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Microsoft Corp. has left the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) because of concerns about the lobbying group's opposition to renewable energy, a coalition of activist investor groups said.
The Sustainability Group and Walden Asset Management, asset management companies that describe themselves as focused on sustainable investing, said Microsoft confirmed in e-mails that it's no longer a part of ALEC after the groups pressed the company to abandon it.
"Microsoft is a leader on carbon issues—in 2012, it committed to becoming carbon neutral, and is one of the largest corporate purchasers of renewable energy," the Boston-based groups said in a news release. "Thus, we believe that its affiliation with ALEC, which is actively fighting policies that promote renewable energy, was incongruous. In addition, there were numerous other ALEC actions that conflicted directly with Microsoft's values."
Arlington, Va.-based ALEC has drafted model legislation for use in state legislatures to roll back renewable fuel standards across the country. Its members include ExxonMobil Corp., Peabody Energy Inc., American Electric Power Co. and Koch Industries Inc., according to the Checks and Balances Project, a nonprofit watchdog group that supports the use of clean energy.
In response to a request for comment, Microsoft told Bloomberg BNA: "In 2014, Microsoft decided to no longer participate in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) Communications and Technology Task Force. Our trade association memberships are determined annually on a case by case basis and are based on a number of factors, including evolving policy priorities, business needs and available budgets."
Question of Budget Cuts
Bill Meierling, a spokesman for ALEC, said Microsoft left the organization July 16 for budgetary reasons and not as a result of the group's positions on renewable energy.
"They left because of budget cuts. They are rearranging their government relations here in D.C.," Meierling said in an interview with Bloomberg BNA. "This is groups opposed to ALEC up to their old tricks."
Microsoft announced July 17 it planned to eliminate as many as 18,000 jobs, the largest round of cuts in its history, Bloomberg News reported.
The Sustainability Group, along with Walden Asset Management, said in a joint news release Aug. 19 that they began pressing Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft to leave ALEC in 2013.
According to the groups, Microsoft, which had been a member of ALEC's Communications and Technology Task Force, sent an e-mail on July 14 that said, "We are no longer members of ALEC and do not provide the organization with financial support of any kind."
E-mail Called Part of Ongoing Dialogue
In an interview, Timothy Smith, Walden Asset Management's senior vice president and director of environmental social and governance shareowner engagement, said the e-mails, which the group sent to investors last month, were part of an ongoing dialogue Walden had been having with Microsoft.
"It was an ongoing debate inside the company," Walden said of the company's participation in ALEC.
Walden, which manages $8 billion in assets, considers Microsoft one of its major holdings, Smith said.
ALEC approved model legislation for the 2013 legislative session designed to be used to repeal states' renewable portfolio standards and wrote a new version for 2014.
The standards, which exist in 29 states, have been credited with being one of the largest drivers of renewable energy generation in the U.S. and are expected to drive more than 40,000 megawatts of renewable electricity generation by 2015, according to the Energy Department.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, 50 percent—or more than 1.3 billion kilowatt hours—of the power used by Microsoft annually comes from renewable energy sources, including biogas, biomass, solar and wind. That makes it No. 3 on the EPA's list of top companies that voluntarily use renewables.
Called Example to Others
"Microsoft has demonstrated a commitment in recent years to clean energy and climate action by introducing an internal carbon fee and purchasing large amounts of wind energy to power two of its data centers—all actions which run contrary to ALEC's goal of killing the clean energy economy," Greenpeace Senior IT Policy Analyst Gary Cook said in a statement.
"Google, Facebook, eBay, Yahoo, Yelp and other technology companies that are currently still ALEC members would do well to learn from Microsoft's leadership," Cook said.
Other major corporations that have left ALEC include Coca-Cola, General Motors, Bank of America and Procter & Gamble, according to Common Cause, a Washington, D.C., group that has challenged ALEC's status as a nonprofit organization.
According to Common Cause, "the exodus" began in 2011 after public exposure related to the group's development of proposals to block renewable energy, as well as other issues such as restrictive voter ID requirements, anti-union measures and "Stand Your Ground" gun bills.
Consumers Should Decide Energy Choices
Meierling said ALEC continues to grow and isn't opposed to renewable energy specifically. Rather, Meierling said, the group believes consumers, not mandates, should decide consumer energy choices.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Jonathan Frid, the actor who immortalized the campy vampire in the '60s era daytime classic "Dark Shadows," has died.
Frid was 87.
He died from complications of a fall, according to former cast member Kathryn Leigh Scott, who played Maggie Evans and several other characters on the gothic soap.
"Dark Shadows" was a national craze for much of its run on ABC daytime from 1966-1971.The show was a slow ratings starter — centered around the bored and rich Collins family.
About six months into the run, producer Dan Curtis decided to add supernatural elements to the program — vampires, ghosts, witches, people coming back from the dead, going back in time, people playing dual characters and a parallel universe.
Frid was Barnabas Collins, a brooding, reluctant and sometimes conflicted vampire who found love elusive.When he joined the cast in early 1967, the ratings shot through the roof.
A generation of today's adults can recall running home from school to watch the program. It spawned two theatrical movies, board games, a lunch box, trading cards and comic book craze. A short-lived prime time version — with actor Ben Cross as Barnabas — aired in 1991. Another pilot, in 2004, was shot but never aired.
Frid died on Friday the 13th. He makes a cameo in the upcoming Johnny Depp version of "Dark Shadows" due out May 11.
For many years, Frid ran from his celebrity and refused to attend fan events. He came to embrace his legacy in later years selling postcards, greeting cards and autographs on his site, jonathanfrid.com.

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Map of the Distribution of Slaves in 1860
Interesting map here, based on the 1860 Census, showing slave distribution in the Old South.
You can see how uneven it was, and not a monolithic bloc, as we tend to think of it nowadays.
If you look closely, you will see there is no state of West Virginia, which was carved out of the northwestern corner of Virginia where almost no slave population is shown. That area of Virginia ultimately voted to secede from the state of Virginia, due to Virginia's vote to secede from the Union.
The new group of counties decided to call themselves the state of Kanawha, and applied to the Union for statehood. In 1862, Lincoln and Congress granted their request, but by that time, the counties had changed their mind and shifted to West Virginia as their name of choice, unfortunately depriving us of a pretty neat name.
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A thread for anything about Eldarin hair! I'll start with male Elves noted specifically as having long hair:
Celegorm (noted in Quenta Silmarillion, mid to late 1930s version, IIRC). Olwe (Quenta Silmarillion early 1950s). Celeborn (draft text [long white hair]. Published text [long silver hair] 1954, The Lord of the Rings). Fingon (noted 1968 or later, The Shibboleth of Feanor).
Anymore? please add. For myself I picture a lot of male Eldar with long hair (though what's 'long' can vary from one person to the next of course), but again these are just the examples that have quite specific descriptions to point to.
Glorfindel's (whose name means 'Golden-hair' as most people know) hair is described as he rides his horse (Fellowship of the Ring) -- which description might indicate long hair in my opinion. In the unrevised very early Fall of Gondolin a Balrog pulls him to his death by grabbing his hair (not that that proves he had long hair necessarily).


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By: Phillip Arroyo
Ahead access the various videos of our next Democratic member of Congress that will represent the 4 million american citizens of Puerto Rico after the November 4th, 2008 elections in Puerto Rico. Mr. Pierluisi has campaigned intensely around the entire island in search of continued support for his candidacy for the island's sole non voting congressional seat in Congress. As of today, Pedro Pierluisi enjoys a huge 15 to 20 point advantage over his opponent according to the majority of polling results on the island. Stay tuned for more and access Pedro Pierluisi's official web page at www.pierluisi2008.com!
Pierluisi Speech at Statehood Party Rally Event
Pedro Pierluisi endorsing Senator Barack Obama for President!
Pierluisi for Congress Campaign Commercial


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It's been almost two weeks since one of my favorite days of the year: the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. I get to buy fiber and spur of the moment yarn only at MDS&W and at Rhinebeck in the fall. Which is probably a good thing. If I allowed myself to buy the kind of things I get a festivals whenever I wanted, we'd be living out of my van. Granted it would be warm and soft in there with all the fiber, but still, I think the kids prefer having indoor plumbing.
A little bit of a shift this year, as normally we go on Saturday morning. But the church was having its annual fundraising auction Saturday night. I had volunteered to bring food and had a couple of items I had put up in the auction, so I needed to be there. I dragged the kids and the Aquarians along as well. Nikki was open minded about checking it out, and I think she had a good time. Morgan was REALLY resentful that I made him go, but in the end he got a couple of items he was really excited about, so hopefully he'll be a little more open minded about it next time I want him to go to something. The peril was in not spending all my fiber money at the auction!
I was worried about getting to the show on time, as I was hearing horror stories about the wait times and parking, so we left home at about 5:30 Sunday morning. It's a 3 hour drive to the Howard County Fairground, which really is ridiculous that we go, since we rarely spend more than 4 hours or so, so we spend more time in the car than at the show. But honestly, it's worth it. And leaving that early turned out to be an equally good idea. We got there at 8:15 and got to park right outside the gate, which was BRILLIANT. We weren't the first there by any means, but that's okay. There were none of the delays going back to the off-ramp on the highway that we have run into in past years. Such a much nicer entry into the fair!
When I say we, I'm talking me, Nikki, Xander and Hero. This is another thing that I can't get Morgan to come to, and in the wisdom of choosing my battles I don't make him. But the kids have a good time. The first year I took them, I gave them both their cell phones and set them loose with $20 each and orders to check in every hour. Which they did beautifully. So I've gotten more relaxed, especially as they've gotten older. This year it was, "Yeah, whatever, check in when you're ready for lunch." They were gone prectically before we'd cleared the gate.
I went in with a very specific list of needs. Not a long list, though. Which may have been my downfall. I needed two new bobbins and a replacement orifice hook for my travel wheel, and I wanted some fiber to start learning how to card with the hand carders Nikki scored me when she was out in Lancaster. Beyond that, I had no restrictions. Oh, and I needed a new jar of Wood Beams. (I love this stuff. Even if you don't spin, I recommend it for using on your cutting boards, rolling pins, wooden spoons, whatever. And no, I'm not getting paid to say that!)
When you go to a show often enough, you develop a strategy. We hate crowds, so we go to the main building first before it gets so congested you can't even move. Even at this early hour, the big name dyers already had lines 20 people long (the show didn't even officially open for almost half an hour after we got there). My wheel builder was actually in one of the barns, but he's always in the same spot right on the end, so we stopped there first before the barns got insane as well. Got my two bobbins, and he gave me the orifice hook for free, saying it's not uncommon for them to break, so the first one is always free! Get a Merlin Tree wheel, people. Seriously. Then it was off to the main building.
We actually stayed pretty focused on that building this year. Some really interesting new vendors. One place called itself the dollar store of the show, and I got some great nicknacks there. A little travel tool kit, a pair of really sharp yarn snips, and some conductive thread so I can make smart phone compatible gloves. They also had some lovely jewel toned merino that I got on a second visit. We stopped at Into the Whirled, as we always do. I only got one braid of fiber from them this year, as they didn't have any bamboo blend, but I did get four skeins of finished yarn, three for a big project (yet undecided on) for me and one skein of Moriarty as a prize for the 221b team in the Ravellenic Games this year. At a new stall for me, I was introduced to silk caps. Silk comes in a couple of different ways for spinning. You can get it in hanks of combed top like wool fibers, but it also comes in compressed layers, usually squares called hankies, since that's what they look like. Caps were something new to me, so I asked the vendor about them. Basically, they look like stocking caps. When you spin them, instead of pulling them apart like you would with a hankie, you just turn it inside out, pull out some of the threads from near the crown to whatever thickness you want for your yarn, and spin. The fiber then unravels itself from the cap. I was really curious, so I bought two, one in a purple/blue and one in a copper colorway. I'm looking forward to trying those. The other new vendor I got excited about was a place called Bead Biz. They had, as the name implied, trays and trays of strings of beads for fiber crafts. When we first found them, I didn't have any projects in minds, so I just petted and coveted and moved on. But after I got the ITW yarn, I knew it needed beads, so I went back and finally got a shimmer steel blue set. I'm really itching to start something with them, but I'm forcing myself to wait until I finish one major WIP that's kicking my ass.
Other little goodies I got: A bag of dyed Gotland sheep curls. I love Gotlands so much. I do think those are going to be my fiber sheep when I get the farm. Got some blue beads to make a full set of shawl stitch markers, since having a bunch of random markers on a project makes me crazy. I got an inexpensive drop spindle to teach one or two people at church how to spin. And I got a bag full of alpaca fiber to practice my carding on. There were a couple of plant vendors tempting me as well. I didn't need any tomatoes, and for the moment I am resisting peppers (we'll see how long that lasts. I do still have two self-waterers in the shed…) But I did get a lavendar and a lemon verbena to go in a couple of urn planters I trashpicked.
What I didn't come home with was a big bag of raw wool. It was a near thing. I suspect I won't be as lucky at Rhinebeck if we go this year.
We had a late lunch, intending to hit all the barns, but by then it was almost 1:30 (how did that happen?), everything was getting crowded, and we were exhausted. So we gave up, satisfied with our purchases and our day, and hit the road home. Dropped Nikki off around 5 and we were home by 6:30. I had about enough energy to photograph everything and order in dinner before I collapsed. It was a good, productive weekend, but honestly, I'm getting to old for that much excitement!


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Inspiration. Motivation. Mobilisation.
You're living in a world without limits. Technology is surging on, new jobs are being created and people are seemingly constantly changing life as we know it. Bill Gates dropped out of college, not taking his studies seriously, yet even he went on to become a multi-billionaire creating software used the planet-over.
So what's stopping you?
Everywhere you look today, be it in the media, education, advertising, you're told that any one of us can make a difference, go on to make our riches and be remembered and known by all. Well that's true. But it irritates me.
Today you're told by so many that with just some hard work and ingenuity you can be 'great', to the extent that should you fail this you feel as though you have wasted your entire life and haven't managed to succeed. Countless people lie on their deathbeds regretting the lives they've lived, how they never had the money to travel the world, or didn't have the time to train enough to make their name in their youthful sport. But the hard fact of the matter is that not everyone can make a difference.
It sounds pessimistic, right? Bear with me.
Glory and riches have been made out to be so readily accessible to every person in society that even those living in relative comfort, with annual holidays and a ready supply of entertainment and luxuries, feel as though they have been somewhat cheated out of the potential higher joys of life. "Life on the other side, eh?"
It's human nature to constantly want more. You take anyone with even a slight bit of power, and you'll discover beneath the surface they're trying everything they can to increase that. We long for promotions. We long for higher pay. We long to drive super cars albeit limited to the same speed restrictions as everyone else. Life is fundamentally the equivalent of teenagers competing to wear the most expensive designer fashion to school to impress their friends.
But this shouldn't be the case. Why yearn for more when you already have plenty? Why fall into mild depression when you realise your wage never reached higher than £20,000 per annum? If you are constantly looking for more, you'll never truly appreciate what you have.
I'd like to take here my father as an example. He's not earning copious amounts a year, nor driving a Mercedes Benz wearing a suit to work. He lives by his means, affording the basic luxuries common to all us westerners but without the extravagance. Yet he is likely the most happy and content man I know. And this is the fact of the matter. He appreciates what he has, and he enjoys his life as it is.
I myself decided to go to University not out of aspirations for fame, wealth and glory, but because I genuinely enjoy learning. I've been told throughout my life that a degree will 'open doors', allowing me to gain an outstanding job and afford a huge home and a number of needless indulgences. However the truth is this likely won't be the case. Yes I hope to make as much money as I can and live in some comfort, but ultimately I aspire more so to be content however I end up.
What's the point of having anything if you don't stop to appreciate it?
My friend told me the other day how someone she knew had packed up everything and went to live in a shack on a beach, selling homemade bracelets. To most people this would seem almost sad, a young girl barely racking up enough money to live on. Yet I was told she was the happiest she'd ever been, living free and without the stresses of a job, needing only the waves and friends in a simple but inspirationally beautiful being. Of course this cannot last forever, soon this young woman will be drawn into the stormy currents of typical human life, finding a more withstanding job and building a family, whereby she will have others to be responsible for. But I would like to think that having derived from such a simplistic beginning, she will be happy wherever she ends up in life.
So there you have it. You don't have to change the world, you don't have to be remembered by millions. All you have to do is enjoy what you have, and love your life for what it is rather than for what it could be.
In the words of Andy Dufresne: 'Get busy living, or get busy dying!
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This morning I noticed an announcement for an event hosted by Minnesota geocachers to commemorate Surfer Joe's 10,000th published geocache. This is a well-deserved honor for my fellow reviewer to the north, especially when you consider that he's been reviewing for just three years.
This got me to thinking about how many geocaches I have published. In a post last September, I wrote that I had published close to 6,000 geocaches in my 5+ years of reviewing. I don't recall how I arrived at that figure, but upon checking this morning, IowaAdmin has officially published 6,491 caches since the summer of 2005, which is as early as the "published" log type goes back. I probably published an additional 1,000 in the 12 months before that. And for a year prior to creating my "IowaAdmin" I.D., I reviewed geocaches in Iowa and Wisconsin using the I.D. "WGA2". Because WGA2 is now owned by a different reviewer, I don't have an accurate way to know exactly what my total is. My best estimate is that it's now around 8,000 caches.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Happy New Year's 2009!
On this first day of 2009, I know that some of my friends celebrated by going geocaching. However, I participated in a different outdoor activity to mark this first day of the year. My daughter and I went kayaking. The weather wasn't great -- 23 degrees, wind gusts up to 30 mph and snow falling -- but the challenging conditions seemed to make it that much more fun. And before you start thinking that we are completely nuts, I should tell you that the lake -- Columbia Lake near Portage, Wis. -- is a cooling lake for a coal-fired power plant so the water temperature is in the 70- to 80-degree range year round. That doesn't make the wind any less bitter when you're putting your kayaks back on top of the car, but it does make the paddling a little more bearable. How ever you celebrated today, I hope you had a good one. Here's to a great 2009! (It's got to be better than 2008, right?)
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"This is the perfect time for the electricity to go out. Our plates are full of dessert and now no one can see how much we eat!" The table erupted into laughter as Jackie lightened the mood after our attempt at a festive Thanksgiving dinner was interrupted by sudden blackness when the electricity went out for the umpteenth time that day. In a room full of Americans, gathered from throughout the island to celebrate, I realized that if the electricity and internet and music had kept coming in at a steady stream, I might have forgotten where I was. You are on an island – I reminded myself – in a country not your own, and this is normal here.
As we ate our desserts by the lights of flashlights and cellphones, the darkness did not change the mood. It maybe even improved it. We listened to Jackie explain how she had come up with her own family recipe for the amazing flan we were eating. After asking her uncle and her grandmother and her aunt and her mother for their recipes, she took the best parts of each and made her own recipe. She told the story like an expert; acting out how she would sidle up to a relative and, in a conspiratorial manner, ask them in a whisper, "hey, what do you put in yours?" – collecting all the different versions and then fusing them together into her masterpiece.
Along with the flan, we ate Brenda's pumpkin pie, moist and delicious from a family recipe of her own. We ate Lori's cheesecake, drowning in blueberries and sweetness – which was characteristic of Lori's generosity. And we ate Sarah's key lime pie; Sarah had already firmly placed herself in my "food hero" category by bringing what to me is the essential part of Thanksgiving – green bean casserole. It is a dish that I consider already perfect; and then she added bacon. Bacon. Perfect. Eating like this is an American tradition, but it was a real treat for this crew of folks that were accustomed to rationing food until the boat came in and brought what you needed.
I thought about the meals I had eaten earlier that week as I rationed my money and my food. A packet of "just add water" powdered potatoes, a can of Chef Boyardee. A handful of pancake mix fried up when I had lost the will to continue eating my chicken's eggs after a month solid of frying them up each morning. We had been blessed enough to have some fresh fish earlier in the week, but the weather had been too bad and the water too choppy for fishing, by hook or by spear, since Sunday. Meat and vegetables, apart from what you can grow or catch yourself, are a luxury here on the island. Trying to make my money last, I wonder about my health. I had been running and eating healthy all year and had been in the best shape of my life a couple months prior. But now, I warn myself of a lesson that I learned long ago – "Eating healthy" is one of the many accessories of privilege in our modern culture. "Getting by", on the other hand, can quickly erode a person's health in a variety of ways.
The lesson hit home back in 2008 in the midst of a debate I was having with my uncle about poverty and food when I lived in North Carolina. We were discussing access to healthy foods in the urban center, and I was trying to explain that my community was very concerned because we were at risk of losing our one and only grocery store, Los Primos. Along with the city's announcement of plans to expand the road through our community, the police had recently labeled our neighborhood "The Bull's Eye" and targeted us for special vigilance. Seeing no reason for me to be in that area as a white woman, apart from criminal reasons, I would many times find myself followed as I drove through my neighborhood or pulled over without cause. I even had a police officer follow me into my driveway one night when I was returning home from the late shift at one of my three jobs; he turned his spotlight on me dramatically as I got out of my car. I simply gave him a wave, pulled out my house keys, and walked into my own house. I had stared down a man with tear drop tattoos earlier that week when he came around my youth recruiting, a spotlight was not about to alarm me.
Our neighbor across the street led a non-profit called Uplift East Durham that had been started by one of my housemates, and was organizing the neighborhood to protest the new highway being planned in order to move people more quickly through our community. The community remembered well the damage the construction of Highway 147 had wreaked upon "The Black Wall Street", leaving the city forever changed. They had seen this happen before, felt this happen before; they knew it would strengthen the gentrification of the center of Durham, but weaken their community ties and support. Not only that, but it would add a great deal of danger for the predominantly pedestrian immigrant population that had been increasing in number. Lastly, the project would claim eminent domain over the few businesses we did have operating.
Two things stood in the way of the plan: first, the community's fierce protectiveness of that one grocery store, Los Primos – threatening it was bordering on sacrilege when there were no other banks or grocery stores that would operate in our community. The second impediment was the fact that the church where I worked was a historic building. That second point was the one that would hold the most weight with the mayor as I observed when I accompanied the senior pastor to the mayor's office to advocate.
The proposed road project has not taken place… yet. People still had to look at our faces as they drove through our neighborhood, and the tienda was saved. But access to fresh and healthy food was still dramatically different for my neighborhood, bordering NC Central University, than it was for the folks that bordered Duke University on the other side of town. Even my friends from the Iredell House, a community founded by Hauerwas students, had easier access to healthy food when they dumpster dove out behind their neighborhood Whole Foods for certified, organic produce.
My uncle was under the impression that people were making the conscious choice not to obtain healthy food, that mothers had the option and were simply not choosing it. My mind went to a recent evening that I had spent with one of the mothers who was living in the Isaiah House with us while she and her daughter were houseless in Durham. Getting home from work one evening, she had heard I was making a trip in my car to the store across town and asked for a ride. Once we got to the store, she insisted she did not want to hold me up and would take the bus back. It got later and later, and feeling responsible, I sat at home and worried. Finally, frustrated and wet, she made it home, having taken two hours to complete by bus the trip that had taken me twenty minutes by car. This was something that I could not make my uncle understand – that when my housemate got home late and tired from work, the choice to go to a store where she could get "healthy food" for her daughter would cost her every remaining minute until bedtime. Something inside me told me that her daughter would rather spend those minutes with her mother, who she adored, than with a mouth full of "healthy food."
Thankfully, at the Isaiah House, that was not a decision we had to make often during much of the year because the community grew most of their own food. Strawberries in the front yard. Grape vines and apple trees in the side yard. Tomatoes, peppers, green beans, squash, onions, herbs, lettuce in the back. We supplemented it with rice, ate simply, and we were happy. But not everyone has the space, the time, or the knowledge to grow their own food. Food can be a very complicated thing, no more so than when you are hungry. We can educate and we can accompany, but we do not have the right to judge another's food choices – especially when their belly is empty and ours is full.
Here on Eleuthera, we try to grow a good amount of our own food, but many of the plants are still maturing. Ironically, the one tree that cannot seem to stop producing fruit is the one tree whose fruit no one seems very interested in eating. The papaya trees plays Jan to the mango tree's Marcia Brady. Like the mango, the papaya tree bears a roundish, orange fruit that is beautiful on the outside and even more beautiful on the inside. It's flavor, however, is not very popular with visitors or locals. It is sweet and salty, but sadly not in an addictive chocolate-covered pretzel way. It is sweet and salty in more of a confusing manner that leaves you simply ambivalent about whether you want to put any more of its moist flesh in your mouth. This often results in it sitting on the table until it looks like better food for the chickens than for humans. But unless they are very hungry, even the chickens seem ambivalent. Poor papaya, the food of necessity.
I think to myself that the papaya must be rooting for the electricity to go out; because with no way to prepare our "prepared food", the lovely but confusing papaya might just have its day in the sun after all.
Thankfully, the sun has finally come back out after a week's absence, and it is a lovely day for fishing. After all, the papaya does not want to sit on my plate alone.


text: In this story, "first told in Julie's Wolf Pack [1997]," a little Eskimo boy is given a wolf's name: Amaroz, after the leader of the wolf pack that had saved his lost and starving older sister. "The wolf pack's noble black leader had shared his family's food with her." One day his sister Julie comes home with two wolf cubs that are sick and hungry. Amaroz loves and cares for one of the cubs and names him Nutik. Julie warns her brother: " . . . do not come to love this wolf pup. I have promised the wolves we will return the pups when they are fat and well." But Amaroz does fall in love with the cub. The two become inseparable, and when the cub is grown and it is time to return to the wolves, Amaroz first tries to hide him, then reluctantly lets him go. Amaroz returns home, "His heart broken after all." But then, Amaroz finds the wolf cub has returned to him to be part of the human family, forsaking the wolves. Rand traveled to Barrow, Alaska, to capture the people and landscapes in the story in watercolor and pencil. His pictures of Nutik are, of course, dreamy, and his focus on the boy and wolf help to indicate the isolation of the terrain. One interesting technique is a wash across the top of many of the pictures, which serves as a link between scenes and when in red indicates the 24-hour day. Night scenes of the dancing wolves, snow, and stars are particularly effective. As a young introduction to the Julie stories, this has great appeal, but it stands alone as a heartwarming story of a boy and his dog (or, in this case, his wolf). (Picture book. 6-8)


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5 "So I will come to put you on trial. I will be quick to testify against sorcerers, adulterers and perjurers, against those who defraud laborers of their wages, who oppress the widows and the fatherless, and deprive the foreigners among you of justice, but do not fear me," says the Lord Almighty.


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Police officer who lost leg at RBT site urges care on road
THE Beerwah police office who lost his right leg after being hit at an RBT site last Friday has urged everyone on the road to remember their actions can affect the life of someone else.
Senior Constable Len Elliott was struck by a motorcycle while on-duty last Friday on Steve Irwin Way, Beerwah.
In a statement released by police on Thursday, he said: "My family and I would like to thank everyone for their thoughts through this difficult time."
"I am overwhelmed and incredibly appreciative of all the support I have received from my family, my colleagues at the Queensland Police Service and my friends.
"I am also grateful for all the kind thoughts from members of the public.
"I would like people to remember that every decision they make on the road can affect the life of someone else.
Police officer hit by motorbike at Beerwah has lost his leg
A BEERWAH police officer has lost his right leg after being hit by a motorcycle at an RBT site last Friday night.
Police have confirmed surgeons were unable to save Senior Constable Len Elliott's leg after the horrific incident on Steve Irwin Way near the intersection with Roys Rd.
The 44-year-old suffered what police initially described as "traumatic injuries" when he was hit by the motorcycle as its rider allegedly attempted to avoid the RBT site at high speed.
Const Elliott underwent surgery at Royal Brisbane Hospital, but his leg could not be saved.
Sunshine Coast Central Patrol Group Inspector Jason Overland said Snr Const Elliott had undergone further surgery yesterday.
"The surgery is on his right leg to assess the extent of the damage to his nerves," he said.
"There has been an amputation.
"We're carefully monitoring his condition."
A hospital spokesman said Snr Const Elliott was in a stable condition.
Insp Overland said he had had only limited contact with the officer, his wife and their three children since the incident but the police service was offering them all the support they needed.
"Len has a long way to go," he said.
"It was a traumatic injury but obviously we would like to get him back to work in whatever capacity he feels."
Insp Overland said a 19-year-old Glasshouse Mountains man was assisting police with inquiries and charges were imminent.
"The rider of the motorcycle has been identified and has been interviewed.
"Investigations in that regard have been to a large degree completed,.
"The rider of the motorcycle is undergoing surgery,'' Insp Overland said.
It is understood the rider is in Royal Brisbane Hospital.
Queensland Police Union president Ian Leavers said policing was a dangerous, difficult and at times potentially life-threatening job.
"The Queensland Police Union is providing the officer and his family with all the support that they need and I know all police are offering their well wishes," Mr Leavers said.
"Police will always ensure they perform their role to keep the community safe.
"At a time like Easter, we should all reflect on the role that police perform to ensure the public have a safe holiday."


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School trust land leased for wind project
A chunk of school trust land has been leased as part of the ongoing development of a wind farm in Beaver and Millard counties that will eventually sell power to numerous cities in Southern California.
The Milford Wind Project, at its completion, is expected to power up revenue for the state as well, generating several million dollars for the Utah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration over the course of a 30-year-lease.
SITLA and a subsidiary of First Wind Energy signed the lease earlier this year for 1,560 acres that are expected to be home to 11 wind turbine generators.
That represents just a small portion of the project that will eventually include 159 turbines that will be 262 feet high on 40 square miles of public and private land.
The Milford Wind Corridor proposal received approval in October from the Bureau of Land Management and has the land capacity to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity.
A recent report by a renewable energy task force, commissioned by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., examined zones in Utah that have the capacity for development of energy resources, including geothermal, solar and wind.
Wind data collected from 109 anemometer towers throughout the state found that 24 of Utah's 29 counties have "wind zones" and that the greatest concentration of wind resources is located near Milford, according to the report.
It points out, however, that Utah's unique "geographic" diversity presents challenges to develop wind energy not experienced in neighboring states such as Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
As an example, while Utah's currently installed wind capacity in megawatts is at 20, the U.S. Department of Energy reports that Colorado's stands at 1,068 and Wyoming's is at 459.
Projects such as the Milford Wind Corridor are encouraging to state officials, especially if future phases of the project deliver energy to Utah.
By the time it is completed, the project is anticipated to be the largest renewable energy facility in Utah.
Kevin Carter, SITLA's executive director, said the lease represents an important diversification for the organization, which sinks its revenue from leases back into public schools.
The income-earning potential off leases in that area is largely limited to grazing, and wind power allows SITLA to capture even more money, he added.
"While we are happy to have the grazing, it is not really that lucrative for us. Alternatively, this has real potential to generate revenue for us," he said.
Moreover, the recently signed lease represents just a fraction of trust lands available in that area.
"It is a huge area, and additional sites will involve a lot more trust lands," Carter said.
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"Help for Haiti after Hurricane Matthew"
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829 7th St NW
Fri, November 18, 2016
A few weeks ago, Hurricane Matthew ripped through Haiti, leveling whole towns, leaving more than 1,000 dead and 1.4 million in need (more than 2x the population of DC). In Les Cayes – a seaside town on the south-western tip – almost all buildings have been wiped out, food and fresh water are in short supply, and cholera has been spreading like wildfire.
We can help. You can, too.
In 2010, many of you answered our call for Haitian earthquake relief, helping us raise ~$9k for medical aid in the wake of devastation and disaster. Through your support, our partner agencies (Partners in Health, Red Cross) provided direct medical services and supplies across the country. This time, we're going hyper local.
The gist:
We're raising funds for the Haitian-American Church in Pompano Beach, FL. They've been tapped by public officials to coordinate city-wide relief efforts. (The Miami-Pompano metro area has the highest concentration of US-based Haitians). Funds collected by the church are being routed to 3 trusted Haiti-based organizations focused on Les Cayes recovery, providing medical relief, social services, rebuilding aid (Gasgov Clerge, Hosean Ministry, Haiti Christian Development Fund).
Our friend, Robert Daguillard's, aunt co-manages the church.
How you can help:
Donate, here. Tell your friends to do so, too. (THERE IS A DONATION-ONLY LINK UNDER TICKETS.)
Join us, Friday, November 18th, from 6:30-10pm for a celebration of Haitian culture, details about the relief efforts we're supporting, and light food & bevvies.
If you would like to make a donation and want to avoid the Eventbrite percentage fee, please make checks out to the Haitian-American Church and bring to the event or mail c/o Joan DeLuca 1108 Columbia Road N.W. Apt. 201 Washington, D.C. 20009
Relief Effort Rendezvous Details
Location: Cove, 829 7th Street NW, Washington DC 20001 (Co-working Space Upstairs Next to Hooters)
Date: November 18, 2016
Time: 6:30pm-10pm
Entrance donation: $30 (online donations of $30+ will ensure entrance … please RSVP in Event Brite to claim your ticket)
Listen to stories about Haiti (both as presented by speakers and captured in photo show and photo essays which will be on display) and hear about the relief efforts we're supporting
Enjoy light apps and adult bevvies (free drink tix, as part of entrance donation; donations accepted thereafter)
Thanks for your support. It's so deeply needed.
Joan DeLuca, Molly Bauch, Robert Daguillard, Anna-Paula Murphy, Kevin Jean Baptiste, and the Cove staff"


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Some (slightly) random notes I took from attending Games Monetization Europe earlier this week. I'd recommend this event for it's currency of content and the quality of people attending.
(#GMEU on Twitter)
Nick Parker
- Games market – Asia 56% of revenue, EU17% US21%
- Data at IHA Screen Digest
- iOS delivers stronger revenues because of store fragmentation – 40 android app stores, many different handsets, piracy
- Comparing publisher net revenues, 20% console, 49% online
- 1.7bn connected TVs by 2016 in 570m homes
- 2.4bn smartphones, 550m tablets by 2016 = 3bn devices
Peter Edward, SME Director, PShome
- 150 devs providing content
- F2P is viable on consoles
- audiences are similar on console and other f2p platforms
- can be for smaller devs/teams not just large teams
- hungry community, like innovation, all like games, like personalisation and customisation, comfortable with micro transactions, infrastructure exists
- Home and f2p – engine, tool sets and samples, infrastructure is free, trusted commerce system (PS Wallet), numerous opportunities to buy (places)
- cheap entry to console Dev, predictable ROI
- curated content…discovery 'easy'
PANEL all you can eat or micro-transactions
- 380m registered users – Gamesforge
- 42m MAU CandyCrush Saga
Game design workshop
Game pyramid:
- Core loop (find the fun)
- Retention game (what keeps the player coming back to the core loop)
- Super Fan game (strong social levels that work for the super fan/spender)
King – Tommy Palm
- Use King.com to test game ideas first
- Marketing & branding….
- Cross marketing is very important – PR, word of mouth, Facebook traffic, getting featured, ads, cross-promotion
- You need 150,000 downloads to get on top of iOS chart
- Over 50% of users connected to FB
- USE DEEP LINKING…notifications include link to App Store, can include parameters to enable game-specific functionality
- Notification,s timeline, news feed and bookmarks + paid ads = drive new installs
- Facebook users – 75% of MAU is (also) on mobile, 10% solely mobile
- Mobile app install unit, deep link to app but seamless as can return straight back to FB as opposed to sponsored stories that take user off to any URL
- 600×360 creative, <10% of screen space can be text
- Highly targeted
Global monetization of games – Newzoo
- $70bn overall games industry
- Latin America and Asia main growth
- Europe and us relatively flat
- 1.23bn gamers this year
- 18% of market is mobile inc tablet
- Gaming growth:
- 32 TV +4% growth YoY
- 77 floating screen + 5% growth YoY
- 39 computer screen + 5% growth YoY
- 12 personal screen +22% growth YoY
- 87% increase on tablet gamers in UK YoY,
- 20% play on all screen types
- 40% of all smartphones players pay money (UK)
- Russia spends more on iPad games thanGermany
WOOGA – Al Sinoy, PM for Diamond Dash
- Make first play super accessible
- avoid unclear controls, unnecessary UI, loading screens,
- instant rewards, unlock new levels, unlock new elements, free stuff
- breathing spaces…avoid burning through content very quickly…don't let them get everything at once but show what can be won/played etc
- provide milestones, e.g. reset high scores weekly
- push notifications e.g. Energy recharged, stuff unlocked, high score reset
- Community management and follow up feedback
- Ensure cross-platform communication
- Beware of aggressive monetization – payers should get empowering value, but still need to satisfy non-payers
- Reward non-paying/time-rich players as much as paying users
Kevin Corti, SpiderShed Media
[Mobile/social games design, project/product management & commercialisation]
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— Kofi Kingston tweeted the following about The New Day's losses on RAW:
Understand that we were not at full strength tonight. We were outnumbered, the refs were against us, therefore we were at a disadvantage.
— Kofi Kingston (@TrueKofi) October 27, 2015
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Singer/songwriter Laura Gibson's life is at a crossroads. Originally from Portland, Gibson has been releasing albums since her 2006 debut If You Come to Meet Me (Hush Records). These days she's on Barsuk/City Slang and lives in NYC where she studied to be a fiction writer. In fact, her new album, Empire Builder, which came out in April, was inspired by the name of the Amtrak route she took while crossing the country to her new home (and bears a resemblance to a certain Simon and Garfunkel song about a couple lost in America). But shortly after she arrived, her East Village apartment burned to the ground, an experience that "will continue to be, something that shapes me for the rest of my life. I cannot separate that experience from these songs," she said.
There is a haunting poise to Empire Builder, a solemn intimacy that's warm and pleasant and heartfelt. Contributors on the album include members of Death Cab for Cutie, Decemberists and Neko Case's band, an artist whose style her music most resembles.
We asked Gibson to take our Ten Questions survey, and she obliged:
What is your favorite album?
Laura Gibson: Songs of Leonard Cohen by Leonard Cohen
2. What is your least favorite song?
There's a song that keeps playing at my gym that says something like, "Girl you're beautiful because you don't know you're beautiful." I don't know its name, but I hate it.
3. What do you enjoy most about being in a band?
Getting to meet and connect with people all over the world.
4. What do you hate about being in a band?
Being away from home so often.
5. What is your favorite substance (legal or illegal)?
Tie between coffee and wine.
6. In what city or town do you love to perform?
New York; Spring Green, Wisconsin; tiny German towns.
7. What city or town did you have your worst gig (and why)?
I had a few rough SXSW shows in Austin, but they've became pleasant/comedic in memory. Bad shows always make for good stories.
8. How do you pay your bills?
Music: a combination of tour income, royalties and licensing for film and commercials.
9. What one profession other than music would you like to attempt; what one profession would you absolutely hate to do?
I would like to write novels and I would like to do some sort of social justice advocacy work. I would be terrible at law enforcement.
10. What are the stories you've heard about Omaha, Nebraska?
There is such an incredible music community in Omaha, so I feel like I've gotten to know it through song. I've heard stories of tornado alerts (but no actual tornado stories).
Laura Gibson opens for David Bazan Tuesday, July 2,1 at Reverb Lounge, 6121 Military Ave. Tickets are $15. Showtime is 9 p.m. For more information, go to onepercentproductions.com.


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Tuam's 1916 Commemoration will be hosted by the Old Tuam Society on Sunday 24 April 2016 at 2.30pm, the centenary of the start of the Easter Rising. This free public event, in partnership with Galway County Council, will take place at the restored 1916 Monument on Bishop St. followed by light refreshments afterwards.
This monument, first unveiled at the 50th Anniversary commemoration in 1966, is currently being restored on behalf of the Society. The restoration involves replacing the handcrafted metalwork missing from the monument. A new commemorative centenary plaque will also be unveiled at the base.
The Society is honoured to welcome relatives and descendants of Irish Volunteer and Fianna Éireann leader Liam Langley, Cloonthue, Tuam, who will lay a wreath. They will also be joined by families of local Volunteer and War of Independence veterans. The presence of the families is particularly significant as many of their ancestors were present for the original unveiling of this monument.
This formal commemorative event, in partnership with Galway County Council, remembering and honouring those who took part in the Easter Rising will include a reading of the Proclamation. The Community Support unit of the Dept. of Defence has granted members of the Defence Forces to provide a Colour Party and Military Display at the event. We are also honoured to welcome members of the Irish United Nations Veterans Association (IUNVA), and Tuam Fire Brigade among others.
The Jubilee 1916 Monument at Bishop Street, Tuam, was unveiled on December 18 1966 and designed by Old Tuam Society Member Willie Mannion, who worked for the County Council at that time. The memorial originally bore brass numbering "1916-1966", with the symbol of the Sword of Light in the centre and was topped with a gilded capstone depicting the Gal Gréine or Sunburst emblem.
Willie Kelly, Stonemason, Bishop Street built and erected the monument , which was built using local stone and also included a stone from every county in Ireland in the base, which added to the significance of the monument and reflected the idea of a united Ireland. We are delighted that his son Liam has carried out the restoration work for the Centenary commemoration.


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Daily Mass Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday - 12:10 p.m. .
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Pregnancy The 11 Craziest Pregnant Women in News Report History
Anybody who has another human being growing inside them for nine months has the right to go a little crazy. But these pregnant women have taken their crazy nine-month phase to a whole new level. From drunk-robbing a taco shop with a hammer to getting into a full-on fist fight at a parking lot to getting their fourth DUI, these pregnant maniacs prove that expecting a baby does not always lead to self-improvement. Here are the craziest pregnant women in news report history.So what's the craziest thing a pregnant woman has done? That remains to be seen but there's no doubt that if a pregnant woman does something bonkers, she'll end up on this list.
Pregnant Woman Gets Family Arrested At Chuck E. Cheese
Contrary to popular belief, Chuck E. Cheese is actually more of a playground for adults than it is for children. Especially when flasks, fighting, and pizza are involved.
Eighteen-year-old Juaneka Key was pregnant and at Chuck E. Cheese celebrating her two-year-old son's birthday. However, the party soon turned sour when a woman asked how long she was going to take at the vending machine. Key took offense, and a fight broke out. Key's step-dad, Terence Dickerson, punched the woman in the left eye, and Key's mom, sister and boyfriend also joined in the scuffle.Key and all four of her family members ended up getting arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and inciting a riot.
Pregnant Teen Gets Arrested For DUI
In January 2008, a 19-year-old pregnant woman in New Zealand decided to get drunk. Then, she and three of her friends were stopped by a cop, and she was charged with a DUI.Her blood alcohol level was five times the legal limit – the point where most people actually lose their consciousness and sometimes die – but she was behind the wheel because all her other friends in the car were even more drunk or passed out.
Pregnant Woman Robs A Taco Place With A Hammer For Drug Money (And A Taco)
In 2010, a pregnant (and highly intoxicated) woman named Julie Bailey tried to rob a Taco John's with a hammer. She was so inebriated, though, that she couldn't even start the robbery before it came to an end. Apparently, she had some trouble getting the hammer out of her shorts when she demanded the Taco John's teller to hand over some cash, and a soft shell taco.After her major fumble Bailey tried to get away, but the cops quickly caught up with her. To make matters worse, this all happened when Bailey's roommate threatened to kick her out if she didn't come up with enough money to buy crack cocaine.
Pregnant Woman Stabs Three People
A seven-months-pregnant woman in Massachusetts was arrested for stabbing three people with a knife in April 2010. She took two of her three children to the Manton Heights Housing Project to visit their aunt when she attacked three individuals. The victims, ages 37, 18 and 13, all suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
In a twist, the mother of three also worked as an emergency-room coordinator at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.


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The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extreme borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and politics, is a veiled longing for death.
In Franz the word "light" did not evoke the picture of a landscape basking in the soft glow of day; it evoked the source of light itself: the sun, a light bulb, a spotlight. Franz's associations were familiar metaphors: the sun of righteousness, the lambent flame of the intellect, and so on.
Darkness attracted him as much as light. He knew that these days turning out the light before making love was laughable, and so he always left a small lamp burning over the bed. At the moment he penetrated Sabina, however, he closed his eyes. The pleasure suffusing his body called for darkness. That darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was the infinite we each carry within us.
(Yes if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes.)
And at the moment he felt pleasure suffusing his body, Franz himself disintegrated and dissolved into the infinity of his darkness, himself becoming infinite. But the larger a man grows inside his own inner darkness, the more his outer from diminishes. A man with closed eyes is a wreck of a man. Then, Sabina found the sight of Franz distasteful, and to avoid looking at him she too closed her eyes. But for her, darkness did not mean infinity; for her, it meant a disagreement with what she saw, the negation of what was seen, the refusal to see.


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Cheerleading is a sport in Beegum, which includes all of the the art and talent of dance, tumbling, cheers, jumps and stunting. Cheerleading always help to lead the spectators of any occasions to perk on the teams, especially in the sports. Cheerleading always draw more attention to the event and motivate the concentration, involvement and participation of the audience to a particular event. The people, exactly who do these types of activities of dancing and cheering, are called cheerleaders. They are the people who have are talented and qualified with the athletic skills.
Chearleader in Beegum California
Being a cheerleader always have a lot of practice and commitment. The common and important factor of cheerleaders is that they are warm. Those who do the cheerleading have to get in to shape. Cheerleaders generally will be very versatile. Cheerleaders will be usually confident with themselves. With out confidence, no body can survive in the field of cheerleading. Cheerleaders also need to the basic hand motions and jumps. They ought to work on and maintain the dance skills, tone of voice skills and tumbling is usually usually a part of their particular try-outs. A cheerleader always needs marvelous talent, energetic personality, and the ability to bring laughs to the spectators of the occasions.
Cheerleading profession in Beegum has always got so many benefits other than money. Cheerleading improves the confident in us. Cheer leading makes us learn how to perform before a huge audience, below particular pressure. It gives the opportunity to study the proper way to bond with the opposing sex. Cheerleading can help a person to be positive in the attitudes. As cheerleaders know how to root each other as well as the team they are cheering to get the great and the bad. They will be always optimistic in the life. The cheerleaders will be constantly moving and have several regular schedules in the task outs. This helps them enhancing the endurance, fitness of the body, skill and power. Being more conditioned and coordinated may help them in lots of other aspects of the existence too. Cheerleading also boosts the team work skills and also helps to give trust in others of the team.
When cheering on the home team in Beegum California, the cheerleaders should do all the stunts and maneuvers like flipping, twirling, pyramids, jumps, tossing etc. So as generally there are a lot of chances to get harm, cheer leading can be as daring as any other sports.
Cheerleading has been a practice or a technique over the years. Cheers are certainly not limited to football match in Beegum these types of days. Now we have the squads at basketball games, softball games, Cricket competitions and much even more games in Beegum. If there's a team which demands the support, there's a set of colorful cheers to provide it. So many constitutions and cheerleading camps in Beegum provide good coaching and guiding to get cheerleading. A few current cheerleaders in Beegum are also giving the training for the same. Both the gents and ladies who have the talents and sincerity to the job can usually make a success in the field of cheerleading in Beegum.
Importance of Cheerleading in Beegum
Cheerleaders, as the title suggests, is a group of girls who have leads the crowd, where they are present, in making the ambiance cheerful and jolly.
The cheerleaders fill the event with fervor and enthusiasm. They have such passion and zest that they are capable enough to increase the presence of the crowd, the in-store visitors and the sales and business of a certain event at any provided moment.
The cheerleaders have got a pre-planned system of performance which can be based on satisfactorily and adequately organized dances, hence executing the dance with the required, special abilities, enthusiasm and style.
Therefore it is these cheerleaders in Beegum who draw each and every individual's attention towards all of them and each cheerleader has many fans in Beegum California. These fans gather to the crowd specifically to have a glance of their style-icons. And for this, it is usually indeed very important that each cheerleader wears a cheerleading ribbon that bears a distinctive identity when on floor. These ribbons, having their own significance, help followers recognize their favorite cheerleader in the crowd whilst at the same time motivating the cheerleaders pertaining to a better and enhanced performance.
These ribbons definitely add to fanciful and spectacular styles. And even when you find, for one or the other reason, that but for all this treasure of choices accessible to you, there were something that you required specifically, there is absolutely no problem! You can obtain it ordered simply as you would like. There is certainly a huge collection of fabric, making it every the more simpler to develop anything you need. And also can one expect of it! You get them at extremely reasonable prices, too.
There is also a great selection of cheerleading bows and ribbons for schools, colleges, sports activities in Beegum CA and for other these recreational reasons, like: hair bows, brighten bows, cheer-accessories, hair-accessories, cheerleading shoes, cheerleading-accessories and competition-bows in Beegum.
The cheerleaders get massive compliments from not just their admirers, but off their parents since well as the judges. The cheerleaders, too, feel that they will couldn't seem better without these cheerleading ribbons on. They will look breathtaking, amazing and awe-inspiring. When they wave towards the bystanders, click photographs or sign autographs for the onlookers, each one of them appears astounding with their particular own, unique cheerleading laces and ribbons on them.
These types of cheer-accessories have a number of different, gorgeous and prominent cheerleading ribbons which have got the competence to give their particular wearers a manifestation of a grand and impressive appearance in cheerleading efficiency in Beegum!
Cheer Bows – Attraction in Cheerleading Competition
Cheer Bows play a significant role and are an inseparable part of a cheerleaders' costume. It may be procured from any of the shops that deal in Cheerleading costumes or can be custom made according to your preference. When the material is available, one can make almost anything they want out of this.
In viable cheers, cheerleading ribbon or cheerleading hair ribbons play an integral part. They can be found in wide range of color and designs. These materials are trendy, exciting and invokes enthusiasm for wearing all of them irrespective of the occasion, specifically cheerleading competition in Beegum.
Video of Cheerleading Competition in Beegum
Amongst all the cheerleading accessories that the cheerleaders in Beegum show off irrespective of event, occasion or cheerleader competition, cheerleading hair bows or perk bows are the many innovative and commonplace. It adds a flavor to one's looks during celebrations like birthdays, marriages, school dramas, sports, recreation, etc. Because the name suggests, cheer bow is a trendy and customary bend made to be worn possibly since an added put on with their getup or as a bend or ribbon on the head. People can flaunt their particular befitting and attractive hairstyle with the help of this whimsical item which usually comes in vibrant shades. It also offers added features and splendid styles. Its use is diverse yet mostly found in the American sub-continent to attract crowds of people for any kind of given event or function. cheer hair bow and many other related added components of cheerleading are widely displayed in large masses getting games like soccer, American football, baseball in Beegum CA etc.
To make options intended for assortment wider, manufacturers present huge collection in and above the expectations of cheerleaders in Beegum California 96076. Currently, one may find cheers bows in different designs. Some very popular and happening designs are Zebra Print, Double Whitening strips, Dots Print, Star Printing and glazing plane images. Based upon the choice and costume color, cheerleaders make their selection.
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love the blog. I posted a link to it on my blog. :)


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Do you have an aggressive dog that barks, lunges, snaps, growls, or bites? If so, the next question to ask yourself is:
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One of my top tips for students to improve their dog's training performance is to play interactive games. Play will enhance your relationship with your dog and the stronger your relationship, the better your training will go.
By interactive games, I mean games that include you, not other dogs. Fetch is a fun game that can reinforce your pup's desire to return to you, which can help you with your recall. Chase games are great, if exhausting, but only work to your advantage if you are the one chasing your dog, never the other way around. Tug is an awesome way to both build...
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Food is extremely useful when training a dog …
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… Unless it becomes a bribe
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Earlier this year, I had a table at a 'Pet Awareness and Adoption' event that changed the way I feel about these events, and some of the rescue groups who participate in them. I have spent many hours, and sleepless nights, thinking about the events of this day, and what we can all learn from it. I am not going to name the location because I do not wish to focus on the hosts, nor on the individual rescue group personally.. This could have happened at any public adoption event, and to any of the countless rescue groups or animal shelters that showcase adoptable dogs at these events. I was...
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Tue., Sept. 20, 2011, 2:29 p.m.
A comedy deal: 'Spamalot,' 'Caveman,' 'Blues'
WestCoast Entertainment has three comic extravaganzas coming to town, and they're offering deals if you order tickets to more than one.
Order two and save 10 percent on your ticket order. Order all three and get 20 percent off.
The shows are all at the INB Performing Arts Center:
- "Defending the Caveman," the one-man comedy show about the war between the sexes, Oct. 8, 8 p.m..
- "Monty Python's Spamalot," the fractured King Arthur musical, Nov. 11, 8 p.m.
- "The Blues Brothers Revue," Nov. 13. 6:30 p.m.
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These fun mint green paisley print palazzo pants are adorable. Put on some wedges or flip flops and go anywhere in these really pretty mint green, navy, and pink paisley print palazzo pants. These super comfortable wide leg pants will be a great addition to your wardrobe this season. These Palazzo Pants are cut to be hemmed at the bottom.
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So, you wanna be a teacher? Alright, if you can tell us what's wrong with that first sentence then perhaps you have a chance at joining our team
Ok, all seriousness aside, teaching online is different from teaching in the classroom but is just as rewarding. While you'll find more freedom than teaching in the traditional classroom, the challenges you'll face are similar yet not the same. Keeping your learners engaged and motivated will be the biggest challenge to overcome and if you can do that, then welcome to our team!
Here's what we look for in our team members:
- A sense of humor
- A positive outlook on life in general and teaching specifically
- Innovation in the classroom
- Knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies and how to apply them to a virtual classroom
- Teaching experience - preferably online but not a show stopper if this is your first venture into distance learning
- A teaching certificate or license is preferred but not required*
- A desire to help as many students succeed as possible
- A willingness to try new things
- A knowledge of learning theories and how they come into play in a virtual environment is helpful
- *A minimum of a bachelor's degree in the subject area(s) in which you wish to teach or, a bachelor's degree in general education with a minimum of eighteen graduate hours in the subject area(s) in which you wish to teach
- Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking)
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Convert and put Blu-ray files to Emby Media Server
Sum: This guide shows you the best way to rip and convert Blu-ray to Emby Media Server friendly video so that you can play Blu-ray movies through Emby Media Server freely.
As you know, Emby does not currently support Blu-ray format, which means you can't play Blu-ray files on Emby Media Server directly. To watch Blu-ray movies via Emby, you need firstly to convert Blu-ray to Emby Media Server friendly videos.
To complete the ripping, a tool is needed which you can use to remove the strict Blu-ray protection and region restrictions and rip Blu-ray movies to Emby Media Server compatible video very quickly while retaining great video quality. Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper is an ideal app for you to rip Blu-ray to Emby with the best video qaulity. Besides, it also can help you to convert Blu-ray, DVD to almost any other common video format such as VOB, FLV, WMV, AVI, MKV or backup the BD, DVD keeping the whole movie structure as you need. If you are running on Mac, pleas turn to the Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. Now just download it and follow the tutorial below to rip and transfer Blu-ray movies to your Emby Media Server.
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Step 1. Load Blu-ray movies
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Click Format bar and choose a compatible format for Emby Media Server. MP4, MKV from Common Video are the proper choice.
Tip: If you need, you can also click "Settings" to modify parameters of your output profile to meet your professional needs: bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, etc.
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The final step is to tap the Convert button and commence converting Blu-ray movies to Emby media server. After the conversion, click the Open button to locate the resulted videos. Now it would be available for you to view Blu-ray movies through Emby Media Server or for sharing.
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