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Electronic items can be recycled including computers, printers, fax machines, TVs, toasters, radios, microwaves, cell phones and all battery-operated gadgets. This year, for the first time, there will be a special Hard Drive Shredder on-site for the privacy and peace-of-mind of safe computer disposal.
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"This is our fifth year hosting this event, and each year, it gets bigger and better than the year before," says Maurice Baker, GNG's manager of community relations. "Last year we recycled approximately 10,000 pounds of electronics – the most ever – and we hope to surpass that record in 2017!"
The Midtown Alliance will also be at the site to provide useful information about carpooling, MARTA, GRTA and other commuter options to reduce the number of cars traveling Georgia's roads.
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Links about Chinese photography and others
I have collected a list of websites about Chinese photography, primarily focusing on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Some websites are in Chinese. I apologise for the inconvenience. If you know any website that is not listed in here, please let me know. I will really appreciate your help.

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Today is one of those days that I feel like I am missing in action, I haven't posted in couple of days. However I have been fighting with what at first appeared to be a failing hard drive that has turned out to be, luckily for me, a moderately bad hard drive crash. This is also an external drive so I'm not looking at any OS problems on top of that.
I'm told that recovering data from mechanical failures in hard drives is a lot harder than recovering data from crashes. I hope that as this was a crash that I will be able to recover most the data on that partition.
So, for the last couple of days I have been fighting with my hard drive to get the information off of it and somewhere else. Yes people back it up, back it up, back it up! I cannot agree with that sentiment more. While I was partially backed up I wasn't fully.
I am one of the lucky ones however as it looks like I will be able to recover about 95 percent of the most important stuff. If I lose the rest, I'll live.
It has been an interesting experience to be sure. I use Linux as my main OS, but I have a Windows 7 installation for a few games I have not got running in Linux well yet. I found that there were files that would move to a different drive just fine and others would not move, but they would copy. Some would not even do that but, if I booted to the other OS I could do some thing I could not do before. It makes for a confusing process, but if I can get my stuff I'll do it. 🙂
I am around and I'll try to post when I can, but this has my full attention right now.


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Dino Final
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What are the two groups of Dino's?
Saurischians (Lizard Hip)
Ornithischians (Bird Hip)
Defining Characters of Saurischians
a) they have extra articular surfaces on the dorsal vertebrae
b) they have twisted thumbs
What are the two groups of saurishians?
1) Theropods
2) Sauropodomorpha
What two groups are Sauropodomorpha divided into?
1) Prosauropods- Successive out groups of sauropods. They have a vestigal pinky toe.
2) Sauropods- They have a fully developed pinky
Sauropodomorph Characters
Lanceolate teeth
Long neck with at least 10 vertebrae
Downward bent in front of lower jaw
Robust, clawed thumbs
Sauropodomorph Body Plan
Long neck and tails, bulky body, very small head, and short front limbs relative to their hind limbs.
Throughout evolution there is a trend toward greater overall size with smaller heads at the end of longer necks.
Obligate Quadrupedality
Front limbs become nearly as long as the hind ones
When were Sauropodomorph found?
Among the oldest of dino's with prosauropods found in late Triassic rock
Youngest are sauropods from the late Cretaceous.
Globally distributed
When were Prosauropods found?
One of the two groups that went extinct before the end of the Cretaceous.
Earliest found in Africa, suggesting they evolved there.
Prosauropod Body Plan
Small to medium sized
Ranged from 10m long and 8,800 lbs max in weight.
Prosauropods Posture and Locomotion
Small forearms and non weight bearing hand on many species suggest that they (especially small ones) were bipedal.
Large species are usually thought as quadrupeds based on their bulk and other skeletal proportions. Could not pronate their hands which means they were likely bipedal.
Hindlegs nearly as long as the front limbs. Suggested quadrupedality.
Prosauropods Diet
-Some argue that they were omnivores (no direct evidence of meat eating is known but tooth shape is similar to that of living herbivorous and omnivorous iguanas)
-Most food processing done in gut
-Longer necks allowed them to access plants farther from the ground.
Prosauropds Jaws
-Some had a jaw joint below the teeth row (vice-like jaw closing action)
- Other had rows of teeth in lone with the jaw joint, allowing for a scissor like cutting actions.
-Not chewers
-Had small coronoid process and the jaw only permitted up and down motion.
-Teeth lacked grinding surface
Prosauropod Social Behavior and Reproduction
-Some were social animals based on momospecific bone beds.
-Eggs and nests have been found.
-Multiple nests together suggest group egg laying behavior.
-Nest also found in layers one on top of another. Suggest that the animals came back to the same site year after year. (Site Fidelity)
Prosaurods Embyos
-Embryos had large forelimbs and heads, held the neck horizontally, indicating they were quadrupeds when hatched.
-Adults have relatively smaller skulls and arms and were bipedal.
-Some were pro. At least went from a quad. to bipedal stage as they matured.
-Done through Paedomorphois
-Heavily vascularized (filled with blood vessels) more so than other dino's.
-Grew faster than modern birds
Retention of juvenile traits in adults
Shut off developmental pathway that would make them bipedal
Most closely related to prosauropods, together form sauropodomorphs.
-Sister to the sauropodmrpha are the theropods
Sauropods Characters
Lanceolate teeth
Long neck with at least 10 vertebrae
Downward bend in front of lower jaw
Robust, clawed thumb
When where Sauropods found?
First occurred in Late Triassic and are abundant in the Jurassic
-Went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous
-Global distribution
Sauropods Derived Characters
The front leg is 60% or more the length of the hind leg
Ratio greater than .6
Derived Sauropods divided into:
Macronairans (big nose)
Dipodocoideans (means Diplodocus like)
Have large nostrils
Include Gamarosaurs, Brachiosaurs and Titansours
Smaller nostrils on top of the skull
: Apotasaurs, Nemegtosaurs and Diplosaurs
Why are Sauropods so big?
Had to do with body shape and how food was processed.
-Their teeth were simple and most did not chew their food
-Allowed the head to remain small and the neck long
-Only a few sauropods have gastoliths
-Evolution favored larger body size to get more nutrients out of their food
-Excess weight
Used by Sauropods to solve the problem of weight and breathing
Cavities in the vertebrae
Probably had air sacs in them
Makes their breathing similar to today's birds
Pneumatic Foraminae
Holes on the surface that the cavities which were probably filled with air was let out
Sauropod Browsing
-Suggested that they used their necks to graze high in the trees, and that rearing up onto hind legs would increase their feeding range even further.
-Others argue that they held their necks horizontally and ate at should height and lower
: Neck vertebrae, which have bifurcate neural spines
Nuchal ligament
Ran between the bifurcations and served as an elastic band holding up the head
-Allowed the head to be held horizontally
Problems with Sauropod elevated necks and with rearing in particular:
Enormous blood pressures would be required to push blood from heart to the head
-Models suggest that they neck could only lift up 10 to 20 degrees while swinging 90 degrees to either side
Sauropod Locomotion
Obligate quadrupeds whose limbs were highly modified to bear weight
-Narrow trackways indicate that the legs were column like and positioned directly under the body, not sprawled
-Moved slowly (May have ran short distances)
-Legs had no aquatic adaptions (H20 pressure would have crushed their lungs)
Bones between the wrist and fingers were fit tightly together and held off the ground, giving the front foot a horselike appearance.
Bones between the ankle and toes of the hind foot lay parallel to the ground and there was a big fleshy pad at the back of the foot
Sauropods Social Behavior
At least some species were gregarious based on monospecific bone beds, mass nest accumulation for titanosaurids and parallel trackways.
-Some localities the trackways all take the same turn, suggest group behavior.
Sauropod Reproductive Behavior
No direct evidence on how they mated
Suggested that males mounted females
Argued that tail used for balance but no evidence
Sauropod Nests
Multiple layers containing nest show that they exhibited site fidelity
Individual layers have large number of nest, indicating multiple individuals were involved.
Sauropod Growth
Once thought to have grown slowly
Reach sexual maturity at 60 years and living to 100
-Microscopic structure of bone indicates that they actually grew very rapidly and they may have reached maturity at 20 years old
Sauropod Defense
Immense size and group behavior was best defense
-Some had whip like tail
: May have been used to thrash molesters
-Few developed dermal armor or clubbed tailed for defense
Ex of convergent evolution
: Thyreophorans
Why is it thought that Sauropods lived in water?
-Noses on top of heads was one reason some thought they lived in water
-Also gave rise to the idea that they had trunks
-Unlikely to be true because reptiles do not have the needed face musculature for a trunk
"Beast Feet"
Saurischians (Forward pointing pubis, extra articular surfaces on the dorsal vertebrae and with a twisted thumb)
-Sister group
: long necked, Sauropodomorphia (divided into prosauropods and sauropods)
Theropod Characters:
Extreme hallowing of the bones
-Hand with reduced ring and pinky fingers
-Pits on the upper surface of the finger bones to allow extreme extension of finger
When were Theropods found?
Longest living group
220-230 ma and continue today in the form of birds
-All others died out at the end of the Cretaceous
-Global distribution
-Largest land predators ever (3 to 50 feet long)
Theropod Evolution
High diversity of ornithopods means their relationship are complicated
-Have a semilunar carpal in the wrist, allowing the hand to fold against the forearm
-Gave rise to birds
Theropod Body Plan and Posture
All had long legs and short, sometime grasping arms, indicating they were bipedal
-Ankles were held up so only toes touched the ground, called digitigrade posture
-By contrast, humans have platigrade posture where the ankles rest on the ground
-Held backbone horizontally and balanced the body over the hips with their long tails
-Lack of tail drags in most trackways indicated that the tail was held off the ground
-Sitting traces have been found that show resting posture
-Whole foots touched the ground, as did the ischium
-Occasionally the hands and belly touched and left traces too
Theropod Locomotion
Footprints are best for determining how fast theropods could go
-Calculation show that most theropods regardless of size walked only a few mph
-Evidence for running is for small to medium sized theropods
: 25.6 mph
Theropod Swimming
Trackways suggest they could
-Might have dispersed to islands by swimming
-May have lived near water and fed on fish
Theropod Diet
Most were carnivores based on sharp, pointed teeth and the claws on their hand and feet
-In man teeth came together like shears
-Sliced flesh had sharp, serrated teeth that were positioned in cross section and functioned like steak knives
-Fish eaters
: round in cross sections
Round teeth and a massive jaw for a bone crushing bite
-Egg stealers
-Lacked teeth
-Tough beaks
-Jaw mechanical studies show that they cracked open hard foods
Bird mimic lizard
Lost their teeth
Gasoliths have been found in their stomachs and they may have been plant eaters
Scythe lizards
Lose their front teeth and the rear teeth have lost their sharp edges and points
-Likely plant eaters
-Pulled branches with long, clawed hands
Theropods Direct Evidence for Feeding
Caught in act
-Teeth scattered around "kill site" or left imbedded in bones
: provide evidence into hunting. Digging into mammal burrows
Theropods and Sense
Large eyes indicate that they had good vision
-Hearing well developed in troodonitds and ornithiminosaurs
t-Rex: eyes were set far apart so that they had steroscopic vision. Large olfactory bulbs indicate well-developed sense of smell.
Theropod Reproduction and Social Behavoir
-At least some such as Oviraptor brooded their eggs the same way birds do
-Suggest they may have been feathered
-Many lived in packs
-Had structures that would be used for matting and warding off rivals
Theropods Infraspecific Combat
Number of them have been found with partly healed bite marks
-marks and spacing match those of teeth of conspecific theropods
Raptor Claws
Once though to slash instead they were used to climb onto their prey
T-Rex Arms
Had large, heavy head for crushing bone
-Extra weight of the head was offset by reducing the size of the arms so it wouldn't tip over
Bird Relationships
Have a backbone=vertebrates
Have four limbs=tetrapods
Lay shelled eggs=amniotes
Have antorbital fenestrae= diapsid archosaurs
Considered to be highly derived theropod dino's.
Modern Birds
Large eyes and brain
lack teeth
Fingers are fused into a bone known as the carpometacarpus
The single bone that the bones between the ankle and toes are fused into
Bones that sacrai vertebrae are fused into
Vertebrae that the tail is reduced to
Pneumaticized Bones
Air sacs
Keeled Sternum
Flight attachment muscles
The first bird is....
Late Jurassic
Found in Germany
-Known from 7 skeletons and 1 isolated feather
-Shows a mix of theropods and bird characters
-Upper and lower jaws have teeth
-Long, bony tails
-No synsacrum
-Only small knell on the sternum (Suggest that its flight was not as strong as a modern bird)
-Hand and foot lack the fused bones of modern birds
-Had asymmetric feathers indicating that they flew, but how well is debated
-Arrangement is much like that of modern birds
Archaeoteryx and Modern Birds Shared Characters
Enlarged brain case
Very long arms
Narrow face
Reduced fibula
The group formed from Arch. and modern birds is known as...
Archaeopteryx as a dino
Has antorbital fenestrae=archosaur
Has a four-toed food symmetric about toe three
Foot type is charactersitci of omithdirans= omithdirans
Has an inturned femur=dinosauropmorph
Perforate acetbulum=dino
Enlarged, three digit hand with pits on the metacarpals=theropod
Emilunatr carpal=maniraptoran
Maniraptorans and Archacopteryx Characters
Modern birds must also be this
-Backward pointing pubis
-Missing front part of pubic "boot"
-Bowed, or bent, ulna (one of the lower arm bones)
Most closely related to Archacopteryx are...
-Includes Dromacosauridae
Microraptor Dromaeosaurid
Replete with feathers
-Has wings on both the arms and legs
-From early Cretaceous
Why did feathers evolve?
Insulation was most likely the reason.
Dino's probably warm blooded
How did flight evolve?
Two Ideas:
1) Cursoiral
2) Arborial
Cyrsorial Flight Theory
Suggest that flight evolved from a running ancestor
Arborial Flight Theory
Suggest that flight evolved from a gliding ancestor that lived in the trees
Flapping Flight
Developed as a means of extending glides between trees until it became self-sufficient
-Supported by Microraptor
Juvenile Birds Hypothesis
Young birds incapable of flight will flap their winds to help them scale steep slopes
Major Events in Bird Evolution
1) Perching and Flight
2) Fused Tail
3)Fused Hand with Alula
4) Pubic rotation complete
5) Loss of teeth
Primitive member of Pygostylia was...
Confusclusomis from the early Cretaceous of China
Had a carpometacarpus, an alula, series of feathers attached to 1st digit
Functioned like a slat on an airplane wind, extending during slow flight to increase lift and prevent stalling
Major group of Ornithothraces.
-Sparrow sized
-Most abundant of Mesozoic Birds
Ornithuromorpha Included...
1) Hesperomis
West bird
-Relatives are cretaceous flightless swimmers and divers
-Cololites found in the body indicate that they ate fish
Fish birds
Relatives also cretaceous flight birds
-Size of gulls
-Excellent flyers
First vertebrates known to have achieved powered flight, as opposed to gliding
-Evolved in the Late Triassic and went extinct at the K/T Boundary
-Existed for nearly 160 ma, during which they were diverse
-Flight allowed them to achieve a global distribution
Pterosaurs Relationships
Have an antorbital fenestra-archosaurs
-Four toed feet symmetric about toe three- ornithidirans
-They are not dinosaurs because they do not have the diagnostic characteristics of that group
-"Sister" taxa within the Ornithodira
Pterosaurs Historically Divided into:
1) Rhamphorhyncoids
-Small forms with long tails and short necks
-Large number of teeth in the mouth
-Most lacked head crests
-First pterosaur
-Went extinct by the end of the Jurassic
-Some survive to Cretaceous
-Small to large forms with short tails and long necks
-Tended to reduce the teeth in the mouth
-Many sported head crests
-Appear first in the Jurassic Period
-Go extinct at the end of the Cretacaeous
Pterosaur Size
Varied in size
Some had only 1.3 feet wingspan
-large wingspan- 34 feet
-Largest flying vertebrates to have ever lived
Terrestrial Locomotion
Based on footprints, structures of hip joints and computer simulations pterosaurs were quadrupedal
-How they became airborne is not completely clear
-Argued they ran bipedal and flapped wings
-Others argue that they sprung forward with their legs and used the wings in a pole-vault like fashion
Wings different from other flying vertebrates
-Wings supported by arms and one extremely long finger
-Finger lengthened by elongating individuals phalanx bones
-Membrane stretched between the arm and the body to make an airfoil
-Had layers of muscle, blood vessel and stiffening fibers in it
Airfoil Consisted Of
1) from shoulder to wrist was the propatagium
2)from fourth finger to the body was the brachipatgium
3)Between the legd was the uropatagium
In rhamphohyneoids is stretched all the way to feet.
-In pterodactyloids it stretched about to the knee
Bird Pulley System
Musculature that pulls the arms both up and down attaches the knell
Pterosaurs had...
A small keel and did not have the birds pulley system.
-Pulled the arm down using chest mussels, but unlike birds pulling the arms up required help from muscles on the back (like birds)
-Have hallow and fused many bones together to strengthen the skeleton for flight
Pterosaurs Nervous System
Had large eyes and enlargement in the brain to integrate flight info
-One study showed that the brain region that integrates balance, the flocculus, was over 3x that of birds
Pterosaurs Habitat Preference and Diet
Body fossils and footprints are found mostly in marine shoreline deposits (preferred)
-Many thought to be piscivorous (fish eating) or that they ate other marine organisms (needle like teeth)
-Some had no teeth or teeth used for sieving
-Fish found in guts
-Often fell prey to larger animals
Pterosaurs Daily Activity
Active day and night
-Wide lens and narrow bony ring is good for low light conditions
-Narrow lens and wide bony ring is good for day light condition
Suggested that they are warm blooded due to the filaments attached to their bodies
Pterosaurs Reproduction
Laid eggs
Eggs flattened without cracking during fossilization indicating that they were not leathery
-Neonates had well developed wings, suggesting that parental care was minimal
Terminology of Extinction
Abbreviated K/T
K=German 'kreude' meaning chalk after the Cretaceous chalk cliffs of Europe
T=Tertiray, an old name for the period after the dinosaurs until 2.6 ma
Death of the last individual of a species
Species approach extinction when birth rate drop below death rates
Types of Extinction
Extinction of ind. species
Occur all the time due to a variety of causes
-Indv. ext. events are often indp. of each other
: Competition, depletion of resources, climate change, change in geography, volcanic eruptions, flooding, humans.
-Most Dino's
Mass Extinction
Extinction of many species in a geologically short time
-Result of one or a few causes
-Only the dino's alive at the end of the Cretaceous experienced this
-Ended in Mesozoic
Who died in K/T?
On land= all non bird dino's, as well as pterosaus
-Mammals and lizards= 88%
-Fresh Water=10%
Selective extinction
What causes mass extinction?
-Same processes that cause background
-It is clear that it is a sudden, unexpected events that may cause this
-A comet impact with Jupiter is 1994 left no doubt that collisions of gigantic proportion occurs
Hypotheses for the K/T
In Late Cretaceous of India huge volcanic eruption known as the Deccan Traps
-Huge amount of lava. CO2 and SO@
-Gas alters chemistry of the atmosphere
-Sea level decreases
-Loss of shallow seas
-Could have played indirect role
-Decrease in global temperatures
Dino's still continued to live above the Arctic Circle
1980's and Asteroid
Became clear an asteroid played a role
-Clay layer at the K/T boundary containing Iridum
-30x normal amount
-Found world wide
Two ways
: extreme volcano or asteroid
Shocked Quartz
Also found in clay and could be used to diff. between volcanism and asteroid
Chixlub Crater
Not exposed at surface (buried by sediment)
-Impact crater 110 to 119 miles wide
-Shock waves would have produced massive earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
-Rocks under it contained sulfur
-Produced tsunamis
-Some say it may have killed dino's
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Dino Final
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The owner of a Whangarei fun park tried to deceive safety investigators who were looking into the death of a man who fell from a flying fox at the park.
Chris Angus, sole shareholder and director of AE Fun Park, has been ordered to pay $30,000 reparation to the family of Moses Tohu, who died after falling from the flying fox at the park during a work Christmas do on December 5, 2014.
After the fall Angus told investigators that the equipment had a padlock on it and Mr Tohu must have undone the lock to use the machine. But there was no padlock until Angus put one on after the inspector had left.
Angus was ordered in Whangarei District Court to pay a total to $51,000 in fines and reparation after pleading guilty to charges of obstructing, delaying, hindering or deceiving a health and safety inspector and failing to register an amusement device (the flying fox). The charges were laid by WorkSafe.
The family of Mr Tohu has slammed Angus for deceiving WorkSafe investigators looking into the case.
When contacted for comment, Angus said there was "some element of guilt" by the company. On why he deceived WorkSafe investigators, he declined to comment.
Mr Tohu, 53, from Kawakawa, died at Whangarei's AE Fun Park on December 5, 2014, after falling about five metres from the flying fox.
The widower was with a group from Opua company Ashby's Boat Yard and Far North Holdings when tragedy struck. The park offers Northland's longest flying-fox ride, paintball and other adventure and recreational activities at Hayward Rd, Maungakaramea.
After the fall Angus told WorkSafe investigators that a padlock had been attached to the flying fox to stop it being used.
When the investigators had left Angus retrieved the flying fox and attached a padlock and sent it back down the zip line.
The WorkSafe staffer found it the next day, which suggested that Mr Tohu had somehow disabled or overcome the padlock.
Angus then demonstrated to the inspector how Mr Tohu must have disabled or overcome the padlock, despite knowing it wasn't the case.
Mr Tohu's nephew Raymond Tohu said no amount of reparation would bring his uncle back but his family was most hurt by the less-than-honest account of events by Angus that fateful day.
"He (Angus) should have come out straight rather than try and cover his tracks which put a wedge in our family. If he'd come and said it was a human error, our family would have left it at that. The process of getting the legal stuff sorted would have been much quicker as well," Mr Tohu said.
Angus told the Northern Advocate in the days after the fall that the flying fox was secured and not operating at the time of the fatal accident, and Mr Tohu should not have been using it.
A summary of facts prepared by WorkSafe said Angus told other members of Far North Holdings the flying fox was locked when it was not.
Someone appeared to have altered the configuration of the device but it was not clear when that occurred, WorkSafe said.
There was no impediment or restriction that prevented access to the device by unauthorised guests.
Angus pleaded guilty and was ordered to pay Mr Tohu's family $30,000 reparation, a $3000 fine and $130 court costs on the charge of failing to register an amusement device. He also admitted the second charge and was fined $18,000.
Mr Tohu left behind a 6-year-old son.


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Here are some of the foods that can help fight minor ailments-
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There are many other foods that help diminish or prevent ailments from happening. These are just some of the foods I eat frequently with more than just a nutritional value. Foods can not only change your body, but can also help your mind fight off negativity.
Go green and stay keen,
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The twins, Lamm and Fromm, are back in an Aquarius theme. Lamm sports long straight white blonde hair as well as a knit blue dress with matching pumps. Fromm is going for a more natural look of
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I remember thinking that I might need to soak my brain in bleach to get the image of Pat Robertson and oral sex from my mind. But as the awful image faded, another appeared–one where an elder televangelical was once again manipulating the political landscape. This wasn't just a simple sex question; this was a query put in to place well ahead of the televised question and answer with intended consequences involving the upcoming presidential election and the old man, his pulpit and his followers.
Pat Robertson isn't exactly a "Pat." In fact, he was born Marion Gordon Robertson, but adopted the name "Pat" (a nickname given to him by his brother repeatedly "pat, pat, patting" his head as a child) because he thought "Marion" sounded too effeminate and "Gordon" wasn't to his liking either. Makes one wonder if this was the start of his war on homosexuals. But I digress.
Many find Pat Robertson too much to take. An evangelical–and not just any evangelical–but perhaps the most recognizable and influential of the lot. He plays the role of preacher without the scary fire and brimstone and can be quite engaging. To me, he embodies everything unbalanced and wacky about the Tea Party movement wrapped up and delivered with a neat little bow–with one glorious exception: He cleverly crosses the political lines occasionally, knowing the power he wields, dropping little juicy morsels which would be defined mostly conservative until they move to just right of liberal and finally take a turn to just south of Tea Party crazy.
This past week he openly answered an obviously practiced response to what was purportedly a spontaneous question posed to him on the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) about oral sex and he set about answering it by patiently framing it around marriage and between a man and a woman, the Bible, sin and what is in one's heart. When he was finished, the young lady questioning him looked more at ease with his response and was joining with him discussing the ins and outs (pun intended) of oral sex. This staged interaction solidifies my belief that Pat Robertson is a genius at what he does–gathering and then indoctrinating his flock. Furthermore, his answer deflects his crazy rantings about homosexuals and same-sex marriages and allows the world to believe he is genuinely in tune with his sexual being, unlike Santorum who has become the national deviant and relentless badger on all social sexual issues.
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As a devout advocate of Christian dominionism (a belief that Christians have the right to rule), how does he go about bringing down Mormons without appearing to attack Romney? He comes out for legalizing marijuana. Brilliant. Where Romney supports the tenants of Mormonism and stands personally against drinking and publicly against the legalization of marijuana, Robertson comes off as the even keeled wise man as he does an aside about Jesus in a New York Times interview: "I don't think he was a teetotaler" and announces that he is in favor of legalizing marijuana. A political shot that hit the bulls-eye? You be the judge. I am shouting hallelujah–not for Pat, per se, but for legalizing weed. And that is what Pat Robertson is betting on.
It isn't as if this octogenarian hasn't had his problems. Historically, his claims of faith healing, doomsday predictions, attacks on feminism and the endless list of bat-shit crazy, off the wall ideas and quotes have made him infamous as well as famous. But never underestimate the power of Pat. Who could speak of legalizing marijuana on a Friday and chat about oral sex on a Sunday while presidential candidates seek his endorsement?
And who is Pat Robertson endorsing? In 2007, he came out for Rudy Giuliani. In October of last year, he indicated that he wouldn't be endorsing any candidate in the November 2012 election. But as recently as January 2012, Pat told his audience on the 700 Club broadcast.
"I think He showed me about the next president, but I'm not supposed to talk about that so I'll leave you in the dark – probably just as well – but I think I know who it's going to be."
Pat has confided in all of us that President Obama is not his choice. If he reveals anymore about his talk with the Big Guy, I'll be getting back to you when I find out.
And before I go, lest anyone be confused, I am not a Pat Robertson cheerleader. He is a divider, not a uniter. He spews hate and I find his positions on just about every topic to be polar opposite to my own, including but not limited to, his opinions on women, gay marriage, homosexuals, immigrants, religion, life, death and everything in between. And yet, he did a commercial with Reverend Al Sharpton on global warming, is speaking candidly about legalizing pot (although he does blame the liberals for their overly zealous laws against the poor pot growers) and now is openly speaking about oral sex albeit qualifying it repeatedly as between a man and a woman. Calculating or crazy? A bit of both perhaps.
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The work and funding of the Local Government Management Board are to come under scrutiny in a review due to start shortly. The review has been prompted by the changing local government scene and particularly by the launch of the Local Government Association in April.The LGMB provides services and support to all local authorities in England and Wales. It has a particular focus on management, personnel and governance issues. Its functions include conducting national pay negotiations, developing good practice on the environment, running examinations and qualifications and developing top managers. It is governed by a Board of elected members nominated by the LGA.
The review will focus on how current work might be delivered in the context of the creation of the LGA, and on the current methods of financing. The review should be led by a task group of senior members, supported by a senior officer group comprising officers from both the LGA and the LGMB. A project officer will be appointed to ensure the smooth running. There will be wide consultation with LGMB customers and other interested bodies. Recommendations and options for change will be reported to the policy and strategy committee of the LGA.
LGA chief executive Brian Briscoe said: "This review is a major piece of work and of great importance to local government. The LGMB has carried out some excellent work over the years and the purpose of this review is to see if that work, or aspects of it, can be done more effectively."
LGMB chief executive Judith Hunt said: "We welcome the review. The LGMB and its staff are committed to provide the best possible service to local government. Our experience in promoting good practice and improving management effectiveness is complementary to the LGA's policy and lobbying work. I hope that the review will result in an even more effective and efficient service to all our colleagues in local government."
Work will be completed by the summer of 1998 so that the outcome can influence the Revenue Support Grant settlement for 1999-2000.


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Presidential Dignity
Peggy Noonan has written an interesting article in today's Wall Street Journal about the current crop of presidential hopefuls:
"So what's going on here? "Can't nobody here play this game?" The presidency is an august office. Why are these candidates acting so small when the job they think they deserve is so big?
Maybe it's just that people have less dignity these days, and so candidates do too. A few decades ago personal dignity became equated with stiffness and pretension. There was nothing in it for politicians anymore. (It all might have started in 1968, when Richard Nixon went on "Laugh-In" and said, "Sock it to me." But that worked because he had actual personal dignity to spoof.) Maybe we've reached the point where anyone who'd run for president is almost definitionally strange. Maybe it's that the candidates so far are just the kind of people who'd make it to the top of the greasy pole, scramblers by nature whose main talent is energy, not judgment.
But I have a different theory. I think it's that all our candidates for president have met, or know well, too many former and sitting presidents. They've seen them up close, they know them, they have seen their flaws and mess and inadequacy. Knowing a lot of former presidents, and a lot of incumbents, will give you a too mortal sense of what the presidency is.
The problem with former presidents is that knowing them keeps you from being awed by the presidency. When you haven't met them, you have a more austere and august sense of who they are, and what a president is.
Candidates on the trail today would be better off keeping as their template for the office Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln--the unattainable greats. It's no good to just be thinking, At least I'm better than Clinton, at least I'm better than Bush.
Something to reach for even if you know it will exceed your grasp. But it's good to be reaching upward, not stooping."
With candidates declaring for the presidency two years in advance can we help but come to the conclusion that anyone that seeks this office should be disqualified from holding it?


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A. Staff leadership and organisational development
1. Staff leadership
JAW has always run an internship programme, where we employ primarily women, from the community in which we are based and build their capacity to work on Gender Justice issues. This strategy had a two fold objective – the first is to build a skilled resource base within communities which could continue and extend the work and the second, is to create an employment opportunity for women, through helping them gain skills and work experience.
JAW has always run an internship programme, where we employ primarily women, from the community in which we are based and build their capacity to work on Gender Justice issues. This strategy had a two fold objective – the first is to build a skilled resource base within communities which could continue and extend the work and the second, is to create an employment opportunity for women, through helping them gain skills and work experience.
Over this year, having clarified our vision and mission as an organization, a third objective for our internship programme emerged. This was to build a layer of women (and men's) leadership which sought to model a different use of one's power and authority: One which freed rather than constrained, which was reflective of one self and of one's practice, which respected others autonomy, which valued constructive conflict as a process to work through to a deeper understanding of an issue/self, which encouraged an openness to the world through continual questioning and learning.
i) Training from accredited service providerHaving a clearer sense of why we worked the way that we worked, we decided to formalize the programme and to raise funds specifically for skills development. We managed to secure funding from Lotto and over the past year, staff undertook the following formal / accredited programmes on a part time basis. (We feel strongly that all our staff receive training from an accredited service provider so that staff can use the qualification in time to secure other employment)
ii) Internal training
We also provide training internally within JAW and help staff/interns access opportunities offered by other organizations thereby increasing staff members/interns knowledge of policies and laws aimed at protecting women's rights and how to apply/enforce/support women seeking to access rights at community level.
- Internal within Jaw
- Domestic Violence Act
- Overview of Sexual Offenses Act + Access to Post Exposure Prophylaxis PEP (Department of Health Policy)
- Sexual Development of children/adolescents - Training staff to work with Parents and Caregivers
- Child Sex Abuse and Prevention – Training staff to work with Parents and Caregivers
- Inheritance rights and succession planning training, life history books – Training staff to work with people living with HIV/Aids
- External Training sourced
- Children's Act - OAK Foundation
- Sexual Offenses Act and Court Procedures - National Prosecuting Authority
- Maintenance, Children's + Domestic Violence Acts - Provincial Victim Empowerment Forum
- Children's Act - Provincial Victim Empowerment Forum
- Child Justice Act - Provincial Victim Empowerment Forum
- Advocacy training - Oxfam Australia
- Digital Stories Training – Women's Net
- Using Video as an Advocacy tool - Witness Video Advocacy Project, New York- training held in Budapest, Hungary
- Qualitative research methods in Gender Advocacy – Reproductive Health Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand
2. Organisational Development
Two new systems developed and implemented over the past year help us document our work and reflect on the process:
- 6 Weekly Planning and Reflection cycles implemented as learning and monitoring tools – We try to work in six-weekly cycles that allow 4 weeks for project work, and two weeks for organizational learning, documentation and reflection. Although this has worked to some extent, challenges such as external training dates, travel, and community needs have impacted on our ability to keep to the 6 weekly cycle. Through this process we have seen that interns still require a great deal of support to plan project work and to reflect on outcomes. This remains a major challenge, but we feel that the 6 weekly cycle system has provided some framework for addressing these challenges.
- JAW Blog Established and reflection and sharing tool/space – We have a created a blog (www.justiceandwomen.blogspot.com) to help us connect the Melmoth, PMB and Creighton offices and to share learning and deepen reflection through questions posed to one self and to others.
Making a differenceHas the work that we've done made any difference to our organization? We feel that the investment of resources has been beneficial – particularly as it relates to our ability to engage more effectively in advocacy work on gender justice/violence against women. We have also seen marked shifts within JAW programme teams, where staff and interns are taking increased responsibility for their own work and are integrating ideas about gender equality into their own lives.
Some of the highlights include:
- Building Organizational Coherence - Interns challenging power relationships and moving from private to public spaces – for example reporting rape within a family and refusing to treat these as "family matters," challenging police, and other service providers for failure to implement policy and for corruption. One of our staff members exposed corruption within the Melmoth Post Office, where a postal clerk had been defrauding social grantees of their pensions.
- Growing leadership in the field of Gender Justice - Grace Ngema has been asked to work as a co-facilitator with Michel Freidman from Gender at Work firstname.lastname@example.com to facilitate their action research training in South Africa; Jenny Bell was asked by Open Society Institute (New York) to present at an international conference in Geneva in October 2009 on women's rights in the context of HIV/AIDS; Amber Howard Cornelius has been asked to by Oxfam Australia to facilitate a community of practice group with their partner organizations on how to involve men in work for gender equality. Our interns have facilitated at workshops run by the Melmoth municipality and have been congratulated on their skill.
The Access to Justice Team has been working to increase knowledge of and support for women's rights and access to justice and have used different methodologies:
- Legal literacy training
- Paralegal case work
- Building strategic relationships - policy submissions
- Community mobilization with community groups in 3 areas in Kwa Zulu Natal Sweetwaters (a traditional area outside Pietermaritzburg) Melmoth (a rural area in Zululand) and Creighton (a rural community near the Southern Drakensberg)
What is covered in our legal literacy training on Sexual Rights and abuse within Families?
We have focused on sexual violence against women and children, as rape and sexual abuse remain a primary issue of concern among the women with whom we work. We have designed a two-day workshop on the Sexual Offenses Act and on Sexuality and Families. We felt this latter focus was important, as most of the sexual violence reported in communities are perpetrated by male family members and go unreported because custom dictates that this be dealt with as a family matter.
Day one of the training focuses on the Sexual Offenses Act itself, including the new definition of rape which is gender-neutral and inclusive and looks at the rights of rape survivors in terms of police and health care services including access to PEP. We also discuss issues such as mental capacity to consent to sex and marital rape.
The training also addresses sexual and reproductive health rights and customary practices such as the use of damages (money paid to rape victim's family by the perpetrator in lieu of legal action) and how this impacts on rape survivors. Our paralegal Thobile wrote a beautiful story (the story of "Lindile") which she heard in her community about a young girl having been raped by an uncle and whose family sought retribution in the form of damages.
After the damages were paid, the uncle continued to sexually abuse the girl and felt he was entitled to do this because he had "paid for her." The girl ultimately committed suicide. We use this story to help communities see the consequences of keeping silent about rape, and how male perpetrators are protected at the expense of women and children's rights.
The second day of the workshop looks at normal sexual development over the life cycle, and encourages parents and caregivers to discuss sexuality and sexual abuse within their families as a way of promoting healthy sexuality and preventing abuse. We begin the workshop by identifying our own feelings about sexuality, and what blocks us from being able to talk about these things openly. Participants are asked to share their own childhood experiences of learning about sexuality, and how shame and silence about these issues taught them to see sex as something embarrassing and dirty.
We discuss how these beliefs create a culture of silence around sexuality that helps facilitate and conceal abuse. Finally, we do listening exercises to help participants practice listening and talking about sexual matters and to deal with their own feelings of discomfort.
Numbers of people reached through legal literacy training? We have reached over 450 community members through these workshops – including traditional leaders, community policing forum members, community care workers and care givers, church groups, and other community groups.
Inside a JAW legal literacy workshop
An intern's report on a workshop demonstrates the struggle involved in raising awareness of women's rights within communities where men feel threatened and vulnerable, but how through continuing the conversation the beginnings of a deeper understanding and acceptance of women's rights starts surfacing.
Facilitating this type of process remains a challenge for all staff and interns particularly when one is confronted with the deep anger voiced by men over their perceived loss of power within families and communities. We are also confronted with working with community groups to challenge the customary and practical blocks that prevent women from seeking redress in cases of sexual violence – like the need to repay 'lobola' (dowry) if a wife leaves her husband, and the fact that many perpetrators of sexual violence are family breadwinners, and reporting rape/abuse would mean the loss of family income.
b) Paralegal case work
We have provided paralegal legal support and referral to other social service for 150 women and their family members around issues related to rape, domestic violence, maintenance, and other civil matters.
One of the biggest challenges we face in providing legal support is the unresponsiveness of legal systems – from police, to prosecutors, to the Legal Aid Justice Centres; one case can take several weeks of intensive work to resolve (as the report below details.) We also struggle in terms of time and staff capacity to deal with individual cases as they are intense and demanding, and often leave staff members equally traumatized.
c) Divorce Support
Divorce Support (Pietermaritzburg) We run a paralegal service once a week where we help people with a variety of family law issues. We are receiving increasing numbers of requests from women who need assistance with divorce and who cannot afford legal fees and who are tired of waiting for assistance from the Legal Aid Board.
We assess each case and if appropriate refer women to the NE Divorce court – where a divorce can be obtained for as little as R100. Solla Dladla, JAW senior staff member, is the divorce paralegal expert in our office. She currently supports about 5-6 women a month to complete their own divorces.
C. Building Strategc Partnerships + Policy Submissions
1. Partnerships
In this period we continued to work with the National Sexual Monitoring Group, led by Tshwaranang Legal Advocacy Centre, and attended two joint working group meetings in Johannesburg looking at the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act and the treatment of rape survivors.
This working group developed the Shukumisa Campaign, and we have been participating in the monitoring of police stations in terms of dealing with rape survivors. We have benefited from our participation in Local Victim Empowerment Forum (National Prosecuting Authority lead Forum) have used this forum to raise complaints about treatment of rape survivors by police and prosecutors.
2. Policy Submissions
- Maintenance regulations – Submission to the Senior State Law Advisor – Chief Directorate of Legislative Development, DOJCD 28/9/2009
- Advocacy Briefing document with National Sexual Offenses Monitoring Group and Shukumisa Campaign – "Forensic nursing: Why it would help rape survivors and what needs to be done to put it into practice" - 19/3/2010
- Joint Submission with National Sexual Offenses Monitoring Group to the Portfolio Committee on Women, Youth, and People with Disabilities on the Implementation of the Domestic Violence Act on 27/10/09
Although we had been looking at ways of strengthening community support for women and children who were victims of sexual violence and abuse, a gang rape by 9 men of a teenager in Yanguye, Melmoth, at gun point in front of her family, sparked a crisis for Jaw Melmoth staff.
It was the first time that the group directly confronted a situation on which we had raised community awareness and which involved community members with whom we were directly working. The staff felt frightened. They were fearful of taking action – as they themselves lived in the community and were afraid of retaliatory violence, but felt that having raised awareness they could not keep quiet.
They had to "walk the talk". Lengthy discussions ensued and in the end the staff developed the following a response which sought to address the practical needs of the girl and her family as well as address the deep culture which sustained these issues.
- Practical/Conditional needs – Staff sourced counseling support for the girl and her family from an NGO based in Empangeni and once that had been done, contacted the girl and her family for permission to use the incident at a community conversation which aimed to highlight the issue of rape in Yanguye. The girl and her family agreed.
- Community Conversation and March in Solidarity with Victim of Sexual Violence - Jaw staff invited significant community members (Traditional leaders, Community Council, Traditional Youth Groups, Faith based groups, Department of Health and the South African Police SAP) to the event which was held on the 15 August. Here staff used forum theatre methodology to encourage community members to discuss the rape with the characters involved in the drama.
- A Community March- After the meeting Jaw staff felt that they could not leave the issue alone and decided that they wanted to organize a march in Yanguye – as a sign of solidarity against acts of violence against women in the area. The march the staff felt, was the first step in what the staff have come to call the Impempe (isizulu for whistle) campaign – with the slogan "pushing back fear from our lives." The staff approached the traditional leaders and community council to ask permission to hold such an event. Permission was given – but with a sense that such action was new – and questions were asked about "what could it achieve." Staff were however determined and enlisted support from other NGO's in the area, from local schools to participate in the march. The march was held on 28 August and over 300 youth participated. The older members of the community stood on the side of the road – staring in amazement at the event – and the march ended at the traditional court where the traditional leaders hosted a discussion about the need to stop violence in the community. One positive outcome of this initiative was a community decision to re- instate the defunct CPF and to address the concerns and competition between the Community Policing Forum, Traditional leaders and the SAP.


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The pronouncement, made around 2pm yesterday was foreshadowed by the question 'Don't we already have this?' as he unwrapped the super high definition 3D remastering of the 1959 Charlton Heston classic before a 45 minute operation to 'play the damn thing' that encompassed the surround sound coming out of the shower upstairs, all of next year, and 2 people leaving the country in frustration.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mike Lawrence
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CUE Celebrates 2013 Education Heroes at Annual Conference
Palm Springs, Calif., March 14, 2013 – Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Inc. honored 14 outstanding Ed Tech professionals during its annual conference in Palm Springs, March 14-16, 2013. These individuals were recognized for their efforts in infusing curriculum with technology and for leading through innovation. The 2013 award recipients are as follows:
The Gold Disk is CUE's oldest recognition program. Since 1983, recipients who have received this honor have been recognized for their contributions to CUE and to technology in education. Gold Disks are intended to celebrate member contributions of time and talent to CUE.
Pam Korporaal | Former Director of Technology, Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District
Joyce Miller | Teacher Specialist, Instructional Technology, Pomona Unified School District
Charles Merritt | Principal, El Carmelo Elementary School, Palo Alto Unified School District
Cheryl Davis | Acalanes Union High School District Curriculum and Instruction Technology Specialist
Christine Olmstead | Administrator, Office of Academic Content, Orange County Dept. of Education
TILL Awards recognize local, state and national leaders in educational technology. Members of the broader educational technology community (not necessarily members of CUE) are eligible for recognition in this category for their contributions to advancing the mission of the organization.
Rushton Hurley | Founder and Executive Director, Next Vista for Learning; Director of Krause Center for Innovation's MERIT ((Making Education Relevant and Interactive through Technology) program
CUE's Platinum Disks are presented to members of the educational technology community who have made significant ongoing contributions to the advancement of technology in education. CUE members (and others in extraordinary circumstances) who have made outstanding and continuing contributions to CUE and to accomplishing its mission and goals can be nominated to receive the Platinum Disk. Platinum Disks are awarded rarely and only in recognition of career-long contributions to educational technology, CUE, its affiliates and mission.
June Dodge | Co-owner and Vice President, QuestGarden, Incorporated
Patricia MacIntyre | Principal, iHigh Virtual Academy, San Diego Unified School District
The Legislative Advocacy Award is presented to any combination of members of the state and/or federal legislature and their staffs or persons selected are those who have made sustained and/or extraordinary efforts in promoting the educational use of technology to advance student achievement through legislation.
Barbara Nemko | Napa County Superintendent of Schools
The Outstanding Emerging Teacher award recognizes a classroom teacher who in the first seven years of his or her teaching career has already made a noteworthy contribution to educational technology in a classroom setting.
Megan Ellis | 7th and 8th grade teacher, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California
The Outstanding Teacher Award recognizes a classroom teacher who has made a noteworthy contribution to educational technology in a classroom setting. Creating standards-based curriculum using technology is the key element in this award. Nominees must be classroom teachers and CUE members in good standing.
Jennifer Ratchel | Educator, 2nd through 6th grades, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Eissler Elementary, Bakersfield City School District
The Site Leader of the Year Award is CUE's newest award and recognizes a school site principal or assistant principal (or equivalent) who has made a noteworthy contribution to promoting educational technology within his or her school. Recipients must demonstrate the following:
Strong support for the belief that all students will excel academically
Exceptional leadership in finding ways that technology benefits teaching and learning
Building staff morale or the learning environment
A commitment to educational quality and student achievement
A commitment to professional growth.
Clifford Smith | Principal, Oak Hill and Juniper Elementary Schools, Escondido Union School District
Making IT Happen is an internationally recognized awards program for educators and leaders in the field of educational technology integration in K–12 schools. The program identifies and rewards educational technology leaders around the world for their commitment and innovation and is coordinated by the International Society of Technology in Education (ISTE).
Pam Korporaal | Former Director of Technology, Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District
Marisol Valles | Director of Operations, Computer-Using Educators (CUE) Inc.
The purpose of the Leroy Finkel Fellowship is to promote leadership in the field of educational technology. CUE "Fellows" strengthen professional skills, develop a technology-based curriculum project, and share their ideas and strategies through OnCUE and by presenting at conferences. The success of CUE is directly related to LeRoy's leadership efforts. This fellowship honors those efforts and the inspirational spirit of the man.
Kate Petty | Secondary English Teacher and ELD Coordinator, Trabuco Hills High, Saddleback Valley USD
Four of CUE's 2013 award winners will be submitted for consideration to ISTE. CUE's winners for Emerging Teacher, Outstanding Teacher, Legislative Advocacy and Technology in Learning Leadership are in the running for ISTE's awards in similar categories. ISTE will announce its winners at its annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, June 23-26, 2013.
CUE thanks these educational heroes and their nominators for inspiring us with their innovations, their creativity and their integration of technology into curriculum and the educational process. For more information, please go to www.cue.org/awards.
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About CUE
Ed Tech Professional Development is at the core of CUE's work. We are passionate believers in advancing student achievement through technology. By providing Ed Tech professional development to schools, districts, and educators on the infusion of emerging technologies, we can help better prepare students for college and careers ahead.


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Mickey: The whole world's comin' to an end, Mal!
Mallory: I see angels, Mickey. They're comin' down for us from heaven. And I see you ridin' a big red horse, and you're driving them horses, whippin' 'em, and the're spitting and frothing all 'long the mouth, and the're coming right at us. And I see the future, and there's no death, 'cause you and I, we're angels...
Mickey: I love you, Mal.
Mallory: I know you do baby, and I've loved you since the day we met.


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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Horse names that rock
To some degree, this is true. Names of famous horses are officially retired by The Jockey Club, so there will never be another Man O'War or Secretariat. Horse names also cannot be reused until 15 years after the previous horse's death. There are other rules—no "vulgar, obscene or suggestive" names, and no names of "commercial significance" (although Big Brown apparently slid by).
With an increasing number of common names being taken, one recent gimmick is to string a phrase together as one word (to fit the 18-letter space limit), such as Atswhatimtalkinbout. Occasionally, this works (e.g., current harness phenom Somebeachsomewhere), but it usually results in cumbersome, unmemorable names.
U.S. Trotting Association writer Dean Hoffman has suggested naming horses after classic literature, such as Absalom Absalom, Catcher In The Rye, A Farewell To Arms—you get the idea. This is imaginative, although I would stop short of naming a horse The Idiot.
This got me thinking—why not name horses after classic rock albums?
I'm not the first one to have this idea. There were horses at Beulah Park when I was young named Physical Graffiti and Stardust Ziggy (not sure why they flip-flopped the words). Plus, there was a champion Quarter Horse a few years back named Sgt. Pepper Feature.
But there are many album titles that would not only be short enough, but would sound really cool coming from an announcer's mouth. (And for all I know, some of these may be in use.) Consider:
Abbey Road
Sticky Fingers
Rocket to Russia
Let It Be
My Aim Is True
King of America
Electric Ladyland
Axis Bold As Love
London Calling
American Beauty
Nashville Skyline
Purple Rain
Wish You Were Here
I could go on. But there were two names that leaped out at me as being especially appropriate.
Who's Next. That sounds like a champion. Just think of what the headline writers would do if this horse got on a win streak.
Then there's the perfect rock horse name: Born to Run. That wouldn't work for a harness horse, though, because "run" is a synonym for breaking stride.
This list makes me grateful for the limit on the number of letters. Otherwise some horse might have been stuck with When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He'll Win the Whole Thing Fore He Enters the Ring There's No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You'll Know Where to Land and If You Fall It Won't Matter, Cuz You Know That You're Right.
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- tvnewsbadge said...
Good article.
I agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to suggest that one reason Big Brown didn't win the Triple Crown is because he had the handle of a delivery truck rather than that of a champion.
But I don't think it's because all the good names have been taken, but because the folks running racing these days see the horses as nothing more than well stocked ATM machines, or buisness inventory like any other piece of rolling stock on their company books.
- June 22, 2008 at 12:36 AM
Horse racing is the sport of kings.
- December 2, 2008 at 6:49 PM
- HoJo said...
I saw this posted on http://www.SubliminalMessages.Com and wanted to add my three cents (tip included).
I have always enjoyed and appreciated horses' names. I wonder if anyone has ever done as study as to the correlation of the "cleverness" of a name and its ability to generate bets. I, for one, base my betting solely on this.
This goes for yachts too. It never ceases to amaze me just how clever people can be when it comes to creating names for their fiberglass fantasies.
I'm a first time visitor to the The Fritz Blitz and think that its name, too, is very clever. Gotta appreciate catchy stuff like that, man. Life is too short not to.
Anyways, great article and great blog, Bob. Keep up the good work and...go Bucks!
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- December 17, 2008 at 6:43 AM


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Celebrate was recorded in 2009. It was written in 2007. It originally was supposed to be an easysounding jazz song. Well, we heard this jammin' beat by SmidiBeats (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=25129 or http://www.myspace.com/smidibeats), and the words and vibe of the song fit well with the music. So, I decided to change the arrangement of my song to work with this beat, then gave birth to this fun song! However, I still plan to record the easysounding version, some time in the future. The beat we originally had for Celebrate is snappy and smooth...anyway, enjoy!
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Long Live the Luv was recorded in 2009, and written in 2008. I haven't written a love song in a while, and wanted to write one. I heard this beat by Regi Myrix (http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=641729)., I immediately thought of long lasting love, like the love I have with my husband (who was my boyfriend at the time). Hee hee. I recorded this song with my good friend Derell, who is a power house singer with a lot soul. I was glad to have him on the song, it added a lot of flavor to it. Hope you like this song! It's one of my favorites.
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Sachin Tendulkar is a globally respected sportsperson and his contribution to cricket has been immense. He is the only sportsperson to receive the highest civilian award of the country, i.e., Bharat Ratna. There are many who feel that the hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand deserved it first; however, an Olympian shooter is angry with Sachin for another reason.
We all know that a sad incident has taken place with the Amarnath Yatra pilgrims as seven of them died in a terrorist attack and it has sent a shock wave in the country. Sachin also felt sad about it and took to Twitter to express his feelings.
He wrote, "Deeply disturbed by the terror attack on #AmarnathYatra pilgrims. Thoughts and prayers go out to all the victims and their families."
There seems to be nothing wrong with the tweet as it is just showing the grief and agony felt by the little master. Nevertheless, Olympian shooter Joydeep Karmakar has taken a dig at his perfect grammar and then made a sarcastic remark about the Bharat Ratna that he received.
He tweeted, "What a grammatically correct statement..no wonder you deserved the Bharat Ratna"
Twitter couldn't understand the purpose of Karmakar trolling Sachin in such a situation and hence, brutally thrashed the Olympian shooter. Check out some of the tweets:
Angrezi sher….
Bang on!
Great way to get attention!
Who the hell are you?
Even Google doesn't know you!
How did you get that blue tick?
Rightly said!
Spot on!
A jibe at Bengal:
At least show some respect!
Epic insult:
We all want to know this!
Insult at its best!
Angry fan's reply!
We couldn't find anything grammatically wrong in Sachin's tweet taking into consideration the fact that one needs to express oneself in 140 characters only. If you think Sachin made any grammatical mistake, please let us know in the comments section below.


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|A hard journey with lots of growth and the glimpse of a new unimagined, but wonderful outcome...
It is hard to watch my love struggle with not being able to play a bigger part in his son's life. It is a transition, I feel, but knowing that does not make things easier.
I am just watching as a bystander, waiting for a chance to play a supporting role for all players. Will I be the "wicked" or more like the dismissed "third wheel?"
I can only work on being as loving, as open, as patient, and as understanding as I can.... I know I will fall short at times, but I do want to be a catalyst of some sort to help heal the pain and to strengthen and forge their relationship so that it is satisfying for my love as well as meaningful and treasured by his son.
So that his son might know that his father loves him so very much, although not in his daily life. That he can call on his father at any time and his father would come running or do what is in his power to help him. That he would come to understand his father's gifts and talents and therefore his life, and come to look up to and respect the man that his father is.
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Acne bites.
Acne blows.
Acne sucks.
Let me not keep my feelings in here. I've hated acne since that very first little zit showed up on chin when I was twelve, and it's been a solid, red hate since then.
I mean, there you go, a pretty girl with nearly flawless skin, strutting around making all the girls without flawless skin jealous (we're terrible when it comes to comparisons, or did you guess?) and up pops this zit that screams out at the world "Oily skinned bitch here!"
Acne is the enemy. Acne must die a terrible, painful death. We must all do our part in wiping out zits, blackheads, white heads, in-growns, blemishes, red volcanic inflamed pimples from hell, so that we, the silky lotus flowers of the world, can continue to strut without worry of what the other bitch thinks.
Luckily, there's science and technology to come to the rescue. That rocks! I mean, finally all the chemicals and solutions and testing and mixing have come together to bring us….
wait for it….
The creators of Proactiv have a line of skin care that's really something to stand back and give praise about. The UNBLEMISH line of products is actually a regimen that this chichibeauty has come to love. Although I'm usually a Murad girl, especially at great prices, I can honestly say that I'm impressed.
The Unblemish Regimen has to be my favorite. A full line of products, this package includes:
- acne medicated cleanser
- facial toner
- acne medicated lotion
That should be used together to get the best effect.
So now I can be the perfect chichibeauty, and kiss my rumblepup, without any sicko zits. Of course, I'll go out and show all the other girls my cool, smooth skin, just to be the A Numero Uno BIATCH in my hood, but that's another topic.


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The kittens now have a new home! Their 16x20" box was quickly becoming quite stifling for the poor little dears, so I decided to build them a new habitat. Yes, you heard me correctly - BUILD. You didn't think I had it in me, did you? Well, I did. With some leftover wood from the shed in the backyard, a $13 saw kit from the Home Depot, some nails, a hammer, and just a touch of elbow grease, I managed to put together a rather solid half-wall to close off a corner of my bedroom:
The kittens are really starting to walk now, so they need more space to play and run around. I hope this can afford them that extra room. Their heating pad is under their bed there in the left hand corner. That's their new litter box on the right, and you can see about half of their white, square water dish - though I've been trying to water them regularly, their old box couldn't afford the room to leave the water with them all the time.
That litter box is home-made, by the way! Here's how:
1) Find an old box that you're going to get rid of anyway
2) Cut out one of the big sides of the box
3) Reinforce with tape - I used painter's tape to avoid fumes and chemicals
4) Draw a line one inch from the "bottom" of the box all the way around the interior sides
5) Cut out, and voila!
I suppose that whole explanation was more for anyone not too craft oriented. You probably could have figured that out yourselves... Now, to end with more kittens!
Once again, if you know anyone in San Francisco, New Orleans, or Washington D.C. who might be interested in one of the kittens, please contact me.
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I recently visited Point Pleasant, West Virginia, to be filmed for a Mothman interview.
While there I noted an especially beautiful example of Art Deco theater construction.
This classic location - the old State Theater - stands empty in Point Pleasant. If I had the money, I'd buy it and run Mothman movies and 1930s films, non-stop. The building is an Art Deco treasure. Hopefully, someone will save it.
Even some of the nearby locations have the flavor of the 1950s about them. Pictured below is Carol Harris at her Harris Steak House, which is also called "The Mothman Diner."


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What is Sophie doing with her leg? We all got a good laugh after this pose!
We made our famous Korean meal for the family. These pictures show that everyone enjoyed the meal! We ate it all... yum!
We also went to celebrate a birthday! Look who loved his birthday present... The Invention of Hugo Cabret. I discovered this was a great book after reading it for one of my graduate classes. I read it in less than 24 hours and read it aloud to my third graders who loved it. We decided to would be the perfect gift for Trav's dad. He love the book too. I think he read it in less than 8 hours and to think it is a 500 plus pages. Amazing!


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So his homeowners association levied fine after fine and put a lien on his home though he'd coughed up nearly $50,000 to pay fines and other related costs. Eventually, his home was foreclosed because Darius still owed $24,591.
On Aug. 15 – after losing his one-story home and two days before he would be evicted – Darius' next door neighbor heard an explosion about 2:20 a.m. Patti McCallister ran outside, saw Darius' home burning and called 911.
Firefighters found Darius' badly burned body lying on the floor of his living room in the back of his home.
Do homeowner regulations go too far? By Matt Tomsic
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HOAs will continue to have serious problems because:
1. They are based on an undemocratic authoritarian legal scheme that does NOT place the individual rights and freedoms of the members first, as does our Constitution, but the monetary goal of maintaining property values.
2. Consequently, this un-American private government exists outside the Constitution and its protections of the people. All the legal court battles are attempts to restore those lost rights.
3. The misleading claims of agreement by homeowners is superficial and would not stand up to judicial scrutiny for the valid surrender of one's rights. The mere filing of CC&Rs with the county clerk is sufficient to legally bind lot owners, sight unseen, and is a mockery of both Constitutional and contract law.
4. Then there is the unspoken alliance of local governments, state legislatures, consumer protection agencies, and public interest firms who shout "individual rights" and "no government interference", but see no problem with private government interference. And that also includes CAI.
5. Community Associations Institute (CAI) was formed back in 1973 to address these problems with the HOA legal scheme, yet these problems continue to exist in spite of all that "education" provided for board members, managers, and legislators. Would you hire a training firm with that record? State and local governments seem not have a problem and hire "the failure to get results" CAI.
6. CAI is on record in its amicus brief to the NJ appellate court in the Twin Rivers case, cautioning the court about the "unwise extension of constitutional protections to homeowners" in HOAs. The common law synopsis of court decisions regarding covenants takes a decided editorial opinion rather than a neutral summary of the cases when it states, for example, that if there's a difference between servitudes law (covenants) and constitutional law, servitudes law should apply (§ 3.1, comment h).
6. The media, even in this article, takes the premise and presumption that the HOA unquestionably has the right to act, and that its motives are pure and for the benefit of the community. None of the above substantive issues are ever delved into.
In order to avoid another 40-odd years of continued injustice and discontent, government authorities and legislatures must address the above issue of substance, and stop their participation in the unspoken alliance of "No negatives about HOAs".


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This blog post will explore the Index and Match functions in Excel as part of the lookup and reference function categories. There is nothing wrong with the Vlookup unless you need to find a reference value that is further left than what you fetched (the lookup value). Vlookup only works if your data table has the lookup value in the leftmost column. In my example the country code is to the right of the Country field. Check out my blog post on Vlookup and another video post here if you are not familiar with how to write a Vlookup formula. Below is a caption of the data this post will use. At the end of my blog post, you can download the Excel file yourself to practice along on your own.
In this example we will have Excel tell us what position down is 500 among the Code field. The Match function returns the relative position of an item in an array that matches a specified value in a specified order. Once we have that number, then we can nest the Match function inside of the Index function. Lookup Value: 500 Lookup Array: B2:B18. Use absolute referencing ($B$2:$B$22) or range names when you need to copy the formula. Match Type: Almost always 0 or false because you are looking up an exact match. This argument is similar to the match type argument of the Vlookup.
The answer is 5 because it is the 5th position in the range of codes. Knowing 5 will be important because we can use it (Match value return) nested inside the Index function. The Index function returns a value or a reference of the cell at the intersection of a particular row and column, in a given range. The Index function has two types of function arguments. This post will explore the first type which uses only 2 arguments.
Index Arguments: Array: The range of cells where the return value will be found. Row_Num: A number that you want to go down to find. Col_Num: optional – alternative to the row number.
Use the Match function in the Row_Num argument. Example Using Index and Match together:
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dear mom and dad,
i think the snow is about over, hallelujah. i will simply never understand this maddness of living in a place such as this. i also cannot understand why i am still here during wintertime. i will be back in san diego come next winter, even if i have to swim across the ocean to do so.
this has been the worst winter ever, i ahve never ever seen so much snow in my entire life. My korean friends say the same, my older korean friends say it used to snow like this when they were small children, and now THEIR children are super excited for all the snow to play in. One korean friend said they saw on the news that this is korea's worst snow in the last 103 years... there is a tendency to exaggerate in this culture, but one thing is true: there was a shit-ton of snow this year. other than the occasional knitting meeting, you can put money on it that i have been mostly indoors. btw, i knit the blue hat im wearing int he photos :)
xmas was really great, a friend had a potluck, i brought plates and flatware of course b/c i didnt cook anything. it was so much fun, another friend brought a video game "rock band," as you can see in the attached pictures, im really good at it and have a natural talent on the guitar and drums.
some friends of mine went snowboarding for x-mas break, which i of course thought was insane. one girlfriend of mine, Kayla, had this conversation with one of her students before the break:
Korean Kid:"What are you doing for x-mas?"
Korean Kid: "Your people skin is don't like cold, is it right?"
kayla: *side eye*
kayla said she couldnt really be mad at him b/c for one, he's just a little boy, and for two, it's not like he's 100% wrong about it.
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Tina and Lolo is an upcoming Bollywood Action movie directed by b-grade director Devang Dholakia. Tina and Lolo lead actress is Sunny Leone. Sunny is very excited to do an action movie. The production of the movie will start after she completes Ekta Kapoor's movie Ragini MMS 2. The makers of the movie Ragini MMS 2 has made Sunny Leone to sign a contract wherein she cannot give any latest news about her upcoming movies. Tina and Lolo will be released in 2014.
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My Master was offline. I was just walking shop by shop.
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