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Camping is one of the best ways to experience the natural tranquility and sophisticated vacation activities of the Door County Peninsula. Whether you are roughing it in a tent or enjoying the comparative luxury of your RV or custom decorated fifth wheel, one thing is for sure, you will marvel at the sparkling waters and outstanding beauty of a summer sunset over Green Bay.
The private campgrounds in Door County are prepared to accommodate snowbirds and other seasonal visitors who plan to spend several months here, maybe to be closer to family and to beat the heat associated with winter homes in Florida or Arizona. Or maybe you just want to get out of the hustle and bustle of Green Bay, Milwaukee or Chicago. The fact is you can bring all of your personal creature comforts and still be close to nature while having access to wonderful dining and shopping alternatives when you feel like you need of a little bit of "modern civilization".
For rough campers and adventurers Door County campgrounds and state parks provide the space you need to pitch your tent and enjoy a summer night under the stars. As your campfire dies down you can contemplate the stunning water views and exhilarating hiking, climbing, biking or water adventures of the day.
There is a Door County campground alternative to fit any camping lifestyle whether traveling with kids; fishing with your buddies; or enjoying your "golden years" with the one you love. Do you prefer the more gentle warmer water of the Bay or a the wild surf of Lake Michigan? Start here to see what the most beautiful peninsula in Wisconsin has to offer.
Frontier Wilderness Campground
This campground has so much to offer: convenient location, varied campsites and abundant activities. The grounds are well-cared-for with clean facilities. And the owner's enthusiasm for running the place truly shows in overall feeling and service we perceived. We love when we see that in owners! Frontier Wilderness Campground has received one of Woodall's Camping Directory's highest ratings, 4W, for their facilities. The indoor pool is a nice size with varying water depth and space also for sitting alongside the pool or at a table. It connects to an outdoor deck. The Activity Center is outfitted with many tables and more than a dozen arcade games.
Rustic Timbers
With about 260 camp sites and 12 cabins, this is perhaps the largest campground in Door County. Outdoor heated pool, modern laundry and shower facilities (the cleanest in Door County, they say!), a new adult game room (electronic poker, a bar where cold beer is available), a playground with jumping pillow (new), a full camp store, large picnic pavilion, and 120 acres of nature trails! This is a well thought out facility! Full hook ups, propane sales, wooded sites, cabins and more, and pleasant folks, you can't help but to find Rustic Timbers a great choice, and a wonderful opportunity to fulfill your camping wishes in Door County! These sites can handle the largest of RVs, 45 footer, amidst large, well-spaced and landscaped sites.


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The following articles were printed from Santa Maria Sun [santamariasun.com] - Volume 13, Issue 31
Vodka + Red Bull = troubleOr how Krider nearly lost his shirt in Las Vegas
By ROB KRIDER
Most people don't realize this, but beer has a built-in safety device. It's called a coma. You see, when I drink a lot of beer (and I don't do this very often, only on the weekends, holidays, and days when I have to go to the dentist) eventually I drink so much that I pass out. It's true. I drink, I drink, I drink, then I pass out, and thus nothing bad happens. Sure, some doctors will try to tell you that drinking so much alcohol that you black out is dangerous behavior, but I totally disagree. Drinking a lot of alcohol and not passing out, that is when bad decisions are made and really ugly things happen. You can't make bad decisions when you're in a coma. All you can do is sleep and drool.
Don't get me wrong; beer can certainly give you some bad ideas. For me, I always feel this brief moment of euphoria when I've been drinking a lot and the bad ideas start to flow into my slow-working brain. When that euphoria hits I begin to come up with big stupid grand beer ideas, ideas that can get me hurt or arrested or both. Ideas like, "Let's get naked and jump off the roof into the swimming pool! No wait! I have an even better idea, let's get naked, drain the pool, and then I'll jump from the roof on my skateboard!"
When I get these big stupid grand beer ideas, I always feel it is important to share them with everyone around me as loud as I can, and I like to include certain key members of our society. A lot of times I end up involving the president. When the beer is really flowing, I've been known to proclaim, "Call the president! Call him. I have something very important to tell him! I'm going to go into my garage and build a mobile bar that rides on a skateboard! I need some grant money and legislative approval on this project immediately! I don't want a damn filibuster either or some pork belly add-ons with some federal mandate that you have to have a helmet while riding the skateboard bar. I'm an American citizen. Get me the president STAT!"
Obviously beer makes me say stupid stuff, but the good news is, because of beer's little safety device—BAM—I go to my sleepy place. The end result is the White House phone number has never been dialed from my phone. Thanks to beer and its calming coma effects, I've never jumped off the roof naked. Beer is my safety belt in life. When bad things are about to happen, beer protects me and puts me in a coma, so I can ignore all of life's little problems. Thank you, beer!
But then something in the nightclub landscape changed. Some fool decided it would be "cool" to mix energy drinks with hard alcohol. This is an extremely dangerous situation. Drinking this combination of chemicals is like driving a 100 miles per hour without wearing a seatbelt. For years, beer has been my seatbelt, and coma was my airbag. But I lost my safety devices when I "tried" this new drinking fad. Ultimately, it didn't end well for me.
There are numerous types of these trendy mixed flavors of energy drinks and hard alcohol, but the most prominent one is vodka-Red Bull. While in Las Vegas (a great place to be stupid and lose a lot of money), I thought I would try some vodka-Red Bull and "give it a shot." That shot turned into a drink—which turned into many drinks. My mind was hitting the alcohol euphoria, and some really bad ideas were filling my head, but my body wasn't shutting down. In fact, just the opposite was happening: My body was speeding up. I was talking louder, and dumber, and louder, and stupider. I kept sucking down vodka-Red Bulls and paying outlandish prices for the drink ($18), because I had requested some hipster Ketel One vodka in it (like I could actually taste the difference).
Eventually I was completely jacked up on the Red Bull, but I was slobbering drunk from the vodka. I was drunker than I had ever been. Usually my reputation was saved by the safety of beer and its friend coma, and I passed out before my clothes came off in public. But I wasn't passing out, or blacking out, or losing consciousness. Instead I was wide-eyed and wide awake and miserable. All I wanted to do was fall asleep. But I couldn't. It was like an out-of-body experience, watching myself be ridiculously drunk and not being able to stop myself.
And then somehow (hotel security), I ended up in my hotel room, and I saw my wife, whom I love.
"Hey Baby, you're lookin' beautiful tonight," I slobbered into her ear.
"Don't even think about it. Keep your vodka-Red Bull infused body parts away from me!"
"What's up, Baby? Don't you miss me?"
"I miss it when you drank beer and fell asleep by 8:30. Do you know what time it is?"
"Time for love?"
"No, Dummy. It's 4:30 in the morning. We fly home in five hours."
"Oh, sitting in a plane. That doesn't sound very appealing to me. I think I'll just use up some of this Red Bull energy and start walking to California. Call the president. Tell him I'm walking! Damn, these clothes are making me hot. Wait, did we pack my skateboard?"
"No, Idiot. Why would we pack your skateboard for Vegas? You're really drunk! I don't care what you do. Just do it somewhere else!"
"I will. I'll see you in California, Baby!"
Rob attempted to walk to California. He made it to the end of the parking lot of Caesar's Palace. The rest of the story is sealed in Clark County court records. We can tell you that Rob is no longer allowed to drink vodka-Red Bull within the state of Nevada or be within 100 feet of the fountains of Bellagio.
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The expense of children's clothes and sports equipment is a constant issue for any parent's budget. When parents are separated, who pays for what becomes an ongoing communication- balancing the fairness of each parent's contributions and the needs of each child.
A difference in philosophy and values was part of what caused parents to separate in the first place. There should be no surprise when separated parents clash respecting children's involvement in sports and activities as well as each parent's 'thriftyness' factor.
Typical debates:
· Should a child have new or used sports equipment?
· The 'best of the best' equipment or off the rack at the big box store?
· What is enough? Does a child need a team sweatshirt when she already has the team jacket and hat?
Reasonable parents can disagree and there is no one best answer.
One way of dulling the pain for a parent that is thrifty by nature or feeling a financial pinch is reselling the child's clothes and equipment after they have outgrown them or otherwise turned their attention elsewhere.
For separated parents, sharing the rewards of reselling this 'stuff' is important to fairness and maintaining (or developing) an ongoing relationship of respect and trust. One father, Steven, shared the expense of new hockey skates and equipment with Nancy, his 'ex' for their son Tyler. It was only after the third year that he learned Nancy had been reselling Tyler's old equipment and skates for about 50% of their new price. He felt ripped-off and deceived. Trust was lost.
Talk to your 'ex' about reselling sports equipment, musical instruments and clothes on through specialized businesses dedicated to this task. TrendTrunk.ca is an online service for reselling your outgrown clothes or finding great deals from others.
PlayitAgainSports.com offers online and offline solutions in most locations across North America.
Parents can establish accounts that are mutually visible to provide openness, reassurance and foster trust. The time commitment for using these sites is quite minimal. Further, they are the most effective and safest way of reselling.
These sites are invaluable is placing a value on clothes and sports equipment that is saved for or acquired from step or half-siblings. This is also common sore point for separated parents. Removing the guesswork makes life easier.
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(CBS News) Bill Daley, President Obama's former chief of staff, praised the president's handling of the government shutdown, saying on "CBS This Morning," "He played it exactly right. I think he said, 'Here's the line, and you guys created this problem.'"
Daley, who also served as commerce secretary under President Clinton, said that the wing of the Republican Party in the House of Representatives that sought to delay or defund Obamacare had no real strategy and thought that they could "bamboozle him." He said, "It didn't work ... and yet the country - and the world, really - was put in a state of panic over the thought that the U.S. would default, and it's ridiculous."
Daley also criticized the deal reached in Congress to end the government shutdown, calling it "to some degree, a big nothing." He added, "It's rather sad that it takes all of that energy to come up with very little."
Looking ahead, Daley said no one has been helped by the shutdown - especially in terms of winners and losers. He said, "The president is hurt by it. Democrats will be hurt by it ... people are saying the president won this, but when the nation loses, the leader of the nation gets hurt by that, and I know him well. He's not taking any great joy in this last three weeks at all."
"I think the president is prepared, as he has been for a while, to do something serious about this long-term debt problem," he continued. "Not short-term spending cuts that's going to hurt our country short-term but try to deal with the long term. I think he's always been willing to do that."
Daley suggested the short-term solution will lead to more deals in Congress based on fear: "I can't believe that the Republicans would allow another shutdown to happen or a default because then they will probably go into negative numbers (in the polls) and family and friends and their dogs would turn on them."
So what are the chances that some of the biggest names embroiled in the shutdown will be re-elected and that the GOP will perhaps lose control of the House of Representatives?
Daley said there's no question the shutdown has had an "enormous impact" but said they'll likely recover some ground politically. He added, "They have gerrymandered many of these districts. But, remember, when this faction of the Republican Party won in '10, most of those seats were held, obviously, by Democrats, and so there's been a history in some of these districts of Democratic congresspeople."
Daley has been quoted as saying the president is lucky to have the Tea Party around. Asked why he said that, Daley replied, "Every time he seems to get in trouble, they come to his rescue. Look at the Syria situation. A lot of people were criticizing him for the Syrian situation, and I do believe, as I say, the American people do have a great concern about spending, and yet these people pick Obamacare to have the fight over."
The rollout of Obamacare and its Web site has also been fraught with glitches, another instance that Daley said the president has been saved from backlash due to the shutdown fight. He said, "They saved him from that, which would have been a very difficult couple of weeks since the rollout began."
For more with Daley - including his thoughts on how Congress will behave in the aftermath of the shutdown - watch his full interview above.


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Celebration of Life
We had a celebration of life ceremony for Grandpa Brent this weekend. It was sad and lovely. Everybody cried and shared stories. Devon gave hugs and chased his cousins, and he seemed to understand what the day was about.
He also got to wear his grandpa's racing helmet and run around the room. "We spent so many hours as kids doing that too," Shauna said. "Zoom," Devon said.


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The first round of names are announced
Lightspeed Champion, Robyn and The Feeling lead the first names to be announced for this year's T4 On The Beach.
Also appearing at the annual TV tie-in bash are The Hoosiers and Scouting for Girls.
Now in its sixth year, the all-dayer will take place on Sunday 20 July in Weston Super-Mare, and is being be broadcast live on Channel 4.
Hosts on the day will be T4 regulars Steve Jones, Alexa Chung, Miquita Oliver and Rick Edwards.


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The central part of BBC reporting of climate change is an unquestioning acceptance of the tenets of the green religion. Here David Shukman – enlarging his size nine BBC carbon footprint with a nice trip to Texas in advance of Cancun – admiringly tells us that there are more wind turbines in the southern state than almost anywhere else. Breathlessly, too, he trots out their output as if, without a doubt, these monstrosities are going to be a replacement for the nasty coal and oil and gas. True, he talks to a few of those who oppose both the turbines and the concept of climate change; but his condescending tone implies strongly that these are right-wing Republican nutters.
I note, too, that Mr Shukman omits key issues which I would have regarded as important in a longer-form background story of this kind. He has not a scintilla of curiosity about whether wind farms are actually efficient, or whether they are – as T.Bone Pickens clearly believes – "green". Matt Ridley (writer of the book The Rational Optimist) posted on this very issue yesterday, and Mr Shukman, had he been at all objective, could have dug it out. What he says is devastating:
Every wind turbine has a magnet made of a metal called neodymium. There are 2.5 tonnes of it in each of the behemoths that have just gone up to spoil my view in Northumberland. The mining and refining of neodymium is so dirty (involving repeated boiling in acid, with radioactive thorium as a waste product), that only one country does it: China. This year it flexed its trade muscles and briefly stopped exporting neodymium from its inner Mongolian mines. How's that for dangerous reliance on a volatile foreign supply?
Besides, wind does nothing to reduce carbon emissions. As Robert Bryce shows in his book Power Hungry, even Denmark, which can switch off imported Norwegian hydro power when the wind spins its many turbines, has failed to save any significant net carbon emissions through wind. The intermittent nature of the wind means that fossil-fuel power stations have to be kept going, or inefficiently powered up and down. Besides, the total power produced from even the biggest wind farms is so small that, as a strategy for reducing carbon emissions significantly, wind power is a failure
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WWE is pushing Monday Night Raw with two big storylines.
First, Vickie Guerrero will have a job evaluation.
I see more chaos reigning here with Triple H, Vince McMahon and Stephanie McMahon and less decision as to what Vickie's status is as Raw general manager.
I believe Vickie will be fired and then re-hired in the same segment, but not promoted. At least not yet.
As for The Wyatt Family, these guys have been getting tons of pre-debut publicity.
I'd like to see them come in as faces and battle The Shield, as I think the fans will take to their characters.
WWE also has 3MB as a heel group, so a face group is needed.
The Shield, though, are involved with The Usos and Christian.
And Dolph Ziggler is dealing with 3MB.
With the Money in the Bank pay-per-view upon us in about a week, it's dangerous to throw The Wyatt Family into a big angle.
WWE must tread carefully.
My guess is WWE might incorporate them into the McMahon-HHH-Vickie segment.
Stay tuned.
WWE Main Event
Christian beats Damien Sandow. REACT: Solid match with several close falls. Cody Rhodes was great on commentary, even mocking Christian's clapping at one point.
Jack Swagger beats Sin Cara. REACT: Zeb Colter's "google translator" comment was hilarious. Funny, the announcers implied Swagger took "a few weeks off." Solid match.
Big E Langston beats Curt Hawkins. REACT: OK match. AJ Lee was solid on commentary.
ANALYSIS: Average show. GRADE: C+.
TNA Wrestling Impact
Austin Aries and Hulk Hogan segment. REACT: Funny "gimmick infringement" talk. Suicide now being Manik? Really? Chris Sabin's promo was very average.
AJ Styles beats Kazarian. REACT: Strong pre-match Kazarian promo. I liked the Siegfried and Roy stuff. Styles brought his A game with explosiveness. Strong tap-out.
Chavo Guerrero gives Hernandez a pep talk. REACT: Solid.
Mickie James' ladder promo. REACT: A little forced, but superb.
Gut Check result. REACT: Shocker.
Main Event Mafia's entrance. REACT: Delivers.
Hernandez beats Jay Bradley. REACT: Power match with the Chavo distraction workings, and the running leap and spear highlighting.
Brooke Hogan is engaged comment. REACT: Yes, they are going there.
James Storm/Gunner beat Jesse Godderz/Robbie E (BroMance). REACT: Nice match pace and a solid match.
MEM inducts Magnus. REACT: Samoa Joe and Magnus both cut solid promos.
Jeff Hardy beats Joseph Park. REACT: Hardy was called one of the greatest today. I agree. Back-and-forth match that got nice time. I liked the blood angle for Park, who went after the referee and got DQ'd.
Gut Check for Ryan Howe. REACT: Very average promo. I think the no vote was the right choice.
Chris Sabin beats Austin Aries and Manik. REACT: Nice match pace. Bronco buster on the ramp and Doc's powerbomb highlighted. Manik did little, and Strong Sabin-Aries feud works
ANALYSIS: Entertaining show. Kept my interest. I hope company morale stays up, though. GRADE: B.
WWE Smackdown
CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio opening segment. REACT: Strong "independence" promo by Punk, who said his two goals are getting revenge on Brock Lesnar and winning a briefcase. I liked the "phony" push on Del Rio.
The Usos beat The Rhodes Scholars. REACT: Way too quick of a match. Solid "luck" promo from The Shield to push the match against The Usos. Dean Ambrose verbally stood out.
Alicia Fox beats Kaitlyn. REACT: Rollup distraction win is getting old. Average match.
AJ Lee leaves the building. REACT: Smart. The Bella Twins' push, sadly, continues, thanks to the upcoming Divas show.
Randy Orton beats Christian. REACT: Easily the top match. Average pre-match promos. Match picked up after a slow start with Christian's two count after a spear, and massive pops for Orton after a DDT and RKO finisher after a RKO miss. Strong finish.
Teddy Long wants Paul Heyman on commentary. REACT: Booker T, hurry back.
Dolph Ziggler beats Drew McIntyre. REACT: Solid pre-match promo from Ziggler. McIntyre got some surprising offense in, but then 3MB was made to look foolish by Ziggler escaping twice from them.
Fandango beats Justin Gabriel. REACT: Too quick.
Zeb Colter's promo. REACT: Knows what he's doing. I liked the "fireworks" comments.
CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio is a no contest after a double countout. REACT: Picked up after a surprising slow start. Strong finish with Del Rio hitting Paul Heyman and Punk getting the best of Del Rio.
ANALYSIS: Orton-Christian delivered, but some concerns. GRADE: D+.
WWE — Ricardo Rodriguez suspended
30-day suspension for Ricardo Rodriguez. REACT: Maybe he secretly hates the Alberto Del Rio heel turn.
Sting to WWE? REACT: I think that chance is gone.
Kliq reunion for Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, Shawn Michaels and Triple H. REACT: No Kevin Nash? Maybe WWE will make this part of the HHH-McMahon WrestleMania angle.
Brock Lesnar vs. The Rock or Undertaker at WrestleMania XXX. REACT: For some reason, I don't think Lesnar-Undertaker will ever happen.
TNA Wrestling — Five releases confirmed
TNA releases Crimson, Christian York, Taeler Hendrix, Joey Ryan and Madison Rayne. REACT: Crimson is a surprise. York and Hendrix needed work, although I thought York had potential. Ryan was funny, and Rayne was entertaining. Too bad.
MVP coming in? REACT: Doubtful.


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RingCentral announced the launch of its Contact Center platform, which is powered by inContact, a provider of cloud contact center software.
The solution is integrated with RingCentral Office and gives contact center agents the ability to engage customers through multiple channels, including voice, email, chat and SMS.
Administrators have the ability to set up multi-channel, skills-based routing and advanced interactive voice response (IVR) capabilities with a visual call flow editor.
In addition, real-time reporting capabilities are designed to help administrators monitor key metrics and improve call center efficiencies or identify areas for business performance improvement. "We spoke with many other cloud players in the space and we came to the conclusion after digging deep that inContact was the best fit for us. We also knew how complete inContact's solution is, given that we've been a customer of theirs for over four years," Marco Casalaina, vice president of contact center solutions for RingCentral, told eWEEK. "We have 500 RingCentral customer care agents on the inContact solution.
"Some companies are still getting over the hurdle of whether to use an on-premises contact center or move to a cloud-based contact center solution. Sure, voice is still a driving force in contact centers, but nowadays consumers want to communicate with businesses in multiple ways," Casalaina said.
"Today's cloud technology supports multi-channel contact centers with voice, SMS, chat, and email. Technologically, it's not a big challenge to deploy a cloud- based contact center solution. Instead, the challenge is legacy and culture," he said.
Contact Center will be available in May in the U.S. and Canada. It comes in three editions with monthly subscriptions, including Basic, Advanced and Ultimate.
Basic edition provides core Contact Center functionality through voice channel. Advanced edition provides capabilities included in Basic along with multichannel support for email, chat and SMS.
Ultimate edition provides all capabilities plus automated outbound voice functionality.
Casalaina explained that the cloud opens up more customer engagement options and gives unprecedented access to real time data and analytics so business decision makers can understand exactly what is happening in their contact center.
He said in the near future, customers will demand that their unified communications and their contact center be integrated, and that both of those be pre-integrated to other systems that they're using, such as their CRM and ERP systems.
"The next few years will find customers communicating via new channels--maybe Weibo, maybe Facebook, maybe something that hasn't even been invented yet--and a cloud solution like RingCentral will always stay abreast of those changes to ensure that businesses can communicate by any means their customers choose," he said.
Editor's Note: An earlier headline incorrectly identified inContact as inConnect.


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Building your first website can be daunting. If you are about to have your first website put together, you will no doubt have many questions. In this article, I will take you through the major items you need to consider to ensure your first website project goes smoothly.
Before you start looking for a web designer and developer, you need to ask yourself the following questions:
- How can your website be of most help to you and your customers?
- What are your competitors doing on their website?
- How much would you budget to get your first website up and running?
By being clear about these questions, you are able to have productive conversations with web designers and developers you are considering hiring to build your website. To help you find the answers to these questions, let's discuss the main objective of your website, your competitors and your budget.
Considering your stage of business development, your online strategy and thinking about your daily interactions with your customers, what do you need most from a website? What does it need to do for you? If you are a service provider and you just need a website to tell people about your services, show some of your past works and display your contact details, then perhaps you might just need to discuss Static Websites, especially if you have no need to update your website content every two weeks. If, however you have products to sell and you want to provide an online catalogue for your customers to browse, place orders and make payments online, then you will need an e-commerce website, which is a lot more complex.
If you want to constantly publish special announcements or updates to your customers and visitors, maybe you should consider having a blog as well. Blogs are a compilation of short articles arranged in a timely manner: daily, weekly or monthly. They are very useful to engage your customers in topics that are of interest to them, and in which you can provide the necessary expertise to comment and inform them of the latest trends. You can let them know of products or services you may offer to help remedy problems or take advantage of opportunities.
Having the ability to blog allows you to create fresh up-to-date content that is crucial for keeping your audience engaged. You can also post the release of these blog posts to assist your Social Networking strategies using Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and other tools. Fresh content is also an essential component to having search engines index your web pages.
You should have a look at your competitors online. Find their websites using Search Engines or their business cards, flyers, brochures or catalogues. When you visit their website, click around and find out what they are doing and how they are utilising their websites? Are there ideas you might be able to apply on yours? Are there elements of their website that you do not like? Studying how their websites look and how they are structured, may help you get a clear understanding of both the aesthetics and functionality of your own website. This, in turn, will assist you with formulating your requirements to your web- designer or developer.
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NewPages Lit Mag Reviews
Posted May 28, 2008
- Issue Number Issue 10
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Review by Denise Hill
Bejeezus is subtitled "Reclaiming Southern Culture," but its coverage of culture extends far beyond its Kentucky roots. Encompassing the broad categories "See, Watch, Read, Eat, Listen, Make, Visit, & More…" the magazine provides short columns on each, keeping the publication varied and concise.
- Issue Number Volume 24 Number 2
- Published Date Winter 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Mary Baken
What impressed me the most about this issue of Calyx was how it contained an extraordinary range of voices and styles while still maintaining a high standard of artistic craft that managed to speak to a highly diverse audience. While some of the poems, stories, and artwork in this issue didn't strike me as "read-again" favorites, there was no question in my mind that they were examples of excellent, above average work.
- Issue Number Volume 28 Number 1
- Published Date Winter 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Mary Baken
For those of you familiar with the Chattahoochee Review's twenty-five year publishing history, this probably won't come as a big surprise; but for me, a newcomer to the magazine, I knew as soon as I read John Stazinski's heartbreaking short story "Waiting for a Dog to Run," that the CR had achieved a level of literary sophistication that far outran the rest. I instantly realized I now had a new standard with which to measure my critiques.
- Issue Number Volume 4 Number 2
- Published Date Winter 2008
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Cara Blue Adams
The Cincinnati Review has, in its five years of existence, built a reputation as an outstanding, and beautifully produced, literary magazine. Each issue includes a full-color portfolio of a contemporary artist's work, as well as three writers' reviews of a single book, allowing for dialogue between and among the arts.
- Issue Number Volume 3
- Published Date 2007
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Cara Blue Adams
An ornate frame graces the cover of the Fairy Tale Review, now in its third issue. Inside the frame, a stark grey-and-white etched oval that opens a space in the violet background where a cloaked woman embraces a cloaked child. Both rise from the supine body of a menacing creature – a wolf? – who lies on his back as if dead, but whose open eyes and waving limbs suggest otherwise. "Violet," editor Kate Bernheimer writes, can be misread as "violent," and, as the cover image and this mistake-in-waiting suggest, fairy tales traffic in this tension.
- Issue Number Volume 45 Number 1
- Published Date February 2008
- Publication Cycle Quintannual
- Review by Rachel King
This issue of the Hollins Critic focuses on Milton Kessler. The front cover features a portrait sketch and an excerpt from his poem "Tiny Flashes Always": "To sing was the only way through High School and life." Liz Rosenberg's essay lauds Kessler as a teacher, a poet, and a human being. He had an eclectic teaching style in which he would ask random questions and make poets post their poems around the room. Although he wrote a lot of poetry, he rarely sent his work out to be published. He also "helped [poets] with their personal lives and health and finances," so that his actions spoke as loudly as his poetry (4). Rosenberg's essay celebrates Kessler's life and poetry, and the two dozen excerpts included make the reader want to read more of Kessler's work.
- Issue Number Volume 30 Number 2
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Rachel King
The Kenyon Review opens with a note from David H. Lynn describing a new project: KR Online. Although the editor mentions that pieces selected for online publication may be different than those selected for the journal, he promises that the "critical judgment and standards will remain intact." If the online pieces are held to as high standard as those in the journal, readers should check out this new online addition.
- Issue Number Volume 1 Number 1
- Published Date Fall/Winter 2007
- Publication Cycle Biannual
- Review by Cara Blue Adams
America is the land of reinvention: we love people and institutions that arise, phoenix-like, from the ashes of their old selves, glittering and new. Now New South, a dazzling literary magazine out of Georgia State University, has joined the ranks of Madonna, the U.S. Mint, and other such American institutions. Formerly GSU Review, New South's inaugural issue features a snazzy red plane flanked by two smaller planes, jetting into a future that looks wide open.
- Issue Number Issue 59
- Published Date Winter 2007
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Rav Grewal-Kök
The resilient southern quarterly features essays, poems and journalism on a range of sports, both major and minor (for the latter, see Mike Powell's essay on dog shows, "the most allegorical sporting event in America"). Some of the themed pieces are amusing but slight, more Sports Illustrated than New Yorker. Others, however, shade into poignant territory.
- Issue Number Number 8
- Published Date 2008
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Mary Baken
I had high expectations for this special "all-black women's issue" of PMS. Guest edited by renowned poet Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, this issue featured several mega-literary names like Lucille Clifton, Patricia Spears Jones, Nikki Giovanni, and Edwidge Danticat. As a white woman only vaguely immersed in black women's writing, I was thrilled and eager to dive in, more than anxious to finally become edified in this wonderful and "sassy" universe.
- Issue Number Volume 2 Number 1
- Published Date Spring 2007
- Publication Cycle Annual
- Review by Rachel King
The subtitle for Silk Road is "A journal of writings on place." In an interview with John Rember, he coins a contemporary definition for place: "Place used to be something that stayed the same, by which you could measure changes in yourself. Now you have to stay the same and watch while place changes. It means that place, if it's going to exist at all, has to become internal rather than external." Silk Road's authors write about different places in the traditional sense – as physical entities – but they also inevitably write about the internal sense of place as well. An excellent example of this duality is in John Rember's own story, "When a Cold Place Turns Hot": "Can you ever really know a place if you keep changing?" his narrator asks.
- Issue Number Volume 9 Number 3
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Rachel King
Tin House is thick – 200 pages – and it contains enough variety and ingenuity to enthrall even the pickiest reader.
- Issue Number Volume 96 Number 2
- Published Date April 2008
- Publication Cycle Quarterly
- Review by Rav Grewal-Kök
Its website identifies The Yale Review as the "Nation's Oldest Literary Quarterly." The magazine is august, perhaps, but not stodgy, on the evidence of its most recent issue. The strength of this installment is in its poetry, particularly in the selections from Louise Glück, David Wagoner, and Carl Phillips. Glück's four poems look at themes of loss, in the personal and natural realms. Her final poem, "Sunrise," connects both spheres: "I had to see if the fields were still shining, / the sun telling the same lies about how beautiful the world is / when all you need to know of a place is, do people live there. / If they do, you know everything."
- Subtitle A Journal of Speculative Fiction
- Issue Number Issue 15
- Published Date Spring 2008
- Publication Cycle Triannual
- Review by Kenneth Nichols
The stories presented in this issue of Zahir challenge the conventions of speculative fiction. Instead of tracking plots inspired by a unique idea or extrapolation of science, the reader is invited to consider the consequences of the hook at the same time as the characters.


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After a brief conversation with Pagurus, we concluded that lone wolf is awesome. Whether we are talking about the Eels song or the RPG series. The dictionary even says so:
Lone wolf = awesome
September 7th, 2006 | general |
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- #1 Jon on 09.09.06 at 3:47 am
I just found out that one of the lone wolf gamebooks I have is very rare and copies are going for over $100 US on ebay. Not that I'd sell it of course. Lone Wolf is teh awesome!
- #2 Joel on 09.09.06 at 9:52 pm
Awesome man, I had a full set of the first 20 or so books. Think they were first printings as well – at least the first couple were. They are stored somewhere in my parents house – hopefully somewhere dry!
- #3 Jungle Rhino on 09.11.06 at 11:09 pm
So did you take Kai powers? I neverreally bothered and always got my ass handled to me by brain eating monsters…
It always started with "The creature shows no exterior signs of movement but you feel a strange sensaion within your mind… Do you have Kai Protection? if you do turn to 245. if not turn to page 124."
Pg. 124
"You feel you mind slipping away as the Brain Feeding Beast of Blaargh devours your brain energies. Your adventure is over."
- #4 Joel on 09.13.06 at 7:31 pm
Of course I had Kai powers, they were awesome! ;P
Plus I was super tough because I kept the same character throughout the series.
- #5 Jon on 09.26.06 at 5:20 am
It's only the books after #20 that are rare, unfortunately.
And if I recall correctly Kai powers were pretty necessary in the magnakai books, not so much in the other ones. If you kept the same character throughout the whole series you ended up with some pretty absurd combat bonuses (+20 or so).
- #6 Joel on 09.26.06 at 5:29 pm
dagnamit, i do have about 3 books between 20 and 25 i think. they were the first ones i got and later tracked the rest down.


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Cipher Studios
Cipher Studios is a tenacious hobby gaming manufacturer and publisher made up of an enthusiastic team of professionals committed to delivering the highest quality entertainment possible to a tabletop near you. Responsible for putting out the Anima Tactics and Hell Dorado miniature lines and games, Cipher Studios looks forward to continuing to develop the quality and depth of these lines, as well as developing new and exciting projects.
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Kai Nesbit is the CEO and El Presidente for life of Cipher Studios. After completing his industrial design degree at Western Washington University Kai relocated to the Seattle area to work for Sabertooth Games, putting himself on the path to one day being the driving force behind his own company, Cipher Studios. Kai can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Cipher Studios announces that the Anima Tactics™ Miniature Skirmish Game is being discontinued. Anima Tactics™ has had a long run, launching in 2006 with over 150 unique characters released. The game has become unsustainable from a business standpoint due to market and global distribution changes, so the hard decision to discontinue the line had to be made.
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The Cipher Studios web store will close March 13th. Stock will then be transferred to the Ninja Division | Soda Pop Miniatures warehouse and resume sale on March 30.
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Dolphin Island, located just off the northern tip of Viti Levu, Fiji's main island, reopened following an extensive renovation in 2011. Dolphin Island offers the ultimate Fijian luxury island experience.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Garden, Week 6: First Harvest
The picture aboves says it all. Beautiful long red French ladyfinger radishes (dynamite in a bean salad), arugula and greens that were ideal alongside a pork leg Dave smoked. I'm replanting new radishes as I pull them out, hoping there's time for another crop, and the tomatoes are starting to flower in their little red teepees. And the weather? Spectacular for the rest of the week.
Grow, little plants, grow!
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You are well-acquainted with the importance of responsive website now, right? You know the importance it holds in enriching the value of your customer traffic. Responsive website helps in addressing users of multiple devices. Whether you are using a tablet or smartphone, laptop or even a PC, everyone will get to know more about you and your services with experts by your side. But, just like the entire website, responsive landing page plays a pivotal role in development of a business. And you must learn how it helps, in enhancing the value of your current business.


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- Click on the hint button to see where are the clickable areas for the current level.
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- Click on the 6 differents areas that you see with the hint button.
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My former obsession and addiction with tricks. The journey that walked me through self acceptance.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Mean Girls
I never actually thought this behavior and mindset would make it's way into the pole community. I never thought I would see divisive commentary publicly from pole dancers, I never thought I would see women make rude comments in a pole class about their prowess, I never thought I would see women tear women down IN THE POLE COMMUNITY. When I started pole dancing there were so few of us that it didn't matter what talent anyone had - we were elated to speak with one another, excited to know there was a world beyond our own pole rooms and youtube... in fact...to know the women on youtube were REAL, was an amazing thought. 2hen I first started pole dancing I didn't know anyone who pole danced for the sake of pole dancing personally, I didn't know that pole dancing was thing that came with a community. I quickly found a community of intelligent, honest, caring women who welcomed me into their fold with love and encouragement. This was not what I expected when I googled "pole dance moves" and found the Vertical Dance website...I was also shocked to realize that most of the women involved with that board were European. (What?!?! The world doesn't revolve around America?) So, not only were there few Americans online, there were few women from my state online.
My First
I met my first pole friend on the VD forum...I actually sent her a crazy private message because I couldn't believe my luck! Another woman from Michigan pole dances, like in her house, like for fun, like does tricks and stuff?!?!?! I am shocked to this day that "Kisentia" actually agreed to meet me - in a public place - ofcourse, I'm sure she thought I was nuts. Well, I showed up at Olga's Kitchen at the Westland Mall on like NO SLEEP (I was guest djing in on a morning show for a friend of mine who then worked in the Cayman Islands) and fell in love with "Kisentia." Immediately we made a short list of the one other person we knew who pole danced and had a pole jam! We wanted to experience the fun sharing and sisterhood we saw in the European communities so we got together with the one other person we knew and rocked the pole silly!
Since then Kisentia and our other pole friend have gone on to become Mommies so I haven't been in touch with them for awhile, but that doesn't mean I don't think about them - especially as I write this and as I begin to experience more negativity and competitiveness from the pole community. Back then, I thought, believed that we could ALL get along, that we were a sisterhood. I guess I was wrong.
Pole Dancers Are People
The reason my utopia of beautiful women of shapes, sizes and ages cannot exist is because pole dancers are people. I don't like every person I meet and quite frankly most people probably don't like me. We co-exist on this planet together and work not make waves or ripples in those lives who we've shunned, and sadly yes, I've shunned my fair share of people and pole dancers. Why? Because no matter what bond you might think you share with other people at the end of the day you have to decide if that person is a right fit for you and if they aren't - you have to cast them out. You HAVE to. You can't surround yourself with people who are unequally yoked with you whether friend, lover or pole dancer.
What troubles me is when you get beyond the whole people thing and we still cannot agree, cannot agree to disagree and cannot move forward in the promotion of a greater cause - pole dancing. Yes, I'm well aware that pole dancing won't feed the hungry, won't bring about world peace, won't cure loneliness, sadness, HIV, cancer or any of the other real problems that face our world; pole dancing can cure one thing...the female higher archy. Pole dancing should bring women together who would not likely be friends to spend precious moments together in a vulnerable setting. We may not agree with the direction of pole dancing or what it even is but we should all agree that it is a sisterhood that is in fact quite rare to find. Who else do you know at least weekly strips down to their underwear and dances around sexily for the same sex for free? Who else do you know works their ass off to nail some random upside down thing that will likely end in bruises and frustration? Who else do you know in your personal like who could possibly understand the desire to dance or hang from objects? Who else can you share your addiction with? Your secret?
Why it sucks when you steal my tricks
I've read so many amazing articles on how to become your own woman and flourish in her and her ways. I've learned to accept the dancer I am and work to make her better but also to enjoy my body and the things it can do. I've learned to be pleased with the joy of moving even if it's not beautiful because dancing is freedom - and that includes the freedom to move in an ugly way so long as it feels good. I've learned that it doesn't matter how good I am if I'm dancing with a smile on my face. I've learned that I don't care where I rank in the world of dancing much less pole dancing because this is something that feels good inside out.
What I haven't learned to accept is negative, competitive behavior. Why does it suck if someone takes your trick and claims it as their own? Because we all want affirmation that we are good. When someone takes what's yours or even is inspired by you but would rather not discuss where the inspiration came from - that feels bad, feels like maybe I suck so bad you didn't want to mention my name or be associated with me, or it just let's me know that you are so crazy insecure that you can't give credit or more importantly respect to another pole dancer unless they are famous. It tells me that you are more concerned with being *awesome* than with being a sister and a good person. It tells me that I need to be a mean girl with you and not let you sit at my lunch table, and to be honest, I'd rather have you sit with me and share in all of our knowledge together and grow with you. I'd rather you become apart of my journey and I apart of yours. I'd rather respect one another.
Why I Give Credit
I tend to name moves after the person I saw do it...why? I like for people to know the inspiration behind what I'm thinking. I am so excited to find things other dancers do that I want to work with and I want that dancer to know she inspired me. It feels good. It's kind of like putting good energy back into the sisterhood so we can continue to grow together and develop new moves, tricks and styles together. Without the sharing of ideas what would pole dancing be? How many of us have watched a youtube video - mimicked what we saw and gave our inspiration no thought at all? I know that I have and try not to do that, I think it's important to put kindness and love back into the fold, I sincerely believe that through the inspiration of others I have been able to create and inspire dancers myself and that is an amazing gift.
Is Being the BEST Worth It?
I'm not saying that pole has not turned from a sensual art into a sport - it totally has. I'm not saying that a bit of competition isn't a good thing, it keeps us on our toes! I have even had a very healthy, fulfilled, competitive relationship with another pole dancer. I miss that relationship something fierce...I miss being impressed, inspired and pushed to get as good as Pole Dancer X. I miss her cheering me on, I miss cheering her on, I miss working by myself at home thinking Pole Dancer X is so going to freak when she sees this, or "Oh yeah Ms. X got what?!? I'm going to get it in half the time!" I miss that competitive and loving relationship...but you know what? We always gave each other respect and props for all the things we taught each other. We NEVER got caught up in being better than each other, just becoming our own better dancer and we both relished in one another's success.
Winning and being the best at anything requires sacrifice. You will not be a champion pole dancer without making sacrifices somewhere. You won't be good at anything without sacrifice. I ask though, is it worth the bad attitude to be a winner? Is it worth it to be so self focused you've shut your sisters out? Is it worth watching others and not being able to see through the sometimes unpointed toes and clumsiness? Is it worth being unable to enjoy someone else's dancing for the sake of watching them dance NOT taking their stuff? Is sacrificing your friendships, potential friendships worth a win? Worth being considered the best pole dancer on the planet? A title that so subjective it's not even funny? Is being the best worth being a mean girl? Is being worshiped worth the sacrifice of a loving sisterhood?
Fact. Pole dancers of all abilities and notoriety suffer the sacrifice of our personal relationships due the amount of practice we put in. Fact. Pole dancers of all abilities and notoriety suffer the sacrifice of our bodies and our time, wouldn't it be nicer if we sacrificed together?
Sisterhood of the Pole
As I get ready to eat my mac and cheese and cheeseburger I'm left with a single thought...Let's all make an effort to produce more love, encouragement and inspiration into the sisterhood. Let's pretend for a moment we aren't people with political views, religions and whatever else makes people argue...let's just be pole dancers and celebrate whatever kind of pole dancer your sister is. Celebrate the stripper! Celebrate the athlete! Celebrate the dancer! Celebrate the choreographer! Celebrate the new and advanced alive!
I don't want to judge a dancer on her toes, movement, her heels or her bad kitty wear choices. I don't, even in a competition setting, ever discount another dancer or not appreciate her. I don't want to, even in a competition, think that another dancer is better or worse than me...I want to share the stage with her. I want to share a class room with as many pole dancers - whether better or less skilled than me and damn it! I want sisters who love and respect each other. I want sisters who accept the outcomes of performances, competitions, competition auditions, gigs....whatever! I want sisters who can look across the room and see that another pole dancer needs reassurance and give it to her! I wants sisters who can step aside for a moment and enjoy someone else and relish in someone else's success and I want sisters who will support, love, encourage and find nice things to say to all pole dancers, I want sisters who will respect...I want sisters to respect.
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|New born
Just born! You can still see the crease in her head and she has all her dark hair. I found it interesting that the hospital put three bands on her for ID purposes - one on each wrist and then one ankle. They might as well have made it four so she could have one on every limb.
|Six weeks old
Six weeks later and this little chickadee has lost quite a bit of hair (mostly in weeks 3-5). It has started to grow back much lighter. It's almost strawberry blond, especially her eye brows. I am hoping to see some curl like Jeff's. Although it's normal that curl won't show until six months to two years old, so I have a while to wait.
|Drought Monitor
I took the babe on several walks and down to the Farmer's Market. When we got home she would be sweaty and hot. There have been several flair-ups of heat rash on her chest, upper back and cheeks. I've cut back on outings and the rash is mostly healed. We are disinclined to use air conditioning, but no one was sleeping well so we have it set to cool the house to 82 degrees. It has been running every day this July.
Milestones and achievements
We weren't shy about taking our baby out and about. At four days old we took her out to the Hawkin's Farm for pizza on Friday night with my mom and aunt. She slept through the whole thing in her car seat carrier. We also went for lunch at the local coffee shop and grocery shopping. She slept through both of those as well.
We breathed a sigh of relief at two weeks when baby had gained back her birth weight and a couple bonus ounces. Not that it's a definitive sign of health, but it's one of those things doctor's look for in newborns.
The first time I was holding her and Jeff said something from another room and she swiveled her head and looked in his direction; is one of my favorite firsts. That happened in week one.
I had my first baby-less outing at the end of June. I renewed my driver's liscense and went grocery shopping; not very exciting.
In this last week we have even gotten what Jeff and I think of as real smiles. They are most common after a long nap. We also get some cooing and noises other than grunting and crying. I had no idea that newborns were so grunt-y.
We love having a guest room in our new house and being able to put up a steady stream of family and friends. We've also found friends locally. It's nice to know there is someone in town to have a BBQ with or go to Pizza Friday. This has been an exceptionally fun and social summer!
|And we didn't even get a picture of everyone who came to visit! Nor does this include the local friends.
This was such a worry for me. I read a bunch of books on breast feeding in preparation because I expected it to be hard. So many friends have had trouble breast feeding. I'm not sure how much the books helped, but we are an excellent breast feeding pair. About an hour after birth we tried breast feeding and although it took a couple tries and the nurses' assistance (kind of weird to have someone else touch my nipple) baby got a latch. I could get her to nurse on my own before we went home at 24 hours.
My milk came in on the 3rd and 4th day. I started pumping a little that first week. With the pumped milk it became an option for Jeff to feed her. For weeks 2-5 I would go to bed at midnight and Jeff would stay up until four or five in the morning and take care of baby so I could get some sleep. Then I would get up for the next feeding and Jeff would sleep until noon or so.
In this last week she has been sleeping longer and Jeff has done just one feeding. Jeff stays up with her until the first feeding after midnight then he puts her down in the Co-sleeper next to me. Then I nurse her a couple more times through the night (and change a diaper or two) until I get up around eight in the morning.
A more recent development is scream-nursing. It used to be I could reliably calm her down by offering her a breast, but now if she's upset she'll nurse a couple of sucks then stop and scream then suck again. It's really disconcerting. The trick seems to be to get her to settle down enough first then she'll nurse and relax.
|Breast milk for donation
Cloth Diapering
We decided to use BumGenius cloth diapers which are a pocket style. We started using them after the first week. We have about 30 in rotation and wash them every other day. I prefer the ones with the snaps. The cloth wipes are easy once your doing cloth diapers.
Some folks say they can get their six week old to sleep through the night. Not our little niña. She usually only sleeps a couple hours consecutively with occasional four hour naps. She does like her bouncy seat or as we have dubbed it "the crash couch" which is a nod to some sci-fi novel we read in Peace Corps. She also enjoys just kicking around in it.
During the day she sleeps in her crib in her room which is in a more central location and at night in the co-sleeper attached to our bed.
Me - Physical and Emotional
|My baby and me
I only have about ten pounds of baby weight, which is good, but I feel like my middle needs some help. I hope that gardening will be good for more than just veggies and will get my core back in shape. If it doesn't, I'll have to implement some more direct measures this fall. You'd think all this breast feeding and pumping would help, however, I am always hungry and I am eating more.
Emotionally I did experience the cliff of hormones and had a couple crying jags at the end of the first week. Jeff would find me sniffling to myself and I couldn't tell him why. I didn't feel particularly sad or anything, it was nothing I could pinpoint. With a good night's sleep I made it through and have felt good ever since.
Back to the Farm
|Sleeping at the Farm
At the end of the first month I emailed the farm and told them I was ready to start working again. Then we got the heat wave and the baby got heat rash and we stayed home. Last week I took her out a couple times to hoe a row and harvest some produce. She just sits in her baby carrier in the shade while I work. When I can't sooth her in the field it's time to go home. It feels really good to get out and do some physical labor after being at home so long.
It got hot again this week and we had more guests so I haven't been back out to the farm. If the heat continues, I might work in the evening and leave her at home with Jeff. We are in peak garden time and the garden needs help.
Simple Lives Thursday


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The staff at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta regrets that the conference hotel is overbooked for a set of the nights for the Symposium. A message has gone out to some of our attendees who will be relocated to one of two local hotels for the start of their stay. Transportation will be provided, along with other accommodations, including complimentary stay at the other hotel.
We appreciate that the Hyatt Regency Atlanta has stepped forward and accepted responsibility for this situation and its resolution. The SIGCSE 2014 team is focused on providing a successful Symposium experience.
This year's SIGCSE Symposium will be held at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta (265 Peachtree Street NE, just off Interstate 75).
SIGCSE 2014 continues our long tradition of bringing together colleagues from around the world to present papers, panels, posters, special sessions, and workshops, and to discuss computer science education in birds-of-a-feather sessions and informal settings. The SIGCSE Technical Symposium addresses problems common among educators working to develop, implement and/or evaluate computing programs, curricula, and courses. The symposium provides a forum for sharing new ideas for syllabi, laboratories, and other elements of teaching and pedagogy, at all levels of instruction.
We're excited to be hosting SIGCSE in beautiful Atlanta, Georgia. Please read Atlanta Mayor, Kasim Reed's welcome letter, as we well as a welcome letter from the State of Georgia's Governor, Nathan Deal.
Thank you from all of us!
Congratulations to Claudia Szabo, whose paper was identified as the top paper of SIGCSE 2014!
The first annual meeting of the ACM Conference on Learning at Scale will be held March 4-5, 2014 in Atlanta, GA, USA. This conference is intended to promote scientific exchange of interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the learning sciences and computer science. Inspired by the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the accompanying huge shift in thinking about education, this conference as created by ACM as a new scholarly venue and key focal point for the review and presentation of the highest quality research on how learning nd teaching can change and improve when done at scale.
All signed up for the SIGCSE 2014 Symposium but looking for more? Here are some suggested conferences happening in 2014:
ITiCSE 2014, the 19th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, will take place in Uppsala, Sweden, hosted by Uppsala University. This is a SIGCSE sponsored event.
The Interational Computing Education Research conference, ICER, will take place in Glasgow, Scotland, hosted by the University of Glasgow. A doctoral consotium will be held Sunday, August 11th.
The CSTA Annual Conference provides professional development opportunities for K–12 computer science and information technology teachers who need practical, relevant information to help them prepare their students for the future. The 2014 conference will be held July 14-15 in St. Charles, IL.
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Weed 'Em and Reap Part 2: Reduced tillage strategies for vegetable cropping systems [DVD]. A. Stone. 2006. Oregon State University Dept. of Horticulture. Corvallis, Oregon. Available at: http://www.weedemandreap.org (verified 17 Dec 2008).
This is a Weed 'Em and Reap Part 2 video clip.
Helen Atthowe, BioDesign Farm. Stevensville, MT.
Soil Fertility
One of the exciting things that we've learned in exploring this living mulch system is number one: the nutrient balance that we're seeing and number two: the side benefits of all of the organic residue addition over the last eleven years. We've found that this organic residue, even these legumes, that of course are nitrogen-fixing, that we add to the soil doesn't necessarily provide nutrients immediately. When we mow like this, when we do the continuous residue application throughout the growing season, what we're doing is building up a foundation of soil fertility that then releases slowly. So this residue that I'm mowing here, may be the nutrients for my crop next year.
This is an eOrganic article and was reviewed for compliance with National Organic Program regulations by members of the eOrganic community. Always check with your organic certification agency before adopting new practices or using new materials. For more information, refer to eOrganic's articles on organic certification.
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Communication is a key to success. And having a strong grasp of the English language is very important to the Hispanic community. Our partnership with the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute (TFLI) to provides English education services at HFF's two fully equipped classrooms. The partnership allows TFLI to serve clients they couldn't otherwise easily reach and expand the impact of their programming without the need for large investments in facilities or overhead.
HFF promotes the program through radio, social media and on site, HFF talks with potential students about the benefits of the program and registers new and existing students for classes. Depending on their English level, students are placed in one of the three cycles. Each cycle includes six classes of three hours each.
TFLI's partnership with HFF is the cornerstone of our English education services. HFF is a pillar of the Nashville community, providing a one stop shop for client's needs, and a much needed space for area non-profits. Through our partnership with HFF, we have been able to serve clients we couldn't otherwise reach, and expand the impact of our programming without the need for large investments in facilities or overhead. HFF has been an invaluable partner to our organization, and we are proud to call ourselves members of the HFF family.Mo Silvera. Director of English Programs. TFLI.