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This lesson includes a demonstration to show why the sky is blue and why sunsets and sunrises are orange. Learners will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans.... (View More) Requires a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
Participants will use scientific practices to investigate answers to questions involving the color of the sky, sunsets, the Sun, and oceans. This activity requires use of a clear acrylic or glass container to hold water, a strong flashlight,... (View More) batteries for the flashlight, and powdered creamer or milk. (View Less)
This is a collection of outreach resources about the Sun that are meant to be used in informal education settings. This toolkit was originally designed for NASA Night Sky Network member clubs and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Astronomy... (View More) from the Ground Up network of museum and science center educators. The toolkit includes background information about the Sun, magnetic fields of the Earth and Sun, and space weather, activity suggestions, and detailed activity scripts. The themes of this toolkit address both the constant nature of the Sun as a reliable source of energy and the dynamic nature of the Sun due to its changing magnetic fields. The activities and related materials in this collection include The Sun in a Different Light - Observing the Sun, Explore the Sun cards, Magnetic Connection, the Space Weather PowerPoint, Protection from Ultraviolet, and Where Does the Energy Come From cards. These activities can be done separately or as a group as part of an informal education event. Institutions that are not part of the Night Sky Network will need to acquire the various materials required for each activity. (View Less)
The 9-session NASA Family Science Night program emables middle school children and their families to discover the wide variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics being performed at NASA and in everyday life. Family Science Night... (View More) programs explore various themes on the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, and the Universe through fun, hands-on activities, including at-home experiments. Instructions for obtaining the facilitator's guide are available on the Family Science Night site. (View Less)
This is an activity about magnetism. In this activity, polystyrene spheres and several strong neodymium magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a field detector to predict... (View More) where the magnetic fields are on the Sun and Earth, and use field bits, which is the term used in the lesson plan, made from the closed staples to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth. The activity is designed to be used in an informal public outreach setting, for example as a stand-alone station in a family science day event. It can also be modified for use as a simple classroom demonstration. There are background information sheets provided that can be printed to go along with the activity station. This activity requires two polystyrene spheres, 8 neodymium magnets, epoxy adhesive, wire clippers, needle nose pliers, and acrylic paints, along with other easily obtained materials. (View Less)
This is an activity about the Doppler effect. Learners begin by simulating the noise made by a passing siren. After learning that the change in pitch results from movement, they investigate the definition of frequency, calculate change in frequency,... (View More) and learn how this applies to light and the study of astronomy. This lesson requires a Doppler ball, also referred to as a buzzer ball. (View Less)
This is an activity about the states of matter. Learners will participate in a demonstration to reintroduce them to three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The demonstration also introduces them to a fourth state of matter, plasma, through... (View More) investigation of the properties of volume and shape as they relate to common solids, liquids, and gases, and to the mystery matter later identified at the end as plasma. The demonstration also covers plasma's connection to the Sun and connections to science related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. The demonstration requires use of a small plasma ball and, ideally, a slightly darkened room so that the plasma ball can be more easily seen. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/125ZW5k. (View Less)
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This is a set of materials about spectroscopy, including a downloadable PowerPoint presentation and two demonstrations or activities. Learners will read and/or hear about the science of spectroscopy, what a spectrum is, and how spectroscopy is... (View More) important to the study of our Sun. These resources can also accompany the Stanford Solar Center's Build Your Own Spectroscope activity. (View Less)
This is an activity about the the functioning of the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. Learners will participate in an interactive demonstration to illustrate how the IBEX spacecraft uses its particle detectors to collect and sort... (View More) particles that come from the boundary of the Solar System. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/YqwWCd. (View Less)
This activity demonstrates Lenz's Law, which states that an induced electromotive force generates a current that induces a counter magnetic field that opposes the magnetic field generating the current. In the demonstration, an empty aluminum can... (View More) floats on water in a tray, such as a Petri dish. Students spin a magnet just inside the can without touching the can. The can begins to spin. Understanding what happens can be explained in steps: first, the twirling magnet creates an alternating magnetic field. Students can use a nearby compass to observe that the magnetic field is really changing. Second, the changing magnetic field permeates most things around it, including the aluminum can itself. A changing magnetic field will cause an electric current to flow when there is a closed loop of an electrically conducting material. Even though the aluminum can is not magnetic, it is metal and will conduct electricity. So the twirling magnet causes an electrical current to flow in the aluminum can. This is called an "induced current." Third, all electric currents create magnetic fields. So, in essence, the induced electrical current running through the can creates its very own magnetic field, making the aluminum can magnetic. This is activity four of "Exploring Magnetism." The guide includes science background information, student worksheets, glossary and related resources. (View Less)
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Today we scanned a read-along storybook adaptation of John Sutherland's industrial film, Rhapsody of Steel (1959). Sutherland's studio was very influential in the mid-1950s, employing some of the best designers in the business. This film is no exception. Legendary stylists Eyvind Earle (Sleeping Beauty, Pigs is Pigs) and Maurice Noble (Duck Dodgers, How The Grinch Stole Christmas) collaborated on Rhapsody of Steel, and you can see evidence of both their hands everywhere in these pages. (Earle in the landscapes and textures, Noble in the bold primary and secondary colors…)
Time Magazine said of this film…
Rhapsody of Steel, a 23-minute animated cartoon that cost $300,000, is one of those rare industrial films with enough specific quality and general interest to play the commercial circuits. In the next few months it will be shown as an added attraction in several thousand U.S. movie houses. Made by former Disney Staffer John Sutherland, Rhapsody sets out to tell a sort of child's history of steel from the first meteor that ever hit the earth to the first manned rocket that leaves it, and most of the time Moviemaker Sutherland proves a slick entertainer and a painless pedagogue. Unhappily, the music of Oscar-Winning Dmitri Tiomkin, who is probably the world's loudest composer, bangs away on the sound track like a trip hammer. But the picture's pace is brisk, its tricks of animation are better than cute, and the plug, when the sponsor slips it in on the final frame, is modestly understated: "A presentation of U.S. Steel."
I have included a Quicktime of Rhapsody of Steel at the bottom of this post, and you can find many other John Sutherland fIlms at Archive.org. This book suffers from little tiny pictures and oceans of white space, so I've enlarged a bunch of the pictures so you can see them better.
Courtesy of Animation Resources supporter, Kevin Kidney, here
is a video of the film for you to view…
Rhapsody of Steel (Sutherland/1959)
(Quicktime 7 / 22 minutes / 50.5 megs)
Here's a great post by Michael Sporn on Eyvind Earle.
Stephen Worth
Animation Resources
This posting is part of the online Encyclopedia of Cartooning under the subject heading, Animation.

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Simplicity at ease...
Sigh! Another weekend flew by unnoticed and regretfully unfullfilling... all due to the damn rains! We had showers pouring in non-stop yesterday. All that drowsy weather left us blue and craving for some soul food. That's where I stepped in as comfort queen, all set to reclaim my title! One look into my fridge and I just knew the chicken was going to see his day. Another quick peek into the crisper and the ball was set to roll. Hubby dearie was all too happy to hear what was on the menu. A quick few minutes later, we had a hearty lunch waiting to be devoured!! On a day like this when all I want to do is lounge around and relish good 'ol home-cooking, I want something quick and simple. With a quick thought, one can easily put on a pot of Dal and a deliciously quick meal in minutes! But what if one wants something, not so simple in taste, but just as easy to prepare? Well, then I just take out some chicken and get cooking! But wait, what is that you say? Chicken? Quick? Simple? Well, yea baby! And I'm not talking throwing in a batch of carelessly chopped onions and can of diced tomamtoes and waiting for it to brew into a delicious curry. Oh no! When I say easy chicken in minutes, I mean the big bucks! Take out that kadhai (Indian wok) and lets get working on that age-old oh-so-famous deliciously-mouth-watering-finger-lickin'-good Kadhai Chicken!! Yup, you heard me! It IS that easy!! Kadhai chicken/paneer is probably one of the simplest dishes I can add to my credit. I have made these dishes so many times that I can easily find my way blind-folded! Loaded with crisp veggies and a blend of spices, this dish is definitely a mouthful and an easy contender to the ever-growing list of comfort foods. Kadhai ChickenIngredients: 4-5 boneless chicken thighs cut into 1-inch cubes 1 large onion, diced into big chunks 2 cups mixed bell peppers (green, read and yellow), diced into 1-inch cubes 1 large tomato, diced into cubes 2-3 green chillies, sliced 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste 1/4 tsp turmeric powder 1/2 tsp red chili powder 1/2 tsp coriander powder salt, to taste 2 tbsp cooking oil 2 tbsp fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped for garnish Method:
Heat oil in a kadhai (Indian wok), and add cumin seeds. Once they begin to sizzle, add in diced onions and saute till transparent and tender.
Add chicken pieces, green chillies and giner-garlic paste and fry for a few minutes till chcken begins to firm.
Add salt, chili powder, coriander powder and turmeric and stir fry till spices blend well. Cover cook for 10-15 minutes on medium-low heat, till chicken is cooked through.
Add mixed peppers and cover cook for another 3-5 minutes. You don't want to overcook the peppers and want to still have a slight crunch.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot with warm fluffy rotis!
Spicy Notes: To make yummy Kadhai Paneer, simply substitute chicken pieces with cubes of paneer.


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Ooooh no it hasn't …. oooh yes it has …. oooooh no it hasn't …May 21, 2009 at 9:29 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
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Did I say the inflammation and pain had calmed down again?! HAH!! Well, it did I suppose … for a few days, then it was back, then it was gone again, then it was back … but I definitely don't think the Arcoxia is as effective as the diclofenac was. Trouble is I REALLY don't want to go back on the diclofenac as my stomach is actually normal now for the first time in about a year!
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There I was, fresh off my 25th annual A.I. season with nothing really pressing on the schedule. It was a beautiful August day, so the solution was quite obvious: Farfegnugen! It was time to hop in the Volkswagen dune buggy I acquired on eBay in 2003 and hit the road.
Main roads are great if you happen to be in a car on a mission. If you're in sort of a more relaxed, dare I say, carefree mode, you tend to skip the expressways. Nothing says relaxation like a curvy blacktop through some scenic country. I headed north on Highway 139 and then east on a county blacktop. This blacktop has one of the highest Ryans-per-linear-mile of any road in Winneshiek County. Actually, if you add in all the Ryans in the cemetery at the Plymouth Rock Church near Coldwater Cave, it's not even close. I'll more than likely end up there someday myself . . . probably after they scrape me off the pavement as the result of one too many buggy adventures.
Shortly after I went past the Plymouth Rock Church, my vision was suddenly impaired. This was close to Bluffton, so there is never a shortage of CRP acreage in that area. One resident of the vast weed prairie was a fairly hefty hen pheasant. Did you ever notice that little kids never tell jokes that begin, "Why did the pheasant cross the road?" That's because pheasants often don't close that deal successfully. This one didn't. In a car, that's not really a big deal. Maybe some cracked glass on a headlight or a few feathers in the grille. With a buggy, however, you have ringside, 50-yard-line, front-row seats better than any virtual reality scenario a team of geeks could ever dream up. Everywhere I looked, there were feathers. Feathers in my lap, feathers on my dash, feathers on my windshield, feathers blowing around me in a cloud that would make Charlie Brown's friend, Pigpen, feel downright surgically sterile.
That's when I started doing some math. Another mile, maybe a half-mile per hour faster and I'da taken that bird right square in the face! Fortunately, physics were slightly more in my favor than the pheasant's. He took my driver's side mirror and spun it around almost a perfect 180 degrees. Once I had my bearings again and realized I didn't have to wrestle some Al-Qaeda poultry, I brushed the feathers off my lap, squared the mirror back up and took a quick look around to make sure no one saw me. Then I looked in the back seat to see if I had a new passenger. No carcasses to be found. Must be the collective luck of all those dead Irish people that was on my side.
I turned south at Highway 52 and headed down the road for another blacktop. Then it was over to the North Winn School and up through beautiful metropolitan Hesper before heading into Mabel. From there, it was straight north with an ultimate destination of Rushford. When I got to Rushford, I stopped to stretch and top off the tank. It was mid-afternoon and geography was telling me it was snack time. That's because I was quickly coming up on the booming metropolis of Whalan, MN — population 64 — known for the Aroma Pie Shoppe. I think it's either a Class C or a Class B felony to drive within 1,000 feet of Whalan and not stop for pie if you're even remotely hungry.
Pie it was. After I pulled up to Pie Mecca and parked, I tried to blend in with the crowd. I left the farmer hat in the buggy and walked into the place in my fashionable Levis and bright red Whitey's Ice Cream T-shirt I picked up a couple weeks ago. Once I got a slice of coconut cream, I headed out to the screened-in porch on the north side, away from the kitchen hustle and bustle. A family of four was seated in the corner enjoying their pie. It was Mom and Dad and two kids of maybe five and seven. The parents looked fairly white-collar. At least, I was pretty confident you would find neither chaff nor calluses anywhere on either of them.
While Dad stayed at the table, the rest of the family hit the restroom. I noticed that Dad looked over my way a couple of times. Once the rest of the family got back, Mom shot a glance or two in my direction, too.
As the family got up to leave and walk past me, Mom stopped a couple steps away from me. She looked at me, smiled and asked, "How long has it been since you've had Whitey's Ice Cream?"
I told her it had been about two weeks. That delighted her to no end.
"Really!!?!? We just love it. Where did you go? Which one?"
Iowa City, I told her, not knowing where this may lead.
"Oh, well, we went to the one in the Quad Cities. We lived around Eldridge before we came up here and we just loved it. It's a long ways to Whitey's now. We just moved to Cresco, a little ways south of here," she said as she pointed sort of toward the southwest.
Really? I started to reach into my back pocket for a card.
"Yeah, we'd always heard about this place and decided we wanted to see what it was like, so we came up here for a ride today."
With that, I handed her my card and said, "Well, what a coincidence. I'm from Cresco!"
You want to see someone blown away? Have them be a newcomer in a new area and then tell them you're practically their neighbor. Mom was suddenly quite relieved and quite friendly. She looked at my card, read it and started to laugh as she handed it to her husband. Things got better from there.
"So do you actually farm?"
Those two words, in that order — actually farm — have to be my favorite question. I was at a party for a friend with a whole bunch of high-profile people in attendance a couple of years ago when I was introduced to one of them. I handed him my card and he shot me the same question Mom just did, only better. Since he's in the business of asking questions and telling stories, he had a follow-up. "Do you actually farm? I mean, you just own the land and someone else does all the work, right? You just contract them to do it."
I did my best not to act too incredulous at his inquiry. This occurred in downtown Des Moines, after all. This wasn't at a cocktail party in Connecticut. Yes, I told him, I'm an actual farmer. I do the work myself and sometimes I get dirty doing it. I even own the livestock I raise. It's not a contract deal. That shocked him to no end. An honest-to-God Iowa farmer, right there in front of him. How quaint. He wanted to come out and see it for himself sometime. I told him to show up anytime and I'd give him the full tour, maybe even letting him play with some toys himself.
Back to Mom's question. I told her that I do, in fact, farm. Then she had a follow-up.
"Do you sell corn?"
The capitalist in me sort of liked that question's framing. Raise it? Well, yes, but Mom wasn't so much into the raising part. She was into the ka-ching part of the equation. I believe it was the great philosopher, Dot Com Guy, my Internet executive friend, who said, "God, I love the smell of capitalism in the morning!"
Yeah, I sell it.
"I mean, would you sell it to the general public? We just bought a corn-burning furnace for our house and we need to find a place to get the corn. Would you sell us some of your corn?"
Speaking of great philosophers, this would have been a great spot to insert either of two quotes from one of the all-time greats — Kramer. We could have gone with the always-popular, "YeeeeeeaaaAAAHHH!" and then spun around and danced a jig, or my personal favorite, "Retail is for suckers!"
The coconut cream was going to make the first one hard to execute properly and politely. The second one . . . Well, these were potential customers here, so why go high-brow on them? I went with a more understated option.
Yep, no problem.
"You WOULD? REALLY???"
Sure. I'd probably even deliver it.
Well, it may as well have been Christmas morning for Mom about then. She was downright giddy. Dad, of course, had a bit more testosterone and needed to see if it was still flowing, so he flexed his negotiation muscles.
"What moisture level do you dry your corn to? Fifteen? Twenty?" Dad inquired.
Whoa. Dad's apparently an accountant, an engineer or an actuary.
I told him we usually go to 13%, maybe 12.5%. Had I been thinking, I would have tested his background a bit more and told him we set the computerized drying system to dry it to a 13.7% level and then take the remaining 1.2% off with aeration to keep the drying costs low. That might tell me if he's a banker.
Dad was okay with my answer, so there was no need to make this a playground game and see whose muscles were bigger.
We wished each other well as they headed out. Mom mentioned that they now have my card, so they will be in touch as soon as it's time to stoke the furnace. I polished off the rest of my coconut cream and headed for the door.
On my way out, I noticed that Dad was on his bike, ready to go, but he was alone. I walked around the corner, down the street, and hopped into the buggy. As I pulled up to the stop sign to leave the downtown metroplex, I waved at Dad across the street. He was still waiting patiently in the launch position. Dad looked shocked when he realized it was me behind the wheel.
Yeah, I actually farm. That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.
Guy No. 2


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The Moment Couple Married 62 Years Forced To Separate
Imagine being with someone for over 60 years, every day - and then having someone tell you that in your elderly years, when you're supposed to do the 'growing old' part together, there's not enough room for you to be in the same home.
83-year-old Wolf Gottschalk and his wife Anita, 81, met and fell in love in Dusseldorf, Germany when they were just teenagers.
After getting married, they decided to move in order to provide a better life for their future family, so they moved to Surrey, British Columbia.
Settling there, the couple were never separated from each other as they went on to have three children - a son and two girls.
But for the past eight months, the couple have been forced to live separately because there are no spaces at care homes close by that can accommodate two people.
Adding to the worry is their failing health, and the fact that they may not have that much time left together. Granddaughter Ashley Bartyik has taken to Facebook to express her sadness and frustration at the situation.
"After 62 years together, they're inseparable. They do everything together,' she wrote. In speaking to the DailyMail.com, Ashley shared that her grandmother had cared for her husband up until January, when doctors told the family he needed to be in a care facility as his condition was worsening.
Wolf is on a waitlist to move into the nursing home where his wife is cared for, called The Residence at Morgan Heights, but the Fraser Health Authority is unable to say when it will happen.
Every other day Anita is driven 30 minutes up the road to see her husband. Ashley has quit her job to help her mother care for Anita, as the stress from not seeing her husband has affected her tremendously.
'The stress of this has taken control of her and she has a pace maker,' Ashley said. 'She has become almost completely immobile and uses a walker wherever she goes and a wheelchair depending on how far the walk is.'
The Fraser Health Authority says it has been working to get the couple together but says that no care spaces have opened up since Anita moved in. 'We certainly understand how heartbreaking this is for the family.
It's upsetting for us as well,' spokeswoman Tasleem Juma told DailyMail.com. 'The wife went into assisted living in July and we've been working hard with the family to get their loved ones reunited since. 'One of the challenges with couple reunification is that they don't necessarily need the same level of care at the same time.
In this case, the Wolf's care needs are considerably higher than his wife's. 'He needs residential care while his wife needs assisted living care. This means we need to make sure the facility can accommodate both their needs. They explain that they're working with the family to help make a permanent reunion possible.
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Grrr! I have one question -- how in the hell does Tierra still have a rose after tonight's episode of The Bachelor? I mean, it's almost like Sean Lowe is falling for the same crap other Bachelors have fallen for the past or something. Oh, wait -- yep. That's exactly it.
And it never fails. Every season has that one chick who is absolutely nuts and is hated by all the other women in the house, but for whatever reason, the Bachelor is completely blind to her manipulative ways. But seriously, Tierra takes the cake as far as ridiculously crazy girls go. She's got Sean wrapped so tight around her little cray-cray finger that he may never let go at this point.
But as insane as she is, Tierra really made a genius move tonight that probably sealed her fate for at least another two weeks or so. You know what I'm referring to, right?
The dead ex-boyfriend card.
OMG. Sean was "this" close to sending Tierra home instead of Jackie on the two-on-one date, but then Tierra had to go and tell him her sob story about how her ex (who, by her description, was an alcoholic, druggie, or combination of both) died while they were still dating -- and she lost her best friend.
(Picture Sean's puppy dog face here.)
Well played, Tierra. Well played. Um, duh -- if you play the dead ex-boyfriend card, no decent man is gonna send you packing. (And I'm not sure her story is even true.)
More from The Stir: Sean Lowe's Hook-Up Confession Involves His Mother & Totally Creeps Us Out
And Tierra isn't the only girl who played Sean like a fiddle on tonight's episode. What was up with Daniella crying like a baby at the group date cocktail party? You could barely understand what she was saying, she was sniffling and whining so hard. Is Sean really the type of guy who finds weepy girls endearing? (God, I hope not.)
He's obviously a really nice guy, so I guess I can see where he'd want to step in and offer these girls a shoulder to cry on, but come on. There's no way he's going to find his wife if he doesn't stop letting the tears make his decisions as to who and who doesn't receive roses each week. Being kind and compassionate is definitely a wonderful quality, but when it comes to being The Bachelor, you kind of have to push that stuff to the wayside.
Hell, most of the girls in the house were questioning Sean the entire night, and wondering how in the heck he's so dumb that he can't figure out what separates the good eggs from the rotten ones. At this point, none of them are amused at how naive he's being.
On another note -- who else is shamefully excited to see Tierra's hypothermia mishap tomorrow night? (I'm awful. I know.)
Do you think Sean is keeping girls because he feels sorry for them?
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I was dipping my toe into CSS in a small way by the late 1990s, but the CSS movement has really caught fire lately, making it more of a religion. And I'm all for that.
But for beginning bloggers who may not know it, Typepad RULES in its aids to help you learn CSS a little bit at a time, just enough to be dangerous. I highly recommend its Custom CSS feature, where you can do as much or as little CSS as you like.
A good place to start is just to change the font of a pre-set template banner. Go on, you can do it! The Typepad custom templates are butt-ugly compared to the pre-sets. But quite often, the pre-set templates look slick, but have one or two features that are just jarringly awful. But all you have to do is look at that template's CSS, grab the teeny bit of offending typeface CSS code, and paste it into the Custom CSS field corrected with something better. Less than an inch of code. Nothing wonky about it at all.
While I haven't done a thing with the design of this site in quite some time (maybe I will mess with it again soon), the main thing I do with Typepad Custom CSS on other sites I build is put in custom banner images and make them 900 pixels wide, or more, if I'm in the mood. 900 is better than the overly-narrow Typepad templates, but it can be a little tricky to do. Let it be a challenge to you!
I figure in the land of CSS Zen below (and the CSS Garden of Zen site is pretty cool too, to see examples of what can be done), I'm at Steps 6,7, & 8. I never really got on the whole validating kick, although I can do it. But I am doing lots of basking and scoffing these days.
Link: AUblog: Have You Reached CSS Zen Yet?.
Have You Reached CSS Zen Yet?
The evolution of a modern web designer. The 12 steps:
- Realize that CSS/XHTML design - separating content from presentation - is the wave of the future.
(BTW, this should have happened to you years ago)
- Start learning CSS.
- Start despising Internet Explorer and by proxy, Microsoft (even more than you already do).
- Spend countless hours learning CSS hacks and obscure bugs to make all the browsers play nice.
- Waste many hours of your life yelling at your screen.
- Build your very first validating CSS/XHTML website without a table in sight.
- Bask in your own glory and sense of accomplishment.
- Scoff at the work of others, develop an odd sense of grandeur and superiority over others.
- [Insert a montage here of you progressing in your work]
- Come to a very important realization that no one cares.
(No one except other coders/purists/CSS-nazis)
- (Optional) Realize there are people better than you at coding CSS and start outsourcing it.
- Zen.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The countdown is on for skydiver Felix Baumgartner.
In just two weeks, Baumgartner will attempt to go supersonic when he jumps from a record altitude of 23 miles over New Mexico. Project managers announced Tuesday the feat will take place Oct. 8.
The Austrian parachutist jumped from 13 miles in March and 18 miles in July. This time, he hopes to break the all-time record of 19.5 miles set in 1960.
Baumgartner's capsule was damaged in the latest practice jump and had to be repaired and retested. A giant helium balloon will hoist the pressurized capsule with Baumgartner inside, dressed in a pressure suit. Takeoff will be from Roswell.m
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Mid-size performer offers handling and interior room.
Chevrolet Impala is a capable mid-size sedan introduced as a new model in 2000.
The name Impala is resurrected from the stylish mid-size sedan from the 1960s that achieved such strong sales success. The fleet-footed animal in the logo promises grace and performance, and the current car delivers.
Equipped with its powerful 3.8-liter V6, the new Impala is quick, and more responsive than the six-seat models from Toyota, Dodge, Ford and Buick. It shares its platform with the Pontiac Grand Prix, and offers competent suspension tuning, distinctive looks, and plenty of interior room.
Two models are available, both four-door sedans. The base Impala uses a 3.4-liter, 180-horsepower V6 and starts at $19,149. The base 3.4-liter V6 also sees duty in the Pontiac Grand Am and Oldsmobile Alero.
LS ($23,225) gets GM's proven and highly competent 3.8-liter V6, which produces 200 horsepower. Besides the larger engine, the LS comes standard with larger (16-inch) aluminum wheels, quicker steering, traction control, anti-lock brakes, and a wide range of electric amenities. The 3.8-liter engine is shared with the Buick Regal and Lumina LTZ.
The Impala is slightly shorter than the Lumina four-door sedan, but it looks bigger on the road with its upright windows and roof pillars and longer greenhouse. The Impala is a whopping 9 inches shorter than a Dodge Intrepid, yet it's slightly larger in total interior volume than either the Intrepid or the Lumina.
The most significant styling cues are the headlight and taillight clusters, which use a unique combination of round lights clearly visible from behind trapezoidal covers. It's an aggressive new look for a Chevy sedan, so you'll easily spot an Impala in traffic. If you don't like the boy-racer spoiler on the decklid of the LS model, it will cost you $175 to delete it.
The optional ($600 on base models) anti-lock brake system includes a tire-pressure warning monitor. The availability of a base car without anti-lock brakes bucks a trend at GM to equip all cars with ABS; Chevy explains that some of its customers prefer cars without it.
New for 2001 is the addition of GM's OnStar system as standard on the LS and optional on the base model. OnStar is a customer-service network linked to each car via satellite. It's one of those convenience features that you may never notice during daily use, but it's nice to have if something goes wrong. The system can notify network representatives of the car's location to assist in providing emergency roadside assistance or to help track it if it is stolen. It automatically notifies the OnStar network when the airbag has been deployed, and operators will dispatch emergency crews to the spot unless you respond to their calls.
The Impala is noticeably roomy inside. With 122 cubic feet of interior volume, it is 6 cubic feet more spacious than the Lumina. So what magic did Chevrolet perform to make the Impala shorter, yet larger inside than the Lumina? Interior space was gained by designing a high roofline with more vertical sides, carefully rearranging the rear bulkhead, and moving the seats slightly outboard.
Base models come with a three-seat split bench in the front; LS models come standard with just two front seats, though the bench seat is optional. Chevy expects most buyers will choose the three-in-front arrangement. From the driver's seat you get the impression that the car is huge inside, likely because you sense a notable distance to the right-side passenger.
Chevy Impala's rear seat area is shorter on legroom than the cavernous Dodge Intrepid, but better than the Chevy Lumina, Ford Taurus, or the archaic Ford Crown Victoria. The seat position in the rear is comfortable and relatively high, which makes it easy to get in and out. There are three shoulder belts in the rear, as well as child-seat tethers. The rear seat is split 60/40 and folds down to allow bulky items to protrude from the trunk; that's handy if you're a Home Depot regular.
Two interior colors are available, an unusually loud mustard brown and a more conservative gray. It's easy to orient yourself inside the Impala. Controls are logical, work smoothly, and are easy to see. They follow the function of those in the smaller Malibu, but they're bigger.
At first glance, the seats look flat, like semi-benches, but when you sit in them, they provide good support on your thighs and your back. They feel like bucket seats. The center passenger in the front has to straddle the split between the front seats. A slight hump down the center accommodates the exhaust pipe; that hump hampers legroom for the front center passenger.
The headliner and ceiling are specially padded. Chevy says this design will pass the federal head injury requirements scheduled to come into effect for all cars in 2003. A seat-mounted side airbag for the driver is an option.
Driving Impression
The new Impala feels like a big luxury car when compared with a Ford Crown Victoria or Toyota Avalon. The Crown Victoria feels unrefined when you drive the cars back to back. The Toyota feels bland by comparison.
The view out of the Impala is good, and particularly helpful are the small quarter windows that split the rear pillars. The creases on the hood give you a good perspective for judging where the front of the car is, handy for parking a big car in compact spaces. The rear decklid, however, seems high, so care is required when backing up.
Handling is surprisingly quick and sharp in the Impala. This is not the wallowing live-axle barge from the 1960s. One reason is the use of a huge aluminum engine cradle subframe to hold the drivetrain, thus isolating vibrations and making the car more rigid. A monster dashboard bulkhead made of light and strong magnesium adds to the rigidity, which gives the car a robust feel.
The Impala uses suspension and mounting structures that are different than the Grand Prix's, as are the driving characteristics. The LS we tested felt particularly good, with its quicker steering ratio. Both models, however, get a strut brace in front, as well as anti-roll bars front and rear. This hardware is usually found only on sports sedans. The engine cradle and dashboard structure lock the steering shaft down rigidly, so there are no excess wiggly movements. Chevy says a new link between the steering column and the steering gear contributes to better on-center feel at the wheel. On the road, the steering feels good, better than the Toyota Avalon.
The brake pedal feels firm and responsive. Braking is smooth and steady, and we applaud Chevy's decision to use discs at all four wheels, even on the base model.
Acceleration is brisk, though there's still an ever-present reminder that this is a front-wheel-drive car: Torque-steer rears its head during hard acceleration, especially with the more powerful 3.8-liter engine, felt as a slight tug on the steering wheel whenever you stomp down on the gas pedal.
Since you can get the big 200-horsepower 3.8-liter V6 as an option in the lower-priced base model, the Impala becomes the least expensive GM car powered by this gutsy pushrod engine. Chevy claims it will accelerate to 60 mph in 7.7 seconds, which is quick for this class.
The police package cars will get the higher-ratio gearing from the Grand Prix, and should be quicker still. Police may learn to like this car, even though front-drivers are still looked upon with trepidation by America's men in blue. The front steering knuckles for police versions of the Impala are made of steel instead of weight-saving aluminum, though Chevy says the aluminum knuckles -- as well as the rest of the car -- exceeded durability tests. Off the record, Chevy's engineers said the new Impala passed tests that projected its life span at 400,000 miles. These tests included curb hopping, which is not normally part of a new car's durability cycle.
When the Impala was introduced as a new model in 2000, Chevrolet was aiming for a car to carry the heritage behind that famous name. The result is a capable, quick, and fun car that drives nothing like Impalas of old. And that's good news. You can bet there was debate whether to dredge up the image of old ill-handling Impalas by resurrecting the name, but for younger generations who never knew the older versions of the car, 'Impala' will mean something entirely different.
The Impala delivers excellent value among mid-size sedans, with decent handling, immediately recognizable design cues, and a long-list of amenities.
Model Lineup
Impala ($19,149), Impala LS ($23,225).
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Options As Tested
AM/FM RDS cassette and CD stereo ($223); 1SB Preferred Equipment Group ($396) includes trip computer, Homelink transmitter, theft deterrent system, compass; leather interior ($625); leather-wrapped steering wheel with radio controls ($171); front seat heaters, power passenger seat controls ($425).
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Students in St. Bonaventure University's master's program in English are hosting a two-day graduate conference Friday and Saturday, Nov. 15-16.
Titled "Concepts in Identity," the conference features presentations from graduate students of a dozen colleges and universities, including Washington State, Clemson, Rutgers, Case Western Reserve, Mercyhurst, University at Buffalo, Buffalo State, Xavier, East Carolina, Manchester Metropolitan, SUNY-Oneonta and St. Bonaventure.
The keynote speaker is Dr. Tyrone Williams, professor at Xavier University. His talk will be held from 12:30-2 p.m. at this week's Friday Forum, a subsidized lunch ($3) open to all faculty and staff at the University Club. (Lunch begins serving at noon.)
Williams teaches literature and theory and is the author of five books of poetry: "c.c." (Krupskaya Books, 2002), "On Spec" (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008), "The Hero Project of the Century" (The Backwaters Press, 2009), "Adventures of Pi" (Dos Madres Press, 2011) and "Howell" (Atelos Books, 2011). He is also the author of several chapbooks, and his poems have been published in magazines, including Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, The Kenyon Review, Caliban, Colorado Review, and XCP.
At 6 p.m. Friday in the Walsh Center Auditorium, Friedsam Memorial Library director Paul Spaeth will discuss the interactions between Robert Lax and Jack Kerouac.
"The conference is the second organized by English graduate students in recent years. In addition to regular seminar studies and thesis research, instructional duties, and Plassmann Writing Center operations, the student organizers have invited to our campus speakers from more than a dozen different universities," said Dr. Kaplan Harris, director of SBU's English graduate program.
The funding of the conference was made possible in part by a donation from university trustee Laurie Branch, Harris said.
Williams' talk is also sponsored by the Visiting Scholars Committee and is part of the Visiting Poets Series this fall. Williams will also attend Harris' literature courses on Thursday to talk about Amiri Baraka and the Black Arts Movement.
The complete conference schedule:
Friday, 8:30-9 a.m, Murphy 107
A brief introductory message from the conference organizers, giving an overview of the conference events and answering any questions.
Friday, 9:15-10:30 a.m., Murphy 107
Mary-Lynn Chambers (East Carolina University): "The Impact of the Harlem Renaissance on the Development of African American Identity Revealed in African American Literature"
Monica Edwards (St. Bonaventure University): "Material Identity and Estrangement in The Waste Land."
Friday, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Murphy 107
August Johnson (SUNY Oneonta): "Porch Punk: Life is to Create Art, Work, and Love"
Mary-Lynn Chambers (East Carolina University): "The Unveiling: African American Identity in an Online College Classroom"
Gregory Sullivan (Rutgers University): "Issues of Identity for the Southern Writer Living in the North"
Friday, 12:30-2 p.m., University Club
A luncheon featuring keynote speaker Dr. Tyrone Williams.
Friday, 2:15 - 3:30, Murphy 107
Jennifer Lodine-Chaffey (Washington State University): "Sarah Waters' Affinity: Same Sex Desire and Class Identity"
Juliette Arico (University at Buffalo): "The Bare Life of Motherhood: Vitality, Natality, and Female Identity in Nella Larsen's Quicksand"
Joelle Lynn Mann (Buffalo State College): "Sixteen: Joelle Mann: The 'Haply Hysterics' of The Womanhood: Brooks and the Anxiety of Representation."
Friday, 6-7 p.m., Walsh Auditorium
Paul Spaeth will discuss the interactions between Robert Lax and Jack Kerouac. Lax's papers are archived at Saint Bonaventure. Spaeth is the director of Saint Bonaventure's Friedsam Memorial Library, a rare books librarian, and the curator of the Lax archives. More information on Saint Bonaventure's Robert Lax collection is available at the following address: http://web.sbu.edu/friedsam/laxweb
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Eithne Amos (Mercyhurst University): "Claiming Humanity: Illusions of Identity in Blade Runner"
Caleb Milligan (Clemson University): "Someone Else's Apocalypse: The Illusion of the Other in Don DeLillo's White Noise"
Anna Schuer (Case Western Reserve University): "Conflating Consciousness and Dreaming the Divine: A Case Study of Salvador Dalí's The Dream"
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Reymundo Lariosa (Mercyhurst University): "El Güegüense: Satirical Theater of Colonial Authority"
Molly Hunter (Mercyhurst University): "The Beetle versus Marjorie Lindon: Perception and Reality in the New Woman Debate"
Jacob Ochs (Mercyhurst University): "Yehuda Amichai: An Echo of Israel"
Alethea Gaarden (Mercyhurst University): "Anxiety, Mesmerism, and the Other: The Subversive Power of Mesmerism in Marsh's The Beetle"
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Israeli State of Extortion
By: Peter Chamberlin
We are faced with the ever-present and ever-growing problems presented by the state of Israel. The entire world has been given the most sinister ultimatum of all time (and
Barack Obama is fully supporting it)—we either make Israeli interests the paramount issue concerning the world today, or else Israel will single-handedly start World War III.
If we do not take military actions to preserve Israel's outlaw nuclear edge in the Middle East, then, according to Israel's supreme leader, Israel will use those nuclear weapons upon Iran (Israel can only do the job with nukes). If the leadership of the world does not alleviate Israeli leaders' greatest fears through limited, though intense military actions, then Israel will unleash WWIII in the Middle East, effectively destroying the oil-based international order.
The new American leadership is the most craven, sniveling, and condescending to Israeli demands, of all previous administrations. Never before has an American administration had to publicly reverse itself because of demands openly made upon it by the Zionist state, concerning illegal settlements and other ethnic cleansing measures. To then be forced to announce to the world the reversal of the defense and arms control strategy of the previous administration, to make protecting Israel more important than protecting Europe, is a stinging indictment of Obama Administration loyalties.
The missiles were never really there because of Iran, merely a tool to antagonize Putin. By reversing the Bush deployment policy for ABM systems (allegedly intended to protect Europe from Iranian missiles), moving those missiles which represented no real threat to Iran, to positions between Israel and Iran (on ships in the Persian Gulf and from missiles based on Arab soil), the only superpower was humiliated before the world, while billions of American defense dollars were shifted to investing in protecting the world from the actions of the shitty little mad dog state.
The US military is helping making Israel immune from rocket and missile attack, while there are no such defenses for the either the United States or the European Union. If Israel were really either an island of "democracy" or an outpost of freedom in the Middle East, then it might merit such unprecedented world protection—but it is neither.
In point of fact, the Zionist state is the opposite of both of those ideals. Ruled by a small ruthless minority, the "state," which has stolen every square inch of property from a powerless unarmed populace, proceeds to destroy every conceivable avenue of change for the better, even that of peaceful coexistence, in order to follow a similar path calculated for gain and furtherance of the secret goal. That goal is the establishment of "Greater Israel," an un-Biblical concept, used to claim Biblical "divine right" allegedly promised to the real descendents of Abraham.
The Obama Administration represents nothing short of a "gold mine" for Israel, because of the great policy changes that are being made in their favor. We are seeing the pay-off from the heavy Zionist stacking within the Obama Administration that exceeds the record number of Zionists in the previous two administrations. Bush had become an obstacle to Israeli designs in the region, simply because they would take no action against Iran, the only obstacle to complete Israeli domination of the region.
Obama has served his Zionist overlords very well. Obama's theatric ultimatums to Iran have distracted the world from the building international pressure that was being generated for war crimes investigations by public reactions to the fascist war of ethnic cleansing in Gaza. The "Cast Iron" campaign of terror was giving substance to legitimate comparisons being made between the fascist Israeli actions and those of the Nazis, leading also, to the Goldstone Report on war crimes in Gaza. The war against Iran, which the Israelis are demanding, can only be avoided by a total confrontation of those demands.
Over the years, the American people have stood in silent witness, as this Constitutional Republic has been slowly reshaped into a police state by the subversive financial powers. The population has been conditioned through a series of psyops, staged dramas, intended to accept familiarize the people with the encapsulated plotline. We have been encouraged to believe in the inevitability of a militarized world. Every medium screams that Brave New World is an inevitability, never mentioning that those who are sounding the warning are the same ones who are planning it all.
Since the days of WWI, powerful forces within the United States and Europe have created war as an instrument for social change. The people could be convinced into accepting all sorts of bad things in the name of "self-defense." Wall St. financiers first bankrolled the Bolsheviks of Russia, repeating the same successful formula a few years later by funding the National Socialists of Germany. The "Islamist militants" are merely the latest model of America's perennial pre-fabricated enemy. The "Islamist" psyop serves the interests of the Zionist world financiers today and no one else.
The problem with Israel is that the Zionist leaders there have taken the lead role in the psyop and they don't intend to let anyone else call the shots. In this respect, Israel is in partial rebellion to its master, the American ruling class. The Mossad hand in the creation of the international "Islamist" network gives them an inside track to effect the outcome of planned terror events. Israeli agents, stationed strategically throughout American government, the press, academia and the military, maintain their chokehold on America. America will serve one last time, as Israel's attack dog, until the once proud Nation strangles on its own vomit and wallows in its own feces, as it struggles for life, dangling at the end of the chain over the side of the cliff, after it has outlived its usefulness.
The parasitic Zionist bankers and the system that they have used to drain the life from this Nation and the world, fully intend to use the full power of the massive military-industrial complex that they have created to seal the global arrangement that they have also created. World War III, just like the two world wars before it, were unnecessary, planned events. Americans never catch-on, because they are too trusting, our fatal weakness.
After the dust settles from the next unnecessary planned world war, the inhuman bankers will have a stranglehold on food production for the surviving remnant, with their genetically modified seeds and industrial farms. They will have the same death grip on all fuel and shipping resources, in addition to control of the world bank and the world government.
Government action is already in play in the former American Congress to cause all of this. Israeli-owned senators and representatives have already given the president the necessary emergency powers to enact the destruction of the Republic. They have legislation waiting until Obama's Iranian ultimatum passes in October, to carry-out the necessary military strangulation of Iran, as well as the major military actions planned to pursue the imaginary enemy "al Qaida." That will start the ball rolling. "Hate crime" legislation will then pass swiftly, as part of the next escalation of emergency powers, beginning with a broad suspension of all civil rights under "Patriot Act III."
The only thing that will prevent all of this is millions of bodies in the streets, either dead ones, or alive ones. We really are "the change that we have been waiting for." If we don't pour into the streets now, while we are still somewhat free, we will have to do it later with our Second Amendment rights in our hands.
There will be a second revolution in America, a revolution against a different hidden, colonial power. We have the privilege of shaping that revolution into something that the survivors can all be proud of, instead of one that none can take pride in. If we cannot unseat the Zionists within our own government in a peaceful national protest against where they are taking us against our will, then whoever comes after our time will make no such distinctions between the political Zionists and the Jewish-American community which they have historically abused in order to maintain their illegitimate criminal power.
Our only remaining decision in the matter is what form that revolution will take. If we fail to make a peaceful revolution now, then the option will be taken from our hands by the real "anti-Semites" who are sure to follow.


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Thrasher 30th Anniversary.
May 8th, 2011
Thrasher 30th Anniversary party was nuts! So much fun was had at the 48 hr. shindig at the Thrasher HQ, Love and guts art show, mini-ramp session on a barge and the everybody headed into the Giants stadium for the final shebang, 135 skaters all at an SF Giants game together courtesy of the loonies at Thrasher! Thanks to Phelper, Burnett and the Vitello family for a top-knotch weekend and Vans for supporting the event.
Respect the Mag! So much history.
Arto camped on the way up and ate Lion meat on the grill….no joke!
Ben Nordberg is on the cutting edge of fashion.
As is the Danish Destroyer. Hola Pinky!
This needs to be on a Thrasher t-shirt! Mark Gonzales started street skating as we know it.
The best frontside ollie in the business. Jason Jessee is a fucking badass!
Jeff Phillips shot by Mofo(Mofo sang the vocals on Lance's part for Extremely Sorry!)look at this damn picture…Mofo magic.
10 ft. high at Del Mar, Saran wrap with his eyes closed, probably 14 years old. There is only one D.Way!
Back to fashion! Nordberg lights the way.
I am on a boat motherfucker!
Ladies beware! Nordberg's hair is a model magnet….
Rune takes it straight to level 11, Madonna to tail whilst Nordberg checks his hair.
Rune! Rune! Rune! the crowd goes wild for the Danish destruction.
Langi's board was the first in the water, after he ripped the hell out of the damn barge ramp!
Omar Hassan is rad! 540 off the corner of the ramp into the freezing cold water. Somebody had to do it!
Yeah Omar!
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Ed Wiltse has resigned his position on the Pratt Community College Board of Trustees, as he has moved out of the county. Wiltse was filling the unexpired term of former Trustee Jenny Larrison.
The Board is accepting letters of intent from interested parties and will appoint a replacement following an interview and discussion process.
Letters of intent must be submitted before Jan. 18 to Clerk of the Board, PCC Board of Trustees, 348 NE S.R. 61, Pratt, KS 67124. Letters may also be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
A hard copy of the letter, with a signature, is preferred, according to Clerk Debbie Hearn, who recommended mailing a copy, even if the applicant had initiated the process through e-mail.
Interviews will be conducted at the Board's next meeting on Jan. 28, and depending on the number of applicants, the position could be filled that night or at a later meeting.
The newly appointed Board member could be sworn in as early as the February meeting, and will serve until 2015, when the position is scheduled for election.


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Organizations located in and/or operating in Illinois, within a 100 mile radius of Chicago. Priority is given to those located in and serving the city of Chicago, Cook County and Lake County.
Organizations must help underprivileged or needy people to help themselves, or relieve human suffering.
Generally range between $2,000 - $25,000
No specific deadlines. The Board meets four times each year. Grants are reviewed in the order they are received. Most grant applicants will hear from us within 60-90 days of application date.
All grant requests must be filed online through a link at the above website.
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This series of investigative activities for Cadette Girl Scouts begins with an overview of our inner solar system, emphasizes the planetary histories of Mars, Earth and Venus, then concludes with evidence for the greenhouse effect on Earth. The... (View More) activities introduce and reflect the scientific goals of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN), which reached Mars on September 21, 2014, and began its study of the Martian atmosphere. Cadettes will simultaneously learn about new technologies and gain new knowledge as they explore career pathways and develop potential service projects linked to the Cadette leadership journey. (View Less)
This is the third module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and utilizes online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore,... (View More) research and build knowledge about how the Sun's varying activity impacts Earth and space weather. Each activity provides opportunities to build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide are included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 3A: Sun-Earth Interactions, students gather information from online videos and create a 3D model to demonstrate the relationship to Earth's place in space and the affect of Earth's axial tilt on our seasons, then film a short video explaining the reasons for the seasons. Activity 3B: Space Weather, students use online videos to gather information on what space weather is, and its causes and effects, to create a concept map. They then use real-time SDO data to forecast space weather. Activity 3C: Solar Research in Action! Make a Magnetometer has students view information in online videos about to Earth's magnetosphere and the impacts of space weather, then create a magnetometer to detect and visualize changes in the Earth's magnetic fields to monitor solar storm impacts. A computer for student-teams and access to the internet are needed for this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
Materials Cost: $5 - $10 per group of students
Microscopic meteorites routinely reach Earth's surface. While challenging to find and identify, this activity provides techniques for searching for them in the local environment.
Materials Cost: 1 cent - $1 per group of students
In this activity, children use common craft materials and ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive beads to construct a person (or dog or imaginary creature). They use sunscreen, foil, paper, and more to test materials that might protect UV Kid from being exposed... (View More) to too much UV radiation. Includes background for facilitators. This activity is part of the "Explore!" series of activities designed to engage children in space and planetary science in libraries and informal learning environments. (View Less)
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This module focuses on ultraviolet radiation on Earth and in space and how it affects life. Learners will construct their own "martian" using craft materials and UV beads. They will explore how UV radiation from the Sun can affect living things,... (View More) comparing conditions on Earth and Mars, and then discuss ways in which organisms may protect themselves from UV radiation. They will then take part in a Mars Creature Challenge, where they will change their creature to help it survive harsh UV conditions — like on Mars. They will then test their Mars creatures by subjecting them to different environmental conditions to see how well they "survive" in a martian environment. This investigation will explore shelter and protection as one of life's requirements and how Earth's atmosphere protects life from harmful UV radiation. It also includes specific tips for effectively engaging girls in STEM. This is activity 5 in Explore: Life on Mars? that was developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
Learners model how the Moon's volcanic period reshaped its earlier features. The children consider that the broad, shallow impact basins contained cracks through which magma seeped up. A plate in which slits have been cut is used to represent an... (View More) impact basin and a dish of red-colored water is used to represent the pockets of magma within the Moon's upper layers. When the model impact basin is pressed into the "magma," "lava" fills in the low areas through the same process that produced the dark patches, or maria, on the Moon. Children may examine a type of Earth rock (named basalt) that is also found on the Moon and that would have been shaped by the processes explored here. This station investigates the Moon's "teen years," when it was one to three billion years old. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
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Learners model how impacts throughout the Moon's history have broken rocks down into a mixture of dust, rocks, and boulders that covers the lunar surface. They consider how the dust will continue to hold a record of human exploration - in the form... (View More) of astronaut bootprints - for countless years in the future. Children may examine a type of Earth soil ("lunar soil simulant") that is similar to what is found on the Moon's surface and that would have been shaped by the processes explored here. The children create their own records of exploration by making rubbings of their shoes. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
Learners will model ancient lunar impacts using water balloons. By measuring the diameter of the crater area, they discover that the Moon's largest impact basins were created by huge asteroids. The huge basins formed on the young Moon, but through... (View More) processes investigated in Moon Ooze, they later became filled in by the dark maria now visible on the Moon. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
Learners model how an ocean of molten rock "magma" produced the Moon's oldest rocks. Dense materials in the molten mixture sank, while the least dense materials floated to the top and cooled to form the light-colored areas we see on the Moon today.... (View More) Children create a simple model of this process by mixing household materials of different densities in a bottle and allowing them to settle into separate layers. They decide which materials make the best model for the infant Moon. This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
This is an activity about ultraviolet light. Learners will make ultraviolet light detector bracelets and use them to experiment with artificial light and sunlight. Then, they experiment with various sun-blocking materials to see how such materials... (View More) impact the beads' absorption of ultraviolet light. Special UV detecting beads are required for this activity. This is Activity 3 of the Sun As a Star afterschool curriculum. (View Less)
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EVC necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 262 diseños de 106 diseñadores freelance.
Eagles View Consulting
We are a small consulting firm offering outsourced Vice President of Sales and outsourced Business Development services. Our focus is on small-to-midsized companies in the mid-Atlantic region in need of direction and mentoring. We are part-time and on-site; we come in and roll up our sleeves to help turn around sales teams. In general, our mantra could be stated as "you started your business because you love what you do - focus on your passion and let us run your sales team." Our current corporate tag line is "Are you satisfied with your Sales Pipeline?" We are a young company that is poised to grow once we develop a strong corporate identity - this new logo will be the first step.
We focus on businesses of varying sizes across many markets. In general, our outsourced Vice President of Sales audience is comprised of the owners of $5M-50M businesses in the technology, manufacturing, professional services and equipment industries - in a primarily business-to-business sales environment. These people are generally overwhelmed by having a sales team of 2-10 reps to manage, and our specialty is coming in and taking that pressure and workload of their desks.
Our Business Development clients are comprised of businesses who either find they don't have the time to make cold-calls for new leads, our would simply like to focus on running appointments and chasing warm/hot leads instead of generating them in-house.
We need both of these groups to feel that we are a large group of professionals worthy of national attention.
• Our logo should be based around our brand name - Eagles View Consulting (there is no apostrophe.)
• Feel free to tinker with the theme of an eagle, especially with the ideas of "watching over your sales/sales team," "hunting" for new business and providing a business owner with "a top level view" of how their sales team is performing.
• We would like to land somewhere in-between serious and fun – that is to say we would like to appear as a national brand, but not a black suit, up-tight organization. We want to appeal to the small business owner who works hard every day and really values his money. Our target doesn't have a lot of money to throw around, and we need our image to reflect the Fortune 500 level experience we bring at our part-time price tag.
• This logo will become part of a whole brand – website, cards, letterhead etc. – and as such it must be legible and transferable between different mediums.
• Cannot be lower-cased (as in "hp.")
• DOES NOT have to include the theme of an eagle.
• Must be original work – no stock photos or images as we will want the copyright transferred upon winning.
• Usable for web, print, presentations etc.
• Able to be reproduced easily in all sizes on various media – anything from business cards to shirts and so on.
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Thursday, October 17, the Downtown Arts District will celebrate the Fourth Annual Dia De Los Muertos and 'Monster Factory' exhibit at CityArts Factory in downtown Orlando. The opening night block party begins at 6 p.m. Here's a look at last year's event.
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text: John Tyler (1790-1862) served as America's 10th president from 1841 to 1845. He assumed office after the death of President William Henry Harrison (1773-1841), who passed away from pneumonia after just a month in the White House. Nicknamed "His Accidency," Tyler was the first vice president to become chief executive due to the death of his predecessor. A Virginian, he was elected to the state legislature at age 21 and went on to serve in the U.S. Congress and as governor of Virginia. A strong supporter of states' rights, Tyler was a Democratic-Republican; however, in 1840 he ran for the vice presidency on the Whig ticket. As president, Tyler clashed with the Whigs, who later tried, unsuccessfully, to impeach him. Among his administration's accomplishments was the 1845 annexation of Texas. Before he died, Tyler voted for Virginia's secession from the Union and was elected to the Confederate Congress.


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I was so excited when my little girl asked me to make her a lunch bag for Kindergarten instead of buying a Hello Kitty one! Of course I had a little help tipping the scales to the handmade side thanks to Danita. I asked Danita if I could have one of her images printed on a piece of fabric, and she happily supplied me. My daughter just learned to ride a bike and I thought the little girl on the bike would be just perfect. Then I came across this wonderful tutorial about how to make a fabric lunch sack from A Lemon Squeezy Home. I spent sometime designing it with my daughter and here is the final product!
|I used a cloth dishtowel for the main fabric
|My kids got me a set of handmade owl buttons from beadfreaky for my Mother's Day gift - I thought this would be a good place to use one!


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The other day I used Google Japan to find D-like website...it came out listed first on the list.
When I clicked on it, it directed me to another site.
Now I have a FULL blown McAfee protection with real-time protection and fully updated daily.
When I click on the link google gave me, my McAfee detected a worm, virus, and it trying to change my registry. It was VERY bad. It completely mess my computer up!!. I had to do a System Restore to a previous day and ever since it still was not fully corrected. For the last few days, its completely shot. Hopefull my IT guy at work can fix it. It goes to a blue screen as soon as you boot and even safe mode doesnt work. It wont let me get past the blue screen.
Maybe its ok for anyone else trying to get onto their link, but just letting you guys know so it doesnt happen to you. Its a very bad experience!
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We are curious about ourselves, other people around us, and what it means to be alive or dead. We ask questions and find answers that help assure us we have a good foundation of understanding about who we are. Anthropology is a social science that attempts to provide us with a better understanding of our humanness - what it means to be human. In order to understand this, we need to explore what we mean by culture because we rely on culture for our values, ways we think, ways we view the world around, ways to act properly. We also need to understand that to be human means that we have a biological as well as a social side to us. We need a grasp of what both of these mean to us.
Are you as interested as I am in knowing how, when, and where human life arose, what the first human societies and languages were like, why cultures have evolved along diverse but often remarkably convergent pathways, why distinctions of rank came into being, and how small bands and villages gave way to chiefdoms and chiefdoms to mighty states and empires?" ....Marvin Harris, Our Kind This is what is anthropology. It is not just an attempt to discover what it is that humans do with their cultures but what it really means to be human in a sense of culture, biology, and relatedness. Anthropology is an effort to understand this broad sense of humanness has been divided into four major disciplines, each focusing on different aspects of what makes us human.
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The nature of each of these is defined by a focus; social/cultural anthropology focuses on observed human behavior (what it is that we do), linguistics on language (how it is used as a reflection of culture and how it has evolved), physical anthropology on biological, primate observation, and fossil evidence (what we are genetically, primate behavior, and how we evolved), and archaeology on the material remains of what people used to survive or adapt (what we create and why and how societies have changed over time). Collectively these disciplines provide anthropology with a background of information that helps us build a broad understanding of humanness itself. It would not be possible to fully appreciate what makes us human without such a broad perspective.
Anthropologists also tend to look for similarities and differences between people and their cultures. For example, we know that every culture is ethnocentric - that is they believe their way of life, their values, their worldview is superior to all others. This is true over every culture in the world. The question is why? Why do cultures take this perspective? The answer appears relatively simple. If we believe our way of life is better, then we simply reject anything foreign that comes along. We feel okay by protecting what we think is important. Think of it this way. What happens when someone comes along and shatters your way of seeing "something". If this "something" is important to you, then you begin to question what else you might have to change in the manner you think about things. It has the potential to create doubts about your way of seeing the world.
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peklava needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 76 designs submitted by 28 freelance designers.
Pranava Jóga Centrum
We are a yoga school located in the Czech Republic.
Yoga students of all ages.
I would prefer OM sign in the logo but I don´t want other creativity...I don´t have any preferred colors, just don´t get to feminine or childish...I do like for example some black figure in some backbend pose, or drawings etc...but I am open to other ideas.. I don´t like too many colors or too many things at once.
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Coat and Food Drive
October 5, 2012
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Be an Angel this season and join Visiting Angels of Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland Counties to collect much needed non perishable goods for the South Jersey Food Bank, and coats from infants through adult sizes for the Atlantic City Rescue Mission.
The drive runs now through November 30. The following have partnered with Visiting Angels to be drop off locations:
- Visiting Angels of Atlantic County, 3153 Fire Road, Suite 1-F EHT-(609) 641-7200
- Visiting Angels of Cape May and Cumberland Counties, 110 Roosevelt Blvd in Marmora (609) 545-8258
- Fox Rehab 331 Tilton Road, Suite 7 Northfield (609) 241-6339
- Heartland Hospice Services 2111 New Road Suite 100 Northfield (609) 641-4675
- Atlantic Christian School 391 Zion Road, EHT (609) 653-1199
- Atlantic Chiropractic Life Center 3 N. Buffalo Avenue Ventnor (609) 487-0800
- Lolla Chiropractic Center 161 White Horse Pike Galloway (609) 748-8800
Visiting Angels provides seniors and adults with the needed assistance to continue living at home safely for as long as possible. Call today for your free assessment.
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Has anyone here become more against religion over time? Before religion didn't really bother me, but whenever I see something religious now it pisses me off. If I found a bible, cross or some other religious figure I would probably end up burning it.
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Note to self, make copies of Jim's stickers stat! That is awesome!
Jim, I heard of people doing this but I no longer travel as I once did. Thanks for the text; I can use it locally.
Oh my gosh, Jim! You have topped anything I can think of. I am a great believer in buffoonery, burlesque, caricature, comeback, digs, disdain, disparagement, farce, foolery, gibe, irony, jab, jeers, laughter, mockery, needling, parody, razz, rib, roast, sardonicism, and satire.
I was caught in an hypocrisy the other day on the Humor link and had to retract a statement I made and a change in attitude. It felt so good to get rid of that cognitive dissonance I experienced and am grateful for the nudge.
I believe people are entitled to their opinions and respect, but not entitled to silence in the face of nonsense or harmful attitudes, beliefs, customs, traditions and values.
We did a lot of that in 1960s in Washington, DC during the civil rights movement.
Sigh. Sorry to say, I'm with you. I came of age when the hippies preached peace, love, kindness to the earth, gay/women's rights, and good drugs. OK, they leaned toward Eastern religions, but they were more secular than their parents as regards the Abrahamic faiths, and I was basically on board with their program. Of course peace is better than war!
I thought that religion was fighting a losing battle (it had certainly lost me) and that the world would become progressively more enlightened, especially as science explained more and more of life's mysteries and reached farther and farther out into the universe.
WTF happened?? Muslim terrorism, intersectarian strife, Christianization of the US military, and INCREASING religiosity, especially in this supposedly enlightened land of ours. Half of the respondents in a recent poll (I blogged about this) think that God rewards athletes who work hard.
So yes, my attitudes have hardened. I see the undeserved respect and credibility religion gets, and I seethe. I go past a church that would bring in thousands of dollars in taxes, and I clench my teeth.
I have become absolutely, physically allergic to prayer. When my brother starting spouting Hebrew prayers at his son's wedding, my legs carried me out of there before I realized what was happening.
Meeting other atheists has enabled me to share my resentment. We have to convert our POV to action. Religion has the capacity to cause great misery and environmental degradation.
I can't see why people cling to these fantasies. Or rather, I do see, and it's pathetic.
As usual, Alan, you and I see eye to eye. Richard Dawkins himself said numerous times that after he published The Selfish Gene in 1976 that he fully expected to see religion begin to roll back in power and influence. To our chagrin, it was clearly not the case.
I suggest that we not judge things by what's going on now before our eyes, but by long-term trends that are noticeably taking place now. Consider public schools in the northeast, for example. Kids saying prayers or trying to proselytize playmates will be immediately chastised and put in their place. Most teachers, especially science teachers, won't tolerate hearing the word "Christ." We're making progress.
I would not go so far as to say religion drives one crazy but I do know that many people in mental institutions have some scary religious ideations.
Religion bothers me more and more all of the time. I think people bring it up more and more, too. Honestly, I don't understand the hold religion has on people. I just don't understand it. But that''s because I'm an outsider. They probably don't understand the hold religion does not have on me.
Religion destroys a person's ability to think clearly.
To remedy that, religionists provide more religion.
During twelve years in Catholic schools, Catholicism irritated me a lot.
I put limits on it; I resolved that since I had only two cheeks I would turn at most but one cheek.
Years later after I learned about S&M, I decided that for a real close female friend I might turn two more cheeks. I insist on equality; she would have to turn the same number of cheeks.
Despite all the nuns' efforts, I saw Heaven only as a place from where I could watch what humankind is doing.
Catholicism irritated me most with its condemnation of birth control AND its refusal to help me pay for the children I would have. I was, after all, a typically always horny teen. I locked Catholicism out of the bathroom, where I had more rewarding things to do.
Science and mathematics were two partial remedies. In college I left, but years later I described my volunteer work at SF Sex Information (sfsi.org) as a wonderful remedy for the crap I'd heard in Catholic schools.
you wouldn't have any idea of how annoying religions and all religious people can get until you actually find yourself stuck in a religious country like Iran and in some sort of traditional religious family. I am a non-believer but I strongly believe in hell 'cause i actually live in one. when you family wish you the worst that can happen, when they actually get happy when you hurt, and by saying anything in society it can cost you your life, literally, there is when you realize writing a post at a mid night-could ease your mind and feel comforting!!!:)
I feel for you. Religion can be brutal. And often is brutal.
Just to be safe, if you are currently in Iran, please change your user name to something different from your own name. One can never be too careful.
As long as it is safe to do so, post here all you want. The discussions on Nexus will make you know you are not alone.
thank you for the advice my friend, living in this kind of situation often couse you to be more fearless, but you are right I have to be more careful. it's kind of strange that it actualy feels good to be able to cominucate without being threatened or any insultion!!!
You are not alone in your conclusions! Be safe and know that the one thing that is true everywhere is things change. Not today, maybe not tomorrow, but things do change.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Tensions along Israel's northern border are growing as Hezbollah forces tighten their grip on southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah and allied terror groups have moved back into the border region in force in violation of the UN resolution (1701) that brought an end to the Second Lebanon War in 2006. The terrorists are exploiting the fact that the Lebanese army has had to send so many troops to the Syrian border in the east.
Meanwhile, the peace keepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are concerned. The force was created in 1978 to monitor a United Nations-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, but has never been particularly effective at preventing the outbreak of hostilities.
For years, UNIFIL officials found themselves at the mercy of Yasser Arafat's PLO. Today, it is Hezbollah giving the international forces a headache.
Israeli army sources said numerous times in recent weeks, Hezbollah forces actually stopped UNIFIL patrols at gunpoint, preventing the observers from doing their job. In other instances, activists incited riots against UNIFIL troops to drive them out of locations where Hezbollah wanted to set up a base near the Israeli border.
The UN soldiers are just observers. It is understandably that they have no desire to risk their lives in a foreign conflict not their own. According to Resolution 1701, the Lebanese army is responsible for the supervision and security at the southern Lebanese border. But Lebanon knows Israel won't attack without provocation, while the situation in Syria is far less stable, and so its forces have been diverted.
With Hezbollah now fully filling that power vacuum, the UN soldiers seem to want nothing more than to leave southern Lebanon, just as they are threatening to do in the Golan Heights, where Syrian rebel forces have repeatedly threatened their lives.
Israel, it seems, is doomed to constantly be taught the lesson that it cannot rely on the United Nations or any outside force in an emergency situation. The international community, and especially the UN, is only effective when all is quiet.
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