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Date Posted: April 9, 2009 - 12:45 am by: coffeeboy
|Monica Bellucci
Chaneling the Italian bombshells of the golden age of cinema such as Sofia Loren and Gina Lollabrigida, Monica Bellucci strikes a classy yet provocative pose in the pages of Tattler Russia magazine. Faithfully encapsulating the sexy elegance of those head shots of that time, the photographer and Monica both achieve portraits that are both current and timeless. Of course it doesn't hurt that Monica is drop-dead beautiful! Yes, that definitely has something to do with it.
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We're adoring fans of Mrs. Lilien and her fancy finds. So we were delighted to hear she was coming out with a book. We were even more delighted when we found out it was a book titled "Mrs. Lilien's Cocktail Swatchbook," a collection of 50 classic recipes that have been updated with a modern twist and fashionable accoutrement.
Because one good hostess quality (serving stellar sips) deserves another (sending stellar stationery), we thought it made perfect sense to ask our new favorite dinner party guest about our favorite fancy subject: correspondence.
When did your interest in all things fancy begin?
August 10th, 1979. There hasn't been a day in my life that I haven't been possessed by my love of all things fancy!
Why do you enjoy writing about letters and/or correspondence?
Because it's ladylike + because it's FANCY!
What is your favorite step in the process of written correspondence?
Probably signing my rather gargantuan and rather flamboyant signature.
If you could be pen pals with anyone in history, to whom would you write and what would you say?
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt — without question. In my fantasy she begins each letter with "OMG…"
To whom do you most often write?
Love letters to Mr. Lilien.
Describe the most memorable letter or postcard you have ever received.
A wildly amusing ditty from my friend Mr. Adler regarding my gifted urn (aka: my final resting place).
What makes a particular letter stand out from a stack of cards?
Fine, thick paper and subtle yet extravagant detailing, such as embossing, letter press, color edging. These pieces always get opened first!
Do you have a favorite stamp or stamp series?
I'm always a fan of the silver screen actresses of yesteryear. Nothing screams class quite like a little bit of Audrey Hepburn on the upper right hand corner.
What makes your correspondence distinct?
Inside of every Mrs. Lilien correspondence that I send, I always sprinkle just a few gold sequins into the envelope for an added touch of glam!
The one etiquette rule you never break?
Be a lady in all things — while this is vague, it covers vast no-no's that I find abhorrent.
The quote you live by?
"Go big or go home!"
P.S. If you're in NYC Thursday night, please stop by what is sure to be a fabulous cocktail party at Jonathan Adler's SoHo boutique to celebrate Mrs. Lilien's new book. Kindly RSVP here.

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Some people believe that a physical body is all we have in life—others believe, at the least, in something they call a "soul." Some think of the soul as a kind of balloon-like attachment to the physical body, while others think of the body as a kind of "vehicle" for the soul. But how do we define "soul?" Is it the same as "spirit?" And what of "consciousness?" Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, co-author of Astral Projection for Psychic Empowerment, discusses how we are so much more than a physical body, and how we can use these different vehicles of our selves to advance our lives and humanity to become all that we are.
Date: 2012-04-02 By: Graham Nicholls
For many skeptics, the out of body experience (OBE) can be explained away or simply ignored. But what of the evidence from recorded accounts, controlled experiments, and research into near-death experiences? Graham Nicholls, author of Navigating the Out-of-Body Experience, explains his new book, and how these powerful experiences can be had by anyone once we step away from the everyday and reach out for something truly life-affirming.
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We are multi-dimensional beings, with part of ourselves inhabiting a physical body and part of ourselves belonging to an ethereal one. In between these two bodies, who (or what) are we? Where can we find our "selves?" Perhaps the astral plane is the place to look...
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Author Brian Mercer recounts his first out-of-body experience, the advantages of learning to astral project, and his collaboration with Robert Bruce on a 90-day OBE program.
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Family: Motacillidae, Wagtails and Pipits view all from this family
Description ADULT SUMMER Has grayish upperparts with faint streaking on back; darkish wings show two whitish wing bars and pale margins to tertials. Underparts are buffy and heavily streaked, also note the dark malar stripe and buff supercilium. Legs are typically dark. ADULT WINTER Has more heavily streaked gray back with a pale throat and supercilium; heavily streaked underparts have buff wash confined mostly to flanks. JUVENILE More heavily marked than adult.
Dimensions Length: 6-7" (15-18 cm)
Habitat Common summer visitor (mainly May-Aug) to tundra and bare mountaintops. Winters in southern U.S. and Mexico, favoring arable fields and open country.
Observation Tips Easiest to see in winter.
Range Eastern Canada, Florida, Plains, Northwest, Alaska, California, Rocky Mountains, Mid-Atlantic, Great Lakes, Western Canada, Southeast, New England, Texas, Southwest
Voice Song (often given in flight) is a slightly accelerating series of tinkling tlee-tlee-tleeÖ notes; call is a thin p'peet.
Discussion Slim-looking pipit that forms large flocks in winter. Often bobs tail. Plumage varies throughout year and across geographical range, and Arctic breeders are described below. Sexes are similar.


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I waited a couple of weeks after installation to review these just to make sure all was well. As it turns out, they have been fantastic! They are extremely quiet and come with all of the extra hardware, including grease, you might need for installation. The only thing they did not come with was the front springs, but using the original springs was no big deal.


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Bronchoscopic culture is a laboratory exam to check a piece of tissue or fluid from the lungs for infection-causing organisms.
Culture - bronchoscopic
A procedure called
The sample is sent to a laboratory. There, it is placed in a special dish (culture). It is then watched to see if bacteria or other disease-causing organisms grow. Treatment is based on the results of the culture.
Follow your health care provider's instructions on how to prepare for bronchoscopy.
Your health care provider will tell you what to expect during bronchoscopy.
A bronchoscopic culture is done to find infection in the lung that cannot be accurately detected by a sputum culture. The procedure may find the following things, such as:
No organisms are seen on the culture.
Abnormal culture results usually indicate a respiratory infection. The infection may be caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites, mycobacteria, or fungi. The results of the culture will help determine the best treatment.
Not all organisms found with bronchoscopic culture need to be treated. Your doctor will tell you more about this if needed.
Your health care provider can discuss the risks of the bronchoscopy procedure with you.
Croft AC, Woods GL. Specimen collection and handling for diagnosis of infectious diseases. In: McPherson RA, Pincus MR, eds. Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods. 22nd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 63.
Kupeli E, Karnak D, Mehta AC. Flexible bronchoscopy. In: Mason RJ, Murray JF, Broaddus VC, et al., eds. Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2010:chap 22.
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Ang Cui; Salvatore Stolfo
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- Print Me If You Dare: Firmware Modification Attacks and the Rise of Printer Malware
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- Cui, Ang
Stolfo, Salvatore
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- 2011
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- Notes:
- 28th Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin, Germany, December 27-30, 2011.
Video available at http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:14902.
- Abstract:
- Network printers are ubiquitous fixtures within the modern IT infrastructure. Residing within sensitive networks and lacking in security, these devices represent high-value targets that can theoretically be used not only to manipulate and exfiltrate the sensitive information such as network credentials and sensitive documents, but also as fully functional general-purpose bot-nodes which give attackers a stealthy, persistent foothold inside the victim network for further recognizance, exploitation and exfiltration.
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Kansas Citizens for Science is urging local school districts not to use the set of state science standards adopted by the Kansas board of education in 2005.
A story in the Philadelphia Inquirer (June 5, 2006) discusses the campaign of Judge John E.
There are signs that the impasse over South Carolina's science standards is nearing its end. As previously reported, the state board of education voted in March 2006 to reject a proposal from the state's Education Oversight Committee that would have significantly expanded the "critical analysis" language already present in the section of the new state science standards that deal with evolution.
Writing for the editorial board of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (May 31, 2006), Mike King reacted to the recent ruling by a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals which vacated the decision in Selman v. Cobb County and remanded the case to the trial court for further evidential proceedings.
In a commencement address at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore on May 25, 2006, New York City's mayor Michael R. Bloomberg decried the political manipulation of science to further ideological ends, saying, "Today, we are seeing hundreds of years of scientific discovery being challenged by people who simply disregard facts that don't happen to agree with their agenda ... Some call it pseudoscience, others call it faith-based science, but when you notice where this negligence tends to take place, you might as well call it 'political science.'"
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The Spectre is kinda cool, but it really doesn't seem like a full concept. It's a little like they wanted to remake the Maverick but not replace it (I assume it still sells well?), so they gave it a really uninspired barrel and a modular stock to pass it off as not-a-pistol. Yet, it just looks like a pistol with a bonus accessory pack.
That said, though, it is a nice looking pistol and the stock, as flimsy as it looks, should look spiffy on any of the modular-stock guns.
I want the shotgun, but I doubt I'd ever use it if I actually had a Nerf war with someone. It's too bulky and the reload process is too long, but looks like fun for shooting at random stuff in my bedroom.


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After so many bungled interventions, regulatory failures, and taxpayer funds wasted, Europe seems more intent than ever on finally doing something constructive about its banking sector.
The EU finance ministers met on March 30th and March 31st and—as predicted here—agreed to increase the euro area "firewall" in accordance with the expressed wishes of the G-20. Despite the press focus on the firewall's size, however, this step was not the most important item on their agenda to achieve the longer term stability of the euro area. Far more important was the ministers' discussion of a pan-European banking resolution framework.
Bear in mind that whatever the euro area decides will disappoint many financial market and media analysts.1 This group consistently looks for a risk-free outlook and assurances that investors will always be bailed out. As a result, anything short of a firewall that could cover the entire financing arrangements for Greece, Portugal, Ireland Spain, Belgium, and Italy lasting three years is inadequate and a sign that the euro area does not get it. (Three years is the usual length of an International Monetary Fund standby arrangement, typically estimated at least €1.5 trillion.)
Whether the firewall to be established is €500 billion, €700 billion, or €1.5 trillion, calls for ever larger amounts are based on an erroneous assumption of bottomless pockets for the core euro area pockets. They assume that Berlin and other northern European capitals have the capacity to guarantee all euro area debt. That of course is not the case in the real world. More importantly, however, these demands overlook the euro area's pooled sovereignty and lack of a centralized political authority. On matters of fiscal policy, the 17 national parliaments still have the final say in the euro area.


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The daughter of former Warriors captain Steve Price has been named one of 12 players in the New Zealand secondary schools netball squad to play in the transtasman schools tournament from May 28-June 1.
Jamie Lee Price's family has lived in Auckland since her father joined the Warriors from the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs for the 2005 NRL season.
New Zealand schools coach Helene Wilson was excited about the young talent in the side and the way they excelled through a vigorous trial session.
"We have a young team, with a number of new faces, which is full of variety and will bring the dynamic skills needed to be competitive in the tournament," she said.
"These girls are determined and hard-working, I think they will represent their country with pride."
The team also includes Elisapeta Toeava who is All Black Isaia Toeava's sister.
Squad: Stephanie Collins (Botany Downs Secondary School), Alice Eddington (Craighead Diocesan School), Temalisi Fakahokatau (Westlake Girls' High School), Holly Fowler (Mt Albert Grammar School), Malia Paseka (Auckland Girls' Grammar School), Jamie Lee Price (Mt Albert Grammar School), Rebekah Roache (Mt Albert Grammar School), Fa'amu Ross (Avondale College), Samantha Sinclair (John Paul College), Shaani Temata-Frost (Tu Toa), Elisapeta Toeava (McAuley High School), Te Aomihia Watene (Hamilton Girls' High School)


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I am devastated to hear about the loss of a friend today. This person touched many lives with comments of hope and love. This post is to let her know that she was loved–her soul is now loved–along with her daughter and family.
In blogging, many of us write as catharsis–we celebrate joys, hold hands through sorrows and laugh in between. We form connections–at best, we make friendships and, at the least, try to bare honest souls on computer screens. We try to communicate that, while despair sometimes flirts, there is always hope . . . .
Then there are these unexplained tragedies we can't wrap our heads around and leave large holes in their wake. These tragedies make us look at our own lives, our relationships, our selves. We hope that, despite misunderstandings, the people we hold within our hearts know how much we love them. That way, if the unforseeable happens, our loved ones who remain have our love to hold onto.
Sancheeta, you are missed. I hope this post honors a fraction of what you meant to those of us blessed to know you. Safe, peaceful travels.
With love,
For those of you who need to hear this, don't ever g i v e up.


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I'd rather use my credit card rewards for other things, personally. Unless you're just cashing in miles that you get on business trips, you're really trading cash for upgrades, anyway.
3 Ways to Enjoy Business Class for Less Than the Cost of Economy
Would you choose to fly 14 hours overseas in a seat that is 32 inches wide and has a 6 inch recline or in a seat that is 82 inches wide and lies completely flat? Would you choose to sit for the few hours before the flight in a loud waiting area with limited seating or in a room that has free WiFi, comfortable chairs, and complimentary food? (See also: 6 Compact Snacks for Frequent Fliers)
We'd probably all prefer to fly business class except for one thing — the price. Business class travel is expensive. For example, at the time this post is being written, Kayak.com is offering a round trip business class flight between Denver and Beijing, China for $5,033, which is the cheapest fare available.
How many of us can afford to fork out several thousand dollars for a business class seat?
But what if a traveler is determined to get to Beijing in a business class seat? Would there be a cheaper way?
Yes — more than one, even.
1. Accumulate Airline Miles via Credit Card Sign Up Bonuses
I checked out a few of the major U.S. airlines to see if there was award availability and how much it would cost to travel from Denver to Beijing on the dates I used in my example above.
Business Class to China Cost in Airline Miles
- United = 120,000 miles plus around $50 in taxes and fees.
- American = 110,000 plus around $50 in taxes and fees.
- US Airways = 90,000 plus around $125 in taxes and fees (higher taxes and fees because it can't be booked online).
- Delta = 120,000 plus around $50 in taxes and fees.
So, dependning on the carrier, you'd need 90,000 to 120,000 airline miles.
Accumulating Miles Through Credit Card Bonuses
Several cards offer attractive sign up bonuses. To keep it simple, I've limited the example to United.
- The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card offers an attractive bonus for travelers. Earn 50,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. That's $625 in travel when you redeem through Chase Ultimate Rewards®. Those points can be transferred 1:1 to United.
- The Chase Ink Bold business card has a 50,000 Ultimate Rewards sign up bonus offer. You get 50,000 points after spending $5,000 in the first three months.
- The Chase United MileagePlus credit card has offers between 30,000 and 55,000 miles after spending $1,000 in the first three months.
You couldn't get all these cards at one time, but you could get a business and personal card and then wait 90 days and get a second personal card. Either way, after applying for these three cards and meeting the minimum spend, you could have a $5,000+ business class ticket to China. By focusing on the best travel credit cards, you should be able to get the miles necessary to fly for next to nothing.
2. Buy Miles
This tip specifically applies to US Airways, as they tend to have the best offers for buying miles. There are other airlines that occasionally sell miles at a discounted rate, too.
Several times this year, US Airways has had a promotion where they will give you a 100% mileage bonus when you purchase miles. During those promotions, miles cost 1.88 cents each (including any taxes and fees). Since US Airways requires 90,000 miles to fly business class to China, you could buy the miles you need for $1,692 plus your approximate $125 in taxes and fees when you redeem your miles. That's still a sub-$2,000 business class flight to Asia.
Typically, you need to have an active US Airways account before the promotion is announced, so I suggest you join Dividend Miles in order to be ready for the next 100% bonus mileage purchase promotions.
3. Make Mileage Runs for Airline Status Upgrades
This is going to sound really crazy, and it probably is, depending on how much time you have and how much you like flying.
Using this approach, you would fly on a plane simply to earn the miles and status. Of course, you'd want to find the cheapest fares possible in order to earn the miles at the lowest price possible.
I visited Flyer Talk and found an expired fare to use as an example. This sample is probably low for what you could find today, but it's a good illustration. The sample flight on American Airlines is from Boston to Portland for $180 round trip. You could book the flight via Dallas, which is a total of 6,355 miles round trip.
Using this example, if you flew that flight 17 times, you'd end up with 114,390 miles. You'd earn that much because when you hit Gold status, you'd earn a 25% bonus, and when you hit Platinum status you'd earn a 100% mileage bonus. Anyway, it would cost you $3,060 to get the miles (plus a bunch of time), and you'd also get American Airlines Executive Platinum status.
One of the nicest benefits of the status is that you'd get eight system-wide upgrades for international flights on American Airlines. This means that if there is upgrade availability on a flight, you can buy the cheapest American economy class fare and upgrade to business class. There are a lot of other benefits, too.
The result is that you don't just get enough miles for one business class flight to China, but you could find an economy class fare of $1,256 on American and upgrade it to business class. With your accumulated points, you could do this four times, round trip. The upgrades are not just to China, but to any American Airlines destination.
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Wasteful, even whilst using miles. If you value your miles at 2 cents each (60K for $1200) gets you a seat in Coach to Asia which is about market price, paying another $1200 to make it Business so you can lie down flat is a little exuberant. As is mileage running (which averages 5 cents per mile or less) so you are talking 3-5K for that ticket).
People are spending beyond their means, even with credit card points.
The only exception I would make is if you are generating miles for free that you couldn't be using to generate Cash Back.
Have you seen the new American Airlines business class seats? Truly amazing . . . you can kick back your feet and relax without anyone right next to you. Those are very expensive, but using your tips here should help those who are willing to pay for these seats. Thanks!
Looking forward to flying Turkish business using US Airways miles accumulated back when the cost for those miles was even cheaper. 1.88 cents per mile is still not cheap in my book.


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The Hope versus Kalamazoo men's basketball game at DeVos Fieldhouse on Saturday, Feb. 7 will be part of the NCAA's Double-A-Zone Michigan Sports Extravaganza.
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Sadly, those beloved juice boxes might read "Organic" or "All Natural", but if your child is drinking it with a straw that's made with petrochemicals and probably laden with BPA and other hormone altering substances isn't "natural" an oxymoron? (And I'm not even talking about what's lining your child's juice box.) Although The Soft Landing suggests that most straws these days are made with #2 or #5 plastics which are considered low in toxicity, an Environmental Health Perspectives study suggested that even BPA free plastics leach toxic chemicals.
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Florida QB Jeff Driskel back at practice after surgery
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- Florida has cleared quarterback Jeff Driskel and partially reinstated suspended linebacker Antonio Morrison.
The school said Driskel returned to practice Thursday night, throwing passes and taking part in team drills.
Driskel missed the first week of fall practice following an appendectomy, but coach Will Muschamp expected him to return early in camp.
It had been less clear when Morrison would be back. But the Gators said Morrison rejoined the team Thursday, attending meetings and then doing side work at practice.
Morrison, a projected starter at middle linebacker, was suspended indefinitely last month following his second arrest in less than five weeks. He was arrested July 21 for allegedly barking at a police dog. The charges were dropped a few days later. He also was arrested in May for allegedly punching a bouncer. He signed a deferred prosecution deal on that charge.
Muschamp suspended Morrison for the first two games of the season, but added last week that Morrison would return at some point during camp.
Driskel, meanwhile, was cleared by doctors to return to action Thursday, nine days after emergency surgery.
The second-year starter attended the first six days of practice even though he couldn't participate and had been doing everything in meetings.
"It's definitely frustrating,'' Driskel said last week. "But injuries happen. It's part of life. I'm starting to feel better already. We'll see. Recovery time they said it varies for everybody. We're not going to rush anything. But I don't think I'm going to miss too much.''
Driskel started 12 games last season, completing 64 percent of his passes for 1,646 yards and 12 touchdowns. He was the team's second-leading rusher, finishing with 413 yards and four scores. He also broke the school record for rushing yards in a game with 177 against Vanderbilt.
Running back Mack Brown hinted earlier in the day that Driskel would return.
"It's very important because first game is in a couple weeks, so we need our starting quarterback,'' Brown said. "The offense runs through Jeff, so it's good to have him back.''
In other injury news, freshman linebacker Matt Rolin reportedly tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during practice Wednesday. It was the same knee he had surgery on in January. Florida officials also declined comment on the injury, but Rolin tweeted that "Some things in life just aren't fair.''
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MADISON, Wis. - Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Wednesday that he is convening a new council to ensure county government is better prepared for weather extremes brought on by global climate change.
Parisi said the effort is the first of its kind for a county in Wisconsin.
"Images of parched farm fields, flooded homes, wind damaged properties and cars stranded in deep snow drifts are becoming too common to ignore the reality that super storms and other weather extremes are the new norm," Parisi said in a news release.
Parisi's new Dane County Climate Change Action Council will include Charles Tubbs, the county's emergency management director and a national instructor on preparedness for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, along with other key county managers whose operations might be affected by weather extremes resulting from climate change.
Parisi said he has tasked his new council with reporting to him within six months on recommendations of any changes or additional resources the county or its public safety partners may need to pursue to be better prepared to cope with changing climate.
David Liebl, a climate change outreach specialist with UW-Extension and a member of the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts-Science Council, will facilitate the initial meetings of the Climate Change Action Council. Liebl has been working with communities and groups across the state to improve their understanding of climate change so they can be proactive in developing adaptation strategies for coping with extreme events.
Liebl was a contributing author for a report compiled by scientists across Wisconsin entitled "Wisconsin's Changing Climate: Impacts and Adaptation." That report predicts that Wisconsin's annual average temperature is likely to warm by 4-9 degrees within the next few decades and that intense rain events will become more frequent. The report concludes that more heavy winter and spring precipitation, combined with little change in total summertime rainfall and higher temperatures, will increase the likelihood of summer droughts.
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Chavez parents fighting to keep Spanish immersion program
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MADISON, Wis. - Parents at one elementary school on Madison's west side are fighting for a special language program as the district says it may need to be discontinued at the school.
The dual-language immersion program has been incredibly popular and is now offered at seven elementary schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District. But Chavez Elementary School may lose its program next year, and that has parents fighting for other options.
Learning happens almost entirely in Spanish in two Chavez Elementary School classrooms as part of the DLI program. Katie Johanski's daughter, Ayla, joined the program last year.
"What an awesome opportunity for her to be able to go to a public school that is in our neighborhood, a program she can be fluent in Spanish by fifth grade and bilingual by eighth grade," Johanski said. "It's a great opportunity and we couldn't pass it up."
The district expanded to the Memorial attendance area two years ago and district officials hoped they'd get enough Spanish speakers to match the interested English speakers, making it a true dual-language immersion. Instead, after a second year, the district has discovered the numbers don't add up.
"It is a one-way immersion," said interim MMSD Superintendent Jane Belmore. "That's a valid way to have a classroom set up but not the way the district approves these classrooms."
Belmore said the numbers show the district likely can't offer another dual-immersion class next year at Chavez, so the district is looking at options for current students.18364940
"It's a difficult one, and we're trying to listen to parents and look at the reality of enrollments and resources to figure out what is the best way to go," Belmore said.
Johanski isn't sure what that is, but she said it needs to involve making sure her daughter and other students, who were told they'd be behind in some subjects until third grade because of the immersion, are still given good opportunities.
"We've invested some time into it, so I think we would find another school or another district that had an immersion program," Johanski said.
Belmore said the district is considering whether there's another school in the Memorial attendance area to offer DLI, and whether the district can send these children to other schools with the right number of students or offer more Spanish classes. All of these decisions have to be sorted out by March.
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Marcell Dareus ... #3 pick ... Mario Williams ... $100 million deal ... making Tom Brady dread Bills games .... PRICELESS!!!
The medciore QB and WR helped us w/in a few ps of the Super Bowl. The QB and DE you overpaid for have never played in a playoff game.
Mario makes your D much better w/o a doubt but he's not a dominant player- he never has been. Maybe he will be in Buffalo? but that's an awful lot of money to throw out at a guy who hasn't been dominant.
well, Mike&Mike, Colin Cowherd, and the SVP Show have all been taking shots at the Jets this training camp and they're normally very pro Jets so something is up.
I don't know what the Jets are going to be this year, and honestly I don't care until we play them. Much like every team in the division (including the Pats), the Jets have some glaring weaknesses. The Pats are the one team in the division that for sure has the talent on offense to significantly mask their weaknesses.


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Thank god the draft is coming up because the team does'nt look that good on paper...............
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That receiving core does not scare anyone. Dolphins better load up on receivers in this draft. Even though he was a pain in the butt and dropped a good few passes, I think that Marshall trade is going to hurt them, especially against the Jets. Bess and Hartline cannot get off the line of scrimmage against Revis.
That offense scares me (and not in a good way!). The defense has only a few holes, but seems to be fairly solid. Problem is, the offense may end up keeping our defense way too busy by never getting them off the field long enough to catch their breath. While I'm hoping to plug some of the holes with the draft, I don't remember us having 15-20 picks in this year's draft. I guess we get better slowly with several drafts (assuming we pick starters and not guys that get cut in 1-2 years).
This is awesome!
The roster is updated with all the latest move and number changes. Currently the roster has 64 members. Between the draft and the undrafted free agent signings in the days after, the Dolphins can add up to 26 players to the roster.
Love the draft...And looks as if we are busy still...
I am out of town and don't have access to my excel file, so it might be a few weeks until this gets updated to reflect the draft. Sorry.


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Style Disappearing When I Try To Install It!
Posted 03 August 2012 - 10:25 PM
I'm about ready to tear my hair out. I bought several styles from Scrap Girls, and tried to install them. They all installed fine except for one. Here's the problem: If I don't create my own metadata file, it installs fine, and creates a new category as the name of the style. But I have a lot of styles so I've created my own category list. When I create a metadata file to add this style to my own category, the style simply disappears. It's not in the category I've told it to go into, and it's not its own category. I've tried doing it both manually (and yes, I've erased the media and thumbs databases) and using Add-o-Matic.
I don't get it! When I look in the layer styles folder, it's there. My metadata file is also there. All the other styles I bought are cooperating, and are in the categories I've designated. So why isn't it showing up?
Oh, I've also tried re-downloading to a different location from a different browser, just to make sure I didn't get a bad download. Still didn't work. ARGH!!
Can anyone help?
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Posted 03 August 2012 - 10:32 PM
Posted 03 August 2012 - 10:38 PM
BTW I'm using PSE 9 in that helps.
Posted 03 August 2012 - 10:47 PM
Hopefully someone else will be along who will have some helpful info for you...
Posted 04 August 2012 - 07:48 AM
You stopped categorizing? How many styles do you have? I have over 200 so it would be a brutally long list.
Posted 04 August 2012 - 08:03 AM
Yes, I stopped categorizing when I switched from PSE 7 to PSE 9. I have approximately 115 installed, and the list is long, but I just scroll to what I want.
Hoping someone will come along with some help for you soon.
Posted 04 August 2012 - 08:26 AM
Good luck!
"Life is not the days that go by, but the days you remember"
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Posted 04 August 2012 - 02:59 PM
Thank you everyone for trying to help. I just figured it out. I just noticed that when I created the metadata file, it was saving as a txt document instead of an xml file. Once I saved as an xml it worked fine.
Happy to hear you got it to work!
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In a report released today, Citigroup's Jamshed Dadabhoy and Arvind Sharma ponder Tata Motors' (TTM) April sales volume.
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8th edition of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
For the first time in its history, medici.tv is live from Japan! Watch the final rounds of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and the gala concert of the finalists live on the internet and discover the piano's most promising young talents!
The Hamamatsu International Piano Competition began in 1991 to commemorate Hamamatsu's 80th year anniversary of the city's establishment. It was started as an international project which could fittingly express the pride held in Hamamatsu's tradition and history as a city of music and instruments.
The Competition is held every three years "for the following purposes."
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This competition has earned a high reputation and is recognized as an international competition that consistently showcases a number of outstanding pianists such as Rafał Blechacz, Ayako Uehara, Alexander Gavrylyuk who are currently very active on the world stage.
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- First Prize – The Mayor of Sapporo Award: Ilya RASHKOVSKIY (Russia)
- Second Prize: NAKAGIRI Nozomi (Japan)
- Third Prize: SATO Takashi (Japan)
- Fourth Prize: Anna TCYBULEVA (Russia)
- Fifth Prize: KIM Joon (Korea)
- Sixth Prize: TAKUMI Kei (Japan)
- Best Performer of the Japanese Work: TAKUMI Kei (Japan)
- Diploma of Outstanding Merit: Ashley FRIPP (UK)
- Chamber Music Award: SATO Takashi (Japan)
- Audience Prize: Ilya RASHKOVSKIY (Russia)
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Long after a death, communities in central Vietnam perform ceremonies to secure the safe passage of the soul to the afterlife. These secondary funerals occur in the village of the dead, located some distance from the living community. Exhumed remains are reinterred in large house-like tombs, surrounded by wooden figures on posts.
The quickly sculpted images of humans, animals and birds include the crouching figure, similar in form and style to the ancestral images of island Southeast Asia. Created solely for mortuary rites, the graves and sculptures are abandoned and left to disintegrate, allowing the living and dead to move on.


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SI.com's boxing experts predict Saturday's fourth fight between Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez (9 p.m. ET, HBO PPV). Share your prediction in the comments below.
Prediction? Uh ... The reality is the Pacquiao-Marquez is a pick 'em fight and it will be a pick 'em fight whether they fight today, tomorrow or 10 years from now. Pacquiao will always be an aggressive, come-forward fighter and Marquez will always be the kind of counterpuncher that eats that style up. Marquez looks great at 147 pounds, sculpted and comfortable at the higher weight. And like last fight, Marquez will likely have a strong crowd behind him. Still, boxing judges favor the aggressor and I think Pacquiao will come out trying to prove a fight. He won't stop Marquez but he will win a close -- and probably controversial -- decision. Pacquiao by unanimous decision.
The great heavyweight champion Gene Tunney lost only one fight in his career, to Harry Greb, the man known as the Pittsburgh Windmill and one of the best fighters pound-for-pound in history. The pair would meet three more times, all tough engaging and bloody contests. Willie Pep and Sandy Saddler also faced off four times, in a series that is still considered one of the highpoints of the sport. Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake LaMotta met six times, in a historic series capped by Robinson's lacerating 13th-round TKO on Feb. 14, 1951 -- dubbed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and immortalized on film in Scorsese's Raging Bull ("You never put me down, Ray!).
Yeah, who wants to see the same guys fight each other more than three times?
Uh, I do. I know that there's every reason to bemoan the fact that Pacquiao is climbing into the ring with Marquez again and not with that guy who's feuding with 50 Cent. Part of that is because these days boxers fight so infrequently compared to the old timers -- between them, the six champions mentioned above had 1,094 bouts; two of Robinson and LaMotta's fights were separated by just three weeks -- and there's the sense that time is running out on Pacquiao's career. That we may never see him against Mayweather.
That's all too possible. But another match against the redoubtable Marquez is a worthy consolation. It should be another close and even thrilling contest. Marquez knows he has to get to Pacquiao earlier and not let the Filipino build an insurmountable lead. Pacquiao knows he needs to make a statement. He doesn't want to just squeak by again on the scorecards. That combination should lead to some early fireworks, and those could lead to an upset. Marquez has lost none of his power and Pacquiao -- increasingly, it seems -- can be tagged. In trying to take Marquez out, he will have to take chances, and against a counterpuncher like Marquez, he will pay a price. I expect to see both men on the canvas and both men bleeding. In the end it will go down to the scorecards once again. Marquez by majority decision.
It's not often these $70-a-pop blockbusters are legit coin flips but therein lies the value of Saturday's scrap. Pacquiao and Marquez have fought 36 rounds with only seven points separating them on the scorecards. It's not just that each cancels out the other's strengths: these guys throw so many lightning-fast combinations that it's hard to tell who lands flush unless someone gets hurt. Will the judges favor Marquez in the toss-up rounds as Roach fears? Will either fighter's articulated desire to end it within the distance compromise their strategies? Does one or the other fall off an age cliff? No one can say with any certainty. So toss a coin. Heads for Marquez, the thinker, whose shrewd counterpunching and footwork neutralizes the Filipino's most potent weapons. Tails for Pacquiao, the aggressor, who holds the edge in power and benefits from a style that's easier to see and easier to score, but may not get the benefit of the doubt if it goes to the judges. It's the most reasonable forecast you'll read all week: a 50/50 prediction for a 50/50 fight. Marquez by split decision.


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Video games that provide good mathematics learning should look to the piano as a model
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So how to go about designing a good video game to help students learn mathematics? The first step should be to read—several times, from cover to cover—the current "bible" on K–12 mathematics education. It is called Adding it Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics, and it was published by the National Academies Press in 2001. The result of several years' work by the National Research Council's Mathematics Learning Study Committee, a blue-ribbon panel of experts assembled to carry out that crucial millennial task, this invaluable volume sets out to codify the mathematical knowledge and skills that are thought to be important in today's society. As such, it provides the best single source currently available for guidelines on good mathematics instruction.
The report's authors use the phrase mathematical proficiency to refer to the aggregate of mathematical knowledge, skills, developed abilities, habits of mind and attitudes that are essential ingredients for life in the 21st century. They break this aggregate down to what they describe as "five tightly interwoven" threads. The first is conceptual understanding, the comprehension of mathematical concepts, operations and relations. The second is procedural fluency, defined as skill in carrying out arithmetical procedures accurately, efficiently, flexibly and appropriately. Third is strategic competence, or the ability to formulate, represent and solve mathematical problems arising in real-world situations. Fourth is adaptive reasoning—the capacity for logical thought, reflection, explanation and justification. Finally there's productive disposition, a habitual inclination to see mathematics as sensible, useful and worthwhile, combined with a confidence in one's own ability to master the material.
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So, it's Christmas, and the New year went by. as usually at this time of the year. The family have been relaxing and the my mind have been floating around fishing ideas on the pond of imagination.
So, as usual I spend some time trying to solve a very interesting puzzle. What the are nature made up by. One thing I just can't understand is why we make such a fuzz out of the number dimension of space. It's the numbers of freedoms in the model. But for god sake a pencil have 6 freedoms. Three rotational degrees of freedom and three translational degrees of freedom. My point is that it is likely that there are a local structure that we cannot see that have a gazillion of freedoms (well this is a free source blog aren't it :-).
It looks to me that it is pretty premature to twist peoples mind about talking about high dimensional space in the way we do. On the other hand the number of freedoms are important mathematically no doubt about that.
The next things that just forces me to try to think by my own is how we argue about the fundamental parameters in space. In some science shows I seen on the tube they only explain this by saying that we would not be here to analyze it and simply that's why. And this is why they are feasible and not a small distance away from it leading to an unfeasible solution.
Here is where the engineer in me just go into rocket mode. What!!!, this is not the only argument. It is just as likely that the reason is that the laws are simpler and demand less parameters. To visualize, We have a higher dimension model that works really well. A simpler model with fewer parameters will then be embedded very much like a surface in space e.g. move a little in the wrong direction and you are out of the surface. And the setup will be unphysical.
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The Acadian Orogeny took place mainly to the northeast of here. (As the name implies, Acadian-aged rocks are well-exposed in Acadia National Park in coastal Maine.) Along the Billy Goat Trail, they left one set of important structures: a series of four parallel dikes filled with the igneous rock called lamprophyre. ("Lamprophyre" is a fancy name for what is essentially a mafic igneous rock, like more-familiar basalt or diabase). Biotite mica from these dikes has been dated using isotopes of potassium-40 and argon-40 to be about 360 million years old. It's worth noting that the mafic-composition rock which makes up the lamprophyre dikes is less stable than the older metagraywacke that it cuts across: as a result, it weathers out more easily -- making the dikes show up as a series of "slashes" in the surface of the rock face. This is a view of the Virginia side of the river, as seen from the Billy Goat Trail (which is on the Maryland side). Width of widest dike (second from left) is about two feet.
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It's our last gas price survey of August and possibly summer. We're in the camp that once you hit September, it's no longer summer.
Anyway, the cheapest gas today in Northeast Mississippi is at Sam's Club, according to a Daily Journal survey.
It was $3.47 today for members at Sam's. The figure is down from $3.51 Tuesday and up from $3.37 Friday.
Overall, gas prices have been on a rollercoaster all week, courtesy of Hurricane Isaac (previous coverage).
Most expensive: Amory & Oxford $3.67
Other prices:
Amory $3.67
Belden $3.55
Booneville $3.48
Corinth $3.51
Fulton $3.48
New Albany $3.53
Oxford $3.67
Pontotoc $3.52
Ripley $3.57
Sam's Club (member price) $3.47
Sherman $3.49
Starkville $3.62
Tupelo (Kroger at Crosstown) $3.59
Read the Sunday Journal for more prices.
Reminder: This survey is designed to find the cheapest gas. The cities with the "most expensive" title are the ones that came in at the bottom of our cheapest gas list. There are other stations with more expensive gas, but we aren't hunting for that. We're looking for the station where you are going to spend the most money when you want to find cheap gas. Make sense?