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John Hufnagel announced Wednesday he will be back on the sidelines next season as he tries to guide the Calgary Stampeders to a second straight Grey Cup title, but he said he will hand the reins over to Dickenson, the team's offensive co-ordinator, in 2016.
"I have one more year left on the field coaching," Hufnagel said on Wednesday afternoon. "Then, Dave in Year 2 will become the head coach and I'll move up to just be the general manager. With that program in place, I don't think that there's a whole lot of talking necessary about another team."
When asked if he'd still consider talking to B.C. general manager Wally Buono about the vacant head coaching position with the Lions, Dickenson said he's not even considering that option.
"I'm not leaving," said Dickenson, who was announced as a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame's 2015 class last Friday. "I've said that a million times. I'm staying here. I don't know if he's planning on calling or not. I respect Wally, love what he's done. He's been really good to me, but I'm locked in here in Calgary. I'm very happy to do that."
The Stampeders are coming off a 20-16 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in Sunday's Grey Cup final. It's Calgary's second CFL title since Hufnagel took over as head coach in 2008.
"We put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into this one man and (it's great) for Huff to finally get one again," said linebacker Keon Raymond, who referred to Hufnagel as "probably the best coach I've ever played for in my life.
"I appreciate and I admire coach Hufnagel so much," Raymond added. "To have this opportunity to make this run with him — seven years — I'm overjoyed with."
When told of Raymond's comments, Hufnagel said he appreciated the compliment.
"It was very flattering," he said. "One thing I try to do is build a relationship within the locker-room of trust and part of that trust is them trusting me and it goes from there."
Dickenson also had high praise for the man he referred to as one of his coaching mentors.
"This is Huff's team and he's done just such a great job," Dickenson said. "I'm glad he's coming back. I told him that after the game, 'Don't do anything crazy now. Come back here.' He's just really, to me, a guy that we can all lean on and he showed what a great coach he was this year. I want to keep working with him for many, many years."
Running back Jon Cornish wasn't shocked to hear of the plan to have Dickenson to take over as coach in 2016.
"I think that a lot of players were surprised," Cornish said. "I wasn't. He's been the associate head coach and has sort of been the No. 2 guy here for quite some time now, so it's just nice to see it official."
Now that he's had time to celebrate the Grey Cup win with his staff and players, Hufnagel said he's going to turn his attention to more pressing matters related to helping the Stamps defend their title next season.
"Right now it's full steam ahead and trying to get some players signed up and talking to their agents," Hufnagel said. "Hopefully we can have some good luck with that over the next couple weeks."
Among the list of prospective free agents on the Stamps is Brett Jones, the CFL's Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman.
"Brett has a lot of things on his table right now," Hufnagel said. "He is getting NFL interest. He wants to try to pursue that. That's going to be a wait-and-see game. If things don't blossom down south, then hopefully he's wearing the red and white next year."
Defensive end Shawn Lemon confirmed that he already has a dozen workouts scheduled with NFL teams, the first on Friday with the Washington Redskins.
"I wouldn't play for another CFL team but Calgary, so we'll go from there," said Lemon, who could test the free-agent market. "I've expressed that to the management already. I want to do those workouts and see what happens."
Other potential free agents include Stanley Bryant, Brandon Smith, Micah Johnson, Edwin Harrison, Keenan MacDougall, Glenn Love, Simon Charbonneau-Campeau, Brad Sinopoli, Matt Walter, Hugh Charles as well as 11-year veteran receiver Nik Lewis.
"Obviously we're not going to have everybody back," said quarterback and Grey Cup MVP Bo Levi Mitchell. "We wish we would. We have a great team, we have a great mesh and we have a great locker-room. There's going to be some surprises for sure — none that I know of yet. When they come, I'm sure they'll hurt, but I'm sure we'll go out and get people too."
Like Hufnagel, Mitchell said he enjoyed being able to celebrate the championship win, but that he's ready to start preparing for next season.
"It's over, we won it, so back to work for the next one," he said. "We know that there's a lot of hard work that we have to put in and I know that I'm going to push myself that much harder to become that much better."


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Strategies To Having A More Youthful Looking Skin
People think they know how to properly treat their skin, but the truth is a lot of people don't really know what they need to do to ensure their skin is at its best. The thing you want to do is learn as much as you can about proper skin care, so take note from this article as it contains plenty of information for you.
It's important to exfoliate your skin gently but thoroughly on a regular basis. Exfoliation gets rid of dead skin cells and opens up your pores, which means that when you shave, you'll be less likely to get razor bumps. Exfoliation also gives your skin a polished, new look.
Wear sunscreen! Too much sun exposure is detrimental to dry skin. It dries you out even more and this can cause break-outs. To stop this before it starts, use a high SPF, preferably, with a moisturizer built in. This will help prevent acne flare-ups and keep your skin looking healthy and fresh.
The best, most important way to assure your skin stays healthy is to protect your skin from the sun. Too much time in the sun can cause dry skin, age spots, freckles and wrinkles. Too much sun exposure can also cause problems which are more serious such as skin cancer.
In order to have healthy, clean skin, you must stay hydrated. That means drinking around 8 cups of water every day. If you don't drink enough water, your face will become oily which will lead to pimples, acne, and other unpleasant things. Not only will you look better by staying hydrated, but you'll feel better too!
Skin is the most important part of your body, and you should treat it with care at all times. Never rub your skin too hard or wear any dirty clothes, as this could have a negative chain reaction affect on the skin on the rest of your body. Wash your clothes regularly, and treat your skin delicately.
If you are suffering from dryness and redness caused by excessively licking your lips, use an emollient moisturizer around the mouth. Next, use a gentle lip exfoliant to remove dry or dead skin, then top with a rich, fragrance-free balm. This should condition your mouth area and prevent further irritation.
Sunscreen is not just for summer. While sunscreen is typically associated with warm days on the beach, it is just as important, if not more so, in the winter. On clear winter days, the sun can still deliver as much UV rays as it does in the summer, and if there is snow on the ground, you will be hit from below as the rays reflect off the ground.
With all of the information that you have just learned, you should have realized more ways to help improve your skin care. Your skin is an essential part of your body, so you want to make sure it is in its best form. These are but some of the tips you can learn, so make sure you continue to expand your knowledge.

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As many of my regular readers know, I have been thinking about the problem of the origins of Christianity for quite some time - I even published a stupid book on the subject. My interest in Christianity began with some chance encounter with the person of Marcion. I don't know how it happened. I was still attending university and had always had an interest in the pagan religions of antiquity. I think many people have a fancy for history but Jewish people quite especially because it makes them fell immortal and indomitable somehow. You know, we take a licking and keep on ticking or something like that.
In any event, I had to make sense of Christianity. I had lived alongside Christians for most of my life. Who was this 'Jesus Christ' that they venerated so? He was Jewish, right? Well, how did a Jew garner so much love and devotion from 'white people'? More importantly, I think my real interest began with the death of the pagan religions and Dionysus especially, the patron of the dramatic arts.
Why did 'white people' abandon what appeared at first glance to be a far more interesting religion or series of cults for this morbid Jewish sectarian association? I must confess, I had many theories for the origins of Christianity along the way. Yet I think my first 'theory' as it were was that Jesus was a development of the cult of Dionysus. It all seems to silly when I look back. I think I even gave a presentation on this Jesus as a Development of the Greek Natural Religion in a graduate course on Hegel that I happened to be taking. I remember the look of scorn on the part of the 'serious students' who were taking the class.
The point here is that somewhere along the line (I think I took a right turn at Origen's Against Celsus and never looked back) I became fixated with the subject of Marcion and Marcionitism. I was already corresponding with Daniel Mahar and Robert Price while I was still attending Glendon College of York University in Toronto. I kept writing these 'books' which I sent to anyone and everyone who might allow me to get my ideas published.
I did everything so completely 'assed-backwards.' I never thought about being a 'writer' and just writing on various topics. I had this obsession with 'knowing the truth' and figuring that if I 'figured it all out' then everyone would simply realize I was right and I would become famous.
I sometimes wonder if I suffered brain damage somewhere along the line in my youth.
The bottom line is that by the time I actually published the Real Messiah I started to put together what I still consider to be a workable model for the origins of Christianity. I don't know what will happen to this theory. I think I started spending time writing this blog with the understanding that I would not change the world or in the very least I would fail to become famous in my own right. Nevertheless I thought and still think that I am on to something, something that someone else or a succession of other people could flesh out sometime after I either pass away or give up trying to change the world.
My basic theory is that the Marcionites were right. Jesus was a God rather than a man and he was originally understood to have originally come down from heaven to the temple of Jerusalem (= beth saida) and was mistaken for the messiah rather than his divine herald and ultimately condemned by crucifixion. This is the core story as it were to the Christian experience. The difficulty was flushing out the other details and develop it into some kind of narrative that could be sold as a book.
I avoided the subject of Marcion completely in my Real Messiah. The reason was quite simple really. I hadn't figured out how to make all the pieces fit. Some might argue that I should have done my research in a university. Yet I can honestly tell you that I don't believe I would be standing here with my particular theory if I had to publish papers in a particular field of study. I have come to believe that Marcionitism can be likened to a minority population in Texas whose constituency or body is divided up by the deliberate redistricting efforts of election officials.
According to my way of thinking the categories we have been trained to use were deliberately imposed on the world by the Imperial authorities in the late second century. 'Christianity' is an artificial category. It implies something which is ultimately 'Gentile' rather than Jewish, an association which has a human founder named Christ (hence the Latin -ianus in the name) which believed in one God rather than many, and most importantly a tradition which interpreted the scriptures by means of a revealed 'faith' rather than the Greek philosophical exegesis of Justus of Tiberias and Philo of Alexandria.
I know it may sound like something which borders on a 'conspiracy theory' but the evidence in Judaism and Samaritanism already supports the idea of just such a re-engineering. The difficulty is that scholars of Christianity have very little idea how the Imperial authorities abused and coddled the various Palestinian sects in order to reshape them as strict monotheists. This did not simply happen 'naturally.' There was a pronounced interest in 'streamlining' the various religious faiths of the Empire in the third century. It all seems to culminate in Aurelian's solar cult but the roots of this trend go back to the time of Commodus.
In my mind, Marcionitism was a relic from the Alexandrian origins of Christianity. I don't exactly know how this Alexandrian cult became identified as being associated with a figure named 'Marcion' nevertheless it is patently obvious that it has something to do with Marcion being a form of the name Mark and St Mark being the patron saint of Alexandrian.
Almost every Patristic writer makes reference to Marcion as a Platonist. Yet because scholars can't get around the repeated statement in the Church Fathers that Marcion 'hated Judaism and the god of the Jews' these academics can't make the ultimate connection that Marcionitism was a development of Alexandrian Judaism. I don't know why this is but I am sure it has something to do with the fact that Christian scholars have very little working knowledge of what Judaism is and what forms Jewish worship can take.
Marcus Julius Agrippa was such an interesting historical figure to me because of course he is the historical Marcion. All scholars need to do is read the actual reports which survive in the rabbinic writings and they will see this as clear as day. He was a Jew who embraced the idea of another god besides what became known as 'the Jewish god.'
Yet even this paradigm is developed from something of a false premise. For the assumption here is that 'Judaism' is based on the notion of strict monotheism. Of course anyone who has ever read the writings of Philo knows full well that this Alexandrian Jew takes the two divine names of the Pentateuch to refer to two different divine powers. How then can the rabbinic tradition assert that Marcus Julius Agrippa introduced another God besides the true God of Israel? It is because the later rabbis of the third and fourth centuries had learned to define themselves against this interpretation. Yet it is unmistakable that Marcus Julius Agrippa's religious reforms of the first century had an effect on Judaism of the later period. Jews were still identifying the last king of Israel as the messiah into the twentieth century.
The important thing for us to see (and it is something that I realized early in my studies) is that we will never get a direct sighting of 'Marcion' in any source outside of the Patristic literature because he is ultimately a fictitious literary figure after the manner of 'Ebion,' 'Elxai' and the rest of the boogeymen of the heresiological genre. Christianity is now filled with these ghosts. 'St. Mark' is another such ghost. The real historical figure behind all these empty masks is Marcus Julius Agrippa, the Platonizing philosopher king of Israel.
The clearest way to see this phenomenon is to look at the name the Marcionites gave to Jesus - 'Chrestos' and then notice that the Alexandrian tradition starting with Philo and going down to Clement of Alexandria makes the very same connection. Philo for instance identifies 'El Shaddai' as the 'Good God' and Clement who was very aware of Philo's interpretation further identifies this figure as his Instructor (= Jesus). I think the Marcionite understanding of Jesus Chrestos was identical with this tradition.


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The regulatory move that the mobile industry last year warned would see networks strike off further dealers was confirmed by Ofcom last week.
The industry body will implement its revised rules on mis-selling and new enforcement programme in September 2009. Networks will be warned and given a chance to discipline retailers in breach before being fined 10 per cent of their turnover.
Ofcom's new rules state that mobile networks and staff of direct or indirect retailers must not mislead customers, and that networks must put measures in place to prevent this.
Staff must ensure the customer is authorised to enter a contract and that they get the appropriate information at the point of sale. Networks must monitor that cashback deals where offered are not "unduly restrictive" and carry out due diligence checks on retailers.
Networks will be required to implement practices to better monitor mis-selling within nine months of the regulation being enforced.
Ofcom said the average number of complaints about mobile mis-selling over the last six months had been around 200 a month. Chief executive Ed Richards said: "Our announcements are designed to tackle misleading sales practices in landline and mobile services."
Ofcom announced its intention to introduce such heavy-handed regulation in June last year. Industry heads claimed the move would force networks to further cull dealers as the cost of such in-depth monitoring would prove unviable.
The networks said they favoured the voluntary code, which Ofcom had branded as ineffective.
In its response to Ofcom's proposal, T-Mobile said that given that Ofcom has relationships with larger retailers; where they are deemed to be in breach, Ofcom should deal directly with those retailers.
3 said that making the network responsible for a retailer's failure to comply with its own regulatory responsibilities may result in networks reducing the number of indirect partners they deal with.
O2 said Ofcom should crack down on bad sales practices on a targeted basis, and "name and shame" organisations at fault.
Orange said it was not realistic to heighten retail monitoring practices within the nine months prescribed by Ofcom.
Vodafone said problems that had occurred with cashback were down to a small number of dealers. Ofcom should be more pointed in directing responsibility for situations that have caused consumer harm.
Meanwhile, Consumer Direct reports that mobile phone service agreements are the second most complained about item in the UK, behind used car sales.
Of all mobile phone related complaints in 2008 (51,400), around 10,600 are estimated to have included mobile mis-selling issues – up from 9,000 in 2007.
Ofcom estimates the current ongoing value of financial harm to consumers from general mis-selling at £21 million a year.
It estimates cashback mis-selling to cost £8 million a year. The cost of time spent dealing with mis-selling and cashback problems is £3 million per year, it said.


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Jennie put her beautiful "Lambton" blocks together and what a gorgeous result. Here she is with her quilt, just the final borders to be added. Jennie made this in class at The Stitchers Cupboard (plus homework at home, of course).
Sharon was choosing fabrics for different components of her lovely version of "Wentworth" in Monday class.
Tuesday I had a whack and stack class at Jukejema Quilting Barn in Nowra. The girls were making a couple of my different quilt designs. Sue was working on "Millefiori" in the Wild Orchid range by Moda.
Sandra was using Tula Pink to make Le Moyne Star blocks for her "Rococo" quilt. Gorgeous.
Here is a beautiful star with red flowers made by Chris.
On Wednesday I taught at Lyn's Fine Needlework in Baulkham Hills. Jacqueline was working on the borders for her lovely "Victoria" centre.
On Thursday I taught my ladies at Richmond. Judy has been doing lots of stitching lately. She has completely finished her beautiful version of my "Pemberlini" pattern, including hand quilting.
Judy has also completed a lot of work on her stunning black, grey and red version of "Ashbourne Mill". It looks amazing. More applique on the pumpkin seeds to go.
Here is Mary's version of "Pemberlini" with a lovely toile centre.
Friday was sit and sew class at The Stitchers Cupboard. Kerry was working on her soft and beautiful version of "Wentworth" in blues and browns.
Christine completed her version of "Longbourne" in Autumn tones. Very striking.
Chris has almost completed these two lovely blocks for her "Lambton".
Today was the second class for "Pickled Paisley". It was a rather busy day of cutting, pinning and stitching. We were using the paper foundation pieced arcs made previously and sewing them into a circular block. Here are some of the results, so far.
This is Jan's amazing block in orange, black and grey. Wow!
This is Kerry's block with a gorgeous bird fabric in blues, greens and teals.
This is Kathy's block in yellows and oranges.
This is Michelle's version in brown and pink. They are both beautiful.


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2014 Update
Let me start this post by saying I hope everyone had a peaceful, happy Christmas and New Year, yes I know it's been a while. For reasons which I'm about to divulge.
A few posts ago I asked someone to hire me as I'd just graduated university and like a lot of new graduates, was without work.
In early October I was offered some freelance journalism work at a group of radio stations in Warwickshire. After a few months living in hotels and driving 200 mile round trips from my home in Essex, they offered me a full time job.
So here I am, writing this in my new flat in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. I've moved out of my parents house and now live on my own.
So I hope you'll excuse these last few months of silence, but as I'm sure many of you know, moving house and settling in to a new job takes time and is very stressful – especially over the Christmas period.
But I now feel like I am in a better place to pick up where we left off and give this website the care, love and attention I've always had for it and that I know it deserves.
Coming up soon on musicformygeneration:
– David Bowie at the Brits
– My Top 5 Rolling Stones songs
– What I'm listening to at the moment
Ladies and gentlemen… The Rolling Stones!
I'm afraid it's going to be another one of those articles where I just gush about how amazing an artist is when I've had the fortune of being able to see them live.
This time, The Rolling Stones.
After the initial disappointment of missing out on tickets for the November dates at the O2 in London which were ticketed at around £1300 – much more than my poor student bank account could afford. Then they announced that they were playing the British Summer Time festival also in London but in Hyde Park in July 2013 and I knew I had to be there.
I'm also aware of how overdue this article is, well my answer to that is that I've been working bit by bit on it since the day I saw them. I wanted to get it right, I wanted to do them the up most of justice. So after a long battle with my university computers, mid lecture, at 9am when usually I wouldn't be properly functioning, I got them. I had to keep checking my Ticketmaster account. Because I couldn't believe I'd actually got them!
Now, I'd never even been to Hyde Park before, but it's somewhere I'd always wanted to go because of the iconic "Stones in the Park" on 5th July 1969, and knowing that they hadn't played there since made this time round all the more special. There was only one person I would have considered taking with me to such and important and again, in years to come, iconic gig, and that was my Dad.
Although showing subdued interest at the news that I'd managed to get tickets, I could tell by the spring in his step the closer and closer we got to the park that it was getting harder and harder for him to hide his excitement. I think this had a lot to do with the fact that he'd seen the Stones before back in the July of 1995 on their '94 – '95 Voodoo Lounge tour (you know, the one with the giant mechanical fire-breathing snake?) and had assumed that it would probably be the last time he would be able to see them all alive and playing together. But no, here he found himself, about 15 rows from the front, on a gloriously sunny 13th July 2013, waiting for The Rolling Stones.
As they started up their set, I thought to myself that the sound was better than what I'd been able to take from the Glastonbury set they'd done earlier in the year and my Dad agreed, there was a better clarity and the noise went right through you like a good rock concert should.
There's only one song you can start a Rolling Stones set with and that's 'Start Me Up' – which happens to be one of my favourites. I just love the idea of a woman having so much effect that they can make "a grown man cry".
This was then followed by:
It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It)
Tumbling Dice
Emotional Rescue
Street Fighting Man (By Request)
Ruby Tuesday
I was really surprised to see that they then played Doom and Gloom. Now I LOVE Doom and Gloom (as you can probably tell by my older articles about it) but I was surprised to see it in their set, what with it being a new song, I had just assumed that they'd stick to the classics. Pleasantly suprised!
Paint It Black came next. Shoot me down if you like, but I'd completely forgotten about Paint It Black. I know, I know. But you have to admit, there is something very un-Stones about it? Well, I think so anyway, or maybe I'm just trying to find a reason to justify my mistake! Either way, there is something very dark and almost hurried about the track, something which came to me when seeing it live, seeing all these thousands of people dancing as if in a trance to it. It was hard not to join in!
Honky Tonk Women
You Got The Silver (with Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Happy (with Keith Richards on lead vocals) – This was completely brilliant! My Dad really loves Keith Richards and it was great to see him up front, his voice really was not what I was expecting. It had an almost southern American drawl and bite to it, husky, weathered but oh so perfect!
Miss You
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Gimme Shelter
Jumpin' Jack Flash
Sympathy for the Devil… WOO HOO! What more can I say? Well, a lot actually. This was my favourite of the whole set. Red smoke, Mick Jaggers outrageously over the top floor length black fur coat, strutting around as per usual. Then the crowd joining in with the whole "WOO HOO" throughout (and for most of the train journey on The Underground home too…)
I did film it for musicformygeneration when I was there but looking back on it now, my version was such shocking quality that it didn't justify how good it actually was, so here is the one they did at Glastonbury.
Brown Sugar
You Can't Always Get What You Want (with the Voce Choir and members of the London Youth Choir)
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)
One of my favourite moments aside from the music was when Mick Jagger essentially dragged Charlie Watts to the front of the stage and said "Go on Charlie, say something.", Yeah, yeah alright Mick, you can give it a go, but it might be like drawing water from a stone we all thought… Watts was getting deafening cheers just standing there before, amazingly, after pausing for a while just said one word. "'Allo." and returned to his drum stool, sending the crowd wild. What an incredibly cool man!
The whole gig for me was just magical. I'd go see them again in a heartbeat and it was so nice to share the experience with my Dad who never thought he'd see them again live! Here's to the next 50 years!
So I updated my 'Band List'
For someone with such a bad memory, and having seen so many people in my life, I keep what I like to call my 'Band List'.
Every time I have been to see a band, I add them to my list.
Big, small, global, unknown, they all go on there.
Just because you never know who will make it big in the future.
My perfect example of this is Lady Gaga. She supported another band I was seeing back in 2008 and nobody knew who she was. But I popped her down on my list… and look at her now!
So I've just updated my bands list from the last 12 months or so, was really behind on it all. Took me a while and I won't share it all with you unless you want me to?
But here are a few of my highlights:
I plan on adding lots more to this list over the coming months. But I also want to know… who have you been to see? Who was your favourite?
09/05/13 – On the home straight.
So this week I have been wrapping up my final year of university (very scary – now I have to be a proper adult and get a job!) and these are the songs that have been getting me through this week and my final pieces of work.
Comment below and let me know what you have been listening to this week – I'd love to know!
1. Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls
LOVE THIS. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I can't help but do the bass line "badow badow" and sing it out loud when I hear this song.
2. Dire Straights – Sultans of Swing
The guitar riff in this is just so iconic and is one of the very few songs I will bring out the air guitar for! One of my Dad's claims to fame is that pre-Dire Straights, Mark Knopfler was a guitar teacher at his high school and used to occasionally borrow my Dad's guitar for lessons. I have used this guitar once, although I have to admit, just because the great Mark Knopfler played it, none of his magic rubbed off onto me… I was, and still am rubbish.
3. Tom Jones – Delilah
I saw Sir Tom at V Festival last summer and he was incredible. For a man of his age (Sorry Sir Tom!) and to still have such power, tone and clarity in his voice is a real rarity! I've chosen this flamenco version because this is the version he played at V, and I personally prefer it to the original. What do you think?
I cannot portray strongly enough how excited I am. I managed to buy tickets to the Rolling Stones 13th July gig at Hyde Park and wanted to share with you all my excitement! Will no doubt be posting a review and photos from the concert which I am going to with my Dad who isn't showing his excitement just yet but I think he is secretly as buzzing as me!
Someone hire me!
So I am really close to graduating and I have been applying for literally 1000's of jobs and I figured making a website would increase my chances of employment.
So have a little look and forward to anyone you know who is looking for a journalist or presenter or anything media related – I'd really appreciate it!
Abbie x
Hold the line!
I'm really sorry I haven't been posting on here lately. I am in my final year at university and I am currently working on my final project and dissertation which is taking up all of my time at the moment.
Do not fear – I haven't forgotten about you all, I'm just super busy but will get on here when I can and will be returning very soon with lots of exciting things!
Lots of love,


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From the years of approximately 33 to 50.
High school teacher and adjunct college professor; husband and father; tennis player.
From the years of approximately 33 to 50.
High school teacher and adjunct college professor; husband and father; tennis player.
High school teacher and adjunct college professor; husband and father; tennis player.
I had previously taught three years near downtown LA, where I learned not much about teaching but did learn enormously about surviving as a teacher and about poverty and how it impacts student performance in the classroom. Next, I taught for three years in precisely the opposite circumstances: an expensive private school in Bel Air. I had taught for six years and was no longer a beginner, but I had not yet truly honed my craft to where I wanted it to be. I knew I was not an expert yet, but I wanted to be.
And I was done living in Los Angeles. I had lived there since my student days at UCLA, but I wanted to work as a public school teacher and raise a family outside of the urban core of LA. So I looked around and discovered a new school in Ventura, California that was not even built yet, focusing on education and technology - my specialty as a teacher. I wrote two personal letters and secured a job interview, and then I nailed the interview. So I was one of some dozen teachers chosen to help start Foothill Technology High School in the fall of 2000, and I was only one of two teachers hired from outside the Ventura Unified School District. I moved to Ojai and started my life in a new place.
I was 33 years old, and in helping get Foothill Tech off the ground I had something to prove professionally. There were already two large comprehensive high schools in the district, and Foothill would have to prove itself to be a better choice through its educational offerings if it were to survive. Foothill had to prove itself as a new school, and I spent all my energy and efforts towards doing public education better there than it had been done before in the city of Ventura. In getting in at the ground level I was able to harness my own professional success to that of Foothill Technology High School, and these efforts were eventually more successful that I had ever thought they might be. We put Foothill on the map. It made my career. How? With projects like this one:
Do you see what I mean?
It is exhausting to think about the long and intense hours I worked to help start Foothill Technology High School starting in August of 2000. My fellow teachers and I built an all completely custom curriculum with the new digital tools available at the time, with a focus on project-based curriculum in a smaller-school environment. I would go to work in the morning and put all my energies into a full and intense interacting with my students, and then I would grab something to eat and go home and take a nap as I was exhausted. Then I would wake up refreshed around 4:30 pm and go back to my classroom and work another three or four hours of work on lesson plans and projects and leave in the dark when the janitors closed up around 9:00 p.m. I would return home, eat dinner, go to sleep, and then wake up and do it again. I was then dating Maria, who would eventually go on to become my wife, and she said, "I often saw the back of your head in those days when you work working at the computer." It was not really the amount of hours I worked; it was the focus and intensity of my efforts towards one goal: the best educational experience for my students. I thought it took two hours of planning and prepping to teach one hour, and I was able to achieve that ratio during those years. I was old enough to know what I was doing as a teacher, and I was young enough to have the energy to do it. I also had the time. I was not married yet. I did not have children.
In 2001, I was able to teach my first Honors class. And in 2002, I piloted "The American Experience" - an interdisciplinary Advanced Placement United States History and Advanced Placement English Language and Composition course for high school juniors. I saw students everyday for 90 minutes, and I was their "humanities" instructor (English and American history) in what was supposed to be college freshman class for advanced high school students. It was an extraordinarily intense learning experience. I developed completely custom curriculum to integrate completely the two classes in a fully digital fashion. I graded essays and read students blogs all weekend and most evenings after work. When the AP exams approached we had mock exams on weekend and history cram sessions at night and at school and in student's houses. When challenged to achieve academically, my students often surprised themselves and me in their performances; AP classes are what turn on some students to the challenges and rewards of the life of the mind. My years with the American Experience were the crown jewels of my career. I wrote four and five page letters of recommendation afterwards to universities for my AP students, and in 2008 my first student was accepted to Harvard. Most of my AP students went on to the University of California system and enjoyed success there, in part because they had been well prepared in high school. I had enjoyed success, FTHS enjoyed success; our students enjoyed success. We worked ourselves into exhaustion, but oh my did we have fun!
I was completely absorbed by teaching. Or to be more exact, I was consumed by learning for myself, and then translating that learning to others by "backwards planning" lesson plans that would finally lead up to some grand culminating project -- all brought to life by cutting edge multimedia technology, and leveraging the ability to communicate online and build artifacts that would enable and showcase student learning. I would introduce a topic and set the stage, and then students would take my introductory information and then take it to the higher levels by themselves (Hegel's thesis, antithesis, and then synthesis). During these years I would sometimes build projects (usually online "webquests") that I knew I would never have the time to teach to students. I would build this curricula on weekends out of the sheer intellectual enjoyment of building such curricula.
Around this time (2006) I came to start working as an Adjunct Professor in Azusa Pacific University teaching in their Advanced Studies in the graduate School of Education. In short, I taught student teachers ("baby teachers," I called them) in evening classes how to use digital tools and to craft lesson plans and student project that would allow students to fully gain access to curricula. I talked about school, the purposed of school, the power of multimedia and how to allow students to create meaning from sharing their learning through technology. I was a part-time professor teaching graduate school who was really a high school teacher - APU brought me in as an expert practitioner who could serve as a professor that could help novice teachers move into the classroom and survive and be successful. I gave instruction and encouragement in about equal parts to my graduate students, and I always reminded them that they would never have to be first year teachers ever again after that first rough year of teaching was over. The APU EdTech Dept. at that time under Dr. Joanne Gilbreath was a hotbed of teacher creativity and sharing: we professors would share approaches to learning, have lively debates about the politics of American public education, argue charter vs. traditional public schools and the pros and cons of teacher unions, etc. (These debates among engaged educators would usually revolve around the following question: "Does public education have to be as bad as it usually seems to be?") I read books in my free time about public education and stayed abreast of all the heated conversations. I would hear two different arguments on a controversy in American education, and I would have three opinions. I made up my own curricula, revised curricula with others, and graded graduate student curricula. I went to teacher conferences, and sometimes gave presentations at them. I won awards. I was a committed educator up to my eyeballs in edu-world, both in high school and in college.
It was a long way from Berendo Middle School. Even in my darkest days of teaching in the inner city, I knew there was better out there for me. I went out and got it. I earned it. But it cost me nothing less than blood, sweat, and tears. Anything difficult but worth doing in life costs you a part of your soul, in my opinion.
But then Maria and I became pregnant in 2006 and started our family nine months later (evidence). Much changed. It was not so much that I changed, but my circumstances had changed. Or maybe the circumstances of having babies of my own did, in fact, change me? At any rate, I was a new father, and so in many ways I was a different man than before. Look at some of my writings from this time:
A few seconds ago I claimed that doing anything hard costs you a part of your soul -- a goodly portion of your life's energy. Working as an educator clearly did that for me. But so did parenting and family life, as the many above parenting essays show. (What was I doing so much in those numerous essays? Like in so much in my webpage, I was seeking to make sense of what was happening to me through the written word; I was processing the becoming a father.)
So my wife, Maria, and I married in 2006, and now we had our daughters Julia in 2007 and Elizabeth in 2010, and therefore I had serious claims on my attention that I had not in earlier days. I began to feel overwhelmed in a way I had not before, as if there were too many obligations pulling me in too many directions. This was an intense time: I had two small children at home, taught intense and demanding Advanced Placement United States History classes, and had a second job teaching graduate school at night.
That second job at Azusa Pacific University, in particular, helping to train future teachers, threatened to be the straw that broke the camel's back. I would teach from 8:00 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. during the day, and then I would go teach a college class from 4:45 pm until 9:30 at night – that next day workday I would feel the fatigue and stress in the muscles of my back. Sometimes my back would even "give out" and I would walk around like a hunchback and sleep painfully for a week or so; my back giving out in such moments was entirely related to overwork. I was on the edge with this second job, and I still had the first full-time job (and wife and young children).
It was a stressful but important time in my life. The second job in the evenings made the ridiculously expensive child care bills manageable, in addition to the usual mortgage, car payments, auto/home insurance, food, etc. I was juggling many balls at the same time, but of all the responsibilities I had my family and daughters were the most important. Even busy (overwhelmed?) as I was, I would put family first. Hence my wife and I had babies who over several years became toddlers and then turned into little girls, and they were my first priority. (Between my wife and daughters there was a lot of estrogen in my house.)
I came to see it as a zero-sum game: the more time I spent on school and with my students, the less time I had for my own children and family. There was only so much time in the day, and I had only so much energy; I came to see that I could not be all things to all people. I would have to choose. And when push came to shove, I would choose my own children over my students. I wanted to do well at work and I wanted to do well at home, but there was only so much time and energy – and to excel at one came at the expense of the other. I wanted to serve my students well, and I think I did; but I would not work past a certain point. Before I was a father, I had almost unlimited time to excel at work. Now, as a father, I didn't.
I remember seeing teachers who would brag to me how they could not spend time with their own children on weekends because they were busy grading papers. I promised myself that would not be me; I would have a precious few years with my young children, and I would take full advantage of them.
You see what I mean? I asked myself if/when I turned 70, would I wish I had spent more time at work, or more time with my family? Especially when my children were young? I have often thought how the Catholic Church had a point when it used unmarried labor which could commit totally to work without the distractions of family.
Most adults struggle to balance work and family responsibilities in America, and clearly I was no exception. But when push came to shove, I chose family over work. "One's work life goes through stages," I told myself, "and a career is not a sprint but a marathon." Maybe when my children were older and needed me less, I would again make teaching my first priority. I could again be the teacher I was in 2007. I put a solid day's work in with my students and did a solid job. But not an outstanding job. (I knew the difference between the two.) Teaching held nowhere near the control over my imagination that it did. My intellectual energies began to flow elsewhere.
Thus becoming a father meant a severe diminution in my professional ambition. Time previously spent thinking about teaching, planning my teaching, and actually teaching came to be gradually replaced by time thinking about parenting and actually parenting. But you can read my way too long work autobiography written over many years --
-- and you will notice, gentle reader, as you get towards the end that I had out of love with teaching. Or at least I had come almost full circle in my teaching career.
I still generally enjoyed my students, and when I looked them in the face I wanted to know I'd done a good job by them -- to use their time, not waste it, in class. But I had fallen out of love with the American educational system. I expected little from it. I knew in my bones it would pretty much be what it was yesterday and today, with little hope for tomorrow. It was what it was. I could not change that. My mental energies moved elsewhere. I would see major articles in national publications on issues in the schools or the debates about the educational system in America and I would skip them. "I know this sad story about the schools in my bones," I would think. "Boring... What else is there in the news?"
So I think it appropriate that I would no longer use my professional life as the defining central experience of autobiography section of my personal webpage. Work was work. What else?
Well, I came back to a love of sweat and play I so enjoyed and indulged when I was a child. After a break of some thirty five years, I came back to the sport of tennis. I wanted to play a game with a ball, just like when I was seven.
In late 2011 it was almost this simple: I realized that for several years I had done nothing but teach classes, grade papers, change diapers, and catch sleep whenever I could. I had lost myself a bit in being so preoccupied by work and family responsibilities. Did I have any hobbies? Individual pursuits? Anything that was my own and nobody else's? Not really. So I joined the Pierpont Racquet Club and started playing tennis again. I had played much as a child, but I hadn't really played any tennis since I was fourteen years old back in 1980. Thirty one years later I was plenty rusty in my tennis strokes, and I had completely forgotten how to hit a two-handed backhand. But I jumped back into tennis, promptly got a bad case of tennis elbow, jumped into the pool and swam until it healed, and then was back out on the court again. Exercise, exercise, exercise! I loved playing a game with a ball like I was a little boy again, and competition got the testosterone flowing. I could go play a hard match of tennis, and afterwards when I returned home I was a better husband to my wife, father to my children, and teacher to my students. It was my break, my relief, my fun during the week.
Also, as I argued to Maria in spending the money to join a private tennis club, it was not only me but our whole family that would join and benefit. Our family would be active and laugh and sweat under the sun at the PRC on a routine basis. I wanted my kids to grow up on Ventura tennis courts, as I had grown up on the Newport Beach Tennis Club courts. I wanted them to learn to swim at the Pierpont pool. (They did.) The PRC cost a good chunk of change every month, but I told Maria that if we did not use it at least three times a week we would cancel our membership. But we were there more than three times a week; one of our family, at least, was there almost everyday. Since it cost more money that the average health club, it was much less crowded. The club had parties, BBQs, and a restaurant. A part of me concluded that after so many years of working I deserved to spend some money, belong to a private club, and have a more enjoyable experience than I had had at those huge, crowded, but less expensive clubs like the YMCA or LA Fitness. At the Pierpont Racquet Club, I did not encounter preening 20 years old males flexing in front of the mirror and looking at their muscles during workouts. The locker room did not smell like foot. The place did not smell like sweat. The PRC staff knew our names and would hand us a towel and greet us with a smile at the door. I made the club my second home. My tennis teammates - and good friends - were all there. I won the the annual club tennis tournament at various levels. I grew to become a solid 4.5 player and played regularly in USTA leagues. A demanding two sets of tennis followed by a beer was about as good as my life got.
Maybe this was my "mid-life crisis." As I approached fifty years of age I realized that I had to exercise vigorously to earn my appetite during dinner and get a good night's sleep. At a younger age exercise might be less important, and even optional. But as I aged I came to see exercise as mandatory and more a matter of bodily maintenance than of "looking good." In short, I would not feel comfortable in my skin if I did not get a solid sweat on almost a daily basis. (Or maybe I did feel this way when I was younger, but I was just too busy building a career and family to notice?) Of course, running at full speed on a concrete tennis court at this age meant I almost always was on the verge of getting injured. I tore my rotator cuff in November of 2014 and had to have surgery on it. But I got way more from tennis than it took from me, overall. And my kids were on the court or in the pool with me much of the time. We would not be sitting around the house overlong; we would go outside and be active; we would make of our bodies our friends. This is the vision I had for our family life: the California sun and California health.
I even got my friend and fellow educator Chris Prewitt to join the Pierpont. He did so when he got promoted to an administrative position and received a raise, and Chris too felt that finally he could afford and enjoy belonging to a private tennis club. We became doubles partners and played an epic tournament match which I remember still. Then, senselessly, he was run over by an "impaired" driver while training for a marathon, in what is still one of the biggest shocks of my life. Years later I still don't quite know what to make of his sudden death. Confusion? Grief? Dislocation? Incredulity? All of these things.
I had the front page newspaper article of his death (titled, "LOCAL EDUCATOR KILLED") on the passenger seat of my car for weeks after Chris was killed, and I would look over at it periodically in disbelief while driving. One saw tragic headlines like this all the time, but now the article in question was about one of my best friends. It was like a nightmare. It still seems strange to me somehow that it happened. And utterly senseless. Driving home the night after Chris died and trying to decide how to break the bad news to my daughters was still one of the harder parenting moments I have ever had, and I came to this conclusion: just say it straight up and present the unadorned truth, which is what I did. My younger daughter Elizabeth was three years old at the time, but she understood well enough the gist of what had happened: for months afterward she would cry hysterically if Maria or I were out of sight, thinking we had died suddenly like Chris.
But life continues on, and now it is years since Chris died. The past recedes, but one does not forget. One comes to sense that there is less of life in front than behind.
I sometimes waxed nostalgic for the California past of my childhood, and grew suspicious and unhappy with the country I lived in now --
-- and so I began to despair, and to grow a bit old. Or maybe "middle aged" is the right term?
I had less and less interest in what new trends younger persons in their 20s and 30s were engaged in, and I had less and less curiosity about foreign countries and cultures and "wars and rumors of wars." My father, during the election of 2012, heatedly tried to get me to see the grave peril to the country which was Barack Obama, candidate for the presidency. I listened to him patiently, and then pointed towards a guy struggling to load groceries into his car across the street. "That man's life is not going to be all that different whether Obama or some other person [Mitt Romney] wins the election," I said to him. "His life is what it is."
I had become jaded, a bit cynical. Resigned? The world was what it was.
So I turned 50 years of age in 2017 and entered my sixth decade of life busy as a husband, father, and teacher.
And ten years into the future I could begin to descry the moment of my daughters going to college (and us paying for it), and then also my retirement as a teacher. I had a plan all the way until I retired and the girls were launched as adults, but beyond my sixty third year or so (in the year 2030 AD) I drew a blank.
What would come next for Maria and myself?
Only time will tell...


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Physical Therapy Georgia | Find Physical Therapy Georgia
It has come to be the focus as well as objective of many in our culture to keep their health and to look great into their mature years. Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy or Physical Rehabilitation is a physical medicine as well as rehabilitation specialty that, by making use of mechanical force and also movements, re-mediates disabilities and also promotes wheelchair, feature, and quality of life via examination, medical diagnosis, prognosis, as well as physical intervention. It is performed by physical therapists (recognized as physiotherapists in lots of countries).
Check out some of our Therapists in our Georgia :
Several Main Disciplines of Physical Therapy Georgia
Neurological, Spinal Cord Injury, and Traumatic Brain Injury Rehab
A big portion of physical therapists in Georgia deal with patients who struggle with these conditions. Functional retraining consisting of, walking, mobility device use, entering as well as out of bed or chairs (transfer training), relocating bed (bed flexibility), as well as re-training patients to use their hands, shoulders, and arms are simply a few of the solutions these therapists provide to those with neurological involvement. A certified specialist holds a Neurologic Certified Specialist title (NCS).
Physical therapists are well geared up to work with these types of clients due to the fact that many of them have orthopedic disorders that restrict their capability to work. The majority of physical therapists function with seniors/geriatric clients. Probably the most usual physical therapy specialist is the orthopedic specialist.
Pediatric therapists specialize in the rehabilitation of kids. Physical therapy helps clients suffering from disease or injuries enhance movement; soothe pain; increase toughness, coordination, and equilibrium; and also decrease or prevent deformity. Lots of sports experts help with re-training the athlete using running, throwing, leaping, and also sport-specific programs to name a couple of.
Fitness as well as Wellness
Physical therapists are well trained in order to help with your physical fitness requirements and health cares. If you need an exercise program, have difficulty with your weight, are concerned about osteoporosis, have a concern with diabetes mellitus, or you want to learn ways to stop falls, physiotherapists could help.
Various other areas consist of Amputee Rehabilitation, Aquatic Physical Therapy, Balance, Dizziness, and Vertigo Rehabilitation, Hand Therapy, Industrial Rehabilitation, Lymphedema Rehabilitation, Manual Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Osteoporosis Rehabilitation as well as Prevention, Women's Health, Wound Care.
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Hi, my name is Kai Strand. I write fiction for kids and teens. I think we are all aware of the fact that girls will read almost anything. They don't care what gender the main character is. They don't care if a book is chock full of romance, adventure, brainiacs or divas. Girls just read.
Well, I'm here to encourage boys to do the same thing. There are so many reasons why, but here is a sampling of them.
- Teenage boys who read are more approachable.
- They are better able to carry on conversations because they've read so much dialogue.
- Being able to discuss plot points and character motivation on a first date often leads to a second date.
- They experience things they may not get to do in their own school like saving the world, kissing, Yetis and foreign countries.
- Their vocabulary is advanced so they are naturally more articulate and able to
schmoozespeak coherently to teachers and other adults.
- They know the thrill of jumping out of a plane, or speeding down a highway, or piloting a spaceship, without the consequences of broken bones or life in prison.
- They learn what to take on an extreme mountaineering adventure in order to avoid death.
- If they are paying real close attention they learn what girls like and don't like--and they take notes.
- There is a certain sort of internal quiet to a teenage boy who incorporates reading into his leisure activities opposed to one who only blows up aliens on his Xbox.
- Teen boys look sexy lounging in a chair clutching a book or ereader in their hand and ignoring the world around them.
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Home is where the mantle is
I just installed this cedar mantle to get the living room one step closer to completion. Now all we need is some nice cold weather, a warm glow from the fireplace, a cup of hot chocolate, and a cozy wool blanket and we are set. Oh, I forgot to mention that it is 108 degrees in the Austin area today.


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Intern Interest Form
* After downloading and completing the Intern Interest Form, please email it to Tanya Bradshaw.
The Kentucky Department of Parks is actively seeking students enrolled full-time at an accredited Kentucky post-secondary school or educational institution approved by the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet.
• Enrolled on a full-time basis at an accredited Kentucky post-secondary school or other educational institution approved by the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet.
• Must be participating in a full-time cooperative education/internship program and,
• Must receive at least three credit-hours per semester. Co-op/Intern positions can be paid or unpaid positions.
• Working toward a diploma, degree or certificate in a field that relates directly to the Co-op/Intern position for which they are being considered.
• In good standing with the school with at least a 2.5 grade point average. This grade point average must be maintained throughout the period the student is working in a Co-op/Intern position.
If interested students fail to meet the requirements listed above, other consideration may be an option.
Work Station: John James Audubon State Park
John James Audubon State Park in Henderson, Kentucky, seeks a part-time intern to assist with documenting and rehousing photographs, manuscripts, and prints in the Park's museum collection. This is an excellent opportunity for a student or a recent graduate of a university program to gain hands-on experience working with archival materials and artwork related to the life of John James Audubon. The internship will include training on accessioning, cataloging, condition reporting, rehousing, and handling museum collections. The intern will work closely with the Museum Curator to perform these duties and may assist the curator in other projects such as exhibit research and maintenance.
Qualified applicants will be current students at the junior or senior level of a university program. Museum staff will also consider graduate students and recent graduates for this internship. The successful intern will be detail oriented with exceptional organizational skills and the ability to work in a team and independently. Data entry and inventory experience is a plus. A positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a willingness to learn new things are necessary for this position.
This internship is non-paying and requires a minimum of 150 hours for completion, generally completed 10-15 hours per week. The Museum Curator will schedule the intern's hours in a period from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm, Monday – Friday. Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to Jennifer Spence, Museum Curator, at [email protected].
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Hard copy documents can be sent to:
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NEW BRIGHTON - Shelby Tinklepaugh has played football most of her life.
"I just love it," said Tinklepaugh, a 15-year-old New Brighton High School sophomore.
Although Tinklepaugh, a tall blonde who wears braces and glasses, expected to enter her eighth year of football this year, she was disappointed recently to learn she may have to sit out the rest of the season. In fact, she might not get to play her favorite sport alongside the boys ever again if New Brighton Area School Board decides to discontinue allowing girls to participate on teams for boys and boys to participate on girls teams.
The school board plans to review the second reading of the new policy at the board's committee meeting Monday night. The policy needs three readings to pass.
Dr. Terry Mack, interim superintendent, said he offered the policy to the board for consideration. He said such policies exist in many other school districts, mainly in the eastern part of the state. Hopewell Area School District, where Mack retired as superintendent, adopted a policy with similar language, he said.
Mack said the policy is being reviewed by the district's solicitor and will be modified pursuant to his recommendation.
Tinklepaugh's mother, Evelyn Smiley, doesn't think the policy is fair and believes such non-progressive thinking sets the Women's Rights Movement back a couple decades. Her father, George Tinklepaugh, said he also doesn't think it is fair.
"There isn't any problem with the kids. It's grown-ups. It's the school board," he said.
Shelby said it is her dream to play on the Pittsburgh Passion women's football team. She has played tackle, linebacker, end and guard. She said the boys have accepted her, and they've worked out a method to the locker room. This year, she was going to start off as a tight end. And if New Brighton had a girls' football team, she wouldn't play on the boys' team.
Smiley called the policy "heart-wrenching." She said if injuries are the worry, boys get hurt playing football, too. She has always known the risks involved with her daughter playing football.
"Mothers with sons on a football team have concerns, but that goes along with the territory. "She could get hurt playing softball," Smiley said.
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Bethesda has posted some info on the latest update to their Prey DLC, Prey Mooncrash. Check out the trailer and details.
Live, die and live again in Prey's new Mooncrash DLC, an infinitely replayable, rogue-like experience that puts you in the boots of different TranStar employees and drops you into a secret moonbase. Armed with your wits, weapons and alien powers, you'll need to survive long enough against the Typhon threat to escape the moon. Every time you die, the path off the moon will change. New obstacles, enemies and gear placement will keep you on your toes through every attempt. Included in Prey: Mooncrash are also a series of free updates, the first of which is available now. The Full Moon update is free for all Mooncrash or Prey: Digital Deluxe owners and includes the following:
– Skyrim Theme Operator
– The Evil Within Theme Operator
– Striped Top Hat Mimic
– Bamboo Hat Mimic
– Engraved Silenced Pistol
– Engraved Shotgun
– Engraved G.L.O.O. Cannon
– Engraved Wrench.
And keep an eye out for future free updates. The next one drops in just a few weeks, and Mooncrash's largest free offering – the Typhon Hunter multiplayer update – comes later this summer
Prey: Mooncrash and Prey: Digital Deluxe are available now on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.


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Seth Rogen has scored the role of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak in Danny Boyle's upcoming Steve Jobs biopic at Sony Pictures.
Christian Bale is set to play Jobs in the Aaron Sorkin-penned project which involves three long scenes, each backstage before Jobs unveils three iconic Apple products – the Mac, the NeXT and the original iPod.
Jobs, Wozniak and Ronald Wayne co-founded the company in the late 1970s. Wozniak left as a full-time employee in 1987.
Scott Rudin, Mark Gordon and Guymon Casady are producing.
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Merger Website, Town Hall Meeting Announced
As the Akron and Cleveland Area Boards of REALTORS® progress towards a vote for unification, the Regional Advisory Committee has launched a merger website and scheduled a town hall meeting. Each will provide all the information you need as a CABOR member to make an informed decision when you vote in July.
Merger Website:
Visit AkronClevelandRealtors.com to review important merger documents, get answers to frequently asked questions, find out what members are saying about the merger, and provide feedback. Also, you can read about AABOR and CABOR leaders' vision for the future of REALTORS® in Northeast Ohio, and even view an interactive map for a visual geography of the merged organization.
Town Hall Meeting:
There will be a Town Hall meeting to discuss the proposed merger June 26, 2013 at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held at St. Michael's Woodside (5025 Mill Rd, Broadview Heights, OH 44147). Members of both AABOR and CABOR are invited to attend. There will be a presentation on the merger and attendees will be welcome to voice their opinions and ask questions of the Regional Advisory Committee. Continental breakfast will be provided. RSVP BELOW.
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Welcome to New Zealand
Nearly 30 percent of New
Zealand's land area is comprised of protected areas
and national parks or taonga or treasures of
irreplaceable and priceless value.
Several of these
house Maori artifacts and features of great
spiritual and historic significance.
The Tuwharetoa Maori chiefs in 1887 gave their
ancestral volcanic mountains of Ruapehu, Tongariro,
and Ngauruhoe in the North Island's central region
to all the New Zealand people, producing the
nation's 1st and the world's 4th national park
called the Tongariro National Park.
Currently, there are thirteen areas like this that
preserve for future generations some of the most
awesome scenery of New Zealand, its rare and
threatened fauna and flora and its archaeological
There are also two World Heritage sites in New Zealand. One
is made up of parts of Fiordland, Westland, Mount Aspiring,
and Mount Cook National Parks while the other one is
Tongariro National Park.
In perfect combination with the national parks are twenty
forest parks that provide superb scenery and several
recreational possibilities.
Easily reached from Auckland is the Coromandel
Forest Park which boasts of over 30 walking trails
through luscious forests, historic mining sites, old
volcanic landforms, as well as swimming, fishing,
camping, sailing, and diving.
Located in the central North Island is Pureora
Forest Park which has been dubbed as New Zealand's
best wildlife preserve for endangered wildlife birds
ever observed on the country's mainland.
Four historic and maritime parks preserve rare
animals, vegetation, and archaeological sites on
some of the world's loveliest headlands, islands,
and coastal lands.
While a lot of these facilities are open to the public for
purposes of recreation, a special permit is needed to visit
some of the distant island reserves that have purpose-built
to facilitate endangered species.
Among such places are the Bay of Islands Maritime
and Historic Park which is a playground of
subtropical islands, beaches, tidal inlets with
mangroves, and bays. This northern beautiful park
provides coastal and forest walks, fishing, boating,
diving, swimming, camping, and big-game fishing.
On the doorstep of Auckland is Hauraki Gulf Maritime
Park. The waters surrounding its forty seven islands
are a boat-athlete's paradise.
Encompassing Mount Taranaki (the most perfectly
symmetric volcano of New Zealand) is Egmont National
Park. The walking paths in this park cover from the
rainforests of the lowlands, through the alpine herb
fields, to ice and snow.
Situated on Rotorua's southeast is Te Urewera National Park.
It is the largest remaining forested wilderness region on
the North Island. Its crowning feature is Lake Waikaremoana,
with good fishing, swimming, boating, walking paths, and
bird watching.
Located at the topmost part of the South Island on Tasman
Bay is the Abel Tasman National Park. It is the smallest of
the national parks of New Zealand. Its 4-day walking track
surrounds a wonderfully secluded coastline of untouched,
gold sandy beaches and rocky coves, against a background of
forested hills. The famous 3-4 day coastal walk is
appropriate for people of different ages.
Larger than the rest of the parks combined, the Fiordland
National Park is a big area which includes broad walking
tracks, rainforests, lakes, and stunning fiords, including
the renowned Doubtful and Milford Sounds.
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Tobacco is an important cash crop. It is grown for its leaves which are used as a cured product.
India ranks third in the world's tobacco production and second in tobacco export. It earns about Rs. 577 crores as excise revenue and Rs. 112 crores as foreign exchange. Besides, it provides an employement potential to about 56 lakhs of pepole annually in cultivation, curing, grading in factories and cottage industries. An industrial product of considerable importance is nicotine sulphate, prepared from tobacco for use as an insecticide.
Climatic Requirements
Although tobacco is a tropical crop, it can be grown in wide range of climate. It is as much a plant of the tropical zone as it is of the sub-tropical and temperate zones. In India tobacco is grown from 8ON latitude to 34ON latitude. Tobacco seeds require about 21 degree centigrade temperature for germination. Temperature between 27 and 32 degree centigrade is desirable for rapid uniform germination. Tobacco plant grows and matures rapidly when average temperature is about 25 degree centigrade. Lower temperature increases the growth period.
The quality of tobacco is greatly influenced by soil conditions. Tobacco is adapted to moderately acidic soils, with pH ranging from 5.5 to 6.5. Tobacco will not perform well in waterlogged soils as it is sensitive to waterlogging and impeded drainage. Tobacco from low-lying lands has been found to be very poor in burning quality. It absorbs moisture and deteriorates in colour during storage.
Several improved varieties in all the types of tobacco have been evolved and released. Improved varieties evolved at the Central Tobacco Research Institute, Rajahmundry (Andhra Pradesh) and its research stations all over the country are furnished.
These have become very popular among the farmers because of their superior yield, quality and resistance to diseases in the specific diseases prone areas. Selection of varieties depends mainly on the following factors:
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MALIBU — Down to only 15 players, the Flintridge Prep football team had a small margin for error entering Saturday afternoon's game against host Malibu.
And when the Rebels lost their starting quarterback and their backup, who primarily leads the way at running back, before reaching halftime, it proved too much to overcome in a 49-0 nonleague loss.
Prep (1-4) dropped its fourth consecutive game after forfeiting the previous contest due to a string of injuries from a 48-0 loss to visiting Grace Brethren on Sept. 16.