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Cute And Easy Brick Stitch Bangle
Beaded bangle bracelets are a cinch to size when you use a brick stitch base! Using basic brick stitch with large beads (size 8 or size 6) let you make a substantial-feeling bangle bracelet that will fit you like a glove. Want to try this fast, easy, and super-cute brick stitch bangle bracelet beading project? Have fun!
(Makes an 8-inch inside diameter bangle. May need to adjust amounts for larger bracelet.)
- 10 grams size 8 seed beads (A)
- 2 grams each, size 11 seed beads in main and contrasting color (B, C)
- 5 grams 3.4mm drop bead (D)
- Size 12 beading needle
- 6 lb. test Fireline beading thread
- Scissors or thread cutter
- Chain nose or flat nose pliers (optional, but very useful for getting needle through tight spaces in this beading project)
|On a comfortable length of thread and using A, make a three-bead ladder.
Work in flat brick stitch until you have a strip of beadwork that fits snugly around the widest part of your hand. (To get this measurement, fold your thumb into your palm, and wrap a tape measure around your knuckles. This is the part of the hand that the bangle bracelet needs to slide over.)
|Once you've completed your strip of brick stitch, check to make sure that your ends will fit together. You want one end to start with an "up" bead (similar to the up bead in peyote stitch) and the other to start with a down bead before you attach the ends.
|To weave together the ends of your strip of brick stitch, start first by passing through alternate threads on each end. Pull your beading thread gently to cinch the ends together, and then weave back and forth through the beads as if you were working peyote stitch to reinforce the attachment.
|Start a new thread, and exit from an up bead in your band of brick stitch. To add the netting, pick up 2B, 1C, 2B and pass through the next up bead in the brick stitch band.
Repeat all the way around one side, then work your thread over to the other side and add netting in between each up bead.
If you have any thread tails hanging out of your brick stitch band, weave them in now before you begin the next step.
|To add the drop beads (D), exit from a C bead. Pick up 1D, and pass through the next C.
Pay attention to which direction your C beads are facing — they may have twisted a bit, and you want to make sure that the bead holes are all facing in the same direction.
Make sure that your drop beads all sit with the drop part facing out, and don't let them fall into the center of your netting as you add them.
Finally, pass through all the C and D beads one more time, to reinforce and strengthen. Weave your threads into the bangle, knot, and trim your thread close to the beadwork.
What excites me the most about this brick stitch project is the potential for variations! Can you imagine this made with tiny Czech glass spikes instead of drop beads? Or maybe substituting tiny 3mm crystal bicones for the seed beads in the netting? Maybe if you want to get adventurous, you could add a ring of 4mm round beads or pearls to the brick stitch strip before you work the netting over the top. And to think that it all starts with a simple strip of brick stitch!
Hungry for more fun beading projects using those two-holed seed beads? Check out Beading With Shaped Beads: 10 Beaded Projects to Make With SuperDuos and Twins, available as an instant download in the Beading Daily Shop! You'll find 10 innovative beading projects using two-holed seed beads with your favorite beading stitches like herringbone stitch, peyote stitch, and right-angle weave. Get your copy of Beading With Shaped Beads: 10 Beaded Projects to Make With SuperDuos and Twins and see why two-holed seed beads are twice the fun!
Bead Happy,


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Alfresco Continues To Expand Globally And Responds To Growing Spanish Demand
Launches New Local Language Website and Forum; Witnesses Increased Customer and Partner Momentum
LONDON, 17 October, 2007 – Alfresco Software Inc. today announced that it has launched a brand new website and forum for the Spanish language market. The move comes in response to rapidly growing demand from customers and partners within the region and builds on other recently launched websites from around Europe including France. Due to the nature of open source development, Alfresco's websites and forums play a key role in the formation of its community and the sharing of knowledge and resources between developers, users and customers.
Alfresco's customer list in Spain already includes an impressive selection of public and private sector businesses that are already taking advantage of open source ECM for a range of applications. These include Barceló Viajes, Government of Catalonia, City of Mijas, Government of Andalucia, Punto Inmobiliario, TUI and the University of the Balearic Islands. Spain is becoming a major global user of open source software and ranked 3rd in the recently published Open Source Barometer survey*.
"Momentum in Spain and South America has really begun to take hold now and therefore the launch of a Spanish-language website and forums is a natural step for us to take in order to support and nurture this growth," said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco. "Being able to have direct contact with our user base is absolutely vital to the evolution and development of the Alfresco ECM solution and through this launch we hope to provide a platform that will promote collaboration and discussion within the Alfresco community."
Now up and running after a matter of weeks in development, the new site is completely managed within Alfresco's existing WCM architecture. Using a multi-lingual content model, one system manages the creation of content in a controlled manner before publishing in English, French, Spanish and Japanese. Contributors to the Spanish site include the Alfresco staff and local partner, Intecna. The brand new site and forum can be found at /es
The Alfresco open source ECM solution has now been downloaded 700,000 times with 21,000 active installations and 300 customers. Along with the active English, French and now Spanish websites, other major language sites are also currently in development.

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Yale Early Social Cognition Lab (YESCog)
Evelyn Pomichter is the Administrative Coordinator at the Developmental Disabilities Clinic for Infants and Toddlers. She provides a high level of administrative and clerical support with regard to all aspects of clinical and research functions. In addition, she is a central source of information to both families and members of the developmental disabilities clinical/research teams. She responds to patient concerns and requests ensuring smooth resolution. She is responsible for the management of clinical fees, including preparation of evaluation summary statements, provided to families upon request, for submission to their insurance provider for possible reimbursement. Ev has many years experience working with families of children with disabilities, having previously worked at the Yale Center for Children with Special Health Care Needs and the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center.


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Big Publishers Increasingly Experimenting With Free Academic Journals
from the about-time deptFor many years there's been a push to create free research journals in various academic and scientific fields. The reasoning was that the high expense of the traditional journals made new breakthroughs and research much more difficult and expensive, potentially slowing down important advances. There was also some concern about publicly funded research not being available to the public. For a while, the traditional publishers acted horrified at the idea of free journals, but it appears that they're finally realizing the idea might not be so bad. Publishing giant Reed Elsevier is launching a new free medical journal online for oncologists that it hopes to support with advertising. It hopes to sign up a bunch of doctors to use it and may launch other free journals in other medical areas. It's definitely an experiment -- and appears to be driven in part by the growing number of free sources online -- but it's still good to see the big publishing houses not just bashing the idea, but testing it out themselves.
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Fans of the original Galaxy Cafe and Starliner Diner will be at home with the menu at Jerry's Galaxy Cafe, a new restaurant in Hilliard. Founded by Jerry Burgos, who bills himself as the founder, creator and previous owner of Starliner Diner (also in Hilliard), Jerry's Galaxy Cafe has breakfast, lunch and dinner offerings with good prices.
Fans of the original Galaxy Cafe and Starliner Diner will be at home with the menu at Jerry�s Galaxy Cafe, a new restaurant in Hilliard.
Founded by Jerry Burgos, who bills himself as the founder, creator and previous owner of Starliner Diner (also in Hilliard), Jerry�s Galaxy Cafe has breakfast, lunch and dinner offerings that hit the familiar bases of Cuban, Southwestern, Cajun and Tex-Mex cuisines.
It isn�t a large operation. There are a few booths, some tables and a small bar awaiting a liquor license.
The large lunch menu is also available at night. Evening entrees are served beginning at 5 p.m.
One of the most appealing items is an appetizer: sweet-potato-corn tamales ($5.50). Three corn-husk wrappers enclose a mash of sweet potato studded with corn kernels. Naturally sweet, it�s fine on its own. But the side of pico de gallo gives it a notable zip.
The lunch-menu sandwiches include a well-prepared shrimp po� boy ($9). The large shrimp, spicy with a mix of Cajunlike seasonings, are dipped in a good batter and deep-fried. The batter is crisp and the flesh moist.
They�re in a small French-bread-inspired loaf along with a chop of lettuce, tomato, onion and a scallion-flavored mayonnaise with hints of horseradish. The sandwich is flavorful and well-balanced.
The Vera Cruz salad ($5 for a small, $6.50 for a large) combines plenty of chopped romaine lettuce with slices of tomato, chopped cilantro and avocado with a tart dressing of lime juice and olive oil. It�s an excellent counterbalance to the filling food on the rest of the menu.
The lineup of burritos includes a vegetable version ($8). Folded wide rather than rolled, it�s stuffed with white rice, black beans and a mix of vegetables (broccoli slices, mushrooms, bell pepper, mild green chili pepper, onion, zucchini, tomato, corn and yellow squash), seasoned by Galaxy�s less-than-fiery smoked-chili sauce. Ask for some of Galaxy�s house pico de gallo ($1.50 as a side); it makes the adequate burrito distinguished.
The pico de gallo is made of fresh tomato, onion, cilantro, peppers and vinegar. It has a good (but not excessive) level of heat.
Meat loaf ($9) is a periodic special. The large slice is coarsely textured, devoid of excess fillers and has an aromatic, allspicelike overtone to go with its lean, onion-flavored character. Additional flavor comes from the slices of bacon that are placed on top of the loaf as it bakes.
It�s served with real-tasting mashed potatoes topped with a simple mushroom gravy. Also on the plate is a large portion of corn kernels that taste as if they�ve been given a brief sear on a flat grill along with chopped scallion.
The regular menu�s Cajun jambalaya ($11) is made with lean chicken and slices of Cajun sausage. Also in the mix are bell peppers, mild green chilies, onion and the smoked-chili sauce. It�s a well-integrated mix, brought together by the moderately spicy sauce.
The most interesting entree sampled is the Yucatan chicken ($11), which is said to have been marinated in an achiote sauce.
It�s coated with the reddish sauce, which gets off-the-beaten path sparkle from the addition of fresh orange and lime.
The sauce goes a long way toward making the accompaniments of plain black beans and rice interesting and seasons the mushrooms, zucchini and yellow squash that garnish this dish.


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SOURCE: Atlantic Records
November 20, 2012 12:00 ET
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - Matchbox Twenty and daqri announced today a new 4D augmented reality app that will provide fans with unique and exclusive 4D content and experiences starting today. Never before has an album been used as such an engaging messaging platform.
For this project, daqri partnered with Mobile Roadie to bring the Matchbox Twenty app to life in 4D AR. Fans who download the app can:
The app is free and easy to use, with a fluid interface that seamlessly transitions from experience to experience with a simple touch.
"It's an incredible way for fans to access stunning visual 4D content, interact with the band in the palm of their hands, view concert dates, buy tickets right from the experience and even get a chance to meet them in person," says Brian Mullins, daqri's CEO and founder.
"We are always looking for cutting edge ways for our fan experience to be better, and with the 4D technology we launched, we can do that from a music side, touring side and a direct fan encounter," says Paul Doucette of Matchbox Twenty.
The tour officially begins January 29, 2013, in Tulsa OK. Fans can access the experience on iOS devices through the Matchbox Twenty app (http://mobileroadie.com/apps/mb20), and on Android devices through the daqri app available in the Google Play store.
Founded in 2010, Santa Monica-based daqri is a global leader in augmented reality, having created hundreds of 4D AR campaigns. daqri's extensive portfolio includes campaigns for innovative organizations including Cadillac, 20th Century FOX, Liberty Media, Gensler, Stockland and the National Center for Supercomputing at University of Illinois.
daqri is a proven industry pioneer in vision-based augmented reality, advanced image recognition, and interface design. As the first enterprise cloud-based AR publishing platform, daqri 4D gives creative teams an unprecedented capacity to create and publish rich augmented reality experiences -- experiences that are revolutionizing the way we interact with data, smart devices, and each other. 4D will become the access point for the internet of things, defined by its ability to simplify and streamline life at home, work and play.
About Matchbox Twenty:
Formed in Florida, Matchbox Twenty entered the world with a blockbuster -- 1996's YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The debut set spawned five hit singles -- "Push," "3 am," "Real World," "Long Day" and "Back 2 Good" and snagged an RIAA Diamond Award certification for U.S. sales exceeding more than 12 million to date. Thomas also raised the band's profile by co-writing and singing on Santana's Grammy Award-winning 1999 smash "Smooth." Matchbox Twenty maintained the momentum with MAD SEASON in 2000 and MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE in 2002, both of which went multi-platinum and continued to spit out hits such as "Bent," "Unwell," "If You're Gone," "Bright Lights" and "Disease."
But after three albums of hard work and equally hard touring, Matchbox Twenty was ready for a break. The hiatus not only renewed Matchbox Twenty as a band but also seasoned the individual members even further as they came back together for 2007's EXILE ON MAINSTREAM, a greatest hits collection that sported six inspired new tracks which were co-written by the band for the first time ever and included their biggest selling single to date "How Far We've Come." Earlier this year Matchbox Twenty released their fourth studio album NORTH, the quartet's first release in five years, and their first album to debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 album chart. It is also the band's first set of all-new material in a decade.
In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, the 2004 People's Choice Award for "Favorite Musical Group," and they were named "Best New Band" in the 1997 Rolling Stone Readers Poll. What's more, Rob Thomas has proven one of the most highly decorated artists of recent years, receiving three Grammy Awards, 11 BMI Awards, and two Billboard "Songwriter of the Year" honors for both his chart-topping solo work as well as collaborations with such legends as Santana, Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson and Big Boi. Thomas' collaboration with Carlos Santana on "Smooth" was also named the #2 Most Popular Song Ever on Billboard's List of the 100 Most Popular songs behind "The Twist." He was also named to Billboard's Top 20 List of Hot 100 Songwriters 2000-2011 at #5 and was the top ranking artist/songwriter on the list.
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Review Date: June 2017
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|Safeguarding Policy
|Qatar International School believes that it is always unacceptable for a student to experience abuse of any kind and recognises its responsibility to safeguard the welfare of all children and young people, by a commitment to practice which protects them.
We recognise that:
· the welfare of the student is paramount
· all children, regardless of age, disability, gender, racial heritage, religious belief, have the right to equal protection from all types of harm or abuse.
· working in partnership with children, young people, their parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting young people's welfare.
Local Qatari laws also require the reporting of child abuse by professional caregivers. All professional staff members are bound by the following criminal code:
QATARI PENALTIES LAW (11/2004); Chapter 3; Article 189: 'The penalty of imprisonment for a period not exceeding 3 years and a fine not exceeding 10,000 Riyal or one of the two penalties shall apply to any public officer assigned to investigate about crimes or identify them if he neglects to inform about the offence he knows about or postpones such information….'
Qatar operates an Abuse Hotline for students and families. Anyone may call 919 to access assistance operated by AMAN (which means "security" or "safety" in Arabic), formerly known as the Qatar Foundation for Child and Women Protection (QFCWP).
|At QIS we aim:
· to provide protection for students who attend QIS in any form, and
· to provide staff and volunteers with guidance on procedures they should adopt in the event that they suspect a student may be experiencing, or be at risk of, harm.
This policy applies to all staff, including senior managers and the board of trustees, paid staff, volunteers and sessional workers, agency staff, students or anyone working on behalf of QIS.
We will seek to safeguard children and young people by:
· valuing them, listening to and respecting them
· adopting child protection guidelines through procedures and a code of conduct for staff and volunteers (Staff Code of Conduct is provided in Appendices)
· recruiting staff and volunteers safely, ensuring all necessary checks are made
· sharing information about child protection and good practice with children, parents, staff and volunteers
· sharing information about concerns with agencies who need to know, and involving parents and children appropriately, and
· providing effective management for staff and volunteers through supervision, support and training.


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- 2011 Western Alfalfa & Forage Conference & Biofuels Workshop
- Las Vegas, Nev., 11-13 Dec. 2011
This is an interesting year for forages to say the least. Prices are at record high levels in many states, but dairies have found it difficult going as a result, and costs have gone up considerably for hay producers and dairy producers alike.
There are many challenges in the farming community, and there is strong interest in alfalfa, corn silage, and alternative forage crops. Growers and industry members are very interested in new products and ideas for saving money. This conference features about 35 speakers from many states who will present some of the latest information on economics, pest management, irrigation & soils, quality, utilization and genetics.
We have a special session on corn silage/alternative forages, forage quality, and on Roundup Ready and genetically-engineered crops. A pre-conference agricultural tour, demonstrating field production will take place on Dec. 11, the Forage conference on Dec 12-13. A Biofuels Workshop to explore biofuel possibilities in Western States will take place on Dec. 13. We expect to have 50-60 exhibitors focused on alfalfa & forage crops (alfalfa, corn silage, miscellaneous hays and biofuels).
Please take advantage of the EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION by clicking on: http://ucanr.org/sites/Alfalfa_Forages/
This conference is organized by the Cooperative Extension Services of 11 Western states.


text: The exquisite 3.5-litre V6 engine has been modified significantly to achieve the supercar performance of the Evora 400. Its induction system has been supplemented by a revised supercharger and a water-to-air chargecooler, that raises power to an outstanding 400 hp (406 ps). Select the first of the its six, close-ratio, manual gears and the acceleration is viscerally exciting. In fact, the automatic version is even swifter off the mark, its performance sharpened by the Race setting in the Dynamic Performance Management system. A V-max of 186 mph (300 kph), experienced from within the Evora 400's purposefully equipped and comfortable cabin, provides proof positive that Lotus makes supercar ownership not only extremely focused but also both entrancing and giant-killing.


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Canada advances to Ivan Hlinka final with 5-2 win over Czech RepublicNHL.com @NHLdotcom
BRECLAV, Czech Republic - Down 1-0 early in front of their home fans, the Czech Republic started to take a chippy approach to their semifinal game against Canada at the under-18 Ivan Hlinka Memorial hockey tournament.
Their strategy played right into the Canadians' hands.
Canada scored a pair of power-play goals and beat the Czechs 5-2 Friday to advance to a fifth straight tournament final.
"We like chippy," Canadian coach Todd Gill said. "We're Canadians, we want to play a chippy game if the refs allow it, but over here you never know. I told my guys to finish checks, keep sticks down ... and we stayed out of the box for the most part."
Bo Horvat opened the scoring on the power play for Canada and added a third-period insurance goal.
Team captain Sam Reinhart had another strong game with a power-play goal and three assists, while Nic Petan and Max Domi also scored.
Lubos Rob scored both goals for the Czechs on the power play.
The Czechs found themselves short-handed frequently early on, taking seven minor penalties in the first period.
"It just got a little carried away at the start," Reinhart said. "It wasn't like they were really aggressive. it was just some unfortunate bounces, a delay of game, stuff like that. It enabled us to really take it to them early."
The game was tied 1-1 after the opening 20 minutes despite Canada outshooting the Czechs 11-1. Rob scored on the Czech Republic's only shot of the first period, which came with just 12 seconds remaining.
But Reinhart scored his third goal in as many games on a power play 1:13 into the second period to give Canada a lead it wouldn't relinquish.
Reinhart also scored the game-winner in Canada's final preliminary-round game against Slovakia with just 53 seconds left in regulation.
"He's been our ultimate leader," Gill said. "He just knows how to present himself. He's on the point on our power play, he kills penalties, he's scored some big goals 5-on-5. And he's a leader in the dressing room. He's well respected."
"I guess having a dad like that, he's taught him well," Gill added. Reinhart's father is Paul Reinhart, who had an 11-year career with the Atlanta/Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks.
The crowd of roughly 500 in Breclav made its presence known, with fans chanting and beating drums.
"They were loud," Gill said. "It's a totally different thing. It's almost like a soccer match over here with the drums and the chants, but they supported their club well."
Canada will play Finland in Saturday's final. The Finns advanced with a 5-4 overtime win over archrival Sweden.
"They play probably as close to a North American game as any country here," Gill said of the Finns. "We know they're going to come hard, they pass the puck very well, they're physical, you can't intimidate them. Should match up to be a great gold-medal final."
Reinhart said playing a composed style will be key for Canada in the championship game.
"Early on we weren't composed on the bench, or on the ice especially. We've really changed that throughout the tournament and that composure will be huge for us in the final."
The Canadians have dominated this event, having won it the last four years and 16 times overall since 1991.


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Endangered Species Youth Art Contest
The Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest encourages young artists from schools, home schools, and youth art activity programs to take up their pens, pencils, brushes, or scissors to celebrate endangered species through art. The Art Contest is part of the national Endangered Species Day celebration and encourages students to learn more about endangered species and what they can do to protect them. Entries are due by March 15, 2014. Full contest rules are posted at Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest.
Help others look beneath the waves, choose a marine species for your Saving Endangered Species Youth Art Contest entry! Use NOAA Fisheries' species pages to learn about the different marine animals we protect, like salmon, coral, sturgeon, sea turtles, and whales. Visit our Protected Resources website and dive in!
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|4/20/2012 protest One hand to build the nation
Of course here when I am speaking about the Muslim brotherhood as in Presidency , Freedom and Justice party and the Muslim brotherhood.
The intelligentsia in Egypt know that the Muslim brotherhood took over the rule breaking all the promises they gave to the fellow revolutionaries whom for years stood to defend the group against Mubarak regime. The intelligentsia also know very well how the MB and their policies are completely opposite to what the 25 January revolution called for from principles "Bread, Freedom , human dignity and social justice".
The Muslim brotherhood's neoliberal policies will not reach to social justice nor it will provide bread. We have seen what happened so far to human dignity and Freedom especially with the continuing violation of human rights cases from torture and that hate towards media in Egypt nowadays.
When Mohamed Morsi was elected a president he chose several Pro-revolutionary faces like Ayman El Sayad , Sakina Fouad and Samir Marcus as advisory and aides yet he did not listen to them at all. I do not need to bet that if he just listened to them things will be different. Of course I do not need to say that he is listening to the MB guidance office.
The MB says that the political opposition forces "mainly from revolutionary faces like ElBaradei and Sabbahi" are working to make Morsi fail where actually the MB is doing the job perfectly. Morsi and MB are the ones who digging their failure grave by pursuing the same dark path of dictatorship in order to fulfill Hassan El Banna's big vision of MB Caliphate.
Still I fear that the average Egyptians do not look to the MB as a danger on the revolution but rather a product of the revolution. I fear that the average Egyptians will hate the revolution day after day with the failures the President and MB are causing in the country. I fear that the average Egyptians who were happy to oust Mubarak and took the streets will see the MB's control as a direct result of the revolution.
Of course people do not want to admit that they chose and brought the MB willingly through democratic processes aka elections. People elected the Muslim brotherhood and refused to try other alternative because " They knew MB and the MB is good as they are Islamists"
I fear that people will miss the Mubarak days even if they were not from the privilege class that enjoyed these days yet they are missing that feeling of state control and security.
From two weeks ago "Ana Asf Ya Rayas" { I am sorry Mr. President} Pro Mubarak page reached to nearly 900,000 likes since its launch from two years ago. The Pro Mubarak/Shafik/Omar Sulieman supporters and apologists are having their dreams come true using all their talent to spread lies on how Mubarak's era was much better than the MB's rule and how the revolution is bad.I see daily posts in my Facebook timelines from friends sharing on how things were better in time of Mubarak at least when it comes to security and some how "economy" was allegedly much better.
I fear that people are having short memory because things were not that better in time of Mubarak , it was on the verge of explosion sooner or later. We had fuel and water shortage from time to time. All research centers all over the globe were predicting unrests after Mubarak whether caused because of his regime's economic policies or because the fight over power between the military and Gamal Mubarak as well Islamists and Gamal Mubarak. Many people believe that Mubarak and his regime were right to violate human right
Unfortunately the MB's failures in Egypt are not affecting the revolution in Egypt but also in the Arab world as well. Recently more people in Egypt began to see the revolution in Syria as another foreign attempt to bring it down using the Islamists and the MB who are destroying Syria in the same way they have done it in Egypt. I am not speaking about uneducated Egyptians but rather educated Egyptians.
The MB and their allies in Gaza from Hamas are hurting the Palestinian cause for the first time in Egypt. The Anti-Palestinian sentiment is finding a place in Egypt for the first time since 1948. Average people wonder why President Morsi care for Gaza than Port Said. Average people also fear that Hamas may have a hand in killing our soldiers and began to think that the president is not telling the truth. I do not need to speak on how that "Palestinians are coming, Palestinians are coming" media machine is working like hell. Yes they are differentiating between Hamas and Palestine but in real world people do not differentiate.
In the end the MB has become a burden on the revolution and we have to admit it not only in Egypt but in the Arab world.


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The U.S. House of Representatives has taken the first step in freeing pesticide applicators from having to obtain NPDES permits for applications over or near water with the passage of H.R. 872, the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act.
Similar legislation that would require EPA to stop development of a permitting system that its own research shows would take more than a million hours of applicators' time to complete annually is now before the Senate.
That's the issue members of the Southern Crop Production Association took to their congressmen, senators and staff members during the group's annual trek to Capitol Hill on May 12. More than 30 crop protection and seed company representatives traveled to Washington for the event.
EPA began working on a permitting system after the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the agency's 2006 ruling that aquatic pesticide applications were exempt from the Clean Water Act's National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System requirements.
The Court said EPA must have a new permitting system for such applications — which include spraying for mosquitoes by municipal and state abatement districts and unwanted aquatic vegetation by parks departments — by April 1. EPA subsequently sought and received an extension of the deadline until October 31.
Currently, all pesticides must undergo extensive testing for safety in a variety of application environments under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. The pesticide label spells out conditions in which pesticides cannot be sprayed.
"Pesticide permits under the Clean Water Act do not provide further protection of water quality," said Ed Duskin, executive director of the SCPA who coordinated the visits that included 69 members of Congress and their staffs. "The permits only burden state regulators and applicators with tremendous cost and mountains of paperwork."
Duskin says that Congress omitted pesticides when it enacted the Clean Water Act NPDES permitting program in 1972 and never looked beyond FIFRA for the regulation of pesticides.
By its calculations, the EPA believes the new permitting system will cover about 1.5 million pesticide applications per year. It anticipates the potential number of permit applicants at 365,000 and estimates the annual time burden at 1,033,713 hours for permittees and 45,809 hours for the 45 delegated permit authorities in the states.
H.R. 872 would amend FIFRA and the Clean Water Act to say that no permit is required for the labeled use of any registered pesticide. It would also instruct EPA and the courts that Congress did not intend other environmental laws to overtake FIFRA.
The bill passed the House on March 31 by a vote of 292-130 with all House Republicans and 57 Democrats voting in its favor. Despite the overwhelming approval in the House, it faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
"Why hasn't the Senate taken action already?" asked Rep. Austin Scott, a new member of the House Agriculture Committee from Georgia's Eight Congressional District. "My recollection is that that bill passed unanimously out of the committee. Every Democrat and every Republican voted for it.
"Lisa Jackson (EPA administrator) said it was EPA's duty to keep the farmer on the farm," Scott said in remarks to the SCPA members following lunch on Capitol Hill. "That kind of took me back because most of the people I know in agriculture think that you either have the EPA on the farm or the farmer on the farm but not both."
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, has introduced a bill, S-718, that would eliminate the CWA permit requirement for pesticides applied in compliance with FIFRA.
So far, Roberts' bill has only attracted Republican co-sponsors. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has said she is not ready to support the Roberts' bill because she is waiting on a response from EPA on questions raised during a meeting between several senators and EPA Administrator Jackson and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
Besides the NPDES permit issues, SCPA members discussed other issues with their members of Congress and staffs:
- Pesticide spray drift. Members of Congress were asked to contact EPA and ask officials to withdraw new guidance that says no pesticides may be applied that may cause or could cause an adverse effect or harm to adjoining crops or wildlife habitat. The guidance replaces language in FIFRA that says the risk-benefit standard for pesticide applications is "no unreasonable adverse effect."
- Endangered Species Consultation Process. Currently, the Endangered Species Act requires EPA to consult with the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Fish & Wildlife Service on actions that could impact threatened or endangered species or their critical habitats. Members were asked to work to amend the Endangered Species Act to remove the duplication of effort by the "services" and the redundancies in the consultation process.
- Chemical Site Security. Members were asked to vote against legislation that would require inherently safer technologies as part of the Chemical Facility Anti-terrorism Standards passed after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. While the crop protection industry believes the passage of CFATS has been a positive for its members, adoption of the inherently safer technologies advocated by such senators as Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., would be overly burdensome.


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At the present time, there is not a blog for the Society of Tennessee Archivists (STA), so, as some of our historians and the Tennessee Conference Archives itself (I'm not sure about Memphis and Holston. I need to check, since they pretty much cover the rest of TN) are members, I will use this forum to let them know news that I hope to eventually post and link to on the STA blog (when it exists.)
In that tone, and as an addition to the previous post on awards given at the annual meeting of the Society of Tennessee Archivists, I would like to report that I recently found out that STA member Dr. Ellen Garrison was named a Fellow of the Society of Georgia Archivists (SGA). Dr. G is a history professor at Middle Tennessee University, Certified Archivist, Fellow of the Society of American Archivists, and former Methodist (if I remember correctly,) among many other things. The list includes being thesis advisor to yours truly when I attended MTSU, so she is at least partly responsible for your reading this blog post as I otherwise would not likely be in the position to post it. (It is, of course, up to you whether that is a good thing or not.) Her past with SGA is extensive, and I am assured that she considers such recognition by her colleagues to be a great honor, as well she should. I offer her congratulations from the TN Conference Archives and on behalf of STA, knowing that members of the organization and any others who might know Dr. Garrison will likewise extend their best wishes if this posts enlightens them on something of which they were unaware.
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Although just 14, North Haven (Conn.) Middle School student Molly D'Andrea has always known her dream: to be a writer. She worked on projects here and there, but then inspiration struck — and she ran with it.
Most authors write from personal experience, but that wasn't the case for me. I think my main inspiration was having the base idea of the main character, and him being broken/hurt or alone/lost in someway. And things just started turning from that point.
Still, like many writers her age and decades older, she felt unsure of the words she put to the page and kept her work private. Then, at the behest of friends, she showed them a few pages of what would eventually become her debut novel, Shattered Ones. They encouraged her to keep going. For Molly, that wasn't enough. She decided to take it a step further by publishing her novel through Lulu. At this point she "likes how the online business is working so far."
Molly stayed away from doing any pre-publication marketing and PR because she wanted her book to be complete before anyone — including her parents — touched it. Since Shattered Ones was released in September, Molly has appeared on Fox Connecticut News, Connecticut Style and the North Haven TV Channel, and has been featured in The Citizen and the Post Chronicle. She garnered this PR simply: Her mother found and emailed appropriate contacts at local and regional newspapers, radio, and TV stations. It has, overall, been a quiet campaign — but one that has worked.
Up next for Molly is a Shattered Ones prequel, the idea for which came from a friend. She is still pondering the "rise and fall of a plot," as well as the climax, so she's not yet started it, but expects to.
In the meantime, Molly has advice for any aspiring writer, young or old:
Keep your head up, and remember that tunnels end in light. Because you can feel trapped and lost and like you're in the darkness, but if you keep working at it, you'll reach the light at the end of the tunnel.
How old were you when the writing bug bit?
Additional Recommended Reading: It's Never Too Soon To Become An Author
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If you're curious, the whole episode is about white superiority, which is the reason why he does that. I'll get into it in Disney Tricks with the symbolic nature of the episode, I just wanted to make this short & sweet.
Show: Pair of Kings // Episode title: "Dancing with the Scars"
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I just watched an excellent video of Pixar's hiring practices with Randy Nelson (Dean of Pixar University).
Two core principles they use when interviewing come from the world of comedy improv:
1. Accept every offer
2. Make your partner look good
Accept every offer means if you're doing a skit as part of an interview, and your partner says: "Boy it sure is raining in outside." You don't look up at the ceiling and say "No it isn't." You reply, "Well that's why they gave us these umbrellas!". You accept what your partner has offered, and do you best to make them look good.
Pixar likes people who are very good at certain things. The problem is that a lot of the things they would like people to be good at have never been done before and require a lot of innovation.
NASA had the same problem when they were looking to find people to walk on the moon. No one had done it before. And they realized that looking at resumes purely for depth wasn't going to get them their candidate.
So instead, they look for mastery. People who have truly mastered things in their lives demonstrate a mindset, and level of commitment that is proof they can do it again in other areas. It's not a promise. It's not an intention. They've done it before and then can do it again.
The other thing Pixar looks for is breadth. Pixar likes to see breadth in their people because a broad range of interests means that people will have a much better chance of communicating with people they need to collaborate with.
A programmer who's interested in art is going be able to communicate his or her ideas more clearly when collaborating with an illustrator.
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I was thrilled when by mid-day I still hadn't heard the term 21st century skills. Nobody urged me to change with my profession (which I am happily doing, by the way), and nobody discussed library Facebook pages. Instead we heard people discuss women's issues and universal issues of leadership, risk-taking, health, balancing work and home, experiencing grief, overcoming obstacles, and activism. It was a good break from the day-to-day issues to have time to listen to and think about broad issues, the big issues that run over, under, and through my daily life in the library. I realized I didn't miss the Internet Librarian conference as much as I thought I would.
The exhibit hall was a unique experience, full booths of clothes, jewelry, snack bar samples, breast cancer information, make-up, and Barbie. But the highlights for me were:
- Hearing Katie Couric discuss the failures and perseverance that led to her success.
- Wishing I could pull up a chair and join the conversation led by David Gregory between Madeleine Albright, Amy Holmes, Valerie Jarrett, and Claire Shipman about balancing work and parenthood, the changes of this balance over the years, and the importance of good communication with your families when choosing this difficult role of working mother.
- Watching retired school teacher Agnes Stevens win one of four Minerva Awards for her activism. She founded School on Wheels, a one-to-one tutoring service (and more) for homeless children in Los Angeles.
- Hearing Maria Shriver speak about her mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, and through her story, remind me how to support my daughter.
- Listening to Jane Goodall imitate the sounds of a chimpanzee.
- Chatting with the teenagers about how "amazing" and "inspiring" the day was, and noticing they had a flicker of feminism in their eyes.


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Pirates' walk-off loss to Cards closes gap in Central
ST. LOUIS -- A baseball pennant fight is not a parade. It is a tour of attrition, ripe with sinkholes. There are no style points, and the only scorecard is the standings.
Thus the Pirates could look on the bright side of a 1-5 road trip that ended with a 6-5 walk-off loss to the Cardinals in 12 innings in front of 41,502 in Busch Stadium on Thursday, because it also ended with them still sitting atop their division by two games.View Full Game Coverage
ST. LOUIS -- A baseball pennant fight is not a parade. It is a tour of attrition, ripe with sinkholes. There are no style points, and the only scorecard is the standings.
Thus the Pirates could look on the bright side of a 1-5 road trip that ended with a 6-5 walk-off loss to the Cardinals in 12 innings in front of 41,502 in Busch Stadium on Thursday, because it also ended with them still sitting atop their division by two games.View Full Game Coverage
"That's the great thing about what we're going through," said Pirates manager Clint Hurdle, finding positives in the little tailspin. "This is playoff-atmosphere baseball, played against a very good club. Challenges come with that opportunity, and it will sharpen us for what's in front of us."
Behind them are two extra-inning losses to St. Louis wrapped around Francisco Liriano's four-hitter. For the Cardinals, their gain in confidence may have been more significant than the one game they gained in the standings.
Until Tuesday night's opener of this three-game set, the Cards had neither overcome a deficit as large as three runs for a win, nor celebrated a bona fide walk-off hit. Now they have done both twice in three days.
Matt Holliday decided the teams' latest extended battle of pitches, wills and nerves with a lined one-out single off Bryan Morris in the third extra inning.
Matt Carpenter, a thorn in the Pirates' side all afternoon with four hits, began the winning rally by drawing a full-count walk with one out off Morris.
"Like with everyone else, I tried to force weak contact from him," Morris said of Carpenter. "He did a good job laying off some pitches that started in the zone, so my hat's off to him for not swinging."
Jon Jay dribbled a 16-hopper into right for a base hit that sent Carpenter to third and brought Holliday to the plate.
"It's obviously frustrating when you try to get contact and get a grounder that finds a hole," Morris said. "Would I have liked it if it had gone to the first baseman or the second baseman? Yeah, of course. But that's baseball, and that's part of being a reliever -- you get the bad end of the stick sometimes.
"And that last pitch [to Holliday] ... it caught more of the plate than I wanted. That's about it."
The Pirates' 16th extra-inning game of the season ended pretty much as No. 15 did on Tuesday night after 14 innings, with the Cardinals rushing out of their first-base dugout to celebrate a big win.
Russell Martin drew the Pirates even with a leadoff homer in the eighth off Trevor Rosenthal's 97-mph fastball, erasing the 5-4 lead the Cardinals had since chasing A.J. Burnett with a five-run fifth.
Burnett and St. Louis starter Lance Lynn ruled for four innings, swapping zeroes, setting the tone and keeping things quiet.
And, suddenly, the fifth became a landmark inning, as the Bucs hit for the cycle to take a 4-0 lead in the top of the inning, and then the Cardinals batted around in the bottom to erase it.
Garrett Jones hit a leadoff single that was cashed in by Andrew Lambo's first Major League hit, a double rifled up the right-center alley. Lambo scored when Clint Barmes followed with his third home run of the year.
"It felt nice. Good to get the first one out of the way," Lambo said of ending his career-starting 0-for-7 slump. "Definitely a rally-starter. We had some things going, and it felt real good to finally contribute."
One out later, Starling Marte tripled to center -- becoming the Bucs' first 10-10-10 (doubles, triples, homers) player since Jack Wilson in 2004. Then Neil Walker followed with a sacrifice fly, making it 4-0.
But two days after coming back from a three-run deficit for the first time all season in a win, the Cardinals went to work on overcoming a four-run hole.
Here was the St. Louis chain-gang offense at its most relentless: Matt Adams single -- David Freese double -- Daniel Descalso two-run single -- Carpenter RBI triple -- Jay game-tying single -- Holliday go-ahead double. Exit Burnett, reeled from a hopeful shutdown inning to a breakdown.
"As good as it looked earlier," said Burnett, who needed only 27 pitches to get through the first three innings, "it's never easy against this group, and they figured me out early. They fought off some good pitches, and were able to hit the ones after that. They hung in there, battled the whole time."
Burnett fell silent for a beat, then added, "You can't let a team come back like that. As good as these guys are, it doesn't matter ... you got to put your foot down at some point."
In his 4 1/3 innings -- his shortest start since, yes, that infamous 2 2/3-inning, 12-run start here on May 2, 2012 -- Burnett was charged with five runs on eight hits and a walk with four strikeouts.
Lynn endured an inning longer, departing with one out in the sixth after yielding his eighth hit. He'd given up four runs, with a walk and six strikeouts. If his line was similar to Burnett's, so were his issues with the opposing lineup.
"[They're] very good at working the counts," Lynn said of the Pirates. "Kind of picking out what you do in a certain count and going after a certain pitch at a certain time, and when they get it, they usually don't miss. [In the fifth] I threw bad pitches. It was to a couple guys that can drive the ball and they drove the ball."
Having both starters leave about the same time and turning the game into a bullpen battle normally works in the favor of the Pirates, and their unyielding Shark Tank of relievers.
The Pittsburgh bullpen -- Vin Mazzaro, Justin Wilson, Tony Watson for three innings, and Morris in the 11th -- held out with its usual scoreless work for seven innings. Ultimately, however, it was only style points, helping neither in the final score, nor in the standings.
Tom Singer is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog Change for a Nickel. He can also be found on Twitter @Tom_Singer.


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One trend in medical education is to force students into a learning style called problem-based learning. You and your team are given a fictitious patient with a variety of symptoms and laboratory values with the goal of figuring out what's going on. You're never given the answers outright, and have only limited information to work with. The idea behind PBL is that when you are forced to look up information about a particular disease and then present it to your classmates, you'll better learn the material and gain the important skill of working through a differential diagnosis.
At first, PBL sounds like a great idea. It gets you out of the classroom and allows you to think for yourself. If you take a quick look through SDN's pre-med forums, you'll see lots of college students creaming their pants at the hopes of joining a PBL school. My guess is that they're sick of lecture halls and want a more intimate teaching environment.
PBL sounds like playing a grand master in chess who will lead you through the game, while he teaches you new moves on the board based upon your successes and failures. In reality, PBL is like playing a five-year-old where the child constantly changes the rules and then kicks you in the testicles to make sure that you won't ever have a chance of winning. As the semester drags on, your group mates will get sick of making presentations and will eventually bail out of putting together any useful information in hopes that they can skate by with the just the bare minimum. Then, they'll kick you in the nuts and go back to studying for the USMLE.
Case-based learning is not all bad. When there is an intended end and the preceptor is experienced in the subject, the material can indeed be learned quite readily. Lately, however, I feel as if I'm languishing through the module with the desire to put a bag of ice on my crotch, all the while saying, "I'm taking my toys home and never playing with you again." Consider today's case: the patient had tons of blood work, an endoscopy, a colonoscopy, a full-body CT scan, an abdominal ultrasound, and an MRI of the head. From all of these expensive tests we still don't know the diagnosis. What he really needs is a biopsy and a physician to tell him to stop drinking so much. Or maybe someone to practice NOT my problem-based learning.


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LA Times; details on that shootout in LA (UPDATED)
The LA Times roots out some of the details of the two officers who opened fire on a pair of women who happened to be delivering newspapers while the LAPD was looking for Chris Dorner, who had shot two police officers, killing one, the other morning. Witnesses say that the police didn't shout a warning and that bullets were flying wildly through the neighborhood;
As the vehicle approached the house, officers opened fire, unloading a barrage of bullets into the back of the truck. When the shooting stopped, they quickly realized their mistake. The truck was not a Nissan Titan, but a Toyota Tacoma. The color wasn't gray, but aqua blue. And it wasn't Dorner inside the truck, but a woman and her mother delivering copies of the Los Angeles Times.
Law enforcement sources told The Times that at least seven officers opened fire. On Friday, the street was pockmarked with bullet holes in cars, trees, garage doors and roofs. Residents said they wanted to know what happened.
Kathy Merkosky, 53, was outside her stucco home pointing out the six bullet holes in the bumper and grill of her silver Acura MD-X. She knew her truck was damaged when she spotted it on television and "saw fluid flowing into the street."
Her Ford Focus was hit as well — a bullet shattered the windshield and another flattened a front tire.
Goo said he could hear the bullets hitting the front door and feared they were coming through the house. He said he called 911 for the police, but was notified that they were already there.
See, I thought there were only two officers involved. In that case, I figured they had a couple of nuts in uniform, but now that I hear that there were at least seven, well, that tells me that there's a training problem in the LAPD system. Out of seven, one might have said out loud that they were a bit out of control and suggested to the others a different course of action – but apparently that didn't happen.
Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.
UPDATE: KD8NOA sends us a link to a second incident much like this one – wrong make & model and color of the truck and a white guy about 100 lbs. lighter than Dorner;
Seconds later, Perdue's attorney said, a Torrance police cruiser slammed into his pickup and officers opened fire; none of the bullets struck Perdue.
His pickup, police later explained, matched the description of the one belonging to Christopher Jordan Dorner….
Yeah, I'd get out of the LA until this over. Cops haven't killed anyone yet, but not from a lack of trying.
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BOSTON, Mass.—Jamie Murray made 30 saves and Mike Driscoll scored a goal and added an assist to lead #6 Babson College (15-3, 9-2 ECAC East) over host #9/12 UMass Boston (13-3-2, 6-3-2 ECAC East) Friday evening at the Clark Athletic Ice Arena.
In the first rematch of last season's ECAC East Semifinals, the Beavers handed UMass Boston their first shutout since November 18, 2011, a span of 66 games.
Murray was solid all night long: making eight saves in the first, 15 in the second and seven stops in the third, while his defense combined to stop 17 shots. Driscoll provided all the offense the Beavers would need with a goal in the second period and an assist on Troy Starrett's third-period tally.
Sophomore Zach Andrews (Coral Springs, Fla.) stopped a career-high 45 shots but fell to 10-2-2. Captain Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) and UMass Lowell transfer Stephen Buco (North Providence, R.I.) recorded a team-high five shots apiece in the loss.
The two teams skated to a 0-0 tie through the first 20 minutes with Babson earning a 14-8 shot advantage.
Driscoll broke the tie 14:07 into the second when he sent a sliding shot past Andrews for a 1-0 lead. Babson's first two shots of the shift were stopped by Andrews but the Beacons' failure to clear the zone cost them, as Driscoll managed to get a shot off while slipping to the ice and Andrews never it saw until it was too late.
UMass Boston nearly tied it moments later but Nathan Milam's (Westland, Mich.) wrap-around chance was waved off, after the referees blew the whistle because the net was off its moorings.
The Beacons put together another great chance before the final buzzer of the second period, when Murray let a rebound bounce off of his shoulder, but defenseman Ben Kravitz gloved the puck down and settled it, before it could careen into the netting.
Troy Starrett took advantage of several Beacons' miscues at 3:37 of the third period to push the Beavers lead to 2-0. Driscoll sent a soft shot from just inside the blue line that Andrews knocked down, but the big rebound slid out to Starrett who buried the puck into the wide-open net. Kravitz picked up the second assist on the play.
UMass Boston would create several strong chances in the third period but Murray was up to the task on most of them and the other good looks were sent just wide of the net.
The Beavers outshot UMass Boston 47-30 for the contest, with the two teams combining to go 0-for-7 on the power-play (Babson 0-4, UMass Boston 0-3).
UMass Boston and Babson College will return to action Saturday at 4 p.m. when they play the second game of their home-and-home series at the Babson Skating Center in Wellesley, Mass.


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The world-famous bird has been a central character on Sesame Street for the program's run, premiering in the first episode. The big yellow bird can roller skate, ice skate, dance, sing, write poetry, draw, and even ride a unicycle — pretty talented for a character described in the TV show's writer's guide as a 6-year-old. But despite this wide array of talents, he's prone to frequent misunderstandings, like thinking that the alphabet is one long word.
Big Bird lives in a large nest behind 123 Sesame Street and next to Oscar's trash can, and he has a teddy bear named Radar.
Big Bird helps children feel all right about not knowing everything because he himself does not know everything, and encourages them to inquire: a common Big Bird phrase in recent years has been "Asking questions is a good way of finding things out!" He also teaches other life, alphabet, and numerical lessons: "I guess it's better to be who you are. Turns out people like you best that way, anyway." Borgenicht, David. Sesame Street Unpaved, Hyperion Books, 1998. page 37.
For many years his best friend Mr. Snuffleupagus (who Big Bird calls Snuffy) was deemed as imaginary by the adults on Sesame Street. Every time Snuffy would visit, he would coincidentally leave just before the adults arrived. Despite not being believed by the adults, Big Bird continued to assert that Snuffy was real. In the early 1980s, a string of high-profile child sexual abuse cases caused Sesame Workshop (then Children's Television Workshop) to eliminate this running gag, fearing that children would take to heart the message that, if adults don't believe something out of the ordinary even when they are telling the truth, they'd be just as well off to remain silent.
Big Bird's closest human friendship, however, for many years was with storekeeper Mr. Hooper, who made his birdseed milkshakes. Big Bird's inability to say the storekeeper's name correctly (most often rendered as "Mr. Looper") was a source of frustration, but they remained close. Big Bird took center stage on Sesame Street in the early 1980s, when the show dealt with the death of Mr. Hooper (necessitated by the death of Will Lee, the actor who played the role). Big Bird got confused when he tried to go into Hooper's Store to give Mr. Hooper his drawing Big Bird made of and for him. The adults, including Maria, David, Bob, Susan, Gordon, and Luis tell Big Bird that Mr. Hooper is not coming back because he's dead and when people die, they don't come back. ("Ever?" "No, never") Big Bird's realization that Mr. Hooper wasn't just gone temporarily, and Big Bird's acceptance of Mr. Hooper's death, have been hailed as a milestone in children's programming.
Big Bird starred on the big screen in the 1985 film Follow That Bird, in which he is sent by Miss Finch, a bird social worker, to live with a foster family of Dodos. He soon runs away from his new home to get back to Sesame Street and he is kidnapped and dyed baby blue by two ratty carnival-owners. He also had a role in the feature film The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland and starred in the feature-length specials Big Bird in China and Big Bird in Japan.
Big Bird also appeared in cameo roles in the films The Muppet Movie and The Muppets Take Manhattan and the television special A Muppet Family Christmas, and as a guest on The Muppet Show episode 318, plus a variety of outside TV appearances.
Big Bird's SpeciesEdit
Big Bird's precise species is unknown, and over the years, there have been varying explanations for his unusual size and appearance:
- During a 1976 appearance on Hollywood Squares, host Peter Marshall asked, "What kind of a bird are you, by the way?" Big Bird's responds: "I'm a lark."
- When Big Bird is missing in the 1978 special Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, Oscar the Grouch reassures Maria, jokingly reminding her that Big Bird is "part homing pigeon."
- In a 1981 episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, King Friday XIII asked Big Bird if he's related to the cassowary. Big Bird replied "actually, I'm a golden condor." Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, episode 1483: "Mister Rogers Talks about Competition". June 3, 1981.
- In the 1987 special A Muppet Family Christmas, Ma Bear refers to Big Bird as "the huge canary"; The Swedish Chef, seeing him as an upgrade from the Christmas Turkey, calls him "gobbla gobbla humungo."
- The 1998 book Sesame Street Unpaved says that Big Bird's scientific name is "Bigus canarius".
- In the 2004 direct-to-video special A Celebration of Me, Grover, Big Bird says, "I wish I could fly like Super Grover. But my Grandpa was an emu bird. They can't fly. But they can run! Every fall, Grandpa ran south for the winter." Also Big Bird always says he can't fly, but because he's only 6 could be a reason why he can't fly.
- Oscar the Grouch sometimes refers to Big Bird as a "turkey" -- an insult rather than a reflection of Big Bird's species. However, this does help Big Bird hitch a ride on a turkey truck in the 1985 film Follow That Bird; he talks his way onto the truck by claiming that "my friend Oscar always says that I'm a big turkey!" In a 2009 interview with TV Guide, Big Bird said that Oscar is "a little grouchy. He calls me a turkey. I'm not a turkey; I'm a lark."
- In the Sesame Street Live production Everyone Makes Music, after Big Bird sings Rockin' Robin, Baby Bear remarks that Big Bird is one rockin' robin, and Big Bird remarks, "Actually I'm a canary."
- In a 2009 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live when host Jimmy Kimmel asks him if he has ever "googled" Big Bird replies: "Uh, no but I have an Uncle turkey who gobbles".
Big Bird's FamilyEdit
Big Bird lives alone on Sesame Street, essentially adopted by the general neighborhood, with the adults often acting as stand-in parents (in particular, Susan, Gordon, and Maria). In Sesame Street Home Video Visits the Hospital, when the hospital receptionist asks if Maria is Big Bird's mother, she replies, ""Not exactly... Kind of... Yes."
As a baby, Big Bird was raised by his Granny Bird and his aunt, Nani Bird. As he became more self-reliant, Big Bird moved out on his own, to his nest on Sesame Street. Granny Bird remains a part of his life, and he often visits her in the books. I Want to Go Home! (1985), Nothing to Do (1988), I Can't Wait Until Christmas (1989), Big Bird Visits Granny Bird (1991) and Fly Away with Big Bird (2006). When Big Bird's nest was destroyed in a hurricane in 2001, Big Bird called Granny for advice about building a new nest. Sesame Street, Episode 3979 and Episode 3980.
There is also scattered evidence of other relations. In a 1971 episode, Big Bird receives a coat from his mommy in the mail, and he babysits for his sister's egg in a 1972 episode. He also mentions a mother, father, and sister in the song "Tall Enough". It's unclear why Big Bird was raised apart from his nuclear family.
Other relatives include the following:
- Uncle Slim, a cowbird from Wyoming, seen in a 1981 episode
- Herman Bird, an identical cousin from the country, who visits in a 1975 episode
- Monroe, a cousin mentioned in a 1972 episode
- Bartholomew Bird, a poor cousin pictured in The Sesame Street Dictionary
- Uncle Ned, Big Bird sees a chicken mask that he says looks a little like his uncle.
- Cousins Bunscombe Bird (a baker), Bertha Bird (a police officer), Bagshot Bird (a fire chief), and Bathsheba Bird (a doctor), all pictured in the story "Big Bird Visits His Cousin" in The Sesame Street Library Volume 3
- Cousin Bubba, according to the Elmo's World episode "Penguins," lives at the South Pole. A scarf his Granny Bird knitted for Bubba is shown draped on a penguin.
- Cousin Bernie; a seagull, whom he has fish with every time they visit, as mentioned in Big Bird in Japan.
- Big Bird's Grandfather; an emu bird, mentioned in A Celebration of Me, Grover
- Big Bird's uncle; a turkey, mentioned on his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. When he was shown the Google Doodle of his legs and was asked if he ever "googles", he replies "No, but I have an uncle turkey who gobbles."
- Big Bird's cousin Robin, mentioned and seen in the song Spring is Here
Additionally, the birds from several international co-productions have been designated as cousins of Big Bird:
- Poupas -- Rua Sésamo, Portugal
Although Big Bird does know his family, in the book Big Bird's Bedtime Story, Luis tells Big Bird's back story, stating that a large egg was delivered to Hooper's Store one day, and the various residents of Sesame Street chose to build a nest for it and took care of it until it hatched. However, the story is probably not considered canon because it features a few characters who were not around when the series began (such as David and Luis).
Big Bird's AgeEdit
The character was originally conceived as a kind of a yokel, it took most of the show's first season, but the writers and performers soon came to see Big Bird not as the "village idiot," but as a curious child. Spinney described him as "He was the too-big kid, much as I had been the too-little kid when I was his age. I suggested that we think of him as a child first learning to read and learning the alphabet, like our audience. That made him about 4½. As Sesame Street's core audience has gotten younger, Big Bird has aged. "He's about 6," Spinney says, "arrested at 6.
For years Big Bird's age has been frozen at a particular point -- he's six years old in the 1985 film Follow That Bird, and still six in the 1989 special Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting. Big Bird celebrated his sixth birthday (again) in the 1991 PBS pledge drive special Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake.
Big Bird's birthday is March 20th.
Performing Big BirdEdit
The Big Bird performer is completely enclosed within the costume and extends his right hand over his head to operate the head and neck of the puppet. The Muppeteer's left hand serves as the Bird's left hand, while the right hand is stuffed and hangs loosely from a fishing line that runs through a loop under the neck and attaches to the wrist of the left hand. For some of the "Journey to Ernie" segments, a second puppeteer (usually Jim Martin) controls Big Bird's right hand.
When Spinney is performing on-location and cannot get a video feed on his television monitor, a hole is made in the bird suit to give Spinney the ability to see out in front of him. In these occasions, Big Bird wears a neck tie at all times to hide the hole. Don't Eat the Pictures, Big Bird in China and Big Bird in Japan are all examples of this.
As Caroll Spinney has aged, the show has gradually started to train new performers to play Big Bird. These apprentices include both Rick Lyon in the opening theme song of the show's 20th, 25th, and 33rd seasons and Matt Vogel in the show's Journey to Ernie segment. Sometimes, Matt Vogel performs in the Big Bird puppet, with Caroll Spinney dubbing all his lines in later, though Vogel has also performed the voice on occasion.
Caroll Spinney was sick during the taping of a few first season episodes, so Daniel Seagren performed Big Bird in those episodes. Jim Henson Archives, personal correspondence archived at. He also performed Big Bird when he appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969, and in a number of Sesame Street Cast Tours in 1970. Jim Henson, who designed Big Bird, proved to be a possible candidate to perform the bird, as he was slender and over six feet tall. But Kermit Love, who built the costume, didn't think that he walked like a bird is supposed to walk. Durrett, Deanne The Importance of Jim Henson. Jim Henson then offered the part to Frank Oz, but since Frank Oz didn't like performing full-body characters, he turned down the job. Spinney, Caroll The Wisdom of Big Bird, p. 39.
For years, Caroll Spinney had a policy of refusing to pose for photographs in half of the bird suit. He later explained why in an interview for The New Yorker:Template:Quote
- Big Bird's feathers are white turkey feathers, dyed yellow. There are approximately 4,000 feathers on the puppet. Sesame Street 35 Years Anniversary Game. (According to the Count, he has over 5,961 feathers--he counted them himself.) Learning About Numbers.
- Jim Henson had originally planned on having the performer inside Big Bird perform the character by wearing the suit backwards, so that Big Bird can bend his knees backwards like a real bird. Spinney, Caroll The Wisdom of Big Bird, pp. 40-41.
- Big Bird sang Bein' Green in honor of Jim Henson (and Kermit) during Jim Henson's Memorial Service. During the song, he was close to tears. At the song's end, he looked up to the heavens and said, voice breaking, "Thank you, Kermit."
- Big Bird made a special guest appearance on an episode of Deal or No Deal, to help contestant Lamar Wilson overcome his childhood fear of the bird.
- Sesame Workshop included a "Muppetbook" section of Muppet bios in the digital press kit for 40th season of Sesame Street (posted on Sesameworkshop.org. On his profile, Big Bird listed chicken soup as one of his pet peeves.
- According to Muppet wrangler Michelle Hickey, Big Bird's feathers are "hand-glued and backed with a ribbon that is hand-stitched on." His feathers are also rated from A to D, with only A and B rated feathers making up the puppet. Occasionally C rated feathers are used towards the bottom of the puppet. Hickey also states that the feathers are replaced every two weeks, or after the Muppet has been to an event.
- There were plans to have Big Bird fly on the Space Shuttle Challenger (specifically, on the exact same flight that ultimately ended with the destruction of the Challenger), but the sheer size of the puppet prevented these plans from reaching fruition. Instead, there was a plan to feature Big Bird's teddy bear Radar to fly on the Challenger, and Radar was even included on the original mission plan, but the plan was scrapped in favor of having teacher Christa McAuliffe fly on the ill-fated mission.
Awards & HonorsEdit
- Big Bird received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1994.
- Big Bird was featured on a US postage stamp in 1999 and on postage stamps in Fiji, Kiribati, the Cayman Islands, and Samoa in 2000.
See alsoEdit
- Big Bird Through the Years
- Big Bird's Nest
- Big Bird Filmography
- Big Bird Books
- Big Bird Songs
- International Big Bird
- Big Bird (animated)
- Big Bird walk-arounds
- 2012 United States presidential election debates


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 24.0040 Thursday, 31 January 2013
Date: January 30, 2013 3:18:11 PM EST
Subject: Pale Fire
Date: January 30, 2013 4:26:39 PM EST
Subject: Re: Pale Fire
Date: January 30, 2013 3:18:11 PM EST
Subject: Pale Fire
Watching Simon Russell Beale in Timon took an evening and was expensive. Reading Charles Weinstein on Timon was free and quick. I can easily afford the time and cost of the latter.
Date: January 30, 2013 4:26:39 PM EST
Subject: Re: Pale Fire
Charles Weinstein writes that:
> Egan has stated in the past that he "usually
> doesn't read" my reviews, but it seems that
> he usually does. One wonders why he doesn't
> keep to his resolution . . .
Actually, I wrote on 19 January 2002 that "I usually don't read" them but that the excitement caused by one that month had made me change my habit. This nuance of language (that I didn't use to, and was now starting to) passes Weinstein by. So does the need for accurate quotation: "usually don't read" is not the same as "usually doesn't read". Moreover, on that occasion I find I was criticizing Weinstein for misusing the expression 'zero-sum game' to mean a pointless activity.
Weinstein defends his ignorance of expressive nuances—for example, that 'sybaritic' connotes specifically effeminizing self-indulgence—by citing free online dictionaries that share his imprecision. This, I submit, corroborates my assertion that he is not as careful about language as a good reviewer of theatre needs to be.
Gabriel Egan


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Researchers looking to develop advanced multimedia search technologies have gone into hiding following this week's intense publicity. A project, led by French giant Thomson, has been dubbed a "Google killer" following speculation that the development would help improve Europe's standing in the high-tech world.
The project, called Quaero, found itself in the spotlight following remarks last week by French President Jacques Chirac. "We must take up the challenge posed by the American giants Google and Yahoo," Chirac said, discussing the importance of technology to Europe's economy. "For that, we will launch a European search engine, Quaero."
His remarks prompted some commentators to describe Quaero as Europe's next Airbus, the aircraft maker that competes with Boeing. There was talk of a coming out party next month where Quaero's goals would be described in more detail, although a spokeswoman for the project said no event has been planned.
The scrutiny was apparently too much for Thomson's chairman, Frank Dangeard, who imposed a "news blackout" Thursday on Thomson's media staff and ordered the project's website to be taken offline. "There's been a lot of noise and our chairman decided we should stop making any comments until a more official press event," said Thomson spokesman Philippe Paban.
That makes it hard to determine Quaero's precise ambitions, but the emergence of a direct rival to Google and Yahoo, at least any time soon, appears less certain than Chirac's comments suggest.
Quaero appears not to be a single product but rather a project to develop search and content management technologies for end users, media companies and service providers, to address the growing volume of digital multimedia content on the web. They will include technologies for annotating and searching all kinds of content, including video and text, and even translating results into other languages, according to a description from the Franco-German Economic Cooperation Working Group.
"The growth in the quantity of information accessible in diverse forms such as audio and video libraries, and soon even 3-D reconstructions of scenes, in addition to the text and still images already accessible on the web, will be of no use unless there are tools to search and select this information, either over public networks or in personal databanks," the working group said.
The consortium's members hope to license the technologies for use in products and services, according to Thomson's Quaero site, which is still cached by Google. The other participants include France Télécom, Deutsche Telekom, the Exalead search engine, machine translation specialist Bertin Technologies, and France's National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA), which will develop image processing technologies.
The main advances will include technologies that automatically transcribe, index and translate audio and video content, according to the Franco-German Working Group. They will also include techniques for long-term storage of vast amounts of data, and content protection technologies such as watermarking and digital signatures.
As much as fostering economic growth, the project is also a way to ensure that Europe's cultural heritage, in the form of text and multimedia documents, is available to its citizens through a search engine developed on its own soil, according to one person involved in the project.
"Probably politically what's behind it is an uncomfortable feeling of having all access to knowledge and information filtered or provided through a search engine that (comes from) abroad," said Alex Waibel, director of the InterACT Center at Germany's University of Karlsruhe, which is developing Quaero's speech and language processing technologies.
"Having said that," he added, "there's also a wish to make search, in a way, much richer, and in particular that involves multimedia and multilingual information."
It was unclear how far the work has progressed, but it seems unlikely that users will be searching the web with Quaero any time soon. The participants are still determining how they will divide up and manage the various parts of the project, according to one source. And Waibel suggested that some of the language technologies he is working on may be years away.
"At this point it's still a planned project; it's not really gotten off the ground," Waibel said.
Still, one analyst said the project could yield dividends if it comes together as planned. Enterprises could even stand to benefit if the project produces better content management and document annotation technologies, said David Bradshaw, principal analyst with U.K. analyst company Ovum.
"Could a consortium of companies succeed with something like this? Yes, although it has to be said that software innovation has a home, and it's called the US," he said. "It does tend to dominate in that area."
(Peter Sayer in Paris and Nancy Gohring in Dublin contributed to this report)


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This section provides answers to some frequently asked questions. Leaders who have other questions or need other information or direction should study chapter 11 of Handbook 2: Administering the Church (2010) and consult with their local priesthood leaders. The new handbook overrides all previous Primary publications.
- Activity Days
- Certificate of Advancement
- Classes and Teachers
- Food in Primary
- Primary Leadership Meetings
- Outline for Sharing Time
- Portrayal of Deity
- Primary Materials
- Primary Schedule
- Restroom Needs
- Scouting
- Temple and Priesthood Preparation
- Testimony Meeting in Primary
Activity Days
Faith in God Program
Do we still hold activity days?
Where practical, the Primary may hold activity days for boys and girls ages 8 through 11. Counsel with your priesthood leader for direction. (See Handbook 2, 11.5.2.)
Do we still have quarterly activity days?
No. The quarterly activity days referred to on page 18 in the Faith in God guidebooks are no longer a part of the program.
What are the changes for Faith in God requirements?
To align the Faith in God program with the new Handbook 2, a few of the requirements have been omitted or revised:
Faith in God for Girls
- Page 9, bullet 8: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
- Page 18, paragraph 2: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
Faith in God for Boys
- Page 9, bullet 8: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
- Replacement requirement: Page 9, bullet 7: Read the twelfth article of faith. Discuss what it means to be a good citizen and how your actions can affect others.
- Page 12, bullet 2: Read D&C 20:57–60 and Fulfilling My Duty to God for Aaronic Priesthood Holders: Your Duty to God, page 7.
- Page 18, paragraph 2: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
What recognition and awards do children receive for the Faith in God program?
"At least twice a year, a Primary activity day (or a Cub Scout Pack meeting) should include opportunities for the children to share what they have learned and accomplished.
"When all required activities are completed, the Primary president and the bishop or branch president sign the Faith in God Award certificate on the last page of this [Faith in God] guidebook. A member of the bishopric, branch presidency, or Primary presidency recognizes the child's accomplishment in Primary.
"Parents and leaders should help the children understand that the joy of living the gospel is the most important reward" (Faith in God guidebook [2003], 19).
Who keeps track of the requirements for the Faith in God program?
The children with the help of their parents (see Faith in God for Boys, 19; Faith in God for Girls, 18).
Who oversees the Faith in God program?
The Primary presidency ensures the program is running correctly. Under their direction, a Primary teacher or other worthy adult serves as the activity days leader. (See Faith in God guidebook, 18.)
Can the Faith in God program be completed in one year?
No. Children need to complete two activities in each of the three areas listed in the Faith in God guidebook each year. The Faith in God Award is given after the child turns 11 years old and has completed the requirements in the Faith in God guidebook. (See Faith in God guidebook, 4–5, 6, 8, 10, 12.)
Can girls have an overnight activity for activity days?
It is not recommended. Counsel with your priesthood leaders for direction. Note that the Church's Scouting Handbook states, "No Scout-sponsored overnight camping should be planned for boys under age eleven" (p. 4; 1997 edition).
Certificate of Advancement
Do we still use the Certificate of Advancement?
Yes. Children advance from Primary when they reach age 12. Leaders may give them a certificate of advancement (see Handbook 2, 11.4.3).
How do I print the Certificate of Advancement?
The certificate is available through the Member and Leader Services (MLS) system, accessible only to specific ward leaders. Have your ward clerk click on Reports/Forms from the MLS menu bar, and then click Certificates.
Classes and Teachers
When children turn 12 years old, what class should they attend?
The Primary schedule should be arranged so sharing time is held at the same time as Young Women classes and Aaronic Priesthood quorum meetings. During sharing time, new 12-year-olds attend their Aaronic Priesthood quorum meeting or Young Women class.
During Primary class time, new 12-year-olds normally attend their Valiant 11 Primary class until the end of the year. However, the bishop and the presidents of the Primary, Young Men, Young Women, and Sunday School may counsel together to determine if these 12-year-olds would benefit more from attending the Sunday School class for 12- and 13-year-olds. (See Handbook 2, 11.4.3.)
What are the guidelines for a man serving in Primary?
"At least two teachers should be called for each nursery class. If the teachers are not husband and wife, they should be the same gender. Both teachers should be in the class during the entire Primary time" (Primary 1 [2000], ix).
When men are assigned to teach children, at least two responsible adults should be present at all times. The two adults could be two men, a husband and wife, or two members of the same family. In small branches, if it is not practical to have two teachers in a classroom, a member of the Primary presidency frequently visits and monitors each class that a man teaches alone. (See Handbook 2, 11.8.1.)
We have only two girls and one boy in our 11-year-old class. Can we combine them with the 10-year-old class?
Yes, since they are taught from the same lesson manual.
What Primary manuals should we use for the year?
They are listed in "Instructions for Curriculum 2018." You may obtain a copy from your stake or ward clerk.
Food in Primary
What is the policy for food in Primary?
Counsel with your priesthood leader for direction.
Primary Leadership Meetings
How often do we hold stake Primary leadership meeting?
Once a year (see Handbook 2, 11.3.4 and 18.3.11).
Do we still hold ward Primary leadership meetings?
Outline for Sharing Time
What do we do for sharing time for the fifth Sunday of the month?
"When there is a fifth Sunday, use this time to review previous lessons" (2018 Outline for Sharing Time, inside front cover).
How should we divide up sharing time and singing time?
Fifteen minutes should be for gospel teaching and twenty minutes for teaching music (see 2018 Outline for Sharing Time, 1).
Can we use pictures in the sacrament meeting presentation?
"Visuals, costumes, and media presentations are not appropriate for sacrament meeting" (see Handbook 2, 11.5.4).
Portrayal of Deity
What is the policy on the portrayal of Deity?
God the Father and the Holy Ghost are not to be portrayed in any way. The Savior should not be portrayed by children except in a nativity scene. (See Handbook 2, 11.8.5; see also 13.6.15.)
Primary Materials
Can supplemental books and pictures from bookstores and the internet be used in Primary?
Counsel with your priesthood leader.
Primary Schedule
How has the Primary schedule changed?
Sunday Primary is normally held for 1 hour and 40 minutes. Children in the nursery stay in their nursery class for the entire time. The other children attend two sessions. In one session, children meet together for 50 minutes for sharing time. In the other session, they divide into smaller classes for 40-minute lessons taught by their Primary teachers. The children and teachers who attend sharing time and classes have a 10-minute break between the two sessions. (See Handbook 2, 11.4.1 and 11.4.2.)
Restroom Needs
What is the policy regarding taking children to the restroom?
The nursery manual, Behold Your Little Ones, states: "Take care of your child's restroom and feeding needs before taking him or her to the nursery class. A child who needs a diaper change will be taken to a parent" (7). Counsel with your priesthood leader for guidelines in taking other children to the restroom.
Can a Webelos Cub Scout earn the Arrow of Light Award without an overnight camp?
Yes. The Cub Scout Webelos Handbook states that one of the Arrow of Light Award requirements is to "participate in a Webelos overnight campout or day hike" (64; italics added).
What is the Cub Scout leader's responsibility for the Faith in God Award?
Where Scouting is authorized by the Church, Scout activities take the place of activity days for boys ages 8 through 11 (see Handbook 2, 11.5.3). Find ways to combine activities in the Faith in God guidebook with Cub Scout and eleven-year old Scout activities. Many activities fulfill requirements in both programs.
How does a boy earn the religious square knot patch?
He fulfills the Basic Requirements in the Faith in God for Boys guidebook.
He completes all seven activities marked with the square knot icon in the Faith in God for Boys guidebook. (Note: The second square knot icon on page 9 has been omitted and replaced by the activity immediately preceding it: Read the twelfth article of faith. Discuss what it means to be a good citizen and how your actions can affect others.)
The religious square knot must be earned before a boy turns 11 years old. It is recommended that it be earned in the Bear or Webelos years.
The square knot is usually awarded in a pack meeting.
What are the changes for Faith in God requirements?
To align the Faith in God program with the new Handbook 2, a few of the requirements have been omitted or revised:
Faith in God for Boys
- Page 9, bullet 8: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
- Replacement requirement: Page 9, bullet 7: Read the twelfth article of faith. Discuss what it means to be a good citizen and how your actions can affect others.
- Page 12, bullet 2: Read D&C 20:57–60 and Fulfilling My Duty to God for Aaronic Priesthood Holders: Your Duty to God, page 7.
- Page 18, paragraph 2: Omit (quarterly activities are no longer held).
Temple and Priesthood Preparation
Do we still hold Priesthood Preview?
A meeting called Temple and Priesthood Preparation is held each year for 11-year-old boys and girls and their parents. The purpose of this meeting is to help children understand the blessings of temple service, priesthood service, and making and keeping sacred covenants. (See Handbook 2, 11.5.5.)
Testimony Meeting in Primary
Can the Primary hold a testimony meeting?
Testimony meetings are discouraged in Primary (see Handbook 2, 11.8.3).