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The lessons taken from this month's election may vary, but the one thing we all agree on is that getting our economy moving again must be our top priority.
We have an opportunity to come together to bring high-skilled immigrants into our workforce and boost economic growth, and to reunite families.
Today, the House will vote on the STEM Jobs Act, a bill introduced by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, that will award 55,000 visas to foreign graduates of U.S. universities with doctoral and master's degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Entrepreneurship and job creation won't kick into high gear until businesses have the workers they need to drive growth and innovation, and immigrants have always been a key part of the equation.
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At major American companies like Qualcomm, Merck, GE and Cisco, immigrants contributed to as many as 72 percent of the patents filed, giving those businesses a competitive edge, helping them expand and create jobs at home.
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We must act to keep these workers in America where they can drive innovation, entrepreneurship and job creation.
Meanwhile, more than 300,000 family members of lawful permanent residents are waiting on lists to join their spouses or parents in America.
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Aspen voters say they continue to enjoy a high quality of life and sense of safety in the city. Ninety-seven percent of those surveyed ranked their overall quality of life in Aspen as excellent (66 percent) or good (31 percent), up two percentage points from 2011.
"Each year since 1997 the city of Aspen has asked its citizens how things are going with a resident survey," said Barry Crook, assistant city manager. "The Aspen Citizen Survey serves as a consumer report card for Aspen by providing registered voters the opportunity to rate their satisfaction with the quality of life, local facilities and services, as well as satisfaction with local government."
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Posted 28 June 2004 - 11:58 PM
One of the many cool thngs about interactive whiteboards is that allow the teacher to make quick powerful points that can grab the attention the class.
They are great for starters, plenaries and brain rests in the middle of a lesson.
However, it should not be forgotten that they are not an end in themselves, but a tool to help guide or sign post the student to the lesson objectives.
When I first unpacked my first new interactive whiteboard, I remember thinking that it was the answer to all my dreams. Poor, mad fool that I was, I quickly discovered that students can soon become 'board' with being fed the same diet every lesson. Variety is the spice of life and good lessons!
However, through experimentation and stealing good ideas from other people I soon developed some interesting ideas.
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 12:18 AM
Students go for 5 bullet points in the back of their books on a historical question such as 'What were the causes of the FWW.' They then feedback to a class discussion during which either the teacher or a student type up the resuts into the template of a thinking skills triangle using a software package like smart notes.
I should add at this point that a thinking skills triangle is divided up into 5 equal sections.
This clever stuff starts when the teacher kicks off the debate on which reason was the most important. Students can then discuss in groups or in a whole class forum and then feedback to the next stage.
The teacher or a member of the group can then organise the ideas into some sort of order with the most important at the top. The key aim is to get the students to explain their order and back it up with reasons, facts and evidence. This can lead to some really great debates and arguments!
At the end of that session the students can then copy the triangle off the board and use it as a writing frame for a paragraph or an extended piece of writing. If someone is away then it can be easily printed off later on!
I have also used this type of task to get students to anaylse a picture or a historical source.
However, this is one of several graphic organisers that I've used on an interactive whiteboard.
Edited by rhuggins, 29 June 2004 - 05:09 PM.
Posted 29 June 2004 - 12:34 AM
One of the tasks I set my Year 10s the other day, whilst I was out on a course, was to read a chapter 2 on the 1932 Presidential Election between Hoover & FDR in the Longmans edition of the New Deal. As part of the cover work I asked them to produce a thinking skills review triangle on why Hoover lost the election.
On my return we worked through my PowerPoint on the topic and then as a brain rest in the middle of the lesson I handed out a Ven Diagram and asked them to compare and contrast Hoover with FDR.
I gave them 4 minutes to complete this task. It is critical to maintain the pace to keep the students engaged in the big idea.
Once thier time was up they then fed back their ideas and we used the whiteboard to sort them into the correct positions in the Ven Diagram. It was short, pacey and linked into the lesson objectives at the start. We got some great answers on 'Rugged Individualism,' 'The Forgotten Man,' 'Self made Millionaire,' etc. The key point is this, it was short, sharpe, pacey and above all simple to do.
The great thing about producing this sort of resource on an interactive whiteboard is that you can recyle the activity for the next lesson by mixing up the bullet points and asking a student to reorganise them into the correct sections on Ven Diagram. Highly visual and some clever word beginning with 'K' which I can't remember at 1.30 am in the morning!
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 12:51 AM
One of the cool things about using PowerPoint on an interactive whiteboard is that you can actually save your annotations as part of your presentation!
I'm not a great artist, but one of the older members of my department is brilliant. In the past he would always draw them using chalk. Getting him to draw some of them on the interactive whiteboard was hard, but very rewarding in the long run as we were able to save and recyle them throughout the department.
I often cheat and import a picture of someone famous and use them as the centre piece of a spider graph or 'idea shower' (brainstorm)!
Whatever you decide to use the interactive whiteboard for at the end of the day it is the dialectic or dicussion that takes place between the student, class and the teacher that is important in developing their thinking skills. It is a tool, not a centre piece of a lesson or you will soon find that the novelty will wear off!
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 01:06 AM
One of my favour sites is the BBC history website:
There are some really great animated steam engines which are great for getting across complex ideas such as rotatory motion and how the inventors can connect a steam engine to the factory floor. The cotton mill animation is a must see as you will recognise the famous scene that the've animated.
You can use this website, the history channel and bitesize to get students to come to the front to select the answers, build steam engines and do any number of clever things such as fling the teacher. The important thing is to keep the fun centred on the learning objectives that you set out at the start of the lesson.
Of course my all time favour site is of course school history. If you want to ensure that your internet connection doesn't let you down you can actually download many of Andrew Field's brilliant games by right clicking over the file name and saving the target to whatever location suits your purposes.
You can also use your interactive whiteboard pens to tag to write notes all over webpages. Setting up a discussion which involves underlining key words, concepts, facts or quotes with the highligter pen can help to teach the students how scan read and research topics. It sounds clever, but it is very simple and easy to do!
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 01:25 AM
To be honest it just depends upon the way that you have set out your room. I am spoilt for space as mine used to be an old domestic science classroom. Unfortunately my roof reguarly leaks so fixing it to the ceiling is a bad idea. I chose the mobile option for two reasons. Firstly to avoid the leaks and secondly so that I could still use my OHP screen.
One of the problems with interactive whiteboards is that schools often go for the cheapest option, which means a small board! If I want to do a PP presentation, watch a video or DVD using my data projector, then being able to move the whiteboard out of the way and pulling the data projector trolley back means that I can make the picture bigger or smaller to suit my puposes.
Fixing an mobile TV aerial into the back of your video and tunning it in means that you can watch the footy or tennis on the big screen!
The big disadvantage of the mobile option is that you can have a lot of cables on the floor for students to trip over.
The main perceived advantage of a mobile whiteboard is that you can move it around other classrooms. I have never found this easy or practical!
Posted 29 June 2004 - 01:35 AM
I will check back in tonight (Tuesday) after 8pm, once I've got the kids tucked in bed with their favourite bedtime story about a famous nasty old King whose stomach exploded shortly after he died, because he never ate enough fruit or veg. (He also had it coming) Any guesses?
Roy Huggins
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 01:41 AM
Posted 29 June 2004 - 07:33 AM
I think back to the use of Smartboards - I was lucky when I started teaching four years ago, I was given a Smartboard in my room and since then I have always managed to have access to one. The problem I find is that some teachers see them as a souped-up extension of a standard whiteboard and nothing else. Even PowerPoint has its limitations. The best practice for Interactive whiteboard technology has to remain in that word interactive - without it we have little more than an expensive whiteboard (Do others agree?)
What has training been like on Smartboards or have people been expected to just go straight into it and learn from it? Anyway is that perhaps an on-going problem, in that the training for this new technology is not cutting through the basics and showing us the true potential of this technlogy.
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 05:19 PM
There is some very good backup and training with smartboards. If you purchase one of their interactive whiteboards they will come in and do unlimited demonstrations and training for staff in order to promote their product.
If its free grab it and run with it. You should find their address on the back of the board.
There are two excellent features of a smart board! Firstly it comes bundled with a software package called smartnotes. This software can be installed on an unlimited number of Pcs and laptops in your school. The cool thing about this software is that you can achieve a lot of the interactive features of a whiteboard by just using a data projector and your mouse. Secondly, if you remove one of the pens from its tray you can write using your finger tip. It impresses the kids!
Hot tip! If you struggle trying to move text around on an interactive whiteboard, try using your nails rather than your finger tip! This discovery has led to a new generation of interactive whiteboards being issued with a stylus or pen to move stuff around.
Posted 29 June 2004 - 05:59 PM
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 06:19 PM
If any of you have watched the government literacy video where the teacher produces a model or demonstration answer on why the Roman Army was so successful or why William won the Battle of Hastings then you recognise this model of teaching. Try it, it works!
I might as a starter of gone for 5 bullet points in 2 minutes with one half of the class on the disadvanatges of a Motte & Bailey Castle and with the other half of the class, the advantages of a Square Keep castles.
The students feed back into two thinking skill review triangles and we would then debate the order of piority using smart notes on the interactive whiteboard.
This warm up exercise would take maybe 15 minutes.
I would then change task and use some looping cards on the literary conventions of a formal letter. This task would be followed up by posibly looking at an example of a similar letter which we might take apart on the interactive whiteboard using one of the highligter pens. I would use the schools marking policy to identify paragraphs, spellings, key words etc. I may get stuents to underline or mark the example on the interactive whiteboard and get them to explain their decisions.
This part of the process might take 30 minutes and at my school I would then do a KWL triangle review for my plenary.
The aim of the next lesson is to produce a formal letter to Richard de Warren recommending that he replace his old Motte & Bailey Castle with a new Square Keep at Conisbrough.
We might start this lesson by getting students to feed back their results from the KWL triangle from the previous lesson and posssibly raise outstanding questions. We would look at a pursuasive writing frame for useful phrases.
We would then move onto the cool part which is the demonstration writing using the interactive whiteboard!
There are three ways of doing it. One is obviously writing on the board and using the text converter (My hand writing is so bad it only occasionally works). The second is to write using the key pad on your laptop, whilst the third and very cool way is to use a wireless key board which you hold in the crook of your left arm!
I would begin the demonstration writing on a template in smartnotes and start the discussion off by saying to the students: 'So how should I address or start the letter up.' They as a class suggest answers and we democratically chose an option and then begin the writing process. They might lift phrases or key words from the pursasive prompt sheet.
I would continue in this way for another 10 minutes until I had written about half of the letter. I would then stop and ask the students to produce their own, which they might finish off for homework.
As a plenary at the end of the lesson I may get a student to draw a ring around all the correct litearcy conventions or pursasive language on the model answer on the interactive whiteboard.
I've done a very similar lesson to this on about 6 separate occasions. Nicky has an excellent writing frame for a formal letter layout and I have a great prompt sheet for pursasive language.
Thi type of literacy lesson on an interactive whiteboard or even a data projector with smart notes will go down a treat. You can do similar letters of complaint to General Haigh or even do the same trick with a personal letter to a close family friend, which obviously uses different literary conventions.
Remember the day you stop learning is the day you die! Nothing worthwhile doing is ever going to be easy. Have fun playing around and experimenting.
Roy Huggins
Posted 29 June 2004 - 08:16 PM
1. Those who are keen to push their teaching to the limits, exploring every possible potential use - perhaps 1-2 % of whiteboard owners.
2. Those who use the whiteboard for a bit of Powerpoint and Internet work - perhaps - 98% of users.
It is so infuriating not to have one of these devices yet - but I will have one for the new term thankfully. I guess one real use of this seminar would be to offer clear and usable reasons highlighting why a history teacher should have an interactive board rather than a projector onto his / her standard board.
Any suggestions?
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Posted 29 June 2004 - 08:30 PM
I would agree that I use mine 80% ofthe time for internet, PP and smart notes.
Its having the time to invest in reviewing CD Roms etc. We've got 7 weeks this Summer, so I'm looking forward to doing some research and being creative.
The most important point I would like to leave with people is that it is only a tool. A tool that has to be used thoughfully, not as an end in itself.
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The Art Of Motherhood
With Mother's Day approaching (and thank goodness for design and craft blogs or I would never remember these things), I embarked on a search for works of art that celebrate motherhood in, and this is crucial, non-cheesy ways. I found a few…
...but not a lot. If you know of any great ones, please share with the class!
- Let's kick it off with Tallcow's block print made just for all the mamitas out there. It's sold as a card, but at 7"x7", I think it would look great framed in your friend's/girlfriend's/sister's closet or bathroom, a sassy reminder that she's still the hottest thing on eight wheels.
- I love the colors and style of Mamá Convierte Las Lágrimas en Pipas by Vireta, but can anyone out there help with the translation? I've got it all except pipas, which my Spanish dictionary defines as the pips of fruits (or a barrel, cask, or pipe). Mother transforms tears into pips? I may not understand every word, but the feel of this piece is lovely.
- This Mama Bear woodblock print by Tugboat Printshop, and it is fierce, perfect for the toughest mother you know.
- APAK's Motherhood illustration is so sweet- I would hang it in my kitchen. It's only a $5 notecard, but stuck in a cute frame it would make a great gift.
- There's nothing like a hot-pink reminder of who exactly is the boss, and this Mummy Rules print by Rebecca Winter from MyDeco should do the trick.
- Last but not least, we have three works from one of the masters of the art of motherhood, Nikki McClure. Her poster print Please is very moving to me, as my mom and grandma started teaching me to bake when I was three years old. I make pastry for a living, but remain forever humbled by my grandma's transcendent baked goods. Trust is one of a set of four Mama + Baby prints. They're all great, but I love this pregnant lady on the rocks the best- so tough. Windsock is an original papercut, a celebration of natural forces. I like that this mom appears to be a slightly-older mom- there are so many kinds of moms!
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Widely regarded as the best of the films that 'The Venoms' made, Cheng Cheh's follow up to The Five Deadly Venoms is really just a sequel in name only and was actually released under the more appropriate alternate title of Crippled Avengers. The film has nothing to do with the first one outside of the fact that the principal cast members who made that picture so memorable and so dynamic return - but let's not nitpick, as this picture delivers everything fans of period martial arts films could want in a fight film.
The movie starts off with a bang as a man named Tian-du Dao (Chan Kuan Tai) arrives home just in time to see a gang called the Tinan Tigers cutting off his wife's legs and chopping off his young son's hands. The wife dies, but the son grows up to be a deadly martial artists, trained by his father in the Tiger Style he wields with deadly precision. To compensate for the fact that he doesn't have any hands, the elder Dao builds his son, Chang (Lu Feng), some bad ass iron hands that not only smash through anything and everything but also shoot darts out of their finger tips. Together, father and son roam the town and basically boss everyone around, which causes some understandable resentment with a few of the locals.
Philip Kwok, Lo Meng, Sun Chien and Chiang Sheng each play one of these locals who get on the wrong side of Chang and his iron fists. One of them has his eyes gouged out, another is made mute and deaf, a third has his legs chopped off and the fourth has his head clamped in iron so tightly that he's made into 'an idiot.' Thankfully, these four are able to work together to compensate for their individual disabilities and once they're trained by a kindly old teacher, they decide that their collective fighting abilities might just be enough to stop those who handicapped them from wreaking further havoc on an undeserving population.
Like so many kung-fu movies, a lot of this picture's running time is made up of training sequences, but here they have a fair bit more originality than most as they show us how each of the four heroes learns to use his disability to his advantage. Our blind fighter, for example, almost instantly learns how to train his ear to hear so well that he can throw knives through falling leaves before they even touch the ground. Our legless combatant gets some iron boots, courtesy of our deaf mute (who was a blacksmith before he was rendered handicapped), which you know will come in handy later - good stuff like that, which is a fair bit more interesting than the standard 'carrying buckets of water with outstretched arms' training sequences that are used so often.
This also allows director Cheh, who co-wrote the script, to work in his seemingly omnipresent theme of brotherhood and manly loyalty into the story. While this theme pops up in almost all of his work, here it's very prominent as we learn how our four heroes form a bond. There's a good mix of humor here, though it's not so over the top that you can call this a kung-fu comedy in the mold made famous by Jackie Chan, and the action scenes are outstanding in terms of their choreography and their execution. Not only do we get plenty of solid hand-to-hand combat scenes but we get a few rock solid weapons fights as well, all shot and cut to a natural rhythm and shot in such a way as to accentuate each of the main performer's abilities.
With heroes you can cheer for and bad guys evil enough to hiss at, The Return Of The 5 Deadly Venoms is top tier old school martial arts mayhem at its best. There's a reason that this film is so beloved in martial arts circles, and that's because it's really well made and that on top of that it's also deliriously entertaining. Great fights, a fun storyline, exciting martial arts displays and just the right amount of humor combined with some top notch camera work, fun and flamboyant costumes and those instantly recognizable Shaw Brothers sets make this one a true classic.
Dragon Dynasty presents The Return Of The 5 Deadly Venoms in a good 2.35.1 anamorphic widescreen progressive scan transfer that looks very nice indeed. There's a little bit of natural looking film grain in some spots, though other spots show what looks like some minor digital scrubbing which results in some moderately waxy looking skin tones in spots. There isn't any serious print damage worth noting, however, and the color reproduction looks very strong. Black levels are consistent and deep enough and shadow detail remains decent throughout. There's some minor aliasing in some spots but not noticeable compression artifacts. All in all, they've done a very nice job here and the movie looks good.
You've got the option of watching the film in its original Mandarin or in its English dubbed version with optional subtitles offered up in English, English SDH, and Spanish. As far as older mono tracks go, there's nothing to complain about here. The limitations inherent in the format are there, but you can't fault the DVD for that. Levels are properly balanced, there are no problems with hiss or distortion to note and the subtitles are easy to read and free of any obvious typos, even if there are a few awkward phrases here and there.
Aside from a few promos for other Dragon Dynasty titles that play before you get to the main menu screen, there's an animated menu screen and chapter selection options - that's it, this is pretty much a barebones release.
Some extras would have been a nice touch but the transfer and audio are pretty solid. As to the movie itself? Chang Cheh made a lot of great movies but very few of them are as good as this one. A perfect mix of action, humor, excitement and tension, The Return Of The 5 Deadly Venoms is a high point in the careers of all involved and a stand out film in the huge Shaw Brothers catalogue.
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"YuMe Ads" Offer Brands Widest Variety of Options, Shortest Time to Market for Industry's Fastest-Growing Video Screen
"YuMe Ads" Offer Brands Widest Variety of Options, Shortest Time to Market for Industry's Fastest-Growing Video Screen
REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 20, 2012) - YuMe, the leading provider of digital video brand advertising software and services, today announced availability of the industry's most extensive portfolio of tablet-specific ad units and a new tablet video product offering. The new ad units, part of the YuMe Ads product offering, give brands and agencies the shortest time to interactive tablet video ad unit delivery in the advertising industry, and include both ready-made and custom execution options. With the new ad units and ad offering, tablets can now be targeted in highly-effective independent campaigns, or as part of multi-screen video brand advertising campaigns on the Connected Audience Network.
Infinite Tablet Advertising Options, Quick Turnaround
As the fastest-growing mobile application category1 in terms of overall traffic, video consumption on tablet screens represents a massive advertising opportunity for today's leading brands to engage with consumers. Within the mobile category, a recent study showed 54 percent of tablet users2 report watching video on their tablets on a weekly basis. YuMe's development of Mobile Flip and other tablet-oriented ad units gives brands and agencies an infinite number of ready-made as well as custom designed interactive video advertising options to effectively reach this rapidly growing audience.
Explaining how a Mobile Flip execution helped the CW cable network's 2012 fall season launch, Jet Wharton, West Coast Digital Director of media agency OMD said: "Understanding the interests of the tech-savvy influencers and the heavy mobile and tablet usage among our primary audience (women 18-34), we wanted to leverage those behaviors to drive brand awareness and show tune-in. Working with YuMe to create the network's first-ever Mobile Flip ad unit, we were able to deliver the type of progressive, interactive content that we knew would engage our audience, and also enable sharing across screens -- their own as well as their influencer networks."
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Used for either stand-alone tablet campaigns, or as part of an orchestrated multi-screen video advertising initiative, YuMe Ads offer a number of unique technology and ad unit development benefits, including:
1. Reduced Time to Market; Increased Variety of Tablet Ad Units - YuMe offers unique, interactive video brand experiences on tablet devices that can be delivered to market in less than a week, and with ready-made as well as custom-made executions.
2. Integrated Tablet SDK and YuMe Ads Framework - YuMe's state-of-the-art, lightweight software development kits (SDKs) are now available for tablet devices. Premium publishers use the SDK to quickly monetize their tablet audience and applications. The YuMe Ads Framework is designed from the ground up to support multi-screen video advertising by determining the tablet or other viewing device, then adapting the video ad size, layout and encoding accordingly.
3. Comprehensive Brand Flexibility and Control - YuMe guarantees 100 percent of ads run on premium publications and mobile applications, both in-app via the tablet SDK, and on the mobile Web with our transparent HTML5 compatibility. Ads are placed inside brand-safe content, are fully visible, quality placements, and are contextually relevant. Integrated rich-targeting capabilities include demographics, geography, day-part, ad context, device make and model, mobile operating system, device age, and more, all at scale. Rich analytics and brand lift reporting ensure delivery of actionable brand insights.
"YuMe Ads means delivering fast, highly-interactive and measurable video brand experiences on tablets, the YuMe way," commented Ed Haslam, senior vice president of marketing, YuMe. "Using our SDK and the YuMe Ads Framework, for the first time, brands can deliver unique tablet video branding experiences with a rich and unprecedented variety of interactive, custom executions."
To learn more about currently available YuMe Ads for tablet and smartphones, please visit: http://www.yume.com/content/ad-gallery-tablet-ads
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1 Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2011-2016, February 14, 2012.
2 Online Publisher's Association (OPA), "A Portrait of Today's Tablet User - Wave II" conducted by Frank N. Magid Associates, June 18, 2012.
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Bottom Line Apparel has come up with a great t-shirt just in time for the Bruins' big playoff showdown with the Montreal Canadiens, which begins Thursday night at the TD Garden.
And the best news is that for every shirt you buy using the Code BBLOG, TheBruinsBlog.net will get a cut of the proceeds. Before completing your order, click on "special instructions" and insert the code in the box.
To go directly to the shirt's page, click on the ad.
The shirt, as seen in the left rail, is black with a gold and white Canadiens' 'C' swallowing a 911 instead of the traditional 'H'– a reference to what many in Montreal did after Zdeno Chara's hit on Max Pacioretty landed the Habs forward in the hospital. The criminal investigation against Chara is still ongoing.
You can show your support for the Black and Gold by getting this Gildan brand, ultra cotton, 6.1 oz shirt from Bottom Line apparel. They have it sized SM through XXL
Shipping is 1-2 days in New England. If you order before 3 p.m. Tuesday, you'll definitely have it by mail delivery on Thursday prior to the start of the series.
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Lauren Suzanne Cecil, 11, of Lorven Drive, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2013, doing what she loved, swimming.
Lauren Suzanne Cecil, 11, of Lorven Drive, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2013, doing what she loved, swimming.
A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Holly Grove Lutheran Church, where she was a member, by Pastor John Mocko. Burial will follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Davidson Funeral Home and other times at the home.
Lauren was a child who was loved as much as any child in this world could be loved. Lauren was sunshine to her family and had a unique love for her family and friends. She would have been in the sixth grade at Central Davidson Middle School and was a member of Girls on the Run, Brookside Swim Team and loved anything to do with water, including fishing at the lake.
Lauren was born May 11, 2002, in Davidson County to Robert Keith Cecil III and Lori Frank Cecil, who survive of the home, along with grandparents Herbert and Debbie Frank, Bob Cecil and Donna Wayne Hilterbrand, all of Lexington; great-grandparents Jack and Lalah Frank and Carl and Etta Lee Conrad; uncles Steven and Debbie Frank, Joey Cecil and Johnny Cecil; great-aunts and uncles Keith and Shirley Frank, Amy and Jim Horn and Charles and Peggy Conrad; cousins Trey Cecil, Drake Cecil and Mandy and Shane Lawrence; and her loving pet dog, "CC."
Memorials may be directed to The Dragonfly House, 161 E. Lexington Road, Mocksville, NC 27028.
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The medics radioed in that they wanted us to look at a possible STEMI before they activated an alert and took the patient straight to the catheterization lab.
The medics radioed in that they wanted us to look at a possible STEMI before they activated an alert and took the patient straight to the catheterization lab.
STEMI, or "ST elevation myocardial infarction," is a type of acute heart attack that frequently is fatal if not treated right away. A more colloquial name for it is "the big one."
In terms of treating heart attacks, "time is muscle." That is why rapid evaluation is performed to determine whether the likely cause of symptoms is a blocked coronary vessel that could respond to acute intervention.
The most-effective treatment is balloon angioplasty, or PCI - percutaneous coronary intervention - which can unblock blood vessels and directly restore circulation to the oxygen- and blood-starved portion of heart muscle.
Once the patient arrived, I could see why the medics were uncomfortable about sending her directly to the catheterization lab for PCI.
It is one thing to have a 50-year-old man who is overweight, has high cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, and was shoveling snow suddenly feel as if an elephant is sitting on his chest.
But this patient was an 80-year-old woman who was feeling weak and dizzy, somewhat nauseated and "just not right" since her husband had died two weeks before. She had some chest pain, but it was vague and, in her words, "not-the-end-of-the-world kind of pain."
Her vital signs showed borderline low blood pressure and low oxygen. Her EKG did look concerning, but it was almost too bad to be real. Although she appeared to have blockages in two arteries, I thought it unlikely that she was having "the big one."
That's why I decided to perform additional tests before sending her to have her arteries opened.
The further workup showed some evidence of fluid buildup in her lungs, likely from early heart failure, and slight elevations of her cardiac markers, proteins that are released by a stressed heart.
However, these findings neither confirmed nor ruled out a heart attack.
We continued and got a cardiac echocardiogram, an ultrasound evaluation of the heart.
That ultrasound made the diagnosis. It was not a heart attack.
This woman had takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a condition also known as transient apical ballooning syndrome, which can mimic a heart attack.
The syndrome is defined as a sudden weakening of the heart muscle because of coronary spasm. In other words, it is not caused by decreased circulation as a result of blockages or ruptured plaques within the arteries.
These spasms can be brought on by high levels of adrenaline, well explained by the recent death of her husband.
The ultrasound findings in these cases show a ballooning or bagginess in the lower tip of the left ventricle. The disease, named for ceramic Japanese octopus traps, causes a narrow constriction between the ventricles and the atria, or the upper, smaller chambers of the heart.
The diagnosis generally is made once other causes are ruled out.
My patient eventually underwent catheterization so we could examine her coronary arteries.
She fit the picture of a "typical" takotsubo patient. She had just gone through extreme emotional distress and exhibited symptoms of heart failure.
The patient illustrated perfectly the alternative name for this diagnosis: "broken-heart syndrome."
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Birmingham, UK, 15 August 2012—A survey conducted by OCLC in spring of this year among librarians from the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands shows that practitioners expect library usage to change considerably. About three quarters expected a rise in online visits within the next year, and two-thirds of those who responded anticipate a change in the primary reason to visit the library in the next five years.
Libraries: A Snapshot of Priorities and Perspectives is now available on the OCLC website, where reports for the United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands can be downloaded.
The increase in online visits that is expected by 71-85 percent of librarians (percentages vary by country) contrasts dramatically with their expectations of low growth in physical visits in the next 12 months. Demonstrating perhaps that users will continue to rely on libraries for getting their information, but not necessarily by coming through the library doors.
The primary reason for library use will also change in the next five years, according to 59-71 percent of responding librarians. With access to online databases and journals increasing in popularity as a primary reason in 2017 for 'visits,' the survey confirms the view that the borrowing of physical items is still the primary reason for visiting libraries today.
As a library cooperative, OCLC initiates in-depth studies and topical surveys regularly to help libraries better understand issues and trends that affect librarianship and help plan for the future. "This is the first time we conducted a survey specifically among European librarians, so that the report can focus on the findings that are relevant for this particular part of the world," said Eric van Lubeek, managing director of OCLC EMEA.
According to the survey, among the top priorities for libraries to focus their activities are delivering eContent, forming community partnerships, the library's role in the future of higher education, visibility of the library's collection and demonstration of the library value to its funders.
There were 279 librarians from the United Kingdom, 143 librarians from Germany and 152 librarians from the Netherlands who participated in the survey held among public and academic library staff and management. OCLC conducted a similar study among librarians in the United States in 2011. Snapshot reports from all these surveys can be found on the OCLC website www.oclc.org/reports.
About OCLC
Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, OCLC is a nonprofit library service and research organization that has provided computer-based cataloging, reference, resource sharing, eContent, preservation, library management and Web services to 72,000 libraries in 171 countries and territories. OCLC and its member libraries worldwide have created and maintain WorldCat, the world's richest online resource for finding library materials. Search WorldCat.org on the Web at www.worldcat.org. For more information, visit www.oclc.org.
OCLC, WorldCat and WorldCat.org are trademarks/service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Third-party product, service and business names are trademarks/service marks of their respective owners.
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text: TigerIllustrated.com reported Monday afternoon Clemson has pulled its offer from committed DE Elijah Daniel of Avon, IN. Daniel committed to the Tigers in June but has taken official visits to other schools this fall, and was planning for others. He has not visited Clemson since committing and had not set an official visit with the Tigers. But earlier this month Daniel said he was firm with Clemson and had not seen anything that would turn him away. He is the third commitment to come off the Clemson 2013 class in the past two weeks.


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The Mediterranean food pyramid provides inspiring ingredients for healthy eating.
Today marks the beginning of a new calendar year, and I started the morning off right with homemade waffles. This particular morning I added a mashed banana and pecans to the batter and drizzled the finished product with honey instead of syrup. I guess you could say it was my annual attempt to start the year off eating more healthy. Then, while sipping a cup of peppermint tea, I spent a few hours browsing through cookbooks hoping to be inspired by new recipes.
Don't we all intend to eat healthier and excercise more after the holidays? Today I walked my dog twice. My morning snack consisted of fresh mandarin oranges. Then later in the day I opted for another orange instead of the chocolate cookie that was calling my name.
I appreciate each new year as it's an annual reminder healthy eating is an important part of my life. And this year my true resolution is to complete the cookbook started last summer. The Mediterranean food pyramid continues to inspire and I yearn to share.


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Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa Wednesday urged her AIADMK party to comprehensively defeat the DMK in the 2014 general election.
In a letter to party cadres on the occasion of the 42nd anniversary of AIADMK, Jayalalithaa said: "We should take a vow to permanently defeat the DMK led by M. Karunanidhi."
She said DMK founder C.N. Annadurai brought the party to power in Tamil Nadu defeating the Congress that had ruled the state for 20 years.
According to her, Karunanidhi began to convert the party into his family property and he tried to erase the memory of Annadurai.


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Nothing seems to go wrong for the Dodgers these days. They play. They win. They count down toward the National League West championship.
But, for one scary moment Sunday, they had visions of disaster.
Not only had Zack Greinke decided the time was right to try to steal second base, he launched into a headfirst slide to get there. With Greinke following Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers might have the most dominant 1-2 pitching punch in postseason play, but the team's collective heart skipped a beat as Greinke flung himself toward the bag.
BOX SCORE: Dodgers 2, Padres 1
"You hold your breath, basically," infielder Nick Punto said.
Greinke was safe. The Dodgers exhaled, then proceeded to another victory, this one 2-1 over the San Diego Padres. Yasiel Puig hit a home run on Cuban Heritage Day, and the Dodgers extended their lead in the NL West to a season-high 111/2 games.
"Everybody is very excited we're going to the playoffs," Puig said through an interpreter.
That might be rookie enthusiasm, a bit offensive to the baseball gods, but it's the truth. The Dodgers' magic number is 16. They swept the Padres. They have won 51 or their last 64 games and are 34-8 since the All-Star break.
Put it this way: For every 10 games they have played, they have won eight — and they have maintained that pace for more than two months. They have gained 21 games in the standings in 72 days.
"It's unheard of," Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly said.
For all the glamour of the offensive cast, the Dodgers win with pitching, and that pitching starts with Kershaw and Greinke.
On Sunday, Greinke held the Padres to one run and two hits over seven innings, with Ronald Belisario, Paco Rodriguez and Kenley Jansen combining for the final two innings. Jansen struck out two in a perfect ninth inning, becoming the first Dodgers reliever with a 100-strikeout season since Jonathan Broxton in 2009.
Kershaw, the best pitcher in baseball, leads the major leagues with a 1.72 earned-run average. Greinke is at 2.78, the next-best mark among projected NL playoff starters. In his last seven starts, his ERA is 1.42.
Greinke is 14-3, having won six consecutive decisions, and the Dodgers are 19-4 when he starts.
"Just don't want to waste all our good starts now," he said.
So it was with October in mind, and with more than a little bit of concern, that the Dodgers saw Greinke take off from first base on the fifth inning.
"They didn't say not to," he said.
The score was tied, 1-1. He said he wanted to get into scoring position, or get thrown out and let the Dodgers start the next inning with leadoff batter Carl Crawford.
And then Greinke slid headfirst, beating shortstop Ronny Cedeno's tag — but exposing his pitching hand to injury.
"Last-minute decision," he said. "I felt it was safer than going feet-first. Maybe I was wrong."
Said Mattingly: "As long as he didn't get hurt, he's fine. This guy is an athlete. When you start putting them in a box and wrapping them up, that's when they get hurt."
Greinke was safe, and he was fine.
"My No. 1 goal is not to get hurt, obviously," he said. "I didn't feel it was very risky at all. [Cedeno] didn't put his feet in front of the bag. He didn't put his knee in front of the bag."
But he could have.
"Then I hit him in the next at-bat," Greinke said.
And then Greinke paused, with only a hint of a smile.
"Probably," he said.
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jblake12 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
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Ramo Games is building an immersive kids-focused gaming product. We are based in the Bay Area.
We want to stop there and not reveal much more and instead, encourage the community to use its creativity to generate some great logo ideas as we forge ahead! Simple designs that are powerful are encouraged.
"Ramo" means "to play" in Gujarati, an Indian dialect.
- People should want to play our games when they see our logo. Parents should trust it and feel that it is safe, but kids should find it cool and exciting.
- We don't want the logo to look babyish, but smart, dynamic, and strong.
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The only interesting new game in this week's Famitsu, looks like ADV from Persona team, not much to see in the scan...- horror/adult action adventure- producer Katsura Hashino- chara design Shigenori Soejima- composer Shoji Meguro
Game Jouhou has posted a bunch of additional details on Catherine, Atlus's new PS3 and Xbox 360 action adventure game.As detailed below, Catherine is the first HD game from Atlus. It's being made with key members of the Persona staff. Included in the staff list are Katsura Hashino as producer and director, Shigenori Soejima as character designer, and Shouji Meguro as sound composer.While the game's name is Catherine, the main character is actually a 32-year-old salaryman named Vincent (voiced by Koichi Yamadera). Catherine (voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro) is a stylish 22-year-old girl who apparently has the charms of a young girl.The game begins when Vincent, a vegetarian who has no ambition in work or love (I'm not sure if he's literally a "vegetarian," or if the term "vegetarian" is some sort of metaphor for his personality) runs into the mysterious Catherine one day. At night, he has nightmares.The nightmares serve as an action component for the game. Set in a world with an unending stairway, Vincent has to make it to the top of the stairs, or he will not be able to awaken.Based off Game Jouhou's summary, it's a bit unclear how the game will progress. However, it does seem that even during the nightmare action parts, you'll end up working through the story and encountering events.During a staff interview, Hashino said that as their first HD game, rather than trying out a true RPG, the team was excited about trying out something new. It looks like Catherine will be just that, as Hashino said it will be more adult oriented than past titles from the team. It's not all style, though. Hashino promised a deep play experience with plenty of gameplay for players to sink their teeth into.Soejima said that there are some shockingly adult scenes in the game. When you play these scenes, they'll be even more stimulating, although in a difference sense.Meguro confirmed the adult leanings of the title, saying that the keywords for the game's music are "classic," "adult oriented" and "erotic." He also promised 5.1ch sound.Meguro also made a comment that has Persona fans excited. He said that due to Catherine, he believes for the time being the staff won't be asked about their next title. However, at some point next year, perhaps he'll be able to respond "Regarding the RPG, Hashino and I are..."A hint at Persona 5?
It sound worse than I thought , so far nothing suggest any kind of gameplay and It seemed to be a Persona without RPG elements or Random dungeon :)
Before we storm the hi-def consoles with one of our RPGs, we wanted to try making something new," Hashino told Famitsu magazine this week. "These are the results, and it's pretty weird...or, I should say, pretty neat! What's unusual about it is how geared toward adults it is... It may wind up being a love-or-hate kind of game, but to those who find it fascinating, I hope we can provide them with a novel and interesting experience.
I'm sad some people aren't as interested because it isn't the Persona 5 they were hoping for...
We haven't had a lot of horror this gen, so I'm in.
I'm sad some people aren't as interested because it isn't the Persona 5 they were hoping for...I'm interested - they hope to be different, and I'm curious about the more adult-orientated content OMG MAIN HERO IS OVR 30!?!?!?!?!?I'm almost sold for that reason alone - typical RPG brats and cast o' cliche's are started to hit my last nerve.


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The Bears' starting tailback is worried about getting injured. Yes. Well. Football is a dangerous game. Didn't you hear? It was in all the newspapers.
Forte wants more money. Forte has an existing contract. Negotiation is a dangerous game, too, one that Forte can't win unless the Bears let him, similar to the way the Packers deal with the Bears.
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