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Dear all - first post here (sorry, it's be long, I'm afraid). Gosh, what a great resource this board is, I only wish I had discovered it a year or two ago! So, I'm a Waldorf parent, if you can call it that - dd is 6 and currently in the first grade and (apparently) loving it, ds just turned 5 and is in KG, and he has another year of kg ahead of him before going into first grade. Both were in the Waldorf nursery since they were under 3 so it has been the only school they know. I can say that, in general, we had a great Early Childhood experience and would enthusiastically recommend it to anyone - in fact, we probably had such a good experience in early childhood and I didn't fully do my due diligence as a parent and now I'm having deep second thoughts about having enrolled dd into the grades and now I'm deeply conflicted about what to do. But first things first: what did I like about early childhood? I guess the stuff that draws so many parents to it and that makes Waldorf so attractive for so many people with smaller kids:
- The emphasis on storytelling and imagination.
- The delayed academics, the absence of push to do earlier and earlier reading.
- The no media policy (which, to be honest, we only partly embraced and to this date we sneak some occasional dvds now and then, especially on Friday afternoons and in school vacations - I know, I'm an evil parent letting Ahrimanic influences get to my child and impeding correct incarnation or such but C'MON!).
- The push for natural materials, simpler toys, the importance of rhythm in the day and in the calendar.
My initial intention was to have kids enrolled in early childhood and then have them move into public grade school for KG year. But seeing how well they fit and how they blossomed I spent a lot of time researching the Waldorf grade school philosophy, Steiner, anthroposophy and eventually decided (perhaps prematurely) that the good stuff that I saw overrode the bad and that the warm, protected environment of Waldorf would be a better fit than the big, institutional public school where we live (and it didn't help that I live in a school district ranked in the bottom half of our state).
I additionally got horrorized by some hyper-achieving parents I met (including some work colleagues) who lived in more affluent suburbs with high-ranking public school districts who boasted how their little 7 and 8 year olds got several hours of homework per night (plus gosh knows how many extracurricular activities they crammed onto them), how another top-ranked local school district had opened stress management and yoga classes for 11 and 12 year olds (sic) and I was really content to step out of the rat race and let my kids be kids and to learn at a gentler pace.
So I was willing to tolerate all the soft mystical wishy washy anthroposophical stuff (I'm an agnostic myself) - I read a bunch of sites both promoting and criticizing Waldorf and I was content with the responses to the most outlandish PLANS assertions out there. DD seems happy, I think her class teacher has a great rapport with children as far as I can see, DS also seems fine for now although I have some reservations as to whether he'll be a good fit if he were to continue in the grades (he seems to be too independent and too non-conformist) - so what's the problem? I have now two problems:
a) Financial - the school has been extremely generous with fin. aid, almost to a fault, but even with this there's no sustainable way I can keep paying the tuition going forward. There's another dimension to this, in that most of the classmates we know are from families more affluent than us, in some cases MUCH more. Having been through the same situation myself when I was growing up in another country, at some point sooner or later I know this will have an impact on the kid's relationships and self-esteem (it's perhaps just a matter of time before the "daddy, why can't we go in that ski trip with my friends" comes).
b) Philosophical - what I didn't know nor count on is how inflexible and dogmatic things can be. I'm resenting the fact that children get somehow labeled and boxed into 4 temperaments, how it's "Steiner said this" and "Steiner said that" and there's not one iota, as far as I can see, of self-criticism intent or to see how to change or improve educational methods or materials. Don't get me wrong, I think Steiner had some really great insights but there's no willingness to select what works now and just bury the rubbish, and c'mon, Atlantis and Lemuria???
So now I really don't know what to do, esp. with DD - right after first grade seems the worst time to switch her to a mainstream school, she isn't reading yet and it seems to me that the only possible approach would be for her to just repeat the year, or to spend the summer in some sort of intensive tutoring program for her to catch up and I'll be hating myself for having to do this to her if it comes to that - heck, I already am, and I feel it's tearing me apart.
Thanks for reading through this!!
My daughter will be in kindergarten next fall and is in her third year of a Waldorf-inspired preschool right now. We are so torn on whether she should go to the local Waldorf school or to the really lovely public school that I teach at. Even though I love my school, it is still a public school and subject to testing and other issues.
I have similar feelings as you about Steiner and anthroposophy. Every time I step foot in the Waldorf school I feel so warm and calm and happy and I want dd to be able to experience that too, but... well, there are so many buts. I also agree that switching to public school after first grade would be a particularly tricky time. But I don't think it's an umsurmountable hurdle. If your daughter is reasonably quick with learning new things and you spend some time working with letters and reading lots of books, she'd probably have the background for the skills of actually reading independently to just pop when they are ready. I've seen it many times. I had one student who came to me as a third grader after being unschooled. She had no formal reading instruction and could barely read on her own. But it was all there, ready to come together once she had an outlet for it. By the end of that year she was one of my most voracious readers and definitely my most creative writer!
But it sounds like an ideal time to make the switch for your son, if he'd be going into kindergarten in a public school. I've always thought of K-8 (or maybe 1-8 anyway) Waldorf education as being an all-or-nothing proposition. At least it's easier to enter into it later than to leave it. But kids certainly do come and go.
I'm assuming you have only one public school option--so it wouldn't be terribly difficult to find out exactly what the expectations are at the beginning of second grade. Being behind because you're coming from a different educational background that stressed different skills is quite different than being behind because of a learning issue. Kids can make that shift. They will fill in the gaps. And they'll do an even better job of it with parents who take the transition seriously and help their kid at home too. There will be some things that your daughter can do way better than the public school kids. It will all balance out.
Being behind because you're coming from a different educational background that stressed different skills is quite different than being behind because of a learning issue. Kids can make that shift. They will fill in the gaps. And they'll do an even better job of it with parents who take the transition seriously and help their kid at home too. There will be some things that your daughter can do way better than the public school kids. It will all balance out.
I agree w/ this. OR plan for your son to attend public school next year and have your daughter stay on at Waldorf one more year. That way, you are only paying for one tuition & she will maybe be more caught up. But, yanno, if the only real hurdle is being concerned that she cannot read, teach her to read! When you know a transition is coming, plan for it. We parents get so worked up about grades this and grades that when the reality is that families move all. the. time. And no two schools are exactly alike. Your daughter could switch from one public school to another and be way behind. Or ahead. Being at Waldorf specifically does not automatically make her behind everyone else.
You are right, it is a very difficult decision to make. No one wants to have to change their children's school. But to put it in perspective, you are talking about second grade, which is cursive writing and subtraction, not quantum physics :)
We actually just made the move in the opposite direction . .. from traditional public school to Waldorf when DS was in the middle of his first semester in 2nd grade. Granted, it was a change he really wanted to make, but he's been fine and is thriving.
If staying in the Waldorf school is financially untenable, then you do need to prepare your kids for a shift. I think you could start teaching your daughter more about reading, writing, etc. I'm sure she'll catch up really quickly. I also like the idea of shifting your DS and leaving your DD for another year, by which time she will probably have caught up with a standard public school classroom in terms of reading, writing, etc.
I'm surprised by how dogmatic your Waldorf school sounds, though. Our school seems to be "Antroposophy-light" or something because we never hear anything about Atlantis, the humors, etc., etc. Weird . . . .
Anyway . . hang in there. It's a tough decision to make.
Thanks for those suggestions - I hadn't really thought about the alternative of leading dd for another year and moving DS to public kindergarten next year - it may be a bit tough logistically but certainly doable.
Just for the record, the Atlantis mention was just something I brought up as just a wild Steiner idea that shows why it's good not to take everything he said dogmatically, but I've never heard anything mentioned on it in the school. But the 4 temperaments do play a big role, for example is how DD's teacher selects seating assignments for all kids and how stories are relayed to them - as to whether/how it works or not, heck I don't know. I used to think that the school, which is situated in an affluent suburb of a supposedly "englightened" and "educated" big city, was relatively "anthroposophy-light" as mentioned (and a good amount of parents, myself included, have a good academic/technical/scientific background) but then I get these shocks that I don't know what to think of (example from a bit ago: the school is looking for a director and one of the finalist candidates being considered is an expert in "astrosophy". And an earlier childhood teacher dropped a hint during a parent night that she actually believed in the physical reality of gnomes and fairies - to each their own I guess )
Himmelreiter -
It's funny, I related to your post a lot : )
Although we just Started at the Waldorf school near us.
We moved our daughter to 1st grade from a local public school, in a very affluent, uber-high-achieving neighborhood.
We were horrified by our experience in Kindergarden there (in public). I figured "How bad can it be - we'll give it a try...she's a smart kid". Wow. Everything was sooooo fast, superficial, loud, uncreative, unsupportive, chaotic, ugh. Even the 'art' class they had once per week was basically "See if you can cut, color, paste, hole-punch, and string up 10 paper hearts together for a valentine mobile in ... 20 minutes.... ready, go!"
Really wierd. And that was kindergarden.
That all being said: I believe there is a huge range in public schools.
Our daughter was sad when we moved her a few months ago. That has been hard. She misses her old school, and it was hard for us to make the switch, even though we felt it was really worth a try.
So far, 1st grade has been challenging for all of us to adjust to, as a family. We love her teacher, but from what I hear, Waldorf 1st is really, really diferent than K. It's where it all begins, in a way (as you know).
Overall, as parents, we are much happier with almost every single aspect of the Waldorf school our daughter attends vs. the public school. No it is not perfect. But it's a really inspiring place to be, and we feel so incredibly lucky to finally have found a more 'real' environment for her to be, learn, and grow.
In terms of the 'kooky' (my word, not yours : )) stuff: Do you know any parents of kids in the upper grades? We do, and have been able to really talk with them about our concerns. It has been a HUGE help!! What I've gathered is that you don't need to buy into everything, just take what works for you. And their kids seem so great!! In ways I didn't see so much with kids I witnessed in public school.
Anyway, I know about the reality of finances, trust me. It's so hard. But maybe there is a way they can work with you further...?? We have been amazed at the generosity of our school's financial approach.
Just wanted to give you a shout out, and I just joined, but if you want to PM me to chat, let me know.
Good luck : )
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Hey guys I just got my vehicle and am looking to buy a Detailing Kit for maintaining my new vehicle. I have been looking at different websites and wanted to ask you all what personal spending limit would you set for yourself and why. This would better help me understand the importance of different products and how much is "too much".
In your kit you should get:
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With that list, depending on the products you choose, you're looking at $75-$150 for everything. A small price to pay to keep your car looking great and preventing it from getting swirled up in the process!
Eventually you can get a clay bar and buffing compounds, but for a new car you shouldn't need them at all. The most important part is to use good techniques and common sense so you don't end up putting more swirls into your paint. For example, you wouldn't want to wash the bottom of your car where all the dirt is built up before you wash the roof.
Hope that helps, and if you would like any specific product recommendations please let me know!
For about $120 you can get a good set up from most auto parts stores.
To get you started.
Meguiars products -
-Smooth Surface Clay Kit
-Gold Class wash
-Ultimate Liquid Wax
-Natural Shine Protectant
-Ultimate Wash &Wax Anywhere (as a spray detail)
Stoner Invisible Glass
For tire dressing I would go online and get Chemical Guys Natural Shine Dressing. It will give you a perfect matte finish and lasts for weeks.
You can just go to Home Depot and get a 5 gal bucket. You can get Grit Guards online.
Most auto parts stores carry Viking brand micro fiber towels/wash mitts which are decent quality. You can also go to Costco and get on of the packs of micro fibers they sell which are a little better quality than Viking but still not professional quality. DO NOT use a beach towel!
When you get into polish, Megs Ultimate Polish and Ultimate compound are really good. Since you're starting from new paint, you probably won't ever need a compound. You can do every thing by hand but if you want to get into machine polishing, get a Porter Cable 7424 and Lake Country pads.
Here are a few websites for products.
So originally I was looking at something like this.
I haven't taken your previous comments into consideration yet as I will need some time to shop around but do you have any comments on the kit above? Also for the record I do have leather interior.
I bet I have $300-400 into all of my various stuff...
Give them a call and see if they will swap the VRP Dressing for Natural Shine Dressing and swap the Citrus Wash for Honey Dew or Glosswerkz. They will most likely do swap them out.
For your leather you can just use Woolite and water. Most people recommend a vinyl protectant for sealed leather. I use Chemical Guys Leather Conditioner. For the rest of your interior you can get All Clean+ and Silk Shine Spray Dressing from Chemical Guys. They also have videos on Youtube on how to use almost all of their products.
I've never been impressed with Chemical Guys stuff.
I have their Stripper Scent air freshener. It sucks. Had their honeydew snow foam it's no better than any other soap in my foam gun. Have their Natty Red Wax. Greasy and gross. Meh.
Just not impressed. It's cheap but mehhhh.
Yeah their air fresheners suck. I like Honeydew more than Gold Class but I got the gallon for free when I bought a foam gun from them. Natty's Red is a Poorboy's product.
How much do I spend ? NOTHING!!! AAHHAAAHAAA:D
cousin owns detail shop lol , but my cars interior isnt worth it. Seats came effed up bad ( stains all over back seats , passenger front has what looks like axe wound ) the driver seats ok though . And the carpet is bad too . Not to mention 3 small holes in the dash. Looks terrible . Previous owner musta been pisssssssed off dude lol
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The honeydew wasnt bad, just underwhelming, too little benefit to justify the cost. My soap of choice at the moment is EagleOne Nanowash I think it's called. Not too shabby honestly. Can be had in an actual store too vs online.
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It's enough to send me right over the edge.
Take today, for example. They were supposed to come to class with two things; a second draft of their papers, and a copy of The Book Thief to begin reading in class.
Can you guess how many of them came completely prepared?
Up until now, things have been pretty easygoing and fun in class. Today, I laid it down. I think that some of them are a little afraid of me right now, and I'm perfectly okay with that. They're not kindergarteners anymore; I fully intend to hold them accountable for their stuff, especially when I'm being so – have I mentioned it already – so incredibly clear about what I'm expecting.


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Former two-time lightweight champion Antonio DeMarco (28-3-1, 21KOs) will be back in the ring as soon as Saturday, August 10th in his adopted hometown of Tijuana, Mexico. The ten round bout will mark the first time DeMarco fights under his new promotional banner, Zanfer Promotions. The native of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, will be facing Colombian Fidel Monterrosa (31-7-1, 25KOs) in the junior welterweight division with the fight being broadcast live in Mexico by Canal Azteca and held at the Tecate Box Tour tent set up in the parking lot of the famous Caliente Racetrack.
In the same main event of the night, Mexico City super bantamweight Daniel "Bad Boy" Rosas (15-0-1, 10KOs) will take on the tough Roberto "Azabache" Castañeda (20-3-1, 15KOs) of Mexicali, Mexico, for ten rounds or less.


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Tuesday: on my way to pick up my kids from Daycare and that pesky amber flat tire light comes on. Quick visual check of pressure and the front left is reading 25 psi. I get home and air up to 33. Wednesday i don't take the car out, Thursday pick up my girls and everything is fine. Friday.. That pesky light comes on again.. Something serious must be going on.
So i start getting out my patch kit, compressor, jack, etc.. And my oldest daughter asks is she can help. How can I say no!
i get the car up and tire off, and with her at my side we start inspecting and she finds the problem before i do.. A 1" self-tapping screw.
Time to get the pliers!
now for the patch!
Air-up and check pressure!
A job that should have taken 20 Minutes took over an hour, but it was great bonding over something i actually enjoy! And the look on her face after she pulled the relief valve on the compressor.. Priceless! lol!


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Penn State was named the preseason favorite to win the 2009 Big Ten women's soccer crown as voted on by the conference coaches, the Big Ten office announced Wednesday. The honor marks the seventh-consecutive time the Nittany Lions have been favored entering the season. Michigan State followed with the No. 2 spot in the poll, while Illinois came in third.
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Senior men's basketball player Cameron Jones was named to the National Association of Basketball Coaches Division I All-District 6 team, the NABC announced. Jones is the first player in school history to earn NABC All-District honors.
Jones was named the NABC All-District 6 second team, joining Olu Ashaolu of Louisiana Tech, Greg Smith of Fresno State, Dario Hunt of Nevada and La'Shard Anderson of Boise State.
Jones was one of three players chosen to the All-District 6 team. Northern Colorado's Devon Beitzel and Montana's Brian Qvale were both selected for the first team.
Jones averaged 20.1 points per game as a senior, breaking the school's single-season and career scoring marks. He was a unanimous selection to the All-Big Sky first-team and is a finalist for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award.
Selected and voted on by member coaches of the NABC, these student-athletes represent the finest basketball players across America. The 245 student-athletes, from 24 districts, are eligible for the State Farm Coaches' Division I All-America teams, to be announced on Saturday, April 2, at 9:30 a.m. (EDT) at the Hilton Americas Hotel in Houston during the NABC Convention and NCAA® Final Four®.
Jones was also chosen to the Big Sky All-Tournament team following the championship game on Wednesday.
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Cameron Jones Northern Arizona
Olu Ashaolu Louisiana Tech
Greg Smith Fresno State
Dario Hunt Nevada
La'Shard Anderson Boise State
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Will Cherry, Montana
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Mumsy is a little late in posting 'bout my first Christmas...she apologizes.
It was great - there was paper everywhere and me and Marty got so many toys! The best of which is a set of cubes that link together to make tunnels! TUNNELS! Love it! I've been spending so much time sleeping in the tunnels, playing with Marty - jumping on top of the tunnels, running through them, chasing the little strings inside of the cubes.... The best is when Mumsy puts the ball-in-the-track toy right outside one of the cube openings and then I can stalk that ball with total freedom! It never sees me coming! Heh, heh, sneaky girl....
We also got a new camera from the grandpawrents that I have not met - Marty broke the old one somehow, so mumsy couldn't take pictures (Marty hates the paparazzi!), but now we are back in business and mumsy will be posting more pictures of us soon. And pictures of the awesome tube cube, so the pawrents of other kitties can start getting ideas!
I had another trip to the vet for a check-up on my incision from spaying. Mumsy took me all by herself, which was a big deal b/c she hates to drive! We did all right, me and mumsy. I am looking good, but I have another week's worth of antibiotic, just in case!
I am on medicine that tastes like bananas. I am doing ok, but at my recheck from the vet they said that I had a little discharge from my incision, so I am on antibiotics for a few days just to make sure that I will be ok.
I HATE IT! I don't trust mumsy and popsy anymore - at certain hours of the day, I just know that they are going to come after me with the bananas and I run and hide. But they always find me and I always have to eat banana medicine in the end, no matter how much I struggle.
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Media Agencies Want to be Media Technology Companies
Posted by David Cooperstein on July 21, 2009
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Last week I was treated to sit in on a major agency pow-wow hosted by The Advertising Club and sponsored by ad exchange ADSDAQ, to address the latest trend in media buying science: Agency Demand Platforms. Each of the four major holding companies, represented by WPP's MediaCom, Omnicom Digital, Publicis' VivaKi and IPG's Cadreon – sent a senior representative from their media business to talk about the move into managing online buys through the construction of demand management platforms to manage online display inventory. The panel was hosted by none other than "the Wenda" who examined the issue of Art vs. Science when buying media at the IAB's annual conference back in February. As always, she poked and prodded and uncovered the following:
- Media agencies are not technical, but want to be. Agencies are investing in technology platforms to create defensible value for their media clients. But only WPP has taken the giant step of buying a major ad serving company 24/7 Real Media. Smart money should be invested with technology companies that can customize their interface for the agencies, and provide clients a continuous state of the art experience.
- Display advertising's time is still yet to come. The ringer on the panel was Ross Sandler from RBC Capital Markets, who indicated that online display advertising would continue to take a back seat to search for at least another 18-24 months. During that time, targeting and buying behavior will change dramatically as Google, Microsoft and Yahoo launch and update their buy-side interfaces, along with Quantcast and others.
- Audience-driven media placements will ride alongside content-driven buys. Clients will still demand familiar content alongside which they will get perceived brand value. As display and search continue to work for, rather than against, each other, audience buys will start to merge these two mechanisms for reaching consumers.
- Media-driven creative is not here yet. Not surprisingly, these media execs agreed that the creative folks still drive the media decisions. That's fine for TV, but for online media there is growing need to align the message with the medium in real time.
For online media to grow from pseudo-science to art and science, these topics must be pounded out. For a call on Agency Buying Platforms, stay tuned to research from Emily Riley and Michael Greene in August. From a marketers perspective, how do you feel about an automated media placement process? Are attractive CPMs a motivator, or should your media be handled with kid gloves?
Email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, find me on Twitter @minicooper, or post a comment on this blog entry to let me know what issues you grapple with the most.
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Comment from Tim Cohn (not verified) on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 19:18
Not sure advertisers are best served buying CPM on the web or that any type of automation can help advertisers better reach their audience.
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The Creative Director.
A person who is curious, driven, demanding, and perhaps even a bit rebellious. A creative pioneer who empowers and values his team…inspiring innovative ideas while also delivering top-line results.
I am a design-based creative director with 20+ years experience leading global creative initiatives, producing award-winning designs, and traversing the globe collaborating with like-minded people. I seek to empower creative teams to generate not only visibility and profits—but pride. I want people to recognize and maximize their talents as together we celebrate the perfection that comes from meaningful collaboration.
Someone once described me as a "creative professional with a capital 'C'…who lives and breathes the creative process, consistently bringing positivity, openness, and a truly multicultural, global perspective to his work." Every day, I aspire to make sure those words are true.
1. The audience.
Like "location, location, location" in real estate, "audience, audience, audience" is the most important consideration in web design. Who is the audience? How will they interact with the site?
When I was hired as the Creative Director in Penn State's Outreach Marketing Department, I found attractive websites, informative websites, interesting websites. But what I found missing was a clear understanding of the "user"—the audience—and what his or her or their experience would be when visiting the website. I changed our web development paradigm by introducing two important concepts: user-centered design and usability testing. Once we really looked at WHOM WE WERE TRYING TO REACH and WHETHER WE WERE ACTUALLY REACHING THEM, our websites were transformed. Using sophisticated software to create a usability test lab, we found that user-centric websites generated much higher traffic and yielded better results.
But we were just getting started. We needed something—someone—more.
I convinced my superiors to allow me to hire an information architect.
An information architect has an exceptional ability to understand how an individual interacts with information and then to organize the flow of website information based on the user's needs.
Before writing, design, or coding begins on a website, the information architect applies what she knows about the user to plan a meaningful user experience. Labels. Navigation. Information. Is it simple? Intuitive? Inclusive?
We hired a talented professional whose biggest challenge was helping people understand her role and the value she brought to the position, the department, and even the university.
After just a few months, everyone wanted her services. In an unprecedented move, the University's marketing department asked Outreach's information architect to be involved in redesigning the Penn State's website.
2. The creative team.
Talented writers and designers from top art programs and institutions. Creative, innovative people. Thinkers. Many members of my creative team, however, had little experience developing materials for the virtual world.
As soon as I arrived at Penn State, I knew my most important role was preparing these talented individuals for a rapidly changing world—one in which print communications are shrinking in popularity and people of every age, background, and country are accessing information via the web. We needed to make the transition to interactive design. With approval from our supervisor, we began to chart a roadmap for this transition.
Adaptation. Risk-taking. Growth. These were our guiding principles along our journey.
Using in-house training, conferences, practical experiences, and case studies, we marked each step.
And in two years' time, it was clear that what I had predicted was coming true. We were producing fewer print pieces.
Luckily, most of my team had by this time embraced a new way of thinking, designing, and writing.
A new era of user-centered interactive design was about to begin.
3. The cohesion.
My team-building philosophy is like my philosophy of life: Celebrate multiculturalism. Embrace diversity. Band together for the greater good.
This story comes in two parts.
Part 1
In 2000 I was hired as a Senior Creative Director at Agency.com (since renamed designory), an interactive agency with offices all around the globe.
My role was to build the creative department at one of the company's New York offices—in seven weeks.
With only a few employees and freelancers on my team to start, I achieved the nearly impossible. I hired 28 highly qualified individuals (using creative recruiting tools such as sign-up bonuses and other incentives).
Once the people were in place, I organized off-site teambuilding activities to shape the group dynamic, build trust, and ultimately establish a cohesive, collaborative, productive, and effective creative team.
Part 2
In 2007, I was hired as Creative Director for Penn State Outreach, inheriting a team of about 30 people who had developed a "do what you are told and don't ask many questions" attitude toward their work.
Designers seemed to have neither ownership nor creative control. Their work suffered. Their self-esteem suffered. They did not look forward to the next day or the next challenge. The same was true for writers and coders.
I decided to tackle this issue by valuing my team members' opinions and encouraging them to defend their work and decisions. With conviction but without conflict. Focusing on time-tested principles they knew well. Leveraging the talent that put them on the team in the first place.
Concurrently, I visited most of our clients, inviting them to think more critically about the deliverables they asked us to create. Telling them to expect more from themselves and from the creative team.
My goal was to create a culture of collaboration, a meaningful and results-oriented partnership based on respecting each others' expertise and needs.
The road was bumpy, but the destination made the journey worthwhile.
Today, our clients are thrilled with the quality of our work—and we are winning awards.
Cohesion accomplished.
4. The approach.
Change has always been the new normal, the only constant. The pace of our lives and the speed at which new ideas are generated is accelerating. Innovation is the key to survival, to success.Show Example
My Innovation Story: Part 1
Almost anything that's new or different meets with resistance. It's human nature.
And that's what happened when I was hired to redesign the main website for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Shorty after my hiring, I realized a redesign was the last on a long list of very daunting tasks, which included creating a new logo and a visual identity for the organization and establishing an intranet to connect employees in a more efficient way.
Convincing the higher-ups came first, after which I assumed the role of the information architect to evaluate the needs and expectations of stakeholders and determine how to structure information and develop navigation tools.
Though initially I encountered resistance, I made presentations, showcased best practices, and eventually earned the confidence of stakeholders.
In only 18 months' time, we successfully launched the first intranet for the IAEA.
PS: In 2005 the IAEA and all it's employees, including me, were awarded the Peace Nobel Price, very cool!
My Innovation Story: Part 2
Fast forward a few years, and I am now Creative Director at Penn State Outreach, an organization of 1600+ employees.
Sixteen hundred people who did not have an intranet.
I followed the same formula that led to success at the IAEA, essentially becoming an intranet evangelist touting the advantage of an intranet to top-level stakeholders.
Innovation equaled resistance once again, but I finally received the buy-in I needed.
Stakeholders came around to understanding that an intranet would promote internal communication and improve productivity by reducing activity, waste, and overlap.
We contracted with a company that offered a customizable product close to our needs. We generated excitement by initiating an internal advertising campaign.
And on a day the university designated as a day of connection, we launched Outreach's new intranet—a wildly successful and award winning project that has generated national and international attention.
5. The social one.
I am very passionate about social media. In fact, I am very passionate about being social. Long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter became ubiquitous, I was thinking about how better to connect people.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, headquartered in Vienna, Austria, is part of the United Nations. I worked there for five years, originally hired to redesign the main website. But with 4,000 employees, the agency had some issues. Issues related to communication. To morale. To the public, the IAEA presented itself as diverse and cordial organization; internally, it was anything but. There were many issues that people talked about around the water cooler.
I decided to do something about it. And I knew I would have to do it under cover.
Without the approval of my supervisors, I decided to use the tools I knew to shine the light on issues that had, until then, remained in the background.
To highlight issues like insincerity, honesty, and authenticity, I developed eye-grabbing posters, a website, and a blog—launching my "attack" during a weekend when no one would see what I was up to.
The posters drew people in; the website and blog sparked comments and discussions.
The whole campaign became a conversation piece, bringing people together in a more positive way (there were naysayers, but eventually they all came around), and we began to see our relationships and our organization in a better light.
To my surprise, the Director General—the agency's top manager—issued a statement saying he had authorized the campaign!
Social media has come a long way since then, here is a 20 minute video of a Google+ Hangout demo I presented during the 2012 Social Media Summit at Penn State, but now you understand my passion for using social media to connect, to heal, and to move organizations and people forward.
6. The startup.
Breaking out of one's comfort zone can be daunting, but the rewards are worth the risk. I had a comfortable job at a United Nations agency in Austria. I could have stayed, but instead I closed my eyes and jumped.
NION was a startup interactive agency in Austin, Texas. They were not doing very well, so they invited me to help bring them to the next level. A bold move on their part, and perhaps a bolder one on mine. I moved my whole family from Austria to Texas because there was something exciting about the prospect of working with a startup company.
Sometimes it's worth taking a risk in life—even if the outcome isn't what you had hoped.
I arrived at NION and began with the basics, reinventing the way the agency was pitching to prospective clients.
We redesigned the internal workflow process, expanded the office, and hired new people. We had considerable initial success, winning some national accounts.
But it wasn't enough. That's they way it sometimes is with startups.
So on a Saturday morning just before Christmas, the owners called us all together and said the company would close on Monday. Permanently.
Despite my best efforts, I was out of a job.
Rather than viewing the experience as a failure, however, I view it as a rich and rewarding challenge that taught me about myself—how uncertainty gets my creative juices flowing. I applied what I learned in the next job and the next.
And I'm a better Creative Director because of it.
7. The conference.
As the world becomes ever more interconnected, the ways we relate and learn and share are changing. Since the first TED talks were made available for free, I have been intrigued by them. And I wondered: "Can TED be a relevant tool for relating and learning and sharing at Penn State?
Ideas worth spreading: TED Talks and Pizza, TEDx PSU, TEDx Summit 2012 in Doha, TEDx LionRock 2012 in Hong Kong
TED Talks and Pizza: A Global Phenomenon on a Local Level
Shortly after I started working at Penn State University, I was invited to join a prestigious innovation team. Our charge? To explore ways to make our organization more innovative.
Immediately I suggested watching TED talks together and then having conversations about them. We found this experience very inspiring and soon were inviting colleagues in our office building to watch TED talks over lunch. (We supplied pizza and soft drinks.)
We watched TED talks about topics relevant to the culture of our organization—higher education, youth, teaching, personal growth, problem solving, and others.
I served as moderator at these events by presenting the theme, introducing the talk, and stimulating the follow-up conversation.
These events became so popular that we needed to move to a venue that could accommodate several hundred people.
Though after two years budget cuts and other challenges caused us to curtail our Friday lunchtime TED Talks with pizza, we all gained a great deal of insight into each other and our organization.
TEDx PSU 2010 + 2011
But my passion for TED talks did not stop there. When I saw a small poster in early 2010 calling for volunteers to help organize a large TED event at Penn State, I was excited to get involved.
We were to organize a "TEDx" event ("x" stands for "independently organized) under the direction of and licensed by the TED organization.
As we set out to organize such an event, TEDxPSU, for the first time at our university, I joined the communications group and soon found myself leading volunteers and spending many nights getting the related design work done: event design, program design, stage design, websites, invitations, advertisements, an iPhone app, and many other big and small assignments.
Admittedly, we didn't really know what we were doing at first, but somehow we generated tremendous excitement. More than a thousand people showed up at our event.
One speaker, a Penn State sociologist who presented A Radical Experiment in Empathy, has since been featured on TED.com. The talk has been viewed more than 650,000 times and it definitely has transformed the life of the speaker.
In 2011, we did it again, learning from the previous year's experience. We decided to make this an even bigger event, taking over a central building on campus and making sure we had an experienced and dedicated executive team.
I again served as Director of Design, still recruiting and working with volunteers.
The 2011 event was more colorful, inspiring, entertaining, and successful than the last and 4 of our TEDxPSU talks are now featured on TED.com, probably a record for any TEDx event.
TEDx Summit 2012 in Doha, Qatar
As if two successful TEDx PSU conferences, with more in the works, wasn't enough, in February 2012 I received an invitation to apply for a TED conference in Doha, Qatar– all expenses paid and hosted by the TED organization except the flight!
My application was accepted, and on April 15th I and a fellow team member arrived in Doha, joining 700 fellow TEDx conference organizers from around the world.
The weeklong TEDx Summit 2012 was rife with inspiring conversations, incredible experiences, and fantastic entertainment. I found myself immersed in a huge group of absolutely like-minded people. Ideas were exploding all around me, and I knew I was making connections that would last a lifetime.
Coming back from this conference was not easy; with a heavy heart we returned to our homes vowing to stay connected through the technologies that brought us together in the first place.
Several new projects were born there including a project I'm now working on with people in Zürich and Dubai, another with a woman living in the Amazon rain forest, a man from Greece, a man from Sudan, and a growing group of supporters of our global environment.
A whole new world has opened for me, and I now find myself in a position where I believe anything is possible.
We all are here to work together.
And together, we can change the world!
TEDx LionRock 2012 in Hong Kong
Inspired by our Doha experience, we took on the challenge of developing a TEDxYouth event—in Hong Kong—called "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Experience."
The TEDxLionRock event took place on July 20, 2012 in the Li Po Chun United World College of Hong Kong.
A small, international team of 14 TEDx organizers worked round-the-clock for three days, collaborating brilliantly and putting the finishing touches on the event just moments before the audience arrived.
The event featured a morning TEDx workshop, introducing the concept and the many components of the TEDx phenomenon. The actual TEDxLionRock event started after lunch and featured three sessions with 13 speakers and two performances.


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This is an update to my recent posting. Good news (and bad news). I was finally able to get the Cellular Shield to connect to the network via the AT+SBAND=7 command. Yipee!
However, the bad news is that the power LED was bad. I have replaced it with a working SMD LED and I now have a working Cellular Shield with a working LED power indicator. Oooh-rah!
HELP! After a great deal of noodling around and testing (including swapping my SIM card into another working Cellular shield), I have the following situation:
Start of Terminal Monitor Output:
Starting SM5100B Communication… +SIND: 1 +SIND: 10,"SM",1,"FD",1,"LD",1,"MC",1,"RC",1,"ME",1 +SIND: 3 +SIND: 8 +SIND: 4 SM5100B Communications established… Reading SIM Card Type… +SSIMT: 0,0 OK Reading PIN Value… +CPIN: READY OK Reading/Checking for Signal Quality… +CSQ: 0,99 OK Checking to see if SIM Card Logged to Network… +CREG: 0,2 OK Current DTE indication setting… +CNMI: 3,1,1,0 OK Starting SMS AT commands… OK Sent CMGF Command…
Please note that my SIM card works fine in the other Cellular shield that has a working LED power indicator.
I have a feeling that since the LED is not on, there is a problem with the power regulator on the shield.
Any help would me most appreciated!
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The actor, who appeared in more than 200 films in a career spanning five decades, died at his home in Beverly Hills, California.
Ford's health had been declining for a number of years after having suffered a series of strokes.
Although he never achieved the superstardom he craved, Ford was widely acclaimed as one of the best character actors in the business.
His most frequent roles were in Westerns, but he played a variety of quietly intense heroes and villains and is best remembered for his non-Western roles.
The Canadian-born actor began his career in 1937 and made a number of lowbudget dramas before joining the US Marine Corps in 1942.
Ford's big break came after the Second World War when he starred alongside Rita Hayworth in the 1946 romance Gilda.
The movie was a hit and Ford went on to make four more films with Hayworth.
One of his most acclaimed roles was that of a cop out to avenge his wife's murder in director Fritz Lang's The Big Heat in 1953.
Although the leading roles dried up in the 1960s he continued making movies and remained a firm favourite with audiences.
Away from the cameras, Ford led an intensely private life, shunning nightspots in favour of a quiet home life.
Married four times — most notably to actress Eleanor Powell, from 1943 to 1960 — he is survived by his son Peter, 61, also an actor.
Ford was set to make his first public appearance in 15 years at a 90th birthday tribute in Hollywood four months ago, but was unable to attend because of ill health.
In a taped greeting he said: "I wish I were
up and around, but I'm doing the best that
I can. There's so much I have to be grateful
Police in Beverly Hills said today that paramedics were called to Ford's home yesterday afternoon and found the actor dead.
Ford compared his enduring popularity to that of other strong-but-quiet stars of his generation, such as Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda.
"It's the way we say our lines," Ford said. "We don't memorise them, but take the sense and alter the lines to fit our own personalities."
Ford was born Gwyllyn Ford in Quebec in 1916. At seven, he moved with his family to Santa Monica, California, where he worked as a stable boy for cowboy humourist and actor Will Rogers.
After finishing school, he drove buses and worked as a salesman while planning an acting career.
An avid horseman and former polo player, Ford appeared in a number of Westerns: 3:10 to Yuma; Cowboy; The Rounders; Texas; The Fastest Gun Alive and the remake of Cimarron among
Fellow actors today paid tribute to Ford.
Sidney Poitier, who starred alongside him in the 1955 drama The Blackboard Jungle, said: "It comes to mind instantly what a remarkable actor he was.
"He had those magical qualities that are intangible but are quite impactful on the screen. He was a movie star."
At his birthday party, Shirley Jones, who co-starred with him in the comedy The Courtship of Eddie's Father in 1963, said Ford was "one of the cornerstones of our industry, and there aren't many left."
Ford also played Clark Kent's father in the first Superman movie in 1978.
In the latest instalment, Superman Returns, photographs of Ford are placed prominently in the Kent household as a tribute to the actor.
Big talent: with Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat, and right, in The Blackboard Jungle with Sidney Poitier, who said today that Ford was a 'remarkable actor'
"He had those magical qualities that are intangible. He was a movie star"
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Digitaria Executive Creative Director and co-founder Daiga Atvara has been named a 2012 Online Creative All-Star by OMMA Magazine. She will be recognized at OMMA's Creative Awards Dinner in New York City on October 2nd, in the midst of Advertising Week.
Ms. Atvara was recognized by OMMA for being the embodiment of the American Dream: Born in Latvia and attending The Academy of the Arts in Riga, the Baltic nation's capital, she emigrated to the United States after winning a scholarship to Humbolt State University, in California's redwood country. There she studied and created sculpture, mastering welding, bronze, pouring and metal work.
Following graduation, she moved to San Diego in the mid-1990s, where she became intrigued by the fledgling world of digital design. Her growing interest brought her into contact with Dan Khabie, and the pair went on to found Digitaria in 1997. The company has grown dramatically in the 15 years since, and was acquired by WPP and aligned with JWT in 2010.
In 2012, Ms. Atvara's digital design expertise has been recognized and honored for work with clients including Qualcomm, NBC/Universal, Discover America, Taylor Guitars, Under Armour and the NFL, among others. Just this week, Digitaria's creative department won Best in Show, a Gold and eight silver W3 Awards.
This is Ms. Atvara's second significant professional recognition in 2012. In August, she was named one of Advertising Age's Women to Watch.
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Geiser's Impact of Giving
Sometimes, names elude us. Meaningful gestures rarely do.
Daniel Geiser '39 was sitting on the steps of Founders Hall experiencing a personal episode of the Great Depression. A rising junior at Juniata, he had just found out that the family-friend benefactor financially supporting his college education had passed away. His academic and athletic careers were over - until another man walked toward him.
After hearing the sad answer to the question "What are you doing," the man changed Geiser's life with five little words.
"I'll pay for your education." The year was 1937.
That man - whose name no one can recall - donated the money for Geiser to finish his bachelor's degree, letter in four varsity sports and meet the love of his life, all during the last two years at Juniata.
Geiser's story now is embodied by his daughters. The oldest, Judith Geiser '66, tells another story. No, it's not the story of her parents' innovative careers as college faculty - her mother pioneered theatre at Juniata and her father reinstated football for Bridgewater College after World War II on a budget of just $500. Nor is it the story of her father's behind-enemy-lines rescue of fellow servicemen in World War II, a feat for which he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
It is the story of her parents' anonymously funding the college education of one of Judy's own students.
"When I first started teaching in 1973-4, I told my parents about a student who had fallen on hard times and couldn't come back to school. They said they'd like to pay and that if somebody had not done this for Daddy, he wouldn't have gotten to finish college. Life would be very different, they said. They asked to remain anonymous but wanted to pass it on."
Geiser's younger daughter, Jean Geiser, points out the family's definition of it. During his career as a collegiate athletic director, Jean says her father would preach: "Instead of lifting weights, dig ditches. Get something accomplished." Accomplishment of what's needed - that is it. It is the Geiser way.
Jean has a story of her parents' generosity much like the one her sister tells:
"A man came to Daddy's funeral and said of my father, 'He changed my life.' Daddy had asked the young man what he was going to do with his life and asked him if he wouldn't come to Bridgewater to play ball." When financial aid came between this man and college, Geiser eased his fears. "I'll find a way for you to come," Geiser said.
"It was a quiet little story from a funeral, but we hadn't heard it," Jean says of hearing the young man's tale at her father's 2009 service. She and her sister never even caught the man's name. But they will never forget their father's impact on him and many like him.
"That man went on to be an aviator just like Dad," Jean says.
Geiser's pay-it-forward benevolence will continue at Juniata for years to come. The Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (CRAT) he and wife Betty established will help fund students' educations via a named scholarship and through the unnamed, existing Student Scholarship Endeavors Program.
Generosity. Accomplishment. Impact. That's it. The Geiser way. Recognition optional.
Daniel and Betty Geiser used a Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (CRAT) to help Juniata. CRATs are only one type of planned giving. What is "planned giving?" The term refers to making charitable contributions that require arrangement in advance, often with financial planners and commonly involving wills, trusts, or annuities. Most people are surprised at what they can do with planned giving. Good plans incorporate retirement income, family inheritance, and charitable interests in a balanced overall financial plan.


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Re: Homotopic algorithm to solve a system of equations
Thank you for your posts Andrzej. I actually earned my masters degree
doing a thesis on the property P conjecture (a close cousin to the
Poincare conjecture) and more generally on certain homological
properties of branched coverings of 4-manifolds along properly imbedded
surfaces, so I know my fair share of algebraic topology and in
particular, I know what a homotopy is ;)
I'd like to clarify the question so posts can remain on topic.
1) The topic is: Globally convergent probability one homotopy
algorithms to solve systems of equations.
Such algorithms have been known for years. Please don't debate their
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Here is a bit of advice that I find had a fair amount of weight to it. Go to your local retailer that sells beacons. Have them "hide" one in the store. Then take two or three models you are interested in and just see if you can use them. The one that you find easiest to use for how you operate is probably the one to buy.
If you are planning on riding with your dog and want a doggie beacon, the Pieps DSP (Pro I believe) or Vector are the only ones that work with the Pieps doggie beacon.
As far as probes go, get one that is suitable for the amount of snow you get. A good do it all size is 300cm. Sounds long, but if you travel in deep snow packs such as Washington or BC it really isn't long enough. I don't think you can carry a probe long enough for those. If you are in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, something around 260 should suffice. Really though a 300cm probe barely weighs more than a 240. My probe is a 340 and I live in Colorado but I do travel to the west coast at least once a year.
Airbags work just fine as packs. Mammut RAS and PAS (again I believe with PAS) are removable. BCA are not but you can take the canister out to save some weight.
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What beacon should i buy?
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LAKEVIEW — Greg Oshnock spent 22 years coaching football at Lakeview High School.
Oshnock led the Wildcats to four Central State Activities Association titles and seven appearances in the state playoffs in his 22 years.
The Michigan High School Football Coaches Association recognized Oshnock's work by inducting him into its Hall of Fame last month.
"Unbelievable. I'm in there with the best," Oshnock said.
Oshnock, who was the Daily News Football Coach of the Year twice, had a career record of 111-103 in his coaching career, which included stops in Williamston and Athens high schools.
Oshnock called it an honor to be a part of the Hall.
"Over the years in my time at Lakeview, I was blessed with a lot of great players, and if you have great players they will win games for you," he said. "I was blessed with a great community."
Oshnock gave credit to a number of people who had something to do with the football program at Lakeview in one form or another.
"There was a big-time farmer in Paul Main," he said. "We needed new practice fields badly and he took care of the fields. To this day he takes care of them.
"I had two great assistant coaches that followed me all my years in Lakeview. One was Bob Ivan and the other was Jim Weber. Each had his strengths. All three of us together, we had success at Lakeview. I give all the credit for those guys helping me all this time."
Oshnock also noted volunteer coach Mike Harrington.
"He did it for years with us," Oshnock said. "So I had a lot of help. It's great to get the award, but it's all these guys and their effort.
"To even take it a step further, even on a manager level it was unbelievable, starting with my own two boys. They started in second grade. One stands out in Kayla Carr. She took 'managering' to the next level. She did a ton of work. She took over my stats. She did it for four years. It was her highlight of her career."
Oshnock is retired now, but he still knows what is going on in high school football.
"I spend my time reading about high school football, watching high school football, and now I have the time to watch my son coach high school football," he said.
His son, Ryan, will begin his first season as head coach of Grand Rapids Forest Hills Northern this fall.
"He's been all over," Greg said of Ryan. "One thing he's always wanted was to coach high school football. I get a chance to watch him coach."
To qualify for nomination to the Hall, a coach must have coached high school-related football in Michigan for 20 years or have 100 wins as a varsity head coach.
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Years coached: 23
Record: 111 wins, 103 losses
Schools: Williamston, Athens, Lakeview
Notable accomplishments: Central State Activities Association league champions: 1996, 2000, 2003, 2004; Coach of the Year: The Daily News, 2001 and 2006; Seven-time state playoff qualifier.
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Let me start by letting you know (and thereby reminding myself) that the American Library Association's Banned Books Week is upon us. Even today – at this very moment – small-minded people are trying to limit the access that others have to written material. Tense Teacher experienced something of this sort with her summer reading list. It's happening, and it's happening now.
Freedom requires vigilance, People. We earn our freedom by being careful and aware and informed. Efforts to restrict – or outright ban – books are born out of fear that results in a need to control how others think, and there's nothing about that that's okay. I'm going to wear my "I teach banned books" tee shirt to work tomorrow, and will announce the banned books week in the morning announcements.
It's not out of the realm of possibility that my kids will get a banned books activity to do in class tomorrow, too, especially since our school is very open and progressive and I'm betting it never even occurs to these kids that this sort of thing happens today. Part of my responsibility as their teacher is to model good citizenship, and honoring banned books week is one of the ways that I stay engaged and active in my community and my world. I want my students to think about the implications of banned books week – I want them to wonder about what other people don't think they should be allowed to think about. I want them to understand that this is a relevant topic right now – that it's not something relegated to history – and I want them to get mad enough to do something about it.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A 17-year-old faces kidnapping and carjacking charges after authorities say he stole a car with a baby inside.
Daytona Beach police said their detectives spotted two stolen vehicles driving together on Friday. One had recently been stolen from a car dealership. The car stopped at a gas station where three men jumped out and took off.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal reports the suspect ran through Bethune-Cookman University's campus and came upon a woman sitting in a car with her 1-month-old.
Police Chief Mike Chitwood said the suspect forced the woman to get out and wouldn't let her take her baby with her. Officers chased the suspect until he crashed into a parked dump truck.
The baby was not injured.
Authorities are still searching for the other two suspects.
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In His Presence: John 14:16-29
Our God is a triune Being, three Persons in One. The Father is not the Son. The Son is not the Spirit. They are distinct from one another in Their personhood, but They are one in their essence. They are like pretzels, which have three holes but are all tied together by the same dough. The Three are distinct in their functions, but They are essentially one God.
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24:10 is gonna be hard for the LKHC folks to beat. Good job!
You and Keith passed me like I was waiting for the shame train! Nice ride Mr.
Very nice ! I knew you'd grab that KOM - just glad it is completely out of (my) reach !!!
That is your hill and always will be. Looks like you still have some of the KOMs left. Super tough climb.
Holy Crap! you killed that climb completely..
Dave, you were super fast today!! Really amazing!
Deliver my kudos to Trevor too! Great guy!
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Thanks everyone. One of my better days in racing.
That was an awesome climb for you, David. Big congrats! Those big points that you earned yesterday put you on top of the LKHC leaderboard! And nice to meet Trevor.
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He plays his ace of spades! Well done. You've now got a nice, firm grip on the top spot of the LKHC standings.
Carl, Dick and Clark - Thanks. LKHC crew is a really fast, and really fun crowd.
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