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Fans looking for the next big multiplayer RTS experience, will undoubtedly find much to admire in this package. At the least, it'll help you tune up for Starcraft II.
Universe At War is like a breath of fresh air that carries with it the vague stench of something foul. It offers three interesting and diverse sides, great graphics, and some tantalising strategic elements, but it's afflicted by some unfortunate quirks that hold the game back.
Universe At War begins with Earth in near total ruin after an alien race, the Hierarchy, invades the planet in a quest to strip our resources and wipe out humanity in the process with a Darwinist's sense of glee. You pick up what's left of the American military around Washington and attempt to make one last stand; from there, a second alien race, the Novus, are introduced and things really get hairy. But hold on: there's yet another alien race, the extremely powerful Masari, who enters the picture late in the game.
Like other prominent RTS games, you get to play as each of the races and this propels along the single-player campaign. The three alien races are quite diverse and offer very unique gameplay experiences. The Novus, for example, are fragile but fast, the Heirarchy relies on brute force and the Masai offers a mix of both; it's not ground breaking but the balance between each side is tight, which should prove especially beneficial for the game's multiplayer component. The gameplay also offers a nice mix of tactical and strategic elements and visually speaking, the game shines with amazing battlefields and animations.
Unfortunately, the overall game is hampered by a few flaws. The pathfinding is suspect which often led to units getting stuck or wandering where they shouldn't. Furthermore, there were some interface issues, such as a problem with getting units grouped into squads. There are other little quibbles, like infantry units being presented as individuals rather than as an overall squad, which really makes unit management a chore. Build queues are also limited to six units, so churning out a massive army requires constant babysitting of your production buildings. None of these issues by are crippling in and of themselves but are persistent and annoying throughout.
Universe At War is ultimately a game of contrasts. On one hand it has plenty of great ideas and promise, but it lacks that polish that helps elevate games towards greatness. We'd still recommend that gamers check out Universe At War but it's a shame that it doesn't quite live up to its potential. That said, fans of the genre, especially those looking for the next big multiplayer RTS experience, will undoubtedly find much to admire in this package. At the least, it'll help you tune up for Starcraft II.
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First impression on unpacking the Q702 test unit was the solid feel and clean, minimalist styling.
For work use, Microsoft Word and Excel programs pre-installed on the device are adequate for preparing short documents.
The Fujitsu LifeBook UH574 allowed for great mobility without being obnoxiously heavy or clunky. Its twelve hours of battery life did not disappoint.
The screen was particularly good. It is bright and visible from most angles, however heat is an issue, particularly around the Windows button on the front, and on the back where the battery housing is located.
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MOBILE, Ala. -- Police today released footage from security cameras of a Tuesday morning burglary at a Walgreens drugstore in which the thieves made off with an ATM machine.
The footage shows a white van twice ramming the front entrance to the store at Cottage Hill Road and Knollwood Drive shortly before 4:30 a.m. On the second hit, the van crashes through the entrance, knocking down an automated teller machine standing just to the left of the doors.
Two men are then seen dragging the ATM machine from the building and loading it into the van before driving off.
Mobile police said the ATM machine was valued at about $7,500, and there was about $6,000 in cash inside it. According to police spokeswoman Officer Jacqueline Bridgeforth, the crime took less than three minutes.
The Press-Register requested a copy of the security footage Tuesday, but police did not release it until Wednesday, saying they needed time to look at it. Police are asking anyone with information to call 251-208-7211.
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A northwest Omaha home was destroyed by fire late Tuesday.
Crews were called to the home near 111th and Blondo streets around 11:15 p.m.
Firefighters worked quickly to control the flames, which were shooting through the roof upon their arrival.
The three people inside the home got out safely, and no one was injured.
Firefighters were able to rescue one dog and found another inside, but two of the family's pets are still missing.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials said the house is a total loss.


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Rave: for listening. A letter to the editor from Larry and Barb MacPherson of Ben Eoin (Highway 125 potentially deadly, Jan. 21) generated more than 30 online comments (most of which were sympathetic), was recommended almost 50 times via Facebook and was tweeted close to 30 times.
The MacPhersons wrote the following about the section of Highway 125 from Sydney River to Grand Lake Road, which is being twinned: "Since the construction began, this situation has worsened and has become extremely dangerous. Lines which can be seen are incorrect, and the few reflectors are dirty and useless because of all the construction work. This road needs to be properly lit at night so drivers can tell where they can safely drive."
The Department of Transportation and Infrastructure Renewal responded.
"The contractor was out and they cleaned up the reflectors and we had the lines removed," project engineer Lloyd Hall told the Post. "Now we are looking to see if any additional lighting is needed in the area."
As Hall said, lighting can actually be problematic if improperly placed. But at least the obvious issues have been addressed. Those issues should have been anticipated by the contractor and the department, but better late than never.
Rant: for vigilantism. A wildlife pathologist at the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown said this week that 50 dead grey seals washed up on a beach in Prince Edward Island had been illegally bludgeoned to death.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is investigating, and the anti-sealing Humane Society International has offered a reward for information leading to a conviction in the incident.
Pierre-Yves Daoust, a pathologist who critics have said in the past has been too closely aligned with the sealing industry, showed no apparent bias in his examination of the carcasses. He said some of the seals were pups that had been nursing just prior to their death, and some of the animals had possibly been slow to die.
"It certainly was not done by professional sealers and ... the animals were wasted," he said.
Whoever killed the seals is not doing the sealing industry — fishermen in particular — any favours. Those seals won't eat any more fish, but this incident will only serve to harden public opinion against the industry in general.
Rave: for improved airport facilities. The entrance, waiting lounge and secure departure area at the J.A. Douglas McCurdy Sydney Airport are now more modern and comfy, thanks to $2 million in renovations.
Although the revolving doors at the entrance are creating some light moments for some visitors — see Sharon Montgomery-Dupe's column on page B6 — the renovations are a welcome sign that airport improvement fees levied on passengers are not just a tax with no benefit.


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These inspirational educational quotes are words of wisdom and positive attitudes about learning.
With an open mind and the right attitude we can enjoy a lifetime of learning, it should never be restricted to the time we spend being 'schooled.'
Since I began this website in 2010 I have learnt a great deal from researching for quotes and the authors, putting this website together, photographing nature and writing my blog. It is very time consuming, but I really enjoy doing it so it's all worthwhile.
Photo: My son in the Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford. In the early 90's my son would often go to work with his father at the weekends to gain work experience in the kitchen.
Inspirational educational quotes
are listed alphabetically on surname/source
The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.
A Course In Miracles
There is no one from whom a teacher of God cannot learn,
so there is no one whom he cannot teach.
Henry Brooks Adams 1838 - 1918
A teacher affects eternity;
he can never tell where his influence stops.
Joseph Addison 1672 - 1719
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul.
Aeschylus 525BC
It is always the season for the old to learn.
Amos Bronson Alcott 1799 - 1888
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons,
are the prime educators.
Eric Allen
Everyone is my teacher. Some I seek. Some I subconsciously attract. Often I learn simply by observing others. Some may be completely unaware that I'm learning from them, yet I bow deeply in gratitude.
Maya Angelou 1928 - 2014
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Aristotle 384BC - 322BC
All men by nature desire knowledge.
Educating the mind, without educating the heart, is no education at all.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Education is the best provision for old age.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them... we learn by doing them!
If you would understand anything... observe its beginning and its development.
Intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The more you know... the more you know you don't know.
The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more.
Isaac Asimov 1920 - 1992
A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed.
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not Eureka but 'That's funny...'
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
St Augustine 354 - 430
I learned most, not from those who taught me, but from those who talked with me.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
Natural abilities are like natural plants...
they need pruning by study.
Clay P. Bedford
You can teach a student a lesson for a day...
But if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.
Henry Ward Beecher 1813 - 1887
Books are not made for furniture,
but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Ludwig van Beethoven 1770 - 1827
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets,
for it and knowledge can raise men to the Divine.
Polly Berrien Berends
The child does not begin to fall until she becomes seriously interested in walking, until she actually begins walking. Falling is thus more an indication of learning than a sign of failure.
W. E. B. Du Bois 1868 - 1963
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach.
Napoleon Bonaparte 1769 - 1821
History is...
The version of past events, that people have decided to agree on.
Show me a family of readers...
And I will show you the people who move the world.
Bono 1960
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Richard Branson 1950
I rely far more on gut instinct
than researching huge amounts of statistics.
Emilie Buchwald 1935
Children are made readers in the laps of their parents.
Buddha 624BC - 543BC
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it,
or who said it, no matter if I said it...
Unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797
Example is the school of mankind,
and they will learn at no other.
Sarah Caldwell 1924 - 2006
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can.
You will be grateful you did.
Jack Canfield 1944
I think there is too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required course, rather than pursuing their passion.
George Carlin 1937 - 2008
Don't just teach your children to read.
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach then to question everything.
Thomas Carlyle 1795 - 1881
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us.
Deepak Chopra 1946
I teach people that, no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence. If you just stay within your centre.
Marcus Tullius Cicero 106BC - 43BC
Natural ability without education has oftener raised men to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Sandra Cisneros 1954
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school, but because my mother took me to the library.
Sylvia Clare
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence,
transcending all individual abilities and skills.
Arthur C. Clarke 1917 - 2008
We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40, and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
Confucius 551BC - 479BC
Education breeds confidence.
Confidence breeds hope.
Hope breeds peace.
Roald Dahl 1916 - 1990
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away.
And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
Become a student of change.
It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Develop a passion for learning.
If you do, you'll never cease to grow.
Learn not only to find what you like,
learn to like what you find.
John Dewey 1859 - 1952
Education is not preparation for life...
education is life itself.
Charles M. Dickinson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to...
Awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Emily Dickinson 1830 - 1886
There is no frigate like a book, to take us lands away.
Ernest Dimnet 1866 - 1954
Children have to be educated,
but they also have to be left to educate themselves.
Walt Disney 1901 - 1966
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
Benjamin Disraeli 1804 - 1881
There is no education like adversity.
Mark van Doren 1894 - 1972
The art of teaching is...
the art of assisting discovery.
Wayne Dyer 1940 - 2015
Be a student...
By staying open and willing to learn from everyone and anyone.
The wisest and most profound teachings on the planet today.
(talking about Abraham-Hicks)
Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.
Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
Creativity is intelligence having fun.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know now and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882
Do you know the secret of the true scholar?..
In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.
Knowledge exists to be imparted.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
The secret in education lies in respecting the student.
Epictetus 55 - 135
It is impossible for a man to learn, what he thinks he already knows.
Ignacio Estrada
If a child can't learn the way we teach...
maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Gustave Flaubert 1821 - 1880
The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
Malcolm Forbes 1919 - 1990
Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind, with an open one.
Paula Fox 1923
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an Awakener.
Anatole France 1844 - 1924
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Benjamin Franklin 1706 - 1790
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
Margaret Fuller 1810 - 1850
Today a reader...
tomorrow a leader.
Galileo 1564 - 1642
You cannot teach a man anything,
you can only help him find it within himself.
Neville Goddard 1905 - 1972
Where knowledge ends...
Feeling and imagination begin.
Pam Grout
Physicists over the past one hundred years have discovered that the field connects all of us, and that the reason we control our lives is because every thought we have is an energy wave that affects everything in the universe.
HA (Tony Neate)
History is there to be learned from and not lived to.
The purpose of any channelling is not to tell or to instruct, but to stimulate... to create new depths and new areas of thinking.
What is of importance in channelling is that the person contacts a higher level of creative thought. This enables more advanced teachings and philosophies to be offered to the planet because the evolution of a planet, both individually and collectively, is on-going.
Jimi Hendrix 1942 - 1970
Knowledge speaks... but wisdom listens.
Oliver Wendell Holmes 1809 - 1894
A mind once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
John Holt 1923 - 1985
You learn by doing, there is no other way.
Harry Houdini 1874 - 1926
My brain is the key that sets my mind free.
Whitney Houston 1963 - 2012
(also sung by George Benson - written by Michael Masser & Linda Creed)
I believe the children are our future,
teach them well and let them lead the way.
Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
Give them a sense of pride to make it easier.
Let the children's laughter remind us how we used to be.
Victor Hugo 1802 - 1885
To learn to read is to light fire.
Aldous Huxley 1894 - 1963
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
Carl Jung 1875 - 1961
Children are educated by what the grown-up is...
and not by his talk.
Ken Keyes Jr 1921 - 1995
Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.
B. B. King 1925
The beautiful thing about learning is...
that no one can take it away from you.
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
Martin Luther King Jr 1929 - 1968
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936
Teach us to delight in simple things.
L. R. Knost
A lifestyle of reading puts the vast knowledge of the ages into the hands of our children. Exchanging the life-long riches of a love of reading for the temporary value of facts gleaned from required reading lists is a paltry deal, indeed.
Encourage reading, yes but let their hearts, their interests, their imaginations choose their reading material. Whatever momentary facts they need for the next test or quiz can be found just as easily on Google.
A passion for reading can only be found in the heart of the child.
Jiddu Krishnamurti 1895 - 1986
Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.
Dalai Lama 1935
In the practice of tolerance,
one's enemy is the best teacher.
It is vital that when educating our children's brains,
that we do not neglect to educate their hearts.
Ann Landers
It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.
Bruce Lee 1940 -1973
Life itself is your teacher,
and you are in a state of constant learning.
Edwin Leibfreed
The royal road to knowledge, all may win,
who seek the source of life in everything.
Abraham Lincoln 1809 - 1865
The things I want to know are in books.
My best friend is the man who'l get me a book I haven't read.
John Lubbock
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent school masters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Rosamund Lupton
Many people have written eloquently about the power of books, how they educate, elucidate, take you to new cultures, give you new experiences and vantage points, open your heart and mind and pierce your soul.
Harvey MacKay 1932
We start out as pretty creative beings...
Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.
Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Christopher Marley
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing it's own thinking.
Margaret Mead 1901 - 1978
Children must be taught how to think,
not what to think.
Alfred Mercier
What we learn with pleasure... we never forget.
Bradley Millar
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar,
is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Michel de Montaigne 1533 - 1592
The world is but a school of enquiry.
Maria Montessori 1870 - 1952
The most important period of life is not the age of university studies, but the first one, the period from birth to the age of six.
Charles Morgan
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
John Muir 1838 - 1914
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Robert Muller 1923 - 2010
Adults are the first and foremost teachers of love, peace, truth, tolerance, happiness and spirituality to their children. No school on Earth can ever replace them.
The example of parents is the greatest teacher.
Parents must stand out as models of happiness to their children.
There is no greater learning process than to teach.
Native American
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
Our first teacher is our own heart.
Helen Peters
Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.
Jean Piaget 1896 - 1980
Are we forming children who are only capable of learning what is already known? Or should we try to develop creative and innovative minds, capable of discovery from the preschool age on, throughout life?
Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.
Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution;
it finds itself changed from one day to the next.
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Rita Pierson ? - 2013
Every child needs a champion - an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection, and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be.
Plato 429BC - 347BC
For the object of education is to teach us about beauty.
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things.
Plutarch 46 - 120
The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
but a fire to be kindled.
Natalie Portman 1981
I don't love studying. I hate studying.
I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
Jacqueline E. Purcell
You must unlearn what you have been programmed to believe since birth. That software no longer serves you if you want to live in a world where all things are possible.
Isidor Isaac Rabi 1898 - 1988
Science is a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing.
The playing field is the universe itself.
Ken Robinson 1950
Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education.
If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.
Imagination is the source of all human achievement.
Jim Rohn 1930 - 2009
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
John Ruskin 1819 - 1900
All books are divisible into two classes,
the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
When you make the finding yourself,
even if you are the last person on earth to see the light,
you will never forget it.
George Santayana 1863 - 1952
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
Seneca 4BC - 65AD
Even while they teach... men learn.
Dr Seuss 1904 - 1991
Fill your house with stacks of books,
in all the crannies and all the nooks.
The more you read, the more things you will know.
The more things you learn, the more places you'll go.
George Bernard Shaw 1856 - 1950
From a very early age I've had to interrupt my education...
to go to school.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge,
and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Sydney Smith 1771 - 1845
No furniture so charming as books.
Will Smith 1968
The things that have been most valuable to me,
I did not learn in school.
Socrates 470BC - 399BC
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
Nikola Tesla 1856 - 1943
If you want to find the secrets of the Universe,
think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.
My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe there is a core from which we obtain knowledge, strength and inspiration. I have not penetrated into the secrets of this core, but I know that it exists.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of existence.
Lewis Thomas 1913 - 1993
We are educated to be amazed by the infinite variety of life forms in nature. We are, I believe, only at the beginning of being flabbergasted by its unity.
Alexandra Trentor
The best teachers are those who show you where to look,
but don't tell you what to see.
If you give a man a fish he will eat once.
If you teach a man to fish he will eat for the rest of his life.
If you are thinking a year ahead sow seed.
If you are thinking ten years ahead plant a tree.
If you are thinking one hundred years ahead educate the people.
By sowing the seed you will harvest once.
By planting a tree you will harvest tenfold.
By educating the people you will harvest one hundredfold.
Mark Twain 1835 - 1910
Never let your schooling interfere with your education.
Lao Tzu 600BC
I have just three things to teach:
Simplicity, Patience, Compassion.
These are your greatest treasures.
Leonardo de Vinci 1452 - 1519
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Study without desire spoils the memory,
and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Neale Donald Walsch 1943
Build your schools around concepts, not academic subjects: core concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility, freedom and diversity in oneness. Teach your children these things and you will have taught them grandly.
When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but rather, how to get to their own truth.
William Arthur Ward 1921 - 1994
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change. Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
Paul Wellstone 1944 - 2002
The first task of teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe, by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
Oscar Wilde 1854 - 1900
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time, that nothing that is worth knowing, can be taught.
Anthony Douglas Williams
All animals are born with innocence, curiosity and love.
Every parent is a teacher... But not all parents teach.
Life is the best teacher.
John Wooden 1910 - 2010
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good role models more than they need critics. It's one of parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
Malala Yousafzai 1997
One child, one teacher, one pen and one book...
Can change the world.
that are Inspirational Educational Quotes
A book is like a garden, carried in the pocket.
By learning you will teach... By teaching you will learn.
He who teaches children learns more than they do.
It's never too late to learn.
Learning is a treasure no thief can steal.
When the student is ready... The master appears.
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Inspirational Educational Quotes
A book is a magic portal to another dimension.
Be thankful when you don't know something
for it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Do not educate your children to be rich,
educate them to be happy.
So when they grow up,
they'll know the value of things, not the price.
Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time.
Experience is the best teacher.
Formal education will make you a living...
Self education will make you a fortune.
Human Beings grow best with encouragement and Love.
Today, let every word you speak (to yourself and others)
be filled with kindness.
If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child
they will often learn without any further assistance.
In the working of a garden you discover much As you watch the things you plant respond to nature's touch. You are learning all the time and never do you tire. Of trying to create the garden of your hearts desire.
Knowledge is power.
Life is a school where you learn how to remember
what your soul already knows.
Look well to what you have in hand
For learning is better than house or land
When land is gone and money spent
Then learning is most excellent
(From an 18th Century Sampler)
Teachers open the door...
but you must enter by yourself.
The cure for boredom is curiosity...
There is no cure for curiosity.
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned
how to learn and change.
What matters in learning is not to be taught,
but to wake up.
Photo: Grandaughter (Lucy) writing a letter. Lucy and her brother Seth are home educated. I strongly believe in the freedom of choice to home educate. I think it is one of the best ways to let a child develop naturally, joyfully pursuing their own passions to begin a journey of life-long learning.
I have always thought that traditional schooling is too restrictive and teaches so many things that are boring to most children and not needed for the majority. I have always thought that first aid (especially how to save a life), relationships (understanding human behaviour), positive thinking, how to bring up caring, respectful children and many other life skills, are much more important for everyone to learn than some of the things that are taught in school and then never used again for the rest of your life.
I know that a lot of people will disagree with me, and I know that some of our family disapprove of my daughter home educating. But it takes courage and strength of character to go against the 'normal' way of the majority, so I have great respect and admiration for my daughter standing up for what she believes in.


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LANSING, MI -- Republican Gov. Rick Snyder on Thursday shared his vision for a "positive, forward-thinking and inclusive" Michigan, but he stopped short of acknowledging whether that inclusivity should extend to gay couples interested in marriage.
"As governor of Michigan, we decided in our constitution some years ago," Snyder said, referring to a 2004 ballot proposal approved by 59 percent of voters that defined marriage as a union between one man and one woman. "The way I view it is, I follow Michigan's constitution. I'll follow the Supreme Court."
Justices on the nation's highest court heard oral arguments this week in two same-sex marriage cases that question the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans and the federal Defense of Marriage Act. Rulings are expected by the end of June.
The Supreme Court cases have fueled a quickly evolving debate on same-sex marriage, prompting prominent Republicans and Democrats to weigh in. Snyder, however, sidestepped the debate on Thursday, when new Democratic Party Chairman Lon Johnson asked him to clarify his position in light of his call for inclusivity.
"It is an important issue, but it's being dealt with at the national level," Snyder said at the annual Pancakes and Politics forum in Detroit. "So the way I view it, I'm going to work really hard on more and better jobs, and I'm going to see what comes out in the Supreme Court opinion and what's the right reaction when it comes."
The political debate over same-sex marriage heated up this week in Michigan when former state Rep. Dave Agema, now a Republican National Committeeman, copy-and-pasted to Facebook an article by "Frank Joseph, M.D.," that linked gay individuals to promiscuity, pedophilia, murder, sexually transmitted diseases and an otherwise "filthy lifestyle."
The post came only one week after the Republican National Committee released a report reviewing the 2012 election cycle and recommending that the party, which remains opposed to same-sex marriage, must "in fact and in deed be inclusive and welcoming" or risk losing young voters.
Agema initially defended the veracity of the article, telling Facebook commenters that the "trouble is many don't like facts," but he later said critics misconstrued the author's words for his own.
His decision to post and defend the article, which is based on research from 1978 to 1994, led to criticism from political pundits -- including conservative S.E. Cupp -- and columnists who checked the outdated assertions. National and state party leaders appeared to distance themselves from the situation, while a group of Michigan Republicans called for his resignation.
Agema, in an online petition that now has signatures from 292 supporters, said he will not resign or back down. "I will dig in and fight even harder to defend our conservative values from these attacks by liberals in the media, and even in our own party."
Dennis Lennox, a Republican precinct delegate in Grand Traverse County who supported Agema's opponent in last year's campaign for the RNC, said that the criticism has nothing to do with principles, beliefs or party positions.
"This is about common decency," he said. "You can't win an election when you're insulting voters, and the fact is, Dave Agema has spit in the face of thousands of people. This is a guy that should do the right thing and resign. This is the last thing the GOP needs right now -- a distraction. He's become, in the parlance of Twitter, a hashtag epic fail."
Lennox said the "facts" of the article that Agema posted, some of which are based on research at least 35 years old, do not deserve a response. "I think it's beneath my dignity to repeat some of the things that were said. They're disgusting. They're appalling."
Todd Courser, a Lapeer attorney who last month narrowly lost his bid to become chairman of the Michigan Republican Party, called on current leadership to step up in defense of Agema, praising him on Facebook as "one of the most conservative leaders we have in the Republican Party. I stand with Dave."
Republican House Speaker Jase Bolger did not agree with the article Agema posted, according to spokesperson Ari Adler, but he took exception to "several others who have not kept their debate within the facts or maintained a respect for people who believe differently than they do."
Bolger, in a statement released to the press on Thursday afternoon, stressed the need for civility in the ongoing debate.
"As a Catholic, my faith teaches, and I believe in, the traditional definition of marriage," he said. "As a lawmaker, I am bound to honor the state constitution where Michigan voters defined marriage as between one man and one woman. As a father, I seek to teach my kids our personal faith as well as a respect for others. I do not support efforts that seek to dehumanize those who are different or have differing points of view.
"Though maybe nothing gets more emotional than the intersection of personal beliefs and politics, I urged all sides to conduct their debate with a focus on the facts and a respect for individuals. I refuse to seek to advance a political cause by demonizing people who believe differently than me. I hope others will display respect for different and deeply held beliefs."
Editor's note: This post was updated to correct the year and percentage of Michigan's constitutional amendment.
Jonathan Oosting is a Capitol reporter for MLive Media Group. Email him, find him on Google+ or follow him on Twitter.


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The first day of summer on the Blue Ridge Parkway was warm, extraordinarily sunny and quiet. Maybe a little too quiet.
"When does the travel season begin?" wondered Debra Anker, a parkway visitor from Fredericksburg, whose family had stopped at a visitors' center on their way home from North Carolina.
"It's very quiet today. I don't mind having the road to ourselves."
At seven years old, Galax native Kylene Barker set her sights on the crown after she saw her aunt crowned Miss Teen Roanoke.
It was an image she couldn't forget, and would eventually become a reality for her.
HILLSVILLE — A Girl Scout working on her Gold Award recently launched a project to help victims of domestic violence at the Family Resource Center in Wytheville.
LAUREL FORK — Olde Mill has kicked its culinary offerings up a notch with Chef Ed Badgett heading up the kitchen.
The golf course continues adding housing and an array of amenities as it transitions to a fully fledged resort community, and the vision for the place has captivated the chef.
Not only does Badgett serve as chef and live onsite, he's taken the lead in blogging and tweeting about happenings and has even shown the new housing to clients. "I do as much as I can without sacrificing being in the kitchen."
Watch for more graduation photos in Friday's edition of The Gazette on the Twin County Living page.
INDEPENDENCE — Few people in Grayson County remember when Sheriff Charles C. McKnight was shot and killed in the line of duty in 1933.
There were no plaques that honored him, which concerned Sheriff Richard Vaughan.
Several weeks ago, he started a project to remember the late sheriff and, after extensive research, a large bronze plaque bearing McKnight's picture and the date he was killed now hangs in the front lobby of the Grayson County Courthouse.
HILLSVILLE — An investigation by a Carroll deputy has ensured that one of his fellow officers will be properly remembered for his service.
The name of Carroll Deputy Emery Mabry had been carved into the National Law Enforcement Officers' Memorial in Washington, D.C., with a description that didn't accurately tell the story of how he died in the line of duty.
The deputy stopped a suspicious vehicle, soon after his watch ended on April 22, 1974.
HILLSVILLE — In order to become a centerpiece of the community for cultural and historical activities, the Carter Home Foundation needs more community involvement.
The foundation that oversees the home associated with coal and railroad magnate George L. Carter holds non-profit status. A recent facelift has refreshed the exterior and the first two floors of the interior of the home originally built by Fielden Hale in 1845.
DUGSPUR — A new Crooked Road partner has mounted up on Virginia's traditional music trail.
Crooked Road co-founder Joe Wilson will visit the Kanawha Valley Arena, known for its equestrian pursuits, to present a banner celebrating its designation as an affiliated partner on the self-guided driving trail focusing on Virginia's musical heritage.
The presentation will occur at 7 p.m. Saturday, prior to a performance by The Bolt Brothers, according to a Crooked Road press release.
INDEPENDENCE — Sharon Reeves, a teacher at the CATE Center, has been named the Grayson County school system's teacher of the year for 2010.
The announcement came May 4, during the annual reception to honor distinguished teachers from each of the 10 schools in the system.
Stephen Cornett, director of instruction and assessment, complimented the teachers "for their caring attitudes and their strong commitment to give students the best education possible."
Cornett said teachers had to meet extensive criteria as part of the selection process.
The Arts Council is hosting a variety showcase of eight Twin County female performing arts groups at Galax High School auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Groups include singing by the Yazoo Sisters, Highland Camerata Ensemble, Galax High School Girls Barbershop Quartet, and Earth Mama; music by Mountain Marimba and Blew Ridge Brass; and dances by the Conservatory of Dance and Bint El Samra
Admission is free, donations appreciated.
INDEPENDENCE — A veritable 'Who's Who' of renewable energy speakers will be featured and a variety of earth friendly vendors will demonstrate energy saving, carbon footprint reducing products and services at Saturday's 3rd Annual Independence Earth Day and "Save Green: Money and Energy" Expo at the 1908 Courthouse.
The event is sponsored by Grayson Land Care and the Town of Independence Special Events Committee.
With the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway just around the corner — and as many as 20,000 people expected to visit the area this year as part of the parkway's celebration — the Crossroads Institute will host a series of events, starting tomorrow, Thursday, to get locals in touch with the area's heritage.
Being a lineman means having a career where people look up to you, Eddie Reavis of TCR Management likes to say.
Twenty years working with utility companies in the field has given Reavis a bird's eye perspective on the industry, and he knows there's a high demand for these kinds of skilled laborers.
That led to the creation of TCR Management at the Crossroads Institute to start with the basics for groundsman training, the first step on the way to become a lineman.
It's hard work, but good opportunities are available for those willing to tackle it.
Plans are underway for the Blue Ridge Parkway's 75th anniversary weekend celebration during Sept. 10-12, marking the anniversary of construction on Sept. 11, 1935.
The Blue Ridge Music Center (milepost 213), the Cumberland Knob Recreation Area (milepost 217), and neighboring communities of Fancy Gap, Hillsville, Fries, Independence and Galax will be among sites for this multi-day, multi-venue celebration.
Included will be regional music, crafts, storytelling, children's activities and foods from the Blue Ridge.
As a young boy growing up in Kentucky, local music legend Willard Gayheart, scraped up $3 to purchase his first guitar, and even though he didn't do much with it then, when he moved to Galax in 1962 he got hooked on learning bluegrass and old-time music.
Gayheart, now a renowned musician and pencil artist, shared his story with a crowd at last Thursday's first Bluegrass Gravy & River Quilts event at the Crossroads Institute in Galax.
HILLSVILLE — Juggling just isn't for the clowns and the circus. It's for artists, athletes, hobbyists and just about anyone — and the Flanagans can attest to that.
As local Glen Luke Flanagan swirls a handful of bean bags through the air and tosses them behind his back, showing off his juggling skills, he explains how the hobby has become about sharing, showing and coming together.
He never misses a beat as he demonstrates his tricks, manipulation skills and choreography.
The creative economy being developed throughout the area is one industry that can't be exported overseas, said Chris Shackelford, director of Chestnut Creek School of the Arts.
CCSA has and will continue to bring new businesses into the area, add jobs, create mixed-use buildings and improve the quality of life as Galax works toward transitioning into a place of entrepreneurial development and tourism, Shackelford said.
In the "Memories: The Blue Ridge Parkway in Retrospect" juried art show at Chestnut Creek School of the Arts, a watercolor painting by local artist Jarrod Wilson depicts a classic Plymouth pulled to the side of the road on the parkway with a blanket spread out on a grassy knoll.
Mixed martial artists Team PVT (Pyles Vale Tudo) of Galax rocked the cage last month at the Gladiator Fight Club's MMA "Battle of Wills" event at the Sportplex Indoor Sports and Event Center in Winchester.
Team PVT is part of Elite Combat Martial Arts in Galax, which specializes in martial arts, combat stunt fighting, MMA, aerobics and weight training, competitive sport karate and self defense.
The business was established 16 years ago by owner and instructor is Grand Master Dean Pyles and his wife, Master Heather Pyles.
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Closings Delayed For Airport Towers
WHEELING – Tom Tominack was relieved to get a call from Sen. Joe Manchin's office Friday informing him the air traffic control tower at the Wheeling-Ohio County Airport would not be closed on April 22.
Plans to halt operations of control towers at 149 small airports, due to begin this weekend because of government-wide spending cuts, are being delayed until mid-June, federal regulators announced Friday.
As manager of the Wheeling facility, Tominack had been working with Manchin, D-W.Va., and other federal lawmakers to persuade the Federal Aviation Administration to change its plan.
On Friday, the FAA said it needs more time to deal with legal challenges to the closures. In addition, about 50 airport authorities and other "stakeholders" have indicated they want to fund the operations of the towers themselves rather than see them shut down, and more time will be needed to work out those plans, the agency said in a statement.
Despite the delay, the FAA said it will stop funding all 149 of the airport towers, which are operated by private contractors, on June 15. Under the new schedule, the closures will be implemented at once, rather than a gradual phase-in as had been planned.
Tominack said the closures had been scheduled to take effect in phases, beginning with the closure of 24 towers Sunday. The Ohio County facility would have been among the second group of closures, while the final tower closures were set to occur May 5.
"The FAA was moving too quickly," Tominack said. "They were not giving airports an opportunity to adjust."
Tominack said local, state and federal officials representing West Virginia had been working with the three airports in the state that would have been affected. He said the cooperative effort aimed to find other solutions to the financial challenges faced by the FAA due to the "very drastic" nature of the proposed cuts.
Obama administration officials have said the closures are necessary to accomplish automatic spending cuts required by Congress.
Airport operators in several states, including Florida, Illinois and Washington state, and the U.S. Contract Tower Association, which represents the companies that operate contract towers, have filed lawsuits with the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington seeking to halt the closures.
The suits contend that the closures violated a federal law meant to ensure major changes at airports do not erode safety, and unfairly targeted the program for an outsized share of the more than $600 million the agency is required to trim from its budget by the end of September.
"The administration has decided to make tower closures the poster child of sequestration (automatic spending cuts)," said the group's director, J. Spencer Dickerson. "We believe there are other ways they could have skinned this cat."
Federal officials have insisted that the closures wouldn't affect safety. And there is evidence that with improving safety, some of the closures would make economic sense.
It turns out that the FAA has been using 30-year-old data on aircraft collisions to justify the cost of operating many of the control towers, even though accident rates have improved significantly over that time.
Had the FAA used more current data, it's probable that some low-traffic airport towers operated by private contractors would no longer have met the agency's criteria for funding, industry officials say. But the FAA has long been under pressure from members of Congress to open new towers at airports in their states, not to close them.
The FAA began paying contractors to staff and operate towers at a handful of small airports after President Ronald Reagan fired striking air traffic controllers in 1981. Today, there are 251 towers operated by private contractors at airports across the country at an average annual cost of more than $500,000 each.


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The 24-minute DVD was produced by the Dougy Center. The center's staff, as well as families involved in the making of the video, will lead a discussion immediately following the screening, said Dougy Center spokeswoman Kassie Boehringer.
"Understanding Suicide, Supporting Children," will premiere at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 13. Admission is free. Copies of the DVD will be available for $49.95. The Hollywood Theater is located at 4122 NE Sandy Boulevard.
More than 600 people die of suicide each year in Oregon, according to the Dougy Center.
"The families in the DVD talk about their experience and what would have been helpful and what has been helpful to them," Boehringer said.
"Understanding Suicide, Supporting Children" was funded by a grant from Regence and aims to provide insight into the emotions and experiences that children, teens and their families, bereaved by a suicide go through.
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A local nonprofit charity that provides financial assistance to families affected by congenital heart defects is partnering with a New York-based agency to donate clothes and other children's necessities to such families.
Springfield resident Cindy Sattal, one of the founders of Mend Maddie's Heart, said her nonprofit recently received a dozen large boxes of items such as pajamas, shoes, toys and coats for children donated by the Oshkosh and Carters outlet stores in Lee.
The donations, which are expected to continue monthly, are a result of the nonprofit's collaboration with K.I.D.S. (Kids in Distressed Situations), an agency that reaches 1,000 partner groups across the United States.
"I am overwhelmed in a good way," Sattal said. "The generosity shown by Oshkosh and Carter's is very heartwarming and the way K.I.D.S. reaches out to so many charities is truly amazing."
Sattal's nonprofit is named after her granddaughter, Madilyn "Maddie" Gettis, who was born in 2010 and is living with only half a heart. She has undergone three open heart surgeries and will need medical intervention in the future. Maddie, now 22 months, lives with her parents – Lindsay Gettis, a pediatric nurse, and her husband, Edward Gettis, an active duty U.S. Navy Corpsman – in Pensacola, Fla.
The couple also has a 3-month-old daughter, Juliana, who is heart healthy. Sattal applied to K.I.D.S. in February to become a partner agency. K.I.D.S. distributes brand new clothes, toys, books, shoes, DVDs and other items through partner agencies like Sattal's to help people in need all over the country, according to Dennie Hughes, director of donor-agency relations at K.I.D.S.
"We know how incredibly tough it is for families with sick children to spend time away from home, to afford to buy the basics let alone be supportive for the other children in the family," Hughes said. "Mend Maddie's Heart already has terrific, caring people and well-thought out programs. We're so happy to supply donations that can help them achieve their goals of reaching more families."
Mend Maddie's Heart receives requests for donations from other nonprofits devoted to helping families dealing with congenital head defects (CHD) through, among other avenues, support groups on Facebook. The nonprofit also manages a Facebook page called "Grandmas CHD Closet," which provides a way for needy families to send or receive children's outgrown clothing.
Besides the collaboration with K.I.D.S., Mend Maddies Heart raises money each year to help families with financial needs such as utility bills, gasoline cards, and money to provide temporary housing for families that travel to receive medical care, through a variety of events, Sattal said.
The fund-raisers include tag sales, pig roasts and bake sales. Besides Sattal, other board members include Maddie's other grandmother, Lorraine Gettis, of Centerport, Long Island, N.Y., Sattal's sister, Debra Mailman, of East Longmeadow and Sattal's friend, Jackie Nieroda of Enfield.
"We've just connected with so many great people who are very generous," Sattal said.
As part of spreading the word about Mend Maddie's Heart, Sattal, her family and friends will be participating in the American Heart Association Pioneer Valley Heart Walk on May 19 at Forest Park to raise money for the association and awareness of congenital heart defects. She is also hopeful the walk will connect her to families who could use the donations from K.I.D.S.
Dr. Michael Willers, a pediatric cardiologist at the Children's Heart Center of Western Massachusetts, with offices in Springfield and Northampton, said the work of Sattal's nonprofit is important so that parents in need can receive not only financial and other assistance, but education about congenital heart defects.
"There is a great misunderstanding about congenital heart defects. A lot of these kids are not allowed to lead full, rich, vibrant lives because of that," said Willers, who will be participating in the walk. "I think it's important for those faces to be involved in the walk for people to see that the American Heart Association isn't just about heart attacks and strokes."
For more information on Mend Maddie's Heart, visit www.mendmaddiesheart.com


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI -- By all accounts, Dr. Jerry Umanos loved using his medical skills to help children.
The Chicago area doctor -- whose son is a newly hired Grand Rapids police officer -- was killed Thursday, April 24,after being shot by a security guard at the Kabul, Afghanistan hospital where he worked.
He was among three people killed in the attack.
Ben Umanos was hired in December as a Grand Rapids officer and sworn in in January as his father looked on. He previously worked for the Manistee County Sheriff's Department.
The elder Umanos' death left many in both Chicago and Afghanistan stunned and saddened.
He worked as a pediatrician at Lawndale Christian Health Center in the Chicago area for many years, but also at the Cure Hospital in Kabul where he helped train Afghan doctors and medical staff.
Here's what others are saying about Dr. Umanos, based on media accounts:
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"He was a great person, a great doctor. It's a great loss," said Umanos' mother-in-law Angie Schuitema. "He was doing what he wanted to do. He thanked God for allowing him to help people there."
"We have lost a dear friend. Our clinic is grieving right now. Our hearts are broken. So we ask that you pray for his family, pray for our clinic, pray for our patients and staff," said James Brooks, the chief ministry officer at LCHC.
"It's going to be rough because Dr. Umanos saw a lot of patients. The kids loved him and especially the parents, you know," said colleague Alice Moore. "It's going to be rough. It's going to be rough on everybody. Imagine the staff. I can't imagine what it's going to do to the patients.
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Local dance studio has new owner
A Wheeling dance studio is changing hands, with the retirement of its long-time owner–and its purchase by a long-time student.
Burkhart Dancentre, owned and operated for 37 years by Sherry Williams Burkhart, has now been purchased by Sherry's longtime student, Chelsea (Saus) Kisner.
"I started taking dance lessons from Sherry when I was 2 1/2 years old," Chelsea recalls. "It was the beginning of a life-long love of dance, but also of a life-long friendship with Sherry."
Since then, Chelsea took every class, danced in every recital and public appearance, taught at the studio, and helped with the dance program at Bethany College, while she was there getting her bachelor's degree.
Sherry says she sought out Chelsea as the one to continue the studio's work for a reason.
"Burkhart Dancentre has a strong tradition of excellence in ballet and pointe," she noted. "Chelsea is particularly strong in those areas. I remember the first time she put on pointe shoes. She rose up, straight and elegant, and I knew we had something special here." Sherry believes ballet is the discipline from which all other forms of dance can spring.
Burkhart's, located in the second floor of the YWCA Wheeling at 11th and Chapline streets, offers classes in ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, lyrical, hip hop, acro, cheernastics, and more. (A Mommy and Me class will also be offered if there is sufficient demand.) Parents waiting for their children can get fit with Zumba lessons (Chelsea is a certified Zumba instructor) or participate in adult classes.
Last year's recital included an adult tap number featuring the moms, joined by their daughters at the end. There was also a touching number that had little girls dancing with their dads, grandfathers and step-dads. (There wasn't a dry eye in the audience!" says Sherry.)
Burkhart's is unique in that its dancers don't automatically leave the studio when they graduate from high school. "My dancers have come back year after year, through college and beyond," noted Sherry. "They are an invaluable resource to the studio, helping, inspiring the younger students, while they continue their own love of dance. There is no magic cut-off point for dancers, and my students prove that." And in these days of "wardrobe malfunctions" and Miley Cyrus-type performances, Burkhart Dancentre is committed to family- friendly choreography, costumes and music.
Chelsea is joined by a full staff of experienced dance teachers, and by her husband Tom Kisner, who will be the studio manager.
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Almost 6,000 people have committed through Facebook to lining campus roads as Joe Paterno is taken from a private funeral at the campus spiritual center, past Beaver Stadium, to his final resting place in State College.
The page, "Guide Joe Paterno Home," asks people to arrive before 2:30 p.m. along Curtin Road between the library and Beaver Stadium.
"Let's make a human chain of students, teachers, players, etc. all the way to guide Joe home," the page says.
Paterno's burial is private. He died Sunday morning from complications of lung cancer.
This morning is the second day of public viewing for the legendary coach at the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on campus. Yesterday, well over 10,000 people showed up to pay respects.
Today's viewing is from 8 a.m. to noon, and a private funeral follows.


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MOUNT PLEASANT - Central Michigan freshman Scott Mattingly has been named the Mid-American Conference Wrestler of the Week.
Mattingly picked up one of the biggest wins of his career Sunday to help the Chippewas secure a share of the conference championship, rallying from an early 2-0 deficit to defeat Kent State's Chase Skonieczny, 3-2, in the 141-pound bout. Mattingly tied the score with a reversal in the second period, then started the third period on top and rode Skonieczny for the entire two minutes to earn the decisive riding time point.
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The New York Yankees having a mid-summer sell-off is about as common an occurrence as the team putting a cap on player salaries at $10 million per year. Simply put, it doesn't happen.
The New York Yankees are many things, but one thing they're not is unpredictable.
On an annual basis one can count on the Yankees spending a ton of money, fielding a team of big-name superstars, and more often than not, competing at a high level. New York plays to win; if they don't succeed, they reload and try again the next season.
Every summer, teams spend June and July negotiating and completing numerous trades. Some years the Yankees make deals, some years they don't, but on those occasions when the Yankees do make one or more midsummer trades, those trades have traditionally been made to improve the roster right away.
Making next season's team better is what the Yankees do in the fall and winter, not in the summer. The Yankees will most likely pursue that same route again, but this season it would be a major mistake.
The Yankees most likely path to the playoffs is by winning the American League East. New York is 46-44, only three games back from first place Baltimore. That doesn't sound all that bad.
On the heels of the very concerning news regarding starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka, the Yankees are going to need at least one, and possibly two, major acquisitions to finish atop the division.
Consider this. The New York Yankees are a mediocre, barely-above-.500 team with Masahiro Tanaka pitching as well as just about any other starting pitcher not named "Kershaw".
Without Tanaka, the Yankees probably aren't all that much better than the last place Boston Red Sox.
The Yankees and Red Sox both have overpaid, underperforming 2014 rosters, but there's a big difference between the projected future rosters of the two age-old rivals.
The Red Sox have one of baseball's deepest and highest-ranked minor league systems which, along with a lack of longterm payroll commitments, gives the Red Sox a fair degree of flexibility going forward. The Red Sox can allow young players to reach the majors or they can venture into the free agent market, or they can try and combine both paths. The options are there.
The Yankees have some well-regarded players in their minor league system, but there aren't a ton of them. They just completed one of the best international free agent hauls in recent memory, but the bulk of those players won't be major league ready for three or four years at the earliest.
There aren't that many players who will be available this summer. That means the demand will outpace the supply, and that will drive the price sky-high for the players who could really make an impact on a would-be playoff contender.
If last week's trade between the Oakland A's and Chicago Cubs is any sort of indicator, then teams are going to have to be willing to part with not just prospects, but top prospects, if they hope to acquire All-Star caliber starting pitchers or sluggers.
In order to add an impact player before the trade deadline, the Yankees are going to have to part with players such as All-Star set-up man, and future closer Dellin Betances, as well as top prospects Gary Sanchez, Mason Williams, Ian Clarkin, Luis Severino or Peter O'Brien.
For a franchise with a laundry list of aging, past-their-prime players with big contracts, inexpensive, talented prospects are not something to just casually part with.
Rather than mortgage their future for what could end up as an unfulfilling present, the Yankees would be far better off trying to sell off some of their veteran players.
Hiroki Kuroda won't bring a major haul, but he's a 39-year-old starting pitcher whose contract expires at the end of 2014. A team looking to bolster their starting rotation's depth might have interest in Kuroda.
More valuable would be closer David Robertson, who is also a free agent after this season. He's been a dominant closer this season, racking up 22 saves with an ERA of 2.84 and 57 strikeouts in just 31.2 innings pitched.
New York would find it difficult to trade injury-prone outfielder Carlos Beltran, especially with more than two full seasons left on his three-year, $45 million contract, but he's still worth shopping. The same can be said of backup catchers Francisco Cervelli and J.R. Murphy, both who could be future starters on teams that don't have Brian McCann in the majors, and phenom Gary Sanchez in the minors.
The Yankees have some contracts that are simply immovable. No one is going to take guys like Mark Teixeira, Jacoby Ellsbury, or Brian McCann in a trade. Dealing Brett Gardner wouldn't make sense unless the offer were too good to be true.
However, the Yankees do have some players worth shopping and they'd do themselves a big favor by deviating from their normal path, and spending the month of July thinking about their future, rather than their short-term needs.


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| Guest chapter 12 . 3/10/2014
hey...where's enishi ,by the way
| nitokiri chapter 8 . 7/13/2011
This was my favorite chapter :D
| nitokiri chapter 5 . 7/13/2011
Yup. This is so Battousai the Manslayer.
| nitokiri chapter 1 . 7/13/2011
I am confident in saying that this story is the reason I now crack up when I watch serious episodes of Rurouni Kenshin, laugh at angsty, dramatic RKFF's, and have generally gone completely out of my mind.
Kenshin is so god damn sexy though, just watching him swing that pretty pretty sword around like some sort of god. Such a rwoar moment.
| Raberba girl chapter 3 . 7/17/2009
Haha, "I have enough scar tissue on my face, thank you."
| Raberba girl chapter 2 . 7/17/2009
LOL, great ending. :)
| Raberba girl chapter 1 . 7/17/2009
Best opening lines in a RuroKen fic ever. XD
Though, at least in my opinion, Shishio somehow manages to be sexy even as Barbecue Man. (sweatdrop)
Heheh, this reminds me of "Kenshin Tries to Knock Off Kaoru" by evilchibis, which was also hilarious.
The entry breaks are a little confusing, because they sound like they should be continuous rather than broken up by days (or however often Kenshin updates his diary ;).
Kenshin vs. Fluffy? Now this I gotta see!
| senkoed chapter 12 . 11/19/2008
that is so fun. D narcissistic!kenshin is utter fun to read, especially when i can imagine him saying it in a bitchy way. awesome word play btw, i'm really impressed. i'm only good at horrendous puns. mandarin-to-english kinda stuff, or stuff like "my jokes are so cold my ice-cream is rock hard." okay, rambling.
i guaffawed at the saitou pickup lines. hilarious. xD you've pretty interesting pickup lines, maybe i'll use them on my friends to freak them a little. hope you have fun writing more entries~
| Shenyu chapter 12 . 6/21/2008
Holy shit. LOL
| Storm Wagner chapter 12 . 3/10/2008
LoL! I couldn't help falling off my seat at every chapter... Please update soon...
- Stormie :)
| Misty Narumi chapter 4 . 8/15/2007
lol XD Kenshin sounded so kinky...o0
Kenshin! (huggles her Kenshin plushie close to her) ;.;
| SongbirdSarah chapter 12 . 8/6/2007
KENSHIN IS A HORN DOG! Like we all didn't know it already, but still! Wow! Aoshi is still the sexiest! Good job!
| Oro4 chapter 12 . 3/21/2007
he needs to rescue Kaoru so they can have fun lol
| MILFORS98675309 chapter 5 . 11/17/2006
I've only read the 1st 4 chapters and I'm already laughing my ass off! I'd read more, but I feel like getting off and trying to fix my messed up back. Oh well. I'll read more latter . Keep up the good work! I is love your fic! I must go kill Sasuke. I mean uh...I dunno. We'll see :). Oh well Bye bye! I'll be back soon .
| Sketched Words chapter 12 . 11/6/2006
LOL! OMG! THAT WAS SOO FUNNY! i have been meaning to get to read this and i never thought it could be this funny! lol! my belly hurts readig all of kenshin's entries! please update soon! lol!


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More than 23 million U.S. military veterans are eligible for benefits, but only 8 million are using those benefits, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Terry Inman and Earl Jones, both of Kingston, know just how important those benefits can be. Through the Veterans Administration, Inman, a retired Coast Guard senior chief petty officer, received triple-bypass surgery to correct a service-related heart ailment. Jones, a retired Navy captain and Vietnam War veteran, has been treated for exposure to Agent Orange.
Now, both are volunteering in their retirement years to help other veterans and their survivors connect with benefits to which they are entitled.They are among the team of volunteers at the Veterans Service Office at 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A, Poulsbo. The office is open Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The office is paid for and staffed by American Legion Post 245 in Poulsbo. (You may recall that the Veterans Service Office was formerly located down the street in the old North Kitsap Armory, which is now a port-owned parking lot.)
As reported in the story that begins on page A1 of this edition, the Veterans Service Office stands ready to help veterans in a myriad of ways. They've helped veterans with service-related injuries or disabilities obtain benefits they earned — benefits that improved their quality of life. They've helped veterans obtain medals to which they are entitled. They've helped veterans with children obtain one-time American Legion grants so they can meet financial needs. They've helped survivors apply for VA-covered funeral costs and survivors benefits.
Now, these officers know their fellow veterans are a proud lot and aren't apt to ask for help. But here's what they want you to know, veteran: They don't want to give you a handout, they want to give you a hand. If you served, you are entitled to certain benefits, and they can help connect you with those benefits.
In an earlier story in the Herald, Inman said he got involved as a veterans service officer after the local office helped him. The VA determined he had a 100-percent service-related disability and he got the life-saving heart surgery he needed. "I thought, 'Hey, they helped me,' so I started hanging out in the office," he said at the time. "Then, they convinced me to become a service officer."
Veterans, you stood for your country. The Poulsbo Veterans Service Office is standing by you. Visit them at 19068 Jensen Way, Suite 3A, Poulsbo.
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"If there is a heaven, I don't want to share it with him," says Baxter, who still mourns the death of her sister, April Boss, who Privacky shot execution style at his parents' Dalton Township home on Nov. 29, 1998. Boss was 19 at the time.
Hearing the news of Privacky's escape attempt and subsequent death at Kinross Correctional Facility in the Upper Peninsula didn't bring 34-year-old Baxter any closure.
In fact, it only brought back bitter feelings toward the "selfish monster" some had said turned his life over to God before his death, she said.
"All criminals reach a point where they 'find God' when they go to prison. My opinion is, 'Where was God when you committed your acts?' Just because he 'found God' while he was in prison doesn't make him a Christian," Baxter said.
Confession detailThe following is an excerpt from Seth Privacky's Dec. 1, 1998, confession to murdering four of his family members and his brother's girlfriend, April Boss
Privacky: Um, my mom was in the shower while this was taking place and then she had just gotten out of the shower and I went upstairs and I went in the bathroom and shot her in the back of the head. And then when I was coming back downstairs April came through the front door before I could stop her. And she saw my grandpa and dad (laying dead). And she thought it was just a joke. She walked into the kitchen and I shot her in the back of the head. I didn't know she was going to come to dinner."
"He told everyone he became a Christian, but apparently he did not. He now shares the same fate he bestowed upon others.
"My only regret is that he doesn't get to suffer, and those of us left behind still have to. Once a monster, always a monster."
Privacky confessed to gunning down his parents Stephen and Linda Privacky, his grandfather John Privacky, his brother Jedediah Privacky and Boss, who was Jed's girlfriend, minutes before they were all to sit down for a belated Thanksgiving dinner.
But 10 years after he was sentenced for the mass murders, an out-of-state pastor, Larry Marrs, was convinced the young killer was a changed man.
Marrs was a pastor living in Missouri when he knew Privacky, but he has since moved to California. He told a Chronicle reporter in 2008 that he started writing Privacky in prison at the request of Privacky's childhood babysitter.
The correspondence led to Marrs' repeated visits with Privacky in prison. Marrs had said then that he felt Privacky had remorse for killing his family and Boss.
A Chronicle reporter made several attempts to contact Marrs for this story, but could not reach him.
Baxter said that regardless of any remorse Privacky may have felt, she will not forgive him.
"I was raised Catholic. I do believe in forgiveness, but nowhere in my lifetime will I forgive that individual, and maybe that makes me a bad Christian," Baxter said. "That's where my family and I part ways."
Baxter said some members of Boss' family have found it within themselves to forgive Privacky.
"I'm of the opinion, 'An eye for an eye,'" Baxter said. "Seth is a monster and had no regard for anyone else's life but his own."
That description of Privacky is disputed by Patti Moran, 52, of Muskegon, who was a good friend of his mother, Linda Privacky.
"He tried really hard to be nice to other people. He was kind, he was humble, he was intelligent, artistic, spiritual and had a self-deprecating sense of humor," Moran said in an interview Friday. "He definitely had turned his life around. He mostly carried a burden that was so heavy that none of us could begin to understand."
Moran, who wrote letters to Privacky and visited him during his incarceration, said she was shocked to learn of his death.
"I never anticipated that he would attempt anything like that," she said of the prison break.
In the meantime, while she mourns the loss of Privacky, she understands how Baxter continues to struggle over the loss of Boss.
"I don't believe in closure. I don't think you can ever tuck anything of this magnitude away and have it be behind us. It will be with us for the rest of our lives," Moran said. "(Virginia Baxter's) loss was so profound, and anger is a very valid part of grief. April didn't deserve this. She walked in on something so horrible and there is no explaining it."
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After two seasons on MTV, the network has decided not to renew Nikki and Sara Live for a third. The show's co-hosts, comedians Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer made the announcement on today's episode of their long-running podcast You Had To Be There. "We're sad to report that MTV did not pick us up for a third season," Schaefer said, jokingly adding, "Collective shock around the world."
The pair taped the episode in front of about 20 friends, most of which were staffers on the late night show. Schaefer went on to explain:
To clarify we were not canceled. We weren't picked up. Canceled implies at midseason they axed you because you were failing. We were not failing. I want to be very clear. Our ratings were up from season one. Our ratings were comparable, if not better, than every other cable, late night show. I'm very proud of the show that we did. I'm very grateful that we got to do it. But MTV decided it just wasn't part of their programming future. And that's ok. That's their prerogative. They gave us a show to begin with and I have nothing but gratitude for that.
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The Bill
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A candid conversation with the sultan of software about outsmarting his rivals
"The Wallet PC is a futuristic device. Instead of having tickets to the theater, your Wallet PC will digitally prove that you paid. It's our vision of the small, portable PC of, say, five years from now."
"If we weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I consider failure on a regular basis."
"We bet the company on Windows and we deserve to benefit. It was a risk that's paid off immensely. In retrospect, committing to the graphics interface seems so obvious that now it's hard to keep a straight face."
A youngish man who looks like a graduate student sits on the door of his unpretentious dorm-like room, spooning Thai noodles from a plastic container. His glasses are smudged, his clothes are wrinkled, his hair is tousled like a boy's. But, when he talks, people listen. Certainly no person on the campus can talk about the future, as he does, with the riveting authority of someone who not only knows what's in store for tomorrow but is a major force in shaping that future as well.
Yet this is an office, not a dorm room. And, while everyone calls the complex of 25 buildings a campus, it's not a college or university. It's the sprawling Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. And the speaker is no grad student. He's William H. Gates III, chief executive and co-founder of the largest software company in the world, which made $953 million last year on sales of $3.75 billion. As Microsoft's largest stockholder, he's worth nearly $6.1 billion, making him this country's second wealthiest man and, at 38, its youngest self-made billionaire. (Gates pal, investor Warren Buffett, is first, though they occasionally trade places depending on stock prices.)
Microsoft's wealth and power just grow and grow, asserts Fortune magazine. CEO Bill Gates could buy out an entire years production of his 99 nearest competitors, burn it, and still be worth more than Rupert Murdoch or Ted Turner. Microsoft's $25 billion market value tops that of Ford, General Motors, 3M, Boeing, RJR Nabisco, General Mills, Anheuser-Busch or Eastman Kodak.
With size comes power. Microsoft dominates the PC market with its MS-DOS operating system, the basic software that lets the computer understand your commands and carry them out. MS-DOS runs on 90 percent of the worlds IBM and IBM-clone computers. Microsoft has extended that presence with Windows, a graphics interface environment that runs on top of MS-DOS and will, according to Gates, replace DOS in future versions. Microsoft also supplies about 50 percent of the worlds software applications: programs such as Excel (spreadsheets), Microsoft Word (word processing) and Access (data bases). It is also in the business of networking. And multimedia. And CD-ROMs. And books. And as an early supporter of the Macintosh computer, Microsoft virtually owns the Mac application market.
The future looks equally promising. Gates recently announced that Microsoft and McCaw Cellular Communications will form a joint 840-satellite global communications network. At the same time, Gates also acknowledged that he was in high-level negotiations with AT&T about a series of ventures that could include interactive television, on-line computer services and software. This is in addition to a previously announced joint venture with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, the worlds second-largest phone company, and with cable giant John Malone and his Tele-Communications, Inc. aimed at launching a digital cable TV network for computer users. Viewers would be able to interact with programs, download software and shop for products and services. Other partnerships loom as well, including ones with publishing companies and Hollywood studios.
Gates insists that Microsoft has to keep running full speed just to stay in place. But that hasn't stopped his enemies from engaging in constant Bill-bashing. His competitors accuse Microsoft of unfair business practices, and his allies consider themselves fortunate to be on his good side. Given the fluidity of partnerships and strategic alliances in the computer industries, today's friends could easily become tomorrows foes and vice versa, if Gates thinks it advantageous.
Nor is Gates immune from official attack, as evidenced by a three-year Federal Trade Commission investigation into possible monopolistic tendencies stemming in part from the success of Windows over IBMs OS/2 created in tandem with Microsoft. The FTC dropped the case but, uncharacteristically, it was picked up again, this time by the Justice Department. Gates insists "the hard-core truth is that we've done nothing wrong." But the investigation continues, and Gates has other problems as well. Microsoft recently lost a $120 million lawsuit led by Stac Electronics and is planning an appeal. Stac claimed Microsoft's Doublespace hard disk compression utility infringed on its patents for Stacker, the compression utility Microsoft had originally wanted to include with its new versions of MS-DOS. (Its worth noting, though, that Stac also had to pay Microsoft $13 million in damages for misappropriated trade secrets.)
Gates is part scientist, part businessman and he's surprisingly good at both roles. If he's not flying off somewhere (he often travels coach despite his wealth), his day is an endless series of meetings. Gates cruises the Microsoft campus at a breakneck pace to check on the progress of his young, idealistic and fiercely competitive programming jocks: Wired magazine calls them Microserfs. He listens to presentations, praises some ideas and criticizes others as "the stupidest thing I've ever heard".
Since founding Microsoft in 1975 with Harvard pal Paul Allen, Gates has been described as everything from a capitalist brainiac to a plain old nerd. The New Yorker wrote: To many people, the rise of Bill Gates marks the revenge of the nerd. Actually, Gates probably represents the end of the word nerd as we know it. Maybe that's why a software competitor and friend once called him one part Albert Einstein, one part John McEnroe and one part General Patton. (Must be somebody who likes me, mused Gates.)
Bill Gates was born into a well-to-do Seattle family. His father, William H. Gates II, is a prominent attorney. His mother, Mary, is a University of Washington regent and a director of First Interstate Bank. Hoping to alter young Bills rebellious streak, his parents put him into Lakeside, an academically rigorous private school in Seattle. It was there that he met eventual business partner Paul Allen and discovered computers. Soon Gates was programming in his spare time and making money at it. He was in the eighth grade.
Gates entered Harvard in 1973, and dropped out two years later when he and Allen wrote a version of BASIC computer language that worked on the new Altair computer. He and Allen moved to Albuquerque, where the Altair was built, and started Micro-soft. In 1979, Gates and Allen moved the company, but not the hyphen, to Seattle. In 1980, when IBM turned to Microsoft in its search for an operating system, the modern PC era began in earnest.
Allen left the company a few years later when he was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease, but he has since recovered and re-emerged. With his own Microsoft billions, Allen now owns the Portland Trailblazers basketball team, his own software company (Asymetrics), Ticketmaster and a large chunk of the America Online service.
We sent Contributing Editor David Rensin to Redmond to speak with Gates. Rensin, who wrote our Bill Gates profile in 1991, reports:
"A couple of years ago you checked in at Microsoft simply by giving your name to the receptionist. Now you type your name and destination into a Compaq notebook computer at the front desk and it prints out your building pass."
"However, not much had changed inside Gates' office since my last visit. A poster for the Russian version of DOS 4.01 had been replaced by a poster of Intel's Pentium chip. His coffee table had been cleaned up and the computer and monitor were different. Gates uses a Compaq 486/25 Lite notebook (he has docking stations at the office and at home) and is looking forward to getting a Compaq Concerto notebook. Otherwise, Gates doesn't have lots of time to tinker with the newest computer hot rods."
"When Bill is talking about computers, technology, business strategy, biotechnology, or his vision of the future, you're amazed at the amount of information in his head, and at his facility at sifting through it and drawing surprising conclusions. On his personal life, he can be somewhat defensive, reluctantly talking about his parents, his recent marriage to co-worker Melinda French and his life away from the campus."
"True to his reputation, Bill would rock furiously at times. Other times he would stand and pace or stare out the window. Once, as we were talking about his problems with IBM, he picked up a heavy ruler some kind of paperweight or award and slapped it repeatedly into his hand."
"I decided, at least for that moment, to stick with less controversial questions."
PLAYBOY: Let's start small. Explain the future.
GATES: OK. [Laughs] Today, the PC is used as a primary tool for creating documents of many types; word processing, spreadsheets, presentations. But by and large, when you want to find a document, archive it or transmit it, you don't really use the electronic form. You get it out on paper and send it. In the coming information age, access to documents, broadly defined, will be done electronically, just by traveling across a network that people now call an information highway. It's also called digital convergence, a term popularized by John Sculley, and information at your fingertips, a term I use a lot. I'm quite content this will happen. I could be wrong about how quickly.
PLAYBOY: How soon?
GATES: Optimists think three years. Others think ten. I'm a convert. I'm spending almost $100 million a year to build the kind of software that will help make this thing work, make it easy to use, protect privacy in the right way. I think it's possible that in three or four years we'll have millions of people hooked up.
PLAYBOY: Coming soon: a nation of couch potatoes?
GATES: You can already stay glued to the box. But this box is a facilitator. It can save time, which you can then put into the things you want to do. For a lot of people that will mean getting away from the box.
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The previous weekend, Feb. 16, Music in Motion was the first runner-up at the Medina Midwest Showcase, where the group took the best vocal performance and best instrumental combo caption awards. An outstanding performer award also went to Ryan Ho.
Director Gary Lewis said the competition in Twinsburg was a great end to the 2013 season, putting the choir in sixth place nationally as published by the National Show Choir Ranking System.
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