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Billy Etbauer is an American cowboy and rodeo rider.
He was born in Huron, South Dakota, January 15, 1963, and now lives in Edmond, Oklahoma. He won the saddle bronc riding World Championship five times. In the early years he traveled and competed with his brothers Robert(1991 World Champ) and Dan Etbauer. He is known for winning the 10th round of the NFR at least 10 times. He has made it to the NFR a record 20 times in saddle bronc riding. In 2005 he was a guest on the David Letterman show and spoke about the NFR. In 1992 he won $101,531 in 10 days at the finals. As of 2007 he had $2.7 million on PRCA earnings alone. He and his wife raise quarter horses in Oklahoma.
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Kay- please hop onto #asfinfra sometime soon so I can speak to you about the requirements for AOO regarding Apache mirrors- you CANNOT use the ordinary closer.cgi script for AOO! It'd be easier to explain the situation to you over some dialog that is best accomplished on irc. Thx. >________________________________ > From: Kay Schenk <email@example.com> >To: ooo-dev <firstname.lastname@example.com> >Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:54 PM >Subject: [WWW] two questions about DL button on home page... > >Hi all-- > >Right now, when I click on "I want to download OpenOffice", I don't the >expanded green button I was getting last week, for example. I had made some >changes to this a week or so ago, but the changes that I incorporated, and >the green button itself were just fine after that. I think my current >experience may be due to a problem with getting the mirror link but I need >to confirm this in a bit. > >So, question #1. >I would like someone else to try this and let the list know what your >results are -- are you getting the expanded green button or being shuttled >to /download/index.html instead? > >Question #2. If you're not getting the DL button, or even if you are, how >strongly do you feel about having the expanding button, or would just a >jump to /download/index.html be just as good? > >I know there was a LOT of discussion when this design first emerged, but, >it would much much easier for changes in DL code -- Rob's proposal for >unification of yesterday for instance -- if we could just dump this >"internal" DL button on the home page. Yes, the buttons are the same to the >eye anyway on both the main index.html page and /download/index.html but >the html implementation is different, different enough that both these >areas need to be changed when changes are needed. Additionally, dumping the >"generated" button on the home page would allow us to standardize more >easily on incorporating the DL button -- the code used on >/download/index.html -- on other pages like the NL pages. > >Thanks for looking at this and responding. > >-- >---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >MzK > >"Well, life has a funny way of sneaking up on you >And life has a funny way of helping you out >Helping you out." > -- "Ironic", Alanis Morissette > > >
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Audemars Piguet, made for Gübelin. An extremely fine and rare 18K white gold and enamel openface minute repeating perpetual calendar split seconds chronograph keyless lever watch with phases of the moon
Signed E. Gübelin, Lucerne, No. 14843, manufactured in 1923
Cal. 18''' SMCRV nickel-finished lever movement, 35 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, micrometer regulator, minute repeating on two polished steel hammers onto two gongs, the silvered dial with Arabic numerals, four subsidiary dials indicating month combined with leap year indicator and 30 minutes register, day, date and phases of the moon combined with constant seconds, in circular case with inlaid black enamel Greek pattern decorated bezel, rim, pendant and bow, the hinged back centred by the engraved initials J.S.C., repeating slide in the band, split seconds chronograph mechanism operated through a button in the band and through the crown, case numbered, dial signed, movement signed and numbered
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Accompanied by colour copies of Audemars Piguet worksheets confirming production of the present watch in 1923 and its sale to E. Gübelin in February 1924 for the amount of Swiss Francs 3,300.
This very fine watch features the Greek meander pattern on the bezels and the bow, typical for Audemars Piguet's celebrated triple complications from the period.
E. Gübelin was founded in 1854 and has always been a family enterprise. Located in Lucerne, Switzerland, the renowned company has been manufacturing and retailing superior quality watches and clocks ever since. One of Audemars Piguet's most important clients in the first quarter of the 20th century, watches supplied to them were bearing exclusively the Gübelin signature. This at the time common practice had been agreed by contract, stipulating the omitting of Audemars Piguet's signature, with the exception of the serial numbers.
A similar watch is described and illustrated in Audemars Piguet by Gisbert L. Brunner, Christian Pfeiffer-Belli, Martin K. Wehrli, first edition, pp. 154 & 155, pl. 133 a & b.


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Lately, I have been having cellphone problems. At the moment, I currently own the Nokia 5230 and it have been a horrible experiences for me. After being happy with it for the first 3 months, Nokia released an update for it and all hell broke loose. Touch screen is not responsive at times, the screen whites out, sometimes static sounds will come from it, and it turns itself off and on. I must get a new phone, and an Android phone looks mighty fine right now.
I started looking at some phones on T-Mobile and I am interested in the Android section. I know that Android phones and its app market is the biggest competitor to the iOS and its app store. After doing some reach, I learned that Android is very flexible when it comes to installing one's custom software and it could run multiple apps at the same time without an problem. Another good thing about Android, I could choose any phone I want, which means that I could pick a phone that fits in my budget. Both Lifehacker and Maximum PC have great articles on the advantages for Android.
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I just listen to the trailer of Wolf's rain and the song is sooo great!But i don't know the name of the song and its not from the wolf's rain soundtrack.I search evrywhere and didn't find it!! :help: so please if someone know it teeeeeeeeell me!!I LOVE YOU ALL!!!
theres a good chance its a song by Maaya Sakamoto (who rules!!!!!) coz she does some of the songs from that but im not sure coz i havent seent the trailer...is there a link to it?
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Haiku you just for you
i love you
i need you
i want you
come back now
turn around
I like this.
I don't know how to make one of those just like I am not good at writing poetry, but I know a good one when I see it. I love this. In my humble opinion, I think it's great.
What's this? You have decided to write agin? I am so glad, Angel Face!
And this is so sweet... :-)
Now I'll have to go Google Haku....
I just though it was a short Hub...
Pleased to see you back with us, its been a long dry spell !
Haiku- always fun to write! Di you mind if I use this as an example in the classroom. The children absolutely love doing this, but sometimes like everything else, the better the examples........ the more understanding they are of the concept. Thanks for this ! Kaie
Right to the point, I love Haiku's
Very nice and gets right to the soul of the message.
Simple words but very expressive. Thank you.
beautifully simple - just the right way to reach someone :)
(an opinion of one, not skilled in writing poetry, but loving to read it). Thank you for sharing, Gypsy Willow.
I hope whomever this to the point message was sent to he/she turned around and returned to you:0) Nicely done.
Very nice first effort...Simple, direct, and expressive...This is a different " haiku " than most other forms that require a certain rigidity of syllabic expression...Although it lacks the disciple of construction it conveys an immediacy to the poems' intent...I enjoyed reading this aloud, with your implied emphasis...Thanks for sharing this with us, I am looking forward to more of the same...Larry
i like it
Hello Gypsy. Well, this is so different I did not know what to make of it. It is raw and powerful, as in less is more. Thank you for sharing.
Nice picture
It was beautiful - you got straight to the point.
enjoyed visiting your site - great work - awesome
Very nice. You know how the saying goes, If you love someone then set them free, and if they come back to you then it is meant to be. :)
Huge depth of feeling in so few words. Beautiful. x
Beautiful! Aloha from Hawaii!
Short and definitely sweet. Thanks for a great Haiku.
..well this is just for you - please accept my humble thanks for visiting me and making my day a happy one.
Your words here are so soft and sweet and true - that it could only come from someone as nice as you!
This is new to me Gypsy Willow, but the picture is awesome and make me want to learn more about Haiku. Thank you for sharing this :)
I enjoyed your lovely Haiku poem. It is straight to the heart of the matter. No pussy footing around. Well done!
Hi Gypsy, love this poem, glad your back! You have a true talent!
I love to get exposure to different forms of writing and poetry. This is the first Haiku I ever liked from the onset. Beautiful...
Thank you for a nice, short and sweet poem. Thank you also for being one of my followers, I appreciate you. Godspeed. creativeone59
Simply but yet perfect. What more is there to say when one is in love. Return, stay, never leave me. Hugs
What I find so beautiful about this poem is the raw honesty. My pride would never allow me to tell a man I am in love with that I need him, want him, or tell him to turn around, come back, or return. Although some have commented on the simplicity of the few words so directly put, I find the reality of what was said, to be extremely complicated. These words could only be uttered by a woman that is self assured, confident, and willing to risk all (emotionally) for love. You are an incredible woman. It saddens me that a woman of my age is either not brave enough or has never loved enough to utter such basic and simple words to a man.
Without knowing this, the poem could be interpreted so many different ways. As poetry often is. Knowing this about you and him gives me a whole new perspective and it is even more beautiful. None of us know if our loved one will return. I lost my husband 3 years ago, suddenly. I know the fear you feel. You at least get to say these words to your husband. I never got the chance and now I never will. Thank you for the explanation and my wish is that he has a safe return home to you every time.
Poignant, simple but complicated too - did you show this to your man?
Amazing! The emotions you've managed to provoke in me with only a (beautiful) picture and a few words. Voted up and up.
I loved it and it is beautiful. Please visit my hub. Thanks for sharing.
Hi, this was full of meaning, I only recently realised what a haiku was! really liked it, thanks nell
lovely green green grass of home
nice photo.
It is really very beautiful Haiku and I liked it. Thanks for sharing.
Gypsy Willow, Beautiful, simple yet Powerful! Thank you for sharing, Peace & Blessings!
I would probably return after reading that! LOL! Thanks for sharing it! WB
Even with such brevity, the formatting and accompanying picture do well to make this understated poem stand out. Thanks. :)
HI, I love this! I think it is because I am getting the idea of Haiku now, before I just thought they were short but profound poems, but now I realise that the most important thing about them is that each word is meaningful, there are no 'waste' words, and that is what makes it so special great example, cheers nell
Short, very sweet and very direct...your work says the most in such a short period of time. Very powerful and thought-provoking.
Short and Sweet.
Thanks. :)
short sweet and powerful, lady e took teh words out of my mouth!
i feel that i must turn around and come back now. how strange
lovely :]
nice poem, though im sorry to say that this isnt a haiku. a haiku is a japanese poem consisting of 3 lines, the first one 5 syllables, second 7, and then finally the third ending with five syllables. all in all this poem should have 17 syllables but it only has 16.
wow such a great improvement. without taking away any of the great in-depth meaning of this peom you have merely made it an even greater haiku!
Beautiful, I like it.
Perfectly said, and all that is needed to be said. Well done!
Still amazes me how much can be said in so few words. Lovely my friend.
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How Short, How Sweet, How Beautiful! I look forward to following your Hubs.
Enjoyed your Haiku, though the form is different, there have been developed several other forms of Haiku as well and this tends to fall in the free haiku category. Voted up.
Yes, I enjoyed the poem but was distracted by the free form. It was enjoyable though.
Brilliant now I get it!!
Thank you!!
So very straight to the point and I am not alone in liking this one obviously. I look forward to catching up with many more from you Gypsy Willow.
Take care
Sometimes a few words is all you need. Beautiful.
So much said in so few words, absolutely beautiful.
Hi, short but very sweet! lol lovely!
Simple, direct to the point and meaningful. Thanks for sharing. I used to write Haiku poems during my high school years. It brings back my desire to compose Haiku poems again.
Thanks for sharing. :D
Very unique and interesting poem! But I've to G-search now to find out what is a Haiku poem. Ciao!
Now I know what a Haiku poem is... very interesting concept. :)
Your words are so simple, yet they are very striking. I wish my poetry was even an ounce as good as yours is.
Short and Sweet..... :)
Powerful, truthful, and from the heart. Nothing more is needed. Beautifully done. I love it!
This was very interesting. Great meaning in few chosen words. Up, awwesome, and beautiful:)
I actually loved it :) great job :)
Hi gypsy, love this haiku, brilliant!
Simple and sweet--just the way haiku should be. Thanks for sharing.
I'm at a loss for words here :) lol. I congratulate you on creating creating one of the shortest epic poems on hubpages I've ever read before. Nice!
I love first Haiku.. really nice...can you teach me?
I voted up and beautiful
Happy New year
I too loved it.. ") why wouldn't he come back lol thanks for sharing :)
Gypsy that's right......... every had some one spacial like as you explain:)
yes my dear i know that but Gypsy my name is "seoendra":(
How have I missed you as well? Such an economy of words - but Wow - the message! I appreciate the challenge to say so much with just a few words. Glad to know you.
73 Comments, so far, and you answered each one. As impressive as the poem was, I found that impressive, too! 22 feedbacks: awesome (2nd most) and beautiful (the blue ribbon winner.) It's surely nice when Hubbers take the time to click the feedback boxes, don't we know!
Nice Haiku! I love the picture too and find that in a way it goes well with your poem....I could see myself in the little trail and turning back!
To write a good Haiku, requires a skill with words and imagery that not all posses. beautiful and up... and hidden within are so many levels and subtlties...
Thank you for this,
(Left a new story for you too!!! heehee)
This reads so urgent, yet so subtly done. Congrats. I like it.
Beautiful poem Gypsy Willow... simple and yet well said. Gonna go and read more of yours now!
Very nice haiku. I hope he came back.
Simply beautiful!!
Volumes said in a few word! Voted up and awesome.
Simple words, yet very powerful. =) Great job.
I like your poem. It made me chuckle. You just come out and say it plainly and forthrightly. Love it! Love the photo too.
A lovely photo with a simple and meaningful Haiku
The simple messages are sometimes the most powerful. This beautiful haiku testifies to this. Tears filled my eyes. I love what you've written. A heart-felt thanks.
Good one! Says a lot with so little.
The meaning and intent is clear. I was looking for the 5-7-5 form of the typical haiku.


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UNITED succumbed to a near last-minute winner by Lincoln striker Matt Rhead on a blustery and wet day at Plainmoor.
Drama struck the game early in the 2nd minute when defender Giancarlo Gallifuoco was penalised for a tackle on Sam Habergham inside his own area and striker Matt Rhead slotted home the resulting penalty. Gallifuoco made amends in the 21st minute when he pressured Lincoln defender Luke Waterfall into diverting the ball into his own net from a Dan Sparkes corner. Then Rhead struck to earn Lincoln all three points in the dying minutes of the game.
Kevin Nicholson made one change to the side that beat Braintree 3-1 seven days ago. Midfielder Sam Chaney dropped to the bench to make way for captain Courtney Richards. Goalkeeper Jamie Robba is on International duty so forward Jamie Chamberlain was named among the substitutes.
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The game was far too open at this point. Both sides were finding space and time on the ball but it was Lincoln who was edging the overall play.
United came back into the match in the 21st minute when Giancarlo Gallifuoco and Waterfall reached for the ball as they stooped to meet a sweetly struck corner from Dan Sparkes. Gallifuoco may have got the first touch on the ball but Waterfall sent it on target and past his own goalkeeper.
Manager Kevin Nicholson bemoaned his side's profligacy in front of goal after the match, and with the amount of chances United created in the first half it would be hard to argue with him.
Luke Young fired over the bar after some neat build up. Reid beat his man on the left wing and found Nathan Blissett but he was well tracked by a defender. The man on loan from Exeter then linked up with Dan Sparkes but the promising move broke down.
A long free-kick from Sean McGinty was met by Gallifuoco inside the box but it was a difficult chance to convert and his header went over the bar.
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One of the best opportunities fell to Aman Verma but it also brought out the best out of Lincoln goalkeeper Paul Farman. Verma headed the ball down with great force, enough to test Farman as it bounced up.
Joe Ward then had two chances in quick succession. Firstly from a run into the box that was well blocked by the covering defender. Then after linking up with Reid, he tried to steady himself after breaking through a few players only to fire over when Verma was well-placed to receive the ball.
Nathan Blissett tested Farman once again when coming in from the left wing. It was a nice height for the 'keeper and he pushed the ball away to safety.
United then had to endure a difficult last twenty minutes. There were panicky moments defending against a Lincoln side that had a hold over possession and created the most chances.
United threatened just once when a promising break was ended when striker Nathan Blissett was closed down by two defenders.
Despite the Gulls mounting stout resistance, the Imps front man Matt Rhead headed past Brendan Moore in added on time to take all three points back to Lincolnshire.
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Mr Howard, who said he intended to stay to the next election, predicted the Treasurer would be Liberal leader one day.
Mr Beazley's first challenge could come as early as June 17. If more time is needed for lobbying, it could be delayed until June 24.
Beazley backers say that if he loses by a margin of 10 to 15 votes, he will mount a second challenge when Parliament resumes in August. If he loses by more than this margin, he is expected to abort his bid to return to the party leadership.
Mr Beazley, who has not yet declared officially that he is a contender, has started lobbying his colleagues over coffee and by telephone.
At this stage, the numbers appear to favour Mr Crean; even Mr Beazley's supporters say he is about six votes short.
Mr Beazley's leadership strategy is believed to have been planned at a meeting last Friday in Sydney attended by Mr Swan, Mr Smith and fellow frontbencher Stephen Conroy, who is also Senate deputy leader.
Mr Crean's supporters have also been discussing their tactics. One option was to bring on a spill of leadership positions in the next two weeks, a spill Mr Crean would be expected to win. But Mr Crean's supporters say this idea has been ditched.
One of Mr Crean's staunchest backers, immigration spokeswoman Julia Gillard, dismissed questions about Mr Crean initiating a spill.
"Mr Crean is the leader of the Labor Party. I think he is doing a fantastic job. I think the polls show us within striking distance for the next election and, in those circumstances, I think what the back bench wants him to do and what the Australian people want him to do is to keep doing what he is doing so successfully, campaigning on the domestic issues."
Mark Latham, another strong Crean supporter, said Mr Beazley had "nowhere near the support" needed. "It's not going to happen. We've never had a leader come back, let alone one who thought he needed to destabilise the party to do it," he said.
Another Crean supporter, who would not be named, predicted a backlash againstMr Beazley and his backers if the first challenge was beaten decisively. "I think the party can tolerate one challenge. A second challenge seals the next election for the Coalition."
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Lars Bak powers to victory on 12th stage of Giro
SESTRI LEVANTE, Italy (AP) – Lars Bak won the 12th stage of the Giro d'Italia and Joaquin Rodriguez retained the overall lead Thursday.
Bak burst away from the breakaway group with one kilometer (a half mile) to go for a clear victory on the 155-kilometer (96-mile) route from Seravezza to Sestri Levante. The Dane finished in 3 hours, 58 minutes, 55 seconds — 11 seconds ahead of second-place Sandy Casar.
"It's a great feeling," Bak said. "I'm really, really happy. The team gave me the chance to race the Giro and my form is getting better and better all the time.
"I'm not a sprinter, not a climber, so I have to take my chance on days like today."
Casar finished 3:23 ahead of Rodriguez and the rest of the peloton but it was not enough to overtake Rodriguez as overall leader. Casar is 26 seconds behind the Spaniard, who will wear the pink jersey for the third successive day Friday.
"It wasn't an easy stage," Rodriguez said. "We worked for a long time to control the gap on the escape but, as nobody gave us a hand, we let them go.
"We didn't expect that Liquigas would go so fast at the end; that allowed us to keep the pink jersey. This Giro is very hard, the peloton is tired. People will see that in the last week."
Casar and Bak were at the front for most of the race after establishing a nine-man break along with Ivan Santaromita, Jackson Rodriguez, Jan Bakelants, Andrey Amador, Michal Golas, Amets Txurruka and Martijn Keizer.
Shortly before the halfway point, the group had a lead of 2:35 on the peloton and slowly built that up to seven minutes heading onto the main test of the day, the Category 2 Valico La Mola climb, 38 kilometers (24 miles) from the finish.
However, Ivan Basso's Liquigas team seemed to be alert to the danger posed to the pink jersey by the breakaway group as the team came to the front of the peloton along with Michael Scarponi's Lampre and upped the pace. The gap rapidly came down.
There were fears for Scarponi when the defending champion caught the wheel of his teammate and ran off the course. But he swiftly got up, and his teammates worked hard to bring him back into the peloton.
Almost simultaneously Bakelants skidded off on a bend and lost contact with the other escapees, but he eventually managed to get back to the breakaway group.
The group maintained its advantage on the twisting, final Villa Tassani climb and the tricky descent. The technical 180-degree bend shortly before the finish was expected to cause problems, but Bak comfortably rode solo around it to take his first individual Giro stage.
Meanwhile, there were two more withdrawals as William Bonnet and Mats Christensen quit before the start of the stage.
Friday's 13th stage is the shortest leg of this year's Giro, a 121-kilometer (75-mile) ride from Savona to Cervere. It starts with a short climb and is largely downhill for the rest of the way. It is the last for sprinters, with the Giro taking to the Alps on the weekend. With one more stage that suits them — Stage 18 — several sprinters are expected to withdraw at the day's end.
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Skip to comments.$1.1 million-plus Gates grants: Galvanic bracelets that measure student engagement
Posted on 06/12/2012 6:21:48 AM PDT by upchuck
In the you-cant-make-up-this-stuff category, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is spending about $1.1 million to develop a way to physiologically measure how engaged students are by their teachers lessons. This involves galvanic skin response bracelets that kids would wear so their engagement levels could be measured.
If this tells us anything, it is that the obsession with measurement and data in school reform has reached new nutty heights. Heres the description of the $498,055 grant to Clemson University that was awarded in November (but that just recently became widely known by Susan Ohanian and Diane Ravitch):
Purpose: to work with members of the Measuring Effective Teachers (MET) team to measure engagement physiologically with Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) bracelets which will determine the feasibility and utility of using such devices regularly in schools with students and teachers.
And heres the description of the $621,265 grant given at the same time to the National Center on Time and Learning:
Purpose: to measure engagement physiologically with Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Galvanic Skin Response to determine correlations between each measure and develop a scale that differentiates different degrees or levels of engagement.
Thats more than $1.1 million that could have been spent on things that schools actually need, such as books, teachers, librarians, etc.
How, Ravitch asks, would the bracelet tell if a student is responding to a teacher and not to something his friend whispers in his ear?
Thats just one of the questions that come to mind about this enterprise, including this one: Why would anybody spent money on this when some school systems cant afford to pay their electric bills?
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It does appear to use the Gates approach: Someone elses' poor idea, poorly implemented, with little chance of actually functioning up to expectations.
Will they get a mood ring to match the bracelet?
Hmmmm....sounds like the scientologist's "e-meter". Not surprising--measuring skin/body resistance has been very profitable for con artists over the years.
That is what I thought too.
I thinks it's nutty but at least he's spending his own money.
I suppose Gates also wants to embed them with an identity chip and tattoo a bar code on the side of their neck.
Sounds like Gates would welcome a return to Nazi Germany of 1941.
Will these bracelets also have an electric shock capability?
They'd be able to wake up any student who nods off during a boring lecture.
Someone will modify them for the porn industry...
"Sounds like Gates would welcome a return to Nazi Germany of 1941."
Doesn't it, though?
Yet Steve Jobs is a god, who defrauded his best friend and caused his daughter to be on welfare until he finally owned up to her.
It's all about believing the "news".
Actually it's a legitimate device. It is used extensively in biofeedback studies and in therapy for problems such as migraine and Raynaud's disease.
And handcuffs on "Avatar"! :)
Ah a person who might see the positives, besides "1984" or some other mind control concept. I heard Mrs. Gates talk about how they are trying hundreds of things to find better ways to improve schools and teachers. The biggest problem seems to be how to get the correct feedback from students that = the grades or test understanding/results.
Years ago students were engaged and learned their lessons in one room schoolhouses, by candle light, and under the most difficult conditions. When waves of immigrants came to this country class size was 50 or 60 students to a class, sometimes more. But then the students were motivated and disruptive behavior was not tolerated.
It's their money, and if they're spending that million or more on nonsense, at least it's not going to promote abortion.
It was the behavior that has changed - some how the government allowed the courts to say good behavior is not important to learning.
If, after building the prototypes, galvanic skin response (used as a proxy for engagement) proves to be well correlated with the results of testing, I think that is a great advance.
Testing shows failures in teaching after the fact. Often a year after the fact.
If you can get an instant recognition that the lesson presentation if failing, then you have a chance to fix it immediately, without leaving the students involved as just another data point in the failed column.
We know that some teachers are dramatically more effective than others and that their students tend to be much more engaged. How can measuring that property be a bad thing?
Consider the knee jerk response of the WAPO author amounting to "Why waste money on science when you could just give it to teachers and their union?"
Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. In life you often have to try a number of things before you find something that works or works better than what you have.
Science, research and even engineering do not have perfect seasons, no-hitters or holes-in-one. It's how sports and politics differ from 'the real world'.
It is private money and so does not have to be a hole-in-one. That is why private ventures work where government fails. They are not subject to the same gotcha requirements that beget the government culture of ass covering and failure.
My recollection (admittedly it was a long time ago) was that my engagement with the teacher's lesson was solely a function of the teacher's ability to engage my attention. A good teacher had my attention, a poor one didn't. It also didn't hurt if the teacher happened to be female and good looking.....
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What David Beckham had sensed all week has come to pass. "It's been seven years and I want it to happen," he said a few days ago. "Me against Manchester United would be beautiful, wouldn't it?'' It means a first club return to Old Trafford on Wednesday 10 March for a player whose life has been defined by his 14 years at the place.
Beckham, who will be nearly two months into his second loan at Milan from LA Galaxy when the meeting comes around, can have some genuine hope of playing too, in what would be his first European match on Stretford soil since the thrilling night of 23 April 2003, when his two second-half goals inside quarter of an hour gave Sir Alex Ferguson brief hope of what would have been a famous quarter-final triumph over Real Madrid. The 4-3 win proved insufficient.
Beckham has returned in an England shirt, of course, but the farewell he bid the stadium on 13 March 2007 after a friendly between United and a Europe XI marking his first club's 50 years of continental football seemed to be a valedictory one.
"United are an amazing team, but we all know they have the best manager in the world at this club," Beckham said on the pitch that night, when a knee injury prevented him from playing.
This, taken with Beckham's public declaration last year that Cristiano Ronaldo would be advised not to be lured away from Old Trafford by Real Madrid, have been part of an attempt to bury the hatchet with Ferguson, but the old elephant doesn't forget.
The manager's greeting was diplomatic but not warm when Beckham popped into San Siro to see his team-mates when United drew Internazionale in last season's first knockout stage and his perspective remains the same as it was when Beckham married in the summer of 1999: football and a showbiz lifestyle don't mix.
The breakdown started barely six months after the wedding when Beckham, by then spending much of his time in the newlyweds' Hertfordshire mansion and rising at 6am to be driven 160 miles to The Cliff training ground, missed a training session ahead of potentially United's biggest game of the year at Leeds, claiming his son Brooklyn was suffering from gastroenteritis. Ferguson, unimpressed that he had been well enough to attend a fashion event in London with his wife a few days earlier, fined him two weeks' wages (£50,000 in those days) and dropped him. "It doesn't matter to me how high a player's profile is. If he is in the wrong he is disciplined," Ferguson said at the time, which pretty much summed up his views on Beckham's celebrity status.
The legendary flying boot in the Highbury dressing room, after United had been beaten 2-0 in an FA Cup fifth round, set the seal on the deteriorating relationship, which ended when Real Madrid paid £25m for Beckham in June 2003.
It's a large consignment of baggage between the two, inevitably making a tie that sees the Premier League champions journey to Milan first, on Tuesday 16 February, all about Beckham. But Ferguson is actually the man under the real spotlight.
History weighs against him. The Rossoneri have won each of their four European encounters with United and for the manager there are the memories of one of the club's worst nights of recent times, the 2007 semi-final when they went down 3-0 in San Siro after he afforded the Italians far too much respect, having won 3-2 in Manchester.
The defeat triggered a 25-match unbeaten run in Europe until last season's final against Barcelona in Rome, a match which Ferguson returned to in his mind yesterday. "I think you're stronger in the sense of the loss of the celebration. That's where you miss out," he said. "The celebrations when you win a European trophy are beyond everything else."
Ferguson went on to say that the hurt "doesn't last long" but in the vivid memories there seemed to be a sense of lingering pain. "The one thing that does resonate strongly is the occasion," Ferguson recalled. "It was a fantastic occasion in Rome, no matter how it ended up. It was a beautiful night, the colours in the stadium were fantastic, the stadium had been revamped. I've been in that stadium before and it was rundown, but it looked fantastic that day. It was a great venue for the final and, similarly, Madrid is a great venue so, hopefully, we'll be there for next year's final."
There can be belief as well as hope. Milan under Leonardo are not what they were with Carlo Ancelotti and Kaka, as the five-point deficit on Jose Mourinho's Internazionale makes clear, and what they possess in experience the Italians lack in a rather predictable and one-paced midfield.
Even though Ronaldo's shadow still falls across Old Trafford, removing those rapier-like counter-attacks which have been the basis of United's European style, United are the favourites. "We've got a chance," Ferguson acknowledged. "You always have to look at the opposition, and it's exactly the same as last season. There aren't any changes, and I don't think there are any great improvements from our opponents anywhere. It's all the same, so we must have a chance."
Predictably, there was no mention of Beckham from Ferguson when he responded to news of the draw yesterday afternoon. Overcoming a prodigal son makes the incentive that little bit greater – but for his old mentor it's just a sideshow.
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Manchester United may still be coming to terms with Cristiano Ronaldo's departure but Milan are a team in transition, much weaker than the one which twice dismantled Ferguson's team in recent years. United have never won, or even scored, against Milan at San Siro but will fancy their chances of at least achieving the latter against a defence which, even after Paolo Maldini's retirement, largely consists of 30-somethings. Midfield and attack are also ageing and while Filippo Inzaghi, Andrea Pirlo, Clarence Seedorf and Ronaldinho, like Beckham, are to be respected, the feeling is that Milan are past their best. Alexandre Pato and former United target Klaas-Jan Huntelaar offer a more youthful threat.
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Porto, lest it be forgot, have won the European Cup/Champions League twice, once as recently as 2004 under Jose Mourinho, which is twice more than Arsenal. They are not to be under-estimated. Constantly re-inventing themselves after selling on players (much like Arsenal, a cynic might say) they are good in possession and firm at the back where Bruno Alves marshals the defence. Striker Hulk (left) is beginning to produce performances to justify his attention-grabbing name while goalkeeper Helton and midfielder Raul Meireles are the other key figures in the Dragons' spine. Vitor Baia, the veteran keeper now Porto's international director, said: "We have great confidence."
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No doubting who was happier with this draw. Bayern thumped Fiorentina last season and drubbed their Serie A rivals Juventus 4-1 earlier this month. Louis van Gaal, the Bayern coach, admitted: "I am not dissatisfied; it could have been worse." His counterpart, Cesare Prandelli, moaned: "Maybe it would have been better to finish second in the group".
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Juande Ramos is the man to consult. He left Seville for Spurs two years ago, and was fired by CSKA this autumn after just 47 days in charge. CSKA subsequently reached the knock-out stage for the first time but will struggle to go further, especially as Russian clubs are in the their off-season in February. However, Seville will not enjoy playing on the Luzhniki's plastic pitch.
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"We have filed for a retail bond issue with the Bombay Stock Exchange last week. We are hopeful of launching the issue in two weeks," he added. Religare Finvest had an asset base of Rs9,900 crore at the end of June with majority of it coming from secured loan, comprising mortgage lending, and commercial vehicles and construction equipment loan. Arora said Religare Finvest would now focus on extending loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the form of working capital.
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Hello, dads and moms. I was on a two-week vacation on the East coast at the end of August. I'm slowly getting back into the blogging groove. Not sure if this is a good thing or not, but you can expect some travel blog posts. I have one winner announcement on my dad blog today. But first, below are upcoming giveaways on my dad blog.
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the endless distance outside my window | dream two (2)
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I am immersed in a short film series entitled "Outside My Window | Dreams." This is actually the second video in the series as I rework the first film. I cannot think of much to say about the series or this film at this moment. I just wanted to post it. I hope you, my readers, enjoy the shorter format and embrace the art.
into recollection | form and forever
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The memories behind you, impermanence, transcending the mundane, and a long forever.
It has been a while since I posted here on n e w d i g i t a l s c a p e s. And although I have not participated in this creative community as of late, I hope now to find the space that brings me back to sharing my prose, poetry, and art. I am not sure where the time goes anymore. A few years back, in another time of my life, I was very progressive in my blogging and interacting with fellow artists and writers. Sometimes I ask myself where did I find the time for such a committment. But as I pen this post, there are still no concrete answers to that question that I can fully embrace.
I completed this piece entitled "Into Recollection | Form and Forever" late last year. I wanted to create a piece for submission to film festivals in the "experimental art" (short film) category that was rather long in length (30 or 40 minutes are the usual short film limits). My films are often a collection of remixes from previous work, while simultaneously searching how to create and convey an entirely new vision. In this film is the continuation of my major artistic themes i.e. visual abstraction, dreams, memory attachments, ambiguity, and personal experience. It indulges in all these concepts, while supporting creative visualization and newly composed musical ambient themes.
Again, the film is rather long @ just over 29 minutes (and no dialogue), but it does flow quite well through its various segments. Enjoy.
into abstraction | form and data | on the edge of everything there is | a moment in time we can never bring back
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There is so much one can say about the possibilities inherent in the creative process. Do we move definitely in a pre-determined direction (unwavering, specific in structure), or allow our intuition (and the tool itself (in my case, the computer)) to guide us. Perhaps a little bit of both. Creating contradictions, beauty, and ambiguities along the way: Magic and Lost while searching through memories. Finding that time does not stand still at all, but evolve and return. A returning ecstasy. And so does a work of art. And so to the recollection inherent to its evolution. My video work is a collection of memories, images, and sounds, purposefully or unconsciously contradicting and re-inventing themselves. Disintegrating into loops of color, texture, movement, geometric form, data, time, and space. I want my work to reflect our internal and external existence; to visually and musically create a sense of things happening all at once.
into abstraction | form and place | holding our absence | a returning ecstasy
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"Into Abstraction | Form and Place" continues my exploration of various forms that manifest elements of the surreal, abstract and memory attachments. The piece structure is centered around a time-lapsed progression. It moves from a visual kinetic movement to a slower more meditative movement. The electronic sound scape mirrors this movement with several layers of organic and industrial sounds centered around a continuous ambient drone. Within this complex musical structure, different distinct modalities emerge. And after several minutes of frenetic movement, the sound structure slowly washes away (with ocean waves) into a quieter more delineated infused drone. In each new video in the series "Into Abstraction", I am attempting to find new ways of manipulating the film software. This process is very satisfying because the possibilities seem endless.
I have been working on this piece for several weeks. And over that time, I found myself contemplating many aspects of my life, as I often do, and searching for visual parallels that may compliment the emotional context of the moment. As in most of my work, I find that I repeat and remix many of my images, sounds, thoughts, and voices. Sometimes I wonder if the emotional connections of the past and the present ever change at all, or just evolve into the future: Evolve into the continuum which is the work. Evolve Into Abstraction, where form and void, form and memories, form and mutation, form and impermanence, form and dreams and form and place become one. Art has a way of giving us a moment of clarity, but does not necessarily save. Our work at times can reveal the life that lives in shadows. But may never quite give us the answers we seek to sustain us. So we are driven to go at it as if there were no history before now.
into abstraction | form and dreams | across the river the city that sleeps with dreams | your world disappearing, a world apart remix
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My latest video in the "Into Abstraction" series, infuses elements of surrealism and is a remix of several images from previous series. The piece also continues the evolving elements of recent images and the examination of memory attachments and the evolution of ambiguity in the psyche. The central theme is dreams; their possessive sensitivity, longing, and their magic and lost. Musically, I have moved away from the "glitch" forms of previous soundtracks in the series, and focused on a more ambient "drone" sound. Again, the complexity of sound is balanced and created with small nuances of processing. Most notably the use of various resonance and pitch, filters, reverb, and overall tonal control.
into abstraction | form and impermanence | what memories and karma may come | a maps, mountains, and trails, remix
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The complexity of the impermanence that fosters ambiguity in our lives. Everything changes except a persistent memory.
into abstraction | form and mutation | a history before now | a life after yesterday
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My series "Into Abstraction" continues with the video "Form and Mutation" – "A History Before Now, A Life After Yesterday". Like the previous videos in this 2015 series, "Into Abstraction" is an exploration of abstract forms, digital processing and kinetic visual constructs. Each video in the series expresses a distinct form of motion and visual perspective. This new piece, "Form and Mutation" is circular in its movement (the two previous videos were linear). And its emphasis is on the emotional sense of life spinning, evolving, and mutating into new forms of expression and ambiguity. In keeping with my overall process of linking one video to the next, I implore many similar effects and visual elements from previous work into each new piece: Subtle nuances and connectivity is important to the elemental construct; with bold shifting colors, fused layers of imagery, and glowing white highlights being an important part of the process. They, along with my personal subjective themes of memory attachments, also play an intricate part of the surreal and abstract expression found in all my work. Musically, I am continuing to create ambient soundscapes mostly from organic and industrial sources, sound samples, and spoken word. This is a multi-layered aural construct. Dense and complex.
into abstraction | form and memories
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Into Abstraction | Form and Memories, the artist Walter Smith continues his exploration of field recordings translated into abstract constructs.
into abstraction | form and void
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The exploration of abstract forms and memory attachments.
into abstraction | all the days are long | a we've come so far remix | a place of subtle nuance
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In life it seems, at times, that all the days are long. Caught in-between work, play, dreams, and aspirations. Those days can take the form of too many hours worked, too many hours away from home and loved ones, or too many memories and missed opportunities–taxing, struggling, pushing forward day after day. Sometimes we get a moment of reprieve; a day at the beach, a solitary place in time and space, the joining together of friends, family, and loved ones, or a beautiful hike on the summit of a mountain. Subtle nuances all converging in daily life, testing our resolve, our purpose, or giving pleasure and peace to our efforts.


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In Miami Tuesday night at her concert, British singer Adele pleaded to fans attending not to vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and to vote for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Interestingly, Clinton was in the audience on the eve of her 69th birthday.
"I am English but what happens in America affects me too," the 28-year-old singer told the crowd at American Airlines Arena. "Don't vote for [Trump]. I can't vote but I am 100 percent for Hillary Clinton, I love her, she's amazing."
Journalists covering Clinton's campaign were not permitted to accompany the candidate inside the arena for the concert, according to the Associated Press. Clinton made the "surprise stop" at the concert after her latest fundraiser in South Florida.
Video of the endorsement can be watched below:
Adele with Hillary Clinton in attendance at Miami concert: "Don't vote for him!" @AAarena #Adele (via Aaron Resnick) pic.twitter.com/cAJCokgSvW
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Thats a killer deal compared to what I spent last weekend, my wal-mart is a disappointment
This is a discussion on Week three of my dedication within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Part three in a three part series. Since it's inception, I've alloted $100 per week for ammo alone. For those of you who have not ...
Part three in a three part series. Since it's inception, I've alloted $100 per week for ammo alone. For those of you who have not followed it, here are the links.
As to the cost of new factory ammo, and the fact that I do not yet reload for pistol, this was the best I could do, and hopefully help the rest of you in some way to find the cheapest plinking ammo in your neck of the woods and then some.
This week saw some savings on the alloted hundred bucks that finally went to purchasing food! $78.83 total. 250 round mega-pak $48.92, and the 100 round box of 115gr JHP's for PD
BTW--WallyWorlds Winchester WB per 100ct are now $18.48. Still a bargain in my book, and I'll be picking up on the 9mm's every week so long as the 100ct stays under $20.
Thats a killer deal compared to what I spent last weekend, my wal-mart is a disappointment
...so you're spending $100 week, 52 weeks per year, $5200 on ammo this year?
You could be cranking out millions of rounds with one o' them multi-stage presses!
Was to Sheels this past week-end to pick up a few items-----WHOW 22lr 550 bulk-pack used to be on sale for $8.99 now 500 rounds on-sale for $15.99 ouch 17 HMR $3.00 per box higher even on sale. This shooting is going to kill me.
An ounce of lead is worth 200lbs of cop.
Excellent idea.
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Since you're buying and shooting all this ammo I hope you are saving your brass to be able to reload in the future.
Several years ago I overheard a dealer of cast bullets say that the price of everything in the way of ammo was going to go up. I took this to heart and decided to buy ammo whenever I found a good price. I don't dedicate $100 a week but when I find a deal I don't hesitate any more to purchase a lot. As a consequence I have a closet full and it is growing.
DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH. LIBERTY IS A WELL ARMED LAMB CONtestING THE VOTE.
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The hundred a week was for three weeks to include the 45acp, 40s&w, and the 9mm for all of my pistols. Like I say, I'll be buying a 100 round box of 9mm's in the WWB so long as they stay at the current $18.42 here at my local WallyWorld. No---not $5200 this year! I gotta put gas in two vehicles, pay the bills, etc.... The three weeks is over, and my new G19 arrived in town today. I'll be picking it up Friday as I work past their business hours today and tomorrow.
Ram Rod,
Glad to hear you are stocked up! If reloading yourself is not for you, take a look at this site - they have VERY good prices, per thousand.
Precision Cartridge, Inc. - Ammunition in 380, 9mm, 38, 357 Mag., 357 Sig., 10mm, 40 S&W, 41, 44, 45.
I am leery of reloads with my G22, until I can get a tighter fitting barrel to avoid kB's, but once I do, I plan to buy in bulk, so I can SHOOT in bulk!!
Thanks. Reloading for the rifles keeps me busy as of now. Yeah--I'm not sure about shooting reloads in any of my Glocks. All have stock barrels. And yes---I always save my brass. I usually sell them back cleaned and de-primed to a local shop.


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The Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center is looking to start a fund for LGBTQ domestic violence victims.
You can donate by attending the "Love Doesn't Hurt" drag show and fundraiser at Club Spectrum (616 Marshall) this Friday, March 29th. Guest speakers will include a representative from the district attorney's office, Kevin Phipps from Shelby County Pre-trial Services, Jonathon Cole from the Tennessee Equality Project, Lt. Doreen Shelton from the Memphis Police Department Domestic Violence Bureau, and domestic violence survivors.
The $5 cover will go toward the domestic violence fund. If you are unable to make it but would still like to donate, click here. Make a note that you are donating to the Anti-Domestic Violence Fund.
LGBT activism is alive and well in the South, but what special issues come along with preaching equality in the Bible Belt?
Jonathan Cole of the Tennessee Equality Project will discuss "LGBT Activism in the Deep South" in front of the Marxist Student Union on the University of Memphis campus. The lecture is open to the public on Thursday, March 28th at 7 p.m. in the Mitchell Hall Auditorium on the University of Memphis campus.
The event is co-sponsored by the Progressive Student Alliance.
Beginning Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will begin listening to oral arguments on the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a case which has potential to be a landmark in the struggle for LGBT equality.
A group will gather at the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center on Tuesday, March 26th for a "Light the Way to Justice" candlelight vigil at 7 p.m.
The event is one of 160 vigil events across the country.
For more information, check out the event's Facebook page.
Memphis' LGBT theatre company will present The Divine Sister, which pays hilarious homage to Hollywood films involving nuns, this weekend from Friday, March 22nd through Sunday, March 24th and again March 29th through the 31st at Theatreworks (2085 Monroe).
Expect parodied scenes from Doubt, Agnes of God, The Sound of Music, The Da Vinci Code, and other films.
The show begins at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday showings and 2 p.m. for Sunday matinees. Tickets are $15. For more information, go to Emerald Theatre Company's website.
The third annual LGBT Law Symposium, presented by the University of Mississippi School of Law, will be held on Friday, March 22nd from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Ole Miss' Robert C. Khayat Law Center.
The event features presentations and panels on law topics related to LGBT issues, including pro-bono advocacy and community involvement, HIV/AIDS, challenges and triumphs in the transgender community, diversity in the law profession, family law, and estate planning.
The symposium includes breakfast, lunch, and a cocktail party reception. An after-party will be held at 9 p.m. for those who wish to stay. The event is open to the public, and admission is free. To register, go here.
Members of Mid-South Pride and the LGBTQ community will be carrying a giant rainbow flag in this year's St. Patrick's Day parade along Beale Street on Saturday, March 16th at 3:30 p.m.
But once the parade is through, the party continues with a Rainbow Pub Crawl and Pot of Gold Poker Run. The crawl starts at the Pumping Station at 5 p.m. with a cookout. Then it moves to Dru's Place at 7:30 p.m. for games and karaoke. The crawl ends at Club Spectrum at 10:30 p.m. for drink specials and the drag show.
As part of the poker run, participants will receive a card with every drink purchased during the crawl. The player with the best hand at the end of the night wins. No word yet on what the prize is.
For more information, check out the event's Facebook page.
The annual Cherry party for lesbians and their friends will have a vintage Vegas theme this month, and it doubles as a birthday celebration for party host Julie Wheeler.
Set for Saturday, March 16th at Cafe Society, Cherry will feature a burlesque show with Kitty Wompas, Kissame Suga, and Anne Tag-A-Knee. After the show, Foxy Fairmont will perform an outdoor fire show. DJ Carol from the former Madison Flame will be spinning tunes, and chef Cullen Kent is offering a special light-night menu.
Bonus: One lucky winner will take home a $50 credit toward a tattoo at Underground Art.
General admission is $10 and VIP seating is $20.
For nine consecutive years, the Tennessee Equality Project has dedicated a day to lobbying state lawmakers in favor of bills that advance equality and against bills that take away equal rights or promote discrimination.
On Tuesday, March 12th, the Shelby County Committee will be joining other TEP committees from across the state in Nashville for Advancing Equality on the Hill Day.
The event begins with a light breakfast and policy briefing at the Rhymer Gallery in downtown Nashville at 8:30 a.m. At 9:30 a.m., the group will head to Legislative Plaza for individual appointments with lawmakers.
There's also a TEP Foundation and Clergy for Justice anti-bullying prayer breakfast from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. in the Legislative Plaza cafeteria. Clergy and other guests will hear presentations on school bullying issues to help them advocate for safe schools in Tennessee.
TEP will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. at the top of the escalator in Legislative Plaza to discuss important legislation and to make public the Tennessee Human Rights Statement, which provides a contrast to discriminatory legislation filed this session.
For more information, see the event's Facebook page.
Memphian Kal Dwight is easily one of the most active young people involved in the local fight for LGBTQ rights. At age 21, he's already a veteran of the equality movement, having co-founded the Memphis Gay & Lesbian Community Center's Gen Q group for college-aged LGBTQ people and their allies. Gen Q offers a place for young people to socialize and get active in the fight for equality.
On March 12th, Gen Q members will be in Nashville taking part in the Tennessee Equality Project's "Advancing Equality Day on the Hill," an annual day of lobbying in favor of LGBTQ-friendly bills and lobbying against those bills that would harm gay people and families. Kal took a few minutes to chat with the Flyer about Gen Q, activism, and his undying love for Elton John.
Flyer: Why did you help start Gen Q?
Kal Dwight: Originally, when my best bro Ray and I started it, we were 19 and too young for the bars. This was before Spectrum (gasp!). But we knew we wanted to be involved. We also knew that there were others like us. There isn't much to do in Memphis if you're under 21, whether you're gay or straight. If you're not in college or a church youth group, it's hard to go out and meet people. So we started in early 2010 at the MGLCC.
What's the goal of the organization?
To create a healthier, safer environment for young adults while strengthening the local gay-straight alliances (GSA). We meet every Friday, and we reserve the second Friday of every month specifically for college GSAs to come and create events together.
You're currently fundraising to take Gen Q to Nashville for "Advancing Equality on the Hill Day." Why take the group?
Memphis young LGBTQA people rarely get a chance to go to Tennessee Equality Project (TEP) events in Nashville because of the cost and distance. Every year that I have been, it has been all Middle Tennessee kids and other adults. It's time for our presence. I also hate being the youngest person at every event, so I've made it my mission to target young adults to get more involved. I can't honestly keep bitching about it unless I do something. As for our fundraising goal, I think we've almost reached it. People keep donating every day.
Are there any particular bills in the state legislature that you're very concerned about?
I am always concerned with the "Don't Say Gay" bill [Senator Stacey Campfield's bill that would ban discussion of homosexuality in grades K through 8]. I can't wait to be rid of that one for good. Not only is it a threat to our kids, it makes us look so bad in Tennessee!
You're probably the most active young person in the LGBTQ equality movement in Memphis.
Haha … I am older than Justin Bieber at least! I might be the youngest but not for long.
When did you first get involved in the LGBTQ equality fight in Memphis?
When I moved home from L.A. and decided that this is where I needed to be, specifically for activism. I was all fired up after Prop 8. I knew that I couldn't represent anything I didn't know, and all I know is the Delta. I remember my first trip to the Memphis Gay and Lesbian Community Center. I was glad to find a place that I now consider home.
Younger people tend to be more accepting of equality, but are there any issues that you face trying to convince the younger generation to get involved? Is there a lot of apathy?
A lot of the younger people that want to be involved are also involved in a million things. I only see the younger ones who come to me asking for projects to work on. I know that a lot have families and have to sacrifice free time to make a living. However, when my dad was in college, they were demonstrating and picketing everything. They were organizing sit-ins and bus boycotts. Okay, maybe dad isn't that old but you get the point. We are the future, and this country isn't going to get better until we MAKE it better.
As a transgender guy in Memphis, have you ever faced discrimination?
I'm very privileged to live in my little gay bubble; I have a very strong support system. It is certainly not a walk in the park for everyone though. Memphis is so far behind on trans issues. We are barely scraping the surface of what other places have already accomplished. Physically and mentally, this is a rough place for anyone who is LGBTQA. My biggest problems often come from within my own community. L's, g's, and b's maybe don't realize how uneducated they are and how much it hurts. My friend and a trans woman said, "Sometimes it seems that, by being trans, it is assumed that you are an open book or a walking educational seminar." And I can get impatient.
How do you handle those situations?
I am pretty easygoing with the pronoun problem (people calling me "she" instead of "he") but if I sense the situation could escalate, I just leave. I don't have time to deal with jerks these days.
And now for some lighter questions: What's your favorite Memphis restaurant?
So you're pretty much the world's biggest Elton John fan. When did that obsession begin, and how many times have you seen him perform live?
OMG elton!! He's the man of my dreams! I first saw him when I was 13. I have seen him four times since then. And once in London! I think that he and David Furnish (his hubby) are so amazing and I'm so happy that they finally have a family. And yes, I will be seeing him next weekend.
What are you reading right now?
This month's Rolling Stone. I am about to start [Pete] Townshend's biography.
If you could be a celebrity for a day, who would you be?
Prince Harry. My dad even agrees.
And what are your future plans? Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
This is the hardest question. I want to be here, but I don't think I will be. I want to do event coordinating and planning for nonprofits. I hope to be contracted out one day to the big organizations like in D.C. and L.A. But this is only March. It will probably be a different story next month..
Marco McMillan, the first openly gay candidate for mayor of Clarksdale, Mississippi, was beaten, dragged, and set on fire, according to a statement from his family that was released on Monday. His body was recovered last Wednesday from a levee along the Mississippi River.
McMillan, 34, was reported missing early last week after his SUV was recovered from a crash on Highway 49 near the Coahoma/Tallahatchie county line. McMillan was not driving his vehicle at the time of the crash. Instead, it was driven by 22-year-old Lawrence Reed, the man who police charged with McMillan's murder last Thursday.
McMillan's death remains under investigation.


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Enjoy classic American cuisine and local favorites onsite at the Longwood Grille and Bar, serving breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks daily. For those seeking even more variety, our hotel is connected to the Longwood Food Court, featuring national chains and local establishments that represent the best of Boston dining. Our hotel is located just a few blocks from Boston's best restaurants, including Jerry Remy's, Eastern Standard and La Verdad.
Longwood Grille and Bar Hours:
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Longwood Food Court Restaurants Include:
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I went to the range today to put some.40 cal and .380 cal. down range.
I shot my Taurus TCP with some 90 grn Aguilar and it was barking like a mad dog!
I then used my SR40 and it felt as though it kicked LESS than the tiny .380!
I found the .40 cal to be totally manageable in spite of not shooting the .40 caliber in over twenty years!
I still have my 9mm and plan on holding onto it but I'm loving the .40 caliber all over once more!