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Do you have a story to tell? Most of us do, and in today's increasingly connected world, folks all over are finding new and inventive ways to share their experiences. What's more, most are finding that the introspection that comes with the process is just as rewarding as the reactions from friends and family to their tales. Today, storytelling is more visual than it's ever been, with scrapbooking, blogging and online videos as popular media. Taking an old-fashioned pen to paper is still popular, too, and is often the first step. And, remember, the beginning isn't always the best place to start. Here are some tips to get your story flowing.
Get organized. Start to compile your thoughts on notecards or in a notebook. On separate cards or pages, jot down just one topic area and underline it. Ideas include:
Pick a personal interest that's a good metaphor for your personality. Don't worry about arranging these in any order. Review them and start writing sentences and phrases about each topic on the same page. Go back and expand on these ideas, then select and expand the stories that are worth telling. Common themes will emerge. If you enjoy writing about it, consider it a sign it's a story worth telling.
Get your stuff together. Gather your photos, memorabilia, documents, maybe even old report cards and letters to help support and add visual interest to your tales. Begin grouping these items by your topic area on your cards or pages and attach with paper clips. Give yourself a lot of room by spreading everything out to review. A book will begin to emerge as the cards and pages grow. Go back and add a few more paragraphs, phrases or key words to jog your memory on these various topics.
Follow your own cues. If you notice yourself going back to rework and write about particular topics, these are probably the best ones on which to base your story. If you find them interesting, others will, too.
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Don't tell everything. Stick to the highlights and leave parts to your audience's imagination. Do movies usually show people taking out the garbage or changing light bulbs? If it doesn't move your story along, or worse, keeps it from being interesting, then drop it. Develop a theme and include only those details and highlights that move that theme forward.
Share it. There are so many options for presenting your story. Online photo and book making services are relatively affordable. Or you can use the camera on your computer or phone to record yourself reading the story. Scrapbooking is still pretty popular, too, and new social media sites like Pinterest and Instagram have taken the scrapbook online. There are many, many websites, online tools and books available on how to approach telling the stories that add up to your life.


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Earlham has a rich and long-standing connection to the Middle East, including the distinguished peacemaking efforts in the region by our former college president Landrum Bolling, our past study abroad program in Jerusalem and our continuing relationship with the Ramallah Friends School. With support from the Mellon Foundation and others, Earlham offers an interdisciplinary set of courses focused on the Middle East, both on and off campus.
Courses in Religion, Politics, History, Music, Arabic language, and more educate students to understand the modern Middle East in its historical, cultural and religious complexity and in practical terms, both broadly and through in-depth study of particular regions, themes and cultural practices. These course offerings form an interconnected web of learning opportunities about the region.
The Arabic language courses combine Modern Standard and Levantine colloquial Arabic. This model enables students to engage verbally with the local population in our study site in Jordan and with Arabic speakers on campus. In addition, it provides them with instruction in the written language common to the Arabic-speaking world.
Our current off-campus study program, based in Amman, Jordan, introduces students to the diversity, commonalities and trends that shape the modern Middle East. Through a focus on civil society, contemporary religion, conflict resolution and language, program participants grapple with the complexities of the region.
Students wishing to pursue an academic focus in Middle East Studies may do so in a variety of ways:
In spring semester of her junior year Winona Hawker-Boehnke'14 went on an off-campus program to Jordan to learn more about the U.S. role in the Middle East. Earlham has about 20 off-campus programs located throughout the world, allowing students a remarkable opportunity to get more out of their education beyond just what they learn in a classroom.
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I have never met or heard of anyone with an impulse to such a thing. Nor do I believe there is a conspiracy to effect this.
It may be an unintentional consequence of western society, but I don't believe it is the driving impulse.
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The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights is a flagship programme of the Centre for Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway. It offers a unique opportunity for in-depth study of the gender dimensions of globalisation and global issues, through an interdisciplinary programme that combines the fields of.
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The MA in Gender, Globalisation and Rights is a flagship programme of the Centre for Global Women's Studies at NUI Galway. It offers a unique opportunity for in-depth study of the gender dimensions of globalisation and global issues, through an interdisciplinary programme that combines the fields of: gender and women's studies, international development, human rights, and peace and conflict studies. Students acquire the theoretical, conceptual and practical tools needed to apply a gender perspective and undertake gender analyses in relevant domains of practice and employment at local, national and international levels, as well as for advanced research at doctoral level and beyond. In addition to modules on globalisation, development, human rights, gender and feminist theory, health and sexuality, women in agriculture, historical perspectives, and peace and conflict, skills-based modules are offered in research methods, applied gender analysis and empowerment. Students also have the opportunity to undertake an accredited, two-month professional placement with a relevant organisation working on issues related to programme themes.
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MA in Culture and Colonialism
National University of Ireland, Galway
School of Humanities
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The MA in Culture and Colonialism explores literature, politics and culture from Ireland to India, from Africa to the Middle East.
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Multicultural, Multi-Disciplinary MA
The MA in Culture and Colonialism explores literature, politics and culture from Ireland to India, from Africa to the Middle East. Students analyse imperial ascendancies, race and racial theories, nationalist movements, postcolonial experiences, the rise of neo-colonial thought, multiculturalism and interculturalism, and the implications of globalisation and development for the modern world.
This MA allows students to combine the specialisation of postgraduate research with the adaptable skills training of a multi-disciplinary approach. Students benefit from the legacy of an MA programme established in 1994; the programme has continuously re-invented itself in changing ideological climates while maintaining its primary goal: to offer a critical education in the cultural discourses of power.
MA in Culture and Colonialism graduates have gone on to careers in development work, NGOs, law, university lecturing, publishing, media, journalism, community work, teaching (primary and secondary), film-making, advertising, and the Civil Service. The programme has a particularly strong record in research training: a high proportion of its students have proceeded to doctoral programmes in Ireland, Britain and North America, with many of them winning prestigious funding awards.
Teaching Staff
The programme's teaching staff over the years has been drawn from the disciplines of English, History, Political Science and Sociology, Economics, Irish Studies, Film Studies, Spanish, French, Archaeology, German, Italian, and Classics, and is supplemented by Irish and international guest lecturers.
Programme Outline
The full-time degree taken over a twelve-month period from September. The year is divided into two teaching semesters (September to December and January to April), with the summer period devoted to completing the dissertation. A two-year part-time option is also available. Students take six taught modules together with a (non-assessed) research training seminar, and produce a 15,000-word dissertation (30 ECTS) on a topic of their choice.
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EN541 Colonialism in Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Cultural Theory
This module focuses on issues of identity, political agency and representation. It offers an introduction to twentieth-century theorisations of colonialism and neo-colonialism, especially in relation to cultural production, and their implications for twenty-first century socio-political thought. The distinctive position of Ireland in relation to postcolonial theory is considered, together with other national and international contexts. Some of the theorists discussed include Fanon, Said, Spivak and Ahmad.
SP544 Decolonization and Neo-Colonialism: The Politics of 'Development'
The phenomena of development and underdevelopment in those lands that have experienced colonial rule have been theorised in two broadly contrasting ways in social science: the modernisation perspective, which derives from the northern hemisphere by and large, and a series of counter-perspectives (such as structuralism, dependency, neo-Marxism and world systems theory), whose exponents hail from the southern hemisphere in the main. The module also considers the issue of how much light modernisation and counter-perspectives can shed on the Irish experience of development and underdevelopment.
HI546 Studies in the History of Colonialism and Imperialism
This module introduces students to some of the key thinkers and concepts in the writing of British imperial history. The work of scholars such as J. A. Hobson, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, Peter Cain and Tony Hopkins, Chris Bayly, Alan Lester and John Darwin will be discussed. Concepts such as finance imperialism, informal empire, the official mind, gentlemanly capitalism, colonial knowledge, imperial networks, and bridgeheads will be examined from a critical perspective. Students will be asked to read key texts, undertake wider reading and research to help put these key texts in context, comment on their readings, and present their own ideas as the basis for class discussion and debate.
Research Seminar (compulsory but not examined)
This module provides a training in research, analysis and writing techniques appropriate to the programme, as well as individual consultations on the formulation of dissertation topics. The seminar will take place throughout the year.
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EN547 Literature and Colonialism
This module considers the relationship between literary modes and aesthetics and political power. It analyses literature connected to the British Empire and its former colonies, discussing English, Irish, Indian and African writers in relation to colonial power structures, nationalist movements and postcolonial developments. Genres covered include imperial adventure fiction, travel writing, late-Victorian urban Gothic, modernist and post-modernist fiction and poetry, postcolonial writing, and the twenty-first century multicultural novel.
EC535 Political Economy, Colonialism and Globalization
The aim of the module will be to identify the fundamental concepts of globalization by analysing the various ideologies, systems and structures that underpin the progression of global capitalism through the ages. Underlying philosophical theories will be linked with political, legal sociological and economic ideals that are often the driving forces behind these processes.
EN573 Travel Literature
The genre of travel writing includes a vast array of literary forms from journals to letters, ambassadorial reports, captivity narratives, historical descriptions, ethnographies, and natural histories. The appearance of such accounts explodes in the early modern period in an era of expanded travel for purposes of trade, education, exploration, and colonial settlement. This module looks at a range of documents from different historical moments to track the development of this important genre, including the emergence of travel writing by women.
EN549 Cinema and Colonialism
This module considers the relationships between colonialism and the theory and practice of cinema. Seminars may address the following themes: the Hollywood genres of the 'Western' and the 'Vietnam movie'; postcolonial theories of cinema; Cuban cinema; cinema of anti-colonial revolution; neocolonialism and Irish cinema; African cinema; gender, colonialism and cinema; and Western representations of imperialism.
HI588 Studies in Regional Identities
This module introduces students to concepts of regional identities and explores various interpretative approaches to regional identity. Students will examine the role of history, language and religion in the construction and perpetuation of regional identity and will consider the relationship between regions and nation states. This is a team-taught module. While the content may vary according to the availability of staff from year to year, it will include Irish and European case studies.
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MA in Environment, Society and Development
National University of Ireland, Galway
School of Geography and Archaeology
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Global issues of environment, security and development have never been so important.
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Global issues of environment, security and development have never been so important. A long war on terror with no end in sight, ongoing structural economic inequalities on a global scale, and the threat of climate change have brought questions of Western interventionary practices, neoliberalism and environmental sustainability to the fore. The MA in Environment, Society and Development is designed to enable students to synthesize both theoretical and practical concerns in bringing critical thinking to these vital challenges. The programme involves engagement with a number of core areas in critical human geography, including issues of geopolitics, development and political ecology, and exposes students to global concerns that encompass a complex and dynamic mesh of environmental, social and economic processes.
Field-Based Learning
Running through the MA is an overarching aim to impart understanding of how different philosophical and ideological approaches to environment-society relations influence policy formulation and implementation. In this context, our hope is to empower students to become critically informed by, and ethically engaged with, the various geopolitical, social, economic and environmental processes that shape the world in which we live. The practical emphasis of the MA is reflected in a field-based learning module in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where students intersect with the development work of UN agencies, and range of CSOs and NGOs. In connecting with the work of UN agencies like the United Nations Development Programme, a key challenge for students involves thinking through the scalar nature of all forms of development, in which initiatives on the ground are framed by broader geopolitical, economic and institutional structures that both enable and hinder development in complex ways.
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The programme will prepare students for a range of workplaces including government departments, non-governmental organizations, planning and environmental management agencies and specialist research and policy institutes. The transferable and problem-solving skills gained from the field-based learning practices embedded in all modules are a particular strength for graduates. Each year, students gain vital experience working on the ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a variety of international development practitioners and local community leaders. Since its inception, the programme has had ICOS and other international students from a range of countries, including Ethiopia, Germany, Italy, Malawi, Norway, Russia, Sri Lanka, UAE, UK, USA and Vietnam. Many have gone on to work in NGOs and UN agencies and, in addition, to pursue PhD research in leading Geography Departments across the world. In terms of a critical human geography Masters, the depth and breadth of the programme puts students in a very strong position in applying for PhDs, and post-MA we strongly encourage applications, internationally, nationally and here at NUI Galway, where Geography has strong research clusters in Geopolitics and Justice and Planning and Sustainability.
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MA in Rural Sustainability
National University of Ireland, Galway
School of Geography and Archaeology
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This Masters Programme is extremely timely as it comes when there is increasing attention being placed upon the role and function of rural economies and societies.
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This Masters Programme is extremely timely as it comes when there is increasing attention being placed upon the role and function of rural economies and societies. The development agenda for rural areas within a rapidly-changing context for agriculture and the broader countryside sees pressures to achieve economic competitiveness and efficiency balanced with concerns relating to food security, environmental protection and climate change, and where questions of equality, social inclusion, quality of life and the public good are central. Reflecting particularly the globalizing nature of agriculture and rural development processes, the MA in Rural Sustainability addresses the nature of rural and agricultural change not only across a range of dimensions (economic, social, political, cultural), but also scales (local, national, global), locations (Europe and beyond), and interfaces (e.g. human and non-human). As such, it situates itself within the context of leading contemporary and emerging thinking and research on the rural, drawing on concepts and theories, as well as methodologies and practices that critically engage with these varied dimensions of the rural.
€3000 Award for Best Student Performance in MA in Rural Sustainability
The Dr. Patrick Commins Rural Research Award, valued at €3,000 per annum, for the best overall MA student performance was announced at the official launch of the MA in Rural Sustainability in December 2012. Dr. Maura Farrell, Director of the MA, spoke of her delight at the announcement of this prestigious award, and praised Teagasc for their generous sponsorship and their support of the programme. Dr Farrell described the award 'as a considerable incentive for current and future students interested in rural studies and a real vote of confidence in the quality and importance of the Masters programme'. In particular Dr Farrell felt that in these economically stringent times, the award was a statement about the importance of rural issues in broader global economic recovery and the need to develop well-informed and educated leaders who understand the complexities of rural economy and society. The award is a tribute to Dr. Commins who was a leading academic and researcher in rural issues and had a long and distinguished career with their organisation. His reputation as an expert on rural affairs extended well beyond Ireland, and his knowledge and experience was regarded as key to informing EU and wider international academic and policy debates.
Launch of the Master of Arts in Rural Sustainability
NUI Galway has officially launched a new Masters Programme in Rural Sustainability. The full-time, one year postgraduate programme is being co-ordinated by the Discipline of Geography within the School of Geography and Archaeology, and it already has a full complement of students in place for the first year of its operation. The Programme has been devised in response to increasing attention nationally and internationally on the role and function of rural economies and societies. NUI Galway holds a distinguished tradition of rural research and teaching. As a European University that is itself situated in a rural and peripheral location, it seeks to continue its leadership role in rural affairs through providing a postgraduate career path in rural studies. The Programme was officially launched by Professor Gerry Boyle, Director of Teagasc. This association with Teagasc, particularly with its own strong leadership in rural research, is an important component of the programme as it unites expertise in rural theory, research and practice, ultimately benefiting the student experience and future employability.
Why Choose this Programme?
If you are interested in rural sustainability, rural innovation, multifunctionality and agriculture, and you wish to contribute in a meaningful way to rural affairs and potentially influence the contribution rural areas can make in revitalizing the economy at national and European level, this MA Programme can support such an ambition. This MA will enable students to develop theoretical competencies and independent research capacities, with the ability to transfer and apply these to real world contexts and settings.
The programme is delivered by a team of dedicated and highly respected academics and researchers from the School of Geography & Archaeology and by motivated contributors from other associated Schools, from other Universities and from Research Institutions; by individuals drawn from policy and practice-based domains.
This MA situates itself within contemporary and forward-looking perspectives on the rural; however, it also builds on a long-established track record of rural studies and rural research conducted at NUIG, with strong networks of collaboration at national, European and wider international levels across academic and research institutions, as well as the Institutions of the European Union.
In particular, this MA expands on a highly successful EU-funded Framework 7 research project (DERREG), exploring contemporary and future challenges facing rural areas in an era of globalization. It thus represents an important transfer of knowledge from research that has been built on relevant international case-study examples from 6 EU member states and which has informed critical theoretical discussions and policy debates on the rural at EU level. This development to a taught programme offers students an opportunity to benefit from such knowledge and expertise drawn from widely differing rural contexts.
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As a graduate of this programme, you will possess a depth of rural-specific knowledge combined with a host of transferrable skills. This combination will equip you to work in a selection of contexts that require the ability to think at conceptual levels about rural-related issues and transfer this knowledge into practical applications and solutions in policy, management and consultancy domains. Among the potential employment settings are national and international organizations and agencies with a rural development remit, groups and consultancies related to a range of government programmes, government departments and other public sector organizations concerned with the rural sector.
The MA is Rural Sustainability is also designed to enhance students' prospects for undertaking further research at PhD level, with our students being well placed to pursue PhD studies in universities nationally and internationally.
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By Aaron Lommers Herald Writer
EVERETT — Cascade center fielder Aubrey Peterson's knee looked just fine on the last play of Cascade's 6-5 4A Wesco crossover softball victory over Arlington on Friday.
It was the junior's first full game back from injury and she made the play of the night to save a win for the Bruins.
Ahead by a run with one out and three runs already having scored in the top of the seventh inning, Arlington starting pitcher Ronnie Ladines was on second base with left fielder Katelynn Kazen at the plate. Kazen blooped Cascade starting pitcher Makinlee Sellevold's offering into shallow center field. Ladines appeared to think the ball was going to land for a hit and was already rounding third base when Peterson dove and made a spectacular catch. She quickly jumped to her feet and threw to second base to double up Ladines and end the game.
Had Peterson dropped the ball, Ladines would have certainly scored to tie the game and Kazen would have likely been safe at second base with only one out.
"I was really scared, but I went for it because I knew it was like do or die, you had to do it," Peterson said. "It felt really, really good."
Cascade didn't seem to have an answer for Arlington in the seventh inning. A couple of walks mixed in with a couple of singles had the Eagles looking as if they would pull off the comeback win. The only out the Bruins had recorded in the inning before the double play came on a difficult diving stop by shortstop Taryn Salter, who threw to second to get Katelyn McDonald on a fielder's choice.
Peterson's defensive gem came at the perfect time and clinched a district berth for the first-place Bruins with nearly two weeks left to play.
"What do say about it? It was beautiful," Cascade coach Kelly Ross said. "It was everything that we have been working on and what we try to get our outfield to do is charge everything and leave it all on the field and that's what we talked about right before they went out there and sure enough she came through when it really mattered."
Peterson wasn't the only hero of the night for the Bruins. Leading 3-2 in the bottom of the fifth inning, Cascade was looking to extend its lead and with two outs and the bases loaded, pitcher Makinlee Sellevold doubled to right field to clear the bases. Sellevold was thrown out trying to stretch a double into a triple, but the damage had already been done.
"(Sellevold) has come up clutch for us many times this season," Ross said. "Her stats will reflect that. She is just extremely strong mentally and physically."
The Eagles outhit the Bruins and had significantly more stolen bases. Arlington coach Dan Eng said errors were the difference.
"Statistically this was a nightmare," Eng said. "Statistically you look at the book and you go, 'How could you lose this game.' Usually the pitching holds and the defense holds. In the past six games we have not given up a run."
All six of Cascade's runs were unearned.
Earned or unearned, six runs were enough and the Bruins will take it.
"It's a momentum builder," Ross said. "You always know coming into a game like this that it is going to be a great game and that it could technically go either way. You are facing a great pitcher and you are facing some great players and knowing that I have just the same on our team, you always know you are going to have a fun day."
Aaron Lommers covers prep sports for The Herald. Follow him on twitter @aaronlommers and contact him at email@example.com.
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Ronnie Ladines and Lynsey Amundson. Makinlee Sellevold and Alex Deaver. WP—Sellevold. LP—Ladines. 2B—Amundson (A), Sellevold (C). Records—Arlington 7-3 league, 12-3 overall; Cascade 8-2, 13-2.


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Two new studies conducted by the government reveal that roughly 1 in 100 children have autism disorders, which is quite frightening as a previous U.S. estimate put the numbers between 1 in 150.
Health officials are currently trying to figure out what has caused the dramatic increase, and so far they have chalked it up to greater awareness and spotting autism in younger kids.
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New liquid vehicle technology from Clariant Masterbatches, Holden, Mass., is designed to eliminate problems that have prevented wider use of liquid color in extrusion blow molding of polyolefins. In 2009, the company introduced a new liquid-color vehicle for easier blow molding of HDPE (see Dec. '09 Keeping Up). Many of the same benefits are now available for blow molding LDPE and PP—such as the ability to use higher pigment loadings and lower liquid-colorant amounts, while practically eliminating past problems with screw slippage.
One result is better mixing and reduced streaking. Improved resin compatibility is said to provide stronger weld lines, as evidenced by standard burst and compression-loading tests on molded containers. The reformulated colorants reportedly also enhance flow, allow for much faster color changes, and eliminate smoking and fuming at the die head.


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Ms. Sohn, a third-grade teacher, is planning a unit on simple machines. She wants her students to collaborate with a partner classroom in another state to investigate simple machines in their environments and share simple machines they have designed. They plan to create a wiki for pubishing student work on the Internet. During this unit, she is going to focus on the 21st century skills of self-direction and collaboration. Ms. Sohn uses the Assessing Projects Application to create her assessments as follows:
- While brainstorming ideas for her unit, she browses the Assessment Library to see what kinds of assessments are available that relate to what she wants students to learn in the unit.
- She then searches the Assessment Library for assessments on self-direction, collaboration, and simple machines.
- She finds a self-direction rubric and a collaboration checklist that she would like to use in her unit, but first she needs to modify them to fit the specific project.
- In the past, Ms. Sohn has had success with a rubric she uses to assess student publishing using wikis. She would like to save it to her Teacher Workspace, so she uses the application to create this assessment from scratch.
- Ms. Sohn wants her assessment to address 21st century skills. She uses the Quick Search feature to copy traits from other assessments and add them to her wiki rubric.
After Ms. Sohn creates a few assessments, she organizes them by managing her Personal Library.
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- Where: In Kaunakakai across from Church Row
In Kaunakakai, visit Kapuaiwa Coconut Beach Park, an ancient Hawaiian coconut grove planted in the 1860s during the reign of King Kamehameha V. With hundreds of coconut palm trees, this is one of Molokai's most recognizable natural landmarks.
There is an obvious danger of falling coconuts within the grove, so the safest view of the grove is from the grassy area near the Kapuaiwa signage found off Mauna Loa Highway. This is an amazing spot for a spectacular, sunset view of one of the last royal coconut groves in Hawaii.


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Like I said earlier in the JLO post, the point of the PEOPLE Magazine Awards is to look at the clothing. And even though JLO trotted it all out last night, from the deep cleave to the crotch draw, two celebrities took the red carpet. With JLO there's always a hint of the tacky anyway, non? First Nicole Richie in a black jumpsuit with sheer sleeves and leaves delicately weaved on the shoulders. Full Story
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You know what bites my ass? I hate it when people try to shorten Gwyneth Paltrow's name and end up with "Gwen". No. So I've been thinking a lot about Gwen Stefani since Sunday night at the VMAs when Nicole Kidman happened to her face and it looked like she couldn't open her left eye – click here Full Story
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Springsteen's new CD arrives Tuesday, tour possible
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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's new album, High Hopes, arrives in stores Tuesday.
The disc features a mix of cover songs, outtakes, and remakes of some of the group's material. The title track is a new version of a cover song Bruce originally recorded in the 1990s. But Springsteen says it's a song he really likes. He tells RollingStone.com "High Hopes" has "a really good lyric about struggling" without being "too direct," along with "a fantastic chorus."
And hot on the heels of the album's release, Springsteen and the E Street Band are returning to the road. They have shows scheduled through early March, with dates in South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. But The Boss says some U.S. concerts could be on the horizon.
The rocker explains that he won't say anything for certain because he doesn't want "to disappoint." But he says they're "looking at" playing some shows in the U.S. this year, and adds that it's something he'd like to do.


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Yeh went to a non gi comp the other day normally I dont grapple much, I just stick to my wing chun as I dont like to do that pointless rolling around on the floor, so I roll in with my bitches this one rachel said she d massage me to help me warm up but she was a 9/10 and obviously I only pork 10s.. im their with the girls and Big Dave, who was too big to fit in the door so he had to go in thru fire exit, I strut in, in my usual tapout wifebeater with tapout shorts and tapout hat, we pulled up in Big Daves 4x4 with its beautiful shiney metallic black and pagent Tapout sticker in the back, many a whore has coughed on our exaust fumes after we boned them and left them, with only tapout stuck to the back window to reid..
So anyways theirs all these idiots around warming up and doing some of grappling drills, I just performed sticking hands with my Big Dave as haters mired me from a distance.. my division was 80 kg, So my name calls Yo Sebastian you on dawg.. I wack my Tapout gumshield in and it begins...! He shoots in to do some stupid wrestlers take down, I immediatly use a tai chi crane block and use wing chun hand traps on him, I trap his hands constantly until he tapped out with thrustration and easy first match..
2nd match. This guy was Judo black belt, so he tried one of those pussy throws on me thinking he Karo parisyan I went into Chi Sou with him or (wing chun sticking hands) his Judo was useless I did a few parrys and threw him to the ground, I then locked on a headlock unable to escape he was forced to tap...
Ok so it was the finals and I was up against a black belt in Brazilian Jiujitsu so his ground game was probs gonna be not too bad, I went into my wing chun stance he shoots in and flips himself and wraps his legs around me in a so called... full guard... I put my hands to the matt and do a somersault over him while going LALALALALAL like Xena warrior princess, his plan had holes in them... I then locked on a clock choke with his neck spread muscles and managed to lock the choke on, his Jiu jitsu was good but mixed with my wing chun grip and my month experience he was f****d he tapped and I was the victor.
after the match im having a cigar outside and the brazilian jiujitsu guy comes up to me asking for me to help him train to fight in the UFC, I toked back on my Cigar deeply, blew it in his face and said sorry im a wing chun fighter, I then hopped in the 4x4 and sped off, with him left coughing on my exaust fumes only seeing the words tapout drift off into the distance.. Was a great experience, if anyone knows any more non gi comps coming up please message me.


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LONG BEACH — The City Council voted 6-0 Tuesday to allow municipal properties to continue to be included in a downtown taxing district that could expand to include homes as well.
The Downtown Property and Business Improvement District, or PBID, expires Dec. 31 and pays for services not covered by general tax dollars.
State law requires parties who will pay more than 50 percent of the fee, which is based on assessment value, to indicate their support by petition before the district can advance toward an eventual property owner vote.
The Long Beach Civic Center, main library and associated parking structures are part of the PBID, making the city one of the larger stakeholders. The cost to the city will be $389,493, but $172,710 of that will be paid by the operator of the Pike at Rainbow Harbor, according to a city report.
In March, the Downtown Long Beach Associates, which administers the tax, voted to move forward on a controversial proposal to assess the tax on residential properties. The decision will be up to a vote of property owners in the district.
Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, who was criticized during her recent re-election campaign for not taking a stance on the plan, spoke in favor of signing the petition.
"I think the city has a vested interest in protecting its investments in the downtown as a large property owner, and the PBID supports this," Lowenthal said.
Councilman Robert Garcia and Councilwoman Gerrie Schipske recused themselves from voting on the PBID resolution. Garcia said he owned property within the district; Schipske's partner owns land in the district, according to Mayor Bob Foster.
Councilwoman Rae Gabelich was absent.
Recreational fees audited
The council also received an audit on the collection of recreational fees in the city.
City Auditor Laura Doud said last week that hundreds of thousands of dollars have gone uncollected due to inconsistent gathering and recording practices in the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department.
Doud recommended that management implement a plan to centralize collections using technology and train employees to handle cash.
The report was requested by department Director George Chapjian after he was appointed to the position last year.
Auditors found $392,432 in outstanding fees. The majority, $233,535, were owed by adult sports leagues that hadn't been pursued for permit charges.
Chapjian said Tuesday that $111,000 of the balance is considered current, and the department is taking debt-collection steps that include withholding sports league permits.
The Parks, Recreation and Marine Department collected $6.6 million in fees and charges in 2011.
Records were often kept manually, with the same employees able to receive, record and deposit cash, a process auditors warned was open to fraud.
Council members applauded Chapjian for asking for the the review.
"It's not a weakness, but a strength to acknowledge where we can improve," said Councilman James Johnson.
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WASHINGTON -- The first Quarterly Information Technology Exchange will take place in the General Services Administration (GSA) auditorium, located at 18th and F Streets, NW, Washington, DC, on November 19, from 1 - 3 p.m. EST. The theme will be "Creating More Effective Technology Infrastructures."
The Exchange will be broadcast via satellite to federal offices nationwide and will include live, interactive question-and-answer sessions. Federal employees may attend the session at GSA's auditorium or, if outside the Washington area, view the program and participate in the question-and-answer sessions at locations sponsored by GSA regions and at other Federal agencies with satellite downlinks. Employees are encouraged to check with their agency CIO or IT office to learn what arrangements have been made for their viewing and participation in the Exchange.
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The Exchange provides an opportunity for senior IT leaders to inform and update the national Federal IT community on emerging issues and new directions. The Quarterly IT Exchange is scheduled to be held in February, May, August, and November and meets the need for a communication vehicle that can offer up-to-date-information to the largest possible audience."
GSA Acting Administrator David J. Barram will open the Exchange. The panel of speakers includes:
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_ Mary Ellen Condon, Information Technology Resources Board Chair
_ Marty Wagner, Associate Administrator for Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration
_ Chris Hoenig, Director for Policy and Issues, General Accounting Office
_ Jerry Linn, Associate Director for Program Implementation, National Institute of Standards and
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Tensions are running so high in Ferguson that members of the same side are even warring with one another.
Talib Kweli succeeded Killer Mike as the latest Hip-Hop personality to be interviewed by CNN over the fallout from the Michael Brown shooting. However his airtime with anchor Don Lemon was anything but productive.
As previously reported, the trouble began when the Gravitas composer expressed his opinion on how "horrible" the news coverage of the turmoil in Ferguson was. Naturally, Lemon took offense to such a statement and the two engaged in verbal combat on live television. Kweli also took issue to how Lemon didn't know how to properly pronounce his name.
Lemon is perceived as an opponent to the Hip-Hop community (and many African-Americans in general), so the reception was he needed more people. And he obviously didn't have them after Black Twitter reacted.
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Chino police and the FBI today plan to discuss developments in their search for a serial bank robber known as the "AK-47 Bandit."
Chino Police Chief Miles Pruitt, along with the FBI and authorities from Idaho and Washington, plan to appear for a press conference at the Chino Police Department.
The robber, dubbed the "AK-47 Bandit" because of the weapon he used during the holdups, remains on the loose. The FBI has posted a $50,000 reward for his capture.
The man shot a Chino police officer after he robbed California Bank and Trust at 5455 Riverside Drive on Feb. 29.
The officer, who suffered at least one gunshot wound, drove himself to a hospital about a block away.
Police suspect the man or an accomplice called 9-1-1 before the heist, reporting there was a bomb on the south end of the city to lure officers away from the bank.
Authorities suspect he tried to rob Tri Counties Bank in Sacramento on March 9, and then successfully robbed Bank of the West in Vacaville three days later.
The FBI said a Nissan Maxima, the same type of getaway car used in the Chino robbery, may have been used in both Northern California incidents.
For nearly four months, the man appeared to have stopped his spree.
But then on July 6, a robber with an AK-47, hit a Chase bank in North Bend, Wash. He threatened to shoot tellers if they didn't hurry in giving him cash.
He carried bills out of the bank by hand, since he didn't have a bag.
In that heist, he used a dirty, reddish-orange Jeep Patriot or liberty as a getaway vehicle.
The FBI said another robbery occurred Nov. 7 at the East Idaho Credit Union in Rexburg, Idaho. The robber, armed with an assault rifle, ordered employees and customers into the vault. He fled in a dark blue sedan with tinted windows and a red and blue license plate.
In some of the incidents, the robber wore a blue bullet-proof vest with the word "SHERIFF" across the chest in bright yellow. Surveillance video also showed he wore a dark, short-sleeve collared shirt under the vest, blue pants and a black full-face ski mask.
Reach Melissa via email or call her at 909-386-3878.
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So you've got your Gear VR, and you've been enjoying the games and apps you can access on it. The time has come to get your friends excited about VR, and share these awesome experiences. You might not know how to record your Gear VR gameplay so that you can share it online or with friends directly.
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It's the 21st century, why the heck are you still using traditional flame lighters? Electricity-generated plasma beams are much hotter and cleaner than a butane flame, plus it's also windproof and splash proof so you'll be able to get something lit no matter the weather.
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If this sounds like an amazing invention, you're going to love this deal from Android Central Digital Offers! You can get a Saberlight Rechargeable Plasma Lighter for just $15.95, that's 84% off the regular price of $100.
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That's more than you'll ever need in a smartphone, and the high read/write speeds will help if you're shooting lots of 4K video on a high-end phone like the Galaxy S8 (as too will that enormous capacity.) Better still, it's water, temperature, X-ray and magnetic proof, so you needn't worry about it getting damaged while you're out and about.
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While we wait for the next big thing, it's time to take stock, and a break.
I'm out of town. When you read this, I'll be blissfully offline.
I often talk to my friends about phone addiction to understand how the effects of spending too much time with one's screens impacts those whose lives don't revolve around evaluating them. Studies continue to show that after spending too much time with phones, half-concentrating on the person talking to them, the effects are far-reaching and devastating: we are losing the ability to concentrate. So I'm going to spend a weekend concentrating on one thing, and that's the people around me, and on myself.
I genuinely think that the very technology we draw closer to our bodies every day is the same thing making us tired, and anxious, and alone. Be it refreshing Instagram one too many times or falling down a YouTube black hole, it's too easy to get sucked into a vacuum of myopia: the internet is at once never-ending and unknowable and yet completely…
Odds are you have nowhere near the same amount of USB-C cables as you did micro USB, so if you need some more you should check out Incipio's option. It supports USB 3.1 speeds and is down to just $10 today!
The annual San Diego Comic-Con is going on right now, with plenty of trailers and information for upcoming movies/TV shows being released at the event. To celebrate, Google Play Movies has a whopping 51 films on sale (as long as you're in the US or Canada). They mostly consist of superhero/comic movies, but there are a few other popular titles included.
I recommend heading down to the source link below to see all the movies, but I'll list some highlights here:
There are definitely a few bad movies on sale though, like the 2005 Elektra film.
[Deal Alert] 51 movies are on sale at Google Play for Comic-con was written by the awesome team at Android Police.
Google Map's Timeline feature is equal parts awesome and creepy. Located in the side menu of the Google Maps app, it shows all the locations you have visited on a given day, complete with what mode of transportation you used and (in some cases) the pi…


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Pop-Culture | Posted by Anya J on 09/11/2013
Mary Lambert's "She Keeps Me Warm" Does Queer Representation Right
You might have heard of Mary Lambert, or maybe not. You've probably heard her—she is the woman's voice in the chorus of Macklemore's song "Same Love." I have a lot of complicated feelings about "Same Love." Although I think the song's message in favor of same-sex marriage is important, the line "if I were gay I would think hip-hop hates me" is downright false, since hip-hop is a genre with as rich a history of LGBTQ artists as any other. I also sometimes feel like Macklemore uses his privilege as a straight white man to speak over LGBTQ people instead of supporting their voices.
Luckily, Mary Lambert's beautiful new solo song, for which she's just released possibly the world's most adorable video, "She Keeps Me Warm," …


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Paula F. P. Henry
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Beltsville Laboratory
c/o BARC East, Building 308
10300 Baltimore Ave
Beltsville, MD 20705
Telephone: 301-497-5728
Fax: 301-497-5624
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Research Physiologist
Primary Responsibilities:
M.S. University of Maryland, 1985; Zoology/Endocrinology.
Ph.D. University of Maryland, 2002; Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences.
|Areas of
Avian wildlife physiology and behavior; environmental contaminants; endocrinology; herpetology, animal welfare
Friends of Patuxent Wildlife Research Center award: 2004, 2006
Scientific Achievement Award: 1997
SETAC CPRC Graduate Student Research Award: 1996
Active Projects:
Eastern box turtle population on the Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge
Food resource and habitat partitioning by the Northern diamondback terrapins in the Chesapeake Bay.
Ferebee, K. and PFP Henry. In Press. Movements and distribution of Terrapene carolina in a large urban area, Rock Creek National Park, Washington D.C. Herpetological Conservation volume III (2007).
Ottinger, MA, MJ Quinn JR., E Lavoie, MA Abdelnabi, N Thompson, J Hazelton, M McKernan, J Wu, P Henry, C Viglietti-Panzica, and G Panzica. 2005. Neuroendocrine and behavioral consequences of embryonic exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals. Pages 271-284 In Dawson and Sharp (eds.). Functional Avian Endocrinology, Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, India. 447pp.
Henry, PFP. 2003. The Eastern box turtle at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center for 1940s to the present. Experimental Gerontology 38:773-776.
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Science Brief for Managers: The Diamondback terrapin in the Chesapeake Bay. PWRC2002-01; updated 2003.
Hatfield, JS, PFP Henry, GH Olsen, MM Paul, and RS Hammerschlag. 2001. Failure of tetracycline as a biomarker in battch-marking juvenile frogs. J. Wildlife Diseases 37:318-323.
Ottinger, MA., MA Abdelnabi, P Henry, S McGary, N Thompson, and JM Wu. 2001. Neuroendocrine and behavioral implications of endocrine disrupting chemicals in quail. Hormones and Behavior 40:234-247.
PFP. 2000. Aspects of
amphibian anatomy and physiology. Pages
71-110. In Sparling, Linder, Bishop (eds.) Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and
Reptiles. Technical Publications Series. Society of Environmental
Toxicology and Chemistry, Pensacola, FL. 876 pp.
Hall, RJ, PFP Henry, and CM. Bunck. 1999. Fifty-year trends in a box turtle population in Maryland. Biological Conservation 88:165-172.
Hall, RJ and PFP Henry. 1992. Assessing effects of pesticides on amphibians and reptiles: status and needs. Herpetological Journal 2:65-71.
Hall, RJ and PFP Henry. 1992. Assessing effects of pesticides on amphibians and reptiles: status and needs. Herpetological Journal 2:65-71.
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Atom 6HV Ultimate full assembling video by Daniel Jetschin
Check out this awesome series of assembling videos by Daniel Jetschin!
He built a 6HVU from the ground up and did a video of each step!
Compass Catalogue 2015
You're looking for a model that fits you and you also need the accessoires for it? Take a look at our 2015 catalogue:
Compass at the SpringFly event
This weekend some Compass pilots were at the SpringFly event in Vorarlberg/Austria.
They did a fantastic job on their ULTIMATE machines!
Atom 7HV ULTIMATE Niklas Hellrigl
Jeroen Koolmees, a new team pilot from NL
We got a new team pilot from the Netherlands, Jeroen Koolmees! He is a 27 year old cabinetmaker and a fantastic pilot!
AND he won the national F3N competition in Holland! Congratulations!
Compass Model will be present at the ROTOR-Live fair in Iffezheim/Germany. We are showing the all new 550 Ultimate at the MTTEC booth. This 550 Airframe is based on the 6HV Ultimate. Pilots such as : André Petersen, Andy Eder, Christoph Haye, Keven Schauz, Daniel Jetschin and some of our Fieldreps will show our models in the demoslots. Feel free to say hello.
2013 Season Teaser by Daniel Jetschin
Daniel Jetschin gave his best to edit this awesome video. It shows szenes from the year 2013. People, Events, Friends and nice moves.
To find the 2012 video please klick here:
The Atom 6HV Ultimate- classical design improved!
Raynia "Raynman" Pikari-Kaiwai did it again!
Our team pilot Raynman from NZ did it again!
He flew an awesome competition with his 7HV Ultimate and won it confident.
But not enough he won nearly all NZ competitions this year he got the 2014 National NZ F3N Champion!
Congratulations to Raynia for his awesome 2013 season! We're glad to have you in our team
HeliMasters 2013 Nördlingen- perfect conditions
The HeliMasters Nördlingen in Germany are history.
Compass Model and MTTEC were there for 3 days of competition, show flights and perfect weather.
Our pilots Andy Eder, Andre Petersen and Keven Schauz are placed 9th, 15th and 18th. Congratulations to them!
HeliMasters 2013 Venlo- a whole success
The HeliMasters 2013 at TrafficPort Venlo are history.
Our pilots did a great job at all, 6th, 11th, 16th and 21st place for Sebastia Serra Montes, Andy Eder, Pierre-Yves Celle and Andre Petersen in Advanced class.
Our Demo-Team had also some good and stunning flights on the three days in Holland.
At last we can say it was a very good event for Compass Model and we will be there in 2014! See you there...
Warp 360 Stop Motion built by Daniel Jetschin
Daniel Jetschin did an awesome job these days!
He did a stop motion built video of our Warp360 within a stunning time.
Thanks Daniel for your efforts and have fun on your well deserved Mallorca holidays!
Warp 360 Updated!
Due to some testing experiences we added some new updates on our Warp360.
We did a new 19t tail pulley for lower tailspeeds when flying higher headspeeds. With that tail pulley the tail performance is better at higher headspeeds and the tail gain increases.
We did also a aluminum tail gear frame for better tolerances and more durability.
As third we made the tail arm mount thicker and tougher for harder flying and more durability.
2nd and 3rd Place at the Austrian F3N Championships 2013
Our team members Andy Eder and Henrik Zupanc achieved the 2nd and 3rd place at the Austrian F3N Championships with their 7HVs.
They're flying the stock Compass Setup with the MKS HBL series servos in their competition machines.
Congratulations to them from all of us and we're looking forward to their next results.
Compass is a HeliMasters World-Series Gold Sponsor
Compass is a HeliMasters Carinthia Main-Sponsor
New Zealands 2012 3D Champion: Raynia "Raynman" Pikari
The new WARP 360
The WARP 360 is an electric helicopter of the coming 360 size. He represents a new generation of high-performance 3D helicopters. The single-stage belt drive provides a very quiet and smooth running. The almost rigid rotor head provides a very straight and aggressive response.
Podcast / Interview with Sebastian Zajonz
Sebastian talking about the alle new 7HV. This podcast is avalable at the guys from rc magazine - unfortunately only in german language.


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Wrapping NDSolve within a function
When I try to return the interpolating function produced by NDSolve from
within a function, the object returned has an unexpected $7360 appended,
out = predState[1.5, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1, 0.0002, 0.0099]
(where predState is defined further below) results in
Note the g$7360 rather than just g. If NDSolve is not wrapped within
the function, it returns a plain 'g', i.e., g->InterpolatingFunction....
The appended $7360 makes it difficult to use the interpolating function
as I can't reference it within other functions as the integer changes
with each function call, e.g., g$7360[10] /. out, then g$7370[10] /.
out, rather than being able to access it using the expected g[10]/.out.
Why is this $7360 appended to g? How can NDSolve be wrapped in a
function, but be made to return a plain g?
Thanks for your help.
Best wishes,
predState[rg_, rp_, rh_, Mg_, Mp_, Mh_] :=
Module[{parmList3woC, parmListND3woC, A, B, Rb, Rc, g, p, q, solND},
parmListND3woC = {A -> Mg/rg, B -> Mp/rg, C -> Mh/rg, Rb -> rp/rg,
Rc -> rh/rg};
solND =
g'[t] == g[t]*(1 - g[t] - p[t] - q[t]) - A*g[t]*g[t] /. parmListND3woC,
p'[t] == Rb*p[t]*(1 - p[t] - q[t]) - B*p[t]*g[t] /. parmListND3woC,
q'[t] == Rc*q[t]*(1 - q[t]) - C*q[t]*g[t] /. parmListND3woC, g[0] == 0.5,
p[0] == 0.5, q[0] == 0.5}, {g, p, q}, {t, 0, 1000}];


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Have you ever watched Bug's Life from Disney? There is a character in this movie that is just too cute...that cute caterpillar, who eventually turns into a butterfly at the end..."I'm a beautiful butterfly" (but in the most adorable voice). Spent some time weeding, trimming and planting today just hoping to attract a little butterfly like this one, but I am thinking it may take some time. Each year we attract less butterflies and trying so hard to get them to come around. I have planted all of the right flowers, but realizing that fewer and fewer are even around our neighborhood. So sad, but until then I will be happy scrapping with a few.
This card and house set are posted today on Riddersholm Designs. My first post there and so excited to share. The papers, designs, images and colors are just so beautiful.
Spent the day cleaning out the ol' craft room...long overdue and I am sure you can all relate. Once it is clean and organized I am sure it may take only ten minutes to mess it up again, but all worth it for the time being. Before I go, I will announce a winner of the giveaway tomorrow with my tutorial. Also, my Etsy shop will be open this weekend. Nighty, night!


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#1. Svalbard, Norway
The story, written and shot by Dan Milner, features Terje Haakonsen and Jeremy Jones shredding a chain of islands on the far Northern reaches of a Norway, only 700 miles from the North Pole. Polar bears are a real threat as is the remoteness. Part of the two-year splitboard film project Further, the crew tackles massive 2,000-foot long, 50-degree couloirs and returns to tell about it.


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Newspaper editorial boards have responded with a variety of opinions to the Mark Foley scandal, from calling for -- or opposing -- House Speaker Dennis Hastert's resignation to noting the "rank hypocrisy" of Republican leaders to referring to the Republicans' attempt to use a "gay scapegoat."
In the days following the resignation of former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL), during which news accounts of the emerging scandal have been rife with falsehoods and Republican talking points, editorial boards have responded with a variety of opinions. A Media Matters for America review* of the newspapers in the Nexis database found that since House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) held an October 5 press conference in Batavia, Illinois, to say that he is "taking responsibility" for the scandal -- while also denying that he had done anything wrong -- 33 editorials have been published in 29 different newspapers. While the conservative Washington Times first called for Hastert's resignation prior to Hastert's press conference, several papers called for Hastert's resignation following the press conference, while the two major newspapers in Chicago, the largest city in Hastert's home state, have asserted that it is too soon to call for Hastert's ouster. The opinions of the editorial boards have varied from citing the "rank hypocrisy" within the Republican Party, to referring to the Republicans' attempt to use a "gay scapegoat," to simply calling for a thorough investigation. Of the 33 editorials, all but one were at least partially critical of the Republican leadership's handling of the Foley scandal.
Calls for resignation
The first paper to call for Hastert's resignation was The Washington Times, which stated on October 3 that Hastert "must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once." The day after Hastert's October 5 press conference, six other papers "join[ed] the growing chorus," as the Hartford Courant wrote on October 6. That day, the Courant, The Birmingham News (Alabama), the Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, Georgia), The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) all called for Hastert's ouster.
In Hastert's home state, the Chicago Tribune asked, "Should Hastert also resign as speaker? Based on what we know now, the answer is no." However, the Tribune did add that "Hastert seems not to comprehend how lamely he or his staff responded to one warning or another." Similarly, the Chicago Sun-Times wrote an editorial titled "It's too soon to demand Hastert quit as speaker" but added that while they didn't think Hastert should resign, "[w]e're not absolving Hastert from responsibility for the failures in the Foley case." Of newspapers located in Hastert's congressional district, an October 5 editorial in the Beacon News, a suburban Chicago newspaper owned by the Sun-Times News Group, wrote that Hastert should "[a]bsolutely not" resign; an October 8 editorial in the DeKalb Daily Chronicle said that "we expect more of our leaders" and "of the wrestling coach," and said the onus is on Hastert to "fix the problems better than anyone."
"Rank hypocrisy" and "[a]rrogance perfected"
Seven editorials since Hastert's press conference have focused on what the Lebanon Daily News (Pennsylvania) on October 6 called the "rank hypocrisy" of "GOP leaders" in a scandal that has served as a "hard lesson for a party in which 'family values' has been a political mantra." In an October 7 editorial titled "Arrogance Perfected," the Brattleboro Reformer (Vermont) wrote that "Republicans who control Congress, folks who are quick to play the moral values card, have been exposed as knowing what Foley was doing and looking the other way." Editorials in the October 7 Buffalo News (New York), the October 7 Winston-Salem Journal (North Carolina), the October 6 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin), the October 6 Philadelphia Inquirer and the October 6 Dubuque Telegraph Herald (Iowa; not available online) wrote similar editorials criticizing the Republican leadership's hypocrisy.
Two additional editorials, by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, stated that the fallout from the scandal marked just the latest instance of reprehensible leadership from the Republican-controlled Congress. The Post-Intelligencer wrote on October 8 that the scandal, which surfaced just over a month before the midterm election, is another in "a remarkable string of disgraces and departures by fellow Republicans." An October 8 editorial in the Post-Dispatch similarly stated:
It does not diminish the seriousness of the Foley affair to say that the 109th Congress has done far worse things to America than send dirty instant messages:
The Patriot Act. The Military Commissions Act. The "K Street Project" of Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, and lobbyist pals like Jack Abramoff. Earmarked pork for bridges to nowhere and reducing the estate tax despite $300 billion deficits. Giveaways to the pharmaceutical industry. Weeks debating gay marriage and the Pledge of Allegiance and failing to pass an immigration bill.
"Gay Scapegoat"
As Media Matters has noted, some conservative media figures have excused the House Republican leadership's inaction upon learning of emails Foley allegedly to underage congressional pages, based on the purported fear of being labeled "gay-bashers." In response, five editorials wrote about what an October 6 Roanoke Times (Virginia) editorial labeled the "Gay Scapegoat," including the previously noted October 6 Philadelphia Inquirer editorial, which asserted that "the claim by some apologists that the GOP leadership didn't investigate Foley earlier because they feared accusations of gay-bashing" came despite the fact that "[s]uch 'fears' have never stopped these same leaders from using anti-gay rhetoric to push a constitutional amendment to block gay marriages." An October 7 editorial in the Brattleboro Reformer and an October 6 editorial in The Buffalo News echoed the sentiment of The Roanoke Times and the Inquirer. An October 7 editorial in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel accused Foley of "hypocrisy" for using the fact that "he is gay" as an excuse for his behavior.
Calls for a thorough investigation
The most common conclusion to which newspaper editorial boards came was that the House ethics committee investigation should be "thorough, that it must not play favorites, and that all findings must be made public," as stated by The News & Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) on October 7. Overall, 10 editorials focused on the investigation. October 6 editorials in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian of Portland, The Sun (Lowell, Massachusetts), and the Boston Herald appeared to agree with The News & Observer that Hastert may not have done enough before the alleged emails came to light, and that an investigation is necessary. But five separate editorials said that "[t]he ethics process is broken and needs to be reinforced by an independent office of investigation," as The Boston Globe claimed in an October 7 editorial. An October 8 editorial in the Lebanon Daily News and October 6 editorials in Newsday, The Washington Post, and The Palm Beach Post (Florida) agreed with the Globe, claiming, as The Palm Beach Post wrote, that "A better idea would have been to have an impartial outside investigation."
Hastert's "denial," needed reforms
Two editorials about the Foley fallout did not fit into the above categories. An October 6 editorial in the Rocky Mountain News (Denver) characterized Hastert's press conference as an "attempt to change the subject" and nothing more than "a form of denial." An October 6 editorial in the Winston-Salem Journal stated that "new rules and procedures are needed to make" pages safer.
The outlier
One editorial echoed attempts by Republicans and conservatives in recent days to blame Democrats for the scandal, despite the weight of evidence to the contrary. An October 6 editorial in Investor's Business Daily claimed that even if Hastert could "have prevented Foley's wrongdoings," that fact would not be "more obscene than letting an obscure congressman's depravity bring the incompetent Democrats back into power." Further, the editorial repeated baseless rumors circulated by Internet gossip Matt Drudge that "at least one of Foley's IM exchanges may have actually been a prank gone out of control, with the damning messages landing in the hands of Democratic political operatives."
*Media Matters conducted a "News all" Nexis search for "Foley AND section (editorial OR opinion)" on 10/06/06 and 10/09/06.
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- The Washington Post, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Herald, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, Investor's Business Daily
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Today, a lone visitor parks his car on the concrete parking lot and walks into a grove of trees protected from modern society's expansion. While only eight acres in size, the wooded glen provides a welcome respite from the travails and commonality of suburban life.
On this warm fall day, the visitor is drawn by the trickling sound of water dripping down the glen's double waterfall. It's easy to imagine a time in the not-so-distant past when the visitor would also have tuned his ear to the step of a Native American, probably from the Wyandot tribe, which founded the haven.
Today, the visitor to Indian Run Falls Park in Dublin, Ohio, is more likely to hear the steps of a fellow hiker, the barking of a neighborhood dog, or perhaps the click of a bicycle lock. But thanks to the pervious concrete parking lot by the road, this visitor, along with those who will follow, can share in natural history.
When community leaders opted to upgrade the park enabling more visitors to enjoy the natural setting, they faced a challenge. Indian Run Falls, along with its calming setting, is also a conservatory and a significant natural link to central Ohio's rich past. The park is home to the creeping rock cress. This unique plant is dependent on natural ground-water seepage through the valley's limestone cliffs to survive. Without that groundwater, there wouldn't be the run, and without the run, the fauna.
What the visitor may not realize are the benefits of a parking lot paved with pervious concrete. Stormwater that would have normally been directed away from the park toward the municipal stormwater collection system now drains directly into the park's soil, feeding the natural setting.
In the last few years, the same people who once berated concrete as the source of society's woes are coming back to take another look at the material. There is perhaps no better time than now in the history of concrete production and sales. Parks, bikeways, and trails could be the next boom market for concrete.
Biking forward
Americans are rediscovering biking and hiking trails in a big way. For some, it's an economic decision, their personal way to combat higher fuel costs. For others, it's a plan to a return to simpler ways of transportation. And for community leaders and planners, it's a measured response to ensure a more sustainable lifestyle.
Fueled by this popular groundswell of support, the potential for growth is tremendous. A recent national survey conducted by a consortium of biking associations indicated that about one-third of all Americans take a bike ride each year. While this seems high, the actual number of trips is relatively low. Most experts indicate that biking and walking account only for about 10% of all trips.
Why don't more Americans hike, bike, or even walk? Many experts believe that government officials have failed to allocate enough construction money to build and maintain paths. For example, in recent years, hiking and biking trail construction has received only 1% of federal transportation funds.
This policy has led to a safety problem. Only 25% of all walking can take place on roads or streets designed with adequate sidewalks. Properly designed bike lanes only account for 5% of all trips. The result of this under-funding and lack of commitment is evident in the safety reports. Walking and biking accidents account for 13% of transportation fatalities.


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obviously not to everyone if someone is asking where it is!! it sux anyways
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Public beaches that any moron can pay to get on are one thing - sure, name drop all you want..every jackass in a 500 mile radius can find it and has probably been there.
But the places around here that are hard to find and relativey inaccessible unless you know someone, blah blah blah - just enjoy it!!! No need to advertise. Damn!
bro ditch plains in montauk has been firing the past few weeks because of all the hurricanes and just nice clean swells
there usta b alot more breaks on wrong island than the current phaze...this place sux now...


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Is this even feasible? I gave up a while ago (so I could be out of date). As far as I can remember, b43 requires kernel 3.1+. You might have some success with compat-wireless. This card is triply cursed; the brcm80211 module is missing from kernel 39.4, and the wl driver is very difficult to activate. It does work (sort of) in kernel 2.6.38 ie BT5.
My advice - buy an Alfa!
PS I would love to hear from anyone who does have it working.


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