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Bienvenue! Welcome to our expat community here in Grenoble! InterNations is a network for expats around the globe to connect with other global minds, both online and in person, and share tips and advice on living and working abroad. If you're thinking of moving to Grenoble, or if you're already there, you're likely to have a lot of questions. Our members are always happy to meet and help newcomers, and our collective expertise can help you settle any doubts you might have. Whether you're wondering, "how cold does it get in Grenoble in winter?" or "what is the cost of living in Grenoble compared to Paris?", our members can give you the best possible advice.
Attend our monthly events and activities for Grenoble expatriates to get to know like-minded expatriates in real life.
Get trustworthy advice and local insights from fellow members in our Grenoble expat forums.
Grenoble's proximity to the Alps means it is well known to lovers of skiing, but the city has plenty more to offer. Not only does it have a wealth of museums and galleries, but a huge student population assures a lively atmosphere. The city also retains the classic attractions of France, such as great cuisine and excellent public services and transportation. Grenoble is also a highly important economic center in France, particularly for scientific research and other high-tech industries. Combined with the obvious attractions and students, this attracts a huge variety of expats from all around the world, so you can be assured you won't be alone!
InterNations is a community for a broad and diverse range of expats, but all of our members also go through a careful approval process, meaning you can be sure of getting the best possible service when you use our website. Once you've interacted with our members and had your questions answered, you can take your interaction with the community offline, as we also organize a wide range of groups and events for various activities. Whether it's fine dining or salsa dancing that interests you, we have a group for it. Our larger community events are also fantastic opportunities for networking, whether it's for business or personal reasons, and are not to be missed!


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Good hydration is so important to a good quality of life, but we know it's easy for older people to slip through the net and not get enough to drink. In this blog, Dr Lisa Wilson, a registered Public Health Nutritionist based in the UK and specialising in nutrition in older people, talks about a new course she and other experts have designed to help healthcare professionals advance their understanding of hydration in older people.
The European Hydration Institute has developed the first online hydration course of its kind for managers and senior staff working with older people in care homes.
Launched in Nutrition and Hydration week 2016, the course is designed to help professionals working in care home settings increase their understanding of hydration, including the issues which prevent older people being well hydrated.
A quarter of care home residents are dehydrated when admitted to hospital. Simple changes to practice have been found to improve hydration and quality of life for residents. These include support with drinking, understanding preferences, providing specialist equipment or just recognising the need to provide drinks on a regular basis as a part of good care and support for residents.
The 'Care Homes' module is aimed particularly at managers and senior staff who are in a position to train others or develop policy. This module looks at the causes and consequences of dehydration in older people and supports staff to develop a whole home approach to good hydration practice. It provides the tools needed to address hydration issues, which can be replicated as a part of developing a hydration policy. One focus of the module is in emphasising the importance of well-established hydration policies and practice within a home and covers how to set these up and involve other staff and residents. Lastly, it gives some examples of good practice and sources of further information and support.
The module is free to access and takes approximately one and half hours to complete. It is part of a range of modules developed for health and social care professionals developed by the European Hydration Institute in partnership with experts in the field including Dr Alistair Connell and Professors Monty Mythen and Hugh Montgomery (University College London), Professor Ron Maughan (Loughborough University), and Dr Lisa Wilson (Registered Public Health Nutritionist).
There are also modules available on water and hydration, hydration and physical activity and hydration and peri-operative care. The 'Water and Hydration' module provides a more in-depth look at the need for good hydration in good health. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of relevant basic physiology and how this relates to the assessment of hydration in clinical practice. This module contains a mixture of problem-orientated, case-based and reflective learning, and forms the basis from which other modules stem.
All modules can be accessed at the European Hydration Institute's dedicated site.
To read other Malnutrition Task Force blogs, click here.

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Ever wonder what the find people of Ohio call their local Yeti? Me either! But apparently it's the Grassman. Want more info? Didn't think so! But the film "The Legend of Grassman" plans to blow your mind with a tale of terror and wonder in the Buckeye state. I have no idea what a buckeye is either.
The film follows a group of bigfoot hunters as they try to track down the Grassman. They eventually find and trap him and all ends well. Alright I lied everything goes to crap and people end up losing their limbs. It's a good time had by all.
No release date is set for "The Legend of Grassman" but it's expected sometime in 2010. Check out the trailer below and prepare to be blown! Away, I mean blown away.


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Drink Water Presents the Rat Race
DRINK WATER presents the first annual RAT RACE. A snowboard race going down on July 8th, 2012 at Mt. Hood, OR, hosted by HCSC. 100 of the world's fastest men and women have been invited to battle it out for glory. It is a timed event through Hell Track; the fastest person to make it out alive wins.
Thanks to our sponsors NIKE, DAKINE, SMITH OPTICS, NITRO SNOWBOARDS, ARNETTE, POLER STUFF, HIGH CASCADE SNOWBOARD CAMP, and TIMBERLINE.
With the RAT RACE that we live in, it is easy to take things for granted, like the fact that we have amazing drinking water coming out of our faucets. So, we drink water. And we'd like to help another community drink water too. 100% of the proceeds go to drill a well to provide clean drinking water to a community in need, via Water.org.
DRINK WATER is a brand/initiative to encourage human beings to drink water. Founded by pro snowboarders Bryan Fox and Austin Smith, the DRINK WATER roster is stacked with water drinkers: Louif Paradis, Jake Kuzyk, Keegan Valaika, Scott E. Wittlake, Lucas Debari, Josh Dirksen, Curtis Ciszek, Scott Blum, Blair Habenicht, and Jake Olson-Elm. Join us at www.wedrinkwater.com. We don't sell water, we just drink it.


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Vote: Is Jackie Evancho changing her sound?
In the non-surprise of the summer, Jackie Evancho made it through to the top 10 on NBC's "America's Got Talent" Wednesday night. Earlier this week when Evancho inspired us to look at how common it is for children to emulate their heroes when they are first starting out, several opera singer friends suggested that the 10-year-old must listen to a lot of Sarah Brightman.
"America's Got Talent" only allows its cast to speak to reporters from their hometown while the program is still airing, so we can't ask Jackie herself. So we did some more YouTube diving.
An old interview from a Pittsburgh-area news broadcast said that Evancho likes Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli, but what is even more interesting is comparing performances. The song Evancho sang on Tuesday was "Time to Say Goodbye," a Bocelli and Brightman signature.
From the first few seconds of Brightman's performance, the mystery of Evancho's strangely mobile hands is solved. It's a classic Brightman tic.
What's not at all like Brightman, bizarrely, is the voice. In Tuesday's performance, Evancho's voice was even darker and more adult-sounding than it was three weeks ago. "America's Got Talent" vocal coach Yvie Burnett assured me that the performers work with the talent they have and don't try to change it, but the difference between Evancho's two "America's Got Talent" rounds is not something that would happen without coaching. It may not be the show that is encouraging Evancho sing like this, but someone is.
You can compare for yourself with these videos, but to my ears, when you factor out physical maturity, Brightman's voice is much lighter and sounds more like Evancho a year ago.
Which voice do you prefer -- Jackie's original or the new, more grown-up sound?
-- Marcia Adair
Jackie Evancho's voice strikes a chord
Before Jackie Evancho: Remembering Julie Andrews, Beverly Sills and other young vocal prodigies
Hear Jackie Evancho, the 10-year-old with an operatic voice


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About demographic targeting
With demographic targeting in Google Ads, you can reach a specific set of potential customers who are likely to be within a particular age range, gender, parental status, or household income. For instance, if you run a fitness studio exclusively for women, demographic targeting could help you avoid showing your ads to men.
Before you begin
Keep in mind that demographic targeting is an option to narrow your targeting. In other words, it helps prevent people outside of your chosen demographics from seeing your ads.
Demographic targeting options
Note that Detailed Demographics such as homeownership and education are available as audiences. Learn more About audience targeting.
The new Google Ads experience is now the exclusive way for most users to manage their accounts. Note, automatic targeting is only available in the new Google Ads experience.
Demographic targeting for Search, Display or Video campaigns can include:
- Age: "18-24," "25-34," "35-44," "45-54," "55-64," "65 or more," and "Unknown"
- Gender: "Female," "Male," and "Unknown"
Demographic targeting for Display or Video campaigns can include:
- Parental status: "Parent," "Not a parent," and "Unknown"
Demographic targeting for Video campaigns can include:
- Household income (currently only available in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand and the U.S.): "Top 10%," "11-20%," "21-30%," "31-40%," "41-50%," "Lower 50%," and "Unknown"
Parents can create a Google Account for their children under 13 using the Family Link app. Ads may be displayed to these users. Advertisers can't target ads to show only to children under 13. Learn more about how ads work for these Google Accounts and how to exclude your ads from showing to these users.
"Unknown" category
Google Ads can't know or infer the demographics of all people. "Unknown" refers to people whose age, gender, parental status, or household income we haven't identified.
In addition, some websites on the Display Network opt out of demographic targeting, so if you want to show your ads on those sites, leave the "Unknown" category selected. When you target by a type of demographic, the "Unknown" demographic category is selected by default because you can reach a significantly wider audience.
Exclude the "Unknown" demographic category only if you're sure you want to restrict your campaign to a narrow audience. Excluding "Unknown" might prevent a substantial number of people from seeing your ads, some of whom you might want to reach.
How Google determines demographic information
When people are signed in from their Google Account, we may use demographics derived from their settings or activity on Google properties, depending on their account status. Consumers can edit their demographic information by visiting Ads Settings. In addition, some sites might provide us with demographic information that people share on certain websites, such as social networking sites.
For people who aren't signed in to their Google Account, we sometimes estimate their demographic information based on their activity from Google properties or the Display Network. For example, when people browse YouTube or sites on the Display Network, Google may store an identifier in their web browser, using a "cookie." That browser may be associated with certain demographic categories, based on sites that were visited.
Sarah's favorite hobby is gardening. Many of the gardening sites and blogs on the Display Network that she visits have a majority of female readers. Based on this, Sarah's browser (when she's not signed in from her Google account) could be added to the "female" demographic category. As a result, Google may show Sarah ads from advertisers who have chosen to show their ads to women.
When Sarah's signed in from her Google account, Google may show her ads based on selections she made in her Ads Settings, including her demographic information.
Mobile app demographics: This targeting feature uses an advertising identifier linked to a customer's mobile device to remember which apps the person has used. We might associate the identifier with a demographic category based on web browsing and app activities on a mobile device.
Keep in mind that we aren't able to gather or estimate demographic information from everyone using the web or mobile apps, so if you narrow your targeting with multiple specific demographic groups, your ads may reach a more limited audience.
Refine your strategy
- Targeting. Demographic targeting can be combined with other targeting strategies.
- Exclusions. You can also exclude demographic categories so you don't show your ads to certain demographics.
- Customize your bids. While still showing your ads everyone, you can place higher (or lower) bids for a certain demographic group.
Examples of effective demographic targeting
Age. Marc is advertising for a financial institution, and he wants to market different products to seniors versus college students. He uses demographics to show different ads to each group of customers and adjusts his bids for demographic groups that may be more likely to spend more. Marc finds that middle-aged customers tend to have the largest initial deposits, and increases his bid for people ages 35 to 54.
Household income. In a video campaign, Marc can show ads to customers in a certain household income range. Marc sets his targeting to reach people in the top 30% of U.S. household incomes, by selecting the "Top 10%," "11-20%," and "21-30%" options for household income.
Age and gender. Alberta runs a website whose audience is working mothers. On the Search Network, her demographic targeting is the "25–54" age range and "Female" gender. On her Display campaigns, she specifies "Parent" parental status as targeting criteria. A savvy advertiser, Alberta also adds a targeting method of "in-market audience" for baby & children's products.


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Monday, October 22, 2007
On The Street……Most Chic, Paris
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I totally covet those shoes and I'm seeing various renditions of that silhouette all over France right now (in the shops). I'm really hoping the heel is going to make its comback this time…I tire of flats. Even if they are practical.
Playing with clothing/accessory lengths is dangerous at best. Never mind mixing black colors.
Sadly, this outfit doesn't work.
Gladly, her smile does.
I reckon that being a sartorialiste requires quite a lot more than wearing black from head to toe, and being tall and slim. Sorry. She's cute but she's not a sartorialiste…
Magnifique, tout les must have de cet hiver sont ici réunis!!
Do I detect a twist of envy in some of these comments? From a Buddhist perspective, I would gladly pay the price of spending an eternity as a moth for the pleasure of being reincarnated as her boyfriend, even if just for a day.
I wouldn't wear a cropped jacket AND a low-slung belt, but she's so cool that it works anyway.
The magnificent return of the opaque tights.
Bring on the opaques!
"not a sartorialiste"? are you kidding me?
she owns that silhouette!
she looks understated and confident and chic and tough all at once.
You would totally stare at this girl if she walked past. Everything on her looks organic and just right.
she owns this look.
I think that she looks fab! Wearing black, so that it doesn't look boring is a skill and I think that this girl has captured that! I'd call her style simply: quirky cool.
I love her look!
I like it, but I miss the bag….
Hot Child in the City!
My goodness, those legs. Is she taller than that building?
Long, lean, beautiful.
wow i love her jacket, such an amazing cut!
I love it when pretty girly women wear tough rocker clothes! You have featured a few of these lately, and it is always a treat to see it.
Olive Oil goes to Paris.
Sart, what's with the seemingly unending photo-parade of tall thin model-esque girls in head to toe skintight black, ankle booties, and teeny leather jackets? Ho hum, already!
her pose is a little bit too contrived, but nice clothes and above all pretty face
i actually like this outfit. i like all the black, the skirt with the tights, and the ankle boots.
Pretty and perfectly slim…but the outfit is simply – ordinary.
Yes I am inclined to agree. God has blessed her physicallly. She looks good but this outfit is not anything special in the sartorialist sense.
easy to pull that off when you looke like that!!
I don't get the negative comments. Fashion is highly personal and relative, so saying that an outfit just "doesn't work" is somewhat pretentious.
I would love to see some well dressed fatties on your blog. I know they're out there, and if there's anyone who can spot this elusive species it's you Sart!
(I can say this 'cause I'm a fatty myself.)
I love this look right now. I've been searching for more of a pant-like legging, and I can't find it anywhere. Anyone have any suggestions?
love the leather jacket and the boots! she's cute.
She looks comfortable and effortless, chic.
You know, as a child in a private school, my mom used to put in opaque tight…all different colors. And I hated it. Now, i'm dying to buy a pair…..this vicious life!
I loaf her! I just loaf her. Marvelus siluette.
I've only read a few of the comments and I already see haters.
The outfit works beautifully. Just b/c you don't like it doesn't mean it doesn't work.
It wouldnt look right on me b/c I dont have mile long legs.
I love french style! It's so much better than the American Frump.
she looks fantastic!
she appears to be happy with her look. No reason why she shouldn't be, after all every girl under forty in Paris is happy with the same look. a very nice picture of a pretty girl, but i wouldn't call her the 'most chic'. maybe 'having the best day' would be a better description.
i think i actually just fell in love.
Those legs!
WOW… does she work at Paris Vogue??
When I scrolled down to see if this was a "rerun" [see Extreme Style] I can't believe you shot and posted two such similar looks in front of the same background!
These women, and the other tight black pants/leggings with black heels … they look officially "good" (and yeah I'm jealous) but I agree that there must be something more interesting there to capture, there simply must be.
Even with the willpower and exercise regimen, some if not most of us have wide hips, in which case this look would never be our best choice.
In other news, because of finding this blog months ago, I now have two – countem two – pair of red shoes I can't afford. Thanks a lot ; )
Hi there, just a reply to Barbara's comment at 8:34 pm. I don't know if she's maybe looking for something in terms of pants that could look like leggings, but Filippa K makes a lot of skinny-type jeans/pants that might do the trick. Really, any of the Nordic designers could be something to check out (Acne, Filippa K, Cheap Mondays, etc.). The only problem with the skinny jean/pant styles is that often, they will make a short person look stumpy, whereas if you're tall and lean, no problem, they accentuate these qualities and look great.
Just a thought. J'aime beaucoup votre blog, Sart, surtout les photos Ă Paris!!!
I do not really understand how can those shoes be even produced :-S
great proportions going on here.
(i never thought i'd like the look of leggings again.)
She is an assistant stylist of French Vogue, right?
Her name is Geraldine Saglio.
She's fantastic! Well captured.
She should hang out with the black-suit guy, and they can start a multi-national team of assassins…
Yeah, I've got to say that I dislike this look as it is so prolific. Also, may I comment that all of these guys who write that they "fall in love" with girls on the basis of a picture are just…sad. :) I'm not saying that she's not attractive – she is, very -but so what?
that is definitely a hot get-up! Only in Europe u will see such creative, out-of-the box styles!
I really like this kind of fashion!
i liked this until i realised she was wearing a dress and the bodice under the jacket is slouchy. would have been miles better if she wore a black leotard like top (you can get them at american apparel) with a nice scoop neck and some highwaisted silk mini-shorts.
i envision it in my head and it is looking much hotter than her current outfit. though her silhouette isn't really affected by her choice of dress+belt, once she comes into the daylight the awkward looking dress will detract from her otherwise killer outfit.
and incredibly photo by the way! side walk and buildings really reflect the great lines of her body.
Who are these negative people who use this page like a chat room so they can comfortably sit behind a computer screen and insult people for being thin, taking risks, or expressing themselves in new ways?
Not only do I think she looks amazing (like a sexy blend of Joey Ramone and MK Olson) but I kind of want to be her.
visually gorgeous
She personifies that thing that makes French women so chic and gorgeous.
That is so hot; so leggy!
She is gorgeous. She looks great. I find the look kind of boring though. If I saw her on the street I would stop and stare in envy but on the pages of your blog, I would do a quick glance and move on. It's too plain – for my taste, anyway! I'm used to seeing more…personal touches, I guess. Maybe there are some but when it's all black, it's kind of hard to make out :P
nice leather pant
Womens Leather Skirts
Love this!!


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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsEvents
4th-Annual MM&FF Open House Giveaway
Food Provided by SCT Performance
We are getting everything ready for our 4th-annual MM&FF Open House this Thursday, March 6th from 4 p.m. – 8 p.m. -- and like in year's past, we have lots of great giveaway items. SCT Performance will be on hand with be huge announcement providing food for the party, so fuel up and hang out for a good time!
Among the goods to give out at the open house include: one set of OEM Fox-body headlights ('87-'93) from NPD along with NPD gift certificates, Shelby diecast models, Mother's Polishes car cleaning and detailing kits, Ford Racing fender covers and tire shades (and more), aluminum signs, banners, hats and T-shirts, a few Mustang: Fifty Years books by the author Donald Farr, who will be on site to personally sign your book -- and more! We also have goody bags for the first 100 people who show up to the open house.
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Other participating companies include Roush, Holley, Comp Cams, Steeda, Stifflers. We'll also have our Dynojet 224xLC in action! If you are one of the first to arrive, get your goody bag and watch our parking lot transform into a massive car show.
But wait, there's more: While you're here be sure to upload pictures to Instagram and use the unique hashtag (#mmffshow) for a chance to have your photo published in Muscle Mustangs & Fast Fords magazine's open house coverage.
It's the only way to kick off the Spring Break Shootout NMRA weekend right so come on down and party with us before we head down for a weekend of fun in the sun!


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Trace... ON!
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Germany
I don't how much of an advantage the first player has when actually playing, but in theory it doesn't sound inbalanced.
The other Japanese card game I am playing, Lycèe, does that a lot better IMO. Every artwork is done by various artists specially for the card game and only some special cards have official artworks. That way, the design is rather consequent, not to mention you have a lot of pretty arts you've never seen before (though that may vary due to personal likes and dislikes since there are quite a lot of different artists).
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
Wow, I'm amazed with the boom in activity within the past few days.
Don't forget, when you are being attacked. When you draw the number of cards equal to the soul of the card attacking you. If you draw a climax, all of that damage is canceled. (Sorry if this is a repeat.)
When I was playing with a Nanoha StrikerS deck (focusing on Nanoha using Starlight Breaker as her Climax with Vivio as support). In a turn where I could have finished the game, I had 28 soul damage in total to deal out and all of it was canceled .
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
|2010-01-26, 00:46
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Yes thats what i meant. 2 boxes isn't enough to complete the set though. I still had to buy singles.
Anyway, i choose these 2 because i liked most of the characters in the 2 series since WS is basically a character battle game.
I thought of buying Nanoha but i only like Fate so it not that convincing. But i heard Nanoha decks are pretty strong.
|2010-01-26, 01:00
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
|2010-01-26, 07:52
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Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
Looking through my collection yesterday I realized I don't seem to actually have the expensive Kotomi card (I have a poster with that image hanging on my wall and have every other Kotomi card so I guess my memory got confused, heh), but I do have a foil version of the expensive Fuuko card. I also have a couple Nanoha and DCII promo cards from Megami Magazine that I'd just casually tossed aside but apparently they're worth more than almost any card in an actual set.
Is buying single cards instead of packs worth it for this game? Can that Nanoha combo be activated reliably enough to build your deck around it or is it some random thing that may just happen once in a while? In Magic there's typically 1-2 cards out of 15 in a pack that are considered playable in a high level deck, and many of them are cheap commons, so it's obviously a pretty terrible value opening packs most of the time. What's the average number of playable cards per pack of WS?
|2010-01-26, 17:57
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
http://www.amiami.com/shop?set=engli...ate=index.html here is a place to start. I have never bought anything over the internet as of now, however I'm tempted to do so.
I bought my trial deck at Little Akiba, http://www.littleakiba.com/store/. Little Akiba and the Figure mall share the same space http://www.thefiguremall.com/. Little Akiba is a nice place to hang out.
|2010-01-26, 18:35
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Salt Levels Critical
Join Date: Oct 2007
How big a difference is there between the "pretty good" cards and the rest? Does the luck aspect make basically anything at least slightly playable or are there absolute garbage cards that you'd never consider playing under any circumstances? I actually prefer that such cards do exist as they are great skill-testers among other reasons (i.e. someone with skill knows enough to not play them).
|2010-01-26, 18:47
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
It depends on your strategy and what chacteristics your going for. For me I have three characteristics types I can rely on, Dragon, Weapon and Magic. In my opinion luck isn't 100% random; it's depends on the circumstances, preparation, what you have available and how to take action with what you have. If your deck is focused on lvl 0s, you will deal less damage than higher lvl card but you can play them easily and not worry about stock so much. The higher the level, you have to consider stock but you will have more power or better effects to use in the game.
In short yes, if you don't prepare your deck properly, you'll most likely lose. The skill is in preparing and figuring out the probability events happen. For example, the probability of dealing out 20 soul damage in one turn. It's quite unlikely but it does happen if you have the right cards being played at the right time and your opponent doesn't draw a climax during the damage/attack phase.
|2010-01-26, 23:38
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The Asian who's Malaysian
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: B.C. Vancouver
Their translations are pretty good.
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I almost threw up when I read that the Carroll County Commissioners touting an English-only bill claimed they were not motivated by a hatred of non-English speakers in their midst but rather were expressing their brotherly concern that non-English speakers should simply hurry up and learn English for the good of everyone ("Commissioners get an earful on 'official English' proposal," Dec. 13).
This is utterly inconsistent with the same Carroll County Commissioners who in May 2011 supported the petition against in-state college tuition for illegal immigrants (the Maryland Dream Act, which passed easily last month after being petitioned to referendum). Why would the same commissioners want to disqualify students who had demonstrated enough proficiency in English to attend college? They shouldn't have it both ways — going out of their way to fight tuition remission to immigrants who have learned English and at the same time insisting English (not an easy language to learn; it has nearly six times as many words as Spanish, which of course is spoken by the ethnic group most despised by the Bible-thumping commissioners) be learned by everyone.
These politicians are simply inspired by vindictiveness (their effort to scuttle the Maryland Dream Act having failed abysmally at the polls) and make a mockery of the faith they profess. They waste more taxpayer money discussing these astonishingly idiotic and inconsistent propositions. And I bet the immigrant students applying for an in-state tuition remission could thump any one of them on a Bible quiz.
Similarly, I was happy to see some brave iconoclastic Carroll Countians testifying against the English-only bill.
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The Homeschool
Association of CA
Establishing Your Own Private School
We recommend that you keep these records in two separate binders. The first binder should hold the records that a government official, such as an attendance officer, is legally entitled to see without a warrant or a subpoena: a copy of the filed private school affidavit, your attendance records, and a letter verifying that the children are enrolled in and attending the school. The second binder should hold all of the other required records identified in the list above: courses of study offered, faculty qualifications, criminal record summaries, and immunizations records or waivers. Although you are required to keep these, no public official is entitled to see them without a subpoena. In fact, we believe that many of these records cannot even be seen with a subpoena. However, the law requires you to have them, and you are signing, under penalty of perjury, that you do have them.
Homeschoolers often keep additional records such as the work completed, and we recommend that you do keep sufficient records to help you substantiate work completed in case the student transfers to another school or needs transcripts for college applications. However, these records are not legally required and should not be volunteered to any government official.
Probably for reasons having to do with the separation of church and state, the California statutes are very clear that government has no right to inspect any private school teacher qualifications, student work, curriculum or the like. Local health and safety ordinances may apply to larger schools, but understand that no one is entitled to see or inspect anything relating to your school other than what is explicitly stated in the law.
Your child is enrolled and legally exempt from public school attendance as soon as you decide you have started your own private school. The school doesn't begin when you file the PSA.
Even if schools in your area start before October 1st, you do not need to file the affidavit until the filing period of October 1st through 15th. The PSA is a statement about your school on that one day that you file. The PSA is not the way your school becomes official - your school is official and legal the minute you say it is. The PSA is a requirement that all private schools must adhere to. In other words, first you establish your school (at whatever date you want to start) and then, because you have an established school, you are required to file the PSA during the filing period. The PSA doesn't normally become available until October 1st, so there is no way to file it early. You could file one for the previous school year if the California Department still has it available on their website. It is usually taken down from the website sometime during the summer.
The CDE believes that the filing of an affidavit is a ministerial thing only; it doesn't create or validate the school. We agree with this. A CDE representative has also said that the only purpose of the affidavit is to allow them to compile a private school directory, and by stating that they don't want any affidavits after the end of the calendar year, we can guess that this is the cutoff for schools that will be in the directory. We don't agree with the view that the affidavit is only for the directory, as the Education Code also requires private school operators to promise under penalty of perjury that they're following the private school laws. Signing and filing the affidavit accomplishes this as well.
We have asked the CDE if they agree that new schools can be formed after October 15, and, if so, when these schools should file their affidavits. The CDE told us that they believe that new private schools are allowed to be formed after October 15. They said, however, that these new schools should not file an affidavit for that school year, but should just wait until the following fall to file.
We agree that, strictly speaking, this is correct. However, because the CDE isn't the only government agency that has a reason to think about whether a particular private school is "legal," we are a little worried that some other government official might interpret the requirements of Section 33190 differently. For example, an attendance officer might come to someone's door inquiring whether a particular child is attending a legal school and not truant. That official has the right to see certain papers (see discussion at Section C of Special Situations). One of those papers is the filed affidavit. If the school was formed after October 15 of a school year and hadn't filed an affidavit, it could certainly explain to the officer how the CDE interprets a new school's obligations. But that officer might look at Section 33190 and Section 48224 and conclude that the school isn't legal because it hasn't filed an affidavit. We doubt that a supervisor or a court would agree with the officer's conclusion, but any parents wanting to shut down the possibility of ever having this argument might want to think about filing an affidavit anyway.
The CDE has said, in various years, that it won't "accept" filings after January 1. In early 2005, they disabled the online filing option after that date, but put it back up when a number of people and groups complained. We think they came to understand that people can file affidavits at any time, even if it is outside the October window. We believe that the CDE does not have the authority to "accept" affidavits (although they sometimes reject them for incompleteness), and so we think that schools are still entitled to send them. If you are trying to file after October 15 and find that the online filing system isn't working, you can still file a paper affidavit. We have a sample paper affidavit available. Follow the instructions below for completing and sending the affidavit.
Instead of filing the Private School Affidavit online, it is also possible to write a "Statement-in-Lieu" and sign and mail it to the California Department of Education. To write a statement-in-lieu, provide all information listed as required by the education code in sections 33190 and 33191. Be sure to provide ALL information required.
At the end of your letter write, "I hereby certify under penalty of perjury that the information I have provided for Section 33190(a) through (f) is true and correct and that I am in compliance with the provisions of Section 44237."Sign your letter.Keep a copy of the letter.
Send it by registered mail or in some form that gives you confirmation that it was received. Send it to:
California Department of EducationTitle II Leadership Office, Room 4309Private School Affidavit1430 N StreetSacramento, CA 95814
No. The private school affidavit is a simple form that notifies the state of the existence of a private school. It is not a license given by the state: The state does not approve, evaluate, recognize, endorse, or supervise your private school in any way. The affidavit is merely a device by which the Department of Education's Demographics Unit keeps track of the number of school children in California.
The affidavit form itself is a public document available from the California Department of Education. It is completed and submitted online by most schools, but can also be submitted in paper form, either using the Department's form or a "statement in lieu" that contains all of the information required by law. Because the Department's form is a public document, the state cannot refuse to give families the form or refuse to accept their completed form.
Private schools must offer instruction "in the several branches of study required to be taught in the public schools" (see Ed Code sections 51210 and 51220), but how those subjects are taught is determined by the private school. There is no provision in the law that authorizes or requires that local school districts or any other state agency supervise or approve of the instruction given in private schools.
The California Department of Education maintains a web page entitled, Private Schools Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). It also has added a phone number (916-319-0878) with pre-recorded information about homeschooling. Information given at this phone number is not substantially different from the information on the CDE's web page, but some content has been giving homeschooler's concern.
First, the recording states that there are three options for homeschooling: independent study through a public school, independent study through a charter school, and withdrawing a student from the public school and schooling the student privately under a private school affidavit. This is not entirely correct; some students attend private satellite programs (PSPs, or programs offered by third party private schools) and a small portion of homeschoolers use the tutoring option provided under Education Code 48224.
The CDE phone recording also states that parents who choose to withdraw their children from the public system and educate them privately are [selecting] an option for schooling at home that does not provide special education for students with IEPs. This statement suggests that children who have special needs, are in special education classes, or have an individual education plan (IEP) cannot be educated at home. Nothing could be further from the truth. Many homeschooling parents find that their special education students respond well to one-on-one teaching in a familiar (home) environment. Parents can be successful in teaching special education students at home and there are many resources to assist them in this endeavor. However, the CDE is correct to the extent that the state is not required to pay for special education and related services for a child with a disability at a private school if there is a free appropriate public education available to the child and the parents elected to place the child in the private school. In some limited circumstances, some special education services may be available for private school students. For more information about special education resources and legal issues, see the HSC's Homeschooling with Special Challenges.
Finally, the CDE phone message states that students in homeschools under private school affidavits do not have access to California state adopted textbooks and materials, to the state's testing system, or to a recognized high school diploma. Most homeschoolers are already aware that they must purchase their own curriculum, and that they are excluded from the state's testing regimen; indeed, these are among the reasons that many people choose to homeschool. Families can, of course, purchase whichever textbooks they desire, and there are many alternative testing services available to homeschoolers who want to use them. We are concerned, however, about the strong language regarding a recognized high school diploma. Just because a diploma of a private school, including a home-based private school, may not be "recognized" does not mean it is not valid. Any private school, large or small, may confer high school diplomas on to those students who have successfully completed that school's prescribed course of study. However, some institutions distinguish between diplomas issued by small private schools and diplomas issued by others, even though there is no basis for this distinction in the law. Therefore, homeschooling parents are strongly encouraged to carefully review the entry requirements for their graduating students' choice of occupation (e.g. military) or college. In many cases, including ever greater numbers of public and private colleges and universities, their private school diplomas and work product portfolios will satisfy the requirements, while in others it may be prudent for homeschool students to obtain a recognized alternative to a high school diploma in addition to receiving a diploma from their school. Two alternatives to a high school diploma that colleges and workplaces are required to acknowledge as equivalent to a high school diploma exist in California: the California High School Proficiency Exam (CHSPE) and the General Education Development test (GED). Information about these exams is available at HSC's testing article and at the CDE website
It is understandable that the public agency in charge of education should promote the public schools. But their preference for public schools should not be misconstrued as casting doubt on the ability of parents to teach their children legally themselves.
A number of California statutes apply to private schools. These include the requirements for establishing a private school, as well as miscellaneous safety and health requirements. For statutes applicable to homeschooling see Selected Statutes. The entire California Education Code is on the State of California website at leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/. We encourage anyone planning on operating a private school to be familiar with these statutes.
You can withdraw your child from school mid-year and start homeschooling. Many schools are supportive of homeschooling and can provide you with help and resources. However, withdrawing a child mid-year may be a little more complicated than starting homeschooling at the beginning of the school year, because the school has a record of your child and may be unwilling to lose a student. The school loses funding attributable to your child. We do recommend that you not tell the school that you are going to homeschool (see the discussion following) but rather tell them that you are transferring your child to another school, as they may try to convince you that you are not capable of teaching your child or that you cannot legally homeschool, especially if you are setting up your own home-based private school. They may even threaten you with a report to the truancy officer. As long as you follow the legal requirements set forth above, you can withdraw your child from public or private school and legally homeschool.
If you decide to start your own school, prepare the documentation noted above and remove your child from school.
When you take your child out of school, tell the school that your child will be attending another school and give it the name. Because the CDE's old memos stating that homeschooling is illegal are still floating around in the minds and files of many public school officials, we recommend that you not mention the word "homeschooling." You can tell school officials whether you intend to use a public or private school, but you are not obligated to give them any more information than that. If your child will be enrolled in a school run by someone else, that person will write the former school and ask for the child's cumulative file (§49068). If you are starting your own private school, then promptly write a professional letter to the former school on your school letterhead advising the administrators there that your child has been enrolled in (your school name) and request his or her cumulative file. Sending this letter should close the school's file on your child so that s/he can't be considered truant. The school is required to give you your child's cumulative file (it can be a copy rather than an original), although many schools don't seem to be able to do this. You are also entitled, as a parent, to have a copy of the cumulative file. If you really want to have a copy, we recommend going to the office in your role as a parent, not a school official, and offering to make the copies yourself, or giving them a stamped envelope, or any other help that makes it easier for them to comply. As long as you properly sent the request for the file, failure to receive the copy does not have any legal importance.
If you pull your child out as a result of truancy or other unresolved problems with the school, the school may fight your efforts by continuing with a truancy hearing or denying the validity of your new school. Although you are still entitled to educate your children at home using any of the options described above, you will need to weigh the practical and financial alternatives of continued controversy or litigation against other alternatives the truancy board might accept. In some cases, they may look more favorably on a program offered by a public or charter school or commercial private school rather than a home-based private school. Please contact the HSC legal team for more information if you are in this situation.
If, however, you had your child attending the public school during the previous year and did not tell the district that your child would not be attending the next year, you may wish to consider notifying them at the beginning of the next year that your child is now attending private school, so that the officials are not concerned about truancy. This is more of a concern in smaller districts with more stable populations, where the absence of a known child will be more easily noticed (large, urban districts are less likely to notice given the huge transience in their populations). Notifying the school and requesting your child's cumulative file closes the school's file on your child, and your child can not be considered truant once you have sent these notices. Link to Letters for Withdrawing a Student from School
The legal team has prepared a letter, available by clicking here that you can give to anyone who challenges your authority to homeschool or who demands to see any papers other than your affidavit and attendance records. The letter explains what statutory authority there is for parents forming their own home-based private schools and covers which documents the state has the authority to see and which it does not. We recommend that you print out a copy of this letter and put it in the binder you keep with your copy of your affidavit.
Attendance records can be as simple as a one-page calendar containing boxes for each day of the school year, with a notation at the bottom stating that days absent are indicated with a mark. You are free to decide the length of each school day and school year and when it is in session.
Generally, instruction must be in English and "in the several branches of study required to be taught in the public schools" (§48222), but how or what you teach within those branches is up to you. To meet this requirement your school could keep a printed copy of the code sections that set forth the branches of study the state requires schools to offer. The "adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6" is set forth in §51210, and the "adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12" is set forth in §§51220, 51220.5, and 51221 (these lists are fairly general and far less specific than the state standards that public schools must teach). Another alternative is to obtain a copy of the courses of study offered by a local public school. Although instruction must be offered in those areas by the school, it is not necessary to teach each and every subject. You are free to decide which courses would most benefit your students and how to teach them. However, a court may decide that your school is illegal if certain subjects are not offered. (See In re Shinn (1961) 195 Cal.App.2d 683.)
§44237 explicitly states that the criminal record summary is not required for parents teaching only their children. Since most homeschooling families do not hire employees, the exact procedure will not be discussed in depth in this article. However, if you do hire others to teach your children in your home, you may need to obtain criminal record summary information on them. Each employee must submit two sets of fingerprints that the school then submits to the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation. Further information can be obtained from your local county office of education.
Full information on immunization requirements and personal/religious beliefs exemptions.
If you have a child entering first grade, within 90 days you must include in your records either a "Report of Health Examination for School Entry" documenting a health screening received within the previous 18 months or a "Waiver of Health Examination for School Entry."
Report of Health Examination for School Entry
Waiver of Health Examination for School Entry
Unless your cooperative school holds formal and regular classes with one of the parent-teachers teaching a group of children who are not their own, the criminal record summary required by §44237 is not required. However, if your school has traditional classes where a parent is working with other children, then your school must obtain a criminal record summary for all teachers.
If your school has over 50 students and your school has a private school building, there are various building requirements that your school will need to follow. We assume here that each family will be teaching their children or a small group of children in their own home. Private schools that are conducted in private homes with fewer than a specified number of students are not subject to certain building, earthquake, and air contaminant requirements.
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ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
Search task characteristics are recognized as important factors that affect search process and its outcomes. This research examines the relationships among operational measures of searcher's behavior, individual cognitive differences, subjective task difficulty and mental effort assed by dual-task performance. A web-based information study was conduced in a controlled experimental setting. Forty eight study participants performed six search tasks of varying type and structure. Subjective task difficulty was found to be influenced by the searcher's effort measured as the number of results pages and individual documents visited, the number of documents bookmarked as relevant, as well as by individual cognitive differences, and mental effort assessed by performance on the secondary-task. In contrast to previous studies, no strong effects of the user navigation graph structure were found.
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In December 1958, right around Christmas, LIFE magazine published a 200-page special issue on the glories and absurdities of American entertainment. Such special issues were not exactly rare—LIFE frequently ended the year with a double issue on a grand theme ("The Sea," "The Bible," "The Great Outdoors")—but here we'd like to take a moment and note one article in particular from that 1958 issue, "Without the Girls, Show Biz Is No Biz," and its extraordinary portraits of showgirls by Gordon Parks.
Echoing the works of, for example, Toulouse-Lautrec and others who have immortalized entertainers—at work and at rest—through the centuries, Parks' color pictures are at-once charged with emotion and curiously prosaic. These are, after all, women with a job to do: the fact that they do it in front of avid audiences, while largely undressed, only makes the evident tedium of the work all the more poignant.
But the strength of Parks' photos, in the end, is not that they offer oblique commentary on the drudgery of labor, or that they somehow reveal something about "show people" that we never knew. Instead, the pictures matter because they're beautiful—and because they offer, as LIFE noted, "living, breathing proof of the poet's point that beauty is its own excuse for being."
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.


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Professor Peter Holland Delivers The John D.M. Brown LectureDr. Peter Holland, the McMeel Family Professor in Shakespeare Studies at the University of Notre Dame, will give the John D.M. Brown Lecture at Muhlenberg College.
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The talk, titled "Haunting Shakespeare, or King Lear Meets Alice," is free and open to the public. It will be preceded by an informal reception at 6:30 p.m.
Holland is also the Associate Dean for the Arts and Department of Film, Television and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame. He earned his Ph.D. from Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. From 1997 to 2002 Holland was Director of the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and is one of the Institute's Honorary Fellows. He was also a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a Trustee of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust before going to Notre Dame. He was the Judith E. Wilson Reader in Drama and Theatre at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Shakespeare Institute and Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Birmingham. He served as President of the Shakespeare Association of America from 2007 to 2008.
Holland's first book, The Ornament of Action, was a study of Restoration comedy in performance. Subsequent work has concentrated on Shakespeare in performance. He has edited many of Shakespeare's plays and has written widely on the plays in performance. He is the editor of "Shakespeare Survey," the UK's leading Shakespeare journal, general editor for a number of book series and series editor of Redefining British Theatre History. Other interests include David Garrick, contemporary British drama, performance theory and English pantomimes.
The John D.M. Brown Lectureship is underwritten by a generous gift from Mary E. Brown in loving memory of her husband Dr. John D.M. Brown (1883-1951), who served as a Professor of English at Muhlenberg College for 37 years. Brown graduated from Muhlenberg College in 1906 and joined the Muhlenberg College faculty in 1912. He served as head of the Muhlenberg English department from 1927 to 1949, and was honored as the first recipient of the college's Florence T. Saeger Professorship. In addition, Wittenberg University named Brown a Doctor of Literature in 1922 and Muhlenberg awarded him a Doctor of Humane Letters degree in 1948.
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(Sept. 5, 2012)– Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham announced an emergency closure of a portion of coastal waters due to the emergence of a large tar mat and concentrations of tar balls on adjacent beaches, effective September 4. This action was taken in coordination with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, who will assist with the investigation to determine the extent, source, and impacts of the oil in the environment.
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HADOPI May Be Succeeding -- In Driving French Customers To Dotcom's Mega
from the don't-say-we-didn't-warn-you dept
Last week, Techdirt reported on the news that falling numbers of P2P users are being trumpeted as a victory for HADOPI's "three strikes" approach in France, but that it is a hollow victory, since sales of recorded music are still dropping in that country. The French site Numerama points out something else interesting happening there (in French), as revealed by the following tweet from Kim Dotcom:
#Mega Top 5 premium membership countries: 1. France 2. Spain 3. Belgium 4. United States 5. Germany - Thanks a lot for buying!
Now, of course, as Techdirt always emphasizes, correlation is not causation, but it's pretty suggestive that at precisely the same time that P2P use is dropping in France, its citizens should turn out to be the biggest premium users of Dotcom's Mega service. This is, after all, precisely what we and everyone else have been predicting: that people would simply move from P2P services where they can be observed, to others -- like Mega's file-hosting site -- where they cannot.
This interpretation is supported by the other notable fact to emerge from Dotcom's tweet: that after French users, it is Spaniards who are signing up for Mega's premium membership in droves -- another group who have had a punitive copyright infringement law imposed on them recently. This means that in about a year's time, we can probably expect the Spanish department tasked with implementing Ley Sinde to publish figures showing that the number of P2P users is falling -- omitting to note, of course that they, like their French counterparts, have simply moved to alternatives instead.
Now, some will doubtless use these trends to argue that Mega should be shut down just as Megaupload was. But the correct inferences to draw are that HADOPI and Ley Sinde are just an expensive waste of time, and that people don't expect to get everything for free, as the popularity in France and Spain of Dotcom's paid-for Mega service shows. It's just a matter of the recording and film industries offering the public what they want, in a form they want, at a reasonable price. Is that really too much to ask?
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While summer usually means time away from work at the beach or mountains, those of us in the General Assembly will begin gathering in Frankfort next month to begin our annual Interim Session.
For those of you who might not be familiar with Kentucky's Interim Session, over the next six months, beginning in June, joint committees of House and Senate members will gather to discuss various issues that were either taken up during the last Regular Session, or those that could become major points of discussion during the 2016 Regular Session scheduled for next January.
In our Republic, our vote is our voice. With our vote, we speak our mind, we express our values and exercise our convictions. Voting is the heartbeat that pumps liberty through the veins of our nation. Anything that tarnishes the integrity of a single vote should be viewed as a threat to liberty.
Each Memorial Day, since 1988, members of the 2nd Platoon of Kilo Company Marines, join together. They say Memorial Day isn't about them. It's about honoring those who didn't come home. They reunite, share a few beers, have a cigar, catch up and talk about their families. They reminisce.
One of our greatest presidents and Kentucky native, Abraham Lincoln, once said of our country, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." That quote comes to mind as we gather in the coming days to honor those who have fought and died in wars foreign and domestic to continue to guarantee the freedom that makes us the envy of other nations and their people around the world.
It's been said that following the legislative process is akin to watching sausage being made. It's not the most appealing thing to witness.
However, when that sausage sits on the same plate as our farm fresh eggs, then it's a stark reminder that we need to pay closer attention.
In six days, May 19th, the registered Republican voters in Kentucky will have the duty to choose which one of four candidates is the best qualified to win the November 2015 general election, and is best qualified to serve as Kentucky's next Governor. Matt Bevin produced his written plan-- "Blueprint for a Better Kentucky" upon entering the race.
Spencer County is not the city. In fact, most people who have chosen to move to Spencer County have fled the noise, the crowds, the congestion and the restrictive tentacles of metro government explicity because it is NOT the city.
Imagine their surprise then, when learning that in this rural, country atmosphere, bureaucrats have moved to limit homeowners to having just one chicken per acre.
We realize that doesn't immediately impact most residents. The only chicken most of us own rests frozen in the freezer.
The most inspiring message I witnessed during last Thursday's National Day of Prayer observance in downtown Taylorsville did not come from a song, a proclamation, or even one of the prayers delivered by one of several local ministers.
Instead, in came in the form of a Sara Lee bread truck. The driver was no doubt in the middle of a busy day on a busy route, but as he neared the courthouse and saw dozens of people out front, heads bowed in prayer, he stopped the truck and he waited.
Appeasement, while intended to avoid conflict, often only delays and intensifies it. It's a lesson taught by history, both distant and recent, but a lesson obviously not learned.
We saw appeasement in Ferguson, Missouri, last year when riots erupted following a false narrative describing a police shooting. The media continued to push the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" lie that many news outlets have finally admitted was erroneous. That lie only stoked the flames and fueled the fires that set that small St. Louis suburb ablaze.
Before returning to the Spencer Magnet last month, I spent seven years working for a nonprofit whose mission was to provide healing and hope to abused and neglected children.
At Sunrise Children's Services (formerly Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children), there were constant reminders of young lives scarred by mistreatment. The stories were horrific.
There were children who had been kept in cages and given dogfood to eat. Kids old enough for middle school who had been hidden in secret, never learning their colors and shapes, let alone numbers and letters.
There is a legitimate way to increase Spencer County's income and increase safety within the community at the same time.
We can do this by taking advantage of the fair number of drivers who are "want-a-bee" NASCAR racers that experiment on HWY 44. Some indeed are probably pretty good because most of them seem to manage to get home each evening. But--on the other hand--you can pity us poor average guys who have to mix it up dodging them while "put-putting" along at our boring rate of 55 MPH.
Last week's story on Sheriff Buddy Stump's request for new vehicles stated that he was requesting the purchase of a cruiser and a pickup truck. While Stump submitted a bid sheet listing prices for four vehicles – two trucks and two cars for the purpose of comparison, he said he was only requesting one vehicle at the present time, preferably a pickup truck.
Do you remember your first date with your spouse? How about when you met your in-laws for the first time? If so, you know the value of a first impression.
Perhaps you've interviewed people for a job, or your daughter brought home a boy for the first time - and once again, that initial greeting can send a powerful message.
It's the same with a community.
Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, who won re-election overwhelmingly last November, has been taking quite a pummeling from the left of late for daring to actually fulfill a campaign promise. Specifically, McConnell said he would take the fight to the Obama administration in its war on coal, which has already cost thousands of jobs in Kentucky.
George Washington was a Federalist and the first Congress was a majority Federalist assembly. That included both the Senate and House. The Federalists appointed the first Supreme Court and they began to form a Federalist leaning government by their interpretations of the Constitution. A Federalist is one who wants a strong Federal government with little or no States or Individual Rights. The Federalists formed the government that we now have and little has changed.
Have you ever had that overwhelming feeling of walking into a situation where so much needs to be done that you don't know where to start? Perhaps you feel it when you need to clean out the garage or attic or after a wind storm knocks down trees and limbs all over your yard.
You stand back, scan the area and dread the time, effort and energy that will be required for the task. However, five minutes into the job, and the dread slowly dissipates as you begin to see progress.
The controversial religious freedom law in Indiana and other states was about much more than whether a baker, florist, or even pizzeria can be forced to cater to a gay wedding. Opponents of the law attempt to reduce the issue to those simple terms in an effort to frame it solely as a matter of discrimination. The strategy is to create victims and villains.
However, it's not about discrimination, but about discretion – which Webster defines as "the freedom to act or judge on one's own." These laws are about protecting our freedom of choice.
Kentucky junior U.S. Sen. Rand Paul made it official Tuesday — he is running for president.
"I am running for president to return our country to the principles of liberty and limited government," Paul announced on his website, randpaul.com.
Paul, a freshman senator and ophthalmologist who made his home in Bowling Green more than 20 years ago, was scheduled to personally announce his bid for the White House at noon Tuesday at the Galt House.
We often speak of our sense of "Community" in Spencer County and it was a keyword in the most recent election. Your newspaper is vital to maintaining and increasing our sense of community.
One of the ways of helping us to know our neighbors is your weekly report of property purchases. Sometimes you show the new neighbor's names and address (most helpful) but oftentimes their address is omitted or simply stated as a property in Deed Book such as Page such. This way of reporting is rather pointless.
Certain things are just the right fit. When I was a kid, I had a an old baseball hat. It was yellow and I got it as a pine-sitting member of the Winchester Little League A's.
At a flea market well after the season, I ran upon a patch with an Indian's head on it with the simple words "Custer Had It Coming." I was crazy about American Indian history, so I bought the patch, asked my mom to sew it over the "A's" on my hat, and from that point, that hat provided near constant covering for my noggin for at least a couple of years.
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The Moon and Europe - Rosetta OSIRIS images
16 November 2007
As Rosetta closed in on Earth, swung by and then left on its course again, several instruments on the spacecraft were busy taking snaps. As it swung away, the OSIRIS camera also caught glimpses of the Moon.
The Moon was imaged with the OSIRIS Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) at 07:36 CET, about nine hours after Rosetta's closest approach to Earth.
OSIRIS has been designed to image faint objects, so a neutral density filter was placed in the optical path to reduce the sensitivity of the camera to one-fiftieth. The above image was acquired through the far-focus red filter of the camera (750 nanometres).


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Tip of the MonthHome Depot to the rescue again. This project was going to be challenging and required a portable workbench. Having a set budget for the project was a major concern. The bench needed to be cheap, sturdy, portable, and storable. Style points really didn't matter. While cruising through our local Home Depot, we noticed a wooden bench on sale that piqued our interest. The cost warranted a second look at only $70. The bench folds up for storage by removing the lower shelf and folding the legs up inside the top. The best part is it comes fully assembled. Just pull it out of the box, fold down the legs, install the lower shelf, and it's ready to go. With its modest price and tough design, it can take a beating and be easily repaired if damaged. We actually copied the design with some spare lumber on hand, but it would be hard to purchase new lumber and replicate the bench for the same price. So far, the cheap unit has proved to be a worthwhile purchase for many projects, including automotive, shop, and equipment repair.
ReflectingI realize this question may be too specific to publish, but I can really use some advice. I am wrapping up the restoration of a '68 Chevelle. I have taken it on a couple of test drives and discovered I really don't like the external sideview mirrors (the round, chrome ones). I really like the racing-style mirrors like the '69 and '70 Mach 1 had. I am hoping someone can help me locate an aftermarket set that will bolt on to my Chevelle.
Kolin Porter
South Jordan, Utah
Other than the usual aftermarket sources specializing in Chevelle parts, like National Parts Depot (nationalpartsdepot.com) or Original Parts Group (opgi.com), we really don't know of any retailers that specialize in a bolt-on racing-style mirror for the '68 Chevelle. However, two companies come to mind that may come close to what you are looking for. The first is Andy's Auto Sport at 800-419-1152 or andysautosport.com. The second is Vintage Auto Garage at 800-516-4461. Both sources carry a variety of choices for mirrors that can be adapted to your mirror mount with some modification. Usually, the modification would involve drilling new holes. When you choose a style of mirror you like, just make sure the mount will cover the old mirror mounting holes.
What's it Worth to You?I am hoping you can help me out or lead me in the right direction. I know of a one owner, always garage kept, 15,000 mile, never been hit, no rust, not show room mint but close condition, 1969, post, bench seat COPO 427 4 speed, Chevelle. I actually got to drive this car a couple of times and rode shotgun several times. This car will be up for sale in the near future. The question is how much is it worth and are there any production numbers. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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Good question, Jim. If it is a real '69 Chevelle 427 COPO it would depend on the care itself. Does it have authentic documentation like a bill sheet? What accessories were ordered when new, and is the drive train original? Unfortunately, the engine number was not included in the vehicle VIN in 1969 so documentation would be critical in the equation. The accepted number built for the 69 COPO is 323 units. However, there is some evidence that 113 were actually 396 engines and the rest were the 427, leaving 210 actual units. Hard to say which is correct but either way the car would be worth a lot if the paperwork proves to be correct. Perfect examples have sold at auction for over one hundred thousand but that is rate. The only true way to come up with a workable figure is to have the car professionally appraised. Not sure where you live, but you could try Classic Auto Appraiser at 800-454-1313. Jeff Hyman can either help you with an appraisal when the time comes or refer you to somebody in your area.
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