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It's a good time to invest in a wireless speaker from Sonos. Today, Amazon announced that it will offer its customers a $50 credit in its online store for the purchase of select Sonos products.
The special promotion applies when a person buys either the $399 Sonos Play:5 speaker or the $299 Sonos Play:3 product. Sorry, the $199 Sonos Play:1 speaker is not included in this deal.
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About Lion XL
you went left there a little, it is a real ticket (at least in NYC it is) and it does go on your record.
But, you are correct in that the company earns revenue for sending the the 'information' to the MVC (or DMV) for review before being issued to the violator.
At least that how it was supposed to happen, except in NY they skipped the review part and just send out bad tickets, like when there police directing you through the red light because it broken.
It is very different...and I won't bother to tell you why, I'll leave that as an exercise in common sense and simple logic, and when that fails hopefully your brain will explode from all the feed back...
Independent Contractors is 'work for hire'. even more so than an employee. When you hire an independent contractor, it is for a specific task for specific length of time. I would think that I PAY you for a specific task and/or production would meet the requirement 'FOR HIRE'.
I could be wrong, as I am not lawyer, but in the fifteen to twenty years I've been in IT, I've hired many IC's for different jobs and when they left we maintained and owned everything they did for us. I would think (hope!) this would apply in this type of situation.
I cannot believe that it is legal for a photographer to have the rights to sell the pictures of my grandson to every and any one he so wishes? TFOH!!
I like his approach, and it may help draw attention to the stupidity of such claims. Pathak may or may not be serious, but it will give this nonsense the exposure it needs and since this is something the general public can understand (most of them should) that 'of the month' is beyond being copyright-able, it very well may help things
It doesn't really matter..from what I understand Joose is on the FDA hit list (similar product to 4LOCO!) and as usual Annhauser Busch is late to the party(I'm assuming Tilt is one of the caffeinated Alcohol beverages).......
I don't get it.....31 kicks out 0f 65000 bans/warnings. The headline made it seem like half the population got kicked....
what exactly is wrong about those numbers? If it were the opposite I would understand, because that would mean alot of witch-hunting. What am I missing?
True...or at least I wouldn't know or care about it, but my question remains: What the hell is going on?
Seriuosly, are we that dysfunctional as human beings that we have to recreate the pitfalls of life in virtual setting? We have already seen virtual bullying, virtual thugs, virtual ponzi scams, virtual racism, etc...Whats next Virtual rape???? (probably been - there done that, but who knows anymore?!!?)
is anyone besides me wondering what the hell has this WORLD come to? Online vigilante groups with secret agendas? excuse me, Costumed vigilante groups!!! Filling copy right infringement cases?
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Fabulous Fords Forever packs over 1,000 Mustangs at Knotts Berry Farm 2014
Simply put, no other Ford show comes close in size or variety to the Fabulous Fords Forever show held every April at the Knotts Berry Farm amusement park in Buena Park, California. Two-thousand-fourteen marked the 29th year, and nearly 2,000 examples from Ford, Lincoln, Mercury and other rare marquees like Anglia and Edsel descended upon sunny SoCal for a day of automotive awesomeness.
Fans enjoyed machines from the Model T through 100 years of Ford iron including the 2015 Mustang and the new aluminum F-150. How diverse was the show? Try everything from a variety of Mustangs. Cougars and Fairlanes to Galaxies, T-birds, Falcons, Pintos, Broncos, everything from SVT and more. Fabulous Fords Forever is so colossal that 44 different clubs participated, and it took a team of 214 volunteers to make the show a success. In other words, show goers aren't overwhelmed by a haphazard collection of vehicles randomly parked about, but rather the show is laid out in an organized manner broken into body styles—which means if Fox-body Mustangs are your thing, simply head for that area and avoid all the fluff.
As always, Mustangs were the dominant vehicle, as nearly 1,000 examples were in attendance. Speaking of Mustangs, 2014 was a big year for the Pony, as FoMoCo celebrated 50 years of the Mustang by displaying Mustang number one, assembled on March 9, 1964 and parked it next to a silver 2015 Ford Mustang GT. Enthusiasts didn't disappoint either with rare iron like Shelbys and even a Boss 429 along with plenty of modern rarities like the JBA Dominator, a 2000 Mustang SVT Cobra R and plenty of other cool ponies. Other noteworthy commemorations included 55 years of the Galaxie and 75 years of Mercury.
Ford Racing, Shelby, Roush, Saleen, Nitto Tire, Galphin Auto Sports and many other big name companies were on hand as were famous faces from the industry. The lovely First Lady of Racing, Linda Vaughn and Cleo Shelby, along with Molly Saleen made the day even brighter. Other racing and industry legends included 12-hours of Sebring winner, Scott Pruett and Formula Drift champion, Justin Pawlak represented the current, while the legendary Parnelli Jones and his teammate George Follmer (who drove championship-winning Mustangs), along with drag racing legends Butch Leal and Larry Knapp, Wille Stroppe of Bill Stroppe Racing, Bill Ford III and Steve Saleen were on hand meeting show-goers, sharing their stories and signing autographs. For Mustang fans this a piece of heaven.
You get the idea; this is the biggest (and for many), the best one-day FoMoCo show on the planet. Then again, what would you expect from a show that's presented by Ford Motor Company itself and run by the Ford Car Club Council. Seriously, if you haven't made a Fabulous Fords Forever show yet, make the trek, no matter how far you have to travel—it's worth the effort. Oh yeah, and here's the kicker, there's no price of admission. That's right, it's legendary and it's free; now you don't have any excuses. See you all there next year!
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hairsbreadth (plural hairsbreadths)
- a very short distance or a very small amount (as is the width of a hair)
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act IV, Scene 2)
- I see you are obsequious in your love, and I profess requital to a hair's breadth;
- 1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit, book 1, chapter 30
- ... it was characteristic of this man, as it is of all men similarly marked, that whatever he did, he overdid, though it were sometimes by only a hairsbreadth...
- 1919, John Buchan, Mr. Standfast
- We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles.
- 2010, Neil McDonald, Quadrant, March 2010, No. 464 (Volume LIV, Number 3), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 100:
- In Avatar the spectacular rides to the rescue and hairsbreadth escapes have the whole film behind them and because of that are dramatically and emotionally satisfying.
- 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Act IV, Scene 2)


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Despite this growth, a large number of interactive apps still remain unreported and we are left to trust media owner stated figures.
The ABC defines a digital edition as a digital version of a print publication, having a beginning and an end. It must also conform to a set of editorial similarity guidelines. It is then reported on an ABC cross platform certificate alongside its print parent, key for publishers to demonstrate total brand reach.
The ABC has put in the really hard yards in the past year to make provision for a standardised set of cross sector metrics recognised across the whole industry. This will hopefully ensure a much needed common approach is embraced now and in the future.
This is a very welcome development which heralds a new level of transparency to the digital publication/editions and the breadth of print brands.
The digital editions available on tablets tend be 'page turner PDF under glass replicas' in the main but a number of brands have enhanced interactive versions. The majority of advertisements within digital editions are run through for free from its offline parent in static form. It is also possible with some titles to make the ads interactive but this comes at a cost premium.
Running advertisements through is clearly of benefit, but monetising the extended reach remains a challenge for publishers.
The replicas are available for purchase from digital newsstands such as Zinio and Pixel Mags to name but a few. The latest entrant to market is French company LeKiosk who offer the consumer a choice of several magazines per month for a fixed fee.
The favoured charging model is via an auto renewing subscription which encourages frequency of purchase, a clear benefit to the publisher.
All the major print brand owners have accelerated their digital edition rollout over the last 9 months to fully capitalise on the explosive growth of the tablet market – 12.2 million adults now own a tablet in the UK according to YouGov 2012 ONS. Forecasters predict that tablet penetration will soar to 19.4 million by 2015.
Digital edition total circulation has rocketed year on year, up over 250%. But this is only half the story. The full impact of the rise in tablet sales over Christmas and the effect it will have on print brands as a whole will, we hope, manifest itself positively in the next consumer release due this summer.
The longest recessionary period in living memory has clearly impacted the magazine purchasing habits of the consumer. This is laid bare by lower frequency of purchase and a decline in selecting a secondary title at newsstand.
Subscriptions are therefore all the more crucial to offer the reader even more bang for their buck across a number of different platforms.
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Draft picks are tight-lipped about bonuses
I'd rather not say how much it was. But it was definitely enough to not go back to school at this moment. Plus, (the Astros) will be covering my last three semesters of school. It really was an opportunity I couldn't pass up.
Draft picks selected after the 10th Round can sign for up to $100,000 without penalizing the team's bonus pool, but I've been curious if the "paying for school" promise applies to that $100,000 limit. Will try to find an answer soon, but it's something the Astros have promised to Tony Kemp, as well.
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I don't think paying for school counts against the bonus pool.
When the Phillies signed Cord Sandberg for $775K + the monetary equivalent of a full scholarship to Mississippi State, it was reported that the "scholarship" money wouldn't count towards their bonus pool.
- June 13, 2013 at 12:58 PM
It does not apply
- June 13, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Yes, I have read it does not apply too. But I think that is crazy. Could they give players other things like cars, rings and free trips around the world to stay under a slot value that the value of those things would surpass or is there just an exception to paying for schooling?
- June 13, 2013 at 1:15 PM
No educational money can only be spent on tuition
- June 13, 2013 at 1:28 PM
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The club pays the college directly. Rule 3 spells out in great detail what sort of payments and favors and expenses are and are not allowed to be paid/given to players and schools.
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There you have it, ladies and gentlemen!
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Get back to work you!
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Sam Eisenstadt has a fabulous birthday present to give the bull market as it celebrates its fifth anniversary: A forecast that the S&P 500 will rise 12% over the next six months.
Note carefully that Eisenstadt is not a shameless shill for Wall Street, always projecting higher prices. He is the former research chairman at Value Line, and a rigorous student of the markets. Though he retired in 2009, after 63 years at that firm, he continues in retirement to update and refine a complex econometric model that generates six-month forecasts for the S&P 500 — and shares them with inquiring columnists. Read: Here's how the S&P 500 gets to 2,600 next year.
Far from being a perma bull, if anything his model in recent years has been too cautious. At 2013's mid point, for example, it in effect thought the market had gotten ahead of itself — and was projecting that the S&P 500 SPX, +0.44% would fall 2.4% through the end of the year. The market actually rose smartly over the last half of the year.
So we should take seriously his latest forecast that the S&P 500 will rise to 2,100 by September.
Though Eisenstadt's model is not perfect, its track record has been impressive statistically. He reports an r-squared of 0.33 for his model since the early 1950s, which means that it has been able to explain 33% of the variation in six-month changes in the S&P 500. (The r-squared is a statistical measure of how much one data series is correlated with changes in another; a model that had perfect explanatory power would have an r-squared of 100%.)
Eisenstadt constructed his model to combine all inputs that his research found to have any stock market forecasting ability. So there's no one factor that is responsible for its current forecast of a much higher market over the next six months.
But, in an interview, he said that one big factor is continued low interest rates: "Unless rates start picking up in the next few months, the outlook looks very bullish."
Eisenstadt confessed to being "almost embarrassed" by how bullish his model is, since the market has already been so strong. But, given that he trusts his quantitative model over his gut instincts, and given that his model has been too cautious recently, he doesn't "want to argue with the model."
Not arguing with the model is a very important principle for Eisenstadt, in fact. His rigorously empirical and quantitative approach is based on the fundamental tenet that all beliefs about investing should be subjected to mathematical verification. Unfortunately, he says, "most advisers fail to live up to that standard."
Of course, just because Eisenstadt holds himself and his model up to this standard doesn't guarantee that the market will be 12% higher in six months' time. Note that, even with a 0.33 r-squared, his model still is unable to explain more than half the variability in the S&P 500's six-month returns.
Yet Eisenstadt says he is unaware of any model that has a higher r-squared than his when explaining six-month returns. If so, that means that — while anything is possible — any forecast for a return higher or lower than a 12% gain will have even less probability.
I think most of us would be happy even if his model is only half right!
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Volkswagen has fused stretched dimensions and fastback design into the sexy, spacious five-passenger Arteon sedan.
Like its namesake, the Volkswagen Atlas can carry the world on its shoulders—figuratively speaking.
If Volkswagen's three-row Atlas seems like a little too much, take a look at the fun-size Atlas Cross Sport.
Its shape is among the most distinctive on the road; happily, the Beetle, offered as a coupe or a convertible, is as fun to drive as it looks.
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With another 10Best Cars win for 2018, the Golf is a fixture on our awards circuit.
Going where most Golfs can't, the high-riding Alltrack is athletic on-road and capable off of it, earning it a spot on our 2018 10Best Cars list.
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In 2016, Dutch consumers spent over 1 billion euros on products sold by foreign EU webshops. This represents an increase of 25 percent relative to 2015, as reported by Statistics Netherlands (CBS) on the basis of current big data research in cooperation with the University of Amsterdam and Leiden University.
More than half of all online purchases were made at webshops located in Germany. Clothing and shoes were the main items purchased by consumers. These purchases concern online purchases of goods by Dutch consumers from companies located within the European Union, but outside the Netherlands. Figures have been calculated using a method which is still under development and are therefore provisional. The margin of error in relation to total turnover amounts to approximately 5 percent.
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The Dutch retail sector recorded a total turnover of 107.1 billion euros in 2015. This means that the value of Dutch consumer spending in foreign European webshops accounted for 0.7 percent of total retail turnover in that year. Foreign online purchases are not included in Dutch retail figures but the above percentage does provide insight into total consumer spending and is an indicator of competition for the Dutch retail sector from foreign webshops.
Last year, over 80 percent of online purchases by Dutch consumers in other EU countries were from companies located in Germany, Great Britain, Belgium or Italy. German webshops topped the list with a share of more than 50 percent in total related purchasing value. Great Britain ranked second at around 12 percent, followed by Belgium and Italy at approximately 8 percent each. The other 20 percent was spent in webshops from across the entire Community. The corporate location is central to establishing these figures rather than the domain name or website language, which in many cases is Dutch.
Dutch consumer purchases from foreign EU webshops are mostly at shops selling clothing and shoes. The latter accounted for nearly 60 percent of the total online purchasing value related to foreign EU webshops in 2016. In addition, consumers spent their money mainly in shops selling animal nutrition products, home furnishing articles and food supplements; purchases were also made in other sectors. Fifteen percent of purchases could not be clearly traced back to any product category.
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The Calendar stopped at the end of December.
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Kenneth Greenlee was diagnosed with ALS last year. The funds raised through this event will be used for medical expenses and toward the purchase of a handicap van so Kenneth can stay as active as possible. Please come to the fundraising event this Saturday at Hot Tails Crawfish Hut in Texarkana, Arkansas.
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I am pleased to report that Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) just received institutional review board approval to add Bascom Palmer Eye Institute in Miami, Florida, as a clinical trial site for its stem-cell-derived treatment for people with dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Bascom Palmer has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report as the best ophthalmology hospital in the U.S. for the last eight years, so they are no doubt a valuable addition to the study.
ACT's clinical trial of its treatment for dry AMD is also taking place at UCLA and Wills Eye Institute in Philadelphia.
The clinical trial of the same treatment for Stargardt disease is underway at UCLA and Wills, as well as Grampian University Hospitals and Moorfields Eye Hospital in the U.K.
Earlier this year, ACT announced encouraging results for the first two trial participants treated, one with dry AMD and the other with Stargardt disease. There were no adverse events, and the cells provided modest vision improvement.
The expansion of these studies to additional sites and the treatment of more participants will provide more information about the treatment's potential for saving vision. I look forward to reporting additional clinical trial results as they are made available.
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40. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 7, 2012 11:37 AM (in response to able123)
Those "certification courses" sound like a great way to go.
Good luck,
41. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 7, 2012 1:22 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Yeah, Bill... the certification things are 4 saturdays for each one...and there's 2 of them..one for the studio cameras ( sd ) and lighting etc ( use of stage ), and the other for FCP editing suites , another 4 saturdays... after that you can use the stuff free.. and the certification courses are about $25 each I think...it's all basically 'free' via the agreement with local cable provider for the public access stuff ( cable commission ). A pretty cool deal ...I'm surprised more people haven't used it to produce shows ( talk shows, sitcoms , etc ).... but obviously that comes down to money for the talent and hair, makeup, operators, etc...regardless of the studio being available. And public access I guess equals no commercials ?? But still...maybe through grants or something that kinda thing can get done.
Anyway, I might start the first course around November when winter sets in around here.
42. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 7, 2012 2:15 PM (in response to able123)
Anyway, I might start the first course around November when winter sets in around here.
Provided that they have heat, sounds like a good way to spend a Saturday.
Not sure how many grants might be available in this day and age, but I would check that sourse out too. Might be some $'s, just waiting for a video production?
Good luck,
43. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 7, 2012 2:57 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
I'm not counting on any 'help' re: grant or whatever for this particular documentary I am working on now. But will certainly think about future "productions" etc and how grants etc might fit into that.
Last night I had a semi - brain storm about this documentary.
Mainly the brainstorm is to do it in "chapters" ( in a way like " acts " ).
4 chapters ( or acts ).
The continuity would be ( thread and theme ) focusing on the first settler and his reasons for homesteading...and then compare those reasons and his experiences ( success vs failures ) with everyone else that came out afterward....
I haven't got it figured out entirely at all, but am getting closer I think to the how to do something unique and 'new' , be all inclusive ( business and humanities ).
It's been very challenging to think about how to do this while reading up on the facts etc. How to tell a "story" that is real and interesting, almost like an adventure... but include all the things that happened and all the various peoples and events that shaped the history. Plus end it at the current state of affairs, and tie that in with the past... and make a statement about where it's at now.
Luckily I know enough about film making to sort of stay "real " about what I can do ( materials to work with ) but at the same time push it to the limit regarding the story... tell the best story I can within the restraints of budget and materials available.
You're no stranger to this push and pull thing.... what you got vs what you want....like more horses near the white fence...know what I mean ?
44. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 7, 2012 4:59 PM (in response to able123)
In general terms, what IS the history of Mound, MN?
I would guess that Native Americans were at least among the first settlers.
Any Viking exploration in the area? I can just see a ghost Viking dragon boat, rising from the lake in the mist...
What brought more contemporary settlers there?
Were they an agrarian culture, or did they perhaps open up a lumber mill, or other industry?
Cannot recall, but did the railroad play any role in the development? Didn't the downtown move to go to where the railroad came through?
Often, the "why" an area developed is worth mentioning. Take Tucumcari, NM for instance. It was once a work town, for the railroad and the building of a dam, but became a recreational town, and motels sprang up everywhere. It has also been used (or at least its environs have) for several motion pictures. Being on old Rt. 66 did not hurt either. Stuff like that.
As this is the 100th Anniversary of Mound, there should be a wealth of historical material, and people, who are interested in such.
Just thinking,
45. Re: documentaryKJerryK Sep 7, 2012 7:24 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
See http://minnesotahistory.net/?p=1644 for more on mounds
I bet you thought I was kidding about the burial sites
46. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 7, 2012 7:49 PM (in response to KJerryK)
Oh no, I believed you completely.
Though not on the MS Gulf Coast, there were many Native American burial mounds, just up-state from where I grew up. As, with the exception of the MS banks of the Mississippi River, there are few geographical features in the state, those mounds were a glaring exception.
Somewhere (and obviously due to Rod's post), I seem to recall that archeologist place the origin of the mounds to before the Native American tribes, thought to be indigenous to the region, and by maybe 1,000 years. Sort of like the Native Americans in Arizona. There was a "lost tribe," the Ho`hokam, who predated the Navajo, the Zuni and others, but disappeared from the area, maybe 600 years before they arrived. For decades, many dismissed the existence of the Ho`hokam, until a surveyor found their irrigation canals.The term "hokam" was used to denote "bunk." Well, not so. Like the Anasazi for Colorado, they were there, but disappeared, prior to what most think of as the indigenous Native American tribes, like the Arapaho, and Plains. Mesa Verde is a great example of their culture.
Also, as Lake Minnetonka was possibly a glacial moraine, I could imagine even earlier tribes, that were there, before the last Ice Age, and perhaps left the area, as the glaciers came down. I would anticipate that most of their artifacts were scoured from the land. I'll let Rod trace human life in the area back to whenever.
47. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 7:29 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
from what I've read and been told etc... the mounds are indeed pre-dating the Dakota...but some mounds had Dakato at the tops of the mounds as well... Like they 'added' to the more ancient mounds with their own deceased. The differences are apparently seen by the way they were arranged and the artifacts that accompany them, and the methods ( some cremated, some not etc ).
I have a feeling that some of this had to do with the seasons ( hard to dig into ice and snow in winter to bury people etc ).
There's no sign of human life before the last glacier about 10,000 years ago ( there were several glacial periods ). The giant inland "sea" that used to be around in north america kinda dried up and got drained etc in different areas at different times...
So for example you can find fish fossils in wyoming that are 3 million years old, which are about the YOUNGEST of that sea.
Here in MN. The bedrock at the lower right portion of state is the oldest bedrock ( no moraine ). That's the only portion of the state that wasn't effected by the glacial periods known about. I think the glacial periods are pretty spread out over a lot of time, the earliest being maybe millions of years ago... the last one 10,000 years ago.
There's been some conjecture that the american indians came across the bering sea area about 10,000 years ago ( theory contested by some of the indians - primarily due to their spiritual beliefs and creation beliefs )
Regardless there is no known connection between the ancient mounds ( mound builders ) and Dakota.
Lake Minnetonka was formed by giant ice cubes ( glacier pieces ) left behind, eventually melting...and finally creating minnehaha creek, which hooks up with the mississippi and populated the lake with fish.
two glacier 'tongues' came into lake minnetonka area ( later one probably riding up 'over' the earlier one ).
all these glaciers brought different soils and sediment etc..and are color coded on maps the USGS has.
The really cool man I spoke to at the USGS this past week explained a lot to me and is willing to go on camera for interview in documentary.. which is my first real " interview" lined up to do with someone with exceptional credentials, and he is really enthusiastic and speaks well, can speak to laymen about complex issues and so on. It's the first 'breakthrough' for me in terms of actually having a piece of the documentary "done".
The first euro - american settlers ( non indian ) for some weird reason didn't know about this place for a really long time despite being only 20 miles from mississippi river, St Paul, Fort Snelling etc. In fact it wasn't long after it was getting settled when the Dakota uprising occurred a little to the west in 1862.
48. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 8:14 AM (in response to able123)
Before the actual "settlers" came to lake minnetonka area other stuff was going on.
When MN. was a territory it already was surveyed by the USGS.. and basically everything west of the mississippi was sioux ( dakota ) before a treaty opened the land west of the mississippi to homesteading. They were surveyed districts ( 6 sq miles ) in 36 sections, each section being 1 sq mi. Sections were divided in half and quarter sections.
A quarter section is 160 acres.
So each district has 144 "farms" of 160 acres each.
These surveys are Plats and look like this:
Anyway, before this happened there were french fur traders who traveled and worked with indians ( guides etc ). Most of that stuff happened along river routes and lakes ( great lakes and rivers with access to the great lakes, mississippi etc ). Meantime the former colonies were pushing indians to the west and as those indians traveled west they often displaced the indians that were in the west already, pushing THEM further west or north into canada etc.
There's very little info about fur traders and that sort of activity in this particular area, prior to the sioux treaty, which opened the land west of the mississippi to surveys and homesteading etc.
once this place started to get settlers the next big thing to really open it up was the railroad ( great northern ).
I'm getting the basic ideas and perspectives of the history into my head with a bunch of reading etc. The local historical societies and museums have mostly info about the period just before the railroad and after that...up to the present day.
Oh NOOOOOOOOO... the classical station just started playing "bolero".... had to turn off the radio....
I don't understand why someone doesn't just break that record and throw it into the garbage can !
49. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 9:35 AM (in response to able123)
I can well imagine that with the streams, feeding into the lakes, that beaver would have been plentiful, and as about that time, fur felt hats were the rage in Europe, fur-trappers would be swarming all over the area.
However, it's easy to assign attributes, and common history to one area, based solely on similarities to another, like WY, or ID, to MN. Things might well have been different, and beyond my knowledge.
Good luck,
50. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 9:42 AM (in response to able123)
Somewhere, I had run across the general timeline on the Native Americans in the area, but the "building atop" was new to me.
from what I've read and been told etc... the mounds are indeed pre-dating the Dakota...but some mounds had Dakato at the tops of the mounds as well... Like they 'added' to the more ancient mounds with their own deceased. The differences are apparently seen by the way they were arranged and the artifacts that accompany them, and the methods ( some cremated, some not etc ).
Kind of like the "new owners" adding a penthouse, atop an existing building. I would puzzle over how the Dakota knew the purpose of those existing mounds, as there was no coincidence with both cultures? It's easy, when it's just the linear development of ONE culture, like Native Hawai`ians, where the "talk stories" of the heiaus were passed along. Think about it. The Dakota came to a new land/place, found the mounds, and knew what they were. They then just "added-on" to the existing mounds. How did they know?
51. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 10:21 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Some of the stuff I've read has been kinda like speed reading...to get the "gist" of whats up.
The Univ of MN. had some documents available online about archeological studies of the mounds in MN.
It has to be remembered that these 'archeological' studies by professionals actually occurred fairly 'late' in history. Most of the mounds by that time had already been partially excavated or destroyed etc. by settlers and tourists.
An unfortunate fact is that during the heyday of lake minnetonka ( with the large hotels and tourist trade ....it was basically the hamptons of the midwest ...or 'long branch, NJ' of the midwest )... many hotels and tourist businesses actually advertised that people could "explore the mounds"...
Basically this means tourists were encouraged to dig into the mounds looking for artifacts they could bring home with them.
So real archeological 'studies' came later on and there were already many mounds so disturbed there was no way to come to accurate and scientific conclusions....
However, some mounds had not been found yet by the settlers and most of the mounds were apparently along the banks of the Crow River ( just north of lake minnetonka ) for this particular "area". If you look at the map you'll see the crow meets the st croix and the mississippi etc in such a way that basic travel using rivers ( woods had no roads at that time ) would make it a nice way for indians to travel and have camps and their own settlements etc...
So it happens that some of the 'mound builders' actually built those mounds on top of 'settlements'... under the mounds it becomes plain that people actually 'lived' there...as proven by the artifacts on various levels etc.
This would include arrow heads and pottery and stuff like that.
So the Dakota, not being idiots, would see that someone 'lived' or hunted or something near some of the mounds. That would lead to checking out the mounds themselves, and using them for their own purposes etc. Over time, the rivers themselves often changed 'course' or changed in terms of how wide they are and so on...
That too would probably reveal over time some mound activity etc to the Dakota.
As an added note of interest....
The Dakota consider the lake Mille Lacs their ancestral "birth place"...but when other indians got forced westward they got chased out of there. Now other indians live there instead. They don't particularly like each other so much even today cause of that stuff. I wrote to the indian reservation at Mille Lacs asking for help with history of Dakota and they basically said, " We have nothing to do with those people."
52. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 10:38 AM (in response to able123)
concerning the indian movement into mille lacs lake by newcomer indians...making the Dakota move out...
It should be remembered that during this time in the U.S. various things were going on pretty fast. Much of the south was owned by the French until the Louisiana Purchase. The Spanish had Mexico until their revolution, and Texas etc was sorta being settled after that initial failure of Austin's original deal with the Spanish ( in west Texas ). Florida had been Spanish. The English also were fighting with the Spanish and French over control and so on of parts of this part of North America.
There were lots of things going on all over the place.
Then there was the civil war as if things weren't tough enough for a new 'nation'.
I'm just focusing on Mound on Lake Minnetonka...or else this documentary would be too large a chunk of meat for me to chew on.
My mom suggested to me when I was young not to try to put a piece of food bigger than my head into my mouth, so I am sticking with that advice.
53. Re: documentaryMitchell Lopez Sep 8, 2012 10:57 AM (in response to able123)
Maybe you can get Kevin Costner to star in your movie and make the movie 6 hours long.
You could show him as a civil war vet who wants to be on the frontier, away from civilization. He goes to Mound and turns rogue and finds how peaceful life is on the prairie with the native population.
I don't think this concept has been done.
If you do it, you probably will get rich from the residuals, when it is shown on TV every other week.
54. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 12:52 PM (in response to Mitchell Lopez)
Maybe you can get Kevin Costner to star in your movie and make the movie 6 hours long.
that reminds me...maybe bolero has finally finished playing on the classical station and I can turn it back on ???
I think it can't possibly be longer than 6 hours long, though it feels like that as soon as I hear the first note.
55. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 1:19 PM (in response to able123)
So the Dakota, not being idiots, would see that someone 'lived' or hunted or something near some of the mounds. That would lead to checking out the mounds themselves, and using them for their own purposes etc.
That is basically what happened in and around Phoenix. Jack Swilling looked down upon the valley, and became convinced that he saw a network of canals, though they had partially filled in, and had become overgrown over centuries. He investigate further, and charted those "canals," discovering that they WERE canals, and that they had been constructed to carry water from the Rio Salado, and disperse it all around the valley. The concept of the Central Arizona Project was born, and the canals were re-dug. Their grades were still almost perfect. The local Native American population knew nothing of the canals, but speculated that they had been constructed by an earlier, long-gone tribe, referred to as the Hohokam. Nothing was known of the Hohokam, except for myth. Well, the myth turned out to be historical fact. The story reminds me a bit of the Nazca Plain in Peru, where there are pieces of artwork, that can only be appreciated from a higher elevation, or the air. It took a visual survey from a peak, to even see the canals.
56. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 1:23 PM (in response to Mitchell Lopez)
Maybe the title could be, Dances with Wolverines?
As a plot twist, Costner could build the first "tourist destination" in Mound, after he sees dead people, who tell him to "build it... "
Yeah, you might be onto something there.
57. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 1:28 PM (in response to able123)
That reminds me...maybe bolero has finally finished playing on the classical station and I can turn it back on ???
What, you are not a fan of Maurice Ravel? Maybe you need to hear Wendy Carlos' version to gain an appreciation?
58. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 1:38 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
now you're cookin Bill...think big...get creative...wolverines ! build it and they will come !
I'm thinking "racing wolverines with some serious race cars, nutty music from the young generation ( full of high power angst ), and lots of yoodles and popcorn while watching it on the big screen in the living room !
But just to think about this for a beer thirty minute...( ITS BEER THIRTY YIPEE ! )
I need some "hook" or special perspective about all this stuff that basically weaves a thread of continuity and 'interest' ( and maybe what you would call 'human adventure' ) in this documentary.
Facts are very cool... aerial shots are very cool.
Archeology is very cool.
But to tell a " story " is even MORE cool... cause you use all the elements of facts and individual exprience, and even huge events like " wars" and " economic depressions" and you turn that into a "story" about human beings that the audience can relate to.
My feeling is that when the audience relates to people they can love and hate and feel sorry for and so on... the more that audience can compare " what we call history " to their own lives now. That's what I want to do .
It's fun thinking about this stuff and planning to tell the story.
it is sorta like saying " blackberry farm, a way of life "....it tells a story instead of just facts...and it's related to the beauty and human interest in why it's cool to enjoy the place ...
" a way of life" is the hook...or the perspective.
59. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 1:47 PM (in response to able123)
OK, here's the hook. You tell the story from the POV perspective of a wolverine. Maybe suit him up with a "critter cam," for some unscripted shots?
60. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 8, 2012 1:51 PM (in response to able123)
things aren't confusing enough for me right now , coming up with a "story line" etc...dealing with fossils of tribolites and early life on earth ....up the present day of Mound...and now you introduce Walter Carlos ( aka Wendy Carlos ) and transgender stuff ?
you warthog !
is it wine thirty ? IS IS BEER THIRTY ...so I hope it is wine thirty there too...hehe...you crack me up
61. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 8, 2012 6:16 PM (in response to able123)
Hey, just trying to "broaden" your horizons. Got to get into different types of music man!
62. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 9, 2012 5:41 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
hehe... okay...you're right...no sense being closed off to new stuff...
63. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 16, 2012 11:51 AM (in response to able123)
I played tourist this morning and drove from Mound to Excelsior ( from middle 'west' side of lake to south east sort of lake area ). Was a nice drive but people kept getting close to me ( cars behind me ) cause I wanted to go slow and "sight see "..and they apparently had a life to live etc. It reminded me of how perhaps the "zonies" effect traffic in San Diego according to some rumors here.
Sooo, it happens that after the big heyday of hotels and tourists bit the dust here in the early 20's some boats that used to serve the lake ( from RR depots to hotels etc ) got busted up and sunk in the deep parts of lake ( scuttled ). Then someone had the great idea to send down some divers and bring one of them back up and make it a new tourist attraction. Now it goes from Excelsior to Wyzeta and back and forth more or less.
There's some tourist stuff going on near this dock, restaurants and that sort of thing...and it's pretty nice.
So then I moseyed over to where the 'Minneapolis and St. Louis RR ' had some track....( close to this boat dock ). This got confusing to me cause I don't know enough about what's up with that RR. The FIRST RR to the lake was further north ( Great Northern ) from Minneapolis to Wyzeta... built by James Hill ( your typical RR tycoon apparently ). So Mr. Choo Choo ( see "Once Upon A Time In America " ) was originally up in the northern part of the lake. And this other RR later on came to Excelsior ( which also had a cool amusement park kinda like Coney Island ! ...but without that really scary roller coaster that is in Coney Island ...or Nathans ).
I think stopping at this point is a really good idea...
64. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 16, 2012 2:28 PM (in response to able123)
During the heyday of RR tourism, there were many spur lines built to various attractions. In New Orleans, they had Smoky Mary: http://pontchartrain.net/491284
After those glory days, many of the spur routes were dismantled for scrap, and especially during WWII, when steel and iron were cherished commodities. Some, however remain, or have been reclaimed, and operate as "excursion" RR's.
Now, that last shot is a real gem! Normally, when a RR line (spur or not) ends, they put a "deadman" in place. Hope that the engineer sees that stop sign in time...
Wow, Lake Minnetonka is a bigger deal, than I imagined. I know that you have posted some topo-maps, and I've spent a bit of time on Google, but I guess that I just never had the full grasp of things up there.
Now, I do not want to hear of you putting AZ plates on your car, and starting an anti-Zonie movement up there too. Of course Mitchell would have great fun, if you did.
Enjoy. Seems like a very cool place.
65. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 17, 2012 8:52 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
hehe...Smoky Mary. Yep..very similar sorta stuff up here with spurs that serviced various tourist and lumber and other business. Bit the dust pretty much with invention of auto, graded roads for trucking, changes in economy and businesses etc.
That photo above of RR ending at excelsior Blvd....to the left is a fine gravel bed "trail" used for bicycle trail ( mostly hybrid bikes ) and joggers etc. So the service road for the RR got turned into a bike trail basically. Same is in Mound, but in Mound they tore up the tracks and paved the trail. It's real nice...and runs along the lake shore in spots, through woods in other areas...and goes for a pretty long distance if you like biking for exercise. Roller skating is also popular on the bike paved bike trails. Plus dog walking etc. It's pretty cool.
But anyway, that stop sign is for the bicycles. I was surprised to see the steel is still down and also ( you cant see this in photo ) there are all the poles with electriic powrer and also an 'over the tracks' electric wire ( for electric trains or trolly or something ). Also nearby was a posted notice that the " 'Hennepin County Railroad Authority' property ends here " ( describing more or less the 'line' the poles made along the track ).
One thing I've noticed about the "history' stuff that exists around here... is that it isn't really "coherent". It hasn't been recorded and presented in a way that makes it easy to understand what happened and when that happened...and why. I think this is simply because there are various historical societies and books etc and they all have slightly different interests.
That is one of the challenges for me, to do doc on mound...is not to stray too far off subject but at same time include the lake history so mound isnt in a sort of vacume...and not just the lake, but inventions, cultural changes ( music, photography, art ), state and national events , the list is endless.
Keeps me busy thinking and grinding my teeth at night
66. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 17, 2012 9:23 AM (in response to able123)
Old RR grades can be very useful indeed. In Colorado, we had several in the High Country. After the tracks were torn out, a few became 4-wheel drive roads (actually, as the % of grade was low, and even with narrow-gauge, the curves fairly gentle, one did not really need 4-wheel, so long as the auto had clearance for the rocks, that had fallen onto the pass). Hagerman Pass was one such neat "road." Also, all along those, were old structures, such as water towers, etc., to view and explore. Mountain bikers discovered them early on, and the "invention" of the mountain bike came to be to ride such trails outside of Crested Butte.
Being a RR buff, I always find the old right-of-ways, and grades interesting. The histories of those old RR lines are the stuff of coffee table books, and one could find hundreds at the Colorado RR Museum in Golden, CO (just down from Coors!). I have many, though one of my Bulldogs did chew on a few.
I understand the fragmentation of the historical societies' focus. The RR folk are anal about all things RR, while the architectural folk have a different subject. Then, you'll get another group, that wants to chronicle the china pattern for every old resort. Getting them together is worse than herding cats. Now, if you can get them together for a study on the china patterns of a RR depot, you might get consensus. That is kind of what happened with La Posada in Winslow, AZ: http://www.laposada.org/. When they DO get focused, great things can come about.
Good luck, and most of all, ENJOY!
67. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 17, 2012 3:36 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Yeah, I've been in touch with a lot of people so far and plan on talking to more soon...and keep getting my head around this thing...so I can start the outline etc.
The purpose is to pull all these different perspectives and agendas etc together so its more coherent.
But I'm also reading some fiction at night to help me sleep ( silly fiction... like comic books without pictures ...you make the pictures in your own head ).
I wonder what it was like to be a caveman , before " pictures" existed. It musta been weird.
68. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 18, 2012 2:27 PM (in response to able123)
Well, based on some of the cave drawings, and petroglyphs, "pictures" have been around for a bit.
Now, one person, with whom you must speak, before you do that much of the script is the Log Lady: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log_Lady
I think that before she moved to the Pacific Northwest, she had a cabin on Lake Minnetonka?
69. Re: documentaryable123 Sep 18, 2012 2:49 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
I'm not so sure anyone reading this thread will get the big picture about 'art' if we continue on this road to snakes and warthogs and log ladies. etc.... not for nothin, but at some point it's nice to actually contribute to good ideas and forsake the jokes.
Then again, if it's beer thirty and yoodles are being thrown by the club members at each other, it time for snakes etc...so I am not gonna make any big 'value' judgement here... after all, in the 'drones club' of bertie wooster fame, it wasn't unusual to see pieces of bread thrown at the eldest members after " Ascot" race day.
70. Re: documentarythe_wine_snob Sep 18, 2012 5:21 PM (in response to able123)
You make a good point. We need a "Scary Snakes, Log Lady and Big Green Frog" Discussion! http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1068183?tstart=0


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Statement: Peter Flack Collection Donation
Iziko Museums of South Africa operate 11 museums in Cape Town. The museums that make up Iziko have their own history and character, presenting extensive art, social and natural history collections which reflect our diverse African heritage. Iziko's natural history collections are housed at the Iziko South African Museum, comprising more than one and a half million specimens of scientific importance.
Iziko received a donation of a substantial collection of mainly mounted mammal specimens from Mr Peter Flack. These specimens were collected by him over a period of about 30 years. The collection consisting of over 130 full mounts and over 70 shoulder, pedestal, floor and skull mounts mainly of African mammals and a few exotic specimens was delivered to the Iziko South African Museum on the 21 September 2012.
The arrival of the collection was covered by national press and our intention was to publicize this donation through a special exhibition in early 2013. There has already been considerable commentary on it, both positive and negative, so that an early communiqué has become necessary. This collection has raised discussion over the legitimacy of hunting not only from a conservation perspective but also from the perspective of animal rights.
Such a discussion is useful in highlighting real issues about our place in the World and the manner in which we need to change our ways in order to live sustainably and in harmony with our environment. In accepting this collection, Iziko took the following factors into consideration:
- The collection is of huge educational value. For many it will provide the only chance they will ever have to see these animals at close quarters.
- The collection is well documented and of value for research purposes.
- In the event that Iziko had not accepted this collection, it is likely that the specimens would have been lost to museums and private collections outside of South Africa. We believe that we would have been remiss in our duty as custodians of both the natural and cultural heritage of this country if we had not considered accepting this collection.
- The animals were hunted legally with the prerequisite permits.
- Recreational trophy hunting undertaken in a responsible manner supports conservation. For more on this, see the International Union for Conservation of Nature2012 document "IUCN SSC Guiding Principles on Trophy Hunting as a Tool for Creating Conservation Incentives". We are satisfied that the Flack Collection has been collected in a responsible manner that is in keeping with the IUCN's guiding principles for trophy hunting.
Iziko Museums of South Africa plans to organize and host a debate to enable a full airing of the varied views on this matter. Hopefully, this opportunity will provide a constructive platform to encourage engagement and share different perspectives.
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Ben Berden is from the old world, the motherland of cyclo-cross, Belgium. Yet, thanks to the popularity of the sport in the America, he's started his 2011/12 season in the US. His plan is to race an entire season of domestic 'cross before heading back across the pond for another 20 races.
The 36-year-old is here for a number of reasons, including the fact that he has some US-based sponsors to represent, such as Stoemper Bikes and the resurrected Clement tire brand. "It started out as a way to do a few [UCI] races before the Belgian series starts," Berden told BikeRadar."But after talking with David Alvarez, the manager behind Stoemper, we decided to do the whole US series."
Another incentive to race in America is that UCI points are ripe for the taking. "I'm not the youngest guy any more," Berden said. "There are a lot of young Belgian riders doing the elite races, so for me, it's easier to get my UCI points here... it's difficult to get them in Belgium."
He also wants to see the world. "It was always a dream for me when I was younger, doing cyclo-cross, to see a lot of countries," he said. "In the last years the UCI racing in the US has become pretty big, every week there's lots of racing, so I wanted to do the races in the US to see lots of the country."
Berden puts a premium on his experiences now that he's in the latter part of his career
You can come at Berden from a couple of directions. From one angle, he's deeply influenced by, and enjoys, American culture. He learned English watching subtitled American television and movies. "Maybe it sounds funny, but when we were in Seattle we went training behind Kurt Cobain's house," said Berden when asked about highlights of his trip, so far.
He has tattoos, which set him apart in Belgium but do little to draw a glance in the US. At home, he drives a late-model Chevy pickup truck in a land dominated by compact and efficient European automobiles. "I had an El Camino when I was younger, but then when you get two kids, the El Camino is too small," he said.
Put him on a bike, however, and he's a classically trained European cyclist. He's had his own missteps with doping. He rarely trains with other racers, and like many European professionals he races because he's reasonably good at it and able to support his family with it. "I think that's different because for the Belgian people, it's a way of living and a way of income," he said. "In Belgium if no one was paid for doing cyclo-cross, I think there would be no cyclo-cross."
Berden is known for his prowess in the sand
Belgium versus the US: The sport
And that may just define the vast difference between our two sports. In Belgium there would be no cyclo-cross if racers weren't paid; it's a professional sport. In America we can't get enough, it seems, of a scene that gives license to the ridiculous – from playing in the mud, to spending thousands of dollars on equipment, to kicking it up in the singlespeed race wearing Speedos and a wrestling mask.
"I don't think that the Belgian people know that on one race day they can have over 1,000 guys racing [in the US]," said Berden. "The singlespeed race, we had no idea in Belgium that it exists. It's crazy for 150 people to be going to do a race at one time. For us the biggest field is only 50 guys or something.
"[In the US] they go to the race on the weekend and they don't train in the week. In Belgium it's the other way around – they train for weeks and will only race when they're really ready. Here it's really for the fun, I think."
Berden's right – in the US we race cyclo-cross for fun
Belgium versus the US: The courses
Because cyclo-cross is a professional sport in Belgium the courses are harder, according to Berden. "Belgium is more [about] fast tracks with some harder descents and maybe more difficulties," he said. "The track is always easy here. We have really difficult descents and in the US you don't have that because they have to make a track that's good for everyone: for the amateurs, the beginners, the elites. In Belgium we have some races where even the [professional] women aren't able to go down on their bicycles, that's how difficult it is."
Wait... cyclo-cross isn't suppose to be on grass in parks? "No, no. We have forests and even cobble stones," he said. "We have grass races but it's different here – it's always in a park. I'm not used to having lots of turns, I'm not good in that. But I have good tires, now, from Clement and they help me be a little bit better with the turning."
Belgium versus the US: Training
"In Belgium nobody comes together for training, everybody has an excuse to not come and then they train on their own," said Berden. "They don't want to show the other guys if they're good or they're bad. One day of the week we do long training and some training in the forest, and then also some scooter training. We train more on the [stationary] speed trainers than the normal US guys. But it's different for everyone; if you see [Sven] Nys, he does almost 30 hours a week. And also we have a race on Saturday and Sunday and we have to recover from the weekend. Everybody does running training in Belgium."
Berden gave a free sand-riding clinic to Boulder, Colorado's cyclo-cross racers
Belgium versus the US: Making it as a racer
"In Belgium, cycling is a national sport," said Berden. "Every Belgian grew up riding their bicycle, they take it to school and everything. In the US everyone grew up with football and baseball and basketball, so that's the difference. In Belgium most of the good guys stop at their peak. They don't want to go from elite back to amateur or master so they stop on their highest point.
"In the US, you have to have really good support from your team otherwise it's really difficult," he added. "I spent more money getting my bicycle on the plane than I earned with the racing, so I only took one bicycle and two sets of wheels on the plane. It's something to get used to: only two bicycles and five sets of wheels. In Belgium we have three bicycles and 10, 12 or 15 pairs of wheels."
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In today's highly collectible installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku, commenter Korio8 wonders what the requirements are to be considered a "huge fan" of a video game or game series. What games do you consider yourself an above average fan of, and why?
How do you consider yourself as a "huge fan" of someone or something? Like video games.
Does it mean you have to own all the series in of the game and finished every single one of them? Or just all the games PLUS those official and unofficial goodies? Is there a standard of some sort? Just wondering =)
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Human rights activist and University of Arizona professor Raquel Rubio Goldsmith helps us understand the link between what is happening in Tucson today and the Chicano movement of the 1960s. We also speak with University of Illinois Chicago Professor of African American HIstory and Educational Policy Studies David Stovall, who conducted a program evaluation of Ethnic Studies programs in Tucson over the 2006-2007 school year, and hear about his findings from that evaluation.
We talk to social theorist Joe Feagin, about the way that racism and white supremacy are playing out in this situation. Banned author and poet Martin Espada reflects on the dangers of censorship, how it feels to have his work banned, and shares a poem that speaks to the power that literature can have when used a tool for resistance and emancipation. Finally, we discover the growing local and national resistance movement that gives hope, not only for the future of this program in Tucson, but to the building of solidarity that will help fight this from happening elsewhere. Alfred and Alfonzo Chavez, members of U.N.I.D.O.S., talk with us about Tucson's Freedom Summer, we speak with Tara Mack, Director of the Education for Liberation Network and member of the Teacher Activist Groups, about the No History is Illegal Campaign, and we hear a clip of Tony Diaz talking about Librotraficante.
Specific examples of this resistance and opportunities to get involved in the fight are listed below:
Save Ethnic Studies - a website produced by the teachers involved in the struggle. Visit this site to gain a deeper understanding of the issues.
Support the Raza Defense Fund to donate to help two MAS teachers in their lawsuit against incredibly well-funded and vicious opposition.
No History is Illegal - a website produced by Teacher Activist Groups where you can find curriculum based on the banned MAS curriculum to use in your own classroom.
Librotraficante - a project devoted to fighting back against the censorship and banning of books in Arizona.
Tucson Freedom Summer - join the fight to save MAS - in Tucson - July 2012
Additional Resources
Support the Raza Defense Fund to donate to help two MAS teachers in their lawsuit against incredibly well-funded and vicious opposition.
No History is Illegal - a website produced by Teacher Activist Groups where you can find curriculum based on the banned MAS curriculum to use in your own classroom.
Librotraficante - a project devoted to fighting back against the censorship and banning of books in Arizona.
Tucson Freedom Summer - join the fight to save MAS - in Tucson - July 2012
Additional Resources
Tucson's Maiz-Based Curriculum: MAS-TUSD Profundo by Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodríguez
Empowering Young People to be Critical Thinkers: The Mexican American Studies Program in Tucson by Curtis Acosta and Asiya Mir
The Cambium Audit Report and other related materials
And yet there is more...
Due to time constrants there were several pieces we were unable able to fully explore in our radio show. We have tried to include some of those pieces below in hopes that you will be able to deepen your understanding of the struggle in Tuscon. The following quotes are by several of the authors whose books were boxed up and taken out of classrooms as a part of the ban on ethnic studies:
"I don't take it personally, but what I do see is an ongoing plan, a very deliberate plan and antagonism in the US and Southwest. What is obvious is that it's about more than books. ... When they take out Shakespeare, Paulo Freire or Pulitzer Prize winners, that I can't imagine that they read everything and somehow determined this is a threat to democracy. ... This reminded me of McCarthyism and the red-baiting of writers, except now we are targeting a specific people. I feel we have to start paying attention to this trend. Now we are seeing similar laws (to SB 1070) in Georgia and Alabama. I don't think most of the public east of the Mississippi or the East Coast is aware. We have to make them aware" - Ana Castillo, author of the banned books Loverboys and So Far From God
"The last time a book of mine was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I'd written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government feared for its life in 1986. It's worth asking what the school authorities in Arizona fear today."- Bill Bigelow, editor of Rethinking Schools and author of the banned book Rethinking Columbus
"Let's get one thing out of the way: Mexican immigration is an oxymoron. Mexicans are indigenous. So, in a strange way, I'm pleased that the racist folks of Arizona have officially declared, in banning me alongside Urrea, Baca, and Castillo, that their anti-immigration laws are also anti-Indian. I'm also strangely pleased that the folks of Arizona have officially announced their fear of an educated underclass. You give those brown kids some books about brown folks and what happens? Those brown kids change the world. In the effort to vanish our books, Arizona has actually given them enormous power. Arizona has made our books sacred documents now." - Sherman Alexie, author of the banned books Ten Little Indians and The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven


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The Pilgrim wrestling team was competing out of place last season in Division I, and it showed. The Pats stumbled to a 1-13 record in dual meets.
It won't get any easier this season, as Pilgrim will wrestle for one more season in the state's top division before moving down to either D-II or D-III next year. Until that happens, though, the Pats will just try to make the best of a tough situation.
"The difference between Division I and Division II are the D-I teams have their kids going year-round," Pilgrim head coach Tom O'Connor said. "We're one of the few that don't, and we don't because the kids are involved in other sports."
Still, there are reasons for optimism, as the Pats return nearly every contributor from last year's team.
Over this past weekend, Pilgrim had three wrestlers – seniors Brian Ledo and Brandon Kavanagh and junior Mark Lenz – take fourth place in a tournament at Massachusetts's King Philip High School.
Pilgrim may not be competing for a title at the end of the season, but O'Connor thinks the pieces are in place for the Pats to be competitive.
"The kids are showing up, they're working hard," O'Connor said. "We're real young in wrestling terms. They're a good group. They work hard."
The strength of the team is going to come in the weight classes from the 120's to the 140's. In those spots, Pilgrim has a strong group of wrestlers who will vie for a place in the lineup and should push each other to get better.
"That whole group around the 30's, they're all stepping up their game," O'Connor said. "They're all trying to get on the mat."
Lenz and Ledo are in that group, along with freshman Steve Cabral, sophomore Jordan DeSisto, junior Chris Fitta and senior Mark Tomaselli.
That group will likely make up the 120, 126, 132 and 138 pound weight classes, and potentially 145 as well.
"We've got a logjam from the 20's to the 40's," O'Connor said. "There's a lot of experience."
In the other spots, Pilgrim also feels pretty comfortable.
Sophomore Adam Landroche is slotted in at 106, with sophomore Nick Masse at 113. At 145, senior Chad Jackman should get a look, while Kavanagh is wrestling at 152.
At 160, the Pats don't have much experience, but O'Connor thinks freshman Griffin Potter could fill the void. Junior Josh Fiola is penciled in at 170, as is junior Luke Verrier at 195. Gage Potter is handling 220, and sophomore Michael Turchette is the team's heavyweight.
Others, such as senior Alex Cardin, will get their chance as well.
In terms of winning matches, O'Connor believes the team's best chance is for its wrestlers to stay on their feet. There may be some struggles when the action goes to the ground, and that was true at the King Philip tournament.
"We're going to continue to get better," O'Connor said. "That's the goal. All we can do is try to win the matches on our feet. When they get on top of us, we're in trouble."
For the Pats, it's a learning process.
"Other teams have already progressed on to their counters and we're still trying to teach basic things," O'Connor said.
But that isn't going to stop the Pats from coming out and doing whatever they can on the mats. They open the regular season on Wednesday when they host North Kingstown at 7 p.m.
With close to 30 wrestlers on the roster, and only a handful of them being seniors, there is plenty of hope for the future.
As far as the present goes, though, it's not necessarily going to be about winning consistently as much as it is about learning, developing and improving.
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The folks at Isabella's Cookie Company make seven different varieties of vegan cookies (and many others that aren't vegan), and they sent me their two newest flavors to try out: Vegan Red Velvet, and Vegan Ginger. I think these are my favorite store-bought cookies ever! They are super moist and full of flavor. Plus, they're perfectly sized for my liking: not depressingly puny and not excessively giant either. Just right. Each cookie is only 110 calories, which is pretty awesome for such a satisfying and tasty treat.
The Isabella's cookies are sold in some stores (check the website's store locator), but you can also order them online. For a pretty big bag with 10 cookies in it, the cost is $7... which I think is really reasonable. They have lots of other vegan flavors that I look forward to trying like Peanut Butter, Oatmeal + Chocolate Chip, Chocolate with Chocolate Chips... yum! Plus, I have to say, their website is super cute, and I like their little cookie cartoon graphics. They're right up my alley. :)