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Lee County volunteers win two at conference
Lee County Master Gardeners were awarded the Outstanding Association Award for Mississippi for 2012 during last week's Mississippi Master Gardener Conference in Brookhaven.
"The nine-page application we submitted is what won us the award," said Susan McGukin, program associate for volunteer management at Mississippi State University's Extension Service for Lee County. "We documented everything, all of the 15 volunteer service projects we have, including our Learning Series and other presentations for the public."
The volunteer group also won the Educational Program Award for its biweekly gardening articles published in the Home section of the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal.
New book covers upholstery basics
Whether you just want to re-cover a drop-in seat or reupholster an entire chair, Hannah Stanton's "Style, Stitch, Staple" can help you through the process.
The basic upholstery guide covers the skills needed for a variety of upholstery projects. Stanton, a designer and upholsterer, introduces readers to the tools and supplies used in the craft and teaches them how to refresh their furniture, from fixing a frame to giving their upholstery professional-looking details such as piping and tufting.
What's new: Bag clip closes large sacks
Handy Camel is like a chip clip on steroids.
The oversize bag clip is 12 inches long, big enough to close bags of garden soil, deicer, charcoal and other bulky items. The hinged device grips the bag securely and has a built-in handle to make carrying the bags easier.
The clip can be adjusted on the bag for use as a pouring handle, too.
The Handy Camel costs $14.95, or four for $44.85. Shipping is $8.95.
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Derby to third tomorrow...
Derby to third tomorrow...
Any updates on the Open and the amateur? Thank you!
Open callbacks to 4th. 15,23,27,33,37,40,41,44,55,64,79. 11 dogs.
Amateur callbacks to 3rd. 2,4,5,10,12,13,21,22,23,24,26,30,32,33,34,37,39,49 ,51,52. 20 dogs.
Congrats everyone!!
Congrats Kenny Trott &Marcy Wright at Horsetooth Retrievers 2nd and a Jam in the Derby. Stanley your Mom Kathy Fregelette, and second mother Marcy Wright give you a BIG high five for the 2nd ,And also for making the Derby List!!! great job to all of you.
Dave Hare
CFC-CAFC Maralan's C.E.O.
Horsetooth's Otto Know 2012 National Derby List
Berkshire's Bad Medicine Doc
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R.I.P-Klondike's Chocolate Charger-MH 4 Time Ducks Unlimited Retriever of the year MN.
How did the Open and Amateur turn out? Can someone post the results? Thank you!
All second hand info, but I'll do my best:
1st - Tie (I think) - Rorem
2nd - Pride - Eckett
3rd - ? - Schweikert
4th - ? - Beck
RJ - Taco - Morehouse
Not sure of JAMs.
1st - Hines
2nd - Skochenski
3rd - Schweikert
4th - Enmon
Not sure of JAMs.
Congrats everyone!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!! To O/Jim Carlisle, H/Isaac Langerud, & Zoom's Viking Warrior "Leif" for WINNING the Derby at the Northwest MO RC Fall FT on 10/28/12. Excellent job Isaac
Also BIG CONGRATS!!! To O/Troy Sporer, H/Clint Avant, & "Tug" Boat VIII for capturing the 3rd place ribbon in the derby. This is Tug's first derby placement while running agaisnt his litter mate Leif. Way to go Clint.
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Congratulations to all, but especially to:
Chuck Schweikert, who had a pretty good weekend
And to the Zoom/Tootsie littermates who took three of the derby placements (your little sister - Freeridin Total Recall 9.7- is rooting you all on)
Competition does not build character - It reveals it.
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Golden Pom-poms waving for Wayne and Bailey.
15pts in 1 yr. for any dog as a 4 yr old is outstanding. Bailey is one hell of a Golden bitch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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1. These stylin' roller skates:
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2. Or a fresh pair of Moon Shoes/shoes that will wreck your ankles:
Via amazon.com
3. The best movie tie-in ever, the Talkboy:
4. A robot dog that does flips, the Poo-chi:
5. The hip alternative to the Game Boy:
Via sega.wikia.com
6. Or the original Game Boy:
Via break.com
7. Or maybe the ORIGINAL MP3 player:
8. Lazer Tag: the much less wet alternative to Super Soakers:
9. Yak Baks:
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11. Hot Shot Basketball:
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12. A whole bunch of sweet, sweet orange tapes:
13. Or the original portable DVD player:
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14. One of these bad boys:
15. The Rolls-Royce of two-wheeled vehicles:
Via toysrus.com
16. Or the Rolls-Royce of finger transportation:
Via mightyape.com.au
17. The board game with the best jingle ever:
18. Quite possibly the most stressful game ever made:
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19. See-through phones:
Via etsy.com
20. An oven that uses a lightbulb but still somehow makes delicious, EZ food:
21. An Echo Mic:
22. Tamagotchis, a fake pet that somehow still poops everywhere:
23. An even faker pet that still poops everywhere, Digimon:
Via dafont.com
24. Velcro Catch:
Via diytrade.com
Via thisoldtoy.com
26. The future of art:
Via indulgy.com
27. Or just every art supply you ever need:
Via pinterest.com
28. Or just these strange, strange things:
Via rsvlts.com
30. Or maybe Gak's strange, mutant cousin, Floam:
31. Sky Dancers, a fun toy that will also knock out your eye:
Via tumblr.com
32. K'Nex…
Via knex.com
33. Or Legos. Choose your own adventure:
Via eurobricks.com
34. Zoo Books:
35. Super Soakers:
Via nerf.wikia.com
36. Any game with these guys in them:
Via tvtropes.org
37. A brand-new sports car:
Via failepicfail.com
38. Or a brand-new SUV:
39. A fresh, new pack of crayons hot off the presses:
40. Or a brand-spankin'-new pack of these bad boys:
Via joyreactor.com
41. A sweet-smelling Koosh:
42. The original digital camera:
Via ready4qa.com
43. Fine trivia:
44. A brand-new map:
Via amazon.com
45. A Skip-It, because everyone needs the "ball and chain" experience:
Via hercampus.com
46. New kicks:
Via kotaku.com.au
47. Polly Pocket:
48. Or Mighty Max:
49. 24-carat jelly jewelry:
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50. And a bunch of Beanie Babies, which will all definitely be worth thousands of dollars some day:
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Losing your virginity, or having sex for the first time, is an important life event for a lot of people.
Some feel really strongly about saving their first time sex for someone special, or until they've reached a certain age. Others feel that sex should be saved until after marriage.
Whatever sex means to you, deciding when the time is right is a very personal decision. Regardless of your intentions, some people's first time works out exactly how they want it to, and other people's may not. Even if you regret it, how you move forward is what matters most.
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Stanley A. Watters
Stanley A. Watters, 66, of Potosi, Wisconsin, died on Sunday, February 17, 2013 at his home.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, February 21, 2013 at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Tennyson. Rev. Richard Leffler will officiate. Burial will be at Rock Church Cemetery, Livingston. Friends may call from 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Melby Funeral Home & Crematory, Platteville, where there will be a scripture wake service at 3:45 p.m., or friends may call from 9:00 a.m. until the time of the service on Thursday at the church. Memorials may be made to the Stanley A. Watters Memorial Fund. Online condolences can be made at www.melbyfh.com
Stanley was born on September 24, 1946 in Platteville, Wisconsin, the son of Clinton and Alice (Stoeffler) Watters. He was united in marriage to Belva Kopp on November 14, 1964 in Platteville. She preceded him in death on February 10, 1997. He worked for Georgia Pacific in Dubuque for many years as a graphic artist. Stan retired from Land's End, Dodgeville where he was Catalog Production Supervisor. Stan was a member of St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Tennyson. He enjoyed coin collecting. Stan loved to spend time with his family, especially at his brother's, Jim's, Watters Edge Resort on Lake Tomahawk.
He is survived by his three children, Paula Langmeier of Platteville; Susan (Jim) Udelhoven of Potosi; Peter Watters of Virginia Beach; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren with one to be born in April; brother, Jim (Pat) Watters of Lake Tomahawk, WI; two sisters, Betty (Ernie) Johnson of Monroe, WI; Mary Bresee of Jefferson, WI; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death also by his parents, infant son, Robert Anthony, grandson, Kelly Watters, and brothers, Melvin and Robert.


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Yo Ho Ho & a bottle of JENKEM....
Yo Ho Ho & a bottle of JENKEM....
Someone's going to make that into a new video game!
"It's not that government is inherently stupid, although that's a debatable question."
Rand Paul CPAC speech 2011
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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co-owned by HR Rianne's 2nd Chance Hurricane Rebel
Them skinnys out surrendered the frogs.
Quick on the reach for the sky thing regards
There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
Except that what's not reported in that story is the French turned them all loose....because they didn't actually 'fire' on the French ship.In other words, the pirates tossed all their AKs and RPGs overboard before the French could find them. So they could play the race card and claim dey wuz just poor fishermen trying to make a living.Only one pirate was left on board the mother ship which had nothing on board except fuel and potates, according to Lt. Commander le Quilliec.
"He apparently thought the pirates had hijacked us," he said.
Give the poor lads time, they'll find another humanitarian aid vessel with an unarmed crew to steal. Nasty filthy Sea Thugs. Frenchmen should've just shot, sank and shut up!
Julie- you are my kinda girl
Raised right regards
There are three classes of people: those who see...those who see when shown...and those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
The Navy should have a Sniper Badge for their uniform for confirmed SEAL sniper kills. Maybe in the shape of a skull with a hole through it. Also allow a requalification bar for 2nd Award, 3rd Award, 4th Award, etc.
Not the Seals' kind of thing They rather prefer being legends.
Nothing made me more mad then BLAma OBLA BLAHama's lack of support for taking out the pirate's while the cap'tn was on the swim.
Smoke them if you got them in hand as they say -- and we aren't talking cigars. You can't talk stupid out of some people.
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Einstein's view of the universe focus of Binghamton University Art Museum exhibit
Creative interpretations of Einstein's model of the space-time universe will be the focus of an exhibition at the Binghamton University Art Museum.
The exhibition, After Einstein: Art and Architecture with a Cosmic Perspective, opens January 24 and runs through February 28 in the Permanent Collection, room 179 of the Fine Arts building. The exhibition comes to Binghamton after a successful two-month stint at the New York Academy of Sciences in New York City. On view will be works by Hans Arp, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Gino Cantarelli, Man Ray and Edward Steichen as well as photographs revealing Bruno Taut's, Mies van der Rohe's, and Erich Mendelsohn's new concepts of architecture. The exhibition also includes a 20-minute video featuring Einstein's theory of relativity, with animation provided by pioneering animator Max Fleischer, the creator of Betty Boop.
The exhibition, consisting of 12 pieces of original artwork and photographs, is curated by Lynn Gamwell, director of the Art Museum.
"In 1919, Einstein's theory of relatively was confirmed when astronomers recorded the curvature of light by the sun's gravitational field during a dramatic solar eclipse," said Gamwell. "This event brought to international attention Einstein's powerful vision of cosmic unity, in which matter and energy, space and time, are inextricably bound together in a four-dimensional universe."
Gamwell noted that in the atmosphere of dread following the devastation of World War I, many artists found comfort in Einstein proclamation of the unity and rational order of the natural world. For example, artists who painted in styles of geometric abstraction, such as Theo Van Doesburg, vowed to create an art in keeping with the new cosmic space-time by adding the fourth dimension of time to their static Euclidian compositions.
"Surrealists such as Man Ray and Max Ernst made an analogy between the surreal space-time universe and the bizarre world of their dreams and fantasies," she added.
The After Einstein exhibition is free and open to the public Tuesday to Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m., and Thursdays until 7 p.m. The Museum is closed Sundays and Mondays. For more information, contact the Binghamton University Art Museum at (607) 777-2634.


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Total population: 25,241,998 (July 2011 est.)
GDP per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2011 est.)
Total expenditure on health per capita (Intl $, 2009): $122
In-country partner: Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (Dr. Emmanuel Ameyaw)
Located in West Africa, Ghana sits on the Gulf of Guinea between Togo and Cote d'Ivoire. In 1957 it became the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence from Britain.
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Commenced support: 2012
Communication began in August 2011 with a Ghanaian doctor undergoing training as the country's first paediatric endocrinologist. He had just opened Ghana's only paediatric diabetes and endocrinology clinic, located in Kumasi – until now, children and youth with diabetes have been treated in adult clinics. LFAC will support the centre with insulin, educational materials, and other supplies.


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Saving the Bay through education, advocacy, litigation, and restoration.
More than 90 percent of Virginia voters support the Commonwealth's plan to restore the Chesapeake Bay and want the next governor to move forward on implementing the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint, the federal-state plan to restore the Bay, according to new bipartisan polling. View the press release.
The bipartisan research team of Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates (D) and Public Opinion Strategies (R) recently completed a survey of Virginia voters to evaluate public perceptions about the quality of water in the State, the Virginia economy, and Virginia's plan to clean up the waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Following are excerpts of their memo summarizing their results Download the memo in PDF format
TO: Interested Parties FROM: David Metz and Rachel Weiler Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates Lori Weigel Public Opinion StrategiesRE: Virginia Voter Support for the Clean-Up of the Chesapeake Bay DATE: August 9, 2013
From July 21-24, 2013, FM3 and POS completed 601 telephone interviews – on landlines and on cell phones – with voters in Virginia likely to cast ballots in November 2013. The margin of sampling error at the 95% confidence interval is +/- 4.0%; margins of error for subgroups within the sample will be higher.
The poll results show that an overwhelming majority of Virginia voters across demographic and regional divides support Virginia's plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, and want Virginia's next Governor to continue its implementation. Voters see a healthy Chesapeake Bay and protecting water quality as a top priority for the state. Solid majorities consider Bay-related tourism as an important economic resource for Virginia, and see an important role for state government in protecting water quality. Majorities of voters support a number of specific proposals for cleaning up Chesapeake Bay, and would be more likely to support candidates for state office who will work to continue improving water quality in Virginia.Among the key specific findings of the survey were the following:
Many elements of Virginia's plan to clean up the Chesapeake Bay have been implemented by the state government and General Assembly. When fully implemented, the clean-up plan will restore clean water by 2025, provide healthy habitat for fish and wildlife, and ensure the health of the Bay for future generations.
Support for the Bay clean-up plan is consistent across a remarkable array of subgroups of the state's population, including:
Even when arguments are presented on each side of the issue, 65 percent of Virginians favor a candidate for statewide office or the State Legislature who supports continuing the Bay clean-up plan, while just one in five (22 percent) back a candidate who would not (Figure 3). This preference for elected officials who prioritize the Bay clean-up plan extends to 79 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of independents, and a 53-percent majority of Republicans. Taken together, these survey results clearly demonstrate that Virginia voters see a clean Chesapeake Bay as a top priority for the state, and want the state's next Governor to continue working to achieve this goal.
~Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, Metz & Associates and Public Opinion Strategies
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Well, here is my success story for 2010, my first year turkey hunting.
Last Saturday 4/24 was a miserable day outside with the COLD wind blasting the country side. I couldn't hear anything and never saw anything from well before daylight till almost noon. I wanted to give it up for the day and go home, but went to check out a spot in the woods I had meant to scout but never got there. I am so glad I did. I found fresh scratching and tracks. Good! Fresh evidence of feeding. After looking around carefully I also found a roost tree with fresh poop. Good again! I set up and called with some strong yelps on my box call. On the second set I had a loud response gobble. Not good, Great! He was moving away though and I wonder if he didn't see me snooping around. After an hour of trying to coax him and after no response for 30 minutes I looked a little more towards where I had heard him. I found a trail of MANY scratched areas leading the direction I heard the gobbles. Hmm, this must be the way they leave the roost. So I found a good set up point, sweetened it a little for cover, chose where to put the decoys and got out of there.
Sunday morning I was back and done with getting set by 5:00. An hour to wait for legal shooting hours and an hour and a half till legal sunrise. As it got light my Toms let loose with some gobbles and about made me jump out of my skin! Damn they are loud in the quiet of the morning. I was about 80-90 yards from the roost tree and I thought everything was perfect. Then on the second set of good morning gobbling another tom joined in from right over my left shoulder! I had missed the fact that there was another roost 15 yards to my left. I HAD to be right under him when I set up my decoys! I figured I had blown it but sat tight anyway to see what would happen. He flew down first, and it was still so dark I had trouble making him out on the ground. In about 5 more minutes one of the gobblers from the original roost tree flew down and met up with the other. It looked like they were moving away toward the clearing so I purred and clucked quietly on my slate. They hammered back instantly! Excellent! I just sat still and waited. Another gobbler flew down from the original tree I had found and headed towards the other two. Three on the ground in front of me about 65-70 yards. It was plenty light to see them now. At that time I was surrounded by the sound of wings everywhere! The hens were flying down all around me and landing within two to ten yards. They were all between me and my decoys at 15 yards. What a rush! They started meandering towards the gobblers, and the gobblers meandered to the hens. They all met up at the halfway point about forty yards out, a little too far for my old browning fixed choke O/U. About that time another Tom flew down from another farther tree and I lost sight of him. two of the three gobblers in the flock seemed to be looking at my decoys and they began walking towards them. Then before they got clear of their harem of hens they stopped. Oh no, don't leave with the hens I thought. So I dared to give out a few of the softest purrs and clucks I could muster, and they started towards the dekes immediately. I already had the gun up and followed them right in to the dekes. They split up one on each side of my jake decoy and the bigger was strutting and slowly getting closer to jake. I let him have the top barrel at 14 yards and he dropped like a bag of rocks. I kept my gun trained on him to see if a follow up was needed. Then the smaller gobbler RAN back to the other and started strutting over him. I had never heard of that kind of behavior, but Jim say's it's common for a sub celebrate his new status one rung higher on the ladder. I couldn't stand it with him strutting right in front of a loaded bottom barrel, so when he came out of strut he got to talk to mister Browning too. Two gobblers on the ground in all of three minutes, tagged out and done for the year at 6:20 on the second weekend!
I know this has been a long story and thanks for making it to the end with me. I couldn't be happier with my birds, a 19 3/4 lbs and 18 1/2 lbs with 9in and 8in beards and 7/8 and 3/4 spurs. Two barrels, two shots, two gobblers, and one GREAT season!!! Thanks for all your help Jim!


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The Littlest Bar sits slightly below ground at 47 Province Street, near the Granary Burying Ground and Old City Hall. Its name is no lie: it's just 400 square feet, with a maximum legal occupancy of 38 warm bodies (barkeep included). Squeeze yourself into the sweaty scrum there on a Thursday night, and you wonder how it could fit even that few. But while it holds barely three-dozen people, this tiny, musty burrow has seen thousands upon thousands of drinkers sidle up to its worn wooden bar since it opened at the end of World War II. A bar is only as good as its clientele, and this one's had some corkers.
There was the ruddy Southie hardhat who buttonholed me and my date for hours one night, putting back beer after beer as he marveled about the Indian construction workers (feather, not dot) he used to watch strolling atop the high-flying steel beams with speedy, surefooted ease. Later, when talk turned to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his piercing blue eyes welled with tears.
There was the impish guy from Louth or Meath or Westmeath, who hit on my sister with gusto one afternoon as his wife and my parents laughed. When he learned she was fluent in French, he scribbled his number on a napkin and pressed it into her palm. Call me when I get back to Ireland, he told her, and murmur sweet nothings in the language of love. "If a French woman calls for me in the middle of the night, don't you hang up ," he told his old lady.
There's all sorts of people: an endless stream of lawyers and laborers and students and pols and immigrants and tourists and thinkers and drunks who've tromped down those five concrete steps into this dimly lit den over the past 60 years. They lay down cash for a pint of Guinness or shot and a beer. They have a chat and a laugh. Another drink or two. And they leave. Then, a day or a week or a month later, they usually come back.
But when the Littlest Bar pulls that sliding steel curtain over its street-level bay window in a few weeks, it'll be for the last time. By Saint Patrick's Day, the parking garage next door on Province Street will have collapsed into rubble, and the Littlest space will thence be integrated into the tower of pricey condominiums put up in its stead. The yuppie cash will flow in torrents. But Boston will be poorer for it, because it will have lost another piece, albeit a small one, of what defines this city.
Beer and history Tuesday morning, 9 am. The Littlest opened half an hour ago, and already there are four men sitting around the worn, heavily varnished bar, partaking of their daily eye-openers. One guy nurses a Budweiser. Another clinks the ice in his Cape Codder. At the end of the bar, another tilts back the third in a long succession of blackberry brandies.
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At long last, I FINALLY got around to seeing the new Joss Whedon-produced, Drew Goddard-directed suspense thriller The Cabin in the Woods. As you may know, I've been CRAZY bizzy lately flying all over the US attending weddings in the past few weeks and this week — at long last — I get a few days to catch my breath. David and I have been really anxious to see Cabin so last night we decided to make it our date night event.
I managed to stay away from plot spoilers so I was pretty surprised by the film. The tagline is "You Think You Know the Story" and it's the perfect tease. We're initially supposed to assume the film is a run-of-the-mill slasher flick where teenagers get slaughtered in a remote cabin in the woods. Then, the movie trailers informed us that there is something more going on behind the scenes. BUT, none of that truly prepares you for what REALLY is going on in this film. I don't want to spoil because I really think it works best when the audience is surprised … but I will say that The Cabin in the Woods is a truly Whedonesque film. It is the most Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel film that we have ever gotten from Whedon. The same humor, the same camp, the same metaphysical fun that we got from BtVS and Angel is showcased PERFECTLY in this new film. I was half expecting the word "hellmouth" to be uttered. And, in all honesty, I was a bit bummed that Wolfram & Hart wasn't included in the story. Clearly, Whedon and Goddard wanted to tell a Buffy-like story without having any connection to the Buffyverse at all. From the very start of the film, before the movie title is splashed on screen, you get a good understanding for the way the film will turn out. I was beyond thrilled to see that Amy Acker is featured front and center. It was also really fun to see my boy Tom Lenk in the mix as well. I can understand how the folks who aren't familiar with the genius of the Buffyverse might not get this film … but David loved it and he's never watched a single episode of Buffy or Angel. The Cabin in the Woods is one of the best suspense films I've seen in a very long time. I honestly cannot wait to see it again. If I can get someone to go back with me, I'd see it repeatedly. I loved every single second of Cabin. I'm utterly convinced that Joss Whedon can do no wrong.
Blah. I am still feeling under the weather … my allergies are killing me, I have no energy … it's really irritating me. I need to go for a run but I just don't know if I can manage it. If I don't run today, I'm running tomorrow … for sure. Tonight, I'm seeing The Dandy Warhols in concert so I'm excited for that but … ugh, all this phlegmy coughing is really bringing me down. Ugh. I hope YOUR Thursday is going much better ;)0


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Expressions dance company performs April 3-5
Posted March 27, 2003; 10:03 a.m.
Expressions Dance Company , Princeton's oldest dance troupe, will perform "eXposed" at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 3-5, in the Frist Campus Center theater.
The show will feature a mix of dance styles -- including hip-hop, jazz, modern and ballet -- and music by 50 Cent, George Michael, Norah Jones and Outkast.
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05-13-2013, 02:18 PM #1Member Platy
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Water Changes while adding bacteria?
Hello all, quick question for you guys. So I'm about a month and a half into my first tank and I rushed it horribly. I never let the tank cycle. I recently had an aquarium buddy come over and give me advice/help me out. I am now adding bacteria from a kit to try and cheat the cycle.
I added my first dosage on Saturday and my ammonia is just starting to go down (my main tank is at 1-2ppm down from the "danger/lethal" level). I'm supposed to be adding more today. My question is whether I should be doing a water change or not. I'm not sure if it would help decrease the ammonia or if it would disrupt the bacteria that are settling in. Any quick advice for me?
Thanks (I'm learning, I promise).
You're not the first among us to rush things. To help out, however, please provide the following information:
size of your tank, your filtration, how many and what kind of fish you have, what are you using to test your water - strips or API liquid master test kit.
In the meantime, most here believe that if you are cycling with fish, the best option is water change, water change , water change. forget the bacteria.
and 1 - 2 ppm ammonia is still very dangerous to fish. Your goal while you're cycling is to keep ammonia and nitrites at .25 and nitrates below 20ppm. the most important thing is to check your perimeters every morning before feeding and before changing the water. any time ANY Ammonia or nitrites head toward .50, do an immediate water change of at least 50%. This means you may be making daily water changes for a while. Additionally, if you are using strips, ditch them and get the API liquid test kit. the strips are highly inaccurate.
Feed very lightly during this cycle period - which may take you another month or more.
Again - if you can answer the questions we can zero in on what else might be going on to prevent the tank from cycling.
Last edited by fishmommie; 05-13-2013 at 02:39 PM.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp
If you don't have any fish in the aquarium, don't do a water change until ammonia hits about 4ppm.
If you have fish, you have to keep the ammonia and nitrites below 0.5ppm through water changes, which means testing ammonia and nitrites everyday.
I haven't found any bacteria in a bottle that works well. I've read other posters who swear by Dr. Tim's One & Only Live Nitrifying Bacteria to work quite well during the fishless cycle.
05-13-2013, 02:53 PM #4Member Platy
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Sorry! I should have posted specs!
It's a 10 gallon tank with a Whisper PF10 filter. It's a planted tank with an airstone. Here's a photo from yesterday. It is currently stocked with 6 guppies (two male, four females), a small albino plecostimus, and two ghost shrimp. So it's about at full capacity, so I don't think it's going to cycle on its own without adding bacteria (at least without killing all my fish).
I'm using water strips to test. Tetra Easystrips, a 6-in-1 that tests for chlorine, nitrite, nitrate, alkalinity, hardness, and pH. And a separate one for ammonia. I had also been adding Prime ammonia fixer, but I've stopped doing that since I put in bacteria.
I've heard of Dr. Tim's bacteria (my friend swears by it), but I bought a cheaper kit from Petco so I could start immediately. If this doesn't work, I'll be buying from them. The kit I'm using is "Microbe-Lift" and contains a bottle of "Special Blend" bacteria and "Nite-out II, nitrifying bacteria".
Do you guys think that the water change will keep the bacteria from colonizing at all? I know I'm supposed to keep the ammonia as low as possible, but the fish that I have in the tank are extremely hardy.
Again - very few here rely on added bacteria. Please reread my original post. Everything you need to know is in there.
And BTW - the pleco is, unfortunately, a very poor choice for a 10 gallon tank. they are huge waste producers and a 10 gallon is too small for that type of fish. also - toxins settle at the bottom of the tank so the pleco is in the most danger of being poisoned by your extremely high ammonia readings. If you could return him to the fish store that would be the best for the fish.
sorry I'm not telling you what you want to hear but again, reread my original post. Your tank WILL cycle doing water changes but it's going to take a while. It would also be good for you to read the free e-book to grasp a better understanding of the nitrogen cycle. additionally, there is a stickie in the beginner's section that more fully explains how to cycle a tank with fish.
Also - make sure to add enough Prime to treat the entire 10 gallons every time you make a water change and I'd add another filter - the same size as the one you have.
Good luck!
Last edited by fishmommie; 05-13-2013 at 03:20 PM.30 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp
It is generally advised to filter 2x your tank size, so you will need at least 20 gallons of filtration for a 10 gallon tank..I use a 30 gallon filter on my 10 gallon tank, and it works wonderfully...
Please, DITCH the test strips and get you an API Master Liquid Test kit, it is much more accurate, and will last you many, many water tests...
CONTINUE to use the Prime water treatment, every water change, it does many beneficial things besides de-chlorinating your water...
In my opinion, you do not need to be adding bacteria, as long as you leave your filter media alone, do no cleaning of your media (see "Cycling With Fish" sticky)
Water changes DO NOT remove bacteria, the bacteria live in your filter media and other surfaces of your tank
05-13-2013, 03:18 PM #7Senior Member Red tailed catfish
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Changing water is the FIRST thing you should be doing since your tank is uncycled & has fish in it - tanks cycle (go through the nitrogen cycle) only with a source of ammonia.
Ammonia can come from fish (which you have), or ammonia added by you artificially (like real ammonia). The bacteria you are trying to grow doesn't happen in the water (hence no problem with changing the water) - it happens in the filter (in the media).
It doesn't make ANY difference how hardy your fish are supposed to be - too much ammonia in the water will stress them and either cause illness or kill them - that's why everyone is recommending keeping the ammonia level down very low - it's needed to grow bacteria but too much will harm fish.
Also, I'd ditch the test strips and invest in a liquid test kit - they are MUCH more accurate and provide many more tests than the strips (which will cost you more in the long run).
If you are going to keep the 10gal, I would 1)return the pleco (it will quickly outgrow your tank) and 2) get another filter - filters are usually good for half the # of gallons they are rated for so yours is good for 5gal.
Yes, return the pleco as a 10 gallon tank just isn't big enough for it. It's ok to ad a bacterial booster, but remember this. The bacteria mostly live in your filter, so doing water changes to keep ammonia and nitrites below .25 ppm will not hurt the growth of the bacterial colony and it will save your other fish. With doing a fish in cycle, it's necessary to do water changes to keep ammonia and nitrites in check. There no other way around it.
I strongly suggest that you purchase and use the API liquid test kits for ammonia, nitrites, and nitrates. They are of greater accuracy and dependability. Cycle your tank before adding any more fish and at some point in the future, you will need to add another filter.
05-13-2013, 03:34 PM #9Member Platy
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Thank you for all of the advice! I saw a Master liquid testing kit at Petco when I was there the other day, I'll stop by this afternoon and pick that up! Hopefully (crossing fingers) my problem isn't as bad as I think it is!
I was told that the Albino plecostimus (it's called a bristlenose, from what I remember) is much smaller than the common pleco and would only get to be 2" or so long. I thought that would be okay for 10 gallon tank. Also my guppies are not store-bought, they're from a large guppy tank from a parasitology lab (a bit of a story) and they're much smaller than store-bought guppies. The adult males are only about an inch long and the females get to be an inch and half long or so. So in terms of bioload, I was under the impression that my tank was acceptable (not horribly overstocked).
I had not thought of the problems with the pleco being a bottom feeder and being more affected by the ammonia. I will definitely keep that in mind if we decide to keep him or not.
I don't understand the bit about filters. Are you guys saying that every filter is half as good as the rating? So a filter rated to 10 gallons is actually a 5 gallon? I got the PF10 with my Tetra kit that came with a 10 gallon tank... It doesn't make any sense to me how they can get away with selling a filter that's going to kill your fish... Is this just a known problem in the industry?
Anyway, I will do a water change today, I'm going to continue adding bacteria. I have a friend with a 30 gallon that only has a couple of fish in it. If I need to get rid of the pleco, I'm certain I could convince her to take it.
When I get a chance, I will read those stickys. Of course, I read about cycling before I even got the aquarium, but there's so much conflicting information out there. I'm just trying to get past this hurdle and take my time on any future tanks! Thanks again guys.
030 g FW planted:corys, female ABNP, blue angel, harleys, zebra danios, rummies,
15 g FW planted:2 male guppies, neons, pygmy corys, clown pleco, 4 types of shrimp, assassin snails
90 Gal Journal: http://bit.ly/1vC7gVX
fishless cycling: http://bit.ly/1DARf3T
fish in cycling: http://bit.ly/1ILvcfp


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The Broader View: In a remote village in DRC, "We need you here, come on in!"
Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution, 46/182, to establish a global humanitarian system. The resolution called for governments and aid agencies around the world to work together to deal with the rising number of crises. Two decades on, that system is more important than ever.
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My son in law who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon told me before that in his state it is the people who do not have a gun that will most likely be the ones targeted by a criminal with names and address posted of gun owners.
My son in law who has a permit to carry a concealed weapon told me before that in his state it is the people who do not have a gun that will most likely be the ones targeted by a criminal with names and address posted of gun owners.
It appears to be irresponsible journalism. Publishing that list could put people, and their property, at risk. I dont want the contents of my home published in the paper. Its an invitation for robbery.
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The real problem Stan, is that a criminal will simple case you house rob you at a time when no one is home. Plus, if they know they may potentially be confronted by a home owner with a gun, they will come prepared to meet you with equal force. One of your best defenses in that situation is the element of surprise. You have an advantage if the robber doesn't know you're armed.
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I would guess that there is also no guarantee that the criminal who invaded the gun-less home would not be armed?
Smartest criminal would ALWAYS choose the home when nobody is home
Maybe EVERYONE, even those who will never purchase a firearm, should get permits? Then the criminals would not know which homes had a weapon and which did not. Nor would the govt know which had a weapon and which did not ... just in case someone passed a law for confiscation of weapons, it would make the process more difficult
Maybe those permit-holders in that area should encourage their neighbors to also get permits ... for their own safety?
This was, at first, a lighthearted thought ... but it begins to seem less laughable the longer I think about it.
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The entire Potomac River Valley is rich in archeological resources that document the human habitation of the area for the past 10,000 years. The geology of the area has always attracted people to its vast natural resources. Ancient people came to use the unique stones found there for tool making, including chert and metarhyolite, establishing base camps and processing sites in several locations. The river provided Algonquin Native Americans and other tribes with a concentration of fish, game, and abundant plant species as well as wood, stone, shell, and bones necessary for tools and trade.
Geology played a vital role in early European settlement success. In the area around Washington, D.C., the local rivers supported local trade, developed the fertile floodplains, and provided resources for the inhabitants. Forests were cleared for settlements and agriculture but poor land use practices led to erosion and eventually stripped the soils of nutrients. Many areas were left barren and exposed to intense erosion.
The geology included placement of the local river crossings and fords. Early railroads and roads often followed the trends of natural geologic features. The interconnection between geology and history is often overlooked, but many features of the National Capital Parks – East remind us of how important the role of geology can be in the history of an area. Geologic processes gave rise to rock formations, hills, and valleys. The results of these processes played a prominent role in the history of the entire Potomac River Valley and Washington, D.C. They develop a landscape that welcomes or discourages use. Throughout history, humans have significantly modified he landscape surrounding the parks as well as the geologic system of the area.
Greenbelt Park is one of the units in the National Capital Parks – East. It covers more than 1,176 acres in Maryland as a haven of natural beauty in Prince George's County. It was acquired and designated as a national park in August 1950. The entire park is located within the Atlantic Coastal Plain physiographic province within in the western shore uplands region. Landforms within the park are rolling to steep hills with ravines associated with two creeks. Elevation ranges in the park are from 25 to 200 feet.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
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What I did today. Burning Man Practice Build
Brian and I went to Volunteer Park today to do a practice build of our shade structure. There were lots of lessons learned. We will try again next week.
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Brian and I went to Volunteer Park today to do a practice build of our shade structure. There were lots of lessons learned. We will try again next week.
Why is "All Things Considered" spending airtime announcing and reannouncing Michael Jackson's death?
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A number of people I follow on Twitter are now retweeting #iranelection stuff.
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i was in a toystore looking at a book and this big beefy guy comes right up, starts talking about how neat the book looked, and started trying to pull it from my hands so he could see it, and then he looked really embarrassed, muttered an apology, and rushed off
there were a couple of people, women, who i knew i knew, but on waking, i cant remember who they are, that i was going someplace to meet
i was changing clothes in a back room, and a bunch of people come in just as im nude and about to start to redress, and i was a bit annoyed at them
Most of the time, I was wearing my heavy duster and a heavy wool blanket over it as well, and I could always feel the weight of it, and it rubbing against sensitive and touch hungry skin
Walked into a room, but couldnt at first see the person in it because she was wearing all bright red, with touches of white. She looked great in it, once I was able to see her.
Adrienne, in a Beehive Hairdo
Adrienne has dressed up as an old-school school teacher for a drama class presentation as part of her ASL courses. Thus, the hairspray based beehive hairdo.
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Thoughts on Attachment, and thoughts on avoiding it
While I was in Hawaii, I was reading about and practicing meditation.
One of the texts described a technique about attachment.
When you have something you like very much, be it an item, an experience, or a relationship, you should always already remember that it is already broken, lost, ended, or over. So that when it does become so, well, it always was so in your mind.
This seems sad to me, especially about relationships.
Even though it was expressed as "then you will have all the more joy when its there, because it is then a double gift".
Such a lack of attachment, especially in relationships, seems beside the point of a relationship. Unless it's one of just pure mutual use of each other.
It turns being with someone into little more than a longer term form of being in a group line or country dance: "Move to your next partner in the circle, take her hands, and do the steps again."
Am I just being obstinent, "unenlightened", or just entirely missing the point?
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… some things last night after pm'ing a poster here. I'm sure there have been others smarter than me who have thought and spoken of these ideas before but here goes…
Cars kill more people per year on average than firearms, yet no one is proposing to ban cars even though car ownership is not a constitutionally guaranteed right. You also don't have to have a driver's license to buy a car, pass a background check for certain types of cars or state on a Federal form that you're not a mental patient, user of controlled substances, ever been accused of domestic violence, ever renounced your citizenship etc. In fact you don't even have to be a citizen. Anybody ever had to wait 3 days to take possession of a car?
And not to minimize the terrible loss of life and the injuries in Tucson, but if Jared Loughner had bought a car, instead of a gun, and plowed into the crowd at 65 mph, does anyone think that we'd be hearing about bills to say, limit car speeds to 35 or making it illegal to knowingly drive a car within a 1000' of "certain high level federal officials"? Do you think we'd hear reports about the President planning speeches and a legislative push because "car ownership laws have been too loose for too long"? Do you think there would be lobby groups calling for bans of certain "high powered vehicles" because they're more likely to be used by drug dealers and the like?
Would we hear ideas to ban private sales of cars between two private parties or at car shows without a dealer involved? And lastly, do you think we'd have a law pass, similar to the ammunition one in CA (though it was struck down in Appeals court) that would force you to show your driver's license, record the amount and type and have the dealers information recorded as well, before you could buy gas to use in your car?!?
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Well it's notGobbzilla but I finally had a morning where it all went right and I killed an 18 1/2 pound super jake. My buddy went along this morning and we went to Gobbzilla's roosting area. We were in before first light and i pushed it so I'd be in the bedroom door, if they were home. Soon after it was gray light I thought I could see a silhouette in a tree aff to my left but I wasn't sure. Finally it was light and I could barely make out a bird moving in the tree. About that time a bird clucks real loud down in front of me and the bird I can gobbles three time in a row. I wait and wait but all he does is sit in the tree. So finally I think well let's try Scott's keeyelp call and sure enough he whips around on that limb and starts looking. Right then my buddy answers my keeyelp from behind me. Ole turk couldn't stand that so down he comes and hit's the ground at 22 steps from. He never made it beyond that point, he died right there. I retrieved my bird and walked back to my buddy and another gobbler sounds off so we set. These two some how slipped right by us and kept on moving.
We went to another spot and stumbled into a group of three gobblers. There was no chance of a shot for John so we busted them. A half hour later we had them yelping and gobbling all around us, but it was so thick he couldn't get a shot. Three times they moved off and we reset and called them in and John never could see one good enough to shoot. We both had to get in so we left them gobbling and will go back another day.
attached are a couple of photos. I didn't have anyone to take my picture so it's just the bird and Ginger ....she was quite pleased with her dad and she got her usual turkey legg.


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Meet Kevin, The Gay Llama Farmer From Kentucky
His animal sanctuary — home to 51 llamas and more than 300 animals total — is in jeopardy because just over a year ago, Kevin was fired. Kentucky is one of 38 states in which employees can legally be fired for being LGBT, and after Kevin sued his former employer alleging that it fired him for being gay, a court rejected Kevin's wrongful termination lawsuit on those grounds. [Corrected.]
Kevin McCaffery worked as a public school teacher for fifteen years before retiring to run his farm full-time. A few years ago, he went back to work as the director of a day care center in Ashland, Kentucky. He said in his lawsuit that he was sexually harassed by a superior, including being called "twinkle toes," and said the center fired him in spite of his spotless record.
Kevin sued for wrongful termination but the court threw out his case on the grounds Kentucky law does not , bar anti-gay discrimination at the workplace.
The Ashland Child Development Center, Kevin's former employer, contests his claims: The center told the court that Kevin was fired because of cost-cutting, but that the center also had legitimate cause to fire him based upon his job performance and unrelated to his sexuality and that his sexuality did not play a role in the decision. The Center further states that it was aware of Kevin's sexuality before he was hired and that Kevin was open about his sexuality throughout his employment at the Center, with which the Center had no problem, stating that Kevin's sexuality had absolutely no bearing on the decision to hire him or the decision to fire him.
More than a year after losing his job, Kevin is still out of work, exhausted, and behind on bills and legal fees. He continues to work on the animal sanctuary he runs on his 18-acre property. LLA-Nanny Farms is home to llamas, cats, dogs, chickens, donkeys and pigs. Many of the animals, especially the 30+ dogs, came to Kevin as strays.
When Kevin spoke to BuzzFeed, he said his main concern was that, due to his financial problems, he wouldn't be able to feed all of his animals. He has never sold any of them, not even his prize-winning llamas. Now, though, he worries that he may be running out of options.
UPDATE: Stacy, one of our awesome community contributors, created a Go Fund Me page to raise money for the farm's food trough. As of February 24, 90 people have joined in to raise more than $5,800. You can visit the page here if you'd like to donate.
When asked by a friend how he was doing, Kevin responded with this statement on Facebook:
"… things have hit an all time low. The judge threw my case out of the court, stated that he knew that I had been done wrong by my employer but in the great state of Ky. anyone can call you queer and twinkle toes and fire you and that there are no laws to protect you. My unemployment has run out and now I am on food stamps just to have something to eat. I had to change my feed for my animals to a cheaper kind just so that I can provide for them. I am at the mercy of everyone to help feed them anymore. I had to go apply for assistance to try to pay my electric bill today. I have been applying for jobs everywhere. I did get a response from a new preschool/daycare in Lexington. I hope and pray that it works out. I don't know how I will travel to Lexington everyday and keep up with the farm work, but I'll cross that bridge if it happens. Sorry to sound so negitive but right now it's hard to keep my head up anymore. Debbie I appreciate all that you have done to try to help, it means a lot. Love you, Kevin."
One of Kevin's concerned friends reached out to BuzzFeed for help. We visited Kevin's sanctuary this week and met his adorable animals.
The Center responded that the Judge never acknowledged that Kevin was treated unfairly. Instead, it contends that the Judge merely noted that "IF" Kevin was fired for being gay, although that may be wrong, it is not illegal. Regardless, as noted above, the Center maintains that his sexuality played no part in the decision to fire him. Furthermore, because the case was decided at the summary judgment stage, the Judge made no actual determination as to the reason behind Kevin's termination but instead was required to solely rely upon Kevin's own testimony and allegations regarding the reasoning behind his termination. The Center says that had the case progressed further, sufficient evidence would have been presented to show that Kevin's termination was not in any way related to his sexuality.
One of Kevin's concerned friends reached out to BuzzFeed for help. We visited Kevin's sanctuary this week and met his adorable animals.
CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misstated some details of Kevin's job loss. BuzzFeed also failed reach out to the Ashland Child Development Center before this article was published, a failure we regret.
One of Kevin McCaffery's many cats hangs on his screen door, "she's a wild one, she does that all the time," said McCaffery.
Kevin McCaffery talks with one of his cats hanging on a screen door.
Artwork, done by Kevin himself, of his llamas.
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Ken, I thought Zim's narrative was that the 911 dispatcher told Zim to not continue to follow Martin; and that Martin confronted Zim as Zim was returning to his truck/car.
If Zim was returning to his car, this was a better thing to do than having a confrontation with a suspicious character who might be aggressive or armed. If the fellow was up to no good, even just attempting to have a pleasant chat could be confrontational.
If Zim had done as you suggest, is it possible that Martin assaulted him as a result of the approach? Martin was no altar boy. He had a track record of getting into fights in various situations. If Martin really did consider Zim a "creepy-ass cracker", is it possible that he would not have been receptive to Zim asking him what he was doing in the neighborhood?
I'm not sure that they are going to allow any info about Martin's previous history of fighting presented.
Is it strange that the girlfriend heard nothing as Martin and Zim confronted each other? No words exchanged between them before the phone went dead? And there is the fact that the phone was found in Martin's pocket ... not in his hand; not dropped on the ground. This might indicate that he had hung up the phone; put it in his pocket so his hands were free to confront Zim. This would not tell us whether Zim was moving toward Martin ... or the other way around.


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When Monet became an art student in Paris in 1862, French society was changing at a dizzying speed, and young painters were searching for new ways of representing modern life. Many of them thought that Japanese prints — which had only recently appeared in France — could help them do so.
Monet painted city people enjoying themselves on the River Seine near Paris; his family in their garden above the sea watching the modern steamships with cargoes of goods from around the world — including Japanese art — to France; crowds in an entirely new Parisian boulevard; a steam train on an iron bridge at Argenteuil, the town near Paris where Monet lived during the 1870s.
The painting of modern life was not only a matter of depicting modern subjects, but of finding ways to represent perceptions accelerated by the speed of modern life.
Monet's study of 19th-century Japanese prints, which also depicted contemporary life, helped him develop his Impressionism. Their use of flat planes of bright colour, asymmetry, and telescoping of near and far, suggested ways in which he could develop alternatives to the harmonious cool tones, balanced compositions, and slow rhythms of traditional landscape painting.
The woodblock prints displayed in this exhibition are known as ukiyo-e, or 'Pictures of the Floating World', an art form that developed during the period from 1600 to 1868 when Japan isolated itself from the outside world. This popular and affordable art symbolised the transient pleasures of life.
The two great masters of the ukiyo-e landscape print, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and his younger contemporary Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), were born, lived and worked in the capital, Edo (the site of today's Tokyo). Although Edo was a crowded city, there were ample opportunities to enjoy leisure activities beside tree-lined waterways and in the landscaped precincts and gardens of temples and shrines. Seasonal outings to local beauty spots were popular, and the publishers of ukiyo-e prints profited from people's enthusiasm for sightseeing by commissioning series of prints of famous places.The innovative designs of Hokusai and Hiroshige made their prints very popular. Monet's own collection of Japanese prints included many of these lively images of life in and around the major cities of Edo and Kyoto.


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The Lactation Consultant Training program requires completion of the Lactation Educator Training Program or equivalent. It is a 12 day advanced training program for licensed health professionals. With the increasing demand for management of complex breastfeeding problems, there is a greater need for skilled professionals to be lactation consultants either in private practice or in clinical employment. The focus of this program is on maximizing professional use of scientific data and understanding problems of clinical management.
Presents a comprehensive presentation of the skills and knowledge needed for evidence-based professional lactation consultant practice. Increases the knowledge and skill of perinatal health professionals, and helps prepare candidates for the examination sponsored by the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. Six full days of instruction conclude with an examination simulation to help identify strengths and gaps in skill and knowledge areas. Interactive activities, clinical slides and videos, and skill-building techniques create a uniquely warm and supportive learning environment. This course was the first lactation course designed on the Exam Blueprint, and is the longest-running course of its kind.
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Health care in Quebec will now include euthanasia. Since assisted suicide is against the law, they have re-defined this as "end of life care."
26. Only a patient who meets the following criteria may obtain medical aid in dying:People can also direct that they be killed in their advance directive.
(1) be of full age, be capable of giving consent to care and be an insured person within the meaning of the Health Insurance Act (chapter A-29);
(2) suffer from an incurable serious illness;
(3) suffer from an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability; and
(4) suffer from constant and unbearable physical or psychological pain which cannot be relieved in a manner the person deems tolerable.Look for yourselves. The wording of the bill does not require that a patient be nearing the end of life at all. Nor does it require that the patient be suffering from excruciating pain that cannot be relived by drugs. In fact, the bill would allow a broad killing license, with psychological suffering sufficient to be killed.


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Social Justice at WVU is everyone's responsibility. Mediation of conflicts that arise among us is an important tool in helping members of our community successfully live and work well together. But Social Justice goes well beyond resolving disputes. We succeed best when we embrace certain core values that social justice is founded on:
- Every person has intrinsic worth and dignity;
- Respect for law is fundamental;
- Freedom from fear is universal;
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- There is an absence of discrimination and harassment based on age, color, disability, ethnic origin, marital status, pregnancy, race, religious beliefs, sex, sexual orientation, and veteran status; and
- The rich diversity of people, their cultures, and the bonds that tie people together are appreciated and celebrated.
What is Mediation?
Conflict is inevitable. It is part of everyday life, and is not necessarily good or bad. Common causes of conflict are breakdowns in communication, contradictory beliefs and values, changes, cultural differences, and misinformation.
Conflict makes many people uncomfortable, disrupts work, may cause illness, and is often difficult to define and deal with. Examples include, but are not limited to:
- Supervisor/Employee Relations
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- Annoying Habits
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Mediation is a structured process of communication that creates a special context for people to discuss and resolve issues of mutual concern. Mediators lead the process to clarify issues, identify options, and create an agreed-upon course of action.
Who Are the Mediators?
Mediators are university employees or retirees who have received special training in mediation and have the desire and ability to assist individuals in working through conflict. They are bound by strict standards of confidentiality and are neutral parties in the process. They are assigned by the Office of Social Justice to each case, after consultation with all parties to assure their objectivity. While in some instances a mediator will work alone, it is more common to have co-mediators.
It is important to note that mediators do not impose solutions. Rather, they guide a process to assist the involved parties to reach their own mutually acceptable resolution.
How Does This Process Work?
Mediators meet jointly with all parties in the mediation. They establish the procedures based on the nature of the issues and the needs of all involved. They will assure that all participants are there voluntarily, that fair ground rules are established, that principles of confidentiality are understood, and that the mediation procedures are applied in a competent and equitable manner. While no two mediations are identical, the process involves clarifying the issues, developing a mediation agenda, clarifying the mediator's role, generating options, exploring the consequences of the options, and seeking agreement on the best course of action to be pursued.
Do I Need an Attorney?
Mediation is quite informal and is not an adversarial process. If either party desires to bring an attorney or anyone else to assist them, both parties must agree to it. Every decision regarding mediation, including who is involved, is voluntary at every step. It is important to note that legal rights to grieve or seek other legal remedy are not lost by participating in mediation.
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Mediation is not a lengthy process. The process may take only one meeting and often not more than two or three.
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Mediation began with the work of the WVU Senate Welfare Committee in the mid-1980s. Later, a separate staff mediation program began. The two were merged in the late 1990s and mediation was assigned to the President's Office for Social Justice in summer 2000.
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Lance Tapley's assessment of environmental protection efforts during the 125th Legislature (see "'Holding the Line,'" May 25) gives due credit to some like Senator Tom Saviello, but ignores integral efforts of important others, most notably Governor Paul LePage and our state's leading environmental authority, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, which I am honored to head.
In trying to explain "an environmental assault" that wasn't, Tapley and the environmental activist establishment he sourced for his story fail to recognize the full reality of what was. A lengthy list of accomplishments we provided to the Phoenix showcasing our environmental commitment was excluded (we were told due to space constraints), so I'll share our successes with your readers here instead.
Governor LePage and I have always maintained that the choice between the environment and the economy should never be "either or" but always "both." Our record reflects this.
Together, we issued the state's largest environmental penalty in more than two decades against what Tapley would consider "an out-of-state corporate interest" for a decades-long oil spill, showing our commitment to firm and fair enforcement against polluters. And we're currently negotiating another six-figure action against a Maine mill, making this Administration the first to hold that facility accountable for its long-standing air violations.
Speaking of firsts, the DEP with full support of the governor finally stepped up to confront the issue of out-of-state waste being brought into Maine with our issuance earlier this year of a scaled-back public benefit determination for the Juniper Ridge Landfill, which even that landfill's fiercest critics admitted was balanced. We also advocated successfully for a bill that put in place a new $2 per ton fee on construction demolition debris, which will allow the state to start paying back municipalities for their expenditures closing their landfills, and we supported the long-needed consolidation of solid waste management — including recycling — under one agency so we can approach waste management in Maine holistically and in accordance with our solid-waste hierarchy, which prioritizes reducing, reusing, and recycling and puts landfilling last.
We had a strong hand in shaping a bill to modernize Maine's mining regulations after it was initially introduced as a concept and over the next two years, will undertake a thorough review of the most effective environmental regulatory approaches to metal mining and commence a transparent, inclusive rulemaking process that establishes a permitting path for responsible mining that will create good-paying jobs for Mainers while upholding the quality of our valued North Woods and its pristine land and water.
We committed to raising recycling rates of mercury products like CFLs and thermostats; implemented the ban on BPA in reusable food and beverage containers fairly, responsibly, and consistently with both the spirit and letter of the law; relaunched a long-dormant environmental awards program to recognize entities that voluntarily initiate environmental improvements; crafted a compromise with the Natural Resources Council of Maine on streamlined permitting in inland wading bird and waterfowl habitat; and launched a highly transparent internal rulemaking process through which we've already undertaken about 40 rulemakings, including adoption of those that allow for beneficial reuse of wood ash and isopropyl alcohol. I could go on.
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