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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan speaks Wednesday, April 20, in Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall on the Princeton campus. Duncan says he is optimistic that the country can once again be among the leaders in education worldwide, but that U.S. schools must get better faster than ever before.
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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in an address at Princeton University, called on legislators, educators and communities to come together to change how the country teaches children and to return America to world prominence in education.
"If you look at (education) as a civil rights issue, as an economic imperative, as an issue of national security -- I look at it through all three of those lenses -- we have to get better faster than we ever have in education," Duncan said during a speech Wednesday, April 20, in Richardson Auditorium of Alexander Hall. "Somehow, we have a 19th-century model for a 21st-century economy."
In introducing Duncan, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman said, "The stakes have never been greater. The nation that once led the world in terms of college completion now lags behind countries as different as Canada, Korea and Russia, a decline that the Obama administration is committed to reversing by making educational reform a centerpiece of public policy."
Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman (left) and Robert Durkee (right), University vice president and secretary, walk to Alexander Hall with Duncan after visiting with him in Nassau Hall.
In an event sponsored by the University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Duncan spoke passionately when addressing issues such as the United States falling from first to ninth in the world in college graduation rates, the 25 percent dropout rate in U.S. high schools and the misperception that children raised in impoverished neighborhoods cannot learn. He pointed to the history of education leadership at Princeton as one of the reasons he is optimistic that the United States can return to a level of excellence.
Citing the University's unofficial motto of "Princeton in the nation's service" coined by former University and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, Duncan said, "That spirit has permeated this campus and has been a clarion call around the country.
"So many of the reforms that we are seeing around the country are being led, not coincidentally, by Princeton alums," he said, naming graduates such as Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach for America, and Rajiv Vinnakota, co-founder of the nation's first urban boarding school for disadvantaged students. "I just want to say thank you to this community for producing so many leaders who are literally in the nation's service and helping to lead this country where we need to go."
Duncan speaks as, from left, Tilghman, Dean Christina Paxson of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Woodrow Wilson School lecturer Hugh Price look on.
Duncan pointed to five necessary steps for the United States to succeed in reforming education: Fix the No Child Left Behind law; increase the access to and quality of early education; bring school boards, management and unions to the table to collectively bargain reform; recruit the next generation of teachers; and embrace technology as a teaching and growth tool.
Duncan's appearance drew a crowd of students, educators and other attendees to learn more about his vision for improving the country's schools.
Using Illinois schools and education policies as a frequent example, Duncan spoke of a failed school in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood with a 60 percent dropout rate that, after being forced to close, reopened as three separate schools in the same building providing better opportunities for students.
"The first graduating class from the school was from an all-boys school. They had 107 young men -- 107 of them graduated, 107 of them went on to four-year universities. Same children, same communities, same threats of violence, same single parent families, same poverty, but a very different set of expectations," said Duncan, who served as CEO of the Chicago Public Schools before assuming his role as education secretary in 2009.
"Anyone who tells you that poverty is destiny, anyone who tells you that poor children or children of color can't be successful, is part of the problem," Duncan said.
Princeton freshman Peyton Morgan, who attended high school in Chicago during Duncan's tenure as head of that city's public schools, meets the education secretary after the event.
After his remarks, a question-and-answer session was moderated by Hugh Price, the John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor in the Woodrow Wilson School.
Junior Catharine Bellinger, a Woodrow Wilson School major who is executive director of the national nonprofit organization Students for Education Reform, asked Duncan about challenges the government faces in implementing major changes in student assessment and teacher evaluation standards in a short period of time.
"There's risk in all of these things," Duncan said. "With raising standards, there's risk. With changing assessment, there's risk. But I constantly say 'don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good,' and for far too long in education, if something wasn't perfect, we wouldn't do it.
"For five decades, we've had teacher evaluations that are absolutely meaningless. … There will be choppy times in there, but my goal is three years from now we'll be a lot better off than we are now," he added.
After the event, Bellinger said she appreciated the secretary's words.
"It was inspiring to hear Secretary Duncan encourage young people to take leadership positions in the field," she said. "It was also important that he recognized the challenges we face in closing the achievement gap."
Bellinger, who attended the event with members of the Princeton chapter of Students for Education Reform, said her group was working to hear Duncan's call and work with him to build the next generation of teachers.
Arne Duncan greets junior Catharine Bellinger along with members of the Princeton chapter of Students For Education Reform outside Alexander Hall.
Aaron Jackson, a graduate student in the Woodrow Wilson School who asked Duncan to discuss the biggest challenges in the national debate about education reform, said after the event, "I am grateful for the opportunity to hear him speak. It's always nice as a policy student to be able to hear from and engage with a policymaker. I thought he was very candid, and I appreciated that. It was a frank conversation about where we are, where his office is trying to go and what the main challenges are."
Before beginning his remarks, Duncan, who played basketball at Harvard University, pointed out that he'd hoped to attend Princeton. He joked that he was told by then-coach Pete Carill that he wasn't good enough.
"I'm good friends with him to this day," Duncan said. "He said it's the biggest mistake he ever made."
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Students at every level benefit from seeing mathematical concepts illustrated with well-designed mathlets. In this article, I present a five-step procedure to help you construct your own mathlets in Excel. I demonstrate the use of the procedure with one application: properties of the tangent line to the curve of a differentiable function.
All students benefit from seeing mathematical concepts illustrated with well-designed mathlets. Although you can use other computer languages, I recommend the use of Excel, because it has a powerful platform for creating impressive mathlets, and because it is widely available to teachers and students. I will present an application of tangent lines to the graph of a function to illustrate how Excel mathlets are created and used in my classroom. You will need to be familiar with Excel to understand and apply the five step process described in this article.
I use an Excel mathlet in my calculus classes to explore many of the interesting properties of the tangent line. The mathlet shows the graph of a function y = f(x), a point (x0 , y0) on the graph of f, a line tangent to the graph at the point (x0 , y0), a vertical reference line (x = x0), and a horizontal reference line (y = y0). Above the graph is an information bar containing the values of x0, y0 = f(x0), f '(x0), and f ''(x0). An image of the mathlet is shown in Figure 1 below. You can click on the image to open or download the Excel file and explore the mathlet.
Figure 1. The Tangent Line mathlet
I can move the point (x0, y0) along the curve in either direction. As (x0, y0) moves along the curve, I show the students how the tangent line glides along the curve like a snowboard on a snowy hill. When the curve is increasing at x0, the tangent line has a positive slope and f '(x0) > 0. When the curve is decreasing at x0, the tangent line has a negative slope and f '(x0) < 0. The steeper the curve, the steeper is the tangent line. At the top of the hills and at the bottom of the valleys, I show them how the tangent line is horizontal and the slope is zero.
I use the mathlet to show my students how the ends of the snow board are above the hill when the curve is concave down and below the hill when the curve is concave up. I also have them see that when the curve is concave down, the value of the second derivative is negative and when the curve is concave up, the second derivative is positive. As I glide through the inflection point, they can see that one side of the snowboard is above the hill and the other side is below the hill and that at the inflection point itself, f ''(x0) = 0.
Finally, I give them a value of x0 and ask them to estimate the value of the function, the value of the first derivative, and the value of the second derivative. After giving them a chance to guess these values, I jump to the specified x0 so that they can judge the accuracy of their estimates. As you can see, this mathlet is a powerful teaching tool.
The mathlet is operated by three macro keys:
Explore the mathlet yourself. In the next section, we will see how it's constructed.
Here are the five steps for creating Excel mathlets:
As an example, we will go through these steps in the construction of the Tangent Line mathlet. However, you would use a similar process for other mathlets.
Components are objects, which appear on the screen. This mathlet has five components:
Components are then classified as
A component is vertical if any part of the component is perpendicular to the x-axis. All other components are non-vertical. Component (e), the vertical reference line, is the only vertical component. A component is stationary, if it never moves during the operation of the mathlet. Of the five components, only the graph of f(x) is stationary.
Add the components and their classifications to the Objects grid template as shown in Figure 2. In Figure 3 we show the template after adding the components and classifications.
Figure 2. Objects grid template
Figure 3. Completed objects grid template
The Objects grid requires one column for the x-values and one column for each component. This mathlet thus requires six columns. Note also that the Object grid requires blocks of rows, which will be called row-blocks in this article. Grids require one row-block to take care of all non-vertical components, and one row-block for each vertical component. This mathlet requires two row-blocks. Row-block 1 consists of 401 rows for the four non-vertical components. Row-block 2 consists of two rows for the vertical reference line.
Let the function f be defined by
Then it follows that:
The equation of the tangent line to the curve of f at x = x0 is given by:
y = f(x0) + f '(x0)(x − x0) = y0 + f '(x0)(x − x0)
The function f is defined on the domain
[0, 8].
Fill in the numbers from 0 to 8 in increments of 0.02 in the 401 rows (
B9:B409) of row-block 1. These are the x-values. See Figure 4.
Figure 4. Objects grid with x-values entered
How do moving objects move? Let
(x0, y0)
be the point of tangency. Insert the definition of
f(x) in cell C9:
and then copy cell C9 to cells C10 to C409.
Define a function g as follows:
Let cell D2 always contain the current value of x0. By inserting the definition of g(x) in each of the cells D9 to D409, all but one these cells will have the value −50. The one exception is the cell corresponding to x = x0. Since g(x) = −50 will be off (below) the chart, the value g(x0) is the only value that can be seen. As the value in cell D2 increases from 0 to 8 in increments of 0.02, this point of tangency glides along the curve. Because of computer round-off error, modify the function of g as follows:
Thinking of the formula in D9 in the following way:
helps with its translation to an Excel formula:
Note that the
IF statement in Excel has the following syntax:
= IF(logicalText, valueIfTrue, valueIfFalse)
Let's define critical cells as cells which contain critical information about the location of a component. This mathlet requires six critical cells:
What about the tangent line? The line will be displayed on the interval (x0 − 0.5, x0 + 0.5). So define a function t defined on the interval [0, 8] as follows:
Recall that the values of x0, f(x0), f '(x0) are contained in cells D2, D3, and D4 respectively and that the x-coordinates of the endpoints of the tangent line are contained in cells E2 and E3 respectively. Cell E9 is defined as:
The Excel formula for cell E9 is therefore written as:
The horizontal reference line
y = y0
extends from the y-axis to the point
(x0, y0).
The formulas for this component will be constructed in column F, so cell F9 should read
= IF(B9 <= $D$2, $D$3, -50). The last component is the vertical reference line. It extends between the points
(x0, 0)
(x0, y0).
Since this is the only vertical component, its formulas are set up in row-block 2. Cells B410 and B411 contain the x-coordinates for these two points and should both read
= $D$2. Cells G410 and G411 contain the y-coordinates for these two points and should read 0 and
= D3 respectively.
Figure 5 summarizes these crucial formulas. The formulas are defined in row 9 of columns C, D, E, and F and then copied down to the remaining cells in row-block 1.
Figure 5. The critical formulas for the five components and for the critical cells
The Critical Cell panel is a block of four rows at the top of the spreadsheet which contains the critical cells. See Figure 5 again for formulas.
Chart wizard is an Excel template that guides the user through the steps for creating graphs. Highlight the entire Object grid (B8:G411), including the labels at the top of the columns, and then either click on the Chart Wizard icon or choose the Chart option under the Insert pull-down menu. Choose the following options in the four steps of the chart wizard (see Figure 6).
After finishing the Chart wizard, the graph should look like Figure 7.
Figure 7. The graph after finishing Chart Wizard
Edit the graph. First, change point sizes, point symbols, line types, etc. For these five components, choose the settings shown in the Object Table. Make these changes by double-clicking on the desired object and then selecting the preferred options in the Patterns tab of the Format Data Series window. Recall that the formula for three objects--the point of tangency, the tangent line and the horizontal reference line--all had the form:
When formatting the series for these objects, it is important that Line be suppressed by choosing the option None under Line (see the Object Table). Otherwise, the graph will have a line dipping down to −50
Change the background color to white by double-clicking on the background and choosing the following options: Under Area, select None. Select Chart Options under the Chart pull-down menu to remove grid lines and the legend.
Finally set the y-axis scale to Minimum: . −4, Maximum: 8, and Major Unit: 2 in the Format Axis window, which is accessed by double-clicking on any numerical value on the y-axis and choosing the Scale tab.
The mathlet also has a Parameter Information Bar, a strip of cells (J1:S1) above the graph giving numerical information (x0, y0 = f(x0), f '(x0), and f ''(x0)), about the graph itself. Formulas for the Parameter Information Bar are given in Figure 8.
Figure 8. The information bar
Macros are used to manipulate the values in the critical cells. Each macro is assigned a shortcut key, which is used during the operation of the mathlet. This mathlet has three macros:
You may view or download the Visual Basic code for these macros. In general, creating macros is a two-step process. The first step is to name the macro and write its Visual Basic code. Begin by simultaneously pressing the alt key and the F8 key (alt+F8). Continue by typing the name of the macro in the Macro Name box, and then left-clicking on the Create button. Type in the code and finally close the Visual basic window. The second step is to assign a short-cut key to the macro. Type alt+F8 and highlight the desired macro. Then select the Options button and insert a letter in the Shortcut Key box.
Try the Tangent Line mathlet yourself, modify it, and then write your own mathlets. It requires just five easy steps. The following resources may also be helpful:


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Free speech is much more durable than the abuse heaped on it Tuesday night by a handful of white students at the University of Mississippi whose words and behavior went beyond the pale in protesting the enthusiasm of black students celebrating President Obama's re-election.
Had the disturbance late Tuesday night been confined to words exchanged without racial slurs it might have been dismissed as youthful passion in excess, apparently fueled by alcohol.
But the epithets pushed the disturbance into a nationally reported racial incident at Ole Miss, which has worked for 50 years to distance itself from a racist past that included a fatal riot when James Meredith came in 1962 to enroll as the first black student.
It only takes a few people to smear good-faith efforts and diminish in the public's eye remarkable progress in race relations at Ole Miss and in Mississippi. Chancellor Dan Jones appropriately condemned the student behavior and insisted, rightly, that it wasn't representative of the broader university community.
The riot on the night of Sept. 30, 1962, has been described as the final battle of the Civil War, which the United States had won 97 years earlier. America also won the segregation battle waged by Mississippi's then-racist political and civic leadership.
Today, Ole Miss has a respected Institute of Racial Reconciliation and a student body that is remarkably inclusive, but a few students apparently insist on living as if the world were pre-1962, or even pre-1865. The behavior is learned.
The unnamed student whose voice was heard by millions of people listening to National Public Radio and Mississippi Public Broadcasting on Wednesday morning said he and fellow anti-Obama protesters were standing up for "…the Republican side and the Confederate side of the University."
He does the Republican Party and the university a disservice by linking them to the Confederacy. Ole Miss has banished overt and official Confederate symbols, and most of its most ardent supporters understand that necessity.
The candlelight unity march staged Wednesday night attracted more participants than the raucous protest of the previous night, and that's affirming.
The racist attitudes, however, won't cease until students change their minds, or when they no longer learn attitudes from others who haven't accepted a fact of history: The old days are over; the world has changed.


text: Not sure what to do with this one? I have a 7 month female that has been a supreme "fingerpainter" her whole life. Well she has now picked up a new trick which tops the messy kennel twice a day. I thought I saw this a couple nights ago but saw her first hand last night, when I let the dogs out to clean she went down to a older males kennel and proceeded to eat his stools? Whats up?? Can say this is a new one and not sure how to proceed? She is fed twice a day and is on Nature's Balance. I understand to not let her into the kennel but what about out in the airing area as she will scoop it up there? Any suggestions is surely appreciated.


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I switched to victor about 6 months ago and have had great results. I feed the hi-pro 30/20. Dogs have great energy and shiny coats. Less seems to come out the back end too.
I switched to victor about 6 months ago and have had great results. I feed the hi-pro 30/20. Dogs have great energy and shiny coats. Less seems to come out the back end too.
So....is there or is there not something in beef that neg. effects Labs. Something along the lines of how collies cant tolerate ivermec?? I just started to give me dog beef bones from the butcher. i do not want to do something that might hurt him because i did not know about it.
Benjamin Fain
No, there is nothing specific about Labs that makes feeding beef or a beef-based food a concern. Or any other breed as far as I know.
Edited to add: Some dogs might be allergic to beef. Just like some dogs are allergic to chicken, or soy, or wheat, etc.... Personally I would love to give Victor food a try if we could get it up here.
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Our dogs are doing great so far on the Victor's Dog Food, stools are good, coats are doing real fine...size of kibble is a non issue for us...so far we really like the dog food for our Labs. Feeding Victor's Select Professional: http://www.victordogfood.com/
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"When one is rough or cruel, it means that bodily abuse is given for no reason. When one is firm, he gets the dog to obey with a minimum of force. It is obvious that a trainer can't get co-operation from a frightened dog." ~ Joe (Lorraine) DeLoia (2/19/50)
the only thing to be aware of is that beef is #1 on the list of most common food allergies and intolerances in all dogs, so if your dogs develop any new issues or symptoms you might want to suspect the food.
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been using victor for about 3 weeks and good results so far. feeding the hi-pro plus ($32) and i def like the results. plus having to feed 3.5 cups compared to 5.5 is great. my dog food container holds 30 lbs so normally with Eukanuba ($42) i feed 3-4 meals out of whats left in the bag after dumping it into the container before i start using whats in the container. it took 2 weeks to feed the rest of the bag with victor. 40# bag plus less per serving is really helping out my pocket book.
even got my parents to start feeding it to their house dogs (6). they buy the all-life stage formulas which is $26 per bag. they were feeding IAMS and it was more than that for a 33# bag.
A specific breed of dog, affected by a specific protein source I cannot see, unless there some sort of inherit intolerance to the protein. A specific dog doing better on one protein source over another, now that's entirely possible, particularly if said dog has Allergies to a certain protein source. Ex a lot of dogs are developing an allergy to chicken, nice to know there are other P-sources out there, I'll have to put victor on the list for protein allergies. Is beef the only protein source in the food?
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grain free is 30lbs. gluten free (no corn soy or wheat) is 40lbs. all there foods are gluten free the grains are rice, barley, etc
I have one question, who actually makes the food for Victor? I have a friend that has his own brand of dog food, but does not manufacture it himself. I also hauled a lot of dog food back when I was trucking and I asked what I would have to do to start my own brand and was told all I would have to do was buy bags to put it in and they would be glad to fill them with the same food as many other brands they made, just would use a different shaped cutter to not get sued by another customer.


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Well we have been working hard for a couple weeks on FTP and im getting very comfy with the way he is responding and running. This mornings session started us about 50yds aeay from the pile and finished up about 75yds away.
Ignore the first yelp, somehow when i took the transmitter out of my pocket i hit a button. So he got a few "im sorry rubs".
Next we moved on to his first mini t session, mind you we worked into doing two piles, y day we did left over and 2 days ago we did right over.
I have worked hard to work out the issues picked up in previous posts (all me issues, not TY). Can any one offer suggestions to get him to focus in a bit more? you can see i use his name and pull the lead.
Please keep up with the constructive criticsm it is helping me/us along greatly.


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I think someone has had some serious influence on this kid. I really don't believe a 10 yr old knows what he is talking about, although I think that there are many of voting age that believe some of the same ignorant messages this kid is spewing.
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Look for stuff that most people won't know, use player twitter pages, google etc. The market is usually fairly accurate,the only way to beat it is to have information that most punters do not have.
Assume you know less than everyone else and go from there.
Keep notes on players and tournaments. Anyone can look at results. Know what really happened behind the results. For example recent Madrid clay court tournament suited big hitting stand and deliver players. Simply knowing this helps you vet results better.
I guarantee I make your article with my comment.
"Know the rules of your book"
Most books grade tennis wagers as "No Action" if a player retires during the match.
5 Dimes in particular, will grade tennis wagers if a set has been completed.
Some books say that all wagers have action. So be aware of the rules in case you are wagering on a match with someone who has been hampered by an injury or troubled with the flu.
As any casual fan can tell, the top 4 players own the ATP, so don't bet against Joker, Nadal, Fed, or even Murray prior to the semi's.
Non-Majors are a different story. Although you expect the same players to make the finals, it is more likely they will lose against a nobody due to the tour's ridiculous tournament requirements.
Don't panic when you bet on female tennis when your player gets broken. Break points are not as critical as in the males game due to varying factors. Your female player can easily get it back, compared to the men where there may be 1 break in 2 sets.
List of plyer twitter pages, some aren't particularly useful but some give some good insight. Even basic things like how lon ga player has been in the country can help you estimate a players motivation. This is something players tend to post about.
EG :"Just got to London and........"
If that is the say before they play you are thinking they don't care too much. If it a week before they play they are more likely to be taking the tourny there seriously.
List here:
Anderson and Tipsy are two active players for a start.
As an example, last year tipsy posted about his food poisoning before losing as favourite to Lopez.


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JACKSON — Fast-growing and relatively prosperous DeSoto County is the healthiest county in Mississippi, while low-income Quitman County is the least healthy.
That's according to new rankings from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute.
This is the fourth year for the groups to assess nearly every county in the United States. They look at health behaviors such as smoking, obesity, physical inactivity and sexually transmitted infections. They also look at the percentage of uninsured residents and social and economic factors such as education levels and unemployment rates.
The five healthiest Mississippi counties, in order, are DeSoto, Lamar, Lafayette, Rankin and Madison. The five least healthy, starting at the bottom, are Quitman, Coahoma, Wilkinson, Holmes and Claiborne.
One Mississippi county, Issaquena, was not ranked.
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Sick Betta?
Mom's betta, in 5 gal tank with live plants and driftwood and black plant sand. All peremeters are excellant.
For last 2 mo betta has been only laying on the bottom of the tank and never comes up for food. Many times thought dead but when you come near him he'll finally swim away only to go back to spot. Not lying as normal fish would or even sick betta (going on nose) ... he is lying FLAT on his side as if dead.
Bright red and is starting to lose color. No telling how old he is. At least over a yr.
Have even tried throwing 2 guppies in just to see if he was bored. He didn't even blink at them so we put them back in original tank for them.
Usually I can figure out what i wrong but not on this one.Define busy ~
55 gal freashwater
29 gal fresh
3 cats, 1 dog and 3 kids.
What is the temperature of the tank? What is your maintenance schedule?
76 F and 10-15% each week. Use Prime . Filter is for up to 10 galDefine busy ~
55 gal freashwater
29 gal fresh
3 cats, 1 dog and 3 kids.
have you tried increasing water changes and most importantly, increase the temperature?
bettas come from shallow, tropical swamps that are very very warm. they should be kept in
warmer than average water and if kept at typical community aquarium temperatures, or lower, may become sluggish and get lots of various health issues.
gradually adjust your heater to 82 F over a few days and see what happens. make sure that when you check tank temperature, look at a thermometer instead of the heater thermostat as it frequently is miscalibrated
and misrepresents temp.
Possibly that's it, but there is no heater in tank at time as it holds that temp all yr long (accourding to mom) with no change and has always been like that. Plus this betta did come from a fish store in a cup so I'm sure he's used to lower. I'll suggest it but its hard to find a safe heater for less then 10 gal tank over here. He was in a community a while back till the him and other fish started fighting and he was moved to own tank for his safety. She does have a thermometer in tank and we know all to well about heaters :-) Thanks for the tips. Anything else will be welcomed as well.
BTW I should add she has another betta in community at SAME temp WITH heater and this fish is quite active. Sluggish doesn't even describe the red one, I've never seen a live fish lay on its side smooshed into the sand like this one does. I kid you not, he is almost smooshed into sand at times. I've been watching him when I'm here and he NEVER moves.
And she has done extra WC at times and nothing changed. Sometimes she does more or less -- my mom is 64 with 3 tanks she cares for on her own so I'd say she's doing pretty well. And we've raised Betta's for over 15 yrs and never had this come up.... bettas were our first fish and we used to keep one in a vase before knowing any better... even took them on road with us once or twice because no one was around to care for them. lol So we know bettas usually ...
Last edited by Countrylovin4evr; 04-26-2013 at 01:12 AM.Define busy ~
55 gal freashwater
29 gal fresh
3 cats, 1 dog and 3 kids.
yeah, 76 F isnt all that bad, although it certainly isn't the ideal temperature. maybe the average betta(aka all the others) were able to adapt but this one is a particulary sensitive one. that is, if temperature is the issue.
bettas in little cups in the fish store? well, those poor fish aren't pale, thin and listless for no reason...
Doesn't matter where the Betta came from, most come from a cup. The little man should have a heater, one that can be raised and lowered, not one set to a specific temp. Tank should be kept between 80-82 degrees. A cold Betta is an unhappy Betta, and prone to lethargy and illness. As someone also suggested, up the water changes, and take out a bit more with each change. On my Betta tanks, they are changed twice a week, at 50%. Though Betta's natural habitat is rice paddies, its amazing how pristine they like their water. Likely, because the Betta's we have are bred for beauty, and not the natural ones actually found in the rice paddies.2 10 gallon tanks, 1 20 gallon tank, 1 Fluval Edge, 1 29 gallon tank, and one backyard pond.
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I agree with advice offered - try and up the temp and increase the water changes to 50% once a week to see if it helps - all you can do is try and see if the fish continues to lie on its side or decides it wants to swim at some point.
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Dogs Off Leash in our Parks
Original post made by Carol, Palo Verde, on Nov 13, 2006
Isn't it time to help our responsible dog owners take their dogs out for exercise and teach the others how to do the same. I recently visited my sister in Ireland and she has a very lively, happy dog. She lives near a park which continues onto the beach. The law there states that dogs can be taken onto the beach and into the parks only before 10.00 a.m. and one hour before sunset, regardless whether they are on leash or not provided no organised sports are taking place. This seems to make a lot of sense to me. On her morning daily walk she meets up with other dog owners and together they can exercise their dogs at times when the parks or beaches are not used by other people. Families rarely use the parks before 10.00 or at dusk, and any times the park is being used for sport that early or late in the day, the dogs are able to go elsewhere.
This seems to be a very sensible idea and works well. The responsible dog owners are teaching the others how to look after their dogs by example and anecdotally. The parks are kept as clean as required and the dogs themselves are much healthier as a result of the kind of exercise that they get by being allowed to run at their own pace, rather than walked at the pace of their owners.
I am not a dog owner, but have lived with dogs and do occasionally look after dogs for others. It seems to me that a lot of the problems we have around here with dogs could be solved by similar rules, so I put the idea out to see what others think.
Comments (22)
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 13, 2006 at 8:53 pm
I walk for exercise in the mornings around Greer park, Seal park and Don Ramos Park and have had many encounters with dogs off leashes. I have pretty much been run out of these parks by dog owners who refuse to keep their animals on leashes. I have been rushed by dogs usually followed by owners who assure me that their dogs are harmless. For those of us who are timid around strange dogs, any dog off a leash is potential threat. I walk at sunrise or a bit earlier so, no before 10 would not work for me. We have leash laws so that all of us can live here together. I do not choose to live with your dogs, keep them on a leash, in your yard or in a dog run.
It sounds like the folks in Ireland have been better socialized when it comes to living with dogs in urban enviorments. I do not see the same behavior here.
I live here and pay taxes yet cannot enjoy the use of these parks. Yes, I have talked to these people. Yes, I have called the police. We have dog runs in many parks in PA, are they not good enough? One man in Seal park actually laughed at me. Like I said above, I have basically stopped using the parks, perhaps I should deduct that from my recent tax bill?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 14, 2006 at 6:32 am
Yeah nice try Carol. Personally I think your idea has some merit -- I only see two problems with it ever becoming reality:
1.) ALL dog owners think they are responsible. Remember the SF woman who left her son home alone with the vicious family pit bull while she attended her daughter's school event? She thought it was responsible to lock the boy in a room to keep the pit bull from killing him. The pit bull killed him anyway.
2.) There is always going to be somebody like Leslie who is timid around dogs and will insist her tax bill be deducted if she has to run screaming from the park for no real reason. It would be nice if she got some dog education and experience that might help her change that mindset. I'm not saying she has to like dogs but some education and experience could help her live near them and overcome her fear.
As far as dog runs -- I only know of one in Palo Alto, at Miller Park. A nice decent sized one. It can get crowded for a dog like mine. She only wants to play ball and doesn't want to socialize with other dogs. She's an eight-year-old golden retriever --- a very sweet, older dog. Five minutes of throwing in the ball in a wide open space is enough to tucker her out.
Are there other dog runs in town? This can present another challenge --dog runs are not very numerous and they're often tucked out of the way, meaning many dog owners cannot walk to them with their animals. Instead they must get in the car and drive to the dog parks. This is not a good thing environmentally. In some cases, the location is also questionable. Mountain View installed a dog park next to Shoreline Park. The area adjacent to it is a bird sanctuary. The birds were flying over the dog park and pooping in the dogs' drinking water which made many canine visitors sick.
Yes, I'm afraid you've touched on a hot button issue here Carol. The dog owners and non-dog owners have been at each other's throats for some time. Usually the non-dog owners win -- louder whining decipibles that only politicians and city leaders can hear so you have situations like Leslie describes -- dogs being walked in parks off leash all over the place because there are so few places where they can legally take them off leash.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 14, 2006 at 6:07 pm
I am really not sure what type of argument dog-owners can make that can excuse their behavior. If your dog is off the leash, you're breaking the law...period. You can justify your refusal to follow the law any way you like (lack of leashes, friendly dog, etc..), but it's no different than any other person justifying running a stop sign, not paying taxes, or stealing cable. There are leash laws that have been agreed to by our community, and some people have decided that they are above laws. If you don't like a law, the only ethical thing to do (with very few exceptions) is to work to get the law changed.
Duveneck is practically unusable for small, timid, children on weekends and evenings because of the off-leash dogs. Why the police choose to completely ignore this, I really don't know.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 14, 2006 at 7:16 pm
I would like to clarify my original post in case it has been misunderstood.
Our parks are getting used much too frequently by dogs off leash, because the few dog runs we have are not much good. They are too small, too few in number, not very accessible unless you drive to get there (defeating the object of giving yourself and your pet exercise) no grass which means mud in wet weather and dust in dry weather which means that dogs get filthy dirty. For this reason, who can blame dog owners for not wanting to use them.
My suggestion was to give access to our parks for a couple of hours in the early morning and the hour before sunset and provided the dogs were being taken care of by responsible owners, the dogs would be getting the much needed exercise they need in a desirable setting for their owners. If dogs are well exercised, it helps a great deal in their overall behaviour. We would have far fewer incidents of dogs being left at home in need of exercise and barking at the slightest thing because they would be worn out from their exercise and spend a lot more time at home asleep, or at least content.
Because we were opening up the parks for dogs at certain times of the day, we could then not allow dogs in the parks at all other times. From my observations, dogs even leashed can be a nuisance, particularly on these really long leashes that get tied up around people's legs, park benches, strollers, tricycles, etc. etc.
This would mean that those who were nervous around dogs, whether leashed or unleashed, would be able to use the parks for the majority of the time without fear of encountering dogs at all.
This would be sharing our park facilities for all our residents. The parks are for us all to enjoy and whether we want the parks for sports, picnics, parties, exercise, playgrounds, dog walking or anything else, we should be able to amicably discuss reasonable suggestions without nimbyism or other negative comments.
I am not a dog owner myself, although I have lived with dogs. I do understand that one of the biggest problems with dogs as pets is being able to give them adequate exercise. Taking a dog for walks at the owners' pace instead of the dog's full run on hard footpaths or messy dog runs is not good for the overall health and well being of a medium to large sized dog. A dog needs to be able to run at full speed, smell and urinate, be taught obedience and manners, and this cannot be done without access to space. Most of the homes in this area do not have adequate sized yards to give even the more modest sized dogs the exercise they deserve. As a result we have many unhappy dogs, badly behaved, noisy, and disruptive, with owners who find it hard to know what to do for the best. As a result they let their dogs off leash in the parks which does annoy people. If everyone knew when dogs could safely be in the parks off lease and those that wanted to avoid them, could, it would be a solution that could benefit us all.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Nov 14, 2006 at 11:18 pm
License dog owners! Make a course in animal behavior and training MANDATORY as part of the licensing procedure. Owning a pet is a PRIVILEGE. Not understanding how to control an animal in an urban environment does an injustice to the animal, and humans that encounter the animal.
Also, STIFF fines fro off-leash dogs. $100 for the first offense. $500 for the second offense. $1000 for the third offense. A fourth offense causes loss of ownership privileges, unless the owner undergoes a one week animal training session, and performs public service for two weeks by accompanying animal control on its rounds.
btw, I'm a dog lover.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 15, 2006 at 9:16 am
Great idea - and a great way to fill the city coffers for city improvements!!!
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 15, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Not all people are comfortable with dogs.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 15, 2006 at 4:47 pm
What I was saying is that if we could give the dog owners some time to take the dogs off leash in the parks WE COULD BAN THEM THE REST OF THE TIME.
This would mean that for the majority of the day there would be no dogs at all, leashed or unleashed to upset people who do not like dogs.
This idea was to share the parks, I thought we might have a few constructive ideas without upsetting anyone. Please read the posts carefully and see what I mean.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 15, 2006 at 10:22 pm
We own two small dogs. They are always kept on leash when outside the back yard. There's nothing more scary than a really big "friendly" dog off-leash running at you, especially a dark coloured dog at night (which has happened a couple of times).
I've also seen off leash "friendly" dogs trot their way over to small children, who are terribly frightened.
The law is straightforward, keep dogs on leash. I've seen plenty of happy Labs, Great Danes and other large/energetic dogs that are happy, healthy and on leash at all time.
I own dogs, I love dogs, but honestly ---- I don't think there's such a thing as a responsible dog owner with a dog off leash. It's a bit contradictory.
a resident of Community Center
on Nov 16, 2006 at 10:14 am
I am on the Palo Alto City Parks and Recreation Commission, so this string is interesting to me.
I also own a beagle, who is a frequent leashed visitor to Eleanor Pardee Park, and an occassional user of the dog runs at Seale and Mitchell. He also has "run free" at Addison School on certain Sunday mornings and on summertime evenings, as do many other dogs that reside nearby (owners in attendance.)
We do have very clear laws on the books in Palo Alto around keeping dogs leashed, and the police from time to time have been sent out to enforce the existing ordinances, especially if things have gotten out of hand either with dog poop or a difficult animal has created problems with people at a park or other facility, especially the schools.
One could advocate that the penalties could be more severe and be escalated as a person violating gets multiple infractions. One also could advocate for more active enforcement by police, education of dog owners, and other things. So here are my questions:
How can those of us on the Commission work with the community to get people to take personal greater responsibility for their dogs? Further, how can we who are responsible members of the dog owning community be effective in getting people whose dogs are not behaving appropriately to get their dogs under control?
I go to a summer camp every year with my family, and we are one of about 100 families at the camp during the week. At the opening night meeting, the Camp Director always says "All parents at camp should treat all the children at the camp as if they are their own children. If an adult sees any child doing something unsafe or naughty, that parent is expected to deal with the child so that the situation is fixed, and the behavior is fixed."
This summer camp model empowers people who are in the middle of a situation to get a matter under control. It also puts the parents of a child who may be subject to some discipline on notice that others are going to take appropriate steps with such a child, if the child is compromising him/her self or others at the camp. It works pretty well, from what I have observed and experienced.
Getting the police involved and exacting fines and other penalties may be appropriate if a matter escalates, but as a practical matter, it should not can not be the first line of defense in this or any other community. These situations happen so quickly that if they are not addressed immediately by the people on the scene, it is difficult and time consuming to deal with them ex post facto, if they get resolved at all.
I am not sure that we can ever realistically expect this problem to entirely go away. By the same token, I do think we as members of the community should feel empowered to deal with this matter ourselves in an appropriate way, and also put those errant dog owners on notice that if their dog does something unsafe, they will be confronted and asked/told to get the dog under control.
I will be interested in what others have to say about this, and if some of you wish to speak to the Parks and Recreation Commission about your concerns, I encourage you to do so.
Paul Losch, Member
Parks and Recreation Commission
City of Palo Alto
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 16, 2006 at 10:19 am
Carol, Carol, Carol -- I told you this was a hot button issue. I love your idea and think it provides a very happy medium for all parties. However, those who don't wish to share space --- outer space, park space, whatever --- are a populous and loud whiny lot and as they say, the squeeky wheel gets the oil and the park ALL OF THE TIME! It's a bummer. I know my golden retriever loves off leash time to fetch the ball, an activity that can't be carried out if the dog is on a leash. Imagine a big dog choked by an ultra extended leash while trying to retrieve the dog and me with my shoulder thrown out and arm pulled out its socket while trying to control the momentum of 75 pounds of enthusiasm going full force for that ball.
If I had my way, your idea would be the way to good but, until other dog owners get loud it will never happen. All of you non-dog folks pose your arguements about being tax payers who contribute to the parks -- well dog owners fall into that category too! I also pay the state to maintain a dog license. So, why can't we have a say in park usage as well? No one is proposing that packs of dogs be allowed to roam the playgrounds and carry off your kids like dingos. We just wanted some designated time to throw the ball in an open space. THAT'S IT!!! I doubt you'll even know there were dogs ever there --- many of the dog owners I've been around are great about policing each other on poop pick-up. There could even be a number of parks that are strictly no dogs ever to keep those early morning exercisers who don't care for canines free of them. I'm just saying there are ways to balance about the situation better than it is now. And to those like NAC who make the arguement, there's a leash law blah, blah, blah... just because something is on the law books doesn't mean it has to stay there!! Come on people, think outside the dog run here -- this is the Silicon Valley, a place of genius and creativity, I know we have it in us to be more creative than this!
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 16, 2006 at 11:22 am
Thank you for your thoughtful post. Actually, I am a dog owner as well as being nervous around dogs that I do not know and are not on a leash. As I stated above, I have been charged and my husband nipped. I consider this serious enough that I have called the police. Although I have given up on that, it does not do anything. I would expect that we will have a biting incident at some point and then something will happen.
Clearly there are not enough dog runs. I would be in favor of adding more. Greer park is clearly big enough for one. I am not sure what else to do. I do think that people have priority over dogs and many dog owners just dont 'get' that I do not want their dog sniffing me or anywhere near me.
Seal Park is very sad for me because it has such a nice track, but I find I can no longer use it due to the gentleman with two dogs at dawn. I cannot be certain that he is there every am, but he is there most morning that I have tried. That track is tucked away and I guess the off-the leash crowd find its protection on three sides attractive as well.
As far as confronting the people in question, I do. However, if I know that confrontation is what I have to look forward to each day it does reduce the quality of my experience. Most of these folks do not take it well. Occasionally, I will get an "Oh, I'm sorry" but usually its rolled eyes, or ignored until I am nearly yelling and flipping out. Not the way I want to exercise and I'll bet not what they want either.
So I come back to this...Its against the law. I am not breaking the law, they are. Why should I have to explain and make accomodations? Its the law that the people of Palo Alto approved. Its your law people, if you did not want it then change it. Until you do, obey it.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Nov 16, 2006 at 12:04 pm
FYI There is a dog run in Greer Park. It is hidden away and I have never seen anyone use it. It is behind one of the soccer goal posts, backing up onto an office park with frontage on Bayshore. It is quite close to the parking lot. It is very well hidden, long and skinny right up beside the hedge and you could walk right past without noticing it. So, Paul, a map or sign in the parking lot or at the entrance to the Park might be a good idea.
a resident of Barron Park
on Nov 16, 2006 at 9:38 pm
Very interesting thread! We own 2 very active dogs and we tend to take them to designated off-leash areas only. Our dogs are taken to dog training classes regularly and we frequently receive compliments about the behaviors of our dogs. While it would be wonderful to be able to share all PA parks, I understand and respect people's discomfort with off-leash dogs. My husband and I believe that we are very conscientious dog owners - we read extensively on managing canine behavior, are quick to clean up after our dogs, and we regularly check-in with others if we sense that others are not comfortable with our dogs.
I wish I could say the same about more dog owners. Frequently, off-leash dogs may come charging at us with our leashed dogs, which tends to promote leash aggression in any dog easily. That being said, my husband and I will shout and hard stare any offending dog to get it to move away from us and our leashed dogs. We've also seen dog owners who dismiss the concerns of non-dog owners as well as dog owners who don't clean up after their dogs. We don't frequent regular PA parks for these reasons - We don't want our dogs to be traumatized or to learn any bad habits.
Perhaps non-dog owners may be more tolerant of us dog-owners wishes to share park time when all of us become more respectful towards each individual's preference and comfort level around our dogs.
a resident of College Terrace
on Nov 17, 2006 at 5:37 am
AREN'T YOU GLAD that people who dislike dogs are allowing you to keep DOGS in the neighborhood. They tolerate your dog pee and poo all the time.
PLEASE HEAVEN SAKE DO NOT ASK FOR MORE. You have been allowed to privilege to keep dogs within human civilization.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Nov 17, 2006 at 7:52 am
There's also a Palo Alto law/ordinance that prohibits the use of gas powered leafblowers, yet it seems like very few if any home owners have ordered their gardeners to stop using those awful mchines. People seem to ignore laws they dislike but demand others to obey laws they agree with. Residents who own active dogs needing off-leash time just don't have access to nearly enough dog runs in palo Alto. I encounter on a daily basis residents who get very upset, and often call the police, when they see an off-leash dog running in a city park during off hours when there's nobody else around, yet the same complainers get very angry when asked why they allow their gardeners to violate the city law that prohibits the use of gasoline leafblowers. Maybe we need some consistency in people's attitude:either all laws are obeyed or none at all.
a resident of College Terrace
on Nov 17, 2006 at 8:56 am
When you see a violation please call the authorities. If you see a gas powered leaf-blower or you see a dog off leash.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Nov 17, 2006 at 9:18 am
Right on Dave. So often I'll hear residents complain about seeing a dog off leash in a city park, while I know very well that the the very same complainer/s is an impatient and dangerous driver who often runs red lights, drives at twice the legal speed on residential streets and schools zones and allowed the gardeners he employs to use gas leaf-blowers. And to 'No Dogs':home owners who allow their gardeners to break the law are immune from any penalty, while dog owners are subjects to fines and even to the confiscation of their dogs-big difference.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 28, 2006 at 1:19 pm
The City has been through this issue many times in its history. In the early 90s there was a push to allow dogs off leaches; community meetings were scheduled to discuss the issue, when some really long time resident reminded the City that a leach law was passed by the voters sometime in the 1950s or 1960s. If you want to change the leach law you can collect the required number of signatures and get it back on the ballot.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Dec 11, 2006 at 3:34 pm
Why not make this a money making thing? Those who want thier dogs off leash so badly would have the meet requirements to get the privilege --- the owner would pay an "off leash fee," and the dog would have to go through a certain amount of obedience training and be signed off by a license dog trainer with a certificate then the owner would bring that to city hall or animal control and receive a license to walk their dog or have the dog off leash. Anyone not able to furnish a license when asked by a police officer or park official would be fined. Charge those applying for off leash licenses $25 a year to have them and those who are fined for an unlicensed off leash pooch $200. Dog owners have the option they want and Palo Alto has a new revenue stream.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Dec 15, 2006 at 3:40 pm
WOOF, WOOF, WOOF, BOW WOW, BOW WOW, WOOF WOOF, Humans stink, BOW WOW, Humans Whine, WOOF, WOOF, BOW WOW, Humans think everything is just for them... whimper, whimper, WOOF!
a resident of Midtown
on Dec 15, 2006 at 3:41 pm
I think its time to put the humans on leashes and see how they like it.
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Here are some things going on this morning in your world of tech:
Shares of King (KING), makers of the wildly popular "Candy Crush" series of games, and other titles for mobile devices, are down $2.12, or almost 10%, at $20.38, after the stock priced at $22.50 last night and opened below that, at $20.50.
Video game maker SGN's founder Chris DeWolfe took to CNBC following the debut to try and help explain what was going on. I think there was a little bit of doubt from some camps in terms of where it was priced, so I think there's going to be some volatility along the way."
Shares of Facebook (FB) are down $1.34, or 2%, at $63.55, after the company last night said it would pay $2 billion in cash and stock to buy virtual reality technology vendor Oculus VR. That deal has been mostly fairly well received by the Street. For example, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster this morning reiterates an Overweight rating on the shares, and a $67 price target, writing that "We believe that Oculus is a big bet on the future of visual computing and we may see Oculus as Facebook's 'Android' moment 10 years from now and understand the point of the acquisition."
On the other hand, William Blair's Ralph Schackart, reiterating an Overweight rating, nevertheless writes that "While Facebook has clearly proved it is a forward-thinking company, we are getting slightly concerned at the rapid pace of multibillion acquisitions."
"We believe management remains confident in its strategic objectives of these acquisitions, but the acquisitions give us some pause, given the order of magnitude and pace."
Shares of beaten-down flash-memory storage equipment vendor Violin Memory (VMEM) are down 13 cents, or 2.8%, at $4.51, as a lock-up expires on 5 million restricted stock units by insiders. Wunderlich Securities's Kaushik Roy reiterates a Buy rating, and a a $6 price target, writing that investors should look past the fear and buy the weakness, writing "For early stage companies it is the team that matters the most and Violin is now building a strong team under the leadership of new CEO Kevin DeNuccio."
"The CEO has been successful in attracting several talented people in his management team who have strong operations and sales background."
Shares of NXP Semiconductors (NXPI) are up $2.35, or 4%, at $59.30, after Morgan Stanley's Craig Hettenbach raised his rating on the shares to Overweight from Equal Weight from Equal Weight, with a $70 price target, writing that "a deeper look into the company's ID business, including calls with companies in the ecosystem and NXP's partners, has given us more confidence in this key growth driver (27% of sales)."
Despite a sharp rise in the shares — the stock has nearly doubled in the last 12 months — Hettenbach believes "NXPI should continue to work if it beats estimates like we expect."
Shares of BlackBerry (BBRY) are down a penny at $9.35, despite a note from Citigroup's Ehud Gelblum raising his price target on the shares to $8 from $4, after concluding that restructuring moves have lowered the expense burden for the company. "following a careful review of BBRY's purchase commitments, cash, and sale of Canadian real estate, we believe the Co has more time to figure out its future," writes Gelblum. However, "We continue to expect BBRY to struggle finding a sustainable and profitable business model going forward," he writes. BlackBerry is set to report fiscal Q4 results on Friday morning, before market open.
Analysts this morning continue to ponder the impact of Google's (GOOG) price cuts, announced yesterday, for its cloud computing services. One name feeling the pressure this morning is data center hosting operator Rackspace Hosting (RAX), whose shares are down $1.39, or 4%, at $32.47. Wells Fargo's Gray Powell this morning comes to the stock's defense, reiterating an Outperform rating, writing that "We have to admit, it may be hard for investors not to take a negative read here on RAX."
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FULTON – Quay Dunn led Itawamba AHS with a game-high 22 points Wednesday as the Lady Indians shook off a sluggish start to defeat Shannon 66-54 in the semifinals of the Division 1-4A Tournament.
Despite the eventual outcome, the first 10 minutes of the contest saw IAHS struggle with turnovers and missed shots, while Quin Agnew and Alexandrea Metcalf led the aggressive Lady Red Raiders to a 20-13 second quarter lead.
"We just got off to a slow start," IAHS coach Amanda Morrow said. "(Shannon) came out really explosive from the get-go and kind of caught us off guard a little bit. Shannon plays hard whenever they play but for whatever reason it seemed like we were a step behind on every play."
The Lady Indians (18-8) struggled early with the defensive pressure of Shannon (11-7), but began to hit their stride before halftime with a couple of Kim Mallory baskets in the paint.
A Haley Gates 3-pointer with les than three minutes to play gave IAHS a lead that swelled to a 34-28 advantage at the break.
"In the second quarter, I think we began to get our momentum going," Morrow said. "We started to get into a rhythm on offense and defense…We had good momentum going into halftime and we just kind of continued it on after that."
Led by 3s from Mallory and Gates, IAHS embarked on a 10-2 run to begin the second half.
Agnew, who led Shannon with 18 points, tried to keep her team in it.
Mallory added 17 points for Itawamba AHS.
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Although the victory wasn't pretty, it gives the Lady Indians the opportunity to play for the division title on Friday as well as host the first round of next week's North tournament.
"This is exactly where we want to be," Morrow said. "This was no doubt a big game for us. We have had goals all year and the division championship is one of those goals…Now we just have to go out and finish."


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Okay, the recent trend by Lucasfilm is that everything is canon, though some works don't quite detailed events as they happened. This said, what in blue blazes is the true story about what happened in the lousy series of six kids' books that included Zorba the Hutt's Revenge and The Glove of Darth Vader? There are plenty of allusions to the Prophets of the Dark Side, Zorba the Hutt, and Trioculus in later works (particularly in reference works like Star Wars Insider articles and The Essential Chronology).
We know Trioculus was indeed an impostor son of Palpatine and the slave lord on Kessel (though how this jives with Moruth Doole, I have no clue), Zorba was released from prison and made life hard for Leia and friends, that whaladons do exist, the Prophets of the Dark Side deemed themselves the rulers of the galaxy (apparently around the same time Issane Ysard did as well), and that Zorba, the Prophets, the weirdo Moffs, and Trioculus wiped each other out.
So. . . .
Did Lando win Cloud City back from the Imperials, only to lose it to Zorba? And did he own a retarded theme park, to boot?
Did SPIN ever exist?
Please tell me the Rebels never had a base on Yavin IV or an academy on "Mount Yoda" on Dagobah.
Ken was a figment of someone's overactive imagination, right? And that question goes double for Triclops.
Was Vader's right glove indeed made of indestructible materials for whatever moronic reason? And was there someone in the Empire smart enough to become a pretender to the throne but stupid enough to think that Vader's glove is what allowed him to choke people? And was he cliché enough to have a serious enough crush on Leia to try to force her to marry him?
Did Ranats take over Jabba's Palace?
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Another little tidbit and excuse the poor translation. Minnetonka. Minne=water. Tonka=holy. Rough translation is holy water.
Polka was another topic of conversation. Apparently, it was very popular back in the day. Fr. Howard said that the retreats are generally all old ladies and they love when he performs for them. Ahem.
As I heard dad tell ALL of you, it did take awhile for him to spot an indian. He did spot plenty of dopey white kids though. We stopped at St. Joseph's Indian School & Akta Lakota Museum and Culture Center. We didn't actually go in the school but if you're interested go to stjo.org. The museum depicted how the Indians went about their daily lives and the relationship with nature. Everything has it's own spirit. The grass, trees, streams, and animals.
Bpppppp. OK. I know some of you are checking in just for the bloopers so I'll give you some. First, there were lots and lots of bpppppps. I've been given the responsibility of listening for dad's phone because he can't hear it. Even when it's in his vest pocket. On FULL blast. He messed up the gift we gave him for his phone so I have to look at it. In the meantime, he's using an earpiece he connects to the phone. Somehow he got it tangled up with the seatbelt and barely made it out for lunch. Yes, he needed help getting untangled. He now knows Le Sueur wasn't named by the indians. I'm glad he asked. To his credit, when I tried to get a nap in he didn't try to wake me. He did let Howard know how much he'd like me to wake up by yelling,"I REALLY WISH JOHN WOULD WAKE UP TO SEE ALL THIS SNOW" to Howard in the backseat. That's all I've got as we sit here on the MissourA river. More to come. Hopefully tommorow.
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Sweet Potatoes
4 to 5 sweet potatoes
1 stick margarine
11⁄2 cups sugar
Nutmeg and cinnamon (optional)
Peel and slice potatoes as thinly as possible. Place in a skillet on top of stove and cover with water. Add margarine and sugar and cook over medium heat until the syrup is thick and almost gone. Add nutmeg and cinnamon, if desired.
Stuffed Bell Peppers
6 to 8 bell peppers
Salted water
1 to 11⁄2 pounds ground beef
1 onion, finely chopped
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 small can mushrooms, drained
2 cups cooked rice
Salt and pepper
Cut bell peppers in half and remove the insides. Parboil in salted water. Drain peppers on paper towels.
In a skillet, sauté beef and onion until beef is browned. Add soup, mushrooms, cooked rice and salt and pepper. Spoon mixture into peppers. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.
Bacon-Wrapped Chicken
2 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
Bacon strips
Brown sugar
Cut chicken into bite-size chunks. Cut bacon strips in half and wrap around chicken chunks. Roll each in brown sugar and place in a greased baking dish seam-side down. Bake at 400 degrees until done, about 20 to 25 minutes.
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4 cups corn cut from the cob
4 cups water
6 tablespoons margarine
3 tablespoons sugar
Salt and pepper
5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
Place corn and water in a microwave-safe bowl, cover with a paper towel, and cook for 25 minutes on high. Remove and add margarine, sugar and salt and pepper.
Combine flour and enough milk to make a thin paste. Stir into corn and return to microwave. Cover and cook on high for an additional 5 minutes. If it's too thick, add water. If it's too thin, cook it longer.
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Dried fruit
3 cups self-rising flour
3⁄4 cup Crisco shortening
2 cups fat-free milk
Shortening for frying
Cover fruit with water, add sugar and cook on stove until fruit is tender. Mash the fruit up. Refrigerate overnight.
Combine flour (may need more or less), shortening and milk (may need more or less) and work into dough. Wrap in foil and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, roll out the dough and cut into circles. Put some fruit in the center of each and fold over, sealing the edges with a fork. Fry in shortening on top of the stove until browned.
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11⁄2 cups sugar
11⁄2 cups vegetable oil
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vinegar
2 ounces red food coloring
21⁄2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 stick butter or margarine
8 ounces cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 box powdered sugar, sifted
1 cup chopped nuts
Cream sugar and oil, add eggs and beat well. Add vinegar and food coloring, beating all together well. Sift dry ingredients together and add to mixture, alternating with buttermilk. Add vanilla and beat well. Bake in 3 or 4 layers at 325 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes.
For the frosting, cream the butter and cream cheese. Add vanilla and sifted sugar. Mix well, then fold in nuts. Spread frosting between layers and on sides and top of cake.
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Flooding damages basements in Madison area
Restoration companies receive many calls for service
MADISON, Wis. - Many people in the Madison area are dealing with water in their basements after record warm temperatures and heavy rain arrived Monday night, causing some flooding problems.
Restoration companies, like Servpro, have been very busy since the big thaw overnight Monday.
"I knew before I even got into work that it was going to be busy," said Pam Gray, project manager at Servpro of Madison.
At a home Servpro is helping in Fitchburg, the homeowner said they found water shooting out of their downstairs toilet like a fire hydrant. There was just too much nearby water and nowhere for it to go.
"On this particular house, they actually have a sump pump, and the sump pump actually couldn't keep up with the amount of rain that was coming into the house," Gray said.
"Certainly, it's unusual, but it's not breaking the mold," said Jonathan Martin, a meteorologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.Flooding damages basements in Madison area
Martin said winds this time of year tend to come from the north or south, and Wisconsin is in the prime spot for extreme temperature shifts.
"So when they come from the south, you get warm, and when they turn the corner and go from the north, you're not far from Canada where it's cold all winter long," Martin said.
It's the type of weather that not a lot of people like to see, especially when it causes a major mess in people's basements. But, at the same time, it's big business for those helping to clean it all up.
"You just don't know. We've had a lot of bizarre ones in the last week," Gray said.
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What's new in food? Glad you asked! This week the USDA shows off its rubber stamp for 'humane' meat and poultry labels, while it shops for guns (no, really!) instead of regulating anything as silly as food labels. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of pounds of meat are recalled due to lack of USDA inspection. In less infuriating news, consumers seek out organics in ever-increasing numbers, and nifty new research weighs in on both high blood pressure and Egyptian vegetarians.


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With the Harlem River to the north and east, the Hudson River to the west, and Marble Hill directly north, Inwood is bound by water on three sides. As a result, many residents praise the neighborhood's scenic and isolated feel, away from the rush of the city, but not too much so.learn more about this neighborhood
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I often get asked by people what we do to keep our marriage happy and our attraction and love for each other strong.
So today...here is one little tip:
Exercise Together!
You guys have all seen the studies about how happiness is directly related to exercise. The research is everywhere!
So I say, if you want to feel vibrant, happy, (sexy!) and excited about life - why not be WITH your spouse (or significant other) as those exercise endorphins are at their best? :) Good conversations, self esteem, smiles, healing, excitement, connection, and positive thoughts are bound to happen. Every time Danny and I walk, hike, or ride bikes together, this definitely works for us. I can't recommend it enough. Even one time a week is so great. Also, the good energy you feel during your walk can help to break any ruts that you might be in - and begin to change the patterns of how you feel when you're together. I'd love to hear if any of you have success with this. Also...
To get some inspiration going, is there an exercise activity you like doing with your spouse (or significant other)? haha. Sorry, I didn't know how else to word that. :) I'd love to try racquetball sometime with Danny. My sweet in-laws love to play golf together, which I think is so awesome.
P.S. I also saw this sweet post by Dominique about walking with her husband. I loved this. More reasons to walk with your spouse.
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My father-in-law shot his first and only deer on his 83rd birthday. I'd built him a ground blind on our property earlier that summer.
He grew up in Southern Illinois trapping, hunting and fishing. He and his family lived through the Great Depression and they ate most everything that he caught or shot during that time.
Later, as a husband and father who worked hard both at his "city" job and on his farm, he did not have much time for recreational hunting but he never lost his taste for wild game and always enjoyed what I shared with him.
There were no deer in this part of the world when he was growing up and they were a source of great interest to him as an adult. When he decided he'd like to hunt them, I was more than happy to be of help.
His one and only deer was a 12 point buck that was about 195 lbs. A deer of a lifetime for most folks. He never hunted deer again although like many of us, he enjoyed telling the story of the one that did not get away and showing visitiors the large rack from it. He passed away peacefully at the age of 91.
Today, I hunted from that same ground blind as I have for nearly all those years since I built it for him. It has a lot of memories for me. That's one reason I'm very content to spend time there even when I don't get a shot at a good one.
If he were still living, he'd be 100 years old and his wife would be 99 just one day after his birthday. They were great folks and the best in-laws a man could have. Plus, without them, I would not have Doris.