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This study was developed to provide greater empirical understanding of the ways in which faculty innovate and enhance their teaching and the degree to which they feel these efforts are valued on campus. The study surveyed faculty across 20 colleges and universities, of various institutional type and size, regarding faculty practice and perspectives on what encourages and limits pedagogical innovation, views on institutional and disciplinary cultures of teaching and learning (including promotion and tenure processes), and the presence and influence of institutional rewards or incentives intended to encourage excellence in teaching. Additionally the study addresses the relationship between these reward structures and the presence of institutional cultures of teaching and learning on relevant faculty outcomes, such as job satisfaction, commitment, and mental well-being. Content from this study, including findings, is the property of Ashley Finley and the national Bringing Theory to Practice Project, funded by the S. Engelhard Center. When citing any part of the study or findings, attribution must read: "This study was supported by the Bringing Theory to Practice Project and conducted by Ashley Finley, Ph.D, National Evaluator for Bringing Theory to Practice and Director of Assessment & Research at AAC&U."
The College Outcomes Project, directed by Dr. Richard Hersh (Senior Consultant, Keeling & Associates; former President, Trinity and Hobart & William Smith Colleges) is an extension of the Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) and has received support from both the S. Engelhard Center and from the Spencer Foundation in Chicago, to study and report on what a deeper analysis of learning outcomes might mean and suggest for change in higher education.
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Team of Scholars, Researchers & Practitioners: Richard H. Hersh, Chair; Matthew Bundick; Richard Keeling; Corey Keyes; Amy Kurpius; Richard Shavelson; Daniel Silverman; Lynn Swaner
Related material: Richard J. Shavelson, et al: On Assessing Learning Broadly and Responsibly
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The Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP) Cost Study identified and itemized specific direct and indirect costs related to resources, personnel, and programming employed by colleges and universities to address the various symptoms of student disengagement. Nine (9) institutions of various type (e.g., public vs. private) and size participated in a limited study of these costs and related trends in spending and resource allocation through the use of an online survey instrument. Aggregate resource allocation generally rose over time, with the study finding a 67.56% increase over five years in institutional commitments toward total resource allocation for BTtoP core dimensions (counseling and psychological services, alcohol and substance abuse prevention, civic engagement, and engaged learning). Staffing resources for these areas either largely declined or stagnated however; thus while schools might be spending more on these dimensions, the question is raised of how effectively resources are being distributed. In addition to presenting the findings of the Cost Study, this report also provides suggestions for institutions interested in furthering the development and dissemination of campus commitment for the promotion of engaged learning, civic development, and student mental health and well-being efforts. The Cost-Study Report and Instrument are the property of Bringing Theory to Practice. Please do not reprint or distribute either without the consent of the authors or Bringing Theory to Practice. Cost Study Instrument (.xls)
Dr. Penny A. Pasque, University of Oklahoma, compiled this monograph from the proceedings from the National Symposium for Civic Engagement and Mental Health, held March 16-17, 2008 at the University of Michigan.
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This major research study examines both the theoretical levels and the available empirical research regarding the linkages among forms of engaged learning, forms of depression and substance abuse, and the civic development of students.
Additional Research of Interest
National Survey of Student Engagement 2011 Annual Report
Should College Focus More on Personal and Social Responsibility?
High Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to them, and Why They Matter
Martin Seligman Positive Psychology Research
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I haven't decided quite where I want to go with this, hence the title. ABT and UNK are abbreviations commonly used in family trees, for "about" (when you're not sure of a date) and "unknown" (when you're don't know a name or location). I've maintained a Personal Ancestral File (PAF - free!) family tree for at least ten years, and recently purchased an Ancestry.com membership, mostly to do research for my 81-year-old mother. I've also been following my friend and fellow librarian Amy's genealogy blog, We Tree. While I don't consider myself to be a geneablogger like Amy is, I do believe in preserving personal and family memories. I really liked their idea of an Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories and have decided to try to do that here, as it didn't really fit in my book blog or my work-related blog. Look for the first post hopefully later today.
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The British are coming to Monticello Raceway on Monday, September 24th. Well at least those with English descendants in their family tree will be coming when The Mighty M presents its Mayflower Mile, a race for drivers of British heritage.
The event, which will be the seventh leg of the Raceway's year-long Heritage Drivers Series, is scheduled on September 24th, the date of the famed Battle of Rowton Heath in 1645 during the English Civil War when a Royalist army, commanded in person by King Charles was defeated by the Parliamentarians under the command of German, Sydnam Poyntz.
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Drivers who already have earned a berth in the series finale—the All-America Pace-- via their victories in the preliminary Heritage Drivers Series preliminary legs include: Bobby Williams, Jr.(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pace); Lisa Krom (Lady Godiva Pace); Jimmy Taggart, Jr. (St. Paddy Pace), Alan Charles (Passover Pace), Mike Merton (Munich Mile); and Mike Forte (Godfather Pace).
With many of the tracks leading drivers participating the last time the Mayflower Mile was contested the outcome wasn't sure until the final strides when Greg Merton got Tradin Paint up in the final strides for a neck victory in a 1:59.3 clocking.
"Currently we have a quite few drivers of English descent ready to compete but we still can use more in order to have a full field," said Eric Warner the tracks Director of racing. "Anyone with family origins which can be traced back to anywhere in the United Kingdom is eligible to compete in our Mayflower Mile as long as they have either a "P (provisional) or "A" (full)" license from the USTA."
Any person who fits the criteria and would like to compete in the Mayflower Mile is asked to please contact Warner in the race office by calling 845-794-4100 ext. 557; or they can call the track's public relations department at 845-794-4100 ext. 455.
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Welcome back to an alumni-packed edition of BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for your offbeat NCAA tournament needs. Today, we explain why Warren Buffett is rich and you're not, why you don't always need a private jet to enjoy the tourney, and how a kid actor nearly stole the show.
Welcome back to an alumni-packed edition of BracketRacket, the one-stop shopping place for your offbeat NCAA tournament needs. Today, we explain why Warren Buffett is rich and you're not, why you don't always need a private jet to enjoy the tourney, and how a kid actor nearly stole the show. Without further ado:
I'm upset.
You're upset.
And because misery never lacks company, so are all the other geniuses who penciled Cincinnati, Ohio State and Oklahoma into the third round. According to one estimate, at least 95 percent of the 100 million or so brackets filled out all across America were busted by the time the NCAA tournament was barely 12 hours old. So just about the only guy still smiling when his head hit the pillow last night was Warren Buffett, and that's because he won't have to worry much longer about handing the $1 billion he stuffed under his mattress to anyone who finished the tourney with a perfect score.
Lord knows the lengths people went to hoping to get their hands on that cash. BracketRacket's favorite scheme involved rats in replica jerseys racing through a maze built in the shape of a bracket. Taking "March Madness" to ever-greater heights, ESPN aired a video of the whole shebang, which you can watch (thanks to Awful Announcing) here: http://bit.ly/1l957ub
Of course, knowing how to play the odds - they were 9,223,372,036,854,775,808, or, rounding off, 9.2 quintillion-to-1 against such a possibility - is one reason Buffett still has most of his money.
The good news is there's still hope. The bad news is that what little remains likely resides in the already sparsely populated state of North Dakota.
Just like the rest of us, math students at North Dakota State came up with a formula to help them fill out their NCAA brackets, And while they might be smarter - they called theirs a "logistic conditional probability model" - they, too, picked Oklahoma to beat NDSU. They also missed the upsets by Harvard (over Cincy) and Dayton (OSU).
But humans are not always logical. And they can be loyal to a fault.
"I did actually pick NDSU to upset Oklahoma in my personal bracket," said NDSU senior Bryan Rask, a mathematics and statistics major who worked on the project. "We've got a lot of senior leaders on our team, and if (Taylor) Braun and (TrayVonn) Wright play at the top of their game, I think we have a pretty good chance at the upset."
Take that, "SportsCenter."
Speaking of upsets, it's too bad Oklahoma doesn't award frequent-flyer miles. Otherwise, Toby Keith would have something to show for the trip.
The country music singer and die-hard Sooners fan was on a concert tour of Australia when he learned Oklahoma was playing North Dakota State in the NCAA tourney at Spokane, Wash., and he wasn't about to let a small inconvenience like the Pacific Ocean get in the way of attending.
Keith described his journey to AP's Carey Williams this way: "We left two days ago, went to Hawaii, spent the night, let the pilots get a little sleep and rested up so we could get in here and make this game."
Unfortunately, the result wasn't as smooth as the getting there.
On the plus side, Keith had already written his best-selling song, "A Little Less Talk and a Lot More Action" nearly two decades ago. Otherwise, the temptation to pen something to remember the trip by might have been impossible to resist.
Don Schneider didn't travel quite that far to watch his beloved Badgers. But at least his sacrifice paid off.
The 62-year-old steel salesman was the only patron inside Snapper's Sports Bar & Grill in Honolulu when it opened just before 7 a.m. local time. Schneider explained that he and wife Karen have a timeshare at the nearby Hilton, which is why they're usually in paradise for March Madness. He was already halfway through a Budweiser at the Waikiki watering hole, a popular spot for wandering Wisconsin fans that opened 90 minutes early yesterday, when he ran into AP stringer Sam Eifling.
"Last year I started watching on the app in the hotel room," he said. "This is way more fun."
For the first hour, Schneider was virtually the entire party. And the way Wisconsin came out early against American University, the mood wasn't likely to improve in a hurry.
Asked whether he'd ever seen the Badgers look so flat in the tournament, Schneider laughed, "I don't remember, I drink too much beer."
Then he remembered this Wisconsin team, for a change, has some scorers, and began rattling them off: "(Frank) Kaminsky. (Ben) Brust. And (Sam) Dekker! Oh, man. Sheboygan boy!"
Sure enough, in the second half, it was all Badgers. And Schneider ordered another Bud.
We couldn't let Saint Joseph's exit stage left without saying goodbye to the kid.
His name is Philip Martelli, he's the 4-year-old grandson of longtime Hawks coach Phil Martelli, and if he had had an agent - or just a Screen Actor's Guild card - he'd be rolling in dough. Here's the list of free programming Philip provided TV with in the last week: the Today Show, Good Morning America, every local newscast in Philly - even an in-game interview during CBS' broadcast of Thursday's overtime loss to Connecticut.
Philip owes his fame to his pitch-perfect imitation of grandad. He usually wears a blazer and oversized tie to games, pumps his fist at the student section walking in, just like Phil, sits behind the bench, folds his arms and shouts "Hey!" in perfect synch, and when he does the trademark sad Phil Martelli maneuver - burying his chin in his chest as his team goes south - well, check out Philip's work for yourself (via YouTube) here: http://bit.ly/PV4uHM
Philip's dad, Phil Martelli Jr., is an assistant coach at Delaware, and he told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he and wife Meghan (a former college basketball player) worry about raising Philip in a family of coaches and dragging him to games almost every night.
"`One night, I'm a St. Joe's Hawk. One night, I'm a Delaware Blue Hen. One night, I'm a St. Paul Catholic (High) Falcon,'" is how Phil Martelli Jr. described Philip's week. "He probably thinks every 4-year-old knows who Fran Dunphy and Bruiser Flint are.
"We've done everything," dad added a moment later, "short of talk to child psychologists to make sure we're not frying his brain."
Not to worry. Philip could have worse role models. In a business that occasionally requires coaches to behave like jerks - and for plenty, that's not a stretch - Phil Martelli is one of the genuinely good guys.
We'll miss him, too.
Stats LLC doesn't want to jinx Creighton, but points out that having the player who led the nation in scoring - in this case Doug McDermott, who topped Division I at 26.9 points per game - is rarely a good thing. From 1998 through 2013, only four teams with the top gun even made the NCAA field and only two of those advanced as far as the Sweet 16 - Adam Morrison (2006, Gonzaga) and Jimmer Fredette (2011, BYU). The No. 3-seeded Bluejays meet Louisiana-Lafayette with that hanging over their head.
"Yesssssssssss HARVARD!!!!!!! Messing up a lot of peoples chances at $1 billion lol (hash)bracketbusters (hash)twoyearsinarow" - tweeted Harvard alum and Houston Rockets guard Jeremy Lin at JLin7.


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Tropical Fish Keeping - Aquarium fish care and resources
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Emergency Inheritance of tanks and fish questions: A friends wife has been left with back/neck/ and closed head injury following an auto accident. She has been downstate with family for therapy and told him to give me the tanks and fish. He dropped off some tanks the other day after combining the fish in one tank. He had already forgot to care for them and they lost several. So I now added to my old, 40 gallon long community tank and my old 10 gallon, I have two more 10 gallons and what I think is a tall 15. Filters, lids, lights and heaters but no gravel or substrate. I filled them with water after wiping and rinsing well. And he called to say he was bringing the fish on Sunday night. So I won't have time to do a cycle or proper set up. Now my question: I know there are a few Cichlids of which one is large enough she used to keep them separated and I know she had firemouth??? and Jack Dempsy. Will the Jack Dempsy be ok by himself in the tall tank??? I will be splitting my community fish into the smaller tanks and use the 40 long for the firemouths. So for the single larger cichlid will a bare bottom 15 or 20 tall with a piece of driftwood be ok temp set up? |
Jack Dempseys can grow to 10 inches. You're going to want a 35 bare minimum, prefereably a 55+. Especially a tall tank, thats goign to mean even less room for this. Now as to an emergenecy temp situation.. I would say it's better then a ditch somewhere. You'll have to do your best to get it out of that asap though, even if it means giving it away. Ugh all those fish in one tank... I dont think you're going to be getting all that many by Sunday. |
I agree with Ladayen.... depending on what they have put all together..... I am so sorry for your friend's accident and troubles. Hope she is recovering however slowly!! And can return to some normalcy. You are an amazing friend to take on the fish and tanks and troubles for them. Let us know here on this thread what they bring you on the weekend and maybe we can help you sort it all out. Wish I was closer I would lend a hand in the grunt work!! Looking forward to hearing more! |
I think the Dempsey and the Firemouths should go in the 40 long and the smaller fish divided up into your smaller 10 and 15 gallon tanks. It's not ideal and you will have to keep an eye on how the JD and Firemouths get along but it will do in a pinch. Be sure to decorate the cichlid tank with lots of driftwood, rocks and what ever decorations you can find to create territories and break up the line of sight. Provide caves and cover for the Firemouths so each have their own cave and can get away from the JD. Good luck and I hope your friend recovers from her accident. |
Oh my..... I hope your friend recovers soon. Good luck with your new fishy friends and let us know what you end up with when he brings them. |
Thanks everyone. I have cleaned the smaller tanks and divided some of the water from the 40L into them. Tomorrow I will have to move the smaller fish I have into the smaller tanks (guppies, micky mouse platty, gold dust mollies. So the large tank got its water change but is already aged and I can put the cichlids in there. Already had driftwood etc in there. So as soon as I get them I will know what to do and how many of my smaller fish will have to go to LFS. Hopefully this shifting won't make them ill. The three new tanks have no substrate until I can get some. But did move some decorations and some spawning grasses to each. |
They don't think she will "recover much more" and has been banned from cooking or driving. She no longer comes to church because she can not handle crowds anymore. |
ok ready to start id on what I got He said one Cichlid was a jack depsy and didn't know on the others. CICHLIDS: (All in my large tank for now) I think 3 are P. Managuensis (Jaguar Cichlid) Two are near the same size and the other is a little smaller. 2 are: Orange and Blue hues with ?greenish dot at back gill and pale dark inside looking blotches in center of body. One of these has a mouth/nose area red blushed. (Firemouth or another???) 1: he is the smallest Cichlid and (might be a Jack Dempsy????) (reminded me at first of a convict). It may not make it....was leaning on his side in the bucket. Now is moving some after resting on bottom of tank (upright after 5 minutes in tank). It looks like there is blue dotted caps on his top fins tips when he flares them open. He also looks like there is either tiny holes or pale blue dots in his tail. CORY DORA: (Currently in with Guppies as Quarantee.. then will move to other tanks) 3= Lateral black line down body length. Vertical stripes in tail. Large black dot on upper fin. 1= Multiple black lines down body from gill to tail and a thick black Vertical mask over eyes. Also pale stripes Vertical on a slightly scissor tail. Guppies: I will describe these later. They are in the small tank they had them in. I added water for now and will sort out the snail explosion in it and do water changes until I get all the eggs out of the water. Didn't want to shock them with 100 % clean water that hadn't had any seasonsed in it. It looked like more than one variety in the same tank so I didn't want to do separating until I know what is what. Or I see what is healthy enough for the LFS. Ok. Now any help with ID on these descriptions?? And yes I am looking in the Profiles. |
Pics would really help lol. Watch those 3 jaguars. You are dealing with 3 potentially big, powerful,l and aggressive fish. |
jaguars get huge |
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Clothing Brands: Take Responsibility for Workers Burned Alive
Factory workers work in almost slave-like conditions making clothes for Americans. They are generally young, poor and female. On December 14, more than two dozen of them were burned alive when an easily preventable fire broke out in the unsafe, multi-story sweatshop they were working in.
Who did these Bangladeshi workers die for? Surely a shady company making clothes for the Bangladeshi poor?
Nope. These laborers make clothes for prominent American brands, like Abercrombie & Fitch, JC Penney, Target, Carters Inc (owner of the brand Osh Kosh B'Gosh), GAP Inc (owner of the brands GAP, Banana Republic and Old Navy), the Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (owners of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger) and the VF Corporation (owners of The North Face and Wrangler and Lee jeans).
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The tragedy began when a fire broke out on the ninth and 10th floors of the multi-story "That's It Sportswear" clothing factory just north the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. With a number of the exits blocked, 28 workers were killed: most burned to death, some trampled to death, some killed by suffocation and others jumped from the flames to their death. Several dozen more suffered severe burns.
The tragedy is particularly bitter as labor rights activists have long called on US brands to pressure their Asian manufacturers to improve safety conditions at multi-story factories. Indeed this past April groups like the International Labor Rights Forum, the Maquila Solidarity Network and the Clean Clothes Campaign specifically called on major clothing brands to thoroughly review safety standards in multi-story factories.
But how many times in one year do workers have to die before American brands begin to take worker safety seriously?
These are principally American companies accountable to American consumers. It's time to show them that US shoppers will demand a serious, severe response to incidents like this.
Join a large consortium of Bangladeshi and international groups calling on all companies sourcing from the "That's It Sportswear" factory to provide just compensation to the victims and their families and launch thorough, independent, well funded and publicly transparent safety inspections of all multi-story supplier factories in Bangladesh in the supply chain of each brand and retailer.
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The Madhya Pradesh having massive population tribals has included in the National Rural Livelihood Mission. In the first phase 6207 villages in the 46 development blocks of 10 districts are being taking up. In the tribal dominated villages of the district of Sheopur, Jhalia, Dhar, Alinejpur, Barwani, Shadol, Anupur, Dndori, Mandla and Balaghat the tribals will be provided institutional forum to increasing their income with close assess to the financial bodies. The rural families will also be empowered through skill and capacity development.
Taking into consideration the short comings of earlier poverty alleviation programme now it has been decide to secure the direct participation of the villagers in the programmes of the mission. The schemes will continue for about 10 years to candidate the going of the mission.
The government staff is being trained with specific empahsis tribal needs and making them familiar with the problems of tribal and how to works on such remote areas. The rural people will be educated about their rights and government schemes of their benefts. It will change the rural development of the state to a very great extend.
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The ECB has today announced that Sussex batsman Chris Nash is returning home from the England Performance Programme in South Africa after fracturing his right thumb in training.
Following advice from medical experts, Nash will undergo an operation next week and continue his rehabilitation in the United Kingdom under the guidance of the ECB medical team.
He will not be replaced in the squad, which is currently based in Pretoria and due to stay in South Africa until December 17.
Injury forces Nash to return home
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Dealing with the litter box might not be the most fun part of your relationship with your cat. But when it comes to what goes in and what comes out, more is in your control than you might think. A wide spectrum of different litter products exists, and each offers its own advantages. Finding the right kind of litter is important for making life as comfortable for your cat and as easy for you as it can be.
Synthetic litter is what many cats are used to, and often the easiest litter to find. Once you've decided on this type of litter, you'll find that there is still a wealth of varieties to choose from. These litters are designed to make cleaning the litter box as simple, painless, and odorless as possible. Synthetic litters options include scented and unscented, clay, and crystals.
Each of these varieties comes with some different features, but the basic advantages of synthetic litter are the ease of use and the relatively low cost. If you're a new cat owner, this is likely where you'll start.
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Does the WTO Need a Permanent Body of Panelists?
There is a longstanding debate over the need for a permanent body of panelists at the World Trade Organization (WTO). Put most starkly by the European Communities (EC), the argument is that only full-time jurists would have the experience needed to render 'better and more consistent rulings' that could stand up under appellate review. India and the African Group, among others, challenge the logic of Europe's proposal and its empirical underpinnings. Our article weighs in on this debate, offering the first statistical test of the EC's hypothesis, that conditional on being appealed, rulings handed down by less-experienced panelists are more likely to be reversed. We find that experience matters, but only with regards to the panel's chair. Indeed, on appeal, panels led by experienced chairs are far less likely to have their rulings reversed by the Appellate Body; the experience of the other panelists, by comparison, is inconsequential. The implication is that rather than constituting a permanent body of panelists, the WTO would be better served by establishing a pool of permanent chairs. As for the timeliness of panel reports, which is Europe's--and the literature's--other outcome of interest, we find no evidence that judicial experience matters in the least. Oxford University Press 2009, all rights reserved, Oxford University Press.
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EBRSO investigating payday loan armed robbery
BATON ROUGE - Sheriff's deputies are investigating an armed robbery of an East Baton Rouge Parish payday loan business that happened on Tuesday.
An employee told investigators a man entered EZ Payday Loans at 10446 Airline Hwy shortly before noon on June 17 and posed as a customer before pulling out a black handgun.
The robber held the employee at gunpoint as she filled a white plastic bag with $2,020 in cash, then ordered her to the back of the business before fleeing according to EBRSO.
Deputies suspect the armed robber fled in the direction of Arnold Lane on foot because no vehicle was seen leaving the business after the crime.
The employee described the suspect as a thin black man wearing a tan hat, dark sunglasses, a red shirt with an orange safety vest over it, blue jeans and tan work boots.
Anyone with information concerning the robbery is asked to contact the Armed Robbery Division at (225) 389-3845.


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Party Games for Small Groups of Adults (4 to 8 People)
Getting people of the world to have fun together
Sit everyone in a circle. Whisper a long phrase to one
person. They, in turn, whisper what they heard to the
next person, and so on. The last person announces what
they heard.
Pass the
Wrap a bar of chocolate (or some other gift), in a layer of
paper. Now wrap it in another layer and repeat until you
have about 10 layers. Finally wrap it in gift paper (so it
looks nice).
Sit everyone in a circle and play a short snippet of
music. When the music stops, the person holding the
parcel removes ONE layer of wrapping. Repeat until the
last layer of wrapping has been removed.
The winner keeps the present.
Pass the
Parcel with
As above but every layer contains a forfeit (E.g Sing a
song, Eat a teaspoon of Mustard, have your belly button
filled with water).
(or Jelly)
Sit everyone in a circle and place a tray in the middle
with a hat, scarf, gloves, knife and fork, die and a
wrapper bar of chocolate.
In turn, players throw the die. If they throw a SIX, they
must put on the Hat, Scarfe and Gloves before they start
to unwrap the chocolate with the knife and fork, ad then
start to eat it.
To speed up the game add a second die and require a
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The Jelly Variation is to turn out a set jelly onto a plate
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The old favourite. With one fewer chairs than people, a
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sit on a vacant chair. (Only ONE person per chair) The
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April 30, 2013
Why Tyler Perry's Temptation Kills Women With HIV
Welcome to another day in my life. Today is Tuesday and I hope you are having a beary safe and great week so far. It is another busy week for Dab the AIDS Bear and me.
I have been sitting with and following the reactions to Tyler Perry's Temptation over the last couple weeks. Within the HIV community, and outside of it. Within the feminist community, and in other communities of women. In communities of color, among reproductive justice folks, and outside of those spaces.
What has been most distressing to me is the way that Tyler Perry played on and abused the high levels of internalized stigma and oppression, evident in responses from women of color and women living with HIV with respect to the film. [In the movie, the character of Judith cheats on her husband and she contracts HIV from the other man.]
"She chose to leave Bryce." "She made a choice to put herself at risk." "She wasn't grateful enough for what she had, so she deserved it." "Harley is a monster, like the monster who infected me." These are only a smattering of the comments I've seen, read, and heard over the last weeks.
My reaction to witnessing the dialogue among HIV-positive women is the same motivation that originally drove a group of 28 women to co-found Positive Women's Network-USA in 2008, rejecting the seemingly widespread notion that women living with HIV were forever destined to be held up as examples and nothing more.
That their place in the HIV workforce, public health community and education efforts was relegated to storytellers regaling classrooms, legislative chambers, and church congregations with tales of our supposed guilt, sins, and transgressions, and, sometimes worse, of their supposed innocence.
Worse, women living with HIV seemed to largely accept their place in that structure. They are incentivized to be complicit in it for a $25 or $50 stipend every World AIDS Day and the occasional Sunday. How do you resist a paradigm when living on a fixed income and feeding your family — and even making sense of your own reality — may depend on your willingness to participate in it?
Watching Temptation was triggering to me because it preys on the worst fears and internalized self-loathing of people who are most likely to be living with HIV. Tyler Perry's Temptation teaches that:
1. They are women, so they don't know if or when they want sex. If they say no, they don't mean it, and when they say no, it's because they are trying to live up to a societal expectation that women should say no, even if they don't mean it. Therefore a man has the right to interpret my "no" and to rape me based on his decision that the women did not really mean "NO!"
2. Men with HIV are sexually irresponsible, predatory and violent, and fail to disclose.
3. As a woman, they should be so afraid of the big bad world that they should not dare consider leaving their relationship. (Also, it's a slippery slope from teetotaler to using cocaine regularly.)
4. People living with HIV cannot even hope for loving relationships, let alone have them, no matter how long they live with HIV. Romance, sex, love, and children? Off the table entirely.
This final (and archaic) portrayal might be the one that most directly and thoroughly assaults the self-worth of women living with HIV. Patriarchy, family structures, and cultural codes teach us from an early age that women without partners and without children hold little stature in family and society, especially in communities of color.
Most women living with HIV in the United States are women of color and poor women, who already live at the intersection of multiple oppressions before their HIV diagnosis.
Thus, for a woman testing positive for HIV, or who suspects she may be HIV positive, motherhood and/or becoming a spouse or partner may be the only socially valued identity available to her.
If Tyler Perry's portrayal is real, and they are sinful, secretive monsters, unworthy of love and incapable of reproduction, what is the incentive for any woman to learn that she is HIV-positive and for any person living with HIV to disclose her/his status?
Research and data discredit every one of Perry's points about people living with HIV, not to mention the assumptions about who may be at risk for HIV. Studies show that the overwhelming majority of people living with HIV practice safer sex once they know their HIV status. HIV-positive people date, and more often than not, seem to disclose, and many are in long-term relationships with HIV-negative or positive partners and spouses. Oh, and by the way — yes, they can have children! (Hello, 1990s.)
However, the majority of folks who encounter people living with HIV may not know this information, and certainly the majority of folks testing positive for HIV do not initially have complete information, and thus Perry's portrayal is dangerous, deceptive and misleading. Perpetuating HIV stigma creates obvious problems in expanding HIV testing and ensuring that people living with HIV are in medical care and are safe disclosing to their partners.
But most of Perry's messages have already been largely internalized by women living with HIV, as evidenced in the troubling response among many HIV-positive women to Temptation.
It's just not that simple. Let me say it: It sucks to be cheated on or lied to. And sometimes people do irresponsible things, stupid things, hurtful things. Sometimes they thought about it beforehand and sometimes they didn't. It is irrelevant. HIV is not punishment for sins, bad behavior, insensitivity, irresponsibility, or naiveté. Lots of people do shitty things and do not get HIV. That is also irrelevant.
HIV is not something that "guilty" people get. It is not a punishment for cheating, lying, using drugs or alcohol, having more than one partner, not asking the right question, or not appreciating a partner enough.
HIV is also not something that people "innocently" get. HIV is a disease transmitted by four bodily fluids. Nobody "deserves" HIV or "doesn't deserve" HIV, just like nobody deserves or does not deserve cancer. And most of us didn't get HIV by having sex with the devil.
Also, love, eternal happiness, husbands and children are not shiny little prizes you win by being faithful or having sex only with the lights off.
Temptation is sleazy, trashy entertainment designed to profit by preying on our collective worst fears.
Innocence implies that guilt is possible, and guilt implies that innocence is possible. One is meaningless without the other. Allowing ourselves, as people living with HIV, to fall into any such dichotomy perpetuates the story that there are people who "deserve" a disease and its consequences—and worse, that it is permissible to hold any one of us up as an example to moralize. It's just not that simple. Let's not let Tyler Perry convince us it is.
But, there are conditions that put people at increased risk for poor health, and those are things we can and should work to change.
We ought to be angry with the laws, policies and norms that make it acceptable for companies to dump toxic waste in poor communities, increasing cancer rates.
We ought to be furious with the HIV criminalization laws, policies and social norms that make it challenging, even dangerous, to disclose one's HIV status. A bill passed in Kansas last month expanded authority of state and local health officials to quarantine people living with HIV. Larry Dunn's false beliefs about HIV led him to brutally murder his girlfriend after she disclosed her status. A man in Peru allegedly set fire to his HIV-positive gay son earlier this week. And over 32 states in the United States have laws criminalizing people with HIV at this time.
Countless people living with HIV and advocates throughout the nation are working to change these laws, bills, and stigmatizing beliefs. Among them, the Sero Project and the Positive Justice Project have advocated tirelessly to repeal laws and change policies that criminalize and stigmatize people living with HIV in the United States. The Positive Women's Network-USA has a treasure trove of resources produced by HIV-positive women framing a policy and communications dialogue that uplifts human rights and dignity.
Tyler Perry, on the other hand, exemplifies an irresponsible mouthpiece that preys on the fears, myths, misperceptions, and misguided policies we seek to reverse. Media has the power to change how we feel about ourselves and each other. Perry's messages keep people living with HIV closeted, fearful, and isolated. They kill us.
It is this fear of ourselves and what we represent that is depressing, that makes us slowly lose the will to live, to fight, to leave unhealthy or dangerous relationships, to take our medication, to get to the doctor one more time.
It is our own worst fear that Tyler Perry's portrayal of us—a story told over and over—is real, and that the best we have to hope for is a sexy, sweet, remarried ex who will ask us about our T-cell count.
And just maybe, the messages portrayed by Tyler Perry are the reason why many women living with HIV in the United States are not in regular medical care.
It takes a very, very long time to undo decades of media and public health officials and faith based institutions telling us that people living with HIV are getting what we deserve. It takes even longer to undo the internalized oppression that comes from colonization and slavery and displacement. And I cannot imagine how long it will take women to undo internalized sexism and its deadly consequences.
For the estimated 300,000 women living with HIV in the United States, Tyler Perry's Temptation preys on the worst of all that. For this, I charge him with at least 300,000 counts of self-doubt and recrimination, a million moments of fear and hopelessness, hundreds of failures to disclose, countless refused HIV tests, thousands of missed medical appointments, suicides, homicides, and setting us back in our HIV response for over than a decade.
Tyler Perry must commit to doing better. Call Dab the AIDS Bear Project before you make your next movie on HIV. Otherwise, someone, please take away that camera.
Hope you have a beary safe and great Tuesday!
Until we meet again; here's wishing you health, hope, happiness and just enough.
big bear hug,
Daddy Dab


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Job Safety Analysis Worksheet (JSA)
- Job Safety Analysis Worksheet (JSA) (PDF 17kb)
Document Type: Publication
Keycode: VWA571/02/09.04 (cd-rom)
Category: Controlling OHS Hazards and Risks, Job Safety Analysis,
Publication Date: 02 September 2004
Date First Published: 02 September 2004
Summary: It is essential for those doing these tasks to know the best and safest way of doing the job. Use the Job Safety Analysis Worksheet and follow the five steps to conduct an effective job safety analysis.
Further information
If you are in the construction industry, before any high-risk construction work is commenced, you must complete a Safe Work Method Statement (SWMS).


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Saturday, April 24, 2004
Movie Physics
A site all geeks can be proud of: It's Insultingly Stupid Movie Physics. There are reviews. And look: it's The Worst Physics Movie Ever Made: The Core (2003). One might argue that they took it too seriously; most critics emphasized the film's self-awareness of its own preposterousness, but then that's most of the fun of being a geek. And they do have a category for movies that obviously are not intended to be taken seriously as science, like Spider-Man. Which reminds me—don't miss their Matrix reviews ("there's more romance in a chemistry set than between Trinity and Neo"), which, after an amusing attempt to take them seriously, consign the movies to scientific irrelevance.


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This informative, relaxed group is for parents and caregivers of infants. Each week focuses on a different topic of interest to new parents, and guest speakers are occasionally featured. Infants and children under 4 years of age are welcome to attend with the parent or caregiver.
Topic: Fitness for You and Fun with Your Baby Kristin Menapace, Owner, Baby Boot Camp, Princeton


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It appears that the Patriots and Vince Wilfork aren't any closer to getting a contract extension done, and one has to wonder if Wilfork's future in may now be in doubt.
Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe reported on Sunday that when asked if any of the contract offers he has received so far were enough to give him a reason to believe that something could eventually get done, the veteran defensive lineman offered up a simple "No".
Recently owner Robert Kraft talked about a lot of the uncertainty of the NFL's collective bargaining agreement, which expires after the 2010. It appeared at the time that was the reason why veterans here in New England weren't seeing contract extensions.
"We don't know what the rules will be and we don't want to put ourselves in a position where we could be penalized for making poor decisions now when we don't know what the rules are," Kraft said a few weeks ago. "No one knows, we don't know. What could happen is we don't have any agreement."
As a result, there have yet to be any extensions for many of the veterans, with quite a few players in a "contract year" heading into this season. Richard Seymour, Stephen Neal, Nick Kaczur, Ben Watson, Alex Smith, Jarvis Green, David Thomas, Kevin Faulk, Tedy Bruschi, Leigh Bodden, Logan Mankins, Russ Hochstein, Stephen Goskowski join Wilfork as guys who's futures are in question with their deals set to end at the end of this year.
While we've yet to hear from any of those other names, Wilfork has made it clear that Kraft's reasoning isn't sitting well, and he's not buying into it.
"Not at all," he told the Globe when asked about it. "There are 31 other teams out there and a lot of them are making moves. They're in the same situation that we're in. I understand what he's saying, but at the same token, it's not stopping the other teams from making the moves and what they have to do.
"Trust me, I understand where they are coming from. We have a lot of guys on this team that are going to [have contracts expire after the season] that are pretty good players. I know that is pretty tough for [the team]. At the same time, the labor situation is all over the NFL.
"I see 31 other teams out there, and I see deals done all the time. So when you come and talk to me about the uncertainty of the future of the NFL, I understand what you are saying. But there are 31 other teams out there, guys getting locked up. You have guys out there getting contracts done. It's not like nobody is getting contracts done.
"I see both sides. I can truly sit here and say 'I see where the organization is coming from' but at the same time, they see what I'm seeing, other teams are getting deals done also."
Needless to say things aren't looking too good right now. It's amazing where this whole situation has gone since back in April when it appeared a deal was going to get done. We'll have to wait to see how the league's labor situation unfolds, and what effect it will have here in New England. Not to mention who will be the next Patriot player to speak out and voice their displeasure on this topic to the media.


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The fragrance of delicacy .... sometimes you never know what a producer visit in Burgundy will bring ... and this was the case with Maison Harbour in Savigny-Les-Beaune. To be honest I always fear these visits - as I hate being put in a situation … [Read more...]
Visit Domaine Hubert Lamy – tasting of the 2015 vintage
I always love to taste the wines from Oliver Lamy, as they offer lovely and very dependable enjoyment .. vintage after vintage. I have visited Lamy several times - always a great experience and treat - se articles from earlier visits can be seen … [Read more...]
Visit Maison Chantereves tasting of the 2015s
Visiting estates in Burgundy is a world of many different experiences .. some are old estates with several decades of history, some have sales personal and assistants to receive you and to make appointments. When entering the rather spacious new … [Read more...]
Terroir Insight: Ramonet Chassagene-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret
There is a new wine in the Domaine Ramonet portfolio in the 2014 vintage - Chassagne-Montrachet Clos du Cailleret - not to be confused with the Les Caillerets also coming from the Chassagne-Montrachet Les Caillerets vineyard. So lets take a closer … [Read more...]
Domaine Ramonet, Chassagne Montrachet Les Vergers 2014
The 2014 Les Vergers is a beauty .. confirming the greatness of the 2014 vintage for the whites. The nose is offering very pure white orchard fruits brought forward by a salty minerality. On the palate very very pure fruit with with fine intensity - … [Read more...]
Domaine Bachelet, Chassagne Blanchot Dessus 2010
The 2010 Blanchot Dessus from Domaine Jean-Claude Bachelet is most likely the very best Chassagne 1er cru I have tasted so far. In the nose pure and airy white and yellow fruit brought forward by a vibrant and filligree minerality. On the palate very … [Read more...]
Domaine Dublere, Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees 2010
The Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees 2010 is drinking well. The nose offer white and yellow orchard fruits - beginning to show a bit of age, with some more maturing notes. On the palate fresh and ripe fruit - very pure for a 2010 Chassagne with … [Read more...]
Caves des Batistines, Chassagne-Montrachet Rouge 1957
1957 is not one of the greatest years - but fine wines were made - although many are now starting to fade. This Chassagne is however quite fresh and still a wine for drinking. The nose offer fully matured pinot notes .. dark cherries, amaretto … [Read more...]
Moillard-Grivot, Chassagne-Montrachet 1992
Maison Moillard-Grivot is a well known negociant firm in Nuits-Saint-Georges - established in 1850 and while it's an old reknown firm - the reputation is not so prominent these days. The 1992 vintage is however a very fine vintage for the whites - … [Read more...]
Old Burgundies of excellent, lesser and unknown repute
It's always a treat to taste old Burgundies, and this week I had the opportunity to taste three aged Burgundies at a light lunch with some good friends. On the table was a Chassagne-Montrachet 1992 from Moillard-Grivot, a Dujac Clos Saint-Denis … [Read more...]
Domaine Heitz-Lochardet, Chassagne La Maltoye 2015
The Chassagne La Maltoye is a somewhat weighty wine. The nose offer white and yellow orchard fruits - peach and pear - quite exotic and with a healthy dose of Chassagne minerality. On the palate rich, slightly dense with quite abundant mid-palate … [Read more...]
Bouchard Pere et Fils, Chassagne Montrachet 2014
The 2014 Chassagene-Montrachet from Bouchard Pere et Fils is surprisingly good. The nose offer fresh, pure and crystal clear white fruit - very refined for a generic Chassagne with a nice detailed minerality. On the palate focused and vibarnt with a … [Read more...]
Producer Insight: Domaine Heitz-Lochardet
On my March trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure to taste some wines from Domaine Heitz-Lochardet - both from the 2013 vintage and the 2014 vintage - and to meet Armand Heitz the man behind the wines a couple of times. Photo: Armand Heitz of … [Read more...]
Heitz-Lochardet – a bright new star on the Burgundy horizon
Wine writers have to find a new star on the wine heaven each year ... thats the logic and also the history in my view. This can be rather problematic .. but in Burgnudy new and more or less obvious stars occur almost every year ... many neglected … [Read more...]
Bouchard Pere et Fils, Volnay Caillerets Ancienne Cuvée Carnot 2014
This is another of the signature wines of Bouchard Pere et Fils, as this vineyard was the first holdings acquired by the Bouchard familily 240 years ago. The bouquet offer fresh and detailed juicy fruit and a more lightfooted expression of the 2014 … [Read more...]
Maison Chantereves, Chassagne-Montrachet Les Morgeots 2014
The Chassagne-Montrachet Les Morgeots is a big step up from the otherwise lovely Saint-Romain. In the nose intense but airy white and yellow orchard fruits brought forward by a powerful citrus infused minerality. On the palate very fine focus and … [Read more...]
Visit: Chantereves … tasting of the 2014s
On my November trip to Burgundy I had the pleasure to revisit Chantereves- one of the rising stars within the world of micro negociants. Tomoko explaining the new style of the reds Chantereves, Savigny, Rhingau and Japan Chantereves is a … [Read more...]
Terroir Insight: d'Auvenay Criots-Batard-Montrachet
One of the most elusive wines from Burgundy is the Criots-Batard-Montrachet from Domaine d'Auvenay. While the name Leroy rings a lot of bells in most Burgundy lovers ears, Domaine d'Auvenay is a bit below the radar of many collectors - mainly … [Read more...]
Bouchard Pere et Fils, Volnay Cailleret 1959
The Volnay Cailleret Ancienne Cuvée Carnot 1959 from Bouchard Pere et Fils is a perfectly matured and classic 1959. Showing beautifully and is a more weighty and vinous wine that the more delicate and precise 1971 served at the same dinner at … [Read more...]
Bouchard Pere et Fils, Volnay Cailleret 1971
The Volnay Cailleret Ancienne Cuvée Carnot 1971 from Bouchard Pere et Fils is still showing very fine form. In the bouquet - starting out a bit closed with notes of iron .. but quickly unfolds with lovely mature red fruit and sous-bois ... and after … [Read more...]
Domaine Dublere, Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees 2013
The Chassagne-Montrachet Les Chaumees 2013 is a delightful glass. In the nose very fine and delicate citrus infused yellow fruit - with notes of pear, and melon - slightly perfumed supported by a crunchy minerality that is lurking underneath. On the … [Read more...]
Clos Saint-Jean … the red Grand Cru of Chassagne-Montrachet?
I have always enjoyed a good glass of red Chassagne as they often offer a very lively and vibrant expression of pinot noir. Often have I been drinking these wines for mere pleasure and without analyzing the wines and taking a closer look at why I … [Read more...]
Domaine Ramonet, Chassagne-Montrachet Clos Saint-Jean 2011
The 2011 Chassagene-Montrachet 1er cru Clos St. Jean from Domaine Ramonet is a delightful wine. Slightly closed at the moment and require 30 minutes of air to unfold. Then the nose becomes gorgeously expressive bursting with airy red berry fruit - … [Read more...]
Collins Corner #1 – in the quest for overlooked Burgundies
This article is made by C. Robert Collins, who will be a guest writer here on winehog. I'm very pleased to have Bob on board, as this would enrich the blog with other views and angles - I hope you will enjoy his articles. You can read Bobs quite … [Read more...]
Once Mont Rachet now Blanchot .. the unknown neighbour!
The vineyard Blanchot Dessus is located just south of Le Montrachet - the Chassagne part of the legendary Grand Cru Montrachet. Blanchots Dessus seen from south Blanchot Dessus is a small and relatively unknown vineyard with few owners - … [Read more...]


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NEW YORK, April 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), in partnership with the New York City Department of Transportation (NYC DOT), will begin testing advanced explosives detection technology today as part of the agency's Security Enhancement and Capabilities Augmentation Program (SEACAP). During the three-week pilot program, TSA will conduct explosives screening on passengers boarding the Staten Island Ferry at the St. George Terminal in Staten Island using passive millimeter wave screening equipment. The purpose of the project is to test the performance of new technologies to detect explosives while maintaining efficient passenger operations for high volume commuter ferries. "SEACAP is one in a series of pilot programs TSA has designed to evaluate and determine the effectiveness of emerging explosive detection technologies in the maritime environment," said John Sammon, TSA Assistant Administrator, Transportation Sector Network Management (TSNM). "This is yet another tool the agency can use to respond to specific threats that arise from new intelligence or major events." The SEACAP pilot employs passive millimeter wave technology to screen passengers for person-borne explosives before they board the ferry to lower Manhattan. Because the technology does not use whole body imaging, privacy issues will not be a concern. Testing will occur Monday through Friday during off-peak hours. Prior to boarding, passengers will move through the terminal's turnstiles at their normal pace. The screening equipment will be angled to passively screen passengers as they pass through turnstiles to enter the ferry terminal waiting area. Passengers will not be asked to stand in place, nor will they even need to break stride. Video images of the scanned passengers will be monitored by TSA's Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) from a station set up to the side of the waiting area. The TSOs in the monitoring station will be in communication with roving TSOs and will notify them of any passengers who display an anomaly. An abbreviated pat down area will be available for resolution of those anomalies and TSA-certified explosive detection canine teams will be available to screen passengers' baggage. "Over 65,000 people a day pass through this terminal and ride the Staten Island ferry," said DOT Commissioner Weinshall. "We are happy to work with TSA and the Coast Guard to ensure that we are doing everything possible to keep the ferry and our passengers safe." For further information about TSA, please visit our web site at http://www.tsa.gov. Media Contacts: Ann Davis/TSA 617-733-8437 Kay Sarlin/NYC DOT 212-442-7033
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Aftermarket HID info and pictures
There have been some misc posts here and there about aftermarket HID kits so I thought I would post some info and pics on my setup.
Important notes before purchasing a kit:: When purchasing a kit make sure it is CANBUS compliant - this is very important because with a standard kit you will get horrible flickering that makes the vehicle very unsafe and also will annoy the crap out of everyone on the road. (I learned the hard way!) This description of a CANBUS ballasts was clipped from an online retailer: Quote:
Installation Notes:: The install is a complete pain in the ass! :cool: Not because connecting the harness or ballasts is difficult but because access to the headlight bulbs is a bit of a joke on a WK2. Be prepared to carve up your hands pretty good unless you have the fist and fingers of a small child or midget. Other than getting the bulbs in everything else is a breeze and there is quite a bit of room to mount the ballasts etc in or around the headlight housing. Pictures:: I will warn you in advance the pics do not do the lights justice. It was hard to get them to show up properly in the pic without messing up the rest of the photo (definitely not a pro in the camera department) so the lights will appear slightly brighter in person. First off are a few shots of how the light is projected onto the road. Considering these are halogen housings they do a very good job of keeping the light contained and on the road where it should be. Note the sharp downward sloping cutoff line on the divider in first pic below - this is a huge plus because you dont want to be blinding everyone else on the road. I have also noticed that when driving behind cars it seems to light up everything from the trunk lid down and does not flood the interior of the car in front of you with light - another big plus! ... on to the pics. Side cutoff (nasty blackberry pics - sorry) http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hidb.jpg Next up is the overall coverage on the road: http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hida.jpg Finally a few shots of the beast itself :D http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hid1.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hid2.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hid3.jpg http://members.shaw.ca/mattob/hid4.jpg So that's it! Impressions of the kit are great - I have had no issues and am very happy with how everything turned out. Hope this helps some of you on the quest for HID. :thumbsup: |
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Nice work, +rep. Double thumbs up to BC, my favorite part of North America.
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Jealous of where you live!!
Nice work! What bulb lights did you use? Also, where did you buy them from?
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Just curious, why would you want aftermarket HID? Whats wrong with stock? Not as bright?
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I did this to my F150, thought I had great cut-off as well until I kept getting flashed by people in town. I had Semi's on divided highways that would flash me. Very bright, loved them, but would not do it in the stock non-projector housings again. Just not fair to the others on the road. |
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Yeah he has a Laredo with the standard non-projector halogen headlights. The results look good but is there a lot of excessive glare above the cutoff line? aka are you blinding the crap out of people or do those halogen housings do an ok job of keeping the HID light on the road and not up in peoples face? Thats the biggest issues with putting a HID "kit" in a halogen housing. James |
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No noticeable glare above the cut-off, no blinding of oncoming traffic, no lighting up the interiors of the car in front of you. This has all been covered in the thread already :thumbsup:
The blackberry pics aren't great but you can clearly see the downward sloping line on the concrete divider and also the fact that the silver civic doesnt have a spec of light anywhere above the window line. This is the same case for people directly in front of you. I will try to get some better night shots if I get the chance but overall these housings do extremely well considering they were designed for halogens. BIG improvement in visibility and also driving enjoyment - I love the crisp white light on the road compared to the dingy yellowed look of the halogens. |
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1. lets see the cut off line on a wall. showing me a blurry moving shot at speed doesnt SHOW that there is NO glare. gget within 25 feet of a wall and show us that shot/
2. you dont need any canbus complaint anything if you use a relay harness which is actually much safer. |
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Vertical Magic and the Magic of Verticality (12.06.10)
According to Tomberg, the seven miracles recorded in the Gospel of John "represent the healing of the seven principal infirmities of human nature in both individuals and groups." As such, they are "not just miracles," but "signs of the future spiritual and bodily healing processes within the human organism, which is sick as a consequence of the fall of humanity."
Joan made a very truthy point when she commented that she had never gone in for "the whole 'seeking after miracles' obsession." However, like all Coons, she has "seen and experienced them," and while she doesn't "dwell on this topic as central to my faith," she observes that "you only get good results when you center on the Good. Center on the wanted results and you get bupkis."
Sista' Dilys expanded upon this, writing that the realm of the miraculous cannot function "without corruption outside of the protection of a Vertically-revealed tradition, and indeed can't be plucked cleanly out of the tradition to carry away for idiosyncratic power. As Joan says, miracles are often only semi-conscious side effects of a fervent consistent illuminated devotion to the Good, the willing citizenship in what Jesus calls the kingdom of God."
Three statements come immediately to mind: 1) The kingdom of God is within [or among] you, 2) Seek ye first the kingdom, and 3) from the Gospel of Thomas, The Father's kingdom is spread all over the world, but people cannot see it. I will try to touch on these three points below, if not today, then later, as we continue this discussion.
Another way of saying this is that there is an "upper vertical" magic, so to speak, and a lower vertical magic. This is indeed a key point, for now that I think about it, my life only became a more or less non-stop magic show when I ceased living for myself and undertook the task of aligning myself with a greater reality. This is not to in any way claim that my life is extraordinary. Rather, as several people pointed put yesterday, signs and wonders are happening all the time -- i.e., the Father's kingdom is spread all over the world -- but the interventions are so subtle that we may underlook them, so to speak. We may also fail to notice them because we only live in one reality, and cannot see the other reality that "might have been" in the absence of the vertical influence.
Of course, it's almost too corny to point out, but this is the great spiritual lesson of It's a Wonderful Life, and why the film is so beloved. Here is an example of a man who spends his life selflessly aligning himself with the universal on behalf of the individual, at great personal cost. However, in his case, he is shown what might have been had he spent his life pursuing the narrow agenda of his self-interested ego.
Another way of saying it is that George is granted the boon of a clear vision of all the miracles and magic that had occurred in his life as a result of unselfishly aligning himself with the Good. And realizing this is the greatest miracle of all, for with this realization, the magic that had always been operating in his life bursts upon him like a sudden downpour of grace. What a tragic waste of life to miss the magic that is happening all the time, for this magic is precisely what nourishes the soul and feeds the "second birth."
The same lesson is present in Dickens' Christmas Carol, in which Scrooge is first given a vision of the forces that went into exiling him from the greater reality and enclosing him in the narrow world of his bitter and envious ego. Envy and entitlement are literally forms of "reverse magic," in that they will spoil whatever they acquire. Envy may or may not help you get what you think you want, but it will also prevent you from enjoying it once you have it.
This lower vertical magic forms the basis of the leftist agenda, which is why they only become more bitter upon getting what they want. The bitterness of the left has not remitted one iota since prevailing in last November's election, because envy is an addictive way of life for them. Try listening to Randi Rhodes for five seconds. In the words of the immortal Big Joe Turner, "I believe to my soul you a devil in nylon hose." Or possibIy the great Junior Brown: "she's just venom wearin' denim, she's a copperheaded queen." I once heard Alan Watts refer to seagulls as "winged hunger." Dailykos must be "digital envy."
This is why the civil rights movement only became a perpetually angry and bitter crusade once it achieved its main goals and should have closed up shop. Indeed, this is how a moral giant such as Martin Luther King transmogrifies before our eyes into grotesque lower vertical beings such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Likewise, it explains how the feminist movement began cranking out creepy hybrid femen such as Hillary Clinton or Gloria Allred or Maureen Dowd after it was no longer necessary. (In fact, if the downward trend continues, there's no telling how low feminism will sink). And it explains the moral monsters of CAIR, a group that is completely unnecessary except to advance a truly diabolical lower vertical agenda. But all of these diverse beings have "common cause" in aligning themselves with the false universal of "coerced" or "Faustian magic."
According to Frithof Schuon, a miracle represents "an interference of the marvellous in the sensory realm." In itself, there is "nothing mysterious or problematical about it." In fact, if you consider the structure of reality, miracles cannot not occur, since the vertical cannot not be, and the vertical takes ontological precedence over the horizontal (i.e., the vertical could never have come from the horizontal). In hermetic terms, the subtle rules the dense, and the the deeper the effect, the higher the cause. The highest cause being God, aligning ourselves with this cause should, so to speak, lift us out of the closed circle of horizontality and manifest in our own lives in terms of the "subtle ruling the dense."
Now, this is not to say that the dense -- the horizontal -- can be eliminated. We are not angels, which is to say purely vertical beings. But it does mean that we can do our part to reverse the fall and restore the priority of the vertical over the horizontal. Obviously, if everyone did this -- individuals working on behalf of the universal -- we would have "heaven on earth." On the other hand, "hell on earth" is the leftist agenda of the individual being forced to work on behalf of the (false) universal. What is today, only March 8th? Most of us are still slaving away for the collective, as tax freedom day does not occur until some point in late April, when we have worked off our debt to the collective. But at least we are not Sweden, where the shackles aren't released until August.
Now, as Schuon points out, a miracle is only "supernatural" on the earthly scale, but "natural" on the cosmic scale. Furthermore, "the purpose of the miraculous phenomenon is the same as that of the Revelation which it accompanies or as a result of which, or in the shadow of which, it is produced: to elicit or to confirm faith." There are two central miracles, one "supernaturally natural," the other "naturally supernatural." Existence itself is a supernaturally natural lesson, what with its gratuitous truth and beauty coursing through its every artery as a result of being infused with the supernatural logos.
This is why the first miracle recorded in Genesis is the archetype of all others, for as our Unknown Friend says, creation ex nihilo, or out of nothing, "is the highest possible expression of magic, namely divine and cosmic magic." This is why the primordial act of creation was not so much a bang as a blossoming seed. As he says, this is "not too difficult to imagine, because each little acorn is such a 'constructive bomb' and the oak is only the visible result of the slow 'explosion' -- or blossoming out -- of this 'bomb.'" What is a butterfly but an exploded caterpillar -- or in our case, a buddhafly catarpultered out of a christalis c-coon?
Schuon points out that "the miraculous is that which is due to a direct, thus vertical intervention of a heavenly Power, and not to a horizontal progression of causality. If one extends the notion of 'nature' to all that exists, miracles too are 'natural,' but in that case words would become meaningless, as it would then be impossible to make the essential distinction between blind or unconscious causes and the supra-conscious Cause, the source of all consciousness and of all power. Scientists confuse the miraculous with the irrational and the arbitrary" (emphasis mine).
A couple of days ago we spoke of the "husk" and "kernel." The husk is there to protect the kernel, but it is possible that we can come to identify with the husk, thus defeating its purpose -- and the purpose of our lives -- by arresting the "blossoming explosion" of our true self. This blossoming -- once you begin to experience it -- is the "personal magic" that mirrors the magic of creation itsoph -- of God's unfolding, creative self-revelation. The kernel, since it is internally related to the whole, seems miraculously able to draw the people and materials it requires in order to fulfill its mission. Or as a rabbinical expression puts it, "God spends most of his time arranging meetings and marriages."
But again, this blossoming cannot be "self-willed" any more than you can will a carrot to grow, for "God gives the increase." All organic growth -- which is to say internally related change directed toward a telos -- is magic. It is the everyday magic of watching an infant change from day to day, or even of writing this blog, if I may say so. For me -- especially for me -- I am always aware that this activity is miraculous when viewed in light of the alternative Bobs I might have become and narrowly averted. "There but for the grace of God," and all that. It's a wonderful life, but only if we stop to consider the alternatives.
More on miracles tomorrow, barring the absence of a miraculous vertical intervention.
There are strange things happening every day
I hear music up above my head
Fill me up with your wonder
Give me my rapture today.
Let me contemplate the presence so divine
Let me sing all day and never get tired
Fill me up from your loving cup
Give me my rapture today.
Won't you guide me through the dark night of the soul
That I may better understand your way
Let me be just and worthy to receive
All the blessings of the Lord into my life.
Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds
That I may be a vehicle for thee
Let me hold to the truth in the darkest hour
Let me sing to the glory of the Lord.
Give me my rapture today. --Van Morrison, Give Me My Rapture


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- Ableton Live
Production Techniques
You'll also learn general production techniques, such as:
- Multitrack Recording,
- Surround Sound Mixing
- Sound Design for Visual Media
Areas of Study
Jim Elenteny
Steve Mallot
Bruce Spitz
Our recording studios
Student Tracks on SoundCloud