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The DfE have recently reinforced the need "to create and enforce a clear and rigorous expectation on all schools to promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs."
The Core Values determined by the DfE are:
Pupils will have the opportunity to have their voices heard through our Pupil Parliament Team, Year 6 Leaders who act as role models across the school, in the classroom (particularly in debates) and through Pupil questionnaires.. The Pupil Parliament Team will be involved in Learning Walks and will be responsible for spending a small budget.
Mutual Respect
Our school ethos and behaviour policy revolve around our PUPAC Core Values and pupils have been part of discussions and assemblies related to what this means and how it is shown. RRS posters around the school will promote respect for others and this is reiterated through our classroom and Golden Rules, as well as our behaviour policy.
Tolerance of those of Different Faiths and Beliefs
This is achieved through enhancing pupils understanding of their place in a culturally diverse society and by giving them opportunities to experience such diversity. Assemblies and discussions involving prejudices and prejudice-based bullying have been followed and supported by learning in RE and PSHE. Members of different faiths or religions are encouraged to share their knowledge to enhance learning within classes and the school.
The Rule of Law
The importance of Laws, whether they be those that govern the class, the school, or the country, are consistently reinforced throughout regular school days, as well as when dealing with behaviour, through school assemblies and PSHCE. Pupils are taught the value and reasons behind laws, that they govern and protect us, the responsibilities that this involves and the consequences when laws are broken. Visits from authorities such as the Community Safer Neighbourhood Team, Fire Service; NSPCC are regular parts of our calendar and help reinforce this message.
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Within school, pupils are actively encouraged to make choices, knowing that they are in a safe and supportive environment. As a school we educate and provide boundaries for young pupils to make choices safety, through provision of a safe environment and empowering education. Pupils are encouraged to know, understand and exercise their rights and personal freedoms and advise how to exercise these safely, for example through our E-Safety and PSHE lessons. Whether it be through choice of challenge of how they record, of participation in our numerous extra-curricular clubs and opportunities; pupils are given the freedom to make choices. During assemblies and circle time, we consider issues within the local and global context where groups or communities may not have the individual liberty or safety that we have in the UK.

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USC upsets No. 5 Stanford with last-minute field goal
- Stanford%27s loss puts Oregon back in line for a Pac-12 title game berth
- The Trojans continue their resurgence under interim head coach Ed Orgeron
- USC%27s Andre Heidari seals the win with a 47-yard field goal with 19 seconds left
LOS ANGELES — If Ed Orgeron weren't a serious candidate to become the permanent head coach at Southern California Saturday morning, he might very well be now.
After a white-knuckle 20-17 upset of No. 5 Stanford before a sellout crowd of 93,607, both Orgeron, who replaced the fired Lane Kiffin on an interim basis five games into the season, and his players were calling it one of the most memorable Trojan Saturdays they could remember.
And it was Orgeron, as much as any of his players, who made it happen.
With just over three minutes to go in a 17-17, defense-dominated game, Stanford quarterback Kevin Hogan threw an interception, his second of the game, to Trojans safety Su'a Cravens at the USC 44-yard line.
The Trojans ran three plays and were faced with a fourth-and-2 at the Stanford 48-yard line with 1:23 left. The usual decision: Punt. Play defense. Get it to overtime.
But the entire Trojan team – offense, defense, subs – gathered around Orgeron during a timeout, and there was an electric feeling in the stadium like something unusual was about to happen.
Then the Trojans offense came out, lined up and quarterback Cody Kessler hit wide receiver Marqise Lee over the middle for a 13-yard gain.
Six plays later, Andre Heidari nailed a 47-yard field goal – USC's only points of the second half – and the stunning upset was complete.
It was the kind of decision Pete Carroll would have made back in the USC dynasty days.
"I knew I was taking a chance," Orgeron said after the game, and after a wild scene on the field that was stormed by many of the fans when the clock ran out. "But I looked in the eyes of those guys and I knew they wanted a chance to win the game. Obviously if we didn't make it, they could have gone down and kicked a field goal and won. I understood that. But I had a gut belief."
One wonders if USC athletic director Pat Haden now has a gut belief about what Orgeron, the gravelly-voiced 52-year-old, might bring to the table long term.
USC has won five of the six games since Orgeron took over and is now 8-3, 5-2 in the Pac-12 South, tied with UCLA and a game back of Arizona State. The Trojans are at Colorado next week and will play UCLA, perhaps with a berth in the Pac-12 title game on the line, in the Coliseum on Nov. 30.
"There are going to be decisions made," Orgeron said. "That's totally out of my hands. I will say this I think everything happens for a reason. What that plan is, I don't know."
The crowd that stormed the field was showering Orgeron with love.
"I have a great relationship with the fans," he said. "I've been here since 1998."
The scene was such pandemonium that Stanford coach David Shaw never could find Orgeron.
"I want to congratulate him," Shaw said. "I wanted to do it face to face, but I'll send him a note later."
Haden doesn't need to waste time asking Kessler what he thinks of Orgeron as a head coach.
"Coach O is very unique," said Kessler, who shined in this game, completing 25 of 37 passes for 288 yards and a touchdown. "There's no one else in the country like him. I speak for the whole team. We absolutely love him. He's amazing. We want to run through a brick wall for him."
They kind of did, holding their own against Stanford's stellar offensive and defensive lines throughout the course of the game.
USC controlled the game in the first half, taking a 17-10 lead to the locker room after having outgained the Cardinal 181-147 in the first half.
Stanford, fourth in the latest BCS ratings, had problems moving the ball in the first half but marched down the field on its first possession of the second half on a vintage Cardinal 10-play, 92-yard drive. It was capped by an 18-yard touchdown run by Tyler Gaffney that lifted Stanford into a 17-17 tie.
But neither team could sustain momentum the rest of the way, trading turnovers, then punts, until Orgeron's roll of the dice.
"It was his call, his decision, but he could tell we were saying, 'Come on, we can do this,'" Kessler said. "We knew on third-and-short and fourth-and-short that Marqise was getting one-on-one coverage by the nickel guy. And he was playing him to the outside. So I just threw it to the inside and Marqise got it."
Stanford, which dominated then-No. 2 Oregon for three quarters before holding on for a 26-20 victory nine days earlier, is 8-2, 6-2 in the Pac-12 North and surrendered first place in the division back to Oregon. Stanford plays Cal next week and then Notre Dame on Nov. 30. Oregon has Arizona and Oregon State left.
"November in this conference, there's no comparison to any other conference in the country," Shaw said. "People can say what they want to say but it's not even close. To go back-to-back-back and play tough games like UCLA and Oregon State and Oregon and USC. It's tough. We were able to do it last year ... We couldn't get it done today."
Heidari was an unlikely hero. He has had a tough year, coming into the game having missed seven of 18 field goal attempts, including two in a 10-7 loss to Washington State.
"It was really fun," he said of his opportunity. "That's what kickers live for – competition, and game-winning field goals."
And so, about six weeks (and five victories) since they fired a coach, the Trojans were ecstatic like in the old days.
"This is definitely the most electrifying game I've played in at the Coliseum in my career," said junior safety Dion Bailey.
Orgeron agreed it was pretty memorable.
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- "Wear Resilience!" Resilience does not protect you against the faction champion enemies.
- "Kill healers first!" While this strat may work for some guilds or combinations, other raids (such as my ten-mans) will find it easier to CC, interrupt, or otherwise ignore enemy healers in favor of taking out the high-damage dps enemies first. This can vary due to your raid makeup (such as banishes on the tree druid) and the number of players in a 10-man available to CC targets in comparison to the 25-man raid. Don't take this statement as law!
- "AoE to damage them all and split their heals!" AoE, including cleaves and glyphed mauls, will break your valuable CC. A lot of guilds may not remember the importance of CC ("Crowd Control") from back in vanilla and TBC, but suffice to say that CC is very important and due to diminishing returns that will make them immune to the CC, breaking said CC is a Very Bad Thing.
- "You, keep that one sheeped the whole time, all by yourself!" etc. There are diminishing returns (DR) on CC against the faction champions, where the 4th cast will have no effect on the target. AOE that breaks the CC will still count against your DR: each time you cast a CC against a target, it will have less affect on the target than previous casts. As such, a single CCer can't chain-CC a target by themselves.
- "DR resets 15 seconds after last cast!" In regards to a CC spell, the DR will reset 15 seconds after the last CC effect of that category wore off of the target... not 15 seconds from the time it was cast upon them.
- "Tank them!" Your tanks in this fight should either swap to a non-tanking offspec, or they are going to be purely CC/utility during your faction champions fight. Taunts *will* work to briefly fixate their target away from a squishy dps or healer, but as with other CC, taunts are subject to DR and don't last long.
You will face 6 enemy champions in the 10-man, and 10 in the 25-man.
These can and will focus heals on your dps targets. CC, interrupt, and stun-lock as available.
- Tree (Toughest of the healers; banishable, purge/dispel the HoTs)
- Holy Pally (uses hand of freedom, bubbles around 25%, dispel)
- Resto Shaman (dispel the earth shields, cleanse hexes off of raid members)
- Holy Priest (dispel the renew and PW:Shield)
Ranged DPS
These tend to be squishier, but also less dangerous than the melee dps from a burst-damage-omg-wipe perspective. The greatest danger from these is the silence and spell-interrupts they will use on your own casters.
- Moonkin
- Mage (will counterspell, blink, and ice block; CC this one as available)
- Shadow Priest
- Warlock + Pet (pet will silence, and will stay up after lock is killed; has a habit of hellfiring.)
- Hunter + Pet
Melee DPS
These are your heavy hitters, but can be controlled through use of slowing effects, roots, and snares. Use mortal strike/wound poison to cut through armor and heals.
- Ret Pally
- Rogue
- Shaman (destroy the totems!)
- Warrior
- Deathknight
The enemy dps can and will focus-fire on one or another of your raid members, and their target selection is NOT dependent upon threat! While resilience gear will not help, extra stamina and a PvP trinket for popping out of a long stun (hand of justice, etc) will be very useful. Whenever you have a melee dps on you, you need to use all available tactics to escape.
As a resto druid, it is helpful to remember these abilities:
Options when Melee is hitting you:
- PvP trinket to break long stuns
- Barkskin
- Nature's Grasp
- Cat + Sprint (especially during a whirlwind-chase from the warrior)
- Warstomp/Shadowmeld
- Swiftmend
- Health Potion/Healthstone
- If all else fails, bearform: bash, frenzied regen
- Entangling Roots
- Cyclone
- Hibernate the hunter's pet
- Keep moving
- Cyclone
- Warstomp to interrupt casts
Around survival (which is priority one!), a resto druid's other duties can include:
- keeping rejuvs and wild growth up on the raid as much as possible,
- using swiftmend and NS+HT to quickly save the life of another player,
- cleansing hexes and poisons, and
- using cyclone and entangling roots as often as possible on any loose targets.
- using moonfire to destroy enemy totems
- hibernating the hunter's pet
As such, you probably won't spend much time in tree form. However, don't forget that you can shift into tree, cat, or bear to break out of a sheep!
Do not cast cyclone on the current dps target unless you really absolutely have no choice--which should only happen if you are completely out of CC options and are about to die because you can't get away from it, and the rest of your raid didn't help CC the mob off of you with their own slows and roots and taunts. Cyclone will prevent any attacks against the target, wasting valuable cooldowns and time the dps needs when focus-firing its targets.
Use your cyclone against any loose targets that are causing trouble. Your cyclone will be primarily useful against enemy casters, including healers and the mage. The warlock pet can also be cycloned to prevent it from silencing you and other casters. The melee dps can be rooted to control their damage, which means your cyclone is best put to use on the casters who will keep on casting in spite of your roots.
~~Have some further suggestions for the faction champions fight? I would love to hear about them!~~


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March 30, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas – From Texas to California, Florida State's promising track & field freshmen didn't waste opportunities to leave their marks in major meet competition Friday.
Morne Moolman's collegiate debut at the 86th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays will not soon be forgotten. The native South African unleashed a school record javelin throw of 73.83 meters (242-3), smashing the mark set 19 years ago – before he was born – by Lou Angelo.
Not only did Moolman blow past Angelo's record of 51.28m (233-10) with his third place toss, three of his four legal throws were better than the standard set in 1979.
"He's really talented," FSU Director of Field Events Dennis Nobles said. "For a college debut, to set a school record and throw within two meters of his PR, you can't beat that. Still, Morne didn't feel like he was as technically proficient as he would have liked, and I would agree with him."
Fellow freshmen Kellion Knibb and Zak Seddon didn't set school records Friday, but they don't have many people to climb over to get there, following their respective performances in the women's discus and men's 3000-meter steeplechase.
Knibb, Jamaica's junior national record holder, is now No. 2 all-time for the Seminoles on the strength of her second-place throw of 53.17m (174-5) at the Texas Relays. She became just the second FSU woman to eclipse 50 meters and trails only Makiba Batten on the schools' all-time top 10 list. Batten set the school mark of 55.22m (181-2) in 2003.
"She is such an athletic thrower," Nobles said. "Her potential is unlimited. It's kind of fun to watch out there because it's still kind of hit and miss. It was kind of breezy out here and on her 53-meter throw the wind just knocked it out of the sky, or it would have been really special."
Seddon delivered a special performance of his own on the West Coast when he dropped a 63.89 final lap to finish second in the steeplechase in 8:45.63 at the Stanford Invitational. Only school record holder Andrew Lemoncello (8:23.74) and Luke Gunn (8:28.40) have run faster for the Seminoles. Coincidentally, all three hail from Great Britain.
Two other Seminoles, senior co-captain Breandan O Neill and junior Josh Gracia, were schedule to run late-night 10,000-meter races.
Florida State's field event performer didn't solely own the show in Texas. Freshman Sage Watson, who qualified for the ninth and last spot in the 400-meter hurdle finals on Thursday, took full advantage of the opportunity. Despite running out of lane 1, Watson powered her way to the finish line for a fifth-place finish in 58.66.
"She handled herself very maturely," Nobles said, after Watson completed just her second 400-meter hurdle race at the collegiate level. "For a freshman to go out there and run the race she did, out of lane 1, says a lot. She was well within herself; ran a very smooth race and had a little bit left over when she came home. She does not like to be behind and it showed."
Strong performances were solely restricted to FSU freshmen. Junior co-captain Chelsea Whalen began a long day of competition early Friday morning with a fifth-place finish in the javelin (45.97m/150-10). She helped close the competition in the evening with a new outdoor personal-best in the shot put (15.68m/51-5.50), which was good for seventh place.
"This is just the beginning of our season," Nobles said. "It's very encouraging. I can't say anything bad about the effort they have put in out her. It was a very competitive effort."
Junior transfer James Harris will close out the Texas Relays competition for the Seminoles in the high jump, which is set for 12 p.m.


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In the vein of all movie previews these days, I find it important to shout each word of my proclamations in the most dramatic, angst-filled, spittle-rattling way possible. Thanks for that 300.
Especially things as ridiculous as this:
Take the Transformers Quiz
So go take the test, and come back here and either join me in destroying all Autobots, or to receive a vicious cinematic beating, as appropriate for your test results.
I wonder just how much more Megatron I would be if I had preferred to own oil-rich Iran over an iPhone. I guess I'll be able to have both once I deal with that pesky Optimus Prime. I'll have to watch that Transformers movie again to see how it all plays out. I have a good feeling it will work out in my favor this time.
But back on the topic of 300, am I the only one that's noticed a number of blatant, high profile rip-offs of the iconic "This is Sparta" scream? I'm not talking about the many lolcats (or, uh, lolbritneys) based on the still, or the fantastic photoshop work over at fark (which has disappeared). It's enough now that it's a cliche. A really, really bad one. And until I saw the recent trailers for the new movie Doomsday, I thought a dead one. With any luck, a little time in the shame spotlight will prevent this become a full on Hollywood outbreak.
Brian's Scream-opedia of Rip-Offs
Apologies in advance for longish clips. (Hey, finding better ones would have actually required some effort!)
300: The original manly roar. Don't try this at home. Please don't. Please!
Beowulf: Good movie, but painfully obvious rip-off. (Scene of the crime at around 1:29.)
Doomsday: Wow, don't you guys think you missed the whole scream-a-phrase trend by, what, a year? (Cheap rip-off at 1:26.)
Am I missing any? Do let me know!
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Beat the Streak Report: Thursday, May 21
Today's recommended picks
Lance Berkman, 1B, Astros
11-for-26 (.423 AVG) lifetime vs. Brewers starter Jeff Suppan
Chipper Jones, 3B, Braves
7-for-17 (.412 AVG) lifetime vs. Rockies pitcher Aaron Cook; Cook: .299 AVG against in '09
Ichiro Suzuki, OF, Mariners
.355 AVG during 14-G hitting streak
BTS all-time leader: Michael Karatzia, 49
MLB all-time leader: Joe DiMaggio, 56
Yesterday's results
Life has been getting dicey for the BTS front-runners, as yesterday's action resulted in the end of the leader's streak for the third straight day. This time, it was Chase Utley's hitless performance that halted the run of redlandsrick at 28 games. Might we have a BTS hex on our hands along the lines of the S.I. Cover Jinx and the Madden Curse? Let's hope a savvy and fearless contestant proves us wrong.
With redlandsrick back to square one, Choterita took over first place at 28 games after tabbing Cardinals catalyst Skip Schumaker. adnaz and eric.hubler held steady in their positions behind the new leader, pushing their respective streaks to 26 and 25 games.
Yesterday's Top 5 most selected players
1. Nick Markakis (BAL): 8.0%, 0-for-4
2. David Wright (NYM): 6.4%, 1-for-2
3. Evan Longoria (TB): 3.7%, 1-for-4
4. Johnny Damon (NYY): 3.4%, 0-for-4
5. Torii Hunter (LAA): 2.7%, 1-for-4
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I had Alberto Callaspo yesterday. He went 1-5, but my account says that my streak is at 0?
I had the same thing happen to me! I picked Chase Utley and he had several hits and my streak is at zero! I hate this happened to someone else too but I'm also relieved that I'm not alone! I'm going to try to contact someone at mlb.com to get this fixed. I will mention your pick situation to them. Hopefully they'll get this fixed asap! I'll update if I hear any news!
I had a similar issue earlier this season. They will probably have it fixed in a matter of hours, but if not, go ahead and contact them.
I have question too. There was a double header game for Washington Nationals it was Ryan Zimmerman who hits 2 at first game, no hits at second. Why is that someone streak increased instead back to zero. It mentioned at the rule at least 1 hit for both game during double header. This game was on 5/16
"your streak will only continue if the player gets at least one hit in both games"
Keyword = in
Oh I misread your comment… their streak shouldn't have increased.. did it get fixed?
Nope their streak continued. It never got fixed, not sure about now I don't remember their entry name/id. This game should allow you to go back and type (player) and entry name with show up who picked that player.
I hope you understand that. I'm a foreigner/english is second language.
Also PH player shouldn't count at all or at least 2 Attempt Batting. This is hard to avoid. I think this way we might have a winner this year of 2009 or possibly this July/August


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EL PASO, Texas (AP) Jalen Ragland, Julian Washburn and John Bohannon combined for 48 points as UTEP held off Idaho 64-60 Saturday night.
Ragland had 17 points, Washburn 16 and Bohannon 15 for the Miners (3-4), who led by as many as 18 points in the second half. Bohannon also pulled down 10 rebounds and Jacques Streeter had seven assists for UTEP, which shot 52 percent from the field.
Connor Hill led Idaho (3-5) with 16 points.
The Miners pulled away with an 18-3 second-half run that gave them a 52-34 lead with 12:16 remaining. Washburn had nine points in the spurt, Bohannon added six and Ragland buried a 3-pointer to account for all of UTEP's scoring.
Idaho fought back and got within two points on two occasions, at 60-58 and 62-60. But Streeter hit a jumper with 32 seconds left and Washburn sank two free throws with 9 seconds remaining to secure the win.


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Media Parasol
The online platform for media art festival documentation (yes, one exists!) tagr.tv took a rather unconventional tack in their coverage of Berlin's transmediale last week. The team shot a number of interviews using their own "mobile interview environment." The device, an umbrella outfitted with a camera and microphone, served as a nearly private location for one-on-one discussions with artists involved with the festival. The short clips are interspersed with more traditional installation shots, providing a unique "overview" (get it?) of select projects showcased during transmediale. (On a related note, be sure to check out transmediale's comprehensive streaming video archive from the 2009 session as well.)
Free Radio Berkeley's "How To Make a Radio Station"
See below for an instructional video from Berkeley's pirate radio station Free Radio Berkeley. The radio station is a major hub for information related to community-oriented micropower broadcasting, and they provide free workshops, legal information, and starter kits as part of their mission. In How To Make a Radio Station, FRB's founder Stephen Dunifer outlines how to build an FM transmitter.
How To Make a Radio Station from Free Radio on Vimeo.
In the Round
The question of the relationship between performance and its documentation is an interesting, if longstanding one. These relations have continued to shift with the emergence of newer and newer media, so that the telephonic or radio broadcast, camera, and internet transmission become implicated in the content they capture and deliver, often begging a chicken vs. egg-style question of whether the performance or the recording is paramount. The "Stage II" exhibition at New York's The Project gallery returns attention to the site of performance, even as it displays the residual ephemera of artists' actions. The work of artist Dave Allen stimulates a visceral connection with audiences in tapping into sound art's classic obsession with silence to deliver Silence Recordings, Hansa Studios, Berlin (2001), which fills the gallery space with the seemingly-silent recordings of vacant artist studios and empty concert halls. Lucky Dragons is a band and art collective whose work encompasses music, drawing, public collaboration, and more. For "Stage II," they present Showing (2009), a sculptural installation that proves the artists need not be physically present to make noise. An arrangement of their homebrew instruments featuring rocks, wood, and analog electronics sits in waiting for viewers to move them, generating a shift in their electrical field and a resultant shift in the shape of the sounds they are set to make. While these two projects provide perfect bookends for the exhibition, the show also includes work by Larry Krone, Rashaad Newsome, and Superamas, each of whom is engaged in the practice of splicing together object relationships, filmic clips, or cultural reenactments to establish a new interdependence between artist, viewer, stage, and document. - Marisa Olson
Now Accepting Applications for the 2010 Commissions Cycle
2009 Commissioned Artist
Rhizome is pleased to announce that the 2010 Commissions cycle is now open. Founded in 2001, the Rhizome Commissions Program is designed to support emerging artists with financial and institutional resources. In the seventh year of funding for the Program, Rhizome will award grants, with amounts ranging from $1000 to $5000, for the creation of significant works of new media art. This includes projects that creatively engage new and networked technologies to works that reflect on the impact of these tools and media in a variety of forms. Commissioned works can take the final form of online works, performance, video, installation or sound art. Projects can be made for the context of the gallery, the public, the web or networked devices. Artists who receive a commission will also be invited to speak at Rhizome's affiliate, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and to archive their work in the ArtBase, a comprehensive online art collection.
Applications will be accepted until midnight April 2, 2009.
For the application and more information:
In the 2010 cycle, Rhizome will award nine grants total. Seven of these will be selected by a jury and two will be determined by Rhizome's membership through an open vote. Reflective of Rhizome's commitment to openness and community, this unique process encourages dialogue among artists and participants and provides members with the opportunity to survey the current field of practice.
Member voting will begin on April 6th. Information on Rhizome membership is here:
The Rhizome Commissions program is supported, in part, by funds from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York ...
See You See Me (2009) - Evan Roth
Flooded McDonald's (2009) - Superflex
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Call for Entries: Prix Ars Electronica 2009
The Prix Ars Electronica is currently seeking submissions for 2009. The prizes will be awarded during the Ars Electronica Festival in September. There are currently eight award categories, including Computer Animation / Film / VFX, Interactive Art, Digital Musics, Hybrid Art, Digital Communities, u19 - freestyle computing, [the next idea] Grant, and the Media.Art.Research Award. The deadline is March 6, 2009.


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Austin Stephens recently went on an Emerica road / demo trip to the East Coast, where he and the sick ass Emerica team showed a full frontal force. Hes currently nursing a rolled ankle and cant wait to continue filming for the upcoming TM Good and Evil video.
Billy Marks killed the Active Bling demo, doing kickflip lipslides down 10 with no problem.
Diego Bucchieri just got back from Spain where he and filmer Kevin Barnett were filming in Barcelona, getting some untapped good spots for the new Toy Machine video Good and Evil.
Ed Templeton is getting hurt, and working on his art show The Prevailing Nothing. Ed is very busy right now, that shit opened in LA last weekend!!!!
Its officially official: JLAY is now a full-blown AM on Toy Machine. Watch out for Johnny 'JLay' Layton, this kid is blowing up. Be sure to check out mad pages in the new Thrasher Kings of the Road issue, hes got tons of coverage to feast your eyes on.


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Weekly meeting of the Rehoboth Beach Writers' Guild Poetry Free Write. Explore your writing passion! Attending a Free Write is a fun, low commitment way to dip your toes into the writing pool. Writers at all levels are welcome; you do not need to be a member to attend.
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Beginning to return to the trail after Sandy: Romney campaigns in Florida… But Obama stays off the trail to inspect the damage in Atlantic City with Gov. Christie… Reading the body language with six days to go… Chrysler, GM push back against the Romney campaign… Will the Super PACs move the needle?... Or will the Obama campaign have gotten the bigger bang for its buck?
Mitt Romney resumes a full campaign schedule Wednesday in Florida after taking a break Tuesday to encourage storm donations to the Red Cross. Meanwhile, President Obama will spend another day focused on Sandy recovery efforts. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
*** Returning to the trail: With just six days until Election Day, we begin to see a return to the campaign trail. Mitt Romney stumps in the battleground of Florida, while Joe Biden also is in the Sunshine State, Bill Clinton hits Iowa, and Paul Ryan visits Wisconsin. But President Obama remains off the trail -- he instead inspects the damage from Sandy with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in Atlantic City at 1:00 pm ET. (Who would have ever thought that it would be Obama, and not Romney, spending time with Christie in the last week of the election? What a picture that will be today.) With Obama in New Jersey, Romney's return to the campaign trail is a bit tricky. "The former Massachusetts governor must show respect for the superstorm's casualties all along the Eastern Seaboard," the AP writes. "But Romney can ill afford to waste a minute of campaign time, with the contest virtually deadlocked in several key states." And here is something to chew on: Given how close this election is, it won't be surprising if the losing side ends up blaming Sandy, whether it's fair or not. You could argue that Sandy has both elevated the president and stopped the momentum narrative for Romney. But you could also contend that Sandy has kept the president off the campaign trail for at least three days. Just like Kerry partisans blamed bin Laden video in '04, Bush folks blamed the DUI story in '00 and McCain folks blamed Lehman collapse in '08, Sandy will get the blame from the losing side, period.
*** Reading the body language: So who is ahead in this presidential contest? If you look at the national polls (Pew, NPR, New York Times/CBS), it's a dead heat. If you look at the key battleground-state polls -- like today's New York Times/CBS/Quinnipiac surveys of Ohio, Florida, and Virginia -- then you see that Obama is slightly ahead in the pursuit of 270 electoral votes. But if you look at the campaigns' body language, it's hard not to conclude that Romney's folks believe they are behind, at least when it comes to Ohio. And if they believe Ohio is the "be all, end all," then they are behind. For starters, as we wrote yesterday, the Romney camp likely doesn't air these Jeep ads if it's winning the Buckeye State. And now you have GM and Chrysler pushing back against the campaign (see below). In addition, Romney is campaigning in Florida (today) and Virginia (tomorrow), which are two states he HAS to win and two states that two weeks ago seemed to be trending ever-so-slightly to Romney. Finally, all of this talk about expanding the map to Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania perhaps suggests a campaign looking for new routes to 270, especially with Romney trailing in Ohio per most polls. Yes, polls are closing in all three states. But if there was a concerted effort to put the three on the map, where was Romney campaign three months ago? Where were the outside groups SIX months ago? (Yes, we know American Future Fund has been alone in Minnesota for weeks, and they do potentially deserve credit on the GOP side for keeping the state close, but we digress.) It's likely that both campaigns' spin is right: Momentum has closed the race in the Lean Dem states, but Obama's Ohio firewall also seems to be holding up.
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In the final push in the 2012 presidential election, candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama make their last appeals to voters.
*** Chrysler, GM push back against Romney campaign: Have the Romney campaign's controversial Jeep ads (on TV and radio) backfired? Well, it's never a good development when the automakers are pushing back against the Romney camp. The New York Times: "'The ad is cynical campaign politics at its worst,' Greg Martin, a spokesman for General Motors, said in an interview late Tuesday. 'We think creating jobs in the U.S. and repatriating profits back in this country should be a source of bipartisan pride.' General Motors was pulled into the fray on Tuesday after Mr. Romney began running a new radio advertisement in which an announcer says, 'Barack Obama says he saved the auto industry, but for who, Ohio or China?'" Also: "In an e-mail to employees on Tuesday, Chrysler's executive, Sergio Marchionne, said that Jeep's commitment to the United States was unequivocal. 'I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China,' he wrote. 'It is inaccurate to suggest anything different.'" Question: Would the Romney camp have aired these ads if they knew they would get this kind of pushback? This goes back to our body language point above: These ads suggest that the Romney NEEDED to do something to change the political dynamic in Ohio.
*** Will the Super PACs move the needle? A week from now, we'll have a true test case about the power of Super PACs in this presidential election. Out of the whopping $127.5 million being spent on advertisements in the final week of this race, Team Romney has a nearly 2-to-1 advantage over Team Obama, $82.9 million to $44.6 million. While the Obama campaign is the largest single advertiser this week, the Republican Super PACs are more than making up the difference. Here's the breakdown: Obama $34.2 million, Romney $29.1 million, American Crossroads $24.1 million, Restore Our Future $17.4 million, Priorities USA Action $10.1 million, RNC $3.5 million, Americans for Job Security $2.2 million. Will that GOP advantage -- fueled by the Super PACs -- move the needle? Or are the battleground states already fully saturated in TV ads? We'll find out Tuesday night. By the way, to put this week's $127.5 million in perspective, Bush and Gore in 2000 had a COMBINED $136 million to spend in the general election (after the conventions).
*** Or will the Obama camp have gotten the better bang for its buck? But don't forget this very important caveat: Because Super PACs have to pay a higher advertising rate and because the Obama camp has been maximizing its ad spending, the difference in actual advertising spots and points is likely much narrower and probably close to even. In fact, this might be the biggest underreported story of this election cycle. (NBC's ad trackers say that the outside groups get about half, if not a third, of the per-dollar points that the candidates do.) To date, nearly $1 billion -- $951.9 million, to be exact -- has been spent on the presidential contest in the general election. Team Romney has outspent Team Obama, $559.1 million to $392.8 million. The largest advertisers: Obama $329 million, Romney $208 million, Restore $87 million, American Crossroads $87 million, Crossroads GPS $63 million, Priorities $57 million, Americans for Prosperity $46.5 million, RNC $29 million, Americans for Job Security $12.5 million, American Future Fund $7.8 million, NRA $5.1 million, Concerned Women $4.8 million.
*** Storm wreaks havoc on election preparations: States and local municipalities up and down the East Coast are having to adjust after Hurricane Sandy brought devastation leaving more than million people still without power. Where some of the biggest impact of the storm was felt – the Jersey Shore, they don't even have power in the clerk's office in Ocean County, they are having trouble reaching polling location leaders because so many don't have power, and many roads remain impassable making it difficult to check on whether those locations are flooded and usable for Election Day. Officials said they'll have a better idea in five or six days, and we're just six days from Election Day now. Like in other states, they are extending early voting hours. In New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, there are concerns about what to do about flooded locations designated for polling, and coastal counties are struggling to assess whether power outages might force changes to polling locations. In Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia, early voting was canceled for a second day, but like in New Jersey will be extended starting tomorrow in some places. For a full wrap, check out NBCNews.com's Tom Curry's story here.
*** On the trail: Obama inspects the hurricane damage in Atlantic City, NJ at 1:00 pm ET… Romney, in Florida, holds rallies in Tampa (with Senate candidate Connie Mack) at 11:10 am ET and in Miami (with Marco Rubio) at 2:20 pm ET… Bill Clinton stumps for Obama in Iowa, hitting Council Bluffs, Mason City, and Waterloo… Joe Biden is in Florida… Paul Ryan is in Wisconsin… And Ann Romney visits Ohio.
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In March 2012 the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences was established which in December 2012 is marked with accomplishments in the areas of academia, research and extracurricular activities. Due to full support from the Chairman BOG, The University of Lahore, bold initiatives were taken for launching new departments this year. Additions were made to the academic programs offered in the different departments of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, thus providing even further opportunities for the students from all over Pakistan& abroad to avail a world-class degree at Faculty of Allied Health Sciences.
As treatment innovations and technological advances change the landscape of health practice, the challenge in health care delivery is to widen the base of medical education into the Allied Health Sciences. The opportunities for those into allied health fields seem limitless, as a scope of practice & the need for health care practitioners continually expand.
The Faculty of Allied Health continued producing original research in a wide range of areas. Faculty took part in international and national conferences and exciting research projects were conducted since the establishment of Faculty of Allied Health Sciences.With the continued support of students, faculty and staff, the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences will continue to push at the boundaries of excellence in the years to come.May Allah bless us with dignity, honesty, hard work, team work followed by everlasting success (Aameen).


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Organizing to win College for All in Illinois's XX Congressional District
This action is for everyone who lives in Illinois's XX congressional district. (Not sure which district you live in? Look it up here.)
We want to organize people to put pressure on members of Congress (or people who are running to become members of Congress) to cancel all student debt and make public universities completely free. This organizing can take many forms. Reach out to each other, start talking and making plans. Here is some information that you might find helpful.
Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (Democrat) has not yet taken a position on H.R. 3473 College for All Act of 2019 (this bill would make all public colleges and universities free) or H.R. 3448 Student Debt Cancellation Act of 2019 (this bill would cancel all $1.6 trillion of student debt). Can you force Rep. Krishnamoorthi to co-sponsor or publicly support these bills?
You can contact your rep yourself, or you can use YDSA's tool, which will help you do so automatically.
Use the comments below to plan and coordinate with each other on a district-wide level.
The Indivisible Guide provides good advice about how to set up a meeting with your members of congress (or the people currently campaigning for office), how to show up at town halls, how to write letters to the editor, etc. We can do all of that and more. Feel free to get creative and come up with your own plans in addition to these tried and true methods.
Use this data sheet StudentDebt_IL08.pdf (1.1 MB) about student debt in your district.
Use this study by economists at the Levy Institute which outlines several positive effects of canceling all student debt.
The Young Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) have a great resources about organizing for College for All. If there is a YDSA chapter near you please reach out and coordinate with them.


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Hi all,
I've returned to TMUF after 5 years (been a while...) and found that I still have 62723 LP (I had ~80000 when I stopped playing). I thought LP decreased down to a value of 60000 before they came to a halt? Have they simply stopped decreasing at some point during my hiatus, to sort of "conserve" the condition as it was?
Similarly, I also can't gain any LP, no it's not a Freezone server or something I'm playing on, it's a 40k-80k ladder server and I'm not the only one on it.
Have Ladder Points stopped decreasing?
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About two weeks ago, I wrote about a new URL shortener I discovered called Adfly. At that time, I had freshly joined the program as it was an intriguing way to earn passive income so I basically just started a fresh twitter account just for that program.
Overview of Adfly
Adfly simply takes a long url and shortens it. These kinds of shortener services are perfect for microblogging platforms like twitter because of the character limitations. The unique thing that adfly does is that it adds an advertisement that the visitor will see while going to the website. You earn for every view.
As you can see, the potential is to earn passive income completely through adviews. However, you want to be careful so as not to bog down you regular sites with ads.
Adfly does give the option of less obtrusive ads, but they pay less. I just opted to use a new account just for adfly links.
I simply picked a niche for my new twitter account. I chose to focus on shopping. I simply wrote a short bio about how I like to look for shopping deals and bargains and then started routing rss feeds to that twitter account.
I use dlvr.it to route the feeds. It's a very simple matter to use the Adfly api as the default shortener so all the links go through Adfly.
All the rss feeds focus on money and bargains. Of course, I was able to add some affiliate links as well. The reason I picked this niche was that I figured that people who are looking for bargains are likely to click through to the deals.
Then I started building up my twitter following.
So, in the first few days, I only got a few clickthroughs, but as my twitter following grew, I got more and more.
Currently, I have a little over 4000 followers.
You can see how I'm growing my twitter following in my free article here.
So, at this point, I'm getting upwards of 20 clicks a day. Just looking at my Adfly stats, I'm probably earning 3-5 cents a day in clickthroughs. While that doesn't sound like much, remember this is a new account and it's growing. I earn more and more every day and it's passive income. I'm doing nothing more than growing my twitter following. Not to mention that at the same time, some of my affiliate links are getting clickthroughs as well.
I must say, I'm feeling fairly optimistic about this url shortener and thought I'd give all of you a quick update.
If would like to earn passive income this way, you can sign up for Adfly free below:
Just a quick update to my Adfly to twitter cash generating method:
- Create unlimited new niche twitter accounts using the same gmail account by simply adding a "+" after your username. e.g. "[email protected]"
- Set up your adfly api as the default url shortener using dlvr.it
- Grab rss feeds related to your niche from around the web and route them to your new twitter account
- Follow tweeters in your niche using twiends or tweepi. (You can still use the method I mentioned up above, but you need to use the old firefox browser and be careful not to follow people too quickly)


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CULVER CITY, Calif. (KCAL/CNN) - Dramatic body cam video released by police in Culver City, California, shows two officers racing into an apartment last month to save a boy who was choking and being held by a frantic mother.
Heart-pounding seconds went by as the officers tried to clear the child's airway.
The video starts with an officer jumping from the passenger seat and running toward an apartment building. His partner was right on his heels.
The officer took the child from his distraught mom and pounded on the boy's back to clear anything stuck in his throat.
The officers rushed the boy outside, one of them carrying him face down on his arm.
Finally, they heard the sound they'd been waiting for - crying meant breathing.
The boy was able to see his heroes again this week when the Culver City Council hosted him and his family and honored the officers who saved his life.
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My week off flew by, it felt like a long weekend, not nine days away from the florescent lights, keyboard, phone calls, and paperwork.
My first two days off were spent painting trim and doors; the bedroom and bathroom downstairs are now fully complete. I also replaced all the gold hardware with brushed nickel. It's a welcomed improvement. I cannot wait until every gold fixture is phased out of the house.
The next few days we spent in Laughlin. We came home Wednesday, but most of the day was spent juggling vehicles. We picked up the Jimmy from the Trans repair shop across town. We ran to Jiffy Lube to pick up my car, the collision shop did a good job with repairs. I was happy. It's practically as good as new; it would be if my interior still smelled like new car instead of glue. The local Enterprise location was closed by the time we got my car, they'd remain closed until Friday, so we opted to return the Nitro to the Rental Car Facility near McCarran. Between the running around and rainy weather it was a complete waste of a day. At least we topped it off by relaxing in the hot tub. I swear that's a cure all…
Thursday, I cleaned and cooked, while Frank watched football. It was my first attempt at cooking a turkey. I'm happy to report it was a success. It was moist and flavorful. Wish I could say the same for my mashed potatoes and stuffing (or dressing, since I don't put it in the bird). The flavor of the stuffing was dead on, but the texture was off. Last year, I made it at my sister's for her thanksgiving feast and it came out fine. Not sure what the deal was. I don't think I let the potatoes cook long enough; the texture was way off there, too. Overall, we had a nice meal. My mom stayed with us the next couple nights.
We hit a few stores on Black Friday. My greatest finds were at Home Depot. The sales seemed pretty weak this year. There wasn't much that I was interested in. Frank and I trimmed the palms in the backyard, and the rest of the day and Saturday we spent quality time with my mom. She injured her back in Oct; she's been out of work and stuck at home. She appreciated the company and the change of scenery.
Sunday was my last day off, I spent it cleaning house, doing laundry, decorating for Christmas and I cleaned out the garage. Frank watched football. We capped the night off with dinner at Stratta.
I really thought I'd get more done and have some down time, but that didn't happen. It would have been really tough to go back to work this week if I didn't have our staycation at the Signature next week to look forward to.


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Jeff Turner is an old friend from my days at Nautilus. He sold Nautilus equipment for 11 years, primarily in the Pacific Northwest, and was positively influenced by Arthur Jones and his writings. Today, he owns a one-to-one facility called Abstract Bodyworks in Olympia, Washington.
Recently, Jeff phoned and said he and his family would be spending two weeks at the Walt Disney Resort in Orlando in early December and he wanted to check out my Intensive-Coaching plan. Great, I replied, and we set up a date on December 6, 2007.
"I want to get lean," Jeff said as he arrived in a rented car. "I've got at least 20 pounds of fat that needs to come off."
"Sounds to me like you've got your act together," I replied. "Why do you need me?"
"I just can't seem to do it on my own," Jeff said shaking his head. "Like you said in 'The Secret,' I need someone to be accountable to."
I understood what Jeff meant, as I led him to my private gym and office.
Briefly, my mind wandered back to 1986, when Jeff initially visited Nautilus Sports/Medical Industries in Lake Helen. At that time he was actively involved in hardcore bodybuilding. After answering several related questions for him, I asked him to take off his shirt and hit a few poses.
As I eyeballed carefully each of his major muscles — from the front, side, and back, both contracted and relaxed — I declared that I had a solution to his desire to reach the top level in bodybuilding competitions. "Your next time around," I said, "pick your parents differently. Select parents who are taller, leaner, and have extremely long muscles throughout their bodies."
Then, I said: "Jeff, on a bodybuilding scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being very poor genetics, 5 being average, and 10 being very good or great genetics, your overall score is a 6 in some muscles and a 7 in others. It's above average, but several notches below the level that is required to win bodybuilding championships.
"Yes, Jeff, you can get bigger and stronger, but you're never going to look like Franco Columbu (Jeff admired Franco's physique)."
Some bodybuilders would get mad, become defensive, and leave my office upset — and a few did just that — but not Jeff Turner. Jeff picked my brain for another hour and wanted to know more about genetic potential.
We were both laughing as we remembered that encounter some 21 years ago.
"Overall," Jeff said in a sincere manner, "your blunt honesty saved me thousands of hours of training time and mounds of money that I would have wasted trying to compete. You opened the high-intensity door to me in a realistic manner, which motivated me eventually to establish my personal-training business."
Jeff is almost 48 years old. He's been training since he was 19. When I met him in 1986 he was exercising 2 hours a day, six times per week. Since then, however, he's been a basic HIT man. Rarely do any of his workouts last longer than 15 minutes.
Even though Jeff had a good handle on HIT, he still felt like he could use some brushing up on the finer points, as well as motivation to do what he already knows he needs to do.
To get things rolling for Jeff in his Intensive-Coaching plan, I did a series of body measurements. He was 5'6" tall and weighed 207 pounds. His percent body fat was 22.7. Both of us felt like he could lose 25 pounds of fat and, within 90 days, get down to the 12-percent level — which was a realistic goal for his age, background, and day-to-day business schedule.
Another important measurement was the circumference of the waist. I took three positions on Jeff's midsection: 2 inches above the navel, at the navel level, and 2 inches below the navel. Those numbers were as follows:
41-1/4 inches
42-3/4 inches
37 inches
It will be meaningful to watch the reductions at those waistline levels.
One old-school test I did with Jeff, which many readers will find interesting, was the comparison measurements of hanging and contracted upper arms. These two measurements provide a record of leanness. If you are losing fat and getting leaner, then the different between your relaxed and contracted upper arm will gradually increase week to week.
If you want to do the test, it's more accurate to have someone do the measurements for you. Take the measurements "cold." Here are the techniques to apply:
1. Relax the arm and measure the circumference midway between the elbow and tip of the shoulder with the arm hanging away from the body. Record the measurement to the nearest 1/16th of an inch. 2. Flex the arm and measure it at right angles to the bone around the largest part of the contracted biceps with the upper arm parallel to the floor. Record the contracted arm to the nearest 1/16th of an inch. 3. Determine the difference between the relaxed and contracted measurements.
1. Relax the arm and measure the circumference midway between the elbow and tip of the shoulder with the arm hanging away from the body. Record the measurement to the nearest 1/16th of an inch.
2. Flex the arm and measure it at right angles to the bone around the largest part of the contracted biceps with the upper arm parallel to the floor. Record the contracted arm to the nearest 1/16th of an inch.
3. Determine the difference between the relaxed and contracted measurements.
Relaxed-arm position.
Contracted-arm position.
If you're getting leaner, the differences between your relaxed and contracted upper-arm measurements will get greater. If you are getting fatter, the differences between the two will get smaller.
The reason one goes up and the other goes down is the fact that . . . you can't flex fat! Only muscle contains contractile tissue.
Most of your noncontractile fat is stored directly under your skin, with thicker layers around your hips and midsection. When your percentage of fat is reduced, it's reduced from all over your body.
Jeff's relaxed upper arm was 15-5/8 inches and his contracted upper arm was 17-1/8 inches — for a difference of 1-1/2 inches. From the last photo above, you should be able to see that Jeff has a rather short biceps muscles and much longer-than-average triceps. Also, it should be evident that he has a lot of muscle under his subcutaneous fat.
The largest difference I've ever measured was on the arm of Casey Viator, who won the 1971 AAU Mr. America. Casey's right arm was 17-1/8 inches relaxed and 19-5/16 inches contracted — which amounted to 2-1/4 inches between the two numbers.
By keeping accurate records of the differences between your relaxed and contracted arms measurements, you now have a simple way to monitor your leanness and fatness.
Later that day, Jeff drove over to Jim Flanagan's for a workout. Jim has a gym loaded with vintage Nautilus and MedX equipment. In Olympia, Washington, Jeff has some similar equipment in his gym. Big Jim, with his all-out style, pushed Jeff through a heck-of-a workout. Jeff may want to share some of his thoughts about it in the follow-up.
Afterward, Jeff and I organized two workouts for him to follow back home in Olympia. I want him to alternate his A and B routines, twice a week for three consecutive weeks. After doing each routine three times, I'll evaluate his status and, depending on his progress, continue or make changes.
Here are the Intensive-Coaching A and B routines that I designed for Jeff:
A Routine
1. Nautilus hip extension 2. MedX leg extension 3. MedX leg curl 4. MedX lateral raise 5. MedX overhead press 6. Nautilus pullover 7. MedX abdominal
B Routine
1. MedX leg press 2. Nautilus 10-degree chest 3. MedX chest press 4. MedX torso arm pulldown 5. Nautilus triceps 6. Nautilus biceps 7. MedX rotary torso
Of course, part of Jeff's responsibility will be to lower his daily caloric intake to 1,500 and start drinking at least a gallon of cold water each day.
Part of my Intensive-Coaching job is to keep Jeff's motivation at a high level so he can reach his goal of weighing 182 pounds by March 1, 2008. He has another Orlando, Florida, trip planned in March and I will personally do his follow-up measurements and evaluations.
Until then, we'll provide periodic updates on Jeff's progress and answer questions related to his quest for leanness.
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Do You Deliberately Establish Your Intentions?
Set Your Intentions Deliberately
So we're into the first half of a new month, approaching a new season, and nearly into the last quarter of 2018… already! I thought I would repeat a timely post regarding setting or establishing our direction intentionally, not just with a "whatever will be will be" attitude. It also fits well with this being Women with Intention Wednesday, which I blogged about on my other blog (check it out HERE).
The older I get, the more I discover I need to be structured and deliberate in my actions. It's challenging dealing with the "here for" issue. You know, you walk into a room and suddenly can't remember what you came in here for!
If you don't know what I mean, then you are blessed and don't suffer from brain fog!
So I have to make lists, use color-coded notecards, use the "S Note" feature on my cell phone or set reminders with notifications, and/or hang sticky notes, all to make sure I don't forget important things. Some of the details on these lists and within notes are the things I intend to do each day in a structured or scheduled order; seeing them written down helps me set the direction or plan for the day, as I can reflect on them or refer back to them.
So here's your mid-week inspiration, #13 from Karl Moore's 18 Rules of Happiness.
Rule #13 – Set Direction with Intention
"Decide on where you're going and how it'll be for you – and it'll happen.
Set your intention first. Make it clear that you're going to have a great time, you'll meet some fantastic people, and that it's going to be wonderful.
Set your general intention every morning and every night, too. The brighter and more positive, the better.
Set your sunny intention – and you will be happy."
— Karl Moore
"Whether you think you can or you can't,
you're right."
– Henry Ford
My Reflections
While I certainly know things happen to derail our good intentions and direction for a day, since we really have no control over unforeseen circumstances, I think the overall concept here is good. I definitely feel happier when I have a plan and get things done on any given day.
I also like Henry Ford's simple quote: "Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right." Simple, yet powerful!
So what are YOUR thoughts?
How do you feel about setting your intentions deliberately?
Have you experienced the truth of setting your direction for the day (week, month, year) intentionally and seeing good results?


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Obsessing over: printing out all of the photos I've taken of Henry over the past 15 months. I was looking through an old photo album at my parents' the other day and realized that I have nothing physical like that to have as a keepsake. I doubt that one day in future Henry will sit and peruse my Flickr account when he wants to see baby photos. So my plan is to go through all of my photos month by month and print out 3 copies of each. I'll make 2 photo albums (one for him, one for us) and then have an extra copy for any projects, etc. he may want them for. I'm not a scrapbooker, so these are just going to be old-fashioned albums. I'm excited, even though the task seems completely daunting considering the amount of photos I've taken!
Working on: This is just my hobby (NOT a job), but for some reason, I catch myself feeling weird- like I'm not "keeping up with the Jones'" once in a blue moon. And that is too often for me. By the way, I have no idea who the Jones' even are. It's weird though, and I started thinking about this when I caught myself apologizing for an Instagram collage in a recent post. Who am I apologizing to? And why? This blog has a large readership, yes, but why in the world would I apologize to people for sharing photos of my happiness- albeit not the best quality photos, but still, why? I share a little of everything- beautiful photos from my DSLR, some from my point and shoot, some from my phone, so I'm just trying to shake off this idea that I have to measure up to some weird ideal I've gotten stuck in my head from who knows where. All of the blogs I love are a mix of everything, yet all of a sudden I had a strange guilt for not producing posts with great photos, all the time; like I was copping out using Instagram photos. Over it now though, and I don't expect to feel that way for oh, about another 6 or 7 months! ;)
Thinking about: how excited I am to get tattooed tomorrow! It's been awhile, and I couldn't be happier about adding something really, really special to my thigh. Let's be clear though- I am not excited about the pain- I hate hate hate getting tattooed, and it only gets harder the older I get...but I love the outcome so in the end it's worth it. I'll wait and share what I'm getting via a post later on, but just know that it officially brings me fully over to the literature-nerd side, as if I wasn't already there. Excited!
Anticipating: a fun weekend. Tomorrow night is tattoo night, Saturday is Carter's 2nd birthday party, and Sunday Hank, Henry and I have a fun family day planned.
Listening to: Lately I can't stop listening to Neko Case. Do any of you listen to her? I've loved her for a long, long time and have fully enjoyed all of her amazing projects she's partaken in with that incredible voice of hers. My most favorite album of hers though is Blacklisted, but oddly enough I'd never gave her newest album, Middle Cyclone, a listen. While in San Francisco Alex mentioned that one of his all-time favorite songs was "This Tornado Loves You" and now I can't stop listening to it. Neko Case is amazing and and I firmly believe she is one of the great voices of our time.
Eating: sweet potatoes. So many sweet potatoes! I always love them, but lately I've been on a one-a-day kick. I usually like to throw a couple in the oven for dinner- Henry loves them too! I prefer mine with butter and sea salt, but adding cheese and broccoli is delicious too. Fun fact: sweet potatoes have been said to increase the chances of having twins or multiples! Seeing that my Dad is a twin I better lay off once we start thinking about baby #2...unless we want #2 and #3 at the same time! ha.
Wishing: that air travel was free. There are far too many faraway friends I'd like to visit.
How about you? What are you up to today? Feel free to do your own "currently" post on your blog and link back in the comments! And thanks again to my dear friend Megan for providing the original inspiration for these posts.


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Asteroid Sylvia and her twins
One of the thousands of minor planets orbiting the Sun has been found to have its own mini planetary system. Astronomer Franck Marchis (University of California, Berkeley, USA) and his colleagues at the Observatoire de Paris (France) [1] have discovered the first triple asteroid system - two small asteroids orbiting a larger one known since 1866 as 87 Sylvia [2].
"Since double asteroids seem to be common, people have been looking for multiple asteroid systems for a long time," said Marchis. "I couldn't believe we found one."
The discovery was made with Yepun, one of ESO's 8.2-m telescopes of the Very Large Telescope Array at Cerro Paranal (Chile), using the outstanding image' sharpness provided by the adaptive optics NACO instrument. Via the observatory's proven "Service Observing Mode", Marchis and his colleagues were able to obtain sky images of many asteroids over a six-month period without actually having to travel to Chile.
ESO Press Video eso0526 is an artist rendering of the triple asteroid system showing the large asteroid 87 Sylvia spinning at a rapid rate and surrounded by two smaller asteroids (Remus and Romulus) in orbit around it. This computer animation is also available in broadcast quality to the media (please contact Herbert Zodet).Kilde:
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The Place and The Work Conference will be held on Saturday 6, Sunday 7 September. Class sessions run 27 August – 4 September and 9 – 16 September. Making art works in relation to place is the focus of the North Lands Creative Glass Conference and Master Classes 2014; acknowledging how artists and their work connect to their surroundings, landscape, architecture, history and social context. We see more interactive public art, more artists responding to and working with communities. Artists are making works that respond to weather, nature or urban environments, to political discourse and social situations. It seems that some artists and public demand less autonomous disconnected sculpture favouring instead a more connected vision. We ask questions about what it means to experience remoteness, how this and being in a place away from home affect an artist's work. What influences the particularities of a landscape can have and what it means to collaborate with artists in close proximity, to work intensively with no distractions and to embrace or reject the surroundings. What can happen when we go beyond our familiar studio environment and step outside into a bigger picture? What does it mean to be a glass specialist in this place, at this time? More details for the Classes and Conference programme will be announced shortly.


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clash with (someone or something)
1. To fight or disagree with someone or something. My house is always full of yelling because my kids clash with each other on everything.
2. To contradict or be in disagreement with something. The governor's new tax plan clashes with his campaign promises. Our idea got rejected because it clashed with the boss's vision for our department.
3. To look visually displeasing when paired or juxtaposed with something, usually as of colors. That eyeshadow totally clashes with her skin tone, unfortunately. We're all wearing pink, so you're definitely going to clash with us if you wear orange.
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[for the color of something] to conflict with or mismatch another color. This red carpet clashes with the purple of the drapes. This red does not clash with purple. It looks gorgeous.
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The Environmental Protection Agency reportedly has been using aircraft to spy on cattle ranchers in Iowa and Nebraska. Nebraska's congressional delegation recently submitted a joint letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson expressing concerns about the surveillance, to which the EPA replied that its use of the planes is well within the legal boundaries, as well as "cost-effective."
The EPA's surveillance has covered Region 7, comprised of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri, though it has focused primarily on Nebraska and Iowa, because of the high concentration in those two states of livestock feeding operations in watersheds that have histories of contamination.
The aircraft have maintained an altitude of 1,200 to 1,500 feet. While the EPA alerts state environmental agencies when it is deploying its aircraft in their skies, it does not notify livestock farmers. Thus far, seven flights have taken place over Iowa, and nine over Nebraska.
Nebraska's congressional delegation — Republican Reps. Adrian Smith, Jeff Fortenberry, and Lee Terry, and GOP Sen. Mike Johanns (above photo, right of drone), as well as Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson (above photo, left of drone) — raised their objections in their letter to the EPA:
Farmers and ranchers in Nebraska pride themselves in the stewardship of our state's natural resources. As you might imagine, this practice [aircraft surveillance] has resulted in privacy concerns among our constituents and raises several questions.
According to Rep. Adrian Smith, who co-chairs the Modern Agriculture Caucus and the Congressional Rural Caucus, much of the surveillance takes place around homes, so "landowners deserve legitimate justification given the sensitivity of the information gathered by flyovers."
"Nebraskans are rightfully skeptical of an agency which continues to unilaterally insert itself into the affairs of rural America," Smith added.
Additionally, some have raised concerns about the impact that the EPA surveillance would have on costs to the farmers, as it may lead to expensive manure control modifications on the farms, dairies, and feedlots.
Chuck Folken, owner of a cattle feed yard in Nebraska, said that many producers find it easier to work with the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality than with the federal environmental enforcers. "The state comes out and inspects us and watches us," he pointed out. "They [EPA officials] are overstepping what the state is doing and I think it's unnecessary."
Similar complaints came out of Iowa as well. Iowa Cattlemen's Association spokeswoman Dal Grooms noted that producers have been angered by having to comply with different sets of regulations handed down by both the state and federal governments.
The EPA attempted to assuage some of these concerns in its statement, asserting that the agency does not levy fines or take action against a livestock producer based solely on photos. The pictures taken by the aircraft, it claims, if compelling, may simply prompt inspections at the sites in question.
"Courts, including the Supreme Court, have found similar types of flights to be legal (for example to take aerial photographs of a chemical manufacturing facility) and EPA would use such flights in appropriate instances to protect people and the environment from violations of the Clean Water Act," the agency said in response to the letter.
But the EPA's response was not enough to allay the concerns of the congressional leaders.
"They are just way on the outer limits of any authority they've been granted," declared Nebraska Sen. Mike Johanns.
Constitutionalists point out that not only is the EPA overreaching in an attempt to acquire authority it does not have, but the agency itself is unconstitutional. No provision in the Constitution permits the U.S. Congress to legislate the environment. Under the 10th Amendment, such an authority belongs only to the states.
In its response to the Iowa and Nebraska congressional delegation's letter, the EPA focused on cost efficiency. But as noted by PJ Media, "Cost isn't the issue, as the EPA surely knows. What they're doing using spy planes over the US, for what purpose, and what are they doing with the information they're gathering — that's the issue."
This is just one of many capacities in which surveillance aircraft are being used in the skies over America, though all uses of the aerial spy vehicles pose similar problems regarding privacy rights.
Congress has already approved the deployment of approximately 30,000 drones in U.S. skies by the year 2020, prompting privacy advocates to question how the FAA will safeguard the American people from the aircraft.
In a recent appearance on the panel portion of Fox News' "Special Report," syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer actually took a hard stance against the use of drones in the United States:
A drone is a high-tech version of an old army and a musket. It ought to be used in Somalia to hunt bad guys but not in America. I don't want to see it hovering over anybody's home. Yes, you can say we have satellites, we've got Google Street View and London has a camera on every street corner but that's not an excuse to cave in on everything else and accept a society where you're always under — being watched by the government. This is not what we want.
Concerns that the drones would add to privacy violations were vindicated when a newly discovered Air Force intelligence brief revealed that surveillance data of American citizens captured by drones "accidentally" can be stored and analyzed by the Pentagon.
"Collected imagery may incidentally include US persons or private property without consent," the instruction states.
Meanwhile, the drone industry in the United States is doing its best to project a positive image to the public.
Michael Toscano, president of the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, is optimistic that some astute public relations will help the industry.
"You have to keep repeating the good words," he said, adding that the word "drones" should also be dispensed with because of its negative connotations and replaced with the term "remotely piloted vehicles."
Salon observed:
Toscano made it sound like something straight out of a crisis-management textbook — or Orwell. The AUVSI wants to bombard the American public with positive images and messages about drones in an effort to reverse the growing perception of the aircraft as a threat to privacy and safety.
This article originally said that the EPA was using drones to monitor feedlots, but a representative from Senator Johanns office has alerted us that in actuality manned aircraft have been used to monitor the feedlots. We apologize for the error.


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GOP committee to select replacement candidate for Lincoln Ward 1
alderman for the consolidated primary
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[January 09, 2013]
In accordance with Illinois election
law, a selection committee consisting of the precinct committeemen
in the new Lincoln Ward 1 will interview interested and qualified
candidates Monday for the position of Ward 1 alderman for the city
of Lincoln. This will fill the vacancy in nomination created by the
death of Orville Busby. Prior to his death, Alderman Busby had filed
nominating petitions to run for the new Ward 1 alderman for the
primary election.
The boundary lines for Ward 1 are as follows:
West boundaries:
Terrace Drive to
Woodlawn Road
Woodlawn Road
to Jackson and State Street
Eighth Street to
Union to
Peoria to Sangamon
Sangamon to
Wichita to
Lincoln Parkway
A map of the new ward is also available at the city clerk's
office at Lincoln City Hall.
The GOP selection committee will accept resumes from today until
a deadline of 8 a.m. Friday. No resumes will be accepted after that
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Along with the resume, the following
will be needed:
Full legal name
Date of birth
Voting and street
address, phone and cell numbers
Membership in all
clubs, organizations or civic membership in the past 10 years
Level of education
Full employment
history -- past and present
Email addresses
and social media contact addresses (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Brief statement why he or she would
like to serve as Ward 1 alderman
In addition, to be considered, each applicant must consent to a
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