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Toshiba Satellite C50-A-1JM "PSCJEE" Windows 7 Installation Guide
|Toshiba Satellite C50-A-1JM PSCJEE Windows 7 Installation Guide
1. Get Blank CD
2. Download Bios Update ISO
3. Extract ISO from zip file and burn it on blank cd (How to burn ISO ?)
4. Start Laptop, Enter Bios setup, Disable secure boot. save settings, exit
5. insert burned cd, and boot from cd rom
6. type " Flash " (without commas) and hit enter
7. Bios Flash should start, wait 5-10 minutes
8. if laptop doesn't restart , force shutdown & start again
9. enter bios, boot option, advanced and enable cms boot (if you want to install windows7)
10. save bios settings, exit and boot from any DVD,
Note: this model has been released for UK region. if you are living in another region please tell in comments, i will post bios for your model


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Mike Pankow begins his third season as the Owl's Head Baseball Coach. Under his tenure the UMPI Baseball team has seen improvment. An influx of young talent helped double the win total from 2014 to 2015. The team saw improvements in all aspects, and continue to grow. "With so many young players learning what it was to be an NCAA athlete, we did some very positive things, " said Pankow. "I look for continued growth out of this group, and the strong leadership from our veteran players to help this program take the next step into what should be great things for this program."
A native of Hortonville, Wisconsin, Pankow competed on both the baseball and basketball teams at Northland College (Ashland, WI) from 1999-2003 and before that, was a member of the Hortonville High School baseball program that won 53 consecutive games and went undefeated, winning the 1997 and 1998 Wisconsin AA State Championships. Pankow played for Legendary Wisconsin Baseball Hall of Famer, Don Williams, who retired in 2014 with a career record of 586-160.
Upon completion of his playing career, Coach Pankow worked for two years as an Assistant Coach with the Northland College Men's Basketball Program from 2003 to 2005. During that time, he also took over as the Head Baseball Coach at Washburn High School. Coach Pankow then spent three years in the White Lake School District where he served as the Athletic Director, Head Baseball Coach, Girl's Head Basketball Coach, and Physical Education Teacher.
Northland called again and Pankow returned to the collegiate coaching ranks in 2010-11, when he became the Assistant Women's Basketball Coach in addition to serving as Assistant Baseball Coach. During Pankows' tenure, the LumberJack Baseball Program saw an increase in wins from 10 in 2011 to 15 in 2013-the most successful season for the Northland Nine since 2006. In addition, the roster grew from 11 to an all-time Northland record of 26 student-athletes in that same time period.
In 2013 Northland finished 16-14 and qualified for the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) championship tournament. Pankow brings a wealth of coaching experience to a UMPI baseball program that has taken great strides in the past several years. In his time at Northland, five players were All-UMAC First team selections, six more were named honorable mention All-UMAC and 19 earned All-Academic recognition.
Active in the community, Pankow has coached in the Hortonville American Legion program since 2005, with his teams qualifying for the 16U State Tournament in 2007. He was invited to be a part of the coaching staffs of the Fox River Valley League All-Star Game in 2009 and 2013 and also the State Legion All-Star Game in Miller Park in 2011.
Coach Pankow graduated in 2005 from Northland College with a degree in Physical Education.

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Updated at 12:30 p.m. to correct that he was arrested on Saturday.
The holiday season stress may have gone to the head of one recent traveler at Nashville International Airport. According to a police affidavit, a 26-year-old man was arrested Saturday after he threatened to "blow up" the airplane and airport.
Kevin Craig Quihuis allegedly made his threats after a Continental Airlines representative informed him he'd been bumped from his scheduled flight due to overbooking.
Quihuis "became irate and stated, 'If I don't get a seat, I'm goin to blow-up the airplane,'" according to the affidavit.
When Continental employees tried to talk to the passenger, he allegedly made another threat to "blow up" the airport as well, the affidavit says.
Airline employees called airport police, and Quihuis was taken into custody. The K9 bomb squad was mobilized, but no bomb was found.
Quihuis was arrested on charges of making a false report because the "defendant made such statements that he knew were false" that caused others to fear for their safety, the affidavit reads.
The defendant is still in police custody and is scheduled to appear in general sessions court Wednesday morning before Judge Gloria Dumas.
Nashville Airport Authority spokeswoman Emily Richard declined to talk about the specific incident.
In general, she said the standard practice when an individual makes a threat is to run a criminal background check on an individual to see if he or she has any warrants and have the K9 unit check the individual's luggage.
When asked whether the holiday stress contributes to a higher number of incidents between police and passengers at the airport, she said the statistics don't flesh out a correspondence.
November is the airport's busiest month, and this year the airport saw 22 arrests — four custodial arrests (where a suspect was taken into custody) and 18 misdemeanor arrests (where a suspect is issued a misdemeanor citation). In November 2008, there were 18 arrests — 8 custodial and 10 misdemeanor arrests.
Richard said airport official see the current numbers are on par with past statistics.
The number of arrests per month was slightly higher in September and October 2009 compared with the same months in last year, according to numbers Richard provided.
In October, there were 23 arrests (8 custodial, 15 misdemeanor) up slightly from the 16 (2 custodial, 14 misdemeanor) in 2008.
The same held true for September when 30 people (7 custodial, 23 misdemeanor) were arrested, slightly higher than the 18 who were arrested in September 2008 (10 custodial, 8 misdemeanor.)
In the last fiscal year the airport totaled 90 custodial and 123 misdemeanor arrests.
I wonder if the good judge will be on time to give him a speedy hearing.
Well, guess Mr. Stupid will have to threaten to blow up the jail. Anyone who travels at Christmas, in the winter, during bad weather, is just banking on luck that they will arrive. Snow stops planes most of the time. Freezing rain does the same. Mr. Stupid, aka Kevin Craig Quihuis needs a course in "reality check". When did he arrive on this planet? Hasn't he heard you can't make threats at airports? HOpe it costs him a bundle. He's stupid, stupid, stupid. Needs to pay stupid tax.
hopefully the judge will order a bond he cant afford, thatll teach him to say such absurd things during these holidays at an airport. He was overbooked, so wait for the next available plane, DUH! now since hes been detained, hes missed probably 10 planes now and to request a refund takes up to 30 days. i guess by him saying he was going to blow the place up that was supposed to avail him an immediate seat to get him the hell outta there, HA!! WRONG ANSWER SUNSHINE!! now that youve messed up your own holiday plans, make the best of it in there. get in shape, write a rap album, find out the latest gossip then go tell. Make it exciting. watch out you dont drop the soap, (unless you like dropping the soap and yelling loudly to every1 that you did then in which case in point is a whole nuther conversation in itself) But whatever you do dont tell any airport you are gonna blow the joint up, geez, you moron, what did you think was going to happen?? SO....... hows the food in there??
He should not have been bumped from his flight. He should have not for one instance thought that he could get through a Christmas at an airport without major stress. The poor soul is probably a harmless man who just cracked under stress.
"In October, there were 23 arrests (8 custodial, 15 misdemeanor) up slightly from the 16 (2 custodial, 14 misdemeanor) in 2008.
The same held true for September when 30 people (7 custodial, 23 misdemeanor) were arrested, slightly higher than the 18 who were arrested in September 2008 (10 custodial, 8 misdemeanor.)"
Up slightly? Slightly higher? Not really.
23 is not up slightly from 16. It's almost a 50% increase.
30 is not slightly higher than 18. It's nearly double.
Well at least the Idiot got a free stay in Nashvill in the jail!!
I would say that he has anger issues. What do you think that he will show up in court and get bumped by another case? Perhaps time in jail will give him a chance to look at himself. He's only 26....but now it's time to grow up. Welcome to the world of airline travel!
I feel sorry for the guy. I've been bumped from my full purchase price ticket because the airlines overbooked and it's extremely frustrating. He should not have made a threat, but the airlines is also responsible for this. They need to evaluate their policies and how they affect us the consumer. When you only get a few days off from work in a year and they can ruin it for you, it hurts... a lot.
How sad. Just like most people he was probably stressed to the max, trying to get to family, and just cracked under the pressure of knowing he was going to get there even later. Perhaps he was returning the following day and olny had one day to be with his family. Perhaps his wife was only going to be wherever they were meeting for a very short time, and now he was going to miss seeing her alltogether. We just don't know the circumstances. . Were his choice of words great - no, certainly not. Was he dumb for saying them, yes, definitely so. Should he therefore be detained by the police? Definitely. However, you just don't know what sort of pressure he was under, and it is too bad that now he will likely miss being with whatever family he has at Christmas, and they will miss being with him.
give this poor guy a break its Christmas!!!...yes it was dumb to say what he said but he just got carried away and let his temper get the better of him he dont deserve to go to jail and then be robbed by the courts here at christmas just because the airline couldn't come through on their obligation's and sold more tickets than they had seats if somebody is going to really blow something up they are not going to wait till they get mad and then tell everybody by screaming it out in the middle of an airport...give me a break!!!
Kevin is my girlfriend's brother and we were waiting for him to arrive so all the family would be together. We came from a different state to see him and now we are heading back home and we are not going to get to. Due to the overbooking causing him to not get a seat must have frustrated him and us. We pray that he gets out of this ok and that we can see him again soon. He is not a bad guy at all and I hope the judge can see that he is truly regreting what he did.
Thank you for your post, Robert. I am so sorry to hear about all the troubles your family & Kevin have gone through trying to see each other through the holidays. I am so sorry. I feel we all can get that stressed out at times, and then say things we regret later. Bless Kevin's heart. And all of you. May somehow the Spirit of the holidays help you all through this trying time, and I do believe that he will be okay and receive much love, compassion and understanding from those who are watching over him tonight. Bless you all and Great Spirit take care of Kevin and all who will be with him through the coming days...
If my little company enjoyed the same level of protection the government provides big companies I'd be rich. Remember, airlines are in fact nothing more than private, for profit companies. So this company sold the same item to several people on the off chance that one of them didn't come by to claim their purchase. The company knowing let the customer (which is what this guy was) go to considerable inconvenience and then simply told him to piss off when he went to claim what he had already paid them for. Sure, it was silly of him to issue such a threat in today's America, but he should have every right to express outrage at their audacity.
if somebody is going to really blow something up they are not going to wait till they get mad and then tell everybody by screaming it out in the middle of an airport...give me a break" said by Buster hound 333.
Really Buster? Really. So why do muslims who are killing great throngs of people scream ali ackbar or what ever theyscream? When someone is irate and going off as muchas saying they are going to "bomb an airport" they have to be taken seriously. It is not a joke.
He should grow up and learn to deal with adversity and stress in a more productive way. I don't feel sorry for him. Hope he gets a max sentence. He probably scared a lot of innocent people who,like himself, were just trying to get through the stress filled, bad wweather holiday. It is not in our power to control the weather, the airlines or other people. WE CAN control our own behavior or pay the consequences. He is paying.
this article, as well as all the rest of them about this incident, fail to mention some key points. this man is a soldier in the u.s. army. he was previously a marine. he has done 3 tours of Iraq and is soon to head to Afghanistan. this is probably his final leave before he gets deployed again.
now im not defending his actions. and i know he knows what he did was just stupid. but it seems kind of wrong to bump a vet from a flight when all he was trying to do was get home for 2 weeks to see his friends, family, and his first niece for the first time. shouldnt there be some kind of policy that ensures they have priority? after years in the military a little bit of time at home is what keeps these guys sane. i, like robert, was looking forward to seeing him and having a beer or two.
BOMBSHELL: Evidence Clearly Indicates Staged Attack on Detroit Flight
CNN Airs Eyewitness Testimony that 'Well-Dressed' Indian accomplice helped Abdulmutallab board without passport and that man on plane filmed entire flight and bombing attempt
Evidence is emerging that clearly indicates Abdulmutallab was more than just a Nigerian extremist carrying out his anger through an ill-conceived plot to ignite a powdery explosive substance on-board a flight to the United States. Eyewitness testimony pointing to a man helping the accused terrorist board without a passport, along with an unusual cameraman documenting the attempted attack on board the plane raise more than red flags– they point towards an intelligence operation, run as a drill, meant to conjure up public support for a number of fronts in the continuing 'War on Terror.'


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Pamela Madsen is a composer, sound artist, performer, theorist and curator of new music. From her massive landscape inspired projects and intimate chamber music creations to her multi-media collaborations, and organization of new music events she has created a body of work with a profound breadth of vision. As a composer, performer, theorist and curator, she is inspired by site-specific locations that intersect with the need for healing and sound. She travels to research, document, curate and create new work that she then presents in an immersive concert hall experience with live performers, spatialized sound and projected images that aims to heal the performer and the listener. Her focus involves collaboration and creating sonic landscape works through the intersection of Image-Music-Text: From her massive landscape inspired projects and intimate chamber music creations to her multi-media opera collaborations, and organization of new music and interarts collaborative project her work is constantly evolving and seeking new forms of expression that reveal deeper layers of meaning in sonic creation and performance. Currently, she is curator of the Annual New Music Festival, World Electro-Acoustic Listening Room (WEALR) Project, and InterArts Collaborative Projects (IACP) at Cal State Fullerton where she is Professor of Music Composition/Theory, and Director of the New Music Ensemble.
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I mentioned this on a previous post but it wasn't discussed.
I have difficulty performing your standard shoulder/hip throws on fat people. Even when there is no resistance. I can't get a throw on my friend who's fat in bujinkan and when we were doing hip throws in jujitsu my partner was a chunky guy and the best I could do was make him kind of fall over next to me (but no lift). If the guy is normal or even athleticly built I can do it (including randori) but the fatties really wreck my technique! What happens is I can't get any lift and yes, I use my hip and legs and I don't muscle the technique.
Perhaps the good judoka/jujitsuka of this forum could comment. Is this just a universal difficulty which everyone has? Does the technique need to be changed? or do my throws just suck? What is your experience with fat people and throws?
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U.S. marshals won't seize disputed crude from an oil tanker anchored 60 miles off Galveston's coast unless smaller vessels bring it much closer to the coast, based on the latest instructions from a federal judge.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Johnson had ordered marshals to seize the oil, at the center of an ownership battle between Iraq and its semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, if it was removed from the giant tanker.
But after meeting with lawyers on Tuesday, she told the marshals to take no action on the load of Kurdish crude the Iraqi government considers stolen property.
The tanker United Kalavryta is anchored outside the court's jurisdiction, and unless cargo is moved within jurisdictional limits, the marshals cannot seize the property, according to court correspondence sent to the U.S. Marshals Service late Tuesday.
The Marshals Serviceinterprets Johnson's directions as a stand-down, spokesman Dave Oney said.
The State Department Wednesday said if the cargo enters U.S. territorial waters, the legal process will kick in. Martime lawyers differed on exactly how far offshore the court's jurisdiction extends, but it's in a range of about 10 to 14 miles.
A company hired to transfer crude from the tanker to smaller vessels, a process called lightering, reiterated Wednesday that it has no plans to carry out its contract.
AET Inc. and its lightering company, AET Offshore Services, asked a judge to allow it not to carry out the contract signed with Talmay Trading to offload the crude. In a statement Wednesday, the company said, "While operations of this nature are private and commercially sensitive, AET can confirm that we will not be conducting any lightering operations in regards to the United Kalavryta."
It's not clear if Talmay is the final buyer or acting as a middleman for another purchaser.
The tanker is carrying 1 million barrels of crude from a newly opened pipeline linking Kurdish oil fields with a Turkish port and bypassing Iraq's state oil company, which claims the right to broker all oil produced inside Iraq.
The Kurdish Regional Government on Wednesday rebutted Iraq's claims, arguing the crude has been "legally produced, shipped, exported and sold in accordance with the rights of the Kurdistan region as set forth in the Iraqi constitution,"according to a statement by Ashti Hawrami, KRG's minister of natural resources.
In a letter sent to the federal court in Texas, the KRG's lawyers argued the court has no jurisdiction over the dispute and that Iraq's claims had no merit.
The brewing legal battle in U.S. courts probably will prevent the tanker from delivering its cargo in the U.S. and may discourage other countries from taking the oil.


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AIR Music Technology has expanded their virtual instrument offerings with the Vacuum Pro Polyphonic Analog Tube Synthesizer and Loom Modular Additive Synthesizer. They tell us that Vacuum Pro is a polyphonic analog tube synthesizer that travels light-years beyond the original monophonic Vacuum, first developed by the AIR team as part of the Pro Tools Creative Collection from Avid, while Loom is an entirely new modular additive synthesizer.
AIR says that both Vacuum Pro and Loom are highly intuitive in design and place few technical demands on the user, delivering a more inspiring and creative experience. They say that each provides an array of sound-sculpting tools ranging from rapid, highly efficient sound creation to zeroing in on most intricate of sound design tasks - the unique and scalable workflow allowing the creative potential of Vacuum Pro and Loom to continue to meet the musician's needs as they evolve. Vacuum Pro and Loom will be available first in the VST and AU 64-bit formats, plus the RTAS 32-bit format. An AAX update is coming soon. Here's the details directly from AIR...
Vacuum Pro
The "vacuum" part of the name Vacuum Pro relates to the six tube circuits that lend a particularly analog flavor to each of the main synthesis modules--oscillators, filters, mixer, etc. Vacuum Pro is totally unique; providing a modern, idealized vision of the versatility and potential of analog synthesis, rather than attempting to isolate and recreate just one particular moment from history. The smart knob model used in Vacuum Pro is possibly the best implementation ever in a complex VI, and provides anyone-- from novice to pro--the ability to create incredible and unique instrument sounds with lightening speed.
"Vacuum Pro is the dirtiest, hottest, and most revolutionary soft synth we've ever created." says Mario Reinsch, Senior Engineer at AIR. "We designed Vacuum Pro to sound like the analog synth we always wanted; it isn't a copy or reproduction of a known, classic analog synth; you're getting something that is truly unique and wonderful."
As an additive instrument, Loom can create sounds that extend far beyond the scope of subtractive synths. Loom provides a vast array of unique sounds while providing total control over every aspect of the instrument. Sound creation begins with 30 sound modules, each with a distinct function--moving filter, octaver, repeater, second tone, etc. These modules can be freely combined in up to 10 cells. Spectral modulation, extensive envelope shaping, and multiple LFOs deliver deep control. While the advantages of additive synthesis have long been understood, it is the powerful and effective Loom interface that finally places this potential in the hands of today's musicians and sound designers.
Vacuum Pro and Loom each contain over 350 ready-to-play presets. With the majority of these sound created by the AIR team, AIR has also enlisted the services of acclaimed electronic musician and sound designer Richard Devine, who saw the instruments at Winter NAMM and knew he just had to work on them. Richard has used his skills and talents to contribute 100 custom-created patches for each instrument.
"I was really fascinated by the structure and UI design of Loom," says sound designer Richard Devine. "I knew it would be capable of creating some interesting timbres. I loved the modular structure and its additive harmonic synthesis engine--which is what initially sparked my interests with Loom. The sounds and control features of Loom are just stunning. I have never come across another software synthesizer that offers both unique synthesis and such wonderful controllability. For sound design applications, this synth is simply a must have."
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Couldn't stop laughing when I read the description ,quickly realising that these 'synthesizers' where not physical objects, inspite of the talk of vacuum and tubes and hilariously analogue. It is kind of like the scenario of someone having an imaginary friend who we have take seriously, this software can hardly have any claim to use ,analogue,etc.Computer host dependant software is the most credible way of describing this.The price is the most comical part when you can buy a MOPHO for 300
16-May-13 03:35 AM
Agreed...software emulation of vacuum tubes seems pretty ridiculous to me as an electrical engineer who writes a lot of software.
16-May-13 06:21 AM
Well, you know, they may have come up with something new in that regard. Personally I don't regard vacuum tubes or any electronic component to be unable to be modeled to a degree that is useful in a music performance setting.
Who knows; perhaps even simulating tubes badly but still in a novel way as far as synthesizer design is concerned, may yield funky results.
Would have been better though if they mentioned the modeled part, I agree. Yay marketing.
Who knows; perhaps even simulating tubes badly but still in a novel way as far as synthesizer design is concerned, may yield funky results.
Would have been better though if they mentioned the modeled part, I agree. Yay marketing.
16-May-13 12:35 PM
soft tube? virtual tube technology sounds a lot like a standard VA. That tube synth by metasonix sounds way different from the virtual tubes.
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MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (WTNH)– Wednesday some folks dug themselves out and braved the roads, while others stayed warm at home.
The morning after a storm people are faced with the question – should I venture out or stay at home?
"Just taking it slow, I don't mind the outside," said Miranda Gohh, Middletown
"I love it, I'm a winter guy," said another man.
"Just trying to get myself in and out," said another person.
For some, the answer to such an inquiry is easy.
"I need to put some sand in there. Try to back up. I'm stuck."
For others however it can be more difficult.
"I told my staff we're going to close you know its not worth it. People are not going to come out today," said Marc Levin, Business Owner
"It was pretty bad. I drove slow," said Christopher Wich, Bristol.
Whatever the answer, it's cold out, and the snow is here to stay.
"Nature of the beast. You live in New England this is what you deal with," said Devin Fredkin, Middletown.


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8 Strategies for Teaching Academic Language
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Change your language and you change your thoughts. -- Karl Albrecht
Understanding Academic Language
Academic language is a meta-language that helps learners acquire the 50,000 words that they are expected to have internalized by the end of high school and includes everything from illustration and chart literacy to speaking, grammar and genres within fields.
Think of academic language as the verbal clothing that we don in classrooms and other formal contexts to demonstrate cognition within cultures and to signal college readiness. There are two major kinds: instructional language ("What textual clues support your analysis?") and language of the discipline (examples include alliteration in language arts, axioms in math, class struggle in social studies and atoms in science). No student comes to school adept in academic discourse -- thus, thoughtful instruction is required.
Where to Start
It would be a mistake to think that academic language is a garbage pail category involving any word, depending on the context. A banana daiquiri is a fine adult beverage that most first graders cannot define, but is not an example of academic language. Nor do Tier 1 words such as and or house fit the category, although these basic words are important to teach English-language learners (ELLs).
If you are new to incorporating academic language into your lessons, a good place to begin is with Tier 2, high-frequency, general instruction words (such as paraphrase, summarize, predict and justify) that learners need to know for completing an activity, but that are not a lesson's primary learning objective. These words are critical to students' successful processing of academic tasks and appear in the Common Core State Standards and on standardized tests.
Teaching Academic Language
Academic language requires that students move away from social language, with its more simplistic grammar and Anglo-Saxon vocabulary (body, chew, mellow), to sophisticated grammar with Greek and Latin words (aesthetics, ctenophora, heuristic). However, do not ban informal communication from the classroom, because this relaxed discourse is critical for social bonding, cooperative learning, interpreting literature and information processing. Students should be taught to look at and through both registers. "Think in terms of uncovering the subject -- that is, making the ways of using language and the ways of thinking in the subject explicit to your students," writes Pauline Gibbons, the author of three books in the field of English language education.
8 Specific Strategies
1. Encourage Students to Read Diverse Texts
Reading and then thinking and talking about different genres is a robust sequence for learning academic language.
2. Introduce Summary Frames
Summarizing is a simple and fail-safe approach to academic language activities. Students read a section of text to themselves before verbally summarizing the passage to a partner. Alternatively, learners can complete sentence frames -- guides for summarization. Here are some examples among many others created by Miss Hultenius:
- If the main idea of the paragraph is problem/solution, use the frame: "_____ wanted _____ but ______ so ______."
- If the main idea of the paragraph is cause/effect, use the frame: "_____ happens because ______."
3. Help Students Translate from Academic to Social Language (and Back)
Model how to say something in a more academic way or how to paraphrase academic texts into more conversational language. Provide students with a difficult expository passage, like the inventor's paradox, and have teams reinterpret the text using everyday language.
4. Have Students Complete Scripts of Academic Routines
Some discourse routines seem obvious to adults, but are more complex than NASA for young learners unless you provide scaffolding, like these speech examples:
- "The topic of my presentation is ______."
- "In the first part, I give a few basic definitions. In the next section, I will explain ______. In part three, I am going to show ______."
5. Dynamically Introduce Academic Vocabulary
Repeated encounters with a word in various authentic contexts can help students internalize the definition. They also benefit when teachers make their first encounters with vocabulary sticky. Use the word in a funny or personal story. Show a short video from VocabAhead that features 300 SAT words and categorizes vocabulary by grade level.
6. Help Students Diagram Similarities and Differences
When students generate a list of similarities and differences between words and complete a Venn diagram, like this one comparing and contrasting moths and butterflies, they are working with one of Robert Marzano's high-yield instructional strategies.
7. Have Students Write with a Transition Handout
Formal academic writing challenges students of all ages. Before students write, give them a handout of transitions. Model where transitions fit, and describe how they help the reader.
8. Teach Key Words for Understanding Standardized Test Prompts
Kechia Williams teaches 10 Terms that help students understand prompts and ace standardized tests.
In the comments section below, please share how you teach academic language.


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Even though Selena Gomez is now the apple of The Weeknd's eye, there's someone else who has caught his attention: Zoe Mantzakanis.
The 23-year-old model is the star of The Weeknd's incredibly trippy new music video for "Party Monster." Despite coming in contact with dozens of women throughout the video, The Weeknd becomes enamored by Zoe and follows her through his drug and alcohol-induced journey.
So who is she? Here are five things to know about this model:
Zoe hails from Sweden but now finds herself living in New York City. She has appeared in campaigns for Sports Illustrated, and has been photographed by Michael Schwartz and Yurenev & McNiel.
2. Her half-Swedish, half-Greek roots have made her quite the amateur chef. She can whip up her own batch of tzatziki in no time.
3. She's a health nut. Zoe regularly posts photos of her healthy food options on social media, showing followers that she's a big fan of green juices, raw foods and grain bowls.
4. She's a jet-setter. Whether she's traveling for photo shoots or a relaxing vacation, Zoe is constantly on the go. She's traveled to Italy, Greece, England and France (to name a few).
5. She might have been at Chris Brown's 2014 VMAs pre-party at 1Oak where Suge Knight was shot. "When u r at 1oak and 4 gunshots get fired #superscared #lol," Zoe tweeted in the early morning hours after the event.
What do you think of The Weeknd's latest project? Sound off in the comments!
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Not only are medical nanobots the future of medicine but according to one video they will be communicating with your smartphone and your physician's as well. Why is this important, well for one reason, tiny medical nanobots will be able to predict oncoming heart attacks among other conditions.
Check out the video
In other futuristic heart news, two doctors have now replaced a beating human heart with a continue flow device. It's been thought for eons that a heart has to beat in order for the body to function well. The doctors in this video have turned that belief on its ear.
And if you're looking for a cool 3D heart app that physicians are now using check this out.
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Low-cal stout?
Scientists brew low-calorie stout: This just doesn't sound right to me. They claim it "has the same consistency, taste and texture as its full-bodied equivalent," but I just can't believe that. Read on:
Normal stout has about 2g of carbohydrate and contains 32 calories per 100ml while the new version has 0.6g of carbs and 24 calories per 100ml.
Elke Arendt, a lecturer in food technology who is leading the research, said: "We modified the mashing procedure, which is part of the brewing process, by adding an enzyme which can degrade carbohydrate. We also modified our fermentation process to get a lower carbohydrate content by picking a specific yeast strain."
Arendt said the full-bodied taste that is typically lost by reducing carbohydrate content has been retained in the light stout. "The product has the same mouth feel — it isn't watery, it tastes exactly like a normal stout," he said. "There are no drawbacks by reducing calories or carbohydrates."
See, when you start changing the basic chemistry of a beer, it just won't be the same. How does this enzyme affect yeast? How does the "degraded carbohydrate" affect the beer—does it leave undigestible bits and pieces behind? Particulate matter? How does it affect the various proteins and fats that also come from the grain? Etc. etc.
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The rumors just won't stop. On the week the Celtics dismantled their championship core with the departures of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Doc Rivers, the final piece to the puzzle may be next to go.
According to a report from Mike Fisher over at DallasBasketball.com the Mavericks are involved in talks to acquire the All-Star point guard.
The Mavericks are engaging in trade talks involving Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo, sources tell DallasBasketball.com. Meanwhile, Dallas has taken a position on Chris Paul and is also investigating bids on point guards Tyreke Evans and Brandon Jennings – and we've got the scoop on what's happening with all four.
A similiar report came out earlier this afternoon from Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe who elaborates on the Mavs' interest in Rondo to put some help next to Dirk Nowitzki.
That likely won't stop the Mavericks from inquiring about Rondo, who could be the distributor that could help return the club back into a Western Conference contender and someone who could attract Howard, a free agent, into signing with the Mavericks. Dallas is well under the salary cap, so it could absorb Rondo's contract but would likely want to send the Celtics Shawn Marion's expiring deal along with a younger player and a draft pick to make it attractive for Ainge.
The Mavericks also acquired former University of Miami point guard Shane Larkin, who could also be included in a deal. Larkin worked out twice with the Celtics.
So what do we make of these reports? Is a trade to Dallas actually realistic?
The short answer is no. And actually the long answer is no too. Here's the thing. You can count on Danny Ainge is listening to any offers on his All-Star point guard. That's his job and the team's moves in the past week make him more expendable than ever now.
In order to acquire Rondo though, a team needs assets. Serious assets. That's something that Dallas does not have right now. Heading into next season, the Mavericks have just five players under guaranteed contracts, excluding their recent draft picks.
Would Dallas be wiling to absorb all of the bad/unneeded contracts on the Celtics roster? I don't see how that would make sense for the Mavs financially and given them to flexibility to add another cornerstone *like Dwight Howard) to the roster.
Anything short of that for Boston makes little sense. Rondo is still in his prime and likely has a good chance at part of the future at his young age. Late round picks Dallas could offer, in addition to expiring contracts won't do the trick here as they did for KG and Pierce. Ainge will wait out unless he gets that. He'll always continue listening though.
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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 17:30:25 -0800 (PST)
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On Jan 6, 2:52Āam, "Mr. X." <no_spam_please_at_nospam_please.com> wrote:
> I don't know if this is relevant, but :
> A specific program's memory-use is getting larger and larger
> every day, (I don't have the program's code) .
> So every day at night, I do :
> rerun the service with above problem, and kill its oracle-session
> (There is no other choice, since the process is black-box,
> and I have to kill its session, because there will be more sever problems if
> not).
> The code :
> alter system kill session ...
> (That's the only thing I do for killing that session, in VB 6.0)
> Do you know a better way of killing the session ?
Unfortunately, I'm mostly on unix and don't generally look at Windows - Charles sure seems to have a good handle on that! But anyways, on unix systems, you can either kill with the alter session command (which is what management software does too), or kill the process. The alter session command gets cleaned up by SMON, which may never get there -hence, you see some very old stuff. Killing the process gets cleaned up by PMON, which tends to be right on top of things. On Windows, something like orakill. I'm wondering if Note:1020720.102 has PMON/SMON backwards or maybe I'm just getting senile.
So do you see the memory being released after you kill? Do you know which program has the memory leak? There are some memory leaks in Oracle, you can find them searching on metalink.
> (By the ctime is saw on v$lock, Āthere are about 20 rows,
> and some of them are 20 days long, and may be irrelevant ...
> also one of the rows seems to be at the exact time since killing the last
> session yesterday -
> I think that ctime count the time in seconds from time the process was
> running).
Well, see metalink Note:1020008.6 for one old way to display useable information from locks. Note:102925.1 is a pretty good description of what can be going on.
> I can do some code for tracing (once for 5 minutes) the v$lock,
> but what do you advice me to do first ?
I was thinking of two possible errors - something that would prevent you from logging on, which would look like a hang, and something that would keep the app from accessing a specific row or table. Oracle normally only uses row locks, but sometimes the row could be a hot or locked block if your app does something like try to look at a header row, or more obscurely, could be doing bizarro things trying to get undo information as it rolls back the killed session info, that has a lock from when _that_ session started. So if you could post the stuff like lock type we might be able to help figure out what is going on.
> I didn't see any rows in v$lock that occurs at the same time I cannot
> connect to the database
> (the first problem I've described).
> Does v$lock is related to the first problem I have described (failed to
> connect to db) ?
> Any clue ?
You might also look at at the Lock Manager part of OEM.
Also, have you checked the alert log for any errors? Are you using SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS? I ask because sometimes some software doesn't really use cursors correctly, causing lots of thrashing in the shared code area of the SGA. If severe, this will show errors in the alert log, but if not so severe can simply cause random waits while code is swapped in. So it is important to check what exactly you are waiting on. OEM (or some snappy DBA work) can show how many open cursors you have - it may surprise you, especially all the possible implicit cursors. Middle 9.2.x versions changed how cursors were handled, some people don't realize SESSION_CACHED_CURSORS can help.
I suspect you have 2 or more problems.
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The Frenchman joined the Giallorossi this summer after the club's appointments of Luis Enrique and Zdenek Zeman didn't work out.
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"He's a good and serious Coach, one who pays attention to details. He's also aware of how important communication is in this business.
"He has endeavoured to learn the Italian language in a very short space of time and that fact is helping him as well."
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After years of controversy and intense lobbying, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted the new regulatory framework for the safety assessment and authorisation of chemicals in December 2006. The 'Reach' regulation will come into force on 1 June this year.
The new rules are likely to give rise to a number of legal questions and conflicts concerning the relationships between different producers of the same substances, the protection of business confidentiality and the level of evidence required from the authorities for them to limit the marketing and use of any given chemical substance within the EU.
The most significant innovation of the new regulation, as opposed to the existing European Commission rules, is that all substances imported, manufactured or placed on the European market above the thresholds of one ton per year fall within the scope of the regulation and are obligated to be registered with the newly created European Chemical Agency (ECHA) based in Helsinki.
Other significant novelties relate to the information to be provided to downstream users via a safety data sheet. This contains the results of the chemical safety assessment that downstream users are required complete to verify that the relevant exposure scenarios are consistent with their use and, if not, to report to the agency about their uses.
Reducing the burden
Since the Commission first mooted the idea of introducing a generalised obligation to register all substances in 2001, concerns have been raised over the burdens the regulation would impose on industry, public authorities and international trade. Throughout the legislative process every effort has been made to reduce the costs associated with the regulation, providing for the pooling of resources and the submission of joint registrations by all the producers of any given substance with the aim of reducing the costs and limiting the amount of tests on animals.
This laudable intention is, however, likely to bring about delicate legal questions, as companies may be reluctant to cooperate with their competitors in the submission of registration dossiers in order to avoid disclosing their business secrets. This is all the more so as the regulation does not detract from the full applicability of competition rules, so companies may be wary of disclosing information concerning their productions or cost structures in a way that may fall foul of the prohibition of anticompetitive agreements or practices.
The regulation provides for the right to rely on data submitted by other registrants, providing a 'fair compensation' is paid, and for the unfettered right to rely on such data from 12 years after their first use. A key role will therefore be played by the non-legally binding guidance from the ECHA and case law of national and European courts in case of litigation.
The regulation, in line with EC and international environmental legislation, provides for wide-ranging disclosures to the public, via the internet or upon request, of the information provided to the ECHA by industry. While the regulation provides for a presumption that information concerning the exact chemical composition of a substance and trade relations of the registrants with the downstream users are to be considered confidential, the presumption is rebuttable, and the agency is in any case entitled to disclose such information in case of emergency.
Producers located outside the EU are not bound by the regulation. They would have a choice as to whether to appoint a representative within the EU to register the substance they export to the EU on their behalf or whether to leave the burden to do so to each importer.
Registration must occur before a substance is put on the market and a substance is deemed to be registered if the ECHA does not raise objections within three weeks after submission of a registration dossier. Registrants are required to pay a fee to the agency.
While the ECHA is going to become one of the largest EU agencies, the sheer amount of expected notifications (some 30,000 are expected in relation to existing substances during the transitional phase) would make an immediate assessment of all dossiers or substances unrealistic. The agency will therefore effect only a computer-based completeness check of the files submitted and will review compliance of the dossier for only 5 per cent of registrations.
A substantive review of the safety of registered substances will be carried out on priority substances carrying a greater potential hazard with the involvement of national competent authorities according to a revolving action plan to be established at EU level. During the review the authorities are entitled to require additional information or studies.
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The most hazardous classes of substances are subject to a fully fledged authorisation procedure, under which a risk assessment is performed by the ECHA and a decision is taken by the Commission. Contrary to other products, which can be authorised only if they are safe, chemicals can be authorised not only where the risk to human health or the environment is adequately controlled, but also where the socio-economic benefits outweigh the risks.
This provision represents a significant departure from the 'zero risk' approach of most current authorisation procedures. It is likely that this could make the courts more inclined to review substantially the use of the Commission's and EU Council's discretionary powers in an area where so far they generally deferred to the institutions' evaluation and where most court challenges of health-related bans by producers did not succeed.
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The regulation also provides for the possibility to impose restrictions on any substance presenting particular risks, including those that are not to be registered. Obviously the burden of proving the existence of a hazard lies on the Commission or the national authority proposing the restriction. The ECHA is required to provide a scientific risk assessment, on the basis of which the Commission can decide on the restriction.
The regulation bars member states from further regulating substances with the aim of protecting public health of the environment, ie once a substance complies with the regulation it can be marketed throughout the EU. Member states are required to designate national competent authorities to perform the many tasks assigned to them by the regulation, and to put in place a system of official controls to monitor its application and a system of effective, proportionate and dissuasive sanctions for its violations.
With the 1 June deadline drawing near, it is unclear whether member states will be ready. In Italy, for instance, while it can be expected that the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, a technical body of the Italian Ministry of Health, will continue to be Italy's competent authority, no specific preparation seems to be underway in relation to the forthcoming enactment.
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I thought of the people on Flight 93, who took the plane down before it could hit another building, and of the firefighters and police in the building.
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|SWIDNICA: Dolnośląskie
50°13' N 23°20' E , 172.9 miles SE of Warszawa. Świdnica [Pol], Schweidnitz [Ger]. Svídnice [Czech]. This town in SW Poland with a population of 60,317 in 2008 in Lower Silesian Voivodeship and from 1975-98 in the former Wałbrzych Voivodeship is the seat of Świdnica powiat and also of the sGmina Świdnica (although it is not part of its territory since the town forms a separate urban gmina). [July 2009]
NEW CEMETERY: A new cemetery was established in 1815. Gravestones were overturned and subsequently, in 1941-1942, used to pave streets. A monument commemorating fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto was erected at the Jewish cemetery in 1963. photos. [July 2009]OLD CEMETERY: A cemetery established for Jews from surrounding settlements was first documented in 1382. In 1370,Princess Agnieszka issued a protective letter proclaiming the cemetery in Świdnica as the only cemetery in her principality to be used by Jews from surrounding towns of Dzierżoniowo, Jawor, Niemcza and Strzegom, and perhaps also Ząbkowice and Ziębice. Located near the main road to Strzegom, three gravestones survive. The gravetones were used as building material by the Nazis during WWII.
US Commission No. POCE000459: Alternate German name: Schweidnitz. located in Walbrzych. The US Commission is not finished rechecking this file. [2000]
Source: Gruber, Ruth Ellen. Jewish Heritage Travel A Guide to East-Central Europe. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992. p. 26
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Leonurus cardiaca
Mint family (Lamiaceae)
Description: This herbaceous perennial plant is 2-5' tall and sparingly branched below the inflorescence. The stems are 4-angled, heavily ridged, and slightly pubescent. The opposite leaves are variable in size and shape, although they all have long petioles that are slightly pubescent. The lower leaves often have 5 cleft lobes and several coarse teeth; they are up up to 4" long and 3" across. The middle leaves have 3 cleft lobes and a few coarse teeth; they are up to 3" long and 1½" across. The upper leaves are often oblong-ovate with a pair of coarse teeth; they are up to 2" long and ¾" across. These leaves are nearly hairless and have conspicuous veins along the upper surface. The base of each leaf is more or less wedge-shaped. The stems of Motherwort are normally erect, although older plants toward the end of the growing season have a tendency to sprawl.
Whorls of sessile flowers occur above the axils of the opposite leaves on the middle to upper stems. Each tubular flower is 2-lipped and about 1/3" (8 mm.) long. The corolla is white or light pink and quite hairy on the upper side; these fuzzy white hairs exceed 1 mm. in length. The upper lip is undivided, while the lower lip has a central lobe and 2 smaller side lobes. There are usually purple dots on the lower lip and near the throat of the corolla. The tubular green calyx has 5 lanceolate teeth; it is slightly pubescent. These teeth are sharp-pointed and persistent. The blooming period occurs during the summer and lasts about 2 months. While the flowers are not noticeably fragrant, the foliage has a slightly rank odor. Each flower is replaced by 4 nutlets that are 3-sided and reddish brown or brown. The root system consists of shallow fibrous roots and rhizomes. This plant spreads by reseeding itself and vegetatively by means of the rhizomes; it often forms colonies.
Cultivation: The preference is partial sun and moist fertile soil. If the soil becomes too dry, the lower leaves have a tendency to fall off and the entire plant may wilt or die. Plants are attractive while young, but become ragged in appearance with age.
Range & Habitat: Motherwort is a common plant in central and northern Illinois, but uncommon or absent in southern Illinois (see Distribution Map). It was introduced into the United States from Europe as an herb with medicinal properties. However, Motherwort is originally from central Asia (including Siberia). Habitats include open disturbed woodlands, areas along woodland paths, woodland borders and thickets, edges of degraded wetlands, edges of yards underneath trees, and partially shaded fence rows. While Motherwort normally occurs in disturbed areas, it can also invade higher quality woodland areas. This plant is still sold by commercial nurseries as a medicinal herb.
Faunal Associations: The flowers are pollinated by bumblebees and other long-tongued bees, including little carpenter bees (Ceratina spp.) and Anthophorine bees (Anthophora spp.); these insects are attracted by nectar primarily. Syrphid flies and Halictid bees are attracted to the pollen of the flowers, but they are less effective pollinators. Occasionally the foliage is attacked by Tetranychus urticae (Two-Spotted Spider Mite), which is polyphagous. Mammalian herbivores avoid the foliage as a food source because it is bitter-tasting and probably slightly toxic. It is possible that the seeds are transported by mammals because the spine-like teeth of the calyx can cling to fur (or clothing).
Photographic Location: Underneath a tree at the edge of a yard in Urbana, Illinois.
Comments: Motherwort is one of many introduced members of the Mint family with small tubular flowers. It has foliage with a somewhat distinctive appearance and flowers that are exceptionally hairy. Motherwort belongs to large group of plants in the Mint family that produce non-terminal whorls of flowers above the opposite leaves; other groups in this large family produce terminal racemes and spikes, or non-terminal flowers that aren't whorled. The petioles of the Motherwort are longer than the flowers, and its leaves have wedged-shaped bottoms and 3-5 cleft lobes with pointed tips. Other species in the Mint family have petioles that are shorter than the flowers, or their leaves have rounded bottoms and unlobed margins. The other Leonurus sp. in Illinois, Leonurus sibericus (Siberian Motherwort), is a biennial plant with less hairy flowers (hairs less than 1 mm.) and leaves that are more deeply cleft into narrow lobes.


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The man made machine is pulling her hair again,
biting her lip
for the poem she has been
years -
or so!
her origins are as furrowed
as a stray cats bristled tongue
the father
is fatherless
the sun; sexless
the ghost, like
a mirage in the desert
wedded to the lyre
you stroke viciously
just to hear it moan.
just to hear me groan.
I hate it sometimes
I am sleeping,
dreaming the dreams that I do.
jotting, getting up in the morning
to chicken scratch notes on the table
having to decipher my own mind
like a hieroglyphic.
like a gift from God.
Someone asked me once; if I believed in God
and I said:
which one?
Mr. Pettibone reads my poems out loud
in Creative Writing,
and I scan each face for its reaction.
I write.
It is who I am,
who I have become.
The clothes I wear
the drugs I take
the boys I have loved, and not loved
the girls I've envied,
the girls who've envied me.
It started
with a toddler
scribbling lines in an old
catholic diary with a crayon
trying to imitate her mothers
squiggly cursive-filled check book.
It will end?
I've dreamt myself onto balconies,
sucked the conversations from strangers
like a starved orphan,
bitten into forbidden fruit;
loathed love
yearned for hate
It's not just for the attention;
it's not just so you'll look a little longer, or
scratch the surface a little deeper
more like,
concealment -
it's easier for her to walk through the shadows
of others
then it is to meander through the looking glass.
Easier to be nothing
because nothing is at least something else;
the man made machine is wise -
she knows her wisdom well
like a fortune teller
she can crack the cookie and
interpret the writing
therein -
she must be good for something.
Her body is like a well lined tea leaf,
she has already fallen
and her lines;
(thin like air) will grow
until they consume the page
she's staring at
but for
the words
am I winning?
am I grinning?
The overrated cliche
of poetry,
self absorbed,
selfless -
it's eleven o'clock and I'm restless.
I think:
if action is an angel
than destiny is damnable.
Flammable like her human body
burning in the bed
down to rain-slick bones,
down to her soul -
where is her soul?
in her eyes?
in her breast?
the wet dream splashing across the verses,
palpable like a child
it scatters -
but it's beside the point and that's what matters.
It matters
like a scream
bloated on the air
traveling my way like a sinking ship.
The man made machine is running away with herself
again; she's on her way to Hollywood
where Talent will fold minks around it's shoulders,
dance with Errol Flynn at one in the morning,
walk home with Nelson Eddy like a school girl, and
drink the darkest red wine
she'll let it feaster against her insides;
a fine coating
of mirages and dreams.
A layer of words:
she is beautiful
she is ugly
she is talented.


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DUBLIN (AP) — A veteran of the Irish nationalist Sinn Fein party has won a special election to fill a Northern Ireland seat in the British Parliament, defeating a British Protestant candidate whose father was shot to death by the Irish Republican Army.
Results announced Friday showed that Sinn Fein's Francie Molloy received 47 percent of votes among a field of four candidates in the predominantly Catholic district of Mid-Ulster. His Protestant opponent, Nigel Lutton, received 34 percent.
In keeping with Sinn Fein's anti-British stance, Molloy will refuse to attend the House of Commons in London. Molloy succeeds Martin McGuinness, the Sinn Fein deputy leader and former IRA commander who resigned to focus on his job as deputy leader of Northern Ireland's 6-year-old unity government.
The IRA killed Lutton's father in 1979.


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by Sheila Williams, A Traveling Pug
Roswell, New Mexico was the location of the annual July UFO Festival weekend. We had to check it out—especially since one of the popular events was an Alien Pet Costume Contest.
Saturday's pet event attracted an enthusiastic crowd, despite temperatures in the high 90's (plenty of water was available for thirsty furry participants) as well as dog cookies to keep contestants spirits up.
The panel of judges had a difficult time deciding on the winners in the categories of creative, cute and scary.
Here are the winners. Second place went to this hand crocheted duo…
…first place winner was this alien cat carrier!
Phoebe Rose didn't win…
…and didn't seem to care, since she was treated like a winner at La Quinta Hotel in Roswell—no pet deposit, no size or weight restrictions and plenty of freebies!
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dianne whelan
Reading at WORD VANCOUVER Sept. 28th
cs lewis said, " we read to know we are not alone."
So come out to WORD Vancouver and be with people. Sept. 24-28th, free readings, mine is on Sept.28th at 1:45 at the Vancouver Public Library. more here
Sunshine Coast writer's festival book signing
Wow. That's is all I can say really. It was my first writer's festival, i thought i would be reading to 20 people, over 450 in the audience. I have always loved the CS Lewis quote, " we read to know we are not alone>" Up there on the stage looking out at such a large, warm, supportive crowd i realized i write to know i am not alone, too.
Special thanks to Cathie Roy of the Coast Reporter for sharing these pics from that day. The first is book signing after the reading, the one with the big smile is right after i came off the stage. Nice shot Cathie, she was smart, after taking pictures at the stage she ran ahead and was in the tent where i sign books after the reading. She caught that moment of relief and joy.
Shaw TV Interview
It was a great pleasure to sit down for an interview with the very talented Raji Kabli of Shaw TV in Victoria. I blabbed for a solifd half hour and she did an excellent job of finding the gold in the rock.
It was filmed in the basement of the very amazing Russell Books in Victoria.
Zoom Magazine
Zoom magazine is by the most beautiful publication on the Sunshine Coast, which is no surprise as it is designed and published by one of my favorite designers, Edmund Arceo. www.spiderplus.com You won't finds anything negative in Zoom, just beautiful photographs and good intentions. And that is the beauty of an indie publication.
Vancouver book review
It's not about dogs. One of my fave book reviews yet.
"I've got a huge amount of experience as a mountaineer. Armchair Expeditions Inc. I owe a lot to the Vancouver Public Library (VPL) main branch. I've rolled with Reinhold Messner on Nanga Parbat and was a microbe in his rucksack when he soloed Everest without the gas. A really cold microbe."
Sechelt Writer's Festival
Reading from Base Camp 40 Days on Everest at the Writer's Festival in Sechelt on Sunday August 17th at 10:30am
Canadian Nat Geo interview
Had the most enjoyable conversation with Thomas.


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Latif Nasser is a longtime friend of the show. You've heard him numerous times on air or read his missives on our site: telling us stories about the lie of the perfect snowflake, how pigeons get home, the lie that is the meter, etc. Having just finished his PhD at Harvard in the history of science, he is our new Director of Research. On staff he'll be telling us more stories, infecting us with his enthusiasm and applying his formidable research skills to building out our editorial pipeline. He'll also be the primary point of contact for our fact-checkers and outside contributors. He'll also be standing at his desk like a meerkat. A meerkat with glasses.
Latif Nasser appears in the following:
Bigger Little Questions
Friday, December 22, 2017
'Now What Am I Known For?' Trying to Find Oliver Sipple's Legacy
Monday, September 25, 2017
The Meter: The Measure of a Man
Wednesday, July 09, 2014
About six and a half billion people use the metric system every single day. That's more than the citizens of any single nation, the followers of any single religion or the speakers of any single language. Sociologist Hector Vera has called the metric system "more popular than Jesus."
≤ kg
Friday, June 13, 2014
A plum-sized lump of metal takes us from the French Revolution to an underground bunker in Maryland as we try to weigh the way we weigh the world around us.
Crystal Bliss
Monday, December 17, 2012
You know those stunningly symmetrical, glittery snowflakes you see everywhere at a certain time of year -- hanging from streetlights, stitched on sweaters, and sprinkled all over tv? Those perfectly-etched pictures are all a big lie. Latif Nasser explains how it all began in a cold, snowy ...
Revenge of the Caterpillars: A Footnote to "Contagious Laughter"
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
If These Walls Could Talk
Tuesday, November 06, 2012
Pipes get metaphysical when a historian (of medicine) and a plumber meet inside one tiny midtown Manhattan apartment...
Ringmaster to the Rainbow
Friday, July 27, 2012
Pigeons Have Magnets...Right?
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Ghost in the machine
Friday, June 29, 2012
When the 17-year-old crown prince of Spain, Don Carlos, fell down a set of stairs in 1562, he threw his whole country into a state of uncertainty about the future. Especially his father, King Philip II, who despite being the most powerful man in the world, was helpless in the ...
Ghost Stories
Friday, June 29, 2012
Real-life people try to pin down, and make peace with, mysterious figures that haunt them, prod them, and fade out of existence.
The Idiosyncratic Ida C. Craddock: A Sexy Ghost Story
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Butterflies in the Belfry
Monday, April 23, 2012
Linnaeus Had No Spam Filter
Wednesday, April 04, 2012
How do you solve a problem like Fritz Haber?
Monday, January 09, 2012
How do you square the idea of a bad person who does great good? Or a good person who does terrible harm? Sam Kean introduces us to the confusing life story of Fritz Haber. Around 1900, Haber was a young chemist in Germany, intent on solving the biggest problem facing ...
The Bad Show
Monday, January 09, 2012
A Clockwork Miracle
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
In 1562, King Philip II needed a miracle. So he commissioned one from a highly-skilled clockmaker. In this short, a king's deal with God leads to an intricate mechanical creation, and Jad heads to the Smithsonian to investigate.


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Most of us want to be fit and thin so that we look sexier, or fit into our clothes better. But did you know you now have a better reason to stay fit and healthy? The well being of your unborn baby.
A new study has shown a link between overweight and obese moms and a greater frequency of a preterm birth. This also comes with other serious health problems from being born early. And some of the study group had births as early as prior to 32 weeks.
From the study it appears that with overweight and obese women carry a 30 percent greater risk of a preterm baby. Earlier than 37 weeks. And the heavier you are the greater the risk. For very obese moms the risk climbs to over double at 70%.
There is also a similar increased risk for early preterm birth. that would be a birth earlier than 32 or 33 weeks. And these risks increase for really obese women over that of overweight and just obese moms.
With the increased risk of a preterm baby comes what happens to the preterm baby. Preterm babies have lower birth weight. They have a higher incidence of morbidity. So we're talking about a higher death rate for these preterm babies.
The problem is getting worse. It's now shown that the most common cause of complications from pregnancy in most of the developed countries is the result of overweight and obese moms. That's a startling reflection on how the number of overweight and obese women have increased over the years. In Canada it's been reported that almost 30% of the women are overweight, and almost a quarter of the women are obese. Pretty sad statistics about the state of health in the developed world.
Part of the problem lies with the assumption that pregnant moms are eating for two now. And that is just not true. If a normal diet consists of 1500 to 2000 calories, if you thought you were eating for two you might just end up eating 3000 to 4000 calories. When in reality, as a pregnant mom, you only need to add about 300 calories onto your diet for your baby. With all those extra calories, it's no wonder there are so many obese and overweight pregnant moms.
But when you're pregnant it's probably not the right time to go on a food restricting diet. So you should definitely get into shape prior to getting pregnant. And after you are pregnant make really sure that you only increase your caloric intake by about 300 calories.
Are you tired of yo-yo dieting and ready to change your relationship with food forever? Of course you are! Take the time to get some free tips on how you can use your mind with weight loss through hypnosis to eliminate junk food from your diet so you can release your excess weight and feel great about yourself. Visit my website, HypnoticState.com and get your free self hypnosis course or ebook on how to use your mind correctly and learn how to lose weight with hypnotherapy weight loss to take control and set yourself free to enjoy your life.
This self hypnosis info is the same stuff I wrote in the book I co-authored called Real World Hypnosis, Insider Tips From The World's Leading Hypnotists that can be found at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other booksellers.


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Fried pies are a very old thing. Old as in, my great-grandmother and her mother before her were making them for their kids' lunch pails a loooong time ago. Anytime there was leftover fruit or pie crust, you made fried pies. Simple as that. They're the perfect hand-held size with the perfect fruit-to-pastry ratio. A genius little invention, the fried pie. My mom makes them a lot now, too. She made these, in fact. You can use your favorite pie crust, or if you're in a hurry you can use a refrigerated one. These are so simple, and since they're baked instead of fried, you don't get near as much of the fat (although, they sure taste good fried!). These are flaky, sweet, and full of delicious fruit filling- I love them. And I love their simplicity.
[Baked] Apricot Fried Pies
*the dough and assembly process is taken from The Pastry Queen (seen on Delish); the filling is my mother's.
For the pastry:
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 tsp salt
3/4 cup ice water
1 egg, beaten with a tablespoon of water (for egg wash)
Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl. Cut the butter into 1/2-inch cubes. Work the butter into the dry ingredients with a pastry cutter or your fingers until the mixture resembles cornmeal. Add the ice water and gently form the dough into a ball. Divide the dough into two halves.
For the Filling:
approx. 15 fresh apricots, pitted and cut into halves
1 cup sugar
Put the apricots and sugar in a large pot and fill with just enough water to cover them. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat and let simmer for at least 20 minutes, or until most of the water has cooked out and you have a thick fruit filling. Let cool.
To assemble the pies:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Flour a smooth surface and roll out each half to 1/16-inch thick (just thicker than a tortilla) and cut into 5-inch rounds. Re-roll the scraps and cut additional rounds. Fill each round with 1 heaping Tablespoon of filling. Fold the dough into a half-circle; wet your fingers and press to seal the edges with water. Crimp the edges with the tines of a fork to seal the pies. Cut two 1/2-inch slits in each pie. Brush with the egg wash and sprinkle with a little sugar.
Bake on cookie sheets lined with parchment paper for 12-15 minutes, until golden brown. Makes approx. 12 pies.
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These look so good! I've never made hand pies before, but I bet it's awesome. Every time I have leftover pie dough I just make mini jam tarts. I'll try this next time.
Comment by Lindsey @ Hot Polka Dot — August 23, 2010 @ 12:50 PM
These sound absolutely divine. And the crust looks to die for.
These pies look absolutely perfect.
Those tiny pies are adorable!
Comment by Betty @ scrambled hen fruit — August 23, 2010 @ 9:02 PM
These look so delicious…yummy!!
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Hey Melissa Andrea, I am not yet finished with the dark duet series, I'm about 50% but I must say thank you! Thank you for not getting me to invest so heavily in Ryland and then turn around make Arya bang some other dude! This has happened to me twice in a series and I was livid! So thank you for your beautiful and different take on Y.A romance. This is a unique love that should not be denied. hmm, am I getting ahead of myself… now I am worried.. hmm


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Unrated, 76 minutes
Secrets And Lies
The synopsis for this film on imdb.com mentions a "shocking, strangely satisfying conclusion." It was shocking all right; I'm not sure about the "strangely satisfying" part. (Full disclosure: loved the first hour, hated the ending.)
I don't remember the last time I was this turned on and this disturbed by a movie. From Argentina comes writer/director Marcelo Briem Stamm's first feature film, Solo (translation: Alone). Solo is the story of two men who connect in an internet chatroom and then agree to meet in person. One night stands are frequent film fodder but the theme is always open to new variations. The dynamics of this hook-up are compelling and convincing - the initial awkwardness, the horniness, the confessions. Much of it unfolds in real time; some of it in long, (and well acted), unbroken takes.
Manuel (Patricio Ramos) looks a bit like the boy next door. Julio (Mario Verón) looks a little more like rough trade. He wears a hoodie over a flannel shirt, while Manuel is more vanilla in a turtleneck. The attraction is immediate and Manuel takes Julio home. A bond begins between the two. Both men seem damaged; each is insecure and doesn't like being lied to. They each have major baggage and lots of trust issues. But, despite their caution, they're both really turned on too and their hormones are about to go into overdrive.
The film's English title, "alone," is a word frequently uttered. Each doesn't want to be alone; each needs to be certain that the other is alone and that there is no other boyfriend. Julio especially needs reassurance. Manuel tells him to relax. They begin to kiss. Things start heating up. (If, like me, you enjoy kissing scenes, there is a lot to enjoy here.) Manuel gets distracted for a moment, triggering a brief flashback. He tells Julio about his ex, Horacio (Carlos Echevarria). Their breakup was a bad one. They had two good years and then came the affairs, the threeways, the gang bangs. Julio tells him that he "had a lot of Horacios. But no Manuels." It is a sweet moment. When they wind up in bed, they ask if this means that they're boyfriends.
Each is needy in varying degrees. "I looked at you," says Julio, "and hoped you would be the one." But Julio has also been around and he knows the body language. "I asked if you were alone," he remarks, "and you got nervous and looked down." There is a striking scene where he becomes hurt, and then aggressive, when he starts recognizing "the signs" (looking at the clock, pretending to yawn) when Manuel suddenly changes his mind about Julio spending the night. When he says "we'll talk another day," Julio asks, "When? Because that is the third most common lie."
Solo is a very sexy movie. Hot man on man sex alternates with rising drama. The air is erotically charged but there is also a hint of danger. It seems like both guys are hiding something or telling "a different version of the truth." Julio says that you never know whom you are bringing into your home and then arouses suspicions later when his cellphone keeps going off. Manuel becomes agitated and doesn't believe Julio when he tells him that the caller is another man from a chatroom who has turned into a stalker. Julio doesn't help matters when his anger surfaces on more than one occasion. He's a bit of a loose cannon but explains that he's just being careful because he doesn't want to get hurt again. He promises Manuel that he will never treat him the way that Horacio did, and proposes that they run away together.
Solo is a well made film. The photography is exceptional and the minimalist piano score is understated while effectively establishing mood. The use of flashbacks is interesting. Hitchcock famously opened his 1950 Stage Fright with a flashback that lied and the film's first audiences didn't like that. I'm not saying that the flashbacks lie in Solo, but information is withheld and then revealed later when the same flashback is repeated. The flashbacks will often contradict or misdirect when not seen in its proper context… or because Manuel is deliberately leaving something out.
I enjoyed the film's first hour a lot. In fact, Solo's best scenes bear comparison with Andrew Haigh's Weekend. Watching the initial spark between two men can be very satisfying and this film gets it right. Their scenes together come across as genuine and sincere, not to mention erotic. The acting is superb; Ramos and Verón have remarkable chemistry and the sexual attraction couldn't feel more authentic. I loved watching these guys kiss and, like the dudes in Weekend, I wanted to see them live happily every after. At the very least, I hoped they would agree to meet for a second date.
Which brings us to… the ending. Solo, oddly, is the third consecutive title that I've reviewed whose conclusion almost unraveled whatever good will I felt towards the rest of the film. I hated the ending but, of course, I cannot discuss why without giving it away. There's nothing wrong with exploring the dark side of dating but there's a plot twist that is so unexpected that I don't know whether to applaud the director for his boldness or slap him upside the head. I know that I'll never forget the ending of Solo but that doesn't mean I like it - or find it "strangely satisfying." I'll just say this – don't watch this film on a first date; it might scare him away.
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