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BOSTON – A friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev testified for the first time Monday at a hearing to determine whether his initial statements to the FBI can be used in his obstruction-of-justice trial.
Lawyers for Dias Kadyrbayev, Tsarnaev's college classmate and friend, argue that the Russian-speaking University of Massachusetts student does not know enough English to have understood his legal rights when police questioned him.
Kadyrbayev testified that when he was given a form to sign acknowledging his right to counsel, he asked an FBI agent whether he needed a lawyer.
"'Oh, no no no'," he said the agent told him. " 'You're not under arrest. You're just helping us out.' "
At that point, he said, he stopped reading the form and signed it.
When he was first questioned in an FBI vehicle, Kadyrbayev said, "I was kind of scared." He said an agent cursed at him and demanded to know Tsarnaev's whereabouts.
When he heard that Tsarnaev had been captured in Watertown, Mass., he testified, he asked, "Can I go, now that you've got him?" The answer was "Maybe," he said.
He was unaware that leaving was an option, he testified.
Kadyrbayev, 20, painted a picture of himself as a young man who wasn't serious about learning English, got passed along in English classes in his native Kazakhstan and paid English speakers to rewrite his college essays.
Kadyrbayev said his English has become "10 times" better since he's been in jail. He credited the improvement to reading books and listening to radio. He said he's read 76 books since his incarceration a year ago.
Linguist Aneta Pavlenko testified that Kadyrbayev, a native of Kazakhstan, thinks in Russian and doesn't have the language skills to understand a legal document or a written Miranda warning.
Kadyrbayev, who is charged with obstructing justice for allegedly retrieving Tsarnaev's backpack from his dorm room and throwing it out after the bombing, wants his initial statements to the FBI excluded from his trial Sept. 8. Defense attorney Robert Stahl said Kadyrbayev made the statements under duress and without access to a public defender.
Prosecutors have noted that Kadyrbayev saw himself at the time of the interrogation as proficient in English. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin said Kadyrbayev studied five years of English in Kazakhstan, earning the highest possible grades, and spent three summers abroad studying the language in English-speaking countries.
In Kazakhstan, Kadyrbayev said, he attended a specialized school for math and physics where teachers "didn't care" about English and awarded good grades even for low performers. He spent a summer studying English in Cambridge, Mass., to be near a girlfriend in New Jersey but said he seldom attended class. He applied to the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, he said, because his English skills were not good enough for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He denied writing a college essay that prosecutors used to show English proficiency. His method, he explained, was to find articles in Russian, use Google Translate to convert them to English, then pay a native English speaker to look it over. If more writing was needed, he would pay someone to write for him.
At the hearing Monday, he didn't wait for an interpreter to translate questions before replying.
Pavlenko, a Temple University linguist who studies how native Russian speakers learn English in the USA, examined e-mails and texts Kadyrbayev wrote around the time of his questioning. She noted mistakes in syntax that peg him as a "low intermediate" English speaker whose use of slang and swear words made him seem more fluent than he is.
The Miranda rights document he received from the FBI is written in a way that can be confusing to non-native speakers, she said, citing "Anything you say can be used against you in court."
" 'Anything you say' — it may mean to him, 'You can say anything,' " Pavlenko said, because he thinks in Russian and would need higher-level skills to grasp the true meaning.
Pavlenko's testimony came on Day 4 of an evidence hearing, which has been in recess since May 15.
When prosecutors questioned Kadyrbayev, they used documents to make a case that his advanced English skills are not new and to portray him and someone who would lie to avoid consequences.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephanie Siegmann pointed out that Kadyrbayev went before a judge who read him his rights last year, but he never asked for a translator at federal court until today. When his girlfriend gave a deposition in English last year, he and a translator were in attendance but he did not request that any words be translated.
"You have lied before to get out of trouble, haven't you?," Siegmann asked.
"Yes," he said.
On two occasions, he hired men to pose as professors at UMass Dartmouth and lie to his mother about his status there, he acknowledged. One accepted $100 to assure her that he was enrolled and making progress in his coursework.
Kadyrbayev was dismissed from UMass Dartmouth after not going to his classes, he said. He was warned that he needed to leave the United States immediately when his student visa expired but he stayed illegally.
Kadyrbayev is scheduled to be back on the witness stand at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
Two other friends of Tsarnaev face charges. Azamat Tazhayakov is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly working with Kadyrbayev to dispose of the backpack. Robel Phillipos is accused of lying to federal investigators. Both men attended the hearing. Tazhayakov will be tried June 30; Phillipos' trial will begin Sept. 29.
None of the friends is accused of participating in the bombings or knowing about them ahead of time.
Tsarnaev's trial on 30 charges, including using a weapon of mass destruction to kill three people, is scheduled to begin Nov. 3 in Boston. His lawyers have asked the judge to move the trial elsewhere and to give them more time to prepare a defense.

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Go and SEE if you're thread has already been brought up before you make a new one. This has already been discussed and if you'd like to add on to it post in the original thread.
Ok I have been putting together some facts about that jutsu and I may have come to a conclusion worth putting into a thread.
From this page here we know that "That Jutsu" is directly tied to naruto being able to access the kyuubi's chakra. (credit to finding the page with the "Key" and pointing out what it meant to Paulbee)
On this page Jiaraya is commenting on minato having made the scroll and it being proof that he wanted naruto to complete "That Jutsu". The scroll is the Key to Naruto's seal being able to lock or unlock the Kyuubi from his cage.
In this scene Jiaraya says "minato only seals the nine tails yin chakra using the shiki Fuujin" There is also a statement by the frog that naruto's chakra was merely pushed aside by the kyuubi's Yang chakra and the yang chakra took over naruto.
In the next cell here,
Jiaraya is talking about why minato split the chakra in two and sealed only the Yang portion of the chakra into naruto his son.
In this scene pa frog explains you have to have enormous amounts of chakra to draw on the Nature chakra
In this scene pa frog explains that there must be a balance between the 3 stamina spirit and nature.
He also explains in another scene that you can control how much nature chakra is let in at any given time, the goal of this of course is to balance them all together so you can use the hermit mode and sage arts.
Ok so now let me bring together all the facts.
Minato purposefully only sealed half of the kyuubis chakra the Yang side into naruto.
Jiaraya knew Minato well enough to have been told about the sealing scroll and other secrets such as "That Justu" When he mentions this to the frog on the page above he states that naruto could not even control the small crack of chakra they let leak out and naruto's chakra was pushed aside and he was Taken over.
What does this mean? In simple terms he is implying that the point of opening the seal was to have naruto use the kyuubi's chakra and hold it back with his own. I am of the opinion or rather have a theory that the sage chakra which is so powerful that its entrance into naruto's body has to be controlled like a faucet to prevent him from turning into a frog was meant to be used by minato as a method to push back the kyuubi's chakra and balance them out.
Kyuubi chakra- yang
Nature chakra - yin
Forming the balance needed for naruto to take advantage of the kyuubi's chakra without using it, he would simply be using the kyuubi's chakra to keep the nature chakra from turning him into a frog.
And using the Nature chakra to keep him from turning into a kyuubi.
It has also been stated by others that the balance could be a 4 way split as opposed to the already 3 way split we know of. For instance at current for naruto to maintain sage mode he has to balance the
Nature chakra 1/3
Naruto's spirit 1/3
Naruto's Stamina 1/3
In the new model it would be
Nature chakra 1/4
Naruto' spirit 1/4
Naruto's Stamina 1/4
Kyuubis chakra 1/4
This way they would all be in balance (credit to the 1/4 balance idea Steve3child )
Its a bit confusing I know but try to read it through this is my first theory and it is just that a theory that can't be proven.
However I encourage you to disprove it.
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Are you saying that "That jutsu" is Nature chakra?
sorry for the edit wanted to better explain myself
Yin and Yang i am sure everyone has had or seen the white and black symbol at some point in there life. it symbolizes balance between light and dark.
in this situation the nature chakra would be the light the kyuubi's chakra is the dark.
Oh....Well my thoughts regarding Jiraiya's talk about "That jutsu" is that it was a technique that needed a lot of chakra to use hence Jiraiya trying to see if Naruto could handle the Kyuubi's chakra. So since Naruto couldn't, the training failed. So now, I believe Nature chakra is replacing the Kyuubi's chakra rather than being used to suppress it.
This all begs the question, why did Kishimoto invent the Kyuubi chakra as part of Naruto in the first place, if all along he was going to relegate it by introducing nature chakra as a replacement?
The problem with Mangas is not just whether a line of thought is reasonable and leading to predictable outcomes, but it is also trying to make sense of the Mangaka's writtings and intentions. It's not exactly like the real world where the laws of nature are fixed and predictable.
One wonders whether Kishimoto hasn't altered his initial plot in Naruto too many times, thereby leaving the readers scratching their heads.
I am not perfect and I defy you to prove otherwise
Growing Old Gracefully is an Oxymoron ... Mostly Moron !
As i recall the theory of yin and yang is that every jin has it's own jang...maybe that minato wants naruto to find a new jin for kyubi and natural chakra would be best thing to use cuse it's probably flexable..
i think your on the right track with the yin nature chakra and the yang kyuubi but i do not believe that the balancing of the 2 additional chakras to be considered the "that jutsu". with the 2 chakras i think that it becomes possible to create it, because its so powerful that it requires a large sum of chakra and a great deal of control that niether can provide on there own.
in a nut shell
kyuubi could provide the vast power but not the control
nature can provide the control but not the vast power
thus the balance for "that jutsu"


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Glasgow Warriors pushed themselves up the PRO12 table on Friday after beating a poor Connacht side 27-17 with a try bonus-point.
Glasgow pushed themselves up the RaboDirect PRO12 on Friday after beating Connacht 27-17 with a try bonus-point at Scotstoun Stadium.
The hosts led from start to finish but their gallant visitor played their part in an entertaining game.
Scott Wight gave Glasgow an early lead with a sweetly struck penalty goal and then, just over a quarter of an hour later, Sean Lamont marked his return to action with a great individual score, demonstrating excellent footwork to cross.
Ten minutes later the Warriors went further in front courtesy of a superb individual score from Peter Murchie, who evaded the grasp of several would be defenders to cross the line.
It was all one way traffic at this stage, but Connacht gave themselves a lifeline just short of half-time when Mark McCrea pounced as the ball bobbled around the in-goal area.
Matthew Jarvis added the extras and a penalty on half-time to further reduce the deficit.
It was 15-10 as the game restarted for the second half, but Connacht soon found themselves with a mountain to climb, with DTH Van der Merwe scooping up the loose ball close to the Connacht line before speeding over for an opportunistic score. Connacht hit back almost instantly, however, with Nathan White's try and Jarvis's kick making it 22-17.
Almost 30 minutes later and the game remained finely poised, but Glasgow were again able to turn to Van der Merwe, who crossed for another eye-catching score to secure the bonus-point for the home side and put ten points between the teams.
Connacht rallied in the closing stages, but Glasgow's defence held firm to secure the win.
The scorers:
For Glasgow:
Tries: Lamont, Murchie, Van der Merwe 2
Con: Wight 2
Pen: Wight
For Connacht:
Tries: McCrea, White
Con: Jarvis 2
Pen: Jarvis
Glasgow Warriors: 15 Peter Murchie, 14 Sean Lamont, 13 Alex Dunbar, 12 Peter Horne, 11 DTH van der Merwe, 10 Duncan Weir, 9 Henry Pyrgos, 8 Ryan Wilson, 7 John Barclay, 6 James Eddie, 5 Al Kellock (c), 4 Tom Ryder, 3 Moray Low, 2 Dougie Hall, 1 Ryan Grant.
Replacements: 16 Finlay Gillies, 17 Mike Cusack, 18 Gordon Reid, 19 Tim Swinson, 20 Angus Macdonald, 21 Sean Kennedy, 22 Scott Wight, 23 Troy Nathan.
Connacht: 15 Gavin Duffy (capt), 14 James Loxton, 13 Robbie Henshaw, 12 David McSharry, 11 Mark McCrea, 10 Matthew Jarvis, 9 Kieran Marmion, 8 Eoin McKeon, 7 Willie Faloon, 6 Johnny O'Connor, 5 David Gannon, 4 George Naoupu, 3 Nathan White, 2 Adrian Flavin, 1 Brett Wilkinson.
Replacements: 16 Kevin O'Byrne, 17 Denis Buckley, 18 Rodney Ah You, 19 Michael Swift, 20 Michael Kearney, 21 David Moore, 22 Jack Carty, 23 Mata Fifita.
Referee: Alain Rolland (IRFU)
Assistant referees: Peter Allan, Adrian Graves (both SRU)
Citing commissioner: John Kirk (SRU)
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New maps of Congressional District 11 created by the Graduate Center's Center for Urban Research reveal the surprising strength of Democrats in the area, which spans all of Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn. Read more
Merih Uctum (GC/Brooklyn, Economics) presented her assessment of potential risks to the state, national and international economies at two recent meetings of the Economic Advisory Committee of the NYSA Ways and Means Committee. Read more
The Political Poseurs of Contemporary Russian Art
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The GC's Fashion Studies Program, along with the Women's Studies Certificate Program and the Italian Specialization in Italian Literature, will hold a roundtable on the subject of Italian fashion on Friday, February 27, from 3-5 p.m. Read more
On March 9 and 10, the Graduate Center and Columbia University will host an international conference on early modern and modern Italian life. Read more
The Graduate Center's Ph.D. Program in Economics is co-sponsoring a Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) Workshop organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), a think tank founded by investor and philanthropist George Soros. The event, YSI Workshop NYC, will begin at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, February 24. Read more
Michelle Fine and María Torre, GC professors of psychology and co-founders of the Public Science Project (PSP), were invited by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office to join the Data and Research Working Group of the Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline. Read more
A new map created by Futures Initiative Fellow and doctoral student Michael Dorsch (Earth and Environmental Sciences) offers new insight into the diversity of students who attend colleges throughout the CUNY system. Read more
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A required pre-submission consultation with the instructional design staff of the Reinert Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning is needed before faculty members apply for the fellowship; faculty who are considering applying for the fellowship are also strongly encouraged to attend one of the following open forums scheduled for previewing the Learning Studio. All forums take place in room 213 of Des Peres Hall, and no registration is required. Scheduled forum dates and times are:
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Giving Israeli Students an Extra Push This Fall
This new pilot program takes a comprehensive approach to helping students falling through the cracks.
This new pilot program takes a comprehensive approach to helping students falling through the cracks.
The young children had never met their "Saba" or "Savta" before last week's Tu B'Shvat celebration, but the atmosphere inside the Netanya nursing home felt like a family reunion.
Raising a special-needs child can put a strain on even the strongest of families. The experience can be isolating, financially stressful, all-consuming. For families in this situation, having a place to connect with other parents in similar circumstances is crucial - and no one knows this better than "Shira," "Dalia," and "Tamar," three mothers of special-needs children in Be'er Sheva.
Five years ago, "Tali" and her sister were removed from their home by the Israeli court system after sustaining injuries at the hand of their abusive father. Their mother, weak and unable to provide for them, was denied custody, and the pair was placed in a boarding school when extended family turned down the girls because of the stigma associated with the court action.
Married for more than 50 years, Mr. D, 80, and his wife Mrs. H, 76, live together in an Israeli neighborhood close to their three married adult children. Mrs. H was diagnosed several years ago with dementia and until recently attended a day center four times a week. But when her condition deteriorated, she was forced to spend her days at home with only her husband and a paid caregiver.
The concept of Father's Day would not always have come easy for 10-year-old "David," who lives with his parents and older brothers in a coastal Israeli town north of Tel Aviv.
"This family has gone from dependency to self-sufficiency—and is now able to help others." That's how their mentor described Danny and Tseganesh Bruk of Rishon LeZion, recent graduates of a three-year JDC empowerment program for Ethiopian-Israelis.
"The first time my 14-year-old son saw me using a cane for the blind he went completely pale with shock. That's when I knew I needed to confront my disability and to find a way to help him deal with it too," says Ella, 40, a working mom whose sight has been degenerating steadily for the past seven years. "Being a parent and a spouse with a visual disability presents a lot of challenges. I needed help overcoming mine."
Struck by tragedy, 23-year-old Avigail was raising her three young sons alone. Find out how JDC's employment training program for disadvantaged Israeli women empowered this Kavkazi immigrant.
Shmuel worried that his withdrawn teenage son Dror was on the brink of self-destructive behavior. Learn how a JDC father and son basketball program got Dror and his teammates off the street and onto the court.


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The Digital TV Switch And Its Impact On Public Safety
A clearer picture wasn't the only good thing to come out of the switch to digital TV on June 12, 2009. In fact, it was a pivotal day for police and public safety technology in general. It was the date all primary over-the-air TV broadcast transmitters ceased transmitting analog signals and moved to new channel assignments broadcasting in a digital format.
Why did this event have such an impact on law enforcement agencies with technology projects, such as those funded under the COPS Technology Program? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reallocated TV channels 63, 64, 68, and 69 for exclusive public safety use. Thus, June 12 marked the date on which public safety could now start implementing systems using this new spectrum—a total of 24 MHz of bandwidth, which almost doubles the historical bandwidth assigned to public safety for wide area mobile coverage.
The potential use of this band goes back to 1999, when the FCC convened the National Coordinating Committee (NCC) to advise it on issues relating to the use of the 24 MHz of spectrum in the 764–776/794–806 MHz frequency bands. Public safety practitioners and subject matter experts, including industry, met and planned for the ordered use of this new spectrum. The major result of the NCC was to divide the 24 MHz of spectrum into a narrowband block and a broadband block.
The narrowband portion was reserved for rather conventional land mobile radio systems. The portion of the 700 MHz reserved for narrowband happens, not incidentally, to be located adjacent to the current 800 MHz allocations.
The result is the ability for law enforcement agencies to consider the inclusion of the new 700 MHz channel in existing systems for expansion of capacity. This was welcome news for many large public safety systems in the major urban areas where all of the existing 800 MHz channels were saturated. Newer radios are capable of bridging the entire range in order to take advantage of this new spectrum.
However, there are qualifications: The FCC added requirements that use of the 700 MHz narrowband must be narrowband digital, specifically Project 25. Other significant features of this band included 32 narrowband channels reserved exclusively for interoperability. This was the first time any channels in any band were designated in a consistent manner nationwide to support interagency and interdiscipline emergency communications.
The result of the narrowband 700 MHz channel allocations enables any public safety agency, that wants to develop a new trunked radio system or expand their existing system, but that had been limited by the lack of available 800 MHz spectrum, to consider a transition to the 700 MHz band. Additionally, those agencies can integrate a much more robust interoperability solution without sacrificing the use of their general use operational channels. The only caveat for these agencies is that the requirement for digital operation may require an upgrade to newer technology in order to comply with the regulations.
The more exciting impact on agencies, such as COPS Technology Program grant recipients whose projects are focused on Mobile Data and interoperable voice communications, is that of the digital switch and new access to 700 MHz spectrum (the allocation reserved for broadband services).
Many public safety agencies, law enforcement included, already rely on commercial broadband wireless access delivered by commercial providers such as Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, or other commercial service providers. (This refers not to the hotspot Wi-Fi technology, but the wide area coverage provided through the use of Aircards connected to laptops.) Those agencies using these services are already experiencing the expanded capabilities that broadband wireless brings to their operation. Whereas the limitations of the narrowband channels used for older mobile data terminal (MDT) operations limited applications to basic text messages and data, wireless broadband provides the bandwidth for graphics, images, and even video.
However, it's been a bumpy road for the 700 MHz broadband allocation. The original distribution of the channel allocations would have been dependent upon Regional Plans administered by Regional Planning Committees similar to the National Standards Policy Advisory Committee 800 MHz allocations. This changed when the FCC determined that the public safety 700 MHz broadband allocation would be assigned to one single nationwide licensee called the Public Safety Broadband Licensee (PSBL).
The entity that received this license was the Public Safety Spectrum Trust, which consists of a consortium of 15 various public safety-oriented associations, including the International Association of Chiefs of Police. The intent was to auction off an additional block of spectrum (called the "D Block") near the public safety block to private/commercial operations. The rules required that the winning bidder could access the public safety spectrum through a sharing agreement with the PSBL. In the end, no bidder bid the minimum amount specified by the FCC, so the FCC has stepped back to reconsider its next move.
The ultimate end game is that the 700 MHz public safety broadband spectrum will be used to implement a form of national, interoperable broadband network. It may be a combination of local agencies creating local networks independently or in cooperation with commercial service entities. Regardless, the national network (or system of networks) will use commercial technology to provide an experience similar to the current commercial wireless broadband services (but even faster).
The difference will be in the basic requirements specified by the PSBL and the FCC. Being interoperable is paramount on the list. If a first responder is able to operate on a system on the West Coast and needs to work an incident on the East Coast, it will happen. Priority access over noncritical shared use is another requirement (yes, other services will have access to the system in order to provide even more economy of scale). The technology of choice will follow the predominate commercial offerings in order to bring both economy of scale and more graceful technology upgrades in the future. No longer will your kids have a better wireless experience than your everyday work system!
Cost is still a barrier, but there are several issues that should help mitigate the raw cost.
First is cost savings by better management of your resources, not to mention the many agencies already paying ± $50/month per unit for commercial service.
Second, the Broadband Initiatives Program and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program driven by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Utility Service and Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration has been soliciting grant applications to assist in deployment of broadband services to rural and under-served areas. While public safety is not a primary target of these grants, the grant language requires the applicants consider public safety in their plans. You will see a mix of schools, states, hospitals, co-ops, and even private enterprise looking for this grant money…and public safety has the extra spectrum required to implement the technology (and leverage the cost of these consortium projects).
Law enforcement agencies planning or implementing a technology project may want to consider aligning with these other grant programs and initiatives to move your project forward.
The Future
Be prepared for big things to come. I, for one, would love to see a conventional-looking 700 MHz public safety handheld providing basic critical public safety voice with a second mode 700 MHz broadband wireless smart phone-like capability all imbedded in the same box. Could it get any better than that?


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My husband has wonderful instincts when it comes to parenting but has no background, isn't really familiar with a lot of parenting techniques, etc. For the most part of DD's life, he has worked ALOT and his good instincts carried him well. Now that she is a toddler and her is around more, certain things that he says are really bothering me and I am looking for advice on how to approach him without seeming like I think I know everything or him thinking that I am overthinking things,etc. The two main things that are bothering me are that he does a lot of overt praise. "Good job! You are such a big girl" Those kinds of things where I tend to feel that that can lead to a child always looking to you for approval instead of finding satisfaction within. The other thing is that he is always saying she is silly or cute when she is being serious. Like she will make a discovery about something, and be very serious and state her discovery in a way that sounds funny to him when she is really making a great connection and he will say that she is so silly or that what she said was cute. I kind of feel like that is telling her that he values her cuteness but isn't showing that he respects her ideas and that she is an important person. Some may say I am being nitpicky, but I am making a conscious effort to work on those things, so it feels like my efforts go out the door when he is not on board. I want to approach him about this, but in a non-threatening way and am looking for advice. Anyone have similar experiences? I was thinking about say that I was working on those things, and this is my reasoning, asking what he thinks about it and then if he seems to agree, telling him I would love to work together on making a conscious effort. But he may think that I am overthinking things, etc and in that case, I don't know what I would do or say. Any suggestions? Thanks! Hopefully I made sense!
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Your example sounds like me and my husband! I also make a conscious effort to relate to my kids in a positive, unconditional way, so I know what you mean about noticing every little thing people say to them. I don't always agree with what my husband says to our kids...it may be too "praising" for my taste or just not at all what I would say to them.
What you said about bringing it up later as something you are working on is exactly what I do, too. At a time when we're not in the moment (when he hasn't just said Good Job! for something that doesn't need it), I'll bring up an article I read and try to start a discussion. (Like this one: 5 Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job.) I'll tell him that it's something I'm going to start working on...being more cognizant of how often I say good job/ use blanket praise.
He may or may not agree with things I'd like to change, but it's important to start the discussion, so at least he is aware. But when it comes right down to it, I have to realize that my husband is a different person than I am, and he's going to have a different relationship with our kids than I am. I've had to come to some level of acceptance that he's not going to parent exactly the same way that I am...as our kids grow (they're 4 1/2 and 6 now), I've been able to see that that really is OK. They're turning out just fine, even when people tell them they're "good"
The other things that have helped my husband and I get on the same page is reading a parenting book & talking about it (Like Unconditional Parenting, by Alfie Kohn), sharing/ emailing articles (again to talk about/ find out where your differences are), going to see speakers (We saw Gordon Neufeld together), and taking a parenting class together (a Positive Discipline class). Again, the point is not to get him to agree with you, but just to open the door for discussion and make everyone more aware of each other's parenting approaches.
Thanks Kelly! I can see how us being different is okay, and sometimes good. I am hoping he will atleast try to reduce those things a little and hopefully I can get him to read some parenting books with me. I think the other problem is that I feel a little disconnected from him, we have both been traveling lately or have had family in town and feeling a little disconnected makes those little things more annoying. I realized this after reflecting a little last night. I am going to wait a week and focus on reconnecting with him, and then try to bring it up as something that I am working on. Thanks for your imput!


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It was a post that seemed to be pretty widely shared and read, but drew no comments, from which I conclude I didn't really say much that was controversial.
This time, I am back to think aloud about things I feel about issues where things are still up in the air. The same qualifiers I made in the last post apply, I am not an "expert", my familiarity is mostly with Summon and to lesser degree EDS etc.
Be warned it's a long ramble.
1. Are Blended results a good idea? Or should we implement Bento style search results?
The original incentive for discovery services, was because users were telling us they wanted a "one-search" to put all our results regardless of content type (particularly journal articles which were not in catalogues) into a single search "like google", instead of going to a separate silo for each type of content.
As such it seemed obvious, that the difficult part was to get all your content into a single index (those pesky content providers needed to agree), and presentation of results was a single matter of using relevancy ranking techniques similar to what web search engines do to order then.
However, currently doubts have began to surface about the wisdom of mixing up all the search results from different content types such as books, journal articles, newspaper articles etc together in one result list (the so called blended search model).
Some have pointed out that even Google has silos, for example the main google search does not (usually see later) mix up results from the main google search with Google books, Google Scholar, Google news.
So what is to be done? An attempt is to improve that is becoming popular is to do a "bento style" results list, with results segregated by content types. Many University Libraries around the world such as Columbia University Library, NCSU State University Library, Princeton University Libraries, Dartmouth etc are doing so.
A point of clarification, I consider both simple two column style interfaces with "Books & more" and "Articles" columns (e.g Villanova University's Vufind implementation is probably the most well known example) or results with multiple boxes (say NCSU's example) as both examples of bento style.
As noted here , there are different ways to achieve this from libraries loading the discovery index into open source systems such as VuFind, Blacklight, Xeres, or those who create their own custom jumping off webpage.
Why are bento style interfaces better? (What follows is mostly analysis given here)
First, it eases the burden on the relevancy algorithm, as currently the relevancy system must decide how to rank items from totally different content types with totally different amount of data to work with (eg some are full-text available, some metadata only)
Secondly, by including only a "book" or "books &more/catalog" bento box, it caters for faculty and research staff who care only for those items. This also can indirectly solve the known item search issue for books.
Thirdly there is mixed evidence on whether the blended style is what users want according to a bibliographic Wilderness blog post. My own personal experience handling user feedback on Summon implementation here is that
i) As already mentioned, discovery services make finding of catalogue material occasionally harder, you can always filter for them but it slows down the process.
ii) Less experienced users have a big problem trying to differentiate material types, and discovery services often don't highlight such differences clearly, so there are users who can't tell the different between a ebook and a online book review, or have problems telling if a certain content type is a newspaper article or a journal article. For discovery services like Summon that have a lot of newspaper article content this can lead to less experienced users producing poor citations. This is one of (but not only) the reasons this paper concluded that EDS users produced better citations for a assignment as judged by Librarians
Lastly, by implementing your own interface layer which is what is required if you want a bento style interface, you are protected from future changes in discovery providers as you can retain the same interface, just plugin results via API.
The main issue here of course is that implementing such bento style systems requires quite a bit of work. It's unclear if the big 4 web scale discovery services will start to roll out native interfaces that offer bento style results, but Summon 2.0 is rolling out a alternative model, called content spotlighting showing "grouped results" for some content types.
This draws inspiration I believe from how Google sometimes embeds results from Google News into a web search. Below shows our a web search for "Nexus 7" gets you mostly web pages but in the 3rd result, you see results from Google news.
And of course Summon 2.0 has the same idea.
In the above exanple, you see a grouped result for newspaper articles, where Summon 2.0 highlights the top 3 ranked newspaper articles in the midst of other results, and if you click on "news results for...." it will just show newspaper articles.
It has been announced this grouping will work for "Reference" material as well as possibly other content types in the future (I am hoping for "book reviews").
I would add that, this idea isn't new in Library systems, our version of Encore/Encore Synergy for example, is actually the reverse of Summon 2.0, where it shows catalogue results, with selected journal articles appearing in the middle of results.
2. How should we cater for advanced users who have needs for advanced features in discovery systems? Or should we even do so?
One of the greatest frustrations by librarians and advanced users with regards to discovery systems besides relevancy is they tend to compare the features they have in databases and wonder why discovery systems lack them.
Some of this could be due to fundamental limitations in the discovery service. For example, one could never have a controlled vocabulary system like MESH for all articles (with all the included benefits such as browsing capabilities, thearsui etc) in a discovery service because the items in a discovery service all come from different sources. Not without huge amount of efforts to do crosswalks anyway and even that might not be possible.
Similarly one could never have extremely obscure granular filters /features of use for just a given discipline (e.g A way to search for chemical reactions like scifinder?).
On the other hand, some features are I think relatively trivial and could be added for example when I was in the Greater China serialssolutions meeting, a librarian asked for sort by times cited function similar to what is in Scopus etc.
On the practical level, I can see some possible obstacles to this feature, but the fundamental question is, should we include a feature set used by a very very small percentage of users?
Here's how I see it, because there is a limit to how many features you can squeeze into the discovery interface, I see 2 paths
1. Put in a small set of most commonly used standard features from native databases + unique features that only discovery services can have due to the scope, or to address specific issues of discovery.
2. Put in as many standard features you see in most other native interfaces
Path one would make discovery a unique tool in the toolkit of searchers that would complement native databases.
Path two would make the discovery search a closer substitute of native databases and reduce the need to use multiple tools.
Which path is better?
One wonders though if something like SciVerse Application Framework was implemented for discovery services, where developers could make plugin/gadgets for Sciverse Scopus and offer them for use.
Users could shop for and add the ones they want.
This allows a customization at the level of each user, so you wouldn't have a one size fits all interface. Institutions could set default applications/plugins but users would be free to turn on or off the ones they wanted.
There many be practical implications though in terms of reuse of data?
Undergraduates vs advanced users
Another dimension to this issue is, what is the target audience of discovery services?
Serialssolutions' line tends to be Summon does not replace traditional databases (whether full text or A&I) and that there is always a place for it. The line goes is that Summon is good for undergraduates as a starting or jumping up point to find good enough articles but they should also go to databases for more serious research.
Ebscohost's EDS, tries to differentiate itself by claiming their service is for everyone not just undergraduates, fitting the needs of more advanced users as well.
In a page titled "Beyond undergraduate" - the page read "If a discovery service should truly encompass a university's entire collection, shouldn't it also cater to its entire user base? With an unparalleled user experience and the inclusion of important subject indexes used at the graduate and post-graduate level via Inclusion of Subject Indexes, EDS is poised to debunk the myth that discovery is merely an "undergraduate" resource."
I would say you can see this focus from not just the attempt to focus on indexes but the amount of searching options built-in for EDS. Of course this is because EDS is built-off the existing ebsco platform, but as a librarian who loves control, EDS interface appeals to me.
So we basically have a difference of philosophy here it seems. EDS is designed for the advanced users, with a multitude of search features while Summon is designed with a fewer but well chosen set of features that the majority use.
As we shall see later in #3, in general EDS also pushes users to discover content even if the library does not have direct access to it, a feature that is good for advanced users but confusing to less advanced ones.
The implication of this is EDS would likely capture a greater portion of advanced users compared to Summon, because Summon lacks some of the advanced search features, such users are used to.
NOTE : EDS is actually essentially already a database platform though it does include non-ebsco content which explains why it has more native database features in the first place.
Would that imply that the displacement effect where more users are no longer searching in the native databases compared in the discovery service be even stronger in EDS compared to Summon? We already see this impact for Summon, but what about EDS? More research needed here.
I can't imagine a world where EDS or any discovery has totally killed off use of native interfaces, because some do provide very unique value propositions (e.g Scifinder, Pubmed, Scopus), but I do imagine a philosophy that tends towards EDS's could potentially be more disruptive to native interfaces as compared to Summon's complementary to database approach.
I would add that the earlier discussion of "standard features from native databases" vs "unique to discovery features" is probably independent of the target audience question as both approaches would be valuable to all types of users.
3. Should discovery services provide full text only results or include results with abstract only by default? Should they only search the metadata or full-text by default?
Should discovery services show only items the library owns either as a physical copy or has full-text only (by default), or should we show items that we may not have access to?
The argument for showing only items that are available in the library or full-text, is that the heaviest users of such services are undergraduates and they carry on the mindset from catalogues to library web scale discovery services (after all both are default searches), where everything you list in the catalogue, you can get.
So if you list items you can't get immediately (also some libraries don't offer or offer limited document delivery services or interlibrary loans to undergraduates) , they get upset.
Summon itself by default mostly positions itself to show full-text only (either free or subscription matching your holdings), though there are exceptions where you will see "citation only" results.
For example, if you include Abstract & indexing databases (A&I databases), open access, free packages which are "All or nothing" ("Zero title databases" in Serialssolutions speak) and other Institutional repositories you may see "citation only" results.
There are two situations where you may see citation online results
a) Pre-login
b) Post login
Typically pre-login you won't see any citation online items, except in rare situations. Below shows one example.
Additional note, many institution repositories packages , journal packages, free A&Is may be "all or nothing" (e.g Proquest dissertation and thesis, Henry Stewart talks), so the moment you turn it on, you get the whole set of results whether you have access to each item or not. There is no matching to your holdings.
Most A&Is do not allow display of their results to unauthenticated users so in Summon, the results from A&I databases are less problematic since most of them (Web of Science. MLA etc) do not provide metadata for free, so will require users to login first before searching, something most users won't do, so only experienced users who go looking for it will find it.
As shown above EDS will show results like #4, where you will have to login to see the item from a restricted A&I source (mostly like but not always something you have no full-text access). This is unlike Summon, where you would be unaware such a result exists unless you logged-in first.
Which model is better?
Even leaving this difference aside with regards to A&I, somewhat interestingly for EDS, there is a limiter called "Available in Library Collection" (this means physical and full text online) .
It's somewhat confusing what it does (explanation here), but I would guess it would roughly be the flipside of Summon's "Add results beyond your library's collection", which will show the whole index of Summon (less restricted A&I) items.
So if in EDS you do not have "Available in Library Collection" on , you will see unsubscribed content from say Jstor appearing I believe.
If we go by the premise that the default settings are the ones that you don't need to turn on, it would seem in EDS the recommended default is to show results even if there are not available in the library collection?
Of course, this might be a simple artifact of the existing ebsco platform, in any case some libraries like MIT library currently do not have this on by default.
Overall though, It seems to me EDS libraries will usually tend to show more citation results to users than Summon and it's unclear to me which model is actually better. I guess it depends on the sophistication of users you are dealing with. EDS may be positioning itself to deal with more advanced users.
Matching on metadata vs fulltext
A somewhat smaller issue I have been pondering on, is whether the search should by default match full-text + metadata or just metadata. While full-text searching is more powerful in theory, there are complaints that the relevancy ranking systems of discovery services is often not good enough and often surface irrelevant content because of some chance matching in full-text of books or articles.
I have seen EDS libraries with either option on or off by default, libraries that do not have "Searched full text of articles", are generally saying they don't want to rely on full-text matching, because of poor results particularly for known item search?
In Summon, there is no option to restrict search to just metadata generally, though there was a recent algorithm changed that by default, would restrict matching in full-text to within 200 words which can help combat the issue where the keywords appear pages apart but are totally irrelevant. Adding quotes (the sign of a "advanced user") would turn this function off. As of Oct 2013, this seems to be removed.
4. Will Discovery services lead to the decline of Abstracting and Indexing services?
Are A & I Services in a Death Spiral? considers only the impact of Google Scholar without even considering the effect of Discovery services which only hastens the trend.
Particularly as a new generation of researchers grow up, always having access to full-text the idea of "abstract only" results is extremely alien. Even now, I get graduate students who express shock that there are results with no full-text, "What is the point of including them then?" they ask.
Currently more A&I content is being fed into discovery systems (something that I wouldn't have expected), with Scopus and Web of Science working with the main discovery services. In addition, Summon itself now supports ERIC, MLA and over 100 A&I databases.
EDS covers even more A&I and boasts of Platform blending , it was explained to me by a EDS vendor that this was unique to EDS and the only way certain A&I content holders like APA would allow their content to be included in a discovery service. You might also want to see the following exchange of letters between Ebsco, Ex Libris and Orbis-Cade alliance saying the same thing.
So it seems the future of A&Is are secure given that you can't cancel them without losing the content in discovery.
But the question is, how much of this content is actually unique? We no longer live in a world where you needed to use A&I to check if something exists.Most publishers of content are perfectly happy to push their metadata to as many places as possible, be it Google Scholar, or discovery services.
In many cases, a unrestricted search of a discovery's index ("search beyond library collection" in Summon) provides as good a index as the A&Is.
While it is true that a lot of this data is not retrospective and may miss out some of the more obscure content providers, as time passes this becomes a smaller problem has discovery services become ever more encompassing bringing in even non-english content providers.
A&Is do hold an edge in better indexing but it's a open question how much this helps which brings us to the next issue......
5. How much metadata is needed for good relevancy? Is "thin metadata + full text" sufficient?
This is a age old debate with EDS obviously claiming this is of greater importance due to their better store of index terms compared to rivals. It is however extremely difficult to measure the additional relevancy boosts as a result of this so it's unlikely we will see this resolved.
As stated in 8 things we know about web scale discovery systems in 2013 the head to head tests are mixed.
A common idea floating around is that while Google can do world class relevancy ranking with mainly full-text and little indexing, they have advantages library can't match due to their willingness to track users and use signals that libraries can't and won't do.
6. Will Discovery services lead to the decline of OPAC? Or a new breath of life?
The traditional discovery service will harvest MARC records from the ILS then display the results in the discovery search results, but the amount you click on the result, it will direct you to the traditional catalogue.
Recently the thinking seems to be that this leads to poor usability as the user will suddenly be dropped into a totally different interface that can be jarring.
There seems to be three approaches to solving this.
a. Library discovery vendors who are already ILS vendors eg Ex Ex Libris offer a combined product with Primo Central.
b. Library discovery vendors partner with ILS vendors eg Ebsco discovery service partners with Innovative Interfaces Encore and other ILS
c. Libraries using open source interfaces eg Vufind and piping in Discovery index results - basically a DIY version of b.
All third approaches are interesting that make the library catalogue the base, and pipe in results from the discovery service index. You get back the familiar catalogue (hopefully next generation catalog) interface, you can do loan related transactions directly from the interface (eg place holds).
There is also no time delay where you catalogue a record in your ILS and it doesn't show up in your discovery service.
The interesting thing that occurs to me with this arrangement is, how would relevancy be done? Would we really be talking of one combined index of catalogue results and discovery results?
Presumably this would be the case in option a) where the ILS and discovery vendor are the same. But in cases of b) and c) where the API is used, it seems to me relevancy would be a bit more difficult.
This has been a long rambling post, hope it was of some value.
BTW If you want to keep up with articles, blog posts, videos etc on web scale discovery, do consider subscribing to my custom magazine curated by me on Flipboard or looking at the bibliography on web scale discovery services)


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DKM, Is that a plain pizza pan you put the crust on or is that a pizza screen? From the picture it looks like a plain aluminum pizza pan.Lee
Sorry, missed your question. It is a standard cutter pan (like they use for a PI/PH thin crust)DKM


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Emery High drama department and the Emery County Sheriff's Office emergency team responded to Emery High for a mock drill. Each spring before school lets out for the summer the two team up for training. The training is important for the responders to learn the layout of the school in the event of an emergency. Neal Peacock is the drama teacher at Emery High and the students are glad to help out as they play the parts of injured students and the role of the criminals in the event.
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"The fact that I am difable (differently abled) has been the most powerful spirit in my life. Living with this condition has enabled me to make a difference and contribute to social justice for other difable people. I perceive this condition as a gift from God which becomes a unique strength in my life." Risnawati Utami, IFP Fellow, Indonesia
Risnawati Utami was affected by polio when she was four years old. Throughout her life, she has had experiences in her home country of Indonesia that opened her eyes to the ways difable people like herself are denied fair treatment. Despite these odds, Risnawati excelled at school and strived to reach her higher education goals. With her intellect as her ally, she was able to study law at Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta in Central Java.
Risnawati's passionate advocacy for difable health care policies led her to work for an Indonesian NGO that promotes rights and access for medical services. In 2004, she won a fellowship through the Ford International Fellowships Program (IFP) to study health policy and management at Brandeis University in the U.S. While at Brandeis, Risnawati established a relationship with an international NGO striving for difable rights, and helped to bring more than 3,000 wheelchairs for difable children and adults to Indonesia.
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What happens when you expose spiders to LSD, Marijuana and pure caffeine? You get the most amazing abstract web patterns—the inspiration behind the Helmut Lang Pre-Fall 2012 Collection. If you've ever been unsure about rocking a pair of printed jeans, then the spider web art on jeans might change your mind. After studying photographs of these webs, husband and wife design team Nicole and Michael Colovos injected the web patterns throughout this collection. You'll find the intoxicated web creations printed or as burnouts on the jeans. Could these be the new It Jeans? Helmut Lang clothing remains both hard with razor cut angles and soft with fluid draping; while, its range of skinny jeans and cropped, baggy drop-crotch pants, serve as the constant.
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Check out Denim Hunt's recent showroom visit for more images. Images via Style.com.
—Kathy Ng Hassan
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Learn how I grow my own food:
Learn how I grow my own food:
Last edited by Thomas W; 05-05-2010 at 06:36 AM.
my parents planted them years ago (2 bushes). the rest have grown off the root system of the original two. we are dividing them this season in the fall. as far as the soil...my mother never did a huge amount of amending the soil. i know she would fill the hole with cow manure and maybe some peat moss thouroughly mixed together and she watered like crazy for a week or two. that was it. good luck, they are a fun fruit to grow.
here are some updated pics...tomatoes and zucchini are growing well as are the yellow crook neck squash. my pole beans are taller than the trellis and more blossoms on more plants each and every day.
Thanks for the pics. We hope to have some of our own up in a few days.
I hope you like these:
Happy Gardening All,
-Kristina K.
Urban Farm Wife
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Canada wins second match U23 Pan American Men's Volleyball CupLANGLEY, B.C. (September 27, 2012) — Canada, represented by the Trinity Western University Spartans, earned its second win at the Men's U23 Pan American Cup on Thursday night, sweeping the Dominican Republic 25-18, 27-25, 27-25.
Dan Jansen Van Doorn of Langley and Bradley Kufske of Abbotsford, B.C., were the top scorers for Canada, with 13 points apiece, while Nick del Bianco of Surrey, B.C., scored 11, and Branden Schmidt of Winton, Alta., 10.
"We came out with the appropriate energy and we execute our skills at a higher level. Our block defence is what pushed us to the win. Dominican played great and pushed us late but it worked out for us in the end," said Canadian captain Jarrod Offereins.
"I thought our blocking was the difference tonight.," added Canada's head coach Ben Josephson. "Their passing was good but our blocking was able to stop some of their great athletes. Our goal was to slow their attackers down and we did just enough to win."
With the win, Canada improves to two wins and no losses and is tied with Brazil and Argentina which also have two wins. The Dominicans and Mexico are winless. The top-two in the standings advance to the final on Sunday while third and fourth play for the bronze.
In Thursday's other match Brazil handed Argentina its first loss winning 25-20, 31-29, 25-18.
Canada faces Brazil on Friday night at 8 p.m., and Argentina on Saturday night, also at 8 p.m.
To buy tickets for the U-23 Pan American Volleyball Cup, go to www.langleyeventscentre.com or go to the TWU Bookstore on the Trinity Western University campus.
All matches for the event are being streamed live and are available on a pay per view basis through the following links:
For more information: www.norceca.net, www.volleyball.ca, http://twu.ca/athletics/


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Tory Burch, who just so happens to make some of our favorite jeans ever (have you scoped out her perfect low-rise wide leg dark wash jeans?), will be holding a live web stream this morning at 9:30AM, as part of WWD CEO Summit. Want a front row seat to the first ever live stream of this event? You've got it! WWD will live stream Tory's presentation on the WWD Facebook page. She'll discuss theimpact of social media on telling the Tory Burch brand story and connecting with and creating an engaged community. The attendees to the WWD CEO Summit will include top execs from Barneys, Gilt Groupe, Bottega Veneta and more. Don't miss it!
—DT Staff
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Eric Cigan, MathWorks
Jordon Inkeles, Altera
Learn how many companies are reducing FPGA design cycle time by 33-50% or more by adopting workflows based on MATLAB and Simulink. In this presentation, engineers from MathWorks and Altera demonstrate how MATLAB and Simulink are used to design FPGAs for applications such as signal processing, image processing, communications, and control systems.
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About the Presenters:
Eric Cigan is in MathWorks technical marketing supporting FPGA design workflows. Prior to joining MathWorks, he held technical marketing roles at MathStar, AccelChip, and Mentor Graphics. Eric earned BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jordon Inkeles is the senior product manager for Altera's software and DSP products. He has been with Altera for over 12 years in various product marketing and corporate marketing management roles. Prior to joining Altera, he held marketing and applications engineering roles at Semtech and Xicor.
Product Focus
- Simulink HDL Coder
- Altera DSP Builder
Recorded: 05 October 2011


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The first annual geocache event was held recently at Goblin Valley State Park. The event took place on Aug. 11 after dark. Prizes were given away at the pavilion.
The park rangers had prepared two courses. Along one of the courses you followed GPS coordinates and found golf balls.
Those finding the golf balls won a round of golf at the Green River Golf Course.
During the nighttime event 55-60 people participated. During the night they would find reflectors and answer questions. From each cannister at the GPS location they would select a number.
The lowest score won after all the stops. Participants enjoyed a potluck dinner and the State Parks provided ice cream sundaes.
Saturday morning a junior ranger program was held for the children where park rangers showed the children different plants and animals that can be found at the park. The state parks also created a coin for the event which they sold to the participants and now have available to the public.
Prizes were given away at the pavillion.
State Park Ranger for Goblin Valley and Green River State Park, Eugene Swalberg felt the first event was a success and the park looks forward to repeating the event in the future.


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Great Escape Inn
Get an overview of this hotelHotel in Lauderdale-by-the-Sea with free parking
Situated near the beach, this hotel is 0.5 mi (0.9 km) from Anglins Fishing Pier and 1.9 mi (3 km) from Benefit Mall. Hugh Taylor Birch State Park and Bonnet House Museum and Gardens are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
An outdoor pool, laundry facilities, and barbecue grills are available at this hotel. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided.
Room Amenities
All 12 rooms offer free WiFi, coffee makers, and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Other amenities available to guests include free bottled water, hair dryers, and free toiletries.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Great Escape Inn
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Great Escape Inn features an outdoor pool, barbecue grills, and laundry facilities. High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Year Built 1955
- Outdoor pool
- Total number of rooms - 12
- Number of floors - 2
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Pool umbrellas
- Free WiFi
- Laundry facilities
- Free self parking
- Beach umbrellas
- Pool sun loungers
- Beach towels
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free bottled water
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Free WiFi
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Surfing/boogie boarding nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Water skiing nearby
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- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Segway rental/tour nearby
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Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
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Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Pets not allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
No cribs (infant beds) available
No elevators
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- Great Escape Inn
- Great Escape Inn Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
- Great Escape Lauderdale-by-the-Sea
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Up to 2 children 11 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Alcohol is not served at this property.


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Mountains, by Karina Eibatova $30
The Working Proof has prints by a variety of talented artists, all contributing a wide variety of mediums and genres of art to their site. Each artist chooses a charity that their specific print will contribute 15% of proceeds to like the above Mountains, by Karina Eibatova, supports RestoreNYC. There is soe really beautiful work on here and with each purchase you support something like Pediatric AIDS foundation or the deer print below by Jenny Kim that goes to Puppies Behind Bars making you feel pretty darn good about your hand-earned cash.


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A Centennial State tradition, the Colorado Renaissance Festival has just two Saturdays and two Sundays left this summer.
So before it passes you by, head on down to Larkspur and kneel to the King and Queen, take an elephant ride, watch some fire-breathing entertainment and enjoy a late-afternoon joust while enjoying a turkey leg and cold beverage.
The festival, which brings the medieval out in many, features fine art, fare of the times, rides for the kids and more. For more information, visit www.coloradorenaissance.com.


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By CHRIS JUSTICEHuntington
Dear Editor,
I am concerned with the new classification proposal that would move Emery back down to 2A. Our region would consist of Grand County, Monticello, San Juan, and Monument Valley. Emery has, for the most part, been able to compete and excel at the 3A level. We would lose our natural rival in Carbon. The travel time would be absolutely unacceptable. On a trip to Monument Valley the kids would arrive home between 2 and 3 a.m. San Juan and Monticello are long road trips with little to no freeway. It would be hard on kids and parents alike.
I would hope the school administration and school board would take a hard look at this to see what is in the best interest of the school. Some people say we cannot compete at the 3A level, especially in the sports that require larger numbers of kids (i.e. football). We are actually only 4 years removed from a state championship game in football. There is talent to be there again at some point in the future. This goes for both girls and boys athletics.
Also, if we think that we will dominate just because we would be in this new classification we are only fooling ourselves. There are good players and teams at the 2A level. It is not about lowering the competition, it is about raising your game to meet the challenge the other team presents. I know, with the kids and coaches we have at Emery High, this is possible. I am realistic about leveling the playing field, but going to 2A, especially that region, would be a mistake. I would hope we would act against this.


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