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I have a question? During Christmas I was visiting my mama in Middle Georgia, and that is not the Atlanta area.She lives just south of Macon. She had these great groupings of
narcissus blooming. All my life we have called them Christmas narcissus! They are wonderful when not much else is blooming and no care. Well, I came home and called some friends offering to share the Christmas narcissus and they say" what are they? Are they the ones you force at Christmas?" Now understand, I now live in Aiken,SC where a lot of the residents are not born and breed! So I did some web search to find of info for them and came up with some but was surprised the little info I could find. Is this just the name my mama used because they bloomed around Christmas? Can you help me more so I can share with my "now" southern friends!
I believe the narcissus you are describing are the same ones people force into winter bloom indoors. They're called paperwhite narcissus. They aren't hardy in northern gardens, but because they need little to no winter chill, they can be planted outdoors from Birmingham and Atlanta as far south as central Florida. Barring a sudden, severe freeze when the bulbs are flowering, they'll bloom throughout the winter and come back the next year. So many paperwhites are planted in gardens around Beaufort, South Carolina that residents there refer to them as "Beaufort snow." Looks like your mama is growing "Macon snow."


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"There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, its endurance. Love will never come to an end. Prophecies will cease; tongues of ecstasy will fall silent; knowledge will vanish...there are three things that last forever:"
"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death."
"The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."
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The Barnes Foundation presents Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders, January 24 through April 21, 2014
Media preview Tuesday January 21, 2014
PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Barnes Foundation presents Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders from January 24, 2014 through April 21, 2014. A British artist of Nigerian descent, Shonibare has exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe. His work alludes to European art and intellectual history and explores race, slavery, authenticity, and commerce. The works in the exhibition—approximately 15 sculptures, paintings, photographs, and a room installation—address themes of education, opportunity, and scientific and cultural discovery. This is the artist's first major exhibition in Philadelphia, since his residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in 2004 and it includes a commission entitled Magic Ladders.
"Several of Shonibare's sculptures refer to the Enlightenment and its ideals of rationality and exploration," says Judith F. Dolkart, deputy director of art and archival collections and Gund Family Chief Curator at the Barnes. "Shonibare shares Dr. Barnes's belief that education can improve individual lives, benefitting society as a whole. Barnes turned his pharmaceutical factory into a progressive and integrated workplace, where he devoted two hours of each eight-hour workday to discussions on philosophy, psychology, and aesthetics with his employees."
Shonibare's sculptures—life-sized mannequins clothed in the colorful Dutch wax fabrics produced in Europe but closely associated with Africa—offer a provocative examination of European colonialism and European and African identities. The artist also investigates the idea of the outsider, intrigued and perhaps drawn to a dominant culture yet remaining distinct from and peripheral to it. Shonibare, who was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004, was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2005 by Queen Elizabeth II. He uses his title professionally, if ironically, to highlight the ambiguousness of status, identity, and belonging.
The Foundation's collaboration with Shonibare pays homage to Barnes's interest in contemporary art and artists. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the Barnes commission Magic Ladders, which explores childhood learning and the opportunities that education can create. In considering the exhibition and commission, the artist reviewed the complicated and decades-long correspondence between Barnes and Leo Stein, a fellow collector and an important advisor and friend as Barnes built his art collection and educational foundation. In Magic Ladders, three children ascend ladders constructed of books written or read by Albert Barnes. Other recent sculptures in the exhibition, Planets in My Head, Philosophy (2011); Planets in My Head, Physics (2010); and Pedagogy Boy/Boy (2011), echo the theme of the magical, transformative discoveries of childhood learning.
The exhibition invites viewers to reflect upon Barnes's collecting practice, particularly in terms of its connections to colonialism. One of the first American collectors to regard African sculpture as fine art rather than ethnographic curiosity, Barnes displayed African masks and figures alongside paintings by Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani. A champion of education for African Americans, Barnes made his collection of African art broadly available to black readers through Opportunity magazine. Ironically, his acquisition of African art was made possible by the imperialist colonization of Africa, a theme explored in Shonibare's monumental Scramble for Africa (2003).
Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour (1996–1997), a room elaborately and excessively decorated with Dutch wax fabrics and garnished with objects placed symmetrically on a mantle, is for Shonibare a meditation on taste, status, and empire. In the context of the Barnes collection's distinctive wall ensembles, it might prompt the viewer to consider methods of display.
Yinka Shonibare MBE: Magic Ladders has been organized by Judith F. Dolkart, deputy director of art and archival collections and Gund Family Chief Curator and will be on view in the Aileen and Brian Roberts Gallery. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 84-page book by Ms. Dolkart, containing a short essay and entries for works in the exhibition, some of them accompanied by reproductions of documents from the archive of the Barnes Foundation.
Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in London and moved to Lagos, Nigeria at the age of three. He returned to London to study Fine Art first at Byam Shaw College of Art (now Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design) and then at Goldsmiths College, where he received his MFA, graduating as part of the "Young British Artists" generation. He currently lives and works in London.
The Barnes Foundation (barnesfoundation.org) was established by Albert C. Barnes in 1922 to "promote the advancement of education and the appreciation of the fine arts and horticulture." The Barnes holds one of the finest collections of Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, with extensive works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine and Giorgio de Chirico, as well as American masters Charles Demuth, William Glackens, Horace Pippin and Maurice Prendergast, Old Master paintings, important examples of African sculpture and Native American ceramics, jewelry and textiles, American paintings and decorative arts and antiquities from the Mediterranean region and Asia. The Barnes Foundation's Art and Aesthetics programs engage a diverse array of audiences. These programs, occurring at the Philadelphia campus, online, and in Philadelphia communities, advance the mission through progressive, experimental and interdisciplinary teaching and learning.
The Barnes Arboretum, located at the Merion campus, contains more than 2,000 species/varieties of trees and woody plants, many of them rare. Founded in the 1880s by Joseph Lapsley Wilson and subsequently added to under the direction of Mrs. Laura L. Barnes, the collection includes a fern-leaf beech (Fagus sylvatica 'Laciniata'), a dove tree (Davidia involucrata), a monkey-puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), and a redwood (Sequoia sempervirens). Other important plant collections include Lilacs, Peonies, Stewartias and Magnolias. The Horticulture school at the Barnes Foundation in Merion has offered a comprehensive, three year certificate course of study in the botanical sciences, horticultural practices, garden aesthetics, and design through a well-grounded, scientific learning experience since its inception in 1940 by Mrs. Barnes.
The Barnes Foundation
Jan Rothschild, Senior Vice President for Communications
Andrew Stewart, Director of Public Relations
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Image: Yinka Shonibare. Planets in My Head, Philosophy, 2011. Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, leather, and fiberglass, 16 x 16 x 45 inches (40.6 x 40.6 x 114.3 cm). Collection of Charlotte and Herbert Wagner, Boston, Massachusetts. © Yinka Shonibare MBE. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2013 Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, New York/Shanghai and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Photography: Stephen White


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Secondary teachers' conceptions of the out-of-class experience
Hearder, Lee-Ann (1994) Secondary teachers' conceptions of the out-of-class experience. Masters by Research thesis, Queensland University of Technology.
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papageno wrote:Glad someone gets it.
Hysterical video… Thanks.
BTW, The last Zappa show was the best live performance I've ever seen…. or did I?
papageno wrote:im starting to get the concept of smelt fishing....
Ill be around for a bit in February - talk to you then.
Professor_Leakey wrote:papageno wrote:im starting to get the concept of smelt fishing....
Ill be around for a bit in February - talk to you then.
the concept of smelt fishing, explained, leakily. on a night preferably 15 degrees or colder, meet up with a few good friends at one of the many smelt camps. bring along goose jerky or some venison as well as plenty of beer and a bottle of john daniels (when you have known him as long as i have you can call him john). eat good food and drink a lot, and talk whole lots of chit with your buddies and the people in the shacks around you. catch as many smelt as your liver will allow. when the fog clears batter and fry those little bastards. they are delicious. if things go well you end up with a hundred or more. if things dont go well you end up with a hangover and some great but foggy memories.
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Asin Thottumkal has no time for an appointment with any South Indian director and movies. The actress who becomes popular because of appearing to more than 30 South India films is too busy right now with "Housefull 2". She imply has not time for anything else her newest movie has taken up all the time most of her days. However, this doesn't mean that she is prioritizing one film from the other, as she is not concentrating on just one language.
Asin have a very tight schedule and she is expecting that her schedule won't be free until two months later. Her priority right now lies with the shooting of her movie with Akshay Kumar in Housefull 2. After the latter, she will then again be shooting scenes for her next project, The Story of my Marriage with Shah Rukh Khan as her love interest.
To get ready for the shooting of Housefull 2, Asin works out regularly. She wants to have a well-toned body since Sajid Khan is particular about the looks of his talents. In this movie, she will be wearing western clothes so a well-toned body is needed. She added that she want to look good in front of her leading man since Akshay is a well-known fitness buff himself.
Based on what she heard about her upcoming leading man, Akshay, he is very professional when it comes to his work and thus he never goes to work late. Like his leading man, she is as punctual and professional when it comes to work; both of them are always on time during shooting a movie. Akshay, who is a known prankster will definitely try to make Asin laugh and the actress is looking forward to that. Like Akshay, she expect Sajid Khan to make her laugh too since she heard that Sajid has a weird sense of humor. The whole cast of Housefull 2 will also include some of the biggest name from Bollywood like Rishi Kapoor, John Abraham, Riteish Deshmukh and Jacqueline Fernandes.
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A question I get asked a lot when I'm traveling around the country doing seminars is "What's the most common mistake smallmouth bass anglers make when they're fishing a jig?" It's a really good question, and I've had a chance to think about it for several years now, so my answer has changed a little over time.
I used to tell people that the biggest mistake was that they didn't fish the jig often enough or that they didn't fish it slowly enough. Both of those answers are true, by the way.
But now I think the biggest mistake most anglers make when fishing a jig is that they don't keep their rod tip low enough when they fish it. Instead they keep the rod tip up at 11 or 12 o'clock, which is a great position for detecting strikes, but a poor one for setting the hook.
If you watch your line carefully, like I do, you'll soon realize that you can see more strikes than you ever feel. And since that's true, you'll do yourself a big favor by keeping your rod low during a jig retrieve — from about 9 to 10 o'clock.
You might be able to get away with a high rod angle when largemouth fishing or even when the smallmouth are really tearing it up, but on slow days or when you need to turn every strike into a catch, keeping your rod tip low will pay off for you with more bass.
The reason is simple. When your rod tip is low — nearly parallel to the water — you're in a better position to set the hook, and you need to be able to do that very, very fast. Smallmouth are curious creatures, but they don't have hands. The only way they can check something out is by picking it up in their mouths. When they're curious and not really feeding — which I think is a big majority of the time — you don't have as long to set the hook as when they're eating heavily and sucking that lure all the way to the backs of their mouths.
By keeping your rod low, your eyes on the line and by having a hair trigger hook set, you're going to catch a lot more smallmouth.
And remember to set the hook just as soon as you feel something different, something you can't recognize. The strike isn't always a solid thump or even a mushy feeling. Sometimes it's the complete loss of feeling because a fish has picked up your bait and is moving toward you with it. Other times it's completely different from any of those. Watch your line closely, and set the hook just as soon as you see it move or feel something different.
Almost as important when you're setting the hook on a good smallmouth is to get your hand on the reel right away (better yet, never take it off) and get cranking on that fish to keep the line tight and the bass moving toward you. Slack line is your enemy, and you need to keep that fish coming after the hook set.
Finally, don't wait when you have a strike! It's a guarantee that the bass doesn't have your lure in its hands!


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By Cleo Hogan
I would never let my hives swarm and attempt to catch swarms for a variety of reasons. First, the parent hive will very nearly split evenly, leaving as many bees behind as leaves. This gives you two even hives, but, one has an old queen most often at the end of her productive life, not a good situation, and the other hive has no queen, only queen cells waiting to hatch, not a good situation. Both bad options.
A far better hive management solution is to make a split, even if you do a bad job. This opens up the brood nest for the queen to lay more eggs, reduces the urge to swarm, (because there are fewer bees in the hive), and leaves a good strong hive to produce honey.
I like to move the old queen with the split, that way, she and the bees are already familiar (the bees are all her daughters and sons), she is already actively laying, (so there isn't a lot of delay in the buildup of the split), and any urge to swarm is gone because the split is too small to swarm. I highly recommend placing a new, bred, queen in the parent hive, because you lose 40-50 days at the parent hive if you let them make a queen to replace the one you moved with the split. At the end of this cycle your hive has been reduced and has to build back up. Normally a new, bred, queen will start replacement in 20-25 days not 40-50.
Don't be alarmed if you see queen cells in the parent colony after the introduction of a new queen. The bees will recognize very quickly that they are queenless after you make your split. The parent hive should still be very strong, and they will attempt to make a queen quickly, because, they have limited time to start making a queen, (they need a viable egg, normally less than five days old), and the new queen is still in a cage, (not able to lay eggs), and they need a queen to survive.
If the new queen gets out of the cage, and if the bees plan to keep her, they will destroy the queen cells, or kill any virgin queens. It is not uncommon for the bees to replace a new queen, (which costs you money) but, it is more risky to chance just letting the hive make their own new queen, and lose 40-50 days in the middle of a honey flow when they need to be making honey for you.
One additional benefit of a split is its effect on mite control. Mite control is an ongoing battle. Make your mite counts and take action as required. Making a split is one way to help with mite control; Oxalic Acid (OA), miticides, (several brand names), powdered sugar, are others. Some highly respected beekeepers tout the effectiveness of screen bottom boards, but recent data casts some doubt as to the effectiveness of screen bottom boards and mite control.
There is nothing magic about a split. Simply:
- Find the queen.
- Take her and a couple of frames of chocolate colored brood, (this brood will hatch quickly, building the split rapidly.) The brood cap darkens with age; chocolate-colored brood is closer to hatching than freshly capped brood.
- Insert a new queen in the parent colony, or leave new brood for the hive to make a queen.
- Add 2-4 frames containing bees and some honey.
- Feed the split until it has built back to 7-9 frames.
- Manage the parent colony to ensure that the new queen is laying, or they have replaced her. Most important aspect of the parent hive management is, don't let that hive become queenless.


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There are some seasons when it seems that Lagerfeld wears himself too thin between Fendi, Chanel, and his own labels. This season seems to be gearing up, or rather, dwindling down, to one of those seasons. For his Karl Lagerfeld S/S 2007 collection in Paris, the eccentric, meticulously-coiffed designer sent down a very Chanel-looking collection of black and white baby dolls, chiffon-gowns and tiers of fabric. On top of that, some of the shirts dresses with the accompanying ties recalled Elbaz's F/W 06 collection for Lanvin.
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Trend-wise, the looks were right on key, with dramatic ballooned sleeves, flashes of leather via a cummerbund or as an entire sack dress, and an overall short, graphic silhouette. This is the kind of stuff that will do very well at retail, but I think he failed to really move forward this season and tell us something new. And frankly, I expect something new from the madness that is Mr. Lagerfeld.


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Too bad you can only kill 'em once.
This is a discussion on Saddam sentenced to death. within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; ....so Saddam has been damned by the courts......
....so Saddam has been damned by the courts...
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Too bad you can only kill 'em once.
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ITFT / Quick Kill Review"It is enough to note, as we have observed, that the American people have considered the handgun to be the quintessential self-defense weapon." - Justice Scalia, SCOTUS - DC v Heller - 26 JUN 2008
Allah Akbar indeed !!!!!!!!!!
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill
On reflection - I have to think that slow stoning would be more than appropriate.
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well, to be honest I have mixed feelings...
while I agree with the sentence and believe justice will be served, I think he was the ideal leader for that hell hole Iraq.
Sometimes I think they deserved him as their leader.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Congress is in session."
Mark Twain
IMO They could have saved a hell of a lot of time and trouble if they would have just let us kill him in '91, instead of sending us home before the job was done.
When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi.
they should have dropped in a grenade or the end of a flame thrower...
I can never figure out why they save the life of a suicide victim's attempt on death row?...
...or why they use an alcohol swab when giving a lethal injection?
Sheeeeesh...it's beyond me...
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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Funkadelic live in New York City.
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Awesome, where'd the white guitarist come from? never heard about him before.
That was fantastic... let the weekend begin!
One of the BEST concerts I have EVER seen, did I mention BEST EVER???!!!!
BTW, does anyone know if or when the Mothership will land in the Philly area?????
AWW YEAH!!! This is one of all time my favorite songs and videos by George and the boys!
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Before there was Baby #2, or Baby #1, or a house, or even a dog...
There was He and there was Me.
We got married before any logical reason said it was OK.
We were young and as green as the money we didn't have. With everything else we lacked were jobs, bills and any real problems. Our biggest dilemma was whether it was too late to get a drink from the Kum & Go.
We got by on part-time jobs, grants for poor students, and laughter.
We smiled at each other a lot.
We lived in campus housing between all the grad students and single moms. We didn't know anyone who wore our shoes.
My friends lived in dorms across campus. His lived in rented houses across town. We didn't envy their lives because, as we saw it, ours was better. We had each other, an extra bedroom, and no meal plan. We could hang out with friends on campus, then crawl in bed next to each other.
The thing I remember most about those three years is simplicity.
Like we were just playing "grown-ups."
But what a fun game it was.
We thought each other was funny, we rented movies, and we never went to bed angry.
And sometimes, when I think back really hard, I feel a pang for what we've lost.
Our lives today are the next chapter.
Yet sometimes I feel like we're a different book.
This book has more depth and plot lines. And I know, that in probably every way that matters, it's a better one.
I wouldn't trade our babies or our memories for all the freedom in the world.
But still, if I'm honest, I sometimes miss the life we had. Then, if I'm more truthful still, I realize I miss the people we were.
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Who We Were
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You sort of made me sad and happy all at the same time. That was our exact same situation. We didn't live in campus housing, but you get the idea. Things were so much simpler then. Things are great now, but in a different way. Thanks for helping me remember :-)ReplyDelete
I hear you kelcie ! Life gets louder and messier as we grow older. It's just making the time to bring back a little of who you use to he mixed with the you now. Just the other day I wrote Chris a cheesy note like it was cool in high school lol. Love yallReplyDelete
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More airports join in FAA lawsuit
KALISPELL, Mont. - NBC Montana told you Wednesday how the Flathead Municipal Airport Authority is suing the FAA over the closure of control towers to save money. Now, it looks as if four other airports have joined Glacier Park International Airport and the FMAA.
We pored over federal documents Thursday. All of the airports involved ask the FAA to review its March 22 decision to shut down certain towers. Those targeted failed to reach a certain threshold of passengers and flights.
The Glacier lawsuit outlined that having a tower adds a "layer of safety and confidence on a year round basis that's important to preserve."
A number of pilots though say GPI operated without a tower for 60 years before one was installed in 2001.
"People who flew in there before remember that," said Kalispell City Airport Manager Fred Leistiko. "It's a heavier workload on the pilot, its a little bit higher risk, but its something they're trained to do. Call in, talk to other pilots, report their position. go around, move, or jockey around because there's no controller on the ground telling you where to be or what to report."


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For my birthday last April, Jen gave me the gift of helping me go through all my clothes. To the average person that might seem like a lame gift. To me, it was amazing. Here's why:
1. I consistently feel like I have nothing to wear, yet, an entire dresser and half a closet full of clothes.
2. Jen has amazing style. She is really good at helping me find clothes that stretch my comfort zone, but help me feel cute. We don't wear the same style clothes, but she works with what she knows I like and helps me look my best.
3. I (accidentally) have become that mom that puts her kids before herself. I go through the kids clothes, decorate their bedrooms, and buy them cute things and have not done much of that for myself for five years. (Aaron and I are finally working on our bedroom now. Its been undecorated for almost 6 years).
4. I am an activator (StrengthsFinder, anyone?), which means when I decide to do things I want them done NOW. For some reason I cannot apply that personality trait to my clothes.
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It took Jen and I a while to figure out a time to finally start working on my clothes….but the timing really couldn't be better. Now that we have a little extra cushion in our budget thanks to selling our Duluth house I am able to purchase a few "just for me" things. Also, Aaron and I have deemed this winter the time that we are ACTUALLY decorating our room (new headboard already!), so the clothing part fits perfectly. Ah yes, I am punny.
Moving on.
It took us, oh, maybe 2ish hours to go through all my stuff. And it was SO FUN!!!! I needed the extra push from Jen to just get it done. We got 4 grocery bags full of stuff to go to Goodwill. We then went through a few of my clothes and Jen helped me come up with some outfits to try. Here is a sampling (sorry you can't see the shoes!) The first one still scares me some:
We then flipped through my instagram feed and decided I need booties and a few other clothing items to just boost my options. We decided to hit up Target and drop off the Goodwill stuff on the way. $160 later I had new clothes, new shoes, new workout pants, bras, underwear, a picture frame, and 2 jackets for the kids (they were 50% off and ADORABLE) and I had NONE of the clothes in my house that I needed to get rid of. So freeing!
I am SO thankful for the gift of time (and a Target shirt!) that Jen gave me. It was a little humbling and sometimes even embarrassing to go through everything, but there really isn't anybody else I'd rather have help me with my clothes! My goal is to stretch myself some more with my clothing and use what I have in better ways. Maybe I'll take a photo now and then of something that is new to me and post it.
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It's hard to believe preseason is already here again! I feel like it was just yesterday that Kay, Erin, and I got our winter calendars and were counting down the days till we survived another winter workouts. Now summer workouts are done and all of our hard work the past few months will be put to the test as we start our 2011 season Wednesday morning officially with the beep test!!
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Along with our workouts, we have been playing pick up a lot this past week to get a few extra touches on the ball. There have been so many girls there that we have been able to open it up and play to the big goals and use our goal keepers (which I'm sure made Romo and Kristina happy!!). All of our pickup games have been close and the compitition has been tighter than ever. I'm sure the compitition will carry over into preseason making all of the girls work for our spots and challenging each other every day. We have such quality players this year that I am excited to see how everything comes together once October ends and post season play begins.
Well I am off to watch a movie with Kay and relax before we start two-a-days on Wednesday! While this summer has been fun, I am so ready to get back playing with my team, representing our city, and making it a great senior year!
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On the Ward's Warriors presentation, and whether he told the team about it ... "No, I never told them a thing. I know all about it, but they were embracing that, too. They're online; they know what's going on. And good for Aaron Ward."
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On the performance of the power play ... "I think we got a lot of puck movement down in their zone. In the first game, we had some shots, but we didn't get great time in their zone, and I thought we did that tonight. I thought we got pucks to the net really well and ended up capitalizing on a couple quick plays that we were making. The quick plays were working for us tonight, and we were fortunate enough to get two on the power play."
On beating a team like Boston College ... "Obviously, it's a great to win a game, but we have to realize that we have to get better at certain things we didn't do well tonight. I mean it's nice to open up the year with a win, especially against a team like Boston College. It's good to get it under our belt, but we have to continue to get better."
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On his excitement about his two-goal night ... "You know it was the first game of the season; we played a great opponent, and it was really great to get those first ones under my belt and under the teams belt and get out to an early lead. Also felt great to play in such a great atmosphere here at Yost tonight."
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Brave person who asked that question. Bet the room went silent!
What a boring answer though, haha. I was expecting daggers! very diplomatic of him. How disappointing


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"We just want to get them back to their families" ... Australian Federal Police examine and catalogue the remains of a tourist at
Khao Lak.
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In Khao Lak it's a race against time, writes Ellen Connolly.
They are carried from trucks and laid out side by side in the baking sun. Body after body. Thousands of them.
With military precision yesterday, 12 Australian police officers and forensic scientists worked with Thai rescuers carrying the rotting corpses from trucks, placing them in bodybags, numbering them and then putting them in freezer trucks.
Until then the bloated bodies had been lying wrapped in plastic or cloth sheets, decaying slowly in the 29-degree heat. Some corpses were unbagged. "We have got a lot of foreigners here. We just want to get them back to their families," said an Australian Federal Police officer, who could not be named.
Most of the dead are believed to be European - mainly Swedish and German - but some are thought to be Australians.
"We already have some bodies here which the Thai people say are Westerners," the Federal Police officer said at Yan Yaow temple, one of four temples that have been converted to morgues.
"What the Thais want us to do is get all these bodies into these freezer containers. We are just going through the process, getting them numbered," he said.
Khao Lak, 90 minutes north of Phuket, was the worst-hit area of Thailand. This once-idyllic 18-kilometre stretch of beach, backed by forest and mountains, has become the temporary resting place for thousands of people.
At least 2000 bodies have been recovered from luxury hotels and beach bungalows. Authorities say the death toll could rise to 4000. "Another thousand are arriving tomorrow," said a NSW police officer, ignoring the stench as he numbered another body.
"I'd hate to think what's in there," he said as another truckload arrived.
An Australian forensic officer said that with the bodies already so badly decomposed it was a race against time.
Another day or two and any chance of identifying them would be hopeless.
"There is no DNA, no mortuary process getting done at all at this stage," he said. "We're literally getting the bodies bagged and in the freezer and some recording system going."
Dr Thevanak Rochanapruk, a Thai volunteer, said his country was "so grateful" for the Australian effort. "Thailand cannot handle all this tragedy on its own. The scale. The magnitude. There are no boundaries of nationality or race," he said.
"We have never seen anything like it. We are still an undeveloped country. How can we handle it?"
While the freezer trucks will help to preserve the bodies from further decomposition, there are not enough of them to cope with the thousands of bodies laid out behind the four temples.
A Federal Police officer said the task was beyond comprehension, but he praised the Thai people: "They are very resilient people, but the magnitude of this? What can I say."
For hours yesterday, six young Thai men jumped aboard the trucks, emerging with corpses for the Australian police to number and bag.
Among the bodies were children who had lost their lives to the tsunami.
Outside the temple, desperate families crowded around a wall plastered with photos of the corpses.
Gazing intently at the grim images of the dead,
each relative tried to determine whether the photographs were of loved ones. One image depicted a hand with a gold wedding ring, another a Swatch watch. Dotted amid the carnage were happy snaps of two Swedish children and a young German woman. After four days their bodies would bear little resemblance to the photos, the forensic scientist said.
Marco Cunningham, a New Zealander who works for a volunteer organisation, spent the day walking through rows and rows of corpses with the families of the missing. "We look for jewellery, clothing, hair colouring," he said. "We have to explain to the relatives that they are deformed now."
Among those searching were a Swedish man looking for his two children. "Luckily they are in shock and can handle it."
Australian police said the numbering of the bodies would continue for days. Then the identification process, assisted by Australia's Disaster Victim Identification unit, which worked in Bali, would begin. "We might be here for weeks," an officer said.


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I currently own a G23 and I want to get something else I can keep in my pocket for warmer months and when my clothing doesnt allow for IWB carry. I was almost set on a 642 this summer, but there weren't any available without locks in my area and Bud's had sold out by the time I was ready to purchase it, so instead of instant gratification I decided to wait for another to come along. Recently a friend showed me his Kel-Tec P3AT (though he didnt like the reliability of the Kel-Tec), he almost had me set on the LCP as it is easier to conceal (i.e. back pocket, front pocket, IWB...). Then today, I get a call from my LGS saying they just got a no lock 642. I have them holding it for me until I can get over there to look at it again, but now I am in a huge dilemma of which one to purchase and which I will carry the most. Any thoughts on which I should purchase?
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The Fairview Township Police Department arrested 20 year old Ayana Castro of the Meadowbrook Court mobile home park for assault following a domestic incident on August 6, 2014.
On August 6 at 6:08 pm police were dispatched to a residence at the Meadowbrook Court mobile home park for a report of an active fight between a male and a female. On arrival, police determined that Ayana Castro went to the residence of her brother in law to demand the return of some DVD's. The victim ordered Castro to leave his residence and she refused. At one point, Castro grabbed 5 darts and started stabbing at the victim in the area of his face and arms causing several small puncture wounds. Castro also bit the victim on the right bicep which cause a deep laceration.
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Donovan McNabb Attacking Robert Griffin Like Jilted Lover
- Updated: August 14, 2013
Former NFL quarterback Donovan McNabb is acting like a jilted lover the way he keeps attacking Washington Redskins quarterback, Robert Griffin III. McNabb's problem with Robert Griffin this time is Griffin's relationship with the Redskins' organization.
McNabb has been wanting to meet with RG3, but the former number one draft choice wants no part of McNabb. According to Sara Kogood of the Washington Post, McNabb talked about Griffin's rejection on his radio show.
"I'm just trying to help him," McNabb said. "Clearly the young generation, they think they have all the answers. He's going through a little turmoil now, trying to make it out on the field, and it's unfortunate. But that's where we're at right now as far as these young quarterbacks who think they have all the answers. Until things start to fall apart and come down trembling on you, then you want some help. But it's a shame. I honestly think that over there in Washington, he's getting brainwashed."
While the younger generation may act like they have all the answers, they older generation often does the same. Why does the older generation often think they have to "save" the younger generation with their wisdom?
In McNabb's defense, when an individual is doing a sports talk radio show, there is a lot of minutes to fill and ratings wars to win. By bringing Robert Griffin III into his radio dialogue, McNabb is making headlines and getting a lot of free publicity. Free publicity, more than helping Robert Griffin III, is McNabb's real agenda.


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A Danish reporter for the Ritzau Bureau was covering the Democratic primary campaign in Texas and the meeting between his nation's prime minister and President Bush when he suddenly became acutely aware he was not in the quiet saftey of Denmark but in the rough and tumble world of Texas. Terkel Svensson was having difficulty getting connected to the Internet on his laptop computer so he committed the dangerous act of stepping outside to make a phone call. Inadvertently, he stepped into a woman's garden and was confronted by the sight of a woman waving a gun at him and shouting, "Get off my property."
Mr. Svensson naturally beat a hast retreat from having his feet planted onto good Texas soil and planted them onto the safe environment of the pavement. Texas law allows residents to defend their property from tresspassers with deadly force. Hopefuly, Texas residents can sleep peacefully tonight knowing the Danish invasion of their homeland has been successfully thwarted due to the sharp eyes of a woman and her gun. The NRA is always right, people have a right to defend themselves from those Danes!


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10 of the Hottest Rock Videos of All Time [LIST]
The 80's were not only a great time for rock and heavy metal but it was also a great period for rock videos as well. You remember that period don't you, back in the days when MTV actually PLAYED videos? The bands during that time had some of the hottest and sexiest women in their videos. We came up with a list of ten of the more notable hot rock videos of all-time in no significant order because in reality, they are were all hot in their own special way.


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Title: Is Separate Equal? The Role of School Integration in the Civil Rights Movement
Students will read and do research in order to build their background knowledge regarding school integration. Students will use various websites and view online videos to develop an understanding of segregation and integration of schools during the Civil Rights Movement. Students will then write and publish a picture book about school integration.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 9: Critique major social and cultural changes in the United States since World War II.
Title: Telling It the Digital Way: Stories of Sports Spectacular Stand-outs
During this lesson students design, develop, produce, and present a five-minute biographical video highlighting the life of a famous sports spectacular stand-out such as baseball's great Babe Ruth.
Title: What Was So Depressing About the Great Depression?
This lesson focuses on the effects of the Great Depression on American life in the period from 1929-1940. Students learn about changes in art, music and literature that symbolize life of the everyday man. Students also learn about the causes that lead to the Great Depression.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 5: Explain causes and effects of the Great Depression on the people of the United States.
Title: Author Trading Cards
In this lesson students conduct print and Internet research to gather information about a contempory author. Students create an author trading card featuring this information and then collect and/or trade these cards as they select reading material.
Title: Who's Who on Olympus and Why Should I Care?
References to mythology extend far beyond the basic exploration of a genre. This unit will serve as an exploration of the creation myth across cultures, an introduction to the major Greek gods and goddesses, and an opportunity to link mythology to today's world. Students will research and create a newsletter on a creation myth and the culture from which it came. They will also plan and present a slideshow presentation about a major god or goddess of ancient Greece, including allusions to him/her in today's world.
Title: How to Cite Online Resources and Complete Bibliographic Citations
After research in the Alabama Virtual Library, students will write a paragraph essay and use an online citation utility to create bibliographic citations for an online encyclopedia, an online magazine, and a print resource. Copying and pasting the URL address, students will use word processing to create a bibliography.
Standard(s): [TC2] (6-8) 11: Use digital tools and strategies to locate, collect, organize, evaluate, and synthesize
Title: Christopher Paul Curtis and His Books: Bud, Not Buddy and The Watsons Go to Birmingham
This interdisciplinary lesson on two books by C.P. Curtis features students in one classroom (or group) reading one of the books while the other class (or group) reads the other novel. Each class then divides into groups and researches the time period of its novel and develops presentations designed to encourage the reading of the second novel. These presentations are then presented to the other class.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 7: Identify changes on the American home front during World War II.
Title: Researching with the Alabama Virtual Library
After an introduction to the Alabama Virtual Library, students use the available resources to research and present information about a United States president.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 12: Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.
Title: Escape to Freedom
Students will read Number the Stars by Lois Lowrey. This novel about World War II, the Holocaust, and heroism, provides the topic for an inquiry-based, interdisciplinary lesson. Students will utilize their skills in technology and research to learn why there are dictators like Hitler, followers like the Nazis, and people from all walks of life who endanger their lives for the good of others.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 3: Identify causes and consequences of World War I and reasons for the United States' entry into the war.
Title: Our African American Heroes
Students will create a short digital slideshow presentation and brochure on a famous black American.
Standard(s): [SS2010] USS6 (6) 12: Evaluate significant political issues and policies of presidential administrations since World War II.
Title: Why Preserve Biodiversity?
In this lesson, students discuss the importance of maintaining ecosystems and find out about the various arguments that people make in favor of preserving the Earth's biodiversity. They write essays in which they explain what they feel are the most compelling reasons for preserving biodiversity and also describe the arguments they think would be most likely to convince the general public that biodiversity should be preserved.
Title: Interpreting Population Statistics
In this lesson, from Xpeditions, students are introduced to population statistics such as birth, death, and literacy rates. They compare these indicators for several countries, graph the results, and hypothesize about what their graphs indicate about the countries.
Standard(s): [SS2010] GEOG (7) 1: Describe the world in spatial terms using maps and other geographic representations, tools, and technologies.
Title: Orphan Trains
In this Science NetLinks lesson, students develop their ideas about social trade-offs by examining the history of the Orphan Trains and the New York Children's Aid Society, created in 1853. The purpose of the society, a forerunner of modern foster care, was to provide thousands of street children with homes in rural communities in the American Midwest. For some poor urban children the trip west brought great opportunity, but for others it meant heartbreak and disappointment. The majority of the Internet resources about the Orphan Trains have resulted from genealogical research done by families of the children who were sent to the Midwest by the New York Children's Aid Society. By considering what these children as individuals both gained and lost, as well the benefits and consequences to the larger society, students can explore the concept of social trade-offs in a compelling context.
Title: Inventors and Innovators
The purpose of this Science NetLinks lesson is to use the Internet to explore the scientific enterprise and the contributions to science of various people. Students use the Inventor of the Week Archives on the Invention Dimension Web site to create a class project on American invention.
Title: Jefferson vs. Franklin: Renaissance Men
In this lesson, from EDSITEment, students explore the interests and achievements of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. They take a position that one or the other's interests and achievements were more wide-ranging or that they were equivalent.


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Leicester, United Kingdom (rushPRnews) 01/20/11 — An inspiration number of homeowners, small businesses and schools from across the UK have been making the headlines this year because of their efforts to embark on solar energy generation.
Solar Guide, the UK's free online resource for homeowners and engineers regarding all solar-related issues, has reported on a number of these cases to show Britain how and why everyday individuals, entrepreneurs and communities are making the choice to go green.
The reports covered by our website www.solarguide.co.uk show that increasing numbers of people are taking advantage of the Government's Feed-In Tariff (FIT), which allows anyone to receive payments for generating their own renewable electricity and lower their energy bills. There's even the potential to receive extra cash by exporting any unused electricity to the power grid.
As well as keeping up to date with the latest solar-related stories from across the UK and internationally, Solar Guide also provides a vast array of information on solar technology, grants and manufacturers.
And, for those still looking for further reasons to invest in solar, then the Feed-In Tariff calculator could be of service.
Our calculator allows potential customers, wishing to install solar PV panels on their buildings, to calculate what size a solar panel system they need, how much it will cost and how much money they could be paid back from the Feed-In Tariff.
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Network marketing, or MLM, is a legitimate business opportunity, provided the emphasis is placed on selling products. You can sign up with an MLM organization or start your own network marketing company. You will need a wholesale or manufacturer wholesale if you start your own network marketing company. Select a name for your business then obtain a doing business license as through your local county administration office. You will also need a vendor's license.
1. Select a product line for your network marketing company. Start a nutritional network marketing company, for example, which is the most popular type of network marketing business.
2. Search for a wholesale supplier through the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors at Naw.org. Attend NAW meetings to become more familiar with wholesalers. Sign up for some free trade publications through Tradepub.com, according to article titled "Find Suppliers for Your Business" at Businessknowhow.com. Examine the "Thomas Register of American Manufacturers" at your local library.
3. Call several potential wholesale and manufacturer suppliers. Ask them if they offer drop-shipping services, which will keep your inventory levels down. Find out if the supplier offers catalogs, brochures and order forms for their products. Choose the supplier that provides you with the lowest unit cost per product.
4. Set the retail price of your products according to your supplier's recommendations. Establish a commission structure for your distributors on several different levels. Set commissions at 10 percent, for example, for first-level sales where distributors earn money off those people they recruit. Set commissions on levels two and three at 5 percent each, for example, allowing distributors to earn commissions off people your distributors recruit.
5. Install network marketing commission-payment software. Use your commission-payment software to calculate the commissions of all future distributors.
6. Create an instruction manual for all distributors, highlighting various ways to advertise their network marketing businesses. Create a distributor's kit for all potential dealers, which includes the instruction manual, a catalog, price list and order forms.
7. Advertise your network marketing company in major business opportunity magazines, including "Business Opportunities," "Home Business" and "Small Business Opportunities." Start with classified ads as they are the most cost effective of all ads.
8. Mail a sales letter brochure and order form out to people who respond to your classified ads. Call people back when they inquire about your network marketing opportunity. Recruit distributors into your business on an ongoing basis.
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The Takeaway
Fewer Kids Walking to School
A heated debate has emerged in parenting circles: Should kids be allowed to walk to school? In 1969, nearly 50% of kids walked. Today, that number has dropped to 13%, with many parents arguing that it's just too dangerous nowadays to let kids walk. Are they right? The Takeaway's correspondent, Andrea Bernstein, was at the Walk21 NYC conference yesterday in New York to talk with people about urban planning strategies for city walking. We also talk to Gina Lovasi, from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, about the health implications. Jeremiah Weintraub, a fifth-grader from West Virginia who's been riding his bike to school for over two years, joins us with his thoughts on the matter.


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(I started a thread in politics and have closed it, this was my first entry).
In the original thread, I used the term "Good Guy". I borrowed the term, "Good Guys" from my 10 year old son. Once when I was talking to the police, I could tell he was worried. I merely explained that the Police Officer doesn't know that I'm a "Good Guy" yet. He promptly shouted, "He's a Good Guy". For the purpose of this discussion, Good Guy would mean law-abiding, morally upright individual.
First, I made the point that being a "Good Guy" means following all of the laws. We are a nation of laws and these laws have brought peace and order. At times, bad laws are written. When that happens, we as citizens work to have those laws changed. If we decide to disobey the laws that we disagree with, we risk anarchy.
There are many laws (especially those related to firearms) that I disagree with. I own a Saiga, if I want to hi-capacity magazines with it, I have to modify it with a certain number of US manufactured parts. This law is complete nonsense. However, it is a law of the nation to which I am a citizen, so I followed the law and made the mods. I could find no case of anyone being prosecuted for solely a 922r violation (the law that covers importing non-sporting firearms) so my risk was very low of being caught. However, it is a law of the nation to which I am a citizen, so I followed the law and made the mods.
During the Clinton administration, the "Defense of Marriage Act" was passed. One aspect of this was if one state allowed gay marriage, another state did not have to legally recognize that marriage. This year, the Obama administration stated that they would no longer enforce this law by the power of the Justice Department. Personally, I'm not a fan of the government regulating marriage at all but there was a law that Obama didn't agree with, so he stopped enforcing it.
As a Good Guy, I want fewer laws since I will likely follow them. If we only follow those laws that we agree with or those laws where the likelihood of being punished is high, can we really call ourselves, "Good Guys".
So, at the end of the day, Could I look into the eyes of my son and say, "I'm a Good Guy" if I didn't follow the law?
Ok, that's my basic premise. I anxiously await your respectful replies.


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Design optimization applied in structural dynamics
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|This paper introduces the design optimization strategies, especially for structures which have dynamic constraints. Design optimization involves first the modeling and then the optimization of the problem. Utilizing the Finite Element (FE) model of a structure directly in an optimization process requires a long computation time. Therefore the Backpropagation Neural Networks (NNs) are introduced as a so called surrogate model for the FE model. Optimization techniques mentioned in this study cover the Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP) methods. For the applications of the introduced techniques, a multisegment cantilever beam problem under the constraints of its first and second natural frequency has been selected and solved using four different approaches.
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