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Kenai residents agreed that the city during dipnet season has morphed into a destination or party spot for all Alaskans. And it’s a trend the Kenai River cannot support, they said.
“It’s become a time of year for people from the Valley to come down and trash the beach,” said Megan Every, a Kenai resident. “The city needs to start putting limits on it.”
The Kenai City Council held its first work session Monday regarding the 2012 Dipnet Fishery Report. City officials highlighted last year’s pros and cons then council members and concerned residents discussed the future of the fishery.
The report highlights revenues and expenditures to the city as well as problems associated with more users accessing the river. To mitigate the influx of dipnetters, City Manager Rick Koch proposed increasing efforts to move fish waste to the beaches’ shores during low tides and collect other solid waste in new Dumpsters.
The Kenai Peninsula experienced its busiest dipnet season to date in 2012. Last year’s non-grant revenues exceeded the previous year’s revenues by 19.7 percent, totaling $473,161.03. The increase in revenues was attributed to a $5 camping fee increase and a larger number of participants.
Expenditures totaled $482,070.26, and the city experienced a net loss of $8,909.23.
A persistent fish waste problem accompanies those increases in use. The city intends to pursue an “aggressive” program to mitigate waste on the north and south beaches.
Koch laid out his plan for 2013 in the latter half of the work session. He outlined six possible methods to deal with increasing waste. In the end, he suggested the second alternative: additional Dumpsters on the north and south beaches and raking the fish waste during low tides.
The alternative would require the purchase of a second tractor for raking the north beach. The tractor, signage and other additional capital costs are estimated at $99,000, and additional operating costs are estimated at $73,350.
This alternative would result in the lowest increase in users fees and would expand current operations rather than creating costly new systems, Koch said. It is a measured approached to the growing fish waste problem and would not completely fix the beaches, he said.
“This year, it’d be worth trying number two, and through better education improve clean-up, and see what happens from there,” Koch said.
Residents commenting at the work session adamantly opposed the measured approach. Instead, they pushed for alternative four, the prohibition of any fish waste disposal on the beaches or in the waters of the river. Users would be required to take whole fish home. According to Koch, six additional officers would be needed for enforcement.
“The only viable option is four,” Every said. “It will take enforcement in the beginning, but with word of some $500 citations going around it will work.”
Megan Smith, a VIP subdivision resident, echoed Every’s choice, as did other attendees.
“It’s not the city’s responsibility to clean up everyone else’s trash,” Smith said. “If it ends up strewn from here to wherever, it becomes a state problem, and this is a state fishery.”
The council members responded positively to the residents’ suggestions. Robert Molloy and Kenai City Mayor Pat Porter, who was absent from the session but had her decisions relayed by another member, chose alternative four as the optimal route.
Residents also spoke in favor of putting more pressure on the state and its agencies to alleviate the burgeoning “Woodstock of Alaska,” as one attendee described the three-week dipnet season. Council member Tim Navarre said the city should take a stronger stance with the state.
“(That is to say), we should make sure there’s legislation … but we can’t just pass on the problem; it makes us no better than the state agencies,” he said.
The comments about the lack of state government support of the fishery put Koch on the defensive. The purpose of the dipnet report, he said, was how to deal with waste, and if there is a larger goal the council needs to identify it.
The report also contains details of the 2012 dipnet season from the Kenai Police Department, the Public Works Department and the Finance Department, among others. The full report is accessible on the city’s website at http://www.ci.kenai.ak.us/.
Police experienced their heaviest workload from July 17 to July 22, as they assisted the city’s dock crews with vehicle traffic, Police Chief Gus Sandahl wrote in the report.
Sandahl shared his department’s fishery findings during the first half of the work session.
Among the findings, dipnet-related calls to the Police Department increased from 121 in 2011 to 142 in 2012. The number of dipnet-related citations nearly doubled, from 59 in 2011 to 106 in 2012.
“Citations are going up. Part of this may be that (the Kenai Police Department) was less tolerant of violations,” Sandahl said. “We were far too lenient in 2010.”
In 2010, the police issued a total of six dipnet-related citations.
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Welshie wrote:Good luck Cardiff City against Liverpool on Sunday i would love to see you do it, there are going to be a lot of Welshmen in London over the weekend!
Welshie wrote:Friday 24th o Feb 16.17hrs:
I've finished work for the day but have not left the office yet, so to you all enjoy the rugby this weekend, i'm looking forward to 9pm tonight (children will be asleep) with rugby talk show on Welsh Language TV (Johnathon) and a large G&T to get me in the weekend mood.
Then a few beers with some mates at the pub on Saturday afternoon may the best team win but....: Dewch Mlan Cymru, Come on Wales
Looking forward to reading your comments on Mondays , win lose, or draw!!! :good:
Welshie wrote:... One of things i remember at the England side of 2003, was how they could snatch vicitory from the jaws of defeat. I think Wales did that on Saturday...
Welshie wrote:...however much as i like the young man, he didnt have his best game in the Wales no 10 shirt on Saturday.
Not a rugby fan but saw this new ad with Billy Braggs song a as sound track...
Welshie wrote:Ireland v France this weekend in that rearranged fixture. Too close to call, but Eire if you want to do Wales a favoure we would appreciate it.
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Anyways, I’m just trying to encourage you guys to stay hopeful. Stay positive about your future. Even if it seems like the whole world is against you, you’ll pull through. I promise you that. Just don’t give up. Ever. It gets better, you just have to stick around to see. <3
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John Calipari and Kentucky continue to dominate the recruiting landscape.
Thursday evening James Young, Scout.com’s No. 9 prospect, offered up a pledge to the Wildcats, becoming the third top 10 recruit to commit to Kentucky in the 2013 recruiting class.
Young entertained interest from Michigan State, Kansas, Syracuse and others during his recruitment, but Kentucky has been the team to beat for quite some time. In fact, Kentucky is the only school that recently received a visit.
In the spring, Young called Kentucky his favorite and while his Godfather – Sean Mahone – backed off that talk the past two months, it was clear that the Wildcats were in strong position for the Rochester Hills (Mich.) High standout.
Following Young’s unofficial trip to Kentucky, Mahone told Scout.com that the visit was able to confirm everything they had heard about the University of Kentucky.
“They were able validate that everything we had heard from them verbally, they were able to back up on site on the official visit,” Mahone said. “I wouldn’t say they separated themselves, but yet we developed another layer of confidence in the quality of their program.”
“Seeing is believing and we certainly have a lot of confidence in their program,” he added.
With the addition of Young, Kentucky now holds four verbal commitments in the 2013 class. He joins Andrew and Aaron Harrison, both top three prospects, and three-star power forward Derek Willis.
But Kentucky’s class isn’t complete. They’ll host four-star big man Marcus Lee for an official visit this weekend and also have scholarship offers out to Julius Randle, Tyler Roberson and Andrew Wiggins, who may or may not reclassify to the 2013 class.
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Italian Parties Avoid Strife on Successor to Leone; Balloting Is Secret Communist President Unlikely
By HENRY TANNER Special to The New York Times ();
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In her own words.
My name : Odile Rablat ;
My passion : aviation ;
My Occupation : director of a social institution for children ;
My peculiarity : I am grandmother.
Petite, I already traveling on the cards that came to hold me more than reading. I’ve always been sensitive to the aircraft, between the wonder of my father, a mechanic, when he spoke radial engines, and my passionate brother Gliding and fighter pilot, I had the opportunity to to skydive in the years 1984-1987 (185 jumps).
Since 2002, I fly in Ulm, Paramotor first, then tilting and multiaxis. This passion aeronautics, I share it as much as I can, including from several clubs, and as an elected committee of the regional, FFPLUM in Bourgogne.
Experiences, I do not greatly because I am young in this business. I’ve flown in France, alone or with others, in the south, east, west. I appreciate the richness of scenery, its lack of monotony. You can cross it in two days or take the time to meet. The flight conditions are restricted in many areas the needs of training of military aviation during the week that require a great flight preparation and a lot of vigilance. I have over 500 hours of flight.
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Why is my forehand better when I'm on the run??
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I would concentrate on your footwork. When you're on the run, you're forced to move to reach the ball. However, when there's an easier ball, it's easy to get lax and stand flat-footed, which leads to a lesser shot. Just a thought.
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|Title: ||Overlap-Free Words and Generalizations|
|Authors: ||Rampersad, Narad|
|Keywords: ||Combinatorics on words|
|Approved Date: ||15-Nov-2007 |
|Date Submitted: ||2007 |
|Abstract: ||The study of combinatorics on words dates back at least to the beginning of the 20th century and the work of Axel Thue. Thue was the first to give an example of an infinite word over a three letter alphabet that contains no squares (identical adjacent blocks) xx. This result was eventually used to solve some longstanding open problems in algebra and has remarkable connections to other areas of mathematics and computer science as well.
This thesis will consider several different generalizations of Thue's work. In particular we shall study the properties of infinite words avoiding various types of repetitions.
In Chapter 1 we introduce the theory of combinatorics on words. We present the basic definitions and give an historical survey of the area.
In Chapter 2 we consider the work of Thue in more detail. We present various well-known properties of the Thue-Morse word and give some generalizations. We examine Fife's characterization of the infinite overlap-free words and give a simpler proof of this result. We also present some applications to transcendental number theory, generalizing a classical result of Mahler.
In Chapter 3 we generalize a result of Seebold by showing that the only infinite 7/3-power-free binary words that can be obtained by iterating a morphism are the Thue-Morse word and its complement.
In Chapter 4 we continue our study of overlap-free and 7/3-power-free words. We discuss the squares that can appear as subwords of these words. We also show that it is possible to construct infinite 7/3-power-free binary words containing infinitely many overlaps.
In Chapter 5 we consider certain questions of language theory. In particular, we examine the context-freeness of the set of words containing overlaps. We show that over a three-letter alphabet, this set is not context-free, and over a two-letter alphabet, we show that this set cannot be unambiguously context-free.
In Chapter 6 we construct infinite words over a four-letter alphabet that avoid squares in any arithmetic progression of odd difference. Our constructions are based on properties of the paperfolding words. We use these infinite words to construct non-repetitive tilings of the integer lattice.
In Chapter 7 we consider approximate squares rather than squares. We give constructions of infinite words that avoid such approximate squares.
In Chapter 8 we conclude the work and present some open problems.|
|Program: ||Computer Science|
|Department: ||School of Computer Science|
|Degree: ||Doctor of Philosophy|
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (March 14, 2013) – The West Virginia University diving squad will send six members to the NCAA Zone “A” Championships this weekend at the Christiansburg Aquatic Center at Virginia Tech University.
“It’s great to be here with a strong group of divers,” diving coach Michael Grapner says. “Last year we discussed the advantages of team support and this year we have it. All of the divers have been working hard this year.”
Qualifiers for the men include juniors Richard Pokorny and Liam McLaughlin, and freshman Christian Parker, who will be competing on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
Women’s qualifiers include sophomores Haily VandePoel and Jennifer Rey, and freshman Lindsay Schmidt, who also will be competing on both the 1-meter and 3-meter boards.
All six divers are coming off strong showings in the Big 12 Championships. For the men, Pokorny placed third (317.00) in the 1-meter, and placed fifth (335.75) in the 3-meter. Parker placed fifth (293.55) on the 1-meter and eighth (302.60) in the 3-meter. McLaughlin placed fourth (300.55) in the 1-meter and sixth (318.05) in the 3-meter.
For the women, VandePoel finished fifth (305.70) on the 3-meter and sixth (269.75) on the 1-meter, while Schmidt finished eighth (265.80) in the 1-meter. Rey placed ninth (236.65) in the 1-meter and 16th (222.40) in the 3-meter.
The competition starts with the men’s 1-meter and women’s 3-meter on Friday, the women’s 3-meter and men’s 1-meter will be held on Saturday. The meet will start at 10 a.m. on both Friday and Saturday.
A full recap of each day’s action will be available on WVUsports.com
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Third Annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs
August 31, 2009 ~ September 01, 2009
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The third annual International Humanitarian Law Dialogs will be an historic gathering of international prosecutors from Nuremberg through present day tribunals. The focus of the 2009 Dialogs is "The Role of Women in International Criminal Law." The conference and roundtable discussion are free and open to the public (with the exception of meals).
The following current and former international prosecutors will be the featured participants.
Fatou Bensouda, International Criminal Court
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Orioles fans in New York City flock to the Horsebox
The scene at the Horsebox (Photo for the Baltimore Sun by Josh Adams / October 10, 2012)
The Horsebox was packed with Orioles fans, making it feel like a little slice of Fells Point in the East Village. The familiar Oriole Bird hat was in full display among the patrons and when Ryan Flaherty went deep in the third inning, an ear-splitting "Let's go O's!" chant erupted. Even the bartender was wearing a "Bohlieve" shirt and an Orioles cap.
Most of the Orioles fans I talked to are Maryland transplants from Towson, Catonsville and Laurel. They live now in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Most go back to Baltimore and catch a couple of games a year at Camden Yards. There were two Yankees fans who were pretty silent throughout the game, but some muffled cheers went up when Derek Jeter hit a triple over Adam Jones' head. I talked to a father and son who have lived in NYC their entire lives but have rooted against the Yankees. They were beside themselves at the O's success this year.
No one I talked to claimed to have seen this year's success coming. This season has been such an unexpected pleasure, it's been a happy dilemma to find an Orioles bar to congregate. What everyone with an O's hat agreed on in a small corner bar in New York City was their common love for the Orioles, and they were all happy to finally find a place away from home that felt like Charm City. Win or lose.
Josh Adams is a columnist for www.stadiumjourney.com and www.fbschedules.com. Follow Josh on Twitter on @joshthescribe
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June 1st, 2009 by China Business Success Stories
Price negotiation is one of the most tricky parts in international sourcing. But meanwhile it isn’t that difficult if you do enough homework, research and follow some basic principles.
I have visited China, people seem to bargain for everything, oftentimes we can cut down the price from 100RMB/pc to 10RMB/pc, so it is really hard to figure…
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May 25th, 2009 by China Business Success Stories
Easy to follow quality control guidelines for people purchasing from Chinese manufacturers.
Ok, so quality control is never easy. But, there are some basic guidelines that, if you follow them like the law, will make your life a lot easier. Most large companies outsourcing with Chinese suppliers have systems in place, and I’ve found them all to be remarkably similar. These concepts go beyond…
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May 18th, 2009 by China Business Success Stories
Poor quality product from China continues to be a major issue for both importers and factories. As a buyer, you can protect yourself and also educate your clients with some simple on-line research on product safety and performance standards. With the right documentation you can then clearly communicate these standards to your Chinese factory, and this way often prevent a major QC lapse.
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April 28th, 2009 by China Business Success Stories
By Diana Wang
If the exhibition has an official website, you may be able to examine a list of exhibitors who will attend the exhibition or who attended the exhibition in previous years. From this you will be able to judge whether the exhibition is suitable for you to find proper Chinese suppliers, and you can especially look out for the following:
- Well-known international suppliers attending the exhibition: Nowadays, good Chinese exhibitions attract international exhibitors. Normally these exhibitions are in industries where China is relatively more advanced.
- Chinese suppliers’ names: You may need to count how many Chinese suppliers are on the list. If you are familiar with China’s province or city names, you may be able to get a rough idea if the suppliers are local or from different provinces. As China is geographically large, it will cost suppliers from other provinces a lot of time and money to attend exhibitions in Beijing, Shanghai or Guangdong. So if one exhibition in Beijing attracted many good suppliers from southern China, it is likely to be a good one as the suppliers consider it worthwhile to attend.
- Key Chinese suppliers: If you already know several big Chinese suppliers in the related industry, you can judge if the exhibition is worthwhile or not by checking whether these suppliers are attending.
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April 16th, 2009 by China Business Success Stories
By Andrew Reich
It’s lead paint on a children’s giveaway toy. It’s a computer mouse that can seriously shock the user. It seems that every new day brings a wave of product recalls and safety alerts in regard to product coming from China. Promotional product importers and distributers are just as susceptible as retailers to the disastrous effect on business and reputation that distributing a dangerous product will bring. As more of us in the promotional product industry deal with China suppliers on a daily basis, the following strategies can serve as a guide to ensuring you receive only the highest quality product from overseas.
10. Know Who You’re Working With
When you’re buying product from China it’s often hard to tell if you are working with a factory, a trading company, or something in between. When it comes to product and quality issues it is key that you know exactly who you’re working with, and that the relationship is transparent to all parties. If you are not working with the factory directly and the supplier can not provide you satisfactory answers about the product, then they are inhibiting the sourcing process for you and you should reconsider the relationship. Read the rest of “Top 10 Tips for Quality when working with Chinese Factories” or post a comment | <urn:uuid:c70ac0f7-10a3-4474-baba-a99397166122> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.chinasuccessstories.com/tag/consumer-goods/ | 2013-05-24T11:37:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943242 | 911 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Lunch & Learn: Environmental Justice and Appalachia
By Briagenn Adams, CG News
The Office of Sustainability at Ohio University invited Dr. Harold Perkins, Assistant Professor in the Geography Department, to speak on Monday about Environmental Justice in Appalachia.
Perkins takes pride in being an urban political ecologist, dealing with the social-political component of managing the environment. “There is no aspect of nature, no aspect of the environment that isn’t in some sense social,” he said.
The birth of the environmental justice movement began in 1978 in Warren County, North Carolina when unscrupulous business owners knowingly dumped more than 30,000 gallons of polychlorinated biphenyl onto shoulders of North Carolina roadways, contaminating the soil for miles around.
The serious issue, however, was the fact that Warren County is a rural, predominantly black and poor community, and the residents felt as if they had become victim of environmental racism.
This event sparked the largest peaceful civil disobedience since the Civil Rights Era, resulting in over 500 arrests. Eventually, the United States Environmental Protection Agency was forced commit to detoxifying the site by 2004, at a tremendous expense. In 1987, a United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice study determined that minority status is the single best predictor of location for toxic waste facilities in or near communities.
“Mainstream environmentalist usually focus on the non-human victims for environmental concerns,” Perkins explained. “They don’t really think of the environment as where we work, live, and play.” But in reality, the higher rates of cancer, asthma, and other life-threatening diseases prevalent in these marginalized communities actually place the residents on a small-scale “endangered species” list.
The problem is that the people living in these places tend to lack the resources found in richer locations. They do not have the money to hire a lawyer to sue the companies who are dumping their toxins, nor do they have the funding to relocate. And the environmental justice situation is not much different in Appalachia, Ohio, according to Perkins.
Perkins went on to explain about so-called “sacrifice zones,” that are currently viewed as a necessary aspect of our capitalist economy. Appalachia, with its long history of “boom and bust” extractive economy in logging, coal, oil and gas, has become a prime target for environmental abuse.
Pollution and environmental degradation in Appalachia is perhaps greater in magnitude than any other instance that has galvanized environmental justice activists in other locations, but the “jobs versus environment” debate has prevented change. Because of the dire economic situation in Appalachia, many people in the community prioritize their jobs over the effects of pollution.
This became clear in a recent case, which took place in Little Hocking, Ohio, when a local company was convicted of having released chemicals into the environment for over 50 years. Residents were finally notified in 2008 that they had the highest level of C8 contaminated water on earth, but were still fearful to speak out because of their employment
or pension with the company. As Perkins pointed out, people should not have to choose between a livelihood and contamination. “This is a contradiction,” he said.
“Environmental advocates are sympathetic towards jobs and livelihood, we can’t blame the Appalachians for wanting prosperity,” Perkins said. “But we need to balance the deed for development with the need for environmental safety.”
What we need to do, Perkins said, is bear in mind community concerns while considering the intergenerational consequences of our actions, and how poor environmental protection in exchange for temporary economic benefits will irreversibly damage the lives of our children and grandchildren in the future.
“We need to think long-term,” Perkins said.
According to Perkins, right now, the best course of action is communication. “There is a stunted form of public participation in environmental decision-making,” Perkins said. “It is obviously not in an industry’s best interest to freely give out information regarding environmental policies.” | <urn:uuid:3678f1b5-1011-4451-8d61-1e2394ccecca> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.collegegreenmag.com/lunch-learn-environmental-justice-and-appalachia | 2013-05-24T11:30:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962783 | 857 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Although we’ve come to the end of the road, still I can’t let you go, it’s unnatural, you belong to me, I belong to you.
- A bend in the road is not the end of the road… unless you fail to make the turn. - Anonymous
- Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence. - Lin Yutang
- Last night I was dreamed that I was chasing a pack of wolves, trying to belong. - Anonymous
- There are only two emotions that belong in the saddle; one is a sense of humor and the other is patience. - Anonymous
- Earth does not belong to us; we belong to earth. - Chief Seattle | <urn:uuid:bd1e18c8-a484-4951-b478-a8561718cb7f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.desiquotes.com/quote/24914/ | 2013-05-24T11:29:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972185 | 166 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Born in California, Ferrell is a comedian, impressionist, actor and writer. He established his career in the 1990's on the NBC comedy sketch show Saturday Night Live, going on to star in various other TV shows such as Stranger With Candy and Living Single.
He also has a well-recognised movie career, appearing in films such as Zoolander, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy and Starsky and Hutch.
In 2007 he launched 'Funny or Die,' a website where short, comic videos could be uploaded and voted upon. The actor often uploads his own material there.
Among countless award nominations, Ferrell won the Teen Choice Award for Best Movie Actor- Comedy in 2007 for his performances in Blades of Glory and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby. | <urn:uuid:c8f6e28b-083f-4aa0-a62c-ddd81607b58e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.digitalspy.com.au/celebrities/will-ferrell/ | 2013-05-24T11:22:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969033 | 165 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I received this press release tonight from Goggle.com and thought it was amusing. Of course some people might confuse Goggle.com with Google.com, but this was a battle the Internet giant seems to have lost a little over a year ago according to The Register.
If you visit Goggle.com right now, you’re forwarded to GetTheVote.net, where the press release is posted. The most interesting aspect of this is how the company seems to have come to this early determination.
Here’s the press release:
US presidential predictions from Goggle.com – Obama Wins!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Goggle.com Inc announced the winner of the US presidential election early Tuesday morning, well in advance of the close of the polls.
Goggle.com ran an intensive series of tests for 24 hours leading up to the election, analyzing data from user input, Facebook likes, and social link shares to predict the outcome.
“We were able to accurately gauge public sentiment by studying a wide range of social queues from Goggle.com, Facebook, and various signals from across the web.” says David Csumrik, a web analyst at Goggle.com.
After harvesting and studying the data, Goggle.com ran complex analytic reports and declared Obama to be the winner of the upcoming federal election.
“We’re very optimistic about our projections” said Csumrik, “the computer modeling and simulations should prove us right”.
The study revealed that 49.43 percent of the US general population is in favor of the Obama administration retaining power, while only 20.20 percent support rival Mitt Romney and the Republican platform.
Surprisingly the study also revealed a high number of people are still undecided only moments before going to the polls, and an even higher number choosing to abstain from voting. “Our analysis concluded that 13.24% of people are still undecided” said Csumrik, “versus 17.13% of people who are choosing not to vote.”
The question remains how accurate Goggle’s early predictions will be. If the study holds true, Obama can expect to enjoy another 4 year stay in the Whitehouse. Who do you think should win? Visit Goggle.com to cast your vote.
About the Data – In 24 hours, 36,689 US website visitors completed 10,628 surveys: Obama – 49.43% (5254), Romney – 20.20% (2147), not voting – 17.13% (1821), and undecided – 13.24% (1407)
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The vision document of Arvind Kejriwal’s party could well be a straight lift from a schoolboy’s fantasy of an ideal democracy. But let’s indulge him for now. The most likeable quality in school children is innocence. Indian politics needs that innocence, that redeeming touch. If Kejriwal and his colleagues manage even a minor change, it’s welcome.
The document is full of idealism. That’s a good starting point. It’s impractical and unpragmatic, and the criticism has started trickling in. Point accepted. You can never have people deciding prices of essential commodities. You cannot have big decisions made at street corner meetings. You cannot simply ignore the economics of a hike in diesel and electricity prices. When you rule a state or a country you cannot have a narrow, community-centric focus.
But idealism has always been beyond considerations of practicality and pragmatism. It’s a benchmark people looking for change set for themselves. On a broader canvass, it’s the definition of a civilisational goal. The Constitution of India is a vision document for the country for all practical purposes. That the politicians have failed the ideals intrinsic to it is another matter. Idealism serves as the moral compass for the collectivity whether it’s the community or the nation.
Kejriwal is cutting no corners here. He leaves nothing open-ended. He gives no hint that he will be open to self-serving compromises in future if the situation demands. Yes, the method he proposes to adopt to bring down electricity prices and tackle other issues looks anarchic, thus dangerous. But let’s give him time. He is out to launch a political party. He will eventually mellow down – responsibility does that to everybody. If he is programmed to self-destruct, then nobody can help him.
The vision document seeks to demolish all the symbols of a flawed democracy. It says there will be no red beacons atop the cars of his members if they are elected to an assembly. He says they will accept no security for themselves or official bungalows. There are practical reasons why security is provided to some elected representative and why bungalows are allotted to them. But over the decades these have come to symbolise the power of the political class and the status differentiator between the politically powerful and the common man, who the former is supposed to be representing.
While addressing the rally in New Delhi, Kejriwal announced that his party, if elected to power, would pass a Lokpal Bill within 10 days. It’s part of the vision document too. The document also has the demand of Right to Reject and Recall on top of its agenda. It would help if the team backing him stops being obstinate about these demands and starts a genuine debate over them. The Lokpal agitation last year was a failure as Team Anna refused to listen to arguments unpalatable to it. Kejriwal must make his party more inclusive and open to ideas.
However, the vision document does not provide us the complete worldview of the new party. It appears too eager to create an immediate vote bank of common people at the cost of other significant sections. It does not tell us how the party will manage to strike a balance between several conflicting interests within society. That’s where the skills of true politicians come in. It wants a rollback of electricity tariffs but offers no solution on how power utilities will manage business without periodic hikes. It wants the diesel price hike rolled back but offers no solution as to how the country is going to manage the growing subsidy burden. It does not offer any new ideas for the economy.
But let’s ignore the lapses. It’s just the beginning. Political parties take long to develop and find coherent points of view. Right now we will accept the school boyish fantasy. Best of luck to Kejriwal. | <urn:uuid:eac30139-8c9e-4ca0-979a-257df533fb38> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.firstpost.com/india/vision-doc-kejriwal-is-high-on-idealism-short-on-ideas-476870.html | 2013-05-24T11:50:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955418 | 800 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
APB: All Points Bulletin received poor reviews right from the start, in part due to the excessive number of severe defects shipped with the game, the balance and matchmaking, and general frustrations. Luckily, the developers are listening to us (kind of), and they've responded with a large list of fixes to be released in the 1.3 patch. According to Neil Castle, you can look forward to these fixes and enhancements:
Critical Bugs, Exploits, and Crashes
- A client crash that can occur when accepting a clan invite has been addressed.
- A rare crash that occurred when players vehicles collide no longer occurs.
- Choosing to replay the intro videos no longer causes some players to crash.
- A rare server crash that was caused by a player switching their weapons via the inventory has been addressed.
- A wall in Block 20 that lacked collision now has collision.
- Numerous mission spawn volumes have been altered to prevent potential issues.
- Players are no longer able to see opposed enemy players through walls by looking at a destroyed vehicle husk.
- Players should now receive random rewards from contacts other than Double-B and Wilson LeBoyce.
- Mission related vehicles in a critical condition will now continue to lose health even after their related mission has been completed.
- Living City drivers no longer remain calm when their vehicles are on fire.
- Selling items to contacts no longer results in the error message 'SALE FAILED'
- Survival missions now function correctly.
- The ‘Supermag’ weapon upgrade no longer upgrades both the clip and the magazine size.
- Crouched players are now able to stand up by pressing the jump button.
- Amendments have been made to various ‘camping spots’ in both the Financial and Waterfront Action Districts.
And there are dozens more! For a full list of bug fixes and enhancements, visit the official list here.
What do you think? Will these fixes be enough to set the game on a path to victory? Has the damage already been done by the primarily poor review scores (see Metacritic, which places it at an average 59 as of posting). | <urn:uuid:576e7862-0fee-4901-99cf-c8a031c2b220> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.gamersnexus.net/news/403-apb-first-look-13-patch | 2013-05-24T11:28:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952178 | 447 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Annette M. Spicuzza has announced plans to retire as police chief at the University of California at Davis, The Sacramento Bee reported. Spicuzza has been criticized for the use of pepper spray on seated, peaceful students at a protest in November. In an e-mail message, she said: "As the university does not want this incident to be its defining moment, nor do I wish for it to be mine. I believe in order to start the healing process, this chapter of my life must be closed."
Read more here: http://blogs.sacbee.com/crime/archives/2012/04/embattled-uc-davis-police-chief-annette-spicuzza-retires.html#storylink=cpy | <urn:uuid:a6eab5e8-9808-48b6-be6c-b46d807df5b4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2012/04/19/uc-davis-police-chief-will-retire | 2013-05-24T11:50:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910057 | 159 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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NJ State Library Talking Book & Braille Center: Special Easy-to-Use Equipment for the Print Disabled
Now Available at the Library
JERSEY CITY, N.J. November 8, 2012 – This past month – October – was Blindness Awareness Month, and we lost that last couple of days due to Hurricane Sandy. Yet, there is no better way to bring attention to this most vital of our five senses than to offer people who are visually impaired an easier way to enjoy their favorite book from their local library.
The Jersey City Free Public Library has now partnered with the New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center (TBBC) to provide portable [audiobook players]. TBBC’s services, known as the “Outspoken Library,” serve New Jersey residents (children, teens and adults) who cannot read standard print or who cannot hold a book or turn the pages of a book due to a physical impairment, a reading disability or a vision impairment. Anyone who has difficulty reading standard print or holding a book or turning the pages of a book may be eligible. There is no cost for the service. Each branch of the Jersey City Public Library is offering this accessible reading service.
The technology is digital, but the player has a very simple design, with large buttons that speak to you. Once a person is certified as eligible, the equipment is sent directly to the person’s home.
“Our library staff has been trained in the use of all equipment, and is ready to process someone’s application for eligibility,” said Library Director Priscilla Gardner. “We are so pleased to offer this important service to our loyal library patrons, especially those who’ve been with us for a long time. You can still enjoy your reading!”
“This initiative will help us expand the services of the Talking Book and Braille Center to new, underserved populations in Jersey City,” said Adam Szczepaniak, director of TBBC. “It will help to make a difference for those who, for whatever reason, have difficulty reading printed material. This is an important partnership for TBBC.”
New Jersey residents of any age may be eligible who cannot read standard print, hold a book in his/her hand or turn the pages of a book due to the following difficulties may be eligible for TBBC services. This includes those whose ability is affected by a physical impairment, a reading disability, and/or a vision impairment.
Eligible individuals can choose from the following services: long-term loan of a digital audiobook player, loans of audiobooks on digital cartridges, downloadable audiobooks and magazines, loans of Braille books, access to audio news reading services, and downloadable Web Braille. All equipment and audiobooks are property of the U.S. Library of Congress. Any unused equipment or audiobooks should be returned to the TBBC.
The New Jersey State Library Talking Book & Braille Center is a network library of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS), a division of the U.S. Library of Congress. The TBBC is a bureau of the New Jersey State Library and is affiliated with Thomas Edison State College. There is no cost to members for TBBC’s services.
The Little Rock Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children who are blind or visually impaired initiated a bill into law establishing October as "Blindness Awareness Month." The Little Rock Foundation is united in bringing awareness and an educational element for people to have a better understanding of the challenges blind and visually impaired people face each and every day. www.blindnessawarenessmonth.org.
New Jersey is one of 40 participating states in the Little Rock Foundation’s October campaign, and joined the effort under the Corzine administration. The other 10 states have pending participation. The NJ State Library Talking Book & Braille Center is listed among its many resources for the visually impaired.
For the latest on programs, events, and special announcements please follow the Library on Facebook or Twitter at Jersey City Free Public Library. Visit us on the web at www.jclibrary.org for all information on the Library, including all press releases in The Press Room. As of today, November 8, 2012, the Jersey City Free Public Library has 220,743 valid card members. | <urn:uuid:17aaec74-58d3-4936-9eee-87af9dc54c9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jclibrary.org/the-press-room/nj-state-library-talking-book-braille-center/print?layout=default&page=&tmpl=component | 2013-05-24T11:16:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941312 | 908 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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techniques to allow you to take better
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Working with Albums in iPhoto
the cursor to the‘File’menu, and
Typethe name of your
album will appear on the left side of the
screen, underneath the names of the existing
On the thumbnail images,clickon the first
photo you transferred, andholddownthe‘Shift’key on the
keyboard andscrolldownto the last
All the photos you imported
are now highlighted (with a blue outline around
Clickon any one of
these anddragacross to your
will be highlighted with a black outline, and
the number of photos will appear in red.
When this happens,letgoof the
These photos will be copied into your new
Double-clickon it to open the
thumbnails, on the right of the screen you will
see an adjuster (a silhouette of a photo).
Clickanddragto slide the
adjuster along to alter the size of the
thumbnails (and the number in each row).
Choose a size you are happy
Open iPhoto and select the image you wish to
resize. Notice it now has a blue border showing
it has been selected.
from the Drop-down menu.
Make sure the
File Export button
has been selected and choose JPG from
sure the Button ‘Scale images no larger than’
Change the number in the
box. (These numbers are pixels.) Notice the
height value changes automatically.
will have to decide how much to reduce the
numbers depending on the size you wish the
photo to be.
Give your photo a name and click
Highlightthe pictures you
want to print, andclick‘Print’.
The ‘Print’ dialog box will open.
which printer you wish to use, and the number
of prints you wish.
Click‘Print’ to print
Click on theStandardbutton for more
Click‘Print’ to print
Copying and pasting into Appleworks / Word
Inserting an image into an Appleworks
Appleworks and select a new drawing document.
is selected from the
Locate your photo and click
Now you can drag your photo anywhere on the
an image into a Word Document
Word and select a new document.
your photo and click
once on your photo to select it and go
from the drop-down menu.
A new window will open. Click on the
You will now be able to drag your photo to any
position on the page.
Select an Album
from which to create a slideshow.
Select all the photos to include in your
Clickthe ‘Slideshow’ button
underneath the thumbnails.
The window will change to reveal the
To change the time each slide appears on the
screen,clickon the up or down
arrows next to ‘Play each slide for ‘…’
Choose aTransitionfrom the
Clickthe ‘Music’ tab
and select a track from your iTunes library (or
a CD) to use.
To play the slideshow with no music, on the
‘Music’ tab,removethe check next to
‘Play music during slideshow’.
To view your show,click‘Play’
show of the photos will now play with the music
you selected (make sure you have the volume
Clickthe mouse button
to stop the slideshow.
To view the slideshow again,clickthe ‘Play’ icon
on the left of the screen.
Sending to others
To add an attachment to an email you are
in your open message.
‘Attachments – Web Page Dialog’ box
To find the file you wish to attach,click
‘Choose File’ dialog box
Here you can find the file you wish to attach.
Once you have found it,clickonce
You will return to the
‘Attachments – Web page Dialog’
You will now see the name of your chosen file
next to the browse button.
To attach this fileclick
the file is attached, it will appear in
‘Current File Attachments’ list
at the bottom of the web page dialog box.
You can of course attach more than one file to
To return to the message, eitherclick
at the bottom of the dialog box,or
at the top right of the window.
You will now see your attachment listed under
of your message.
Once you are happy with your message,click
Comic Life - Choosing a Template
Open Comic Life.
Select a template.
the template onto the page. (Or double click.)
The template area collapses and your iPhoto
Library will be displayed.
Comic Life - Adding Images from iPhoto
Select a photo and drag it to the panel to
which you want to add the image.
can adjust the image by clicking and dragging
on the visible part of the image. To resize,
drag the green resize handles.
Note: when an image is dropped on a panel
the image becomes attached to the background of
a panel. When the panel is moved the image
moves with it. To adjust the image (to
reposition it within the panel for example)
double click on the panel and the image will
Continue adding your images until all your
panels are filled.
Comic Life - Adding Balloons
Drag a balloon from the bottom of the window
and drop it onto a panel.
Enter your text and click outside the text area
to save the new text.
that the balloon has resized itself to fit the
new text - if there is more text than before.
To resize the balloon drag the green resize
As your mouse moves over the balloon you'll
notice two markers appearing and disappearing.
The orange marker on the tip of the tail
highlights the spot to drag to adjust the
position of the tail - so you can line it up
with the person who is speaking.
The other marker that's near the center of the
balloon is a special handle that lets you move
the balloon and the tail at the same time.
Move the tail by clicking on the tip of the
tail and dragging it to a new position.
To make text bigger (or smaller), double click
on the text and it will be highlighted in blue.
Choose the Bigger or Smaller button and click
until you reach te desired size of text.
Click on a blank part of the page to finish.
You may have to resize the balloon to fit the
new size of text.
Continue placing balloons and editing until
you're happy with the composition.
Comic Life - Adding Captions
Adding captions is very similar to adding
balloons - simply drag and drop them on the
panels and edit the text.
Click once on the caption to access the
Drag to resize the box.
Use the purple arrow to rotate the box.
Comic Life - Adding ‘Sound Effects’ and Titles
To add a lettering element, drag and drop from
the Lettering well onto a panel.
A window will open where you can enter the text
and choose the font for the lettering.
Enter you text. Click
and drag to place the lettering where you wish.
The drag handles at the
move just the one handle and the lettering
element is distorted to fill the new area.
handles allow you to warp the letters in a
Continue adding lettering elements until you
are happy with your comic.
Comic Life - Save a Page to the Desktop
Go to File at the top of the
Select Export from the
Choose Export Fixed-Resolution PDF
Give your file a name. Choose
Desktop. Click Save.
Click on the Print button.
Click on the PDF button and
choose Save as PDF.
As part of a presentation
photo into a PowerPoint slide.
the picture you wish to use and clickInsert.
To resize the
photo, go toFormat,selectPicture.
When the formatting window
opens, select theSizebutton.
Adjust the height by a
locked and the resizing is'Relative
to original picture size'.
As part of a movie
iMovie and create a new project. Give your
project a name and decide where to save it to,
Click on theMediabutton.
Click on thePhotosbutton.
Your iPhoto library will
Select a photo. In the photo settings window,
drag the duration control (the hare and
tortoise) to change the display duration.
Your photo will be added to
the timelime and you will see the progress of
the import process.
theEditingbutton to enable
the addition of effects, transitions, titles
Web pages - Blog
in to your site. Click onWrite,
and select theWrite
Before you can insert an
image you must upload it first. Scroll down the
page until you see theUploadtab.
Click onBrowseto find the photo
you wish to use.
The next window will enable you to navigate to
the picture you wish to use.
Click once on your picture
Decide on the size you wish to display your
image.(Full size may be rather
big but you can resize it later.)Choose one of the
Click on the image. You should see the little
Click on the picture icon in
Imagewindow will open. Choose from
You can alter the
size from this window too.
(Though it is probably easier
to resize your images using iPhoto first.)
Use this window to add some space round the
edge of your image. Enter the number of pixels
(10 is a good number to start with.) into
You can always increase or
decrease this to suit.
Web pages - website
photos into a website using iWeb
Click on theMedia
The Media Browser window will
open. Click on the Photos button.
Your iPhoto library will be
Select the photo you wish to
use. It will be highlighted in blue.
Drag the photo to your
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JONATHAN CHAIT JANUARY 4, 2011
Lamar Alexander is a Senator who very much wants to be taken seriously, but his speech in defense of the filibuster delivered at the Heritage Foundation today proves merely why he shouldn't be. Here is how Alexander sets up his argument:
Voters who turned out in November are going to be pretty disappointed when they learn the first thing some Democrats want to do is cut off the right of the people they elected to make their voices heard on the floor of the U.S. Senate. ...
[O]n December 18, every returning Democratic senator sent Senator Reid a letter asking him to “take steps to bring [Republican] abuses of our rules to an end.”
When the United States Senate convenes tomorrow, some have threatened to try to change the rules so it would be easier to do with every piece of legislation what they did with the health care bill: ram it through on a partisan vote, with little debate, amendment, or committee consideration, and without listening to minority voices.
This is totally false. The Democratic plan is simply designed to force the minority party to conduct an actual filibuster, rather than scotch appointments or bills without debate:
Senator Tom Udall, Democrat of New Mexico, said that he intended to call for new limits on filibusters that would require senators to be on the floor if they seek to derail legislation. ...
“One of our main focuses is making people stand up and explain to the American people why they are filibustering,” said Senator Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat who has been working with Mr. Udall to develop changes in the way the Senate operates. ...
Besides forcing senators to take the floor to defend their filibusters, Democrats also want to make it harder to stonewall the initial effort to bring a measure to the floor, a step known as the “motion to proceed.” They also want to ban the ability of senators to place an anonymous “hold” on a bill or nomination.
There is nothing here about limiting debate. The proposal is to require debate, rather to to allow the minority to kill legislation with no debate at all. Alexander's entire argument proceeds from this hilariously false premise:
The difference is that, when he gave his speech, there was nobody to tap him on the shoulder and inform him that his entire understanding of the issue was incorrect. It's simply embarrassing. | <urn:uuid:ea053770-a79a-4f9c-84a1-c8c961562059> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-chait/80862/lamar-alexander-embarrasses-himself | 2013-05-24T11:44:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972172 | 505 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Just before the U.S. holiday weekend, we posted an edition of Novell Open Audio featuring the boy wonder Robert Love and News from Support. That was pretty much our six month “semi-anniversary” show.
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Snubbing Nevada's veterans
Why the hostility from the Clark County Board of School Trustees?
- Thursday, November 13, 2008
Is the Clark County Board of School Trustees hostile to everything military? Or is the board just averse to veterans?
The board recently cold-shouldered an offer of the unique privilege of having the nation's second Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps academy in Clark County. In 1990, the board changed the name of Memorial High School to Cimarron-Memorial High School because the district was naming schools with southwest themes. Today, the district and board of trustees continue to rebuff efforts to name a Veterans Memorial High School.
For almost two years, veterans and their supporters have been pressing the school board to name a high school in honor of Nevada's veterans. Phil Randazzo, president of the Nevada Benefits Foundation says he and other supporters of the idea are being strung along by the school board.
Initially, the group was told that letters from the community were required to get a school so named. The group submitted approximately 100 supporting letters, including messages from Nevada's U.S. senators, Harry Reid and John Ensign - only to be later told that the letters weren't enough, and that in-person testimonials were also necessary.
After bringing 50 families to a September 2007 meeting of the board's school naming committee, veterans and supporters left disappointed yet again. Despite following committee guidance and bringing speakers to the meeting, supporters were now told that school district policy prohibited the naming, but that changes to policy were being made. Certainly, this would have been beneficial information for the board to have shared nine months prior.
Trustee Terri Janison was quoted on KLAS-TV's website as saying, "The way the policy is stated is right now, which School Naming Committee has to adhere to the current policy, we really weren't allowed to by law to name it Veterans Memorial High School."
At the time, September 2007, the school naming committee - which is charged with accepting and reviewing nominations and making recommendations to the full board - was made up of trustees Janison, Sheila Moulton and Mary Beth Scow.
Moulton reportedly said then that she wanted what is now East Career & Technical Academy to be named "Veterans Memorial East Career & Technical Academy," but was told by CCSD attorney Bill Hoffman that such a designation violated policy.
Hoffman told the Las Vegas Review-Journal it would take about six to eight weeks after the naming committee's recommendation for the school board to approve a change in naming policy.
However, it actually ended up taking more than a full year to get that policy change into place, which finally occurred on Oct. 2, 2008.
Yet, once again, the veterans were disappointed.
This time, board members inserted a shield into the policy - in which they passed the buck to students.
Under the new rules, selected students recommend one school name to the naming committee for referral to the board. And on Nov. 6, 2008, Veterans Memorial High School was again passed over. A new high school located within the zoning of Nellis Air Force Base, the students said, should instead be named "Sunrise Mountain High School."
The school district offered (sort of) to name a new technical school Veterans Memorial Central Career & Technical Academy. While on the surface that may seem a victory for Nevada veterans, one interpretation of the new school naming policy actually prohibits such a move.
The actual governing text of the new policy reads: "High schools with primary emphasis on career and technical education will be called career and technical academies and will be named with a directional or geographical description of the location of the school."
Only comprehensive high schools can have a name that recognizes general historical or cultural values.
Clark County's school board appears to have a deep, unacknowledged aversion to anything military. That attitude actually conflicts with the board's own professed values as embodied in adopted policies, which say it is the goal of CCSD that "All students have the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values necessary to achieve academically, prosper economically, and participate in democracy." All CCSD students, the policy goes on to say, will demonstrate positive character traits, including: citizenship, courtesy and respect, good sportsmanship, honesty and trustworthiness, kindness and caring, and responsibility.
What exemplifies these values better than the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, who dedicate and commit their lives to keeping America safe and free?
Do not former CCSD students Lance Cpl. Dale Earl Thompson, Lance Cpl. Raul S. Bravo, Army Spc. Anthony S. Cometa, and Pfc. Joshua S. Modgling - each giving the ultimate sacrifice for democracy - exemplify the values that CCSD seeks to instill in all its students?
Perhaps, one day, the Clark County school board will pay tribute to Nevada's veterans and recognize their own fallen heroes. Until then, the idea of a Veterans Memorial High School will remain a controversial one.
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PACKING AND SHIPPING
The problem with buying a few fish over the Internet is the the shipping cost. It is not unusual for the shipping cost to equal the cost of the fish. We have put a lot of effort into developing a packaging and shipping process which minimizes these costs.
They will be shipped via Federal Express Second-Day Air. The fish leave Hawaii Wednesday evening and arrive on the East Coast on Friday - usually about mid-day. Even though they are sent Second-Day Air, customers in western states often receive their fish on Thursday. There is an extra charge of $10 to guarantee overnight delivery to the West Coast.
We ship to all fifty states in the US. Shipping costs are found to the right of the price of the fish.
We pack very conservatively to insure they will arrive in the best of condition. Even if the unthinkable should happen and the fish are in transit for an additional day, they will still be fine and will arrive safely. Our testing indicates that the fish can be in the shipping box for over a week (although we certainly would not recommend it).
We use several box sizes so you do not have to pay any more for shipping than is absolutely necessary. Every corrugated box is insulated with expanded polystyrene (styrofoam) insulation. Inside the foam box your fish will be double-bagged.
There is a flat rate for packaging, handling and shipping to the continental United States which depends on the size of the box. We have a $30 box, one which ships for $45 and a third which is $60. There are no hidden charges or handling fees. The large $60 can box hold can hold twice as much fish as the $45 medium box and three times more fish than the small $30 box. This dramatically reduces the shipping costs if you want a large number of fish or are able to combine orders with others in your community. Mention this to your local club members.
The number of fish of a particular size and variety which can be packed in each of the three box sizes is noted on the fish sales pages under the column labeled "flat-rate shipping". You will see the number of fish which can be sent for each of the box sizes - $30, $45 and $60. Your shipping and packaging costs do not increase when additional fish are purchased as long as they do not exceed the maximum number for that box size. We try to simplify shipping costs as much as possible but realize it can still be a little confusing. If there is any question about the number of fish which can be packed in a box, just drop us an e-mail.
Most deliveries occur about mid-day but FedEx will only commit to delivery between 8:00 am and 7:00 pm. Deliveries to a business address (as opposed to a residential address) usually arrive earlier in the day. You are encouraged to take delivery at your place of business, but do not open the bag until you get home. You can also have your box held for pick-up at any FedEx location. If it is very hot or very cold, or if you just do not want the box left at your door while you are not at home, have it held for pick-up at your local FedEx location and pick it up on your way home. You can find your nearest FedEx location through their web site.
Prior to shipping, your fish will be isolated, checked for parasites, and will not be fed for several days to purge them. This step dramatically improves water quality during shipping. However, this also means that in order to receive your fish on Friday, you must confirm the order by noon (your time) on Monday.
You will receive an e-mail with FedEx tracking information before the fish arrive.
Inter-island shipments within Hawaii are sent on Tuesday for same-day delivery.
We do not have a storefront and insurance/liability issues preclude selecting fish at the farm. So, if you live on Oahu you will still have to select fish off the web site. However, you can arrange to pick up your fish several days after they are ordered to save the shipping charges.
Send us an e-mail with the item number(s) for the fish you would like and we will confirm the total cost with shipping. We usually send a PayPal request which will securely process your credit card. You can also telephone with credit card information or mail a personal check or money order. Payment must be received prior to shipping.
|Rain Garden Ornamentals|
|49-041 Kamehameha Highway|
|Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744|
I guess we should have a shopping cart system - or at least an order form. But, we don't. Just send us an e-mail listing the item number(s) for the fish you are interested in, how you are paying, and when you would like to receive them. We check e-mail tthroughout day and will reply promptly. Of course, we will need your shipping address too as well as a daytime phone number in case Federal Express has a hard time finding you.
UNPACKING & ACCLIMATING AFTER ARRIVAL
Think about where you will put your new goldfish ahead of time. We recommend that all new fish are quarantined for several weeks before they are added to your existing collection. At Rain Garden, we pride ourselves on the health of our goldfish and do not believe you will find a safer source of supply. Nonetheless, the shipping, new surroundings, and different water source creates some stress. Just like you and I, goldfish are most likely to become ill after being subjected to stress. It is best to let them recuperate and adjust in a quarantine tank before being introduced to your existing fish. Every goldfish tank has a social order which we are not privy to and your new addition will adjust to the tank mates better after it rests up a few days.
Your fish will arrive in a sealed corrugated box. Inside the corrugated box will be your invoice and a insulating expanded polystyrene (styrofoam) box. Inside the foam box you will find the bag(s) with your fish. Take a peak at the fish inside the plastic bags but do not open the bag quite yet. If you are not ready to acclimate the fish and place them in your tank or pond it is probably best to put the bag back into the foam box and close the lid. The fish will be more comfortable in the dark box and the foam will avoid unnecessary temperature changes.
Place the unopened bag of fish into the tank or pond and let it float there for 30 minutes to an hour. The unopened bag should float in the tank/pond until the temperatures have equalized. Do not leave the bag in direct sunlight because it will act like a mini greenhouse and the water inside can quickly over-heat. Once the temperatures are the same, open the outer and inner plastic bags and immediately transfer the goldfish directly to the tank or pond. Some people insist on slowly adding tank water to the bag. In our experience, this is counterproductive so if you are going to do it, please do it over the course of a few minutes, not a few hours.
Shortly after being placed in the tank or pond the fish will really perk up and start looking around for something to eat. Feed them very lightly for the first day or so. Enjoy!
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Floyd Mayweather Jr has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Josie Harris in 2010.
The 34-year-old U.S. boxer has also been ordered to pay a fine of $2,500 and complete 100 hours of community service.
Mayweather agreed to a plea deal, meaning he will not have to answer felony charges of beating Harris and threatening two of their children.
Prosecutors said Mayweather's history meant jail time was appropriate.
"He just continually gets himself into trouble and he is able to get himself out of it as well," the BBC quoted prosecutor Lisa Luzaich as telling Judge Melissa Saragosa.
"Essentially it is because he is who he is and is able to get away with everything.
"The only thing that's going to get this man's attention is incarceration," Luzaich added.
The judge said that she decided to jail Mayweather after he admitted hitting Harris and twisting her arm.
After citing a police report, Saragosa said that two of the former couple's children, ages 9 and 10, also witnessed the attack, in which Mayweather threatened to make Harris "disappear".
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It’s the most prestigious and flattering title you could give to a fighter.
“Beast,” Liz Carmouche said. “That’s what everybody says about me.”
In MMA, a beast is a term of endearment. It means someone who is relentless, strong, vicious and looks not just to win fights but to finish them with knockouts. It’s someone who doesn’t mind hurting people.
“She breaks a lot of guys’ noses,” said Manolo Hernandez, Carmouche’s coach. “If you take it easy with her, she’ll break you. She won’t give you the opportunity. She respects other fighters enough to not (expletive). She helps UFC fighters in their camps and puts those guys on their backs. It’s a bad day all around for anyone who thinks they’re going to have a good day against Liz.”
Carmouche proved her toughness in the U.S. Marine Corps, where she was combat deployed as a helicopter mechanic and had betting games with other Marines about who could hold a burning cigar to their arm the longest. Who won?
“I did, every time,” said Carmouche, showing a series of circular scars on her left forearm.
Her friends in the Marines first encouraged her to look into fighting based on her competitive spirit, toughness and freak physicality. Her nickname is Girl-Rilla, earned from her muscular physique and strength that outperforms male counterparts.
Despite her toughness, for a long time Carmouche held a secret that made her feel like a coward. As an active Marine, she hid her identity as a gay woman.
“It was in the Marine Corps that I finally did come out and discovered what my sexuality consisted of,” she said. “I definitely thought that when I came into MMA that again there was going to be a certain lifestyle that I was expected to live and I would be confined.”
Through her teammates, Carmouche learned that acceptance was there if she was willing to let go of her own fears.
“They didn’t care about any of that; it was who I was as a person, as a training partner,” she said. “I learned that there was no reason to hide it from the world.”
In July 2011, she discussed her sexuality in a U-T video.
“We got all kinds of phone calls from people,” Hernandez said. “People were reacting, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t have said that.’ There was immediate concern for her sponsorships situation. Liz and I sat down and decided, ‘Be yourself and everything will fall into place. Everyone needs a hero.’ ”
Carmouche doesn’t see herself as a hero. In fact, she said that she has yet to see any response from the gay community. “It’s really been more of a media thing,” she said.
Last month, Sports Illustrated ran a feature on its website detailing Carmouche’s journey coming out, but she has stayed focused on her athletic goals. With a 9-2 record — both losses came early in her career against former world champions — Carmouche has her eyes on the biggest prize of the 135-pound women’s division. | <urn:uuid:abc241ff-f902-4155-81d1-6d9c082c7b0e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/oct/15/they-call-her-girl-rilla-or-beast-but-carmouches/?page=1 | 2013-05-24T11:26:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985898 | 722 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Man responsible for 3 high speed car chases arrested in Grand ForksGrand Forks, ND (WDAY TV) -- It's the end of the road for a Grand Forks man who led police on three separate high-speed car chases in the past five days.
By: WDAY Staff Reports, WDAY
Grand Forks, ND (WDAY TV) -- The end of the road for a Grand Forks man who led police on three separate high-speed car chases in the past five days.
Thirty-one year-old Juan Robles was caught after his car collided with a construction vehicle south of Grand Forks. Police used a taser on him before making the arrest.
His last chase, at 10 Tuesday morning, reached speeds of 100 miles an hour. It was last Friday when Robles first evaded police in Grand Forks. The second chase happened Sunday afternoon again Robles got away in a stolen car that was found in Fargo.
Sgt. Bill Macki - Grand Forks Police Department: "Out on these country roads I don't think we passed one vehicle during the pursuit, so it was a pretty much optimum conditions for us to continue to pursuing."
Robles suffered some non-life threatening injuries and was taken to Altru for evaluation. The Pontiac Grand Prix Robles was driving was not stolen and is believed to belong to a friend. | <urn:uuid:210946fc-801c-46ae-b2fc-7d6ea1f75044> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.wday.com/event/article/id/67367/publisher_ID/29/ | 2013-05-24T11:17:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368704645477/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516114405-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966797 | 287 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Kigali — Rwanda's Minister in charge of East African Affairs Monique Mukaruliza has said South Sudan's admission into the community will have wide reaching benefits for the region.
South Sudan that recently gained independence from the Arab North applied to join the EAC and its application is pending consideration.
A team sent to S. Sudan by the East African Community (EAC) in July this year, to verify its readiness for membership submitted its report to the council of ministers during a meeting in Burundi.
During the Burundi meeting, four partner states found the team's findings comprehensive enough to make deliberations on the admissibility of Africa's youngest nation into the community except Tanzania which sought more time to review the report.
But last week Tanzania also indicated it will welcome S. Sudan to the community.
"South Sudan will definitely be a worthy addition to the community as it will widen the market and that comes with opportunities for us all," said Minister Mukaruliza during a press briefing of the EAC activities recently.
According to Mukaruliza, Rwanda will not only benefit from S. Sudan's entry but that there's a lot her country can teach S. Sudan especially developing national institutions and sharing experience of how the country can recover from its long years of war before gaining independence earlier this year.
Sudan had earlier applied as a united country before granting the south their independence but the bid was rejected by the partners on grounds that it failed to meet key requirements for entry.
Among those, applicants must adhere to universally acceptable principles of good governance, democracy, the rule of law, observance of human rights and social justice; potential contribution to the strengthening of integration within the East African region as well as geographical proximity to and inter-dependence between it (the applicant) and the EAC Partner States.
Currently, there are two bids to consider that of S. Sudan and Somalia which is on the brink of victory over the Al-Shabaab Militias. Experts reckon that the admission of the two applicants could be the trick in pacifying the great lakes region that is never short of conflicts.
Somalia and S. Sudan share borders with Kenya and Uganda (with S. Sudan). South Sudan is also sitting on a huge oil wealth with experts suggesting that around 80% of the untapped oil deposits in Sudan are in the south.
With Uganda's own oil wells expected to start flowing in two years' time, that would make two member states producing oil, a very huge value addition to the region.
And if Somalia's own application was to be granted, that addition would rise further with talk of Somalia's potential for oil and gas wealth onshore and offshore, estimated to be as high as 110 billion barrels of oil in the two northern breakaway provinces of Puntland and Somaliland.
The Canadian company, Africa Oil which began drilling two wells in Puntland claims their two wells have the potential of around 4 billion oil barrels.
With an unfriendly neighbor in the North, South Sudan will benefit from Kenya's Sea port as independence meant losing connection with the sea. Somalia's entry will also bring a third sea port owning country in the EAC a sure way of spurring more trade in the region.
The underlying benefits of regional integration is peace and more trade and if admission into the EAC can guarantee peace for S. Sudan and Somalia then Trade in the region stand to benefit massively.
The question remains whether the same will be done for DR Congo a mineral rich neighbor where the government there has failed to address internal conflicts. It shares borders with Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
But while the community gets larger, experts worry that it might become one large uncontrollable piece that might fail to benefit the citizens.
In its smaller version, many protocols have been signed but not implemented and critics have questioned the level of commitment by political heads of the partner states. | <urn:uuid:e4976d09-90dd-4698-a249-dcba226aa605> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://allafrica.com/stories/201212172584.html | 2013-06-19T01:34:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965634 | 800 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
NEW YORK The wrong people have been in court fighting obscenity charges. The 2 Live Crew and their album, "As Nasty as They Wanna Be," seem tame compared to what's being shown on the runways for spring '91.
The Rebecca Moses collection revealed the first bareness when the designer sent a model down the runway wearing a transparent wedding gown. This peek-a-boo fashion trend has continued through every collection, even from designers like Bill Blass, from whom you would expect more discretion. He played the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't game with lace capri pants.
All week long, models have been struggling with spaghetti straps that wouldn't stay up and shorts that wouldn't stay down.
This leaves the average woman with the absurd question: How bare does she wanna be?
Every collection so far has shown plenty of flesh, mostly through filmy big shirts worn sans lingerie. Moses, Eleanor Brenner, Carmelo Pomodoro and Basco all had big sheer shirts with shorts, pants or miniskirts. Calvin Klein's collection included unlined, beaded chiffon, and Christian Francis Roth bared bosoms under filmy chiffon floats.
The Basco collection was irresponsible. Models wore skirts so short their underwear showed. One model's skirt even had a slit up the back something that brought a few chuckles from the audience and catcalls from photographers. And these people are professionals. Imagine what would happen if a woman walked down the street back home dressed that way.
pTC Then there's Basco's suit with a 15-inch long skirt and a blouse too short to tuck in. Where would you wear such a thing? Not to work, that's for sure. Much of this will be toned down by the time it reaches the racks. Basco probably will add an inch or two to its skirts, Moses probably will line her wedding gown, and Roth's floats will have a camisole underneath. A lot of this bareness is just for show. Still, some designs will turn up in the stores the way they're shown, leaving consumers to figure out the solutions.
All bareness aside, what's left is still not going to work for the average woman. How many spaghetti-strap slip dresses does she need? How many women over the age of 25 actually look good in a slip dress? Another problem is fit. When a skirt is so tight that it wrinkles across a model's lap and inches up as she walks, it's definitely not for the poor consumer. The hot item right now is the cat suit, which is actually a long leotard, as shown in the Gordon Henderson collection. Why would you want one for summer? And, if you have the body for one, where would you wear it? Certainly not to exercise class. At several hundred dollars each, they're too expensive to sweat in.
And that brings us to design flaws. Like strapless dresses that didn't stay up, straps that slipped off shoulders and skirts so tight they scooted up to waistlines. Carmelo Pomodoro's models had problems with scoop-neck blouses scooped a bit too deep.
These are just bad designs. It's time designers took note: The average woman wants a blouse that tucks in, a dress for work that won't get her the wrong kind of attention and a skirt she can wear to the grocery store without suffering frostbite in the freezer section. Sure, a see-through blouse is fun once in a while, and short skirts are fun on a Saturday night, but not every day and only in the right company. | <urn:uuid:d99166e4-5dc7-4580-8273-e7fc39d51e85> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-11-07/features/1990311230_1_basco-moses-bareness | 2013-06-19T01:26:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968726 | 757 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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The error says that the file might be corrupted or in a form that Windows Movie Maker doesn't recognize. The movie can't be saved or published until that part of movie is removed. The effects I added are just "Fade in" and "Fade out". I also added captions. The error is "0xC945002D".
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Voting Home / Fort Steilacoom Park
Nominated for: BEST Playground
Ft. Steilacoom Park is a wonderful regional facility for not only the City of Lakewood, but for all who come from throughout the Puget Sound area to experience all that the park has to offer. The history of the park ranges from a military base to a self sustaining farm for Western State Hospital, to its current use as a park that boasts opportunities for passive as well as active recreation. At 340 acres it has a lake, prairie lands, historical barns, trails, sports fields, a playground, and an off leash dog park. You are sure to find a variety of activities for your enjoyment.
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Is this going to be a right hand ring for her? If so, I think a three stone would be great. The one carat stone in the center and whatever sizes on the side. I think a three stone is the perfect combo between simple..yet a little fancier. Since she's so attached to her original ring ( I don't blame her at all) I hope he's not getting this ring to "replace" it because she may not wear it on that finger....just a thought. A three stone makes a great right hand ring too! Good luck! I'm sure whatever you pick will be great and she will love it! | <urn:uuid:b3b8a31d-214a-4bbf-b163-e3fdbe50bfe1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://betterthandiamond.com/discussion/ubbthreads.php/posts/715317 | 2013-06-19T01:39:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963437 | 131 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
lets run through some of the shitty things from today.
- My ticket
- My lawsuit
- Domestic violence(I am not directly involved but still stressful)
- Emotional bullshit drama
The fucking list goes on and on but thats the worst of it. I am going to continue with my binge drinking. Sometimes I wish I had more people I could talk to. | <urn:uuid:8f2ec4ff-52d9-4d9f-a37d-db8cbbe5ad9d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://blindroulette.tumblr.com/post/23404025416/fuck-my-life | 2013-06-19T01:46:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969238 | 76 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Summer Olympics come but once every four years, and social media has evolved fast since 2008′s games. Facebook had only just cracked 200 million active users, overtaking MySpace for the first time. Twitter was also really beginning to grow with six million users, and many of us often spent hours staring at the infamous ‘Fail Whale’ wondering how the heck this service was going to make money. YouTube, though well established, had only just begun to make a name for itself as a source of Olympic coverage as people who had never used the service began passing links to the outstanding opening ceremony at Beijing.
And now, in 2012, most of these services have matured. Social media is the number one activity on the internet, and the International Olympic Committee has decided to release (some very strict) guidelines on social media to its athletes. But despite the muzzle, there are still a few great ways for you to get your Olympic fix, even from your work desk.
Make use of that Google+ Account you signed up for
Now that Google+ account you were dying to get but have sadly neglected after absolutely no one made the transition from Facebook can get some much needed love. The IOC (International Olympic Committee) announced that they’ll be utilizing the Google’s native social media service and fans of Google+ are ecstatic that they haven’t been overlooked. Of course they’re also running coverage on Facebook but the Google+ feed has shown a much more aggregated approach to its coverage of the pre-game festivities, at least so far. Compare the two pages and you’ll see blurbs from major news outlets filling up the Google+ page, while Facebook is relegated to a few pictures posted by the IOC. Of course we’ll be following both, but if you really want to stay on top of things it looks like Google+ may be the go-to outlet for updates.
Check out the IOC Hub
The IOC has accomplished something wonderful for us Olympic fans – it’s centralized its social media campaign. The IOC hub lists the twitter feeds of thousands of athletes, offers its own coverage, and even has a cute little community with rewards and tiers for those who want to try and connect a bit more closely to the action. If that doesn’t suit you, you can always just sit back and let the news updates/tweets roll in after merging your account with the Hub. The whole idea behind the Hub is actually quite astonishing, as putting all that information into one place is a fairly behemoth undertaking, but it seems to be working, and we’re all the happier for it.
You can still follow your favorite athletes on Twitter
Don’t let that IOC muzzle scare you away – many analysts are guessing that the IOC won’t be chasing down athletes who post pictures of themselves warming up or tweet about their joys and disappointments on the road to Olympic gold. Really, they’re just trying to make sure that an athlete sponsored by Coca-Cola doesn’t tweet about how much they enjoy Pepsi. The involvement of advertising dollars sort of sullies the experience, but at least the tweets won’t have to pass an IOC committee before being sent out. It is still a great idea to follow the athletes, if for nothing else to connect that much more closely to the men and women representing your country. And how else would you know that Michael Phelps isn’t a fan of the new Team USA swim caps?
At the end of the day, social media is about enjoying yourself online. It allows you to connect with other people – people you may never have had a chance to connect through any other medium. And while we’d never recommend loafing on the job so you can scan pages of tweets and status updates, following all of these wonderful outlets is a great way to stay up to date while at work.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2012
This is a picture I took in Normandy, France earlier this month. It's in Lion sur Mer, where my Dad swam as a 7-year-old child in 1927 on holiday and then, by bizarre coincidence, landed by boat 17 years later on D-Day plus 1 with the British forces.
There were a number of houses in this seaside village with cat statues on them like this one! I'm not sure if there is any special meaning to them, but when I was going through my photos I thought the expression on that feline's face mirrored the terror I felt returning home after three weeks vacation in France and Italy.
It wasn't actually on returning home that I felt terror. I was excited to be home and to see my kids again. And I'm happy to be back at work.
Last weekend was a flurry of activity getting ready to take Ben up to Camp Kennebec for two weeks. Was I going to be able to get it together on Saturday to completely pack Ben up for the drive on Sunday morning? It began with me and the camp 'to bring' list at Wal-Mart on Saturday morning at 9. After a couple of hours there I'd crossed most of the things off. Then it was a short drive to Old Navy to pick up a few extra shirts and on to Kumon to get his workbooks. That night D'Arcy would head out to Shopper's to get the flashlight batteries.
It seemed like a small miracle when we set off Sunday morning with enormous bags of comforters and bedding and a couple of suitcases marring our rear-view mirror.
And now I have two weeks of reprieve, of not having the constant care and worry and pressure that seem to be my companions in parenting Ben.
That's what returned after I'd been home from holiday a few days. I was aware of how much of my day revolves around thinking about Ben and worrying about his future. There are plans to try using Proloquo2Go again with Ben in the fall, to try to finally give him a reliable way to communicate. The school is keen. But part of me feels like we are continuing to force Ben into a mold that doesn't fit him. Because these voice systems aren't intuitive and user-friendly they are work for him. Hard work.
That there is never a let-up on trying to make him better blend into a world that isn't designed for him and people like him. And the anxiety and stress this creates for him and us.
He's made incredible gains (for him!) over the last year at school. But it's never enough. And it never will be. And the cost is always lots of anxiety.
I thought about it after I visited L'Arche in Trosly. I wondered what it would be like if Ben went off to live in a L'Arche community (English speaking, of course!). Rather than returning to a mainstream high school where he sticks out.
I don't believe Ben has any desire to move out yet. But I wondered. Where would he be happiest?
Then I considered that if I was to ask my other children if 'they' wanted to go to school, the answer would probably be no. So maybe I wasn't asking the right question.
Thursday, July 26, 2012
We had a tremendous response to our magazine interview with former Canadian Olympian Silken Laumann (above right), stepparent to daughter Kilee (left), 16, who has autism. Here is an uncut version which couldn't be squeezed in its entirety into the print issue. I know it had me thinking long and hard! Thanks Silken! Louise
Silken Laumann rows into autism's turbulent waters
‘Life is not just about achieving, it’s about being present’ former Olympian says
Silken Laumann is a former world rowing champion and one of Canada’s greatest Olympians – winning two silvers and a bronze.
Less well known is the fact that in 2010, at age 45, Silken became a special-needs mom.
That year she and her partner David Patchell-Evans (known as Patch), founder and CEO of GoodLife Fitness, moved in together in Victoria, B.C., each bringing two children to their new family.
Patch’s daughter Kilee, 16, has autism and requires round-the-clock care.
The other children are William and Tygre, both 14, and Kate, 12.
For Silken, an elite athlete who once believed anything could be achieved through hard work, the reality of raising a teen with disabilities came as both a shock and a revelation. We spoke about her new life.
BLOOM: Tell us a bit about your daughter Kilee.
Silken Laumann: Kilee is 16 and she’s profoundly autistic. She talks but in a very limited way. She’s been diagnosed as cognitively disabled and operates around the age of two or three. She has episodes where she can have some pretty impressive meltdowns. That said, Kilee is a very passionate person. She has this really happy, loving energy a lot of the time. She loves to be active like her dad – hiking and swimming. She's a downhill skier who's skied double-black diamond. She's passionate about food. And she loves the other kids.
BLOOM: Were you exposed to disability before parenting Kilee?
Silken Laumann: I had a level of comfort because I volunteered at Ronald McDonald House, and we had quite a few kids with special needs come through the houses. And as a high-profile Canadian, I had spent a fair amount of time visiting kids in hospitals, including Holland Bloorview. But I certainly didn’t know much about autism and my exposure to disability wasn’t deep.
BLOOM: What was it like to become a parent to a teen with autism?
Silken Laumann: It's been quite a journey, as you can imagine. The first time Kilee grabbed me by the hair, I did everything wrong. I screamed. I fought back. I cried. I'm an Olympic athlete trained to jump out of the starting gate with a heart rate of 175, and I reacted like a woman being attacked in a dark alley. It wasn't rational and I was ashamed and embarrassed afterwards. She was crying and I was crying.
It's been an upward positive swing from there as far as me managing my emotions around Kilee's physical outbursts – which happen less and less. I'm better at respecting her boundaries and I can see the signs of her escalating. I'm much more in tune with her energy when it starts to switch, so I'm much less likely to be in a situation where she grabs my hair and starts to pull.
I went into the marriage believing it was the right thing to do for all our kids and that it was the right thing for our relationship and that there would be more to gain than to lose by coming together as a family. But all along there’s been this discussion of what if she hurts one of the children? What if we can’t handle it? There were some ‘what ifs’ we had to get through, and I kept saying I believe it will work out. There are things we can do if things get really bad, such as living separately for a while. My number one job as a parent is to keep my kids safe so if I ever felt that wasn’t possible we’d have to change our living arrangements. But we’ve been able to get the help with Kilee that she needs and she’s more settled in her outbursts.
BLOOM: What were the first few months living together like?
Silken Laumann: I don't think anything could have prepared me for it. At the time I thought I was doing okay and I thought it was going well, but in retrospect it was really hard. Kilee moved from London, Ont. to British Columbia, which, as you can imagine with autism, was very traumatic for her. Her behaviour escalated within three weeks of moving out and we had outburst after outburst. Unlike my other kids, Kilee couldn't yell and say 'I hate you.' She'd come running at me or biting her hand or jumping up and down like a two-year-old. In the beginning I was far too judgmental. I didn't always separate the behaviour from the person. I couldn't see how much she was struggling.
I'd get really angry at my husband too, thinking he didn't have enough discipline around setting boundaries for Kilee. It took me a while to get it – to start to understand the complexities of the situation and the complexities of Kilee.
This is what happens with so many special-needs children. People just see the top layer and sometimes the top layer is not the best layer. With Kilee, as time went on, I saw layer after layer after layer. And as I have learned to be more still with her and much less judgmental, I can see just how vulnerable she is, just how hard she’s trying, and just how frustrated she sometimes feels. And we're learning a language together on how to express that in a more helpful way than hurting or jumping or screaming.
I’ve come to understand that cause-and-effect consequences don’t work with Kilee. That was hard for me because I’ve parented my children on natural consequences. But that doesn’t work for Kilee. If she throws her lunch out the window – which she did the other day on the drive to school – you can’t just not give her lunch.
When my other kids’ behaviour stunk, I always tried to look at the antecedent, knowing it wasn’t just about what was happening in the moment. But with Kilee it’s so much harder to figure that out, because she’s so limited with language about emotions. You have to pay so much attention.
In the beginning it felt like Patch and I were always problem-solving around Kilee and I was so afraid my kids would feel this was 'all about Kilee.' It was important for me to say there will be certain accommodations made for Kilee, but the whole family will not be centred around one person. When Patch suggested putting locks on doors I said no, there's a point for me where we're not turning this into a group home. This is a family and everyone is important. Something that really helped was hiring a caregiver in the evening hours so we could give more equal energy to the kids.
BLOOM: What have you learned since Kilee came into your life?
Silken Laumann: I'm a very impatient and demanding person – demanding of myself – and that trickles over to people around me. One of my lifelong journeys is to not be so impatient and to not be so definite and confident that I know what needs to be done. Because with Kilee, none of that works. In fact, what's needed is the exact opposite.
With Kilee, 90 per cent is feelings, not verbal communication. When she's vibrating high I can physically feel this big energy. And when she's going off into a dark energy, you feel it and see it in her eyes.
Having Kilee in my life has made me slow down, and shown me how fundamental it is to focus on the positive, because positive reinforcement for Kilee is so important. I need to look at what I can do to encourage her and compliment her, even when she's acting out, because sometimes the best way to help her switch gears when she's sobbing or biting her hand is to start talking to her. I'll say: 'Oh Kilee, you're such a good girl and you have such a big heart. And we love you so much.' And I keep going at it and feeling it with her. Because I know that in that moment she's beating herself up.
BLOOM: I was raised with the idea that if you simply tried hard enough, anything was possible. It took a long time in raising my son with disabilities to come to the realization that that was a platitude that wasn’t true – that I didn’t control the outcome for my son and I couldn’t ‘fix’ him, nor was that a healthy aspiration.
Silken Laumann: My husband stills hold onto that dream that he's going to fix Kilee and she'll come out of autism, but for me it's easier because I've come into her life later. She’s still learning a lot, but I don't thinks she's coming out of autism.
When I've got myself into trouble has been when I get in that mode of being judgmental – seeing things that other people are doing wrong or reading books and thinking I know it all. I'll get all enthused about this or that therapy – like behaviour therapy – forgetting that they've already done it with Kilee and it was a really negative experience for her and didn't work. I realize now how arrogant that was. When I've gotten on my little high horse and preached is when things have been most stressful for Patch and I and when I've had the least amount of acceptance for Kilee.
Something we’re working on right now is having Kilee not pee in her bed. She gets terrible rashes. A year ago, I had it all mapped out: this is what we’re going to do and this is how many nights it will take. I got an alarm system for the bed and a bit of a schedule. Then I’d get frustrated and angry when she didn’t make progress. Now I think: Let’s not have any judgment around it and assume she’s trying her best.
BLOOM: How have your other kids adapted?
Silken Laumann: William has always just seemed to get Kilee and could communicate with her beyond what any of us could. He would tell us what she wanted: 'Mom, she doesn't want to do that' or 'Mom, she feels like this when you say that.' It took my daughter Kate longer to relax to enjoy Kilee because at one point she had a physical fear of Kilee, which was legitimate because Kilee outweighed her about three to one.
It's funny the things they're jealous of: just the other day William went on about how Kilee has her own bathroom in her bedroom. And I said of course she has her own bathroom, she's up 20 times a night and the bathroom is the biggest blessing. But I'm the oldest, he said. I tried to go a little deeper because I thought this really isn't about the bathroom. And then he said: She's also got an iPad and I don't. So I gave him permission to feel angry, and to tell me that Kilee doesn’t get in trouble for her bad behaviour, that we have to leave the room and it should be Kilee. He was angry about a whole bunch of stuff, and I need to respect that this isn’t always easy for the kids. I believe though, that my kids will gain more from having Kilee in their life than they’ll be hindered. I believe it makes them all better people. My biggest issue when it comes to Kilee and all the kids is safety. My number one job is to keep all my kids safe.
BLOOM: How has being an Olympian champion made it harder or easier to accept Kilee?
Silken Laumann: Where it's helped is that I'm very strong and determined. Given some of the challenges we've had – bringing not only a blended family together but bringing a family with a profoundly autistic child together – I think I have a huge capacity for energy and endurance. And a lot of that came from being an athlete. Some of it is just my character. It's helpful to have a high level of energy, to know yourself well, and to be honest with yourself. I can't imagine having a child with a really challenging disability at age 25 when you’re still discovering yourself. I have a huge amount of empathy for Patch and his previous partner Tammy and what they went through in those early years.
BLOOM: Have you reevaluated some of your values and beliefs?
Silken Laumann: In my days as an Olympian I think I had a naïve idea that I had more control over my life than I actually had – and I was much more controlling and determined that through hard work anything could be achieved. I thought that you just keep going at it till you solve the problem. But human beings aren't like that. We don't solve our own problems that way. And that's a journey I've been on for over 20 years.
I’ve discovered that life is not just about achieving, it's about being present. It's not about being in control but opening up every day to the wonders that life presents to you. And that happens in your heart, not your head.
With Kilee there are still times when that Olympic athlete comes out in me and I'll say 'We're going to do this and this, and this will happen' but I know that doesn't work.
More and more, every single day, I see Kilee for who she is. And every time we try to tell her who she is and this is what she's going to do, she feels a sense of failure.
For example, 'You're going to learn to write your name.' Well, that may never happen for her. And as a parent of an autistic child you're riding this fine balance: you don't want to give up trying different things because there might be a piece of the puzzle that gets put together, but you want to accept your child for who they are. If you’re always saying 'I'm only going to listen to you if you talk in full sentences' you can’t enjoy your child. You can’t see their gifts.
BLOOM: How has Kilee changed your family?
Silken Laumann: She’s slowed us down. Patch is so high energy and so are the other kids and I. Kilee brings us all to a level of peace and slowness. We slow down for her and spend more time at home because of her and it's a good thing.
William is an almost 15-year-old boy who's 6 foot 4 and I can't think of a more awkward age to have a profoundly and obviously different sister. But he introduces his friends to Kilee and answers their questions. He includes her. If they're all going out to the hot tub he'll ask her if she'd like to come. It's the same with my daughter. It's she's beading, she'll bead with Kilee. I never get the feeling that my kids spend time with Kilee because they have to.
BLOOM: Do you look at life differently now?
Silken Laumann: As a parent there's a tendency to constantly be looking forward – to when your kid finishes university or when you figure out your daughter's dyslexia. You’ve always got something to look forward to. With Kilee, there’s this knowledge that she’s going to be in some ways a child for a long, long time. She's growing up but her needs are still very much that of a child: she needs 24-hour supervision.
It makes me feel more patient about life. It's not about what will happen tomorrow. It's more about today and being together and enjoying. I know a lot of parents of kids with disabilities worry a lot about the future. I don't. I've taken enough risks in my life and had enough disappointments that I have this feeling very deep within me that no matter what happens with Kilee, even if her behaviour escalates, we'll have the strength to make it through.
Patch is more concerned. He gets really worried about things. We’re very fortunate in that we have the financial ability to provide Kilee with the support she needs for the rest of her life. That's huge and I will be very open in saying that. I know there are many parents who don't have that kind of support. Their worries are different from ours. Our worries aren't financial – they're around her happiness and safety and we have more options than a lot of families.
BLOOM: I don’t know of many blended families that include a child with disability. Do you bring an objectivity that is harder for a biological parent to have?
Silken Laumann: I think I do bring fresh eyes. I love Kilee and more and more, as time unfolds, I love her as I love my own children. But there is a difference – and most stepparents would say that, particularly in the beginning. You've had your children your whole life, you've given birth to them, seen them as babies. I didn't have that with Kilee. I didn't climb the mountains Patch climbed with her. I have an objectivity that he can’t have.
The thing he does have is a sense of failure – that he didn't do enough. I think guilt is something parents have anyway, but 10 times more when you're the biological parent. You read these books and they tell you that if you do everything right you're supposed to cure your kid and take them out of autism. But most kids don't come out of autism.
At 16 Kilee is profoundly autistic. If there's a scale, it's easy to say we failed. She's not doing as great as this kid or that kid. Patch carries a level of guilt about that. I know it's irrational and I know it's not helpful, but I get where it's coming from.
I do have a child diagnosed with ADD and dyslexia and the other with dysgraphia, but these are mild learning issues. And even then, I’ve had guilt: Was I structured enough? Maybe if I’d been a different kind of person they wouldn’t be so affected.
BLOOM: I’ve come to the conclusion in raising my son that we are largely ‘gifted’ with our abilities at birth, as opposed to ‘earning’ what we get in life through hard work. What do you think?
Silken Laumann: We laud intellect in our culture. We applaud achievement to the detriment of everything else. And when you're talking about achievement for Olympic athletes, you have to be born with the body. I was born gifted physically and I did a lot with that gift. But I couldn't have done anything if I hadn't had the gift physically.
People talk about (natural) physical talent and hard work in sports, but they tend to downplay the physical talent and that's huge in Olympic athletes.
BLOOM: Do you ever feel burdened by people’s attitudes about Kilee’s behaviour?
Silken Laumann: What I tell myself now is it's not my business to get into other people's heads. Last fall we were in Sidney, Victoria with Kilee. She has these plastic animals that are like comfort objects she likes to carry. We walked by this toy store and they had these really high-end animals in the window and she lunged into the store and started clearing the shelf. People are leaving the toy store and Patch and I are trying to get her out of there. We can’t stop to explain and I’m hoping that people get it at some level – that it's not our fault and it's not her fault. Usually we go back afterwards and explain.
BLOOM: Moms of teens with autism have been found to have stress levels that mirror that of combat soldiers. How do you manage stress?
Silken Laumann: As mothers, it's the most challenging thing to look after ourselves. It's been drilled into our heads that we sacrifice for our kids and we give up for our kids. I say hogwash. We are human beings. We need to be constantly renewing our energy so we have the capacity to give emotionally. You can't do it if you run out of life force.
I see moms in particular who have given up everything for their special-needs kid and I get it – sometimes who else do you go to? And I don’t want to give them something else to feel crappy about.
But I think we can fool ourselves when we get into a place of seeing ourselves as indispensable and thinking that no one else can care for our child. It won’t kill your kid to be misunderstood by a caregiver once in a while so that you can keep yourself sane and happy. At the end of the day, moms who aren’t looking out for themselves will die younger, have health problems, a poorer quality of life and far less emotional capacity.
You have to constantly look for opportunities to take care of yourself. When I go to my son’s soccer game, I’ll put on my running shoes and walk around the field, and every lap I’ll stop and do squat jumps and push-ups.
Silken Laumann is writing her autobiography and training to be a life coach. She is a spokesperson for GoodLife Kids Foundation, which funds programs to ensure every Canadian kid lives an active life. Silken says she finds balance in her own life through yoga, exercise and art. Photo by Beth Hayhurst.
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
A Pediatrics study of 322 parents who chose not to terminate children with trisomy 13 and 18 finds that while most were initially told their child was 'incompatible with life' and would suffer, 97 per cent later described their child as happy, despite severe disabilities, and enriching their families, even when their lives were short.
A good summary appears in this piece in Science Daily:
Children with trisomy 13 or 18, who are for the most part severely disabled and have a very short life expectancy, and their families lead a life that is happy and rewarding overall, contrary to the usually gloomy predictions made by the medical community at the time of diagnosis, according to a study of parents who are members of support groups published July 23 in Pediatrics.
And here on Medline Plus.
The study was co-authored by two neonatologists and parent Barb Farlow (in photo with daughter Annie, who had trisomy 13, above).
A blog by Montreal neonatologist Dr. Keith Barrington comments on the study and offers these suggestions to health professionals working with families:
1. Don’t say that this is ‘incompatible with life’ or ‘lethal;' anyone can go on the internet and find very quickly that you lied to them.
2. Don’t say that if they survive ‘they will live a life of suffering.' Parents do think that their child had more pain than others, but they also had many positive times, and their overall evaluation was positive.
3. Human beings are not vegetables. These children are conscious and interact, even if at very limited levels. Carrots don’t.
4. Don’t predict marital disharmony, or family breakdown. You can’t see the future, there is no evidence at all that this occurs more when a family has a baby with severe impairments, and indeed in this admittedly biased sample the divorce rate was far lower than the US or Canadian average.
4. Families find meaning in the lives of their children. Whether those lives are unimpaired or lived with severe impairments. Whether they are very short or not.
5. Don’t suggest that the child is replaceable. Sometimes parents will bring up the idea that they can have another child, that is fine if they do so, but for you to suggest it really shows that you think this child is worthless.
6. Don’t say that there is nothing you can do for them. There is a lot you can do. Empathy and a positive attitude can be a great help. Finding resources, respite care, enabling appropriate medical care, these are all things that you can do for them.
7. Be very explicit about medical decision making, come to an agreement about the limits of medical interventions (if you can’t, then find them another doctor who can); and be open to changing the plan as time goes on.
8. Refer to the child by name if there is a name. (Annie has often recounted to me that when she sees parents antenatally with a serious diagnosis she will ask them what the baby’s name is. They often become teary and tell her it is the first time anyone has recognized their fetus as being a real potential human being...)
9. Above all recognize that these babies are human beings who will be loved, who will be cared for, who will leave a positive mark on their families, and who deserve respect.
Sunday, July 22, 2012
We'd just met that afternoon. But when I asked Olivier Caupin if we could have our picture taken, we embraced naturally like old pals. Just before the photo was taken, Olivier placed his head gently but purposefully on my shoulder.
"You are accepted," his gesture seemed to say.
It was the first of many surprises during my visit to L'Arche (The Ark) in Trosly-Breuil, France -- the birthplace of a community that brings together adults with intellectual disabilities and young adult volunteers known as assistants. The model, conceived by humanist, philosopher and theologian Jean Vanier, now operates in 40 countries.
Olivier was our official tour guide of the first L'Arche community created in 1964. It includes six homes, numerous workshops and greenhouses, a pizzeria and two stores where residents sell handmade soaps, mosaics and candles and homegrown fruit and vegetables.
Trosly-Breuil is a centuries-old village of white stone cottages with white shutters and beds of red roses, at the edge of the lush green Forest of Compeigne, about an hour north of Paris. L'Arche fits seamlessly here. Other than a small sign on the main office, there was nothing that set it apart as a place for people with disabilities.
"We propose to people with disabilities and every assistant to share the same life in the same homes and very simply," said Bénédicte Millet, a former speech therapist who heads a team of staff who support volunteers. Bénédicte, who has lived here for 21 years, spoke to me in English because I couldn't speak French. "We make a family atmosphere," she said.
Most important: "We take the time together to pay attention to everybody and to speak with everybody. To pay attention to those who never speak or who are sad. And to speak to those who are talking too much!"
That's what it was. Each person was acknowledged and valued. "It feels like a village," I said, referring not to it size but to its welcoming atmosphere.
"The message of L'Arche is that people with disabilities have something to teach us..." said Bénédicte. "They have the gift for relationships and we have to learn from them the ability of friendship and tenderness, not competition. We help everyone -- assistants and people with disabilities -- to grow in this capacity."
Olivier showed us around workshop number 2, where more than a dozen workers laboured over projects including small-scale assembly work and packaging of products. A few people were placing small metal pieces into trays of 30 slots to be used in the steering-wheel mechanism of cars. "My mother works at Channel," Olivier told us, explaining that this connection had led to a project packaging makeup. The workshop was part warehouse, with completed items stacked in boxes.
Olivier had a slight stutter and when his thoughts got stuck in production, he closed his eyes tight then blinked, as if willing the words to life. Because my French is so poor, my husband D'Arcy translated. Olivier shared the one phrase he knew in French and English: "Je t'aime. I love you."
Two young women approached and shook our hands warmly. One pointed to my hat. "Do you not have hair?" she asked in gestures. "Could you take off your hat?" I did and she opened her eyes wide and laughed. She didn't adhere to the social etiquette that would prompt someone to pretend they hadn't noticed my alopecia, which makes me different. Our culture's "addiction to the illusion of perfection," which author Ian Brown spoke about at a BLOOM talk, was noticeably absent at L'Arche.
Olivier took us outside and a tiny white dog trotted by. "Is that your dog?" I asked. "No!" Olivier exclaimed, pointing to a fine line that ran from his nostril to his lip and explaining he had been bitten by a dog as a child.
When asked about his favourite things, Olivier said: "Moi, j'adore le football." In addition to playing soccer, he said he liked swimming and horses, all activities he enjoyed at L'Arche.
We entered an art studio. People in smocks sat in a rectangle of facing tables placing small coloured tiles into elaborate mosaics of trees and people. One man was putting clay through a press. The scent of melted parrafin laced with fragrance wafted in from an adjoining room where candles were being made.
People were busy, focused and quiet. It wasn't immediately clear who had disabilities and who didn't. I had the sense that people wanted to be here -- unlike some programs where people with disabilities are cajoled into doing something they're not interested in.
Assistant Jean-Patrice Kroczek, a slight, middle-aged man with wire-rimmed glasses working on a mosaic, said he found work at L'Arche "very enriching."
Jean-Patrice told me he had lived and worked at L'Arche since 1976 -- 36 years! I was stunned, given popular values about work, success and climbing the corporate ladder, and asked why. "I've always liked being with people who are marginalized, because if it was me, I wouldn't want to be marginalized," he said. Jean-Patrice said people at L'Arche didn't "talk about handicapped people because we talk about working for everyone." Instead, he used the word "gifted" to describe the residents with disabilities. He said his time at L'Arche had taught him about personal relationships.
Hungarian Lilla Gyuris, 21, who came to volunteer last September, said she planned to stay another year. "It's very hard to explain what I've learned," she said. "I found life here. I found a family. And friends. When I arrived, I didn't know what to think. I thought (people with disabilities) weren't normal, but it's not true. Everyone is handicapped a little, and everyone is normal. I can't drive, that's my handicap. And when I came here I couldn't speak a word of French. That's a handicap."
The original L'Arche has grown over the years. Today, in each of nine homes in the village and surrounding area, seven people with disabilities live with a team of four to five assistants. One house serves people with physical and intellectual disabilities. While youth 18 and over have volunteered here from all over the world, candidates are now accepted only from Europe.
"Some assistants arrive with a lot of diplomas and are very intelligent, and others arrive with nothing, having had no success," Bénédicte said. "What we propose is the same for all: to clean the house, to buy and cook the food, to wash the plates after dinner, to make family life. For a lot of them, this is a new life. They're used to studying or eating alone and having their own life and suddenly we are all together and paying attention to everybody."
Six of the 10 assistants who began last September have chosen to stay a second year, Bénédicte said. After volunteering for a year, they will be paid. L'Arche is funded by the French government.
"When Jean Vanier started in 1964 there was nothing for (youth) with disabilities after age 14 or 15," Bénédicte said. "In 1960 a father of a young man with disabilities bought a home in Trosly to house 30 men aged 15 to 25. But it was run like military life with everyone getting up at the same time, going to sleep at the same time and walking two by two in Trosly in the street. There was no possibility for choosing what they wanted."
A priest who was disturbed by the home's regimented lifestyle asked Jean Vanier, then studying theology in Paris, to visit and assess the situation. Vanier "bought a small house in the village where he lived with two young men and was then asked to become the director," Bénédicte said. Over time, the project and its homes grew.
The idea was "to propose family life for the mentally handicapped and a place where they could choose what they wanted to do," Bénédicte said. Vanier, a professor of philosophy, called upon his university students from Canada, England and Paris to consider volunteering. "They were very interested in the project and many came. Social services observed the homes for two years and saw that with less money L'Arche was doing more than the other institutions. So they accepted L'Arche as an institution like the others and we receive money for everything."
While L'Arche is based on community life, residents who decide they want more independence have the opportunity to live, with support, in studio apartments in Compeigne, a nearby city. Bénédicte noted that two residents just got married and others choose to live as couples.
She said parents' expectations for their adult children often change once they see them blossom at L'Arche. "At the beginning, sometimes they want the child to become able to read and write, but more and more, they can understand that that is not the most important thing," she said. "When they see their child happy, with a lot of friends, and with a good life, a very interesting life," they are satisfied.
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Story by: Megan Jones
Tom Chau, head of the Bloorview Research Institute, discusses his latest work and the importance of innovation in the field of childhood disability. Tom recently received U of T’s Inventor of the Year award.
Story by: Megan Jones
Last Friday, I was lucky enough to see Judith Thompson’s play RARE staged in Toronto. It was equal parts hilarious and uplifting, moving and devastating. Through their stories, the actors’ voices and experiences came alive onstage. Photo by John Gundy.-Megan
RARE, a Toronto Fringe Festival play starring nine adult actors with Down syndrome, will return briefly to the stage in August. After being staged in July as a part of the regular Fringe Festival, the show has been selected as one of eight best-of-Fringe plays to run repeat performances.
In RARE, actors tell their real-life stories, sharing their fears, desires and perceptions of disability. No subjects are censored, with performers exploring topics like death, sexuality, and their simultaneous hatred of and pride in their own disabilities.
Cast members, like Dylan Harman, hope that the play’s frank discussions will prompt audiences to re-evaluate their treatment of individuals with developmental disabilities.
“I hope they will learn to speak to people with disabilities like adults,” he says. “Because we’re human too.”
For other cast members, the play functioned as a personal growing experience. Actress Krystal Nausbaum, who performed in the American film The Memory Keeper's Daughter, says that working in RARE was uniquely rewarding.
“It’s really different than other plays…,”she says. “I can relate to these stories.”
RARE will be staged August 1-3 at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. Tickets are available online through Ticketmaster, or at the centre’s box office.
Story by: Megan Jones
Story by: Megan Jones
Monday, July 16, 2012
Children with disabilities are nearly four times more likely to endure abuse than their non-disabled counterparts, concludes a study commissioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The study’s results were published on Friday in the Lancet.
According to the report, children with disabilities are 2.9 times more likely to experience sexual violence and 3.6 times more likely to endure physical violence than non-disabled children.
Kids with mental illnesses and intellectual disabilities are among the most vulnerable, facing a risk of sexual violence 4.6 times greater than their non-disabled peers. Difficulties with communication often increase the likelihood that children will not be listened to, understood or believed in the event that they report maltreatment.
The study also found that kids living in institutions face a higher risk of abuse than those who live in family homes.
The report is based on data from 17 different existing studies from high income countries like the United States, Sweden, Finland and Israel, among others. Overall, it reflects data from over 18,000 children. Of the children with disabilities studied, 27 per cent overall had experienced some type of violence, including physical or sexual abuse, and emotional neglect.
Researchers say the increased risk of violence results from the stigma, discrimination and lack of knowledge that surround disability. They also point to the dearth of social support for caregivers as a factor.
Those working on the study hope that by exposing and highlighting risk, the research will lead to better care practices and the implementation of more serious abuse prevention strategies for children with disabilities.
They also mention the need for research into abuse rates in mid-to-low-income countries, where rates of disability and chronic illness tend to be higher, and support services are few and far between. Currently, little to no data exists for these areas.
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They were “Mean” Joe Greene, the lynchpin of the famed “Steel Curtain” of the Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s, and Sonny Liston, a previous former heavyweight champion. Greene came to northern Nevada when he was cast as the “heavy,” or bad guy, in the movie “Pop Goes the Weasel,” which was filmed at King’s Castle (now the Hyatt Regency) at Incline Village, Lake Tahoe. The movie featured clean-cut Gene Washington, a wide receiver for the San Francisco Forty Niners, as the hero of the movie, and singer Lola Falana as his love interest.
I was given the task of publicizing the movie locally, and I spent a great deal of time with Joe. On all of the occasions he was friendly, low key and just the opposite of the image he had created on the playing field. At one of these meetings he mentioned the fact that he would be gone for a few days to do the “color” on the telecast of the Super Bowl. I asked him if he would mind mentioning the fact that he was filming at King’s Castle at Lake Tahoe. He agreed, and we eventually got a “mention” to a worldwide audience.
On another occasion we decided to get a photograph of “Mean” Joe holding a youngster in his arms to help dispel his tough image. The first child we got to pose broke down in tears at the sight of Joe. After doing some more casting, we decided to try and use my youngest son Luke for the assignment. The two struck up an immediate friendship, and the picture made the wire services with a vehicle labeled King’s Castle conveniently placed in the background. At the shoot, “Mean” Joe was affable and smiling for several takes.
Several years later Joe made a television spot for Coca-Cola in which he traded his football jersey to a youngster who proffered him a soft drink. Recently, he reprised his role in a new TV spot. When the grey-haired Joe tossed his jersey, the youngster tossed it back.
As for Liston, it was several years after he lost the title to Cassius Clay that he appeared in Reno. He was booked for a minor boxing match in Reno and decided that his training camp would be the Skyroom of the Mapes Hotel where he was staying. For some reason, every morning when I checked into my office at the hotel, I would find Sonny sitting there. Then we would go downstairs to the coffee shop for our morning cup of joe. I was amazed that the man who had such a bad reputation was actually a friendly gentleman. He told me he had honed his devastating boxing style while he was in prison.
During the two weeks leading up to the fight, the Skyroom was a busy place during Liston’s training sessions. The delighted owner of the hotel, Charles W. Mapes, Jr., enjoyed counting the receipts at those times because the bar was located adjacent to the training camp. The receipts the first week were very good but tapered off a bit at the start of the second week. I got a call from Mapes, who asked me what we could do to pump up the cash register. I jokingly said to him, “If you will put on a pair of sweats and go a few rounds with Sonny Liston, I think we could double the action at the bar.” Fortunately, he did not take me up on that suggestion.
Liston easily won his Reno fight and returned to his homestead in Las Vegas.
Many years later, I happened to be in Vegas while Liston was scheduled to fight there. I went to the match, which he won, but I didn’t have a chance to visit with him on this occasion.
Several years later he died mysteriously of a purported drug overdose. The questions surrounding his death still exist to this day. Knowing Vegas and its seedy characters as I do, it is no wonder to me that the cause of his death is still in question.
Another squash story
My recent articles about squash sparked a story that happened to one of our Reno players. His name was Willard Elder. At one point in time, according to his wife, Joan, he entered a squash tournament in Salt Lake City. When he checked into his hotel room, his name was listed as Elder Willard. Since “elder” means a high-ranking official of the Mormon Church, he was escorted to a spacious room equipped with a basket of fruit and a scenic view of the Angel Moroni. He was also told that he was given a bye in the first round of the tournament and had plenty of time to make his match. Eventually, the front desk discovered that “elder” was a name not a title. He was immediately moved to a much smaller room, sans fruit, and told that he had a half hour to get to his first match. He reciprocated by winning the tournament.
(The preceding info was forwarded to me by Emeritus A.D. of the University of Nevada, Reno, Dick Trachok, also a fellow squash player.)
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[Episcopal News Service] Bonnie Anderson has announced that she will not stand for re-election as president of the House of Deputies during the July 5-12 meeting of General Convention in Indianapolis.
In a May 23 announcement letter to the deputies and first alternates of the Episcopal Church’s General Convention, Anderson said she plans to spend more time with her family.
“I have been honored beyond measure to lead this house, and gratified to observe the many ways in which Deputies and Alternates serve and lead God’s Church, both when General Convention is in session and when it is not,” she said in her letter. “Your voices resonate not only within the great representative diversity of General Convention, but also in our communities and in commissions during the triennium, in vestries, and in the leadership roles you hold in our congregations, dioceses and provinces.”
“I am grateful for the service Bonnie Anderson has given to the Episcopal Church over many, many years,” said Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in a statement issued May 23. “She has been tireless in her advocacy for lay persons in the life and governance of this Church — a distinctive part of our identity. I understand something of the personal cost of her ministry, and pray that her retirement from this office will be a source of deep blessing for her and her family. Well done, good and faithful servant.”
The president of the House of Deputies is elected every three years to serve throughout the triennium. Anderson was vice president of the House of Deputies and a lay deputy from the Diocese of Michigan when she was elected at the 2006 General Convention to serve as president of the House of Deputies. She was re-elected at the 2009 General Convention.
She is a past president of the Standing Committee in the Diocese of Michigan and as a lay deputy she served on the Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget & Finance (PB&F) for four terms and served as its president for two terms.
Since being elected as president of the House of Deputies, Anderson has served as vice president of the Episcopal Church’s Executive Council, the elected body that carries out programs and policies adopted by the General Convention and oversees the ministry and mission of the church. The president also appoints the lay and clergy members to most committees, commissions, agencies and boards that serve the church.
The process for electing a new president, as well as a new vice president, was announced May 24 and is available here.
A biography is available here.
The full text of Anderson’s letter follows.
Dear Deputies and First Alternates,
I write to you for two reasons: to thank you for your support, friendship, prayers, challenges, brilliance and love that has inspired and humbled me during these 6 years and second, to let you know that I do not plan to stand for election as President of the House of Deputies for another term.
The reason I am not seeking re-election is a simple one: I want to spend more time with my family. My husband, Glen, is retired. I want to be with him more. Our amazing son, Justin, lives with us and reminds us every single day, by his very existence, that God is a generous miracle maker. I want to celebrate Justin’s life by being with him every day. I want to bake cakes with my grandchildren and go to all their band concerts, soccer games and school plays. I want to have leisurely phone conversations with my daughters. You get the picture.
By tomorrow, you will receive information on the process for electing a President and Vice President while we are in Indianapolis.
I have been honored beyond measure to lead this house, and gratified to observe the many ways in which Deputies and Alternates serve and lead God’s Church, both when General Convention is in session and when it is not. Your voices resonate not only within the great representative diversity of General Convention, but also in our communities and in commissions during the triennium, in vestries, and in the leadership roles you hold in our congregations, dioceses and provinces. In my 21 years in the House, and my two terms as your president, I have been reminded again and again of our forebears’ wisdom in creating a system of governance that honors the simple theological truth that the Holy Spirit blows where she will, and that to discern God’s purposes, we must listen to the voices of all of the baptized.
Please know that I will serve the House of Deputies as President at full capacity until the “gavel goes down” on July 12 in Indianapolis.
Peace and blessings,
Bonnie Anderson, D.D.
President, The House of Deputies
Almighty and everliving God, source of all wisdom and understanding, be present with those who take counsel in General Convention for the renewal and mission of your Church. Teach us in all things to seek first your honor and glory. Guide us to perceive what is right, and grant us both the courage to pursue it and the grace to accomplish it; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
—The Book of Common Prayer
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
So I found a great new place to purchase mosaic supplies www.cyclopstile.com. A friend told me to try it. As usual, I start wandering. I, of course ,checked out their gallery of artists and found the work of Patricia Helsing.
She is a painter, who is new to mosaics. Well......I just had to share. Her paintings are inspired by various other artists and then she builds a frame of found objects around the painting. Her mosaics are incredible!
Her website link is in my sidebar.....with her permission. Enjoy!
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Exploring youth engagement in a digital age
Time: September 27, 2011 from 6:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: New Continental
Street: South Medow Lane
Website or Map: http://prestonsocial6.eventbr…
Event Type: discussion/debate
Organized By: The Preston Social
Latest Activity: Sep 16, 2011
With the news that a father in Northern Ireland is suing Facebook over suggestive photos of his 12 year old girl posted on the site, the question of whose responsibility it is to ensure that children and young people are safe online is getting more heated.
Is it the responsibility of the makers of websites, the parents, or the education system? Or should we expect children to be web savvy enough to not put themselves in danger?
Leading the discussion with a talk followed by questions will be Duncan Hodgson, someone who works in the public sector and does work around promoting positive activities for young people.
He's involved in the Plings project and rubothered.co.uk, which he designed, developed and has maintained since its original content. The site was recently shortlisted for Best Website of the Radio Wave Culture & Lifestyle Awards.
You can find Duncan on Twitter at @TawdryMe.
As usual doors open at 6:30, and there'll be an emphasis on discussion and participation.
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So far more than 96,000 people have signed our petition to stop offshore drilling. That's nothing to sneeze at by any means, so thanks to everyone who has signed so far!
We still have quite a ways to go to reach our goal of 500,000 signers, though. Let's start by reaching the 100K mark -- add your name to the growing list and then spread the word via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail if you haven't already.
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http://www.techetoday.com/content/missing-person-or-murder-mysteryMissing person or murder mystery?
Man-hours soar in search for Opelousas man in the Basin
Posted April 13th, 2010
By Ken Grissom
Sherburne WMF – It has been over two weeks since Bubba Kidder’s family last heard from him. And the best guess the authorities can make is that he has been somewhere in the woods of this remote area the whole time.
The prospects are not good.
Item 1: The car he was reportedly in was found burned near the Little Alabama Bayou near the state wildlife management area’s headquarters.
Item 2: Bubba’s family says there is no way he would just take off. He is regularly seeing a doctor for pain management, and he missed his appointment on Monday, March 29.
Item 3: Deputies and others continue to search a relatively small area, reportedly using divers and cadaver dogs. Nothing has turned up but something is keeping them there. Being good investigators, they’re not saying much until all the facts are in.
Bubba – Earl Kidder Jr., 40, of Opelousas – left on Friday, March 26, with a friend, Chad Pitre, 35, of Opelousas, on what he told his family was a fishing trip in the Atchafalaya Basin. A third man supposedly along on the trip was identified by Kidder’s family as Riki Armand, also of Opelousas.
The men apparently went to a camp owned by Pitre’s mother, Emily Courvelle Sylvester, on the Big Alabama Bayou just south of the state complex with its boat ramp, shooting ranges and campgrounds. Neighbors on the bayou reported seeing Pitre’s little gold-colored Mitsubishi compact car going back and forth over the weekend, but with only two people in
On Sunday, March 28, Bubba reportedly called his mother, Agnes F. Kidder, to say the fishing was good. But he didn’t come back on Monday. And, as noted, he missed his doctor’s appointment.
On Wednesday, March 31, the family filed a missing persons report in St. Landry Parish. Since the camp is located in Pointe Coupee Parish, responsibility shifted to that parish’s sheriff’s office. The Kidder family is not happy with the results.
“They lied to us,” said Melissa Brown of Scott, Bubba’s sister.
“They said they were out searching. We had people on four-wheelers over the Easter weekend and there wasn’t a soul out there but us.”
She said the official search didn’t start in earnest until the St. Martin Sheriff’s Office got involved.
The scene of the crime, if that’s what it is, lies just inside the St. Martin Parish line, on a little-used road, blocked from public use, paralleling Little Alabama Bayou. A state game warden, Channing Duval, came across the burned-out hulk of the Mitsubishi out in the woods near the bayou, providing a focus for the search. Whatever other physical evidence might have been recovered at the scene is not being revealed at this time.
Pitre and Armand have reportedly been interviewed multiple times by investigators. The story that emerges is that Bubba Kidder took Chad Pitre’s car during the night Sunday and disappeared.
While not talking publicly, one investigator has said privately that the Mitsubishi was so thoroughly burned, arson is suspected.
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Window on Pasco, June 23
TBO.comTAMPA - Pasco school boardwary on staffing
Published: June 23, 2012
Published: June 23, 2012
The Pasco County School Board recently gave a somewhat tentative and reluctant approval to the school district's proposed staffing plans for the coming school year.
Approval came only after Superintendent Heather Fiorentino and her staff reassured board members that they could still make changes through the summer as more information becomes available to them.
The staffing allocations call for funding 8,042 positions districtwide.
Pasco needs to cut jobs to deal with a budget shortfall of $24.7 million. At the same time, the district must add 107 teachers to meet state-mandated class-size requirements that limit how many students may be in core academic classes.
Group rescues dozensof dogs from shelters
Nearly three dozen dogs have a chance at a brighter future after an area rescue group stepped in last week.
Pasco County Animal Services was overwhelmed by the number of animals brought in recently. Officials are pleased when they can turn to animal rescue groups such as the Suncoast Animal League.
The county shelter must still euthanize to control their animal population. "We're coming close to about a 60 percent life release rate for all the animals that come in here," Animal Services' John Malley said.
He was grateful for the help from the Palm Harbor-based Suncoast Animal League, which took nearly two dozen dogs.
The "shelters take a lot of heat, but … it's the people out there that are dropping these animals off or dumping them out in the street … and that's where the real responsibility lies," Rick Chaboudy, the Suncoast Animal League founder, said.
Housing authorityofficial gets raise
Linda Wright, who stepped in as acting director while the Pasco County Housing Authority reeled from scandal last year, will get a $12,000-a-year raise.
But the authority board canceled plans for the rest of the agency's 32 employees to get cost-of-living raises of 5 percent.
Now that the authority has hired an executive director, Wright returned to her position as coordinator for the authority's Section 8 program — the only department at the housing authority that's generating positive cash flow. So her salary will be bumped up to $52,000 from $37,773.
The board also approved pay raises for all Section 8 housing specialists to bring their pay in line with other local housing authorities. Executive Director Dianne Morris said the raises are critical because three housing specialists have left for higher paying jobs.
Water safety eventfor hearing impaired
A free water safety program for children who are deaf or hard of hearing will be held 9-11 a.m. June 30 at the New Port Richey Recreation and Aquatic Center, 6630 Van Buren St.
Sign language interpreters will be available. Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation and the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services of Florida are sponsors.
Call Honey at (727) 853-1010 to reserve a spot.
Coffee with CityManager next week
City Manager John Schneiger will meet with residents during Coffee with the City Manager, 8:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the second-floor meeting room of the New Port Richey Public Library, 5939 Main St.
Schneiger will discuss current issues and listen to questions and concerns of residents.
The free event is open to everyone. Coffee is donated by Starbucks store 13368.
Call (727) 853-1279 or (727) 853-1021 for further information.
Red Cross releasessmartphone app
The American Red Cross has launched a free first aid app offering simple lifesaving information to smartphone users on both the Android and iPhone platforms.
It gives instant access to information on how to handle the most common first aid situations, and includes videos and interactive quizzes. Users who take quizzes can earn badges they can share with friends through social media to show off their lifesaving knowledge.
The app also includes disaster preparedness information.
People may download the free app from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store for Android by searching for American Red Cross.
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FDA probes deaths possibly linked to 5-Hour Energy drink
Last Updated: 215 days ago
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is investigating reports of 13 deaths of people who took so-called "energy shots" marketed as 5-Hour Energy.
The agency says it has received 92 reports about the product, including 33 hospitalizations and 13 deaths. In a statement, FDA officials say they will take action if they can link the deaths to consumption of the energy drink. Such action could include forcing the company to take the drinks, often found at convenience store checkout counters, off the market.
The FDA cautions consumers that products labeled "energy shots" and "energy drinks" are not alternatives to sleep and that anyone thinking about taking them should consult with a health care provider.
The New York Times first reported that 13 deaths were linked to 5-Hour Energy.
Some cases involved heart attacks, convulsions and a miscarriage from drinking the drink.
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One of BlackBerrys long time quality theme and app developer Hedone Hawker let us know about a BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam they organized together with Branko Nikolić in Maribor, Slovenia on November 24th. RIM has been pushing events like these around the world and EMEA is a key focus point for them. This Mini Jam was attended by over 200 developers from all the Balkan countries which is impressive and they have more planned for Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia. I was not there myself but I thought it would be worth sharing Hedone’s recap below. Let us know if you were there!
BLACKBERRY 10 MINI JAM – 24. NOVEMBER – MARIBOR / FERI
Developers show great interest and expectation of BB 10 evolution
The BlackBerry 10 Mini Jam developer conference held by BlackBerry Developer Group Balkan at the Maribor Faculty Of Electrical Engineering And Computer Science was attended by more than 200 developers who only wanted to know one thing – how to develop excellent applications for the great new BlackBerry 10 platform as easy as possible and as soon as possible, and how to market them to the users.
The excellently organised event was first of its kind in the region and the organiser Branko Nikolić promised it was not the last. Until the end of the year the organisation will be active in Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia as well. The participants were shown all the mysteries of the new BB OS 10 by four specialists/evangelist of Research in Motion.
QNX: great fundament
Aaron Ardiri, Principal Developer Evangelist, first introduced the BlackBerry 10 Experience. He emphasized that BB always satisfied the needs of users who strive for top productivity, have great connections and love their networks, who are multitaskers – but most of all they always seek new ways to connect with others. For them the user experience trumps hardware specifications. These are the people that will love the new platform by RIM.
Luca Filigheddu, highly experienced BlackBerry Developer Evangelist EMEA, Dennis Reumer, external developer and manager of developer group of Netherlands, and Lukasz Dzierzak, a student, blogger and BlackBerry WebWorks developer, BlackBerry Developer Evangelist, have explained extensively the approaches to develop applications and implement various concepts.
BlackBerry 10 will make use of the numerous newly acquired technologies (the most prominent is for sure QNX, the maker of the fundament for the new OS). The new BB OS 10 will offer an exceptionally HD-cinematic touch user experience where everything is smoothly animated. Great attention has been given to the power of content – RIM emphasizes that content is king at all times. It is because of the various content types and the connectivity that much effort has been put into the smooth operation of the system and applications, which are masterfully crafted with visual details. And the QNX is super by itself – that is why it is used in space missions also, where reliability and security are required without compromise.
The user interface is elegant and functional – in the applications the status and navigation bar have been removed, because all functionality and information is accessible through cascades, with gestures, at the command of users. A new peek gesture enables them to have a quick look into the communication centre where all messages are accessible so there is no need to check routinely various messaging and social applications.
Integrated, social, beautiful applications
Of course these charming details mean a lot to the daily user – the revolutionary simple alarm clock, calendar and other details will spoil even the most spoiled users. After all – the whole user interface for running applications and navigating the device is designed highly attractively. And there is the fresh breeze from the new virtual keyboard which enables the user to type whole words with a simple move of a finger. A small revolution is on its way from the photography department as well – users can choose the nicest smiles for all the faces in the photos, which are then smoothly merged into the photo.
Aaron Ardiri went on to outline the anatomy of a typical BB 10 application. The apps should conform to the standards set as universal proportions for various devices, avoiding hardware specific code, and relative user interface setup and welcome/splash screens. RIM points out the quality of user experience which is sometimes even more important than the app functionality itself.
Aaron Ardiri paid special attention to the lifecycle of applications and pointed out basic app marketing principles. The advertisers who support the application expect greater ROI – therefore RIM includes a highly integrated advertising in the BB 10 platform for anybody who chooses to use it. He outlined what cannot be sold through applications (virtual moneys, physical goods and services) and has shown some real numbers. BB is active in 160 markets, supports 26 currencies, 90 % of 80 millions of users access app stores, monthly download 200 million copies of apps, which amounts to more than 2 billion up to date. There are almost 100.000 apps in the store at the moment.
Application and game development bonanza
Aaron Ardiri was thorough in presenting the new platform architecture. Applications and games can be developed in any of the following frameworks and SDKs – C++/Qt Cascades, HTML5 BlackBerry WebWorks, C/C++ native SDK, Adobe AIR ActionScript and Java Android Runtime. He outlined tools such as Cascades Builder, Ripple HTML5 Emulator and the Microsoft Visual Studio Plugin. The SDKs are accompanied by the web portal developer.blackberry.com where developers find all the necessary documentation, and the BlackBerry 10 Foundations framework enables development of integrated, social and beautiful apps for BB OS 10. The APIs and core functionalities make development a breeze. Much interest was given to the Android Runtime which enables the use of applications prepared for the Google Android OS.
Web technologies have a special place in the new BB 10 – the HTML5 compatibility testers gave the new browser 484 out of 500 available points, which makes it better even compared to the desktop browsers, and other mobile platforms got a score 280 and 360. jQuery mobile will help in providing excellent mobile web experience. The HTML5 browsing capability is important for providing a uniform mobile web application platforms to enable fast, cheaper and universal app development approach.
Two faces of one device
New BB 10 devices will enable the users to switch between their corporate and personal/consumer profiles. This will not only bring benefits to them by changing the working environment, but also to the managers of ICT solutions in organisations – this way they will have better control of the working environment and management possibilities.
VIP BlackBerry Party – the new approach
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SALT LAKE CITY — Questar Gas Wednesday asked the Public Service Commission of Utah to reduce natural gas rates by $13.3 million.
If approved, the rate cut will lower the typical homeowner’s annual bill by about $11.44 per year, or 1.68 percent, beginning Sept. 1.
“The price we pay to buy gas for our customers is about as low as it’s been in a decade,” said Craig Wagstaff, executive vice president and chief operating officer for Questar Gas. “Abundant supplies of natural gas nationwide have resulted in an oversupply. This is good news for consumers, and once again we’re able to lower our rates, which are already among the lowest in the U.S.”
Wagstaff cautioned, however, that natural gas prices can fluctuate with changes in supply and demand.
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Leinster v Toulouse, Heineken Cup Semi-Final, April 30
Sowerby full of respect for Leinster
April 25, 2011
Sowerby has backed his side to rise to the challenge of an away semi-final against Leinster in Dublin © Getty Images
Toulouse No.8 Shaun Sowerby is relishing the chance to tackle Leinster's star-studded international back-row when the two sides meet in an eagerly-anticipated Heineken Cup semi-final showdown in Dublin on Saturday.
The former South African international, a 2010 Heineken Cup winner with Toulouse, believes the four times European champions face a massive challenge in their bid to qualify for a seventh final against what he considers to be one of the few "complete" teams on the continent.
"In my opinion there are only a couple of teams in Europe that you could class as a complete side - and Leinster are one of those teams," said the Springbok powerhouse. "They have a good pack that can dominate, talent out wide, and the experience and the know-how to win games.
"They are a big European side who have represented themselves well this season, as they have done over the last couple of years. We all saw their quarter-final win against Leicester Tigers, it is on all of the computers down at the training ground, and now we will sit down and fully focus on the match and on Leinster.
"I thought they played really well and deserved the win - it really was a big statement beating Leicester. However, Leicester were unlucky in the game because they did have chances and opportunities to take the game but didn't, so they will be disappointed."
Toulouse and Leinster know each other well, the French giants 5-3 ahead from their eight previous meetings, including a 26-16 semi-final win at Le Stadium a year ago, and Sowerby is wary of home advantage tipping the balance again.
"We are extremely familiar with them, we have met them a lot over the last few seasons so we know what they are all about," said Sowerby. "They are technically spot on, they play with pace and intensity and we have to be ready for that.
"Home advantage is huge at this stage and of course the fans will all be right behind Leinster but as the away side we will have to thrive off the atmosphere and make the best out of it. I have never been to the Aviva but from what I have seen I'm expecting a big stadium with a great atmosphere.
"The matches that have been played there look great so I'm sure this match will be another great occasion. You look forward to playing in a stadium when there are 50,000 plus supporters screaming, whoever they are supporting. It just adds to the event and the occasion and lifts everybody.
"Obviously we beat them at the same stage last year but that was on home soil and home advantage in this competition is huge and we are really up against it in Dublin, it's a huge game and a huge test for us.
"No-one is looking any further than the semi-final stage, we have got a massive obstacle to overcome in Leinster and that is our focus in the tournament. If we manage to get the victory then we will turn our attention to defending the title.
"Biarritz are a top team, they do not always play the prettiest of rugby but they certainly know how to win games. We played well at the start of the quarter-finals but fell off the pace in the second half, though to come through the game was fantastic."
Heineken Cup Semi-Finals:
Saturday. April 30, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Heineken Cup Final
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"At full-time I could not see the field for people dancing in front of me." Tom Hamilton reflects on the Lions' defeat at the hands of the Brumbies in Canberra
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Sample RFP: Tablet PCs
While tablet PCs have yet to really take off, Microsofts decision to incorporate tablet PC features and functionality into its Windows Vista operating system changes everything. Now, instead of having to manage a separate operating system just for tablet PCs, IT managers will be able to manage just one.
Of course, this means nothing if enterprises do not deploy Vista until the first service pack. Regardless, IT managers purchasing tablet PC hardware-whether in convertible or slate form-should consider the hardware requirements of the operating system during the RFP process. To read more RFPs, click here.
Convertible versus slate form is the first thing purchasing managers should decide when it comes to tablet PCs.
Road warriors, for example, will probably want the flexibility of a convertible tablet, which would allow them to take notes with a digitizer pen, yet also type e-mails using the keyboard.
On the other hand, medical professionals may prefer slate models, which are not only lighter, but also less unwieldy.
- Describe the tablet PC:
- Minimum and maximum weight
- Is the tablet a slate or a convertible?
- Where is the location of the digitizer pen?
- Does the digitizer pen have an eraser?
- What operating systems are available for preload?
- Windows Vista (which version)
- Windows Tablet PC Edition
- Mac OS X
- What operating systems are supported?
- Windows (which versions)
- Linux (which variants)
- Others (please specify)
- Is the tablet PC Vista-Ready?
- Will the tablet PC run Vista Aero Glass?
DISPLAY AND VIDEO
When it comes to tablet PCs, one of the most important things to consider is the display and the machines ability to handle handwriting.
Vendors work hard to try to provide a good handwriting experience on tablet PCs, making how realistic the digitizer pen feels on the display compared to writing on real paper something IT managers should consider during the purchasing process.
For organizations that are purchasing tablet PCs for fieldwork, a touch screen display is a feature that should be taken into consideration. This would allow a user to use his or her fingers to enter data rather than rely on the digitizer pen or a keyboard.
- What is the display size?
- Does the display have light technology such as Xbrite, Ultrabrite, and so on?
- Does the display have viewing technology such as XGA TFT (thin-film transistor) or XSGA+ck? If so, which ones?
- Does the display have touch screen capabilities? If so, describe those capabilities.
- What is the native resolution of the display?
- What kind of video graphics are available?
- Which families of processors are available? Please specify the exact models available.
- Intel Core Duo 2 Duo
- Intel Core Duo
- Intel Core Duo Ultra Low Voltage
- Intel Core Solo
- AMD Turion 64
- AMD Turion 64 X2
When it comes to Vista, eWEEK Labs recommends configuring laptops and desktops with at least 1GB of RAM.
- What is the standard memory?
- What is the maximum memory capacity?
HARD DISK DRIVE
- What is the standard hard drive?
- What is the maximum hard drive capacity?
BATTERY AND POWER
Since users will likely be carrying the unit, especially while using it in slate form, battery life is more important than ever when it comes to tablet PCs.
- What is the standard battery?
- What is the standard battery life?
- How many cells does each battery option have?
- Does the tablet PC have an optional extended-life battery? How much does that battery cost?
- How many hours of battery life does the extended-life battery offer?
- Can the power adapter be used with other mobile computing hardware from the same vendor?
Often times, a laptop/tablet PC vendor will make its AC adapters universal across a specific business line of hardware. This allows an IT manager to easily replace an adapter should a user break or lose one.
- What types of optical drives can be included?
- Is the optical drive built-in or external?
- What types of radios or NICs can be integrated in the tablet PC?
- Gigabit Ethernet
- Intel Pro/Wireless ABG or other wireless radio
Manufacturers have begun to ship laptops equipped with wireless radios that support the draft-802.11N specification. That specification is expected to be ratified sometime in 2007. Intel has announced that it will not wait for ratification and will ship its Centrino Duo platform with the Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N network connection.
- Can the tablet PC be equipped with embedded WWAN (wireless WAN) capabilities? If so, which services are supported:
- Cingular HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access)
- Verizon EvDO (Evolution Data Optimized)
- Please check all the ports available on the tablet PC:
- Expansion bus
- External display
- External microphone
- How many USB 2.0 ports does the tablet PC have?
- Does the tablet PC support TPM (Trusted Platform Module)?
TPM is an integrated security component that allows users to create and store encryption keys. Microsofts Vista operating system uses TPM technology as part of its Windows BitLocker Drive Encryption feature. BitLocker will encrypt a computers entire volume for security.
Since tablet PCs and other mobile devices are at high risk for theft and loss, pushing security down to the hardware level via TPM can be a much better solution than a simple BIOS password.
- Does the tablet PC feature an integrated fingerprint reader? Where is the fingerprint reader located? Ideally, the fingerprint reader should be located on the display so that it can be used regardless of what mode the Tablet is in.
KEYBOARD AND MOUSE
- Is the keyboard full-sized? If not, what is reduced?
- Is there a TrackPoint mouse, a touch-pad mouse, or both?
- Is a port replicator available? If so, how much is the port replicator?
- Which of the following slots does the tablet PC have:
- ExpressCard slot
- SD (Secure Digital)
- Multimedia card reader
- If the tablet PC has a multimedia card reader, how many cards does the reader support?
- What management tools, if any, come with the laptop? Warranty and Support
- To what does the warranty apply? (Check all that apply)
- The system
- The battery
- The port replicator (if included)
- How much does support cost?
- What is the price and configuration of a fully loaded tablet PC?
- What is the price and configuration of a standard build?
- What is the price and configuration of a minimum build?
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Oct. 6, 2009
CORNELIUS - Fayetteville State's pivotal CIAA game against Shaw University on Saturday will be televised nationally by the Urban Sports Entertainment Group.
Kickoff is set for 1 p.m. at Luther "Nick" Jeralds Stadium in Fayetteville.
In the Raleigh/Fayetteville markets the game will be televised on Time Warner Digital Cable Channel 102.
Both teams enter Saturday's clash with one CIAA loss and the winner will have a leg up in the Western Division race.
Last season, SU downed the Broncos 19-12. FSU has won three of the last five meetings between the schools.
For ticket information, contact the FSU ticket office at (910) 672-1724.
Raleigh, NC WAUG / Time Warner
Memphis, TN Time Warner Cable
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FARWELL MAGAZINE GUN
This magazine rifle has a double bolt action. In its present form it has been tested with satisfaction. With some needed improvements it gives promise of a very effective weapon when carefully developed.
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DPS to Increase Patrols During Holiday
The Department of Public Safety announced on Monday that they will be increasing troopers on patrol and stopping drivers for drinking and driving.
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Ancient Fossilized Embryos Imaged in 3D
A new imaging technique is giving scientists a rare and precious glimpse into the three-dimensional structure of tiny unborn creatures that were frozen in time more than 500 million years ago.
Called synchrotron-radiation X-ray tomography, the technology was used to glimpse the hidden interiors of embryos from two ancient worm-like species, called Pseudooides and Markuelia. Both fossils are less than a millimeter across and were found in China and Siberia.
The embryos are the oldest full embryonic body fossils of any complex animal ever discovered and among the earliest embryos known. They are predated only by a 580-million-year-old embryo-like structure belonging to an organism thought to be part of the lineage leading to animals.
Sifting for fossils
Before the fossils could be imaged, they had to be picked out from about 12 metric tons of rock, a process that took six years, said study team member Phil Donoghue of the University of Bristol in England.
"We picked through every single grain to determine whether it was sand or embryos," Donoghue told LiveScience.
The new technique revealed various developmental stages of the fossilized embryos, from the splitting of cells to pre-hatching. Researchers also got a detailed look at the internal anatomy of the mouth and anus of the unborn Markuelia and found a unique pattern for making embryonic worm segments in Pseudooides not seen in any living animal today.
The images, detailed in the Aug. 9 issue of the journal Nature, also revealed characteristics within one of the embryos similar to those of modern arthropods, the phylum that includes insects, crustaceans, spiders and millipedes. The finding implies arthropod evolution began a few million years earlier than previously thought, the researchers say.
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Because of their tiny size and fragility, embryos are among the rarest types of fossils found.
"They are just gelatinous balls of cells that rot away within hours," Donoghue said. "But these fossils are the most precious of all because they contain information about the evolutionary changes that have occurred in embryos over the past 500 million years."
The oxygen-poor sediments where the embryos were found likely contributed to their preservation, safeguarding them until minerals could replace their delicate structures, Donoghue said.
The new technology is the latest to allow scientists to study fossils in detail without destroying them. In another recent study, researchers used laser technology to take 3D snapshots of fossils trapped in rock without having to crack the rocks open.
Previously, scientists had to settle for studying parts of fossils that were exposed or they had to slice the specimens, giving only two-dimensional views.
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Snakes on a Plane (2006)
|Genre(s): Action / Adventure / Horror / Thriller|
|New Line || R - 105 minutes - $29.98 || January 2, 2007|
|Reviewer: Brian Oliver || Posted On: 2007-01-05|
Writer(s): John Hefferman and Sebastian Gutierrez (screenplay), David Dalessandro and John Hefferman (story)
Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, Julianne Margulies, Nathan Phillips, Daniel Blanchard, Flex Alexander, Kenan Thompson
Theatrical Release Date: August 18, 2006
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New Line’s Snakes on a Plane was the first movie to rely primarily on an Internet campaign to promote its movie after several sites cropped up when news came out. Soon enough you couldn’t come across a forum or movie news website that didn’t talk about SoaP and, when the release date came closer, even television news programs were talking (though mainly about the Net fever). Well, while the hype was there, apparently nobody outside some hardcore fanboys went to see Snakes on opening weekend where it debuted with a disappointing $12 million.
Strange thing about the Net is that if you browse it enough you actually start to believe that because something is talked about so much that it also translates to what people were talking about around the water cooler at work, and I am one of those who bought into it. The reason it didn’t do well was because although the title is certainly original and tells you everything about the movie, well, the title tells you everything about the movie... I never was big on Snakes in the first place so I skipped it in theaters but decided to reserve a coveted space on my Netflix queue and see if it was worth the hype. Two-word answer: It wasn’t.
Snakes on a Plane does succeed in it’s promise that is it indeed a thin premise and at times this snake-fearing critic jumped twice, but I couldn’t get over how the other 100-minutes reminded me of a bad made-for-SciFi movie. I can see why Samuel L. Jackson took the part but outside of those scares and an overly prominent “motherfucking snakes” line, it seemed like Snakes on a Plane took itself way too seriously rather than do a little wink and nod toward the audience that you’re watching a bad B-movie.
I guess this is something more the fault of director David R. Ellis (Final Destination 2, Cellular) but why not give it that B-movie horror feel a la Army of Darkness? Yeah, it delivers on the title and yet doesn’t on a great experience.
Since Snakes did do its job on scaring the crap out of me at times, I cannot say it is a complete waste of time but I have a hard time recommending something solely based on its title. That old adage of “Don’t based a book on its title” I think applies here as the title cannot mask that what’s inside is still a semi-crappy flick. No, the Snakes on a Plane title is merely a gimmick concocted by some Internet fanboys and embraced by New Line. If this had been called anything else, it would’ve been in and out of the theaters (or went direct-to-video) and even less people would’ve cared.
New Line gives those fans a good set of features to dig through:
Feature Commentary - Various members involved with the film including star Sam Jackson, producer Craig Berenson, associate producer Tawny Ellis, the VFX supervisor, and 2nd unit director join Director Ellis in a lively and informative commentary track. They each get a voice in on their experience and how the movie came to be (after director Ronny Yu dropped out or was fired).
Deleted/Extended Scenes (12:12) - 10 deleted or extended scenes are included but offer little else that isn’t already in the movie. Surprised and pleased that New Line didn’t just add these back in to give the movie an “unrated” rating.
Documentaries - There are four documentaries covering each aspect of the filmmaking:
First, “Pure Vision - The Making of Snakes on a Plane” is an all-encompassing feature that goes through the shooting process from sketch art to hydraulics to the snakes themselves. Like the movie, however, I think they take this too seriously as well with talk of certain snakes having personalities or, in one case, an actress didn’t want to become too comfortable with the snakes as so to keep the tension or fear. (17:37)
“Meet the Reptiles” gives a technical glimpse at each species used in the movie and features interviews with the snake wrangler and the technical aspects of mixing snakes with the actors. (12:30)
“VFX Featurette” shows off the visual effects portion of creating snakes to do the killing or other stunt work. Standard stuff but the VFX junky might find it entertaining enough. (4:55)
“Snakes on a Blog” shows how big Snakes on a Plane on the Net and features interviews with bloggers and others who were instrumental to publicizing the picture using the blogs and fan-made artwork. (9:35)
Rounding out the special features is a gag reel (4:40), music video and a few trailers and TV Spots.
.::AUDIO & VIDEO::.
Snakes on a Plane is presented in anamorphic widescreen, 2.35 OAR and looks very crisp with some interesting rich colors coming across the small screen. Nothing outstanding about it by any means and given it is a recent release, I expect nothing short of perfection.
As with most New Line releases, you’re given the choice between the standard Dolby Digital 5.1 mix or the superior DTS-ES 6.1 track. Either way, you’ll hear the hissing in your living room followed by screams that, if you crank it up enough, will concern your neighbors.
Snakes on a Plane certainly delivers on the obvious title and outside of a scare or two, nothing really works in this B-movie wannabe. The film takes itself a bit too seriously and if it weren’t for the title, the movie would have been lost in obscurity and chalked up as another Samuel L. Jackson failure. Instead, I’m sure the vocal minority who adore the movie, giving it high marks even before anyone saw it, will keep it alive on the Net, but I doubt anyone else will care. | <urn:uuid:cee8c28e-38bd-4d9c-8a06-aa9bc73fba8e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.moviemansguide.com/reviews/DVD/read.php?id=snakesonaplane | 2013-06-19T01:32:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955924 | 1,418 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A race against time to keep people from getting into places4.49 / 5.00 34,752 Views
Let's be honest here.4.41 / 5.00 25,141 Views
N00bly and Snake encounter the Witch while Milky Dad schemes against them!4.38 / 5.00 45,040 Views
UPDATE: Thanks for daily 3rd! Also, I threw a NG reference in there that no one seems to have caught. That or it wasn't clever enough to comment on (which would make sense too).
For Movie Jam 2...
The theme we chose was 'Too Scared to Enter'.
Yes, I know. It's a tad late, but when you work in retail, they don't give a shit about animation deadlines.
Anyway, this is probably the most retarded thing we've ever done. Enjoy! | <urn:uuid:ef6870a3-10a1-4311-8438-797e513034d4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/603789/review_sort/score/review_page/3 | 2013-06-19T01:10:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963911 | 175 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Why the SEOmoz SEO Quiz Is [Almost, in a Philosophical Sense, Somewhat] Completely Wrong
SEOmoz just posted a quiz to test your mad SEO skilz.
It’s [almost, er, etc.] completely wrong.
And I say that with the utmost affection for a certain yellow-shoed person who’s coming to my house later for Buffy night. I get the idea. Basic SEO principles exist that anyone operating in the online space should know. The trouble is that SEO is art as much as science, and to top it all off (like those little sprinkles on top of cupcakes), things are always changing. Even the basics change.
Sure, you should always create a usable site, with compelling and unique content, and you should do keyword research and use those keywords in places like title tags and headings, and if you block your entire site with robots.txt, it’s unlikely to ever get indexed. And try to get a few links if you can. Some things don’t change.
It’s impossible to know everything about SEO because some things aren’t hard and fast rules. You also have to pay attention the trends, see what works, keep evolving your tactics. And anyway, I would bet that there’s no one person who even knows 100% about how a search engine handles each step of the crawling/indexing/ranking process. Even those within the search engines don’t know all the parts to to the process. Yes, even him. Go ahead, ask him. I’ll wait. He’ll tell you the same.
But why is this quiz so wrong? Too many of the questions go beyond the science and into the art of SEO, where things are fluid and changing and open to interpretation. The quiz is more accurately a test of how much of your personal SEO philosophy matches that of SEOmoz. Like a match.com compatibility test. You and SEOmoz, sitting in a tree. Romantically optimizing title tags.
For instance, which is less useful and accurate: Alexa traffic toolbar data or Google toolbar PageRank data? I posit that it’s not a cut and dried answer. (Cut and dried? Where did that come from anyway?)
What’s the best way to avoid internal duplicate content? Block redundant versions from crawlers? Maybe. Unless those versions have a lot of links, in which case you might be losing a lot of link credit.
Does internal linking help raise the PageRank of internal pages? Well, maybe. Or maybe it just helps the discoverability of those pages and the PageRank comes naturally by virtue of being part of the site. It’s impossible to know because Google doesn’t publish PageRank numbers. You can’t really experiment to find out. (And now we can debate about whether you can use the toolbar PageRank numbers to experiment with something like this. And then once we’re done debating, things will probably change anyway.)
When should you leave the meta description of a page? Er, never? OK, I suppose if you are unable to create unique ones for every page, it doesn’t make sense to have the same one everywhere. But this whole idea of leaving it off when the page is targeted at long tail queries makes no sense. Or at least, it’s definitely more of an up for debate topic than a fundamental truth of SEO. How many disparate long tail terms are you targeting on that one page anyway? If you can’t come up with a description that fits the entire page, shouldn’t you just create multiple pages anyway for each completely separate topic? And if you do shove a bunch a bunch of unrelated stuff together on one page and the meta description isn’t relevant for queries that return that page, search engines are going to use relevant text from the content rather than the meta description anyway. Existence of a meta description tag doesn’t prevent other content to be used as the snippet instead when that would be more useful.
And then there’s the geeky side of me that says: HTTP server response that indicates a file no longer exists or isn’t working? For one thing, the same HTTP code isn’t used for both. For another thing, I know the answer they’re going for is 404, but that’s not right in either case. 404 means doesn’t exist. It’s 410 that means no longer exists. And “isn’t working” could mean anything! Is the server not working? Was the request bad? I wouldn’t be so particular, except I did sort of write the book, er help topic about it. Also, did I mention that I’m really geeky? I even have a favorite HTTP status code.
And then we get to the question that made me decide to do this blog post.
When launching a large amount of new content on a new or existing domain, the best way to release content for crawling and indexing is:
I got it wrong.
And the correct answer, when explaining why I was wrong…
I answered All at once – to allow the spiders to find the content and digest it in their preferred format. But apparently the quoted me said Over time, in multiple smaller sized chunks.
But here’s the thing. That quote was about using a 301 to move existing content. I did indeed recommend doing that slowly for a number of reasons. You want to make sure you’ve impelemented the 301 correctly. The moving pages might experience a short-term dip in indexing in ranking and you might not want that to happen to your entire site at once. You want to be able to pinpoint problems and not troubleshoot your entire site architecture.
That quote was not at all about creating all new content. Add as much of that as you want! All at once! Well, unless you’re creating millions of pages of autogenerated content! That might look suspicious! (Just saying.)
However, I admit that at least one of the questions has a black and white answer. There is no apparent search engine rankings benefit to having a keyword-matched domain name (eg www.example.com for keyword “example”). FALSE. Otherwise, I’d get traffic from searches other than porn.
Edit: My title, of course, is meant to be hyperbolic and over the top and well, easily identifiable as purposely linkbaity (er, and funny). I have a strange sense of humor. I also like potato chips in sandwiches. We all have our oddities. However, I have gone back and slightly edited the title in case it comes across as unduly harsh. I’m not saying all the answers are wrong; It’s that I feel the quiz tends to ask the wrong kinds of questions — questions that have debatable rather than black and white answers. There are more fundamental concepts in SEO that don’t have these shades of gray. One thing that’s great about the particular questions asked though is that they’ve started a dialogue about those topics. And not only about the topics in the quiz, but about the larger topic of search engine optimization as an art, trial and error, and ever-evolving. So in that sense, perhaps the quiz was [almost] completely right. | <urn:uuid:b1c7f8d6-2146-45f2-add8-761a701ed45e> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.ninebyblue.com/why-the-seomoz-seo-quiz-is-completely-wrong/ | 2013-06-19T01:47:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935344 | 1,554 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I WAS dismayed, disgusted and saddened recently to see a car travelling in front of me deliberately skid over a black snake and kill it, 15km from town and not a residence in sight.
There has never been a death recorded from a bite from one of these shy and docile snakes.
Red-bellied black snakes are renowned for taking on the brown snakes and keeping them away from areas of human habitation, so if someone has to make a “hero” of themselves by killing any snake, please think twice before destroying a red-bellied black.
There were about 600 people seeking medical attention in Australia last year from snake bites, and two deaths recorded – one being questionable as to whether it was caused by snakebite – compared to 10 deaths from bee stings.
If the right procedure is taken after being bitten by a brown snake, one has up to 15 hours to get treatment.
Our brown and black snakes have very small fangs which can’t penetrate shoes or jeans.
And, more often than not, a snake will not venomise when it strikes, unless under extreme stress. As the saying goes, “Snakes don’t bite, people get bitten”.
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Rescued Filipino street kids still abused
By Philip Tubeza
Philippine Daily Inquirer, November 17, 2009
Street Children in the Philippines is a significant problem. According to the 1998 report, entitled "Situation of the Youth in the Philippines," there are about 1.5 million street children in the Philippines. Everyday, at least a street child is seen walking along the streets, looking for a place to stay.
MANILA, Philippines—"Why did they do that to us when they did not even know us?” Steve Estopito said, recalling the first time years ago when authorities “rescued” him off the streets of Malate, Manila.
Estopito said he was playing with six siblings and cousins under the noonday sun in front of the Malate Church when police in plainclothes swooped down on them and forcibly took them to a dingy center for street children.
“They did not even ask where our parents were. We could not do anything, and we just cried,” he said.
Estopito, who lives in Leveriza, Manila, is one of the estimated 250,000 children who play, earn a living, or live in the Philippines’ dangerous streets.
Authorities conduct periodic sweeps in an attempt to solve the problem.
But child rights advocates claim that these “rescues” are actually “arrests,” and that street children are merely used to meet the rescue teams’ “quotas” before they are released back to the streets.
Estopito said he was eventually “rescued” 12 times but still ended up in the streets. A 13-year-old boy pegged the number of times he was "rescued" at an amazing 59.
These efforts are all to no apparent effect, because government centers lack the resources to keep the children off the streets.
Worse, force is often used on many of the children during “rescues,” and sometimes they are even sexually abused, according to a study sponsored by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef).
The study, produced by the nongovernment organization Bahay Tuluyan, was released Tuesday at the Heritage Hotel as the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Unicef country representative Vanessa Tobin described the study as “very important."
Titled “Sagip or Huli? Rescue of Street Children in Caloocan, Manila, Pasay and Quezon City," it read in part:
“Rescued children face a number of violations [of] their most basic rights, both as humans and as children, throughout nearly all stages of the rescue operation.
“Rescue operations as currently practiced in [the four cities] are failing to protect children from abuse and exploitation and are sometimes exposing them to these … An independent complaints mechanism is not available or accessible to rescue children.
“Rescue operations are frequently carried out independently, indiscriminately and for reasons other than child protection. The best interests of the children are often secondary to other concerns.”
Also according to the study, rescuers are “frequently unclear about their objectives” and therefore “use inappropriate intervention techniques.”
“This unnecessarily criminalizes, stigmatizes and traumatizes children,” it said.
For the study, 599 street children and 144 “rescuers” from Manila, Quezon City, Caloocan, and Pasay were interviewed.
Said Tobin: "Children end up in the streets for variety of reasons. Sometimes, because they’ve been abused at home.
Sometimes, parents are unable to provide for them and they need to work to survive. Sometimes, because of peer pressure.
“For those reasons, they can end up attracted to street gangs, get involved sniffing solvents, drinking alcohol, taking illegal drugs, drawn to crime, violence, sexual abuse. Often, they end up injured, exploited, abused or killed.”
Tobin said street children posed a challenge not only in the Philippines but in other countries as well.
She said the actual number of street children in the Philippines was not known.
“We think its 250,000, with 50,000 of them highly visible. The problem is greatest within Manila,” she said.
Bahay Tuluyan official Catherine Scerri said 48 percent of the street children interviewed said they were dragged or forced into vehicles when they were “rescued.”
She added that:
* 24 percent said they were "grabbed" and 19 percent said they "voluntarily went along.”
* 42 percent said the authorities chased them, despite a clear policy against chases.
* 35 percent said they were hurt, nine percent said they were helped, and another nine percent said they were cared for.
* 15 percent “consented” to being rescued, 24 percent did not, 61 percent conceded that they could do nothing.
Scerri said the rescuers came from various agencies—the Metro Manila Development Authority, the Department of Social Welfare and Development and its local counterparts, the barangay, and the police.
She said 94 percent of the rescuers did not introduce themselves to the children, and only 53 percent of the children said their rescuers were in uniform.
“The children said they were beaten and their money or belongings were either taken or destroyed. Some were tricked into going with rescuers and told, ‘We’ll take you to Jollibee,’” Scerri said, adding:
“Others were sexually assaulted or inappropriately touched."
Only one percent of the children said the "rescue" was explained to them, Scerri said.
This could be because some of the rescuers carried weapons, contrary to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, she said, adding that 60 percent carried batons; 15 percent, guns; and 18 percent, handcuffs.
“This was interesting because majority of rescuers said they had a policy of not using force during rescues and they had an understanding of (UN convention). But this was contradicted by presence of weapons during rescue,” she said.
Scerri said 45 percent of those rescued were taken to the Jose Fabella center in Manila while others were taken to the shelters of their local governments.
“Some of the children reported that as soon as they arrived, they were released. This gave the impression that the ‘rescuers’ were just filling quotas,” Scerri said.
She said children usually stayed at shelters for a week, where they had to deal with overcrowding, inadequate bedding, no separate quarters, with “children sleeping on cement floor.”
“There was a lack of resources, generally clothing and sanitation. The children had concerns about the quality and quantity of their food. There were serious allegations of mistreatment and abuse,” Scerri said.
“They were released when they presented their birth certificates or were identified by their parents. Some paid money. Some exchanged sexual favors,” she added.
But after they are released, many if not most of the children, return to the streets.
Scerri said that 30 percent of children they interviewed said they had been “rescued more than five times.”
“Four percent said they were rescued so many times, they could not remember how many … All the children were on street at time of interview (so) there has been no significant change in their situation,” she said.
“(In October, the UN) Committee on the Rights of the Child said they are seriously concerned with the high number of children who live in the streets. There is a continuing lack of systematic and comprehensive strategy. And they are further concerned that rescue operations conducted in various areas of Manila,” Scerri added.
Commission on Human Rights chairperson Leila de Lima, who gave the keynote speech at the launching of the study, said there were even reports that some children had even fallen victim to death squads.
“In major cities, they are targets of these so-called death squads. In recent months however, this has somewhat abated, maybe because of our public inquiry (into death squads),” she said.
De Lima reminded everyone that the Juvenile Justice and Welfare Act prohibits jailing children “15 years and below” due to criminal offenses. Authorities usually claim curfew violations when rounding up street children.
“They are not supposed to be treated as children in conflict with the law. They can be arrested but they should not be detained. Because of their young age and limited knowledge, they are not supposed to be treated as criminals,” de Lima said.
“There should be intervention by the concerned authorities before the children are turned over tot heir parents. Sadly, we have very few institutions that cater to the needs of children, particularly street children. Much as they want to do more but they don’t have the resources,” she added. | <urn:uuid:f9583d52-620f-4c4a-8dc0-e5b475077a7a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.preda.org/main/archives/2009/r09111701.html | 2013-06-19T01:38:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982267 | 1,924 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
With Sullivan County Legisl ators keeping a careful eye these days, Ed McAndrew thought that they should consider a county policy of since the late 1990s of allowing farmers to walk away with newsprint to be used for bedding for cattle or cows.
McAndrew, deputy commissioner of the Division of Public Works, said he did not have an exact figure about how much newsprint the farmers were taking, but he estimated “it’s in the neighborhood of 200 tons per year, and you’re looking at about $20,000 a year of newsprint that isn’t being marketed.” Read more
District Attorney Jim Farrell announced that two men, David Guisewhite, 25, of Elmira, N.Y. and Jose Brigannti, 21, of Bronx, N.Y. were sentenced in Sullivan County Court to state prison terms for the possession of over 4 ounces of cocaine after a traffic stop on State Route 17 in the Town of Rockland on May 12, 2012. Read more
"I Stand Here Ironing," a short story by Tillie Olsen, will be discussed at the next meeting of the great books discussion program at the E.B. Crawford Public Library, 7:30pm. Copies of the story are available at the library. New members are welcome. 845/794-4660.
“I screwed the process up, guilty.” Those were the words of Scott Samuelson, chair of the Sullivan County Legislature, at a meeting on January 17, regarding a resolution about an agreement with a firm named PKF O’Conner Davies, which has audited the county’s books for the past few years. Read more
Larry Richardson said his views on gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing have evolved over the years. He’s now convinced that the best way to protect the town against the possible harms of drilling is to follow the lead of four other Sullivan County towns, and adopt a ban on gas drilling. Read more
The Sullivan County Legislature voted four to one in committee to revise the county charter to change the provision that requires a supermajority—or six of the nine legislators—to appoint a person to or remove him or her from the position of county manager.
In introducing it, legislator Alan Sorensen said, “This resolution will restore the original intent of the Sullivan County Charter bringing it back to a simple majority.” Read more
The Sheriff’s Office has made another arrest in its ongoing investigation of drug trafficking in Sullivan County. On Thursday January 10, 2013 at approximately 2:45 PM, Deputy Jessie Cramer spotted a White Ford Windstar minivan near the intersection of Anawana Lake Road and State Route 42 in the Town of Thompson. Read more
A meeting of the Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library board of trustees will be held at the Crawford Library, 6pm. The public is invited to attend.
The Literacy Volunteers of Sullivan County will sponsor a Story Time from 11am to 12pm on the first Saturday of the month at the Read It Again Bookstore. All children must be accompanied by an adult, who will remain with them throughout the hour. Stories will be read to the children, and an activity will follow, time permitting. Story Time is open to all children in grades K-3, and is free. 845/794-0017.
Adult & Continuing Education center, 6-7pm. Cost: $64. Visit www.scboces.org or call 845/295-4900. | <urn:uuid:04cc61dd-c304-44da-9cbd-a5ad9fd8d562> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.riverreporter.com/category/location/monticello?page=10 | 2013-06-19T01:47:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368707439012/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516123039-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94686 | 735 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The day the music died...
Wind farms at Altamont Pass (3.68 mi / 5.92 km)
TRANSIENT: Airplane (4.70 mi / 7.56 km)
Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Laboratory (8.39 mi / 13.51 km)
Crop Field Burning (12.83 mi / 20.65 km)
Vallecitos Nuclear Center (17.76 mi / 28.58 km)
Billy Herbert Field (22.48 mi / 36.18 km)
Mission San Jose de Guadalupe (24.07 mi / 38.74 km)
MC Hammer's former mansion (24.33 mi / 39.16 km)
New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) (26.68 mi / 42.94 km)
Great Mall of the Bay Area (28.82 mi / 46.39 km)
From: tedderwell, kinda close. Parts of 'american pie' are probably talking about Altamont, but not "the day the music died". Most likely "angel born in hell" is talking about that, however.
Mon Sep 12 21:50:38 -0700 2005
Hells Angels by Hunter S Thompson contains some glimpses into this gang, though not into this event.
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Heartbeat Discussion Guide
- Grades: 3–5
About this book
Twelve-year-old Annie loves her life, but suddenly it seems that everything is changing. Her mother is pregnant, and Annie will no longer be an only child. Her grandfather who lives with her family has begun to lose his memory. Her best friend Max is moody and seems frustrated with everything, including Annie. Also, the track coach is pressuring Annie to try out for the track team, but Annie can not imagine giving up running just for the love of it in order to compete on a team. Through her experiences, Annie begins to accept the changes of time and life, including birth and old age, success and failure. She decides to continue running just for herself, following her grandfather's advice, while her friend Max joins the track team for the achievement of winning. She finds that she can simultaneously rejoice in the life of her new baby brother Joey while she grieves the loss of her grandfather's memory and strength.
Sharon Creech was born in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in a large, active family. She discovered in college that she loved story-telling, and afterwards found a career teaching high school English and literature in England and Switzerland, spending eighteen years in Europe. For Creech, teaching and traveling both provided the perfect training ground for writing her novels. Her first two novels (published in England) were written for adults, but all of her subsequent work has been written for children. After Walk Two Moons won the Newberry Medal in 1995, Sharon Creech stopped teaching and devoted herself to writing full time. She now lives in Pennington, New Jersey, with her husband who is a school headmaster, and she has two grown children.
Suggested Answers to Literature Circle Questions
1. Describe the way that Max and Annie like to run.
Max and Annie run barefoot on the ground in all seasons, even winter. They run without talking, through the woods and around the pasture.
2. What is the outcome of Max's first race with the track team?
Max is wearing his new shoes, and at one point he trips and falls. Though he manages to overtake several other runners in spite of his fall, he does not win the race (p. 139).
3. What secret about running does Grandpa tell first to Max and then to baby Joey?
Grandpa tells Max: "Run for the pleasure of running."
4. The girls' track team coach frequently asks Annie if she is interested in trying out for the track team. How does Annie respond to the coach's question, and what is she really thinking?
Annie says, "I'm sorry, I just don't want to." She secretly feels annoyed that the coach is badgering her to try out for the team. She has observed the track team practices and noticed that everyone runs the same, no one smiles, and competition gets in the way of enjoying running. For Annie, competing in track "would spoil such a good thing as running"(p. 70).
5. Describe the dreams Annie has about her mother's unborn baby on pages 20 and 119. What do her dreams show about Annie's feelings toward the new baby?
Annie dreams that the baby is really a baby rabbit, a mouse, or a horse (p. 20). Another time, she dreamed that she lost the baby behind the radiator where it melted (p. 119). Annie's dreams show that she has some worries about what the baby will be like and whether or not she is responsible enough to be a big sister.
6. Describe Annie's relationship with her grandpa. What does Annie have in common with her grandpa? What role does he play in her life?
Annie's grandpa is her friend and confidant, always ready to listen when Annie is ready to talk. He is slowly losing his memory, and his forgetfulness has a way of helping Annie appreciate the little things in life that she might not otherwise notice. Annie and her grandpa share a love of running and a dislike of competition. For both, competing in races takes the joy out of running.
7. Annie asks Max, "Why are we here on this earth?. . .Am I supposed to do something important? It doesn't seem enough to merely take up space on this planet. . ." (p. 28) How would you answer Annie's questions?
Students' answers to this personal question will vary. Annie's question is prompted by her friend Max, who has known since he was just seven years old that he wanted to be a famous athlete when he grew up. Annie feels frustrated because she feels that she should do something important, but doesn't know yet what it will be.
8. On p. 115, why does Annie slug Max? Afterwards, she feels like apologizing, but doesn't provide a full explanation of why she did it. Can you explain why Annie hit her friend?
Annie doesn't seem to understand why she hit her friend, but she seems to feel annoyed, frustrated, and angry in the events leading up to hitting Max. After school, she had witnessed the boys' track coach trying to convince Max to take a used pair of running shoes, and she felt sadness and frustration for her friend, who is unable to afford his own shoes but too proud to accept the used ones from the coach. Also, the girls' track coach had been pressuring her to join the team, and Annie feels annoyed because she is unable to explain why she really does not want to compete. Perhaps Max's comment "That's a little better pace, Annie" after Annie had won the race felt condescending to her, too.
9. In the chapter called "Sleeping," Annie glimpses Grandpa holding baby Joey, and she feels both "infinitely happy" and "infinitely infinitely infinitely sad" (p. 162). Explain why she feels the way she does in that moment.
In that moment, Annie feels deep joy at the birth of her new baby brother and also deep sadness at the knowledge that her grandfather's life is in its final stages. She has experienced many of the great changes of life and has come to acknowledge the temporal nature of life.
10. As you look back through the novel, what references can you find to heartbeat? What might the title Heartbeat signify?
Throughout the novel, Annie and Max run barefoot, and their feet make the sound of a heartbeat "thump thump thump" when they run. Also, a most important moment for Annie and her parents is the first time they hear the heartbeat of their unborn baby (pp. 66-67). After her brother is born, Annie comes to check that both he and her grandpa are still breathing while they sleep, and she hears their hearts beat "thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP" (p. 162). Through living with her elderly grandfather and a new baby brother, Annie gains awareness of all phases of life and learns to appreciate the ongoing rhythm of life.
11. At the very end of the book, Annie's final drawing of her apple is a "small shiny brown seed" (p. 180). Why do you think she chose to draw her apple this way, and what does this seed symbolize?
Annie's final drawing shows what is left of the apple core after all the other parts have been eaten or thrown away. While the apple is now gone, the remaining seed shows the potential for new life. In this story, Annie experiences life with an aging grandpa, and she begins to realize how she takes after her grandpa in spite of the difference in their ages. Also, she witnesses the growth and arrival of a new life, her baby brother, which she describes as a "wondrous miracle" (p. 155). For Annie, the apple seed symbolizes the ongoing nature of life, the rhythm that includes both life and death at the same time.
12.Throughout the story, we get details about Max's life. Putting the pieces together, what is Max's story?
Max is serious and intense, driven to succeed especially when it comes to running track. He's grown up with Annie, but Max's life changed dramatically when his grandpa died and his father deserted the family (p. 12). Now Max lives with his mother in an apartment, and they struggle financially to the point where Max's mother can not afford to buy her son running shoes for track. Max seems jealous of Annie's life with both parents and her grandpa, and he feels like he wants to escape his situation, to grow up and move away as quickly as possible. He feels that track might just be the way he gets to escape his past: "These feet are my ticket out of here" (p. 18).
13. With the birth of her new brother Joey and the fading of her grandpa's memory, how do you think Annie's life will change in the near future?
Annie will most likely need to take new responsibilities, like caring for her new brother and helping her grandpa get through his daily routine. As the big sister and no longer the only child, she will have to get used to sharing her parents with a sibling. Also, with her extra responsibilities, Annie may have less time for her own pursuits like running.
14. After her confrontation with Max, Annie says, "I do not like to be wrong which is probably a serious character flaw" (p. 115). Do you think this is true? Explain.
Students' personal responses will vary. We do observe that Annie is firm in her convictions throughout the story, yet she is teachable to her parents and grandfather. After her fight with Max, she tries to admit she was wrong by giving her lawn-mowing money to Max (p. 116).
15. In the chapter called "The Coach," Annie explains her reasons for not wanting to participate in competitive sports (pp. 70-71). Do you agree with her criticism of competitive sports? What might be some of the benefits of competitive sports?
Students' answers will vary. Competitive sports provide students with opportunities to be work hard and be successful in a non-academic way. Students who participate in competitive sports learn about the value of practice, self-discipline, and team work. Through sports, students develop new friendships with teammates and coaches, and learn about working hard to meet their goals.
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He’s a Communist.
Fast and Furious apologist Maddow Lashes out at Beitbart.
just a sample:
September 1, 2009
Christians to Pray as White House Observes Ramadan
[The Rev. Johnny Hunter, an African-American pro-life leader who was arrested on the National Day of Prayer while praying outside the White House, said that by hosting the Ramadan observance President Obama “is distinctly placing Islam above Christianity.
"He's stated before the entire world that we're not a Christian nation," added the founder of L.E.A.R.N. Inc. "By him turning his back on Christians on a day when we're to pray to God, then turn around and make such a flamboyant move toward Islam, it tells me that it's not America that's not Christian, it's the president that's not Christian."]
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The Wade Dean Enspiration, a gutsy young quintet, led off the festival with “Gingerbread Boy” by Jimmy Heath, one of Philly’s many homegrown jazz legends. It was 1 p.m. last Saturday, and the dim carpeted room upstairs at Fergie’s Pub was starting to fill up.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
After starting the TV blanket for Shawn, I've started to realize that Christmas isn't really that far away. And when making handmade gifts, one needs to start well in advance in order to complete the gift on time. This got me thinking and using yarn again got me dreaming about all the other yarn I have stashed in a bin at the bottom of the closet. So I dug it out. And inside I found a partially completed scarf. Now if you've been reading my blog at all, this would come to no surprise, you'd know that I am amazing at starting, and not so great at finishing.
So where am I going with all this? I was beginning to wonder myself.
I finished the whole scarf yesterday, and am going to give it as a Christmas gift. And that means already, I have one down and many more to go. The great part is how economical it is to make gifts, especially when you have more than enough fabric, and every craft supply imaginable. So this year, I am challenging myself to make all gifts, and in the spirit of Simple Sparrow's Use What You Have I will try to use only craft items that I've already purchased. However IF there is something that is required to complete a project that I don't already have(i.e. quilt batting)these types of things can be purchased. So basically I will try as hard as I can to make these items with supplies I already own.
Back to this scarf, it fills all the criteria AND I've also finished something that was incomplete. I think this is going to be great. I’ll document the process.
Thursday, September 07, 2006
I know it really is WIP everyday around here. I promise there will be some finished projects eventually. As September started to approach I realized that it is time to start working on Christmas gifts. Especially those that require 140 crocheted granny squares. This is a gift for Shawn(my fiancé)he loved the idea of a TV blanket for snuggling up and watching TV. He's seen the blocks in progress and knows about it, but I will keep the finished product hidden until Christmas.
I sort-of knew how to crochet but never really made anything. A new friend gave me a refresher course, and now all I want to do is make these squares. On the bus, at my desk at lunch, at home in front of the TV. It's a real shame I can't make them in my sleep. I have been dreaming about it, but no finished squares on the nightstand in the morning.
Friday, September 01, 2006
I'm really disappointed in my lack of posts. As it is Friday though, I thought I should post a WIP. since I have mostly WIP's. Tell me crafty ladies, how do you stay motivated to see something to completion? I just want to start projects. Too bad I couldn't teach the cat to sew, I need an assistant to do the finishing.
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Students at the Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Academy have had some exciting times over the last few months.
In December, Phoebe Warlow was awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Dance National Advance 1 Bursary in Sydney, whilst in February, over a dozen TPCCA students returned from an annual European Tour where they auditioned at various selective schools and junior companies. Ten of the students were offered places.
Finalists for the Royal Academy of Dance Bursary are chosen from around Australia. Candidates must have achieved a distinction in their Royal Academy of Dance Advance 1 examination, but not yet have completed their Advance 2.
In the last year alone, Phoebe Warlow was awarded the Society of Dance Arts Intermediate Classical Ballet Scholarship, from 80 competitors Australia wide; was a finalist in the Sydney Eisteddfod Robert & Elizabeth Albert Scholarship, winner of the Sydney Eisteddfod U14 Contemporary section, plus winner of the Silver Medal at the Cecchetti Medal Awards Competition.
When DanceNSW followed up with Phoebe on her successes, she said there were six other people competing in the finals for the Bursary, some of whom she knows really well. “We were all so relieved to see familiar faces on the day” Phoebe said.
When asked how it feels to have so many successes in such a short amount of time, Phoebe said “I always try to work as hard as I can and it’s a lovely bonus to do well along the way. Mrs Pearson and all my teachers help me to achieve any successes that I have, and I am always very grateful to have so many passionate teachers. I would have to say that the highlight so far has probably been receiving the prize for Bursary. I think it was the thrill that it was a national competition.”
As for future aspirations, Phoebe feels “I have a lot to do this year, and I take one thing at a time. I would love to qualify for Genee in London later this year. I don't know what my path will be next year yet, but ultimately at some stage I would love to work for the Australian Ballet.”
Photo of Phoebe Warlow, by Roy Rogers
Zoe Roberts was one of the TPCCA students who was successful in her auditions overseas. Indeed, she was offered places at every school she auditioned at, including Graduate Year at the Royal Ballet School, which she is accepting.
We asked Zoe to tell us something about her experiences:
“(The tour took us to) Europe and London. We auditioned and went to Mannheim, Den Haag, Amsterdam Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Basel and London. The trip took about three weeks travelling on a bus.
“There wasn’t just one highlight, but there were some cities that I particularly loved. London, Munich, Amsterdam… We were allowed to watch Company Class of the Bayerisches Staatsballett (Munich Ballet Company). They were so amazing – that was my highlight!
“I feel so enriched and lucky for going on that tour. I was exposed to so many different teachers, schools and styles…. I feel inspired to work harder than ever after seeing the wealth of appreciation of the arts overseas. I also think I’ve gained more confidence in myself from the positive experience.”
Photo of Zoe Roberts, by Lisa Tomesetti
Students who participated in the tour and were successful in their auditions will continue their training at TPCCA until September when they will commence their studies overseas.
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09 March 2002, 14:33
I own an amiga500 with a minimax, the problem is that the 2 connectors to denise got loose. I can't dig up the manual anywhere....my question is: can anyone provide me with a copy of the minimax manual, or can anyone tell me on wich pins the connectors should be connected...?
Thanks in advance..
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10 March 2002, 03:42
WTF! err that was me that posted the last thread for some reason i typed in my username and password and it logged me in as RCK i didn't even realise until i'd posted. i don't know what the hell happened there, sorry man.
no problem, Ian has the same prob during the launch of the new server. It is a cookie share problem with the actual server name, it will be totally solved when the DNS will be up-to-date. (aka abime.net will work again)
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You are of course welcome to participate.
The European Commission outlines new proposals on how to better engage with civil society
The European Commission has adopted a new Communication on how to work more effectively with civil society organisations (CSOs) in developing, Neighbourhood and partner countries. The proposals include guidelines on working with governments and public institutions to ensure the creation of a more conducive, fair and democratic environment for civil society groups to operate in; enabling them to help more of the world's poorest and vulnerable people as a result.
The launch of CiSocH
The EC has launched an online tool to facilitate access to existing information on and for civil society in development cooperation: CiSocH (Civil Society Helpdesk). With a powerful search tool, CISOCH offers a one-stop-shop for all your questions on cooperation between EuropeAid and civil society - making procedures, vocabulary, methods of work, etc. easier to understand.
TheCommission provides NSA-LA with financial support, of which the objectives are defined in geographic instruments , thematic programmes and instruments .
For the period 2007-2013, the EU’s support to NSAs and local authorities is financed through two types of instruments:
- On the one hand, geographic programmes that are articulated around development priorities defined for a specific country or region. They form the core of EU cooperation. These encompass the European Development Fund (in the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries), the Development Co-operation Instrument (in Latin America, Asia and South Africa), and the European Neighbourhoud & Partnership Instrument (in the neighbouring regions),
- On the other hand, the European Commission foresees thematic programmes. The thematic programmes are cross-cutting programmes that address a particular issue (eg, human rights and democracy, environment, civil society, asylum and migration, food security). Unlike geographic programsme, they do not require the consent of governments and other authorities of the partner country. These actions are subsidiary and complementary to those undertaken by geographic programmes. A specific Non State Actors and Local Authorities thematic programme is devoted to the support of NSAs and Local Authorities. NSAs are also supported by other thematic instruments and programmes, in particular the EIDHR.
- Civil society and local authorities are the prime beneficiaries of these tools and programmes, to which they are asked to participate by means of calls for proposals. Throughout the year, more than 300 calls for proposals are published by both the headquarters and the delegations of the EU based on geographic and thematic programmes available for each country. We recommend you regularly visit the publication site to identify calls that would meet your context: New calls for proposals.
For more specific information, visit the pages dedicated to civil society and local authorities.
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I am hoping that for the expansion we see all classes become equal in the amount of roles they have and the ability to use each of those roles. I don't want to see any class left with any excuse, real or imagined, why they should do better at any role than any other class.
I am hopeful the warrior class will get one soul completely changed to be a full fledged ranged soul. I am also hopeful they will get a new full support soul (If not a full heal soul; yes I read the dev post).
I am hopeful the mage class will get some form of a new tank soul rather it be to actually transform into one of there pets, use magic to turn to stone for armor and hp, or some other magic based tanking. Deflections and absorptions with either of those sound fun.
I am hopeful the cleric class will get another tank soul.
I am hopeful the rogue class will get another tank soul.
Most of all I am hopeful that Trion balances the roles between the classes, then balances the souls of all the classes in their respective roles so that any soul from any class in their chosen role can do just as good as any other class or soul in that respective role. The way it should be.
I am hopeful that after the expansion when you set your class's souls to perform DPS, Heals, or tank... No other class can say they are naturally better at that than your chosen class. | <urn:uuid:4fbb6ec3-7b3f-4197-a043-b3aa2b8ae0d9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forums.riftgame.com/rift-general-discussions/classes-telara/322261-equality-classes-my-hopes-expansion.html | 2013-05-19T13:17:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944199 | 297 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By G8 standards, Italy is a strange country. Put simply, it is a nation of octogenarian lawmakers elected by 70-year-old pensioners. Everyone else is inconsequential.
In the aptly titled A geriatric assault on Italy’s bloggers, Bernhard Warner from the Times Onlines rails against the proposed new law in Italy that would require require all bloggers, and even users of social networks, to register with the state.
As Bernhard goes on to note in a follow up post:
Blogs (not all blogs, I realise, but enough) serve a unique function in a civil society. When done well, they can be the eyes and ears of a community. If bloggers are doing their job, they introduce a fresh layer of accountability into a community. In such a place, there are no untouchables. The mayor, the football manager, the police chief, the local bank, they are all on notice. If they start abusing their position, a flag goes up and a blogger begins his reportage, alerting the community to an alleged transgression.
And yes, this runs both ways. Bloggers should be held as accountable for their words and actions, for things like fairness and accuracy and transparency, just as we do with the mayor and the football coach and the wrong-headed politician and his poorly conceived laws.
The problem here is this. Just as the US is berated for its human rights record under the Bush administration and any concern regarding the human rights record of governments in countries such as Sri Lanka as immediately and conveniently dismissed as hypocrisy, this proposed law vitiates media freedom worldwide by the perception it creates. The perception that a government in the EU can and will enact such legislation gives unnecessary wind to the parochial and downright dangerous plans of repressive governments in countries where civil liberties, human rights and the very timbre of democracy are highly suspect at best.
The reality may be that Italians while drown their sorrows in vino and ultimately have recourse to EU laws or just plain ignore the legislation, for the rest of us, this law sets a precedent that is terribly ominous should our governments decide to follow suit. | <urn:uuid:6be88673-08dc-4866-bf1c-98fa58e2bdf6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://ict4peace.wordpress.com/2007/10/26/italys-anal-approach-to-blogging/ | 2013-05-19T14:01:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959661 | 442 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Saturday was a perfect day to ride, and ride we did. Not knowing which way we wanted to go, we just played a quick game of spin the bottle... it decided we would head west.
We always seem to gravitate toward water when we ride, so as usual, we found ourselves riding down the small road that would lead us to Swift Creek on the Jones Bluff Reservoir. I was just puttin' along, taking in the spring scenery, the cows, the horses and the... WTF was that?
Harley and I went on past these out of place western creatures, but it's the first thing we said to each other when we stopped. "Did you see those buffalo?" We thought it very unusual to see a herd of them here in the sunny south. I told Harley I didn't even notice when we crossed the state line, much less get all the way out west! (Yes... he rolled his eyes too!)
When we left Jones Bluff, I wore the camera around my neck so I could be ready to take some pics of our new found western friends. If you look closely, you'll even see one of them getting ready to roll on the ground... must need a back scratch.
This may not seem pic worthy to some of you, but this is not a regular site for us. I guess you just never know what you'll see when you ride around this big beautiful state I call home. Come on down and see for yourself!
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via Whitney.org : Conversations on Art
Thur, July 12 at 7pm
Vision and Violence: William T. Vollmann and Richard Drew - Thu July 12, 2007
Culture and Conflict: Then and Now
A two-part series, in conjunction with Summer of Love, exploring cultural production in the shadow of turbulent politics, from 1967 to 2007.
Admission: $8; senior citizens and students with valid ID $6. All programs are free for members. Advance sales are strongly recommended as seating is limited. Tickets may be purchased by clicking on the link to the right. For Member reservations, email email@example.com. Inquiries: Email firstname.lastname@example.org or call (212) 570-7715. | <urn:uuid:46a260a3-d504-4ff0-ac40-ee438e39944f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2007/06/ | 2013-05-19T13:50:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.911707 | 161 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A friend pinged with with info about a patient community website he'd just found; Patients Like Me.
He'd found it very useful to exchange experiences and information with those with his condition. I had a look around the site and found thriving communities, including one for HIV/AIDS.
This took me right back to two decades ago (gulp) when the first internet responses to AIDS appeared. In the early 90s I edited a magazine which needed the latest research information. This, literally, came off the boat, so was several months old. So when I encountered the net it was with astonishment that all this info was there and brand new!
The info was pure text and basically a fairly unusable, certainly unsearchable, database interface. But it was astonishing.
What I was looking at was the AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS), which is now the world's largest Database of AIDS information. (The only resource larger is the U.S. National Library of Medicine, but it only offers some of its information on a website).
Since 1992, AEGiS has sought out scientific abstracts from local, regional and international AIDS conferences, related news, reports, and journal articles and compiled them a fully-indexed, cross-referenced and keywords searchable database.
The site is deliberately light on visuals that would make it difficult to access for those with slower computers.
It was originally started as a small electronic bulletin board system (BBS) by Jamie Jemison in 1986. Sister Mary Elizabeth Clark, a transsexual pioneer, and US Navy/US Army veteran took it over in 1990, inspired by meeting an isolated young man with AIDS in rural Missouri. Under her direction and tireless effort, the database grew and grew.
She worked 18-hour days from the living room of the mobile home she shared with her aging parents. It sits just across San Juan Creek near LA from the new 1,700-square-foot office, which Clark's 93-year-old father, Ed, happened upon and recommended for AEGiS just months before he died. They moved into that office only a few years ago.
AEGiS is nowadays funded by the US National Library of Medicine, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, John M Lloyd Foundation, Roche / Trimeris, and the Bridgestone/Firestone Trust.Sister Clark is one of my heroes, a real web pioneer and a true inspiration.
She's received many awards including the 'Award of Courage' from the American Foundation for AIDS Research, and the Human Rights Award from the International Assn. of Physicians in AIDS Care. AEGiS was nominated for U.N. honors in 1999, 2001 and 2003.
Another hero and inspiration is epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani.
HIV/AIDS work is very political, including in affected communities, and that slants priorities and funding.
A good example would be the lack of promotion for many years of a 'negative' status for gay men - it was seen as somehow undermining HIV+ gay men. I suffered a lot of grief for that view when I worked in the area.
Pisani talks a lot of sense on these sorts of topics:
The problem, Pisani says, is that 80% of the Pepfar (Bush's AIDS initiative) budget goes on treatment. "Pepfar says great, we've got 1.8 million people in treatment. And next year it will be another 1.8 million! That will mean 3.6 million people. It's exponential - and that's the biggest question mark over the entire approach to Africa. The more treatment you have, the more infection you get.""Is not a picnic" is putting it mildly, you can expect to live around 25 years on ARVs. It makes me despair that so many young gay men are condemning themselves to shorter lives without a single clue that this is what they're doing by ignoring the condoms. Plus the government is cutting back on preventions spend.
ARVs [antiretroviral drugs] reduce people's viral load, she agrees, making them less likely to infect someone else - as long as they don't miss a single dose. "But it also keeps them alive longer, and healthy enough to want to have sex. You only have to look at the experience of the UK or US gay communities where we've had more or less universal access to ARVs for at least eight or nine years, and the number of new infections are rising. More people are living longer with HIV, and there is what we call behavioural disinhibition: 'Fuck the condoms, I don't need them any more, because if he's positive he'll be on drugs, so he probably won't infect me. And if I do get infected, it would be annoying, but not the end of the world.'
"But having Aids is not a picnic. Yes, it's great that all this stuff on treatment is happening. But it becomes all the more urgent to have effective prevention. And that's not happening."
Pisani did a few interviews in the UK last month for her brilliant book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS.
On News24's HardTalk, professional dick Stephen Sackur spent a lot of time quizzing her about 'mafia connections'.
- You can watch the interview here (23 minutes, RealVideo)
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6 Officers With Arlen Defer Pay; 50% Is Held 3 Months Could Save $250,000
By ISADORE BARMASH ();
July 13, 1979,
, Section Business & Finance, Page D1, Column , words
The Arlen Realty and Development Corporation, which lost $129 million in its last fiscal year, disclosed yesterday that six of its top executives had agreed to a deferral of an average 50 percent of their salaries over the next three months to conserve the company's cash. | <urn:uuid:b12d55f6-2085-4534-9d7d-eac1465ca8c1> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A10F73A5E177B8EDDAA0994DF405B898BF1D3 | 2013-05-19T13:36:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952027 | 105 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BECKER NOW ADMITS HE'S THE MURDERER; Describes His Crime at the Scene of the Killing of the Staffeldt Girl. GLAD I'VE TOLD," HE SAYS Police Corroborating Every Part of His Story -- Mrs. Simonson Identifies the Prisoner. BECKER NOW ADMITS HE'S THE MURDERER
Henry Becker confessed yesterday that it was he who murdered 15-year-old Amelia Charlotte Staffeldt on Wednesday afternoon. He accompanied detectives to the scene of the crime, the grassy knoll at Broadway and Baxter Avenue, Elmhurst, L.I., on what is known as the old Seitz farm, and there described how he killed the girl. After his confession Becker said he was glad he had told the truth. | <urn:uuid:90c88e33-a149-41f7-895d-5f60f36252a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20811FB355417738DDDAE0A94DD405B878CF1D3 | 2013-05-19T13:28:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956031 | 169 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Complex DB solutions are not rare nowadays, so I have an idea to deploy a SQL "sandbox" for staff training before real projects come. Mainly I interested in 2 things to have: Oracle 11+ DB instance. ...
Could you please suggest some non-trivial web forms for test case preparation training? The form should concern different field validation warnings, number autocomplete, dynamic fields, etc. Nice ... | <urn:uuid:7a141b5a-ef2d-4e85-8e88-a52d156af7c7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/training+manual-testing | 2013-05-19T13:50:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.885268 | 87 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
An extremity vascular injury can result in bleeding and lack of blood flow beyond the site of vessel disruption may cause loss of limb. When life threatening situations happen in austere conditions, it may be impossible to repair a vessel. However, it is possible in austere conditions to use a temporary vascular shunt to make a temporary repair.
In the case of an injury, it would be possible to place a temporary vascular shunt in the uninjured segments of the vessel above and below the disruption to restore blood flow until conditions improve. At that time, the shunt could be removed and the repair performed. The problem is that current shunts were designed by vascular and neurosurgeons for use in age related vascular disease and they are not used for injuries.
The Air Force has developed a trauma-specific vascular injury shunt (TS-VIS) which could help manage extremity vascular injuries. The device was designed by combat surgeons and military researchers to enable TS-VIS to be used in civilian situations and in war zones. TS-VIS is able to adapt to the unique needs of patients and allows for the infusion of therapeutic or contract agents into the injured limb.
Systematic preclinical studies have been published in peer-reviewed journals that demonstrate the efficacy and safety of this specific vascular injury shunt. At this time, the Air Force is looking for licensing and commercialization development partners for the vascular injury shunt. A provisional patent has been filed.
For more information email Dan Swanson at email@example.com or call (406) 994-7736 or email Darin Oelkers at firstname.lastname@example.org or call (406) 994-7723. | <urn:uuid:60fee6a5-1cdf-4aee-8aa3-8e868db1dc9b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://telemedicinenews.blogspot.com/2011/07/technology-opportunity.html | 2013-05-19T13:36:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933183 | 343 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
A Call for Action
November 17, 2008 Leave a comment
The Group of Twenty (“G-20″) met in Washington, DC on Saturday to jointly develop action plans to address the growing economic crisis sweeping the globe. A need for greater transparency and accountability in our financial markets served as the primary theme for the meeting. The result of their discussion was a strong declaration regarding the root causes of the problems we are facing and recommended actions to remedy the situation. One of their action plans focused squarely on risk management. Below are the related risk management actions to be taken by the end of March 31, 2009.
- Regulators should develop enhanced guidance to strengthen banks’ risk management practices, in line with international best practices, and should encourage financial firms to reexamine their internal controls and implement strengthened policies for sound risk management.
- Regulators should develop and implement procedures to ensure that financial firms implement policies to better manage liquidity risk, including by creating strong liquidity cushions.
- Supervisors should ensure that financial firms develop processes that provide for timely and comprehensive measurement of risk concentrations and large counterparty risk positions across products and geographies.
- Firms should reassess their risk management models to guard against stress and report to supervisors on their efforts.
- The Basel Committee should study the need for and help develop firms’ new stress testing models, as appropriate.
- Financial institutions should have clear internal incentives to promote stability, and action needs to be taken, through voluntary effort or regulatory action, to avoid compensation schemes which reward excessive short-term returns or risk taking.
- Banks should exercise effective risk management and due diligence over structured products and securitization.
A great deal of work will be required to properly address these recommendations. However, the end result will be a much stronger global economy. Wheelhouse Advisors can help your company quickly assess its risk & control programs and provide cost-effective solutions to the recommended actions. Visit our website at www.WheelhouseAdvisors.com to learn more. | <urn:uuid:82c7a96e-568d-48a0-a1a4-18f17b7d46a3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wheelhouseadvisors.com/2008/11/17/a-call-for-action/ | 2013-05-19T13:51:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939886 | 412 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
MP3 Key Changer 18.104.22.168
This software lets you change the key and/or the tempo of mp3s and wav files
Server 1 Afreecodec
You and your kids can use computer keyboard to play musical instruments.
Browse, play, and print keyboard chord positions.
Midi piano compatible with all midi sequencers, with intellectual polyphony!
Direct MIDI to MP3 Converter render and converts MIDI to MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG.
Convert MIDI to MP3, Convert MID to WAV, Midi to MP3 Converter, midi to wav | <urn:uuid:b74c3dcb-8e73-48f0-8ac2-eb32981f8335> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.afreecodec.com/windows/mp3-key-changer-download-1561.html | 2013-05-19T13:45:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.706811 | 135 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I hate to say this, but I still haven't forgiven the LA Dodgers for the 1988 World Series, and I probably never will. Even with the amusements of Manny Ramirez and the "what might have beens" of Andre Ethier, I'm not exactly throwing on the powder blues and planning for a night out at Chavez Ravine. But the Dodgers went from being a forgotten team in a horrible division prior to the All-Star Break to a high-octane contender, powered by Manny and his amazing dreadlocks. Now, they're assumed to have the momentum, despite having finished the '08 regular season with a record eight games worse than the Phillies.
As for the Phils, they come from a franchise that had a great 1980, and ... well, that's almost it. A Joe Carter home run doomed their last memorable playoff appearance, and you better believe Bud Selig is praying they don't make it to the Big Show this year, eliminating LA as a media market. But not us. We're hoping Joe Blanton and company get their shot (against the Rays, of course). Game 1 is in the hands of Cole Hamels, who will be facing off against Derek Lowe, who I don't recall being all that fond of during his time at Fenway. Game time is 5:22 Pacific.
10/09/08 5:22 PM PDT
|Los Angeles Dodgers||Philadelphia Phillies|
|Rafael Furcal - SS||Jimmy Rollins - SS|
|Andre Ethier - RF||Shane Victorino - CF|
|Manny Ramirez - LF||Chase Utley - 2B|
|Russell Martin - C||Ryan Howard - 1B|
|James Loney - 1B||Pat Burrell - LF|
|Matt Kemp - CF||Jayson Werth - RF|
|Casey Blake - 3B||Pedro Feliz - 3B|
|Blake DeWitt - 2B||Carlos Ruiz - C|
|Derek Lowe - P||Cole Hamels - P| | <urn:uuid:12dac5ca-5efe-4686-887e-20454def3744> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.athleticsnation.com/2008/10/9/631990/open-game-thread-nlcs-dodg | 2013-05-19T13:37:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368697552127/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516094552-00050-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941123 | 425 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |