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East Bay Community Foundation has recently awarded me Individual Artist Matching Grant for the amount of $5,000 again this year to create a new painting series "Unity of Symbols and Sacred Words." These new works will become an artistic endeavor to help audiences understand the common threads across cultural, national and religious lines. I need your help to complete this project.
Over the next year I will create twenty large paintings and six circular Mandalas that use texts and symbols from different faith systems. I will also hold four workshops inviting followers of different faiths to create collaborative paintings to accompany the final exhibition next year at City Limits Gallery in Oakland, California. All of the artwork for the "Unity of Symbols and Sacred Words" exhibition including the sacred texts, twenty paintings, six Mandalas and the collaborative paintings will be published in a fine art full color catalogue.
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We made buy eyes and "b" butterflies. The boys made labyrinths after school hours but I decided to include those photos in this post too because it looks educational. Mikey tried to write his name all by himself on his butterfly page! He made the M I E and part of the Y without any help or guidance from me. I was shocked! I almost peed my pants. TMI. Jack also learned about linking verbs and made sentences using index cards linking nouns and adjectives.
a homeschool picture post September 15, 2010
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I'm shocked. It looks like you actually got Mikey to sit still. Is that for reals?
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Celebrating Results at Brayton Academy
The students and staff at Brayton Academy are celebrating again as we received the best results ever for the second year in a row. We have secured the reputation of Brayton as a high performing school in the highest performing Multi Academy Trust in the country. 74% of students received a 4 (equivalent to the old grade C) in both English and Maths and 51% gained a grade 5 for both. These results are significantly above the national averages.
This year the vast majority of subjects were assessed by the more difficult new GCSE exams and we are delighted that the results of Brayton students across all subjects means that the academy's results will be significantly above schools nationally. Some of our students achieved the top grade 9 in a variety of subjects with one student gaining 4 grade 9s and 6 grade 8s (grade 8 is the equivalent to an A*). Staff are especially pleased to report that all students in the academy have made significant progress and gained good grades.
"I am so pleased for our students; they have worked exceptionally hard and deserve the successes that we have seen in all subjects. This is the second year that we have seen GCSE results get better and in fact they are the best ever for the second year running. Rodillian Multi Academy Trust are extremely pleased that the Selby district now has an exceptionally good academy and we are serving the community so well"
Al Moon, Head of School
Get involved! Weekly maths puzzle for everyone to have a go at! Prizes for students, pride and gloating rights for parents and teachers!
Gardening club in full swing this evening. Looking forward to gooseberry crumble!


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Dear member, visitor, or craigslist seller,
Today was spectacular. We had Bob Big Boy gift cards for everyone, awards, and great camaraderie. I hope even more of you will come out tommorrow for our biggest day of the year, and we will have more awards for everyone, including those by CPW. Nick, what is going on with you? I know your car was in an accident and I want to help you get it fixed. David, will I get to meet you tommorrow with the New Yorker? Steve Petlak, we want more cars with that fine aged patina like yours. I already have something for you. In Mexico, everyone shows off cars with a fine patina. Matt Potter, what is going on with you? Sellers, come out to the biggest K-car show in the USA. We want to set a record and bring your car the advertising and attention it deserves. We also want to give out long distance awards.
Sadly, my long distance friends were prevented from coming. Joe Baca with the limo
had something come up, and Hemi had mechanical trouble with his 85 Caravan in Arizona.
In attendance today was
Ed Garren with 1991 Chrysler LeBaron Sedan
Greg with 1984 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible
Myself with 1989 Dodge Aries LE Coupe
David with 1984 Dodge 600 Convertible
John DiGrazia with 1984 Chrysler LeBaron TC Wagon
Eugene with 1981 Plymouth Reliant 2.6 Sedan
George Gray with 1983 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible
John Martello with 1982 Chrysler LeBaron Convertible
Ralph Simper with 1987 Plymouth Reliant Sedan
Brian Gordon 1985 Chrysler LeBaron TC Wagon (None of us
us got to see his car, he left too fast. I have only been hounding
him for three years, gave him a gift card)
Someone showed up with 1984 Dodge 600 Convertible (Forgot this person's name. She was there for a two minute stop, didn't get to see their car either, it was parked
off site and gone with the wind) Forgot her name but she was with us a year ago.
Keith with 1980 Chrysler New Yorker Fifth Avenue
Gary Barmore with his Plymouth for sale. He owns an 84 TC Conv.
We had a five K-car cruise over to Bobs afterwards, and Ralph, myself, and his
buddy chatted for an hour in the parking lot.
I get to come back early tommorrow for another exciting round
Ed, I will do my best to grab the tree, and fight off other cars so we can keep the biggest
row of K-cars in the United States parked together, I always do. Don't forget to bring the 9 certificates. Went to WalMart and got the prizes tonight.
The people at CPW are so nice and we are all there for one purpose, living history and
preservation of Mopar. Memories.........There was also a 1975 Dodge Tradesman Van
completely original and perfect with shag carpeting and 1981 college decal, completely
perfect. And antique police cars, and a Shelby Rampage, and a Chrysler Cordoba, and
lots of stuff. The future of these cars is in your hands. Don't sell your car to an idiot, and check the oil and coolant.
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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within is a new documentary by Chicago Director Yony Leyser, in collaboration with BulletProof Film, Inc. Complete with footage and interviews with luminaries such as John Waters, Iggy Pop, Gus Van Sant, and indie rockstars Sonic Youth. Peter Weller, who played Burroughs in David Cronenberg's fairly decent adaptation of Naked Lunch (I loved Cronenberg's talking and noshing typewriter and his unapologetic homoerotic, sci-fi tone from the novel), provides the narration.
Central to the documentary, of course, is Naked Lunch, Burroughs' seminal novel and the subject of a government ban when it was published in the U.S. in the 50's. Crazy to think our government would intercede in the arts on such a minute level, claiming indecency as its main argument.
Nice to think that in 2009, Naked Lunch has gone from fringe to canon.
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Children's Book Week is celebrated from May 13-19 in 2013. This year, the Kauai Children's Authors Guild is doing something a little different. Members are working to develop a day devoted to literacy on Kauai. This project is in the early stages of development, but Guild members hope to gain support and partner with other agencies around the island and the state as they get closer to a date sometime next year.
The Kauai Children's Authors Guild recognizes the importance of early childhood education and the need to support literacy efforts on Kauai. The Guild is proposing the creation, proclamation, and designation of a day devoted to promoting literacy on Kauai. For now, we are calling this day, "Read Across Kauai Day," but it could also be called "Kauai Literacy Day." We would like to model this day after the efforts of organizations like Jumpstart and First Books, Read for the Record, and Read Across America Day.
The idea is to partner with a non-profit agency to help raise funds for the purchase and distribution of children's books by Kauai authors to preschool and kindergarten students attending schools on Kauai. Why not just any books? Guild members feel that the impact of meeting and interacting with local authors far surpasses just handing a child a book. However, the Kauai Children's Authors Guild will also be partnering with other organizations like KART (Kids are Readers Too Foundation) to provide additional books to the children that may not be written by local authors, but could be read and delivered by local authors.
The effort would be to raise awareness about the importance of both literacy and early childhood education. Children that are sent home with books would be given information about the program and would be encouraged to read books with their parents. Members of the Kauai Children's Authors Guild would be available to appear in schools to read their books to children on the day of the event. When an author interacts with a child, there becomes a personal connection with the book. Allowing children to actually meet and interact with local authors can make a further impact on the children about literacy, not just about reading but also about encouraging creativity through writing and artistic expression.
The goal for the first year is to raise enough funds to put 500-1000 books in student's hands. For future years, the goal is to get a book to every preschool and Kindergarten student on Kauai.
Any nonprofit agency, literacy organization, retailer, volunteer, or corporate sponsors that would like to help the Kauai Children's Authors Guild put books into the hands of children is encouraged to contact the Guild at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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communication, conversation, dumbing down, emailing, messaging, mobile phones, social networking, technology, text speak, texting
This blog isn't intended to make me sound like a dinosaur; a troglodyte if you will but the crux of this piece is to examine the extent to which mobile phones have penetrated every aspect of our lives.
To be immediately contactable and to have instant access to information are now seen by many as a basic human right. This is not altogether a bad situation as there are times when we do need certain pieces of information or when we must urgently contact someone – the technology allows us to do this very thing. However, the downside seems to be the addiction to it. A compulsion to constantly be checking, using or holding your phone is common, and for younger generations is seen as simply "normal" behaviour.
The habitual checking to see whether one has missed a phone call or received a message interrupts the natural flow of a conversation, diverts attention away from what is often important. How many times have you been chatting to someone who does nothing but look at their phone? Annoying, isn't it?
The mobile phone takes precedence over whatever we are doing at the time. You may be in the middle of a conversation (general or important) but as soon as the ring tone begins to chime you are forgotten and taken away with immediate effect. Fewer and fewer people are turning their phones onto silent whilst out with friends, and more and more people are allowing the mobiles calling to dictate what must occur in their lives.
I think an element of this is understandable and has been around as long as phones (not just mobiles) have been. The issue now is that it feels as though everyone owns a mobile and people own them from young ages. Why on Earth would an eight year old need a mobile? The answer is: they don't need them but it is now so imbedded into our psyche that there is no turning back. Also, the wonder of pester power: "…but Mum…Alice has got one…", a sentence uttered thousands of times a day minutes before the adult is coaxed into buying one, signing up for contracts and allowing their child access to the internet, to calls and leaving them open to muggings.
The reason people have become so hooked on their phones is simple – as phone technology has improved more and more can be achieved, stored and done with them. People now use their phones all day long: as alarm clocks to wake up to, as a clock, to call, to text, to research, as a diary, as a camera, as a calculator, a converter, a calendar, a phonebook, a radio, a juke box, a hand held game, a photo album, a voice recorder, a stopwatch, a timer, as a fashion accessory and much, much more.
We have become dependant and dependency by its nature is a form of addiction.
Two friends of mine recently went to a restaurant on a first date and spent a large portion of the evening using their phones. They responded to texts from friends, answered calls from people wondering where they each were, posting statuses and comments and pictures of the date on Social Networking sites and of course, the obligatory check every seven minutes in case they didn't hear the insistent chiming of the phone. The mobile phone has numbed our ability to communicate in face to face situations. The mobile, along with the computer, has allowed us to tell more about ourselves to hundreds of acquaintances than would have ever told our closest friend before the rise of social networking.
As I type this I realise that I am just as guilty…having checked my phone at least eight times whilst typing this. I hear the "tut-tut" in my own head so you can save yours, but at least I am alone right now.
The positive aspects of being able to stay in touch are incredible and the options of many different communications are superb. I can contact anyone I know at almost anytime and be fairly positive to reach them.
I still don't think that I will ever be able to warm to those who speak loudly on a train carriage to tell their loved one that they "will be home in ten minutes". The amount of pointless conversation and unneeded babble the mobile phone has created is beyond doubt the worst aspect for me (that and playing a game on your phone whilst trying to converse).
It seems that the take-over has already happened and will no doubt continue to build and progress. In the future people will we still use the spoken language or will we just text each other and poke each other on Facebook? I have a feeling that we will speak, but dread that it may be "text-speak" spoken aloud.


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Once new starters are fully inducted, our competency-based personal development system kicks in. Our people have the opportunity to perform self-assessments with their managers and to put in place personal development plans that ensure they have every opportunity to succeed. This links into tailored learning & development programmes such as our knowledge forums, programmes for aspiring managers and our Global Leadership & Development Programme.
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The wildness of cavemen will appeal to your child, the moment he comes across a cartoon or film with a caveman in it. Children like all the running around recklessly, screaming ceaselessly, and dirtying things hopelessly. However, there's a way through which you can channel all this extraordinary energy that they never seem to run out of. How? Well, you make them a caveman fancy dress for kids!
Right now, it may seem like a daunting task but let us tell you that with our caveman costume DIY guide, you will have no problems making a caveman fancy dress for kids. Without further ado, here are our caveman costume ideas!
Things You Will Need For Caveman Fancy Dress for Kids
- Old animal print / brown / green, oversize clothes,
- Scissors,
- Piece of string,
- Chart paper,
- Wooden club,
- Gel.
Step 1: The Caveman Fancy Dress Clothing
Cavemen didn't have clothes. They could only wear the skins of the animals they killed. This is why you'll always see caveman fancy dress for kids with leopard and tiger prints.
If you have such a dress then you can easily create a caveman fancy dress for kids. However, if you don't have this print, as is more common, you'll have to settle for something dark brown. Alternatively, you can choose to go with dark green too.
You can either pick a lady's brown dress or brown T-shirt and brown pants. Beware, though. These items will be massacred in the making of a caveman costume for boys and girls so only pick those items that you're ready to discard.
If you have a dress then all you need to do is cut it so that it reaches your child's knees or above. Make sure that the cut is haphazard with lots of zigzagging. If you can make one end shorter than the other with these teeth, then it would be even better.
On the top side of the dress, you have to cut the dress diagonally so that only one shoulder remains of the dress. The dress will hang from your child's left shoulder alone and his right shoulder will be naked. Similarly, the left arm also needs to be naked which means that you have to take out the sleeve of your dress, if there is any.
The top cuts don't need to be turned into teeth but they do have to be frayed. So, if you can pick out some threads from the dress and let it hang, then that would work well for the dress.
When you put this half made caveman fancy dress for kids on your child make sure that you take some material from the same dress and tie it around his waist. The dress shouldn't hang limp and should be tied well. If you want some contrast then you can choose to use a string to do this such as the nada (thread for holding the pyjamas up). Your caveman fancy dress is almost ready!
Step 2: The Caveman Fancy Dress Accessories
Right now, your caveman fancy dress for kids will look very basic and drab. What it actually needs is some accessories. Fortunately, accessories to go with a caveman costume aren't that difficult. They mostly involve artwork of the paper kind.
The first thing you do is make a cut-out of a bone from a normal chart paper. Choose the kind of bone that you see cartoon dogs carrying all the time. You can use the image provided above.
Once you have this cut-out, you will cut it in the middle. One half will be pasted on your child's left cheek running into the nose and the other half will be pasted on the right cheek.
The intention here is to make it look like he has bone piercings in his nose. Similar to this bone make about 20 more but 1/4th the original size. Cut them in half so that you have 40 half bones.
Take the same piece of thread that you used to tie your child's dress at the waist and string it through all the 40 half bones.
You now have a necklace for your little caveman fancy dress for kids. The same technique can be used for making earrings. You also need to make your child's hairs stand-up.
They can also be mussed up but hair standing straight up has more effect in the caveman fancy dress for kids. Combine this hairstyle with bushier eyebrows which can be made with the help of Kohl (kajal). Finally, you can hand your darling caveman a piece of stick to act as a club and he's ready.


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Lewis's Law
Brad: Have you watched this video on feminism and video games? It's like 25 minutes long.
Me: No. Man, I don't even know if I can do it. The sexism in video games is so rampant it's too exhausting. Do you have it pulled up?
Brad: Yeah.
Me: How many times is she called a c**t in the comments? Are there any rape threats yet?
Brad: Comments are disabled.
Me: Yeah, of course they are. What's her name?
Brad: Her user name is FeministFrequency.
Me: OK, so she published a feminist thing about gaming that's getting attention. I'm Googling FeministFrequency and "rape threat."… Bingo. Top result.
If you go to Feminist Frequency's Twitter account @femfreq, you'll see that things have escalated recently, someone threatened her life quite graphically and published her address. So that's a delight.
Set Foot in All Fifty States: Minnesota
When she was little, my mom met a man who said he'd "set foot in all fifty states," and she was amazed by the idea. Since she told me, I thought how much I'd like to do the same.
I'm starting with Minnesota over at Go Mighty. I found this trophy in an antique store outside Minneapolis, and it still cracks me up.
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We're just back from a family road trip. I say family, because a few months back Brad and I got engaged.
We like this guy.
Ferguson Updates
If you need to catch up:
Feguson outline from USA Today that touches on all the major events.
If you'd like ongoing, current information with a high signal-to-noise ratio:
• Twitter list of Pro and am journalists on the ground in Ferguson will tell you what's happening right now.
• Reddit's Ferguson live feed is often updated
• Brittany Noble's Instagram feed, she's a local reporter
• Xeni Jardin of boing boing is tweeting and gathering articles
If you'd like to help:
• Use social media platforms to share information using the hashtags #ferguson or #justiceformikebrown.
• Furious About Ferguson? Here's How You Can Help from Ebony Magazine
• Here's How You Can Help the Kids in Ferguson Who Don't Have Food Now that School is Closed on the Huffington Post
• Here are Ways to Help the People in Ferguson Right Now on Buzzfeed
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"There is nothing based on the facts that have been placed before us that can justify the execution style murder of their child by this police officer as he held his hands up, which is the universal sign of surrender." Statement from Michael Brown's family and their attourney
A neighbor witnessed the shooting and live-tweeted it. (Distant photos of Michael Brown's body and the officer standing over him are visible in this thread.)
"The Huffington Post's Ryan J. Reilly tweeted Ferguson cops still weren't wearing name tags on Friday and still refused to answer questions about their identification." – Ron Johnson Addresses Ferguson Police Officers' Failure To Identify Themselves
"The chief in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by police says the officer didn't know the teen was a robbery suspect at the time of the shooting." –Associated Press
"The officer who shot Ferguson teen Michael Brown stopped Brown and another teen because they were walking in the street, not because of a robbery a few minutes earlier, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson said Friday afternoon.
Jackson said the officer was aware cigars had been taken in the robbery of a store nearby, but did not know when he encountered Brown and Dorian Johnson that they might be suspects. He stopped them because they were walking in the street, Jackson said.
But Jackson told the Post-Dispatch that the officer, Darren Wilson, saw cigars in Brown's hand and realized he might be the robber." – St. Louis Post Dispatch
Michael Brown's friend/acquaintance gives an emotional account of what happened with both the robbery and the shooting.
Michael Brown Killed in Ferguson, Missouri
For now, this is a living post, updated as I gather things here.
How to Help
• A List of the Michael Brown Vigils happening at August 14, 2014 at 7pm EST/4pm PT. The one for San Francisco is in Civic Center Plaza.
• A Ferguson bail and legal fund for those arrested during the police-brutality demonstrations
"You didn't have to shoot him eight times… You just shot all through my baby's body." -Michael Brown's Mother, Leslie McSpadden (via Brittany_noble)
"It was just horrible to watch, and it hurt him a lot. I saw it in his eyes." -Dorian Johnson, who was walking with Michael Brown when the 18-year-old was shot and killed by a police officer
• Timeline from CBS Local in St. Louis"
August 11: "It is announced that the FBI is opening a parallel investigation to that of the St. Louis County Police Department concerning possible civil rights violations."
• Audio recap of early events in Ferguson from KMOV Reporter Brittany Noble
"Sunday night I saw lots of crowds of people, I saw police trying to work with those crowds and calm them down, but then the crowds became so violent, kicking the police cars and putting their hands surrounding the police and trying to intimidate them that police were almost leaving the area… It's my understanding that the family is very disappointed with some of the violent reactions from the community."
• 32 Powerful Images from Ferguson After the Death of Michael Brown, Buzzfeed
• Detailed breakdown and analysis by Dara Lind on Vox. Ed: This is the most organized thing I've seen so far if you want details.
Current Information
• The Ferguson tag on Twitter
• Twitter List of Professional and Amateur Journalists in Ferguson
• Reddit Live Feed
• Ferguson coverage on Boing Boing
"Part of the reason we're seeing so many black men killed is that police officers are now best understood less as members of communities, dedicated to keeping peace within them, than as domestic soldiers."
America is Not Safe for Black People by Greg Howard
"Police forces usually fall into one of two categories, though there some grey situations between the two. You either protect the rule of law and the population, or you're the type of police force that's there to protect the regime. What's happening in Ferguson is what regime protection forces do, not what rule of law police do."
"They have the toys, and they just want to play with them, to put it bluntly. They look like guys playing army."
– Jason Fritz, an Iraq war vet and specialist on policing in conflict zones on Vox
Child uses a rag to shield his face from tear gas. Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images
"[In Ferguson] three police officers out of 53 are black. Brown's shooting was the first homicide recorded in Ferguson this year." – Zachary Wilcha in Untied Mag
Reporter hit with tear gas in Ferguson
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From What I saw in Ferguson by Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker:
"There's not a tradition of unrest in St. Louis. Even in the sixties, when the rest of the country was exploding, you didn't have that kind of thing here. And if there was some kind of problem it almost never lasted more than a day." – Activist Etefia Umana
"The people who live in Canfield Green, the apartment complex where Brown was shot while on his way to visit his grandmother, not only witnessed his death but were subjected to an undignified wake: his prone figure sprawled on the street for four hours in the unforgiving August sun, with blood on the asphalt—an indignity in sharp contrast with the quick departure of the officer from the scene."
Social Media
• Ryan J. Reilly, reporter arrested in McDonald who says an officer slammed his head against a vending machine.
• Ferguson board on Pinterest by Jenifer Ancona
• The alleged name of Michael Brown's shooter is reported on Twitter by Anonymous, and the account is suspended:
"Unfortunately, Mike Brown is but the latest in a series of disturbing events regarding police behavior against people of color. New York City's "stop and frisk" policy is but a minor example of the micro-aggressions black men face on a daily basis. Many black people I know have their own stories about being followed in a store or stopped for "driving while black", or other encounters in racial bias. But too often, this bias turns violent. Just this summer, an Arizona professor was thrown to the ground by a police officer for "jaywalking" to avoid street construction at the crosswalk . . . at the same time groups of white people can be seen crossing behind the altercation in the dashcam video. A few weeks ago, a grandmother was jaywalking and a highway patrol officer took her to the ground and brutally beat her, punching her in the face repeatedly – which was caught on tape by a stunned stranger. Earlier this month another man was stopped by police for selling cigarettes and was put into a choke hold and killed." – Kristen Howerton, Racial Bias, Police Brutality, and the Dangerous Act of Being Black
"I'm tired of turning on the news and seeing a story of some unarmed black person gunned down or otherwise killed, and being horrified, but even more horrifically, not all that surprised." – Karen Walrond, Affected
Bone Records
I first heard about Bone Records at a Pop-Up Magazine event, and the idea made me a little teary.
From the 1930s-60s, vinyl was too expensive in the Soviet Union, so bootleggers began using X-ray plates to print records. The useless X-rays could be purchased from hospitals for very little, and were thick enough to retain an impression that could be played on a phonograph.
The quality wasn't great, but the price was right, and these presses let people in the Soviet Union hear banned music, like Jazz and early Rock 'n' Roll. Romantic.
More images and information over on Fastcodesign.com. I looked for listings on eBay, but didn't find anything. Any collectors know where you'd go to procure one of these?
Astonish Me by Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Shipstead is a friend, she came to one of our Mighty Summits. I know someone at the Iowa Writers' Workshop probably already told you this Maggie, but hell you can write.
A few of my favorite parts of Astonish Me:
He kissed her once, just before he left for college. it had been the kind of kiss that asks for something enormous.
For the first time she can remember, she is not afraid of failing, and the relief feels like joy.
One of Jacob's greatest fears was that his life will not appear intentional.
She fears the slow, corrosive trickle of reality into his adulation.
She feels his love grow less dense around her, like a fog lifting.
She prefers Elaine to remain fixed in her old life like an obsolete weather instrument gathering data no one ever sees.
He felt like a sparkling silver parachute had opened around him, delicate as the billow of a jellyfish.
"I hate the city in the summer," she said. "It's like living inside a dog's mouth."


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Guy buys car from local Hyundai dealer and gets into an accident with another vehicle soon after leaving the dealership, killing a female passenger and injuring himself and another passenger. Due to a paperwork snafu, the paperwork was not yet done and the car was still registered to the Hyundai dealer.
The family of the dead woman sues this guy, the driver of the vehicle he hit (the man pictured below was found to be at fault) the owner of the vehicle he hit (work vehicle) and the Hyundai dealer. What liability does each party have?


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Wish to Hire a Choreographer For Your Wedding? Follow the Guidelines
Music and dance are as important part of a wedding as food, drink, and a wedding venue. Like you cannot take any risk with the latter and hire the best caterer in town, similarly, you should not take any chance with the entertainment. Hire a professional choreographer for your Mehendi & Sangeet and get your dance moves correctly. After all, you would want to be absolutely flawless with whatever you do on your D-Day and create the necessary impression on others. On that note, we bring to you some guidelines that you must follow while hiring the services for a choreographer.
Check the references
Though we don't want to repeat ourselves but as we always say look for references. Ask your friends, colleagues, and relatives if they know any choreographer or have recently worked with any. However, never mind, if they don't know because there is always 'Google' to your rescue. Search for the best choreographers online, visit their websites and go through all the information as given. Good if there are testimonials and videos on the websites which will give you an in-depth insight into their work.
Know what you want
Though it should have topped the list, decide on the kind of dance you want to perform. While you can go for the Bollywood dance and rock the party with impeccable moves, you can stage Indian classical dance to impress your Mom & Grand Mom. Salsa or Jazz with your partner would also be a great choice if you want to do something out-of-the-box in your wedding. So, now when you have decided on the dance form, look out for a choreographer as per your requirement.
Decide on the budget
You already must have spent a lot of money on your wedding venue, shopping, caterer, and florist. So, now, it's not advisable to shed off unreasonable amount on hiring a choreographer. Draw a budget and search accordingly. This will narrow down your search list and help you to hire someone within the budget.
Meet in person
Deciding on the dance type and going through the websites are not enough for hiring a professional choreographer. You need to meet them in person and correspond. Talk to them as much as possible and see if you are comfortable working with. If you are, then go ahead or else, keep looking for more.
Make your expectation clear
Explain to your choreographer about the kind of performance you want to stage on your Sangeet and Mehendi and the overall theme of the party. This will help him/her to choreograph the steps as per your choice and convenience. Also, tell him/her if you are not comfortable with any particular steps or find it too difficult for you. Well, do not miss to mention if you have any medical constraint from performing any specific dance steps.
Ask questions
There is no substitute for this step. Probe your choreographer as much as possible and get things clear beforehand. Here gives a list of some important questions that you simply can't afford to miss.
1) Are you available on my wedding date?
2) Since how long have you been in this profession?
3) Do you have any formal training on dancing? If yes, which institute did you go to?
4) What is your genre? Western, Classical or Contemporary?
5) What sets you apart from the rest of the choreographers in town?
6) Can you provide me with some of your references so that I can contact them and verify?
7) Do you give training alone or you have a troupe?
8) Have you ever choreographed for a wedding ceremony?
9) Will you and your troupe perform with me in my Sangeet and Mehendi?
10) Will you charge extra if you perform?
11) Do you have a video record of your previously choreographed wedding performances?
12) Will you choose the songs which I will perform upon or should I do it myself?
13) Will you choreograph for my friends and family members?
14) Can you choreograph a fusion dance for me (a blend of western & classical)?
15) Will you suggest me a costume that I will wear for my performance?
16) Will you choreograph in such a way that will keep a room for my partner to come and dance with me?
17) Where will the rehearsal take place? Will you come to my house or should I go to your studio?
18) Will you coordinate with my makeup artist to tell her how my makeup should be for the performance?
19) Will you coordinate with my decorator about the stage decor and lighting?
20) How much do you charge for the entire package? Do you charge extra if you are asked to choreograph for my friends and family members?
21) Do you charge for extra sessions and overtime?
22) Do you charge extra for the transportation if you come to my house for the rehearsals?
23) Is there any hidden cost that might pop up towards the end of the contract?


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ENTRANCE and exit details for fans attending the Tennent's Irish Cup game against Larne on Tuesday evening follow.
Ballymena United spectators will only be able to gain entry from the ECOS side of the stadium, in other words all spectators travelling to this match by car should drive to the roundabout on the Broughshane Road and take the turn off signposted to ECOS and follow Kernoghan's Lane into the car park at the rear of the Showgrounds.
Any spectators walking to the stadium should walk down Suffolk Street onto Farm Lodge Avenue and make their way to Gate E, then around the new 2G pitch and along the rear of the Main Stand to the turnstiles at Gate P.
Slemish Drive turnstiles will NOT be open for this match and Slemish Drive car park will not be available for use by Ballymena United Supporters.
Supporters are also advised that at the end of the match Ballymena United spectators will be required to leave via gate P and on towards ECOS centre/Kernoghan's Lane then Broughshane Road. Exit will be allowed via Gate E at Farm Lodge onto Suffolk Street, but a delay is expected before this gate opens.
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All the paper on this card is a leftover scrap, even the kraft card base. The red circle is the back half of a CTMH circle card that I cut to use the front. It was flat on top so I trimmed it a little more to fit. The ribbon was placed to cover the CTMH label.
The sentiment was from an older Layers of Color Art Stamp set, "Glad Tidings," I had gotten when they were going out of business.
Thanks for visiting! I'm sharing this card with the following challenges:
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Microsoft To Integrate Zune With Xbox 360
By Antony Bruno
Microsoft unveiled plans to integrate its Zune digital entertainment service with the highly popular Xbox 360 platform, in a move designed more to confirm rumors than to provide specifics. The company will also bring a new Zune device to market this fall, called the Zune HD.
The company has talked about integrating Zune with the Xbox 360 since the service's launch, so the evolution to finally doing so carries significance. However the content included at first is limited to video, not music or games. Exactly what kind of video content will be shared between the two services is not yet clear; details are expected next week.
However Chris Stephenson, GM of global marketing for Zune, tells Billboard.biz that the Zune video service will essentially replace the current Xbox Live Video Marketplace feature. All Xbox Live members will have access to the new content and the expansion of Zune into the Xbox 360 allows Microsoft to offer the service internationally.
The new HD Zune, meanwhile, is also focused heavily on video, with a high-definition LCD screen and widescreen viewing mode. The WiFi connected device allows for instant music and video streaming directly from the device, a newly added Internet browser, as well as compatibility with the growing HD-Radio standard. But overall, Microsoft's new Zune details are focused on video, which Stephenson insists does not reflect a distancing from music.
"It's absolutely about music as it is about video," he says. "As we prioritize the things we need to get to market, video was the thing that really lit up. The Xbox experience is a living room experience. So it's important to think of this as a first step."
Digital video delivery - either to portable devices or within the home - is a wide open market that no single provider has yet dominated the way Apple has in the music space and Nintendo has in the handheld gaming space.
To be sure, this represents a baby step for Microsoft's broader effort to merge the Zune, Xbox and, eventually, Windows Mobile communities into one. The vision is to deliver content to the PC, the TV and the mobile phone. Microsoft wants to unify that experience through coordination of the backend technology that power content delivery to each.
"It's really allowing your content to flow across the different screens you have," Stephenson says. "Everything feeds back to a single ID. If you think about the backend all of this is built on, whether it's the content or the billing or the identity, it's all on a common infrastructure. At a technical level, it allows those experiences to happen."
But a "connected entertainment" strategy has been a core part of the Zune pitch from the start, which the company has yet to implement in a meaningful way from either a content or a device level. Details on how it will integrate video content between Zune and the Xbox 360 are expected next week, during Microsoft's press event at the E3 videogame convention next week.


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Every so often, I will come up with an "I have an idea" moment. Occasionally, they do not turn out anything like what I intend *giggle*, and other times, I really like the outcome. This is one of those times. I have had a frame for the last 3 years, that I really did not what to do with it. Since it was a 3-D frame, I never could get the pictures to look right. So, I ended up taking a couple rub-on's and some Royal Red Shimmerz, and turned a frame into something more. I absolutely love the way this turned out, and I have had so many more ideas since.....Like Stacy said "Anything but the kitchen sink"!!! So, here are some pictures of the glass panes, the Shimmerz pane, and the finished project (the photo was a little difficult to take due to the number of glass panes). I hope everyone has a Great weekend!
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Allan K. Patch, DMD
"Considering selling your practice? There is the ever-present temptation to attempt this without a broker. It might work, but going on personal experience, you will be better off going with Ken Rubin Practice Sales and saving yourself the headaches."
Steven E. Krause, DDS, FAGD, MAGD
"Ken thank you so much for all your help in my practice and building sale. I honestly believe that your decades of experience with dental practices helped me achieve such a good outcome."
Irvin B. Silverstein, DDS, MSEd
"They have an excellent reputation and have been in business for a number of years. Their knowledge level is invaluable; Ken is a CPA accountant and as the son of an orthodontist, is fully aware of dental practices and the business ramifications of buying and selling a practice."
Thomas H. Wiggin, DDS
"Over the years you have established an enviable reputation as one of the finest dental accountants in the country, your contacts, knowledge and integrity make you unique in the field of practice brokerage."
James W. Hall, DDS
"I was quite pleased by the way you immediately got right on the job with advertising, had dentists interested right away and had two offers of sale, with one offer being for more than the asking price…You really smoothed the path."
"Without hesitation I would recommend Ken Rubin Practice Sales. I thank Scott and Ken for their persistence in helping to finally get my practice sold."
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"The comfort of knowing that Ken and his staff took care of my practice, which I worked hard to build to a quality office, put me at ease through a process that I know can be difficult."
Mehran Raza, DDS
"Words alone cannot express my deepest gratitude for Ken Rubin. For several reasons my dental practice was extremely challenging to sell. With unwavering persistence he continually pulled 'rabbits out of a hat' to get the job done."
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For the past three years, American workers have felt like they were caught between a rock and a hard place.
Good jobs seemed scarce, and asking for a raise amidst layoffs, cutbacks and pay freezes felt too intimidating.
Yet a recent report by PayScale points to a shift in employers' mindsets: Sixty percent of employers said they adjusted their pay structure in some way in the past year, while 44 percent increased their pay ranges by 1 to 5 percent.
Given these findings, it seems likely an employer would be willing to cough up the cash for the right candidate.
To set the record straight, I tapped career experts Samantha Zupan of Glassdoor.com and Penelope Trunk, along with Alexa von Tobel, CEO and founder of LearnVest for their take on the issue. The verdict: Always negotiate for a salary raise before accepting a new job. Here's why:
It's the best time to do it
"Absolutely the best time to boost your income is when you're starting your next job," says von Tobel. It's a transition phase, so the discussion is fair game.
Also, it'll be far less stressful to have the talk now than in a performance review.
You'll regret it if you don't
"It can't hurt to ask, and it's damaging over the course of a 40 year career not to," says Trunk. All your future salary raises hinge on that number, and since you'll be stuck with this number for awhile, you might as well make it a good one.
You'll flex your business acumen
Negotiating a salary isn't just a matter of asking for more cash, it shows your prospective employer that you take yourself and the job very seriously.
"It's a way of saying, here's what I'm great at doing and here's why this salary makes sense," says von Tobel.
Do your homework
Zupan recommends taking a four-step approach: Start researching job sites like Glassdoor to see how your current salary stacks up against the prospective employer's, and use informational interviews (ideally with inside connections) to learn about the company's compensation practices.
Next, develop a budget to see what you need to maintain (or slightly elevate) your lifestyle.
When you've done your due diligence, you'll be prepared to ask your prospective employer in a smart, professional way what they're willing to offer. They'll likely give a range to negotiate, so make sure to set a low and a high bar for what you expect.
The worst case is that they'll say no
"(Employers) aren't going to rescind the offer if the salary you ask for is too high," says von Tobel. "But they will respect you more for negotiating on your behalf."
Remember, salary isn't everything
Plenty of factors should go into your decision to accept a job, and just because the salary isn't up to snuff doesn't mean you can't ask for more vacation, flex-time, etc. The employer may be more than willing to meet you halfway.
It's also key to find something you're passionate about. If the thought of coming in each morning makes you die a little inside, you owe it yourself to seek greener pastures.


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I turn 18 this year and I've got mixed emotions. I'm a teenager. I'm expected to want to move out and have total freedom, right? Or am I going to be one of those people that just can't decide what I want to do or where I want to go in life?
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Here's a recipe to prove that the lowly lentil can be fancy and sophisticated, and really delicious. You could serve this for a casual dinner party, with a simple salad and a bottle of wine––won't you seem chic!? But they are easy (and cheap) enough to cook for a night when you're feeding only yourself. If you're lucky, you'll have leftovers to eat for lunch: warm them and toss them with grainy mustard, more olive oil, a little vinegar and some peppery greens––they're reinvented! And the extra crème fraîche and chives you have left will be as beautiful on scrambled eggs or omelets as they are on this elegant bowl of lentils.
French Lentils with crème fraîche and Chives
serves 3 as a main course, 4-6 as a side dish
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- 1 carrot
- 1 large shallot
- 3 Tablespoons olive oil
- 3/4 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 pound (1 heaping cup) French lentils
- sprig thyme
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- freshly ground pepper
- crème fraîche, for serving
- chopped chives, for serving
1. Cut the celery, carrot, and shallot into very fine dice, nearly as small as a lentil: this is your mirepoix. In a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat, sauté the mirepoix in 1 Tablespoon olive oil until the vegetables brown a little. Add the wine, and simmer until it reduces by half.
2. Add the lentils, a sprig of time, and 2 cups of water. Simmer until the lentils are tender but firm, and much of the water is gone. If the water disappears before the lentils are tender, add a bit more and keep simmering. Er on the side of undercooking when you turn off the stove.
3. Season the pot of cooked lentils with salt and freshly ground pepper, and the remaining 2 Tablespoons of olive. Cover the pot and let the seasoning settle in for at least 10 minutes. Serve warm lentils in shallow bowls with a generous dollop of crème fraîche and liberal sprinkling of chopped chives on each bowlful.


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Medusa Box v2.1.0 is out!
Medusa Box v2.1.0 is out! Added world's first full Phone Repair for Sony Xperia J ST26a / ST26i (Sony JLo) and more!
Medusa Box v2.1.0 Release Notes:
- Added support for the following models:
- Sony ST26a - added world's first Dead Boot Repair and Phone Repair (Dead Boot Repair + Security Recalculation)!
- Sony ST26i - added world's first Dead Boot Repair and Phone Repair (Dead Boot Repair + Security Recalculation)!
- LG D505 - added Dead Boot Repair.
- Samsung GT-I9190 - added Dead Boot Repair (thanks to Mr. XcachorroX®.).
- Huawei E352b - added Dead Boot/Device Repair.
- All pinouts and Repair procedures are described in Software manuals ("Help" button in the Software).
Sony ST26i (Xperia J) Phone Repair
Note: after Phone Repair operation, you need to re-flash the phone with any suitable for Sony devices servicing tool that uses original Sony loaders (with Octopus/Octoplus Suite Software, for example).
Also note: after Phone Repair procedure, your phone will have "00000000000000" IMEI and will be locked; to perform Unlock / Repair IMEI use Octopus/Octoplus Suite Software.


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Back Brace Essentials: Choosing the Right Brace
A back injury is one of the most debilitating injuries any man or woman can experience. It can put you out of work for weeks, sometimes even months. That is why it is important to seek the support of a good doctor, chiropractor, or another healthcare provider who can prescribe a back brace that will help to get you on the road to better health. Want to know some back brace essentials that will ease you back into a pain-free life? Read on for more info on the how, why, and what of back braces.
Should You Be Wearing a Back Brace?
The purpose of wearing a good back brace is to help the patient limit the movement of the lower spine, otherwise known as the lumbar spine. Your doctor will help you to find a back brace that is appropriately fitted to support the injury or surgery that has occurred. This is an important step because engaging in sudden or too frequent movements can delay the healing process. This can lead to fractures or post-operative fusions.
A proper back brace will limit movement of the spine, allowing it to improve the healing process for the bone. Your back brace will also help to decrease pain and discomfort in the lower back area.
How Can a Back Brace Help Relieve Pain and Discomfort?
A properly fitted back brace can help provide added support for your spine and muscles. When your body is in the proper posture for your height and weight, it will keep the pressure off of the spinal nerves that can create pain and discomfort.
A back support can be worn all the time, or it can be worn when needed during certain activities like lifting, exercising, or other daily activities. If you find that you must bend or lift frequently at work or at home, a good back brace can prevent an injury as well as help you heal from damage that has already occurred.
How Often Should You Wear a Back Brace?
The amount of time needed to wear a back brace completely depends upon your needs. If you are wearing it to prevent an injury, then you only need to wear it when engaging in the activity that involves bending and lifting. However, if you are suffering from pain and inflammation in your back from an accident, surgery, or daily activities you will have to wear it more often.
What Are the Features of a Good Back Brace?
You can find back braces made in a variety of materials including cotton/nylon with elastic, foam rubber, and molded plastic. The kind that is best for the patient is generally decided by the physician.
A good back brace should protect your back from strain as well as continue to train your muscles to support your posture while standing or sitting. Every back brace has its own support system to help your back become stronger. The back brace support system you choose depends on where in your back you need the support most. This can be in your upper, middle, lower back, shoulders, or some combination of these.
What Are Some Examples of Back Brace Styles?
Upper Back and Shoulder Support
Poor posture can cause lower back pain and muscle strain. That is why there is a back brace to support your upper back and shoulders, like the Delco Discovery brace, which features an adjustable posterior support, adjustable shoulder straps, and a unique abdominal compression system.
The upper back brace was originally designed to support horseback riders to improve their posture while riding. If you notice, most equestrians posture is surprisingly straight while riding horses, even when slightly bent over when galloping around the track.
Depending on your injury or the surgery you went through, you can wear this kind of brace for as little as 1 hour per day to get the support you need. It can be worn over or under your clothes and can be worn while performing light exercise, sitting, or standing. You can expect that a back brace that supports your upper back will help you to stand straight, breathe more effectively, and naturally realign your spine.
To be properly fitted for the upper back and shoulder support brace, you can measure the circumference of your ribcage right below your breastbone. If you are experiencing difficulty with arm and shoulder mobility problems, you may want to find someone who can help you properly put it on or discuss other alternatives with your physician.
Full Back and Shoulder Support
This type of back brace provides full support for the upper and lower back. The brace wraps around the lower back, attaching at the front to protect your lower back. It also features shoulder straps to help pull you into the proper posture while also realigning your spine. The crisscross shape of the straps along the upper back naturally pull your body into a neutral position helping to protect you from back and shoulder pain. The Dual Pull Elastic Crisscross Lumbosacral Belt is a popular option for high compression and support.
The material is made to prevent pinching in the shoulders that can cause discomfort and further injury. It can be worn under or over your clothing. The proper way to fit your body for this kind of back brace is to measure your waistband.
Hidden Lower Back Support
If you need occasional support from a high-quality back brace that fits snugly under your clothing, then you may want to look for a brace that supports your lower back. This works well for people who experience occasional lower back pain from a strain or overall muscle weakness. The brace is made to fit the natural curves of your body so that it will be unseen under most loose-fitting pieces of clothing. This may be worn if participating in light lifting activities or anything where the lower back needs a bit more support than normal.
The Aspen Horizon is a great lower back support brace. It has the lowest profile design of all the Aspen braces and creates circumferential compression to increase trunk stability and relieve back pain.
The Clavicle Splint
The clavicle splint back brace pulls your shoulder blades together, helping you to stand taller. The brace forms a figure 8 between your two shoulder blades and will usually have padded velcro shoulder straps to adjust to the frame of your body. You or a trusted partner can measure from the center of your back, up over one shoulder, under the opposite shoulder, then down to the center of your back.
Should I Continue to Wear a Back Brace If My Back Feels Better?
You never understand how important your back muscles are to your life until you experience back pain from a debilitating injury or surgery. Everyday tasks like picking up socks off the floor or sitting at your desk to type an email can wreak havoc on your productivity. Having said that, a back brace should always be worn according to the directions given to you by your physician or another healthcare provider. Staying within the confines of what you can and cannot do can mean the difference between walking without pain and being bedridden.
Some people are fooled into believing that after wearing the brace for some time that they no longer need it – that is until they strain themselves while carrying a small child or bending over to pick something up. Your healthcare provider will give you guidelines on which model back brace to wear, when you need to wear it, and how long to wear it. This will ensure that your back and spine heal properly. How long will this take? It totally depends on your back injury.
Aeroflow is always here to help you find a pain relief system that makes your life easier and more comfortable. We offer a wide selection of back braces, and can also help you qualify for a back brace through insurance!


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A beautiful night: let's pray the parties in four years time are just as euphoric. Washington DC (January 19)
The campaign and subsequent election of Barack Obama has brought up some lofty comparisons in the Americas over the past year. It's a new era many regard as a realisation of Martin Luther King's dream of equality, some mention it in the same breath as Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves and there's even the odd reference to George Washington kicking our limey arses out of the country in 1776. They're all valid in their own way, but personally, it makes me think of Oasis. No, really.
I remember growing up as an English teenager in the mid-'90s and revelling in the excitement of the supposed change in the air. After years of grinding Tory rule that had left the country politically and culturally stagnant, Britpop was blooming and the progressive aura of Tony Blair suggested the UK was finally about to climb
out of the massive rut that was everyday life. In particular, it's the 1996 Brit Awards that remain ingrained in the memory; I was glued to the telly, watching Oasis sweep the board and Noel Gallagher rewrite the Cocky Bastard Book Of Acceptance Speeches. "There are seven people in this room who are giving hope to young people in this country," he beamed on a king-size high of champagne and ecstasy. After listing each member of Oasis and throwing in Alan McGee, he then namechecked Tony Blair. "If you've got anything about you, you'll shake Tony Blair's hand, man. He's the man! Power to the people!"
His earliest days as Prime Minister saw peace achieved in Northern Ireland and Kosovo, but Blair had so much smoke blown up his arse he would have needed to find a cure for cancer to live up to his messianic pre-election status.In 2009 as a relocated New Yorker, I can see that same sky-high expectancy being placed in Barack Obama by a similar contingent of iconic musicians and it's a scenario that seems destined to end in another anti-climax. In a way, you can't blame Americans for wanting to celebrate after the last eight years and revelling in the knowledge that, by electing their first black president, their country is undoubtedly moving in the right direction. It's a need that certainly contributes heavily to the carnival atmosphere in Washington DC's Warner Theatre tonight. Everyone's in their glad rags for what is undoubtedly the most exclusive and most expensive party of inauguration week: Jay-Z's intimate Eve Of Change concert the night before Barack Obama is sworn in. Not only is Jigga in the form of his life onstage, tonight you can see him feed off the energy of an already excited crowd to create something close to a definitive Jay-Z gig.
The second the curtain goes up to reveal him and his dapper 10-piece band the place erupts; as he rips through
a ferocious 'Say Hello To The Bad Guy' barely breaking a sweat, it's clearer than ever nobody can touch him when he has a mic in his hand. There's an airing of 'Brooklyn (Go Hard)' from his forthcoming opus 'Blueprint 3', and the giant screens beam out everything from images of Tiananmen Square to Nirvana destroying their gear, but these are sideshows to Jay-Z's awesome vocal and lyrical prowess.
Of course, it's not long before the Obama references filter through and, at first, it's stirring stuff. Jay and Jeezy trade off on the latter's 'My President Is Black' before tailing off into a special a cappella rap during which Jay decrees "Obama ran so that our children could fly". But over the course of the night, these vignettes of hope for the future seem to slowly transform into the unrealistic sense that Obama is a silver bullet for America's (if not the entire world's) ills. From out of nowhere, Mary J Blige arrives onstage looking stunning and whips the room up even further by doing a swift medley of songs including 'Real Love' and 'You Bring Me Joy'. But her entire contribution is spoiled when she starts wittering on about Obama's election being the end of segregation and how the world is now starting to work in unity. She makes it sound as if all racism and inequality is going to end at 5pm on inauguration day and the unbearably sappy version of U2's 'One' is a real low point of the night.
Jay thankfully returns and blows the stage up with '99 Problems' before his other half dances over the rubble while peforming an all-too-brief 'Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)'. Her appearance alone is enough to leave people crying, but this frenzied peak is again brought down by a conclusion during which Jay passes out champagne to the front row and toasts the four "beautiful" years that are about to begin. Wishful thinking to say the least. The change Obama promised will come – if only because it absolutely has to – but on the strength of tonight, the expectancy and euphoria still being stoked up by Jay-Z and the rest of the celebrity soapbox liberals is disproportionate to the diffculties that lie ahead and will inevitably result in some Blair-sized disappointments unless there's a short sharp reality check. The real parties to go to will be the ones that follow the closure of Guantanamo Bay, or a serious turn in financial fortunes, or even the implementation of vaguely affordable healthcare. Let's just hope Jay-Z will be on hand to celebrate those red-letter days in American history sooner rather than later.
Hardeep Phull


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Scaling Implementation Capacity
How can governments actively promote systems change and assess the effects of change on a large scale? The answer may lie in a logic model informed by implementation science and characterized by the multi-component, multi-level supports that interact with one another in endless combinations (Huang, Drewnowski, Kumanyika, & Glass, 2009; Panzano et al., 2004; Weiner, 2009). In a cascading logic model, each independent variable (input) is a dependent variable (output) at the next level. Root cause analyses encourage asking why five times (Ohno, 1988) to get at the underlying reasons for successes, accidents, and failures. Implementation science encourages asking how five times (http://sisep.fpg.unc.edu/impact) to plan for the SEA, Regional, and District capacity needed to achieve the promised outcomes of an evidence-based program. The cascading logic model posits a series of components that define an infrastructure for effective statewide implementation of effective innovations.
In an education context, how can effective innovations lead to significant changes in education and educational outcomes at scale? Improving education in 58 federal jurisdictions and about 15,000 districts and 90,000 schools is a massive and complex undertaking where about 6 million teachers and staff provide education to over 55 million students each day. Students can only benefit from effective innovations they experience in their education settings. This means teachers have to use those innovations with fidelity and good outcomes in each classroom. What can a State do to create the capacity to impact all the students in all the schools in the State? The table below outlines an approach.
Cascading Logic Model (Ask "How" Five Times)
Input/ How
Desired Output
Improved student outcomes in academics and behavior (the ultimate goal)
Teachers' consistent use of effective innovations with high fidelity to the innovation-as-intended
Effective district and school implementation teams are created to support teachers' using innovations effectively
Regional supports are created for developing and sustaining district implementation teams who support building level teams.
Skills and abilities of State Transformation Specialists and State Capacity Building Workgroups are developed for creating and sustaining regional implementation teams
Asking how five times focuses attention on operationalizing the process of establishing new practices in existing systems. Thus, capacity development is not just a label or a big idea fleshed out with interesting examples. Capacity development is a specific set of competencies embedded in State and federal education systems to support the achievement of desired outcomes. Capacity is the ability to do what is needed to produce intended outcomes reliably, from one teacher to the next, one school to the next, one district to the next, one State to the next, and one year to the next.
The logic behind building state implementation capacity has significant implications for system change in human services. Health, education, and social service systems in the United States are large, complex, and full of policies, practices, rituals, and beliefs that can overwhelm efforts for change on a significant scale. It will take a persistent and consistent effort to bring about change and improve benefits to recipients. The cascading logic model makes clear the linkages between and among levels of the system, and points to the essential functions derived from implementation science as each level helps to create, sustain, and improve better outcomes at the next level. It is no longer realistic to make changes in policy, establish measures of outcomes, and expect a miracle to somehow tie one to the other. The cascading logic model shifts accountability from one level to the next and provides assessments of the impact of each level on the next.
Kenneth Arrow (1996), who won a Nobel Prize in 1972 for describing the tenets of an information-based economy, states that knowledge-based resources increase in value with use, unlike atom-based resources that are depleted with use. The knowledge base for implementation can prime the pump of change in human service systems, and grow stronger as members of Implementation Teams and executive management teams learn and use those methods for years to come. Researchers working on behalf of the World Bank in resource-poor countries called these situations "virtuous circles" that, once started, feed themselves (Fox & Gershman, 2000; Putnam, 1993).
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Hi All, I am a newbie to cassandra so my apologies if this question sounds trivial to most of you. My friends and I have been trying to make the source code of twissandra work so we can begin understanding how things work. We were sort of hoping to do our final semester project in Cassandra rather than MongoDB. We have done the following: 1. Installed Cassandra (checked the cli - all works well) * apache-cassandra-0.6.5 *from http://cassandra.apache.org/ AND necessary python-cassandra-0.6.1 modules. I already have django and other dependencies installed on my system. 2. Installed thrift (checked a sample python code - it executed correctly) 3. Checked out the twissandra code and followed the readme.txt to set it up. 4. Ran the cassandra server and while it was started, executed all steps in the readme file up to* python -v manage.py sync_cassandra* This step just hangs. Gives no error message. The -v option gave the last line of execution as: # /home/dipti/twissandra/users/models.pyc matches /home/dipti/twissandra/users/models.py import users.models # precompiled from /home/dipti/twissandra/users/models.pyc I also tried executing after removing the pyc files but still this step hangs. And on running the webserver, the 8000 port of localhost shows nothing on the browser. Can anyone help me figure out what we are all missing here? Regards, Dipti
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New Site
Welcome to my new site,
After some time offline, I manage again to revival it, but during the first times some of the projects may be updated.
The main differences are the, language, now in English, showing my projects presents in Hackster and also a link to my Upwork portfolio, if you need my services as freelancer please say.
Some of the old projects and information were lost during the moving, sorry.
Fell free to contact me using the contact form.
Hugo Gomes
A while back I decided to build a Car/Personal tracker.
This was my first prototype on this direction.
The system itself is very simple. Just an Arduino Mega, a GPS, a GPRS Shield and an SD Card. This one is optional but I included because I thought in launching a challenge to my friends in Facebook, they call the system and get an SMS with my position or my last known position.
Arduino PowerPoint Pointer
The last time that I had to do an PowerPoint presentation it was very frustrating to be all the time with my mouse in my hand, it was not simple design for this function.
With a new presentation coming up titled "Introduction to Arduino," I thought, what best way to show some of the capabilities of the Arduino board then to build a quick power point presenter tool with it.
The first idea that pops has, "Why not use the TV Remote?" Design to be hold in a more ergonomic position that the mouse (for this case).


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"Green Christmas" /
To my mind, the real version of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is the 1966 animated short with Boris Karloff's voiceover; I never saw the live-action 2000 film with Jim Carrey. Why on earth pump up a charming perfect fable with all that extra plot and action and special effects?
Nevertheless, the movie has a super-duper soundtrack, from which I've pilfered several holiday tracks. Here's track 3, by the always fun Canadian band Barenaked Ladies (whose 2004 album Barenaked for the Holidays is also worth checking out, if you're a holiday music junkie like me).
The idea of a "green Christmas" -- as opposed to a white Christmas, I suppose -- makes me fret about climate change, or about living in Los Angeles. But I assume this Christmas is green because it's seen through the eyes of the ultimate green-skinned sourpuss, Mr. Grinch.
As he catalogs all the trappings of Christmas that he hates -- presents! shop displays! tree decorations! icicles! carolers! stockings! -- the loping lilt of this song simultaneously allows us to stroll through, enjoying it all. Barenaked Ladies songs always have deft lyrics; I particularly dig the image of "Five red mittens drying on the rack / And needles shedding tannenbaum." I can almost taste the cocoa.
In the bridge, the singer explains why the Grinch is so green: "Green, cause of everything I miss / All this mistletoe, no kiss / And with every Christmas wish / There would be no greater gift / Than to have this envy lift." Hmmm... in Dr. Seuss's original book, the Grinch was simply a Scrooge-like fellow (we all know someone like that) who hated Christmas and wanted to ruin it for others; the fact that he hates it because he's jealous of Whoville's happiness doesn't come out until the end. Having the Grinch be this self-aware in the beginning of the movie kinda spoils it for me.
But if it's not about the Grinch -- just someone who can't get into the Christmas spirit this year, for one reason or another (and we all know someone like that, too) -- then this jaunty little song works very well. The way that melodic line bounces up the scale, the buoyant yearning of the bridge -- sounds to me like this Grinch has already rediscovered the reason for the season. I know I have.
Sunday, December 06, 2015
My Musical Advent Calendar
Posted by Holly A Hughes at 2:07 PM
Labels: barenaked ladies, Grinch, musical advent calendar
1 comment:
- Nancy Barker said...
Never heard of this song until today Holly H!! May be growing on me :)
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Flight International Inc. on Thursday identified the firm's four pilots who were killed Wednesday morning when two twin-engine Learjets collided near San Clemente Island.
The two executive jets were among the planes the firm contracts to the Navy. The planes collided while taking part in a routine Navy training exercise.
Killed in the crash were Capt. Robert L. Punches of San Diego, Capt. Arthur V. Carranza of Chula Vista, 1st Officer Mickey Vann of Carlsbad and 1st Officer John F. McCammon of Fallbrook.
At the time of the collision, the planes were taking part in a radar exercise in which they were simulating an attack on the guided-missile cruiser Gridley, according to Chief Petty Officer Paul Versailles, a Navy spokesman.


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