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A year ago today we took our vows.
Without hesitation or any doubts.
Today I give you my own vows.
I promise to always be loyal, honest, and true.
To give my heart and soul only to you.
Forever being your best friend, lover, and soulmate.
With every part of me I believe you are my fate.
I promise to do all I can to be the best wife.
Loving, giving, and sharing for the rest of my life.
In good times and bad I'll stand by your side.
To admit when I'm wrong never having to much pride.
I'll be here with an open mind and trusting heart.
Always believing in us as I have from the start.
I promise to love , honor, and cherish you.
On this day and forever I'm saying I do.
I am, I have, and I always will.
20 years from now I'll be loving you still.
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Thank you it was meant for the same man and I gave it to him on our anniversary. Things haven't turned out so good though. You never know where life is going to take you. The love you have for someone sometimes isn't enough for them to change their wrong ways. I gave him my heart and soul only to have to walk away from the man I have given every part of me to. The good Lord is the only one to make miracles happen.
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Five years ago, Carrie Mae Weems created an abbreviated world history of struggle in an installation called Ritual and Revolution. Printed on muslin banners were photos of serene landscapes and human chaos, dead palaces, Holocaust victims, a riot. On audiotape, Weems recited a poem that made her the omniscient narrator of all disquiet: "I was with you/when you stormed the Bastille &/The Winter Palace./I was with you/in the hideous mise en scène of the Middle Passage. . . . " Weems identifies with these mostly anonymous people who changed the world. While "Ritual and Revolution" may be more bluntly political than much of her work, she calls it a thesis: "I'm using that 'I' voice, not in the guise of Weems, but as something deeper. I'm trying to understand something about the human spirit, how it operates, where it goes awry, how to address it, how to look at it, how to unravel it." That's the homework.
Her new work at P.P.O.W's Chelsea gallery takes the assignment to a more subliminal level. There's a May Day celebration in the first roomnot a Red Square parade but girls circling a maypoleand photos from Cuba in the second. "Revolution" is too bloody a word for these gentle pictures. They remind us that struggle is everyday business, and that revolution is merely about possibility. No manifesto is adequate.
Weems currently has shows at two other Manhattan galleries. It doesn't add up to a retrospective, but illustrates something of her range. P.P.O.W's Soho space has work that hasn't been seen in New York before, like images from "The Hampton Project." Parts of well-known early pieces like the "Kitchen Table" series are at P.C.O.G. in Harlem.
Often Weems photographs scenarios in which she appears as a character, creating, for example, the evolution/devolution of a romance in tableaux set around a kitchen table in the series of that name. Or she critiques archival photos, responding, for example, to pictures taken in 1899 at the Hampton Institute, which specialized in assimilating African American and Native American students into white culture.
Certainly photos construct identity and hint at narrative, but Weems is trying to get at things photography can't adequately capture. She talks about imbuing her pictures with a spiritual resonance, or, as she puts it, with "more than simply that which is pictured." It's all about the photo as surface, just a fiction: not just scenarios where everything is set up and posed in the service of a truth that lies outside the frame, but also documentation that tells a partial truth or no truth at all.
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"I've had a long relationship with the idea of Cuba," says Weems. "Am I a defender of the revolution? I don't know. But I am a defender of the people who suffered vastly under Batista." The artist appears in the Cuba photos, as she's appeared in earlier series, not as herself but as a persona. She could easily be mistaken for one of the localshugging a man as he sits at his breakfast, walking a balustrade at an old coffee plantation, turning away from a board game on a table. Invited to contribute to a book called Cuba on the Verge, Weems says, "I couldn't imagine running through Cuba for a couple of weeks pointing my camera aimlessly at people I didn't know." So the breakfast picture, for example, was taken at a home where she was staying. "I woke up one morning and this amazing song was pouring into my room, and I knew that the woman of the house was making breakfast, so I threw on my clothes and rushed out and said, I have to borrow your husband for 10 minutes. "
Weems likes to insinuate herself into a milieu, into a culture, trying, she says, "to pull out its spiritual essence, its aura of history and historical musing." She calls what she does "quasi-documentary," but wants to shoot as an insider. She also included herself in the "Sea Islands" series made in the Gullah communities off the coast of Georgia, home to a very unique culture in which slaves and their descendants managed to preserve some of their Africanisms. But Weems is always looking for the universal in the particular.
She is an African American artist who chooses to work mostly with African American subjects, and if that work isn't seen as relevant to all human beings, it's been racialized. "A part of my project is absolutely inserting the black presence in the world, asserting it as the norm. Not as the abnormal. Not as simply racial politics. But rather, embracing the breadth of this humanity that comes through this brown skin.
"Your selfthat's the beginning point: What does any of this mean to me? If it means something deeply to you, it can be transferred to somebody else, because you are not that different." She adds that when she took the "Sea Islands" series to South Africa, the people installing the show with her thought it was work about South Africa.
For "May Days Long Forgotten" (the last line of her "Ritual and Revolution" poem) at P.P.O.W Chelsea, Weems photographed five little girls. "I've been looking for a young girl who reminded me of myself," she says. A couple of summers ago, not far from her home in Syracuse, Weems saw such a child walking down the street with her mother. Since then, shes been photographing her along with her sisters and cousins. Most of these portraits are framed in ovals or circles like the formal portraits of another century.
One standout is After Manet, which functions as both homage and critique to Edouard Manet's notorious painting, Olympia. Weems wanted to examine the odalisque. In the Manet, of course, it's a nude white woman, who looks unabashedly at the artist/spectator. Behind her, a black maid offers a bouquet of flowers. Weems's version features an unabashed black girl in a flowered dress. Behind her are three other black girls. "I'm very aware of linking my figures to a historical narrative or tradition," says Weems, "and re-examining that tradition by putting in someone who was never there."
On a wall nearby, Weems includes a picture of Versailles with Marie Antoinette's famous rejoinder etched into the glass. "This idea that the revolution is exported from France in order to bring about greater democracy and moves through Haiti and comes back to Cuba and runs the French out of Haiti," says Weems. "It's a crazy circle of movement. These are really poor young girls, and still, echoing through the corridors of history, we have this reverberation of let them eat cake. We're still dealing with the same sort of entity, the same sort of evil."
The girls also circle a maypole in a DVD loop projected on one wall. It's part of a film Weems is now editing called Coming Up for Air, a series of vignettes that examine "the taboos of love, what builds love, what destroys love." One is about Nelson and Winnie Mandela, "a tragedy that could be one of the great operas of all time," says Weems. "It's just so fraught with incredible passion and history."
"I remember looking at the film, thinking, I am so glad to be able to see these people. I was really happy to be part of a project that provided other levels for viewing blackness. I'm a middle-aged woman, so Puff Daddy is not my thing," she laughs, adding that so much of what's available now comes from that "hip-hop/gangster/tits-and-ass place. It's incredibly stereotypic yet and still. So for me to be able to engage in that dialogue as wellhow do I represent differently and empower differently the image of a people who've been historically scorned? Frankly, I think it's one of my greatest successes. I think that I do that very, very well, and that it's through embracing these qualities of our humanity."
"May Days Long Forgotten" and "Dreaming in Cuba," through March 15, at P.P.O.W, 555 West 25th Street, 212-647-1044. Works from 1997 to 2002, also through March 15, at P.P.O.W, 476 Broome Street, 212-941-8642. "A Certain Kind of Love," through March 16, at P.C.O.G., 1902 Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard, 212-932-9669.
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Gait Analysis for Horses
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The various applications of this technology also have grown. One of the prime functions continues to be evaluation of lameness, but it also has been highly important in the field of research; recording, for example, just how the hock joint functions in the working horse.
A leading researcher during this technology growth spurt has been Hilary Clayton, BVMS, PhD, MRCVS, Mary Anne McPhail Dressage Chair in Equine Sports Medicine at Michigan State University.
Another researcher who has helped take the technology to a new level is Kevin Keegan, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVS, associate professor of veterinary medicine and surgery at the University of Missouri. He has pioneered development of a wireless method for recording and analyzing equine movement with the use of inertial sensors.
We'll hear from both of them as they describe progress in the gait analysis field and report on the ways veterinary medicine is using the latest technological advances. Before we do that, however, it would be well to allow Clayton to take us on a little journey through time to chronicle just how these many advances have come about.
In the Beginning
The "journey" begins well before the Swedish researchers began their landmark studies. A man named Leland Stanford, better known as a railroad magnate and the founder of Stanford University in California, also was a racing enthusiast who owned a world record-holding trotting horse named Occident.
Stanford, Clayton tells us, believed that there was an aerial phase to the trot. He hired Eadweard James Muybridge, a landscape photographer, who proved Stanford's point in 1877.
Up to that time, photographic techniques required lengthy exposure times and produced blurry images of moving objects. It had long been acknowledged that the equine limbs moved faster than the human eye could decipher, but there was little in the way of photographic equipment that could do much better.
Muybridge developed photographic plates with faster exposure times, and as a result, presented Stanford with a rather blurry image of Occident in the airborne phase of the trot. Muybridge expanded his work, taking tens of thousands of sequential still photographs of people and animals engaged in various tasks and gaits.
Next came one of his contemporaries, Etienne-Jules Marey, who developed a photographic gun in which the film actually revolved to record a series of pictures. This, Clayton tells us, was the precursor of the cine-camera, which would receive its greatest usage in the motion picture industry. Soon, there was high-speed cinematography and short exposure times that allowed collection of high-quality scientific films that could be analyzed to study gaits and locomotion. But, Clayton says, high-speed cameras were finicky to use, and there was considerable lag time between making the recording and viewing the results. Some of the time element problems were solved with the arrival of videography and the resultant videotapes.
Clayton describes how computers changed the scene: "Analysis of cine-films and videotapes was tedious in the early years, since the process was entirely manual. Computerization has facilitated this process, and today, fully automated systems are available. The motion analysis system at the McPhail Center (at Michigan State) tracks reflective markers on the subject using eight infrared cameras. The cameras are strobed and can be set to record from 60 to 2,000 frames per second. The markers are tracked in three-dimensional space in real time.
"A computer-generated stick figure is produced that can be rotated and zoomed to give a detailed view of the motion from any perspective," Clayton continues. "Interestingly, the primary market for these systems is now the entertainment industry, where they are used in computer animations and video games. With regard to motion analysis, computerization has enabled us to gather vast amounts of data in a short space of time and to perform computational tasks that would have been impossible only a few years ago."
Progress in the gait analysis field received a major boost in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when Swedish researchers led the way in the use of high-speed cinematography to analyze gaits, especially in trotting Standardbreds. The group also pioneered the use of the treadmill, and soon the combination of high-speed cinematography and the treadmill was providing valuable information about how the horse moved. Additional research involving horses on the treadmill yielded data on the horse's breathing patterns during exercise, and it allowed researchers to accurately measure both respiration and heart rate.
Gait analysis spread to other equine research institutions throughout the world. The range of techniques has expanded to include analysis of ground reaction forces using a large force plate, Clayton says, and still other techniques such as electromyography (which measures muscle activation by nerve stimulation, in order to evaluate muscle coordination patterns) and accelerometery (which measures acceleration or vibrations) are becoming almost commonplace.
Clayton's Work
At least some of the progress through the years is attributable to research efforts of Clayton and her colleagues. Some of her early work was done at the University of Saskatchewan, where she served for 15 years as a professor of veterinary anatomy. In July 1997, she returned to Michigan State University, where she previously had a brief tenure as a visiting assistant professor. At Michigan State, Clayton was appointed as the first incumbent of the Mary Anne McPhail Dressage Chair in Equine Sports Medicine. A native of England, Clayton grew up competing in eventing, show jumping, and dressage. She is a certified equestrian coach in both the United Kingdom and in Canada.
The Mary Anne McPhail Equine Performance Center opened on Michigan State's campus in 2000. It is a state-of-the-art center for equine locomotion analysis. It is equipped with a real-time motion analysis system, a 60- by 120-centimeter force plate, a telemetered electromyography system, an electronic saddle pressure mat, and accelerometers and transducers customized to specific applications, such as measuring rein tension during riding.
One of the center's prime features, Clayton believes, is the force plate that is located in a long runway. As the horse crosses the force plate, most often at the trot, the force transmitted when the hoof strikes the surface is measured, recorded, and analyzed.
The key to success with the force plate, she says, is to install one that has appropriate dimensions to record a hit by a single hoof at a time, and is large enough that horses are not tempted to step around it. A number of research institutions, she says, have installed force plates, but only one, the University of Zurich, has a force place integrated into a treadmill.
(The force plate at the McPhail Center is installed in a concrete pit below the surface of the runway. The runway and the force plate are covered with a rubberized material, so there is no change in surface texture when the horse crosses the plate.)
Data from the force plate is combined with data from the high-speed cameras to provide a complete analytical picture of the horse in motion.
The Hock
An area of research in which the sophisticated equipment at the McPhail Center has been utilized involves the study of the equine hock.
"We have performed a series of studies," Clayton says, "designed to characterize the motion of the tarsus (hock) in three dimensions, to determine how much of the motion is occurring at the distal (lower) joints, and to evaluate how the motion changes due to lameness."
Here, in Clayton's words, is part of what the researchers learned:
"The 3-D studies showed that during the stance phase (when the hoof is on the ground), the hock flexed through an average of 11 degrees, which was similar to the values found in previous two-dimensional studies. In addition, the cannon bone was abducted (rotated away from the midline) through 3 degrees and internally rotated 1.5 degrees. At the same time, the cannon bone slid forward and sideways relative to the tibia (the bone above the hock joints that underlies the gaskin).
"During the swing phase of the stride (when the hoof is swinging forward), the hock joint underwent a considerably larger range of motion than during the stance phase," she continued. "It flexed through 45 degrees, abducted through 10 degrees, and externally rotated through 5 degrees. At the same time, the cannon slid forward and sideways relative to the tibia."
There was a great deal more involved in the research than what was succinctly summed up in Clayton's comments, but one of the practical findings can help veterinarians predict what horses are at risk for bone spavin.
"We studied the mechanical effects of synovitis (inflammation of the joint lining) of the distal joints of the hock, which may precede the development of bone spavin (degenerative arthritis of the hock's lower joints)," Clayton said. "Horses with synovitis showed a significant decrease in range of tarsal flexion, and in the amount of forward sliding of the cannon bone relative to the tibia during stance. The reduced sliding motion might result in repetitive loading on a focal area of articular cartilage, which may lead to the development of osteoarthritis."
All of the above raise additional questions. For example, what role does shoeing play in maintaining hock soundness? Do certain types of shoes become a causative factor, or can appropriate shoes help prevent potential problems? The research answered many questions, but, at the same time, raised more.
Clayton and her colleagues also are studying the knee (carpus), fetlock, pastern, and coffin joints in an effort to better understand the ranges of motion and coordination between different joints in relation to preserving the animal's good health and soundness.
From Lab to Field
To date, much of the research and resultant findings on gait analysis have been confined to research institutions. One of the challenges is to find ways in which the technology can be transferred to the veterinarian in the field. It simply isn't practical for the average equine veterinarian to own his or her own treadmill.
Keegan believes that he and colleagues at the University of Missouri might have found a way to incorporate the latest in gait analysis technology into the average equine veterinarian's repertoire. He describes it as a system that requires only a few minutes of preparation time, but it yields results that are as accurate as those obtained when using the treadmill and high-speed photography.
It works something like this, according to Keegan: Battery-powered tranducers, slightly smaller than a matchbook and weighing only a few grams, are attached in four spots on the horse's body--one at the poll, one at the point of the croup or pelvis, one on the right front leg, and one on the right rear leg. The transducers at the poll and croup are attached with adhesive and Velcro, while those on the legs are secured with a leg wrap, to cut down on vibration and to make sure they stay in place.
The horse is then moved out at the trot. This can be done on a longe line or while trotted in a straight line. The transducers have a range of about 300 yards. Because they weigh 25 grams at most, they do not effect the horse's way of going, even though two of them are attached to legs.
The transducers actually are accelerometers and gyroscopes that measure acceleration and angular velocity during each stride. This information is then transmitted to a receiver on a laptop computer containing software programmed to record and analyze precisely what is happening at each phase of the stride. A key advantage, Keegan says, is that wireless technology is involved, meaning that no wires or cables are needed to record or transmit the information.
Signals at the rate of 200 per second are recorded and transmitted by the tiny transducers and, when analyzed by computer, pinpoint which leg is affected and when during the stride peak pain occurs.
Much of the research using this method has been completed at the University of Missouri, Keegan says, and the next step is to move into the commercial field, so the units can be made available to equine veterinarians. At the moment, only two units exist, he says, and both are handmade. The University of Missouri holds licensing rights to the equipment, but efforts are being made to form a private company for manufacturing and marketing.
Take-Home Message
Great progress has been made in a short time in the field of gait analysis. Perhaps the most exciting aspect is that the stage is set for continued and accelerated progress in the future.
About the Author
Les Sellnow
Les Sellnow is a free-lance writer based near Riverton, Wyo. He specializes in articles on equine research, and operates a ranch where he raises horses and livestock. He has authored several fiction and non-fiction books, including Understanding Equine Lameness and Understanding The Young Horse, published by Eclipse Press and available at www.exclusivelyequine.com or by calling 800/582-5604.
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- 2 having the same rights or being treated the same as other people, without differences such as race, religion or sex being considered equal rights/pay The company has an equal opportunities policy (= gives the same chances of employment to everyone). the desire for a more equal society (= in which everyone has the same rights and chances) You can use more with equal in this meaning. Wordfinderbias, discriminate, equal, feminism, homophobia, human right, marginalize, persecute, race, society See related entries: Social justice
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ships quickly, but the lack of instructions makes set up kind of a pain. There's a youtube video that explains it really well, but it may take you a while. Almost got this from the arizer store, but they were more expensive and I had to pay for shipping. Vapor Nation is a cool company, and I'm probably going to come back for all my vape needs.
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very good product with good features and good quality and very good delivery timing, very good enterprise, with good loyalty services
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Everything was exactly as it should be, no cheap parts or cut corners. Delivery time was acceptable if not good. I would suggest anyone using vapo's change your bags very frequently, this is cheap and if you use it for medical it will cause less CBD's to be absorbed into the bags sticky interior (sticky after time) and more medicine to be delivered.
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Very well made. Shipped as promised. I used to order these from Canada but I will definitely be ordering all of my parts from this company from now on. The screens are well worth it!
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They are bags. There isn't much to say, except that ours degrade quickly and we have problems with leaks at the seam of the bags. Other than that, they're great.
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I wish i could change my name -_-
Self proclaimed Japanophile, and オタク.i love animes that make me cry like a little baby, and that have wounderfull soundtracs. When i hear a sound track off of an anime like fma or clannad i just start crying XD. i love music and if its japanese it makes it 2x as cool, so my hard drive is full of anime ost's.I love anime what ellse is there to say?... check out my pro on myspace.com/exiledwolf ^_^my pro on the forum http://www.anime-planet.com/forum/member.php?u=15739
.crunchyroll.com/users/TheVampirelastatace.com/mastershakeerkgaiaonline-I watch anime mostly when i have nothing better 2 do. but this isnt always the case, i have on rare occasion blown off friends and other things to watch certain anime.Like on fridays when i know an ep. might be subbed there have been times were i have told ple i didnt want todo any thing so that i could watch clannad~A.S.~. But for the most part, i try not to watch it in all of my free time.Because if i let it entrap me like i have b4, i will most likely lose all my friends and be a loser lol.you may say well "he has no right to call himself an otaku" if i dont dedicate my time to it. Well i must dissagree, the way i feel when i watch anime(good 1s) and when i see things related to anime begs to differ.Not to mention(although i am mentioning it XD) i have a FMA "flamel" tat on my wrist for the world 2 see that i love anime. http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=21370704&albumID=50598&imageID=69117158
But yeah if you love to discuss anime plz talk to me and add me on myspace i love talking to fellow otaku.
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Hmm bout your spacing problem, is it coz u typing spaces instead of pressing enter?
Coz spaces dont wont if u have them in a huge row (ill trying here:) i dont know if that just did anything, lol
Any ways, i jsut use the ENTER for spacing to the next line, i think thats what u trying to do, so give that a go, otherwise i dunno... >.<
Oh yeah, i am chinese, and ive lived in New Zealand for like 13 years, but i go back to HK alot, so im keep in good contact with both countries ^.^
Ah, i can get into your myspace now!! ^.^ Ill give it a close look later, but i like your hair, combovers/fringes are great, thats like my hair too, cept mines not as long (Coz i find it gets too hots and such)
Lol, by dealers u mean druggies? XD
Oh and yeah, i was reading all the flaming bout the Sora no Otoshimono review... >.<
Cya later~ hope u can space your stuff soon ^.^
Oh yeah, i saw that in the review section.... >.<
Hey, the chart for next season's shows just came out:
I sooooooo wanna see what B Gata H Kei is gonna be about XD
OH and good news for you: K-On! 2 is coming out!!! XD More moe-moe-kyun~ <3 XD
Hey there Lastet.
Noticed you've been having a bit of a barney with a friend of mine. While you've tried to be nice about it, and you are entitled to your opinion, here's the headline story:
You're way off the mark
I know Kira pretty well, and - believe me - she loves her ecchi. They're designed as self-insertion fantasy for lonely males, sure, but that's not to say that she can't appreciate them as much - or even more - than blokes. It's got nothing to do with gender or sexuality or anything of the sort, and belittling her opinion as that of a "chick" is offensive. Totally and utterly offensive. Reviewers write stuff in their spare time, ouut of the goodness of their hearts, and don't need shit like that. In sum, you're basically saying to her "I know what you like and don't like better than you do" which, if you'll pardon my French, is abso-fecking-lutely shitting ridiculous. You're wrong; acknowledge that and stop digging.
Additionally, I think your fanfiction could use a little work. Primarily the spelling mistakes but also the everything else.
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I really think you have missed the point of my comments.
Yes, I may be female, but that does *not* mean I cannot enjoy ecchi. In fact, I know of many straight females who love perversion as much as I do. The genre is not just aimed at perverted japanese men, and the change in storylines is definitely starting to reflect this. Older anime (such as 1+2 = paradise) is nothing but crude, whereas Nyan Koi is utterly hilarious and has some great characters (as my review of it reflects).
And as to straight guys not liking yaoi, I think you have missed the mark once more. Just because *you* don't like it doesn't mean others are the same. A few (straight) guys I recommended Junjou Romatica to really enjoyed it because of the story.
My comment about having watched more was simply to make the point that I have more material against which to mark a show. And the enjoyment comment? That was simply comparing my ratings to yours. I'm sorry you seem to be threatened by a female who can enjoy something perverted as much (although, more than likely more) than you do.
It is unfortunate that you seem quite so narrow minded on this matter, as your comments seem to have upset quite a few people :(


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Ch 1 \"Oh my gosh mom.He's really gone,huh?\"Nicole cried.\"Yeah,sweetie.Yeah...\"Ms.Daylong said.Nicole cried in her mother arms.Her dad left them 2 months ago,her mom miscarried her little brother 1 month ago,and now her best friend died in a car accident.Ms.Daylong cries too.A whole family was being buried.4 people.Susan and Michael Charming.Their 2 kids,Dianna and Nicole's best friend,Oliver.After the funeral,they went home where her twin big brothers were.\"C'mere,Nikki.\"Her older brother Aden said.She went to him and hugged him,and then her brother Jason came.Then her mom.They all cried.Dianna was Jason's girlfriend,and Oliver was in football with Aden.Susan was in Ms.Daylongs club for struggling moms.At night,when Nicole went to bed,she heard something.She heard...Oliver.\"Come be with me!Bring our children!\"He would say.\"Oliver,we are not married!I dont have kids!\"She would say.Oliver always dreamed if marrying Nicole and raising a family.But,Nicole always like Max Seasons.The whispering continued for the next year.One day,she thought she saw Oliver.He was sitting on a bench across from her,but when the bus went by,he was gone,and a young man was there.The same young man.When Nicole turned 20,6 years later,she lived with her boyfriend,Rodger.\"Rodger,do you see that boy outside?\"She asked him.\"What boy?\"He asked.\"I'm calling Hailey.\"She said.She grabbed the phone and dialed the last 8 before Hailey answered.?Hailey!I saw Oliver!\"She said frantically.\"Niki,I know you miss him,but he's gone.\"Hailey said.\"No,Hail!I saw Oliver!I've seen and heard him for the last 6 years since the accident!\"She yelled.Rodger walked in.\"Nikki,what's wrong?\"He asked.She hung up and walked out the door,slamming it.She walked to the boy that was sitting outside.\"Go,get out.\"She said.\"Ma'am,I have nowhere to go,I-\"He stuttered.\"NO!GO ON!\"She yelled.The young boy,probably about 15,ran off.\"Nikki,what in the world was that!?!?\"Rodger yelled.\"That was Oliver.\"She admitted.\"Babe,Oliver died a long time ago.\"He comforted.\"No!No!Its Oliver Charming!Its Oliver!I cant-I-I see him everywhere!\"she screamed.Rodgers eyes almost popped out.\"So,you love him more than me?\"He asked.\"No,Rodger,and you can't be like my dad and leave your pregnant girlfriend alone!You just cant!\"She yelled.Rodger went to bed,and so did Nicole.But,Nicole's water broke.She and Rodger scrambled to the Hospital.The doctor was Rodgers Ex-girlfriend,and the nurse was Oliver's cousin.But,she knew Oliver was with her when she was in labor for 18 hours.She gave birth to Bailey Chloe-Veronica Mills.Oliver was with Bailey,too.Because Bailey has a birthmark right where Oliver had his.A small dark spot on his left wrist.
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This project provides Targeted Literacy Intervention instruction for low-income youth, who have been identified as struggling readers or at risk of not meeting their appropriate grade level benchmark goals. These programs for the 2012-2013 program year are being offered through Literacy Centers which operate within two similar models; 1) in after school settings located at six Boys & Girls Club facilities across the Portland metro area, and 2) through an in-school pullout program in partnership with Portland Public schools, for students enrolled at Rosa Parks elementary school and serve a targeted group of more than 240 elementary-aged youth enrolled in second through fifth grades.
Providing early Literacy intervention is critical to impact the academic success of youth who demonstrate signs of struggling in the areas of reading and writing. Longitudinal studies show that among children who struggle with reading in the third grade, 74% remain struggling readers in the ninth grade. For this reason, the Literacy Centers provide these targeted literacy intervention program specifically designed to address the needs of elementary-aged youth, offering literacy instruction through a multisensory approach, which incorporates the three main modalities oif learning; visual, auditory, and kinesthetic movement.
Each of the Literacy Centers is operated by a trained certified Instructor who has completed or is in the process of completing a degree in elementary education or similar studies, and has also completed extensive training in the Slingerland Multisensory Approach to Language Arts. Literacy instructors develop hour-long lesson plans for small groups of 8 to 12 children that are both age and skill appropriate. Multiple small groups rotate into the Centers throughout the program day. Each Center conducts three to four small group sessions Monday through Friday. In the Portland area, poverty is the single greatest risk factor impacting child's school preparedness, and once enrolled in school there are a number of factors that continue to impede their success:
• Only 40% of children living in poverty graduate
• Young people of minority are five times more likely to drop out
• Children from single parent homes are almost twice as likely to drop out.
Additionally, it is possible to project with better than 80% accuracy that a third grader will later drop out of school based on any of the above factors, or due to the fact that the child is reading below grade level or has had to repeat a grade.
These contributing factors impact the vast majority of children who attend the Portland Clubs. From among our 14 Club sites, 12 of our locations reside within the poorest and lowest socio-economic and educational attainment areas of Portland. These communities experience high crime rates, increasing gang activity and violence, including drive by shootings that have even taken the lives of some of our own Club members in the past few years. At these locations, as many as 90% of children come from low-income families, nearly 84% of members are minorities, and nearly 60% come from single parent homes.
Currently in Portland, less than 59% of teens attending Portland Public Schools are graduating. To impact these devastating numbers, we must target children who show early signs of struggling with basic literacy skill development. Without proficient reading skills, many of these children are doomed to lifelong hardship with little potential for occupational, economic and social advancement. They are more likely to become a teen parent, end up in prison and suffer from persistent health problems. The aggressive and innovative approaches utilized by the Literacy Centers are designed to prevent and remediate reading difficulties for these children, providing them renewed hope and a foundation for the future.
Through the development of a Best Practices model, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Portland Metropolitan Area is designing a program that can be replicated in Clubs and afterschool programs across the nation. The implementation and delivery of these programs has included the collaboration of many local and national Guideline Fit partners. Some of these partners include: the Slingerland Institute (Bellevue, WA}, providing staff training and resources;
and Parks Elementary School, where BGCP operates an in-school literacy pull out program; iStation (Richardson Texas), providing online innovative educational programs; the International Dyslexia Association, providing support and resources; the University of Oregon, Yale University, Harvard School of Education and many other experts in the field of youth education. Outreach efforts include partnerships with schools throughout Multnomah, Washington, Clackamas and Clark Counties, which are feeder schools for Club membership.
During the program year, a minimum total of 240 youth enrolled in 2nd through 5th grades will be tracked for outcome measurements through the Targeted Literacy Intervention programs. The following are the anticipated outcomes which are expected to be achieved in the 2012-2013 program year.
2nd graders will demonstrate the following outcomes; 80% are expected to demonstrate reading proficiency gains of 25% or greater. Among 2nd graders overall an expected gain of 70% in reading proficiency is anticipated.
3rd graders will demonstrate the following outcomes; 70% are expected to demonstrate reading proficiency gains of 25% or greater. Among 3rd graders overall an expected gain of 50% in reading proficiency is anticipated.
4th graders will demonstrate the following outcomes; 65% are expected to demonstrate reading proficiency gains of 25% or greater. Among 4th graders overall an expected gain of 40% in reading proficiency is anticipated.
5th graders will demonstrate the following outcomes; 50% are expected to demonstrate reading proficiency gains of 25% or greater. Among 5th graders overall an expected gain of 43% in reading proficiency is anticipated.
An outline of the assessment periods that will occur throughout the year is provided below.
Pre-test - in the fall participants will take part in in two types of assessments: 1) DIBELS testing (Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills) will measure the Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) scores of all participants. 2) Slingerland Screening assessments will be provided to participants for the purpose of identifying each child's abilities in the areas of auditory, visual and kinesthetic modalities; critical to the development of strong literacy skills.
Mid-year-test - in the winter each participant will take part in mid-year DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency testing to gauge their progress 3 to 4 months into the program year.
Post-test - in the spring each youth will take part in two final year-end assessments, which repeat the pre testing that was administered at the start of the program year: 1) The first assessment is DIBELS testing, and provides a final (year-end) ORF score for all participants. 2) The second assessment involves a final Slingerland Screening teslThe outcome of these screenings is useful as a comparison to the tests performed at the start of the year to demonstrate a child's growth in the areas of visual, audio or kinesthetic learning processes.
Participant scores will be tracked through the use of the DIBELS database system provided by the University of Oregon to demonstrate achievements of participants throughout the program year. Outcomes of youth achievements will be reported in July/August of 2013.
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We have the pleasure of reaching out to you with some wonderful news and updates on our work in Liberia!
As you know, in January and May of this year, the women at the THINK home for survivors of sexual violence, engaged in a participatory photography project, led by PCI Media Impact, telling their stories through photographs in response to the question, "What does it mean to be a woman in Liberia?" Their candid stories were published on the Backspaces website and in beautifully designed Photobooks. The act of telling their stories serves as a form of therapy and the photos galvanize discussion in the country and abroad.
We have also been working closely with one of Liberia's most renowned Hip-Co artists, Takun J, with whom we have produced two songs and this music video, as part of an integrated transmedia campaign to tackle gender-based violence in the country.
As a result of this video and Takun J's activism, Liberia's Ministry of Gender and Development this year officially named Takun J as the country's Anti-Rape Ambassador.
Takun J's "Song for Hawa" was based on the true stories of girls at the THINK home. In May, our team launched his brand new anti-rape EP and hosted an anti-rape event in Monrovia, attended by the Liberian Minister of Gender and Development. This highly successful event engaged local partners, representatives from NGOs, community members and activists in a collective effort to reconsider shifting social norms about rape and reporting.
Several students from the THINK home shared emotional words about the impact that Takun J and PCI Media Impact's Photovoice project has had on their lives:
"Photovoice helped us in many ways. It is a project that helps those who are not heard to be heard." –THINK student
"As a Liberian I have a responsibility to do something important with this experience. Not everyone gets this chance." –THINK student
We are now seeking continued funding to partner with UNICEF and design an even more comprehensive social change strategy, which will leverage the existing Photovoice project as well as mobile technology and marketing, Anti-Rape music, a second video, a comic book, and school/community visits to build an even stronger campaign that reaches across Liberia with a range of local and international partners.
It's time for the culture of violence to change, and for a new social narrative to begin, one that celebrates and empowers girls and women.
Thank you for your support in this endeavor and for your commitment to improving the lives of young women in Liberia!
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New Year's Eve in Sydney!
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We spent a day visiting the Blue Mountains on the outskirts of Sydney. They are blue mountains because of the blue haze over them although there is some dispute over why they this happens. One school of thought is that it is because of the eucaplyptus trees and the other is that it because of the rock, however there is a blue haze over them whatever the reason. We went to the landmark of the Three Sisters where there were many tourists taking photos but we enjoyed the drive back on the less touristy route and found the scenery equally impressive.
Two days before New Year's Eve we visited Sydney itself where we walked around the Circular Quay and saw the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. We had seen the Opera House when we flew in on the plane and we agreed it looked more spectacular from above, or maybe it just looked more like the photos we have seen as it is hard to appreciate the whole building when you are on the same level as it.
The quay was a hive of activity as fences and portaloos were being put in place for the New Year celebrations in a couple of days time. It was at this point we decided to change our plans and stay at home for New Year's Eve as the prospect of pushing a buggy through hoards of drunken revellers didn't inspire us.
As a consequence of our visit to the harbour we spent the night at our lodgings and anticipated fireworks at local parties that we might watch from the windows. At midnight we watched the fireworks at the harbour on the television and although we could not see the fireworks, we could feel the rumbling of the special effects which were like thunder and lightning. The fireworks at the harbour only lasted 10 minutes, and although no doubt spectacular, we were rather glad to be at home. As for the local fireworks, we have never heard such a deafening silence on New Year's Eve! Not a party as far as the eye could see and the ear could hear! So possibly one of the quietest New Year's Eves we've ever spent, or likely to in future!
We also visited the Botanical Gardens at Sydney and while the plants were interesting, the most fascinating part for us was looking at the flying foxes sleeping in the trees and the possom (or we think it was!) asleep in an ornamental pillar!
It is easy to get excited by the wildlife in Australia because it is very different from the wildlife in England. On first arrival in Australia, driving to the house, Yvonne got over-excited about a kookaburra sitting on a lamp post! Seeing ibis (or is it ibises) sitting on the roof of the house takes you aback to start with and we saw sulphur crested parakeets flying in the wild. We observed an excellent symbiotic relationship between some cows and large white birds where the cows were grazing and each cow had a bird by its side. We supposed that the cow disturbed insects as it pulled on the grass but we also thought there might be issues of shade as it was very hot.
When you drive around and see the yellow and black kangaroo warning signs you hope to see some by the roadside and, probably fortunately, this doesn't happen much, if at all. We saw two kangaroos in the wild but they were within a wire fence on defence range so weren't vulnerable to road accidents. Sadly we have seen
some kangaroo and koala roadkill, so they do venture on to the roads at times.
Of course our favourite creatures are the insects! Even in built up clean areas of towns and cities there are cockroaches and to find our little friends sitting on the doorstep or on the door frame when you step out into the garden at night is slightly unnerving!
We also spent many days going down to the beaches and visited Maroubra beach which was close to the house but was less calm and has small lifeguarded areas but had some big surfing waves coming in.
We finally made it to Bondi Beach on a blustery and cloudy day and decided that whilst it had wonderful sand and fantastic rollers, we were probably better off on Malabar beach.
It now feels a little bit more like a very hot English summer here as we have found it strange that in Thailand and Malaysia the sun goes down at about 6pm on a hot summer's day when it would normally set a lot later in England. Now we are further away from the equator it feels normal to have the sun setting at 8 to 9pm!
D's ongoing quest for McDonalds! - Due to the easy availablity of McDonalds in Australia it has no longer become a quest so D is now eating a more varied diet!
Singapore Flyer footnote! - The Singapore Flyer caught on fire a few days after we went on it and people were trapped in the pods for up to 12 hours. We would like to state that it was not the engines burning out due to the excess stress of having to bear the Yvonne and D's weight but it does add up to this trail of misfortune that seems to be following us around!


text: Sports Cards Can Still Make You Rich, PatheticDashiell Bennett11/19/09 10:15amFiled to: CardsMichael JordanBasketball cardsNbaCard collecting71EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Two private card collectors swapped a pristine Michael Jordan rookie card and a $200,000 check, but wait until you hear what exciting plans the new owner of the card has in store. Absolutely nothing! Advertisement The card, a 1986-87 Fleer, is one of only two of its kind to receive a perfect "10 Pristine" rating from Beckett Grading Services and is now owned by Georgia investor Sean Storms. (Yeah, right. Like we're supposed to believe that name isn't made up.) Storms is now desperate to find the second card so that he can pair them together like a set of red kings—and then never let anyone look at them again."It won't see the light of day for at least 10 years, maybe 15," he said. "I'm very excited to have the card."Wow, that's ... fun? My baseball card collection is also excitedly collecting dust, yet somehow my 16 Tim Pyznarski "Future Stars" cards are still completely worthless. Advertisement Perfect Michael Jordan Rookie Card sells for $200,000 [The Beckett Blog]Reply71 repliesLeave a reply


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The swine flu pandemic of 2009 killed an estimated 284,500 people, about 15 times the number that was confirmed by laboratory tests at the time, a new study has revealed.
The study, by a group of scientists, said the toll might have been even higher - about 579,000 people. The original count, compiled by the World Health Organization, had put the number of deaths at 18,500.
Those were only the deaths confirmed by lab test, which the WHO warned was a gross underestimate because the deaths of people without access to health system go uncounted, and as the virus is not always detectable after a victim dies.
The study, led by Dr Fatimah Dawood of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also shows the pandemic's impact varied widely by region, with 51% of swine flu deaths occurring in Africa and southeast Asia, which account for only 38% of the world's population.
"This pandemic really did take an enormous toll," Stuff.co.nz quoted Dawood as saying. "Results also suggest how best to deploy resources. If a vaccine were to become available, we need to ensure it reached the areas where the death toll is likely to be highest."


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Hours after police released photographs of the Boston marathon bombing suspects, a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled his Mercedes SUV over to the side of the road in suburban Boston, across the Charles river from Cambridge, to answer a text message.
The next 90 minutes were to be the most harrowing of his life, as he was taken hostage by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the two brothers seeking to escape the dragnet that covered the whole city.
The car-jacking victim, who asked to be referred to as "Danny", has spoken for the first time about his ordeal, revealing how the brothers discussed girls, whether anyone still listened to CDs, payments on the stolen car and driving to New York as the FBI searched for them.
It was nearly 11 pm, soon after Sean Collier, an MIT campus police officer, was shot in his car. Only hours earlier, officials had released images showing the brothers at the site of the bombings. They had not been named when an old sedan stopped behind Danny's SUV and 26-year-old Tamerlan came up to the passenger window. When Danny lowered the window, the suspect reached inside, unlocked the door and climbed in. He was carrying a handgun and told Danny: "Don't be stupid." He asked if he had heard about the bombings, and then said: "I did that … And I just killed a policeman in Cambridge."
The suspect asked Danny how much cash he had. When he found it was a mere $45, he told him to drive. Dzhokhar, 19, followed in the sedan.
Speaking to The Boston Globe, Danny said they crossed the Charles and pulled up on a side street in the suburb of Watertown, where the brothers moved heavy objects from the sedan to the Mercedes. When they began driving again, Tamerlan was behind the wheel, with Danny in the passenger seat and Dzhokhar behind him. The hostage attempted to play down his wealth, telling Tamerlan that he was just a student from China who had been there for around a year, and understating the payments on his car. "Oh, that's why your English is not very good," Tamerlan said at one point. "OK, you're Chinese… I'm a Muslim."
The car stopped again so that Dzhokhar could withdraw money from an ATM. He heard the brothers – immigrants of Chechen origin – converse in a foreign language. Danny heard the word "Manhattan" before he was asked whether his car could be driven to New York.
They drove around the area, leaving Watertown, and Tamerlan asked Danny to switch on the radio. The suspect went through the stations and seemed to be avoiding the news.
He asked if Danny had any CDs, which he hadn't. They returned to the parked sedan in Watertown and grabbed some things, putting on an instrumental CD in Danny's car that sounded to him like a call to prayer, according to The Globe.
Once, when Danny's phone rang, Tamerlan said: "If you say a single word in Chinese, I will kill you right now." The carjack victim's chance to escape finally came when the brothers were forced to stop at a filling station in Cambridge because the SUV was running low on fuel. When Dzhokhar headed inside to pay with cash, Danny jumped out before Tamerlan could respond. He ran across to another petrol station, where the attendant dialled 911. Police arrived within minutes, and were soon on the tail of the suspects, who could be tracked using Danny's iPhone and a satellite system in the SUV.
Tamerlan was killed shortly afterwards. Dzhokhar was captured on Friday night and has since been charged with crimes that could carry the death penalty.
Tsarnaev sent to medical detention site
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect was released today from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention centre.
The US Marshals Service said Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center overnight and was taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston.
The facility, on the decommissioned Fort Devens US Army base, treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialised long-term medical or mental health care. Tsarnaev, 19, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat, and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway.
Tsarnaev and his brother had planned to blow up the rest of their explosives in Times Square, New York, authorities said.
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Forum Posts, Moderating, Reporting, etc. 12/20/2016The Report function of the forum works well. If you see someone acting up, acting out, or just being an okole, use the Report function. It works! I have it set up so it not only sends me an email, but that email is then marked with a flag, and get's put to the top of my email list. I will try to access/look at the report/topic as soon as possible, but remember, I'm on a six hour time delay, and other mods not only have a life, but a real job as well. k den
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8 Signs You're on a Southern Porch Posted by: Aaron Stearns | 0 Comments
For reasons I don't entirely understand (mostly, because I don't care to), Americans other than Southerners think they know what a porch is. In my experience, however, nothing could be further from the truth. A concrete square outside the backdoor where the trashcan resides is just that – a concrete spot. Three steps up to the front and/or backdoor is a stoop, not a porch. Similarly, a covered balcony as wide as my hips with tastefully-selected foliage and multi-thousand-dollar furnishings is, well, just ostentatious.
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So just what is a proper porch? Well, the Internet – that source of all knowledge – says the word "porch" is derived from the Latin word for "passage." Fitting, since you pass the time, seasons, moods and memories of your life there. The makeup of a porch is an external area of the main structure. It may or may not be enclosed by screening, lattice or windows, but they all have some sort of roof to keep the sun, rain and leaves off of you.
Like most other things intrinsically Southern, you know a porch when you see one. Or have one. Or are on one. For those who aren't quite sure, or who think they do but don't really, here are some signs to let you know if you are, in fact, on the real thing. (All apologies to Jeff Foxworthy for this.)
1. If you have utilized folding chairs or your old sofa, dining room chairs, lawn furniture or patio bench to furnish your outdoor living space, you're on a Southern porch.
2. If, as a form of entertainment, you've challenged your guests to see how many flies they can swat, you're on a Southern porch.
3. If whatever you are eating and/or drinking tastes infinitely better once you step outside, sit down and put your feet up, you're on a Southern porch.
4. If you look forward to spending summer months outside, you're on a Southern porch.
5. If the kids (or rambunctious adults) track dirt, dogs or other detritus in front of you, and all you do is laugh, you're on a Southern porch.
6. If your daughter lingers a bit too long on her date, but you aren't worried because you know she's back home but just outside, she's on a Southern porch.
7. If you hang your most outrageous art, stack old-school board games across the floor and eschew footwear whenever you're in the area, you're on a Southern porch.
8. If everyone you know and love wants to come to your house and hang out outside, you're on a Southern porch. Why? Because fellowship is the reason for a porch. Sitting together, watching children play, chatting with neighbors, communing with your spirit. The porch is where you can do all these things. Perhaps that is the best way to tell if you are on one.
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Because of her love of pie, KD Reep now follows a high protein/low carb diet. When not reading up on the carb counts of groceries, Reep works at Flywrite Communications, Inc., the premier marketing communications agency of Mabelvale, Arkansas. Follow her at Flywrite Inc or on Twitter: @kdreep.