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What should I plant? California bluebell
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According to the Xerces Society, in addition to honeybees there are over 4000 species of native bees in the U.S. alone.
From leafcutter and mason bees, to miner, carpenter, and digger bees, virtually all bees and pollinators are attracted to the California Bluebells' deep blue, bell shaped flowers and long golden stamens.
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WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Sanford, Fla., Mayor Jeff Triplett said his city has made changes since Trayvon Martin was killed there in February 2012.
"We've set up blue-ribbon panels; we've set up community panels; we've set up conversations, walk-and-talks with our police department and our community," he said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday. "And we're moving towards a trustful relationship between city hall, the police department, and our community."
Triplett declined to comment on whether Martin did anything wrong.
"We from day one that we were seeking justice when the demonstrations came to the City of Sanford, that they wanted Mr. Zimmerman to sit in front of a jury of his peers. That's what's taken place. And they have spoken. They've listened to both sides of it," he said.
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He also disagreed with the verdict.
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Would it not be a good idea to wait for feedback on your last assignment before sending in the next one?
Student or Learner
I'm on the last part of my course and I've been doing ok until now considering I have no teaching experience. I'd like some feed back on this lesson plan before I send it for marking.
Thank you
Anticipated problems:
Students may not understand the game or all of the personal pronouns and sentence structures.
Some students may be shy and not want to take part.
Demon straight the game with a student that does understand. Check for understanding of personal pronouns and sentence structures we will use. If students don't understand,drill and check for understanding by asking concept questions.
Shy students: Try to give them a different role and encourage them to take part, Pair with a confident student.
Preparations and aids:
Tape recorder
Tape with animal sounds
Black/white board
Gap fill sheets
Elicit some names of animals.
I would set a written task and ask the students to write 5 sentences using the animal names.
Correct mistakes or errors.Write answers on the board.
Review last lesson.
6 mins T/S S/s
I would explain the game we will play later in class.Check for understanding of the rules.
T/S 1 min
Ask for some sentences using personal pronouns + verb + nouns ( I like dogs).
Drill more examples.(She loves cats)
S/T T/S 3 mins
Students work in pairs on a gap filling sheet and check answers.
Correct mistakes or errors.
P/W S/S T/S 4 mins
Lead-in to the game :
Demonstrate the game and check for understanding
T/S 1 min
The game:
I would tell the students that when I play the tape they will hear some animal sounds and I would like them tell me the name of the animal they hear,The first student to name the animal sound can sit down. When two students have correctly guessed each animal they will become partners and sit down together.
When everyone has a partner each pair will take turns acting out an animal of their choice to the rest of the class, who will then have to guess what they are.The student that guesses the most animal names is the winner.
PW T/S S/S 12 mins
Follow-up Activity:
Discuss pets that the students have or had, Ask some concept questions about the pets.
Set home work, I would like 10 questions about animals, I'd give an example on the board. Q.Where do fish live? A. In the sea
T/S/T 3 mins
Would it not be a good idea to wait for feedback on your last assignment before sending in the next one?
It's the same assignment
If this is a distance learning assignment, the feedback you get from your tutors will be more valuable than anything we can say. They have given you a model, which we have not seen, on which to base your plan. Advice we give you might not be be what your tutors want to see.
There is also the point that, as this is a homework assignment, we should not be assisting you. Your tutors want to see what you know and can do, not what we know.
The reason I've posted here is because my tutor did not leave much feedback on my first attempt. I sent him an email asking for more feedback and still have received nothing back yet. I do understand your point.
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Congatulations. But did you mean to type 'demon straight'? I'm sure you meant 'demonstrate', but 'demon straight' is a rather peculiar misspelling.


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Simple Squamous and Simple Columnar
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Epithelia are tissues consisting of closely apposed cells without intervening intercellular substances. Epithelia are avascular, but all epithelia "grow" on an underlying layer of vascular connective tissue. The connective tissue and the epithelium are separated by a basement membrane. Epithelium covers all free surfaces of the body. Epithelium also lines the large internal body cavities, where it is termed mesothelium. Furthermore, the internal surfaces of blood and lymph vessels are lined by epithelium, here called endothelium.
Epithelia are classified on the basis of the number of cell layers and the shape of the cells in the surface layer.
This type is composed of a single layer of flattened, scale- or plate-like cells. It is quite common in the body. The large body cavities and heart, blood vessels and lymph vessels are typically lined by a simple squamous epithelium. The nuclei of the epithelial cells are often flattened or ovoid, i.e. egg-shaped, and they are located close to the centre of the cells.
Cells appear cuboidal in sections perpendicular to the surface of the epithelium.
Viewed from the surface of the epithelium they look rather like small polygons.
Simple cuboidal epithelium occurs in small excretory ducts of many glands,
the follicles of the thyroid gland, the tubules
of the kidney and on the surface of the ovaries.
Can there be "low cuboidal" epithelia?
The cells forming a simple columnar epithelium are taller than they are wide. The nuclei of cells within the epithelium are usually located at the same height within the cells - often close to the base of the cells. An example is the simple columnar epithelium which lines the internal surface of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) from the cardia of the stomach to the rectum.
Identifying Epithelia
It is often helpful to look at the shape, location and spacing of the nuclei in the epithelium, which together will allow a very good guess at the shape of the cells forming the epithelium.
How many cell layers seem to be visible in a section depends very much on the angle between the plane of the section plane the surface of the epithelium.
Oblique sections of epithelium will be visible in almost all slides of organs in which epithelium lines a surface with a very irregular profile. A single surface is usually not lined by several types of epithelia.
The number of epithelial cell layers will usually be the smallest number of layers visible anywhere along the surface lined by the epithelium.
Sublingual Gland, Human, H&E
Duodenum, Rat, H&E and Ileum,
Human - H&E
Stratified squamous epithelia vary in thickness depending on the number
of cell layers present. The deepest cells, which are in contact with the
basement membrane, are cuboidal or columnar in shape. This layer is usually
named the basal cell layer, and the cells
are called basal cells. Basal cells are
mitotically active and replace the cells of the epithelium which are lost
by "wear and tear". The basal cell layer is followed by layers of cells
with polyhedral outlines. Close to the surface of the epithelium, cells
become more flattened. At the surface of the epithelium, cells appear like
flat scales - similar to the epithelial cells of simple squamous epithelia.
Remember that it is the shape of the cell which form the surface of the epithelium which gives the name to the epithelium.
are not common. A two-layered cuboidal epithelium is, for example, seen in the ducts of the sweat glands. Stratified columnar epithelia are found in the excretory ducts of the mammary gland and the main excretory duct of the large salivary glands.
Oesophagus, human - H&E
Parotid Gland, Human - H&E
Stratified columnar epithelia are found in the largest excretory ducts of some glands. The parotid gland, a large salivary gland, is one of them. Several epithelial types are found in the duct system of the parotid. The smallest ducts, which are embedded in the secretory tissue (intralobular ducts), are lined by cuboidal or columnar epithelia. Small ducts, which are embedded in connective tissue located between areas of secretory tissue (interlobular ducts), are lined by columnar or pseudostratified epithelia. These ducts finally coalesce to form the main excretory duct of the parotid which is lined by a stratified columnar epithelium.
Draw the stratified columnar epithelium seen in the largest ducts and label your drawing.
These two types of epithelia are difficult to classify using the shape of the cells in the surface layer and the number of the cell layers as criteria.
Transitional epithelium is found exclusively in the excretory urinary passages (the renal calyces and pelvis, the ureter, the urinary bladder, and part of the urethra).
The shape of the cells in the surface layer of a transitional epithelium varies with the degree of distension of the organs whose lumen is lined by this type of epithelium. In the 'relaxed' state of the epithelium, it seems to be formed by many cell layers. The most basal cells have a cuboidal or columnar shape. There are several layers of polyhedral cells, and, finally, a layer of superficial cells, which have a convex, dome-shaped luminal surface. In the distended state of the epithelium only one or two layers of cuboidal cells are followed by a superficial layer of large, low cuboidal or squamous cells. In the distended state the epithelium will resemble a stratified squamous epithelium.
Bladder, Monkey - H&E
It has not yet been resolved if all
the epithelial cells are in contact with the basement membrane. Some texts
consider transitional epithelium as a specialised stratified epithelium
while others group it with pseudostratified epithelia. Maybe it is best
to also consider it 'transitional' in this regard.
Trachea, Human - H&E
Basement membrane or basal lamina
Epithelia are separated from the underlying connective tissue by an extracellular supporting layer called the basement membrane. The basement membrane is composed of two sublayers. The basal lamina (about 80 nm thick) consists of fine protein filaments embedded in an amorphous matrix. Membrane proteins of the epithelial cells are anchored in the basal lamina, which is also produced by the epithelial cells. The major components of the basal lamina are two glycoproteins - laminin and (usually type IV) collagen. The reticular lamina consists of reticular fibres embedded in ground substance. The fibres of the reticular lamina connect the basal lamina with the underlying conective tissue. The components of the reticular lamina are synthesised by cells of the connective tissue underlying the epithelium.
In addition to its function as support of the epithelium, the basal lamina acts as a selectively permeable filter between epithelium and connective tissue.
Unless special stains are used, the basement membrane is rarely visible using light microscopy. You can read more about reticular fibres and ground substance on the Connective Tissues page.
Specialisations of the apical surface
Microvilli and stereocilia are finger- or thread-shaped extensions of the epithelial cells. Their main function is to increase the surface area of epithelial cells. They are typically found in epithelia active in absorption. Microvilli contain actin filaments, which are in contact with the terminal web of the cell. The only difference between microvilli and stereocilia is their length. Microvilli are much shorter than stereocilia. Stereocilia are, despite their name ("cilia"), not actively moving structures.
Using light microscopy, stereocilia are difficult to discern from cilia.
Specialisations of the lateral and basal surfaces
Connective tissue is responsible for the structural integrity of most organs. As mentioned above, it is absent from epithelia. Instead, tissue integrity as well as the barrier function of epithelia is taken care of by extensive cell-to-cell contacts between epithelial cells. These functions are mediated by several specialisations in the lateral and basal parts of the cell membranes of the epithelial cells.
are specialisations of the lateral cell membranes which mediate cell adhesion.
Proteins inserted into the cell membrane of the adjacent cells form a protein-'zipper'
linking the cells. Fibers of the cytoskeleton attach to the cytoplasmic
side of the desmosome to stabilise the area of contact. Hemi-desmosomes
mediate the attachment of the epithelial cells to the basement membrane.
A group of glycoproteins (cadherins) inserted into the opposing plasma membranes mediate cell-to-cell adhesion at desmosomes and also at the adhesion zones or patches mentioned below. Integrins, another group of proteins, allow the cell to attach to the matrix proteins of the basal lamina.
are structurally not as well-characterised as desmosomes. An intermediate junction typically appears as a close and consistent apposition (15-20 nanometers) of the cell membranes near the apical cell surface. Intermediate junctions surround the entire cell. Again, fibres of the cytoskeleton insert into the cytoplasmic side of this membrane specialisation. Patches of adhesion resemble intermediate junctions structurally, but form more localized, patch- or strip-like contacts between neighbouring cells. They are found scattered over the lateral surfaces of the epithelial cell.
Proteins inserted into the cell membranes of adjacent cells 'stitch' the membranes of the cells together and provide an effective barrier to the diffusion of substances from the outside of the epithelium (called luminal side if the epithelium covers the surface of a tubular structure). Several "rows of stitches" may be found. Their number depends on the demand to reduce diffusion across the epithelium. Each of these rows reduces diffusion by about a factor 10 of what it was 'before'.
are cells or aggregations of cells whose function is secretion.
Both endocrine and exocrine glands are developmentally derived from epithelia, which form a down-growth into the underlying connective tissue. The cells forming this down-growth then develop the special characteristics of the mature gland. Exocrine glands maintain the connection with the surface epithelium, whereas the connection is lost by endocrine glands.
Exocrine glands may be classified according to cell number, and/or the shape and branching pattern of their secretory portions and ducts.
consist of a single secretory cell. In mammals the only example of unicellular exocrine glands are goblet cells, which occur in the epithelium of many mucous membranes. Goblet cells secrete the glycoprotein mucin, which by the uptake of water is converted into a slimy substance, mucus.
Multicellular glands
Combinations exist - the pancreas is a tubulo-acinar gland, in which each section
of the secretory system has a specialized function.
The precursors of digestive enzymes are produced by the acinar cells. Tubular cells secrete the alkaline bicarbonate solution which eventually neutralizes the acidic contents of the stomach that are released into the duodenum.
Multicellular glands with an unbranched excretory duct are called simple. We talk about a compound gland when the excretory duct is branched. Finally, the part of the gland consisting of secretory cells is branched in a (surprise!) branched gland.
The classification scheme may appear somewhat elaborate - but there are many exocrine glands around. All of them can be identified and described by this scheme, and some ideas about their function can be derived from this description.
Colon, Human - van Gieson
The secretory cells can release their secretory products by one of three mechanisms.
There are two additional mechanisms by which secretory cells can release their products. Lipid soluble substances may diffuse out of the secretory cell (e.g. steroid hormone-producing endocrine cells). Transporters (membrane proteins) may actively move the secretory product across the plasma membrane (e.g. the acid producing parietal cells of the gastric glands). These secretory mechanisms may not involve any light microscopically visible specialisations of the cell.
The relationship between the secretory tissue (parenchyma) of glands and the supporting connective tissue is similar in most larger glands. Externally the entire gland is surrounded by a layer of dense connective tissue, the capsule. Connective tissue sheets (septa) extend from the capsule into the secretory tissue and subdivide the gland into a number of lobes. Thinner connective tissue septa subdivide the lobes into a number of lobules. Reticular connective tissue (hardly visible in H&E stained sections) surrounds and supports the secretory units of the glands (alveoli, acini etc.) and the initial parts of the excretory ducts if present.
Blood and lymph vessels as well as nerves penetrate the capsule and form a delicate network between the secretory units and the initial parts of the duct system.
The main excretory duct conveys the secretory product to one of the external surfaces of the body. Other parts of the duct system are named according to their relation to the lobes and lobules of the gland.
The appearance of the different portions of the duct system is quite variable from gland to gland and may allow the identification of the gland. Quite often, the appearance of parts of the duct system also permits some deductions about their functions.
? Note that lobes and lobules are defined by their relationship to each other. Many small lobules may form one large lobe. Neither size nor the spatial relationship between different parts of the tissue can be unequivocally determined in a single, two-dimensional section of the tissue. Lobes and interlobar ducts may therefore be difficult to distinguish from lobules and interlobular ducts.
Parotid Gland, Human - H&E
Parotid Gland, Human and Sublingual
Gland, Human - H&E
Many secretory cells and the secretory structures formed by them belong to one of two morphologically distinct forms: serous or mucous. Serous secretions have a low viscosity, i.e. they are rather "watery". Mucous secretions have a high viscosity, i.e. they are rather "slimy". The apical cytoplasm of the cells forming serous acini is usually well-stained. Secretory vesicles are visible in the apical cytoplasm in well-preserve tissue. The nuclei are round or slightly ovoid and located in the basal cytoplasm of the cells. The bluish color of the basal cytoplasm reflects the presence of large amounts of rough endoplasmatic reticulum.
The contents of the secretory vesicles in the apical cytoplasm of cells forming mucous acini are only weakly stained. These empty-looking vesicles give the apical cytoplasm of mucus-producing cells a distinct "foamy" or "frothy" appearance. The nuclei of mucous cells appear darker and smaller than the nuclei of serous cells. They also seem to be "pressed" against the basal limit of the cells and may look flattened with an angular ("edgy") outline. Glands containing mucous acini (e.g. the sublingual glands) are called mucous glands. Glands containing serous acini (e.g. the parotid glands) are called serous glands. If both types of acini are present the gland is muco-serous.
Identify and draw serous and mucous acini at high magnification. Label your drawing. Make sure that the features which characterise serous and mucous acini are visible in your drawing - if necessary use a little artistic freedom.
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It might be a horror to some, but imagine an all stars with all switchbacks. What switchbacks would be more entertaining?
Egg timers? :S
All switchback in TAR 22 is unmemorable IMO
Quote from: Andre on September 11, 2013, 07:46:47 PMAll switchback in TAR 22 is unmemorable IMOAlmost all the tasks in TAR22 were unmemorable. Lol
I also found the Tomatina Festival Detour task from TAR10 quite unique and fun minus me wanting to strangle Kimberly's vocal cords.
I wonder if Season 25, the silver anniversary edition, might be a super all stars edition.
Peach knows all but can't reveal yet?
Quote from: SamualDude on September 14, 2013, 01:55:06 PMPeach knows all but can't reveal yet?i bet peach is on a non disclosure agreementi think the route for super all stars should be places with best memories eg~ dustin and kandice buying yield from oswald and danny @ macau Tower or that sausage eating task! or measuring a country!!!!! or even yet UNROLLING HAYBALES!!
I'm probably alone here, but I want Vanessa and Ralph to return for a season because I loved them despite their drama
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Mark Haines, the dry-witted and unflappable host of CNBC's "Squawk on the Street," has died. He was 65.
Haines was a charter member of the on-air team at "Squawk Box," and then "Squawk on the Street," the business network's influential morning show which Wall Streeters and individual investors alike tune in to in droves to get a jump on the day's stock trading. Haines was known for cutting through the filibusters of financiers, defusing on-air squabbles with an easy quip and giving commentary that made sense to pros and amateurs alike.
"With his searing wit, profound insight and piercing interview style, he was a constant and trusted presence in business news for more than 20 years," CNBC President Mark Hoffman said in a statement to CNBC employees. "From the dot-com bubble to the tragic events of 9/11 to the depths of the financial crisis, Mark was always the unflappable pro."
U.S. & World
CNBC correspondent Phil LeBeau tweeted Haines' "wit and tough approach to handling interviews will be missed."
The network said Haines died at his home, but did not give a cause of death.
Haines may be best remembered for his calming and commanding presence during the 9/11 tragedy when he reacted unflappably to the furious stream of incoming rumor and even more astonishing truth with a professionalism that rivaled any television anchor, said CNBC senior economics reporter Steve Liesman.
Haines grew up on Long Island and attended Denison University in Ohio before going on to law school at the University of Pennsylvania.


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In politics, words can take on new meanings in the blink of an eye.
The phrase "binders full of women" had zero currency before the second Obama-Romney debate. Now it's what many people remember as the debate's takeaway moment, full of perceived meaning about women, power and the workplace.
In Australia, another word has become caught up in a political storm over the role of women in society and politics.
It was uttered several times by Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
"I will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny," Gillard told the Australian parliament.
That was the start of a speech that has rapidly become famous around the globe, thanks to YouTube.
Gillard was defending her government, which had been accused of protecting the speaker of the house, who'd been caught using sexist language in text messages.
Rather than talk about that case, Gillard turned the tables on her government's accusers, specifically Conservative opposition leader Tony Abbott.
"The leader of the opposition says that people who hold sexist views and are misogynists are not appropriate for high office," Gillard said. "I hope the leader of the opposition ... is writing out his resignation. If he wants to know what misogyny looks like in modern Australia ... he needs a mirror."
Gillard's opponents didn't take kindly to this speech. More than a few objected to her use of the word misogyny. They said that was going too far, much farther than the word "sexism."
Sexism, they pointed out, means discrimination based on a person's sex. But misogyny means intense dislike and mistrust of women.
That's what the dictionaries say. For the time being at least.
Sue Butler, editor of the best-known dictionary of Australian English, the Macquarie Dictionary, said it's time to update the definition of misogyny. After watching Gillard's speech, Butler and her fellow editors wondered about their dictionary's definition of misogyny.
Like most other dictionaries, the Macquarie Dictionary used a definition Butler says had been standard for centuries: the hatred of women.
But Butler and her team of editors didn't think that Gillard was using the word quite like that. She wasn't accusing Abbott of a "pathological hatred of women." The accusation was more of a "common garden prejudice against women, particularly women in positions of power."
Butler's team tracked the evolving meaning of misogyny back to 1970s feminist discourse in the United States, where it was often used as a synonym for sexism.
A synonym "with a bit more bite to it perhaps," Butler said. "But still in the same range of meaning of entrenched prejudice."
And so the editors of the Macquarie Dictionary have announced that they will be updating their definition of misogyny to reflect the way it has evolved in recent decades.
That's only enraged Gillard's political opponents for a second time. They say the dictionary's editors are letting Gillard off the hook, rather than forcing her take responsibility for her hyperbole.
Butler shrugs off that criticism and points out that many words change their meanings over time.
But what of the statements made by Abbott — the very statements that Gillard was calling "misogyny"?
Abbott once wondered whether it was a bad thing that men have more power than women, and suggested that men might be more "adapted to exercise authority."
And then there were his personal attacks on Gillard.
Gillard told MPs she was offended when Abbott stood next to signs that said "Ditch the Witch" and one that called her "a man's bitch."
It almost makes the Obama-Romney debate, repeatedly described in U.S. media as "feisty," seem friendly.


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Rosen on Brandeis in TNR
Jeffrey Rosen has a very long, but very good, essay/review in The New Republic of Melvin Urofsky's Brandeis biography. Entitled "Why Brandeis Matters," the piece begins with an examination of Brandeis's crusade against corporate and governmental bigness as applied to the Roberts Court's reflection of today's current economic and political climate and ends with an account of his Zionism as symbolic of his devotion to cultural pluralism.
In between these sections, Rosen provides a timely passage for the Kagan hearings:
In addition to combining judicial restraint with passionate anti-corporate progressivism, Brandeis's Liggett dissent exemplified a third aspect of his judicial philosophy: his commitment to interpreting the ideals of the Founders in light of the entire range of constitutional history. In this sense, Brandeis provides an inspiring model for citizens today who are searching for an alternative to the rigid originalism championed by some Roberts Court conservatives, and also for an alternative to the untethered "living constitutionalism" of some Warren Court liberals. Brandeis combines elements of originalism and living constitutionalism into an approach that might be called living originalism.
Brandeis believed that the values of the Founders were immutable, but had to be translated into a very different world in light of dramatic changes in society, technology, and economics. He believed in constitutional change—in a talk called "The Living Law," he charged that the law had "not kept pace with the rapid development of our political, economic, and social ideals" and said "the challenge of legal justice [was] to conform to our contemporary conceptions of social justice." But Brandeis insisted that efforts to render constitutional values in a contemporary vocabulary always had to be rooted in the text and in the broad unchanging ideals of the Framers. By interpreting the values of the Framers in light of progressive movements across the range of American history, Brandeis believed they could be preserved in a way that served the needs of citizens in the here and now—which is, after all, what the Constitution was written to do.
This "living originalism"–not to be confused with the "restrained activism" I discussed in the post below–was on display today as Solicitor General Kagan sought to bust the originalist/activist binary.
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
Isn't it about time for Tim McGraw to make another movie? I mean, Country Strong was two years ago, and The Blind Side was three years ago. And at a media event Saturday (June 23) in Nashville, McGraw hinted he may or may not be looking at scripts. He just needs to find the right one. "The hardest thing is timing," he explained. "You can read 50 scripts and not find anything that you like. It's much like finding songs. You could listen to thousands of songs and find those magic things. For me, it all has to start with a script, of course. And if that's not right, then nothing's right." He also talked about the commitment he makes when he signs on to do a movie. Not just during production, but during preparation, too. "I'm not at a point yet where I see that role and say it's mine," he said. And with two of his daughters in high school this fall and his wife Faith Hill working on a new album, the timing may be no good for movies. Same for Broadway. "There's a new Broadway musical that I had to turn down. I wouldn't say no to anything offhand, but I tend to, when it comes to movies, I sort of like the darker side," McGraw said. "I like heavy movies, so I don't know if you could find one that fits that criteria." So, maybe another Friday Night Lights?


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Yet Another Judge Blasts Copyright Trolling Operation
from the down-goes-another-one deptWhile copyright trolling cases keep popping up, it's become quite impressive how many courts are dumping such cases often while slamming the trolls' strategy. It's now happened again. A judge in Massachusetts has called out a troll for its "lack of interest in actually litigating." The case involves porn company Patrick Collins, Inc., which has been involved in a ton of these trolling cases -- including some of those linked above -- along with another company, Discount Video Center, represented by the same lawyer.
The full ruling (pdf) is worth reading. Basically, the judge (like many others) is completely onto Patrick Collins and the fact that it wants to use the court system as a part of its business model rather than for a legitimate judicial purpose. After noting that in an ordinary case against an unknown defendant, the purpose of seeking early discovery is to find out how to amend a lawsuit to include an actual named defendant. But here, the company seems to have no interest of doing such an amended filing since, instead, it just wants contact info to send out "pay up settlement" letters.
Ordinarily, a Plaintiff suing a John Doe Defendant would seek narrow discovery ex parte in order to identify the Doe Defendant for purposes of filing a motion to amend the Complaint to name the Doe, followed by service of the Complaint. The Plaintiffs in these cases evidence no interest in such a pursuit. They have not proposed a discovery plan aimed at identifying the infringers they have sued. Rather, the Plaintiffs request that the Court order disclosure of the third-party subscribers' names so that the Plaintiffs might settle or dismiss their cases on an informal basis. The discovery they seek cannot provide the Plaintiffs with sufficient information to identify the Doe Defendants. Nor have the Plaintiffs requested leave in their submissions to take depositions, either orally or upon written questions – the only discovery mechanism available to Plaintiff under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when seeking information from third parties, as is the case here....Yeah, the judge isn't pleased. He explains that their plan to get the names and then "figure out the rest" through settlement letters "is unacceptable." Also not good for Patrick Collins -- back in July, its lawyer had told the court that it would be filing actual lawsuits against individuals the following week... but "no such lawsuits against individual defendants were subsequently filed." In other words, the company was misrepresenting its intentions to the court -- a big no-no.
... the omission of any written request for depositions in the Plaintiffs' renewed motions for discovery speaks volumes about the Plaintiffs' lack of interest in actually litigating these cases. That the Plaintiffs' counsel now assert a willingness to take depositions if that is the only option ... only confirms that the Plaintiffs' interest in litigating the cases, or in following the governing law, arises only in response to the Court's express command.
Not only have Plaintiffs failed to articulate a discovery plan that would lead to identifying the infringers they have sued, but the Plaintiffs cannot even articulate the specific information they need or require in order to identify the infringers (or, to determine that such identification is not reasonably possible).
It doesn't end there. The judge calls out Discount Video Center for seeking to "harass" a defendant and also engaging in judge shopping:
With respect to John Doe No. 22..., the Plaintiff Discount Video has stated an intent to dismiss Doe No. 22 from the pending action and file a new, separate individual complaint against this Doe, even though it does not know the identity of the infringer. Such an action smacks of an bad faith effort to harass the third-party subscriber by causing him or her to expend further legal fees in a brand new action, which would merely repeat all that has occurred to date. The Federal Rules specifically address this situation and authorize an award of fees and costs.... The course of action the Plaintiff has stated it intends to pursue also suggests an improper effort to engage in judge shopping and evidences a disregard for the Court's limited public resources.Finally, the judge calls the plaintiffs out on the settlement letters they sent, noting that they falsely claim that the account holder has been sued, rather than the actual infringers, who may not be the same.
Finally, the Plaintiffs have repeatedly said one thing and done another. The Plaintiffs plainly sued only the infringers in these actions. Yet the Plaintiffs proposed and served notices upon the subscribers informing them they had been sued. The Plaintiffs' counsel stated to the Court that in his opinion, subscribers are "always going to . . . be secondarily liable "..., but he also stated that he would not assert secondary liability claims against subscribers as such claims would not pass muster under Rule 11.3What's amazing is that these rulings keep happening... and such cases keep getting filed as these trolls keep hoping to get a sympathetic (or clueless) judge to let them go through.
Now, the Plaintiffs have filed lawsuits against subscribers asserting secondary liability on the theory that, upon information and belief, discovery will reveal the subscribers to have known of the infringement via their account, or, that discovery will show the subscribers to be the parent of an unemancipated minor between the ages of 7 and 18.... While those cases are not before the undersigned (though some are before the district judges assigned to the captioned cases), the Court may permissibly consider them in assessing the reliability and veracity of counsel's statements. The Plaintiffs' counsel has also repeatedly said to the undersigned, and to other judicial officers of this Court, that he intends to litigate the claims he has brought. Yet to date, counsel has sued well in excess of one thousand Doe Defendants in this District, and as far as the Court is aware, he has never served a Complaint upon a single individual defendant.
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Over the last year, we've seen a 7x increase in the availability of Adobe AIR apps in mobile marketplaces, including the Apple AppStore, with no signs of slowing down. With AIR, game developers and publishers can deliver their apps across 6 platforms on more than 500 million smartphones and tablets with stunning graphics and intricate gameplay. Creating amazingly detailed games like Machinarium, which claimed the spot as the #1 iPad app in 12 countries last year, is becoming easier than ever.
Just as Machinarium first debuted as a desktop game, publishers and developers today are looking to easily take their games and deliver them to app stores on a host of mobile devices across the globe. With the availability of AIR 3.2, we're excited to help users push the envelope of mobile game development with new hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics rendering (Stage 3D) to enable significant performance gains in mobile gaming apps. Hardware accelerated 2D and 3D graphics will help ring in a new class of social and casual games running at 60 frames per second on mobile devices and tablets. Developers can download a release candidate of AIR 3.2 today and start packaging up apps for delivery to mobile marketplaces immediately, with general availability of AIR 3.2 and Flash Player 11.2 in March.
Hardware accelerated 2D and 3D support, released in Flash Player 11 last year, spurred a new class of features for existing games, including Rovio's Angry Birds for Facebook, now available with special power up features and enhanced graphics. The global gaming community has shown great adoption of this new technology, boasting a host of titles from Renren, Gamegoo and Disney, and we anticipate that many existing PC games will be ported to mobile using AIR 3.2 in the coming months. Falanxia's Spaced Away as well as Pamakids Tech's Winter on Whale Island will be some of the first. Also, we recently learned that the top 9 Flash based games in China generate more than $70 million per month! Now that shows rapid adoption.
All of these innovative developments (with more to come soon!) demonstrate our focus on creating value for our gaming customers. By delivering new features to advance gameplay, increase fun and provide added support for productized features within the runtimes, gaming at Adobe will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. The future has never looked brighter.
Check out some of the great new features that are available with Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2.
Read why our partners are excited about 2D and 3D hardware acceleration with AIR 3.2:
"Earlier this month, Rovio launched the first ever version of Angry Birds for Facebook to huge fanfare using Adobe 2D accelerated graphics," said Andrew Stalbow, GM of Rovio North America. "Building a game that runs smoothly at 60 frames per second with five times more particles in our explosions and special effects is critical for delivering the most brilliant gaming experiences to our customers. We're excited to see how Stage 3D accelerated graphics with Adobe AIR 3.2 will take these features to mobile devices and hopefully we can take advantage of this capability down the road."
"We are thrilled to be the first mobile gaming company to take advantage of the AIR 3.2 release candidate to deliver AIR versions of our social games to our users," said Masaki Fujimoto, CTO, GREE, Inc. "Flash Player and AIR help us push the limit of what can be created across the web and delivered as standalone apps on mobile devices. As we expand into global markets, Adobe technology is helping us take advantage of our market leadership in Japan to build success around the world."
"As Flash based game developers, we are excited to use AIR 3.2 to make our visually appealing games stand out even more with the tools we already know," said Jakub Svoboda, Game Producer, Falanxia. "Adobe helps us to bring our award winning games, like Spaced Away, to more iOS gamers than ever before. Good job Adobe!"
"Flare3D Studio is leveraging the enhanced features in AIR 3.2 to create a very powerful Stage 3D IDE," said Adrian Simonovich, CEO, Flare3D. "Adobe AIR has been, and will continue to be, a very important and powerful tool to bring hardware accelerated 3D support for mobile devices and allow Flare3D's developers to create amazing 3D accelerated experiences and reach a much larger audience."
"Since investing in AIR, we no longer have to worry about weighing different platforms and developer tools to reach our audience," said Yifei Xu, CEO, Pamakids Tech. "AIR is the tool we rely on to avoid the clutter and just laser focus on what really matters – delivering the best games and apps to kids and parents."
"We have chosen to develop with Flash because it is widely used, does not require installations, and games can be played instantly by simply clicking on a link," said Filip Kuna, CEO, CUKETA. "Thanks to Adobe AIR, we were able to port our game, Age of Defenders, to different devices including Android tablets and iPad2 which allows us to appeal to a wider range of customers at a minimal cost."
"NVIDIA's been working closely with Adobe to bring increasing amounts of GPU acceleration to several generations of Flash Player and AIR," said Neil Trevett, Vice President, Mobile Content at NVIDIA. "Now, Stage 3D in Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 can fully exploit the power of GPU acceleration to enable rich, real-time 3D games and content that is portable across multiple desktop and mobile platforms. NVIDIA is committed to ensuring that Stage 3D continues to be highly optimized for multi-core Tegra-based mobile devices."


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kenfaw.wordpress.com is moving to looseneurons.com
July 31, 2011
I have been working (with help!) on moving kenfaw.wordpress.com to a self-hosted instance for the last few days. Being pretty new to WordPress, I may have missed something, but I figured it would be easier while the site is new and before I have quite as much to move.
Over the next few days I will send out notes to my subscribers to remind them to redirect their subscriptions. In the meantime, if you notice links from looseneurons.com coming back here, please let me know.
I will maintain this site for a time and will continue to receive notifications of your comments. During the transition, I will export your comments from this site and import them over at looseneurons.com, but I will post replies only on that site.
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This weekend Covenant of The Goddess, one of the largest and oldest Witch and Wiccan associations, held their 2011 Grand Council. This year the council, part of the larger yearly event known as MerryMeet, took place in Irving Texas and was hosted by the Texas Local Council (click here to download an audio interview with Chuck Peart of COG's Texas Local Council). In a historic first for this national Witchcraft organization, their traditional opening invocation featured an interfaith blessing with Tatiana Androsov, Russian Orthodox, of the Thanks-Giving Foundation, Bill Matthews, Methodist, of the Dallas Peace Center, and Revathi Srinath, Hindu, of the Sanatana Dharma Foundation. Speaking with Greg Harder of the Pagan Newswire Collective COG First Officer Peter Dybing called the invocation "a beautiful testament to the work our interfaith representatives have been doing over the years" (Click here to download the audio interview with First Officer Peter Dybing).
"Today we saw an example of other faiths blessing the work of Witches on a national level and that is a beautiful thing […] I found it a very touching moment and I think it's historic." – COG First Officer Peter Dybing
MerryMeet is a mini-convention complete with vendors and presentations, but one built around a business meeting. The Grand Council, which is run on a consensus basis, is where the organization perpetuates itself and makes all major decisions for the coming year. This year, in an initiative spearheaded by Rachael Watcher, COG's National Public Information Officer, Internet conferencing technologies were used so members outside of Texas could observe, listen, and ask questions during deliberations.
"What was new this year was the inclusion of Adobe Connect, an on line meeting room which allowed the members of the Covenant who were unable to attend physically to join the meeting through this virtual space. As this year was the first time for such an experiment, the members who joined us on line were not able to participate in a total give and take but were, in fact allowed to listen and chat among themselves asking questions of myself and Daryl Fuller who were manning the two meeting computers that were hosting the meeting space within the physical space of the meeting. We had between 10 and 16 folks who were logged on for the entire time of the meeting from opening to closing and the enthusiasm was "over the moon" as one participant, who had not been able to participate for some years due to physical disabilities, stated."
The initiative was so successful that Chamisa Local Council, who is hosting the 2012 Grand Council, is looking into expanding the experience so members can participate more fully during the meeting.
Finally, a new slate of officers for COG's national governing board was elected, and the new First Officer/President, who will guide the organization for at least the next year starting on Samhain 2011, is COG member Ginger Wages (aka Hawk). Wages is part of Dogwood Local Council, which serves Witches and Wiccans in Georgia and Alabama, and has acted as an outspoken voice for Pagan rights for many years. Wages will replace Peter Dybing, who has been a dynamic force for COG, and the wider Pagan community, bringing much-needed energy and passion to the position. In a short interview, Wages talks about her vision as First Officer for the coming year (click here to download the audio interview with First Officer-elect Ginger Wages).
"[Peter Dybing] set a precedent for getting out into the community and seeing COG people face-to-face, I plan to continue that. […] Interfaith is probably the thing that I really put at the top of the list for COG, and I really want to keep that supported, and hopefully give it even more support. […] I plan to work with the wonderful people in this organization to help us keep moving forward. We've been around a long, long time and its the job of everyone in this organization to make sure we're still here thirty years from now."
Peter Dybing will remain as Emeritus First Officer through 2012. When asked about a possible leadership shift, Dybing said that "change is good" and that if there's a new First Officer "that would be great for this year." Dybing also shared his plans to travel more extensively in 2012, visiting many Pagan festivals and doing more outreach on behalf of COG. Also of note is that longtime COG member and Interfaith Representative Don Frew will be joining Rachael Watcher as co-National Public Information Officer in 2012. Both Frew and Watcher are heavily involved in COG's interfaith activities, and will no doubt compliment Wages in her desire to place more emphasis on interfaith work.
I wish Ginger Wages good luck in her new leadership role, and look forward to what the COG Board will achieve during her tenure. I'd also like to thank COG NPIO Rachael Watcher and Pagan Newswire Collective correspondent Greg Harder for gathering the interviews, quotes, and pictures for this article.


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Blue Box AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2.0
Blue Box AI (Artificial Intelligence) was developed to investigate Artificial Intelligence and its country cousin, ALife.
BB AI consists of three programs called CA2, GA2, and PF2.
CA2 is a cellular autonoma simulation, similar to Conway's "Game of Life," but it uses four colors and rules that can be programmed by the user.
GA2 is an environment that uses CA2 as a basis, but it allows the user to define starting and ending patterns. The program then breeds cellular autonoma that will create the goal pattern.
It's fun to watch and - as you might expect - and uses principals of natural selection to do the job.
The last of the programs is PF2. This program uses a method to find paths in sparsely populated areas, densely populated areas, or both. It allows for multiple starting points (herds), adjusts for changes in the terrain, and allows for multiple goals. (It can even switch to a new goal if the terrain becomes blocked).
Check out the "fancy" example file for PF2. It contains pathfinding far beyond what I have seen elsewhere.
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Rick Santorum grimaced his way through another weird interview this morning. This time, though, he's not being questioned over something nutty he said, but rather something nutty one of the guys who is paying for his Presidential run said.
For those of you following along at home, yesterday, cranky old coot Foster Friess had an epic hateful conservative caricature moment on live TV. During an interview with Andrea Mitchell, he suggested that the debate about birth control was silly because birth control is cheap. Why, back in his day (the imaginary 1950's), gals who didn't want to get pregnant simply kept their legs closed. Problem solved!
This morning in an interview on CBS's This Morning, the Presidential candidate defended his record on birth control, pointing out that he actually voted in favor of Title X, which dedicated federal funding to birth control and that he can't control what his supporters say. He described the faux pas as an "off color, bad joke."
Santorum shouldn't be defensive; he should be relieved. We've finally found someone with views so offensive they make him appear reasonable by comparison.


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Symmetrics Cycling Sponsors Abitibi Team
Courtesy Symmetrics Cycling
Symmetrics Cycling will sponsor the BC Junior Team for the Tour de l'Abitibi, an eight stage race that takes place in Val-d'Or, Quebec between July 22-27. Tour de l'Abitibi is the most prestigious Junior Men's (17-18 yrs old) race in North America, and attracts teams from Holland, South Africa, France, Mexico, and Japan.
The team is as follows:
Marsh Cooper: National Team member, 2002 National Criterium Champion, Silver medal in 2002 National Road Race, 5th Stage 4 L'Abitibi 2002, winner of more than 10 races in 2002.
Shaun Crump: Team BC member Tour de L'Abitibi 2002, 3rd Nooksack Road Race (Cat 3) 2003, 5th Enumclaw Road Race (Cat 3) 2003.
J.P. Dunlop: Third Place (Cadet) B.C Provincial Road Race Championships, B.C. Provincial Track Champion (various 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishes), B.C. Provincial Criterium Champion (3rd place junior men), Bastion Square Criterium (top junior/cadet in Cat 4).
Brad Fairall: Winner Enumclaw Road Race and Overall Cat 3, 2003. In 2002 Brad won the BC Junior Provincial Championships in both the Criterium and Time Trial.
Trevor Mahon: Top ten Junior, 2003 Sea Otter Classic, 1st 2003 BC High School Mountain Bike Championships, 3rd Overall 2002 BC Cup Mountain Bike Championships, 4th (U-17) 2002 National Championships.
Max Plaxton: World Jr. World Relay Champion 2002, Sea Otter Jr XC winner 2003, Canada Cup #1 Jr. XC winner 2003, 2002 National XC Champion.
The Symmetrics Team BC will be managed by Jeremy Storie, with mechanic Bill MacPherson accompanying them.
Atlantic Canada Riders for Road Nationals
The National Cycling Centre- Atlantic Canada is pleased to announce the Dieppe Auto Volkswagen selection that will represent it at the Canadian Road Championships, which are being held in Hamilton, Ontario from June 27-June 30. The majority of the athletes will be competing in the Criterium, Time Trial and the road race, in Pelham Ontario.
The athletes from New-Brunswick are Julie Bélanger , from Edmundston, Christian Meier, from Sussex, Kirk Emery, from Millbrook, Ryan Belliveau and Phil Cortes, from Campbellton, and André Charlebois from Moncton. Nova Scotia will be represented by Craig de Gier, from Lower Sackville, Dustin MacBurnie, from Truro, Nathan St-Onge and Justin St-Onge, from Amherst, Christopher Dunbar, from Hantsport, Jamie Lamb, from Shubenacadie, and Chris Graham, from Truro. Prince-Edward Island will send Andrew Scott and Ryan Taylor from Charlottetown, as well as Max Keeler from Souris.
After the good performances of our athletes in 2002, the objectives for this year are higher than past years. "We are always progressing, our presence is being felt by the other riders in Canada. At the Junior men level, we will be battling for medals. At the Espoir level, the developmental period is longer. As a result, we will be front runners in the race."-Luc Arseneau, Head coach- National Cycling Centre- Atlantic Canada.
Chrissy Report
Chrissy Redden reports from Mt Snow.
We came, we raced, we're getting ready for the World Cup next week in Mt. St. Anne, Quebec!
This weekend was definitely a good weekend with Ryder Hesjedal placing 3rd in the men's cross-country and Chrissy Redden podiuming both days with a 5th and 3rd in the cross-country and short track, respectively. We had much better weather this week with only scattered showers during the day and solid rain at night (compared to rain, rain and more rain in West Virginia). The 7km cross-country course held up quite well, but still had numerous boggy sections. The downhill was typical Mt. Snow style ... technical!! This is normally one of my favourite venues, so I was really excited to start racing. The pace went out fast for the cross-country and I found myself off the back of the lead group of four - Jimena Florit (RLX), Alison Sydor (Trek/VW), Mary McConneloug (Seven Cycles) and Willow Koerber (RLX). I seemed to be plagued with small mistakes the whole race, each costing only seconds, but adding up! Plus, the others were on! By the final of 3 laps, Alison and Mary were attacking each other, and Jimena was making a final surge.
My team-mates Mary Grigson and Walker Ferguson had unsuccessful days and ended up at the rig early. Mary had a bad crash, but is OK and will be resting up for ... (it's a secret ... )
The short track was looking really good, until it started raining an 1/2 hr before the start of the women's race. I didn't even notice. I had my special IRC tires on. I was there to win. I didn't. Yes, I'm bummed, but excited for Katerina Hanusova (Luna), who did! It was a fast, technical, aggressive race with quite a few crashes. I really wanted to stay at the front and maintain a fast pace, but it seemed only a few would work and I was definitely marked. I tried a few attempts to get away, but the only thing they accomplished was to tire me out. With 2 laps to go, Katerina got a small gap, then attacked HARD! I tried to bring it back, but I had Sue and Alison on my wheel, they came by me at the 1 lap to go mark, and Katerina was actually gaining time! She was motivated and I could see she could hold it! The three of us crested the hill and as Alison stalled a little, Sue got a small gap. By the time I got around Alison, Sue was gone! I rallied the downhill thinking the best I could do was 3rd, but then I saw Alison try a gutsy pass on my outside of a greasy, wet corner. All I could see was a Trek/Canadian team jersey going into the Shimano banner. From there I crested the chairlift climb, but wasn't in the clear. It seemed that McConneloug was catching me! When would this last lap end?? I turned the final corner into the finishing straight, but went wide and lost some time. I heard some huge cheering and knew that McConneloug was on my wheel. I just went for the line and had to throw my bike forward in order to capture 3rd. It was definitely a photo finish! Exciting!
The men's race was equally exciting!! Seamus McGrath (Haro Bike) captured his first NORBA Win!!! The crowd went absolutely WILD!!
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Hadoop provides a platform for building distributed systems for massive data storage and analysis. It has internal mechanisms to replicate user data and to tolerate many kinds of hardware and software failures. However, like many other distributed systems, Hadoop has a small number of Single Points of Failure (SPoFs). These include the NameNode (which manages the Hadoop Distributed Filesystem namespace and keeps track of storage blocks), and the JobTracker (which schedules jobs and the map and reduce tasks that make up each job). VMware vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) can be used to protect virtual machines that run these vulnerable components of a Hadoop cluster. Recently a cluster of 24 hosts was used to run three different Hadoop applications to show that such protection has only a small impact on application performance. Various Hadoop configurations were employed to artificially create greater load on the NameNode and JobTracker daemons. With conservative extrapolation, these tests show that uniprocessor virtual machines with FT enabled are sufficient to run the master daemons for clusters of more than 200 hosts.
A new white paper, "Protecting Hadoop with VMware vSphere 5 Fault Tolerance," is now available in which these tests are described in detail. CPU and network utilization of the protected VMs are given to enable comparisons with other distributed applications. In addition, several best practices are suggested to maximize the size of the Hadoop cluster that can be protected with FT.


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California Paraeducator Career Data
Paraeducator Career Data By State Map
The Paraeducator Career Map houses a variety of paraeducator related data, including policy guidelines, standards and requirements for each of the 50 states (if they exist and are readily available). Current information was collected through internet searches of state department of education websites and other national websites targeting state resources. In some cases, data was also collected and/or verified through phone calls to state department of education staff or others who work in the field.
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California State Department of Education
|Department of Education Paraeducator Webpages
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|Education Statute
*Effort was made to provide the most direct link to paraeducator policy.
|California Legislative
Education Code - Paraprofessionals
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|California Paraprofessional Requirements
for Title I Programs
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Julie Smith Lowe (a counselor at CCEF) writes about this in an article called, "How Should We View Ourselves:"
God's Word teaches us how to have an accurate view of self. Think about 2 Corinthians 4:7, "But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us." This passage identifies us as "jars of clay" with a treasure of great value inside of us. As inconspicuous clay pots we "show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us."
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Peking and Pate...in the sunshine over the weekend.
Hanging out on their log in the tub...
They were hanging out in the x-pen all weekend...I was keeping an eye on them...checking periodically. Well, at one point I got a knock on the door...it was my 8 year old neighbor. Turns out, she and her family found two ducklings wandering through their lawn and wanted my opinion on what to do with them (we live a few doors down from a boat launch into a reservoir). I came over with my duckling carrier, scooped them up and explained that they were mine. They got a big laugh out of that...and were glad they came to me first! Guess I'm the go-to crazy animal lady now.
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Paul "Scooter" Brothers, President and co-founder of COMP Cams and chairman-elect of the SEMA board of directors, is a good guy to get to know. Involved in multiple forms of racing for practically his whole adult life, he currently leads a performance parts empire, yet remains one of the easiest guys to talk to in the business. It turns out that the head honcho of COMP has quite a few racing stories that you'd never think a CEO of a major corporation would tell you, but we think you'll find that Scooter is no ordinary CEO. He's a racer at heart, always has been, and always will be.
powerTV: OK, first of all, let's get the question about the nickname out of the way…
Scooter Brothers: The name came from the lady in the hospital the day I was born. I don't remember it personally, but I'm told that I was "scooting" around in the little basket they put me in, so she named me. And it just stuck. I should probably make up some really noble story, but this is as far as I know, the truth.
PTV: Let's talk about more recent history. Over the years, you've been involved with racing of all kinds and at all levels, so you've got a bit of perspective on the topic. Are the more "colorful" part of racing – the rivalries, the shenanigans on and off the track, the personalities – a thing of the past?
SB: The last 20 years or so has been relatively cookie-cutter. When things got more refined and more professional, people got to be less of the "characters" they used to be. In the old days, it was not unusual to have some pretty big-time arguments – things went on that were a lot more cowboy-ish than you'd put up with today. It wasn't unusual to have somebody threaten somebody else, "If you don't let my guy win…" There's just a lot of crazy things that used to happen, and today you can't get away with that kind of stuff. In the early days you did what you had to do.
PTV: Do you have a few stories that come to mind about the old days? What was it like racing then? What stories can you share?
SB: <Laughing> OK, I'll tell you a couple of funny stories, and then one that has stuck with me for my entire life that was really a life lesson. I'll start way back, back in the early days of drag racing in the '60's. Things weren't very complicated back then, you know. They had very simple drag strips and a lot of things were approximated, and it just wasn't a real nice setup over all. There were weeds everywhere and racetracks were basically put wherever they could be.
I remember one night where we had stock classes running, and they had big spots and some of the old racing cars were '50 Oldsmobiles, so they were really slow, and they would get longer handicaps than some of the faster cars. So when they'd leave the starting line and be running down the track there'd just happen to be someone laying in the weeds right at the photo cell at the finish line, and just to "make sure" the cell was working he might've reached his hand out to trip the beam before the cars went by.
PTV: Just to make sure?
SB: Well, you know, you never know about those things. We always called it a hot dog wrapper blowing through there. Well, one night it got a little mixed up and the beam light got tripped early and the guy that was racing him saw the win light come on when he was only about 1000 feet down the track. He knew something was going on then! That's one story that I wouldn't have wanted to let out of the bag 40 years ago, but maybe nobody is still alive that remembers it happening. We'll just say that I knew the guy laying in the weeds pretty well.
PTV: So, was it you?
SB: <Laughing> You'll never know, but I wasn't fat then like I am now and it was easier to lay in the weeds, I'll say that!
PTV: Sounds very suspicious! Were you aware of any other "suspicious" activities that just happen to take place at races where you were in attendance?
SB: Oh, maybe. I do remember one other time we were out doing some oval track racing on the dirt races and I was supporting the engine of Billy Moyer, an Iowa guy, and this was in '84 or '85. Billy was and still is a National star and we were racing down in Lubbock, TX. He was in the front row and while they were going around on a warm-up lap he had a plug wire fall off.
We had always said back then that if the lights had gone out at the race track that it'd be a bad thing, and no one would know what to do. So, I happen to look up and there was a switch box by the lights, and all of a sudden the lights went out and the track went dark. The cars had to stop while they were figuring it out, so we went out on the track and put the plug wire back on.
PTV: Wow, what are the odds that the lights would just go out like that?
SB: Well, you never know, but they put a lock on that handle after that!
PTV: You had mentioned that there was one story that was a huge life lesson for you. What was that?
SB: Well, this is the one that I'm most proud of and it's about John Lingenfelter. John and I were really tight. We had raced and traveled together, and he was a really special person. He was the kind of guy that would do anything, and I mean anything that he had to do to win a race.
The story that I want to tell you was back in 1977 or '78. John had a super stock Corvette that was by far the fastest car anywhere, and this was before they had break out racing or anything like that. Basically the fastest car would win the race. We were at Indianapolis at the U.S. Nationals and this was on Monday morning, the day of the eliminations. They used to give the super stock cars a time trial first thing in the morning.
Well, he went up that Monday morning for his time trial and while he was doing his burnout the entire side of the engine block pulled out. He got around to the pits but had no spare engine. He lived in Decatur, IN which was maybe a little under 100 miles from there. It was about 2 hours before the first round started when all of this happened. For most people that would have been it, but John had seen a helicopter giving rides to spectators over the track, so he went and found the helicopter and had the guy fly him to Decatur so he could get a spare block. He landed in the middle of the street, ran in, grabbed the new block, and started prepping it in the helicopter on the way back.
While he was gone, a group of us racers got together, pulled the engine out and tore it down. In other words we had the crank, rod, and pistons laying there and we had everything as prepared as we possible could. We went out and borrowed ring compressors so that every piston had ring compressors on them. We had everything completely ready for when John got back. 45 minutes after he landed, the Corvette was in the staging lanes! It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. There were actually some pictures taken by Rick Vogel who did a series of pictures for Car Craft. It proved to me that you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it.
PTV: Could you say that was one of those life lessons that never seem leave you?
SB: It hasn't and it never will! I guess it's something that I'll never forget. When they had John's funeral, there were a bunch of pictures of his racing accomplishments in the foyer, maybe 100 pictures or so. We were all milling around out there and saw the pictures of that day and the memories came flooding back. It was really pretty cool.
One topper to the story was that when John went up to the starting line with the rebuilt engine the carb started to flood over. It turns out that when someone had put a bolt in the rubber fuel line to block the fuel while we pulled the engine, he just happened to choose a bolt that had a little piece of silicone on it. No one ever noticed. That piece of silicone came off of that bolt and eventually got stuck into the needle and seat in the carburetor. John couldn't race.
The entire place knew that the race would have been his had he been able to run. I've never seen what happened next to this day, but the NHRA let him come back and make a run by himself during the U.S. Nationals just to show how fast he could of run, and he ended up racing way faster than anyone else. It put the icing on the cake and proved what would have happened had he been allowed to run.
Something else that stuck with me was that there was maybe 25 or 30 of us working on John's car to get it ready, and every single one of us decided what to do to get the job done fastest. That's the most fun thing about racing is that the people that compete against each other on the track help each other in the pits.
PTV: So you may have tweaked the engine in the pits that ended up beating you!
SB: Yes! Absolutely. But everyone sees that in racing and that's what makes it great. There's no question that as far as someone learning values and learning how to work that it's a hell of a training tool. It's a great life lesson and had about as much impact on me as being in the service.
PTV: You had mentioned to me before the interview that the last car you raced personally was a Camaro that you and John Lingenfelter prepared together. Since racing has had such a huge impact on you, is it something that you miss doing?
SB: You know, people ask me if I miss racing all the time, but I just tell them that I never stopped racing. I actually race every day. I just race companies instead of cars. My partner is a lawyer, and he hasn't practiced in some time, but I have grown to know that lawyers race just like we do on a racetrack. If you look around at successful people in business, they all race against the guy next to them, whether he's in the next lane, or across the courtroom, or somebody else on the midway. We all race our competition. And I tell my guys that it's not always necessary to play fair – we have to use whatever we can call an advantage. In some cases, that's what a racer does. Fair means one thing, but as you get closer and closer to the competition and business side of things, it means a little something different.
PTV: Scooter, these are fantastic stories. It's incredible how much racing has shaped your life. Thanks so much for sharing.
SB: It was my pleasure. Anytime!
Unbelievable Racing Stories with COMP Cams' Scooter Brothers
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Nia White Belt Training
February 24, 2018 To be Determined in to be determined
About the Nia White Belt
The Nia White Belt Training is the first level of a five-belt training series that presents a body-centered approach to health, wellness and fitness. If you have a desire to share Nia in a professional capacity, the White Belt Training is your entryway into teaching. Those who choose to pursue the path of personal enrichment use this training as a starting point for becoming a master student.
Over the course of one week, you will comprehensively explore physical sensation through five core-competency areas of study including movement, music, anatomy, science and philosophy. This joyful journey into the self is instrumental in helping you develop body knowing by learning to listen, interpret and consciously respond to the information your body communicates to you via sensation. Enroll in an upcoming training today, and positively shape the way you feel, look, think and live.
Upon graduation, you are eligible to become a member. As a member, you obtain a teaching license (whether you decide to use it or not) and have exclusive access to an in-depth continuing education program, an online forum, and special benefits and privileges. You may enroll in the Green Belt Training - which is dedicated to the craft of teaching - at any time after completing your White Belt Training. You may also enroll in the next level of training, Blue Belt Training.
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Britta von Tagen
I have been passionate about educating humanity to help heal the world through the dance of Nia since 1995. I have been training Nia to teachers since 2002, first in Idaho and now worldwide. I have found over the years of training, that the Nia practice has generated an even stronger intention of Peace on Earth inside me. Not that I have to love or save everyone, but create an positive environment for individuals to be transported while getting a great workout no matter what their age or ability. Nia is an international language, like nature is. -It is the language of sensation or words without words, an alchemical formula for magic! I will forever continue to share the joy and love of movement with all ages, playfully and energetically! My mantra: I am, therefore I teach.
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Start: Saturday, February 24, 2018 - 2:30 pm
End: Friday, March 2, 2018 - 3:00 pm