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I'm curious about setting up a monitored blog/message board site for students. Where do I begin? Is there a "Blogging for Dummies?"
I also want to use texting, but resist because of all of those "lovely" teachers here in Florida that seem to cross the line, normally beginning with innocent texts.
I work in a very modern school that is wireless and is equipped with promethean boards, webcams, and student response systems. I want to effectively utilize the tools afforded me!
My first suggestion was setting up a Ning to engage the students in a communal and collaborative online environment. But then I thought, hey, let's ask the readers and get some of your ideas.
So, what do you think. If you had Promethean boards, webcams, and student response systems, what kinds of apps would you be using in class?
PS -- One of the things I really liked about this letter was that it addressed the fact that some teachers -- and not just in FL -- cross the line for one reason or another in communications with students. It's relatively easy to see how this can happen -- especially in the age of instant irretrievable communication. So, in terms of 'best practices', what are some of the guidelines you set out?
For instance, I refrain from friending students on FB (because while I occasionally use FB to illustrate things in class and while I encourage students to create groups on FB as an online presence for clubs and activities, I don't actually use my own FB feed for classroom purposes). I also insist on students having at least one Twitter feed exclusive to my class that I am at liberty to check at random for unseemly and digitally irresponsible DMs and Follows. This is all part of establishing the groundwork for the student's engagement with digital citizenship.
I am also vigilant about my own maintenance of separate Twitter feeds for my different roles as teacher, ed tech dude, musician, and dad. And I demonstrate this to my students via TweetDeck and explain to them the variety of ways I use Twitter. Because good modeling of digital citizenship is half the battle.


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Overall the number is down compared with last year, but officials say illicit drug deaths linked to carfentanil, which is 100 times stronger than fentanyl, are up.
Illicit-drug deaths down this year in B.C., says coroner
The B.C. Coroners Service says the number of deaths caused by illicit drugs was down 30 per cent in B.C. for the first five months of 2019.
The coroner says there were 86 death related to illicit drugs in April, down from 137 in the same month last year. There were 84 such deaths in May respectively, down from 116 for the same month in 2018.
Overall, there were 462 such deaths in the first five months of 2019, down 30 per cent from the 651 in the same period last year.
The coroners service said the figures are subject to change and totals for 2019 will likely increase as post mortem testing results are received, but says it is "a sign for cautious optimism."
More than two-thirds of the illicit-drug deaths this year involved people aged 30 to 59 years, and men accounted for almost four in five of the deaths, the service says. Almost nine in 10 deaths occurred indoors and fentanyl was detected in most (83 per cent) of the cases.
Although overall the number of fatalities is down, the number of deaths linked to carfentanil, which is much stronger than fentanyl, is up compared with last year.
The coroner says carfentanil was detected in 102 of the 383 fentanyl-detected deaths this year. There were 35 carfentanil-detected deaths in 2018.
No deaths have been reported at supervised consumption or drug overdose prevention sites.
Meantime, health care workers say they are responding to an increasing number of overdoses involving opioids contaminated with benzodiazepines, restricted substances normally used to treat anxiety. One of the problems is that benzodiazepines don't respond to the standard opioid antidote, naloxone.


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- From: "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:43:13 -0400 (EDT)
1) I agree that % and %% are generally a bad idea - except when used within a single cell, where they are perfectly all right and convenient. Your teaching of naming expressions is a good idea, but not always necessary. (I would use names like step1, step2, etc., to avoid assigning values to common symbols) 2) Might it be that copying and pasting parts of expressions is an error-prone procedure that should be discouraged in favor of using Part or Cases or Select. 3) Sooner or later I would think that students would have to use packages. Why not teach them to have an Initialization section at the top of their notebook with Initialization cells for packages and anything else they might need? You already teach them to use Sectional organization, which is another very good thing in your teaching practices. (If I forget to load a package I always just Quit the kernel and start over. Of course, if I had just performed a three hour calculation I might think differently.) David Park djmpark at comcast.net http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark/ From: Helen Read [mailto:hpr at together.net] On 7/19/2010 2:07 AM, David Park wrote: > I use multiple statements in one cell, with multiple outputs, quite often > and don't see any problem with it. It's a good way to develop a calculation > before moving it to a Module, or to develop a derivation or to just try out > things. > > When everything is in one cell you can safely use % and %% without worrying > about order of evaluation. You can intersperse Print statements if you want > to annotate the output. You can keep adding further steps and reevaluating > as a calculation is built up. You can add or remove ";"s as you want to see > more or less. Each to his/her own. I personally find student work (and my own work) to be much easier to follow with one input per cell, or multiple inputs in a cell separated with semi-colons. As you point out, you can always intersperse Print statements if you like. As for % and %%, I never use them, and I certainly don't teach them. Using % in a single cell vs. multiple cells is a distinction that my students are likely not to make, with dire consequences. When I first started teaching with Mathematica ~15 years ago (!), the use of % was one of the two biggest sources of problems for my students. A couple of years in, life got much better when I made a conscious decision not to introduce the % notation to my students, and to discourage its use by the few students who discover it (or even worse, the dreaded Out[17] notation, which is a living nightmare) on their own. When I stopped teaching %, I realized I didn't need it either, and I stopped using it myself. Nobody misses %, least of all me. I teach my students to define functions for practically everything, and to assign names for anything that is not a function if they think they are going to use it again, or go back and assign a name when needed if they didn't name it to begin with. If they do that, there is no need for %, preventing all the problems they used to have with it, and making it much easier for them (and me, when I have to grade it) to follow their work. (The other one of the two biggest stumbling blocks in the old days was students failing to load packages, then remembering after the fact -- when something didn't work -- leading to the Shadowing error, which just baffled them. I could explain it 100 times, and most of the students never understood why it was too late once they already tried to use a function from a package, and never remembered to do it in sequence the next time. So we started loading commonly used packages right in the init.m in the classrooms we maintain...which was great, except that the students would get confused when working somewhere else and completely forget to load packages. Things got much, much better when most all of the functionality that we needed from packages was moved to the main Mathematica. I can't remember the last time I had my students load a package. Life is good.) Those two simple things (1) don't teach %, and (2) no more need to load packages were huge quality-of-life improvements for my classes. > I never have any problem with Return being misinterpreted as a > multiplication. I have seen it happen with student work. Sometimes they do a lot of copy/paste, and something that looks like a line-break might not be one. It can be very difficult to trouble-shoot. There is a lot less of this sort of problem if I teach them to put one input per cell, or separate with semi-colons if they put multiple inputs within a cell. > There is a subset of Mathematica users who see writing extended definitions > and routines as a barrier. The multiple statement, single cell form is a > good way to transition them to it, because it almost is a routine. I encourage this all the time with my students, for just that reason, but have them separate with semi-colons. They don't have any problem doing that. -- Helen Read University of Vermont


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There appears to be a double standard at the Air Force Academy.
The academy is defending its promotion of an atheist event just a week after a Christian cadet was pressured into removing a Bible verse from his personal whiteboard because it allegedly offended non-Christian cadets.
"Ask an Atheist Day" was sponsored by the Freethinkers Club, an academy-approved cadet club. The event was advertised all week on academy bulletin screens and an official email sent to the cadet wing. An invitation was also issued by a cadet to the entire cadet wing assembly on Tuesday.
As I reported last week, a cadet "voluntarily" removed a Bible verse he had written on a whiteboard hanging outside his dorm room. "I have been crucified with Christ therefore I no longer live, but Christ lives in me," the verse from Galatians 2:20 read.
That verse led to a formal complaint from Mikey Weinstein, of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Exactly two hours and nine minutes after the complaint was filed, the Bible verse was erased.
Academy Superintendent Michelle Johnson said in a written statement about the incident that the verse was removed because there was a "potential perception" problem.
"The Scripture was below the cadet's name on a whiteboard and could cause subordinates to doubt the leader's religious impartiality," she said.
And in 2011, Air Force Academy cadet commanders apologized and backed away from an Operation Christmas Child toy program after Weinstein complained of religious intolerance.
Operation Christmas Child is a program sponsored by Samaritan's Purse, a ministry run by evangelical Christian Franklin Graham.
Weinstein was specifically upset about an announcement about the toy program that was made to the entire cadet wing as well as an email that was sent to all cadets.
The academy sided with Weinstein, and Brig. Gen. Richard Clark, who was then the commandant of cadets at the academy, apologized to Weinstein.
The academy also sent an email to cadets retracting an earlier email promoting Operation Christmas Child.
"We agree that it was inappropriate," Academy Spokesman Lt. Col. John Bryan told the Colorado Gazette in 2011.
So let's review. The Air Force Academy bends over backwards to promote an atheist event, but it drops the hammer on Christian-themed activities. A double standard appears to be flying high at the academy.
"Clearly, it is Johnson's leadership which raises questions about religious impartiality," writes Mark Alexander, of Patriot Post, a conservative website.
"There may be some circumstantial differences between the 'Ask an Atheist' event and Operation Christmas Child, and I understand that," says Michael Berry, an attorney with Liberty Institute, a legal firm specializing in religious liberty cases. "The perception is being created among the public and the parents and the cadets that the academy is showing favoritism, or in this case it's showing animosity and hostility toward anything religious."
"If the Air Force Academy is going to allow atheists to host a discussion, they need to be showing the same level of openness to non-atheists—specifically Christians," he says.
Even the perpetually offended Mikey Weinstein objected to the atheist event.
"They are proselytizing for atheism," Weinstein told the Gazette. "What if this was 'Ask a Muslim Day' or 'Ask an Evangelical Christian Day'?"
The academy released a statement pointing out the atheist club had received approval to host its event.
"The Academy allows all cadet groups to host information fairs regardless of espoused religious beliefs or no beliefs at all," the statement read, noting there were also events scheduled for Christians and Muslims.
"Air Force policy does not limit the substance of voluntary discussions or the exercise of free expression where it is reasonably clear that the discussions are personal, not official, and are reasonably free of the potential for, or appearance of, coercion," the statement read.
In other words, an email promoting atheism meets the Air Force policy, but an email promoting a Christian ministry providing toys to poor children does not.
"Military members, including cadets, may not use their leadership position to promote personal religious or non-faith beliefs to subordinates because doing so may cause those subordinates to doubt their leader's impartiality and objectivity and, thereby, degrade unit morale, good order, and discipline," the statement concluded.
Based on recent events, I do wonder if those in charge of the Air Force Academy believe the only good cadets are godless cadets and Christian cadets are somehow guilty of degrading unit morale, good order and discipline.
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Poker games bleak play
by Arakinos В» 01.05.2019
When Apple pulled its popular "Texas Hold'em" game from the App Store, I was moderately surprised, but then again, it's not like Apple was actively developing the game over the years. But the move sparked my attention. Why did I stop playing, anyway? After all, I like poker, and I really like "Texas Hold'em.
While Apple's take on the game was pretty good, I realized that there were several reasons why I stopped playing. First, I lost interest. Plus, I realized that the AI, while pretty good, was also exceedingly annoying and couldn't be trusted.
For instance, make a major bet or go all-in, and all too often the AI will fold the hands of the players around you. Do it with some low off-suit cards often enough, and you know that strong hands are folding beneath the so-called power move you just made. Similarly, if you let the AI players make small bets then go hard against them, they fold all the time, too. But then, further along you'll be doing everything right, by the book so to speak, and the AI will hand you a series of losses, including bad beat after bad beat -- so much so that you realize there's some other algorithm running the game, and it has nothing to do with a fair deal of 52 cards.
But hey, it's a game, and if you're going to head over to a real poker game with your buddies one night, I found it handy to play a bit before the real life game to get my brain in a "Texas Hold'em" frame of mind. A warm up. Then there's time. The world is spinning faster than ever, it seems, and I don't have as much time to play games as I used to. But the nice thing with Apple's take is that you could play really quickly, folding lousy hands and making quick bets.
There was little lag or waiting for the action to take place. I liked that a lot. Are there a lot of great poker apps in the App Store?
Surely there must be a worthy replacement if Apple pulled the plug? So I searched and started checking out a few likely replacements. What I found, for the most part on my first impressions, has appalled me. Many of the casino and poker games are cartoony, look cheesy, and they feature cluttered interfaces. You start out most games with the game prompting you to accept push notifications and location awareness.
And I'm like, "Uh, no. I don't want you to send me push notifications. I want to play poker, not get a bunch of free chips, or special buy-in offers, or whatever messy things you have to take over my iPad or iPhone.
And then once you're in, there are tournaments, "cash" tables, and overlay messages sliding in front of your screen. Suddenly, you can be playing with other people online, with cash, except it's not really cash, it's fake game chips -- that is, unless you want to buy more fake game chips with your real Apple App Store account, which is easy enough.
But you get free chips to play with just for showing up, and sometimes, if you play a hand and happen to be in the right place at the right time, you get rewarded with other free chips. Or maybe you play a hand, raise and then fold, and you get rewarded with experience points. I kid you not. In one game, I unlocked an achievement simply by playing a hand against an AI. I'm pretty sure I'm too uptight for these games, because in one, the highly-rated "Poker by Zynga," nearly , people were playing during the very minute I was rubbing my forehead to stave off an oncoming headache.
You know how casinos in Vegas so often stack their entrances with all the slot machine games and such, as if they're catering to the lowest possible denominator of human interest? Many of these games seem to eschew tasteful design in favor of gaudy color schemes, bad graphics and ugly playing cards. Still, maybe I was just in the wrong frame of mind.
Maybe I needed a beer and nothing to do at all. Serious time on my hands. So I tried to push away all the other things I could be doing, like watching the last episode of "Castle" that's recorded on my DVR still haven't gotten to it or revisiting Jack Bauer in the entire series of "24" episodes available on my new Kindle Fire via Amazon Prime.
Or cleaning out my garage, for that matter. Beyond the messiness of the apps, I found that many of them have rich ecosystems built into them -- like the ability to play with your friends, chat with players, play in tournaments, and build up enough chips so that you could play with others in big-money games where the players most likely know a little something about how to actually play "Texas Hold'em. So that's cool. Plus, the nice thing about playing with real humans is that you can trust the deck -- your hand isn't generated by an AI and the actions in response to you, like checking, folding or raising, come from humans making choices.
On the downside, you've got to wait for these humans to make these choices. If you fold a hand, you have to wait for the action to move around the virtual table, and some hands seem to drag on forever, especially when you folded a off-suit hand right off the button.
Two or three hands like that, and I want to start multi-tasking. But that doesn't work that well either because boom, I find that I'm up and I need to make a decision on a hand. With an AI, you can pause and speed things up any time. With real people, you've got a fast-ticking clock that forces you to pay attention, even through the dull spots. It's kind of like real poker without the fun of hanging out with your friends, eating chips, and watching football while sitting out a hand.
Then there's the fact that people come in and out of tables all the time. Is this guy next to you making a big all-in raise because that's what he should do with his cards? Or is his dentist appointment about to start and he has to get out of the game quickly? What I've learned is that I'm not the right guy to give a good review and recommendation of a poker app. My game playing and poker playing habits aren't in line with the popular poker games, and a lousy review is unfair to the game makers who are appealing to a different demographic.
I, as a man, might as well try to review a sports bra made for a woman. Sure, I can look at the material, stretch it and pull it, but I can't wear it and give you a real sense about whether it's a great sports bra.
Does it breathe well? How's the support on the treadmill? Does it look good? So when I play poker with these App Store games, I start out with my interests and expectations adversely pitted against what they are trying to do. I want a super-smart and fair AI engine that will let me play and stop immediately, do something else, then continue on.
I want an elegant design that's super easy to fold, check and raise. I want the ability to play online with real people at any time, but I don't want to be handed some dumb little achievement for playing a hand and making a raise that causes the other players to fold. I haven't found this yet, but if I missed a great game that's clean, easy and not out to get me to buy a gob of chips through in-app purchases, comment below and point me to it, please.
Meanwhile, I did find three poker games that didn't cause me to throw up in my mouth. They all have irritating features, but all three are definitely playable, seem to work pretty well, and might be worth your time to explore:. If I had to rate these apps, I'd give them two out of five stars at best.
But like I said, I learned that I'm no longer the right kind of guy to be reviewing poker apps. If you are, don't hesitate to chime in with some comments about what you like and appreciate about your favorite "Texas Hold'em" app. I'm sure there are at least a few readers who would appreciate direction from a true poker-app enthusiast.
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by Tabar В» 01.05.2019
Does see more look good? Send a private message to sirin. They got friendly with their regular customers and let them decide what combat scenarios would be played out. I, as a man, might as well try to review a sports bra made for a woman. Find Threads Started by jokerspades.
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by Yosho В» 01.05.2019
And then once you're in, there are tournaments, "cash" tables, and overlay messages sliding in front of your screen. Simple registration. Send a private message to jokerspades.
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by Shaktik В» 01.05.2019
CasinoGames77 offers no download no registration free poker games online. Send a private message to sirin. Watch Now! There' s no cost, and no limit to the fun you could be having on PokerStars.
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by Dacage В» 01.05.2019
Two or three hands like that, and I want to start multi-tasking. I want to play poker, not get a bunch of free chips, or special buy-in offers, or whatever messy things you have to take over my iPad or iPhone. Send a private message to gausspoker.
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A young man who "put a smile on everyone's face" is dead, and three London-area teenagers are charged with criminal negligence causing death after an apparent joyride on a front-end loader during a Dorchester house party.
Torn from his family and friends is Riley Shannon, 21, of Ingersoll, described as a fun-loving and generous man who dreamed of becoming a paramedic and who might have been trying to stop the joyride.
Charged are three teens from Thames Centre, who instead of thinking about school or new jobs and what to do this summer could, if convicted, be facing jail or prison time.
The death has Ontario Provincial Police again warning parents and young people about the dangers of parties where immaturity and alcohol can combine into a dangerous mix.
"They are dangerous situations because of the lack of maturity (of party-goers)" OPP Sgt. Dave Rektor said.
"Any time you have young people not supervised, houses can get damaged or people can get hurt or killed."
When someone gets hurts, or dies, more than one family is devastated, he said.
"It's sad for everybody. It is tragic all around," Rektor said.
"It's all preventable."
Ambulance crews and police were called to a Dorchester residence a few minutes after midnight Saturday, OPP said.
Police weren't releasing the address, but confirmed there was a gathering of people there.
They discovered that Shannon had been run over by a John Deere 333E model skid steer, a 5,357-kilogram construction loader with tracked wheels and a top speed of 12.6 km/h.
Shannon was rushed in critical condition to hospital, where he died.
A friend of Shannon's said on Facebook that the man had been trying to stop three others from taking the machine when he was struck and killed.
Police wouldn't confirm those details, but indicated the suspects were joyriding.
"It doesn't appear that the three involved were trying to 'steal' the skid steer," Middlesex OPP Const. Adam Crewdson said.
"They did not have permission from the owner, hence the charge of theft."
Shannon attended Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute and for a time worked at the Ingersoll Home Hardware, according to his Facebook page.
"He was full of life. He always had a gleam in his eye and a smile on his face," said store manager Dave Eisen.
"It's a shame."
Friend Amanda Murray said Shannon was attending Fanshawe College and always dreamed of becoming a paramedic.
"He was like a big brother to me," Murray said.
"As soon as he would walk into the room he would put a smile on every individual's face. He will be missed greatly."
The engaging young man was a fixture at the family pool last summer with her children, said Elise Clayton. "Sometimes your kids' friends really make an impact on your life," she wrote on Facebook. "Riley Shannon, you were one of those kids. I will miss the smile on your face and the sparkle in your eyes."
"He was just a good kid," Clayton added over the phone.
Shannon is survived by his parents, brother, sister, grandmother and several aunts and uncles.
"Whenever his friends needed his help, Riley was always there to lend an ear, a shoulder to cry on or to pull a friend out of whatever predicament they happened to be in," his obituary reads.
Charged with theft valued at more than $5,000, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death, failing to stop at an accident involving death or bodily harm, and criminal negligence causing death, are Ryan Esler, 18, Adam Sinden, 18 and Trent Weller, 19, all of Thames Centre.
The three were held for a bail hearing Sunday and were released Monday morning.
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Ugly and sometimes frightening, the largest "gadgets" on Earth help mankind achieve the magnificent. Take, for example, the airplane above, whose hideous looks have earned it the nickname Oscar Meyer Wienermobile. Mock it all you want, but that wiener can carry more cargo than your puny human body ever will.
Last month, Wired.com presented nine of the largest machines roaming the planet. Many of you commented with even better suggestions for enormous gadgets that we somehow missed. We've compiled them here, along with several more mechanical marvels we found. In this gallery, you'll see a machine that simulates earthquakes, a Ferris wheel that takes you as high as the clouds, a giant telescope that keeps an eye on our universe, airplanes that help make space exploration possible, and more.
Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter
The mustard-yellow Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter (above) transports aircraft parts to Boeing from suppliers all over the world. Also called the Dreamlifter, this plane is a modified version of the commercial 747, also known as the Jumbo Jet. The original 747's length, height and fuselage (i.e., main body section that holds cargo) were expanded to haul more cargo by volume than any airplane in the world. (One can only imagine how many actual Oscar Meyer wieners the Wienermobile could transport.)
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Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope
Hidden in the green hills of West Virginia, the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (also known as the Great Big Telescope) stands 485 feet tall — almost 200 feet taller than the Statue of Liberty and just 70 feet shorter than the Washington monument. Unlike conventional telescopes, which have metal structures supporting the middle of their surface, the GBT's aperture is completely unblocked. That increases the GBT's useful area and sensitivity to get a stellar view of our universe.
The GBT is so big that a single picture doesn't do it justice. Wired.com photo editor Jim Merithew took a tour of the telescope and compiled a photo essay, "Silence! The Last of the Giant Radio Telescopes Is Listening to the Universe." Check that out.
Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com
Falkirk Wheel
Resembling a double-headed ax, the Falkirk Wheel is an enormous rotating boat lift located in Scotland. It was built to transfer canal boats from the Union Canal to the Forth and Clyde Canal. The wheel measures 110 feet in diameter and consists of two arms spaced 80 feet apart. The coolest part is that it's self-balancing: The end of each arm holds a water-filled caisson (a water-tight bucket, basically) with a capacity of 96,000 gallons. The combined weight of each caisson plus the water and ship inside it is always the same, regardless of whether or not it's carrying its full capacity. How? It's Archimedes' principle, baby!
Photo: Beltzner/Flickr
Singapore Flyer
If skydiving isn't your cup of tea, the Singapore Flyer — the world's largest Ferris wheel — should bring you pretty close to the clouds with a bit more decorum. Located on top of a three-story terminal building in Singapore, the Flyer measures 492 feet in diameter. Tickets for rides cost between $20 to $30. Not too shabby: Riders get a 30-mile view of the city and beyond. Plus, each capsule has free air conditioning!
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Atlas V
Just how do gigantic spacecraft get into space? With the help of expendable rockets shot by launch systems such as the Atlas V, of course. The Atlas V system features a launch pad with rockets powered by Russian-built RD-180 engines burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to power the first stage of launch. RL10 engines burn liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen to power the upper stage. In 2005, an Atlas V booster carried the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter — a spacecraft exploring Mars — into outer space. The Atlas V is about 190 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter, weighing in at 1.2 million pounds.
While it's big, the Atlas V is not the biggest rocket ever. That honor belongs to the 363-foot tall, 33-foot diameter Saturn V used in the Apollo and Skylab programs from 1967 to 1973. The Saturn V is the only machine ever to take humans to another world – beyond Earth's orbit – which, as astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has said, makes it "the crowning achievement of human ingenuity and the fulfillment of dreams." The Saturn V's engines are shown below, next to rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun.
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Antonov AN-225
Another questions arises: How do spacecraft even make it to their launch sites? The largest aircraft in the world, the Antonov An-225 was built in Ukraine with a uniquely sized cargo deck to transport the Buran orbiter during the Soviet era. The An-225 measures 276 feet in length and 290 feet in wingspan, weighing in at 1.3 million pounds.
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Living in the Yantai Raffles Shipyard in China, the Taisun is the world's largest (and perhaps ugliest) crane. Though its looks aren't impressive, the Taisun holds the world record for holding the heaviest lift of all time at 20,133 tons. The Taisun stands 436 feet tall and can lift loads as high as 262 feet. Its main duty is installing enormous modules on top of vessels' hulls.
Photo: Haakman/Wikimedia Commons
Hyogo's Shake Table
To understand earthquakes, we can't just look at rocks. We have to create earthquakes of our own, and that's what a shake table is for. The device is comprised of a rectangular platform that sends simulated ground motions into a structural model – basically, a building – to test how it responds to earthquakes. The shake table demonstrated in the video above was built by the Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center in Japan. It measures 65 feet by 49 feet and can shake a structure weighing up to 1,322 tons.
Video: Simpsonmfg/YouTube
Microsoft Surface
Though it's not one of the biggest machines in the world, the Microsoft Surface will probably be the largest gadget you ever own, if Microsoft ever begins selling this "big ass table" to consumers. Most often found in hotels, restaurants and AT&T stores, the surface recognizes multi-touch gestures and even real world objects. The parody video above sums up the idea even better than Microsoft.
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Devon & Dorset Drive with Roast Carvery - Fri 5th Apr 2019
- Durée: 1 Jours
- Code produit: PF4KKE
Lovely day out to enjoy the beautiful scenery of West Dorset and East Devon before stopping at the excellent Hare & Hounds Pub near Sidmouth. This traditional country pub has wooden beams and log fires with lovely views down to Sidmouth and the sea. We have included a delicious carvery with an extensive choice of fresh vegetables, gravy and extras. Pudding is available on the day for an additional cost. Afterwards we shall head in to Sidmouth with time to stroll along the seafront and explore the shops.
Dropping off point - Hare & Hounds Pub
Estimated time of arrival - 11.45am approx. Depart 1.30pm. Arrive Sidmouth - 2.00pm
Departure time - 4.00pm approx. (TBC by driver on day)
Return to the local area – 6.00pm to 7.00pm approx.
Image courtesy - dorsetforyou.com
Image courtesy – Sidmouth Town Council


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September 26th, 2012
Britt Salvesen – Q&A
by Sabine Mirlesse
Pairing contemporary artists for exhibition can often be a challenging task. Whom a curator chooses for the duet maps out options of approach to a subject for an audience's perusal. By choosing more than one artist to exhibit, and not more than two, a spectrum is drawn rather than an inventory or index delivered, thus asking viewers to engage more actively in creating their own analysis of a subject.
Britt Salvesen, still new to her role as curator of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography and the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), kindly agreed to talk to me about her background as a curator and how it prepared her for her current position. We discussed her recent and provocative exhibition The Sun and Other Stars: Katy Grannan and Charlie White,now on view in Los Angeles.
Sabine Mirlesse: What initially drew you to working as a curator and with contemporary photography?
Britt Salvesen: My academic research was on nineteenth-century photography, and my first decade of museum work also focused largely on the nineteenth century. While working from 2004 to 2009 as a curator at the Center for Creative Photography, in Tucson, Arizona, I was more engaged with the materials and masters of twentieth-century photography. At LACMA, I am working with contemporary artists to a great extent. I admire how well-versed they are in the history of photography and how they manage to redefine the medium in practice. There are some fascinating through-lines from the invention of photography to the present day.
SM: What are some through-lines that you find especially relevant?
BS: If you consider the traditional genre of portraiture, it remains as relevant and powerful now as it was to the inventors of photography in 1839. You can start with Julia Margaret Cameron, trace her influence to Robert Mapplethorpe, and then arrive at Mona Kuhn. Or look at the experimental approach of Moholy-Nagy in relation to current abstract work by James Welling, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes, and others. Photographers make pictures that reflect their ideas about the world and about existing pictures.
SM: How did your current project, The Sun and Other Stars, initially come about?
BS: I had been aware of Charlie White's and Katy Grannan's work for several years, although I hadn't thought of them as sharing an approach to photography. With their recent bodies of work, which do engage with similar subject matter, I realized that the pairing could be provocative. I approached them individually and, since they were already acquainted with each other and admired each other's work, they both responded positively.
SM: In what way did you hope the pairing would be provocative? Do you feel it has been successful?
BS: Katy operates in the tradition of street photography––using a 4-by-5-inch camera, shooting film, encountering her subjects on the street, engaging them in conversation, and allowing them to perform for her. Charlie uses a professional casting-call agency to locate his subjects, brings them into a controlled studio setting, and imposes the uniformity of a grid background and frontal pose. Their moving-image works illustrate their differences even more dramatically: Katy's is comprised of footage she shot of her subjects in their homes, with raw audio of their monologues, street noise, and ambient radio; Charlie's is a slick, teen-themed cartoon drawn by commercial animators and voiced by professional actors. These two approaches––street and staged––are sometimes seen as completely incompatible. Here, they seem like two paths to a larger shared goal, which is to examine the consequences, physical and psychological, of aspiration and desire in contemporary Western society. I feel the pairing has been successful because viewers seem to arrive at this message without being one-hundred-percent sure which body of work got them there first.
SM: Name something you miss about working at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.
BS: I miss the incredible depth of the CCP's archival collection: curating from nearly complete bodies of work is a real luxury.
SM: Could you name a few questions or ideas that you've pursued as a curator that have taken the department in a different direction from that of your predecessor, Charlotte Cotton?
BS: Charlotte and I share some background, having first met in the context of London's Victoria and Albert Museum and its deeply historical collections. We've both become much more involved in contemporary art since then. While at LACMA, Charlotte created a series of programs and dialogues that galvanized the conversation about photography here in Los Angeles and brought a wide range of creative people back to the museum for the first time in years. I have tried to build on that by presenting exhibitions, large and small, and creating a context for further conversations based on objects as well as ideas.
For example, when an exhibition is on view we try to hold events in the galleries whenever we can. This might be an artist commenting on Robert Adams's vintage prints or a conservator showing us how William Eggleston's dye-transfer prints are made. Museums are in the business of acquiring objects, and increasingly we have to make the case that it's worth coming here to see the physical objects—even while we are also working to offer them as digital images on our web sites. We need to participate in the discussion about the difference between object and image.
SM: What are your plans for the future?
BS: With the Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute, I am working on a large-scale Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition. The Mapplethorpe archive, which we jointly acquired in 2008, will allow us to expand on the traditional monographic approach with a range of primary source material. Another monographic exhibition I am co-curating with Rita Gonzalez, from the contemporary art department, takes as its subject the Mexican cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa; our challenge here is how to represent the distinctive vision of an image-maker who collaborated with a wide range of directors, from Emilio "El Indio" Fernández to Luis Buñuel to John Huston. Finally, I've just proposed a survey of 3-D photography and film, from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. I want to examine its mass-culture manifestations, its aesthetic ambitions, and its technological frontiers.
SM: Which exhibitions of the last decade or two are at the top of your list in terms quality and inspiration?
BS: I'd start with two exhibitions focusing on particular periods of photo-based innovation: Matthew Witkovsky's Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945 (2007; I saw it at the Guggenheim) and Douglas Fogle's The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960–1982 (2003; I saw it at Hammer Museum). A monographic show that made me see a canonical artist in an entirely new way was Douglas Druick and James Rondeau's Jasper Johns: Gray (2007; Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art). Although it didn't have to do with photography, it made me rethink my assumptions about the aesthetics of black-and-white. Edward Hopper and Company: Hopper's Influence on Photography at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco (2009) drew associations between images that seemed both unprecedented and inevitable. Taking on a huge and urgent subject in an intelligent and brave manner, Sandy Phillips's Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera since 1870 (2010, SFMoMA) made a strong impression. Kevin Moore's Starburst: Color Photography in America, 1970–1980 (2010, Cincinnati Art Museum) approaches the recent past with rigor and gusto. I could go on and on. This is an amazing time for photography.
Sabine Mirlesse is a photographer, visual artist, and a recent graduate of the MFA Photography program at Parsons in New York. Mirlesse has contributed to the The Paris Review Daily, Bomblog, and Art in America online, among others, and is currently based in Paris.
Featured image: Charlie White, Portrait from Casting Call, 2010. Courtesy of LACMA


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|May 25th, 2008, 06:39 AM
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BRIKee, nice article and cool photo. Thank You for sharing.
, lots of history and memories at all rinks each and everyone is special an countless stories can be told about them..
|May 25th, 2008, 11:23 AM
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Old Riverdale
Thanks little Rick. Brings back such memories. I think I know each of those poles on a personal basis. lol. I also spent a lot of time working on that sign to keep it running. Your Grandfather and Great Grandfather were great people and loved the skaters.
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|May 26th, 2008, 07:26 PM
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I didnt even see South Carolina much less any city near me or mine
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|May 27th, 2008, 11:20 AM
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Thank you guys hears another one i don't know any thing about this rink but maybe some of you do.
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|May 27th, 2008, 01:26 PM
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|May 28th, 2008, 03:47 AM
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Have some pictures of that Place
Hi Brikkee,
Thanks so much..
In a book I have there are some pictures of that place in Rhode Island and it shows the many young wealthy (mostly fully covered) females and males lined up for a photo moment. The interesting thing to me was the quantity of rich young people that went to Session Skating as a thing to do that the POOR couldn't do.
Yours in Skating, MA/NY Skating Dave
|May 28th, 2008, 01:07 PM
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This had a happy ending, Harry rebuilt and lived long enough to see people having fun in his rink before he died. I skate there every Sunday.
|May 28th, 2008, 07:51 PM
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Rich and young
Can you let me know when the picture in the book that you have was taken? I skated at the old Riverdale in the late 50's thru the 60's and never remember the "rich" people skating. In the club, we were just kids that loved skating and worked our tails off in order to afford the lessons and sessions. This was on the third floor of an old mill building. Nothing fancy about this rink but the friendly owners and skaters.
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|May 28th, 2008, 08:49 PM
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1860's Not 1960s
Hi Sailor,
Read the clipping it was 1866 not 1960.
Yours in Skating, MA/NY Skating Dave
|May 29th, 2008, 03:06 AM
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|May 29th, 2008, 03:20 AM
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Riverdale, RI in the 1950-60s
Hey R.I.-Sailor,
How about a trip down 1950-1960 memory lane at Riverdale. A memory trip way before Brikkee was born to RGYoung. Talk about those poles you hit and talk about the skating and the people.
Memories ARE more than great articles.
Yours in Skating, MA/NY Skating Dave
|August 26th, 2008, 10:58 AM
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The Hub
I keep a historical website for the great Chicago area rinks that closed.
Visit here: www.orbitskate.net and click on The Hub
Last count, we had about 1600 roller rinks nationwide left.
|August 26th, 2008, 02:32 PM
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History, Rink in Michigan and my wandering thru them.
I started skating in the early 1950's at a little pillered rink up stairs from an Engineering firm in Royal Oak, Michigan. The rink is long gone, but it is where I found my first Pro Mr. Walsh, and my first love his daughter Carol, who went on to many National placements. Mr. Walsh moved me to what was the main roller rink in the Dteroit area at the time, The Arcadia, on Woodward Ave. near downtown Detroit. I skated there, trying to and playing at Juvenile Dance and Pairs with Carol Walsh, until around 1958. The Arcadia was an amazing place National Champions abounded. I learned to jump just following the several National contender senior men that skated there. The old Arcadia went to the wrecking ball some time in the 1960's I believe, I remember skating the last public session there somewhere around 1964 or 5??? ANd killing my self trying to see who could still land what jumps, and my Axel still wasn't there :-)
The rink I considered home for many years after that, was the Motor City Rink at Nine Mile and Van Dyke in Warren, Michigan. http://www.guarnieri.com/motorcity/shows.htm
It was at the Motor City rink that I ended taking lessons from Bill Pate, a man I know I frustrated badly, with my inability to land a decent single Axel, while jumping every other jump with ease, but the Axel just wasn't my jump??? The Motor City had a great floor, a bit small. I skated Dance, Figures, Pairs, and Fours while there along with Speed and Roller Hockey as a member of the Motor City Bulldog's. My prtner there was Pamala Lucas, we skated together until 1964. The Motorcity Rink lost it's battel with the wrecking ball in 1986. Some of the other Pro at Motor City were Rose Martin, Charlie Wahlig, and of course Bill and Gail Pate
The actual first indoor rink I ever skated at which later became a home for me was the Clawson Roller Rink, in Clawson, Michigan about 14 miles North of the City of Detroit. The rink was located on Fourteen Miles road, near Main Street. I frist ventured there in 1950 or 51?? The original owner was Johnny Stone, the last owner was Butch Gagnan(sic) The rink is now a furniture store :-( But it does still have the otiginal floor and a Skating wall of fame. I skated Freestyle, Dance and Pairs while I skated at Clawson, while there I took lessons from Bee Green who was the pro there at the time.
Another old now gone rink in the Detroit area was Mcky Dunn's Mt Clemens Roller rink, with is now a Dental office. Yes the rink was a bit small and narrow. After I became a retread skater in the late 1970's I skated at Mt Clnmens and took dance lessons for Micky's daugther Kathy Dunn.
My last home rink was Riverside Arean in Livonia Michigan (1979-1990) and as far as I know it's still going strong. When I was skating dance back in the sixties at Motor City with my Dnce partner Pamla Lucas, we used to go to Riverside to stretch out our dance patterns. And get laughed at for our Americal Style of dancing as Riverside was the "Other" Association, that skated that funny bent out of shape International style. We did manage to learn to skate the Tango Barn dance, with it's funny reverse direction sequences. And later as a retread Riverside became my home rink and I was a member of the Judges Panel there. And I finally cme to embrace the International stle of dance, the Harris Tango becoming one of my favorite dances, especilly when I got to dance it with Kahty Dunn, we had a blast until she decied to get married and top skating :-(
As you noted many rinks are just not arund any longer, and it has to be a sign of the times, less skater fewer rinks needed.. When I moved from Michigan in Jluy 2004 I found a rink out here, in New Hampshire, near by, Good Times Skating Center, in Merrimack, NH. Where I ran into my old friend Cynthia Gates, who was retired from Michigan and teaching there on occaision. The people that owned the rink were very into officiating at Nationals,I was getting interested in getting back into judging and refereeing, but the rink closed shortly after I started skating there. There were so few people skating the sessions that it didn't surprise me at all that the place closed . And it now a "For Sale" abandoned building :-(
Oh well so much for rambling history :-(
|August 31st, 2008, 10:05 PM
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More from Arizona
Additional rinks not on the list (from what I can remember):
Skate World Chandler (later Sports Spectrum, later Skateland Chandler) (open - artistic club)
Rollero Phoenix (open)
Skateland Mesa (open artistic club)
Rollerworld - Tempe (later Skateland Tempe, later Surfside Skate) (closed)
Great Skate Glendale (aka Skateland Glendale) (open artistic club)
North Baptist Church - Phoenix
Skate Town Prescott (later Roller Rave) (open)
Skate Ranch Prescott Valley
Roller Ranch Kingman (closed)
Roll-A-Rena - Kingman
Martys Roll-A-Round Coolidge (closed)
Roll-8 Casa Grande
Skate Stop - Casa Grande (closed)
Skate Country East Tucson (open artistic club)
The Bull Rink Bullhead City (closed)
Rollerland - Yuma (closed)
There was also a rink in Flagstaff (very very small) but I don't remember the name.
I was fortunate enough to skate at every single rink on this list including the ones in the quote.
My Roller homes were:
Skateworld (Phoenix) was my very first skating rink. 76-79, 86-92
Rollerland (Phoenix) 79-82
Greate Skate (Glendale) 82-84, 92-98
Rollercade (Phoenix) 85-86
Surfside Skate (Tempe) 98-05
Of the Arizona Rinks posted by brikke, none are in operation. Rollerland was the only one operating when I skated there in 79. I believe it closed around '82.
|September 3rd, 2008, 04:59 PM
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MA Area
Ok, closed or gone are: Wal-Lex, Rolland, Bal-a Rue, Surfwood, Whalom Park, Lincoln Park, Marshfield, Weymouth, Broyles Arena, New Riverdale, Canobie Lake
|September 9th, 2008, 02:28 AM
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My original home rink in North Huntingdon, PA. closed twice. It was three different names in it's life. I can't remember what it was first, but that was before my day. I think it was called Saddie's Place, but I'm not 100% sure on that. I do know that the rink was on the main floor and there was a restaurant upstairs.
When I started going it was called Norwin Skateland. The rink was on one side of the building and a gym on the other side. No restaurant though. I was up where it was a couple times and it looked like it was actually a pretty nice place. Little restaurant and bar with a small stage for live bands. I started goin skating there for school skating parties in elementary school. Then I started goin on Wednesday nights to the Organ Music session. I was a Boy Scout at the time goin for my Skating merit badge. My uncle was the merit badge counsler for it and that's when he went. He taught me a few dances there (Circle Waltz, Blues, Tango, etc.) and I really liked it. I actually got my first job there to get my first pair of good skates. The DJ (older guy playin cassettes of organ music songs he recorded) told me I needed better skates than my cheap vinyl Chicagos and there was a good pair of used good Chicago art skates at the rink for sale for $250. I couldn't afford it and my parents had been suggesting that I get a job, so the DJ and me talked to the rink owner about me working there and the owner taking $20 out of each paycheck to pay off the skates. So that's how I got my first job and my first pair of good skates. I worked there for many years until I got a different, better paying job. Also, just like many of us on here, I met my first girlfriend there. Didn't really work out in the long run, but still. The floor was never really good and the music on the weekend sessions went down hill toward the end, but it was still home.
Then while I was in high school, the rink got sold and closed down. There was alot of speculation that the new owner was going to tear it down. The new owner actually was an owner of two other rinks I had been to. He did alot of renovations and reopened it as Blazers. He completely redid the floor and it was nice. The snack bar was moved to the old lobby of the gym. That was very cool because where it was moved to was at the end of the rink floor and one floor up, so you could sit at the tables in the snack bar and look out over the rink. That was very nice. The music was pretty good. Good skating songs with a little Metallica and AC/DC type stuff mixed in. It stayed goin for a few years. Then the crowds dwindled, the metal took over the good skating music, and the floor went to crap.
The rink closed quite a few years ago now and the owner turned it into a restaurant/bar kinda place called Pluma. I think it's kinda like Dave and Busters with food and video games and stuff. I dunno for sure. Never been in there. I'm too worried that if I go in there and see the rink floor with tables and stuff on it I might cry lol. I actually did cry when Skateland closed. Started tearin up as I was the last person stepping off the floor. That place was my second home from like 6th grade through high school. I made alot of friends there and developed my love of skating there. It was never the nicest or biggest rink or the best floor. lol I actually have very fond memories of jumping the buckets placed in the middle of the floor to catch the water dripping in through the holes in the roof, putting towels in front of the side door to keep the water from coming in onto the floor, dodging the washboarded sections in the floor. You know, all the stuff we complain about lol. But like I said, it may not have been pretty, but it was home
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|September 9th, 2008, 03:53 AM
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Former Rinks
One was Melody Skateland on the west side of Indianapolis. It had one of the nicest wood floors that I have ever skated. I set a couple of speed records there back in the days when they kept state records. It was a shame when it burned to the ground.
Another place I remember was a tiny rink in Maxwell Indiana. I don't remember the name of the place, but they had a concrete floor. I only went there a couple of times, and since I moved out of Indiana 15 years ago, I don't know if it is even still there.
A rink where I spent lots of time was called Skateway. It was on Pendleton Pike between Lawrence and Oaklandon, IN. The track in the place was something like 67 meters, making it only a little bigger than a derby track. When my son was 5, they offered 6 weeks of free speed lessons. We took the lessons together and were hooked. The people that owned Skateway also owned Roller Cave and that's where the speed team was based, so the Cave became our skating home. However, all the middle school age kids in Lawrence, Oaklandon, and McCordsville hung out at Skateway. There were times when I dropped off my kid there to skate, then drove over to the Cave to hang out with my friends from the team. Those were great times. The couple that owned the two rinks got a divorce - he got the Cave and she got Skateway. A couple years later she died, and Skateway was sold to some people who changed the name to Skatemor. They had it for a few years, then sold it and the building was converted to an auto repair place.
The last place I recall I only skated a couple of times. It was called Skatedium and was in St. Paul, MN. It had a great wood floor. The building is still there. I don't know if the floor is still in it or not. I think it is a warehouse or something. Anyway, there are no rinks in St. Paul proper. I wish there was one so we could have a speed team.
|September 9th, 2008, 06:53 PM
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Central Florida Rinks
We had a few rinks in our area when I was growing up. The main one I went to was Starlite Skate Center in Merritt Island which was just a mile away from my house...basically grew up in that place. I remember getting there on Saturday mornings and staying until 11:30 at night almost every week. The guy who ran the place would let us rink rats stay in the rink and skate in between sessions if we would help put up rentals, sweep floors, etc. Starlite became a place called Colorz in the mid 90's I believe and then closed a few years ago...breaks my heart everytime I drive by the boarded up building.
We also had a rink in Melbourne called Galaxy that I believe is still open and of course both Semoran and Universal in Orlando which is where I go now!
|September 18th, 2008, 04:20 PM
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Past Rinks In The Mid West
Here's a few of the Rinks I've skated in, that have closed over the past 5 decades.
The Rollaway Rink,
The Highland Crest Rink,
The Skyline Rink,
The Apollo Rink, All these 4 in Topeka, Ks.
Two Rinks in Manhatan, Ks.
The Alma Skating Rink - Alma, Ks.
In Lawrence, Ks. two Rinks gone
In Paola, Ks. - one Rink gone
In Iron River, Michican - one Rink burned down - a friend built it out of an old theater there.
In Pittsburg, Ks. - two Rinks gone, the older one had the walls fold out for ventilation in the summers.
In the Kansas City Metro Area:
The Mission Roller Rink - Mission, Ks.
The El Torian, KCMO
A very old Rink in downtown KCK
Rhythm Lane Roller Rink, KCMO
Skatland East on Bannister Rd, KCMO
Skateland of Grandview, Mo. - the newer Rink
Grandview Skating Rink, An older Rink in Grandview, Mo.
Lenexa Roller Skateland at I35 and 87th, Lenexa, Ks.
Two Rinks at Highland Skate Center - Two different buildings across the street from each other, over the years - KCK
B & D Rolladium East - Independence, Mo.
B & G Rolladium North - Independence, Mo.
Coachlite South, I-435 & Reo Ave. in Overland Park, Ks. I Met my wife of 23 yrs. at this one.
Blue Ridge Roller Rink, Independence, Mo.
Three Rinks here in Olathe, Ks - where I live.
A Skating Rink in an old strip mall store in St. Joe, Mo.
A two floored Rink in Albuquerque, New Mexico, down the street from the University.
At least three Rinks in Las Vegas, Navada
At least three Rinks in Phoneix, Airizona
At least three Rinks in Austin, Tx.
After all these years, I can't remember the names of many of the Rinks I've been in, but this group still comes to mind. I sure there are many other's now closed too, but I've not revisited all the areas I've been to, and tried to skate again, to find out.
297's on Centurys, 220's on Snyder Advantage, BackSpin 95's, Bones 97's, 98's, 101A's, Skating 65+yrs & still Rollin at 73+. Great Lifetime Hobby to have !
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Does anyone remember the old roller rink in Olympia, Washington? It was called the Patterson Lake roller rink, and it was owned by the Suess family. I lived not too far from that rink, and it was my home away from home.
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Moravian Glass Star Pendant Light Fixture, Frosted Glass, Bronze Frame, 21"
This is a Moravian Star Light with frosted glass and bronze-colored frame. Diameter from tip to tip is approximately 20"-21".
Not only can you use this star lamp as a Star Light Pendant but also just as a decorative table lamp. This glass star has 18 points and can safely stand on any three points. Very nice quality lamp delivered by mexican crafts people. Mexico is well known for the beautiful art work.
Standard Features for this Frosted Glass Star:
• All UL-Approved parts
• Heavy duty ceramic socket
• Light bulb included (see our bulb guide)
• Hinged bulb access door
• Metal hanging loop
• 3' Chain
• 8' power cord with plug
Please Note: The standard wiring allows you to use this star lamp as swag plug-in chandelier or use it as table lamp. If you would like to hard wire and mount it directly to your ceiling box, we recommend "Wiring Option: Hard Wire & Canopy Kit (includes 3 ft chain and grounding wire)".


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Accreditation History
SJSU was first accredited in 1949. Since that time, reviews for re-accreditation have occured at least once every 10 years. The most recent review period began when the campus submitted its institutional proposal in 2002.
The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) accredits institutions, not individual programs. Therefore, in addition to assessing the academic quality and educational effectiveness of institutions, the Commission emphasizes institutional structures, processes, and resources. Following acceptance of an institutional proposal framing the review, SJSU prepares for two separate visits from WASC. The first is referred to as the Preparatory Review and the second is the Educational Effectiveness Review.
Historical Overview
San José State is a major, comprehensive public university located in the center of San José and in the heart of Silicon Valley. SJSU is the oldest state university in California. Its distinctive character has been forged by its long history, by its location, and by its vision, a blend of the old and the new, of the traditional and the innovative. Among its most prized traditions is an uncompromising commitment to offer access to higher education to all persons who meet the criteria for admission, yielding a stimulating mix of age groups, cultures, and economic backgrounds for teaching, learning, and research. SJSU takes pride in and is firmly committed to teaching and learning, with a faculty that is active in scholarship, research, technological innovation, community service, and the arts.
- 1857: San José State is founded as a Normal School and becomes the first institution of public higher education in the state.
- 1935: Renamed San José State College.
- 1949: SJSU accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC)
- 1960: The individual California State Colleges were brought together as a system by the Donahoe Higher Education Act of 1960.
- 1972: The system becomes California State University and Colleges.
- 1982: The system becomes the California State University (CSU).
Today the 23 campuses of the CSU system include comprehensive and polytechnic universities, and, since July 1995, the California Maritime Academy, a specialized campus. The SJSU campus alone is composed of 30,000 students and over 2,000 faculty and staff. The information SJSU prepares for its reaccreditation review provides an excellent data view of SJSU.
To nurture the continued development of strong academic programs and services to support student development and success the campus is fully engaged in a strategic planning process intended to help San José State University prepare for the future. It helps us serve our mission, reach our vision and guide resource allocation.
The campus is located in downtown San José, the site of the oldest civil settlement (established in 1777) in California. The city of San José is the 11th largest city in the United States and the third largest in California with a population of 926,200. Known as the "Capital of Silicon Valley," San José was called the "epicenter of information technology" by Fortune magazine.
The education level of the San José metropolitan area workforce is one of the highest in the country; 67 percent of the workforce has some post-secondary education, and 48 percent have earned a college degree. The city also has the lowest crime rate of any major city (those with populations of 500,000 or more) in the United States.
Core Principles and Standards
The accrediation process has changed considerably since SJSU's previous review. To its credit, WASC, following an extensive period of reflection and discussion with the many institutions it accredits, has developed a focused review process. This new approach provides institutions with the flexibility needed to make the review one that facilitates the growth and development of the institution along its own unique path.
WASC reviews institutions with respect to their committment to core principles called Institutional Capacity and Educational Effectiveness. To become and remain accredited,each institution is expected to demonstrate that it is committed to developing and sustaining Institutional Capacity and Educational Effectiveness. With respect to Institutional Capacity, WASC expects an institution to function with clear purposes,high levels of institutional integrity,fiscal stability, and organizational structures to fulfill its purposes. With respect to Educational Effectiveness, WASC looks for evidence of clear and appropriate educational objectives and design at the institutional and program level. WASC also expects institutions to employ processes of review, including the collection and use of data, that assure delivery of programs and learner accomplishments at a level of performance appropriate for the degree or certificate awarded.
At each review (preparatory/capacity & educational effectiveness) institutions need to present information that conveys to WASC the extent to which they have met each of four standards [pdf] articulated by WASC.
- Standard 1. Defining Institutional Purposes and Ensuring Educational Objectives.
- Standard 2. Achieving Educational Objectives Through Core Functions
- Standard 3. Developing and Applying Resources and Organizational Structures to Ensure Sustainability.
- Standard 4. Creating an Organization Committed to Learning and Improvement.


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getting the License issue while hits the virtual service in the Parasoft
Hi Team,
I am getting the below error message while hits the service using Parasoft Virtual tool for the service (http://soaptest.parasoft.com/calculator-02.wsdl) and mock service as http://localhost:9080/glue/calculator .
The number of licensed hits per day has been reached. Use a license with a higher limit, or wait until tomorrow when the per day limit has been reset to process additional requests.
Kindly take a look and help me on this.
[Deleted User] Posts: 0 ✭
Hi Swapna, the free Community Edition Virtualize does have a limit on hits per day. If you reach that limit you will have to wait until the next day, or buy a license with higher limit.0
Hi Team,
how do we know the parasoft Virtualize Licence is it installed in my machine?
Please help me on this.
Bogdan Czwartkowski Posts: 122 admin
Hi Swapna,
Do you use Parasoft Virtualize Community Edition? As @hzzz stated, Community Edition has a hit limit per day.
Otherwise, the current license settings of your Parasoft Virtualize instance can be checked in Virtualize GUI, under Parasoft menu> Preferences...> License section. If you have multiple Parasoft products installed, open the tab for Parasoft Virtualize:
You may want to check with your IT team about: the licenses your organization has, hit limits for these licenses, and about Parasoft License Server hostname, if used by your organization.
More details about Parasoft Virtualize licensing and how to configure the license can be found here:
In particular:
- If you are using local / machine-locked licenses, you may want to check "Using a Machine-Locked License" section on the page above.
- If you are using Parasoft License Server, go to "Using a DTP License" section.
Hi @Bogdan Czwartkowski ,
Thanks for your valuable explanation and followed the steps which you had specified and I am able to find the license details in my machine.
Thanks a lot.
Hi @Bogdan Czwartkowski ,
I have deployed calculator wsdl in PARASOFT Virtualize successfully,But i am getting the below error message while calling the deployed endpoint?
Wsdl :http://soaptest.parasoft.com/calculator-02.wsdl
error message:
Could not find a valid Message Responder to respond to this request.
Be sure you have a Message Responder with correlation criteria that match this message.
1 virtual asset attempted to process this request:
Correlation type: Transport
[criteria=SOAPAction, expected=add, actual=[NOT_FOUND], results=false]
Correlation type: Transport
[criteria=SOAPAction, expected=divide, actual=[NOT_FOUND], results=false]
Correlation type: Transport
Disabled : true
Correlation type: Request Body
Empty Payload : false
Correlation type: Transport
[criteria=SOAPAction, expected=multiply, actual=[NOT_FOUND], results=false]
Correlation type: Transport
[criteria=SOAPAction, expected=subtract, actual=[NOT_FOUND], results=false]
Correlation type: Transport
[criteria=SOAPAction, expected=subtract2, actual=[NOT_FOUND], results=false]
Request :
Can you Please help me on this
Thomas Moore Posts: 77 admin
Hi Swapna,
Without being able to see what's going on, it sounds like you're sending in a blank and/or a GET request into the virtual asset. By default, the calculator wsdl that you used requires a specific SOAP request to send a valid response.
If you have SOAtest or some other API testing solution, I would recommend trying to creating a test from the same wsdl and changing the endpoint so that it points at the virtual asset instead, or creating a custom virtual asset that has a fixed response.
Hope this helps!0
benken_parasoft Posts: 901 ✭✭✭
That last question is a duplicate of this one which was already answered: could-not-find-a-valid-message-responder-to-respond-to-this-request0
sangi Posts: 1 ✭
Hi Team,
I did read the above messages and confirmed that Im using the "Developer Sandbox edition which shows 25000 hits/day, however when try to hit the virtual service, I'm seeing the same error pertaining to licensing , stating "The number of licensed hits per day has been reached. Use a license with a higher limit, or wait until tomorrow when the per day limit has been reset to process additional requests.", kindly assist on how to get this resolved.0
williammccusker Posts: 426 ✭✭
Just to clarify the Developer Sandbox license has is 1000 hits/day not 25,0000


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This is with reference to the discussion on http://community.cedrus.com/showthread.php?t=1299
I hope to clarify what is happening when you send the command 'mh' from math lab using ADInstrument Powerlab as a recording mechanism.
have a look at the link http://cedrus.com/support/stimtracker/tn1464_powerlab.htm
It shows you that bit 6-8 is the event marker 0-2 which gives you a value of 1-7(3 bits) trigger to play with. Keep in mind the location of the bit (6-8) which has a byte value of 32 onwards.
Going back to the command 'mh' which is standard on Stim Tracker you can send the command like "mh" + byte value which will correspond to which ever bit is on.
Example: sending the command ('mh',1) will set bit 6 on in the AD instrument giving the value 32 (byte) in the lab chart software.
Example: sending( 'mh',7) will set all the three bits on (6-8) which will give a digital byte value of 224 in the lab chart.
Note: take note that this values are only the bit 6-8 any bit on from 1-5 will affect the digital byte on the Labchart event.
it took us a while to figure out what's happening and just wanted to share out results because I also get some information in lots of forum. I am sure it will be the same principle in most computer languages.
Any question and clarification you can reply or not sure if you can access our email address here.


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This is a fan club for Sakura Haruno.
Message me, comment on this or write in my guestbook if you'd like to be a guest poster.
Here's some information on Sakura Haruno ~
At the start of the series, Sakura had a deep infatuation for Sasuke Uchiha, rooted primarily in his good looks, cunning, cool attitude, and prodigious talents. For that reason, many of Sakura's early appearances are dedicated to her continuing efforts to win his affection. As the story progresses, she begins to recognize that Sasuke is a real person with imperfections, and develops a more sincere desire to be there for him. Sakura also becomes concerned that Sasuke will someday abandon her and the rest of Konoha in his quest for power. When her fears come true at the end of Part I, Sakura does all that she can to stop Sasuke from leaving, such as professing her love for him and offering to join him. Though touched by her words, they do not stop Sasuke from leaving from Konoha.
Since then, Sakura has made her personal goal to bring Sasuke home, which becomes a recurring component of her role in Part II. Although she still worries about his well-being, Sakura is willing to attack him if it means returning him to Konoha. As time goes on and Sasuke becomes an increasingly more dangerous criminal, Sakura recognizes that Sasuke must be stopped at all costs. She also tells Naruto that she no longer has any feelings for Sasuke since he just keeps breaking her heart. However, Sai and Kakashi suspect that she is still in love with Sasuke, and that she wants to stop him only so that he does not sink any lower. Upon meeting Sasuke once again, Sakura becomes upset by how corrupted Sasuke has become and tries to kill him. She ultimately can not bring herself to do so, remembering all they went through together as members of Team 7. She has since come to accept that Naruto is the only one who can do anything about Sasuke.
Sakura's relationship with Naruto Uzumaki, like with Sasuke, also changes throughout the series. When first teamed up together, Sakura viewed Naruto as a talentless idiot who deliberately tried to ruin her life, the result of Naruto's efforts to win her heart interfering with her similar efforts with Sasuke. However, as the story progresses and Naruto continuously shows his worth as a ninja as well as his dedication to his team-mates, Sakura realizes that her initial perceptions of him were wrong. After Sasuke defects from Konoha, Sakura pleads to Naruto, believing him to be the only one capable of bringing Sasuke back. Although Naruto fails and is left in the hospital afterwards, he vows to someday complete the task she has given him. Realizing the lengths Naruto will go to for her, and inspired by his determination, Sakura spends the next three years training with Tsunade so that in the future she can join Naruto in his quest to bring Sasuke back.
In Part II, Sakura learns of the various hardships Naruto faces: the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Akatsuki. Saddened by the impact both forces have had on his life, Sakura becomes protective of Naruto and tries to do whatever she can to help him overcome these obstacles. Sakura develops a deep friendship with Naruto, due to their spending a lot of time together. After Sai tells her about Naruto's love for her and the pain that trying to fulfill his promise causes, Sakura is filled with guilt. Soon afterwards she tells Naruto that she loves him and tries to get him to give up on his promise, but he does not believe her and tells her she is lying to herself. Sai seems to confirm this, telling Naruto that Sakura's confession was an attempt to release him from his promise, and possibly distract him while she hunts down Sasuke. Despite this, Yamato has suggested that Sakura's feelings for Naruto are more than mere friendship.
Unlike the rest of Team 7, Sakura is the only one of the four members who has not suffered any heavy losses. Therefore, things that her team-mates desire, such as family and friends, Sakura took for granted. Also, Sakura is quite outspoken, as when she doesn't understand something or if it bothers her, she tends to practically yell out in questioning or complaining to someone. However, all of this seemed to change by Part II, as she becomes more knowledgeable towards Naruto and Sasuke's sufferings, and tries to ease them. As her personality matures, she also shouts less, but still questions unknown situations plenty.
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IGNACIO Whenever the St. Michaels High School wrestling team visits the Sun Ute Community Center, the Horsemen collect hardware lots of hardware.
For the second time in three years, St. Michaels dominated the annual Butch Melton Invitational in Ignacio on Saturday, going home to Santa Fe with the first-place team trophy as well as five individual gold medals.
Two years ago, when St. Mikes came up here, they won it, Ignacio head coach and tournament host Bob Overturf said.
When they come up here, they wrestle. And we love to have them, Overturf said after watching the New Mexico powerhouse post a staggering 260.5 points to win Saturdays 11-team tournament.
Dove Creek, with four individual champions, finished second with 189.5 points. Bayfield, on the strength of six second-place medals, finished third with 167.5 points. Montezuma-Cortez was fourth with 144.5 points behind individual champions Ryan Daves (138) and Trenton Gustafson (182).
Daves, undefeated this season at 28-0, was selected the tournaments outstanding wrestler in the lower weight divisions in voting by the coaches.
Im just trying to stay on the top side, Daves said after winning three of his four matches Saturday by pin.
Daves pinned Drake Rhodes of Bayfield in the second period of their 138-pound championship match.
Earlier, he pinned Ike Peña of Ignacio in the semifinals.
I just work as hard as I can in practice, said Daves, who finished third in the Colorado Class 4A State Wrestling Championships last year.
Korey Windham of St. Michaels, who won the 160-pound bracket and was voted the top wrestler in the upper divisions, said a tough practice regimen also helps the Horsemen.
We work hard as a team. Our coaches expect a lot out of us, Windham said after his 5-2 decision over Seager Oliver of Cortez in the title bout.
Its good to see a different look ... different wrestlers, said Windham, who has lost only once this season. Hes ranked No. 1 in New Mexico at 160 pounds.
I just came in with an open mind and tried to wrestle my game, he said.
St. Michaels also won titles at 106 (Clayton Montoya), 113 (Geno Palermo), 170 (Luke Sanchez) and heavyweight (Andes Blea).
Dove Creek played the family card in winning four titles Saturday: Dalton Randolph was the champion at 152 pounds; Chance Randolph won the 120-pound title.
Cole Baughman won at 132; Case Baughman was third at 113. Nick Jones of Dove Creek won at 126, and Wyatt Applin added a second-place medal for the Bulldogs.
It was nice getting six into the finals, but it was a tough final round, Bayfield head coach Todd McMenimen said. He was pleased with the Wolverines as they wrestled their way into the championship matches.
I felt we approached the final a little bit intimidated, McMenimen said after the Wolverines went 0-6 in finals.
Bayfields first opportunity at a gold medal came at 132 pounds. Allec Rodriguez, who had scored a 13-2 major decision over Joseph Jaffa Martinez of St. Michaels in the semifinals, lost to the lanky Cole Baughman of Dove Creek in the championship. Baughman, leading 5-0, pinned Rodriguez early in the second period.
Drake Rhodes of the Wolverines powered into the 138-pound final with a dramatic 7-6 decision over Jose Ocamp of St. Michaels in the semifinals.
Rhodes, who led early against Ocamp, fell behind 6-5 with 40 seconds left in the match. Rhodes reversal with 7 seconds to go gave him the one-point win and a berth in the championship. But Cortezs Daves relegated Rhodes to a silver medal in the 138-pound championship.
Joe Zink of the Wolverines finished second at 145, falling to Wyatt Wade of Dolores by second-period pin.
Bayfields Michael Goodman was the runner-up at 182 pounds. He was pinned by Gustafson of Cortez in 52 seconds.
At 220, Matt Cerdes of BHS was pinned in the third period by champion Orrin Kennedy of Bloomfield.
And at heavyweight, Matt Eckstein of Bayfield was pinned by Blea from St. Michaels late in the first period.
We cant wrestle intimidated, McMenimen said. I guarantee you youll lose your match if you go out there intimidated.
McMenimen said the Wolverines were solid in Saturdays early rounds.
If were going to go out and win matches at state, not just qualify for state, weve got to win these matches, the BHS head coach said.
Weve got to be able to beat the good ones, said McMenimen, who also scored a third-place finish with son Colter McMenimen at 126 pounds.
Getting six into the finals was fantastic. Now, weve got to make that progression, he said.
Durango sent a small squad to Ignacio for Saturdays tournament, led by 113-pounder Matthew Lavengood.
Lavengood rolled through two pins in the early rounds before taking on St. Michaels Palermo in the title bout the only overtime match in the finals.
Hunter Hall of Durango added a fourth-place finish at 120.
Host Ignacio was led by a trio of fourth-place finishers Kyle Bailey (126), Peña (138) and Blaine Mickey (170).