollout of a comprehensive suite of financing solutions at the corporate and project level across all major climate economy sub-sectors, including critical minerals and materials, solar, energy storage, hydrogen, carbon capture, alternative fuels, sustainable agriculture, and the circular economy.
CCFP said it will be supported by the Climate Commodities platform’s synergistic product suite of turnkey offtake, feedstock, and counterparty credit risk management solutions.
Climate Commodities Finance Partners said it serves all internal and external finance needs for Climate Commodities, a climate economy-focused platform company with operating subsidiaries in physical trading, mineral processing & refining, transportation & logistics, renewable power, insurance, and financial services.
In reference to a Financial Times article that said clean energy is moving faster than some people think and that investment in new large-scale fossil fuel projects is now a risky proposition, Jose wrote five months ago on LinkedIn:
“Until recently I too wasn’t aware of the size and momentum of this shift, and it’s not limited to clean energy. Across manufacturing, agriculture, consumer products, infrastructure, real estate, and any other industry even tangentially related to sustainability or other environmental concerns, there are innovative firms needing capital which represent good opportunities for investors.”
Climate Risk Partners merges into Climate Commodities
In a complementary move, Dallas-based Climate Risk Partners (CRP), a climate risk strategy start-up, announced its integration Thursday into Climate Commodities.
CRP will rebrand as Climate Commodities Risk Solutions (CCRS) in conjunction with the launch of Climate Commodities’ proprietary offtake, feedstock, and counterparty credit enhancement product line.
“CCRS’ proprietary counterparty credit enhancement product development pipeline is exceptionally well-positioned to scale within the Climate Commodities Platform, allowing it to offer its customers holistic credit enhancement solutions to de-risk their revenue contracts to attract traditional and non-dilutive capital at an earlier stage”, Climate Commodities’ Nicholaus Rohleder said in a statement.
Cody Edgeworth, a veteran specialty risk insurance executive “who has transacted in excess of $1 billion in the Lloyd’s of London specialist insurance market,” according to Climate Commodities, will lead the rollout of CCRS product line as CEO and will be based in Houston, TX.
David Seeley contributed to this report.
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‘Must carry’ rules upheld by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In a divided opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court in late March upheld a lower court’s decision requiring cable television stations to continue to carry local broadcasts.
The Court, after reviewing Congress’ intentions for enacting the rules, found that the “must carry” regulations were designed to preserve the benefits of free over-the-air broadcasting, promote a wide array of information from different sources, and provide fair competition for those involved in broadcast. The Court also said the rules make it less likely that the government would step in and make content-based decisions about programming. The “must carry” provisions mandate that local cable systems dedicate some channeling to local and public broadcast programs. Cable systems with more than 12 channels are required to set aside at least one-third of all programming for local broadcasts.
Although the cable industry asserted that the rules violate free speech protections since they force the industry to give space to channels they would rather not carry, the Court found that many cable outlets have not been affected significantly by the rules. Opponents also argued that the requirements would actually limit programmers’ ability to carry diverse programming.
This is the second time the case has reached the Supreme Court. In 1994, the Court ruled that the restrictions on cable systems were not an attack on the programming but were rather content-neutral. It then sent the case back to the District Court to evaluate Congress’s reasons for devising the rules. The lower court ruled in late December 1995 that the provisions were constitutional. (Turner Broadcasting System v. FCC; Media Counsel: Bartow Farr, Washington, D.C.)

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Jungkook Unveils Captivating Teaser for First Solo Single 'Seven'
Get a Sneak Peek into Jungkook's Highly Anticipated Music Video with Han So-hee
BTS's Jungkook released a teaser video for his first solo single "Seven."
Jungkook posted a teaser video for his first solo single "Seven (feat. Latto)" on HYBE Labels' official SNS on the 13th. The video begins with Jungkook and actor Han So-hee, who appeared in the background of the restaurant, sitting face to face and arguing.
Suddenly, the chandelier falls onto the table behind them, but they continue to argue, oblivious to the surprise of the people around them. The release of this short yet intense music video teaser has raised questions about the hidden stories it holds.
Towards the end of the video, a snippet of the new song is unveiled. Jungkook's sweet vocals capture the listener's attention, while musician Latto announces his collaboration in the featuring. Latto will breathe life into 'Seven' through this collaboration with Jungkook.
"Seven" is a vibrant "summer song" with an infectious and cheerful melody, perfectly showcasing Jungkook's charm. The music and music video will be globally released simultaneously at 1 p.m. on the 14th (Korea Standard Time).


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by Richard Trumka
Democracy is prevailing. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ victory in this free and fair election is a win for America’s labor movement. Everywhere in every way, working people are heroically and resiliently fighting back against this pandemic, its economic fall out, chronic income inequality and systemic racism.
President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris saw us, heard us and campaigned on a promise that we, as one nation, will build back even better than before.
Let’s be clear: Union voters delivered this election for Biden and Harris. Their message and commitment to create “the most significant pro-labor, pro-worker administration” resonated with our 12.5 million members and 56 affiliated unions who are hungry for a bigger voice in our economy and our politics.
Now the AFL-CIO stands ready to help the president-elect and vice president-elect deliver a long overdue workers’ first agenda. That starts with passing the HEROES Act to provide our families and communities emergency support and services in the face of this deadly virus. But COVID-19 relief is just that—relief. Once working people are made whole, the real rebuilding can begin. We call on Congress to pass and Biden to sign the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act early in 2021 to make sure every worker who wants to form or join a union is able to do so freely and fairly. Working people want our leaders to act swiftly and think more boldly than ever before. The time to begin is now.

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Accounting Policies And Treatments Of Contingent Assets And Liabilities In Public Institutions
This paper aims to approach an issue that is less common in public institutions,namely the accounting policies and the accounting treatments of contingent assets andliabilities with the goal of sustaining the quality and completeness of financial accountinginformation, being a culture oriented towards the constant improvement of informationquality, without limits to regulating prescriptions. The approached aspects are the following:the role of accounting policies, having as a reference system the accounting standards/rulesand the professional reasoning; the need for specific accounting policies; theconceptualization and features of contingent assets and liabilities; the theoreticalcircumstances in which they are recognized, evaluated and presented in notes to the financialstatements; the potential scenarios for the practical applicability of theoretical foundationsregarding these probable, uncertain ‘elements‘ in public institutions.
Volume (Year): 2 (2011)
Issue (Month): 13 ()
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MiniArt 1/35 Scale Liefer Pritschenwagen Typ 170V Farmer Car PreviewMiniArt had made civilian and military models of the Typ170V. The new kit it will release appears as a different Farmer’s pickup truck.
Liefer Pritschenwagen Typ 170V Farmer Car
- High-quality details.
- All doors can be positioned as open and closed.
- Including PHOTO-ETCHED parts.
- Including 4 different Decal sets.
- Clear parts included.
- Villages accessories included.
- No: 38060
- Scale: 1:35
- Barcode: 5905090346395
- Series: Miniatures 1:35
- Box size: 260x162x35
The Mercedes Type 170V is a car that was produced by the German automaker Mercedes-Benz in the 1930s and 1940s. It was a small, lightweight vehicle that was designed for both personal and commercial use.
The Type 170V was powered by a 1.7-liter inline-four engine, which produced around 30 horsepower. It was available in various body styles, including a two-door sedan, a four-door sedan, and a convertible.
The Type 170V was a popular car in its time, and it was known for its reliability and durability. It was also praised for its comfortable ride and good handling. Also to its use as a personal car, the Type 170V was also used by businesses as a delivery vehicle and by the German military during World War II.
Mercedes Benz released the Liefer Pritschenwagen Typ 170V Farmer Car. This unique car was designed to be a combination of a delivery truck and a passenger vehicle that could handle various terrains with ease. It featured an impressive inline-four engine that boasted a capacity of 1.7 liters and delivered 30 horsepower.
The design of the car was innovative for its time, featuring solid construction materials such as steel sheeting and wooden frames for increased durability on rough roads.
The cab had enough space to seat two passengers, while the cargo area in the back featured a removable tarpaulin cover for protection from bad weather.
Additionally, it used an advanced four-speed transmission system with reverse gear that allowed it to move through city streets as well as traverse difficult terrain over country roads.
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A mother accused of killing her three young children sobbed quietly as she was remanded to a secure hospital under the mental health act during a bail hearing today.
Tania Clarence, 42, is alleged to have killed her three-year-old twin sons, Ben and Max, and four year-old daughter, Olivia - all of whom suffered from type 2 spinal muscular atrophy.
Ms Clarence looked pale and fragile, and spoke only to confirm her name in a thick South African accent, as she appeared via video-link at the Old Bailey.
Her husband Gary Clarence sat in the public gallery during the hearing.
A plea and case management hearing will be held at the Old Bailey on July 15.
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Visas meant for injured children in Libya have been sold according to a whistleblower in Malta
A police investigation was sparked when messages between a health minister and a “middle man” were leaked to the media - revealing the minister was apparently involved in the sale of visas which should have been given to sick children.
Earlier this month Maltese minister Neville Gafa, a staff member in the office of Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, was accused of taking advantage of the agreement between Libya and Malta which sees the latter take a certain amount of children injured in hostilities into its country for treatment.
Mr Gafa was allegedly netting up to €150,000 a month, and splashing the cash on flash cars, after selling the visas to those who sought to enter Europe.
A Libyan said the visas allowed his countrymen entry to Malta initially, and then travel throughout the Union as a result of Malta’s Schengen membership.
The apparent scam has fallen through however, with many fronting the cash - and failing to receive the visa.
Libyan migrants are desperate to get into Europe with many paying illegal smugglers
Messages between Mr Gafa and a Libyan national were leaked to the Malta Independent - but police said there is not enough evidence to open a case against the minister.
In the messages, through the app Viber, middleman Khaled Ben Nasan is seen to hound Mr Gafa for the funds to be returned to the applicants over the first three months of the year.
Mr Nasan pleads for the return of the €38,000 in visa 'fees' since early January of this year, claims that are never denied by Mr Gafà.
Mr Gafà never questions or denies Mr Nasan's claims throughout the messages, where he pleads for reimbursement for the Libyan nationals who did not receive their visas.
He continually postpones various requested meetings.
Now, in a new shock twist, the Nationalist Party of Malta has revealed the investigation into Mr Gafa has already closed.
The visas have been sold to Libyan who can then access the rest of Europe via the Schengen zone
After what was revealed, the police should open a serious investigation into Neville Gafa
Deputy leader Beppe Fenech Adami called it “near-fascist” tactics after it was found the minster had done “nothing wrong”.
He said: “After the story published in the Malta Independent, it now seems that the police investigation was a farce, and was done to close the chapter and ensure no damage was done to government.
“After what was revealed, the police should open a serious investigation into Neville Gafa.”
Dr Adami dropped a second bombshell - revealing police asked the Attorney General if charges can be brought against the whistleblower.
Such a move, he claims, would push away anyone from considering revealing potentially criminal situations in the future.
He said: "We ask the AG not to succumb to pressure. The AG has the power, by law, to protect those uncovering corruption, as he did during the energy theft scandal.
"Neville Gafa is close to the Prime Minister, close to Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri. Because he is close to them, instead of investigation resulting in steps against those behind this corruption, steps are being taken to discredit the story and turn the cannons on the whistleblower.”
A furious Dr Adami labelled the police commissioner a “puppet” and said he was close to the Labour Party.
MP Claudette Buttigieg criticised the prime minister for failing to condemn the situation which she called “just plain wrong”.
Many Libyans have risked their lives after crossing the sea in cramped dinghies
In a counter-statement, the Labour Party said Dr Adami wanted to play judge and jury on the matter.
The Labour Party said the Nationalist Party was making allegations and should stop criticism of a police investigation.
Asked to comment on the case, Economy Minister Chris Cardona said that the government does not intervene in police investigations.


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Structure, Volume 14, Issue 6, 1 June 2006, Pages 993-1001
Georgia Plakoutsi, Francesco Bemporad, Maria Monti, Daniela Pagnozzi, Piero Pucci and Fabrizio Chiti
Over 40 human diseases are associated with the formation of well-defined proteinaceous fibrillar aggregates. Since the oligomers precursors to the fibrils are increasingly recognized to be the causative agents of such diseases, it is important to elucidate the mechanism of formation of these early species. The acylphosphatase from Sulfolobus solfataricus is an ideal system as it was found to form, under conditions in which it is initially native, two types of prefibrillar aggregates: (1) initial enzymatically active aggregates and (2) oligomers with characteristics reminiscent of amyloid protofibrils, with the latter originating from the structural reorganization of the initial assemblies. By studying a number of protein variants with a variety of biophysical techniques, we have identified the regions of the sequence and the driving forces that promote the first aggregation phase and show that the second phase consists in a cooperative conversion involving the entire globular fold.
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 89, Issue 6, 1 December 2005, Pages 4234-4244
Gemma Soldi, Francesco Bemporad, Silvia Torrassa, Annalisa Relini, Matteo Ramazzotti, Niccolò Taddei and Fabrizio Chiti
In 5% (v/v) trifluoroethanol, pH 5.5, 25°C one of the acylphosphatases from Drosophila melanogaster (AcPDro2) forms fibrillar aggregates that bind thioflavin T and Congo red and have an extensive β-sheet structure, as revealed by circular dichroism. Atomic force microscopy indicates that the fibrils and their constituent protofilaments have diameters compatible with those of natural amyloid fibrils. Spectroscopic and biochemical investigation, carried out using near- and far-UV circular dichroism, intrinsic and 1-anilino-8-naphthalenesulfonic acid-derived fluorescence, dynamic light scattering, and enzymatic activity assays, shows that AcPDro2 has, before aggregation, a secondary structure content packing around aromatic and hydrophobic residues, hydrodynamic diameter, and catalytic activity indistinguishable from those of the native protein. The native protein was found to have the same conformational stability under native and aggregating conditions, as determined from urea-induced unfolding. The kinetic analysis supports models in which AcPDro2 aggregates initially without need to unfold and subsequently undergoes a conformational change into amyloid-like structures. Although fully or partially unfolded states have a higher propensity to aggregate, the residual aggregation potential that proteins maintain upon complete folding can be physiologically relevant and be directly involved in the pathogenesis of some protein deposition diseases.
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Structure, Volume 13, Issue 8, 1 August 2005, Pages 1143-1151
Claudia Parrini, Niccolò Taddei, Matteo Ramazzotti, Donatella Degl’Innocenti, Giampietro Ramponi, Christopher M. Dobson and Fabrizio Chiti
Six glycine residues of human muscle acylphosphatase (AcP) are evolutionarily conserved across the three domains of life. We have generated six variants of AcP, each having a glycine substituted by an alanine (G15A, G19A, G37A, G45A, G53A, and G69A). Three additional variants had Gly45 replaced by serine, glutamate, and arginine, respectively. The mutational variants do not, on average, have a lower conformational stability than other variants with substitutions of nonconserved residues. In addition, only the G15A variant is enzymatically inactive. However, all variants, with the exception of the G15A mutant, form amyloid aggregates more rapidly than the wild-type. Dynamic light-scattering experiments carried out under conditions close to physiological confirm that aggregate formation is generally more pronounced for the glycine-substituted variants. Apart from the glycine at position 15, all other conserved glycine residues in this protein could have been maintained during evolution because of their ability to inhibit aggregation.
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 89, Issue 6, 4201-4210, 1 December 2005
Protein misfolding and aggregation are interconnected processes involved in a wide variety of nonneuropathic, systemic, and neurodegenerative diseases. More generally, if mutations in sequence or changes in environmental conditions lead to partial unfolding of the native state of a protein, it will often aggregate, sometimes into well-defined fibrillar structures. A great deal of interest has been directed at discovering the characteristic features of metastable partially unfolded states that precede the aggregated states of proteins. In this work, human muscle acylphosphatase (AcP) has been first destabilized, by addition of urea or by means of elevated temperatures, and then incubated in the presence of different concentrations of 2,2,2, trifluoroethanol ranging from 5% to 25% (v/v). The results show that AcP is able to form both fibrillar and nonfibrillar aggregates with a high β-sheet content from partially unfolded states with very different structural features. Moreover, the presence of α-helical structure in such a state does not appear to be a fundamental determinant of the ability to aggregate. The lack of ready aggregation under some of the conditions examined here is attributable primarily to the intrinsic properties of the solutions rather than to specific structural features of the partially unfolded states that precede aggregation. Aggregation appears to be favored when the solution conditions promote stable intermolecular interactions, particularly hydrogen bonds. In addition, the structures of the resulting aggregates are largely independent of the conformational properties of their soluble precursors.

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Hi, I don't know why I am getting the above error continuously. Error count has been reached to 1,00,000.
What is the status of the cluster? Which version are you running? Is there anything in the cluster logs?
Status of the cluster is healthy.
Right now we are using 7.3.1 version of elastic search.
nothing in cluster logs.
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Softball: Northshore, Haynes win Thursday
Area Prep Softball Report for Friday, Mar. 3
Northshore remained unbeaten with a 9-0 victory at home Thursday over Chalmette.
Jenna Samuel once again starred for the Panthers. Samuel pitched another shutout, striking out six and belted her eighth home run to help her own cause. Madison Silva also homered for the Panthers.
Northshore (9-0) will host Holden next Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
Haynes Academy defeated Patrick Taylor 11-6 Thursday.
The Tigers scored twice in the bottom of the first inning before Haynes took a 4-2 lead in the top of the third inning. The Tigers cut the deficit to 4-3 with a run in the bottom of the third inning.
Haynes scored three runs in the sixth inning to take a 7-3 lead and opened it up with four runs in the top of the seventh to make it 11-3.
Patrick Taylor scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth to complete the scoring.
Hailey Peterson picked up the win, allowing eight hits. She walked two and struck out seven as she improved to 3-3. Peterson added a single, double and triple at the plate.
Ashtyn Rodgers took the loss, allowing 13 hits with four walks and five strikeouts.
Aubrie Claverie went 4 for 5 with five RBI, including two doubles for Haynes.
Ella Lewis had two hits, including a double and two RBI.
Haynes (3-3) returns to action Saturday at noon against Cabrini at the JPRD Softball Complex.
Area Prep Softball Results from Thursday, Mar. 2
Archbishop Chapelle 12, Riverdale 2
Country Day 16, McGehee 8
Covenant Christian 21, Central Lafourche 10
Denham Springs 17, Slidell 5
Fisher 17, St. Thomas Aquinas 2
French Settlement 13, Ascension Catholic 3
Haynes Academy 11, Patrick Taylor 6
Houma Christian 14, H.L. Bourgeois 0
Independence 19, Bogalusa 4
Jewel Sumner 14, Covington 12
John F. Kennedy 23, Livingston Collegiate 8
Kaplan 9, Central Catholic 4
Loranger 15, Mount Hermon 0
Lutcher 7, Archbishop Hannan 6
Mandeville 3, Dominican 2
McMain 26, East St. John 4
Northlake Christian 10, Hammond 0
Northshore 9, Chalmette 0
Plaquemine 19, Donaldsonville 0
Riverside Academy 12, South Terrebonne 1
South Plaquemines 10, Higgins 0
Springfield 11, Kenner Discovery 5
St. Charles Catholic 7, E.D. White Catholic 5
St. James 16, Ellender 0
Terrebonne 17, Ascension Christian 9
Thomas Jefferson 14, De La Salle 12
Vandebilt Catholic 12, Thibodaux 1
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Whether you take one or two of these tips to apply in your business or grab all of them, not only will your onboarding of new employees be much more successful, but you'll also discover that you suddenly become much more successful at "hiring."
Becoming vulnerable is a process. A process in becoming a whole version of you. It requires a bit of authenticity, a sprinkle of transparency and a dash of integrity. I should know, I've done it.
If you have worked in a big company -- you can almost smell it in the air. The big boss has some thorny problem or is afraid to actually make an important decision. And rather than digging in and getting bold -- here come the consultants.
What do you think stops you from taking your business to the next level? Is it the daily demands of one crisis after another? The lack of cash to grow your business? A hyper-competitive industry?For many entrepreneurs the real answer is isolation.
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The Honorable LaJune Lange exemplifies the qualities of a global citizen and leader in her daily life. Judge Lange is on a mission to make justice a lived reality across the globe.
Republican candidates tend to ignore or actively incite fear of the growing Latino community. But Democrats also do a poor job of turning out Latinos in high numbers and, when in office, are unable to deliver on priority issues for the Latino community. Low voter turnout is a symptom of civic disengagement by Latinos in American society.
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I've got an issue that both the case maker and motherboard maker have punted on.
I've got a Foxconn nForce 590 SLI that only has an HDA connector for the front audio ports.
I've got an Antec p180 that has AC97 dongle coming out of the front audio ports.
I've connected the wires so that sound comes out, but its missing all of the HDA features like turning off the speakers when the headphone jack is detected which is a real pain. Antec says "too bad" we don't offer an HDA connector. Anyone have any insights into how to build my own?
Pin Signal Name Description
1 PORT 1L Analog Port 1 - left channel (Microphone)
2 GND Ground
3 PORT 1R Analog Port 1 - right channel (Microphone)
4 PRESENCE# Active low signal that signals BIOS that an Intel® HD Audio dongle is connected to the analog header. PRESENCE# = 0 when an Intel® HD Audio dongle is connected
5 PORT 2R Analog Port 2 - right channel (Headphone)
6 SENSE1_RETURN Jack detection return for front panel (JACK1)
7 SENSE_SEND Jack detection sense line from the Intel® HD Audio CODEC jack detection resistor network
8 KEY Connector key
9 PORT 2L Analog Port 2 - left channel (Headphone)
10 SENSE2_RETURN Jack detection return for front panel (JACK2)
For AC-97 Front Panel Audio
Pin Signal Name Description
1 MIC Front panel microphone input signal (biased when supporting stereo microphone)
2 AUD_GND Ground used by analog
3 MIC_BIAS Microphone power / additional MIC input for stereo microphone support
4 AUD_GND Ground used by analog audio circuits
5 FP_OUT_R Right channel audio signal to front panel (headphone drive capable)
6 FP_RETURN_R Right channel audio signal return from front panel (when headphones unplugged)
7 AUD_5V Filtered +5 V used by analog audio circuits
8 KEY No pin
9 FP_OUT_L Left channel audio signal to front panel (headphone drive capable)
10 FP_RETURN_L Left channel audio signal return from front panel (when headphones unplugged)
Thanks, Mkaibear. Yeah, I checked out all the pins on the Intel site and it turns out that AC97 is "compatible" with HDA but not full-featured.
If someone sold a front audio port by itself, I'd be glad to break out the soldering iron and make an HDA dongle. I just can't find any electronics site that sells stand-alone front audio jack (and Antec has been less than helpful).
I've come across this issue a number of times in searching for an proper HD solution.
Disabling front panel detection works for some folks with driver support, but I understand that some functionality is lost; specifically the speaker out isn't cutoff when the headphones are connected. I'd really like to build a solution for an existing case. The problem is in the document found at http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/A2928604-005.... The connectors for the front panel audio have changed internally.
In an AC97 panel shown on page 20 the connectors at Tip and Ring inside (the 1/8" TRS/stereo connector) are NC/Normally Closed and when a plug is inserted the circuit is interrupted. This disconnects/reroutes the audio to/from the device plugged in. With HD Audio there is a NO/Normally Open design; so when a plug is inserted the ring connector is pushed out and it closes another circuit so the signal at pin seven is connected to the sense1_return (pin 6) or sense2_return (pin 10) shown on page 25.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could mod our cases if we had the right 1/8" connectors and the inclination to mod the dongle board they are attached to? Wouldn't that be the right way? If only I could find the right connectors. That seems to be the hard part.
Just a thought. If anyone has had any luck with this I'd love to hear from you. Post to this thread and I'll be notified.
Right now I am modding my ULT33069 dashboard to connect to HD Audio header. Unfortunately digikey does not have these jacks in stock, so I will be using slightly different approach. I have some spare micro switches (pulled from old floppy and dvd drives). They have 3 mm prong that works as "button". So, I am going to simply glue them to the back of the existing jacks so that this prong enters through existing hole right where the tip of the inserted plug stops. Then I'll add one wire from Sense-Send (pin 7) to these switches and use existing 2 wires (pins 6 and 10) as Sense-Return 1 and 2. As simple as that.
The only thing that I haven't figured out yet is what to do with Presence# (pin 4). Intel specification requires 1k resistor to the ground. Yet Realtek datasheet for ALC889 codec shows simple shunt to the ground. I don't want to add another wire, or hung resistor on the connector, so ideally it would be just a short wire between pins 2 and 4 on the connector.
Thanks for the tip on the connectors. The 3566AN is perfect and would almost drop in. Cut a few traces and drill the extra holes out - jumper to the header pins and now it's HD instead of AC. Simple. Maybe 20 minutes of work.
I did pull out the dongle (board) and I guess Ultra, in their infinite wisdom, or to save $1.25 didn't implement the EMI circuitry specified in the 'AC97 spec which is the same in the HD Audio spec. It would take a fair amount of work (and parts hanging off the board) to do this so I hope things work out without. Maybe a daughterboard made from Radio Shack parts would work. Need 4 inductors (800 Ohms at 100Mhz) and 4 100pf caps.
Presence# detects if the dongle is attached. On page 80 of the ALC889 datasheet presence# is tied to +3.3V via a 10K resistor and GPI to South Bridge. The 1K resistor would probably be for current limiting to prevent damage to the South Bridge.
Instead of just a jumper between 2 & 4, put the resistor between 2 & 4 but wrap it in heatshrink tubing. A very small (1/8 watt or smaller if you can find it) would probably be fine. I'm glad you pointed that out.
what's interesting, is that I own several different Ultra boards and all of them except this one have EMI circuits. Well... I might just pull out the caps and inductors from one of those to save the trip to the store.
At 3.3V and 10K pull-up, we are talking about 30uA difference in current... nothing to worry about. Having said that I already put in 1K resistor in shrink wrap just as you suggesting. And my glued on micro switches work wonderful without any hassle of getting specialized jacks.
My overall conclusion is that about any AC97 dongle can be easily converted to true HD Audio. It's a wonder that thousands of hits on the web all point to useless threads ending up with "read the manual" or, in best cases, with "just plug AC connector and disable HD in BIOS" suggestions.
There might be an error in digikey description, since CUI product numbers generally contain diameter in them. SJ-635X series are 6.4 mm jacks and they do have isolated switches, like SJ-6356 for example.
At 3.3V and 10K pull-up, we are talking about 30uA difference in current... nothing to talk about.
I didn't even think to do the math.
My overall conclusion is that about any AC97 dongle can be easily converted to true HD Audio. It's a wonder that thousands of hits on the web all point to usless threads ending up with "read the manual" or, in best cases, with "just plug AC connector and disable HD in BIOS" suggestions.
I had the same frustration. It saddens me that people aren't willing to dig in and solve the actual problem.
I looked through Switchcraft, Kobiconn and Kycon's offerings also and found nothing to match the CUI part. Your idea with the switch sounds the best & fastest option.
hey guys, according to figure 6 on page 25 of the file , shouldn't the PRESENCE# pin (pin 4) be connected to the arrow wires in EMI filter. Their arrow tips look the same, just like the arrow tips of the ground pin (pin 2) and the ground of the jacks. The wires coming out from between the 220pF capacitors, should'nt they be connected to the PRESENCE# pin (pin 4) with the 1kΩ resistor?
should'nt they be connected to the PRESENCE# pin (pin 4) with the 1kΩ resistor?Bini Man
Umm... yes and no.
Let's say 2 pins of microchip connected to each other and nothing else. Then they are "connected". Now, lets say they both connected to the common ground wire. Are they "connected"? Electrically - yes, they are. Logically, no engineer in a world would say that. Instead they would say that both are "grounded".
That "arrow" you are speaking of is a symbol for "ground". It is used to simplify the drawing by removing extra lines. Everything on a circuit that has arrow is connected together. If it makes it simpler for you, you can just remove all arrows and draw a wire connection between all of them.
In this particular case, outer contacts of the jacks, middle points between capacitors, pin 2 on the connector and one side of 1k resistor should be connected to each other.
Usually there is a black wire going from connector to the dash board that carries ground. You can put 1k resistor on the connector side between pins 2 and 4. Alternatively you can add one more wire from pin 4 to the dash board and place resistor there, connecting it between this new wire and any ground point of the printed circuit.
Thanks alot for the reply. I'll try to do this connection. Just one question has anybody tried making the front panel cable and tested it? Just to know if it's safe and confirmed unharmful to the mb.
Thanks for the reply.
Just one question has anybody tried making the front panel cable and tested it? Just to know if it's safe and confirmed unharmful to the mb.
Thanks for the reply.
I did not "make cable" per se. I modified existing Ultra dashboard to conform to HD standard. The modification consisted of adding additional wire to the existing cable, adding 1k presence resistor, adding two microswitches and cutting some PCB traces. The resulting device schematics was exactly as in that document you saw. It works perfectly now in two computers.
Now, is it safe? Well, I was confident enough in my work to try. That is not to say that it is safe to plug anything into your MB, because it isn't. So, in the end it is up to you. If you follow schematics exactly then it should work. If you make a mistake, well, no guarantee here.

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“Lion King” Wu Xiaobo Disseminates Tradition
On the morning of November 9, literary enthusiasts from the Yiwu Literary Union, Writers Association, Ancient and Modern Literature Research Institute, and the Fotang Writers, among others gathered in the village of Sanfeng, Datian Town, Wuyi, to visit the lion-themed Folk Museum—locally known as Lion Museum—founded by Wu Xiaobo, the Lion King of Mid-Zhejiang.
The Lion Museum is located on a five-story reinforced concrete building near the bus station of Sanfeng. Upon entering the yard, stone lions stand next to the wall. Wu Xiaobo shares that the row of lions at the entrance is only the tip of the iceberg of the entire Lion Museum. Starting from his family adornments factory, he has collected over 5,000 lion effigies and statues and exhibited them on the fourth and fifth floors of the building.
Moving up to the fourth floor, the main hall of the museum shows three characters—尚德堂 (Shàngdé Táng; lit. Esteem the Virtuous Hall)—naming the atrium, where lions made of wood, stone, and ceramic can be seen everywhere. There is also a number of wooden cabinets containing a myriad of lions in different sizes. “Without these cabinets, so many lions couldn't be stored here,” Wu explained. The items displayed might seem a bit chaotic, but the basic order can still be identified in different sections, including an Introduction to Lion City, the Tea Garden Stone Lion, Dongyang Woodcarvings, Brick Lions, and an Overview of Lions in China.
Wu illustrated that he is a native of Chun'an, historically known as the City of the Lion, therefore, the section about the Lion City occupies a prominent position of the exhibition. “Effigies and sculpture of lions made with different materials abound in each region of China. The Chinese folk tradition related to the symbolism of lions has far-reaching influence, including similarities in Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asia. I've compiled a large quantity of materials and will gradually enrich the exhibition,” said Wu.
The appearance of the lion statue confirmed the records of the Book of the Later Han, even though lion sculptures were not present in the imperial mausolea's pathways of the Eastern Han Dynasty, while qilin and pixiu were common. “It was during the Three Kingdoms, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties that along the blossoming of Buddhism, the image of the lion had increasingly appeared in mausolea's pathways and Buddhist relievos. Representative items of this period are the stone lions of the imperial mausolea in Nanjing, Jiangsu. The image of the lion in the relievos of Buddhist caves is based on the representative item of the monument of the Western Wei Dynasty in Cave 133 of the Maiji Mountain Grottoes.
At present, the stone lions exhibited in the Lion Museum that Wu regards as treasures are primarily stone lions of the Tang Dynasty, of which he is particularly fond.
Among the large number of items, most of the lions appear in the form of woodcarvings. “A major application of woodcarvings used to be in the decoration of wooden beds. And the most intriguing part for me is the lion-head-shaped carved chapiter [of the bed columns].”
Wu believes that he initially fell in love with this kind of chapiter, which led to his passion for lion effigies and sculptures: “The lion encompasses auspicious symbolism and abundant cultural connotation. It's something I'm deeply in love with.” The lioness symbolizes the extension of the offspring, and the lion symbolizes social peace. “In people's lives, everyone hopes to use the lion's mighty power to demolish evil spirits and protect their people. This is a psychological manifestation of a collective appeal for peace,” he went on saying.
For the future, Wu intends to do something concrete. He will promote the Lion Museum to society and open it to the public free of charge. (By Wang Zhijian, translated by Marco Lovisetto, edited by Mariam Ayad)

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The following timeline has been culled from past articles and interviews, correspondence, and notes.
- 2003: IMAX’s annual report states that they have an R&D project in place for converting 2D 35mm films into IMAX 3D.
- June 4, 2004: “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” became the fifth film to undergo the DMR process, and only the second to open day-and-date with conventional cinema. The film shows on GT, SR, and MPX screens.
- Mid-2004: IMAX approached Lucasfilm with a proposal to show the last 20 minutes of “Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” in IMAX 3D, telling Lucasfilm executives they had developed their own 2D to 3D conversion process. To evaluate IMAX’s 3D conversion abilities, Lucasfilm gave IMAX a 20-minute clip of the film, asking IMAX to produce both an anamorphic and a full-screen conversion. Multiple sources allege that IMAX showed the converted clip to Universal executives in a bid to secure “King Kong” for IMAX screens. IMAX failed to make the Dec 6 deadline for submitting the converted clips back to Lucasfilm, and ultimately was unable to secure either the “Star Wars” film or “King Kong” for presentation in IMAX theaters.
- Nov. 4, 2004: Larry Williams of the Hartford Courant interviewed IMAX’s Larry O’Reilly: “O’Reilly said director Peter Jackson’s remake of “King Kong,” due next year, will probably be released in IMAX. And though it has not been done yet, O’Reilly said IMAX has developed the technology to remaster a regular Hollywood movie into IMAX 3D.”
- Feb. 5, 2005: IMAX licensed the exclusive motion picture theatrical exhibition rights to a seventeen year old patent on 3D conversion registered to inventor David Geshwind and patent attorney Anthony Handal. According to an August 8 2006 article in The Recorder, a daily publication for legal professionals in California, “Imax Corp. was none too happy when a startup announced it had developed technology to convert 2-D movies into the 3-D format. So Imax, which already shows 3-D movies in its giant-screen theaters, went after In-Three Inc. for patent infringement. The twist, though, is that Imax bought the patent at issue from two inventors so it could sue In-Three.”
- 2005: Under the guidance of Dr. Samuel Zhou, IMAX converted scenes from “Spider-man 2” and “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” The converted clips are shown to studio executives. In September, the clips were shown for the first time to IMAX documentary filmmakers and exhibitors during the technical session at the Giant Screen Theater Association’s annual conference in Boston. Three months later, IMAX’s Hugh Murray presented one of the Potter scenes on a video monitor during his keynote at the Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference in San Jose, CA.
- Nov. 18, 2005: “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” opened in a record 72 IMAX theaters.
- June 28, 2006: IMAX released its first converted film for public exhibition, “Superman Returns.” Four nonsequential scenes, amounting to 17 minutes, were converted by IMAX into 3D. DKP staff were ecstatic as they place the largest order on record for black film, needed for masking one of the eyes during the 2D segments. Projectionists around the world were excited by the thrill of assembling 88 reels of film, much of it black, and modifying their projectors with flipping polarizers. Audiences were thrilled with the film and it becomes the highest grossing IMAX film to date.
- July 11, 2007: “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” opened on 143 IMAX screens. The last 20 minutes of the film were in 3D. For GT theaters, this meant lots of black film again. SR theaters were able to crank up their second projector just for the added footage.
- July 29, 2009: “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” opened in IMAX two-weeks later than its conventional cinema counterpart. The delay allowed for a full five-week run of Paramount’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” which had a number of scenes filmed with IMAX cameras. 12 minutes at the start of the “Prince” were in IMAX 3D.
- March 19, 2010: The documentary “Hubble 3D” opened on IMAX screens. Some 35mm stock footage were put through the DMR process and then converted by IMAX to 3D. IMAX also converts scenes from an earlier IMAX documentary, “Destiny in Space,” for inclusion in “Hubble.”
- May 2010: IMAX is awarded contract to convert “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 & 2” in their entirety to 3D. For the first time, an IMAX converted film was scheduled to play on systems provided by IMAX’s competitors.
- August 2010: With only four months to go, IMAX was finally given footage to convert for Part 1 of “Deathly Hallows.”
- October 8, 2010: Consensus over the past few months from those who have seen the converted footage was that it was high quality. However, it was taking longer than expected to complete the conversion and IMAX was finding it difficult to farm work out to other houses. Warner Brothers, for the first time since “Happy Feet” in 2006, announced that one of their tentpole films would not be released in 3D.
- Nov. 19, 2010: “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1” opend in a record 356 IMAX theaters, most of them digital. The entire film is 2D.
- Work continues by IMAX on converting “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2” into 3D, with a projected opening of July 15, 2011.


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endangered birds are at risk of extinction.
Any endangered birds, species of fish, plants or animals are classified as an "endangered species" if it is in danger of going extinct in the near future. As of 2007, it was estimated that nearly one out of every eight bird species worldwide is actually at risk of becoming extinct. Specifically in England and the United States, the numbers are higher, with one in four bird species at risk. According to the IUCN and Bird International, the numbers average out to about 235 bird species possible becoming extinct within roughly twenty years.
The American Eagle is probably one of the best known birds in the United States. In 1973, they were declared to be endangered in 43 states. However, just recently, in June of 2007, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service removed the bald eagle from the
list, making this great bird a success story. The bald eagle is an avid fish eater, but wouldn't turn down the occasional mammal, turtle or bird. A male bald eagle weighs in around ten to twelve pounds and average around three feet from the top of their head to the tip of their tail. Their wingspan alone can reach up to seven feet across!
They are a magnificent animal.
The Mississippi Sandhill Crane is a good example of a wading bird species that is endangered and has been since 1973. These four feet tall birds will forage in wetland areas and eat worms, insects, crayfish, lizards and frogs. They have also been known to eat fruit, nuts, roots and seeds when on dry land.
The Peruvian Diving Petrel is a pelagic bird that obtains food by diving under the cold sea water and pursuing small fish larvae and plank tonic crustaceans. Although there were once millions of this bird species, but they are currently listed as an endangered bird. Typically found in the Humboldt Current located off Chile and Peru, this simple bird has had their nests, eggs and chicks destroyed by guano workers, foxes and feral cats.
The Puerto Rican Parrot is one of the 10 critically endangered bird species in the world as of 1967. By the year 1975, there were only 13 of these parrots living in the Caribbean National Forest. This striking bird is emerald green with a red forehead and white rings around the eyes. This species is a forest dweller and blends well due to its coloring. Because this parrot cannot excavate a nest themselves, this species is considered a secondary cavity nester, meaning it uses other bird's nests to lay their eggs. The Puerto Rican Parrot will often use a tree cavity that has been chiseled out by another bird and then vacated. As of 1968, efforts have been made to preserve this amazing bird from extinction.
The top ten endangered birds in America include the ivory-billed woodpecker, the California condor, Kittlitz's murrelet, Kirtland's warbler, Gunnison sage-grouse, whooping crane, piping plover, Florida scrub-jay, golden-cheeked warbler, and the ashy storm-petrel. According to the Audubon Society, these species are facing a number of threats including global warming, development pressures and invasive species.
Hawaii has its own top ten list for endangered birds. They have more endangered species than any of the other states. Most of the threatened species are endemic forest birds and face avian diseases, predators and encroaching development.
Efforts to save endangered bird species from extinction are being made all over the world. It is a victory when one bird species is removed from the list.
The endangered American Bald Eagle
This bird has been extinct 600 years

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Editorial: Accountability a worry
Whanau Ora Minister Tariana Turia didn't front the news media for some days after the Maori Development Ministry released an evaluation of the $34 million Whanau Integration, Innovation and Engagement Fund.
She then said she was satisfied with the performance of the programme, didn't see a need for better monitoring or reporting, and was "more than satisfied with the accountability of the spend".
The ministry had called for more solid measures after finding performance, monitoring and reporting flaws. It also found the funds had been unevenly allocated across New Zealand. Impoverished regions such as Northland received only 7 per cent of the funding.
Ms Turia's constituents, on the other hand, are doing nicely, thank you, from the programme.
Radio New Zealand has flushed out details showing almost 25 per cent of individuals who received funding applied for money in the Te Tai Hauauru region. It has just 8 per cent of the Maori population. It is represented in Parliament by the minister.
Questions would have been raised regardless of those revelations after a Mongrel Mob gang member in Otago misused Whanau Ora funding. He was jailed this month for dishonesty and supplying cannabis bought with a $20,000 grant.
Ms Turia insisted this had been an isolated case. But sentiment is bound to colour her judgment because Whanau Ora is very much her baby - a bold and controversial policy on which she has staked her political reputation.
She wants more balanced media reporting, saying there are some "incredible stories" about Whanau Ora's success. As far as she is concerned, "whanau are the best ones to tell us whether Whanau Ora is working for them - because their stories count".
Yet she also says the families involved do not want their experiences made public.
She has just launched the Whanau Ora research website, a platform to develop and manage tools, methodologies and good practices for whanau-centred research. That's laudable.
But she declared Whanau Ora is not about funding streams or structures - it is about "survival on our terms". This implies an unacceptable indifference to the need for more effective accountability.
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Note: This edition includes Weekly Recap below
Top Stories and Commentary for Friday, August 15, 2008By Nanette Asimov/San Francisco Chronicle
The state’s public school students improved in reading, writing and mathematics this year, marking five years of near-steady growth on the tough California Standards Test, results released Thursday show. But the good news came paired with bad as state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell declared that the education of African American students has reached a crisis stage. Scores of that group remained well below those of white and Asian American students, he said, while black students’ English skills generally match those of Latino students - many of whom are just learning the language. "I am acutely concerned about our African American students," O’Connell said after his Department of Education released results from the test given last spring.Latino student achievement gap remains
By Victoria Waters/ImpreUSA
La brecha de los alumnos minoritarios en cuanto a su rendimiento en el examen estatal STAR continúa siendo significativa, según se desprende de los resultados dados a conocer hoy por el Superintendente de Instrucción Pública de California. Aunque los resultados del Examen y Reporte Estandarizado (STAR) mejoraron a nivel general frente al año pasado, más de la mitad de los jóvenes que tomaron el examen estuvieron por debajo de su nivel escolar, particularmente los estudiantes latinos y afroamericanos.
The achievement gap in the STAR state exams continues to be significant as evidenced in today’s release of the results by the State Superintendent of Public Education. Event though the results for the general population improved from last year, more than half the students who took the exam scored below their grade level, particularly Latino and African American students.
Also Noted for Friday, August 15, 2008:By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco schools earned bragging rights on state standardized tests again this year - performing better than the state as a whole across every grade in both math and English - but any celebration was clouded by the subpar proficiency of the district’s African American students, who continued to fall further behind their peers. Nearly all other categories of San Francisco students, regardless of ethnicity, income or English language ability, outscored the city’s black students in California Standards Test results posted Thursday. On the plus side, the scores of black students did go up about 1 percentage point in math proficiency and nearly 1 percentage point in English.By George B. Sánchez/LA Daily News
Despite ongoing efforts to boost test scores and achievement, Los Angeles Unified students showed only slight gains in state results released Thursday and continued to lag below statewide averages. And more than two-thirds of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Latino and African-American students fell even further short in math and English standards, triggering renewed calls to end the "achievement gap" facing minority students. The LAUSD’s Latinos and African-Americans also fell short of their minority counterparts statewide in California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting, or STAR, program, which measures proficiency in English, math, science, reading and writing.By Sharon Noguchi/San Jose Mercury News
Just as parents are receiving their children’s spring test scores in the mail this week, local districts and schools also are being handed their test report cards - and the news is encouraging. Schools continued to climb academically and achieve greater proficiency in English and math, according to state test scores for 2007-08 released this morning. Even more promising, students across ethnic lines are improving, and locally, students in nearly all ethnic groups exceed their peers statewide. More high school students are taking harder math classes than in the past and - surprisingly - more are doing better.Blog by Katy Murphy/Oakland Tribune
OUSD’s test scores improved this year, after flattening out in 2007. But there is still plenty of room for improvement. Only about one-third of the kids tested scored at proficient levels or better in math, reading and science. (You can find the results here.) Also, despite modest gains in the average scores of most ethnic groups, a striking racial achievement gap remains. It shows up in an area that the school district has zeroed in on during the last four or five years: Third-grade reading. The disparity in the English language arts scores of white third-graders and their non-white peers has actually grown during the last five years, despite the district’s efforts to narrow the gap.
Federal standards may temper gains.
By Bruce Lieberman/San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego County students showed gains on the state’s latest standardized academic exams, exceeding state averages in math, English and other subjects. But the rising bar of federal standards threatens to diminish those improvements. Results from the 2008 Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, released yesterday, highlighted the disconnect between the state’s accountability system for public schools, which rewards schools for improving academic achievement, and the federal system of accountability, which sets fixed goals for achievement that all subgroups of students must meet.By Shirin Parsavand/Riverside Press-Enterprise
The San Bernardino city schools have succeeded in getting many dropouts back into school, but fewer than 1 in 5 of those who come back end up earning a high school diploma, according to a new study. More than half of those who returned to school stayed for only a year, according to the study produced by WestEd, an education research organization based in San Francisco. BethAnn Berliner, the lead researcher, said there is little research on students who drop out and then return to school. She said she contacted district Superintendent Arturo Delgado after hearing him speak at a conference on dropouts.Four new schools, repairs proposed in local bond.
By Cynthia E. Griffin/Our Weekly
A $7 billion bond recently approved by the Los Angeles Unified District (LAUSD),School Board of Education to go on the November ballot includes funding for two new high schools and several elementary schools as well as a laundry list of repairs on numerous campuses in South Los Angeles. The four schools are among the new facilities that will be built if 55 percent of local voters approve the measure, which was submitted to the office of the Los Angeles Registrar Recorder/County Clerk. The high schools include a new campus at 3537 Farmdale Ave., on the Dorsey High School grounds. It would seat about 648 students. Another high school on the southeast corner of Nadeau Street and Miramonte Boulevard in the Fremont High School attendance area would provide about 2,025 seats.
WEEKLY RECAP - Monday August 11 through Thursday August 14, 2008By Adolfo Guzman-Lopez/KPCC (Monday)
For three weeks, twenty-six L.A. Unified high schoolers studied full time at UCLA and conducted interviews with student and civic leaders. They presented their findings at Los Angeles City Hall today. KPCC’s Adolfo Guzman-Lopez has the story. Adolfo Guzman-Lopez: It’s the ninth year UCLA’s organized this summer research seminar for high school students. Sixteen-year-old Haemin Jee attends Cleveland High School in the San Fernando Valley. Her research group studied how caring adults help to motivate students. Conducting the research, she said, dissolved some of her cynicism.By Eric Larsen/Capitol Weekly (Monday)
The state Department of Education’s recent announcement that one in four students drops out of school was grim news for Californians but a promising step forward in understanding the scope of a crisis. Instead of making an educated guess as they had been forced to do in the past, education officials were able to calculate the dropout rate by using a new system that tracks students as they move from district to district. When fully implemented, the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System can do much more than tell us the bad news after students drop out. It can help educators identify strategies likely to help children before they fail.By Carl Wong/Santa Rosa Press-Democrat (Tuesday)
As the 2008-09 school year begins for the 71,000 students in Sonoma County’s K-12 schools, it seems like we are already on the threshold of a new decade. After all, the graduating class of 2010 is beginning its penultimate year of high school and the class of 2020 is sitting in today’s first-grade classrooms. Remember the Y2K bug? Just think about how different 2010 will be compared to the anticipation and excitement of the year 2000. Our world is changing so quickly that one can hardly imagine what today’s first-graders will face when they complete high school.By Stephen Sawchuk/Ed Week (Tuesday)
A variety of federally financed grants based on performance pay are providing insights into how districts and teachers can collaborate to implement sustainable programs designed to improve teaching and learning. But the question of whether those Teacher Incentive Fund grants will yield measurably higher student achievement, applicant pools with better-qualified teachers and principals, and improved retention of effective teachers so far remains unanswered, say researchers, district administrators, and federal officials.By Mel Bertrand/UCLA Today (Wednesday)
Last month, a group of young people from across Los Angeles stepped hesitantly into the crowded lunch area of Woodrow Wilson High School, clutching video cameras, recording devices, pens and notepads. Unsure of what to do at first, these students from historically underachieving high schools in Los Angeles then began to break out of their huddle to get what they came for: honest answers from other students to bold questions: “How do you feel about school police on campus?” and “Do you feel like you have a voice on this campus?” This was the start of a unique research project for high school students participating in a summer seminar held by UCLA’s Institute of Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA).School district’s ‘A-G’ program promises to make university prep classes standard by 2012. In three years, it has made little headway.
By Jason Song/Los Angeles Times (Wednesday)
Three years ago, Roosevelt High School student Jose Orea went to Los Angeles Unified School District headquarters and handed out pamphlets imploring officials to provide more college preparatory courses. It was the first time he’d gotten involved in politics, and he was filled with enthusiasm. When the L.A. Board of Education agreed to ensure that all students would have access to the classes by 2006 and to require them for the class of 2012, Orea, then a sophomore, thought he’d made a difference.


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This is a discussion on Shark Holsters within the Johnston Gun Leather forums, part of the Site Sponsors category; Recently, I added Shark to my lineup of holsters and I started with the pocket holster. Here it is hanging out with my Seecamp. Shark ...
Recently, I added Shark to my lineup of holsters and I started with the pocket holster. Here it is hanging out with my Seecamp. Shark is a beautiful – and extremely durable – exotic leather. The great thing about the Shark holster, in addition to their awesome looks, is the lining inside of the holster which will give you a much smoother draw and less holster wear on your gun over time. These are my top of the line holsters, and they are sweet!
We also have the IWB holster in Shark in the JGL lineup.
The IWB Shark holster has all the benefits of the previously mentioned pocket holster, plus one more specific to its model. Since this holster is “dual layered” I’ve innovated the belt clip to be pocketed in between those two layers, making this the thinnest leather holster possible. Normally, on a single layer holster (such as cowhide or horsehide) I add a “belt clip pocket” to the back of the holster where the belt clip is fastened and secured. This innovation allows that same belt clip to be attached without that extra bulk of the piece of leather sewn onto the holster to secure the clip. That means it’s slimmer and more streamlined, making it that much better going in an out of your waist band. The belt clip will hold it in place just as well, but there’s nothing to hang up or rub on, because the back of the holster is one solid, flat piece uninhibited by your standard belt clip pocket.
This is one truly remarkable leather, which turns into one truly remarkable holster. The JGL IWB Shark Holster. Get your gun the pants it deserves! Pocket Shark Holsters sell for $130 shipped and IWB Shark Holsters sell for $135 shipped – and as always are handmade in Palm Harbor, FL USA. Shark is currently available in black only.

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The quiet Bryce Pioneer Village is placed near Bryce Canyon Wildlife Adventure, Inspiration Point and Pink Cliffs Village inviting guests with a Jacuzzi and a business center. The on-site comforts include a souvenir shop and a news stand.
10 minutes' walk from Tropic city center. A 85-minute drive to Hurricane. Offering a variety of dishes, Bryce Pioneer Village Motel and The Pizza Place are just about 50 meters away.
Fast access to Cedar City airport within 90 km is provided.
Bryce Pioneer Village offers rooms featuring individual climate control, an in-room safe, pay television, multi-channel TV and a trouser press for a comfortable stay. The rooms have a modern interior with carpet floor. A queen size bed and a double bed are at guests' disposal. The villa has an en suite bathroom with a hairdryer, free toiletries and towels.
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Guests can make use of a microwave and a fridge.
Wireless internet is available in the entire villa for free.
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Cynthia Wilhite, RN, who works in Pre-Admission Screening in Hot Springs, was recognized with a DAISY Award for continuously going “above and beyond” to care for her patients.
Cynthia was nominated by the wife of a patient who was in a great deal of pain prior to his outpatient surgery.
“She went above and beyond to find the doctors ahead of schedule to provide my husband with the pain relief he so desperately needed. She saw his great need and found a way to address it and made him comfortable. Due to COVID restrictions, I was not allowed in the room during his prep, but she took such good care of him.”
After her husband’s procedure, the woman saw Cynthia again coming to the aid of someone. This time it was an elderly woman whose husband was having surgery. The woman had many items she was carrying to her car, and Cynthia offered to assist her.
I cannot say enough about Cynthia, and how she goes above and beyond for those patients and their families with whom she works!
The DAISY Award was established by the DAISY Foundation in memory of J. Patrick Barnes who died at 33 of ITP, an auto-immune disease. The Barnes Family was awestruck by the clinical skills, caring and compassion of the nurses who cared for Patrick, so they created the national award to thank nurses everywhere.

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My top travellers tips for visitors to New Zealand are very simple: all the usual safety travel tips apply here as elsewhere in the world. my tips are more prosaic, more ordinary, and New Zealand centred.
- Firstly we’re a long skinny country at the bottom of the world, surrounded by a huge ocean – that means the weather can AND WILL change often. Carry rain gear, and warm clothes, with you except mid summer. You have been warned!
- Many of our traffic lights for pedestrians NO NOT activate unless you push the button .. a hint.. if the red man is glowing you don’t need to push it .. it has been activated by someone else or is automatic.
- If someone stops to offer help if you look lost, or confused, we are not selling something, we really do want to offer help or information – FREE – no hidden agendas!
- It will take longer than you think to get from A to B on our roads … we have very few motorways. Remember we only have a population of 4 and half million in a land similar in size to the UK or Japan
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Julia Peddie and Marg McKenzie from CHASM (Compassionate Housing Affordability Solutions Maleny) are thrilled to receive a generous donation of $500 from the Blackall Range Zonta Club towards the Small House Project.
Margie Richter from Zonta says, “I’m totally absorbed by CHASM’s ethic and the members’ enormous commitments and values.”
Operating under the auspices of the Maleny Neighbourhood Centre, the affordable housing group have been fundraising for homelessness since 2016. They are now raising money to build their first community-owned home in Maleny.
CHASM were Sunshine Coast Council grant recipients last year which helped develop their fundraising and sponsorship strategy. Cr Jenny McKay has also contributed to the development of sponsorship materials and soon to launched website.
Anglicare Australia’s recent Rental Affordability Snapshot found that 94% of private rentals in Australia are unaffordable for people on income support and 72% are unaffordable for people on the minimum wage.
Julia says, “We are convinced that the community must drive affordable housing solutions rather than rely on government.”


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Title: Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord
Author: Sarah MacLean
Genre: Historical Romance
Year Published: 2010
Number of Pages: 357 pages
Date Read: 4/15/2011
Series: Love By Numbers #2
Content Rating: Ages 18+ (Sex Scenes)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
After reading the first book in Sarah MacLean's “Love By Numbers” series, Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake I was practically dying to read the sequel “Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord.” Unfortunately, this novel did not seem to capture my attention like Nine Rules to Break When Romancing a Rake and I have often found myself trying to finish this book as quickly as I can.
Ever since Nicholas St. John was named “London's Lord to Land” in a ladies' magazine, he has been avoiding all the women in London. However, when the Duke of Leighton told Nick about his missing sister, Nick was glad to take this opportunity to escape! However, when Nick comes to the secretive Townsend Park, home of Minerva House, he finds the daughter of the late wastrel, Lady Isabel Townsend and he realizes that she is no ordinary woman! But will both lovers ever truly love each other once their dark secrets are revealed?
There were a few good things that I did like about this book. I really loved the love scenes and the hero and heroine! Sarah MacLean had done an awesome job at making Nick the all-time, sexy and ever handsome hero! Whew! I just loved how Nick was willing to help out Isabel and the girls of Minerva House with their financial troubles and I just adored Nick for being honest with his feelings about Isabel. But, not only do I love Nick's personality, but his physical appearance is like the body of a god! I loved how Sarah MacLean described his body as being large and muscular, which are two things I love about my romance heroes! Now about Isabel, I loved the fact that Isabel is such a strong heroine and I loved the way that she stood up to any kind of authority that threatened to tear her apart from the girls of Minerva House. But, probably the best part about this novel were the love scenes between Isabel and Nick! I mean, this book is littered with love scenes galore and man, these scenes are hot and sizzling!
Now, here are some reasons why I gave this book a three star rating. For one thing, I often get annoyed with the heroine, Isabel, since she has some major trust issues to work through. I know that Isabel is scared to trust men because of what her father did to her mother and I do understand what she is going through, but still, I think that she could have at least put a little trust in Nick. I also felt sorry for Nick throughout the book because it is evident that he truly does love Isabel, but Isabel always seem to push him away from her no matter what Nick does to earn her love and it got so irritating after awhile. Also, I thought that this book was a little boring at times because the plot seem to slow down in many scenes and there are barely any action scenes in this book, so it was sometimes hard for me to get through this book without a bit of action.
Overall, this book is an average read for me. Even though “Ten Ways to Be Adored When Landing a Lord” has some really cute scenes between Nick and Isabel, I just wished that Isabel was a little more trusting of Nick and I wished that there were more action scenes to keep my attention to the plot. Even though this is not my favorite book out of the series, I cannot wait to read the third book, Eleven Scandals to Start to Win a Duke's Heart
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I’m David, an Authorised Marriage Celebrant creating warm and intimate ceremonies that celebrate love and connection in Melbourne and the Yarra Valley
IF YOU WANT A FRIENDLY, FUN ANDCELEBRANT, I’M YOUR MAN!
As your celebrant, I will bring joy and warmth to your special day, ensuring that your ceremony is not only beautiful and memorable, but also engaging and fun. I have officiated many ceremonies since 2020, taking the time to get to know each couple personally and designing a ceremony that truly reflects who you are as a couple. My focus is to make the ceremony all about you and your love story, and I will work with you to incorporate any cultural or personal touches that make your ceremony truly yours. I am deeply committed to celebrating diversity and inclusivity and creating a safe and inclusive space for all couples, including LGBTQI+ couples, to express their love.
Fun fact about me: I have a passion for the performing arts and not only am I an authorised marriage celebrant, but I am also a music and drama teacher and an experienced musician. When I’m not creating personalised and unforgettable wedding ceremonies, you can find me dancing at festivals, enjoying live musical theatre, hosting dinner parties for friends, or relaxing and playing video games. I also love getting into the spirit of things and dressing up for costume parties or as Santa during the holiday season.
If you have any questions or want to talk about how I can make your wedding ceremony everything you’ve dreamed of, please don’t hesitate to contact me. I’m based in Croydon North, and service the stunning Yarra Valley, beautiful Mount Dandenong, and the Melbourne CBD. I also can travel to popular locations like Mornington Peninsula, Geelong and Bellarine Peninsula, Great Ocean Road, Phillip Island and Macedon Ranges and anywhere else in Victoria and Australia for a small fee. Let’s make your day unforgettable!
We had a very private and personal wedding which David came to our house to marry us! He arrived with all paperwork in order and was very knowledgeable in his role! He gave us our timeframes to receive our marriage certificate in the mail and loved having a laugh with us 💕
January 28, 2023
David was incredible he helped us do our celebration do over after our celebrant pulled out 12 weeks from our wedding. We are so grateful to David and the time frame he had to get things done for us. Not to mention our wedding was 3 days out from Christmas so thank you again David for taking your time to support us through this new chapter. We also appreciate the profound respect and interest David had in our cultural ceremony. Having David part of this process made it all come together just as we had envisaged. Pippa and Jordan
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First things first, let’s schedule a quick chat! We can do this over the phone or through Zoom, and it’s the perfect opportunity for you to ask me any questions you may have and to make sure I’m the right celebrant for you before putting down a deposit. Once you’re comfortable with the idea of me being your celebrant, we’ll find a time to meet properly either over Zoom or in person over a coffee. This is where we’ll get to know each other better and I’ll want to learn all about you and your love story. It’s also when the planning begins – we’ll start organising the details of your ceremony, and we’ll take care of all the legal requirements.
While you focus on all the other aspects of your big day, I’ll be hard at work crafting a ceremony that truly represents your love story and personalities. I’ll take care of all the legal paperwork and ensure everything is in order, so you can relax and enjoy the planning process. I understand that planning a wedding can be overwhelming, but rest assured that I am here to guide and support you every step of the way. If you have any questions or need any advice, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
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Sometimes “not particularly healthy” happens too and it’s absolutely ok !
Not sustainable, not exactly healthy either but definitely delicious and homemade… We can’t always score in all categories, right ?! And this week, directly from portugal, here come the Pasteis de nata for a sweet and sunny break.
But did you know that most of the portuguese pastries actually come from a need of recycling wasted food ? Yes sir, sisters are the ones who invented most of them since they were using the egg whites to starch their veil and had to find a way to use the yolks. Today, we’re more looking for a recipe to use the whites after baking therefore, after a fresh batch of Pasteis de nata, come different sorts of meringues and pavlova…
Like you’ll see on the picture, Pasteis de nata are easier done in a special tin but a muffin tin, although a bit bigger than a Pasteis tin, should do the trick just fine.
- 500 g flour
- 400 g butter (cut in three pieces as equal as possible)
- 30 cl water
- 8 egg yolks
- 2 tbsp flour (24 g)
- 200 g sugar
- 20 cl sour cream
- 45 cl milk
- 1 pinch salt
- Dough :
- Combine flour, water, salt and softly knead until homogeneous.
- Chill in refrigerator for 20 minutes
- Roll out in a square shape and cover with very thin slices of butter on top (the equivalent of one third of total amount of butter).
- Fold (edge to edge) lengthwise and along the width ( fold in 4) and start process all over again : Roll out, cover with butter, fold in 4.
- Do it one last time (3 times total) : Roll out, cover with butter, fold in 4… wrap in a plastic film and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- Crème pâtissière / pastry cream :
- In a pan, combine sugar and yolks, stir.
- Add cream and milk, stir.
- Slowly add flour, stir until homogeneous.
- On medium heat, bring cream to the boil, stir the entire time. As soon as the first bubbles appear, stop cooking process, take off of heat.
- Final touch :
- Preheat oven (convection oven will work much better) at 250 °C (482 F).
- Rool dough out one last time (square shape) cut into 2 along the width and roll up each part.
- Chill one of the roll in the refrigerator while you’re using the other one :
- Cup chunk lengthwise.
- Place each chunk in a tin and spread dough with your thumbs until tin is covered..
- Add one Tbsp cream (depending on the size of your tin).
- Place all tins in a baking tray and cook in the oven until dough is the color of melted caramel.
- Do this one more time with the 2nd roll.

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χρόνος πέρασμα May 10th 2011
- Today we have isolated again the plasmid pBBRMCS5. We have also isolated the plasmid pSB4C5, from which we will amplify a specific region that contains the gene that codifies for the Red Flourescent Protein (RFP) and the respective restriction enzyme sites that makes a Biobrick as such. This region of the plasmid pSB4C5 is the one we wish to introduce to the other plasmids (pBBRMCS5 and pRK404)in order to leave them standarized.
- We have followed the protocol provided by Miguel Ángel Ramírez with some modifications.
-We have skipped the steps 11, 13-20.
-The centrifugations were performed under room temperature instead of 4° Celcius.
-The step 4 was followed by TE 10:1 wash.
-The final step (24) does not say the amount of TE-RNAse to be applied to the extracted plasmid.
-Paz told me to use 20 microliter and let it rest at 37° for one hour prior to run the plasmids in an electrophoresis gel.
-Uriel told us to use 60 microliters (we'll do it next time).
- We ran the electrophoresis gel with the isolated plasmids. The gel contained 15 wells, numbers 1 and 15 had the DNA ladder, numbers 2-6 had the plasmid pBBRMCS5, number 7 contained the control (just the dye), numbers 8-13 had the plasmid pSB4C5, number 14 was empty.
- It should be emphasized that we couldn't see the Matrix movies because we were working all day, we should be rewarded with many iGEMpoints :)


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Finesse: March-June 2011
- Indian stock markets ended the four month period from March 2011 to June 2011 with losses as the BSE Sensex shed 8% during the period. In contrast, EYIFSI reported 3% returns, while BSE Bankex ended almost at the same level.
- The markets witnessed a fair degree of intermittent volatility as the BSE Sensex fluctuated in a range of 2,195 points during this period.
- EYIFSI traced a similar pattern, although its movement was more pronounced than that in broader markets. The index surged in the first five weeks of the period to register 15% returns by 7 April 2011. Thereafter, it declined swiftly to pare down all the gains achieved initially. However, there was yet another short-term trend reversal in the last week of June 2011 that helped the index end in green.
- The initial gains can be attributed to positive global cues, with easing of the crisis in Japan and the Middle East. However, the gains were short-lived as concerns relating to rising inflation came to haunt Indian markets. In addition, another rate rise made by the RBI has further added to the prevailing pessimism. However, macro-economic concerns may continue to drive the stock market performance of the financial services industry in the near term.

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Jason Waters of Deep Creek High wanted to run track in the ninth grade, but his friends scared him out of it.
''They told me that all I would do was a lot of running, and that kind of scared me,'' Waters said.
After two years of deliberation, Waters went out for the team last year. Wednesday he walked away with four gold medals after leading the Hornets to the boys title in the Eastern Regional indoor track meet held outdoors at Todd Stadium.
Deep Creek scored 78 1/2 points to upset defending champion Menchville, which finished with 67. Bayside edged Denbigh 60-57 for the girls title.
''The only reason I went out for the team last year was to get more speed for football,'' said Waters, a standout receiver and defensive back in 1994. ''I wish I had gone out in the ninth grade.''
Waters gave the Hornets a 35+-10 lead over Menchville during the field portion of the meet Monday, and he opened the running events Wednesday with a victory and another 10 points in the 55-meter hurdles.
''After seeing Jason win the hurdles, I felt we had a good chance of winning it,'' said Deep Creek coach Richard Cox, who brought home the first regional title in school history.
''Based on the best times this year, I felt Menchville was the favorite coming in. I figured they would beat us by 14 points unless we got a bunch of first places.''
Waters gave him four and his teammates picked up two more.
Seneca Lassiter of Lafayette, the second-fastest high school miler indoors in the country, loped through the 1,600 meter run just fast enough to win. He turned it on in the 1,000, winning in a meet record time of 2:28.7.
The top six finishers in the individual events, and the top three relay teams, will represent the region in the state meet Friday and Saturday at George Mason University.
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BOYS TEAM SCORING : Deep Creek 78+, Menchville 67, Churchland 43, Western Branch 42, Hampton 34, Lafayette 30, Phoebus 20, Great Bridge 15+, Norcom 14, Gloucester 13, Denbigh 13, Cox 11, First Colonial 10, Kellam 10, Salem 9, Bethel 8, Tallwood 8, Kempsville 8, Baywide 6, Indian River 6, Princess Anne 6, Kecoughtan 5, Wilson 4, Green Run 2, Tabb 2.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 55 hurdles: Valenti (M), McKoy (Be.), Daugherty (K), Edwards (T), Coleman (G), Beck (Co.). Winning time: 7.6. 55: Boothe (Ch.), Claiborne (DC), Wynder (P), Perry (DC), Vann (M), Harrell (DC). Winning time: 6.3. 300: Harrell (DC), Boothe (Ch.), Cook (WB), Vann (M), Gould (M), Goodwin (M). Winning time: 35.2. 500: Blackwood (M), Baxley (FC), Mayes (Ch.), Buckley (GB), Ward (H), Jenkins (K). Winning time: 1:06.1. 1,000: Lassiter (L), Gilpen (M), Stroud (PA), Freeman (M), Bleakeley (G), Hunt (Co.). Winning time: 2:28.7 (meet record). 1,600: Lassiter (L), Valenti (M), Smith (Ch.), Morgan (K), Halms (FC), Riley (G). Winning time: 4:28.3. 3,200: Valenti (M), McKoy (B), Daugherty (K), Edwards (T), Coleman (G), Beck (Co.). Winning time: 9:41.8. 800 relay: Deep Creek (Harrell, Claiborne, Perry, Eason), Hampton, Western Branch. Winning time: 1:28.3. 1,600 relay : Hampton (Henry, Ricks, Ward, Pettaway), Menchville, Western Branch. Winning time: 3:17.8. 3,200 relay: Hampton (Ward, Henry, Massengill, Pettaway), Norcom, Bayside. Winning time: 8:25.
GIRLS TEAM SCORING : Bayside 60, Denbigh 57, Princess Anne 47, Salem 47, Menchville 36, Lafayette 29, Kellam 28, Phoebus 27, Ferguson 24, Bethel 22, Western Branch 19+, Norcom 12, Deep Creek 10, First Colonial 10, Tallwood 10, Hampton 10, Kempsville 10, Ocean Lakes 6, Wilson 4, Cox 2, Great Bridge 2, Tabb 2, Gloucester 1, Oscar Smith +.
INDIVIDUAL RESULTS: 55 hurdles: Buxton (L), Fayton (K), Lee (H), Davis (D), Harris (W), Graves (N). Winning time: 8.4. 55: Cutchin (Ba.), Purham (S), Smith (M), Johnson (WB), Ward (DC), Colvin (M). Winning time: 7.2. 300: Cutchin (Ba.), Powell (F), Boone (OL), Smith (M), Bassette (P), Skinner (M). Winning time: 41.1. 500: Powell (F), Collins (S), Walker (Be.), Jordan (K), Dunston (WB), Rice (WB). Winning time: 1:18.2. 1,000: Kunz (D), Purser (D), Licorish (D), Jurkola (K), Swanson (M), Brown (GB). Winning time: 3:08.6. 1,600: McCray (L), Cornish (K), Turnage (WB), Kaminski (PA), Lanver (K), Bishop (G). Winning time: 5:22.2. 3,200 : Cornish (K), McCray (L), Kaminski (PA), Allen (WB), Robinson (Co.), Trueblood (GB). Winning time: 11:34.9. 800 relay: Bayside (Williams, Thompson, Lamb, Cutchin), Denbigh, Menchville. Winning time:- 1:45.5. 1,600 relay : Bethel (Walker, Harris, Brumskin, Barrett), Menchville, Bayside. Winning time: 4:10. 3,200 relay : Denbigh (Purser, Licorish, Trumble, Kunz), Salem, Bethel. Winning time: 10:15.

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