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Ask the Girl Scouts in this new video what time it is, and they will probably yell back in chorus that it is "Girl Scout ConnectZ time!"
The ninth and tenth grade girls from Richfield, Armstrong, and Cooper High Schools were looking for a way to encourage participation in Girl Scouting through ConnectZ.
Working with Sprockets, a before and after school learning program dedicated to helping youth fulfill their potentials, the eight girls worked together to conceptualize and shoot the footage. In the video, the girls share the positive impact Girl Scouting has made in their lives: friendships, confidence, and a sense of community.
The diversity found in many of the ConnectZ troops is also what makes it such an inclusive environment. Two of the girls pointed out that everyone is welcome and to any Girl Scout they say, "You are my sister and I can trust you."
Girl Scouting through ConnectZ gives 3,000 girls in underserved communities access to staff-led quality out-of-school activities that help prepare the girls for a positive future after high school.
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and than be even in a deeper hole in 2014 with them all another year older and Tuck a FA. Picking a DE is more about 2014 to me I think the Giants are in trouble next season. They need to make a fresh start on Defense now. Waiting and drafting peripheral pieces like LB may make them better in 2013 but will only further weaken the team down the line when they have no Defensive front.Pass Rusher and CB anything other than that early is a very bad mistake. Giants screwed up last year they had guys like Hayward ,Wagner, Glenn sitting in front of them and they chose to go with a split time RB. I think the 2012 draft set this team back. They did nothing to improve the foundation of the team.
I think DE is the #1 priority out of this draft.
Replacing Osi with Kiwi is a wash (one's better at rushing and one's better against the run) and at this point you have to assume Tuck is going to be more invisible than visible (judging by the past two years). Ojomo and Tracy are both untried and in what limited snaps they've gotten in regular season games, they haven't made that eye popping move to motivate the coaches to put them in more (and this was with our starters being anemic all year long).
We have our two starting CBs (three for Nickle packages). We'll need depth there with T2 probably not being back and CWeb being questionable (ability wise). This is the #2 priority.
The next priority (for me) would be offensive line. However a lot of fans will say LBer. Historically (under Reese) both of these areas have been treated by throwing quantity at the positions and see what sticks. I also have huge questions about the DT position. If the Giants coaching staff have the same questions, don't be surprised to see a DT taken here.
Picks 4-7 will most likely be a combination of LBers and OL imo.

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19 Oct 2010 JonoRocket said
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21 Mar 2011 JonoRocket said
To my knowledge no none of the hotels have a pool or gym, even if they did though you probably still wouldn't use them since your never at any of the hotels aside from when your sleeping and even if you were at your hotel because you decided you didnt want to go out that day or night it would be for a good reason that you would be way to tired to want to do anything else other than sleep and if you have the energy and your at your hotel your not using your contiki time wisely! hehe =).
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23 Mar 2011 FromVancity said
Hi JonoRocket. I'm doing the European Magic tour in july and i'm super excited!
How did you pay for everything (optionals, meals, shopping, )? Did you have loads of Euro cash with you right from the beginning of the trip or did you use visa/travellors cheques?
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23 Mar 2011 JonoRocket said
Hi FromVancity,
I had two methods i used for cash. One was my St George bank account Visa that i used which is was accepted through any VISA atm of course and my bank charged a very minimal fee which was good but be sure to check what the fees might be with your bank if you plan to do this option.
The second method i used was a travelX card loaded with euros which i picked up from my local post office, takes 2 minutes they load the cash on their for you and everything http://www.travelex.com if you want to get more information on that and where you can pick yours up from. To be honest though i wasnt all that satisfied with travelx while it was no fees to withdraw when i loaded my euros on they gave me a bad rate of about 5 cents or so from memory under the "true" exchange rate at the time and this really adds up if your loading a large sum of money on i loaded something like 1000 euro on and ended up losing about 60 euros worth now while i got no fee to withdraw my bank withdrawal fee was only about 2 euros per transaction and considering i only ever did big withdraws of about 250 euros each time i would have only ended up with an 8 euro loss however the safety net is nice to have but just be aware that many of the cash passports while a lot dont charge fees they will give you a bad rate. the biggest reason why i got this was to have backup if i lost my bank card or vice versa.
Finally in my wallet i kept $200 Aussie cash and just kept it there for if i really needed money i could use that to exchange on the many street exchanges / airport exchanges to get money if required…. also for the novelty of watching Americans be amazed when they try to but cant rip it lol :P
EDIT: Forgot to mention that all of the places are euro currency except of course Switzerland which is in Franc. however euro is also accepted which i just used to buy my lunch and pay for the optional to the top of the mountain. Im not sure if this really hurts you all that much in terms of costing you more or anything but since i didnt buy anything of alot of worth in Switzerland i didnt bother to get out any franc if your planning to buy something of a big worth then yes i would suggest getting it paid for in franc :) like my brother did when he bought an expensive swiss watch. =)
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24 Mar 2011 KRISTY! said
Is it true that we have to keep under 20kgs the whole trip? That's what i've been told. True/false??
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24 Mar 2011 FromVancity said
Thanks so much for the info!
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24 Mar 2011 JonoRocket said
Hi Kristy
Yes your luggage that goes under the coach must be 20kg when you first check in. you can have a small carry on with any weight that you want. If you hit the 20kg mark and you want to buy something that you dont want to carry around they have like this "souvenir" section under the coach so you should be fine if you wish to buy anything. In short i believe the weight is only an issue when you check in. =)
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24 Mar 2011 KRISTY! said
Excellent, Very happy news!!!
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28 Mar 2011 KRISTY! said
Also –- We dont need Visa's rite to enter any of these countries on the tour?
Thanks again JonoRocket .
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28 Mar 2011 JonoRocket said
Nope no Visa's required, if your from Australia there are only two or three countries in europe you need a visa for which is ukraine, russia and i believe moldova. same goes for i believe people from NZ, Canada and the USA.
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29 Mar 2011 KRISTY! said
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12 Apr 2011 jess1506 said
Hey JonoRocket, thanks heaps for all the great info. I'm going on my Contiki in June so I'll be sure to come up with a few questions for you soon… :-)
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28 Apr 2011 KRISTY! said
Hi there…. =p
Was just wandering about the boat ride from Dover to Calais——- How long is the ride? What is the boat like, what has it to offer?
Once we have got off the boat…How long till we hit Amsterdam? What time do we arrive there?thanks so much….
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28 Apr 2011 JonoRocket said
The boat ride is around 50 minutes on the boat there are some shops a bar place to sit down and eat etc. Once your off the boat its around 3 and a half to four hours until Amsterdam. We arrived in Amsterdam in the afternoon you get ready and go out and have the afternoon / night in Amsterdam then the next day you have the full day to explore more of the day time options Amsterdam has to offer before heading off.
PS: Your contiki leader will never advise times of when you will arrive at any place they will merely tell you how far in KM you have to go they do this because obviously they dont want to be held liable if anything holds you back form getting there at their assumed time such as traffic etc.
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29 Apr 2011 Katie89 said
Hello JonoRocket! First of all thank you so much for answering our questions! I had a few questions for ya.
*First of all in your hotel rooms, where you rooming with people that were on your tour or was it other random people?
*Did you feel safe leaving your luggage in the hotel while you were not there?
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29 Apr 2011 R.K said
I know many people ask about how much to budget a day already. But I'm just wondering if your budgeting includes the Option trips that Contiki offers? I am trying to budget it separately; so if i have already have some money in place for the option trips, roughly how much do you need a day?
Thanks a lot pal.
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29 Apr 2011 JonoRocket said
Hi Katie89
I roomed with my brother however others who travelled solo roomed with either 1 or two more people in a twin share or triple share room. If you have booked with a friend or two then you will be together otherwise if your travelling alone you will be paired with someone else. You can however ring up contiki and ask for a room to yourself however this will cost you extra… two people from our tour did this both were males and you could tell why they got their own room lol from memory i think it cost them an extra $200 or so.
Optional excursions you can see here on the website once you click on any of the tours your interested in but yes your contiki leader will also mention the optionals as you arrive in each city, such as price and what times and what it will involve.
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29 Apr 2011 JonoRocket said
Hey R.K
As i said earlier the money question is hard to answer but i wouldn't go budgeting any less than around 75 euros per day including the optionals and your meals. Again however i dont know specifically what you like to do such as are you a big shopper or drinker as these things will lower or higher the spending money you would need each day and if you do want to shop it obviously depends on what items you are willing to buy, we had people that bought designer clothing for hundreds of dollars worth in Italy for example.
so excluding shopping because this should be something you can kind of figure out how much you want to spend and just including your meals, drinking if you drink, optionals and any other small fees (cab rides etc) or extras you want to do such as museum visits i would say minimum 75 euro per day.
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30 Apr 2011 JennyRaineYoung said
just curious, is there any 'smoking' done outside amsterdam?
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30 Apr 2011 Jorge & Argenis said
hello Jono, i requested the list of the hotels i will be staying at, and there's one that says JailHotel, i looked for it in the internet and there are terrible reviews about this, there are also great ones, so i am confused now, did you stay there? this one is in Lucerne and it use to be a real Jail.
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30 Apr 2011 JonoRocket said
Hi Jenny
If you mean buying weed and then planning on taking it out of Amsterdam into other countries then no i wouldn't do that since its illegal in the other countries you go to and in europe and according to our tour guide its not uncommon for the police to pull over a "contiki" bus that has 18 – 35s written on the side of it that has just come from Amsterdam and put sniffer dogs on lol.
If you mean smoking it outside of the coffee shops its not really advisable nor really legal as far as i know but as long as your not being so obvious about it or are in inappropriate areas it should be ok.
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Kosovo Small Arms Control Initiative (KOSSAC)
Project Summary
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The project supports Kosovo institutions to control the widespread possession and circulation of small arms and light weapons (SALW) in accordance with UN, OSCE and EU standards.
Designed initially to reduce armed violence in Kosovo and increase community safety, KOSSAC has, throughout the years, evolved into a comprehensive armed-violence prevention project with a strong focus on security sector reform and capacity development.
In the past 5 years, KOSSAC has established itself as a credible partner and primary source for technical advice and assistance to national and local institutions in a variety of fields.
The project has tackled various aspects of small arms control, including laws on production, marking, registration and tracing, storage and inventory management, destruction of surplus arms, awareness-raising among the population, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration as well as international trade.
Because of the ongoing EU integration process and, more concretely, the conditions specified in the feasibility study for Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) and the Visa Liberalization Roadmap, KOSSAC's technical assistance to Kosovo institutions is crucial in helping the government to comply with these EU requirements.
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UN Inter Agency Security Sector Reform Task Force | 270,000.000 USD |
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[ The Maps of Antietam: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862 by Bradley M. Gottfried (Savas Beatie, 2012). Hardcover, 124 color maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 345 pp. ISBN:978-1-611210-86-6 $39.95 ]
The Maps of Antietam is the fourth Civil War volume in the much admired Savas Beatie Military Map Series, and the third offering from Bradley Gottfried. For those unfamiliar with these books, they are much more than a traditional atlas and completely original in the Civil War sphere of military history publishing. Maps are organized into thematic sets [in this case, there are 21 "action-sections" covering topics like the overall campaign, the fighting at the South Mountain gaps, the capture of Harpers Ferry, the various phases of the battle of Antietam itself, and the final spasm of violence at Shepherdstown]. The 124 maps (of operational and micro-tactical varieties) are multi-color affairs, with brilliantly detailed depictions of the terrain and meticulous notations of unit positions (at the level of companies, regiments, and batteries for the tactical maps) and movements. Opposite each map, is a full page of narrative, closely tied to the action.
The series has definitely matured over time. The most helpful customer suggestions (e.g. the lack of time interval estimates in the first Gettysburg edition) have been applied to subsequent volumes. Initially, I wasn't sold on the necessity to go full color, but this book, especially, with its myriad of terrain features, shouts out for the visual contrast that only color can offer. The transcendent beauty and utility of the work of the field's best cartographers, exemplified by guys like Steven Stanley, can unreasonably raise reader expectations, but Gottfried's mapmaking skills are nothing to scoff at and have definitely improved [sample pdf]. Gottfried's writing also gets better with each book, and it is no mean feat to have to cram descriptions of events displaying such a wide variety of complexity into a fixed amount of space, but a nagging number of errors still dog the text and titles. Another complaint is the lack of true elevation contour lines. These are not terribly essential for the Antietam battlefield, but the generic hash lines representing heights, while a mostly adequate compromise, do not really effectively portray the vertical ruggedness of the South Mountain and Harpers Ferry battlefields.
The need for better proofing aside, the narrative sections of the atlas, in addition to their role as 'map captions on steroids', are gleaned from the latest scholarship and together comprise a fine running history of the campaign and its many battles. The book is a must-have for any Antietam/Sharpsburg reference library, but even those with only a casual interest in the great battle -- but an abiding love of Civil War maps (like me) -- will often find themselves absorbed to the extent of wondering where the hours went! Future volumes are greatly anticipated and word is already out that the next atlas will cover the 1863 post-Gettysburg campaigns in the eastern theater.
Links to reviews of earlier Savas Beatie Military Map Series titles:
Vol. 1 - The Maps of Gettysburg
Vol. 2 - The Maps of First Bull Run
Vol. 3 - The Maps of Chickamauga
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Gottfried: "THE MAPS OF ANTIETAM: An Atlas of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) Campaign, Including the Battle of South Mountain, September 2 - 20, 1862"
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Recently I created a timeline for the third grade students at my school that helped illustrate the time span in history of the first settlers in Jamestown to the writing of the Declaration of Independence. It was a fine timeline that involved cutting and pasting, which can be enjoyable for many students, but I only created this activity because I lacked the time to create what I really wanted for my students- a technology based timeline using a web 2.0 tool that would be engaging, provide active learning, and even promote collaboration. I did not have the time to find the tool, learn it for myself, and then share with my students. Now, I am making it a point to do just that and share it with other great teachers that have similar ideas here on Classroom 2.0.
My searches for strong timeline makers resulted with dipity.com as a popular one. Sarah W. Caron, Education World Social Media Editor, writes in her 2011 dipity.com review "dipity proves just challenging enough for student use." Mark Krynsky creator of Lifestream Blog shares in his 2008 blog that dipity "allows you to create both the prettiest and visually functional timeline I have yet to see on the web". In a list of timeline makers on the Web 2.0 in Education website, dipity.com is ranked number one out of seventeen other web tools. However, if dipity.com is not the tool for you, there are plenty of other free tools that can be found at gotoweb2.0 such as xtimeline and capzeles. Personally, I wouldn't spend too much time checking out every timeline maker available. My general rule is that I pick three to five web tools that sound good, briefly view each of them by spending about fifteen minutes in each, decide if it will match the purpose and grade level I plan to apply it towards, and try it out.
Dipity.com is age appropriate for third graders because it has enough bells and whistles that will impress the average eight to nine year old and creating the timeline and adding events are simple and quick to do. Each timeline event accommodates text, photos, links, and video as options. There are three different ways to view the timeline. Timeline mode allows the viewer to visually see selected dates plotted on a timeline. Flipbook mode allows the viewer to "flip" through each event as if viewing a slide show. List mode simply lists the events from the earliest dates to more current dates. As a teacher, viewing list mode will make it easy for assessment purposes. This tool is free and only requires an email to create an account. The website provides an option to change the settings from public to private, which I would do for my third grade students. To do this, go into the topic settings on the main page for the timeline you are working with.
I created a sample timeline for students to view based on dates that are found in their third grade Social Studies text. It was a quick and simple process. Creating the free account takes a matter of seconds. Once you are on your homepage, choose Create a Timeline. Enter a title, description, category, and picture (optional). Choose continue to add events. Each event will have a separate title, description, and date. Each event could also have an image, video, link, and map location added. Credit is given to photo images and videos by directly linking to each. Students will be able to locate images, appropriate websites, and videos. Students will need to make decisions about accurate and reliable sources of information. Shannon Bomar states in her article (2010) "educating students to think about information, to evaluate its origin and purpose, empowers them to make decisions about information and how it is best used and applied in their lives" (pg.75).
Creating a rubric to assess the completed timeline will be a simple and reliable form of assessment. I created a rubric through rubistar.com. Feel free to view it and use it if you can.
To view the sample timeline that I created, please see http://www.dipity.com/mfloro/Colonial-Times/.
Bomar, S. (2010). A School-Wide Instructional Framework for Evaluating Sources. Knowledge Quest, 38 (3), 73-75. Retrieved from website http://www.sonomavalleyhigh.org/home/CA49709534937256/.blogs/post16....
Caron, S. (2011). Site Review:Dipity. Education World. Retrieved from website http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/arvices/site_reviews/dipity.shtml.
Krynsky, M. (2008). Dipity Creates Visually Interactive Lifestreaming Timelines. Retrieved from website http://lifestreamblog.com/dipity-creates-visually-interactive-lifes....
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I like the idea of using timelines in the classroom. As I teach the CCSS in my classroom, I am always looking for ways to integrate multimedia into what we learn. I plan on using this for my next project on the Revolutionary War. I think I would use this in my classroom for all of our reading as well. It would be a great way to compare the settings of the various stories whether they be literary or informational.
Wow! Thanks for sharing this teaching tip! I am very happy to learn about the web 2.0 tool, Dipity! This sounds like a great resource for me to use in my classroom as well. I am teaching 4th grade for the first time this year and in my state, 4th graders are tested in social studies! I feel completely lost at times with social studies because our "curriculum" (if you can call it that) is very weak! We have very broad standards that don't necessarily tell you what you should be teaching or what will be tested. But I agree with you, students usually lack a mental timeline of events. Using Dipity seems like a great tool to help them picture the events that have transpired over the course of our country's history. I love that you can add text or pictures to help make the timeline more engaging. It also seems very user friendly! Thanks again for the tip!
I hope the use of dipity was successful in the classroom. Glad I could help.
Thanks for sharing! This year I have been trying to implement technology into my lessons more and this sounds like a great opportunity. I teach 5th grade and also cover timelines with my students. I had my students create a personal timeline on their life, on paper, but it sounds like this would be a neat learning experience for my students to use. You mentioned this site was age-appropriate for 3rd graders, do you think it would still be appropriate for 5th graders?
Yes. This site would be very appropriate for 5th graders. I have just accepted a 5th grade position in a new school district and will use dipity. You will have to let me know if you attempted the time-line and if it was successful.
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Possible Shark Sighting Closes Mission Beach
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Lifeguards closed a two-mile stretch of water off Mission Beach after spotting an 18-inch dorsal fin today.
The dorsal fin was seen around 12:30 p.m. near Tower 15, prompting lifeguards to close the waters one mile in each direction, Lt. Nick Lerma said.
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The Yongxing Garden Business Hotel (Yongxing Huayuan Shangwu Jiudian) is situated within easy reach of such attractions as the CCTV Tower and Yuyuantan Park-popular for the cherry blossoms that bloom there from mid-April through early May every year. This Beijing hotel hosts spacious rooms including spacious standard rooms business standard rooms and suites outfitted with 24-hour hot water central air conditioning and internet access. The on-site business center provides guests with copying and typewriting services.


text: A Strong Contender For The Most Bad-Ass Photo Ever TakenCyriaque Lamar8/17/12 11:05amFiled to: secret historyPhotographyThis is awesomeTopFbSamuraissphinxEgyptJapanAntonio beatoArchaeology572EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Oh look, it's just a bunch of real samurai, chilling out with their katanas in front of the Sphinx. No big deal. Yesterday we looked at the bizarre occasion a gang of 19th-century baseball players threw baseballs at the Sphinx. Today — thanks to a tip from io9 reader Alexander — we turn back the clock to 1864, when a group of Japanese emissaries on a diplomatic mission to Europe posed for a photo in Giza, decked out in their full samurai regalia. Explains archaeologist Nicholas Reeves of the Metropolitan Museum of Art of this shot by photographer Antonio Beato: [The mission's] aim was to persuade France to agree to the closing of the port of Yokohama to foreign trade, and allow Japan to retreat into isolation once more. The mission inevitably failed. In 1864, en route to Paris, the Ikeda mission visited Egypt. The stay was memorialised in one of nineteenth-century photography's most extraordinary images — the embassy's members, dressed in winged kamishimo costume and jingasa hats, carrying their feared long (katana) and short (wakizashi) swords, standing before the Giza Sphinx.Or to rephrase this — in case the awesomeness of this picture hasn't somehow sunk in yet — you only see samurai hanging out at the Sphinx in glitchy arcade games in the dustier corners of dollar movie theaters. And guess what? Reality has popped in the quarter. The only photograph that could possibly trump this is a shot of a bunch of drunk cowboys from the 1800s with giant mustaches who fell asleep on a schooner and woke up on Easter Island.Reply57 repliesLeave a reply


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Lund Contributes to SCOTUSblog Same-Sex Marriage Symposium
"Recent attacks on the constitutionality of our nation's traditional definition of marriage have no basis in reason or in the law," says Professor Nelson Lund in an argument written as part of a SCOTUSblog same-sex marriage symposium: Same-sex marriage in the courts of law and reason.
"The Supreme Court should step in now to reaffirm what has always been true: nothing in the U.S. Constitution requires or permits the federal courts to invalidate legislative decisions defining civil marriage as the union of one man and one woman," he writes, citing a number of cases to support this assertion.
Same-sex marriage symposium: Same-sex marriage in the courts of law and reason, SCOTUSblog, September 18, 2012. By Nelson Lund.
"Children are the result of unions between men and women, and every civilization has recognized that responsible procreation is critical to its survival. The institution of marriage has been established in virtually every known human society, including our own, and officially recognized marriages have always been exclusively between men and women. This is not an accident or an expression of unreasoned prejudice. It is a perfectly reasonable implication arising from the civil purpose of marriage.
"Next to the desire for self-preservation, sexual passion is perhaps the most powerful drive in human nature. Heterosexual intercourse naturally produces children, sometimes unintentionally, and it does so only after a nine-month lapse. The result can be uncertainty about paternity or indifference to it by the father. If left unchecked, this disconnect between men and their offspring would deprive many men of adequate incentives to invest in rearing their children. Such widespread irresponsibility would have made the development of civilization impossible.
"The fundamental purpose of marriage has been to encourage and assist biological parents, especially fathers, to take responsibility for their children, and sometimes to require them to do so. Because this institution is a response to the natural effects of heterosexual intercourse, the very meaning and definition of marriage has always been inseparable from the problem it is meant to address. Even if you think the problem no longer exists, it does not follow that those who disagree with you are bigots or that they could have no legitimate reasons for their beliefs."


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Will Labor Secretary Solis Return to Local Government?
Former legislator and congresswoman Hilda Solis is stepping down -- a move seen as a potential step to a bid for L.A. County's Board of Supervisors.
By Alana Semuels and Maeve Reston
Onetime Los Angeles-area congresswoman Hilda L. Solis is stepping down as President Obama's secretary of Labor to return home, a move seen as a potential first step to a bid for the county Board of Supervisors.
In a letter Wednesday to Labor Department employees, Solis, 55, said that after spending time with family over the holidays, she had decided to "begin a new future, and return to the people and places" she loves.
Supervisor Gloria Molina will be forced from office next year by term limits. Her seat has historic import for local Latinos: Molina's election in 1991 came after balloting ordered by a federal judge who ruled that the all-Anglo board at the time had diluted the voting power of Latinos by splitting the community among three districts. Molina was the first Latino elected to the board in modern times and its first elected woman member.
Before joining Obama's Cabinet, Solis was a member of Congress and a California legislator, serving eight years in each position. In a move that could help clear the way for Solis, Los Angeles labor leader Maria Elena Durazo said Wednesday that she would vigorously encourage her to run for the board.
"She has been a champion for workers and has never been afraid of speaking out for workers, especially on health and safety and wage issues," said Durazo, the powerful executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO.
Durazo says she believes that if Solis runs for Molina's seat, the county's labor leaders will quickly fall in line behind her, which could chase other candidates from the field.
For many Latinos in Los Angeles, Durazo said, it will be important to retain the seat. Solis has discussed a run with a number of political allies.
"There's so many things that the Board of Supervisors have yet to accomplish, and I think ... she will do a magnificent job," Durazo said. "Who knows -- after that there's a U.S. Senate seat, there's statewide office. I think the door is wide open for her."
The child of two immigrants who both belonged to labor unions, Solis has long been known for pursuing health and safety cases that affected workers in California, and expanding outreach to Spanish-speaking workers.
While that reputation could serve her well if she runs for supervisor, Solis did little to enhance her standing while in the Obama Cabinet. Some union leaders say privately that she could have been a bigger advocate for the working class.
When sworn into office as Labor secretary in 2009, Solis pledged to fight for "long-abused workers," telling them there was "a new sheriff in town." She vowed to add 250 workers to the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division, which investigates businesses for unfair wage practices, because it had been cut by the George W. Bush administration.
But that's about all she did, said Nelson Lichtenstein, director of the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara. Successful Labor secretaries use the position as a bully pulpit to talk about issues affecting workers, he said. Solis, by contrast, was quiet on many issues facing workers.
"She's been kind of underwhelming," he said. "Hilda Solis was not a player in representing labor or the administration in some of these big issues."
To be sure, Solis confronted a difficult environment, with the economy making hiring difficult and an administration focused for much of the time on pushing healthcare reform. After the Employee Free Choice Act, which would have made it easier to unionize, stalled in Congress in 2009, the White House seemed to give up on labor issues, Lichtenstein said. The administration did not comment loudly on efforts to strip collective bargaining from public employee unions in Ohio and Wisconsin, or on the teacher's strike in Chicago, where unions battled with Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
"Like so many things with this administration, we had high hopes, but not much was realized," said Chris Townsend, political action director of United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, a left-leaning union. "I'm not sure what is it that I'm supposed to remember is her great legacy for the days she was there."
In her letter to colleagues, Solis said she was proud of moving 1.7 million people through federally funded job training programs, and of the way her department allocated $67 billion in unemployment benefits and job-training funds from the stimulus act. She said her department had conducted the largest number of investigations into wage and hour complaints in recent memory and collected the most back wages in the department's history, and that fatalities in construction and general industry were at historic lows.
The president praised Solis on Wednesday as a "tireless champion for working families."
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"Who Obama chooses -- not only to replace the Labor secretary -- but also to replace the vacancies on the National Labor Relations Board -- are among the most important decisions that he's going to make," said John Alan James, executive director of the Center for Global Governance, Reporting and Regulation at Pace University. James said Obama's current slate of labor officials had been too unfriendly to business.
The Obama administration has not signaled who will replace Solis, although Washington insiders say two women could be on the short list: Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, and Mary Beth Maxwell, a senior advisor in the Labor Department who was on the short list for the position in 2009.
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On December 5, 2007, Robert Hawkins walked into the Von Maur Mall in Omaha, Nebraska carrying an AK-47 rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition. The troubled 19-year-old gunned down eight people and wounded two others before taking his own life in what's been called the deadliest mall shooting in U.S. history.
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Robert's mother, Molly, recounts the day of the shooting and says she can't get over the guilt. Dr. Phil asks the tough questions and takes a brutally candid look into this tragedy.
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A devoted dog who apparently stayed in the woods for more than a day, barking to draw attention to his owner who died in the snow, needs a new home.
The family of 61-year-old Claudine Murphy, a Lancaster County woman who likely died of hypothermia, is trying to find a good home for the mixed yellow Labrador named Chase.
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How Jackson stacks up
Vincent Jackson has mixed numbers compared to some of the league's other top receivers. A drop is when an intended receiver touches the ball and fails to catch it. (* Does not include Thursday's game):
Rec. | Targets | Catch % | Drops | |
Dez Bryant | 45 | 76 | 59.2 | 2 |
A.J. Green * | 46 | 84 | 69.4 | 5 |
DeSean Jackson | 45 | 74 | 60.8 | 3 |
Vincent Jackson | 41 | 90 | 45.6 | 4 |
Andre Johnson | 48 | 71 | 67.6 | 2 |
Calvin Johnson | 47 | 79 | 59.5 | 4 |
Brandon Marshall | 46 | 68 | 67.6 | 4 |
Wes Welker | 50 | 72 | 69.4 | 5 |
Rec. | Targets | Catch % | Drops | |
Dez Bryant | 45 | 76 | 59.2 | 2 |
A.J. Green * | 46 | 84 | 69.4 | 5 |
DeSean Jackson | 45 | 74 | 60.8 | 3 |
Vincent Jackson | 41 | 90 | 45.6 | 4 |
Andre Johnson | 48 | 71 | 67.6 | 2 |
Calvin Johnson | 47 | 79 | 59.5 | 4 |
Brandon Marshall | 46 | 68 | 67.6 | 4 |
Wes Welker | 50 | 72 | 69.4 | 5 |
Vincent Jackson stands alone. • His fellow starting receiver has a bad leg. His starting running back has a bad shoulder. His quarterback has pouted his way to Minnesota. • And so, Jackson, the Bucs' last remaining impact player, enters a huddle that, these days, is filled with strangers. The starting quarterback is 0-4. The starting running back has 96 yards in his career. The guy most likely to start at the other receiver position has four catches this year. • Here he goes, then, Jackson against the world. And how many defensive backs will the Seahawks assign him? Three? Four? Seven? • This is what happens when football turns into a game of survivor, when a receiver turns into the Lonesome End. Week after week, the Bucs offense has been stripped for parts until, now, it is held together by spackle and duct tape. It is journeymen who were never supposed to play and leftovers trying to prove they belong. • And Vincent Jackson.
It's odd, because you can make an argument that Jackson is having a very good season. And then you can argue that he's having a bad one. Maybe both at the same time. He has made more great plays than anyone else on this offense, and still, he has dropped too many passes. He leads the Bucs in receptions (41), and given how often they try to throw him the ball, he should. He has endured a quarterback change, and yet, it seems that he could have done more on his way to 0-7.
If you are fair, you will notice that Jackson, 30, and in his ninth season, is on pace to finish with the most catches of his career (his high is 72, last season). He leads the league in third-down receiving yards. He is tied for fourth in first downs. He is fifth in catches of 20 or more yards. Nothing to be ashamed of there.
Yet, while being fair, you notice that Jackson is the single most-targeted receiver in the NFL. The Bucs have thrown more passes at him (90) than the Lions have at Calvin Johnson (79), than the Cowboys have at Dez Bryant (77), than the Broncos have at Wes Welker (71). Meanwhile, Jackson has caught only 45.6 percent of the balls thrown his way, the lowest percentage of anyone with 25 catches in the league.
Remember the game against Atlanta? The Bucs threw the ball 44 times that day, and on half of them, they threw to Jackson. Hey, no one is open 22 times a game.
Given how hard the Bucs work to find him, shouldn't Jackson be higher in number of receptions than tied for 17th? Given his contract, shouldn't he at least be on the short list for the Pro Bowl?
That's always been the knock on Jackson. He is the star who isn't quite a star. Do you need a guy who can go deep and make an amazing catch, the way he did against Atlanta? Then Jackson is your guy. Need a guy on third and 6 to catch a quick pass, the way the Bucs started against Carolina. Then Jackson, who dropped the pass, isn't your first choice.
"I think he's having a good year," Bucs coach Greg Schiano said. "I think it's getting lost a little bit in our year. Vince is a perfectionist. I don't ever have to get on Vincent Jackson. He's on himself when he makes a mistake.
"I think he's going to have a big second part of the year, too. He and Mike (Glennon, the quarterback) have a good feel for each other. The way Mike is reading out plays, it's going to allow Vincent to get more. If they're going to double Vincent, Mike's going to go to the other guys until Vincent isn't doubled any more."
Schiano said he doesn't worry about targets as long as his quarterback "reads it out" properly. And let's face it: Where else are the Bucs going to throw?
Still, 90 times targeted but only 41 catches? Only once all season, against Philadelphia, has Jackson caught more than half of the balls thrown to him.
Just wondering: Aren't other quarterbacks reading it out properly?
It is a frustrating position, receiver. No matter how good a guy is, and no matter how many times he gets open, he is dependent upon a quarterback to get him the ball. And once it is delivered, people expect him to be perfect. One drop is too many. Two is unforgivable.
"He's had a couple (of drops)," Schiano said. "If you look at the top receivers in this league, they have some drops. Why? They make some spectacular plays. They have such confidence that they're thinking about scoring every time they touch it. You'd love to have spectacular plays and no drops. But that would take the perfect player."
Vincent Jackson stands alone.
It is Thursday's practice, and Jackson stood near the sideline with a coach, working on back-shoulder catches. No other receivers were near the drill. This is Jackson, who has built a reputation as a meticulous worker.
Later, in the locker room, Jackson sits alone.
This is Jackson, too. He rarely talks after games. As far as being a perfectionist, Jackson isn't saying anything about that, either. During the season, he says, he only talks on Friday. That baffles me. He is a captain on an 0-7 team, and when asked for explanations, he prefers to play with his cellphone. Really?
The truth, however, isn't what Jackson says during the week. It's whether he can speak louder on Sunday.
From here on out, the lanes on the field are sure to be a traffic jam. If you were another team, why on earth would you let Jackson beat you? Why not surround him and let the other Bucs do their worst? Jackson might not be all you wish for him to be as a receiver, but in this huddle, he's the last guy standing.
In the meantime, all he can do is keep running routes.
For all that is good about him, and for all that may be lacking, Jackson is still the biggest argument the Bucs have against 0-8.
So why not throw it to him 30 times?


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It's no great secret that the days of the great American newspaper are long gone. Only 13 percent of all Americans now buy a daily newspaper. There have been several factors that have led to the rapid decline of the newspaper in our country, but the main factor has been the rapid rise of the internet. The internet has changed the way we get news, the way we communicate with others, the way we conduct business, and of course the way we search for a new career. Again, none of this is ground-breaking news; newspapers have been on their last leg for some time now. Yet, all over the country, dealerships are still using help wanted print ads to staff their stores! Why is this? Maybe it's an issue of familiarity, "old school" dealers clinging to the past. Maybe it's just a matter of convenience. Maybe's it's an attempt to "save" money. Whatever the reason, the fact remains that a large number of dealerships are wasting their advertising budget on ineffective help wanted ads. You simply are not going to find the quantity or quality of people you need to effectively staff your store without using online job boards. The second part of that statement, finding QUALITY people, is perhaps more important than the first. Placing your ad online encourages and in some cases requires job seekers to prepare and submit a cover letter and resume. These are basic job hunting skills that any qualified applicant should have. Thus eliminating applicants who lack the basic skill or motivation required to prepare these documents. Recent statistical data supports the theory that internet job seekers represent a much more professional applicant: an estimated 41% of online job seekers, across all industries, are currently at Managerial level or higher.
But posting a help wanted ad on the internet is just the beginning. Let's change that previous phrase to, "Just post an ad online and tell Joe Sales Manager to handle the interviews." Still doesn't sound very reassuring, does it? Sales Managers have a large number of responsibilities and although recruiting and training an effective Sales Team should be one of those responsibilities, sometimes it just does not work out that way. Managing the day to day activities of the Sales Floor, helping to close deals and improving the dealership's bottom line will almost always come before finding new and better Sales Consultants. Unfortunately, as we all know, Salesperson turnaround is above average in the Automotive Retail Industry which makes recruiting and training that much more important. Hiring an outside firm will not only save you precious time it will also lead to an increased ROI. And what about other positions: F and I, Service, Admin, BDC Manager, Parts, etc? Do you really think a Sales Manager or Service Manager is going to take the time to properly staff these positions? Most likely, NO, he/she will be too caught up in day to day operations to give the proper time and attention to the process. Last of all, something that is often overlooked is the handling of resumes from individuals who might not meet the criteria you are looking for. A dealership's reputation in the community is vital to their long term success. A short reply of, "thank you for your interest, you do not meet the criteria we are looking for, good luck with your career search," can go a long way in boosting public opinion of your store and its hiring practices. All it takes is one angry and ignored job applicant to tarnish your store's reputation.
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Installation view. Dennis Hopper: Signs of the Times through October 24, 2008 at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York.
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October 10, 2009
Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts Opens at the V&A in London
French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand Agrees to Return Egyptian Art
Exhibition of Works Created Between the 60s and 70s at Sperone Westwater
Carmen Giménez Named Curator of Twentieth-Century Art at the Guggenheim
Christie's Fall Season of Photographs Sale Realizes $7.5 Million
Acquavella Galleries Shows Large Scale Works by Jean Paul Riopelle
National Gallery of Art Acquires Leo Villareal's Installation Multiverse
Damien Hirst's Pharmacy will be Exhibited at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Frick Collection Announces European Painting Exhibition for 2010
Imperial White Jade Double-Dragon Seal for Sale at Bonhams
Getty Reveals Scientific Knowledge from the Medieval and Early Modern Period
Eric Zener's Oil Paintings of Swimmers in Vivid Blue Water on View at Hespe
A Trove of Rare Treasures on Offer at Christie's in November
Masterworks by Australia's Best Known Women Painters on View in Washington
Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens Premieres at the Phillips Collection
Kitty Kraus Exhibits for Second Installment of Intervals at the Guggenheim Museum
'Accidental Mummies' Making US Debut in Detroit
Guggenheim Announces Short List for Hugo Boss Prize 2010
Kennedy Center Enlists Art Groups for Education
October 9, 2009
Museo del Prado Opens New Galleries Devoted to its 19th-Century Collections
Masterpiece from Damien Hirst's Butterfly Series Sold for HK$17.2 Million
Jeff Koons's Giant Rabbit Balloon Arrives in Covent Garden
Abstract Sculptures by Multi-Media Artist Jack Pierson at Cheim & Read
Philadelphia Art Commission Approves New Designs for Barnes Foundation
First Presentation of Eric Aho's Work at DC Moore Gallery
New York City Artist is $250K Winner of Art Competition
Eight Artists on Shortlist for UK's Biggest Contemporary Art Prize
The March Family Offer the Magnificient Cucci Cabinet
San Jose Museum of Art Unveils New Works by Tam Van Tran, Bari Kumar
Throne of Emperor Qianlong Breaks World Auction Record for Any Chinese Furniture
Views of Hamburg: The City in the Painter's Gaze at Hamburger Kunsthalle
First Time Key Work by Damien Hirst is Shown at Tate St. Ives
Soprano Sills' Estate Sells for More than $500K, Botero Sketch Sells for $27,500
'American Qur'an' Blends US Life, Quranic Verses
Exhibition of Superb Collection of Asian and European Decorative Art Opens in Melbourne
Early Works and Hand Crafted Items Highlight September Auction
Indianapolis Museum of Art Receives Nation's Highest Award for Community Service
Montclair Art Museum Announces a New Mural by Dan Fenelon
British Museum to Submit Revised Plans for World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre
October 8, 2009
Exhibition of Cosmic, Utopian and Experimental Works by Georges Vantongerloo
Egypt Announces It Has Cut Ties with France's Louvre Museum
Caravaggio's "Adoration of the Shepherds" to be Restored in Public
Fashion, Celebrity Photographer Irving Penn Dies at 92
Gagosian Presents an Exhibition of Selected Illustrated Spreads by Ed Ruscha
Hirshhorn Museum Opens Exhibition of Pioneering Figure in American Abstract Art
Newseum Recreates Journalist Tim Russert's Office in Exhibit
Stunning Safavid Rug from Late 16th Century Sold for $4.34 Million
Major Retrospective of Hungarian Artist László Moholy-Nagy at the Schirn
Landmark Sheeler Painting Acquired by Amon Carter Museum
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity Returns to the Getty Villa
Arts of the Samurai Sale at Christie's New York on October 23
Exhibition of the May Queen's Wedding Chest on View at Bismarck Foundation
Scribe will Write Out the Entire Text of the Torah at San Francisco Museum
Miami's Bacardi Buildings Win Historic Protection
The Heckscher Museum of Art Appoints Judith A. Jedlicka Interim Executive Director
An Insightful Look Into an Important Canadian Photographer's 50 Years Career
Aperture Foundation 2009 Benefit and Auction to be Held at The Lighthouse
William Kentridge and Oleg Kudryashov at The Kreeger Museum
Center Stage Exhibition Commemorates New AT&T Performing Arts Center
October 7, 2009
Over 120 Rarely Exhibited Letters by and to Vincent van Gogh on View
Musée du Quai Branly Opens Exhibition of the Legendary Teotihuacan
LACMA Announces First Exhibition Devoted to Renoir's Late Work
Sotheby's Achieves US$4,680,000 for Sanyu's Masterpiece
Exhibition at Pinacotheque de Paris Focuses on the Dutch 17th Century
Large-Scale Wall Installation by the Artist Chitra Ganesh at P.S. 1
Advocacy Program World Monuments Fund Announces 2010 Watch List
Green Day's Sell Out UK Tour Accompanied by Shoreditch Art Exhibition
Salvador Dalí Exhibition Leaves Melbourne a Huge Success
Norton Simon Announces The Familiar Face: Portrait Prints by Rembrandt
Obamas Decorate White House with Modern and Abstract Works of Art
Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection Opens
Exhibition Featuring Luo Ping Goes on View at Metropolitan Museum
South Africa's Fantastic Landscapes and People Glow in Bonhams Autumn Sale
Sotheby's to Present for the First Time Arab and Iranian Art in Its Main Contemporary Art Auction
Theodor Dalenson and Dimitris Daskalopoulos Elected to Board of Trustees of Guggenheim Foundation
Galerie Van den Akker to Exhibit Sixteen Sculptures by Artist Pamela Sunday
Looted Artifacts on Display at Afghan Museum
Fountain in New York's Landmark Lincoln Center Restored
I. M. Pei to Receive the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture
Collectors Named as Suspects in California Art Heist
October 6, 2009
Tate Presents Works by Four Artists Shortlisted for Britain's Turner Prize
New Gonzalez-Torres Acquisition Installed on Occasion of Museum's 50th Anniversary
Luxury Brand Louis Vuitton Celebrates Savoir-Faire with Creations by Six Artists
Nefertiti Bust Moved to Berlin's Restored Neues Museum
First Public Viewing of French Drawings from a Celebrated Dutch Collector
Drawings by Pablo Bronstein Featured in Fall Exhibition at the Metropolitan
Over 100 Leading Art Galleries will Participate at London Art Fair 2010
Picasso to Crown Kunsthaus Zürich Exhibition Program in 2010
Entries Now Open for Coveted 100,000 Pound Art Fund Prize
First Comprehensive Museum Exhibition for Jack Goldstein in Germany Since 1985
Special Exhibition Showcases the Work of 11 Contemporary Artists
Paintings Made for The Who by John Davies on View at Idea Generation
McDonald's Fast Food Restaurant to Become Mona Lisa's New Neighbor
National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires Opens Pop Art Exhibition
Heckscher Museum Celebrates Artists Who have Lived in Long Island
Sotheby's to Offer Islamic Works of Art in Paris for the First Time
Rhode Island School of Design Publishes First Historical Anthology
Images of First Cars to Cross the Himalayas into Tibet 102 Years Ago and Secret Photos of Japan from 1898 for Sale
Distinguished Abstract Expressionist Painter Charles Seliger Dies at 83
October 5, 2009
Severin Wunderman's Collection Stands The Test Of Time At Bonhams
The Spirit of Jazz Arrives at the Getty Images Gallery on London
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein Opens Modernism as a Ruin: An Archaeology of the Present
Exhibition at the School of Visual Arts Showcases Iconic Advertising and Graphic Design
Comprehensive Survey of German Impressionism to Open at Kunsthalle Bielefeld
BMA Celebrates Edgar Allan Poe's Bicentennial with Spooky Art and Illustrations
Former Director of the Royal Academy of Arts Launches New Company
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU to Show European Artifacts
Installations by Michel Francois to be Shown at S.M.A.K.
Frick Art Museum Opens Exhibition of Photographs by Esther Bubley
Eight San Francisco Artists Respond to Surrealist Masterworks
Poland Street Underground, an Annual Two-Day Event in London During November
Sims Reed Gallery Acquires Sir Eduardo Paolozzi's Estate of Print Editions
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text: Sendak Promises Wild Things Movie Will Be Dark and ControversialLauren Davis7/27/09 2:44pmFiled to: Where the Wild Things AreMoviesBooksadaptationmaurice sendakSpike Jonzefeaturette24EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink The Where the Wild Things' trailer may have been declawed, but according to original author Maurice Sendak, the movie still has bite. In a new featurette, Sendak calls Spike Jonze's adaptation "dangerous," and promises it will stir controversy. This featurette was screened with clips from the movie at the Comic Con Warner Bros. panel Friday morning. Here, we not only get Sendak's words on the film, but also brief snippets of the movie and footage from Jonze's set, including his fiery propane tank. The film visuals are incredibly lovely, but even the set footage looks somehow magical and it looks like that dreamy on-set fun is what really drives the movie. [Apple Trailers]Reply24 repliesLeave a reply


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If you're going out to the backcountry, be sure you're prepared. Routt County Search and Rescue veteran and spokesman Darrel Levingston suggests the following kit:
■ 1. Waterproof/windproof matches and lighter.
■ 2. Various fire starters: Vaseline soaked cotton balls, hand sanitizer, liquid gel.
■ 3. Small folding saw.
■ 4. Map and compass, and (optionally) a GPS device.
■ 5. Basic first aid kit (including antiseptic wipes, 2" x 2" sterile pads, medical tape, Benadryl tablets).
■ 6. Water bottle and water purification tablets or water filter system.
■ 7. Two reflective emergency blankets or reflective tarps.
■ 8. Energy bars, trail mix, power gels, cacao packets.
■ 9. Tin cup with insulated handle for warming snow or water.
■ 10. Warm hat and gloves, wool socks, fleece vest, rain coat and pants.
■ 11. Multi-tool (Leatherman type), duct tape (small amount), 15'-20' lightweight rope.
■ 12. Headlamp with extra batteries.
■ 13. Sunscreen.
■ 14. Two days' supply of essential prescribed medications.
■ 15. Cell phone (keep this close to your body to keep the battery warm).
Always tell someone where you are going and when you'll return and/or leave an itinerary on the front seat of your car.
Steamboat Springs The pristine snow looks tempting for early morning hikers and snowshoers, but local emergency responders say that as the snow gets softer in the afternoon, it can pose a risk greater than most people expect.
On Thursday, Routt County Search and Rescue volunteers rescued by helicopter two snowshoers who had become mired in deep snow after the "crust" of the snow had broken. "Crusting," or snowshoeing or skiing on top of the hard top layer of snow that melts during the day and freezes at night, can be fun, but it also is prone to deteriorating as the day goes on.
Rescuer Kristia Check-Hill was on the mission Thursday when two marathon runners, in good physical shape, became dehydrated and tired after breaking through the top layer during a snowshoe hike near Strawberry Park Hot Springs.
"It was a very sunny, warm afternoon, and the ridge they were on, I don't know what exactly the ambient temperature was, but it felt pretty warm," Check-Hill said.
Check-Hill was the rescuer in charge of leaving the hovering helicopter and walking down an embankment to bring the men back up to safety.
"As I started to walk away from the aircraft and I started to get away from the lip, I just sunk down," she said.
"It was from my crotch to my knees (deep), and just breaking through every single step," she said. "That's what they had been doing, from talking to them, for several hours. That's why they got so darn exhausted."
Skiing on crust
The crust is a good surface on which to cross-country ski, but at Catamount Ranch and Club, skiers are warned that crust skiing on the Lake Catamount is prohibited.
Club outfitter Kevin Kopischke said this is the prime time of year for crust skiing, but it's also variable day by day based on how cold it gets the night before.
"Typically it's better in the morning … but it's all relative to how cold the nighttime temps got the night before," he said.
With the past few nights getting as low as 10 or 15 degrees, he said the crust skiing is lasting longer into the day, but it's still soggy by the afternoon when the sun is out.
"If somebody came out in the afternoon and they didn't know better, they'd say the crust skiing sucked," he said.
The skiing at Catamount is open until April 1, with skiing for $18 per day, and Kopischke said the crust often lasts longer than that in most areas.
Snowshoers and hikers are not allowed at Catamount, he said. For all other areas, Check-Hill recommended that people take more water and food than they think they'll need. She said the two hikers Thursday had some food and water but used it all before rescuers arrived in mid-afternoon.
"The biggest thing was they didn't have enough food and water with them," she said. "It's the old Rocky Mountain dreaded, 'I'm just going to go out for a couple hours,' and it doesn't end up being a couple hours."


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Jakub Pistecky "Maly Milos"
The 1999 movie "Maly Milos" was Jakub Pistecky's graduation film for the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, although his birthplace is the Czech Republic. It is a short, 3 minute movie about a little man suffering the tyranny of his huge wife, Babka. Milosh is late for dinner because he has the temerity to chat to his friend, the family goat. Both suffer from Babka's tongue lashing but things rapidly get out of hand when the goat eats Babka's coat. That's it - the tyranny escalates from tongue to actual lashing. When Babka determines on making the punishment even more severe the worm turns; Milosh, the downtrodden husband, finds a way out of the situation. Violin, accordian and drums evoke something of Eastern Europe and another key feature is the gentle narration by Alex Williams, and the verse: "She persuaded Little Milosh to come inside and see/a special something she had for him, a little something on her knee." Remember, Babka is not a nice lady! The computer generated animation is, to an extent, 3D though the backgrounds are flat, and the colours soft and muted. Jakub has obviously found work in special effects in the movie industry - and I noted his name on the animation credits for "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" as well as "Pirates of the Caribbean". You can see the animation on a lovely 2004 animation compilation, Spike and Mike's Cutting Edge Classics , which has other movies I intend to feature on the blog. If you can't afford the $17.99 you can see an admittedly not quite top notch copy courtesy of the indefatigable YouTube.
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Attorney Penny Venetis won a huge victory in court in New Jersey today. The judge found against Sequoia Voting Systems and the state. Election officials, who have complained about an issue with the machines where a few machines misreported some results on Super Tuesday, can now provide the machines to Prof. Ed Felten of Princeton University for inspection. The good Professor gets the machines, software, and source code. Sequoia had threatened to attempt to quash any subpoenas that were issued. The judge has now scheduled a court date for September to hear testimony regarding the reliability of the Sequoia voting machines. One has to wonder how the folks at Hart Intercivic feel about their attempt to take over Sequoia in light of this new development....
- NAtional: GOP objects to bill allowing recounts
http://www.politico.com/...s/stories/0408/9841.html - NAtional: Diebold Admits ATMs Are More Robust Than Voting Machines
http://news.slashdot.org...s/08/04/25/0337219.shtml - IL: Exclusive Interview with David Earnhardt, producer/director of "Uncounted", Chicago premiere Tuesday, April 29th
http://www.opednews.com/...exclusive_interview_.htm - NJ: N.J. judge allows electronic voting machines to be examined
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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5927 - NY: Dutchess County - Dutchess to get new voting machines
http://www.poughkeepsiej...25/NEWS01/804250332/1006 - PA: Pennsylvania Post-Mortem and Doubtful 2008 General Election Reform (Internet Radio)
http://www.blogtalkradio...-General-Election-Reform - PA: Satire - Amish Voting Machines Scrutinized In Pennsylvania
http://www.crystalair.co...ntent.php?id=63200804019 - PA: Wayne County - Voting made difficult
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"To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time."
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"Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's almost nothing you can do to reshape it."
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"A cement mixer collided with a prison van on the Kingston Pass. Motorists are asked to be on the lookout for 16 hardened criminals."
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"Life is a cement trampoline."
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"This is going to cement the case to hike interest rates. The numbers do nothing to alter the stance now developing in the market that the next move in interest rates will be up. The consumption side of the economy needs to be slowed."
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1. "Tecate Decides That Pro-Public Urination Billboard Was Maybe Not A Good Idea." Unless it was just taken down, there's been one right in front of my local Target for about a month.
2. "Russia's Strategic Missile Forces are equipped with a special 'safe-busting' sledgehammer that can be used in an emergency to break open the safe containing launch codes if it fails to open." Via.
3. "No one looks stupid when they're having fun." Via.
4. Disappointing, the new Amazing Spider-Man is apparently lackluster at best. (But wait, Mike Krahulik likes it.)
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View Poll Results: Suzumiya Haruhi (2009) - Episode 14 Rating | |||
Perfect 10 | 104 | 53.61% | |
9 out of 10 : Excellent | 55 | 28.35% | |
8 out of 10 : Very Good | 17 | 8.76% | |
7 out of 10 : Good | 9 | 4.64% | |
6 out of 10 : Average | 5 | 2.58% | |
5 out of 10 : Below Average | 0 | 0% | |
4 out of 10 : Poor | 0 | 0% | |
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2009-09-11, 00:11 | Link #102 | |
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PP: This is posible too. However, why the end is so well done then? Even a professonal needs time to do things well. So, whoever it was, made everything in a hurry, so is understandable was is crappy. |
2009-09-11, 00:22 | Link #103 |
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hmm, I do like the idea of a Disappearance movie. It would be suitably meta for KyoAni to do this right after the brigade finishes their in-anime movie as well. It would also be an okay conclusion to the Haruhi anime, as Kyon ends the story on a reflective note and a positive outlook on the future.
I don't know if they'll ever make it as far as book 9 or later in the anime, but I'd like them to. So many long-running anime and manga are full of filler. Aside from a few lesser quality short stories Haruhi is a dynamic series that doesn't pander or drag. It could easily continue as an anime until Tanigawa concludes the story (let's hope he doesn't try to drag it too!). |
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Alternate answer: Time travel. Kyon finished it later and then sent himself, Mikuru, or maybe Mikuru(BIG) herself back to load the finished version onto the computer while Kyon and Haruhi slept (together).
2009-09-11, 02:41 | Link #108 | |
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Ah, so then, Future Kyon might have narrated the movie. If there is any canon support for saying that Kyon's narration was part of the edited movie, then actually, this becomes plausible... Last edited by sacundim; 2009-09-11 at 02:44. Reason: Quote Ithekro's comment |
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Forgive me if this is outside episode discussion, but I have a dilemma: I downloaded the episode from Mazui, which I thought would be the sub but it has no subs. This is the second week this has happened. I would think it was just that they were only releasing the raws in the first place, and I'm the only person expecting otherwise, but last week the Mazui subbed episode was already up on various streaming sites when I tried loading the file, so apparently it was available. So, what am I doing wrong?
2009-09-11, 02:56 | Link #110 |
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Subs were really late this week o_0
Anyway this was an amazing episode, alot of really good moments. Every time Shamisen talked was hilarious. xD I was kind of hoping they would end the episode with the Brigade sitting in the projector room just before they watch the preview, so it would follow on directly into the next episode (Episode 00), but oh well. One of the main things I loved about this episode was hearing the different groups theories about Haruhi, as well as the whole 'Don't trust what everyone else says' thing :P That's always been one of the most interesting aspects of the series to me (I'd forgotten it started in the Sighs storyline). Great Episode in all areas for me. Though it's a bit sad that it's the end for now (probably). I'm really hoping they bring out Disappearance for this December! |
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A) Thanks to Haruhi's subconscious will, all the Kyons of all the iterations of Endless Eight were dreaming about parts of this movie, thus turning Kyon into a one-man CG rendering farm, in the theory that if she chained enough monkeys Kyons to typewriters she'd get all the works of Shakespeare her movie. B) It all was a collective dream of Haruhi and Kyon, where they dreamed they were editing the movie, and it really happened thanks to Haruhi's reality-warping. C) Haruhi's reality-warping powers trapped them both in region of spacetime where the flow of time is significantly slower than the outside world (maybe the clubroom was accelerated to within a tiny fraction of the speed of light,) giving them enough time to edit the movie. They don't remember because they reverted back to regular spacetime upon Haruhi completing the stock disclaimer.
2009-09-11, 03:02 | Link #112 | |
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A little late, but...
That part made me laugh a hell of a lot, actually. |
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Great episode.
The prologue at the end was a little jarring though... if they were going for the feel that the first season ended on... then they missed the mark a bit. *prays for something in December* (but understands if nothing happens, kami-sama has better things to do) |
2009-09-11, 04:17 | Link #114 |
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Yep, that's Haruhi. Managed to be distracted even when there was a huge explosion and debris falling from the sky...and possibly the kid in shock from the event.
Kind of weird that she's the reality warper...she missed everything. Or at least it doesn't click even if she notices...like the cherry trees blooming...in October/November. But then, as she said, otherwise it would be too easy, having everyone at her fingertips already. But they are Haruhi, they just don't want you to know for their own various reasons...and the hope you won't destroy the universe.
2009-09-11, 04:20 | Link #115 | |
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Yay, they finally got to my favorite part of Sigh! I love that cat. Oh, the cafe scene. Same cafe, same table, there's only four of them, and Kyon still sits on the sidelines. Even when Haruhi's not there, she's there...in their heads mwahaha. Also, whenever Koizumi and Kyon were on screen together, I kept wanting to smash their heads together so they'd start making out. =/ I have no idea where this urge is coming from. I don't even like them as a couple. I like listening to them talk, but I think it's just because I'm tired. Tsuruya was in the shadows when Mikuru was talking to Kyon about not trusting Koizumi. Dunno why I mentioned it, just thought it was worth mentioning. XD *nyao* Warrior lulz. Quote:
lol awkward smiling part epilogue, even though it wasn't made clear that this was after Melancholy and not Sigh. |
2009-09-11, 05:23 | Link #116 |
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YAY more Yuki biting Mikuru fanservice.
and Koizumi's big foreshadow reveal, although I was thinking about sliders when he was talking to Kyon. the lighting and illusion of this episode was epic, I actually believed that the rain was actually on the windows and the lighting with Kyon's conversation with all the Brigade members excluding Haruhi was well done.
2009-09-11, 05:31 | Link #117 |
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This is the best episode of anything I've seen in a long time.
This really got me back in the mood for Haruhi. But, uh, yeah... Best parts were easily the cat and the Generic Fantasy guys, and everything after the Deep Space Sky shot... but the episode as a whole was amazing. 10/10 IT'S PERFECTO |
2009-09-11, 06:27 | Link #120 | ||
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And I'd deserve that considering how amazing Sighs V was. I'm too lazy to do a complete breakdown of the episode, I'll save that for Triple, but a review would basically consist of me praising every second of the episode. The subterfuge and turmoil between the opposing factions was as engrossing as ever, Haruhi's "I'll help too" was touching (Even if it was undone seconds later with her not helping at all ), the absurdity of Kyon engaging in intellectual discourse with a cat actually had me laughing, the sky at 16:54 was beautiful (Even though I'm not sure why it turned from a normal night sky into something like that in a matter of seconds, it was like the ending of Rockin' Kats or something), and it was even educational with that bit about the passenger pigeons. I didn't even notice Tsuruya in the shadows, I thought that was Nagato at first. Must've been sitting at the wrong angle. Anyway, great episode. I like how Sighs I was incredibly simple, almost plain, and built up to something like this. Hope Kyoto continues linking the episodes to reality somehow and starts Disappearance along with the third cour on December 18th. |
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