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Marco Rubio tweets that GOP didn't support Social Security changes
The fiscal cliff negotiations are now over, but while they were happening, there were lots of accusations and finger-pointing.
President Barack Obama and Senate Republicans finally struck a deal early in the morning on New Year's Day to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, with senators voting 89-8 in favor. But a much-talked about Florida senator with presidential aspirations voted no: Marco Rubio.
Amid home stretch negotiations, Rubio took to the online messaging service Twitter to tell people what was happening. On the afternoon of Sunday, Dec. 30, he tweeted: "Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."
The next day, liberal columnist Paul Krugman said Rubio lied about the negotiations, and that "numerous reports tell us that McConnell did in fact make precisely that demand," referring to the Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
Krugman concluded that Rubio's words revealed that a "grand bargain" between the two parties just won't work: "You can't make big deals with a totally untrustworthy negotiating partner," he said.
We decided to sort out the controversy by investigating Rubio's claim that the GOP did not insist on changes to Social Security as part of the fiscal cliff, and whether Obama actually supported those changes.
Chained CPI
The final days of fiscal cliff negotiations hit a roadblock amid a controversy about something called "chained CPI," which would reduce future spending on Social Security for seniors.
Most years, seniors get cost-of-living adjustments that slightly increase their monthly Social Security payments. If chained CPI were adopted, the increases would be smaller.
What is chained CPI? The CPI stands for "consumer price index," and it would be a new method for calculating cost-of-living increases for Social Security. Chained CPI accounts for how people change their behavior when costs go up: So if the price of pasta goes up, you might buy cheaper rice instead.
Supporters of chained CPI say it's a way to reduce Social Security spending without making major changes to the program. Opponents say it's essentially a reduction in Social Security payments that hits many seniors who are barely getting by.
Although painful for politicians clamoring for the senior vote, switching to chained CPI has drawn support from many economists and experts. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform included the idea in its recommendations. The conservative Heritage Foundation has endorsed chained CPI and the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, has shown support for it under certain conditions, if it includes a modest benefit increase.
Obama's view on chained CPI
Switching to chained CPI isn't a new concept. The Washington Post reported that Obama "tentatively embraced" chained CPI during 2011 negotiations with House Republicans on the debt ceiling.
But many Democrats -- including Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and the AARP pushed back. When Obama released his deficit-reduction plan in September 2011 a year before he would face voters, it did not include the change.
But post-election, as Obama wanted to avoid going over the fiscal cliff, he again seemed open to switching inflation measures. In mid-December, Obama reportedly agreed to chained CPI, angering some in his own party.
Obama spoke about his chained CPI proposal on Meet the Press on Dec. 30, noting that it was not popular with Democrats or the AARP: "But in pursuit of strengthening Social Security for the long-term I'm willing to make those decisions. What I'm not willing to do is to have the entire burden of deficit reduction rest on the shoulders of seniors, making students pay higher student loan rates, ruining our capacity to invest in things like basic research that help our economy grow. Those are the things that I'm not willing to do...."
So Obama supported chained CPI as a concession he was willing to make in order to get Republicans to make concessions on things Obama wanted. (We contacted the White House for additional comment on this point and did not get a response.)
So was chained CPI part of negotiations?
During the final weekend of backroom negotiations on the fiscal cliff, multiple news reports said that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell included the chained CPI in an offer. The Los Angeles Times wrote that McConnell included it in his proposal on the evening of Saturday, Dec. 29 -- and it appeared to unravel within 24 hours.
The reports we read -- in both liberal and conservative media -- said Democrats were bashing the proposal, while some said Republicans were "insisting" or "demanding" that chained CPI be included.
At some point Sunday afternoon, though, Republicans dropped their demands for the Social Security change.
The timing of those news reports were around the same time as Rubio's afternoon tweet. Republicans appeared to be in damage-control mode about the suggestion that they would be reducing grannies' Social Security checks in favor of lower taxes for the wealthy.
A reporter asked Sen. John McCain why McConnell made the proposal if Republicans were against it. McCain, R-Ariz., responded bluntly: "Damned if I know."
McCain said changes to Social Security would be a political loser for Republicans since the deal at hand was mostly about taxes.
"It's a very bad, losing proposition," McCain said. "What (Democrats) are saying now is, 'Republicans want to preserve tax breaks for rich people and give up seniors' Social Security.' That's the argument they're using. Now whether it's valid or not, it's a winning argument. It should be off the table. And I think most Republicans believe it should be off the table."
Rubio's explanation
Multiple news reports said that McConnell proposed chained CPI but that Republicans revolted and immediately squashed the idea. So why did Rubio tweet that "Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false"?
Rubio spokesman Alex Conant told PolitiFact in an email: "Marco's tweet is 100% true. It was something that Republican leaders had sought, but never insisted on, and it was obviously not part of the final agreement (which Marco voted against because it failed to grow the economy or address spending). I'm honestly surprised that something so obviously true would warrant a fact-check from you guys."
Our ruling
On Dec. 30, two days before Rubio voted against the fiscal cliff package, he tweeted: "Report that #GOP insisting on changes to Social Security as part of #fiscalcliff false. BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama."
Actually, Republicans had asked for the changes earlier in the negotiations, but dropped the demand later when they decided it was a political loser. Rubio's tweet did not make it clear that GOP leadership did pursue the Social Security change, at least for a time.
Rubio also stated "BTW those changes are supported by @barackobama." Obama has shown a willingness to use chained CPI as one ingredient in deficit reduction, though he acknowledges that it isn't popular with seniors or his own party. Obama has also said it was a concession he was willing to offer as part of a deal where both sides would compromise to reduce the deficit.
We rate Rubio's claim Half True.


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There is a lot of research going on into clouds these days. At one level, we have New York architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, who are experimenting with a prototype building that could look like a cloud: something that they hope to have working in time for the opening of Expo Switzerland 2002. By then, if all has gone well, their Blur Building, as it is known, will be hovering over the waters of Lake Neuchatel, disgorging and receiving visitors through its own artificially generated murk. Or at least it would be hovering inscrutably if it were not for a few technical hitches that need to be cleared up, and what might be a long-term threat to clouds in general posed by the activities of a certain Peter Cordani in Florida.
Cordani runs a cloud-seeding business, and has just developed a substance called Dyn-O-Gel that, far from creating clouds, actually makes them disappear.
In an experiment reported in the New Scientist last July, some 4 tonnes of Cordani's Dyn-O-Gel was dropped from a military aircraft onto a storm cloud, 1,500m long by 3,900m high, over Palm Beach International Airport. It caused the cloud to vanish from radar screens and deposit itself on the ground as a harmless gel.
Any residue falling on water dissolved immediately and the rest fell biodegradably on land.
Thus, even as Diller and Scofidio struggle to make clouds for aesthetic purposes, using not only pumps and an array of thousands of pipes and nozzles and, it must be emphasised, a large grant from the MacArthur Foundation - the first ever awarded to an architect simply for being a genius - Cordani - who is no academic, holding only a tenured position in the great university of life - is moving ahead by leaps and bounds in the opposite direction.
Daily he discovers more and more commercial applications for his magic powder, which is not only capable of absorbing 2,000 times its own weight in water, but holds promise of one day disarming the rain-laden hurricanes that bear down so ominously on the Florida peninsula.
If Dyn-O-Gel can be seen as the anti-cloud of matter, Blur Building is the apogee of philosophical obscurity. 'To blur is to make vague, to obfuscate, ' the New York Times reported Diller explaining of the project recently. 'In our visuallyobsessed, high-definition culture, blur is equated with loss.'
This state of affairs is clearly wrong, so, to compensate for the loss of definition caused by her battery of 12,500 fog nozzles, she and her partner propose to allow 400 visitors at a time to enter their 90m-long fog-cloud at Expo '02, all of them wearing special, socalled 'braincoats' programmed to reflect their personal likes and dislikes. Perhaps a trifle predictably, these 'braincoats' will glow red when approached by another 'braincoat' wearer with similar ideas.
Cloud studies today run the gamut, from the manufacture of obscurity - on a scale not attempted since the use of smoke-generation during the Second World War to hide targets from bombers, through the destruction of rain-bearing cloud cover by chemical means - to the use of artificial clouds as a backdrop to a new kind of dating agency.
Confronted with such energy, ingenuity and variety, the simple question of what will be left for architects to design when facades disappear and even the blur of enamel frits on glass is denied them seems to have been left behind.
Perhaps the best that can be expected is an end to the interminable wrangling about elevational details and height limits that wears down so many projects at the hands of statutory and advisory bodies.
Clouds, after all, are amorphous. What you get is not what you see at all.
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Intel targeted in sophisticated hacking attack
Intel has revealed that just as Google was being targeted by hackers last month it was also being attacked although it is not relating the incidents.
The vendor revealed the attack in a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission but it stressed that it is often the target of malicious attempts to gain access to information and company systems.
"We regularly face attempts by others to gain unauthorized access through the Internet to our information technology systems by, for example, masquerading as authorized users or surreptitious introduction of software," stated the vendor in its SEC Form-10k Annual report.
"These attempts, which might be the result of industrial or other espionage, or actions by hackers seeking to harm the company, its products, or end users, are sometimes successful," it added.
"One recent and sophisticated incident occurred in January 2010 around the same time as the recently publicized security incident reported by Google," the filing stated.
The word "sophisticated" will have echoes of the Google attack whichwas described by the CEO of McAfee to MicroScope as one of the mostsophisticated his company had ever seen using various attack vectors totry and get through the search giant's defences.
The latest admission by In tel will raise concerns, which areincreasingly being voiced in vendor reports about the state of thesecurity market, that government backed commercial hacking is nowbecoming a source of real danger for companies.
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Create a haven for migratory birds
Birds are more than beautiful visitors to your lawn and garden. They are also an important component of a healthy local ecosystem.
Here are a few simple steps to keep birds safe.
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Many birds will simply be using your yard as a rest stop on a long migration. Bushes and trees with berries are bird magnets. Robins, for example, adore berries, as do migratory hermit thrushes. Keep this in mind, and fill your yard with native species of trees, shrubs and flowers to provide shelter and food.
Removing invasives is part of going natural. Learn to identify and eradicate invasives at Montpelier Mansion's invasive plant-removal workday October 22 at 10am (301-377-7817; History.pgparks.com). You'll enjoy the beauty of Montpelier's landscape while helping to protect it and learning from park naturalists how to apply the skills to your own yard and garden.
Promote a natural food source for birds by avoiding the use of pesticides and fertilizers that kill off the insects that birds need to thrive.
Set out a variety of foods and feeders to attract a wide array of birds. Feeders keep foods high and dry. Basic types are tray or platform feeders, food-dispensing hoppers and tube feeders. Favorite commercial foods include corn, millet, Nyjer, peanuts, safflower, black-oil sunflower seeds, and suet. Add nuts, fruit and mealworms to the menu, too. Fresh, clean water — and only plain water — is essential. Birds love heated birdbaths in winter. Practice good hygiene: Regularly clean feeders, feeding sites and birdbaths.
Prevent Bird Strikes
Ideally, bird feeders should be located within three feet of a window or more than 30 feet from a window.
Ninety-eight million birds are killed annually in the U.S. when colliding with windows, according to Western EcoSystems Technology estimates. Stem the loss of life by exploiting the keen vision of birds.
"When windows are visible to birds, they will enjoy a safer migration," says Spencer Schock. His company, WindowAlert, makes decals and UV Liquid that effectively prevent window strikes.
An easy fall project is applying these decals and UV Liquid, which create a visual barrier for birds. The ultraviolet reflective coating looks like etched glass to humans but is quite visible to birds. Find more best practices at windowalert.com.
Birds and Cats Don't Mix
Pet cats can prove hazardous to birds. Keep cats inside or monitor their time outdoors to prevent attacks. For shelter for feeding birds, provide shrubs, trees and brush piles.


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narch creates "architecture of four seasons" in a family house in Barcelona
Spain Architecture News - Dec 28, 2018 - 04:20 6770 views
Barcelona-based architecture firm narch has completed a family house in a small village of Calders, offering an "architecture of four seasons" with its slender columns and sliding floor-to-ceiling windows.
Called Calders House, the two-storey house, located in Calders, was designed for a couple who have two children. The 240-square-metre house makes its every corner and space usable for the owners.
The house is situated on a site at the end of the village overlooking the natural park of "Sant Llorenç del Munt i l´Obac". The client requested to include an office, common living space, three private rooms, two bathrooms and a garage in the project brief. On this bases, the architects created an open plan for changeable functions through the time.
The house is situated on the plot that has a slope of one floor. "All the houses of the neighbourhood have the garage in the ground floor next to the garden and the living space area in the upper floors," said the architects.
"Our decision was to make the opposite. We placed the garage and the studio in the upper floor at the level of the street and the common living area and rooms in the ground floor in order to connect them with the garden."
The architects provides the acces through the garage which is used as a garden, a porch, a flexible in-between space. They designed a double-height for the living and dining areas that are opened onto the garden and the natural park.
A steel staircase in white match the flooring on the lower level. The staircase is flanked by wires to accentuate the lightweight airy feeling you get from being height up with a view down to the rest of the house.
"This is a house with a very small budget but with open-minded clients. We wanted to create "just a roof". The house is a "bay window", designed to draw the eye from even the most breathtaking landscape," added the firm.
In order to emphasize the natural environment, the architects created a structure of concrete horizontal slabs with columns of steel H-sections of 120mmx120mm to create a building with no walls. The structure defines the form of the house. The building was completed in two years and its overall cost was €215,000 to build.
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Since when are Mexican immigrants terrorists?
David Neiwert has a couple of really fantastic posts up now. This one is about how certain Republicans are using the war on terrorism to implement anti-immigration policies aimed more at intimidating Mexican immigrants, particularly illegal immigrants. (Read the other one he posted yesterday about a fascist-style censorship flare-up in a New Mexican high school, it's also fantastic.)
I grew up in West Texas and I can tell you that there is some outstandingly unchecked racism against Mexicans, particularly recent immigrants, growing out in the Southwest. Of course, everyone there who expresses racist sentiments will immediately backtrack and say that they don't hate all Hispanics, they just have a problem with the ones who come over here and won't learn English. That other people can't or won't speak English is a problem of unparalleled significance, to hear some people talk about it. Neiwert addresses this, rather wittily:
Students of history are familiar with these complaints, since they have been leveled against virtually every group of immigrants to come to the United States. Of course, the language complaint also bespeaks a peculiarly American bit of unthinking arrogance about other languages; Americans are possibly the only people on Earth who are positively insulted that people from other nations have failed to learn how to speak English.
It's true. If you want a laugh, go to El Paso and watch white people's reactions whenever they hear people conversing with each other in Spanish out in public. How dare they speak to each other about things that aren't my business in a language I don't understand! The belief that in America, people should be speaking English all the time everywhere they go has been around long enough that in El Paso, at least, there are a number of complex assumptions that go with it.
* Whenever someone is defending this belief, they will trot out the cliche, "If I was going to move to Germany (or France or whatever, but very rarely Mexico for some reason), I would learn their language." I hear this all the time from people who clearly haven't given it a moment's thought. Yes, it makes sense to learn, say, German if you are going to live in Germany. Of course, in El Paso there is a huge army base filled to the brim with soliders who have been stationed in Germany, some for years. And many of those soliders brought their children over to Germany to enroll them in school there, but only in the English-speaking schools on the American bases. Very, very few people I know of who were stationed in Germany, even for long periods of time, learned a lick of German. But strangely, you never hear the "if you live there learn it" crowd chewing those soliders out for this.
* It's assumed that if you hear someone speaking Spanish, they don't know English, regardless of the situation. And it's beginning to go the other way, where many people hear someone speaking English and they assume that they don't know Spanish. This attitude always amazes me, because El Paso probably has one of the highest percentages of bilingual citizens of anywhere in the country.
* There's a hierarchy of languages. If someone hears two people, particularly two women, speaking Spanish to each other, they will get the disgusted. If someone walks up to a clerk in a store and explains in halting English that they don't really know English and could a Spanish-speaking clerk help them, they often get hostile treatment. But if this situation occurs with an uncommon language like French or German, it's rare that someone gets upset.
* If someone doesn't know English and only knows Spanish, it's assumed that they must be a lazy immigrant. That many people out shopping on a Saturday in El Paso actually live in Juarez and therefore have no real need to learn English is ignored. I know of no one who feels the compulsion to learn Spanish so that they can go shopping in Juarez, though everyone does go shopping in Juarez.
Well, the language thing is kinda funny, if unfortunate. But this whole military build-up on the border is a serious situation. It can only escalate an already hostile-ish border situation. I don't know why anyone thinks that's a good idea.


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Last week, we discussed the ways that I cut my monthly bills to reduce my expenses as I geared up to take on an additional unexpected expense. This week I want to talk about three apps that I've downloaded this year that have helped me save, track my spending, and even invest.
The first app and possibly my favorite is Mint. I have actually been religiously using Mint for about two years now and for the last six months had been using the newly discovered Mint Bills; where you can put in all of your bill payments, they're due date and get reminders or even pay bills directly from the app. Just this month, they discontinued the Mint Bills apps and added the feature to the original Mint platform. So if you are new to Mint, you won't need an additional app to get the same great features. Mint is pretty much an app that links all of your bank accounts to track your spending and saving. When I tell people about Mint for the first time, they often times get really weirded out about giving up their bank account information to a random app, but not me #thuglife. I have NEVER had even ONE problem, but I can't exactly promise the app is 100% save ( I can only use bold print to show my conviction), so track at your own risk.
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Thanks! I love jersey dresses, they are so comfy!Delete
Cute! This will be great with a jean jacket come fall too.
I've worn it with a cardigan before, a jean jacket is a great idea! Thanks!Delete
I am PRO-scarves year round! But that may also be because I have an obnoxious amount of them ;) haha you look fabulous! Love your hair like that!
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I have to actively not buy more scarves! They are so addicting! Thank you!Delete
I love scarves! They turn a casual 'meh' outfit into something zinging, I always have one in my purse!
I agree! I have way too many of them! Good idea to keep one in your purse, might have to do that!Delete
Scarves really are one of the best accessories (plus there's so many different kinds, and so many different ways to tie them, so they never get boring)! I love this look. :)ReplyDelete
And it's great you can use them to cover spots from little ones ;)Delete


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Let's start with the Gladiolus finish that I promised a picture of yesterday. Pattern by Ellenn Maurer-Stroh from her Flower of the Month series, done on 28 count Quaker cloth with DMC threads.
Here is the finished pillow for Jennifer's grad, with a back view below. The tassel is done in U.Vic. colours which are blue, red and gold.
And here is the finished pillow for Katherine. Again, the tassel is done in U.B.C. colours which are blue and grey.
Both these pillows were sewn by my craft partner Cynthia and she did such a fantastic job with both. I could not be more thrilled with how they look. She is the most awesome seamstress. A lot of the stitching was done by hand so she could make the front seams as invisible as possible.
On a Girdle
That which her slender waist confined,
Shall now my joyful temples bind;
No monarch but would give his crown,
His arms might do what this has done.
It was my heaven's extremest sphere,
The pale which held that lovely deer;
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair!
Give me but what this riband bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round!
Edmund Waller
1606 - 1687
Note: in the 1600s a girdle was a belt or sash, not a garment that shaped the figure.


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This evenings I was lookings up the weathers forecasterings for the nexts coupler of days and after seeings that it looks likers it going to rainers untils Wednesdays I was feelings a littlers bit boreds.
At leasts I was feelings a littlers bit boreds until there was a dingdonger froms the hotel rooms bell!
When I openereds up the door, I was tolds that someone callereds Wage had sendereds me a specials deliveries via room servicers, and the man leavereds a silvers platter with a biggers lid on tops of it insides my rooms for me.
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The Arts Curriculum
At Hungerford Primary Academy, we believe that art gives us unlimited opportunities to further stimulate creativity and imagination in children. Through the disciplines of drawing, painting, designing and making, our children will acquire important communication and making skills that significantly contribute to their learning in other areas of the primary school curriculum.
Aims and Scope
- To introduce children to a wide range of tools and techniques to enable them to record from observation, experience and imagination.
- To provide children with a variety of starting points for their own work.
- To improve children's awareness of visual and tactile elements of art and design, and to develop their understanding of: Line, Colour, Form, Texture, Printing and Pattern.
- To teach children about the differences and similarities of: Artists, Designers and Craftmakers from different cultures and time periods.
- The ability to reflect on, analyse and critically evaluate their own work and that of others.
At Hungerford, we understand that music is a unique form of communication that can influence the way pupils feel, think and act, and enables personal expression. The teaching of music can aid in developing pupils' ability to appreciate a variety of music and make judgements about musical quality. It encourages active involvement in different forms of music making, both individually and in groups, developing a sense of group identity.
Aims and Scope
- To develop a rapidly widening repertoire which children use to create original, imaginative, fluent and distinctive composing and performance work.
- To enable a very good awareness and appreciation of different musical traditions and genres.
- To participate with enjoyment in the activities of: Performing, Composing, Listening and Appraising.
- To develop an understanding of: Pitch, Duration, Dynamics, Tempo, Timbre and Texture.
Teaching Arrangements
The Arts are regularly taught by the class teacher in accordance with the Primary National Curriculum through whole class, group and individual activities. Music is taught alongside the Charanga Music Programme, using their flexible and entertaining scheme of work.
We recognise the importance of providing effective learning opportunities for all pupils to achieve within The Arts. We aim to set suitable learning challenges, respond to pupil's diverse learning needs and overcome potential barriers to learning for individuals and groups of pupils in accordance with Hungerford Primary Academy's inclusion policy.
Please view our Arts subject policy.
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04 Jun 2016
'You can do anything, but not everything.' David Allen
Schools are complex places. We can find ourselves too stretched to think, overworked and under-utilised, busy but not productive. So it is worth considering the ideas within Essentialism[1]. Developed by Greg McKeown, he makes the case for the disciplined pursuit of less and for doing fewer things, really well. This is the basic proposition: 'when we give ourselves permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, we can make our highest contribution towards the things that really matter.'
Essentialism makes the case for 'less but better'. This means pursuing fewer things in a disciplined way. It means constantly asking 'Am I investing in the right activities?' It is not about how to get more things done; it's about how to get the right things done. 'It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either, it's about making the wisest possible investment of time and energy so that we can operate at out highest point of contribution by only doing what is essential.'
We need to stop asking ourselves, 'How can I make it all work' and starting asking the bigger question 'Which problem do I want to solve?' If we commit to giving our energy to and investing in fewer activities, we have the satisfying experience of making significant progress in the things that matter most. When we deliberately distinguish the vital few from the trivial many, eliminate the non-essentials and remove obstacles, the essential things have a clear, smooth passage.
When we lose the ability to filter what is important and what is not, psychologists call it 'decision fatigue'. The myth that we can have it all leads, for example, to meetings which have as many as ten 'top priorities' discussed. We need to be clear about what the priority is versus many 'priorities'.
To eliminate non-essentials means saying 'no'. Often. And to do it well requires courage and compassion and to keep at the front of our minds 'I can do anything but not everything'. Essentialism analyses the work of Joseph Moses Juran who created the Quality Control Handbook. Juran argued that we can massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the key problems. He worked in companies where a high percentage of effort and attention was channelled towards improving just those few things that were truly vital. By distinguishing the trivial many from the vital, by distinguishing what is truly important from everything else, Juran made the phrase 'made in Japan' take on a totally new meaning.
One of the places to start is with a school's mission statement and ask ourselves whether it provides a clear sense of purpose. Many are vague, generic and inflated. So we need to ask ourselves whether our teams are 'sort of clear' or 'really clear' about our core purpose? How is this lived out in the daily life of the school? Can all teachers, support staff including lunch time helpers and cleaners say what the school's vision is, in their own words?
'Essentialism' argues that we should be determining the 'essential intent' - inspirational and concrete, both meaningful and measurable. For example, Martha Lane Fox Digital Champion and her team agreed that their vision should be: 'To get everyone in the UK online by the end of 2012'. Now, the fact is, not everyone in the UK was online by the end of 2012. However, the clarity of the Digital Champion's mission meant it was clear whether they had met this goal or not. It could be argued that the simplicity and urgency of this message meant that everyone in the UK will be on line, sooner rather than later.
If we could be truly excellent at one thing, what would it be? While we might not get there in a precise timescale: not everyone is online in the UK, yet. But it does provide great clarity about the purpose of the piece of work. It is very clear when the work is done and similarly any mission statement or school development plan should make it very clear whether we have got there or not.
Essentialisam also shows how 'reverse pilot' might work. This means testing whether removing an activity will actually make any difference. Thinking about the papers that are prepared for meetings, which of these could be used for different purposes? For example, the main item on the agenda for governors' meetings could be the school's self evaluation and the development plant - this could replace the head teacher's report to governors. In schools which have done this, there is greater clarity and focus in these meetings.
We need to ask ourselves which problem do I want? Which is the one which is going to have most traction? Which one will improve results, and feed into all other areas of a school's life? Consider the power of extreme criteria so that when asked whether a member of staff is able to name the top three priorities for school improvement we don't have the following response: 'In our school we have 21! There is no clear plan of how to tackle each, they are just objectives on list. Many overlap and have no owner or target date'.
Linked to this, is the ability to clarify the one decision that makes a thousand. What are we going to pursue and what are we going to say no to? We need to be thinking about whether we can subtract anything which is not contributing to the core business. In schools which have adopted essentialism principles, their school development plans describe no more than three overarching priorities. Because they know that otherwise colleagues will not be able to keep focus on the main things which need to be done.
In these schools, the meetings, whether whole staff meetings, subject or faculty meetings have the three priorities as the core agenda items. There is simplicity and power in returning to the main things we are working on. People working in schools where there is this clarity, report not only greater focus, but a sense of security in that the main item is the main item for improvement and that they are clear what their contribution needs to be.
In these schools, leaders are checking on a regular basis that these are translated in to daily practice. They do this for example, by using the lines of accountability through governing body meetings, and performance management discussions which focus on the extent to which the key priorities are being met. And in doing this, they hold themselves to account, first and foremost. They never, ever use simplicity as a stick to beat people with.
Priorities need to be explicit, for example if the priority is to improve outcomes for pupils who have pupil premium funding, they might be expressed on the following lines: 'we will improve the outcomes for this group by making sure that they are using technical language in full sentences in lessons. We are pursuing this because our understanding of the research on improving outcomes for all, and in particular for this group of students is their ability to use subject specific language accurately and with confidence.'
In this example, where 'technical language, used by all' becomes the priority, this is expressed in the school development plan, in faculty plans, or key stage plans. It becomes the subject of staff, departmental and leadership meetings. What are we doing as a school to support our ambition of 'technical language, used by all'? In some schools which have taken this line, every subject in secondary and every year in primary has agreed on the key terms which will be taught, revisited, checked for understanding, monitored and celebrated. They make sure that it is not a vague aspiration, but something concrete which can be discussed, checked, moderated and evidenced.
In a primary context, where the priority has been identified as engendering pleasure in reading, this is what one school has done. They had identified that pupils were not showing sufficient pleasure in reading. They knew this from information both internally and from external tests at the end of key stage two where the outcomes were lower than in mathematics. They knew that the basics were covered, but that more needed to be done to raise standards. They also referred to the national curriculum for English[2] at key stage two where it says should be taught to: 'develop positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what they read.' They had also carried out surveys which children which showed that this aspect could be improved. So, the priority became: to ensure that all our pupils enjoy reading. How to make this quantifiable? Well, there are a number of ways. First, if the priority was successful, results over time would improve so that they were in line with the mathematics. Second, pupils would self-report that they were enjoying reading. Third, observations from teachers and other staff would show that pupils were enjoying reading more. Fourth, their written work would show greater depth and complexity. Fifth, parents and carers would report that their children were enjoying reading.
For this school, leaders has translated the priority was translated into: 'We will read with our children, every day, as a whole class, with a class reader. We will show our enjoyment of reading as we share stories with children.' In this way, the priority is translated into something concrete – a daily activity designed to improve this aspect of learning; and something which can be measured both qualitatively and quantitatively. And for one school, in making this its ambition, they knew that they couldn't do everything. So they made the reading session, every day, first thing in the afternoon, as the introduction to the children's afternoon sessions.
[1] http://gregmckeown.com/essentialism-the-disciplined-pursuit-of-less/
[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/335186/PRIMARY_national_curriculum_-_English_220714.pdf
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Much of the force behind this punch comes courtesy of AMD's claim that the 690G is now capable of smooth HD DVD and Blu-ray playback at 1080p. But you won't find AMD's Universal Video Decoder in the 690G. Instead, AMD says it's been able to smooth high definition video playback through "driver streamlining." Playback is largely handled by the CPU, and to watch HD content in all its 1080p glory, a dual-core Athlon X2 processor is required. Each HD format has different processor speed requirements, as well, and we've outlined those requirements below.
|Required X2 speed
With a 1.9GHz clock speed, the affordable Athlon X2 3600+ has enough horsepower for MPEG2 playback. That won't cut it for movies encoded in VC-1 or H.264 formats, though; you'll need at least an Athlon X2 4600+ to ensure smooth playback with all HD DVD and Blu-ray movies at their maximum resolution. AMD also recommends dual-channel memory configurations of at least DDR2-667, and a minimum of 1GB of memory for playback in Windows XP, and 2GB for Vista.
So the 690G may now support smooth 1080p playback, but it doesn't do so on its own. And while a 4600+ and 2GB of memory should be well within the budget of anyone who can actually afford a 1080p display, so should mid-range graphics cards from AMD and Nvidia that handle HD video decoding in hardware and provide much better 3D performance than the 690G's integrated graphics core.
If the hardware requirements for HD playback put you off, you may be interested in the second component of AMD's 690G refresh: overclocking. AMD didn't put much effort into 690G overclocking at the chipset's launch, instead opting to focus on overall platform stability. However, the company has been working on its reference BIOS for 690G motherboards, adding voltage adjustments, memory timings, CPU multiplier and HT clock control, and even the ability to manipulate the clock speed of the chipset's integrated graphics core. These tweaking and overclocking features are all but ubiquitous on enthusiast-oriented ATX boards, of course, but they're not nearly as common on the kinds of budget Micro ATX boards that typically play host to integrated graphics chipsets.
AMD is working with its board partners to ensure that these overclocking features make their way to end users, and Gigabyte has answered the call with the GA-MA69GM-S2H.
This board is the best 690G implementation we've seen, offering a full suite of overclocking features in addition to onboard VGA, DVI, and HDCP-compliant HDMI output, TOS-Link digital S/PDIF audio output, PCI Express x4 and x16 expansion capabilities, Firewire, and four DIMM slots. Add passive chipset cooling to the mix and a $76 street price, and we'll even forgive the board's PCI-based Realtek Gigabit Ethernet chip.
HD video playback may get AMD's 690G redux more headlines, but given its hardware requirements, the combination of BIOS-level overclocking options and a second wave of more mature, feature-rich motherboards may ultimately prove more attractive to enthusiasts. With the "free" overclocking headroom available with many of AMD's budget Athlon X2 processors, squeezing at least 2.4GHz from a 3600+ may not take too much effort, either.


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University Of Calgary Economics Student Robert J Oxby didn't need fast machines or clean motors to expertly parse the discussion of the Efficiency of AC/DC: Bon Scott versus Brian Johnson .
There's almost a full page of footnotes, none of which really adhere to the age -old (Oh fuck, why not call it aesthetic) argument of who is the better singer; Brian or Bon.
It turns out, in terms of efficiency, Brian is the the better singer.


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We work in cities throughout the Twin Cities metropolitan area, and Vadnais Heights is no exception. Vadnais Heights is a suburb of the Twin Cities urban metro area, specifically north of St Paul. It's a small suburb of St Paul located in Ramsey County. The population has been steady for around 25 years and today it stands at just over 13,000 residents.
The town was once an agricultural community but now is a thriving suburb. Vadnais Lake is the recreational centerpiece of the city, and much of that area remains wild and untamed, giving residents and visitors a taste of what the area might have looked like 200 years ago.
Vadnais Heights Commons is an event center located in the city that caters to weddings, seminars, and other events for up to 400 people at a time. There are many other businesses in town, as well, although for major shopping you might want to head over to Roseville and it's Rosedale Shopping Center. Downtown White Bear Lake is close by, too, so if you're looking for a good independent restaurant you're only a few minutes away. For recreation, there are 14 parks that cover over 100 acres in the city. Most of the land is dedicated for single-family homes, although there are some condos and apartments, too.
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This weekend I will be appearing at 4Pi-Con in the beautiful and probably steaming hot and thunderstorm-ridden Pioneer Valley. The convention will be at the Crowne Plaza Enfield-Springfield, right over the Massachusetts line in Enfield, Connecticut. Vitals:
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Tel: 860.741.2211
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Below is my somewhat scary schedule (subject to last minute changes):
Copies of Mortal Touch and both editions of Gideon Redoak will be available from Aradia in the Dealers Room. As always, I will sign any copies of Mortal Touch that you buy, and all purchasers of By Light Unseen Media books are entitled to a free 3-card, 5-minute Tarot reading, redeemable before the end of the convention. Hope to see you there!
I'll be doing panels, a reading and generally hanging out at 3Pi-Con in West Springfield, MA this weekend, August 22-24.
On Friday night, I'll be reading from Mortal Touch at 8:00 p.m.
On Saturday, I will be in a panel on "How to Get Published" at 1:00 p.m., a workshop/panel on "Tarot and Writing" at 2:00 p.m., and "Could Literary Vampires Exist in the Modern World?" at 11:00 p.m. (and that's not the latest event on the schedule for Saturday!) At 5:00 p.m. I'll be participating in the Broad Universe Rapid Fire Reading, along with my sister Broads Morven Westfield, Phoebe Wray, Elaine Isaak, Trisha Wooldridge and Michelle Murrain.
Otherwise, I'll be going to events, hanging out, and helping with the Broad Universe table. I'm offering my usual Convention Special of a free, five-minute, three-card Tarot reading for every copy of Mortal Touch that you buy. 3Pi-Con has at-the-door admission, so if you're in the area, check it out!
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M. Scott Peck, M.D.
"What are these tools, these techniques of suffering, the means of experiencing the pain of problems constructively that I call discipline? There are four: delaying gratification, acceptance of responsibility, dedication to truth, and balancing" (28-29).
"That is to say that we must always hold truth, as best as we can determine it, to be more important, more vital to our self-interest, than our comfort" (46).
"All of us have desires to be babied, to be nurtured without effort on our parts, to be cared for by persons stronger than us who have our interests truly at heart. No matter how strong we are, no matter how caring and responsible and adult, if we look clearly into ourselves we will find the wish to be taken care of for a change. . . . But for most of us, these desires or feelings do not rule our lives; they are not the predominant theme of our existence" (73-74).
"Love is not simply giving; it is judicious giving and judicious withholding as well. It is judicious praising and judicious criticizing. It is judicious arguing, struggling, confronting, urging, pushing, and pulling, in addition to comforting" (79-80).
"Genuine love is volitional rather than emotional. The person who truly loves does so because of a decision to love. This person has made a commitment to be loving whether or not the loving feeling is present. If it is, so much the better; but if it isn't, the commitment to love, the will to love, still stands and is still exercised" (85-86).
"It is through love that we elevate ourselves. And it is through our love for others that we assist others to elevate themselves. Love, the extension of the self, is the very act of evolution. It is evolution in progress" (188).
"When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffer and also how to grow" (20).
"We live our lives in a real world. To live them well it is necessary that we come to understand the reality of the world as best we can. But such understanding does not come easily. Many aspects of the reality of the world and of our relationship to the world are painful to us. We can understand them only through effort and suffering" (238-239).


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Let's head west this week with the City of Los Angeles as we take a closer look at our upcoming streamliners.
The City of Los Angeles
Most passenger trains were the pride of a railroad and closely associated with its image; the New York Central's 20th Century, the Great Northern's Empire Builder, the Santa Fe's Chief. But there were also a select group of trains which were shared by several roads. In the eyes of the traveling public, it didn't matter whose name was on the letterboards as long as the service inside the car was comfortable and friendly.
The City of Los Angeles began as a joint service between Chicago and Los Angeles via the Chicago and Northwestern and Union Pacific in 1936. At the time, only one train consist was available, making only 5 round trips per month. It became a daily train in 1947.
In 1955, operations east of Omaha shifted from the CNW to the Milwaukee Road. It was also in this year that a new train consist was added with dome cars, including a dome lounge observation. This lounge car was used for sleeping car passengers. There was an additional dome diner and lounge car for coach passengers. At this time there were also connecting cars from New York via the Pennsylvania and New York Central (operating on alternate days and using cars lettered for the owning railroad but painted in UP's yellow color scheme for a matched consist in the west.) Connecting cars from Minneapolis and St. Paul also arrived in Chicago via the CNW.
The dome observations only lasted about a year. In 1956 the UP modified them and placed them mid-train behind the diner. That year also saw the seasonal combination of service with the Challenger between Omaha and Los Angeles. During peak season, the City was sleeper only, with the Challenger handling coach travelers.
As service slowly declined through the 1960s, the train was combined with some of the UP's other City streamliners. First with the City of San Francisco in 1960. At Ogden, the San Francisco section was pulled out and departed via the Southern Pacific. By 1969 it had become a "City of Everywhere" (never an official name) with multiple sections being combined. Between Cheyenne and Green River, WY. the train averaged 27 cars behind an impressive A-B-B-B-B-A consist of E9s!
The domes disappeared altogether in 1970 and the train would make its last run in 1971 with the arrival of Amtrak. Some cars from the 1955 consist have survived in private hands.
Lionel's Models
Now you can recreate the glory years of this fine train on the Union Pacific and Milwaukee Road. The 18″ aluminum passenger cars will look great behind our new E9s, or a variety of other motive power.
The new E9s include one powered and one non-powered locomotive. Both engines feature:
- Fan-driven smoke unit with adjustable output
- Directional lighting including LED headlights
- Front ElectroCouplers
- Working front Marker Lights
- Illuminated number boards
- Lighted and detailed cab interior
- Die-cast metal trucks, fuel tank and pilots
- High level of separately applied details
- O-31 minimum curve
Powered locomotives also feature:
- LEGACY Control – also capable of running on TMCC or Conventional
- Odyssey II Speed Control
- LEGACY RailSounds including
- CrewTalk and TowerCom dialog
- 6 Railroad speeds
- 8 Diesel RPM levels
- LEGACY Quilling horn
- Single hit or continuous mechanical bell
- Sequence control provides sounds and dialog for an entire trip around your layout
- Current speed and fuel dialog and refueling sounds
- Dual motors with flywheels
- Refined Transformer Control with lower starting speeds
- Traction Tires
- Engineer and Fireman figures
Passenger cars feature:
- Die-cast sprung metal trucks with operating couplers featuring hidden uncoupling tabs
- Extruded aluminum bodies with flush-fitting windows
- Operating end vestibules with flexible diaphragms
- Separately applied metal roof vents and grab irons
- Interior lighting with on/off switch
- Detailed interiors with passenger and crew figures
- Operating marker and end lights on observation car
- Lighted drumhead on observation car
- Metal frame
- Metal underframe details
- O-54 minimum curve
The locomotives retail for $929.99 and the passenger car 4-packs for $639.99. The City of Los Angeles showed the cooperation railroads could bring when the public demanded the best in service. Don't miss this opportunity to serve the fine folks of Plasticville, Lionelville or any of the towns on your layout.


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Is this another one of those hearsay "Richardville is having an affair!" threads?Here's a link you can actually use, toobad:http://grammar.quickand dirtytips.com/.asp
I hadn't heard that one T, I always figured he was doinking a beautician.
I would almost believe this, if the original author wasn't a known liar.
Please collegekid you can do better, I have been called much worse by the socialist / communist on this site and you should be very careful. I'm sure being a college kid and all that you know the definition of libel.I will give you the same option that I gave T-M-T, should I pursue this matter or overlook the rights of this needy child and the family? Would you be willing to step up to the plate and recommend an investigation after reviewing the documented evidence?
Here's one of the threads I was referring to, Fuzz:http://monroetalks.com/forum/index.php?topic=25546.0toobad's Randy obsession has been on display a few times on this forum.
To answer this someone would actually have to have access to your "documented evidence"Since we only have hearsay, you'll have to rely on the above informational posts as to how the system works.BTW - if you did have "documented evidence"... and you weren't actually a party to the process, you've likely violated federal law.


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The stomach is a muscular sac that is important for absorbing food and preparing food for further digestion.
Cachexia is a state characterized by loss of weight and weakness in the muscles. It is usually an indicator of a serious underlying malady such as cancer, AIDS or an autoimmune disorder. Drug addiction can also lead to cachexia. Patients suffering from cachexia do not usually respond well to treatment till the underlying cause is tackled.


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Awards for Deloitte students at Cornwall College
February 2017
Dedication, voluntary work and community spirit are the keys to the awards received by a group of students on the Deloitte Programme at Cornwall College Camborne, at a special ceremony. The cohort, who are all students at Newquay Tretherras, have been working with business experts from Cornwall College on a range of projects over the last 12 months, which has also included raising hundreds of pounds for the Newquay foodbank.
The awards, Lions Young Leaders in Service Awards, recognise the support and dedication that a young person can give to their community. All of the students received a gold award, which marks their achievement of doing a minimum of 100 hours of service to their community.
Course leader for Deloitte at Cornwall College Camborne, Sandie Johns said: "These students have outdone themselves every time and to have been part of their educational & personal journey leaves us with a real sense of pride for these students. They have demonstrated such fantastic commitment; employability skills & qualities in a short period of time and they should be incredible proud of themselves." The groups organised a number of events and baked cakes, buns and biscuits to be sold to fellow students and members of the public. The results of which, combined with their Christmas Fair raised over £200 for Newquay Foodbank.
Chef Lecturer at Cornwall College Camborne, Phil Oakes, added: "I was so pleased to see not the end of a one year journey but the start of a fantastic career path and future for all the students. I hope that they felt the same pride that I did as they were awarded the Lions young leaders awards for over a hundred hours of selfless commitment to the local Newquay community."
The Lions Young Leaders in Service Awards recognize young people for their community service within a 12-month period. The awards fulfil two important Lions commitments; to improve the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community, and to help young people become responsible adult citizens and community leaders.
Jodie Ward the District Youth Chair Person for the Lions added: "It helps develops their future, it's great for their UCAS applications and it shows that they are committed to helping in their local communities."
17 year old Jasmine Isaacs from Goonhavern concluded: "It's been really awesome to take part in this programme, we have gone through so much together as a team and we've been able to help other people. I think it's important to give something back, we've had lots of support in the past and now it's time to show them the good things that young people can do."


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wedding albums
Ren + Nick @ Belmont Country Club in Ashburn, VirginiaBelmont Country Club is the best mansion wedding venue in northern Virginia with beautiful rooms for pictures including a bridal suite. Outdoor ceremony
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Kacie + Porter @ Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, VirginiaSay I Do overlooking the Washington Monument on the balcony of the Army Navy Country Club. A picture perfect wedding ceremony location for Washington DC
Lindsay + Chris @ Meridian House & St. Mark's Lutheran ChurchMeridian House is the best most beautiful Washington DC wedding venue. A historic mansion and gardens are a photographers dream. If you want a romantic
Courtney + Chris @ River Farm in Alexandria, VirginiaRiver Farm is the best wedding venue on the Potomac River. Gorgeous gardens, are perfect for pictures and ceremonies. The ballroom has a sweet chandelier.
Tiffany + Rod @ Potomac Shores Golf Club in Potomac Shores, VirginiaPotomac Shores is a new wedding venue and perfect for those who want a ceremony overlooking the Potomac River. A beautiful clubhouse is great for pictures.
Kaye + Andrew @ Veritas Vineyard & Winery in Afton, VAVineyard wedding perfection. Beautiful ceremony spot overlooking the vineyard and mountains, large reception space and outdoor deck for cocktail hour.
Tyes + Rick @ Springfield Manor Winery & Distillery in Thurmont, MarylandGet ready for the wedding day in a historical mansion, have the mountains as your ceremony backdrop & dance at a reception in a barn, all on one property!
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Michele + Rob @ Key Bridge Marriott & St. Thomas Apostle ChurchThe Key Bridge Marriott is a wedding reception venue with a great view of Georgetown & DC & is a quick drive to classic DC Monument wedding pictures spots.
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Theresa + Chris @ River Farm in Alexandria, VirginiaRiver Farm is the perfect fall wedding venue for a garden ceremony. Guests enjoy the garden and a flower garden meadow for beautiful wedding pictures.
Jenn & Bill @ Army Navy County Club, Good Shepherd Catholic ChurchWedding day details in tiffany blue, antique car, vintage military themed cocktail hour with telegram escort cards & old hollywood glamor reception in DC.


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The New Como Harbor
Private support is transforming Como for the 21st century
The Need: Improve Outdated Facilities
Everybody loves Sparky.
The joyful antics of Como Zoo's trained sea lion have delighted generations of Minnesotans. Day after day for sixty years, packed crowds cheer on the mascot of the state's most popular cultural attraction. Sparky is as Minnesotan as a day at the lake or a buttered cob of corn.
But Sparky has a great need.
Sparky's current home, Seal Island, is a 1930s, retro-fitted monkey exhibit. The concrete facilities do not replicate the seals' and sea lions' habitat or provide context for the animals' natural environment. The needs of seals and sea lions were not taken into consideration in the current exhibit, so Sparky and the other sea lions and seals move off of Seal Island to the aquatics building because the exhibit cannot hold water in the winter months. This leaves Seal Island empty and barren for half of the year.
The public amenities for the Sparky Show are also quite Spartan. The bathrooms were built in the 1930's and can't handle capacity crowds. There's no shade for the animals and visitors on sweltering hot summer days. Long concession lines and limited seating make getting lunch difficult. Sparky needs a new home.
Private donations will make possible a state-of-the-art Seals and Sea Lions Habitat and improve the visitor experience. With just $2.1 million left to go we are asking the public to help bring in the remaining dollars. Ground breaking began this past February and the goal is to have all funds raised by January 2019. So give today. Every Gift Matters!
The Vision: World Class Improvements
The facilities' re-design will improve the visitors' experience and the animals' training sessions and health care. The new Como Harbor seals and sea lions habitat will continue Como's 21st century vision of re-imagining the zoo that began in 2010 with Polar Bear Odyssey and Gorilla Forest.
A New Visitor Experience
Highlights include:
- Year Round Exhibit Viewing – features heated salt water pools for the animals and provides public viewing of the animals.
- Underwater Exhibit Viewing Area – where visitors can watch the animals swim below the surface of the water and see a close view of the animal care and training.
- Shade – a new design that includes tree features that will provide protection from sun.
- Public Amenities – upgrades that include new restrooms, restaurant and picnic areas with wheelchair accessibility.
Enhanced Animal Well Being
The role of zoos has evolved. For instance, all of Como's seals and sea lions are rehabilitated animals – wild animals that were injured, rescued, and rehabilitated but had a physical limitation that prevented them from being returned to the wild.
New designs include:
- Two Large Pools – to increase the seals' and sea lions' swimming area and maximize their sociability and allow for underwater transfers from one area to the next.
- Salt Water – will enhance the animals' health and improve their environment. The water will not freeze which will allow them to stay in the same environment year round.
- Shade Cover – to protect the animals from overexposure to the sun.
- Improved Training Facility – a state-of-the-art training facility that will allow for better animal health care management.
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Today is Monday, Aug. 4, the 217th day of 2008 with 149 to follow.
The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Leo. They include English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1792; Scottish comedian Harry Lauder in 1870; Queen Elizabeth, mother of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in 1900; legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong in 1901; Swedish architect Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving 100,000 Jews from the Nazis during World War II, in 1912; former UPI White House reporter Helen Thomas, in 1920 (age 88); and actors Richard Belzer in 1944 (age 64) and Billy Bob Thornton in 1955 (age 53).
On this date in history:
In 1735, freedom of the press was established in the American colonies when John Peter Zenger, publisher of a New York City newspaper, was acquitted of libel charges.
In 1914, Britain declared war on Germany, touching off World War I. The United States initially declared itself neutral.
In 1944, acting on a tip from a Dutch informer, the Nazi Gestapo captured 15-year-old Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in a sealed-off area of an Amsterdam warehouse.
In 1949, more than 6,000 people were killed when an earthquake leveled 50 towns in Ecuador.
In 1958, Billboard magazine introduced its "Hot 100" chart, covering the 100 most popular pop singles in the country. The first No. 1 was Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool."
In 1964, the remains of three slain civil rights workers whose disappearance on June 21 garnered national attention were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Miss.
In 1972, Arthur Bremer was found guilty of shooting and severely wounding Alabama Gov. George Wallace who was campaigning for president. Bremer was sentenced to 63 years in prison.
In 1984, the African Republic of Upper Volta changed its named to Burkina Faso, which means "the land of upright men."
In 1991, the PLO agreed to attend a regional peace conference and offered to compromise with Israel on the make-up of the Palestinian delegation.
Also in 1991, the Greek liner Oceanos sank off the South Africa coast in heavy seas. All 571 on board were rescued but the captain and crew were reported to have abandoned ship.
In 2003, The Los Angeles Times reported it had evidence that Iran was close to possessing a nuclear bomb.
In 2004, opponents of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., launched a lengthy attack on his war record with a TV ad blitz that Republican Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., called "dishonest and dishonorable."
In 2004, three former detainees at the U.S. Guantanamo Bay prison claimed they were beaten until they finally gave false confessions.
In 2005, in a videotape broadcast, al-Qaida threatened Britain and the United States with attacks if their armies did not quit "the land of Islam," in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In 2006, authorities in Phoenix arrested two men in 24 "serial shooter" attacks that killed a reported 14 people in Arizona over the previous year.
In 2007, The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation calling on most utilities to produce 15 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power.
In 2007 sports, Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants hit his 755th career home run tying Hank Aaron's all-time major league record. He broke the record three days later and finished the season at 762 homers. His achievements, however, were clouded by accusations of using performance-enhancing steroids.
A thought for the day: Charles Sanders Peirce wrote, "Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question."


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A seemingly simple tool, it has helped us reach new heights, literally. It hoists, it pulls and it pushes. Heavy duty rope contributes greatly to the endeavors of the modern world, not just in architecture, but also in landscaping, recreation, leisure and even exercise.
Heavy duty rope is constructed from a number of materials, both natural and synthetic. For a job that will not encounter much moisture, a low-cost option is manila. Manila, made from the fibers of the Filipino abaca plant, is the strongest of the natural fiber ropes, with low stretch and excellent abrasion resistance. Manila resists UV ray damage and melting, but it is subject to rot and chemical wear. Manila rope is best used for tug-o-war, landscaping, rope ladder, rope railings and obstacle courses.
Most heavy duty rope is made from synthetic material, as it is generally stronger and more durable than natural fiber rope, and as it does not absorb a high amount of water. One such synthetic material is polypropylene. Though it is lightweight, polypropylene rope is strong and stiff. It is also possibly the least expensive type of heavy duty synthetic rope. It does not absorb water, does not conduct electricity and it floats. Because it does not absorb water, polypropylene rope resists rot, mildew, petroleum products, marine organisms, acids and alkalis.
Thick polypropylene rope works great for deck or landscape use, as water and snow ski rope, pool rope, construction barrier rope and electricity utility rope. It is also used well as a mega duty winch rope or an exercise component, such as an undulation or battle rope. Polyester is another material that makes an excellent heavy duty rope. Polyester is resistant to abrasion, UV rays, heat, rot, mildew, mold and organic solvents.
Polyester also does not absorb water and has low stretch. All of these attributes make polyester a great outdoor rope for applications where too much elasticity would make a project or activity dangerous. Such applications include: tug rope, antenna guidelines, barge tow rope, rigging rope, tree rope and safety rope. Heavy duty rope is prevalent in the physical modern world, and it is sure to rise to any occasion or application.


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Leg length discrepancy is one of the biggest issues in dialing a bike fit, but the meticulous tinkerers at Speedplay have the solution. The Walkable Cleat Leg Length Shim Kit compensates for the shorter member of the pair, evening the pedal stroke for a more uniform feel. The kit includes two 1/8in shims and the necessary mounting hardware, and is only compatible with Speedplay's Walkable Cleats. Note that it doesn't include the cleats themselves.


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Steel Drums!
Just the sound of them picks you up and takes you on vacation... and the Toucans will get you there first class!
Come along & enjoy the bright sunny sound of Seattle's Favorite Steel Drum Band. Our Tropical Northwest beat is guaranteed to get your body moving and your spirit soaring!
We've played thousands of Toucan Shows for hundreds of thousands of Toucan Fans, and recorded plenty of great Toucans Music, too.
The Toucans are a great choice for public & corporate events, private parties, weddings, BBQ's, school shows, or any other event that needs some fun & lively music!
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News: Celebrate ARSM's first birthday!
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In January 2018, we'll be celebrating ARSM's first birthday. We want to showcase your achievement alongside the thousands of other people who have all taken the performance-only diploma in its first year.
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William Eggleston
Nothing differs from yesterday. Be it another day makes little difference. The same sunrise, the same sky, the same air, the same thoughts. Maybe one more piece of knowledge collected incidentally and stored for later. Tomorrow, maybe. Tomorrow will be different. Tomorrow will always be different.
Meanwhile, I stay with the moment, each one filled with small pieces of yesterday and debris of today. Dust from the fires, washing from the clothesline, sand from the beach, photographs.
When I look back at yesterday there are few landmarks. Ordinary things that caught my eye. The camera is always within reach. Photographing at arms length to the world, shielding myself from contact or absorbing me into the moment. An observer and participant at the same time.
On reflection, everything seems important. The photograph does that. It isolates not just the moment but the thing, the place, the action, the event, the geography, the thought.
A lifetime of shifting sands, moved by the winds from the east and south; constant reminders that there is somewhere else. The flora and fauna struggles wilfully. The struggle is essential. Without the struggle, all things remain the same. Change requires something to fight against, move with or wait for, Preparedness in the light of the events of yesterday.
The paint peels, the wood decays, the flower wilts, a war rages elsewhere, a lamb is born in a bleak paddock and another dies at the hands of a butcher, a rocket lands on a comet and a child takes its first steps.
How can I have the camera ready for all this? How can I be ready? Why is it essential that we record all this? Does the photograph remind us of what we must be prepared for?
Or is it just that we like to see how the moment, thing, place looks on a photograph?
"Cogito ergo sum (I think therefore I am)"
René Descartes
Ideo ego COMMEDITOR eam (this is why I photograph it)
Today is another day. The camera is at arms length. All things are as important or less than only by our own relevance. The photograph will equalise all differences.Today I put my mind not to understanding but doing.
"Whether a photo or music or anything else I might do - it's ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience".
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hello, this is madam Vanessa, las vegas talk of the town 1970.,s. I wish to state this the real name of this young man I met in 1973 from my good friend dino. this very true story of my life with this person in 1973 is legally copyrighted and is also at our Nevada state museum in my own closed writer's file.
my friend dino introduced to larry lapaglia so I could have a nice friend to go out with. so I called larry at his home one day in march of 1973. he seemed nice to me on the phone and I expected to me since he knew I was dino' s friend then and larry knew I was a hooker as a young woman. the first lies he told me that he was a widower and he wore a wedding band and then after I got to know him he told me he could get $ 100.00 dates from his bar at the Riviera hotel. which never happened.
I visted larry at his apt a few times and we talked and I called him on the phone and I visit him at his workplace. his apt was across from battista's and he lived upstairs. any ways when I came back here in 1985, I probably drove by his apt and I also remember the street by battista's which was Arnold had many apt there for workers at the casino's to live at where our linq hotel is now, it was interesting to see this street with only one old apt left on the street now for me.
I have shared all about larry's lies 2x times on my radio show and how I really felt
about all this which was standing up to all his taking advantage of me as a young woman in 1973 at 19 and doing my best to stand up and be courageous.
this happened to me july of 1973 and when I came back in 1986, I discussed what really happened with larry and a young woman said to me you had to know someone to help you and I said yes. then I found a beverage manager on a job interview in 1986 and asked this nice woman is she knew larry from the Riviera and she said yes and I got very angry and left the interview and never spoke another word of this until I wrote and typed this story in 1998 when I started to write my autobiography of being a callgirl in las vegas in the 1970's.
and to this day 42 years later, I have never walked into the restaurant battista's and I always have wondered what would that feel like to me, but I have to have a date to take me to battista's, because this place is so fancy to me.
I need to mention I never slept with larry lapaglia, because I was a hooker in 1973.
I will continue this story of my life which is always a part of me and never easy for to me forget.ever.
I wish to write and say with a good person working in our city that was also my good friend in 1972-1973
this nice man helped me call the cops on larry lapaglia at his work place at our Riviera hotel in july of 1973.
and this nice man that helped me in 1973, I would re-meet in 1985 at his work place in our city.
I will continue the real story of my life with larry lapaglia, bar- back at the Riviera in 1973, who also say I going to be a bartender at our mgm casino.
thank you madam vanessa


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How permanent is your storage solution?
Electronic files, retained to comply with regulations or for other business reasons, are vulnerable to viruses and changing media formats. What should you do?
About 20 years ago, I was working a midnight shift at the National SIGINT [Signal Intelligence] Operations Center at the National Security Agency and a coworker picked up a 5.25 inch floppy disk holding reports and said, "My reports will be around forever now that it is on a disk." This thought came to me when I recently passed a small highway billboard advertising converting VHS tapes to DVDs for $20. I sat at the traffic light thinking that if my coworker's disk has not been destroyed, the only place it might be read is in a computer museum.
I also started to think about how racks of reel-to-reel nine-track tapes and disk platters have either been converted or destroyed because they are now woefully outdated. As I write this, I have to wonder how many people know what I'm talking about. I remember being involved in several media conversion efforts, where one media format was being replaced with another. I also remember how we thought that there was way too much data to convert, so some of those efforts required specifying which tapes or disk platters were to be converted.
The 5.25 inch disk gave way to the 3.5 inch disks, which gave way to Zip drives, which gave way to CDs, which in turn is now giving way to both DVDs and Flash drives. I don't see this cycle ending. Every so often, I go back and look for old business files that are needed for one bizarre reason or another. If I am lucky enough to find a disk or old computer with the data, I have to figure out a way to get it into a common media format. In some cases, I have had to take the data through a series of computers before I get the information to a format I can use.
I regularly recommend that people and companies back up their data. What I have since come to learn is that it is as important to recover the data and move it to the most currently available format at least once every two years, if not more often. The good news is that you need significantly fewer storage devices every time you do this. For example, a 3.5 inch disk could store the equivalent of at least three 5.25 inch disks. A DVD can potentially store the equivalent of thousands of 3.5 inch disks.
In a corporate environment, this can require a massive effort, but it must be done. As we now have to deal with legal requirements for data retention, we will have to deal with ways of making sure that we have methods for accessing that retained data.
Thinking back, it now appears that my coworker's reports would be around longer if they were printed and not saved to a disk. Frankly, the best backup for any business document is a printout. For your personal life, if you do have any memories that you want to be around for ever, a real photo album is the only way to go. There are so many reasons not to rely on those computer files that will be around forever. Now if I can only figure out what to do with all those disks, record albums, cassette tapes, VHS tapes and now CDs.
About the author
IRA WINKLER, CISSP, CISM, has almost 20 years of experience in the intelligence and security fields and has consulted to many of the largest corporations in the world. He is also author of the forthcoming book, Spies Among Us.


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Two hundred people attended the first Jewish worship service at the White House during the Nixon era when the president wanted to encourage religious unity.
Fifty-thousand people attended the three-day Denver Pop Festival that would be overshadowed two months later by Woodstock in New York.
Life Magazine announced the retirement of photo journalist Margaret Bourke-White, who would succumb to Parkinson's Disease two years later.
The Stonewall uprising, said to be the beginning of the Gay Pride Movement, started with New York City Police carrying out an early morning raid at the gay bar in Greenwich Village.
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